San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 46.38

2012·61.5 MB·English

by  San Francisco Bay Guardian

‘gunpowder’ explosion Queer (party) action! you know best
Super-strong heroin causing rash of oDs P14 our guide to the coolest Pride events P24 Vote in our Best of the Bay poll at SFBg.com
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A special report P8
Plus: OccuPride’s
rebirth of queer
radicalism
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angel by keeney and law
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JUNE 20, 2012 “THEY CAN TURN IN THEIR BADGES.”
– ADVOCATE CLARISSA MCFAYE ON HOW COPS CAN HELP SEX WORKERS
IF I RAN THE SHOW THIS WEEK’S WHY THE
REASON THAT RADIO SUCKS
WHAT IF FRONT-LINE ACTIVISTS WERE RUNNING SAN FRANCISCO?
TTHHEE WWOORRLLDD IISS
BY MESHA MONGE-IRIZARRY
CCOOMMIINNGG TTOO “WE ARE LOSING
“If I were (gah...) the San Francisco police chief, I’d make sure my department
GUARDIAN
serves & protects ALL residents; the people would finally define and imple- AN END TRUE DIVERSE,
ment community policing instead of me spearheading the deal myself; I
would ensure, from my end, that illegal racially biased policing would be a The Huffington LOCAL, CULTURAL
INTELLIGENCE
part of the shameful past of SF forever. There would be no unwarranted sur- Post just added
veillance of Muslims or intimidation of undocumented migrantes; I wouldn’t an entire sec- PROGRAMMING
wait more than a decade to fire brutal cops like Jessie Serna; I’d turn tion devoted to
What you over the SFPD mental health budget to Mobil Assistance “sideboobs.” THAT REALLY
Patrol and dispatch psych techs as first time responders ((wwwwww..hhuuffffiinnggttoonn--
need to know instead of my officers. post.com/news/ REFLECTS THE
sideboob)
Mesha Monge-Irizarry is a member of the city’s VIBRANCY OF
Marijuana Offenses Overview Committee and the
Idriss Stelley, killed by San Francisco cops at the OUR CITY. THIS
Metreon on June 12, 2001. PANHANDLING
IS ABOUT THE
AND PAYCHECKS
GAY MEN CAN
COMMODIFICATION
JUMP (AND Bevan Dufty, the mayor’s home-
less director, went to the Interfaith OF THE NON-
DRINK) ... Council the other day to talk about
his policy proposals and put it on COMMERCIAL SIDE
... and LBTs can, too, the line: “Every time I hear about
when the new gay Hi people not giving money to panhan- OF THE DIAL.”
PIZZA Tops sports bar opens dlers because it might go for drugs
in the old Lime and alcohol, well, there are people
POWER – FORMER KUSF
space in the Castro in this room who generate money for
in October. Give drugs and alcohol. What if that prin- MUSIC DIRECTOR, AND
You don’t have to have a shell and all those hot ciple applied to your paycheck?”
bandanna with strategically-located lacrosse CURRENT SAVE KUSF
eyeholes to dig on Bay pie news. daddies our SPOKESPERSON
Berkeley’s Red Tomato Pizza House number,
(2017 University, Berk. (510) please. IRWIN SWIRNOFF
845-6666, www.red-
tomatopizzahouse.
com) is offering vegan
GET DRUNK AND
stuffed crust with ooey- POLITICAL ALERTS
gooey Daiya cheese. The STUFF YOUR FACE TO
joint was a Round Table franchise HO
until recently, but liberated itself to (SUMMER EDITION): E P WEDNESDAY 20
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R com. 6:30pm, free. In the Haight’s
its sheer, shell-busting pig-out you’re 2. Souley Vegan-Beer Revolution E
P heyday, the Diggers were a cultural
looking for, head to Goat Hill (300 3. El Rio PA and political force to be reckoned with.
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Connecticut, SF. [phone], 4. Thee Parkside W The “community anarchist” collec-
NE tive served food in the Panhandle, ran
www.goathill.com). The Potrero Hill 5. Clare’s Deli-500 Club SF free medical clinics, and generally
family spot offers all you can eat cared for the large numbers of people
pies on Mondays for $11.95 from who flocked to the neighborhood in
MOVIE OF THE WEEK the 1960s. They set up free stores
4 to 9:45pm.
and crash pads, and were known for
Cowabunga, etc. SHOW SOME GRATITUDE, SF — absurd theater that made you think.
WED/20-THU/21 Now their broadsides have become a
CORPORATIONS ARE COMMUNITY BENEFITS new book, Notes from a Revolution.
Austin, Tex. comedian and author Owen Egerton (The Book of SSoanm Fer oafn tchisocsoe hinisvtoolvrey dw iinll sthpiesa rke caet ntht e
Harold, the Illegitimate Son of God) visits the Balboa Theatre for Booksmith for the books release, and
Hundreds of opponents and supporters of CPMC’s proposal to
two nights of talks illustrated there might even be some Diggers-style
build a massive hospital on Cathedral Hill and rebuild a smaller people-feeding afoot.
by clips culled from religious

version of St. Luke’s Hospital packed a City Hall hearing (and and educational films, cult
overflow room) June 15, the first of at least five that the Board classics, music videos, and MONDAY 25
of Supervisors and its Land Use Committee are holding on the just plain bizarro fragments The sky did not fall, Commonwealth
of media history. Wed/20 is Club, 595 Market, SF; www.common-
controversial proposal (see “Hospital standoff,” 6/13). “The Best of God,” boasting wealthclub.org. 5:30pm, $7-20. Don’t
Labor and community groups and many supervisors have criti- Ask, Don’t Tell was finally repealed last
such delights as faith healers, July. That hasn’t stopped people from
cized CPMC for not providing nearly enough money for community Bible-quoting rappers, and arguing for its reinstatement for reasons
benefits and to offset the project’s impacts on the city’s transpor- erstwhile Tiger Beat center- like “they’re in close quarters, they live
with people, they obviously shower with
tation system and housing market, particularly considering how fold Kirk Cameron’s hellzapop- people” (Rick Santorum in October.)
pin’ visions of the apocalypse. Get the real story at this Commonwealth
lucrative the project will be for the health care giant.
Thurs/21 takes the edge off, Club event, where soldiers will speak
But when CPMC CEO Warren Browner testified, he made it clear on the historic repeal’s effect on their
bro, with “The Best of Drugs,” lives. At least for these soldiers, the
that we should all just be grateful that the company is willing to self- which can only mean one thing: changes weren’t shower-related, but
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in this issue FixiNG SF’S
SUNShiNe
news
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eDiToRiAl Open-government advo-
arts and culture P20 cates are circulating a series of
amendments to the city’s landmark
Music listings 32 / stage listings 39 Sunshine Ordinance, and a lot of
filM listings 40 them make perfect sense. In gener-
al, the changes bring the law up to
date — and deal with the ongoing
this week at
and increasing frustration over the
lack of enforcement that has ren-
sfbg.coM dered nearly toothless one of the
most progressive open-government
laws in the nation.
The advocates are trying to
Follow US oN TwiTTeR:
find four supervisors to place the
www.TwiTTeR.com/SFbG
measure on the November ballot.
oN The bloGS It won’t be easy: Already, the City
Attorney’s Office has circulated a
politics memo arguing that some of the
amendments conflict with state law
stay up on the Mirakarimi hearings
or the City Charter.
– the ethics Commission starts taking
And in the background, Sup.
testimony on the matter this week
Scott Wiener is looking to take
are conservative counties another approach to open-govern-
overcrowding our prisons? ment, asking city departments to
examine the costs of complying
noise lGbT PRiDe: The GooD, You won’t find banks sponsor- with the existing law — which
hard-rocking alternative tentacles ing the Trans and the Dyke marches could easily become an argument
band Pins of Light answer the (Friday, June 22 and Saturday, 23 for loosening the rules.
Localized appreesh questionnaire The bAD AND The UGly respectively). Nothing in pride The new disclosure rules are
month comes closer to being like relatively modest. A policy body
we chat with the legendary Philip
the 1970s gay pride marches (that I would have to release all docu-
Glass prior to his henry Miller Library
benefit show with Joanna Newsom by Tommi Avicolli meccA and B of A, two banking institutions miss so much) than these two grass- ments relevant to a decision 48
that have been foreclosing queer roots efforts. hours in advance of a meeting.
stunning shots of the extra action oPiNioN No doubt about it, LGBT and other people out of their homes. Finally, a coalition calling Documents that include metadata
Marching Band in Denmark on its Pride is a mixed bag. Their motto might well be, “We take itself OccuPride plans to protest — tracked changes and other digi-
european tour Long gone are the days when Pride in evicting you.” What does it the “increasingly commercialized” tal information — would have to
Gay Freedom Day, later Gay Pride, say about our community that we pride parade that caters “only to be released in full. Regulations on
was a one-day affair, a protest allow these institutions to use our those of us with money to spend.” closed meetings around pending
march, and celebration to com- events to buy good PR? Banks don’t According to a press statement, it legal issues would be tightened.
memorate the Stonewall Riots in deserve good PR, especially when will also “honor our radical roots But the bulk of the changes
New York City in June, 1969. the government is not holding them for full liberation for women, people have to do with enforcing the law
These days, it’s a month-long, accountable in any real way for what of color, immigrants, the disabled, — and that’s where the battle lines
corporate-sponsored, $1.8 million- all the oppressed and marginal- are going to be drawn. The measure
they continue to do to us.
dollar, glitzy affair with events at ized.” Sounds like a Gay Liberation would create a powerful supervi-
Fortunately, there are pride
pixel Vision fancy hotels and a “parade” (not a Front manifesto I helped write 42 sor of public records, appointed
events that remain true to the fiery,
La Peña Cultural Center’s historic march) that remains totally out of years ago. Join up with OccuPride by the city attorney, who would
uncompromising spirit that was
mural is being redesigned, giving touch with the radical, grassroots on June 24 at 10am at Mission be directed to review all denials of
demonstrated by those queens who
birth to a conversation between two activism that first created it. Not and Main, or at Taylor and Turk at public records — and who, by law,
refused to go quietly into the paddy
generations of street artists only are contingents charged to 2:30pm for a rally on the site of the would be ordered to “not consider
wagons 43 years ago. They include
april short tries out Grouper, the new participate, but curbside barricades the Faetopia “pop-up queer arts, former Compton’s Cafeteria where, as authority any position taken by
three-on-three dating website make it impossible for onlookers to ecology, theater and community three years before Stonewall, drag the city attorney.” That seeks to
jump in, and participants are asked queens rioted. address a key shortfall in existing
center” at the old Tower Records
sex sf to “donate” to enter the festival space at Market and Noe, with lots Like Vito, a reminder of where law — the City Attorney’s Office,
after the parade. Even if the pride we came from. 2 which (like most law firms) is often
of great events continuing through
kelly Lovemonster attends the committee waives the fee for small driven by privacy and confidential-
OpensF polyamory conference, groups, why does anyone have to June 22 (www.faetopia.com); and the A longtime queer and tenants rights ity, advises city agencies on what
finds the plurality in poly pay to be part of pride? Vito Russo documentary, Vito, at the activist, Tommi Avicolli Mecca was records can be withheld, and city
Frameline Film Festival last week.
is it Pride yet? Especially given that it has involved with organizing Philly’s first officials who refuse to release docu-
Vito’s life of gay and AIDS activism
Our guide to the weeks’ sexiest events corporate sponsors with very deep pride march in 1972. He is editor of ments simply say they were follow-
is a reminder of why Pride month
– plus a latex fashion shoot to inspire pockets. Some of those sponsors are Smash the Church, Smash the State: ing the advice of their attorney.
exists. It’s just a shame that Wells
the fetish fashionista in you strange — and ugly — bedfellows the Early Years of Gay Liberation The proposal would turn the
Fargo is a sponsor of the festival.
indeed. They include Wells Fargo (City Lights). Sunshine Task Force into an inde-
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pendent commission, some of
whose appointments wouldn’t be
subject to any official review. The
commission would have extensive Blundstone
new authority to levy fines on city
Stepintoa
employees who it finds in violation
of the sunshine law and to force legend
the Ethics Commission — which
routinely ignores sunshine viola-
tions — to take action against
offenders.
The idea, of course, is to man-
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flouted on a regular basis by public
officials who pay no penalty and
the bulk of the
changes have to do
with enforcing the
law — and that’s
where the battle
lines are going to
be drawn.
thus have no real reason to comply.
But increasing the scope and cer-
tainty of punishment is one side of
the coin — and if there were better
ways to ensure compliance, none of
that would be necessary.
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commission rules that a meeting
was illegally closed? Tapes of that
meeting must be released, at once.
Documents improperly withheld?
Cough them up, now. The only
appeal city officials would have: go
to court and seek a secrecy order.
If the supervisors and other
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got to San Francisco as fast as I
could,” Mia told me. “And I was
like, you know, I’ll figure it out,
I’ll find a job, and I’ll do this and
that. And it was really hard.”
“ I think that the difference is
that there are more LGBT specific
languages and policies, and orga-
nizations that are affirming. All
of that is the best in the US, prob-
ably,” Mia said. “And there are all
these cultural groups and all of
that. But queerphobia and trans-
phobia exist here just like it exists
everywhere else.”
“So my big thing is how we
have all these systems in place
that make us a little more queer
friendly,” she said. “But how do
we actually get the public to stop
hating people, to stop doing hate
make It BetteR now crimes, to stop bullying?”
Ose, who now lives in the
Bayview, grew up closer to the
the queer youth of lyRIC build community and city. But coming from a religious
family in Modesto, he says, “I
fight discrimination without waiting for the adults
had heard things about the
Castro itself. I always thought
the Castro was the devil...I was a
church boy.”
He remembers fear that some-
one he knew would recognize him
in the forbidden neighborhood,
that “my mom would find out and
be like, what are you doing in the
Castro? So I was scared to death
my parents would find out I was
By yael Chanoff many teens across the country, to get better. They’re doing it for much lower unit cost — even if coming to the Castro.”
[email protected] the “It Gets Better” videos provid- themselves. we all understand that some of That was two years ago. Now,
ed crucial hope and support. the most marginalized youth will Ose works in the Castro, and
lyRIC’s sIRen song
Noted queer writer and speaker But last week, I was talking no longer be getting the inten- he was dressed in cut-off shorts
Dan Savage sent a hopeful mes- to Stephanie, Lolo, Ose, and Mia LYRIC definitely promotes pride sive level of support they need to and a slicked back Mohawk, long
sage to LGBT youth with his Tu Mutch, four Bay Area teens, and empowerment. Founded in make it to a successful adulthood” painted nails clicking on the
2010 YouTube video, “It Gets about what its like to be a queer 1988, LYRIC organizers worked LYRIC’s Executive Director Jodi table. “I’m hella gayed out,” he
Better.” But many queer youth in youth today. We were talking at to secure funding for a physical Schwartz told me, explaining that happily reports.
the Bay Area say they aren’t will- the Lavender Youth Recreation space a few years later. Since then, the organization is now growing When Mia made it to San
ing to wait. and Information Center (LYRIC), this purple house on Collingwood support by more grassroots fund- Francisco, she initially settled into
“If my adult self could talk a center for queer youth in the has functioned as a crucial center ing networks. the Tenderloin, rather than the
to my 14 year old self and tell heart of the Castro. for Bay Area queer youth. It offers “We used to hire 60-70 young gentrifying Castro.
him anything, I would tell him When I asked about the “It counseling, food, clothing, com- people per year, now it’s more like “As a trans person, a lot of
to really believe the lyrics from Gets Better” videos, they all had munity building workshops that 20,” Schwartz says. trans history is in the Tenderloin
“Somewhere,” from West Side the same reaction: “Ugh. I don’t kids teach, and a safe place to The organization still serves and there’s a lot of trans women
Story. There really is a place for like those videos. I don’t like hang out. about 400 young people per year. who live in the Tenderloin and
us. There really is a place for you. those at all.” But LYRIC, like many non- “I would guess we have 6,000 who work in the Tenderloin,” she
And that one day you will have “Those videos are depressing,” profits, has felt the impact of the queer youth living in the city,” explained. “So I feel more at home
friends that love and support you, Lolo said. severe government cuts to health Schwartz said. “So we’re not there. Even though it isn’t techni-
you will find love, you will find a “Yeah. ‘Just wait ‘til you’re an and human services. As a result, reaching everyone. Not to say that cally the gay neighborhood, it’s
community. And that life gets bet- adult?’ ” Stephanie asked. its budget has suffered steady all those 6,000 queer youth need a always been the queer ghetto and
ter,” Savage said. “Just wait ‘til you’re an adult, declines from approximately $1.2 LYRIC, but they need community. that’s where the low income and
Savage and his partner Terry and your problems will go away,” million in 2008 to $954,000 this, We all need community.” queer people of color live a lot.”
Miller’s message went viral. It Mia said, shaking her head. year primarily due to shrinking Youth from across the country The Tenderloin is also the
inspired hundreds of similar vid- “And it’s celebrities, too,” Ose government funding. come to San Francisco seeking site of many of the services that
eos and eventually led to the cre- noted. “ ‘I got thousands of dol- But LYRIC refuses to give up that community. Often they have queer youth use. Mia made some
ation of the It Gets Better Project, lars, and it gets better!’ ” offering paid internships, a rarity escaped intolerant, abusive, or of her first local connections at
headquartered in Los Angeles. The The four of them are facilita- in the nonprofit world. dangerous situations in their fami- Trans: Thrive, a program of the
videos were a response to a tragic tors at LYRIC, leading weekly “The City has made it clear lies or hometowns. But when they Asian Pacific Islander Center.
cluster of suicides by children community-building workshops that they no longer intend to arrive in this storied city, these And many of the kids at LYRIC,
bullied for seeming gay, a trend that deal with issues queer kids invest significant funding into youth are often disappointed. as well as the city’s other queer
that was only unusual in that the face. Between 17 and 21 years old, subsidized employment model “I was that kid who left a teens, benefit from Larkin Street
media picked up on it. And for these youth are not waiting for it programs — they want to serve small town in Texas and who Youth Services.
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CONT>> through the same things,” she “I go to church a lot,”
said. “The only difference is it’s Ose explained. “I grew up as
The homeless shelter oversees not encouraged to speak out about a Christian. And I wanted to
the only beds reserved for queer it, you’re supposed to act like you touch base on that because a lot
youth in the city, all 22 of them, have it together and it’s okay.” of times, the youth that I come
a number Schwartz believes in Mia said youthful teasing and across, the majority of them are
inadequate. A report from Larkin bullying are precursors to hate being silenced...I’m still going
Street in 2010 found that 30 per- crimes: “Bullying and hate crimes through some issues with my own
cent of the homeless youth they are related because it’s all about church, especially with my pastor
serve identify as LGBTQQ (les- people not accepting you, and because just recently I’ve heard
bian, gay, bisexual, transgender, then violently reacting to who that he dislikes me over the fact of
queer, or questioning). are. So either throwing insults or the way I dress, the way I act, my
LYRIC is part of the beating you up.” feminine gestures.”
Community Partnership On April 29, Brandy Martell, Stephanie sighed and said,
for LGBTQQ Youth and the an African American trans “I wish there were more LYRICS
Dimensions Clinic Collaborative, woman, was murdered in Oakland around the city. One in Bayview,
which includes service organi- in a likely hate crime. CeCe one in every district. And
zations like the queer-specific McDonald’s recent case has Oakland too.”
health clinic Dimensions, the also exhibited the dangers and “People who provide counsel-
nearby LGBT Center, the Bay Area injustice trans women of color ing, food, clothes, water if you
Young Positives HIV health and face. The young Chicago woman need it,” Lola added. “A safe space
support nonprofit, and the city’s defended herself against a bigoted to go to, a place where you can
Department of Public Health. attacker who she ended up kill- make friends, and make con-
But LYRIC is one of only a few ing, only to spend time in solitary nections. There need to be more
organizations that focuses on fun, confinement while awaiting trial, places like that specifically for
informative community-building get convicted on manslaughter, queer youth.”
workshops. and, last week, be placed in a Even in San Francisco,
men’s prison to serve her sen- harassment is a reality in youth
AcceptAnce now
tence. programs and schools. In 2009,
Savage promised queer kids that,
I asked the four LYRIC teach- the SFUSD studied Youth Risk
in the distant future, they would
ers about the campaigns of Behavior in San Francisco’s
“have friends that love and sup-
national organizations like the elementary through high school
port you, you will find love,
Human Rights Committee — such public schools, and found that
you will find a community.”
as marriage equity or LGBT sol- more than 80 percent of students
But LYRIC’s workshops, largely
diers — and they all shook their reported hearing anti-gay remarks
envisioned and run by the youth
heads. at school, and more than 40 per-
themselves, show kids that they
“There’s a huge disconnect cent said they had never heard
don’t need to wait: they can cre-
between the national platforms school staff stop others from mak-
ate those supportive networks for
of the major gay organizations ing those remarks. The survey also
themselves, in the here and now.
and the actual realities of queer found that students who identi-
Another such community-
youth,” Mia said. “Like they don’t fied as LGBT were significantly
building effort was on display
even have queer youth in the more likely than their peers to
at the LGBT Center on June 15:
majority of their meetings, but report skipping school out of con-
Youth Speaks’ queer poetry slam
then they act like they’re the ones cern for their safety.
Queeriosity. The show, which
fighting for our rights, you know.” Queer youth will never stop
was preceded by five weeks of
For example, she said “mar- finding informal networks of
free poetry workshops for and by
riage equality wouldn’t affect me support. But structured settings
queer youth, brought together
at all. Yeah, it would be okay, it like LYRIC can be vital. At places
young queer people from across
would be better if it was equal like LYRIC, youth find the com-
the Bay Area, and one could feel
across the board. But when you munity, the love, and the friends
the love and support in the air.
have people dying because of hate that Savage promised would
“Queeriosity is important
crimes, and dying because of bul- appear with time — before they
because, in the poetry scene, we
lying, and dying because they turn 18.
have so many people with so
don’t have a place to stay and “It’s easier to build relation-
many different backgrounds,”
they’re on the streets, it’s like, I ships and to build community
Milani Pelley, one of the show’s
just feel like those are a lot more when its structured, when it has
hosts and a poet who works with
pressing than getting a piece of a little bit of structure like, hey,
youth in the workshops, told me.
paper from the government.” this is a queer specified setting,
“A lot of times people who get
we’re going to talk to each other,
identified in the LGBT category, Setting the AgendA
we’re going to hang out, we’re
they don’t have that space where Mia serves on the city’s Youth
gonna do this, and then you kind
they’re front and center and it’s a Commission, where she’s design-
of build community off of that.
space for them. It’s very important ing training programs for service
And because it’s based on identity,
that we celebrate everyone.” providers to work with LGBT
you feel more comfortable to talk
Pelley, 24, has been working youth. Ose is working with
about that,” Mia explained. “You
with Youth Speaks since she was Schwartz to create programming
have to change your reality. And
16. She said the message of the for LGBTQ youth who don’t want
you have to be the one to change
It Gets Better videos might be too to take the common path of
it for yourself. Because ain’t
simple. rejecting religion and spirituality
nobody gonna make it better for
“Thinking about being an as they come to terms with other
adult versus a teenager, adults go parts of their identity. you.” 2
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