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Wiener to SF attorney up for judgeship propose Castro in- T law units

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an Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener will introduce legislation next week to allow in-law units in the Castro in an effort to provide more affordable housing in the Rick Gerharter largely gay neighborhood.

Wiener, the gay super- Scott Wiener visor whose District 8 includes the Castro, will introduce his proposal at the Tuesday, October 29 Board of Supervisors meeting, he told the Bay Area Reporter.

Units could potentially be created using spaces including garages, basements, or storage areas. The legislation would not allow existing building envelopes to be expanded.

“We have, in the city as a whole, a housing affordability crisis,” said Wiener. “Rents are

herese Stewart, San Francisco’s chief deputy city attorney, is reportedly being considered for a state appellate court seat. Should Governor Jerry Brown choose to appoint her, Stewart would become the first out lesbian judge to serve on a California Court of Appeal.

Last December San Francisco resident Jim Humes became the first openly gay justice to be appointed to the California Court of Appeal after Brown appointed him to become an associate justice of the state’s First District Court of Appeal’s Division Four.

Stewart, 56, is being vetted to possibly fill a vacancy on the First District Court of Appeal, according to the Recorder, a local legal newspaper that broke the news this week.

The article noted there are currently two open seats on the appellate court. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Steven Brick is currently serving as a pro tem associate justice on Division Two and is thought to be a contender for the permanent job, according to the paper.

It added that on the court’s Division One, Associate Justice Sandra Margulies is serving as acting presiding justice following the

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Shepard book stirs controversy

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new book purporting that the murder of Matthew Shepard wasn’t an anti-gay hate crime and that Shepard had been involved with methamphetamine is stirMichael Lionstar ring controversy.

Shepard, a gay college Stephen student, was 21 in October Jimenez 1998 when he left a Laramie, Wyoming bar with Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Less than a day later, he was found brutally beaten and tied to a fence. He soon died from his injuries. A jury found McKinney guilty of second-degree murder, kidnapping, and aggravated robbery. Henderson took a plea deal and pleaded guilty to felony murder and kidnapping charges. Both men are expected to spend the rest of their lives in prison. A national hate crimes law signed by President Barack Obama in 2009 bears Shepard’s name.

In The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard, gay author Stephen Jimenez, who began work on the See page 13 >>

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San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera recruited his number two, Chief Deputy City Attorney Therese Stewart, when she was a partner at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson and Falk, a prominent local law firm. Stewart is reportedly being vetted for a state appellate judgeship.

Cruising in parks still common

like visiting the outdoors for sex is a thing of the past. But it’s not.

Based on interviews with several gay San Francisco men and visits to local parks, men of all ages are still cruising in the city’s outdoor spaces. Among other reasons, they find the Internet inefficient, and they like being outside. Often, the men said, they’re just looking for oral sex.

The fact that men still visit the parks to hook up is likely common knowlPete Thoshinsky edge to many. One man in Dolores Park told a reSan Francisco’s iconic windmills area in Golden Gate Park porter who admitted to has long been known for gay cruising. not being intimately familiar with the scene, “You’ve never been up here? I find

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However, others, including police, are unecades ago, men in San Francisco who aware of how much it still happens. wanted to hook up with other men At about 4 p.m. on a recent Sunday afternoon had limited options. There were bars in Golden Gate Park’s western edge, a band or places like city parks, but wherever they played on the lawn of the Beach Chalet Brewwent to find each other, there was often a risk ery and Restaurant. The eatery is located close of police harassment and arrest. to Ocean Beach and the park’s iconic windmills, Now, with more acceptance of gays, and the which have been known for years to draw men ease of hooking up via mobile apps like Grindr who’re looking for sex. and websites like Adam4Adam, it may seem

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Panel to vote on SFAF’s Castro plans

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had been expected to start around early 2014. SFAF he San Francisco Planspokesman Ryan McKeel ning Commission is set said this week that launch to vote Thursday, October may be pushed back “a 24 on the San Francisco bit,” but it will still start in AIDS Foundation’s plans 2014. for creating a new health In an email, McKeel center in the Castro. wouldn’t share how much Once completed, SFAF has been raised, but he will merge its gay men’s said the agency is “enhealth center Magnet; the couraged by the progress Courtesy Gensler Architects Stonewall Project, which so far.” The nonprofit anThe latest renderings of the San Francisco AIDS provides drug counseling ticipates opening the cenFoundation’s Castro center show airy, open areas. programs; and the Stop ter next summer.

AIDS Project, which foPlanning staff has reccuses on HIV prevention, planning commission and move ommended approval of into the new location at 474 Castro forward with the project, hopefully the size request. City planner Jessica Street. The agency, which is the largafter Thursday.”

Look, the department staffer assoest HIV/AIDS-related nonprofit in SFAF officials have been workciated with the project, said in an the city, has signed a 10-year lease ing with Gensler Architects on the email that the zoning administrator for the building. design for the space, formerly home would consider the balcony-related Thursday, the seven-member to Superstar Video and a number of item at Thursday’s hearing. panel will vote on the AIDS founmedical offices on the second floor.

Conditions for approval of the dation’s request to allow a non-resBlush wine bar will remain a tenant plans involve tree and bike parking idential use size of over 4,000 square of the building. placements. feet, as well as a longer second-floor The nonprofit has sought to creTim Patriarca, the center’s exbalcony than is required, along with ate an open atmosphere for the cenecutive director, said this week other proposals. ter as well as a third floor addition. that Mike Discepola, Steve Gibson, “We are excited about the plans,” Workers are currently gutting the and Kyriell Noon, the directors of said Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, building.

Stonewall, Magnet, and Stop AIDS, SFAF’s director of state and local Earlier this year, the AIDS founrespectively, would remain in their affairs. “We’ve worked really closely dation launched a campaign to raise positions. with our community partners and $10 million to renovate the facility SFAF has started a blog on the the planning department, and we’re and expand programs. project – http://www.474castro.org eager to get our plans before the The public phase of the campaign – to provide updates.t

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‘Speak Out’ campaign aims to ease HIV stigma

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he signs are hard to miss.

Exit a Muni train at the Castro station, and the wall-sized posters are greeting you as the doors slide open. The message – it is time to start talking about HIV and AIDS. Or, as Vincent Fuqua, program coordinator for the San Francisco Department of Public Health put it, “find our voice again.”

“As long as people are still becoming infected with HIV, as long as people are still HIV-positive,” Fuqua said, “it’s still a part of us.”

The Department of Public Health, along with the national Greater Than AIDS initiative and the Kaiser Family Foundation, recently introduced Speak Out: Let’s Bring HIV Out of the Closet, a social marketing campaign aimed at encouraging men not only to get tested for HIV regularly, but also to speak openly about their status and the disease in general, as a way to remove some of the stigma within the community associated with being HIV-positive.

“We understand that there’s been a lot of strides in the gay community, which is incredible. The thing is, though, HIV is still a big part of our community as well. So we wanted to make sure people don’t forget that,” Fuqua said.

The campaign was introduced October 10 at Blush Wine Bar in the Castro. It will extend to other cities next year.

Along with the highly visible billboards in the Castro Muni station, the campaign also includes an online video featuring seven gay men of different ages, races, and statuses, discussing how men are talking about, and dealing with HIV, some three decades after the disease’s initial outbreak.

Steve Iberra was one of those men. At Blush, he said that, as an HIV-positive man, he was motivated to come forward and help spark

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Vincent Fuqua, left, talks with some of the men who attended a recent reception to introduce the new Speak Out social media campaign.

the dialogue this campaign aims to start.

In terms of stigma, though, Iberra said he hasn’t experienced any personally because he is “not exactly HIV material.”

But because you can’t tell a person’s status by looking at them, Iberra said he wants to see the community start talking about HIV, “before we meet people.”

“Why can’t HIV be a conversation at the bar?” he wondered.

Iberra is an activist who works at City College of San Francisco, and before being asked to be part of the campaign’s video, he had just seen Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed film Fruitvale Station, about the shooting death of Oscar Grant, a young, unarmed African American man, at the Fruitvale BART station four years ago by a former BART police officer. He said that seeing the film inspired him to take action to help minorities in the Bay Area.

As a “Central American born and raised in San Francisco,” Iberra said, “it’s very important to me that minorities are getting the message” about HIV. Over 50 percent of all Americans living with HIV are gay and bisexual men. In San Francisco alone, men account for 90 percent of all people living with HIV, and 82 percent of

all new infections, according to figures from the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Given those statistics, somebody like Gavin Morrow-Hall, who was also at the event, would not be considered unique.

He said that HIV has affected his life “in just about every way possible.”

Early in the AIDS epidemic, he saw friends and lovers who, “were seemingly here one minute then gone the next.”

Morrow-Hall, who works for the health department, was married in 1986, and he said, within five years, his husband, and his best man at his wedding were both dead.

“I’m a big believer in HIV prevention and getting tested regularly has helped keep me negative,” he said.

He described getting tested as “cathartic,” forcing a person to reflect on how he or she has been living their life, and how they can change for the better in the future.

“I think this campaign is a stepping stone,” Fuqua said. “In my mind there are important issues that need to be addressed, that haven’t been talked about. We got marriage equality, that was great, but there is other stuff that needs to be addressed as well and I think this is just the starting point.”t

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Safety should be BART priority One of the main issues that led to the BART strike was the ability to negotiate outdated work rules. Following the fatal accident last weekend near the Walnut Creek station in which two veteran workers – BART engineer Chris Sheppard and contractor Lawrence “Larry” Daniels – were struck and killed by a train, both the unions and management should be able to agree on improving safety. According to BART, the four-car non-revenue train was in the process of moving cars to a facility to clean them of graffiti. We were surprised that BART trains were operating at all during the shutdown, whether moving cars for maintenance or carrying passengers, which we knew was not the case.

The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the accident, said this week that the train that hit the men was under the control of an operator in training who has held other positions at the transit agency.

Prior to the strike, BART’s unions were concerned that management would train managers to serve as train operators in the event of a prolonged shutdown. Indeed, at least one local television station showed a warehouse in the East Bay that contained some BART cars purportedly for training purposes. Since BART management never confirmed this, circumstantial evidence sure seems to suggest this was the intended use. The NTSB also said that the train was traveling at 60-70 miles per hour.

Sheppard and Daniels, who may not have expected a train in operation due to the strike, probably never had a chance.

Hours before the shutdown, gay BART board President Tom Radulovich held a 20-minute news conference where he practically begged the unions to come back to the bargaining table. Lesbian board member Rebecca Saltzman and board member Robert Raburn flanked him. All three are considered progressive Democrats. During his news conference, Radulovich spent quite a bit of time talking about changing “work rules,” which apparently was the stumbling block that led the unions to walk out of negotiations last

week. He spoke of outdated rules that required faxes over email or the byzantine process of workers “bidding” for their preferred shifts.

Then Saturday’s accident happened and now it’s been reported that there appear to be some outdated work rules that BART management has stubbornly kept in place even after a train struck another BART inspector from behind in October 2008. BART uses a procedure called “simple approval.” Under this system, media outlets have reported, workers who go on the tracks must be in pairs and one must serve as a spotter.

They must be able to view an oncoming train 15 seconds before it arrives, and figure out an exit strategy. Why can’t BART employ a wireless sensor program already in use in other cities?

BART management can’t have it both ways.

They can’t criticize the unions for wanting to adhere to old work rules when they do the same. The San Francisco Chronicle reported this week that BART is still fighting the state’s

findings from the 2008 death. Cal-OSHA issued four citations to BART and fined the agency nearly $29,000 for serious violations in connection with the 2008 incident, including one that determined that the simple approval system had contributed to that accident.

The unions, which made worker safety a key issue in the months-long negotiations, appears to be right: worker safety needs to be improved at BART. While BART says it has beefed up simple procedure approvals to include a spotter and other changes, much of the system is the same as it’s been for more than 30 years.

Instead of spending resources fighting that 2008 accident case, BART management should invest in new technology to improve conditions when employees check the tracks for minor repairs or inspections (there is a more intensive approval process for major maintenance). And the board’s progressive members should be among the first to seek these changes. Having a more efficient system benefits everyone, and, as we saw during the recent four-day strike, BART is a regional system that hundreds of thousands of people depend on.t

Gays to gay history: Drop dead

by Ron Merk

response. Then I began to get really angry. Is our community inhen President Gerald Ford terested only in big splashy events, told a bankrupt New York with flashing lights, over-amplified City that the federal government music, people in leather and drag was not going to bail them out of queens? Is that the community? It’s their financial problems, the New certainly the image that the mainYork Daily News carried a front page stream media puts out there year afheadline on October 29, 1975: “Ford ter year. Or is there a real communito City: Drop Dead.” So, now you ty with a great deal of diversity, one have some historical context for the with a past, a present, and a future, title of this piece. In fact, my subject all of which are equally important? is history, gay history, our history, If so, we need to preserve our past. your history, and how very few of We cannot be vigilant about our the “community” (notice the quotarights if we don’t remember when tion marks around that term) seem we didn’t have them. We’re always interested in that history. just one generation from losing our A few months ago, I contacted liberties. Do we really want to risk Bay Area Reporter assistant editor returning to the Stonehenge/StoneMatthew S. Bajko and told him wall age?

Courtesy Premiere Pictures International Inc. about a very important cache of We can still save these films, but films that our organization had Baby New Year 1967, photographed by David Eugene Bell. time is running out. They are now acquired. When I explained to Bateetering on the edge of oblivion. jko the importance of what we had All that is needed to save them discovered, he immediately came about saving these films was that they were is money. Is there not one single to our office and spent several hours looking at in fragile condition, and needed to be copied person of means in the community who could something extraordinary that we had acright away, or they would be lost. You write a check to pay for this project? Or maybe quired: the home movies of the late can read the piece and see the video 20,000 people who could give $1? Or do I need David Eugene Bell, a New York inat: http://ebar.com/news/article. to do a fundraiser or beer bust, replete with terior designer and artist who had php?sec=news&article=69007. drag queens and leathermen to get the attenphotographed himself and his gay Simultaneously, we reached out tion of people who should care about this. Let’s circle of friends in a series of 37 to individuals, gay organizations show the world that we are a real community, reels of 8mm color film, from around the U.S., and gay business one without quotation marks around the word. the late 1940s to the late 1980s. associations. Tens of thousands Speak up with your money and your support.

What was unique about these of contacts, e-mails, personal We’ll even name the collection after you when it films is that they were shot at a meetings and in-person appeals. goes to our overall collection at the Academy of time when being identified as gay Yes, tens of thousands. The result: Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for long-term could be dangerous: loss of family, zero. Not one single penny came in. preservation and study. Just send me an e-mail: job, and even life.

So, I really began to question the whole idea of PremiereRon@gmail.com and I’ll let you know The B.A.R. ran the story in the front page “community,” what I’m beginning to believe is a where to send a check or make a PayPal payof the paper and on its website, complete convenient myth. How can we ignore our own ment. Please!t with a video that we prepared specifically to history, and still consider ourselves a commuinform viewers of our preservation efforts nity? That was not a rhetorical question. It’s one Ron Merk is a San Francisco-based film for these films and the need for financial supthat really demands an answer. producer and director with the Metro Theatre Center Foundation. port from the community. The real urgency At first I was stunned about the total lack of

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B.A.R. moves its offices compiled by Cynthia Laird

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he Bay Area Reporter moved its offices recently and is now located in downtown San Francisco.

The 42-year-old LGBT newspaper, one of the oldest continuously published in the U.S., relocated to the offices of the San Francisco Newspaper Company, 225 Bush Street, Suite 1700, Monday, October 14. Because of tax regulations, the nonprofit Bob Ross Foundation was legally required to divest 80 percent of its ownership interest by 2016.

The foundation is named after the B.A.R.’s founding publisher, who started the paper in 1971.

The SF Media Co. publishes the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian, and SF Weekly. Earlier this year, a new company, BAR Media Inc., was formed as part of a restructuring plan and now owns the newspaper. Todd Vogt, publisher of the Examiner and Patrick Brown, CFO, collectively hold a 49 percent interest in the new company.

B.A.R. publisher Michael Yamashita holds a 31 percent stake, while the Bob Ross Foundation, which had previously owned the paper, holds a 20 percent stake.

BAR Media Inc. officially became the owner of the paper August 1.

“This is an exciting time of proactive changes for the B.A.R.,” Yamashita said. “Moving offices represents the start of a growth phase as we create new business models and procedures to ensure our ability to compete and survive in a rapidly changing industry and marketplace. By restructuring our company, we have preserved the most important facets of our identity: majority gay-owned and -operated, independent, and local.”

There have been other changes to the paper as well. Since summer, the B.A.R. has been printing more pages in color.

Beginning late last month, the B.A.R. also introduced a new third section, the BARtab nightlife guide, which had previously been distributed monthly in a glossy digest format. Assistant editor Jim Provenzano edits the section.

“While other publications are shrinking it’s great to see the B.A.R. expanding even more with the nowweekly BARtab nightlife section,” Provenzano said in an email.

BARtab debuted in May 2010 with the most expansive listings for LGBT nightlife events.

“Now that we’re weekly, we’re the most up-to-date with nightlife listings, which include bar and club events as well as benefits, galas, and special events,” Provenzano added.

Some columnists from the arts and culture section have migrated to BARtab, including society columnist Donna Sachet, porn reviewer John F. Karr, and leather columnist Scott Brogan. Photographer Steven Underhill also has a feature page, “Shooting Stars,” with photos from various events. Once a month, Jim Stewart shares his reveries and vintage photos of gay bar life in the BARchive column.

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variety of nightlife events,” Provenzano said. “The weekly schedule provides more space for fun celebrity interviews for local and visiting artists, from country singer Justin Utley to cabaret and Cirque du Soleil star Joey Arias.”

The newspaper’s former building at 395 9th Street is on the market.

Registration open for men’s gathering

Registration is now open for the California Men’s Gathering set to take place November 22-25 at Camp Stevens in Julian, California.

The gathering, located in the hills east of San Diego, will provide communal settings, workshops, and a hilarious talent show that will allow participants to safely share who they are. Attendees are encouraged to be inspired by nature and to celebrate their inner qualities. The theme for the fall gathering is “Inside of Me.” The weekend retreat will allow men to explore different ways of looking at life and expand their concepts of self while having a lot of fun at the same time.

“Since 1978, our organization has been a place where all men – gay, bi, transgender, and straight – from 18 to 80-plus can find a different way to connect – a little more openly, a little more honestly, and with a little less fear with some truly unique and supportive men,” Ernie Elliott, chair of the fall gathering, said in a statement.

The California Men’s Gathering hosts weekend retreats and gatherings five times a year, as well as local events almost every week somewhere in the state.

The cost for next month’s retreat is based on annual income and ranges from $218 to $492 per person. Tshirts are available for $10 and there is an additional $3 per person “green” fee that is donated to the carbon fund.

For more information, visit http://www.thecmg.org.

Forums on Social Security

The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare is holding three forums in the Bay Area next week that will look at issues related to Social Security in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act. In San Francisco, the panel will be

held Wednesday, October 30 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street. A reception starts at 5:30.

Whether a person is single, married, or somewhere in between, if they receive Social Security benefits or will be eligible for them anytime soon, next week’s discussions will be helpful, organizers said. Additionally, federal Social Security benefits are now available to married samesex couples, thanks to the decision in United States v. Windsor, which toppled most of DOMA. Topics to be discussed include how to apply for benefits what the DOMA decision means for LGBT Social Security recipients, what the Social Security Administration is doing for couples who move to places that don’t honor their marriage, and what happens to Social Security disability benefits when a person retires.

Scheduled panelists in San Francisco include Grace Kim, regional commissioner of the Social Security Administration; Max Richtman, president and CEO, and Web Phillips, senior legislative representative, with the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare; attorney Deb Kinney of Johnson, Kinney, and Zulaica LLP; Andy Chu, managing legal director of benefits counseling at the Positive Resource Center; and Seth Kilbourn, executive director of Openhouse, an LGBT senior agency.

Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, will moderate. Dan Bernal, chief of staff of the San Francisco office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), will deliver remarks.

The forum is free but seating is limited. Those planning to attend should RSVP by October 26 to (415) 296-8995, ext. 301 or http:// openhouse-sf.org/ssforum.

In Novato, a similar panel will be held Tuesday, October 28 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Key Room, 1385 N. Hamilton Parkway. A reception begins at 5. Several of the same speakers will be on hand; Paula Pilecki, executive director of the Spectrum LGBT Center will moderate. To RSVP, contact (415) 472-1945, ext.

209 or visit http://www.spectrumlgbtcenter.org/ssforum.

In Santa Rosa, the panel will meet Thursday, October 31 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at the Finley Community Center, 2060 W. College Avenue.

There’s a breakfast at 8.

Pilecki will also moderate this panel, which is scheduled to include some of the same speakers.

Congressman Mike Thompson (D-Santa Rosa) is scheduled to give remarks. To RSVP, use the above information for the Novato meeting.

DA holds domestic violence event

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oughly 40 entertainment officials were on hand at new Castro gay club Beaux Monday night to help gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener kick off his re-election campaign.

Wiener, 43, has been a champion of nightlife issues and pushed city officials to conduct an economic impact report on the entertainment industry shortly after being sworn into office in 2011. It has earned him support from club and bar owners who have felt public officials devalued their contributions to tourism, employment and city coffers.

“He understands the intricacies of how policy should be done,” said Terrance Alan, a gay former entertainment commissioner who co-hosted the event with a number of owners of gay Castro bars. “We thought it would be great for Castro nightlife leaders to show their support.”

Outside the Market Street venue

four protesters greeted attendees with handmade cardboard signs, which misspelled the candidate’s last name, attacking Wiener for “killing SF street culture” and declaring, “We need Queer Invasion not a Weiner CR8TN.” “I want to thank all of my good friends for coming tonight, even those standing on the sidewalk,” Wiener told the crowd. “Everyone has a right to their own opinion. I welcome that.”

Elected in 2010 to represent the Castro, Noe Valley, Diamond Heights, and Glen Park neighborhoods at City Hall, Wiener is gearing up to seek re-election to another four-year term next November. In a brief interview at the October 21 fundraiser, expected to net $10,000 for his campaign, Wiener sounded confident about his candidacy.

“I hope to be re-elected,” said Wiener, a moderate and former local Democratic Party chair.

So far no prominent progressive has declared their intent to run against Wiener, despite his critics’ repeated pleas over the last two years for someone to challenge him for the seat. Nonetheless, Wiener said this week that he expects to be opposed.

One person contemplating doing so is David Waggoner, 38, a gay attorney who assisted Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi last year as he fought to keep his job after his suspension due to domestic violence charges, for which he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge.

Waggoner, a former co-president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, told the B.A.R. this week that he has been mulling whether to jump into the race.

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“I have been considering it but I haven’t decided yet,” said Waggoner, one of the more vocal critics against the city’s Pride board for its handling of an honor for Army Private Chelsea Manning, the convicted leaker of classified material to WikiLeaks.

Wiener has been a lightning rod for criticism from progressives over the last three years for his ban on public nudity; recent push to enforce park closure hours; and what his critics contend is a lack of attention on affordable housing needs.

They pointed to the casino theme for the fundraiser this week as symbolic of his attitude toward those struggling to remain in San Francisco.

“The message is clear, ‘If you don’t have money, get out and stay out,’” wrote nudity activist Mitch Hightower on Facebook. “It’s the same message the supervisor has been sending to the community since he took office. And with no one interested in seriously challenging him, we’re going to get another four years of this before he dumps SF and moves on to higher office.”

Wiener counters that he has secured funding to expand housing for homeless LGBT youth and has tried to modernize the city’s housing rules to meet today’s needs. This week he announced legislation to allow for garages and storage units to be turned into in-law units. [See story, page 1.]

“We are experiencing a crisis in housing affordability in the city,” Wiener told attendees of the event.

“There are plenty of people who are couch surfing or they have to leave the city. I’ve tried to do my part to rationalize our housing policy.”

Political pundits consider Wiener the frontrunner at this point, as he proved to be a relentless campaigner in 2010. It is also exceedingly difficult to unseat an incumbent supervisor.

Privately, some progressives express a reluctance at seeing Wiener be challenged, fearing it would take financial resources and volunteer efforts away from gay District 9 Supervisor David Campos’s bid next year for a state Assembly seat against his more moderate opponent, board President David Chiu.

It is widely expected that Wiener will also seek a state legislative seat in 2016 when gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) is termed out of office. Asked about the speculation surrounding his plans for higher office, Wiener told the B.A.R. that people often ask him about running for various elected offices.

“I always tell them I am running for re-election to the board,” he said.

Pressed on if he would pledge to serve out a full second term as supervisor, Wiener responded, “The only thing I am running for is reelection to the Board of Supervisors.”

LGBT alley project receives funds

An effort to beautify Ringold Alley in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood and resurrect its ties to LGBT history won full funding this week.

The alley, located between 8th and 9th streets near Harrison Street, was the scene of nightly cruising by men looking to have sex with other men back in SOMA’s gay heyday of the 1960s and 1970s. The street was also home to the first Up Your Alley daytime leather fair in 1985.

LGBT SOMA leaders have fought to turn Ringold into a pedestrianfriendly corridor and install public art recognizing the alley’s historical and cultural significance to the LGBT community as part of a project to underground utility lines

along the roadway.

Their plans were put in jeopardy when an advisory body voted in September to award “at least” $1 million in development impact fees from an adjacent multi-unit housing project to the alley proposal.

As the B.A.R. noted on its blog last week, neighborhood activists protested that decision and demanded that the Eastern Neighborhoods Community Advisory Committee fully fund the project, estimated to cost roughly $2 million.

At its meeting Monday, October 21 where a dozen people, including gay Entertainment Commissioner Glendon Hyde and Folsom Street Events Executive Director Demetri Moshoyannis, urged it to reconsider its decision, the CAC voted 10-3 to allocate $1.8 million after the San Francisco County Transportation Authority guaranteed it would be able to provide the remaining $200,000.

“I am really thrilled,” said Jim Meko, a gay SOMA resident who championed the alley project and expects work to begin in March.

It is expected that District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim’s office will convene a community meeting to discuss the LGBT place-making features for the alley.

Bay Area LGBT youth group changes leaders

With an eye to fostering a smooth leadership transition, the co-founder of a Bay Area LGBT youth group that hosts biennial summits stepped down this week.

Stanford University junior Jason Galisatus, 21, resigned Monday, October 21 as executive director of the Bay Area Youth Summit, which he helped launch as an all-youthled nonprofit in 2011. Under BAYS rules for membership, Galisatus could have remained in his position until June 2015 when he is expected to graduate with a BA in political science.

But he told the B.A.R. last week that he was “leaving early to foster new talent” and intends to assist his successor, Stanford sophomore Charles Stotz, over the next year.

In a statement, Stotz, 19 and a Palo Alto native, said he wants to strengthen the infrastructure of the BAYS board.

“As a collective whole, we aim to refocus and enhance our existing programs so that we can better serve our constituents,” stated Stotz.

“By doing so, I believe we can build stronger and more effective communities of LGBT and allied youth.”

As for Galisatus, he plans to remain engaged with “the community and continue my advocacy through the political and philanthropic realm.”

Postscript: Last Thursday night the Peninsula Stonewall Democrats, the LGBT political group featured in last week’s Political Notebook, won chartership by the San Mateo County Democratic Party. With official recognition the club can now send a representative to the pre-endorsement process for state races in the next election cycle.t Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion.

This week’s column reported on gay SF Supervisor David Campos’ first Assembly bid fundraiser.

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

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

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times a week” to “suck dick and chase after men, get some exercise, and smoke some weed.”

He added, “I’m an old-fashioned cocksucker and not very anal. ...

That’s why I survived the plague,” referring to the AIDS epidemic that killed thousands of men in the city beginning in the early 1980s.

As Jeff, a semi-retired chef, spoke, about six other men paced around silently within a few feet of each other, waiting for someone who interested them.

Jeff said he first cruised in the area about 25 years ago, and he sees fewer people there than he used to. He attributed the decline to the recreation and parks department clearing out greenery. A spokesman for the agency didn’t provide comment for this story.

Most of the men near him appeared to be in their 50s and older, but Jeff said he sees men of all ages in the area. There was one man who didn’t seem older than 35 who declined to speak with a reporter. That was the case with several men who appeared to be looking for hook ups in the city’s parks but either wouldn’t talk or said they didn’t know anything about cruising.

Another part of Golden Gate

A short walk away from Jeff, near the intersection of John F. Kennedy

Drive and Bernice Rogers Way, several men who appeared to be 50 or older stood quietly or walked around slowly.

This was the area where, in July 2012, San Francisco resident David Borowy, 55, was found dead with his pants down around his ankles. His death was initially considered a possible murder, but the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office eventually determined he’d had heart disease and died of natural causes.

A few days after Borowy’s body was found, several men near the site talked about how the park had been a well-known cruising spot for years.

When a reporter returned on a recent Sunday afternoon, it appeared that its popularity hadn’t diminished.

Bryan Anderson, 65, who’s gay, was talking to another man near the clump of trees where Borowy’s body had been found. Anderson said he’d come to the park out of “boredom” and to get some exercise. He was “semi”-cruising, he said, but “not expecting thrills.”

Asked about going online to hook up, Anderson, who said he’d first had sex in the park in 1989, said he has roommates who are younger than him and “live on the Internet.”

For him, “60 percent of it is getting out of the house,” he said.

There didn’t appear to be police officers in either area of Golden Gate Park, and the cruisers didn’t seem worried about encountering any.

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Bryan Anderson, 65, first cruised in Golden Gate Park almost 25 years ago.

When the Bay Area Reporter requested an interview with Captain Sharon Ferrigno, who heads the San Francisco Police Department’s Richmond Station, which oversees most of the park, a staffer referred questions to the police media relations unit. SFPD spokespeople didn’t respond to an emailed interview request.

Captain Greg Corrales, who’s been with the SFPD for 44 years, heads Park Station, which oversees parts of the Haight and Castro neighborhoods. The station’s territory includes Buena Vista Park, which has a reputation for being cruisy.

Corrales said he’s never dealt with the issue of gay men cruising in the

parks himself, but “the attitudes of the police department have certainly changed in the past 40 years.”

“When I came in the department” police “went through various parks trying to catch people engaged in sexual activity. That mentality hasn’t existed in decades in this department,” he said.

“I think the general public has become more enlightened, and cops are part of the general population,” Corrales explained. “Cops have become more enlightened as the years go by.”

He said nobody’s been cited at Buena Vista Park this year for having sex.

“We do not get any complaints” about men hooking up in the parks, said Corrales. “I don’t believe it’s going on anymore.” He said if it is, it’s being done “discreetly.”

“If we don’t get complaints, it doesn’t exist, as far as we’re concerned,” said Corrales.

Top of the hill

In recent years, Buena Vista Park has been associated with the June 2011 death of Freddy Canul-Arguello, 23, whose burned, mostly naked body was found with a partially melted recycling bin on a park hill. David Munoz Diaz, 24, has been charged with strangling Canul-Arguello to death during a sexual encounter. The two men had known each other prior to the night they met up and headed to the park.

A prosecutor in the case has said the motive was robbery, but Diaz’s public defender has called the death “a terrible accident.”

Just before sunset on a recent Sunday night, a handful of men lingered near the top of the lush, hilly park, which is at the edge of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and offers spectacular views of San Francisco and the bay.

One man leaned against a wooden rail for several minutes. The man, who’s 40 and didn’t want his name published, said he preferred visiting the park to going online for hookups.

“It’s unfortunate how we have become disconnected,” he said. “... It’s so much easier to meet somebody and smile.”

On the day he spoke with a reporter, he said he was looking for “just a good old-fashioned hand job.”

He doesn’t have intercourse in the park, he said, partially because “I wouldn’t want to see myself face down with the police coming around the corner.”

But for Christopher Wood, 25, being found out is part of the appeal.

Wood, a receptionist, cruises in the park because “there’s something really erotic about it. Obviously, the idea that you might get caught, but I don’t know, it’s just really hot to be outdoors,” he said in a phone interview.

He said he goes to the park for sex “two or three times a month,” and usually goes to Golden Gate, but sometimes he goes to Buena Vista.

“There’s not usually a lot of talking,” Wood said in describing how encounters begin. “It’s glances. You give somebody the eye. Usually, depending on when you go, you have a pick of a few guys. If you’re not interested, you just keep walking.”

Wood moved to San Francisco from Seattle about a year ago and said, “I feel like there was more action” in the other city. There, he said, he saw a lot of wedding rings on men in the park, and it seems there’s more of a need to be secretive about gay sex.

“There’s still a lot of ‘hush hush’ around being gay and gay issues” in Seattle, said Wood, “whereas in San Francisco, I feel like you can talk about anything at any time. It’s safe.”

As with cruisers in Buena Vista, it seems men looking for hook-ups in Dolores and Collingwood parks don’t have much reason to fear the police, either.

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Officer Ted Lattig, the gay LGBT liaison for Mission Station, which oversees the parks, said police haven’t received complaints about sex in the parks and haven’t patrolled for it recently.

“If it’s been happening, or been a problem, the people in the neighborhood aren’t telling us about it,” said Lattig.

He’s more concerned with “people overindulging at the bars” or doing drugs and becoming more likely to be victims of crimes like robberies.

Most of the men who spoke with the B.A.R. weren’t worried about becoming victims of robberies or other crimes in the park, but Lattig indicated he does worry.

“In any major city, if you’re out past 2 in the morning in the park, that in itself can be risky behavior, cruising or not,” he said. “No one here is judging that, and I’m very aware that in the gay community, cruising can be viewed as a celebration of who you are. ... It’s your sexuality, and you’re having a connection with a person, even though it might be very short, very quick.”

Lattig, a longtime Castro district resident, recalled a period about 10 years ago when he would drive past Collingwood Park around 4 a.m. on his way to work.

“I would see a few guys standing out there waiting to get picked up,” he said. “I haven’t seen that in quite some time, but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening.”

During a visit to Collingwood Park at about 1:30 a.m. on a Sunday in September, the sidewalks around the fenced-in park near the heart of the Castro were practically empty.

Kevin Casey, 57, who’s gay, was standing on the Diamond Street side of the park with a friend. Casey said that when he moved to San Francisco more than 25 years ago, the area was “scandalous.”

“I knew I was not in Ohio anymore,” said Casey. Now, though, the area is “very sanitized.”

On the night he spoke with a reporter, Casey said he was hoping to go into the park to smoke pot, but he couldn’t find an opening. The last time he engaged in sex there was about six months ago.

“I just crept into the park to take a leak,” he said, but ended up getting head. “I was shocked that such a thing would still go on.”

Gay Supervisor Scott Wiener, whose District 8 includes the Castro, said in an email, “I haven’t received any complaints about park cruising,” and the practice didn’t motivate his recent legislative proposal to establish consistent closing hours for the city’s parks, from midnight to 5 a.m.

At about 10:30 on a Monday night in late September, a 32-yearold homeless man stood by the Muni tracks in Dolores Park, just beneath the pathway on the western edge of the park that’s known for cruising.

He frequently hooks up with other men in the park. That includes men he’s sure live their lives as straight, based in part on how selfloathing they seem after sex.

Despite the fact there’s no lighting in much of the park, and rats were scurrying around nearby, the man said, “For me, this is one of the safest places I know. I know the dynamics.

I know what people are looking for.

I’ve had a lot of fun here.”

However, he added, “If you really think you’re going to have a solid relationship” with anyone you meet there, “you have to understand this is where you met them, and this is what it is.”

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Other parts of the Bay Area have their cruisy spots, too.

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October 24-30, 2013 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 9

Project looks to survey SF’s LGBT past

by Matthew S. Bajko

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new project aims to map the history of the LGBT community in San Francisco as the first step toward remembering and preserving the people and places that played critical roles in cementing the city as a gay mecca.

The project and a separate one currently under way in Los Angeles are believed to be the first two efforts anywhere in the United States to produce documents detailing their municipalities’ comprehensive, citywide LGBT histories.

“I like to refer to it as the final frontier of historic preservation,” said architectural historian Shayne Watson, 36, an out lesbian who lives in San Francisco, of the effort to document LGBT history.

Watson and Donna Graves, a public historian based in Berkeley, in partnership with the GLBT Historical Society won a $76,000 grant from the San Francisco Historic Preservation Fund Committee, overseen by the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, to complete by early 2015 what is known as an historic context statement. It is a preservation planning tool that federal, state and local governments can refer to when determining what places and structures hold importance to telling a historical theme.

“We reviewed their application and we worked with them over a number of months to try to ensure that it was going to be a sound project and one that would have wide and long-term community benefit,” said Mark Ryser, chair of the fund committee.

The document, by unearthing sites of historical significance to the LGBT community, could assist in efforts to landmark certain buildings or possibly establish a historic district in the gay Castro neighborhood. To date San Francisco has named just three sites, all in the Castro, as local historic landmarks due to their ties to LGBT history: the Twin Peaks Tavern, the building that housed Harvey Milk’s Castro Camera shop, and the home of the AIDS quilt.

“We want to make sure important places are interpreted, protected, and designated as landmarks,” said Graves, 57, a straight ally who recently worked on a project aimed at preserving and reviving the city’s Japantown district.

Los Angeles’ LGBT context statement is part of its larger SurveyLA project that began in 2007 as a joint project between the city’s planning department and the Getty Trust.

This year it won a $20,000 federally funded grant from the state Office of Historic Preservation to survey the city’s LGBT history and expects to complete the work by next September.

“We are going to have all our survey results and context online in a searchable database we are working with the Getty Conservation Institute to development that will be online in the next year,” said Janet Hansen, deputy manager of the Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources.

Back in 2004 the group known as Friends of 1800 published a partial report on San Francisco’s LGBT history called “Sexing the City: The Development of Sexual Identity Based Subcultures in San Francisco, 1933-1979.” The group had formed to protect from demolition the Carmel Fallon Building at 1800 Market Street that was eventually incorporated into the LGBT Community Center.

“The Friends of 1800 sparked this idea of the importance of preserving not just buildings but landmarking areas that were of importance and crucial to LGBT history,”

said Nan Alamilla Boyd, a professor at San Francisco State University who identifies as queer and wrote a book about the city’s LGBT history up to 1965. “A historic context statement really tries to create a guide to the historical narrative that can frame the way people make decisions about land-marking so it is not random.”

The 23-page Friends report called for the creation of an historical district “to recognize how the city has contributed to the growing recognition and legitimation of sexual and gender minorities as full members of American society.” It also called for sub-districts created in North Beach, the Tenderloin, Polk Gulch, and the Castro.

It noted that the GLBT Historical Society’s archival database lists more than 1,300 local sites associated with sexuality-based subcultures, such as bars, bathhouses, restaurants, community centers, religious centers, social service organizations, bookstores, nonprofit organizations, publishers, and gay-oriented businesses.

“It officially recognized the legitimacy of queer history when it came to planning issues,” said architect Alan Martinez, who chaired

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Kezar Stadium provided the backdrop for this 2006 photo of local athletes preparing to head to Chicago for Gay Games VII.

the Friends group and is a former member of the city’s Historic Preservation Commission.

Graves and Watson plan to keep the scope of their work between the early roots of the city’s LGBT community in the 19th century through the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

Some of the themes they intend to explore include the influence of

1920s bohemian culture; the establishment of social gathering places in 1933 after the repeal of Prohibition; the effects of World War II; police harassment and bar raids in the 1950s as the first LGBT activist groups began to form; and the LGBT rights movements in the 1970s.

Martinez, who with Boyd is serving on the project’s advisory committee, is eager to see important lesbian historical sites be given prominence due to the document’s production.

“If nothing else, finding some appropriate ways to honor lesbian history probably is the most important thing,” he said.

For her master’s in historic preservation thesis in 2009 at the University of Southern California, Watson documented the lesbian history of San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. She now plans to gather information on sites across the city to include in the historic context statement, such as Maud’s in Cole Valley, a lesbian bar opened in the 1960s that closed in the 1980s.

The bar, at 937 Cole Street, is now called Finnegan’s Wake but remains largely as is from its days as Maud’s, said Watson, who grew up in San

Jose and has lived in San Francisco since 2002.

“It was sort of like a community center for the lesbian community,” she said.

Rikki Streicher, an out lesbian who died in 1994, owned Maud’s and also helped found the Federation of Gay Games. The site of the early games, Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park, is an example of a place most people don’t associate as being of LGBT historical import, said Graves, that likely will be highlighted in the context statement.

“I am also really interested in LGBT culture being part of this study. I am very interested in finding the homes, studios, and performance spaces of LGBT artists,” she said.

The document is not meant to be exhaustive, the women pointed out, though they do intend for it to be as broad as possible, with special attention made to including important sites related to bisexuals, LGBT people of color, and the transgender community.

“It is a very big story,” Graves said of the city’s LGBT past. “We feel committed to making sure we do represent the range of diverse expeSee page 12 >>

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Wedding announcements compiled by Cynthia Laird Mauricio Miranda Pellicci and Charles Pellicci

Mauricio Miranda Pellicci and Charles Pellicci were married in San Francisco City Hall Thursday, October 17. Valerie Walker, a deputized marriage commissioner, officiated.

Mr. Miranda Pellicci, 28, was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Mr. Pellicci, 50, was born and raised in the Bay Area.

The couple met at the Badlands bar in 2011. Mr. Miranda Pellicci originally came to San Francisco on a visa to learn English and then planned to return to Sao Paulo to further his career in journalism.

“He never intended to stay or even really desired to move to the U.S. but our meeting changed his life plan,” Mr. Pellicci wrote in an email.

At the time of their meeting, the federal Defense of Marriage Act was still in place, so Mr. Pellicci could not sponsor Mr. Miranda Pellicci for a green card to stay in the U.S. Additionally, Proposition 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban, was also still in effect. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a section of DOMA unconstitutional in June. The court also ruled that the party defending Prop 8 did not have legal standing to do so, allowing the federal appeals court to lift a stay on its ruling that Prop 8 is unconstitutional, leading to the resumption of same-sex marriage in the state.

“Lots has happened since then and we are now in the process of applying for a green card and are so excited to know that we can now be together forever without the fear of the government separating us,” Mr. Pellicci said.

The couple has marched in several protests and two San Francisco Pride parades with Out4Immigration, an advocacy group that supports immigration reform and the demise of DOMA. “We also pushed hard for President Obama to be re-elected as we knew we would not have a chance under a Republican president and would have to move to Brazil to be together,” Mr. Pellicci added.

The men told their story as part of Out4Immigration’s online initiative last year urging that DOMA be overturned. They plan to adopt a child.

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Paul Candler, 48, artist, son, teacher, brother, thinker, friend, and dreamer, passed away Wednesday, October 9, 2013 in San Francisco. Paul, a graduate of Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, was an explosive bundle of dichotomies; intense and mild, compassionate and harsh, obsessive and cool, free and compulsive, selfish and caring, destructive and creative. His uniqueness will be forever missed and never forgotten by his friends and family.

Paul, an accomplished artist working in the field of digital design, was an arts educator who taught in university and community-based settings, and was the curator of three exhibitions of comics art. A lifelong fan of underground comics and graphic artists, in 2002 he curated the exhibition Raw, Boiled, and Cooked: Comics on the Verge for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. It was a dream come true for him to gather and exhibit the works of some of his artistic heroes.

Paul was an avid collector of art, music, books, games, comics, and much more. He has taught drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and origami in community-based workshops, private schools, Ringling School of Art and Design, and has taught comics history at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has volunteered his time leading children’s tours of art exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He enjoyed reading and volunteered to read at the Lighthouse Center for the Blind.

He is survived by his parents, Larry and Margie Greene Candler; his sister, Susan, and her partner, Laura Stanton, and their daughter, Eliza Rain Stanton-Candler all of Greenville, South Carolina. He was predeceased by his younger brother, Davis Candler, and his beloved black Labrador, Xerox.

Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting http://www.thomasmcafee.com.

For several decades, an opening night at any theatre or the cabaret in San Francisco would not have been complete without Dean (Constantine) Stamatopoulos and his partner in life and business, Randall Wallace. Stamatopoulos, bon vivant, first nighter, and proprietor of the long popular Gramophone Records store, was born in Oakland on August 8, 1929, and passed away on March 14, 2013, in San Francisco.

Stamatopoulos was raised in Santa Cruz, attended San Rafael Military Academy and College of Marin, after which he worked for small inter-state airlines, then joined TWA, and moved to New York.

He and Wallace first met in 1953 at a cast party for Kismet and Pal Joey. Wallace thought he was the most handsome person in a room full of pretty people.

After Wallace convinced him to give up flying, Stamatopoulos worked at travel agencies, and then became a record salesman. In 1961, one of his customers put up for bid the record shop he owned in the Marina, and Stamatopoulos got it, and renamed it The Gramophone after a shop he’d seen in Paris. Stamatopoulos soon expanded, eventually opening on Polk Street near California. The Gramophone was an early advertiser in the Bay Area Reporter, using clever cartoons by the late Gene Palumbo including one depicting Bette Davis saying, “Gramophone, whatta dump!”

Noted within the industry as trend spotters, at the Gramophone the pair purveyed the music of the folk craze, met Barbra Streisand early on, made the store disco headquarters later on, and hosted many signings and in-store parties for Bette Midler, the Manhattan Transfer, and other popular artists.

The pair went on to open stores at Northpoint Mall, downtown on Powell Street, and finally on Castro Street, from 1984 to 1988. Foreseeing the softening of the record business, Stamatopoulos sold the store, and the pair worked for various wineries in

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October 24-30, 2013 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 11

Gay senior advocate Arthur Hurwith dies

by Cynthia Laird

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rthur Martin Hurwith, who was involved with gay senior organizations for many years, died Monday, October 14 at his home in San Francisco’s Mission district. He was 84.

A cause of death was not released.

Ken Nimmo, who had been Mr. Hurwith’s caregiver and knew him for 50 years, said that Mr. Hurwith might have suffered a heart attack.

Mr. Hurwith also suffered a bad fall about a year and a half ago that required surgery, friends said.

His longtime friends Nimmo and Carol Shafer confirmed the fall. Shafer said that Mr. Hurwith’s ability to walk was affected, but that he had been able to use a walker and a cane that enabled him to get around.

Several friends said they mourned the loss of Mr. Hurwith.

“More than anything he was a sincere, honest person,” Nimmo said.

Marcy Adelman, Ph.D., founder of the LGBT senior agency Openhouse, said that from the beginning, Mr. Hurwith was an integral part of the nonprofit. He had served on the board since 1988.

“Arthur served as the organization’s first treasurer and continued on the board till his passing,” Adelman, also an Openhouse board member, said in an email. “He attended the September board meeting and was looking forward to attending some events later this month.”

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Sonoma, before returning to the city, where the ever-sociable Stamatopoulos worked for five years as the concierge front door greeter at Saks 5th Avenue.

Fondly recalling his good life with Stamatopoulos, Wallace quoted a Johnny Mercer lyric: “When the angels

In addition to his work with Openhouse, Mr. Hurwith was active in the San Francisco Prime Timers, a group for older gay and bisexual men and their admirers. First organized in 1972 as G40+, it reorganized as a chapter of Prime Timers Worldwide in 2002, said David Valentine, who serves as vice president of the local group.

“Arthur was involved in G40+,” Valentine told the Bay Area Reporter, and helped it transition to the Prime Timers. Mr. Hurwith served as treasurer for the organization for a number of years, Valentine added.

“Arthur did a remarkable amount of work for decades for Prime Timers/G40+ and many other gay organizations in San Francisco, including the Imperial Court system, Openhouse, and Community United Against Violence. He was a kind and loyal friend,” Prime Timers secretary Bob Chase said in an email.

Art Steffen, president of San Francisco Prime Timers, said Mr. Hurwith was also involved in other organizations over the years. He served on what was then known as the Gay Pride Committee from 1991-1992, and was on the Community Aging Advisory Council from 1987-1997.

“We’re all missing Arthur,” Steffen said.

As part of his Prime Timers duties, Mr. Hurwith occasionally arranged for speakers to come to meetings. One of those who adask me to recall the thrill of them all, Then I shall tell them, I remember you.”

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dressed club members was B.A.R. assistant editor Matthew S. Bajko.

“When Arthur led the Prime Timers, he began inviting me to speak to the club during election years about local and state races,” Bajko recalled.

“He was incredibly kind and gracious and I will miss seeing his smile when I attend the club’s meetings.”

Mr. Hurwith served on the advisory board of Gay and Lesbian Outreach to Elders, Steffen said.

He was also a “fully out, and proud, gay man – starting at a time when acknowledging such was not the acceptable practice it is today, to say the least,” Shafer recalled in an obituary she wrote.

Mr. Hurwith’s friends described an active man who loved singing, especially in piano bars.

“He was a big, big fan of singing at piano bars, such as ... the Copper Lantern, the Swallow, the Galleon, the Lush Lounge, the Octavia Lounge, and most of all and up till a few weeks before his passing, the Alley in Oakland,” Shafer wrote. “He was a major player in the production of a documentary film about piano bars in general and the Alley in particular.”

Mr. Hurwith was also a devoted patron of non-musical and musical theater in general, and in particular the shows put on by San Francisco’s 42nd Street Moon, the musical theatre troupe that “celebrates and preserves the art and spirit of the American musical theatre,” Shafer added.

Mr. Hurwith and Nimmo were long-term supporters and season ticket holders for 42nd Street Moon’s productions, she said.

Mr. Hurwith was born on October 4, 1929 in New York City, where he grew up. According to a biography he wrote and gave to Steffen, Mr. Hurwith graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1947. He graduated from City College of New York in 1952, where he majored in documentary film distribution and minored in art, Steffen said.

Mr. Hurwith traveled the world extensively, working as a merchant seaman, a tour guide, and a teacher

(i.e., three trips to China during the early days of open travel), Shafer said.

He moved to the Bay Area in 1962 and initially taught at Mills High School in Millbrae. In 1965 he took a job with the California Automobile Association.

In San Francisco Mr. Hurwith met, fell in love, and became partners with Henry Dickow Jr. The men were early supporters of both the Imperial Court and the Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco, as the Baron Arthur Hurwith and the Baroness Eugenia Von Dieckoff, Shafer said.

Mr. Dickow died in 1988.

Mr. Hurwith later became partners with Warren Van Eyck, who was also a founding board member of Openhouse. He passed away in 2009.

Shafer, a transgender woman, said that Mr. Hurwith helped her to come out after her transition.

“He convinced me to come out and I did,” she said. “He had a global perspective on sexual identity.”

She also enjoyed going to piano bars with Mr. Hurwith.

“On the fun side, learning to sing a song,” she said of her memories with Mr. Hurwith. “He was a really fun guy.”

In addition to Nimmo, whom he described as his best friend, Mr. Hurwith is survived by his sister Estelle Miller; his other best friend, Betty Hindenes; and friends and loved ones throughout the country.t

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Mr. Rascher, 67, died October 8 following a long battle with cancer.

As the 16th Emperor, Mr. Rascher reigned with Empress 23, Lily Street, from 1988 to 1989.

He was deeply involved in the Imperial Council, organizing fundraising parties both for the San Francisco and

Portland, Oregon chapters.

Mr. Rascher was also responsible for the annual pilgrimage to Woodlawn Cemetery in Colma, where Joshua Norton, an eccentric city resident who in 1859 declared himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, is buried. It was Norton who inspired the late Jose Sarria, Her Royal Majesty, Empress of San Francisco,

Jose I, The Widow Norton, to create the Imperial Court in the 1960s. Sarria died in August at the age of 90 and his Imperial State Funeral was held in September. He was laid to rest next to Norton in the cemetery.

Mr. Rascher had been a longtime employee at First American Title Company.

He is survived by his husband, Gene Fry.

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isa Williams, the former San Francisco Pride board president and current interim CEO who created a still-lingering community crisis by rescinding the grand marshal honor for transgender Army Private Chelsea Manning, will be receiving a leadership award.

Williams will receive the award from Black Women Organized for Political Action, an Oakland-based group.

LaNiece Jones, executive director of BWOPA, cited Williams’s “leadership in the community” for the organization’s decision to name her as one of two state honorees for its annual Ella Hill Hutch Awards.

Williams, a 10-year BWOPA member, became interim CEO of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee September 6 after former CEO Earl Plante resigned in the wake of his threatening email to a candidate for an open seat on San Francisco Pride’s board of directors.

As interim CEO, Williams recently voted, along with Pride members, for the organization to co-sponsor an October 26 fundraiser for Manning, who is currently serving a 35year prison sentence for espionage in connection with her leaking classified materials to WikiLeaks.

Between late April and last month Williams was a lightning rod for criticism following her terse statements trying to explain why the Pride board at first awarded and then retracted Manning’s grand marshal honor.

The board stuck to its reasoning that

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retirement of Justice James Marchiano.

Having been recruited by City Attorney Dennis Herrera to join his legal team in 2002, Stewart two years later rose to national prominence when she was assigned to oversee the office’s legal fight for marriage equality. She would go on to successfully argue for the right of same-sex couples to wed before the California Supreme Court, which overturned the state’s anti-gay marriage statutes in 2008.

The court’s ruling led to the ballot fight over and eventual voter passage that November of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriage in the Golden State. She lost a second case before the state court seeking to overturn Prop 8 but did successfully argue it should not annul the some 18,000 marriages that had taken place prior to Election Day. After two same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit against the homophobic proposition, Herrera’s office joined the case as an intervener and Stewart was part of the city attorney team that worked on it.

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until the late 1990s that someone from the White Horse, an Oakland gay bar that he frequented, told him where to look. Eventually, the

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riences of the LGBT community.”

They are asking the public’s help in locating people and sites to include and are inviting people to come share their stories with them at a forum next month.

“We are going to need people’s help

Rick Gerharter

SF Pride interim CEO Lisa Williams

Manning was ineligible for the award because she is not local.

Ultimately, several board members were voted off during an annual meeting last month. Williams does not currently serve on the board since she is interim CEO. A BWOPA email announcing the awards for Williams and others stated it “is dedicated to honoring African American women throughout California for their community leadership and action.”

“The 2013 award recipients, like Hutch, have demonstrated outstanding commitment, tireless service and dynamic leadership,” the email read.

These “local and state African American political activists will be recognized for their achievements,” it added.

In a voice mail, Jones said Wil-

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liams demonstrated the “tenacity, commitment, and leadership” associated with Hutch. She also called Williams a “political consultant and operative” and added the award was for her “continued advocacy on behalf of LGBT issues.”

Williams did not respond to an email message seeking comment.

Pride board President Gary Virginia congratulated Williams on the award.

“Diversity and minority representation are values SF Pride supports in politics and our own organization. We congratulate Lisa Williams on her award from BWOPA,” Virginia said in an email.

Aside from Williams, three-year BWOPA member and Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker will be honored. BWOPA, a 501(c)4 nonprofit advocacy and membership organization, was founded in 1968 and has seven chapters in California.

Hutch, a founding member of BWOPA, was a pioneering African American woman who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, first from the Fillmore-centered District 4 and then citywide, according to Jones.

Hutch served with the late Harvey Milk, Carol Ruth Silver, the late Dan White, and Dianne Feinstein, now a U.S. senator. Hutch died in 1981.

The BWOPA event is Saturday, November 2 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Holy Names University, 3500 Mountain Boulevard in the Oakland Hills.

Tickets are $55. For tickets, visit http://ella2013.eventbrite.com. For information on BWOPA, visit http:// www.bwopa.org.t

In June the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case on a technicality, allowing lower court rulings striking down Prop 8 to stand. Gay nuptials resumed in California in late June.

Stewart declined the Bay Area Reporter’s request for an interview Tuesday. In August 2008 she married her wife, attorney Carole Scagnetti, at a ceremony inside City Hall.

In August the American Bar Association named Stewart as one of the recipients of the 2013 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award. In 2009 California Lawyer named Stewart as one of its Attorneys of the Year.

Herrera issued a statement to the B.A.R. through his spokesman stating that the “bittersweet reality” of hiring “high-caliber legal talent” is that there are “competing demands” for his staff. Since 2006 three of his top deputies have been tapped to be state judges, while Deputy City Attorney Vince Chhabria’s nomination by President Barack Obama to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California is currently pending before the Senate.

As for Stewart, the first person he hired after being elected back in 2001, Herrera stated that although he “would be disappointed not to

have her by my side in the City Attorney’s office, I recognize, too, that California’s appellate court represents a rare professional opportunity and honor. Knowing Terry’s skills, temperament, and remarkable breadth of legal expertise, I know she would be an extraordinary addition to the judiciary.”

Asked for her reaction, National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director Kate Kendell was unaware of the news until contacted by the B.A.R. Nonetheless, she enthusiastically endorsed seeing Stewart be appointed a judge.

“I think Terry would be amazing on the bench,” Kendell stated in an email. “She is tireless, committed, and wicked smart. She is a hero in our movement and would bring honor to her role as a judge.”

There is no guarantee that Brown will nominate Stewart for an appellate court seat. In 2006 gay attorney Michael Nava was one of five candidates for an open seat on the First District Court of Appeal, which is based in San Francisco, who was vetted by the Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation. Yet Nava was not selected by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.t

50-year-old medical records technician went so frequently that fellow bar patrons nicknamed him “Bush Queen.” He quit going in 2007 after his husband, with whom he’d had an open relationship, passed away and “my libido died,” he said.

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in telling those stories,” said Graves.

“Sometimes it is big stories and sometimes it is everyday experiences that have shaped the community. We want to hear all of that from people.”

The first public presentation on the project, titled “Remembering LGBT Historic Sites in San Francisco: A Community Workshop,” will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 14 in the Audre Lorde Room at the San Francisco Women’s Building, 3543 18th Street in the Mission.

For more information, contact Watson and Graves at sflgbthistory@gmail.com or visit the “Preserving LGBT Historic Sites” page on Facebook at http://www.facebook. com/preservinglgbthistory.t

Seth Hemmelgarn is an assistant editor at the Bay Area Reporter.

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formerly homeless woman living with HIV who spent more than five years sleeping outside the Pottery Barn in the Castro has accepted housing through a city program but is now seeking donations from the community to help cover storage costs for her possessions.

Janice Cason, 65, had spent years living on the street in the Castro with her beloved cat, Goldilocks. City and nonprofit officials, let by Bevan Dufty in the mayor’s office, were able to persuade her in August to accept housing at the Richardson in Hayes Valley. Dufty, director of the Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement program, or HOPE, told the Bay Area Reporter that a number

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book more than a dozen years ago, said he relied on his interviews with over 100 people – including McKinney, Henderson, and numerous law enforcement officials, and several people who knew Shepard – as well as “voluminous public records.”

However, some have criticized Jimenez for, among other reasons, including anonymous sources.

Jimenez, who’s set to appear at a Monday, October 28 event in San Jose, spoke about the book in a recent interview with the Bay Area Reporter.

“I thought the complexities surrounding Matthew’s murder were important for us to understand if we’re serious about preventing these kinds of acts of grotesque violence and hatred, and we need to understand the factors that came into play, all the factors that came into play,” said Jimenez, 60.

He added, “A full portrait of who Matthew was as a person, as a human being, was missing from the public narrative.”

The main motive for the murder that Jimenez puts forward is that McKinney, who beat Shepard with his gun, believed Shepard had at least six ounces of methamphetamine, which would have been worth thousands of dollars.

Jimenez said he first learned from McKinney himself that his plan the night of October 6, 1998 had been to steal the six ounces of meth from a dealer.

But Jimenez told the B.A.R. that McKinney didn’t tell him directly that he’d thought Shepard had the six ounces the night of the beating.

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through the roof. There are a lot of people who are in unstable housing situations.”

He said, “It can be very hard” for people who have to move because of evictions or other reasons to stay in the city.

The Castro has been hit particularly hard, he said.

“Rents are very, very high,” said Wiener. “We’ve had too many evictions.”

Many longtime neighborhood residents include seniors who “don’t have a lot of savings” and live in rentcontrolled units, he said. If they lose their housing, “they’re in trouble,” he said. He also expressed concern for young people and others who come to the neighborhood “trying to make a life for themselves.”

For buildings that have between one and 10 units, one in-law unit could be added. If a building has more than 10 units, up to two in-law spaces could be added.

The in-law units would be approximately 300 square feet at minimum and couldn’t be larger

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of providers collaborated to help Cason find supportive housing.

While the city provides funds for Cason’s housing through the Mayor’s Homeless Fund, Dufty said that public money cannot be used for things like storage facility bills and has turned to the community for help.

“She may lose her possessions,” Dufty said. “We need a little more to close it out.”

Cason, who is straight, nonetheless supports the LGBT community and said she’s a 30-year HIV survivor. She had previously lived with her best friend, she said, but became displaced several years ago.

“In the 1980s I came out here from Ohio and the community was marching down to City Hall to protest Reagan,” she said, referring to early AIDS

Connect event to crowdfund protesters who were fighting for people it profiles. Founder for federal recognition and Rose Broome said that Cason funding to help those living is currently being featured. with the disease.

“People can make donaBrian Basinger, director tions,” Broome said. of the AIDS Housing AlliDufty said HandUp has ance, worked with Dufty to helped raise donations for find housing for Cason. others and he hopes the com“She was homeless for munity can respond to help many years,” Basinger said, Cason. adding that the good relaJane Philomen Cleland “It’s a tool so that people tionship he and Dufty built can help donate,” he said. with Cason eventually led Janice Cason, left, talks with Rose Broome of HandUp about having her profile on the crowdfunding site.

For her part, Cason said to her accept housing. she would be grateful for any He added that they don’t help from the community. want to see Cason lose her litical activist. She described herself “I need help,” she said, “I don’t possessions. as “kind of reserved” and wanted to want a lot of fanfare.”t “She has accrued significant storquietly ask for donations. age bills that she’s not able to take Dufty enlisted the help of HandUp, care of on her own,” Basinger said. which recently launched a pilot projTo donate to Cason, visit https:// Cason is a former teacher and posecure.handup.us/m/janice. ect at the August Project Homeless

“To this day” McKinney claims “he did not know Matthew Shepard before walking into the Fireside that night,” said Jimenez, referring to the bar Shepard, McKinney, and Henderson had been at before Shepard was attacked. However, the book refers to several people saying that McKinney and Shepard had known each other before that night, and a man named John Earl Baker Jr. said that McKinney “had mentioned something to him about a drug deal and ‘getting dope from Shepard. ...’”

mean to kill [Shepard],” said McKinney. Jimenez wrote, “Aaron said the decision to use that strategy in court was ‘a little mine ... a little of the lawyers ... [but] it was mostly me.”

McKinney’s account

At one point, Jimenez produced an ABC News 20/20 story on the case. Some of the material gathered for that story is included in the book. In 2004, McKinney talked to ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas about his account that he’d attacked Shepard after Shepard grabbed his leg.

He said he hit him.

“I was already going to rob him,” said McKinney. When Shepard grabbed his leg, “I guess that just gave me a jump ... to get it started ...”

McKinney told Vargas that he stole $30 from Shepard.

When Vargas asked McKinney why he’d beat Shepard with his gun even after Shepard had given him his money, McKinney described the rage and loss of control he experienced while coming off a meth binge, saying, “I was hallucinating pretty bad ... It was almost like an out-of-body experience ...”

Jimenez also quotes what McKinney said after he’d questioned him “innumerable times” about the gay panic alibi he’d given.

“At the time, that seemed like ... the best way to prove that I didn’t than 750 square feet. The legislation would not allow for existing dwelling units to be subdivided.

Each in-law space “has to comply with the housing code, which requires a bathroom and a kitchen, so these have to be full, complete units,” said Wiener. Among other provisions, units created in rentcontrolled buildings would also fall under rent control. Wiener said the city can’t impose a maximum rent.

He said for this legislation, the Castro has “roughly” been defined as Hill Street to the south, Church Street to the east, 14th Street to the north, and the area around Clayton Street to the west.

“It’s hard to say” how many units may become available, said Wiener.

“People will obviously have to make an investment to building these,” but “I hope we get quite a few.”

Alan Beach-Nelson, president of the Castro/Eureka Valley Neighborhood Association, called Wiener’s proposal “a terrific idea.”

“The Castro, as everybody knows, has a dearth of housing that’s affordable” for people who are living with HIV and on disability, and others, said Beach-Nelson, who added

Shepard Foundation responds

One of the most prominent critics of the book has been the Matthew Shepard Foundation. The nonprofit’s staff includes Logan Shepard, Matthew Shepard’s brother.

“Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors, and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law,” a statement provided

by Jason Marsden, the foundation’s executive director, said.

“We do not respond to innuendo, rumor or conspiracy theories.

Instead we remain committed to honoring Matthew’s memory, and refuse to be intimidated by those who seek to tarnish it.”

But in 2004, several years before he became the foundation’s director, Marsden, who’d been a friend of Shepard’s and a newspaper reporter in Casper, Wyoming, essentially agreed with much of what would be put forward in the book.

According to Jimenez, Marsden said at the time, “The quick and easy description of Matt Shepard gay bashed ... is about as far from the actual nuanced truth of what happened as it can get.”

As for the possible role of drugs in Shepard’s killing, Jimenez quotes Marsden as saying, “... I remember thinking ... especially when it started to come out that McKinney was sur-

that his organization hasn’t yet taken a position on the legislation and he was speaking on a personal level.

Some of Wiener’s critics said that his proposal may help people but more is needed.

“I haven’t heard specifics about Supervisor Wiener’s plan but I hope that in addition to this idea he will demonstrate a stronger commitment to preserving affordable housing in his district in other meaningful ways,” Tom Temprano, president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, said in a Facebook message.

“In a district where long-term queer residents are being displaced at an alarming rate we are going to need a lot more than a few new inlaws,” he added.

Wiener said he has done other things to increase affordable housing, including work on the housing trust fund, aid to homeless and at-risk youth, and allowing smaller efficiency apartments, known as “micro-units.”

“I’ve been working on affordable housing since I took office,” said Wiener. “This legislation is the next step in trying to create more and diverse housing options for our residents.”t

rounded by people who were deep into the methamphetamine problem, that this was perhaps the most spectacular methamphetaminerelated crime that had ever happened in Wyoming ...” He also said, “I remember thinking at the time that the Matt Shepard case would forever go down in history as, you know, one of the saddest examples of gay bashing, but what it also was, was one of the saddest examples of the desperate lengths people on methamphetamine will go to.”

Asked about the comments, Marsden told the B.A.R., “I was not afforded an opportunity to review any of that interview material before [the book] was published. I can’t tell you if I said that or not.” He noted Jimenez uses several ellipses and, among other concerns, he said, “I don’t recall the context of that interview nine years ago,” although he

added, “I believe he discussed the fact that there was a rumor about methamphetamine related to this case.” Since then, “I have never seen hard evidence from the case record that indicate that rumor was true,” said Marsden.

“If [Jimenez] is asserting that I agree with his theory of the case, that is not true,” said Marsden, who said he never knew Shepard to use meth.

The Monday, October 28 event is set for 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the San Jose Public Library, Willow Glen Branch, 1157 Minnesota Avenue.

The prosecutor who oversaw the Shepard case and some other law enforcement officials who were involved have shared conflicting opinions about the book with the B.A.R. Their comments are included in a longer version of this story, available online at http://www.ebar.com.t

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BRANCH, 18 BARTOL ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MORENSTEIN CRONAN LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/24/13.

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OCT 03, 10, 17, 24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035395200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE UPS STORE #4592, 660 4TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JING STORE, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/05. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/25/13.

OCT 03, 10, 17, 24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035377800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SPAN, 333 BRYANT ST. # 110, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SPAN VENTURES, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/18/13.

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The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: S AND E CAFE, 2406 19TH AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by WEI HONG LIU. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/26/12.

OCT 03, 10, 17, 24, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 10/07/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: MV BRILLIANT CORP. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 501 BROADWAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133-4506.

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41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE OCT 10, 17, 24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035420200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CASTRO CONCIERGE, 545 DUBOCE AVE. #4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALFONSO JULIO MENDOZA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/08/13.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035414200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THRIVE WELLNESS, 2636 OCEAN AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CONNIE CHUCK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/03/13.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035417000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VANUATU COFFEE ROASTERS, 3118 22ND ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAMES B. LAPPIN JR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/04/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/13.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035360100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PARKFIT SF, 1945 CLAY ST. #2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MATTHEW SILVA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/11/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/11/13.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035415200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IRVING PIZZA, 1825 IRVING ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed AWADALLA AWADALLA & MOHAMMED AWADALLA. 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 10/03/13.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035421100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AMAZON BROADCAST TELEVISION CO., 6137 GEARY BLVD. 2/F, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FH VIDEO INC H.C. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/08/13.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035416100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LITTLE BEAR SCHOOL, 65 OCEAN AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a limited partnership, and is signed J&B ECE MANAGEMENT (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/13.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035421900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OCEAN BEACH YOGA SF, 3925 A JUDAH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed OCEAN BEACH YOGA SF, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/23/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/08/13.

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OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-034293900 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: SIN CHERRY, 1228 GRANT AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business was conducted by a general partnership and signed by KHALDOUN ALSALTI & ALLAM BITAR. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/24/12.

OCT 10, 17, 24, 31, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035429100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ENTOUR CASTRO, 3600 16TH ST. #4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DARREN GEORGE CADIZ. 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 10/11/13.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035418900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEAUTY THERAPY, 1538 PACIFIC AVE. #116, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DEVON E. JOHNSON. 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 10/07/13.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035418000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY, 1902 WEBSTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SAMUEL JINICH, PH.D. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/27/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/07/13.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035418800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: U SHIELD BOOKKEEPING, 298 LOWELL ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YUELAN ZHU. 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 10/07/13.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035428000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BRITTNEY SHEPHERD MEDIA, 1338 STEVENSON ST. #D, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BRITTNEY SHEPHERD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/10/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/10/13.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035417700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VINCENT HOTEL, 459 TURK ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited partnership, and is signed SF HOTEL PARTNERSHIP (CA), PARESH PATEL, PRAKASH PATEL & CHETAN PATEL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/13.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035425700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAY AREA REPORTER, 225 BUSH STREET, 17TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BAR MEDIA, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/13.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/10/13.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Dated 10/11/2013 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: SKATE BOWL DINER LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 770 FOLSOM ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. Type of license applied for

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41 - 0N-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE OCT 24, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE Dated 10/11/2013 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: SKATE BOWL DINER LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 750 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. Type of license applied for

41 - 0N-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE OCT 24, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035441800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLYING BEAUTICIANS SATELLITE LOUNGE, 166 GEARY ST. #900, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed POLINA GENRIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/21/13.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035436100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHE’S MY LIL ROCK N ROLL, 2976 23RD ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROSEMARY C. O’KANE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/16/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/16/13.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035433100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAUSKEY CONSTRUCTION, 353 CLIFTON ROAD, PACIFICA, CA 94044. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BRIAN J. HARRINGTON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/13.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035434800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLD ROOTER PLUMBING, 1191 NAPLES ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CONG CHI VU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/16/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/16/13.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035439200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PIXELTAG INC., 3145 MISSION ST. #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation and is signed PIXELTAG INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/13.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035429700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GS RIVERSIDE BBQ, 3751 GEARY BLVD., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation and is signed G.S. RIVERSIDE GRILL (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/11/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/11/13.

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Hula visionaries pack the house

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he Hula Show 2013 continues the breakout of the hula dance-form into an art so popular around here there are enough fans to fill big theaters night after night. San Francisco’s own hula company Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, which may be “the mainland’s” premiere hula company, opened to a packed house last Friday night at the Palace of Fine Arts; their shows continue through this weekend.

What’s not to like about hula? The music is seductive, sweet, nostalgic, beautiful, but also capable of austere power, and the dance that accompanies it is varied and fluid as the waves of the sea, deceptively soft but again capable of tremendous power. And truth to tell, human beings rarely look more appealing than when moving with such power and softness, with the hips rolling in powerful circles beneath tranquil shoul-

The Hula Show 2013, presented by Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu, plays the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre through Sunday.

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trength without bitterness; compassion with a cool, sober eye cast on painful, emotional realities; that’s the quotient that animates the work and tenor of Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, a new exhibition now at the Cantor Arts Center. Comprised of 100 black-and-white photographs, a few short videos and installations, the touring show is the first major museum retrospective for the accomplished, 60-year-old Portland-born artist, a self-described “modern black woman” who doesn’t flinch from touchy issues of race, gender and class, and whose photography is most affecting when it agitates, with irony and wit, against social and racial injustice.

African-Americans – their inclusion and exclusion from a history largely portrayed by whites; the construction of racial identity; and the pernicious stereotypes and lingering racism that suffuse the culture – are her primary subject. The unequal status and invisibility of African-Americans, especially women, is explored in “Slow Fade to Black” (2010), a group of blurry, fullbody publicity shots of Lena Horne, Katherine Dunham and Josephine Baker, stellar performers who Weems believes have faded from memory and been accorded less stat-

Afro-Chic (video still from DVD, 2010) by Carrie Mae Weems.

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t’s been a fertile few weeks for gallery-going in the Bay Area. Permit Out There to describe a few art exhibitions we’ve had the pleasure of seeing unveiled recently.

1. The highlight of the recent Yerba Buena Galleries Walk for us was coming across the showing of works

by French collage artist Jacques Villegle at Modernism gallery downtown. Villegle is best-known for his mixed-media works known as “decollage,” in which he mounts advertising posters, one atop another on canvas, then rips through the layers to create a multi-perspective landscape of pleasing complexity and depth. The show at Modernism, called Theatre, Cinema, Music-Hall, brings together works from different eras of his career, and the effect is of an archeological dig through decades of popular entertainment. (Through Oct. 26; modernisminc.com) 2. Twisted Sisters: Reimaging Urban Portraiture is a traveling exhibition co-presented by the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries and the City of Zurich that celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Sister City relationship between the two cities. The showcase of 15 artists opened at San Francisco City Hall last week, and OT attended the reception. Some of the photo-based artworks hanging on the ground floor are also presented as large-scale banners in the North Light Court of SF City Hall, as well as in 40 downtown kiosk posters. Contributors offering alternative takes on urban portraiture include Oakland-based lesbian artist Tammy Rae Carland.

(Through Jan. 27, 2014) 3. The artists and designers in Dissident Futures, which opened at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts last Friday night, envision a future that expands beyond our conventional expectations. The show, curated by YBCA Director of Visual Arts Betti-Sue Hertz, is loosely structured around three thematic strands – the utopian, the speculative, and the pragmatic. As usual, all the jargon in the exhibition’s press release doesn’t do justice to some very good artwork in a very mixed group show.

Architectural models by Future Cities Lab (Jason Kelly Johnson

Courtesy the artist and Institut Francois Mitterand

“Les Présidentielles” (1981), decollage mounted on canvas by Jacques Villegle, subject of an exhibition at Modernism.

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“Rakel,” portrait by Georg Gatsas, part of Twisted Sisters: Reimaging Urban Portraits, showing at SF City Hall.

and Nataly Gattegno) imagine the San Francisco waterfront “as a system of aquatic parks, community gardens and aquaponic farms” (Hydramax, 2012), and the “nowdefunct eastern span of the San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge as a habitable space” (Hydraspan, 2013).

Untitled (Flying Fruit) (2012) by Peter Coffin is a two-minute video of fruits flying through a void, pretty cool. And work by Trevor Paglen reminds us that the photographer was tracking the U.S. government’s biggest secrets, “the so-called ‘black world’ of classified military activity,” years before Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. (Through Feb. 2, 2014; ybca.org) 4. Also on view this fall, Hymns to Hermes: The Poetics of James Broughton is an exhibition curated

by Joey Cain devoted to the work of Bay Area poet and avant-garde filmmaker James Broughton. It’s up for your delectation at the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center in the Main Library (Third Floor), 100 Larkin St., SF, through Jan. 16, 2014.

We haven’t seen it yet, but know that when we do, it will bestow a big joy.

5. We slipped out of Mélange, a fashion show featuring designs by Jean Paul Gaultier and Bay Area designers at Temple nightclub last Saturday night, and into Mirus Gallery next door for the opening of Spindrift, a solo show by artist Matthias Düwel. His paintings are marvelous psychedelic landscapes that inhabit a space somewhere between abstraction and figuration. Highly recommended. (Through Nov. 16; mirusgallery.com) 6. In many ways, the grandest art exhibit on display in the Bay Area right now is the Bay Lights, the public artwork by Leo Villareal that vivifies the San Francisco-Oakland Bay

Bridge with its play of sparkle and flash. Now comes word that starting Nov. 1, the Bay Lights, the world’s largest LED light sculpture, will be lit continually from dusk to dawn every day. The 2 a.m. shut-off clause in the permit for the Bay Bridge installation has been successfully circumvented, and the Bay Lights will now shine “whenever the city is shrouded in darkness,” according to the poetic turn of phrase from its presenter Illuminate the Arts. Oh Bay Lights, in the immortal words of Debby Boone, you light up our life!

Hitch at DSH

The San Francisco Symphony’s season-long film series is off and running, and it launches with a full screening of Psycho on Oct. 30, followed by one of Alfred Hitchcock’s early classics, The Lodger, on Halloween night. The Lodger is actually a silent film, and organist Todd Wilson will improvise an accompaniment to the film on the Davies Symphony Hall organ. The SFS then accompanies a full screening of Vertigo on Nov. 1 (this will actually be the very first time the entire score of Vertigo has been performed live by a symphony orchestra). The SFS rounds out the week with a Hitchcock Greatest Hits night on Nov. 2, with clips from Dial M for Murder, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo, Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest.

Tickets and info: sfsymphony.org.

Enormous changes at the last minute: What changes were wrought, quite late in the game, to the San Francisco Opera production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman that opened this week at the War Memorial Opera House? OT has heard strange scuttlebutt about space aliens and other exotica that were unceremoniously dropped from the high-concept production, much to the director’s chagrin.

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Classic horror with a queer twist

by David-Elijah Nahmod

The Old Dark House (1932); director James Whale ritish-born James Whale (18891957) is a case study on how difficult it was to be gay during the early part of the 20th century. LGBT people of all types were largely invisible in popular culture and the media. Being known or even suspected of homosexuality could mean loss of employment, eviction from an apartment, or even arrest.

It was in this environment that Whale became an acclaimed director for the theater and in Hollywood. After his great stage and film success with Journey’s End, a World War I drama, Universal Studios gave Whale carte blanche to make whatever film he chose. It’s now believed that Whale’s Frankenstein (1931), starring Boris Karloff as the monster who was desperate to be loved and accepted, was a metaphor for Whale’s life as a gay man in those intolerant times.

The auteur was recalled six decades later by actress Gloria Stuart (Titanic’s Old Rose), who co-starred opposite Karloff in Whale’s The Old Dark House (1932). Stuart, who worked with Whale on two other films, swore that at the time she had no idea he was gay. “I thought he was the perfect gentleman,” she said.

“We didn’t talk about such things then.”

The unprecedented success of Frankenstein emboldened Whale.

Old Dark House was about a group of stranded travelers spending the night in an isolated manor on the proverbial “dark and stormy night.”

The house is occupied by the Femm family, which includes “confirmed bachelor” Horace Femm (Ernest Thesiger). Horace is first seen gliding lightfootedly down the stairs, holding his arms against his chest

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schoolmarm style. “My name is Femm,” he lisps. “Horace Femm.”

With Horace’s effeminate voice and mannerisms and that family name, Whale makes it clear to viewers that they’re looking at a gay man who makes no apologies for who he is.

Was Femm a stand-in for Whale himself?

Sister Rebecca Femm (Eva Moore, then Laurence Olivier’s mother-in-law) is a Bible-thumping religious fanatic who spends much of the film warning of the “sins of the flesh.” While the storm rages outside, Rebecca sternly and gleefully tells young, sexy Margaret (Stuart) that her lovely flesh will rot soon enough. The scene is both humorous and unnerving.

In a then-daring casting choice, the 102-year-old, bedridden patriarch Sir Roderick Femm is billed to a John Dudgeon. It’s actually Elspeth Dudgeon, a British stage actress. In close-up, it becomes quite obvious that the gentleman is being played by a lady.

Whale’s film career barely lasted a decade. His final years, loosely dramatized in the film Gods and Monsters (1998), were filled with illness and loneliness. Film historians now debate whether his career collapsed because of a few flops in the late 1930s or because he insisted on being honest about who he was.

Whatever the case may be, James Whale certainly had courage. He dared to peek outside of the closet door nearly four decades before Stonewall.

Dracula’s Daughter (1936); director Lambert Hillyer 1930s moviegoers must have had heart attacks when they went to see this direct sequel to Dracula (1931) on its initial run. Gloria Holden is superb as the Count’s offspring, who was desperate to escape the family curse. Though she spends a

big portion of the film blood-lusting after handsome Dr. Jeffrey Garth (Otto Kruger), the Countess could also enjoy the company of women.

The scene is shocking and titillating by 1930s standards. The Countess brings a beautiful young girl (Nan Grey) to her “artist’s studio.”

“I’m doing a study of a young girl’s head and shoulders,” she tells her victim. As the young lady dutifully removes her top, the Countess stares at her throat, and elsewhere, with lust and desire. How this scene got past 1930s censors remains a mystery. Dracula’s Daughter, certainly the first bisexual character in a horror movie, might also be the first B in Hollywood history.

Rebecca (1940); director Alfred Hitchcock Hitch’s first Hollywood film won an Oscar for Best Picture. A Gothic psychological thriller based on Daphne du Maurier’s bestselling novel, Rebecca is about the lingering effects the dead mistress of the spooky mansion known as Manderlay has on those who still live there.

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again,” says Joan Fontaine in the voiceover that opens the film, as the ruined house is seen

through the fog. Though Fontaine and Laurence Olivier are quite good as the newlyweds haunted by the first Mrs. DeWinter, the film is stolen by Dame Judith Anderson. Ostensibly the housekeeper, Anderson’s Mrs. Danvers is obsessed with her dead mistress. She continues to clean the dead Mrs. DeWinter’s room, keeping her late mistress’ clothes and things perfectly arranged. She rubs the dead woman’s fur coat against her cheek, and against the new Mrs. DeWinter’s cheek. She does so with love and affection, then points out how sheer her mistress’ stockings are. It’s a disturbing portrait of obsessive, romantic, and unrequited love.

On the extras menu available on Rebecca’s current BluRay and DVD releases, critics and historians discuss Mrs. Danvers’ obvious lesbianism. While not the most flattering portrait of onscreen Sapphic love, it was at the time a daring character to present onscreen. Anderson is deliciously chilling and unforgettable in the role.

The Ackermonster Chronicles (2012); director Jason V. Brock From 1958-83, Forrest J. Acker-

man (1916-2008) edited Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine. The wildly popular monthly inspired a generation. Luminaries such as Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, who read it voraciously as kids, cite the mag as an influence on their careers. Uncle Forry, as he was affectionately known, had a sex life, something that was rarely discussed until filmmaker/historian Jason V. Brock released this affectionate career biography on DVD. The film includes some of Ackerman’s final on-camera interviews: at age 89, he expresses his desire for a blow job!

In the film, Ackerman recalled a close lesbian friend he had during the 1950s. She was involved in the Daughters of Bilitis, the early lesbian activist organization which helped usher in the Stonewall era. In 1953, wanting to help his friend out, he donated his collection of rare lesbian pulp novels to the Daughters, who named him an “honorary lesbian.” After his death, Prism Comics, which publishes gay comic titles, reported that Ackerman, who was straight, befriended many LGBT people throughout his life, and always supported gay causes. RIP, Uncle Forry.

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Name that showtune!

by Richard Dodds

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hey don’t write ’em like they used to, at least some of ’em don’t. But even while the lost Broadway of yore is lamented, you can count on Dirty Little Showtunes! to goose it again. And again.

And again. According to a program note for its latest incarnation at New Conservatory Theatre Center, this is the parody musical’s 16th production since its debut 16 years ago. It’s been a real nice clambake.

The show has been around long enough that it has become something of a social barometer for gay life.

Same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and smart-phone hookups are current topics now explored through classic Broadway melodies, and lyricist Tom Orr’s talents at cleverly, wickedly finding the right words remain as sharp as ever. And director F. Allen Sawyer, who also conceived the original 1997

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Rotimi Agbabiaka stops the show with his anthem to lip-sync artistry in the newest incarnation of Dirty Little Showtunes! now at New Conservatory Theatre Center.

production, knows how to bring extra laughs to the material.

There are carryovers from previous productions, and if the topical

relevance no longer feels fresh, many Dirty Little fans would likely feel shortchanged if they were omitted.

We must, of course, have David Bicha singing “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Homosexual,” his surefire, rapid-fire variation on Gilbert and Sullivan. And the leather men/drag queen medley is a classic, if somehow less robust this time around in Jayne Zaban’s choreography.

The cast seems to have lost a member since the program went to press, which may help explain some of the reduced circumstances, and not all of the current performers possess vivid stage personae. But there are no reservations about Rotimi Agbabiaka’s performance of “The Music and the Makeup,” a hilarious lip-syncing drag queen’s anthem that takes its inspiration from A Chorus Line. And there are shining moments for each cast member, a group that includes Jesse Cortez and Randy Noak in ad-

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dition to Orr, Bicha, and Agbabiaka.

A happy surprise is musical director Scrumbly Koldewyn’s move from piano to stage to open the second act with a Mary Poppins rift on theatrical superstitions.

While there are new numbers in this staging of Dirty Little Showtunes!, they are mainly set to older musical melodies. When the revue arises again (as surely it must), it might be fun to bring recent Broadway into the ribald mix. Spring Awakening, Billy Elliot, Matilda, Spiderman, and The Book of Mormon, to name a few, have a myriad of possibilities. And just imagine what Orr, Sawyer, and company could do with Kinky Boots.t Dirty Little Showtunes! will run at New Conservatory Theatre Center through Nov. 10. Tickets are $25-$45. Call 861-8972 or go to nctcsf.org.

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by David Lamble

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his column is designed as an early Fall season snapshot at award-worthy movies. So far the year has produced one almost guaranteed multi-nomination Oscar threat: Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen’s shrewd homage to Tennessee Williams’ inimitable tragic heroine Blanche DuBois, with a certain Best Actress nomination awaiting Cate Blanchett, and Woody likely to score still another Best Original Screenplay nod. My list begins with two outstanding adult comedies.

Enough Said The term comedy is so misapplied these days, usually to feeble milquetoast exercises that fail to provoke even smiles, that one

is sometimes shocked to be laughing at the memory of a sharp piece of work. Such is the case in the fifth film from the febrile comic mind of writer/director Nicole Holofcener.

Enough Said ignites at one of those parties we all dread, filled with other adults we are in no way drawn to, who feel the same way about us.

Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a freelance massage therapist, winds up making edgy small talk with the recently divorced Albert (James Gandolfini), a curator at an LA broadcast museum with a penchant for TV’s Golden Age. Against all odds, Eva and Albert become a thing, but a curse on their coupling begins at the same party, as Eva accidentally bonds with a working poet, Marianne (Holof-

cener regular Catherine Keener), who, unbeknownst to Eva, is Albert’s disgruntled ex. Marianne starts poisoning Eva’s concept of Albert, as Eva later confesses to her best girlfriend, Sarah (Toni Collette).

“I’m listening to this woman saying the worst things about a guy I’m starting to really like. She’s like a human trip adviser.”

“Albert is not a hotel!”

“If you could avoid staying at a bad one, wouldn’t you?”

“Oh my god!”

Holofcener retains her ability to portray female characters with insight, empathy and real humor, while reserving the right to see them as just as capable of being assholes as the men they sometimes cru-

elly mistreat. Enough Said keeps us laughing and sympathizing with this season’s best romantic odd couple: Louis-Dreyfus, proving why she remains the only one of the Seinfeld core cast to move on with her career; and sadly, the late James Gandolfini, demonstrating why he was so much more than his Shakespeare-worthy suburban mob guy Tony. This man had a brilliant talent for the astutely delivered throw-away line. Oscar Bait: Best Original Screenplay.

Don Jon There was a moment in the meteoric rise of former child actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt when the discerning viewer could get a peep at the future. Midway through the 2004 child-endangerment classic Mysterious Skin, Joe’s cocky teenage gay hustler is chatting with his movie mom, Elizabeth Shue. These characters, drawn from Scott Heim’s acute novel, are no respecters of church-lady values. Just a glance at the lanky boy astride a doorway giving “Mom” an incestuous stare revealed an embryonic carnal star.

Now in the hip new randy singles satire Don Jon, Joe writes, directs and acts up a storm as a cock-ofthe-walk stud chasing hot ladies at night while hooked on an ocean of online girly porn. Replete with hammy sexist jokes, the bawdy world of Joe’s Jersey Shore-inflected, perpetually horny waiter could easily have curdled into a bog of ethnic stereotypes. That this does not happen is due to its creator’s sharp eye for skewering audience expectations. There’s laugh-out-loud hilarity every time Joe’s porn-dog flips open his Apple laptop and that familiar chime cues us to really smart smut gags. It’s even funnier when the guy tries to wash away his sinning in a series of goofy Catholic confession-booth jokes. Finally, Don Jon survives a tricky mid-film

plot arc that has Joe finding salvation from a most unlikely source.

Oscar Bait: There’s a strong chance for a Best Original Screenplay nomination; plus Scarlett Johansson as a ball-busting, romance-addicted girlfriend, and Julianne Moore as See page 27 >>

Astronaut George Clooney in director Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity.

Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks mastermind Julian Assange in director Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate.

James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as an unlikely couple in director Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said.

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Hello, Sally!: Struthers on the stage

by Gregg Shapiro

you. I say try both. Nowadays, a human matchmaker will probably cost you quite a bit of money if they’re any good.

I don’t know what an online dating service costs, but it’s got to be cheaper than a human being. I just think, get your friends to keep introducing you to people. That doesn’t cost anything. Tell your friends you want to meet someone.

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hen you hear the name Sally Struthers, there are probably a few images that come to mind. The most immediate one is most likely the role that made fledgling actress Struthers famous, that of Gloria Stivic, wife of Mike (Rob Reiner) and daughter of Archie (Carroll O’Connor) and Edith Bunker (Jean Stapleton) You mentioned your on the groundbreaking 1970s friendship with Jerry, and sitcom All in the Family. As with all of your theater one of the voices of reason work, I would imagine and compassion in the racist/ you’ve developed a following sexist/homophobic Bunker in the LGBT community. homestead, Gloria often had I have as many friends that a profound effect on both the are LGBT as I do straight. audience and her father. Her I learned this song in Bible friendship with a gay man in school, “Jesus loves the little an early episode of the series is children, all the children of the just one example. world, red and yellow, black In recent years, Struthers and white, LGBT and everyhas divided her time between thing else.” Embrace them all TV series (Gilmore Girls, Still and they will embrace you Standing) and stage work. back. That’s my motto. I don’t Actress Sally Struthers: “ I don’t understand Currently, Struthers is touring understand people that are people that are afraid of other people!” the country in the Jerry Herafraid of other people! What’s man-sanctioned lead role of the matter with them?

Oh yes, Jerry is a friend of mine. matchmaker Dolly Levi in the A 1971 episode of All in the His number is in my cell phone. He’s award-winning music Hello, Dolly!

Family was one of the first shows the reason I’m doing this. He hasn’t I spoke with Struthers this month in prime time to feature a gay let anyone take this musical out on a about her Dolly, her career and her character. Did you have any idea national tour since Carol Channing. life. of the significance that episode He gave me the go-ahead.

We fell in Gregg Shapiro: Sally, you have would have? love with each other many years ago previously played Dolly Levi on I was just a young, naïve kid from when I did Mame.

I didn’t play Aunstage in other productions of Portland, Oregon, who landed this tie Mame, I played Agnes Gooch.

He Hello, Dolly! What do you enjoy role. I had never heard these racial came to the show and said, “You’re most about playing the character? slurs, epithets. I would sit in the the funniest woman I’ve ever seen.

Sally Struthers: Oh my goodrehearsal hall on Monday mornNo one has ever played Agnes ness, Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! is ings when we read the script diaGooch the way you played it.”

We one of the best roles ever written log for that week. Archie would say have awards in Los Angeles akin to for a woman in the American thethese words and I would say, “What the Tony Awards called the Ovation ater. Dolly Levi gets to be brilliant does that mean?” I was told, “That’s Awards.

That year, I won an Ovation and sassy, meddling and adorable, what some people use as a derogaAward for Best Supporting Actress sing seven songs and manipulate tory term for a Spanish person or an in a Musical for Mame.

When Jerry a man into proposing to her, and Italian person or an Irish person or Herman said that I could go out make other people fall in love, and a black person.” I’d say, “Well, I’ve with Dolly, I felt like St. Peter had let dress in beautiful close, and have never heard that in my life. I come me into the gates of heaven.

That’s lots of monologues. It’s a challenge from a nice Lutheran Norwegian quite a nod. to learn, and once you’ve learned family. We don’t dislike anybody.”

Have you ever met any of the it, it’s in there for life. It’s brilliant!

No, I didn’t understand the sigprevious Dollys: Carol Channing, The words are brilliant, the lyrics are nificance of any of it until I was Pearl Bailey or Barbra Streisand? brilliant. It’s such an entertaining way past it. I had to be in my 30s, I’ve met and dined with and hung show. There are so many beautiful 40s, 50s to look back and see how out with Carol Channing. I saw people on stage dancing and singing groundbreaking that show was and Pearl Bailey do it, but never met her. memorable songs! how fortunate I was to be a small Those are the two that I saw play the Do you have a favorite song that part of it. role. you get to sing as Dolly?

I know that you will be on Are you, like Dolly, a woman who I think my favorite one to sing is tour with Dolly for a number arranges things? in the second act, “So Long Dearie.” of months, but are there other I am! I’m a bit of that myself.

She’s with Horace Vandergelder. projects that you have in the There are two couples that I know He’s being held at the jail, and she’s works? of, so far, that are married because alone with him. The officers have I wrote my own one-woman I introduced them. There are lots of brought her in to see Horace, who show, Life Is Short and So Am I, and other people I’ve gotten together. has been arrested. She tells him that I’ve been doing that in quite a few I also take people into my house he’s pretty much lost everything, places. I won’t be able to do it now to give them a place to live, so my and she’s saying so long to him. It’s until April 2014. But it’s been really house is always full. I get myself ina very sassy vaudeville kind of song fun to do.t volved in a lot of people’s lives in a done with a straw hat and a cane. It’s way to try and help them. really fun to sing.

The show has, as you put it, “memorable” songs, which is, of course, due to Jerry Herman.

Have you ever had a chance to meet him?

Which do you think is more reliable, a matchmaker or an online dating website?

Never having used either and not owning a computer, I can’t tell

Struthers will play the role of Dolly Levi in the national tour of Hello, Dolly! on Feb. 18 & 19, 2014, at the Saroyan Theatre in Fresno. It’s the closest she will get to San Francisco.

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Alonzo King Lines Ballet @ Lam Research Theater World premiere dances by the popular local choreographer, including Writing Ground (a work created with author Colum McCann) a new work set to J.S. Bach’s music and the release of the company’s dance photography book of images by RJ Muna and Marty Sohl. $20-$100. Opening night party Oct 25. Wed & Thu 7:30pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Nov. 3. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. 978-2787. www.linesballet.org

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Dead or Alive

by Jim Provenzano

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f you’re into the AMC show The Walking Dead, you know that the living can sometimes be more dangerous than staggering flesh-eaters.

This week, and into the first days of November, artists and event producers offer colorful venues and works of art dedicated to celebrating the dead, the ghostly long-gone, appeasing wandering spirits, but for the most part, realistically living and breathing as human beings who simply enjoy a little scare.

Thu 24 Drowning Ophelia @ Mojo Theatre Repurposed Theatre’s inaugural production and world premiere of Rachel Luann Strayer’s play about a modern-day woman who’s visited by the Shakespearian character. $20. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 2.

2940 16th St. #217. At Capp. www.repurposedtheatre.com

Garret + Moulton @ Jewish Community Center Award-winning choreographers Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton present the premiere of A Show of Hands, a commissioned New Music USA site-specific work exploring the articulate nature of human hands, with live music by the Friction Quartet. 12pm. Various times thru Oct. 25. 3200 California St. www.garrettmoulton.org

Geezer @ The Marsh Veteran comedian Geoff Hoyle returns with his solo show about aging (not-so) gracefully. $25-$100. Wed & Thu 8pm. Sat 5pm. Thru Oct. 26. 1062 Valencia St. at 22nd. 826-5750. www.themarsh.org

Macy Gray @ Yoshi’s Wildly soulful pop R&B singer performs with her band. $48-$75. 8pm & 10pm.

Special meet & greet pre-show (7pm).

Dinner options. 1330 Fillmore St. 6555600. www.yoshis.com

New and Classic Films @ Castro Theatre Cleverly-paired double features and special events include: Oct. 24, Allegiant and author Veronica Roth in a Q&A ($30).

Oct. 25 & 26: Sing-Along Trapped in the Closet, R. Kelly’s hip hop opera, hosted

by Laurie Bushman and D’Arcy Drollinger, (7pm & 10pm). Oct. 26, Sing-along Annie, 2pm. Oct. 29, I Am a Ghost (1pm, 3pm., 5pm, and 8pm with a Q&A and live show).

Oct. 30, An American Werewolf in London (7:30) and The Howling (5:40, 9:20). Reg. admission $8.50-$12. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Night of the Living Dead @ Century 9 Cinema Riff Trax Live blends live simulcast commentary by the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 crew to the classic Roger Corman original zombie classic film. $12-$15. 8pm.

835 Market St. fathomevents.com

Richard Meyer @ Books Inc. Author of the “curatorially promiscuous” Queer Art and Culture discusses his book on LGBT arts achievements since 1880, which features 180 color images. 7:30pm.

2275 Market St. 864-6777. booksinc.net

Our Vast Queer Past @ GLBT History Museum See the new exhibit, The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus: Celebrating 35 Years of Activism Through Song, which includes archival materials from the historic chorus, lead-curated by Tom Burtch, with a touchscreen display by multimedia producer John Raines. Also, Be Bad…Do Good: Activism With a Beat, a multimedia exhibit highlighting the history of the Real Bad benefit dance parties, which have raised nearly $1.7 million for local nonprofits.

Exhibit thru Oct. 27. Other permanent exhibits as well. Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am7pm (closed Tue.) Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistory.org

Randy Roberts @ Alcove Theatre, Martuni’s Veteran gender illusionist performs live songs as Bette Midler, Cher, and other female music icons. $40. Thu-Sat, 9pm.

Thru Nov 2. 414 Mason St. at Geary, 5th floor. 992-8168. At Martuni’s, and accompanied by Tammy L. Hall, Oct. 28, 7pm. $20. 4 Valencia St. at Market. 2410205. www.randyroberts.net

Local production of Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph’s drama about two selfdestructive adults who once met in a school nurse’s office. $20-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 9. 533 Sutter St. 2nd. floor.

399-1322. www.tidestheatre.org

Actors Ensemble of Berkeley performs Steve Martin’s intelligent comedy about painter Pablo Picasso and scientist Albert Einstein, who meet in a Paris bar. $12-$15.

Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 26. 1301 Shattuck Ave. at Berryman, Berkeley. (510) 649-5999. www.aeofberkeley.org

Josh Klipp and The Klipptones @ Palace Hotel

Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Holiday shows now on sale.

Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

The local jazz crooner and his band perform weekly shows at the hotel’s lounvge, which draws a growing swing-dance audience. 7pm11pm. 2 New Montgomery. joshklipp.com

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

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane @ YBCA Exhibit and series of events celebrating the 30th anniversary of the innovative dance company and its diverse collaborators.

Included are several offsite performances and discussion panels. Free/$10. Thru Nov. 3. Also, Kota Ezawa’s Boardwalk, an installation tribute to the Seaside Heights boardwalk (which was just destroyed by fire after barely enduring Hurricane Sandy).

Thru Nov. 30. Also, Migrating Identities, an eight-artist exhibition visualizing cultural diversity in the U.S. Thru Nov. 30. 701 Mission St. 979-2787. www.ybca.org

Carrie: the Musical @ Victoria Theatre Ray of Light Theatre company premieres its much-anticipated version of the rarely-produced musical adaptation of the Stephen King horror tale about an awkward high school girl with special powers. $25-$36. Wed-Sat 8pm. Special late show Oct. 26 at 11:30pm. Nov 2 matinee at 2pm. Thru Nov. 2. 2961 16th St. at Mission. www.rayoflighttheatre.com

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Dirty Little Showtunes @ New Conservatory Theatre The return engagement of Tom Orr’s zany, racy Broadway parody song show, now in its 16th production! $25-$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 10. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

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Forbidden Fruit @ The Garage Back Alley Theatre and Footloose present a dance-theatre-music story of gay male ‘90s romance; for mature audiences (since there’s a bit of nudity). $20-$25. 8pm.

Fri, Sat & Mon thru Oct. 28. 715 Bryant St. (800) 838-2006. www.backalleysf.org www.715bryant.org

Glass Pumpkin Patch @ Cohn-Stone Studios, Richmond Annual outdoor exhibit of fascinating glass sculptures shaped like colorful gourds. FriSun 10am-6pm. Thru Oct. 27. 560 South 31st St. Richmond. www.cohnstone.com

This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in collaboration with Bulgari. Curator’s Ci and Wells Fargo. Patron’s Circle: Jeri Dexter.

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Thrillpeddlers’ new show takes on a creepy-fun Halloween theme, with Grand Guignol-styled tales of the famous London serial killer, plus the one-act Salome and more fun. $25-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov 23. (800) 838-3006. thrillpeddlers.com

A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley

The Taming @ Thick House

UC Berkeley’s theatre department performs the Shakespeare comedy about fairies and mistaken love affairs in the magical woods. $10-$15.

Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 27.

Behind Zellerbach Hall on Spieker Plaza, near the corner of Bancroft and Dana streets. (510) 642-8827. www.tdps.berkeley.edu

Crowded Fire Theater company’s production of Lauren Gunderson’s political comedy about a conservative senator’s aid, a liberal activist and a beauty pageant queen’s interactions in a Georgia bar. $10-$25.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 26. 1695 18th St. 746-9238. www.crowdedfire.org

Next Fall @ San Jose Repertory Theatre

Unmasked @ Regency Center

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile @ Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley

Patrick Makuakane and his award-winning dance troupe, Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, present their annual festive celebratory dance concert of traditional and contemporary hula dances. $ 2pm & 8pm.

Oct. 25 & 26 at 8pm; Oct. 27 at 3pm. 3924400. cityboxoffice.com naleihulu.org

Shocktoberfest 14: Jack the Ripper @ Hypnodrome

The GLBT Historical Society’s annual gala includes drinks, food, a tempting variety of historic LGBT-themed auction items (plus wines, show tickets and luxury items).

Entertainment at the event will include drag stars Miss Rahni and Landa Lakes, swing dancers Ron Jenkins and Photis Pishiaras, erotic cabaret performers from SF Boylesque, and DJs from Stay Gold.

Festive attire encouraged. $75 and up.

7pm-10pm. 1290 Sutter St. at Van Ness. www.unmaskedgala.org

Gruesome Playground Injuries @ Tides Theatre

The Hula Show @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

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Local production of Geoffrey Nauffts’s Tony-nominated play about a gay couple facing a five-year crisis following a family tragedy that forces them to face their conflicting religious beliefs. $25-$75. Tue & Wed 7pm. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm.

Also Sat 3pm. Thru Nov. 10. 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk, San Jose. (408) 3677255. www.sjrep.com

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

Thru Nov. 17. 277 Taylor St. 525-1205. www.cuttingball.com

Susan Stinson @ MCC Lambda Literay Award-winning lesbian novelist reads from and discusses her new book, Spider in a Tree, a historical fiction work about theologian Jonathan Edwards.

7pm. Metropolitan Community Church, 150 Eureka St. 863-4434. www.mccsf.org

Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike @ Berkeley Repertory Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-winning comedy about a wacky family’s absurd country weekend includes a mom with a ditzy new boy toy. $29-$89. Tue-Sat 8pm.

Sun 7pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 25.

Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley.

(510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

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Sat 26 David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition @ de Young Museum New exhibit of 300 portraits, still lifes, and landscape paintings by the gay British painter.

Free-$25. Thru Jan. 20. Also, The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, an exhibit of 150 pieces of exquisite Italian jewelry made between 1950 and 1990, including gems from Elizabeth Taylor’s personal collection. Thru Feb 17. $10-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. (til 8:45pm Fridays) Thru Dec. 30. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 7503600. www.famsf.org

Being Raymond Chandler @ ODC Dance Commons 13th Floor Dance Theater presents an innovative dance theatre work about the iconic detective fiction author’s writing process. $18-$23. Sat & Sun 8pm. Thru Nov. 3. Studio B, 351 Shotwell St. 863-9834. www.odcdance.org

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Chitresh Das Dance Company @ Z Space

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Shiva, a concert of traditional Indian Kathak dances choreographed by Pandit Chitresh Das. $28-$55. 7pm. Oct. 27, 2pm & 6pm. 450 Florida St. (866) 811-4111. www.kathak.org

Creature Feature @ City Art Live sketch session by six artists, with requested works available for purchase.

October group show also on exhibit.

7:30pm-10pm. 828 Valencia St. 970-9900. www.cityartgallery.org

Die With Elegance @ Mission Cultural Center Day of the Dead fundraising reception for the annual celebration of Dia de los Muertos, with music, drinks, food, a silent auction, and raffles. $50. 6:30pm. 2868 Mission St. 821-1155. www.missionculturalcenter.org

Night of the Living Dead

Our Mission: No Eviction! @ Brava Theater Center Benefit performance and art auction for Mission artists Rene Yañez and Yolanda López, who face eviction from their home of 35 years. Performers include Culture Clash (founded by Rene), Marga Gomez, Las Bomberas de la Bahia and Guillermo Gomez-Peña. $10-$35 and up. 8pm. 2781 24th St. at York. 641-7657. www.brava.org

The Rebirth of Apsara @ SOMArts Cultural Center Sneak peek of a work-in-progress by shadow theatre master Larry Reed and Cambodian dancer-choreographer Charya Burt. $5-$10. 7:30pm. 934 Brannan St. www.shadowlightrebirth.weebly.com

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ce its founding in Rome in 1884, Bulgari has become ymous with innovation and luxury in jewelry design. With eathtaking pieces, this exclusive US exhibition highlights a eriod in the evolution of Bulgari’s distinctive Italian style and elry loved and worn by celebrities and jet-setters, including veral from the legendary collection of Elizabeth Taylor.

Annual large-scale exhibits and sales of hundreds of artists’ works in various media, at locations citywide. Most Oct. 27 & 28 11am-6pm. Participating gay artists include David Barnett (1370 Noe St., 5055466), Fred Goldsmith (124 Foerster St), Bob Gerbracht (3822 19th St.). Weekends thru Nov. 10. www.artspan.org

ircle: Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Pascarella. Benefactor’s Circle: Mrs. George Hopper Fitch, Dr. Alan R. Malouf,

Sun 27 In Grand Style @ Asian Art Museum In Grand Style, Celebrations in Korean Art During the Joseon Dynasty, a new exhibit of works from 1392-1910. Thru Jan. 12.

Also, Proximities 2, a contemporary exhibit of works by Bay Area artists focusing on the concept of family, and cultural and geographical distances. Thru Dec. 8.

Also, Art of Adornment, Southeast Asian Jewelry ; Thru Nov 24. Free (members)-$12.

Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. 5813500. www.asianart.org

Actor-director James Franco discusses his diverse arts career and his new book Actors Anonymous. $15-$95. 5:45 VIP reception, 6:30 program, 7:30pm book signing. (Screening of his film, Interior Leather Bar; see Oct. 28) 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Don Reed’s autobiographical solo show explores the 1960s: Beatles, Black Panthers, MLK, JFK and the KKK. $20-$50.

Sat 8:30pm and Sun 7pm thru Dec. 15.

2120 Allston Way. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

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

10 Percent @ Comcast Cable

New exhibit of varied artists’ interpretations of the future, science and technology’s role in shaping it. $8-$12.

Thru Feb. 2, 2104. 701 Mission St. www.ybca.org

David Perry’s LGBT-themed talk show features a variety of local and visiting guests. This week, Perry speaks with Jason Galisatus, executive director of Bay Area Youth Summit, and Joseph Rocha about his time in the US Navy and his prominent role in the the fight to end DADT. Rebroadcast various times thru the week. www.comcasthometown.com www.davidperry.com

Evelyn Jean Pine’s fictional retelling of the young innovative and competitive life of computer guru Bill Gates. Thu-Sat 8pm.

Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 3. 446 Valencia St. www.firsttheplay.com

Hedwig and the Angry Inch @ Boxcar Theatre The hit local production of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s popular transgender rock operetta features multiple actor-singers performing the lead. $25-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 5pm. Extended with open-ended run. 505 Natoma St. 967-2227. www.boxcartheatre.org

Can You Dig It? @ The Marsh Berkeley

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

Zhukov Dance Theatre @ SF Jazz Center The world premiere of Yuri Zhukov’s Product 06 and a new work by Israeli guest choreographer Idan Sharabi will be performed at the jazz center with music by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, Spanish composer Jordi Savall, and Bach. $25-$55. 8pm. Also Oct. 30. 201 Franklin St. at Fell. (866) 920-5299. www.sfjazz.org www.zhukovdance.org

Crones Meet Bride of Lesbostein @ The Garage

Dissident Futures @ YBCA

First @ Stage Werx

Will Durst @ The Marsh

Concerts, workshops and parties celebrating Yiddish music in song and dance, featuring the Strauss/Warschauer Duo and Veretski Pass. $10-$60. 8pm.

Also Oct. 27 1pm-10pm. 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley. www.klezcalifornia.org

Mon 28 Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer Prize finalist drama about the ghost of a tiger who changes the lives of U.S. Marines and an Iraqi translator. $30-$70. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. 450 Post St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Exhibit of beer-label collages by local artist Tofu, at the beer store and bar. 21+.

Exhibit thru Nov. 3. Regular hours Tue-Sun 12pm-10pm. 1168 Folsom St. 503-1033. www.tofuart.com www.citybeerstore.com

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Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo @ SF Playhouse

The Art of Beer @ City Beer

Yiddish Cultural Festival @ Magnes Collection, Berkeley

James of All Trades @ Castro Theatre

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Terry Baum and Carolyn Myers’ comedy show takes on the holidays. $15-$18. 8pm.

Also Oct. 31. 715 Bryant St. (800) 8383006. www.crackpotcrones.com

Halloween Readings @ Books Inc. Enjoy a special fun queer horror reading event, with Rob Rosen ( Vamp, Queerwolf ), Allison Moon ( Hungry Ghost) and Queer Open Mic’s Baruch Porras-Hernandez.

7:30pm. 2275 Market St. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

The Pianist of Willesden Lane @ Berkeley Rep Acclaimed pianist and storyteller Mona Golabek performs the solo stage adaptation of her book (co-written with Lee Cohen) about her mother when she was a young Jewish musician trying to surive the Nazi Germany regime. $29-$89.

8pm (other Wed 7pm) Thu-Sat 8pm. Also Sat & Sun 2pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Dec. 8.

Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison St. (510) 6472949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Q Salsa @ Symbolic Dance & Fitness LGBT same-sex partner dance lessons; five weekly sessions $17 each or $65-$75 for the series (free for 12 to 18). Thru Nov. 27.

8:30-9:30pm. 672 South Van Ness Ave. www.QueerBallroom.com

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

Underneath the Lintel @ American Conservatory Theatre Actor David Strathairn performs Glen Berger’s intriguing solo drama about a librarian haunted by ghosts unleashed from a mysterious antique book. $20-$95.

Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm. Oct. 23 valet bike parking. Nov. 6, Out with A.C.T. LGBT night includes after-party. Thru Nov. 17. Geary Theatre, 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Thu 31 Jason Lazarus: Live Archive @ Contemp. Jewish Museum Exhibit of unusual work by the Chicago artist who explores collective public archives, personal memory, and the role of photography and collecting in contemporary art and identity. Also, two exhibits about Jewish life: To Build & Be Built: Kibbutz History (thru July 1) and Work in Progress: Considering Utopia (thru Jan 20). 2pm-5pm. Free (members)-$12.

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

Dia de los Muertos @ SOMArts Cultural Center Large group exhibit of Day of the Dead altars and artworks honoring the deceased, with interactive installations and Día de los Muertos-inspired artist market.

Tue-Fri 12pm-7pm. Sat 11am-5pm. Sun 11am-3pm. Thru Nov. 9. 934 Brannan St. 863-1414. www.somarts.org

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

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

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Interior. Leather Bar, Cruising @ Castro Theatre Screenings of James Franco and Travis Mathews’ fictional recreation film of the “lost” footage cut from William Freidkin’s gay crime thriller Cruising (2:30, 7:30), paired with screenings of the original Cruising (3:45, 8:45). $8.50-$12. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Make. Believe @ Z Space Acclaimed local choreographer Amy Seiwert curated an evening new dance works by Milissa Payne, Robert Dekkers, Maurya Kerr and Julia Adam; part of the West Wave Dance Festival. $15-$20. 8pm.

450 Florida St. (866) 811-4111. www.zspace.org

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24 • BAY AREA REPORTER • October 24-30, 2013

LGBT by the numbers

by Victoria A. Brownworth

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t’s official, that thing we’ve been telling you since the end of last season: There are fewer representations of LGBT characters on TV than there were. On Oct. 11, GLAAD released its 18th annual report on where LGBT people stand on the tube.

As we’ve been reporting to you over the past year, the queers are disappearing off the TV landscape, one by one. The attrition is actually even more dramatic than what GLAAD reports, and their report is pretty damning.

According to “Where We Are on TV,” only 3.3% of 796 regularly appearing characters on prime-time dramas and sitcoms are LGBT. Last year GLAAD reported that number as 4.4%. That’s a 25% dropoff. In one year. While, as we have noted, there have been more and more walk-ons of LGBT characters – guest roles in a one- or more-episode story arc on drama and comedy series – there are fewer characterizations of major LGBT characters on dramas and sitcoms.

We’ve also noted how unscripted reality series have become network’s and cable’s repository for LGBT representations on the tube.

An LGBT person on The Amazing Race, Survivor, The Voice, Big Brother, Hell’s Kitchen, Master Chef or some other top- or even lesserrated reality series is presented as somehow equalizing the TV playing field for LGBT. In the season that just ended, for example, America’s Got Talent had several visible and vocal gay contestants who became show favorites because their stories of being disowned by their families were so heartbreaking that all four (straight) judges who are also parents became champions of the young gay male singers. But once a reality series contestant is voted off, they no longer speak to the audience, and memory of them blurs as new contestants move into the positions they held. The visibility of

LGBT issues is gone with them.

Reality TV also doesn’t impact viewers the way scripted series do.

Audiences relate to scripted series because they become attached to individual characters who resonate for them as viewers. Thus, Kerry Washington’s character Olivia Pope on ABC’s hit Scandal is a character AfricanAmerican women watch because her role as a strong black woman in a high-powered position in Washington who is also vulnerable to both racism and sexism resonates strongly. Meanwhile, on that same show, the gay male couple, Cyrus (Jeff Perry) and James (Dan Bucatinsky), resonate for queers because they are a strong couple, Cyrus has phenomenal power as White House Chief of Staff (power most LGBT people can only dream of) and James reels us in with his emotional stake in both their relationship and the family they have created with their daughter. As a married couple in a city where same-sex marriage is legal, they also represent one of the only married queer couples on the tube in roles that are not peripheral.

The ACLU saw the power in gays being imaged on TV with their campaign to have Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) marry on Modern Family. The ACLU, which has championed marriage equality in a range of lawsuits, argues that American audiences learn from TV shows – learn how to be tolerant of difference that is not part of their own personal lives.

For years The Cosby Show brought a middle-class AfricanAmerican family into American homes and was the top-rated show on TV. Did that show obliterate racism? No, but white people were watching every week, so it certainly moved the country forward. Because the new numbers are awful, it’s going to be harder and harder to address that issue of tolerance by reaching straight TV audiences

because there just aren’t the LGBT characters with which to grab them.

GLAAD’s numbers don’t tell the whole story, either. We have often disagreed with how the organization counts queer characters, because they give the same weight to regular series characters as they do to recurring ones. Thus a character like Cyrus Beene on Scandal, who is in every episode and is one of the five main characters on the show, gets the same treatment as Mr. Wolf (Rex Lee), a recurring gay character on Suburgatory, and his partner, who is a peripheral character who appears rarely.

GLAAD reports that there are 46 LGBT regular and recurring characters on network TV. Half of those are women, and 28% are ethnic minorities. (That latter is the two-for-one minority presentation problem we have written about here for over a decade.) At present there is only one trans character on the tube, Unique on Glee, who we would note is also African-American on a show where all the main characters are white.

As we’ve noted – and in large part thanks to Shonda Rhimes, who has four major gay and lesbian characters on her shows Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy, respectively, as well as other recurring lesbian, gay and bisexual characters – ABC leads the networks with the most LGBT characters, followed by Fox (thanks to Glee). Each network has more than 5% LGBT characters. The CW is third with 3%, CBS has 1.9%, and NBC has 1%. We would note here that daytime isn’t counted in these numbers, and each of the three major networks also has an LGBT character on a soap.

Cable is doing even less well at representing LGBT, however, which, given the lack of ratings constraints as well as lack of pressure from advertisers, is hard to comprehend.

On their scripted series there are 42 “regularly seen” (we’re not sure what GLAAD means by that, but think it’s a conflation of regular and recurring) LGBT characters. That number is up since last year’s 35, but we attribute that to just three shows: ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars and The Fosters, and AMC’s The Killing, which combined have brought every one of those extra LGBT characters to cable (and they are all lesbians).

Given that the majority of the LGBT characters on cable are on HBO (11) and Showtime (8), that means among three cable stations (the third being AMC) there are two-thirds of the LGBT characters.

Think about how many cable stations there are, as opposed to only five networks. Disgraceful.

We often disagree with GLAAD’s presentation of what counts as a queer character, and this year is no exception. We think GLAAD needs to list characters and their actual placement in series. Cam and Mitchell are main characters on Modern Family, for example.

But Fin’s (Ice-T) gay son on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is a peripheral if recurring character. And we’re tired of counting Marge Simpson’s sister as a lesbian character on The Simpsons. We personally don’t think animated series belong in the same category as other scripted series, since viewers aren’t seeing real people in the roles, and as a consequence don’t relate to the characters in the same way.

We also take issue with how GLAAD presents that 28% ethnic minorities number. We are, of course, thrilled that there are queers of color on the tube. But if you are a person of color and not gay, you might be pissed that the one person of color on a show is also the one LGBT person, like Unique’s character on Glee. That isn’t broadening representation, it’s narrowing it.

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years now, and we really don’t understand why we’re the only critic saying it. Tokenism is not expanding the perspective on either race or sexual orientation on TV. We did find this tidbit from the GLAAD report to be very interesting, if dispiriting. In GLAAD’s postseason assessment of last season, the organization found Fox (yes, Fox) to be the most inclusive network, with LGBT images in 42% of its prime-time programming hours.

ABC Family (told you!) was the front-runner on cable, with LGBT images in 50% of its original programming. Most repugnant: The History Channel had no LGBT images whatsoever. (Really? Forget about Stonewall, did you, because that’s always an annual go-to? Or why no mention of Bayard Rustin’s monumental contribution to the March on Washington, which had its 50th anniversary this year?)

GLAAD’s report should outrage every LGBT person. That the report is actually worse than it seems on the surface makes it that much more upsetting. It also makes us want to run into the arms of Logo TV, where it’s all gay, all the time, and being queer isn’t a token thing, but life.

The channel that loves us all is bringing some of our gay faves back for daily viewing, too. Need a little touch of gay? Tune into Logo for a revival of The Golden Girls and Will & Grace, both of which take us back in time, but are still amazingly fresh and funny. And seeing Sean Hayes on W&G reminds us of how funny he was and how not-funny he is now on NBC’s Sean Saves the World.

How long till that show is cancelled?

Logo notes about The Golden Girls: “When no one was talking about AIDS, gay marriage, or hunting for dates after a certain age, The Golden Girls defied categorization, lambasted stereotype and surprised America by serving ground-breaking quips from the mouths of antibabes. TV’s first non-traditional household and family-by-choice delivered kitchen-table gossip, joy, debate, iconic 80s fashion, brutal honesty and memorable one-liners still relevant today. The inimitable Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur, and Estelle Getty prove there’s never a need, no matter what age, to bend to convention. Even in retirement.”

Doesn’t that make you want to watch? Especially when Betty White is still out there at 91 being amazing. And Hot in Cleveland simply doesn’t hold a candle to The Golden Girls. And all the shoulder pads – time to revive those!

And then there’s Will & Grace, which Logo describes as “a giant slice of gay TV history.” Logo promos W&G as “Gay guy. Straight girl.

And the real stars, an alcoholic bisexual and ‘Just Jack!’ Will & Grace blazed a trail as a classic sitcom with a gay twist, and now the hilarity can be re-lived.” Watching W&G again is an experience, and kind of a shocking one. When one considers that

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show ran from 1998 to 2006, a long run for a sitcom, and that 15 years ago there was less “tolerance” for LGBT people than now, it’s actually extraordinary that a show with four main characters, only one of whom was straight, was the top-rated sitcom for half of its run. Awesome.

These two sitcoms are hilarious.

Logo is running both series daily.

And like The Big Bang Theory and Modern Family today, they never cease to be funny.

Dress down

Kenan Thompson is stirring things up over at NBC’s SNL with his announcement on Oct. 14 that he will no longer wear dresses and play female characters. Thompson, 35, has been a cast member of SNL since 2003, was the first SNL member to have been born after the show debuted in 1975. There has long been controversy over the number of black male comedians working almost solely in drag. (Tyler Perry’s Madea films and theater have become a staple of black comedy.)

Thompson himself has played more roles in drag than not on SNL, regularly appearing as Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah, Maya Angelou, Jennifer Hudson and others.

Comedian Dave Chappelle told Oprah in an interview a few years ago that he was tired of seeing black men in dresses, and that “they put every black man in the movies in a dress at some point in his career.” Chappelle had told Oprah he thought it was both demeaning and emasculating of black men, and that he refused to do it.

Thompson has never complained before about working in drag, but perhaps a decade of it has worn on the actor. But the issue goes beyond Thompson. Why aren’t there black women comedians to play female characters on SNL? The last black female cast member was the marvelous Maya Rudolph, who was a cast member from 1999-2007. Rudolph, who starred on the hilarious NBC See page 25 >>

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Sting like a bee

by David Lamble

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e used to have heroes! Imagine my surprise when Bill Siegel’s bold new bio portrait of one of my heroes, The Trials of Muhammad Ali, opens with a rarely seen clip of the youthful Muhammad Ali sitting in a Chicago TV studio while another erstwhile hero of mine read him the riot act from London.

“You’re a professional fighter, right?”

“I am a minister of the religion of Islam, also.”

“David Susskind would like to ask you some questions. David?”

“Well, I don’t know where to begin. I find nothing amusing or interesting or tolerable about this man. He’s a disgrace to his country, to his race, and to what he laughingly describes as his profession. He is a convicted felon in the United States. He has been found guilty. He is out on bail! He will inevitably go to prison, as well he should! He’s a simplistic fool and a pawn.”

Flash-forward 37 years to the White House, 2005, and the re-elected President George W. Bush hangs the American Medal of Freedom on a stooped, aged ex-athlete. “The American people are proud to call Muhammad Ali one of our own.”

If they are right in saying that history is written by the winners, the Louisville-born, high schooleducated former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, named at birth after a great white abolitionist, Cassius Marcellus Clay VI, now known by billions worldwide as Muhammad Ali, is some kind of winner.

In the 1960s Ali refused induction into the Vietnam War-era US Army, was convicted in Federal Court in Houston, stripped of his passport, boxing title, and ability to make a living, and became for nearly four years a kind of itinerant preacher traveling, often on borrowed money, from campus to campus taking questions from skeptical crowds of draft-eligible young men. Many asked why he was entitled to special treatment, to be considered a conscientious objector with a religionbased excuse for refusing to serve his country.

I myself flunked my draft physical (eyesight) in 1968 – it didn’t even occur to me to say I was gay at that time.

By 1971, I was working as a reporter for ABC radio in Houston. A young friend and I joined a chemistry lab full of students catching one of the newly re-licensed Ali’s first fights

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back, on a short-wave radio hookup.

Yes, he was a martyred hero of ours, in a way that is now hard to comprehend. The Trials of Muhammad Ali helps close this gap in understanding. Siegel’s method is to seek out many of the surviving members of the Nation of Islam who influenced the young prizefighter’s evolving religious/political views. Reportedly Ali was first turned on to Islam by a Black Muslim-produced 45 rpm record, The White Man’s Heaven is the Black Man’s Hell.

One of the virtues of this doc is the range of views expressed, from Gordon B. Davidson, head of the syndicate of white Louisville businessman who sponsored the first six years of Ali’s professional ring career, to the controversial current leader of the Nation of Islam, Minister Louis Farrakhan. The fact that the young Ali had such a wide range of advisors demonstrates how complicated a task it is to travel back and capture the quicksilver nature of reality in such a tempestuous time.

Siegel uses two interview subjects

as point men or substitute narrators. One is veteran New York Times sports columnist Robert Lipsyte, who explains how difficult it was to convince top Times editors to refer to the young fighter as Muhammad Ali. Lipsyte explains the huge odds facing the ambitious young fighter as he prepared to face the Mob-connected heavyweight champ Sonny Liston.

It falls to Salim Muwakkil, former editor of the Nation of Islam newspaper Muhammad Speaks, to explain the influence on a young Ali of the charismatic Malcolm X, as well as the disdain for the mainstream Civil Rights movement held by many big-city Muslims. “We wanted to overcome yesterday, not someday, so the whole civil rights motif was not attractive to us. The overalls and the Southern agrarian style that they were fond of rubbed us the wrong way. We wanted to look cool and urbane, not act as if we were farmworkers.”

Inevitably there are gaps. The still-prickly subject of the relationship between Ali and Malcolm X, as well as the circumstances surrounding Malcolm’s 1965 assassination, are at best murky. But at a time when there is an outpouring of films, books and articles on Ali, Siegel’s courageous doc is good jumping-off point.

For gay men wanting a glimpse of just how pretty the young Ali was, there’s Muhammad Ali: the Birth of a Legend, Miami, 1961-1964 (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), photographer Flip Schulke and writer Matt Schudel’s study of the future champ in training, including some gorgeous underwater photography of Ali in a South Florida swimming pool.t C

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sitcom Up All Night, has returned to SNL as both a host and to do guest spots, but there has been no black female comedian to replace her in the past six years.

So if Thompson refuses to play black women any more and the show’s other black male cast member Jay Pharoah also refuses, does that mean no black female characters will appear on the show?

We hate that idea even more than we have hated the minstrel-y aspect of so much black drag on the show. After nearly 40 years on the air, shouldn’t Lorne Michaels have brought SNL’s demographic on par with the country by now? The show is filmed in the most racially, ethnically and otherwise diverse city in America. Yet there are only three cast members of color, Nasim Pedrad, who is Iranian, being the third. Kate McKinnon, the fabulous lesbian comic who joined SNL last year, is only the third LGBT cast member in the show’s entire history.

It’s not like there aren’t tons of comedians of color out there, as well

as LGBT comedians. If Michaels is struggling to cast, maybe a little perusal of YouTube is in order. CBS’ The Talk has not one but two black female co-hosts who are comedians.

Talk to them.

On Nov. 2, Kerry Washington will be hosting SNL, so look for lots of sketches with black women that night. But considering that SNL is as bad with hosts of color or LGBT hosts as it is with casting, don’t expect to see another black host for a while. The show has only had a handful over the years. It’s 2013, people. Why are we even having to talk about this, still, representations of minorities like African-Americans and LGBT on the tube? It’s like the conversations about whether or not it’s time to retire names of teams like the Redskins. Shocking, really shocking.

Here’s something heartening about queers, though: Out gay actor and perennial awards-show host Neil Patrick Harris is among the five highest paid actors on TV (every one of whom is a white man; not a shock). Harris comes in at #4, at $15 million per year.

Meanwhile, SNL alums Tina Fey, who was head writer for SNL, and Amy

Poehler have been signed to another two years hosting the Golden Globes.

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Shifting gears from comedy to drama, CBS’ NCIS is the most watched show on TV. It’s one of those shows that’s always solidly B+, but not a show we ever go out of our way to watch. But there we were, a captive audience in a hospital bed, and so we watched the Oct. 15 episode. We were glad we did. Honor killing was the topic. Smuggling of girls and women out of Afghanistan to escape the brutality of being attacked with hydrofluoric acid in the face or outright murdered.

It was a gut-wrenching episode, because honor killings are on the rise worldwide. In this episode of NCIS, a young woman was murdered by having hydrofluoric acid thrown in her face. (It can kill, but generally leaves third- and fourthdegree burns. The aim is usually “merely” permanent ghastly disfigurement of the victim, so no other See page 27 >>

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26 • BAY AREA REPORTER • October 24-30, 2013

Opulent voices

by Tim Pfaff

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he price Die Walkuere pays for being the most popular opera in Wagner’s Ring is that it is most often performed outside the complete cycle, and the most often excerpted for concerts and in recordings. Among True Wagnerites, the severed pieces have come to be called “bleeding chunks” and are seen, at best, as teases. They leave listeners who know and love the operas jonesing for the rest of the music.

But even the most rabid fans are willing to get over themselves if the chunks are tasty enough, i.e., superbly sung and played. Recently released CDs of Act I and Act II – from live performances 70 years apart – are of special interest to San Franciscans.

SF Opera stalwarts were the first to hear the complete Bruennhilde of Nina Stemme, who went on to become the world’s premier exponent of the role in, well, in San Francisco.

Live recordings of her in the role are in progress from Valery Gergiev’s Mariinski Theatre, but midway in

that Ring release comes a Walkuere Act I from the Vienna State Opera in 2007, with Stemme as Sieglinde, when the longer, more demanding role of Bruennhilde was still a twinkle in her eye. You don’t have to be a fanatic (the root, remember, of fan) to want to hear her in a role she may yet sing again.

As Orfeo’s recording, in fine sound, makes clear from her entrance, there hasn’t been a more opulently voiced Sieglinde since Astrid Varnay, though a host of cherished sopranos have stolen hearts and found unyielding allegiances among opera queens. Listeners beware, Stemme could, at least for the hour of this Act I, make you stray from your “there’ll never be another –.” It’s hard to envy opera neophytes these days, but in time there will be some young’uns who can confidently end that sentence with “Stemme.”

Dramatically, she faultlessly traces the path of Sieglinde’s growing recognition of the identity of the gentleman caller at Casa Hunding, and from her mesmerizing telling of the tale in “Der Maenner Sippe” to the

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end of the act, what you get is sustained vocal spontaneous combustion. Her character’s self-possession grows out of a strong internal root, and the sheer force and dignity of her portrayal drive thoughts of any other singer out of your mind while she’s at work.

Her Siegmund, Johna Botha, proves an ideal partner, vocally her equal, such that the two can drive each other on precisely as they do in Wagner’s score. The Hunding, Ain Anger, ironically lacks anger and makes bluster due where real menace is needed. But the lover siblings sing right around and past him, and – the supreme irony – he causes the listener no trouble.

The cliche about great Wagner conductors is that they re-create, or realize, the “long line” in these superbly calculated acts. Frans WelserMoest charts a line so ineluctable that, if it were any smoother, it would be slick. What’s lacking, ever so slightly, is the sex and violence, but the payoffs vocally are considerable, and the playing is faultless and often startlingly vivid.

The Bay Area’s own trusty Music & Arts label has just released a Walkuere Act II that, for all its problems, is a Wagner lover’s must-have.

The performance is from the War Memorial Opera House on Nov. 13, 1936, and the line-up is heaven-sent: Kirsten Flagstad as Bruennhilde, Lotte Lehmann as Sieglinde, Lauritz Melchior as Siegmund, Friedrich Schorr as Wotan, with no less than Fritz Reiner in the pit. The CD’s superb notes supply the background, but suffice it to say that these are the

last century’s greatest Wagnerians in their respective vocal primes – and this radio broadcast is the only document of Flagstad and Lehmann singing their signature roles in the same performance.

Flagstad is electrifying from her first Hojotoho, and you instantly hear why hers was considered the Wagner soprano par excellence.

Despite the regrettable cuts, she delivers a Bruennhilde of unmatched defiance, sympathy, tenderness, and nobility. Throughout, the clarity and firmness of her voice bowl you over.

Lehmann’s temperamental Sieglinde is rendered in comparably rich tones, vocally deeply anchored even when enacting Sieglinde at her most unhinged. Her theatrical style would probably not work today, but the singing is flabbergasting. Melchior’s Siegmund is as much a gleaming blade in the air as his sword Notung, and he’s got the baritonal sound to round the character out. Schorr is a deeply engaged Wotan, and it merits noting that Kathryn Meisle’s Fricka is much more than an also-ran, and Emanuel List, in his few lines, is a Hunding sculpted out of ice.

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The bad news is the more than 20 minutes cut, from the places modern audiences would least accept: the Wotan-Fricka encounter, Wotan’s monologue, the SiegmundSieglinde scene, and one of the most sublime accounts of the Todesverkuendingung on record. For fun, what you do get at the beginning is the announcer and the evening’s host, Marcia Davenport, the Margaret Juntwait of her day. In a concession to the one-hour broadcasting limit, she speaks over Wotan’s final words. It’s no trade-off, but on and off the stage, the re-mastered sound makes you feel like you’re there.

If you want all three acts of Walkuere in chunks, you might want to get, now, the Act III from 1951, the first Ring of the re-opened Bayreuth Festival, a superb performance under a young Herbert von Karajan with Varnay as Bruennhilde and Leonie Rysanek in her luminous first Sieglinde. Its last incarnation was on EMI Classics, and with Warner’s having just taken over that catalog, in which it was never a reliably available item in the first place, a word to the wise is sufficient.t

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ne of the most prolific songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s, Jimmy Webb wrote songs that became standards. A number of them were massive hits for artists including The 5th Dimension, Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Donna Summer and, much later, for Linda Ronstadt, among many others. Gay singer Michael Feinstein even had a go at Webb on his album Only One Life: The Songs of Jimmy Webb. Webb himself has had a lengthy recording career, beginning after others had recorded songs of his such as “Up, Up and Away,” “Wichita Lineman,” “All I Know” and “MacArthur Park.” Webb revisited a number of his most popular songs, accompanying himself on piano, on 1996’s exceptional Ten Easy Pieces disc.

His latest, Still Within the Sound of My Voice (eOne), revisits some of those songs, this time as duets with a stellar cast of guest artists singing with Webb. A talented pianist and songwriter but not known for being a great singer, Webb partners with some who are, including Carly Simon (“Easy for You To Say”), Art Garfunkel (“Shattered”), Rumer (“Still Within the Sound of My Voice”), and David Crosby and Graham Nash (“If These Walls Could Speak”).

Gloria Estefan doesn’t appear to have recorded any Jimmy Webb songs, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea if she did. Just imagine what she could do with “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” for example. We don’t have to wonder what Estefan would do with a set of older tunes now that she has released The Standards (Sony Music Latin/Masterworks). Turning her attention to the Gershwins (“They Can’t Take That Away from Me,”

“Embraceable You,” “How Long Has This Been Going On”) and other composers known for their significant contributions to the American Songbook, Estefan proves she has the chops to embrace the material with respect and affection, taking her place alongside Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon, Natalie Cole and others who have trod a similar path.

Of course, before Estefan tried her hand at the genre, the inimitable Sarah Vaughan was one of the torchbearers, one of the grand dames. Sophisticated Lady: The Duke Ellington Songbook Collection (Pablo/Concord) compiles a pair of Vaughan’s late-1970s Ellington songbook albums, along with some previously unreleased material.

Just to hear Vaughan’s rendition of “Lush Life,” co-written by Ellington and his openly gay collaborator Billy Strayhorn, makes this compilation worthwhile, not to mention her readings of “Sophisticated Lady,” “I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)” and “Prelude to a Kiss.”

With the exception of the oftcovered “River,” the overgrown “teens” on Glee have managed to avoid abusing Joni Mitchell too badly. Having already focused their voices on albums dedicated to the songs of Madonna and those from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Grease, the Glee cast now attacks the Fab Four on Glee Sings the Beatles (Columbia). Instead of applying the same kind of energy and enthusiasm to Journey as the Glee club did on the first soundtrack disc, they play

it surprisingly safe on the 14 tracks here. There are a couple of exceptions, as on the harder-rocking “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and the gleeful choral treatment of “Let It Be.” Speaking of Joni, it’s difficult not to wish that musicians and singers would look beyond her landmark album Blue when it comes to choosing from her wealth of songs to interpret. That said, New West Guitar Group does a sweet job with Joni’s “All I Want” from their album Big City (Summit). That song is one of four covers, including Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants To Rule the World,” Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bleecker St.” and the Police’s “Wrapped Around Your Finger,” performed by the guitar trio (Perry Smith, Jeff Stein and John Storie). The remaining originals, including “Proud Days Work” and “Inspiration Point,” are also well worth your time.

If songs by Tears for Fears and the Police are becoming standards in their own right, there’s no reason why the same thing can’t happen for the work of Icelandic pop goddess Björk. With that in mind, Travis Sullivan’s Björkestra returns with I Go Humble (Zoho). Sullivan describes his arrangements of Björk’s compositions as a “tribute to the uncompromising, visionary and bold work of one of the most important artists of the late 20th and early 21st century.” Not surprisingly, you can feel the love throughout this intimate live album. From the way that Becca Stevens’ vocals respectfully don’t try to duplicate Björk to the way the arrangements easily find and format the jazz rhythms within, Sullivan and company offer us a new way to experience these familiar tunes, such as “Army of Me.”t

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ders and shining faces, while the arms extend in liquid tendrils, like vines about to flower, and the hands express as many emotions as we normally think belong only to the eyes.

Hula is, in fact, a complex dance form with many possible inflections, from the austere, sacred forms through the royal modes down to the sweet local dances that praise beaches, waterfalls, villages. The dances interpret chants or songs, and the gestures of the hands are sign language for the words.

What is most wonderful is the way a master like Patrick Makuakane can bring his traditions into the contemporary world, making new dances in a mode he calls hula mua that are smarter than anything I see coming out of ballet choreographers or modern dancers (except Mark Morris). Nothing on this year’s show was as stunning as last year’s “Birth-Certificate Hula,” which hit the boards during the run-up to the re-election of Hawaiian-born Barack Obama. (President Obama was, in fact, born in the same Honolulu hospital as Makuakane).

At this point, hula mua is restricted to small forms, so a whole evening’s work will have the shape of a song cycle, like Schumann’s Dichterliebe or the Beatles’ White Album. But as with those, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. This year’s hula

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ure than their white counterparts.

She ponders the heartbreaking fate of her people in “From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried” (1995-6), a profoundly moving series of uniformly-sized, red-tinted “appropriated” images originally taken by white photographers, dating as far back as 1850. In the name of anthropological, pseudo-scientific studies, the pictures depict the degradation of African-Americans at the hands of whites, while supporting the myths of hyper-sexuality and intellectual inferiority used to justify discriminating against them. Weems enlarged the images, and in an attempt to return humanity and dignity to subjects who had no voice and no choice, she etched tender messages into the glass such as, “You Became a Scientific Profile,” “A Negroid Type,” or “Playmate to a Patriarch.” The series is bracketed by a pair of blue-tinted profiles of regal Mangbetu women.

Weems is a masterful photographer, but given the demands of curating a 30-year survey, the show is uneven. A section on the legacy of history, for instance, includes staged recreations – the Kennedys riding

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man can have her.) The show was all about misogyny, which is easier to see when writ large and so blackand-white, as it is with honor killing when we view it from a Western perspective.

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the other woman, for Best Supporting Actress nods.

Gravity This lost-in-space instant classic from Mexican auteur Alfonso Cuaron should be seen in 3-D because all that space junk threatening the lives of our astronauts George Clooney and Sandra Bullock really makes a dramatic impression when it’s hurtling your way. This taut celestial drama is a witty reminder of what used to thrill

show, The Voice of the People, was grounded in last year’s discovery of a huge trove of 19th-century Hawaiian newspapers, nearly a century’s worth of papers that served a culture wherein almost everyone could read.

Thank God, Makuakane is smart.

He is very smart. In an era when “research” is almost the buzz-word for what contemporary choreographers actually do, he’s turned this treasury of news, reports, classified ads, and obituaries into fascinating windows onto a culture that got taken over by Christian missionaries, fought back in various ways, and finally got annexed to the United States. There’s a hip-hop hula in honor of the young Kamehamea’s rebellious period, as well as a group dance in honor of his male lover and their friends, with some very explicit hip-rollings by a cohort of sexy men who look like they could keep up on the surfboard with their Prince Harry king.

Gershwin songs that are appropriate to the idea but anachronistic by 100 years get pressed into hula service to convey that “I want to be bad” mentality of the young king.

All across the evening, Makuakane’s dances evoked the things people a hundred years ago in Hawaii cared about – things they really cared about, like the death of the 5-year-old young prince on whom the hopes of the people were pinned (a haunting lament, sung by the guest artist Kumu Hula Shawna Alapa’i), or the gossip in the newspaper, the

in their motorcade in Dallas just prior to the President’s assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s family grieving after his murder – that have been done before and more effectively elsewhere. But when Weems’ ire is engaged in combination with a sly scathing humor, she’s formidable. She takes on the perpetuation of negative stereotypes in a captioned image of a black woman asking the mirror on the wall, Who’s the finest of them all? “Snow White, you black bitch, and don’t you forget it!!” answers the mirror. In another, a little girl proffers an oversized boxing glove with the caption: “White Patty, you don’t shine, meet you around the corner, and beat your behind.”

She really hits her stride in “Not Manet’s Type” (1997), several pictures with wry text indicting the art establishment on its prizing of male genius, the scandalously low numbers of female artists in the pantheon of art history, and the omission of people of color, except as exotics. Weems often inserts her own persona – a smart, tough, forceful presence – in her photographs, as she has here, where she poses partially naked in a slip, holding onto a brass bed frame. “Picasso only used me and Duchamp never even considered me but it could have been worse,” the caption reads. “Imagine

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classified ad saying, “I will not be responsible for any debts incurred by my former wife,” or the poem written by the king about his new telephone. There is a gorgeous sequence of dances that retell the epic myth about the rise of the Hawaiian people from the seed of the lord who was the beloved of the goddess Pele, but who mated with her sister – and thereby hangs a tale, which ran in the newspapers like a serial novel, with many

episodes and contretemps, “like Honolulu’s Next Top Model meets The Bachelor” (to quote Makuakane himself). My favorite episode was the ritual dance of raising the hero from the dead. It was really spooky, all the dancers on the floor like ants around the supine figure of the warrior, fluttering their arms like witches, using many gestures from the old religious hula that preceded the arrival of Captain Cook.

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Untitled (Man and Mirror), gelatin silver print from the Kitchen Table Series (1990), by Carrie Mae Weems.

Makuakane’s dances seem a sovereign antidote to the piety and political correctness that afflict the work of most politically aware choreographers.t The Hula Show continues this weekend at the Palace of Fine Arts: Fri., Oct. 25, at 8 p.m., Sat., Oct. 26 at 8 p.m., and Sun., Oct. 27 at 3 p.m. Tickets: (415) 392-4400, or cityboxoffice.com.

merge, is undeniable. Taken during the artist’s sojourn to Africa in 1993, the images of the now-deserted slave way-station on Goree Island, a small land mass off the coast of Senegal, are chilling. Though it looks relatively innocuous today, with only hints of the atrocities committed there, it was once the site of the infamous “House of Slaves,” where, Weems writes, “Ashanti Kings and Queens” descended stairways into dungeons, enduring fear, unspeakable humiliation and helplessness before they exited through the “door of no return” to the hell of slavery awaiting them on distant shores.

Slave trading dates back to the 1500s on Goree, and it’s estimated that 20 million doomed Africans passed through its stone holding pens.

In “Roaming,” shot in Italy in 2006, Weems stands alone in a long black dress, her back to the camera, an impassive witness and solitary ghost stalking history near the pyramids of ancient Rome, the remnants of Mussolini’s self-aggrandizing neo-classical architecture, and on a rocky beach at the edge of the sea.

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my fate had de Kooning gotten hold of me.” Laying across the same bed naked, she smokes a cigarette and ruminates on Frida Kahlo, who, she notes, “painted incessantly” from bed, while her husband, Diego Rivera, scaled the heights from scaf-

folds, “to the very top of the world,” creating his grand murals.

Weems’ incorporation of written words and audio narration can make it hard to assess the photographs on their own, but the power of “Slave Coast,” in which text and story

“You hate women because we see you at your weakest and most vulnerable,” a female CIA agent says to the suspect in the acid murders, who has a list of young Afghan women who have fled to the U.S., but whose families still want them killed. The girl’s families got together to pool their resources to murder

their daughters, wives, sisters for bringing some imagined shame on the families, which in some cases was merely going outside unaccompanied by a male family member.

The episode, which drew on real-life events, pointed out how the locals think domestic violence shelters run

by NGOs are fronts for brothels,

and so these shelters are often firebombed or the women shot. Nothing, apparently, has changed with U.S. intervention.

It shouldn’t take a TV series to raise these questions about where our tax dollars are going with regard to Afghanistan. But it does bring us full-circle on the power TV has to il-

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us about adventures beyond this dirty little planet. Oscar Bait: Best Director, Picture and Actress.

Captain Phillips Paul Greengrass follows up his brilliant 9/11 drama United 93 with this absorbing reallife thriller about the fate of a US cargo ship captain captured by Somali pirates. Tom Hanks is at his Henry Fonda best in portraying an ordinary American whom fate summons to extraordinary heroics and personal sacrifice. My only reservation is the Dog Day Afternoon-at-sea ending.

Oscar Bait: Best Director, Picture,

Actor and Adapted Screenplay.

The Fifth Estate The story of WikiLeaks mastermind Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch, sexy in his fake white wig) should be as screen-friendly a journey as 2009’s The Social Network, which the team of Fincher, Sorkin and Eisenberg made must-see viewing for the digitally challenged. What begins as an absorbing character study of a publicity-seeking social misfit gradually becomes a fitfully diverting mess as director Bill Condon and his screenwriting team fail to wrestle into co-

herence the Internet information age’s tendency towards chaos. German star Daniel Bruhl, as Assange’s mistreated sidekick, manages to keep us somewhat in the loop as those classified secrets tumble out like a digital Pandora’s Box. Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney provide a Noel Coward-worthy subplot as US intelligence agents saluting chaos with a cocktail shaker and a shrug.

Oscar Bait: Outside chance for Best Adapted Screenplay. A better view is Alex Gibney’s doc We Steal Secrets, with its incisive take on Assange’s

military source, Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning.

Rush Like most queer boys, I grew up with a distinct lack of passion for motor racing. Despite this, I have to credit Ron Howard with this year’s heavy-lifting story coup for wrestling a compelling dual character study out of the rivalry between British and Austrian Formula One racing rivals. Oscar Bait: Nominations for Best Picture, Director, Actor (Chris Hemsworth) and Supporting Actor (an astounding Daniel Bruhl).t

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OCT. 25 Trannyshack Halloween returns to the DNA Lounge, and cohostesses Heklina and Peaches Christ promise outrageous make-up and even more outrageous fun. Guests include Elijah Minnelli, Raya Light, Cockatelia, Faux King Awesome, and other staid librarian types. Enjoy the show and participate in SF’s biggest costume contest. $15. Doors open at 9:30pm, with the show starting promptly at 11.pm. 375 Eleventh St. 252-7883. www.trannyshack.com

Nice pumpkins at Twin Peaks.

Let them eat cake!

OCT. 26 Saturday October 26 looks to be a fun night with a number of wild and crazy offerings. It’s a busy weekend for the drag superstar Peaches Christ.

The night after Trannyshack, the incomparable Ms. Christ will cohost the 3rd annual Dark Drag Cadaveret drag show. Dance to the music of DJ Le Perv and DJ Tori, with entertainment by the Dark Drag Dolls. $15. 9:30pm-2:30am. 21-andover only, at Cafe Du Nord. 2170 Market St. www.cafedunord.com Also, Oct. 26, Juanita More’s Halloween: A Red Carpet Nightmare at Jones will be a midnight runway show to die for.

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Ms. More promises a screamworthy night featuring SF’s most fashionable freaks sashaying down the catwalk in the moonlight. $3,000 in prizes will be given out.

Dance to the beat of DJ Robert Jeffrey. $25. Tickets available at Sui Generis, 2231 Market St. 9pm-2am.

620 Jones. www.juanitamore.com Q Dance Party at Magnet is a ballroom dance party and costume contest at the community health center. Dance to Salsa, Meringue, Rumba, Swing, Country & Tango, with cash prizes. All ages welcome. $10-15 suggested donation. 7pm free Salsa lesson, followed by the party from 7:30-9:30pm. 4122 18 St. www.queerballroom.com If you’re on a spiritual quest, then Spiral Dance Ritual: A Ritual to Honor Our Beloved Dead and Dance the Spiral of Rebirth at Kezar Stadium might be what you’re in the mood for. It blends art, music, poetry and dance in a sacred space.

This ritual affirms the renewal of life during this sacred season of Witches and Pagans. Come join the dance and contribute your energy.

Children welcome; wheelchairaccessible. $25-$150. Sliding scale rates available. Doors open at 6pm, rituals begins at 7:30pm. 755 Stanyan St. www.reclaimingspiraldance.org In the East Bay? Can’t get to town?

October 26 also offers an LGBT Halloween in Vallejo, with drinks, food, fun, dancing and a light show and music by Steve Souza. $10. 21 and older only. 8pm-12am at the Vallejo Community Center, 225 Amador Street, Vallejo.

Oakland’s Bench and Bar offers Club Rimshot’s Pre-Halloween Bash, with cash prizes for the dopiest and hella-scariest costumes. DJ Rum will be spinning the best hip-hop and R&B, with guest DJ Rapture at Northern CA’s LGBT hip hop center. $10-$15. After hours until 4am. 510 17th Street, Oakland. (510) 4442266. www.bench-and-bar.com

OCT. 27 Wanna dance with somebody (or just some body)? Join Italy’s Danny Verde and the UK’s Liam Keegan for an old-fashioned Halloween Tea Dance at Ruby Skye. Both megastar DJs offer hot guys dancing to hot music for hot costumed revelers at Hero Halloween. $25. 6pm-12am.

420 Mason. Tickets at Body on Castro and www.heroteadance.com Of course, you might be in Oakland, and the BART strike was scary enough. Never fear, you can head over to the funky New Parkway Theater on Sunday, October 27, for a 6pm screening of the laugha-minute scare-fest Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).

On Tuesday, October 29, The New Parkway will show Birth of the Living Dead, a new documentary about the making of George Romero’s classic zombie munchfest Night of the Living Dead. Yum! Pass the Grey Poupon! 7pm. $8. 474 24th St, Oakland, 510-658-7900. www.thenewparkway.com For an unusual costume party, support Private Chelsea Manning at Butterfly Night: Transform for

Chelsea, a festive fundraiser for the imprisoned military whistle-blower.

Proceeds benefit the Pvt. Manning Support Network/Courage to Resist. $5 in costumes, $10 without. 6pm10pm. Sf Veterans Community Center, 1720 Market St. 562-5410. www.couragetoresist.org

OCT. 29 Check out the funky Balboa Theater at Balboa and 39th Avenues in the Richmond District for the uber-creepy silent classics The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) and Nosferatu (1922). See how scary movies began, with a spooky score provided by Hobgoblin. The chills begin at 7:30pm. $10. On Wednesday October 30, at 7:30pm, Hobgoblin’s musical stylings add thrills to The Golem (1920), the first Jewish fright flick. Oy vey! $10. 3630 Balboa, 221-8184. cinemasf.com If you prefer your horrors live on stage, check out Thrillpeddlers’ ever popular Shocktoberfest.

Already underway, his 14th edition of Shocktoberfest celebrates the bloody legacy of Jack the Ripper.

It’s an evening of horror, madness, spanking and song with the classic Grand Guignol thriller, a new oneact play called The Wrong Ripper, and Scrumbly Koldewyn’s take on Oscar Wilde’s Salome. There will also be a lights-out spooktastic finale. Shocktoberfest runs through November 23, with a special, extra Halloween performances on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 29 and 30 at 8pm. Come to the Hypnodrome and commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Jack the Ripper murders. $30. 575 10th St. 377-4202. www.thrillpeddlers.com For diverse green kid-friendly fun, head on over to Berkeley Ecology Center’s Farmer’s Market for a combo celebration of Halloween and Day of the Dead. Enjoy live Aztec dance, Caribbean music, a Day of the Dead altar, costume making, face painting, and all around fun. And it’s free. 2pm-6:30pm. Adeline and 63rd Streets, the Farmer’s Market, Berkeley. www.ecologycenter.org/fm

And now for the big night itself.

All Hallow’s Eve. Halloween.

Castro and South of Market bars are pretty much all celebrating Halloween in one way or another, so you can be sure to find a welcome audience for your most or least fabulous costume. Street closures will not be in effect, so be careful crossing intersections. Here’s a bit of what’s happening on Thursday, October 31.

Have a Jazzy Halloween at the SF Jazz Center. Enjoy a concert and a costume contest with guest judges Lil Miss Hot Mess and VivvyAnne, who will pick the best James Brown look-alike, favorite musician and most creative costume. There’s also a DJ dance party. 7:30pm.

201 Franklin St. (866) 920-5299. www.sfjazz.org If the thought of scantily-clad guys with water dripping sensually down their bodies turns you on, head over to the Lookout Bar for Drunk Tank. The underwater adventure commences with music

by DJ Russ Rich, who will navigate you through the night’s journey, which includes fishbowl cocktails to guide you on your journey to the bottom of the sea... or just a bottom.

8pm and runs until 2am. 3600 16th St. 431-0306. www.lookoutsf.com Head over to Cafe Du Nord for a musical evening with The Shondes.

In celebration of their new record The Garden, the Brooklyn-based group will perform their own unique brand of feminist punk, rock, pop, and a little bit of Judaic influence too. It’s a queer-friendly Halloween party, so of course it includes a 90s Zombie contest. Naïve Americans and Galloping Sea open. $7. Doors open at 8pm. 2170 Market St. 8615016. www.cafedunord.com Oakland’s biggest gayest Halloween dance party, Club 21’s fourth annual Demons & Angels bash is hosted by Violeta and Jacki, with DJ Carlitos spinning hip hop, Top 40 and Latin grooves. With $1500 in cash prizes for costumes, plus creature featured gogo hotties, this is an East Bay extravaganza. $15. ($5 off before 10pm). 21+. 8pm3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.comt

OCT. 30 Have the hearse drop you off at the beautiful Castro Theater for a chilling double bill: Joe Dante’s classic The Howling (5:40pm and 9:20pm) will have you baying at the moon. Cofeatured with the sexy, hairy An American Werewolf in London at 7:30pm. $10 for both movies.

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863-0611. www. castrotheatre.com If you like Thrillpeddlers, you might also enjoy Grand Guignol, a Naturalistic Horror Stage Show directed by Mitchell Altieri. Join them, if you dare, at Z Space. In the grand tradition of the stage shows that were all the rage in London and Paris during the early 20th century, Grand Guignol offers, madness,

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director’s wet dream. With some added decorations of life-size Tom of Finland cutouts and a red neon vixen hung above the balcony, the scene could have been a set for the HBO series Looking.

But it was a real night, with one white-gowned diminutive queen at its center, as Moni Stat celebrated turning 30.

“It was a lovely evening room what I saw,” said Moni Stat in a phone interview the week after the party. “I had a lot of fun. Almost all the people I wanted to see were there. It was so good to have people I’ve admired, and from different worlds. I think that’s a testament to who I really am.”

At times sincere and at other times witty and casual, Moni Stat balances the elegance of upscale drag with a sense of humor and selfdeprecation. “First and foremost, I am a stupid clown. At the end of the day, the makeup and jewelry come off.”

“I’ve always believed in attracting the different kinds of people. No matter which part of the community you’re coming from, drag, club kid, I’d rather you just have fun. I can hang out at any bar. You can put me in a dive bar and I still have fun.”

Moni politely declined to provide his full name with a succinct, “We don’t want to got there.” He did offer his first name, Dino.

By day, Dino works in the corporate office of Kimpton Hotels, where he dresses in “man drag” with an equally eclectic style as his drag persona. “I am a clothes horse,” he admitted. “I love fashion and clothes. I grew up raiding my mom’s closet for Dior, Halston and Chanel. In or out of drag, I like to go out.”

Raised in the tiny island of Guam, Dino is the child of a Filipino-Chinese mother and a French-Turkish father, where, he says, “I grew up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I grew up with nannies and a driver and a security guard.”

But don’t expect upper crust snobbery from this queen. “I started going to nightclubs at age seven. So I can thrown down with the lowest.”

One of Moni’s first influences was his mother, “a strong gorgeous Filipino woman,” he said, who also came out as a lesbian. “She understood the rebel part of me.”

Moni’s family moved to the Bay Area when he was 16. They first moved to Hillsboro, and he lived in San Francisco later since age 19, when he studied at the Academy of Arts in Design.

“Life throws you a curveball and you never go into the degree you think you’ll use,” said Moni, who acknowledged that there is, however, a great deal of design to his drag outfits.

So, what are the preparations

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needed before Dino becomes Moni Stat and performs yet another wild lipsynch number at a club?

“For me, it’s backwards,” said Moni. “The look will come first, then the number. That’s always my downfall as a performer. Instead of rehearsing, I’m running around town scouring for bits and pieces for costumes.”

A few of those pieces were impulsively removed on another night at the Eagle a few months back at the monthly Charlie Horse show.

Moni Stat, at the peak of performing to Annie Lennox’s “Little Bird,” climbed atop the bar for an impromptu stage dive into the crowd.

“I was wearing this big giant headpiece,” said Moni. “I wasn’t really planning on crowd-surfing. But I felt like really pushing the boundaries. I’m the kind of performer who will think three seconds ahead. I am a horrible organizer. I always think on the fly. Frankly, I was watching the number before me and got bored. Nothing was happening.”

To say that Moni Stat spiced things up would be an understatement. As one of the original Charlie Horse performers for Glen “Anna Conda” Hyde’s raucous drag night, Moni Stat’s been known to take the stage covered in fake blood while brandishing real butcher knives.

“I came into the scene when Trannyshack was big,” said Moni of Heklina’s irreverent drag night. “I was this little art school fag who was dabbling in drag. My first few gigs were given to me by club performers. I would have to hustle by working the door. I had people watch me grow. Heklina had me as a regular performer each week for two years.

That’s how I grew and learned how to do things. She opened my eyes to see that drag didn’t have to be so formal.”

That irreverent performance style is often matched by a blunt attitude as well. “My whole mentality is, if I am bored with your number, I will leave. Other queens say, ‘Why do you always leave?’ I say, ‘It’s simple.

I can’t stand your number.’”

When it comes to performance, Moni Stat wants more. “Just lip-synching is not enough. Drag should be fun and spontaneous art; whatever you make of it. It’s not just about being pretty. That’s easy. It’s just a bunch of hair and make-up. It’s what you bring to the performance.”

Moni prefaces a comparison to great art with a modest self-description. “I’m just another clown.

But Picasso was a genius because he learned the rules. I had to learn how to do hair and make-up properly before I can go fuck everything up.”

For the amateur or wannabe drag queen, what tips can the chameleon-like queen offer?

“Drag can be from a thrift store, or it can cost ten thousand dollars,” said Moni. “If you’re performing, stick to your guns. The worst thing you can do is lose faith in yourself.

courtesy Moni Stat

The many faces of Moni Stat

As far as costuming, if And while a run for Emyou have to sit down evpress in 2011 did not result ery night and learn how to in being elected, Moni said paint yourself, do it. Getthe experience was worth ting clothes is easy. For a it. “I really believe in the long time I was just wearImperial Court. Now that ing scarves as a halter top.

Jose Sarria has passed, it is But I grew. Crafting a pera sisterhood. It was a very sona is the biggest thing. lovely time in my life. I Look at the most successful learned about patience and queens in the world and in how to deal with people. I town.” think the traditions they Moni mentioned Peachhold are beautiful. One of es Christ and Lady Bunny the first gigs I got was with as inspirations, as well as the Imperial Court.”

Vivianne ForeverMore, But while being of both who Moni said, is noted for the Trannyshack golden creating looks that appear days, and now in a post-Jolike “monstrous creatures, se era for the Court, Moni but so beautiful.” did admit to being in the For novices looking for middle of changing times. a quick Halloween outfit, “The Imperial Court is “Find the cheapest uglinow at a different state of est thing you can find, buy mind. This is a new era. a busted ratted out wig.

Do we have enough young Get some paper plates. Go blood to keep it fresh? The wild.” thing I’ve been battling The costumed holiday was how to bring a differisn’t always a favorite for ent set of eyes into things. a performer who creates I’m always the one trying unique outfits every other to push buttons. Jose was week of the year. “Hallowgreat at pushing buttons. een is such a weird time,” I mean, she basically said, said Moni. “I usually have ‘I’m gonna crown myself. to work, so I always feel like Whaddaya gonna do about it’s amateur night.” it?’ She was a maverick, One Halloween costume ahead of her time.”

Georg Lester does stand out. “For the Moni had the pleasure of past few years, I painted my Moni Stat at the Eagle with friends. the first Empress’ company whole body black and was several times before Sarria done with it. I wore a black recently passed away. dress and big black hair “As crazy as she was, she more rhinestones than god.” and stiletto shoes. It was believed in decorum,” said Moni serves the more traditional pretty fun.”

Moni. “Once, she said to me, ‘Maperformance as part of the Fauxgirls Contrasting this irreverence and dame, where are your gloves?’ Anshows at the downtown club Infuwild performance style, Moni also other time, I was at a Court event, sion. “I love, love doing Fauxgirls,” holds a reverence for drag’s history basically dressed like a clown, and he said. “It’s very much like Finocand legacy as part of the civil rights Jose said, “Only you, Madame; only chio’s used to be; very polished and movement, including the more seyou.’” on point. They don’t let just anynior members of the drag commuSo, whether Moni performs in a body perform. You have to be on nity, whose garb is more traditional. leather bar, or at the highest ranking your game. What I perform there is In describing one veteran female of drag events, “They have to put up not the type of act I would do at the impersonator (who shall remain with me, even though I am a crazy Eagle. But they allow me to go crazy unnamed), Moni half-mocked, bitch.”t every now and then.” half-gasped, “Rhinestones? She got

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t was Friday, October 31, 1975. My first Halloween in San Francisco.

I’d just dropped a bundle on black leather chaps from Hard On Leathers on Polk and a Muir motorcycle cap from A Taste of Leather on Folsom.

“What’s your outfit tonight, Don?” I said.

“What do you mean my outfit?”

Don said.

“Everybody gets dressed up on Halloween. You must have something!”

“Nothing.”

“You sure you’re gay?” I said.

Don blushed. He was from Mobile, Alabama.

“You were in the navy. Still have your Cracker Jack blues?”

When I picked Don up in Nelly Belle, my GMC truck, he looked hot with his white sailor cap squared off at a rakish angle and his navy blue bellbottoms snug across his butt.

We headed for Polk Street. The cops had traffic diverted off Polk for five blocks between Clay and Sutter.

Miracle of miracles, we found a place to park Nelly Belle and started ambling down Polk Street.

It was packed. We bumped into the Wizard of Oz, Carol Channing, President Nixon, Little Orphan Annie, a merman with a pearl wig, and almost got run down by a flying nun on roller skates.

“New in town, sailor boy?”

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A merman with a pearl wig at Polk Street Halloween celebrations in 1975.

repeatedly greeted Don as we made our way through the crowd. Finally I heard someone in a silver jockstrap trying to prance on green glitter platform-boots say, “Tie me up,

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So much for my budget-blowing leather chaps and cap.

When we reached the P.S. Piano Bar and Dining Room at 1121 Polk Street, it was time for a drink. We were swept into the P.S. by a phalanx of men in black tuxes with red ruffled shirts and top hats escorting Flame, who was attired in a red sequined gown. She was campaigning to have the Tavern Guild pick her as next year’s Absolute Empress XI and replace Doris, the current reigning Empress.

Inside the P.S. dining room, bartender Polk Street Sally MCed from a small platform. Costumed “Cabaret-virgins” predicted the next empress by peering into a crystal ball. The crystal ball predicted everyone of them a winner. Packed in among rhinestone cowboys and glitter queens, we watched the show.

Commentators from costumethemed buses that crawled from Buzzby’s to the Q.T. to the P.S. were introduced by Sally. The “Bette Davis and Friends” bus group impersonated famous actresses.

Each drag actress was introduced

by Bette dressed in a gray suit with net stockings and heels, a page-boy haircut, and Bette Davis eyes.

Wanna-be empresses were not the only candidates that took advantage of the gay crowd. Harvey Milk campaigned for a citywide position of supervisor. Carol Ruth Silver campaigned for District Attorney. Milton Marks let folks know he wanted to be mayor. None of them won in the election held the following Tuesday, November 4, 1975.

San Francisco’s adult Halloween celebrations shifted during the 1960s from North Beach to the Tenderloin and landed in Polk Gulch by 1970.

In 1976, the year after we watched Polk Street Sally introduce the future Empress Flame at the P.S., gay-bashers clashed with police on Polk Street. Tear gas spoiled the fun. By 1978 larger crowds gathered on Castro Street than on Polk.

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his month’s whirlwind of annual galas continued with Celebrity Pool Toss, benefiting Tenderloin Neighborhood Development’s after school programs on Oct. 8 at the Phoenix Hotel. This creative venture, produced by Winslow & Associates, pairs popular emcees with celebrities who agree to be thrown into the pool by the highest bidder, usually someone who has really done their homework and assembled a significant bid.

Now in its 21st year, Celebrity Pool Toss has all the elements down to perfection, including restaurant tasting booths, free-flowing cocktails, music by Bud E. Luv and his band, pre-show entertainment with flaggers and diving by Fitness SF trainers, and original publicity visuals by a new comic artist each year.

We co-emceed with lively television personality Liam Mayclem as much love party planner Lewis Sykes kept the bidding brisk, eventually being tossed into the pool in his tuxedo by the lovely Therese Post.

Other A-list socialites in attendance included Ellen Magnin Newman, Tom Kelley, Sally Debenham, Genelle Relfe, Donna Casey, and State Senator Mark Leno. At the end of the night, it was estimated that over $300,000 had been raised! Do not believe the rumor that we will be up for bid next year to be tossed into that cold pool!

The following night brought Shanti’s 39th annual Compassion is Universal at the Hilton, co-chaired

by Ken Fulk and Bahya OumlilMurad. We’ve often remarked that this is one of those events at which you are constantly aware of the beneficiary, and Executive Director Kaushik Roy spoke passionately of the ongoing mission of Shanti to be sure that no one faces life-threatening illness alone. Their peer counseling training has, not surprisingly, become a national model.

During the cocktail hour and at dinner we caught up with many friends and supporters of Shanti, including Tom Horn, Kevin Winge, Karl Keesling, Mario Diaz, Lawrence Cardoso, Xavier Barrera and Kirk Hahn, Gus Murad, Nanette Duffy, Rick Hamer, Doug Waggener, Lenny Broberg, Troy Anicete, and Bob Mitchitarian with his visiting parents. The stunningly beautiful Janet Reilly emceed and awards were presented to Matt Dorsey and Jill Isenstadt. After a sprawling silent auction, delicious seated dinner, and rousing live auction led

by Liam Mayclem, Shanti broke its fundraising record with their most successful gala to date.

Proving that, despite opinions to the contrary, there is only one of us, we missed Joy Bianchi’s 75th birthday celebration at the Fairmont earlier in October, but want to send her loads of love and support. Her tireless work on behalf of developmentally disabled adults through Helpers is an inspiration to us all.

We also missed Horizons Founda-

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Flaggers at the annual Celebrity Pool Toss at the Phoenix Hotel.

tions Gala Dinner & Casino Party at the Fairmont, the big SF AIDS Foundation Tribute Celebration at the California Academy of Sciences, and the spectacular wedding of Tommy Taylor and Jerome Goldstein on 21st Street over the weekend, since we were visiting Toronto. Does the social whirl ever end? (Reminder to self: Never leave town in October!)

Upon returning we dashed to the Julia Morgan Ballroom last Wednesday for AIDS Legal Referral Panel’s 30th annual gala, From the Heart, skillfully emceed by Executive Director Bill Hirsh. What a dazzling room to celebrate those many years of service, changing the lives of people challenged by AIDS and facing seemingly insurmountable legal difficulties. Several of the original founders of ALRP were present, including Tom Rodgers, who shared with me some of his memories over those 30 years. We also chatted with City Treasurer Jose Cisneros, Supervisor Scott Wiener, Anna Damiani, and Beth Feingold. The ever-generous James Hormel presented an award to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, who at that very minute was overseeing the end of the government shutdown in Washington. Hand-

some Dan Bernal accepted on her behalf.

Then State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, always full of wit and sass, presented awards to attorney Selby Lighthill and firm Hanson Bridgett, LLP. The live auction here was not only spirited, but downright voracious, especially for the trip to Bora Bora, which went for over $4000. Another wonderful celebration for an outstanding organization!

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Thu 31

Unmasked @ Regency Center

Steam Goes Bang @ Powerhouse

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland

The GLBT Historical Society’s annual gala includes drinks, food, a tempting variety of historic LGBT-themed auction items (plus wines, show tickets and luxury items).

Entertainment at the event will include drag stars Miss Rahni and Landa Lakes, swing dancers Ron Jenkins and Photis Pishiaras, erotic cabaret performers from sfBoylesque, and DJs from Stay Gold.

Festive attire encouraged. $75 and up.

7pm-10pm. 1290 Sutter St. at Van Ness. www.unmaskedgala.org

Bath house shenanigans at the popular bar include towel-dancing gogo guys, massages, tequila and vodka specials, free clothes check and towels. $5. 10pm-2am.

1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

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

VIP @ Club 21, Oakland Hip Hop, Top 40, and sexy Latin music; gogo dancers, appetizers, and special guest DJs. No cover before 11pm and just $5 after all night. Dancing 9pm-3am.

Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Fri 25 Donna Personna at Tubesteak Connection’s Halloween party

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alloweenies. Thriller diller nights. It’s gay Christmas, or so it’s been dubbed.

We found plenty of treats for you

Thu 24 Circle Jerk @ Nob Hill Theatre Enjoy onanistic adventures with porn dudes and patrons. $10. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

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

8pm. 307916th St. www.comedybodega.com

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

Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular new sports bar. 10pm-2am.

2247 Market St. 551-2500. HiTopsSF.com

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

Fri 25

and your tricks to enjoy this week.

And for a full feature on more “Hallowinners,” see our frighteningly fun front-page feature.

Macy Gray @ Yoshi’s Wildly soulful pop R&B singer performs with her band. $48-$75. 8pm & 10pm.

Special meet & greet pre-show (7pm).

Dinner options. 1330 Fillmore St. 6555600. www.yoshis.com

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

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

Randy Roberts @ Alcove Theatre, Martuni’s Veteran gender illusionist performs live songs as Bette Midler, Cher, and other female music icons. $40. Thu-Sat, 9pm.

Thru Nov 2. 414 Mason St. at Geary, 5th floor. 992-8168. At Martuni’s, and accompanied by Tammy L. Hall, Oct. 14, 21 & 28, 7pm. $20. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

241-0205. www.randyroberts.net

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

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle The weekly live rock shows have returned.

9pm-ish. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

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

Fri 25

Tony DeSare @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Handsome singer, pianist and songwriter performs his cabaret show, My Generation (The Contemporary American Songbook). $40-$50. 8pm. Also Oct. 26 7pm. Hotel Nikko lobby, 222 Mason St. (866) 6631063. www.ticketweb.com

Trannyshack Halloween @ DNA Lounge Heklina and Peaches Christ cohost the annual drag show with scary campy Halloween themes, with Holy McGrail, Qween, Fou Fou Ha, Precious Moments, Raya Light, Cockatelia and more. $15.

10pm-3am. Show at 11pm. 375 11th St. www.DNAlounge.com

Club Rimshot @ Bench and Bar, Oakland Weekly hip hop and R&B night. $8-$15.

9pm to 4am. 510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.com

The Devil Made Me Do It @ El Rio Satanically sexy Halloween party at the mixed bar with a fun outdoor patio; hosted

by Beth Dean, with DJs “Bloody” Brown Amy, Jackie “Sheer Terror” Sugarlumps, and acts Lil Miss Hot Mess, plus guy/gal gogos, and free glow-in-the-dark fangs while they last! $5-$15. 10pm-2am. 3158 Mission st. www.elriosf.com

Adam Killian @ Nob Hill Theatre The popular muscled and enthusiastic porn star performs live on stage and naked. $25.

8pm (solo) and 10pm (duo sex show). 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

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Caught a Ghost @ The Independent Art pop band with an eight-piece ensemble performs live. He’s My Brother She’s My Sister headlines; Song Preservation Society opens. $15. 9pm. 628 Divisadero St. www.caughtaghost.com www.theindependentsf.com

Chad Valley @ Rickshaw Stop UK singer performs on a bill with Keep Shelly in Athens. $15. 9pm. 155 Fell st. www.rickshawstop.com

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

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

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

HYSL @ The Lookout Shots, drinks and DJed fun with the adorable David and Trevor. $2. 10pm-2am.

3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

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

Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland Eight bars, more dance floors, and a smoking lounge; the largest gay Latin dance night in the Bay Area. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm. Dancing 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS

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

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

Roller Disco @ Women’s Building

Some Thing @ The Stud Mica Sigourney and pals’ weekly offbeat drag performance night; a special Some Thing Spooky pre-Halloween edition tonight. 10pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

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(Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 4214222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Beer Bust @ Hole in the Wall Saloon Beer only $8 until you bust. 4pm-8pm.

1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. hitws.com

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

Evening of Hope @ City View Metreon Project Inform’s gala fundraiser An Evening of Cool includes hostess Heklina, a “Condom Couture” fashion show, cocktails, food, a live auction and a VIP after-party. $200 and up. 6pm-11pm. DJed music by Kid Sysko and DCM. Cocktaildressy attire. 135 Fourth St. 558-8669. www.projectinform.org

Magic Show @ Hotel Rex Old-fashioned magic show with Sebastian Boswell III, Adam Sachs and guest performers, weekly in the parlor of the elegant downtown hotel. Two-drink min. Light fare menu.

Saturdays thru 2013. $25-$30. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. 895-0090. MagicattheRex.com

Miss Richfield 1981 @ St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church The Midwestern drag queen returns with her new comedy show, Sweet & Sour Richfield Made in China, a sing-along and participatory show and fundraiser for the church’s ministries. Donations 8pm. 101 Gold Mine Drive. 285-9540. www.missrichfield1981.bpt.me

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Runway Massacre @ Jones Juanita More’s annual Halloween costume and fashion party always sells out, so get tickets quickly for this fun night, with a midnight runway show and cash prizes from $1500-$500, plus gift certificates, DJs Robert Jeffrey and the Go Bang guys Steve Fabus and Sergio Fedasz. $25. 9pm-2am.

620 Jones St. (tickets at Sui Generis, 2231 Market St.) www.juanitamore.com

Wicked Gay @ The Lexington Club Join in the party with some seriously bad witches, with DJs Jenna Riot, Pony Mane, ghostly gal gogos, costumes contest and gore-geous gals. No cover. 9pm-2am. 3464 19th St. www.lexingtonclub.com

Wicked of Oz Shangrila @ Endup Enjoy a full-on Oz-themed night in the Emerald City, with costume contests for Wicked and Wizard of Oz-related characters. DJs Jeff Morena, Byron Bonsall and Alan Liao. $10-$20. 10pm-6am. 401 6th St. www.theendup.com

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Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room

Tue 29

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

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Mon 28 Cock and Bull Mondays @ Hole in the Wall Saloon Specials on drinks made with “Cock and Bull” ginger ale (Jack and Cock, Russian Mule, and more). 8pm-closing. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

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

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

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

Cocktails by Design @ Metreon City View DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) hosts a cocktail fundraiser showcasing creatively-designed table settings. $100. 6pm-10pm. Also, mid-day Coffee By Design, 10am-1pm. $50. Also, Oct. 30, 6pm-10pm: Gala Dinner with live and silent auctions, also at City View. 135 4th St. $500. www.diffasf.org

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gayfriendly comedy night. Oct. 29, New York comic Alex Koll. One-drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th.

431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Strip down like the strippers, and enjoy a beverage at the erotic male theatre. $20.

8pm and 10pm. Also Sept 28. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758.thenobhilltheatre.com

Soma Country @ Beatbox Sundance Saloon’s monthly SoMa two-stepping dance night now takes place every Tuesday. $8. 8pm-12am.

Lessons 8pm. 314 11th St. at Folsom. sundancesaloon.org www.beatboxsf.com

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

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

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

3158 Mission St. 282-3325. elriosf.com

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

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

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

Sacred Cocktails @ Twin Peaks Weekly gathering for Christian and other faithful LGBTs, sponsored by Oasis, the GLBT Ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of California. Upstairs, 7:30-8:30pm. Castro St. at Market. www.saintaidan.org

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

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@ The Edge Cookie Dough’s weekly drag show with gogo guys takes on Halloween night! Eek! With drag acts by Cookie Dough, Sugah Betes, Sue Casa, Glitterella Patrick Riley, Daft-Nee Gesuntheit, Mutha Chucka, RoxyCotten Candy and Daveed Varela. Lip-synch for a free shot of booze. $5 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

The ‘80s goth mixed night goes all monster mash with goth, industrial and hard rock n roll. Dress in your favorite goth Halloween costume. 9pm-2am. 1190 Folsom St. at 8th. www.sfcatclub.com

No Way Back Halloween @ F8 Honey Soundsystem and No Way Back, plus featured guest Willie Burns, offer a groove-happy trippy holiday night. $5-$15. 9pm-4am. 1192 Folsom St.. honeynowwaybackhalloween.eventbrite

Popscream @ Rickshaw Stop Popscene’s Halloween costume party with DJs Aason Axelson, Omar and Miles, plus performances by cover bands North American Scum (as LCD Soundsystem) and Bang on (as The Strokes). Enjoy 90s Britpop, 70s glam and more. $10. 18+.

9:30-2am. 155 Fell St. snagtickets.com

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Actress and film producer, who’s also an accomplished singer, performs songs from her debut pop covers album, AM/ FM. $40-$60. 8pm. Thru Nov. 2 (at 7pm).

Hotel Nikko lobby, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com

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

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

Queer Salsa @ Beatbox Weekly Latin partner dance night. 8pm1am. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf.com Women’s burlesque show performs each Wed & Fri. Karaoke follows. $5-$10. 7pm.

3158 Mission St. 282-3325. elriosf.com

Rookies Night @ Nob Hill Theatre

Thu 31

Nightmare on Folsom @ Cat Club

Wed 30

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The Shondes @ Café Du Nord Brooklyn-based Riot grrrl all-women band performs their inimicable power-pop, punk, Jewish traditional hybrid music, with a ‘90s zombie costume contest.

Galloping Sea and Naïve Americans open. $7. 8:30pm. 2174 Market St. at Sanchez. www.cafedunord.com

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Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Enjoy a special Halloween Bash edition of the intimate groovy disco night with DJ Bus Station John, starring Miss Donna Personna, plus a $100 cash prize for the winner of the midnight Kostume Kontest Kabaret. $7. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Underwear Party @ Powerhouse Enjoy a special Frat House porny Halloween night at the weekly underwear event, with porn hunk Connor Maguire and his Frat House Cream costars. Dress up in fratty party gear (togas, jocks, etc.). Strip down to your skivvies (free clothes check) and watch or compete in the wet underwear contest ($500 in Halloween prizes) at midnight, hosted by Mr. Pam and Misster Kenshi; plus, hot gogo guys and DJ Dam Nation. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

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Trivia Night @ Harvey’s Bebe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly night of trivia quizzes and fun and prizes; no cover.

8pm-1pm. 500 Castro St. 431-4278. www.harveyssf.com

Thu 31 Demons & Angels @ Club 21 The annual huge Halloween bash is hosted

by Violeta and Jacki, with DJ Carlitos spinning hip hop, Top 40 and Latin grooves.

With $1500 in cash prizes for costumes, plus creature featured gogo hotties, this is an East Bay extravaganza. $15. ($5 off before 10pm). 21+. 8pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. club21oakland.com

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

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eather and kink events this week include a full range of entertainments, from traditional nights to canine kink and bathhouse boisterousness, from costumed capers to nearly naked showering gogo guys.

THU 24 Underwear Night @ The Powerhouse Wet undie contest, drink specials, and more. Starts at 10pm. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

Return to Red Light Rubber District @ Blow Buddies Presented by the Rubbermen of SF. Membership fees apply. 8:30pm-Midnight.

933 Harrison St. www.rmsf.org/calendar

FRI 25 Monthly Steam Party @ The Powerhouse PowerShower, towel dancers, $1/minute massage, clothes check, towels available. $8 donation to LGBT Center. 1347 Folsom St. at 10th. www.powerhouse-sf.com

Truck Wash @ Truck Live shower boys, drink specials. No cover.

10pm-2am. 1900 Folsom St. www.trucksf.com

SAT 26 All Beef Saturday Nights @ Lone Star Saloon 100% Soma Beef & Co. No chicken, no fillers, by-products or preservatives. 10pm.

1354 Harrison St. lonestarsaloon.com

Men’s Pre-Halloween BDSM Play Event @ SF Citadel Presented by the 15 Association, a men only play party. 8pm-1am, $20, invitation needed. See the 15 Association website for details. www.15sf.org

Boot Lickin’ @ Powerhouse Lick those boots, or just admire the men wearing them. 10pm-Close. 1347 Folsom St. at 10th. www.powerhouse-sf.com

Bouncer’s MIR Sendoff @ SF Eagle Help the SF Rubbermen send Bouncer off to the Mr. International Rubber contest.

9pm-Close. 398 12th St. www.rmsf.org/calendar

SUN 27 PoHo Sundays @ Powerhouse Dollar drafts all day! Starts at 4pm. 1347 Folsom St. at 10th. powerhouse-sf.com

MON 28 Dirty Dicks @ Powerhouse Don’t worry, not everyone’s dick is dirty.

Find out for yourself. $3 well drinks. 4pm.

1347 Folsom St. at 10th. www.powerhouse-sf.com

Trivia Night @ Truck Casey Ley hosts. Amazing prizes, ridiculous questions. No cover. 8-10pm. 1900 Folsom St. www.trucksf.com

Wicked String Bondage @ Club Eros Join SF Ring and Waldemar for some fun string bondage. 7:30-9:30pm. 2051 Market St. www.sfring.org

FRI 1 Locker Room @ The Edge Presented by Michael Brandon, enjoy hot go-go boys, shot specials, giveaways from sponsors like ID Lube, Waxing Men, Steamworks, Nob Hill Theater, and more.

9pm-Midnight. 4149 Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

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A barbershop leather night (See Sat. 9). Speaking of hot barbers: Joe Gallagher (left)and his hunky hubby Michael at The Powerhouse.

Mr. and Ms. Santa Clara County Meet & Greet @ Renegades Bar Come down to San Jose to enjoy the Santa Clara County Leather Weekend. Meet the contestants. 9pm-Close. 501 Taylor, San Jose. www.renegadesbar.com

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SAT 9 Mr. Daddy’s Barbershop Leather Contest @ SF Eagle See a great group of men come and compete to represent the barbershop and the city in this role in a new leather/kink title contest. 4-7pm. 398 12th St. www. sf-eagle.com

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Mr. and Ms. Santa Clara County Leather 2013 Contest @ Renegades Bar Celebrate the 15th anniversary of the title and cheer on the contestants. 501 Taylor, San Jose. Check site for time. www.renegadesbar.com

Right after the Mr. Daddy’s Barbershop Leather Contest, stick around for a new ruff night at the SF Eagle, where you can find the perfect spot to bury your bone every second Saturday. DJ’s Chip Mint and Taco Tuesday will have you howling at the moon while you sniff out your bitch. $7.

10pm-1am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

GearUp Play Party @ Mr. S Dungeon

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For men only. Play out a fantasy scene, learn something new, or just have a fun hot time in the back room. Social area, refreshments and clothes check provided. $20, $10 students and military.

Doors open 9-11pm, play until 2am. 385-A 8th St. gearupweekend.com/play-parties

Nasty @ Powerhouse Get down and nasty with the boys and men at Powerhouse. The hottest Saturday night in SoMa. No cover. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. at 10th. powerhouse-sf.com

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1010 The Alameda, San Jose. www.thewatergarden.com

Some kinky masks at Folsom Street Fair.

Dominant Discussion Group (DDG) @ SF Citadel $5-$15 donation to our host.

7:30-9:30pm. www.sfcitadel.org

Naked Buddies @ Blow Buddies Get naked with your buddies, new and old. Membership fees apply. 8pm-Midnight.

933 Harrison St. www.blowbuddies.com

Nipple Play @ Powerhouse Show off your nipples, play with others. Shirtless drink specials. 10pm-Close. 1347 Folsom St. at 10th. www.powerhouse-sf.com Rich Stadtmiller

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eeing a couple of the short movies in the UKNakedMen collection, The London Massive 3 made me want to explore the first two volumes, as well as sniff around the website itself (well, I’ve sniffed, but my porn allowance is stringent, and you never find a half price sale for membership there, or at their brother site, Butch Dixon).

The hour and three-quarter anthology has five scenes. I rate two of them Yay!, and one of them Good.

Of the remaining two, one is clinical and the other blah. The scenes vary in setting, have interestingly novel music, and are a standardized length, between 17 and 20 minutes. Moments of the initial insertion that launches fucking are largely skipped, which I find a letdown, but I find it refreshing that the scenes have a different feel than American porn. I can’t explain it, but you know they have accents over there, and drive on the wrong side of the road. It stands to reason their porn is a little different, in a good way.

What’s also refreshing is that the collection’s eleven British performers haven’t been over exposed in American porn, except for the movie’s sole American, Shane Frost, who also has one of the movie’s two circumcised cocks, and who gives his usual rousing performance, at any rate.

The first two minutes of the first scene are wasted on some body painting folderol; you may find it erotic, but for a scene that’s only 17 minutes long, I’d have preferred to get on with it. Like the title promises, we get some massive Londoner right off, with Drew “Footlong” Brody. His dick is not merely as long as advertised, but extra thick. His partner, Louis Marco, who is himself sizably hung, and pointy-nippled as well, swallows it all. Their cocksucking is decidedly expert, as is their fucking.

Although Marco lets loose some choice cursing, he adjusts to every inch of Brody’s insertion–helped along by a snort of poppers. Merely to watch this merging of monster cock and superbly malleable mudeye, I felt I could use a hit myself.

Ashley Ryder is the centerpiece shared by two men in the second scene. Spreading his ass cheeks, he tells his doctor, “Inside of me there’s this huge hunger that needs to be fed.” The Doc needs a second opinion, and famed bottom JP Dubois arrives to assist with lubing, fingering, and fucking. What a sex babe Mr. Ryder is. His knowledge of his need, the expectancy on his face, the helpful determination to open his hole to receive therapy, and the physical technique with which he accommodates it. Yet the scene does’nt rumble like it ought. Even though it takes place in a clinic, it shouldn’t get as clinical as it does. All three guys cum by jacking themselves off, when their somewhat disappointingly calm fucking is abruptly abandoned.

All is redeemed with the next scene’s arrival of Malik “The Torpedo” TN. I’m sure you’ll agree that the hot, husky Malik deserves the additional four minutes editor Butch Dixon doles out for his topping of Alec Hills, because they’re spilling over with thrills (although the scene’s first four minutes are wasted on one of those typical sexo massages, in which the masseur has no idea what he’s doing; like most porn massages, this one is neither believable nor erotic).

Malik’s broad cock has a massive head with a sharply defined corona, the kind that makes your lips go pop as it pokes in and out. The lightly furred, bearded dudes provide sur-

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Malik “The Torpedo” TN and Eric Hill share a thrill ride in The London Massive 3.

prise and excitement aplenty in the initial ass plug and the subsequent, unmerciful jabbing. Malik’s impressive tool is given impressive deployment, and Hill provides deluxe partnering.

Steamy close-ups of Hill’s irising sphincter will amaze, and the hills are alive with the popping sounds that accompany Malik’s in-and-out.

Malik’s cum spurt is a yard long ribbon of royal jelly, after which he tugs his rubber back on and returns to plugging Hill’s ass, causing a forceful orgasm. All told, theirs is a five-star romp.

A glory hole scene is sorta blah, until a final lip-smacking OCS juices things up (it’s the only cum swallow in the collection). And then, the collection’s climactic climax; Shane Frost removes the blahs of the preceding scene with an infusion of brash American urgency. If I was making out with the unusually attractive Harry Louis, I’d spend more

time smooching the dude. But Shane goes right for the cock. He has no trouble deep-throating its massiveness, and then lustily enjoys a hard pumping ride upon it. Harry is not only the handsomest among men, but he fucks like a demon and cums like Niagara Falls.t www.UKNakedMen.com

Shane Frost and Harry Louis on a twice-censored version of The London Massive 3 box cover.

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The celebrities came out, as did supporters of the Human Rights Campaign, at their annual gala, held at the Westin St. Francis on October 19. Among the guest speakers were NBA player Jason Collins and actress Laura Prepon (Orange is the New Black, That ‘70s Show).

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Castro district clothing boutique Sui Generis hosted Party and Shop for a Cause, a cocktail event for The Academy of Friends, on October 18.

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For more photos, and to arrange your own wedding, headshot or portrait photos,

call (415) 370-7152 or visit www.StevenUnderhill.com

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Invite you and guest to a special screening ON Thursday, November 7 in San Francisco

To receive tickets, attend ‘Make Contact’ at Golden Gate Business Association, the Bay Area’s and the nation’s first LGBT chamber of commerce:

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013 6:00pm - 8:00pm Johnston, Kinney & Zulaica, LLP 180 Sansome Street, 5th Floor | San Francisco, CA 94104 Note: Event is free for members and $20 for guests. For more information go to www.ggba.com

Alternate form of entry: Text BAR and your ZIP CODE to 43549 to enter-to-win a mobile pass, good for two.

Supplies limited. Mobile winners chosen by random drawing on Monday, November 4 from all entries received by deadline. Limit one entry per cellphone.

Message and data rates from your wireless carrier may apply. Please check your plan for details.

THIS FILM IS RATED R Passes received through this promotion do not guarantee admission. EXCEPT FOR MEMBERS OF THE REVIEWING PRESS. No one will be admitted without a ticket or after the screening begins. Focus Features, The Bay Area Reporter, Allied-THA, 43KIX (43549) and their affiliates accept no responsibility or liability in connection with any loss or accident incurred in connection with use of a prize. Tickets cannot be exchanged, transferred or redeemed for cash, in whole or in part. We are not responsible if, for any reason, winner is unable to use his/her ticket in whole or in part. Void where prohibited by law. No purchase necessary. NO PHONE CALLS! whole or in part. Void prohibited by law. No purchase necessary. NO PHONE CALLS!

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