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FREEDOMSEEKERS' CALENDAR
( events, etc., mostly in the San Franhattan Bare Area,
compiled by SUN and SaveFreedom; often taken from sfqueer.com, ebar.com,
sfbaytimes.com, SFGate.com, SFBG.com, ADLbooks.com, redvicmoviehouse.com, et alii ;
mainly for nakist, queer, and/or bohemian communities, et alii, especially at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nakity/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfbarea/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SaveFreedom/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/franhattan/

http://www.indybay.org/lgbtqi/
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For many more "queer things to do"

please visit Larry-bob:

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

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Is some worthy event NOT listed in the Freedomseekers' Calendar?
You can ADD it, as a comment.
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If URL fails, please google the event, venue, performer(s), date, phone number.....
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SF, thru 16 July (Sunday):
ANICCA
@ Project Artaud
Dandelion Dance Theater and ODC Theater present "ANICCA,"
the next stage of Dandelion Dancetheater's ongoing
"Undressed Project,"
which explores the vulnerability of human bodies.
The company descends upon Project Artaud to present 5 nights of site-specific, surprising dance/theater.
Anicca, ... signifying impermanence, reveals a provocative interplay of the
sensuality, violence, vulnerability and impermanence of naked bodies. ....
Ticket $18,
( $12 Students/Seniors).
Performances on
Sat., July 15 at 6pm & 10pm,
and Sun., July 16 at 6pm.
Theatre of Yugen's Noh Space, 2840 Mariposa St.
Tix/info: 415-863-9834

http://www.dandeliondancetheater.org

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Chicago:
thru 22 July 2006:
Gay Games VII Sports and Cultural Festival:

http://www.gaygameschicago.org

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SF, 16 July, Sunday morning, 9:45am:
Unitarian-Universalist Forum,
on walking the Earth
( in March 2007, from Canada to Chile ).
FREE
1187 Franklin St, SF (near Geary & Van Ness).


http://www.uusf.org

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SAN JOSE:
Sun, July 16, 2006 (2pm-6pm) Doors open at 1:30pm:
"The Psychology of EDGEPLAY"
with Celesete DeVaneux.
smOdyssey's workshop ~ [ special date ] ~
Visit
http://www.smodyssey.com
and click on "Classes" for details.
COST: non-members $20 (members & reciprocal org mbrs $15)
Walk-ins are welcome! (but rsvps are appreciated).
The Back Room at Pierce Ink Studio, 48-B Race St, San Jose, CA
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SF,
SUNDAY, JULY 16
Last choice in Miss.
Help keep a woman's right to choose alive in Mississippi
at a benefit screening of
THE LAST ABORTION CLINIC,
which documents the very last facility for abortion in the entire state....
12 noon
Roxie Cinema
3117 --- 16th St., SF
$4 – $10 donation
(415) 864-1278
http://www.bacorr.org
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Oakland,
SUNDAY, JULY 16
State HEALTH CARE
Get informed on SB 840,
a bill already passed in the California state senate and
pending before the assembly,
that would create universal health care for all state residents....
1 p.m. (potluck at noon)
Humanist Hall
390 -- 27th St., Oakl.
FREE
1-888-442-4255

http://www.humanisthall.net


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Sun 16 JULY
20th Annual AIDS Walk SF @ Golden Gate Park
http://www.aidswalk.net/sanfran/
" 25,000 Participants Lace-Up For 20th Annual AIDS Walk San Francisco
To Help Change the Course of the Epidemic.
As we mark 25 years since CDC identified the "first" [ known U.S.] AIDS case*,
the AIDS pandemic continues to affect millions. In the Bay Area alone, more than 26,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS. Since its inception in 1987, AWSF has raised $55 million for AIDS outreach, prevention and care. AWSF benefits The San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) and 43 other HIV/AIDS organizations serving the six Bay Area counties.Sunday, July 16, Sharon Meadow in Golden Gate Park. Opening Ceremony at 9:45am, with celebrities Dan Ashley (ABC-TV News Anchor), Faith Ford (Hope & Faith; Murphy Brown), Camryn Manheim (The Practice), and Bruce Vilanch. Walk begins 10:30am. Post-walk concert at 12:30pm. Results announced at 2:30pm. "
Info:
http://www.aidswalk.net

[* NOT the first known case in
the world,
of course.
AIDS was already endemic in Africa,
since 1930s or 40s or 50s... -- TBL]
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Sun 16 JULY
Out in the Bay
@ KALW, 91.7 FM
"Out in the Bay," half-hour LGBT radio show.
Sundays at 2pm.
Also Thursdays at 7:30pm.
Tune to KALW, 91.7 FM

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Mon 17 JULY
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
@ SF LGBT Center
Buddhist Peace Fellowship mediTation group meets from 5:30-6:30pm. The mission of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) is to serve as a catalyst for socially engaged Buddhism,
to help beings liberate themselves from the suffering that manifests in individuals, relationships, institutions, and social systems.
BPF's programs, publications, and practice groups link Buddhist teachings of wisdom and compassion with progressive social change.
SF LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market St.
Info: Lee Lipp, sfchapter [at] bpf.org
http://www.sfcenter.org

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SF,
TUESDAY, JULY 18
Organizing LABOR
Discuss how to organize a labor group,
with Peter Olney, director of organizing for the ILWU,
Jack Ramus of the National Writers Union–UAW Local 1981, et alii.
ILWU Local 6 Hall
255 Ninth St., SF
FREE
http://www.laborfest.net

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Tue 18 JULY
Michelle Tea
@ Commonwealth Club
Michelle Tea at the Commonwealth Club.
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Publishers Weekly has dubbed San Francisco lit-scene icon Tea
"a pop ambassador to the world of
the tattooed, pierced, politicized and sex-radical queer-grrls of San Francisco."
[ Comment by TBL:
"... ambassador to .... " the world of SF queer-grrls?
TO?
Not "ambassador FROM..." Kwyrgrrlistan?
Not "guide TO..." Qwyrgrrlia?
Like, duh, does Publishers Weekly have a copy editor? ]
...
The author of four memoirs (including the Lambda Award-winning VALENCIA),
Tea is also founder of all-girl performance tour Sister Spit, which
wrecked [ wreaked?]
poetic havoc across the country.
She also hosts the monthly Radar Reading Series at SF Public Library.
Tea will discuss her first novel,
Rose of No Man's Land,
a zany look at romance and a whirlwind exploration of drugs, sex, poverty and tattoos.
$12 for Members, $18 for Non-Members.
5:30pm, wine and cheese reception; 6pm program.
Commonwealth Club, 595 Market St., 2nd Floor, SF.
Info/res: 415-597-6705

http://www.commonwealthclub.org

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Tue 18 JULY
The Fillmore
@ SFPALM
...with its current exhibition,
"Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era,"
the SF Performing Arts Library & Museum presents a film screening of
The Fillmore (1999),
narrated by Ossie Davis, from KQED's Neighborhoods series,
followed by a conversation with exhibition curators Elizabeth Pepin and Lewis Watts.
Photographer David Johnson and business owner Reggie Pettus, featured in the film,
will appear at the event.
FREE.
[ but reservations are required ]
7pm. SFPALM, Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Ave. at McAllister, 4th Floor.
Reservations required: 415-255-4800.
Info:

http://www.sfpalm.org

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Tue 18 JULY
Women from Iran
@ Intersection
Readings from
Let Me Tell You Where I've Been:
New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora,
.... poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of Iranian women whose lives have been shaped
by history, exile, and migration.
$5 - $15 sliding scale.
Tue., July 18, at 7:30pm. 446 Valencia St. Info: 415-626-2787

http://www.theintersection.org

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Tue 18 JULY
William Benemann
@ A Different Light Bookstore
Reading & booksigning with William Benemann, author of
Male-Male Intimacy in Early America.
The book draws on personal letters, diaries, court records, and contemporary publications to examine the role of homosexual activity in the lives of American men in the colonial period and in the early years of a new country.
Free.
7pm. A Different Light Bookstore, 489 Castro St, SF,
in the Ghaytto...
Info: 415-431-0891
http://www.adlbooks.com
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+ NEWS and opinions:


Once-a-day AIDS PILL:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200607140523.html


http://news.worldfitness.ca/news/071206/FDASaysOkTo3-in-1HIVPill.php

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SF cuts HIV care, for financial reasons:

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=997

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GAY MEN and their friendships:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/11/DDG8SJRVOJ1.DTL
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Breast cancer survivors need YOGA:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3927131.html

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SAFER " Lincoln Logging " :

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1822033.php

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Texas:

the PUBLIC GENITALS Project:

http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/pgp/
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Film explains INDIA's NUDE YOGIS:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/02/DDGJUG0QSG1.DTL&type=movies

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NUDES in the news:

http://www.bayareanaturists.org/news


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CENSORSHIP of NYC burlesk, circa 1935:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/15/18288221.php
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