Meeting Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Program; Charlotte Roller Girls
Crowne Plaza, 201 S. McDowell St.
Time: Cash Bar Social/Heavy Hor d’oeuvres @ 5; 30 pm
Program starts @6:45 pm
Cost: $15 members, $25 non-members
To Reserve: Call 704.565.5075by 12 pm
Friday, June II, 2010
or email businessguild@yahoo.com
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Howls and
whispers
I Dreamed I Was A Dazzlingly
Outrageous Lesbian
by David Paul Larousse
guest contributor
I will never forget the day I met Judy
Jaffraty, because when I met her I got hit with
the thunderbolt so hard that I walked around
in a stupor for the next three days... I swear
to god!
Eventually, I pulled myself together and
asked her out on a date. I wouldn't say she
did back-flips over my offer to take her out,
but she agreed — or at least she didn't turn
me down. Being brand new to Baghdad-by-
the-Bay (the late Herb Caen's nickname for
San Francisco) and not knowing the neigh
borhoods, I later figured out that she chose
the very tacky tourist area of the city as the
venue for our date. Thus it wasn't long before
I realized that she had placed me into the
"just-another-dumb-tourist-passing-through-
on-your-way-to-somewhere-else" category,
which was as clear an indication that she had
absolutely no interest in me in anyway, shape
or form.
Of course, it occurred to me that she
might be gay, not only because she clearly
held enormous disdain for straight men, but
also owing to a very vagabondish lifestyle.
She was in fact residing in a dilapidated
and abandoned residence on Potrero Hill,
with two dogs — one blind, the other three-
legged, whose names were Increase and
Whatever—and that pretty much put the
nail in the coffin of that ain't-gonna-happen-
in-this-lifetime romance. So, I thanked her for
the tour of Fisherman's Wharf and went on
with my life.
Some months later, I got hit with the
thunderbolt again, though this time it had
a zillion more volts than the previous hit.
Kai was hanging out at Enrico's in North
Beach one night—Enrico Balducci being
the legendary impresario who had started
the careers of dozens of notable comedians
and musicians — including the Kingston
Trio, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl
and Barbra Streisand, just to mention a few.
She was seated at a table with Bill Cosby,
Professor Erwin Corey and a smattering of
local musicians and characters and I could
feel a charisma that just zapped me right
down to my very soul. It was, once again,
quite intense.
I met up with Kai some days later, for
lunch, confessed my attraction, whereupon
she informed me that she was quite gay
and lived with a domineering woman from
Latvia who was possessed of a very wild and
controlling personality. She also informed me
that the chance of me cultivating a friend
ship with her was something in the realm of
zero-to-none and that if "Lats" even thought I
was interested in her woman, she would not
hesitate to kick my ass from the old Barbary
Coast all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge.
This did not frighten me, but it gave me
enough pause for thought to chalk up another
thunderbolt zap and once again carry on with
my life.
Now, I must clarify that the culture of San
Francisco is quite different from any I had ever
come across, which is to say that homosexu
ality was hardly considered aberrant behavior,
see Dreaming on 25
20 qnotes May 29-June 11.2010