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omen and their supporters were out in force Saturday, August 27 for the 10th and final Sistahs Steppin’ in Pride Dyke March.

The group started at Oakland’s Lake Merritt and marched to nearby Snow Park, where an

afternoon festival included entertainment and speakers. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan was on hand to issue a proclamation to Peggy Moore, one of the founders of the event. The fun continues this Sunday with Oakland Pride.

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Solmonese to depart HRC

by Lisa Keen

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oe Solmonese, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, will not renew his contract and is expected to depart the nation’s largest LGBT rights group by next spring.

Solmonese’s departure caps a turbulent tenure that saw the organization help to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” but also saw it come under Rick Gerharter withering attack Joe Solmonese from the community for not supporting a transgender-inclusive Employment NonDiscrimination Act in 2007.

HRC made the announcement in a news release issued Saturday, August 27. Pam Spaulding first reported the news on her blog last Friday evening.

Solmonese’s contract expires March 31, See page 12 >>

EQCA: ‘No illusion’ on Stop SB 48

by Seth Hemmelgarn

by Seth Hemmelgarn yon-Martin Health Services, the San Francisco clinic serving women and transgender people that’s been struggling to remain open, is accepting new patients as of today (Thursday, September 1).

The move could mark a turning point for the nonprofit.

In late January, Lyon-Martin’s board Rick Gerharter made the surprise Dr. Dawn announcement that the clinic was more Harbatkin than $500,000 in debt and would close within days. Supporters quickly rallied to raise hundreds of thou-

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fficials with Equality California have cast doubt on the chances of defeating repeal of the FAIR Education Act, and Executive Director Roland Palencia said they have “no illusion” that victory will be easy.

In a conference call with reporters last week, Palencia said, “The prospects are not good if [the repeal Lydia Gonzales referendum] gets to the Roland Palencia ballot. ... I’m not under any illusion that we necessarily have any advantage on this.”

The Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act, also known as Senate Bill 48, requires schools teach about the historical contributions of LGBT people. Gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored See page 13 >>

Latecomer Fazio makes fourth run for DA

by Seth Hemmelgarn

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ongtime attorney Bill Fazio entered the race to be San Francisco’s district attorney months later than the other major candidates, but he feels his name recognition gives him a good shot.

Fazio, who entered the contest just before 5 p.m. on August 12, the filing deadline, was an assistant district attorney in San Francisco for 20 years and has followed that with almost 20 years as a defense attorney.

He has run for DA three times before.

Fazio, 63, said that he knows he has his work cut out for him.

“I don’t think we’ll have a problem with money,” Fazio said. However, he added, “I know I have to get the message out. ... Experience is the difference.”

In a Friday, August 26 interview in the Bay Area Reporter’s offices, Fazio never clearly explained why he waited so long to enter the race. But he said he finally stepped in because he sees the other people running as “unqualified.”

He said there’s “no question” he’s “head and shoulders” above the others.

He said he’s someone who knows the system and would take a balanced approach, and he knows “San Francisco values.”

Fazio said that if he’s elected to the DA post in November, he would “provide the leadership that office hasn’t had” since former DA Kamala Harris took office in 2004.

Harris was elected as state attorney general

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Bill Fazio, left, smiles as he submits paperwork at the elections office to run for district attorney. With him is Marcel Myres, a longtime colleague and supporter.

last November. In January, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed George Gascón as DA just before Newsom was sworn in as the state’s lieutenant governor. Gascón, who was the city’s police chief, is running to hold onto the DA post.

The other candidates are Sharmin Bock, an assistant district attorney for Alameda

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County in charge of special operations and policy development; David Onek, a criminal justice expert and former San Francisco police commissioner; and Vu Vuong Trinh, a former deputy public defender.

On his Facebook page, Fazio says, “I believe See page 12 >>

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▼ New HIV contracts set to start

by Seth Hemmelgarn

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etails on many contracts between San Francisco’s HIV Prevention Section and providers are still being worked out, but the city has released data on how much money different agencies can expect over the next year. Contracts are set to start today (Thursday, September 1).

In an effort to drastically reduce HIV transmission in the city, a greater emphasis is being placed on testing people for HIV and connecting those who are HIV-positive to health care services with the goal of reducing new infections by half by 2017.

Less emphasis is being placed on health education and risk reduction strategies as the new contracts, worth nearly $7.1 million, take effect. Based on local data of who is most at risk for contracting HIV, funding has been prioritized for services targeting gay and bisexual men, transgender women, intravenous drug users, and black and Latino men who have sex with men.

Dr. Grant Colfax, the city’s HIV prevention director, said in an email that contracts are renewed “on an annual basis, contingent on funding and performance.”

According to city data, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation is set to receive approximately $3.5 million – about half of the funding the prevention office is providing through the contracts. Some of that money will go to agencies subcontracting with SFAF. The biggest allotment to the nonprofit is $1.2 million for syringe exchange. The city has long supported cutting HIV transmission by giving intravenous drug users access to clean needles.

Under its syringe-related contract, SFAF will be working with subcontractors Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center, Glide Health Services, Homeless Youth Alliance, and St. James Infirmary, according to Bob Rybicki, SFAF’s vice president for programs and policy.

Rybicki said the city’s health

Bob Rybicki is a senior official with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation; SFAF is expected to receive about half of the city’s HIV prevention funding.

department wanted to form a collaboration of agencies that it had been funding individually for syringe exchange.

“We all agreed we had specialized populations we wanted to focus on,” he said, adding that they have formed the Syringe Access Collaborative.

Homeless Youth Alliance focuses on the Haight Ashbury neighborhood, St. James primarily assists sex workers, Glide Health Services is based in the Tenderloin, and, as its name implies, API Wellness Center deals with Asians and Pacific Islanders.

“Our goal is to basically hand out close to 2.5 million syringes in the city each year,” Rybicki said. He said SFAF would be buying the syringes and other supplies.

SFAF is also set to receive about $871,000 from the city’s HIV prevention office for Magnet, the gay men’s health center in the Castro neighborhood. Rybicki said subcontractors Glide Health Services and St. James Infirmary would receive about $35,000 apiece.

He said Magnet would be performing close to 8,000 tests in the

first year of the contract, while the other two agencies would each be expected to perform close to 200.

The contract should enable SFAF to double its testing capacity, which had been about 4,000 HIV tests a year.

Rybicki said his agency reached out to the others “because we want to network into their two communities.”

Both of the smaller organizations have done venue-based testing. For example, Glide would visit singleroom occupancy hotels, Rybicki said.

Other HIV-related organizations will also be receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from the city.

Among the HIV prevention contracts with which it’s set to be involved, API Wellness Center is looking to receive $455,000 for special projects to address HIV-related health disparities among transgender women who have sex with men.

The city lists Instituto Familiar de la Raza, Native American AIDS Project, and El-La Para TransLatinas as subcontractors for that funding, which API Wellness Executive Director Lance Toma said is a new contract for his agency.

Toma said his group is just starting negotiations with the city’s health department over $150,000 for its work with Asian and Pacific Islander gay and bisexual men.

Earlier this summer, Toma had complained that the city was about to eliminate resources for the Asian and Pacific Islander community. Toma said the $150,000 in funding would “enable us to continue a good number of the interventions we’ve been holding,” but not all of them. That funding could help the center provide activities such as support groups.

Athila Lambino, who’s 27 and identifies as bisexual, is an Asian and Pacific Islander center client. In terms of HIV prevention, he said it’s helpful to have a group setting “in that it encourages people to speak up, when there are probably more people with similar experiences to them.”▼ A list of the contract amounts and agencies is online at ebar.com.

Website lets parents share unconditional love with their kids

by David Duran

Facebook that his mother wrote that communicated n times of heightened how positive her experience awareness of the struggles has been of having a gay son.

LGBT and questioning “The letter was written teens often face, including for a mom who had just recently found out suicides due to bullying, about her son being gay. organizations have stepped We ended up having a up and come out in support conversation about the by offering resources for letter shortly after Michael queer and questioning posted it on Facebook and youth. Now, a unique immediately decided that website has entered the mix. we needed to create a site Called www.aNoteTowhere parents of LGBTQ MyKid.com, the site, started children, or any parent for

by Michael Volpatt and his that matter, could write colleague Patrick Wallace, Courtesy Michael Volpatt similar letters professing shares inspirational messages and has already gar- Michael Volpatt, left, and Patrick Wallace are the their unconditional love and nered the support of several creators of a new website for LGBT and question- support for their children,” said Wallace. community-based organiza- ing youth.

The site is intended tions, politicians and most for LGBTQ youth to help importantly, queer youth, inspire them and show them it simple for other parents to share questioning youth, and their that there are supportive and loving their unconditional love for their families. parents out there. At the same time, children,” Volpatt told the Bay Area ANoteToMyKid.com is a it really can be a helpful tool for Reporter. “Two, we wanted to give collaboration of letters of support questioning youth as well as worried parents who may not know how to from parents to their youth. The parents. If a parent doesn’t know broach the subject of sexuality the open forum provides a safe place how to approach their child and let opportunity to learn from example for parents to post personal letters them know that they love them no and hopefully find the inspiration expressing their support of their matter what, this is a great platform they need to initiate a very important child. for them to do so without feeling the conversation with their child. And The site officially launched in vulnerability of speaking to them in three, to remind members of our June. It was a culmination of events person, the men said.

LGBTQ community that there really that inspired the men to create it.

At times, it’s easier to express what is a lot of love and support out “One, the love and support our one is really feeling in written form. there.” parents have shown us over the “The site is intended for the What really got the ball rolling years has been tremendous and was a letter that Volpatt posted on we wanted to find a way to make See page 6 >>

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AHF stages ‘die-in’ at Gilead headquarters

by Tony K. LeTigre

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he Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation recently staged a protest at the Bay Area headquarters of Gilead Sciences as part of an ongoing campaign to pressure the company and educate the public about the exorbitant price of HIV/AIDS medications, in particular the blockbuster three-inone drug, Atripla.

On August 18 about 15 protesters, dressed in black with skeleton masks, held a “die-in” outside Gilead’s Foster City headquarters.

“We have asked Gilead to reduce their prices for AIDS drugs by 20 percent,” AHF associate director of communications Lori Yeghiayan told the Bay Area Reporter. “We also want them to commit to working with the HIV/AIDS community on a regular basis to negotiate prices that ensure the sustainability of state programs and access by people in need of lifesaving medication.”

Atripla combines Gilead’s tenofovir and emtricitabine with Bristol-Myers Squibb’s efavirenz in a fixed-dose, once-daily pill.

The core of AHF’s complaint is that Atripla costs $10,000 annually per patient, and there are currently 9,200 people on waiting lists for AIDS Drug Assistance Programs nationwide in 12 different states.

California, as yet, is not one of them.

“So far, ADAP seems to cover my HIV meds just fine,” said gay San Francisco resident and choreographer Jessie Bie, 42.

But AHF President Michael Weinstein told the B.A.R. that the state’s financial situation is precarious.

“In California, at the present time, no one is on a waiting list, because state funds help people who can’t afford the drugs they need,” Weinstein said. “But earlier this year the

Activists from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation picket the headquarters of Gilead Sciences in Foster City, demanding that the pharmaceutical company lower the price of Atripla.

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governor proposed budget cuts that would have severe consequences for people whose medication depends on ADAP and Medi-Cal.” Governor Jerry Brown’s January proposal introduced cost-sharing for ADAP patients with annual incomes over the amount allowed by 2011 federal poverty guidelines, which for a single person in the lower 48 states is $10,890.

The proposal, currently being hashed out by the governor’s office and the legislature, followed former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s $82 million cut to the state’s Office of AIDS budget in the 2009-10 fiscal year.

While Brown signed the $86 billion budget on June 30, cuts are still possible if projected revenues do not materialize.

Cara Miller, director of public affairs for Gilead Sciences, told the B.A.R. the company has gone to great lengths to assist people living with HIV, establishing a voluntary price freeze for ADAPs (now extended

through 2013), providing copayment assistance of up to $2,400 a year for insured patients, and changing income eligibility criteria to grant more patients access to the Patient Assistance Program, a stopgap for those without insurance or on a wait list.

“All wait-listed patients are eligible for Gilead’s PAP and can stay on for as long as is required to transition them to some type of coverage,” Miller added.

Julian Cavazos, a gay Hispanic man and small business owner in Fort Lauderdale, is just such a patient.

Cavazos, 50, was diagnosed with HIV 21 years ago, and initially went on Trizivir, which proved highly effective.

“My viral load went down, my T-cell count went up,” Cavazos said. “I was considered asymptomatic within a short time.”

Then the law firm he worked for closed due to lack of business, and he lost his insurance.

“At the time there were studies showing people going off HIV drugs

and doing fine without them, and since I didn’t have insurance, that’s what I did too,” Cavazos said.

For five years he lived medicationfree. Then, in May of this year, he entered an intensive care unit – still with no insurance – suffering from pneumocystis pneumonia. His doctor diagnosed him with full-blown AIDS and urged him to resume taking meds.

His hospital bill from that visit totaled $70,000.

For the time being, Cavazos receives three separate medications free of charge through the PAP, but he doesn’t feel secure about the future.

“The free drugs only last for a certain amount of time,” Cavazos said. “And I’ve been told I could be on the wait list for a year. If the free drugs run out, I would be in trouble. I cannot go off these meds.”

Weinstein asserted that PAP is not an adequate substitute for ADAP, and criticized it as a scam by which companies generate millions every year in tax breaks under the guise of

charity, while also keeping drug prices high.

“Given that Atripla is sold ‘at cost’ for $600 per year in developing countries, Gilead could lower the price significantly and still make a huge profit,” said Adam Ouderkirk, Bay Area regional director for AHF and a leader of the Foster City protest.

Asked by the B.A.R. if she could verify the cost figure, Miller answered, “We do not provide specific detail around the manufacturing costs for our products.”

Earlier this year state Treasurer Bill Lockyer and state Controller John Chiang sent separate letters to Gilead on behalf of threatened ADAP patients. Chiang’s letter asked CEO John Martin to “provide additional pricing considerations that will translate into a cost savings for the program.”

This year marks the 30th anniversary of AIDS, which was first identified in a June 1981 publication by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, director of state and local affairs for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, noted significant advances over the past year, including President Barack Obama’s unveiling of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and “exciting breakthroughs in HIV prevention.”

But, she added, the proposed funding cuts could undo that progress, leading back to higher rates of transmission and new infection.

Yeghiayan said the Foster City die-in is the latest in a string of demonstrations organized by AHF, which bills itself as the world’s largest HIV treatment nonprofit organization. The protests have averaged “about one every two weeks,” she said, and aren’t likely to stop any time soon.

“From here we’re only going to ramp up our efforts,” Yeghiayan added.▼

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t may not be what the LGBT community wants to hear, but Equality California Executive Director Roland Palencia was quite blunt on a conference call with reporters last week when he acknowledged that should the referendum to overturn Senate Bill 48, the FAIR Education Act, make it to the ballot, we will lose.

“The prospects are not good if this gets to the ballot,” Palencia said. “I am not under any illusion.”

Right now the anti-gay groups that spearheaded Proposition 8 are gathering signatures to get the SB 48 referendum on the ballot next year. They have until October 12 to collect 504,760 valid signatures. According to EQCA and its coalition partners, much of that work is currently taking place in churches – no surprise there – but the prospect of hired signature gatherers sprouting up outside big box stores in the final push is very real.

We noticed something on the EQCA conference call, which included coalition director Andrea Shorter and communications director Rebekah Orr: there’s no robust unified strategy to keep the referendum from qualifying or what to do if it does. There needs to be one message to meet the opposition. If we’ve learned nothing else from the Prop 8 fiasco, it’s that our side was disorganized, afraid, and timid.

Palencia later clarified his comments, but still maintains – correctly – that any ballot fight over SB 48, which would require public schools to include factual, age-appropriate information about the contributions of LGBT people and people with disabilities, will be extremely difficult. Orr acknowledged that the coalition has yet to find the “silver bullet” on overcoming the fear factor that the homophobes are quite adept at instilling in straight parents, especially mothers.

Since that August 25 call, EQCA has gone on the offensive. This week it issued a video of the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins’s message to fundamentalist churches in which he rails against the “propaganda” of SB 48

and how it will force teachers to advocate “for behavior they find morally objectionable.”

EQCA also points out that the Family Research Council has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and addresses Perkins’s lies and misinformation.

We don’t recall that happening during the Prop 8 campaign, and it’s a noticeable improvement in strategy.

“We are realistic about how difficult this campaign will be, how hard it will be to win,” Palencia said in his clarifying remarks that were sent several hours after the call.

“But we also know that even if we start way behind, a loss is not a foregone conclusion. From our starting place our chances may not look good, but I don’t believe it is impossible.”

One of the problems for the coalition is apathy within the LGBT community over this issue. It was hard to get folks to call Governor Jerry Brown’s office when he was deciding

whether to sign the bill, while reports circulated that the right wing had ramped up its effort with calls urging Brown to veto the measure.

So it seems that EQCA and its partners need to energize their base by telling LGBTs why it’s important to stop this referendum. At least the Perkins video is a good start.

Of course, it would be best if the referendum failed to qualify in the first place. But EQCA’s slow start at mounting a vigorous decline to sign campaign, coupled with lackluster fundraising to support it, has hurt. There is doubt about the effectiveness of decline to sign campaigns, but an attempt would have started a public discussion on the issue. EQCA has yet to distill anything resembling a quick, 10-second sound bite, which is about all the time one has to convince someone not to sign a petition.

So as we head into the final six weeks of the signature gathering effort, we hope EQCA continues to aggressively combat the distortions made by the Stop SB 48 side. But that alone will not be enough to win this campaign.▼

Capital improvement eviction threatens our home

by Corey Ruda

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n February my boyfriend and I received an email from our landlord. It stated that he had some plans for some deck work, and he would like to speak to us in person or on the phone. We phoned him the next morning and he said that there is going to be some work done on our building. He wanted to add a room onto the existing living room, and make the decks wrap-around. He also wanted to add a deck to the garage, and to the rooftop.

This proposed plan would make our building uninhabitable during construction, he said, and he would like us to vacate the property, probably sometime in July.

What?

It’s called a capital improvement eviction.

I had never heard of this. I always thought, we’re cool, we’re safe, we’ve got a killer rent controlled apartment. We’re never leaving.

Um, no. We are not safe. This guy could actually decide to “improve” this place, and we’re out. For how long, and how much will the rent be if and when we return? These questions have all been ignored.

I have lived in this rentcontrolled apartment on Telegraph Hill since January 2004. Michael Barron, my boyfriend, moved in sometime in April the same year. The landlord purchased this property as an investment in 2008. I filled out an estoppel agreement when he took ownership. I’m the master tenant, and stated that Michael also now lives here along with our dog, Jeremy. He then called me, and asked who Michael was, and he seemed a bit confused and/or disturbed that two guys lived in this one bedroom apartment. I told him Michael is my boyfriend, and we now live together here.

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Corey Ruda and his boyfriend, Michael Barron, are facing possible eviction.

He suggested maybe he should increase the rent because two people were now living here. I explained again that Mike was my boyfriend, and asked him this – if he was renting a place alone, then got married and his wife moved in, would he expect his rent to increase? He let it go at that. This is our home. We are attached to the space, the beauty, and the community (and the price).

This proposed project would result in the loss of green space on the hillside that supports beautiful old trees, wildlife, and provides privacy between neighbors, and the overall vibe of this incredible historic district of San Francisco.

We feel that this project is too massive for this area. A McMansion, so to speak; a Disneyland facade in front, and a massive eyesore and incongruence in the rear.

Yes, it’s inconvenient and a total drag to move, and we can’t afford to find a different apartment is San Francisco for an unknown period of time. I checked out Craigslist, and felt like puking after seeing how much rents are now. I haven’t looked for a place in years, and I had no clue how expensive places are now here. I’m thinking, Jesus, we can’t even afford to cram ourselves into a studio.

We decided to exercise our rights as tenants, and fight. We researched. We read the Tenant’s Union handbook cover to cover. We consulted with a tenant-friendly politician. We want to stop this. We’re frustrated, and in limbo.

There have been two hearings in front of the Historic Preservation Commission. This project needs to be approved by the panel in order to obtain a certificate of appropriateness, which is needed to apply for a permit with Department of Buildings. The second one was continued due to the planning department failing to give proper notice to the neighbors of this project and for the public hearing.

The next hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, September 7 at 12:30 p.m. at City Hall, Room 400. It’s open to the public, and we would like anyone interested in our situation and/or tenants’ rights to attend.

We do have support from the neighbors that have a house located behind the building. The construction would bring us 15 feet closer to them, allowing us to stare directly into their windows, as well as them into ours. The yard would pretty much be gone.

This is not just a piece of property to us. It’s our home. I feel the landlord has little regard for the people living here, and this kind of greed will totally disrupt our lives.▼ People can submit comments to the Historic Preservation Commission or attend the meeting. For more information, visit sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=1892.

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Who are we leaving out?

I’m writing in response to the article “HIV infections steady overall, rising in young gay men,” by Liz Highleyman [August 11]. I am concerned that the article fails to mention trends in HIV incidence rates among smaller ethnic subgroups, including American Indian/ Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, as well as those who report multiple races. No longer subsumed within larger ethnic groups, our communities have worked hard to ensure that data be collected in a manner that respects our cultural and ethnic identities (see “Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity,” Office of Management and Budget, 1997).

Because our communities are smaller and often do not yield the numbers needed to produce statistically “significant” results, HIV and other public health data on our communities is often left without analysis when looking at trends among ethnic and racial groups.

This is the case with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HIV surveillance report from which the article draws its information. For this reason, I find it misleading to state that “HIV incidence did not increase significantly, either overall or in any racial/ethnic group...” when in fact, not every group was included in the analysis. San Francisco stands poised as a leader in the fight against HIV in the United States. It is important that as leaders, we continue to adapt to changes in federal policies regarding data on racial and ethnic groups by changing the way we talk about how the disease is affecting the diverse communities that make up our city.

Ryan Fuimaono San Francisco

Dufty for mayor Why not? Despite all that the San Francisco Chronicle political columnists wrote recently that was mentioned in the Bay Area Reporter, [“LGBT Democratic clubs weigh in on SF races,” Political Notebook, August 25], I think that Bevan Dufty is the best for the next mayor in

our great city. And he will be the first openly gay mayor.

San Francisco deserves it. The whole world has waited for it many, many years, and we are an example and pride for gay people around the world. So, let’s do it and show the world who we are. One of my friends who lives in Houston (which has an out lesbian as mayor) put it like this, “Your fabulous city will change the world,” – and I agree with that.

Georgy Prodorov San Francisco

Honoring Ruth Brinker Ruth Brinker, who died on August 8, was a true humanitarian and one of the greatest friends San Francisco’s LGBTQ communities ever had [“Open Hand founder Ruth Brinker dies,” August 11]. In the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, this loving grandmother took it upon herself personally to feed those suffering the effects of HIV, many of who had been abandoned by friends, families, and society. Her efforts provided hundreds of thousands of meals to those who hungered and emotional sustenance to those who suffered. Project Open Hand, which she founded, became a model to create similar organizations throughout the world, helping countless others.

Among the many gestures we can make to commemorate her passing and honor her memory, the simplest, easiest and most fitting is to lower the rainbow flag at Harvey Milk Plaza to half-mast and to devote a moment of silence or a moment of thought to her when we pass it. The flag is a symbol of our LGBTQ communities everywhere in the world. Lowering it to half-staff is a time-honored, worldwide tradition that we should follow here as well, whenever someone of Ruth Brinker’s stature and contributions passes. Such is the least we can do for this great woman and for others whom we have loved – and have loved us – and we have lost.

Bill Lipsky San Francisco

Porn, other charges against medical marijuana activist dropped The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (415) 437-4696.

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he San Francisco District Attorney’s office has dropped child pornography and other charges against a gay medical marijuana advocate, the activist said this week.

Dennis Peron, 65, pleaded not guilty in San Francisco Superior Court last November to five counts, including possession or control of matter depicting a minor engaging or simulating sexual conduct; possession of methamphetamine for sale; possession of MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and marijuana; and “opening or maintaining a place for the purpose of selling or using any controlled substance.”

Seth Steward, a spokesman for the DA’s office, said in response to emailed questions the case was dismissed because the DA’s office couldn’t prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

Peron wrote Proposition 215, the California Compassionate Use Act, which was passed by voters in 1996.

He was arrested in October 2010 at his “Castro Castle” bed and breakfast at 3745 17th Street. He was booked into custody, but said he was released within days after friends helped him gather $20,000 for his bail, which had been set at $200,000.

Peron said in November that police have been “trying to frame me since the 1990s,” because they “weren’t too happy” about Prop 215, among his other marijuanarelated work. Lieutenant Troy Dangerfield, a San Francisco Police Department spokesman, has denied that accusation.

The case was dismissed August 3.

Peron has said the October arrest stemmed from a raid of the house last August. At that time, police

Sailing adventures await aboard schooner

Rick Gerharter

Dennis Peron in 2006

seized seven or eight computers, only one of which was his, he said.

He’s also said an ounce of methamphetamine, which was not his, was seized. He’s said that he thinks two hits of MDMA were his, and 14 ounces of marijuana they found also belonged to him. He’s said he doesn’t sell pot but smokes it for healthrelated reasons.

Peron’s also said that there was no pornography on his computer but that police returned in October because they had found pornography on one of the computers.

Photo exhibit tonight in SF A unique photography exhibit, “Eye on Life,” will be shown tonight (Thursday, September 1) from 6 to 9 p.m. at the African Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street (at Webster) in San Francisco.

The exhibit celebrates lifeenhancing contributions of diverse city residents who have supported the work of the Department of Public Health’s HIV research section. It is in partnership with the Sixth Street Photography Workshop.

A three-hour tour won’t get you stranded like the passengers aboard the Minnow in TV’s Gilligan’s Island, but you will be able to take in the dazzling views from San Francisco Bay and learn about the area’s riveting history.

The National Parks Service is holding a hands-on, educational sailing program aboard the scow schooner Alma for a fifth season.

Boarding is at 12:30 p.m. for the three-hour sail that departs at 1 from the Hyde Street Pier, at Hyde and Jefferson streets. Programs take place September 3, 10, 24; October 14, 22; and November 19. The cost is $40 for adults, $30 for seniors, and $20 for children under six feet with an adult.

Before highways and bridges, scow schooners like Alma plied the bay, hauling goods as the flatbed trucks of their day.

The park service points out that rough conditions are possible and a trip may be canceled due to weather or other safety concerns at the discretion of the captain. People should be prepared for cold, wind, spray, and bright sun. Life jackets and flotation devices are provided.

People should bring water (no alcohol allowed), snacks, sunscreen, hats, sunglasses, and wear closedtoe shoes (no high heels). You can also bring your camera and a pair of binoculars.

For more information, call (415) 447-5000 or visit the park’s website at www.nps.gov/safr.

Oakland Pride needs volunteers Organizers of the second annual Oakland Pride festival are putting the finishing touches on this See page 10 >>

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Ugandan LGBT advocate coming to Bay Area

by Heather Cassell

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s government leaders in Uganda consider bringing back the widely criticized anti-gay bill, a Ugandan LGBT rights advocate will be in Oakland tonight (Thursday, September 1) to speak out on the issue.

Episcopal Bishop Christopher Sonyonjo, a Ugandan LGBT rights advocate, will speak at a public forum from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at First Unitarian Church of Oakland, 685 14th Street.

The venue is not far from the 12th Street BART station.

Sonyonjo is being hosted by First Unitarian during his Bay Area tour in partnership with the Bay Area Coalition of Welcoming Congregations, Organization for Relocation and Migration, and the United Religions Initiative. He is being sponsored by the Organization for Relocation, Asylum and Migration.

His appearance in the Bay Area comes as Ugandan members of parliament have targeted September 7 to resurrect the “kill the gays” bill – along with another bill that criminalizes the spread of HIV/AIDS – when the Business Committee begins prioritizing issues to be brought to the House before the Christmas break.

Behind the Mask, an African human rights activist and news organization, reported the news August 24, the day after the bill was blocked by the cabinet with the support of Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

The anti-gay bill that seeks to criminalize homosexuality in the African nation sparked international outrage earlier this year. Originally introduced in 2009 by Member of Parliament David Bahati, who authored the bill, Ugandans could be jailed on suspicion without bail or trial for up to six months, and even punished by death. Parliament dropped it earlier this year.

In addition, the little known HIV/ AIDS Control Bill 2010, which carries a clause criminalizing the spread of HIV/AIDS, is anticipated to be heard around the same time, according to Rose Najjemba, a member of the parliament. Najjemba has lobbied to drop the criminalization clauses in the bill and “include homosexuals’ rights to health in the bill,” reported the media activist organization.

The two “expired” bills are a priority for Ugandan legislators to “dispose of,” reported the organization.

Stephen Tashobya, chairperson of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, wouldn’t confirm or deny if the anti-gay bill would be up for debate when pressed for answers by members of the organization.

African and Ugandan LGBTI organizations such as African Activists and

Episcopal Bishop Christopher Sonyonjo of Uganda

Ugandan Health and Science Press Association are mobilizing to defeat both bills. African Activists published an in-depth analysis of the HIV/AIDS Control Bill 2010 (www.africanactivist.org/2011/04/reasoned-analysis-ofugandas-hivaids.html) in June.

Anti-LGBT legislation spreads in Africa Cameroon is considering revising its criminal code to punish homosexual acts on minors, equating homosexuality with pedophilia.

Individuals charged with homosexuality still face between six months to five years imprisonment, activist Stephane Koche told AFP, which broke the story August 20.

The difference in the two newly proposed laws is that same-sex acts on youth 16-21 years of age can receive eight years in jail. The same acts on youth under the age of 16 carry a 10-15 year term, according to Koche.

The problem with the revised law is that it equates homosexuality with pedophilia, said Koche and Alice Nkom, lawyer and president of the Association for the Defense of Homosexuality in Cameroon.

Belgrade Pride set amid tensions After two weeks of tensions between Belgrade Pride Parade organizers and local government officials due to extremist threats and accusations of authorities inciting anti-LGBT violence, the parade is set to go on October 2.

Details of the parade will be kept under wraps for security reasons, announced Jovanka Todorovic, a Pride parade organizer at a press conference August 26.

This is the second consecutive Belgrade Pride Parade to be held in recent years. The first Pride Parade and protest a decade ago erupted into violence and lacked support from authorities and police. The 2009 event was canceled because authorities could not promise to protect participants.

Last year’s Pride event was the most successful with more than 1,000 participants, reported the Advocate, who marched together through

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parents of LGBTQ youth, or any parent for that matter, that are looking for a platform for expressing unconditional love. The site devotes itself to letters written by parents whose only intention is to pour love and support on to their children,” said Volpatt.

The men fully envision the

deserted streets heavily protected by police. A few blocks away an estimated 6,000 anti-gay rioters organized by right wing organizations clashed with police and tore the city apart causing several thousands of euros in damage. Around 150 police officers were injured in the conflict, according to Nanna Moe, an ILGAEurope spokeswoman who provided a historical perspective in an August 29 news release.

ILGA-Europe is a coalition of 277 LGBT European organizations working toward human rights in Europe.

In the weeks leading up to the decision to move forward with the parade, Belgrade politicians were accused by a Serbian gay rights organization of homophobia, inciting violence against the LGBT community, and refusing to cooperate in the planning of the pride parade, especially providing security.

Jagodina City Mayor Dragan Markovic Palma said at the government meeting, “I do not see what rights of homosexuals are endangered. They are not fighting for normal human rights,” heightened activists’ alarm, reported United Press International.

Belgrade City Mayor Dragan Djilas and Ivica Dacic, the police minister, didn’t distance themselves from Palma. Djilas only cited that other issues, such as new jobs, labor rights, other minority communities, were more important than holding a gay Pride Parade.

On Monday, August 29, Belgrade Pride organizers issued a call to the international LGBT and ally community for support.

For more information, visit www.parada.rs.

Pro-gay reggae singer receives death threats Reggae singer Mista Majah P has received numerous death threats and has been warned not to return to Jamaica after the release of his progay album.

The Jamaican-born singer released Tolerance, which features 11 gaypositive tracks dealing with samesex marriage and relationships, adoption, homophobic bullying, and other issues that affect the LGBT community, according to an August 26 news release.

“My music is about tolerance. It shows that reggae music can respect gay and lesbian people,” said Mista Majah P, who is not gay and resides in California.

He said he wants to bring reggae music back to its progressive roots of “love, peace, and unity” and to counter the stereotype that all Jamaicans and reggae music are homophobic.

“I’m seeking to challenge ignorance and reach out to gay people,” he said in the release.

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site becoming a larger nonprofit organization that will support LGBTQ youth and parents in the coming out process.

Currently, the site is being promoted via Facebook and Twitter.

According to Volpatt, “social media has been a great way for us to get the word out. In a very short period of time we have had more than 475 people ‘like’ our Facebook page and this number increases daily.” ▼

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Gay Republicans endorse Tony Hall for SF mayor

by Matthew S. Bajko

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ony Hall, the most conservative of the top 11 candidates seeking to become San Francisco’s next mayor, has secured the number one endorsement from the local Log Cabin Republicans’ chapter.

The gay GOP group voted last week to endorse the former supervisor and city administrator after hearing a last-minute pitch from interim Mayor Ed Lee during its August 24 meeting. Lee, whose integrity has been attacked for dropping his pledge not to seek a full term, won Log Cabin’s third place endorsement.

Rounding out the ranked-choice voting nods is former Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, who secured a second place endorsement from Log Cabin. Although none of the three candidates are GOP members, the gay political club can endorse anyone regardless of their political affiliation in nonpartisan races.

Alioto-Pier and Lee are both Democrats, while Hall brags he is a “lifelong registered independent.” He has been a lone voice attacking both of the pension reform measures on the November ballot as falling short of solving the city’s looming benefit obligations for city employees.

Log Cabin chapter President Dan Brown said Hall’s long tenure working in various departments at City Hall and his economic policy stances swayed the club’s members to pick him.

“I think our members feel, anyway, out of the candidates in the race he is the one who aligns most closely with most of our issues in terms of business, economy, jobs, hiring, etc.,” said Brown.

The gay GOPers are now the second LGBT political group to snub former Supervisor Bevan Dufty, the only gay candidate among the mayoral race’s top-tier of candidates. The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club also overlooked Dufty in the race, voting last week to endorse Supervisor John Avalos for first place.

This Tuesday, September 6 the progressive political group is expected to give a dual secondplace endorsement to City Attorney Dennis Herrera and state Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco).

The club initially had planned not to dilute its endorsement in the mayoral race but changed course last week at its August 23 meeting and approved a proposal to hold a vote on the second place nods.

The more moderate Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club will vote this month on a proposed endorsement ranking of Herrera first, Dufty second and Lee third at its September 12 meeting. Dufty, though, is fighting to secure Alice’s first-place nod.

Electing San Francisco’s first gay mayor didn’t play into Log Cabin’s decision-making process in terms of whom to endorse for mayor, said Brown.

“There wasn’t too much of an issue over many social issues since there aren’t any anti-gay candidates certainly running for city government in San Francisco, so we were more focused on the other issues,” said Brown.

As for the district attorney race, Log Cabin gave a sole endorsement to former prosecutor and defense attorney Bill Fazio, the only candidate in the five-person race who accepted an invite to speak to

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the group.

And in the sheriff’s race former police union head Chris Cunnie secured Log Cabin’s number one endorsement. Sheriff’s Captain Paul Miyamoto won the group’s second place endorsement.

“There was only a one-vote difference. Had Chris not gotten into the race, Paul would have been our only endorsement,” said Brown.

Rainbow flag to be lowered The gigantic rainbow flag flying over the Castro will be lowered for two days this month, which will mark a first since it was installed on November 8, 1997.

Responding to community requests, the Merchants of Upper Market and Castro has decided to fly the flag above the Castro Muni station at half-mast beginning on the morning of September 11, to honor Mark Bingham, a local gay man, and the other victims of the terrorist attacks that occurred 10 years ago that day.

“As I understand it, the president has ordered all flags lowered to half-mast that day, so we will lower ours for Mark and the other LGBT individuals who passed away,” said MUMC President Steve Adams.

MUMC will keep the flag lowered through September 12 to honor Project Open Hand founder Ruth Brinker, who died last month. Her memorial service will be held that evening at City Hall.

It remains to be seen if MUMC’s decision will have any impact on the ongoing controversy surrounding when to lower the LGBT community’s iconic symbol in order to honor the deceased.

The flag flap was sparked earlier this year when the Castro business group, which pays for and oversees the flagpole at Harvey Milk Plaza, at first refused to lower the rainbow flag to honor the death of gay Ugandan activist David Kato. MUMC eventually reversed course and did fly the flag at half-mast during a February rally.

MUMC also faced criticism in March when it declined to lower the flag following the death of actress and AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor.

Last month the dispute flared up again when MUMC failed to find a way to raise a donated New York state flag to mark the start of same-sex marriages in the Empire State.

The arguments show no signs of abating. It heated up this week with MUMC’s suggestion that activists erect a second flagpole in front of the city’s LGBT Community Center.

MUMC’s board also informed local blogger Michael Petrelis, one of the most vocal critics of having the

merchants in charge of the flagpole, it had denied his requests that it fly an American flag below the rainbow flag on Veterans Day, November 11 and lower it to half-mast on World AIDS Day, December 1.

MUMC said it cannot fly two flags on the pole and cited flag protocol – the Stars and Stripes is not supposed to fly beneath other flags – in rejecting the first proposal. As for the second suggestion, MUMC said the flag is a symbol of hope that should only be lowered on rare occasions “and only in the case that someone widely recognized as a local LGBT hero dies.”

It did say it is looking at affixing a red ribbon to either the flag or pole on World AIDS Day. And it suggested Petrelis and others work with the LGBT center to erect a flagpole in front of the Market Street building “for the purpose of political action and awareness.”

The center’s executive director, Rebecca Rolfe, said the building can’t support a flagpole on its roof.

But she said she is willing to discuss possibly putting one in front of the facility.

“We do have capacity to hang flags off the side of the building, but that doesn’t resolve the issue of halfmast,” she said.

Petrelis has called on the city to take back control of the flagpole, while at least one member of MUMC criticized the group for its latest decisions. Antiques dealer Isak Lindenauer, who had asked the flag be lowered for Taylor and Brinker, became so frustrated about the flag controversy that last week he posted a lengthy letter in his storefront window.

This week Lindenauer called MUMC’s suggestion that a second flagpole be built “both a dodge at best and divisive in the extreme.”

“This flag is made up of the blood of our martyrs and the hopes and dreams of all of us who have dared to speak our names as free gay men and women,” wrote Lindenauer in an email sent to Castro leaders. “I know you can do better. I trust and believe and hope we can all do better. Please reconsider using this flag, which belongs to the world, for more than just our ‘village.’ It takes a village first.

Yes. We have done that. Now let us work to use this flag for the good of the whole world.”

Adams said he plans to announce the September lowering of the flag at this morning’s (Thursday, September 1) MUMC meeting. It likely won’t be the last time the gayborhood’s merchant group addresses the issue.

LGBT bills head to governor Several LGBT bills are headed to Governor Jerry Brown for his signature this month.

The state Assembly Tuesday, August 30 adopted a bill that would allow the state’s judicial nominees to self-identify as LGBT. It is aimed at ensuring the LGBT community is properly represented within the state court system. It is unknown how many of the roughly 1,600 justices are LGBT because no agency tracks such information.

State Senator Ellen Corbett (D-San Leandro) introduced SB 182, known as the Judicial Applicant and Appointment Demographics Inclusion Act, and the state Senate passed it in July.

The Gender Non-Discrimination Act, or AB 887, is also expected to land on Brown’s desk for his signature.

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It’s been a long road for man ‘cured’ of HIV

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hen Timothy Brown, the only person in the world to be functionally cured of HIV, was first offered the chance for the cure in 2006, he turned it down flat. Brown had been HIV-positive for more than a decade and was diagnosed with leukemia earlier in 2006. His doctor told him that an experimental stem cell transplant could cure him of both leukemia and HIV. Brown explained in a speech last week during an appearance at a Stop AIDS Project event, “The possibility of being rid of cancer and HIV at the same time? Who could say no to that chance? To strike back at a disease that has killed some of my closest friends, who could say no to be part of something so groundbreaking? Who could say no? Me, that’s who. I said no.”

Brown, 45, is originally from Seattle and was living in Berlin when he was first diagnosed with HIV in 1995. He came down with leukemia 11 years later. He was dubbed the “Berlin Patient” early on to protect his identity. When he was offered a double cure, he was in remission from the leukemia.

Brown was being treated by German hematologist Dr. Gero Huetter.

“Now, let me put this in perspective. When this was first proposed to me by one of Dr. Huetter’s colleagues, I was still recovering from toxic cancer drugs. I’d come close to dying. By comparison, my 11 years of HIV treatment had been a cat walk,” Brown said, looking up from his notes as he grinned as the audience chuckled when he corrected himself, “or cake walk. And stem cell transplants are very risky procedures. Did I really have to go through this extra hell? I chose not

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Timothy Brown shared his story of being functionally cured of HIV during a forum last week hosted by the Stop AIDS Project.

to do it because I had been recently told that my leukemia had been in remission.”

But by January 2007, all that changed. The cancer came back.

Brown opted for the stem cell transplant.

At least 1 percent of Caucasians are naturally immune to HIV because of a mutation in the CCR5 receptor gene. Brown’s doctors found a donor with that immunity, who was also compatible with Brown’s genetic type, and infused him with those cells. But first, Brown had to undergo chemotherapy that would completely wipe out his existing immune system.

The procedure is considered very risky and there was a possibility that Brown’s body would reject the donor cells. But it worked and he felt healthy and thought he was out of the woods.

“I thrived. I went to the gym.

With HIV, I [had suffered] wasting syndrome. And without HIV I developed muscles. I was looking good. I felt good. I kept doing good until early 2008,” he said.

But then he felt ill again. He thought it was the norovirus, which had been big in the news at that time. But doctors determined that the leukemia had returned.

Eventually he had to undergo a second stem cell transplant from the same donor. But the HIV had still not returned. Brown had not been on HIV medication since the first leukemia stem cell treatment and his blood showed no sign of the virus. He had no HIV antibodies.

Long recovery Brown faced a long, painful recovery. Following that second treatment, he faced another setback when a biopsy caused an “air pocket” in his brain. Brown said that was a result of the incision for the biopsy not being stitched properly.

He had to undergo another surgery to treat that. Then, in October 2009, he was severely beaten and “nearly died” following a mugging in Berlin.

He suffered a severe shoulder injury and he believes the attack may have done some brain damage resulting in his continuing neurological problems.

He moved back to the United States in December 2010. He told the Bay Area Reporter that he opted to move to San Francisco in January rather than with his mother in Seattle because the thought of moving back to Seattle felt a “little like giving up.” He also has a couple of good friends in San Francisco who have been living with HIV and noted that the health care they received is excellent.

His medical care is being covered

by Medi-Cal. Dealing with the medical bureaucracy in the U.S. has been difficult for Brown, who was used to Germany’s universal health care. He only recently was able to set up an appointment with a specialist in brain injuries.

Brown told the B.A.R. that he hopes he will be able to eventually be well enough to get work as a German translator. He is being studied by doctors from UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital and is one of the volunteers in UCSF’s Scope study.

Brown said it didn’t really sink in with him that he was the first person functionally cured of HIV until February 2009, two years after his first cell transplant, when it was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

“There’s nothing like having a respected medical journal talking about you to drive home a point,” he said.

Brown told the B.A.R. that he has always been a private person but decided to come out about a year ago as the Berlin Patient to put a face on the cure and to encourage more research on finding a cure.

Researchers say that Brown’s functional cure cannot be practically applied to others with HIV. That’s primarily because of the risks and costs involved with the procedure as well as the challenge of finding donors who are both genetically compatible with the recipient and are among the very few who are immune to HIV. But his case is giving new hope that HIV can be defeated. Trials are under way and have had some success using genetic engineering to alter a patient’s own blood cells to make them resistant to HIV.

Shocked at testing positive In 1995, while living in Berlin, Brown was encouraged by a former partner to get an HIV antibody test.

The positive result shocked and devastated him. His former partner, who was also HIV-positive, told him that despite the advent of the drug AZT, he would likely be dead in a couple of years. But fortunately better drugs came along a year or so later and Brown enjoyed a medically uneventful life for the next 11 years. Then he faced a number of extremely risky medical procedures and a near-fatal mugging and emerged on the other side.

“I guess you can say that I have more lives than a cat,” he said.

Brown’s speech last week was before a Positive Force-sponsored forum entitled “Taking care of ourselves, on the road to a cure,” in the Rainbow Room at San Francisco’s LGBT Center. Positive Force is a program of the Stop AIDS project.

As he concluded his speech, Brown said, “Now I know my treatment will not become a commonplace procedure to cure HIV. It is dangerous. It is expensive.

But my experience has shown me that a cure is possible.

“For those of you with cynicism or battle fatigue from your long fight against HIV, I hope my experience brings a renewed ray of hope. For me, my treatments have shown the benefits of an effective public health system and the synergy it can achieve with those working in academic medicine.

“As I finish, I would like to share with you two dreams I have. My first one is for me. I admit, I really want to receive an invitation from Berlin’s current mayor to speak there.”

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Torture: It gets better?

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ast year in their unfathomable world championship season, San Francisco Giants’ victories were summed up with one word, courtesy of radio and television commentator Duane Kuiper: Torture. Now that the team has muddled along with brilliant pitching and an absentee offense for most of this season, the pitching tanked in August to put the team five games out of first place entering the month of September.

This year’s curse, same as the first. Even the Bush administration would have had trouble finding legal justification for this year’s San Francisco Gitmos. Labeled a preseason lock to win the weak National League West Division, the team has once again trudged through a horrendous August, falling five games back with a 7-0 loss to the hapless Chicago Cubs on Monday’s LGBT Night at AT&T Park.

Go six innings and give up three or fewer runs and any other team will record that as a quality start. Do that for the Giants and they call it a loss – or, if the planets are aligned just so,

a no-decision. Two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum, who was undone two years ago on LGBT Night by a comedy of fielding errors, this year went the first six innings yielding just one fatal home run before everything collapsed in a fiverun seventh.

Game results aside, this was the Giants’ most successful LGBT Night in the event’s nine-year history.

A low point was in 2009 when, despite massive community input early in the spring, seemingly everything went wrong for the promotion.

The supply of event T-shirts ran out, the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco was euchred out of playing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” the “kisscam” showed no same-sex couples, and LGBT Night was not even acknowledged with a scoreboard mention.

Last year’s event was low-key and unremarkable. While it did sell out, there were fewer tickets available.

This time, despite a one-hour delay in getting the commemorative hats to the scheduled distribution

spot, the promotional event was a smashing success. The 1,500 block tickets sold out weeks in advance. The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band played on the field before the game and during the seventh inning stretch and received a rousing ovation. Bevan Dufty’s daughter Sidney Goldfader-Dufty got to shout “Play Ball!” which was shown on the big screen. The LGBT crowd was acknowledged repeatedly on the scoreboard and was panned by the cameras with regularity – including at least two same-sex couples during the eighth-inning kiss cam. And the entire crowd cheered the showing of the team’s “It Gets Better” video – the first one made by any Major League Baseball team.

So, pretty cool.

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-San Francisco), who is leading the fight to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, was in attendance and waved when she was acknowledged on the big screen. She was joined by her daughter, San Francisco Superior Court Presiding Judge Katherine Feinstein and they sat with team officials.

As for the fate of the team on the field? Well, everyone knows that September is when summer begins

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LGBT Giants fans enjoyed a pre-game party on Monday, which was designated LGBT Night at AT&T Park.

in San Francisco, and last year was a September to remember after that August to forget. Seemingly out of the blue, the team emerged refreshed and recharged for the most brilliant September sprint imaginable to clinch the division on the final weekend. The playoff and World Series victories were keyed by a power-hitting rookie catcher, a mass importation of other teams’ castoffs, and pitching, pitching, pitching.

For now last year’s rookie hero Buster Posey is working to recover from a season-ending injury that has

sidelined him; and this year’s powerhitting rookie hopeful, Brandon Belt, has shown an alarming susceptibility to inside curveballs. Last year’s imports have not been clutch, but the team has stayed within striking distance despite a rash of injuries to key performers such as Freddie Sanchez and Brian Wilson. There’s still time for the magic.

So click your ruby slippers together and say, “There’s no place like the cove. There’s no place like the cove.”

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The ‘Nxt’ Internet revolution is all about domains

by David Duran

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he Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco was the host last week to the Nxt Internet conference, which covered new developments in domains.

Thinking of domain extensions automatically triggers dot-com or dot-gov. There are a few more out there like dot-info or dot-edu, used by universities. In just a few months, however, the very controversial dot-

xxx will be coming out. And in the next round of open registration, many more top level domains (TLDs) will be coming to light.

In January, the application window will open for new TLDs and will be open for three months.

“The first domains will be most likely available by the end of 2012, with the bulk by early 2013,” explained Kieren McCarthy, CEO of Nxt. When applying for a new TLD, it is important in the application

process to establish how you will be using it, whether that be opening it up to the public or keeping it specific to one company or entity that may have trademark rights to that certain name. Nxt provides information about what is going on in Internet policy and governance and how to get involved. McCarthy explained that there are currently a lot of people on a list who have said they are going to be applying for new TLDs in January but they won’t actually know until they do. The fee for applying is $200,000.

There are those who are not necessarily opposed to TLDs but have some valid concerns about big

corporations coming in and taking over. Also, there is a fear of cyber squatting, which is the act of buying domains in bulk with anticipation that someone will want one in the future and purchase it from you for a sizeable profit.

Former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow was present at the conference and voiced his feelings about the application process. Barlow has a very extensive resume when it comes to the Internet, and can claim to having opened his first email account in 1985. He believes in free expression on the Internet and joked, “My ambition in life is to eliminate

broadcast media.”

He went on to say, “Domain names are good for putting on the side of a bus, but personally, I find them useless.”

Barlow prefers the use of search engines. The only issue with this is that only using search engines could potentially put companies such as Google and Microsoft in an unwanted monopoly. Most people don’t know any other search engines outside of those two and Yahoo.

During the open registration in January, there will be an option for community applications.

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can call (415) 465-7433 or email volunteers@oaklandpride.org.

John Francis will be participating in the event.

Walk-ins are welcome but appointments are encouraged and can be made by calling (415) 3922969.

Haircuts are $50 from a junior stylist, $80 from a stylist, $100 from a top stylist, and $225 from a celebrity stylist. Color ranges from $80 to $210 – single process to partial highlights.

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weekend’s event and have put out the call for volunteers.

The street festival runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, September 4 at 19th and Franklin streets in the city’s Uptown neighborhood. The site is accessible by BART via the 19th Street station.

Headliners for the festival include Jennifer Holliday, from the cast of the original Dreamgirls, and disco legend Thelma Houston. Admission is $10 per person for adults, and $5 for seniors and youth 12 and under.

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about 125 that he understands that Berlin’s openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit, is up for re-election and may be voted out of office in mid-September. Brown, who has been out since he was 18, said he appreciated that Wowereit is also out.

“I want the opportunity to thank Berlin and Germany for what they have done for me,” he said.

At the end of his 20-minute speech, Brown concluded, “My second dream is to not be the one who stands before you and says ‘I’m cured,’ but to be the man who stands before you and says ‘we are cured.’”

In a five-minute question and answer period that followed, someone asked whether he met his

Haircuts for a cause Elevation Salon in San Francisco is partnering with the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and will donate proceeds from a day of haircuts, coloring, and styling to the breast cancer advocacy group.

On Sunday, September 18, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. this top-notch Union Square salon will be hosting a cut-a-thon for the race, which is a week later on September 25.

Robby Robinson, who is handling press relations for the salon, added that Los Angeles celebrity stylist

donor. Brown said the donor had opted to remain anonymous and declined to meet with him. Brown had wanted to thank the donor.

“I would really like to say, thank you very, very much,” he said.

When asked if he is currently taking medication for anything, Brown replied that he takes meds to control diarrhea and a psychotherapy drug, “to make me happy.” He added that he suffers from neuropathy that causes numbness on his feet and toes.

Brown first appeared on television in May in an exclusive interview with KPIX’s Hank Plante, who returned from retirement to work on a series on the 30th anniversary of AIDS. Brown was also featured in a cover story for Poz magazine and gave a brief interview to the B.A.R. for its commemoration of the 30th

Seth Hemmelgarn contributed to this report.

anniversary of AIDS. Plante’s story was picked up by CBS news and other news stories followed.

Brown told the B.A.R. that his celebrity status as being the only person in the world to be functionally cured of HIV hasn’t been a big deal. A bank teller once asked him if he was the guy on TV who was cured of HIV, and just after he gave his speech last week, he was approached by a man who was in attendance who asked him if he knew him from somewhere. He says that sometimes people stare at him and he doesn’t know if that’s because they recognize him from TV, or think he is cute, or are staring for some other reason.▼ A video of Brown’s complete speech can be found online at ebar.com.

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Wedding announcements compiled by Cynthia Laird

Edward C. Wesley and George A. Mayer Edward C. Wesley and George A. Mayer are pleased to announce their marriage in New York City on August 18. The ceremony took place in one of the two lovely and very busy chapels in the City Clerk’s Manhattan office.

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“I don’t have a problem with TLDs such as dot-art or dot-music, but I do have a problem with assigning TLDs to commercial enterprises,” Barlow said.

Dot-gay Scott Seitz, co-founder and CEO of Dot-Gay LLC, has pledged to lead the community application for the dot-gay domain. Although he hopes there isn’t anyone else applying for the dot-gay TLD, he really won’t know until January.

Seitz told the Bay Area Reporter, “You must reach out to the community and go public. It’s important to be authentic,” when asked about the approach to take when applying for a community TLD. Seitz has the support of many organizations and he describes his peer groups and supporters as being his advocates.

Not just anyone can apply for

Richard Bethea, an old friend and former San Francisco resident now living in New York, served as witness.

Mr. Mayer, 69, is a retired administrator at Notre Dame de Namur University and was one of the original bartenders at the Pendulum in the early 1970s during the formative years of The Castro.

Mr. Wesley, 68, is a retired customer service agent at United Airlines and also served as a social worker and administrator at Head Start.

The new spouses have lived together on the Great Highway for nearly 30 years and are registered domestic partners in California. They celebrated their honeymoon with musical theater and live jazz in New York City. a community TLD. There are strict guidelines and policies. The application process is based on a point system, making it very difficult to achieve success unless there is total dedication and commitment to the process, helping avoid frivolous applications. Once the community application is approved, in order to be a part of the new TLD, any new applicant will have to pay a fee as well as be verified.

“We are actually creating relationships. Our goal, because we are a community and because the gay friendly organizations are going to be allowed to buy a website, and because they are going to have to go through a process to be able to identify themselves as gay friendly, is that these organizations will help us filter who can apply,” explained Seitz.

Even the gay porn industry will be allowed to participate if a company chooses.

“I think it would be a horrible thing for us not to invite the porn industry,” said Seitz. “We are all

Obituaries >> Richard “Dick” Lowell

Michael Scribner

January 15, 1941 – August 6, 2011

September 13, 1972 – July 29, 2011

Richard “Dick” Lowell, of Concord, California, died gracefully August 6, with his longtime best friend and partner Kenny Devin, and beloved sister “Mar” by his side, after a valiant battle against cancer.

He was 70.

Born in 1941, in Great Falls, Montana, Dick was the son of Buck and Ruth Lowell. He was a Renaissance Man in the very truest sense. A gourmet chef, artist and painter, wood craftsman, avid reader and researcher, brilliant thinker, business executive, pilot, animal lover, and avid volunteer, Dick was a devoted son, brother, and partner, a consummate teacher, mentor, and friend to so many throughout his life.

Dick worked for the American Cancer and American Heart associations, Hilton Hotels, and as a respected senior vice president for Bank of America; and then Tony LaRussa’s Animal Rescue Foundation in his retirement.

Dick was preceded in death by his father and mother, and his partner James McCaslin. He is survived by his longtime love and partner Kenny Devin, a deputy sheriff of San Francisco; and his sister and brother-in-law, Marsha and Wally Jacobson, of Kalispell, Montana.

There will be no formal service, although Dick would be honored for any donations to his furry friends at ARF, helping save animals’ lives: ARF: 2890 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94598.

Michael Scribner was an extraordinary son, brother, cousin, nephew, uncle, and friend who spent his last 10 years in San Francisco. Michael was a passionate man, freely giving of himself to causes and to friends – he was always able to bring a smile. Along with his massage practice, Michael volunteered doing massage for the AIDS LifeCycle. He believed in justice and promoted the compassionate lifestyle he had discovered in veganism.

It was Michael, a Harvey’s regular, who helped add vegan items to its menu.

Michael suffered pre-surgery complications at St. Mary’s on July 26. Friends filled the waiting room while covering his Facebook page with messages of love. Many close to him, including his mother, Terri Little Davis, and his stepfather, Dick Davis, were with him during his final days. Michael left us on July 29. He left a lasting impression on many friends across the states and the world.

There will be a vegan potluck to celebrate Michael in Dolores Park at 1 p.m. on Sunday, September 11. Donations can be made to Farm Sanctuary and AIDS LifeCycle. More information: “Michael Scribner’s Memorial Page” on Facebook or email honoringmichael@gmail.com.

Michael will never be forgotten – he will always be loved.

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B.A.R. wedding announcement guidelines >> The Bay Area Reporter welcomes announcements of weddings, civil unions, and domestic partnerships. The announcements may be published in the paper, on our Web site, or both, depending on space availability. There is no charge for the publication of wedding announcements.

To submit an announcement, please include the following information: 1. Legal names of both parties and ages.

2. Date, time, and location of wedding. Who officiated the ceremony.

3. Brief description of the couple, which may include how they met, education, occupation, how long they have been together, family information, etc.

4. Any other information you wish to include.

5. Announcements should be kept to 300 words and may be edited for space.

6. A copy of the marriage license and a daytime phone number are required.

7. A photograph of the couple will be accepted in digital format (.jpg). Photos should be high resolution (300 dpi) and in focus. Spouses should be identified in the body of the e-mail accompanying the photo.

8. Announcements should be sent in within four weeks of the ceremony.

The above information may be sent via email to c.laird@ebar.com or by mail to Bay Area Reporter, 395 9th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. For questions, please send an email to the above address.zzzz

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Former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow at last week’s Nxt Internet conference.

worried about the First Amendment being used on us. If a porn company is interested in being there, it’s an opportunity for us as well because

we can create a portal to talk about STDs or talk about other things health-wise in the community that people need to know about.”

The first people to populate the dot-gay domain likely will be existing businesses that are publicizing in gay publications. It most likely won’t be for everyone at first, but Seitz’s goal is to create a benefit for the community to a point where people will want to be there.

“It’s very important that something like this has the opportunity to raise money for the community. We are a selffunding community – we don’t have government throwing money or grants our way – we are at the bottom of the totem pole,” explained Seitz.

Seitz has made it clear that 67 percent of the profits will be given back to the community.

“Even though we are going to be a for-profit company, we will be acting as a not-for-profit company in that we will be transparent on our website. We are going to do a dotgay foundation, the goal is to help build businesses and service to the gay communities across the world,” he said.▼

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in aggressive prosecution of violent criminals, zero tolerance of domestic violence and the diversion of nonviolent offenders into treatment and rehabilitation.”

He adds that he wants parents of juvenile offenders to become involved in sentencing and rehabilitation.

Among other achievements, he boasts of being an elected member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee and a volunteer to Centro Latino and many local community based organizations.

Fazio indicated one thing that sets him apart from the other candidates is “I have some visions for that office.”

He said he’d make juvenile justice, which has “always been relegated to

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sands of dollars to keep the agency open, but it stopped accepting new enrollees when the board broke the bad news.

In announcing their milestone last week, clinic officials said their agency has stabilized enough to take in new patients.

When asked what had changed to allow Lyon-Martin to begin accepting new clients, interim Executive Director Dr. Dawn Harbatkin said, “It’s about time that we’re taking new patients.”

She added, “For Lyon-Martin, typically, 40 percent of our patients each year are new patients. ... We need to continuously bring in new patients” in order to stay open, she said.

She also said she’s excited for Lyon-Martin “to get back to the work that we are good at.”

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the agency said.

Rebecca Tillet, a co-chair of HRC’s board of directors, noted in the release that the board had asked Solmonese to give it six months notice before leaving his position, “and he’s done that.”

Solmonese did not respond to a reporter’s request for an interview but said, in the HRC statement, “Leading HRC has been an inspiring experience and a complete privilege.”

“I could not be more proud of our staff, our volunteer leadership and of the extraordinary progress we’ve made together as a community,” said Solmonese.

“HRC has never been stronger and after nearly seven years, this is the right moment for me to move

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In the 1980s, Fazio handled a case that could be seen as a precursor to today’s hate crimes prosecutions.

The incident involved John Dennis O’Connell, a gay man who died after being attacked in San Francisco in 1984.

Fazio told the Los Angeles Times that O’Connell’s death had been the result of his attackers’ “homophobic rage.”

“I tried not to make this a strict gay-straight issue,” Fazio told the Times. “(The defendants) singled out an identifiable group of people and be the people homosexual, black, Jewish, some ethnic minority or something like that makes no difference. They singled him out and they assaulted him exclusively for that reason.”

At the time there were no hate crimes laws. Fazio said he’s proud of his trailblazing approach to the case.

Fazio’s campaign is still taking shape; his late entry has cost him the endorsements of several local Democratic clubs and other

organizations.

Gary Delagnes, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, said that while his group has officially endorsed Gascón, he has personally told Fazio, “he would make a fine district attorney.”

“I’ve known Bill forever,” Delagnes said, but he noted Fazio’s lastminute entry into the race and said the association “just had to make some moves” on its endorsement.

His website was to be up by Wednesday, August 31.

Gary Gartner, Fazio’s out gay campaign consultant, said during the interview last Friday, “It’s being worked on.”

Fazio openly chastised Gartner in front of B.A.R. staff, saying he’d do the website himself if Gartner wasn’t going to do it, then apologized for raising his voice.▼

Stacy Pike Long, a Lyon-Martin patient who joined the board in April, said she knows people who have been waiting to go to the clinic, and she’s “thrilled” it is again accepting new patients.

The criteria for new patients appear to be simple. Harbatkin, who is also the clinic’s medical director, said people who want to receive care from the agency need to identify as a woman or as transgender, and they have to be 18 or older. Lyon-Martin doesn’t consider factors such as insurance or lack of insurance, income, or county of residence, she said.

The nonprofit currently has about 2,300 patients. Harbatkin said the clinic’s lost between 300 and 400 patients in the past several months.

Some transferred to other clinics, such as patients who were part of Healthy San Francisco, which assists uninsured residents.

In the past several months, clinic

officials have talked about changing the payer mix, noting that many patients are uninsured, which makes it harder for Lyon-Martin to bring in the income it needs.

Harbatkin said last week that that mix “hasn’t changed a lot yet.”

She said as of May, 77 percent of their patients were still uninsured.

The clinic’s working with the San Francisco Health Plan to get new patients, she said. Having people come in through the insurance program brings more Medi-Cal income into the mix, which is “a very good thing for us,” Harbatkin explained.

“When we talk about shifting our payer mix,” bringing in third-party revenue such as Medi-Cal “is what we’re talking about,” she said, since having Medi-Cal patients can help ensure the clinic will get money.

Harbatkin said the clinic would continue to take in people who don’t have insurance. She said the only pa-

tients who’ve been asked to transfer to other health care providers are those with Healthy San Francisco.

“I don’t anticipate that happening again,” she said.

“If you’re here and you’re in care with us, you’re in care with us, and we are your primary care provider unless you choose to leave ... or you do something outrageous,” she said.

In terms of cash flow, Harbatkin said if they had to live on only the money coming in during the next month, the clinic would still have enough to make payroll and pay current expenses for at least two months.

“That’s if no other money came in,” she said. “I know that’s not going to happen.”

She said they’re getting income from “lots of different sources,” including contracts, grants, patient services, and fundraising efforts.

The agency has been spending

down its reserves. Former interim Executive Director Eric Fimbres said in March that Lyon-Martin had about $100,000 in the bank.

Harbatkin said last week that the last information she saw was that that figure was a little over $50,000.

She said the money has gone to bring in new staff and continue operations.

Among other new employees, the clinic has added receptionists, and an additional medical assistant, and “we’ll be bringing on at least one, if not two, more social workers,” she said.

The clinic’s total debt remains about $1.1 million, Harbatkin said. ▼

on,” he said.

Solmonese took the helm of HRC in 2005, following an 11-month stint by his predecessor, Massachusetts state Senator Cheryl Jacques. Jacques followed a nine-year tenure by Elizabeth Birch. Prior to Birch, the organization was led by its founder, Steve Endean; its first executive director, Vic Basile; and Basile’s successor, Tim McFeeley.

Solmonese hinted he would be exploring “new professional possibilities” and would continue to be involved in such activities as fighting marriage bans and “ensuring President Obama is re-elected for a second term.”

That latter comment will almost certainly fuel speculation by some that Solmonese is bucking for a position with the Obama White House or the re-election campaign.

HRC formally endorsed Obama’s re-election in May. In HRC’s press release, Anne Fay, a co-chair of the HRC Foundation Board of Directors, called Solmonese an “outstanding leader” and credited him with putting HRC in “the best place the organization has ever been.”

“Not only has our community secured historic victories,” said Fay, “but our membership is larger and more active than at any time in our history, and our financial health is secure even in these difficult economic times.”

The press release also credited Solmonese with leading HRC at a time when the LGBT civil rights movement has seen many gains – including repeal of DADT, passage of hate crimes legislation, and passage of a marriage equality law in New York.

Critics, no doubt, will also point out that, with Solmonese at the helm of the largest and most influential LGBT political organization in the country, there has been little to no real movement on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, stinging ballot box losses on marriage equality in California and Maine, and no prospects for building significant Republican Party support for LGBT issues at a time when control of Congress is split between the two major parties.

also said that HRC would not lobby members of Congress against voting for the version of the bill that at the time contained protections only based on sexual orientation.

The House ultimately approved the gay-only ENDA, but there was not a vote in the Senate.

The current ENDA legislation is trans-inclusive, but now the House is controlled by Republicans and the bill is unlikely to come up for a vote.

Scott Wiener, who served on HRC’s national board at the time of the disagreement, publicly broke with the organization over its stance and called for the legislation to be transinclusive.

Over the weekend, Wiener, now a San Francisco supervisor, praised Solmonese’s leadership in a post on Facebook.

“He’s been a strong leader for the organization, including through some very challenging situations, and I’m proud to call him a friend,” Wiener stated.

the low end in this county,” a priority.

Fazio also said he’d assign a district attorney to each of the city’s police stations to act as ombudsmen.

That way, when a station is having problems with a case, officers could contact the attorney assigned to them.

One top concern among law enforcement officials has been realignment. As part of efforts to close the state budget gap, Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law Assembly Bill 109, which aims to send some California prisoners to county jails.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision in May ordered California to release between 37,000 and 46,000 prisoners due to overcrowding.

Fazio said realignment is “probably more of a concern for the sheriff.”

However, he said he wouldn’t send people to prison just

because of narcotics problems.

He also expressed support for “decriminalizing all drugs” except for those as dangerous as PCP. The death penalty has been another big topic among the candidates.

“My position on capital punishment is good,” Fazio said.

Like Onek, he said he doesn’t support it “under any circumstances.” Gascón and Bock have also expressed opposition to the death penalty.

Fazio said he opposes capital punishment because “it promises the victim’s family something that’s never likely to happen.” The appeals process in death penalty cases can take years.

Hate crime precursor

ENDA flap Solmonese faced some of his sharpest criticism in the fall of 2007, when openly gay Representative Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) determined that there were not enough votes to secure passage of ENDA if it included gender identity protections. The House was controlled by Democrats at the time, and HRC stood silently on the sidelines for several days before finally issuing a statement that reaffirmed its 2004 position of supporting a transinclusive ENDA. But the statement

Growth According to the press release, HRC’s membership grew from 750,000 to “more than 1,000,000” under Solmonese.

It’s 2009 annual report, the latest available on its website, listed a combined income for HRC and its foundation at $45.79 million.

Solmonese’s salary, according to HRC’s 990 tax forms for 2010, was listed at $288,190.

The organization issued the press release a day after Spaulding (at www.pamshouseblend.com) posted an entry saying that she had learned “from a trusted source in a position to know” that Solmonese would leave in December. The HRC statement indicated the organization has formed a search committee to select a new president. The press release does not indicate when Solmonese will leave.

HRC has a deep bench on staff.

For more information on the clinic, visit www.lyon-marting.org or call (415) 565-7667. For details on fundraising efforts such as the “30 Days of Health” campaign, go to www.savelyonmartin.org.

Managing director Susanne Salkind, the organization’s number two, is an experienced attorney with political and management experience. She has served as deputy for the 2004 campaign to defeat the Federal Marriage Amendment, is liaison between the staff and boards, and has been heavily involved in electoral programs.

HRC national field director Marty Rouse has been responsible for mobilizing the group’s one million supporters and members to take action at the local, state, and federal levels. Before joining the HRC staff in 2006, he headed MassEquality.

David Smith served as communications director for the organization from 1995 to 2003, then became vice president for programs, directing policy and strategy for the organization. He has experience on Capitol Hill, as a former aide to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, and deep ties to other national LGBT groups, including the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.

Longtime HRC official and supporter Hilary Rosen said she thinks HRC now needs to be both a “visionary” and a “political strategist.”

“Elizabeth [Birch] was a visionary who shone a light to the straight world at a time when we were more invisible,” said Rosen, who used to be Birch’s partner. “Joe was a political strategist at a time when we had a president and a Congress who wanted to work with us to get things done.

The next leader,” said Rosen, “will have to be able to do some of both. ...”

The HRC statement said the organization’s four volunteer co-chairs will select the search committee and hire an executive search firm to help with the effort.▼ Cynthia Laird contributed to this report.

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likely to take place this week.

While California antidiscrimination laws already define â&#x20AC;&#x153;genderâ&#x20AC;? to include a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gender identity and gender expression, AB 887 explicitly enumerates gender identity and expression as protected categories in a number of state codes to provide clarity to those who are victims of unlawful discrimination as well as for business owners, employers and other entities required to comply with the antidiscrimination protections. â&#x20AC;&#x153;California has been fortunate to have laws protecting our workers and students from discrimination

for several years,â&#x20AC;? stated Masen Davis, executive director of the Transgender Law Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfortunately those rights have been hidden, making it hard for employees to know they are protected and for employers to know their responsibilities. The Gender Non-Discrimination Act brings our rights out of the closet and brings California one step closer to achieving its potential.â&#x20AC;?

Brown has not signaled his intentions but both bills are likely to become law. â&#x2013;ź Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ twitter.com/politicalnotes.

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the bill, which was sponsored by EQCA and Gay-Straight Alliance Network.

Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill into law in July. Anti-gay activists quickly launched a repeal effort and have about six weeks left to gather more than 500,000 valid signatures in order to get a referendum on the state ballot in 2012.

Palencia and others said theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working to thwart the signature gathering efforts, but, referring to anti-gay activistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; use of kids learning about gays to scare voters, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the seminal, core issue they always get us for, so they have the advantage on this so far.â&#x20AC;?

He also said defeating the repeal effort â&#x20AC;&#x153;is going to be one of the most challenging things weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever done,â&#x20AC;? but he added that he and others with EQCA werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t saying the fight is â&#x20AC;&#x153;unwinnable.â&#x20AC;?

Several hours after the Thursday, August 25 conference call, EQCA communications director Rebekah Orr sent an email out at Palenciaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request â&#x20AC;&#x153;to clarify some of his comments today.â&#x20AC;?

The message said that Palencia and others â&#x20AC;&#x153;know that even if we start way behind, a loss is not a foregone conclusion. From our starting place our chances may not look good, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe it is impossible.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Extremistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Palencia said EQCA has reached out to thousands of people, but the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reaction to the repeal effort has appeared sluggish for weeks.

On recent, weekly conference calls with reporters, the LGBT lobbying organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leaders have repeatedly spoken of research, message testing, and coalition building, while ads and other tangible signs of a campaign have been slow to materialize.

Last week, however, Palencia spoke of coming out strongly against SB 48â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opponents, saying the campaign is going to be about defining repeal backers as â&#x20AC;&#x153;extremistâ&#x20AC;? and letting Californians know â&#x20AC;&#x153;about how dangerous these people areâ&#x20AC;? to them.

And this week an effort to promote that message started. In an email blast Tuesday, August 30, Palencia said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last week the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Family Research Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a virulent, anti-LGBT and widely recognized hate group, with ties to the Ku Klux Klan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; joined the effort to destroy the FAIR Education Act and released a video full of lies, scare tactics and propaganda.â&#x20AC;?

(An after-hours call to the Family Research Council wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t immediately returned Tuesday.)

Included in the email, which also urged financial contributions to fight repeal, was a video of FRC President Tony Perkins. In the video Perkins says, among other things, that SB 48 would force teachers into â&#x20AC;&#x153;advocating for behavior they find morally objectionable,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;impressionable children as young as 5â&#x20AC;? would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;indoctrinated into these lifestyles.â&#x20AC;?

It appears the efforts to preserve SB 48 could use some financial

help. Orr, EQCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s communications director, said last week they have â&#x20AC;&#x153;limited resources,â&#x20AC;? but she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t immediately say how much money had been raised or how much was needed to bring in.

In the event that the referendum makes it to the ballot, a statewide campaign likely would cost millions of dollars, as the Proposition 8 campaign did three years ago.

Courage Campaign weighs in In a letter sent Monday, August 22 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; more than a week before Palenciaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s email about the Family Research Council â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rick Jacobs, chair of the Courage Campaign, a partner in the coalition to fight the referendum, sent a letter to a Stop SB 48 official.

The letter says, in part, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has recently come to our attention that some of your signature gatherers are telling people that the FAIR Education Act mandates that homosexuality be taught to kindergartners. ... As you know, that is entirely false.â&#x20AC;?

Asked in an interview about the chances of keeping an anti-SB 48 referendum off the ballot, Jacobs said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who knows? ... We can only deal with what we can control, and what we can control is getting messages out to our base and defining the other side.â&#x20AC;?

He added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;While we can hope or wish for certain things, we have to prepare for the worstâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;make sure the base understands the threat that this poses.â&#x20AC;?

Others with EQCA also had some dim views on defeating the repeal efforts.

Andrea Shorter, EQCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marriage and coalition director, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not likely to be able to defeat the oppositionâ&#x20AC;? on the signature gathering. Repeal backersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; base is â&#x20AC;&#x153;beyond the reachâ&#x20AC;? of most progressives, she said. However, she also said thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;a fighting chanceâ&#x20AC;? of beating the referendum back.

One challenge appears to be that signature gatherers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily easy to spot. Shorter said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are not folks that are in droves on the streets we can see in broad daylight,â&#x20AC;? but â&#x20AC;&#x153;largely behind the closed doors of their churches.â&#x20AC;?

EQCA and others have spent weeks trying to develop the right messaging. Orr acknowledged the campaign is lacking â&#x20AC;&#x153;snappy sound bites,â&#x20AC;? but, with the help of coalition partners, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have a richer set of input in terms of research and how to move communities and speak to them in culturally competent ways.â&#x20AC;?

Leno, SB 48â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s author, said in an interview that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s joined a few of the coalitionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weekly conference calls and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m encouraged and impressed by the coordinated effort. The coalition is very broad-based and represents every civil rights group throughout the state.â&#x20AC;?

As for whether having such a broad coalition is slowing the campaign down, Leno said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s far too early to make any definitive statements. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working diligently, regularly, and in a focused fashion.â&#x20AC;?â&#x2013;ź

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41- ON-SALE BEER AND WINEEATING PLACE SEPT. 01,2011 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : IBRAHIM ELIAS ALHAJ. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 2060 Fillmore St., San Francisco, CA 94115-2709. Type of license applied for:

41- ON-SALE BEER AND WINEEATING PLACE AUG.18,25,SEPT.1,2011 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : PHU HOANG NGUY. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 411 Ellis St., San Francisco, CA 94102-1927. Type of license applied for:

41- ON-SALE BEER AND WINEEATING PLACE AUG.18,25,SEPT.1,2011 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-11-547960 In the matter of the application of ALEX MENGBING WU for change of name. The application of ALEX MENGBING WU for change of name having been ďŹ led in Court, and it appearing from said application that ALEX MENGBING WU ďŹ led an application proposing that his/her name be changed to BING WU. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 514 on the 11th of October, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033726500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as NIGHT SKY ACUPUNCTURE, 344 Carl St.,#5, San Francisco, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Erin P. Reilly.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 07/08/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/01/11.

AUG.11,18,25,SEPT.1, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033737700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LIZBOEDER,800 35TH Ave.,San Francisco, CA 94121.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Elizabeth A. Boeder.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 07/01/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/04/11.

AUG.11,18,25,SEPT.1, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033739200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as POT GARDENS, 4040 Balboa St.,#4,San Francisco, CA 94121.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Eshai Delacruz.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 01/01/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/04/11.

AUG.11,18,25,SEPT.1, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033744500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as H2Y,2715 Cabrillo St., #103,San Francisco, CA 94121.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Hiroshi Ito.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 08/08/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/11.

AUG.11,18,25,SEPT.1, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033744700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SMALL FOODS, 522 2nd St.,San Francisco, CA 94107.This business is conducted by a limited partnership, signed Bruce Slesinger.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as MARC OLIVIER DE BLANC MOBAFOTO,1270 La Playa St., #202,San Francisco, CA 94122.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Marc Abonnat.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 08/04/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/04/11.

AUG.11,18,25,SEPT.1, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033744100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DR. SIMMS & CATS,380 10th St., Loft 18,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a husband and wife, signed Adrian Simms.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/11.

AUG.11,18,25,SEPT.1, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033727200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as I SO LOVE SF,310 Geary Blvd.,San Francisco, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Kyeong Park.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/01/11.

AUG.11,18,25,SEPT.1, 2011 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-0313229-00 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ďŹ ctitious business name known as CONNIE HAIR SALON, 2436 Bayshore Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94134.This business was conducted by an individual, signed Connie Young. The ďŹ cticious name was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/23/08.

AUG.11,18,25,SEPT.1, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033727600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as YAN YANG BEAUTY SALON,864 Jackson St., San Francisco, CA 94133.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Yan Miao Chen.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 08/01/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/01/11.

AUG.11,18,25,SEPT.1, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033747100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as STEINS,731 Clement St.,San Francisco, CA 94118.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Michele Steiner, The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/11.

AUG.11,18,25,SEPT.1, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-03374500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GRC ROOFING INC.,1390 Wallace Ave.,San Francisco, CA 94124.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Suilin Lee.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 08/01/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/11.

AUG.11,18,25,SEPT,1, 2011 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : SUGITA FOODS INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 101 4th St.,SPC 1, San Francisco, CA 94103-3003. Type of license applied for:

41- ON-SALE BEER AND WINEEATING PLACE AUG25,SEPT 1,8,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033717000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as EBANISTA SAN FRANCISCO,101 Henry Adams St.,#425,SF, CA 94103.This business is conducted by a limited partnership, signed Fari Pakzad.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 05/15/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/27/11.

AUG.18,25,SEPT.1,8,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033753500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DYNAMAIR SOLUTIONS, 58 West Portal Ave.,#245,SF, CA 94127.This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed James Sana bria.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 08/11/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/11/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE DANCING PIG SF,544 Castro St.,SF, CA 94114.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Larry Metzger.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/02/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/11/11.

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AUG.18,25,SEPT.1,8,2011 statement file A-033750200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as U&I AUTO SAFETY CENTER, 758 Bryant St.,SF, CA 94107.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Sang Yuo.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/88. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/10/11.

AUG.18,25,SEPT.1,8,2011 statement file A-033760600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as K&K AUTO SERVICE, 1729 15TH St.,SF, CA 94103.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Ma Chung Kwong.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/16/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16 /11.

AUG.18,25,SEPT.1,8,2011 statement file A-0337078100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as QUIZNOS #3860,901 Polk St.,SF, CA 94109.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Seung J. Hyun.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/19/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/21/11.

AUG.18,25,SEPT.1,8,2011 Statement of abandonment of use of fictitious business name: #A-0329891-01 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as LOCKDESK,88 Kearny St.,3rd floor,SF,CA 94108.

This business was conducted by a limited liability company, signed Brett McGovern. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/24/10.

AUG.18,25,SEPT.1,8,2011 Statement of abandonment of use of fictitious business name: #A-0327065-03 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as 1.PEOPLES CHOICE LENDING,2.FIXED RATE FUNDING,3.

MICHAEL DELIA FINANCIAL,4.SHERIDAN FINANCIAL,88 Kearny St.,3rd floor,SF,CA 94108.

This business was conducted by a limited liability company, signed Brett McGovern. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/13/10.

AUG.18,25,SEPT.1,8,2011 state of california in and for the county of san francisco file# cnc-11-548004 In the matter of the application of KELLY LYNNE FOSTER for change of name. The application of KELLY LYNNE FOSTER for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that KELLY LYNNE FOSTER filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to JAMES THOMAS FOSTER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 514 on the 27th of October, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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nOTICE OF APPLICATIoN to sell AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGEs To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : MISSION BOWLING CLUB LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 3176 17th St., San Francisco, CA 94110-1331. Type of license applied for:

47- On-sale general Eating place SEPT.1,8,15,2011 statement file A-033766200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE UNLUCKY RABBIT, 575 Cole St.,Apt. 208,SF, CA 94117.This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Ryan Garwin & Jacqueline Supman.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 08/17/11.

Aug.25,SEPT.1,8,15,2011 statement file A-033765000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BEYOND MEDICINE,2037 Irving St.,# 212,SF, CA 94122.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Frederick Lee.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/17/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/17/11.

Aug.25,SEPT.1,8,15,2011 statement file A-033767300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as IRVING TRADING CO.,1409 Irving St., SF, CA 94122.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Sonny K. TAM.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/18/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/18/11.

Aug.25,SEPT.1,8,15,2011 statement file A-033758000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as STYLEXCLUSIVE,4287 26th St., SF, CA 94131.

This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Jaya Gali.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 08/15/11.

statement file A-033741600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MYER’S HAULING, 1951 Oak St., #4, SF, CA 94117.This business is conducted by an individual, signed A Haley Myer.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/15/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/15/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as FOURTH WAVE, 1356 Polk St., SF, CA 94102.This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Bernard J Curran.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 08/24/11.

SEPT.1,8,15,22,2011 statement file A-033772100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as KATE’S KITCHEN,471 Haight St., SF, CA 94117.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Hasan Khader.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/19/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/19/11.

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SEPT.1,8,15,22,2011 statement file A-033777200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as K.O. KOMBO,2110 Irving St., SF, CA 94122.

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ita Moreno laughed when reminded of a character she played on Father Knows Best in 1958. “That’s right,” she said. “It was Chanthini.” It was the role of an exchange student from India living with the Anderson family, and it seemed a change of pace from the usual assortment of Hispanic and Native American roles in the string of mostly forgettable movies she made in the 1950s.

“At least I wasn’t saying, ‘Why you no love me no more?’ But it was still ridiculous. I was sick of putting on all that dark makeup and those black

wigs.” She wasn’t happy at all in Hollywood, except for the roles in the movies that bookended that part of her career: Singin’ in the Rain and West Side Story. But she’ll be playing for laughs, along with typecasting commentary, as she relates much of her Hollywood years in Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup, having its world premiere at Berkeley Rep. There are also incidents that take her story right up to the very present that can’t get a funny spin, more on which later, but there will also be singing and dancing and a celebratory I’m-still-

here overall motif. Moreno sees the show as more than, well, a show. “This not a showbiz show,” she said from her Berkeley home. “It’s not even a show. It’s a play.” A play that Moreno didn’t particularly want to do.

During her 2004 star turn as Maria Callas in Master Class, she’d share life and career anecdotes with Berkeley Rep Artistic Director Tony Taccone. He was soon suggesting that they collaborate on creating a stage piece based on her life. Her answer was unequivocally in the negative, but Taccone would periodically, and

unsuccessfully, press for a change of heart.

“Then a couple of years ago, he called me up and said, ‘This is the last time I’m going to ask.

Do I have to remind you that you’re now 77?’

He talked about legacy and stuff like that, that I have a responsibility to my people, and I very reluctantly agreed to do it.”

The process began with a series of interview sessions conducted by Taccone and an assistant, starting with the voyage she and her mother took from Puerto Rico to New York when See page 32 >>

New season: Bay Area art galleries

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his fall, the sheer abundance and variety of gallery shows make a fool of anyone tempted to cover all the bases. By no means comprehensive, here’s a microcosmic survey of what’s on tap from now until the end of the year.

Pier 24 offers a singular environment and arguably the most intimate experience for viewing photography in the city, but it’s probably not on your radar. The recently renovated 28,000 sq. ft. warehouse space, south of the Ferry Building, was opened in 2010 by the Pilara Foundation, whose

contemporary photography collection exceeds 2,500 works. In the current show, Here, you’ll find over 700 images produced by 34 photographers (many but not all from the Bay Area) such as Larry Sultan, Todd Hido, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Jim Goldberg, Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange, as well as depictions of San Francisco, the most photogenic city on the planet.

Visits are by appointment; admission is free.

Through Dec. 16. www.pier24.org John Berggruen Gallery Nathan Oliveira: A Memorial Exhibition, a show of 50 artworks that occupies both floors of the gallery, displays historical drawings,

sculpture, monotypes, and the final 13 paintings by the great Bay Area figurative painter, teacher and humanist, who died last November. Oliveira’s sublime ochre, reddish-orange, earth-toned canvases, in which mysterious, magisterial figures-inmotion gracefully merge with and emerge from the landscape, continue to haunt. Sept.

8-Oct. 22. www.berggruen.com Robert Tat Gallery Charles Gatewood’s Greatest Hits: 1960s to Now. Although Gatewood launched his 45-year career as a photojournalist and fine art photographer with a now-famous photograph of Bob Dylan See page 33 >>

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s it any wonder Out There is in danger of landing on the cover of Muffin-Top Editor Quarterly?

Scope out the menu at a recent press lunch we enjoyed at Trace, the chic new restaurant that’s replacing XYZ at the W San Francisco hotel. Spiced eggplant with grilled scallion and crispy rice, corn panna cotta with pickled watermelon, housemade ricotta agnolotti with shaved summer squash, wild Monterey salmon with fresh shelling beans, cippollini, and fennel pollen, rib-eye with gnocchi, trumpet mushrooms and savoy spinach, and fig & vanilla crepe with brown-butter ice cream and oatmeal streusel. Urrp!

All of this goodness was washed down with samples of their signature libation Trace Limeade (junipero gin, fresh cucumber, lime, jalapeno), Schramsburg Brut, Simi Chardonnay, Au Bon Climat Pinot

Noir, Justin Cabarnet and Robert Mondavi Moscato. Helmed by Executive Chef Paul Piscopo, Trace intends to “fuse the vibrant, local personality of the Bay Area with a dedication to socially responsible cuisine.”

Socially responsible deliciousness, we’d say. They open to the public on Sept. 5.

Meanwhile, it was oh so fitting that Out There attended a preview of the SFMOMA Department of Architecture + Design exhibition Less and More, The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams on the same day last week that Apple’s Steve Jobs announced he was stepping aside as CEO. Because without the clean, stripped-down aesthetics of Rams’ groundbreaking and now-classic industrial design, there would be no such thing as Apple cool. Brushed aluminum did not spring forth fully formed from the brow of Zeus.

Rams was key in moving postwar German design forward and beyond the huge footprint of the

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Graham Leggat at opening night of the 2011 SF International Film Festival.

Bauhaus aesthetic after the horror of the Third Reich. If you’ve ever admired the harmony and balance in the design of Braun consumer electronics, you know Rams’ work.

We were surprised to find that we owned a few Braun items, a coffee grinder and a portable alarm clock.

These objects, along with Braun’s early stereo equipment, cameras and monitors, were clearly built to last.

Rams attended the preview, standing unobtrusively in the back of the gallery. His philosophy of design was also present, in the form of his “10 principles of good design,” a manifesto of sorts reproduced on the back wall. (Through Feb. 20, 2012.)

Reasons #1,000-#1,004 as to why Out There can’t seem to slim down: the “modern German food and beverages” provided by SF restaurant Schmidt’s during the reception that the Architecture + Design Forum presented following the Dieter Rams preview in SFMOMA’s Schwab Room, namely: Pea pancakes with house-cured salmon and chive sour cream, wild mushroom and sauerkraut strudel, grilled kassler and curried apricot kebabs, and the piece de resistance (or however that translates into German) of all passed appetizers, kohlrabi and herbed quark on a pretzel crouton. That’s what we call a well-designed hors d’oeuvres!

Freddie 4ever Yes, this next item is about karaoke, but it’s about karaoke for a cause. The event is all about Freddie Mercury,

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Braun hair dryer (HLD 4) (1970), design by Dieter Rams, part of Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams at SFMOMA.

who in a better world would be alive to celebrate his 65th birthday this year.

The event is Freddie for a Day, and in the words of its presenters, “Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen, died 20 years ago. This year would have been his 65th birthday, and we’ll be raising the roof in Queenly style. It’s the San Francisco edition of a worldwide fundraiser, now in its second year. Freddie for a Day is the brainchild of Liz Swanton, web editor of the Mercury Phoenix Trust, the AIDS charity set up in Freddie’s name in 1992 by Mercury’s Queen bandmates. Dressing up as Freddie is encouraged. Note: free mustaches!”

It all happens on Mon., Sept. 5 from 4-9 p.m. at the Mint Karaoke Lounge, 1942 Market St., in SF. FfaD events are also taking place in Brazil, Paris, Bulgaria, Austria, Germany, and of course, the good old U.K. For more info, go to www.freddieforaday.com.

Bespoke suite British singer/songwriter Kate Bush is such an artist sui generis that for her latest (and rare) album Director’s Cut (Fish People), she revisits tracks from two of her midcareer (and more obscure?) albums, The Sensual World and The Red Shoes. As she puts it in her liner notes, “Keeping the best original performances from the musicians but stripping out the tracks, adding new scenes and textures before sewing it all back together, it has become something of a director’s cut, but in sound, not vision. When it came to singing these songs again, it was like trying to open a door with the wrong-shaped key. So I changed the key, and the door began to open.”

We like these songs well enough, though these are not the two

K.B. albums we’d have chosen to reconceive – The Kick Inside or The Dreaming, her breakthrough Hounds of Love, or even the later, underrated Aerial seem yeastier.

Still, it’s great to hear Kate’s retake of “Molly’s Soliloquy” from Joyce’s Ulysses (“yes first I gave him a bit of seedcake out of my mouth”) in “Flower of the Mountain” (originally “The Sensual World”), or the lyricism on “Moments of Pleasure.”

“On a balcony in New York, it’s just started to snow./ He meets us at the lift like Douglas Fairbanks waving his walking stick, but he isn’t well at all./ The buildings of New York look just like mountains in the snow.

“And I can hear my mother saying, ‘Every old sock meets an old shoe.’”

And don’t forget Yes, Virginia, there will be a Free Live Simulcast Opera in the Ballpark this fall. San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Giants: two great classic teams in our one little cowtown! This time the free live transmittal to the ballpark is SFO’s production of Puccini’s Turandot, live from the Opera House on Sunday, Sept. 25 at 2 p.m.

Think of it as a day game with blue hairs instead of White Sox. We are told the big HD screen at AT&T Park glows ever brighter during the daylight hours. Sign up online for early entry and a chance to win a “Grand Night at the Opera” at www. sfopera.com/simulcast.

RIP Graham Leggat, executive director of the San Francisco Film Society and the San Francisco International Film Festival, 51. In public and in person, a gracious and charismatic man.▼

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WM. Hunter plays James Baldwin, as the central character (played by Liam Hughes) in his novel Giovanni’s Room oversees his own creation in a scene from Waiting for Giovanni, having its world premiere at New Conservatory Theatre Center.

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abels stuck to James Baldwin about as effectively as PostIt notes in a gale. Certainly, after achieving his first splash of literary fame in 1953 with Go Tell It on the Mountain, Baldwin himself was torn as friends, family, and other literary icons pulled at him. Be a soldier in the civil-rights cause was a sentiment hammered at him by other African-American luminaries. Write what you want but consider your career was the dogma of his publishers. Be true to yourself was the encouragement that Baldwin really wanted to hear, including a trail-blazing openness about his homosexuality, but those words arrived in much more muted fashion.

This was the intriguing conundrum in which Baldwin found himself as his second novel was on the verge of publication.

And this is where we find Baldwin in the play Waiting for Giovanni, having its world premiere at New Conservatory Theatre Center in association with the AfroSolo Arts Festival. Written by Jewelle Gomez in association with director Harry Waters Jr., the play is not so much a realistic elaboration on Baldwin’s life leading up to the publication of Giovanni’s Room as it is a kind of ceremonial flood of memories, voices, characters, and experiences that are continuously interrupting Baldwin’s efforts to write the book unlikely to please anyone who has an agenda already chosen for Baldwin’s career.

Some background on Baldwin’s life and career, and the events of the early 1950s, might be helpful before entering the theater. For example, it is important to know who just who Emmett Till was, because his brutal, racially motivated murder at age 14 in 1955, and the widely published photos of his mother opening his casket only to see a face smashed beyond recognition, is fuel to such African-American writers as Lorraine Hansberry and Richard Wright, who often cite Till’s murder to Baldwin as a reason for him to stay on a proscribed literary path.

Hansberry and Wright figure prominently in Baldwin’s thoughts, as do his brother, his white publisher,

and the French lover he meets during one of his long residences in France.

The problem with Giovanni’s Room for many of the above is its story line focusing on a love affair between two white men. It doesn’t help the civil-rights cause, argues Wright, and it may ruin Baldwin’s career, argues the publisher. To publish or not to publish becomes Baldwin’s version of to be or not to be.

While a few scenes do feature exchanges of dialogue in natural tones, often between Baldwin and his lover Luc, playwright Gomez has chosen a more formal and mannered approach to speech for much of the play that can keep emotional involvement at bay. “When will we embrace the horizon when the lightness and darkness nestle so closely together?” asks Hansberry at one point. “There is always a ‘but’ at the end of your sentences, and it drags down everything that has come before it,” says the fictional Giovanni, who, in an imaginative stage choice, progresses from a shadowy figure into flesh-andblood as Baldwin’s novel progresses.

As James Baldwin, it is hard to imagine a better stage incarnation than WM. Hunter, who not only resembles Baldwin, but who also creates a tormented character that we can believe in. Liam Hughes definitely looks good as the oftenunclad spectral Giovanni, and William Giammona as Baldwin’s French lover has an expected continental dash. Desiree Rogers sympathetically plays Lorraine Hansberry, and Fred Pitt has a provocateur’s fire as Wright.

Kuo-Hao Lo’s abstract set handsomely frames the action that shuttles between dreams, memories, and reality. Gomez and Waters have connected with a fascinating story, both in terms of personal integrity and social responsibility, and its rewards are considerable. What may be missing are more opportunities for emotional connections that don’t necessarily sound like they have been filtered through a sieve for lofty language.▼ Waiting for Giovanni will run at New Conservatory Theatre Center through Sept. 18. Tickets are $24-$40. Call 861-8972 or go to www.nctcsf.org.

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by Philip Campbell

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fter months of lazily selecting concerts and shows from a casual summertime menu, it’s time to serious up, check the wardrobe for dressier duds, and get the calendar marked for a busy and exciting fall season. Single ticket sales have been available from the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Symphony since July, and soon both corners of Grove and Van Ness will be alive with the sound of music.

If you want seats for the first-run casts at the SFO, better get cracking soon, and remember diva and divo devotees – there are some big name stars on the horizon. There’s also a sense of urgency in getting to the box office (or online) at Davies Symphony Hall. The lights will be shining brighter than ever this season as the beloved SFS and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas get the party started for the SFS’ 100th birthday! In fitting celebration, they are offering an opening week of centennial festivities that will allow the entire city to participate.

On Wed., Sept. 7, the Opening Night Gala, Fanfare for a New Century, features international superstar Lang Lang playing the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1, and his presence alone should thrill regular opening nighters, the musiclovers who only intermittently return during the rest of the season. I’m more pumped for violinist Itzhak Perlman’s performance of the Mendelssohn Concerto, and MTT’s predictably energetic romp through Copland’s Billy the Kid Ballet Suite. The glamorous evening is rounded out with the droll inclusion of Benjamin Britten’s charming Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.

On the following day, the Maestro, Orchestra and Lang Lang will appear again, in front of City Hall for a free Noontime concert that features selections from the Gala program.

It’s all very San Francisco, and so is the traditional All-San Francisco Concert on Fri., Sept. 9 (same as the Opera’s opening!). San Francisco social service and neighborhood organizations are invited to attend the concert as thanks for the work they do to serve the city.

Looking forward through the holiday season at Davies means a careful look at listening priorities.

If star power attracts you, YoYo Ma is appearing Sept. 14-17 with a delightfully offbeat choice of repertoire, Paul Hindemith’s Cello Concerto 1940. Another big name with an equally big talent is violinist Joshua Bell, who arrives early in October to participate in the SFS’ Project San Francisco with performances of the Glazunov Concerto.

MTT gets his own groove on throughout September with backto-back weeks of composers close to his heart and temperament. There will be performances of Mahler’s Third Symphony that manage to note the 100th anniversaries of both the composer’s passing and the birth of the SFS. At month’s end, fearless leader brings us his wonderful way with Stravinsky and a complete performance of the ballet Petrushka. Also on the bill is the SFS co-commission and West Coast premiere of Polaris by red-hot English composer, pianist and conductor Thomas Ades, in

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Music director Michael Tilson Thomas will lead the San Francisco Symphony’s 100th season.

collaboration with video artist Tal Rosner. I’m thinking this should be a major event for listeners with a taste for modernity, but as an added inducement, the concert opens with Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 Haffner.

If you like an operatic performance without the sets and costumes, Verdi’s moving and massive Requiem is scheduled for October with the great mezzosoprano Dolora Zajick as one of

Zambello, following her nonstop career trajectory ridiculously soon after her amazing SFO Ring Cycle earlier in the summer. I’ll have what she’s drinking, please. The premiere of Heart of a Soldier coincides most fittingly with the eve of Sept. 11 memorials.

The opening-night opera and first in repertory is an altogether brighter affair, if you can overlook the bloodthirsty character of the titular heroine and just revel in the brassy pageantry of the music. A revival of artist David Hockney’s riotously vivid sets and costumes for Puccini’s last and unfinished opera Turandot is a good way to kick-start the season, and I can’t wait to hear SFO Music Director Nicola Luisotti’s take on the composer’s sumptuous (and way over-the-top) score.

For sheer star attraction, Renée Fleming is the deserved diva du jour, and her appearances in the SFO premiere of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, Sept. 23-Oct. 11, will most likely sell every seat in the house. If you want to catch her at the peak of her powers – it would be best to get a move-on.

There are new production premieres of Mozart’s Don Giovanni by director Gabriele Lavia and designer Alessandro Camera, and a new Teatro alla Scala co-production of Verdi’s Attila. I can’t get enough of Don Giovanni (arguably my No. 1 opera favorite), so I won’t wonder too much at why we are getting a new production so soon after the last new production. I choose instead to marvel at the inclusion of Verdi’s underrated Attila on the roster. Seriously, try it – I think you’ll like it.

Also big on my list is the highly anticipated mounting of director Nicholas Hytner’s justifiably renowned production of Handel’s Xerxes, and the revival, after years in the attic, of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s beautifully realized Carmen. Hytner is one of my favorite directors today, and Ponnelle holds a very special place in memory. I will never forget the sun-bleached set of the bullring in the final act of his Carmen, nor the frantic gesturing of a horrified Micaela from the balcony of the corrida as her beloved Don Jose meets his murderous destiny. I can’t wait to see it again, and hopping back and forth on Grove Street for the rest of the year is looking very invigorating.▼

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the soloists standing before the SFS Chorus and beside conductor Fabio Luisi.

There are other notable conductors making their way to the podium as well, with James Conlon, Alan Gilbert of the New York Philharmonic, favorite Semyon Bychkov and Esa-Pekka Salonen (showcasing his own Violin Concerto), all scheduled through December. We’ll let you make your 2011 choices now, but don’t forget it’s the centennial season, and the fabulous American Mavericks concerts are returning in March 2012.

Nights at the Opera Over at the Opera House, staff and patrons alike are getting all worked up over the exceptionally enticing repertory for the fall season.

There are some new mountings of accepted masterworks and a commissioned world premiere, but the revival of two gorgeous productions from fairly recent and long-ago memory also have us intrigued.

Of course, the big news is the world premiere of Heart of a Soldier, featuring iconic barihunk Thomas Hampson in an opera by composer Christopher Theofanidis and librettist Donna Di Novelli, based on the book by James B. Stewart and the life stories of Susan Rescorla, Rick Rescorla and Daniel J. Hill. The director is Francesca

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Fall preview on the lavender tube

by Victoria A. Brownworth

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he new fall season is almost upon us. New shows start the week of Sept. 12 on the CW, and Sept.19 on the other networks. This fall, every new show on the tube will have at least one LGBT character because every network now realizes that LGBT people comprise at least 10% of the viewing audience (just 1% less than African-Americans), and representation is crucial to good, balanced TV. Sigh. As if.

One day we will be delivering that intro for real, we hope, but alas, it is far from the case this season. In fact, there are no new shows with primary LGBT characters on any of the top five networks, although several have peripheral queer characters. It’s a pretty queer-less season. Again.

The CW, which had led everyone to believe a gay character would be added to The Vampire Diaries, which already has plenty of could-be-queer eye candy (or is it fang candy?), chickened out of a new addition, even though creator Kevin Williamson broke ground with gay male teens on Dawson’s Creek. His new show, also on the CW, The Secret Circle, has no queer characters. Considering that Buffy, the Vampire Slayer had queer characters 15 years ago, we can’t really comprehend the issue here. The CW has had queer characters on Gossip Girl and The O.C. And supernatural characters are known for their pansexuality. So what’s the problem here? At least Marc Cherry, Greg Berlanti and Alan Ball always queered up their casts.

There’s not much to be said about this discriminatory reality that we haven’t said time and again except: Wake up networks, wake up sponsors. Queers watch TV, and we support TV with queer characters.

Grey’s Anatomy, Glee, True Blood and Modern Family are among our favorite shows. What do they have in common? Central, not peripheral queer characters. (We are also fiercely tired of the occasional queer walkon, like the surrogate mother who was also a lesbian last season on CBS’ Rules of Engagement. Seriously?)

Some of the new fall shows could easily have had main characters who were queer. Two that come immediately to mind are bound to be lesbian must-see TV: NBC’s Prime Suspect and CBS’ Unforgettable. Prime Suspect is not to be confused with the PBS series from which it appropriates both its name and its main character’s first name, and which it pretends to be the American version of, but which isn’t. In the British version, Helen Mirren’s Jane Tennyson was a brilliant, complicated, disturbed character dealing with a complex sexual politic as the chief in an all-male squad. She fought her own team on a daily basis, was subject to constant belittling and sexual harassment, and found herself in several complicated situations that included involvement with a coworker who was both younger and black, and an unwanted pregnancy.

The series was very dark and realistic.

The American version changes Jane’s last name to Timoney, gives her a porkpie hat and calls itself a “re-imagining” of the British series.

It’s not dark but is still watchable because of the superb acting of Maria Bello, who has been doing mostly film acting since she left her hardboiled character on ER. Bello burns up the screen, though not in the bitter, intense way Mirren did. Don’t go into this show thinking it’s anything like the PBS Masterpiece Mystery series, and you won’t be disappointed.

Jane’s of the hard-boiled variety and gets beaten up by perps on a regular basis, has to deal with Aidan

Quinn and Brian O’Byrne, takes on the sexism of the police force and does all manner of non-girly things.

But she’s not a lesbian. No, no, no. She looks like a lesbian, talks like a lesbian, dresses like a lesbian and certainly acts like a lesbian, but she is definitely not a lesbian. Why the queer fear, NBC? This show would have been the perfect opportunity to reveal a strong lesbian lead on the tube. Epic fail. But lesbians will still watch.

(Thursdays, 10 p.m.)

Unforgettable reunites Without a Trace star Poppy Montgomery with CBS and crime and no queer characters.

This time the former Det. Sam Spade is Det. Carrie Wells, NYPD cop with hyperthymesia, which means she’s one of the handful of people in the world with a perfect memory of all things.

Montgomery is strong, still has an amazing control of an American accent (she’s Australian) and is hotter than ever as a redhead. If she had been put together with a caring, mostly-offscreen lesbian lover who was a social worker or therapist, it would have been very solid casting. But that didn’t happen. So CBS is still 0-0 on having a show with a central queer character.

And this show just screamed for it.

(Tuesdays, 10 p.m., in the spot formerly held by The Good Wife, which does have a secondary queer character, and has moved to Sundays.)

One of the big disappointments of the new season is going to be the much-hyped and much-boycotted The Playboy Club on NBC. We are huge fans of Eddie Cibrian (Third Watch, Sunset Beach, Invasion), with his sexy dimples and sexy everything else. We’re not sure what has gone wrong with TPC, because it has everything going for it: good story that’s edgy and has some crime element, hot women and men in hot outfits, fabulous period sets. (Hugh Hefner was a consultant on the show.)

Perhaps we’ve been spoiled by the multi-Emmy-nominated Mad Men and the genius of Jon Hamm, January Jones and Elizabeth Moss. Perhaps it’s that MM got it perfect, and got it first. Perhaps it’s that cable is better than network at allowing the seamy to slither through. But TPC doesn’t quite live up to the MM template.

The controversy over the show from the Parents Television Council has helped to promote it, as have wellplaced and well-cut promos. But we really can’t see what the religious right is in a tizzy over. The sex is far tamer than anything we’ve seen on daytime soaps, and if it’s the concept of the Playboy Club that’s the objection, well, that’s just silly since it’s 2011, not 1963 when the show is set.

Playboy Club really isn’t a sex show.

We’re not saying don’t watch, because it is compelling, and like Mad Men has some secondary queer characters (a closeted gay man and a lesbian Bunny), but we’re not sure that’s enough reason to tune in. Imagine if the Powers That Be had made Cibrian’s character the closeted gay man. Now that would have been epic.

(Mondays, 10 p.m.)

Conversely, the other set-in-the60s time warp offering, ABC’s Pan Am, is terrific. Christina Ricci stars.

(Remember her fantastic, Emmyworthy performance on Grey’s Anatomy, as the young paramedic with her hand on an unexploded bomb in someone’s gut?) This show hits all the notes TPC doesn’t quite capture. We think this is because the women seem right for the era, not anachronistic (the Bunnies are all a little too Gloria Steinem Bunnies, rather than the workingclass “girls” the real Bunnies were).

The Pan Am women are looking for real-life adventures because none is

open to them in 1960s, get-marriedgirls! America. The insouciance, the excitement: it’s “The Best of Everything” in the air instead of publishing. There are some fun encoded lesbian moments, like a head stewardess snapping the girdle of a young stewardess. Created by Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing).

(Tuesdays, 10 p.m.)

We admit, we tire of the remakes of old TV shows. We watched some episodes of Hawaii Five-O because Daniel Dae Kim is the most gorgeous man on the tube and Alex O’Loughlin is one of the most talented. Plus, we can’t afford to go to Hawaii, so seeing it on screen is a vicarious thrill. But we didn’t enjoy it. So when we saw that ABC was reprising Charlie’s Angels, we were not impressed. We loved the film remake with Carmen Diaz and Lucy Lui and found it the ultimate camp, but that did not make us want to watch this. Yet these Angels are not so angelic, which makes for a tidy twist. One is an Angel of color,

another touch of which we approve.

We’d be even happier if the trio were all lesbians. (Thursdays, 8 p.m.)

There is possibly nothing more anticipated than the return of Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy) to the tube.

Gellar has spent her time away from the small screen on the big screen. So when we heard she was coming back to TV in a noir series, we were very excited. The CW’s Ringer has Gellar in rare form, playing twin sisters: a recovering alcoholic and a possible murder victim. And with few true thriller-y shows on the tube these days, Ringer makes for a compelling change. Added plus: upcoming queer character. Or is the queer character already among us? A few weeks ago, a TV news story queried if Gellar was too old for the CW, at 34. We’re not sure what to say about that, other than that Gellar looks great at her oh-soadvanced age, and she has retained the panache she had as Buffy. She brings angst, vulnerability and toughness to the roles of Bridget and Siobhan.

NBC-TV

Maria Bello in the new TV show Prime Suspect.

Also starring Nestor Carbonell (Lost), he of the unbelievably gorgeous eyes.

(Tuesdays, 9 p.m.)

One of the best new shows this season is ABC’s supernatural gothic entry Once Upon a Time. This dreamy, sexy, scary, lush drama pits the real world against the world of fairy tales in a town called Storybrooke, Maine.

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Miranda July in The Future: two lost souls wander across the digital desert.

Miranda July’s bright future

by David Lamble

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ith the release of her second comedy The Future, Berkeley-born and raised filmmaker Miranda July is already facing a Woody Allen-style identity crisis.

Working with material positioned somewhere between the soap opera of the evening news and the subtext of a Dan Savage advice column, July’s Me, You and Everybody We Know was a screwball-comedy cult hit that won her a hip audience centered on 20something women and urban gay men. As I wrote in a 2005 profile, “Fans of July will enjoy a film where all the characters, kids and adults, are doing their own specific walk on the wild side. Two teenage girls ‘harass’ a cute male classmate to the point of orgasm, a six-year-old boy gets involved in an adult Internet chat room with hilarious results, a 10-year-old girl shares her dreams and her hope chest with a nice boy.

Oh yes, and July’s feckless romantic and her terminally shy shoesalesman boyfriend keep lurching two steps forward and a pratfall back.” July’s world of loveable misfits was a less astringent version of the satiric cauldron of Todd Solondz (Happiness) films, where no deeds go unpunished.

Six years after our first chat, much has changed in July’s world, first and foremost her marriage to Mike Mills.

The two met in 2005 while beating the drums for their respective films on the festival circuit (his was Thumbsucker), followed by her realization that indie-film fame was fleeting, and that a year of being the critics’ darling had left her exhausted and “flat broke.”

If she were ever to cobble together the filthy lucre to make a second feature, July felt she would have to risk disappointing her fans with a far more melancholic vision.

“I didn’t really want The Future to be a comedy. Editing the first movie, I was going through a breakup, and I remember, as people were laughing, thinking, ‘Great, but I want to make something where they walk out kind of devastated,’ maybe that’s too strong a word, but where I can use humor and surprise, and a lot of the same elements, but to get to a way more uncomfortable, sadder place.

That seemed like a great challenge to me.”

In The Future, a nervous 30something couple, Sophie (July) and Jason (gorgeous Hamish Linklater), are surviving on secondrate Internet jobs while clinging to fast-fading dreams: Sophie wants to choreograph, Jason wishes to be free of Internet service calls and just drift along, guided by fate. Modern-day empty-nesters, the couple become virtually immobilized at the prospect of adopting an injured kitten, Paw

Paw, from an animal shelter, whose stern spokeswoman reminds them to fetch their cuddly fur-ball by its due date. “We euthanize!” July risks ridicule and a fall into terminal cuteness by having Paw Paw narrate his own increasingly perilous fate while his erstwhile owner/protectors set sail on choppy waters.

In the biggest leap of faith for those of us who really love cuddly, shaggy-haired Jewish boyfriends, Sophie leaves Jason for an older, bald, suburban single dad, Marshall (David Warshofsky), with whom she feels she can trade in her anxietyprovoking artistic aspirations for a little suburban vegetating. In another challenging subplot, Sophie and Jason become involved with the dreams, old keepsakes and dirtyminded doggerel of an 80-year-old man, Joe the Moon, based on the real life of the actor Joe Putterlik, who died shortly after the filming.

This concoction is odd and mostly engaging, although I admit to missing July’s flair for de-fanging the erotic hiccups of our 24/7 Internet porn universe. What we get instead is an imaginative fable about two lost souls, Bohemian Bedouins, wandering untethered across the digital desert. The cutesy kitty thing will be a deal-breaker for some, although I felt it an apt symbol for a footloose couple whose advancing middle age may not signal the slightest inkling of maturity. I think July has provided her young fans with a solipsistic mirror that, for the brighter and more perceptive, will prove a cautionary tale.

On the record Catching up with Miranda July after six years, in a beautiful downtown hotel that is the Love Boat for film puffery in San Francisco, was a treat. She began by recalling a Woody Allen line from his fan-bashing masterpiece Stardust Memories.

Miranda July: “I prefer your older,

funnier films.” Mike and I often quote that to each other.

David Lamble: Who are your fans?

I meet women who have grown up with me like we’re marching along through the same issues. A lot of young gay men, which I love, that’s sort of the core constituency, then I’ve gotten the demographics: somehow they can tell you who’s going to your website, broken down by age and gender, and I was really happy that the 45-55 set was almost as solid as the early 20s.

The choice of Hamish Linklater, a very beautiful man, to be your screenmate?

It seemed fun for about 4 or 5 seconds to cast my own boyfriend, then it became like finding a boyfriend. I wanted someone who I really believed, on some level, in some other reality I could date. Also I wanted to use the visual medium and have us look like a couple, almost a little sibling-like, because there’s another man in the movie who had to look sort of wrong for me.

He’s balding.

Of course, my husband is balding, too, he’s adorable. Hamish is a very soulful actor who’s also quite funny.

In your first film you had great fun with kid characters doing risqué, borderline taboo things. Here you have an older man with a saucy sense of humor.

I found Joe Putterlik in The Pennysaver. He made these really raunchy cards for his wife – nine of them a year, and they were full of dripping twats, nothing was too bawdy for him! I thought, “Wow, that really changes my idea of what a relationship could be like at 82.”

More like Robert Crumb.

He was very Robert Crumb, while also very straight-laced.

Will you and Mike [Mills] team up for a movie?

We talk about doing that like way down the road, like a love project.▼

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Miranda July and Hamish Linklater in The Future.

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1980s forever

by Gregg Shapiro

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hen The Waterboys released their 1985 masterwork This Is the Sea, it met then exceeded all expectations. Sticking with the ninesong format of the band’s first two albums, This Is the Sea maintained the high level of artistry that fans had come to expect, rewarding them with eternal classics such as “The Whole of the Moon,” “Don’t Bang the Drum,” “Old England” and “The Pan Within.” If you’ve ever wondered about the origins of the music on the album, check out In a Special Place (Capitol). Subtitled “the piano demos for This Is the Sea,” the disc includes piano and vocal versions of “Be My Enemy” and the songs mentioned above. A number of the remaining tunes, including “All the Bright Horses,” “The Day I Ran Out of People,” “Winter in the Blood” and “The Woman in Me,” were left off the final version, but can now be experienced here.

The April 2011 passing of Poly Styrene, best known as the former lead singer of the seminal late70s punk band X-Ray Spex, was a considerable loss to the music world. The band’s 1978 debut disc contained classics, such as “Germ Free Adolescents” and “Oh Bondage, Up Yours,” that would set the tone for the music of the 1980s and the rise of new wave. As a solo artist, Poly Styrene released an album in 1981, and it would be 30 years until its follow-up, Generation Indigo (Future Noise), came out, shortly before her untimely death.

Her powerful voice, which gave X-Ray Spex its distinctive quality, fuels the bouncy electro of “I Luv Ur Sneakers,” “Virtual Boyfriend,” “Kitsch” and “L.U.V.,” and rocking numbers like “Thrash City” and “White Gold.” R.I.P. Poly Styrene.

Like X-Ray Spex, The Cars (from Boston) made their debut

in 1978, but they achieved their greatest fame during the early 80s before disbanding near the end of the decade. Ex-members of The Cars didn’t sit idle, though, with lead Car Ric Ocasek being the most productive, releasing more than a half-dozen solo discs, and producing albums for other bands. After 20 years apart, the four surviving members (Benjamin Orr died in 2000) have regrouped to record Move Like This (Hear Music).

Some things haven’t changed.

Ocasek’s spoken/sung vocals still sound the way they did on hits such as “Just What I Needed,” “Let’s Go,” “Touch and Go,” “Shake It Up” and “You Might Think.” But you have to get almost halfway through the disc until you get to “Sad Song,” the closest thing to a vintage Cars cut. It isn’t until after “Sad Song” that the disc really hits its stride.

Before he had a huge hit with the memorable 1994 single “A Girl Like You,” Edwyn Collins was the front man of 80s cult band Orange Juice.

There’s not really anything on Losing Sleep (Heavenly), Collins’ latest solo effort, that equals “A Girl Like You.”

But that doesn’t mean Collins, still working in a modern retro style, doesn’t deserve your attention. “Do It Again” is a collaboration with Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy. As it turns out, the collaborative tracks – “Come Tomorrow, Come Today” (with Johnny Marr), “It Dawns on Me” (with Romeo Stodart of The Magic Numbers) and especially “In Your Eyes” (with The Drums) and “All My Days” (with Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame) – are the best the disc has to offer.

As comeback records go, Gang of Four’s 2005 Return the Gift, the groundbreaking punk/new wave band’s first major-label release in more than a dozen years, was an unusual one. A 21stcentury rerecording of some of their best-known tunes (“To Hell with Poverty,” “I Love a Man in a Uniform,” “Anthrax,” “What We All Want”), it proved t that even with only h half of the original m members (plus two n new ones), they still h it. Content (Yep had R Roc), a 10-track disc o new material, does of t the same thing, for t most part. Echoes the o Gang of Four of of o old can be found (including Jon King’s t trademark melodica) i songs such as “She in S Said, ‘You Made a T Thing of Me,’” “You’ll N Never Pay for the Farm” and “Do as I Say.” Even when she was the female lead in the seminal 80s L.A. punk band X, Exene Cervenka had a touch of twang in her vocals.

So it makes sense that her solo recordings would hone in on that aspect. In her “right purty” cowboy boots, Exene kicks off her latest album The Excitement of Maybe (Bloodshot) on an upbeat note with the sugar-sweet “Already in Love.”

Exene pretty much maintains that spirit on “Brand New Memory,” “Someday I’ll Forget” and the spiritually oriented “Beyond You.” She darkens the mood on “Alone in Arizona,” “I Wish It Would Stop Raining” and “Half Past Forever.”

While Exene and the members of X were holding down the punkrock fort on the West Coast, The Smithereens, led by Pat DiNizio, were representing New Jersey.

Known for songs such as “Blood and Roses,” “Strangers When We Meet” and “Only a Memory,” The Smithereens added a touch of gritty power pop to their sound.

Reunited with legendary producer Don Dixon on 2011 (E One), their first album of original material in a dozen years, ¾ of the original

members team up (with Severo Jornacion) and pick up where they left off. That comes through especially on “Sorry,” “What Went Wrong” and “Viennese Hangover.”

In spite of their distinctly unappetizing name, Meat Puppets managed to be one of the great indie-rock success stories of the 1980s. The trio from the Southwest had a name that suggested a certain level of punk rock horror, something they conveyed on a number of their early rapid-fire songs. But they also had the ability to shift gears easily, and get all country-and-western on listeners. The swirling and sweet new disc Lollipop (Megaforce) may not have the same level of brilliance as their second disc Meat Puppets II, but that was almost 30 years ago. What Lollipop does have is admirable tunes such as “Incomplete,” “Shave It,” and “The Spider and the Spaceship.”▼

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Poetry in motion

by Jim Piechota Cool Limbo by Michael Montlack; NYQ Books, $14.95 Chelsea Boy by Craig Moreau; Chelsea Station Editions, $15

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oetry books always spring forth in excess just as the autumnal season approaches, as if we need carefully chosen words packed with punch and emotion to prepare us for winter. Here are two outstanding collections penned

by American gay authors, which are well worth savoring for their immaculate construction, attractive packaging, and sheer lyrical resonance.

Michael Montlack (My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them) presents Cool Limbo, his first full-length book of poetry, in grand fashion, delivering 100 pages that demonstrate a distinctive command for creative wordplay.

Split into two sections (one for “Girls, Girls, Girls,” one for “Boys, Boys, Boys”), Montlack’s writing emerges as both playful and inventive. He addresses the ladies first by whimsically surmising that if Hello Kitty had a mouth, the possibilities would be endless (“she could become a feline AIDS activist,” “go on Oprah”, “snack on live Smurfs,” “she might just suck cock/She might not/She might just say that she does.”) More on girls: verses on Stevie Nicks accentuate her “rasp” and the signature “shawl lending shape to a breezy ghostess”; Liz Taylor flashes by with a “whirl of eyes that said much more”; a psalm genuflects to the many seasons of Golden Girls so that Montlack might “resolve any life dilemma in a span of 30 minutes,” and “embody

Bea Arthur or at least live with someone with balls like hers.”

The male-influenced second half finds boys ogling their teacher’s legs, gushing over the porn legacy of Peter Berlin, emotionally exhausted from the gay game (“We’re like – busy/Entertain yourselves, folks/ We boys have had it”), loving Fire Island, and turning 40 in a stunning final piece that finds the writer “older than their friends were/When they died/Leaving all that space for me.” This is a highly accomplished debut from a writer who isn’t afraid to show his stuff.

The vivid evolution of a Chelsea Boy is the stuff of Craig Moreau’s smashing, ingenious three-part poetic debut. Though he began living in New York City only four years ago, the author was immediately entranced by the Chelsea neighborhood nostalgically “built on sex, driven by sex, and almost destroyed by sex.” The Boy of his poetry is something to observe, leaping off the page in a flourish of lost innocence and rampant sexual desire. He stomps through these pages alive with the excitement of learning life lessons

(“it’s a rush when you connect your first pieces”), of bar culture (“I can rest assured that my tail is always wagging, and people know what it means when I say woof”), mesmerized by dance floors (“a place where the glimmer really starts to glamour”), Fire Island (“our flags at full staff/Men making Greek love”), and parties galore (“a panorama of abdominals in such quantity they become average”).

Moreau has made himself a social sponge, soaking up the rh rhythm of the streets an the attitudes and and p platitudes of the men w who walk on them, p pounding the pavement in everything from flipflops to penny loafers t sequined stilettos. to E Exhibiting a knack for d detail, his lines capture p precise descriptions o places, and of the of p palpable feeling when o is there. one This Chelsea Boy c can be found feeding s squirrels in Central P Park eyeing a stranger “ “waiting in the leaves f for whatever leaves w wait for”; or in San F Francisco, a place where “ can forget who we “we a so we can get to are know one another”; or vacationing at the Southernmost e endpoint of Key West, where “you can’t run away anymore, and you’re out of poems to read and clothes to shed.” Moreau’s evocation of the air and dance inside the dark, dank cruise bars of New York is brilliant, as “feelings for the flesh, music under a concrete moon, and the hard kiss felt when passing another man’s chest” become this Chelsea Boy’s holy communion.

Both of these debuts are musthaves for gay poetry aficionados and anyone who favors big, big emotion expressed through a highly stylized economy of words.▼

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Thunder From Down Under @ The Rrazz Room

Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance @ Asian Art Museum

Australian male strip dance troupe returns for their sexy shows. No full nudity, but still fun, and yes, men are welcome. $35-$55. Wed & Thu 8pm; Fri & Sat 7pm & 9:30pm. 2-drink min. Thru Sept. 17. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1189. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Expansive exhibit of more than 100 historic art works in exhibits that showcase the practicality of the performing and visual arts in this beautiful culture. $7-$17. TueSun 10am-5pm. Thu til 9pm. Thru Sept. 11.

200 Larkin St. www.asianart.org

Labor intensive

by Jim Provenzano

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John Western

abor Day is the Monday holiday for honoring trade and labor unions. You know, the workers rightwing politicians want to work harder and whose unions they want to ban; the unions that instituted child labor laws to prevent the sort of employee abuse some extreme Republicans can’t wait to bring back.

Speaking of Republican nutbags, did you know Rick Perry wants to convert Muslims to Christianity? Forget your possible bias against Muslims and stop equating them with terrorists. And try not to laugh at All Athiests Are Muslim at Stage Werx Theatre. Zahra Noorbakhsh’s daring comic solo show weaves her autobiographical tale of dating a non-Muslim into some amusing lessons about stereotypes and misperceptions of Islam that transcends religion and ethnicity. $20. Thu-Sat 8pm. 533 Sutter St. at Powell. Thru Oct. 1. 517-3581.

Jennifer Holiday at Oakland Pride www.ZahraComedy.com The hardest thing for some working drones to remember is to not go to the office on Monday and to plan ahead to get the heck outta town. Want to enjoy the great outdoors while still hanging with your gay peeps?

Head to Oakland Pride, Sunday September 4 at Uptown Oakland.

Thelma Houston, Jennifer Holiday, Freak Genius, La Toya London, Ethel Merman and many others perform on four stages at the annual celebration of Oakland’s LGBT people. $10. 19th St. BART station exit. 11am-7pm. www.oaklandpride.org How about some 80s pop music and kitchy art? Oh, face it, we love the Sausalito Art Festival, but how many gullfilled seascapes does the world need? Fortunately, there’s a lot of diverse artists’ works on dis- Sausalito Art Festival play; nearly 100, in fact, plus music acts The Human League, Kenny Loggins, The Romantics, Edgar Winter (I heart the 80s), food and more. $5-$25. 10am-6pm. Thru Sept 5 (til 5pm). Marinship Park. www.sausalitoartfestival.org Remember when the Presidio was a military base? Nope? Never mind. See Cymbeline at the Presidio Parade Grounds, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s outdoor production of the tale about princesses, kings and thrones. Unlike the sacrifices soldiers made to keep our rulers on their thrones, it’s free. Saturdays at 7:30pm; Sundays and Labor Day Monday at 2:30pm. www.sfshakes.org Cymbeline

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American Buffalo @ Actors Theatre of SF David Mamet’s intense drama about three petty crooks. $26-$38. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Sept. 3. 855 Bush St. at Taylor. 345-1287. www.ActorsTheatreSF.org

A Delicate Balance @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Edward Albee’s brutal comedy of manners about responsibility to others. $10-$55.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Tue & Sun 7pm, also Sun 2pm. Previews thru Sept 7. Opening night Sept. 8. Thru Oct. 9. 2081 Addison St. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

From Here to There @ Oddball Films Bird and navigation short films, including a strange one about a boy in space. $10.

8:30pm. Also, Sept. 3, Top Secret! films you weren’t supposed to see; government, military and industry recruitment and propaganda short films. 8pm. 275 Capp St. www.oddballfilm.com

Queer Deaf Social @ Café Flore Gathering of LGBT deaf locals and friends.

6pm-9pm. Happy Hour 4pm-8pm.

First Fridays monthly. 2298 Market St. 621-8579. www.cafeflore.com

Shut Up little Man! @ Roxie Cinema Matthew Bates’ film uses the audio recordings of deranged, hilarious and frightening arguments between his neighbors, a pair of gay and antigay roommates in the Haight district in the 80s. $7-$10. Thru Sept 1. 3117 16th St. www.roxie.com

The Tempest, The Complete History of America @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre The Shakespeare classic about an exiled king, and the comic three-man romp about US history, play in repertory. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 4pm. Thru Sept 25. $20-$75 (season tix). 1475 Acacia Ave., Dominican Universaty, San Rafael. www.marinshakespeare.org

Sat 3 >> Bay Area Now 6 @ YBCA

Group exhibit of local visual artists in varied media. $7-$12. Thru Sept. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. 978-2700. www.ybca.org

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$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

Concept Series 9 @ 66 Sanchez Studio RAWdance’s salon of dance works inprogress presents guest artists 13th Floor Dance Theater, David Martinez, Gretchen Garnett & Dancers, punkkiCo, and Tanya Bello’s project.b. Donations. Popcorn, coffee and snacks provided. 8pm. Also Sept 4 at 3pm & 8pm. 66 Sanchez St at 14th. www.rawdance.org

Of Dice and Men @ La Val’s Subterranean, Berkeley Impact Theatre’s comic play about gamers.

Pizza and beer/beverages available. $10$20. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 1. 1834 Euclid Ave., Berkeley. (510) 224-5744. www.impacttheatre.com

Dutch and Flemish Masterworks @ Legion of Honor Famous artists such as Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Hendrick Avercamp are featured in this exhibit of works from the collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, who have been called “the most important collectors you’ve never heard of.” Also, Picasso’s Ceramics (thru Oct. 9), and a fascinating permanent collection. $7-$11.

Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Thru Oct. 2. 100 34th Ave. at Clement, Lincoln Park. 7503600. www.famsf.org

Hard French @ El Rio The monthly first-Saturdays popular queer night, with classic soul music spun by DJs Carnita, Brown Amy, and guest DJs. Enjoy BBQ eats, drag acts, a photo booth fundraiser, and a festive outdoor patio ambiance. $7. 2pm-8pm ($1 beers 3pm4pm!). 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.hardfrench.com www.elriosf.com

Identity Festival @ Shoreline Ampitheatre Electronic music duo The Crystal Method headlines the Identity Festival, along with Kaskade, Steve Aoki, Pretty Lights, Rusko, Booka Shade, DJ Shadow, Chuckie, Avicii, Jessie and the Toy Boys, Nero, and others. $50-$200. 1pm-2am. One Ampitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. www.idfestival.com/city/mountainview

Sat 3

Michael Jang

Fresh @ Ruby Skye

Passage: Capturing Movement @ 60SIX Gallery Group exhibit of unusual photos taken in diverse situations and media by Stephen Mallon, David Magnusson, Steve Bird, Anne Terpstra, David King and Michael Jang (photo above). Thru Sept 16.

Saturdays 9:30am-1pm. 66 Elgin Park. www.gallery60six.com

Le Perle Degli Squallor @ Hot Spot Two-year anniversary! Woohoo! DJ Bus Station John’s intimate monthly (1st Saturdays) retro disco night re-decorates the cozy dive bar into a cool dance hangout and upstairs cruise space; popular with bear cubs and friendly guys and gals. 2 for 1 drinks 9pm-11pm. Open til 2am. $5. 1414 Market St. at Polk.

Queer Contra Dance @ Humanist Hall, Oakland

DJs Pornstar and Kimberly S spin mixes for the crowd at the popular monthly T-dance.

Partial proceeds this month benefit AIDS Project Los Angeles. $20-$25. 21+. 6pm12am. 420 Mason St. www.freshsf.com

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

Mike Greensill and Friends @ Old First Church Composer and pianist performs varied instrumental works, then some vocals with longtime performing partner Wesla Whitfield. $14-$17. 4pm. 1751 Sacramento St. at Van Ness Ave. 474-1608. www.oldfirstconcerts.org

Outlook Video @ Chanel 29 Monthly LGBT news show. This time: binational couple deportation; singer Bobby Jo Valentine, Campbell Councilman Evan Low, Frameline 35 award recipients. 5pm. Also streaming online. www.outlookvideo.org

Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

Beginner-friendly folk dance. Season opener with Mavis McGaugh calling to The Rosin Doctors. $10-$15. Lesson 7:45-8pm, Dance 8-10:30pm. 390 27th St., Oakland. www.queercontra.org

Exhibit of personal artwork, collected work and archival materials showing how the lesbian poet’s life, mostly in Paris, changed over the decades before and after WWII. Free-$10. Thru Sept. 6. 11am-5pm daily (closed Wed), Thu 1pm-8pm. 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

The Road to Hades @ John Hinkel Park, Berkeley

The Steins Collect @ SF MOMA

Shotgun Players presents Jeff Raz’s circus stunt-filled pratfall parody of war between the ancient gods. $10. Sat & Sun 3pm.

Thru Sept. 11. Southhampton Ave. at The Arlington. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29 Joan Baez returns to Teatro in Maestro’s Enchantment, the new show at the theatre-tent-dinner extravaganza, with Ukranian illusionist Yevgeniy Voronin, clown Peter Pitofsky, aerialist Bianca Sapetto, trapeze artists The Collins Brothers, singer Kristin Clayton, contortionist Svetlana, plus jugglers, comedy, a five-course dinner, and a lot of fun. $117-$145. Saturday 11:30am “Breve” show $63-$78. Wed-Sat 6pm (Sun 5pm). Thru Oct. 9. Pier 29 at Embarcadero Ave. 438-2668. www.teatrozinzanni.com

Tigers Be Still @ SF Playhouse Quirky endearing comedy about an art therapist whose family and work life is complicated; oh, and a tiger’s escaped from a local zoo. $40-$50. 8pm. Tue & Wed 7pm. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm. Thru Sept. 10. 533 Sutter St. near Powell.

677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Twelfth Night @ Theatre in the Woods, Woodside Shakespeare’s bittersweet comedy about cross-dressing loves, heartache and romance, is re-set in colonial New England at the outdoor ampitheatre. $15-$25.

Sat & Sun 1pm thru Sept. 4.

2170 Bear Gulch Road (West), Woodside. www.theatreinthewoods.com

Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian AvanteGarde, a fascinating exhibit of pivotal artworks originally collected by lesbian poet Gertrude Stein and her family. 4th floor galleries. Free (members)-$25. Thru Sept. 6. 11am-5:45pm daily; extended Sat hours 10am-8:45pm. Closed Wed.; open til 8:45pm Thu. 151 Third St. 357-4000. www.sfmoma.org

Steven Slatten @ Martuni’s Cabaret singer performs “Two-Dollar Hooker.” $2. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the fabulous weekly brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square.

395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

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Cowgirlpalooza @ El Rio Enjoy a BBQ and women’s country music all day, with the Patsy Chords, Judea Eden Band, Kit and the Branded Men, The Legend of Kitty Rose and 77 El Deora at 8:30pm. $10. 3pm-10pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

Giro de San Francisco @ Downtown SF Day-long cycling event; track runs from Union to Battery streets. www.metromint.com/live/metromintgiro

Line Dance Classes @ ODC Dance Commons New fun line dance classes taught by Sundance Saloon’s Sean Ray, with a special LGBT-anybody-inclusive ambiance, and not just country music. $14. Weekly Saturdays, 6pm-8pm. 351 Shotwell St. www.odcdance.org

Monsters in the Bookshelf @ Thacher Gallery, USF Exhibit of sketchbooks, canvases, storyboards, book galleys and other artwork by popular children’s book illustrators from Studio 5. Thru Dec. 16. Gleeson LibraryGeschke Center, USF campus, 2130 Fulton St. 422-5178. www.usfca.edu

Performance Festival @ Yerba Buena Gardens Ongoing series of free daytime music, theatre and dance performances. Thru Oct. www.ybgf.org

Sat 3 Exit, Pursued By a Bear @ Boxcar Playhouse Lauren Gunderson’s hilarious revenge comedy about domestic abuse displays another great use for duct tape. $15-$35. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Sept 17. 505 Natoma St. 2557846. www.crowdedfire.org

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Waiting for Giovanni @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Jewelle Gomez’ and Harry Waters, Jr.’s excellent and unusual play inspired by the life of gay author James Baldwin. $22-$40.

Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 18.

25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

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Death of my Daughter, a diptych photo series of female-to-male transgendered people with symbolic poses and imagery. Thru Sept 29. 1800 Market St. www.leonmostovoy.wordpress.com www.sfcenter.org

Marga Gomez brings her comic talents and special guests to a weekly cabaret show. $10. 8pm. 2120 Allston Way. (800) 8383006. www.margagomez.com www.themarsh.org

Nanette Harris @ SF Public Library

Mauricio Ancalmo @ YBCA Experimental music, light, sound and video collaboration; part of Bay Area Now 6. $5$7. 8pm. 701 Mission St. www.ybca.org

Blue People by a Green Painter, an exhibit of works by by the artist who paints people of color in different tones, and uses recycled paint. Part of the Afro Solo Arts Fest. Thru Oct. 20. 100 Larkin St. www.afrosolo.org www.sfpl.org

Q Comedy @ Martuni’s Femcee Sandra O. Noshi-Di’n’t welcomes Natasha Muse, Lilibeth Helson, Dana Cory and Larry Bob for a night of gay laughs. $5-$15. 8pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.Qcomedy.com

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

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Yogawoman @ Landmark Twin Cinema, Albany Annette Bening narrates this documentary about about women who transformed their lives and communities through yoga. 7pm premiere. 1115 Solano Ave. www.yogawoman.tv

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Alternative Visions @ Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Weekly series of unusual experimental, and strikingly visual short and feature films. $9.50-$13.50 (double-bills). Usually 7:30pm. Thru Oct 26. 2575 Bancroft Way. (510) 642-1412. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu

Blue Room Comedy @ The Stud Comic David Hawkins has moved his popular bawdy laughfest to a roomy nightclub; No cover. 8pm. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Justin Torres @ Books Inc Acclaimed author of the debut novel We the Animals, about three brothers in a passionately fractured New York family, reads from and discusses his work. Free. 7:30pm.

2275 Market St. www.booksinc.net

Our Vast Queer Past @ GLBT History Museum See the new mini-exhibit about the Alice B. Toklas San Francisco LGBT Democratic political organization as it celebrates its 40th anniversary; part of the popular exhibit from the GLBT Historical Society.

Free for members-$5. Wed-Sat 11am-7pm.

Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup @ Berkeley Rep Tony Taccone and Rita Moreno’s solo show about the award-winning actress’s life and times; with music and a four-piece band. $14-50-$73. Tue, Fri-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Thu, Sat, Sun 2pm. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Soulful Stitching @ MOAD Patchwork Quilts by African (Siddis) in India, a new exhibit of 32 colorful handcrafted works. Thru Sept. 18. Wed-Sat

Leon Mostovoy @ LGBT Center

Marga Gomez @ The Marsh

Radar Reading @ SF Public Library Author-host Michelle Tea welcomes writers Dodie Bellamy, musician-poet Adam Boehmer (photo), Tom Comitta and Anna Martine Whitehead. Free, with cookies! 6pm. 100 Larkin st. at Grove, lower level, Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room. www.sfpl.org

11am-6pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St. at 3rd.

358-7200. www.moadsf.org

Sutro San Francisco @ Rayko Photo Dan Ross presents 30 large-format color views shot in contrast to the 1910 black and white enlarged originals of the famous Sutro Baths. Also, Fraction Magazine’s group exhibit. Thru Sept 15/18. Tue-Thu 10am-8pm; Fri-Sun 10am-8pm. 428 Third St. 496-3773. www.raykophoto.com

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Veteran lesbian comic performs Not Getting Any Younger, a new solo show about her ‘coming of middle age.’ $15-$50. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 8:30pm. Sun 3pm. Previews thru Sept. 14. Opens Sept 15. Thru Oct. 23.

1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Michael Musika, Yesway, Ramon & Jessica @ Beatbox Three music acts perform at the new nightclub. $10. 8pm. 314 11th st. www.beatboxsf.com

My Coma Dreams @ YBCA Work-in-progress screening of Carrie Lozano and Charlotte Lagarde’s documentary about the AIDS-related coma-induced dreams of gay jazz pianist Fred Hersch.

Free. 7:30pm. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission st. www.ybca.org

Not a Genuine Black Man @ The Marsh, Berkeley Brian Copeland’s longrunning autobiographical solo show about racism in San Leandro. $20-$50. 7:30pm. Thru Sept 24.

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

Picasso @ de Young Museum

Author of Rebel Bookseller discusses survival tips for the growth and adaptation of local small businesses. 7:30pm. 1644 Haight St. 863-8688. www.booksmith.com

Masterpieces from the Museé National Picasso, Paris, a new exhibit of classic early modern works by the Spanish master painter. Free (members)-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Wed 9:30am-8:45pm (the Aug). Thru Oct. 9. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

AXIS Dancers @ Farley’s East, Oakland

Porchlight Storytelling @ SF Maritime Museum

Casual meet and greet with dancers in the innovative disability-inclusive company and visiting commissioned British choreographer Marc Brew, in advance of their October concert. 5pm-9pm. 33 Grand Ave. www. farelyscoffee.com www.axisdance.org

Shipwrecked: Stories From the Sea features Porchlight regular Anthony Bedard, Captain Frank Frescino, attorney M. Brett Gladstone, writer Jennifer Longo, sailor Lorraine Palmer and maritime worker Alice Watts. $15. 8pm. Lido Deck (3rd fl.) 900 Beach St. at Polk. www.porchlightsf.com

Andy Laties @ Booksmith

Charles Gatewood @ Robert Tat Gallery New exhibit of prints by the popular photographer. Tue-Sat 11am-5:30pm. Thru Nov. 26. 49 Geary Suite 410. 781-1122. www.roberttat.com

FACT/SF, Lenora Lee Dance @ CounterPulse Shared night of new experimental dance works by two ensembles. $15-$20. 8pm.

Thru Sept. 11. 1310 Mission st. at 9th. www.counterpulse.org

Joshua Walters @ The Marsh, Berkeley Madhouse Rhythm, a spoken word, hiphop theatre solo work about the performer’s struggles with mental illness. $15-$50.

Thursdays at 7:30pm. Thru Oct. 6. 2120 Allston Way. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom @ Commonwealth Club The former mayor of San Francisco discusses the state budget crisis and other issues. $7-$20. 6:30pm. 595 Market St. 2nd fl. www.commonwealthclub.org

Same-Sex Dancing @ Queer Ballroom Ongoing partner dance lessons and open dancing in a variety of styles- Argentine tango, Cha Cha, Rhumba and more; different each night. $5-$25 open dancing to $55 for private lessons. 151 Potrero Ave. at 15th. www.QueerBallroom.com

San Francisco Symphony @ City Hall Michael Tilson Thomas conducts and pianist Lang Lang performs Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra at a free outdoor concert; chocolate and ice cream sundaes to the first 100 guests at 11:30am.

Concert 12pm. Food trucks nearby. Part of the Symphony’s 100th anniversary celebrations. www.sfsymphony.org

SF Boylesque @ Truck The sexy men’s burlesque dance-song ensemble performs Brohemian Brethren, numbers inspired by childhood board games. 9pm. 1900 Folsom St. www.trucksf.com

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

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Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

Thu 8 COH Art Auction @ SOMArts Gallery Coalition On Homelessness’ annual art auction fundraiser, with more than a hundred prints, paintings and posters offered.; plus food and drink donated by California Culinary Academy. $25. 5:30pm-10pm. 934 Brannan St. www.cohartauction.tumblr.com www.somarts.org

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by Donna Sachet

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ichmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation’s Help is on the Way XVII brought the house down two Sundays ago with incredible entertainment at Herbst Theatre from beginning to end. The evening started with a VIP reception in the Green Room, where we caught up with Richard Sablatura, Gary Virginia, Jeff Doney, Xavier Caylor, Neil Giuliano, Simi Barjesteh, Steve Gallagher, Frank Stein & Paul May, Kaushik Roy, and many others, and an extensive silent auction in the lobby of the building. Highlights of the show were comedic songs from Mary Jo Carlett, Lisa Vroman, and Meg Mackay, dance from Robert Dekkers & Christian Squires and Ethan & Nikki White, and gorgeous singing from Thea Gill, David Burnham, Lea Salonga, and Sean McDermott. Local singer Jason Brock and trio B.O.O.B.S. demonstrated their fabulous and unique appeal, and personal favorite Carole Cook beautifully reminded us of the reason for the event.

Time stood still for a moment as Shirley Jones and Patrick Cassidy joined in a touching story and musical duet from The Music Man. The live auction which preceded the second act of the show raised thousands of dollars, primarily from a dinner for 10 prepared in your home by chef and Olympic gold medalist Brian Boitano and attended

by Hollywood expert Jan Wahl, both on hand to push up the bidding.

After the show, a dazed and delighted audience joined members of the cast in the Green Room for desserts and cocktails. Seen mingling and munching were Seth Shapiro, Larry Horowitz, Patrik Gallineaux, Pollo del Mar, Deb

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Singer David Burnham (right), backstage at Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation’s Help is on the Way XVII.

Mosk, Stu Smith, Adam Sandel, and a whole troop of folks from Twin Peaks Tavern.

The Bare Chest Calendar Dinner Date Auction Gala on Tuesday at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel was a smashing success, with each calendar model presented in a fashion show format, first in a tuxedo and then in sportswear provided

by Citizen/Body in the Castro. Of course when bidding reached a certain level, auctioneer Lenny Broberg acceded to public demands for the removal of shirts, and the unveiling of these highly publicized chests. Winning bids ranged from just under $1,000 to over $10,000, raising significant funds for the beneficiaries, AIDS Emergency Fund and Positive

Resource Center, represented by Executive Directors Mike Smith and Brett Andrews. Glimpsed among the rowdy crowd were the Reigning Emperor Frankie and Reigning Empress Saybeline, Mr. San Francisco Leather Lance Holman, Grand Duke Jason Husted, Lu Conrad & Jeff Stone, and Veronika Cauley.

Sunday’s Starlight Magic at the same hotel completed the Bare Chest Calendar fundraiser, as each model and their winning bidder were treated to a cocktail reception, dinner at Scala’s Bistro with Chef Jen Biesty, and a cabaret show in the Franciscan Room, where Sunday’s a Drag has been temporarily located during the remodeling of Harry Denton’s Starlight Room. The show featured Irene Soderberg, Dan O’Leary, Boylesque, and your humble See page 29 >>

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Thu., Sep. 1: Locker Room Thursdays at Kok Bar SF (1225 Folsom). Free clothes check. 9 p.m.-close.

Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Sun., Sep. 4: Beer Bust Fundraiser for Local Causes at Kok Bar. $8 all you can drink Bud Light or Rolling Rock. 5-9 p.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Thu., Sep. 1: Underwear Night at The Powerhouse (1347 Folsom). Wet undie contest drink specials. 10 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sun., Sep. 4: Castrobear presents Sunday Furry Sunday at 440 Castro. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.castrobear.com.

Fri., Sep. 2: Michael Brandon hosts Fetish Fridays at The Edge (18th & Collingwood). Jockstrap Booty Contest at 10:30 p.m. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Go to: www.edgesf.com.

Sun., Sep. 4: PoHo Sundays at The Powerhouse.

DJ Keith - Dollar Drafts all day. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Fri., Sep. 2: Truck Wash at Truck (1900 Folsom).

10 p.m.-close. Live shower boys, drink specials. Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Sun., Sep. 4: SF Citadel takes over WaterWorld (1950 Waterworld Parkway, Concord). Meet at main gate at 11 a.m. $20-$33 entry. Go to: www.sfcitadel. org.

Fri., Sep. 2: Open Play Party at the SF Citadel. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $25 plus membership. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Mon., Sep. 5: Trivia Night with host Casey Ley at Truck. Featuring prizes and ridiculous questions!

8-10 p.m. Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Fri., Sep. 2: Savior Soul at The Powerhouse. Anna Conda and Sister Mary Ralph, PN present a monthly community fundraiser. This month benefits SoMa Community Action Network. 6-10 p.m. Go to: www. powerhouse-sf.com.

Tue., Sep. 6: 12-Step Kink Recovery Group at the SF Citadel. 6:30-8 p.m. Open to all kink-identified people in recovery who want a safe space as being kink-identified and in recovery. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Fri., Sep. 2: New monthly Go-Go Night hosted by Frankie and Saybelline at Kok Bar. Special Bus Ho Stop at 10 p.m. $2 cover begins 11 p.m. 9:30 p.m.1:30 a.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Tue., Sep. 6: Busted at Truck. $5 beer bust 9-11 p.m. Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Sat., Sep. 3: All Beef Saturday Nights at The Lone Star (1354 Harrison). 100% SoMa Beef & Co. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Go to: www.facebook.com/lonestarsf.

Wed., Sep. 7: Naked Buddies at Blow Buddies (933 Harrison). This is a male-only club. \Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Play till late. Go to: www.blowbuddies.com.

Sat., Sep. 3: Boot Lickin’ at The Powerhouse. The hottest Saturday night in SoMa. 10-11 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Wed., Sep. 7: Wolf at The Watergarden (1010 Alameda, San Jose). For furry men and their fans. $10$30, lockers half-price. 4 p.m.-2 a.m. Go to: www. thewatergarden.com.

Sat., Sep. 3: Klub 86’d at Kok Bar SF. 4-9 p.m. Malibu Koktails, get a Klub 86’d Kard & 5th drink is free.

Mug shots for Facebook. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Wed., Sep. 7: Bear Bust Wednesdays at Kok Bar SF. $6 all you can drink Bud Light or Rolling Rock drafts. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Sat., Sep. 3: Case Scenarios – Dungeon Monitor Training and Orientation at the SF Citadel. 4:30-7:30 p.m. $5-$10 donation. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Wed., Sep. 7: Nipple Play at The Powerhouse. Specials for shirtless guys. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Go to: www. powerhouse-sf.com.

Sat. Sep. 3: Newbie Munch at the SF Citadel. For newbies and the curious. 7-8 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Wed., Sep. 7: Dominant Discussion Group at the SF Citadel. $5-$15 donation requested. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

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ere’s my new favorite movie that’s gonna stay a favorite for a long, long time.

The LucasEntertainment movie Eye Contact takes a gimmick and executes it damned effectively. The gimmick is the personal address of the performers, who look right at us, and talk to us with whispered remarks of seductive intimacy that treat each of us like a voyeur who has hired them to put on a private show. They open the door of what could be a sparsely furnished, well-worn crib on the outskirts of the old, seamy Times Square, and greet us. “C’mon on in,” says Adam Killian, “I want you to meet my friend” (the super-sexy, angelicfaced slut-bottom Trent Diesel). “He’s got some sexy parts I want to show you. Go on, Trent,” Killian urges with a conspiratorial, leering look. “Show off for my friend here.”

Sure, this sort of thing’s been done before, but not with the assured expertise shown here by directors Michael Lucas and Mr. Pam. Rarely if ever before have I so strongly felt the You Are There effect summoned up with such consistent, hornifying success as in Eye Contact.

Killian, who remains one of the hottest and most present performers in porn, has no trouble at all in fulfilling the movie’s mandate of taking us, the voyeur, into the sex. “Do you wanna see his big, hard cock?”

Killian conspires. From the happy grin on his face, it’s apparent he wants to show it to us as much as we want to see it. Well, you know how I love to see porn stars smile. It’s so – human, especially when the star has deepset, craggy smile lines and twinkling eyes like Adam. And if you like your cocksucker’s eyes locked on yours while he’s sucking, how about Adam’s cocksucker looking brazenly right out at you as he sucks Killian? Make your blood boil, well I should say. Whew.

The cast of Eye Contact don’t work the audience contact like a mania, but their strong tie to us doesn’t loosen through the movie’s five scenes, which are spread over three full hours. Like after Killian takes a swiping lick of Diesel’s corn-silked asshole, he turns to the camera and just beams. It’s a boner moment, for sure. Killian throws Diesel a might fine fuck, playful and then pile-driving, loaded with beautiful insertion, breathtakingly slow withdrawal, and pungent reentry. The animalistic and amorous pair end up sweaty and cum-covered, and for once that description isn’t just a collection of buzz words. The guys are sweaty and cum-covered.

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Adam Killian’s look locks us in as he licks Trent Diesel in Eye Contact.

Penn. In his first movie, the 19-yearold kid’s a startlingly fresh beaut, with sandy-colored crew cut and dewy white bubble butt. Somewhere in the future, the incipient Marine look of his face will blossom. But right now, it’s still peach-fuzzy and vulnerable.

And what a sunrise fresh n smooth asshole he’s got. “Baby boy ass” is what Crew calls it. It’s obvious how tight it is, and Crew’s ministrations poke up the yelps and moans of mighty pained pleasure. “Yeah, feed me,” Penn whispers just before sucking Crew’s cum into his kisser for well-earned OCS. Rather lasciviously, Crew asks us, “You like that shit, don’t you?” How’d he know?

Eye Contact doesn’t let up when it next brings us Ridge Michaels topping Jake Steel. I was defenseless before Michaels’ shiny blond beauty.

He’s been on the scene since 2008, appearing on the twink side in all 10 of his movies. He may have been a twink before, but he sure fucks like a man now. At one point when he looked out at me, Ridge’s communication was so taut that it actually diverted my attention from the high-suction action that’s being laid on his pearly, very blond and deliciously shaved cock by darkhaired Steel, who’s lean, hungry, and

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columnist. In addition to the auction participants, the audience included Emperors Steven Rascher and Jerry Coletti, Empress Marlena, Bradley Roberts, Dan Joraanstad & Bob Hermann, and visiting royalty from Sacramento. A reception followed with sparkling wine from Barefoot Cellars and desserts from dessert chef Tim Nugent. Organizers Thom Grant and Mark Hollenstein are to be congratulated on another tremendously successful event, elevating the Bare Chest Calendar to new heights of fundraising and elegant entertainment.

Jewelle Gomez’s original play Waiting for Giovanni opened on Saturday night at New Conservatory Theatre to a packed crowd and great reception. Expect compelling

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Peaches Christ camps it up at the Showgirls drag extravaganza at the Castro Theatre.

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Jason Crew with debuting babe bauble Brady Penn in Eye Contact.

low-down.

From lads we go to dads, with furry-chested, hairy-cracked Alessio Romero and Dirk Caber flipping each other. They’re followed for the finale by the superb pair of extra meaty Brenden Cage (oh, those pecs! oh, that mushroom-headed cock!) flipping with husky, happy Parker London.

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dialogue, intriguing historic perspectives, and several genuine laughs during this powerful drama about James Baldwin and the world of literature and publishing he inhabited. We were coincidentally seated next to Armistead Maupin & Chris Turner, and enjoyed catching up with this San Francisco icon and his charming husband. Also in the crowd were Julian Marshburn, Queen Cougar, Diane Sabin, and many other fans and friends.

Peaches Christ’s Showgirls drag extravaganza at the Castro Theatre the same night packed the building with drag fans, and the stage with drag performers. These are the nights when one wishes one could split into multiple bodies to attend all the fabulous events in town. But sometimes a picture truly is worth 1,000 words, as evidenced by Steven Underhill’s photography.▼

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Vera Farmiga goes higher

by David Lamble

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oing to Ukrainian Catholic school holy days and holidays, every Sunday, Ukrainian Catholic service is beautifully ornate, pomp and circumstance, lots of marble, icons, stations of the cross. In Ukrainian Catholicism, there’s a lot of ritual. You do stations of the cross and you’re actually bent down on your knees, and you kiss the marble floor, a lot of flair!”

Raised the second of seven children

by Ukrainian immigrants in Clifton, New Jersey, actress Vera Farmiga didn’t speak English until she was six. For years she prayed to be myopic so she would get to wear glasses. At one point she seriously considered becoming an eye doctor, until acting emerged a kind of higher calling.

Farmiga notched a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for matching tart, sassy one-liners with George Clooney and Anna Kendrick in Jason Reitman’s frequent-flier satire Up in the Air. Known for combining a classic Garbo-like beauty with a knack for sophisticated comedy, Farmiga has also won kudos for her duplicitous shrink in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, and her drug-addicted, trapped wife in Debra Granik’s Down to the Bone. In the new religiously-situated drama Higher Ground, Farmiga draws on all her talents and directs, adapting Carolyn S. Briggs’ memoir This Dark World, about a hippie couple’s decision to become Jesus freaks in the course of a hazardous journey from a stab at rock stardom to the midlife blues of a stagnant marriage. It’s a tribute to Farmiga and her talented ensemble that religion-allergic queer boys like me can do a full-submersion Baptism into this Sundance-acclaimed piece, with neither condescension nor the unsettling feeling of sleeping with the enemy.

In my youth, you could pick your poison with religiously themed movies: either the bathos of the widescreen “Godorama” Hollywood epics, or the pious soap opera of the “serious” dramas, such as Elmer Gantry (1960). Burt Lancaster manfully chewed the scenery in an adaptation that mostly mined the tabloid sizzle from Sinclair Lewis’ preacher-debunking novel. In recent times, while Hollywood has remained

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holding the key to another world.

Think Fringe meets The Gates as we go through the portal. The special effects are terrific, the writing and acting are superb. Starring Lana Parrilla (Miami Medical), Jennifer Morrison (House), Ginnifer Goodwin (Big Love) and a host of hunky Prince Charmings, literally. This may sound like a bedtime show for the kiddies, but it is totally for adults. (Sundays, 8 p.m.)

The CW loves a sexy teenager, and likes them best when they are supernatural. The Secret Circle, from the creators of The Vampire Diaries, is the supernatural teen drama to watch.

Mesmerizing. Could end up with a queer character – or, like TVD, not.

(Thursdays, 9 p.m.)

Fox debuts Terra Nova as a Lost meets Jurassic Park meets Jericho scifi show produced by Steven Spielberg and a gazillion-dollar budget, recession be damned. The premise is that people in the year 2149 travel back in time 85 million years to help restart civilization. The dinosaurs are freaking amazing, but be advised: this looks like more of a family show than the complex Lost. (Mondays, 8 p.m.)

One new show that has already begun airing is BBC America’s The Hour. This is another time-warp show, set in 1956, about broadcast

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Vera Farmiga in Higher Ground: hardscrabble fundamentalism.

skittish about scaring the horses with honest religious dramas, some prickly independents have shown us what it feels like to have your hair and pants on fire as a person of faith who has all he can do to fend off heresy, sin and doubt. In The Apostle (1997), Robert Duval showed us a sincere if criminally mad preacher who goes off the deep end, defending his marriage while reigniting his faith. In Paul Thomas Anderson’s deft updating of muckraker Sinclair Upton’s novel Oil, There Will Be Blood, Paul Dano mesmerizes as a self-taught boy evangelist who slip-slides between snake-charmer and flawed defender of his flock.

Higher Ground’s singular achievement is to allow us to see the world of working-class, hardscrabble fundamentalism through a revelatory female perspective. Farmiga’s spirited tour de force as Corinne Walker is astutely matched with Dagmara Dominczyk’s scene-stealing turn as Corrine’s salt-of-the-earth best friend. The pair save each other from the death of passion in the marriage bed while scandalizing the members of their flock who see the God business as man’s work. A third-act tragedy sidelining her friend leaves Corrine with an agonizing yet energizing choice. By film’s end, she has one foot in and one foot out the door to her insular little church.

On the record In 35 minutes, Vera Farmiga and I hit the highlights of a life that has taken her from a conversion from

journalism, espionage and the Cold War. It’s intense and has fantastic story, sets and acting. Among the cast is Oona Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter. (Wednesdays, 9 p.m.)

There are a myriad of sitcoms for the new season as there always are. and most of them are duds. But two worth watching are Whitney on NBC (Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.) and The New Girl on Fox (Tuesdays, 9 p.m.). Both shows feature super-funny female leads with fabulous comic timing in comedian Whitney Cummings and Zoey Deschanel. Whitney is edgy, Zoey’s Jess is sweet.

Finally, because there is so little true queer on the tube, we wanted to note how much we enjoyed last week’s America’s Got Talent. Flaming African-American queer teen singer Daniel Joseph Baker didn’t make the top 10, but he was in the semi-finals, and he was fabulous. He told the judges this was the first time he had felt like himself and felt accepted. If Ryan Murphy were paying attention, he would snap this boy up for Glee.

Baker is perfect for the show.

Performing at the Aug. 24 results show was one of last year’s top five, Prince Poppycock, the gay opera singer and performance artist who was one of the most flamboyant performers to ever hit a stage anywhere. Prince Poppycock, who makes all his own extravagant costumes and choreographs his songs, provided yet

Ukrainian Catholicism to Protestant fundamentalism late in her teens, to the New York stage and a film career that has allowed her to work with some class acts.

On the mysteries of George Clooney’s appeal: “He’s a real treat.

He’s just really good energy to be around, his sense of humor’s adorable, the most attractive thing about him. That’s a real tool he uses: it’s never about George, he wants to know what makes you tick, which is rare for a movie star.”

On her Higher Ground best female friend, Annika (Dagmara Dominczyk): “Annika is the woman that my character, Corrine, yearns to be. Corrine wants to be able to be as carefree and passionate in her relationships. Annika doesn’t sacrifice her innate personality: this bawdy, buxom, sexual, sensual, enlightened self.”

On Martin Scorsese’s screen-acting cameos: “I’d like to see Marty back on the screen. In any of the earlier Scorsese films [like his murderous passenger in Taxi Driver], I would rather see Marty.”

On Down to the Bone: “There’s nobody to direct that but Debra Granik. I asked Debra to direct this: she’s my mentor, she’s my everything, she’s my favorite director I’ve ever worked with. I’ve done my most inspired work with Debra, that’s the reason Higher Ground came about.

In any of these other films we’ve been talking about, I feel I’ve not been able to explore a female psyche the way I do in these two films.”▼

another tour de force performance, which ended with him spreading his red feathered wings and exclaiming, “Look at me, I’m flaaaming!” Seeing Baker and Poppycock so flaming and fierce was extraordinary. It’s why you really have to stay tuned. ▼

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dvocating for contemporary music has always been a tough if not a thankless job, and it can’t have gotten easier in times where the drop-off in young audiences in the “classical” music world is a fact bolstered by grim statistics, and offset only by the popularity of venues such as New York’s Le Poisson Rouge and anywhere Gustavo Dudamel turns up. The almighty Maurizio Pollini could push the edges of his active repertoire with compositions by the likes of Pierre Boulez and Luigi Nono because they were compatriots, colleagues, and friends, and everyone stood to gain.

Earthlings do it for love, and because it matters.

Gay, New York-based pianist Bruce Levingston, whose own standard repertoire is right out of the Horowitz playbook, has over the last decade become one of the most tireless and successful champions of important, still underappreciated composers, not just by playing their works in his starry appearances, but also by calling them into being through his own nonprofit Premiere Commission, Inc., which has resulted in the commissioning and performances of more than 40 new works that, thanks to him, have a fighting chance of making it literally into the hands of others.

His latest CD, Heart Shadow (Sono Luminus), finds him even

more acute in the new works than in the piano work that sits dead center in his life at the keyboard, Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana. I wouldn’t venture to say that he loves Charles Wuorinen’s “Heart Shadow” and Lisa Bielawa’s “Elegy-Portrait” more, but he lavishes on them the devotion a parent gives a child, with predictably uplifting results.

The Wuorinen shares its title with an aria in his opera Haroun and the Sea Stories, which prompted Levingston to ask for a piano work, a la Liszt, that encapsulated and expanded on its central musical ideas. The work that resulted, fundamentally dark in its address of what Levingston calls “a reminder of what is at stake in terms of freedom in the world today,” has its deepest roots in the inexhaustible depths of the Second Viennese School, yet boasts an individual voice wily enough to slip in the brassy Goldfinger song theme from the famous James Bond movie.

Levingston plays it with fierce concentration and alertness to the lights that flicker in its every corner.

San Francisco-born Bielawa’s “Elegy-Portrait” is more personal, more personable music, also “derivative” in the sense that it reworks ideas from a song, never completed, that was to have been part of a cycle she composed for Levingston and her friend, mezzosoprano Alexandra Montano, to perform (which they did at

Studios tried to mold Rita Moreno into a Latin sexpot image during her early years in Hollywood.

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Moreno was just five. “He would ask me a question, and often that would prompt another question, and that one would prompt yet another one,” she said. “He thinks of everything, and he doesn’t forget a thing you said. The only thing that drove him buggers was that I do not remember dates.”

Oh, maybe there were a few other things that drove him buggers. There was a shocking story from her days as a Hollywood starlet that included an epithet directed at her so vile that Moreno refused to say it, despite Taccone’s pleas to say the words.

“I was this sweet-looking girl at a cocktail party in a cute dress borrowed from the costume department, but I just couldn’t say the cuss words even though Tony said it will just be so shocking to the audience. So I was going to tell the story but without exact quotes.”

Then one day, Moreno announced she was ready to say the word. “Tony would scream and yell and say, ‘You fought me so long on that, now you want to do it?’ I do have a potty mouth, but there is something about being on stage that makes me hold my head up high.”

The change of heart came from a terribly sad place. Lenny Gordon, Moreno’s husband of 45 years, died last summer well into the autobiographical show’s development. But it also gave her a sense of liberation in what she could say out loud to hundreds of strangers every night. “When I said I went into this very reluctantly, certainly one of the reasons was because Lenny was a very private person, and I thought there were things I would have to do or say that would make him anxious.

There are tons of things that people don’t know about me.”

Perhaps her tumultuous affair with Marlon Brando is one of them, and the first-act curtain comes down

Lincoln Center in 2006, before the singer died). The composer was completing the piano work at the time Levingston’s mother was dying of cancer, and the piece, in Bielawa’s words, “ended up being a portrait of Alexandra’s unique musical spirit,” and, with Levingston’s contribution, a cathartic celebration of the lives of the two departed women. Levingston’s acute, deeply felt performance stanches it of sentimentality.

The Kreisleriana, recorded in a different venue in 2005, suffers not from comparisons to giants of the keyboard who have played the seminal work, but from the remote, dampened recorded sound that robs it of a certain essential sparkle. Even so, the pianist’s deep love of the work communicates.

Another piano recording flying under the radar in our PRdominated age is Tomas Dratva’s of Liszt’s First, Swiss “year” of the great Annees de Pelerinage (Oehms Classics), of all the recordings of the Liszt anniversary so far, the one that has given me the greatest and most lasting pleasure. It’s no accident that this young Swiss pianist – also a trenchant advocate of contemporary music, particularly by his countrymen – has chosen the Swiss chapters of Liszt’s great piano journey, or that he has chosen to play them on the 1876 Steinway at Haus Wahnfried in Bayreuth, a superb instrument the American company

gave Wagner as a gift honoring the first-ever Bayreuth Festival Ring, and one on which Liszt himself, as well as Wagner and his talented pianist wife Cosima (not coincidentally Liszt’s daughter), played.

Dratva has taken as much care with the music itself – searching out Liszt’s autographs of these much-revised scores to arrive at performing editions that conform to the composer’s intentions more than the off-the-shelf editions do – as technicians have with the piano, an instrument of surpassing beauty whose sound is not one of those old-piano noises you have to get

used to (though it’s light years away from the bright modern Steinway sonority).

The CD is a refutation of every cliché about the empty bombast of Liszt’s writing; in his captivating notes, Dratva cites the two pages (!) of two-handed octave cascades in the most difficult passage of “Orage” that Liszt deleted. There is, if less bombast, no diminution of grandeur in Dratva’s playing of this mighty music, and more than any other Liszt playing I’ve heard this year, it captures the clarity of voices for which Liszt was as famous as he was for his powerhouse virtuosity.▼

Rita Moreno took home an Oscar for her role as Anita in West Side Story, the highlight of an often unhappy Hollywood career.

on her attempted suicide when that affair goes sour. “This is not a dishy show in any respect, but Marlon Brando is covered because he played an extremely important part in my life. It’s a good way to end the first act, because up to then it has been pretty jolly.”

Throughout the show there are musical numbers both associated with her career and interpolated because of a personal importance.

She is abetted by two male dancers from Los Angeles recruited by choreographer Lee Martino. (David Galligan is the director.) “I said I did not want to dance with boys. I’m really too old to have boys around me.

I wanted them to be men.”

Because of the long recovery from knee replacement surgery, the show was delayed from its scheduled premiere as the finale to the previous Berkeley Rep season to the premiere of the current one. “I’m OK, but I’m not great,” Moreno said of her recovery. “I call what I’m doing as

Sorta Kinda Dancing, or SKD. I’m going to be dancing like a 79-yearold with a bad knee, and I’m sure the audience will be empathetic. If not, screw em if they can’t take a joke.”

Will she be performing “America” from West Side Story, which helped her win an Academy Award in 1962?

“That I’m not going to tell you,” she said. “I want there to be surprises for the audience.”

But she was happy to reveal one of her favorite moments in the show, when she sings along with the Pied Pipers’ recording of “Dream” while reenacting a moment from her childhood when she would bring a radio out onto the fire escape in her tenement apartment. “It’s one of the most lovely numbers in the show,” she said. “We’re going to have a gorgeous star drop, which cost a fortune that we begged and pleaded to get.”

The second act has a different tone from the first, though Moreno was hard-placed to describe it. “It’s dense with material and anecdotes, and how

I worked on my acting skills after I left Hollywood.” And, of course, the death of her husband, a former cardiologist who became her manager, became an unplanned component.

“It’s very touching, but it’s not morose,” she said. “Every time I go through that part, people who are watching always have tears in their eyes. When I do talk about him in the play, boy, it’s hard not to cry. But I don’t want the audience to feel they’re being worked.”

Moreno hopes to play major regional theaters while continuing to hone the show. “My aim is for New York,” she said. “I’m not killing myself like this for two months at Berkeley Rep.”▼ Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup will run Sept. 2-Oct. 30 at Berkeley Rep. Tickets are $14.50-$78. There is a night/OUT performance and post-show party for LGBT audiences on Sept. 9.

More info at (510) 647-2949 or www.berkeleyrep.org.

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by Jim Piechota Derek Jarman: A Biography by Tony Peake; Univ. of Minnesota Press, $24.95

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former close friend and current literary agent for his estate, novelist Tony Peake considers Derek Jarman a multi-faceted diamond in the rough, and his new biography of the popular artist reads like a literary rosette fashioned in his honor. It’s part of the University of Minnesota Press’ reissue of three Jarman books – Peake’s biography, a memoir-diary (Smiling in Slow Motion), and a script collection (Jubilee) – about the life and work of the controversial, queer British filmmaker.

In Peake’s exhaustively researched work, he presents Jarman as a filmmaker first, meticulously detailing the creation of such ultramodern cinema as Sebastiane, Caravaggio, and Jubilee, to name

just a few of his works of art, many that caused controversy for their dual portrayal of homosexuality and violence. But rather than simply be satisfied with a dissemination of his subject’s personal information, Peake lets Jarman tell his own story (often in his own words) by way of a profuse paper trail of letters, journal entries, and interviews.

This verbatim literary style affords readers an even more intimate look at Jarman’s other, perhaps more personal qualities, such as that of a supremely active, sexual being, a staunch gay activist, and a general troublemaker.

The book details Jarman’s English upbringing, petted by his mother and scorned by his father, an aristocratic Air Force captain. With his troubled youth but a memory by the time the 1960s bustled in, Jarman discovered his true calling as an artist, a colorful vocation that found him collaborating with the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe

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“Nature of Stars,” unique collage by Charles Gatewood from a William S. Burroughs photograph.

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shot at a press conference in Sweden, he made his reputation as the selfproclaimed family photographer of America’s erotic underground, pictures captured with a kid-in-acandy-store naiveté. The exhibition features photographs of Wall Street cityscapes, celebrity rock musicians and writers with an emphasis on the Beats, artistic nudes, recent collages and the radical sex community.

While on assignment, Gatewood met William S. Burroughs, who’s the subject of his latest limited-edition artist book, Burroughs 23, available here. Sept. 8-Nov. 26. www.roberttat. com Altman Siegel Gallery Fran Herndon is a miniature retrospective of the artist’s early work from the 1950s and 60s, a formative period when Herndon, who’s of Native American heritage, got her first taste of San Francisco bohemia, and experimented in a variety of media. In her 1962 sports collages, she applied watercolor and gouache to images culled from Life magazine and Sports Illustrated, making references to cultural touchstones from the Cold War to the death of Marilyn Monroe. Also here are lithographs created alongside gay San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer, including those for his 1960 work, The Heads of the Town Up to the Aether, on themes of alienation, ruin, apocalypse and mercy. Sept.

8-Oct. 29. www.altmansiegel Toomey Tourrell Fine Art Jim Gleason: Silver Deposit Paintings.

Gleason, an L.A. artist known for forging seductive iridescent surfaces, reprises his specialty with a twist in a

new collection where he uses acrylic and a luminous silver coating, which makes his ethereal paintings dance in the light. It’s as if a chemical reaction is happening right before your eyes. Through Sept. 30. www. toomey-tourell.com UCB Graduate School of Journalism Civil Rights Under Three Hats: The Photography of Matt Herron. Herron, a photojournalist based in Mississippi in the early 60s, covered the Civil Rights struggle for Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, and the Saturday Evening Post, dangerous work if you could get it, and in 1964, founded and directed the Southern Documentary Project, a team of six photographers that chronicled social change in the South. Through Dec. 1. www.journalism.berkeley.edu Stephen Wirtz Gallery Idyll.

Harking back to pastoral landscapes and the romantic ideal with more than a hint of irony, these color pictures taken by 10 contemporary photographers sometimes reveal an asp in the Garden of Eden. Though lush and seductive at first glance, upon closer investigation these tableaux of paradise, with their alluringly peaceful veneers and human intrusion dwarfed by nature, owe a debt to the enchanted forests of Grimm’s fairy tales, and the dangers and darkness that lurk therein. Work

by Todd Hido, Larry Sultan, Justine Kurland, Melanie Pullen, Catherine Wagner and others. Through Sept.

30. www.wirtzgallery.com George Krevsky Gallery Gordon Cook: Form & Figure.

With a minimalist approach, Cook expressed playfulness and simplicity in his delicate, diminutive (8”-10” high) maquettes, finely wrought wood constructions he intended

(in and out of bed) and David Hockney. The frank detailing of his sex life is told through diary entries that find Jarman in awe of the leveling power of receptive anal sex: “Now I know that until I’d begun to enjoy it I had not reached balanced manhood,” and his message for the straight population who have yet to indulge: “When I meet heterosexual men, I know they have experienced only half of love.”

His activation in the homosexual movement began when he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1987 and began angrily protesting anti-gay policies in the U.K. Upon his becoming terminally ill, the media, who had already been tipped off to his HIV+ status by Jarman himself, swooped in to observe “the depredations

of illness.” He became one of the first “public AIDS figures” whose visibility made an enormous impact on the public’s perception of the disease and the ways in which it affects both homosexuals and the

w world at large.

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T The funeral, Peake recalls, w was mired in controversy ssince, per his dying wishes, JJarman demanded his casket b be left open, while others b believed his disease could in infect those in close proximity tto the body. Once that hurdle w was overcome, sentimental it items were placed inside the ccoffin such as a cap marked ““Controversialist,” his favorite p pen, a jingling toy frog that ca came in handy when his ca caretaker needed to find him w wandering about the house, and of course, a bottle of poppers.

Peake’s definitive biography ensures that Derek Jarman’s name and legacy will perpetuate in art and in memory.▼

to translate to paintings or cast in bronze. There’s whimsy, exuberance and genuine sweetness in the 25 sculptures completed shortly before Cook’s death, in 1985, like “Singer,” a figure with arms outstretched; the nattily attired red-head “Man in Tuxedo,” or “Looking into the Sun,” shading its eyes from unseen glare.

A few paintings and drawings are also on view. Sept. 15-Oct. 29. www. georgekrevskygallery.com San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Shift. Are we living in a post-racial society yet? In this exhibition, three new solo projects

by Bay Area artists – two of mixed race, one white – confront race in America, and examine legacies of prejudice and denial. Elizabeth

Axtman’s video ruminates on attitudes towards interracial marriage; painter David Huffman presents a multi-media piece made of 650 basketballs; and Travis Somerville’s installation highlights significant moments of protest from San Francisco history. Sept. 16-Dec. 10. www.sfartscommission.org/ gallery Eli Ridgway Better a Live Ass than a Dead Lion is a group show of emerging local artists whose catchy title is derived from Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton’s salty observation that life is an expedition, and risking failure comes with the territory.

The photography, video, film and installation work includes fictional

histories, fabricated landscapes, reallife journeys and, as far as we know, no dead jungle beasts. Oct. 8-Nov. 5. www.eliridgway.com Rena Bransten Gallery In John Bankston: New Paintings and Sculpture, the gay, San Franciscobased artist muses on issues of identity, sexual and racial, in fantasies of African-American cowboys, pirates and imaginary creatures that populate a world with a gay sensibility. He utilizes the visual vocabulary of childhood coloring books and the role-playing – “tinker, tailor, solider, spy” – kids love, though his thematic content is more complex and adult than the medium suggests. Dec. 15-Jan. 28, 2012. www.renabankstengallery.com ▼

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