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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
As a punk, a spoken-word poet, and a straight advocate for queer youth, Matthue Roth just had to move from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco to find like-minded folk. But he's also an Orthodox Jew, and therein lies his story, now encapsulated in the memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go. The book delves into Roth's travails as a celibate man with a stripper girlfriend, a regular at Thursday-night tranny basketball at Dolores Park, and a writer of $5 zines (the money went toward his rent). Surprisingly, even his religious peers enjoy his work. "There are so many people who find tremendous value in real, Torah-based Orthodox Judaism but get turned off by dogma," he says on his publisher's site. Roth's book-release party starts at 7 p.m. at the Jewish Community Library, 1835 Ellis (at Polk), S.F. Admission is free; call 567-3327 or visit www.matthue.com.

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