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Lesbian pioneers Lyon, Martin inducted into CA Hall of Fame

by Cynthia Laird

Kate Kendell, the former executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and a longtime friend of Lyon and Martin, said the couple deserved the recognition.

“Inducting Del and Phyllis into the California Hall of Fame is a wonderful way to honor their lives and legacies,” Kendall wrote in an email to the Bay Area Reporter. “They both loved California and knew that this state, and especially San Francisco, both challenged and nurtured them and their activism. They left a lasting mark on the Golden State and this is a fitting tribute.”

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familiar face in San Francisco’s leather community has been tapped to be the first executive director of the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District in the city’s South of Market neighborhood.

Robert Goldfarb, 60, has started as the inaugural executive director of the leather cultural district, he told the Bay Area Reporter Monday, October 11.

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an Francisco’s late lesbian pioneers and marriage equality advocates Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin are among the newest inductees into the California Hall of Fame.

Governor Gavin Newsom and first partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom made the announcement Tuesday, October 12. Lyon, Martin, and four others were all posthumously inducted during a webcast streamed by the California Museum, in lieu of an in-person event this year. The new inductees join 134 inspirational Californians previously named to the state’s hall of fame, according to a news release from the museum.

The other inductees are artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013); Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and vocalist for the Grateful Dead; labor activist Larry Itliong (1913-1977); and crossover rock music icon Ritchie Valens (1941-1959).

“Jennifer and I are pleased to induct this group of extraordinary Californians into the Hall of Fame,” Newsom stated. “There is no doubt their lives and legacies have helped make California synonymous around the world with innovation, imagination, and progress.”

Added Seibel Newsom: “These luminaries represent the best of California. Each one has left

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Phyllis Lyon, right, prepares to cut the wedding cake after she and Del Martin were married in San Francisco City Hall June 17, 2008.

their own indelible mark on history and reminds us of the creativity, ingenuity, and courage that lives inside all of us.”

This year’s inductees represent the 14th Hall of Fame class, according to the museum. The Hall of Fame was launched in 2006 by former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and first lady Maria Shriver, herself an inductee in the 10th class in 2016, to honor Californians who embody the state’s spirit of innovation and have made history.

Trailblazing lesbian couple

Lyon (1924-2020) and Martin (1921-2008) were trailblazers in the LGBTQ, women’s, civil rights, and the rights of older Americans movements. Together for 58 years, Lyon and Martin were the first samesex couple to marry in California on June 16, 2008.

Weeks later, on August 27, 2008, Martin died in San Francisco, with Lyon at her side.

The couple’s wedding in 2008 was not their first. In 2004, when Newsom, then-mayor of San Francisco, ordered city officials to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Lyon and Martin agreed to be the first couple to receive such a license. While that marriage was invalidated by the California Supreme Court, the ability to later See page 8 >>

1 trans bill signed; sex workers bill delayed

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District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman spoke in support of Senate Bill 110 at a late September news conference.

SF leaders upset with Newsom veto of drug bill

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ubstance use treatment advocates expressed their displeasure with Governor Gavin Newsom over the weekend after he vetoed Senate Bill 110, gay state Senator Scott Wiener’s legislation that would have expressly legalized contingency management as a way to treat substance use disorder and authorizes Medi-Cal to cover it.

Contingency management – which offers incentives, including financial inducements, for staying sober – is already used by the VeterSee page 3 >>

overnor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will bring benefits to transgender public college students in California, while a second piece of legislation that would benefit sex workers has been delayed until January.

As the Bay Area Reporter reported online October 6, Newsom signed Assembly Bill 245, which prohibits public universities from deadnaming trans and nonbinary students – that is using their former names they were given based on the sex they were assigned at birth – on their diplomas and academic records. Newsom’s action is in marked contrast to what has occurred in numerous statehouses across the country this legislative session, where lawmakers have adopted legislation targeting their state’s transgender community, particularly trans youth.

Its author, outgoing Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco), had revived the legislation this year after he had to shelve it in 2020 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic upending the Legislature’s workload.

It builds on an earlier bill authored by Chiu that became law and requires public K-12 schools in the state to update the records for transgender and nonbinary students so that they match their legal name and gender identity.

AB 245, titled “Affirming Transgender and Nonbinary Student’s Names in College,” requires California’s community colleges and public universities to use current students’ lived names on

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Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill to allow for trans and nonbinary college students to use their lived names on diplomas and academic records.

their transcripts, diplomas, and other documents as of January 1, when the bill takes effect. Currently enrolled transgender and nonbinary students would be able to use their lived names even if they have not legally changed their names.

Former students who already graduated or left campus for whatever reason could petition their alma mater to upgrade their name and gender on their academic records. But they would have to do so legally, as the bill requires they show a government-issued document like a driver’s license, birth certificate, or passport bearing their current name and gender.

“A diploma represents years of hard work. Students should be able to celebrate their academic achievements without fear of being deadnamed,” stated Chiu, set to become San Francisco’s first Asian American city attorney November 1.

“Deadnaming a student on a diploma can put up barriers to future employment and out a person in an unsafe situation. I’m grateful the governor signed this bill to ensure we are protecting and lifting up all of our students in California.”

Last November, the UC system had released a new policy on gender identity that all of its campuses were to implement by December 31, 2023.

It included using students’ lived names on their academic records.

City College of San Francisco implemented a chosen name system for its trans and nonbinary students and staff last year. Under its gender diversity and inclusion policy the use of chosen names is mandatory except for certain financial and legal documents.

“College students make tremendous sacrifices and put in years of hard work earning their degrees, and the outcome of all that dedication should be a diploma with the name of their choice. In signing AB 245, Governor Newsom is ensuring that California continues to lead the way in supporting trans and nonbinary students in our schools,” said gay City College board vice president Tom Temprano, who had his colleagues pass a resolution this spring in support of Chiu’s bill.

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Incoming EQCA ED names leadership team compiled by Cynthia Laird

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he incoming executive director of Equality California, the statewide LGBTQ rights group, recently announced his new leadership team.

Tony Hoang, who will take the reins of the organization October 16, according to a news release, stated that several members of the team are longtime staffers who have been promoted from their current positions.

Others will continue in their roles.

The boards of EQCA and the EQCA Institute announced in April that Hoang would succeed Executive Director Rick Chavez Zbur, who is leaving to run for an open state Assembly seat in Southern California. Hoang will be the first Asian American executive director and the third out gay man of color to lead the organization.

“I’m honored to step into the executive director role with such an extraordinarily experienced, committed, and diverse team,” Hoang stated.

“We look forward to continuing more than two decades of impact. Seizing this opportunity and responsibility to create a world that is healthy, just, and fully equal for all LGBTQ+ people.”

EQCA communications director Samuel Garrett-Pate has been promoted to managing director of external affairs. In this role, he will oversee the organization’s strategic communications and media relations, state and federal legislative advocacy, political affairs, and impact litigation. He will continue to serve as EQCA’s primary spokesman.

Program director Robbie Rodriguez has been promoted to managing director of operations.

Rodriguez will oversee and help to support EQCA’s programmatic and

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Tony Hoang will take over as Equality California’s new executive director October 16.

development work. Additionally, Rodriguez will help manage board relations and oversee Silver State Equality’s work in Nevada. (EQCA helped launch the affiliated agency in 2019.)

Associate program director Erin Arendse has been promoted to program director. She will lead EQCA’s programs aimed at reducing disparities in LGBTQ+ health and well-being, empowering queer leaders and increasing civic participation within the LGBTQ+ community.

Stacy Triolo of Evergreen Alliance CPA will serve as interim director of finance and administration while EQCA searches for a permanent director.

Other members of the leadership team are: Tami A. Martin, legislative director; Sarah Morrow An, development director; Valerie Ploumpis, national policy director; André C. Wade, Nevada state director; and Alice Kessler, senior legislative aide.

San Francisco fixtures will be featured at next month’s Greater Palm Springs Pride festivities.

This year’s Palm Springs Pride parade will be an in-person event Sunday, November 7, stepping off on North Canyon Drive, East and E. Tachevah Drive at 10 a.m. The parade, which is free, will celebrate Streetbar, the first gay bar in the desert city and the longest-running LGBTQ bar in the Coachella Valley, as community grand marshal, according to an October 5 news release.

Pride officials announced October 11 that a surprise parade entry is the executive board of San Francisco’s Dykes on Bikes Women’s Motorcycle Contingent, whose members will roll into Palm Springs for the first time in the group’s 45-year history, a release stated.

Longtime San Francisco leatherman and former Bay Area Reporter leather columnist Race Bannon will also be among the honorees.

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Leatherman Race Bannon will be recognized at Greater Palm Springs Pride.

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Bannon, a gay man, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. A leather culture legend, Bannon has elevated awareness of the leather community’s contributions toward LGBTQ liberation for nearly 50 years, a recent release stated. As a writer and activist, he has ensured the broader progressive community discourse includes leather, kink, and BDSM. “When Greater Palm Springs Pride contacted me about the honor, I was both surprised and incredibly grateful. I consider Palm Springs a second home,” Bannon wrote in an email to the B.A.R. “So, for their Pride organization to bestow this award felt especially good. But more importantly, that the Pride organization for one of the world’s great LGBTQ destinations saw fit to give the award to someone who has worked primarily within the leather and kink realm I consider a clear statement that leather and kink people are an integral part of the overall LGBTQ community. That makes me happy.”

There are five other Pride honorees.

The first is Chef Betty C. Berrysmith, who is the recipient of the Stonewall Volunteer of the Year Award. A founding member of L-Fund and board member since 2013, Berrysmith offers her culinary skill and talent to raise funds for lesbians in need.

Nancy Worthington will also receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

She is an artist and feminist whose art has been a social commentary of life for 45 years. She has covered many different topics, including police brutality, the environment, human rights, and politics.

This year’s Friend of Pride is Keisha D., a champion for the LGBTQ community, humanitarian, singer-activist, and advocate for performing arts in education.

Former San Francisco resident Jim Hollenbeck will receive the Spirit of Pride Award. His first Pride experience was in San Francisco decades ago, where he ran a public relations firm. He’s lived in Palm Springs for about the last decade, he wrote in a Facebook message.

Finally, The Spirit of Stonewall Community Service Award will go to socially-minded business owner Cliff Young. The release stated that Young supports urban revitalization projects, mentoring, and work training programs for at-risk youth. Through his coffee company, Young established the Warming Souls program, where he offers laundry services to local unhoused people and provides them with new

socks and personal hygiene kits.

Palm Springs Pride officials praised the awardees.

“Learning of the honorees and of the many ways that they give back is inspiring,” stated Ron deHarte, president of Palm Springs Pride. “As in years past, the honorees are not people who seek attention or accolades for what they do. They quietly serve, and we are grateful for the profound impact they have had and continue to have in our community.”

Pride week will take place November 1-7. For more information, go to https://apps.pspride.org/.

TLC virtual benefit

The Oakland-based Transgender Law Center will hold its annual Spark fundraiser Thursday, October 14, from 5 to 8 p.m. The virtual benefit is free and open to all, though donations will be accepted.

The co-hosts for the evening will be Joshua Allen and Basit Shittu. Allen is a 25-year-old writer, artist, model, and activist from Brooklyn, New York.

They founded the Black Excellence Collective, an organizing hub for Black LGBTQI+ young people. Currently, Allen serves as an activist in residence at the New York LGBT Center.

Shittu is a nonbinary Black Nigerian American performance artist, singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. Shittu is a co-founder of Legacy, a production company focused on providing resources to artists systemically excluded from – and exploited by – media and the arts, according to the event page.

The evening’s official playlist will be curated by queer transmasculine nonbinary Oakland-based DJ Chico Chi. People watching from home can make their own special cocktails or mocktails, such as Marsha’s Smile and Beloved Home. Recipes are on the online event page, along with registration, at https://bit.ly/3lG15hL

LGBTQ seniors conference

Avenidas, which operates enrichment programs for seniors on the Peninsula, will have a free online conference aimed at LGBTQ older adults Saturday, October 16.

Presented by Avenidas’ rainbow collective LGBTQ seniors initiative, this second annual conference and celebration takes place from 9 a.m. to noon. It will feature a keynote address on sexuality and aging, workshops, and panel discussions.

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50 years in 50 weeks: 1998: No obits

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he Bay Area Reporter’s “No obits” cover from August 13, 1998 is probably our most famous.

We continue to get inquiries about it 23 years later. The backstory: Our news editor at the time, Mike Salinas, was surprised as the week went on and no one had submitted an obituary. Usually, by this time in the AIDS epidemic, we would have several.

He then assigned reporter Timothy Rodrigues to write about it. As Ro-

drigues recounted in a 2018 Guest Opinion piece on the 20th anniversary of the story, he had just been diagnosed with HIV himself. It was important to point out – and the article did – that just because the B.A.R. did not receive any obituaries that week did not mean that no one died due to AIDS complications. But it was a ray of hope for so many of our readers. To view the issue, go to https:// archive.org/details/BAR_19980813.

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pleased that Newsom signed the legislation.

“I’m incredibly grateful to Governor Gavin Newsom for signing AB 1084, which will bring California law up to speed with what many retailers have already realized: We need to stop stigmatizing what’s acceptable for certain genders and just let kids be kids.

My hope is this bill encourages more businesses across California and the U.S. to avoid reinforcing harmful and outdated stereotypes.”

Also set to become law after Newsom signed it September 16 is AB 465 by Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian (D-Van Nuys), which requires profes-

sional fiduciaries to receive LGBTQ+ cultural competency and sensitivity training during their education and licensing process. Private professional fiduciaries provide critical services to older adults and people with disabilities, from managing their clients’ daily care, housing, and medical needs to ensuring their bills are paid and managing their investments.

“Unfortunately, LGBTQI+ seniors face unique challenges as they age, and are among the most vulnerable population in our society. These challenges include barriers to receiving formal health care and social support that heterosexual, cisgender adults do not

encounter. This new law will ensure that LGBTQI+ seniors get competent and respectful services by professional fiduciaries,” stated Nazarian.

On September 23 Newsom signed AB 746 authored by lesbian Assemblywoman Sabrina Cervantes (DCorona) to clarify the state’s approval process for stepparent adoptions. It ensures couples seeking to have one partner become a stepparent are not required to be married or in a legal union for a minimum amount of time, or to have a specific income or education level, in order for the adoption to be granted.

The Southern California legislator sought the legislation partly to ensure LGBTQ people have equal access to parentage under the state’s adoption laws. According to her office, because the state has imposed minimal requirements on couples looking to do stepparent adoptions, some county superior courts impose their own, separate requirements.

Cervantes pointed out that in some counties the courts have been requiring couples to be in a legally recognized union for at least a year before granting their adoption. They are doing so, she noted, even though state law does not require that couples must be married, or in a civil union or

for stimulant use disorders, the 2021-22 budget includes funding to support a pilot contingency management Medi-Cal benefit from January 2022 through March 2024,” Newsom wrote. “The Department of Health Care Services has sought federal approval for this pilot project and will work expeditiously to implement it once it is authorized.

The outcomes and lessons learned from the pilot project should be evaluated before permanently extending the Medi-Cal benefit. As such, this bill is premature, and I am

returning it without my signature.”

Wiener stated he is “deeply disappointed” by the veto.

“So many people across California are dying from meth overdoses,” Wiener stated. “And they’re dying right now. Time is of the essence.

We know from more than a decade of data and experience that contingency management is highly effective in helping people stop using meth. Contingency management is a proven tool, and we don’t need pilot programs to tell us that. SB 110 would have made clear that con-

tingency management is legal and would have allowed its implementation across the state. This veto is a setback in our effort to confront this epidemic.”

As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, San Francisco officials urged Newsom to sign the legislation last month. San Francisco made international headlines for having more drug overdose deaths (657) than COVID-19 deaths (257) in 2020, and local officials wanted to make the case at a Castro neighborhood news conference that the City

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by Governor Gavin Newsom will boost LGBTQ families when they take effect, including one that will make toy aisles in large stores genderneutral.

Newsom October 6 signed Assembly Bill 218 allowing Californians to update their marriage certificates and the birth certificates of their children to accurately reflect their legal name and gender in a manner that protects their privacy. Gay freshman Assemblyman Chris Ward (D-San Diego) revived the legislation after Newsom vetoed similar legislation last fall due to concerns it would inadvertently out transgender and nonbinary individuals.

Also signed by Newsom October 9, in his final actions on bills for the session, was gay Assemblyman Evan Low’s (D-Campbell) AB 1084 requiring retailers with 500 or more employees to remove signs that say “boys” and “girls” in toy and child care sections or provide a gender-neutral retail section for the items. In a compromise to move the bill out of the Legislature, Low and co-author Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) agreed not to include children’s clothing sections in their bill.

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ans Affairs Administration and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and shown to be an effective way to help people overcome addiction to stimulant drugs like methamphetamine, according to Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat.

In a message late October 8, the governor wrote that the bill was “premature.”

“Given the promise of contingency management as a treatment

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Toy sections at large stores, such as Target, will be gender-neutral under a bill signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.

domestic partnership, for a minimum amount of time before seeking a stepparent adoption.

Another problem some couples have faced, according to Cervantes, is that in some counties the courts are demanding they verify their income level or education despite there being nothing in the law requiring such information from a couple seeking a stepparent adoption. Such a requirement, she said, can negatively impact LGBTQIA+ couples, especially those from historically disenfranchised communities.

“Much has been done in recent years to streamline the stepparent adoption process for our LGBTQIA+ community, but there is still much work to be done. Assembly Bill 746 continues our state’s pursuit of that goal by prohibiting courts from imposing a minimum time for a marriage or legal union, or demand information on a couple’s education or income levels, before granting a stepparent adoption,” said Cervantes, who has triplets with her wife. “These requirements, which county court systems currently have discretion to impose, hinder and prolong the adoption process for LGBTQIA+ couples.”t

by the Bay is still a compassionate one.

“We can’t make it disappear because we don’t want to see it,” Mayor London Breed said at the time.

“These are people. These are friends and family.”

As a matter of fact, the City and County of San Francisco was one of the lead sponsors of the bill. Breed did not respond to a request for comment regarding the veto.

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verall, it was a good legislative year for LGBTQs in California. Governor Gavin Newsom finished taking action on hundreds of bills over the weekend. With one exception, which we’ll get to, queers in the Golden State continue to enjoy robust protections and policies that will help them and their families. Among the legislation signed was Assembly Bill 1084 by gay Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell). It will require big stores to have gender-neutral aisles for toys. Now, as some stores have already started doing, retailers will move away from genderbased signs so that kids can explore all play items.

It’s a good first step. Low and his co-author, Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) agreed not to include children’s clothing sections in their bill. That will be for another day.

Newsom also signed AB 218, which allows Californians to update their marriage certificates and their childrens’ birth certificates to accurately reflect their legal name and gender in a manner that protects their privacy. A similar bill was vetoed last year because of concerns it would inadvertently out transgender and nonbinary people.

Another big bill will see public colleges and universities stop deadnaming trans and nonbinary students on their diplomas and academic records. Outgoing Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco), who will soon be San Francisco’s new city attorney, was the author. It requires colleges and universities to use students’ lived names, even if they haven’t legally changed them. This is a big deal for students, who are often dismayed when they graduate with a diploma containing a name with which they no longer identify.

Newsom earlier this summer signed other legislation that will help the community. As we reported, AB 439

by Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (DOrinda) allows for deceased Californians who are nonbinary to be identified as such on their death certificates. The governor also signed into law two bills, one by Bauer-Kahan and another

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by gay state Senator John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), that replaces “archaic gender-specific pronouns” used to refer to the state’s various elected leaders and appointed officials in state codes with gender neutral terms. Currently, most parts of the state code use “he” or “him” pronouns.

The one major disappointment was Newsom’s veto of Senate Bill 110, the Recovery Incentives Act, which would have provided small financial rewards for people who return negative drug samples. Gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) authored the bill, and writes more about it in a Guest Opinion piece in this issue. Suffice it to say, the bill was primarily aimed at helping people addicted to crystal meth, which is tough to kick. And there aren’t medical interventions like those to treat people addicted to opioids. Newsom wrote in a veto message that the state is readying a pilot program, but Wiener’s right – help is needed now. That Wiener, a liberal from San Francisco, was able to gather bipartisan support for the bill speaks to how substance use is a problem throughout the state, in rural and urban areas alike. Newsom’s action also reminds us of the legislators who punted on Wiener’s bill for safe consumption site pilot programs in San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles earlier this year. Drug use is a crisis, leading to overdose deaths and other problems. We need creative ideas to help people because there is not one solution that can address the complexities of addiction and politicians need to realize that.

There will be a delay in another law, as Newsom didn’t sign it this time but is expected to in January. Senate Bill 357, the Safer Streets for All Act, co-authored by Wiener and Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose), would repeal California Penal Code Section 653.22, the law that criminalizes loitering for the intent to engage in sex work.

It also allows those convicted of loitering with the intent to commit prostitution, particularly the Black women and transgender individuals often targeted under the law, to seal their records.

Wiener told us the bill will go to Newsom in January and it does not need any more votes in the Legislature. We gather that the governor needs more time and that Wiener will be discussing the importance of this bill with his staff. So count this one delayed but not held, like the safe consumption site legislation, which will need votes next year.

Newsom helps the press

Newsom deserves praise for signing Senate Bill 98. As we wrote last week, the bill, authored by state Senator Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) and co-authored by Wiener, among others, clarifies the rights of journalists at protest scenes. According to a summary of the bill, it would prohibit officers from assaulting, interfering with, or obstructing a journalist from covering a protest or demonstration. It also allows a journalist who has been detained to speak to the supervisory officer to immediately challenge their detention. There have been far too many instances in which law enforcement officers have injured or sought to prevent journalists from covering protests.

That hurts democracy. Police officers probably won’t be thrilled with Newsom’s action, but if they conducted themselves in a lawful manner we wouldn’t need SB 98. There is no reason journalists need to be detained or otherwise mistreated at protest sites, and now we have a law to bolster our right to access. SB 98 is yet another safeguard against police misconduct and we’re grateful that Newsom agreed and signed the bill.t

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o visitors of all ages, sexualities, and identities, the one comment I hear the most when I’m a docent at the new South Bay queer museum exhibit is, “I didn’t know any of this.”

Each time I hear that, it fills my heart knowing they had the opportunity to learn.

As an LGBTQ activist and elected official in the San Jose area for almost 40 years, I was concerned that much of the queer history in Silicon Valley could easily be forgotten. My vision was to curate an exhibit showcasing our vibrant suburban community, separate from the Castro in San Francisco and Greenwich Village in New York City.

That became a reality when the organization I lead – the BAYMEC Community Foundation – received a generous grant from the County of Santa Clara to create the exhibit at History San Jose called, “Coming Out: 50 Years of Queer Resistance and Resilience in Silicon Valley.”

One of the reasons that a museum exhibit creates a more personal and emotional response than a website or documentary is because it encourages a visceral response from the viewer.

Witnessing tragedies and struggles, contrasted with victories and celebrations, instills a sense of gratefulness and pride for all the progress made.

I’ve seen people almost be physically frozen when a flood of memories overwhelmed them to the point they can’t speak or move.

From the moment you walk into the lobby of the gallery, gay pageantry is in full view. Front and center on a raised platform are a gown worn in the 1980s by local drag queen Lady Shockra and a leather outfit from a Mr. San Jose Gay Leather contest. Many visitors might be aware of these types of events in San Francisco but taken aback they happened in San Jose, too.

What I really like about the display, though, is the third piece: a colorful Ensamble Folclorico Colibiri Jalisco dress designed by Arturo Magana that is unique to San Jose’s Mexican gay culture.

Together, the three outfits tell what the exhibit is all about: That while some events in South Bay were a reflection of what was occurring in the greater queer culture, we added our unique style to make it our own. “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re San Jose!”

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Ken Yeager stands in front of an AIDS quilt panel on display at the “Coming Out: 50 Years of Queer Resistance and Resilience in Silicon Valley” exhibit at History San Jose.

In today’s world where we only know how to communicate to others mainly through social media, there was a time when the only way that queer people got their news was from the gay press. Off to the bars people went, to drink, to socialize, and to read the latest local gay news in Out Now, Your Paper/Our Paper, Entre Nous, South Bay Times. In all, there are seven publications displayed in a large case for people to either remember or learn about for the first time.

Without a queer hub filled with shops and bars, meeting people in the suburbs proved challenging. In the South Bay, cultural clubs and organizations filled that void. Many of those groups are included throughout the exhibit. Their meetings, barbecues, sports events, fundraisers, theater performances, along with the lesbian bookstore Sisterspirit and Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center, were how people met outside of the bars.

Which isn’t to say the bars weren’t filled on Friday and Saturday nights. People are surprised to learn that at one point there were 14 LGBTQ bars in the South Bay. Now there are only three.

Gay Pride festivals and parades were just as important in the South Bay but certainly on a smaller scale. In 1971, two years after Stonewall, over 100 LGBTQ people and their allies

held a rally in San Jose’s St. James Park. You can even see the flyer advertising that on June 26, 1976, the first official Gay Freedom Day Rally and Dance took place.

A significant section of the exhibit is dedicated to the impact of HIV/AIDS pandemic and the 2,500 lives that were stolen from us locally. A large quilt hangs with words written on patches of cloth by loved ones at a Walk for AIDS event.

The exhibit panel tells the story of the local organizations formed to provide social services to AIDS patients, and the South Bay effort to defeat the 1986 AIDS quarantine initiative. It ends with words about the Getting to Zero campaign to greatly reduce HIV transmission and hopes for the day that HIV/AIDS is eradicated.

After collecting yourself, you can hiss as loud as you want at an Anita Bryant Time magazine cover – Bryant was an anti-gay crusader in the 1970s. You can see the No on 6/Briggs initiative poster (the measure banning gay teachers in California public schools was rejected by voters), and a mail piece opposing two local antidiscrimination ordinances in San Jose and Santa Clara County in 1980. To the disbelief of most, the ordinances were overturned by nearly a 3 to 1 margin, all but squashing the local gay rights movement for at least a decade.

Stories about South Bay transgender people from the early 1990s to today are told. As a sign of recent progress made, the new, comprehensive county trans health center makes it unnecessary for people to travel elsewhere for care.

The exhibit ends with the joy of marriage equality, the raising of the rainbow flag, and the widening acceptance of the LGBTQ community in Silicon Valley. On your way out, be sure not to trip over the lawn signs of some LGBTQ candidates who ran and won public office as you take the lessons of our past into our present and future.

“Coming Out: 50 Years of Queer Resistance and Resilience in Silicon Valley” runs through June 2022 at History San Jose, 635 Phelan Avenue in San Jose. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Go to https://historysanjose.org/ for more information. t Ken Yeager, a former Santa Clara County supervisor and San Jose City Councilman, is currently the executive director of the BAYMEC Community Foundation.

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by Scott Wiener

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021 was a legislative session of highs and lows.

I’m proud of the work we did this year to advance LGBTQ civil rights in our state, but there is still so much more that needs to be done to support and protect LGBTQ people. I am committed to that fight on behalf of our community.

First, a big win: with a large coalition of major LGBTQ groups, civil rights groups, sex worker advocacy groups, and sex workers, we passed Senate Bill 357, the Safer Streets for All Act. SB 357 is important legislation that repeals the part of California law in which “loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution” is criminalized.

Why is this so important? Under this loitering law, an officer can arrest someone based on their subjective idea of whether a person “looks like” a sex worker. The leads to the disproportionate criminalization of and violence against trans, Black, and Brown women, as well as sex workers.

The bill was passed by the full Legislature and will head to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk for signing as early as January 2022. This is a major victory for LGBTQ civil rights and criminal justice reform that brings us one step closer to a safer world for sex workers and Black, Brown and trans women. Sex work is work, and sex workers have a right to live and work without the fear of arrest and violence.

While I’m thrilled about our victory on SB 357, I’m disappointed and frustrated that the governor vetoed an important bill, Senate Bill 110. SB 110, the Recovery Incentives Act, would have legalized the effective addiction treatment known as “contingency management.” Put simply, contingency management is an evidence-based treatment program – most effective for people addicted to meth or other stimulants – in which people are given small financial rewards for returning negative drug samples.

This is an especially effective treat-

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ment for meth addiction, which is notoriously difficult to kick. Meth addiction has no medication-assisted treatment options, unlike opioids.

I am proud to have worked on this legislation in partnership with Mayor London Breed, gay San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, HealthRIGHT 360, Equality California, and other community-based organizations.

This legislation received strong and nearly unanimous bipartisan support in the Legislature. The meth crisis is very real, and is impacting all of us – in areas both urban and rural, red and blue – but has an outsized impact on communities of color and the LGBTQ community. SB 110 was an LGBTQ priority bill because, as many in our community know from firsthand experience, the meth crisis has struck us particularly hard.

The governor vetoed SB 110 in order to focus on a contingency management pilot program. This is a disappointing veto, as the crisis is ravaging our communities now, and we

have no time to waste on a pilot program. We can’t afford to lose any more people – be they LGBTQ or otherwise – to this horrific addiction.

Though we had disappointing news with SB 110, this was a largely good legislative year for the LGBTQ community of the Bay Area – particularly when it comes to the state budget. Working in coalition, we secured $15 million for the “Ending the Epidemics” effort – a strategy to end new HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in California.

Working in coalition with trans-led organizations, we secured $15 million for the Transgender Health and Wellness Fund, a new state effort to focus resources on the unique needs of the trans community.

I am also proud to have secured $1.7 million for the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ National LGBTQ Center for the Arts on Valencia Street. Additionally, I secured $1.5 million for the upgrade of Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro. This space will honor the life and legacy of Milk, the slain gay San Francisco supervisor, while also serving as a beautiful and functional community gathering space.

And finally, I secured $4.2 million for a San Francisco drug sobering center, a major priority for the mayor and Board of Supervisors to combat San Francisco’s meth crisis.

While this was a legislative year of ups and downs, I am proud and grateful to have worked closely with our community organizations and leaders to bring major wins for the LGBTQ community and for San Francisco. I will always fight hard for all marginalized people, and I am proud of what we have accomplished.

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Letters >> Responding to letter about Milk plaza

This is in response to Brian Springfield’s letter to the editor [October 7], regarding the historical resource evaluation for Harvey Milk Plaza. Few of your readers have probably read the report prepared by preservation planners in the San Francisco Planning Department, so it would not be obvious just how selective and misleading Springfield’s references were in defense of demolishing and replacing everything we now know as Harvey Milk Plaza.

If the preservation planners had intended to only identify the sidewalk assembly area fronting Castro Street as eligible for listing in the State Registry of Historical Resources, they would have done so. Instead, they described a two-level plaza in detail and attached four photos of the plaza at Castro station level. They reported that the plaza was eligible for listing due to its having retained its integrity for 45 years. Integrity included materials, design, and feeling. The only changes were the steel fence installed by Muni and the removal of cedar benches at the serpentine walls.

Springfield points out that the report lists three “defining features” of the plaza: location at the southwest corner of Market and Castro Streets; a large plaza at street level; and the serpentine retaining wall along Market Street. He claims that as long as they are retained, the plaza would be considered unchanged.

Overlooked is the fact that the plans his organization has put forward eliminate the serpentine wall along with all other plaza elements. The entire block from Castro to Collingwood is to be bulldozed and paved with gray concrete.

This project is subject to an environmental impact review. State rules go further than obvious impacts on the environment caused by demolition and sending tons of concrete and steel to landfill plus inconvenience to the Muni Metro patrons, neighbors, and businesses. “Substantial Adverse Change” includes alterations not only to the historical resource but to its “surroundings.” This is in obvious reference to the “feelings” generated by the resource.

The historical resource report recognized that “Harvey Milk Plaza also appears eligible as a contributor to the Eureka Valley/Castro Street Commercial Historic District for its cultural association with the LGBTQ rights movement in San Francisco.” This would include all the community memorials and assemblies that have taken place there from 1985 to the present.

The lower level of the plaza was dedicated to Milk in 1985 by then-mayor Dianne Feinstein and thensupervisors Harry Britt and John Molinari and features a bronze plaque, Milk’s name in bronze on the bridge above, and the panels of photographs donated by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in 2006.

These contribute to the feelings of being connected to our LGBTQ history. Although the large rallies, memorials, and protest marches have originated at the Castro/Market corner, it is noteworthy that Springfield’s Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza has held numerous community celebrations in Milk’s name down in the plaza rather than up at street level.

Springfield concluded his letter to the editor by claiming, “Nobody has proposed tearing down something that is ‘historically significant’ or ‘worthy of preservation,’ nor would we advocate for doing so.”

His organization has advocated demolishing and replacing Harvey Milk Plaza as we know it ever since it held an international competition to “reimagine” the plaza in 2018. The Advocates for Harvey Milk Plaza group conducted polls of the Castro community at that time and found that over 50% considered the plaza and memorial to be “worthy of preservation” and favored improvement over demolition and replacement. The group recently published a plan that demonstrates how the existing (improved) plaza and memorial could fit within the designer SWA’s plans while retaining all its major features.

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t CA renews its End of Life law for another 6 years 6 • Bay Area Reporter • October 14-20, 2021

by Matthew S. Bajko

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alifornians will continue to have a “right to die” until January 1, 2031 after Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law October 5 a six-year extension of the Golden State’s End of Life Option Act. It offers residents with incurable diseases the option to take their own lives rather than suffer unbearably painful deaths or face spending their final months or years in a vegetative state they won’t wake up from.

The law went into effect June 9, 2016, authorizing the compassionate option of medical aid in dying for terminally ill, mentally capable adults who are given a prescription to end their life peacefully. But it included a sunset provision, allowing it to expire at the end of 2025 unless new legislation was passed.

As the Bay Area Reporter first reported in March, state Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), a lesbian and former hospice worker, had introduced Senate Bill 380 aiming to indefinitely extend the End of Life Option Act. Instead, Eggman and the bill’s co-authors amended it so that it will now sunset at the start of 2031.

“While we are disappointed that sunset wasn’t permanently removed, we’re happy that patients and their families can rest easy knowing the option will remain in place until at least 2031,” stated Roger Salazar, a spokesman for the Compassion & Choices Action Network that pushed for SB 380’s passage.

In a series of tweets October 5 Eggman praised Newsom for signing the bill and thanked the action network, patients, and their families and friends for advocating for its passage this year.

“Every person suffering with a terminal disease deserves the right to end their lives on their own terms, and this law will provide that power and dignity,” wrote Eggman.

According to a fact sheet about the law that the action network created, (LINK: https://compassionandchoices.org/wp-content/uploads/SB-380-Fact-Sheet-ver.-5-1. pdf) data collected by the California Department of Public Health through December 31, 2020 show that more than 2,800 mentally capable, terminally ill individuals with six months or less to live have received a prescription for medical aid-in-dying medication to peace-

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“However, we don’t know how many eligible patients were unable to access the law,” states the fact sheet. “The bureaucratic, multi-step process to utilize the law is hampering or outright preventing many terminally ill individuals from using it.”

SB 380 removes regulatory roadblocks to access the law that impede or outright prevent hundreds of Californians each year from using medical aid in dying to peacefully end their suffering. It also updates the law to use gender-neutral pronouns and removes the need for those being aided in dying to have to make a final verbal attestation.

“This bill is not about somebody having a bad day. This bill is about someone having a terminal illness,” Eggman had said during a March hearing in regard to concerns people would make use of the law without carefully considering the outcome of doing so and later changing their mind.

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While the leather cultural district was established in 2018 – there are also queer cultural districts in the Castro and Tenderloin neighborhoods – there had not been an executive director per se until now because Goldfarb had been doing much of that work on a volunteer basis as president of the district’s board, he said.

passed in 2015, when she was a state Assemblywoman, along with gay former Senator Mark Leno of San Francisco. It was modeled after legislation enacted by the state of Oregon.

A study by Kaiser Permanente Southern California showed that a third of terminally ill adults who wanted to end their life under the current law died before they could complete the process to do so. Critics contend the current process is too “time-consuming,” as the law requires a 15-day waiting period and often takes weeks or months to finish. It is estimated that nearly 1,000 individuals statewide have died before obtaining a prescription, approximately 275 people on an annual basis.

This year’s bill still requires anyone seeking aid-in-dying medication to make two oral requests, regardless of the period between oral requests, and a written request when a physician has determined, within reasonable medical judgment, that the individual will die from their terminal illness in 15 days or less.

But it reduces the mandatory minimum 15-day waiting period between the two oral requests for aidin-dying medication to 48 hours for all eligible patients.

Health care systems and hospices will have to post their medical aidin-dying policies on their websites, which advocates argue will increase transparency for terminally ill Californians who urgently need such information. The bill also strengthens the requirement for medical providers to provide information about medical aid in dying to an individual who requests it, or to refer the individual, upon request, to another health care provider or health care facility that is willing to provide

the information.

The new bill also eliminates the requirement that an individual who is prescribed and ingests aid-in-dying medication make a final attestation. It requires that the date of all oral and written requests be documented in an individual’s medical record and requires that upon a transfer of care, that record be provided to the qualified individual.

The existing law requires that an individual seeking aid-in-dying medication be subject to specific findings by their attending physician, a consulting physician, and, if determined to be necessary, a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist. The new bill allows for a mental health professional other than a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist to conduct a mental health exam for the purpose of qualifying an individual for aid-indying medication.

“This past year, the COVID public health emergency brought about a deeper understanding of the tragedy of loved ones suffering at life’s end, and the limits of modern medicine to fully relieve that suffering,” noted Kim Callinan, president and CEO of Compassion & Choices Action Network. “We can do better by re-authorizing and improving the California End of Life Option Act.” Callinan added that, “We cannot thank Governor Gavin Newsom enough for his support of this compassionate act. With his signature, eligible terminally ill adults will soon be able to more easily access the End of Life Option Act without needless suffering and unnecessary roadblocks.” t

“They felt, in fairness, we should move it to a paid position,” Goldfarb said. Goldfarb, a gay man, resigned as president of the board before taking the job as executive director.

Goldfarb did not disclose his new salary.

He was replaced as board president

by Bob Brown, who stated in a news release that “I look forward to continuing to work with Bob Goldfarb, in our new capacities in continuing to preserve our heritage, expand our

branding, and provide economic development for existing and new businesses in the coming year. We’ve had a successful year and there is much more to come.”

Goldfarb said that as executive director he will continue what he’d already been doing.

“I think I’ll be working on a lot of the same projects – well, I think I’ll be working on all the same projects as I

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Gay chocolatier opens Oakland store

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Chocolatier Michael Benner, left, was joined by his husband, Curtis Wallis, at the opening of Michael’s Chocolates in Oakland October 2.

by Matthew S. Bajko

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ichael Benner began making his own specialty chocolate confections in 2015 and, within two years, had launched his own business under the brand name Michael’s Chocolates. His husband, Curtis Wallis, assisted him with marketing and sales on a part-time basis.

Ever since then they had largely run the business out of their San Francisco home in the city’s Mission Dolores micro-neighborhood, while renting a shared commercial kitchen in South San Francisco. His focus went from catering specialty events to adding online sales and getting local stores to sell his products.

The industry took note and routinely awarded Benner for his chocolate concoctions, from bars to caramels. He was named a 2021 6 Star Grand Master best chocolatier and confectioner in the U.S. by the International Chocolate Salon, which also had named his Bourbon Caramel Pecan bar as the best chocolate bar.

After surviving a brutal 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic wiping out many of the corporate events he would normally have been hired to provide sweet treats for, Benner is taking his chocolate business into a new stage. As of October 2 he now has his first brick-and-mortar retail location.

That Saturday he soft opened the new home of Michael’s Chocolates at 3338 Grand Avenue in Oakland’s Grand Lake district. The retail shop is a short walk from the city’s Lake Merritt, which is home to the East Bay’s largest farmers market on Saturdays, and from the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center.

“It literally came out of nowhere.

We were not prepared,” Benner told the Bay Area Reporter during a phone

interview the day prior to his store’s first day being open. “We were in survival mode.”

For several years he had looked at renting a storefront in San Francisco but could never find a suitable space or a reasonable rent. Then came the global health crisis, and the money the gay couple had saved up for a retail location was diverted to keeping the business afloat last year.

“2020 was supposed to be the year we found a location but that didn’t happen,” said Benner.

“The money we had saved for opening a store went to pay for the commercial kitchen and we scrambled to find enough business to keep us going.”

Earlier this year Benner fielded a phone call from a fellow chocolatier with a tip that Michael Mischer, after 17 years of operating his own eponymouslynamed chocolate store, had decided that he was going out of business and was looking for someone to take over the lease at his Grand Avenue location.

As it happened, Benner had thought about opening in the area but ruled it out because he didn’t want to compete with another chocolate maker, nonetheless one also named Michael.

After talking to Mischer and checking out his location, which totals about 1,500 square feet and features an 18 foot high ceiling, Benner put in an offer. He beat out another chocolatier who also vied for it.

“We prevailed and we bought out not only his lease but also all of his equipment. It is a full turn-key kitchen,” said Benner. “It has an ADAcompliant bathroom, sinks, and refrigerators. It kind of happened by serendipity; it was meant to happen.”

Once their deal was finalized, Misch-

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Twelve of his most popular chocolate bonbon flavors will be available for purchase at the store. He is also debuting several new items he cooked up during the COVID pandemic, from new chocolate bars to fruit jelly confections.

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Goldfarb said he’d particularly like to see more murals within the district.

Goldfarb said the executive director work is different from the work of District Manager Cal Callahan, who

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t Gruden exposed for the racist homophobe he is 8 • Bay Area Reporter • October 14-20, 2021

by Roger Brigham

The most damning statement Gruden made was not in his emails:

it was when he told the press, “I’m not a racist.”

Let’s put that in a bit of context.

Sterling was banned for life by the NBA after a recording was released of him telling his girlfriend to avoid socializing with Black people and not to bring any to NBA games, including former Lakers star Magic Johnson.

“I’ve never been a racist and I’ll never be a racist,” he said in an interview while struggling, unsuccessfully, to hold on to his ownership of the Clippers.

You know who else said she wasn’t a racist? Schott, who kept a swastika armband in her home, called two of her outfielders “million-dollar n—— s” and said during a conference call with other baseball owners “I would never hire another n——r. I’d rather have a trained monkey working for me than a n——r.”

Yep, not a racist bone in their bodies.

All of these private comments made public have one thing in common: they were not made under duress.

They were not words uttered in sudden excitation, heat of the moment, burning passion, or any other unplanned time blip used so often to excuse inexcusable language. These were all people in powerful sports positions speaking their thoughts in their words. They are the most accurate data we have on who they are and how their minds operate.

That issue was reflected in a series of Twitter posts by Smith in response to the revelation of Gruden’s email.

“The email from Jon Gruden – and some of the reaction to it – confirms that the fight against racism, racist tropes, and intolerance is not over,” he wrote. “This is not about an email as

much as it is about a pervasive belief by some that people who look like me can be treated as less. Make no mistake, the news is not about what is said in our private conversation, but what else is said by people who never thought they would be exposed and how they are going to be held to account.”

The batch of published emails was written between 2011 and 2018, when Gruden was a commentator on ESPN. Some folks who took offense at the content of the emails cited that time gap to try to cut Gruden a break, arguing that people evolve and are not necessarily now who they were then.

They wondered if having an openly gay player on his team, defensive lineman Carl Nassib, would have changed Gruden’s outlook.

“In my experience, all it takes is knowing one gay person to change how you feel about the matter because then the issue is humanized,” Ryan O’Callaghan, an openly gay former NFL offensive lineman, told USA Today. “People do grow, I believe that. Look at Carl, he’s killing it. Would (Gruden) use the same homophobic language knowing about Carl now? Maybe it’s changed his impression of gay people.”

Then again, I’m pretty sure Gruden has been around women his entire life.

I’m pretty sure he’d had a chance to interact with plenty of Black men in his work as a commentator on ESPN and as a coach. Apparently enlightenment from those experiences hadn’t rid him of his petty sexism and racism when he was exposing himself via keyboard. I, for one, am happy he will not be in a position of power going forward and making career-changing decisions about other people’s lives.t

seal their records.

In a text message late Saturday, Wiener stated that he held the bill, sometimes referred to as “walking while trans,” until next year.

“We will send it to the governor in January,” he wrote. “It doesn’t need any more votes in the Legislature.”

A statement from Wiener’s spokeswoman, Catie Stewart, tweeted by the Sacramento Bee’s Capitol Alert September 10 noted that the temporary delay will give the lawmaker “more time to make the case about why this civil rights bill is good policy that should be signed into law and why this discriminatory loitering crime goes against California values and needs to be repealed.”

Last month, Wiener explained the importance of SB 357.

“Arresting people because they ‘look like’ sex workers is discriminatory and wrong, and it endangers sex workers and trans people of color,” stated Wiener in September after the bill cleared the Legislature. “Anti-LGBTQ and racist loitering laws need to go. Sex workers, LGBTQ people, and people of color deserve to be safe on our streets.”

While those opposed to the bill claimed it would put child sex traffic victims at risk, despite the fact a 2016 bill adopted into law decriminalized loitering for prostitution for minors under the age of 18, proponents argued it was time to do the same for

adult women whose lives have been negatively impacted from being charged for such a crime.

New York state repealed its loitering law in February. Pushing for the Golden State to follow suit was a broad coalition made up of former and current sex workers; LGBTQ+ groups like Equality California and Transgender Gender-variant and Intersex Justice Project; the American Civil Liberties Union; and the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, known as CAST LA. “By ending one form of criminalization, the state takes a monumental step forward in protecting our safety and our livelihoods,” the DecrimSexWorkCA coalition stated last month

in urging Newsom to sign SB 357.

Earlier this summer Newsom signed into law several other bills related to gender identity issues. AB 439 by Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) allows for deceased Californians who are nonbinary to be identified as such on their death certificates.

The governor also signed into law two bills, one by Bauer-Kahan and another by gay state Senator John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), that replaces “archaic gender-specific pronouns” used to refer to the state’s various elected leaders and appointed officials in state codes with gender neutral terms. Currently, most parts of the state code use “he” or “him” pronouns. t

Goldfarb said that these changes came about “a couple weeks ago,” but “paperwork” had to come through before they could be announced.

“I am looking forward to continuing to work with the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District,” Goldfarb said.

In a recent Guest Opinion piece in the B.A.R., Goldfarb wrote about how the leather community came to call SOMA home.

“The leather community originally gravitated to SOMA because there, they found both acceptance and affordable rent,” he wrote. “These are both increasingly threatened by gentrification as the entertainment and industrial spaces our community has traditionally used to house our groups and venues are being redeveloped.”

Goldfarb also discussed potential solutions the leather district is working on.

“The only way we will avoid permanent displacement is to buy a building to house a leather community center, and indeed, that is our long-term goal,” he wrote. “In the meantime, we are focused on easing those challenges in various ways. For instance, we are working with developers to include lease addendums to make new residents aware that events like Folsom Street Fair may bring some interesting

clothing choices and entertainment to the streets, along with all the commerce, art, and excitement.”

The Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District receives $230,000 in Proposition E funds per year from the city, Goldfarb said. Voters passed it in 2018 to reallocate a portion of hotel tax revenue for arts and cultural purposes. t

in their activist history suggested that they would turn to the state to legitimize their relationship.

“A lot of women thought that marriage was a big fart,” Lyon said at the time, recalling the mindset of feminists working in the 1970s who viewed marriage as an institution that kept women trapped in traditional roles. Before the couple’s February 2004 nuptials, Lyon said, she placed marriage low on her list of priorities in the struggle for gay rights.

“We hadn’t given it much thought,” Lyon said. “We were much more interested in making sure that gays and lesbians could have jobs and not get fired from them just because they were gays and lesbians. And the same

with housing and the same with almost everything.”

Still, when Newsom and Kendell, then the executive director of NCLR, asked Lyon and Martin to be the first couple to marry during what became known as the “Winter of Love,” they agreed.

“Well, sure,” Lyon remembers saying in response to Kendell’s request, shortly before the ceremony took place on February 12, 2004.

moved into a flat on Castro Street together on Valentine’s Day 1953.

In San Francisco, the women embarked on a lifelong career of activism. In 1955, along with three other lesbian couples, they co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis. Known as DOB, it was the first political and social organization for lesbians in the United States. Shortly after founding DOB, the couple began publishing The Ladder, the first monthly lesbian publication focused on politics, fiction, poetry and connecting lesbians across the country.

The founding of DOB and the publication of The Ladder, continuously from 1956-1972, were acts of immense political courage at a time of unchecked harassment and violence directed at

“homosexuals,” largely at the hands of law enforcement and political officials, the obituary noted.

The publication of Lyon and Martin’s book, “Lesbian/Woman” in 1972 changed countless lives. Many lesbians found a positive description of lesbian lives for the very first time when they discovered this book.

The women were the first open lesbians to join the National Organization for Women and helped form the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in Northern California to persuade ministers to accept lesbians and gay men into churches. They pushed to decriminalize homosexuality in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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fter one of Jon Gruden’s racistladen email exchanges with his NFL buddy Bruce Allen was made public last week, the good old boy spent the weekend hoping his lameass non-apology apologies, tone-deaf denials, and meaningless self-deprecation would be enough to allow him to slither forward and retain his position as coach of the Oakland-Los AngelesOakland-Las Vegas Raiders football team. When further excavation and publication of the seven-year trove of emails Monday added sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and disregard for player safety to the list of his written offenses, he resigned with six years left on his 10-year, $10 million contract.

Maybe he can take some of that $40 million he already got from the Raiders and meet up with former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling so they can cry into their beer as they drown their grievances. They could raise a glass in memory of the late Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott.

Football, basketball, baseball: prejudice spares no sport, and karma no person.

For me, the worst part of Gruden’s emails was not the racist imagery and language he employed to denigrate DeMaurice Smith, head of the players’ union, by writing to Allen, the then-president of the Washington NFL team, “Dumboriss Smith has lips the size of Michelin tires.”

It was not even the complete disregard for player safety he showed when he damned concussion protocols being adopted by the league to reduce the plague of serious permanent brain disease that occurs so frequently in football. It was not his mocking of Caitlyn Jenner or his suggestion that Tampa Bay Bucs owner Bryan Glazer blow him.

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‘Walking while trans’ bill delayed

As Newsom issued his final bill signings October 9, Senate Bill 357, the Safer Streets for All Act, was missing from the list. Co-authored by gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose), it would repeal California Penal Code Section 653.22, the law that criminalizes loitering for the intent to engage in sex work. It also allows those convicted of loitering with the intent to commit prostitution, particularly the Black women and transgender individuals often targeted under the law, to

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“The Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District has already accomplished much in SOMA,” Callahan wrote. “With both Bob Goldfarb and Bob Brown in leadership roles, we are poised to bring even greater community and vitality to the district in the future.”

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CA Hall of Fame

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marry in 2008 during the brief window when it was legal prior to the passage of Proposition 8, the state’s samesex marriage ban, meant a great deal to Lyon, according to her obituary in the B.A.R. (After a federal trial, Prop 8 was overturned and in 2013 the U.S. Supreme Court let that ruling stand, ushering in same-sex marriage in the Golden State.)

In 2009, Lyon spoke with the B.A.R. about the couple’s involvement in the fight for marriage equality. Though the couple participated in every pivotal moment of California’s same-sex marriage fight, Lyon said that nothing

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Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden resigned Monday after racist and homophobic emails he wrote emerged as part of an investigation by the NFL.

Nor was it when he called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a “faggot” or a “clueless anti-football pussy” (as opposed to Joe Biden, vice president at the time, whom he called a “nervous clueless pussy”) and said Goodell should not have pressured the St. Louis Rams to draft openly gay defensive player Michael Sam because the NFL should not draft “queers.”

Nor was it his damning commentaries opposing female NFL referees, efforts to change the name of the Washington team, or saying that former 49ers player Eric Reid should be fired for kneeling during the national anthem in protest of violent racial injustice.

I condemn all of those regressive, anti-social ravings. But the more troubling part for me is how damned comfortable Gruden was in saying them. In writing them. In sharing them with other like-minded, backslapping higher-ups in the sports

world. In sharing them with people he considered friends.

Initially, Gruden seemed to think he could outlast the storm that arose when just the one racist email deriding Smith was released, telling reporters, “All I can say, is I’m not a racist. I feel good about who I am and what I’ve done my entire life. I apologize for the insensitive remarks. I had no racial intentions with those remarks at all. I’m not like that at all. I know I don’t have an ounce of racism in me.”

Some sports commentators bought into that. On NBC’s “Football Night in America” broadcast Sunday, anchors Mike Tirico, who said he worked with Gruden at ESPN, and Tony Dungy – both Black men – basically excused Gruden’s lapse in judgment and said they did not think he was racist.

But the NFL, which had uncovered the emails while searching through Allen’s correspondence as part of its investigation into the toxic work culture within the Washington franchise, had been sending more emails to the Raiders to pressure them to act, and then the dam burst when a flood of the emails were published late Monday by the New York Times and other outlets.

Within hours he had resigned.

That’s when everyone knew that not only was Gruden really like that, but he had been so consistently for years.

When he thought he was dealing with the revelation of just one email, “Chucky” Gruden tried explaining it away by saying he was stressed out and having a bad day when he wrote it.

Isn’t that the same explanation we were offered by law enforcement for the alleged shooter in those spa shootings in the Atlanta area? Yes, it was.

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Early life

The couple met when Martin joined the staff of the Seattle magazine where Lyon was working and the two became lovers in 1952. The couple relocated to San Francisco and

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After residing in the Castro, the couple purchased a home in Noe

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of that news conference to promote SOMA RISE, a sobering center for all drugs (not just methamphetamine), which is going to open later this fall south of Market at 1076 Howard Street. It has a 20-bed capacity and will be operated by HealthRIGHT 360, which was awarded the contract to run the center.

Vitka Eisen, a lesbian who is

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Valley. In May, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved landmarking the two-story cottage, where the couple lived for more than five decades. It’s the first pri-

vate residence owned by lesbians to receive landmark status in the Western United States, according to local historians, as the B.A.R. previously reported.

In San Francisco, it is the fifth site to receive city landmark status specifically for its importance to LGBTQ history.

The last Hall of Fame class was in

2019. All of the inductees, including this year’s, can be viewed on the museum’s website at https://cahalloffame.org/ t

the CEO of HealthRIGHT 360, said that while contingency management might seem odd at first glance, “I am grateful to live in a city and county that believes in science.”

“The idea of paying people to not use drugs seems strange, but I thought if it’s backed by the research, let’s go with it,” Eisen said.

SB 110 was also sponsored by the AIDS foundation, APLA Health, Equality California, and

the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Program Executives.

EQCA, the statewide LGBTQ rights organization, stated October 8 it was upset by Newsom’s veto.

“The meth crisis is devastating the LGBTQ+ community, and every day that we fail to act means more lives lost to this urgent, preventable epidemic,” stated Tony Hoang, a gay man who’s EQCA executive

director-designate. “We are deeply disappointed by today’s veto, but we are committed to expanding access to this important program. We look forward to working with Senator Wiener to do so.”

Gary McCoy, a gay man who is the director of policy and public affairs at HealthRIGHT 360, made headlines a couple of months ago when he held a hunger strike in front of City Hall demanding action from the city on the drug

overdose crisis.

McCoy wrote via Twitter that he was “livid” at the veto.

Rafael Mandelman, a gay man who represents District 8 (including the Castro) on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, wrote via Facebook that “this is a setback for people suffering from methamphetamine addiction” and that “I will continue to push to expand contingency management.” t

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on 08/18/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/14/21.

FILE A-039476500

from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: JANE K. PENHALIGEN (SBA #132628), LAW OFFICE OF JANE K. PENHALIGEN, 3478 BUSKIRK AVE #1000, PLEASANT HILL, CA 94523; Ph. (925) 746-7113.

Legals>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556608

In the matter of the application of MEENA HARRIS & NIKOLAS AJAGU, C/O DEBORAH WALD, THE WALD LAW GROUP, PC, 100 BUSH ST #1900, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MEENA HARRIS & NIKOLAS AJAGU is requesting that the name AMARA SHYAMALA UKA AJAGU be changed to AMARA SHYAMALA HARRIS AJAGU. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 21st of OCTOBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039486500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SNOWLION MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION, 495 38TH AVE #3, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TASHI DHONDUP. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/11/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/15/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039476200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SAPPHIRE CONSIGNMENT, 1105 BUSH ST #B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DOUGLAS WATSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/03/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039481800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TINY SEEDS DAYCARE, 138 SOUTHWOOD DR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KATERINE VALDERRAMOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/09/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/10/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039473500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DREAMSCAPES; LANDRY & COMPANY; 980 TERESITA BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SUSAN LANDRY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039488400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HT PAVING AND SEAL COATING SERVICES, 131 ROCK HARBOR LN, FOSTER CITY, CA 94404. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HUGO APARECIDA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/17/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/17/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039481300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FILM INSTALL PROS, 3239 MISSION ST #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed IVAN GOMEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/09/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/10/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039489700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MEGA CLEANING SF, 380 HANOVER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LUIS LOPEZ CRUZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/20/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/20/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039476100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CHEAP TICKETS TRAVEL, 816 GEARY BLVD #34, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual,, and is signed MAUNG YANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/01/01. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039487700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as POTRERO PHYSICAL THERAPY, 550 15TH ST #36A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed INNER BAR INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/07. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039487800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as OCEAN BEACH PHYSICAL THERAPY, 3401 TARAVAL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed INNER BAR INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/14/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-03948680

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DISCOVER HEALTH, 990 COLUMBUS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DISCOVER HEALTH MEDICAL GROUP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/15/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039490800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as REPUBLIC BUILDING MAINTENANCE, 1 MARKET ST TH 36 FL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed REPUBLIC ENTERPRISES INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/21/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039489400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as JADE BAZAAR, 480 GRANT AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JADE MOUNTAIN INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/97. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/20/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039474600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HUCKLEBERRY BICYCLES, 1255 BATTERY ST #120, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ROCK DOVE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/03/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039473100

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039492400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE GARDEN WITCH, 1025 PORTOLA DR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ASTRID EDMONDSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/04/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039497000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as L & T NAILS, 1085 FILLMORE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LOAN K. NGUYEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/31/21.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/24/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039483400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ALFARO TRUCK, 1538 PALOU AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARCO AGUILAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/10/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039475200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HESTER’S DESIGNS; HESTER’S SCHOOL OF DESIGN & SEWING; 63 EDINBURGH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HESTER A. MICHAEL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/02/96.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039492500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as REFACTOR EQ, 870 MARKET ST #1123, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed COFOUNDER AND MARRIAGE COUNSELING PC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/22/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039494600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SFC JUNK REMOVAL, 318 WOOLSEY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SFC JUNK REMOVAL LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/13/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/21.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LAUREL VILLAGE DENTAL LOFT, 3501 CALIFORNIA ST #201, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BAYSAC DENTAL HEALTH 3580 CALIFORNIA PC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/22/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039487000

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039495200

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as DISCOVER HEALTH, 990 COLUMBUS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MYDOCPLUS (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/15/21.

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038833300

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as PARTNERS, 3896 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business was conducted by a general partnership and signed by PAUL EDWARD GREER, PAUL CURTIS SUGIMOTO & RICHARD CHARLES TUCKER. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/22/19.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556642

In the matter of the application of NELIDA SANCHEZ TAPIA, 3331 17TH ST #B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner NELIDA SANCHEZ TAPIA is requesting that the name WAEL IBRAHIM MOHAMMED SANCHEZ be changed to WAEL IBRAHIM MOHAMMED. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 9th of NOVEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039485600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as WISITAHOE REALTY, 811 BEACH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALOIS BETSCHART. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as WEST PORTAL PRODUCE MARKET, 222 WEST PORTAL AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed KDS FRESH INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039496600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MOSADDEGH DRY EYE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE, 490 POST ST #1440, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LILLIE MOSADDEGH MD INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/24/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039493700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PRACTICE SAN FRANCISCO, 2901 WEBSTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed MIGHTY MINDS PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/19/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039498700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as POLISH NAIL AND BEAUTY SPA, 301 CORNWALL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed POLISH INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/18/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/28/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DONAJI, 3161 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CUEVAS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/20/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/08/21.

SEP 30, OCT 07, 14, 21, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039473600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as VALVOLINE INSTANT OIL CHANGE IH0011, 300 7TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HENLEY PACIFIC LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/21.

SEP 30, OCT 07, 14, 21, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039473700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as VALVOLINE INSTANT OIL CHANGE IH0004, 1799 TH 19 AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HENLEY PACIFIC LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/21.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/21.

SEP 30, OCT 07, 14, 21, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039495000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HILDA AND JESSE, 701 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HILDA AND JESSE RK, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/21.

SEP 30, OCT 07, 14, 21, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039494000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as VANCE APARTMENTS, 830 EDDY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed 830 EDDY STREET, LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/10/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/21.

SEP 30, OCT 07, 14, 21, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039489800

OCT 07, 14, 21, 2021

AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556655

In the matter of the application of SAN WANG, 1640 STEINER ST #4A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner SAN WANG is requesting that the name SAN WANG be changed to THE TSEING WANG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N on the 16th of NOVEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039499100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TAMALPAIS VALLEY SHUTTLE SERVICE, 2492 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE CONTRERAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/28/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039489500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ANDROCUTS, 4147 19TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELIZABETH ANDRONACO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/24/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/20/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039501300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BOUTIQUE FAWN, 313 IVY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed 415 NATIVE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/20/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/20/21.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LG HOUSE CLEANER SERVICE, 412 MADRID ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EVELIN LOPEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/29/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039494800

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039505000

SEP 30, OCT 07, 14, 21, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CREATE IMPACT; CREATE IMPACT AGENCY; 3100 FULTON ST #5, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed WATERS EDGE GLOBAL (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/23/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/21.

SEP 30, OCT 07, 14, 21, 2021

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JESUSITA A. DOMATOL IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-21-304829

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JESUSITA A. DOMATOL, C/O JANE K. PENHALIGEN (SBA #132628), LAW OFFICE OF JANE K. PENHALIGEN, 3478 BUSKIRK AVE #1000, PLEASANT HILL, CA 94523. A Petition for Probate has been filed by SUNDAY P. ROSA in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that SUNDAY P. ROSA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: OCTOBER 25, 2021, 9:00 am, Rm. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HELLO BANH MI, 681 TOWNSEND AT, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed QUANG DU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/30/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039506000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DRIPPIN PAINT, 1311 GILMAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RENAE WILBORN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/30/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039494500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as RICHMOND ACCOUNTING & TAX SERVICES, 414 CLEMENT ST #6, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LI MING CHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039486600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TAZ AUTO MOBILE DETAILING, 355 MCALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LAMONTE JOHNSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/13/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/15/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039505900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LESLIE’S NAILS, 1548 FILLMORE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CAN QUANG LE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under

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the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/30/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039509600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LILY NAILS SPA, 1198 HYDE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RICKY PHUONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/04/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039510300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as NOTARY GURU ON WHEELZ, 1321 STEINER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YOLANDA R. JONES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/04/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039511200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MARQUEE MEDICINE, 18 10TH ST #2233, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANTHONY CHU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/05/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039488100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LAMP SHADES SF, 1000 QUESADA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed RICHARD M. DONNELLY & ROBERT L. MILLS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039496800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ORIZURU; RIGHTSART; 236 WEST PORTAL AVE #133, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed RAY FOK, NGA WING ARIANA CHAN & CHUN CHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/21/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/24/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039475700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MUMU HOT POT, 2 VARELA AVE #5, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed H&H INVESTMENT ENTERPRISE INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/15/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039494100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as NORTH HARBOR ESCROW A NON-INDEPENDENT BROKER ESCROW, 2282 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed EXCLUSIVE LIFESTYLES, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/23/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039503200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BROWN THERAPY CENTER, 110 GOUGH ST #403, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BROWN FAMILY THERAPY, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039508500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LONE STAR SALOON, 1354 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BEAR TRAP LSSF INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/19/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039484600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as VEO OPTICS, 1799 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed RESTUA VISION, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/14/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039488000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DOGFORK LAMP ARTS LLC, 1000 QUESADA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed DOGFORK LAMP ARTS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/07/07. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039501000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as WICKED 6 BAR AND BITES, 4092 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed EYLUL LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/29/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039500900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DHARMA MERCHANT SERVICES, 801 38TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed DHARMA PAYMENTS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/29/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039498200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LIZ BOER SKINCARE, 3356 SACRAMENTO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LIZ BOER SKINCARE AND WAXING STUDIO, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/10/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/28/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039504700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as OCTAVIA, 1701 OCTAVIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed KORE RESTAURANT GROUP LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/30/21.

OCT 07, 14, 21, 28, 2021

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF OTIS R. DAMSLET IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-21-304840

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of OTIS R. DAMSLET, C/O PAUL H. MELBOSTAD (SBN#99951), GOLDSTEIN GELLMAN MELBOSTAD HARRIS & MCSPARRAN LLP, 1388 SUTTER ST #1000, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. A Petition for Probate has been filed by JAY G. COWAN & ERIC DURR, CO-EXECUTORS, in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that JAY G. COWAN & ERIC DURR be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: NOVEMBER 01, 2021, 9:00 am, Dept. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: PAUL H. MELBOSTAD (SBN#99951), GOLDSTEIN GELLMAN MELBOSTAD HARRIS & MCSPARRAN LLP, 1388 SUTTER ST #1000, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109; Ph. (415) 673-5600.

OCT 14, 21, 28, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556644

In the matter of the application of NATHANIEL PAUL LYTLE, 345 6TH ST #901, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner NATHANIEL PAUL LYTLE is requesting that the name NATHANIEL PAUL LYTLE be changed to DON EIGHT. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 9th of NOVEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556663

In the matter of the application of SUI MAN CHAN, 1346A 20TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner SUI MAN CHAN is requesting that the name SUI MAN CHAN be changed to VICTORIA CHAN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 21st of DECEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556659

In the matter of the application of BINGYI YU, 640 FRANCISCO ST #1508, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner BINGYI YU is requesting that the name CARLAM JIALIN LI be changed to ANNIE JIALIN YU. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 21st of DECEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556667

In the matter of the application of ELIANNA ROSE LASKEN, 325 OCTAVIA ST #218, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ELIANNA ROSE LASKEN is requesting that the name ELIANNA ROSE LASKEN be changed to ELIANNA BADB O’SHEA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept.

103N, Rm. 103N on the 23rd of NOVEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556652

In the matter of the application of KAREN LYNN HOWARD, 547 27TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KAREN LYNN HOWARD is requesting that the name KAREN LYNN HOWARD be changed to MIA ANN HOWARD. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103 on the 16th of NOVEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039512100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as B & G AUTO REPAIR, 1 INDUSTRIAL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LESTER L. CHAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/06/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039508300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as EC BUILDING MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT, 31 LAUSANNE AVE, DALY CITY, CA 94014. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDWIN CANIZALES FLORES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/29/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039513800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LARKIN ST. LAUNDROMAT, 1868 LARKIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ARTHUR C. CHAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/27/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/07/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039512200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as PACIFIC MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION, 3450 GEARY BLVD #212, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AMY KELLY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/06/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039513600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE TALK SHOW COUNSELING SERVICES, 855 BRANNAN ST #451, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE V. FERIA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/07/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/07/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039508400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BRIGHTSOURCES, 5758 GEARY BLVD #106, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EUN JIN JEON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/28/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039513500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MARIETTA’S A MOTHERS TOUCH CLEANING SERVICE, 2127 QUESADA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HARVEY SALAZAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/16/14.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/07/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039515200

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039499000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MAREA MEDIA; ART OF MAC; IN MOTION MEDIA; IMAGE AND MOTION; IMAGE AND MOTION MEDIA; RUTH GUMNIT MEDIA; 2020 15TH ST #9, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed RUTH GUMNIT & MARGUERITE SALMON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/30/07. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/28/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039508600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MAX’S JANITORIAL & POWERWASH, 39 SANTA YNEZ AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed MAXIMO MENDOZA & NINETTE MORRIS-MENDOZA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/01/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039509300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as OTEX USA, 364 CHESTER AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed TANYA CHIU & TONY CHIU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/28/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/21.

OCT 14, 21, 28, NOV 04, 2021

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We’re Here, we’re queer HBO drag docuseries returns

Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela and Eureka in We’re Here

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BO’s docuseries We’re Here returns for a second season with a moving batch of episodes which celebrate small town LGBTQ life.

The show’s concept is simple: three famous drag performers, Shangela, Eureka, and Bob the Drag Queen descend on a variety of small towns across America and mentor local com-

munity members by transforming them into drag queens and performing in a show with them. In doing so, they teach their pupils to embrace their true selves with confidence and love. The show can be seen on HBO and will also stream on HBO Max. Peter LoGreco, the series’ showrunner and director, spoke to the Bay Area Reporter about what attracted him to the series.

“For this show there actually is an opportunity to do something that looks closely at

what life is really like in small town America,” LoGreco said. “And to try and paint a picture through this very unique lens, and a potentially provocative lens, where people who are openly LGBTQ are coming in and unapologetically being who they are, and hopefully forcing a discussion that takes us into this realm of how divided are we actually. How polarized are things? How conservative is small town America? What can we do to try and bridge those gaps?”

There are scenes in the Spartanburg episode that indeed bridge the gaps between the gay and straight worlds. In one early sequence, a local woman has the drag queens over to tea at her plantation-styled house. She admits that having drag queens as guests is a first for her.

LoGreco said that the show’s subjects –those who were being groomed to be drag queens– were found through social media outreach, by reading news stories about LGBTQ issues in smaller communities, and through personal connections, asking people they knew or people they encountered if they had any friends or family members who might be queer.

LoGreco added that response from We’re Here viewers has been “remarkably positive.”

“It really has been so rewarding to hear how frequently people feel like this show even as viewers can have an impact on them,” he said. “We’ve received emails and different communications from people talking about how it’s facilitated conversations within their families. Teenagers have watched the show with their families and then come out to their parents. That kind of thing is supersurprising in the best way. To be able to do something that you’re doing primarily as a form of entertainment that you hope has a meaningful underpinning to it, and then to hear that it has an affect that goes beyond the people who are participating in the show but also to the people who are watching us, I couldn’t ask for more.”

The positive response has also come from the townspeople where the series has filmed.

“There’s an overwhelming energy that the queens bring to the table that seems to empower people to actually embrace one another more. It almost feels like people are being given permission by drag queens and by the presence of the drag show to just enjoy themselves and to celebrate their community. If you’re looking to have a good time and really get a dose of positivity about what’s possible for us as a culture and us as a country, it’s a show worth watching. But mostly it’s super fun.”t Read the full article, with video clips, on www.ebar.com.

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fter five years as Artistic Director of AXIS Dance Company, choreographer Marc Brew closes his tenure with a new disability-inclusive dance about finding home; all before he’ll soon be moving to his own new home in the UK with his partner.

Three dances will premiere at re:surge, the company’s concerts at Z Space on October 22 and 23. Brew’s Roots Above Ground focuses on his personal experience as a disabled gay man and immigrant, and his journey to find home.

Another work, Hold Fast is a series of duets created by rehearsal director Sonshereé Giles.

The third premiere is by young choreographer Neve Mazique Bianco, titled Flora Hereafter: how flowers survive.

This is the first live concert for AXIS Dance after a year and a half of closure, remote classes and online discussions, tutorials (on the company’s https://www.youtube.com/c/ axisdancecompany YouTube channel) and remote rehearsals. The company’s ChoreoLab recently opened for disability-focused and physically integrated dance studies.

Brew’s connection to AXIS Dance goes back to 2011, when he was first commissioned to set a work on the company. In a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter from his Oakland apartment, he discussed his new dance, his work with AXIS, and the road ahead.

“Some people have said that I raised the artistry of the company,” said Brew, while maintaining a humble tone. “I brought in different dancers, we increased training to five day a week. The commissions were more challenging, and we also raised the diversity of the dancers and their abilities and skills; just a different artistic voice.”

Brew trained as a professional dancer at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and The Australian Ballet School. He’s worked in the UK and Internationally for the past 20 years as a director, choreographer, dancer, teacher and speaker; with the Australian Ballet Company, State Theatre Ballet Company of South Africa, Infinity Dance Theatre, CandoCo Dance Company. He’s traveled the world performing his works, setting works as a guest choreographer, and with his own company, at festivals in multiple countries, with both disabled and able-bodied dancers.

Since setting his dance “Full of Words” on the company in 2011, then-director Judy

Home and away AXIS Dance premieres new works; Marc Brew wraps up directorship AXIS Dance’s Roots Above Ground

Smith asked Brew back for their Summer Intensive program, then served as guest director, and eventually took on the position fulltime in 2017.

AXIS Dance Company, the nation’s most acclaimed ensembles of disabled and nondisabled performers, celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017. Brew will travel with the company on their tour to Frankfurt, Germany’s Tanz Festival in November, then head off to Scotland while the company performs in Dubai for another concert.

Finding home

Asked about his new work, “Roots Above Ground,” which will be part of both the new season and the tour repertory, Brew said, “I was supposed to make a new piece last year, and of course that never happened. But this piece was started pre-COVID. I’ve been to many

countries, from Australia to South Africa to England, and traveled and worked around the globe. It made me think, ‘Who am I?’ The idea of land ownership made me question that.”

Brew connected with the immigrant group East Bay Sanctuary Covenant. “We had monthly gatherings, where they shared amazing stories. That led to movement workshops where we used their stories to embody and express their experiences. That led me to my journey.”

Developing the work about the idea of ‘home’ continued remotely, “in isolation in our homes,” Brew noted, “which was not how I expected, but it really informed the material.

People had a different way of feeling about home, while trying to stay invigorated and inspired to work. We haven’t had that much time to be together.”

Some parts of the dance started from solos

created separately. As Joe Goode’s Annex in San Francisco re-opened as a rehearsal space (the company’s Oakland base, Malonga Arts Center, remains closed), social distancing effected the dancing as well, with spatial restrictions in the studio. Performers have to be repeatedly tested for COVID as well.

“There’ve been lots of challenges,” said Brew.

“That added another level to this process, with everyone being together, but in their own little squares. I looked at different ways to blend the movement, with canons, symmetry, and other techniques. I needed to find a creative way to make the separate solos make sense.”

To add to his challenges, Brew had flown back to Scotland (where he’s lived for many years) for a two-week vacation, but couldn’t return without U.S. citizenship or a Green Card.

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Trevor (Justin Huertas) is romanced on a first date with Cary (William A. Williams) in TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Lizard Boy.

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o, you want to talk about intersectionality? How about a reptile crossed with a human? Or a cellist crossed with an actor crossed with a playwright?

Justin Huertas brings all of the above to the table, not to mention his queerness and Filipino heritage.

He has written that his mission “is to create hero stories that put Black and Brown people, Queer people, and Women and Non-binary/Gender non-conforming folks at the center of the narrative.”

Huertas, 33, wrote the lyrics, composed the music and is one third of the cast in Lizard Boy, his cheeky-but-sincere superhero/scifi musical which opened its debut Bay Area engagement at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in Mountain View last week.

The show, in which the actors perform their own instrumental accompaniment on stage, and crack wise about everything from Grindr to Yoda, has demonstrated broad appeal in two enormously success-

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ful prior runs: In 2015, Lizard Boy an avid online fandom of young lisdebuted in Huertas’ hometown at teners who, for the most part, have the high-profile mainstream Senever seen the show. attle Rep. It was remounted the “The people who have found next year at San Diego’s DiversionLizard Boy through streaming are ary Theatre, which specifically proamazing,” says Huertas. “They send grams for queer audiences. me the most moving notes and Lizard Boy is a fable-like tale even art inspired by the show.” about Trevor, a young man who Despite an ongoing love affair feels like a permanent social outwith his reptilian alter-ego, Huessider due to his scaly green comtas is hardly resting on his lizard plexion, the result of a childhood laurels. He’s had two more original musicals commissioned and profreak accident. While gay audiencduced in Seattle, The Last World es will hardly be surprised when Octopus Wrestling Champion and the protagonist’s perceived defect Lydia and the Troll; written the evolves into his unique supersongs for a stage adaptation of power, this metaphorical tale about Howl’s Moving Castle; and is curbecoming comfortable in one’s own rently under commission to colskin will delight them nonetheless, laborate on a children’s musical at thanks to inventive staging, sharp the John F. Kennedy Center for the humor and Huertas’ folk-pop muPerforming Arts. sic, which surprisingly succeeds in Lizard Boy, through October blending echoes of Jonathan Lars31 at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, en, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Indigo 500 Castro St., Mountain View.

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“We’ve been playing this show together since the beginning and we’ve been making the orchestrations more complex as we’ve gone along. I can’t imagine what it would be like for an understudy trying to come in. My big dream for Lizard Boy,” says Huertas, who is working on that sheet music, “is that sometime in the near future, high school and college students everywhere will have a chance to play these Jamie Zimmer honors Betty Reid Soskin in Sign My parts.”

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much public attention for the talks she’s given at the Rosie the Riveter/ World War II Home Front National Park in Richmond. She also won new attention for the experience of African-American women and men during the war, who served the country here and abroad at the same time they were subject to institutionalized segregation, discrimination and other forms of racism.

Lesser known though, is Soskin’s lifelong interest in music. In the late 1940s, with her first husband, Mel Reid, she opened a record shop in Berkeley with her first husband.

They sold blues and R&B and recordings then known as “race music” and not carried by most whiteowned music shops. In the 1960s, while coping with raising four children amid failing marriage, she began making music herself, learning to play guitar and writing songs.

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“I had to apply for a national interest exemption, but they weren’t taking appointments at the U.S. Embassy, so it took thirteen months to get back here.”

Brew was able to return in August, where he worked to blend the solos with more of his trademark intense partnering, with some solos combined.

Another new aspect brought in Deaf consultants Antoine Hunter and Zahna Simon to incorporate ASL into the movement, not as a usual side-stage option. Filmed segments, music and lyrics will also be woven into the work.

“I’m trying to create an immersive yet accessible experience,” said Brew, “for people to connect their idea of home and belonging, the need to feel part of a community.”

As with his other dances set on the company, Brew hopes “Roots Above Ground” will remain part of their repertory. “They’ll perform it more this year and into next year.”

Brew noted that another premiere, the new dance by Neve Mazique Bianco, is the first commission from the Pina Bausch Foundation, where Bianco was recently a Fellow.

“It had to be created virtually, and part of the process of learning to create, with so much to express, is the reality of time,” said Brew. “Along with funding, it created a new pathway for disabled choreographers.”

Brew praised Bianco’s “rounded

full vision of their work,” which includes costumes and a large painted backdrop. Rounding out the program, Sonshereé Giles’ “Hold Fast,” a collection of duets, promises to feature the vibrant moves of its creator.

Asked about his plans for the future, Brew mentioned some upcoming freelance commissioned choreography work in Germany and Norway.

“I’m going to focus on my work.

Even though I’ve loved all the challenges and opportunities as a director with AXIS, the artist in me has had to go to sleep for a while. I’m looking forward to reigniting the artistic spark in myself.”

And, referring back to his new dance’s themes of home, he’s also looking forward to “laying down roots” with his boyfriend of six years, Matthew Kitson, in their renovated country house near Glasgow, along with their two dogs and a few ducks.

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There are no talking heads, only Bernstein’s own voice telling his own story in his own words, with the use of archival concert material, firstperson TV interviews, news footage, home movies, and audio clips.

The documentary begins and ends with Bernstein conducting Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in East Berlin in 1989, celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall, with him rewriting the “Ode to Joy” movement; the choir substituted the word ‘freedom’ in place of ‘joy.’

This was his last triumph before his death at 72 the following year.

Bernstein gave wide-ranging music lectures on the CBS art series Omnibus in 1954 and in his 1970s televised series of CBS’s Young People’s Concerts, teaching audiences about music and inspiring many students to become musicians.

Bernstein also composed music for the stage and Hollywood including On the Town, West Side Story, Candide, Wonderful Town, and the failure 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Little screen time is devoted to this aspect of Bernstein’s career, despite his contributions to musical theater being significant. He was asked

by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to compose a theater piece for the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971 and his Mass received mixed reviews, criticized privately by President Nixon for its liberal political overtones.

Although homosexual, Bernstein had a long, somewhat happy though complicated 27-year-marriage to Chilean actress Felicia Montealegre until her 1978 death, siring two children. He had male lovers before, during, and after their marital union.

The film presents forthright excerpts from his letters detailing his

Left: Bernstein’s Wall Right: God’s Daughter Dances

“confusion,” such as this one to Copeland: “You’re the only one who persists and persists, and this wish for closeness manifests itself in a sexual desire, the more promiscuous the better,” to which Copeland responded that Bernstein better be careful as he could be blackmailed, advising him to burn any compromising letters. Felicia knew about his sexuality and told him to go off and do what he pleases, “without guilt or confession.”

Bernstein’s life was so filled with accomplishments, the documentary tends to quickly skip over some highlights. This is one film that could have been longer. While the emphasis on Bernstein’s humanitarian and political concerns is laudatory, it comes at the expense of hearing less about his musical accomplishments unbalancing the film.

True Velvet

The boundary-breaking aheadof-their-time transgressive Velvet Underground paved the way for punk, new wave, indie, and alternative forms of rock, especially the ones with dark brooding themes.

They are at last getting the fitting coverage they deserve in gay auteur Todd Haynes superb slick documentary The Velvet Underground.

While best known for his feature films, Haynes has earned musical plaudits for his glam-rock celebration Velvet Goldmine and his Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There.

Those looking for a linear history of the band will have to look elsewhere, because instead we get to experience Velvet’s transcendent experimental music as if we were there in the 1960s. The collage-like kaleidoscopic structure uses archival footage, old photos interspersed with commentary from the band members themselves in audio interviews for deceased lead singer Lou Reed and guitarist Sterling Morrison, and new interviews with surviving co-founder bassist/violist John Cale and drummer Maureen “Moe” Tucker, as well as comments from colleagues and friends.

The Velvet Underground came to prominence performing in Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable (psychedelic) Shows and became full participants in The Factory lifestyle. Warhol gave them freedom to improvise, insisting only that they include the icy German chanteuse

singer Nico on their first album in 1967 with cover art designed by Warhol.

Reed and Cale had met at legendary 56 Ludlow Street, a haven for counterculture artists, both charismatic but with different visions of how the group should proceed. Reed was mentally ill most of his life, plagued by depression and panic attacks which he self-treated with heavy drug use. He was primarily gay and deeply conflicted.

Reed, influenced by Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Beat authors like Ginsberg, would write homoerotic poetry often about having sex with men in public bathrooms. He sought to transform their prose into rock music.

All these experiences contributed to his confrontational, raging, wounded, trippy, drug-laced, anarchic, non-conformist lyrics about orgiastic sex, junkies, whores, and drag queens.

Never commercially successful at the time, their legendary reputation has soared ever since the breakup. We begin to understand Velvet’s mythic status as outsiders and why their ground-breaking elusive, at-times discordant sound changed rock forever.

Velvet Underground also opens in theaters October 15 and will be streamed on Apple + TV.

Stepping out

The short 25-minute entry God’s Daughter Dances, is a Bay Area premiere, from South Korea.

Transgender dancer Shin-mi is a success at a local nightclub producing some diehard groupies. But the next morning she must report for a military examination. The doctor doubts she is transgender despite her paperwork and wants her to strip naked to prove she’s a woman and not a man faking to get out of compulsory military service.

There is a surprise connection linking her dancing with the military.

How Shin-mi responds to various indignities is thrilling and she will become a new queer role model.

Enchanting and empowering. God’s Daughter Dances will inspire transgender people of all cultures.t www.mvff.com/program-mvff44/

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Pajtim Statovci’s ‘Bolla’

by Tim Pfaff

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ajtim Statovci’s unlikely success with his first three novels may have had more to do with their subjects’ being au courante than with the author’s staggering literary genius. My Cat Yugoslavia (2014) addressed what has sadly become a central theme in literary fiction, politely called “immigration” but typically focused on our century’s millions of refugees and the nightmares of their daily lives.

In his second novel, Crossing, Statovci broadened his address to include the deadly business of being queer in most of today’s world, the extent of which still startles most free-world othersexuals. In his latest, Bolla (Pantheon Books), he adds to this merciless trifecta the depredations of love and war, particularly when they intersect.t Read the full review on www.ebar.com.

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Pushing music boundaries

by Gregg Shapiro

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he Red Hot Organization, “a not-for-profit dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture,” has been releasing essential various artists music compilations for more than 30 years, beginning with Red Hot + Blue. Over the years, Red Hot has focused on a multitude of genres including classical, indie rock, country, dance, rock en Español, alternative, Brazilian, jazz and more.

The double album Red Hot + Free (redhot.org), Red Hot’s first full-length release in five years, returns listeners and supporters to the dance-floor with 18 roof- Karen Black raising club-bangers. Known for its history of thoughtpath with the exceptional Broke, provoking pairings, Red Hot Not Broken (8eat8). The follow-up doesn’t disappoint with inspired to 2020’s pandemic-produced isocollaborations by Sofi Tukker and lation: 001 and the stunning covers Amadou & Mariam (“Mon Cheri”) record Borrowed Tunes, vol. 1, the and Louis The Child and Foster album features new vocals and new The People (“Every Color”), among mixes of some songs that appeared others. on Mainmone’s The High Hat Club More importantly, Red Hot + EP from 2019.

Free features an impressive array of Sensational album opener “Work” queer artists including Billy Porter deserves to be a hit, making Maim(“Caught In The Middle”), Cakes da one a rich man. “F.M.L.” (aka “Fuck Killa (“Don Dada”), Casey Spooner My Life”) and “Garbougie” have (“I Love My Problems”), Tituss Burwhat Maimone describes as “NOLAgess (“Dance M.F.”), Bright Light inspired instrumentation,” and we Bright Light (“These Dreams”), and couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

Sam Sparro (“Pressure”).

He’s at his most Tom Waits-ian on Gay and hot Nashville by way of the dazzling ache of “Through The Chicago singer/songwriter Mike Changes,” while his piano mastery Maimone, whom some may reshines through on “Clear Black member from the band Mutts, conNight” and “Long Way Down.” tinues on his solo recording career

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You could say that the next two albums are stretching the playlist boundaries, but for good reasons. The first is Dreaming of You (1971-1976) (Anthology Recordings) by the late actress Karen Black. A longtime outspoken supporter of the LGBTQ+ community, Oscar-nominee Black originated the role of the trans character Joanne in Robert Altman’s Broadway production of Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, a part she also performed in Altman’s 1982 film adaptation alongside Cher.

Black and Altman previously worked together on the director’s 1975 masterpiece Nashville, in which the actor portrayed country singer Connie White. Black wrote the songs “Memphis” and “Rolling Stone,” which she performed in the movie.

Compiled and co-produced by indie singer/songwriter Cass McCombs, Dreaming of You features Black performing 15 originals and two covers (including The Moody Blues’ “Question”). Unreleased until now, the songs provide a fresh perspective on Black’s talent as a musical artist and, while they have the feel of a time capsule, they deserve to be heard, especially the title cut, “It All Turned Out The Way I Planned It,” “Babe Oh Babe,” “Thank God You’re Mine” and “I Wish I Knew The Man I Thought You Were.”

Another boundary-stretching album is by Jason Narducy, another valued ally and LGBTQ+ supporter. Fans of gay modern rock legend Bob Mould may recognize Narducy as both a member of Mould’s touring band (since 2005) and re-Untitled-1 cording band (since 2012). He even sang a duet with lesbian jazz artist Patricia Barber on her 1999 Companion album.

Narducy’s own band Split Single returns with its third full-length, Amplificado (Inside Outside). You can hear the influence of Mould (who also worked with Narducy and Alison Chesley when they recorded as Verbow) immediately on songs such as “Blood Break Ground,” “Stone Heart World,” “Mangled Tusk,” and “Worry,” which is intended as a compliment.

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