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SIGLFF Celebrates a Quarter of a special issue Century page 11 COLOR COLOR Outword Mercy’s Staff Transgender PUBLISHER Discrimination Fred Palmer ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION Hurts Us All Ron Tackitt Commentary by the Stonewall GRAPHIC DESIGN Democratic Club of Greater Sacramento Ron Tackitt ix years ago, Evan Minton EDITOR began his journey to Charles Peer [email protected] Stransition from a female ARTS EDITOR body and become his authentic Chris Narloch self, a man in full. SALES Having gone through many steps Fred Palmer emotionally and physically toward this outcome, Evan was on the verge of a CONTRIBUTING medically necessary surgical hysterectomy WRITERS Diana Kienle to be performed on Tuesday morning, Colt McGraw August 30, 2016, at Mercy San Juan Chris Narloch Medical Center in Carmichael. The Bonnie Osborn operation had been scheduled for months. 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Stonewall [email protected] supports religious belief and liberty, but Most insurance plans accepted not discrimination that hides behind religion. 4 Outword Magazine September 22, 2016 - October 13, 2016 • No. 561 outwordmagazine.com The Arts Come Alive In Sacramento by Chris Narloch s Outword’s Arts Editor, I know how fortunate I am to get to enjoy all the plays, movies and concerts that I routinely get Ato write about and review. It’s an honor to cover the arts in Sacramento at a time when they seem to be thriving locally. I’m not talking about funding for the arts established in 1977 to support the work of – that’s an ongoing challenge that I will let SMAC (Sacramento Metropolitan Arts other people who are more knowledgeable Commission). discuss and write about – I’m talking about the If you don’t have time to check out all the surge in creative energy and the variety of new murals as we did, I urge you to at least talent currently on display throughout the arts drive over and see the magnificent purple- community in Sacramento. feathered woman painted on the back wall of I used to get teased constantly by friends and the Sacramento Native American Health coworkers because it seemed like I was always Center on J Street. looking for a cheap flight on JetBlue so I could Looking at the remainder of 2016, I am take the red-eye to and see a excited to see the new art that will be major art exhibit or catch the opening of a new installed in and around the Golden 1 Arena Broadway show. downtown. Debates have raged about what These days I get teased because I am so art was appropriate for the new venue, but I’m just happy that art – any art – was even part often driving downtown from my home in of the budget. Rancho Cordova to check out the new midtown If I’m being honest, I’m not much of a sports murals and see a musical at Green Valley fan. I’m an artsy guy. So although I support Theatre Company, or tour the amazing, our local basketball team in spirit, I doubt five-story art installation Art Hotel before that I will be attending any Kings’ games. walking down K Street to attend a film festival As a life-long music lover, however, I am at the Crest, or a Broadway musical at the beyond thrilled that the new arena is already Community Center Theater. pulling in blockbuster music acts that have In addition to recent world-class exhibitions sometimes bypassed Sacramento in the past. such as those featuring Andy Warhol or Ai Former Beatle, Paul McCartney will open Weiwei at the Crocker Art Museum, there are the Golden 1 Arena with two big shows in

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now so many great galleries in Midtown that early October, followed by other top-tier you have to prioritize your time on Second concerts later this year featuring Maroon 5, Saturday because it is impossible to see all the Jimmy Buffet, and Stevie Nicks with The great art in one evening. Pretenders. Artists are also taking to the streets in I hope you enjoy reading this Arts Issue as Sacramento, and I’m not talking about ‘taggers.’ much as we enjoyed putting it together. Inside My friend, Mike Tentis, and I recently spent a these pages, you’ll find articles urging you to couple hours happily checking out the newest attend upcoming film festivals at the Crest midtown murals, eleven works of art by a and art exhibits in and outside Sacramento. dozen or so artists, that now grace various You’ll also read about George Takei’s building exteriors downtown. October appearance at Mondavi Center in Those lovely murals are the result of this Davis and the terrific new season that summer’s inaugural Sacramento Mural Broadway Sacramento has to offer. Festival, which was presented by Friends of the Thanks for reading Outword and thanks for Arts Commission, a non-profit organization supporting the Arts. outwordmagazine.com September 22, 2016 - October 13, 2016 • No. 561 Outword Magazine 5 Sac LGBT Chamber Names Its First Hispanic President he Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce Board of Commerce boards of directors, is a Viet Nam veteran, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Directors has elected Richard Hernandez as Board President, the Political Science from University of Torganization’s first Hispanic president since its founding in 2001. California, Santa Barbara. Hernandez, along with other newly elected Also elected to Chamber officer positions Chamber board members and officers, was were: Kammy Caruss, owner of digital sworn into office by Sacramento Mayor-Elect marketing firm YNot Web, as vice president; Darrell Steinberg at the Chamber’s 2016 Don Hunt of California State University, Awards & Scholarship Dinner held Thursday, Sacramento, as treasurer; Alfonso Sanchez, Sept. 15, at the Dante Club. of Northern California AAA, as secretary; “I am proud of our Chamber’s and Diana DePaola of Intrinsic Insurance accomplishments and growth over the past Services, as chair of the Chamber’s 501(c)(3) several years, and it is my honor to serve as Rainbow Chamber Foundation. its president,” Hernandez said. “Rainbow Board members at large for 2016 are: Chamber has helped expand opportunities Ranveer Singh of Wells Fargo; Joy Reinhardt for LGBT-owned businesses throughout of Dante Club; Amy Medina of Wells Fargo; California through the legislative process, led Michael Reilly of Michael Reilly Agency- efforts to designate the Lavender Heights Farmers Insurance; Robin Shofner of Molsby neighborhood and install the landmark & Bordner, LLP; Jonathan McKim of McKim Rainbow Crosswalk, and contributed to the Architectural; Fred Palmer of Outword Media economic growth of our community. With Marketing Events; and Paul Weubbe of the support of the outstanding business Billy’s Farm and Laughton Property leaders and professionals who make up our Management, who is immediate past board, I am confident we will continue to Richard Hernandez president. build on our achievements in the coming “It has been a privilege to serve as year.” He previously worked for Hyatt Regency, Chamber president for the past two years,” Hernandez, who was elected to the helping to open the Hyatt Regency Weubbe said. “Richard Hernandez brings Chamber board in 2014, currently serves as Sacramento in 1988, and serving as its great team-building skills, extensive Director of Outreach for St. Francis of Assisi Director of Human Resources until his experience in chamber leadership, and a Parish in Sacramento and is active in many retirement from that position earlier this passion for making our community a better church ministries, including the church’s year. He formerly served on the Sacramento place. He is the perfect leader to keep the LGBT ministry. and California Hispanic Chambers of Chamber’s positive momentum going.” A Talk with Sacramento’s Mayor-elect Darrel Steinberg by Jonathan Taylor

fter serving on the Sacramento City Council, six years in modern economy in Sacramento. The economy the State Assembly and eight years in the State Senate, and development is a primary issue. Sacramento cannot be a government town; we need the Aincluding a stint as President pro Tem, Sacramento Mayor- private sector to grow. There are many elect Darrell Steinberg says, “I am coming full circle, and have opportunities with UC Davis and Davis’ agriculture and our cost of living compared to the never been more excited to take all I have learned and apply it to Bay Area. We have the opportunity to be a great the city I love.” destination city.” Steinberg believes education is a key to a Darrell Steinberg has been one of the LGBT strong economy. He supports a universal community’s strongest allies and has supported preschool similar to the model West Sacramento LGBT equality in Sacramento since the early Mayor Christopher Cabaldon successfully 1990s. “I was always raised with equality, being implemented. “I am working to increase work- a Jewish American, I know prejudice and training and internship opportunities in every discrimination, even if not first hand,” Steinberg neighborhood, bridging opportunities in high told me in a recent interview. “There are many schools to local colleges, and local colleges to the gray issues in politics requiring compromise; workforce. Our city needs real world paid civil rights are not compromised. We do not internships for real life plans.” tolerate, we accept. We come together, not divide. Recognizing that Sacramento, like all major There is a difference between right and wrong.” cities, has a crime problem Steinberg says that he Steinberg’s support and work for the is an advocate of working with police to end community includes hiring Andrea Jackson crime. He supports hiring more police officers during his time on the city council as and says, “The best anti-crime plan is investing in Sacramento’s first openly LGBT Chief of Staff, youth.” In addition, he supports crime prevention and supporting Sacramento’s first domestic technology, such as Shotspotter, currently used by partnership ordinance. “Because tolerance and the Sacramento Police Department to detect respect of all people is important.” Steinberg gunfire. continued his support for the LGBT community As mayor, Steinberg also plans to invest in during his tenure in the Senate and Assembly, Sacramento’s arts and culture. Noting that New supporting pro-LGBT bills every year he was in Belford, Massachusetts hosts successful second the State Legislature. Mayor-elect Darrell Steinberg. Photo by Saturdays that have a return of $2.50 for every “Marriage equality has been achieved, but Monica Lunardi dollar spent, he wants to explore ways to improve there are still many places in the country where are values, not political.” Midtown’s popular Second Saturday art walk. In people are treated differently,” Steinberg said. In 2017, Sacramento’s Mayor’s commitment to addition, he supports renovating the Community “We have made great progress, but the battle is economic development will be crucial as the Center Theatre in its current site. never complete, we need to stay active against Golden 1 Arena, several condo developments, Jonathan Taylor has written for Examiner.com prejudice, work to win elections, and speak out and possibly a Major League Soccer stadium will and Stonewall Democrats Quarterly and is an against division. We need to continue working be completed. LGBT political and economic writer, with a B.S. with young people coming out, the transgender Steinberg says that he is not an advocate for in Accountancy from University of Phoenix, and community, and fight for equality. Civil rights slow growth. “I am committed to growth and a a Master of Legal Studies from Drexel University. 6 Outword Magazine September 22, 2016 - October 13, 2016 • No. 561 outwordmagazine.com

Briefly Put Anti-gay U.S. Pastor Barred From Entering South Africa The South African Minister of Home Affairs, Malusi Gigaba, has announced that U.S. pastor Steven Anderson will be denied entry into South Africa. The decision comes as a result of a campaign launched by global LGBT organization All Out, in partnership with Gay SA Radio. Steven Anderson gained notoriety after celebrating the massacre at a gay club in Orlando, saying “there’s now 50 less pedophiles in the world.” He planned to go to South Africa on what he described as a “soul winning” trip. “We have a duty to prevent harm and hatred in all forms against LGBTI, as any other person in a democratic state,” said Gigaba. TLC File Lawsuit Against Indiana Governor Mike Pence Challenging Discriminatory Name-Change Law A transgender man prohibited from changing his legal name because of his immigration classification is suing Indiana state officials, including Governor Mike Pence. The lawsuit, filed by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) and Transgender Law Center on behalf of a 31-year-old Indiana resident, alleges that a 2010 state law requiring proof of citizenship to obtain a change of legal name is unconstitutional. “I want to use a name that is in line with my true identity,” said the plaintiff, who was granted asylum in the U.S. last year. “Without a legal name change, I am forced to use an I.D. that is inconsistent with who I am and puts me in danger of harassment, violence, and being outed as transgender whenever I present it. I am simply asking for equal treatment under the law.” Chelsea Manning Ends Hunger Strike; Government Agrees to Recommended Gender Affirming Surgery Imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning ended her hunger strike on Sept. 13, having secured assurances from the Army that she will receive the medically prescribed treatment for her gender dysphoria. The treatment will begin with the surgery that was recommended by her psychologist in April. “I am unendingly relieved that the military is finally doing the right thing. I applaud them for that. This is all that I wanted — for them to let me be me,” said Manning in a statement. “But it is hard not to wonder why it has taken so long. Also, why were such drastic measures needed?” Chase Strangio, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, had the following reaction: Honesty. “Manning began her hunger strike on September 9, she still faces a disciplinary board over administrative charges related to her suicide attempt in July and the government Respect. continues to insist that they will enforce the male hair length standards against her.” Supreme Court Asked Not to Review Decision Protecting Professionalism. Transgender Student’s Restroom Access In a brief filed with the Supreme Court on Sept. 13, the American Civil Liberties Union Courtesy. and the ACLU of Virginia argue that the Supreme Court should not step in to review a ruling that a local school board violated federal law when it denied a transgender boy access to restrooms consistent with his gender identity. It’s how I treat all my customers. And you The ACLU brought the case on behalf of Gavin Grimm in response to the Gloucester can be sure I’ll always do my best to meet County School Board’s discriminatory policy forcing him to use separate single-stall your needs. restrooms that no other student is required to use. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.® In the brief, the ACLU argues that the court of appeals ruling was correct and that, at the CALL ME TODAY. very least, the Supreme Court should follow its customary practice and wait to see if a conflict develops after other courts of appeals across the country have ruled on similar cases, before taking a case to rule on the legal question. Fine Art and Fine Wine Merge in Storyteller

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The Mexican director’s films, fantastic exhibition in Los Angeles tracing the career of one of my which include Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, and Crimson Peak, have favorite movie directors, Guillermo del Toro. delighted fans of fantasy and horror movies Crocker Art Museum It’s not too late to check out Glass For The New Millenium and also The Luster of Ages, two excellent exhibits celebrating the art of glass that are both running into the month of October at this historic Sacramento art center. George Takei In early October, the Crocker will offer a Studio Art Class with glass artists Patrick Mullen and Linnea Wong, who will invite you to their studios for demonstrations, Star Trek’s George discussion, and hands-on glass art experiences. Takei Beams into Also in early October, leading glass scholar Diane Wright will participate in a Visiting Mondavi Scholar Talk at the Crocker, offering insights ith a career spanning into the history and current practice of glass five decades, George art. We can also look forward to an exciting WTakei is known around photography show at the Crocker early next the world for his founding role year, Two Views: Photography by Ansel in the acclaimed television Adams and Leonard Frank, beginning February 19, 2017. series Star Trek, in which he For more information on what to see at played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman the Crocker this fall, visit www. Guillermo del Toro of the Starship Enterprise. crockerartmuseum.org. For-Site Foundation dimensions and increasing complexity of for more than two decades. Takei’s own life goes where few stories For its largest past public project, the national security, including the physical and LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of have gone before, and now you can hear nonprofit group For-Site displayed the art of psychological borders we create, protect, and Art) is currently presenting a lavish, world- him tell that story in his own words, at the Ai Weiwei throughout the former prison on cross in its name. class tribute to del Toro’s creative process Mondavi Center in Davis. Alcatraz Island, to explore the history and The artworks, which encompass media through his collection of movie memorabilia, With an uncanny eloquence and signature issues surrounding imprisonment. ranging from painting and sculpture to video drawings for his films, and human-size wit, Takei will share his poignant story: That installation was so cool that I had to and performance, respond to both personal replicas of creatures from his films. growing up during his family’s forced find out what For-Site was planning as a and cultural concerns, with the historic sites The exhibit even has its own soundtrack internment as Japanese Americans during follow up. As it turns out, quite a lot: Home of Fort Winfield Scott providing a new (or “soundscape”) composed by two-time WWII; his rise to celebrity as a sci-fi icon; his Land Security, a group show on the human context for signature pieces and a showcase Academy Award-winner Gustavo Santaolalla. remarkable journey as social media mega- costs of war and nationalism is currently for site-specific commissions. Del Toro is obsessed with insects, blood, power; and his passionate fight for LGBTQ taking place in deactivated military For more information about Home Land death, and the afterlife, and the exhibit rights and marriage equality in America. structures in the Presidio national park near Security, visit www.for-site.org. definitely showcases his love of the macabre, An Evening with George Takei will also the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. Los Angeles County Museum the occult, dreams and magic. include a post-performance Q&A session On view through December 18, 2016, I don’t usually write about events in If you find yourself in Los Angeles with KVIE’s Scott Syphax (Studio Home Land Security brings together works Southern California, but while I was in L.A. anytime before Nov. 27, I highly recommend Sacramento). Takei will appear this Oct. 15 by contemporary artists and collectives recently visiting family, I attended one of the you check out Guillermo del Toro: At Home at 8 p.m.. For more information, visit around the globe to reflect on the human best movie-related museum exhibits I have With Monsters. Visit www.lacma.org. Mondaviarts.org.

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Please don’t let the subtitles Deason’s short scare you away from Being 17, documentaries will be shown over three an excellent French film from the great nights of the four-night festival – one each director Andre Techine. The movie expertly night – and they profile three cornerstones of depicts the adolescent desire and drama the local LGBT community: Laurie McBride, between high school classmates Thomas and Dennis Mangers and Camille Wojtasiak. Damien, who live in a remote area of the Equally inspiring and appropriate during a Pyrenees Mountains. political season, SIGLFF’s first-up film this Preceding that feature film,Alzheimer’s: A year is a dynamite, full-length documentary, Love Story is a moving 17-minute short that Political Animals, that focuses on four follows a faithful man named Michael as he powerful women who we can thank for many makes daily visits to see his partner of 40 of the legal rights now enjoyed by the LGBT years, Greg, who lives in a memory care community. facility for Alzheimer’s patients. If you’re starting to think that this year’s SIGLFF is only interested in what I like to Saturday, Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m. (sarcastically) call “spinach movies,” think Whether you’re male, female (or again. somewhere in between), don’t miss Closet Monster,” a wildly impressive first feature There are loads of “popcorn movies” on tap These C*cksucking Tears - Short as well, including the ever-popular evening of from Canada by director Stephen Dunn that “mixed” shorts, and a late-night “adult” turns the traditional coming-of-age story on program for all you lusty men out there. its head. SIGLFF has also learned a lesson from the Alternately dark and funny, Closet Monster other great film festival in town, the features a troubled young man with a talking Sacramento French Film Festival, the lesson hamster voiced by Isabella Rossellini, bizarre that movies from France can be very sexy and bloody flashbacks, and a surprising and very good. (Both of the features aimed at amount of heart. male audiences are from France this year.) The mixed shorts before Closet Monster Read on for more of my thoughts on this include the 4-minute Legends of Courage year’s SIGLFF, organized by date. Project portrait of activist Laurie McBride, Thursday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m. and two terrifically sexy shorts that spoof The aforementioned documentary Political boxing promos and the Folsom Street Fair, Animals is the star this night, and it’s a respectively. crowd-pleasing and very informative film that Saturday, Oct. 15, 10:00 p.m. provides 90 minutes of empowerment, Gay men should probably clear their courtesy of Sheila Kuehl, Carole Migden, schedule for October 15 and just camp out Christine Kehoe, and Jackie Goldberg. at the Crest all Saturday, because the movies You can’t help but be inspired by this queer just get hotter and hotter as the day goes on. quartet of elected officials whose brains and In fact, you may need a trip to Steamworks guts in advocating for gay students at risk of in Berkeley after you’re done watching the being bullied helped pave the way for later late night feature. Paris 05:59: Theo & Hugo - Feature equal rights victories for all LGBT individuals. The second French film of the day,Paris Political Animals is preceded by Dawn 05:59: Theo & Hugo is an explicit movie Deason’s mini-documentary, Legends of with English subtitles that follows two Courage Project – Camille Wojtasiak on handsome young Frenchmen who hook up Being Gay in Business. at a Paris sex club, only to find that they Friday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. may have more in common than just sex. The second night of the festival is just as Sunday, Oct. 16, 6:30 p.m. moving as the first, thanks to director This is always my favorite night of the Annalise Ophelian’s feature-length SIGLFF, and this year is no different, with an documentary Major!, which profiles Miss exceptional slate of mixed short films, mostly Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated from the U.S. but also France and Australia, black transgender elder and activist who has that offer something for everyone. been fighting for the rights of trans women of Rather than spoil them for you, I’m going to color for over 40 years. let you experience the short film program for Local director Dawn Deason trains her yourself. camera on former California Assembly Visit www.siglff.org for more details such as member Dennis Mangers this night, and her how to purchase a Festival Pass that gets you 3-minute Legends of Courage Project portrait in to all of the films plus SIGLFF’s 25th Spunkle - Short of Mangers shares the screen with another Anniversary Gala on the evening of Oct. 1. outwordmagazine.com September 22, 2016 - October 13, 2016 • No. 561 Outword Magazine 11 Five Must-See NorCal Concerts by Chris Narloch ’m dying to see the inside of the new Golden 1 Arena in #3 Stevie Nicks and The Pretenders downtown Sacramento, if only to check out the acoustics and at Sacramento’s Golden 1 Arena enjoy a concert experience that promises to be superior to the We will have to wait until Dec. 13 for the I girl-powered, classic-rock-goddess concert of old Sleep Train Arena. the century. I am also looking forward to seeing the YouTube personality first rose to fame If you don’t believe that prediction, review 2016 this list of just some of the hit songs written I wasn’t neon “art” that will hang inside Golden 1, playing the younger version of the title there, but from all including iconic Sacramento neon signs from character in the 2009 filmX-Men Origins: and sung by Stevie Nicks: “Dreams,” “Edge of Seventeen,” “Landslide,” “Leather and Lace,” reports, Sia stole the show at this Tower Records, Shakey’s Pizza Parlor and Wolverine. year’s Coachella with her Nostalgic for the other childhood hangouts of mine. Blue Neighbourhood, Sivan’s highly “Gypsy,” “Gold Dust Woman,” “Rhiannon,” Present Tour. I purchased my tickets for her The Golden 1 Center is already booking acclaimed debut studio album, came out in Oct. 1st Bay Area show, the day they went on one blockbuster show after another so I late 2015 and immediately established him sale because I love both her music and her decided to put together a very subjective list as one of the most talented new queer wacky persona. of my Top 5 can’t-wait concerts around voices on the music scene. The other reason this concert is a must-see is Northern California, including two upcoming Sivan brings his Suburbia Tour to San the opening act. Although he isn’t a household name yet, the fiercely funky and sexy Miguel is shows at Sacramento’s new arena. Francisco on Oct. 16, and it promises to be a the only young guy on the scene who could #5 Brian Wilson at Sacramento’s big gay dance party. potentially inherit the mantle of the late, great Community Center Theater purple Prince. This rare local appearance by former #1 Paul McCartney at the Golden 1 ‘Beach Boy’ Brian Wilson is already sold out, Arena in Sacramento except for very pricey VIP tickets, but I keep One of the two surviving Beatles is hoping that maybe a few regular price coming to Sacramento for two big shows on tickets will be released the day of the show, Sia Oct. 4th and 5th to open our brand new on Oct. 15. (I can dream, can’t I?) arena downtown. Enough said. After years of personal struggle, the genius If I’m being honest, I’m not as enamored musician revived his career recently by “Sara” and “Stand Back.” of McCartney’s post-Beatles solo music, and playing the Beach Boys’ classic Pet Sounds Nicks is to be commended for enlisting The the tickets ain’t cheap. album live to celebrate its 50th birthday. Pretenders, whose badass front-woman But McCartney is bound to play many of the Fab Four’s greatest hits, and it will be That’s the show Wilson is bringing to Chrissie Hynde is at least as talented as the Fleetwood Mac singer, as her opening act. This worth every penny to hear him tear into Sacramento, and that’s why it’s sold out. “Back in the U.S.S.R.” and croon “Hey Jude” #4 Troye Sivan at Bill Graham Civic divine diva doubleheader is not to be missed. live. Auditorium in San Francisco Stevie Nicks #2 Sia and Miguel at Oakland’s Oracle For ticket information on these and other This multi-talented singer, actor and Arena shows, visit www.livenation.com.

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Queer Fashion Week & Conference celebrates its second year as the Bay Area’s premier queer fashion event, celebrating diversity and the expression of individuality, and featuring over 32 fierce designers, including Dapper Boi, Rebirth Garments, Tom Boy X, and Size Queen Clothing. In addition to the three runway shows, the conference offers over 15 seminar sessions including “Modeling 101” and “Wearing Gender: Exploring Queer Style and Identity.” At the Venue Event Center, 420 14th St, in Oakland. Sept. 28 - Oct. 2 Visit www.queerfashionweek.com. : 25Th Anniversary Performance Live from n Local Theatres

Captured live in front of a sold-out audience at London’s , the epic love story Miss Saigon tells the tragic tale of young bar girl Kim, orphaned by war, who falls in love with American GI Chris – but their lives are torn apart by the fall of Saigon. Audiences will be mesmerized by the extremely talented cast of Jon Jon Briones as The Engineer, Eva Noblezada as Kim and Alistair Brammer as Chris. Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 7 p.m. For a list of participating theaters or to buy tickets, visit www.fathomevents.com/event/miss-saigon James Franco & Christian Slater Star in True Crime Porn Drama King Cobra

Based on a stranger-than-fiction true story,King Cobra is a deliciously dark, twisted plunge into the behind-the-scenes world of the pornography industry. Sean Lockhart, 17 and boyishly handsome, dreams of fame and success even though he’s broke and without direction, leading him into an all-out porn turf war and a shocking, gruesome murder. Starring Christian Slater, James Franco, Garrett Clayton Keegan Allen, Alicia Silverstone and Molly Ringwald, King Cobra is part delirious, tabloid-shocker satire, part American tragedy. In theatres and VOD Ocotber 21. 16 Outword Magazine September 22, 2016 - October 13, 2016 • No. 561 outwordmagazine.com Alexander Hamilton Raps on PBS This Fall lexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who became a Broadway sensation thanks to the Tony-winning musical AHamilton, will be getting a PBS spotlight this fall with the Great Performances documentary Hamilton’s America.

Lin-Manuel Miranda in a scene from Hamilton. The 90-minute documentary follows of the Bay Area’s Broadway series. stage star Lin-Manuel Miranda and his In the meantime, you can whet your colleagues along the two-year road that appetite for all things Hamiltonian with this led to the opening of the phenomenally exciting documentary on Great successful hip-hop historical musical Performances. about the country’s first Secretary of the Hamilton’s America is an American Treasury. history lesson offered through the The West Coast will have to wait until perspective of the musical’s history, and you March of 2017 to see what all the fuss is can see it at 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21 on about, when Hamilton opens at the Sacramento’s PBS station, KVIE. Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco as part Visit kvie.org. The HUMP! Film Festival Celebrates Sex hile you wait for the SIGLFF (Sacramento International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival) to return to the Crest in Wmid-October, we can get warmed up (or, rather, hot and bothered) at Dan Savage’s 11th Annual HUMP! Film Festival. Eleven years later, the HUMP! Film Festival is still the best place to see creative, homegrown porn. The films are a cornucopia of body sizes, shapes, ages, colors, sexualities, genders, kinks, and fetishes, all under the welcoming umbrella of sex-positivity and sexual expression. Since its inception in 2005, the HUMP! Fest has become an annual phenomenon, selling tens of thousands of tickets each year in the Pacific Northwest. This year — on its third international tour with 22 new short films — it promises to make viewers laugh, The Hump Film Festival comes to gasp, sweat, wriggle in their seats, and Sacramento’s Crest Theatre for one night genuinely get turned on. only on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. Watching these amusing, thought LGBTQ activist and co-creator of the It provoking, artistic, sometimes touching, and Gets Better Project, Dan Savage, the writer often outrageous films together with a behind the 20-year-running “Savage Love” theater full of friends and strangers is a advice column, had an unconventional idea uniquely strange and wonderful experience. back in 2005. At HUMP!, straight people watch gay porn, Savage asked people to send him vanilla people watch kinky porn, gay people homemade dirty movies, and surprisingly, watch lesbian porn, and people laugh, clap they did — in droves. His mailbox was and cheer. The whole festival is a celebration brimming with films so hot, hilarious, and of sexual diversity. diverse that he felt compelled to share them For more information and to see a trailer, with the world. go to HumpFilmFest.com. outwordmagazine.com September 22, 2016 - October 13, 2016 • No. 561 Outword Magazine 17

A Pair of Kinky Boots and a New Phantom Plus Deborah Cox stars in The Bodyguard by Sara Hanson t is that time of year again, the fall weather is beginning to roll “restores our faith in musical comedy.” Hilarity ensues when Monty Navarro, a in, students and teachers are back to school, and the Broadway distant heir to a family fortune sets out to 2016 Inational tours make their way to the Sacramento Community jump the line of succession by – you guessed Center Theater. As part of the Fall Arts Preview, California it – eliminating the eight pesky relatives who Love You.” The Bodyguard Musical Theatre is once again bringing an amazing season to the stand in his way (one actor plays all eight is on stage April 18 through 23, 2017. relatives, including precocious children, Closing the season is Cameron Sacramento community. elderly men and eccentric women). A Mackintosh’s spectacular new production The Broadway Sacramento 2016 – 17 of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom season gets underway with the brand new of the Opera, which has been hailed by critically acclaimed production of Rodgers critics as “bigger and better than ever & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, before.” This production, which retains directed by three-time Tony Award-winner the beloved story and thrilling score, Jack O’Brien. Featuring such classics: “My boasts exciting new special effects, scenic Favorite Things,” “Edelweiss” and the title and lighting designs, staging and song. The Sound of Music is on stage choreography. The Phantom of the Opera October 26 through November 6, 2016. is on stage: May 17 through 28, 2017. Next up is a lavish new production of You may have friends or family Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, adapted members who were unable to get tickets for the stage from the timeless movie. With to The Book of Mormon, Newsies or such favorites as “Happy Holiday,” “Sisters” - don’t let that happen to you! Purchase and the beloved title song. White your tickets to your favorite Broadway Christmas is on stage: December 27, 2016 shows today! Consider booking a group through January 1, 2017. of 12 or more and making a fun night of Kicking off 2017 is Broadway’s huge- it! To book a group, call Group Sales at hearted, high-heeled hit Kinky Boots, with 916-557-1198. And don’t forget to check songs by Grammy and Tony-winning pop Adam Kaplan and J. Harrison Ghee in the Broadway Sacramento presentation of Kinky Boots, Jan. out their website to find out which local 31 – Feb. 5, 2017, at the Sacramento Community Center Theater. Photo by Matthew Murphy. icon Cyndi Lauper (Cyndi Lauper performs eateries participate in their Dining at Thunder Valley on September 23). This already selling quickly for Kinky Boots Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder is on Discount program – show your day-of joyous musical celebration is about the and it is highly recommend that you stage March 7 – 12, 2017. tickets and receive 10 percent off your friendships we discover, and the belief that purchase your tickets today before they That’s followed by The Bodyguard, based meals. For more information, visit you can change the world when you are all gone! on the smash hit film, starring R&B BroadwaySacramento.com change your mind, and is inspired by true Next up is the uproarious hit A superstar Deborah Cox (Deborah performed Sara Hanson is the Assistant Director events. Kinky Boots is on stage January 31 Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, at the 2016 Rainbow Festival in Sacramento) of Marketing and Public Relations at through February 5, 2017. Tickets are which The Hollywood Reporter raves and featuring the hit song “I Will Always California Musical Theatre.

New Music From Streisand & Bowie by Chris Narloch wo of my favorite pop music performers, Barbra Streisand help Streisand breathe new life into classic songs such as “Climb and the late David Bowie, have new releases that should Ev’ry Mountain” (with Jamie Foxx), Tsatisfy their legions of fans. Read on for details. “Anything You Can Do” (with Melissa McCarthy), and “Who Can I Turn To” (with the late, great Anthony Newley). At 74, Streisand’s voice is still ‘like buttah’ and the stars I was worried about, like Baldwin, Foxx, and McCarthy, turn in the best duet performances on the CD. David Bowie – Who Can I Be Now? The follow up to the award winning and critically acclaimed David Bowie Five Years 1969 – 1973 will be released on David Bowie September 23 and will contain a previously unreleased album from Dogs, David Live (in original and 2005 1974 called The Gouster. mixes), Young Americans, and Station To The 12-CD box, 13-LP vinyl set, and digital Barbra Streisand Station (in original and 2010 mixes) as well download feature all of the material Barbra Streisand – Encore is actually another winner for Babs, who as The Gouster, Live Nassau Coliseum ‘76, officially released by Bowie during the and a new compilation entitled Re:Call 2, When I heard about this new project from once again chooses excellent songs and hires so-called “American” phase of his career the ultimate diva – an album of duets talented people to play and sing on them, which is a collection of single versions and from 1974 to 1976. non-album b-sides. pairing Barbra Streisand with movie stars creating a surprisingly entertaining disc The boxed set, which is named after a such as Melissa McCarthy and Alec Baldwin entitled Encore: Movie Partners Sing All of the formats include tracks that have track recorded in 1974 but not officially never before appeared on CD/vinyl/digital, – I readied my poison pen to strike. Broadway. released until the 1990s, includes Diamond Well, when I’m wrong, I’m wrong. The CD For the most part, the actors she chose as well as new re-masters. outwordmagazine.com September 22, 2016 - October 13, 2016 • No. 561 Outword Magazine 19

Exhibit Captures Images from San Francisco’s Last Lesbian Bar 2016 he Lexington Club was the iconic dyke/lesbian/queer bar that operated for 18 years in San Francisco’s Mission District, until the last Tdrink was served on April 30, 2015. Photos and images from the bar can now be seen at a new exhibit at the Qulture Collective in Oakland. “The Lex” was an internationally known beacon to lesbians, dykes, bois, queers, and their friends who came to the “Gay Mecca” of San Francisco. For many, it was more than a bar — it was a living room, a cultural center, a safe space. With its closure, the queer community is left to both remember and re-imagine new spaces in which they can come together and experience one another. The exhibit 19th and Lexington: Images from San Francisco’s Last Lesbian Bar 1997-2015 is a collection of images and ephemera, curated by Lauren Tabak and Susie Smith of the Lexington Club Archival Project (LCAP), aims to show the vibrancy of the community that formed around the Lex. Amidst changing patrons and 19th and Lexington: Images from San Francisco’s Last Lesbian Bar aesthetics, the space transformed 1997-2015. Photo by Lauren Tabak and Susie Smith. and was transformed by its as they came to say goodbye to the until a large piece is missing,” said community. The Bay Area is not beloved institution. Lauren & Susie the same without it. “While reviewing the selections, 19th and Lexington: Images from Lauren Tabak and Susie Smith we realized that we unwittingly San Francisco’s Last Lesbian Bar shot over 150 images inside the also captured the bar as it 1997-2015 will be on exhibit bright blue-walled bathrooms physically disappeared. When through Friday, October 7, at the during the finals months that the viewed chronologically, it becomes Qulture Colective, 1714 Franklin St. bar was open, documenting the apparent that the small hole in the in Oakland. For more information, faces and emotions of the patrons bathroom wall is slowly growing, visit www.qulturecollective.com.

outwordmagazine.com September 22, 2016 - October 13, 2016 • No. 561 Outword Magazine 21 Must-See TV for The LGBT by Chris Narloch he relative freedom of cable TV and streaming services 2016 like TNetflix and Amazon has allowed funny shows such as Transparent, Grace and Frankie, and Difficult People to feature appealing queer characters and storylines that, for the most part, don’t insult your intelligence. Over on traditional network TV, however, truly well written comedies seem to be a dying breed, save for the rare exception of a clever show like the dearly departed Raising Hope. The big three networks tend to play it safer, so I decided to give kudos to my favorite current sitcom, The Real O’Neals, which is probably the gay-friendliest half hour on traditional television these days. Noah Galvin, a 22-year-old openly gay actor, plays Kenny, the first openly gay student at his Catholic high school, so winningly on the sitcom that I can’t wait to see what the writers do with his character in the second season of the show, which returns to ABC on Tuesday, October 11. Noah Galvin of The Real O’Neals Galvin is supported by a superb cast that The Real O’Neals, which is loosely based includes the great Martha Plimpton, who on the teen years of gay activist Dan Savage, plays his exasperated but loving mother, as manages to be resoundingly gay-positive well as Jay Ferguson, Matt Shively, Bebe while still making hilarious fun of political Wood, and Mary Hollis Inboden. correctness. Hot Me$$ Fashions Capture a Cool, Fresh, Youthful Look eady to set the fashion world on fire with his new clothing line HOT ME$$, fierce designer Matt Sarafa has an aesthetic Rall his own and is a rising talent to keep an eye on. 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