Bay Area Reporter, Volume 34, Number 2, 8 January 2004

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Knoller paroled to Ventura County One letter at a time Good morning, Berlin!
Whipple's partner, Sharon Smithy is LGBT lobby group needs a 9th Berlin & Beyond
‘deeply saddenedNoel is pleased. fundraiser to continue work. fest opens at the Castro.
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Vol. 34 • No. 2 • 8 January 2004
Serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities since 1971
LGBT student lawsuit
Rally to
protest settled for $1.1 M
likely
School district agrees to pay damages,
AIDS
make policy changes by Zak SzyAmanski
budget
lawsuit against a South Bay school
district for its role in allowing its
students to be beaten, harassed,
cuts
and abused on the basis of antigay
bigotry has been settled, with a monetary
award of $1.1 million as well as a ground¬
Eby Matthew S. Bajko breaking set of school policy agreements that
should help to ensure the safety of LGBT stu¬
dents nationwide.
ven before Governor Arnold Flores v. Morgan Hill Unified School Dis¬
Schwarzenegger officially an¬ trict was officially settled on Tuesday, January
nounces his draft budget for 6. At an emotional news conference held that
2004-2005, AIDS activists are mobi¬ morning at the San Francisco office of the
lizing to prevent what they fear will be American Civil Liberties Union of Northern
detrimental cuts to vital services for California, lead plaintiff Alana Flores ex¬
people living with HIV and AIDS. pressed gratitude, relief, and lingering pain
Last year the governor indicated he over the years of her life that were simultane¬
would impose an enrollment cap to ously held captive and enriched by her high
the AIDS Drug Assistance Program as school experience and the ensuing five-year
just one step in closing a $14 billion legal battle.
budget deficit. On Friday, January 9, “I never wanted to sue my school district.
Schwarzenegger will release his bud¬ I just wanted equality,” said Flores, 24, ex-
get proposals, which many expect will
include cuts to HIV/AIDS services in seif as well as other students - a total of six
addition to denying access to ADAP. Alana Flores, left, and Freddie Fuentes, at Tuesday's news conference announcing the settle¬ were represented in the case - because she
ment with the Morgan Hill Unified School District.
A rally in front of the state build¬ knew it was the right thing to do.
ing on McAllister Street in San Fran¬ Flores attorneys included the ACLU; the
cisco is planned for Tuesday, January Potty time National Center for Lesbian Rights; and co¬
13-to voice opposition to the pro¬ operating attorneys Stacey Wexler, Christine
posed cuts. Activists hope to gather at Sun, and Jay Kuo of Keker & Van Nest, LLP of
least 500 people for the protest. San Francisco; James Emery of San Francisco;
“The long and short of it is that we Diane Ritchie of San Jose; and Leslie Levy of
fully expect this draft budget to be a Gender activism tackles Boxer and Gerson in Oakland.
disaster for HIV and AIDS services Flores, who thanked her legal team, her
and health services in general. It is ex¬ family, and her supporters, also thanked
tremely important for the communi¬ the porcelain frontier “those who stood before me and said I did
ty to engage in efforts to prevent these not deserve these rights - they gave me the
cuts,” said Dana Van Gorder, director G case to fight for myself.”
of state and local affairs for the San by Zak Szymanski - are simply added affirmations that you are The lawsuit was filed in 1998 on behalf of
Francisco AIDS Foundation. in your correct place. students who attended Live Oak High
The foundation, along with Pro¬ And yet for a sizable portion of the LGBT School, Britton Middle School, and Murphy
ject Inform and Women Organized to oing to the bathroom: we all have community - as well as any person whose Middle School from 1991-98. It charged that
Respond to Life Threatening Diseases, to do it. When the moment physical presentation does not conform to the students endured daily harassment and
is sponsoring the rally, which will take strikes, most of us take it for gender norms - this simple biological act is abuse from other students while teachers,
place at noon. granted. The rules are simple: find the source of numerous social pitfalls and employees, and administrators witnessed the
ADAP provides access to treatment the room where you belong, and relieve your¬ dangers. From the butch lesbian to the visi¬ abuse and did nothing to stop it.
for low-income Californians living self. Any further in-house socializing - from bly transgender person, entering a sex segre- Instances included, according to the case,
with HIV/AIDS who are uninsured or . borrowing a tampon to cruising at the urinals page 14 ► physical violence endured by Freddie
lack adequate prescription drug cov¬ page 11 ►
erage. Activists argue the program is a
lifeline for those who otherwise ■mi ii 11 ■
wouldn’t be able to afford treatment
and needs to be fully funded.
Instead, Schwarzenegger has pro¬ BAR Talk 39
posed that ADAP enrollment be Classifieds 19
capped at its current level of 23,500
people. It is estimated that more than Crime & Punishment 11
1,440 people with HIV or AIDS would Mailstrom 7
be placed on a waiting list for critical
HIV medications within one year. Mister Marcus 34
For fiscal year 2003, the state bud¬
geted $186 million for ADAP, but ac¬ Obituaries 17
tivists estimated $24 million more Open Forum 6
was needed. For fiscal year 2004, AIDS
activists predict the program needs an Our Man Friday 9
additional $45 million to be fully Out There 26
funded, but they doubt such an in¬
crease will be included in the gover¬ Out & About 36
nor’s budget proposal. They also warn
OutRight 10
other HIV programs funded by the
state could be cut. Personals 40
“Beyond that, whether he will pro¬
Sports Complex 18
page 16 ► Unisex bathrooms, like this one at the LGBT Community Center, mean that the identities of
transgenders like this person, above, cannot be challenged when nature calls. Transmissions 8
2 BAY AREA REPORTER 8 January 2004
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ing Rosenkrantz’s release at the murder conviction. Rosenkrantz’s case became a
conclusion of his parole hearing Riordan did not return the Bay cause c&fcbre for prisoners’ rights
on Monday, January 5. The hear¬ Area Reporters calls by press time. advocates during the Davis ad¬
ing was held at the California Two superior court judges and ministration. Davis blocked his
Men’s Colony prison in San Luis two appeals court panels indepen¬ release and appealed four inde¬
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He was found guilty of second-de¬ rulings called for the parole board ly denied parole.
gree murder and sentenced to 17- to find Rosenkrantz suitable for In his five years in office, Davis
years-to-life. With “good time” parole and set a parole date. But approved the parole of only eight
credits Rosenkrantz has been eli¬ the state appealed each of those of the 294 prisoners whose release
gible for parole since 1996. rulings before Rosenkrantz could was approved by the parole board.
The parole board’s rejection be freed. The board, whose members are
comes as a surprise because Rosenkrantz’s attorneys have appointed by the governor, has
Rosenkrantz’s attorneys had in¬ insisted those court rulings are only approved parole for about 1
sisted that the board is still under still in effect despite a ruling by percent of eligible prisoners.
court order to release him. the California Supreme Court in Since taking office in Novem¬
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4 BAY AREA REPORTER 8 January 2004
Smith ‘deeply saddened’
over Knoller release
she didn’t know what she was
by Ed Walsh
going to do in Southern Califor¬
nia.
haron Smith, the partner of Noel told the B.A.R. this week
dog mauling victim Diane that he has been able to talk with
Whipple, said she is “deeply Knoller over the phone. He said
1 hour massage ■ saddened” by the release of Mar¬ she is being dealt with in a similar
rejuvenating facial jorie Knoller, the woman convict¬ way that he was when he was re¬
ultra-speed tan ed in connection with the fatal at¬ leased. Noel said she is being tem¬
tack in January 2001. Meanwhile, porarily housed in a motel in Ven¬
Knoller’s husband, Robert Noel, tura County. When Noel was
told the Bay Area Reporter that he paroled in Fairfield, he was
is pleased “beyond words” that housed in a motel in a high-crime
550b castro street, san francisco tan&trim Knoller is free but he insisted that section of the city. He eventually
open 7 days a week he and Knoller are being treated moved out after finding work and
1+[phone] gift certificates available unfairly because they are being an apartment.
paroled apart. A Department of Corrections
photo: stevenunderhill.com Knoller walked out of state spokesman, Russ Heimerich, told
prison in Chowchilla, in Central the B.A.R. that as a matter of pol¬
California, on New Year’s Day. She icy, convicted co-defendants are
was picked up by friends and dri¬ paroled separately and exceptions
ven to Southern California where are not made for married couples.
she will serve her three-year pa¬ Noel disputed that. He said that
role term. Noel was paroled in he’s seen other cases in which a
September to Fairfield, about an husband and wife were allowed to
hour northeast of San Francisco. Marjorie Knoller at her trial serve parole together despite being
The couple was convicted of involved in the same crime.
involuntary manslaughter in statement released through her at¬ Cardoza told the B.A.R. that
March 2002 after prosecutors suc¬ torney, Michael Cardoza. “The Noel has nothing to complain
cessfully convinced jurors that the jury brought back second-degree about.
attorney couple ignored warnings murder which carries a 15-year- “At the end of three years, he
that their two Presa Canario dogs to-life sentence. Marjorie would will be able to get back with Mar¬
were dangerous. Knoller, who was have another 11 years to serve if jorie,” the attorney said. “At no
with the dogs during the attack, the judge had not overturned the time will Sharon during this life¬
was also found guilty of second- jury verdict. That would certainly time be able to get back with
degree murder but a judge later be more commensurate for the Diane Alexis Whipple because of
tossed out that conviction. type of crime she committed.” what Noel and Knoller did. His
“Because of Marjorie’s wanton Shortly after being released, complaint is rather shallow and
and woeful disregard for human Knoller told KTVU-TV in an off- falls on deaf ears. It just makes one
life I lost the person I loved most camera interview that she was un¬ realize what a self-centered person
in the world,” Smith said in a happy about being freed because he is.” ▼
Cowden Automotive Ephedra ban sparks
A part of the gay community since 1978.
rush on retailers
[phone]
S75 Folsom just east of 5th Street
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tion that the product has been pected to challenge the ban in
onsumers flocked to health banned and he would continue to court.
food stores throughout Cal¬ sell it until he gets official word to The law that banned ephedra
ifornia last week to buy stop. Husk said ephedra’s dangers in California was authored by
ephedra before the statewide ban have been overstated. state Senator Jackie Speier (D-San
of the herbal supplement took ef¬ “It’s a lot of bullshit and band¬ Francisco/San Mateo.)
fect on January 1, 2004. The last- wagon hype,” the store owner said. “We can’t afford to put any
minute rush did not go unnoticed Husk added that he is con¬ more consumers at risk,” Speier
in at least one Castro District store vinced that those people who were wrote in a press release issued just
whose clientele are predominate¬ harmed by the product had pre¬ after the bill was signed into law
ly gay men. existing health problems. by Governor Gray Davis in Octo¬
A steady stream of customers The Vibrant Health store at ber 2003. “Ephedra is dangerous,
buying the supplement touted as 2301 Market Street hasn’t sold the even deadly. It is neither safe nor
a weight loss and workout aid kept product in three or four months, effective.
salesclerks busy at Max Muscle on according to a man who answered “Dietary supplements are
16th Street, said the store’s owner, the phone at the store. The man largely unregulated by the FDA
James Johnson. The store stayed identified himself as Don but de¬ and treated more like foods than
open late on New Year’s Eve to clined to give his last name. He drugs - no testing is done on their
meet the demand. Many cus¬ said that the manufacturers who safety and effectiveness before
tomers bought three or four bot¬ once supplied his store stopped being sold,” Speier continued.
tles of the product at a time, John¬ making the product, possibly be¬ “Supplement companies also do
son said. The owner estimated cause of liability concerns. not have to forward consumer
that about 95 percent of his Ephedra is derived from the health complaints to health au¬
ephedra customers are gay men. Asian herb ma huang and is be¬ thorities. Ephedra is a strong stim¬
Rich Weeks, a Max Muscle em¬ lieved to suppress appetite and ulant known as ‘legal speed’ to
ployee, said that about half of the have a stimulant, caffeine-like ef¬ many experts. The NFL, NCAA
customers use the product to lose fect. It’s considered an herbal and the International Olympic
weight and the other half use it for chemical cousin to pseu- Committee have all banned
extra energy and to enhance doephedrine, a drug found in ephedra. Major League Baseball
workouts. Weeks estimates that many over-the-counter-cold med¬ recently banned ephedra for
the store’s biggest seller, a product ications. Many products contain¬ minor-league players and the issue
called Liquid Clenbutrx, was pro¬ ing ephedra also contain caffeine. is under discussion with big-
moted and used by people as a The supplement has been league players. Illinois and New
pre-workout stimulant. He said blamed for heart attacks, strokes, York banned ephedra with unan¬
some customers use it as an ener¬ and at least 155 deaths. Calling it imous bipartisan support.”
gy booster to meet a busy work “an unreasonable risk to public The California ban was en¬
schedule. health,” the federal Food and Drug dorsed by the California Medical
The owner of another Castro Administration announced last Association, Consumers Union,
business, Nutri-Sport on Market week that it would follow Califor¬ and a number of other public
Street, told the Bay Area Reporter nia’s lead and ban ephedra na¬ health advocates. T
that he would continue to sell the tionwide. That federal ban is ex¬
8 January 2004 BAY AREA REPORTER 5
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Cauley said not only is the posi¬ Cauley, a former member of [email protected]
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indicated he would tap someone the streets to become a nurse and After being sworn in as the
locally to head the office. As part founder of TAAAPP, the Trans¬ city’s mayor Thursday at 11:30
of his transition process, Newsom gender AIDS Advocacy Advance¬ a.m., Newsom will hold an open
assembled a team of community ment Peer Project. In 1999 Lamb¬ house in City Hall to meet
members to review health and da Legal Defense and Education constituents until 2 p.m. He
human services issues. Jim Illig, Fund awarded her an A on its will also be in the Castro at 5
who headed up the committee, World AIDS Day Report Card and p.m. at Catch Restaurant on
said that in the 12-page official re¬ said she “seems on track to be¬ Market Street to meet
port turned over to Newsom, the coming the city’s first transgender residents of District 8.
issue of the AIDS czar did not
come up.
“It didn’t get in there,” Illig Pat Bond Award Committee
said.
It is, however, addressed in one
of 12 appendices attached to the hosts reception Sunday
report. In the Survive AIDS Tran¬
sition Advisory Document, com¬
piled by Jeff Sheehy, the group Oby Cynthia Laird BGoerntdy oGne rvtiyd eSot,e iinn cilsu dBiancgk GBearctky
recommends that the mayor “re¬
Back and Lorena & Eleanor, A Love Mori & Associates
store and empower the position of
rganizers of the Pat Bond Story. That event takes place from
special assistant to the mayor for
Old Dyke Award will host a 2-5 p.m. at St. Francis of Assisi,
HIV/AIDS.” reception this Sunday, Janu¬ 145 Guerrero Street, San Francis¬ Attorneys
The group also advises the per¬
ary 11 in advance of the award co. There is a suggested donation
son should be someone who un¬ event in March. of $10-$15, though no one will be
derstands the HIV epidemic, be At the reception, to take place at turned away.
from San Francisco, and have “ac¬ 3 p.m. at St. Francis of Assisi Senior The award ceremony is sched¬
cess and the ear of the mayor.” Housing complex, 145 Guerrero uled for Sunday, March 28, start¬
A separate appendix submitted Street in San Francisco, past ing with a reception at 3:30 p.m.
by John Stansell, director of S.F. awardees will be on hand along at St. John’s Presbyterian Church,
General Hospital’s Positive Health with the current nominees. The bi¬ 2727 College Avenue, in Berkeley.
Program, does not address the ennial event honors lesbians over The suggested donation is $15-
AIDS czar position but does ad¬ 60 who have not been sufficiently $25, but no one will be turned
vise that the city needs a strong recognized for their accomplish¬ away.
advocate in Sacramento. ments and contributions to the Pat Bond, after whom the
He writes that the Department LGBT community and the larger award is named, went into the
of Public Health needs to “become community in which they live. hospital in the fall of 1990. As¬
a voice in Sacramento around Honorary co-chairs for this suming she would be returning
HIV issues. Failure to do so has year’s award committee are les¬ home, her friends raised money
ceded the HIV agenda to others.” bian pioneers Del Martin and for her home care. But Ms. Bond
ActW uipth fothr er eRayuatnh oWrizhaitteio Cn AthRiEs bPehiynlgli ss Lpoyonns.o Trehdis b yye atrh’es bNeanteiofint aisl dmieodn eyD ercaeismedb ebr ec2a4m, e1 9t9h0e. sTehede Business Law / Real Estate
year, AIDS activists argue an AIDS Center for Lesbian Rights. money for the Pat Bond Old Dyke Creditor’s Rights & Bankruptcy / Construction Law
czar could play a national role in At Sunday’s reception, the Awards. Commercial Law - UCC / Landlord - Tenant
congressional lobbying efforts. Mothertongue Feminist Theatre Sponsorship opportunities are Small Business Representation / Domestic Partnership Issues
And the person could be a key Collective will perform; the event available for this year’s event, or¬
veornicoer iAn rSnoacldra Smcehnwtoar, zwenheegrge eGr ohva¬s is frOeen. February 7, the committee ogar nifzoerr s msaoidre. Toin mfoarkme aat dioonn,a tcioalnl Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone]
proposed capping enrollment to will host the Vintage Pat Bond [phone], ext. 321, e-mail Financial District and Castro offices
the AIDS Drug Assistance Pro¬ Video Show, featuring plays writ¬ [email protected], or
gram and is expected to make cuts ten and performed by the late Pat visit www.patbondaward.com. T 17years litigation & trial experience in Federal and State Courts
6 BAY AREA REPORTER 8 January 2004
Britney’s wedding
BayAreaReporter
Volume 34, Number 2 O
8 January 2004
ops, she did it again. Pop tart Britney son (who did manage to declare on his 700 that’s at least a first step.
PUBLISHER Spears caused a worldwide media sen¬ Club show the other day that God had spo¬ The folks who hysterically lambaste
Bob Ross (1971 - 2003) sation last weekend when she married ken to him and told him President Bush same-sex couples always point to “protect¬
NEWS EDITOR a 22-year-old childhood friend at a wedding would be re-elected in a blowout come this ing” marriage. If gays are allowed to marry,
Cynthia Laird chapel in Las Vegas. Some 55 hours after the November), no barbs from Senator Rick they say, the institution of marriage will be
ARTS EDITOR early Saturday morning nuptials, however, Santorum (R-Pennsylvania), that defender forever diminished. We have some ques¬
Roberto Friedman Ms. Spears and her husband, one Jason Allen of all things heterosexual. Nothing. tions: What could be more demeaning than
Alexander, decided it was all just one big joke Bush and the Republicans do, to marry someone as a joke? What does
WPOayLnIeT IFCriAdaLy EDITOR and promptly had the marriage annulled. however, continue to put us in that message send to Ms. Spears’s le¬
So much for the “sanctity” of marriage their crosshairs, talking up sup- , gions of teenage fans? What message
ASSISTANT EDITORS that the right-wing, antigay religious con¬ port for the Federal Marriage does it send to the thousands of gay
Matthew S. Bajko servatives are always screaming about. Amendment that would add a and lesbian couples who would give
Mark Mardon Almost four years ago, in the weeks be¬ ban on gay marriage to the Consti¬ anything to marry their partners?
Zak Szymanski fore California voters approved the Knight tution. The amendment is wrong and a Here’s a news flash: marriage is
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS initiative that defines marriage in the state lot of conservatives know it - several, in being regularly cheapened, courtesy
Tavo Amador • Heidi Beeler • John Blanco as being solely between a man and a fact, have come out against the of the hets. We see it everyday
Dan Blue • Victoria A. Brownworth woman, the Fox television network brought proposal that has been intro¬ in advertising that exploits
Philip Campbell • Dale Carpenter us Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Million¬ duced in Congress. But reli¬ marriage to sell products. We
AGlaerno nH Je.l fCanodh en• L• izR iHcihgahrlde yDmoadnd s • • JoEeri cE .G Jaenffthreeyr s aire?, the show that of course has spawned gious conservatives know that see it in the countless reality
Brandon Judell • Robert Julian • John F. Karr numerous imitations of marriage as a real¬ by keeping the heat up, Bush’s political base television programs that are not “real” at all.
Matthew Kennedy • David Lamble • Mister Marcus ity game. In its latest incarnation, Fox is remains energized to help him in his re- We saw it last weekend with the spectacle of
Paula Martinac • Michael McDonagh • Gary Morris gearing up for its sure-to-be-tacky My Big election bid even as post-war reconstruction Britney Spears and Jason Allen Alexander
Jim Nawrocki • Lois Pearlman • Deborah Peifer Fat Obnoxious Fiance reality program, com¬ in Iraq continues to cost American troops getting hitched one morning and annulling
Jim Piechota • Jim Provenzano • Mary Richards
Adrian Roberts • Bob Roehr • Adam Sandel plete with actors playing the “fiance’s” fam¬ their lives and the economy here at home the marriage the next.
Jason Serinus • Will Shank • Gregg Shapiro ily. Now there’s family values for you. remains murky. The Republicans are also At the end of the day, however, Ms. Spears
Michael Wade Simpson • Gwendolyn Smith Between Ms. Spears’s admission that she using gay marriage as a way to attack the and Mr. Alexander were legally married for
Alex Robertson Textor • Paul Thomason and Mr. Alexander “took a joke too far by Democratic candidates for president. While 55 hours. That’s more than any same-sex
SEtde pWhaalnsihe v• oDn iBcku cWhaault e•r sH elen Vozenilek getting married” and sensational fake tele¬ none of the major Democratic candidates couple living in the United States can say.
vision programs aimed at seeing which peo¬ favor gay marriage, many are supportive of There’s something very wrong with this
ple will make bigger fools of themselves in civil unions or domestic partnerships, and picture. T
ART DIRECTION & LAYOUT the quest to “get engaged” and win a cash
Adrian Roberts prize or “get married” for money, we believe
AD PRODUCTION & DESIGN that those opposed to gay marriage have
T. Scott King enough work to do if they really want mar¬
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT riage “protected.”
Rich Garitano But they don’t. Protecting marriage isn’t
the issue to them - denying equality to same-
PHOTOGRAPHERS sex couples who want a marriage license is
Jane Philomen Cleland
Darlene/PhotoGraphics their primary goal, and they should stop with
Marc Geller the disingenuous arguments and just say that
Rick Gerharter they’re homophobes. Let fair-minded Amer¬
icans see them for what they really are: a
ILLUSTRATORS & CARTOONISTS bunch of closed-minded bigots who want to
Christine Smith destroy gay relationships and gay families in
Ron Williams
their twisted belief that God hates gays.
If they were truly determined to “save”
GENERAL MANAGER marriage, the religious right would have
Michael M. Yamashita been picketing Fbx television four years ago,
ADVERTISING MANAGER protesting about how marriage is a religious
David McBrayer institution to be taken seriously and not
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT some midseason replacement show to gen¬
Elsa Lee erate ratings and profits. They did not.
Fast-forward four years: where were the
Christian conservatives when Ms. Spears
NATIONAL ADVERTISING basically made a mockery of marriage? Cu¬
REPRESENTATIVE riously, as far as we can tell they have been "WHILE you HOMOSEXUALS ARE BUSY WITH HAIRDOS AND HOME DECOR,
Rivendell Media silent. No condemnations from Pat Robert- WE’LL BE GIVING HISTORY A LITTLE MAKEOVER.'”
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Bob Ross was a builder
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by Ray O’Loughlin of respect for Bob. Doing what he had done Harvey Milk, Bob understood political
fiupi a decade or more before I had come out al¬ power and how you get it and use it. He had
ways left me in awe of the sheer nerve of done his time on picket lines. By the time I
II it Jf hen Bob Ross marched in the mid- such a trailblazer. knew him, he wasn’t interested in criticizing
M
V; 1960s carrying a sign demanding In many ways, too, he was an editor’s power from outside. He wanted to be inside
W H civil rights for homosexuals, there dream of a publisher. He kept out of the where things happened, where decisions
Bay Area Reporter was no safety in numbers. There were no newsroom. One time I ran a story about a were made, where the goodies were parceled
395 Ninth Street numbers then. And absolutely no safety. lesbian and gay group traveling down to out.
San Francisco, CA 94103 What we know as the movement for LGBT Nicaragua imthe late 1980s to help re¬ It’s dangerous going after power. You
415.861.5019 • 415.861.7230 rights, and the community that supports build that tiny country torn apart by might get it. But like many a frustrated
http://www.ebar.com that movement, was a dream back then. It years of brutal civil war. Bob never 1960s protester, I was sick and tired of de¬
took enormous courage for those first indi¬ demanded any advance approval of manding justice in some ideal state and see¬
News Editor • [email protected] viduals to step forward and publicly identi¬ stories that ran in the news section ing few results. I was glad to see
Arts Editor • [email protected] fy themselves as gay. Often they stood alone, but he didn’t hesitate to express his people in our community like
Advertising • [email protected] inviting the wrath of a culture that not only opinion after something appeared Harvey Milk, Bill Krause, and
did not understand homosexuality but was that he thought awful. He told me Bob Ross who got their hands
A division of Benro Enterprises, Inc. © 2004 hostile to any notion of respect for lesbians in his usual vehement fashion - dirty and showed the pols they
Published weekly. Bay Area Reporter reserves and gays. he never bothered with knew how to play the
wthhei crhig thhte t op uebdliits hoerr rbeejelicetv aens yi sa dinv eprotoisre tmasetnet San Francisco was not always the haven subtleties - that he game. They made the les¬
or which advertises illegal items which for LGBT folks that it has become. And it is thought that piece was a bian and gay community
might result in legal action against people like Bob Ross who went public and waste of time. They had a force to be reckoned
sBoalyel yA roena thRee pboarstiesr .o fA pdos lwitiiclls ,n poht ibloes orepjheyc,t ed put lesbian and gay rights on the agenda. no business going to Nicaragua and who with in San Francisco and Sacramento and
religion, race, age, or sexual orientation. Bob was a complex man, in some ways truly cared if they did. I disagreed. And when I in the Democratic Party.
Advertising rates are available upon request. a San Francisco character along with Jose ran another story about the group’s experi¬ I am sorry that I cannot make it to Bob’s
Sarria, the Widow Norton, another pioneer ences there, he didn’t say a word. memorial. I imagine it will be a great re¬
Our list of subscribers and advertisers is
confidential and is not sold. The sexual in San Francisco gay history. That’s probably He left the news to the news staff. Bob union of many of the talented and commit¬
orientation of advertisers, photographers, and too theatrical for Bob. But he definitely be¬ took care of the business - which he did ted men and women I remember working
writers published herein is neither inferred nor longs in a class with Harvey Milk for his role very well - and he took care of the politics - with at the B.A.R. I imagine there will be
mimapnluiesdc.r iWptes aorre a rntowt orreks.p onsible for unsolicited in bringing this community to life and lead¬ which he liked even better. He was commit¬ some terrific stories told. All of them proba¬
ing it into the halls of power. ted to building San Francisco’s community bly true. From the stories Bob told me about
k?J VERIFIED Bob Ross could be a hard man to work and did that, in many ways as an organizer his exploits, I wouldn’t doubt any, especially
^ AUDIT CIRCULATION with - and to work for. Many days I would and a fundraiser. A number of institutions the most outrageous. Bob Ross, with his tal¬
walk out of my office as news editor of the in this town owe their existence in part to ents and his faults, was crucial to the success
Bay Area Reporter and wonder how I could Bob: the Tavern Guild, the SF AIDS Foun¬ we now enjoy as a community. ▼
work for such a temperamental, demanding dation, the AIDS Emergency Fund.
The Bay Area Reporter is printed on 100% man. But I knew why I worked for him. It He also clearly understood the role
recycled paper using soy-based inks. was the most exciting place in SF to work. played by a vibrant media in building a vi¬ Ray O’Loughlin was news editor at the
And despite some stormy times, I had a lot brant and multifaceted community. Like B.A.R. from 1985 to 1989.
8 January 2004 BAY AREA REPORTER 7
Deny Spears’s annulment
filiate, Pangaea, even as SFAF receives city General AN EARTH-BASED APPROACH TO PSYCHOLGICAl 8, SPIRITUAL HEALING
I have recently become extremely outraged by our Fund contracts. Surely San Francisco can afford a
country’s view on “the marriage issue.” Personally, I $50,000 to $75,000 AIDS czar. Gay Men's Jungian
feel that the gay, lesbian, and transgender communi¬ While DPH keeps claiming that the AIDS czar’s Shamanic Group Forming
ties have had to assimilate entirely too much to the job duties have been absorbed within DPH, I have
straight community, and marriage is not an issue I filed repeated public records requests attempting to This weeldy long-term group stresses a nature-
based approach to psychological and spiritual
would actually consider for myself. However, the fact obtain the follow-up reports Mike Shriver was to have healing. Traditional healing processes indude
that our commander in chief and his right-wing authored following the Mayor’s L998 AIDS summit; dream work, otherworld journeying, drum¬
cronies believe that we, as-gay, lesbian, and transgen¬ DPH keeps telling me they have “no documents re¬ ming, myth and ritual. Join others in an
cdheor iAcem iesr iac abnlosw sh toou ulds naollt thhaavte n teheed rsi gtoh tb teo amdadkree stsheadt sepr oannsdiv De PtoH y ohuavr er efqauileesdt ,”to in aduitchaotirn gse tvhearta lb poothli cSyh rpiva¬¬ Rodney Karr, Ph.D. onensgso binegtw pereonc essesl ft,o c foamcimlituanteit yth aen cdo nnnaetuctreed. ¬
during the upcoming election. pers for the Office of the Mayor. Licensed Psychologist #PSY6906
Now adding insult to injury, pop icon diva (and I Jimmy Loyce, director of the AIDS office, was Offices in San Francisco & the East Bay
use this term loosely), little Britney Spears has given quoted in the June 12,2003 B.A.R. that “[The czar va¬
us another example of just how sacred the act of mar¬ cancy] Is a huge hole. I don’t know that we can fill it.”
riage is to most of the straight community. Fifty-five Angela Alioto was quoted in the same issue that
hours of marriage “until we realized what we had “[Shriver] would be the first person to say the job
done.” Frankly I think the couple should have been needs to be getting done.” Clearly, notable people be¬ Experienced Attorney
denied an annulment, making them realize what they lieve the position should be retained. Personally, de¬
truly had done. spite being a vocal critic of the former incumbent, I
With examples like this to emulate, how can any¬ believe the position should be paid $75,000 (but no Barry Schneider, Esq.
one dare object to the queer community having the higher), as are the Board of Supervisors’ legislative as¬
same rights as other tax-paying Americans. We do pay sistants, and it should be a permanent position inde¬ . Wills and Probate
taxes, don’t we? Please remember this while we are all pendent of DPH, not a contract position through
considering a new leader for the country. I wonder DPH-UCSF. Family Law and Conservatorships
what would happen if every gay, lesbian, and trans¬ Your “anonymous” source in the January 1 article
gender person just didn’t file taxes this year. I say if we has it completely backwards: Shriver did not do a “de¬ Criminal Offenses
are to be treated as second-class citizens, why not act cent” job in the position; he may have had activist cre¬
like it! dentials, but he failed to complete an unabridged HIV
Barry Schneider 400 Montgomery St.
Emery Frank Consensus Meeting report, and failed to issue the fol¬
San Francisco low-on reports to “Promises Kept,” the report from Attorney at Law Suite 505
Must be the new math the Mayor’s 1998 AIDS Summit. And “anonymous” [phone] San Francisco
has it further backwards about Mitch Katz:
Wayne Friday’s harangue against Tim When Katz talks about cutting DPH pro-
Redmond and the Bay Guardian contains I grams, it is not “based on science and
the mystifying recounting of the final need,” it’s based on playing brinkmanship, ■ ALL COMMERCIAL LINES • HOMEOWNERS & APARTMENTS <
election numbers as: “Gavin Newsom the game he learned from Willie Brown,
133,546 votes (52.81 percent); Matt Gon¬ pitting the city’s most vulnerable one PENNBROOK
zalez 105,617 (43.51 percent)” [“Is against another. Katz threatens cuts in
Howard Dean the inevitable nominee?” order to scare up more General Fund
Our Man Friday, January 1 ]. Hmmm, dollars for DPH’s bloated budget. INSURANCE SERVICES
my calculator shows that 52.81 plus I wouldn’t be the least bit sorry to
43.51 equals 96.32, not 100 percent. The official re¬ see Katz replaced, even if he is gay; I would
Since 1982 • We do it all!
sults posted on the SF DOE site does show the above- be sorry to see the czar position eliminated, because
stated number for Newsom, but the Gonzalez vote that position should, in part, be providing checks and
total was 119,329, or 47.19 percent. One way to look balances to propaganda emanating from Katz’s bloat¬ 200 Pine Street, 8th Floor
at this: had only about 7,000 voters gone to Gonzalez ed AIDS Office. San Francisco, CA94104
instead of Newsom, then the election ends with a Patrick Monette-Shaw
[phone]
Gonzalez victory (not a far-fetched idea since exit San Francisco
polls showed large numbers of voters made their de¬ Fax [phone]
cision at the very last minute). Doesn’t like new lighting plan
If one were to actually read the Guardians analy- Concerned about Dolores Street looking like California Toll Free [phone]
s{s'o'Fme“ele£ti6h, bne woulcfbe hard pressed not to ' Geary Boulevard? Attend the upcoming SF PUC Broker Lie. # 0622553
appreciate the many victories that truly were achieved meeting on Tuesday, January 13 at 1:30 p.m. in City
by Gonzalez’s remarkable campaign, not the least of Hall Room 400. EARTHQUAKE • CRIME • ESTATE PLANNING • TRAVEL
which is the fact that he actually won the popular vote Residents are highly concerned about street light¬
on election day. Notwithstanding the possible effects ing to be installed the length of Dolores Street early
of the late notification of the availability of absentee this year. This is the final step of very welcome utility
ballots to the Gonzalez campaign, one mu >t wonder undergrounding in that neighborhood. However, the
what the outcome would have been had the Gonzalez light fixtures were selected with no local community
camp spent nearly $4 million, had been operating for input and are historically inconsistent and energy in¬
more than a year prior to the general election, and had efficient. SF’s Public Utilities Commission selected
the active - and desperately intrusive - support of a modern aluminum cobra light fixtures for Dolores Personal Injury
national political party, which paraded its Big Boys Street, similar to those used on Geary Boulevard, un¬
out in the waning moments of the race. But that was like the historic fixtures used in the adjacent neigh¬ Medical Malpractice
not what the Gonzalez campaign was about. Gonza¬ borhoods of Dolores Heights and Liberty Hill and
lez was right to offer gracious congratulations to New¬ throughout Dolores Park itself. Discrimination
som for his victory; however, I would join Tim Red¬ Various groups of neighbors oppose this selection, Wrongful Eviction
mond and about 119,327 other San Francisco voters and have asked the PUC to substitute energy efficient
in saying that Gonzalez was a huge winner, even with¬ high lighting historical fixtures, which have been cre¬ Wills & Estate Planning
out winning the election. ated for use throughout other parts of the city - for
Eric Politzer example, Van Ness Avenue, the Embarcadero, and FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION
San Francisco upper Market Street- including its intersection with
Dolores Street. We are asking the PUC to take notice Boone Callaway Carl Wolf
AIDS czar position needed of such features as Dolores Street is part of the 49 Mile
785 Market Street, Suite I 150
Anyone who questions whether the city can afford Scenic Drive and the address for among other high¬
a single $50,000 per year AIDS czar position, [ “AIDS lights, the oldest existing building in San Francisco - 4 I 5.54 1.0300
czar position up in air,” January 1] even if Mayor-elect Mission Dolores. The Dolores Heights Improvement
Gavin Newsom is facing a $160 million budget deficit Association and the Eureka Valley Promotion Associ¬
for the fiscal year set to begin next July, needs their ation have been approached to take stands against this
head examined. plan. NOW is a great time to buy...
In the two-plus years that San Francisco’s AIDS Please send your opinion to Supervisor Bevan
czar position has been vacant, the city has paid bonus¬ Dufty, who is attempting to work with the city’s De¬
es approaching $4 million to approximately 700 city partment of Public Works to overturn the PUC’s de¬
managers. During the same two years, the 2,900-plus cision, at [email protected] and consider at¬ Call
city employees earning in excess of $90,000 annually tending the upcoming SF PUC meeting on Tuesday,
have been paid salaries totaling in excess of $660 mil¬ January 13. BILL BERRY
lion (at about $330 million annually). The city has Charlie Spiegel
102 information systems project directors, IS man¬ San Francisco
agers, and other IS directors, paid $12 million annu¬ to find out
Supports Trannyshack
ally. Another example: we have 32 hospital adminis¬
trators and four medical directors for just two hospi¬ Trannyshack applies blackface to any number of why.
tals (SFGH and Laguna Honda) who, combined, are pop cultural institutions, topical and otherwise, every
paid $4.5 million annually. single freakin’ week.
Between this $16.5 million, surely the new mayor Irony, camp, vaudeville, and an almost viral sense
could cut some of the patronage fat to keep an AIDS of keen observation about the culture at large all have
czar. As well, recently DPH’s AIDS Office was bloated a home there.
with 170 employees. Newsom has the tool to fund this It’s what makes it brilliant and worthwhile. Black¬
position: Last November’s Proposition F, targeted face is and was a farce perpetrated on blacks by a sav¬
early retirement, passed by the voters. All he needs to age and stupid dominant culture. And Heklina, ZEPHYR
do is offer some of these bloated positions early re¬ Glamamore, Fauxnique et. al. know farce (and a sav¬ REAL ESTATE
tirement to get them off the payroll in order to fund age dominant culture) when they see it.
the czar position. Keep it up, boys and girls. [phone] xl63
And in the past two fiscal years, the San Francisco
AIDS Foundation has paid out, at minimum, $22.4 Liam Passmore [email protected]
million in grants and grants payable to its African af¬ San Francisco
ZEPHYR Real Estate 4200 17th St., San Francisco, CA 94114
8 BAY AREA REPORTER 8 January 2004
Transgender 2004
All Your Skin Needs
Gaetano Zanelli, M.D.
such as the Local Law Enforce¬
Dipfomate, American Board of Dermatology bTy Gwendolyn Ann Smith ment Enhancement Act and the
California Pacific Medical Center Employment Non-Discrimina¬
4S5a nC Fa*ratrnoc iSsctroe,e tC, AS ui9te4 121145 here’s no better time to tion Act - and every new year
prognosticate on the year gives another chance for these bills
[phone] to come than January. to become wholly transgender in¬
www.zskincenter.com Twelve fresh months await us, clusive.
Advanced BOTOX, Collagen full of promise and possibility. More than all this,
Laser Treatments for Hair Removal, It’s a time for fresh starts, and 2004 will again build
VOebiangsi && WChrienmkliecsa,l SPkeine lsC, aPrero Rpeecgiiam ens few know about new begin¬ on the good deeds
Permanent Solutions for Facial Wasting nings better than those within done by trans¬
Microdermabrasion, Acne & Rashes the transgender community. gender ac¬
Skin Cancer Surgery and Mole Evaluation From a personal standpoint, tivists in
I look forward to the coming 2003 and
year. It’s not that I had a bad many pre¬
time in 2003. Not at all, I had vious years.
many wonderful experiences As more
throughout the year. It’s sim¬ transgender
Thinking of buying, ply that 2004 may well people be¬
selling, or upgrading? be the time to see the come visible
things started last and speak up,
Meet Josh Bottfeld- year come to full the more educa-
His fruit. tion gets done and
The same the more change becomes
experience may well be possible.
true for the In February, Los Angeles
can work transgender com¬ alongside will be the home of the first all¬
munity overall. The year those fighting against ever- transgender cast of the Vagina
for you! 2003 was an amazing year as strengthening “defense of Monologues, complete with a new
far as transgender rights were con¬ marriage” laws. transgender-specific monologue
Take advantage of Josh's cerned, with some of our biggest Last year did see an increase in by the playwright herself, Eve En-
years of experience and TRUST,,, rights gains to date. A smattering the number of reported antitrans¬ sler.
knowledge of the local of states, including California and gender murder cases - 16 within 2004 will also be the 10-year
nirtee awxl to eprskrtao ftpoee rmr ytyoa rutkr aiennt sayanocduti rol ent ! J44o105s4h 06 9B25o4-tt0thf5 e5Sl2dt.x 157 Nrigehwt sM beilxlsi.c oO, tphaesrs pelda ctreas nisngcelunddeedr thwe iUden.i tTehde Sseta ateres, uannpdl e3a3s awnot rflidg¬¬ Tanrannivsseerxsaurayl oMf etnhaec feo, romnaet ioofn t hoef
ZEPHYR San rrancisco transgender hate crime pro¬ ures, but I take heart in both pioneering modern transgender
REAL ESTATE CA 94114 tections. an heightened level of rights organizations. If anything,
Another such rights vic¬ awareness into this issue, one can look back at the works the
tory is yet to come, with coupled with an increase group did a decade ago, and see
the gender recognition in the number of arrests how those scant drops of water
bill currently being de¬ for these crimes. In Wash¬ still make ripples we see today.
bated in the United ington, D.C., for example, Like Transsexual Menace, I can
Kingdom. This three reported look back this year on all I’ve done
bill, brought on deaths . ended since 1994: it was November of
Patented by a European up with three that year that I began to live full¬
Wallbed System court ruling, arrests; in many time in my current gender. A lot
• No Bolting to the Floor would allow British transsexuals years past, such cases may never of road has passed beneath my
• All Sizes Available to finally marry members of the have been acted upon. feet since then, but there is very
opposite sex, as well as gain state One of the highlights of 2003 - little I’ll ever look back on with re¬
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modifications. ring testimony, three of her ac¬ society as a whole.
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case took over a year to write, and omission not to mention the up¬ just in the year past - are now ma¬
not only provided clear custody to coming presidential election, with turing into healthy plants. With
this female-to-male father, but a Democratic front-runner who L that in mind, 2004 could well be a
made it clear as to the nature of so far - has not been afraid to use bumper crop for the transgender
Mr. Kantaras’s gender. the “T” word. It remains to be seen community at large. ▼
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struggles on the part of transpeo¬ ter “B.” a happy and prosperous new
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CA primary could
decide Dem nominee
by Wayne Friday
f> as some feel is possible, for¬
mer Vermont Governor
Howard Dean manages to
win either or both the Iowa cau¬
cuses and the New Hampshire
primary later this month, the race
for the Democratic nomination
for president could be all but over.
A Dean victory, however, is by
no means a certainty in Iowa,
where neighboring Representative
Richard Gephardt (D-Missouri)
has to be considered by some as at
least a slight favorite to win on
January 19, and even a first-place
finish in the January 27 first-in-
the-nation New Hampshire pri¬
mary wouldn’t necessarily assure
Dean of the nomination.
So, the February 3 date, when
seven states hold either primaries Democratic presidential hopeful Richard Gephardt, center, visited the
or caucuses, followed by other im¬ LGBT Community Center in San Francisco last summer with his lesbian
portant large-state primaries daughter, Chrissy, left, and PFLAG's Sam Thoron.
(Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia)
later in February, could possibly, eral House members, including ed people who should do just fine.
but not necessarily, produce Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D- A belated Happy New Year and
enough committed delegates to San t <se) and Pete Stark (D-Fre- congrats to one of my favorites,
deliver the nomination to any of mo ). Assemblyman Mark Leno, who
the Democrats in the race. In that ouse Democratic Leader managed to be named by Genre,
event, the all-important March Nancy Pelosi (San Fran¬ the popular national gay men’s
2 California primary, with cisco) and Representa¬ magazine, to its year-end list of 10
its huge chunk of 370 del¬ tive Bob Matsui (D- of “The Men We Love.”
egates, would certainly Sacramento) are Oakland Mayor (and former
play a key role, if not the backing House col¬ California governor) Jerry Brown
decisive role, in deciding league Gephardt; says that he’s “most serious” about
who the Democrats Lieutenant Governor running for California attorney
pick to oppose Cruz Bustamante general in 2006; Brown’s celebrity
George W. Bush in (D) and East Bay Rep¬ alone will make him an early fa¬
November. resentative vorite, but he’s being challenged
Though Ellen for sure by state Senator Joe Dunn
some cam¬ Tauscher (D) (D-Santa Ana) and more and
paign strate¬ support Sena¬ more people are saying that S.F.
gists and political experts feel that tor Joseph Lieberman (D-Con- City Attorney Dennis Herrera
Dean, with a win in Iowa and/or necticut), while Clark has the would also make a good AG.
New Hampshire, would be all but backing of Representative Mike And at the Hall of Justice, those
unstoppable, others disagree. Thompson (D-St. Helena) and who know him tell me that new
Though some 20 contests, most in former Commerce Secretary District Attorney Kamala Harris
small states like Iowa, New Hamp¬ Mickey Kantor, still a power¬ made a great choice when she
shire, and South Carolina, will al¬ house in state Democratic politics. tapped former Alameda County
locate a total of 888 delegates, it is Outgoing state Assembly Assistant D.A. Russ Giuntini as
the March 2 date that produces Speaker Herb Wesson (D-Los her new chief assistant district at¬
the big catch of delegates - a total Angeles) has endorsed Senator torney, a position that outgoing
of 1,151, or half the number need¬ John Edwards (D-North Caroli¬ D.A. Terence Hallinan was for¬
ed to secure the nomination. na), and long shot candidate Rep¬ ever changing.
It is difficult to gauge where the resentative Dennis Kucinich (D- And assuming that City Attor¬ SUPERSTAR
Democratic candidates stand cur¬ Ohio) has picked up the backing ney Dennis Herrera rules soon
rently in California, but according of Oakland Representative Bar¬ that District 9 Supervisor Tom
to the most recent Field Poll, Dean bara Lee (D), an impressive list of Ammiano can run for yet anoth¬
and retired Army General Wesley Hollywood types, and several er four-year term, all other candi¬
Clark lead the still-crowded field Green Party members. dates should step aside - Ammi¬
among state Democrats, and both Terry McAuliffe,Democratic ano not only deserves another
are likely to still be contenders by National Committee chairman, term, he belongs back in the pres¬ THE CASTRO MOVIE STORE"
the time March 2 gets here. said last week that March 2, with ident’s spot.
Some Democratic strategists primaries in both California and Looking back to the December
feel that Senator John Kerry (D- New York, as well as a few other 9 mayoral runoff, one has to hand
Massachusetts) and Gephardt will states will “be a huge day” for the it to David Binder of David
likely be among the four serious party, adding that “whoever walks Binder Research for his on the
candidates still in the race when away with most of the delegates mark and usually reliable political
the California primary rolls on that day, that could be it.” polling, while some others are still
around. If that is indeed the case, The question, of course, is smirking at those KPIX-TV poll
political endorsements from Cali¬ which of those among the current numbers by Survey USA (and dis¬
fornia Democratic leaders could candidates in the crowded field played so prominently by the
play a very important role in who will be still standing come March Chronicle) that consistently had
wins those March 2 delegates. 2. Very likely it will be Dean, then Matt Gonzalez well ahead. I’ve
U.S. Senator Dianne Fein- look for Gephardt, Kerry, and pos¬ gotta believe that even someone as
stein (D-California), considered sibly Clark. Will Dean win it all or astute as Channel 5’s Hank
the most popular Democrat in the could Democratic Party leaders, Plante had to have trouble re¬
state, has endorsed Kerry, but Sen¬ concerned that Dean’s strong op¬ porting them or taking them seri¬
ator Barbara Boxer (D-Califor- position to the war in Iraq could ously. Survey USA, incidentally,
nia), who is up for re-election this make it difficult for him to defeat used what’s known as “computer¬
year herself, hasn’t endorsed and President Bush, rally around a so- ized response audience polling”
isn’t expected to do so. called anti-Dean Democrat, with (or as some in the profession refer
Kerry has also been endorsed California and those other March to as “CRAP,” which is what the WWW.
by other top state Democrats like 2 states providing the decisive numbers turned out to be).
Controller Steve Westly, Trea¬ showdown? A lot of other winners in the CastroMovieStore.
sseunretar tiPvhei lJ uAanngietali dMesi,l lLe.nAd. eRr-eMprec¬- Politics and people gDoe cuenmnboetric reudn otofof th- apt eliokpelley wlikilel
Donald, and San Francisco As¬ Congratulations and all the Jim Rivaldo who worked on the com
semblyman Mark Leno. best to incoming Mayor Gavin Harris campaign; Rivaldo’s had a
Among prominent California Newsom and District Attorney string of winners (Sophie
Democrats endorsing the Dean Kamala Harris both of whom Maxwell, Dennis Herrera, Bevan SUPERSTAR SATELLITE
candidacy are Insurance Commis¬ take office today (Thursday, Janu¬ Dufty, Mark Leno). He’s a guy I’d 474 CASTRO STREET
sioner John Garamendi, and sev¬ ary 8); two bright, young, talent¬ next page ► SUN-TH4UR1S 150A-M8-106PM3 • -FR3I-S3AT3 103AM -11PM
10 BAY AREA REPORTER 8 January 2004
Where power and responsibility lie
by Dale Carpenter Crain, whose hectoring editori¬ Antigay marriage activists argue opined that DOMA is constitu¬ “self-contradiction.” As any first-
als have become routine, sinks to a that liberal federal judges are like¬ tional; I argued only that, for the year law student knows, but as
new low in a recent one entitled, ly soon to strike down DOMA, foreseeable future, federal courts Crain apparently does not, the rel¬
popular if depressing trend “Lying our way to equal rights.” In making an immediate constitu¬ are unlikely to strike it down. evant constitutional doctrines ad¬
in American political de¬ it, Crain accuses me and two other tional amendment to ban gay Crain’s editorial simply demon¬ dress racial and sexual orientation
bate involves accusing one’s gay-equality advocates of lying marriage the only way to stop it. strates no understanding of the discrimination very differently.
opponents of lying. Witness the about our real agenda in order to In a hearing lasting about three complex constitutional and poli¬ Additionally, the historical
plethora of recent low-brow pacify antigay opposition. Among hours, and in many pages of sin¬ cy questions involved. context of the Supreme Court’s
books using some version of the Crain’s “liars” is Ruth Harlow, a gle-spaced written testimony, sup¬ Lacking substantive support decision in Loving v. Virginia,
word “lie” in their titles to attack lawyer who led the recent sodomy plemented later by responses to for his views, Crain starts name¬ striking down antimiscegenation
opponents. These demagogic case victory in the Supreme Court. senators’ written questions, I ar¬ calling. He concludes I must be laws, differed dramatically from
works eschew real argument for Harlow has done more for gay gued a marriage amendment is lying about the FFCC, “in¬ the political context of gay mar¬
name-calling, but they sell well rights than just about any living superfluous because the so tending to calm the opposi¬ riage today. The Loving decision
because the partisans who buy American, so it’s an honor to be on cial-conservative nightmare tion so that they might followed decades of political ac¬
them prefer validation over seri¬ Crain’s enemies list with her. of court-imposed nation not marshal their forces tivism and debate about such
ous thought. Now comes Chris Let’s analyze my alleged lie for wide gay marriage is too soon, when we’re not laws, with the result that they re¬
Crain, executive editor of an em- gay equality. Last September I tes¬ unlikely to come true yet prepared.” mained in only 16 states by the
pirette of gay newspapers, includ¬ tified before a Senate subcommit¬ anytime soon. Specifically, I What is his evidence for time the Supreme Court stepped
ing the Washington Blade, ped¬ tee looking at the constitutional noted that the Consti¬ this serious charge of in to impose a national settle¬
dling a similar style of obtuseness fate of the Defense of Marriage tution’s Full Faith bad faith? Past state¬ ment.
to gay readers. We should not ac¬ Act, which permits the states to and Credit Clause ments by me contra¬ We are nowhere near such a
cept Crain’s dumbing-down of refuse to recognize gay marriages (FFCC), as tradition¬ dicting myself? national consensus against antigay
gay politics. performed in other jurisdictions. ally interpreted, al¬ Crain presents none. marriage laws. Out of respect for
lows states to refuse to recognize a It’s just his hunch, I suppose. Per¬ the democratic process and for
marriage performed in another haps other gay activists disingenu¬ good institutional reasons, the
ROBERT JOHN DERN
state if recognizing the marriage ously welcomed my testimony as court appropriately hesitates be¬
Certified Public Accountant would violate its public policy. a way to pacify the religious right. fore taking on the whole country
Further, I predicted the Supreme But in that case Crain’s beef is on a charged social issue. Again,
Tax and Accounting Services Court is unlikely under any con¬ with them, not me. Crain shows no understanding of
stitutional doctrine to order na¬ Adding indecision to his epi¬ these complexities.
Quickbooks™ Assistance tionwide gay marriage, at least for thets, Crain concedes that I might Editorial power in a free soci¬
the foreseeable future. These views not be lying since I might actually ety is often dispensed on the basis
Corporations, Partnerships, Individuals are shared by a large number of believe states ought to be able to of money or who-you-know hap¬
respected constitutional scholars, make their own decisions about penstance, not merit. I do not
870 Market St., Suite #1246 SF, CA conservative and liberal. whether to recognize gay mar¬ know why Crain is where he is.
415.982.121 1 Yet, without any support, riages. “As a gay Republican,” And I will not speculate about his
www.bobdern.com Crain baldly asserts the FFCC re¬ Crain writes,“[Carpenter] is used possible hidden motives, as he
quires states to recognize gay to living with self-contradictions.” does others’. But I do know the
unions from other states. This has In intelligent gay circles we have public good demands that editor¬
never been the law, a fact Crain gotten beyond the hoary and ial power be used responsibly.
Picture Perfect and seems oblivious to. facile dismissal of all gay Republi¬ Crain should start exercising some
Worry Free Moreover, he claims that my cans as oxymorons. Not so on responsibility along with his
■1 jk 1 testimony contradicted “what Crain’s editorial page, which power. T
many gay activists have said for a rarely runs opinion columns by
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timony, he would know I never would not, but this involves no www.indegayforum.com.
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Capitol. Both Nunez and Mc¬ FBI agents in 1975. America, what
M previous page Carthy said that the October 7 re¬ a country.
call election showed state voters
want if I were a candidate. And are tired of “politics as usual” and
then there’s Deputy City Attorney declared that Sacramento politics,
Matthew Rothschild - does any at least in the Assembly, is headed
candidate have a better friend for “a new time, a newer and bet¬
when they get into a race? Ask ter Legislature that is out to solve
Herrera and Harris how much problems.” Well, we’ll be watching
they appreciate the support from a - and has anyone told state Sena¬
guy like Rothschild; he’s the best. tor John Burton (D-San Francis¬
The California Legislature is co) yet?
back in session this week but be¬ During the recent mayoral
fore members returned to Sacra¬ campaign, Green Party candidate
mento, incoming Assembly Matt Gonzalez reportedly once
Speaker Fabian Nunez (D-Los referred to the contest as “an ide¬
Angeles) and newly elected GOP ological battle for the city,” but it
Assembly Leader Kevin Mc¬ seems that it is Los Angeles Coun¬
Carthy (R-Bakersfield) got to¬ ty where the Greenies are really
gether over the holidays in an ef¬ making a stand. At a recent
fort to set aside partisan bickering statewide Green get-together in
Fullerton, it was the Los Angeles Outgoing Mayor Willie Brown
County Green Party that took the
prize for having registered more
Greenies than any other county And finally, Mayor Willie L.
Our home has been on Castro Street since 1965. during a five-month long registra¬ Brown Jr., first elected to the Cal¬
tion drive; 2,185 new Green Party ifornia Assembly in 1964, leaves
members were added to the L.A. City Hall today after having served
County list of voters. two terms as mayor of this incred¬
And you might want to know ible city. Brown is certainly Cali¬
(or you might not) that a total of fornia’s most charismatic (move
21 Americans will appear on the over, Arnold) politician, a bold
m kJTI ’ • upcoming California March 2 pri¬ outspoken master of rhetoric, and
mary election ballot in a bid to be¬ one of the most prominent
..-ili3 * .. come president of the United African American leaders in the
HHHB States. Among them are 10 De¬ nation. This column has written
mocrats, one Republican (guess about Brown for the past 25 years
]Bi&ia - - • who!), one American Indepen¬ in one fashion or another, and we
.. mtieBBtmSmmSXgSr -***»«** dent, four Greens, three Libertar¬ will surely miss him. Like the guy
ians, and one person currently in or detest him, Brown is truly one
We’d like to help you with yours. prison. One has to seriously won¬ of a kind. New Mayor Gavin New¬
der what Secretary of State Kevin som on his predecessor: “It is very
Shelley was thinking when he difficult for whomever is in this
raertn xveai .estate immii used his discretion to place the office to contrast with Mayor
555 Castro Street name of a convicted felon - Brown; he’s larger than life and
Leonard Peltier - on the ballot even his worst critics will always
415-861-5200 REAL ESTATE as Peace and Freedom Party can¬ acknowledge his presence.”
www.herth.com didate. Peltier is serving two life And how was your week? T