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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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24 July:

BAKER BEACH had perfect beach weather on July 22 and 23 ( Sat.-Sun.).
So maybe it will be beachy on Monday?
North end of BB is clothing-optional.
On the beach, walk north (toward GG Bridge)
until you're among nude adults.

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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 [meditation] group (5:30-6:30pm);
Narcotics Anonymous Women's group (6-7pm);
Alcoholic Anonymous Support Group (6-7pm);
New Leaf's Integration [intergeneration] Writers (6-8pm);
Three Dollar Bill Cafe'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, 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.
[ but (almost) never on Sundays ]
1800 Market St. at Octavia.
415-865-5555

http://www.sfcenter.org

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Tuesday, July 25,
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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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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Thursday, July 27th, 7 pm:
Annalee Newitz celebrates the release of
Pretend We're Dead:
Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture...
City Lights Books, Broadway and Columbus SF.
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Thursday, July 27, 7:30 pm:
Trebor Healey reads from his new collection of poetry,
Sweet Son of Pan,
and Justin Chin reads from Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms.
Books, Inc., 2275 Market Street, San Francisco
415-864-6777
http://www.booksinc.net
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Thu 27 July, SF:
San Bruno Mountain
@ Randall Museum
[ near the Castro ghaytto]
San Francisco Natural History Lecture Series presents
guest speaker Philip Batchelder on
"San Bruno Mountain — Wild Nature Hidden in Plain Sight."
... -- one of the largest urban open spaces in the country,
an island of Franciscan coastal scrub, grassland, and oak-bay-buckeye forest,
a renowned hotspot of rare plants and insects.
Geared for adults;
all ages welcome.
Free.
7:30pm. Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way (off Roosevelt, above 14th & Castro).
Info: 415-554-9600
http://www.randallmuseum.org
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Friday July 28th, 7pm - 11pm: Art exhibit opening -
"Body/Art Redux" by Steve Davis and Mark I. Chester. Mark I Chester studio, announces the opening for Body/Art Redux, from 7-11pm on Friday July 28th. This is our 18th annual art show in connection with the Up Your Alley/Folsom St. Fairs. Steve Davis' drawings of men will be on display along with a series of his photographic self-portraits. In addition, digital portraits of the artist by Mark I Chester will also be on display. As entertainment, JD, of the Two Knotty Boys, will do a suspension bondage performance with porn star Robert Black at 9pm and writer and sex/activist Kirk Read will do a reading at 10pm.
Suggested donation is $5-$10. to support underground art.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Call 415-621-6294 for more information or go to
http://mchester.best.vwh.net
The show will also be open for viewing on Sat July 29 from 11am-6pm
and during the Up Your Alley Fair on Sun July 30th from 11am-6 pm.
Mark I Chester studio, 1229 Folsom St. (near 9th), San Francisco.
info: 415-621-6294
http://mchester.best.vwh.net
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Friday, July 28 7:30: Abby Denson
Tough Love: High School Confidential
Serialized in XY Magazine,
the graphic novel Tough Love centers on the relationships Brian develops with the boy he likes, Chris, and Julie, the girl who befriends him. Serious issues like gay bashing, suicide, and coming to terms with one's own sexual identity are depicted with an honest, gentle touch. Abby's writing credits include Powerpuff Girls Comics, Simpsons Comics and Sabrina The Teenage Witch among many others.
Modern Times is located at, 888 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
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Friday July 28, signup at 7:30, reading at 8 pm:
Queer Open Mic
at the Center's Three Dollar Bill Cafe.
Feature: Frances Varian.
Hosted by: Cindy Emch and Sherilyn Connelly. Proceeds from the event go to the performers and Bitch Magazine. All ages, $1-$5. No one turned away for lack of funds. (usually 2nd and 4th Fridays)
$3 Bill Cafe, LGBT Center, 1800 Market at Octavia
http://www.threedollarbill.com/
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Sat/Sun, July 29 - 30th,
11am-6pm:
FREE digital pix in honor of the Up Your Alley Fair...
Mark I Chester studio, 1229 Folsom St. (near 9th), SF
Public info: 415-621-6294
http://mchester.best.vwh.net
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Saturday, July 29th,
Doors: 7:30pm, Show: 8:30pm:
SMUT FEST
Produced by Jennifer Blowdryer and Drag Strip.
Death of Burlesque!
Jennifer Blowdryer started producing and performing in Smut Fests in 1988, NYC...
she's bringing it on home at the Center for Sex and Culture,
and hopes you're still up for a good time.
MC: Blowdryer & occasionally Fudgie
DJ: Alvin Orloff, author of Gutter Boys and I Married an Earthling.
Moonshine Shorey - This full figured bartender/poet from the Bowery Poetry Club, not yet 26... will tell the story of actually working in a truck stop in Vermont,
in between living on a commune, becoming a Mr Lower East Side runner up.
Kirk Read - author of How I Learned to Snap, is also a peer counselor and phlebotomist
at St James Infirmary, a free clinic for people who've worked in the sex industry
at some point in their busy lives.
Burlesque by: Rose Pistola, The Indra, and other over the top easily co-erced beauties.
Malcolm Hamilton - a sexy singer in a sharp suit .....
Lady Monster - Jennifer Blowdryer and Lady Monster were first introduced at Sleaze Fest...
She'll either perform some erotica (that word) or do a burlesque number .....
Dave Dalton - The Perverted Pastor... will accompany Miss Blowdryer, musically....
$7 - $15, Sliding Scale...
Center for Sex and Culture,
398 -- 11th Street, Upstairs (near Harrison St.)
http://www.sexandculture.org
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SF,
thru 7 August:
the 26th annual SF Jewish Film Festival:

http://www.sfjff.org

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+ NEWS links:


ARKANSAS Episcopal bishop approves SAME-SEX blessings:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/07/22/national/a074335D89.DTL

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Should DEMS talk about RELIGION?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/07/23/politics/p143450D20.DTL

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THREE-YEAR birth-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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Breast cancer survivors need YOGA:

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

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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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