"Non-het" cheerleaders; Berkeley 9/26 "Bush-Out", more!

East Bay (Berkeley and Oakland) :
September/October 2004:

Below, please find part of Patrick Hoge's Chron story on recent "How Berkeley Can You Be?" parade, including nudists, Billionaires for Bush, "nonheterosexual" cheerleaders, and more.

Coming up soon, in Berko and Oakland,
THREE clothing-optional events
(two indoors and one outdoors):


On Sunday, 26 September (same day as Folsom),
the Berkeley BUSH-OUT:


Bisexual painter & performance artist
Debbie Moore
[ debbiemoore [at] xplicitplayers.com ]
hopes to create a
"Bushout" performance
( to get Bush out! )
on Sunday
9/26 in People's Park at noon.

see ya there!
luv,
Debbie
.....
[ SUN says: For background info on Berkeley artist Debbie Moore
and her X-plicit Players,
please visit:
http://www.xplicitplayers.com

For up-to-date info on
future events, email her;
and ask her to add you to her e-mail list.

For the Bush-Out, bring videocam, anti-Bush signs, courage, fruit, sunscreen......
After Bush-Out, rush to SF for remaining hours of the
clothing-optional Folsom Street Fair. ]

.........

And also in the East Bay, you can attend
two indoor CLOTHING-OPTIONAL events
at art gallery in OAKLAND,
on Saturday nights --
September 25 and October 9.


Debbie Moore writes:
...I'm creating a happening
for the prostitutes rights campaign, Oct. 9...

Folks are invited to attend these
indoor
clothing-optional events:
...

Kari Bradley’s poetic suggestion
provokes group mind traveling with
fivebfriends who respond by writing and reading intertwining poems,
surrounded by
Debbie Moore’s paintings.
Saturday, 9/25/04, 8pm.
Loop Gallery, 6436 Telegraph Ave. @ 65th St., Oakland
For info:
debbiemoore [at] xplicitplayers.com

....
“Sacred Prostitutes Perform” [a happening] --
an exorcism of shame to benefit the
Berkeley ballot initiative for sex workers’ rights.
with dance by “slut-goddess”, Ruby Pearl,
with book signing by whore-priestess, Scarlet Harlot,
“The Unrepentant Whore”,
with spoken word by sex positive Stacey Swimme,
Robin Few, and Debbie Moore.
Saturday, 10/9/04, 8pm.
Loop Gallery, 6436 Telegraph Ave. @ 65th St., Oakland
For info:
debbiemoore [at] xplicitplayers.com
....
[SUN says: You can still attend this Oct. 9 event in Oakland at 8PM;
AFTER the Nude Peace Day gathering at SF's Baker Beach,
approximately from 2 to 4 PM. ]
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PS 1: [ international proposal by SUN: ]

"HOW ______ CAN YOU BE?"

In California, the "How Berkeley Can You Be?" parade has happened nine times, so far.
In some ways it resembles Pasadena's Doo-Dah Parade, New York City's Mermaid Parade,
Burning Man and related events, Mardi Gras, et cetera.
For a report on the September 2004 How-Berkeley parade, please see [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/20/MNG818RKUU1.DTL ]

Is this mix of artistry, whimsy, and satire possible ONLY in "Berserkeley"?

Does this parade concept "have legs" ?
Can artsy freaks do this elsewhere,
with or without help from non-freaks?

Imagine "How Santa Cruz Can You Be?"

"How Fogtown Can You Be?" (in San Francisco)
"How Cambridge Can You Be?" (in England and/or Massachusetts)

"How Sydney Can You Be?"
"How Berlin Can You Be?"
"How London Can You Be?"
"How Tokyo Can You Be?"
"How Amsterdam Can You Be?"
"How Tel Aviv Can You Be?"
"How Rio Can You Be?"

Please FORWARD this immodest proposal to creatives & Greens in cities,
and in college towns,
around the planet!
Please translate into various languages!

-- SUN, San Francisco, 2004

http://pages.prodigy.net/seniornude

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PS 2:
[Excerpts from Chron report on Berkeley parade:]

Monday, September 20, 2004 (SF Chronicle)

Berkeley celebrates passion for peculiar/
Parade features humor, art,
jabs at president, Iraq war

[by] Patrick Hoge,
Chronicle Staff Writer

Eccentricity and whimsy ruled in Berkeley
for a sweet moment on Sunday
[ 19 Sept. 2004] as artists,
nudists [the X-plicit Players]
and creators of colorful mobile contraptions
staged the ninth annual
How Berkeley Can You Be? parade.

There were saucy vaudeville dancers shaking booty, nonheterosexual
cheerleaders hurling each other into the air, a frenetic man in a pink
bodysuit whizzing around on a unicycle, a flame-hurling black pickup with
wings, and lots of live music.
"It's a chance for people to dress up and act silly and have a ball," said
Mayor Tom Bates [......].
Mixed with the art and humor, predictably, was politics, with numerous
references to President Bush and the Iraq war.
"Dahling," said City Councilwoman Linda Maio as she swished past Bates in
an opulent gown and hat holding a leash attached to an invisible dog named
Buster Cash.

Maio, traveling under the name Ivanna Havemore, was associated with the
"Billionaires for Bush," a proud-looking group carrying signs with slogans
like "Thanks for paying our share."

"He (Bush) really is the best president money can buy," drawled Maio,
draped across the arm of a tuxedo-wearing swell.
[.....]

"It's all for you," Steven Raspa, master of ceremonies at the "Car Free
Stage," told the audience waiting to hear a band named Rosin Coven play a
genre of music they call Pagan Lounge Cabaret. "All in the name of the
preposterous wonder that is Berkeley."
....
Copyright © 2004 SF Chronicle
....
[For the rest of this story, please visit sfGate:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/20/MNG818RKUU1.DTL ]
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PS 3:

CALENDAR 4 FREEDOM-SEEKERS,
22 September to October 9th, 2004
( compiled by SUN and SaveFreedom;
plus info from HolyTitClamps ):
........
For more "queer things to do"
in the San Franhattan Gay Area,
please visit Larrybob at HTC:

[ http://www.holytitclamps.com/ ]
...........
And for arts events,
please visit the Squidlist calendar:

[ http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/calendar/ ]
...........
Please FORWARD freely, as appropriate.
...........

SEPTEMBER 2004:


**CAL-SF: Wednesday, 22 September: 7pm:
Slideshow and lecture by Stanford professor
Joan Roughgarden, a transwoman, on
EVOLUTION'S RAINBOW:
Diversity, Gender and Sexuality in Nature and People.
FREE.
Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library,
3533 -- 16th Street (near Market), SF; in the Castro ghaytto.
Take historic "F' streetcar, or underground Muni Metro.


.............

OKLAHOMA: circa Thursday, 23 September (?):
State supreme court may hear oral arguments
about whether an anti-marriage amendment
should appear on November OK ballot. (?)
.......

*CAL-SF: Thursday, 23 September:
Dr. Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, and Mattilda read from
THAT'S REVOLTING:
Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.
FREE.
City Lights Books,
261 Columbus Avenue,
in SF's North Beach (Italian/beatnik) area.

..........

***CAL: SF: Saturday, 25 September, 7pm:

Perverts Put Out!

Saturday
8:00 pm sharp
[on the night before Folsom Fair]
848 Community Space
at 848 Divisadero, San Francisco, CA

Your last chance, for this year, to catch this long-running and ever-popular literary
smut-salon.
Come experience the cutting edge of erotic fiction,
with presentations by local and visiting writer/performers including
Daphne Gottlieb,
Patrick Califia,
Jen Collins,
Simon Sheppard,
Bill Brent,
Doug Harrison,
Steven Schwartz,
ferret.


Costumes, including fetish wear
and birthday suits,
are welcome.

$12-$20 sliding-scale contribution will benefit our chosen charities --
this time around, we're donating to
the Center for Sex and Culture.
No-one turned away for lack of funds.

We strongly suggest making a reservation
by calling (510) 451-2646
and leaving your phone number for confirmation,
or emailing
PPO [at] blackbooks.com.
Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-serve
basis. We suggest you arrive by 7:45pm
and allow enough time before
that for parking, if you are traveling by car.
......

*** EAST BAY:
THREE clothing-optional events by Debbie Moore:

Sept. 25, Sept. 26, and October 9:
...
On Sunday, 26 September (same day as Folsom),
the Berkeley BUSH-OUT:
Debbie Moore
[ debbiemoore [at] xplicitplayers.com ]
hopes to create a
"Bushout" performance
( to get Bush out! )
on Sunday
9/26 in People's Park at noon. [...]
[ SUN says: For background info on Berkeley artist Debbie Moore
and her X-plicit Players,
please visit:
http://www.xplicitplayers.com
For up-to-date info on
future events, email her;
and ask her to add you to her e-mail list.
For the Bush-Out, bring videocam, anti-Bush signs, courage, fruit, sunscreen......
After Bush-Out, rush to SF for remaining hours of the
clothing-optional Folsom Street Fair. ]

And also in the East Bay, you can attend
two indoor CLOTHING-OPTIONAL events
at art gallery in OAKLAND,
on Saturday nights --
September 25 and October 9:

Debbie Moore writes:
...I'm creating a happening
for the prostitutes rights campaign, Oct. 9...

Folks are invited to attend these
indoor
clothing-optional events:
...

Kari Bradley’s poetic suggestion
provokes group mind traveling with
fivebfriends who respond by writing and reading intertwining poems,
surrounded by
Debbie Moore’s paintings.
Saturday, 9/25/04, 8pm.
Loop Gallery, 6436 Telegraph Ave. @ 65th St., Oakland
For info:
debbiemoore [at] xplicitplayers.com

....
CAL, northern: Oakland:
9 October, Saturday evening:
“Sacred Prostitutes Perform” [a happening] --
an exorcism of shame to benefit the
Berkeley ballot initiative for sex workers’ rights.
with dance by “slut-goddess”, Ruby Pearl,
with book signing by whore-priestess, Scarlet Harlot,
“The Unrepentant Whore”,
with spoken word by sex positive Stacey Swimme,
Robin Few, and Debbie Moore.
Saturday, 10/9/04, 8pm.
Loop Gallery, 6436 Telegraph Ave. @ 65th St., Oakland
For info:
debbiemoore [at] xplicitplayers.com

[SUN says: You can still attend this Oct. 9 event in Oakland at 8PM;
AFTER the Nude Peace Day gathering at SF's Baker Beach,
approximately from 2 to 4 PM. ]
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*** CAL: SF: Sept. 26, Sunday, 11AM to 6PM:
world-famous,
clothing-optional
FOLSOM STREET FAIR!

Demonstrate nude for peace and freedom!
Distribute leaflets against circumcision of infants!

[ http://FolsomStreetEvents.org/ ]

In SF's SoMa district, on Folsom St, from 7th St to 12th St.
Always on last Sunday of each September.

Expect around 400,000 leatherfolk, friends, and fans.

Please donate when you enter.

[On a sour note,
with his head firmly stuck in the past,
Mister Negativity says:
"Never mind those naked people
(mostly those who shouldn't)...."
-- Bay Area Reporter, ___ Sept. 2004 ]

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CAL-SF: "Weds. September 29th, performances at 9 pm: "Pirate Booty" at the Lusty Lady, SF's own world-famous peepshow. Get your feet wet with delicious mermaids, swashbuckling scoundrels, bawdy broads & more! Watch glamorous figureheads come to life, thrilling swordfights & bondage plank-walking in our evening performances staring at 9 pm. Open 11 am- 3 am. We're the only worker-owned, unionized peepshow in exsistence, so come support your local sexy subversives! There's no cover charge & our booth prices are a mere 25 cents. Location: Lusty Lady, 1033 Kearney @ Broadway. Hotline: 415.391.3991. "
[-HTC]
http://www.lustyladylive.com

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OCTOBER 2004:
Domestic Violence Awareness Month,
Breast Cancer Awareness Month;
Hispanic Heritage Month (until Oct. 15).
.......



***NEW YORK: October 1st, Friday morning, early:
Spencer Tunick's next Naked Pavement photo-shoot will take place
1 October at 6:45 AM,
in New York City on 13th Street
between Washington Street and the West Side Highway.
All are welcome to pose.
The shoot is part of Extremely Refrigerated, a two-week art and performance installation
taking place in New York's meat-market district and on the Internet.
It's being produced by the Floating Point Unit transmedia art collective.
More info at HotWired: Retina - Naked City:

[ http://hotwired.wired.com/retina/95/33/naked/ ]
........

CAL: SF: October 2-3, Sat-Sun:
"Reggae in the Park" festival,
in Golden Gate Park.
Festival WON'T include "burn the queer" singer Capleton.
Please see SF Examiner, 13 September 2004:
"Controversial reggae artist cut from festival.
Jamaican singer called homophobic."
by Alison Soltau.
............


CAL: SF: circa 2-3 Oct. (first weekend):
"Strictly Bluegrass" festival, in Golden Gate Park.
Free.
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CAL: SF: Sunday Oct 3: Castro Street Fair,
including Sugar Valley.

[ http://www.castrostreetfair.org/ ]

[ http://www.sugarvalley.org/ ]


CSF was considered wild in the Seventies.
Today, coming one week after Folsom, it seems mild.

Women can go topfree if they choose;
but nudity and bare genitals are banned.

Please donate when entering the fair area.
..........

CAL: Oct 3: SF, Cable 29: "Outlook" [queer news], first Sunday, 5pm.
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USA: Will Bush, and/or Wahhabi terrorists, stage another "October Surprise" ?
.......

USA: thru 11 October:
" Marriage Equality California Caravan
and National Rally in Washington D.C.
From October 4 to 11, 2004, marriage activists will leave San Francisco and cross the
country to Washington D.C. on the Marriage Equality Express, making 14 stops to
network with local marriage activists and spread the fire for marriage equality nation-wide.

EQCA and MECA will post daily blogs from the riders.

Consider going to Washington D.C. for the
National Marriage Equality Rally
on National Coming Out Day [Monday, Oct. 11]
in the Upper Senate Park -
hear Barney Frank, Mabel Teng, marriage plaintiffs,
civil rights advocates, Tuck and Patti and more.
To learn more about supporting the marriage caravan and rally go to

( http://www.marriageequalityca.org/events/2004/national-rally/index.php ). +

+ Register to Vote Absentee!
...Registered voters are five times more likely
to actually vote,
when they vote by mail.
To register to vote absentee go to

( http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm ).
[-- MECA]
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CAL-SF: 4 October, Monday, 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM:
"Celebrating Women" exhibit
by IMOW,
at One Market, concourse lobby, downown SF.
Take Bart/Muni to Embarcadero Station.

"The International Museum of Women presents “Celebrating Women,” an exhibit of artifacts, music and photographs of festivals from around the world; richly documented for the first time by Paola Gianturco in her new book “Celebrating Women” (powerHouse Books, October 2004).
The International Museum of Women will open in 2008 at Pier 26 in San Francisco.

Celebrating Women features more than 17 festivals, in many countries. The exhibit affirms the power of women as athletes, defenders, goddesses, providers, warriors and more. Since different cultures deem different attributes laudable, the exhibit offers a view of how women's roles are defined by community and their identities are informed by tradition. It is an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of ourselves and others, as we strive together for positive social change. For more information please go to
http://www.imow.org
Our mission is to value the lives of women around the world."
..............

USA: Friday, 8 October:
"Boycott for Equality".
Please spend NO money today,
if possible.
[ http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1693067.php ]
........
CALIFORNIA: Friday, circa 8 October:
Deadline for state Attorney General Bill Lockyer to file a brief
defending Cal's unfair, homophobic and sexist marriage laws.
[ Comment by SUN: Lockyer should have recused himself from same-sex marriage lawsuits.
By handling this issue personally, instead of letting an assistant AG represent the state,
Lockyer has contradicted himself and has angered many queer voters.
Please see also: 26 October 2004]
..........

USA: DC: early October: U.S. Supreme Court starts 2004-2005 term.
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*** CAL: SF: 9 October 2004: Saturday afternoon:

first annual Nude Peace Day at Baker Beach:

*** N U D E PEACE DAY: You're invited to bodypaint and get bodypainted for freedom and peace, on N u d e Peace Day, the second Saturday of each October, at Baker Beach, San Francisco. Free. Adults of all genders and orientations are welcome. Take #29 Muni bus to Baker Beach (either of two stops; ask driver); or bike there; or walk from Geary Blvd. and 25th Ave. Walk to northern parking lot, which has water fountain & toilets. From parking lot, walk north on beach (toward Golden Gate Bridge), thru prude zone and into clothing-optional zone. Then visually follow the cable fence (separating usable beach from protected vegetation) until you see a Leather Pride Flag (bearing a red heart, with stripes of black, blue, and white). If you don't see the flag yet, just enjoy the beach on your own. Look again for flag, or bodypainters, each hour, especially near the log stairway. Since organizers must carry supplies on bus, no reliable time can be guaranteed. We hope to be there by 2PM, possibly earlier. Rain cancels.
For details or last-minute changes, please see SUN
[ http://pages.prodigy.net/seniornude ]
.............

*** CAL, northern: Oakland:
9 October, Saturday evening:

“Sacred Prostitutes Perform” [a happening] --
an exorcism of shame to benefit the
Berkeley ballot initiative for sex workers’ rights.
with dance by “slut-goddess”, Ruby Pearl,
with book signing by whore-priestess, Scarlet Harlot,
“The Unrepentant Whore”,
with spoken word by sex positive Stacey Swimme,
Robin Few, and Debbie Moore.
Saturday, 10/9/04, 8pm.
Loop Gallery, 6436 Telegraph Ave. @ 65th St., Oakland
For info:
debbiemoore [at] xplicitplayers.com

[SUN says:
You can still attend this Oct. 9 evening event in Oakland at 8PM;
AFTER the Nude Peace Day afternoon gathering at SF's Baker Beach. ]
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