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Vol. 43 • No. 37 • September 12–18, 2013

Pride CEO departs amid board vote

ith the entrance Thursday of Board President David Chiu into the 2014 race for the 17th Assembly District seat, San Francisco voters in the city’s eastside district will be confronted with choosing between two supervisors named David with law degrees from Harvard to send to Sacramento as their representative. In August gay Supervisor David Campos, 42, became the first person to officially enter the David Chiu race. The Bernal Heights resident has the backing of the incumbent, gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), and history on his side. The last three holders of the seat have all been out elected officials, and many consider it to be the local LGBT community’s state legislative seat. Yet Chiu has a deep well of support within the city’s LGBT community and long has fought for LGBT rights. In 1996 he worked for then-Senator Paul Simon (D-Illinois) on Capitol Hill and was heavily involved in his boss’s unsuccessful efforts to block the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act. “I will never forget sitting in the Senate chamber on the dark day that 85 U.S. senators voted in favor of ugly bigotry, and that unsuccessful fight reaffirmed my personal commitment to LGBT equality,” Chiu wrote in an open letter to the LGBT community during his failed bid for mayor two years ago. In an interview Tuesday with the Bay Area Reporter about his decision to seek the Assembly seat, Chiu said the DOMA fight in Congress led to his moving to town nearly two decades ago. “That DOMA vote was truly ... it was an incredibly dark day in the U.S. Senate and a part of why I needed to move to a place like San Francisco, which to me and so many others has always been a beacon of tolerance to the rest of the world,” said Chiu, 43, who was first elected to the board in 2008 representing the city’s northern neighborhoods such as North Beach and Chinatown. In June the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional the section of DOMA that forbade federal agencies from recognizing statesanctioned same-sex marriages. The court also ruled on a legal technicality in a different case that led California to once again marry samesex couples; last weekend Chiu joined other officials in celebrating the Berkeley couple who were plaintiffs in the case at a party in the Castro hosted by gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco). “The struggles the LGBT community has are struggles that have been a part of the broader fight against discrimination and bigotry that has See page 13 >>

San Francisco Pride Members for Democracy, Accountability and Transparency held a candidates forum for the San Francisco Pride Committee’s board of directors Monday, September 9. Six of 14 candidates attended: from left, Kevin Bard, Joey Cain, John Caldera, moderator Michelle Sinhbandith (a.k.a. Michelle Meow), Jose Cital, Jesse Oliver Sanford, and Gary Virginia. Rick Gerharter

by James Patterson

ust days after the abrupt resignation of San Francisco Pride CEO Earl Plante, several candidates hoping to win seats on the board that oversees the annual parade and festival met in the Castro to discuss their visions for the organization.

Nearly 50 people attended the Monday, September 9 candidate forum at Metropolitan Community Church-San Francisco. The six candidates who participated pledged change and better governance for the beleaguered San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee board, which has come under sharp criticism over the way it rescinded a grand marshal honor

for convicted WikiLeaks leaker Army private Chelsea Manning. Pride members who are eligible to vote will elect board members at the committee’s annual general meeting Sunday, September 15. As reported on the Bay Area Reporter’s blog Friday, September 6, Plante was forced out by the board last week. A letter from the directors said that the board and Plante “reached a mutual agreement” for Plante to resign. His resignation was effective immediately. Pride board President Lisa Williams has taken a leave from the board and is serving as interim CEO. Davace Chin is now board chair. Plante’s departure came after news broke last week that he had sent a threatening email to a Castro man seeking a position on the board. In his own 900-word September 6 letter to the “SF Pride Community,” which the B.A.R. received Sunday, September 8, Plante said his decision to resign was based largely on the “racist politics of personal destruction” and “unrelenting public vilification” “over the past four months” due to “the erroneous nomination and selection of Chelsea (Bradley) Manning as a Pride parade grand marshal.” While he acknowledged in the email the Manning matter “could have been handled better,” he did not take responsibility for the continuing controversy. See page 12 >>

Owner nixes gay plan for SOMA club by Matthew S. Bajko

mostly gay group of individuals seeking to operate a vacant nightlife space in San Francisco’s South of Market district had their proposal rejected and are now seeking a new venue. Led by drag queen Heklina, the creative force behind the Trannyshack parties and drag takeoffs of television shows like Sex and the City and The Golden Girls, and consultant Geoff Benjamin, a gay married father of two, the quartet of business partners had put in a bid for the former Paradise Lounge club space at the corner of 11th and Folsom streets. Once known as the Miracle Mile for its plethora of leather bars, the vicinity is now home to just five gay bars. The Paradise space at 1501 Folsom Street had been the site of the first leather bar to open on Folsom, called Febe’s, that operated from 1966 to 1986. “The building has real resonance to our community,” said Benjamin. “If you look at the number of bars that were historically in SOMA, it was the city’s second gay neighborhood. If you look at the number of gay bars there today, it is a fraction of what it was.” Their vision for the space included a 125seat cabaret theater for weeknights, headliner acts Fridays, and the revival of Trannyshack as a weekly party on Saturday nights. Benjamin described the vibe as “Brooklyn

A group of mostly gay nightlife promoters were on the losing end of a bid for the lease to run a club at the former Paradise Lounge at 11th and Folsom streets.

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meets Berlin in an edgy way, fabulous, fierce, over-the-top glitter with a little rock-and-roll grunge or grit, sort of industrial edge.” But the Friday prior to Labor Day the group was informed that the building’s owner, San Mateo resident John A. Andreini, had decided to go with a different proposal, believed to be a bid from a group of straight club promoters. “I was able to speak to ownership and after reviewing both offers, they have decided to move forward with the other group. The decision was based on more than just the economics of the deal,” wrote Jaclyn Brander, a broker with McLellan Commercial Real Estate, in an email to Benjamin that the Bay Area Reporter obtained from a third party with knowledge of

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the lease talks. “I appreciate your patience in all of this and wish I had better news.” Andreini did not respond to the B.A.R.’s requests for an interview this week. Reached Tuesday, Brander declined to comment further on the reasoning behind Andreini’s decision other than to say an owner can choose to accept or reject an offer “based on a number of things.” Nor could she divulge the identity of the other group, she said, as lease negotiations are ongoing for the 6,500 square foot club space, which includes a ground floor and second floor mezzanine space. According to the listing for the building, the monthly lease would be $8,435. See page 12 >>

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bout 500 mourners headed to Woodlawn Cemetery in Colma September 6 to pay their final respects to Jose Julio Sarria, known as Her Royal Majesty, Empress of San Francisco, Jose I, The Widow Norton. Mr. Sarria, 90, died August 19. He was an early drag performer at the legendary Black Cat bar in North Beach and founded the Imperial Court charitable group. He was also the first openly gay person to run for elective office in the

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country. Above, San Francisco’s reigning monarchs, Empress Patty McGroin, left, and Emperor Drew Cutler, along with members of the San Francisco Imperial family, attended the internment ceremonies where Mr. Sarria’s casket was draped with a rainbow flag during a portion of the service. For more on the Imperial State Funeral, see the online Political Notes column (http://tinyurl. com/o25wrl9) and the On the Town column on page 26.

Condoms in porn bill progresses by Seth Hemmelgarn

hree porn actors have tested positive for HIV in recent weeks as a bill that would mandate condom use in the industry heads toward the governor, keeping alive debate over whether condoms should be mandatory. As numerous media outlets have reported, two of the performers have worked with San Francisco’s Kink. com. The actress known as Cameron Bay performed at Kink July 31, after testing negative July 27. After another screening August 20, she revealed that she had tested positive. In a message on Twitter posted September 3, the actor known as Rod Daily, who’s been in a relationship with Bay, said, “Drumroll please!! I’m 32 years old and I’m HIV positive. Acute HIV, which means I recently was infected.” Friday, September 6, it was announced that another performer had tested positive for HIV. That person apparently hasn’t publicly come forward. On September 12, state lawmakers are expected to vote on Assembly Bill 640, which would require condom use for commercially filmed sexual acts. Assemblyman Isadore Hall III (D-Los Angeles) originally made the proposal via AB 332, but eventually amended his AB 640 to include the language. The full Senate is expected to vote on the latter bill and then send it to the Assembly for a vote by the end of Thursday. It would then go to Governor Jerry

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Brown. If the governor signs the bill, it would take effect immediately. Peter Acworth, Kink.com’s founder, is critical of Hall’s proposal. Referring to the industry in general, Acworth said, “There hasn’t been an on-set transmission of HIV since 2004, so it seems to me the testing approach works.” Kink already mandates condoms for its gay porn. Acworth said performers “on the straight side of the industry” have to get tested, with negative results, every 28 days. He said Daily appeared only in gay and transsexual porn when working with Kink and used condoms in his scenes. “How would mandatory condoms on the straight side have affected either case? It wasn’t transmitted on set,” said Acworth. He said that among other concerns, “My fear about making condoms mandatory

on the straight side would be it might force the productions underground.” The San Francisco Chronicle quoted Acworth as saying, “The strong indication is that Rod contracted it and transmitted it” to Bay. In his interview with the Bay Area Reporter, Acworth said, “I shouldn’t speculate as to how the two of them became infected. I just don’t know.” However, Acworth said, “Everybody [Bay] performed with has since tested negative several times. ... She didn’t get it on set,” and “there hasn’t been any on-set transmission from either of them.” Terry Schanz, Hall’s chief of staff, was dismissive of Acworth’s stance. “It doesn’t matter” whether the transmission occurred on the set, said Schanz. “The industry’s own protocols don’t work,” he said, noting that despite Bay adhering to the testing rules, she tested positive. “These individuals, their job is to potentially expose themselves to any number of infections on a daily basis, depending on the number of sexual partners they work with,” said Schanz. He added that with HIV, among other concerns, “it can take up to three months for HIV antibodies to show up in a test. “The only way you’ll ever be able to prevent the spread of HIV or other STDs is by using a condom and testing,” added Schanz. On August 26, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has supported Hall’s condoms proposal, filed a See page 13 >>

Quinn bid falls short in NYC by Lisa Keen

esbian City Council speaker and mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn fell far short Tuesday of her goal to win at least a runoff spot in the New York City mayoral race’s Democratic primary. Despite having the endorsement of the New York Times, New York Daily News, and Gay City News Quinn came in third out of nine Democratic primary candidates and, with only 15 percent of the vote, was not able to force frontrunner Bill de Blasio into a runoff. De Blasio ended the night with 40.2 percent of the Democratic primary vote, just over the 40 percent needed to avoid a runoff. But there were still a significant number of ballots to be counted, so it is not yet sure that he has secured the Democratic nomination.

If de Blasio fails to finish with 40 percent of the vote, he will be thrown into a runoff October 1 against former comptroller Bill Thompson Jr., who took second with 26 percent of the vote. Quinn’s campaign was an important one to the LGBT community. If successful, she would have become both the first lesbian and female mayor of the nation’s largest city. But exit poll results reported by the Times indicated Quinn, who serves as speaker of New York’s 50-member city council, came in second even in the heavily gay sections of the city, such as the West Village, Chelsea, and lesbian favored Park Slope. Overall, throughout the city, the Times’ exit polls showed that 45 percent of voters who identified as “gay, lesbian, or bisexual” supported de

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Blasio, 39 percent supported Quinn, 9 percent supported Thompson, and 7 percent supported other candidates. (LGB people comprised 9 See page 8 >>

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Moving SF Pride forward

or the third time in four years, the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee and its top leader have parted ways. In the first case, former executive director Amy Andre couldn’t manage the budget and left the organization in the fall of 2010 with some $225,000 of accumulated debt and unanswered questions about her leadership abilities or lack thereof. Then the board did not renew Brendan Behan’s contract. Last week, CEO Earl Plante was forced out by the board just days after news surfaced that he sent a threatening email to one of the candidates for Pride’s board of directors. After Plante’s many missteps, sending an intimidating email from his work account to a board candidate was apparently too much even for this board to tolerate. As we noted in this space in June, while Plante skillfully brought in sponsorship dollars and retired the remaining debt, he proved hopelessly lacking in the human aspects of running one of the city’s most important LGBT organizations. With Plante’s abrupt resignation, board President Lisa Williams took a leave of absence from that body to become the interim CEO. We’re not certain that Williams is the best person to lead SF Pride either. It was Williams who made the initial decision rescinding Chelsea Manning’s grand marshal honor because Plante was away on bereavement leave. Aside from saying in the initial statement that selecting Manning was a “mistake,” Williams has said next to nothing about the board’s deliberations on the topic. From what we’ve reported at recent board meetings, her administrative style seems similar to that of Plante’s: little interaction with the public and a refusal to admit that the Pride board should have treated Manning supporters with a modicum of respect. That simple courtesy would have made the situation much less combative. Five months later, Manning supporters are still seething and that’s because no one on the board has provided any information on their decision making process. The bigger question is where does the Pride Committee go from here? First, there must be significant changes made to the board, not only in its makeup but also the way it is structured and the way it operates. We’re not the only ones who have called for these improvements. Gay Supervisors Scott Wiener and David Campos, who rarely agree on policy matters, both told us that they have concerns about how Pride is run and its structure. It’s inexplicable that board members don’t engage with the public, either at meetings or through the media. Surely, not all of them agreed with the way the Manning situation was handled, yet month after month, at meet-

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talking about this next year. To do so, the board must acknowledge its shortcomings, pledge to improve and follow its procedures. In the search for a new leader, we would strongly encourage the board to do away with the ridiculous CEO title for the top manager of a nonprofit. Pride is not a business, although it does need to raise significant funds to hold the world-class parade that people have come to expect. The title of executive director is prestigious enough and brings the organization more in line with other grassroots organizations. For many years Pride had no paid leader at all and the parade went on as usual. Perhaps it’s time for a return to that model and subcontract the sponsorship duties. In his exit letter to the “SF Pride Community,” Plante blames “racist politics of personal destruction” for his downfall. We categorically reject that statement without specific allegations that can be corroborated. Sure, Manning supporters were angry this year. They were treated like crap, shut out of a board meeting, and met with silence at every turn. Anyone would be dissatisfied with that. Plante further states, “Dissatisfaction about the [Manning] result can and should be civilly discussed.” Unfortunately, Plante and Williams never allowed that to happen and actively stonewalled discussion. This Sunday, eligible Pride members should go to the W Hotel and vote for new board members. We’re not making any explicit endorsements, but we will say that out with the old and in with the new would be a wise first step to restoring the Pride Committee’s credibility.t

It’s time to bring bathhouses back to SF by Richard Carrazza

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ing after meeting, they just sat there, stone-faced, while Pride members and others raised legitimate questions about adhering to the bylaws and other written policies. In another example, for two months now, members have sought to have a discussion about allowing military recruiters at Pride. The National Guard was on site at this year’s festival and that raised concerns among some trans people and their allies because transgender people are not allowed to serve openly. But each time the issue was raised, the board tabled it. Does the board think this matter will just go away? Pride board member Pam Grey is the spouse of retired Navy Commander Zoe Dunning, one of the loudest proponents of repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” You’d expect that among the board members, she must have an informed opinion on the budding controversy. Yet we have heard nothing. We’ve read the bios of the board candidates who will stand for election this Sunday at the annual general meeting. The information, as is usual these days, is buried on Pride’s website, but you can find it by scrolling down at http://sfpride. org/membership/. They all sound eager to engage the community, which the incumbents failed to do this year. Perhaps with Williams now off the board, new Chair Davace Chin can restore some accountability and encourage board members to speak up. The Pride organization must move beyond the Manning debacle. It will help no one if we’re still

n 1984, private spaces in bathhouses were prohibited by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Revisiting this issue is long overdue. Bathhouses provide a special and unique way for gay men to meet. A place where men can relax, be intimate, make love, enjoy sex, hang out, and have fun. They provide a variety of social amenities: private rooms, saunas, hot tubs, gyms, lounges, etc. in an ambiance void of economic class (most guys are in towels). They exist throughout the world and provide a great place for travelers and locals to meet. Many of us have met life-long friends and lovers through bathhouse connections. Now more than ever, especially in an expensive city like San Francisco, private rooms in bathhouses would create a respectful, responsible, and less risky place for men to love men and have sex. Some guys, because of social, economic, or temporary reasons, don’t have the option to bring a guy to their home. As a practical matter, bathhouses with private rooms provide a less risky way to connect for the following reasons: • Neutral space for all participants. • No disruption to your own living situation. Eliminates the risk of inviting a new acquaintance to your home or going to his home. Hence, less chance of robbery, assault, unexpected surprises, pets. • Eliminates the potential problems of meeting in public then going together to one guy's place; but you may leave later in the night, tired, in a strange neighborhood, with the potential to get lost, robbed, or assaulted.

• Private rooms provide greater comfort to cuddle and linger, and are more conducive to intimate one-on-one conversations and meaningful connections. Currently without private spaces: • We don't have control of our physical environment, and may be subjected to unwanted stares, fingers, hands, mouths, an uninvited grab fest. • Since there is no privacy, watching may increase the excitement level and self-control may be challenged. • For some, in order to perform while being watched, they may feel the need to take substances to become less inhibited, possibly impairing judgment. • Discriminates against the majority of men who do not want to be watched or interfered with when having sex, and/or may not have a private place to go. Most humans – most of the time – desire privacy when they have sex. It is time to allow men who have sex with men the right and capability to have respectful and responsible sex in private rooms in commercial sex venues. The men in San Francisco need more venues to love and appreciate one another freely, and with the same opportunities for sexual privacy that exist in Berkeley, San Jose, and so many other world-class cities. As to monitoring, it may send the subtle message that someone else will protect you, rather than emphasizing that each of us has ultimate power and responsibility for our own sexual behavior. Does anyone really believe that if some-

one isn't willing to take care of themselves that monitoring will really change them? I don't. It is about time to do away with this ineffective, detrimental, and degrading concept of monitoring. Rather than monitoring us, I wish that the health department and all sex educators would re-think their stale (emergency) language of safe sex or safer sex which was introduced in crisis, but now is used as a repetitive message that is inherently inaccurate. It saddens me to hear young guys say they were practicing safe sex as they were taught, but got HIV or another sexually transmitted disease. The truth is: Sex is never safe. It can be anything from loving to catastrophic, but it's always charged. If it is safe, it is not sex. It is complicated and carries physical, emotional, psychological and social risks. Sex is unique and self-defined. Do what you will, but know the risks. Let's be wise in our sexual adventures, and embrace and practice the wealth of sexual activities we can share when status is unknown – at least for the first encounters. If you have to ask, do you really know? I believe that sex is enriching and we need more of it. When men are loving men through sexual expression, not only are they better off, those around them are as well. So now boys, let's get busy and spread some more loving around. And remember: wash your hands before sex and pee after.t Richard Carrazza has been a San Francisco resident since 1975.

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Pride parade belongs to the people

Thanks to the Bay Area Reporter’s righteous news coverage, the Parade Committee (as it was called and should be) is being forced to rethink its way of operating, its internal and external processes, its level of responsibility to the wider LGBT community, and in general, it’s way of regarding the thousands of people that it represents [“SF Pride CEO forced out,” September 6 blog post]. How sad that things had to fall to this level, hitting bottom, for all of this to occur. But with many addicted to power and their own sense of entitlement, that is the way it goes sometimes. Chelsea Manning was the wedge that drove open the issues and her presence will be one of the beacons for the Parade’s redemption. Let’s laud the committee for the successes that it has produced but then let’s build on the lessons learned by those of us with more experience and respect for our community. No more CEOs! Remember that especially the paid positions are in service to the community and not to corporate sponsors. We need sponsors to provide the necessary structure for this tremendous event but we also need to remember that the bridge and tunnel crowd and tourists are not the primary audience; the San Francisco queer community is. That we reach out beyond our borders is our joy but we reach out as ourselves. I welcome all LGBT organizations in San Francisco to consider what role you should be playing in making this event yours and all LGBT businesses to join in contributing so that you are visible and counted as well as Google, Bank of America, and Verizon. San Francisco, shout it loud, shout it proud. The parade is ours. Susan Englander San Francisco

Bridge doesn’t need politico’s name

Bay Bridge western span is the last straw. The bridge has gotten along just fine for 77 years without some politico’s name appended to it. If we must dedicate it to someone at this late date, I propose a community activist whose East Bay fans flocked across the bridge in the 1940s and 1950s to enjoy his performances at the Black Cat. The Widow Norton Imperial Bridge is probably a hard sell. I’d settle for the Jose Sarria Memorial Bridge. Rainbowcolored lights would be a nice touch. Denis Wade San Francisco

San Francisco schools address bullying efforts

Regarding the August 29 article, “Audit states bullying concerns”: for years our San Francisco schools have been groundbreaking and nationwide trailblazers in addressing the needs of our LGBT students. Over 20 years ago, the San Francisco Unified School District created a program office, led by Kevin Gogin, specifically to support our LGBT students. His team’s work and the district’s effort over the years have led to numerous programs and initiatives, including school survey data collected no where else in the U.S., all in the effort to address the unique needs of our LGBT youth. In 2010, the SFUSD board, by a vote of 7-0, passed Resolution 912-8A3, titled “In Support that the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Strengthen the AntiDiscrimination Program in Schools in Order to Effect a Healthier Learning for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Students” strengthening their budget commitment and reporting requirements for the ongoing safety and wellbeing of our LGBT students. The work must and will continue, but I am comforted that lives have been saved and futures have been brighter because of the staunch 20-plus year commitment by our San Francisco Unified School District.

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Forum for long-term PWAs compiled by Cynthia Laird

he Community Initiative and http://www.letskickass.org will host the Definition of Brave, the first Bay Area forum focused on longterm HIV survivors Wednesday, September 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street. Individuals testing HIV-positive during the first two decades of the AIDS epidemic in essence received the equivalent of a death sentence, organizers noted. But many of those living with HIV/AIDS for 2030 years or more are still thriving, thanks in part to medical advances made in the mid-1990s. Speakers will look at what it means to grow older when you’ve lived over half your life with a life-threatening illness. And they want long-term survivors to come together to begin talking about their strengths and resilience instead of dwelling on what was lost or sacrificed. The grassroots town hall will be an opportunity for people to begin thinking differently about what it means to be long-term survivors. The panel of long-term survivors who will be leading the discussion includes Will Boemer, Gregg Cassin, Ramon Espacio, Michael Siever, and Gabriel Quinto. Tez Anderson will moderate. The meeting is free and interested people are welcome to attend. For more information, contact Anderson at letskickass.org@gmail.com.

Roundtable on immigration reform after DOMA

New America Media and a coalition of groups will host a roundtable, “What’s Beyond DOMA in Immigration Reform?” Thursday, September 12 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, 1661 15th Street (at Julian Avenue) in San Francisco. Organizers noted that as the progressive community celebrated the striking down of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, for women and LGBTQ people there is much

more to immigration reform. From fighting deportations to advocating for humane treatment in detention facilities, the fight for full inclusion of women and LGBTQ people in immigration bills at the local, state, and federal levels is multi-faceted and complex. This community conversation will look at the impact of current and proposed immigration policies on women and LGBTQ people. It will include leaders and members of immigrant rights, women’s rights, racial justice, LGBTQ communities, and media outlets. LGBT organizations participating include API Equality-Northern California, Out4Immigration, and Our Family Coalition. Light refreshments will be served at 5:30, followed by the program at 6. To RSVP, contact Jay Rooney at jrooney@newamericamedia.org (specify “Immigration/LGBTQ Roundtable” in the subject line) or (415) 5034170, ext. 117.

Free concert marks Suicide Prevention Week

National Suicide Prevention Week is under way and locally, San Francisco Suicide Prevention will present a “Remembering” memorial concert Friday, September 13 from 12:30 to 1 p.m. at Yerba Buena Park Amphitheater. The concert will feature a performance by Kim Nalley, a recipient of the “Most Influential African American in the Bay Area” award in 2005 and “Best Jazz Group” in 2013. Nalley is performing as a tribute to her brother, Kyle Nalley, whom she lost to suicide when he was 23. Officials at San Francisco Suicide Prevention invite those who have lost a friend or family member to suicide to attend, as well as people who support those who have lost someone to suicide. There will be messages of hope and a moment of remembrance for those impacted by suicide. The concert is free and no RSVP is needed. The venue is located on the lawn south of Mission Street between 3rd Street and Yerba Buena Lane.

San Francisco Suicide Prevention helps people and families identify risk factors that lead to suicide and provides a 24-hour resource for anyone who is in pain. The crisis line number is (415) 781-0500 and a chat service can be reached through http://www.sfsuicide.org.

Sea music festival at Hyde Street Pier

The San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park will celebrate 25 years as a national park with a sea music festival Saturday, September 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The festival takes place from two stages on the Hyde Street Pier and aboard historic vessels berthed at the pier. There is no admission for the outdoor stages. To board the historic vessels, the cost is $5 for adults; children 15 and under are free. Those with national park passes are also admitted free of charge. Performances will include traditional and contemporary seafaring songs and chanteys, and instrumental music. Some of the many musicians scheduled to appear include Gordon Bok, Liz Carroll, the Rahiti Polynesian Dance Company, Celia Ramsay, Dogwatch Nautical Band, and Salty Walk and the Rattlin’ Ratlines. For more information, visit www. nps.gov/safr/planyourvisit/seamusicfestival2013.htm.

Learn about high-impact HIV prevention

The San Francisco HIV Prevention Planning Council will host a community engagement event to explore what high-impact prevention (HIP) is and how it translates back into some of San Francisco’s communities. The session takes place Wednesday, September 18 from 6 to 9 p.m. at 25 Van Ness Avenue in the sixth-floor conference room. The event is free and open to the public. Health Commissioner Cecilia Chung will moderate. For more information, contact Vincent Fuqua at (415) 437-6208.

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f you’re a chocolate lover, this weekend is for you. The 18th annual Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival, a two-day event at San Francisco’s historic Ghirardelli Square that includes a variety of tasting options and a silent auction, takes place September 1415. All proceeds will benefit Project Open Hand, an organization that delivers meals and provides groceries to people living with HIV/AIDS, seniors, and those living with cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Organizers expect upwards of 30,000 visitors to stop by the festival. The event comes at the end of a summer that saw the release of the LGBT Aging Policy Task Force report, “Addressing The Needs of LGBT Older Adults,” in July. In that report, those surveyed listed meal and grocery services among the most frequently needed programs, along with health services, housing assistance, having a case manager or social worker, and telephone and online referrals. But to the surprise of many, including task force chair Bill Ambrunn, those surveyed listed meal and grocery services as among the least LGBT friendly. “It took a lot of us by surprise,” Ambrunn said. “We don’t exactly know why our respondents responded that way.” Ambrunn, who once worked at Project Open Hand, is sure, however, that the issue with meal service providers, like with the many other services LGBT seniors access in San Francisco, “will boil down to cultural competency.” Project Open Hand and another meal delivery nonprofit, Meals on Wheels, are led by out gay men. /

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As a result, Ambrunn said the task force will likely recommend to the Board of Supervisors next year that more rigorous cultural competency training be made necessary for all city contractors who provide services to LGBT seniors. Kevin Winge, executive director at Project Open Hand, called the survey findings “unfortunate.” “It is unfortunate that LGBT seniors might not access meal and grocery services in San Francisco because they feel unwelcome,” Winge said in a statement to the Bay Area Reporter. “As with all of our services, Project Open Hand’s senior lunch sites welcome and bring together people from all walks of life, including the LGBT community.” Winge said that the agency has not received complaints from participants in the senior lunch program. “In talking with the director of our senior lunch program, who has managed the program for 15 years, I learned that Project Open Hand has not received a single complaint about our sites being unfriendly or unwelcoming to LGBT seniors – this includes our annual participant survey, in which respondents remain anonymous,” he said. “We continue to work hard to ensure our services are welcoming and inclusive to everyone. We have zero tolerance for discriminatory behavior of any kind. We encourage open dialogue and invite LGBT seniors who experience challenges at any of our senior lunch sites to contact us so that we can address their concerns.” Founded in 1985 for the purpose of delivering food to people living with HIV/AIDS, Project Open Hand is one of many organizations in San

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Francisco and the Bay Area providing meals and groceries for those in need. Winge said the goal for this year’s chocolate festival is to raise $100,000, all of which will go toward providing 50,000 meals for people. Project Open Hand utilizes a large number of volunteers, and according to its latest annual report, the number of volunteers, and the hours they work, has grown each year since 2010. The number of meals prepared has also grown consistently in the past few years, jumping from 741,206 in 2009 to 2010, to 757,586 in 2011 to 2012. Winge said that Project Open Hand is adjusting to the extended life span of many of the people they serve. Early on in Project Open Hand’s history many of the clients, who had HIV or AIDS, did not live more than a year. But today many PWAs are living longer, as are seniors, thanks to better medications and other factors. Winge said that Project Open Hand knows “that as people age they tend to need services more and more.” “Part of what we are trying to do is meet that need,” he added. Revenue from the chocolate festival will help with that. New to the festival this year is a chocolate and wine pavilion. There will also be chef demonstrations and the popular “Earthquake” ice cream eating contest. Tasting tickets for the chocolate festival are $20 for 15 tastes when purchased in advance or $25 at the door. Several general events will be available at no charge.t

resident of San Francisco’s largely gay Castro district has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine in the neighborhood, officials said this week. Jonathan Francis Gildart, 31, was sentenced Wednesday, September 4 to 87 months in prison, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Melinda Haag announced in a news release Monday, September 9. In May, Gildart, who’s been in federal custody since April, pleaded guilty to distribution and possession with intent to distribute meth, the release said. According to the plea agreement, Gildart admitted that February 15, at a Castro Street shipping business, he sold meth to someone for $3,000. He was arrested that same day. Also that day, he had additional

meth at his apartment that he intended to distribute, according to Haag’s office. Both the shipping business, which the agency didn’t identify, and Gildart’s apartment were within 1,000 feet of two schools. “Methamphetamine has become a large problem in our communities, and has had a significant impact in various San Francisco neighborhoods,” Haag stated. “Our office is committed to seeking serious consequences for those dealing methamphetamine in our neighborhoods, particularly where methamphetamine is sold near schools.” Assistant Federal Public Defender Rita Bosworth, who according to Haag’s office represented Gildart, didn’t respond to an interview request Tuesday afternoon. Lili Arauzhaase, a spokeswoman for Haag, declined to comment on See page 10 >>

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Gay Dem clubs weigh in on SF 2013 elections by Matthew S. Bajko

for truncated terms this fall due to a voter-approved plan to save the city on election costs. In 2015 they will have to again run for their elected positions when they revert back to being four-year terms. Later this month the Log Cabin Club of San Francisco will be endorsing in the local races. The gay Republican group will vote September 25 on its endorsements.

t is the least contested municipal election cycle San Francisco has seen in decades, and as such, there is little surprise about who the city’s two main LGBT political clubs are backing in the November election. Even an endorsement snub in the lone supervisor race on the ballot is less exciting than it would first appear. The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club gave no candidate its endorsement in the District 4 supervisor race. The reason being neither of the two candidates met with the club’s political action committee to seek its backing. Challenger Ivan Seredni, an audit accounting consultant at San Francisco Suicide Prevention, opted not to pursue the club’s endorsement. The incumbent, Supervisor Katy Tang, was unable to attend the PAC endorsement meeting. Not having a chance to talk to her about various policy issues, the club decided to withhold its endorsement. “We hold those PAC endorsement meetings so candidates can address the members about their plans. We had no reading whatsoever about Supervisor Tang,” explained club President Tom Temprano. “Given her short track record, it would have been really helpful to hear what was on her agenda and what stance was she going to take on things. And we had not a clue about that.” Tang was appointed to represent the Sunset District on the Board of Supervisors earlier this year by Mayor Ed Lee to fill the vacancy created when he named the former holder of the seat, Carmen Chu, the new assessor-recorder following Phil Ting’s election to a state Assembly seat last November. A former aide to Chu in the supervisor’s office, Tang told the Bay Area Reporter this week that she was unable to attend because she was preparing to leave town that weekend and was hosting an event that Saturday, August 17 when the Milk PAC met with candidates. She added that she prefers to meet with political clubs herself rather than send a campaign representative in her place. “I could not miss an event I was hosting. I do apologize for the confusion about that,” said Tang. “I am happy to offer myself to be available to meet with whoever would like to meet. I certainly value the endorsements of all clubs.” Tang added that she does look forward to having a policy discussion with the Milk club at a future date. “It was unfortunate I couldn’t make it,” she said. Tang did secure the endorsement of the more moderate Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club. Writing in the club’s candidate questionnaire, which can be downloaded from its website at http://www.alicebtoklas. org/, Tang said that her top priorities in office are to keep the city familyfriendly, encourage economic development, and push for fiscal accountability. “I am strongly committed to our

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Betterment and Equality, a longtime LGBT political club in the East Bay, will hold its 20th anniversary celebration and garden party Saturday, September 21 from 2 to 4 p.m. at 130 Isabella Street in Hayward. This year Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont) will re-

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Supervisor Katy Tang was unable to meet with the Milk club’s political action committee, but said she’s happy to talk to club members.

party’s ideals, especially ending discrimination; as a person of color, I know that tough fights have opened opportunities for me, and they must continue to be fought to end all discrimination,” wrote Tang in explaining why she was seeking the Alice club endorsement. It remains unclear if the moderate Tang would have been able to win over the progressive Milk club. But Temprano noted that her predecessor, who often clashed with Milk members on various policy fights, won the club’s endorsement for her re-election race for assessor-recorder. “Obviously, the fact that the club endorsed Carmen Chu, who did take the time to show up, and being we have disagreed with Carmen Chu on so many legislative issues,” noted Temprano, she nonetheless was endorsed. “She did address the concerns of our members.” The Alice club also endorsed Chu, who is unopposed for the position. Despite not having to worry about an opponent, Chu has been making the rounds to meet with various groups in the city. Last week, she addressed the Merchants of Upper Market and Castro during their monthly meeting. It was her first appearance before the gayborhood’s merchant association since taking over the position. There, Chu said her main goal for her office is modernization, though she cautioned it would take some time to achieve. The first priority will be business property statements known as a 571-L Form. “I expect that you will be able to get information online and pay your bills online,” Chu told MUMC members. “Unfortunately, City Hall doesn’t move as fast as we would like. We will be working on getting the forms online, and by next year, we hope to roll it out.” City Attorney Dennis Herrera and city Treasurer Jose Cisneros, the only LGBT person elected to a citywide position at City Hall, both secured the backing of Milk and Alice this year. The two are running unopposed

ceive the club’s Community Service Award. Hayward librarian Sally Thomas will receive the Pryor Conrad Award for her work on the film Now We Can Dance – The Story of the Hayward Gay Prom. Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door. To purchase tickets, call (510) 538-9722 or mail to GLOBE, P.O. Box 56305, Hayward, CA 94545.t

The only real excitement in this year’s November 5 election is down ballot among the local ballot measures. Gaining the most attention is the fight over Propositions B and C in regard to the 8 Washington Street mixed-use luxury condo project along the Embarcadero. Opponents decry the development as too dense and are against the city’s granting it an exemption to the height limits in the area. Supporters of the housing counter it has gone through nearly a decade-long process of public review and would funnel $11 million toward the city’s fund for affordable housing projects. The Alice club is backing the developer, Pacific Waterfront Partners Inc., and has recommended yes votes on both Prop B and C. In the opposition corner is the Milk club, which is urging voters to reject the dual measures. Both clubs support Proposition A, aimed at protecting retiree health care benefits for city employees. As for Proposition D, which would make it official city policy to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies to secure the cheapest prices on prescription medicines, the Alice club is in support while the Milk club did not take a position.

Opt out of paper ballot guide

In an effort to “green” the city’s voting process, the Department of Elections is offering voters to opt out from receiving the printed voter guide mailed out each election cycle. The guides will be available online, but by reducing the number sent to mailboxes, the city will save on printing and mailing expenses. This Monday, September 16 is the deadline to sign up. To do so, visit http://www.sfelections.org.t

but Miss Pearl makes this one much richer. When you move, it’s nice to bring your best friend along. So that’s what retired educator Warren Kofler did when he moved to The Sequoias. Our amenities– a central location, spectacular views, healthcare options and freedom from cooking and cleaning– were like catnip. He couldn’t resist. Chances are, you won’t be able to, either. Call Candiece at (415) 351-7900 to learn more.

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Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check www. ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column reported on the funeral of gay SF icon Jose Sarria. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/politicalnotes. Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 8615019 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

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onald Masuda, one of the founders of the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance and an early AIDS organization serving gay Asian Americans, died August 24 in San Francisco. He was 52. Mr. Masuda suffered a stroke in late July and had been hospitalized at UCSF, said Lance Toma, executive director of the Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center. As an early advocate for increased visibility among gay Asian Americans, Mr. Masuda helped start GAPA, which remains an active organization for gay and bi men of Asian descent. One of the group’s early projects was the GAPA Community HIV Project, of which Mr. Masuda was also a founding board member. Toma recalled that GCHP, as it was known, was one of the predecessor organizations of API Wellness Center. Mr. Masuda began serving on the GCHP board in November 1993. That group later became known as the Living Well Project and merged with the Asian AIDS Project to become API Wellness Center in 1997, Toma explained. “Donald continued to serve on the board and took on the responsibility of chairing the development committee of the board,” Toma said in an email. “In 1999, Donald began chairing the board affairs committee, and he continued to chair this committee until April 2003, when Donald concluded his board involvement. His 10-year board membership makes him one of the longest standing board members in our organization’s history.” Toma said that after Mr. Masuda stepped off the board, he continued

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Donald Masuda, left, in an undated photo with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.

to actively support the organization with silent auction items and was a constant presence at API Wellness Center community events. Reese Aaron Isbell, a former cochair of the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, told the Bay Area Reporter that Mr. Masuda served on the Alice board in the late 1980s. “He said he often got inspiration from his days in Alice to help formally structure and organize GAPA as it began,” Isbell wrote in a remembrance of Mr. Masuda for the Alice club’s e-newsletter. “His tireless work in GAPA was noticed early by his fellow founding colleagues and he was unanimously chosen to receive the very first GAPA Man of the Year Award (now commonly referred to as the ‘Godzy’) in 1988.” Isbell said that while Mr. Masuda might not have been a household name in the LGBT community, his contributions were nonetheless significant. “Donald did not have the high profile of some of the bigger names in our community, but he was no less involved and important,” Isbell wrote. “Through creating new organizations, gathering groups of

people together, growing new ideas, building resources, and supporting each other throughout the way, he made San Francisco, and the world, a more welcoming place. He has created a lasting legacy of love and support and we are all the better for his time here with us.” In an email, Isbell said that Mr. Masuda “was a special guy who not everyone knew but who impacted so many.” Robert Bernardo, a former GAPA co-chair, praised Mr. Masuda for his community work. “Donald’s contributions to both gay and API communities are countless,” Bernardo said in an email. “He will be remembered as a generous and compassionate human being.” According to Mr. Masuda’s Facebook page, he went to Lowell High School in San Francisco. Mr. Masuda graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in physiology in 1983. He worked at UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. Mr. Masuda’s family declined to provide comment. A private memorial service is planned.t

Obituaries >> Angelina Pacaldo December 27, 1968 – July 24, 2013

Angelina (Angie) Pacaldo, 44, of San Francisco, passed away on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 after a fierce and courageous battle with leukemia. Angelina was born on December 27, 1968, in Phoenix, Arizona. Angelina grew up in the Mission and co-owned Westwind Automotive. She was an active participant in the community and was admired for her feisty spirit, generosity, and kindness. Angelina was an avid athlete, having participated in six full marathons, seven half marathons, triathlons, and other successful fundraising efforts

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including the AIDS/LifeCycle event in 2007. As a thrill-seeker, Angelina proudly participated in the San Francisco Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon. She loved to run, bike, and hike. Angelina was well known for her laughter, flamboyance, and love of life. She gave of herself and lived life fully. Angelina is survived by her mother, Marcela Pacaldo, and her five siblings: Gina, Gilbert, Sharon, and Timothy Pacaldo; and Presciliana EsparoliniKeller. She also leaves behind numerous relatives and loving friends. The family wishes to thank all who helped care for Angelina during her illness: William Ayoubi, Nissim Ninio, Richard Clark Webster, Steven Schwager, Danette Harvelick, and Martin Olvera. Additionally, we would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff at Stanford Hospital.

sentence after his guilty plea to one count of distributing meth and possessing the drug with the intention of distributing it. Chesney also sentenced him to four years of supervised release. The prosecution resulted from a San Francisco Police Department operation and a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation, Haag’s office said. SFPD spokespeople didn’t respond to requests for comment.t

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t Housing advocate Robert Nelson dies

September 12–18, 2013 • Bay Area Reporter • 11

by Cynthia Laird

Mr. Nelson said it was “too soon” for comments obert Alan Nelson, about his contributions who for several years to the community. A served on the HIV Health longtime parishioner at Services Planning CounMost Holy Redeemer cil in San Francisco and Catholic Church in the advocated for AIDS housCastro, Mr. Nelson was ing projects, died August asked about his thoughts 31 after a hard fought batabout Pope Francis and tle with cancer. He was 62. the church’s stance on His husband, Mark LGBT rights. Okashima, was at his side. “For those of you who Mr. Nelson, who was Robert Alan Nelson teach and write, the real known as Bob, spent story here is how Mark is more than 20 years working for a vataking care of me,” Mr. Nelson wrote. riety of nonprofits in the Bay Area. He “He is doing everything, including dedicated his life and passion to HIV/ bathing, coordinating care, and other AIDS, the homeless, isolated seniors, messy tasks. He is doing it out of love. and cancer. He served as the executive How this could possibly be a threat to director for Little Brothers Friends anyone is beyond me.” of the Elderly, East Bay Cancer SupMr. Nelson was born on July 6, 1951 port Group, Dolores Street Commuin Seattle, Washington and grew up in nity Services, and was a director with San Jose, California. Catholic Charities of San Francisco. He graduated from Willow Glen Mr. Nelson also served on numerHigh School in 1969. In 1973, Mr. Nelous community boards and commisson entered the Benedictine Priory of sions. He served as co-chair for the St. Andrews in Valyermo, a small town San Francisco Homeless Coordinating in Los Angeles County. Council from 2001-2003. At Catholic In 1975, Mr. Nelson left the BeneCharities in 1987 he participated in dictines and joined the Dominicans the creation of the largest HIV/AIDS in Berkeley. He received his Bachelor housing program west of the Misof Arts in philosophy in 1976 from sissippi River, and the integration of the Graduate Theological Union in domestic partner benefits into the Berkeley and continued with graduagency’s insurance package. ate studies in counseling, history, and Rita Semel, a former board memcommunity development from the ber of Catholic Charities, said that Mr. GTU in 1978. Mr. Nelson then left Nelson’s contributions were vital to the Dominicans and started his career the organization receiving support for with community nonprofits. its housing projects. In addition to his husband, Mr. “Catholic Charities and Jewish Nelson is survived by the couple’s cat, Family and Children’s Services were Cadfael; twin brother William Nelson the first two faith-based social service Jr. and sister-in-law Lisa; brother Mark agencies to respond to the AIDS epiNelson; nephew William Nelson, III; demic,” Semel said in an email. “Bob niece Caitlin Nelson; sister-in-law was on the staff of Catholic Charities Karen Doiguchi; brother-in-law Ryan and in his role as advocate he helped Okashima; and sister-in-law, Allison members of the Board of Supervisors Okashima. and other public officials understand A funeral will be held for Mr. Nelwhat was happening and how help son Saturday, September 14 at 1 p.m. was needed. at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic For all his dedicated service to the Church, 100 Diamond Street (at 18th community, and specifically with the Street) in San Francisco. HIV planning council, then-Mayor In lieu of flowers, donations may Art Agnos proclaimed February 25, be made to the Castro Country Club 1991 as “Bob Nelson Day” in San (castrocountryclub.org) or to Most Francisco. Holy Redeemer Catholic Church In a Facebook chat in mid-June, (http://mhr.org/).t

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Benjamin, 41, told the B.A.R. that the news their proposal had been nixed was “very disappointing” and described the lease talks as “curious” and “very odd.” “We in the end made five or six different offers to them,” he said. “We sweetened the deal, met all their requirements, and they came back and said it is not economic. I don’t know what that means then.” Heklina, whose given name is Stefan Grygelko, also expressed disappointment by Andreini’s decision. She had fallen in love with the space and was eager to revive Trannyshack and its infamous drag acts to a weekly event. Formerly held Tuesday nights at the nearby Stud, it ended its run in 2008 and now occurs infrequently. “I don’t really know what was behind the decision to go with the other party,” said Heklina. “I am trying to give them the benefit of the doubt and not think it was homophobia.” She surmised it may have had to do with the fact that none of the four have ever owned a bar or club before, despite her years of experience running drag shows and dance parties at numerous bars and clubs around town. “I want to believe they were erring on the side of caution,” Heklina said. The two other members of the group are straight bartender Jason Beebout, lead singer of punk group Samiam, and local actor and choreographer D’Arcy Drollinger, who has performed alongside Heklina in several of the TV drag spoofs. They had secured letters of endorsement from various civic leaders, such as Entertainment Commissioner Glendon Hyde, also known by his drag persona Anna Conda, and gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener. “Given Mr. Grygelko’s long and successful track record of producing

BTQ elders fearful of hostile drunks could improve safety at Pride and increase community participation. During time allotted for member questions, SF Pride member and contractor Audrey Joseph asked the candidates to define governance. Each of the candidates responded, but afterwards Joseph said that in her mind, “only three answered, Cain, Virginia, and Sanford.” Sanford said governance required implementing best practices, openness, and accessibility of policies and procedures and communication with members. Cain, echoing an earlier response, said governance was applying best practices, abiding by bylaws, policies, and procedures, and listening to the concerns of community members. He stressed SF Pride governing documents should be accessible online. Virginia said good governance required compliance with federal, state, and city laws and SF Pride’s bylaws, policies and procedures. He added SF Pride was a service organization and it should be cognizant of that in all of its decisions. After the forum, Sanford, who, according to his candidate statement, has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, said Plante had not apologized for sending the threatening email. “I don’t expect an apology from him,” Sanford said. Of the CEO’s resignation, Sanford said he “wasn’t happy about it, but it was a necessary first step for reform at SF Pride.”t Supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener will hold a hearing on SF Pride today (Thursday, September 12) at 2 p.m. during the board’s Neighborood Services and Safety Committee meeting at City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place. San Francisco Pride’s annual general meeting will be held Sunday, September 15 at 2 p.m. at the W hotel.

fun, safe, and well-managed events, I have no doubt this new nightclub will be a success for Mr. Grygelko, for you, and for our community,” wrote Wiener, who has made entertainment issues a top concern of his at City Hall. Due to his involvement, Hyde had informed the group he would have to recuse himself from voting on any permit issues should it come before the commission. In an interview with the B.A.R., he raised concerns about their proposal being rejected. “I would hope there wasn’t discrimination going on,” said Hyde, who has taken particular interest in protecting nightlife businesses along the 11th Street corridor from encroaching residential development. “It would be very sad, especially with the burgeoning resurgences of queer nightlife in SOMA, to have that happen.” When it appeared that the nearby Eagle Tavern, long a gay bar, would be operated by straight bar owners, Hyde and Wiener joined in efforts to ensure the space instead went to gay operators. It is unclear if a similar fight would be waged should it be revealed that a group of straight operators seek permits for the former Paradise space. “My support for Heklina was just that: support. That support doesn’t mean that I would oppose other uses for the space,” Wiener told the B.A.R. Nor are Benjamin or Heklina looking to wage a fight. Rather, they are committed to finding another venue that works for their nightlife plans. They had thought of buying the club space Rebel on Market Street at Valencia, where the drag TV shows are held, but that building is expected to be put on the market soon and redeveloped into new housing with retail along the ground floor. “I know it is just a matter of time,” said Benjamin about securing a space. “It is not dead in the water; we are still looking.”t

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been a part of American history. LGBT struggles are the civil rights fight of our generation,â&#x20AC;? said Chiu, who grew up in Boston as the eldest of three children of immigrant parents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me, it has always been one and the same.â&#x20AC;? His association with LGBT issues has led some to mistakenly believe that the straight supervisor, who earlier this year became engaged to his longtime girlfriend, public interest lawyer Candace Chen, is in fact gay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I am the first, single, straight elected official to have heard rumors like that. This is San Francisco,â&#x20AC;? Chiu joked when asked about the gossip regarding his sexual orientation. The couple met five years ago when Chen volunteered on Chiuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first supervisor campaign and plan to wed later this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a couple years we had talked about waiting to get married until the day when all of our friends could also get married,â&#x20AC;? said Chiu. As for running for a state legislative seat long associated with the LGBT community, Chiu pledged he would be as effective a state legislator on LGBT issues as an out candidate would be. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have had a deep and long history working with the LGBT community on issues important to the community. Fundamentally, this race is about California and the Assembly District needs bold and effective leadership, which I believe I have demonstrated at the Board of Supervisors,â&#x20AC;? said Chiu. Shortly after winning his board seat, Chiu went on vacation and read Randy Shiltsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biography The Mayor of Castro Street about slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk, the first out elected official in San Francisco. A key lesson he derived from Milkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political success, said Chiu, was his ability to build coalitions across diverse constituencies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is important to have elected officials who can bring people together and deliver results. That is my record,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Certainly, if I have the opportunity to represent the Assembly District in Sacramento, I intend to be as passionate on issues of importance to the LGBT community.â&#x20AC;? Without mentioning Campos by name, Chiu added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I believe I will be more effective. I will be as effective as we have been able to accomplish things in San Francisco.â&#x20AC;?

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LGBT voters likely will play a determining factor in who wins the seat next fall. And each candidate is already heavily courting LGBT residents of the district.

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notice of alleged safety or health hazards against Kink.com and Kink Studios with the California Department of Industrial Relationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Division of Occupational Safety and Health. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have reason to believe that on [July 31] adult film employees were exposed to bloodborne pathogens and other potentially infectious materials in the media film title Public Disgrace: Big Titted Reality TV Star Ass Fucked in Public,â&#x20AC;? AHFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complaint says. The filing says that Bay tested positive for HIV as early as August 19 and during the making of the film, she â&#x20AC;&#x153;engaged in acts considered high-risk for the transmission of HIV, including multiple sex partners and acts resulting in trauma to vaginal, oral, and anal mucosa. Additionally, a large group estimated at 10-12 individuals, including production staff, are likely to have been exposed.â&#x20AC;? Asked about AHFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complaint, Cal-OSHA spokesman Peter Melton told the B.A.R., â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is an ongoing investigation at Kink Films, but because of the nature of the investigation, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really all the detail I can

Campos hit the ground running last month with an LGBT campaign advisory committee already in place. Its members are a mix of moderate and progressive leaders, including chair Steve Adams, a gay banker and president of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Small Business Commission; Police Commissioners Petra DeJesus and Julius Turman; and Mayor Ed Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s housing adviser Bevan Dufty. Chiu is in the process of launching his own LGBT outreach committee for the campaign. And he has secured endorsements from a number of LGBT leaders across the political spectrum, including local Democratic Party official Arlo Hale Smith; Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club past co-chairs Charles Sheehan and Bentrish Satarzadeh; and Michael Lee, a past treasurer of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a race, in my mind, between two good friends, both of whom I love,â&#x20AC;? said Debra Walker, who serves with â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Davidsâ&#x20AC;? on the Democratic County Central Committee. For now, Walker has endorsed Chiu but left the door open to a dual endorsement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am supporting David Chiu. At this juncture I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talked to Campos about this race,â&#x20AC;? Walker told the B.A.R. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is very difficult in politics when your friends run against each other. But I have known David Chiu longer and we work together a lot on issues.â&#x20AC;? Chiu twice has appointed Walker to a seat on the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Building Inspection Commission, and the two speak frequently about land use issues, Walker said. His ability to bring people of opposing viewpoints together will serve him well in Sacramento, she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel David Chiu is really effective in local politics in getting things done,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He really does have success in bringing folks together on very controversial issues.â&#x20AC;? Gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener has given Chiu a sole endorsement in the race. He stressed, as did Walker, that his decision is not due to â&#x20AC;&#x153;negativityâ&#x20AC;? toward Campos. â&#x20AC;&#x153;David Campos and I have had our policy agreements and policy disagreements. We also work well together,â&#x20AC;? Wiener said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am supporting David Chiu because I think he will be an exceptional leader in Sacramento and a great representative for our community.â&#x20AC;? Asked about supporting a straight candidate over a gay candidate, Wiener said his decision is based on evaluating his board colleagues on various issues and factors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether someone is LGBT or is not, being LGBT is one factor I take into account but not the only factor.

September 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18, 2013 CharlesSpiegel_2x2_2013 I think that is true of many LGBT people,â&#x20AC;? said Wiener. Rebecca Prozan, an out lesbian and director of community relations in the district attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, is also solely backing Chiu in the race. She too noted his ability to bridge political divides for why he has won her support. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen in a while,â&#x20AC;? said Prozan. Based on his track record, Prozan said she has no reservations about Chiuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to pass LGBT legislation in the Legislature. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no qualms about that whatsoever,â&#x20AC;? said Prozan when asked about the straight candidate versus gay candidate dynamic of the race. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is not how I analyze this race and races in the past.â&#x20AC;? Noting she has supported straight candidates running against LGBT candidates before, Prozan said her decision in the Assembly race came down to believing Chiu â&#x20AC;&#x153;is the best candidate, I have no worries over that. There is no question he will fight for HIV/AIDS funding and be in the forefront of what is left in the marriage equality fight.â&#x20AC;? Nonetheless, Wiener expects the race to be divisive within the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s LGBT community. Though he expressed hope it would not degenerate into personal attacks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the LGBT vote is very significant in this district and District 8 in particular, which is the highest voter turnout district in the city. So the LGBT community will have a huge impact on this race,â&#x20AC;? Wiener predicted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are two strong, hardworking candidates with exemplary records of support for the LGBT community, for HIV funding and so forth. I am sure this will be a hard fought race, as it should be. I am hopeful that it will stay positive.â&#x20AC;? Chiu is planning to do a round of media interviews Thursday to promote his candidacy and will make a â&#x20AC;&#x153;majorâ&#x20AC;? announcement online. His revised campaign website at http:// www.votedavidchiu.org will also go live that day.t

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035317800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KAPU GEMS USA; YADAV; 888 BRANNAN ST. #1100, S AN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DIAMOND IMPORTS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/20/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/20/13. AUG 29, SEpT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035302800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1188 FOLSOM, 1188 FOLSOM ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed S&S HOSPITALITY INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/14/13. AUG 29, SEpT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035310800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEANSTALK, 724 BUSH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed KOBUKSAN INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/13. AUG 29, SEpT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035322300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE ONLINE 401K, 101 GREEN ST. FLR 2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DECIMAL, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/22/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/22/13. AUG 29, SEpT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035328000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHOCOYUM, 657 HOWARD ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LUNCH MONEY CO (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/24/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/26/13. AUG 29, SEpT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035319700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: XS/SMALL FOODS, 22 4TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited partnership, and is signed TOM COLLOM & BRUCE SLESINGER & SIMPLY SMART FOODS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/21/13. AUG 29, SEpT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035316700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAFFE CENTRO, 102 SOUTH PARK ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BUSWELL RESTAURANT GROUP LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/20/13. AUG 29, SEpT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035306200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIX72 WOODWORKS, 672 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SIX72 DESIGNS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/15/13. AUG 29, SEpT 05, 12, 19, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANdONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FIlE A-032828600 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: MDESIGN, 1738 18TH AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by MARLENE DUONG. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/08/10. AUG 29, SEpT 05, 12, 19, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANdONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FIlE A-034158700 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: OZIMO, 1116 SHOWELL ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by OZIMO, LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/27/12. AUG 29, SEpT 05, 12, 19, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANdONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FIlE A-035202600 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: GRANDE MAISON DE BLANC, 340 SUTTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by S SCHEUER COMPANY (OR). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/25/13. AUG 29, SEpT 05, 12, 19, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035342100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE 7 ELEVEN REALTY, 1188 MISSION ST. #422, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YUNG CHI CHIANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/03/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/03/13. SEpT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035322000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: C. COLORADO JONES PRODUCTIONS, 139 CORBETT AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTOPHER C. JONES. 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 08/22/13. SEpT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035333600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HOME FURNISHINGS ALUMNI, 2 HENRY ADAMS ST. #41A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSEPH L. GIRIMONTE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/28/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/28/13. SEpT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035328500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARTISTIC NAILS & SPA, 1826 DIVISADERO ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NATALIE TRAN. 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 08/26/13. SEpT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035337900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STAY CURRENT PRODUCTIONS, 4101 NORIEGA ST. #7, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LYNN MCGLOTHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/13. SEpT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035340300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GUDDU DE KARAHI, 1501 NORIEGA, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MOHAMMED ZULFIQAR HAIDER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/13. SEpT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035333100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DOMBROWSKI CLEANING SERVICES, 227 JENAY COURT, MARTINEZ, CA 94553. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICHOLAS DOMBROWSKI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/27/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/28/13. SEpT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035336300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SECTOR; STIG; 3518 CAPOTERRA WAY, DUBLIN, CA 94568. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SECTOR TECHNOLOGICAL INDUSTRIAL GLOBAL LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/29/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/29/13. SEpT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035317500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MISSION CRITTER, 2959 MISSION ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MISSION CRITTER LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/20/13. SEpT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 NOTICE OF ApplICATION FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIp OF AlCOHOlIC BEvERAGE lICENSE Dated 09/06/2013 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: NARUPON SILARGORN. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 3189 16TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103-3334. Type of license applied for 41 - ON-SAlE BEER & WINE - EATING plACE SEpT 12, 2013 NOTICE OF ApplICATION TO SEll AlCOHOlIC BEvERAGES Dated 09/06/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: TRADESMAN VENTURES, LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 753 ALABAMA ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110-2022. Type of license applied for 41 - ON-SAlE BEER & WINE - EATING plACE SEpT 12, 19, 26, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035349600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DREAM STATE TRANSPORTATION, 1147 OZBOURN CT. #C, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94130. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SIARHEI KULBEDA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/06/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/06/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035335200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SKINLOGIC, 360A WEST PORTAL AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127 . This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHIH YU CHANG . 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 08/29/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035353400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BURKE’S GREEN LANDSCAPING, 970 GEARY ST. #44, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DENNIS BURKE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/08/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035327100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OCEAN SPA, 1608 OCEAN AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JING YI WAN. 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 08/23/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035340200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: R2 CATERING, 416 BEACH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RITA RABINOVICH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035353500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TONY D, 3150 18TH ST. #310, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANTHONY M. DICARO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/09/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035353300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOR REAL FOOD, 4672 18TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DANIEL S. WIESE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/07/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/09/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035342400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAPPIER HUMAN, 250 HEARST AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AMIT P. AMIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/03/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035346300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PRIVATE RENDEZVOUS, 427 METRO WALKWAY, RICHMOND, CA 94801. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LENORIS WALSH III. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/05/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035351600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIVE PINS PROJECT, 491A GUERRERO ST., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELISABETH GOLDSCHMIDT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/24/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/09/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035342500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRANDE MAISON DE BLANC, 340 SUTTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GRANDE MAISON DE BLANC, INC (OR). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/03/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013

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ORdER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUpERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13549757 In the matter of the application of: GARRETT ALLEN ROSS, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner GARRETT ALLEN ROSS, is requesting that the name GARRETT ALLEN ROSS, be changed to GREG ALLEN ROSSCUP. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 5th of November 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 SUMMONS (FAMIly lAW) SUpERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SANTA ClARA NOTICE TO RESpONdENT: ABdElHAKIM BENGHARBIA, yOU ARE BEING SUEd. pETITIONER’S NAME IS CHANEl NICOlE SEpUlvEdA CASE NO. 112Fl-161263 You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, 170 PARK AVE., SAN JOSE, CA 95113. The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, is: CHANEL NICOLE SEPULVEDA, 3827 NASH CT., SAN JOSE, CA 95111; (408) 712-2280. Date: APR 02, 2012. Clerk of the Superior Court, by TRANG VU, Deputy. SEpT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035356200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HENRY’S HUNAN NORTH RESTAURANT, 1398 GRANT AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DUPONT THAI, INC CA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/10/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013

ORdER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUpERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13549761 In the matter of the application of: TOBI AMYLYNN HARPER, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TOBI AMY-LYNN HARPER, is requesting that the name TOBI AMYLYNN HARPER, be changed to TOBI LYNN HARPER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 24th of October 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035351100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MUDPUPPY’S, 2414 CHESTNUT ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed JOBETTY, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/09/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035345400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEADER HOUSE, 1409 SUTTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LEADER MANAGEMENT LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/04/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/04/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-035336100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCYCLE, PIER 54 #210, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed APPAREL SOURCING AND PRODUCTION LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/29/13. SEpT 12, 19, 26, OCT 03, 2013

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ocals call the feverish heat of parties, dinners and dances that surround the gala openings of the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Opera “Hell Week.” Following hard on the heels of Labor Day and with the Jewish New Year falling right smack-dab in the middle, it was a particularly intense and pleasantly exhausting go-round for the social set this year. Of course, no one would want to start the fall any other way. For the glitterati, it is a post-vacation chance to show off the spoils of a slowly improving economy with haute couture and air kisses, and real music-lovers can party their way back into Davies Symphony Hall and the War Memorial Opera House, too, with a program book in one hand and a glass of champagne in the other. The 91st season of the San Francisco Opera couldn’t have started with a more appropriate offering. The third appearance in repertory of director Robert Carsen’s legendary production of Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele was first seen here in 1989 and most recently in 1994, but the years have done nothing to diminish its impact. The stunning musical pageant could survive another quarter-century if it continues to be curated this well. Carsen’s vision owes everything to designer Michael Levine for helping create a breathtaking blend of spectacle and entertainment. From the overwhelmingly grand Prologue in Heaven (depicted, appropriately enough, with tiers of See page 30 >>

Opening ovations by Philip Campbell

Ildar Abdrazakov as Mefistofele in San Francisco Opera’s Mefistofele.

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Scene from Pasolini’s Arabian Nights.

Pasolini, poet of cinema

Angelo Pennoni

by Erin Blackwell

he films of Pier Paolo Pasolini (192275) should be required watching for all poets, artists, filmmakers, sodomists, coprophiliacs, clowns, cannibals, Catholics, classicists, anarchists, activists, atheists, communists, industrialists, pimps, hookers, sadists, fascists, murderers, thieves, cops, lovers, and Italian speakers. Newly struck 35-mm restored prints of tutti quanti (all of them) grace the 200-seat Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley, Sept. 20-Oct. 31. This weekend the Castro Theatre and Roxie Theater show six. Pasolini is a household word, usually for the wrong reason. Salò (1975), his infamous final film, was released after his brutal murder in a Roman street. Having heard the movie was sick, abject, disgusting, I was relieved to find it’s simply exquisite torture. Much like the prose of de Sade himself, on whose 120 Days of Sodom it’s based. Where the Frenchman skewered Catholic dogma, the Italian targets fascism, aka the corpora-

tion. In the end (pun intended), all earthly powers conflate: imposing restraints, humiliations, and death on the vulnerable human bodies in their power. Salò depicts ritualistic kidnapping, torture, and murder as erotic games played by guardians of social order. For modern-day equivalents of the film’s Mussolini-era officials, look no further than the Marines of Abu Ghraib. A thrill of relevance seized me as the naked captives walk on all fours across a marble floor, leashed to armed guards. If the U.S. weren’t up to its eyeballs in state-sanctioned atrocities, I would’ve dismissed Pasolini’s vision as perversion for perversion’s sake. Instead, I hail him as a blithe messenger of abject reality. There’s a lot of coprophagia in Salò. I had to keep telling myself it was chocolate pudding. “Eating shit” is an apt allegory for iniSee page 18 >>

Jarrod Zimmerman, as South Carolina’s Edward Rutledge, sings about Northern hypocrisy ahead of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in the musical 1776 at ACT.

Spirit of ’76

Juan Davila

by Richard Dodds

’mon folks, let’s have a big hand for the Declaration of Independence. A Broadway musical pretty much focused on getting that darned document signed was a long shot in 1969, which happened to be the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Hair was the talk of the town, but it was 1776 that took home the Tony Award for best musical. Maybe it was old-guard voters not ready to surrender the Great White Way, but 1776 was its own kind of radical. Traditional musical-theater conventions were not followed by a mid-level Tin Pan Alley songwriter named Sherman Edwards (remember “Dungaree Doll!” by Eddie Fisher?), who turned out to have one Broadway musical in him. Even though it ran for an impressive 1,217 performances, 1776 is rarely re-

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vived. Frank Galati, a two-time Tony Award winner himself, saw the original production (loved it) and the subsequent movie (hated it). And there the 1776 experience lay until an artistic director in his new Florida hometown of Sarasota – Galati has been a pillar of the Chicago theater scene for decades – approached him about the Asolo Repertory Theatre’s plan to focus several seasons on the “American Experience.” Galati suggested staging 1776. Asolo’s Michael Donald Edwards didn’t really know the show, so Galati and Peter Amster, Galati’s partner of 43 years, invited Edwards over to their condo for a listen to the original cast recording. To cut to the chase, with Galati as diSee page 30 >>

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First-nighter lights the lights by Roberto Friedman

hanks to the generous good graces of our friends in the press rooms, Out There attended the glamorous openingnight galas of both San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Opera last week, the so-called “Hell Week” for city socialites and canny culture vultures. We lived to tell the tale. The Symphony’s 102nd opening gala was a satisfying celebration of music and musical community. Arts writer Philip Campbell has the critical goods in his column. In his elegant company, OT grooved on the scene and the promise of the year to come. At a press reception in Davies Symphony Hall’s Green Room, we caught up with music writers we know and read. As former SFO General Manager Lotfi Mansouri had passed away the week before, we invited pressies who had known them both to imagine

his being greeted by the late B.A.R. critic Stephanie von Buchau when he arrived in heaven – or its counterpart down below – and their putting their feet up for a session of juicy opera-world gossip. In a Hell Week for eternity. Back on this mortal coil, it was a joyous opening night at Davies, and not only in the press room. The afterparty in the Tent Pavilion erected over “Lake Louise” was all lit up – as was OT – in an eerie wash of watery blue. Outside, on the closed-off Grove Street, DJ and hot young composer Mason Bates was spinning discs for his partying music peeps. Young Master Bates never disappoints. Just two nights later OT could be found chilling at the Opera opening, and this time we divided our time and our drinking energies among the cozy press room, the Bravo Club’s preand post-performance affairs, and the Opera Guild’s Gardens of Good & Evil transpiring in City Hall. Styling

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Ildar Abdrazakov (Mefistofele) and Ramón Vargas (Faust) with the San Francisco Opera Chorus in San Francisco Opera’s Mefistofele.

Queen (2013), mixed media including fake fingernails, nail polish, barrettes, false eyelashes, costume jewelry, walnut, Swarovski crystal, by Laurel Roth.

in the open air of the Opera House’s Loggia two flights up, we looked down upon the Van Ness entrance and cheered on the vigil for LGBT Russians. There flew a rainbow flag to go with the statement of solidarity from beloved SFO star Patricia Racette and her wife Beth Clayton. It was Out There’s first encounter with composer Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele in the spectacular Robert Carsen production, starring hunky bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov, mostly with his shirt off. Go to Campbell’s wrap-up of both season openers for all the deets; we’re just here to provide local color. The Bravo-ites’ afterparty at Jardiniere was all sorts of elegant, then the Opera Ball nightcapper in City Hall got us bopping to the beat of a party band.

native. We recognized renegade collage artist Matt Gonzalez at Gallery Wendi Norris. Stand-outs from our art perusal included Pamela Wilson-Reyckman’s watercolors and Xiaoze Xie’s oils at Gallery Paule Anglim; Dawoud Bey’s “The Birmingham Project” photographs at Rena Bransten Gallery; Mike Brodie’s “A Period of Juvenile Prosperity” photographs at Stephen Wirtz Gallery; and Tomoko Konoike’s “Earthshine” installation and Laurel Roth’s “Flight of the Dodo” sculptures at Gallery Wendi Norris. Roth’s peacock sculptures are made from iridescent acrylic fingernails, nail polish, barrettes, false eyelashes, costume jewelry and Swarovski crystal. Art from all that artifice: just like the gala audiences!t

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Pasolini

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tiation into a corrupt society. The most profound of the film’s litany of shocks is its carefully maintained thrum of cognitive dissonance. Why would well-dressed people in an elegant Italian villa, accompanied by a baby grand, choose as their preferred entertainment the degradation of self and others? Anyone with an imagination will discern in these abject behaviors the corollaries of contemporary rites of passage. Before he was a filmmaker, Pasolini taught Greek and Latin to schoolboys, an occupation consistent with his later aesthetic: didactic, tragic or comic in the classical sense, invoking

Gee, it’s exhausting and exhilarating to love classical music in this town. Special thanks from the bottom of our old jalopy heart go to pros Louisa Spier, Amelia Kusar, Oliver Theil, et al. at the Symphony, and Jon Finck, Julia Inouye, Gelane Pearson, Robin Freeman et al. at the Opera. You’re all the tops, you’re the cat’s pajamas.

Art, too!

In-between gala openings, Out There and stalwart butchie Pepi made the scene at the first “First Thursday” of the season at bluechip art galleries downtown. We saw famed photographer Charles Gatewood clutch a stack of Arts & Culture sections with his photowork on the cover at Robert Tat Gallery – CG’s not gay, but he’s definitely alter-

the persistence of myth in modern lives. His arrest for solicitation of a minor led him to write Impure Acts (1948). He was a poet and novelist before making his first film, age 39, proving himself a virtuoso of visual and theatrical elements as well as narrative. Urban provocateur, rural mystic, Marxist Catholic, gay saint, devoted Mamma’s boy, PPP worked the Courtesy MoMA dialectic of dramatic situations like mind-ex- Scene from Pasolini’s Salo: the backside of human relations. panding teeter-totters. His first film, Accattone (1961), is a cinéma screen fate is to be eaten alive by pigs. verité hommage to street life in the After the revolutionary 60s, PaRoman slums, focused on the hardsolini fell back on lavishly costumed luck life of a pimp (Franco Citti) with epic comedies drawn from antique a stable of one. The theme of Postliterary classics for his Trilogy of Life War Italian Men Without a Future is (1971-74). Boccaccio’s Decameron hammered home in the masterpiece (1353) and Chaucer’s Canterbury Mamma Roma (1962), starring magTales (later 14th century) inspired nificent Anna Magnani as a retiredjoyous hymns to the pleasures and streetwalker-turned-fruit-seller who torments of pre-Enlightenment Eustrives but fails to give her son a winropeans. There’s plenty of lusty inning edge. trigue justifying naked man-on-man From such neorealist or “popular” and -woman sex, but no lesbianism works, Pasolini shifted to “unpopu(oddly consistent with Queen Viclar” Buñuel-style denunciations of toria’s view). Arabian Nights, shot in the bourgeoisie. Teorema (Theory, Iran and Yemen, features black actors. 1968), his most glamorous film, stars Then came Salò, his summation Terence Stamp as a Rimbaud-reading on the backside of human relations, houseguest who upends each memalas, prophetic of our current preber of a rich industrialist’s household, dicament as Americans. What can including the maid. See supermoda dead gay Italian teach us? Dare we elesque Sylvana Mangano’s mothertake inspiration from his creative of-two reduced to cruising for young courage to subvert the power struchunks in the family Fiat. tures that demean us? Or die tryPasolini’s most successful foray ing? This much is clear: a $50 PFA into spaghetti Greek tragedy, Oedipus membership lets you see movies at a Rex (1967), is based on Sophocles’ bargain-matinee $5.50 apiece, and it’s tragedy (429 B.C.) of a man whose good for a year.t unwitting corruption brings ruin on his country. A perennial existential Pasolini: A Film Series plays Sept. paradox. Mangano as the Queen of 14, Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., Thebes with Citti as her son and conSF, www.castrotheatre.com, $12. sort send pre-Freudian shivers down Sept. 15, Roxie Theater, 3117 16th your spine. Pig Sty (1969), the crack St., SF, www.roxie.com, $12. Sept. cocaine of agit-prop filmmaking à 20-Oct. 31, Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, (510) la française, stars Jean-Pierre Léaud 642-5249, www.bampfa.berkeley. as another rich industrialist’s son edu/filmseries/, $5.50. – spoiler alert – whose horrific off-

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20 • Bay Area Reporter • September 12–18, 2013

James Dean in the looking glass by David Lamble

punch in this town. Beatings, boots, bondage, I’ve y late friend Marty done it all. All the experiwas a natural rebel, ences that life has to ofarriving in San Francisco fer.” in the late 60s when the “Movie stars don’t visible queers hung out in hang around with the North Beach. During our dregs of the earth.” 18 years, he had sex with “I’d take the dregs over rough guys out at Ocean the powers-that-be any Beach, kept pot brownies day. I’ve had to get my in our freezer, and loved cock sucked by every big staying up late recalling name in Hollywood.” the amazing movie that “That’s how the game struck him like a thunderis played.” bolt during a stormy Ven- Scene from director Matthew Mishory’s Joshua Tree There are wonderful ice, CA adolescence. That 1951: A Portrait of James Dean. pit-stops: hypnotic demmovie was East of Eden, onstrations of how methand it featured a young od acting can tap into an man whose meteoric stared most strongly, the only one of actor’s sense memories to dom would far outlast his 24 years. Dean’s three films released during allow the emotional underpinnings Two years younger than Marty, his lifetime. Mishory’s debut feaof a scene to come alive for an auI missed out on the tidal wave of ture Joshua Tree 1951: A Portrait of dience; an extended sexual rondo yearning that James Dean’s comJames Dean premiered at Frameline between Dean and a sensitive boy plex screen persona unleashed in so in 2012 before an enthusiastic Caswho shares Jimmy’s fascination many kids hitting puberty in a time tro audience. Now on DVD (Wolfe with bull-fighting. There’s a funny of maximum repression. As Paul Video), it’s a mythic B&W take on through-line from Dean’s wanting Alexander writes in his detailed and the “lost year” when 20-year-old the gory details of a matador’s death intimate Dean bio Boulevard of BroJames Byron Dean bummed around to his initiating the boy into the joys ken Dreams, “During adolescence, Hollywood exchanging blowjobs of anal intercourse. almost every teenage boy feels sexufor professional grooming, flirting Half-a-century after his chief rially drawn to another boy at some with young women on the make, vals for greatest American film actor time. Dean played on this attraction. but really getting down-and-dirty have lost their luster, Dean remains By doing so, he embraced the uncerwith guys: his introvert roommate, forever young, forever gay, his pattain nature of sexuality, which can a casual beach pickup, and a cynical ented ability to just be onscreen now be profoundly threatening to many radio producer with a big pool and the signature of Sundance rebels people. He also actively cultivated a curious infatuation with The Little Dano, Franco and Gordon-Levitt. contradictions. He was masculine – Prince. This rough-and tumble life Following the 2012 Castro screenthere was no doubt about it – yet he is the basis for a bitterly funny desert ing, director Mishory conducted was also soft, vulnerable, feminine. chat between Dean, on the eve of his a freewheeling conversation in my The complexity in his sexuality explosive debut on Broadway and Market Street flat with two cast came through in his movie roles. In TV’s Golden Age of live dramas, and members: Dan Glenn, who delivers East of Eden he plays the wounded, a frustrated would-be starlet, Vioa discreetly tortured turn as Dean’s vengeful brother who longs to be let (Dalilah Rain), now reduced to (James Preston) friend/roommate, loved by his father, his brother’s girlgrooming hot boys for Tinseltown’s and Edward Singletary, Jr., as the friend, and his brother.” brutal powerbrokers. powerful Hollywood producer who As a child, future film director “Shouldn’t let guys hit you.” draws Dean into his circle of “kept” Matthew Mishory was drawn to “It hasn’t stopped you, has it?” golden boys; and producer Robert “Planet Dean” by his immigrant “Don’t you think you’re pushing Zimmer, Jr. Mishory explained why dad’s addiction to movies as painthe tough-guy angle a bit hard?” he set his story in the year before free English lessons. Eden resonat“Guy’s got to be able to take a Dean’s career popped. “The film is

not really a biopic, it’s a portrait set specifically in the year before Dean becomes known in any way. The question we wanted to ask is: what are the antecedents of a remarkable life, short and memorable as it might have been? “Joshua Tree [a National Park encompassing the Mojave Desert near the Inland Empire] is where generations of artists have come, from landscape painters to Gram Parsons, and found inspiration. The only place that reminded me of what it was like to be in Joshua Tree was Iceland. Both are like being on the moon. The desert becomes like the emotional landscape of the movie.” David Lamble: Dan, how did you base your character of Dean’s unnamed close friend and roommate? Dan Glenn: I read a book called Surviving James Dean by William Bast, his real roommate. This is one of the few Hollywood stories that examines the role of star-makers, groomers, and the casting couch, as it applies to young male stars-in-waiting. Matthew Mishory: Hollywood doesn’t like to demystify itself. You can draw a direct line between 1951 and 2011, when we shot the movie. Those scenes by the pool are the same. Robert Zimmer, Jr: The business of bringing young boys up into the hills and giving them “Turkish Delight” – some can take it, and some

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can’t. That’s been part of the business forever. Mishory: Hollywood is a machine that eats people alive. Sometimes they’re lucky enough to come out the other end. That’s really James Dean’s story. Zimmer: James Dean was a hologram, meaning a single object that, depending on the angle you observe it from, appears completely different. This guy was so many different people, and he was authentically each one of those people. Mishory: He steamrolled through people’s lives, and though he may have made a brief impression, it was always an indelible one.t Extras include a theatrical trailer and a short film, Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman.

Hot for teacher by Jim Piechota

he shadowy cover drawing for Pulitzer Prize finalist Susan Choi’s fourth novel My Education is perfectly suited to the melodrama unfolding just within its covers. The artwork depicts a young girl sitting up in bed in the middle of the night, arms crossed, obviously in deep thought and appearing at odds with the person fast asleep right next to her. It’s moody and ominous, much like the story itself. This is an emotionally complicated yarn about a nubile, precocious graduate student named Regina Gottlieb and the mess she embroils herself in upon lusting after Nicholas Brodeur, her swaggering, 40-something literature professor whose “attractiveness was mixed up with a great deal of ridiculousness,” with his filthy, spiked blond hair and blacked-out lenses. Then there’s Martha, the 33-yearold wife of Nicholas, who sweeps Regina’s attention (and intense affections) for this teacher du jour right out from under her. A swift and clandestine girl-on-girl kiss after an alcohol-soaked dinner party seals the deal for the women, though each one will suffer the consequences of an ill-planned and ill-fated affair of the heart. The Kiss marks an unexpected detour in the novel’s early pages, though it opens up a Pandora’s Box of narrative possibilities. Choi seems to revel in them. The author is currently a professor at Princeton University and is obviously adept at writing about college life and academia. A former fact-checker for The New Yorker, Choi’s third novel A Person of Inter-

est was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. It drew upon the Unabomber case and a group of aging academics fumbling their way through a tragic terrorist act on campus. What’s most interesting in My Education are Choi’s characterizations of Regina and Martha. One is a fledgling virgin-ofsorts in her refusal to be categorized or boxed in by a “lesbian” label – she is just in love, and the fact that it’s with another woman seems immaterial. Martha, on the other hand, is older, wiser, and as such, fully able to seize upon and fret over the guilt bubbling to the surface of her marriage to Nicholas. There are wildly different levels of maturity at play here, with notes of devotion and disharmony woven through their complicated relationship. Choi’s descriptions of the women’s sexual adventures are a highpoint as well. The pair began “caressing and heaving our guttering breaths,” she writes, “and passing from solemn surrender to dismayed embarrassment to embarrassed bemusement to solemnity again, as if all our foreignness to each other were encompassed in the ambit of a cheek.” Also of note is the book’s conclusion, flash-forwarded 15 years after their initial intercourse, and finding Regina facing middle age, her own heterosexual marriage, and her own realization that the term “growing older” has more to do with growing than physically aging. Choi’s story, told in carefully developed sentences, explores the innocence and spontaneity of youth, the power of sex and attraction, and how the choices we make now and those we’ve already made can intersect and twist the knife into beautifully tragic heartbreak.t

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Castro Theatre to honor iconic actress by David-Elijah Nahmod

“ he’s the queen of the offbeat,” producer Marc Huestis said of his late friend Karen Black. “For those of us that are on ‘the Island of Misfit Toys,’ she’s the Queen.” Black passed away at age 74 on August 8, after a long battle with cancer. On Wednesday, September 18, Huestis will host a tribute to Black at the historic Castro Theatre. The program will include Five Easy Pieces (1970), the counter-culture classic that earned Black an Oscar nomination. It will screen at 7 p.m., followed by a 9:10 p.m. showing of Burnt Offerings (1976), the ghostly chiller from producer/director Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows). Burnt Offerings co-stars screen legend Bette Davis and is a Bay Area production: it was filmed at the elegant, creepy Dunsmuir House in Oakland. Black first rose to prominence in Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider (1969). The road movie, now considered a revolutionary classic, also introduced audiences to Jack Nicholson, Black’s Five Easy Pieces co star. For nearly a decade, Black enjoyed great success as a Hollywood A-lister. She had lead-

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Actress Karen Black with Castro Theatre impresario Marc Huestis.

ing roles in Family Plot (1976), the swansong of Alfred Hitchcock, and became a camp icon as the stewardess who couldn’t fly the plane (but did) in Airport ’75. She also starred in highbrow literary adaptations of novels like The Day of the Locust (1976) and The Great Gatsby (1974). “I first got to know Karen Black in

England when we played sisters in The Great Gatsby,” recalled actress Kathryn Leigh Scott. “She was a wonderful, inventive actress, with a joyful spirit. She loved her work and brought to life a wide range of memorable roles. Personally, her buoyancy and enthusiasm made her a delight to know.” “She was very committed to ev-

Typewritten on the wind by David Lamble

n a late summer bid to max out their Oscar derby odds, the Weinstein Brothers have put their money on Populaire, an eccentric but charming French romantic comedy. Its premise is that things were so boring in Normandy circa 1959 that a young lady’s heart could be won by a roguish boss with a rather fantastic ambition. Hoping to avoid her grumpy shopkeeper dad’s plan to marry her up their provincial village’s narrow social ladder, Rose Pamphyle (Deborah Francois) auditions for the position of secretary to playboy insurance agent Louis Echard (Romain Duris). Rose, klutzy at most mundane office tasks (illustrated by a farcical episode with a paper shredder), does have one killer skill. She’s a demon-speed two-finger typist, a feat for which this one-finger guy has genuine non-ironic admiration. Louis leaps upon the possibilities as if he’s somehow stumbled across a breed of dog with an inside track to best-in-show at Westminster. The debut effort from director Regis Ro-

insard (with co-writers Daniel Presley and Romain Compaingt), Populaire (the title refers to a typewriter brand) leans heavily on the pseudo50s conceit of “good girls” playing a Doris Day-style virginity card against the Hugh Hefner version of a suave boss playing the field. His ideal embodiment was Cary Grant or, in what may be hard now for us to swallow, the closeted Rock Hudson. At its best, Populaire restores what true romantics used to go to the movies for: the messy physical specificity of sex banished in favor of an adult woman fantasizing for a “real man,” not a tweener’s boy-band crush. It helps if the plot provides double entendre moments that can be suggestive for some but pure as an afternoon bubble-bath for others. The film benefits hugely from a first-rate production team (director of photography Guillaume Schiffman, production designer Sylvie Olive, and costume designer Charlotte David), who provide a hypnotic look that pops. But the real scene-stealers in this fantasy concoction are the candycolored manual typewriters that

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Romain Duris and Deborah Francois in director Regis Roinsard’s Populaire, opening Friday in the Bay Area.

we can imagine a 50s girl loving as madly as we do our iPads and iPhones. In some ways, Populaire is an illustration of the subliminal links between an era’s most beloved gadgets and its deepest libidinal dilemmas. The makers of Populaire succeed in showcasing machines that excited women as definitively as Barry Levinson’s underappreciated 1987 comedy Tin Men did for boy/ men infatuated with Cadillac tailfins. The movie stumbles in its nearly

erything she did,” Huestis said. Huestis should know. He considers his onstage interview with Black at the Castro Theatre to be the best interview he’s ever conducted. “She gave audiences what they wanted, without pandering,” he said. “There was a comfort level. It was like an improv piece, and she got wacky! I brought up the fact that one of her recent directors had slept with my business partner, and she was so happy when I said that! It’s the kind of thing that could only be said at the Castro!” The actress was remembered with love by her husband, Stephen Eckelberry, who graciously agreed to e-chat with the B.A.R. He was delighted to hear that Five Easy Pieces was part of the Castro program. “It’s the quintessential statement of post-hippie ennui,” he said in an e-mail. “It captured the zeitgeist of the moment: all is not right with the Me generation, and we are screwed. It is brilliant in that it has an almost improvisatory feel, and yet it was all scripted. Karen and Jack were at the top of their form.” Eckelberry also gave high marks to the evening’s other film. “Burnt Offerings is one of the best hauntedhouse movies ever made,” he said.

“In no small part that’s due to Karen’s ability to convince you that yes, you can become the soul of a house! Had it been an art-house film, Karen would surely have been nominated.” From the 1980s onward, Black’s star in Hollywood dimmed slightly. Yet she worked steadily in dozens of films, often in low-budget, independent, direct-to-DVD fare. No matter what the role, she never “phoned it in.” “She was real,” said Huestis. “She was able to make herself look wild and crazy, or sad and vulnerable, or even ugly. This was something an actress who was concerned about their star persona would not have allowed themselves to do.” “Karen’s legacy is her work,” said her husband. “Her unflinching instinct was to stick with what she thought was true about her character and what she wanted that character to convey to the audience. Her light and fresh performances were built on foundations of iron-willed discipline and preparation.”t

two-hour running time in that it’s not supported by a sufficient number of diverting subplots. The real fault lies in one of its stars. While Deborah Francois shines as a young woman who figures out how to capitalize on her nimble finger skills without giving into her wolfish boss, Romain Duris is oddly stiff and unconvincing as the manipulative lothario. Duris, so deliciously right as the would-be concert pianist dragged down by a gangster dad in The Beat

That My Heart Skipped, here feels like a Johnny One-Note. He seems an actor whose dark soul belongs at the center of a very different movie. Since George Clooney 1) isn’t French, and 2) was otherwise engaged in an interplanetary thriller, perhaps one of Duris’ earlier co-stars, Louis Garrel (his sulky younger brother in Christophe Honore’s family comedy Dans Paris), might have better navigated the tricky footwork of a non-threatening fantasy phantom lover.t

Tribute to Karen Black will take place on Wed., Sept. 18, 7 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., SF. www.castrotheatre.com

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22 • Bay Area Reporter • September 12–18, 2013

Lives of foster kids hanging in the balance by Rachel Pepper

To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam; Houghton Mifflin, $26 it crits have always said to write about what you know. If this is the case, then Cris Beam is the queer writer trustworthy of both critiquing and humanizing the lumbering, regressive system known as American foster care. Beam, who left her own neglectful mother at 14, has long considered the effects of this loss on her own psyche. It has had an impact on what she has written and life choices she has made. When she was a young teacher in New York City, she responded to a student’s crisis by bringing the youth home to live with her and her (now ex-) partner. What seemed like a simple solution – lesbian teacher helps trans teen avoid a group home, stabilize in a loving family, and finish school – became an issue for the state. Beam wasn’t licensed as a foster parent, and soon found herself immersed in a regulatory system, all to save a child. Beam and her ex went on to adopt the teen, who is now herself a successful adult, But while that story had a happy ending, most kids, whether heterosexual or LGBT-identified, don’t have that kind of luck. Beam is known to LGBT readers as the author of the Lambda Literary

Award-winning Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers and the novel I am J, about a young transboy’s coming of age in New York. Although a trans youth inspired Beam’s own journey into parenthood, To the End of June casts a much wider lens on a complex issue. The U.S. spends close to $20 billion a year on foster care, mostly to manage removal of children from neglectful or abusive homes, and

pays to house them elsewhere until they “age out” or are adopted. Teenagers do not usually fare well in this system. Half of all teens in foster care end up in group homes or locked facilities, most end up unemployed as adults, and 30% percent of all the young men end up incarcerated by age 19. One statistic states that almost half of all the homeless adults in the U.S. were former foster children. While many children do get adopted if removed from their families as babies or while young, once that child begins to grow up, odds are that they will never have or know the secure attachment and acceptance of a permanent family. Beam spent five years researching To the End of June, spending time in the lives of six foster families and among a total of 22 foster children, mainly in New York. This type of long-term reporting yields results. Beam is able to tackle big topics like the evolution of the care system, financial incentives for states to keep kids in care, the effects of the media and political winds of change on foster policies, the intersections between race and poverty and child

removal, how social worker retention influences family outcomes, how academics and front-line workers disagree on policy, the inherent conflict between birth parents and those who raise their children, intergenerational cycles of abuse and neglect, the need for more “therapeutic” care for traumatized children, and how thinking creatively, while not always system-supported, may save kids’ lives. Beam also explores current changes in national foster-care policy such as the new “waiver” model that allows states to provide more preventative family support (family therapy, housing, substance treatment for parents) before necessitating removal of children from their homes. By focusing on family services and prevention, the rates of removal, and thus the numbers of kids in care, are already going down. While all this is necessary education for readers, the story shines most brightly when Beam focuses on the struggles and triumphs of a few specific families. Featured in most detail are Bruce and Allyson Green, a Brooklyn couple who foster several teenagers. LGBT parents are highlighted prominently, including Shawn and Marty, a gay male couple, and a single older lesbian named Mary. Although Mary’s original intent was to open a group home for young lesbians, social service agencies apparently could not locate any

lesbian teens for her. So Mary ended up taking in a sibling group and a bevy of young adults, most of whom had already “aged out” of care, but still craved an adult mentor and a stable place to call home. Foster care in the US is definitely a broken system. Given that the lives of many children hang in the balance each day, this system is deserving of and must be improved. Beam’s intimate immersion into this system, as both a parent and an author, has brought great empathy and insight into a world many people never contemplate. Beam’s book will likely help change hearts and minds, and hopefully, social policy. Yet its impact will be no mere coincidence, especially when you consider the recent publication of Andrew Solomon’s award-winning Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, an in-depth cultural analysis of parenting informed by his own identity as a gay father. This newly developing but already influential literary wave, led by LGBT writers who have become parents, will continue to produce analytic works of great cultural and social impact. These books, and the changes they bring, will profoundly improve the way all Americans, gay and straight, choose to parent their children. Cris Beam’s To the End of June will be remembered as an early and critical voice in this movement.t

Sizzling soundtracks by Gregg Shapiro

t’s fitting that the Talking Heads’ “Life During Wartime” is the opening track on CBGB: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Omnivore). After all, the notorious nightclub that launched countless musical careers, including Talking Heads’, is namechecked in the song with the line, “This ain’t no Mudd Club or CBGB.” The 20 period tracks, including “Careful” by Television, “Blank Generation” by Richard Hell & The Voidoids, “Out of Control” by (a pre-Jayne County) Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, “I Can’t Stand It” by the Velvet Underground and “Caught with the Meat in Your Mouth” by Dead Boys, do a decent job of representing the era. If the movie, starring Alan Rickman as Hilly Kristal and Malin Akerman as Debbie Harry (!), is as good as the soundtrack, then punk rockers worldwide have nothing to fear. Talking Heads and Lou Reed (of the Velvet Underground) also appear on 20 Feet from Stardom: Music from the Motion Picture (Columbia), but their presence has less to do with them than the women singing backup on their songs “Slippery People” and “Walk on the Wild Side.” The (mainly) “colored girls” going, “Doo do doo do doo do do doo” are the subject of Morgan Neville’s enlightening doc about the powerful vocalists relegated to the background and out of the spotlight for too long. You’ll have to see the movie to hear them tell their fascinating and moving stories, but you can hear Merry Clayton, Darlene Love, Lisa Fischer and others singing back-up and solo on this fabulous 13-song soundtrack.

Beginning with Strictly Ballroom, his first (and best) movie, Baz Luhrmann made it clear that music would play a significant role in his work. That remained true in Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, as well as his latest, The Great Gatsby, now available on DVD and Blu-ray. Music from Baz Luhrmann’s Film The Great Gatsby (Interscope) is a considerable improvement on the movie. The ubiquitous and usually annoying Jay Z and Will.I.Am are tolerable on “$100 Bills” and “Bang Bang.” But there are better songs on this soundtrack. They include Beyonce and Andre 3000’s languorous reading of Amy Winehouse’s “Back in Black,” the straight disco of “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody” by Fergie, Q Tip and Goonrock, the dramatic “Young and Beautiful” by Lana Del Rey, the retro interpretation of “Crazy in Love” by Emeli Sande and the Bryan Ferry Orchestra, as well as great contributions from queer acts such as Sia (“Kill and Run”) and The XX (“Together”). The music supervisors behind Behind the Candelabra: Music from the HBO Original Film (Elektra) could have taken the easy way out, filling up the soundtrack album to the Liberace biopic with tunes performed by the flamboyant yet tragic pianist. To their credit, they went the extra mile and included actual film dialogue. From Matt Damon’s intro as Scott Thorson in “Liberace Fanfare” to Michael Douglas’ Liberace speaking in “The Liberace Boogie,” “Why Do I Love You” and the unexpectedly touching “The Impossible Dream,” Behind the Candelabra feels authentically connected to the film, now available on DVD. As Liberace himself said, “Too much of a good thing is wonderful.”

The outlook for the fall 2013 film slate looks promising. That’s good because, for the most part, the movies released during the spring and summer were major disappointments. One of the biggest surprises and delights was the apocalyptic stoner comedy This Is The End, co-written and directed by the movie’s star Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The music on This Is The End: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (RCA) runs the gamut from Backstreet Boys to Whitney Houston, but is primarily focused on hip-hop. Legendary acts such as KRS-One and Cypress Hill represent, but Snoop Dogg (aka Snoop Lion) teams up with Craig Robinson (who appears in the movie) for laughs on “Take Yo Panties Off.” The list of various artists on Stuck in Love: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Varese Sarabande) and Save the Date: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Lakeshore) read like a hipster Who’s Who. Save the Date features songs by Wilco and Class Act, not to mention a vintage and timely track by Giorgio Moroder. Stuck in Love is comprised of the score written and performed by Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott, as well as selections by Conor Oberst, Bright Eyes and Elliott Smith, among others. It’s been years since Disney had a memorable or hit song from one of its movies. So who can blame them for wanting to celebrate (read: recycle) their former glories with a 20-track compilation in the Now series titled Now That’s What I Call Disney (Walt Disney Records). Going back to 1937 (“Someday My Prince Will Come” from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) and wrapping it up in 2010 (“I See rhe Light” from Tangled), the collection has some worthwhile selections, including “The Bare Necessities” (The Jungle Book), “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes” (Cinderella), “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” (Toy Story), “Bella Notte” (Lady and the Tramp) and “Circle of Life” (The Lion King). But, as is the case with anthologies, there are also throwaways that weigh down the project, including songs from Cars, Mulan, The Aristocats, Hercules and Lilo & Stitch.t

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Young master & young maestro by Tim Pfaff

very now and then, a CD’s cover perfectly captures its contents. On a new release of Schubert’s Third and Fourth Symphonies with the Freiburger Barockorchester (Harmonia Mundi), we see conductor Pablo Heras-Casado mid-air in full leap at what appears to be the top of a staircase. That sense of buoyancy, even derring-do, pervades these readings of two “early” adventures in a form that the almost certainly gay Schubert was soon enough to master and even transform. Tempting as it is to say that this is a young man’s view of a young man’s music, the numbers prevaricate if they do not outright lie. Heras-Casado, 35, is already nearly four years older than Schubert was when he died. Both were, to indulge another understatement, Wunderkinder, and “old” before their time. Heras-Casado, who returns to Davies Hall to lead the SF Symphony in pretty standard orchestral repertoire in early October, is already as wellknown for his work in the opera pit (he’s the conductor of Placido Domingo’s new CD of Verdi Baritone Arias) with historical period-instrument orchestras, and with top-flight contemporary-music ensembles. As I write he is leading the prestigious and adventurous Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra – with which he is practically an eminence gris – replacing no less than an ailing Pierre Boulez. In the first of the two concerts, there are two world premieres, none of the composers represented is dead, and one is Pierre Boulez. In the new Schubert symphonies

Harmonia Mundi

Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado.

CD, he has the irreplaceable gift of making neither too little nor too much of them. They were composed for an ensemble assembled by the violinist Joseph Prohaska, in which Shubert sometimes played viola, and they’re of a (hidden) difficulty that places them well beyond the range of the student musicians for whom Schubert composed his first symphony. Here they have ideal proponents in the superb Freiburg Barockorchester, an ace period-instrument ensemble for which this is rather late repertoire. Hearing them in the natural balances only such instruments can achieve, it’s hard to imagine these works hitting the same mark in a concert by a modern symphony orchestra – though this recording could do much to bring the pieces back into the active repertoire. The bubbling, dottednote flute passages in the Allegro con

brio section of the Third’s first movement are just one example among hundreds of subtle sonorities that really do emerge con brio. (The winds throughout are entrancing.) Heras-Casado favors brisk tempos throughout, yet the music consistently feels more savored than rushed. His gift is finding the ideal shape for music that could, in lesser hands (he conducts without baton), bog down in the confectioner’s detail of it all. Rhythms are determined by phrase shapes, shift subtly from section to section, and partake of a rubato of the most refined kind. Inconspicuous yet felt, little breaths between phrases keep the music airborne. Heras-Casado capitalizes on the works’ big moments without somehow diminishing the less flashy music that frames them. The wild tarantella that ends the Third feels as if it could, at any moment, break free of the field of gravity, but it’s captivatingly held in place by the staccato repeated notes that pepper the music from all sections. The offkilter, galumphing Minuet of the Fourth Symphony, which Schubert himself named the “Tragic,” is in itself an extravagant balancing act that not even a band as expert as the Friebergers could have brought off without the deft leadership of Heras-Casado, who ties it to the fleet, final Allegro, with its darker digressions. These symphonies come off slight and peppy at first acquaintance, but they’re habitforming and offer more with every hearing. Half of the music on Schubert: Complete works for violin and piano

Argentine firecracker by Ernie Alderete

uuLiiancito Matiias is the Argentine Firecracker. He’s a very sexy 18-year-old exhibitionist twink who lives along the banks of the Rio de la Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I’ve been following his posts on Facebook for several weeks. His excitement at finally turning 18 years old this year and being able to vote for the first time in the recent national elections in his country was contagious. I couldn’t tell you who he voted for, or even who was running. But I enjoyed his exuberance at becoming a fully functioning citizen in the body politic. It reminded me not only about my first vote many years ago, but about how politics animated me so much more in my innocent youth than in my jaded present. To celebrate his coming of legal age, JuuLiiancito Matiias recorded a brief video of himself swallowing a huge dildo down his throat. It was quite a sensual performance, and only the first of many to follow. You might think people seek out a handsome young man like JuuLiiancito Matiias, but it’s really to the contrary. He trolls group after group on Facebook and literally begs older men, or tios as he call us, his beloved “uncles,” to add him. Because he is blocked by Facebook, he can’t send private messages or initiate friendship requests. As if Facebook were his school, and he were in eternal detention. He thrives on the attention older men shower on him. And for no monetary gain, he does it all for free. Just for the sheer joy of it. He doesn’t even ask us to chip in to buy all those wonderfully skimpy bikini briefs he dazzles us in. Ask him to do something for you, and he just might do it. In our brave new millennium, all you need is a smart phone like his to make you an international broadcaster and the

JuuLiiancito Matiias at home in Buenos Aires.

toast of an entire continent. JuuLiiancito Matiias seems to be his two-part first name, or handle. He says he only speaks Spanish, but I’ve seen him tackle a few lines in English, in particular in reference to the core of his heart, Madonna. He absolutely adores our homegrown Material Girl. The digital age seems to have expanded the global range of our

English language, and Facebook in particular has had an impact on the Spanish language. Spanish speakers are now just as likely to say “pliss,” the English word “please” spelled phonetically, as “por favor.” So hurry over to Facebook, and send JuuLiiancito Matiias a friendship request. He accepts all requests, and he’s eagerly awaiting yours. Tell him Madonna sent you.t

(Hyperion), with violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cedric Tiberghien, is contemporaneous with those symphonies, i.e., the work of the teenage Schubert. The sonatas were written for amateurs (music “lovers,” originally), but the evidence is that pre-device home musicians were more accomplished then. Still, virtuoso musicians make a difference, and Ibragimova and Tiberghien, a fine duo with considerable experience playing together, bring big techniques and, perhaps more important, a strong point of view to these pieces. By the A Major Sonata, D574, the music is unmistakably Schubertian, and the pair make the most of its innate lyricism. But the reason to investigate

this set is the pair of late works – a Rondo in B Minor and a Fantasy in C Major – that bring it to such a compelling close. Both were inspired by the young violinist Josef Slavik, and, different as the works are, the sense of their being tailored to a particular artist is strong. They’re big, ambitious, imaginative works given strong, bravura performances here. The pianist is always as important a figure as the violinist, and Tiberghien announces major Schubertian credentials. I concede that I don’t yet hear the marvel others do in Ibragimova – I brace at the tone, the raw sound – but there’s no escaping that there’s major musicianship going on here, with all these young musicians.t

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24 • Bay Area Reporter • September 12–18, 2013

Thu 19

Square Dancing @ Harvey Milk Rec. Center

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi

LGBT and friends square-dancing party. Free. 7pm. Also Sept 19. 50 Scott St. 5548742. www.sfrecpark.org

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

Tablehoppers’ Gay Singles @ MKT Enjoy a delicious food and wine social event for gay single men (somewhere between 35-55); it’s a combo of easier speed dating, wine-tasting and food in a stylish hotel with a view; 40-guest limit. $95. 7pm-9:45pm. Four Seasons Hotel Bar, fifth floor, 757 Market St. at Grant. www.tablehopper.com

Will Roscoe @ Books Inc. The Lambda Literary Award-winning author reads from and discusses the updated edition of his spirituality book, Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of SameSex Love. 7pm. 2275 Market St. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

Blondie

Old is New by Jim Provenzano

You know the song, and if you don’t, some tween pop star will sample it soon enough. Classic tragedies get staged in perfectly fitting outdoor arenas (Macbeth, Fri. 13) or in-

Thu 12 1776 @ Geary Theatre American Conservatory Theatre’s new production of Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s multiple Tony Award-winning 1969 musical about America’s founding fathers and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Bike valet parking Sept. 11. LGBT night with after-party Sept. 25. $20-$87. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 6. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Adam Ant @ Regency Ballroom The 80s pop singer’s back, performing old and new songs; Prima Donna opens. $29$32. 8pm. 1290 Sutter St. at Van Ness Ave. (888) 929-7849. theregencyballroom.com

Bill Frizell @ SF Jazz Center Accomplished experimental jazz guitarist performs with a different guest each of three nights. $18-$65. 7:30pm. Sept 12 with Geri Allen and Greg Osby. Sept 13 with Thomas Morgan and Petra Haden. Sept 14 (2pm) with cartoonist Jim Woodring. Sept 15, 7pm with several artists. 201 Franklin St. (866) 920-5299. www.sfjazz.org

Bonnie & Clyde @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Players performs Adam Peck’s dramatic adaptation of the story of the infamous Southern bank-robbing couple. $20-$35. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Sept. 29. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Buried Child @ Magic Theatre Previews begin for the revival production of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a truly messed up family. $20-$60. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2:30pm. Opens Sept 19. Thru Oct 6. Fort Mason Center, Bldg. D, 3rd floor, 2 Marina Blvd. 441-8822. www.magictheatre.org

door (1776, and a revival of Buried Child, Thu. 12). 80s pop stars make a comeback (Adam Ant, Thu. 12) or a farewell tour (Blondie, Thu. 19). Yes, everything old is new again.

Michael Feinstein @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Classy jazz-pop singer-pianist performs his new act, “Swingin’ Back Home,” at the new cabaret venue he brought to San Francisco. $30-$65. Tue-Fri 8pm. Sat & Sun 7pm. Thru Sept. 15. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1111. hotelnikkosf.com

New and Classic Films @ Castro Theatre Double features include, Sept 12: Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 The Kid (3:30, 7:15) and Robert Downey Jr in the 1991 biopic Chaplin (4:15, 8:25). Sept 13: The Manchurian Candidate (7pm) and Scanners (9:30). Sept 14, Pier Pasolini films Mamma Roma (4pm), Medea, starring Maria Callas (6:30pm), The Decameron (9:30pm). Sept 15: F.T.A. (2pm), Monterey Pop (4pm), Last Year at Marienbad (7pm) and the original Carnival of Souls (8:50). Sept 16: The Singularity, with director Doug Wolens post-screening Q&A. Also Butterfly (2pm, 6pm) and Weed (12pm-10pm). Sept 17, Morrissey 25: Live (2:30, 4:45, 7pm. 9:15). Sept 18: Karen Black Tribute with Five Easy Pieces (7pm) and Burnt Offerings (9:10). Sept 19, two Italian past and recent serious classics; Umberto D. (7pm) and Gomorrah (8:45). $8.50-$12. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Patricia Kaas @ Masonic Hall Singer performs her Edith Piaf musical tribute, which includes an orchestra, stage sets, video and Piaf archival footage. $58$112. 8pm. 1111 California St. patriciakaas.net masonicauditorium.com

SF Fringe Festival @ Exit Theatre Expansive line-up of solo, one-act and fulllength plays with unusual themes. $10-$75 (10-show pass) Cash only at the door; no late admittance. Various times thru Sept 21. 156 Eddy St. 673-3847. sffringe.org

Wesla Whitfield @ Hotel Rex Society Cabaret presents the Bay Area jazz vocalist, performing her new collection of songs, Street of Dreams. $45-$75. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. 562 Sutter St. www.societycabaret.com

Fri 13 After the Revolution @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Amy Herzog’s drama about a woman who discovers her family’s history isn’t the proud radical tradition she thought it was. $32-$60. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm, & 7pm. Thru Sept. 29. 2801 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

All’s Well That Ends Well @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael Marin Shakespeare Company’s production of The Bard’s romantic comedy of mixed and missed affections. $20-$37.50. 8pm. Fri-Sun 8pm. Thru Sept 28. 890 Belle Ave, Dominican University of California, San Rafael. www.marinshakespeare.org

American Dream @ New Conservatory Theatre Center World premiere of Brad Erickson’s drama about a recently-out architect who falls in love with a Mexican school teacher; a serious yet sometimes funny drama about marriage and immigration rights. $22-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 15. 25 Van Ness Ave at Market. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Arousal, The Lover @ Phoenix Theatre Annex Two one-acts about straight romantic couples with an unusual edge; George Pfirrmann’s new play, and Harold Pinter’s darkly comic piece. $10-$25. Fri, Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 28. 414 Mason St. 6th floor. 289-2000. www.viragotheatre.org

Band Fags @ New Conservatory Theatre Center West Coast premiere of Frank Anthony Polito’s stage adaptation of his witty novel about gay teenagers at a 1980s Detroit high school marching band. $25-$45. WedSat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Previews. Opening night Sept. 21. Thru Oct 13. 25 Van Ness Ave at Market. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Fri 13

Comedy Bodega @ Esta Noche

Former member of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets performs goth rock faves; also, Sky Parade, The Cellar Doors and DJ Jay Tibbs. $15. 7:30pm. 21+. 2170 Market St. 861-5016. www.davidjonline.com www.cafedunord.com

Gay Rodeo Fundraiser @ Balancoire Galilea and Daft-Nee Gesuntheit cohost a fundraiser for the Golden State Gay Rodeo Association, with prizes, raffles, Jell-O shots. 8pm-12am. 2565 Mission St. 9200577. www.balancoiresf.com

Macbeth @ Fort Point We Players, the innovative site-specific theatre company, performs Shakespeare’s haunting “Scottish play” at the former military outpost. Be forewarned: this three-hour production is mostly outdoors, at night, where it’s cold and damp (how appropriate!), with stairs and multiple locations (special needs/wheelchair access; call in advance). Oh, and it’s violent, so don’t bring kids. $30-$60. Discounted Thursdays $45. Thu-Sun thru Oct. 6. 1 Marine Drive. 547-0189. www.WePlayers.org

Orlando @ Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley TheatreFirst performs Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s genderbending novel. $15-$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Sept. 15. 2-for-1 ticket special for opening weekend. 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. (510) 981-8150. www.theatrefirst.com

Wanda Sykes @ Uptown Theatre, Napa The out lesbian comic tells it like it is, with bold brash up-front comedy. $55-$70. 8pm. 18+. 1350 Third St., Napa. (707) 2590123. www.uptowntheatrenapa.com

The Worlds of Bernice Bing @ de Young Museum Screening of the short documentary film about the Chinese American lesbian visual artist’s life; post-screening Q&A with local artists and art scholars. Free with museum admission (free-$15). 7pm. Koret Auditorium, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Sat 14 Bay One-Acts Festival @ Tides Theatre Annual festival presents world premieres of more than a dozen works by local and other U.S. playwrights. $20-$40. Various dates and times thru Oct. 5. 533 Sutter St. 2nd floor. 240-3431. www.BayOneActs.org

Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Enjoy the exhibit of vintage prints, taken by the gay Beat poet, of his friends Jack Kerouac and others. Also, Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art, part of the SF MOMA’s off-site collaborative exhibits; thru Oct 27. 2pm-5pm. Free (members)-$12. Thu-Tue 11am-5pm (Thu 1pm-8pm) 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

Thu 12 Can You Dig It? @ The Marsh Berkeley Don Reed’s autobiographical solo show explores the 1960s: Beatles, Black Panthers, MLK, JFK and the KKK. $20-$50. Sat 8:30pm and Sun 7pm thru Oct. 27. 2120 Allston Way. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Capacitor @ Aquarium of the Bay Okeanos, an aquatic dance show, is performed by the creative Bay Area dancetheatre team. $15-$30. 7pm. Saturdays thru Sept. Pier 39 at Embarcadero. 6235300. www.capacitor.org www.aquariumofthebay.org

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

Faux Queen Pageant @ Slim’s Annual competition for women who perform in female drag, with MCs Heklina and Windy Plains, with celeb judges Lady Satan, Martiny, Brandi Amara Skyy, Deena Davenport, Ruby Toosday, Trixxie Carr, Holy McGrail, and Kegel Kater. $15-$20. 8pm. 333 11th St. fauxqueenpageant.brownpapertickets.com

Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival @ Ghiraedelli Square The annual two-day celebration of all things chocolate includes tastings in the chocolate and wine pavilion, an ice cream eating contest, tours and lectures on the chocolate-making process, chef demos, and a silent auction of delicious items; proceeds benefit Project Open Hand. $20-$125. 12pm-5pm. Also Sept. 15. 900 North Point St. www.ghirardelli.com/chocolatefestival

Golden Gate Ball @ The Arc of San Francisco Crowning pageant of Mr. and Ms. Golden Gate is also a fundraiser for the Imperial Court; includes food, no-host bar, a drag show, and courtly festivities. $25. 5pm10pm. 1500 Howard St. www.thearcsf.org

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

Thu 12

Camelot @ SF Playhouse Local production of Lerner and Loewe’s hit Broadway musical about King Arthur, Guinevere and his court, stars Tony Award winner Wilson Jermaine Heredia (with composer & playwrights’ estates’ approved edits and additional songs). $25-$75. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm. Thru Sept 21. 450 Post St. (2nd floor, Kensington Park Hotel). 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Labayen Dance Company @ ODC Theater 18th annual season of new dances features works by Enrico Labayen, Anandha Ray, Laura Bernasconi & Victor Talledos; plus guest dancers Suzanne Saltmarsh formerly of Martha Graham Dance Company, Ismael Acosta from Mexico & Sandrine Cassini formerly of Paris Opera. $20-$25. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Sept. 17. 3152 17th St. 863-9834. www.labayendancecompany.com

The dance-theatre trio performs Monkey Gone to Heaven, a work about faith and our primate ancestors. $20. Fri-Sun 8pm. Thru Sept. 22. 1310 Mission St. 626-2060. www.counterpulse.org

Opening reception for the two artists’ solo exhibits of modern takes on occult, ritual and primitive artforms. Reception 7pm10pm. Reg. hours Tue-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 2700 19th St. 400-5168. Thru Oct. 1. www.GuerreroGallery.com

David J @ Café DuNord

SF Fringe Festival

EmSpace Dance @ CounterPulse

Ben Venom, Lucien Shapiro @ Guerrero Gallery

Marga Gomez hosts the weekly LGBT- and queer-friendly comedy night at the Mission club. No cover; one-drink min. 8pm. 3079 16th St. www.comedybodega.com

Wesla Whitfield

Macbeth Mark Kitaoka

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Here and Then @ ODC Dance Studio B Tim Rubel’s Human Shakes perform a dance installation dedicated to Harvey Milk, with an original score by Gabriel Todd. $17-$23. 8pm. Also sept. 15. 351 Shotwell St. 863-9834. www.humanshakes.com

Live in the Castro @ Jane Warner Plaza New twice-weekly (Sat & Sun) live outdoor music concerts presented by the Castro/ Upper Market Community Business District. Free. Castro St. at Market. 5001181. www.castrocbd.org

Northern California Renaissance Faire @ Casa de Fruta, Hollister Annual festive olden time-themed weekend faire, with performances, music, crafts, food, ale, women in busty dresses and men in capes and codpieces. $25 (single day) - $150 (all-season pass). 10am-6pm, with Celtic rock concerts many Sat. nights. Sat & Sun thru Oct. 13. 10031 Pacheco Pass Highway, Hollister. (408) 847-FAIR. www.norcalrenfaire.com

Our Vast Queer Past @ GLBT History Museum See the new exhibit, The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus: Celebrating 35 Years of Activism Through Song, which includes archival materials from the historic chorus, lead-curated by Tom Burtch, with a touch-screen display by multimedia producer John Raines. Opening reception Sept. 19, 7pm. Also, Be Bad…Do Good: Activism With a Beat, a multimedia exhibit highlighting the history of the Real Bad benefit dance parties, which have raised nearly $1.7 million for local nonprofits. Thru Oct. 27. Other permanent exhibits as well. Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am-7pm (closed Tue.) Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistory.org

Sun 15 The Cyrus Cylinder @ Asian Art Museum The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: a New Beginning, a special touring exhibit of the 2,500-year-old cuneiform script, considered the first written bill of human rights (www.cyruscylinder2013.com). Thru Sept. 22. Also, In the Moment: Japanese Art From the Larry Ellison Collection, an exhibit of 60+ artworks from the collection of Oracle’s CEO. Thru Sept 22. Also Art of Adornment, Southeast Asian Jewelry ; Thru Nov 24. Free (members)-$12. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.asianart.org

Richard Diebenkorn @ de Young Museum New exhibit of the painter’s Berkeley Years (1953-1966). Free-$22. Thru Sept 22. Also, Eye Level in Iraq : photographs by Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson. $10-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. (til 8:45pm Fridays) Thru Dec. 30. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Mon 16 10 Percent @ Comcast Cable David Perry’s LGBT-themed talk show features a variety of local and visiting guests. This week, Perry talks with Frederick Hertz and Neil Grungras of ORAM (Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration) about the current situation facing the LGBT community in places like Russia and Uganda. Perry also interviews Dawn Harms, music director of the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony. Rebroadcast various times thru the week. www.comcasthometown.com www.davidperry.com

Sat 14 West Wave Dance Festival @ Z Space Variety show of dance works by Dance Brigade, Allan Frias, Anna Sullivan, Sean Dorsey, Joti Singh, Nol Simonse and others. Next concerts Oct. 5. $15-$20. 8pm. 499 Alabama St. 811-4111. www.zspace.org

Tue 17 Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey's Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gayfriendly comedy night. One drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Girl in a Coma, Hunter Valentine @ Rickshaw Stop Two heavy power-chord all-women (and a lesbian here or there) rock bands perform, plus Krissy Krissy. $12-$15. All ages. 8:30pm. 155 Fell St. 861-2011. www.rickshawstop.com

Will Durst @ The March Boomeraging: From LSD to OMG, the comic wit’s one-man show about aging Baby Boomers. Tuesdays thru Oct. 29. $15-$50. 8pm. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.TheMarsh.org

Wed 18 Book Club @ Books Inc. The Classic Lit Book Club discusses Lawrence Durrell’s Mount Olive. 6:30pm. 2275 Market St. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

The Definition of Brave @ LGBT Center Town Hall meeting spotlights long-term AIDS survivors (including panelists Will Boemer, Gregg Cassin, Ramon Espacio, Michael Siever and Gabriel Quinto) and the LetsKickASS.org campaign. 7pm. 1800 Market St. www.facebook.com/ AIDSSurvivorSyndrome

Dolores Claiborne @ War Memorial Opera House San Francisco Opera’s world premiere production of Tobian Picker and J.D. McClatchy’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel about the mysterious life of a reclusive woman in rural Maine. $23-$385. 7:30pm. Also Sept. 22 (2pm), 25 (7:30), 28 (8pm), Oct. 1 (8pm) and 4 (8pm). 301 Van Ness Ave. 864-3330. www.sfopera.com

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Smack Dab @ Magnet Larry-bob Roberts and Kirk Read host the monthly eclectice reading and performance series, this month with featured guest Natasha Muse. 8pm. 4122 18th St. at Castro. www.magnetsf.org

Thu 19 Blondie, X @ Masonic Hall The iconic New Wave band performs one of their last concerts before retiring; X opens. $55-$99. 8pm. 1111 California St. www.masonicauditorium.com Also, Sept 20 at the Montalvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga. (408) 961-5800. www.livenation.com

Glamorama @ Orpheum Theatre 31st anniversary of Macy’s Passport fashion show and AIDS/HIV fundraiser features performances by Sheryl Crow, Cirque du Soleil, plus a fashion show of clothes by Calvin Klein, Diesel, Rachel Rachel Roy, Tallia Orange, Tommy Hilfiger, Weekend Max Mara, and Macy’s newest Impulse collection Maison Jules; afterparty at the Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St. $75 and up. 8pm. 1192 Market St. (888) 746-1799. www.macys.com/glamorama

The HIV Story Project, Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS, the Canadian HIV/ AIDS Legal Network (Toronto, Ontario) and the Sero Project (Milford, Pennsylvania) present Positive Women: Exposing Injustice and HIV is Not a Crime, two documentaries on the criminalization of HIV, followed by a Q&A with a panel of experts and an intimate wine reception. $10. 7pm. 3117 16th St. www.roxie.com

Jack Jones @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Veteran vocalist performs a concert at the elegant cabaret. $35-$60. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 7pm. Thru Sept 21. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1111. www.hotelnikkosf.com

The Jill and Julia Show @ Swedish American Hall Comic actress Julia Sweeney and singer Jill Sobule perform their unique duo show. Heather Combs (“Proud”) opens. $20. 8pm. 2170 Market St. 861-5016. jillsobule.com www.cafedunord.com

The Lives of Others @ Berkeley Unitarian Hall Screening of the Oscar-winning German film about a 1980s East Berlin secret policeman who spies with increasing obsession on a man and his girlfriend. Free. 7pm. 1924 Cedar St, at Bonita, Berkeley. (5100 275-4272. www.bfuu.org

Radar Reading @ SF Public Library

To Sleep and Dream @ Z Below

Author Michelle Tea welcomes indie writers Imogen Binnie, Kevin Simmonds, Wendy C. Ortiz, and Katie Haegele. 6pm. Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, lower level, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Thu 19

Theatre Rhinoceros’ production of John Fisher’s new play about people struggling with family and romantic entanglements. $15-$30. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm (Oct 6 3pm). Thru Sept. 22. 470 Florida St. at 17th. www.TheRhino.org

Tosha Silver @ Bookc Inc. SF Examiner’s spiritual columnist discusses her new book, Make Me Your Own: Poems of the Divine Beloved, a spiritually-themed poetry collection. 7:30pm. 2275 Market St. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

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Popular electro-groovy acid-house music innovators (“Little Fluffy Clouds”) perform their mixed-music concert. $22-$25. 8pm. 1290 Sutter St. at Van Ness Ave. (888) 929-7849. www.theregencyballroom.com

Porchlight Storytelling @ Verdi Club Exit Interview: Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Ass – Stories of Leaving, with attorney Melissa Griffin Caen, producer Michael Ching, social media guru Brittney Gilbert, filmmaker Vero Majano, travel writer/blogger Stuart Schuffman (Broke-Ass Stuart) and composer Mike Morasky: hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Spotswood. 8pm. 2424 Mariposa St. www.porchlightsf.com

Ben Venom

an orchestra of voices

San Francisco Opera performs Arrigo Boito’s Italian opera about the man who made a deal with the devil. $23-$385. 8pm. Sept 14, 17, 20, 24, 29 & Oct. 2. 301 Van Ness Ave. 864-3330. www.sfopera.com

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Mefistofele @ War Memorial Opera House

She Said /He Said

September 20-29

Tickets: www.chanticleer.org 800-407-1400

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State occasion

by Donna Sachet

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odern-day San Francisco has never seen an event as epic as the State Funeral of Jose Sarria, Empress I, the Widow Norton! On Friday, Sept. 6, over 1,000 people congregated at Grace Cathedral, as shafts of sunlight drenched the interior and multi-colored ribbons rippled from the ceiling. Downstairs, nearly 40 Emperors and Empresses of San Francisco gathered to prepare for the formal procession into the church. In keeping with Jose’s specific requests, the monarchs were somberly but elegantly dressed, each with their own personal style, many reflecting Victorian mourning-wear. The Right Reverend Marc Handley Andrus, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, officiated an elaborate ceremony with candles, incense, and religious symbols. Speakers included State Senator Mark Leno, Los Angeles’ Jim Mangia, New York Empress Pansy, San Francisco Empress Galilea, and long-time friend Michelle, each sharing personal experiences with Jose and clearly identifying his important position in the history of the LGBT community. The service climaxed with an astounding organ rendition of Amazing Grace, gradually filling the cathedral with rich, spiritually uplifting music. From there, a motorcade of six limousines, four buses, and various cars streamlined by a police escort headed to Colma’s Woodlawn Cemetery. We co-emceed with City Treasurer Jose Cisneros the final ceremonies, including full military honors, blessings from the Night Ministers, rousing music by the Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band and Robert Sunshine, Golden Gate Guards’ color guard, Alexander Hamilton American Legion Post 448’s flag ceremony, and a touching farewell from the Emperors and Empresses of San Francisco. Jose was laid to final rest right next to the grave of Emperor Joshua Norton, the eccentric 19th-century character whose widow Jose claimed to be. The day ended for most at the Lookout bar, where ample food and refreshing cocktails greeted a tired but proud group of locals and visitors from far and wide. While the death of Jose will continue to sadden us for quite some time, he led an extraordinary life to the age of 90. The Imperial Court, which he created and of which he was so proud, remains in safe hands, overseen by dedicated local court members and monarchs. The International Court System, which has grown from San Francisco across the continent with nearly 70 chapters, now flourishes under the leadership of Empress Nicole the Great, Queen Mother of the Americas, and a council of stalwart courtiers. Jose’s legacy will live on through the extensive collection of archival materials she wisely left to the Gay & Lesbian Historical Society. The early organizations Jose helped to found, including Society for Individual Rights, League for Civil Education, and Tavern Guild, have produced remarkable results, serving as the foundation for many modern groups and the initial steps towards equal civil rights. Without a doubt, the world is a different and better place because of Jose Sarria. Meanwhile, life continued in San Francisco. Last Thursday, Project Open Hand and Flipside (a young group within the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society) sponsored Out of the Past at the Old Mint. They took full advantage

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Multi-colored ribbons rippled from the ceiling at the State Funeral of Jose Sarria at Grace Cathedral.

of the spacious rooms with archival displays from various groups, like the Pink Triangle Project, PAWS, and FrontRunners, music, short films, cocktails, and burgers on the interior courtyard. Presentations by Stuart Milk, Mike Smith, Jose Cisneros, Zoe Dunning, Bob Dockendorff, and this columnist rounded out the evening, sharing insights on everything from the AIDS Memorial Quilt and international civil rights struggles to ongoing LGBT challenges in the US military and the evolution of drag. After the long day of the funeral detailed above, we joined hundreds of music and fashion lovers for Opening Night of the SF Opera. On the arm of dashing Richard Sablatura, we started with champagne in the press room, then wandered through the Opera Ball pre-performance cocktail reception at City Hall, running into Mark Rhoades, Joy Venturini Bianchi, Maria Manetti Shrem, Carolyne Zinko, Marilyn Cabak, Barbara Brookins-Schneider, Trevor & Alexis Traina, Nancy Bechtle, and Mayor Ed Lee and his wife Anita. The boldest fashion statements belonged to Deepa Pakianathan,

encased in a custom-made Alexander McQueen head cage and Andrew Chin gown, Charlot Malin, decked in Keyna Aranguren with feather trim, and Clara Shayevich, stunning in black-and-white Vasily Vein. New York designer and event planner Colin Cowie shook things up with stark décor, which included feathers, butterflies, and painted, moving human bodies. Back at the Opera House, after a brief stop upstairs at the Bravo! Club reception in the open-air Loggia, we enjoyed Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele, nearly four hours of grand vocals, lush costuming, imposing sets, and hypnotic theatrics. Afterwards, we crossed Van Ness, closed to traffic (much to our surprise) so that opera patrons could easily arrive at the afterparty at City Hall! There we mingled with Alec Hughes & Gavin Hamilton, John Rosin, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Nikas Nikas, Elisabeth Thieriot, May Poland, Dede Wilsey, and Boaz Mazor. Another sparkling Opening Night of the SF Opera! And finally, cheers to Mercedez Monro and her team who produced Saturday night’s Miss Gay California United States, and congratulations to first-runner-up Maxine Padd and the new Miss Gay California US, Mahlae Balenciaga!t

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The Right Reverend Marc Hindley Andrus, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, presided over the ceremony.

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Endowment funds by John F. Karr

’ll bet you didn’t think you’d ever find Debbie Reynolds co-starring with Michael Lucas. But here they are, together at last. I think they make curious companions as column fodder. Not that Debbie would be concerned. She’s been outspoken in her appreciation of big dicks. And Michael is among the biggest, physically and otherwise. In my ongoing bout with literacy, I’ve currently got Debbie Reynolds’ memoir Unsinkable nestled right next to books by Kate Bornstein, Louise Erdrich, Mattilda (aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore) and Sholom Aleichem. Debbie offers a mouthful of reportage on Tony Randall. His opera-singing on set one day made her storm his dressing room. “Throwing open his door, I was stunned to find Tony jumping up and down on the couch, singing at the top of his lungs, stark naked. I was momentarily taken aback by the size of Tony’s equipment. His voice wasn’t the only huge thing in the room.” We should note that Debbie was taken aback only for a moment. That girl’s an unflappable aficionado. Her memoir also offers a nifty account of filming Give a Girl a Break with Bob Fosse. The movie was kind of a dance-off for Fosse and also-starred Gower Champion; they weren’t pitted against each other within one number, as Fosse and Tommy Rall were in a highlight of My Sister Eileen, the “Competition Dance,” but they still duked it out in their alternating sequences. Take it away, Debbie: “During rehearsals, Bobby, who was so in love with his own well-endowed self, would come up behind me and press his ‘gift’ into my backside to tease me. It was obvious he wasn’t wearing a dance belt; I could feel everything he wanted to share.” Maintaining face, Debbie adds, “Please don’t assume that all I thought about was the size of everyone’s manhood just because I told you about Tony Randall and Bob Fosse. In Hollywood, it’s something of a preoccupation.” Oh baby, it’s not just in Hollywood. Someone should tell Debbie to assume that the entire nation shares just such a prickly preoccupation. Now, let’s get to Michael Lucas. The films he produces for LucasEntertainament have been continually fine. I’ve been a fan. But he’s unique among sexographers in being a frequently published author of op-ed pieces. And in one published on July 24 at OUT.com, Michael proclaimed Truvada a near-miracle pill that could help him maintain his HIV-free status even without his wearing a condom during sex. I

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Is a barebacking scene more acceptable if its stars are real-life husbands? Seth Treston and Billy Santoro are the first barebackers at LucasEntertainment.

cynically wondered to myself when I read it, “Does this mean he’s going to start filming bareback scenes?” My question was answered pretty quick. A press release last weekend announced the company’s first bareback scene. Did the producer seek to lessen the impact by casting a pair of men who are lovers? Who knows? But that movie is not a one-off. Soon enough came the LucasEnt announcement, “The scene will be the first in a series of condomfree performances by some of our most popular models.” While urging HIV- men to use Truvada as a preventative in AIDS transmission (even along with the use of condoms), Michael asks, “Am I telling people to pop a pill and go have unprotected sex?” His answer is a firm, “I’m not.” He advocates that “the possibility (it) offers... is one we need to be talking about” so that we can “begin responding accordingly.” Michael’s discussion of the drug is provocative, enlightening reading. It’s especially imperative for HIVmen. Yet his own response went beyond talk. He began using the drug himself. That not only seems a tacit recommendation, but also makes his op-ed piece a defense for the decision he’d already made to film bareback. Does he expect his performers to rely on the drug, too? And as it’s mighty

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Twenty-six-year-old Bob Fosse presses it up against Debbie Reynolds in Give a Girl a Break.

expensive, at approximately $1,000 a month, will he supply it to them? Perhaps taking it off his income tax as a business expense? The FDA approved Truvada for prophylactic use on July 16, 2012, estimating that its daily intake achieves a 99% of risk reduction of contracting HIV. Will or should its use lead to a more general acceptance of bareback scenes? Michael may be leading the industry in that direction. Is there a connection between his defense of a personal medical decision and the money that barebacking scenes may bring to his company? I’m just asking.t

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Swimming to invisibility by Victoria A. Brownworth

hen TV, news and queers combine, we’re always happy, being the news junkie we are. But when that news deletes the queer, our blood starts to simmer, if not boil. That happened this week with a huge accomplishment in the world of sports. At 64, on her fifth attempt, world-class swimmer Diana Nyad finally achieved a goal she’s been trying to attain since 1978 when she was 29. Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida, 110 miles over 53 hours, the only person ever to do this without a shark cage. On her last attempt, she was so badly stung by killer jellyfish that she had to stop midway or die. This time she staggered onto shore to a crowd of cheering spectators and into the arms of a woman who hugged her for a very long time. She could barely talk, her mouth swollen, the inside cut apart from salt water, but there she was, a role model for athletes, for women, for kids and for queers. What you didn’t hear on the news is that Nyad is a lesbian. Not a closeted lesbian, but an out, proud lesbian working for the LGBT community. TV news just decided to erase that part of her because you know, women and sports, lesbians, blah blah blah, let’s not talk about it. After the swim, once she’d been checked out at the hospital and was deemed fit to leave, in an impromptu news conference carried live by CNN, Nyad was introduced by reporter Ashleigh Banfield. A small crowd of supporters was clapping and cheering. Nyad raised her arm and said, “We fucking did it.” Banfield, always soignee, just said, “Sorry folks, but I guess she earned that one.”

In that same press conference, she kissed her girlfriend for the camera. Nicely done. Nyad also told the audience that one must never give up on one’s dreams, and that it was her belief that people need to see determination. We agree. So don’t erase a lesbian role model, please. This is the second incidence of blatant lesbian erasure of a major sports figure in as many weeks on TV. ESPN and ABC just ran a scurrilous story on the 1973 tennis match The Battle of the Sexes between Billie Jean King (then ranked second in the world after Margaret Court) and former #1-ranked Bobby Riggs. That match, viewed by 90 million people worldwide, is still the most-viewed tennis match in TV history. Over 30,000 people packed the Houston Astrodome to watch. It was a pivotal event in Second Wave feminist politics. Yet ESPN and ABC News both featured a story on Aug. 27 that Riggs may have let King win in order to pay off some gambling debts. The purse for the match was $100,000. The basis for this “breaking news” was a story from a former employee of an athletic club who says he overheard a couple of unnamed mobsters taking about this a few months before the match. Riggs wasn’t even involved in the conversation. Seriously? That’s your story? A 78-year-old guy comes out of nowhere 40 years after the match and says he overheard some unnamed mobsters talking about this. Where was he 40 years ago? Riggs died in 1995 of prostate cancer, so he couldn’t be reached for comment, but King was livid, noting that Riggs played to win. “I was on the court with Bobby, and I know he was not tanking the match. I could

World-class swimmer and out lesbian Diana Nyad.

see in his eyes and body language that he wanted to win,” she said. The two remained friends throughout Riggs’ life, and King spoke to him the night before he died. King is one of the greatest tennis players of either gender, with a massive number of grand slam wins. She put women’s tennis firmly on the map, founded the Women’s Tennis Association and the Women’s Sports Foundation, and was an out lesbian before others in the game or any other sport. King was one of the first female athletes to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated as Sportsman [sic] of the Year, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor, and the USTA National Tennis Center in New York was renamed in her honor. Stop erasing lesbians on network TV news, please. It’s bad enough you’ve erased them on scripted TV.

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of coming attractions on the tube, which is getting less gay after a nice long spate of a little gay here, a little lesbian there, a smattering of trans and everywhere bi. But we will keep searching out the queers and tell you where to spot them. One place to be assured of LGB and even T is Fox’s Glee. A two-hour, two-part season premiere will feature our gleeks performing the Beatles. Singer Demi Lovato, heartthrob to many a young budding lesbian, is being brought in as the love interest for our special fave, Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera). Santana’s love, the bisexual Brittany Pierce (Heather Morris), kind of an idiot flake, won early admission to MIT and left near the end of last season. While we loved seeing Santana and Brittany’s high-school love affair, we think a college romance between Santana and the lovely Lovato is just what the lesbian TV doctor has ordered to help Santana mend her broken heart. Glee premieres Sept. 26. Under the Dome is winding down for the summer season. CBS’ fabulous rendering of the Stephen King novel has been renewed for a second season, and we enjoy this show (exec produced by Steven Spielberg) so much, we’ll go wherever it takes us. Last week the lesbian couple, Alice (Samantha Mathis) and Carolyn (Aisha Hinds), were dancing together and kissing. This was such a poignant scene in the midst of the turmoil that has been happening in Chester’s Mill, it brought tears to our eyes. Seeing lesbian couples in non-sexual yet deeply affectionate moments is rare. So we just reveled in this moment of a deep, believable, honest representation of this couple. But we are so disappointed in Mistresses. Jos (Jess Macallan) and Alex (Shannyn Sossamon) were starting to fall in love, Alex had left her partner for Jos, Jos had given up random sex with random guys for the other L word, and it was looking cozy. She was starting to cocoon. Then she just ends up having random WTF sex with her boss in a house she was showing. Some random house. Then she goes home to Alex, and as she undresses (after lying about where she’s been), Alex spies a bite mark on her side. (First rule of cheating: don’t leave marks.) Oh, Joslyn. Really? The two women have a truncated conversation in which Jos explains that she said she might need to still have sex with men, and Alex says, “But we said we’d talk about it first.” Jos looks sheepish, then Alex just rolls over and goes to sleep. Ugh. We know the show is called Mistresses, but why are bisexual characters always portrayed as so insanely driven by their sexual desires that they cannot be trusted? This was also true for years on Grey’s Anatomy, with Callie Torres’ character. She jumped from bed to bed as if she had to single-handed-

ly maintain the hot Latina stereotype. We love Jos as a character, but we think her treatment of Alex is shoddy. Plus the near-pornographic sex scene with Jos and her man of the moment just pointed out yet again that bisexual characters (always women, bi the way) are meant to be stand-ins for lesbians much of the time. Jos was never a lesbian. She was an unsettled woman looking for the right fit. She thought she found it in Alex. What was her reason for cheating? Get some actual bisexual people writing these storylines and perhaps they’ll be less offensive to both lesbians and bisexuals. The season finale is this week, so who knows where these two will end up. Speaking of female-driven series, we have been loving BBC/PBS’ new Masterpiece Mystery series Silk, which debuted Aug. 25. The marvelous Maxine Peake plays Martha Costello, a hard-working, harddrinking barrister hoping to make silk: become a Queen’s Counsel. She’s vying with charming playboy yet still good attorney Clive Reader (the always sexy Rupert PennyJones). There is drama in the office, in the courtroom, in the bedroom. Martha has a stalker, and she also has a secret. She’s big on representing those who need a second chance, including Mark Draper (played with vulnerable, thuggish charm by Reece Noi), a young, beautiful, mixed-race gay rent-boy with an older white pimp who is headed for extreme trouble. Draper was arrested in a toilet allegedly soliciting an older white man for sex. But as Martha discovers, this situation is not at all as it seems. Peake is wonderfully strong in the role of Martha, whose life is so constricted, yet on she plods, determined to win silk and also win back the lives of those living on the margins. An extraordinary series, absolutely riveting and a must-see. We’re not sure yet if ABC’s new series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is going to be a must-see, but since it’s a Joss Whedon series (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer), we know we’ll be watching. Whedon can be uneven, but he is always at least a little bit brilliant, a little bit genius, a little bit queer. Whedon directed the Avengers film, and his new series follows that. Taken from the Marvel Comics characters but written by Whedon, agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) puts together a small team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to handle strange new cases for the bureau. “Each case will test the team in cooperation and ingenuity as they try to work together figuring out newly emerging superhuman individuals in the world,” notes ABC. Ming Na-Wen, who played the lesbian Camille Wray in Stargate Universe, plays Melinda May, agent and weapons expert in Agents. Superheroes, supervillains and sci-fi may not be your cup of tea, but when Whedon does anything, it’s worth a look. Also worth a look is the new ABC series Super Fun Night, which will air after TV’s gayest sitcom, Modern Family. The show (debuts Oct. 2) takes all kinds of chances, and we’re pretty sure it will succeed. Created and written by Australian comedian Rebel Wilson, it’s exec produced by Conan O’Brien and bound to be hilarious. For the past 13 years, three single ladies have set aside every Friday night as “Friday Fun Night.” That is, until one of the women, Kimmie Boubier (Wilson), decides it is time to take this party to the next level. Oh? We’re not sure what to say about out lesbian comedian Sara Gilbert. We’ve always liked her as an actress, and we like her when she gets around to talking on The Talk, See page 29 >>

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Jay Brannan takes the world view by Gregg Shapiro

n Around the World in 80 Jays (Nettwerk), out singer/songwriter Jay Brannan takes listeners on a musical voyage. Singing in Spanish, German, French, Portuguese and Italian on the nine-song EP, Brannan steps out of his comfort zone to interpret songs by Selena (“Bidi Bidi Bom Bom”), Elisa (“Eppure Sentire”), Alex C. (“Du hast den schönsten Arsch der Welt”), Teri Moïse (“Les poèmes de Michelle”) and Rebekah Del Rio (“Llorando”). He also performs English-language versions of songs by Patty Griffin, Sinead O’Connor and Gotye. Brannan, who first caught the attention of many via his performance in the movie Shortbus (in which he also got to sing), and his musical YouTube videos, took time out of his schedule to answer a few questions for us.

No, absolutely not. I definitely cannot speak any of these languages conversationally. I’ve taken lessons in several of them. I’m obsessed with foreign language. I have been since I was a child. It was one of the few things I had an attention span for in school. I can use it for travel purposes and stuff, but I couldn’t have an actual conversation. I understand probably more than I let on. I can follow what people are talking about, not necessarily what they are saying exactly. Honestly, my pronunciation is probably absolutely horrible. It’s a shameless thing, but I plow through regardless of whether I should or not! It’s admirable that you made the effort. The thing is, people really do appreciate it. They almost get more enjoyment out of the fact that I’m butchering their language by giving it a shot. There’s a comical element to it. Have you ever had the chance to meet Patty Griffin or Sinead O’Connor, both of whom you cover on this disc? No, I haven’t. I have been Tweeted by Sinead O’Connor.

Gregg Shapiro: Cover tunes have long been a part of your repertoire, from your YouTube videos to your In Living Cover disc and now the Around the World in 80 Jays EP. How did the concept for this new covers collection come about? Jay Brannan: I’ve been so lucky to do tons of touring internationally since I started getting to play shows and travel, beginning around 2007. I’ve had the opportunity to play in all sorts of countries across Europe, South America, Africa and Australia. One of the things that’s become sort of a tradition is to learn a song in the language of the place I’m visiting. My friend John Cameron Mitchell, the director of Shortbus, suggested that way back when. It became something that I started doing that I really love, because I’m very interested in foreign languages in general. People respond really well to it. I thought about recording some of those foreign-language covers for a really long time, but it was such a crazy idea that I figured I’d never get the chance to do it. Eventually I just decided, what the fuck, I’ve always just done what I want, who cares if it makes sense or not! Are you comfortable enough to converse in any of these languages?

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but therein lies our problem with her. Next week The Talk begins its fourth season on CBS. Gilbert created The Talk. It’s her show. Yet does anyone know this but us? Because to watch it or its promos, one would think it was Julie Chen’s show. Either CBS derailed this show from a star vehicle for lesbian Gilbert to yet another for Chen (Big Brother), who just happens to be married to CBS president Les Moonves, or Gilbert just ceded it to CBS execs and Chen. The good news is that Gilbert will be starring in a new CBS midseason sitcom, Bad Teacher, based on the film that starred Cameron Diaz. Gilbert previously played a recurring character on CBS’ top-rated comedy, The Big Bang Theory. Speaking of TBBT, the show’s Emmy-winning star and out gay ac-

With so much to choose from when it comes to songs by Patty Griffin and Sinead O’Connor, how did you go about selecting O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds” and Griffin’s “Top of the World” for the EP? Sinead O’Connor is one of my absolute favorites. I didn’t really become acquainted with her until way after everybody else, maybe five years ago. I realized how incredible she is. Her repertoire is relatively new to me, and there are several songs that I discovered that I wanted to sing, and that was one of them. I like the simplicity of that song and the melody of it. The tone of her voice makes anything sound celestial. “Top of the World” is the second Patty Griffin song that I’ve done. I knew the Dixie Chicks version before I heard Patty’s. It’s a great song. It’s a newer cover I learned, and I was into it at the time. Plus there’s the whole conceptual geographic element to the EP. Sinead O’Connor, who had the biggest hit of her career with a cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” has also regularly included cover tunes in her setlists. As a songwriter yourself, can you say something about the role that other people’s songs play in your creative life? Honestly, it took me a while to warm up to doing cover songs. When I first started, I always wanted to be a musician, but there was a part of me that felt like it wouldn’t

tor/comedian Jim Parsons is getting a GLSEN Respect Award for his antibullying efforts. We love Parsons, we love GLSEN, and we love the idea of a gay organization giving an award to someone who is actually gay. We’re not sure what’s happening over at NBC, the we-have-no-ideawhat-we’re-doing network, but Emmy winner Chandler Massey, who plays gay dad Will Horton on Days of Our Lives, is out. Massey had announced he was leaving the show when his contract was up to go back to college. So NBC, everspiteful, decided to cancel his contract. The role is being re-cast, but we’re not a fan of re-casting, and Massey was perfect as Horton. NBC reps say Massey has filmed scenes through November, but will Days run them? For this and other burning questions about where LGBT TV is going, you really must stay tuned.t

Out singer/songwriter Jay Brannan: “I started doing cover songs as a way to keep singing.”

be authentic to have a career where you just sing other people’s songs. That’s why I didn’t pursue it until years later. I somehow found myself actually writing my own material. It was so important for me to do original songs. I’m kind of a slow writer, and I like singing more than I do writing. So I started doing cover songs as a way to keep singing, because my writing didn’t really keep up with my singing and desire to make more videos and to perform. There are so many great songs out there that speak to you or sound great in your voice so they feel good passing through your vocal cords. There is also a certain level of selfconsciousness or vulnerability that is stripped away. When you’re sing-

ing someone else’s song you know it’s a good song, you’re not evaluating it. You don’t have to perform it thinking, “I hate this song today. Or everyone’s thinking these words are so stupid.” None of that is an issue. Patty Griffin, on the other hand, has had her biggest hits with other people’s covers of her songs. Are you aware of other people covering your songs? Definitely not like Patty Griffin! I haven’t had any Top 40 Jay Brannan covers. But yes, I’ve seen lots of covers on YouTube, which has been surreal over the years. Very flattering. A lot of people do “Soda Shop,” “Housewife.” Honestly, people have covered a lot of them. Which is

amazing and surreal, to think that anybody has heard of my songs, let alone knows the words and wants to perform it on YouTube. You mentioned writer/director John Cameron Mitchell. Is there any chance that we’ll see you again on screen? I hope so. I get to audition every now and then. I’ve been very lucky working consistently in music since Shortbus came out. I’m constantly traveling and working on new projects musically, so I’m not around a lot to go on auditions and stuff. Hopefully something will come through that way for me at some point. It would definitely be exciting to do more acting work.t

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rector and Amster as choreographer, Asolo presented 1776 to great acclaim last year. In the audience at one of the performances was ACT’s Carey Perloff, who had flown in just to see the show, and the curtain had barely come down when negotiations began to bring it to San Francisco as ACT’s season opener. Now in previews, it officially opens on Sept. 22. Back at Galati and Amster’s condo, Asolo’s artistic director may have enjoyed hearing the score, and later been impressed by the script, but it was surely Galati’s bountiful enthusiasm that sealed the deal. “I think it’s an extraordinary work of musicaltheater art,” Galati said last month from a vacation cottage in Michigan. “The more I made my way through the history books, the more impressed I became with the skill of the musical’s creators.” Largely set in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, Edwards’ score and Peter Stone’s libretto manage to create dramatic tension, and some comedy as well, from a situation that sounds as dry as a textbook, and with an outcome known to anyone who has ever waved a sparkler on the Fourth of July. The musical follows the anguished debates among members of the Second Continental Congress that climaxes with the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

“The show starts with John Adams stepping in front of the curtain,” Galati said, “and declaring to the audience, ‘I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and three or more become a congress. And I am fed up with this congress.’ So you are immediately plunged into that world in the company of the absolutely fascinating character John Adams, and then the curtain goes up and the entire Continental Congress is singing, ‘For God’s sake, John, sit down.’ It’s brilliant in that it accomplishes what the American musical wants to accomplish, and the score satisfies a Broadway audience even as it evokes early American tunefulness.” While 1776 does count on a patriot lump in the throat by its end, the flag waving is tempered by the painful compromises made to get each of the 13 colonies to sign the declaration. “The tragedy of the summer of 1776 was the whole issue of slavery,” Galati said. “The burning core of the musical is whether or not it would be mentioned, and it is finally decided that the whole issue of slavery would be erased from the Declaration of Independence.” Galati, 69, has a long history dealing with slices of Americana, having won Tony Awards for his adaptation and direction of The Grapes of Wrath and then staging the sprawling musical Ragtime for Broadway. As a longtime member of Chicago’s ad-

venturous Steppenwolf Theatre, he has been asked if this is a “revisionist” staging of 1776. His answer is no, with a little bit of yes in it. “You’ll see that it resembles the original Broadway production, but if anything, perhaps our tastes in acting have changed and our demands on a musical theater piece are for it to be more than just a diversion,” Galati said. “I do think every production is a sort of reinvention, and even the shift from Sarasota to San Francisco is a kind of reinvention, because every artist is going to bring something new to it.” ACT is using sets, costumes, and props from the Florida production, while about half of the 26 roles have been recast. Although Sarasota is heavily populated with retirees, Galati doesn’t think the different demographics of San Francisco will result in a different audience experience. “My guess is that San Francisco audiences will embrace it because the show is very smart, historically it’s dead-on, and it’s rich in language and ideas. I think audiences will recognize the timeliness in looking again at the founding fathers and mothers, and thinking about where we as a people are at this moment in time.”t 1776 will run through Oct. 6 at ACT. There is an OUT with ACT reception for LGBT` audiences following the Sept. 25 evening performance. More info at 749-2228 or act-sf.org.

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Ramón Vargas as Faust in San Francisco Opera’s Mefistofele.

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ornate opera boxes) to the almost equally impressive Epilogue (where Faust gets out of his pact with the devil too easily, and old Satan is carried off whistling in justifiable fury), director Laurie Feldman has mounted the original with care and attention to detail, and made certain all the remarkable imagery remains intact. Boito was a good, not a great, and a definitely non-prolific composer, but he knew how to fashion a tight script (he was the librettist for Verdi’s late

Shakespearean adaptations Falstaff and Otello), and his take on Goethe’s Faust is witty and concise, even if it is still awfully long. The start-stop nature of the scenario isn’t solved by Carsen’s massive staging, but it is made acceptable by sheer grandeur and his sweeping gestures. It is bigtime opera lavishly produced. The music is often beautiful, and the Prologue has always been a thrilling stand-alone concert piece. Memorable tunes abound, and while it seems laughable now that critics originally decried the score as too Wagnerian, there are recognizable motifs and weighty musi-

Tony Award-winning director Frank Galati is at the helm of ACT’s production of 1776.

most of their broadly conceived but cleverly detailed roles. Ramon Vargas as Faust started small, though he ended well. He was lost in the shuffle during the Easter Sunday scene, and admittedly, his character is pretty namby-pamby, but we have heard him sing more forcefully and with sweeter tone before. Maybe he was a little unfairly matched at first with the incredible Patricia Racette, who seems unable to take a wrong step onstage, all the while singing with her wonderfully nuanced voice. Her pitiful realization of the wronged Marguerite was as moving as her Butterfly in its own way, and we marvel at her willingness to disappear within a role. Racette owns the house, and we can’t wait to see what she does with the upcoming Dolores Claiborne, but opening night was all about the title character, and everyone was wondering if bass Ildar Abdrazakov could fill the shoes of the beloved Samuel Ramey, who wowed us in the part not only once but twice before. In a word: yes. Differently of course, but yes. Abdrazakov may lack just a touch of Ramey’s devilish elegance and insouciance, but he also brings his own impressive range of acting and rich tone to create a satisfying portrayal. He doesn’t lack in humor, either. Director Feldman retains the large blue balloon that represents the globe for him to bounce during his great aria in the Witches’ Sabbath scene, “Ecco il mondo,” and he pricks it finally with his own gleeful nonchalance. Ian Robertson’s huge Chorus also set the seal on a worthy revival and a knock-your-socks-off opening night.

Symphonic overtures cal consonances. Conductor Nicola Luisotti respected Boito’s ebb and flow with a committed and passionate reading that will be better accepted as the run progresses. The crowd on opening night was just too rowdy to appreciate his luxurious approach. At the top of Act III, the maestro actually had to face the noisy revelers to ask for some quiet, a cringe-worthy moment that still couldn’t completely stop the Philistines among us. It was Boito himself who finally shut them up with the power of his own dramatic writing, and the cast helped immeasurably, making the

Earlier in the week, the San Francisco Symphony’s kick-off was every bit as celebratory as the Opera’s, even if it was (as always) relatively more subdued. No one could survive two Opera-sized openings. Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas has branded his leadership of the SFS to the point where we pretty much know what to expect from the new season’s gala. He smartly decided years ago to focus more on the party aspects of the concert without getting too low-brow with the repertoire. 2013-14 began and ended with a Jazz Age feeling. The aptly titled Jazz Symphony by George Antheil

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Guest soloist Audra McDonald had the San Francisco Symphony gala opening audience at hello.

bookended the appearance of a well-loved guest soloist with George Gershwin’s own jaunty take on expatriation, An American in Paris. It was an ingenious and characteristically well-executed bill of fare. It was also loads of fun. The soloist was darling soprano Audra McDonald, bringing a marvelous selection of American show tunes that managed (with only two notable exceptions) to be not only off-beat but also delightfully fulfilling. McDonald doesn’t have to sell herself to SFS crowds. She got us at hello a long time back. Watching her playful talk with MTT and hearing her lovely voice rip through some wonderful Jule Styne and Leonard Bernstein songs was just a happy reminder. No one will ever sing “Make Someone Happy” or even “I Could Have Danced All Night” with fresher conviction, so just forget about it. Two virtually forgotten but worthy numbers, both from lesser musicals (Steel Pier and 1776), also got the down-to-earth diva’s special treatment, and the party just kept getting better. Mark Inouye’s terrifically idiomatic trumpet solo during the Antheil Jazz Symphony actually stopped the show with applause earlier in the night, and the feeling of being in some fabulous jazz club continued with McDonald’s two sets. Hell Week was a lot closer to heaven this year.t

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