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Controller’s review sought for Pride

by Seth Hemmelgarn upervisors Bevan Dufty and David Campos are asking the board of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee to cooperate with the city controller’s office in an assessment of Pride.

The move follows the resignations last week of Amy Andre, Pride’s executive director, and Mikayla Connell, the board president.

The two left the organization with a deficit for this year that could be as much as $150,000.

That figure includes an estimated $55,000 to $60,000 that is owed to beverage partners from this year’s event.

The year saw controversy as beverage partners, typically community organizations who provide volunteers to work drink booths at the event in exchange for a portion of the revenue, received a letter saying that because of an “accounting error,” their cut of proceeds was less than anticipated.

Several organizations received thousands of dollars less than they had expected. But Connell eventually said that beverage partners would receive the money after all, and that responsibility for what had happened lay with Andre and the board.

Andre, who started with Pride last October, is set to leave November 19. Connell’s resignation was effective immediately.

Dufty said Wednesday that he and Campos, the two openly gay members of the board, met with four Pride board members Tuesday, including new co-chairs Shawn Parker and Nikki Calma, to discuss the review.

Campos and Dufty have offered to help Pride officials raise money and look for a new executive director. Dufty said that since they’ve offered to help restore Pride’s financial stability and community trust, “we requested the board’s cooperation with a controller’s review and assessment of Pride.”

The city’s Grants for the Arts office provided $58,400 to Pride for this year’s events. According to Pride treasurer Belinda Ryan, the same amount will be awarded for fiscal year 2011 and should be available later this month.

Dufty said he and Campos met with Controller Ben Rosenfield and his staff Tuesday. He

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overnor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced this week he had tapped an openly gay deputy public defender for a vacancy on the Contra Costa County Superior Court. The selection of Christopher R. Bowen is the governor’s second out judicial pick for the East Bay bench.

In February the governor appointed out lesbian Rebecca C. Christopher R. Bowen Hardie, formerly director and counsel for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, to the court. At the time only the second known openly gay person to be picked for a judicial post by the governor, Hardie hears cases out of the court’s Pittsburg courthouse.

Bowen, an attorney with the Contra Costa County Public Defender’s office, is believed to be the first out gay man on the county court. He is also the fourth openly gay lawyer in the Bay Area to be given a judicial post by the governor.

Last month lesbian lawyer Angela Bradstreet became the second out person appointed by Schwarzenegger to the San Francisco County Superior Court. In June 2009 Judge Ron Albers became the first known openly gay person to be selected by the governor to the state court system when he was appointed to the San Francisco court.

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SF Pride Board members Joshua Smith, Lisa Williams, and Shawn Parker (now board co-chair), former President Mikayla Connell, and board member Todd Torr (back to camera) looked over documents at a board meeting earlier this month, before Connell’s resignation.

said based on the city’s grant to Pride, “We requested the controller do a needs assessment and technical review that will consider some of the key financial issues, as well as governance.”

Dufty said the four Pride board members at the meeting supported the request, but indicated they had to get approval from the three who weren’t at the meeting.

“It was a good, candid discussion,” said Dufty.

He said the controller’s office has a city services team that’s gone into other nonprofits, helped assess their needs, and provided technical support.

“I’m not trying to do an A to Z audit,” said Dufty. “ ... We’re trying to get a big picture.”

Dufty said that would include a review of the beverage situation and Pride’s deficit.

He said the review would also give the controller the chance to ask Pride’s board and staff what they want to improve. He said he sees it as “a collaborative process.”

“We expect a fairly short turnaround,” said Dufty. He said if Pride’s board approves the con-

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troller’s office involvement, he and Campos would have “an initial consultation” with the controller in two weeks “to help us understand the parameters and what the issues are.”

Campos said Wednesday, “The Pride board, as I understand it, is considering our offer, which is an offer to assist them with the understanding that before that can happen, we need to have a needs assessment from the controller.”

He said that he and Dufty “want to be as helpful as we possibly can, but in thinking about our involvement, we believe that before we start talking about specifics about what should be done, we need to have a better grasp of where Pride as an institution is.”

Dufty is eager to start fundraising.

“I don’t want to sit on my hands waiting for reports,” he said. “We need to move forward and bring in sponsorships and address the shortfall.”

“Our goals are transparency, openness, and being honest with the community,” said Dufty. “... I think this process will engender communi-

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iz Angoff and Emily Goodman share a spotlight dance during Marriage Equality USA’s Dance for Equality fundraiser in Oakland Saturday, October 16 at Uptown Body and Fender. Nearly $3,000 was raised for the group’s efforts in achieving marriage equality. A similar dance was held in February and was such a success that they repeated it last weekend. Other entertainment included songs by Molly McKay and Sean Chapin, and a raffle.

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federal judge on Tuesday evening denied the federal government’s request that she stay her decision that the military can no longer discriminate against gay and lesbian service members.

That prompted the Department of Justice Judge Virginia Wednesday to request Phillips from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals an emergency stay of the injunction against the anti-gay policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Also on Tuesday, Dan Choi, the gay Army officer who was discharged under DADT earlier this year, went to the military recruiting center in Times Square to re-enlist. He emerged from the center saying his paperwork was being processed. Choi was able to sign up because the

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by Matthew S. Bajko n picking Barbara Garcia to be the city’s next public health director, Mayor Gavin Newsom choose a wellliked insider at the Department of Public Health who is expected to oversee a relatively smooth transition Barbara Garcia when longtime Health Director Dr. Mitch Katz steps down in January.

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by Heather Cassell alloween hasn’t completely left the Castro. Around the spirited holiday little ghouls, ghosts, goblins, vampires, and witches bewitch and enchant the neighborhood as the kids come out to show off their costumes and partake in other spooky events with their parents and community members.

Then there’s always the “Rock,” where some LGBT parents and kids will spend an evening touring Alcatraz.

Halloween is one of the holidays that community members and families openly embrace, said organizers of a variety of All Hallows Eve events for LGBT families.

LGBT family organizers added that Halloween, a fun event for kids and queers, is a great way to bring LGBT families and the community together.

Students at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy have been haunting the gayborhood for 14 years with their annual costume parade down 19th Street to Castro and 18th and then back to the school.

Started in 1996, merchants and residents come out onto Castro Street to watch the parade of spooks, superheroes, and cartoon characters snake through the Castro.

Terry Asten Bennett, general manager and vice president of Cliff ’s Variety Store, loves the annual parade.

“The merchants love it and this neighborhood is so supportive of that school,” said Asten Bennett. “It’s one of the most endearing things to the merchants that come out of their stores to cheer the kids on.

They are just as excited about it.”

She added that traffic stops for about five minutes and drivers join in cheers.

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Vampire dads Migdiel Hiram Moretta and Steven Rush pose with their son, who was Elmo, for their photo at last year’s “Monster Mash Halloween Bash” co-sponsored by Our Family Coalition and the SF LGBT Community Center.

chanting, it’s a very fun interactive event for them,” said Asten Bennett, who is straight and grew up in the Castro attending the public elementary school.

She plans to march with her daughter, a second grader, who now attends the school.

In conjunction with the parade on October 29, the school hosts an an-

“Trick or Treat Parade” through the Castro.

The Sisters estimate that about 70 kids show up for the annual event, but due to the event being held on Saturday, October 30 this year the Sisters anticipate more community members and families coming out to see the kids show off their costumes and win prizes.

‘Haunted’ boat ride LGBT parents with older kids are getting together for Alcatraz’s final night tour of the season Saturday, October 23.

An estimated 25 families have signed up for the “haunted” outing for the group, which will take a – Shawn Maceira boat ride out to the desolate former prison in the middle of the bay, said Adrienne Miller, host of nual Halloween party in the gym.

Betty’s List’s “LGBT Parents are Social Now in its fifth year, the party raises Too” group. an estimated $800 annually for the Kids and parents will enjoy a narschool, said Shawn Maceira, a parent rated boat tour around the island beliaison, who created the dance with fore docking and entering the cells coach Glenn Castro, who DJs the where infamous criminals, such as Al event.

Capone, once resided. The event is Open to the community, the event geared toward kids ages nine and up, sports a host of activities and games Miller said. for the kids, said Maceira, whose son “It just is about a social venue and graduates from the school’s fifth having fun,” said Miller, 48, a lesbian grade class this year. single mother. Miller, a Fairfax resi“A lot of the neighborhood people dent who works for a federal civil law look forward to it every year,” said enforcement agency, began organizing Maceira. “It’s a fun community event events with other LGBT families to enfor everyone.” sure her 10-year-old son had friends from other LGBT families.

Party with the Sisters Miller teamed up with Betty Sullivan, founder of Betty’s List, the Bay Another popular longtime event is Area’s lesbian community and social the Children’s Halloween with the event list, a year ago to create fun Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the events for queer families. The group Eureka Valley Recreation Center. has taken off with 135 member fami“It’s one of my favorite events for lies. The group continues to grow, sure,” said Sister Felma Soul, who has adding an estimated two to five famiorganized the community event with lies a week, she said. the recreation center staff for the past For the past year, Miller has found five years. Soul said the Sisters have a fun events, such as the “Night Tour “blast” and enjoy sharing Halloween of Alcatraz,” caroling in the Castro, with the kids. field trips to the Marine Mammal “I have fond memories of HalCenter in Sausalito, and a modernloween as a kid and I want to make day treasure hunt in the Presidio, sure the kids have that same chance,” among other outings. she added.

“I want my son, who lives in a Starting in the mid-1990s the Sisstraight world, to get exposure to ters of Perpetual Indulgence put on a other LGBT families first hand,” said costume contest with games, storyMiller.▼ telling, and circus clowns for its own

I have fond memories of Halloween as a kid and I want to make sure the kids have that same chance.”

Spooky calendar >> October 23

• Night Tour of Alcatraz Boat leaves Pier 33 at 6 p.m. Event runs until 9. Tickets: $33 for adults, $19.50 for kids ages 5-11. Hornblower Alcatraz Landing at Pier 33. www.meetup.com/Bettys-List-Parents-Are-Social-Too/ October 29

• Halloween Parade at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy Parade runs from 2 to 2:30 p.m. 4235 19th Street.

• Halloween Dance at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy Gym 6 p.m. Tickets $2. Open to the public. 4235 19th Street.

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• Children’s Halloween with the Sisters at Eureka Valley Recreation Center 1 to 4 p.m. Free. 100 Collingwood Street.

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Under One Roof ‘moving forward’ despite struggles nder One Roof, the shop in San Francisco’s Castro District that returns its net proceeds to numerous HIV/AIDS service organizations throughout the Bay Area, has been struggling financially. Beneficiaries who in the past have received thousands of dollars a year are now getting only a small slice of that.

However, Beth Feingold, executive director of the store at 518A Castro Street, is hopeful, and several beneficiaries are expressing support.

“The payout percentage is not as high as I’d like it to be, but considering we had two years of drought ... to me the more important message is that we’re moving forward,” said Feingold.

According to data Feingold provided, there were no payouts from September 2007 through August 2008. She couldn’t say Monday how much money has gone to beneficiaries so far in 2010, but she said the total amount is “probably in the small five figures overall.”

Feingold said the shop expects to do about $750,000 in sales this fiscal year. She said the organization has made two payouts this year and hopes to do a third distribution in early December. Feingold didn’t say what the overall budget is this year.

The second payout checks were supposed to have gone out earlier this month. On October 8, Feingold emailed the store’s 24 beneficiaries saying the checks had been sent.

“We know that you put it to good use and we are pleased that we are back on the payout track,” wrote Feingold in the e-mail, a copy of which was provided to the Bay Area Reporter. At least some agencies had not received those checks as of Tuesday.

She said the third payout wouldn’t be “huge,” but projected the third amount would be close to twice the size of the first distribution. Feingold said Under One Roof has also given out baskets packed with items that beneficiaries can use to raise funds, among other means of support. She noted the current economic climate is “bad.”

Feingold, 62, started at Under One Roof as a volunteer and served on the board of directors for many years.

She stepped into the executive director’s position on an interim, parttime basis in 2009 after previous executive director Mark Burns stepped down. The switch was part of the store’s efforts to “restructure its operating model, given the current economic climate,” according to a news release issued at the time.

Feingold said that technically, she’s a consultant and is working for a flat rate of $5,000 a month. She indicated she works “time and a half,” but added, “That’s my decision.”

Expenses In 2008, the store moved to its current spot, which is three times the size of its previous location. The store’s move from its old location appears to have had a large impact on its finances.

Under One Roof’s tax documents covering the period March 2008 through February 2009 list total occupancy expenses as $228,368.

Feingold didn’t know exactly what percentage of Under One Roof ’s money went to overhead and how much went to beneficiaries this fiscal year or the previous one.

“Overhead, obviously with a space this large, is high, and various expenses like phones and power and light have gone way up,” said Feingold. “We keep trying to be conservative in everything we do, from the garbage bill to the power bill. Rent is

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Feingold added that Under One Roof, which has donated more than $4 million to beneficiaries since 1990, is focusing on controlling the amount of inventory it has on hand at any given time.

There has been talk about Under One Roof going from being open year-round to just open around the holidays.

“That’s how we started, so it’s a topic that’s brought up periodically,” said Feingold. “We always need to revisit what the model is and make sure that we stay current and fresh. I never say ‘no’ to anything. You never know what’s going to happen.”

Under One Roof’s tax documents for the period March 2008 through February 2009 show that net revenue went from about negative $27,000 the previous year to about negative $65,000.

Feingold said, “That could easily be true, because there was huge expense associated with the move. ... I can’t tell you 100 percent that’s what it is, but that’s my guess, given the timing.”

Under One Roof ’s website says, “After covering our operating expenses, we distribute 100 percent of our profits back to our participating agencies.” Feingold said the organiza-

tion tries to have a greeter “to tell people who we are and what we do and why we do it, and we’ve been transparent with the community,” and with beneficiaries.

She said Under One Roof is “very clear” with people “that it’s net proceeds” going to beneficiaries, “and that we have to operate like any other business.”

Asked about the rent for the shop, Feingold said, “The precise amount is mitigated by an angel, who gives us back a big chunk of it.” She said she’d have to double check what the precise amount is, adding, “That same angel sometimes gives us a little more, so it ebbs and flows, and that of course makes a huge difference for us.”

She later said in an e-mail that the “angel” is Sam Sirhed, who’s listed on Under One Roof’s website as a board member. Feingold still didn’t say what the rent is, and Sirhed couldn’t be reached for comment.

At one time, beneficiaries made investments in the organization and had different levels of shares, but Feingold said that in 2004 an IRS ruling changed how Under One Roof kept its money. All the funds are now combined and there’s one set of books, whereas there used to be a different set of books for every agency, she said.

All of the investments have been paid off, and then some, according to Feingold.

Feingold did not provide a copy of Under One Roof ’s most recent tax documents, which aren’t yet available online.

Beneficiaries Brian Basinger, director of AIDS Housing Alliance/SF, said last week that his organization received a “very, very small check” earlier this year, but he did get Feingold’s October e-mail that another check was coming.

He said he had “no expectations” on the forthcoming amount.

“I hope it’s good, though,” said Basinger. “… I want all the money I can get my hands on.” Basinger hadn’t received a check as of Tuesday afternoon.

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DOJ’s wrong to appeal DADT ruling or a few days this week, the military’s antigay “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was suspended as recruiters were instructed by the Pentagon to accept openly gay and lesbian applicants. That move was the result of a federal judge’s decision that DADT is unconstitutional and her subsequent action to deny a request to lift her injunction halting enforcement of DADT around the world.

Dan Choi, who was famously discharged from the Army earlier this year under DADT, enlisted at the recruiting center in Times Square on Tuesday. But on Wednesday, the Justice Department asked the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for an emergency stay of Judge Virginia Phillips’s decision.

Dan Choi re-enlisted in the Army on Tuesday.

This is a terrible move by the DOJ, which has consistently appealed court rulings striking down various anti-gay laws, including the Defense of Marriage Act. Sadly, pearances where activists have heckled President Barack Obama and Attorhim, and at last week’s MTV forum with ney General Eric Holder are once young people – Obama has pledged to again standing in the way of LGBT end DADT. Despite Obama’s procivil rights by requesting a stay and nouncements, his Justice Department appeal of the DADT decision; especialcontinues to put up roadblocks to endly since the administration is under no ing this discriminatory policy. obligation to appeal Phillips’s decision in The Pentagon Working Group is the DADT case. Our self-described wrapping up its months-long study “fierce advocate,” Obama is on of DADT and that report is expectE DITORIAL ed December 1. However, the record declaring his commitment to end DADT “on his watch.” Yet his acjudge’s decision has come before tions, and those of his administrathat report’s completion, resulting in tion, do not mesh with his words since becomthe current situation. While uncertainty suring president. Time and time again – at last rounds openly gay service in the military, it’s year’s Human Rights Campaign dinner, at this clear that as for now, the Pentagon has complied year’s State of the Union address, at several apwith the judge’s decision by issuing the new in-

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DADT is on track to be repealed by Congress this year, if the Senate is able to take up the matter during a short lame duck session after the midterm elections. The House already passed a repeal amendment. And it’s important to note that this legislative action is tied to the Pentagon Working Group’s schedule and the process that was laid out by senior military officials. Phillips’s court decision has had the effect of slightly speeding up the process by ordering the Pentagon to begin accepting gay and lesbian applicants.

That does not mean, however, that gays and lesbians will be flooding military recruiting stations now that DADT is not being enforced. Enlisting in the service is a serious commitment, and right now, the United States is engaged in two wars. In the last few days, only a few gays have tried to enlist, and most of them, if not all, were discharged under DADT. But that’s not really the point. What’s crucial is that the Pentagon actually revised its rules to comply with a court order. And another important aspect of this case is that a federal judge ruled decisively that DADT is unconstitutional.

So many times judges have deferred to the military, and yet in this case, the judge did not.

Unfortunately, Obama’s Justice Department is hell bent on maintaining the status quo by appealing Phillips’s decision. DADT was effectively dead for about five days. There was no revolt among active service members or breakdown in unit cohesion. Troops have continued to do their jobs.

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Much at stake in Nov. 2 election

by Geoff Kors he results of the November 2 election will impact the fight for LGBT equality for years to come. Yet with Election Day less than two weeks away, experts are predicting a low turnout, especially among the voting groups that are most supportive of LGBT equality.

While there has been a frustrating lack of progress at the federal level to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, failing to vote in this election is not the solution and will only hurt our efforts, especially here in California where there is so much at stake.

Over the past decade, California has led the nation in passing pro-equality legislation. We created the nation’s first domestic partner registry, established protections for LGBT youth and seniors, required equality in insurance, won the strongest protections for transgender individuals in the country and passed bills that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry.

But we simply couldn’t have made such incredible strides without the support and advocacy of elected officials who have stood firm with us.

This election, Californians will vote for candidates who will either champion our ongoing struggle to achieve full equality or candidates who will stand in our way and could even work to undo our hard-fought victories. Leading up to and on Election Day, each and every member of the LGBT community and our allies must step up to ensure that we elect both LGBT candidates and strong allies for governor, attorney general, the state legislature, judges and for other key offices so that we can continue making significant progress toward our goal of achieving full equality.

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Our next governor and attorney general will play a particularly crucial role in many issues impacting LGBT Californians, including the ongoing federal challenge to Proposition 8 and our fight to permanently restore marriage equality. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown made the principled decision not to defend the discriminatory Prop 8 in court. The state of California refused to defend its own law, withholding its immense legal resources and skilled attorneys, which sent a powerful message against the inequality same-sex couples and their families face. Only extremist groups with a dangerous anti-LGBT agenda were left to defend Prop 8 in court. The moral stance of Schwarzenegger and Brown against the evils of Prop 8 have undoubtedly played a significant role in moving us closer to achieving equality.

But in November, the landscape could change dramatically. Our next governor and at-

Based on the June primary, it is virtually assured torney general will decide whether to throw the that when the California Assembly and Senate state’s powerful weight behind Prop 8 during kicks off the 2011 legislative session, it will be the ongoing federal challenge of the measure. with the largest percentage of LGBT members Gubernatorial candidate Brown and attorney in the history of both our state and our nation. general candidate Kamala Harris have promised More than 5 percent of our state’s legislators will to maintain the state’s position against Prop 8 be LGBT officials, including LGBT Legislative and have repeatedly pledged not to defend it.

Caucus Chair, incumbent Assemblyman Tom However, both gubernatorial candidate Meg Ammiano (D-San Francisco), who is running Whitman and Steve Cooley, candidate for attorfor re-election in District 13. Ammiano has ney general, have consistently promised to debeen an incredible champion for our communifend Prop 8, despite a federal judge’s ruling that ty, and we need his passion and commitment in deemed the measure a clear violation of the U.S. the Legislature, especially if Pugno is elected.

Constitution. Noted legal experts such as UC Irvine Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky A historic opportunity have said that our next governor or attorney general could significantly impact the case if to elect LGBT judges they change course and ask the courts to overIn addition, our new initiative to add more turn Walker’s decision.

LGBT judges to the bench was also a success Further, in the race for lieutenant governor, with all three Equality California endorsed juwe have the opportunity to elect a true pioneer dicial candidates either winning their elections and longtime ally in the fight for marriage outright (Linda Colfax in San Francisco) or equality, San Francisco Mayor Gavin coming in first and facing runoffs in NovemNewsom, who is squaring off against ber. In what is a truly historic election, Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado, Victoria Kolakowski, Alameda County who opposes LGBT equality and who judicial candidate, has a strong chance recently attacked Newsom for his supof becoming the nation’s first transport of transgender programs as gender judge this fall. Moreover, mayor. We must do everything in San Francisco, Michael Nava we can to elect leaders who uncould become California’s first G UEST O PINION equivocally support LGBT elected openly gay Latino judge. equality to our state’s highest Both races are expected to be very three offices as well to other statewide positions. close, and your vote, donation, and volunteer work could make the difference.

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NOM stepping up its efforts to fight LGBT equality

Our opponents also know just how critical this November’s elections are in their fight to deny LGBT Californians equality and to keep same-sex couples from marrying. In fact, the National Organization for Marriage, a virulent anti-LGBT extremist group, has spent a huge sum in support of anti-equality candidates.

NOM is backing California Assembly candidate Andrew Pugno, one of the architects of Prop 8, and U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, who also supports Prop 8, in her bid against Senator Barbara Boxer. NOM just launched a television ad campaign attacking Pugno’s opponent, Dr. Richard Pan, using the same scare tactics used to pass Prop 8. Pan supports full equality and has been endorsed by Equality California’s political action committee.

Despite NOM and other anti-LGBT opponents’ vast arsenal, Equality California PAC, which only endorses candidates who support full equality for our entire community, has already seen key successes with our election work.

In the June primaries, Californians voted overwhelmingly for candidates who support full equality for the LGBT community, and with the dedication of our members, thousands of volunteers and our staff, we helped a record number of openly LGBT candidates win their primaries for seats in the California Legislature.

What you can do With much at stake in November, it’s absolutely vital that every member of the LGBT community and all of our allies do everything we can to elect only those candidates who are 100 percent in support of LGBT equality. Equality California is leading the effort to turn out LGBT and allied voters. We are mailing more than a quarter of a million pieces of election mail, making tens of thousands of phone calls to supportive voters, donating money, running a major getout-the-vote operation and putting staff and volunteers in the field to support our endorsed candidates. Please help us support these candidates by donating, volunteering and, of course, voting.

You can volunteer at one of our offices or even at home by sending an e-mail to Amy@eqca.org with “Call from Home”in the subject line. We will send you a list of voters to call and to encourage to vote. Electing these candidates will not only strengthen our movement, but it will also send a strong message to LGBT and questioning youth – that our state’s elected leaders will stand with us in our struggle for full equality. There is simply too much on the line to sit this election out. For more information, including Equality California’s voter guide, visit www.eqcapac.org.▼ Geoff Kors is the executive director of Equality California.

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Don’t fall for hyperbole in D8 race

No on Prop G

So, it has come to this. The ugly politics of fear and After reading the pros and cons of Proposition G in mistruth have crept into the race for District 8 supervisor the voters information pamphlet put out by the city I canwith a recent mailing suggesting that Scott Wiener would not support this proposition. I urge all voters of San Franshut down city hospitals and cut HIV/AIDS services if cisco to vote no on Prop G. elected. Volunteers with Rafael Mandelman Nowhere in this proposition is any plan to fix are reported to have gone so far as to call votMuni. All it intends to do is to destroy the forers to say that Wiener will make people with mula used, as approved by voters, how Muni HIV go to emergency rooms for their care. operators are paid. In my opinion they, the I have briefed Wiener, Mandelman, and Muni operators, deserve every penny they Rebecca Prozan on current issues in the epiearn. The operators keep Muni running. The demic and the pressing need for their help in operators have to deal with the rude passenmaintaining and even expanding funding gers, bicyclists, and the motoring public. The for vital HIV services at all levels of governwith Muni is not the operators, it M AILSTROM problem ment. In any of these three individuals, I am is management. There are too many overconfident we will have a strong advocate on paid managers in redundant positions at HIV and other health issues. But I have worked most Muni. To fix Muni start at the top and work down. If Prop closely with Wiener over the years, and know that his valG passes and collective bargaining comes into play, there ues and politics compel him to assure the highest possialso comes the right of their union to strike. Is San Franble response to this ongoing epidemic. cisco ready for a Muni Strike?

Even more troubling was a recent letter to the editor of Vote no on Prop G. the Bay Area Reporter [Mailstrom, October 14] suggesting that Wiener’s support for the proposed sit/lie ordinance Barry Chown would lead to an increase in LGBT teen suicide. WhatevSan Francisco er one’s position on sit/lie, to suggest that this ordinance Doesn’t support retaining Chin has anything to do with the current epidemic of LGBT teen suicides is overreaching and does nothing to address I am very curious to know why the Bay Area Reporter the real problem. Wiener has been a strong supporter of is advocating to retain Justice Ming Chin to the CaliforLGBT youth, including in his role helping to build the nia Supreme Court. In the May 2008 same-sex marriage LGBT Community Center and his steadfast support of ruling, Justice Chin was one of the dissenters against althe Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center lowing same-sex marriage. It makes no sense whatsoever even when neighbors tried to force its closure. that a gay newspaper would endorse retaining someone Our community faces real and difficult issues that delike this to the California Supreme Court. I, for one, will mand honest and thoughtful activism. I trust District 8 be voting no on retaining him. voters to be more sophisticated than to fall for overzealous and destructive politics of hyperbole and fear.

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Prop L supports queer teens Letter writer Mark Snyder’s linking Scott Wiener’s support for Proposition L, the civil sidewalks law, to a callous disregard for the high suicide risk of queer teens is misguided and offensive. Wiener has both the wisdom to see the nuances of this issue and the courage to buck the “progressive” party line. This proposition addresses bully behavior, including homophobic acts and violence against the homeless, by sidewalk blockers who claim the streets for themselves. I bet a lot of queer teens live in fear of walking through just such gauntlets.

When did reclaiming the streets for everyone and promoting public safety become not a progressive issue? Vote yes on Prop. L and no on Prop. M (which contains a poison pill that would invalidate Prop L if it passes with fewer votes than Prop M).

Prop 19 and workplace safety The inference that Proposition 19 would harm job safety because there is no test for marijuana impairment is not correct.

The aerospace industry uses computer programs that are used like a video game that measure a person’s reaction time, attentiveness, coordination, and many other things affected by impairment.

These measurements are compared to a previous test when the person is known to be sober, rested, and alert.

Any deviation from this previous baseline measurement is taken as a measure of impairment.

This test actually does test impairment. Urine tests do not test impairment. They test for non-psychoactive metabolites of marijuana that can be detected for weeks after last use.

Impairment tests have other advantages over urine testing. Many things can cause impairment, lack of sleep, hangover, emotional problems and other things. These

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GENERAL ELECTION

State Assembly (Regional) Dist. 6: Jared Huffman Dist. 7: Michael Allen Dist. 14: Nancy Skinner Dist. 16: Sandre Swanson Dist. 21: Rich Gordon

Local races San Francisco Supervisors Dist. 2: Janet Reilly Dist. 4: Carmen Chu Dist. 6: Theresa Sparks Dist. 8: Scott Wiener, first choice Rebecca Prozan, second choice Dist. 10: Lynette Sweet Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting Public Defender Jeff Adachi San Francisco Board of Education Kim-Shree Maufas, Hydra Mendoza, Bill Barnes San Francisco Community College Board Anita Greer, John Rizzo, Lawrence Wong BART Board, Dist. 8 James Fang

Judges SF Superior Court Seat 15: Michael Nava Alameda County Superior Court Seat 9: Victoria S. Kolakowski CA Supreme Court Retain Chief Justice Tani CantilSakauye and Justices Ming Chin and Carlos Moreno

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Other races Oakland Mayor: Rebecca Kaplan Berkeley City Council, Dist. 7: Kriss Worthington Campbell City Council: Evan Low, Rich Waterman

State races Governor: Jerry Brown Lt. Governor: Gavin Newsom Attorney General: Kamala Harris Secretary of State: Debra Bowen Treasurer: Bill Lockyer Controller: John Chiang Insurance Commissioner: Dave Jones Superintendent of Public Instruction: Tom Torlakson Board of Equalization (District 1): Betty Yee U.S. Senate: Barbara Boxer State Senate (San Francisco) Dist. 8: Leland Yee State Assembly (San Francisco) Dist. 12: Fiona Ma Dist. 13: Tom Ammiano State Senate (East Bay) Dist. 10: Ellen Corbett

State Assembly (Southern California) Dist. 44: Anthony Portantino Dist. 46: John A. Perez Dist. 50: Ricardo Lara Dist. 53: Betsy Butler Dist. 76: Toni Atkins

Congress (Bay Area) Dist. 1: Mike Thompson Dist. 6: Lynn Woolsey Dist. 7: George Miller Dist. 8: Nancy Pelosi Dist. 9: Barbara Lee Dist. 10: John Garamendi Dist. 12: Jackie Speier Dist. 13: Pete Stark Dist. 14: Anna Eshoo Dist. 15: Mike Honda Dist. 16: Zoe Lofgren Congress (Southern California) Dist. 45: Steve Pougnet

Ballot measures San Francisco Propositions Vote YES on AA, A, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, N Vote NO on B, C, J, M California Propositions Vote YES on 19, 25 Vote NO on 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27

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CA supremes fly under the electoral radar on the open space district’s citizen’s advisory committee representing civic organizations.

His name will still appear on the ballot for the board’s District 6 seat, which covers downtown San Jose and the city’s eastern neighborhoods. Incumbent Mike Potter opted not to seek re-election.

“It is one more openly gay elected official here, so I am happy that has happened,” said Williams, who in 2007 was named northern vicechair of the LGBT Caucus of the California Democratic Party. “I am very happy I do not have an opponent so I can spend all my time this fall helping to elect Democrats.”▼

by Matthew S. Bajko t is the election that dare not speak its name, so to speak.

Hardly any attention has been given to the retention races of three California Supreme Court justices this fall.

As stipulated by the state constitution, the seven members on the state’s top court once selected, and then every 12 years, must face voters to retain their seats during years with gubernatorial elections. This fall Justices Ming Chin and Carlos Moreno, as well as the newly picked Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, are all on the ballot.

But voters looking for guidance about the three jurists have been mostly out of luck. The voter guide published by the secretary of state has very little information about each of the justices other than their academic and professional backgrounds.

Unlike candidates for statewide or local offices, the justices do not submit statements on their behalf.

Mainstream media outlets have mostly ignored the race and most groups making endorsements don’t bother with the judicial contests.

LGBT groups are no exception. Both of the city’s LGBT Democratic clubs, Alice B. Toklas and Harvey Milk, took no posiP OLITICAL tions on the justices. Neither did the statewide LGBT advocacy group Equality California, whose political action committee has endorsed two openly gay judicial candidates for superior court seats in Alameda and San Francisco counties.

While it too has waded into the contested race for a seat on the local bench in San Francisco, the LGBT legal group Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom also took a pass on the retention question of the state Supreme Court members.

“We haven’t really historically done any retention endorsements,” said BALIF co-chair David Tsai.

The Bay Area Reporter’s editorial board did endorse retaining all three justices but offered no reasoning behind its decision.

One of the few entities weighing in on the issue is Calitics, a progressive political blog covering Sacramento and statewide issues. It told its readers this week to vote no on Chin, whom it described as “one of the most right-wing justices on the state Supreme Court.”

Chin, who joined the court in 1996, voted in the 4-3 minority in 2008 against ending California’s anti-gay marriage statutes and was part of the 6-1 majority that ruled in 2009 to uphold Proposition 8, the voter-approved constitutional amendment that overturned the court’s decision allowing same-sex couples to marry.

“Californians can and should have better justices than this, ones who will uphold the equal rights of ALL Californians,” stated Calitics in announcing its decision this week.

It did urge a yes vote on Moreno, who joined the court in 2001, noting that, “He has been a strong advocate for judicial recognition of equal rights.” Moreno not only voted to allow same-sex couples to marry, but he was the lone vote against upholding Prop 8.

It took no position on CantilSakauye, who was picked by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to oversee the court after Chief Justice Ron George decided in July to retire when his term ends in January. The Calitics editorial board did offer

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some advice on how voters might want to base their decision.

“If you think Jerry Brown can pick a better chief justice, vote no; if you think Canti-Sakauye is fine and/or you worry that Meg Whitman will win and pick someone worse, vote yes,” stated the board members in reference to the Democratic and Republican candidates, respectively, for governor.

In a phone interview, Brian Leubitz, a gay man who publishes the Calitics blog, said he felt it was important to take a N OTEBOOK position on whether to retain the three justices.

“They are an important part of the election,” said Leubitz, who also serves as a regional director locally for the state Democratic Party.

Following the Prop 8 court decision in 2009, there had been talk by some LGBT activists about mounting campaigns against both Chin and George due to their not striking down the anti-gay ballot measure.

But nothing materialized in the form of a serious campaign against the two justices prior to George announcing his retirement.

Leubitz said he isn’t surprised, as such a campaign would take not only voter ire but also a large campaign war chest.

“It is so expensive to run one of those campaigns when it comes down to it. Unless you have the perfect storm to run an anti-retention campaign, you are not going to be able to get a whole lot of traction,” said Leubitz.

Gay San Jose man wins uncontested election San Jose resident Clark Williams has finally won an elected position, sort of. The openly gay Williams has been on the ballot in his hometown twice before but has always come up short at election time.

In 2006 he lost his bid to replace outgoing gay San Jose City Councilman Ken Yeager, now a county supervisor. Two years later Williams came up short in his campaign to win a seat on the Santa Clara County Democratic Central Committee, which oversees the local Democratic Party.

This year Williams ended his losing streak by clinching a seat on the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority Board of Directors, which protects parkland from development in the South Bay. He will be sworn in December 8 to a four-year term on the publicly elected oversight panel.

The secret to his success this time? No one else pulled papers to run for the seat.

“No one filed against me so there was no need to have an election,” said Williams, who has been serving

Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check www.ebar.com Monday mornings around 10 a.m. for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion.

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Riots against Belgrade Pride

by Rex Wockner housands of anti-gay hooligans tried without success to stop the first LGBT Pride Parade in nine years from taking place in Belgrade, Serbia, October 10.

However, the rioting anti-gays laid waste to parts of the capital city and injured more than 130 police officers by throwing bricks, rocks, bottles, and Molotov cocktails.

They burned cars, hijacked a bus, broke windows, looted, set alight the ruling party’s headquarters, and attacked and damaged other political parties’ offices, the state television building, and embassies.

Belgrade saw its first pride parade in nine years October 10. This view of They chanted, “Death to homoparade participants is from the secure zone, which was protected by 5,000 sexuals.” police officers.

More than 5,000 police officers kept the marauding gangs from makwill be to ensure the proportionality national Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans ing contact with the 1,000 LGBT of security measures with the true and Intersex Association said: “ILGAmarchers. More than 200 of the riotspirit of free assembly – delivering a Europe wants to express its graters were arrested. message which on this occasion was itude to Serbian police for “Inside the (secure) zone compromised,” ILGA said. impeccable conduct of (of the parade) it was Last year’s planned Pride march their duty. We express peaceful, with most of was canceled under pressure from poour deepest sympathy to the pride participants lice and the government, who said those police representaunaware of the battles they couldn’t protect the marchers tives and their family going on,” Andy Harley from thousands of anti-gays who members who suffered of UK Gay News said planned to attack the event. injuries.” from the scene.

The first Belgrade Pride Parade, in The group also said it is Serbian President W OCKNER ’ S 2001, ended with dozens of marchers “concerned that despite Boris Tadic said the W ORLD injured by marauding nationalists, heavy police protection, hooligans all will be arskinheads, and soccer fans. the March for Equality was rested and brought to More world news is online at shortened and participants of the justice. ebar.com▼ march were completely isolated from “No one threatening public order, the general public.” attacking police and destroying public “We believe the next challenge for property will go unpunished,” he said.

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TLC to mark eighth anniversary he Transgender Law Center will hold its eighth anniversary party Friday, October 22 at the Endup, 401 6th Street (at Harrison) in San Francisco.

The benefit will celebrate groundbreaking victories to protect and advance the rights of transgender people and honor champions in the movement for gender equality.

The evening starts with a VIP reception at N EWS 6 p.m., followed by the main event at 7. Guests will include Chaz Bono, Veronica Klaus, Josh

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noted that, at trial, DOJ “chose not to rebut” evidence submitted by LCR. “So, to the extent [DOJ attorneys] now argue that stopping discharge under the [DADT] Act will harm military readiness and unit cohesion, they had the chance to introduce evidence to that effect at trial,” wrote Phillips.

DOJ “did not do so” and the evidence it “belatedly presents now does not meet their burden to obtain a stay.”

“The public has an interest in military readiness, unit cohesion, and the preservation of fundamental constitutional rights,” concluded Phillips. And while DOJ’s interest in preserving a status quo and enforcing its laws are “important,” she said, “these interests are outweighed by the compelling public interest of safeguarding fundamental constitutional rights.”

Phillips ruled on September 9 that DADT violates the First Amendment rights to free speech and the Fifth Amendment right to due process in the federal Constitution. She formally entered her opinion on October 12, along with the injunction, ordering the federal government to stop enforcement of DADT. The Justice Department on Wednesday, October 20 sought a stay from the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and the 9th Circuit will likely act on that motion quickly.

Meanwhile, Log Cabin praised Phillips’s order.

“Judge Phillips is right to stand

with servicemembers by rejecting President Obama’s request to continue this discriminatory policy,” said R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans. “It is vital that as a nation we uphold the fundamental constitutional rights of all soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and coast guardsmen.”

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network issued a statement of caution.

“By the judge keeping the injunction in place, lesbian and gay service members are protected another day, but the uncertainty has not gone away,” said SLDN Executive Director Aubrey Sarvis. “The Department of Justice will immediately ask the 9th Circuit to stay the injunction. …

During this interim period of uncertainty, service members must not come out. Our service members need finality. Given the uncertainty in the courts, we urge the Senate to act swiftly next month on repeal when they return to Washington.”

The House has already passed a measure that includes repeal of DADT, but the Senate last month failed to break a Republican-led filibuster largely aimed at stopping the repeal. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nevada) has indicated he plans to bring the defense spending bill, which includes the repeal measure, to the floor when the Senate reconvenes following mid-term elections next month.▼

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Pentagon had issued new instructions to its recruiters telling them they must accept openly gay and lesbian applicants.

It is unclear how long those instructions will remain in effect.

In a six-page order, U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips on October 19 denied a request for a stay from the U.S. Department of Justice, seeking to stop enforcement of Phillips’s October 12 injunction.

In her order Tuesday, Phillips noted that, before she issued the injunction, DOJ “provided no evidence regarding the alleged disruption” to military readiness or regarding the “need to revise dozens of policies and regulations” that DOJ claimed would be associated with compliance with the injunction.

And at a hearing on the injunction October 18, she said, DOJ’s evidence was “unpersuasive” and “belied by the uncontroverted evidence presented at trial regarding the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ act’s effect on military readiness and unit cohesion.”

The Log Cabin Republicans filed a lawsuit – Log Cabin Republicans v. U.S. – which was heard by Phillips in July, during two weeks of testimony at the U.S. District Court for Central District of California, in Riverside. Phillips

LGBT Community Center.

Tickets for the VIP reception and main event are $150; tickets for the main event only are $100; and there is a low-income ticket available for $50.

For tickets or more information, visit www.transgenderlawcenter.org.

Klipp, and various elected officials and political candidates.

TLC will honor Shannon Minter, legal director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Tita Aida, program supervisor at Trans Thrive with the Vanguard Award. State Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Supervisor Bevan Dufty will be recognized with the Ally Award. Three organizations will receive the Partner Award: Bay B RIEFS Area law firm Minami Tamaki LLP, El/La Program Para Translatinas, and the San Francisco

The attention being given to bullying and the recent tragic suicides of gay adolescents has focused new attention on the effects of homophobia.

In response, the Reach program of the UCSF AIDS Health Project will present a workshop, “Homophobia: Lov-

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Historical society prepares for 25th anniversary gala

by Seth Hemmelgarn an Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society, which collects artifacts from the community’s history, will be celebrating its 25th anniversary with an eclectic collection of honored guests.

The organization is marking its silver anniversary Thursday, October 28 at its annual “Unmasked” gala.

There will be 25 honored guests, including lesbian pioneer Phyllis Lyon; Jose Sarria, believed to be the first out LGBT person in the world to run for public office; LGBT ally and former Mayor Willie Brown; and out gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco).

“This is a rare gathering,” said Paul Boneberg, the historical society’s executive director, who emphasized the event is not an awards ceremony.

“These folks don’t normally gather all in the same room.”

The event comes at a time when the historical society is preparing to open a new museum in the Castro.

“I think our visibility has increased greatly in the last few years as we’ve expanded our exhibits” in the upcoming site, and at the previous space the group had in the Castro, said Boneberg. “I think we’ve gone from something people had a vague awareness of, but really never visited, to something I think tens of thousands of people have now visited, and there’s much broader awareness.”

One thing that has helped has been the attention generated from the Academy Award-winning Milk biopic about slain Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in a major U.S. city.

Milk and then-Mayor George Moscone were assassinated in City Hall on November 27, 1978.

“The Milk film alone created international interest in San Francisco queer history,” said Boneberg, who has been with the historical society since January 2007.

But there’s more to LGBT history than Milk. Boneberg said the organization has always worked to collect the diverse histories of LGBTs. Filmmakers, students, and others frequently use the organization’s archives, which contain materials from the city’s LGBT Pride celebrations back to the 1970s, among other materials.

The new museum in the Castro, at 4127 18th Street, is set to open at the end of November (the exact date is expected to be announced at the gala).

The space, which offers over 1,600 square feet, is twice as large as the last exhibit in the Castro, said Boneberg.

The previous exhibit space opened in October 2008.The city awarded the historical society $100,000 to mount a new show in a different space, and openly gay District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty helped bring together Walgreens executives and the LGBT archivists in the hope of seeing both entities benefit.

Earlier this year, the historical society signed a lease with Walgreens after months of negotiations. As part of the deal, the historical society is taking over two-thirds of a defunct coin-operated laundry while Walgreens will expand its specialty pharmacy next door into the remaining space. The enlarged pharmacy will not be visible from the street, however, as the buildout for Walgreens will be contained within the building.

Among other things, the deal calls for the national chain to pay for the remodel of the interior space and offer the storefront at a reduced rent to the historical society.

The new museum will include a main gallery for long-term exhibitions, film showings and other cultural programs.

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Empress I Jose Sarria signs a copy of his biography, The Empress is a Man for admirers Robbie Robinson and Bart Snowfleet during a reception last October to open a mini-exhibit about Sarria at the 18th and Castro Streets exhibit space of the GLBT Historical Society. Included in the exhibit is a gown designed by Bashka of San Jose, that the Empress wore from the 1970s into the 1990s.

months that it was open, and the historical society expects even better numbers at the new space, in part because “to do an international promotion campaign takes over a year, and the last time we didn’t have a year,” said Boneberg.

But more help is still needed, he noted.

“We need the support of the GLBT community and the people of San Francisco,” said Boneberg. “... We’re getting it, but it’s a challenge. We hope people will come to the museum, we hope businesses will sponsor, and we hope the city will continue its support.”

Varying levels of sponsorship are available, beginning at the $1,000 to $2,499 level.

The Castro lease will be up in five years, and Boneberg expressed hope that the historical society, which has a budget of about $500,000 a year, will be in a position to continue expanding its activities. The historical society also has a long-term goal of having a permanent home for their archives, which are at 657 Mission Street, and exhibits.

Boneberg said the organization doesn’t yet know whether it will be in the Mission Street location for the next five years. He said they don’t need the exhibit space at that site anymore, so they’re trying to either rearrange the space or move into a larger facility at less cost.

“We don’t want to pay rent on space we don’t need,” he said. He noted the Mission site, which has a total of about 7,500 square feet, costs about $10,000 a month, while the new museum space begins at $2,000 a month. The Mission exhibits have been closed for about four months.

Guests express support Some of the guests for next week’s gala said the historical society is a needed institution.

Lyon said it’s important “for gays and lesbians to know something about their history.”

In 1955, Lyon and Del Martin, her longtime partner, were among the founders of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian rights organization.

The two were also the first samesex couple to marry in San Francisco in June 2008, after the state Supreme Court issued a ruling that allowed such marriages. Martin died in August 2008 at the age of 87.

In November that year, California voters passed Proposition 8, the state’s same-sex marriage ban. In August 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled the measure unconstitutional. Prop 8’s backers are appealing that ruling.

Lyon, 85, said, “There’ve been a lot of changes over the years, and hopefully there are going to be a lot more changes.” Marriage equality is one change she would like to see, she said.

Sarria, whose elaborate drag ensembles and other materials are among the historical society’s collections, will also attend the gala. Sarria,

87, who is also known as the Widow Norton and founded the Imperial Court system, said he still has thousands of photos, and more, to give the historical society – “If I don’t get a hair up my ass and get mad.”

“You can go through my pictures and you can relive what San Francisco was like,” said Sarria.

The Unmasked gala will take place at the Green Room of the San Francisco War Memorial Performing Arts Center at 401 Van Ness Avenue. A VIP hour runs from 6 to 7 p.m., followed by the main event that goes until 9.▼ Regular tickets are $100, and tickets that include the VIP reception are $175. For more information, visit unmaskedgala.org.

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Publisher sells SF-based Curve magazine

by Heather Cassell he popular San Franciscobased lesbian magazine Curve has been acquired by Australian lesbian publishing company Avalon Media.

The acquisition was disclosed in an October 15 news release; the transaction took place at the beginning of the month, Avalon CEO Silke Bader said.

Bader, who is the publisher of Australia’s popular free lesbian magazine LOTL (formerly Lesbians on the Loose) and Bound, an international lesbian magazine, wouldn’t disclose the purchase price for Curve.

“This is confidential,” she wrote in an e-mail interview with the Bay Area Reporter over the weekend.

Bader wrote that she thought about purchasing Curve nearly two years ago, but the opportunity didn’t present itself until a few months ago.

Curve and LOTL each celebrated their 20th anniversary this year. Bound, dubbed by Avalon as a lesbian Marie Claire, launched in 2009. It will temporarily merge with Curve magazine.

Bader, who founded Avalon Media in 1998, and former LOTL and Bound editor-in-chief Merryn Johns, who will take the helm as editor-in-chief of Curve, aren’t concerned about recent publishing woes that have shaken up the industry.

“It’s an incredible opportunity,” said Johns from her New York office late last week. She pointed out that the lesbian magazine is “probably the most famous publication of its kind in the world.”

Lesbian stamina While the state of LGBT media remains strong in most quarters, titles aimed at lesbians have faced challenges.

Gone from newsstands are the publications Jane and Jane, Girlfriends, and On Out Backs. Not to mention large queer media companies Window Media and

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He also said, “We’re a small agency,” that has received $10,000 to $15,000 since 2004, when it first became an Under One Roof beneficiary.

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Planet Out that crumbled in the economic earthquake of recent years.

Upon the news of the Advocate turning into an insert of Out magazine last November, Frances Stevens, founder and former publisher of Curve, told a handful of reporters on Sweet’s inaugural cruise to the Caribbean that she felt lucky to still be standing after an embattled year in the publishing industry.

Sweet is co-founded by Steven’s wife, Jennifer Rainin.

Stevens maintained a poker face in front of rumors of financial troubles in recent months. Quietly she hosted fundraisers with readers to save Curve, reported Go, a New York City-based lesbian magazine. Many of the fundraisers were hosted far away from San Francisco, where the magazine’s office is based.

In September the ruse was up when she wrote a plea to Curve readers in her letter from the publisher. “I admit the horrible truth: without your help, in the form of a subscription or even an outright gift or donation,” she wrote, the magazine might not continue.

Stevens didn’t go into detail about

Curve’s financial struggles in the letter, but in an interview with the magazine’s “Lipstick and Dipstick” columnist Kathy Belge for About.com Guide, she simply admitted the magazine took some hard punches from the economic crisis, changes in the media industry, and the ongoing mainstream acceptance of queer culture during the past two years.

It wasn’t the first time Curve was in trouble. Launched in 1991 as Deneuve, Stevens changed the name of the magazine in 1996 to Curve after French film legend Catherine Deneuve, who portrayed bisexual and lesbian characters in movies, filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against her.

As Curve’s September issue hit the newsstands, Stevens gave no hint to industry insiders about the magazine’s troubles. Speaking on a panel about the “State of LGBT Media,” at the annual LGBT Media Summit of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association in San Francisco, she told fellow publishers and journalists that she believed the publication would emerge from the recession. She noted that Curve’s revenue statements were

alliance and have been sold at Under One Roof. He said he also plans to sell other goods at the shop.

“I don’t think they’ve done anything egregious or wrong,” said Basinger. “They’ve been open.

They’ve been transparent.”

In an e-mail Tuesday, Brett Andrews, executive director of Positive Resource Center, said his agency received a check from Under One Roof

for $112 this year. Last year, they got $1,750. In 2008, they received nothing, he said.

“The whole third party fundraising model is really under siege since the recession,” wrote Andrews.

Traci Teraoka, interim executive director of Maitri hospice, said they got a check for $62.50 this year, but they haven’t received one this month.

She said the agency receieved a total

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Johns’s first duty is to ensure the popular lesbian magazine’s financial well-being.

“Our goal is to keep Curve alive, going strong, and well positioned for the future,” she said. She echoed Stevens’s previous pleas to support queer media.

“If you don’t subscribe they will not survive,” she said.

Johns will edit the magazine with the assistance of two Curve staffers retained by Avalon Media: Diana Barry, advertising manager, and former associate editor Rachel Shatto, who will become the new managing editor. Many of the magazine’s popular columnists will be retained, they said.

The publication’s final issue under the direction of longtime editor-inchief Diane Anderson-Minshall, the November/December issue, hits newsstands October 23. The January/February issue will be the first published under Avalon Media. Curve

readers won’t see many changes in the first issue, Bader and Johns said.

Avalon Media will maintain offices in Sydney and New York.

“It’s an incredible opportunity,” said Johns from her New York office late last week, pointing out that the lesbian magazine is “probably the most famous publication of its kind in the world.”

“Frances Stevens did something unique and brave when she began Curve,“ continued Johns. “It is essential for lesbians in North America and the rest of the world.”

“That needs not to be extinguished. That needs to continue,” she added.

Bader agreed.

“Curve is extremely important for lesbian visibility,” wrote Bader, vowing to maintain the publication’s “original focus” for its readers. At the same time Bader and Johns plan to take Curve to a new level regarding its coverage – global.

“We are focused in providing a new, more global approach to engage a new readership that wants more from a lesbian magazine,” wrote Bader.

“I would like to see Bound’s editorial concept, embracing different cultures, working with journalists across the world and Curve’s long history, political and social conscious intertwine with each other, to create a magazine that promotes a healthy lifestyle, gives you confidence in your choice of being a lesbian and offers an intelligent fun and visually appealing magazine.”

Bound was Johns’s first venture to bring lesbians a global lifestyle magazine in 2009. It has concluded publishing for 2010 and Avalon Media will focus primarily on Curve’s future, the women said.

“We are on the right track. In 20 years time, marriage, adoption, and acceptance will no longer be an agenda to fight for. We need to adapt to the changes to keep our audience,” Bader wrote.▼

of about $83,000 from Under One Roof since 1993.

“Over the years, their efforts have been really meaningful financially to Maitri,” said Teraoka. She said the group got almost $15,000 in 2001, though the average has been “closer to $4,000 a year” in the last 10 years.

“San Francisco has created a lot of models of how the community supports HIV and AIDS [organizations],

and I definitely want to recognize that the way these people have created these models is really outstanding and has created a pathway for tremendous giving and awareness over the years,” said Teraoka. However, she said, “The fact is that things have changed. It’s everyone’s responsibility to consider how things can be improved and to continue to support the causes.”▼

“down a little bit” and that the magazine’s operating style was “crazy lean and mean,” before diverting the discussion to the banal dispute about the notion that print is dead.

She did acknowledge during the panel that she “probably shouldn’t have spent as much money” on a new website for the magazine, though she did not elaborate.

Rather than Curve’s financial troubles, Stevens cited health and family reasons as motivation for selling the magazine in the release. She told Go, “I want to see my kids grow up.” She also stated that her fight against a nerve disease was consuming much of her time with travel and medical care.

Outspoken Enterprises Inc. will continue to run www.CurvePersonals .com, a lesbian dating site, according to the release.

Repeated attempts to contact Stevens for comment were unreturned by press time.

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by Chuck Colbert resident Barack Obama headlined a get-out-the-vote rally for Democratic Governor Deval Patrick in Boston on Saturday afternoon October 16 and was heckled by AIDS activists.

The rally took place at the Hynes Convention Center in the city’s Back Bay neighborhood, drawing 8,000 supporters.

But after speaking for only 10 minutes a handful of protesters, advocating increased federal funding for HIV/AIDS, heckled the president and raised a banner reading, “Keep the Promise. Fight Global AIDS.” The protesters were local college students, “fighting for global health equity,” said Arjus Suri, a first-year student at Harvard Medical School.

“Candidate Obama promised $50 billion to fight global AIDS,” Suri said.

But “he’s delivered on only one-tenth of that promise.”

During his remarks Obama mentioned his administration’s increased funding for HIV/AIDS. But apparently that was not enough for Suri.

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An inch is not a mile. It’s not enough to pay lip service by saying he’s funded more.”

That wasn’t the only protest at the event.

Inside the convention center, gay rights activists from the grassroots group Join the Impact MA reproached Obama for balking on same-sex civil marriage.

Boston College law student Paul Sousa shouted out several times: “Mr. President, stop the bigotry! Support marriage equality! Do you also oppose atheist marriage? Would you want a civil union?”

The rub for Sousa is Obama’s reliance on religion to justify civil unions while stopping short of marriage equality.

In fact, during an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Obama told the newspaper, “I’m a Christian. And so, although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition, and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman.”

But for Sousa, civil marriage is the issue, not religious marriage.

Challenging Obama over marriage

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AIDS activists heckle Obama at Boston rally

Arjus Suri, left, and Krishna Rabhu want President Barack Obama to fulfill a promise to fund AIDS/HIV research and prevention.

equality is a slight change of tactics. In previous Obama protests, representatives from GetEqual have heckled the president for not ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the ban on openly gay military service, and for not advocating forcefully for the Employment NonDiscrimination Act, which would ban sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in the workplace.

Along the campaign trail, many

Democrats have shied away from the president. But the Massachusetts governor has embraced him. They are close friends with Chicago roots and Harvard degrees.

Patrick, an ardent backer of equality, is in a tight race with a Republican challenger. Both candidates favor gay rights, but the GOP’s Charlie Baker has offended many LGBT voters by dismissing a transgender civil rights

bill, saying he would veto “the bathroom bill.”

The rally came just 10 days after 300 LGBT community leaders and allies raised more than $160,000 for Patrick, who is seeking a second fouryear term.

Activists from Join the Impact and advocates of increased HIV/AIDS funding were clear that Patrick was not their target.

A Fisher College student, Ian Struthers of Join the Impact, said he wanted to hear the governor and to show support for the president.

Still, “I wanted to tell Obama that I want the same rights as everyone else.

I want an end to DADT, and an inclusive ENDA so that I can have job security. I work and pay taxes and am like everyone else – except that I date men.”

Harvard College senior Krishna Rabhu explained his reasons for protesting. “It’s not the governor. We support Deval Patrick. We wanted Obama’s ear,” he said.

Sending Obama a message for marriage equality, Sousa said, “Best comes from Massachusetts.”

The state was the first to legally recognize same-sex marriages in 2004.▼

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Alphabet soup

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith n essay last week written by Winston Gieseke on Gay.com blasted the use of the acronym LGBT, shorthand for many as referring to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. The argument was a simple one, the acronym has become too diluted as other terms have been added to it: queer, questioning, intersex and others have made it an acronym that is difficult to relate to, and unwieldy to use.

In a straw man argument, Gieseke writes, “[LGBT] reads like a bunch of dissimilar misfits grouped together.

And if that’s the case, should we throw in battered women and the Amish?

They probably have sex, too. And what about WWII-era Japanese Americans? referred to transgender people as “the Then it could be LGBTQIAOPtransgenders,” when in the same artiBAAWW2JA. Talk about a mouthful.“ cle he decries the use of “gays” as a He backtracks off of this a paranoun. Practicing what he preaches graph later, arguing it is not the size of does not seem to apply – but I digress. the acronym he can’t wrap his mind What his argument sounds like to around, it’s that putting together these me is this: by including other sexual groups does not in itself create a cominorities into the mix, his particular hesive community. In some ways, he corner of the world is somehow less has a point. special, and is somehow threatened. In Yet neither the size of the acronym, short, his argument is that allowing all nor his feelings about cohesive comthese other people to the mix – like munities, really lies at the heart of his “the transgenders” – you somehow argument. Indeed, he spells it out even harm “traditional homosexuality.” It’s before the above quote when he says, the same argument that, frankly, one “I am a gay man, and as far as I’m concan hear from anyone fighting against cerned that’s a perfectly good label. same-gender marriage. That he is exWhy? Because I’m not a lesbian, a pressing his opinions on Gay.com transgender, or a bisexual, and beyond feels somewhat like preaching a basic human level, I don’t relate to the choir. to those who are.”

But Gay.com is part of a This is where he errs. larger queer media empire.

No one is saying that It is owned by Here Media, Gieseke has to identify as an which also owns Out magaLGBT. That’s not an identizine and the Advocate, the latty, but a larger abbreviation ter of which felt that for an association of Gieseke’s piece was sexual minorities.

T RANSMISSIONS newsworthy enough He can be perfectly to include part of it content to be Mr. on its own website.

Gay Man all he Further, discussions on this piece were wants. After all, we’re talking about an reported by transgender community essay on Gay.com, a site adorned by members to be heavily moderated, shirtless young Caucasian men, and with respectful disagreement removed.

Gieseke’s piece itself features a full If I were more prone to conspiracy frontal nude male image with a stratetheories, I’d be looking at this as part gically positioned purple triangle. of a wider plan to reframe the comThis is as much a website for me as, munity, with gay men taking point – say, Maxim magazine’s website is for and all that goes with it – and leaving straight women. “the others” to be forgotten. Perhaps But Gieseke seems to like the good the best editorial can be about how old days of “homosexual” and “hothose “uppity lesbians” don’t need mophile,” before “lesbians seceded equal representation, or how bisexuals from the union.” He wasn’t even that need to pick a side and get off the fence bothered by LGB. But once “the transalready. genders” came along, according to An otherwise meaningless poll at Gieseke, all hell broke loose. the bottom of the page asks people An aside: I find it interesting that he

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what they think of the acronym “LGBTQIAOP,” which adds asexual, omnisexual, and pansexual to the previously mentioned terms. Two of the five possible answers suggest cutting it back to LGB, or simply referring to us as “fag” or “dyke.” I find myself wondering how Gieseke might feel if we went with LBT, or simply referring to us all as “trans.” I strongly suspect he would feel erased. He would certainly not find anything with which to identify.

In the end, however, I do agree that the acronym as a whole is cumbersome. The trouble with it, as I see it, is that you can never fully include everyone who should be included. I know this just from the transgender community, where listing each identity label is impossible. And while I personally might refer to an LGBT community still – call me old-school – I know those four letters only begin to scratch the surface of a much broader group of sexual and gender-related identities than my mind can imagine.

Yet the way to address this is to not cut back to a small number of terms and call it a day. If the concern was it not being easy to identify with, then you’ve increased that issue for everyone by those scant few who do end up included.

No, what we need is a new term, one that has the usefulness and inclusion that is meant by LGBT – or even LGBTQIAOP – but without the pitfalls of identity politics. I do not know what that term is, nor have I heard any that sound like winners. If we are a cohesive community, however, we can find a term and make it work.▼ Gwen Smith, by way of full disclosure, worked for Gay.com a decade ago. You can find her on the web at www.gwensmith.com.

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Hayward gay bar turns 25

arry Gray, left, an owner of the Turf Club, toasts his 25th anniversary of ownership of the bar with patrons during a back patio sit-down prime rib buffet at a party October 16. The thank-you party also included live entertainment, a special DJ, and the distribution of over $2,000 to five local organizations: the Lighthouse Community Center, Tri-City, Alameda County Leather Corps, the Alameda County Ducal Council, and the Imperial Star Empire. Each of these groups provided volunteers for the summer Thursday night buffet at the bar. The Turf Club is one of the oldest gay bars in the Bay Area, tracing its gay roots back to the 1960s, and becoming “world famous” (as its slogan claims) at that time by its busy parking lot, large enough to accommodate passing truckers.

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by Roger Brigham he names of the members of a new Cleveland group to organize Gay Games IX were announced this week and the Federation of Gay Games said it has signed a new license agreement with the organization, but the group that was originally signed to stage the event said it is continuing its court fight to be recognized as the legitimate entity.

“We believe we are the entity that should run these games,” Cleveland Synergy Foundation, Andy Kabat told the Bay Area Reporter this week.

CSF filed a suit against the FGG, the city of Cleveland, the Greater Cleveland Sports Foundation, and Valarie McCall of the mayor’s office on September 2 to retain its right to stage the games after the FGG said it was dissolving the license agreement July 6 because of an alleged breach of contract. Kabat, who said the announcement of the new group had caught CSF by surprise, said the defendants had received an extension to October 30 to respond to the suit.

The evidence discovery phase of the trial would then begin.

Kabat said there had been no talks to resolve the conflict out of court.

“Through public record requests, we got some evidence that was quite telling,” Kabat said of the decision for the city and the FGG to break ranks with CSF. “It really seems like this was planned long in advance.”

The FGG declined comment on the Synergy suit and said it signed a license agreement September 30 with Cleveland Special Events Corp., the newly formed nonprofit organization created to stage Gay Games IX. CSE has a 14-member board of directors representing the LGBT community and local business and political leaders: Mayor Frank Jackson, Councilmember Joe Cimperman, and chief of government affairs McCall representing the city of Cleveland; Jan Cline, LGBT Community CenJ OCK ter of Greater Cleveland; Michelle Tomallo, vice president of Fit Technologies, an LGBT information technology firm, and the LGBT Plexus Chamber of Commerce; Susan Doerfer, executive director of Equality Ohio; Dirk Breiding, Akron/Summit Convention and Visitors Bureau; David E. Gilbert, Greater Cleveland Sports Commission; Michelle DeLozier, WH2, Girl Jam Cleveland and HERricane Cleveland; Scott Finerman, Second Generation; Hollie Ksiezyk and Nathan Tolliver, representatives from the LGBT community; Dennis J. Roche, from the convention and visitors bureau Positively Cleveland; and Joseph D. Roman, Greater Cleveland Partnership chamber of commerce.

“The Gay Games in 2014 will shine a national and international spotlight on the city of Cleveland,” Jackson said. “Our representatives either lead or are a part of some of Cleveland’s and the region’s most dynamic institutions and will help show the world our greatness.”

LGBT members of the new group are also excited.

“As an openly gay African American young man who also happens to be a native Clevelander, it is truly an honor and a privilege to be involved in the world’s largest sporting and cultural event organized by and specifically for LGBT athletes, musicians,

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and artists,” Tolliver said. “I am very excited about the impact this special event that brings together people from all over the world will have on the city of Cleveland and particularly our own LGBT community.”

A four-member advisory group from CSE will interact with representatives from the FGG: Kevin Schmotzer from the city’s Department of Economic Development; Meredith Scerba from the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission; Sharon Gronowski from Positively Cleveland; and Eric Lutzo, president and co-founder of Plexus.

The games are scheduled for August 9-16, 2014.

Yankee pride and prejudice With Major League Baseball’s postseason in full swing, attention is turned once again to the relative incivility often encountered in arenas and ballparks. Getting the biggest headlines this year have been the bleacher creatures at Yankee Stadium in New York. For years, when the grounds crew has worked on the field beinnings, the pubTALK tween lic announcement system has filled the stadium with a recording of the Village People hit “YMCA.” To which the beer-guzzling fans have devised their own homophobic lyrics to taunt fans of other teams.

The blog www.Gothamist.com reported that as New York City was dealing with the recent spate of highly publicized gay suicides and a high-profile anti-gay attack allegedly committed by gang members, a Minnesota Twins fan wrote them about being harassed by fans in the bleachers October 9 at Yankee Stadium during a playoff game between the Yankees and Twins.

“During the traditional singing of ‘YMCA,’” the fan wrote, “when the grounds crew takes to the field, suddenly the crowd erupted into lyrics singing, ‘Why are you gay, I saw you sucking some d-i-c-k.’

Other lyrics called people who are gay sinners and disease-ridden. I couldn’t believe my ears. Whatever people may say about Minnesota or the Midwest, such hurtful and disgusting things would never be shouted at a Twins game. What an embarrassment for Yankees fans and New York City.”

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation contacted the Yankees about this and other such incidents.

“We reached out to the Yankees, and were extremely pleased with their reaction,” the organization reported on its blog. “Yankees spokesperson Alice McGillion told us, ‘The Yankees have zero tolerance for this and any kind of abuse.’ She said that security in the bleacher sections of the stadium will warn fans, before ‘YMCA’ is played, that any

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type of homophobic abuse ‘will not be tolerated’ and she assured us that any fans who take part in this ugly bullying will be ejected from the game.”

No explanation of how or why the behavior has been tolerated previously by the Yankees. There are several videos of Yankees fans heckling others with the song on YouTube dating back several years.

Then again, although several teams have LGBT Pride nights (but not the Yankees), clearly pro teams send mixed messages about equality and acceptance.

For example, the Washington Blade reported that lesbian couple Mary Kate Morris and Nicole Marchetto were kicked out of a September 26 game at M&T Bank Stadium between the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens for kissing while in line at a concession stand.

Marchetto told the Blade they ignored three warnings from a security guard to stop kissing because “the kissing was heartfelt and decent in the real sense and was not any different from what numerous lawabiding straight couples were doing all around us.”

And in St. Louis, the Cardinals declined to include same-sex couples in its “kiss cam” on ballpark screens during the “Out at the Ballpark” promotion staged at a September baseball game by St. Louis Pride.

“We look for lively areas, full areas where people are in their seats, watching the video board, somewhat paying attention,” said Tony Simokaitis, director of scoreboard operations at Busch Stadium. “We try to get as many people in as we can in the minute and a half between innings. There’s not a lot of time to allow us to make calculated judgments in terms of demographics.”

Let’s see: 200 gay and lesbian individuals in one section of the ballpark, and none of them lively, all so engrossed in the game between innings they cannot take their eyes off the field long enough to get friendly with each other? Damn: with a team that compelling, it’s a wonder they didn’t make the playoffs.

Batters – er publishers – up With the San Francisco Giants and the Philadelphia Philies in the midst of their National League Championship series, the publishers of the Bay Area Reporter and the Philadelphia Gay News have made a friendly wager on the outcome, which will send one of the teams to the World Series.

B.A.R. publisher Thomas E. Horn and his counterpart at PGN, Mark Segal, have agreed that the publisher in the city of the losing team will wear the winning team’s gear in a photo to be published in the winner’s newspaper. The losing publisher will also give a personal contribution of $1,000 to the winner’s gay charity of choice in the winner’s city.

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impairments are real and can cause accidents, but urine tests do not test for any of them. Computer impairment testing can detect impairment from all of these problems.

Prop 19 is not perfect, but it is a lot better than what we are doing now. Please join me in voting yes on Prop 19.

Randall Morgan Santa Rosa, California

No on Prop L I’ve followed with interest some of the views expressed in the B.A.R., and I felt it was important to add mine. I have to wonder: how well-informed is everyone on the proposed sit/lie law?

If Proposition L passes, anyone sitting or lying on any sidewalk in San Francisco after 11 p.m. can be arrested. Supposedly, the proposed law is intended for troublemakers, but there are already laws in place for people who are disturbing the peace or being a public nuisance. This new law would make life even more difficult for those who simply don’t have anywhere else to go. There are simply not enough beds in San Francisco for the 7,000 souls who are homeless. It’s often too cold to be in a park or under the freeway, or it costs too much to travel to a location that is not a sidewalk.

Like most minority groups, the individuals living on the street who are most visible become the stereotypes and are not necessarily typical.

Those who are visibly drunk or drugged constitute a very small percentage of the people living on the margins. San Francisco’s homeless people also include: legal immigrants looking for a better life; folks who’ve been laid off in the recession and suffered foreclosure of their homes; women, men and children who’ve been deserted or abused; veterans and others with disabilities, injuries, or illness who are unable to work; people with mental illness who were abandoned during the Reagan years; teenagers who have been kicked out of home because of their sexual identity or left home because it was unsafe to stay.

How do I know this? Well, I’ve met them. Singers of the Street began in September, and since then I’ve learned a great deal about these issues and these people. I was scared at first, but now I’m determined to share what I’ve learned. I encourage everyone to do more to truly understand the big picture before voting.

This is more than not wanting to step over a person on the sidewalk.

It is my studied opinion that anyone who supports Prop L really cannot understand the facts of the matter.

Reading a couple of biased paragraphs in a newspaper is not the same as spending time with folks who actually live on the street, or talking to the beat police officers who would have to make decisions about enforcing Prop L, or meeting the case workers who don’t know what to tell the people in their care.

While directing Singers of the Street, in just a few short weeks I’ve already seen what a difference “visibility” can make to those who are marginalized. The solution really is simple: every San Franciscan needs to think about why we love this city.

It’s not just the Bay or the Giants or the Golden Gate Bridge – it’s the unique and generous heart of its people. Every time we ignore or step over or walk past a person sitting or lying on the sidewalk, we bring shame to our city and we turn our backs on what we hold most dear.

It’s not about opening your home, or offering money, or even food – it’s simply about human decency.

Kathleen McGuire, artistic director and founder Singers of the Street

Teen suicide Wouldn’t all those wonderful young people who recently committed suicide change their sexual orientation, if possible, if for no other reason than to no longer be bullied and harassed – to the point of ending it all?

It’s so sad that the individuals who express the love and acceptance of religion are so often the same who believe in punishing anyone who is “different” through no fault of their own.

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agenda ought to ask themselves whether they could have been convinced to be “gay” and if not, wouldn’t gay individuals choose to be “straight” if they could?

How often those most stringently anti-gay turn out to be using it as a façade for their own gay sexuality – like former Republican Party chairman, Ken Mehlman, who recently came out.

Gay individuals possess strong family values, many having been kicked out of the very families that maintain only they possess those values.

Straight males ought to be delighted with gay people’s existence. It lessens their competition for mates, and some of them certainly need every possible edge to succeed.

The United States operates under a document titled the Constitution, and the word God is not in it – not even once. The Declaration of Independence mentions a “creator” but only to emphasize “equality” and that everyone is entitled to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

Let those words become our mantra and guiding philosophy to rid our society of homophobia.

John Schank San Pablo, California

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Obituaries >> Dennis Tyler November 12, 1946 – September 16, 2010

Dennis was born in Boston, MA. After his graduation from the Culinary Academy, he arrived in San Francisco in 1979. He worked as a chef and loved having dinner parties for friends. He is survived by his sister, Diane, and many friends.

A celebration of life for Dennis will be held at Kimo’s (upstairs), 1351 Polk Street on Sunday, October 31 from noon to 4 p.m.

We will miss you, my friend.

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ing Ourselves and Each Other” on Friday, October 22 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the AHP Services Center, 1930 Market Street in San Francisco.

The session will examine the effects of homophobia – both of others and the “internalized” homophobia that can result – on the emotional wellbeing of gay men. The workshop, which is free of charge and is open to gay and bisexual men, will also include strategies to thrive and to celebrate personal and community triumphs/ “We need to respond to attacks and tragedies as communities and as individuals,” said John Tighe, coordinator of AHP’s groups and workshop program. “And, part of that means taking care of and affirming ourselves. That’s what the workshop is about.”

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ty trust, that we’re taking the steps to be open about what needs to happen.”

Rosenfield didn’t respond to a request for comment Wednesday morning.

Co-chairs comment on Pride situation Parker and Calma didn’t provide comment Wednesday morning. But in recent e-mail exchanges with the Bay Area Reporter, they have shared

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Bowen, 42, who is single, lives in Richmond. He has worked for the county public defender’s office for 16 years and is an appointed member of Richmond’s Historic Preservation Advisory Committee. A former board member of the county Bar Association, Bowen earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree from Santa

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geles County Department of Health Services and plans to resign from the San Francisco job he has held for 13 years shortly after the new year. He will be paid $355,000 a year, an increase of nearly $100,000 from his current salary.

Replacing him will be Garcia, who has been Katz’s deputy director the last 11 years overseeing the more than 150 local nonprofits and community groups providing health care services funded by the city. Garcia’s salary has yet to be determined. Her total compensation in 2009 for her current position was $201,065.

“There’s no one better prepared than Barbara Garcia to hit the ground running as director of the Department of Public Health and build on Dr. Mitch Katz’s remarkable record of achievements,” stated Newsom in announcing his decision last week.

An out lesbian, Garcia will be the third consecutive openly gay person to lead the health department. Previous to Katz, out lesbian Dr. Sandra Hernandez served as health director before being hired to oversee the San Francisco Foundation, a local grant-making organization.

In an interview this week with the Bay Area Reporter, Garcia said she doesn’t expect to make any sweeping changes within the health department.

Her biggest decision will be in deciding who to hire as her own deputy director, which Garcia said will be an open process.

“Stability is important,” said Garcia, who credited Katz with leaving

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space and sidewalk amenities, and transit improvement.

For more information, contact Andrea Aiello, executive director of the CBD, at execdirector@castrocbd.org.

Castro area neighborhood groups are co-sponsoring an informational community meeting about proposed modifications to the mixed use zoning district on Market Street between Noe and Castro streets. The meeting takes place Monday, October 25 at 7 p.m. at the Chase Bank Community Room, 2112 15th Street (at Sanchez).

The groups – Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association, Castro/Eureka Valley Neighborhood Association, Castro Area Planning and Action, and the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District – have requested the proposed changes to zoning for these blocks to resolve inconsistencies in how the city’s planning

code was applied over the entire Upper Market Street corridor. In recent years, much of the corridor was rezoned after an extensive community process to plan for new development around the new Octavia Boulevard but the westernmost block was not included in the rezoning, resulting in two different sets of planning regulations enforced on similar blocks.

An ordinance is being prepared to extend the NCT zoning to sites on Market Street up to the intersection of Castro. This will bring consistency to the development standards for the entire Upper Market corridor. Of direct value to the Upper Market community is that development along this block under the NCT zoning would now contribute the same community benefits fees that all other projects on Market Street will be making. These funds will go directly into public improvements in the area such as pedestrian safety and traffic calming, open

The LGBT Community Partnership will hold a workshop entitled, “An Emerging Issue: HIV/AIDS and Aging, a Report of the Joint Workshop on HIV and Aging” on Thursday, October 28 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street in San Francisco.

Randy Allgaier, director of the HIV Health Services Planning Council, will be presenting the report, which is a follow-up to an HIV and aging event that was held earlier this year. This interactive workshop will provide an overview of the report, including its recommendations.

The workshop is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be pro-

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some information about what’s going on at the organization.

Parker, who’s been on the board for a year, said Andre wasn’t going to be fired if she hadn’t resigned.

He explained in an e-mail that having two co-chairs, rather than a president and vice president as was previously done, “allows for more accountability and flexibility of the organization and bring[s] a unique fusion of new blood and seasoned experience.”

He added, “Increased accountability is from having all presidentlevel decisions approved by both individuals.”

He also wrote that last week’s resignations “will not change our financials. We are committed to reducing our deficit and retaining promising relationships with our community partners at the same time.” He added, “The transition should not alter how quickly we ‘true up’ with our beverage partners.”

Asked in an e-mail if she was worried that potential executive director candidates would be scared away, given the poor shape Pride’s in, Calma responded that in her 10 years on the board, “I have seen various challenges ... . I am hopeful that there are candidates out there who would

look at this challenge as an opportunity to really bring out our communities and have community partake in this organization’s stability and sustainability.”

She continued, “If I were a suitable candidate, I would really focus on the rich history of Pride and all its accomplishments and focus on that.

Sometimes, its just takes smart sensible thinking and a big heart to make things work.”

Andre, who has frequently been evasive, responded to several emailed questions, including why she resigned, whether she’s getting a severance package, and a question about

the accounting error by saying she didn’t “quite understand” some of the questions, and said others related to confidential information.

A Pride statement released Tuesday said the board has begun work on the recruitment process for the new executive director. It also said that “in the interest of ensuring a seamless internal transition,” Troy Coalman, who was previously Pride’s associate director of development, would be the director of external relations.

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“I am very honored and humbled to be chosen to serve my community,” Bowen told the Bay Area Reporter during a phone interview following the announcement of his selection Monday, October 18.

Bowen said he does not personally know his soon-to-be fellow jurist Hardie. He applied to be a judge with the governor’s office last year and received strong backing from the group Sacramento Lawyers for the Equality of Gays and Lesbians.

“I have been trying serious felony

cases for 13 years and so I just got to thinking that I might have a skill set that could transfer from the role of advocate to the role of neutral observer,” said Bowen. “I was encouraged by some members of the bench to throw my hat into the ring.”

Since he took office in 2003, the governor has faced criticism from LGBT legal and advocacy groups for his lack of out LGBT judicial picks.

The oversight led to one lesbian and three gay men to run for seats on the San Francisco court this year, two of whom opted to challenge Judge

Richard Ulmer, whom the governor appointed to the local bench the same day last year as Albers.

Now Ulmer is in a tough battle to retain his seat against Michael Nava, who came in first place during the June primary. Should he win come November, Nava would be the first openly gay Latino judge on the local court.

Asked if he is concerned that he will face a challenger when he goes before the voters to retain his seat on the Contra Costa court, Bowen said he had yet to give it any thought.

“That could happen sometime in the future but I am hoping I will show that the governor has made the right choice,” said Bowen. “With my connection to the local community and the local legal community, I feel I would be in a good position to retain my seat.”

He said he is unsure when his swearing in ceremony will take place.

A registered Democrat, Bowen will fill a vacancy created by the conversion of a court commissioner position on January 29, 2010. He will earn $178,789.▼

“the health department in a really strong position.”

Katz told the B.A.R. this week he has full faith in Garcia’s ability to oversee the department.

“I can leave here knowing things will be taken care of,” said Katz, who demurred when asked what he felt his successor’s biggest challenges would be. “I don’t want to define her tenure.

She is incredibly capable; she will determine what the course will be beyond my tenure.”

During Katz’s time at the helm of the department, San Francisco saw its HIV rates flat-line and rates of sexually transmitted diseases stabilize. The city implemented Healthy SF to offer health care to the uninsured, and voters approved bond measures to rebuild the city’s two public hospitals: Laguna Honda and San Francisco General.

Katz credited his colleagues with helping him achieve those successes.

“I think I have been good at encouraging smart, value-driven people to innovate. I have been the kind of boss who has encouraged creativity and independent problem-solving as opposed to all decisions having to be made by me,” said Katz. “By encouraging independence, we are a much stronger department than we would otherwise have been.”

He said he has always seen his main purpose as being an advocate for the health of the city’s residents.

“In my view health is not inherently a political issue. Nobody is against health or promoting health,” said Katz. “The job of health director is to be the professional voice for what will bring the greatest health to the city. I have always tried, no matter what the issue was, to argue for what will bring the best health to San Fran-

cisco. Anyone who keeps that as their perspective will do well.”

Openly gay Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who is termed out this year and running to be mayor, called Garcia a “passionate and effective health leader” well suited to be the director of public health.

“Barbara has been a tremendous public health leader, and more importantly, she has managed her department through fiscal turmoil in a way that has garnered the respect and admiration of her staff, agency and stakeholders,” said Dufty, adding that should he be elected mayor he would keep Garcia as his public health director. “She knows how to bring people together to build consensus.”

partment of Public Health,” said AIDS Emergency Fund Executive Director Mike Smith. “I don’t have a sense that is going to change, but symbolically, that is a big shift.”

Smith, who has been president of the local HIV/AIDS Providers Network for six years, called Garcia “a brilliant choice” and said he was “delighted” to see she will be taking over the health department.

“She has tremendous experience in managing and working closely with the nonprofit agencies in the city that provide so much of the health services,” said Smith. “I think they were very wise to go with an internal candidate. The shock to the system would have been much greater had the position gone to someone from outside of town.”

Garcia said she plans to hire a health officer (a medical doctor) with experience in HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. The person’s main role will be to declare health emergencies and quarantines when needed and oversee the department’s deputy health officers.

“Absolutely, HIV and STDs are critically important in San Francisco because we have a large group of individuals impacted by that, so having that experience is really important,” said Garcia, who lives in the Castro with her partner of six years, Dorotea Reyna, director of development for the California Institute of Integral Studies.

One area Garcia will likely focus on is re-examining how the health department funds outside groups to provide everything from HIV prevention and AIDS services to mental health and substance abuse treatment.

She has been chairing the city’s Community-Based Organizations Task

Force that has been investigating how to better manage the nonprofits various city departments contract with to provide services.

“I think she has been very upfront about the need for nonprofits to become more efficient and one way to do that is through mergers and acquisitions,” said Smith.

Smith said Garcia has deftly handled the last three years of health department cuts and won praise for reaching out to agency leaders about what services to prioritize.

“She has always been open and honest in her dealings, even when the news was bad. She has created a very healthy community process to anticipate and plan for budget cuts over the last three years,” said Smith. “These kinds of decisions easily could have been made in a back room and presented as completed but that is not her style.”

She recently oversaw the dissolution of various services provided by New Leaf: Services for Our Community after the LGBT-focused agency ran out of money. Garcia helped to find other local agencies that could absorb New Leaf ’s programs and clients.

“The best practice we have found with mergers is to do it when an agency is not in a crisis,” said Garcia.

“There are a lot of conversations going on in the community about it.”

The need for agencies to merge or share administrative expenses is sure to grow as state and city budgets continue to be in the red. Already the city is projecting a $400 to $450 million deficit for the next fiscal year.

“I always am prepared. I plan for the worst and hope for the best,” said Garcia. ▼

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AIDS to remain a top concern Like her two predecessors, Garcia, 55, also comes with experience working on HIV/AIDS issues. She served as the associate administrator of AIDS at the federal Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and in her current role, she oversees the health department contracts awarded to local HIV and AIDS agencies.

The main difference Garcia brings to the job of health director is that she is not a medical doctor and does not treat HIV patients, as Katz and Hernandez have done at San Francisco General Hospital in the AIDS clinic.

Garcia has a master’s of public administration degree from the University of San Francisco.

“Mitch’s leaving does create a void. We have been very lucky to have the head of the department who served so long and was a practicing HIV doctor. That was a constant reminder that HIV mattered to the De-

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vided. Continuing education credit is available for $10 through the Institute on Aging for LCSWs, MFTs, and RNs. For more information, contact Rick Appleby at (415) 750-4180, ext.

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The Shanti Project’s next volunteer caregiver training will begin Friday, November 5. After completing a 25hour training, Shanti volunteers are matched with a client who has either HIV/AIDS or breast cancer. Volunteers meet with their client weekly to provide emotional support, practical assistance, and companionship. Anyone interested in attending the training sessions should contact volunteer services coordinator Megan O’Brien at (415) 674-4708 or mobrien@shanti.org.▼ More News Briefs are online at ebar.com.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE, 2.EPINTEL, 3.EPIDEMIQ, One Sutter Street, Suite 600,San Francisco,CA 94104. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Jeremy Alberga. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/15/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ZEN DEN WEB SERVICES, 183 Franklin Street, #8, San Francisco,CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Chad Bell. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/09.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/29/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SAN FRANCSICO CAREER COLLEGE, 1167 Mission Street, Suite 420,San Francisco,CA 94103.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Margaret K. Lee. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/28/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/28/10.

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OCT. 7,14,21,28, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033051900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DNA CUSTODIAL, 1160 Turk Street,San Francisco,CA 94115. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Anthony Crecy. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/29/10.

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64-SPECIAL ON-SALE GENERAL THEATER OCT. 14, 2010 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : TIFFANY MARIE PISONI. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at:Pier 30 Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105. Type of license applied for:

47-ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE OCT. 21, 2010 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: BAY BREAD, LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at:1224 Ninth Avenue San Francisco,CA 94122. Type of license applied for:

41-ON-SALE BEER AND WINE EATING PLACE OCT. 21, 2010 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: MAD WILLS FOOD COMPANY INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at: 399 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA 94102-4418. Type of license applied for:

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as FLYERS #437, 2690 3RD Street,San Francisco,CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Thomas A. Dwelle. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/15/10.

SEPT.30,OCT. 7,14,21, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033027700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FLYERS #430, 200 Toland Road,San Francisco,CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Thomas A. Dwelle. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/15/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033042800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as INN ON BROADWAY, 2201 Van Ness Avenue,San Francisco,CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Sangita Patel. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/31/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/24/10.

STATEMENT FILE A-033057100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD,910 Geneva Avenue, San Francisco,CA 94112.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Faisal Fadli. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/01/10.

OCT. 7,14,21,28, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033048200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as COMFORT HOME CARE,2130 Fillmore Street,#262, San Francisco,CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Vannessa Pelobello. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/28/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/28/10.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.SERVO MARKETING, 2.SERVO MARKETING & DESIGN, 3.SERVO MARKETING AND DESIGN, 97 Caselli Avenue,San Francisco,CA 94114. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed J.Mattison Clark. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/28/05.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/23/10.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as C TWO ENTERTAINMENT, 345 Taylor Street, San Francisco,CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Elizabeth Rosas. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/29/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/29/10.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as BEAK, 1032 Irving Street, #924,San Francisco,CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, signed K.M.Ritchie. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/24/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SKB PM I, A CALIFORNIA GENERAL PARTNERSHIP, 100 Pine Street, Suite 775,San Francisco,CA 94111. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Robert Scanlan. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/15/10.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as JUIJUA PUBLISHING COMPANY, 2595 Mission Street, #303, San Francisco,CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Eddy A. Martinez. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/22/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/22/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TREASURE ISLAND SOUVENIRS,1201 C Bayside Drive, San Francisco,CA 94130. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Chris Ziegler. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/28/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033042600

CASE NO. CGC-09-485504 TO: DEFENDANT R.A.H. CORPORATION DBA NATIONAL RENT-A-CAR, PLAINTIFF, JOHN D. LEVENHAGEN SEEKS DAMAGES IN THE ABOVEENTITLED ACTION, AS FOLLOWS. GENERAL DAMAGES: PAIN, SUFFERING, AND INCONVENIENCE: $50,000.00 SPECIAL DAMAGES: MEDICAL EXPENSES - $6,587.28 DATE: APRIL 12, 2010.

SIGNED -ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: JAY CHAFETZ, ESQ. (SBN #95778)

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OCT. 7,14,21,28, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033027800

STATEMENT FILE A-033072100 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO STATEMENT OF DAMAGES (PERSONAL INJURY OR WRONGFUL DEATH)

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SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. 400 MCALLISTER STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103 OCT. 7,14,21,28, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033032300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PRECOG SPORTS 189 Parnassus Avenue, #2, San Francisco,CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Brandon Markey. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/17/10.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033061900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HANDS OF DUANE, 4077A 24th Street, San Francisco,CA 941143715. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Curtis Duane Gammill.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/04/10.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033061800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HANDS OF DUANE, 2120 Market Street,Suite 201, San Francisco,CA 94114-1375.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Curtis Duane Gammill.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/04/10.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10547207 In the matter of the application of NFN ZERENWENGXU for change of name.

The application of NFN ZERENWENGXU for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that NFN ZERENWENGXU filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to TSERING WANGCHUK DENMA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 7th of December, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033067200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FALCON ENTERTAINMENT, 1177 Harrison Street,San Francisco,CA 94103.This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed James Hansen. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/24/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/06/10.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010

The following person(s) is/are doing business as AKI FISH & DELI, 310 Bayshore Blvd.,San Francisco,CA 94124.

This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Chieko Nagata. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/08/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/08/10.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033072600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HYBRYD WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE, 221 11th Street,San Francisco,CA 94103.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Patrick J. Tierney.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/08/10.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033046100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LET’S GET IT OM, 714 Page Street,San Francisco,CA 94117.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Maria Gallegos. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/27/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 09/27/10.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033077100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CHAN LIMOUSINE,2142 42nd Avenue, San Francisco,CA 94116.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Chan Kwok Man. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/12/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/12/10.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033066700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as EAGLE SECURITY SERVICE/CERNY’S LOCKSMITH, 26203 Production Avenue, Suite 5, Hayward,CA 94545.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Zackery Mueck. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/06/10.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-031583500 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as KOHSHI, 1737 Post Street,#335,San Francisco, CA 94115. This business was conducted by a limited liability company, signed Jay Cowan. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/21/08.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-030373200 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as 1.JAPAN INCENSE, 2. SCENTS OF JAPAN, 2456 Chestnut Street,San Francisco, CA 94123. This business was conducted by a limited liability company, signed Jay Cowan. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/06/07.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-031583400 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as 1.SCENTS OF JAPAN,2.JAPAN INCENSE , 2370 Market Street,#321, San Francisco, CA 94114.This business was conducted by a limited liability company, signed Jay Cowan. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/21/08.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-033068100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GOLDEN HANDS SALON,83 Duboce Avenue, San Francisco,CA 94103.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Henadz Harbaruk. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/06/10.

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Joan Marcus

‘West Side Story’ returns to San Francisco in a new revival ~ by Richard Dodds ~ The Jets are getting ready to rumble in a scene from the Broadway revival of West Side Story, arriving soon in San Francisco. ✷ ✷ ✷

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spreading the West Side Story gospel around the world.

Since 2000, he has been directing and choreographing international productions of West Side Story that have toured through Europe, Asia, and Australia. “I want to say West Side Story is my day job,” he said recently from his home outside New York City.

“But now, I’ve basically brought West Side everyplace in the world where it can possibly go.”

When he got the call asking him to join the team putting together the current Broadway revival (arriving Oct. 27 at the Orpheum Theatre in a newly minted tour), it was as choreographer only. The director would be Broadway legend Arthur Laurents, who wrote the libretto for the original 1957 production.

“If it was just an average director, I think I might have had reservations about that,” McKneely said of relinquishing the di-

rectorial title. “But the chance to work with Arthur Laurents has actually enriched my understanding of the stories and the characters, because he created them.”

For the revival, Laurents, now 92, changed some of Robbins’ original staging as well as his own book. Bits of dialogue among the Puerto Rican characters is now in Spanish, and a few of Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics set to Leonard Bernstein’s score have also been translated into Spanish.

“Arthur wanted a little more grit,” McKneely said of the Romeo and Juliet tale reset among warring, ethnically divided street gangs. “For example, the prologue is totally different. In the original, it opens with very balletic steps. Arthur felt that it immediately took the show away from reality. So just by changing things

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oey McKneely got his first lesson in West Side Story from the master himself. Still a relative newbie in New York, just a few years out of high school and a six-month stab at college, he was cast in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. This was the legendary director-choreographer’s final hurrah, as Robbins recreated scenes and dance numbers from a résumé that included Fiddler on the Roof, Gypsy, On the Town, The King and I, Peter Pan, and, of course, West Side Story.

After that experience, McKneely soon retired as a Broadway dancer and turned full-time to developing a career as a choreographer. There just weren’t any other choreographers on the scene that stoked his creative juices, he said. While he has since earned credits as choreographer on four Broadway shows, including The Boy from Oz and Smokey Joe’s Cafe, he has spent most of the time

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Guten Tag,Berlin & Beyond!

Highlights from the German-language film festival

Gregoire LeprinceRinguet in Draft Dodgers.

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Nazi resistance movement, this tiny country has a history as dark as any other.

It’s 1944, and our hero Francois (the very hunky Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet) faces cruel, impossible choices: either follow his Nazi-collaborating father and attend a Reich-sponsored engineering school, enlist in the Wehrmacht and die on the Russian front, or disappear down a proverbial rabbit hole in an abandoned section of a local coal mine, where a rag-tag army of draft resisters is hiding out. All choices are equally bad, since, as Francois quickly discovers, virtually no one can be trusted, and all roads lead to a probable early grave.

It’s filmed in a style that is both lushly naturalistic and at times strikingly impressionistic. There’s a haunting scene in the woods where Francois is symbolically sheltered in a grove of trees that resembles a panel from Disney’s Fantasia. The tension of a brutal Nazi interrogation scene is filmed with the highly charged imagery

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he 15th edition of the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, the Goethe-Institute’s annual celebration of German-language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Castro Theatre, Oct. 22-28, with a San Jose encore day, Oct. 30 at the Camera 12 Cinemas), comes during a new time of the year, and features a German co-produced candid portrait of the late Rock Hudson, featuring Armistead Maupin; filmmaker guest appearances; Germany’s first 3D animated feature in English (Animals United 3D, 10/24); Pope Joan, a major historical fiction on the possibility of there having once been a female Pope (10/23); special book tieins at SF’s Books, Inc.; and lavish opening and closing-night parties. Info: www.berlinbeyond.com.

Draft Dodgers In case you thought the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (a landlocked European monarchy slightly smaller than Rhode Island) was just a reallife model for the Peter Sellers fantasy country in The Mouse that Roared, think again. As demonstrated in Nicolas Steil’s taut, erotically charged account of its anti-

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by Roberto Friedman eft in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theatres brings together photographs of classic single-screen moviehouses such as the Castro, the Balboa, and the New Mission, with essays about the classic moviegoing experience (Charta Art Books). Editor Julie Lindow and photographer R.A. McBride have been appearing at book release events, and tonight (Thurs., Oct. 21) the Balboa Theater (3630 Balboa, SF) will be hosting a Left in the Dark event, with impresarios Gary Meyer and Melinda Stone presiding. Find information at www.leftinthedark.info/ events.html.

San Francisco is still blessed with charming and unique repertory houses, although sadly, nowhere near as many as there once were. All of Out There’s most memorable filmgoing experiences have occurred at these old-school cinemas, the most recent just last week when we saw Undertow at the Lumiere, the gay love/ghost story from director Javier Fuentes-Leon set in a traditional Peruvian seaside town. We found the film poetic, moving, and reflective – not your usual multiplex experience – and five weeks into its Bay Area release, there was still a goodsized audience in the house.

We love the film-going world here.

Speaking of which, the announcement of a late addition to the Mill Valley Film Festival screening last Saturday had us sitting up and taking notice. It was O UT Rabbit Hole, starring Oscar winner Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, directed

by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), with Mitchell himself introducing the film to the MVFF crowd. Rabbit Hole was adapted by David Lindsay-Abaire from his Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated play of the same name, about a husband and wife who fight to save their marriage after a tragic loss. It made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, and Lionsgate plans a Winter 2010 release.

Watch for our coverage to come.

Moving on: New York Times correspondent abroad Michael Kimmelman recently visited the Villa Paloma museum in Monaco. “The

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Dutch artist Ger van Elk is represented by a short video made for German television in the early 70s in which he trims a small cactus with an electric razor. A deadpan stunt with sexual overtones, it has the odd Pavlovian effect of causing anyone later passing the cactuses in the botanical garden suddenly to have the desperate urge to shave them.”

We know that urge.

Currently showing in SF, Maria Callas : A Woman, a Voice, a T HERE Myth is a rare exhibition of the great opera singer’s costumes, jewelry and memorabilia. It’s on view through Thurs., Dec. 2 (which happens to be La Divina’s birthday), at the Italian Cultural Institute of SF, in its new location at 814 Montgomery St., SF. The exhibition features a personal collection of Callas’ historic stage costumes, stunning jewels, rare documents, books, letters, passionately gathered over many years by Callas aficionado Bruno Tosi, as well as photographs lent by the Hellenic Parliament Foundation. It was installed by Norwegian interior designer Terje Arnesen of SF’s New Deal, and NYC-based designer and Italian architect Antonio Pio Saracino. Admission is $7 ($5 for IIC members). More info can be found at www.iicsanfrancisco.esteri.it /IIC_SanFrancisco.

Merry Waters Is it too early to talk about Xmas?

We hope not, because there’s this item we just have to share with you.

The Roxie Theater (3117 16th St.), SF’s oldest still-running moviehouse, is holding a fundraiser, A John Waters Xmas, on Sat., Dec. 11, to kick off its recently established nonprofit status, and to celebrate the dawn of “The New Roxie.” Waters, that dashing darling of cult and indie-film fame, will perform his hell-iday show in SF for the first time since 2006, regaling us with smutty Xmas cheer.

Tickets are $250, including an afterparty for rubbing shoulders with the man himself. Ticketholders will also be entered in a raffle for a one-week stay on Lanakai Beach. Special holiday treats and drinks provided by Mission District partners Luna Park, Andalu, and the Monk’s Kettle will fuel the merriment. Pre-show entertainment will feature video mashups from filmmaker Max Finneran featuring horndog Santas, blood-

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Artist Scooter LaForge returned to SF for the Castro St. Fair, where he customized some T-shirts and reconnected with some local legends.

thirsty elves, talking menorahs and candy-cane mayhem. That all spells the holidaze to us! Tickets are at www.roxie.com.

We are not amused We recently heard from a reader who accused us of using “the royal we” in our weekly allotment of column inches. Coincidentally, at the same time, a language column in the Times was tackling the issue of “We: the perils of a presumptuous pronoun.” The column reproduced some legendary quips declaring that the only individuals who should be granted license to use the first-person plural “we” are: “the head of a sovereign state, a schizophrenic and a pregnant woman,” or, “emperors, editors and men with a tapeworm.”

Hey! You (plural) stop saying those mean things about our tapeworm, whom we’ve affectionately named “Toby.” No seriously folks, we do throw around the editorial “we” a lot, but it’s mostly because we want to indicate, clumsily, that this column is in many respects a collaborative effort. We get fed a steady diet of items and OT-worthy material by a motley assortment of friends, agents, publicists, fellow journalists and sheer raving lunatics. It’s not just little old OT rummaging around the bottom of our mailbag, we assure you; we stand alongside (or maybe right behind) a veritable Greek chorus of wits. And if we started to write this deathless prose in the first-person singular, you’d soon enough get sick and tired of all the “me, myself and I.” We guarantee it.▼

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Why, oh why, Wyoming?

‘The Laramie Project’ and its sequel are staged at the JCC-SF at the Alcazar Theatre. Most recently seen on Broadway in Mary Poppins, Luker’s credits include the Broadway n recent weeks, “bullying” has berevivals of Show Boat, Nine, The come a keyword in the gay-straight Music Man, and The Sound of Music. divide, but the murder of Matthew Greg MacKellan, Moon’s artistic Shepard 12 years ago this month predirector, has written and will host the saged the current outreach in a hortribute to the composer of Show Boat rific way. The Jewish Community and such classic songs as “The Way Center of San Francisco is offering a You Look Tonight,” “Smoke Gets in timely homecoming to the Wyoming Your Eyes,” “I Won’t Dance” and “A community where the gay college stuFine Romance.” Helping to present dent was lured to a tortuous death the Kern catalog are Bay Area-based with the return of the Tectonic Theperformers Pierce Peter Brandt, Debater Project to the Bay Area. bie de Coudreaux, Bill Fahrner, The New York company created Alexandra Kaprielian, and Michael the celebrated The Scott Wells.

Laramie Project and its 42nd Street Moon refollow-up The Laramie turns to its regular digs at the Project: 10 Years Later, Eureka Theatre to continue and its members will be its 2010-11 season with the onstage at the JCC this recently born Murder for weekend performing Two: A Killer Musical. Writboth pieces on subseten by Joe Kinosian and quent nights as part of Kellen Blair, the musical a limited national tour. plays off the Agatha The original work Christie format in which a will be presented on murder takes place in an B ACKSTAGE Oct. 22, and its epiold house, and an inspeclogue on Oct. 23, tor arrives to interrogate both at 8 p.m. But the many suspects. The twist is that first, Moises Kaufman, cothis is a two-character musical, with writer/director of both pieces and one performer playing the investigaTectonic’s artistic director, will be intor, the second playing all the susterviewed onstage at 7 p.m. on Oct. pects, and both playing the piano.

21. His questioner will be Tony TacThe musical, running Nov. 3-21, cone, artistic director of Berkeley had its premiere this past summer at Rep, where The Laramie Project made the Adirondack Theatre Festival, its Bay Area debut in 2001. where co-author Kinosian played all For both pieces, Kaufman and his the suspects, and he’ll be continuing fellow Tectonic actor-writers headed in that role(s) at the Eureka. Adam to Laramie, Wyo., to interview a broad Overett is also repeating his role as the cross-section of the local populace inspector. about a murder that had put their city Moon’s MacKellan first saw the in a harsh international spotlight. The show as part of a new-musicals work10 Years Later follow-up includes inshop festival in New York last year. terviews with Matthew’s mother, Judy “The book is so funny and the score Shepard, and Aaron McKinney, one of is so fresh – as if Frank Loesser and the two men convicted of Shepard’s Cole Porter had given birth to a score murder. midwifed by Stephen Sondheim – The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later that we couldn’t resist giving our aumade its simultaneous debut last year diences the chance to enjoy this before in staged readings at 150 theaters its first major production,” says around the world, while the Tectonic MacKellan. cast offered a video feed of its perforFor tickets or more info, go to mance from Lincoln Center. The JCC www.42ndstmoon.org. event will be the first time Tectonic members themselves have performed Halloween treats the epilogue in the Bay Area. Tickets Reacting to the culture creep of for the Laramie series are available at Halloween into its society, Brazil dewww.jccsf.org. cided a few years ago that Oct. 31 should officially be known as Dia do Moon glows Saci to honor its own collection of Rising soon for 42nd Street Moon: spirits and goblins. But Brazil is sendsomething old, which has been the ing some of its creepiness north for company’s mantra, and something San Francisco’s Halloween season. new, which is fresh territory for the Members of Vigor Mortis, a prolific musical-comedy revivalists. and high-profile Grand Guignol theThe “old” part of the equation acater company in Brazil, will be pretually comes in a new package, as senting The Forsaken Laboratory from Moon continues its one-night-only its own repertoire as a coda to salon series with a tribute to Jerome Thrillpeddlers’ Shocktoberfest!!! 2010 Kern. Broadway star Rebecca Luker Kiss of Blood trilogy of one-acts. headlines the Oct. 28 narrated concert

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Broadway star Rebecca Luker helps 42nd Street Moon pay tribute to Jerome Kern in its salon series at the Alcazar Theatre.

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A scene from the original production of The Laramie Project, returning to the Bay Area along with its sequel, with members of the cast that helped create the documentary plays.

The Forsaken Laboratory is described as a 20-minute horror pantomime in the “actor-prestidigitator” style developed by the Brazilian troupe. Vigor Mortis members Rafaella Marques and Michelle Pucci will be joined by Shocktoberfest cast members Flynn DeMarco and Daniel Bakken in the tale of a scientist, a nun, an exorcist, and a man giving birth to a demonic creature.

While Shocktoberfest runs through Nov. 19 at the Hypnodrome, the Vigor Mortis postscript will only be on view through Oct. 31. Vigor Mortis is also in the filmmaking business, and its Morgue Story will be part of a program of Brazilian horror films screening on Oct. 27 at the Vortex Room. Go to www.thrillpeddlers.com for more info.▼ Richard Dodds can be reached at BARstage@comcast.net.

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DANCE

Matthew Martin (center) in Hulas Bar and Lei Stand, part of the 25th anniversary of Na Lei Hulu I ka Wekiu.

From sacred to profane

by Paul Parish here was too much intriguing dance happening around here this past weekend for one person to see it all. Very big deals were the re-opening of the ODC Theater, with free performances all day and night Saturday to celebrate, which, alas, I couldn’t make. ODC is without a doubt the single strongest force for putting a roof over the independent dance-makers of San Francisco. Mind you, this is the largest community of dancers in the whole country outside New York. ODC’s director Brenda Way has made way for her own dancers and her own company, but is likewise a great community-builder who has brought everybody else along with her.

ODC’s reopening festival JumpstART bookends their Wrecking Ball, the hilarious ceremony with which they officially closed the building a couple of years ago, and brings a major performance space back into being.

Hooray, congratulations, and thank you.

But even bigger news was the first San Francisco showing of Alonzo King’s Scheherazade (at the Novellus Theater, YBCA), which was commissioned last year by the Monaco Dance Forum to inaugurate the centenary of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, and first performed in the opera house that sheltered Diaghilev’s epoch-making company after the outbreak of the first World War. The first Scheherazade ballet was a fleshpot blockbuster set to a

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mishmash of Rimsky-Korsakov’s famous score: it starred Vaslav Nijinsky, “the God of the Dance,” in a feline role that got him slain at the end for being so sexy, and that launched 1,000 sheikh movies; is seminal to the careers of Douglas Fairbanks (The Thief of Baghdad), Rudolf Valentino and Victor Mature – may I mention Debra Paget?; and featured a sensational décor of peacock blue and green silks that inspired the couturiers of Paris – but as a ballet, it has not stood the test of time.

King has actually made a better ballet than Fokine’s original; King’s collaborator, the composer/tablaist Zakir Hussein, saves Rimsky’s famous, sinuous melody, full of filigree, and has composed new music around it that evokes more of the 1,001 Nights – the variety of the tales, the enchanting moods and sudden eruptions of violence, the mysterious creatures with which our heroine beguiled the sultan whom she enthralled with her tales – than Fokine did in the first version. King evokes apparitions of the magic birds, the sultan, the princesses, the beggars and saints and assassins, by making them come to life and move with their own characteristic energy – stalking, darting, perching, slithering, hovering, struggling – without getting mired in details of “what happened next.” The central duet for the sultan and Scheherazade, danced Friday night by the towering Corey Scott Gilbert literally tied at one point with a rope to the ballerina Laurel Keen, worked the dialectic of his fear and violence against her love and imagination to terrific effect.

The first half of the show was more formal, a beautiful series of duets (mostly) to adagios by Corelli; the stately baroque dance-music tends to sumptuous grandeur, the rhythms evoke public rhetoric. You hear such cadences as “Hear ye, O my people” in the choirs of trumpets and strings, and the dancers bring majesty to a series of movement studies that cover a wide range of interactions, nothing ever literal, but sometimes tender, sometimes pushme/pull you. The movement is full of surprises; at the end of one duet, a man lay face down, whereupon she sat on his feet, and his body jackknifed at the knees, pulling him bolt upright; they looked like a pair of bookends, back to back, center-stage.

I could not tell you what it means or why they did it, but I’ll never forget the event.

LINES Ballet performs again this weekend at the Novellus Theater, as does the other very big deal, the Hula show at the Palace of Fine Arts commemorating the 25th anniversary of Na Lei Hulu I ka Wekiu ’s foun-

dation as an exemplar of Hawaiian dance arts in our city. What’s great about this company is that they are showing how to bring traditional material into the present and the future. They have one of the truly great corps de ballets to be seen anywhere, and Patrick Makuakane can use them polyphonically or in unison in a manner that challenges comparison with Doris Humphrey or Mark Morris, two of the most symphonic choreographers in the modern dance tradition. At one point in Saturday night’s show, I found myself following three lines of counterpoint in the dance, and the thought flashed in my mind that Balanchine would have delighted in this.

The show opened with a tribute to King David Kalakaua, who resurrected the hula after it had been suppressed by the American missionaries who came to the island and treated the dance as the work of the devil.

Perhaps the most impressive choreography of the evening was an austere movement-choir piece about the missionaries that brought Doris Humphrey’s great piece about the Shakers to mind – it had a similar architectural magnificence, relying on geometry, lines of force, contrapuntal intricacies, with some dancers verging on ecstatic possession, and others fighting with them – and set, with massive irreverence, to a disco beat.

Makuakane is a master teacher, a star performer, and also a community organizer of formidable talents.

He looks like Michelangelo’s Adam in a grass skirt, dances like a god, sings like a cantor, and works the crowd like Bill Clinton. His speaking gifts are of the first rank. He’s not only keeping Hawaiian culture alive, he’s a populist making the case for it.

Though he’s serious, he is in no way grindingly earnest. In fact, his sense of humor can get riotous. The first act ends with a hilarious celebration of the Honolulu gay bar Hulas, complete with drag artist Matthew Martin doing his impersonation of Shirley Bassey.

Two hours of wonderful dancing in a variety of moods, from the sacred to the profane. It’s wonderful to see a whole dance done kneeling down. The most wonderful thing of all is the way the movement seems to come from the dancers’ hearts. The arms open up and reach with such strength and delicacy, and offer the dance to us with a generosity you have to see to believe. Their version of Roberta Flack’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” with arms opening out to suggest “the moon and stars rose in your eyes,” is alone worth the price of admission. Their show runs through this weekend at the Palace of Fine Arts.▼

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FILM

Being Edward Norton ‘Stone’ plays the 33rd Mill Valley Film Festival

by David Lamble irector John Curran’s new film Stone opens with a mano a mano struggle. A dodgy white con who’s appropriated the defiant speech patterns and cornrow hairstyle of a black lifer faces off against a parole officer grumpy on his best days, volcanic on his worst, who’s counting the days before he retires to a rural home with a religiously obsessed and bitter wife.

Edward Norton, Robert De Niro and Milla Jovovich bring their A games to this prison thriller. The con, sentenced for a crime resulting in the immolation of his grandparents, alternately provokes and tempts his parole officer, always close to imploding with anger, with an ethical dilemma that only begins with sexual favors from his amorally flirtatious wife.

Curran’s taut direction underscores the moral sucker-punches hidden in Angus MacLachlan’s (Junebug) broodingly suspenseful script. Stone may annoy filmgoers looking for neat resolutions, blackand-white characters and a screenwriter who drags in and doesn’t neatly resolve spiritual dilemmas afflicting believers and non-believers.

Many American filmmakers avoid religious themes like a kind of artistic “third rail.” Fans of Junebug, where an innocent homecoming triggered a wave of unsettling developments in a rural North Carolina family, will enjoy watching screenwriter MacLachlan delve more deeply into the disquiets lingering in the American soul, and admirers of James Marsh’s The King should embrace another dark religious fable where church and family are eternally locked in tragic conflict.

In town to receive honors at the 33rd Mill Valley Film Festival, Norton calls his latest collaboration with Curran (The Painted Veil) “a Buddhist parable,” a film that challenges audiences to find the clues as to which of its ferocious male protagonists is on the road.

Norton exploded out of Yale Drama School, notched an Oscar nomination for portraying a desperately unreliable young man who could switch personalities in midsentence (Primal Scream), and hit career highs with his nimble corporate nihilist-turned-urban terrorist in David Fincher’s Fight Club and his reformed Neo-Nazi skinhead gang leader in American History X. While he’s done comic-bookmovie duty as The Incredible Hulk, Norton has been more closely associated with a string of offbeat turns in would-be cult movies, like Danny DeVito’s dark comedy about rival TV kid-show hosts, Death to Smoochy.

I kicked off our chat with a reflection on how deeply I was affected by Robert De Niro’s incendiary Oscarwinning performance as the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull.

David Lamble: It terrified me because for once I entered into the emotional violence that my British father imposed on me and my family back in the 1950s. Jake is an animal, basically a beast, and De Niro still has the ability to bring that.

Edward Norton: The beautiful thing about what De Niro does in the scenes with me [in Stone] is that he’s investigating something. He’s at a different point in his life than he was when he made [the Scorsese films], and I think this performance is a deep investigation of getting older, of mortality and repression. Jack is a bully, he’s a bully to his wife, but he’s a different kind of bully than he was in those films: he’s a repressed bully, a guy who is very disconnected from his emotional and spiritual life.

There are moments when an actor is suddenly investigating a different time in life, a different phase in life. I feel like this is a thread of connection

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Movie star Edward Norton arrives at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

to the things he’s done in the past. To me, it’s like a whole new level of investigation and great study. It’s almost as if it were Last Tango in Paris for him or something.

Stone has a sense of doom about it, but you’re not quite sure exactly why. Like in American History X, you know that something terrible is coming, you know somebody is going to pay for all that’s happened, and in a sense that happens, but not in the way that you expect.

I’m consistently drawn to filmmakers who have the courage to set up narratives that pose a lot of questions, and they leave people with those questions.

You have to finish the movie yourself.

I think Joseph Campbell was right: good stories should be transparent; you should be able to see yourself in them, and you need to be able to interpret them through your own experience for them to really have weight. For me, one of the hooks was that Stone remains who he is, but somehow he has a more peaceful view of that.

That’s bookended by two acts of violence: one he participates in, the burning down of his grandparents’ house; and the second is the horrific murder that unfolds in front of him in the jail, that he can’t do anything about – he sees another man die, stares into his eyes.

John [Curran] saw a video from a prison, of an actual murder on a closed-circuit camera, and you can see this prisoner drop down and stare through the bars at the guy being murdered. John showed it to me and said, ‘Wouldn’t that be an incredible thing for Stone to experience?’ This perspective drops on him in the middle of this intense experience.

We know Stone and Lucetta are hot for each other, but she also comes on to Jack, and we wonder whether there’s a ferocious jealousy building up, a prelude to revenge.

Milla Jovovich is really spectacular in this movie. If this were a straight genre film, she’d be the femme fatale, the seductress.

Barbara Stanwyck.

Exactly, Barbara Stanwyck. Yet what’s so compelling about what she does is that it’s got to be honest, there’s not a shred of inauthenticity.

She tells the target of their manipulation what she’s doing, and she’s sincere about it. A certain thread in the film is almost like a Buddhist parable. Francis Conroy’s character

says, “You start as a stone and you have to become a fish and a bird and an animal before you can even become fully human.” Milla says she thought Lucetta was just an animal, and not in a grotesque sense, meaning she doesn’t have existential stress: she’s very comfortable with sex, with joy, she’s not a particularly encumbered character.▼

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The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, an Epilogue

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OUT& ABOUT Fri 22>>

25 Years of Hula @ Palace of Fine Arts Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, Patrick Makuakane’s local acclaimed hula company, performs a large-scale retrospective of popular and traditional works, including a disco tribute to a fabled Hawiian gay bar. $10$85. $150 gala. 8pm. Also Sundays at 3pm. extra matinee Oct. 24 at 12pm. Thru Oct. 24.

392-4400. www.naleihulu.org

All About Evil @ Victoria Theatre Peaches Christ and the Midnight Mass Players bring you a creepy hilarious 4-D in-person showing of the indie hit horror flick. Dress up in “Gore Couture” for a chance to win prizes. $20. 8pm. Thru Oct. 24 (also at 11pm).

2961 16th St. www.peacheschrist.com

Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins @ New Conservatory Theatre Center

by Jim Provenzano aturday is a full harvest moon, which also marks the high point of a weekend of shows and events that are seriously dramatic, seriocomic, or an intriguing combination thereof; seriously.

Moises Kaufman, writer-director of the acclaimed The Laramie Project, the cathartic stage play about the Matthew Shepard murder, discusses his work with Berkeley Repertory’s Artistic Director Tony Taccone, at the Jewish Community Center. October 21, 7pm. $10-$20.

Then, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, an Epilogue, will be performed Oct 22 and 23 at 8pm. $25-$55. Jewish Community Center, 3200 California St. at Presidio. 2921233. www.jccsf.org The hottest show in town isn’t exactly in town. Enjoy “glimpses of the moon” as the already dramatic Alcatraz Island becomes the setting for We Players’ innovative production of Hamlet. The show’s nearly sold out, but it’s worth a try to follow Shakespearean actors racing about the former prisonturned state park. And don’t even think about missing that ferry! $40-$80. Sat & Sun 11:30am & 5pm.

Thru Nov. 21.

The Great Game: Afghanistan www.weplayers.org When you go to the theatre, you’re investing your time and attention. How about devoting an entire day? The Great Game: Afghanistan at Berkeley Repertory is one very worthy endeavor. The ambitious, acclaimed three-part trilogy of works by twelve playwrights, each focusing on a dramatic period in the history of Afghanistan, has a limited two-week run. On several dates, all three plays are staged through one day. Check the online schedule. $34-$73 each. Thru Nov. 7. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St. at Shattuck. (510) 647-2949. www. berkeleyrep.org We know turn to serious causes with lighthearted galas. Wednesday, Oct 27, Evening of Hope at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Project Inform gala fundraiser, showcases Unmasked “condom couture” fashions worn by models, along with wine and cocktails, music and more. Miss Coco Peru MCs. $150 and up.

6pm. 701 Mission St. www.projectinform.org Unmasked at the War Memorial Green Room, the annual gala fundraiser for the GLBT Historical Society, includes drinks, appetizers, desserts, fabulous gay historic auction items and several luxurious vacation packages, local celebrities and live entertainment, all with a fabulous view of City Hall. $100-$175 and up. Thursday, Oct 28. 6pm-9pm.

401 Van Ness Ave. www.glbthistory.org www.unmaskedgala.org▼

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Brian Christopher Williams’ play about a young gay teen in the late 1970s dealing with tumultuous events around and within him. $24-$40. Thru Oct. 24. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Arab Film Festival @ Castro Theatre 14th annual festival of Arab films, screened at several Bay Area cinemas, including the gay-themed Tunisian film The String, starring Claudia Cardinale, with hottie Salim Kechiouche (Oct. 23 at Shattuck Cinema, Berkeley). Thru Oct. 24. 429 Castro St. www.arabfilmfestival.org www.castrotheatre.com

Berlin and Beyond @ Castro Theatre 15th annual festival of films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, some with specific gay themes. $10-$40 (single films/events) $250 (full fest pass). Thru Oct. 28. 429 Castro St. www.goethe.de/sanfrancisco www.castrotheatre.com

Carly Ozard @ The Rrazz Room Ebullient local award-winning singer performs her Freddie Mercury tribute. $20-$30.

Also Oct. 23, both 10:30pm. 2-drink min.

Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 4683399. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof @ Actors Theatre Actors Theatre SF’s intimate staging of the classic Tennessee Williams play. $26-$38.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Extended thru Oct. 22. 855 Bush st. 345-1287. www.actorstheatresf.org

Cultural Encounters @ de Young Museum Weekly parties that mix live and DJed music, hands-on art projects for all ages, and drinks and a fun scene. Free-$12. 5pm-8:45pm.

Golden Gate Park. www.famsf.org

Dame Cleo Lane @ The Rrazz Room Enjoy a concert with jazz royalty, one of the finest singing voices in the genre. Jacqui Dankworth opens. $42-$50. 8pm thru Oct 23. Oct. 24 at 4pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 468-3399. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Dandelion Dancetheater @ Shawl Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley Kimiko Guthrie and Dandelion’s Mama Love Ensemble perform women’s takes on myths, love attachment and affection. $12-$15.

8pm. Fri-Sat 8pm Sun 7pm. Thru Oct. 24.

2704 Alcatraz Ave. (510) 654-5921. www.dandeliondancetheater.org

Kunst-Stoff, Levy Dance @ ODC Theater Two local contemporary dance companies share a two-week concert, using Greek and Persian music as inspiration. $15-$18. ThuSun 8pm. Thru Oct. 30. 3153 17th St. www.odctheater.org

Shame, Kirstyn Russell, Jeannie Simms and others. Special exhibit tour today, 5:30pm.

Panel dicussion with artists, 6pm-7:30pm.

Tue-Sat 12pm-5pm thru Oct. 23. 657 Mission St. 2nd floor. 512-2020. www.sfcamerawork.org

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum @ Eureka Theatre

The Tectonics @ Cadillac Hotel

TV and film actress Megan Cavanagh (A League of Their Own, Robin Hood: Men in Tights) stars in 42nd Street Moon’s production of the hilarious Stephen Sondheim/Larry Gelbart musical farce set in ancient Rome. $24-$44. Wed 7pm, Thu & Fri 8pm, Sat 6pm, Sun 3pm. Thru Oct. 24. 215 Jackson st. 255-8207. www.42ndstmoon.org

Tom Shaw Trio @ Martuni’s

SF Indie’s documentary film festival. Films screened daily from about 5pm-9:30pm. $10$20 per film to $160 for full festival pass.

Thru Oct. 28 (Star Wars cantina-themed Halloween closing party at Cell Space). www.sfindie.com

Sharif Abu-Hamdeh’s drama about three generations of Palestinian immigrants. $15$25. Thu-Sun 8pm. Thru Nov. 7. 446 Valencia St. at 16th. 626-2787. www.theintersection.org

The Kids Are All Right @ Castro Theatre Annette Benning, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo star in the feel-good movie about lesbian parents and a donor dad. $7-$10. 2:30,

Local modern jazz quartet performs originals and classics. Free. 12:30pm.

380 Eddy St. at Leavenworth. 673-7223. www.cadillachotel.org

Jazz trio performs classics, oldies, blues and more. 6:30pm. Also Oct. 23 & 27, 7pm. 4 Valencia St. www.dragatmartunis.com

Gay Fiction Authors @ A Different Light

Transgender Law Center Party @ The Endup

G.A. Hauser (Hot Rod), Alan Chin (Match Maker) and Kage Alan (Gaylias: Operation Thunderspell) discuss their books. Free.

7:30pm. 489 Castro St. www.adl-books.blogspot.com

Eight-year anniversary party and fundraiser for the trans rights organization, with Shannon Minter, Tita Aida, Senator Mark Leno, Supervisor Bevan Dufty and a performance

by Josh Klipp. $50-$150. 6pm (VIP reception til 7pm) -9pm. 401 6th St. at Harrison.

21+. www.transgenderlawcenter.org

Homophobia: Loving Ourselves and Each Other @ AIDS Health Project Discussion group focusing on the personal aspects of the recent high number of media-covered gay suicides, and how we can personally counter such tragedies. Free. 6:30pm. Registration required. 476-6448. 1930 Market St. www.ucsf-ahp.org

Inside Job @ Embarcadero Cinema Matt Damon narrates San Francisco native Charles Ferguson’s documentary exposé about the economic collapse of 2008. www.sonyclassics.com/insidejob

Kiss of Blood @ Hypnodrome Theatre Thrillpeddlers presents three “Shocktoberfest” one-act plays with macabre comic themes; Aragny/Neilson’s 1929 Kiss of Blood, and Lips of the Damned and The Empress of Colma, new plays by Rob Keefe.

Also, The Forsaken Laboratory, a one-act performed by Brazilian theatre ensemble Vigor Mortis (Oct. 21-31). $25-$35. Thu & Fri Thru Nov. 19. 575 10th St. at Bryant.

(800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco @ First Congregational Church Hear “The Music of Dead White Men,” including Bach and Freddie Mercury. $15-$30.

8pm. Also Oct. 23. 1300 Polk St. at Bush.

(800) 838-3006. www.lgcsf.org

The Real Americans @ The Marsh

Sat 23>> Art/Object @ Museum of the African Diaspora Exhibit of masks, costumes, sculptures and objects from ancient Africa, which shows how they’re used in rituals and contemporary settings. Thru Jan. 16, 2011. 685 Mission St. 358-7200. www.moadsf.org

The Art of Dr. Seuss @ Dennis Rae Fine Art Fascinating exhibit of rarely seen prints, paintings, sculptures and a few of the more known drawings by Theodor Geisel, the author/illustrator of the immensely popular children’s books. Ongoing, with updates and new items. 351A Geary St. 391-1948. www.dennisraefineart.com

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25$80. Wed, Thu 8pm. Fri, Sat 6:30, 9:30pm.

Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd.

421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Bearracuda @ Club Eight Strip down for another hirsute bear dance night, with DJ James Torres. $6-$8. 9pm3am. 1151 Folsom St. www.bearracuda.com

BustED II @ Femina Potens

Dan Hoyle’s (Tings Dey Happen) multiplecharacter solo show based on his road trip to Middle America to explore the profound disconnect in a politically polarized country. $15-$50. Thu-Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm. Extended thru Nov. 6. 1062 Valencia St. at 21st.

(800) 838-3006. www.themarsh.org

Second annual group exhibit celebrating the bosom, while raising awareness for breast cancer prevention efforts. Thu-Sun 12pm6pm thru Oct. 31. 2199 Market St. at Sanchez. www.feminapotens.org

Scapin @ American Conservatory Theater

Founder and lead singer of The Pretenders performs collaborative songs with the acoustic-folk rock band. $28-$33. 9pm.

21+. 1025 Columbus Ave. 474-0365. www.bimbos365club.com

Comic clown extraordinaire Bill Irwin directs and stars in a baggy-pants update on the Moliere farce, about a servant who capriciously helps two young lovers. $10-$90. TueSat 8pm. Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 23.

415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived @ SF CameraWork Group exhibit of contemporary photos visualizing queer activism, gay communities, and homos in public spaces, including works by Steven Miller, Killer Banshee Studios, Gay

DocFest @ Roxie Cinema

Habibi @ Intersection for the Arts

Hamlet on Alcatraz

4:45, 7pm, 9:10. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

All About Evil, Fri.

Chrissie Hynde and the Fairground Boys @ Bimbo’s

Compulsion @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin stars in the world premiere of Rinne Groff’s fascinating play about a man’s discovery and struggles to adapt The Diary of Anne Frank into a theatrical production. $14.50-$73. Tue, Fri, Sat 8pm. Wed, Sun 7pm. Thu Sat Sun 2pm (no show on some nights; check schedule on-

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Chrissie Hynde and the Fairground Boys, Sat.

Yoga Classes @ The Sun Room Heated, healing weekly yoga classes in a new location. Suggested donation $10-20. 12pm1pm. Tue & Thu. 2390 Mission St, 3rd floor.

794-4619. www.billmohleryoga.com

Wed 27>> Alexis Lekat @ Magnet Exhibit of paintings and video by the sexy Israeli painter whose homoerotic art has an iconic rough edge. Exhibit thru Oct. 4122 18th St. at Castro. www.alexislekat.net www.magnetsf.org

Diane Schuur @ the Rrazz Room line). Thru Oct. 31. 2025 Addison St. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Donna Woolfolk Cross @ Books Inc. Author of the novel Pope Joan, (the film adapatation’s screening at the Berlin and Beyond Film Festival), discusses her book about the only female pope. Free. 5:30pm. 2275 Market St. at Noe. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

Electric Six @ The Independent Witty rockin’ straight band known for their hit “Gay Bar” performs live, with music from their new CD Zodiac. $16. 21+. 8:30pm.

628 Divisadero St.

Japanesque @ Legion of Honor Exhibit of Japanese prints from 1700-1900, and its relationship to Impressionism. Thru Jan. 9. Also, Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine, an exhibit of the scientific exploration of Egyptian mummies and artifacts.

Thru Oct. 31. $6-$10. Tue-Sun 9:30am5:15pm. 100 34th Av. at Clement, Lincoln Park. www.legionofhonor.org

Mary Stuart @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley

Sun 24>>

Veteran cabaret/jazz singer performs. $47.50. 8pm thru Oct. 29. Oct. 30 at 7pm & 9:30pm. Oct. 31 at 7pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 468-3399. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Antiques & Collectibles Fair @ Candlestick Park

Evening of Hope @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Browse, shop and enjoy seeing selections from hundreds of exhibitors; food and beverages for sale, too. $5-$15. 8am-3pm. (510) 217-8696. www.candlestickantiques.com

Project Inform gala fundraiser, with MC Miss Coco Peru, “condom couture” fashions worn by (mostly women) models, wine and cocktails, music and more. $150 and up. 6pm.

701 Mission St. www.projectinform.org

Happy Hour @ Energy Talk Radio Interview show with gay writer Adam Sandel as host. 8pm. www.EnergyTalkRadio.com

Holly Near @ La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley Singer-activist performs a rare local concert in a benefit for Educación Popular en Salud of Chile. $23-$25 7pm. 3105 Shattuck Ave. (510) 849-2568. www.lapena.org

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the fabulous weekly brunch and drag show. $45.

11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square.

395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

Swing-out Sundays @ Rock-it Room

Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome

Mon 25>>

Reluctant @ Brava Theater West Coast premiere of Joel Israel’s noir radio thriller play, with multilayered soundscapes and intrigue. Previews. Opening night Oct. 25. $15-$35. 8pm. Wed-Mon, with Fri & Sat 10pm. Thru Nov. 13. 2781 24th St. at York. 647-2822. www.brava.org

Sesame Street: A Celebration @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Classic, rare, and never-seen footage of the amazing longest-running children’s show in TV history, and its adorable Jim Henson Muppets. Oct 23, 2pm); Muppets History 201 (Oct. 28, 7:30pm, Oct. 30 2pm). $6-$8.

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

SF Hiking Club @ Mount Tamalpais Join GLBT hikers for a strenuous, 12-mile hike on Mt. Tam to Cataract Falls and up Swede Gorge Creek. Experienced hikers only.

Carpool meets at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores, 9am. 279-5570. www.sfhiking.com

Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29

Slim Jenkins and other bands play weekly for your same- and opposite-sex swing dancing pleasure. $5 includes a lesson. 8pm-11pm. 406 Clement St. www.SwingChampionships.com

Al “A. Jay” Shapiro @ James Snidle Fine Art Exhibit of original drawings by the late gay erotic cartoonist and creator of Harry Chess and other muscular comic characters. Open run. Also, the Rodney Thompson Estate collection. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Sat 9am-2pm.

1190 Bryant St. 552-0500. www.jamessnidlefinearts.com

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104 David Perry’s new talk show about LGBT local issues. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm, Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.davidperry.com

Tue 26>>

Broadway singer (Phantom of the Opera) showcases his expressionist paintings. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm. Sat 12pm-5pm. Thru Dec. 23.

411 Brannan St. www.arthaus-sf.com

Galeria 4.0 @ Galeria de la Raza 40th anniversary exhibit, with Latino/Chicano works spanning four decades.

Wed-Sat 12pm-6pm (Tue 1pm-7pm) thru Jan. 29, 2011. 2857 24th St. www.galeriadelaraza.org

Thu 28>> Celebrating Fabled Asp @ SF Public Library Fabulous Activist Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities: a 40 Year Retrospective, an exhibit of photographs, ephemera, and related events. Exhibit thru Nov. 23, 6th floor Skylight Gallery. 100 Larkin St. www.fabledasp.com www.sfpl.org

Kronos Quartet @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Acclaimed musical group performs the world premiere of Sahba Aminikia’s Black Angel, and works by Ingram Marshall, Bob Ostertag and Aleksandra Vrebalov. $25-$30. 8pm.

Also Oct. 29. Novellus Theater, 700 Howard St. 978-ARTS. www.ybca.org

Michael Alenyikov @ Books Inc.

Heart of SoMa @ Terra Gallery Enjoy music, dance performances by Vaidas Skimelis and Jurga Pupelyte, art, food and drinks at the salute and fundraiser for the Hamilton Family Center. Mary Murphy (So You Think You Can Dance) hosts, Rev. Jesse Jackson will present honors to the nonprofit. $75-$100. 7pm-10pm. 511 Harrison St. www.heartofsoma.com

Meditation Classes @ Kadampa Buddhist Temple Tessa Logan teaches drop-in meditation classes. $10. 7-8:45pm. 3324 17th St. 503-1187. www.meditationinnortherncalifornia.org

Hail Caesar! is the current show at the theatre-tent-dinner extravaganza with comic Frank Ferrante, twin acrobats Ming and Rui, Vertical Tango rope dance, plus magic, comedy, a five-course dinner, and a lot of fun. $117-$145. Saturday 11:30am “Breve” show $63—$78. Wed-Sat 6pm (Sun 5pm).

Pier 29 at Embarcadero Ave. 438-2668. www.teatrozinzanni.com

Chinoiserie-themed large-scale show of dozens of exhibitors’ fine arts objects, jewelry, rugs, and collectibles. Preview gala Oct. 27 (7pm-9pm, $200 and up) benefits Enterprise for High School Students. Special lectures and events through the weekend. $15.

Thu-Sat 10:30am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. Festival Pavilion, Buchanan St. at Bay. www.fortmason.org www.sffas.org

Frank D’Ambrosio @ ArtHaus

Shotgun Players presents an adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s play about the royal intrigue between Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I, with strikingly modern perspectives on terrorism and politics. $15$28. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Nov. 14.

1901 Ashby Ave. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Thrillpeddlers’ revival of the comic mock operetta by Link Martin and Richard Koldewyn, performed by the gender-bending Cockettes decades ago, and loosely based on the 1926 play The Shanghai Gesture; with an all-star cast. $30-$69. 18 and over only! Extended, Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm, thru Dec 19. 575 10th St. at Division. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Fall Antiques Show @ Fort Mason

Author of Ivan and Misha: Stories discusses his book about Soviet-era twins who move to 90s New York. 2275 Market St. at Noe. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

Queer Ballroom @ Live Art Gallery Lessons and dancing in swing, tango and ballroom. 6pm10pm. Free-$15. 151 Potrero Ave. at 15th. 305-8242. www.QueerBallroom.com

To submit event listings, email jim@ebar.com.

Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

PICK OF THE WEEK

Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, the second of two exhibitions from the Paris museum’s permanent collection, thru Jan. 18. Also, Developed and Undeveloped: Photographic Landscapes, thru March 6. $10-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm.

Thru Jan. 18, 2011. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, www.famsf.org

The Winter’s Tale @ Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley Actors Ensemble of Berkeley’s production of Shakespeare’s tragicomic romance. $12$15. Fri & Sat 8pm, some Sun 2pm, thru Nov. 20. 1301 Shattuck Ave. at Berryman.

(510) 649-5999. www.aeofberkeley.org

Luis Guerra

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond @ de Young Museum

Queens are Wild at Mezzanine, Stop AIDS Project’s annual casinothemed fundraiser, is hosted by the always fab Juanita More! Porn dude dealers once again steal your hearts and your play money. Entertainment fills the night. Wear your own Halloween or casino-themed costumes, and bid on silent auction items. Friday, Oct. 22. 21+. $25$500. 8pm-1am. 444 Jessie St. at 5th. www.stopaids.org

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by Scott Brogan any traditions in our community did not start with Stonewall or in the Swingin’ 70s, as many of the younger set seem to think. We San Franciscans take great pride in the fact that several traditions started right here in our “Baghdad by the Bay” decades ago, or even 100+ years ago. Imagine that. There are several great books and websites out there detailing the gay history of the Bay Area. I encourage you to seek out this information and learn about our rich and varied history. Much of it focuses on the history and traditions of our leather/fetish community.

Flagging is one of those traditions that originated in San Francisco. Maybe I should say “most likely.”

The traditional uniform of a leatherman: worn-out 501s, hanky and leather By “flagging,” I don’t mean those vest. T-shirt is optional. guys in Dolores Park and elsewhere who dance waving two or more flags around. I’m referring to the act of ly, the most popular, recognizable, women. Makes our fantasies of flagging your fetish by putting a and enduring bandana colors are prison life seem tame by comparihanky in your right or left back dark navy blue (fucking), red (fistson. OK, maybe the prison thing is pocket (something I find much ing), and yellow (piss play). I would more of a reality than fantasy, from more exciting). For those two people say that gray (bondage), hunter most reports. out there who have no clue what green (Daddy/boy) and orange (anyAnother legend states that flagI’m talking about, in a nutshell, thing goes – sans Cole Porter, thank ging hankies began in the 70s in flagging means putting a particular New York City when a Village Voice you very much) are pretty high up color or pattern bandana (hanky) there as well. Look up “Hanky Code” journalist (Musto?) joked that in your left or right back pocket to online to see the diversity. I bet wearing hankies instead of keys let people know whether you take there’s one for you! would be more subtle and easier to the top or bottom role in that The flagging of hankies as we diversify the various fetishes. This particular fetish or sex act. The know it today had its heyday in may or may not have happened, but color or pattern of the bandana the 70s and 80s, which is probaI doubt it was the beginning. Hanis known as the “Hanky bly why it’s now so iconic. kies have been a part of the culture Code.” There are variaLegend has it that flagging of the American West from the betions on flagging, with originated in the gold rush ginning, worn by cowboys, dangling keys previously days of the 49ers. Miners prospectors, miners, and so on. It’s being the most popular, came to San Francisco to only logical the tradition would and still in use today. Left blow off steam and party, have started here. Sorry, New York, for top and right for botbut due to the shortage we’re taking this one. tom has remained unof women they were Today, most people in the gay changed. It’s not uncomL EATHER forced to dance (and community know what flagging is, mon for people to wear who knows what else) even if they don’t know what the colmore than one hanky to with each other. A blue ors mean. A popular extension of let people know they’re up for more bandana (worn on the neck, arm or flagging with hankies is the use of than one fetish (aren’t we all?), and pocket) indicated who would be armbands. Most recently, we see there’s no law that says you can’t leading as the “male,” a red bandana folks having their code as part of flag left and right at the same time. indicated the “female” who would their leather/fetish gear, such as a Like any tradition, it’s always follow. Imagine all those men worksimple colored stripe on the outside evolving. For example, just after the ing hard for so long and blowing off of a pair of leather pants to indicate tragedies of 9/11, many people wore steam in the bawdy bars of the thenthe preference. Because the stripes Stars & Stripes hankies to show their lawless city, and doing what men do are on the left and right, you have to patriotism. Some still do today, eswhen confronted with a shortage of pecially on the 4th of July. Currentpage 37

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Coming up in leather & kink >> Thu., Oct. 21: Underwear Night at The Powerhouse (1347 Folsom), 10 p.m. Wet undie contest and drink specials. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Thu., Oct. 21: Edges Wet Munch at Renegades Bar (501 W. Taylor St., San Jose), 7 p.m. Happy hour for the sex-positive and alternative communities. 4-7 p.m. Go to: www.edges.biz.

Thu., Oct. 21: Locker Room at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom). Featuring DJ Hotwire. Pumping music at 9 p.m.

Comp clothes check provided by the SoMa Guardians. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Fri., Oct. 22: DaddyHunt.net Party at Chaps Bar. Lots of drink specials. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Fri., Oct 22: Halloween Party at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission), 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Fri., Oct 22: Truck Wash at Truck (1900 Folsom). Featuring live shower boys. The fun starts at 10 p.m. No cover, lots of drink specials. Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Sat., Oct. 23: Back Bar Action at The Eagle Tavern (398 12th St.). Back patio and bar opened to all gear/fetish/leather. 10 p.m. to close. Go to: www.sfeagle.com.

Sat., Oct. 23: Hell Hole Fisting Party. 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Door closes at Midnight. $25 admission. Free clothes check. For an invitation, visit www.HellHoleSF.com.

Sat., Oct. 23: 15 Association Men’s Dungeon Party at the SF Citadel. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Go to: www.the15-association.org.

Sat., Oct. 23: Dee’s Meander: An easy walking group for kinksters at Bestor Art Park (Bestor @ S. 6th St., San Jose), 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free admission. Go to: http://fetlife.com/events/28662.

Sat., Oct. 23: Boot Lickin’ at The Powerhouse, 10 p.m.

Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sat., Oct. 23: Bearracuda SF - Underwear Nite at Club 8 (1151 Folsom). 2-for-1 drinks before 10 p.m. Admis-

sion is $6 before 10 p.m., $8 after. Go to: www.bearracuda.com.

Sat., Oct. 23: Boots hosted by Stomper’s Boots at Chaps Bar. 9 p.m. Bootblack on duty. Come hang with some boot pigs. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Sun., Oct. 24: Castrobear presents the launch of a new monthly party: Sunday SCRUFFy Sunday at 440 Castro, 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.castrobear.com.

Sun., Oct. 24: AgePlay Adventure at the SF Citadel. 15 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sun., Oct. 24: PoHo Sundays at The Powerhouse. DJ Keith, Dollar Drafts all day. Go to: www.powerhousesf.com.

Mon., Oct. 25: Whip Works: a monthly Singletail peer group facilitated by Daddy Darin at the SF Citadel. 8-10 p.m., doors open at 7:30 p.m. $10 admission. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Tue., Oct. 26: 12-Step Kink Recovery Group at the SF Citadel, 6:30-8 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Tue., Oct. 26: Ink & Metal followed by Nasty at The Powerhouse, 9 p.m. Celebrate your tats and piercings, then have some nasty fun! Go to: www.powerhousesf.com.

Wed., Oct. 27: Leathermen’s Discussion Group upstairs at Blow Buddies (933 Harrison). 7:30-9:30 p.m. Go to: www.sfldg.org.

Wed., Oct. 27: Leather Buddies at Blow Buddies. Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m., play til late. Go to: www.blowbuddies.com.

Wed., Oct. 27: Busted! at Chaps Bar, 9 p.m. This week’s edition: Nips. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Wed., Oct. 27: SoMa Men’s Club. Every Wed., the SoMa Clubs (Chaps, Powerhouse, Truck, Lone Star, Hole in the Wall, The Eagle) have specials for those who have the Men’s Club dogtags. See your favorite SoMa bar for details.

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Big islanders

by Ernie Alderete lassic gay porn flick Hawai’i (Colt Studios) presents halfa-dozen massive bodybuilders on location in our lush and tropical 50th state. But a more pervasive theme than the colorful locale seems to be a physical balancing act, the heavyweight players almost perching atop one another.

In the first segment, gorgeous, dark-haired cover model Mitch Branson sits on the handsome face of Greg Weston while pinning his head against the concrete rim of an expansive swimming pool.

In the second part, wide-belted Luke Garrett mounts the much more attractive and substantially slimmer Darrin Hawk, who is seated on a hard wooden bench. Garrett lowers his ass onto Hawk’s cock, precariously balancing himself on the seat of the bench with his legs on either side of Hawk’s body. Not at all comfortable-looking. In fact, those strained positions were not in the least bit conducive to arousal for me.

Much of the island flavor is wasted in these first two scenes. The

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beautiful but man-made cascading pool and the finely-finished wooden bench could just as easily be in Passaic, or Hoboken. The action has a pace a snail could beat, but it is actual oral and anal sex, rather than just posing and jacking off, as in many other muscle-themed productions.

The third segment tweaks the format slightly, this time presenting a threesome. The almost totally

body-hairless Eric Valentin (even his crotch is bereft of hair), the furry, dark-haired Adam Champion, and, right in-between them body-hairwise, blondish Greg Weston have a threeway on a well-manicured lawn, perhaps part of a hillside golf course, overlooking the sea in one direction, with rolling waves of brush and other verdant vegetation landwise. I don’t think even Valentin’s Ruskie mama could claim that her baby boy was handsome, but he does have an incredible body, which serves as a convenient cum-dump as his partners shoot memorable loads all over his angular face and upper torso.

My favorite, the final scene, finds my least-favorite Hawai’i performer, dome-headed Luke Garrett, paired up with my favorite bodybuilder period, Carlo Masi. Our Italian friend is so sexual and plays so well to the camera that he more or less carries Garrett along for the ride. The passionate pair have sex in the best location of the production, right at the seashore upon stretches of fine white sand studded with black volcanic stone outcrops. The crashing surf creates the perfect backdrop and soundtrack for lovemaking.▼

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by David Lamble wiss director Lionel Baier, who provided a weird ride through the dopey escapades of an irascible, prank-prone teen in Garcon Stupide, returns in Stealth, now on DVD. Baier himself plays a volatile 30something intellectual who abandons his humpy live-in boyfriend to search for his family’s Polish roots. The movie stays caught in a state of irksome smugness until Lionel (Baier’s fictional namesake) is kidnapped and driven to Poland by his exasperated older sister, Lucie (Natacha Koutchoumov).

On the road, in his Swiss Radio news car, Lionel and Lucie stop getting on each other’s nerves and start to have the kind of adventures normally reserved for the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Polish jokes (smart ones) abound, but gradually we learn why Lionel so desperately yearns to be Polish. After being savagely mugged by a quarrelsome couple, Lionel and Lucie meet up with a cute French boy whose overnight hospitality fuels a classic three-in-a-bed revelation scene. This unusual road comedy reminds us why we like to sleep with our own sex, even if being homo is far from all that defines us. Stealth comes with a prickly brother/sister bond that will delight fans of Tamara Jenkins’ sibling black comedy The Savages. Extra features are limited to English subtitles and the theatrical trailer. www.waterbearerfilms.com

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approach the person to find out if they’re what you’re looking for. I get a chuckle out of the boys who blow into town for a street-fair circuit party and buy up leatherwear because it “looks cool,” only to crumble when a real player approaches them about their perceived fetish.

For me, the most amusing are the poor things who gravitate to red because it’s prettier, but don’t know what it means. The result is usually squeals of shock.

turned to her in the body of a large vegetarian fish, Fatty. For one very long take, we watch the widow silently commune with the giant white fish, who in a previous scene has broken its own food vows and eaten a cockroach.

The scene provides a mix of pathos and humor that is unique in modern film.

Despite the glass of the fishbowl, after several minutes of staring at this tableau, you start to feel that fish and widow will somehow touch.

Meanwhile, the widow’s son, Hsiao Kang (Lee Kang-Sheng), is taking his dad’s demise rather badly. A watch merchant, in a weak moment he sold a gift from his father, a special dualtime-zone watch, to a young woman, Shiang-Chyi (Chen Shiang-Chyi), who is planning a trip to Paris. Hsiao Kang has somehow transferred his unresolved feelings for his father into a torch for Shiang-Chyi. For the balance of the film, Hsiao Kang runs amok, turning every clock he can get his hands on in Taipei ahead to Paris time.

This madness culminates in the film’s first specifically gay scene. Having stolen a large wall clock and hidden it under the seat of a movie house, Hsiao Kang is stunned when a very portly young man steals the clock back, and later uses it as a prop in a strange men’s-room striptease.

In the personal cinema of Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-Liang (Vive l’Amour, The River), filmgoers are pretty much left to their own devices.

Seldom is there a plot as such; the

characters are mostly neurotic loners who don’t talk much; at least one of the characters is queer in some subversive way; the camera isn’t always giving you clues of what to look for; there’s no music at all; and when the director has had his say, the film simply ends.

His films are not for everyone. Tsai has admitted caring not a fig for story in the conventional sense, but claims to be trying to release emotion on the screen, creating odd situations in which his characters discover who they are. But for those with patience and a sense of adventure, Tsai’s very queer films (he’s careful not to label them gay, for fear of upsetting the conservative Chinese culture from which they spring) are food for the soul. Special features include widescreen, subtitles and director’s notes. www.wellspringvideo.com▼

Aside from the amusing anecdotes, flagging is still popular. Fetish wear has become incredibly diverse and creative. I like the leather (or rubber or neoprene) jock with the big colored stripe down the front.

Again, you have to approach the person to find out if they’re a top or bottom, or both. Although it’s easier online to let people know what you’re (supposedly) into, it isn’t nearly as much fun. Checking off boxes on a computer screen pales compared to the exciting and exhilarating face-to-face, body-on-body dance of lust that two or more men (and women) engage in to negotiate

what will happen later. Even I still flag from time to time with an armband or hanky, as if anyone in this city couldn’t guess what I prefer.

Go to your favorite leather store (such as Mr. S Leather or Off-Ramp Leathers) and get something that lets everyone know what you like. You might make some new buddies, and in person, too!

Please note: I will be on vacation for the two weeks prior to my next column, so please be sure to get any calendar entries to me by Oct. 25 for the period of Oct. 25 through Nov. 4. E-mail me at: leather@ebar.com with the details. Thanks!▼

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Squalls of ‘Butterfly’ et’s put it this way. On opening night, the second act of San Francisco Opera’s Madama Butterfly was much better than the first. Given how much was wrong with the opening act, it almost had to be.

First there was Harold Prince’s disturbing production. Designed for Chicago Lyric Opera in 1982, it’s a cross between a house of horrors and Disney at his most macabre. On a rotating platform sits Butterfly’s house, the roof incomplete, the architecture stylized. In one corner stands a cherry tree that looks as though it barely survived an overdose of lethal herbicide. Growing up the side of the structure and spreading across the top is a large-leafed, green vine that resembles flesh-eating fungus gone amok. Everything green has a lurid tint. It’s not a place you’d want to be.

Although the platform rotates mechanically, it appears to be hauled around by Koken, unspeaking, faceless lackeys whose all-black costume includes netting over their faces.

Often lurking about, stealing on and offstage, their presence is ominous.

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Onto the set strode Pinkerton (Stefano Secco), whose notably strong voice never changed color or engaged the emotions; Goro (Thomas Glenn), who was unsuitably proud rather than unctuous; and Sharpless (Quinn Kelsey), whose voice lacked some of the beauty he usually brings to everything he sings. Some of the staging was non-musical, as when Pinkerton blocked one of the servants as she sang. All this was before Cio-Cio San (Butterfly), portrayed by soprano Svetla Vassileva, even appeared.

Encouraged by director Jose Maria Condemi to engage in nonstop, over-stylized gesticulation that made her seem more a mechanical doll than a character, Vassileva began singing offstage. Maybe it was opening-night jitters, but the squalling, mile-wide vibrato wreck she made of Butterfly’s entrance turned the first of Puccini’s perfumed melodies into remnants of a sewage spill. It was awful. Nor did she get much better throughout the act. After a strong cameo from The Bonze

(Christian Van Horn), the love scene between Butterfly and Pinkerton had, unfortunatelty, no passion, no warmth, and no connection between the artists. It was the kind of performance that made you want to flee at intermission.

Thankfully, things got better. Vassileva, now wearing a Western dress fit for an episode of Little House on the Prairie, got her voice more under control, and emitted some lovely soft notes. Opening her large sound even further as the tragedy unfolded, her powerful voice wrenched at the heart.

Most important, conductor Nicola Luisotti delivered some of lushest, most romantic playing I’ve heard from the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. Abetted by the Opera Chorus at its finest, the humming chorus was exquisite. Then, as passion intensified, the sound rose to symphonic proportions. How could the singers not follow Luisotti’s lead, and rise to the occasion?

Rise they did, mostly. Butterfly’s servant Suzuki (Daveda Karanas) was a rather static presence. Prince Yamadori (Austin Kness) seemed like window dressing, and Butterfly’s little boy (Rebecca Chen) was too removed. At the end, Butterfly’s grippingly sung suicide was marred by one of Prince’s most disastrous mis-

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Svetla Vassileva is Cio-Cio San in San Francisco Opera’s Madama Butterfly.

calculations, a phantom, black-clad Koken whose action is best left undescribed.

It will be interesting to see how Vassileva fares in her remaining performances (through Oct. 29). If she gets her voice under control, she might deliver a fine first act. If not,

expect dramatic revelations when veteran soprano Daniela Dessi takes over on Nov. 5-27. Especially exciting is the switch of Sharpless to the vocally blessed Brian Mulligan on Nov. 17 and beyond. But if you go this month, you just might say a prayer to the ancestors first.▼

Profound spirit of Gidon Kremer t 63, violinist Gidon Kremer, like his equally great colleague and frequent performing partner, pianist Martha Argerich, is as likely to be heard playing with other musicians as he is solo. In any case, that’s the way you can catch him on Sun., Oct. 31, 3 p.m., at a Cal Performances concert in Berkeley’s Zellerbach Auditorium with his Kremerata Baltica. In addition to the late Beethoven Quartet, Op. 131, the ensemble will play items from its new Nonesuch CD, De Profundis.

Don’t write this concert off as the now de rigueur CD tour. Kremer, a product of the Soviet musical system that has produced so many of the world’s leading musicians, is, like the best of them, an artist who left the system for a host of reasons, and is as independent a thinker and spirit as could be imagined.

The CD’s title – the poet’s cry, “Out of the depths, I cry to you o Lord,” from Psalm 130 – augurs weightier, more depressing fare than this highly mixed program offers. In fact, the music spans such a huge range that listening to it all in sequence somehow diminishes the effect of the individual works. But there’s little you’d call dirge-like.

Still, Kremer appends a note that the music is “especially urgent in our time,” when greed, focused primarily on oil extracted “from the depths,” threatens our Earth. Kremer, his own seemingly tireless energy undimin-

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of art-house torture porn – all for a good cause, of course.

With an eager young cast playing every kind of war misfit, Draft Dodgers is a timely lesson in resisting the myths of mankind’s nobility during times of crisis. (10/25) Rock Hudson: Dark & Handsome Stranger This intimate film biography of 1950s Hollywood’s most masculine-appearing leading man jumps right into bed, with Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin sharing a special memory that would later be fictionalized as be-

longing to Maupin’s literary alter ego, Michael “Mouse” Tolliver.

“I was so proud that I was climbing Nob Hill with Rock Hudson, and we went back to his suite at the Fairmont Hotel and had our little adventure. I wish I could report it was full of fireworks, but I was simply not able to perform very well because I was with Rock Hudson. And it was very clear he’d been through this before. He sat on the edge of the sofa with me and said, ‘You know, I’m just a regular guy like anybody else.’ And I said, ‘No, no, you’re not, and I’m Doris Day!’” Andrew Davies and Andre Schafer’s intimate portrait of Roy Fitzgerald aka Rock Hudson is chock-full of the kind of revelations

viously entirely unaware that I would not now want to live without.

Sibelius’ Scene with Cranes, a fascinating, multi-sectional work, opens as if in Desdemona’s bedchamber in Act IV of Otello before venturing into other, equally compelling musical realms. Schubert’s Minuet No. 3 and Trios in D minor, D. 89, brings to light still more gems from that seemingly inexhaustible store of “lesser” works by this songster of the tragic.

And Astor Piazzolla’s Melodia en La menor (Canto de Octubre) – the “topical” number, given the date of the concert – adds another bit of evidence to the appraisal of this still-underappreciated composer as a firstrate genius.

Alternate official word – believe the publicist of your choice – has it

that, on this same tour, the Kremerata will perform the final work – Giya Kancheli’s “Silent Prayer” – on its just-released CD, Hymns and Prayers (ECM New Series), which has already made my short list for CD of the year. The piece was to have celebrated the 80th birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich, and Kremer’s 60th, but Kancheli gave the completed work its title upon learning of the death of the legendary cellist.

Scored for solo violin and cello, chamber orchestra and tape, “Silent Prayer” is in a strict sense more de profundis than anything on the Nonesuch CD. Slow, spare, ruminative, yearning, it floats its haunting way through 21 minutes of grieving, tremulous string sonorities and a childlike vocal descant. There’s a

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ished, offers this music as an alternate energy source. He further dedicates the disc to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whom he calls a “true Russian patriot who has endured years of imprisonment in Siberia under false pretenses” despite his work to make Russia a better country.

The Cal Performances website lists a program that includes the short Arvo Paert Passacaglia from this CD and two other items I found particularly gripping: Lera Auerbach’s “Sogno di Stabat Mater,” which compellingly overlays muted strings with vibraphone in an earthy, pulsing piece, and Georgs Pelecis’ truly perfumed “Flowering Jasmine.”

In the event they’re not performed Sunday, the CD includes other music about which I was pre-

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a small army of press agents was once employed to suppress or deflect. Hudson, who answered to Roy with close friends, got his big break hooking up with an agent who maintained one of Tinseltown’s most notorious same-sex casting couches; the consensus of the interviewees is that Hudson’s trademark rugged-man persona was no put-on, and not just any Midwestern smalltown lad could have been recruited to fill those boots. Hudson’s friendship with Elizabeth Taylor was heartfelt (they both couldn’t abide their Giant co-star James Dean), and at the height of his studio fame, he had a two-year “cover” marriage with a lesbian, who then became overly fond of being Mrs. Rock Hudson.

jaunty, circus-like episode midway, but its robust, life-affirming strains are forever being drawn back into the more evanescent sound world of what feels like the next life. Much of the solo music is at the upper extremes of the violin’s and cello’s range, giving the work its exquisite feeling of yearning. A taped drone from what sounds like an Indian tempura seeks to ground the piece, but despite occasional, slashing interruptions from the strings, the piece makes its prayerful, nonviolent way to a radiant transcendence.

The CD opens with Hungarian composer Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer’s Eight Hymns in memoriam Andrei Tarkovsky, honoring the late Russian filmmaker. Like Kancheli’s piece, it was already completed, albeit in a different form, before word of Tarkovsky’s death reached the composer, who has recomposed it expressly for the Kremerata. It’s a work of unbroken solemnity and cumulative, aching beauty.

Separating the two is an arresting performance of Cesar Franck’s rarely heard F minor Piano Quintet. It’s a work of smoldering beauty, with an ear trained to the beyond. The middle movement recalls not only Franck’s extraordinary violin sonata, but the legendary live Moscow Conservatory performance of it by David Oistrakh, Kremer’s teacher, and Sviatoslav Richter. Kremer, at his searing, sensitive best, and his Kremerata colleagues, do their forebears proud.▼

Hudson’s favorite of his films was John Frankenheimer’s experimental drama Seconds, which bombed here, and proved popular only with Rock and the French. Don’t miss this lovely bio about the matinee idol whose AIDS diagnosis and death was a wake-up call for Reagan America.

(Castro, 10/25; San Jose, 10/30) Vincent Wants to Sea Tourette’s syndrome, anorexia and obsessivecompulsive desires drive this surprisingly tender romantic comedy from Ralf Huettner (screenplay by co-star Florian David Fitz). Fitz plays title character Vincent, whose Tourette’s-driven barking drove his late mom to drink, and has him trading insults with his uber-ambi-

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Coded messages How Hollywood revealed ‘Dark and Handsome’ Rock Hudson’s sexual orientation son spoofed his straight image by pretending to be a man devoted to his mother who collects recipes, and who’s a “perfect gentleman,” not even expecting a “good night kiss.” Day initially finds this refreshing, but later begins to wonder. He delights in her confusion. In Lover Come Back (61), Hudson’s sexuality is speculated upon by others. He’s a reputed womanizer. During a date, he and Day quarrel. She leaves him stranded in a remote spot. He makes it back to his high-rise apartment, covering his nakedness with a woman’s fur coat.

Two straight men are in the elevator, and after he gets off, one says, “You never can tell.” Exactly.

by Tavo Amador his year’s Berlin & Beyond Festival at the Castro Theatre will show Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (10/25). Hudson (1925-85) wasn’t the studio era’s first gay or bisexual matinee idol (Silent Screen heartthrobs Rudolph Valentino and Ramon Novarro preceded him, as did Cary Grant, who lived on and off with Randolph Scott for many years), but he’s the most famous. His homosexuality was well known in Hollywood, but his studio, Universal, took extraordinary measures to keep damaging stories out of the press. What’s amazing is how several of his movies provided clues to his true nature.

In Douglas Sirk’s All that Heaven Allows (1955), he’s a gardener with whom slightly older, wealthy widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) falls in love. He’s described as the personification of Thoreau’s man who marches to a different drummer, someone who has always known who he was.

Because of the differences in their ages, the disapproval of her suburban friends and her grown-up children, she’s reluctant to marry. He rejects her concerns and talks about what it is to be a man. She responds, “You want me to be a man?” He gives a qualified answer. Today, the movie seems like her coming out story. It inspired Todd Haines’ Far from Heaven (2002), but a better remake would have changed her gender. Perhaps that was intended all along. Why else is she named Cary Scott?

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change when, after a whirlwind courtship, Kyle marries Lucy (Lauren Bacall). Mitch seems both attracted to and resentful of her. When Kyle learns he may not be able to father a child, his life spins out of control, resulting in his accidental death. Dying, he calls out for “Mitch,” recalling the river where they frolicked as boys. Although Mitch and Lucy plan a life together, what they have most in common is Kyle.

In Pillow Talk (1959), his first romantic comedy with Doris Day, Hud-

is about Kyle Hadley (Robert Stack), playboy scion of a rich Texas oil family, his sister Mary Lou (Dorothy Malone), and their complicated relationship with poor boyhood friend Mitch Wayne (Hudson). Lovelorn Mary Lou tells Mitch why she despises Kyle.

“For taking you away from me.”

Mitch tells Mary Lou that he loves her “like a brother.” Kyle wishes Mitch’s father had been his dad, while the senior Hadley treats Mitch like a son.

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tious politician dad. Vincent’s commitment to a clinic provides him with oddball new pals: Marie, who refuses to eat, and Alexander, too tidy. The candid language – Vincent’s frequent outbursts are peppered with the F- and C- words – and good cast chemistry raise this festival opener above the average run of road-caper films about young people too sensitive for their own good. Fitz, cover boy for the festival guide, will appear for this gala opening. (10/22) Fitz will also appear at the Castro screening of Simon Verhoeven’s Men in the City, about five

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like arm positions and creating a little more aggression, it gave it an edgier feel.”

After the revival opened on Broadway, and before work began on the road company, McKneely headed to Australia to mount a tour that is currently crossing that continent.

It is the original West Side Story, without the Laurents changes, but, McKneely said, “I think it is a better production because of having worked with Arthur.”

Learning from such masters as Robbins and Laurents is not free of drama, with both men famous for their strongly expressed opinions.

McKneely, 43, had his share of getting cut down. “I could get a little hot at times, a little cocky, and they put me in my place. As I get older and become the old guy, I try to pass on the lessons that I have learned, even though those old guys never passed on the lessons.

They thought you had to learn the lessons for yourself because that’s how they learned their lessons. I tell my cast, ‘I did X,Y, and Z, and I’m telling you not to do that,’ And then they end up doing it anyway, and I end up

In 1955, Hudson married his agent Henry Willson’s secretary, Phyllis Gates, to “disprove” rumors about his sexuality. It ended (1958) in an expensive divorce. The closest he came to publicly coming out was while dying from AIDS, the first celebrity to succumb to the disease. His death spurred close friend and co-star Elizabeth Taylor to raise millions of dollars to combat the illness, eliminating the stigma associated with it.

In 1992, Mark Rappaport wrote and directed the fascinating, often hilarious documentary Rock Hudson’s Home Movies, which carefully traces how often he and his films sent coded messages to the audience.▼

Choreographer Joey McKneely has become an expert in West Side Story ever since dancing for its original director-choreographer in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway.

screaming at them.”

It’s all part of the process, he said.

“We work in fear. But if there wasn’t that emotion, I don’t think the emotion would cross over to the audience. When I’m in rehearsal I will use every negative word in the book because this story deals with racism, guys who bond at a Berlin fitness center. (Castro, 10/23; San Jose, 10/30) Julia’s Disappearance “Imagine 50 years from now, a dinner like this will feature some old hags with piercings and tattoos.” A group of old friends, accent on the old, gathers at a swank Swiss restaurant to bitch and moan about how annoying it is not to be 35 forever. Seriously, Christoph Schaub’s ensemble, featuring a witty coupling between Bruno Ganz and Corinna Harfouch, covers the waterfront, with mostly witty, age-hating one-liners that encompass the fears and phobias of Julia’s friends, including a really grumpy male couple. The highlights are a senior food-fight and the love-

and certain words garner certain emotions. I’m trying to push these kids past their comfortable boundaries.”

McKneely is very conscious that whenever he stages a production of West Side Story, it is not his choreography that he is putting up on the stage. “But there are things here and there where I put a little bit of McKneely into it because of my energy or the way I would dance it.”

He’s hoping, of course, for more opportunities to let loose with the McKneely style. He’s soon off to China to stage a new musical built around the songs of the late Chinese pop superstar Teresa Teng. “It’s kind of a Mamma Mia thing,” he said. But his main passion is in getting a new musical about Josephine Baker to Broadway next season.

Still, he doesn’t believe that West Side Story will ever be completely out of his life. “West Side Story is like a gift that has been given to me, and it’s a responsibility that I can’t walk away from. As long as they keep calling, I’ll keep showing up.”▼ West Side Story will run Oct. 27Nov. 28 at the Orpheum Theatre.

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ly evening Julia (Harfouch) has with a gracious older stranger (Ganz) in lieu of what she correctly guesses will be a downer of a 50th birthday party. A how-to-do-it segment features a shoplifting spree by a pair of German teen girls. (Castro, closing night; San Jose, 10/30) Soul Kitchen Turkish/German auteur Fatih Akin removes the darker hues from his rambunctious take on Hamburg nightlife as his bumbling hero Zinos (the gorgeously disheveled Adam Bousdoukos) screws up every aspect of his greasy-spoon restaurant business. His attempts to move upscale misfire hilariously – look for a sneaky cameo by Gus Van Sant veteran Udo Kier (My Own Private Idaho). (San Jose only, 10/30)▼

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Controversial master ‘The Elia Kazan Film Collection’ is out on DVD

by Tavo Amador ew directors matched Elia Kazan’s (1909-2003) impact on both film and stage. Born in the Greek quarter of Istanbul, his family immigrated to New York when he was a child. After a brief stint as an actor, he co-founded the Group Theatre, and in 1947, with Lee Strasberg, established the fabled Actors Studio in Manhattan. The heterosexual Kazan befriended openly gay Tennessee Williams, and directed landmark productions of his works on stage and screen. He also collaborated with gay dramatist William Inge. In the early 1950s, however, he betrayed colleagues during the notorious Hollywood “Red Scare” Congressional hearings in which Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon, among others, destroyed careers of artists suspected of being communists. That testimony has clouded his reputation.

The newly-issued Elia Kazan Film Collection and a recent PBS American Masters segment hosted by Martin Scorcese, A Letter to Elia, allow viewers to assess Kazan’s legacy. Five of the 18 movies are new to DVD. Among those is his first picture, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), based on Betty Smith’s popular autobiographical novel. Kazan captures the story’s warmth, and gets terrific performances from the cast, especially Joan Blondell. Two years later, he tackled American anti-Semitism in Gentlemen’s Agreement, starring Gregory Peck as a WASP reporter pretending to be Jewish. With John Garfield and Celeste Holm, in an Oscar-winning performance. Pinky (49) was equally controversial, with Jeanne Crain as a black woman

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“passing” for white. Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters lend memorable support. These last two films branded Kazan a “liberal,” upsetting right-wing zealots.

Kazan directed the original production of A Streetcar Named Desire, which made Marlon Brando a star, and in 1951, he, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter repeated their stage triumphs in the film.

Vivien Leigh played Blanche in London, directed by husband Laurence Olivier. Kazan doubted her talent and didn’t want her for the picture. It was a rare instance of misjudgment on his part. Leigh is extraordinary, giving one of the greatest performances in movie history, and, as Williams noted, restoring the balance to the drama that had been lost on stage. She, Malden, and Hunter earned Oscars.

Also newly available is Viva Zapata (1952), with Brando as the great Mexican revolutionary, and Anthony Quinn, in an Academy Award performance, as his brother, Eufemio.

Despite a handlebar mustache, dark hair, and make-up, Brando doesn’t look right, but he captures Zapata’s shrewdness, idealism and courage.

Just issued is Man on a Tightrope (53), with Frederic March as a Czechoslovakian circus-owner battling communists, ultimately sacrificing his life so that his family can escape to freedom. With Gloria Grahame as the wife who misjudges him, and real-life virulent red-baiter Adolphe Menjou. Kazan’s rejection of his liberal past was rewarded with a Best Director Oscar for On the Waterfront (54), his acclaimed study of labor union corruption. It also won

for Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando), and Best Supporting Actress (Eva Marie Saint). It remains gripping and poignant.

East of Eden (1955), based on John Steinbeck’s novel set in the Salinas Valley, made a star of James Dean, who gives a searing performance as a troubled adolescent discovering his mother (Jo Van Fleet) is a prostitute. Van Fleet became the eighth performer to earn an Oscar under Kazan’s direction, a record exceeded only by William Wyler. With a haunting Julie Harris and a powerful Charles Bickford.

Baby Doll (1956), from a screenplay by Williams, was condemned by New York’s Francis Cardinal Spellman and other guardians of public morality. Carroll Baker became a star

as Malden’s sexy 19-year-old virgin bride. He impatiently awaits her upcoming 20th birthday to consummate the marriage. Business rival Eli Wallach, however, has other plans.

Set in the Mississippi Delta, this raunchy comedy was a big hit. A Face in the Crowd (57) was Kazan’s last controversial film and his most prescient. Andy Griffith plays a drifter whom Arkansas radio producer Patricia Neal turns into a local celebrity. Soon he’s a major television star, advising a senatorial candidate on how to use the media to create a false, folksy image. Success corrupts him, exposing his bullying personality. In the riveting final scenes, Neal destroys the monster she created. With Anthony Franciosa and Lee Remick.

Kazan had directed Inge’s Broad-

gifts. People You’d Like To Know: Legendary Musicians Photographed by Herb Wise (Vision On/Omnibus Press) features a wide array of blackand-white photos, most of which were taken during the 1970s. The book contains a trio of photos of Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling and Divine, described as “gender-bender friends of Lou Reed.” Later in the book, there are photos of the young Arquette siblings, including Alexis, as well as a picture of the late Kate McGarrigle, mother of Rufus Wainwright. The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl (Duke Univ. Press), edited by Trevor Schoonmaker, is the companion book to the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. With essays by Luc Sante among others, and artwork by Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Ed Ruscha and gay artist Jasper Johns, The Record is a long-player indeed.

Musicians in print are also gaining popularity. Longtime friend of the

LGBT community Rosanne Cash, author of the acclaimed short story collection Bodies of Water, has returned with her latest book Composed (Viking), a powerful and moving memoir that will have readers alternately smiling and wiping tears from their eyes. Bisexual singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco is one of 24 musician interview subjects in Innerviews: Music Without Borders (Abstract Logix Books) by Anil Prasad. Famed record producer and musician Daniel Lanois (U2, Martha and the Muffins) also has something to say in his memoir Soul Mining: A Musical Life (Faber and Faber). Finally, Danbert Nobacon of anarchist punk band Chumbawamba (“Tubthumping”) renown has written 3 Dead Princes: An Anarchist Fairy Tale (Exterminating Angel Press), with illustrations by filmmaker Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy).

Poetry Lesbian poet Celeste Newbrough’s latest book is titled The Archetype Strikes Back (One Craft, 2010). Subtitled Poems to Come Out

way success The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and in 1961 helmed his original, Oscar-winning screenplay, Splendor in the Grass, about passionate teenagers Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in 1920s rural Kansas, whose lives are ruined by well-meaning parents. Wood is very good, and Beatty became a star in this popular, often touching melodrama.

Also newly available is Wild River (1960), with Montgomery Clift as a field administrator overseeing construction of a Tennessee Valley Authority dam. He encounters corrupt opposition. With Remick and Van Fleet as an elderly lady whose house must be demolished to bring electrical power to millions of people. America, America (63), also newly available, is based on Kazan’s uncle. Set in Turkey when the minority Greeks were oppressed, it’s about a youth whose father entrusts him with family treasures to finance his becoming a successful businessman. Although expected to bring the family to Constantinople, he’s tempted by America’s promised freedom.

Kazan was away from the screen for six years, and The Arrangement was a disappointing return. The Last Tycoon (1976), based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel, was also unsuccessful, despite a cast that included Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Tony Curtis, Jeanne Moreau, and Ray Milland.

Four of his films – Streetcar, Waterfront, Eden, Crowd – are masterpieces. Several others are good.

Whatever his shortcomings as a person, Kazan’s place in the Hollywood Pantheon is assured.▼

Read all about it Bookshelf full of new releases

by Gregg Shapiro GBT nonfiction The inspiration for Kate Davis and David Heilbroner’s excellent documentary Stonewall Uprising, David Carter’s 2004 book Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution (St. Martin’s Griffin) has been reissued in paperback. The title of Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade (FSG) by Justin Spring almost says it all. But don’t deprive yourself of reading this fascinating and informative biography of one of the most compelling people in gay history.

Coming across as a sort of gay Andy Rooney (and that is meant as the sincerest of compliments), zine mastermind (Holy Titclamps) and musician (Winsome Griffles) LarryBob Roberts collects his thoughts and words in the thought-provoking, offbeat and often amusing essay collection The International Homosexual Conspiracy (Manic D Press). The late Derek Jarman was another multifaceted artist, well-known for his groundbreaking film work. As an author, he wrote several books, two of which, Kicking the Pricks and Dancing Ledge (both Univ. of Minnesota Press), have been reissued in new editions. Out lesbian Susan Parker’s memoir Walking in the Deep End (Silver Threads) details her life growing up in an Evangelical Christian family, and her experience of coming out of the closet.

LGBT fiction The late gay novelist E. Lynn Harris is honored in the anthology Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris (Dafina/Kensington). Terrance Dean (author of Hiding in Hip Hop), James Earl Hardy (author of B-Boy Blues

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and others) and Stanley Bennett Clay (author of In Search of Pretty Young Black Men and more) contributed the stories “The Intern,” “Is It Still Jood to Ya?” and “House of John,” respectively. Gay writer Dan Loughry is one of the many writers featured in the collection Voice from the Planet: An Anthology of Living Fiction (Harvard Square Editions, 2010), edited by Charles Degelman. Sales of the book benefit Doctors Without Borders.

Looking for a hot read? Described as a “fiery call to arms,” Krakow Melt (Arsenal Pulp) by Daniel Allen is the story of two pyromaniacs fighting homophobia in 2005 Poland. On the other end of the temperature spectrum, Wicked author Gregory Maguire’s Christmas-set The Next Queen of Heaven (Harper) features the ancient religious order the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mysteries teaming up with a gay singing group.

Out musician and novelist Lois Walden makes her fiction debut with One More Stop (Bliss/Arcadia), in which main character Loli discovers love and herself while trying to teach drama to teens at a theater company in the Midwest. Cleveland, Ohio and Washington, DC figure prominently in I Came Out for This? (Bywater Books) by Lisa Gitlin.

Twentysomething part-time hustler Simon is the narrator of the Manhattan-set debut novel Yield by Lee Houck (Kensington). Hate: A Romance (Faber and Faber) by Tristan Garcia, another debut novel, is credited with taking the French lit scene by storm, as the recipient of the Prix de Flore. The novel Ten Ways to Your Cat’s Happiness (iUniverse) is the fifth book by gay writer Stanley E. Ely. Music is everywhere this season, beginning with two incredible coffeetable books that would make great

to, Angry June Moon Says Hello (KClifford Burke.com) is a poetry collection by gay poet Kevin Clifford Burke. Award-winning poet Seamus Heaney returns with his latest volume of poetry, Human Chain (Farrar Straus Giroux).

Picture books If you are more inclined to read something with illustrations, there are books that fit that bill. Available in both hardcover and paperback editions, Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography (Hill and Wang) by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón is a lovingly-rendered illustrated telling of Anne Frank’s short but meaningful life story. The book couldn’t have come at a better time, considering the current political climate in this country. Clear across the spectrum, The Snuggie Sutra: Erotic Fun in Your Blanket With Sleeves (St. Martin’s Griffin) by Lex Friedman and Megan Morrison finds additional uses for the popular winter warmup wear.▼

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