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However, all of these Republican threats to our community come as we, as LGBTIQ people, continue to make significant strides toward greater societal embrace of gender and sexual orientation diversity than ever before.

New Affordable Housing for Low-Income Seniors in the Works for Upper Market Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman on January 14 announced that the City is in advanced negotiations to purchase the existing building and parcel at 1939 Market Street to convert it to new affordable housing. The project will provide 100% permanently affordable housing and will likely serve lowincome seniors in the area.

The property is located at the intersection of Duboce Avenue and Market Street.

1939 Market Street site will allow us to build desperately needed senior affordable housing units in Upper Market. I am grateful to Mayor Breed for her commitment to ensuring that LGBTQ seniors at high risk of eviction can remain in the Castro.”

The City will purchase the property with funds from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) and intends to use Rafael Mandelman the 2019 Affordable Housing (Proposition A) funds “Projects like 1939 Marfor future construction of ket are exactly why we the project. In November, fought for affordable housvoters passed a $600 miling in the budget and why lion Affordable Housing we passed the AffordBond to provide funding able Housing Bond,” to build more housing in said Breed. “We need San Francisco. The Bond more affordable housing included $150 million for throughout San Francisco the creation of new affordKaryn Skultety so that our low- and midable senior housing rental dle-income residents can opportunities through new construccontinue to live here and I’m looktion and acquisition. In 2018, when ing forward to seeing this housing the City learned it would receive development in the Upper Market unexpected funds from the State due area provide new, affordable homes to excess ERAF, Breed committed so that our seniors can continue to to using a significant portion of the live in San Francisco and age with funds to invest in the City’s afforddignity.” able housing programs.

“District 8 has experienced the sec“We are very excited to be in a posiond highest level of displacement of tion to acquire this site for affordall districts over the last decade but able housing in such a transit-rich has seen little new affordable housand centrally located part of the City ing built during that time,” said Mandelman. “The acquisition of the (continued on page 26)

Or Trump could be re-elected.

Bette Davis’ admonishment to “fasten your seatbelts” is delivered as a sassy throwaway line. But when we consider the uncertainties that lie ahead in 2020 and the tendency of some of us to fret and despair or become outraged at every twist and turn along the way, Davis’ words offer sage advice.

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In the next few weeks or months, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on whether employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity constitutes sex discrimination in violation of Title VII, the federal law that outlaws race and sex discrimination in employment nationwide. The decision will have major nationwide impact, especially in the nearly 30 states that lack full state law prohibitions on discrimination against LGBTIQ people.

A Trump/Pence re-election would also likely mean continued executive level attacks on the transgender community, the undermining of the rights of transgender people, and further measures to legitimate discrimination against all LGBTIQ people under the guise of so-called “religious freedom.” With Gorsuch and Kavanuagh on the Court, the federal courts would likely provide little if any protection against these efforts.

And if Buttigieg became president, he could lead a restructuring of the Supreme Court of which he has often spoken to restore balance and reshape the future of constitutional rights, not just for LGBTIQ people but for millions of other Americans as well. And he would support full federal protections for LGBTIQ people and end the attacks on transgender Americans, as many other Democratic contenders would do as well.

Although 2020 is the time to stand up, speak out, and be counted, “fasten your seatbelts” is a wise reminder to take care of each other and ourselves as we do. After all, seatbelts are designed to protect us from the minor bumps and the hard knocks along the way. We wish you a truly happy new year, buckled up individually and bound together as community.

John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney, together for over three decades, were plaintiffs in the California case for equal marriage rights decided by the California Supreme Court in 2008. Their leadership in the grassroots organization Marriage Equality USA contributed in 2015 to making same-sex marriage legal nationwide.

Anti-War Protests Held in Bay Area Cities and Around U.S. On Saturday, January 4, a coalition of organizations, including A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) and Code Pink, called on people in more than 75 cities around the U.S. to organize local demonstrations demanding “No More U.S. Troups to IRAQ or the Middle East.”

The protests were conducted to denou nce t he k i l l i ng of I r a n’s commander Qassim Suleimani that sparked global concern about potential consequences.

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In her classic 1950 film All About Eve, gay icon Bette Davis cautions her evening party guests, “Fasten your seatbelts; it’s going to be a bumpy night.” Indeed, 2020 could turn out to be a bumpy nightmare for the LGBTIQ community—or a watershed year for the advancement of LGBTIQ rights.

And who knows? Mayor Buttigieg could be inaugurated president of the United States on January 20, 2021, with his husband Chasten at his side. Stranger things have happened ... and indeed arguably did happen with the election of the current occupant of the White House four years ago.

Thousands gathered in downtown San Francisco near the Powell and Market Street Cable Car Turnaround location and marched to Civic Center and on to City Hall. As reported by KRON4 News, the protesters made their way through city street carrying signs, stopping traffic, and chanting, “We say no war.” Similar protest on a smaller scale were held at San Jose’s City Hall and in San Mateo.

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It’s finally here, the year so many of us have been waiting for: 2020. The year millions of Americans, including many in the LGBTIQ community, hope will bring forth the end of the Trump presidency. A year that will likely have a monumental impact—for better or for worse— on the LGBTIQ community, the nation, and the world.

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The Gorsuch and Kavanaugh appointments already cement a strongly conservative 5–4 majority on the Court for years to come. At age 71, Clarence Thomas, the oldest person in that 5-member majority, could remain on the Court for years. If Trump were re-elected and had the opportunity to replace any of the 4 liberal/moderate members of the Court minority, the impact could be felt for generations.

Achieving full constitutional protections for LGBTIQ people—an unfinished work despite nationwide marriage equality—would be even more at risk than it is today.

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From a national political perspective, the prominence of openly gay Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is testament of a sea change in public acceptance. As political junkies who have followed the influential Iowa Caucuses since their inception in the 1970s, we find it truly extraordinary from a historical perspective that polls show that a gay man who appears with and speaks openly about his husband could win the caucuses. That would have been unthinkable even just a few years ago.

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The ruling will also have ramifications in the areas of housing, public accommodation, education, and sports. A victory would be huge.

But even though the actual legal arguments are strongly on our side, we could easily lose because of Trump’s two appointments to the Court: Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

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2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Looking Ahead to the 2020 Presidential Election referred to Trump voters as a “basket of deplorables.”

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) - That didn’t last long. Now her claim to fame is that she attended Dartmouth College with California’s first female Lieutenant Governor, our beloved Eleni Kounalakis.

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History Louise “Lou” Fischer It’s finally here, the 2020 Election Cycle, when hopefully the great nightmare of the Trump presidency will come to a crashing halt on November 3. If only real life were like the TV show Dallas when Bobby Ewing’s fatal hit-and-run in the eighth season was merely a figment of his wife Pam’s bad dream.

For anyone not weaned on mid-1980s network television, Patrick Duffy’s character was killed and the show went on without him with considerably less male “hotness.” For many rea$on$ (yeah, it was about money), he magically reappeared hot as ever and soaking wet in the ninth season finale in what the Associated Press called “the most famous shower scene since Psycho.” The storyline wiped out a year of continuity and the series picked up where it had left off as if Bobby had never been dead.

If only we could all wake up from the Trump bad dream and see Barack Obama walking across the White House lawn. Or better yet, rewrite history and see Hillary Clinton stride up to the podium in the White House press room.

While the New Year is supposed to be about looking ahead, I want to look back to last year when candidates were ramping up their campaigns. In my Bay Times article from last June ( https://bit.ly/2Ns5OC7 ), I made some bold predictions about the 14 candidates who appeared at the State Democratic Convention in San Francisco. Some of my observations and pronouncements are still valid, others are downright embarrassing, and one is particularly disappointing.

So, let’s get inside the waybackmachine and see how I did: Senator Kamala Harris (CA) This is heartbreaking; I stand by my comments that Kamala is brilliant and everything we could want in a president. She could have stood up to Trump in debates and beat the lying, cheating, war-mongering, stuffing out of him.

Beto O’Rourke (TX) - No surprise here. I didn’t expect him to last long.

I hope he runs again in Texas; my inlaws need someone to vote for.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA) - She was my #2 choice at the Convention and right now she’s tied for my #1. She shows up at #3 in most polls, but that could all change.

Her message that the economic system is rigged against ordinary people should incentivize the ordinary people to stop voting against their own self-interests, which is probably what Hillary Clinton meant when she 4

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Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (HI) - What was I thinking? This is in the category of “embarrassing.”

Sorry, Ms. Gabbard, your antiLGBT rhetoric, past activism against gay marriage, support of conversion therapy, and wimpy “Trump loving” vote of “Present” in the impeachment hearings will never get any love from me.

Pete Buttigieg (IN) - This is going to be controversial: he’s still not my guy for president, but he sure is doing well in the polls. I don’t think a former mayor of a small city (population of 100,000) is ready to be president. Pete, I love you, the LGBT community loves you, and while Calvin Coolidge was mayor of Lesbianville, aka Northampton, Massachusetts, before becoming president, he had a few other jobs in between, like governor and vice president. Do that and then run for president.

Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA) - His was another “blink and you missed it” campaign. I was right when I said he wasn’t going to be president in 2021. I’ve met him twice and he is very bright and super friendly, so I hope he moves up the food chain. We need him serving in elected office or in the Cabinet.

Senator Amy Klobuchar (MN) - I’m really torn on this. Senator Klobuchar might just be the horse that hangs back in the race and then turns on the jets at the final turn. Or, the tortoise in the race with a group of hares.

She’s the “indie label” musician who is high on talent and authenticity versus the major-label artist with big-money backing but a flash-inthe-pan music career. She brings the electoral importance of the Midwest to the table and can deliver the states that kept Hillary from winning.

She’s also just moderate enough to be accepted by both the liberal factions of the coastal regions and the middle-of-the-road voters in the flyover states. She’s a former prosecutor, so she could run circles around Trump in the debates. I also like the idea of putting up campaign signs that say “Amy.” (Editor’s note: Lou’s partner is talented actress/singer Amy Meyers.) I wish someone named “Louise” (who is not me!) would run for office. I’d donate just to get the signs.

Former Governor John Hickenlooper (CO) and Governor Jay Inslee (WA) - I didn’t have much to say about them and they both dropped out. Inslee is a good climate change guy. Put him in charge of the EPA or appoint him secretary of the interior.

Senator Cory Booker (NJ) - He hit a wall late last year and didn’t qualify for the December debate.

This week he announced the suspension of his campaign. It’s a tragedy that the once-promising diversity of the original pool of candidates has been squeezed out.

Former Mayor and Cabinet Member Julian Castro (TX) Another example of loss of diversity in the field.

Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) Still not my guy and I’m running out of column space, so on to: Former Congressman John Delaney (MD) - Who? And guess what, he’s still running. Good for him, but I still don’t know much about who he is.

With a few additions and subtractions, there are currently 12 candidates still in the race. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and hedge fund manager Tom Steyer make up the Billionaire Boys Club.

If past is prologue, we might get another white male billionaire in the White House. Either one is better than the current occupant, but so is my orange tabby cat Wilbur, and I wouldn’t vote for him for president.

Former VP Joe Biden is still the guy to beat, and while I’ll never forgive him for what he did to Anita Hill during the 1991 hearings, if he wins the nomination, I will vote for him and so should every Democrat and Independent voter in the country. The statistics show that Trump won because 3rd party candidates stole votes away from Hillary and many Democrats skipped over voting for president.

It goes without saying, the country cannot endure another four years of Trump. His version of “draining the swamp” was to empty it of anyone with talent, qualifications, and the will to stand up to him and call him out on his ignorance. We need a leader who won’t play “whack a mole” with foreign and domestic policy. There are no more adults in the room to rein in his impulses. The consequences of another Trump victory are too dire, and failure is not an option.

By the Numbers 24 - Total number of Democratic candidates in the race in June, 2019 14 - Number of candidates who spoke at the State Convention 7 - Number of the “Convention 14” who are still in the race 7 - Number of the “Convention 14” who dropped out 12 - Number of major candidates currently running for the Democratic nomination 29 - Total number of Democrats overall from the “beginning of time” who declared candidacy for president (including dropouts and current candidates) 18 - Number of days until the Iowa Caucuses 47 - Number of days until the California Primary (March 3) Louise (Lou) Fischer is a Former Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club and has served as an appointed and elected Delegate for the State Democratic Party. She is a proud graduate of the Emerge California Women’s Democratic Leadership program, was a San Francisco Commissioner, and has served in leadership positions in multiple nonprofit and communitybased organizations.

2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Two Trillion Reasons to Vote in the Democratic Primary the U.S. has only ever enjoyed 16 years of peace.

According to a report released last year, American taxpayers have spent $6.4 trillion on wars and military action in the Middle East since 9/11.

During those conflicts, over 800,000 people died, including 335,000 civilians. By the numbers alone, the United States’ military action is hard to stomach, nonetheless justify.

To the Left, To the Left Peter Gallotta Donald Trump’s direct order to kill General Qassem Soleimani, a commander of Iran’s military forces in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, has left many of us grappling with the potential reality of another war in the Middle East. The timing of this attack should come as no surprise to any of us following the news. In the wake of a legitimate and successful impeachment process in the House, Donald Trump found his back against the wall. And when an impeached president is losing in the court of public opinion as they enter a critical election year, an aggressive military action can be a convenient opportunity to demonstrate strength.

This escalated conflict with Iran is Trump’s doing—he ordered the strike. But if we’re to be 100% honest with ourselves, we have to recognize this as a symptom of a larger problem: the United States is addicted to war. In the 244 years of its existence,

Which is why, when Donald Trump boasted on Twitter in the wake of the Soleimani attack that we spent “two trillion on military equipment” and that our military could, at any time, be aimed at Iran, he was perpetuating a position long held as an unquestionable truth: our military spending is our might.

Trump’s actions in Iran have exposed our moral and fiduciary failure as a country. If budget spending is a reflection of our values, then both Democrats and Republicans have some explaining to do. A $2 trillion-dollar military budget, if allocated differently, could cover universal public college, universal paid maternity leave, universal pre-k, and the cancellation of all student debt, and still leave us with billions to invest in housing, healthcare, infrastructure, and growing our clean energy economy. Instead, it’s used to kill civilians, children, and families.

Whom we elect as president in November could change this. But the key word here is: could. Democrats have not been the pro-peace leaders we often want them to be. Take, for example, President Obama.

According to NBC News, Obama

presided over one of the most precise targeted killing campaigns in history. That campaign led to more than 500 air strikes and thousands of people killed. If we’re angry about what Trump has done or is about to do when it comes to military action in the Middle East, we have to confront the inconvenient truths about Democrats, too.

As California voters, we have an opportunity on March 3, 2020, to take a stand against war. The California Primary election, which has typically taken place the first Tuesday in June, will be the first Tuesday in March this year. For the first time, Californians could determine who gets the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. If we want to elect a pro-peace president, it starts with us.

For me, the choice is clear. There’s one candidate I trust to break our addiction to war, and that’s Bernie Sanders. Senator Sanders has arguably been one of the most consistent anti-war voices in American politics.

He vehemently opposed the Vietnam War, voted against the Iraq War in 2002, and was one of the first candidates to speak out against a possible war in Iran. The Senator arguably has put forward one of the most progressive foreign policy platforms amongst the Democratic candidates, promising to end ongoing wars, promote better relations between Israel and Palestine, and make climate change a top American foreign (and domestic) policy issue.

When we look at where we are as a country—our massive mili-

tary spending, tax breaks for the rich, rising student debt, the ongoing climate denial—we are on a fundamentally unsustainable path that threatens our very livelihood and survival. Our priorities are wholly out of whack. This Primary election is not just about who we want to go up against Trump in the general election in November. It’s about deciding the kind of future that we want for our country.

We won’t be able to win that future if we don’t turn out the vote. While most Californians are familiar with our open primary system where all candidates regardless of Party appear on the same ballot, many may not know that the presidential race runs differently. If you are not registered as a Democrat or with any Party, you will not automatically receive a ballot with the Democratic presidential candidates unless you take a few actions.

The easiest thing to do is to register as a Democrat. Californians can change their party registration up until February 18th, and it’s super easy to do online. Just update your registration by visiting the California Secretary of State’s website. If you don’t change your registration, you can still ask for a Democratic ballot at your polling place on election day. However, if you’re non-party affiliated and vote by mail, you must

affirmatively ask for a Democratic ballot, either by returning a form in the mail or reaching out to your local county election office—so don’t wait to complete your mail-in ballot until the last minute.

So, for all of my California voters out there, make sure you check your registration status and update it as needed. Request a Democratic Primary ballot if you don’t already receive one. And be sure to let your friends and family know what’s up on March 3, 2020.

I’ve got two trillion reasons to vote.

What about you?

Peter Gallotta is a 30-something LGBT political activist holding on to the city that he loves thanks to rent control and two-for-one happy hour specials. He is a former President of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club and currently serves as an appointed member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee and an elected delegate to the California Democratic Party.

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Andrea Shorter Here we are: 2020 A.D. Finally.

As a kid from the 1970s, I honestly believed that we would be commuting and zooming through the air in jetpacks by now. Copious exposure to the miracles and wonders of future technologies as portrayed in gobs of black and white sci-fi flicks of the ‘50s, Lost in Space, and The Jetsons impressed upon my formative imagination that no doubt by now we’d be zipping 5,000-plus feet into the air at 200 miles per hour all over tarnation with the ease of a solar or banana peel powered hum-dinger of a jetpack. Where, oh where, is my totallyrad-shiny-metallic-hot-pink jetpack?

Like so many things that have already proved painfully true in these wee hours of this new year, events we might have hoped for even just three years ago—virtually any president but this one, real marked progress to stave off very real and present dangers of climate crises, the end of war or declaring war in the Middle East, gun control, passage of an Equality Act—seem ever so closely within our grasp, yet just far away enough to keep us grasping, testing our belief and hope against hope that the imaginable, and very possible “ jetpack” will soon be delivered.

There might not be a mass-market glut of jetpacks alongside the numerous other actual miracles and

2019 came and went without the hoped-for passage and implementation of an Equality Act, a federal mandate to ensure the protections against employment, housing, healthcare access, and other abject discriminations based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Instead, we have an administration that is hell-bent on erasures of any standing policies that promote inclusion and protections of LGBTQ Americans.

Recently, the Ad Council and LGBT concerned and led Gil Foundation launched a national television ad campaign called Beyond I Do ( https://beyondido.org/ ). Perhaps you’ve seen the ad aired while glued to MSNBC, CNN, or network broadcasts. It features a mother sharing how she raised her son to be respectful, tolerant, and fair with others, but was disheartened to find out that her son could be fired as a teacher simply for being gay.

I love this ad campaign, and urge folks to review it at Beyond I Do online and share it; make it viral. It’s admittedly better than some of the old, widely panned “No On Prop 8” campaign ads perhaps most recent in our collective memories of statewide broadcasts regarding LGBTQ

“Together We Rise!” is the theme of this year’s Women’s March & Rally in San Francisco on January 18. The Rally will begin at 11 am at San Francisco Civic Center Plaza, with the Programming starting at 11:30 am. The pre-registered lineup of contingents then starts at 1 pm, followed by the March kickoff at 1:30 pm down Market Street to the Embarcadero (approximately 1.7 miles).

The emcee at the Rally will be Kimberly Ellis, Executive Director of Emerge California. After running national operations, including the shepherding of the state and federal incorporation and launch processes as the National Affiliate Director at Emerge America in 2010, Ellis was tapped to lead the flagship affiliate, Emerge California, as its Executive Director.

Rally Speakers Carmen Chu, Assessor-Recorder, The City and County of San Francisco Chu was appointed by late Mayor Ed Lee to serve as San Francisco Assessor in 2013 before she was re-elected in November 2014 and again in 2018.

Since taking office, she has the distinction of being the only Asian American female Assessor in all 58 of California’s counties.

Saru Jayaraman, President, One Fair Wage Jayaraman is the President of One Fair Wage, Co-Founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University SA N F RANCISCO BAY T I ME S

It is 2020. Yes, we might have to wait a little while longer for the political practicalities of an Equality Act to be finally passed and imple-

Andrea Shorter is a Commissioner and the former President of the historic San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. She is a longtime advocate for criminal and juvenile justice reform, voter rights and marriage equality. A Co-Founder of the Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition, she was a 2009 David Bohnett LGBT Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

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Malia Cohen, Chair, Board of Equalization, 2nd District Cohen serves as a Member of the California State Board of Equalization (BOE), California’s elected tax commission. Elected in November 2018, she is the first African-American woman to serve on the Board. In January 2019, her BOE Board Member colleagues unanimously selected her to serve as Chair of the Board.

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Outlining state by state laws regarding LGBTQ discrimination, Beyond I Do helps in a meaningful way to inform, educate, and help soften the ground on the urgent need to change our state and federal laws towards non-discrimination of LGBTQ people. Of course, California is among the 20 non-discriminatory states (and D.C.) that have laws in place that protect the rights of LGBT Americans by fully protecting against discrimination in housing, employment, and public places like stores or restaurants based on a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity.

While the 30 other states are fairly predictable, you might be surprised at the types of laws and legislation that either remain or are still being proposed to further oppress, suppress, or erase any notion of LGBTQ existence.

mented. I doubt that I’ll be zooming about by jetpack anytime soon. Maybe in 2022? Until then, I’ll live. Meanwhile, it’s unbearable and unconscionable to imagine that we have to wait much longer for full LGBTQ equality and protection against discrimination in any and all states. At least with the help of a national ad campaign such as Beyond I Do, it’s reasonable to expect that by the end of 2020, more Americans will know as much about the state by state status of LGBTQ rights as much as we do the state by state status of legalized cannabis.

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of California, Berkeley. After 9/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, she cofounded ROC, which now has more than 30,000 worker members.

Teresa Mejía, Executive Director, The Women’s Building Mejía is a community activist, feminist, single mother, Puerto Rican, and the Executive Director of The Women’s Building, which stands in the heart of the Mission District brilliantly painted with a mural dedicated to women, Maestrapeace.

Toni Newman, Author and Executive Director, St. James Infirmary Newman is the author of the 2011 memoir I RiseThe Transformation of Toni Newman, discussing her 25-year difficult transition. The memoir was nominated in 2012 in two categories for the Lambda Literary Awards, honored in 2012 by Wake Forest University for Faces of Courage, and has been featured in The Advocate, Ebony magazine, and the Huffington Post.

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The featured mother’s genuinely expressed hurt and shock in the ad at the realization that LGBTQ rights are not fully intact imply the same misunderstanding by millions of Americans following civil marriage equality.

As the tome goes, yes, we can marry whom we love on Sunday, and be fired (or not hired) on Monday simply for actually being, or, in some states, for being suspected of being LGBTQ.

Shannon Watts, Founder, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America—the nation’s largest grassroots gun violence prevention group, with chapters in all 50 states and a powerful network of volunteers and survivors who have successfully effected change at the local, state, and national level.

“We’re at a pivotal moment for women’s rights globally—there has been vicious backlash against the advancement of women over the last year that has resulted in increased violence and harassment,” says Sophia Andary, chair of Women’s March San Francisco. “This year’s theme of #TOGETHERWERISE! will serve as a motivator to once again unite as a rich and diverse community and march for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families worldwide.” https://womensmarchsf.org/

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The Bay Times was the first newspaper in California, and among the first in the world, to be jointly and equally produced by lesbians and gay men.

We honor our history and the paper’s ability to build and strengthen unity in our community.

It is now 2020, though, so concerning matters of law, fairness, equality, and social justice, one has every right to believe that by now LGBTQ full equality and protection from discrimination in any form, and in every state, would, in fact, be fact by now; an eventuality of reasonable possibilities achieved, settled, and perhaps taken for granted—by now.

civil rights. It’s appealing if for the singular reason that it clearly addresses the fact that too many people presume that because same sex marriage equality is the law of the land, LGBTQ people enjoy all civil and human rights that should protect them against discrimination.

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wonders of technology that inundate our post-Apple, post-Tesla world just yet, but it doesn’t mean the eventuality of the possibility is not out there. The capacities and abilities to realize what was once total fantasy exist. One presumes that for a variety of practical reasons, we jetpack dreamers will apparently just have to hold on a little while longer.

Roland Schembari and Bill Hartman, Co-Founders Randy Alfred, Founding News Editor 1978

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San Francisco City Hall was packed on January 8 for the second inauguration of Mayor London Breed—this time for her first full term—and the swearing-in ceremonies for San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and the city’s 37th Sheriff, Paul Miyamoto, who is the first Asian American to serve in this role in the state.

Music legend Carlos Santana performed at the Mayor’s inauguration.

Mayor Breed spoke about the challenges of housing affordability and homelessness in San Francisco, and laid out her administration’s vision for addressing them. She called for building at least 50,000 new homes in the next decade, supporting policies that allow for more multi-family housing, meeting her goal of opening 1,000 new shelter beds, adding additional mental health beds and services, and opening more Permanent Supportive Housing.

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The inauguration ceremony, conducted by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Teri Jackson, was recorded and is now available for viewing at YouTube: https://bit.ly/35Qo3Yb

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Dorothy Thompson: Forty Years of Truth

Photos Courtesy of Dr. Bill Lipsky

Dorothy Thompson

Faces from Our LGBT Past Dr. Bill Lipsky Whether she was canvassing votes for women, fighting fascism, championing refugees, or promoting world peace, Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) always had a cause.

Firm in her convictions, singleminded in their pursuit, she shared her concerns with millions of followers through her widely syndicated newspaper column, her monthly magazine articles, numerous radio broadcasts, and endless public appearances. At the peak of her prestige and with the exception of Eleanor Roosevelt, no American woman was better known or more influential.

After graduating from Syracuse University in 1914, Thompson took a job as a paid organizer for the New York Woman Suffrage Party. When the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920, she turned to other causes. She also fell in love for the first time, with a woman, 17 years her senior, who encouraged her to believe she could do anything she set her mind to.

Maxim Kopf self portrait, 1929

Christa Winsloe

became the most celebrated, and the “undisputed queen of the overseas press corps.”

In Berlin, Thompson witnessed and reported about the most significant development of the era: the rise of Nazism and its eminent threat to civilization. She was not impressed with Adolph Hitler when she interviewed him in 1931, describing him as “inconsequent and voluble ... the very prototype of the little man.”

She was acutely aware of the dangers he and his ideology presented, however. Fascism, she warned again and again for the next ten years, “cannot be appeased; it can only be opposed.”

Gertrude Van Vrancken Franchot Tone (1876–1953) knew In August 1934, that women could do after publishing a the seemingly imposseries of articles about sible. A progressive libGertrude Franchot Tone the Nazis’ plans for the eral member of a wealthy, Jewish people of Europe, socially prominent, and Hitler ordered Thompson politically conservative upstate New to leave Germany; she was the first York family, she became an early American journalist he expelled. She champion for women’s rights who led returned to the United States, writthe Suffragists’ State Convention in ing and lecturing about the perils of 1917, and then went on to co-found fascism. In 1936 she began “On the the Women’s Peace Society in 1919.

Record,” a syndicated newspaper (Her son Franchot would become column that appeared three times a Joan Crawford’s second husband.) week in some 150 papers for the next 21 years. She also wrote monthly for When Thompson’s affair with the Ladies Home Journal from 1937 Gertrude ended, she turned briefly until her death in 1961. for comfort to Wilbur Phillips, a married man, and then left for Thompson warned early and often Europe in 1921 with hopes of becom- about fascism, “the enemy of whating a journalist. Often scooping her ever is sunny, responsible, pragmatic, peers, she was overseas within six common-sense, freedom-loving, years as bureau chief for the New life-affirming, form-seeking, and York Evening Post, headquartered in conscious of tradition.” She called Berlin. Although not the first women attention to the vast human tragto head an overseas news bureau, she edy Europe was facing, which

other reporters and most governments minimized or simply ignored: the challenges facing refugees from the Spanish Civil War and Hitler’s threatened destruction of Europe’s Jewish communities. Europe’s displaced and persecuted, she argued, “could bring to a new country resources of skill which would increase its wealth and trade.”

Thompson married three times.

Her first husband was Joseph Bard, whom she wed in 1923. “Delirious with love, I was,” she said later; they divorced in 1927. The next year she married Sinclair Lewis, who two years later would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. After a tumultuous 14 years together and apart, they divorced in 1942. She married her third husband, the artist Maxim Kopf, in 1945. They remained married until Kopf’s death in 1958.

While married to Lewis, Thompson began an affair with Christa Winsloe (1888–1944), whose play Gestern und heute (1930) became the basis of Mädchen in Uniform (1931), one of the earliest narrative films to explicitly portray female homosexuality. Although Thompson told one friend, “I prefer men,” she admitted how much she delighted in what she described as “this incredible feeling of sisterhood.” While she could not “account for this which has happened again,” her relationship with Winsole lasted more than three years.

“I think you’ll be coming after me soon,” Winsloe wrote her after returning to Europe from a visit to the United States. “Otherwise you’re kaput with me.” By the time they reunited in July 1934, however, their intimacy was over. Five years later, Winsloe met the Swiss writer Simone Gentet, ten years her junior, in

wondered why “their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don’t they take up their own causes and obvious needs?”

France. Their relationship endured until both women, who became active in the French resistance, were killed in 1944 by four men who claimed they had mistaken them for German spies.

The immediate dangers that Thompson warned against have passed, but her greater concerns about threats to freedom and equality remain prescient. As a crusader for human rights, she asked, “Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?”

A lifelong champion of women, she

More than anything else, however, Thompson admonished her audience to safeguard its liberty. “No people ever recognize their dictator in advance,” she wrote in 1935. “When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American ... . They will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of ‘O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!’” She well understood that “history does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

Bill Lipsky, Ph.D., author of “Gay and Lesbian San Francisco” (2006), is a member of the Rainbow Honor Walk board of directors.

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Representative Edith Nourse Rogers and Dorothy Thompson discuss a congressional bill to admit 20,000 German refugee children to the U.S. but it was never voted out of committee, April 1939

GLBT Fortnight in Review

By Ann Rostow Here We Go Well, my friends. It’s 2020 at last, and we are perhaps just one year short of evicting the incoherent moron who now inhabits the White House along with the sad coterie of sycophantic hangers on who bow and scrape along in his wake. By the way, what the hell was going on with the dramatic staging of Trump’s Iran speech? First, a bunch of somber white guys assembled on each side of the podium, grave expressions on their faces and hands carefully clasped over their crotches as if to guard against some lurking danger to their manhood. Then, the main door opened and Trump stepped out bathed in light like a crusading angel or god. Really?

Mel and I actually watched that speech because we were mildly interested to know whether or not World War III was coming our way. Usually, there’s a frantic race for the remote control whenever Trump appears, both of us desperately screaming “mute mute mute” until one of us successfully locates the gizmo and then hits the button. We do the same thing for Matthew McConaughey’s ice fishing commercial as well as a few other select offenders. But there’s something about Trump’s plaintiff whine that particularly grates on our nerves, much as the content of his diatribes grates on our souls. It’s not supportable.

Now we will soon discover his replacement. Super Tuesday is March 3, and not since Gary Hart in 1984 has anyone won that day without going on to win the nomination.

It seems clear that, barring an upset

by Mike Bloomberg, we will be rallying behind Biden, Sanders, or Warren. But speaking of Bloomberg, I am personally putting my vague objections to money in politics on the shelf for the duration. If Bloomberg wants to spend tons of his own money getting Trump out of office, I applaud the effort.

As for the complaint that the Democratic field is no longer diverse, I was interested to read Jonathan Capehart’s op-ed, pointing out that it’s simplistic to think the African American electorate would limit its support to African American candidates. Indeed, Biden wins the support of African American Democrats because, like many other Democratic factions, their top priority is unseating Trump. How many LGBT Democrats think Mayor Pete is great, but prefer a more electable candidate?

I’m one of them, and I don’t think I’m abandoning the gay community in some way.

Lesbian Behaving Badly Moving along, did you hear about the professor at Mount Holyoke who turned up uninvited at the home of another female colleague and announced she had long been in love with her? I guess the romantic overture did not go as planned because she then attacked her potential soulmate with a fire poker, a rock, and some garden shears, leaving her hospitalized with severe injuries but expected to survive.

Art professor Rie Hachiyanagi, 48, told police she had no recollection of any of these events, since she suffers from a medical condition that affects her memory. Oh, that’s handy! She has now been placed on administrative leave pending a review, and has been charged with attempted murder and various counts of assault.

Hey, I’m all for due process in the administration of university affairs, but sometimes you should be able

to forget the red tape and just fire someone. No leave periods or review boards required. She beat up a colleague with a fire poker, a rock, and garden shears. Case closed!

Speaking of lesbian drama, I guess The L Word is back on the air. I’m reminded of it because Mel was watching it from the other room and I had to go check on her because I thought she had a loud porn movie blasting through the house. No, just a steamy sapphic scene from the famed series that once formed the basis for lesbian TV watching parties around the country. I never followed it, so I found the parties somewhat dull. Now again I find myself on the outside looking in because I don’t remember any of the characters, nor do I care what happens in their lives.

(It sounds exciting, however.)

Lambda Wins Appeal for HIVPos Fly Boys On Friday, January 10, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed with a lower court that Trump does not have the right to discharge two HIV-positive airmen. The men, who are not named in court records, were fired because the Air Force has a policy not to deploy HIV-positive service members in a range of locations, including the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. The men sued in 2018, and a lower court judge in Maryland issued an injunction against the Trump administration, agreeing that the men were likely to win their case.

Represented by Lambda Legal, the men argue that there is no rational justification for isolating HIVpositive service members, even as Department of Justice lawyers claim that people with HIV are more dangerous in areas where blood might be shed. The three-judge panel called that philosophy “outmoded and at odds with current science.”

What’s the Hold Up? Mel has returned and informs me that The L Word is “ just as ridiculous as it always was,” although she plans to keep watching for whatever reason. As for other federal appellate court news, there hasn’t been much to write home about in these last weeks. But I was surprised to read that we are still waiting for a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in a case involving two married women who want both names on their child’s birth certificate.

Call me complacent, but I had thought this entire legal question had been settled for good by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2017 case of Pavan v Smith. Bear with me, because this all leads to an interesting mystery!

Not too long after the Court ruled on marriage equality, two married Arkansas women were told they could not list both their names on their child’s birth certificate because said certificate was meant to reflect biological relationships. This rationale was put forward, even though the state had no problem listing a woman’s husband as a child’s father, and even when said child was conceived through a sperm donation from some other guy. The women sued, and in June, 2017, the High Court issued an unsigned majority opinion without hearing further arguments, reemphasizing that marriage equality includes the full rights of marriage as offered to heterosexual couples, including state paperwork. (continued on page 26) S AN F R ANC IS C O BAY T IM ES

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Traps That Can Sabotage New Year’s Resolutions This self-defeating behavior is almost always the result of fear. But by constantly lining up new obstacles, fear of failure is more likely to trip up success then giving what you want a fullhearted effort.

financial statements so you can figure out your cash flow. If something is honestly a priority, you’ll find time to make it happen.

Time Trap 2: Short-term Pleasure vs. Long-term Gain

Money Matters Brandon Miller It’s that time again. The season where some of us optimistically set our goals for the year and others eschew the whole process because they never stick to their resolutions anyway so why bother.

For you perennial resolvers, before you finalize your 2020 list, perhaps you should review 2019’s version. How many of your goals did you hit? If you fell short in some areas, did you start off great and fade a few months into the year? Did you get discouraged because it felt too improbable? Did you never even start?

Okay, you’re human. Forgive yourself and move forward. But to do that, I recommend first taking a moment to see if you recognize yourself in any of these common traps that I encounter over and over again in my financial practice.

Time Trap 1: Believing There Is Not Enough of It We all have the same 24 hours every day. We just don’t always use those hours wisely. That half hour you just spent perusing profiles on Grindr or Her could have been used collecting your monthly bills, paychecks, and

Whoa, we’re getting pretty deep here for a financial advice column! Let me then switch gears and give you three tips for overcoming these traps:

Human nature has a tendency to put its finger on the scales when it comes to balancing what you want today with what you’ll need tomorrow. Saving money doesn’t evoke immediate joy, while spending it can be quite thrilling. Big spenders like to flash wads of cash, but you never see a big saver go into a bank and gleefully display fistfuls of money to deposit.

1) Write it down. I know I say this in every other column, but writing down your goals and resolutions is that important. Being forced to face a written list makes you more accountable.

To compound things even more, the farther away the time where you’ll actually need the money, the harder it is to stay focused on that goal. Now is just so much more seductive than later.

2) Use the buddy system. Speaking of accountable, having a partner who can keep you on track is invaluable. They can also provide an outside perspective and point you toward other possibilities.

Mind Trap: Self-Sabotaging Thinking

3) Quantify your time’s value.

Take your after-tax income and use it to calculate an hourly wage. The next time you’re tempted to buy something frivolous, think of how much longer you’ll have to work into old age to pay for it since every $1 today can be $4 tomorrow. Then, the next time you’re admiring how hot you look in that Tom Ford cashmere sweater, you can decide if making your ex jealous is worth delaying your retirement another week.

Albert Einstein once said, “Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” I think he meant that reality is just what you perceive it to be, which may account for why you and your siblings have different stories about how mom’s favorite lamp got broken.

With that reasoning in mind, if you think you can’t accomplish something, then that becomes your reality.

So, if you want to buy a home, but you think you’ll never be able to save enough, then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. You only fund your down payment fund sporadically, always finding some more urgent purpose for that money. Or you keep increasing the amount you want to save, constantly moving the goalposts just beyond your reach. Year after year, saving for a home ends up as one of your New Year’s resolutions, but you never quite seem to make it happen.

With a few adjustments in your thinking, you may actually fulfill your whole list this year. Cheers to achieving your 2020 resolutions.

Now where’s the champagne?

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Making Space with Minivans

Auto Philip Ruth

Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid

“No, I can’t. I just can’t do it,” said a client whom I was helping to find a new ride for his family. I started him on minivans, and even though he found the first one a decent driver, he exited the driver’s seat shaking his head.

It had everything his clan needed— three rows of seats, room for hauling, clear visibility for city driving—but he was reluctantly parting with his failing 4Runner, and he could not see himself helming a breadbox.

That was about a decade ago. Since then, carmakers have worked to rehab the minivan’s punishingly practical image. New features and styling bring an edginess to a segment that started with wood-grained Dodges and Plymouths back in the early ’80s.

Chrysler recently heralded the sale of its 15 millionth minivan, a marker that points to the company’s consistent dedication to this market. While its domestic competitors fielded forgettable Freestars and dated Terrazzas, Chrysler’s continual improvement of the Caravan and Voyager kept lots of skin in the minivan game.

The $34,000-base-priced Pacifica is the current evolution, with the $27,000 Voyager nameplate returning for 2020 as a less-expensive alternative. Kicking the Pacifica upstairs to the Chrysler label seems right, as it has an upscale look and feel to it. The Chrysler’s hybrid option is a minivan exclusive.

The $32,000 Sienna is a solid player as well, with Toyota’s golden reputation for reliability aligning closely

Toyota Sienna

with the vehicle’s utilitarian nature.

Toyota shook this up a few years back with its “Swagger Wagon” ad campaign, which impressively still resonates today, as an onlooker blurted it out when asked about the tester. The Sienna’s main exclusive is available all-wheel drive. Each has an option list that can lob the final price up over $50,000.

Both are fun to drive. The V6 engines in each have outputs approaching 300 horsepower, and when free of people or loads, these vans sprint off the line. The Chrysler rumbled with the confidence of a traditional American car, while the Toyota felt more refined.

Both handle well. The Pacifica sent more feedback to the driver’s hands, and the tested Sienna SE’s sporttuned suspension kept the body flat in turns and curves. Big views through picture windows enhance driver confidence. Strong-arming the Pacifica or Sienna reassures you that minivans won’t demand chunks of

your soul along with the monthly payments.

Welcoming interiors await your passengers. Pacifica furnishings had a nice mix of colors, chrome, and curves, while the Sienna’s were plainer—the instrument panel in particular could use an update, with an infotainment screen that worked well enough but was no match for Chrysler’s class-leading Uconnect system. On the other hand, the Sienna offers the neat second-row Auto Access Seat, which makes entry easy for folks in wheelchairs.

Add sporty looks—the popular, black-accented Pacifica S gains a red theme for 2020, with the Sienna echoing it with a new Nightshade Edition—and both these vans present compelling reasons to fully embrace your practical side.

Philip Ruth is a Castro-based automotive photojournalist and consultant ( www.gaycarguy.com ). Check out his automotive staging service at www.carstaging.com

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This Month at the Castro Farmers’ Market

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(Please note: The Castro Farmers’ Market is closed for the season. Until we return in the spring, please visit the nearby Divisadero Farmers’ Market at the DMV parking lot, 1375 Fell St., San Francisco. It’s there year-round on Sundays from 10 am to 2 pm.)

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Marvelous Marco Mania!

Rodriguez added, “Since posting and chronicling my journey to professional wrestling on Facebook, I’ve discovered that there’s a strong interest from the LGBT community. Many of my friends and followers didn’t know this was possible for a gay man and I am proud to increase the LGBT visibility in pro wrestling.”

John Chen

He is now the namesake star of Marvelous Marco Mania, a new feature at East Bay Pro Wrestling.

Rodriguez uses many of the moves I saw Macho Man do when I was a youngster.

I remember watching Hulk Hogan and pro wrestling on TV as a kid, mimicking their spectacular moves on my bed. Thank goodness I wasn’t dumb enough to try aerial splashes or drop kicks on concrete. I absolutely loved the athleticism of the wrestlers, the choreography of the bouts, and the pageantry of the sport. But, would I ever get in the ring? Probably not. My friend Marco Rodriguez, on the other hand, would and did, since becoming a pro wrestler was his dream.

I asked Marvelous Marco why people should go to see pro wrestling.

He told me enthusiastically, “Unlike the traditional Greco-Roman wrestling, where your goal is to pin your opponent as quickly as possible, pro wrestling uses athleticism and technique as theater, a form of entertainment. We tell a story within the ring and the story continues from show to show, like a soap opera. My wrestling story arc has just begun, and I recently became a member of the hottest bad-guy, villain

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group, the Glamorous and Fabulous Enterprises. We love that people ‘boo’ us. We provoke that. It’s what we do.”

Marvelous Marco wants you to come watch and “boo” him at East Bay Pro Wrestling. No clapping or cheering, or he’ll get in-your-face nasty.

“We put on an amazing show virtually every Saturday,” he said, “and for a mere ten bucks, the audience gets treated to a thread of six to seven story lines performed as wrestling matches.” Although the story arc of Marvelous Marco the pro wrestler just started, Marco Rodriguez is rewriting his own story arc and living his dream.

For more information on East Bay Pro Wrestling, Marvelous Marco Mania, and their upcoming shows, please visit their Facebook page: https://bit.ly/2t0znUl John Chen, a UCLA alumnus and an avid sports fan, has competed as well as coached tennis, volleyball, softball and football teams.

Born to Peruvian parents and raised in the East Bay, Rodriguez was a closeted pro wrestling fan because his mother forbade him from watching the sport due to the visual violence. “My mom didn’t understand the ‘magic’; she was absolutely appalled by what happened in the ring,” Rodriguez told me for the San Francisco Bay Times. “I dreamt of being a pro wrestler, making a grand entrance and doing aerials and double teams, but it was just a dream.”

Rodriguez’s childhood was a split between following his mother’s strict Roman Catholic path and taking on his father’s carefree, go with the flow attitude. He explained, “My mom was very conservative and taught me if I didn’t do things a certain way or followed rules, I’ve sinned. My dad was the complete opposite. He was progressive and more forward thinking. The divergent views actually gave me balance.”

He continued, “When my mom found out I was gay, she freaked out and told me I couldn’t be gay in her house. She was scared, but more for my safety than anything because I was a person of color and gay. Those were two big strikes against me. She eventually accepted my sexual orientation because she loves me and just wants to see me happy. For that I am grateful.”

Fast forward to early 2019 and Rodriguez’s friend, local drag queen Pollo Del Mar, invited him to attend a pro wrestling event for charity. The wrestling matches rekindled his childhood love for the sport.

Rodriguez said, “I would start dressing up and going to more pro wrestling matches. Eventually, an old friend Rik Luxury, a well-known wrestler, who taught me some basic ‘for show’ moves a while back, encouraged me to start training with East Bay Pro Wrestling and get in the ring. Although I had doubts, I knew it was now or never. I am 36 years old and my window of opportunity was closing fast. So, I took the chance and went for it!”

But, before going into training, Rodriguez had a major concern. “If I do this, I don’t want to be a parody. I don’t want to be that ‘sissy’ wrestler, and I don’t want to be put in a derogatory situation. Maynard Skynyrd, the owner of East Bay Pro Wrestling, assured me that they are all inclusive and have zero tolerance for such thinking and behavior. There’s no body shaming, no age or sex discrimination, and no intimidation.”

Take Me Home with You!

Baltic

“My name is Baltic! I just celebrated my first birthday and I’m full of puppy energ y! It can take me a few minutes to warm up to new people, but if you bring a tennis ball, we’ll quickly become best friends. My dream home would be somewhere quiet, where I’ll have room to run and play. I can’t wait to meet my forever family—maybe you?!”

Baltic is presented to San Francisco Bay Times readers by Dr. Jennifer Scarlett, the SF SPCA’s Co-President. Our thanks also go to Krista Maloney for helping to get the word out about lovable pets like Baltic.

To meet Baltic, as well as other pets seeking their forever homes, please visit: San Francisco SPCA Mission Campus 250 Florida Street San Francisco, CA 94103 415-522-3500 Aside from major holidays, the adoption center is open Mon–Fri: 1–6 pm and Sat– Sun: 10 am–5 pm. Free parking is available for those wishing to adopt!

Dr. Jennifer Scarlett and Pup

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SF Pride Ushers in a Year of Hope

By Gary Virginia

By Carolyn Wysinger

As the 50th anniversary of SF P making plans for a record turno efiting PRC. We recently annou in the Grand Ballroom of the wo hotel atop Nob Hill.

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of San Francisco Pride, and we are so excited to invite the world to our party! In 2020, we wrap up our three-year theme with “Generations of Hope.”

Hope usually denotes a look into the future. Celebrating Generations of Hope, however, takes on a different meaning.

We look back at the resiliency of a generation that was given hope by Supervisor Harvey Milk and inspired to take action. We remember the hope and engagement of a community that stood up to support each other in the wake of the HIV/AIDS crisis. We celebrate those who stood strong in the fight for marriage equality and firmly against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. We stand in solidarity with our community as it grapples with violence against our trans community and fights for economic justice within our community.

The grandeur of this historic, lu impeccable service promise a tru visiting attendees. Acclaimed by week, the three-hour affair affor hear personal remarks from the

As the President of San Francisco Pride, I feel hopeful knowing that we are a community that has survived and thrived for over 50 years! I am given hope by the knowledge that we now have our first generation of Out Seniors to gain wisdom and strength from as we continue to fight.

I am given hope by the engagement of our Youth, who are now empowered to proudly be their authentic selves in ways that many before them were. I’m proud that SF Pride continues to draw people from all over the world who know that they can be themselves.

As a Black Queer Woman, I am hopeful concerning the power of our community to uplift the voices of Queer and Trans People of Color and I am confident that we have the capacity to continue carrying out our mission to “educate the world, commemorate our heritage, celebrate our culture and liberate our people.”

What gives you hope?

Carolyn Wysinger is the President of the San Francisco Pride Board of Directors. http://www.sfpride.org/ OF SF PRIDE PHOTO COURTESY

Pride Brunch scenes from previous years

2020: A Year of Milestone Anniversaries for San Francisco LGBTQ Events

By Patrick Carney

“Strut down the street and have your picture took, Dressed like a dream your spirits seem to turn about.

That Sunday shine is a certain sign, That you feel as fine as you look!”

Lyrics by Jerry Herman

The importance of this feeling of freedom and happiness cannot be underestimated. That is what it is all about, carefree and joyously fun; it is truly “gay” in the original definition of the word. There is certainly a serious side, too.

The activists, organized contingents, abundant floats, and decorated vehicles acknowledge current struggles, honor our past, question and celebrate our present, and joyously show optimism for the future, even though there seem to be many new battles to fight in spite of recent gains over the past decade.

Times change quickly with new challenges before us that have arisen due to a backlash from some

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SF Pride held its first event in June 28, 1970, a year after the Stonewall riots. Now, 50 years later, the stars have aligned allowing the San Francisco Pride Parade to again take place on June 28th as it did in the beginning. The first

There was no event in 1971, but there has been one every year since then. SF Pride still meets the goal of the preface of its original theme: “Freedom Day.” People come from all over the world to experience the freedom to truly be themselves or to happily watch others celebrate being themselves as they march, walk, sachet, dance, skate, ride on a float or motorcycle, or in some other way make their way down Market Street through the Financial District to Civic Center.

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2020 will also bring the 25th annual Pink Triangle. San Francisco has the unique d tion of being the only city in the world ho ing a Pride event that has a giant Pink Tr hovering over the city. All cities hosting a or Stonewall event are festooned with col banners, balloons, bunting, and rainbow (thanks to the genius of LGBTQ icon Gil Baker), but only one city has a one-acre P Triangle on a mountain in the middle of t that can be seen for 20 miles—and that c course, San Francisco.

people toward our recent advances. The 2020 SF Pride events will address all of that and will indeed live up to SF Pride’s Mission Statement: “The Mission of the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration Committee is to educate the world, commemorate our heritage, celebrate our culture, and liberate our people.”

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The grand dame of the world’s Pride Parades/ Festivals will take place on a major scale in San Francisco this coming June. The festivities along Market Street, Civic Center, and all over San Francisco will be spectacular; the Pride Board and various community organizers/activists are busily putting forth ideas and planning a month to remember. So far, they have announced that there will be over 200 parade contingents and exhibitors, and more than twenty communityrun stages and venues. Don’t miss it!

was called “Christopher Street Liberation Day Gay-in” and the theme of that first event was deemed “Freedom Day Revolution.”

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As the late-great Jerry Herman commanded: “Get out your feathers, your patent leathers, your beads and buckles and bows,” because coming in June 2020, San Francisco Pride is turning 50 and the Pink Triangle atop Twin Peaks will have its 25th annual display. Throw in some sequins, spandex, boas, rainbow flags, and pink triangle t-shirts too; it’s going to be quite a show. This is a significant milestone year for San Francisco’s LGBTQ community. The synergy of these important and highly visible queer-based civic events both enjoying anniversaries will make June a colorful and memorable month.

The Pink Triangle atop Twin Peaks is a h visible, yet mute, reminder of man’s inhum to man. It is a giant educational tool and ceremony to teach people where hatred c It commemorates one of the darkest chap human history, the Holocaust. This is a “ munity-building event,” which brings tog LGBTQs with supporters from across the Area who turn out to volunteer to help in huge one-acre display and learn about us to-person.

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Pride approaches, Donna Sachet and I are out for our 22nd Annual Pride Brunch benunced that the June 27th event will be held orld-renowned Fairmont San Francisco

uxury hotel coupled with its reputation for uly memorable experience for local and y many to be their favorite event of Pride rds the opportunity for guests to meet and 2020 Pride Parade grand marshals.

Hallmarks of the Pride Brunch, which has raised $400,000 for PRC since 1998, include hosted premium vodka and bubbly bars, a delicious brunch buffet, live music by the Dixieland Dykes+3 band, a large silent auction and raffle, beautiful florals and rainbow decor, and annual surprises.

Donna and I are eager to learn who the honorees will be this year and expect a larger audience for this milestone 50th anniversary. We feel the elegant grand ballroom at this iconic property will be the ultimate way to celebrate our LGBTQI past, as well as our powerful present, and promising future.

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About Our Cover During most years our attention turns to Pride closer to June, when the Pride Parade & Festival, Pride Brunch, Pink Triangle Commemoration, and related events happen. The start of this new decade, however, marks the 50th Anniversary of SF Pride, with planning already underway for numerous special events citywide to mark this golden year.

Bruce Beaudette, featured on our cover, is part of this planning effort, given that he is a member of the SF Pride Board of Directors. But for Beaudette, Pride isn’t just a once-a-year happening. He is pretty much full-on Pride 24/7!

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This GLBTQ2 historian, costume artist, and self-described Chihuahua companion (Yoko O-Yes is his canine bestie) is well known as Cole Valley and the Castro’s “Costume King,” turning freak chic into compelling street theater with frequent expressions of queerness included. We love this line from a Hoodline profile of him: “Beaudette is, in many respects, the quintessential San Franciscan: an eccentric and open-minded gay man with a social and political conscience.”

huge display that we also hope to educate others of the lessons of the Pink Triangle; the primary lesson being: “what can happen when hatred and bigotry are allowed to become law.” As they say, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.”

We are also reminded of Sister Dana Van Iquity’s thoughts about Pride, which we usually share each year: “It was a very abnormal group of ‘freaky people wearing funny clothes’ back then who made it possible for us today to cocktail and cruise undisturbed in the queer bar of our choice. And walk down Market Street holding hands. And for that matter, those ‘nelly fellas’ paved the way for every one of our civil rights marches.

So, when you see a drag queen or ‘freaky person,’ give ‘em the thumbs-up and thank ‘em for the legacy that continues. Flame on, freaky people!!!”

Special thanks go to photographer JP Lor, who made possible the recent photo shoot with Bruce. https://lorphotosf.com/

San Francisco is truly a city apart. We stand out for many reasons, but our plethora of citywide Pride events, plus the giant Pink Triangle, are over-the-top and visually stunning like no other city. Come this June, let’s go all out as we celebrate SF Pride 50 and the 25th annual Pink Triangle.

Patrick Carney is a Co-Founder of The Friends of the Pink Triangle. The group, with the help of many dedicated volunteers, constructs a gigantic pink triangle on Twin Peaks each year during the last weekend in June. Carney, who worked on the restoration of San Francisco City Hall, was appointed to the City Hall Preservation Advisory Commission in 2013.

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Gary Virginia is the Co-Host of the annual Pride Brunch in San Francisco. He is the former President of the San Francisco Pride Board of Directors. A dedicated LGBTQ community activist, he has earned many honors over the years, including being named Mr. SF Leather in 1996.

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Supervisor Mandelman Is Working to Reopen Flore in ‘Successful and Sustainable Way’

Launching the new concept of the site being an event space was a January 11 re-election party of State Senator Scott Wiener.

For many of us, however, the former Café Flore was a reliable, welcoming home away from home, where we could meet friends, family and partners, or just go solo for a drink or satisfying meal. The 47-year-old historic building, with its corrugated tin roof and eclectic decor, made it among the coziest of spots during wintry days. During the fall and summer, the sun-soaked patio was a natural for leisurely brunching over long conversations.

Beloved activist Dennis Peron at Café Flore with a crutch during his recovery from a gunshot wound suffered during a police raid on his apartment

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Entertainer Marga Gomez is among the many who has posted tributes to Café Flore in recent days. She wrote, in part: “Maybe if we didn’t rely on social media to catch up we’d force ourselves to go sit in the fresh air and talk to people over a cold omelet.” She added, “Thank you, Café Flore, for being the fountain of my San Francisco queer youth and the best corner on Earth.”

Former San Francisco Bay Times columnist, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, wrote, “I have been trying to remember the first time I went to Flore, and I think it might actually have been back in high school (before I came out), tagging along with friends far cooler than me. But definitely on college visits back home and into early adulthood, Flore was my go-to space, a place to catch up with friends, read, cruise cute guys. It was just a great great space.”

He continued: “We need great queer spaces in the Castro today more than ever, but instead we seem to be losing them at an ever-increasing clip. Over the last year the Castro has seen a number of small businesses close their doors for a variety of reasons including increased rents, decreased foot traffic, the Amazonization of retail, high labor costs and tragic fires. But in my view, the thing that has changed the most in the Castro over the last decade is the daily presence of seriously mentally ill and addicted people in neighborhood public spaces. Many small business owners have shared stories with me about such troubled souls blocking entryways, smashing windows, lighting fires, harassing employees and intimidating customers.”

Former Café Flore owners Brett Klinker, Stu Gerry and JD Petras on the patio (2014)

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Exterior view of Café Flore from Market Street

Owners Terrance Alan and Aaron Silverman, who purchased the landmark Castro hub at 2298 Market Street in 2017, envisioned that it would become “San Francisco’s first cannabis café.” The obstacle, at least for now, is that businesses in California cannot sell both alcohol and cannabis, so Alan and Silverman received approval for a dispensary at nearby 258 Noe Street.

A bunny decoration on the café’s patio for the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence annual Easter Party (2017)

“The recently-announced closure of Café Flore (or the latest version of Flore) was a long time coming, but I do not believe this is the end for the Castro, or even for Flore. My office has been in touch with the owners, as well as potential community partners, to find a way to reopen Flore in a successful and sustainable way.”

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While many of us were preoccupied over the past several weeks with work and the recent winter holidays, Flore quietly closed its doors as a café with a sign outside stating that it will be “open for special events.” The closure hit many of us hard, yet it was not entirely unexpected.

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Bartender Zaq welcomed customers on New Year’s Eve (2013)

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Landa Lakes and Kippy Marks enjoyed the Ducal Court Bunny Party on Easter Sunday at Café Flore (2015)

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The Castro Clones Team competing in the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Great Tricycle Race at the Café Flore starting point (2006)

San Francisco Bay Times columnist Donna Sachet having coffee at Café Flore

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An effigy of Burning Man on the roof at Café Flore (2013)

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Bartender Jeffrey Smith (2015)

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Epochalips’ Robin Lowey and Eleanor Palacios hosted a party celebrating the film A Perfect Ending, a Frameline feature. (2012)

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Event host Garza Peru (right) with Breonna McCree and Marcelle Million at the San Francisco Department of Health’s Mariposa Project Party (2012)

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Then Candidate David Campos spoke to supporters during his campaign for California Assembly (2014)

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Performer Gypsy Love and Birdie Bob Watt celebrated on New Year’s Eve (2013)

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We hope that this once-vibrant café will again be open for all to enjoy, and not just for those seeking cannabis and/or alcohol. The loss of Café Flore, however long, provides a stark reminder of how fragile the financial situation can be for even longtime, established businesses. As Mandelman advises, we need to patronize our local treasured businesses: “Each announced small business closure is met with a chorus of sadness and nostalgia, but if we care about our neighborhood small businesses, we need to shop and dine like we mean it.”

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“Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!”

By Donna Sachet

–Auntie Mame, from "Mame" created by the late, great Jerry Herman

f you are reading this, that means you too survived another holiday season, packed with obligations, but hopefully full of time spent with loved ones. We wrapped up the holiday crush on Christmas Eve in the excellent company of Barry Miles, CoCo Butter, and Gary Virginia at the Castro Theatre for the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ annual concert. We often write about new and personal traditions and attending this event has become one. For nearly an hour before each of the 5, 7, and 9 pm shows, two lines of colorfully dressed guests begin to form, one for general admission and one for those who pay slightly more for early entry to snag the best seats. As much as we loathe standing in line, there is something quite special about assembling with Castro residents, visiting family members, loyal chorus devotees, and people of all descriptions in anticipation. Old friendships are renewed and new acquaintances often made. Once inside, the rush for seats is manic, but joyful, with every seat taken within minutes. Those with a taste for popcorn or the like then have to endure a less exciting long line for refreshments. Some, like us, claim seats with coats and umbrellas and then adjourn to 440 across the street for stronger libations. Without much fanfare the chorus quickly files in down the aisles and onto the stage as music begins to flood the theatre. The next hour is filled with rich choral singing skillfully performed, playful antics, goofy costumes and “choralography,” and wry commentary from Artistic Director Tim Seelig, whose column can also be found in these pages. Going to the 9 pm show means that when things run a little long, no one really cares; for over an hour, the room is full of nostalgia, laughter, and camaraderie. Such is the gift of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus!

As the glowing memories of festive holiday events grow dim, we encourage you to hold onto the most universal message of the season, one that we can each personalize every day. Be kind. Take note when that MUNI driver reminds an inexperienced rider that the machine doesn’t give change, saving that rider needless expense and embarrassment. Take note when a friend doesn’t just ask you how you are doing, but genuinely listens, asking specific questions and demonstrating sincere concern. Take a moment to thank your waiter, bartender, doorman/woman, or other person providing you a service, but often overlooked. And while we’re at it, next time you are in a bar or other social setting and notice a person without company, why not say hello with no intention beyond being friendly? True kindness is never difficult or forced; it is as easy as a smile. So many of us are committed to addressing major problems, from the deterioration of the City to shameless national leadership, from displacement of beloved local residents due to unethical rent increases to LGBTQ inequity internationally, and from struggling local arts and business endeavors to terrifying world-wide environmental concerns.

The burden can become overwhelming. But each and every one of us can take the time and effort every day to be kind in our everyday lives.

Call it civility, conscientiousness, or just kindness, but make it a part of your 2020!

With that new year comes another campaign for Emperor and Empress of San Francisco! As the Reigning Emperor Terrill Grimes and Reigning Empress Baby Shaques complete their wonderfully successful year, tongues are wagging about who will run for these historic titles next. The deadline for submitting applications has passed, review board is this weekend, and the official candidates for Emperor and Empress will be presented on Sunday. Expect to see these as yet unnamed persons out and about during the weeks leading up to Voting Day, Saturday, February 15. Next issue’s Donna’s Chronicles will include complete details of upcoming events surrounding San Francisco’s Imperial Coronation on Saturday, February 22.

Calendar a/la Sachet Every Sunday Sunday’s a Drag!

10:30 am Brunch, 11:30 am Show Donna Sachet, Lady Tia, Mahlae & guest stars The Empire Ballroom of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel $75 https://starlightroomsf.com/sundays-a-drag Saturday, January 18 An Evening with the Empresses All Empresses performing for you!

Hamburger Mary’s 531 Castro Street 7 pm door, 8 pm show $10 www.imperialcouncilsf.org Sunday, January 19 Imperial Court Gala & ICP Ball: Angels vs Demons Emperor & Empress candidates announced With Imperial Crown Prince Brent & Princess Sadyst Payne DNA Lounge 375 11th Street 6 pm door, 7 pm show $25 www.imperialcouncilsf.org Friday, January 24 Disco Coalition honors Donna Sachet Honoring Queeros of the LGBTQ Community Benefits AIDS Emergency Fund/PRC Lookout 3600 16th Street 6–8 pm www.discocoalition.org

Also, in February, Krewe de Kinque, the San Francisco-based, New Orleans-style Mardi Gras club, kicks into high gear, culminating in Bal Masque. If you love the spirit of Mardi Gras, come to Bal Masque!

After several weeks of relative calm, you are bound to be caught up again in the whirlwind of LGBTQ events in San Francisco, many providing vital funding for organizations that make this City livable for many in crisis and all of them adding to the special vitality that keeps us here! Read all about it right here and whatever you do and wherever you go ... be kind.

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Donna Sachet is a celebrated performer, fundraiser, activist and philanthropist who has dedicated over two decades to the LGBTQ Community in San Francisco. Contact her at empsachet@gmail.com

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Donna with friends Steven, Gary and Joshua celebrating New Year’s Eve and the arrival of 2020 at Twin Peaks

Donna celebrating on New Year’s Day with Richard, William and Gareth

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(Editor’s Note: In this first issue of 2020, we are thrilled and honored to announce the launch of a new column in the San Francisco Bay Times by two-time Emmy Award winner Jan Wahl. A regular on KCBS radio and KRON 4 television, she is a longtime LGBTQ community advocate who continues to heed her mother’s sound advice: “Plant your feet and tell your truth.”

Before joining KCBS, Wahl was the entertainment reporter and movie/video reviewer at KNBR Radio, where she hosted a three-hour call-in show “Hollywood Calling.” Prior, Wahl frequently appeared as a film critic and historian on KGO Radio.

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Before coming to the Bay Area, she worked for ABC in Los Angeles, first as a documentary producer, and later as a stage manager and director of numerous programs and specials. In 1977, Wahl won an Emmy Award for producing and writing They Still Say I Do, a humorous documentary on the palimony case of Lee and Michelle Triola Marvin. That year she also became a member of the prestigious Directors Guild of America. In 1999 she won a second Emmy for A Filmgoer’s Bill of Rights.

A movie enthusiast since her youth, Wahl began collecting movie memorabilia at age seven. She entered the journalism field as a newswriter for KGO-TV, where she also produced two documentaries while attending San Francisco State University. She graduated with a degree in Broadcast Communications and Arts, and is now a member of their distinguished Alumnae Hall of Fame.

For this San Francisco Pride 50th Anniversary year, Wahl in addition to her new column will also be sharing with us some of her favorite LGBTQ-themed films of all time.)

2020 Oscar Nominations!

We have a long way to go, ladies, but we will get there.

Off the Wahl Jan Wahl Every year my heart breaks because my favorite films are rarely recognized by the Motion Picture Academy. But if you can’t take disappointment, you don’t belong in show business!

This was the year of a movie that inspired and shook me to my core: Bombshell. It received a few nominations, for which I am grateful: Best Actress, Supporting Actress, and Makeup/Hair. But it was a worthy contender for Best Picture and Best Director, nominations that were left in the dust by overrated films such as Joker and Marriage Story. You might disagree ... which is totally fine. We are all critics and movies speak to us in many complex and mysterious ways. I live for critical thinking, yours and mine.

This is a year of legends, both in front of and behind the camera: from Martin Scorsese and Roger Deakins to Antonio Banderas and the lesser known, but one of my personal favorites, Jonathan Price. Who knew we’d get a year when both Popes are nominated from The Two Popes? Talk about hedging your bets.

Notice many female names in the list of nominations? As a longtime member of the Directors Guild of America, I am shamed by the lack of female nominations in the Directing category. This was the year women helmed the wonderful Little Women, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and Harriet, among others. All three were on my Top Ten of the Year. (See her complete list at: http://tiny.cc/blpniz )

The new category name is Best International Feature, once known as Foreign Film. Parasite, capturing the hearts and minds of many of us, will take home the gold. Though my hopes for Zack Gottsagen in The Peanut Butter Falcon and John Lithgow in Bombshell came to naught, their performances are recognized. Scarlett Johannsson makes herstory as a nominee for Best Supporting and Best Actress, though this has happened many times in the past. I will be rooting for the former for her role in the audacious Jojo Rabbit.

Historical context belongs at the Oscars. One of the greatest films of all time is Network, which lost for Best Picture. Gloria Swanson lost for memorable Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Peter O’Toole missed the gold not only for Lawrence of Arabia but also for my second favorite comedy ever, My Favorite Year. Many of us are still seething that Judy Garland did not win for A Star Is Born. (This is the year Renée Zellweger insisted that the film Judy use Garland’s actual voice for the singing. Okay, that was my dream. It would have been a chance to remind all of us (as if we ever forgot) about Garland, and expose a new generation to her unmistakable, unique voice. The decision not to use Garland’s vocals ruined the film Judy for me. Renée may win this year, but Judy Garland fans and future fans lost.)

The Oscars matter. It is about quality, not quantity, brilliance not box office.

We need them or Hollywood will go off the rails even more than it does now.

It would be Endgame and Star Wars and nothing else. We deserve more and so does the amazing art of cinema.

Emmy Award-winner Jan Wahl is a renowned entertainment reporter, producer, and teacher. A member of the prestigious Directors Guild of America, she is regularly featured on KCBS AM & FM, KRON TV, and other media outlets.

Jan Wahl’s Coming Attractions Sunday, February 9 2020 Awards Night at the Lark Theater A Benefit for the Lark Theater Guest Emcees: Jan Wahl & Jerry Goldstone With Musical Guests Tin Sandwich on the Red Carpet 549 Magnolia Avenue, Larkspur 4 pm: Red Carpet, Hors D’oeuvres, Champagne and More 5 pm: Show $95 https://bit.ly/30swNCV

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Thursday, February 13– Thursday, February 20 The Mostly British Film Festival New films from the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa Vogue Theatre 3290 Sacramento Street, San Francisco Individual tickets starting at $15/$20 http://mostlybritish.org/

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Spotlight Film for SF Pride 50: The Celluloid Closet (1995)

By Jan Wahl The Celluloid Closet is not only a great LGBTQ-themed film, but it is also in my top ten favorite films of all time. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman direct, with a brilliant screenplay by Armistead Maupin.

It is an illuminating documentary on the evolution of the entertainment industry in the shaping of LBGTQ images, characters, and movies—using clips, interviews, and historical context. It is based on Vito Russo’s book of the same title. Lily Tomlin narrates, and each frame is immensely entertaining.

The documentary is important for now, and forever.

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Gender Queer Author Delivers with Superhero Cas Russell waving my phone at him. “I was just trying to call. Something’s come up.”

“No. No!” He whipped his head in a frantic headshake. “No, you have to stay!”

“Look, we can reschedule for—” “No!” he cried, and launched himself at me.

Words Michele Karlsberg Michele Karlsberg: S. L. Huang’s Critical Point is a breakout San Francisco thriller and the third book in the Cas Russell series, which includes Zero Sum Game and Null Set. Mathgenius mercenary Cas Russell has stopped a shadow organization from brainwashing the world and discovered her past was deliberately erased and her superhuman abilities deliberately created. And that’s just the start. When a demolitions expert targets Cas and her friends, and the hidden conspiracy behind Cas’ past starts to reappear, the past, present, and future collide in a race to save one of her dearest friends. The following is an excerpt from Critical Point (April release): I’d forgotten about my client meeting. I pulled out my cell as I locked the door of the stupid office behind me, punching in the contact number I had. It was already seven minutes after the hour; maybe he was a noshow anyway.

The phone rang out without a voicemail message. That was weird.

“You’re not supposed to be leaving,” said a voice with an Aussie accent.

I turned. It took me three scans of the decrepit parking lot to find the person who had spoken. My client—well, I assumed—was scrambling toward me over the gravel: an unkempt Asian-Australian man with shaggy black hair, greasy stubble, and a torn shirt beneath his leather jacket that was even dirtier than mine. “Sorry,” I said insincerely,

His movement translated into mathematics, clumsy Newtonian mechanics with his mass and velocity throwing themselves forward with no regard for efficiency. He might be bigger than I was, but still, it was insulting. And I was in the mood to hit someone.

I twisted and struck my palm against his hip, building the perfect fulcrum.

His body flipped over in a spin an acrobat would have been proud of, and he landed on his back, wheezing.

I stepped into the afternoon sun so my shadow fell across his face. “Hi,” I said. “I’m Cas Russell. Our meeting is rescheduled. Is that underst—” My office exploded.

The concussion roared outward through shattering glass and splintering wood and slammed across the lot. The blast flung me into the air, the noise overwhelming everything else. I flailed against it and managed enough of a partial solution to twist and hit the ground hard on my shoulder before rolling out back to my feet.

The explosion had shredded the front wall of my new office, bits of boards hanging by mere splinters against crumbling mounds of plaster.

Nothing was on fire, but I didn’t want to know what it looked like inside. The small, grimy parking lot had only a few cars in it, but their windows had all shattered, and I could hear car alarms wailing from some distance away. My lungs twinged in the aftermath of the sudden pressure differential.

My would-be client, who had escaped the worst of the blast by being flat on his back, tried to scramble to his feet and dash away. I snatched up a piece of wood rubble from the explosion and threw it.

YOU TOO CAN BE A WINNER!

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S. L. Huang has a math degree from MIT and is a professional stuntwoman & armorer who has worked in Hollywood on “Battlestar Galactica” and a number of other productions. Her short fiction has appeared in “Strange Horizons,” “Nature,” and “The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016.” https://www.slhuang.com Michele Karlsberg Marketing and Management specializes in publicity for the LGBTQ+ community.

This year, Karlsberg celebrates 32 years of successful book campaigns.

For more information: https://www.michelekarlsberg.com

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Out Documentarian Chronicles a Remarkable Media Project

Film Gary M. Kramer In her Philadelphia apartment, Marion Stokes recorded 70,000 VHS tapes from 1977 until her death in 2012. Her main focus was TV news; she simultaneously taped multiple 24-hour news channels to compile an archive that showed how media reflected society back on itself.

She was interested in the power of mass media to influence public opinion. She also was an early adaptor and stockholder of Apple products, amassing everything the company produced.

Marion Stokes in Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

categories and tropes of what a radical person is. She pursued projects outside of established institutions, and she saw patterns and phenomena in the culture and reacted to them and did something about them. Most people are not women of action. She reacted to Apple and the 24-hour news cycle.

The ways she reacted were unusual, but insightful. She was politically radical as well, and I found that very appealing.

Out gay filmmaker Matt Wolf’s fantastic documentary, Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, opening January 17 at the Roxie, is a profile of this remarkable librarian, activist, and archivist. Wolf interviews her son Michael Metelits, her husband John Stokes’ children, and her personal assistants, among others, to provide a portrait of an eccentric woman who created an extraordinary archive that now resides with the Internet Archive in San Francisco.

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Gary M. Kramer: What can you say about assembling all the footage to tell a story?

Director, Matt Wolf

In a phone interview, Wolf spoke with me for the San Francisco Bay Times about his documentary.

Gary M. Kramer: How did you find out about Marion Stokes’ work, and why did you decide that this story needs to be told in a film?

Matt Wolf: I like to make films with challenging and unprecedented archives, so when I heard about this woman who recorded TV, I was intrigued to know more. I was inspired by this archive that contains anything and everything. It’s a very intense family story, too. I’m interested in stories about problematic visionaries—people who are at once insightful and dysfunctional.

Gary M. Kramer: How do you relate to Marion?

Matt Wolf: I think she’s unequivocally radical and not in any conventional sense. She defies the

Matt Wolf: I was always looking at ways that the archive pointed to Marion and Marion pointed to the archive; how it is interwoven with her personal story. It was an elaborate process. We had to fully index her collection in a grassroots way and take photos of VHS spines and transcribe them and then pull specific dates to digitize. I had to scrub through tapes to mark interesting things. The subjects I looked for were through the prism of her main interests—Cuba and the depiction of Communism; the emergence of technology in society; and race, particularly in regard to police brutality and black leadership in the political scene.

Gary M. Kramer: Marion is described as a visionary, ahead of her time, but also irrational.

She had difficult relationships with her family. What do you make of her character?

Matt Wolf: When I was making the film, I said, I’m not going to use psychological explanations to understand her behavior. There are dimensions to her shutting out the rest of the world. Elizabeth Stokes [one of John’s daughters] observes that Marion was more concerned about getting information through the news than actual information about or from her family. The media superseded all other relationships.

That was dysfunctional. She chose her project over relationships and, for whatever reason, wasn’t able to have both. Michael said she had unrealistic expectations of her family.

Gary M. Kramer: Why do you think the news media, specifically TV, but also newspapers, interested her rather than the internet?

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Matt Wolf: A lot of it stems from her concerns about privacy. She didn’t want to use the internet or have a modem in her house. That dovetails with her paranoia. She was spied on by the government. She was prescient. Government surveillance and corporate use of the internet was a huge concern. The nature of the news media was shifting. Her project, toward the end of her life, was becoming obsolete, so her collection is unique—made at a time where TV news had influence.

Gary M. Kramer: What observations do you have about the importance of her archive and how it can be used to foment social change?

Matt Wolf: It’s difficult to know what it may be used for. I think that the goal of the archive isn’t to explain or analyze or define how it will be used; it is so others have access. As a documentary filmmaker, I find material that’s critical to the expression of ideas the originator might not have conceived of. We don’t know what activism, scholarship, reporting, documentary filmmaking, or consciousness the archive will produce. There is an array of characters and actors and historical figures we’ll have access to. It’s impossible to define its value or how it might be used. © 2020 Gary M. Kramer Gary M. Kramer is the author of “Independent Queer Cinema: Reviews and Interviews,” and the co-editor of “Directory of World Cinema: Argentina.” Follow him on Twitter @garymkramer

PURPLE WHAT NOW Marilyn Pittman, an NPR host and one of the first out queer comics, performed a set on the 2012 closing night of the legendary Purple Onion in this San Francisco neighborhood: A) North Beach B) Haight C) Castro D) SoMa ANSWER ON PAGE 26

Karin Jaffie, aka Kit/Kitty Tapata, won the title of Mr. Gay San Francisco in 2011 and has earned many other honors since. Connect with Jaffie via Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ktapata S AN F R ANC IS C O BAY T IM ES

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By Sister Dana Van Iquity Sister Dana sez, “Well, THAT decade is over! Now onto the next! Let’s just hope 2020 brings us ‘PERFECT VISION’!”

In reaction to terrible Trump’s tweets about homelessness in our City against SF’s House Speaker Nancy Pelosi & Senator Scott Wiener, the Senator from SF angrily retorted that Trump is “cutting people from food assistance, he’s cutting funding for affordable housing, and then he criticizes us for having a problem with homelessness; so he needs to look at himself in the mirror.” Oh Scott, don’t you know that prez spends plenty of time in front of the mirror? How else would he get that narcissistic orange glow?!

Sister Dana sez,”Many many thanks to the marvelous Juanita MORE! for sending me the healing Therapeutic Pain Relief Cream from Tender Healing Care. I rub it on my shoulder until I can get surgery on my torn rotator cuff. I love Juanita so much! And I love all of you wonderful friends for your support during these difficult times!” (Editor’s Note: We’re happy to report that Sister Dana’s surgery, which took place shortly after this column was filed, went well. SD is still experiencing pain, however, which we hope will soon be history.)

ME, MYSELF, AND MY DIRTY MIND was an art opening on January 3 at Strut in the Castro for artist Eric McCracken. His works will be on display for all of January. The artist statement: “The series of autobiographical self-portraits follows the timeline of my teenage years. Margaret Thatcher ruled England with an iron fist.

Both homophobia and xenophobia flowed through the veins of the everyman.

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On January 8 at the Herbst Theater, we celebrated the historic inauguration of the Milk Club›s endorsed candidate for District Attorney, Chesa Boudin. The Milk Club shared: “With our Club’s early help, we finally have a District Attorney who will fight for equal justice and the decriminalization of mental illness and poverty throughout San Francisco.”

COCKETTES ARE GOLDEN! was an incredible 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Cockettes. This legendary, gender-bending theatre troupe celebrated 50 years of music, art, and mayhem. This One Night Only Extravaganza was an opulent recreation of the Cockettes’ musical numbers with commentary by members of the original Cockettes in person!

Musical direction was by original Cockette Scrumbly Koldewyn on piano. It was emceed by Thrillpeddlers founder Russell Blackwood. And it was directed and choreographed by Noah Haydon.

The show was performed on January 4 at the Victoria Theatre to a packed house of fans.

The Cockettes were established on Dec 31, 1969, for a midnight show at the Palace Theater in San Francisco in a haze of sex, drugs, drag, genderbending and glitter. They took drag and old Hollywood musicals and (continued on page 26)

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On Wednesday, January 8, at 11 am in the City Hall Rotunda, Mayor London N. Breed was sworn in and delivered remarks at her second inauguration ceremony as Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco. Mayor Breed spoke about the challenges of housing affordability and homelessness in San Francisco, and laid out a vision for addressing them. She called for building at least 50,000 new homes in the next decade, supporting policies that allow for more multi-family housing, meeting her goal of opening 1,000 new shelter beds, adding additional mental health beds and services, and opening more Permanent Supportive Housing. This inauguration marks Mayor Breed’s first full four-year term in office. The ceremony featured musical performances and an invocation, and the Honorable Judge Teri L. Jackson administered the Mayoral Oath of Office.

that start with my belief of just being in physical proximity of a gay man would lead to my body being overtaken by his. Even in my head where no one else could see, I positioned myself as the innocent bystander. As the narrative in this series of my schoolboy daydreams progresses, I gain confidence in my sexuality and begin to take the reins and wield power. The nature of these outlandish teenage fantasies birthed my art-making as a surreal approach to living in a foreign country and a heterosexual world I didn’t fit into.

Through my artistic output I learned to retreat deeply into my imagination to survive." McCracken creates large scale self-portraits capturing “the delusional world of a humdrum, pencil pushing homosexual in San Francisco.” His art uses his body as a starting point, employing props, costumes, and exoskeletons to augment the narrative structure. His body of work focuses on distorting the human form by adding, subtracting, and modifying the human form to tell a story in a single image. He first Photoshops compositions before projecting them onto 40×60” boards, then uses Copic markers and pens.

There are currently seven pieces on display at Strut, 470 Castro Street. https://eric-mccracken.format.com/

Sister Dana and Sister Tilda NexTime, on Saturday, January 4, were among the audience enjoying the Cockettes Are Golden 50th Anniversary Celebration at the Victoria Theater.

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where developable sites are rare,” said Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development Acting Director Dan Adams. “Once built, 1939 Market Street will add to our ever-expanding portfolio with over 80 new units of permanently affordable housing for seniors where they can age in place with a sense of continuity and grace.”

A month before the Pavan ruling, the Seventh Circuit heard arguments in a similar birth certificate case out of Indiana, where two mothers rely on the nonbiological partner for their child’s health insurance.

Oh, and the child has medical problems, so the insurance is critical. These women are married. But if the partner’s name is removed from the child’s birth certificate, she would have to undertake a stepparent adoption in order to repair her legal status.

“Openhouse is thrilled to see the City move forward to create more affordable housing for San Francisco seniors,” said Karyn Skultety, Executive Director of Openhouse. “While Openhouse and Mercy Housing celebrate our strong communities of residents at 55 and 95 Laguna Street, the City’s first and only LGBTQ-welcoming affordable senior housing buildings, our heart breaks every day for the thousands of seniors caught in the housing crisis. We know that almost 3,000 remain on our waitlists alone, that people walk through the door every day facing eviction or living on the streets, and that many LGBTQ seniors feel pushed out of a city they helped to build. We look forward to working closely with the City to create a San Francisco that centers our seniors in communities they can trust.”

“The opportunity to build more LGBTQ welcoming affordable senior housing and services so close to the Openhouse community housing campus on Laguna Street will establish San Francisco as the leading LGBTQ welcoming senior housing and service center in the country,” said Dr. Marcy Adelman, Openhouse Co-Founder and a San Francisco Bay Times columnist. “It takes a combination of political will and community advocacy to develop LGBTQ affirming affordable senior housing. The Mayor and community senior housing advocates have once again shown a willingness to work together to make things happen.”

The affordable housing development will be part of the City’s Neighborhood Preference program, which Breed created when she was on the Board of Supervisors. Pending state funding, Neighborhood Preference requires either 25% or 40% of units in new affordable housing developments to be reserved for people living in the district where the development is built or within a halfmile of the project.

Once the land transfers to the City’s ownership, the current owners will sign a lease with the City to remain on site for a duration of 24 months. Upon completion of the new affordable housing, the site will be transformed into a mixed-use development with expansive ground-floor activation opportunities.

Following approval of the purchase by the Board of Supervisors and finalization of construction funding, the City will select a developer through a Request for Qualifications process to develop the site.

Mayor Breed has committed to creating affordable senior housing throughout San Francisco, and providing financial assistance for seniors to stay in their homes. The City budget for 2019–20 and 2020–21 includes $7 million in new funding for housing subsidies for low-income seniors. In addition to the new funding, the City offers rental subsidies for seniors through the Dignity Fund and the Community Living Fund.

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The Purple Onion was a celebrated cellar club in North Beach in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to Pittman, performers at this former SF hotspot included Bob Newhart, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Alameda housewife Phyllis Diller, Richard Pryor, Maya Angelou, Jim Nabors, the Smothers Brothers, and numerous others.

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Normally, the Seventh Circuit would have dismissed its own case, or ruled for the same-sex couple as per the Supreme Court’s precedent. But instead, the court did nothing. It has not ruled on the case, nor has it disposed of it, since the arguments in May 2017.

According to an article in Slate, lawyers and court observers are baffled by the delay, with one law professor calling it “nothing short of bizarre.”

For what it’s worth, the panel was an unusually conservative group, so perhaps they prefer to leave Indiana in an ambiguous netherworld rather than kowtow to those liberals on the Supreme Court. Still, for an appellate court to stall a ruling for more than two and a half years is extraordinary and weird.

It’s an Outrage!

It’s time again for a blitz of alarmist headlines as various state legislatures get back into business for new sessions. Once again, I refuse to cover absurd antigay proposals from showboating conservatives looking for national headlines. Few of these nonsense bills ever make it out of committee, let alone pass both houses.

Ergo, after years of obediently covering the twists and turns of these horrid, but doomed, measures, I decided to stop.

That said, because it’s the start of the year, I will report back on the first headline of this ilk that I have encountered so far. State Senator Sylvia Allen of Arizona has proposed a bill to remove the word “homosexual” from public school curricula, ban sex ed for anyone under 12, and deem any discussion of sex between minors as harmful.

According to the ABC News article I consulted, this same lawmaker “proposed a bill” to make all Arizona citizens attend church back in 2015. Since this factoid did not pass the smell test, I checked it and discovered that, in fact, Senator Allen merely suggested during a committee discussion that such a proposal would be a fine idea. See? This is why I steer clear of these breathless stories. I have to add that Sylvia Allen comes from a town called Snowflake. Paging Hallmark Christmas Movie producers!

And, speaking of movies, Brazil’s highest court was called in to resolve the turmoil over a satiric Netflix film, The First Temptation of Christ, which depicts Jesus as gay. As far as I understand it, the plot involves Jesus bringing his boyfriend Orlando to the 30th birthday party that Mary and Joseph are throwing on his behalf. At any rate, devout Brazilians were not amused, and a lower court ordered the film squelched. After an appeal, the high court reversed

and said the show could go on. As Supreme Court President Jose Antonio Dias Toffoli wrote in his opinion: “It is not to be assumed that a humorous satire has the magic power to undermine the values of the Christian faith, whose existence goes back more than two thousand years.”

And before we drop the subject of outrage, our friends over at One Million Moms are going nuts over a Burger King commercial for the Impossible Whopper that includes a customer taking a bite and remarking: “Damn that’s good!” These wretched harridans accuse the company of using “profanity” and exposing young children to the “d-word.”

“Burger King’s Impossible Whopper ad is irresponsible and tasteless,” the organization wrote in a public screed. “It is extremely destructive and damaging to impressionable children viewing the commercial. We all know children repeat what they hear.”

Let’s Be Great Again Finally, here’s a recent discovery I made while researching tidbits for our continued enjoyment and edification. It’s a three-day women’s conference coming up this May in Orlando called “22 Convention; Make Women Great Again” that features a slate of male speakers helping women avoid “toxic bullying feminist dogma” and regain their ancient, biological natures.

“For the past several hundred thousand years of human life on this planet, masculine men have preferred feminine women in all areas of life; from the kitchen to the bedroom, dating to relationships, marriage, family, and beyond,” the website explains, conveniently ignoring the fact that we humans have not been around for “several hundred thousand years.”

“High quality masculine men want high quality feminine women to mother their children and set great examples for their daughters. Our speakers will teach you what men and women of prior generations FAILED to teach you as a direct result of feminist meddling and sabotage.”

Various sessions focus on losing weight, becoming more feminine, finding a man, having babies, and getting fit. And, of course, you can get your own baseball cap with “Make Women Great Again” on the rim. It seems there has been a raft of “22 Convention” events for men all over the world, although I see no evidence of prior events for the ladies. Believe me, it’s worth checking out. One of the convention speakers, “Texas Dom,” saved his marriage by transitioning into a dominant/submissive relationship and now is enjoying the best sex of his life.

I’ve been reading that lesbians divorce at higher rates than gay men or straight couples, so perhaps our cohort could use some tips from Texas Dom. Act fast.

The $2,000 conference premium full event ticket is half price for early birds! arostow@aol.com

SISTER DANA (continued from page 24) turned them inside out and upside down, attracting the attention of the American underground culture. As word got out about these astonishing performances, cult filmmaker John Waters, Mink Stole, and drag superstar Divine all traveled to San Francisco to be part of their shows. They were ahead of their time, especially in the acceptance of gender fluidity and outrageousness. With the creation of the Cockettes, a small troupe of drug-infused hippie performers changed the face of drag and counterculture forever. Waters spoke at the 50th giving us lucky attendees such gems of history. We Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence took the stage to saint a dozen living Cockettes: Pam Tent (Saint Sweet Pam), Fayette Hauser (Saint Fayet-tah), Billy Bowers (Saint Billy), Mardy Haas (Saint Harlo), Jet (Saint Jilala), Ocean Michael Moon (Saint Ocean), Scott Davey (Saint Scottie Tissue), James Windsor (Saint Tahara), Sebastian I.M. (Saint Sebastian), Peter Mintun (Saint Peter), Debra Bauer (Saint Beaver), and Bambi Lake (Saint Bambi). We also sainted John Waters (Saint Shock Value). Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and Senator Scott Wiener presented Certificates of Honor. There were films of original Cockettes, stills, and dozens of supremely talented Thrillpeddler singers and dancers doing Cockettes numbers to perfection.

In 2008 in San Francisco, a theater troupe named Thrillpeddlers run by Russell Blackwood brought back a celebrated Cockettes show called Pearls Over Shanghai to much acclaim and a 22-month run at their Hypnodrome Theatre in SoMa. I reviewed this and other Cockettes revues with utter glee!

Along with The Cockettes—an award-winning 2002

documentary by David Weissman and Bill Weber (who spoke at the event and showed a small clip of that film)—interest in this troupe was reawakened, entertaining an entirely new and grateful audience. I count myself as one of those grateful audience members, though hardly new, ever since I first caught their deliciously bizarre act back in 1969 at the Palace! Hopefully this amazing show will run again!

WOMEN’S MARCH SAN FRANCISCO, 2020 4th Rally & March, is on Saturday, January 18, 11 am to 3 pm at Civic Center Plaza. The theme is “Together We Rise.” This is a grassroots organization run by 100% volunteers, who are self-created, self-managed, and self-funded and have been since its creation on November 19, 2016. WMSF is led by local community activists working to unify and empower everyone who stands for human rights, civil liberties, and social justice for all through intersectionality and community work. https://bit.ly/2tSztgS Thomasina De Maio presents her FIREFIGHTERS PORTRAIT SHOW (40 paintings of firefighters, some of whom saved the Castro via Sister Dana’s window). Thomasina is having a free reception at Eureka Valley Rec Center on January 18, 6 to 9 pm. It features live entertainment from Tribal Baroque and blues

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Sister Dana sez, “Hey, DarnOldTrump, please don’t send us into another unnecessary war just because you want to take the national interest off Impeachment and Removal! We see what you’re trying to do!”

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16 Thursday SF Sketchfest NightLife @ California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, 55 Music Concourse Drive. This evening – one in a popular ongoing series – includes food and beverage options along with DJs, live music and dancing.

SF Sketchfest returns for a kneeslapping night of creatures, cocktails and comedy as party of the 19th Annual SF Sketchfest Comedy Festival. 6pm. http://www.calacademy.org Dykes With Drills Happy Hour @ Local Brewing Co., 69 Bluxome Street. Join this group of builders—including people of all genders, those who are nonconforming, trans, and allies—for their first Happy House of 2020.

6-7:30pm. http://www.dykeswithdrills.com

17 Friday Remarkable WWII Rosie Exhibit @ Jewett Gallery, SF Public Library, 100 Larkin Street.

Artist Carol Witten exhibits 60 Digital Prints (diptychs) from her historical essay Remarkable WWII Rosie.

Continues through January 26. http://www.sfpl.org Friday Night Party @ White Horse Inn, 6551 Telegraph Avenue.

This every Friday event features drink specials, dancing and live DJs. 9pm-2am. http://www.whitehorsebar.com

18 Saturday Women’s March San Francisco 2020 Rally & March @ Civic Center Plaza. “Together We Rise” is the theme of the fourth annual Women’s March nationally and locally in SF. Visit the website for logistics, accessibility, volunteer opportunities, contingent signup and more details. 11am-3pm. http://www.womensmarchsf.org Women’s March Oakland 2020 Rally & March @ 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland. “Oakland Counts” is the focus of the year’s event with the goal of getting everyone counted in the upcoming Census. This year’s event will also feature the Community Action Fair, entertainment, food, art, information booths and more. 11am-3pm. https://bit.ly/35YGquc Nasty Women’s Band @ Women’s March Oakland, Broadway & 13th Street, Oakland. All are welcome to join the Band with rehearsals optional. 10:30am-1:30pm. https://bit.ly/2Nq4jEd An Evening with the Empresses @ Hamburger Mary’s San Francisco, 531 Castro Street.

Hosted by Empress Patty McGroin and Reigning Empress Baby-Shaques Munro, the event will present a showcase of more than 10 drag artists plus special guest Marlena. 7pm. https://bit.ly/2Rf5XtE Swagger Like Us @ Jolene’s Bar, 2700 16th Street. DJs Hijo Pródigo, Jibbz and Deity join host Sir JoQ for this popular event 28

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19 Sunday Shake It Booty Band and Party Monsters @ Ivy Room, 860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany. The popular Sunday afternoon tea dances return to help cure winter and holiday blues. Also, cheer on the 49ers in the NFC Championship Game. 1:30pm-5:30pm. http://www.ivyroom.com Rocket Dog Rescue Piedmont Monthly Adoption Event @ Pet Food Express Oakland - Piedmont, 3868 Piedmont Avenue. Come out and meet your new best friend at this monthly event. 1-5pm. http://www.rocketdogrescue.org SF Imperial Council Gala & Introduction of Candidates @ DNA Lounge, 375 11th Street.

The evening includes the “Angels and Demons” Ball and the introduction of candidates. 6-10pm. http://www.imperialcouncilsf.org L Word at Lez Rio @ El Rio, 3158 Mission Street. Loud booing and popcorn throwing for questionable writing and cheering for hot make outs are strongly encouraged.

9pm. http://www.elriosf.com

20 Monday MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY Martin Luther King Volunteer Build Day @ Community Garden location in San Franicsco TBA. You can help with building two accessible planter boxes. Bring your own tools, water, snacks, lunch, etc. 10am-4pm. programs@dykeswithdrills.com Harriet @ Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street. This Oscar-nominated film is based on the life of iconic American freedom fight Harriet Tubman of Underground Railroad fame. 3, 5:30 and 8pm. http://www.castrotheatre.com Manny’s Sponsor Social: MLK Jr. Day @ Manny’s, 3092 16th Street. All attending will be invited to participate in a discussion on how to best honor MLK Jr. 6-7:30pm. http://www.welcometomannys.com

21 Tuesday Once Upon a Time in Hollywood @ Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street. This Oscar-nominated film is the story of three people in 1969 struggling to make their way in the City of Angels. 5 and 8pm; also on January 22. http://www.castrotheatre.com Frameline Encore: Circle of Books + Verasphere @ Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street. Frameline’s Encore Series presents this free screening of two hit documentaries.

7pm. http://www.frameline.org

22 Wednesday Conversation with San Francisco’s New District

Attorney Chesa Boudin @ Manny’s 3092 16th Street. The event includes a pre-reception with Chesa with a free drink, followed by the program with proceeds going to the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice. 5:30-7pm. http://www.welcometomannys.com Book Reading: Saving America From Trump (And Democrats from Themselves) @ Marines’ Memorial Club, 609 Sutter Street. Republican strategist and author Rick Wilson will discuss his views on saving America from Trump. 6:30-7:30pm. http://www.commonwealthclub.org

23 Thursday Lunar New Year NightLife @ California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, 55 Music Concourse Drive. This evening includes food and beverage options along with DJs, live music, and dancing.

The program will be a night devoted to Lunar New Year traditions.

6pm. http://www.calacademy.org Bohemian Rhapsody?

Writing and Collecting Queer Cultural History in the Czech Republic @ GLBT History Museum, 4127 18th Street.

Czech art historian Ladislav Zikmund-Lender will discuss the work of the Society for Queer Memory, an organization that is documenting and presenting the history of queer lives and experiences in the Czech Republic. 7-9pm. http://www.glbthistory.org

24 Friday Noir City: International Noir II @ Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street. The 18th Annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival opens with two films from Argentina and continues through February 2 with films from nine additional nations. http://www.castrotheatre.com Disco Coalition Honors Donna Sachet @ Lookout, 3600 16th Street. Suzan Revah will be hostess for the 16th Disco Coalition Happy Hour, honoring Donna Sachet’s amazing work at this benefit for PRC with DJ Paul Goodyear. 6-8pm. http://www.discocoalition.org Dance Brigade’s Butterfly Effect @ Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street. Choreographer Krissy Keefer and composer Bruce Ghent present their latest work addressing the climate crisis. 8pm continuing through February 9. http://www.dancemission.org

25 Saturday Mango Season Opener 2020 @ El Rio, 3158 Mission Street. The monthly event continues with DJs Lady Lu, La Coquí and Edaj spinning tunes. 2-8pm. http://www.elriosf.com Funny Immigrants Comedy Show @ Manny’s, 3092 16th Street. Hosted by SRGO Productions and Manny’s, the program includes a lineup of international

comedy personalities from Mexico, Israel, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Canada and China. 8-9:30pm. http://welcometomannys.com

26 Sunday Filmmaker Frances Reid @ Epworth United Methodist Church, 1953 Hopkins Street, Berkeley. The acclaimed producer will read from her in-progress memoir, which includes a description of the documentary Greetings from Washington about the first-ever National March on Washington in 1979. 2-4pm. info@ashbyvillage.org Royal Philharmonic Orchestra @ Cal Performances, Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley. Conductor Pinchas Zukerman will lead the orchestra in Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. 3pm. http://www.calperformances.org

27 Monday Do Ask Do Tell @ SF LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street. A weekly support group for LGBTQ+ community members who were in the military. 6-7pm. http://www.sfcenter.org Strut Book Club @ Strut, 470 Castro Street. Enjoy wine, snacks and conversation on the book Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977-1997. 7:30-9pm. http://www.strutsf.org

28 Tuesday Smart Drinking Group @ Strut, 3rd Floor 470 Castro Street.

A weekly drop-in group with no requirements and all goals supported.

5:45-7:45pm. http://www.strutsf.org The Academy’s Academy of Wine: 101 @ The Academy SF, 2166 Market Street. The Castro social club and barbershop hosts its popular wine series with sommelier Michael Wells, plus you can find out about how to become a member.

7:30pm. http://www.academy-sf.com

29 Wednesday The Chronicles of San Francisco Exhibit @ SF Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third Street. Internationally recognized artist JR’s work displays the voices of SF as an extraordinary, unique and diverse city. Check ongoing daily times except Mondays. http://www.sfmoma.org 2020 NEN (Neighborhood Empowerment Network) Annual Awards @ San Francisco City Hall, 1 Dr. Caarlton B. Goodlett Place. Castro Community on Patrol will receive the Outstanding Neighborhood Watch Group Award at this ceremony. 6-9pm. http://www.castropatrol.org

30 Thursday Two-Spirit Powwow: A BAAITS Documentary @ GLBT History Museum, 4127 18th Street. Filmmaker Rick Bacigalupi and BAAITS (Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits) board member Miko Thomas (aka Landa Lakes) will present a new documentary on the evolution of the annual powwow over seven years ago to the current ones held at the Cow Palace and Fort Mason Center.

7-9pm. http://www.glbthistory.org SFJAZZ Gala 2020 Honoring Mavis Staples @ SFJAZZ, 201 Franklin Street. The Gala will honor Mavis Staples with the Lifetime Achievement Award. 8:30-11:45pm. http://www.sfjazz.org S AN F R ANC IS C O BAY T IM ES

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Round About - All Over Town Welcoming 2020

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Theatre Rhinoceros executive director John Fisher (center) led a mock New Year’s countdown during the Holiday Extravaganza show held at the Golden Gate Theater on December 26.

David Campos, Mark Leno and Art Agnos were on hand for the Swearing in Ceremony of Supervisor Dean Preston in the Supervisors Chambers at SF City Hall on December 16.

Brent Marek (left) with co-host Dr. Chance de Valmont, the Rose Emperor of Portland, at the Imperial Council’s benefit for Larkin Street Youth Services held at Beaux on December 28.

Servers joined Toni Newman (center) in offering catered foods during the St. James Infirmary office party.

Guests visiting the San Francisco Public Library are invited to write notes expressing their dreams, hopes and wishes and add them to the Library Community Tree in the lobby of the Main Library, located at 100 Larkin Street.

Richard Bennett welcomed customers to Cliff’s Variety and encouraged donations to support the AIDS/ LifeCycle 2020.

St. James Infirmary’s Toni Newman, accompanied by a volunteer, cut the cake during the organization’s office Holiday Party on December 19.

A slide show of photos was included in the program presented in memory of transgender activist Bianca Lucrecia.

Supervisor Rafael Mandelman joined host Gary Gartner at the tribute held at the LGBT Community Center on December 14 in memory of transgender activist Bianca Lucrecia.

Artist Collin Pollard stood with his work at the Spark Arts SF gallery on January 2. A student at the SF Art Institute who has displayed in multiple exhibits, Pollard is also a photographer.

The sign outside Art Attack SF welcomed guests to the opening of a new show featuring the work of LE BohemianMuse and others. The show will continue through February 2.

Curator John James Hartford V admired the work of artist LE BohemianMuse and others at Spark Arts SF gallery during the Castro Art Walk on Feburary 2.

As Heard on the Street . . . What issue in San Francisco should be fixed in 2020? compiled by Rink

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Mimi Osa

Patrick Sedillo

Charlotte Mayang

Katie Guthorn

Steve Ibarra

“Complacency is an issue that should be dealt with. More should be done to avoid becoming too comfortable."

“The homeless situation"

“Homelessness."

“More new housing for the homeless."

“Small homes for the homeless.”

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The 25-foot Hanukkah Menorah installed at Union Square during the holidays, funded by the Bill Graham Memorial Foundation and other nonprofits, was reported to be the largest outdoor Menorah outside of Israel.

Children received candy, presented by performers, during the kickoff of the Lunar New Year celebration held at the SF Public Library on January 11.

The Lunar New Year Parade will be held on February 8 celebrating the Year of the Rat.

http://sfbaytimes.com/ Lion Dance performers entertained youngsters, parents and other guests at the SF Public Library on January 11.

items of the week Zavor Multicooker Leigh Pfeffer, curator of the Beyond the Rainbow: Queer Symbology Before and After Gilbert Baker exhibit at the GLBT History Museum, welcomed guests to the Museum on January 2.

Pfeffer also serves as Operations Manager for the Museum.

Santa John Campbell and celebrant Alexis Miranda enjoyed the Jingle & Mingle Holiday Party held at Cinch bar on December 21.

Following the program held at the GLBT History Museum on January 2, guests were invited to join in a symbol making activity, coordinated by Lena Heller (center).

January is a great time for bonding with our family unit, and what better way than with a good meal. We love the Zavor line of Multicookers. They serve as a Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Yogurt Maker, and Sousvide all in one. They are programmable and can reduce cooking times dramatically while reducing stress in your busy day.

VHEAT Vintage Heater The cold days of January oftentime need a little boost of heat in just the right area. The VHEAT whole room vintage heater form Vornado is the perfect heater for your drafty San Francisco bachelor pad. It’s the classic Vornado technology encased in a stylish metal casing that looks like something Jimi Hendrix kicked around his Haight Street flat.

2020: What a great number!

DREAAM Project director Terrance Wilder (left), along with DJ Mysterious D, welcomed guests to the Ugly Sweater Party at Strut on December 19.

Volunteers Scratch and Maya served catered foods during the DREAAM Project’s Ugly Sweater Party held at Strut on December 19.

San Francisco Empress Baby Shaques and Emperor Terrill Grimes Munro (left) were joined at the Imperial benefit on December 28 at Beaux Lounge by Dr. Chance de Valmont, the Rose Emperor of Portland (left), and JenuWine Surreal Beaute, the Rose Empress of Portland (right).

An entertainer and a guest shared a hug during the Imperial Council benefit at Beaux on December 28.

Miss Chief (left) and Veronica were among the guests enjoying the DREAAM Project’s Ugly Sweater Party held at Strut on December 19.

This past decade we saw a lot of changes in our neighborhood and the city as a whole. For us that translated into tremendous support from our regular customers and visitors from around the world. We thank you all for your support and hope that 2020 brings us clarity on our path forward and a much more inclusive and prosperous year ahead for all San Franciscans. –Terry

Mark Paladini, Donna Sachet and Brent Marek attended the Imperial Council’s benefit, supporting Larkin Street Youth Services, held at Beaux lounge on December 28.

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