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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", anytime,
please visit Larry-bob:
http://www.sfqueer.com/

On Thursday mornings, one might also find a few events at eBAR:
http://www.ebar.com/arts/arts.php?sec=outabout
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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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Please FORWARD freely, to willing recipients only.
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Friday, July 21,
doors 7:30, show 8 pm:
The Wet Spots with Kitten on the Keys!
Smart, Sexy Canadian Duo The Wet Spots Harmonize at the Center for Sex & Culture
-- Local Songstress Kitten on the Keys to Open.

CSC proudly welcomes "bawdy and brilliant" Canadian singer/songwriter duo The Wet Spots next week for a rare Bay Area show.
Cass King and John Woods, AKA the Wet Spots, are a real-life couple whose musical comedy features frisky lyrics, tight harmonies, and songs celebrating group sex, anal experimentation, and a cowgirl who flouted Texas' law against owning dildos. On tour to promote their newest album, "Hello Kinky," the Spots will treat their CSC audience to a romp through the wild and wiggy world of sex, where neither the prudes nor the pervs are safe from knowing, loving satire.
Perhaps best known for their Internet video sensation "Do You Take It (In the Ass)," featured on
The L Word and downloaded over 800,000 times, the Wet Spots are equal parts sexual sophistication, specialist humor act, and polished cabaret professionals.
http://www.goodiebag.tv/video/do_you_take_it.htm
Opening for the Wet Spots is San Francisco's own Suzanne Ramsey, AKA Kitten on the Keys, whose burlesque-inflected cabaret shows feature original songs as well as raunchy old standards, sung in an unforgettable voice that will remind listeners in equal parts of Betty Boop and Mae West. SF Weekly Music Award winner Kitten is a much-beloved crowd pleaser and the only artist CSC could imagine booking on the same bill with the Wet Spots!
$10-50 sliding scale. Tickets at the door. Bring extra to purchase the artists' CDs! http//http://www.wetspotsmusic.com
http://www.suzanneramsey.net
CSC, 398 11th Street near Harrison, San Francisco.
http://www.sexandculture.org
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Fridays, 7:45pm : leather sketch
- a gay male drawing group focused on leather, fetish, gear, bondage and eroticism hosted by Mark I Chester in his home/studio at 1229 Folsom St. Donations encouraged. Tonight: two models in rubber, spandex and leather. Every Friday through the end of July.
Also on display "Body/Art" by Steve Davis.
http://mchester.best.vwh.net/bondage.html
or call 415-621-6294 for reservation
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21-27 July:
Events selected by BAR:
http://www.ebar.com/arts/arts.php?sec=outabout
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Fri 21 JULY
Fastest Slug in the West
@ The Dark Room
New sketch-comedy show by Uphill Both Ways (UBW).
More than a dozen brand new comedy sketches, including...
a Fisherman's Wharf sea lion facing off with a Texan tourist...
$10.
Fri. July 21 and
Fri, July 28
and Fri. August 4,
10pm.
The Dark Room, 2263 Mission St (near 19th.)

http://www.uphillbothways.com

http://www.darkroomsf.com

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21 - 22 JULY:
Friday -- Saturday :
Midnight Mass:
Showgirls.
http://www.peacheschrist.com/mmass
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Saturday, July 22,
7 pm:
SEX & ART:
A multi-media journey with Penny Slinger. Penny takes us on an intimate guided tour of her life and art, illustrated with hundreds of images of her work. Experience an up close and personal look into the evolution of one of the world' s top visionary erotic artists. Penny emerged on the British art scene in the sixties, challenging the existing status quo and playing a key role in the sexual revolution. She discovered Tantra in the early seventies and her bestselling book 'Sexual Secrets' (co-written with Nik Douglas) was published in 1979. For the last twelve years she has been living at the Goddess Temple, sanctuary and multi-media studios, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She will complete the presentation with excerpts from her latest sensual/erotic video art. [ see her Bio-Sphere 'My Life As Art' at http://www.pennyslinger.com ]
Penny's extraordinary collages are on the walls at the
Center for Sex & Culture this month.
She will hold gallery hours Saturday from 5 to 7pm.
CSC, 398 11th St., SF
Cost $20
http://www.sexandculture.org
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thru 22 JULY, Fri-Sat
Voodoo Cabaret
@ Shotwell Studios
SPF2 presents VOODOO CABARET :
Tales & Songs of the African Powers.
....West African drumming and dance, original orixa [ orisha] songs,
butoh burlesque, sensuous bellydance, afroballet, etc.
$10-$20
.July 21 & 22[ Fri-Sat ] at 8pm Shotwell Studios, 3252 -- 19th St
Tix/info:  415-289-2000
Tix/info: http://www.ticketweb.com
http://www.ftloose.org

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SATURDAY, JULY 22, SF:
San Francisco for Democracy picnic
Enjoy a "politicnic" (cookout and town meeting)
with SF4D members ...
11:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
West Fort Miley
4150 Clement, SF
FREE (BYO).

http://www.sf4democracy.com
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22 JULY, Sat.
Q Jitterbugs
@ Synergy School
Jitterbugs Party with Lessons & Performance!
Celebrate the Queer Jitterbugs 6th anniversary at Synergy:
7:30pm basic swing lesson for beginners!
8:30pm taster swing lesson for beginners!
10pm Performances in Burlesque, Swing and more!
9pm to Midnight Dancing!
Sat., July 22.
FREE!
415-305-8242
http://www.queerjitterbugs.com

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23 July, Sunday morning,
9:45am:
Unitarian-Universalist Forum,
on surviving in Darfur, SUDAN.
FREE
1187 Franklin St, SF (near Geary & Van Ness).
http://www.uusf.org
[ After today, there won't be any U-U forums
until September 17. ]

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Mon 24 JULY
Programs & Services
@ SF LGBT Community Center
San Francisco's LGBT Community Center provides a vast array of programs and services for LGBT people, their friends and families. Mon.'s offerings include: New Leaf's Men's Support Group (2-4pm); Shanti's Men's Hepatitis C Group (4:15-6pm); Buddhist Peace Fellowship's Mediation group (5:30-6:30pm); Narcotics Anonymous Women's group (6-7pm); Alcoholic Anonymous Support Group (6-7pm); New Leaf's Integration Writers (6-8pm); Three Dollar Bill Caf?'s "Mon. Night Knit" (7pm); Narcotics Anonymous, Sex in Recovery (8-9pm).
The Cyber Center offers 10 computer work stations with 17-inch monitors, a printer, 10 tables and chairs, and software including Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Quark and Quicken, and major Internet applications,
allowing users to open an e-mail account
and have access to GeoCities for website hosting.
Mon.-Fri. 12 noon–10pm, Sat. 9am–10pm.
1800 Market St. at Octavia. 415-865-5555
http://www.sfcenter.org

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Tuesday, July 25th,
7pm - 8:30pm: book reading:
Male-Male Intimacy in Early America:
Beyond Romantic Friendships.
Author William Benemann will read from and discuss his new book, using 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 the new republic.
Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library, One Jose Sarria Court
(16th Street below Market), San Francisco, California 94114
415-355-5616
FREE
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Tue 25 July

Cruel and Unusual
[ film on TGs in prison ]
@ El Rio
The Heads Up Collective presents "Televising the Revolution," a Radical Film Series at El Rio.
Tonight, a benefit screening for Trans/Gender Variant in Prison Committee [ TIP ]
of California Prison Focus .
View the documentary film Cruel and Unusual.
Most states separate prisoners by genitalia alone, so pre-op transgender women are placed in men's correctional facilities, where they find themselves vulnerable and preyed upon. This documentary portrays the challenges faced by these women.
Analysis and discussion with TIP organizers will precede the film.
[ Cost ? ]
8pm at El Rio, 3158 Mission St.
near Cesar Chavez. SF

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Wed 26 July
Latino Forum
@ SF LGBT Community Center...:
"Composing Cultures:
Queer Women Writers Speak About Diversity,"
a panel discussion featuring queer women writers and journalists....
FREE.
6pm to 8pm.
The event is free and open to the public.
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+ NEWS and opinion links:


Typical BLOGGER is young and sociable:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/19/AR2006071901900.html

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THREE-YEAR bith-control :

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/19/MNG25K1MLU1.DTL

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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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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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OSCULAPHOBES rule Zimbabwe:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/17/18289023.php

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