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Amid Delta COVID surge, some LGBTQ centers delay reopening their doors by Matthew S. Bajko Courtesy Alvin Orloff

Alvin Orloff points to the new name he will christen Dog Eared Books in the Castro next month.

Gay manager buys Castro’s Dog Eared Books

by Matthew S. Bajko

longtime manager at Dog Eared Books has bought the locally owned bookstore’s second location in San Francisco’s LGBTQ Castro district. It will be rechristened as Fabulosa Books next month. Alvin Orloff, 59, a gay man who has worked for the bookseller for 21 years, is buying the store location from Dog Eared Books’ queer owner Kate Rosenberger Razo, who will continue to operate the store’s first location on Valencia Street. She opened the Castro store in the summer of 2016, taking over a vacated clothing store space. The storefront at 489 Castro Street had previously been the home of beloved LGBTQ-focused A Different Light Bookstore from 1986-2011. After a slight remodel of the space, Orloff will officially open Fabulosa Books September 15 on his 60th birthday. “I figured 60 is a good age to start assuming adult responsibility,” Orloff joked in a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. At a time when many booksellers are struggling – two other Castro district bookstores Aardvark Books on Church Street and Books Inc. on Market Street closed their doors – Orloff continues to believe in the necessity of a neighborhood bookstore. “A Castro Street without a bookstore is like a day without sunshine,” said Orloff. “I can’t even imagine how horrible it would be for Castro Street not to have a bookstore. I love bookstores; I want there to be more of them. It is a calling, say.” He has no plans to retire anytime soon, said Orloff, who began discussing purchasing the store from Razo in 2019 prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the health crisis, which caused the bookstore to close its doors for four months last year and put its future in doubt, postponed the sale talks until recently. “Because of my misspent youth, I am not in a position to retire anytime soon,” said Orloff. “For me personally, I plan to keep working at least another 10 years. This is not the end of my career or my swan song yet.” Razo, 60, who close to four years ago married a man she met from Mexico, told the B.A.R. that it is “amazing” to have reached a deal for Orloff See page 10 >>

he latest surge in COVID-19 cases in the Bay Area due to the Delta variant has led some LGBTQ community centers in the region to push back offering indoor programming. Instead, they continue to offer services virtually or in outdoor venues. Both the Rainbow Community Center in Concord and the San Mateo County Pride Center are delaying their plans to reopen their doors as the latest wave of coronavirus cases has brought about a return of mask mandates and other policies to stem the increase. In the case of the Peninsula center, it is taking the time to remodel its space at 1021 South El Camino Real in the city of San Mateo. It announced in July (LINK: tinyurl.com/ SMCPC-reopeningfall2021) that it was adding a meeting space to its main room that will be accessible for folks who cannot use stairs and making additional changes to the layout of its offices. The Pride Center also revealed it had acquired Owl Technology so it will be able to offer hybrid meeting options going forward. Any group hosting an in-person meeting will also be able to have people participate remotely from their home or other location. The system includes a built-in speaker, mic, and 360-degree camera that the center noted will help “remote callers feel present and fully integrated into the group meeting.”

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The Rainbow Community Center in Concord is one of several in the region that remains closed to in-person events, opting to offer online services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Since the Pride Center’s physical space has been closed, our intention is to capitalize on this opportunity to redesign the layout to be more accessible for both community members and staff when we reopen,” stated the center. Francisco “Frankie” Sapp, the center’s program director who is on vacation until August 26, had told the Bay Area Reporter last month he was still working on an exact timeline for when the center could welcome people back.

An August 6 email sent out by the center to its constituents noted it would likely do so sometime on or after September 23, which marks the start of fall. “As the state has opened up and many businesses have reopened their doors, we’ve received a lot of questions about when the Pride Center will reopen ours. Since shelter-in-place began, the Pride Center has been effectively offering See page 10 >>

1st pandemic-era Bay Area Pride parade to kick off in San Jose

by John Ferrannini

his weekend Silicon Valley Pride is hosting the Bay Area’s first in-person Pride parade and festival since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The theme this year is “Standing for Love and Liberation.” A lineup of events was planned to precede the parade and festival – including a flag-raising at San Jose City Hall by San Jose City Councilmembers Pam Foley and Dev Davis, both straight allies. The two were to raise the Pride Progress flag at 5 p.m. August 24, and light the building in rainbow colors, but in a sign of the times, the event had to be canceled at last minute after demonstrators protesting a proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate shut down a City Council meeting. The proposed mandate, proposed by the San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, would require proofof-vaccination to be shown at events of over 50 people at city-owned facilities. “Due to unsafe and aggressive actions and language observed today at San Jose City Hall of protesters concerned with the potential vaccination mandate, we are postponing the flag raising and lighting ceremony until a later date and time,”

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Maribel Martínez, right, director of the Santa Clara County Office of LGBTQ Affairs, marched with the office’s contingent in the 2016 Silicon Valley Pride parade.

Foley stated via Twitter, who added that the decision was made in consultation with members of the Silicon Valley Pride board. “Starting tonight, however, the City Hall Tower and Rotunda will be illuminated in bright rainbow colors and the rotunda in trans-themed colors.” Saldy Suriben, a gay man who is the chief marketing officer for Silicon Valley Pride, stated via

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email August 25 that “We didn’t expect protesters will be present during the City of San Jose Council meeting.” “Yesterday, we were asked to move with the Mayor, councilmembers, and city staffs to a secure room during the event that took place,” Suriben continued. “We all agreed not to proceed.” See page 6 >>

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Mask policies vary at upcoming SF street fairs by John Ferrannini

number of LGBTQ-themed outdoor street festivals are taking place in the coming weeks, but so far, only one is requiring attendees to wear face coverings. Megahood 2021, produced by Folsom Street Events on September 26, will require people to wear masks, as the Bay Area Reporter previously noted. The decision is because organizers expect attendance to exceed 10,000 people, which triggers the city’s outdoor mask mandate. As the B.A.R. recently reported, some attendees at the Folsom Street Market street fair and its associated indoor events reported becoming sick from COVID-19 in the days after the July event that replaced the Up Your Alley street fair. Other upcoming street fairs have not made a decision on face coverings, did not respond to a request for comment, or said attendees won’t be required to wear one. The COVID-19 virus is far less transmissible in outside environments, though how much so is a matter of debate, especially regarding the highly contagious Delta variant.

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People line up outside the Powerhouse bar during Folsom Street Market in late July.

The San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee will hold an LGBTQ Freedom Day Festival

in the Mission neighborhood to coincide with National Coming Out Day Sunday, October 10. It will

take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., according to SF Pride’s announcement. The city’s Fleet Week activi-

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ties take place the same weekend. “This street fair will take over a segment of Valencia Street in San Francisco’s Mission district,” the announcement reads. “Anchored by stages at either end, the threeblock section bounded by 18th and 21st streets will become home to more than 100 vendors and community organizations and a celebratory atmosphere. Freedom Day Fest will highlight the Latinx heritage of the Mission while acknowledging it as a queer neighborhood with a historically strong lesbian presence.” SF Pride, which did not return requests for comment, did not hold a parade up Market Street this year at the end of June due to the pandemic, and has “chosen to deliver engaging and inclusive programming all year long,” its announcement reads. “After nearly 18 months, Freedom Day Fest will be the incredibly diverse world-class festival experience people have come to expect from San Francisco Pride for more than 50 years,” the announcement reads. Last week, Aria Sa’id, a trans woman who is the president of the Transgender District, told the B.A.R. that district staffers, volunteers, and security – as well as food and beverage vendors – will be required to be masked at the district’s Riot Party in the Tenderloin Sunday, August 29, but the general public is not so mandated to do so. There will be capacity limits, however. Jenn Meyer, a straight ally who is the president of the board of directors of the Castro Street Fair – which will be held Sunday, October 3, between Megahood and the Freedom Day Festival – stated that “no decisions have been made.” “We are following all the health mandates closely and will make any changes necessary to keep ourselves and our guests safe,” Meyer stated. Erik Greenfrost, a genderqueer gay person who is the chair of Bears of San Francisco and the cochair of the Bearrison Street Fair, told the B.A.R. that the inaugural festival on Harrison Street scheduled for October 23 isn’t expecting a crowd of over 10,000. “Unlike Megahood, which is required to have masks because there will be more than 10,000 people, we are not anticipating crowds of that size at Bearrison Street Fair,” Greenfrost stated. “That said, we will of course follow all guidance from the city and the Department of Public Health on how to keep our attendees safe and secure, depending on what is happening with the pandemic at the end of October. Much like Folsom Street, we are paying very close attention to the coronavirus – including the new Delta variant – and seeing what public health officials are recommending for outdoor gatherings.” Sister Desi Juana DeWitt, a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence who is a co-chair as well, stated that is “exactly what I was thinking.” “The Sisters are also still promoting the #PracticeSafeSix initiative that we partnered with the city of SF on,” DeWitt stated. “We are all proactively masked for indoor events at this point.” Organizers of Oakland Pride, scheduled for Sunday, September 12, did not respond to a request for comment. Interested vendors can register for SF Pride’s Freedom Day online at https://sfpride.org/2021-celebration.html. t

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New mural going up on Powerhouse wall by John Ferrannini

new mural on the side of the Powerhouse bar in the city’s South of Market neighborhood is showcasing how queer people expressed their sexuality as they physically distanced. The mural, which will be completed August 27, is being painted by Simón Malvaez, a queer artist who Bay Area Reporter readers may remember worked with Juan Manuel Carmona earlier this year on the “Queeroes” mural on the side of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center. “It’s a guy on his knees taking a selfie while he’s naked,” Malvaez told the B.A.R. August 23 as he got underway on the new project at the inRick Gerharter tersection of Folsom Street and Dore Artist Simón Malvaez began to paint his mural “Selfie” on the alley wall of the Powerhouse bar August 23. Alley. “I use the selfie as a symbol of empowerment because during quar“Sniffies is popular across the U.S., to Sniffies.” day. Photo opportunities that bring antine a lot of people had time – escertainly in San Francisco as well,” Stone said they found that artist in people to our corner make sense. We pecially in the queer community – to Stone told the B.A.R. “We started Malvaez. started a few years ago with ‘Loads of share sexuality through the internet.” our talks with Powerhouse a couple “I personally have been a fan of Love’ by Elliot C. Nathan, a collaboThe model is “an anonymous guy,” of months ago. As we were speaking Simón Malvaez for quite some time,” ration with Juanita MORE!, so why Malvaez said. with [Powerhouse general manager] Stone said. “His work is incredibly not keep it going down the alley/pig The mural is being commissioned Scott [Richard Peterson] about how powerful, queer, and I knew he was pen side of our building.” by Sniffies, a cruising app for gay, bito bring Sniffies to San Francisco, based in San Francisco, so he came to Malvaez noted that the other artsexual, and bicurious men. we thought of ways we can add to mind first.” works at Powerhouse were by white Sam Stone, a gay man who is the community and so we wanted to Peterson approved. artists, such as the Honeybear in the based in New York, is the editorial commission an artist – a queer art“I said yes, the artist’s work is attire of a Sister of Perpetual Induldirector for Sniffies, which he said ist – for the mural who can speak to great,” he stated. “The concept begence by fnnch that is above the muwas founded in Seattle about three the spirit of San Francisco as well as hind it is relevant with customers toral he’s working on. years ago. ISO 12647-7 Digital Control Strip 2009 3%

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couple of weeks ago we editorialized against removing Governor Gavin Newsom from office. But now that Californians are casting their ballots, it seems that the voice most needed to convince Golden State residents to reject the recall is missing – that of Newsom himself. The television ads – at least in the Bay Area – don’t feature his voice, and he hasn’t given many interviews to encourage people to keep him in office. Meanwhile, Republican Larry Elder is leading among the 45 candidates to replace Newsom despite revelations about his misogyny, allegedly brandishing a gun at his ex-fiancée, and his problematic financial disclosures. (The Los Angeles Times reported that state officials have launched an investigation into whether Elder has failed to properly disclose his income sources. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-22/state-officials-investigationlarry-elder-disclose-income-sources). The recall first gained momentum over an incident that continues to anger voters: Newsom’s ill-advised visit to the French Laundry last year. We previously wrote that the governor made a mistake in traveling to the fancy North Bay restaurant and dining with people not in his household while he was telling the rest of us not to do that. Although he apologized for it afterward, the outrage snowballed and accumulated other criticisms that energized more recall proponents. Newsom needs to go on the offensive – and fast. The recall election is September 14, and he must

Governor Gavin Newsom needs to tell voters why they should keep him in office.

motivate apathetic Democrats to fill out those mail-in ballots properly. He needs to take to the airwaves and explain to people why this election is more than the “Republican recall” that the reject the recall campaign ads always say. He needs to take ownership of how he’s run the state during his two years in office, which, by the way, has largely been stellar. Thanks to a Demo-

cratic Legislature and Democratic governor, the state has made progress in addressing law enforcement reform, housing, and climate change. When it comes to LGBTQ issues, Newsom has been way above average. He has not shied away from signing controversial bills like gay state Senator Scott Wiener’s (D-San Francisco) Senate Bill 145 that ends discriminatory treatment of LGBTQ young adults faced with registering as sex offenders. In San Francisco, we’re counting on Newsom next year to sign a bill Wiener’s long worked on to establish safe consumption site pilot programs here and in Oakland and Los Angeles. We won’t get that if Newsom is recalled and Elder is elected with what could be as little as 14% of the vote. This week, Democratic former state senator Gloria Romero, a longtime charter school advocate, made an ad in support of Elder. In it, she criticizes Newsom, saying he “shut public schools” during the pandemic while his kids attended private schools. Let’s be clear, the policy decisions Newsom made to confront the pandemic were sound – and likely helped save lives. We’re in the midst of a public health emergency, which calls for drastic action. Voters would be foolish to oust Newsom and replace him with a Republican who would do away with mask and vaccine mandates as the state is struggling to emerge from COVID and the Delta variant. That’s an argument that Newsom himself must drive home to voters. If enough Democrats vote and reject the first question on the ballot, Newsom will remain in office. He’s got about 19 days to do it. t

Two issues observed in Castro flag fight by Jeff Sheehy

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bserving the brewing controversy over the rainbow flag installation in the Castro, I may be in a unique position in that I helped Gilbert Baker in getting his work of art installed in 1997, tried to landmark it when I was supervisor, and also sponsored the legislation establishing the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District. I know that one question underlying the controversy is fundamental and of extreme importance – the identity of the Castro as a neighborhood. The Castro must be welcoming to everyone. I applaud the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District for challenging the status quo. I think it would be distressing to Baker, who died in 2017, to see his one permanent work of art, the rainbow flag installation, in the middle of this struggle.

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Let me recount how the flag happened. In 1997, at the Castro Street Fair, I was standing with Baker in Jane Warner Plaza and thenmayor Willie Brown was approaching with his entourage. Baker was keenly aware that the mayor was promoting public art. Stanlee Gatti had proposed a giant foot sculpture for the foot of Market Street and a giant peace sign sculpture in the Panhandle at Golden Gate Park. Baker and I approached the mayor and Baker, with all of his glorious and passionate energy, pitched the idea for his work of art, the installation of a giant flagpole flying the rainbow flag – an idea he had spent 10 years developing. I stood by Baker as he described his vision in detail, from the placement of the pole, to the height of the pole and the size of the flag. Baker had already worked out all of the details. Brown turned to one of his aides and directed him to make it happen. The aide worked with Baker and the appropriate city agencies, hewing precisely to Baker’s vision. And I was there when Brown honored Baker at that historic moment when Baker first raised that flag to honor the 20th anniversary of Harvey Milk’s election to the Board of Supervisors, a seat I would go on to hold. One problem may be a failure to recognize Baker as an artist and the rainbow flag installation as a work of art. It is not just a flagpole. Read Baker’s own words in a letter to the Bay Area Reporter in its September 15, 2011 issue:

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Gilbert Baker’s rainbow flag installation flies above Castro and Market streets.

“The rainbow flag that flies so proudly over Harvey Milk Plaza was my creation. It took me 10 years of work to get it there and was dedicated on November 7, 1997 to commemorate the election of Harvey Milk to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. I share credit for this accomplishment with then-Mayor Willie Brown and Jeff Sheehy, then-president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club. “This was never a community flagpole; it is there for one reason, to fly the rainbow flag. ... Let the rainbow flag fly free and proud.” Gilbert Baker”

Baker’s body of work

It’s important to consider Baker’s body of work as an artist. We know much about of Baker’s work as a vexillographer, spearheading the creation of the Rainbow Flag, creating massive, spectacular environmental works of art like the mile-long flag displayed at Pride in New York City in 1994 and the 1.25 mile coast to coast Rainbow Flag at Key West Pride in 2003. We can see his influence in the proliferation of flags representing the constellation of communities in our liberation movement. Flags derive from banners designed to lead armies into battle where we kill each other. Baker’s influence spread the notion that flags can represent communities of love and affirm our identities, our individuality, and our freedom. But there is more to Baker’s art.

Arguably his first piece was performance art at boot camp in Missouri after being drafted during the Vietnam War. Baker refused to carry a gun. I quote from his autobiography, “Rainbow Warrior”: “…I didn’t pick up the gun. Instead, I took my place in the formation… “I noticed the drill sergeant fix on me. ‘You don’t have a weapon Baker’… “‘I will not carry a weapon. You can do what you want, but I’m not going to carry a gun. I have rights.’ “‘You haven’t got shit for rights!’ the captain screamed. ... The colonel drove up, ‘You’re a coward’ ... the officer of the day ... ‘We could kill you on the spot. We have every right to shoot you as a deserter. Nobody would think twice about a dead queer.’” Baker never carried a gun; they made him a medic. After all, they needed every warm body they could get their hands on. Another work of political performance art was an action Baker organized to protest Pope John Paul II’s visit to San Francisco. He led a group in drag to the Golden Gate Bridge where they crashed a car into a tollbooth as the pope’s helicopter was arriving. Of course they were immediately arrested. When the police put handcuffs on Baker, he wrote that he spread his arms wide and attached to his wrists “were the corners of the U.S. Constitution in satin parchment that opened across my bosom … the media picked up the moment. It was better than giving John Paul II the finger.” See page 9 >>

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Gay SF DA chief of staff Campos explores Assembly bid by Matthew S. Bajko

onfirming what had been speculated for months, gay former San Francisco supervisor David Campos this week launched an exploratory committee to once again run for a state Assembly seat. Should the 17th Assembly District seat covering the city’s eastern neighborhoods become vacant this year, Campos intends to seek it in the special election that would be called to fill it. On Tuesday, August 24, Campos officially announced he was exploring a bid for the Assembly seat that includes the city’s LGBTQ districts as well as the heavily Latino Mission district where he resides with his husband, Phil Hwang. Campos, 50, also unveiled a campaign website at https://camposforus.com/ He had previously run for it in 2014 but lost to the winner, Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco), his Board of Supervisors colleague at the time. Mayor London Breed is widely expected to name Chiu as city attorney due to her picking the current officeholder, Dennis Herrera, to run the troubled San Francisco Public Utilities Commission as its general manager. An announcement about Herrera’s replacement could come as soon as early September. If she does name Chiu to the position, it will result in a special election being held to fill his Assembly seat through the remainder of his term that ends in December 2022. The victor of the race would need to run in next year’s contest for a full two-year term in the Assembly. Having an open Assembly seat is likely to draw a number of highprofile candidates, as the person could serve in the position for 12 years. Campos, now serving as San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s chief of staff, is the first person to signal they intend to seek it. If Chiu ends up seeking another term in the Assembly then Campos will not run against him and likely wait until 2026 to run when Chiu would be termed out. “I think that it is really important to explain that there are communities that have been impacted

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David Campos is exploring a run for state Assembly, should the 17th District seat become vacant.

by COVID that, to this day, feel their voices are not being heard,” said Campos, elected this year as a vice chair of the state Democratic Party. “It is important, I think, for someone who comes from those communities to represent them in Sacramento.” Prior to Chiu’s election, gay former city supervisor Tom Ammiano had represented the Assembly district. Should he be elected, Campos would be the first gay, formerly undocumented Latino in the state Legislature from San Francisco and return out representation from the city to the Assembly. (The city’s other current assemblyman, Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), is straight and seeking reelection next year. Gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) was reelected to a four-year term in 2020.) “I think it is important to be clear what this election is about. These communities deserve representation,” said Campos, who at 14 fled political turmoil in his native Guatemala with his family and crossed the U.S. border carrying his sister on his back. Fellow progressive Democrat District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney, a straight ally, is also eyeing a run for the Assembly seat. He told the Bay Area Reporter Tuesday that he is “seriously considering” mounting his own candidacy. “I have a job as supervisor that I’m focused on. If there is a vacancy, at that point I will consider it,” stated Haney, 39, who has long been talked about as a mayoral candidate either against Breed in

2023 or when she is termed out. LGBTQ leaders supportive of Campos are already questioning Haney’s credentials for the Assembly seat, noting he was elected to his supervisor seat only three years ago. Asked about seeing Haney or another high-profile opponent enter the Assembly race, Campos told the B.A.R. who runs for the seat is out of his hands. “We are focused on our campaign and why we believe these communities deserve representation. We can’t control what happens; it is a democracy and people can choose to run,” said Campos. “We will focus on our message and why we believe, as we are still going through COVID, the communities impacted the most by COVID deserve representation and deserve a voice in Sacramento.”

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Governor Gavin Newsom has tapped gay San Francisco resident Reese Aaron Isbell, a Democrat, to serve on the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology. He made the appointment Monday, August 23. Isbell, 50, is serving on the ninemember oversight body in a consumer advocate role. It is responsible for the licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary matters related to the barber and cosmetologist professions, which include spa operators and manicurists. Hired this year as a senior account executive at Gravitate PR, Isbell told the B.A.R. he has seen the woman who has cut his hair for at least 15 years. “Of course, in 2020 I somehow managed to do it myself rather badly due to COVID,” he noted, as for much of last year barbershops were ordered closed to help stem transmission of the coronavirus. “I haven’t been a regular consumer of spas, just getting my hair cut about once a month or so.” In July, Isbell stepped down from the San Francisco Rent Board after serving two years as a tenant representative appointed by the mayor because he and his husband, Sheng “Bruce” Yang, bought a condo in the city. If confirmed by the state Senate to the state oversight panel, Isbell would receive a $100 per diem. t

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wrote that there was over $250,000 in damages to the building, including glass doors being kicked in by demonstrators. Authorities said that arrests would be made. Today, of course, the Golden State has some of the strongest LGBTQ protections in the country, including prohibiting employment discrimination.

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They’re just clothes by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

recently came across the following post on Twitter. “Autogynephilic male-to-female trans dress like the women they would like to have sex with, and homosexual male-to-female trans dress like the women they think men would like to have sex with. There are exceptions, but this is a general guideline for trans fashion choices.” Now, in 2021, I can hardly claim that the text of a random tweet is remotely newsworthy, not after the years of former President Donald J. Trump using the service as his bully pulpit, and so many more taking to the service to share their worst takes. Yet it does become relevant when one notes that these are the words of Ray Blanchard, Ph.D., who in the 1980s joined the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. Opened in 1966, it later became known as the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. It was one of the few places to provide care for transgender people in Canada. Many, however, cited the institute as a gatekeeping organization, more dedicated to turning away transgender people – if not attempting reparative therapy on them – than actually helping people. According to the Toronto Star, between 1969 and 1984, the Clarke Institute turned away 90% of those seeking trans-related care.

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The flag-raising has been rescheduled for August 26 at noon, Suriben concluded. For Pride weekend, a Night Festival kicks off the festival at 6 p.m. Satur-

Blanchard was also a large part of CAMH’s Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic, or GIC. In 2015, after an investigation by CAMH, the GIC was shuttered, with CAMH’s review citing reparative therapies, poor treatment of trans and other youth, outdated methods, and other issues with the program. This has not, however, stopped Blanchard from touting his own suppositions about transgender people. As shown in the above tweet, Blanchard still clings to a model he formed decades ago, claiming there are two subgroups of trans people: “homosexual transsexuals” who are gay men who have a fetishistic attraction to straight men, which they can only express by transitioning to women, and “autogynephilic transsexuals” who are people who have a fetish for feminizing themselves. To him, being trans is some sort of paraphilia (defined as a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires), and has little or nothing to do with identity. These views, of course, go against how the majority of people understand transgender people – including transgender people ourselves. Autogynephilia, for example, has largely been discredited. Yet, apparently to Blanchard, anyone who falls outside of these categories he made up is lying. You’ll note that Blanchard’s tweet

is steeped in that attitude, reiterating his two categories, as well as the assumption that transgender people are wholly driven by sexual attraction, whether it is the creation of one’s self as an image of their sexual desire, or fashioning one’s appearance after what they think men would wish for a sexual partner. There is little room for anything beyond this, besides an afterthought that there are, apparently, “exceptions.” Now it is worth noting that, even though he is a largely discredited figure after the closure of the GIC, this has neither stopped him from espousing his beliefs nor has it halted his influence in anti-trans circles. His is the sort of stuff that helps drive notions of trans predators, and is cited in attempts to pathologize and outlaw transgender people. Back in my early days on the internet, I would often have to fend off

males who would ask me what I was wearing. This is a pretty common experience for any woman online and perhaps even more so in trans spaces, fueled by men who may have a fetish for trans bodies. For once, I am actually going to answer that question. Right now, I am wearing a longsleeved, plus fabric T-shirt, in red, and a pair of denim jeans. I’ve got on a nice pair of black socks from a retailer in Portland. These are loose and slouchy, but warm. It’s a bit windy at the moment. Yes, there’s a cotton cami and some panties under all that, too, but these are far from the Victoria’s Secret fare I would suspect Blanchard would have been hoping for. It’s not a very sexy outfit. It’s warm. It’s comfortable. Also, yes, it is this woman’s clothing. I’m not wearing it to attract a mate, nor am I wearing it because I consider this seriously basic

day, August 28, at the Plaza de César Chávez in downtown San Jose, according to Suriben. There is no cost to attend, according to the event’s website. “On our main stage we have Thea Austin from ‘Rhythm is a Dancer’ and Snap,” Suriben said. A two-hour parade kicks off at

10 a.m. the following morning at Julian and Market streets and ends at the plaza. “We want to highlight our parade,” Suriben said. “People should come because it’s a celebration for being who we are – being our 100% authentic self without hiding – and there’s

always a celebration when we can celebrate Pride.” Afterward a Day Festival will occur at the plaza from noon to 6 p.m. This year the festival is free, according to Silicon Valley Pride’s website. “Our headliner is Estelle, who you may remember from the hit

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outfit anything that excites me, either. They’re just ... clothes. There are a couple other things I think about when I look at Blanchard’s tweet, beyond the influence that this disgraced sexologist has. For one, he is implying that the desire to wear clothing that is attractive to people you might be attracted to, or wearing clothing that you feel makes you look attractive, are deviant desires. I’m not talking for transgender people here, but seemingly anyone who has opted to wear an outfit they find attractive to a date. Secondly, and perhaps more damning, is that the whole thing feels about two steps removed from arguments that a person “deserves” sexual assault for what they are wearing. Indeed, in other tweets from Blanchard, he has made the arguments that transgender people would want to be “slut shamed” as a source of affirmation. This is not someone whose views on transgender people should be taken anywhere near as seriously as they are. It would seem as if he has crafted some odd notions of what a trans person is, and has opted to cling onto those beliefs for decades, rather than pondering that it truly is possible he’s wrong. That he is given even half the clout is maddening. He should be given the same gravitas as most cranks who spend their days ranting on Twitter. t Gwen Smith will never make the cover of Vogue. You’ll find her at www.gwensmith.com.

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Pastor Ernest Larkins is one of the participants in “Substance Users, the Recovery Community, and AIDS.”

AIDS grove releases short doc on substance use compiled by Cynthia Laird

he National AIDS Memorial Grove has released a short documentary via its Surviving Voices storytelling initiative about substance use and recovery. “Substance Users, the Recovery Community, and AIDS” is now on the grove’s website. According to a news release, the 12-minute film includes personal interview segments with survivors and advocates. The documentary previously was shown at two LGBTQ film festivals – Frameline45 and SF Queer Film Fest 2021. “The National AIDS Memorial is honored to have our Surviving Voices minidocumentary featured at these influential film festivals,” stated John Cunningham, chief executive of the grove. “It speaks to the important work our organization is doing to share these powerful personal stories of hope, resilience, and the journey of survivors around the issue of HIV/AIDS and addiction in an authentic and powerful way.” One of the people featured is pastor Ernest Larkins of City of Refuge United Church of Christ and the founder of the Messengers of Hope. Larkins talks about the first time he used drugs and how he changed. “I traded that for something else,” he said in the film. Another person featured is Billy Lemon, executive director of the Castro Country Club, a sober space in the LGBTQ neighborhood. Harm reduction is also discussed in the film, featuring Laura Thomas, director of harm reduction policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and Ro Giuliano, a harm reductionist. SFAF is a partner on the project, including its Stonewall Project and Elizabeth Taylor 50-Plus Network, along with the Castro Country Club and Chevron. To view the film, go to http:// www.aidsmemorial.org.

Tape believed to be from Milk’s parents donated to SF library

An audio cassette tape believed to be from Harvey Milk’s parents wish-

ing their son all the best has been donated to the history center at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library. Gay longtime activist Michael Petrelis made the donation. In an email to the Bay Area Reporter, he stated that he acquired the tape “via a circuitous route” and said it also shared family updates. Milk was the first openly gay person elected to public office in San Francisco and California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. He took office in January 1978, but was assassinated 11 months later (along with then-mayor George Moscone) by disgruntled ex-supervisor Dan White. Petrelis stated that the tape, which is not dated, joins the center’s collection of other Milk items, including White’s confession to investigators. Tim Wilson of the library confirmed the donation. “Yes, Michael Petrelis recently facilitated the donation of a cassette tape that is labeled ‘Letter to Harvey,’” Wilson stated in an email. “The donor believes it may be from Harvey Milk’s parents. Since there is a lack of documentation about the tape, the library is researching other avenues to authenticate it.”

SF holds conviction history program info session

The city of San Francisco’s Department of Human Resources will hold a virtual information session to bring awareness and guidance to job seekers interested in the city’s Conviction History Program. According to a news release, the program conducts centralized pre-employment reviews of applicants’ conviction history based on recency, relevance, rehabilitation, and other job-related factors to determine suitability for employment, ensuring employment decisions are free from bias and discrimination. The online Zoom program takes place Thursday, August 26, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. To sign up, go to https://bit. ly/3grsKzX. t

Obituaries >> Eric Jay Larson March 17, 1961 – August 17, 2021

Eric Jay Larson left us on Tuesday, August 17, 2021 in the home of his childhood on top of the hills in San Rafael, California. Eric leaves for all a rich legacy of activism and environmental achievements with many years and projects aimed at protecting and restoring wetlands, riparian corridors, marine preserves, coastlines and open spaces, and acquiring green belts for wildlife in Northern California. He created and managed several fisheries and was nationally rec-

ognized by then-Vice President Al Gore at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. for the best managed fishery in the United States. Eric was a founding board member of the groundbreaking legendary cannabis dispensary Peace in Medicine. Born in San Francisco on March 17, 1961, Eric was a world traveler from his early years on, and had many great adventures in so many amazing places throughout his life. He and his partner, Mitcho Thompson, celebrate their 30th anniversary this year. Shaman. Activist. Faery. Farmer. Sailor. Carpenter. Daddy. Green Man. Eric is survived by so many who love him it would take a book to list us all. Donations may be made in his name to: Redwood Empire Trout Unlimited https://www.redwoodempire-tu.org/.

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Oakland Symphony Music Director Michael Morgan dies by Cynthia Laird

ichael Morgan, a gay man and the longtime music director and conductor of the Oakland Symphony, died August 20 at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland. He was 63. According to a statement from the symphony, Mr. Morgan had been admitted to the hospital the week before with an infection. He had successful kidney transplant surgery in May at UCSF. Mr. Morgan had resumed conducting last month, noted the Oakland Symphony, for the Bear Valley Music Festival and San Francisco Symphony, whose gay former music director Michael Tilson Thomas this month canceled his upcoming performances with various symphonies as he recovers from surgery to treat a brain tumor. Oakland Symphony officials mourned Mr. Morgan, who had been music director and conductor for 30 years. “This is a terribly sad moment for everyone in the Oakland Symphony family. We have lost our guiding father,” stated Oakland Symphony Executive Director Mieko Hatano. “Michael’s plans and ambitions were set for several seasons to come. He made his orchestra socially authentic, demanded equality, and he made his orchestra our orchestra. He fashioned a unique, informed artistic profile that attracted one of the most diverse audiences in the nation. His music reflected his beliefs: reverence for the past, attuned to the future, rooted in his adopted home of Oakland. His spirit will always guide the enduring future of the Oakland Symphony.”

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Oakland Symphony Music Director Michael Morgan, left, was a grand marshal in the 2017 Oakland Pride parade.

In addition to his duties with the Oakland Symphony, Mr. Morgan served as artistic director of Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra; music director at Bear Valley Music Festival in Bear Valley, California; and music director of Gateways Music Festival in Rochester, New York. He was music director emeritus of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera and was on the boards of Oaktown Jazz Workshops and the Purple Silk Music Education Foundation. In 2020, according to the Oakland Symphony, Mr. Morgan began an association with the San Francisco Symphony as the first curator of its Currents online series, and he recently led the orchestra on July 23 at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco in what the San Francisco Chronicle’s Joshua Kosman said “Some conductors use a guest appearance with a major orchestra as an opportunity to show what they

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can do. Michael Morgan uses it to show what the orchestra can do. I like his way better.” Mr. Morgan was a familiar presence in Oakland. He served as grand marshal in the 2017 Oakland Pride parade, where he was greeted with cheers from the crowd. In a 2013 review in the Bay Area Reporter, critic Jason Victor Serinus wrote, referencing the symphony’s former name: “Its home in Oakland’s Paramount Theatre may be an easy BART ride from San Francisco, but the Oakland East Bay Symphony nonetheless remains a mystery for many San Francisco music-lovers. That’s a shame, because under its gay longtime Music Director Michael Morgan, who has led OEBS for all but one of its 25 years, the orchestra has provided unique programming and community outreach that make it a model of its kind.”

Mr. Morgan talked about what the symphony was trying to accomplish. “We try, in our small concert series, to really reflect what’s going on in Oakland and the East Bay,” Morgan told the B.A.R. “Hence we end up with concerts that are more diverse and more interesting than other orchestras whose repertoire is interchangeable, one with the other. We play to our community. It’s a really interesting one, so you get really interesting concerts.” “My orchestra is a fairly hip place as far as orchestras go,” Mr. Morgan had said. “Our staff, board, and audience are all in favor of experimentation. The audience has let us go out on a limb and see what happens.” The Oakland Symphony stated that Mr. Morgan’s programming engaged new audiences and many returned for subsequent concerts. Notable personalities like W. Kamau Bell and Dolores Huerta were invited to share the “Playlist” of music that shaped their lives and values. Mr. Morgan’s “Notes From…” concerts explored the music and musicians of such specific communities as Vietnam, Korea, Native American and LGBTQ+. “Lost Romantics” gave deserving, neglected works of the late 19th century a new hearing. And “American Masterworks” presented performances of such seminal stage works as “West Side Story,” “Candide,” “Street Scene,” “Porgy and Bess,” and “Show Boat.” The Oakland Symphony’s board chair, Jim Hasler, stated the organization is “grieving a profound loss.” “Michael’s impact on our community and the national orchestra field cannot be overstated – and

he has left us too soon,” Hasler stated. “We have been blessed over the past 30 years, as Michael built the foundations of an Oakland Symphony dedicated to diversity, education, artistic collaboration, and a celebration of music across genres and cultures. His vision of orchestras as service organizations was a beacon locally and nationally. This vision is his legacy, and the Oakland Symphony, Chorus and Youth Orchestra will renew his commitment for years to come.” Mr. Morgan was born September 17, 1957 in Washington, D.C., where he attended public schools and began conducting at the age of 12. According to the Oakland Symphony, while a student at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Mr. Morgan spent a summer at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, studying with Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa, the Oakland Symphony stated. He first worked with Leonard Bernstein during that same summer. His operatic debut was in 1982 at the Vienna State Opera, conducting Mozart’s “The Abduction” from the Seraglio. In 1986, Sir Georg Solti chose Mr. Morgan to become the assistant conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for seven years under both Solti and Daniel Barenboim. In 1986, he was invited by Bernstein to make his debut with the New York Philharmonic. As guest conductor, Mr. Morgan has appeared with most of America’s major orchestras, as well as the New York City Opera, St. Louis Opera Theater, and Washington National Opera. Mr. Morgan is survived by his mother, Mabel Morgan, and sister, Jacquelyn Morgan. A memorial service will be announced soon. t

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with pink triangles foreshadowing then-President Donald Trump and our country’s march toward an actual fascist regime. He presented these in a gallery in the Castro and Patrick Carney included them in the Pink Triangle installation during Pride in 2017. A critical point about Baker is that he never made money on the rainbow flag. With the help of a young lawyer named Matt Coles he actually prevented Paul Hardman and the Pride Foundation from trademarking the flag. When Coles asked Baker about patenting it himself, he said that the flag belongs to everyone. His devotion to his art came at a great personal cost to him. Initially, as one of the city’s leading vexillographers, then-mayor Dianne Feinstein’s administration hired him to festoon City Hall with flags for visiting foreign dignitaries. He

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One of my favorites was “Pink Jesus – Martyrs For Art.” In 1990, Baker crashed the Freedom Day Parade, inserting himself at the head of the parade just behind Dykes on Bikes. Covered in pink body paint, with a crown of thorns, an American flag loincloth, and in high heels, he was carrying a cross. Not well received, parade security personnel demanded police arrest Baker. Of course, Baker replied, “for what, a fashion violation?” The crowd loved it and the police were not about to load “Pink Jesus” into a paddy wagon. Parade organizers, horrified, marched 100 yards behind him for the rest of the parade. One of his last works shortly before he died was the creation of concentration camp uniforms

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even received the commission to decorate the Moscone Center with flags for the 1984 Democratic National Convention. However, after protesting the pope, he never received another commission from Feinstein’s administration. And in 2000 when he was invited by World Pride to mount a display of his flags and related art in Rome, his planned exhibition was targeted by the Vatican. Galleries were pressured to refuse it and the only venue to accept it was on a barge in the Tiber River. The art was shipped, but then impounded at customs. Funds were raised to liberate the art. The exhibition went forward but authorities shut it down after three days. Baker’s devotion to both his activism and art was paramount. In the long run, the art world saw fit to honor him, and his flags have been shown in museums around

the world. They are also in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the London Design Museum, the Tang Museum, the Barack Obama Presidential Library, and the Kansas History Museum.

Two issues

I see two issues. One is whether to preserve the singular, permanent work of art by an extraordinary, talented queer artist, and who did not profit off the rainbow flag. The other is the reason I sponsored the formation of the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District. I hoped that it would preserve our community with its values of love, liberation, diversity, and acceptance and lead our community in the spirit of inclusivity it so desperately needs. I reiterate, I am proud of the cultural district for starting a dialogue around the

Castro’s identity, values, and history. (The cultural district’s board passed a nonbinding resolution in June calling for the replacement of the Baker flag in the Castro.) And I hope the district can recognize Baker’s unique talent and incredibly provocative body of work and preserve his work of art as he intended. t

[Editor’s note: As the Bay Area Reporter has reported, Gilbert Baker co-created the first rainbow flags in 1978 with Lynn Segerblom and the late James McNamara.] Jeff Sheehy is a gay man and former District 8 representative on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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to take over the store. As they live near each other, she expects to see him often and collaborate with him going forward. “That was the whole idea, to get it into his hands,” said Razo, an artist who also owns Alley Cat Books/Gallería on 24th Street in the city’s Mission district. “I feel like he paid his dues and he is the right person to have the store. I am thrilled it has worked out.” The sales price for the transaction has yet to be determined, as Orloff is currently doing an inventory check of the Castro bookstore’s stock, which he will be buying from Razo in addition to the store’s fixtures. He estimated the price would be between $50,000 and $100,000. He has a three-year lease with his

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As of press time, Suriben has not responded to a follow-up question as to whether masks will be mandated at the event. As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, Megahood 2021 (this year’s rebranding of the Folsom Street Fair) will be requiring masks for attendees as it is expecting over 10,000 people, and statewide guidelines mandate masks for outdoor gatherings of that size or larger. Other LGBTQ street fairs and outdoor events planned for this summer and fall are either not requiring masks or are unsure at this time.

First Pride since Qmunity District created

This year’s Silicon Valley Pride will be the first since the LGBTQ

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our programs and services online,” noted the email. “However, we know many are eager to resume services within the cozy corners of the center itself. Our hope is to reopen our physical space by the end of the summer or very early fall.” While the Rainbow center in Contra Costa County is preparing to hold a “Progress Pride Together” gathering sometime in October, it too has no plans to immediately begin offering in-person services again. It has created a special page on its website at https:// www.rainbowcc.org/covid-19-update explaining what virtual programs and other services it continues to offer. In a note sent to the center’s

landlord at a reasonable rate, said Orloff, with an option to renew it for another five years in June 2024. He said that Razo has agreed to guarantee the lease during its first year. “The landlord has been very helpful and understanding,” said Orloff. He choose Fabulosa as it was a gay slang word from the mid-20th century British idiom known as Polari, which gay men used as a secret language to skirt anti-homosexual laws. “It is pretty obscure, but people into books like obscure things,” said Orloff. “The word is pretty obviously fabulous but a little more fabulous than the word fabulous.” The bookstore already feels “marvelous” under Orloff’s management, said Razo. “He is doing such a beautiful job with that store. It is taking on more and more of his personality,” she said.

“I am thrilled for him and his neighbors. I am thrilled for the whole LGBTQIA+ community locally, nationally and internationally.” As the B.A.R.’s Business Briefing column reported in January, Dog Eared Books was facing an uncertain future and had launched a GoFundMe campaign with a goal of raising $50,000 to help it survive. It raised just over $27,000, covering its back rent when it was closed to shoppers, and also secured federal loans to help keep it open. With the Castro location’s lease coming up for renewal in May, Orloff had told the B.A.R. that the bookstore was exploring its options, from extending its lease to a possible sale to new owners. “It is probably going to change hands in some form or fashion; we don’t know how,” he had predicted. With the support of donors, local

shoppers, and the staff’s hard work, the store was able to survive and has begun to see tourists come back, noted Orloff in a news release announcing his purchase of the business. “Nothing is more cheering than to see visitors from less tolerant parts of the globe exclaim with wonder at the sight of our gigantic wall of LGBTQ+ books,” he stated. “We’re very mindful of the fact we’re occupying the same space as A Different Light Books, which served queer San Francisco during the difficult years of the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s.” As the bookstore sells new, used, and remaindered books along with stickers, buttons, posters, cards, notebooks, and magazines, as well as buys used books over the counter, Orloff was asked by the B.A.R. if he considers it to be a LGBTQ bookstore. “Let’s just say the bookstore said, ‘I

identify as nonbinary and pansexual.’ We welcome everybody and are looking forward to seeing all your beautiful faces,” said Orloff. For now masks are required to be worn by all shoppers, who are also asked to remain six feet apart from each other. Because of the ongoing pandemic, in-store events are still a ways off from returning. And Orloff has “postponed indefinitely” hosting a grand opening celebration for Fabulosa Books. “At some point we will definitely have that party,” he said. The bookstore will be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays and Mondays. t

Qmunity District was created. Last year, shortly after Silicon Valley Pride was held virtually due to the COVID pandemic, South Bay government and LGBTQ community leaders announced the area around Post Street would henceforth be designated as the Qmunity District, as the B.A.R. reported at the time. Nathan Svoboda of Project MORE, a South Bay LGBTQ+ advocacy nonprofit, said that there will be COVID vaccination opportunities on-site during Pride weekend. “We encourage people to come out – mindful that we’re still in a pandemic – and to wear a mask as appropriate,” Svoboda said. This year’s celebration holds particular weight for the Qmunity District. Svoboda said that hopefully Silicon Valley Pride weekend will make more people aware of

the LGBTQ district and encourage them to get involved. “We’re very excited about that,” Svoboda said. “It’s the first time we will be able to promote, do outreach, and engage with the community in a concentrated effort. Our booth will be very much focused on the Qmunity District, telling people about it, about activities in the community, and giving folks a quick survey asking what they want to see in the district.” When asked about which activities in the community they’ll be promoting, Svoboda said that on September 18 there will be an LGBTQ Jubilee Wellness Festival. The free festival (https://poststjubilee. com/) on Post Street will be raising money and awareness for local HIV/AIDS services. Svoboda also touted a Halloween party planned for October 31. “I really hope the community

has the opportunity to engage with fellow members of the community and meet new people who maybe have relocated,” Svoboda said. “It’ll also be an opportunity to engage with allies and for different organizations and businesses to celebrate with us on the local level.”

will be utilized for Pride in the Penthouse, which is also free. On August 25, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., a free Black and Pink Pride Dance Party will celebrate femaleidentified members of the community at the Silicon Valley Capital Club at 50 West San Fernando Street in San Jose. The following night, from 6 to 8 p.m., the same location will be utilized for Pride in the Penthouse, which is also free. Finally, on August 27 from 6 to 10:30 p.m., a free program of entertainment called Out at the Ballpark will be held at the Excite Ballpark at 588 East Alma Street in San Jose, home of the San Jose Giants, the Low-A minor league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. Suriben said that this will include a performance by CHEER SF.t

constituents August 13, Executive Director Kiku Johnson explained it was “not safe, nor appropriate role modeling for Rainbow to ‘open’ for services even if masked and distanced” because its building at 2118 Willow Pass Road has “improper ventilation” and no spaces to accommodate large groups. “We hoped we would be able to reopen our center and services to offer more in-person connection in early summer,” wrote Johnson. “We continue to manage the risks and expectations and we care too deeply about each of you and us that are youth – not able to be vaccinated, older adults – that simply cannot risk exposure, our immunocompromised folx – managing compounded stigmas around status.”

The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center at 938 The Alameda in downtown San Jose also remains closed for indoor meetings and events. Along with its online programs and services, it has moved a variety of its offerings into its parking lot that this summer received a cosmetic upgrade influenced by the colors used in different Pride flag iterations. This past weekend the center held a rummage sale, for instance, in its parking lot. The center said in a recent email to constituents to “look for news about when and how we will be re-opening the Billy DeFrank Center SOON!” DeFrank board President Gabrielle Antolovich did not respond to a request for comment by the B.A.R.’s press deadline Wednesday.

Other centers

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South Bay events all week long

LGBTQ people and allies have events this week leading up to the Pride parade and festival, Suriben said. While the Tuesday flag-raising was postponed, on August 25, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., a free Black and Pink Pride Dance Party will celebrate female-identified members of the community at the Silicon Valley Capital Club at 50 West San Fernando Street in San Jose. The following night, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., the same location

Several local LGBTQ centers are offering in-person events and programs. Since officially opening its doors in June, the Coast Pride Center in downtown Half Moon Bay has changed its hours and is now offering a new group for middle-schoolers at its 711 Main Street location from 3:30 to 5 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of the month. It is now open for people to drop by from 2 to 6 p.m. on Mondays and from noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays. It also opens its doors from 2 to 6 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of the month. The Solano Pride Center brought back in Pride Month its in-person counseling sessions, youth drop-in groups, and senior luncheons held every other Friday. It did so because its entire staff is fully vaccinated and is requiring all participants of its programs to be vaccinated and wear masks while inside the center at 1234 Empire Street in Fairfield. “We are trying to follow the science and weighing the benefits of making sure we are able to provide community for folks and reduce isolation that LGBTQ youth and seniors particularly face,” said Jonathon Cook, the center’s executive director. “We are making sure we are able to focus on folks’ well-being and mental health during this pandemic.” It was planning to have a Pride gathering in October outdoors in Benicia but this week decided against doing so due to the ongoing health crisis. It also once again postponed a casino-themed fundraiser it was going to host September 25 since it was to be an indoor event. Cook told the B.A.R. the center would likely have an online fundraiser in its place. A full calendar of its programming and upcoming events can be found on the homepage of its website at https://www.solanopride.org/. The Pacific Center for Human Growth continues to keep its building at 2712 Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley closed and all of its programming of-

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fered online. It has been asking people to make a $45 donation to cover the cost of a therapy session (or $135 to pay for three sessions) during the COVID pandemic via its website at https://www.pacificcenter.org/. The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center has canceled its drop-in services “until further notice” due to the health crisis. But it continues to be open by appointment and for a limited number of support groups. Masks, temperature, and wellness checks are required for all of its in-person services at 3207 Lakeshore Avenue across from Lake Merritt. Updated information about its various offerings can be found at https://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/calendar. Marin County’s The Spahr Center at 150 Nellen Avenue in Corte Madera has remained open to the public with limited hours on weekdays during the COVID pandemic but has altered how it provides various services due to the health crisis. Its food pantry, for example, is now by delivery three days a week and its senior groups meet via Zoom. A listing of its offerings can be found at https://thespahrcenter.org/events/. Since May the LGBT Community Center in San Francisco has been offering select in-person services with its other offerings available by appointment or online. For instance, its Cyber Center is open from noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday each week and requires that masks be worn. Also on those three weekdays youth can schedule appointments for services from noon to 4 p.m. The San Francisco Community Health Center’s Castro Clinic it operates on the fourth floor of the LGBT center is currently closed due to the pandemic. The agency’s CEO Lance Toma recently told the B.A.R. it would remain shuttered for the foreseeable future because of the ongoing health crisis. As its hours and programming options continue to change, the LGBT Community Center posts updates to a special page on its website at https:// www.sfcenter.org/covid-19-update/. t

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Pfizer

doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines available to all adults eight months after their last dose. This is separate from the recent FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decision that moderately to severely immunocompromised people – including organ transplant recipients, people being treated for cancer and people with advanced or untreated HIV – are eligible for a third dose of these vaccines now.

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the younger age group remains covered by the EUA. The Moderna vaccine received its EUA a week after the Pfizer vaccine and many expect full approval soon. The single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine was granted EUA in late February. Health officials emphasized that although the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine received unusually speedy authorization in the face of the growing COVID crisis, the agency did not cut corners in evaluating its safety and efficacy. “The FDA’s approval of this vaccine is a milestone as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic,” acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock said in a statement. “[T] he public can be very confident that this vaccine meets the high standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality the FDA requires of an approved product.” The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which has been given the brand name Comirnaty, employs a novel messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that uses lipid nanoparticles to deliver genetic blueprints for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus spike protein. When injected into a muscle, cells produce the protein, triggering an immune response. The mRNA degrades quickly in the body and it does not alter human genes.

More vaccine mandates

Reuters

The Food and Drug Administration has granted full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine.

In a phase 3 clinical trial, more than 43,000 adults were randomly assigned to receive either two doses of the vaccine or a placebo spaced three weeks apart. The vaccine was 95% effective at reducing the risk of symptomatic COVID-19 after the second dose. The vaccine was also found to be safe and generally well tolerated, with most participants reporting only mild side effects such as injection site soreness and flu-like symptoms.

Although vaccine effectiveness has declined somewhat against the more transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, it still provides good protection against serious COVID outcomes. While the vaccine remains around 80% to 90% effective at preventing symptomatic illness and death, its efficacy against any infection has fallen to around 60% in some studies. This decline informed the Biden administration’s recent announcement that it plans to make booster

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Officials are hopeful that full approval will encourage more people to get vaccinated. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that around a third of people who have not yet gotten a vaccine were more likely to do so if it had full FDA approval. “While millions of people have already safely received COVID-19 vaccines, we recognize that for some, the FDA approval of a vaccine may now instill additional confidence to get vaccinated,” Woodcock said. The full approval will also make it easier for cities, hospitals, businesses, schools, and airlines to require vaccination. San Francisco did not wait for the FDA and has already mandated vaccines for city workers, teachers, and people who wish to enter indoor restaurants, bars, gyms and entertainment venues. A growing number of national companies, universities, and public school systems are requiring staff and

patrons to get vaccinated. The Pentagon announced Monday that activeduty members of the military will need to receive vaccines, though it did not give a deadline. Full approval generally allows physicians to prescribe medications and vaccines off-label as they see fit. This could mean, for example, that a doctor could prescribe a Pfizer-BioNTech dose for a person who received the J&J vaccine. Earlier this month, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the San Francisco Department of Public Health began offering a supplemental Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna dose to people in this situation. Although many parents are eager to get their children vaccinated as soon as possible, the CDC cautioned that they should not seek off-label use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for kids under 12 before the shot is authorized for this age group. Pfizer is currently testing a lower dose of the vaccine for children and is expected to request FDA authorization this fall. In the meantime, health officials urge all adults to get vaccinated without delay. “For weeks we have watched cases go up at an alarming pace among individuals who are not vaccinated while the vaccinated are largely protected,” California Department of Public Health director Dr. Tomás Aragón said in a statement. “If you are not vaccinated, let this be the milestone that gets you there.” t

Legals>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556518

In the matter of the application of NIPUN GARG & SURABHI MITHAL, 250 KING ST #1000, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner NIPUN GARG & SURABHI MITHAL is requesting that the name RIYAAN GARG be changed to JAY GARG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103 on the 14th of SEPTEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556495

In the matter of the application of BOLORMAA LEE, 1727 FILLMORE ST #408C, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner BOLORMAA LEE is requesting that the name BOLORMAA LEE be changed to BOLORMAA TSOGTBAATAR. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103 on the 9th of SEPTEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039429900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MULTIFORM ADVOCACY SOLUTIONS (MAS), 275 FIFTH ST, 4TH FL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LUCY QUACINELLA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/25/06. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/27/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039430300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as GOSFRENTALS.COM, 48 HAIGHT ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DEBRA J. MILLIGAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/07/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/28/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039419200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as PALM AND MILK, 350 JUDAH ST #503, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed GERALDINE LECUYER LOUVEL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/12/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/22/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039427900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BYC CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE, 150 FILLMORE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NAE MOON PARK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/17/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/24/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039430000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LIZLAND, 739 CLEMENTINA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LIZ MAMORSKY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/27/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/27/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CITYDOGS, 1125 PACIFIC AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KAREN LIU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/29/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039434900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE SWORD AND ROSE, 85 CARL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PATRICK F. FERRY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/13/85. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/30/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039432700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HARM REDUCTION PRACTICE, 1195 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CLAUDIA FIGALLO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/29/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039400300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DELIS JANITORIAL, 86 REDDY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DELIS REYES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/11/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/09/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039436600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LEMON HOUSE MAINTENANCE, 777 TENNESSEE ST #201, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MANFREDO MATUTE VELIZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/30/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/30/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039441700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as JONES PAINTING GROUP, 165 DAKOTA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ERIC JONES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/03/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039416700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as AER, 1361 44TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDEN MCELHANEY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/20/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/20/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039440400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ROBERT CROCKETT’S ENVIRONMENTAL MAINTENANCE & REPAIR SERVICES, 785 NORTH BRANNAN ST #307, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROBERT CROCKETT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/02/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/02/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SPACE TIME CONSULTING, 18 BERNICE ST #202, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed GUY ARGO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/06/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039440300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LYT LOL LIGHTEN ORGANIZE LETGO, 855 MCALLISTER #D, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed LAINEKA POWELL BATTLE, YOLANDA RUFFIN & TIMOTHY J. BATTLE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/19/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/02/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039432100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LAMBHARDT HOLDINGS, 737 HURON AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed THOMAS LAMB & BENJAMIN NEIDHARDT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/31/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/29/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039425700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MINI OF SAN FRANCISCO; MINI OF SF; SAN FRANCISCO MINI; MINI SAN FRANCISCO; 1675 HOWARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SAN FRANCISCO-B, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/24/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039431400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DOMO GROUP; EXCALIBUR ESCROW A NONINDEPENDENT BROKER ESCROW; CAL AMERICAN ESCROW A NON-INDEPENDENT BROKER ESCROW; CGL LIFESTYLE NETWORK; CORCORAN GLOBAL LIVING; CGL REFERRAL NETWORK; CORCORAN GLOBAL LIVING COMMERCIAL; 2282 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed EXCLUSIVE LIFESTYLES, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/28/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039427600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SHELL BUILDING, 100 BUSH ST #218, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 100 BUSH CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/19/07. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/24/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039420000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BATTERY TAI SHING CORPORATION, 100 BUSH ST #218, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BATTERY TAI SHING CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/19/07. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/22/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039437100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ANITA JEWELRY, 500 GRANT AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JADE MOUNTAIN INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/04/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/30/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039437400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LIFELONG MASSAGE AND BODYWORK, 870 MARKET ST #1017, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LIFELONG INDUSTRIES (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/03/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/30/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039437500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LIFELONG INDUSTRIES INC, 2136 CALIFORNIA ST #16, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LIFELONG INDUSTRIES (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/01/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/30/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039394000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MEDICINE, 855 STOCKTON ST #203, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE U.S.A. CAMPUS (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/08/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/08/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039429600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LA VACA BIRRIA, 2962 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed WORK HARD LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/27/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039423000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HOUSTON, 15 KENWOOD WAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed WITH HOUSTON, LCC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/29/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/23/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039395300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as AUTOMAT, 1801 MCALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed AUTOMAT RESTAURANT LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/21/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/08/21.

AUG 05, 12, 19, 26, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039442400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as JACKIE’S CLEANING SERVICES, 145 BROAD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ULISER N. BAMACA GONZALES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/02/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/03/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DAVID WILLIAM BOWE IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-21-304665

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DAVID WILLIAM BOWE, C/O MATTHEW M. SHAFAE (SBN #255879), SHAFAE LAW, 1500 OLD COUNTY RD, BELMONT, CA 94002. A Petition for Probate has been filed by WILLIAM BOWE in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that WILLIAM BOWE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: SEPTEMBER 01, 2021, 9:00 am, Dept. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: MATTHEW M. SHAFAE (SBN #255879), SHAFAE LAW, 1500 OLD COUNTY RD, BELMONT, CA 94002; Ph. (650) 389-9797.

AUG 12, 19, 26, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556532

In the matter of the application of MARY ELLEN DAVIS, 1983 10TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MARY ELLEN DAVIS is requesting that the name MARY ELLEN DAVIS be changed to MARY LUNA REISSMAN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 16th of SEPTEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556539

In the matter of the application of JANNAH GARFIO, 333 FREMONT ST #509, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JANNAH GARFIO is requesting that the name JANNAH MARIE GARFIO be changed to JANNAH MARIE YUTKOVITZ. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103 on the 21th of SEPTEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556430

In the matter of the application of MATTHIAS SIRK, 1190 HOWARD ST #321, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MATTHIAS SIRK is requesting that the name MATTHIAS SIRK be changed to RAYMOND MATTHEW MULLER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 14th of SEPTEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039411400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CABALLEROS BEAUTY HAIR SALON, 5255 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ISABELLA GARCIA CABALLERO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/15/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039408600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as KAY & MIA, 5282 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VAN TIEU MA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/15/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039429300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as PREFERRED REALTY GROUP; PREFERRED APPRAISAL SERVICES; 350 JUDAH ST #505, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed STEPHEN WILSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/05/07. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/26/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039444500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HAPPY LAND FAMILY DAYCARE, 309 CARDENAS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed XIULING WU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/04/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/04/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039429200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HOLYLEE ROOFING CO, 1362 POWELL ST #17, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KOCK K. CHOW. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/04/96. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/26/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039436700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THOMAS & SONS CONSTRUCTION, 109 LOUISBURG ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARK LO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/21/96. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/30/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039448300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TRIADICAN MARKET, 540 LEAVENWORTH ST #201, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NATHAN W. MCBRIDE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/05/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/06/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039407400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as INN ON GROVE, 465 GROVE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed CHIRAG INVESTMENT COMPANY (CA), SUBASH L. PATEL & PRAKASH L. PATEL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/13/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039432900

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039430700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SAN FRANCISCO DENTAL PARTNERS, 22 BATTERY ST #910, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JASMINE D. BHUVA, D.D.S., INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/28/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039451200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CALIFO ELECTRIC, 362 MOULTRIE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CALIFO ELECTRIC INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/20/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039415100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TEEBSI; TODAY VOYAGES; 790 EDDY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GO WEST TOURS (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/17/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039453400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BANH MI HOUSE, 2701 SAN BRUNO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BUNN MI INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/28/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/10/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039412800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as JENSEN’S MAIL AND COPY, 5214-F DIAMOND HEIGHTS BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DOODY CORP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/23/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/16/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039447200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LAST CALL BAR, 3988 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed DENIM AND WHISKEY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/05/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039431100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FLUID COOPERATIVE, 900 NAPLES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed FLUID COOPERATIVE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/28/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039437900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE CHECK-IN, 201 OCEAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CHECKIN LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/03/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/02/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039416200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as STARR SPIRITS; MONTEREY DELI; 499 MONTEREY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ORBIT SPIRITS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/19/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039447400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as D’MAIZE, 2778 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed D’MAIZE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/05/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/05/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as WL CLEANING SERVICES, 26 ROCK HARBOR LANE, FOSTER CITY, CA 94404. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed LUCIANO GUALBERTO DE SOUZA & WELLIKA RIBEIRO MIRANDA SOUZA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/28/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/29/21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039441800

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039421800

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037849000

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as STANLEY STEEMER, 5913 3RD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed VASHNO INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/24/94. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/23/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039442000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as NATURAL RESOURCES, 1051 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed NATURAL RESOURCES ALL FAMILIES FOUNDATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/03/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039426600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CAFÉ BUNN MI, 417 CLEMENT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BUNN MI INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/06/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/24/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as FRY DADDY’S, 1171 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed FRY DADDY’S LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/03/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/03/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as PIER 2 MARKETING; PIER2MARKETING; PIER 2 MARKETING OF CALIFORNIA, LLC; PIER 2 MARKETING OF CALIFORNIA; PIER2 MARKETING; 38 KEYES AVE #119, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94129. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by PIER 2 MARKETING, LLC (TX). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/15/17.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038158900

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as LAST CALL BAR, 3988 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by KEVIN HARRINGTON. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/18.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-039320600

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as DEXISION CONSULTING, 1101 PACIFIC AVE #501, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by ANGELO FRANCHINI. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/10/21.

AUG 12, 19, 26, SEP 02, 2021

SUMMONS DISTRICT COURT CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA CASE NO: A-21-832316-C DEPT NO: 06 YANLING ZHANG, AN INDIVIDUAL, PLAINTIFF, VS. YANHUI ZHANG, AN INDIVIDUAL; DOES I THROUGH X AND ROE CORPORATIONS I THROUGH X, INCLUSIVE, DEFENDANT SUMMONS - YANHUI ZHANG NOTICE! YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. THE COURT MAY DECIDE AGAINST YOU WITHOUT YOUR BEING HEARD UNLESS YOU RESPOND WITHIN 20 DAYS. READ THE INFORMATION BELOW.

To the Defendant: A civil Complaint has been filed by the plaintiff against you for relief set forth in the Complaint. 1. If you intend to defend this lawsuit. Within 20 days after this Summons is served on you exclusive of the day of service, you must do the following: a. File with the Clerk of this Court, whose address is shown below, a formal written response to the Complaint in accordance with the rules of the Court. B. Serve a copy of your response upon the attorney whose name and address is shown below. 2. Unless you respond, your default will be entered upon application of the plaintiff and this Court may enter judgment against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint, which could result in the taking of money or property or other relief requested in the Complaint. 3. If you intend to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your response may be filed on time. 4. The State of Nevada, its political subdivisions, agencies, officers, employees, board members, commission members, and legislators, each have 45 days after service of this Summons within which to file an Answer or other responsive pleading to the Complaint. Issued at the direction of: MICHAEL M. LIN ESQ. (NEVADA BAR NO. 010392); HONG-NGOC PHAN, ESQ. (NEVADA BAR NO. 15453); 5288 Spring Mtn Rd. #103, Las Vegas, NV 89146; (702) 871-9888; Attorney for Plaintiff. Steven D. Grierson, Clerk of the Court, Robyn Rodriguez, Regional Justice Center, 200 Lewis Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89155; 04/06/2021.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039454000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as NEW DOOR, 891 BEACH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHAD ENG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/10/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/10/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039456400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as FOUR SEASONS NAIL & SPA, 1151-B COURTLAND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed GIANG T. VU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/12/09. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/11/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039452500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE HOUSE OF HUMMUS, 5 MASONIC AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TINA HADDAD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/15/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039455600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as NAILS BY JENNY, 50 LELAND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NANCY HAHOANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/17/94. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/11/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039458400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DUMPLING & BUN EXPRESS, 729 CLAY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed QUYNH TU LU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/12/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/12/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039457600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as FCO. BARBER SHOP, 30 MASON ST #C101, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE GABRIEL FLORES PEREZ VAVRINA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/12/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039444700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SULAMITA BOUTIQUE, 1148 MARLESTA RD, PINOLE, CA 94564. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LAUREN TORRES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/04/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039458000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MEDESTHETICS RX, 2300 SUTTER ST #303, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LINDA GEORGEDES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/22/02. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/12/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039461800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SANJALISCO RESTAURANT, 901 SOUTH VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DOLORES REYES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/17/21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039458500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ANNIE’S HOT DOGS, 1330 25TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed NEW YORK FRANKFURTER CO OF CA INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/00. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/13/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039418900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS APPAREL, 540 LEAVENWORTH ST #201, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DANNY RENEE SANDERS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/05/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/13/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039464600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HULKS TOWING, 1306 GILMAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WALTER BUESO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/20/21.

AUG 26, SEP 02, 09, 16, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039466000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HUMMUS BODEGA, 404 20TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TABOONSF INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/28/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/22/21.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LARRY’S LIMO SERVICE, 685 48TH AVE #6, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LARRY S. SOLOMON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/14/08. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/23/21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039457500

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039453000

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039448000

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as NUCCI ENTERPRISES; THE SOCIETY OF POUR CHOICES; LUPO NUCCI; 2182 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed MARCO IANNUCCI & LINDSEY IANNUCCI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/12/21.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039448800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MOCHINUT SF, 2126 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed IRVING ENTERPRISES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/06/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

AUG 26, SEP 02, 09, 16, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CLOCKWORK, 370 DE HARO ST #A4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ELEMENTREE INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/04/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/21.

AUG 26, SEP 02, 09, 16, 2021

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MASON BOTTLE, 791E SIBLEY RD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94129. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed KINETIKA INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/18/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/06/21.

AUG 26, SEP 02, 09, 16, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039447100

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039438000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE DOREL, 1507 CALIFORNIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CAL LARK LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/23/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/05/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039463600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MILLAY, 691 14TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LAY BROTHERS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/23/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/02/21.

AUG 26, SEP 02, 09, 16, 2021

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-032490600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MILLER & LUX, 70 TERRY A FRANCOIS BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LLH TGO LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/19/21.

AUG 19, 26, SEP 02, 09, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039458900

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as ZEN DAY SPA, 775 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by WARDEN HOLDINGS, LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/13/10.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556553

In the matter of the application of SORMEH KASHEF HAGHIGHI, 2133A LYON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner SORMEH KASHEF HAGHIGHI is requesting that the name SORMEH KASHEF HAGHIGHI be changed to SORMEH KASHEF. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103 on the 30th of SEPTEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

AUG 26, SEP 02, 09, 16, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556560

In the matter of the application of FENGHUAN LI, 2216 LARKIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner FENGHUAN LI is requesting that the name FENGHUAN LI be changed to KRISTEN H. LI. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 30th of SEPTEMBER 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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Clarissa Dyas in Joe Goode’s A Time of Change

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Joe Goode New project dances through the Haight-Ashbury es of the future will pay $200 to watch this very passive, presentational thing, and have no choice about what angle they see it from, or how close they can be to the performers. With installation work, you get the benefit of the place, its history and all its mojo. And as an audience member you can say, ‘I think I’m going to stay away from that screaming naked man’ or maybe you might say, ‘I want to be closer to that naked man!’” San Francisco Heritage, a local nonprofit that advocates to preserve San Francisco’s architectural and cultural identity, approached Goode when they acquired the Doolan-Larsen Building, saying that they wanted to acknowledge and celebrate the Haight-Ashbury as a historic arts district. Goode says, “I was super excited, because I have always been nostalgic for something I didn’t fully participate in. During the ‘Summer of Love’ in 1967, I was a little queer boy in Virginia, dreaming of a different kind of freedom. But I remember seeing an article about it

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hile theatres in the Bay Area tentatively begin to welcome back audiences after eighteen months due to the pandemic, many performing arts organizations are looking to alternative venues that minimize audience size while maximizing fresh, outdoor air. For most companies, the challenges of working in nontraditional and outdoor performance spaces have proved to be daunting. But for Joe Goode, who, for more than 30 years has staged countless works outdoors –as well as in such iconic locations as Grace Cathedral and the Old Mint building– it seems natural that his company will kick off San Francisco’s fall dance season with A Time of Change, a site-specific world premiere staged in indoor and outdoor locations around the Haight. The historic Doolan-Larson Building on the corner of Haight and Ashbury, a famous site of hippie counterculture, is a main location. The production will feature a series of pop-up performances with original music, monologues and dance/movement. Goode believes the freedoms of site-specific performance far outweigh the constraints of traditional theatre venues, saying, “My hope for live performance is that it becomes an experience. Something people can tell their friends, ‘I did this thing! I was making choices, I was being surprised, things were emerging.’ I just think that’s what people need and want.” He goes on to say, “To ask audiences to harness their financial resources, make it to the theatre, sit still in a velvet chair for hours, and watch a box? It’s asking a lot. Honestly, I do a lot of napping in the theatre. I don’t think audienc-

in Time magazine, with all those shirtless men and the girls with flowers in their hair, and the wonderful music and dancing, and it just looked like heaven.”

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Goode didn’t arrive in San Francisco until 1979, saying, “I have a nostalgic vision of this utopian child-like lovingness and the wish for peace. As the years have passed, I thought it would be interesting to look at the dream of the hippies and ask who was it for, and how did it work out? The hippie movement was anti-capitalist, but now San Francisco is a place where none of my dancers can afford to live. The Bohemian culture is hanging on by its teeth; it’s almost been erased by capitalism. I want to look at it through that lens, to celebrate the naiveté, the innocence, and the wish.” Goode says that he wanted A Time of Change to be “not just the white guy’s vision” so he brought in two additional artistic col-

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Cindy Ouelett (Canada, Basketball), Emma Wiggs (GB, Canoe), and Hailey Danz (Triathlon, USA) will compete in this year’s Tokyo Paralympic Games.

Super. Human. The Lavender Tube on the Paralympic Games by Victoria A. Brownworth

he Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games began August 24 and run through September 5. We have been a long-time disability rights activist and the fifth anniversary of our becoming paraplegic is August 26, so these Paralympics have special resonance for us. These Paralympics boast more out LGBTQ athletes (23) than the dozen who participated in Rio in 2016; an historic number. As with the Olympics, the women far outnumber the men. There are 20 out LGBTQ women and one out gay man, Lee Pearson. There are also at least three non-binary or gender-neutral athletes: Australian track and field athletes Robyn Lambird and Maria “Maz” Strong and American rower Laura Goodkind. GLAAD, the LGBTQ media advocacy organization, is highlighting the participation of

these athletes and the inclusivity of these Paralympics as well as the intersection of queerness/transness and disability. Rich Ferraro, chief communications officer at GLAAD said in a statement to the Bay Area Reporer, “The Paralympics by nature are a celebration of inclusion and equality, and the historic number of out LGBTQ athletes participating this year is something to celebrate.” Ferraro continued, “LGBTQ people are more likely to live with disabilities and to face systemic discrimination on both fronts; the visibility brought by the Paralympics and its talented athletes helps fight that stigma. Every athlete, regardless of ability, gender, race, or sexual orientation, deserves a chance to participate in sports and to represent their communities with pride.” Lauren Appelbaum, Vice President for Entertainment and News Media & Communications at RespectAbility (https://www.respectability.org/), which partnered with GLAAD on

reaching out to media about these interconnected issues said in a statement, “There is a large intersection between the LGBTQ community and the disability community, and the increased representation at this year’s Paralympic Games reflects that. We hope that even more out athletes participate in the future, as it is critical for all disabled people to have positive role models for success.” The Paralympics are the largest sporting event in the world for people with disabilities, and a total of 540 events across 22 sports are included this year, with badminton and Taekwondo making their Paralympics debut. More than 3,500 athletes from at least 134 nations will compete. There is also a Refugee Paralympic Team comprised of refugees who have fled war or human rights abuses in their home nations. Athlete Ally and OutSports provided names and sports of the out athletes in Tokyo. Among the Paralympians are: Monique Matthews (Sitting Volleyball, USA); Hailey Danz (Triathlon, USA); Lee Pearson (GB, Equestrian); Edênia Garcia (Brazil, Swimming); Robyn Lambird

laborators: Melecio Estrella (Artistic Director of Bandaloop and Fog Beast) and queer Black choreographic duo Oysterknife (Chibueze Crouch and Gabriele Christian). For Estrella, the Haight-Ashbury holds especially strong ties. “My mother grew up in the Haight,” he said. “She went to grammar school and my parents got married at St. Agnes Church. My uncle’s funeral was there and in 1983 I was the ring bearer at a wedding there.” St. Agnes Church, located on Masonic Street near Haight and Ashbury, is one of the locations where A Time of Change will be performed. Having grown up in a family of musicians in the Bay Area, Estrella has made a name for himself as both a contemporary dancer with Joe Goode Performance Group (2004-2016), as well as a longtime member of Oaklandbased Bandaloop, a troupe known for staging daring “vertical performances” on the sides of See page 14 >>

(Australia, Wheelchair Racing); Maria “Maz” Strong (Australia, Seated Shot Put); Emma Wiggs (GB, Canoe); Terry Hayes (USA, Wheelchair Fencing); Asya Miller (USA, Goalball) and Lucy Shuker (GB, Wheelchair Tennis). There are several cyclists: Katie-George Dunlevy (Ireland), Kate O’Brien (Canada) and Monica Sereda (USA) and rowers, Laura Goodkind (USA); Lauren Rowles (GB) and Moran Samuel (Israel). As in the Olympics, basketball has the most out participants. Wheelchair basketball athletes are, Kaitlyn Eaton (USA); Jude Ham (GB); Bo Kramer (Netherlands); Tara Llanes (Canada); Robyn Love (GB); Mareike Miller (Germany); Cindy Ouelett (Canada); Lucy Robinson (GB); Courtney Ryan (USA) and Laurie Williams (GB). The first Paralympics were held in 1960, with 400 athletes from 23 countries competing in Rome. Like the Olympics, they now take place every four years, with separate winter and summer Paraympics each hosting a closing and opening ceremony. The Paralympics were created to allow athletes with disabilities to strive for and reach the pinnacle of athletic excellence. Eligible disabilities are broken down into ten main categories: impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. From there, classifications continue and vary by sport. Stigma, biases and discrimination also link disabled and LGBTQ people while disabled LGBTQ people face dual oppressions. GLAAD asserts that “people living with non-visible disabilities, such as mental health conditions, learning disabilities, or physical conditions that are not immediately apparent, often have to weigh the benefits of ‘coming out’ against the possible drawbacks of making their disability known.” The Tokyo Paralympics will be aired on NBC, NBCSN and the Olympic Channel or streaming at NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app.t

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Ema and Gastón struggle to hold their marriage together. As their relationship crumbles before our eyes, we are privy to some of their nastiest fights, and the cruel and hurtful language they use on each other is cringe-worthy. But Ema is determined to see her plan through. With support from Sonia (Giannina Fruttero) and some of the other female dancers, who volunteer to “commit crimes” for Ema, she puts her plan in action. She finds out that lawyer Raquel (Paola Giannini) and bartending firefighter Anibal (Santiago Cabrera) have adopted Polo. She creates situations where she interacts with both of them; meeting with Raquel under the false pretense of filing for divorce from Gastón and intentionally setting fire to one of the dancer’s cars so that Anibal would be there. Before you know it, Ema has seduced each of them, as well as the fe-

male dancers in her social circle. She weaponizes sex with Gastón, too, all as a means to get closer to Polo. Eventually, she secures a job at the school where the boy is a student and then she abducts him. From there, Ema takes some of the most twisted and unexpected turns we’ve seen onscreen in a while. Interwoven throughout the movie are dance sequences in which Gastón’s dance troupe is either rehearsing, performing on stage, or in flash mobs. They dance primarily to reggaeton and Gastón’s lengthy, honest and humorous anti-reggaeton rant is priceless. But for the most part, Ema is no laughing matter. As unlikeable lead characters go, Ema is close to the top of the list, but as with that first startling image of the burning stoplight, it’s difficult to look away. In Spanish with English subtitles. Rating: Bt

parties, and I met these people on the dance floor who were so committed to modern dance. That’s how I found my way. The freedom of the dance floor is still so important to me.” Having been promoted to Artistic Director of Bandaloop in 2020, Estrella surprisingly admits, “I’m not really a daredevil, I’m actually kind of afraid of heights. But at Bandaloop, the culture of safety is so prevalent. It does take courage and bravery, but it’s easier to train

a dancer to climb, than to teach a climber to dance. I’m looking for dancers with a wide range of expressive movement… and a sense of adventure.” With A Time of Change, Estrella will be looking both upward and inward, questioning how1960s hippie counterculture has manifested itself in contemporary San Francisco, specifically in a location that embodies such contradiction. “You have this corner of Haight and Ashbury, where people are still hanging out on the sidewalk as they have for decades, meeting up and sharing food,” Estrella explained. “And across the street is a store selling a pair of shorts made to look vintage for $160. It’s really hard to avoid the disparity. That’s what was being addressed in the ’60s, and here we are over 50 years later, still asking the same questions, about how we share and help each other meet basic needs. I hope that context comes forward in this work.” A Time of Change will be presented in outdoor and indoor locations in the Haight-Ashbury, Wednesdays-Sundays, September 1-12, 2021, 7:30pm. Tickets: $20$125. www.joegoode.orgt

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Right: Melecio Estrella in his own work, “These Lines are Living” at Rodeo Beach. Left: The historic Doolan-Larson Building

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Magic Mann by Tim Pfaff

ne of the lingering mysteries about the German writer Thomas Mann is how there could have been any lingering mystery about his repressed –make that sublimated– sexual desire for beautiful young men. It’s right there in Death in Venice, the 1911 novella that remains Mann’s best-known work, a novelization in high-flown prose of the author’s obsession with a young Polish boy while on holiday with his family in Italy. In The Magician (Scribner), Colm Toibin’s just-published novelization of the Mann biography, the tale is resurrected, like the Proustian madeleine, in all subsequent examples of Mann’s sweet tooth for comely youth. Not only is it not the author’s best-kept secret, it’s not just winked at but commonly acknowledged. Toibin’s title is a reference to the moniker bestowed on Mann by his own children in recognition of

their father’s ability to make sexual secrets disappear. The Tadzio tale is first retold a quarter way into Toibin’s 500-page

novel. Only the reader hankering for pornographic detail in Toibin’s reimagining of it will be disappointed. The cover of the new book notwithstanding, there’s no more “news” in it than the European tourists got during their sojourn in plague-hit Venice. What makes Toibin the latter-day magician is his deep feeling for his predecessor. Time and again, the historical Mann is a disappointment, not only as a prevaricator about his sexual appetites but as less strong an anti-Hitler than his admirers wanted him to be. What is never in dispute, somehow, is his greatness. The testimony to the modern novelist’s craft is his ability to draw characters at least as interesting as Mann himself from the Nobel laureate’s family, in par-

ticular but by no means exclusively his wife, Katia, Toibin’s greatest creation here. He doesn’t rescue Mann from the latent embarrassments of his sexual fantasies, which are an apt enough representation of Mann’s constitutional, deep-seated shame. “Written into their set of tacit agreements was a clause stating that just as Thomas would do nothing to put their domestic happiness in jeopardy,” Toibin writes, “Katia would recognize the nature of his desires without any complaint, note with tolerance and good humor the

figures on whim his eyes most readily rested, and made clear her willingness, when appropriate, to appreciate him in all his different guises.” That long sentence shows Mann’s influence on Toibin. In The Master, Toibin’s 2004 novelization of Henry James, his subject’s genius insinuated itself into his re-creator’s prose, in the intricately cantilevered sentences, but even more in the book’s visionary final chapters.t

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Truth and lies

by Jim Provenzano

housands of teenage aspiring writers found inspiration from the notebook-scribbling elevenyear-old girl in the best-selling 1964 novel Harriet the Spy. Some, myself included, became especially aware of the irascible protagonist’s gender-nonconforming attire and demeanor. But only years later did fans

discover that the book’s author, Louise Fitzhugh, was a lesbian. In a thoroughly researched and utterly fascinating biography, Sometime You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy, Leslie Brody shares intimate details of the writer’s sometimes fabulous, sometimes troubled life. To fully enjoy this extensive biography, required rereading of Harriet the Spy –and even the two affable yet less popular sequels based on other characters– would be essential. Brody makes multiple comparisons between Harriet as a character and Fitzhugh’s actual demeanor, including her alternately “spritely” and “irascible” behavior toward others. Despite the book’s eventual success, Fitzhugh refused to attend author events or readings. Her publisher’s marketing remained oblique in portraying Fitzhugh’s life, and she gave very few interviews. At one point, her publisher’s marketing campaigns failed to keep up with

the public’s desire for the book. Rereading Harriet the Spy through the context of this fascinating biography reveals much more adult themes in the sometimes critiqued novel, which at one point in a later printing was rejected by national school library buyers, despite being a best-seller in the public market. Having lived her adult life out of the closet, Fitzhugh seemed to understood the saying from Harriet’s fictional nanny, Ole Golly; “Sometimes you have to lie.” While this could be applied to Fitzhugh’s lesbianism, Ole Golly followed that with “But to yourself you must always tell the truth.” At fault in the big lie, the author’s estate was protective of their property and the reputation of the works by hiding details of Fitzhugh’s private life. It’s a testament to Brody’s Harriet-like investigative journalism that reveals so many personal details through letters and other documents. Brody has created a flowing, fascinating story about a woman who defied traditions to create a classic modern work of literature that thoroughly broke the mold.t

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ueer Nation, B101, the Persian Gulf invasion v1.0; 1991 packed in the drama. But instead of attempting to draw a big picture of the Bay Area Reporter’s expansive year of coverage in arts and nightlife that year, let’s zoom in, dot by dot, to a rare January 3 interview with Rex, whose erotic images might have answered the question, ‘What if Georges Seurat was a late-20th-century South of Market leather man?’ The prolific and reclusive artist, known for detailed sexually-charged male imagery, spoke of his purpose, after enduring censorship from publishers and art galleries. “The artist exists to make waves. You have to take chances. Do whatever people don’t want you to say or do or be. The forbidden has power.” Enjoy more vintage reading at https://archive.org/ details/bayareareportert

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