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www.ebar.com Serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities since 1971 Vol. 42 • No. 18 • May 3-9, 2012 Maitri Trans woman killed in Oakland by Seth Hemmelgarn

akland police are investigating the marks shooting death of a transsexual Owoman who was killed in her car in the city’s downtown area Sunday morning, 25 years April 29. A woman who was with the victim, Brandy by Seth Hemmelgarn Martell, 37, said that she was killed shortly after a man Martell had been talking to learned of aitri, a San Francisco nonprofi t her gender identity. that provides services to people Oakland Police Department spokeswoman Mliving with HIV and AIDS who Lea Rubio said that at 5:16 a.m. Sunday, police are in need of either responded to the 400 block of 13th Street, near hospice care or 24- Franklin Street. Offi cers located Milton Massey hour nursing care, is Jr., which police say is Martell’s legal name, in- marking its 25th an- side a vehicle, she said. Martell, which someone niversary this year. who knew her said was her legal name, was The agency, which pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators are is at 401 Duboce looking into the motive for the shooting, said Avenue, will hold its Oakland police cordoned off an area downtown before Rubio. Brandy Martell’s body was removed by coroner’s off icials. annual Bliss gala this Bryana Coleman, 37, who’s transgender and weekend. lives in Hayward, said that she was in the back- Tiffany Woods With improve- Jane Philomen Cleland seat of Martell’s Lexus Sunday morning. Two how she was doing. She said that she “couldn’t hear verbatim ments in treatments Michael other people besides her and Martell, who also The man saw “how pretty [Martell] was” and every word” that Martell and the front passen- and other develop- Smithwick lived in Hayward, were in the car, she said. said, “I like your friend,” said Coleman. ger said, but “There was no verbal altercation.” ments, the AIDS She said that they had been “hanging out” Martell rolled down her window a little and Coleman said that she didn’t hear any anti-gay epidemic has changed since 1987, and so has for several hours before two men “dressed had a conversation with the man for about fi ve or anti-trans comments. Maitri. like they were coming from a nightclub” ap- to 10 minutes. The second man went to the Coleman said that the front passenger “In the early days of the epidemic, we were proached them at about 4:30 or 5 a.m., and one front passenger side and spoke with the woman looked at Martell and said, “They don’t know nothing but a hospice,” said Executive Direc- of them came up to her window and asked her in that seat, said Coleman. See page 17 >> See page 16 >> Reactions Plaque unveiling, movie mixed on screenings to mark Milk Day by Matthew S. Bajko of the Oscar-winning 1984 documentary The Milk ship Times of Harvey Milk. The event starts at 6 p.m. ay Area celebrations to mark the an- Tuesday, May 22 in the Community Room at nual Harvey Milk Day this year include the Rose Garden Branch of the San Jose Public proposal Ba plaque unveiling in the Castro and Library, 1580 Naglee Avenue. screenings of Academy-Award winning fi lms In San Francisco the GLBT History Museum by Matthew S. Bajko about the slain gay rights leader. will offer free admission to all visitors on Milk This will be the third year that California ob- Day. The main gallery space will feature rare he proposal to serves May 22 as Harvey Milk Day, which falls video clips of Milk from the Daniel A. Smith/ name a U.S. on Milk’s 82nd birthday. The Castro business- Queer Blue Light Collection in the archives of TNavy vessel man and political organizer made history in the GLBT Historical Society. after Harvey Milk is November 1977 by winning a seat on the San The museum is located at 4127 18th Street drawing mixed reac- Francisco Board of Supervisors. between Castro and Collingwood streets. tions in San Fran- It marked the fi rst time an openly gay person That night at the Castro Theatre will be a cisco, where the slain had won elective offi ce in the Golden State and screening of the Academy Award-winning gay rights leader was a defi ning moment for the city’s burgeon- biopic Milk. The event is a fundraiser for the served as a city su- ing LGBT community. Sadly, a year later dis- Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, the nearby pervisor. Courtesy GLBT Historic gruntled former Supervisor Dan White gunned public elementary school. Some city lead- Task Force San Diego down Milk and then-Mayor George Moscone In years past the school has held an outdoor ers have endorsed Harvey Milk in in City Hall. carnival for families to celebrate Milk Day. This the idea, including his Navy days. Yet Milk’s murder turned him into an in- year it held the street party as a Spring Carnival House Minority ternational LGBT hero. And state lawmakers event instead, and decided to go with a more Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and in 2009 designated May 22 as a day of special adult-themed Milk Day event. gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, who signifi cance to honor Milk. Although not an While attendees can bring their children to holds the board seat considered to be Milk’s. offi cial state holiday, meaning state employees Rick Gerharter the movie, the event’s webpage notes the movie But others contend it is an ill-conceived aren’t given the day off nor do calendars denote Academy Award-winning screenwriter was rated R and that the fundraiser is not “kid honor for the gay rights icon, including Milk the occasion, many schools and municipalities friendly.” photographer and close friend Dan Nicoletta. Dustin Lance Black will be in town on celebrate it. May 22 for a Harvey Milk Day event at “We have been looking for ways to involve Queer economic justice activist Tommi Avi- In San Jose this year the group Marriage the Castro Theatre. See page 15 >> Equality Silicon Valley is hosting a free showing See page 17 >> { FIRST OF TWO SECTIONS } 2 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 << Community News ▼ Spirited May Day march

LGBTs and allies took part in Occupy May Day marches in Oakland, including groups calling for immigration reform. The Occupy marches in Oakland and San Francisco closed streets and, while largely peaceful, there were reports of vandalism and arrests made in both cities.

Jane Philomen Cleland LGBT vet redress bill to be amended by Dan Aiello affected by the military witch-hunt for homosexuals. ssemblyman Dr. Richard Pan Brian O’Hara, communications Asaid this week that he will amend director for Pan, said that while the his legislation intended to offer re- joint resolution “doesn’t have hurdles dress to LGBT veterans ousted under or deadlines,” it would probably be the prohibition policies of the na- introduced “some time over the tion’s military, including “Don’t Ask, summer, if not sooner.” Don’t Tell,” which prevented gays and O’Hara said that Pan wants the lesbians from serving openly in the resolution to be passed to mark the armed forces. September anniversary of the repeal As written, AB 1505 would have of DADT. required the state Department of “Where we want to go with an Veterans Affairs to reinstate non- apology is to fi rst recognize that [the federally-funded benefi ts to military prohibition ban] was actually a fed- service members who were ousted eral action,” Pan said. “So we want to with less than honorable discharges Assemblyman Dr. Richard Pan submit a joint resolution to call on because they were gay. Congress to apologize for this situ- But Pan, a Democrat from Fair ation as well as call on Congress to Oaks, said he will instead introduce a tant issue, but a timely one. We just take action to fi x this situation.” “contingency and enactment clause” saw the repeal of DADT and still have Pan was fi rst asked about the is- to his bill because state veterans ben- inaction on the part of the federal sue of an apology by the B.A.R. last efi ts are closely tied to federal benefi ts government,” O’Hara said. November. and congressional action is needed. Pan said congressional action is “Personally, I agree with you that “It’s going to Assembly appro- needed quickly. an apology is needed,” he said this priations where it will be procedur- “We do want Congress to fi x this week. “We want California’s vets im- ally amended,” Pan told the Bay Area issue of redress as quickly as pos- pacted by this to have their discharg- Reporter. “The state benefi ts are so sible,” said Pan. “I think by passing es upgraded to ensure they receive dependent on federal benefi ts that it this bill it will add some pressure. full benefi ts.” would really be hard to separate the We want to be in the position of say- Pan said he is disappointed that two. It’s almost undoable.” ing, ‘look Congress, you need to take DADT became an issue in the Re- Pan recognizes it is unlikely a action.’ ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was publican presidential primary race, Republican-controlled House of repealed. We can develop a national when several candidates talked about Representatives will pass legislation consensus.” reinstating DADT. aimed at redress for LGBT vets, but Pan acknowledges he has yet to “I’m amazed there are people out believes his bill would not be effective build a state consensus, but sees the there who don’t value the sacrifi ces as written. non-vote of his GOP colleagues as these soldiers have made serving their “I hope that other states will follow hopeful. country,” Pan said. “We’ve had these California’s lead and put pressure on “So what happened in this vet- examples in our history when we’ve Congress on this important issue,” he erans committee is they stayed off,” valued certain groups differently, like said. said Pan of the GOP committee this. It is shameful. But when a bullet Pan said he is hopeful that AB1505 members on the Assembly Veterans strikes a gay soldier, isn’t their blood can leave the legislature “as a biparti- Affairs Committee. “They didn’t just as red, isn’t their injury just as san bill. I have had some very posi- vote no. I am hopeful that we can get painful? They have put themselves in tive conversation with some of my Republican votes and get a biparti- harm’s way in service to our nation, Republican colleagues.” san bill out.” but because you are LGBT you de- He declined to name them, saying, In a related matter, Pan is also serve less? For people who are run- “I don’t want to obligate them at this planning to introduce a nonbinding ning for the highest offi ce in the land time.” joint resolution, which will be the ve- to say that they shouldn’t all have “We defi nitely intend to move for- hicle by which to offer an apology to equal benefi ts truly disappoints me. ward because it’s not only an impor- those who were, and continue to be, These vets deserve better.”▼ ▼ Election 2012>> May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 3 Out candidate seeks East Bay Assembly seat by Matthew S. Bajko

t was during several Native Amer- Iican retreats he attended while an undergrad at UC Berkeley in the mid-1990s that Abel Guillen dis- covered how to explain his sexual orientation. Although attracted to both men and women, Guillen did not iden- tify with bisexuality and never felt comfortable labeling himself as bi- sexual. Hearing tribal elders discuss being Two Spirit, however, made more sense to the East Bay native. “The elders gave testimony as to being Two Spirits and being fl uid about their sexuality. Bi doesn’t de- fi ne who I am,” Guillen told the Bay Area Reporter during a recent edito- rial board meeting. “Two Spirit de- fi nes who I am at the core.” From a working class Mexican American family, Guillen’s ancestry includes Native American blood, he Jane Philomen Cleland said. He is one of the few Two Spirits Assembly candidate Abel Guillen called potential voters last Satur- to hold political offi ce in the U.S. day during a campaign event with volunteers. Elected in 2006 to the Peralta Community College District’s board of trustees, Guillen is now variety of labor groups and the Si- district’s Alameda campus launch- running for the open 18th Assembly erra Club. Last month he earned the ing an LGBT studies course. District seat in Oakland. Should he endorsement of Equality California, “I was only recently made aware survive the June primary and win in the statewide LGBT lobbyist group. that he is LGBT,” gay state Senator November, Guillen said he would But Guillen is mostly unknown Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) told “absolutely” join the Legislature’s to the Legislature’s current LGBT the B.A.R., adding that so far he has LGBT caucus. members. The only one listed as an stayed out of the East Bay Assembly It would be a homecoming of endorser of his campaign, so far, is race. sorts for Guillen, who worked for gay Los Angeles Assemblyman Ri- Guillen’s main opponents for the a year as an aide to lesbian former cardo Lara (D). legislative seat, which covers most of state lawmaker Carole Migden when Part of the reason is that Guillen Oakland and the cities of Alameda she served in the Assembly. Migden only recently came out publicly as and San Leandro, are AC Transit has endorsed him in the race. Two Spirit. He fi rst acknowledged director Joel Young and Alameda “I really enjoyed working for her. that he dates both men and women Councilman Rob Bonta. Republi- I learned a lot,” said Guillen. in an interview with the B.A.R. in He has won support from a wide January for a story about the Peralta See page 6 >> ebar.com 4 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 << Open Forum ▼

Volume 42, Number 18 May 3-9, 2012 Another trans murder www.ebar.com t around 5:30 a.m. Sunday, April 29, an had worked on the streets in the sex trade. Laden, had emerged front and center in the cam- AAfrican American transgender woman The Oakland Police Department is cash- paign,” noted the post from Right Turn blogger PUBLISHER was murdered in downtown Oakland. Brandy strapped and short of offi cers. The department is Jennifer Rubin. Thomas E. Horn Martell was reportedly shot as she sat in her under threat of federal takeover for its past prac- Grenell by all accounts was an expert on na- Bob Ross (Founder, 1971 – 2003) car socializing with friends near 13th and tices, including the use of violence during last tional security matters (his personal, catty tweets Franklin streets. Martell was a peer year’s Occupy protests. But OPD needs about political women and others notwithstand- NEWS EDITOR advocate TransVision team mem- to prioritize this crime and dedicate ing) and yet Romney, rather than stand up to Cynthia Laird ber. She was killed mere blocks appropriate investigative tools to the homophobes and critics, kept Grenell off the from the Alameda County solving the case. stump and away from the TV cameras at a time ARTS EDITOR courthouse where the country’s when Grenell could have gotten Romney’s mes- Roberto Friedman fi rst elected transgender criminal Mitt’s leadership style sage out in an effective way. According to Rubin, court judge sits. That was quick. Just about two top campaign aides urged Grenell to stay on, ASSISTANT EDITORS We don’t know many details of the weeks on the job and Mitt Romney’s but he could see what was ahead. There was no Matthew S. Bajko incident, and witness accounts are gay national security spokesman public statement of support from Romney or his Seth Hemmelgarn sketchy, as is often the case. It could was forced out in a hail of anti- campaign team, and “no supportive social con- Jim Provenzano have been an attempted robbery gay rhetoric from the usual sus- servatives were enlisted to calm the waters,” she or perhaps the assailant discovered pects like the American Family wrote. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS that she was transgender and killed Association. It seems that we were While Romney reportedly assured Grenell that Dan Aiello • Tavo Amador • Erin Blackwell her. At this point, it doesn’t really overly optimistic in this space last his being gay was a non-issue, the candidate ap- Roger Brigham • Scott Brogan matter. The bottom line is that a trans woman week about Richard Grenell’s appointment as a parently had a change of heart after the Christian Victoria A. Brownworth • Philip Campbell was killed in Oakland, a city where violence is all- spokesman for the presumptive GOP presiden- conservatives started whining. What Romney Heather Cassell • Chuck Colbert too-common for many people, including LGBTs tial candidate. should have done is told those bullies that he had Richard Dodds • David Duran and especially LGBTs of color. But reading a Washington Post blog post about a superbly qualifi ed foreign policy spokesman Raymond Flournoy • David Guarino Tiffany Woods, the program coordinator at Grenell’s sudden ouster on Tuesday speaks vol- and that his sexual orientation was irrelevant. Liz Highleyman • Brandon Judell the Tri-City Health Center, oversees the center’s umes about Romney’s leadership style: “Accord- But no, Romney caved, surrendering before the John F. Karr • Lisa Keen • Matthew Kennedy TransVision program. She has witnessed an esca- ing to sources familiar with the situation, Grenell blow-up went mainstream. David Lamble • Michael K. Lavers lation of violence in downtown Oakland over the decided to resign after being kept under wraps If Romney can’t stand up to homophobes, he Michael McDonagh • David-Elijah Nahmod last couple of years. However, she’s adamant that during a time when national security issues, in- surely has little chance standing up to world ty- Paul Parish • Lois Pearlman • Tim Pfaff trans women have a right to be on public streets, cluding the president’s ad concerning Osama bin rants if he’s in the Oval Offi ce.▼ Jim Piechota • Bob Roehr • Donna Sachet even if just sitting in cars and socializing. There’s Adam Sandel • Jason Serinus • Gregg Shapiro often no other place for them to go that is safe, Gwendolyn Smith • Ed Walsh • Sura Wood as many lack adequate housing, a drop-in center, or other facility. As Woods told us, if they get ac- costed on the street, they can run. ART DIRECTION “They wouldn’t be out there if there was a safe Kurt Thomas place,” Woods said. And that brings up another aspect of life PRODUCTION MANAGER for many trans women, especially women of T. Scott King color: Transgender people in the U.S. are of- ten pushed to the bottom 1 percent of that 99 PHOTOGRAPHERS percent. A 2006 study in the Bay Area of 194 Jane Philomen Cleland transgender individuals found a 35 percent Marc Geller unemployment rate, with 59 percent earning Rick Gerharter less than $15,300 annually – and that was be- Lydia Gonzales fore the economy tanked in 2008. There are so Rudy K. Lawidjaja few job opportunities for transgender women Steven Underhill of color that a lot of them resort to sex work, Bill Wilson which exposes them to potential violence and harm. At the Transgender Day of Remem- ILLUSTRATORS & CARTOONISTS brance last year, names of trans people killed Paul Berge around the world were read, many of whom Christine Smith

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DISPLAY ADVERTISING A politically motivated case Simma Baghbanbashi Colleen Small by Stephen LeBlanc mi is like that. The couple had a 15-minute Lopez told her side of the story and said that she Scott Wazlowski very emotional argument in a minivan, and was not a victim, the prosecutor could claim the ears before he ever ran for elective offi ce, Mirkarimi grabbed Lopez’s arm, unintention- couple was jointly responsible for the argument Ysuspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was a ally causing a bruise. Nothing more. Lopez has and Lopez could also be charged with child NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE dedicated progressive community activist and said, repeatedly, there was nothing more. There endangerment. By not granting her immunity, Rivendell Media – 212.242.6863 a staunch supporter and ally of the San Fran- is no credible evidence of anything more. The Gascón ensured that Lopez’s testimony would cisco LGBT community. I fi rst met Mirkarimi plea agreement of misdemeanor false impris- not contradict the story he wanted to tell. LEGAL COUNSEL in 1999, when we worked together in drafting onment under California Penal Code section Gascón’s decision to prosecute Mirkarimi Paul H. Melbostad and then campaigning for Proposition G, the 236 is consistent with nothing more. (Yes, it is in was not about protecting Lopez. Lopez has San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance amend- fact misdemeanor false imprisonment to turn repeatedly, and credibly, insisted she does not ment. He impressed me at the time, and still the car around against a passenger’s wishes and need or want to be protected from her husband. does, as smart, hardworking, independent, drive eight blocks back home.) Lee’s suspension of Mirkarimi without pay for and someone drawn to politics for all the right Mertens’s Chronicle piece concluded with an offi cial misconduct, for alleged acts all prior to reasons. Like former Sheriff Mike Hennessey, attack on Lopez: “If everyone behaved as Ross Mirkarimi actually being sheriff, certainly only Mirkarimi’s roots are in the community, not in and Eliana did, can you imagine what would hurts Lopez. This prosecution and suspen- Best Bay Area Community law enforcement or the political establishment. happen to our justice system and society?” The sion is about scoring political points against Newspaper 2006 The weakness of Mayor Ed Lee’s case against Chronicle echoed that attack. Lee cited Lopez’s Mirkarimi at the expense of Lopez, her family, San Francisco Bay Area Mirkarimi is illustrated by a guest column writ- actions as one basis for Mirkarimi’s suspension. the voters who elected Mirkarimi sheriff, and Publicity Club ten in the San Francisco Chronicle on March 20, Lopez is the victim of her alleged the taxpayers of San Francisco who will which the mayor cited as a basis for suspend- protectors, not of Mirkarimi. When pay huge sums to fund this farce. ing Mirkarimi. The column was written by self-appointed protectors turn so No San Franciscan should be BAY AREA REPORTER Abraham Mertens, husband of Ivory Madison. completely on the victim, it is a subjected to prosecution by the 395 Ninth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 It was Madison’s call to police on January 4, giveaway that something is rot- media as Mirkarimi has been, and 415.861.5019 www.ebar.com against the express wishes of Mirkarimi’s wife, ten. Lopez told the police the day no San Francisco family, of any Eliana Lopez, that triggered the domestic vio- they came to Madison’s house sexual orientation, should be News Editor • [email protected] lence charges that led to the suspension. and the next that there was no ripped apart based on allegations Arts Editor • [email protected] In the Chronicle column, Mertens wrote: “I domestic violence and that she and hearsay, while the couple Out & About listings • [email protected] recognized what I thought was Ross’s voice in had never felt afraid of her hus- themselves staunchly insist that Advertising • [email protected] the background as Eliana pressured me to de- band. She told Judge Susan Breall their family has value. Mirkarimi Letters • [email protected] stroy evidence and lie to the police.” Mertens on January 19, “This idea that I is a true progressive and has been a is an attorney. Why is he using weasel words to am this poor little immigrant is insulting, it’s steadfast supporter of the LGBT community A division of Benro Enterprises, Inc. © 2012 level such a serious charge against Mirkarimi? a little racist.” She is under a court order, that throughout his activist and political career. He Published weekly. Bay Area Reporter reserves the He does not say he actually recognized Mirkari- she has repeatedly asked to be lifted, forbidding deserves our support in this manifestly ridicu- right to edit or reject any advertisement which the mi’s voice, or whether the voice was speaking to her from calling her husband on the telephone, lous attack. publisher believes is in poor taste or which adver- Lopez at all, much less encouraging her to pres- even from Venezuela, since January 13. If Gascón and Lee are successful in remov- tises illegal items which might result in legal action sure anyone to destroy evidence. (Mirkarimi This is how victims in politically motivated ing an independently elected offi cial on this against Bay Area Reporter. Ads will not be rejected solely on the basis of politics, philosophy, religion, and Lopez have both said Mirkarimi was not prosecutions are treated. When they won’t fol- fl imsy pretext, the lesson will not soon be for- race, age, or sexual orientation. there.) low the script assigned to them, they are ig- gotten. I don’t believe there is a conspiracy to A reasonable high school principal would not nored, they are attacked, they are punished, and get Mirkarimi – this is simply an opportunistic Advertising rates available upon request. issue a detention on such a charge. Yet, not only the threat of their own prosecution is kept over political hatchet job. Both Gascón and Lee were Our list of subscribers and advertisers is confi dential did the Chronicle print it, they cited it in a fur- their heads. Lopez’s attorney offered full coop- appointees to their offi ces. ( Each went on to and is not sold. The sexual orientation of advertisers, ther column attacking Mirkarimi. The mayor eration to District Attorney George Gascón in win a four-year term in last November’s elec- photographers, and writers published herein is cited this allegation in the formal charges out- exchange for prosecution immunity. Gascón tion.) Mirkarimi was elected supervisor twice, neither inferred nor implied. We are not responsible lining Mirkarimi’s alleged offi cial misconduct. refused. Why would the victim need immunity and then sheriff, without the benefi t of being for unsolicited manuscripts or artwork. The mayor’s entire case against Mirkari- and why would Gascón refuse? Well, you see, if See page 6 >> ▼ News Briefs >> May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 5 Hip swimwear benefi t Saturday compiled by Cynthia Laird ed donation of $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. The event is n what organizers are promising open to the public. Iwill be one of the hippest benefi ts of For more information, visit www. the year, Project Inform is presenting gracecathedral.org. Swimwear for a Cause Saturday, May 5 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Phoenix Ho- Petchitecture 17 coming up tel, 601 Eddy Street in San Francisco. You can dress up your dog and take Under the tagline “See. Be seen,” him out to Petchitecture 17, the ben- a cocktail-style evening awaits at- efi t for Pets Are Wonderful Support tendees, who will be dazzled by stun- that takes place Friday, May 11 from ning models walking poolside in this 6:30 to 10 p.m. at the Palace Hotel, 2 spring’s hottest swimwear, all to raise New Montgomery Street in San Fran- awareness for HIV/AIDS and hepati- cisco. tis C. More than 800 human guests and “This is a time of hope, renewal, their well-behaved canine compan- and possibility in the fi ght against Courtesy Project Inform ions will be treated to a gala that in- HIV and hepatitis C,” said Dana Van Swimwear models will off er cludes one-of-a-kind pet habitats cre- Gorder, Project Inform’s executive plenty of eye candy at Project ated by some of the Bay Area’s leading director. “It seems fi tting to use the Inform’s fundraiser Saturday. architects and designers. advent of spring, and the beauty of Live and silent auctions will fea- life we seek to protect, to celebrate the ture an array of wine, fi ne dining, strides being made against these two ing of digital stories, food, and perfor- entertainment, and lifestyle packages. epidemics.” mances commemorating the eighth Guests will dine on the Palace’s award- Project Inform does public policy annual National API HIV/AIDS winning cuisine and there will be a work around HIV/AIDS and hep C, Awareness Day. short program highlighting PAWS’ as well as offers an HIV health For more information, visit www. comprehensive companion animal info line (1-800-822-7422, apiwellness.org. services for low-income seniors and Monday-Friday, 10 people living with HIV/AIDS and a.m. to 4 p.m.; for Bay Jane Lynch at other disabling illnesses. Area residents and in- Grace Cathedral “With the lavish surroundings and ternational callers, 415- Actress Jane Lynch will amazing cuisine of the Palace Hotel, 558-9051). The agency is be in conversation with hundreds of good friends and sup- also involved with advoca- the Very Reverend Dr. porters, and 200 pups dressed in their cy work around the AIDS Jane Shaw, the out, fi nest woof-wear, Petchitecture is truly Drug Assistance Program lesbian dean of Grace a party with a purpose,” said PAWS and health care reform. Cathedral, on Sun- President Kevin Kosik. Tickets for Swimwear day, May 6 from 9:30 Photographers will also be on hand for a Cause are $50; hotel to 10:30 a.m. at the to capture the evening’s festivities. packages start at $500. To purchase church’s Gresham Hall, 1100 Califor- Fully licensed and vaccinated dogs on tickets, visit www.projectinform.org. nia Street (at Taylor) in San Francisco. leash are welcome. Lynch’s appearance at the Forum is Individual tickets are $160 and API HIV/AIDS part of the church’s series of conversa- available online at www.pawssf.org. Awareness Day tions about faith and ethics in relation For more information, call (415) 979- Today (Thursday, May 3) is Na- to the issues of the day. Lynch is an out 9550. tional Asian and Pacifi c Islander HIV/ actress who has appeared in several AIDS Awareness Day and the API movies and currently stars in Fox’s Oakland gay men’s Wellness Center will present Taking Glee television series. chorus in concert Root: Our Stories, Our Community Lynch is also being honored on Sat- The Oakland East Bay Gay Men’s from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Eric Quezada urday, May 5 at the National Center Chorus will start its 14th concert Center for Culture and Politics, 518 for Lesbian Rights’ 35th anniversary year with The Writes of Spring on Valencia Street (between 16th ad 17th gala. Saturday, May 5 in Napa and next streets) in San Francisco. Admission for the Grace Cathedral The evening will include a screen- conversation is free; there is a suggest- See page 16 >> AIDS grove to help AEF with anniversary event by Cynthia Laird The clear tent, which takes about a week to fully assemble on site, costs nding what AIDS Emergency about $36,000, Cunningham said. For EFund Executive Director Mike the last nine years Wells Fargo Bank Smith called “a long and frustrat- has owned sponsorship of the World ing search” for a large venue for the AIDS Day event, including the cost of agency’s 30th anniversary benefi t, he the tent. It will this year, too, he said. received some good news this week For his part, Smith was ecstatic that when the board of the National AIDS AEF will not have to pay for rental of Memorial Grove voted to offer its site a hotel ballroom. The agency will be – complete with clear tent – for AEF’s using the grove’s caterers, which will evening event without charge. be cost-effective, he added. The decision came about because “We’ve been struggling with where the tent will already be set up on site to do the 30th anniversary event,” for the grove’s third annual Light Smith told the Bay Area Reporter, in the Grove benefi t the evening of adding that the grove’s offer will save November 30, and will be in use for AEF between $30,000 and $40,000. the grove’s 19th annual World AIDS Jane Philomen Cleland “Free use of the tent, and the Day observance on the afternoon of National AIDS Memorial chance to partner with the grove’s December 1, said John Cunningham. Grove Executive Director chosen caterers and event rental com- Executive director of the grove. John Cunningham panies, will allow us to produce a cost- AEF’s benefi t is set for the evening effective event that raises substantial of December 1. funds for our program, while offering “This was an easy and logical is one of the area’s “best kept secrets” AEF’s family of donors a once-in-a- choice for us,” Cunningham said in a and the AEF event “gives another op- lifetime experience,” Smith said. statement. “We want the grove to be a portunity to showcase” the memo- AEF plans a festive “Under the Big resource to the community.” rial to people who may not have been Top” circus-themed party to mark its In an interview Monday, April 30, there. 30th year. The organization, which Cunningham said that he and Smith The Light in the Grove fundraiser provides emergency fi nancial as- determined that there were not too started in 2010 when Cunningham sistance to low-income people with many donors that both agencies had became aware that while the World disabling HIV/AIDS, has set an ambi- in common so an AEF benefi t would AIDS Day observance was “deeply tious goal of raising $300,000 in new not hinder the grove’s own fundraiser. moving,” some people were “observed funds during the year, and is helping “It’s appropriate for us to step for- out.” people organize “Parties with a Pur- ward and support another organiza- “Many individuals were looking pose.” tion and we’re really hoping those out for a way to connect and the tent be- Tickets for both the Light in the there will reach out to fellow AIDS ing there utilized the literal light of the Grove and AEF’s anniversary benefi t service organizations,” Cunningham grove and the light of the commu- will go on sale this summer. For more said. nity,” said Cunningham. information on the grove, visit www. He added that the grove, located “We didn’t know what we would aidsmemorial.org. For information in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, create,” he said. about AEF, visit www.aef-sf.org.▼ 6 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 << Commentary ▼ The rules have changed by Gwendolyn Ann Smith ENDA has been a hot button issue terhouse has been used in many cases since 1994. It initially lacked trans- for transgender people – but the Macy f you happen to be transgender, gender inclusion, then, later, in what case comes with a greater visibility Ithen you have a reason to cel- sounds more like Lucy Van Pelt hold- thanks in large part to EEOC’s deci- ebrate: the federal Equal Employ- ing the football for Charlie Brown sion. Further, while EEOC has previ- ment Opportunity Commission in the Peanuts comic: transgender ously ruled to the contrary, the com- recently ruled that an employer who people would be included, or were mission has essentially overturned discriminates against a transgender promised to be, only to be dropped those decisions with the Macy ruling. job applicant or employee from the bill when it was considered The decision in Macy v. Bureau of because of the person’s politically expedient. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explo- gender identity is prac- Right now ENDA is sives may fi nally turn the tide from ticing sex discrimination stalled in the House of Ulane v. Eastern Airlines in 1980. under Title VII of the Representatives. Con- That case – a transsexual pilot who Civil Rights Act of 1964. gress is deadlocked on was terminated due to her transition This, in a word, is huge. practically every bill that – was also tried based on the Civil Let me give a bit of reaches the fl oor, and a Rights Act of 1964. She won, only to background. The potentially contro- have the case overturned on appeal 1964 Civil Rights versial bill like this in 1985. Act was initially is simply not go- This, coupled with other, similar written to stop dis- ing to fl y during an cases, builds a growing library of case crimination against election year. Presi- law for transgender workplace pro- women and African dent Barack Obama, tections under Title VII of the Civil Americans in this county. Specifi cally, who did pledge to sign ENDA if it Rights Act of 1964 as well as the equal it halted racial segregation in public does reach his desk, has nevertheless protection clause of the 14th Amend- accommodations, schools, and em- decided not to sign an executive order ment of the U.S. Constitution. These, ployment, while also putting an end that would have banned discrimina- in turn, will likely lead to similar vic- to unequal requirements to vote be- tion against gay, lesbian, bisexual and tories, and even more case law, largely tween the races. It was a diffi cult bill transgender individuals who worked cementing transgender protections to pass, and Southern bloc senators, with or aspired to work with federal under Title VII. led by South Carolina’s Strom Thur- contractors. It is, nevertheless, not perfect. It is mond, held a 54-day fi libuster. Yet now, in the midst of all the just as likely that a later EEOC deci- Title VII from the act prohibits dis- doom-and-gloom about Obama sion could make another 180-degree crimination on the basis of race, color, not signing the executive order, with turn, perhaps under a future admin- religion, sex, or national origin, as well an ENDA that is clearly not going to istration hostile to LGBTs. Or some- as against any individual because of pass in the short term regardless of if thing else could come down the line, their association with another indi- it is inclusive of transgender individu- akin to recent attempts to allow reli- vidual of a particular race, color, re- als, we see this ray of hope from the gious exemptions for employers and ligion, sex, or national origin. It also EEOC. No, not a simple ray of hope: others to legally discriminate. In short, prohibits discrimination against peo- more like a 2,000,000,000 candlepow- this does not protect people as well as ple in an interracial marriage. er searchlight. the passage of a fully inclusive ENDA Over the years since its passage, The ruling was a simple one: a would. some of these classes have been ex- transgender woman, Mia Macy, ap- That said, this is a moment to cele- panded or interpreted in ways to fi t plied to work with the Department brate. It is another step forward toward the times. In the 1970s, for example, of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and preserving the rights of Americans sexual harassment was determined to Explosives. After a background check regardless of their gender identity or be included, and bills in 1967, 1978, laid bare the details of her transition, expression. This is a decision beyond and 1990 added pregnancy, age, and she was informed that the position federal employees and federal con- disability to the covered protected was “no longer available.” The ATF tractors, and can affect us all. It can in- classes under Title VII. later hired another, non-transgender deed lead to a sea change in policies in I should also add that it was in 1974 person for the job. companies all across the United States, that the fi rst attempt at adding “sexual This is not the fi rst ruling that and the ability to challenge those who orientation” to the Civil Rights Act works in our favor: the 1989 Price Wa- refuse to provide equal rights to their was attempted. It failed. In 1994, a terhouse v. Hopkins added gender dis- transgender employees or applicants. new bill came out, focusing specifi - crimination to the defi nition of “Sex” It is good news for all of us.▼ cally on employment rights. This bill, under Title VII. It also barred “sex ste- the Employment Non-Discrimina- reotyping,” the requirement that em- Gwen Smith wants to thank the tion Act, has been going in and out ployees match common stereotypes Transgender Law Center for its ac- of Congress ever since, but has yet to of their gender, such as women wear- tions in the Macy case. You can fi nd reach the president’s desk. ing skirts and heels to work. Price Wa- her online at www.gwensmith.com.

Out candidate Bonta is expected to carry his the state and designating the money << From page 3 hometown of Alameda and has at- for education. tracted statewide attention, as he He noted that, “We are the only can Rhonda Weber doesn’t appear would be one of the fi rst Filipinos state in the nation that doesn’t to be mounting a serious campaign, to serve in the state Legislature if he have” an oil severance tax. “Here in leaving it likely that two of the three wins the race. California major oil companies take Democrats will move on to the No- Guillen is no stranger to tough minerals out of the ground but we vember general election. political fi ghts, however, as he took don’t tax it.” The front-runner in the race is out an incumbent to win his seat Guillen, 36, shares his birthday, Young, an African American lawyer on the Peralta board. As a trustee, May 22, with that of slain gay rights who succeeded lesbian AC Transit Guillen voted to push out former leader Harvey Milk. Similar to how director Rebecca Kaplan after her chancellor Elihu Harris, a former Milk captured a San Francisco su- election to the Oakland City Coun- Oakland mayor, after his spending pervisor seat in 1977, Guillen is rely- cil. He has been the subject of un- was called into question. ing on grassroots support to propel fl attering press reports about his He is the self-described “asshole” him past the primary next month. personal life since last summer. on the board when it comes to over- “Elections like ours are won at But it doesn’t seem to have done seeing the college district’s budget. voters doors steps and over the much political damage. He recently Guillen said one of his top priorities phone,” he recently told supporters won the endorsement of the Bay in Sacramento would be fi ghting for in an email blast. Area News Group, which publishes more higher education funding. To learn more about Guillen’s cam- the Oakland Tribune. He supports taxing oil drilling in paign, visit abelforassembly.com/.▼

Guest Opinion least three of the 11 supervisors will << From page 4 have the courage to vote against let- ting this political bullying succeed. politically appointed fi rst. If they do not, this whole process Mirkarimi has always been inde- will be repeated the next time an op- pendent, and smart, and hard work- portunity arises to silence an inde- ing, and a true progressive commu- pendent voice that managed to force nity activist. Some members of the itself into the comfortable club that law enforcement and the too-cozy mostly runs this city.▼ wing of the San Francisco political establishment saw an opportunity to Stephen LeBlanc is an attorney and a former member of ACT be rid of him, and they took it. Lee UP/Golden Gate. He previously suspended Mirkarimi because there worked for the Fenway Commu- was political capital for the mayor in nity Health Center in Boston as doing so, and because he thinks he victim advocate for LGBT victims can get away with it. of hate crimes and domestic It remains to be seen whether at violence. ▼ Politics>> May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 7 Pride Committee, SF city agencies prepare for Pride by Matthew S. Bajko Yet when the idea was recently men- be NFC champions. tioned to gay District 8 Supervisor It already has been bathed in a pink t is only seven weeks until San Scott Wiener, he said he would look glow, back in January 2008, to sup- IFrancisco kicks off its annual into the possibility. port a breast cancer awareness cam- Pride celebration. The yearly salute Within hours Wiener, who is vice paign. to all things LGBT will offi cially take chair of the San Francisco County Asked if City Hall would once place Saturday, June 23 and Sunday, Transportation Authority, told the again bare pink, or sport the colors June 24 this year. B.A.R. in a text message, “Muni says of the rainbow fl ag, during Pride this Now in its 42nd year, Pride is it should be able to put happy pride year, mayoral spokeswoman Chris- marching along with a stronger fi s- on the buses.” tine Falvey said Lee would entertain cal picture and stable leadership af- Another idea some departed Pride such a proposal. ter a string of fi nancial and oversight offi cials had back during former May- “Pride is a spectacular citywide issues hit the organization following or Willie Brown’s administration in event and if the organizers request the 2010 event. A year ago the Pride the late 1990s was to have City Hall that City Hall be lit up, the city board rehired Brendan Behan, a lit up at night in pink. Their request, former employee, to take over on an along with a proposal to sheath the See page 16 >> interim basis, and as of January 1, building in pink fabric one year, was he was permanently named execu- denied. tive director. “We asked, but were told (at that “Things are going incredibly well. time) that the exterior appearance I am just so happy this year we are was not changed under any circum- at the place we are at,” Behan told stances,” recalled Teddy Withering- the Bay Area Reporter this week, ton, a former Pride executive director. adding that it is a welcome change New lighting technology now Matthew S. Bajko, Kurt Thomas not to have people question Pride’s makes it possible for the city to eas- viability. “I take it as a compliment Muni buses may sport “Happy Pride” on destination signs in June, ily change out the colors in the lights that this year we are taken as a given. similar to this rendition. surrounding the building’s historic Last year everyone kept asking is rotunda. They’ve been red for Val- Pride happening.” entine’s Day, green to highlight the Organizing for what is believed to take place at 5 p.m. Monday, June 18. Other than the odd occurrence, return of the musical Wicked, and be the largest LGBT outdoor event on “We just confi rmed today that we the way San Francisco celebrates the orange to celebrate the Giant’s 2010 the West Coast has been without any will have it the day we usually have LGBT community is fairly formulaic. World Series victory. major hiccups this year, said Behan. it,” Behan told the B.A.R. Tuesday That got the Political Notebook to Special holiday lighting has With staff in place, Pride is back to a after-noon. thinking about ways the city could decked out the building during the normal schedule in terms of Now in its fi fth de- jazz up this year’s festivities. After Christmas season, and in January it planning. cade, the city’s Pride making some inquiries, a few changes bore the red and gold colors of the In just one example, observance follows a may greet Pride revelers come June. 49ers to celebrate the team’s bid to by the time Behan met set routine. At the start One possibility is seeing the city’s with then-interim May- of June the rainbow fl ags fl eet of Muni buses sport “Happy or Ed Lee’s administra- are installed along Market Pride” messages on the electronic tion last spring to sched- Street, then later at City destination signs on the front of bus- ule the annual rainbow Hall. es that alert riders to which route the fl ag raising at City Hall Friday night the vehicle is running. The San Francisco to kickoff Pride week, weekend of Pride is the Municipal Transportation Agency, he was already booked Trans March, and vol- which oversees the city’s public tran- that Monday night. The unteers begin installing sit, has added “Go Giants” messages ceremony didn’t take the giant Pink Triangle on to the bus route displays on the base- place until the Wednesday night prior Twin Peaks. Saturday brings the Dyke ball team’s game days since April. to Pride weekend. March and Pink Saturday street party The Political Notebook asked MTA Behan was able to approach Lee’s in the Castro. Then comes the hours- spokesman Paul Rose about having staff early on this year to ensure that long parade and Civic Center festival a similar message around Pride, but the event occurs on schedule. It will fi nale Sunday. so far has not received a response. 8 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 << Election 2012 ▼

Dan Aiello Openly gay Sacramento City Council candidates Terry Schanz, left, and Steve Hansen greeted each other at a recent debate. Barbs traded by candidates in Sacramento council race by Dan Aiello In fact, the Bee said, “any of the top organized labor. three – Joe Yee, Steve Hansen, or Phyl- “Good man,” Bill Camp, executive wo gay candidates running for a lis Newton – would be worthy addi- secretary of the Sacramento Central TSacramento City Council seat are tions to the council.” Labor Council (AFL-CIO) told the trading barbs on the campaign trail Schanz’s campaign emailed a state- B.A.R., referring to Schanz. ahead of the June vote. ment saying the candidate is focusing Camp believes Schanz can make Some campaign literature for the on meeting voters. the runoff if he wants to, despite the two men, Steve Hansen and Terry “Terry is proud of all his endorse- fundraising defi cit. Schanz, also doesn’t directly mention ments. He’s endorsed by women’s “It’s about walking the precincts that they are gay. groups, Latino groups, young voters, and Terry says he’s doing it,” Camp The District 4 race pits Hansen, 32, labor unions,” said spokesman Adam said. “If you can walk all the precincts a senior regional manager at Genen- Horn. “We’re running a grassroots three times, you can win District 4.” tech, against Terry Schanz, 33, a staffer campaign that focuses on connecting The issue of homophobia in the for Assemblyman Isadore Hill (D- directly with voters.” Boy Scouts has also come up. Compton). There are six other candi- Hansen, who has a military back- dates in the race for the open seat. Finances ground, including the JROTC in high Home to the state Capitol and Old Hansen has reported raising school, declined to commit to deny- Sacramento, District 4 includes mid- $115,000 since he began his campaign ing city resources to organizations town with a concentration of LGBT last year; a large number of contribu- like the Boy Scouts of America that clubs, businesses, and residents that tors come from outside the district discriminate against LGBT citizens. earned the area the designation, “Lav- and many contributions are linked He also said that he would never give ender Heights” in the late 1960s. directly to Genentech executives. preferential treatment to groups that Hansen and Schanz are attempt- Former Assemblyman Dennis discriminate. ing to fulfi ll what one longtime LGBT Mangers, a Hansen supporter, attri- “But that we are required by the activist called, “a long-awaited dream,” butes his donors to “a company that First Amendment to allow access to representing the city in District 4. wants to see its employees do their city facilities on a viewpoint-neutral But at a recent debate, neither civic duty” and to support from the basis,” he said. “To do otherwise would Schanz nor Hansen described them- Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, which allow government to choose the selves directly as gay on their fl iers. endorsed Hansen. speech it likes and punish that which Schanz, who is partnered, does not “I’d be surprised if a large number it doesn’t like. That being said, I am appear with him on his fl ier, but he of those donors weren’t LGBT sup- not shy about my advocacy for funda- does appear with two young children porters from around the country,” mental rights and the need to free our who are not his. Hansen, who is sin- said Mangers. society of invidious discrimination.” gle, also has a picture of a child on his Hansen recently raised more than Schanz did not return calls regard- fl ier, but it is an image of Hansen as a $10,000 at a TransAmerica building ing the same question. young boy sitting with his grandpar- fundraiser in San Francisco, where, Schanz and Hansen are not the fi rst ents. (Schanz’s online bio does men- as the B.A.R. noted, he said he would out gay candidates for council, but ac- tion his partner, Guy Strahi.) donate his council salary to charity if cording to Mangers they are the fi rst There have also been undertones elected. “serious” contenders. of carpetbagging; Schanz is a fourth “When you have an opponent “My goal is to keep the community generation, native son of the district, loan her campaign $50,000, it’s pretty together,” said Hansen of the poten- while Hansen recently moved in. daunting,” Hansen told the B.A.R., re- tial rift two gay candidates running “I love my neighborhood, I love all ferring to opponent Newton’s recent against each other might pose. “Sacra- the parts of the district,” Hansen told campaign report. “For someone with mento is fi nally electing its fi rst openly the Bay Area Reporter “I don’t think an underwater mortgage and student gay person, but to be the best coun- voters should choose only candidates loans to pay, I appreciate all my do- cilmember is paramount – to under- who are the product of a certain lin- nors.” stand the issues in the most complete eage.” Hansen believes he will need way. I hold myself to a terribly high Schanz says he believes being a na- $150,000 for the primary and the standard.” tive son is important. same amount for the general election But it was one of the straight candi- “I cannot go fi ve houses without should he make the runoff. date, Yee, who serves on the Planning running into a former teacher of mine Schanz, who entered the race in Commission, who secured the cov- or someone who knew me or my fa- January, has raised just $16,329. eted endorsement of former Mayor ther or uncle growing up,” he said. “Most of my campaign fundrais- Anne Rudin, a trusted and respected “You cannot buy or manufacture that ing has been through voter outreach LGBT ally. kind of knowledge of a district.” within the district,” Schanz told the While Rudin endorsed Yee, she had Schanz doesn’t call Hansen a car- B.A.R., claiming his fi nancial backing only good things to say about both petbagger, but comes close. “You is “largely local.” Hansen and Schanz. heard him say at the debate you at- Schanz, who worked in South Af- “Frankly, I think they’re all excellent tended Wednesday that he recently rica as a community builder before candidates,” she said. “Steve impressed moved from Oak Park,” he said. returning to Sacramento, told the de- me when he was on the redistricting Hansen lives in Alkali Flat. bate audience that the key to his ten- board. And Terry I met at Cal Middle Last Sunday, the Sacramento Bee ure on the council will be “honoring School and he seemed to me to be endorsed one of the straight candi- and respecting the historic neighbor- very bright.” dates, Phyllis Newton. The newspaper hoods of this fi ne city.” Schanz spoke In addition to Hansen, Schanz, Yee, did reference Hansen and described extensively of the need to improve and Newton, the other candidates him as one of the top three contend- the schools he once attended, and his on the ballot are: estate planning at- ers. campaign fl iers show the candidate torney David Turturici, DUI lawyer “While we didn’t get the Bee, they with two small children who Schanz Michael Rehm, information technol- spoke highly of our campaign and described as “the children of friends.” ogy analyst Neil Davidson, and Kyle said we would serve worthily. ... The Sacramento Stonewall Demo- Ellsworth. If no one wins a majority of Thanks to all of you who helped us get crats endorsed Hansen, while Schanz the vote in June there will be a runoff this far,” Hansen said to his supporters has the endorsement of the Sacra- election between the top two fi nishers on his Facebook page. mento County Young Democrats and in November.▼ ▼ Community News>> May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 9 New schools chief touts LGBT safety by Seth Hemmelgarn dent will engage in bullying with the support. The law went into effect in ing a staff of over 8,000. The district’s full scope of the consequences of January. budget is about $500 million. he man recently selected by the their actions. “We believe in all of our commu- Over the course of two years, said TSan Francisco Board of Educa- The “easy” response when stu- nities having a place in the historical Carranza, the district’s budget has tion as the next schools chief pledg- dents participate in name-calling record,” Carranza said, adding that been cut by $113 million. They’re es offi cials will “continue to work or other behavior is to “suspend the he was “very proud of the fact that planning for tens of millions of dollars very aggressively” to protect LGBT student, send them away,” Carranza San Francisco Unifi ed is really at the more in cuts over the next two years. and other students. said. But “what’s lost in that event is vanguard” of implementing curricu- Carranza said the district’s budget The school board voted unani- the teachable moment,” he said. Stu- lum that includes a historical per- impacts the ability to “provide a web mously last week for Richard Car- dents should understand “what the spective. of support for all our students.” ranza to serve as the next superin- consequences are of using words to He said the district wants to make “It gets really hard, when you have tendent of the San Francisco Unifi ed hurt other students,” and they have a sure that work continues to be devel- to make cuts every year, to provide School District. responsibility to make the other per- oped “so that the curriculum is truly the level of services we want to pro- Carranza, 45, currently serves as son feel better, he said. refl ective of the fabric of America.” vide to our community,” he said. the district’s deputy superintendent That kind of idea is shared by Two out candidates for the school of instruction, innovation, and social gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano Budget board have concerns of their own. justice and is set to replace Carlos (D-San Francisco). Earlier this year, School board members praised Martin Rawlings-Fein, who Garcia after Garcia retires in July. The Ammiano introduced Assembly Bill Courtesy SFUSD Carranza. identifi es as trans, has a 6-year-old board’s vote was Tuesday, April 24. 1729, which reaffi rms that superin- Incoming San Francisco “Hiring the superintendent is the daughter attending Harvey Milk In a recent interview, Carranza, tendents and school principals have school Superintendent most important decision we can Civil Rights Academy. who joined the district about two the discretion to implement alterna- Richard Carranza make as a school board. Deputy Su- Among other things, he said, “Es- and a half years ago, said that among tives to suspension and expulsion, perintendent Carranza has already pecially with a new superintendent his goals are ensuring safety for among other provisions. brought much to our district as an coming in, we have to actually make LGBT and other students. “The bill is designed to correct and AB 1729 will support these ef- instructional leader, community sure that all kids, not just LGBT- “I’m very, very sensitive and sup- the root causes of the pupil’s misbe- forts of alternative correction.” builder, and father of two SFUSD parented kids, but every kid is served portive of the LGBT community,” havior, account for any individual- Another issue is the new law students. We are confi dent that he by having a wonderful, loving, and Carranza, who has a gay brother, ized educational plans, and the age mandating that students be taught will continue the progress of the past nurturing environment that accepts said. of the student,” a news release put about LGBTs’ historical contribu- fi ve years without breaking stride,” everybody.” “Under my administration, we out by Ammiano’s offi ce earlier tions. school board President Norman Yee Dean Clark, who’s gay and is also would absolutely continue to work this month states. “San Francisco Carranza said while he didn’t said in a statement. running for the school board, said very aggressively” to protect stu- Unifi ed School District has started know the details of the law, known Carranza’s salary will be $245,000. that he used to work for the school dents, he said. down the path of restorative prac- as the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and His fi rst day as superintendent will district, and he wants to see more The district appears to be far tices, and have seen suspension rates Respectful Education Act, or Senate be July 5. support for LGBT students and for ahead of most other school agencies decline under the new approach, Bill 48, he knew of it and expressed He estimated that he’d be oversee- new teachers.▼ in the country when it comes to ad- dressing LGBT issues. Among other things, the district was likely the fi rst of its kind to offer a website specifi - cally addressing the needs of LGBTQ students and their families. Still, San Francisco school students aren’t immune to anti-gay attitudes. Recent survey data that includes the district’s middle and high school stu- dents indicate that it’s fairly common for them to hear comments like “fag- got” and “that’s so gay,” while staff of- ten don’t address the remarks. Many LGBT students have been subjected to violence, according to the data. Carranza said the district’s work to address such problems would continue. “Students in our schools have ev- ery right to come to school and not feel bullied or harassed,” he said. “... It’s unacceptable for any student not to feel comfortable and successful in school.” Carranza said Kevin Gogin, who works in support services for LG- BTQ youth for the district’s school health programs department, “has done a lot of really good work” on developing intervention programs, training staff, and other areas. In response to emailed questions, Gogin said the district’s leaders have been “incredibly supportive of LG- BTQ programming, curriculum, and professional development. Lead- ership has engaged in an ongoing conversation regarding what LG- BTQ students need and how Sup- port Services for LGBTQ Youth, and the district as a whole, can respond. [Carranza] has been a part of this discussion since he has worked as deputy superintendent.” He added, “Of course an ongoing challenge is funding for programs such as Support Services for LGBTQ youth that supports student atten- dance and achievement. Support Services is the fi rst – and in many ways the only – program of its kind in the United States. We hope to con- tinue serving the youth of San Fran- cisco through direct programming and assist teachers with resources and curriculum to create safer class- rooms.” Gogin said his offi ce “has received necessary support” from Carranza in his current post and he’s looking forward to working with him as he assumes the superintendent’s role. One thing Carranza seems to have taken particular interest in is “restor- ative practices” to address disciplin- ing students, rather than just sus- pending them. He said, “It’s very rare” that a stu- 10 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 Serving the LGBT communities since 1971 Read more online at www.ebar.com May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 11 12 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 Serving the LGBT communities since 1971 ▼ Community News>> May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 13 Queer youth lobby lawmakers on school discipline bills by Dan Aiello “I was around when Harvey Milk High School in West Sacramento, spoke of the young man from Al- told the B.A.R. how visiting the of- early 50 high school students toona, Pennsylvania who feared fi ces of legislators empowered her. Nfrom communities through- coming out, of being institutional- “At fi rst it was slightly intimidat- out California came to Sacramento ized by his parents,” recalled Am- ing and we were prepped for people Monday to lobby state legislators in miano. that might be against us,” Evans said. support of two bills aimed at pro- “When you visit legislators, look “I never realized I had the resources tecting students from extreme or at who they’ve hired,” Ammiano to talk to elected representatives to unjust discipline policies. told the students. “Do they have advocate for new laws. I realize now From Crescent City to San Ysidro, any out gay people, any transgender that I can.” Half Moon Bay to Truckee, students staff, working for them?” Evans, who lives just a few miles gathered for a morning rally on the After his speech Ammiano, a for- from the Capitol, had never been north steps of the Capitol before mer teacher, told the Bay Area Re- inside the building. meeting with lawmakers and their porter, “It’s always inspiring to see “Lobbying would never be a ca- staff as part of the April 30 Queer these LGBT youth involving them- reer for me, but I intend to do it for Youth Advocacy Day. selves in the political process to fi ght issues important to me for the rest Encouraging them to engage law- for their equal rights as citizens. Dan Aiello of my life,” she said. makers, students heard fi rsthand the They seem to get a little feistier each Queer Youth Advocacy Day be- personal stories of out state legisla- year, and they actually get a pretty Julian Araujo, left, from Brea, CA joined fellow Californians Antho- gan 15 years ago when former tors and fellow students advocating good reception when they visit these ny Barros of Lancaster, Owen Apteka-Cassels of Davis, and Keanan Assemblywoman Sheila Kuehl in- for AB 1729, Creating Alternatives offi ces, even from my Republican Go ttlieb of Cardiff by the Sea at Monday’s Queer Youth Advocacy troduced the fi rst bill to protect to Suspension and Expulsion, and colleagues. It’s kind of hard not to Day in Sacramento. school-aged youth from harassment AB 2242, Reducing Out of School care about our young people.” and discrimination based on sexual Suspensions for Minor Infractions Kirsten Hendrickson, a freshman orientation and gender identity on that was authored by Assemblyman at nearby Folsom High School and the rally of how diffi cult it was for the students, many of which were California school campuses. Last Roger Dickinson (D-Sacramento). vice president of her gay-straight al- him to grow up in a Latino family Latino, “Si se puede.” (“Yes it is pos- year students helped shepherd Am- Organization sponsors of the advo- liance club, stood before her fellow in a southern California barrio. Lara sible.”) miano’s Seth’s Law, and the Fair, cacy day claim that LGBT students, students to tell of being harassed at told students that his father once Gay Assemblyman Rich Gordon Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful students of color, and students with school. She said that she was shaken told him, “If one of my sons were (D-Menlo Park) told students how Education Act by out state Senator disabilities suffer disproportionate when she received a note on her gay, he could see ending the life of important it was that they were at Mark Leno (D-California) to the rates of suspension and expulsion, locker that said, “lesbian.” his own child,” Lara said of his par- the Capitol to advocate for LGBT governor’s desk where both bills hence the need for the bills. “I tried to laugh it off, but I was ents’ three sons, two of whom are equality. were signed into law. Out Assemblyman Tom Am- shocked. I had to take an important gay. Lara said his parents have come “It’s called a movement for a rea- Advocacy day was sponsored miano (D-San Francisco), who au- exam that day but I couldn’t stop to embrace their sons’ sexual orien- son,” said Gordon. “We have to keep by GSA Network, Equality Cali- thored AB 1729, told the students thinking about the note,” said Hen- tation. moving to end discrimination all fornia Institute, Transgender Law of the LGBT community’s struggle drickson. “They are both very loving and the time. I want you to know I’m Center, the Trevor Project, and for equal rights by those who came Out Assemblyman Ricardo Lara proud of who we are,” he said. very, very proud of you.” American Civil Liberties Union of before them. (D-Bell Gardens) told students at Lara ended his speech by telling Kayla Evans, a junior at River City California.▼ Grenell resigns Romney post, citing personal issues by Lisa Keen HRC endorsed President Barack “homosexuals” worked in the admin- Capehart, and MSNBC’s openly gay Obama a year ago. istrations of President Ronald Reagan political commentator Rachel Mad- epublican presidential candi- Jimmy LaSalvia, head of the na- and the two Bush presidents. dow, among others. Those posts Rdate Mitt Romney’s openly gay tional gay conservative group GO- And Grenell’s own cryptic explana- came to light just as the clamor was adviser on foreign policy resigned Proud, said, “I still can’t believe that in tion – citing “hyper-partisan discus- subsiding over a remark from lesbian Tuesday, just two weeks after the 2012 there are still people like Bryan sion of personal issues that sometimes Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen campaign announced his appoint- Fischer and Tony Perkins, who would comes from a presidential campaign” that Romney’s wife, Ann, had “never ment. rather keep a gay person from having – left room for uncertainty about worked a day in her life.” According to the Washington Post, a job on a presidential campaign than what was really behind his abrupt res- Grenell’s qualifi cations to serve as which broke the story May 1, Richard have Mitt Romney assemble the best ignation. a national security and foreign policy Grenell “resigned in the wake of a full- foreign policy team possible.” Grenell, 45, lives in Los Angeles and adviser to Romney seemed unques- court press by anti-gay conservatives.” “On a day when foreign affairs and was due to start work at Romney’s tioned. Grenell served the administra- But Grenell, in a statement to the Post, national security are at the forefront, national headquarters in Boston on tion of President George W. Bush, as said only that his ability to “speak it’s too bad that Governor Romney Tuesday. Such a move would have en- a spokesman for the U.S. ambassador clearly and forcefully on the issues has doesn’t have the best spokesman pos- Richard Grenell abled Grenell to marry his longtime to the United Nations. He was also ap- been greatly diminished by the hyper- sible speaking on his behalf,” LaSalvia partner, Matthew Lashey. pointed by former Ambassador John partisan discussion of personal issues added. Personal issues were also a focus of Danforth in 2004 to serve as an al- that sometimes comes from a presi- cynical political move by Romney Fischer, a policy offi cial with the early criticism of Grenell’s appoint- ternative representative of the United dential campaign.” to fool LGBT voters into believing American Family Association, criti- ment, as media reports gave consid- States to the U.N. Security Coun- Grenell’s statement also thanked he’s not as anti-gay as his statements cized Grenell’s appointment, charac- erable attention to his Twitter posts cil. And he served numerous other Romney for his confi dence in Gren- would have you believe.” terizing Grenell as a “gay activist” and making unfl attering observations prominent Republicans, including ell’s ability to serve the campaign on Davis criticized Romney for “si- suggesting he would be trying to pro- about GOP presidential long-shot former New York Governor George national security and foreign policy is- lently [letting] the bigoted wing of his mote a “homosexual agenda.” Perkins, Newt Gingrich’s current wife, Cal- Pataki, former South Carolina Gov- sues and for Romney’s “clear message party control his personnel choices.” head of the Family Research Council, lista, openly gay Pulitzer Prize-win- ernor Mark Sanford, and former San to me that being openly noted that Grenell pub- ning Post editorial writer Jonathan Diego Mayor Susan Golding.▼ gay was a non-issue for licly criticized President him and his team.” Bush for opposing the The Post quoted Rom- U.S. endorsement of a ney campaign manager “... people like pro-gay statement by the Matt Rhoades as saying United Nations. the campaign is “disap- Bryan Fischer and Another right-wing pointed that Ric decided anti-gay activist, Gary to resign from the cam- Tony Perkins ... would Bauer, criticized the ap- paign for his own personal pointment of Grenell, reasons.” rather keep a gay person saying that it showed un- “We wanted him to willingness by the Rom- stay,” said Rhoades, “be- from having a job on a ney campaign to reassure cause he had superior conservatives in the Re- qualifi cations for the po- presidential campaign than publican Party. sition he was hired to fi ll.” “Conservative pro- Most gay observers see family leaders,” said Bau- Grenell as a victim of the have Mitt Romney assemble er, in an April 25 email to Republican Party’s strong supporters of his current right-wing base. the best foreign policy organization, Campaign R. Clarke Cooper, head for Working Families, of Log Cabin Republicans, team possible.” “are disappointed be- echoed Grenell’s state- cause Grenell has been ment, blaming his depar- –Jimmy LaSalvia an outspoken advocate ture on “hyper-partisan of redefi ning normal discussion of issues unre- marriage.” He noted that lated to” Grenell’s national Grenell “once caused security qualifi cations. Human Rights Campaign Presi- a controversy by trying to have his Cooper said Grenell “was essentially dent Joe Solmonese also criticized partner listed as his spouse when he hounded by the far right and far left.” Romney for his silence. worked at the U.N.” Grenell asked to Stonewall Democrats’ national “The fact that Grenell is gone so have his partner listed, the same as the Executive Director Jerame Davis said quickly after a right-wing uproar,” said spouses of other U.S. delegation em- Grenell was “mercilessly hounded Solmonese, “is a troubling harbinger ployees, in a United Nations directory. by religious conservatives.” To Davis, of the kind of power that anti-gay But Bauer’s criticism of Grenell’s Romney’s appointment of Grenell forces would have in a Romney White appointment was somewhat tem- was never serious, but just a “crassly House.” pered by his acknowledgement that 14 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 << The Sports Page ▼ from AIDS and pneumocystis, he was dead, just days after winning the silver Music and the mat medal in Gay Games II. Two and a half years later, Olsen was dead as well. by Roger Brigham ship. They lived in a tiny apartment in often humorous riffs on the classic All of which Winterhalter belat- the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, children’s theme, demanding patience edly learned only after going online hen folks in the vast beyond opening the Newest Sphere junk shop and discipline. and doing Internet searches for his Wthink of San Francisco, they in 1969 before moving across the bay “I could never make that tinny pi- old mentor. He said when he found think of couples such as Don Jung to Richmond to open Glass Blast, ano sound the way he could make it out Cohen was dead, he balled up and Ben Olsen. Their story is so typi- where Jung churned out etched glass sound,” Winterhalter said. “He could and cried. cal, so representative, so ... San and sand-blasted artistic creations. make beautiful sounds on that piano. “It was like my father died,” he said. Francisco. And now, long Olsen taught music for many Sometimes I would make a mistake And then three months ago he after they were both lost years before retiring to write just to hear him play it.” set out to see if he could make sure in the 1980s onslaught of music full-time at home. The mark those days left on Win- that the music his mentor composed AIDS, one man whose life It was while they were terhalter was more than musical; it be- would never die. Roger Brigham they touched is working in Haight-Ashbury that came a part of his inner psychic core. “There are a few pieces out there to make sure their works their paths crossed with “He fi lled in a lot of what my fa- John Winterhalter played I know of,” he said, “but I remember are not forgotten. 14-year-old John Winter- ther couldn’t,” Winterhalter, 45, said. a piano sonata composed by two big drawers full of manuscripts. This is a story about halter. “We talked a lot about philosophy. Ben Olsen. I know there’s a full symphony he wrestling and music – “I was out there run- One time he took an hour asking me fi nished.” about how the threads of ning around, smoking about a coffee pot and about which Winterhalter has some of the sheet culture and sport can be pot,” Winterhalter told was invented fi rst, the handle or the caped AIDS, that they were alive.” music in his possession, including so intertwined in our lives me during a visit to the Bay pot. Eventually I realized what he And alive they were for some time pages of the “Twinkle” variations he it is hard to see where one begins and Area over the weekend. “A friend told was telling me was that form follows after that. Jung, whom Winterhalter worked on in his youth, and a dra- the other leaves off. It is a story about me he knew a composer and I was in function.” remembered as always being rather matic sonata that through themes of taking the time to change a life and to shock. I didn’t know there were still Those sessions were prized mo- quiet and puttering around in the urban madness repeatedly returns to remember one. The end hasn’t been composers living.” ments of sanity and stability away background, creating the artwork a compelling love theme and a wed- written yet, but the morals of the story Soon Winterhalter, who had tried from the crazy streets of San Fran- that paid their bills, began wrestling ding march. are clear: Never forget the folks who unsuccessfully years earlier to learn cisco, where Winterhalter felt his life once more. Jung had placed in the “He wrote it in 1968, the year he made you who you are, and never to play piano fi rst from his father and was spiraling down into an inevi- state high school championships met Don,” Winterhalter said. “I think leave without saying goodbye. then in group classes, was paying Ol- table mess. Then in 1979, when he when he was a kid back in Montana the sonata is about what meeting Jung and Olsen were transplants sen $5 a session for piano lessons. was 19, he suddenly left the city and and drew on that experience in 1982 Don meant to him.” who met in San Francisco. Olsen was “I was more a pain in the ass than enrolled in the military. It was part when he accepted Dr. Tom Waddell’s These days, Winterhalter, who is from Missouri, where he studied at anything,” he said. “I was supposed impulse, part fear, part adventure, challenge to create a wrestling club straight and married, lives in North- the Kansas City Conservatory of Mu- to be there for an hour and I would part desperation. to host the Gay Games I wrestling ridge and drives for a delivery com- sic. Olsen moved to San Francisco in spend all day.” He never said goodbye. tournament. He also created a new pany. He has been trying to track the 1950s, then in 1968, the year after Often Winterhalter would learn by “I always felt badly about that,” he wrestling program at Mission High down all the information he can the Summer of Love, he met Jung, an playing one of the dozen variations said. “But I kept thinking later that School. Jung took the gold medal in about Olsen and Jung, fi nd as much artist from Montana. on “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” Co- maybe they escaped all of the mad- that inaugural Gay Games. of Olsen’s music as he can, and make That began an 18-year relation- hen had arranged. They are complex, ness going on, that maybe they es- But just four years later, suffering sure it is archived rather than lost. Most of the people he knew who knew the couple back then have long passed on, but he is trying to learn as much as he can through conversa- tions and Intern et searches. Which is how he ended up at my home last weekend, tapping out bits of Olsen’s tunes on our grand piano with my husband, Eduardo. During one of his Internet search- es, he had found a reference to the Don Jung Memorial Wrestling Tour- nament run by Golden Gate Wres- tling Club. Winterhalter had left San Francisco before Jung had returned to wrestling, but he remembered hearing that Jung had been a wres- tler. He contacted the club and next thing he knew, he was in our house – just as before, the home of a musi- cian and a wrestler. Which brings us to the morals of this story. Winterhalter can’t say goodbye to the mentor he left more than 30 years ago, but he can do his best to pay him back by making sure his musical legacy is remembered, just as GGWC did in 2007 by re- naming its tournament after Jung, its founder. So, any of my readers who were active in the local music scene back in the day or know of people who might have known the couple can email Winterhalter at jw7754@ya- hoo.com to help him with research. Who knows, maybe the symphony will be unearthed and resurrected for a performance one day. The best source of information Winterhalter was able to fi nd online about Jung and Olsen was, sadly, the AIDS obituary archive of the GLBT Historical Society and the Bay Area Reporter. It is a sad place to refl ect but a wonderful place to post com- ments in memory of those we have lost. The archive can be accessed at http://70.90.168.98/olo.

AIDS/LifeCycle fundraiser Saturday A fundraising “bachelor auc- tion” will be held Saturday, May 5, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Lookout bar, 3600 Market Street. The event was organized by AIDS/LifeCycle rid- ers Daniel Conti and Steven LeRoy. Twelve bachelors had their pictures taken for a photo shoot and will be auctioned off for dates at Saturday’s event. Calendars of the photo shoot will be available for sale at the event and online afterward. Pictures from the shoot may be seen at http://www. flickr.com/photos/47566848@N05/ sets/72157629569979058.▼ ▼ Community News >> May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 15 SF police seek suspects in anti-gay attacks by Seth Hemmelgarn blond spiky hair. He was last seen wearing a black puffy jacket and he San Francisco Police Depart- blue jeans. Tment is seeking help in fi nding The third suspect is a white or suspects involved in two anti-gay Hispanic male, about 5 feet 10 inch- attacks. es tall and 150 pounds, with short The fi rst incident occurred at 2:30 blond hair. He was last seen wearing a.m., March 29, in the 400 block of blue jeans. Castro Street. The suspects spoke with an East San Francisco Police Sergeant Pe- Coast or foreign accent. ter Shields said the victim was walk- It hasn’t been confi rmed that the ing home and was “punched in the two attacks are related, but at least face and called a ‘fucking faggot.’” two of the suspects were possibly in- He said nothing had precipitated volved in both incidents, according the attack, in which there are two to Shields. suspects. Shields said that the victim Police are also asking for any ad- ditional victims of similar incidents suffered “minor injuries” and was Courtesy SFPD Courtesy SFPD Courtesy SFPD treated at the scene, but he declined to contact investigators to fi le a re- to provide other information about Police released sketches of three suspects linked to two anti-gay attacks. port. the victim. Anyone with information regarding Terry Dyer, a victim in the second bar Rebel, 1760 Market Street. cluded swelling to his face. He re- pounds, with black hair. these incidents is asked to contact attack, told the Bay Area Reporter Dyer said three men walked by fused medical attention. The second suspect is described the special investigations division days after the incident that it started and one of them yelled, “faggot.” The fi rst suspect is described as as a white or Hispanic male, 25 to at (415) 553-1133 or call the anony- at about 10:45 p.m. April 7. He and More anti-gay slurs and a fi ght soon a Hispanic male, 25 to 30 years old, 30 years old, approximately 5 feet mous tip line at (415) 575-4444 or ▼ a friend had been walking near the followed. Dyer said his injuries in- approximately 6 feet tall and 170 7 inches tall and 150 pounds, with text-a-tip to TIP411.

Milk ship – fi rst gay person to win elective of- tion that honesty, acceptance and to the Latino leader who organized “It seems inappropriate and in- << From page 1 fi ce in 1977. authenticity are held up among the California’s farmworkers. sensitive to name a Navy ship after a Tragically, a year later former highest ideals of our military.” At its meeting Monday, May 7 gay man who opposed the Vietnam colli Mecca also panned the propos- disgruntled Supervisor Dan White Congressman Bob Filner (D-San San Francisco’s Veterans Affairs War and war in general. Especially al as “inappropriate and insensitive” assassinated Milk and then-Mayor Diego), who is running to be San Commission is expected to back the if that ship were to be involved in in an emailed statement to the Bay George Moscone inside City Hall. Diego’s next mayor, endorsed the Milk ship idea. The commission’s America’s next war in the Middle Area Reporter. Milk’s death turned him into an in- proposal in letters he sent April 20 gay chair, John Caldera, placed the East, a war that Harvey would no LGBT leaders in San Diego an- ternational LGBT icon. to both Mabus and U.S. Defense item on the agenda. doubt have opposed, if he were alive nounced their campaign to con- He has been honored in numer- Secretary Leon E. Panetta. “Absolutely, I support this 100 today,” emailed Avicolli Mecca. “The vince the Navy to name one of its ous ways over the years. Parks and “This action would be a fi tting percent. Christening a Navy ship Milk who served in the Navy during vessels after Milk last week. It is one schools are named after him, and tribute to Mr. Milk’s support for would be an appropriate honor,” the Korean War and the Milk who, of several proposals being pushed President Barack Obama posthu- equality, an ideal exemplifi ed in the said Caldera, who was honorably less than two decades later, defi ed by the city’s GLBT Historic Task mously awarded Milk the Presiden- military’s recent repeal of its former discharged as an U.S. Navy hospital the taboos of his day to have sex Force, which expects San Diego’s tial Medal of Freedom in 2009. ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy,” wrote corpsman. with men, grow his hair, smoke pot, City Council to approve the renam- Longtime LGBT activist and gay Filner, referring to the restriction Former Milk campaign man- and oppose the war, were complete- ing of a street after Milk at its May newspaper columnist Nicole Murray banning gay and lesbian service ager and legislative aide Anne Kro- ly different individuals. It was like 8 meeting. Ramirez, who befriended Milk, chairs members from being out of the nenberg, now the city’s director of that back then. People were trans- The task force is asking people the San Diego task force and has been closet that Congress rescinded in emergency management, has also formed by the incredible times we to either send letters of support pushing to honor Milk in various 2010. endorsed the idea and believes that lived in. I know that I was.” directly to Ray Mabus, secretary of ways. He is working with the Harvey In response to a question this Milk “would be smiling to hear Nicoletta also said he respectfully the Navy, or sign an online petition Milk Foundation, on whose board he week from the B.A.R., Pelosi about the effort to christen a ship in disagrees with the thinking behind posted on change.org. serves, to gain national support for spokesman Drew Hammill said his name.” the idea. He told the B.A.R. that Milk served in the U.S. Navy and the Milk navy vessel idea. that “Leader Pelosi supports these “Harvey understood the impor- his opposition, though, has “little was on active duty during the Korean “We in San Diego are very proud efforts” to name a Navy ship after tance of symbolism in the advance- to do with” Milk’s anti-war stances War. He trained as a deep-sea diver, that Harvey Milk was stationed in Milk. ment of civil rights. He also lived in he took later in life and more to do and advanced to the rank of chief our city and fell in love with Califor- At Tuesday’s Board of Supervi- an era when being out in the mili- with his own. petty offi cer on the U.S.S. Kittiwake, nia here,” Murray Ramirez told the sors meeting, Wiener introduced tary was simply impossible,” stated “Though I would never presume according to a bio posted at glbthis- San Diego LGBT Weekly, which car- a resolution in support of the pro- Kronenberg, who co-founded the to guess where either Scott Smith torictaskforcesd.com/USSHarvey- ries his column and broke the news posal. Milk foundation and serves on its [Milk’s late executor] or Harvey MilkNavyVesselCampaign.aspx. about the Milk vessel campaign on “Harvey Milk was a visionary in board. “He’d be quite pleased that would have landed on this issue, I Commissioned an ensign in late April 24. our community and redefi ned what it we are now in an era when not only do know that both their families 1953, Milk was transferred to Na- In a statement Milk’s gay nephew, means to be LGBT in public life. Giv- can LGBT people be out in the mili- had proud decorated military histo- val Station at San Diego to serve Stuart Milk, who is a spokesman for en Supervisor Milk’s extraordinary tary, but they can even have war- ries and I recall both men to be very as a diving instructor. In 1955, he the Milk family and heads the foun- public service and military service to ships named after them. Times truly patriotic, so I empathize with Har- was discharged from the Navy at dation, called the proposal “inspiring.” our country, I can think of no more have changed.” vey’s family of origin and his neph- the rank of lieutenant, junior grade, “As an American hero who fi tting tribute than to name a naval ew Stuart Milk wanting to honor states the bio. proudly wore the uniform of a Na- vessel after him,” stated Wiener. Some oppose ship idea that history in this instance,” wrote “Milk was proud of his military val offi cer, the naming of a major Retired Navy Commander Zoe Not everyone is as enthralled with Nicoletta in an emailed response. service, and wore a brass belt buckle vessel after Harvey will add that Dunning, an out lesbian and a lead- the proposal. “I included Harvey’s military photo bearing his Navy diver’s insignia un- most American value of equality er in the effort to repeal DADT, has Avicolli Mecca told the B.A.R. in my curation of the Milk Plaza til the day he died,” states the bio. and democracy to the proud mes- also endorsed the idea. that having the U.S. Postal Service plaque photo series because it rep- In the early 1970s Milk moved sage of inclusion for which military “Harvey Milk was proud of his issue a Milk stamp, which backers resents an essential variable in the to San Francisco’s Castro district service now exemplifi es,” stated Stu- Navy service. Similar to the USS Ce- have been pushing to see for years, arc of Harvey’s political identity. But where he opened a camera shop and art Milk. “This action by the U.S. sar Chavez, there should be a USS or Congress declare Milk’s birthday this is also a good time to remem- penned a political column for the secretary of the Navy will further Harvey Milk to honor Milk’s leader- on May 22 a national holiday would ber that dissent is also patriotic and B.A.R. After several failed attempts, send a green light to all the brave ship in the LGBT civil rights move- be more appropriate commemora- that is why I oppose this affi liation Milk became the city’s – and state’s men and women who serve our na- ment,” stated Dunning, referring tions. personally.”▼ Obituaries >> Robert August Krumm Clausen House, Stepping Stones, and 1217 A Street in Hayward. was readily searched by early com- In later years, Mr. Smith’s love of March 13, 1938 – January 31, 2012 recently with Adult Education Tech- puters and was capable of identifying music led him to develop a computer nologies. Elbert G. Smith specifi c molecular fragments of larger program that identifi es musical pieces Previously to 1998, he was an avid July 18, 1913 – March 18, 2012 structures. Mr. Smith wrote two books based on a series of notes. Loving son of square dancer on tour to Hawaii. He detailing this important notation sys- Mr. Smith is survived by his friend Ernest and Luella ushered at the San Francisco Ballet, tem; these were translated into many Glen Black, of Oakland; and a neph- Krumm, Robert Elbert G. Smith, Ph.D., 98, an emer- and played a soldier at the S.F. Op- languages. ew, Milo Thomson, in Oregon. died peacefully on itus professor of chemistry at Mills era with Pavarotti, who took him to January 31, after a College, died on March 18. lunch. He participated in the S.F. Gay long struggle with Born in Eugene, Oregon, Mr. Smith Pride Parade for years. He also wor- liver cancer. A lover earned his bachelor’s degree from shipped at several churches through- of the arts, and, of Oregon State College in 1936 and a out the region. family and friends, with a generous doctorate from Iowa State College He was loved by his childhood heart, and great enthusiasm for life, in 1943. After teaching at Hamline neighbors, and by his Redwood he will be deeply missed. A resident University and the University of Den- family. He leaves behind his loving of Redwood Convalescent Hospital ver, he became associate professor of sister, Beth; his niece Christine (Da- in Castro Valley since 1998, after the chemistry at the University of Hawaii, vid) and their children Alexander tragic loss of his left lower leg, he con- Manoa. In 1958, he moved to Oakland and Julia; his nephew John (Korina). tinued to attend the Oakland East Bay and became head of the chemistry de- Also his deceased brother Ernest Jr.’s Symphony, the movies, and shopped partment at Mills College, where he children, nephews John (Mary) and with the help of his ILS worker, and taught until 1978. During his career, their daughter Elia; and Christopher attended the Fellows Club with his he was also staff member of the Na- (Anna) and their children Tristan and friends. tional Research Council dealing with Tilia. His spirit lives on in his family A graduate of Fremont High in chemical notation systems. and friends. Oakland, Robert worked as a garden- Mr. Smith’s specialty was chemical A memorial is planned for Satur- er, postal carrier, and cabinet-maker structure information retrieval. He day, May 12 at 2:30 p.m. at the Light- assistant. He trained further, with the helped develop Wiswesser Line Nota- house LGBT Community Center, aid of East Bay Regional Center, at tion (WLN), a notation system that 16 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 << Community News ▼ Maitri cy’s remembrance books. Maitri has the epidemic,” he said, is part of the less the city steps in to fi ll in the gap. gala at $50,000 this year, down from << From page 1 kept such logs since 1987. When a nonprofi t’s sustainability, which is the “We have suffi cient reserves right $60,000 in 2011. The agency’s hop- resident dies, a candle is lit, and staff, agency’s biggest challenge. now,” said Smithwick. “We’re not in ing for a net income of more than tor Michael Smithwick. “We helped volunteers, and friends can write their Another factor in their ability to be any situation where we’re in a distress $100,000 from the event, which is people die.” memories of the person. sustainable is funding cuts, he said. mode where we’re desperately looking what the fi gure was last year. Throughout its 25 years, all Maitri at cutting jobs” or taking other mea- The agency has $300,000 left to residents have had advanced AIDS. ‘I was all by myself’ Finances sures. He credits the “belt tightening” pay on the mortgage for its building, Now, said Smithwick, “Many people Some residents are homeless when Maitri’s current budget is about they’ve been doing, which includes which is worth several million dollars. who come to us are not in the active they come to Maitri, and some have $2.5 million. The agency hasn’t fi nal- the layoffs. However, if they see the Other than that, there’s no outstand- process of dying,” but are in need of had no prior treatment for AIDS. ized its fi scal year 2012-13 budget, $212,000 Ryan White cut, the agency ing debt that’s gone unpaid for 30 days short-term care. “There are many people who, if but Smithwick predicted it would be will have to take “much more serious or more, according to Smithwick. Residents of the 15-bed facility in- they weren’t here, would frankly have around $2.4 million to $2.5 million. measures to try to be in a balanced “My biggest goal is to get the com- clude people who are getting dialysis no place else to go,” said Smithwick. After a cut of almost $45,000 in situation.” munity to reengage with Maitri and or going through chemotherapy and Barbara Eglian, who’s 48 and iden- Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment As of early March, Smithwick’s sal- step up their level of giving to hope- need a place to go as they adjust and tifi es as bisexual, had been using hero- Modernization Act funding since ary was $95,000, the same as when he fully replace what the federal govern- get stabilized on their medications. in and crack before she came to Maitri June 2011, Maitri has eliminated the started his job in January 2011. He de- ment is cutting,” said Smithwick. He “With our care, they are able to more than two years ago. She said the development director and the offi ce clined to comment on his compensa- noted that other HIV-related agencies get better to the point where they can agency “got me off the bad situation I manager positions. A nursing shift tion or whether he’d take a reduction are also facing funding troubles. leave stronger,” said Smithwick. Maitri was living in, with drugs. ... I was all was also cut by one attendant, among in pay. “If we value the services, then as a still serves people who are terminal, by myself.” other changes. The nonprofi t has 23 Maitri’s fundraising goal through community, we need to come togeth- but about half of the clients who came Eglian said she’s able to take her full time staff and almost that many June is $459,000. That includes er to support them,” he said.▼ to the agency last year “left stronger medications every day now and “If part time positions. $195,000 from community, corpo- after they arrived,” he said. it wasn’t for Maitri, I’d probably be This fi scal year, the agency expects rate, and private foundations. The tar- Bliss takes place from 6 to 11 p.m., Still, recent days have served as a dead.” to receive a total of about $1.1 million get for individual giving outside the Saturday, May 5 at the reminder that some residents don’t Smithwick said the agency’s model in Ryan White funding. Bliss gala is $99,000. W San Francisco, 181 Third Street. survive. Two Maitri clients died this has changed. In the next fi scal year, which begins Some of the agency’s savings this Individual tickets are $150. For week, he said. “Transforming the Maitri model” July 1, Maitri could lose as much as year are related to that event. Smith- more information, They’re being added to the agen- to match “the changing dynamics of $212,000 in Ryan White money un- wick’s hoping to keep expenses for the visit www.maitrisf.org.

News Briefs hold a free landlord-tenant neighbor- ket) and is open Monday-Friday unveiled in October, as organizers No date has been announced for << From page 5 hood outreach event on Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Phone coun- had hoped. when they will be installed. May 12 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the LGBT seling is available 9 a.m. to noon and In February the project spon- For more information about the weekend in Oakland.z Community Center, 1800 Market 1 to 4 p.m. at (415) 252-4602. More sors announced they were asking design contest guidelines and how The concerts will premiere several Street. information is available at www. the public for help in determining to submit entries, visit rainbow- new works and arrangements, includ- Staff from the city department will sfrb.org. what plaques dedicated to famous honorwalk.org/?page_id=201. ing one commissioned by the chorus. give a short overview of the rent con- LGBT people should look like. The The chorus will also release its fi rst trol ordinance. Topics covered will Latino Prevention winning entrant will be awarded a Horizons announces CD, Oakland-East Bay Gay Men’s include rent increases, eviction regu- Center to host open house $1,000 cash prize. new scholarship Chorus: The First Ten Years at the up- lations, security deposits and interest, The Latino Prevention Center Entries had been required to be Horizons Foundation announced coming concerts. roommates and subletting, master will celebrate its opening with a re- delivered by May 1. But last week the this week the establishment of the “We are pleased to present original tenants, and landlord passthroughs. ception Thursday, May 10 from 4 honor walk’s board voted to push New Road scholarship, a fund to compositions and arrangements from Attendees will be provided with valu- to 6:30 p.m. at 1663 Mission Street, the deadline to July 15. They also are support LGBT Asian-Pacifi c Island- friends of the chorus as well as its able rental and eviction information Suite 603 in San Francisco. dropping the $100 entry fee. er students entering their fi rst year own members,” said Stephanie Lynne and have an opportunity to meet The center is a joint venture with “We were overly optimistic, and of college in the Bay Area. Smith, interim artistic director. “In briefl y with staff to discuss their in- Instituto Familiar de la Raza Inc. should have given ourselves more The fund was established by an addition, it is our extreme honor to dividual concerns. If tenants are in and Mission Neighborhood Health time. Just now we’re beginning to anonymous donor and will award premiere a new piece commissioned a rental dispute with their landlord/ Center and will provide services to get queries from designers, artists, as many as four $1,000 scholarships by the chorus with text from Moun- master tenant or a landlord has the Latino LGBTQ community at and design schools,” David Perry, a for 2012. According to Horizons’ tain Thoughts by John Muir set to grounds for a lawful rent increase, risk for living with HIV. The center co-founder of the project, told the Kevin Herglotz, the donor received music by San Francisco Conservatory the rent board provides arbitra- will utilize culturally-informed and Bay Area Reporter. “Also, serendipi- a university scholarship 20 years ago student Red Bennett.” tion and mediation services with evidenced-based practices. Offi cials tously, we can now use the attention and worked with the foundation to The Napa concert takes place at no fi ling cost to the parties. Petition said the center’s vision is to enhance of gay Pride in June to make a fi nal establish the New Road fund as a 7 p.m. at First United Methodist forms will be available and staff will the resilience of individuals and push for entries. That still allows us way to help students achieve their Church, 625 Randolph Street. assist all parties to understand when promote the well-being of the Latino to have an approved design by Na- educational goals. The Oakland performances take and how to fi le. LGBTQ community. tional Coming Out Day.” The deadline for applications place at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 12 and 5 “It’s important to get out there To RSVP, email Jayvani Garcia by Organizers have already settled is May 31. For more information, p.m. Sunday, May 13 at Lakeshore Av- in the community because a lot of May 7 at [email protected]. on the fi rst 20 nominees, who in- visit www.horizonsfoundation.org/ enue Baptist Church, 3534 Lakeshore people, including those who are clude poet Allen Ginsberg and art- page/organizations/scholarships. Avenue. new to the city or who make infor- Deadline extended for ist Keith Haring as well as writers The page also lists several other Ticket prices for all concerts is $25 mal roommate situations, don’t re- Rainbow Honor Walk designs Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. scholarships administered by Hori- premiere, $20 general, and $15 stu- alize how city law impacts them un- Organizers of the proposed Rain- Markers explaining each person’s zons; some deadlines have already dents and seniors and can be pur- til problems start to come up,” said bow Honor Walk in the Castro have contributions to society will be in- passed, but interested students can chased by visiting www.oebgmc.org. Greg Miller, rent board community extended the deadline to submit de- stalled into the sidewalk in the city’s check out the page for details.▼ outreach coordinator. sign proposals for the LGBT history gayborhood. SF Rent Board to hold forum The rent board is located at 25 project. The delay means that the It is estimated that the fi rst set of Matthew S. Bajko contributed to The San Francisco Rent Board will Van Ness Avenue, Suite 320 (at Mar- fi rst section of the walk will not be 20 plaques will cost at least $100,000. this report.

Political Notebook to check about, but I love the idea,” panels for the upside down triangle, This week rec and park offi cials circus troupe may enter a fl oat in the << From page 7 said Behan. which is associated with Nazi perse- from San Francisco and San Mateo, parade. He said he welcomes seeing city cution of homosexuals. along with conservationists, began “We are trying to fi gure out their would surely consider this,” emailed departments fi nd ways to highlight “I think there would be push back releasing more Mission Blues on the parade involvement,” said Behan. Falvey. “The city receives several re- Pride. if we did it longer,” Carney told the southern peak of Twin Peaks. By the Another new sponsor is the W San quests every year to light City Hall in “I think anytime a city agency like B.A.R. this week. end of May 40 males and 20 females Francisco. The South of Market hotel recognition of various organizations Muni or others are able to talk to the In addition to concerns about caught from San Bruno Mountain is hosting a fundraiser for Pride from or campaigns. In order to maintain community about their support for damage to native plants due to the tri- will be released. 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday, June 7. Tickets the magnifi cence of City Hall and to Pride, whether it is a ‘Happy Pride’ angle’s tarps, another factor limits the “The success of this project is en- cost $50 or $80 for couples. highlight the importance of any spe- statement on a Muni bus or some- symbols’ duration. Three years ago couraging, and we look forward to The event is part of a renewed com- cial lighting, the city attempts to limit thing similar, it adds to the vibrancy of the endangered Mission Blue butterfl y continue our effort of restoring wild mitment by Pride board members to the number of times City Hall is lit up Pride month. It helps the community was reintroduced to the area, causing habitat in the middle of our urban pitch in with fundraising. Behan ex- during the year.” celebrate.” some environmentalists to question metropolis,” stated Phil Ginsburg, SF pects it will raise $20,000, which will Patrick Carney, who oversees the One agency that is stepping up its what impact the pink triangle could Rec and Park general manager. be designated toward Pride’s out- installation of the pink triangle each visibility around Pride this year is the have on their habitat. Asked by the B.A.R. what the in- reach, programming, and education year, told the B.A.R. he would wel- city’s Recreation and Parks Depart- Carney and Wiener met with the creased numbers of endangered but- efforts outside of the month of June. come seeing City Hall aglow in LGBT- ment. Last year the agency debuted an butterfl y backers last July to discuss terfl ies could mean for future displays “It is part of the board’s initiative affi liated colors. altered logo that had a rainbow added their concerns. The consensus, said of the pink triangle, Ginsburg and to do more work on fundraising, “That would be great to see it done to it. Carney, was that because of the short Mark Buell, president of the Rec and which came out of the City Control- up in the rainbow colors similar to This year that logo will adorn the timespan the pink triangle appears it Park Commission, both were ada- ler’s report,” said Behan, referring to how the Diesel building is lighted in freebies rec and park staffers hand out doesn’t hurt the Mission Blues. mant that their presence would have the fi ndings of a 2010 city audit of the the Castro,” said Carney, a local archi- during Pride weekend, said spokes- “They were very happy we are there no impact. agency. tect who worked on the seismic over- woman Connie Chan. for not very long. The pink triangle “I have no interest in discontinuing For more info on SF Pride, visit haul of City Hall following the 1989 doesn’t seem to cause any harm to the that tradition whatso ever,” said Buell. www.sfpride.org/.▼ Loma Prieta earthquake. Butterfl ies won’t butterfl y they are trying to establish,” “Nor do I,” added Ginsburg. When the building re-opened in obstruct pink triangle said Carney. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT 1999 adjusting the lights was more One change that likely won’t hap- He is in the process of getting the Pride sponsorships increase political news by following the complicated then, said Carney. pen is seeing the pink triangle dis- needed permits for this year’s instal- In terms of Pride’s fi nances this Political Notebook on Twitter “These days it is easier, plus they played atop Twin Peaks for longer lation and he has requested the same year, Behan said it has already ex- @ twitter.com/politicalnotes. probably have every color under the than its usual two days. Last year a short timeframe. ceeded its sponsorship level from rainbow at City Hall for the lights. I monthlong red ribbon installation on “Even though we would like more 2011 and has welcomed a bevy of new On the web would think they could do rainbow the hillside to mark the 30th year of visibility, of course we don’t want to corporate donors. Last year corporate Online content this week colors,” he said. “I would settle even the AIDS epidemic raised the possi- cause any undue environmental harm cash commitments totaled $526,250, includes the Bay Area Reporter’s for pink.” bility of seeing a similar extended stay or get people riled up and against it,” and Behan thinks he will hit $600,000 online columns, Political Notes, After speaking with the B.A.R. this for the gay pride symbol. he said. “The reason we are doing it, this year. Wedding Bell Blues, and Inside week, Behan said he would make a Since 1996 Carney has rallied vol- is it is an educational tool. We don’t Those coming on board with Pride the Beltway; and the Out in the formal request about the lighting. unteers to help him put up and then want to generate our own contro- for 2012 include Verizon, DirecTV, World column. www.ebar.com. “That wasn’t in my notes of things take down over Pride weekend the versy.” and Cirque du Soleil. The Canadian ▼ Community News >> May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 17 Trans woman back,” she said. “She liked to dance Legal Notices>> << From page 1 and she loved life.” Martell was also a good cook and a talented mim- what time it is” and also “disclosed [to ic, she said. the men] we’re transgender.” “She used to imitate me all the One of the men said, “Ok,” and time,” said Coleman. “We used to be City and County of San Francisco they walked off, said Coleman. She together so much. ... She said I’m so May, 2012 Monthly Call for Artists: 2013 Art on Market Street Kiosk Poster Series said that’s the last thing she remem- dramatic about everything.” Application Deadline: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 11:59 PM (PST) bers before she fell asleep. Coleman, who said she has “really The Art on Market Street Program, which has commissioned new artwork by Bay She said that she woke up to “a long” hair, said that Martell used to Area artists on an annual basis since 1992, includes a bus kiosk poster series and other call her “Baldy.” She said that Martell’s temporary projects that take place on San Francisco’s main thoroughfare. For the kiosk quick succession” of gunshots, and poster series, the Art on Market Street Program commissions three consecutive three- the woman who had been in the nickname was “Turkey,” a moniker month poster exhibitions annually. Each poster series consists of a set of six original and front passenger seat was running and given to her by her parents when she related designs that are professionally reproduced and printed as six sets of posters, 68 screaming, “Call the police.” was a child. inches high by 47 ¼ inches wide (trim size), for installation in 36 bus kiosks on Market Tiffany Woods Street between 8th Street and the Embarcadero. All artists’ designs must be approved by Coleman said that according to Tiffany Woods, the TransVision the Arts Commission and are expected to be appropriate for a broad public audience. the front seat passenger, who “saw the Brandy Martell coordinator at the Fremont-based Applications are available through SlideRoom, https://sfgov.slideroom.com/ whole thing,” the man at Martell’s side Tri-City Health Center, said that an online application system. There is no charge to artists for using SlideRoom. First time users of SlideRoom, please allow adequate time to learn the use of this system. of the car was the gunman. Coleman Martell worked for her for four years. Applications will not be accepted after the deadline. said that she didn’t see who was do- the whole community. ... I just think Martell technically wasn’t staff, but For more information, please visit: www.sfartscommission.org or contact ing the shooting. By the time she woke it’s terrible,” said Rubio. she was a volunteer peer educator and Zoë Taleporos, at (415) 252-3215 or by email at [email protected]. up, it appeared that the gunman “was She said the people she needed was compensated, she said. She was San Francisco International Airport running and shooting,” she said. to check with about the case weren’t involved in the Transgender Day of The Airport Commission has commenced the RFP process for the Airport Advertising Coleman said that she’d been available. Many Oakland police were Remembrance, among other activi- /HDVH7KHSURSRVHGPLQLPXPÀQDQFLDORIIHULVZLWKDWHUPRI HLJKW\HDUV The Informational Conference will be at 10:00 a.m., May 10, 2012, at SFO Business “drinking all night,” and “I was still busy Tuesday with Occupy May Day ties. The last time Woods saw Martell Center, 2nd Floor, 575 N. McDonnell Road, San Francisco International Airport. halfway out of it” when she woke up. protests. Another police department was at the Day of Remembrance in 3OHDVHVHHKWWSZZZÁ\VIRFRPZHESDJHDERXWEEFRQFHVIRUDGGLWLRQDO Martell was driving off as the shots staffer said Monday, April 30 that the November. information or call Gigi R. Ricasa, Senior Principal Property Manager, at (650) 821-4500. were fi red, she said. Martell “never inspector apparently handling the Woods, who said that Martell had said anything,” she said, but she was killing wasn’t available, and the in- legally changed her name, said that San Francisco International Airport holding her side. Martell eventually spector didn’t respond to an emailed Martell was “amazing” and “funny.” The Airport Commission has commenced the RFP process for Terminal 3 Common “I’d hate for her to die in vain,” said Use Club Lease at San Francisco International Airport. The Informational Conference, stopped the car and Coleman put it in interview request. originally scheduled for 2:00p.m PST, April 24, 2012 at San Francisco International park, she said. Coleman. “Brandy is a person. She’s a Airport, has been postponed until further notice. A bystander administered CPR to ‘Safe haven’ human being. ... She has a family. She If you have any questions, please contact Cheryl Nashir at 650-821-4500 The shooting occurred near an area loves her family.” Martell and bandaged her in an at- Notice of Funds Availability tempt to stop the bleeding, said Cole- known for prostitution, but Coleman Coleman described the men who’d RFQ - Financial and Expanded Audit Services man. said the spot where Martell died is approached Martell’s car as Ethiopi- First 5 San Francisco announces the Availability of Funds for Financial and Expanded The police “got there quick,” she “not a sex working place,” and “We’re ans, based on their hair texture, their $XGLW6HUYLFHV$SSUR[LPDWHO\LVDYDLODEOHIRUWKHSHULRGRI WR DQGUHQHZDEOHXSWRWZR\HDUV)XQGLQJVXSSRUWVÀQDQFLDODXGLWUHYLHZ said. She estimated that she was at the not sex workers. ... We were not doing medium complexions, and the accent ÀQDQFLDOUHSRUWLQJDQGH[SDQGHGDXGLWVHUYLFHV)LQDODZDUGVDQGUHQHZDOVDUHVXEMHFWWR scene for up to 10 minutes after the any sex work.” of one of the men. availability of funds, grant terms, and rights. shooting. The spot they were in “has always The man who spoke to Martell was 7KH5)4PD\EHGRZQORDGHGIURPZZZÀUVWVIRUJRUSLFNHGXSLQSHUVRQDP² pm, Monday – Friday, at First 5 San Francisco, 1390 Market St, Ste 318, San Francisco. Martell was still gasping for air been a safe haven for us,” said Cole- around 5 feet 10 inches and had short, Proposals are due by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Guidelines are noted in the RFQ. when the police took Coleman away, man, who said Martell identifi ed as curly black hair and a thin build, ac- before the ambulance came, said transsexual. cording to Coleman. She didn’t re- )RUPRUHLQIRUPDWLRQFRQWDFW'HULN$RNLDWGHULN#ÀUVWVIRUJRU member what he was wearing but said The City and County of San Francisco encourage public outreach. Articles are translated Coleman. “We don’t think we’re going to be into several languages to provide better public access. The newspaper makes every effort She said that she was kept in a room harmed in holding a conversation,” that he had dark slacks. to translate the articles of general interest correctly. No liability is assumed by the City and for 10 hours and “interrogated.” [Po- said Coleman, and she thought “the The other man was about 5 feet 8 County of San Francisco or the newspapers for errors and omissions. lice did not respond to an emailed guys might have been pursuing us” inches and had an accent, curly hair, and a medium build, said Coleman. request to respond to that Wednesday or “trying to pick us up.” Many other FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA morning, May 2.] people were also in the area, she said. They both appeared to be in their STATEMENT FILE A-034240400 early 30s, she said. RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT Rubio, the police spokeswoman, The front passenger eventually in- NOTICE TO PROPOSERS - The following person(s) is/are doing business as: said Tuesday, May 1, that she didn’t dicated to Coleman that the two men There will be a public funeral and GENERAL INFORMATION TRET SERVICES, 652 Funston Ave., SF, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, know whether there were any signs had returned after she fell asleep and homecoming services for Martell The SAN FRANCISCO BAY Wednesday, May 9 at 11 a.m. at C.P. and is signed Tari Trethewy. The registrant(s) Martell’s death was a hate crime. She demanded money, she said. However, AREA RAPID TRANSIT commenced to transact business under the above said it appeared that only one of the she said, “All our purses were still on Bannon Mortuary, 6800 International DISTRICT (“District”), 300 listed fictitious business name or names on Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California, gunshots had hit Martell. the front seat.” The Bay Area Reporter Boulevard in Oakland. is advertising for proposals for 04/02/12. The statement was filed with the City She also said she’d been told that has not been able to reach the other Witnesses are asked to contact the Insurance Brokerage Services, Request and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/02/12. Massey was Martell’s legal name “and passengers. Oakland Police Department. The for Proposal No. 6M2037, on or APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 3, 2012 non-emergency number is (510) 777- about May 1, 2012, with proposals FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME his family is very sensitive about this.” Coleman said that Martell “had due by 2:00 PM local time, Tuesday, 3333. The website is www.oaklandpo- STATEMENT FILE A-034254500 Police are “really trying to be sen- a beautiful personality.” Her friend June 5, 2012. The following person(s) is/are doing business sitive to the family and to everybody, “would give you the shirt off her lice.com.▼ DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES as: ACCORDION APOCALYPSE REPAIR SHOP, TO BE PROVIDED 255 10th St., SF, CA 94103. This business The District is soliciting the services is conducted by an individual, and is signed to raise $26,000 after paying a $4,000 As the Bay Area Reporter noted in RI RQHRUPRUHFRQVXOWLQJÀUPVRU Rebecca Fell. The registrant(s) commenced to Milk Day joint ventures (“CONTRACTOR(s)”) transact business under the above listed fictitious << From page 1 rental fee for the venue. April, PG&E awarded a $3,500 grant to provide insurance brokerage business name or names on 03/28/06. The If it goes well, the school may make to the Castro Community Benefi t services. The District presently statement was filed with the City and County of intends to enter into a one or more the larger community in the mission a fi lm screening an annual Milk Day District to help pay for the new sig- San Francisco, CA on 04/05/12. three-year Agreement(s) with a APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 3, 2012 of our school, which is civil rights. affair. nage. The CBD kicked in another unilateral option to extend the We thought Harvey Milk Day and the “We will have a different civil rights $490 to cover the remaining cost, Agreement(s) up to two additional FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME themed event every year,” Lutz said. and the city’s Department of Public one year periods. STATEMENT FILE A-034246100 Milk movie were a really fi tting kind A Pre-Proposal Meeting will be The following person(s) is/are doing business of way to let more people be involved,” “We don’t know what next year’s Works is installing it for free. held on Tuesday, May 15, 2012.The as: GOLDEN GATE COUNSELING CENTER, 870 said Michelle Lutz, a mom of a kin- event will be. This is the fi rst year we The original memorial plaque de- Pre-Proposal Meeting will convene Market St. #463, SF, CA 94102. This business are trying this out.” picting Milk’s visage accompanied by at 10:00 a.m., local time, at BART is conducted by an individual, and is signed dergartner at the school and a board 2IÀFHVORFDWHGDW/DNHVLGH Tickets can be purchased online at his biography was installed on a pil- Randy Weled. The registrant(s) commenced to member of its Friends of Harvey Milk Drive, 18th Floor – Main Conference transact business under the above listed fictitious fundraising committee. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/ lar at the underground transit station Room #1800, Oakland, CA. At the business name or names on 01/01/09. The Scheduled to appear that night are 233452 or at the HRC store at 575 sometime in the 1980s. It went miss- Pre-Proposal Meeting the District’s statement was filed with the City and County of Non-Discrimination Program for San Francisco, CA on 04/03/12. Dustin Lance Black, the fi lm’s Oscar- Castro Street, which was the site of ing over the October 15 weekend last Subcontracting will be explained. winning gay screenwriter, and union Milk’s old camera shop and campaign fall, and police suspect thieves stole it All questions regarding MBE/WBE APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 3, 2012 organizer Cleve Jones, a gay man who headquarters. to sell to metal recyclers. participation should be directed FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The night prior to Milk Day, Mon- The culprits have yet to be caught. WR0DFHR:LJJLQV2IÀFHRI&LYLO STATEMENT FILE A-034221400 was close friends with Milk and con- Rights at (510)464-7194 – FAX (510) The following person(s) is/are doing business as: sulted on the fi lm. Frank Robinson, day, May 20, the Harvey Milk LGBT And a noticeable marking of where 464-6324. Prospective Proposers SPARKLING JANITORIAL SERVICES, 2 Castillo who was Milk’s speechwriter, is also Democratic Club is holding its 36th the plaque should be has greeted are requested to make every effort St., SF, CA 94134. This business is conducted by to attend this only scheduled Pre- expected to speak. annual soiree. But it has changed the riders of the underground subway an individual, and is signed Ines Hernandez. The 3URSRVDO0HHWLQJDQGWRFRQÀUP registrant(s) commenced to transact business “We were fortunate to get Cleve fundraiser’s format from years past. system ever since. their attendance by contacting the District’s Contract Administrator, under the above listed fictitious business name Jones and Dustin Lance Black to come Rather than gather in a hotel ball- A ceremony to unveil the new sig- or names on 02/01/12. The statement was filed room for a sit-down dinner, the club nage will take place at 1 p.m. May 19. telephone (510) 464-6543, prior to the out and support us,” said Lutz. date of the Pre-Proposal Meeting. with the City and County of San Francisco, CA A VIP reception at 6 p.m. costs $50 is hosting a buffet and awards cer- Organizers insist the plaque will be on 03/23/12. WHERE TO OBTAIN OR SEE APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 3, 2012 and includes pre-show appetizers and emony at the nightclub Beatbox with more securely fashioned in place in RFP DOCUMENTS drinks, reserved seating, and a glitzy the theme “Out of the Bars and Into order to prevent its theft. (Available on or after May 1, 2012) NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL entrance to the theater. A number the Streets: A Celebration of Queer Following the re-dedication cer- Copies of the RFP may be obtained: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Nightlife and Culture.” emony at the site, known as Harvey A PDF version of the RFP will be Dated 04/10/12 of local retailers are providing food, VHQWWRDOOÀUPVRQWKH,QWHUHVWHG To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the drink, and gift items, including the The fi rst portion of the evening, Milk Plaza, will be a march to Milk’s Parties List at time of advertisement; applicant(s) is/are: LANZHOU NOODLE LLC. Human Rights Campaign, Swirl, 440, from 7 to 10 p.m. will celebrate the former camera shop where a num- or The applicants listed above are applying to club itself. Then from 10 p.m. to 2 ber of Milk’s friends and elected of- (1) By E-mail request to the District’s the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control Southern Wine, Kasa, 4505 Meats, La Contract Administrator, Aminta a.m. it is hosting what it has billed as fi cials will address the crowd. The at 1515 Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA Mediterranee, Shoe Shine Wines, and Maynard, at [email protected] 94612 to sell alcoholic beverages at 173-181 Vine Connections. “Harvey Milk’s Birthday Party,” which Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band has (2) By arranging pick up at the above Eddy St., SF, CA 94102-2706. Type of license will feature various performers and been invited to perform and lead the address. Call the District’s Contract applied for “We will have a red carpet and drag Administrator, (510) 464-6543 prior queens womanizing the red carpet for musical acts. processional. to pickup of the RFP. 41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - VIPs,” said Lutz. “We are hoping it will The venue is located at 314 11th Fittingly, as Milk was a big boost- (3) By attending the Pre-proposal EATING PLACE just be a really fun and big party.” Street. Tickets start at $80 and can be er for the Castro’s merchants and Meeting and obtaining the RFP at the APR 19, 26, MAY 3, 2012 meeting. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Tickets for just the 7:30 p.m. movie purchased online at www.eventbrite. founded the annual Castro Street Dated at Oakland, California this 26th cost $15. Proceeds from the night will com/event/3360444179/efblike. Fair to draw customers to the neigh- day of April 2012. STATEMENT FILE A-034286900 The following person(s) is/are doing business offset the costs for the academy’s after- borhood, the plaque unveiling coin- /s/ Kenneth A. Duron Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary as: DEVSWAG, 156 2nd St., SF, CA 94105. This school, science, arts, nutrition and May 19 plaque unveiling cides with Small Business Week in San Francisco business is conducted by a corporation, and is civil rights programs. City offi cials and Castro leaders San Francisco, which runs from May Bay Area Rapid Transit District signed Tilde Inc. (Delaware). The registrant(s) The fundraiser is the only event will be on hand the Saturday prior 14 through May 20. The Merchants ‡&16 commenced to transact business under the above to Milk Day to unveil a 3-by-2-foot of Upper Market and Castro will be BAY AREA REPORTER listed fictitious business name or names on NA. planned in San Francisco set to take The statement was filed with the City and County place on Milk Day itself. Organizers brass plaque honoring Milk at the holding its annual sidewalk sale that of San Francisco, CA on 04/19/12. hope to sell out the theater and expect Castro Muni station. Saturday.▼ ebar.com APR 26, MAY 3, 10, 17, 2012 18 • Bay Area Reporter • May 3-9, 2012 Serving the LGBT communities since 1971 t Legal Notices>>

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR Statement of abandonment of CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR use of fictitious business name COURT OF california, county of FILE A-032682800 san francisco file CNC12-548629 The following persons have abandoned the In the matter of the application of: MARIA use of the fictitious business name known as: Classifiedslassifieds MICHELLE OLLILA for change of name having VOLARE PIZZA, 456 Haight St., SF, CA 94117. C been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from This business was conducted by an individual and said application that petitioner MARIA MICHELLE signed by Mohamed Bouabibsa. The fictitious OLLILA is requesting that his/her name be changed name was filed with the City and County of San to TOIVO KALEVA OLLILA. Now therefore, it is Francisco, CA on 04/01/10. Legal Notices>> hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Statement of abandonment Rm. 514 on the 17th of July 2012 at 9:00 am of ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME said day to show cause why the application for of use of fictitious business CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR statement file A-034283300 change of name should not be granted. name FILE A-029253400 COURT OF california, county of COURT OF california, county of The following person(s) is/are doing business MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: DO UC san francisco file CNC12-548572 as: TAI CHI RESTAURANT, 2031 Polk St., SF, CA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME san francisco file CNC12-548600 US MOBILE CATERING, 2500 38th Ave., SF, CA In the matter of the application of: In the matter of the application of: KIMBERLY 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, statement file A-034296900 94116. This business was conducted by a general ALTANTSETSEG YANSANJAV for change of LAURA FIFE for change of name having been and is signed Colin TC Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) The following person(s) is/are doing business partnership and signed by Vladimir Goldfeld & name having been filed in Superior Court, and it filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from commenced to transact business under the above as: DRINKBOX, 414 Brannan St., Hattery Labs, Mark Kobzanets. The fictitious name was filed appearing from said application that petitioner said application that petitioner KIMBERLY LAURA listed fictitious business name or names on SF, CA 94107. This business is conducted by with the City and County of San Francisco, CA ALTANTSETSEG YANSANJAV is requesting that FIFE is requesting that his/her name be changed 03/01/98. The statement was filed with the City a corporation, and is signed by H2DP, Inc. on 03/09/06. his/her name be changed to VICTORIA KRAJCI. to KIMBERLY LAURA GARRISON. Now therefore, and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/18/12. (Delaware). The registrant(s) commenced to MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in APR 26, MAY 3, 10, 17, 2012 transact business under the above listed fictitious persons interested in said matter do appear said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business name or names on 04/24/12. The Statement of abandonment before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 12th of 514 on the 21st of June 2012 at 9:00 am of statement file A-034295900 statement was filed with the City and County of of use of fictitious business June 2012 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause said day to show cause why the application for The following person(s) is/are doing business San Francisco, CA on 04/25/12. name FILE A-030406500 why the application for change of name should change of name should not be granted. as: PRIME LIMOUSINES, 1054 Paintbrush Dr., MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 The following persons have abandoned the not be granted. APR 26, MAY 3, 10, 17, 2012 Sunnyvale, CA 94086, Santa Clara County. This FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME use of the fictitious business name known as: APR 19, 26, MAY 3, 10, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business is conducted by a general partnership, statement file A-034295000 J&L AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR, 1634 Howard St., and is signed Nikolay Penev. The registrant(s) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034277000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SF, CA 94103. This business was conducted commenced to transact business under the above statement file A-034263400 The following person(s) is/are doing business RCOMMUNITY RECYCLE CO., 1634 Alemany by an individual and signed by Xiao Szu Tang. listed fictitious business name or names on The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAINT & OLIVE, 610 Webster St. #14, SF, CA Blvd., SF, CA 94112. This business is conducted The fictitious name was filed with the City and 04/24/12. The statement was filed with the City as: KGB INTERIOR DESIGN, 245 Vallejo St., 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, by a corporation, and is signed by Southpark County of San Francisco, CA on 06/20/07. and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/24/12. SF, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a and is signed Olive A. Loew. The registrant(s) Capital Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 corporation, and is signed KGB Associates LTD. commenced to transact business under the above APR 26, MAY 3, 10, 17, 2012 transact business under the above listed fictitious The registrant(s) commenced to transact business listed fictitious business name or names on NA. notice of application FOR business name or names on 04/24/12. The under the above listed fictitious business name The statement was filed with the City and County CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP OF statement was filed with the City and County of Public or names on 04/10/12. The statement was filed of San Francisco, CA on 04/16/12. alcoholic beverage LICENSE San Francisco, CA on 04/24/12. Notice>> with the City and County of San Francisco, CA APR 26, MAY 3, 10, 17, 2012 Dated 12/13/11 MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 on 04/10/12. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME APR 19, 26, MAY 3, 10, 2012 statement file A-034279400 applicant(s) is/are: RCSH OPERATIONS INC. statement file A-034294500 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The applicants listed above are applying to the The following person(s) is/are doing business as: statement file A-034273300 FRIENDLY LIMO, 1420 Bel Air Dr. #103, Concord, Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 EASY BREEZY FROZEN YOGURT, 4437 20th St., The following person(s) is/are doing business CA 94521, Contra Costa County. This business Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell SF, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a as: UCSH CONSTRUCTION, 5316 Geary Blvd,, is conducted by an individual, and is signed alcoholic beverages at 1601 Van Ness Ave., SF, CA corporation, and is signed by Manitou Inc. (CA). The SF, CA 94121. This business is conducted by Leonid Shagalov. The registrant(s) commenced to 94109. Type of license applied for registrant(s) commenced to transact business under a corporation, and is signed Sean Hsieh. The transact business under the above listed fictitious 47 - On-sale GENERAL Eating the above listed fictitious business name or names registrant(s) commenced to transact business business name or names on 04/17/12. The place on 04/20/12. The statement was filed with the City under the above listed fictitious business name statement was filed with the City and County of MAY 3, 2012 and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/24/12. or names on 04/12/12. The statement was filed San Francisco, CA on 04/17/12. MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 with the City and County of San Francisco, CA notice of application FOR APR 26, MAY 3, 10, 17, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME on 04/13/12. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP OF APR 19, 26, MAY 3, 10, 2012 alcoholic beverage LICENSE statement file A-034295200 statement file A-034249600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dated 04/13/12 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CALIFORNIA MORTGAGE DIRECT; HOMETOWN To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the statement file A-034272500 BABYLON B.C., 301 Crescent Ct. #3103, SF, CA LENDING, 100 California St. #1100, SF, CA applicant(s) is/are: CAPITAL STONE GROUP LLC. The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, 94111-4516. This business is conducted by a The applicants listed above are applying to the LANIADO DIAMONDS, 3145 Geary Blvd. #702, and is signed Sameh Zahda. The registrant(s) limited liability company, and is signed by Bay Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 PRE-ARRANGED FUNERALS SF, CA 94118. This business is conducted by commenced to transact business under the above Equity LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell Pre-arranged cemetery & funeral an individual, and is signed Yaniv Laniado. The listed fictitious business name or names on NA. transact business under the above listed fictitious alcoholic beverages at 685 Third St., SF, CA 94107- registrant(s) commenced to transact business The statement was filed with the City and County business name or names on 04/01/12. The services. Affordable payment plans. 1901. Type of license applied for under the above listed fictitious business name of San Francisco, CA on 04/04/12. statement was filed with the City and County of Call 415-713-8842 or names on NA. The statement was filed with APR 26, MAY 3, 10, 17, 2012 47 - On-sale GENERAL Eating San Francisco, CA on 04/24/12. E15-18 the City and County of San Francisco, CA on FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME place MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 04/12/12. Did you know Tom statement file A-034286600 MAY 3, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME APR 19, 26, MAY 3, 10, 2012 Burdick(1950-1993)? The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034307900 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME TT HANDYWORK, 535 Columbus Ave. #14, SF, CA statement file A-034299300 The following person(s) is/are doing business No obituary was written, but statement file A-034254100 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, The following person(s) is/are doing business as: as: BRIGHT FOG PHOTOGRAPHY, 564 Roosevelt he deserves to be remembered. The following person(s) is/are doing business and is signed Shufen Wen. The registrant(s) BAYVIEW EMPLOYMENT AGENCY, 1650 Quesada Way, SF, CA 94114. This business is conducted by Seeking friends’ descriptions / as: CALAR MUSIC, 221 11th St., SF, CA 94103. commenced to transact business under the above Ave., SF, CA 94124. This business is conducted state or local registered domestic partners, and This business is conducted by an individual, listed fictitious business name or names on NA. by an individual, and is signed by Robert Davis. is signed by Laurence Peiperl & Charles G. Still. memories of Tom plus a picture as and is signed Cristian Lopez. The registrant(s) The statement was filed with the City and County The registrant(s) commenced to transact business The registrant(s) commenced to transact business an adult (with Bob?) to complete commenced to transact business under the above of San Francisco, CA on 04/19/12. under the above listed fictitious business name or under the above listed fictitious business name his life story. listed fictitious business name or names on names on NA. The statement was filed with the APR 26, MAY 3, 10, 17, 2012 or names on NA. The statement was filed with E-mail: [email protected] 04/05/12. The statement was filed with the City FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/25/12. the City and County of San Francisco, CA on and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/05/12. E49 statement file A-034286100 MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 04/27/12. APR 19, 26, MAY 3, 10, 2012 The following person(s) is/are doing business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME as: JON SF ENERGY, 145 Madrone Ave., SF, CA statement file A-034290000 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Tech Support statement file A-034274800 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, The following person(s) is/are doing business as: statement file A-034313300 >> The following person(s) is/are doing business and is signed Jonathan Chan. The registrant(s) JOE88 CONSTRUCTION CO, 156 Dartmouth St., The following person(s) is/are doing business as: as: EVA LINDA’S CLEANING SERVICE, 1118 commenced to transact business under the above SF, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an BERNARDA, 2522 Mission St., SF, CA 94110. Fitzgerald Ave., SF, CA 94124. This business listed fictitious business name or names on individual, and is signed by Joe Zu Qing Lin. The This business is conducted by a limited liability MACINTOSH HELP is conducted by an individual, and is signed 04/19/12. The statement was filed with the City registrant(s) commenced to transact business company, and is signed by Bernarda LLC (CA). The * home or office Michael Mellegers. The registrant(s) commenced and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/19/12. under the above listed fictitious business name registrant(s) commenced to transact business under to transact business under the above listed APR 26, MAY 3, 10, 17, 2012 or names on 04/20/12. The statement was filed the above listed fictitious business name or names * 21 years exp fictitious business name or names on 05/17/11. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/01/12. The statement was filed with the City * sfmacman.com The statement was filed with the City and County on 04/20/12. and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/01/12. of San Francisco, CA on 04/13/12. statement file A-034288300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 Rick 415.821.1792 APR 19, 26, MAY 3, 10, 2012 PRO IMAGE PRINTING, 3216 Geary Blvd. #A, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SF, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an statement file A-034303000 statement file A-034311800 statement file A-034276500 individual, and is signed Victoria S. Lauretta. The The following person(s) is/are doing business The following person(s) is/are doing business The following person(s) is/are doing business registrant(s) commenced to transact business under as: JENNIFER GUSTAFSON INTERIOR DESIGN, as: J&L AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR, 1634 Howard St., as: SANDRA CLEANING SERVICES, 240 the above listed fictitious business name or names 785 Golden Gate Ave. #302, SF, CA 94102. This SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a Arguello Ave., Vallejo, CA 94591. This business on 04/01/12. The statement was filed with the City business is conducted by an individual, and is corporation, and is signed by J&L Automotive is conducted by an individual, and is signed and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/20/12. signed by Jennifer Ann Gustafson. The registrant(s) Repair Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to Devon Willis. The registrant(s) commenced to APR 26, MAY 3, 10, 17, 2012 commenced to transact business under the above transact business under the above listed fictitious transact business under the above listed fictitious FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME listed fictitious business name or names on NA. business name or names on 01/10/12. The business name or names on 04/16/12. The statement file A-034292300 The statement was filed with the City and County statement was filed with the City and County of statement was filed with the City and County of of San Francisco, CA on 04/26/12. San Francisco, CA on 04/30/12. San Francisco, CA on 04/16/12. The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GIBRALTAR REALTY, 2521 18th Ave., SF, MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 APR 19, 26, MAY 3, 10, 2012 CA 94116. This business is conducted by an FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR individual, and is signed Harry Philibosian. The statement file A-034297000 statement file A-034273200 CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR registrant(s) commenced to transact business The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COURT OF california, county of under the above listed fictitious business name SUREFIRE ONLINE MARKETING, 3487 16th St., GYROTONIC PACIFIC HEIGHTS, 2999 Washington Business san francisco file CNC12-548552 or names on 04/23/12. The statement was filed SF, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an St., SF, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a In the matter of the application of: RENEA with the City and County of San Francisco, CA individual, and is signed by Pamela H. Card. The limited liability company, and is signed by Trinity Opportunities>> MARIE HATCHER for change of name having on 04/23/12. registrant(s) commenced to transact business under Fitness LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing APR 26, MAY 3, 10, 17, 2012 the above listed fictitious business name or names transact business under the above listed fictitious FOXY LADY BOUTIQUE from said application that petitioner RENEA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME on 03/30/12. The statement was filed with the City business name or names on 02/06/12. The Is Up For Sale Due to Health Rea- MARIE HATCHER is requesting that his/her name statement file A-034284700 and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/25/12. statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/13/12. be changed to RENEA CLAY STEWART. Now The following person(s) is/are doing business MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 sons. Negotiate Price. Foxy Lady therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons as: BAY EQUITY HOME LOANS; COVENANT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 2012 Boutique is San Francisco’s leg- interested in said matter do appear before this MORTGAGE; EMAC HOME LOANS; BANKERS statement file A-034293900 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME endary apparel superstore. From Court in Rm. 514 on the 5th of June 2012 at PREFERRED; TRISTAR HOME LOANS; BELL The following person(s) is/are doing business as: statement file A-034312000 formal dresses to lingerie and sexy 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the FINANCIAL; PE FINANCE; 100 California St. SIN CHERRY, 1228 Grant Ave., SF, CA 94133. This The following person(s) is/are doing business as: application for change of name should not be #1100, SF, CA 94111-4516. This business is business is conducted by a general partnership, MAJOR PARKING, 155 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102. costumes, it’s the place to shop granted. conducted by an limited liability company, and is signed by Allam Bitar & Khaidoun Alsalti. This business is conducted by an individual, for the latest fashions and sexiest APR 26, MAY 3, 10, 17, 2012 and is signed Bay Equity LLC. The registrant(s) The registrant(s) commenced to transact business and is signed by Ilknur Civelek. The registrant(s) items with the highest quality and commenced to transact business under the above under the above listed fictitious business name commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on or names on 04/24/12. The statement was filed listed fictitious business name or names on the lowest prices. 2644 Mission 04/01/12. The statement was filed with the City with the City and County of San Francisco, CA 04/30/12. 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Erik Tomasson an Francisco Ballet’s Don Quixote is like into the fl oor, pausing in a lunge after each pas- Marius Petipa, unrivalled master of the Russian line of boy-has-to-overcome-obstacles-to-get- a weekend at the Sevillana Grande in Las so with a deep back-bend. And that’s before our ballet, which had its fi rst performance in 1869 girl while making fun of the plot device at every SVegas – amidst Spanish architecture, the hero lifts his girl overhead one-handed then in Moscow, and was such a hit it was immedi- opportunity. toreadors come at us in burnt orange with ac- runs downstage carrying her like the Olympic ately expanded into a fi ve-act extravaganza for Needless to say, our lovers have to go on the cents of turquoise and have very good legs. The torch. And it’s all before Don Quixote arrives, St. Petersburg, and has been a popular hit more lam, with her father and his entourage in hot head toreador is in canary yellow, his dancing on horseback, in their little town on his pica- or less ever since. It was from shows like this pursuit – through a gypsy camp (with guess partner is clothed in a cascade of electric violet resque adventures, and puts his lance at the that Ziegfeld developed his Follies, and that the what? gypsy dancing! superb gypsy dancing), which ruffl es up all around her as she bour- heroine’s service. Marx Brothers got the idea of seeing how many See page 33 rées a slalom around the knives they’ve stabbed This is the millionth restaging of a ballet by variety acts you could string together on a plot- >> Shaping a radical psyche ‘Radically Gay: The Life of Harry Hay’ shows at SF Main Library by Sura Wood

cknowledged by many as the found- What critical factors shape a radical following: If my father can be wrong, then er of the modern gay and lesbian psyche and future civil rights leader when the teacher can be wrong. And if the teacher Arights movement, Harry Hay, who passivity and maintaining the status quo can be wrong, maybe the priest could be died in 2002, was a transformational fi g- are the easiest route? As is often the case, wrong. And if the priest can be wrong, then ure whose legacy is fondly remembered in the answers lie close to home. Defying his maybe even God could be wrong. Radically Gay: The Life of Ha rry Hay. The brutal, autocratic father, a self-made man His mother, on the other hand, nur- exhibition, now at the San Francisco Main who acquired his fortune in the gold mines tured in him a love of the arts. Hay had Library Gallery, brings its subject to life on of South Africa, appears to have contrib- a fl ing with fi lm and stage acting – his the centennial of his birth, and illuminates uted to Hay’s inherent resistance to injus- fi rst publicity still is on view – and, in the intersection of activism and personal tice, rebellion against all forms of bigotry the early 1930s, he had an affair with Will biography, political conscience and hu- and an unwillingness to surrender to en- Geer, later known as Grandpa Walton on manity. The show, laid out in fi ve sections, trenched power or authority. After he stood the long-running television series. Hay charts the progress of the precocious Hay, up to his father at the age of nine during an did agitprop theatre with Geer, who in- who early on recognized his “allegiance to especially vehement argument, and subse- troduced him to the Communist Party,

LeRoy Robbins high purposes, tenacity of vision, irrevo- quently endured a severe beating, he expe- which he joined in earnest in 1938. cable resolve, and above all else, audacity.” rienced an epiphany of sorts and wrote the Gay liberationist Harry Hay in 1937. See page 32 >>

{ SECOND OF TWO SECTIONS } 22 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 << Out There ▼ Film stars, fi lm dish, fi lm soirees by Roberto Friedman light was charming and sociable – and who knew he was such a strik- e had some catching up to do ing blonde? The fi nger foods at the Wlast week with the 55th San party included crab cakes a la East Francisco International Film Festi- Coast (Maryland blue crab and Old val. For the fi rst time in years, we’d Bay aioli: our youth) and a la West missed the fi lm fest’s opening night Coast (Dungeness crab, Meyer lem- – we were traveling in Southeast on aioli: our decadent adulthood). Asia, not a bad excuse. But the stel- Tonight (Thurs., May 3) we’ll attend lar publicity staff at the San Fran- closing night as the fi lm fest goes cisco Film Society soon made sure out on a high note with director Ra- we were up to snuff. mona Diaz’s Don’t Stop Believin’: Just for starters, great Everyman’s Journey. Sign us comic actress Judy up for another year! Davis swanned into To prime you for the the Castro Theatre DVD release of I’ll Cry to receive the Peter J. Tomorrow starring Su- Owens Award, an act- san Hayward reviewed Steven Underhill ing honor that has pre- this week, here’s a Hay- Steven Underhill viously gone to such ward anecdote to add to Australian actress Judy Davis luminaries as Terence the “They don’t make received the SFIFF’s Peter J. British actor-director Kenneth Branagh, recipient of the 55th San Stamp and Robert divas like they used to” Owens Award at the Castro Francisco International Film Festival’s Founder’s Directing Award, Duvall. The next night, fi le. Around 1970, a Las Theatre last week. at a Jake’s on Market reception last week. actor-director Ken- Vegas producer wanted neth Branagh accept- Hayward to star in a production of ed the Founder’s Directing Award, Mame. The money was good, but she got good notices. Hurrah for a and got her fi rst big break from Bing Thompson starred in Low and named in honor of SFIFF founder he asked that she audition fi rst. She woman with testicles. Crosby. She created a nightclub act Behold!, a 1933 revue fi rst staged Irving M. Levin. At a reception for replied, “If you don’t know what I The UK Guardian reported last for Ginger Rogers, and played cha- at the Pasadena Community Play- Branagh at Jake’s on Market before can do from seeing me on screen for week that 22-year-old country rades with Gene Kelly. Bette Davis house including “such unknowns a Castro screening of his 1991 fi lm decades, then you don’t want Susan singer-songwriter Taylor Swift may learned from her, Diana Vreeland as Eve Arden (then billed as Eunice Dead Again, the British leading Hayward.” He backed down, and well be cast as immortal singer- was portrayed by her, and Danny Quedens), Teddy Hart (brother songwriter Joni Mitchell in the fi lm Kaye masqueraded in drag as her. of lyricist Lorenz Hart), Charles adaptation of Sheila Weller’s Walters (who later became a 2008 book Girls Like Us. The topt choreographer and direc- book and biopic follow the tort at MGM), Lois January stories of Mitchell and her (who( later appeared in The peers Carole King and Car- WizardW of Oz), and last but ly Simon, “charting their notn least, Leonard Sillman’s lives as women at a magical hunkyh 19-year-old chauffer, moment in time” (the late TyroneT Power.” In one re- 1960s). Variety reports that vuev sketch, Power “breaks his Swift has not yet signed a concentrationc only when he deal – that’s “inked” in Va- catchesc sight of a sexy cho- riety lingo – but has been rusru boy crossing the stage. “linked” to the role. Make ForF 1933, L&B had a surpris- that a hot link? inglyin progressive queer eye, unabashedlyu cultivated by its Oh, Kay fl amboyant creator Sillman, We just fi nished reading whow perhaps had never been the paperback edition of askedas if he was a homosexual Kay Thompson, from Funny simplysi because everyone al- Face to Eloise (Simon & readyre knew the answer.” Schuster), the biography Much of the book is an by Sam Irvin of a fi gure eye-glazinglyey thorough cata- perhaps unfamiliar to con- loguinglo of KT’s early vaude- temporary generations but ville,vil radio, fi lm and nightclub surely one of the “miss- gigs,gi but every few pages an ing link” seminal peeps interestingin tidbit drops, such of 20th-century showbiz. as a young Tennessee Wil- In Irvin’s words, “Not to liamslia openly lusting after a name-drop or anything, colleague’sco “‘darkly gleaming but Kay Thompson was curls’cu and ‘perfectly formed Judy Garland’s mentor and body,’”b which ensures that best friend, and Frank Sinatra’s and “She auditioned for Henry Ford, “soon the young men were paying Lena Horne’s vocal coach. She went trained Marilyn Monroe, chan- more attention to each other than to to school with Tennessee Williams neled Elvis Presley, rejected Andy the work at hand.” Or we learn that Warhol, rebuffed Federico Fellini, “the holiday spirit at MGM in 1945 and got fi red by Howard Hughes. was dampened by salacious ru- Prince Aly Khan made a pass at mors of a lesbian romance between her, and the Beatles wanted to hold Thompson and Garland. ‘Everyone her hand. She co-starred in a who- back then believed the rumors,’ re- dunit with Ronald Reagan, gave called West Side Story writer-direc- pointers to Eleanor Roosevelt, tor Arthur Laurents. ‘But what’s and directed John F. Kennedy’s that worth?’” Our feelings exactly. inaugural gala. She was a member When KT played a two-week of the Rat Pack, and she managed San Francisco gig in the Venetian to dazzle the likes of Queen Eliza- Room at the Fairmont in 1953, beth, King Juan Carlos of Spain, the house female impersonator at and Princess Grace (Kelly) of Mo- the gay dive “Beige Room” Lynne naco.” OK, does that leave anybody Carter “slipped into a pair of slacks, out? Only little Liza Minnelli, for grabbed a long scarf, hired four whom Thompson was a much be- hunky dancers, and debuted Lynne loved godmother, and who, a proper Carter and the Four Cartiers, an mensch, took care of her when the uncanny re-creation of the Thomp- bitter end came. son-Williams Brothers act. When There’s too much showbiz his- Kay heard about it, she was not tory here to recount briefl y, but we amused. But when she learned that do like how Thompson’s trajectory her own compositions were being took her from playing piano con- performed without authorization or certos with the St. Louis Symphony compensation, she fl ipped her lid. Orchestra to portraying a thinly “Daily Variety reported, ‘Frank L. disguised Vreeland in Funny Face Ippolito, attorney for Miss Thomp- (“Think pink!”). And her greatest son, has demanded that Carter stop lasting contribution might just have performing in ‘slacks, costume, fa- been literary, as the author of the cial makeup and other device that Eloise books, all about the privileged imitates Miss Thompson.’ The irony little girl who lives at the Plaza Ho- of demanding that a female im- tel and has adventures in Moscow, personator stop wearing pants was in Paris, and taking a “bawth.” Elo- apparently lost on both Thompson ise was a character voice KT would and her attorney.” Carter went on put on, at work on a show or with to do his drag Kay Thompson act in friends, long before she was immor- other cities before moving on to his talized in print. drag Mary Martin.▼ ▼ Theatre>> May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 23 The importance of being Zorba by Richard Dodds Sera, Mrs. Campbell, with music by Burton Lane (Finian’s Rainbow) t is time for the fi nale and an and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner (My Iannouncement for the future Fair Lady). for 42nd Street Moon, the long- The season continues with Rodg- running troupe that presents infre- ers and Hart’s 1940 musical Pal Joey quently seen productions in simpli- on Dec. 1, which will be followed fi ed productions. The fi nale of the on April 6 with Carnival, a musical current season is Zorba, a musical based on the movie Lili, with songs that had a disappointing original by Bob Merrill (New Girl in Town). Broadway run before rebounding The season concludes with the May two decades later. 4 opening of Little Me, starring cab- When the script for the new aret star Jason Graae in the multiple Broadway musical adaptation of roles fi rst played by Sid Caesar in the Zorba the Greek was ready, the 1962 faux showbiz biography with fi rst actor pitched to play the title songs by Cy Coleman and Carolyn role was, not surprisingly, Anthony Leigh. Quinn. After all, he had played the Courtesy 42nd Street Moon The subject of the new season’s lover of life, women, and ouzo in the Salon series is songwriter Frank Cabaret star Jason Graae will 1964 movie that provided him with take on the multiple roles fi rst Loesser (Guys and Dolls, How to the defi ning role of his career, and played by Sid Caesar in the Succeed in Business Without Really his name above the title was bound musical Little Me, part of 42nd Trying), whose story will be told in to boost the box offi ce. Street Moon’s newly announced word and song at the Alcazar The- But after he read the fi rst few lyr- 2012-13 season. atre on Jan. 31. Series tickets are ics of the opening song, he slammed now on sale at www.42ndstmoon. shut the script and turned down org or 255-8207. the producers cold. At least, this is how Quinn told me it went down in Quinn edition, life became “what Mommie dearest a 1983 interview during a touring you do until the moment you die.” If your mother is more adventur- revival of Zorba that would eventu- There is no arguing that the origi- ous than, say, brunch at the Cliff nal Broadway performance run was ally bring the show back to Broad- davidallenstudio.com House, there are a couple of feisty way. But it should also be noted that a disappointment to its creators, a rich theatrical opportunities for the May when I mentioned this version of stable that included producer-direc- Michael Stevenson will play the title role and Stephanie Rhoads an 13 maternal observance. Comedian aging courtesan in the musical Zorba, the fi nal production in 42nd events to lyricist Fred Ebb sev- tor Hal Prince, librettist Marga Gomez will headline the Street Moon’s 2011-12 season. eral years later, he basi- Joseph Stein (Fiddler Mother’s Day edition of A Funny cally said, balderdash, on the Roof), and song- Night for Comedy at Actors The- the role was always writers John Kander and atre of SF. Natasha Muse and Ryan intended for Herschel Fred Ebb (Cabaret). The reka Theatre, will star Michael Ste- elian as the narrator, and Moon Cronin handle the hosting duties Bernardi, who did in- musical fell by the way- venson making his Moon debut in newcomer Teressa Byrne as the vil- of the talk-show comedy format. deed play it when the side until Quinn’s name the title role. A co-director of the B. lage’s tragic widow. Moon Artistic Call 345-1287 or go to www.na- musical opened on became attached, and Street Theatre Conservatory in Sac- Director Greg MacKellan is staging tashamuse.com. Broadway in 1968. then went back into the ramento, Stevenson has numerous the musical with Dave Dobrusky as The Crackpot Crones, also Quinn’s problem: seldom-seen category. regional theater credits. Ian Leon- musical director for his 74th Moon known as Terry Baum and Caro- The opening song de- While there has been ard, in another Moon debut, will production. lyn Myers, will present MOMS! clares that “life is what talk for awhile of a new play the intellectual Nikos, who en- Zorba will run through May 20, on May 12 and 13 at the Mission’s you do while you’re Broadway revival starring lists Zorba to help reopen a mine he when 42nd Street Moon will take a Dark Room Theatre. The show is waiting to die.” Too negative, he Antonio Banderas, 42nd Street Moon has inherited in Crete. The cast also break before opening its 20th season described as sketch comedy and thought. Whether or not Quinn had is fulfi lling its mission by giving Bay includes Moon veterans Stephanie on Oct. 6 with the Gershwins’ 1931 improv “for anyone who’s ever been fi rst dibs on the musical, the cre- Area audiences a rare chance to see Rhoads (the theater’s producing di- political satire Of Thee I Sing. Next or ever had a mother.” Tickets at ators were willing to make changes Zorba on stage. rector) as the aging courtesan Ma- up is Carmelina, a short-lived 1971 (800) 838-3006 or www.brownpap- to lure Quinn into the revival. In the Zorba, opening May 5 at the Eu- dame Hortense, Alexandra Kapri- musical based on the fi lm Buona ertickets.com/event/234700. ▼ 24 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 Serving the LGBT communities since 1971 ▼ Film>> Boozy Hayward lives by Tavo Amador One of her most famous and They Talk About (33), a landmark successful fi lms, I’ll Cry Tomorrow women-in-prison story starring redicting what role a classic Hol- (1955), has become available in Stanwyck. Plywood star will be remembered DVD and captures the essence of Jo Van Fleet plays Lillian’s stage for is diffi cult. Many fans think of Hayward’s bravura acting style. As mother Katie, the driving force be- Susan Hayward (1917-75) as Helen vocalist and early movie star Lillian hind her career. Over Mother’s ob- Lawson, the tough musical comedy Roth (1910-80), whose struggles jections, Lillian was planning to give diva of Valley of the Dolls (1967), a with alcoholism were chronicled in up stardom to marry childhood part that came late in her career. At her best-selling memoirs, Hayward sweetheart, attorney David Tred- that point, she had been in movies scored. Roth had been a child sing- man (the gorgeous Ray Danton). for nearly three decades, and from ing star in vaudeville and headlined She turned to drinking following 1947-64 had been a major star, several pre-code Hollywood fi lms, his premature death. Her intake specializing in tearful melodramas notably Animal Crackers with the increases, and after an all-night in the tradition of Joan Crawford, Marx Brothers, Cecil B. DeMille’s bender, she wakes up married to Bette Davis, and Barbara Stanwyck. Madame Satan (30) and Ladies a soldier/fan (Don Taylor). Their drinking begins affecting her work. He walks out and she meets, then marries, another boozer (Richard Conte), a physical and emotional abuser who exploits her. Lillian struggles on her own to control her drinking, but fails. She hits a hor- rendously low bottom, losing her money and forced to live with her mother in a small tenement apart- ment. She contemplates suicide, but fi nally, with great diffi culty, goes to Alcoholics Anonymous. There she fi nds help and true love from her sponsor (Eddie Albert). Helen Deutsch and Jay Richard Kennedy’s screenplay isn’t subtle, which suits Hayward’s intense style perfectly. She had a lovely contralto monstrous, sometimes both at once. referring to her having been among voice and handles the musical num- Her scenes with Hayward crackle. the many unknowns producer Da- bers, including “Sing You Sinners,” Danton, Albert, and especially Conte vid Selznick had tested for Scarlett “When the Red Red Robin Comes are all good. Only towards the end, O’Hara. She was determined to Bob Bob Bobbin Along,” and es- when Lillian, in recovery, appears prove he made a mistake by not cast- pecially, “Happiness Is Just a Thing on television’s This Is Your Life to ing her. Called Joe,” effectively. (When she tell the public about her illness, does Although Hayward worked steadi- portrayed singer Jane Froman in the fi lm turn bathetic. Nonetheless, ly in fi lms and television after her With a Song in My Heart (52), Fro- contemporary audiences – especially win, she did little that was memora- man insisted on doing the vocals, so women and gay men – wept watch- ble, except for the high camp Where many fans were surprised at Hay- ing Hayward gallantly striding up the Love Has Gone (64), billed fi rst over ward’s fi ne singing.) aisle to the stage. Davis, and Valley of the Dolls. More importantly, with searing in- I’ll Cry Tomorrow presented Her fi nal public appearance tensity, Hayward shows the horror of a sanitized version of Roth’s life. seemed lifted from one of her mov- alcoholism and its physical and emo- Among other things, she was mar- ies. She and former co-star Charlton tional toll. Her detoxifi cation scenes ried eight times. But it had a huge Heston presented the Best Actress are moving, as powerful as those by impact on changing the popular Oscar at the 1974 Academy Awards Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend perception of alcoholism, especially ceremony. Tabloids had been (45), Hollywood’s fi rst serious look for women, from a moral failing to a screaming that she was dying, but at the disease. Hayward had played controllable if incurable disease. The she looked sensational on television. alcoholics in Oscar-nominated per- movie was a box-offi ce smash. It was later revealed that she wore a formances in Smash Up: The Story Three years later, Hayward would copper red wig that resembled her of a Woman (47) and Beware My fi nally win a Best Actress Oscar for own famous hair, and that Nolan Foolish Heart (49), yet under Dan- Robert Wise’s compelling I Want Miller’s stunning green gown was iel Mann’s direction, her work here To Live! She gave a characteristi- designed to hide her emaciated fi g- is fresh, and it earned her a fourth cally gutsy performance as convicted ure. She was undergoing treatment Academy Award nod, which she lost murder accessory Barbara Graham, for brain cancer. With Heston’s help, to Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo. the fi rst woman in California given she walked out on stage, know- Van Fleet is brilliant as Katie: a death sentence. Former co-star ing she could have a seizure at any manipulative, loving, desperate for Gregory Peck quipped, “We can all moment, and earned a tremendous a better life for her daughter and relax now. Susie fi nally got what she’s ovation. She died less than a year herself. She’s complex: sympathetic, been chasing for 20 years.” He was later, at 57.▼

DVD >> Bad-boy trappings by David Lamble trtrappings, Hesher, inspired by ththe spirit of metal super-band he motherless teen MMetallica’s former bassist Cliff Thero of the gothic punk BBurton, has a sticky, sentimental melodrama Hesher TJ Forney hheart, and if you look carefully (Devin Brochu) begins his yyou’ll see a sneaky remake of the slippery slope to disaster when 11980s boy vs. bully revenge-fueled a friend warns him, “Sometimes mmelodrama My Bodyguard. things are so bad and you think Hesher earns our love by it can’t get any worse, and then ttreating TJ with ferocious you discover whole new ways it aabandon: running him over with can get worse.” For TJ, worse is hhis van in the family driveway, a skinny, tattooed, bad-ass dude, nnot coming to his rescue when a Hesher. Joseph Gordon-Levitt bullyb pushes the kid’s head into is the whole show, stealing the a toilet. But in a cosmos where fi lm as a foul-mouthed, pranky, thet real targets are all off-limits – heavy-metal-worshipping religion,r inequality of wealth and caveman who swaggers around sexuals preference – attempts to in his jockey shorts. This is makem game-changing statements the fi rst indie I recall where a giveg way to all sorts of invisible straight sexy terrorist is allowed restraints.r Still, it’s not every day to intimidate the universe with thatt you get to see a brilliant a barely concealed perpetual soloists like Joseph Gordon- hard-on. Director Spencer Susser LevittL creating a full-bore nihilist and co-writer David Michod prancingp around half-naked as if (Animal Kingdom) create an anti- the house. Since Hesher is all but in the service of Pasolini or Scorsese. hero who fears no man’s authority. naked, for another man to touch him Special features: deleted scenes, Hesher symbolically castrates Dad involves all sorts of prickly taboos. behind the scenes, widescreen, by defying him to eject him from For all its bad-boy cultural 1080P High Defi nition.▼ ▼ Music>> May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 25 Adriana without apology by Tim Pfaff

he Royal Opera Covent Gar- Tden’s splendid new production of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur last year came as a refreshing change of pace. For once a new opera pro- duction set in a theater was actually about an opera set – at least in sig- nifi cant part – in a theater. Who’d have thought? In recent years, “all the world’s a stage” seemed to have been not so much an ob- servation but a mandate for opera directors. Then along came David McVicar with the idea of letting poor, neglected little Adriana be. It turns out that Cilea’s tender yet de- ceptively affecting tale of a tempera- mental star actress from the 18th- century Comedie-Francaise who wins and loses and wins and loses a battle for a man whose heart she has, only to die in a bit of tragic treachery that cross-breeds Romeo and Juliet with La Traviata, doesn’t need rescu- ing, just proper attention. McVicar’s cauterizingly sane production – call- ing it literal or traditional overlooks how fresh and affecting it is – gives us the action pretty much as librettist Arturo Colautti wrote it, in and in front of a strikingly handsome pro- scenium theater (designs by Charles Edwards). Although this production doesn’t have even a smidgeon of that made- for-DVD feel, Decca’s new 2-DVD release of it (culled from live per- Angela Gheorghiu and Jonas Kaufmann in Royal Opera Covent Gar- formances on Nov. 22 and Dec. 4, den’s splendid new production of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur. 2010) proves to be just the kind of opera on DVD you want – one that invites you to watch it again and sounds – there’s more than a hint of and vital. There’s not a slack mo- not just to puzzle out the director’s Wagner’s Rheingold. ment in this production. concept. For most of its life, Adriana has There’s nothing apologetic about Covent Garden had any number been thought of as the receptacle Covent Garden’s Adriana, but no of reasons for putting on the dog for two fi ne arias – Adriana’s “Io son clearer sign of how seriously they with its new Adriana, not the least l’umile ancella” and “Poveri fi ori” – took the enterprise than the luxury of them being that it was the com- and, if there’s a Caruso around (as cast. The opera does seem to have pany’s fi rst production of the work there was at the premiere), perhaps caught the attention of sopranos in more than a century. at the peaks of their ca- (And the opera itself was rreers,e even looking at the new in 1902.) SF Opera ddownslopes, and Angela lovers with long memo- GGheorghiu, at whose “re- ries will gratefully re- qquest” this production was member its fi ne produc- mmade, is pretty well ideal. tion in 1977 with Renata ItIt’s quite possible that no Scotto, revived in 1985 leless “humble servant of art” with Mirella Freni, divas ttreadsr the opera boards of the type Adriana re- ttheseh days, but this sopra- quires, and whose like we nno’s in full service of this all too rarely see anymore. rroleo and nails it. This is hardly the forum Jonas Kaufmann, who to discuss a work’s merit, ssang an achingly beauti- but the relative neglect fful “La dolcissima effi gie” of Adriana in our life- oon his recent Verismo CD, times is, as this virtually iis even more persuasive faultless realization of it wwith it live and in context. demonstrates, as incom- SStill, the wonder of his prehensible as it is unde- MMaurizio is its alertness served. Cilea has acquired tto every moment of the the reputation of writing ppart, sung or not, and the more slender scores in the ssimply amazing degree to verismo style we associate wwhich he shades it with- with the likes of the gutsier oout ever seeming to fuss. Mascagni, Leoncavallo, HHere is audible proof that and, pre-eminently, Pucci- KKaufmann is the greatest ni. But as Mark Elder’s su- MMaurizio since Caruso. perb conducting of the ace OOlga Borodina’s Princesse Covent Garden Orchestra dde Bouillon is as sumptu- and a uniformly fi ne bank of sing- ous and formidable, and she makes ers, from the principals down to the another, the tenor’s “La dolcissima the villainess chillingly credible. last chorister, makes abundantly effi gie.” This performance lays that But in all that vocal glory, you clear, this is not Puccini lite. idea to rest as you hear how the op- won’t miss Alessandro Corbelli’s You do hear more than whiffs era, if not “through-composed” a la beautifully realized Michonnet, of Puccini in Cilea’s score, but no Wagner, is thoroughly composed whose unrequited yet undying love more than you would expect of any and exceptionally well made. for Adriana increasingly feels like composer working at the top of his Another thing you notice is our own. This production of the form in the language of his day. But how many intricate little ensemble century could easily land the opera for that matter – say, at the open- episodes there are – because here itself right back in its rightful place ing of Act IV, before the fi rst voice they’re so perfectly executed, alert, in the repertoire.▼ 26 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 Serving the LGBT communities since 1971 ▼ Books>> Artistic integrity by Jim Piechota interesting and revelatory from fast and fun, or slow and beautiful,” the distinguished music, food, sex, and friends to and of dying, he muses “after you’re artist. One interview The Collected Writings of Joe jokes, private thoughts and intimate dead, you won’t even know it.” by Tim Dlugos be- Brainard by Ron Padgett, Editor; memories. 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DVD >> Feeling jittery

by David Lamble “What were you thinking?” “I don’t know.” hat’s what I love about these “Why were you with her?” Thigh school girls, man. I get “I was just drunk and stupid.” older, and they stay the same age.” “I just wasn’t sure about this. Who’d have thought Matthew Mc- You’re the fi rst guy I’ve kissed.” Conaughey’s iconic wisecrack from “You’re also my fi rst.” Richard Linklater’s seminal 1993 “I know.” Texas teen comedy Dazed and Con- “What happens next?” fused could become the perfect pre- “I don’t know.” text for two skinny Icelandic teens I was frustrated that the fi lmmak- to share a passionate kiss under a ers didn’t spend more screentime tree one beer-fueled night? It’s the focused on the stations-of-the-cross last night of a three-week student torture teen boys suffer. But when exchange program in England. queer wet-dreams fi nd a scary, re- At fi rst in Jitters (TLA Releasing), ciprocating object of desire, Gabriel our hero Gabriel (Atli Oskar Fjalars- is a very positive take on a popular son) isn’t sure he likes this party boy, one the other teens admire, animal, the aspiring hairdresser who fi nally musters the courage to Markus (Haraldur Ari Stefansson). kiss his lover in front of a set of par- The boys are forced to room togeth- ents. er by their teacher chaperones, and While not the sharpest tool in Markus irritates the hell out of the the teen-comedy shed – the adult more studious Gabriel. But then, as characters are particularly obtuse Gabriel confesses to a female confi - and unhelpful, and you get strong dant, “One night we just kissed. We hints as to why drinking is so huge were drunk, and then everything a part of adult life on this island na- changed.” tion, with a population smaller than “What do you mean?” Oakland – Jitters is refreshingly can- “For the fi rst time, I felt these jit- did about the fi ckle nature of young ters that everyone talks about, but at love. It has a large, frisky cast, in- the same time I didn’t want to be- cluding Gabriel’s loutish best friend lieve I was gay. I kind of wished that Tedd (Elias Helgi Kofoed-Hanson) it wasn’t true.” – this movie really caters to fans of “This is great, really.” blonde Nordic skinny-boys – who “Then I saw him with some girl can be counted on to playfully gay- at a party.” bait his buddy at the worst possible “Is he bi, or what?” moments while still remaining a “I don’t know.” warm-hearted, hunky, womanizing Not merely a randy gay-boy lug. romp, Jitters is more a queer- Special feature: a behind-the- friendly Icelandic take on the pulp scenes featurette, which is basically teen formula concocted for Nick & a dialogue-free party fi lm about Norah’s Infi nite Playlist, with Gabri- shooting a party fi lm. In Icelandic, el taking on Michael Cera’s infatu- with English subtitles.▼ ated leader of the pack. Fjalarsson exudes Cera’s weary, middle-aged kid vibe, just the teen many parents would want for a designated driver, al- most too good to be true. Jitters overfl ows with the puppy-love misadventures of Ga- briel’s friends, although one subplot, involving a girl with a religious, bigoted grandmother who objects to her Rus- sian boyfriend, goes over to the dark side of teen suicide and an older generation’s anti- foreigner paranoia. But Gabriel and Markus overcome every melodramatic contriv- ance, including Markus’ cheating heart. ▼ Books>> May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 27 Revolutionary woman by Heather Cassell are doing the same kind of anda that’s never really a great work that you are doing. thingt to do. When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir Those people will understand WhatW do you believe has of Love and Revolution, by Jeanne your life better than an ordi- beenb your biggest success, Cordova; Spinsters Ink, $14.95 nary friend or lover. personallyp and to the LGBT Don’t get too upset that community?c utlaw: the word has always had your personal life isn’t work- Personal success was the Oa romantic ring to it. But for ing out that well right now. LesbianL Tide, running a pa- the outlaw, the activist, the person Know that you can fi nd perp for nine years that became standing beyond the boundary of someone later on. As younger thet voice of lesbian feminism. polite society, it is more an adven- activists, you do have a choice BiggerB success, in terms of the ture than romance, or maybe a little to cut back on your politics community’sc point of view, bit of both, just not the Hollywood and have more time for a per- mightm have been founding the version by any stretch of the imagi- sonal life. Try to hook up with GayG and Lesbian Community nation. Jeanne Cordova’s version, a lover who does somewhat YellowY Pages (mine was the When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir similar things. fi rst, in 1981). It was a big tool of Love and Revolution, is the indie Do you have any regrets? to harness the middle-class fi lm, if it were to be adapted from Not being able to keep my ggays and lesbians to come out Author and activist Jeanne her memoir that reads more like distance from what other aand show themselves publicly Cordova: rollicking adventures. a historical novel. It is raw, fi lled people thought of me, and iinn the pages of a gay telephone with wandering anticipation from reading the press. You get ddirectory. a life of not knowing what is going to believing your own press I’ve been really proud to to happen from one moment to the An activist and journalist, Cor- sometimes, and that’s never hhave lived a life of being a next, and strange characters, radical dova has had a front seat to all of the a good thing. I wish that I ffull-timeu activist – it’s one of luminaries, icons, and heartbreak. action, interviewing Angela Davis, had been stronger, more self- ttheh best feelings in the world. Cordova doesn’t hold back her Patty Hearst and others, when she confi dent. I wish I had the emo- paid a little more attention to my I am still quite active, and my criticisms of herself or the move- wasn’t the story herself, hitting the tional maturity of a 50-year-old lovers’ feelings. I had so many lov- organization is now LEX: Lesbian ments that took her heart and streets with picket signs, blocking when I was doing all of this work ers, and I was going so fast. I really Exploratorium, and a guerrilla cul- shaped her life: the lesbian-feminist traffi c, and fi ghting for her commu- in my 20s, 30s, and 40s. I wish I had didn’t think about them that much, tural group, Butch Nation.▼ and LGBT movements. The reader nity’s and her own life. knows it from the fi rst page, when she point-blankly states in her open- Heather Cassell: You’ve done a lot ing, “I’m not a nice person. I have of speaking, in particular to queer too many shades.” There is no sug- youth. You currently mentor a ar-coating the truth, only tough love couple of young butches, and you wrapped in a rollicking adventure dedicated the book to today’s for the next generation of activists queer youth. What do you hope and the work that lies ahead. Much this generation gets from your needs to be done, believes Cordova. story? She wrote the book to share her life’s Jeanne Cordova: I really get a lot passion and hand over the roadmap of joy and I have a lot of faith in to today’s queer youth activists. young activists today. Young people “I wanted to show what activists today, specifi cally lesbians, don’t get can look like when you get in there, to see what their history was about and the tension between the per- and what it meant to be an activist. sonal and the political, how to bal- A lot of young people are being ac- ance your life,” said Cordova, now tivists now. I kind of wanted to say, in her early 60s. “It’s a hell of a way “This is a great way to live your life, to spend your life. It’s fabulous. You so here’s an example: my history.” meet really neat, intelligent people. Angela Davis did a lot of hard You are always on the edge of social work to become “Angela Davis.” It’s change.” a lot of hard work and takes tremen- Cordova’s story is also a tale of dous courage and dedication to be- romance, but not one with a happy come a leader. I wanted to say, “You also can do this with your life, full- ending. The book spans from when MEDIAM NETWORK time or part-time.” she was 24 to 27 years old, when EDIA COAST TO COAST. . most of her life is spent in the heat What is your advice to young of the movement rather than the activists seeking some sort of WE’VE GOT YOU warmth of her lover’s arms. balance between their personal

“I just don’t think that it works and public lives? NETWORK COVERED! out very well being a full-time ac- We need you. We need those tivist and having a decent personal kinds of people who would follow life,” said Cordova. In real life, her their passion for the LGBT cause for happy ending happened in her 40s, civil rights. A very small percentage when she met and married her part- are called to activism in a full-time ner, she said, not wanting young way. To me that’s a really noble way activists to despair. Her own ending to dedicate your life, it’s like a career is only one of many. Like any good path. People don’t think of it as a ca- biography, she ends her story with reer path, but it is for a lot of us. brief notes of what happened to Don’t take it personally when you each character. are in the middle of a struggle and CITCITIES AND Cordova’s story is an entertaining either the press or individuals come fi rst-person account of lesbian her- up to you and criticize your work, FIND YOURS AT COUNCCOOUNTING! story. In particular, she gives butch your clothing, or the way you talk lesbian perspectives of the heated or something. That’s just part of the feminist and lesbian movement that collateral damage of being an out- edgeonthenet.com shunned what was considered anti- front activist. There is a lot of price quated butch/femme dichotomy, and to pay for leadership. of the sexism of the gay liberation Surround yourself, make a close movement of the 1970s and 80s. circle of friends who are peers who JOIN THE CONVERSATION ON FACEBOOK: EDGE MEDIA NETWORK AND ON TWITTER: @EDGEontheNet 28 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 << Out&About ▼ a battle of wits with his young assistant, Beach Blanket Babylon makes its West Coast debut. $14-$72. Tue- @ Club Fugazi Thu 3>> Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. & 7pm Extended thru Are We There Yet? May 12. 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org with an ever-changing lineup of political and @ Creativity Explored pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Reg: Opening reception for a group exhibition Smuin Ballet $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, of transportation-themed artwork made by @ Novellus Theatre 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; developmentally different teens and adults. cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Local popular dance company performs 7pm-9pm. Thru June 13. Daily 10am-3pm Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. two new works: Val Caniparoli’s Swipe, (12pm-5pm weekends). 3245 16th St. 863- www.beachblanketbabylon.com Ma Cong’s Through, plus Michael Smuin’s 2108. www.creativityexplored.org Symphony of Psalms. $20-$45. Thru May Bliss @ W Hotel 6, 2pm. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, In Paris @ Berkeley Repertory 25th anniversary gala fundraiser for Maitri 701 Mission St. (also May 18 & 23 in Walnut Michael Baryshnikov stars in Dmitry Hospice, which provides care for people with Creek and Mountain View). 91201899. Krymov’s innovative and intimate romantic life-threatening medical conditions. Enjoy www.smuinballet.org www.ybca.org play performed in French and Russian with drinks, wine-tasting, a silent auction, fashion English subtitles. $22.50-$125. Tue, Thu-Sat show, dance music; MC Carmen MarcValvo 8pm. Wed 7pm Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru May and Donna Sachet; singers Connie Cham- 13. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St. at Shat- pagne and Wade Preston perform. $150 tuck. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org and up. 6pm-11pm. 181 3rd St. at Mission. www.maitrisf.org May Day @ CounterPulse Annual performance and dance showcase Cave Concert fundraiser for the arts space, with three @ Marin Headlands different nights of talent: W. Kamau Bell, Samavesha presents the Bay Area Didjeridu Monique Jenkinson, Scott Wells and Danc- Orchestra performing in the acoustically ers, Campo Santo, Zaccho Dance Theatre, marvelous Sausalito Hawk Hill Tunnel in Dandelion Dancetheater, Marga Gomez, the Headlands. $30-$110. 9:30pm. Joe Goode Performance Group and others. www.caveconcert.org $30-$350. 8pm. Thru May 5. 1310 Mission St. 626-2060. www.counterpulse.org The Cult of Beauty Past Future Now, TVland @ Legion of Honor Subtitled The Victorian Avante-Garde, 1860- Treats @ Oddball Film 1900, this new exhibit focuses on the British Walter Logue’s “Blue Dali” at ATA’s Art Auction Retro futuristic (now laughable) short fi lms Aesthetic Movement. Free-$20. Tue-Sun about fl ying cars, etc. 8pm. Also May 4. Thu 3 9:30am-5:15pm. Thru June 17. Lincoln Park, 8pm. Treasures From TV Land, including 100 34th Ave. 750-3620. www.famsf.org a My Favorite Martian episode. Sat May 5, Madeline Miller 8pm. $10. 275 Capp st. 558-8117. @ SF Public Library A Hot Day in Ephesus Art isn’t easy www.oddballfi lm.com @ Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley Author of the acclaimed new historical by Jim Provenzano Zorba @ Eureka Theatre fi ction novel The Song of Achilles Vicki Siegel’s musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, about 42nd Street Moon’s staging of Kander discusses her work. Free. 6:30pm. twin servants, mistaken identity and love. an Francisco’s International Arts Festival continues at various venues & Ebb’s 1968 musical adaptation of the Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center Read- $12-$15. Fri & Sat 8pm. Thru May 19. 1301 with fascinating rare performances full of intrigue and innovation. One story of Zorba the Greek. $20-$50. Wed ing Room (Third Floor), 100 Larkin St. S Shattuck at Berryman. (510) 649-5999. 7pm. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm. Sun 3pm. www.sfpl.org such example is Antidote at the Marines Memorial Theatre. Russia’s Liquid www.aeofberkeley.org Theatre company performs the U.S. premiere of their witty physical theatre Thru May 20. 215 Jackson St. 255-8207. www.42ndstmoon.org Marin Theatre Company work about the confi ning nature of post-Soviet corporate life. $12-$30. May Thunder Above, Deeps Below 5 & 6 at 7pm. 609 Sutter St. Gala @ Corinthian Yacht @ Bindlestiff Studio Art isn’t easy. Sometimes, it’s even dangerous, especially for Iranian play- Club, Tiburon wright Nassim Soleimanpour. His script White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is read, Rey Pamatmat’s modern version of Shake- Fri 4 >> speare’s Pericles, about Philipino and 45th annual benefi t for the Marin Theatre unrehearsed, by a slew of local artists, because Iran refused to grant the play- Company’s artistic and educational pro- Anatol @ Aurora Puerto Rican teens struggling to survive as a wright a travel visa. Festival Lounge, $12-$15. 540 Sutter St. May 3-20. Other freezing Chicago winter approaches. grams; entertainment includes Celebrity/ works include Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos (May 5, 7pm. $20-$70), Ear- Theatre, Berkeley $20-$25. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru May 5. Playwright Challenge, with three actors play Ensemble with Melody of China (May 10, $20, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Arthur Schnitzler’s play about a Viennese 185 Sixth St. at Howard. (800) 838-3006. performing three short plays; a silent auc- tion, drinks, food and dancing. $225 and up. Ness). More shows thru May 19. 771-6900. www.sfi af.org philanderer, in the world premiere of a newly www.BindlestiffStudio.org translated adaptation by Margret Schaefer. 6pm-11pm. 43 Main St., Tiburon. 388-5200. Here are some visual arts exhibits of note, where the only danger is an $34-$55. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm The Waiting Period www.marintheatre.org excess of openings. & 7pm. 2081 Addison St. Thru May 13. @ The Marsh (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org Modern Cartoonist: Brian Copeland’s popular solo show about The Art of Daniel Clowes his struggle with depression. $25-$50. Fri Thu 3: Saints and From the Occupation, about the Occupy Dance Brigade @ Oakland Museum movement. Also, Dorothea Lange archive, @ Dance Mission Theatre 8pm, Sat 5pm. Thru July 7. 1062 Valencia St. Sinners @ Visual Aid early landscape paintings, Gold Rush Era 282-3055. www.themarsh.org Exhibit of original art by the Oakland graphic Grrrl Brigade’s dance-theatre-drumming Opening reception for an exhibit of color- works, California ceramics. Gallery of novel illustrator and Academy Award-nomi- drama about the effects of climate change ful multimedia works by David Faulk and California Natural Sciences. $6-$12. nated screenwriter (Ghost World). Free-$12. and war on the earth. $15-$20. 8pm. Sat Michael Johnstone in a site-specifi c 1000 Oak St. Oakland. (510) 318-8400. Fri 4 Wed-Sun 11am-5pm. Thru Aug. 12. 4pm & 8pm. Sun 4pm. 3316 24th St. installation. 5:30-7:30pm. 57 Post St. www.museumca.org 1000 Oak St. (510) 318-8400. #905. www.visualaid.org (800) 838-3006. www.dancemission.com www.museumca.org Fri 4: Art Auction Friday Nights NCLR Gala @ @ ATA Gallery @ de Young Museum Metreon’s City View The alternative video art space holds an Weekly parties, live performances and quick The National Center for Lesbian Rights art auction fundraiser. $5-$20. 6:30 silent art installations, paired with current shows, celebrates 35 years of supporting women’s auction, 8:30pm live. 992 Valencia St. including the Jean Paul Gaultier couture/ rights; MCs comic Kate Clinton and Execu- www.atasite.org costume exhibit. Tonight: Tattoo Culture and tive Director Kate Kendell; honorees include Jazz. Free-$18 (tickets required for exhibit actors Jane Lynch and Wilson Cruz. $90 and Fri 4: The Dick Show entry). 5:30pm-8:30pm. 50 Hagiwara Tea up. 8pm-12am. 4th St. at Mission. Pre-gala @ Center for Sex & Culture Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park. parties at 840 Wine Bar (840 Brewster) and www.deyoung.famsf.org Opening reception for a group exhibit Churchill (198 Church St.) 5pm-7pm (major donor dinner sold out). www.nclrights.org celebrating the male penis, with works by Fwd: Life Gone Viral Michael Rosen, Mariah Carle, Mark Gar- Paul Morin’s portraits Photography in Mexico rett, Katie Gilmartin, Justin Time, Mitcho, @ The Marsh Anna Anti-Palindrome Dwoo, Jesse Williams and Jack Davis. David Ford, Jeri Lynn Cohen and Charlie @ SF Museum of Modern Art Sat 5: Paul Morin Varon’s comic play about the foibles of 6pm-9pm. Thru May (performance show Radar Spectacle New group exhibit of historic prints docu- May 18, 8pm). 1349 Mission St. at 9th. @ ArtZone Gallery Internet-ruled living. $20-$50. Previews; menting Mexican life and culture since 1920. opening May 12. Thu 8pm, Sat 8:30pm, @ Verdi Club www.sexandculture.org Solo show of the artist’s realist portraits Also, The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Sun 7pm. Thru June 10. 1062 Valencia St. in oil and silver leaf on canvas. Reception Michelle Tea and Ali Liebegott cohost Fuller and the Bay Area, and a new mural by Fri 4: Matthew Hines 282-3055. www.themarsh.org 5pm-8pm. Thru May 20. 461 Valencia St. a fab fundraiser for the queer artists Dutch artist Parra. Thru July 29. Free-$18. Open daily (except Wednesdays) 11am- @ Magnet at 16th. www.artzone461.com Hot Greeks retreat, with cash bar, light fare, Opening reception for the artist’s exhibit desserts, and performances and 5:45pm.; open late Thursdays, until 8:45pm. of modern mythological imagery. Free. Sun 6: From Our Own Hands @ The Hypnodrome readings by Mirah, Anna Anti-Palin- 131 Third St. 357-4000. www.sfmoma.org 8pm-10pm. Thru May 4122 18th St. @ Glama-Rama Thrillpeddlers revives the Cockettes’ hilarious drome, Armistead Maupin, college comedy revue that meets ancient Peggy Noland, Chris Vargas, Greg Sassafras @ Hotel Shattuck 581-1613. www.magnetsf.org Staff members of the cool hair salon show- Greek bawdy burlesque in a new expanded Youmans, plus art auction works by Shotgun Players’ 21st anniversary gala fun- case their visual art, including Leigh Crow, version, with a new cast, costumes, songs Maira Kalman, Paul Madonna, Edie draiser, with a Black, Red and White theme, Deena Davenport, Flynn DeMarco and and fabulous camp. $30-$35; $69 for a pair. Fake and others. $15 and up. drinks, nibbly things, a gourmet dinner, a others. Reception 6pm-9pm. Thru June 16. Thu-Sat 8pm. Extended thru May 19. 575 7pm-10pm. 2424 Mariposa St. 861- short play performance by Mark Jackson, 304 Valencia St. 861-4526. 10th St. at Bryant & Division. (800) 838- 9199. www.brownpapertickets.com/ and auction items including vacation www.glamarama.com 3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com event/242155 www.verdiclub.net packages. $125 and up. 6pm-11pm. 2086 Thu 10: Live Art Auction Allston Way, Berkeley. (510) 841-6500. Marga Gomez www.shotgunplayers.org @ Chronicle Books @ The Marsh, Berkeley Visual Aid’s annual art auction fundraiser, Xtigone @ Buriel Clay Theater SF Hiking Club The lesbian comic returns with Not Getting with champagne, dessert bar and other African American Shakespeare Company’s Any Younger, her witty solo show about @ Las Trampas Ridge food and drinks. $75-$150. 6:30-9pm. production of Chicago playwright Nambi ‘coming of middle age’. $15-$35, $50. Share a 9-mile hike through the Oak-fi lled 680 2nd St. www.visualaid.org E. Kelley’s urban adaptation of Sophocles’ Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm. Thru May 19. 2120 Allston Corduroy Hills with GLBT hikers. Also, May To the Artist tragedy Antigone. $10-$30. 8pm. Sat 8pm Way off Shattuck. 282-3055. 6, a hike through Tomales Point. Both days, a Thu 10: and Sun 3pm thru May 13. African American www.themarsh.org carpool meets at the Safeway, Market St. at Future’s Art & Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St. Fri 4: To the Artist Past Dolores. 9:30am. (510) 599-4056. Marilyn Pittman @ The Marsh at Webster. (800) 838-3006. www.sfhiking.com @ Kunst-Stoff Arts @ Patricia’s www.African-AmericanShakes.org Performance and audiobook release for a Green The veteran lesbian comic gets a little more serious in her solo show about her parents’ Swimwear For a Cause collection of spoken word, original music Unveiling of the tragic murder-suicide deaths. $15-$35-$50. @ Phoenix Hotel and video art, with Silvia Girardi, Michael newest Burning Thu 8pm, Sat 8:30pm, Sun 7pm. Extended Shiono. $10-$20. 8pm. 1 Grove St. Man sculpture Project Inform’s fun fashion fundraiser thru May 27. Studio Theater, 1062 Valencia Sat 5 >> www.kunst-stoff.org re-installed at the includes a men’s swimwear fashion show St. (800) 838-3006. www.themarsh.org small Hayes Valley Amy & Freddy poolside, a tequila bar, nibbles and taste Sat 5: All of Us or None treats, music by DJ DCM. $50-$500. 4pm- park; artist Kate Red @ Berkeley Repertory @ The Rrazz Room @ Oakland Museum of Art Raudenbush’s sym- 7pm. 601 Eddy St. www.projectinform.org John Logan’s (screenwriter of The Aviator, Comic musical duo perform. $25. 10pm. Social justice poster exhibit, The 1968 bolic mini-temple. 6pm-8pm. 300 Octavia Gladiator and Hugo) Broadway hit about 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. Exhibit, and a video installation Portraits St. www.blackrockarts.org abstract painter Mark Rothko, engaged in (800) 380-3095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com ▼ Out&About >> May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 29 Picklewater Clown Cabaret Sun 6 >> Mon 7 >> @ Stage Werk Theatre A special “sexy sex” edition of the mirthful Do Not Destroy @ Acoustic Bistro @ Osteria clown show. $10-$15. 7pm & 9pm. 446 Contemp. Jewish Museum Roam Baur hosts a night of diverse acoustic Valencia St. at 16th. www.picklewater.com Trees, Art and Jewish Thought, a group jazz and folk solo musicians, including exhibit exploring the tree in Jewish tradition; Garrin Benfi eld, Garrick Davis and Debbie Ten Percent @ Comcast 104 thru May 28. $5-$12. Thu-Tue 11am-5pm. Neigher. 7pm-10pm. 3277 Sacramento St. David Perry’s talk show about LGBT people 736 Mission St. at 3rd. 655-7800. 771-5030. www.kcturnerpresents.com and issues. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm. www.thecjm.org Sat & Sun 10:30pm. Jon deMartin www.comcasthometown.com Kate Clinton @ Hoytt @ John Pence Gallery Theater, San Rafael Exhibit of the artist’s realist human fi gure Tommy Igoe Band The witty lesbian comic performs at a benefi t studies and industrial landscapes. Mon-Fri @ The Rrazz Room for the Spectrum LGBT Center. $34-$45 10am-6pm. Sat 10am-5pm. Thru May 19. Acclaimed local jazz drummer welcomes general seating. $85/$340 for tables of 750 Post St. 441-1138. www.johnpence.com celebrity guest musicians. $25. 7:30pm. four, with light fare and a visit with Kate. Life & Death in Black & White 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 6pm-8pm. Osher Marin Jewish Community (800) 380-3095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com Center, 200 North San Pedro Road. @ GLBT History Museum www.spectrumLGBTcenter.org AIDS Direct Action in San Francisco, 1985–1990, focuses on select AIDS activism Marvin Hamlisch @ photos of Jane Philomen Cleland, Patrick Tue 8 >> Jewish Community Center Clifton, Marc Geller, Rick Gerharter and Chana Wilson @ GLBT Award-winning composer performs live in Daniel Nicoletta. Selection of other LGBT a story-fi lled concert. $72-$85. 4pm. 3200 historic items also on display. $5. Wed-Sat Historical Society Museum California St. 292-1233. www.jccsf.org/arts 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. Lesbian author of the memoir Riding Fury www.glbthistory.org Home discusses her life and book. $5. 7pm. Outlook Video @ Channel 29 The Other Side of the Closet 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.ridingfury- LGBT monthly news show, this month: homebook.com www.glbthistory.org artist Marcino Calindas, trans health issues, @ New Conservatory Theatre bunjee jumping, coming out celebrations Free community showing of the Youth Million Dollar Quartet @ and The Perfect Family fi lm review. outreach play about homophobia. 7pm. San Jose Center for the Arts pm. Also streaming online. 25 Van Ness Ave. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org Touring company of the Broadway musical www.outlookvideo.org hit about the famous one-time recording Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s session with Rock ‘n’ Roll icons Elvis Pres- Sweet Honey in the Rock Sing-along night with talented locals, and ley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka and Carl Perkins. $20-$75. Thru May 13. Grammy-winning women’s vocal ensemble Trauma Flintstone), with special guest Tom 255 Almaden Blvd. (408) 792-4580. performs inspiring soulful music. $20-$58. Judson. Win a pair of tickets to his upcoming www.broadwaysanjose.com 7pm. UC Berkeley campus, Bancroft Way at show at New Conservatory Theatre. 9pm. 4 Telegraph Ave. (510) 642-9988. Valencia St. at Market. Radically Gay: www.calperformances.org www.dragatmartunis.com the Life of Harry Hay Sunday’s a Drag @ SF Public Library New exhibition that celebrates the remark- @ Starlight Room able life and work of activist Harry Hay, who Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the laid the foundation for the modern lesbian weekly fabulous brunch and drag show. and gay rights movement. Tonight, a special $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show opening celebration, with guest curator at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. Joey Cain and guests Jewelle Gomez, Phyllis 395-8595. www.harrydenton.com Lyon, Sally Hay (niece of Harry Hay), Will Tom Judson Roscoe, Mark Thompson, Malcolm Boyd and others. Koret Auditorium, lower level. Free. 6pm. Exhibit thru July 29. 100 Larkin St. 557-4400. www.sfpl.org Valerie Simpson @ The Rrazz Room Singing partner of the late Nick Well-suited Ashford performs a tribute concert. $45-$55. 8pm (7pm May 12 & 13; lothes make the man. But what if the and 9:30pm May 12). Thru May 13. Cman’s entertained in and out of his suit? $25. 8pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 In The Tom Judson Show at New Con- Mason St. (800) 380-3095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com servatory Theatre, the cabaret singer-pianist, sings about his life and career (and other career, in porn) with classic and obscure songs. $18-$36. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru May Wed 9 >> 12. 25 Van Ness Ave. at Market, lower level. Leathermen Party 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org @ Rainbow Skate The empty suit, ironically constructed, Leather folk and fetish fun on wheels, with along with other visually striking art, can DJ DAMnation (Demetri Moshoyannis) and be seen at Jeremiah Jenkins’ exhibit at Ever Special K. Enjoy cheesy food, campy tunes Gold Gallery. Saturday May 5 is the opening and cool grooves. $9. 8pm-10:30pm. 1303 reception for “Shit doesn’t have to be so fucked Main St., Redwood City. www.facebook. up,” the artist’s collection of ironic collage and com/events/360155634021064/ sculptural works. Thru June 9. Wed-Sat 1pm- The Human Form 6pm. 441 O’Farrell St. 796-3676. www.evergold- @ Robert Tat Gallery gallery.com Exhibit of vintage and contemporary pho- Spandex may not make the man, but it cer- tographic prints, including some stunning tainly shows him off. Saturday, May 5 the ALC male and female nudes by James Bidgood, Bachelor Auction at The Lookout, a fundrais- George Platt Lynes, Wilhelm Von Gloeden er for AIDS Life/Cycle riders, shows off 11 men and others. Tue-Sat 11am-5:30pm. 49 Geary and one woman featured in a calendar fund- St. #410. 781-1122. www.roberttat.com raiser. They’re also being auctioned off for dates. Suits me! 6pm-9pm. 3600 16th St. at Market/Noe. 431-0306. www.aidslifecycle.org Thu 10 >> www.lookoutsf.com Cameron Carpenter, the talented organist, is one of several Comedy Bodega @ Esta Nocha well-suited guest performers with the San Francisco Symphony, The LGBT and indie comic stand-up night. 8pm-9:30pm. 3079 16th St. at Mission. as Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Barbary Coast and Beyond: www.comedybodega.com Music from the Gold Rush to the Panama-Pacifi c Exposition. $35-$140. Thursday, May 10. 8pm. 201 Van Ness Ave. Go Deep @ El Rio www.cameroncarpenter.com www.sfsymphony.org Man-on-man lube wrestling in the pit – J.P. (an infl atable mini-pool), porn guys, drag queens, clowns, Boylesque performances, DJ Drama Bin Laden and Cajun food! 2nd Thursdays. 8pm-12am. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com Radar Reading @ SF Public Library Author Michelle Tea welcomes Alysia Angel, Keely Hyslop, Erick Lyle and Bucky Sinister to the eclectic reading series. Free 6pm. Latino- Hispanic Community Room, lower level. 100 Larkin St. 557-4400. www.sfpl.org

To submit event listings, email [email protected]. Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication. Glenn at the ALC Cameron Carpenter For more bar and nightlife events, Bachelor Auction go to www.bartabsf.com 30 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 << Leather+ ▼ Calendar conundrums by Scott Brogan

his past Sunday the Bare Chest TCalendar held its annual fi nals contest at the DNA Lounge. I nor- mally don’t report on much of the calendar’s activities because in my opinion it’s moved about as far from “leather/kink” as it can get. I’m not surprised. I was at the committee meeting several years back in which AEF [AIDS Emergency Fund] ex- ecutive director Mike Smith an- nounced that the calendar “isn’t a leather calendar anymore.” He went on to sarcastically note that it wasn’t “Jerry Roberts’ little $35,000 hobby.” Since that time, he and the new

committee proceeded to make Scott Brogan drastic changes. Hoping to ap- peal to a broader audience, they re- Auctions past: Auctioneer extraordinaire Lenny Broberg (far left) moved “South of Market” from the has fun at The Eagle with the 2002 calendar men. name. They doubled the amount of events the calendar men, all volun- teers, were required to attend. The criteria to be on the calendar shifted from being sexy and having a good chest to how many raffl e tickets they could sell. The attitude was, and I was at this meeting as well, that the calendar and its sales were minor compared to the money that could be made from more raffl es and events. They were giddy that the idea of selling raffl e tickets at the contests was proving to be lucrative. They created a complicated new formula for tabulating contestants’ raffl e sales and judges’ scores that to this day I don’t understand. No matter how many times they explained it, my eyes glazed over. Scott Brogan As the money raised went up, the Three of my favorite calendar men are (left to right:) Terry West, quality of the calendar went down. It Kurt Cooper and Doug Roenicke. even got physically smaller. I can’t say for sure that anyone has done this, but allegedly if one has the funds and and never in their offi cial vests. The Events also ran the calendar. I at- friends, or friends with funds, one focus, brought out more from the tended the fi rst meeting when the can get a spot on the calendar – that’s neuroses of the new committee than new rules were laid out. The men how much the raffl e sales/online do- anything else, was on removing any were required to read aloud passages nations account for. Now contestants perceived objectionable behavior the from a lengthy document of “do’s don’t have to do much in person, as calendar men were known and don’ts.” After each passage they they can give folks a link to for. Two excuses were had to exclaim, in unison, that they donate to their quest given to me: The men agreed. There’s nothing like treating to be on the calen- were uncomfortable be- your volunteers like six-year-olds. dar. How personable. ing sex objects (hello, I hoped things would im- The most unfortu- it’s a bare chest calen- prove. Then I went to the dinner date nate change, in my opin- dar); and the sponsor auction at the Sir Francis Drake Ho- ion, has been the neu- might object and pull tel. This was the premiere of a new tering of the men. No funding, ignoring the format combining the biannual auc- longer are they allowed fact that the sponsor had tions of six men into one wanna-be to act in what the com- been with the calendar black tie event. Forget the fun and mittee considers “inap- for years and knew ex- tradition. Nope, just charge for a pre- propriate” behavior at actly what it was all about. viously free event, sell expensive VIP any event, even at the Folsom Street Before the charities took over, the Fair. No more naughty shenanigans, same folks who ran Folsom Street See page 31 >> Coming up in leather and kink Thu., May 3: Koktail Club Happy Hour at Kok Bar Sun., May 6: Truck Bust Sundays at Truck. $1 beer (1225 Folsom). Drink specials and Hamisi doing bust. 4-8 p.m. Go to: www.trucksf.com. Hammy Time, 5-10 p.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com. Sun., May 6: Men in Gear Monthly Beer Bust at Kok Thu., May 3: Underwear Night at The Power- Bar. 3-7 p.m. Gear up! Go to: www.kokbarsf.com. house. Strip down for drink specials. 10 p.m.- Sun., May 6: Nasty at The Powerhouse. close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. Fri, May 4: Newbie Munch at the SF Citadel (363 Mon., May 7: SF MAsT (Masters and slaves 6th St.). Curious about the Citadel? Come on down! Together) at the SF Citadel. 7:30 p.m. 6-8 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org. Fri., May 4: Fuzz at Kok Bar. Come hang with the Mon., May 7: Dirty Dicks at The Powerhouse. $3 well hairy dudes! No cover. $2 off fi rst cocktail for the drinks. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. shirtless. 11 p.m.-close. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com. Tue., May 8: Busted at Truck. $5 beer bust. Fri., May 4: Michael Brandon presents Locker 9-11 p.m. Go to: www.trucksf.com. Room at The Edge (4149 Collingwood). Celebrate sports gear with go-go boys, shot specials. 9 p.m.- Tue., May 8: Safeword:12-Step Kink Recovery 2 a.m. Go to: www.edgesf.com. Group at the SF Citadel. 6:30 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org. Fri., May 4: Truck Wash at Truck (1900 Folsom). 10 p.m.-close. Live shower boys, drink specials. Tue., May 8: Ink & Metal at The Powerhouse. Go to: www.trucksf.com. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. Sat., May 5: All Beef Saturday Nights at The Lone Tue., May 8: Kok Block at Kok Bar. Happy hour Star (1354 Harrison). 100% SoMa Beef! 9 p.m.- prices all night. Pool tournament 7 p.m., winner gets close. Go to: www.facebook.com/lonestarsf. $25. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com. Sat., May 5: Michael Brandon presents Steamworks Wed., May 9: Leathermen at the Roller Rink at The Edge. Boys in towels, go-go dancers, shot Night at Rainbow Skate (1303 Mai St., Redwood specials. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.edgesf.com. City). Watch your favorite guys spin around on wheels! Wear your leather/fetish gear. Go to Face- Sat., May 5: Boot Lickin’ at The Powerhouse. book. 9 p.m.-close. Check it out on Facebook. Wed., May 9: Golden Shower Buddies at Blow Buddies Sat., May 5: Stallion Saturdays at Rebel Bar (1760 (933 Harrison), a male-only club. Doors open 8 p.m.- Market). Revolving DJs, afterhours fun! 9 p.m.- 12 a.m. Play till late. Go to: www.blowbuddies.com. 4 a.m. Go to: www.stallionsaturdays.com. ▼ Karrnal >> May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 31

Naked Sword Naked Sword’s Tourist Season goes into the barrio with Mario Costa and Parker Perry. Visitor’s bureau by John F. Karr gerly gulped. sometime accompanies, though it’s These three acceptable scenes are no easy thing to be jerkin’ with one roducers Naked Sword have entirely trumped by the movie’s fi - hand and writing with the other; just Pbrought a twist to the fourth edi- nale, in which two stars tangle with think of the necessary coordination!). tion of their Golden Gate series, Tour- abandon. Visiting a tattoo shop, tour- I digress. When Saint ultimately ist Season. They’ve borrowed a pair ist in NYC Tommy Defendi priori- sees Defendi’s cock – it’s a big one – of performers from the Cockyboys tizes making it with proprietor Phenix he murmurs, “Jesus!” Which made website, and fi lmed them in New York Saint above getting inked. Defendi me wonder about the famously str8 City, presumably with Cockyboys’ as- oozes sex as he strolls around the East performer. Do ya think that when he sistance. The departure from Village in regulation grunge-wear. gets home he’ll tell his girlfriend what the series’ only-in-SF for- In rumpled jeans over lace-up a big one he had at work that day? And mula is barely justifi ed by boots, with open fl annel while we’re on the subject, Defendi is, the addition of a subtitle, shirt fl appin’ over loose- or was, a str8 guy himself when he got SF and NYC Collide, fi tting T-shirt, and drag- into porn. Sometime later he admit- even as it succeeds in gin’ on a cig cupped in ted in a tweet, “I was gay for pay, but its freshening attempt his hand, he’s a walking no longer follow labels.” So he’s now – at least for the single poster for louche sex. perhaps one of the rare, true bi guys NYC scene, if not the Which is a good de- in gay porn; it’s been conjectured he’s entire movie. It also scription of these char- the boyfriend of Mason Star. Does it scuttles the basic premise acters’ copulation. arouse you to think both of the guys of Golden Gate, which promised to Saint’s in a randy mood when De- sucking cock for your pleasure are convey the spirit of San Francisco. It fendi arrives. He’s been groping him- str8? For me, anything that causes neglected to be local site or character self while looking over some sort of me to think while I’m watching sex specifi c, however, delivering instead sex mag. So, when showing Defendi throws a wrench into the works. formulaic porn that, while well-made his own tats, Saint suddenly unzips his Aren’t there enough gay guys around and decent, could take place in any fl y and pulls out his cock. Now, it’s not for the producers to engage? city. necessary when selling tattoos to show But once more, I digress. My lack The sex of the fi rst several scenes a potential customer your Prince Al- of notes makes it diffi cult to dawdle is effective. First up is Parker Perry, a bert, but what-the-hey, that’s as good over the scene’s slobberifi c details, but tourist who wanders into the Mission an excuse as any other to get your cock trust me, these guys are pros, and live and has back-alley sex with a homey out. And away we go. Defendi wraps up to the star’s placement they’ve been played by Mario Costa. Think a pair his mouth around the handsome rewarded as the fi nale. Defendi yelps, of uncut guys, one husky and furry, phallus to launch a cocksucking scene “Holy shit!” when Saint’s cock invades the other smooth and slender. For that’s strong in atmosphere. Defendi his keister; Saint bangs forcefully; I es- sure, there’s neither kissing nor rim- is reverential; Saint’s receptive. And pecially liked the way Defendi smacks ming. The barrio boy is strictly trade, here’s the fi rst time in the movie that I his own cock while bouncing, grind- but his enormous cock is well-sucked, thought, “I could jerk off to this.” ing and wriggling around atop Saint’s. and the tourist is well-fucked. So I did. That kept me from taking It’s exciting, and gets more so as De- In the second scene, Leo Forte fl ees notes, as I usually do. Watching sex fendi builds up to an agonized, wail- a ruptured marriage and checks into a motivates my impulse to write; it’s a ing orgasm. A detour to gritty NYC motel, where he hooks up with local form of intellectual masturbation that has successfully enlivened the produc- boy Tristan Jaxx. Oh boy, the two un- I enjoy almost as much as the penile er’s somewhat generic series about SF. shaven, butch-lookin’ dudes swarm all kind (which inevitably follows, and www.NakedSword.com▼ over each other, having sex that’s both tough and playful. Overhead shots capture the size of Tristan’s cock, and close-ups capture the roughness of their features. There’s little continuity in the jump from preamble into fuck- ing, but it’s a smokin’ fuck after all. Dependable performer Dominic Sol is the tourist of scene three. He’s checking out a South of Market bar the evening before the Folsom Street Fair, and meets delectable Morgan Black. They go at it with gusto in yet another alley. The rimming is good, Black’s fucking has Sol begging for it, and the climax is exciting, with Black’s Phenix Saint and Tommy Defendi shake hands before cocks in Na- strong orgasm into Sol’s mouth ea- ked Sword’s Tourist Season.

Leather + the two charities (the AIDS Emer- the perceived raffl e/donations re- From page 30 gency Fund and the Positive Resource quirements. << Center). The downside is that the fun, Can’t we have both? Why not have tables/reception, and you have some- frivolity, and yes, nastiness the men of all the nasty, crazy fun and camarade- thing more akin to an HRC event the calendar used to experience has rie of the “old” calendar, and still rake than a “bare chest” auction. The only been replaced by many “mandatory” in the big money? Well, my hope is time the men wore any real leather events and a constant pressure to sell, it’s coming back. The recent uptight was their brief time in their offi cial sell, sell – but don’t touch! Many men regime has left, and new leather/kink leather vests. The rest of the evening have privately told me they’d love to committee members are in. Perhaps was no different from any other auc- be on the calendar, but they see it as this means that the calendar will truly tion. Snore. all work and no fun. Some have even be fun again while continuing to raise All that being said, the upside is said they don’t have enough money substantial amounts of money. I sure that more money has been raised for or friends with money to help with hope so.▼ 32 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 Serving the LGBT communities since 1971 ▼ Books>> One of a kind by Gregg Shapiro come up to me. I’m honored if a Great Dane comes up to me and al- arry the One (Simon and Schus- lows me to pet him. Dogs are great. Cter) by novelist and painter Carol And once you know them, you get Anshaw is one of the most favorably a little glimpse of their world. There reviewed novels of 2012. In the novel, are still fundamental differences. I Anshaw’s fourth, a group of friends, never want to crawl under an old including siblings Carmen, Alice and house, for instance. I can’t see the Nick, are involved in an accident re- appeal, but I never had a dog who sulting in the death of a young girl didn’t want to do that! named Casey. Casey is the “one” that In “The Limited Palette” chapter the survivors of the accident carry you write, “Painting was a world with them for the rest of their lives, Courtesy Simon and Schuster without clocks.” Would you say each of them fi nding a way to come that that is true of writing, too? Novelist Carol Anshaw. to terms with the tragedy. Alice paints No, when I’m painting, I could portraits of Casey, for example. An- lose four or fi ve hours. I know that shaw wisely balances the sorrow with I’m thirsty or I have to pee or what- buy myself time to work. generous doses of humor. ever it is that brings me back, gets The relationship of the siblings Gregg Shapiro: Carry the One me out of that chair to go down the Carmen, Alice and Nick are at the has received some exceptional hall. That never happens to me with center of the novel. Do you have press. Were you prepared for the writing. There are a lot of differ- siblings? reception the book has gotten? ences between the ways that you use I’ve always longed for a sister. I Carol Anshaw: No, of course! I’m your brain. I can tell because I play don’t have one. My brother’s addic- a total worry-wart. So I imagined rock music while I’m painting, but I tions are Nick’s, and he also did not horrible, savage reviews! But they could never do that while I’m writ- make it. haven’t been. On the other hand, it’s ing. I think I’m writing in a more a book I took a very long time writ- conscious way than I am painting. So you made a very personal ing, I revised it and revised it. I com- Because if you ask me what am I investment in this book. pressed it from 350 to 250 pages, so thinking while I’m painting, I would I had wanted to write a character I feel really gratifi ed. I get so many have a hard time calling that up. with my brother Doug’s addictions, e-mails every day from readers who and I asked him while he was still In the chapter “Enough appreciate the book in the ways that alive and he said, “Yeah, get the sto- Monkeys,” you write about Alice’s I wanted people to get it. That’s an ries out there.” I created a different girlfriend Maude that she “had author’s dream. Forget the cocktail person, but with his addictions. You no idea how much Alice worked.” party or the Amazon ranking. It’s see a lot about addicts in literature, As a writer as well as a painter, do feeling, like Forster said, “Only con- but not so much about the families her stories about Doug, he was the If there were a movie version of you ever fi nd yourself in a similar nect.” and how far down that pulls ev- worst she’d ever heard of. He told Carry the One, what would you situation? erybody, the centrifuge spinning me that there were people worse want it to look like? Dogs play a supporting role in Luckily a lot of my friends are art- around this craziness. than him. There was a guy who lost I have a friend who’s been casting Carry the One, as they did in ists of one kind or another, and they his stomach to whiskey and he had a all along. I get little messages on my Nick is portrayed as something of Lucky in the Corner. What role do know. While I was a struggling art- feeding tube, and they came into the voice mail. I think it would be fun for a hopeless case when it comes to dogs play in your life? ist, which has been most of my life, I hospital room and he was pouring the actors to age themselves, but there addiction and recovery. Do you It’s huge. I enjoy the company of had to work seven days a week. I had a fi fth of bourbon down the feed- might have to be two sets of actors. I think it is possible for an addict dogs. I go to the dog beach every day to do something to pay for my fi c- ing tube. It can get worse than my thought of Keira Knightley and Ally to overcome addictions? with my dog Tom. For him, mostly, tion, which wasn’t making enough brother, but he was pretty ferocious. Sheedy for Alice, that kind of thing. A friend of mine who is big in but maybe a quarter of it is for me money to support me. I just had to A barrel of fun there. But I wish he But look at Meryl Streep, she just AA told me that when I would tell to play with other dogs, to have them work all the time. I had to work to were still alive every day. loves to put on a wig.▼

Harry Hay Papers, James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library Lovers and life partners John Burnside and Harry Hay in 1979.

Harry Hay Papers, James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library Harry Hay dered, gives the show added fl avor, exploring gay consciousness, leftist << From page 21 making it more than a catalog of or- politics, ecology, counterculture and Future civil rights leader Harry Hay in 1914. ganizational accomplishments, im- “centeredness.” The Faeries, gath- Nearly 20 years later, in 1955, pressive as those may be. His various ered for an outdoor ritual seen in a Hay would be summoned to ap- love affairs while attending Stanford, picture here, sought to “maximize ephemera and original documents, out a human portrait of an uncon- pear before HUAC. Visitors can see and with gay activist and topless the differences” with the straight including Hay’s research and mani- ventional, outspoken man whose notecards on which he outlined swimsuit designer Rudi Gernreich, world. Partial to Native American festoes, and touching on pivotal in- presence made the times he lived in his responses to the committee; among others, are covered. Advised jewelry in the late 1960s and 70s, fl uences and events, while not losing more interesting.▼ he declined to answer and, to his by his Jungian psychiatrist to “go Hay could often be seen wearing a sight of the fullness of a man who great relief, was dismissed. He was straight,” Hay married Anita, a fel- necklace and a single dangling ear- had strong ties to the Communist May 8: Opening program, Above also on the radar of the FBI. The low Communist. They had a family ring to ensure, he said, that he would Party, dabbled in theater and poetry, All Audacity! Guest curator Joey agency monitored him from 1943 and shared political commitment, “never want to be mistaken for a enjoyed a rich and varied love life, Cain will give an introduction to to 1961, producing a thick fi le, on but like many married gay men of hetero.” As Hay and Burnside grew and organized the fi rst gay action the exhibition. Colleagues, friends display with mistakes corrected in that era, he led a double life. In 1963, old, some members of the group group (in the late 1940s), the Mat- and other community leaders will pink by Hay. he met and fell in love with John moved them to San Francisco and tachine Society, which recognized discuss Hay’s contribution to the modern LGBT movement. Special Burnside, an optical engineer with took care of them. gays as a persecuted minority at a The presentation of these and oth- guests include Jewelle Gomez, whom he lived until his death. time when society at large regarded er details. like Hay’s 1929 L.A. High Historical shows can be deadly Phyllis Lyon, Sally Hay (niece of School yearbook, where years later In 1979 Hay, along with Burnside earnest and didactic, but the exhib- homosexuality as an illness. Cain Harry Hay), Will Roscoe, Mark he noted former gay classmates who and friends, established the Radical it’s independent curator Joey Cain supplies just enough supporting Thompson, and Malcolm Boyd. were gay, and of those, which ones Faeries, the apotheosis of Hay’s vi- has done an excellent job of cull- content to create a lean and coher- Main Library, Koret Auditorium, had killed themselves or been mur- sion of a loving spiritual community ing archival materials, photographs, ent narrative of Hay’s life, and fl esh 6 p.m. (Through July 29.) ▼ Read more online at www.ebar.com May 3-9, 2012 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 33 Books>> Comic psychodramas by John R. Killacky book was virtuosic, itsit toll. When she was 7, is lovely to see familiar characters ingenious in its visual BechdelB was told by her from her Dykes To Watch Out For or three decades, Alison Bechdel construction and liter- motherm that she was too chronicles reappear in this memoir, Fhas been challenging and trans- ary execution, demon- oldol to be kissed goodnight as well as scenes from her father’s forming aesthetic boundaries. First strating that graphic anyan longer, and that her two tale, now portrayed through anoth- as a lesbian whose comic strip Dykes novels were not solely brothersb were more valued er perspective. To Watch Out For was widely syn- the domain of youth. thanth she. Her emotionally In her inimitable style as graphic dicated for 25-years, and then as Now Bechdel re- estrangede parent was most alchemist, Bechdel has created an- an award-winning graphic novelist, turns with a new alivea and joyful out of the other audacious book: insightful, with Fun Home, A Family Tragi- graphic work, Are You home,h acting in community engrossing, entertaining, and coura- comic. Time magazine named it My Mother? A Comic theaterth productions. geous. Throughout she dares herself the Best Book of 2006, and it won a Drama (Houghton Non-linear and recur- to begin again, challenging herself to Lambda Literary Award. Miffl in Harcourt), fi ll- sive,s scenes shift back and stop “writing around something.” As That groundbreaking graphic ing in the backstory of forthfo in time and are re- scenes are revisited, more informa- memoir literally and fi guratively her tumultuous fam- playedp over and over again tion is teased out; feelings are ever drew us into Bechdel’s dysfunctional ily growing up and fromfr multiple points of more intimately exposed. family, particularly her relationship during the writing of view,v from the child as well But this mother/daughter saga with her father, a stern, obsessive her earlier bittersweet asa from the adult narrator. is not solely focused on doom and man who was a high school English memoir, but now with LiteraryL references abound. gloom, shame and blame. There is teacher and ran a funeral home. It her mother at center VirginiaV Woolf’s diaries are also much hilarity in the illustrated was not until she was in college, stage. The journey is juxtaposedj throughout, as odyssey. Bechdel’s fi rst-person nar- when she came out as a lesbian, that both poignant and hi- wellw as psychobabble from rator is continually tripping herself she discovered her father had been a larious as Bechdel exca- SigmundS Freud, Donald up with anxiety and self-doubting closeted gay man. After only one con- vates memories to forge Winnicott,W and Alice Mill- neurosis, complicating many of the versation between them about their emotional connections er,e along with Bechdel’s situations in her fraught maternal shared gay identity, a few weeks later, with her aloof and dis- owno therapy sessions with relationship. While the child within he committed suicide. tant parent as their Elec- analysts.a may not be sated in the resolving tab- Bechdel’s book became an inter- tra complex is played Her signature drawing leaus, Bechdel recognizes her mother national literary sensation, a best- out and she seeks recon- style, honed over decades did indeed give her “a way out” to be- seller that also had people calling ciliation and resolution. of creating comic strips, come the gifted artist she is today.▼ for it to be banned in public librar- Bechdel looks back phone conversations. She has been isi precise, uncluttered, and ies. The work was game-changing and tries to understand yet dis- obsessively journaling her life since forthrightly direct, extremely effec- Alison Bechdel will read from for the genre, as Bechdel disrupted tinguish herself from her mother, she was 10, so there is ample mate- tive in helping to detail emotions her latest graphic novel on May 8 the primarily male and straight pan- drawing from photographs, early rial here. and story. Each frame adds nuance at Books Inc. in Berkeley, and on theon of comic literature with her diary entries, letters, sketches, Living with a closeted husband and detail, propelling the narrative May 9 at The Booksmith in unabashedly queer sensibility. Her and transcriptions of present-day and raising three children took forward and enhancing the text. It San Francisco.

Don Quixote greatly improved their powers to From page 21 dance all the folkloric Spanish danc- << es, which are the overfl owing boun- then they get away to a taverna in ty of this ballet, and b) the beautiful the mountains where dancing on and effective new sets and costumes table-tops is going on, and of course are by Martin Pakledinaz (who’s they join in, and our girl runs all the designed for Broadway and opera, way across the stage and dives head- but especially for dance), which are fi rst into her lover’s arms. at Balenciaga level and create the In 2003, SFB Artistic Director world, the mood, the tone. Helgi Tomasson rushed his new It’s time to praise the dancers staging of Don Q onto the boards – from top to bottom, they were in an ill-fi tting stage set because he splendid. Sarah Van Patten found knew he had the dancers. The time ways to make us forget how thrill- was right to make a world-class re- ing Muriel Maffre was as the street working of the ballet. Tomasson had dancer. Van Patten’s back-bends brilliant choreographic assistance were staggering, and her phrasing from his star dancer Yuri Possokhov, smacked of fl amenco. Pierre Fran- who came from Moscow’s Bolshoi cois Villanoba pulled himself up to (where he had literally grown up a grand Spanish pride as Espada. in this ballet), while SFB star danc- Hansuke Yamamoto, the Gypsy ers Lorena Feijóo and Joan Boada, king, made a fall-and-release pulsa- refugees from the Cuban Ballet, tion happen in his big jumps that were still in their prime and could created thrilling climaxes, and the present the best case I’ve ever seen corps dancer Danielle Santos made that this ballet is not just a glori- Erik Tomasson a true fl amenco soleares out of the ous circus, but in fact an intellectu- Gypsy Queen’s solo that excelled all Sarah Van Patten displayed phrasing that smacked of fl amenco in San Francisco Ballet’s Don Quixote. ally respectable ballet: a work of art her predecessors’ performances in with a central idea, a vision, a cause. the role. She had the duende. It’s dedicated (like most of Petipa’s In the vision scene – Don Quix- ballets, whether comic or tragic) to ote had a great fall when he set his Woman’s Right to Choose. Our Cu- lance at the windmill in the moun- ban ballerina Lorena Feijóo, more tains, and while in his coma he had than any other ballerina since the a vision of Kitri as Dulcinea – both heroic Maya Plisetskaya, could em- Clara Blanco (Cupid) and Sophiane body the middle-class girl who de- Sylve (Queen of the Dryads) ex- serves to be happy and is not going celled in the lightness and purity to be ground down. Her outrageous of their dancing. Jim Sohm made a energy and charisma, her emotional noble Don, Pascal Molat made a hi- range – she can be earthy, she can larious and touching Sancho Panza, be fi ery, she can be lofty – gave and corps dancer Myles Thatcher her star power of the fi rst magni- made a screamingly funny star-role tude. Unfortunately for us this year, out of the foppish suitor Gamache, she’s pregnant. She showed off her whom Kitri does not want to have stomach at this year’s Izzies Award to marry. Joan Boada, in the twilight ceremony (where she received a spe- of his career, made a wonderful hero cial honor), and she’s looking very (Basilio, Kitri’s beloved, the village happy, so it would be churlish to say barber), young and fresh and hi- how badly we missed her. larious, and clearly the man for her. Especially since the opening- Zahorian suffers from having grown night ballerina, Vanessa Zahorian, up as a nice middle-class American has got the Stateside version of Cu- girl who has never killed a chicken ban moxie blazing like a comet. She or hung out the laundry – or at tore up the stage in a performance least, she doesn’t look like it – but that got bolder and more daring still knows who it is she loves and is and hilarious from scene to scene, not about to be married off to some and closed the evening with a fi re- wealthy fop she doesn’t love. works display of perpetual-motion The SF Ballet Orchestra plays turns that could hardly be equaled unbelievably well, under the direc- tion of Martin West. Bravi tutti. anywhere. Erik Tomasson The news about this revival of The show runs another weekend, Don Q is a) the corps de ballet has Jim Sohm made a noble Don as the title character in San Francisco Ballet’s Don Quixote. through May 6.▼ 34 • BAY AREA REPORTER • May 3-9, 2012 Serving the LGBT communities since 1971 ▼ Music>> Who’s the boss? The by Gregg Shapiro and brass on “Talking at the Same Time,” the 1950s swagger of “Get he secular gospel tone of Bruce Lost” or the Latin-infl uenced “Back PP TSpringsteen’s The Rising, which in the Crowd.” Those longing for a has since surfaced on subsequent glimpse of the Waits of old can fi nd ersonalsersonals discs, can be heard loud and clear him on the amazing “Pay Me” and on his latest release, Wrecking Ball “New Year’s Eve.” (Columbia). From the uplifting and Increasingly with each album, Joe empowering hand-clapping mes- Henry (a.k.a. Madonna’s brother- sage of opener “We Take Care of in-law) sounds like he wants to Our Own” to the “Land of Hope and walk directly in Waits’ footsteps. 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