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CA, SF OK travel bans by Matthew S. Bajko
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The Castro will be packed this Sunday for the annual street fair.
Songs of Prince to enliven Castro fair A hot time at Folsom by Sari Staver
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10-piece Prince tribute band, The Purple Ones, will appear at this year’s annual Castro Street Fair Sunday, October 2. The 43rd annual neighborhood celebration, begun by the late Harvey Milk in 1974, will have See page 29 >>
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inimal leather was the rage at the annual Folsom Street Fair due to the hot weather Sunday, September 25. The leather and kink extravaganza drew hundreds of thousands of people to San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood. Demetri Moshoyannis, executive director of Folsom Street Events, which produces the
fair and associated parties, told the Bay Area Reporter in an email, “The weather certainly helped to bring people out and facilitated some scantily clad fun.” He added that attendees were still talking about how much they enjoyed the fair days afterward. “Our bands and DJs were a huge hit,” he added. For more photos, see the BARtab section.t
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he state of California and the city of San Francisco this week both banned taxpayer-funded travel to states with anti-LGBT laws. The bans are a reaction to the transphobic and homophobic laws various states have passed over the last year, Assemblyman Evan Low most notoriously the state of North Carolina, which continues to be boycotted due to its House Bill 2 that restricts cities in the state from enacting local non-discrimination laws and requires transgender people to use public restrooms based on the gender they were assigned at birth. Tuesday afternoon, September 27, Governor Jerry Brown announced he had signed into law Assembly Bill 1887, legislation authored by gay Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell) that See page 29 >>
Supe race Berkeley sued in trans woman’s death could see lesbian on T SF board by Seth Hemmelgarn
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t has been 16 years since a lesbian has served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Several candidates have vied for a seat over the ensuing years, but none have been successful post 2000 when board seats reverted back to being elected by district. Union leader Kimberly Alvarenga is aiming to end that drought of lesbian leadership in the city – it has been eight years since a lesbian candidate has been elected to any political office in San Francisco – by succeeding District 11 Supervisor John Avalos, who is termed out of office and has endorsed her bid. Alvarenga, 47, is the political director of Service Employees International Union Local 1021. She and her wife, Linnette Haynes, have been together 17 years and live in the city’s Crocker-Amazon neighborhood, where they are raising their 4-year-old son, Oziah. In addition to highlighting the lack of a lesbian, and potentially any LGBT members, on See page 29 >>
being unlawfully seized, restrained, arrested, and battered by multiple” Berkeley officers. he family of a transgender woman who Kayla Moore had “an extensive history of docdied during a 2013 encounter with umented paranoid schizophrenia and numerous Berkeley police is fighting to keep a fedprior contacts” with police, and despite knowing eral lawsuit against the city and several officers about “Moore’s disabling condition the officers alive as officials work to get a judge to side with initiated an unlawful arrest,” the complaint says. them before the case goes to trial. The filing, which along with other court Kayla Moore, 41, died in Febdocuments uses male pronouns ruary 2013 after a friend asked for Moore, says police threw her for “mental health assistance” “onto a futon and restrained him for her and police responded to with the combined body weight her home, according to a comof at least six officers, in a fashion plaint filed by Moore’s father. that interfered with his ability to Moore’s family and commubreath, which predictably intensinity advocates say that “excessive fied his psychological distress and force” caused her death. initiated a physiological crisis.” But according to documents (A footnote in the city’s mofiled by the city, the Alameda tion for summary judgment County Coroner’s office deternoted that Kayla Moore was remined she died from a drug Kayla Moore ferred to as Xavier by her family overdose. (Court records list during her life, and that the male Moore’s name as Xavier “Kayla” pronouns and name used in the Moore.) court proceeding are for “clarBerkeley officials have asked for a summary ity and consistency ... without intending any judgment in the case, but Friday, September 23, disrespect.”) U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer indicated he “Tragically,” the document says, “Moore lost needed more time to examine the arguments. consciousness and died as a result of the offiIn his second amended complaint, filed in cers’ unwarranted and excessive use of force.” October 2014 in the U.S. District Court for In their response to the complaint, Berkeley Northern California, Arthur Moore, Kayla officials denied the most significant allegations, Moore’s father, says his daughter died “after and in the motion for summary judgment filed
in June, they said, “The coroner determined that the cause of Mr. Moore’s death was ‘acute combined drug intoxication’ (methamphetamine and codeine)” combined with a “grossly enlarged heart” and other heart conditions that lead to cardiac arrest. Moore weighed almost 350 pounds, according to court documents. A copy of the coroner’s report wasn’t immediately available. In court last Friday, Breyer said, “This is a case involving excessive force. ... Some of the other claims are not survivable, but the excessive force is.” Lynne Bourgault, deputy city attorney, said Friday that “there was no evidence anyone was on top of the decedent” and “the officers are entitled to a finding of no excessive force.” They were “simply using control holds,” and there was “no force after [Moore] was restrained and stopped fighting and resisting,” Bourgault said. At first, Breyer granted the city’s motion disputing Arthur Moore’s argument that his daughter was wrongfully arrested. But Adante Pointer, one of Moore’s attorneys, noted that the warrant police had found for “Xavier Moore” the night of her arrest was for someone almost 20 years older than Kayla Moore. “I’ll look again at the arrest,” Breyer told See page 29 >>
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