DARFUR concert, Potopolis, HIV drop, peace breasts...

FREEDOM-SEEKERS' CALENDAR
( events, etc., in the San Franhattan Gay Area,
compiled by SUN
[ http://pages.prodigy.net/seniornude ]
and SaveFreedom;
with help from HolyTitClamps.com, SFBG.com, et alii );
mainly for nudist, queer, and bohemian communities, especially at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfbarea/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SaveFreedom/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nakity/
http://www.indybay.org/lgbtqi/
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For more "queer things to do"

please visit Larrybob at HTC:

[ http://www.holytitclamps.com/ ]

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Please FORWARD freely,
to willing recipients only.
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STOP TRANS-PHOBIA
Wednesday, July 20,
Community United Against Violence (CUAV),
the SF LGBT Community Center, and other local justice organizations
invite you to participate in a community dialogue on
how to fight transphobia....
7-9 p.m.,
SF LGBT Community Center, Rainbow Room,
1800 Market, SF.
FREE
(415) 777-5500
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LATIN AMERICAN worker films
Wednesday, July 20,
see three short films from Latin America, about workers' struggles.
"Street Love" documents efforts by Mexican SEX WORKERS
to organize and combat exploitation;
"No Olvidamos" recounts the massacre of civilians by police in Argentina...; and
"Piqueteros Carajo" reveals repression of this movement of unemployed workers
by the Argentina government.
7:30 p.m.
Humanist Hall, 390 -- 27th St., Oakl.
$5 requested donation.
(415) 642-8066
http://www .humanisthall.net
humanisthall [at] yahoo.com
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July 21, Thurs, SF:

DARFUR Freedom Summer Concert,
5pm to 7pm,
Justin Herman Plaza
(at foot of Market St, near Embarcadero, downtown SF).
FREE,

http://stopgenocidenow.org

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[ film on COMING OUT in dangerous lands ]
Thursday, July 21, attend this screening, sponsored by
Amnesty International's OUTfront program, of
Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World.
This documentary brings awareness to discrimination against
gays, lesbians, and transgendered people
by focusing on the events surrounding the arrest
of 52 men at a disco in Egypt, for crimes of "debauchery".
8 p.m.
Artists' Television Access,
992 Valencia, SF.
$5 recommended donation.
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FOLKING rad
Friday, July 22, hear radical folk artists.
David Rovics, Robert Temple, and the Folk This! group perform.
7 p.m.
AK Press, 674-A 23rd St, OAKLAND
$5.
(510) 208-1700
http://www.akpress.org
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*** BREASTS 4 PEACE IN BERKELEY
Saturday, July 23, head to Berkeley for the X-plicit Players' 14th Annual Nude and Breast Freedom Parade if you're a fan of parades but not a fan of war. Sherry Glassner and Debbie Moore also perform in People's Park as part of "Breasts Not Bombs." 12 noon, People's Park, 2556 Haste, Berk.
FREE.
(510)848-1985.
[-SFBT]
All welcome.
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CAL-SF:
23 July, Saturday:
U-U Pagan Interest Circle:
SF monthly "Moon Circle" celebration
(on a Saturday near the full moon,
7pm).

For info, please see

http://CUUPS.org

{ Next SF moon circle:

August 20 }
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SF: MID-MARKET AREA planning
Monday, July 25, hear differing viewpoints on the
Planning Commission's proposal to redevelop
the mid-Market Street area,
at a Green Party seminar....
7-9 p.m.
First Baptist Church, 7 Octavia,
[near the LGBTI center,
Market & Octavia ]
SF.
FREE
(415) 826-2140
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SAN POTOPOLIS?
Tuesday, July 26,
the Drug Policy Alliance asks the burning question,
"Is San Francisco Going to Pot?"
at a forum with DPA's Ethan Nadelmann and MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM.
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California,
SF.
FREE.
(415) 921-4987,
seldredge @drugpolicy.org
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 CAL-SF: reading at
A Different Light, 489 Castro Street, SF 94114
http://www.adlbooks.com/events.cfm
415.431.0891
ADLSFEvents [at] aol.com
[ check for possible last-minute changes]
Free.
Wednesday, July 27th
7pm
Wendell C. Stone 
CAFFE CINO:
The Birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway
"It's Magic Time!" That colorful promise began each performance at the Caffé Cino,
the storied Greenwich Village coffeehouse that fostered the gay and alternative
theatre movements of the 1960s....
As Off-Off-Broadway productions enjoy a deserved resurgence, theatre historian and actor
Wendell C. Stone re-opens the Cino's doors....
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CAL-SF: 27 July, Wednesday night:
3rd annual
BOOTIE BEAUTY Contest,
plus Spank-A-Thon, and more...

http://www.clubslick.com

http://www.bondage-a-gogo.com

http://bondageagogo.tribe.net

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 CAL-SF: reading at
A Different Light, 489 Castro Street, SF 94114
http://www.adlbooks.com/events.cfm
415.431.0891
ADLSFEvents [at] aol.com
[ check for possible last-minute changes]
Free.
Thursday, July 28th
7pm
Rich Merritt 
SECRETS OF A GAY MARINE PORN STAR
The story of a man who refused to allow himself to be defined by the standards of anyone else --
gay or straight. From the harsh realities of military life under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy
to his porn past, this notorious Marine describes what it took to come through the fire.
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 CAL-SF: reading at
A Different Light, 489 Castro Street, SF 94114
http://www.adlbooks.com/events.cfm
415.431.0891
ADLSFEvents [at] aol.com
[ check for possible last-minute changes]
Free.
Friday, July 29th 7pm
Inga Muscio
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BLUE-EYED DEVIL:
My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society
Inga Muscio is the author of Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
which, it seems, can't be kept on the shelves even after several years in publication.
"Blue-Eyed Devil" is her second book.....
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***July 31, SF:
DORE ALLEY fair ("Up Your Alley").
[ Folsom Fair's little brother]
11am - 6pm.
(Folsom St. near 9th St, etc.)
Please donate at gate
(NOTAFLOF).
http://www.folsomstreetfair.com
[SUN will demonstrate
nude 4 peace
at this
CLOTHING-OPTIONAL
event. ]

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CAL-SF:
spring and summer,
thru October 12:
SF Jazz Summerfest
(free outdoor concerts):

http://www.sfjazz.org/concerts/outdoors

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FREE RIDES ON SMOG DAYS
in SF area:
in summer/fall 2005, thru Oct. 14:
make your morning commute a free one by registering for "Spare the Air" days.
Thru Bay Area Air Quality Management District, commuters get free public-transit rides
on poor air-quality days.
To get e-mails announcing "Spare the Air" days,
and to register,
please go to
http://www.511.org
or
http://www.sparetheair.org
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+ NEWS links + opinion:


    

Fewer new HIV infections in SF ???

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/20/MNG8CDQMG31.DTL&type=health
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Chron profiles eco-activist and actor WOODY HARRELSON:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/07/20/gree.DTL&hw=Dicum&sn=001&sc=1000

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CAL medical cannabis cards, casting couch, more news links:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1754015.php

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DYKAPHOBIA:
Prudish feds censor the D-word:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1752920.php

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"CITY OF LOVE" celebrations in 2007 ?
(see letter by SUN, in SF Bay Guardian, 13 July 2005):

http://www.sfbg.com/39/41/x_talkback.html

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CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS:
what anti-fascists want to do:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/05/MNGEQDJ4AA1.DTL

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SUNNYVALE, CA: new website exposes Bush:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/04/BAGBLDIP341.DTL

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Anti-war "BREASTS NOT BOMBS" womyn,
from Mendocino County,
demonstrate topfree in San Francisco (June) ;
and Berkeley (July):

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1750397.php

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IndyBay.org ignoring ELDERS?

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1750582.php

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SF QUEER NEWS, weekly:

http://sfbaytimes.com/

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SF QUEER HISTORY,
circa 1971 - 2005:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1749365.php

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NUDES in the news:

http://www.bayareanaturists.org/news

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FESTIVALS, summer 2005,
northern California:


http://www.sfbg.com/39/32/cover_summer_festivals.html

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AUSTRALIA-based sexworker site:

http://libertarias.ebloggy.com/