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Court rejects convicted rapists appeal

by Seth Hemmelgarn
SB 48 faces new repeal efforts

by Seth Hemmelgarn
California appellate court has rejected arguments from a man convicted of brutally raping a transgender woman that problems at the San Francisco Police Departments crime lab affected his case. In 2009, a San Francisco Superior Court jury found Courtesy CDCR that Donzell Francis committed forcible Donzell Francis copulation, assault with great bodily injury, false imprisonment, and other crimes against a woman in 2007 referred to in court documents as D.H. He was sentenced in January 2010 to serve 17 years and eight months in state prison in the case. Francis, 42, has also been accused in the murder of Rudy Ruby Ordenana, a transgender woman who was found dead in 2007. He has pleaded not guilty to that crime, though hes also been tied to assaults on other transgender women. In its ruling, led October 24, the state court of appeal, First Appellate District, Division Three rejected Franciss arguments and afrmed the lower court judgment. DNA testing performed at the SFPD crime lab linked Francis to the crimes against D.H., according to the court. In his case before the appellate court, Francis contended that the trial court should have permitted him to cross-examine a witness from the lab about contamination that occurred there during testing in an unrelated case. He also said that the court should have exercised its discretion to exclude evidence of another sexual assault he committed, and he submitted that his sentence for assault and false imprisonment should have been stayed. According to the appellate court ruling, a copy of which was provided to the Bay Area Reporter, D.H. testied that she was walking to her residential hotel in the citys Tenderloin neighborhood early one morning in September 2007 when she accepted a ride home from Francis. She refused his demands for oral sex, but he forced his penis into her mouth, punched her, and choked her until she passed out, according to the documents. When she woke up, he forced her to perform oral sex on him, and when she spit out his semen, he said, Im going to rape you, and Im going to kill you today. He beat her and she again passed out. She woke up to nd her hands tied with rope, and Francis raped her, according to the court document. Eventually, he kicked her out of the truck. D.H. quickly reported the incident to police See page 7 >>
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Ready for Thanksgiving

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my Aberle, the senior lunch program production manager at Project Open Hand, places trays of carved turkey breast onto a rack in preparation for Thanksgiving meals the agency will serve. Spokeswoman Hannah Schmunk said that 2,600 hot meals will be delivered to homebound clients living with HIV/AIDS or other critical illnesses, while 1,700 Thanksgiving lunches will be served to seniors. While Project Open Hand does not need volunteers this week, people can sign up to help for the upcoming winter holidays, Schmunk said, adding that donations are also welcome. For information, visit www.openhand.org.
ot one but two anti-gay initiatives have been submitted to state ofcials in an effort to thwart Senate Bill 48, the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act. In the rst proposal, Rick Gerharter opponents are trying to alter the law so Sen. Mark Leno that California school students dont have to learn about LGBT Americans historical contributions. Anti-gay activists are also proposing a second initiative that would allow parents to opt their children out of school instruction in social science and family life that conicts with their moral convictions. Parents can already opt their children out of health lessons. The proposals, received by the state attorney generals ofce November 16, come at a time when Equality California, a key SB 48 sponsor, See page 16 >>
Occupy participants wont be deterred

by Tony K. LeTigre
he fate of the Occupy San Francisco camp in Justin Herman Plaza remains uncertain, but even if city ofcials prevail in their quest to squelch it, the civil rebellion it symbolizes is unlikely to die off any time soon. This movement is bigger than each of us and bigger than our individual occupations, read a declaration approved by general consensus of the Occupy SF camp on November 15. You cannot evict an idea once that idea is rooted in the hearts and minds of the people. This week, however, the San Francisco Police Department cleared the Occupy outpost in front of the Federal Reserve Building on Market Street and many protesters remained unsure of the camps chances for survival. Some noted the apparent synchronicity of actions against Occupy Wall Street encampments in disparate parts of the country: raids occurring within days of one another in Oakland, Denver, Salt Lake City, New York, and Portland, Oregon as well as San Francisco. The Bay Area Reporter asked Mayor Ed Lee if the crackdown on Occupy SF was part of an orchestrated national effort, but the response from his ofce was short on particulars. Mayor Lee has been working hard to come to some understanding with the group about See page 17 >>
Jane Philomen Cleland
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano addressed a crowd at the Occupy SF demonstration Sunday, November 20. Ammiano said that the state Assembly Committee on Public Safety, which he chairs, will hold hearings on police misconduct at California occupy events.
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Comptons riot commemorated

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ichelle Alcedo, left, joins Jasmine Jubilee, Felicia Flames Elizondo, and Dee Dee Yubeta as they pose for a photo while commemorating the 45th anniversary of the 1966 Gene Comptons Cafeteria Riot in the Tenderloin during a party Sunday, November 20 at Aunt Charlies Lounge. Elizondo, who is one of those featured in Victor Silverman and Susan Strykers documentary about the riot, Screaming Queens, reminisced that, We were a gay community. We were all kinds and we were together in the 1960s.
Rick Gerharter
The National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park will hold two events for World AIDS Day. Above, volunteers gathered in the Circle of Friends for the first workday of the year in 2009.
World AIDS Day events offer time to remember

by Seth Hemmelgarn
everal World AIDS Day events are planned for next Thursday, December 1. This years observances come 30 years after the rst reported cases of what became known as AIDS. But as organizations and people living with HIV/AIDS prepare to mark the occasion, one local AIDS service organization has changed its name, dropping AIDS. The UCSF AIDS Health Project announced last week that it has changed its name to UCSF Alliance Health Project: Services for the LGBTQ Community. The move is a nod to the fact that the agency has expanded its services to people with mental health and substance abuse issues, which it has done since New Leaf: Services for Our Community, closed last fall, said director Lori Thoemmes. The city asked us to continue some of the mental health services and substance abuse services that had happened at New Leaf, Thoemmes said. She said New Leafs services werent targeted specically for people living with HIV and AIDS, so AHP wants to ensure that clients feel theyre at the right place.
Local WAD events

For World AIDS Day, the National AIDS Memorial Grove is marking its own milestone. Light in the Grove, a
benet that will be held Wednesday, November 30, will commemorate the groves 20th anniversary. Grove Executive Director John Cunningham said of the observance, Looking back over the last 30 years, its an opportunity for us to remember those whom we have lost and are no longer with us, and to carry forward their energy and their compassion as the ght against AIDS continues. Former Ambassador James Hormel, an out gay man who helped gather support for creating the AIDS Memorial Grove, will be honored. Attendees are invited to submit a photograph of someone special to remember and honor at the event. Photographs can be emailed to photos@ aidsmemorial.org. A VIP reception takes place from 5 to 6 p.m. The main portion of the evening takes place from 6 to 9, with speakers and award presentations beginning at 7:30. Individual tickets are $175; couples are $300. The VIP reception comes at a level of $500 or more. The theme of the groves annual December 1 observance is Action=Life. The event runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The program begins at noon and will include the reading of names and the activation of the restored Victorian Falls. This year, the Local Unsung Hero Award goes to the staff of Wards 5A, 5B and 86, the original AIDS wards at
San Francisco General Hospital. Former President Bill Clinton will be recognized for his efforts to combat HIV and AIDS, and hell address the audience through a video. The December 1 observance and a light lunch that follows are free. ASL interpretation will be available. The grove is located in the eastern end of Golden Gate Park at the intersection of Bowling Green and Middle Drive East, across from the tennis courts. For more information on Light in the Grove and the December 1 observance, go to www.aidsmemorial.org.
Paint the Castro red

The 30AIDS coalition, a group of 16 San Francisco-based HIV/AIDS service organizations, is putting together Paint the Castro Red for December 1. The effort is meant to commemorate the people who have been lost to AIDS and to inspire the San Francisco community into action. Getting tested for HIV and protecting themselves arent the only actions people are encouraged to take. Theyre also being asked to help people whove been affected by HIV and AIDS. Participating Castro District businesses, restaurants, and bars will donate 10 percent to 15 percent of See page 7 >>
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Hep C deaths outpace HIV; new drugs, services for coinfected

by Liz Highleyman
eaths related to hepatitis C have outpaced those due to HIV/ AIDS since 2007, researchers reported at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases meeting earlier this month in San Francisco. People coinfected with both hepatitis C virus and HIV experience faster liver disease progression and do not respond as well to standard interferon treatment. The Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital has pioneered a successful model of treatment for coinfected people, and two recent studies showed that new hepatitis C drugs can improve treatment outcomes for this group.
Hepatitis and HIV deaths

Researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at more than 21 million death certicates recorded between 1999 and 2007 to compare rates of mortality due to HIV and hepatitis B and C. More than 1 million Americans have chronic hepatitis B and at least 4 million have hepatitis C. Over years or decades both forms of hepatitis can progress to lifethreatening liver disease including cirrhosis and liver cancer. San Francisco has one of the highest rates of liver cancer in the U.S., largely due to the high prevalence of hepatitis B among Asians. New hepatitis B infections have fallen dramatically thanks to widespread vaccination, but there is no effective vaccine for hepatitis C. CDCs Dr. Scott Holmberg reported that the hepatitis B death rate remained roughly stable during the study period, at around 1,800 cases. Nationwide deaths due to HIV fell during that period to about 12,700 after the debut of effective combination antiretroviral therapy in the mid-1990s. But deaths due to hepatitis C increased during the same period, reaching more than 15,000 in 2007. Almost 75 percent of hepatitis C deaths were among baby boomers in the 45-64 age group, many of whom
were infected years ago and remain unaware of their status. Experts think more than half of people with hepatitis C have not been diagnosed. Without reducing allocation of resources that have diminished HIV deaths, we think a commitment to detect and treat chronic HCV will markedly improve the growing wave of disability and death from this under-appreciated viral infection, Holmberg concluded. Coinciding with the AASLD meeting, Silicon Valley Congressman Mike Honda, Representative Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), and Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) introduced new legislation the Viral Hepatitis Testing Act of 2011 to expand funding for hepatitis B and C education, prevention, testing, and treatment. Passing the Viral Hepatitis Testing Act of 2011 will save lives and improve health care, Honda and Kerry wrote in a recent op-ed for the congressional newspaper the Hill. The costs of education, research, and treatment pale in comparison to the health costs that will be incurred if we do nothing.
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Dr. Brad Hare
HIV/HCV coinfection
The CDC study found that people with HIV and hepatitis had a higher rate of death than those with hepatitis alone about twice as high for hepatitis B and four times as high for hepatitis C. Experts estimate that approximately one third of HIVpositive people in the U.S. also have hepatitis C, a rate reected among HIV patients at SFGH. The Positive Health Program a partnership between SFGH, UCSF, and the San Francisco Department of Public Health treats about 800 HIVpositive people with hepatitis B or C. During the past decade, epidemics of presumably sexually transmitted acute hepatitis C among HIVpositive gay and bisexual men have been reported in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. While unprotected anal intercourse, sting, and use of drugs during sex have been implicated, the exact risk factors are not fully understood. According to PHP
medical director Dr. Brad Hare, the majority of HIV/HCV-coinfected people at SFGH were likely infected via sex. PHPs coinfected patients are treated at a primary care clinic with an integrated medical team, rather than being referred to a specialty liver disease clinic. The interdisciplinary team includes physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, and psychiatrists. The program features a Tuesday afternoon HIV/hepatitis coinfection clinic and a weekly hepatitis C support group. Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced this month that it has awarded 16 grants totaling approximately $1.5 million to innovative hepatitis C care and support programs, including PHP and the Organization to Achieve Solutions in Substance Abuse clinic in Oakland.
New hepatitis C drugs

As previously reported, two new
hepatitis C drugs were approved by the Food and Drug Administration in May. Boceprevir (Victrelis), from Merck, and telaprevir (Incivek) from Vertex, are both HCV protease inhibitors. Unlike interferon, which stimulates the bodys immune response, these direct-acting antiviral agents target the viral lifecycle. Following their approval, Hare told the Bay Area Reporter that the new drugs are groundbreaking, and predicted that in the next few years many more hepatitis C drugs will become available. Boceprevir and telaprevir were initially approved for HIV-negative adults with hard-to-treat genotype 1 hepatitis C, to be used in combination with injected pegylated interferon plus ribavirin. In clinical trials, adding either drug increased the likelihood of a cure and allowed many people to be successfully treated with shorter therapy. Boceprevir and telaprevir are not yet approved for people with HIV, but recent study ndings show they will likely also benet. At the AASLD meeting researchers presented interim results from a study of telaprevir plus pegyalted interferon/ribavirin in 60 HIV/HCVcoinfected patients. This analysis included some people who did not yet need HIV treatment, some who were taking efavirenz/tenofovir/ emtricitabine (the drugs in Atripla), and some who were taking boosted atazanavir. Overall, 71 percent of people taking telaprevir triple therapy had undetectable HCV viral load at 24 weeks compared with 55 percent of those taking pegyalted interferon/ ribavirin alone. People not on ART did slightly better than those who
used efavirenz, who in turn did somewhat better than those on atazanavir. Side effects were more common in the telaprevir group than in the standard therapy group, but coinfected people in this trial did not have worse side effects than HIVnegative people in previous studies. Another study, reported at the Infectious Diseases Society of America meeting last month in Boston, compared boceprevir plus pegyalted interferon/ribavirin versus standard therapy in 100 HIV/HCVcoinfected patients taking boosted protease inhibitor regimens for HIV. Mark Sulkowski from Johns Hopkins University reported that after 24 weeks, 71 percent of participants taking boceprevir triple therapy had undetectable HCV compared with 34 percent of those using pegylated interferon/ribavirin alone. Again, people taking boceprevir experienced more side effects, but these did not differ from side effects seen in HIVnegative people. Both studies are ongoing. Treatment will continue for 48 weeks, and participants will be followed for an additional six months to see if HCV remains undetectable, which is considered a cure. In an effort to avoid its notorious side effects, researchers are testing several interferon-free regimens. The AASLD meeting featured numerous presentations showing promising outcomes for novel direct-acting HCV drugs both in combination with interferon and in all-oral regimens. Most trials to date have looked at HIV-negative people, but companies are now starting or planning studies for HIV/HCV-coinfected people as well.
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World AIDS Day
the days sales to show their support. Castro Street will be adorned with red lights, red ribbons, red balloons, and will feature condential and free HIV testing, a candlelight vigil, and other activities. The Merchants of Upper Market and Castro is supporting the event to help promote awareness and help ensure that the thousands of San Franciscans living with HIV have access to the highest quality services. For more information, visit www.30AIDS.org.
Still Around film compilation

At 7 p.m. on December 1, the HIV
Story Projects short lm compilation Still Around will receive a special presentation at San Franciscos Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street. The showing is part of Outcast Filmss touring series HIV@30: Looking Back, Moving Forward. The collection is about people living and thriving with HIV and AIDS. Sixteen Bay Area directors collaborated on the project. Tickets for the Roxie presentation are $12 and can be purchased at roxie.com. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will go to UCSF Alliance Health Project, formerly known as UCSF AIDS Health Project. The ticket price includes a double feature. Sex in an Epidemic, the second lm, screens at 8:45.
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Rapists appeal
and was examined at San Francisco General Hospital. Mouth and hand swabs taken from her tested positive for semen. Police collected DNA samples from Francis in April 2008 in an unrelated investigation. Those samples were compared with the semen recovered from D.H., and the DNA proles were found to match. Evidence of a contaminated control sample of DNA was produced to Franciss defense under a San Francisco Superior
Court protocol. That guideline required prosecutors to report contamination events at the crime lab during the period running from six months before to six months after the testing, according to the court document. The prosecution advised that during that period of Franciss case, one incident of contamination had occurred. The prosecution moved to exclude that contamination evidence because it occurred in an unrelated case, and they argued that it was irrelevant. The appellate court agreed.
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Gay groups need to step up

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alifornia LGBTs received early presents from the Grinch last week when Richard Rios led not one but two proposed initiatives with the state attorney generals ofce concerning SB 48, the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act that, once it goes into effect next year, requires public schools to include the historical contributions of LGBT Americans in their curriculum. One of Rioss proposals would repeal SB 48, while the other, called the Equality in Education Act, would allow parents and guardians to opt their children out of social science and family life courses (state law already allows students to opt out of health curriculum). A hateful aspect of the repeal SB 48 initiative is that it just strikes LGBT Americans from the act, which also includes social science instruction pertaining to contributions from people with disabilities and other ethnicities. It is blatantly anti-gay and doesnt pretend to be otherwise. It remains to be seen whether either proposal gains traction and the required number of signatures to get placed on the 2012 ballot. But the community shouldnt sit around complacently in the meantime. And since Equality California is without an executive director, as well as several other key staff positions, and lacks a robust bank account, it would behoove other LGBT organizations to step up to the plate. So far, the anti-gay group behind the failed referendum on SB 48 is not involved with these latest efforts. That attempt, led by longtime anti-gay activist Karen England, had problems collecting signatures and failed to qualify for the ballot. But initiative rules are different from referendum rules in that proponents are given more time to collect signatures. We dont know how many were actually gathered for the referendum, but we doubt it was the 497,000 that Englands group claimed earlier this year. When the SB 48 referendum effort launched, EQCA had just hired its executive director. But he has since departed. The power vacuum created by EQCAs implosion creates an urgent need for other groups to begin the campaign to ght these initiatives. But were not certain that any have the infrastructure and resources necessary to effectively do so. The Gay-Straight Alliance Network would seem a natural t, since it works with schools and student groups. But its a small organization that probably doesnt have the capacity to mount a decline to sign campaign or other statewide coordinating efforts. Its leadership is also in ux, with an interim director at the helm who cant even return phone calls to local LGBT media outlets. State Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), the author of SB 48, told us this week that LGBT advocates need to monitor the initiative proposals as they move forward and he also suggested, correctly, that decisions will soon need to be made about mounting an aggressive decline to sign campaign. Thats something EQCA has always shied away from, so this time grassroots activists would need to take the lead. We believe that when potential voters are told what these initiatives are really about, they will decline to sign the petitions. Success will depend on committed volunteers, so our community organizations need to start working now. We know from previous anti-gay battles that our opponents will stop at nothing to collect signatures, even going so far as to present deceitful talking points when theyre at shopping malls and other public areas. In short, Rioss efforts must be taken seriously by the LGBT community; we cannot wait until these homophobic initiatives are on the ballot to mount a defense. In fact, the community must go on offense.
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Occupy the Castro!

by Tommi Avicolli Mecca
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did it. I occupied the Castro. I walked into my bank and withdrew my money. That was after I opened an account at a local credit union. The woman behind the desk wanted to know why. I explained that I can no longer justify having my money in an institution that helped caused the countrys current nancial crisis and the epidemic of foreclosures claiming millions of peoples homes. Recently, in one block of Bayview, there were 11 foreclosures. This bank got bailed out, the homeowners didnt, I said, and it gave bonuses to its executives with that bailout money. But you live in the neighborhood, she replied, were your neighborhood bank. Havent we been good to you all these years? I didnt want to get into a long discussion. I just wanted my money wired to my new credit union account. There was no convincing me to change my mind. The emergence of Occupy Wall Street and the call for a Bank Transfer Day on November 5 had nally spurred me to do what I should have done years ago. Banks are not allies to the queer community. They may give money to local mainstream gay groups (Gay Inc., as activist friends call them), but that doesnt make them our friends. Many of these banks provide loans to real-estate speculators to buy buildings, evict the tenants, and sell the units as tenancies-in-common. I saw lots of gay men with AIDS, long-term tenants in rent-controlled apartments in the Castro, evicted by these speculators during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. In some instances, whole buildings were cleared of men who had lived in their apartments since the 1970s. They survived the AIDS epidemic only to become victims of the one thing they cant make a cocktail for: greed. I cant stop banks from giving loans to speculators. But I can make damn sure it aint with my money.
Danny Buskirk
Valerie Coshnear carries a sign during Occupy San Franciscos march Saturday, November 19.
sunbathe at Jane Warner Plaza and pushing initiatives to strike down ballot measures passed by the voters. But dont worry, hes giving out free towels. Poverty is rising in our community at an alarming rate. Four years ago, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Coalition on Homelessness found in a joint study that 20 percent to 40 percent of homeless youth in America identify as LGBT. Here in San Francisco, studies show that 40 percent of homeless kids identify as queer. Two years ago, a Williams Institute research project found that the LGBT community is as poor as, and in some instances poorer than, other communities, despite the prevailing stereotype that gay men have more disposable income than straight men. We are among the millions of the unemployed who pound the pavement every day and cant pay the rent. We are among the 43 million Americans without any form of health insurance. We are among the day laborers forced to take low-paying work and live in constant fear of la migra. We are among those standing in the long lines outside Glide Memorial Church, Martin de Porres, and other soup kitchens. You wouldnt know that to look at Gay Inc.s agenda.
Occupy Gay Inc.?

The Gay and Lesbian Straight Education
Network recently honored Wells Fargo, a bank that has been in the forefront of the foreclosure epidemic. In its press release, GLSEN described the bank and other awardees as those who serve as exemplary role models. Do role models kick people out of their piece of the American Dream? California State University trustee Roberta Achtenberg, an out lesbian who once sat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, voted a little over a week ago in favor of a 9 percent tuition hike. Nothing like keeping students, including queer ones, in debt for the rest of their lives. Achtenberg used to say, I will never sell you out. Too late. As seniors and people with AIDS in his district are forced to live on less and less, thanks to regular cuts in their benets, Castro Supervisor Scott Wiener expends his energy legislating against male nudists who
Occupy the Castro!

Join us, a coalition of LGBT groups, December 3 at noon at Harvey Milk Plaza for a short rally, then a little march through the neighborhood to demand no more evictions or foreclosures for prot. We need jobs, housing, and health care, not tuition hikes, bans on nudity, or plaques for big banks. The action is part of a daylong protest called by local tenants groups and Occupy SF. After neighborhood actions in the Castro, the Mission, Bayview, and the Tenderloin, protesters will gather at 3 p.m. at Occupy SF at Justin Herman Plaza for a mass march against banks and others who make big bucks from evictions and foreclosures.
Tommi Avicolli Mecca is a longtime radical queer activist, performer, and writer who edited Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation (City Lights).
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states are hurting nancially youre adding to the problem by breaking various laws.
Dean Tomich Los Gatos, California
Suggestions for the Occupiers

I generally support the Occupy protesters and what they are doing but not the way they are doing it [Queers hope for more presence at Occupy SF, November 17]. Why protest in the cities and tie up their resources and add to their budget woes, which hurts everyone, including the protesters. You need the following: 1. Pick a leader, someone who is articulate, intelligent, and doesnt dress like a 1960s hippie. 2. Dene your issue. Nobody Ive talked to knows what your issues are. You have too many issues. 3. Keep the fringe element out of your protests if you can because if they take over and get all the media attention, the public will turn against you. 4. No violence. 5. Instead of protesting the current way, you should be protesting at Republican headquarters. They control the House of Representatives and therefore control the money. They do nothing but obstruct the president in his efforts. 6. Start recall campaigns against the corrupt politicians. 7. Put your anger where it belongs, not on the doorsteps of your city council people. The cities, counties, and
Sour grapes, anyone?

While I applaud former sheriff candidate Jon Gray for his support of a Jane Warner plaque, I do believe he is disillusioned [Mailstrom, November 17]. Why is it that a person has to be gay to be one of us? Do you have to be black to be a true supporter of black causes? Lets segue into the 21st century. I think that anyone who is supportive of us is one of us. The days when someone has to be gay to be with us are over. As we have seen in politics, there are many closeted politicians who, in trying to remain in the closet, actively support anti-gay legislation. Could it possibly be that at the time Gray was not the best candidate? He had to drop out because his campaign did not take off. Dont call it back door politics when you yourself stated you had to drop out because of lack of support from your community. Ever heard of sour grapes?
Carl Folk San Francisco
Gay man, lesbian hired for top posts

by Matthew S. Bajko
erkeley has hired two out professionals to serve as its city manager and deputy city manager on an interim basis. It marks the rst time in the citys history that LGBT people are serving concurrently in the powerful posts. As the Bay Area Reporter noted last month, the Berkeley City Council named lesbian deputy city manager Christine Daniel to be its interim city manager following the retirement of longtime City Manager Phil Kamlarz. This month the council opted to hire William Rogers, a gay man who is director of Berkeleys Department of Parks, Recreation and Waterfront, to serve as the acting deputy city manager. Rogers starred in the awardwinning 2002 lm Daddy & Papa directed by his partner Johnny Symons. The couple is raising two brothers they adopted through Alameda Countys foster care system. The new hires rst ofcial day will be Thursday, November 24. As it happens to be Thanksgiving, they are not expected to report to work until Monday, November 28. Both have been hired on a sixmonth interim basis while the council decides if it wants to launch a national search for a permanent city manager or to keep Daniel in the job. Personally, I think Phil Kamlarz has done an excellent job recruiting and training very talented managers. Christine and William have been an incredibly effective team. We should give them a chance to show what they can do, openly gay City Councilman Kriss Worthington told the B.A.R. Initially, Daniel was not expected to take over for Kamlarz, who has served as city manager for 35 years, until December 1. But last week the council voted to push up the date her new job title goes into effect. It also voted to set her annual salary at $225,000. It is an increase from her current pay of $195,000 but less than the $250,000 Kamlarz was making. Worthington said it is up to Daniel to determine what Rogerss new salary will be. As specied in the contract the council approved, Daniel would resort back to the position of deputy city manager if another person is hired for the job. Should she be given the job permanently then the contract species she would be entitled to one year of severance should she be released from service. Daniel has declined media requests until she starts in her new
Courtesy Kriss Worthington
Berkeley is set to have a gay man and a lesbian in top city leadership posts later this week. From left, incoming interim deputy city manager William Rogers, City Councilmember Kriss Worthington, incoming acting city manager Christine Daniel, and City Councilmember Darryl Moore.
post. Rogers did not return a call seeking comment by press time this week. Worthington said he believes Berkeley is the nations rst city with a city manager form of leadership to hire two openly LGBT people for the top two administrative jobs. It is unclear if the claim is true or not. Both the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, which helps elect LGBT people to public ofce, and the National League of Cities told the B.A.R. that sexual orientation of municipal employees is not something either tracks. A spokeswoman for the International City/County Management Association, the professional organization for city managers, told the B.A.R. its records do not show LGBT people holding the two positions at the same time.
feature lm starring Sean Penn as the gay leader. Each year hundreds gather to recall Milk and Moscones legacies. This weekends gathering will mark the 33rd anniversary of their deaths. While members of the LGBT community have made great progress since the days that Harvey Milk rst sought elected ofce, there is still much road ahead. This includes difcult to prove and thus enforce discrimination in housing, hiring, job promotions and inclusion in the inner circles of power, said David Elliott Lewis, Ph.D., a member of the citys Mental Health Board who plans to take part in this years vigil. The event begins at 6 p.m. at Harvey Milk Plaza at the corner of Castro and Market streets. Following remarks from community leaders a candlelight march will make its way to Milks former camera shop at 575 Castro Street.
Annual Milk march Sunday night

The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club will once again play host to the annual Harvey Milk and George Moscone Memorial March and Vigil this Sunday night. The event commemorates the lives and achievements of Milk, the citys rst openly gay elected ofcial, and Moscone, a beloved progressive mayor during the 1970s. Disgruntled former Supervisor Dan White killed the two city leaders inside City Hall on November 27, 1978. The murders stunned the city and galvanized the LGBT community nationwide. While not the rst out American to hold public ofce, Milk became one of the most famous LGBT politicians following his death. His life was turned into an Academy Award-winning documentary and a
Meeting on changes to public financing

San Franciscos Ethics Commission will host a meeting Tuesday, December 6 to gather public feedback on what changes to make to the citys public nancing program for candidates for the Board of Supervisors. It is the second meeting the oversight panel has called as it looks at altering how the city nances campaigns for public ofce. Critics have complained the program is too costly and are calling for it to either be scrapped or limited in scope. Supporters contend it allows more people to seek public ofce and is a counterweight to the independent groups and big-money backers of well-connected candidates. The meeting will run from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Room 421 at City Hall.
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Oscar Barea, one of the owners of El Carmen gay bar in Malaga, stands in front of the establishment, which has as its logo a gun firing lipstick.
Spanish coastal vacation towns welcome gays

by Ed Walsh
t is something Americans do not hear often in Europe. I was taking photos of the bustling street scene outside the gay bars and nightclubs in Torremolinos, on Spains famed Costa del Sol. Two young Spanish men approached and asked me why I was taking pictures. I explained that I was a journalist from San Francisco and was writing an article on gay travel to Costa del Sol. San Francisco, California, USA? one of the guys asked. Si, I answered. They responded by cheering U-S-A, U-S-A, over and over again in the plaza until it was getting a little embarrassing. If you are like most people from the USA, you probably have never heard of Torremolinos, but it is one of the gayest vacation towns in the world. With more than three-dozen gay bars and nightclubs, the city boasts that it has the most gay venues of any Spanish city outside of Madrid or Barcelona. Torremolinos is the only gay resort town in Europe close to a major airport, making it very easy to get away without driving for hours. The Malaga airport is just 10 minutes away from the heart of Torremolinos. Madrid is just 2.5 hours away on high-speed rail. If you can make it to Torremolinos, you wont run into many other American tourists. Most of the people who populate the gay scene are locals or tourists from other parts of Spain. It is also a popular getaway for Brits. Costa del Sols abundant nightlife is only matched by its weather, with an average of 324 days a year of sunshine with mild winters, warm springs and
falls, and hot summers. First lady Michelle Obama helped raise Costa del Sols prole when she visited with her younger daughter, Sasha, last year. Costa del Sol has three gay beaches and is rich in culture and history. If you want to rapidly change cultures, you can do it in Costa del Sol and still make it back to your hotel in time for dinner. Boats will take you to Morocco and other parts of northern Africa in less than an hour. The British-owned Rock of Gibraltar can easily be seen on a clear day from Costa del Sol and the rock is an easy drive on the western end of the coast.
Sights
The rst stop for most visitors to Costa del Sol is Malaga. With a population of 600,000, it is the areas largest city. Malagas airport is the third busiest in Spain. Delta ies nonstop there from New York City except during the slower winter months. A number of other nonstop ights are offered from European cities including London, Paris, and of course Madrid, so you can make the connections relatively easy. History can be found at every turn in Malaga but it may be best known as the birthplace of Pablo Picasso. A museum packed with the prolic painters works, the Museo La Casa Picasso, is one of the most visited attractions on the coast. You dont have to go to Rome to see a Roman theater. One was unearthed from beneath a library in the citys downtown and has become one of the most photographed sights of the city. Malagas Cathedral is best known for having just one steeple. Construction ended in 1782 after 250 years. But they ran out of money to nish the second steeple. Now, Malagans are very happy with having such a distinctive landmark. Marbella began as a small shing village. In the 1940s it blossomed into a resort destination for the rich and famous. Marbellas new patron
saint is Mrs. Obama. You can see photos from her August 2010 visit throughout the citys shops. Strolling through Marbellas Old Town is a wonderful window on the past. The narrow streets and white buildings were designed to minimize the sun and the heat during the hot summer months. La Meridiana in Marbella is widely regarded as the nest restaurant in Costa del Sol. It features food prepared with local ingredients and is set in an Arabian-style building surrounded by a garden and a decorative pool with a glass, walkable top. But if you really want to see how the rich and famous live, check out the ultra chic port town of Puerto Banus. Its next to Marbella and showcases an incredible array of shops alongside multimillion-dollar yachts. Ronda is another Costa del Sol highlight not to be missed. The town of 37,000 is on a mountainside 2,400 feet above sea level. It takes an hour and 45 minutes to drive the winding road to the town from Torremolinos. Along the way, you will get great views of the iconic white Andaluca villages that dot this part of the country. On a clear day, you can see Gibraltar and the north African coast. The towns emblematic symbol is the bridge over the gorge that separates two sides of the city. It is like a mini-version of the Grand Canyon. There are no gay bars in Ronda but the park next to the bullght ring is known to be very cruisy in the evening. The Ronda bullght ring, which rst opened in 1785, is the oldest in Spain. They only host bullghts once a year but the ring is open for tourists every day. Admission is six euros or about $8.50. You can stand in the middle of the ring and get a sense of what it is like to be a matador. The charming city of Mijas is in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, about 11 miles west of Torremolinos. Bullghts take place almost every week, usually on

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Sundays, at the towns small ring. The town has spectacular views of the coast. Be sure to check out the Mijas Wine Museum for a good history of the areas wines or a great tapas meal in this historic circa 1839 building.
The Marbella Club Hotel and its next-door sister property, the Hotel Puente Romano, are among the nest resort hotels in Europe. They are situated along the so-called Golden Mile of Marbella, between the Old Town and the ultra chic Puerto Banus. Unlike most European hotel rooms, the rooms are quite spacious and most include balconies or patios. You can get a room there in the lowseason winter months for less than $200 or as much as $6,000 for a suite overlooking the ocean. Amenities include tennis courts, pools, and a gym and spa. If you have the budget and really want to splurge, you can stay where the rst lady stayed, the Villa Padierna Hotel, part of the Ritz Carlton chain. The property includes two golf courses. You can sign up for a beginners course at the Flamingo golf course. The hotels spa features scented sauna and steam rooms. The Melia La Quinta Golf and Spa resort in Marbella offers luxury at bargain rates which start at about $144. The gay-friendly Melia chain took over the hotel last year in the space once occupied by a Westin hotel. The hotel sits on a quiet hill just 15 minutes from downtown Marbella. One of the best known properties of the 93-strong Paradores Hotel chain is in Ronda, next to the arched bridge and gorge that are emblematic with the city. It was a former town hall that was remodeled into a hotel in 1994. Rates start about $175, which is a bargain for the upscale quality and location of the property. The Paradores are owned by the Spanish government and are often situated, like the Ronda location, next to historic sights. If you choose to stay in Torremolinos, you will save some dinero. It is among the more affordable cities in Costa del Sol and if you have had a little too much to drink, you will be a cheap cab ride or walk from your hotel. Hostal Guadalupe is the only gay hotel in Costa del Sol.
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The small, mountainside town of Ronda has a distinctive gorge that separates the two sides of the city.
nightclubs and a couple of saunas. The gay village, where most of the clubs are concentrated, is in an area known as La Nogalera. The huge Home nightclub in Torremolinos doesnt open until 1 a.m. but the crowds stay all night. Passion is another late-night mega club with space for over 2,000 clubgoers. If you want to go out earlier, check out the El Gato Lounge, which opens at 7 p.m. It boasts that it has the areas biggest gay terrace. The Torremolinos lesbian bar, Anfora, opens at 10 p.m. and stays open until a relatively early 2:30 a.m.; it operates on weekends only. Cafe El Atrio opens daily at 8 p.m. and is gay male and lesbian mixed. The bear bar, Bacchus, is open every day 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. The trendy Parthenon disco always seems to draw a crowd. As Costa del Sols most populous city, Malaga also supports an active gay scene. The El Carmen bar is busy earlier in the evening and it attracts a mix of gay men and lesbians, but it is mostly gay male. The bars logo is a gun that looks like it is ring a stick of lipstick. The Reinas bar is mostly gay male and attracts a late night crowd. It doesnt get busy until after 1 a.m. and stays open all night.
not clothing optional. The Poseidon is part of the Playamar Beach and is in the middle, near the tourist information center. The Guadalmar Beach is the third gay beach. Its between Torremolinos and Malaga. It is also clothing optional. Overall Cabopino has a more older crowd, the crowd tends to skew younger at Poseidon, and Guadalmar tends to be more mixed.
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When to go
The busiest time for tourism in Costa del Sol is the summer. That is when tourists from other parts of Spain head to the beach. But you will also be faced with higher hotel rates. Most locals advise visiting in October and November and April and May. The weather is still warm. You can comfortably go to the beach and at the same time, it is not too hot to walk around to the historical sights of the region during the middle of the day. Even if you go in winter, you probably wont be hit with unpleasant weather. January is the coldest month in Costa de Sol with an average low temperature of 45 degrees with an average high about 60.
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Beaches
Of the three gay beaches in Costa del Sol, the most popular is Cabopino Beach. It is in a nature reserve, near the ve-star Don Carlos Hotel, between Marbella and Calahonda. Gays tend to hang out in the far end of the clothing optional beach. The bushes overlooking the beach tend to attract a very adventurous crowd. Torremolinos has a gay beach called Poseidon Beach. It is about a 15-minute drive from the Cabopino Beach and right in the center of town, so its very easy to get to. Unlike the other two gay beaches, it is
Nightlife
As mentioned, the biggest concentration of gay life is in Torremolinos. It is just 10 minutes from Malaga. The local tourist board estimates that about 80 percent of the citys nightlife is gay. That amounts to more than two-dozen gay bars and
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Hormel at Commonwealth Club

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ormer Ambassador James Hormel will appear at the Commonwealth Club Monday, November 28. The event begins with a networking reception at 5:30 p.m., followed by the program at 6. Hormel will be signing copies of his new book, Fit to Serve, following the program. The clubs ofces are located at 595 Market Street, second oor, in San Francisco. Hormel became the rst openly gay ambassador when thenPresident Bill Clinton used a recess appointment to have him serve as the U.S. diplomat in Luxembourg in 1997. At his upcoming appearance, Hormel, 78, is expected to talk about how he has pushed the boundaries
as a gay American in the forefront of the public eye and elaborate on his mission to promote human equality. An heir to the Hormel meatpacking company, he has also been a philanthropist, providing money to many LGBT causes as well as the San Francisco Public Library, which houses the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center. Tickets for the Commonwealth Club event are $20 general admission and $7 for students. Club members are free. To purchase tickets call (415) 5976705 or register online at www.commonwealthclub.org.
volunteers are still needed; if you can help, email tenderlointessiedinners@ yahoo.com.
Oakland gay chorus to perform holiday shows

The Oakland-East Bay Gay Mens Chorus will present its 11th annual holiday concert, Pacem in four performances next weekend. The chorus is now under the direction of interim artistic director Stephanie Smith. This years shows will feature eclectic and multicultural works ranging from Grammy Award-winner Joseph Jenningss arrangement of Harambee to the simple Spanish carol A La Nanita Nana. Pacem will also include a few surprises, including a medieval nod to Carl Orff and the world premiere of the mens voicing of Jack Curtis Dubowskys Quaker Peace Testimony. Performances will be Friday, December 2 at 8 p.m. at Clayton Valley Presbyterian Church, 1578 Kirker Pass Road in Concord; and December 3 (2 and 7:30 p.m.) and 4 (7 p.m.) at Lake Merritt United Methodist
Church, 1330 Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland. Tickets for all shows are $15 general, $20 premier, and $12 for students and seniors. Tickets are available online at www.oebgmc.org or call 1-800-706-2389.
Thanksgiving party for gay men

Gay men who arent into football can spend the holiday with each other at Thanksgiving with the Gays, which is being organized by the Discovery Community from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, November 24. The event is open to all gay men and takes place at the Miraloma Clubhouse, 350 OShaughnessy Boulevard, above Glen Canyon in San Francisco. The cost is $25 but is reduced for those who bring a homemade dish or provide live entertainment. To order tickets, visit discoverythanksgiving. eventbrite.com. The Discovery Community is an all-volunteer organization which provides gay and bisexual men with opportunities for social connection. For more information, visit www. discoverycommunity.org.
Tenderloin Tessie offers Thanksgiving meal

Tenderloin Tessie will offer its annual Thanksgiving dinner for those in need Thursday, November 24 from 1 to 4 p.m. at First Unitarian Church, 1187 Franklin Street (at Geary) in San Francisco. Board president Michael Gagne indicated last week that
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Tony Da Costa
1951 2011
Tony Da Costa of San Jose, California, who was the owner of Leather Masters, passed away Monday, November 14 due to complications of a stroke.
Tony was born in Mideria, Portugal in 1951. He is survived by his mother, Aldira; sisters, Elsa, Liete, Fatima, and Nancy; and brothers Joe, Juve, and Louie; and lots of nieces and nephews. Tony was loved by all who he touched! His memorial will be at St. Francis Cabrini, 15333 Woodard Road, in San Jose on Friday, November 25 at 11 a.m. for viewing and 11:30 for the mass.
His family welcomes anyone to attend. There also will be a celebration of life Saturday, December 3 at the Renegades bar, 501 W. Taylor Street in San Jose from 3 to 6 p.m. For those of you who would like to pay your respects and are unable to attend you may send a donation in his name to the Billy De Frank LGBT Community Center/Youth Program at 938 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126.
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SB 48 repeal efforts
has been weakened by leadership and nancial troubles, and appears unprepared to protect the legislation. The new law is set to take effect January 1. Among other provisions, the repeal proposal would strike LGBTs from the list of groups that students would have to receive social science instruction on. A previous attempt to repeal SB 48 altogether through a referendum recently failed, but that moves supporters have claimed they came close to gathering the almost 505,000 signatures they needed to get their proposal before voters in 2012. It is not known if that gure is accurate. EQCA spokeswoman Rebekah Orr said the new campaign is likely to be an even uglier effort than their previous one. Its very specically targeted at LGBT people. It makes extremely clear what their motivations are, Orr said. Richard Rios, the chair of the Christian Coalition of California, submitted the two anti-gay proposals. In an interview, he said, Its not a homophobic issue. Its an issue of the requirement of the teaching of something thats contradictory to ones faith. Asked about how teaching the historical contributions of someone like slain gay icon Harvey Milk would contradict someones religious beliefs, Rios invoked same-sex relationships. He said that in his upbringing, he learned that any relationship other than that between a man and a woman is not a godly relationship. In San Francisco and other places, children are already taught about LGBT-headed families. Rios couldnt name anyone whos been harmed by such curriculum. Once the attorney generals ofce issues titles and summaries for SB 48 repeal and the opt-out proposal, they will go to the secretary of states ofce for approval. After the proposals clear that agency, proponents will have 150 days to gather the 504,760
valid signatures they need for each to get on the November 2012 ballot. Rios said the committees behind the ballot proposals, on which he sits the Committee to Repeal SB 48 and the Committee for Parental Rights in Education have just started raising money. He said they have about 400 distribution centers committed to their effort, for activities such as distributing petitions, but he wouldnt share any details, such as where they are. He also wouldnt say much about their fundraising plans. However, he said, Weve got commitments in the six gures right now. Rios estimated each campaign around the proposals he submitted would cost about $13 million to win approval from voters in November. Openly gay Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) authored SB 48, which Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed into law in July. Anti-gay activists then quickly launched the failed referendum campaign. Karen England of the Capitol Resource Institute was one of the main people behind that effort. Rios noted she and others could still launch another campaign. England didnt respond to an interview request. Rios said England had come close to success to qualifying the referendum, and he expressed condence in the future of his proposals. He cited the number of signatures England and others claim to have gathered through volunteers in the short time frame with which they had to work. Rios said those backing the new proposals would start with a volunteer distribution chain and other channels that we have. He said they might hire paid signature gatherers. Leno said in an interview this week that the proposed ballot initiatives are real threats, and we need to take them seriously. He said the efforts will be anything but grassroots-driven. ... This will be paid for by the very deep pockets of far right extremists. We need to monitor the progress of the signature gathering, and at a certain point decisions need to be made regarding investments in a
decline to sign campaign, he added. Leno reacted to the notion that parents should be able to opt their children out of instructions due to conicts with their religious beliefs by saying, The very same arguments were made when black studies and womens studies were rst proposed.
EQCAs problems
Since Brown signed SB 48 into law in July, EQCAs problems have mounted. In October, Executive Director Roland Palencia resigned, just three months after he started the job. The organization hasnt replaced him with an interim director, although consultant Joan Garry, the former executive director of the national Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, is starting to help EQCA sift through its affairs. In recent years, the organization has bled hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it appears to have no specic plans on how to staunch the cash ow. Asked about the impact the latest repeal effort would have on EQCA given those circumstances, Orr said, I think its an opportunity, an opportunity for our movement to focus and to reengage. Were certainly prepared to play a leadership role in that, as we always have. Orr said the coalition of groups that came together to work against the SB 48 referendum has continued to meet and remains committed to protecting and defending the law, but she couldnt offer specic plans. She also said that factors such as anti-gay activists hiring signature gatherers would affect their plans. She and Palencia previously refused to say how much money had been gathered to ght SB 48 repeal. Orr estimated last week that if the new repeal proposal makes it to the ballot, ghting it could cost a total of at least $35 million. GSA Network was another SB 48 co-sponsor. Interim Executive Director Laura Valdez didnt respond to interview requests for this story.
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Giving thanks
by Roger Brigham
adness touches our lives in sports so often and so suddenly, as those whom we remember in their ery prime such as Al Davis or Joe Frazier die years later shadows of their robust images; or tragedy strikes leaders such as Oklahoma State womens basketball coaches Kurt Budke and Miranda Serna, who were killed in a plane crash a week ago. But this is a day in which we give thanks for the blessings we enjoy, so here are some happy, thankful thoughts to contemplate while chowing down on your tofu turkey or watching Mission play Washington in the San Francisco high school Turkey Bowl. Thanks for the Johnson County School District in Wyoming for clarifying that it wont tolerate sexism and homophobia on the football eld but they are not an impediment to student counseling. Pat Lynch resigned as football and weight lifting coach at Buffalo High School after drawing re for distributing an offensive Hurt Feelings Report form to his players that asked, among other things, if a complainant was a pussy, a queer, or a little bitch. The form also asked players to say who was the Real Man who hurt your sensitive little feelings. Players were asked to print the name of the little sissy ling [the] report and provide a girly-man signature. At a special meeting of the school district, Lynch submitted his resignation and apologized to the district but not to the students, with whom he will still be working in his role as school counselor. Where is South Parks Mr. Mackey when you need him most, mkay? Thanks for Jim Harbaughs leaving the head coaching job at Stanford and going to the 49ers. We didnt think there was anything he could do to top the job he did in elevating Stanford football, but the renovation of the 49ers under his leadership is absolutely astounding. Watching pro football has been a painful affair in the Bay Area for nearly a decade, but this year it is sheer delight for Oakland and San Francisco alike. Thanks for the NBAs failure to reach a collective bargaining Detroit Lions Coach Jim Schwartz after handing them their rst loss of the season.) Maybe we can expect Blatter to replace the GOOOOAAAAALLLLL! play-byplay announcer with Tony Bruno, who referred to San Francisco Giants relief pitchers as illegal aliens and called baseball players pansies. That earned Bruno a weeklong suspension from his radio gig this year. Thanks for the Vancouver World Outgames providing a workshop on cleaning uncircumcised dicks. The need for that information isnt as pressing since that no-cutsallowed law was stricken from the San Francisco ballot, but its good knowledge to le away for future reference. Thanks for the San Francisco Giants, who after winning their rst World Championship in decades in 2010, showed us this year real championship stuff away from the eld. The Giants became the rst pro U.S. sports team to make an It Gets Better anti-bullying video, and their highly successful LGBT Night raised money for Gay Games scholarships and the Gay Straight Alliance Network. Now if only the San Jose Sharks could nd a little time to sit in front of the video camera.
South Parks Mr. Mackey, left, wouldnt know what to do with former high school coach Pat Lynch, right, who resigned from sports but continues to serve as a school counselor.
agreement. This is the latest in the year that weve ever gone without a Golden State Warriors loss. Just a damn shame we dont get to see newly hired Chief Operating Ofcer Rick Welts in action. Thanks for soccer czar Sepp Blatter (rhymes with Such Blather) adding racism to homophobia as the things he fails to recognize as destructive forces in
his sport. Having advised gay soccer fans to forego sex when they visit Qatar in 2022 for the World Cup, he then dismissed concerns over racist remarks made by players in the English Premier League by saying that its ne to spew whatever hatred you feel in the heat of the moment as long as afterward you have a hale and hearty handshake. (You know, the kind that Harbaugh laid on
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Occupy SF
how they can get their message across without overnight camping and all of the public health and safety issues that arise from that, read a statement from his press secretary, Christine Falvey. San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr told the B.A.R. that an inter-agency safety committee had documented numerous health and safety hazards arising from the camp, including parvovirus [very contagious among dogs], eas, vomit, feces, illegal drug and alcohol consumption, and tents on top of the bocce ball courts. Weve always encouraged First Amendment activity, but we ask demonstrators to conduct themselves lawfully and respectfully, Suhr added. We dont write the laws, were just paid to enforce them. Police maintain the encampments are illegal. The people camping on the sidewalk on Market Street are in violation of city regulations that prohibit illegal lodging, SFPD spokesman Ofcer Albie Esparza told the B.A.R. There is a sidewalk safety issue as well, as the campers have reduced a 30-foot sidewalk down to six feet. Esparza said police conscated 15 tents and made seven arrests in a raid November 16. Later that day Lee met with Occupy SF representatives at City Hall behind closed doors. Afterwards, the mayor issued a statement accusing Occupy SF of violating municipal health and safety regulations, and demanding the camp reduce its size by roughly half. The city established guidelines at the request of [Occupy SF] that go above and beyond what city code allows, and has kept an open dialogue with the group, read the statement from the mayors ofce. Three meetings have been held to date, but the group has been unable to meet the guidelines in any sustained manner. On Thursday November 17, following a visit to Justin Herman Plaza by the mayor, Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru and Director of Public Health Barbara Garcia toured the encampment. Their inspection was inconclusive, noting improvements but leaving
enough uncertainty to spur rumors of an imminent police raid against the main camp. The health inspections are only a pretext for getting rid of us, said Ki Won Yoon, a member of the Occupy SF communications committee. The mayor would rather disperse these problems and make them invisible again, rather than work with us to alleviate these conditions. Eileen Shields, public information ofcer for the health department, said the inspection reports speak for themselves. She sent a copy of the November 18 report that indicated sanitary shortcomings such as portable toilets overowing, as well as improvements, such as food handlers wearing gloves.
debate between candidates. It has steadfastly refused to make public endorsements. I respect their position, but I think they could have had a great power to sway the vote, said Terry Baum, a lesbian Green Party member who ran for mayor. Frankly, I was hoping they would endorse John Avalos.
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Return of the repressed

Organizers and supporters of Occupy SF point to dramatic improvement in the camp kitchen, the dozens if not hundreds of people it feeds every day, improved sanitation and hygiene due to portable toilets and sinks provided by local labor unions, and an effort by camp custodians to curb antisocial and violent behavior by a minority of the participants. Occupy SF did not bring homeless and mentally ill people, they were here already, said camp volunteer Erica Frank in response to complaints about the camps more disruptive members. Businesses want to believe the camp causes shoplifting, rather than that it draws desperate and angry people who seek contact with anyone who seems to care about their needs. Frank, 42, identies as bisexual and has a daughter, whom she has brought with her to Occupy SF. The camp added a family-friendly tent in late October, part of a makeover designed to make it more appealing to the public. While some nearby businesses have complained, labor unions and other community organizations, including Service Employees International Union Local 1021 and the California Nurses Association, have written letters beseeching the mayor to leave the camp in peace. Merchants of the nearby Ferry Building, as well as the Building Owners and Managers Association of San Francisco, have pressured the mayor to clear the camp, attributing to renegade campers a rash of crime including vandalism, theft, public urination and defecation, physical altercations, and interruption of business. BOMA is the main reason were being raided so aggressively right now, said Occupy SF liaison Sean Semans, who was arrested in an earlymorning raid on Sunday, November 20. Marc Intermaggio, executive vice president of BOMA SF, brushed off the accusation. It is the unsanitary, unsafe, and otherwise unseemly behavior of people in and around the illegal encampment that has prompted the citys overdue actions, he insisted. Whether Occupy SF will go the way of Occupy Oakland all camps
The clash
The question of violence, and whether it has any place in the demonstrations, has also divided the protesters. True pacists, perhaps the largest segment, reject violence absolutely. They play musical instruments, hold hands, and chant as they are seized or subdued by police. Others are more torn on the issue, reserving the use of force for self-defense and questioning the denition of violence. For instance, they ask, is it violent behavior to seize a vacant property to house homeless people? The most militant faction argues that America is a violent society and a true revolution wont be possible through pacism. They invoke the American Revolutionary War to illustrate their point. Violent behavior on the protest side was documented in video footage of the Oakland General Strike of November 2, with a group of militant, black-clad vigilantes breaking windows, mobbing civilians, and spray-painting anarchy symbols on the walls of businesses. On the other side is police brutality: attacking peaceful protesters with batons in Berkeley, pepper-spraying an elderly woman in Seattle and students at UC Davis, and, most infamously, seriously wounding Marine veteran Scott Olsen during the October 25 raid in Oakland. Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember-at-Large and an out lesbian, responded to the Oakland raid with a heartfelt statement of solidarity with protesters, promising to do everything in her power to prevent a repeat of the incident. Like so many of the 99 percent, I am appalled that big Wall Street banks have destroyed our nations economy, and stripped from people the hope they had for the American Dream, Kaplan stated. Over-use of force by law enforcement is documented on the Occupy SF website, www.occupysf.com, and
Guided by consensus
Occupy SF continues to host, as it has since the beginning, a general assembly every day at 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday noon on Sunday. GAs are open to the public and governed by consensus. There are facilitators, but no leaders, per se. GAs dont always reach consensus, and debates can be heated. Objections have been raised to the movements name, since occupation smacks of military imperialism. A faction of malcontents in late October proposed moving the camp to the Civic Center and changing the protests name to the presumably less patriarchal and oppressive Decolonize Together. This touched off debate on the need for solidarity and the perils of inghting, as well as condemnations of so-called peace police who sought to monopolize communication with the outside world and dictate to others the correct way to protest. If I want to start a camp, Ill start one, and I dont need anyones permission to do that, declared Zac Beneld of the South of Marketbased Feyboy Collective. We dont all have to march in step, or stay in the same camp. Ill pitch my tent on the sidewalk right in front of my house. Politics is another point of contention. The more radical elements of Occupy Wall Street advocate breaking with the current political system entirely, and look on the media as irredeemably corrupt servants of the 1 percent. When the San Francisco mayoral race heated up in October, the camp rejected the possibility of hosting a
were ousted by Oakland police last weekend remains to be seen. I cried when I got to Oakland, said gay San Francisco resident Scott Rossi, 31, following one of the November raids. I gured it would be angry like the last time they were under the threat of a raid, but it was somber. They were winding down and wrapping things up, and saying goodbye to the community and family they had built. It is not clear, however, that closing down one or even all of the protest camps will put an end to the Occupy Wall Street movement or the issues it represents: namely economic injustice and corporate greed. The demonization of the camp and supposed concern over these peoples health and welfare, without any attempt to address the issues that Occupy SF is raising, is absolutely ludicrous, said Baum in a telephone interview with the B.A.R. What about their health and welfare the rest of the time? What about all these people who have no health insurance? Occupy San Francisco are the people demanding health and safety for everyone. This week, the beleaguered camp switched from defense to offense, closing down the east end of Market Street around 5 p.m. on Sunday, November 20 with a rally that attracted a mass of supporters. Several political leaders spoke, including out Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), gay Supervisor David Campos, and Supervisor Eric Mar. Legendary San Francisco-based punk band NOFX played an impromptu concert in honor of the protest that included the song Murder the Government. We are the 99 percent and we are here, read a deant statement by the Occupy SF communications committee. We will not be silenced, we will not be removed, and we will not be remiss in our moral calling and natural right to a more just and equitable society.
On the web
Online content this week includes the Out in the World column, an article on a new study of gay-straight alliances, and a photo from the Transgender Day of Remembrance. www.ebar.com.
18 Bay area reporter November 24-30, 2011
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Dated 11/01/11 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : LORIS DINER INTERNATIONAL INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 449 Powell St., 3rd FL., San Francisco, CA 94102-1503. Type of license applied
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The following person(s) is/are doing business VIRIDIAN DOCUMENT SERVICES,370 7th St.,#10,SF,CA 94103.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Michael Reiser.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/11
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The following person(s) is/are doing business A&T PLUMBING,5945 Wenk Ave. Richmond,CA 94804.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Andrew Lee.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/14/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/14/11
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Dated 10/27/11 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : EUPHORIA HOSPITALITY, INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 835 Hyde St., San Francisco, CA 94109-5927. Type of license applied
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The following person(s) is/are doing business RELIEF CONSULTING SOLUTIONS,2107 Van Ness Ave.,Unit 2, SF,CA 94109.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Ben Erickson. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/07/11
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The following person(s) is/are doing business SF ONLINE MARKETING,170 Eureka St.,SF,CA 94114.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Pamela Card.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/08/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/08/11
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The following person(s) is/are doing business PLEASE & THANK YOU, 68 West Portal Ave.,SF,CA 94127.This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Michael Ryan Scott. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/08/11

The following person(s) is/are doing business 1.CYBER GUY SF,2.CYBER RELATE,584 Castro St.,Suite #877,SF,CA 94114.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Frank Strona. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/09/11
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Dated 10/19/11 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : JULIE MAURANGE CORPORATION. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1749 Union St., San Francisco, CA 941234406. Type of license applied
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The following person(s) is/are doing business LACUNA PROJECT,479 7th Ave.,#4,SF,CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Julia Vanderham.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/25/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/07/11

The following person(s) is/are doing business PRIORITY CARE SERVICES,2636 Judah St.,#207,SF,CA 94122.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Alex Tico.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/09/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/09/11
The Department of Public Works (DPW) receives 17,000 reports of illegal dumping and hauls off an 10,000 tons of illegally dumped materials every year; costing taxpayers millions to pick up couches, televisions, mattresses, yard waste, garbage and other unwanted household items that are tossed on the streets and sidewalks. DPW has launched the Dont Leave It on the Sidewalk! Gigantic Three Program is a program that gives residents the opportunity to drop off bulky household items for FREE every month; it is coordinated with DPWs premier volunteer event, the Community Clean Team. Learn more: www.sfdpw.org Bulky Item Collection is a free service that is offered to ALL residents within San Francisco at no additional charge (it is paid for by residential collection fees). Call Recology Sunset Scavenger at 415-330-1300 or Recology Golden Gate at 415-626-4000 to schedule an appointment. RecycleMyJunk.com is a low cost hauling and clean up service offered to residential, multifamily and commercial customers. More information: www.RecycleMyJunk.com. EcoFinder is a free guide to help you donate items that are in good and working condition to local organizations. The database offers drop-off and pickup services for a variety of unwanted items. To learn more, please visit www.sfenvironment.org The City and County of San Francisco encourage public outreach. Articles are translated into several languages to provide better public access. The newspaper makes every effort to translate the articles of general interest correctly. No liability is assumed by the City and County of San Francisco or the newspapers for errors and omissions.
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as MINERVAS LAUNDERETTE,262 Noe St.,SF,CA 94102.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Lauchlin OSullivan.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 3/22/04. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business JJN APPAREL,2525 16th St.,4th Fl.,SF,CA 94103.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Zhi Chun Liu.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/11
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In the matter of the application of JOMO KENYATTA for change of name. The application of JOMO KENYATTA for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that JOMO KENYATTA filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to JESUS. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 514 on the 24th of January, 2012 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as COLE & HAYES COIN WASH & DRY,2100 Hayes St.,SF,CA 94117.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Lauchlin OSullivan.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/11.
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The following person(s) is/are doing business FETE CATERING,3487 21st St., #3,SF,CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Charles D. McCreight.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/15/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/17/11
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The following person(s) is/are doing business KING CONSULTING, 2038 Divisadero St.,Apt. #304,SF,CA 94115.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Christopher King.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/17/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/17/11
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as PARKSIDE PAINT AND BODY SHOP, 1830 Taraval St.,SF,CA 94116.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Stanley Koulouris.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/18/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/11.
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The following person(s) is/are doing business BULLDOGG, 570 Ellsworth St.,SF,CA 94110.This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Logan Knight..The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/14/11
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Dated 11/16/11 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : DEAN ZAIN AZZGHAYER. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 522 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94102-1102. Type of license applied
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as SIP & DIP BAKED GOODS,610 Webster St.,#14,SF,CA 94117.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Olive A. Loew.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/14/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business RYAN JOSEPH HEALTH AND FITNESS,610 Clipper St.,Suite A,SF,CA 94114.This business is conducted by an individual, signed James Ryan Joseph.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/14/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/14/11
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The following person(s) is/are doing business COOK & COMPANY 870 Market St.,Suite 576,SF,CA 94102.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Douglas E. Cook.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/16/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/18/11

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CREATIVE TANGENT,27 Hattie St.,SF,CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Laurence Bruketta.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/27/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/27/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business SAN FRANCISCO FRENCH DESIGN,1900 Vallejo St.,SF,CA 94123.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Sonia Richioud.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/07/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/07/11
nOV 24,dEC 1,8,15,2011 sTATEmEnT OF ABAndOnmEnT OF usE OF FICTITIOus BusInEss nAmE: #A-0301883-00
The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as AWAKENED SEED,610 Clipper St.,Suite A,San Francisco, CA 94114.This business was conducted by an individual, signed James R.Joseph. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/02/07.
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as RON SCHMIDTAUTHOR, 515 John Muir Drive,A 501,SF,CA 94132.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Ronald H. Schmidt.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/27/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business TATAKI CANYON,678 Chenery St.,SF,CA 94131. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Kenneth Zhu.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/14/11
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Jeanne Disson as Lisa, and Zoe Heran as Laure/Mikael, in Tomboy.
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wenty minutes into the new lm Tomboy, theres an emotional suckerpunch literally a thumb-sucking punch when a young French girl who is approaching puberty with enormous trepidation breaks off a card game with her loving Dad by inserting that trusty digit where it feels like it belongs. Oh boy, sucking your thumb? Whats going on? Nothing. You tired? Come here. I know its hard
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moving from house to house, hmm? But this time well stay, a long time. Youll see. Itll be nice. Know what? I also used to suck my thumb when I was little. Youll see when you grow up and you try it again, its really weird. Its no good anymore. Hold on tight, little monkey. It can be a real deal-breaker for us to see an extremely plucky but ultra-vulnerable protagonist in what amounts to the fetal position, but French director Celine Sciamma pulls it off by giving those of us with serious Dad issues one of the most tender and
non-sentimental daughter/Pop big-screen moments in a long time, capped off by a 25-second hug. These two parents, Mathieu Demy and Sophie Cattani, the wise Dad and the rm but caring Mom, are crucial to our belief in the astonishingly bold creature that is their 10-year-old daughter Laure. In the opening frames of Sciammas fable on how gender trumps everything as we enter the magic garden of adolescence, a 10-yearold child is sitting in Daddys lap getting a See page 33 >>
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Masters of Venice dazzle at the de Young Museum
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n an age of minimalism, theres an orgy of esh, sensual beauty and voluptuous excess on full display in Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, a new exhibition at the de Young. The elaborate, alliterative title is but a prelude to what awaits in the galleries, where youll nd 50 paintings by the art stars of the 16th century, such as Titian, Giorgione, Veronese, Mantegna, and Tintoretto, some of whom had a predilection for substantial feminine pulchritude, representations from classical mythology that tantalized the nobility
who patronized their work. These paintings once belonged to the emperors and archdukes of the Hapsburgs, a dynasty that spanned six centuries. Generous art patrons partial to the 16th-century Renaissance, they may have felt a kinship with the patricians of Venice, an enormously wealthy social stratum which proudly traced its lineage back generations. And like the Dutch a century later, members of the prosperous Venetian merchant class the city was a clearing house for trade, especially in textiles commissioned paintings See page 27 >>
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Dr. Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, director of the Gemaldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, discusses Saint Sebastian (1457-59) by Andrea Mantegna, part of the Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power exhibit at the deYoung Museum.
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he new comic collection A Waste of Time was Out Theres introduction to the work of gay cartoonist Rick Worley (Northwest Press). From the rst page, we saw that Worley is not one to keep his personal preferences and, um, idiosyncrasies hidden under a bushel. Dear Jesus, prays the cartoon rabbit Rick, Please send me a cute, skinny twink that will let me tie him up and slap his face a little while I fuck him in strange positions. Amen. Worley populates his cartoon world with characters we may well recognize from contemporary
gay society: theres a closeted fundamentalist teddy bear with a drug habit, Prester; oversexed sly fox Truckstop; and unlucky-in-love robot Rickets. Somehow having these sometimes naughty characters take the form of cute furry animals (or a robot) takes the sting out of all the waspish social satire. OK, really Prester, lets take a break, youve done enough coke to stun Lindsay Lohan. Im just having fun, Rickets, why you gotta be all judgmental? Im glad youre having fun, I just think we should calm down for a bit, alright? Alright. You know what helps me calm down? Vodka. Along with his porn addiction, Rabbit Rick is a hopeless romantic. I just want to be with someone who likes me and isnt afraid to show it! Truckstop: I know what you mean! Im always trying to get guys to spank me, but theyre so damn timid about it! Whats the point of getting slapped if it doesnt hurt? Worleys artistic strategy of illustrating his life and society in cute cartoon form cuts both ways. Reality often undermines adorableness. Worley draws an exboyfriend as a cute little monkey, explaining: He had an uncanny ability to take any display of affection as condescension. Cute little monkey says: When you give me owers, it makes me feel like Im the girl. Worley: Even making him a character in my comics wasnt enough to convince him he was important to me. Cute little monkey: Why does the monkey character act like a little bitch? Its rare to see the sometimes kinky sides of gay sexuality portrayed with such tenderness and knowing candor. If the habitues of Worleys world are footloose and sorta depraved but in a good way his cartoons are solid keepers.
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Our ne feathered friends in the news! From the NY Times last week: In the capsules close quarters, the astronauts had hung a stuffed Angry
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In his previous novels, author Paul Russell has demonstrated a knack for delving into various historical periods and artistic milieus, such as that of underground lmmakers in Boys of Life. His new novel The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov (Cleis Press) takes the actual biography of the brother of the great late author Vladimir Nabokov, and uses it as the stuff for a novel. Because Russell has clearly done his homework, the gambit mostly succeeds. Serges life intersected with two great upheavals of 20th-century history, the Russian Revolution and the rise of the Third Reich, as well as with huge transformations of how gay people (Serge Pavlovich was one) live their lives. As the novel opens, he awaits certain arrest by the Gestapo in Berlin as the Allies air raids over the city herald its imminent fall. He ashes back to
scenes of his boyhood beside older brother V.N. in Czarist Russia; his rst ventures into clandestine gay society in St. Petersburg; and after the revolution, exile in England and beyond. Thus we get his homosexual Cambridge days, the Roaring 20s in Bohemian Paris with cameos by lover Jean Cocteau on opium, Serge Diaghilev and Gertrude Stein, and much more Continental life and loves, all on the way to war-torn Berlin. Russells research is evident on the page. But for all the epic cataclysm going on around him, narrator Sergeys tone is curiously even and unrufed throughout. To his credit, the author does not monkey around with trying to imitate Nabokovian prose style or technique, and at any rate hed never top the Master. But though he appears throughout the novel as a stern and somewhat remote brotherly presence, Volodya (V.N.) leaves not much of a footprint here. Still, for full immersion into a whirlwind of 20th-century arts and history, Russells life of Sergey Nabokov is a fun read. It served to send Out There racing back to our copies of Volodyas masterpieces Pnin and Pale Fire. Last Thursday night, Out There was in the house for the latest installment of SFMOMAs Now Playing series, including the performance corollary to the museums current marriage equality-themed The Air We Breathe exhibition. On offer were readings by poets and ction writers Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian, a performance by artist Simon Fujiwara, who tracks his own identity and sexuality through three sites the bar, the library, and the mirror, a faux Wedding Banquet transpiring in the rooftop garden, and galleries open for perusal. The next Now Playing evening will take place on Feb. 16, featuring BUMP records on Mark Bradford, Rineke Dijkstra in conversation, and Tris Vonna-Michell in performance, all free with museum admission.
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West Side Story on film turns 50

by John F. Karr
couldnt bring myself to see Rita Morenos career-capping show at the Berkeley Rep. It would have been disloyal to Chita Rivera. You see, I just cant forgive Rita for playing Chitas part in the movie of West Side Story. Oh, I know it wasnt Ritas fault; the prima Puerto Rican in Hollywood, she was the obvious, perfect casting. Yet I was am enamored of Chita, the greatest Broadway star of her generation. How could Hollywood not recognize such an incredible performer? So I wasnt buyin Rita. I know that around the Bay Area, shes a goddess, but tant pis, I guess Im just really good at harboring an unreasonable grudge. Truthfully, shes only a passable dancer her backup girls in America have it all over her. And she doesnt even do her own singing! How could an Oscar have been awarded for a role in which somebody elses vocal acting provided the key moments? Well, pace Rita fans, shes not Chita, but shes impressive throughout. The Chita/Rita situation wasnt all that rst kept me from fully enjoying WSS, despite the fact that the movie in many ways improves on the stage version. Some lyrics were bowdlerized as too adult for mass consumption. And the orchestrations are bloated, with the canned crooning of the dubbed stars not comparable to the full-out singing and soaring voices heard on Broadway. But the movie treats the score well. Its all there, for one thing; no songs were dropped, and a more uent song order was devised. The score itself? My friend Val Addams writes a fascinating blog in which he compares Hollywood lm musicals to their Broadway originals (bway2hlwd.blogspot.com), and after assessing the music of WSS, he writes, Okay, Ill say it: probably the greatest score ever written for a Broadway musical. That brought me up sharp, and I immediately started to name the one that was the very best. Though Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway, it was intended for the opera house. I couldnt name another contender, and had to agree with Val. Think about it. And, oh, the thrill of it all. Those rst, eeting moves that launch us effortlessly, believably, into a heightened world where dance is the language spoken by the characters. The sets pretend to gritty realism while delivering a series of contained spaces that speak of caged lives. And they drip with red. Blood red. Like a Vincent Minnelli wet dream. Have you ever seen a gymnasium with blood red walls? The lighting design, too, is theatrically heightened, with follow spots and colored specials. Is there another movie so thoroughly and successfully stylized? And all to properly frame Jerome Robbins masterwork choreography. Sure, Richard Beymers Tony lacks impact. But hes good. Natalie Woods conception of acting seems to consist of never having to blink. But she, too, is very good. And the buttocks and baskets of the gang! Let us pause, in praise of jeans that t. So we decide along with the rest of the world that the whole movie is pretty special. And now, celebrating as caked and cracked as parched desert. Perhaps its the excess of pancake that inhibits Ms. Woods eyelid motility. Thats minor, though, and the Blu-ray process is just the ultimate treatment for the bloodsoaked scenery and the costumes blazing colors. The sets got fab Special Features, too, like Stephen Sondheims song-by-song commentary, and the commentary on the dances offered by a raft of Tony-winning choreographers and WSS cast members including Chita (and not Rita). Theres a brand-new documentary to accompany the one made for an earlier DVD edition, and other goodies, too (although its a cheat that the shooting script that came with a previous DVD issue isnt included.) One last thing afforded by a revisit to WSS. Hindsight. Anybodys, the girl who wants to join the gang, would have been called a tomboy back in the day. But shes clearly a future F2M.
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Rita Moreno in the America number in West Side Story.
its 50th Anniversary, Twentieth Century Home Entertainment has issued a Blu-ray mastering thats available in two versions: a slimmer, less expensive two-disc edition, and a deluxe four-disc version, which adds a CD of song covers by
pop artists and a digitally restored, standard-def DVD of the movie. Its better than the Blu-ray in one small way: the actors look normal. The Puerto Ricans were slathered in Egyptian Number 9, which the incredible hi-def of Blu-ray renders
Future farmers
by David Lamble
In Harvest, Germanys Benjamin Cantu sets an opposites-attract tryst among teenage farm students, then shoots the slow-drip beats like Gus Van Sants skateboard thriller Paranoid Park. The result, depending on your taste for minimalist drama, is either a lovely convergence of hormones rooted in life that contains the seeds for some kind of union, or just 30 minutes (out of 85) of 4H-style foreplay with guys who resemble 18+ rural calendar art. An intriguing historical oddity about this piece is Cantus use of an actual industrial working farm of the kind favored by the Soviet-sponsored German Democratic Republic. This GDR relic allows aspiring farm boys and girls a convivial communal environment for their agrarian studies. Cantus cast consists of actual farm-student kids plus their adult supervisors, with the exception of our edgling romantic couple, who are all the more remarkable for the fact that neither boy identies as gay. Cantus technique allows him to create the illusion that another longhaired farm boy is a potential side dish. The brush-cut blond Lukas Steltner is the damaged introvert Marco (drunk mom, runaway dad), who loves dawn-to-dusk tedious farm work, but hates any kind of bureaucratic mambo. Curly-haired Kai-Michael Muller is the low-key seducer Jacob, who risks everything
on a hot barn kiss and the naked ploy of luring Marco off to the lthy city that swallowed his dad. This hypnotic rst feature, combining the best traits of a doc and a coming-out romance, was a big hit at the 2011 San Francisco LGBT Festival. Special features on DVD include a very insightful Q&A at Philadelphias Queer Festival, a must-view for aspiring lmmakers wishing for tips on casting unknown actors or assessing and accessing onscreen sexual chemistry; plus an interview with writer/director Benjamin Cantu and the theatrical trailer.
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Johnny Moreno, center, plays host to a newlywed couple (Patrick Alparone and MacKenzie Meehan) whose one-day marriage is unraveling in Tennessee Williams Period of Adjustment at SF Playhouse.
Consummating the union

by Richard Dodds
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nyone at all interested in Tennessee Williams career, especially as a social and sexual provocateur, should nd Period of Adjustment a fascinating study in a playwright barreling down a collision course through the American dream. First presented on Broadway in 1960, and billed by Williams as a serious comedy, it is an infrequent choice for revival at least partly, perhaps, because it is viewed as Williams subsuming his wild pen for a respite from his growing gutter reputation. If it was a disguise he briey donned, its obfuscation is as sheer as the matching nighties worn by the wives of two Army buddies with sexual hang-ups who achieve belated spousal intercourse in adjoining rooms. Period of Adjustment is rife with talk of sexual dysfunction, far more than imaginable in other mainstream comedies of the era, but the critics of the day danced around that fact, preferring to talk about the novelty of a Williams comedy. Thanks to an impressive production at SF Playhouse, that chance to see, and grasp, this rarely seen play with a perspective of 40 years of
serious socio-sexual realignment is unexpectedly welcome. Before the play begins, the audience has time to admire Nina Balls elaborately realistic suburban home decked out for Christmas. Its picture-perfect, which is revealed as an illusion only moments after the play begins. This sweet little bungalow is slowing sinking, along with all the neighboring houses foolishly built over a cavern; Williams use of symbolism did not nd new subtlety in his effort to tap into a mainstream. The homes occupants are also sinking, at least as far as their marriage is concerned, and while its six-year span might count as a slow dissolution, the marriage of a visiting couple is unraveling after just one day and an unhappy wedding night. Both husbands have had trouble adjusting to complacent expectations after war experiences both exhilarating and disturbing, and Williams nds that sexual frustration, anxiety, and confusion are the end result and largest impediment to personal satisfaction. To come to an even tentatively happy ending demanded in comedy, the characters must learn to nd this satisfaction in heterosexual conformity. The residents of the sinking house are Ralph and Dorothea, though the latter has ed to her parents home after Ralph has quit his job with his father-in-laws company. They have a son, and though hes only three years old, Ralph has identied him as a sissy and has stacked a collection of manly toys under the Christmas tree. In this world, says Ralph, you got to be what your physical sex is or correct it in Denmark. He admits he has never found his wife sexually attractive, marrying her out of pity and a lust for her fathers fortune. George and Isabel, the newlyweds who arrive for a surprise visit on
Christmas Eve, miserably failed to consummate their marriage the night before. George is suffering from post-battle tremors and a sexual confusion in which he equates violence and sex. Isabel is prim and nattering, and not about to lose her virginity to a brute with performance anxiety. Did I mention this is a comedy? Williams is really on a tightrope here, and scenes that are written to elicit laughter could easily tip the other way. And even with the laughs, the personal situations of the two couples are often just too dire for jokes. At SF Playhouse, director Bill English has negotiated the tightrope with nesse nding the laughs in the proper places and letting the drama unfold without winking compromise. The cast is terric in the same way, bringing a level of erce commitment that holds the audience even through the plays drier passages: Patrick Alparone as the shaky machowannabe George, MacKenzie Meehan as his southern-belle-like wife Isabel, Johnny Moreno as the unhappy, homophobic Ralph, and Maggie Mason as his deeply hurt wife Dorothea. Joe Madero and Jean Forsman make a brief but effectively calamitous appearance as Dorotheas hufng-and-pufng parents. The riches to be found in Period of Adjustment are likely easier appreciated in retrospect than for audiences in the middle of the careering Williams phenomenon who were judging a man as much as his work. But frankly, Period of Adjustment is a sexually subversive work that celebrates heterosexuality in a very queer way.
Period of Adjustment will run at SF Playhouse through Jan. 14. Tickets are $20-$50. Call 677-9596 or go to www.sfplayhouse.org.
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Afrobeat goes on
by Richard Dodds
he creators of the musical Fela! were wise to let the title character tell his own story. The autobiographical details he chooses to relate, the rebellious philosophies he espouses, the heroic independence he self-bestows, and his penchants for pleasures that fall outside many societal boundaries dont need an overseeing observer to qualify the narration once the stage is ceded to Fela Anikopalo-Kuti. The Nigerianborn musician, political activist, and cult gure was a charismatic showman with a progressive if unorthodox agenda, and Fela! is happy enough to celebrate that. The format of the Broadway musical, now on a tour that includes a current stop at the Curran Theatre, takes the form of Felas nal concert at his own Lagos venue known as the Shrine. He and his band play songs from his catalog, chosen with an eye to commentary on the exposition, and he also riffs on various subjects that can be personal, profession, and political. The spirit of his late mother is ever-present, and we eventually realize this is a last concert in ways that go beyond temporal restraints. While to this ear, the Afrobeat that Fela developed from sources ranging from Frank Sinatra to Cuban sounds to Gene Krupa to tribal rhythms, is hardly distinguishable from one song to the next, it is a brassy, driving sound accompanied by simplistic if succinct lyrics, in the pidgin English he adopted so his music could be multiregional. In one early miscalculation, the audience is instructed to rise to its feet, sing along, and follow a set of dance instructions. This level of audience participation is premature, and has yet to be earned. But there are two major reasons
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Sahr Ngaujah leads the cast of Fela! in one of the many colorful numbers in this musical biography of Nigerian musician and cult figure Fela Anikopalo-Kuti, now at the Curran Theatre.
why Fela! works as well as does. First there is director-choreographer Bill T. Jones, who creates a constant swirl of motion, color, and imagination with his cast of singers, dancers, and musicians. And then there is Sahr Ngaujah as Fela, the role he originated on Broadway, and he is quite simply a phenomenon. With a manner that can be forceful and intimate, angry and playful, he plays directly to the audience with a muscular sincerity that erases the usual need for suspension of disbelief. Once you see Ngaujah at work, you can appreciate why he is spelled at certain performances by Adesola Osakalumi. There is only so much room left for other characters to make strong impressions, and in that a dozen of the polygamous Felas wives are on stage, it isnt likely to be them. He does meet a blackpower advocate named Sandra in the United States, and though
the extent of their relationship is unclear, Paulette Ivory connects with two songs. An even more powerful connection comes from Melanie Marshall as Felas spectral mother Funmilayo, especially in the song Rain that Jones and co-librettist Jim Lewis created for the show. Fela Anikopalo-Kuti died in 1997 at age 58 of AIDS, though the cause of his death goes unmentioned. While he didnt achieve such professed goals as creating a pan-African community, achieving superstardom, or ridding Nigeria of corrupt ofcials fed by international corporations, he captured the imagination of thousands of his countrymen and the respect of many music-lovers around the world. Fela! makes a powerful case for why this was so.
Fela! will run at the Curran Theatre through Dec. 11. Tickets are $31-$200. Call (888) 746-1799 or go to www.shnsf.com.
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Balancing act
by Philip Campbell
Soprano Jane Archibald was less satisfying, with a bland ince returning to Davies demeanor and subtle trace Symphony Hall after an of shrillness. Her voice was early subscription-series clear and focused, but her hiatus, Music Director contribution was perhaps Michael Tilson Thomas the only distracting part of has seemed determined on the performances generally starting the holiday season seamless feeling. in a somber and thoughtful All hail the SFS Chorus for mood. Recent San Francisco their best performance of the Symphony programs have season so far. Working with been weighted heavily towards Bohlin and MTT paid off with the German repertoire, and exquisite passages of softness more concerned with matters and full-bodied resonance. of life and death than simple German pronunciation wishes of health and good seemed a bit unidiomatic, cheer. The underlying themes but in most big choral works have been serious, but the it can be difcult at times resulting performances knowing just what language is have been uplifting. Putting being sung. Courtesy SFS the oncoming rush of The orchestra, used by San Francisco Symphony music director Micelebrations into context has Brahms to surprisingly spare chael Tilson Thomas. been emotionally comforting effect, also responded with and musically transcendent. alert and sympathetic playing. Last week MTT returned he wants to make impressive points It is not often one hears so to Johannes Brahms and his about redemption and deaths much detail in A German Requiem. wonderful and difcult A German inevitability, the volume goes up. Memories of the older SFS version Requiem, Opus 45. It was a MTT was absolutely adept at making under former Music Director richly rewarding and beautifully the big and small moments ow Herbert Blomstedt have nally been balanced interpretation. Getting convincingly, and he was helped superseded by MTT and his leaner, the juxtaposition of sorrow and by the keenly focused and heartfelt more rhythmically propulsive exaltation in believable perspective contributions of the SFS Chorus interpretation. Blomstedt had a is the challenge to anyone directed by Ragnar Bohlin. The pair better soprano soloist, and the attempting this great choral work, of soloists was less evenly matched recording of those old performances and here the balancing act worked to the tone of the performance, but is denitely still worth hearing, but perfectly. The temptation to add they also joined in its success. that was then and this is now. Tilson too much dramatic contrast can Bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen Thomas has lent his clear-eyed sink the composers real message of started with a slightly nasal metallic vision to a beloved work that could serene condence. edge to his imposing voice that was so easily sink into sentimentality. The Verdi Requiem has more not altogether disagreeable. He That is reason enough for praise, theatrical clashes and terrifying lost that minor imperfection after and last weeks concert curiously passages of warning. Brahms only he was fully warmed, and his solo fortied me to the oncoming raises his voice infrequently. When moments sounded rich and uent. tsunami of holiday emotions.
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George Clooney and cast members in Alexander Paynes The Descendants.
Hawaiian punch
by David Lamble
hats not to like about the new Alexander Payne mixed-mood comedy that nds a deeply tanned, Hawaiian shirtattired, recently cuckolded, wealthy Hawaiian attorney (awesomely mood-shifting George Clooney) hell-bent on undermining his inherited privilege by signing away his familys land trust and maiming his comatose wifes real-estate mogul boyfriend? That mouthful of a setup hints at the electric, comic and morose family subtext shouldered by Clooney. With a riveting but unassuming masculine magnetism equivalent to the natural beauty of the Grand Canyon, it shouldnt surprise us that Clooney can, in 2007s Michael Clayton, audition as one of the worlds greatest dads,
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and now in The Descendents, turn around and hit every painful beat of clueless dad of the year. In the lms eventful rst act, Clooneys wealthy attorney Matt King, having just learned that his wifes injuries in a recent boating accident are fatal, prepares to take custody of his willful, resentful daughters, 10-year-old Scotty and 17-year-old Alexandra (breakout newcomer Shailene Woodley), whose early drug and boy ings have exiled her to a prep school on the Big Island. Alexandra, about to lay Dad out with the news of Moms indelity, decides to usurp his authority by insisting that her loosecannon boyfriend accompany them. Dad, this is Sid. Hello, Sid. Whats up, Bro? Dont ever do that to me again! Look, Sids not going to be interested in meeting your grandparents, hes going to be bored stiff. Dad, I told you he was going to be with me. Ill be a lot more civil with him around. What can I say, Bro? Bubbling over with slacker insolence, Sid (Nick Krause), like many of Paynes bestiary of seemingly lunatic supporting characters, becomes an unexpectedly important bystander, so much so that he prompts a coldcocking punch from the Kings raging Grandpa (sublimely pissedoff Robert Forster). Adapted by Payne and Jim Taylor from a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants treats our 50th state as something other than an exotic vacation getaway. In a sly slap at the birthers, Pres. Obamas home state is the setting to the seasons most original family comedy. The lm picks up where Chuck Mitsuis keenly observed downwardly mobile working-class slice of Hawaii, One Kine Day, left off with its mixed-race teen hero.
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With little discernible queer subtext, The Descendants may still hook erotic thrill-seekers with a second-act character who goes unexpectedly ballistic in the seasons most outrageous hospital intensivecare unit scene. Judy Greer, long a staple of TV comedy such as this seasons Charlie Sheen-less Two and a Half Men, creeps into the movie on cats paws as the seemingly laidback, unsuspecting wife of Matt Kings philandering nemesis. In an interview with the B.A.R., the veteran Greer fondly recalled her rst lm stint with Clooney on David O. Russells incendiary Gulf War drama Three Kings, and noted how subtly Alexander Payne works
his magic on the set. With Alexander Payne, there are no small characters. Even though I dont come in until the second act, I have such a great story arc. His direction was subtle and intimate. He is very close to the camera, not far away at video village. He guides you carefully, in such a way that you feel like youve made all these decisions yourself, but really its just him directing you. Its manipulative in a really good way. On her characters arc: She doesnt expect that her life will come crashing down. She forgets shes susceptible to pain, she doesnt really know how to control herself. I got to let go, and it was really fun. I probably cry a lot in my normal life, but this was the rst time with a camera watching. On Hawaii: The crew brought their surfboards to work and surfed during lunch. Everyone sat on the beach and threw Frisbees. It felt like summer camp. On Three Kings: We had a sex scene at the beginning of the movie which is the rst time youre introduced to George. I auditioned for this movie, and its with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg. Great, I need a job, I didnt know we were making such a great important movie. On the ghts between Clooney and director David O. Russell: Conveniently, they happened when I was not on set, but I got another job because of it, a director called me in for a role he didnt think I was right for, he just wanted gossip from the set. So Im glad they had a scufe. Loads of Curt McDowell This weekend, the Roxie Theater plays some of the legendary queer erotic lmmakers greatest hits. Curt was a friend who loved to objectify hot straight studs. He was utterly shameless, but damn good at bringing them back alive. An example was his short Ronnie, described in a 1986 Roxie projection-booth chat. On the way to my place, he talked a mile a minute like a speed freak. He had a strong Brooklyn accent and was real attractive to me. He wasnt hustling, he wasnt gay, but was streetwise. He talks a blue streak, about religion, about a book hes writing about blacks and whites, about how he doesnt care if the priests and nuns see him. I could give a ying fuck what the public thinks, well I hope you like the lm. Ronnie plays Sun. on a shorts program at 1 p.m. A feature, Taboo: The Single and the LP, plays Sat. at 1 p.m., Mon. at 10 p.m. Proceeds go to preserving Curts lm legacy.
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Mars, Venus and Cupid (1550s) by Titian, part of the Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power exhibit at the deYoung Museum.
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Voluptuous Venetians
of themselves. They aunted their plush material lives without reserve billowing iridescent fabrics are prominently featured as one can see in a gallery lled with imposing portraits of the citys leaders. Apparently well-fed and dressed in accoutrements of power, these are the Venetian 1%. Like Dutch Masterworks, a stunning show whose stealth beauty ew under the radar though it was easily one of the best exhibitions of the year, Masters benets from the exquisite lighting provided by gifted FAMSF designer Bill Huggins, who gives many of the artworks a luminous, celestial glow. I confess this is not my favorite style of art, in part because the swooning eroticism, ethereal, overstuffed mythical landscapes, rolls of esh and lush technique have often descended into kitsch and melodrama in lesser hands. But I was attracted to several works, particularly several by Mantegna, who employs linear perspective, sculptural forms and gold leaf. Saint Sebastian (1457-59), for instance, depicts a third-century Roman ofcer tied to a carved marble column who has somehow survived being shot through with arrows, including one piercing his martyred head, which is encircled by a gold halo. Fascinated by classical civilization, Mantegna, who has been compared to Michelangelo and was an exponent of Greek culture, litters the foreground of the scene with broken statuary; a few villagers round the corner of a stone bridge, a white horse bursts forth like Pegasus from a puffy white cloud in a blue sky, and an imaginary town can be seen on the water in the distance. Though this work was done in tempera applied to a panel, Mantegna was one of the rst artists to paint on canvas, as he did in David with
the Head of Goliath (ca. 1490-95), in which the diminutive David of legend, a broken sword at his side, triumphantly holds up the giants severed head. Perhaps the greatest innovator of Venetian painting, Giorgione was a revolutionary genius whose aura of mystery extended to his painting. Set against a pitch-black background, a young soldiers armor gleams on his broad shoulders while a nightmarish gorgon head takes shape in the darkness to his right in the enigmatic Warrior (ca. 150510). His expressive masterpiece, Youth with an Arrow (150810), a portrait of an exquisite, introspective boy whose face is cast in golden light, bears the inuence of Leonardo da Vinci. Giorgione died from the plague in 1510, but not before his short but brilliant 15-year career set the stage for the Venetian High Renaissance. Titian was the rock star of his era; he was versatile, prolic, painting some 300 artworks, and politic too, as one can see in his idealized Portrait of Isabella dEste, Marchioness of Mantua (ca. 1534-36), which transforms the fashionable, erudite 60-yearold doyenne into a woman decades younger. Aggression suddenly rears its ugly head in The Bravo (The Assassin) (1515-20); the viewer is complicit in an impending assault as a shrouded, menacing gure with a dagger hidden behind his back grabs a startled man by the collar. But the artists most lyrical imagery is found in Mars, Venus, Cupid, Danae, and Nymph and Shepherd, a trio of rapturous paintings that celebrate the sensuality of the reclining female nude as well as the adulterous exploits and amorous desires of mythical gods, goddesses and mortals as Cupid hovers nearby. Geared toward male pleasure, theyre a fusion of orid visual poetry and superb technique, and are an acquired taste. But for sheer voluptuousness,
its difcult to compete with Tintorettos Susanna and the Elders (ca.1555-56), a painting whose blatant eroticism is barely masked by a morally instructive story. Inspired by the Biblical book of Daniel, a popular subject of cinquecento and seicento Italian painting, Tintorettos version serves up an ample, alabaster-skinned Susanna, naked in a secret garden and preparing to take a dip, while a bald, lecherous elder watches her and hides, not very well, in the rosebush outside her window. Her body shimmers on the canvas as if lit by divine moonlight.
Through Feb. 12.
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Pelleas & Melisande @ Exit Theatre
Cutting Ball Theater companys production of French symbolist Maurice Maeterlincks drama about forbidden love between straight in-law royals. $10-$50. Thu 7:30pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm, Sun 5pm. Thru Nov 27. 277 Taylor St. (800) 8383006. www.cuttingball.com
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The Hot Mikado @ Masquers Playhouse, Point Richmond

Gilbert & Sullivans classic operetta gets a nervy 1940s zoot-suit-era revamp by David H. Bell. $20. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Dec. 17. 105 Park Place, Point Richmond. (510) 232-4031. www.masquers.org
Period of Adjustment @ SF Playhouse

Local staging of Tennessee Williams serious comedy about a man who brings his bride to meet his best friend. $20-$50. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Thru Jan 14. 533 Sutter St. near Powell. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org
Casey Ley at Funny Tuesdays
How to Write a New Book for the Bible @ Berkeley Rep

World premiere of Bill Cains new play about religion, and how parents sins ruin their childrens lives. $14-$81. Wed & Sun 7pm. Tue, Thu Fri Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 28. Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison St. at Shattuck. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org
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Funny Tuesdays @ Harveys
Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gay-friendly comedy night. This week: Casey Ley, Janine Brito and Bobby Guap. One drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com
San Francisco Symphony @ Davies Hall

Johnny Weir at the Union Square tree-lighting ceremony, Thu 24.
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts, with guest violinist Gil Shaham, performances of works by Wagner, Brahms and Brahms orchestrated by Schoenberg. $15-$145. 6:30pm. Also Nov. 26 at 8pm. 201 Van Ness Ave. 864-6000. www.sfsymphony.org
Johnny T @ The Rrazz Room

Son of soul icon Jackie Wilson performs a Motown tribute show. $35-$40. 3pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.therrazzroom.com
Thanks!
by Jim Provenzano
Lets be thankful. Lets be thankful for our lives. Be thankful for a special extra day of listings this week. Be thankful for the arts, and the out and proud LGBT artists (and a gure skater) bringing comedy, musical and theatrical gifts to us this week. Be thankful you wont get pepper-sprayed in the face while protesting the monstrous economic disparity of our corrupt society. Should you get pepper-sprayed, be thankful if it gets caught on tape and proves how completely fracked up things are. Lets be thankful for what weve got, before someone else takes it from us.
Line Dance Classes @ ODC Dance Commons

New fun line dance classes taught by Sundance Saloons Sean Ray, with a special LGBT-anybody-inclusive ambiance, and not just country music. $14. Weekly Saturdays, 6pm-8pm. 351 Shotwell St. www.odcdance.org
Sex Rev @ CounterPulse

The Jose Sarria Experience, Theatre Rhinoceros production of John Fishers funny, sexy retelling of historic gay activist Jose Sarrias life, starring Tom Orr. $10-$25. Thu-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 10:30pm. Sun 7pm. Extended thru Dec 4 (no show Nov 24). 310 Mission St. (800) 838-3006. www. TheRhino.org www.CounterPulse.org
Animales y Nahuales @ Back to the Picture Gallery

Group exhibit of Mexican folk art in wood, clay, and paintings, depicting people and their animal spirit guides. Portion of sales benets SF SPCA and Rancho El Uno Reserve. 934 Valencia St. Mon-Sat 10am-6pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. www.backtothepicture.com
Maharaja @ Asian Art Museum

The Splendor of Indias Royal Courts, an expansive exhibit showcasing textiles, jewels and items from the heyday of the early Indian empires. Also, Sanjay Patels Deities, Demons and Dudes with Staches: Indian Avatars ; Tateuchi Thematic Gallery, 2nd oor, thru April 22. Other special events thru exhibit run. $7-$17. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. Thu til 9pm. Thru April 8, 2012. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.asianart.org
The Soldiers Tale @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

Director Tom Ross and former San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Muriel Maffres new production of the 1918 Igor Stravinsky musical play blends actorsingers and a life-size puppet. $10-$55. Tue Sun 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Dec. 18. 2081 Addison St. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org
Animation Exhibits @ Walt Disney Museum

See biographical exhibits about Walt Disney, early sketches and ephemera from historic Disney movies. Frequent lectures and lm screenings. $5-$20. 104 Montgomery St., The Presidio. www.waltdisney.org
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Family on Demand @ Lone Star Saloon
Annual Thanksgiving dinner orphan party with food. 5pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com
ceremony at the ice rink in the middle of downtowns busy shopping district at 6pm, with live muisc and dance performances. A portion of ticket sales benet Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco. $5-$10. 10am11:30pm. Thru Dec 31. Powell St. at Geary. 781-2688. www.unionsquareicerink.com
A Tale of Two Genres @ SF Playhouse

Un-Scripted Theater Companys comic production of An Improvised Dickensian Musical, with audience suggestions. $10$20. Thu-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm. Thru Dec 21. (no show Nov 19 or 24). 533 Sutter St. www.un-scripted.com
Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi

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

Local choreographers contemporary update on the classic holiday ballet, set to the Tchaikovsky score. $20-$35. Various Sat & Sun (a few weekdays Dec 20-22), 11am & 2pm. Thru Dec. 23. 221 4th St. www.brownpapertickets.com
The Monster Show @ The Edge

Cookie Doughs weekly raucous drag show with hot gogo guys and DJ MC2 takes a campy look at food with fun drag acts. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com
Kate Lehman, Travis Schlaht @ John Pence Gallery

Dual exhibit of compelling realist paintings of animals, still lifes and portraits. Reception 6pm-8pm. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm. Sat 10am-5pm. Thru Dec. 17. 750 Post St. 441-1138. www.johnpence.com
The Temperamentals @ New Conservatory Theatre Center

Jon Marans hit Off-Broadway drama about 1950s gay activist Harry Hay and Rudy Gernreich, and their struggle to form the historic Mattachine Society; stars J. Conrad Frank (Katya Smirnoff-Skyy). $25-$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Dec. 18 (no show Nov. 24). 25 Van Ness Ave at Market, lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org
Carmen @ War Memorial Opera House

San Francisco Operas production of Bizets passionate opera. $21-$330. Nov 26 (8pm), 29 (7:30pm) Dec 2 (8pm) and 4 (7:30pm). 301 Van Ness Ave. 864-3330. www.sfopera.com
The Matter Within @ YBCA

Fascinating new exhibit of contemporary Indian art; installations, sculptures and other media. Dont miss Sunil Guptas alluring gay photo series Love, Undetectable and Sun City. Free-$12. Exhibit thru Jan 29. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. 978-2787. www.ybca.org
Life Gone Viral @ The Marsh

Charlie Varon and Jeri Lynn Cohen perform and co-wrote (with director David Ford) this comic show about the hazards of Internet exhibitionism. $20-$50. Thu 8pm. Sat 8:30pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Dec. 4. 1062 Valencia St. at 22nd. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org
Thanksgiving Potluck @ Castro Country Club

Annual dinner party for LGBT sober folks and friends. Bring a dish to share. 2pm. 4058 18th St. www.castrocountryclub.org
Collected @ Museum of the African Diaspora

Subtitled Stories of Acquisition and Reclamation, this new exhibit displays more than 100 objects that help narrate the struggles and contributions of African Americans in California; frequent special events. Thru March 4. 685 Mission St. at 3rd. 358-7200. www.moadsf.org
Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlies Lounge

Burn off that turkey fat at the intimate retro disco night where DJ Bus Station John plays classic records. $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com
Tom Kubnek @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley

Comic and virtuoso vaudevillian and musician performs a holiday show. $10$32. 2pm & 7pm. Nov 26, 2pm (kid-friendly version) & 7pm. Nov 27, 3pm. UC Berkeley campus, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave. (510) 642-9988. www.calperformances.org
Monsters in the Bookshelf @ Thacher Gallery, USF

Exhibit of sketchbooks, canvases, storyboards, book galleys and other artwork by popular childrens book illustrators from Studio 5 (www.studioveart.org). Thru Dec. 16. Gleeson Library-Geschke Center, USF campus, 2130 Fulton St. 422-5178. www.usfca.edu
Making Porn @ Box Car Theatre

Ronnie Larsen returns with a new production of his popular play about, well, making porn, starring muscle stud Matthew Rush, with guaranteed male nudity; adults only! $25-$50. Thu 8pm. Fri & Sat 7pm & 10pm. Sun 7pm. Extended thru Nov. 27. 125A Hyde St. www.ronnielarsen.com
Cuban Connections: Near & Far @ MACLA, San Jose

Group exhibit of photography by contemporary and historic Cuban artists. Free. Wed & Thu 12pm-7pm. Fri & Sat 12pm5pm. Thru Jan 7. Movimento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, 510 South First St., San Jose. (408) 998-ARTE. www.maclaarte.org
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Artery Project @ Various Venues
San Francisco Arts Commissions expansive lineup of arts events include gallery exhibits, store window installations, dance, music, outdoor performances and more. Ongoing. www.sfartscommission.org/artery
Turandot @ War Memorial Opera House

Last night of encore performances of Puccinis classic opera, with sets by David Hockney. $21-$330. 8pm. 301 Van Ness Ave. 864-3330. www.sfopera.com
The Paper Quilt Project @ Berkeley Art Center

Group exhibit of collaborative paper works by various artists. Thru Dec. 4. 1275 Walnut St. (510) 644-6893. www.berkeleyartcenter.org
Marga Gomez @ The Marsh

Veteran lesbian comic performs Not Getting Any Younger, a new solo show about her coming of middle age. $15-$50. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 8:30pm. Sun 3pm. Extended thru Dec 17. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org
Two Dead Clowns @ Box Car Theatre

Ronnie Larsen performs two one-act plays about serial killer John Wayne Gacy, and John Waters lm actor Divine. $25-$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Fri & Sun 7pm. Thru Nov. 27. 125A Hyde St. www.RonnieLarsen.com
Donald Rizzo @ Castro Country Club

Shadows, Secrets and Silhouettes, the artists exhibit of paintings. Thru Jan. 2. 4058 18th St. www.castrocountryclub.org
SF Hiking Club @ Windy Hill

Join LGBT hikers on an 8-mile hike thrugh the mid-Peninsular Woodside-area trail. Carpool meets 8:45am at the Safeway sign, Market St. at Dolores. 864-2275. www.sfhiking.com
Cirque du Soleil @ AT&T Park

The Montreal circus spectacular returns with Totem, a visually striking exploration of human evolution, from amphibians to those who seek to y. Look for the big tents across the bridge and east of the AT&T Park. $55-$360. Thru Dec. 11. (800) 450-1480. www.cirquedusoleil.com/totem
The Velveteen Rabbit @ Novellus Theater

25th anniversary of ODC/Dance and director-choreographer KT Nelsons production of the dance work based on the classic holiday childrens story. $15-$45. 2pm & 11am shows, varying Thu-Sun thru Dec 11. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St. www.odcdance.org www.ybca.org
Sing-Along The Sound of Music at the Castro Theatre
Deana Martin @ The Rrazz Room

Singer shares a musical journey about her father Dean Martins career. $45. 7:30pm. Also Nov 26, 7:30pm & Nov 27, 4pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.therrazzroom.com
Distortion @ The Lone Star

Bob Mould and Chris Zefos DJ at the bear bars alternative (rock-punk-indie) music night. 9pm. 1354 Harrison St. 863-9999. www.lonestarsf.com
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Suzanne Westenhoefer @ The Rrazz Room
Popular lesbian comic tells jokes, and theyre funny. $40. 9:30pm. Also Nov 26, 9:30pm. Nov 27, 7pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.therrazzroom.com
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The Air We Breathe @ SF MOMA
New group exhibit of works by 30 contemporary artists and eight poets who explore the issues of legalizing same-sex marriage. Accompanying book will be on sale: The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reect on Marriage Equality. Free-$18. Thu-Tue 11am-5:30pm. 151 Third St. Thru Feb 20. 357-4000. www.sfmoma.org
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Sing-Along The Sound of Music @ Castro Theatre
Laurie Bushman, Sara Moore, DArcy Drollinger and David Hawkins host the popular participatory screening of the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical lm starring Julie Andrews, with subtitled lyrics, costume fun, props, and classic musical songs played by organist David Hegarty for 30 minutes pre-show. $10-$15. Concert 6:30pm, show 7pm. Matiness 12:30-1pm. Thru Dec. 4. 429 Castro St. 621-6350. www.castrotheatre.com
Holiday Ice Rink @ Union Square

Olympic gure skater Johnny Weir makes an appearance for the tree-lighting
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an exhibit of rare Roman coins, Egyptian sculptures Qing Dynasty scroll paintings, all depicting lineage of different cultures. Mon-Fri 11am-4pm. Thru dec. 7. Humanities Bldg, 510 at Font Blvd and Tapia Drive. www.sfsu.edu/~museumsf
Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29

The new show Up in the Air, about a struggling radio station, stars Geoff Hoyle, blues musician Duffy Bishop, and a slew of amazingly talented acrobats, singers, musicians, a ve-course dinner, and a lot of fun. $117-$145. Saturday 11:30am Breve show $63-$78. Wed-Sat 6pm (Sun 5pm) Thru Dec 31, when the show goes on hiatus for World Cup Sailing pier renovations. Pier 29 at Embarcadero Ave. 438-2668. www.teatrozinzanni.com
When I Grow Up @ LGBT Center

Group exhibit of mixed media art by local LGBT elders. Thru Nov. 1800 Market St. www.sfcenter.org
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Xavier Toscano @ The Caf
Local talented gay singers CD release party, with giveaways, and Sam and Frank from MTVs The Real World San Diego. Hostess Mahlae Balenciaga, DJ Madd Mike. 9:30pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.jorgechamorrowevents.com
Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze @ SOMArts Gallery

Diverse group exhibit of womens art that takes on body objectication, using men and body parts. Events through exhibit run. Thru Nov. 30. Tue-Fri 12pm-7pm. Sat 12pm-5pm. 934 Brannan St. 863-1414. www.somarts.org
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Archie, Green Lantern, Troubletown @ Cartoon Art Museum

Exhibits showcasing original art work and prints of classic comic art. $3-$7. Tue-Sun 11am-5pm. 655 Mission St. CAR-TOON. www.cartoonart.org
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Russell Brand @ Palace of Fine Arts

British comic actor performs in a benet for the David Lynch Foundation, an alternative therapy nonprot that works with PTSD soldiers, kids with ADHD learning disorders and people in addiction recovery. $50-$75. 8pm. 3301 Lyon St. www.slimstickets.com
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Isaac Bader @ Magnet
Passages, Baders exhibit of subtle egg tempera paintings exploring the illusory concept of reality. Exhibit thru Nov. 4122 18th st. at Collingwood. www.magnetsf.org
Blind Babies Foundation Reading @ Barnes & Noble, Emeryville

Belo Cipriani (author of the gay memoir Blinded ), Mary Beth Phillips, Julie Riera Matsushima, Leon Borensztein and Todd Friedman read from their works at a fundraiser for the Blind Babies Foundation. 2pm-5pm. 5604 Bay St. (510) 5470905. www.barnesandnoble.com
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Brett Kaufamn @ 5 Claude Lane Gallery

Exhibit of unique multimedia works depicting gay icons like Allen Ginsberg, Harvey Milk and Oscar Wilde. Wed-Sun 11am-5pm. Exhibit thru Jan 11. 5 Claude Lane near Bush St. 956-1310. www.5claudelane.com
Salsa Dancing @ Queer Ballroom

Same-sex dancing with lessons and open dancing. 6pm and 7pm classes 8pm-9:30 dancing. Many of these events will end this year, so enjoy them while you can. $5-$30. 151 Potrero Ave. www.queerballroom.com
Castro Lions Toy Drive @ The Cinch

LGBT business organization throws a beer bust. Bring an unwrapped childrens toy for Operation Dream. $10. 3pm-6pm. 1723 Polk St.
California Dreaming @ Contemporary Jewish Museum

Jewish Life in the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present, an exhibit about the lives of historic Western American Jewish people, from Levis jeans and Ginsbergs Howl to Gumps and LGBT synangogues. Also, Houdini: Art and Magic. $5-$12. ThuTue 11am-5pm. 736 Mission St. at 3rd. 6557800. Thru Oct. 16, 2012. www.thecjm.org
Happy Hour @ Energy Talk Radio

Interview show with gay writer Adam Sandel as host. 8pm. www.EnergyTalkRadio.com
Our Vast Queer Past @ GLBT History Museum

See the fascinating exhibit from the GLBT Historical Society, with a wide array of rare historic items on display. New mini-exhibit focuses on the legacy of activist and performer Jose Sarria. Free for members-$5. Wed-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org
The Legend of Rex Slinkard @ Cantor Arts Center, Palo Alto

Exhibit of art in various media and ephemera from the life of painter Rex Slinkard, a little-known contemporary of early Modern artists Marsden Hartley and George Bellows. Thru Feb. 26. www.museum.stanford.edu
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The Golden Girls @ Victoria Theatre
The Christmas Episodes, the 6th annual hilarious drag stage adaptation of the hit TV show, with Heklina, Matthew Martin, Cookie Dough and Pollo Del Mar. Dec 1 opening night partial proceeds benet Project Open Hand. $25-$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Dec. 23. 2961 16th St. at Mission. www.trannyshack. com/goldengirls/
Paul Morin @ Blush Wine Bar

Exhibit of oversized portraits in oil and silver leaf, based on vintage imagery. 476 Castro St. www.blushwinebar.com
Richard Serra Drawing @ SF MOMA

Retrospective of drawings by the artist known for his massive steel slabs; Thru Jan. 16. Also, Paul Klee and Andrew Schoultz, an exhibit of works by the Bay Area artist in response to Klees drawings and prints; Thru Jan 8. Also, Less and More: the Design Ethos of Dieter Rams ; Thru Feb 20; and Sharon Lockharts Lunch Break, photos and installation of images of industrial workers. Other exhibits ongoing. Free-$18. 151 Third St. www.sfmoma.org
The Grove @ PBS

Broadcast of the documentary about the community that created and maintains the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. Check local listings. www.pbs.org www.thegrovelm.com
Sundays a Drag @ Starlight Room

Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the fabulous weekly brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.harrydenton.com
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Left Coast Leaning @ YBCA
Third annual festival of diverse California performers: Alexandro Segade, Rafael Casal, tap artist Jason Samuels Smith (photo), dance troupe tEEth and the Anna Martine Whitehead Group. $5-$15. 8pm. Thru Dec. 3. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum. 701 Mission St. 978-2787. www.ybca.org
Marlena Shaw @ the Rrazz Room

Veteran jazz-soul singer and composer performs. $35-$40. 8pm. Also Dec 2, 8pm; Dec 3, 7pm & 9:15pm; Dec 4, 7pm. 2-drink min. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1189. www.TheRrazzRoom.com
Sundayz @ Beatbox
New weekly booze bust and T-dance, with a portion of proceeds going to various local AIDS/HIV and LGBT non prots. DJs Russ Rich, Byron Bonsall, Brian Maier, Christopher B and Kevin Lee. $15 bust or $5 + cash bar. 3pm-7pm. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf.com
Same-Sex Dancing @ Queer Ballroom

Ongoing partner dance lessons and open dancing in a variety of styles- Argentine tango, Cha Cha, Rhumba and more; different each night. $5-$25 open dancing to $55 for private lessons. 151 Potrero Ave. at 15th. www.QueerBallroom.com
Sunday Skool with Baby D @ Academy of Ballet

Darcy Drollinger (Enrique) returns to SF with a campy aerobics weekly workout set to music from the 80s-today. Retro Spandex and Solid Gold gear encouraged. Dance by donation. Sundays at 11am. 2121 Market St. at Church.
Songs of the Season @ The Rrazz Room

Donna Sachet, socialite, Empress and entertainer, hosts her 19th annual fundraiser concert, with guests Sharon McNight, Abigail Zsiga, Val Diamond, Kelly Houston, Vicki Shepard, Dan OLeary and more. $35-$45. 8pm. Also Nov. 29 & 30, 8pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.therrazzroom.com
World AIDS Day Commemoration @ St. Aidens Church

Liturgy focusing on Getting to Zero (infections), with a choral concert and singer Bebe Sweetbriar; reception afterwards. 7pm. 101 Gold Mine Drive. 285-9549. www.saintaidan.org
You Roll Away Your Stone, Ill Roll Away Mine @ Right Window Gallery
Rotating group exhibit of varied photographic works curated by Jason Hanasik; Abner Nolan, Patrick Hillman, Melissa Wyman. Thru Nov. 992 Valencia St. at 21st. www.rightwindow.blogspot.com
Ten Percent @ Comcast 104

David Perrys talk show about LGBT local issues. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm, Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.davidperry.com
To submit event listings, email jim@ebar.com. Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication. For bar and nightlife events, go to www.bartabsf.com
Tree of Life @ SFSU Museum

Preserving 3,000 Years of Family Heritage,
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Fully engaged
by Donna Sachet
ichmond/Ermet AIDS Foundations One Night Only cabaret with the cast of the nationally touring company of Hair was an engaging night of moving, funny, and very personal music. As is the formula for these special evenings, the cast sings no music from their nightly show, but chooses songs of their own liking, in this case some original and all crowd-pleasing. Emceeing the night was the irrepressible Bruce Vilanch. Performers Jai Rodriquez and Jeanie Tracy and a fevered live auction conducted by Frank Bizzaro rounded out the evening. Among the crowd were Seth Shapiro, Larry Horowitz, Xavier Caylor & Jeff Doney, Richard Sablatura, Simi Barjesteh, Frank Stein & Paul May, and Don Berger. Afterwards, we invited the cast to join us at Martunis for a raucous night of singing led at the piano by Joe Wicht, who graciously included these visiting artists while giving time to all his locals as well, including Caleb Draper and Ferosha Titties. The lively crowd even talked Jai Rodriguez and this humble reporter into offering a song. Remember, most Broadway shows are dark on Monday, the perfect time to catch extremely talented visiting singers in the back room of Martunis! Dancing with the Drag Stars 3 presented an incredible Sunday night of true competitive dancing, modeled after the wildly successful television show, this time in its new home of Ruby Skye, presented by Stoli vodka, and beneting the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation. Hundreds of spectators cheered their favorites among the eight couples, as well as special entertainers Cassandra
Steven Underhill
Brandon and Chad bracket American Idol veteran and Broadway star LaToya London at Dancing with the Drag Stars 3 at Ruby Skye.
Cass and Carolyne Lund. As coemcee with Patrik Gallineaux, we were carried aloft by the spirit of the audience, including David Slack, Jan Duffy, Jim Johnson, Ron Jenkins & Jorge Hernandez, Sean Ray, Holotta Tymes, Mahlae Balenciaga, Michael Loftis & Erik Nickel, Gary Virginia, Deana Dawn, Garza Peru, and Eric Glaser. The judging panel, locals Bebe Sweetbriar and Sister Roma, comedians Shann Carr and Ali Ma, dancing pros Vaidas Skimelis & Jurga Pupylete, and American Idol veteran and Broadway star LaToya London, was full of criticism, sass, and wit. Although space limits more extensive commentary, sufce it to say that the competing drag queens and one drag king really took their training seriously, and their professional dancing partners gave it their all. Once the judges had narrowed it down to three couples, the three performed their dance routines again, and the audience
decided the ultimate winner. Drag king Kit Tapata & Tianne Frias won second runner-up, Gillette Thebestamancanget & Steve Vasco were rst runner-up, and Miss Rahni & Ricardo Tellez took home the tiara-topped, mirrored ball trophy! After three successful efforts, watch for this professional event to evolve into a national event very soon. Consider the following in your upcoming holiday plans: On Mon., Nov. 28, the Merchants of Upper Market and Castro sponsor the lighting of the holiday tree in the Castro, starting at 6 p.m. in front of Bank of America on Castro Street. Enjoy music from the SF Gay Mens Chorus, the Lesbian/Gay Chorus, and the Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band! Our 19th Annual Songs of the Season, beneting the AIDS Emergency Fund, takes place Mon.Wed., Nov. 28-30, 8 p.m., at the Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko. This years performers include Sharon McNight, Abigail, Vicki Shepard, Kelly Houston, Dan OLeary, and Jason Brock with an additional See page 31 >>
Coming up in leather and kink

Thu., Nov. 24: Daddy Thursdays at Kok Bar (1225 Folsom). Shot specials, specials on Shiner Rock drafts & Shiner Hef bottles. 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com. Thu., Nov. 24: Underwear Night at The Powerhouse (1347 Folsom). Show off your undies for drink specials. 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. Thu., Nov. 24: Annual Traditional Thanksgiving Pot Luck at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). 5-9 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org. Fri., Nov. 25: Monthly Steam at the Powerhouse. Burn off that pie! Steamworks treats, drink specials, free clothes check, $100 wet towel contest. 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www.openhand.org or www.powerhouse-sf.com. Fri., Nov. 25: Truck Wash at Truck (1900 Folsom). 10 p.m.-close. Live shower boys, drink specials, loads of fun! Go to: www.trucksf.com. Fri., Nov. 25: Black Friday Rubber Party hosted by Michael Brandon and the Rubber Men of SF at The Edge (4149 Collingwood). Live rubber bondage by Rick Holte, latest designs by Steven Mitchell, devices by Serious Male Bondage. Go-go boys and Jell-O shots! 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.edgesf.com. Fri., Nov. 25: Strip at Kok Bar. Cheap Ass Contest at 1 a.m. Winner gets $100. $2 cover, free clothes check. Go-go studs and drink specials. 11 p.m.-close. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com. Sat., Nov. 26: All Beef Saturday Nights at The Lone Star (1354 Harrison). 100% SoMa Beef & Co. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.facebook.com/lonestarsf. Sat., Nov. 26: Kok Block Happy Hour at Kok Bar. 4-9 p.m. $50 pool tournament, 6:30 p.m. Go to: www. kokbarsf.com. Sat., Nov. 26: Stuff-It! Hell Hole sting party at Mr. S Leather Playspace. $25. Must have invitation. Go to: www.hellholesf.com to get on the list. Sat., Nov. 26: 15 Associations Mens Dungeon Party at the SF Citadel, a male-only event. 8 p.m.-late. Go to: www.15sf.org. Sat., Nov. 26: Darren Bondy hosts Black Saturday at the Powerhouse. SFs monthly leather party. Live demos, dirty go-go boys! Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. Sat., Nov. 26: Rub Snowmen and Holigays at Beatbox (314 11th St.), DJ Robbie Martin, DJ Russ Rich, Steamworks-sponsored maze, free massage, agger stages, go-go snowmen. 10 p.m.-? $20 at the door (online ticketing has closed). Facebook for details. Sun., Nov. 27: Jockstrap Beer Bust at Kok Bar. $8 beer bust. Wear your jock for specials. 3-7 p.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com. Sun., Nov. 27: Thanksgiving Edition of Castro Bear Presents Sunday Furry Sunday at 440 Castro. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.castrobear.com. Sun., Nov. 27: Flogger-Works at SF Citadel. Guided by Daddy Darin and Jerry. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., class 8 p.m. $1. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org. Sun., Nov. 27: PoHo Sundays at The Powerhouse. DJ Keith, Dollar Drafts all day. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. Mon., Nov. 28: Trivia Night with host Casey Ley at Truck. Prizes, insane fun and ridiculous questions! 8-10 p.m. Go to: www.trucksf.com. Mon., Nov. 28: Happy Hour After Gym at Kok Bar SF. All-day happy hour Mon.; Tue.-Thurs. 6-9 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 4-9 p.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com. Mon., Nov. 28: Dirty Dicks at The Powerhouse. 4-10 p.m. $3 well drinks. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. Tue., Nov. 29: 12-Step Kink Recovery Group at the SF Citadel. 6:30 p.m. Open to all kink-identied people in recovery. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org. Tue., Nov. 29: Busted at Truck. $5 beer bust 9-11 p.m. Go to: www.trucksf.com. Tue., Nov. 29: Pit Stop Happy Hour at Kok Bar. $1 shots on the hour. 6-9 p.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf. com. Tue., Nov. 29: Ink & Metal at The Powerhouse. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. Wed., Nov. 30: Bear Buddies at Blow Buddies (933 Harrison), a male-only club. Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Play till late. Go to: www.blowbuddies.com. Wed., Nov. 30: Nipple Play at The Powerhouse. Specials for shirtless guys. 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www. powerhouse-sf.com.
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by John F. Karr
xcuse me while I go apeshit. In the raunchy new LucasRaunch movie Fuck Me Harder, Adam Killians smashingly hard cocks got a nice tight leather cockstrap wrapped around it. You know how I feel about the importance of accessorizing. A gentleman should never strip down without sporting the appropriate jewelry. And like pearls on Madam, a cockring on a guy is de rigueur. Says I. Im a fan of Lucas movies. Even when Michael Lucas uses performers who have appeared in other companys lms, theyre better in his. I dont know how he and co-director Mr. Pam do it, but they nearly always elicit a stronger degree of chemistry between their performers. Adding to the sympathetic direction of their casts, the porn they produce also has the most cinematic look, with strong atmosphere and caretaking videography. And, not the least in my estimation, Lucas porn has guaranteed oral cum-shots in every lm. In Fuck Me Harder, theres one in every scene but the last. Gentlemen, thats what I pays my money to see. If I cant have room service send it up, I wanna see it in a movie. And thats why I eagerly greet LucasEntertainment lms. Theres hardly anything in porn these days as eager as Adam Killian (my long acquaintance with local writer Kevin Killian means I always have to replace his name with Adams when Im writing; Im worried about the day I read Adam and have sex with Kevin). And boy, does Adam go at it in this three-hour feature, which promises raunch and delivers. His scene with Kyle King opens the movie. KK is bucking to get out of a dog cage when AK enters in black leather chaps, harness, motorcycle cap, and the mean slick-sauve of black leather gloves. KK pants like a dog, shows his hole when commanded, and generally debases himself in that silly, sexy, currently popular puppy-play way. And so it goes. A good deal of hole play ensues, with the sort of high-level, happy-demonic sort of rimming thats Adam all the way. With a thick Mohawk, facial scruff and intensely lascivious twinkling of eye, AK looks Fab-U-Lous. Very hornifying. Man, he pile-drives a fuck into KK, who proves his own stardom with an advanced receptivity accompanied by shouts, moans, gasps, cries, general
hysteria and buckets of sweat. Just when I thought neither KK nor I could take any more, AK pulls out, straddles KKs torso, and dumps a supreme load in KKs mouth. I was right I couldnt take any more, and joined in with all the dumping going on. Admittedly, in the privacy of my own home. Too bad Id given my Receptacle the day off; he wouldve barked, Thank you, Sir! Second scene, only slightly more civilized than the preceding. Rafael Alencar abuses Jessie Colter, who pretends well to resist the punishment, thus egging Rafael on to even greater rudeness. Like an anal exploration with screwdriver and hammer, then both tools together, before the introduction of Rafaels own tool. Then Jessie is hung by his feet from the ceiling, for an upsidedown fuck. The guys nish off with a more conventional, though rousingly scenic Reverse Cowboy, leading to an oral cum deposit which Jessie very visibly savors. Im not big on the practice of load-lather pushed back out of the mouth. I mean, I dont need proof its in there. I like it swallowed, not frothed up like egg whites in a
batter bowl. But thats just my prissiness, and I understand how the circulation of cum over lips and tongue is a savory sensation thatd get anybody frothed up, like it does in this scene. Blond Logan Stevens is very nicely paired with deep-voiced, personality-rich Dirk Caber: aggressive kissing, chest-punching, and a ip-op fuck. I should mention that Dirk sports Oxballs most attractively functional, wide BullBall ball stretcher, while Logans got a black leather cockstrap contrasting with his pale pubes. Logan sits so rmly on Dirks face I thought the guy would suffocate, while Logan repeatedly smacks Dirks cock with sharp slaps. That produces another OCS; Logan gives an epicures reception to this tasty mouthful of Caber-cum. Then Antonio Biaggi slips on some black rubber gloves to st Caedon Chase with lubricious dexterity. Yup, theres another OCS. The last scene features muscledude Mitch Vaughn working over muscle-lad Marc Dylan. The scene includes some bondage, an inatable butt-plug, a big black dildo, and much harsh fucking. Ohh! Marc pants. Push it in!
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surprise guest each night. Dont miss this annual celebration full of music, comedy, and nostalgia. If youve been before, youll be there for sure; if youve never gone, youll be glad you did this year! On Mon., Dec. 5, starting at 5 p.m. in the Rotunda of City Hall, join us for the lighting of the World Tree of Hope, stunningly decorated with white lights and folded origami decorations containing wishes from across the globe. In addition to the expected elected ofcials, conrmed guest speakers include Rita Moreno, Peter Coyote, and Consul General of Japan Hiroshi Inomata, as well as music from Veronica Klaus and the San Francisco Boys Chorus. Then rush over to Marines Memorial Theatre for Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundations 7:30 p.m. Help is on the Way for the Holidays, featuring Mary Wilson, Sheryl Lee Ralph, David Burnham, R.J. Helton, Sally
Steven Underhill
Peter Ibarra, Sissy St. Clair and Lindsey Lazaro help make Under One Roofs holiday party festive.
Struthers, Shawn Ryan, Paula West, Wesla Whiteld, and Amanda King. This David Galligan production is sure to bring a smile to the most jaded holiday grouch! And nally, throughout December,
be witness to the Miracle on Powell Street twice every Sunday, Noon and 2:30 p.m., at Sundays a Drag at Harry Dentons Starlight Room atop the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Snow in San Francisco? See for yourself!
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by Victoria A. Brownworth
e spent last week in the ICU of our local hospital (and were feeling better, now, thanks), which denitely changed the tenor of our TV viewing. Although speaking of tenors, we watched a great PBS special on Placido Domingo on Great Performances that we highly recommend. Watching TV around the clock is a totally different experience from just watching ones favorite shows as an entertainment adjunct to real life. One night we viewed Extreme Couponing and Secretly Pregnant back-to-back on TLC, following episodes of Hoarders: Buried Alive (most addictive trash TV out there, an easy guilty pleasure and absolutely makes you want to rush home and clean unless you yourself are a secret hoarder, which may be a test, folks) and Lady Hoggers from about Midnight on. Who knew a show about tracking wild hogs could be an actual series? But LH debuted on Nov. 16 to apparently rave reviews for that sort of reality show. And it was oddly compelling. Heres the tag line: It takes a brave soul to take on a wild hog. Theyre smart [we remember from Animal Farm], lightning quick and armed to the teeth, literally. In
the heart of Florida, hog hunters are taking a stand. We would add that the hogs are freaking huge. They could easily take a spot on Terra Nova with the smaller raptors. As for the other reality shows we discovered: How secret is your pregnancy if you are on a reality TV show talking about it? And how do the hoarders live with the smell of their lifestyle, especially those people who hoard food and have pets that dont use litter boxes or get walked? And isnt extreme couponing just another compulsion like hoarding? Of course, watching 24/7 TV, which we dont do in real life because, well, we have a real life, truly gets one in touch with the zeitgeist. But the zeitgeist aint what it used to be, in our humble opinion. We tried sticking to actual serious series of the sort we watch at home and have discussed here regularly, because, you know, thoughtful, impressive TV. Who doesnt want to watch Homeland, Grimm, Ringer, The Good Wife or Walking Dead? The rst three are inarguably among the best of the new season, and the latter two among the best on TV, period. But focus is difcult in the hospital, especially hooked up to machines and feeling super crappy and listening to the screams and
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paid settlements, which means their stories were credible enough to have each provided with a years salary, the likelihood that those two women lied is slim to none. Which makes the assertions of the other two complainants equally strong by comparison. Letterman made much of Cains statement that running the country was just like running a pizza company, except with more jobs. You ought to get some sort of tollfree number, Letterman suggested. Referring to Cains 9-9-9 tax plan, he said, You dial 9-9-9, you get a free pizza. Instead of a free pizza when you dial 9-9-9, youre going to be able to get a job. Thats the whole point, OK? Cain responded. Im about creating jobs. Letterman didnt let it go, however, stating that the economy may be beyond solvability at this point. Cain then laughed and asked, Are you trying to talk me out of this? Hes trying real hard to talk me out of this.
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As the lead news story last week on both network and cable news, ending with the story on Nov. 19 that Penn States legendary coach Joe Paterno has lung cancer, one can see that this story is not going away. Nor should it. This is the sports version of the pedophile priest scandal, with university higher-ups charged with looking the other way for years while former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky allegedly used Penn States athletic facilities as his own personal sexual Disneyland to rape, sodomize and otherwise traumatize young boys he was supposed to be mentoring. The Grand Jury report says the youngest boy was seven, the oldest was 12. Most were nine and 10. The good news so far for the queer community is that no one has suggested that Sandusky is anything but a twisted child-rapist who used both Penn State and the charity for troubled boys that he founded, The Second Mile, to cull vulnerable victims. Both local news reporting in PA and national news coverage has focused entirely on Sandusky as predator. Which frankly makes for an interesting change to what queers are used to when a pedophile is revealed. How the Syracuse case, which was revealed on Nov. 17, plays out may be different. There the alleged victims are team members in college, so stay tuned to that one. But with Sandusky, the word gay has not been mentioned by anyone: no newscaster (not even on Fox, which has been obsessed with the story), no legal people, no Penn State folks. Perhaps because the Pope isnt involved, theres no hidden religious agenda? No one has suggested that Sandusky is gay. He is married with six children; his wife, not surprisingly, has refused to speak with the media. What is true with this story is that Sandusky and the others charged in the case, includes the beloved Paterno, who has fallen so far from grace its almost tragic, have revealed just how insidious the college sports world can be, putting The Game above all else. Late on Nov. 18, the NCAA released a statement to the news media which aired on every TV news program: Penn State is in trouble, and Paternos legacy is completely shot. The NCAA is doing its own investigation, and it seems likely that Penn State may end up being cut for a year or more from the league as a punishment for putting football before childrens lives. But back to the Silver Fox. Cooper is well known for taking a point of view in his reportage. From Bosnia to Katrina to the Penn State scandal, hes not letting it go, be it on 360 or Anderson. Perhaps as a (rumoredto-be, and straight people never refuse to talk about their personal lives) gay man, Cooper feels the sort of defensiveness many of us feel when these stories come up, but his focus on his Nov. 15 Anderson was succinct: Who doesnt stop a rape in progress? Especially one between a then-55-year-old man and a 10-year-old? Speaking of difcult times explaining things, we are so gratied to see Herman Cain going down. We never understood his rise in the polls, although it does seem to imply that even the Tea Party is willing to go with the black guy as long as hes spouting their rhetoric and has an affable personality. Aint post-racial America interesting? Outside the raried air of Republicanville, Cain looks a lot less presidential. On Nov. 18, Cain was David Lettermans guest on The Late Show. Uh oh. It was Letterman who rst took on the dastardly Bill OReilly years ago, and weve seen him do his Columbo act, Maybe Im just stupid, but, with politicians on both sides of the aisle, always managing to show up the pol. Cain was no exception. Letterman did his routine: A respectful intro with some laughs as he let Cain get comfy and settled before asking of the sexual harassment allegations, These statements are all false? All of these women are lying? Theyre all lying? Cains response was succinct: Yes. They are. Since we know two women were What is going on over at Glee? We loved the most recent episode, but the whiplash is killing us. Finally some good routines, focus on characters who are not Rachel, and having Santana do Adele was about as perfect a switch-up as one could imagine. But were creeped out by the hot-for-teacher storyline. Can we just keep students and teachers from having sex? 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playful rst driving lesson. Its one of those rare moments where we are not immediately clued into our heros gender. Observing Laure (the impeccably androgynous Zoe Heran) interact with her attentive parents and sassy but feminine kid sister Jeanne (Malonn Levana) is like getting a privileged all-access pass to a childhood paradise immediately before the loss of innocence, sans that phrases religious baggage. Sciamma frames Laures bold move as the new kid in town when she declares to her rst new friend Lisa, My name is Mikael. As with many astute glimpses at childhoods landmine stages, the genius is in the details and the pacing. This barely 80-minute lm is painstakingly structured, with long scenes that allow each relationship to breathe and feel absolutely true: Laure and Jeannes playtime, from the hour in the tub to the little girls
drawings (shes specically lefthanded), to the dinner-table bs to the parents about Jeannes having found an older boy playmate named Mikael, a joke that Laure gleefully colludes in. The core of the story is Laure/ Mikaels playground strategy, carefully allowing Lisa (the fearless Jeanne Disson) and a motley gang of lads to create their own impressions of the new boy in town: how slick he is at scoring a soccer goal, how good a swimmer he is, and most importantly, how this Mikael can stand up for himself and ultimately shove another boy off the swimming deck. There is a great moment of equipoise when Mikael is standing triumphant Play-Dohconstructed penis properly outlined in his red briefs ashing the universal arms-raised victory sign that all preening young men make after vanquishing an opponent. But of course, pride goes before the fall. Mikael oversteps the line when
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beating up a kid who has bullied Jeanne. We see betrayal, humiliation and nally the emotional abyss before the dreaded rst day of school, when Laure/Mikael will have to answer the roll call next to Lisa in fourth-grade homeroom. From its verdant country setting
where a tomboy can practice a dangerous deception without bigcity blowback, to the extraordinary honesty of its racially diverse, prepubescent cast, to the intriguing open ending, Tomboy joins a small subgenre of lms exploring gender identity so boldly Boys Dont Cry,
or this years audacious German trans-romance/comedy Private Romeos that they can leave you breathless. Pity theres no Oscar for a foreign child actress who best mimes Hilary Swanks articialpenis-packing Brandon Teena turn. Heran really commands in quiet moments where we sense the mental wheels spinning. We see her thoughts about whether its best to kiss the girl when pretending not to be one, or if its not so bad to reveal who you really are, as long as you can still be that gender-sliding special person. As a boy whose parents proudly had a professional photographer preserve his three-year-old Shirley Temple curls, and whose gift-list one Christmas included a train set and a dollhouse, Ive long nurtured the fantasy that all kids are entitled to penis power by whatever means they can contrive. Tomboy delicately hints of that silly fantasy becoming esh a lot sooner that I had ever imagined. Opens Friday.
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