Alberta, Monterey, Berkeley....

CANADA:

Closeted gay community of Alberta still avoiding altar -
Just 5 couples wed on first legal day of same-sex weddings

Wyatt Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle, 07/22/05

On the first day that gays and lesbians in this
conservative Canadian province
could get a license to marry,
just five same-sex couples did so.
But this province is known as the Bible Belt of Canada... [......]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/22/MNG2ADRVDE1.DTL

[In the Texas of Canada, Gay Rodeo outdraws Gay Pride. ]
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Will God damn Canada? [humor]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/07/01/notes070105.DTL

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CANADA fully legalizes same-sex marriage,
as 4th nation to do so:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/20/international/i151859D27.DTL


http://www.equal-marriage.ca

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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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*** 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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CAL:
Pride
in MONTEREY COUNTY:
Saturday, 23 July, noon to 8pm:
http://montereypride.org
1-877-839-8407

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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
.......




+ MORE NEWS LINKS:


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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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 23):

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/