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Brewer vetoes Arizona anti-gay bill

States turn away the gay effort part of national trend
By CHRIS JOHNSON cjohnson@washblade.com Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer this week vetoed a controversial bill that would have allowed individuals to refuse to serve prospective customers on religious grounds, following a restorm of opposition from LGBT advocates, Republican ofcials and business leaders. After weighing all of the arguments, I have vetoed Senate bill 1062 moments ago, Brewer told reporters on Wednesday night. Critics said the measure would have enabled businesses and individuals to refuse services to LGBT people. Brewer said she vetoed the bill after taking the necessary time to make the right decision, touting her record of protecting religious freedoms in the state. Senate bill 1062 does not address a specic or pressing concern related to religious liberty in Arizona, Brewer said. I have not heard one example in Arizona where business owner religious liberty has been violated. The bill is broadly worded and could result in unintended and negative consequences. Noting that she had called for a responsible budget and child protections, Brewer criticized lawmakers for making SB 2016 the rst policy bill to cross my desk. To supporters of this legislation, I want you to know that I understand long-held norms about marriage and family are being
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Dramatic reversal leaves fate of cemetery plot unclear

By LOU CHIBBARO JR. lchibbaro@washblade.com Timothy Clark, the man D.C. gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny named in his will as heir to his estate, has released a statement through his lawyers saying he has decided to inter Kamenys ashes at an undisclosed location. The statement released Feb. 20 by the D.C. law rm Ackerman Brown represents a dramatic change from Clarks earlier statements, including comments in an interview with the Blade in 2012, that he would release half of the ashes for burial at a memorial site in the
citys historic Congressional Cemetery. He reiterated his intent to inter ashes in D.C. in another Blade interview in July 2013. We reached an agreement on that so Im going to keep the burial plot, Clark said at that time. I just have to decide on when I want to have something, he said in referring to a burial ceremony at Congressional Cemetery. Clark, 37, Kamenys housemate and longtime friend, had said in the months following Kamenys death on Oct. 11, 2011, that he planned to keep some but not all of the ashes for his personal reection and possible interment elsewhere. Kameny died in his Washington home of natural causes at the age of 86. The decision regarding interment of Frank Kamenys ashes rests solely with Timothy Clark, the Personal
Representative of the Estate of Franklin E. Kameny, the Ackerman Brown statement says. Mr. Clark has decided to inter the ashes at an undisclosed location. Mr. Clark asks the community to respect his wishes and his privacy, the statement says. Clarks announcement through his attorneys comes more than two years after the local LGBT charitable group Helping Our Brothers and Sisters (HOBS) purchased a burial plot for Kamenys ashes at Congressional Cemetery. HOBS and some of Kamenys gay activist friends and supporters who worked with the group to choose the location of the cemetery site said it would become a monument to Kamenys legacy and a place where
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MOVA liquor license faces challenge
D.C. lobbyist wants to ban gays from NFL

A D.C. lobbyist on Monday said he is preparing a bill that would ban gays from the National Football League. Its about restoring common decency, said Jack Burkman during an interview with Mike Conneen on News Channel 8s Capital Insider. Burkman told Conneen he expects the measure will have the support of 36 members JACK BURKMAN of the U.S. House of Representatives and six U.S. senators within 20 days. He repeatedly PHOTO COURTESY OF BURKMAN declined to name a specic lawmaker who will back the measure. We welcome you to name one lawmaker who supports your legislation, said Conneen during the segment. Burkman also denied his bill is a stunt. Burkmans announcement comes one day after Jason Collins became the rst openly gay person to play in a game for a major American professional sports league the former Washington Wizards center played 11 minutes during a Brooklyn Nets game against the Los Angeles Lakers. University of Missouri defensive lineman Michael Sam earlier this month came out to the New York Times and ESPN. The Texas native is poised to become the countrys rst openly gay professional football player. What he is doing is positioning himself very well, Burkman told Conneen, referring to Sam. Hes shrewd. MICHAEL K. LAVERS
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 1B, which has jurisdiction over the 14th and U Street, N.W. corridor, voted earlier this month to protest the liquor license renewal application of the D.C. gay bar MOVA Lounge, which is located at 2204 14th St., N.W. The action by the ANC follows by three months a decision by a group of 14 residents of a condominium building 1407 W St., N.W. and the Meridian Hill Neighborhood Association to le separate protests against the MOVA license renewal. The condo building is located directly behind MOVA. Each of the three protests say the bar is adversely impacting the peace, order, and quiet of nearby residents. MOVA has an open-air roof deck that is open late into the evening with loud music played directly into the bedrooms of residents in our building, the protest by the condo residents says. MOVAs general manager, who identied himself only as Brad, told the Blade Tuesday night that MOVA owner Babak Movahedi was taking steps to address the neighbors concerns with the intent of resolving the protest. Gay ANC Commissioner Marc Morgan said he was among the commissioners that voted for the protest. He said the ANCs intent is to persuade MOVA to enter into a settlement agreement with the ANC that would ensure that the bar curtails any noise that may be disturbing its neighbors. He said he sees no indication that MOVA is being targeted because its a gay bar. Just because we le a protest doesnt mean we want to see an establishment closed, said Morgan. We plan to drop the protest if a settlement agreement is reached. The D.C. City Charter, which created the ANCs, limits their authority to providing advisory recommendations to city government agencies, which must give great weight to ANC recommendations. The nal decision on liquor license matters rests with the citys Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration and the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which is an arm of ABRA. LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Gay man attacked in D.C. halfway house

D.C. police are investigating a Feb. 22 incident at the Hope Village Halfway House in Southeast Washington in which a 39-year-old male resident of the facility was attacked and beaten because hes gay, according to the victims sister. Missy Payton said a detective working on the case told her the assault against her brother Isaac Payton has been classied as a hate crime and that the attacker ed the house without permission. She said the detective told her police were obtaining a warrant for his arrest but he had not been found as of Tuesday. Police spokesperson Gwendolyn Crump said the police report for the incident wasnt completed for public release as of Tuesday but would be released later in the week. My brother told me he was resting on a sofa in his room and half asleep when a man from another room came in and started punching and kicking him, Missy Payton said. She said her brother told her the attacker repeatedly shouted, I told you to keep your gay ass out of my way as he continued to assault Isaac Payton. My brother never said anything to the man that attacked him, she said. She said that according to her brothers account of the incident, two of his three roommates who were present when the assault started told the attacker, thats enough when they noticed her brothers head was bleeding. It was at that point that the attacker ed the room and, as Hope Village ofcials discovered later, ed the house and did not return. Her brother was taken to a hospital, where he received stitches to treat a head wound, Missy Payton said. She said her brother told her that one of his roommates was friends with the attacker and had told him shortly after her brother arrived at the house on Jan.31 that he disliked him because of his gay lifestyle, of which he did not approve. When asked how the roommate knew her brother was gay, she said Isaac Payton is openly gay and is recognized as being gay by most people who see him because of his appearance. A Hope Village ofcial who would only identify himself as Mr. Verone told the Blade by phone that he was not authorized to speak with the media. I can say an incident did happen, he said. It is being investigated. Mr. Paytons safety is assured. Missy Payton, however, said her brother told her he doesnt feel safe and is fearful that someone else may assault him. The Hope Village website says the facility, which is located at 2840 Langston Pl., S.E., is operated by a private company under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Police chief to release hate crimes report

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier was expected to release this week a report prepared by an independent task force that assessed how the department investigates and reports hate crimes, including anti-LGBT hate crimes. A statement on Tuesday by a police spokesperson that Lanier planned to release the report this week came less than a week after the local group Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) sent the chief an open letter asking about the status of the report, which was commissioned in June 2012. It has now been several months since the research phase of this study was completed, and we would like to inquire on the status of the nal report ndings, said GLOV co-chairs Hassan Naveed and Matthew Corso, who signed the letter along with representatives of ve other local LGBT groups. Lanier announced at a June 2012 news conference that she had enlisted the AntiDefamation League, a national group that ghts prejudice and discrimination, to create the task force to conduct an impartial study of police practices and procedures for responding to hate crimes. She said the effort was aimed at helping the department strengthen its efforts to combat hate crimes. At the time, ADL Director David Friedman announced he had recruited representatives of the Human Rights Campaign, the National Center for Transgender Equality, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and two university professors considered experts on hate violence to join the ADA as members of the task force. Since its launching, the task force has interviewed more than two-dozen representatives of the LGBT community to obtain their views on how police have responded to anti-LGBT hate crimes in D.C, activists familiar with the task force have said. If the report has been completed, we request that it be released as soon as possible, GLOV said in its Feb. 19 open letter. We look forward to reviewing the report ndings and discussing them with you. LOU CHIBBARO JR.
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Victory Fund endorses Catania for mayor

Out gays in Md. Legislature to shrink by at least two
By LOU CHIBBARO JR. lchibbaro@washblade.com The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, an inuential national group that raises money for LGBT candidates for public ofce, created a stir among local activists this week when it announced it has endorsed D.C. Council member David Catania (I-AtLarge) for mayor. With many LGBT activists supporting Mayor Vincent Grays re-election bid and others in the LGBT community supporting one of the four other City Council members running for mayor, some are asking why the Victory Fund would endorse Catania before he has formally announced hes running for mayor. Catania has formed an exploratory committee for a mayoral race and has said he most likely would run if Gray wins the Democratic primary on April 1. Victory Fund Press Secretary Steven Thai said that while the group doesnt endorse unannounced potential candidates very often, it has taken this step before. He noted that the Victory Fund endorsed former U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) for the U.S. Senate in 2012 before she ofcially announced she was running for the Senate. Baldwin went on to declare her candidacy for the Senate and won that race, making history by becoming the rst out lesbian or gay person to become a U.S. senator. David Catania brings an incredible amount of passion and commitment to his job, the Victory Funds chief operating ofcer, Torey Carter, said in a statement released by the group on Tuesday. He helped guide Washington through a period of unprecedented growth and revitalization, Carter said. He is ideally positioned to lead a city with such a diverse and dynamic people. The Victory Fund also announced on endorsed 71 out LGBT candidates in national, state and local races and expects to endorse more than 200 out candidates across the country in the 2014 election cycle, the group says on its website. Among those endorsed so far are at least nine gay or lesbian candidates running in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, including Catania and Ebbin. But missing from its endorsement list so far are lesbian Maryland Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery Country), whos running for governor, and gay D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), who is running for re-election to a fth term. Spokesperson Thai reiterated the Victory Funds longstanding policy of not disclosing why the group has not endorsed a candidate. However, he said many more candidates are in the endorsement pipeline and the group could very well endorse candidates not on the list in the next few weeks and coming months. He said the groups criteria for endorsing any candidate, as posted on the website, include a demonstration that the candidate is viable and can show a path to victory; a record of support on LGBT rights; and the completion of a detailed application seeking an endorsement. Thai said an endorsement for a prior election doesnt carry over to the next election and all incumbents must reapply each time they run. Graham couldnt immediately be reached to determine if he applied for an endorsement in his Council race. The Mizeur for governor campaign didnt say specically whether the campaign formally applied for a Victory Fund endorsement. We are in close communication with the Victory Fund and we would welcome their support, campaign spokesperson Steven Hershkowitz told the Blade. Meanwhile, in a little-noticed development, Del. Peter Murphy (D-Charles County), one of eight openly gay members of the Maryland General Assembly, announced last month that he is not running for re-election to that position. Instead, Murphy said he decided to run for president of the Charles County Board of Commissioners, a position equivalent to a county executive. Whether youre a state legislator or a county commissioner president, its all about the quality of life for all people, Murphy said in a Feb. 3 statement. Ive always been accessible and responsive as a delegate, and I look forward to the opportunity of continuing to serve all our residents with the same enthusiasm and dedication. As a candidate for governor, Mizeur is giving up her seat in the House of Delegates. Records with the state board of elections show that she did not le for re-election to her delegate post prior to the ling deadline of Feb. 25. The election board lists Mizeur as an active candidate for governor in the June 24 Maryland primary. The departure of Mizeur and Murphy from the House of Delegates would lower the number of out gay or lesbian members of the Maryland General Assembly from eight the highest in the nation for a state legislature to six if all six remaining lawmakers are re-elected this year. The others running for re-election are State Sen. Richard Madelano (D-Montgomery County) and Delegates Maggie McIntosh (D-Baltimore City), Luke Clippinger (D-Baltimore City), Mary Washington (D-Baltimore City), Anne Kaiser (D-Montgomery County) and Bonnie Cullison (D-Montgomery County). All except Kaiser have been endorsed by the Victory Fund. Other out gay or lesbian candidates in Maryland that have received the Victory Funds endorsement this year are Evan Glass, Montgomery County Council; Byron Macfarlane, Howard County Register of Wills; and Kevin Walling, Maryland House of Delegates, Montgomery County. Walling is running in a different district than that of Mizeur and Kaisers districts in Montgomery County.
DAVID CATANIA won the Victory Funds endorsement even though he hasnt yet announced his candidacy for mayor.
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Tuesday its endorsement of gay Virginia State Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria) in his race for the 8th District U.S. House seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.). Ebbin is running in a hotly contested Democratic primary scheduled for June 10 in which two other openly gay candidates are running in an 11-candidate race. Adam Ebbin has distinguished himself as an outspoken voice of progressive values, Carter said in a separate statement on Tuesday. After ten years in the state legislature, he has remained committed to his goal of increasing equality and opportunity for those who are often left behind. Virginia State Del. Mark Sickles (D-Fairfax), who came out publicly last week in a column in the Washington Post, emerged as an unexpected out candidate in the 8th District congressional race. Also running is gay rights attorney and radio talk show host Mark Levine, who worked as a legal counsel for gay former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). Levine says hes been out as gay since the 1980s. As of this week, the Victory Fund has
Virginia marriage ruling appealed

Federal judge struck down gay nuptials ban earlier this month
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS mlavers@washblade.com A federal judges ruling that struck down Virginias same-sex marriage ban was appealed this week. Norfolk Circuit Court Clerk George Schaefer appealed U.S. District Judge Arenda L. Wright Allens Feb. 13 ruling to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond. The state on Monday also led its own notice of appeal that Attorney General Mark Herring hopes will expedite the case. Throughout this process I have maintained that the law requires equal treatment for same-sex couples, said Herring in a statement. Although the court agreed with the commonwealths position that the states ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, I have led a notice of appeal to ensure that higher courts can swiftly rule on the critical issues in this case, consistent with my commitment to the rule of law. Tim Bostic and Tony London of Norfolk and Carol Schall and Mary Townley of Chestereld last year led a lawsuit against Virginias same-sex marriage amendment that voters in 2006 approved by a 57-43 percent margin. The Family Foundation of Virginia, the National Organization for Marriage, former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and state Del. Bob Marshall (R-Prince William County) are among those who criticized Allen. A handful of same-sex marriage opponents last week protested outside the Norfolk school her child attends. The Republican-controlled Virginia House of Delegates earlier this month overwhelmingly approved a bill that would allow any state lawmaker to defend a law if the governor and attorney general decline to do so.
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JASON COLLINS signed a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets.

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NYC Council to skip St. Patricks parade

NEW YORK New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito on Feb. 25 announced the New York City Council as an institution will not participate in the citys annual St. Patricks Day Parade because organizers ban LGBT people from marching. The St. Patricks Day Parade should be a time when all New Yorkers can come together and march openly as who they are but right now that is not the case for the LGBT community, said Mark-Viverito. Mark-Viveritos announcement comes less than a month after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he would not march in the annual parade for the same reason. De Blasios predecessors Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani both marched in the parade. Former New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn boycotted the annual event that takes place on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Mark-Viverito said individual Council members can march in the parade if they choose.
Collins makes history, plays in NBA game

First out gay male athlete to join major professional team
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS mlavers@washblade.com Jason Collins on Sunday became the rst openly gay man to play in a game for a major American professional sports league. Collins played 11 minutes during the second quarter of the Brooklyn Nets game against the Los Angeles Lakers. The former Washington Wizards center did not score, but fans at the Staples Center applauded Collins when he took the court. Collins signed a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets earlier on Sunday. Right now, Im focused on trying to learn the plays, the game plan assignment, Collins told reporters during a pre-game press conference as the New York Times reported. I dont have time to really think about history right now. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is among those who applauded Collins. Jason told us that his goal was to earn another contract with another team, said Silver in a statement. I want to commend him on achieving his goal. I know everyone in the NBA family is excited for him and proud that our league fosters an inclusive and respectful environment. Collins last April became the rst male athlete who actively played in a major American professional sports league to come out as gay when Sports Illustrated published his op-ed. He had remained unsigned since his announcement. Theres a lot of speculation as to why I havent signed, Collins told the Washington Blade in December during an interview that marked the rst time he spoke to an LGBT media outlet since he publicly declared his sexual orientation. I choose to focus on what I can control and thats how hard I work out. The deadline for NBA teams to send their playoff rosters to the league is March 1. Thats the ultimate deadline, Collins told the Blade. But up until that date Im going to continue to work out, continue to train. I consider myself a free agent and Im ready when and if an NBA team calls my name. Collins last May attended a New York City fundraiser for the Democratic National Committees Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Leadership Council with rst lady Michelle Obama. Collins was also among her guests at last months State of the Union address and attended a state dinner earlier this month held in honor of French President Franois Hollande. Collins marched in Bostons annual Pride parade in June with Massachusetts Congressman Joseph P . Kennedy, III, with whom he lived while they attended Stanford University. The former Washington Wizards center also introduced Macklemore and Ryan Lewis at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards before they performed their song Same Love that advocates for marriage rights for same-sex couples. Collins was also among those who sat on a U.N. panel last December that commemorated the 65th anniversary of the ratication of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He signed with the Brooklyn Nets two weeks after University of Missouri defensive lineman Michael Sam came out to the New York Times and ESPN. Sam, whom Collins congratulated after he publicly declared his sexual orientation, is poised to become the countrys rst openly gay professional football player
Illinois conversion therapy ban introduced

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Illinois lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban socalled conversion therapy for minors. The Windy City Times reported state Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) and state Sen. William Delgado (D-Chicago) introduced identical bills in their respective legislative chambers. Equality Illinois CEO Bernard Cherkasov is among the LGBT rights advocates who applauded Cassidy and Delgado for introducing their respective bills. California and New Jersey ban conversion therapy to minors. Lawmakers in Maryland, Pennsylvania and other states have introduced similar measures.
Lawsuit against Texas school district settled

KILGORE, Texas A Texas school district has reached a settlement with a former student who said two softball coaches outed her to her mother. The News-Journal reported the Kilgore Independent School District on Feb. 21 paid Skye Wyatt $77,500 to settle her lawsuit. The newspaper reported Wyatt said two Kilgore ISD softball coaches accused her of having a sexual relationship with another girl in 2009 when she was 16. The NewsJournal said the coaches told her they would tell her mother she was a lesbian and Wyatts lawsuit claims they subsequently disclosed her sexual orientation to her. Its not just a win for our client and her family, but for the school district, all of its students and their parents, Wayne Krause Yang of the Texas Civil Rights Project, which worked with the law rm that represented Wyatt, told the News-Journal. This will benet everybody. The newspaper reported the Kilgore ISD also agreed to implement what it described as a live 30 minute training session for all employees that will include information on anti-gay discrimination and privacy.
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Judge strikes down Texas marriage ban

Ruling is stayed pending appeal
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS mlavers@washblade.com A federal judge on Wednesday ruled Texas constitutional amendment that denes marriage as between a man and a woman is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia said in response to a lawsuit led by two same-sex couples the states gay marriage ban violates the 14th Amendments Equal Protection Clause. He stayed his ruling pending a likely appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. After careful consideration, and applying the law as it must, this court holds that Texas prohibition on samesex marriage conicts with the United States Constitutions guarantees of equal protection and due process, wrote Garcia. Texas current marriage laws deny homosexual couples the right to marry, and in doing so, demean their dignity for no legitimate reason. Todays ruling by Judge Garcia is a huge victory that moves Texas one step closer to the freedom to marry, said Equality Texas Executive Director Chuck Smith. Human Rights Campaign President Chad Grifn also applauded Garcias ruling. This injunction sends a powerful message that gay and lesbian Texans are being harmed by inequality, he said. Gov. Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Bexar County Clerk Gerard Rickhoff and Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner David Lakey are named as defendants in the lawsuit. Garcias ruling comes a day after attorneys for three gay couples challenging Utahs same-sex marriage ban urged the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver to uphold a lower courts ruling that struck down the states gay nuptials prohibition. U.S. District Judge Arenda L. Wright Allens Feb. 13 ruling that struck down Virginias same-sex marriage ban was appealed to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., earlier this week. Eighteen states and D.C. have extended marriage rights to same-sex couples. Gays and lesbians in Pennsylvania, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri and other states have led lawsuits seeking marriage rights in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Courts ruling last June that found a portion of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. A federal judge on Feb. 12 ruled Kentucky must recognize gay nuptials legally performed in other jurisdictions. U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman last week said same-sex couples in Illinois Cook County, where Chicago is located, could immediately begin to marry even though the states same-sex marriage law does not take effect until June. Champaign County Clerk Gordy Hulten earlier on Wednesday announced he will also issue marriage licenses to gays and lesbians. Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday told state attorneys general during the National Association of Attorneys Generals winter meeting in D.C. that they do not have to defend state same-sex marriage bans in court. He announced earlier this month the Justice Department would recognize samesex marriages in civil and criminal cases and extend full benets to gay spouses of public safety personnel. The new policy applies to states that have yet to extend marriage rights to gays and lesbians. I believe we must be suspicious of legal classications based solely on sexual orientation, said Holder during his speech at the National Association of Attorneys General. And we must endeavor in all of our efforts to uphold and advance the values that once led our forebears to declare unequivocally that all are created equal and entitled to equal opportunity.
Seeking to move Maine forward as governor

Recently out, Michaud could achieve another gay rst
By CHRIS JOHNSON cjohnson@washblade.com Having only come out ve months ago in several editorials in Maine newspapers, Mike Michaud is new to the club in terms of out public gures. Nonetheless, hes on the path to achieving a goal that has never been accomplished by any openly gay person: Winning a gubernatorial election. During an interview with the Washington Blade in the ofce of one of his campaigns consultants near Capitol Hill, Michaud tried to tamp down his sexual orientation as a factor in the race, but acknowledged the signicance it places on his candidacy. Thats not why I ran for governor, because of my sexual orientation; its because I want to move Maine forward, Michaud said. But, quite frankly, if elected, it is historic, and I think itll also change the tone of the debate when you look at LGBT issues, not only in Maine, but throughout the country. The ve-term member of Congress is seeking election in a state that legalized marriage equality at the ballot in 2012 and non-discrimination protections for LGBT people in 2005 (after earlier failed attempts). As governor, one of the advantages Ill have is the opportunity to talk with some of my colleagues, Michaud said. As a matter of fact, the National Governors Association just met this week. To sit down with some of historic for the country and the state and maintained her organization will help him achieve the victory. We endorsed Congressman Michauds campaign for governor because we strongly believe that he is the best choice to lead Maine, for the LGBT community and everyone in our state. Johansen said. In addition to electing a proven leader with a long history of standing with LGBT Mainers, we have the opportunity to make history by electing our nations rst openly-gay governor. No other Democrats are challenging Michaud for the nomination in the race, so hell carry the Democratic banner in what could be a three-way race. On the Republican side is incumbent Gov. Paul LePage, who was rst elected during the Tea Party wave in 2010 and was recently dubbed by Politico as Americas Craziest Governor. Also in contention is Eliot Cutler, an independent whos a perennial candidate for Maine governor. The race will be tight. Cook Political Report rates the contest as a toss-up, while Rothenberg Political Report considers the match toss-up/lean Democrat. Nonetheless, Michaud said the polling he sees in the race is promising. I feel pretty good about where were at; were leading in all the polls head-to-head, Michaud said. With our current governor, its a small dunk, with a three-way race it complicates it a little more, but I feel really good about where were at.
Rep. MIKE MICHAUD is running for governor of Maine in a competitive three-way race.
the governors talking about LGBT issues as it might come up in their particular states is something that Im not hesitant to do, and its easier talking to peer-to-peer. As Michaud noted, the State House recently rejected by a 89-52 vote a measure that would carve out a portion of Maines civil rights law to allow individuals to discriminate, including on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Its similar to a controversial turn away the gay bill pending before Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) that would enable individuals and businesses to refuse service based on a sincerely held religious belief. Michaud said he would veto any such measure that might reach his desk as
governor, and furthermore said he believes Brewer absolutely should veto the version of the bill in her state. Recalling the recent meeting in D.C. of the National Governors Association, Michaud said that would be something I would be able to talk with her about this week if I was governor. The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Equality Maine have endorsed Michauds candidacy. The Human Rights Campaign hasnt yet ofcially thrown its support behind him, but is expected to announce more endorsements for Election 2014 following an upcoming board meeting. Elise Johansen, Equality Maines executive director, said a win by Michaud in the gubernatorial election would be
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Ugandan president signs draconian anti-gay bill

Obama administration to review relationship with country
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS mlavers@washblade.com Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Feb. 24 signed a bill into law that imposes a life sentence upon anyone found guilty of repeated same-sex sexual acts. I have failed to understand that you can fail to be attracted to all these beautiful women and be attracted to a man, Museveni told reporters as he signed the so-called Anti-Homosexuality Bill at his ofcial residence in Entebbe, according to Agence France-Presse. That is a really serious matter. There is something really wrong with you. Museveni described gays and lesbians as mercenaries who are actually heterosexual people but because of money they say they are homosexuals. The Ugandan president also said oral sex can cause worms, Hepatitis B and other sexually transmitted diseases. The mouth is for picking food, not for sex, said Museveni, according to Agence France-Presse. We know the address for sex. That address (the mouth) is not for sex. The mouth is for eating not for sex. The mouth is engineered for kissing. Musevenis decision to sign the AntiHomosexuality Bill sparked widespread outrage among LGBT rights advocates and Western governments. Frank Mugisha, executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, a Ugandan LGBT advocacy group, scoffed at Musevenis previous claims that he sought scientic opinions on whether people were born homosexual. The activist is among the list of 200 top gays whose names a Ugandan tabloid published on Tuesday. Museveni in a Feb. 18 statement that rebuked President Obamas criticisms over the Anti-Homosexuality Bill specically cited the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy with whom he met last month for sending him information from U.S. scientists who said there could be some indications that heterosexuality could be congenital. Museveni said scientists from the Ugandan Ministry of Health and two other agencies came to a unanimous conclusion that homosexuality, contrary to my earlier thinking, was behavioral and not genetic. President Musevenis scientic inquiry is a smokescreen for what is truly going on: political homophobia at its worst, Mugisha told the Washington Blade on Feb. 24. Last month the president said he would not sign this fascist bill. But now, it seems he has sold us out for the votes of his party. It is politics
Ugandan President YOWERI MUSEVENI signed into law a bill criminalizing homosexuality.
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plain and simple all at the expense of LGBTI Ugandans. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said the law violates a host of fundamental human rights that Ugandas constitution guarantees. Kennedy added Ugandan lawmakers and Museveni have decided to criminalize an already vulnerable population rather than safeguarding equality in the country. U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who met with Museveni last month during a trip to Ugandawith fourotherAmerican lawmakers, also urged the Ugandan president not to sign the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law. I certainly disagree with the controversial legislation that Uganda may enact in the coming days, the Oklahoma Republican told the Blade last week after Museveni announced his plans to sign the controversial measure. As Ive said before, it is my hope that the country will abandon this unjust and harsh legislation. The Obama administration has begun a review of its relationship with Uganda in response to Musevenis decision to sign the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki told the Blade on Feb. 24 the review means a range of things. She did not specically say whether it would include cutting any of the more than $485 million in aid the U.S. provided to Uganda last year for global health, military, poverty reduction and other programs. Psaki also did not tell the Blade whether this review would include recalling U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Scott DeLisi to Washington for consultations or sanctions. Were looking at a range of options, she told the Blade.
The Center for Constitutional Rights in March 2012 led a federal lawsuit against Scott Lively on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda that accuses the evangelical Christian of exploiting homophobic attitudes in the East African country and encouraging lawmakers to approve the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Judge Michael A. Posner of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts last August ruled the lawsuit can proceed. A document the anti-gay Coalition for Advancement of Moral Values (CAMOVA) sent to Ugandan parliamentarians last year that the Blade exclusively obtained lists oral anal sex as among the horrors of homosexuality. Lively is among the three prominent American evangelicals who attended a 2009 summit that CAMOVA organized titled Exposing the Homosexuals Agenda Parliamentarian David Bahati several months later introduced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that at the time contained a death penalty provision for anyone found guilty of repeated same-sex sexual relations. Lively described the Center for Constitutional Rights as a Marxist law rm from New York City during a Feb. 21 press conference at the National Press Club in downtown Washington where he and other anti-gay advocates announced the creation of a new organization designed to combat the global LGBT rights movement. The American evangelical who is running to succeed outgoing Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick categorized the AntiHomosexuality Bill to the Blade on Feb. 24 as overly harsh on its face, but typical of African criminal law across the country. Poor countries with limited criminal
LGBT advocates hung this poster outside the Ugandan embassy in Northwest D.C. on Feb. 24 in response to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill the countrys president signed into law earlier in the day.
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justice systems tend to rely on the harshness of the letter of the law to be a deterrent to criminals, said Lively. In practice, the sentencing is usually pretty lenient. Kenya, for example, has the death penalty for burglary, but burglars are denitely not being executed there. Mugisha and other LGBT rights advocates are expected to petition Ugandas Constitutional Court to overturn the law.
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challenged as never before, Brewer said. Our society is undergoing many dramatic changes. However, I sincerely believe that Senate Bill 1062 has the potential to create more problems than it purports to solve. Following her announcement, Brewer posted a picture of her vetoing SB 1062 via her Twitter account. The bill was part of an emerging trend of state legislation allowing businesses to refuse services on religious grounds known as turn away the gay measures. The Republican-controlled Arizona State House approved it last week by a 33-27 vote, triggering intense mainstream media attention and a restorm of criticism. Despite her reputation as an ultra conservative, Brewer said earlier in the week that the measure is very controversial. The bill did not mention the words gay, sexual orientation or gender identity, but rather sought to expand the states denition of exercise of religion to allow any person which under the bill could be an individual, a religious assembly or business to deny services based on a religious belief. Under the bill, the exemption could only have been used in court if the refusal to act was motivated by a religious belief; the persons religious belief is sincerely held; and state action substantially burdens the exercise of the persons religious beliefs. Critics said the bill was intended to allow businesses to deny services or discriminate against gay people or same-sex couples even though Arizona state law already permits discrimination in employment and public accommodations. Eunico Rho, an advocacy and policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union who works on state initiatives, said the measure would set a dangerous precedent because it would invite individuals and businesses in Arizona to discriminate. Arizona already has a law that says the government cant unnecessarily burden somebodys religious beliefs, but this takes that into the private sphere and says no private individual can burden somebodys else religious beliefs, Rho said. Given how religiously diverse we are and the state of Arizona is its just such a dangerous and unprecedented onthe legislatures part. The anti-gay group that drafted the legislation said the concerns were overblown. Cathi Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy, said in a statement the measure was merely aimed at protecting religious liberties. Simply put, the fear-mongering from opponents is unrelated to the language of the bill, and proves that hostility towards
Sen. JOHN MCCAIN of Arizona called on Gov. Brewer to veto the states anti-gay bill.
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people of faith is very real, Herrod said. Its a shame we even need a bill like this in America. But growing hostility against freedom in our nation, and the increasing use of government to threaten and punish its own citizens, has made it necessary. LGBT grassroots advocates started a campaign to encourage Brewer to reject the measure by asking businesses in Arizona to speak out. Scott Wooledge, a New York-based LGBT Netroots advocate, set up a website, Do AZs Top Businesses Support Or Oppose SB 1062? monitoring the positions of Arizona businesses on the legislation. Together, the companies I approached employ more than a quarter million people in the state of Arizona, Wooledge said. This makes them all signicant stakeholders in any business-related legislation, and SB 1062 is a business-related bill. Companies headquartered in Arizona identied on the website are US Airways, PetSmart, Apollo Group, GoDaddy, U-Haul, Cold Stone Creamery, Bashas Markets, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc, Banner Health P.F. Changs, Best Western and Circle K. None were listed as having expressed a position as of Monday morning. On Monday, Apple Inc. and the CEO of American Airlines Group Inc. called Brewer to ask her to veto the bill. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) weighed in via Twitter to urge Brewer to reject the bill. Both were among the Senate Republicans who voted for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act last year (although Flake twice voted against cloture.) Others who have spoken out via Twitter
to urge Brewer to veto the bill included Democrats representing the state in the U.S. House: Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.), Ron Barber (D-Ariz.) and bisexual Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.). Mitt Romney also urged a veto. Prior to House passage of the bill last week, Sinema said in a statement that Brewer must consider the negative consequences of the legislation should she sign it. The economic hit to our state, if this misguided bill is signed into law, will undoubtedly harm thousands of hardworking Arizonans, and is irresponsible at a time when we are just starting to recover from the economic downturn, Sinema said. Arizona is better than this. I call on Governor Brewer to show leadership and veto the bill if it is sent to her. In recent weeks, the movement of the legislation to enable discrimination by expanding religious liberties hasnt been limited to Arizona. As previously reported by the Washington Blade, progress on these bills is apparently a new tactic from anti-gay groups in response to the advancement of marriage equality. Laura Durso, director of the LGBT project for the Center for American Progress, said the proliferation of these bills puts at risk all Americans, not just LGBT Americans. Bills like Arizonas SB 1062 open the door to all types of discrimination, not only in wedding-related services but among healthcare providers and other licensed professionals, Durso said. The First Amendment protects our right to practice our religion as we see t and these types of laws threaten our social contract that we treat others as
we wish to be treated and abide by the same rules in the public marketplace. In Kansas, the State House approved legislation allowing businesses to refuse services to same-sex couples. And unlike the Arizona bill, the Kansas measure explicitly mentions same-sex couples, saying no individual should be required to provide a service related to a same-sex wedding or civil union ceremony. Numerous media outlets, including the Blade, reported last week the legislation, House Bill 2453, was dead in the Senate following public outcry, but one LGBT advocate in the state said hes not so sure. Thomas Witt, executive director of the Kansas Equality Coalition, said he expects the legislation to reappear in the Senate possibly with slightly different language as an insert to a larger bill as early as Wednesday. The radical right in the House is pushing real hard to bring this bill back, not under that number, Witt said. The number is dead. The Senate is not going to let that number come back up, but theyre looking for a way to stuff the language in a different bill. Similar religious exemption bills that have died have come in Maine, where the House last week defeated a measure by a 89-52 vote, as well as in South Dakota, Tennessee and Idaho, which all died in committee. Lawmakers pushing the bills are drawing on recent stories of individuals facing penalties for refusing services to same-sex couples, such as a Colorado baker who was found to have violated a couples civil rights for refusing to bake a cake for them or the New Mexico photographer who got in trouble after refusing to take a picture of a same-sex wedding ceremony. ACLUs Rho noted that lawmakers in Arizona and Kansas have been drawing on these stories to advocate for the enactment of religious exemption bills, but said she doesnt think the bills are anything new. I think in Arizona, theyve made it quite clear, that that was one of the main reasons for expanding the religious refusal bill into this extraordinary scope, Rho said. But as I said, people claiming the right to refuse services is certainly nothing new. Rho said she thinks an appropriate response would be passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would bar many employers from discriminating against LGBT workers across the country, as opposed to vocal opposition from President Obama. Unfortunately, I think a lot of the state legislatures and the governors who are endorsing these kind of measures dont care much for what the president says or thinks, so I dont know if Sam Brownback cares much for President Obamas opinion, Rho said.
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Kameny heir wont release ashes for public memorial

people could go to pay their respects to a nationally known gure considered a hero to the LGBT rights cause. The site they selected is located just behind the gravesite of the late gay rights leader and U.S. Air Force Sgt. Leonard Matlovich, who, with Kamenys assistance in 1975, became the rst active duty military service member to come out of the closet and challenge the militarys ban on gay service members. Matlovich died in 1987. A planned ceremony and burial of Kamenys ashes scheduled for March 2012 was abruptly cancelled at the request of the estate, according to Patrick Crowley, who worked as senior manager of Congressional Cemetery at that time. Lawyers for the Kameny estate wanted HOBS to transfer ownership of the cemetery plot to the estate, Crowley said. Although HOBS agreed to the transfer, a dispute arose over the terms of an agreement proposed by lawyers for both parties, and negotiations dragged on for nearly two years. Last July, both sides said a tentative agreement had been reached, raising hopes among Kamenys friends and admirers that a burial ceremony and the ofcial opening of a Kameny memorial site at Congressional Cemetery would soon take place. The estate has always been, and remains willing to work with gay community representatives who knew Frank Kameny in organizing a burial service and appropriate gravesite at which members of the community could pay tribute to Kameny, said attorney Christopher Brown of Ackerman Brown at that time. However, no announcement of an agreement emerged since that time. When Ackerman Brown released its statement last week saying Clark decided to inter the ashes at an undisclosed location, neither Ackerman Brown nor HOBS would disclose where things stood with the cemetery plot. The estate has no further comment, said Glen Ackerman, principal partner of Ackerman Brown, in a Feb. 23 email to the Blade. Matthew Cook, an attorney with the national law rm Fried Frank, which is representing HOBS, sent the Blade a separate statement from HOBS that made no mention of whether ownership of the cemetery plot had been transferred to the estate or whether HOBS would seek to set up another memorial site for Kameny at Congressional Cemetery. Dr. Kameny was a true gay rights pioneer and local legend, the HOBS statement says. HOBS was proud to work with and for Dr. Kameny during the last years of his life. Of course, as the executor of the Kameny Estate, it is Mr. Clarks decision where to inter Dr. Kamenys ashes.
TIMOTHY CLARK, who earlier said he would release half of Frank Kamenys ashes to be interred at Congressional Cemetery, changed his mind and now plans to inter the ashes at an undisclosed location.
Veteran D.C. gay activist Paul Kuntzler, who worked with Kameny on gay rights activities beginning in 1962, and San Francisco gay activist Michael Bedwell, a friend of Kamenys, each told the Blade that the LGBT community should now take immediate steps to arrange for another memorial site for Kameny at Congressional Cemetery, even though the ashes wont be interred there. The four local activists and Kameny friends who initiated plans to inter Kamenys ashes at Congressional Cemetery in early 2012 Marvin Carter, CEO of HOBS and LGBT rights advocates Charles Francis, Bob Witeck and Rick Rosendall have declined to comment on Clarks decision to inter the ashes at another location. They also declined to comment on what, if anything, they may do to set up a Kameny memorial site at the cemetery now that the ashes are out of the picture. Frank Kamenys monumental legacy may be best remembered by laws he helped overturn, the hateful policies he defeated and the causes of equal rights he unselshly advanced for the LGBT community, said Witeck in an email statement on Sunday. The relationship between the four men and the Kameny estate became strained in 2012 shortly after they announced plans for a Congressional Cemetery memorial site and burial when Clark stated through his attorneys that Clark was never given the courtesy of being consulted about those plans. Carter, however, has said Clark was informed about the plans and invited to participate in the planned ceremony. The relationship between the four
men and the estate became further strained when the estate led individual lawsuits against each of them, charging that they took without permission items from Kamenys house that belonged to the estate shortly after Kamenys death. The men disputed the allegations, saying Clark along with Clarks lawyer at the time, Michele Zavos, gave them permission to enter the house and take an inventory of Kamenys papers and other possessions to arrange for their safe keeping. The lawsuits, which were led by Ackerman Brown on Clarks behalf, were later dropped after undisclosed settlements were reached in three of the cases. The court dismissed the case against Rosendall on grounds that no cause was shown to justify the complaint, according to Rosendalls attorney, Mindy Daniels. Upon learning of Clarks decision to inter the ashes in an undisclosed location, Bedwell expressed concern that Clark, who among other things, inherited Kamenys house that the estate sold in 2012 for $725,000, was not doing his part to promote Kamenys legacy. Franks trust and affection made Mr. Clark a wealthy man, Bedwell said. His sacrices helped make him, like all LGBTs, a
freer man, Bedwell said. Now that Mr. Clark has disappeared with Franks ashes along with any hopes of his repaying Franks extraordinary generous friendship by sharing them for a memorial, I trust that others will create one without them, he said. Clark didnt respond to a phone message from the Blade this week. In a 2012 interview with the Blade, Clark described himself as a private person who shunned the spotlight, saying he intentionally remained in the background during the 19 years he lived in Kamenys house. Also remaining unclear this week is what will become of a headstone and separate grave marker that HOBS and the activists working with the group installed at the cemetery site before the dispute with the estate surfaced. Francis, the founder of the Kameny Papers Project, which arranged several years before Kamenys death to have Kamenys voluminous collection of letters and gay rights documents donated to the Library of Congress, obtained the headstone from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Md. Senate committee approves trans bill

The Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee last week approved a bill that would ban anti-transgender discrimination in the state. The 8-3 vote took place slightly more than two weeks after lawmakers held a hearing on Senate Bill 212 that state Sen. Rich Madaleno (D-Montgomery County) introduced last month. The measure would ban discrimination based on gender identity and expression in employment, housing, public accommodation and credit. The committee by a 7-4 vote margin also approved Raskins proposed amendment to SB 212 that would allow for private and functionally equivalent spaces, such as locker rooms, for people of different gender identities. Its our strongest vote ever out of that committee, Madaleno told the Washington Blade as he applauded Equality Maryland, the Human Rights Campaign and the Maryland Coalition for Transgender Equality, which lobbied lawmakers to support SB 212. It reects on the incredible hard work that people have done to educate members of that committee about the need for this bill. Visit washingtonblade.com for updates on the bills progress in the Senate. MICHAEL K. LAVERS
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Jewish groups to talk marriage

The Keshet Parent & Family Connection (KPFC) and JQ Baltimore will partner on Sunday to present a panel discussion exploring the process and experience of same-sex weddings and marriages in the Jewish tradition. Beth El Congregation, 8101 Park Heights Ave., will host the event from 1-3 p.m. The panel consists of same-sex married couples, parents of same-sex married couples and clergy who have performed same-sex weddings. For many in Maryland, Question 6 was just something that they voted on at the polls, said Mindy Dickler, co-founder of JQ Baltimore and mentor for Keshet PFC. This program will put names and faces to Jewish members of our community for whom this historic vote has made a world of difference. For more information, visit jqbaltimore.org.
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LGBT Wedding Expo in Frederick

On March 16, Studio C Photography of Frederick presents Over the Rainbow, Fredericks rst LGBT Wedding and Fashion Expo. The show will feature more than 30 gay and gay-friendly wedding vendors in all categories. There will be a fashion show with samesex couples in wedding attire to include M. Stein Tuxedo, private designer dresses, gowns, and suits, and Under A Hundred budget-conscious ensembles. The Expo will be held in the Atrium at the FSK Holiday Inn, 5400 Holiday Dr. in Frederick from 1-4 p.m. There is ample free parking, and the Expo is conveniently right off I-270, I-70, and Rt. 15. To date, LGBT wedding shows have been made up of vendors who are there to sell their services, which of course is the point; but not all of them are truly gay friendly, Susan Centineo, owner of Studio C Photography, told the Blade. This show promises vendors who have been screened and who are truly committed to providing red-carpet service for same-sex weddings, and we have added a same-sex fashion show to boot. Admission is free, and there will be drawings, rafes, and discounts for same-day bookings with vendors. You may RSVP in advance to qualify for a cash drawing. Email Susan at studiocphotos@yahoo.com or call/text 240-446-6085. A few vendor openings are still available. STEVE CHARING
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Jewish counselors oppose reparative therapy ban

NEW YORK A group of Orthodox Jewish mental health professionals has joined forces to oppose a New Jersey law that prohibits ex-gay conversion therapy with minors, the Jewish Daily Forward reports. A group called Nefesh has joined with the Orthodox umbrella group Agudath Israel of America to challenge the law. Rabbi Mordechai Biser, Agudath Israels general counsel, said his organization swung into action after receiving requests from Orthodox therapists who pleaded with us to take whatever steps we could to prevent this legislation from being enacted, the Forward reports. Nefesh and the Agudah supported an appeal challenging the New Jersey state ban in an amicus brief they led Jan. 22 with the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, the Forward article said. In their briefs against the New Jersey law, Nefesh and the Agudah argued that the ban impermissibly infringed on the right of free speech. For Orthodox groups, though, homosexual behavior remains a violation of biblical prohibition. Nevertheless, the Rabbinical Council of America, the countrys largest association of Modern Orthodox rabbis, acknowledged in a 2012 statement the lack of scientically rigorous studies that support the effectiveness of therapies to change sexual orientation, the Forward reports.
A gay couple claims they cant get family coverage under PRESIDENT OBAMAs healthcare reform law because Ohio wont recognize their marriage.
Gay Ohio couple encounters Obamacare snag

COLUMBUS, Ohio A gay couple in Ohio led a federal lawsuit Feb. 18 charging that they were unable to obtain family coverage under the federal healthcare reform law because Ohio does not recognize their same-sex marriage, Reuters reports. The plaintiffs, Alfred Cowger and Anthony Wesley of Gates Mills, in Cuyahoga County, have been together since 1986 and were married in New York state in 2012, six years after adopting a daughter, according to the suit led in U.S. District Court in Ohio. The suit names the U.S. government and the state of Ohio as defendants, charging that they violated the plaintiffs constitutional rights by refusing to recognize their married status, thereby preventing them from enrolling in family coverage under the Affordable Care Act, Reuters said. The plaintiffs said they had been covered under the same policy with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio for the past 15 years, which included their recognition as domestic partners. Their daughter also became covered under their policy at the time they were granted custody in 2006, Reuters reports. With Cowger starting to scale back his law practice in early 2013 and Wesley retired from his job as a chief nancial ofcer, the couple faced reduced income and became interested in family coverage under the Affordable Care Act. After initially being unable to enroll in Obamacare because of glitches involving the troubled rollout of the HealthCare.gov website, they said in the suit that they were assured by Anthem they could remain under its policy after December 2013, although premiums would increase by about 20 percent, the Reuters article said. But in November, according to the suit, Cowger said he received a letter from Anthem stating that their policy was to be terminated because it was not in compliance with the ACA. A new family policy with Anthem would cost about twice their existing one, or about half the familys joint income, and not be eligible for tax credits under Obamacare, the report said. Reuters reporters said Ohio officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Louisiana gets health care extension

NEW ORLEANS People living with HIV and AIDS in Louisiana will be able to use a federal grant to help them pay for their health care coverage, at least for four more weeks, the Times-Picayune reports. Three insurance companies doing business in the state said they wont block the use of grant money to cover health care premiums on March 1, as one had previously announced. All three will allow people to use money from the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS program to pay for their health care plans at least through April 1, an extra month, the article said. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, Louisiana Health Cooperative and Vantage Health Plan faced pressure from U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson, who issued a temporary restraining order on Feb. 24 barring the three companies from dropping those from coverage who were using the grant to cover insurance costs. Lambda Legal, an HIV/AIDS advocacy organization, led a lawsuit for John East, a Louisiana resident who uses Ryan White money to cover his insurance plan with Blue Cross. Jackson lifted the restraint the next day after lawyers from the insurance companies promised they wouldnt change or drop anyones policies during the next two weeks. The judge will hear arguments on whether the insurance companies should be forced to accept payments made with Ryan White federal funds March 10, the Times-Picayune reports.
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Remembering those who fought for our equality
By TIFFANY MOTT-SMITH Black History Month has always been a tough time for me, mostly because it was always a delicate reminder of how little black history we are aware of or deem worthy enough to mention. My friends and I have always had our own brunch in celebration of the month complete with a toast to Frederick McKinley Jones who invented the refrigerator that keeps our apricot Bellini mix chilled as well as a nod to Henry T. Sampson Jr., inventor of the Gamma-Electric Cell that allows me to text everyone that Im running late to our soiree due to an emergency wardrobe malfunction with my statement necklace. Brunching and adorning aside, it is important to remember why Black History Month even exists. Its not because of clever advocates lobbying for 28 days to focus mainly on mid-20th-century civil rights movements, but rather the result of a group of people who contributed to the world in ways that shape the way in which we live. This is especially true of LGBT gures in black history, many of whom hid their identities or served jail time as a consequence of the criminal-
This month, while we listen to anecdotes of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, take a minute to learn more about Queer Black History.
ization of queerness. So to honor those amazing people, Ive created a list of a few I wish I could take out for a thank-you Bellini: Willi D. Smith. Renowned in the 1980s as one of the best designers in the fashion industry, this Philadelphian revolutionized the way we wear pants with his slouchier cut. His signature of mixing countering patterns and colors inspired nearly a half-century of street couture. Moms Mabley. Known as the funniest woman in the world until she died, Jackie Moms Mabley was known for her cutting edge comedy. Performing in everything from Chitlin Circuit showcases to The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, she tackled racism, misogyny and a whol lotta bedroom activities through her side-busting humor. Valaida Snow. Born and raised in a family of performers and nicknamed Little Louis for her trumpeting skills, Snow played cello, bass, banjo, violin, mandolin, harp, accordion, clarinet, trumpet, saxophone and sang with the likes of Duke Ellington and Ethel Waters. Surviving being arrested and placed in a concentration camp while on tour in Denmark, she delighted audiences until her death backstage during a performance in 1956. Bayard Rustin. Longtime mentor and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., Rustin was a leader in social justice, pacism and gay rights at a time when none of the above were popular. In addition to being the architect of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, he was an accomplished vocalist becoming a regular performer at the Caf Society Nightclub in Greenwich Village. This month, while we listen to anecdotes of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, take a minute to learn more about Queer Black History and the people who made it possible. At the very least, they deserve a toast.
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Pussy Riot wins the gold for bravery

And other observations from the Sochi games
Atlanta re-purpose its old, iced-in Summer Game sites. Putin also spent billions getting the Ukraine not to join the European Union. Nonetheless, a majority of Ukrainians voted to unfriend Putin. As the Olympic Games wound down the violence in the still-trying-to-break-away Ukraine escalated as Ukraines leader, Putins BFF, cracked down with murderous sniper re. They were not biatholon bullets. Also in the closing days, Pussy Riot was detained three times in the protest area located 10 miles from Sochi. They were the only queer protests against Putins bullying barely noted at or near the games. They should get gold for extreme bravery. But the official Olympic medal count is in. I hate when they bite them as if theyre Chinese New Year chocolate gold coins. White people won a lot of medals. Lots of really, really white people won Canadians, Norwegians, Russians, the Hyper-Caucasians. I havent seen that many blue-eyed people on TV since the last Republican National Convention. According to ethnologists and cultural anthropologists, peoples skin is whiter in the northern latitudes for easier absorption of the suns rays in those 10 minutes when bodies are not totally encased in wicking Under Armour. But why are white people devising such increasingly death-defying extreme sports? Of course the exception is curling. That panicked sweeping was actually invented by a queen in Toronto whose exs mother-in-law was making a surprise visit. Sweep it up. Sweep it up. Sweep it up. Otherwise, watching the boarding, sledding, quadruple looping, and half-piping has the uncomfortable feel of watching mass suicide attempts. The slalom used to be hard enough, but now skiers have to do it Ginger Rogers backwards off a ramp at the end of their runs just as their legs turn to lead. Even more cruelly, they make the poor mothers watch at the bottom of the slope. Perhaps the cold causes such extreme sports. But given that explanation, and given the brutal winter in New York City, I should have been at Sochi in my Ralph Lauren red, white and blue ironically ugly sweater in the Slush Vault event. Dont they know that in the sub-zeroes they could just stay in and binge-watch the Danish series Borgen with the hot woman prime minister and call it a day? The extremity of the events cant all be blamed on too much Red Bull or the creeping Cirque du Soleiling of the world. Will snow sports coming out of mountain states with legalized marijuana mellow out? Or will the reckless YOLO-mojo ratchet up? Did a clear-eyed Costas already do an ESPN special on this? If Bob asked me, from a safe distance and after two minutes of vigorous Purelling, I would suggest that white people have the Winter Olympics so they can nally win some medals. And I would add that the increasing suicidality of the games could be linked to white peoples extreme anxiety about changing demographics and, spoiler alert, getting knocked off the top spot on the podium.
KATE CLINTON is a humorist who has entertained LGBT audiences for 30 years. Her monthly column appears exclusively in the Blade. Reach her via kateclinton.com.
Like Bob Costass pink eye, the Sochi Winter Games are over. I did enjoy learning that Putins favorite band is Lube. No more sixringed spoiler alerts about scores and winners. The Potemkin Olympic Villages are emptied. Gusts of warm air waft through the gaping holes in head-butted bathroom doors. Putin spent billions on the Games in Sochi, a beach resort on the Black Sea. Turns out it would have been cheaper to have
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Trans benets of decriminalizing marijuana

6 reasons why LGBT advocates should support D.C. bill
By HARPER JEAN TOBIN Across the country, decriminalizing marijuana is on the agenda of lawmakers. Colorado and Washington State made history by legalizing marijuana, and this month the D.C. Council gave an initial nod to turn marijuana possession from a crime to something more like a parking ticket. Other states are also considering legislation. Much of the conversation has focused on the relative safety of marijuana compared to alcohol, and on the fact black people are far more likely to be arrested and charged for marijuana despite using pot at similar rates to white people. What does this have to do with transgender and transgender people of color? A lot. While we dont have specic gures on marijuana, we know that trans people especially trans people of color are disproportionately affected by our countrys continuing problems of mass incarceration, police proling and harassment, barriers to jobs and housing that are exacerbated by a criminal record, and other critical problems that are being neglected in favor of spending on drug enforcement and prisons. While changing marijuana laws will not cure these problems, we believe it is a step in the right direction. Heres why NCTE supports decriminalizing marijuana: Decriminalization would help reduce disproportionate incarceration of transgender people. The 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS) found that fully 1 in 8 transgender people, more than 1 in 5 transgender women, and nearly half (47 percent) of black transgender people have been incarcerated. Trans people, like their non-trans counterparts, are overwhelmingly arrested and incarcerated for minor, nonviolent offenses a reality conrmed by the NTDS nding that most formerly incarcerated transgender people have served misdemeanor sentences of less than one year, with a majority serving less than six months. Decriminalization would mean fewer trans people needlessly incarcerated. Decriminalization would reduce barriers to employment, housing, education and public services. Having a criminal record for a minor offense like marijuana possession can mean being barred from many jobs, public housing, student loans and other key supports that individuals need to get back on their feet after exiting prison. Even if a person avoids incarceration, a conviction can mean immediate eviction from their home or losing your legal immigration status. And many employers will not even consider hiring someone with any criminal record. For trans people, this means more barriers on top of widespread anti-trans discrimination. Decriminalization would send fewer transgender people to dangerous jails and prisons. Prisons and jails are inhumane and traumatizing places for anyone, and they are especially dangerous for transgender people. Transgender women are still routinely housed with men, where they are 13 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other inmates. Decriminalization would reduce some of the harms of stop and frisk. More than one-third (35 percent) of trans people have been harassed or face discriminatory treatment by police ofcersoften simply for the crime of walking while trans. When stopped and frisked, marijuana is the most common thing people are arrested for. And, suspicion of marijuana is one of the main justications for stops of youth of color. While much of the police harassment of trans people is based on targeting trans women as suspected or actual sex workers, decriminalizing marijuana would mean one less reason for trans people, especially trans youth of color, to fear harassment or arrest when they walk down the street. Decriminalization could free up scarce resources to address the real issues of homelessness, poverty, health care and education. Trans people face stark health disparities, are twice as likely to be unemployed, four times more likely to live in extreme poverty, and face violence from their schools to the streets to their own homes. We spend untold billions arresting, prosecuting and incarcerating people for marijuana possession. Though it wont happen without advocacy, every dollar saved could be redirected by policymakers into addressing real community needs that should benet trans and other marginalized people. Decriminalization would move us closer to addressing drug use as a public health issue. Substance abuse presents real issues for the trans community. More than one quarter (26 percent) of trans people report having used drugs or alcohol to cope with the stress of discrimination, and many studies have found LGBT disparities in substance use and abuse. But voluntary treatment and support for those with problematic drug use is the right response, not criminalization. NCTE has added its voice to the civil rights, faith, harm reduction, and public health voices supporting decriminalization before the D.C. Council. While NCTE continues to focus on issues where our transspecic expertise is critical, we will also support common-sense marijuana reform that will benet our community and other marginalized communities.
HARPER JEAN TOBIN is director of policy for the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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Black athletes dispel myths about black homophobia

Collins, Sam undermine stereotypes about race
Jason Kidd. Thus, these players know Collins, so it is just silly to assume that they will have a problem being around him or showering with him (which is always mentioned in the media as a supposed fear of players). Michael Sam, a standout University of Missouri football player and NFL prospect, shocked many across the nation when he announced earlier this month that he is gay. Many people were also surprised when he revealed that he told his teammates in August 2013 before the start of his senior season. Not only did he play with his teammates as an openly gay player all season, but he and his team thrived. He had his best season by far, was named the SEC co-defensive player of the year, and his team had its best season in school history. Thus, having an openly gay player certainly didnt hurt the camaraderie or success of Missouris team. While everyone clearly notices that Collins and Sam are African American, no one wants to explicitly mention race. After all, popular logic concludes that coming out stories are about sexual orientation, not race. That sounds good in theory, but in reality, as LGBT people of color we do not have the luxury of ignoring one aspect of our identity when embracing another. Even when we do not mention race, it often plays a role. I cannot personally speak to the role that race played with Collins or Sam, but I can speak to the role that race plays in public perception of how they or other similarly situated people would be treated. When Collins came out, what was often left unsaid, was that people could not imagine that a league with an overwhelming majority of AfricanAmerican players would accept him. After all, the NBA is full of black men and black men are known to be homophobic, right? While there were sentiments about homophobia in sports across the board, many seemed to feel that it had to be worst in a league with the NBAs demographics. Most did not say it directly, but sentiments like these were sometimes expressed in the comments section of articles about Collins and Sam. Despite this stereotype, after Collins came out, many NBA players expressed public support for him and while a few players made homophobic comments, they were clearly in the minority. These beliefs are probably one of the reasons people were surprised that Sam came out to his teammates before his senior season. Of course, to be fair, many were also surprised because it is hard to maintain privacy in the age of social media, so some folks were stunned that an entire football team could know and it not be revealed publicly. Dont get me wrong, a large element of surprise in Sams case is because he plays football and, race aside, football players are generally regarded as the toughest athletes. Thus, Sams coming out challenged people to address their stereotypes about gay men. The racial composition of Missouris football team only adds to the surprise. While Missouris football team does not have the percentage of African-American players as an average NBA roster, it still has a large number of African-American players. I wrote an op-ed for the Blade after the Maryland electorate upheld marriage equality in 2012, dispelling many myths about African-Americans being more homophobic than other races. Simply put, my research, with a statistical vote breakdown of every county in Maryland, indicates that marriage equality never would have passed in Maryland if African-Americans had overwhelmingly voted against it. To quote what I wrote after the election: Out of Marylands 24 counties, predominantly African-American Baltimore City had the third highest percentage of those in favor of marriage equality with 57.5 percent. Predominately African-American Prince Georges County had the 8th highest percentage in favor of marriage equality with 48.9 percent. Contrast that with majority white Caroline County, where only 37 percent voted in favor, Dorchester County, where only 36.9 percent voted in favor, and Somerset County, where 34.1 percent voted in favor. This is not to say that there is not homophobia in the African-American community. Rather, it is to say that stereotypes that African-Americans are more homophobic than other communities have not been proven to be true.
LATEEFAH WILLIAMS biweekly column, Life in the Intersection, focuses on the intersection of race, gender and sexual orientation. She is a former president of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club. Reach her at lateefah4@hotmail.com or follow her at twitter @lateefahwms.
Last Sunday, Jason Collins became the first openly gay man to play in one of Americas four major sports leagues (NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL). The Brooklyn Nets signed Collins to a 10-day contract on Sunday and he played in a game against the Los Angeles Lakers later that night. Collins had already played in the NBA for 12 seasons, but this was his first game since his announcement in April 2013 that he is gay. As I expected, Collins had no problems with his Nets teammates. Granted, his situation is unique because he played with the Nets for the rst six years of his career and has played for several other teams as well, so he had already been teammates with many of the Nets players, as well as with its coach,
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Ignoring minimum wage warning hurts working poor

CBO report conrms raising national rate too high will eliminate jobs
negligible impact on employment. Demonization of the business community by the president and leftists within his party, however, has persisted unabated. Voguish jabbering about economic disparities is more cynical political ploy than constructive policy prescription. Sloganeering wont help workers who lose their jobs or create them for those looking for work. The constant claiming that the consensus view of economists incontrovertibly supports the notion that raising the minimum wage is without negative implication at the proposed rate is simply not true. Rather, the purported preponderance consists primarily of studies both dated and evaluating a more modest increase. More than common sense suggests there are demonstrable downsides otherwise, why not triple the rate, as some at the political extreme have argued. The affected businesses predominantly in the fast food, retail and health care industries employing low-skill workers paid the minimum wage on an hourly basis have long lamented, instead of 15 employees, Ill have to make due with only 13. Others anticipate retaining the same number of employees for maximum stafng exibility while reducing the number of hours for at least some workers. Few project increasing stafng under the resulting nancial pressure. Suddenly accelerated labor costs also encourage operational transition to workplace automation, including self-service technologies, as emphasized by Bill Gates in warning against too steep an increase. When low-margin businesses are confronted with higher mandated labor costs, survival requires reducing payrolls. McDonalds, for example, has replaced employees with 7,000 touch-screen ordering and payment kiosks at European locations. Overlooked is that nearly a third of minimum wage workers are teenagers and, as the CBO notes, just 19 percent of the increased earnings for low-wage workers would accrue to families with earnings below the poverty threshold, whereas 29 percent would accrue to families earning more than three times the poverty threshold. Studies examining past minimum wage increases indicate that workers living in poor households received less benefit than myth mistakes, due to their already earning hourly wages greater than the adjusted minimum. Instead, the increase mostly benefited second or third earners living in households well above the poverty line. While some workers retaining their jobs and current hours will earn more pay, the CBO points out that the increase would be partially offset by heightened household expenses resulting from higher consumer prices. In the aggregate, raising the minimum wage by the proposed 39 percent produces a net income benet for families earning below the poverty level less than their actual percentage change in income, averaging only three percent of current earnings. Minimum wage adjustments are a highly inefcient method of improving economic conditions for the working poor. Reducing low-income tax rates, increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit and expanding EITC eligibility, eliminating the tax penalty for similarly compensated dual-low-income married couples, implementing a maximum marginal tax rate for low-income families, and other strategic policies would better serve to benet low-wage earners. All without the negative consequences of less effectively targeted minimum wage increases. Its easier to stir up indignation over income inequality, pillory the business community, and play politics with the jobs, incomes, opportunities and lives of low-skill workers.
MARK LEE is a long-time entrepreneur and community business advocate. Follow on Twitter: @MarkLeeDC. Reach him at OurBusinessMatters@gmail.com.
Last week the nonpartisan number crunchers at the Congressional Budget Office reported that significant job losses would result from raising the minimum wage too high too fast. Implementing the White House call to hike the national minimum wage to $10.10 per hour will eliminate an estimated 500,000 jobs, the CBO announced, and perhaps as many as the one million projected by other analysts. Elevating the federal minimum for hourly paid workers from the current $7.25 to $9 an hour, however, would have a nearly
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STATEPOINT From increased unemployment to commonplace home foreclosures, its hard to forget the devastating effects of the 2008 nancial crisis and the worst recession since the Great Depression. While the hope is that regulatory bodies and bureaus created in the crisis wake will help prevent a recurrence, some experts say these reforms were shaped by the same entities responsible for the crisis, but that citizens have the power to chart a different course for their own economic futures. Whether policies were formed with seless or selsh intentions, you dont need to quietly agree to them, especially if they are misguided. We have a system that can respond to the efforts of individual citizens, says Jay W. Richards, Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics and author of the new book, Inltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Exploiting the Financial Crisis to Control Our Lives and Our Fortunes. In his book, Richards suggests that complacency on the part of ordinary citizens will lead to more serious nancial disasters. He encourages readers to take steps to prevent future crises and protect their own nest eggs: Get informed: Many culpable entities used the crisis fallout to lay blame elsewhere and increase their own power, Richards says. But with knowledge, prudence and intelligent action, history wont have to repeat itself. The only way to prevent deception and cynicism during future crises is for ordinary citizens to get informed and outraged enough to change our scal and regulatory trajectory, says Richards. Take control: Online educational resources can help you get informed. To brush up on basic nancial skills, visit MyMoney.gov, a site created by the Financial Literacy and Education Commission with information on how to save, what to consider when borrowing, and how to make a budget. Diversify: Experts recommend balancing different types of assets, such as cash, stocks, bonds and commodities. Having different types of investments means you might be better shielded from economic crises, because some assets might fall while others might rise. Dont rely on your home: If the recession taught people anything, its not to rely too much on home equity for retirement. Many think their homes are more valuable than they really are or will be when its time to retire. Be philanthropic: Those concerned about the future should be the rst to grow effective local organizations providing real safety nets for the destitute, says Richards, who believes philanthropy is a moral responsibility best left to communities. Think of the future: When a consumer borrows, she or he alone bears the debt. However, when the government overspends for short-term goals, future generations are expected to foot some, or all, of the bill. This is immoral and no fancy economic theory can change that, Richards says. Be civic: Your vote matters to politicians. Call, write and visit them to express concerns over economic regulations you dont support. More information about Inltrated can be found at InltratedTheBook.com. Remember, you dont need a PhD in economics to stay informed.
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The beginning of the New Year is always a good time for companies and employers to review their existing employee manuals or employment policies to insure they are compliant with current law and with their own over practices. An old adage states that years the only thing worse than not having www.jackscamp.com Founded1887 an employment manual or written policies is to have them but not follow them. This adage reects the need to insure that your policies comport with 1120 Twentieth Street, N.W. South Tower Washington, D.C. 20036-3437 202.457.1600 your companys actual practices and Rockville MD Baltimore MD Vienna VA that such practices are consistent with applicable law. A review of existing employment manuals is especially important when there are signicant changes in the laws governing the employer/employee relationship, as we have seen in 2013. These include the Windsor decision issued by the Supreme Court that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, the implementation of some portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the push for mandatory sick leave by some jurisdictions, the IRSs continued focus on properly classifying employees v. independent contractors, and the EEOCs stated strategic goal of focusing on workplace discrimination. Any one of these issues would require a revision to most employers policies and manuals, but together they call for a complete revamping and review of the way policies are formed and enforced by ADVERTISIN G employers. PROOF most ISSUE DATE: 11.15.13 SALES REPRESENTATIVE: ERIN WOMACK (ewomack@washblade.com) D.C. employers have been used to protecting gay employees from So You Can & Enjoy Your Life REVIEW Relax AD FOR COPY AND DESIGN ACCURACY. Revisions must be submitted within 24 hours of the date of proof. Proof will be considered nal and will be submitted for publication if revision is not submitted within 24 hours of discrimination given the D.C. Human the date of proof. Revisions will not be accepted after 12:01 pm wednesday, the week of publication.Brown naff pitts NS omnimedia Specializing in... llc (dba the washington blade) is not responsible for the content and/or design of your ad. Advertiser is Rights Act; however, employers in responsible for any legal liability arising out of or relating to the advertisement, and/or any material to which users GN can link through the advertisement. Advertiser represents that its advertisement will not violate any criminal laws or EVISIONS any rgihts of third parties, including, but not limited to, such violations as infringement or misapporpriation of any Maryland and Virginia have not had Auto, Home, Renters, Motorcycle, Boat, Life, copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, music, image, or other proprietary or propety right, false advertising, unfair /LOGO REVISIONS competition, defamation, invasion of privacy or rights of celebrity, violation of anti-discrimination law or regulation, Health, Annuities, & Long Term Care or any other Disability right of any person or entity. Advertiser agrees to idemnify brown naff pitts omnimedia llc (dba the ADVERTISER SIGNATURE a state law with the same level of SIONS blade) and to hold brown naff pitts omnimedia llc (dba the washington blade) harmless from any and all By signing this proof you are agreeing to your contract obligations with the Insurance. washington Business General Liability &action, Workers although Maryland has liability, loss, damages, claims, or causes of including reasonable legal fees and expenses that may be incurred washington blade newspaper. This includes protections, but is not limited to placement, by brown naff pitts omnimedia llc, arising out of or related to advertisers breach of any of the foregoing representations payment and insertion schedule. Compensation, E&O, EPLI, Condo & Apartment and warranties. moved in that direction. Given the Association Policies. Financial Services including Windsor decision and subsequent Banking & Retirement Products. IRS guidance, gay couples that are lawfully married in a state or jurisdiction Jonna S. Wooten, Agent recognizing such unions may avail 8148 Electric Avenue themselves of the same rights as Vienna, VA 22182-5230 heterosexual couples when ling their 703.560.7804 tax returns. The effect on employers in jonna.wooten.loy3@statefarm.com the region (where two of the three major jonnawooten.com jurisdictions recognize gay marriage) is
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that they cannot deny certain benets to gay employees who are legally married. Employers should be sure that these protections are clearly set forth in their employment manuals. Much has and will continue to be written about the ACA as its provisions are implemented but employers especially smaller employers/ companies need to be prepared. The most important lesson at this juncture is that employers with fewer than 100 employees need to begin to prepare their workers for the changes that have now been delayed until 2015. This will include mandatory participation in the local health care exchanges, as well as mandatory minimum benets that must be provided by almost all employers. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued public statements that are clear elimination of workplace discrimination will be one of the major focuses of the commission. Accordingly, employers need to be well trained on the EEOC standards so that business owners and managers can insure adherence to EEOC rules and regulations. These standards should also be well described in the companys employment manual and procedures so that the company has guidance, employees know their rights and if a complaint is made both parties will know the process to follow. Another important feature that should be clearly set forth in employment manuals or procedure policies given the EEOCs stated goals, are the rights afforded to those seeking maternity, paternity and other family leave benets. Depending on which local jurisdiction a company is situated in and how many employees are employed, the laws will differ. It is important for the employer to know these rules, to clearly state the company policy in the manual and most importantly to consistently apply them to all employees.
CONTINUES AT WASHINGTONBLADE.COM This is part of a series of articles by Jackson & Campbell on legal issues of interest to the LBGT and greater business community. Jackson & Campbell is a full service law rm based in Washington with ofces in Maryland and Virginia. If you have any questions regarding this article, contact John J. Matteo at 202-457-1678 or jmatteo@jackscamp.com. If you have any questions regarding our rm, please contact Don Uttrich, who chairs our Diversity Committee, at 202-457-4266 or duttrich@jackscamp.com.
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By LAWRENCE S. JACOBS In the eight months since the fall of the Defense of Marriage Act, I have witnessed a huge rush to marriage among friends, clients and our community at large. Many of those people dramatically underestimate the changes that marriage might bring to their lives, while at the same time being lulled into a false sense of security that marriage will solve every potential legal issue that comes along. Of course, it wont. Hundreds and hundreds of benets accrue to married couples. Yet, many of those benets are misunderstood and do not come automatically. For example, the right to own real estate as a married couple does not and cannot happen unless the deed to that property includes that right. Many of my clients own their homes as joint with right of survivorship. But married couples can hold real estate as tenants by the entirety, which is much better. Far too many of my clients live in a home that is only owned by one of them. If something happens to that homeowner, the other one may be literally out on the street. Not surprisingly, we re-deed many of our clients homes, which is neither difcult nor expensive. Where the transfer of title may be impractical or undesirable, we create Revocable Trusts for the purpose of owning real estate. Wills are another area where marriage has unexpected impacts. In most states, if you die without a Will and you are married and that marriage is recognized, your spouse will inherit a share of your estate. The amount of that share varies and can be as low as one-third. A properly drafted and signed Will can override those rules. For couples with children, the default rules can be even more problematic because minors cannot inherit money directly, either under a Will or because they were named as the beneciary of a life insurance or retirement account. Worse yet, no matter how much money you leave, they will likely get it all in a single payment on their 18th birthday. Wills can and frequently do establish distribution schemes that make much more sense. Marriage only solves problems for couples when both of them are healthy and alive. If either of those should become untrue, then the marriage may count for little or nothing. If your spouse becomes incapacitated, you may have medical decision-making rights, but not the right to manage their separate assets. That is usually accomplished by general durable power of attorney. Otherwise a guardianship petition will be required, which are typically expensive and timeconsuming. If your spouse dies before you, and you die later without a will, your assets will all be distributed to certain family members with parents typically rst in line, regardless of whether that makes sense. Marriage equality also brings with it the trials and tribulations that our straight counterparts have endured for generations. If you break up in the future, the only way to end that legal relationship is through a divorce. While you are still married, you cannot change your Will to completely disinherit your spouse. If you get divorced, the court will determine how to divide your assets. The court may also order you to pay alimony to your former spouse. However, all of these potentially adverse outcomes can be changed in a properly drafted prenuptial (and sometimes post-nuptial) agreement. A word of caution: do not call a lawyer the week before your marriage for a pre-nup. I typically advise my clients to allow six to eight weeks. None of this is intended to discourage anyone from getting married. I am a rm believer in that institution and took the plunge myself in 2009. Rather, I view my job as educating people on the issues, so that they can then make good decisions.
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By KEITH LORIA With Hollywoods elite ready to celebrate at the Academy Awards this Sunday, names like Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto and Jennifer Lawrence are predicted by many to take home Oscar gold. One name up for an award who probably isnt familiar to many is documentary director Edgar Barens, a gay lmmaker whose lm Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall is up for Best Short Documentary this year. I was just hit by a wall of emotion and started crying when I heard. I never sought the Oscar thing but when it happened, I was just overwhelmed, Barens says. This could be a game changer. Growing up in Chicago with European
parents, Barens was exposed to the cinema at a very young age. I was always immersed in lm. As a kid, my brother and I would go to lm screenings and foreign lms all the time, he says. By the time I got to college, I had no idea you could study lm, and I was hooked when I saw the classes. Barens received his bachelors and masters degrees in cinema and photography from Southern Illinois University, but found that it wasnt the easiest thing to make a living as a lmmaker. My dad was an artist and always had projects he was working on and I got his work ethic. No matter what dead-end job I was working at, and I had many of them such as a phlebotomist when making this lm I was always working on something on the side, he says. What I found was many of these temp jobs ended up blossoming into lm jobs. Barens did company lms, short documentaries and any project a company
would need a camera and story for. The 53-year-old took most of his savings to invest in making his Oscar-nominated lm and HBO came along with funds to nish the project. Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall follows the terminally ill Jack Hall, jailed in maximum-security prison at the Iowa State Penitentiary, as he faces his nal days with the assistance of hospice care provided by workers drawn from the prison population. For me, I was giving a voice to the prisoners who dont often get heard, Barens says. I was celebrating a program that was developed in their benet to show people that even though they have done terrible things, at the end of the day, we have to be better than they were when they committed their crimes and show them dignity in their deaths. Barens spent six months shooting footage behind the walls of the Iowa State Penitentiary and has put together
a poignant account of how the hospice experience can profoundly touch even the forsaken lives of the incarcerated. It was a topic that wasnt a new one for Barens, who had done a much smaller lm about hospice care in a prison in Louisiana earlier in his career. That was just a two-week shoot about setting up a hospice in a prison, and he always hoped to take a much more elaborate look at the subject. Going in, he didnt know exactly what story he was going to tell, but fate turned the attention of the lm to Hall, a decorated soldier who went to prison for 21 years for murdering a drug dealer. Two months into my stay, Jack started to get sick and it became a no-brainer that he was the guy I was going to follow, he says. Its a hybrid cinema verite. I wanted to make it observational, but I needed information from people so the verite provides a buffer between the talking heads
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How long have you been out and who was the hardest person to tell? I came out as bi at 16 and as poly three years ago. The hardest people to tell were denitely parents of my kids friends, one of whom ran into my husband when he was on a date with someone else. It hasnt really been hard to tell people Im bi. Whos your LGBT hero? Buck Angel, Diana Adams, Anita Wagner Illig I could go on. I have a lot of heroes. Whats Washingtons best nightspot, past or present? My house. Describe your dream wedding. Well, I had a big wedding at a resort in Leesburg complete with my red velvet dress. My grandmother said I looked like I belonged in a bordello. I dont think I would want to get married again. By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO joeyd@washblade.com Tamara Pincus has been out as bi since she was a teen. It took her many more years, though, to embrace her polyamorous side. She and husband Eric have been married 11 years but shes also had relationships with women. She also has a partner named James shes been with two years. Eric has another partner as well. Pincus, 37, was born in Seattle but grew up in Massachusetts and New York. Shes in private practice as a psychotherapist and sex therapist (tamarapincus.com) and also leads a monthly poly discussion group at the D.C. Center. It usually meets on the third Thursday of each month, though the March meeting will be March 27 because of a prior commitment. She came to Washington 16 years ago. She says the LGBT movement should be open to less heteronormativity. I understand why the gay marriage movement has tried to make it look like were all just like you with two very normal looking white men with this happy little family, but we also need to be accepting of people who are different too, she says. You silence a lot of voices when you say, Were all just like you. Pincus has two sons, ages 5 and 7 and lives in Alexandria. She enjoys board games and spending time with her family in her free time. What non-LGBT issue are you most passionate about? I am working really hard to make a more sex-positive world. I think accurate sex ed covering issues like consent would go a long way to ending child sexual abuse. I think addressing sexual shame would decrease so-called sex addiction and other problematic sexual behaviors. There are so many places where our cultures being completely shut down around sexuality is harming us. Abortion rights for instance? Access to birth control? I could go on and on. What historical outcome would you change? If you change history then you change the present and I have no idea where we would be if what has happened hadnt. Still if I had to pick one it would be nice if the Holocaust hadnt happened. Whats been the most memorable pop culture moment of your lifetime? No idea. I would say some big inuences have been The Princess Bride and Rocky Horror. On what do you insist? Consent! For instance I recently had to stop a stranger at a party from tickling my child without consent. What was your last Facebook post or Tweet? I took the Muppet quiz and found out that I am Kermit. Usually I post a lot of articles about trans issues, poly issues and sex worker rights.
If your life were a book, what would the title be? Lately, Coming Out Poly. (Which, as it turns out, is the title of the book Im working on with my brother-in-law formerly my brother-out-law. Thanks, legalized gay marriage in New York.) If science discovered a way to change sexual orientation, what would you do? I love being able to love everyone. I wouldnt change it. What do you believe in beyond the physical world? I believe there are energies that science has not quite gotten a grip on yet. Whats your advice for LGBT movement leaders? The more inclusive the better. Ive felt kind of left out in a lot of ways even though I was very active in the LGBT movement in high school and college. What would you walk across hot coals for? World peace? A person I love? Who comes up with these scenarios? What LGBT stereotype annoys you most? The stereotypes about bi women that they will have sex with everyone or that they are just here to provide sexual entertainment for straight men. Whats your favorite LGBT movie? Its a toss up between But Im a Cheerleader and The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love. There has yet to be a movie that comes close to covering the queer poly kinky world in which I live. Whats the most overrated social custom? All the ones where you try to look like everyone else or portray normal are highly overrated. What trophy or prize do you most covet? The Vicki Sexual Freedom Award given to individuals or organizations whose work and/or life embodies the mission and vision of the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance to afrm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. What do you wish youd known at 18? That it is really OK to be different and let others see your imperfections. Why Washington? Well, if theres a place that needs sex therapists, this is it. But really its because the people I love are here and I wouldnt want to leave them.
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Blogger Walsh to sign memoir

New York based blogger Kenneth Walsh appears for a book signing of his memoir Wasnt Tomorrow Wonderful? at Number Nine (1435 P St., N.W.) Sunday at 3 p.m. Walshs blog Kenneth in the 212 has featured on BuzzFeed, Out.com and the New York Posts Page Six. His book revisits his childhood as he ran the local babysitting service called the KKK (Kennys Kid Kare) and how he tried to track down a serial killer. Other tidbits from the memoir include living with 80s porn star Mike Henson, attending a book event for Ricky Martin and living in D.C. For more details, visit kennethinthe212.com.
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Welcome to Night Vale, a twicemonthly surrealist-style podcast, holds a live recording at the Lincoln Theater (1215 U St., N.W.) Tuesday at 7 p.m. The series is recorded in the style of community updates for Night Vale, a small desert town with unusual happenings such as dark hooded gures, a mysterious glowing cloud in the sky and a police force that knows more than they let on, by radio announcer Cecil Baldwin (voiced by Cecil Gershwin Palmer). His hopeless crush on Carlos the Scientist, who is investigating Night Vales strange phenomena, becomes a dream come true when the pair begin dating. Welcome to Night Vale, written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, has achieved cult fame and is available for download on iTunes. Tickets are $25. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit thelincolndc.com or commonplacebooks.com.
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Bob Mould performs at 9:30 Club (815 V St., N.W.) Wednesday at 7 p.m. in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his rst solo album Workbook. Mould, who is openly gay, formed rock band Hsker D in the late 1970s. The band has been credited for inspiring fellow rock bands Nirvana and the Pixies. After the breakup of the band, Mould went solo with Workbook in 1989. The album led to other solo ventures including Black Sheets of Rain. He went on to form the band Sugar in 1990s. Mould will be joined by former CODEINE drummer Chris Brokaw for an opening act. He DJed at the Club for years with the Blowoff! parties. Tickets are $25. For details, visit 930.com.
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Comedian Chelsea Handler brings her Uganada Be Kidding Me Live tour to DAR Constitution Hall (1776 D St., N.W.) Wednesday at 7 p.m. Handler, who hosts popular late-night talk show Chelsea Lately, is the author of multiple New York Times bestselling memoirs including Are You There, Vodka? Its Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang and My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands. The tour is in support of her fth book Uganda Be Kidding Me, a collection of essays sharing stories from the road while giving her favorite travel etiquette tips and destinations. Tickets range from $80.75-$92.50. For more details, visit dar.org.
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Your Passport to International Theater

March 1030
Three weeks of contemporary theater, staged readings, forums, and installations from 20 countries
STEVEN MAZZOLA and GREG STEVENS, the creative team behind The Cole Porter Project.
Legendary gay composer celebrated with In Series production

By PATRICK FOLLIARD When the In Series rst asked director Steven Scott Mazzola to create a show about Cole Porter for its 2014 season, he was certain what he didnt want: four singers seated on stools singing the legendary Broadway composers best known works, setting up each song with a bit of surfacey chitchat. And though unsure of exactly what direction to take, he was determined to celebrate the staggering breadth of Porters music and explore his many facets without getting bogged down in too much biography. Mazzola tapped Greg Stevens as cowriter/director. The pair (both gay) had met working on Mozarts La Clemenza di Tito (Mazzola directed, Stevens designed) for the In Series last season, and hit it off. After setting to work on six months of rewrites and workshops, the pairs efforts resulted in The Cole Porter Project: Its All Right With Me, a Washington-set tale about a delegation from Peru, Ind., (Porters hometown) who lobby Congress to honor their musical native son with his own national holiday. While The Porter Project is mostly an entertaining romp, it also comments on Porters complexity, Stevens says. Invariably, Porter whose songbook includes sophisticated favorites like Night and Day, What Is This Thing Called Love? and I Get a Kick Out of You, is pegged as urbanity incarnate, but theres more to him than that. He was a classically trained musician who wrote popular music crammed with topical references. He loved both lowbrow humor and sleek sophistication, and his songs overow with witty innuendo and double meaning. Porter, who died in 1964 at 73, and his older wife Linda, were a well-loved couple on the caf society scene, yet he was gay and had romantic relationships with other men (an open secret among their set). Its all there. I think D.C. is the perfect setting, Mazzola says. Like Porter, the city
demonstrates a duality, particularly with politicians and government. Here its not unusual for the mirror to have two faces. In preparing the project, Mazzola and Stevens combed through 1,000 songs before narrowing it down to three dozen ranging from familiar hits like It Was Just One of Those Things, Love For Sale and Miss Otis Regrets to the lesser known tunes In the Morning, No and Experiment. Wed identied some favorites that we wanted to use, says Stevens, who rst encountered Porters music in high school when he heard a disco version of Begin the Beguine by Tuxedo Junction. But part of the process included thinking about how Cole Porter was among the very rst musical theater composers whose scores propelled the story along. That was revolutionary in the 1930s. We wanted to do the same, so we ended up repurposing songs from a dozen musicals from the 20s through the 50s, all very different stylistically, to tell our story. And like Porter who wrote songs for performers like Ethel Merman (his favorite) and friend Fred Astaire, we wanted to select songs that t our singers and characters. The nine-person cast features In Series vets Randa Rouweyha, Joe Haughton and Tammy Roberts. The parts, explains Mazzola, are gender open. The ve principles have purposely been named Nick, Sam, Chris, Pat and Courtney and can be played by anyone. A long-time Washington company, the In Series works with local artists to create innovative theatrical programming around a musical core of opera, cabaret, poetry and song. Its productions strive to embrace fresh approaches to the classics, blend the performing arts in unconventional ways, and include Latino programs each season. The Cole Porter Project falls most closely to the cabaret category.
CONTINUES AT WASHINGTONBLADE.COM THE COLE PORTER PROJECT: ITS ALL RIGHT WITH ME Through March 9 Source 1835 14th St. N.W. $20-38 202-204-7763 Inseries.org
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Additional support is provided by A. Huda and Samia Farouki, The Florence Gould Foundation, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Amalia Perea Mahoney and William Mahoney, The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, and the State Plaza Hotel. International government support is provided by the Ministry of Culture of the Peoples Republic of China, the Embassy of the Peoples Republic of China in the United States, the Embassy of Israel in the United States, the Canada Council for the Arts, The National Theatre of Iceland, and the Japan Foundation. Major support for education and related artistic programming is provided by David and Alice Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Arts Access Program, the National Committee for the Performing Arts, and the Presidents Advisory Committee on the Arts. International Programming at the Kennedy Center is made possible through the generosity of the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts.
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Richard III. Thru Mar 16. Folger Theatre. 202-544-7077. folger.edu. The Acting Company: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Mar 1. GMU Center for the Arts. 888-945-2468. cfa.gmu.edu. Tribes. Thru Mar 16. Water by the Spoonful. Mar 5-Apr 13. Studio Theatre. 202-232-3300. studiotheatre.org. We Are Proud to Present.... Thru Mar 9. Woolly Mammoth. 202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net. Seminar. Thru Mar 2. Round House Bethesda. 240-644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Thru Mar 2. I And You. Thru Mar 23. Olney. 301-924-3400. olneytheatre.org. La Vida Que Me Das... y no me alcanza. Thru Mar 9. Teatro de la Luna. Gunston. 703-548-3092. teatrodelaluna.org. The Young Lady from Tacna. Thru Mar 9. GALA Hispanic Theatre. 202-234-7174. galatheatre.org. Beaches. Thru Mar 23. Signature Theatre. 703-820-9771. signature-theatre.org. Back To Methuselah. Thru Mar 16. Washington Stage Guild. Undercroft Theatre. 240-582-0050. stageguild.org. Orlando. Thru Mar 23. WSC Avant Bard. Theatre on the Run. 703-418-4808. wscavantbard.org. The Wedding Dress. Thru Mar 9. Spooky Action Theater. 301-920-1414. spookyaction.org. Shear Madness. Thru Jun 30. Kennedy Center. 800-444-1324. kennedy-center.org.
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester. Mar 2. GMU Center for the Arts. 888-945-2468. cfa.gmu.edu. The Essential Verdi. Mar 2. The Washington Chorus. Kennedy Center. 202-342-6221. thewashingtonchorus.org. Songs by Shelly Markham. Feb 28. DC Cabaret Network. St. Margarets Episcopal Church. 202-232-2995. dccabaretnetwork.org.
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Corcoran Gallery of Art. Alex Prager: Face in the Crowd. Thru Mar 9. American Journeys - Visions of Place. Thru Sep 21. 202-639-1700. corcoran.org. Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeares the Thing. Thru Jun 15. folger.edu. Fords Theatre. Abraham Lincoln and the Technology of War. Thru Jul 6. 202-347-4833. fords.org. Kreeger Museum. K@20 Kreeger Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Thru Jul 31. 202-337-3050. kreegermuseum.org. National Gallery of Art. Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections. Thru Mar 2. Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection. Thru Jun 29. 202-737-4215. nga.gov. National Geographic. Women of Vision. Thru Mar 9. One Cubic Foot. Thru Mar 31. A New Age of Exploration. Thru Jun 8. 202-857-7000. nglive.org. Museum of Women in the Arts. New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Chakaia Booker. Thru Mar 1. Judy Chicago: Circa 75. Thru Apr 13. Workt by Hand: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts. Thru Apr 27. 202-783-5000. nmwa.org. The Phillips Collection. Duncan Phillips and New York Collections. Thru Feb 28. Jean Meisel: 50-65 Horizon Line. Thru May 4. Made In The USA: American Masters From The Phillips Collection, 1850-1970. Mar 1-Aug 31. 202-387-2151. phillipscollection.org.
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Gala Flamenca. Mar 4. GW Lisner Auditorium. 202-994-6800. lisner.org. British Invasion: The Beatles & The Rolling Stones. Mar 5-Mar 9. The Washington Ballet. Kennedy Center. 202-362-3606. washingtonballet.org.
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Spektral Quartet. Feb 28. AIR Alumni: Daisy Castro, Gypsy jazz violin. Feb 28. Sweet Honey in the Rock 40th Anniversary Celebration: Forty and Fierce. Mar 1. Michael Bolton. Mar 2. Strathmore. 301-581-5100. strathmore.org. WNO: Moby-Dick. Thru Mar 8. Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. Kathy Mattea. Mar 1. WPAS. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. Julia Bullock. Kennedy Center. Mar 2. Murray Perahia. Mar 4. WPAS. Strathmore. 202-785-9727. wpas.org. Shenson Chamber Music Concert: Inbal Segev. Mar 5. Museum of Women in the Arts. 202-783-5000. nmwa.org. The Great American Songbook. Feb 28. Olney. 301-924-3400. olneytheatre.org. Hapa. Feb 28-Mar 1. The Barns at Wolf Trap. 877-965-3872. wolftrap.org.
GALLERIES
Artisphere. Claire Briggs: #Coping. Thru Mar 15. Gary Kachadourian: Progress Report + Backgrounds. Thru Mar 21. 703-875-1100. artisphere.com. Fisher Art Gallery. Songs of the Shore by Peter Toth. Thru Mar 16. 703-534-5726. nvcc.edu. Gallery plan b. Works by Regina Miele. Thru Mar 23. 202-234-2711. galleryplanb.com. Goethe-Institut. Afrofuturism: Artists on Three Continents Explore Black to the Future. Thru Feb 28. 202-289-1200. goethe.de. Joan Hisaoka Gallery. A Window into the Minds Eye. Thru Mar 15. 202-483-8600. smithcenter.org. Robert Brown Gallery. Valentines Day Auction Kick-Off. Thru Mar 1. 202-338-0353. neptuneneart.com.
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DUSTIN SIGWARD will compete at the Gay Games in August.
Swimming toward gold

Local athlete gearing up for summer games
By KEVIN MAJOROS This is the rst in a series of spotlights on the LGBT athletes from the Washington area who will be competing in the 2014 Gay Games in Cleveland/Akron. Dustin Sigward will compete in swimming for the District of Columbia Aquatics Club (DCAC). He is also a member of the Stonewall Kickball League. WASHINGTON BLADE: What is your swimming background? DUSTIN SIGWARD: My swimming experience is almost strictly from high school in Florida. I joined the swim team my freshman year and was barely able to put my face in the water. I was raised in Virginia and my experience with pools was limited to the occasional birthday party or the random summer day. Through hard work and playing water polo, I went from dog paddling to competing in the state championships in three years. I would say that puberty had something to do with it, but I am still waiting for the time I can shave every day. I wanted to swim in college at the University of Florida whose roster at the time included Ryan Lochte. Since I put myself through school, it was not possible to work multiple jobs, attend classes and keep up with the two-a-day workouts and mandatory weight lifting that comes with Division 1 swimming. I have been swimming with DCAC for a little over a year and I am faster than I ever was in high school. At the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics Championships (IGLA) in Seattle last year, I took home six gold medals. BLADE: Did you play any other sports growing up? SIGWARD: I played water polo for three years in high school. Its a grueling sport and it really helped me step up my swimming game. BLADE: What events will you compete in at the Gay Games? SIGWARD: I have not registered for my events yet, but I probably will not be swimming anything over 100 meters unless it is in a relay. I will denitely be competing in the 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle and 50 buttery. BLADE: What will your training regimen consist of leading up to the Gay Games? SIGWARD: I will be training in the pool three-to-four times a week and lifting weights ve days a week. I would like to include some yoga, but do not see that happening with a full-time job, part-time bartending, kickball and the obligatory post-kickball ip cup. BLADE: What is it about swimming that keeps you in the sport? SIGWARD: Along with the health benets, swimming is a great full body workout with low impact. If you look at some of the guys on our team, you would think we had found the fountain of youth. I also feel a great sense of achievement when I break a personal record or set a goal and can see measurable progress towards it. It is just a great sport for an introvert. I like to say that I am like a cat; I like to be people-adjacent. I like seeing them, but dont necessarily want to interact with them for too long. Swimming is incredibly cathartic and it puts me in the zone and gives me a chance to get to know a bunch of new people without getting overwhelmed. Most of the practice is spent counting laps and singing show tunes to myself.
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(Lincoln Memorial Cir. N.W.) at 9:15 a.m. For more information, visit adventuring.org. MONDAY, MARCH 3 The D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W..) hosts coffee drop-in hours this morning from 10 a.m.-noon for the senior LGBT community. Older LGBT adults can come and enjoy complimentary coffee and conversation with other community members. For more information, visit thedccenter.org. Us Helping Us (3636 Georgia Ave., N.W.) holds a support group for gay black men to discuss topics that affect them today, share perspectives and have meaningful conversations. For details, visit uhupil.org. TUESDAY, MARCH 4 Green Lantern (1335 Green Ct., N.W.) hosts its weekly FUK!T Packing Party from 7-9 p.m. tonight. For more details, visit thedccenter.org or greenlanterndc.com. Whitman Walker provides free and condential HIV testing at Crew Club (1321 14th St., N.W.) today from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. For details, visit whitman-walker.org. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5 MOVA Lounge (2204 14th St., N.W.) hosts Hump Day Treat with the V D.C. tonight from 6 p.m.-midnight. This happy hour includes music, dancing, open mic sessions spoken word, burlesque performances and more. There is no cover charge. For more information, visit movalounge.com. The Tom Davoren Social Bridge Club meets tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Dignity Center (721 8th St., S.E.) for social bridge. No partner needed. For more information, call 301-345-1571. Bookmen D.C., an informal mens gay literature group, discusses Too Much Flesh and Jabez by Coleman Dowell at the Tenleytown Library (4450 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) tonight at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome. For details, visit bookmendc. blogspot.com. THURSDAY, MARCH 6 Nellies Sports Bar (900 U St., N.W.) hosts its weekly Beat the Clock Happy Hour tonight from 5-8 p.m. Drink specials start at $2 and increase by a dollar each hour. For more information, visit nelliessportsbar.com. Rude Boi Entertainment hosts Tempted 2 Touch, a ladies dance party, at the Fab Lounge (2022 Florida Ave., N.W.) tonight. Doors open at 10 p.m. Drink specials $5 and vodka shots $3 all night. No cover charge. Admission limited to guests 21 and over. For more details, visit rudeboientertainment. wordpress.com. SMYAL (410 7th St., S.E.) hosts Caf SMYAL, a fun event to get out of the cold, today from 4-5 p.m. Drink hot cocoa, play board games and make new friends. For more information, visit smyal.org.
TODAY Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (3800 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, Md.,) presents Tony-winning Broadway musical Spring Awakening tonight at 7:30 p.m. through March 8. The rock musical, based on the controversial 1891 play by German playwright Frank Wedekind, explores homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide. Tickets are $30. For more information, visit claricesmithcenter. umd.edu. Green Lantern (1335 Green Ct., N.W.) hosts a Mardi Gras celebration tonight from 10:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. There is a $1 suggested donation. Proceeds benet Reign II charities including ROSMY, SMYAL and PetsDC. For details, visit greenlanterndc.com. Women in Their 20s, a social discussion group for LBT and queer women, meets today at the D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.) from 8-9:30 p.m. All welcome to join. For details, visit thedccenter.org. Bachelors Mill (1104 8th St., S.E.) holds a happy hour from 5-7:30 p.m. tonight with all drinks half price. Hit music begins at 11 p.m. Enjoy pool, video games and cards. Admission is $5 after 9 p.m. Must be 21 and over. For more details, visit bachelorsmill.com. Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) hosts free vodka Friday tonight from 9 p.m.-3 a.m. Free rail vodka 11 p.m.-midnight. Two DJs on two oors. Cover is $10. Admission is limited to guests 21 and over. For more information, visit cobaltdc.com.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 1 That Party, a new monthly event, starts tonight. Local gay DJ Shea Van Horn will team with D.C. artists Christopher Cunetto and Pussy Noir to create a night that mixes the surreal, seductive and dramatic at DC9 Nightclub (1940 9th St., N.W.). Admission is $5. For 21 and older. Two-for-one entry before midnight if both wearing masks, which Van Horn says are highly encouraged. DancEthos and alight dance theater give a performance tonight which includes Ricks Dream, a dance interpretation of REM Sleep, at Kogod Cradle at the Mead Center for American Theater (1101 6th St., S.W.) tonight at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25. For details, visit dancethos.org. Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) hosts Electric Mardi Gras with dj Kidd Madonny tonight at 10 p.m. There will be glowing gogo boys and a dance performance by the Firm. Cover is $8 from 10-11 p.m. and $12 after 11 p.m. Drinks are $3 before 11 p.m. The drag show starts at 10:30 p.m. Admission is limited to guests 21 and over. For more information, visit towndc.com.
A scene from Spring Awakening, on the boards through March 8 at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland at College Park.
D.C. Scandals, a local LGBT rugby team, hosts a Scandalous Mardi Gras Recruitment Party at Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) tonight from 6:30-9:30 p.m. For more details, visit dcscandals.wordpress.com. Code Redux presents CODE All Colors, a BDSM party, at the Crucible (16 M St., N.E.) from 10 p.m.-3 a.m. Fetish dress code required. This is a membership-only event. Walk-ins will not be accepted. Online membership is available. For more information and to join, visit the-crucible.com. SUNDAY, MARCH 2 Soprano Julia Bullock makes her Kennedy Center debut at the Terrace Theater (2700 F St., N.W.) today at 2 p.m. The program is a mix of Italian and French songs. Tickets are $35. For more details, visit wpas.org. Burgundy Crescent, a gay volunteer organization, volunteers for Food and
Friends (219 Riggs Rd., N.E.) today from 8-10 a.m. Volunteers will chop vegetables and pack groceries. To volunteer, email jonathan@burgundycrescent.org. For more details, visit burgundycrescent.org. The Academy of Washington presents Miss Spring Bonnet and Mr. Derby, a drag show, at Black Fox Lounge (1723 Connecticut Ave., N.W.) today from 3-6 p.m. For more information, visit blackfoxlounge.com. Perrys (1811 Columbia Rd., N.W.) hosts its weekly Sunday Drag Brunch today from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The cost is $24.95 for an all-you-can-eat buffet. For more details, visit perrysadamsmorgan.com. Adventuring, an LGBT outdoors group, holds an 11.4-mile hike along the Potomac Heritage Trail between the Capital Beltway and Theodore Roosevelt Island starting at 9:15 a.m. The hike takes seven hours. Bring beverages, lunch, boots and a $2 trip fee with a few dollars for carpool drivers. Meet at the Theodore Roosevelt parking lot
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HI MICHAEL, My husband and I are having a horrible ongoing ght. Its epicenter is the everpresent pile of dirty dishes sitting in the kitchen sink or partially loaded into the dishwasher. We are both busy professionals and often have different schedules so we cant always eat together. When Im in a hurry to make some breakfast or dinner, its exasperating to discover that the pan I need is soaking, or that there are no clean spoons or forks. Ive asked Bill repeatedly to be more considerate of me. He makes promises but they dont materialize. Although this may seem like a small issue, I feel he is constantly disrespecting me by not keeping his word and so there are a lot of bad feelings. Im not even going to get into the laundry situation, but its similar. We agreed to write you together, so heres his version: I cant believe that David is so bent out of shape by this. I think hes exaggerating when he says there are no clean utensils and also when he says I dont keep my promises. I do ultimately get the dishes into the dishwasher and run it. But like David, I have an extremely demanding job and some important extracurricular obligations. And sometimes I have to get out before I have time to nish cleaning up to his specications by his deadline. David has way stricter standards than I do he is really a neat freak and I think he should learn to compromise. I certainly have become way more attentive to cleaning up since we rst moved in together. I may not be on his exact timeframe, but I do a pretty good job. How we do chores seems like an absurd reason to have tension in a relationship, much less consider divorce, but his constant carping is getting to me and the bad days are starting to outnumber the good. Obviously, we see things very differently. How do we settle this?
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By MARK LEE This week marks a milestone for me as a Washington Blade contributor with this 150th submission over the past three years. In addition to my weekly Viewpoint opinion column, I was invited last fall to launch a weekly feature proling local businesses. Ive had the privilege of talking with a number of local business owners, entrepreneurs, operators and managers in this series to date. Ive enjoyed sharing their stories, letting you in on who they are, how they got to where they are, and what they do in service to their customers, clients and the community. Common threads and themes are shared among them. Here are a few: Most discerned the desire and aptitude for self-directed enterprise engagement not unlike knowing you are gay. Discovering an interest in entrepreneurship whether early or later in life is organic and central to their being. It feels like the most natural thing they could possibly be. They may seem like the rest of us, but theyre not. Common to most business operators is self-awareness of a slightly offbeat choice of career. Some even joke that its akin to an afiction an ailment theyre incapable of curing. Loving what they do tricks their brains they often dont realize theyre actually working. The fun is in doing what they enjoy. They work harder and for longer hours than many, and its more work than most realize. When they do sleep, they dream. They dream all the time about the next day, plans they have for their business and new things they want to do. Being a dreamer comes with the gig. Many are serial entrepreneurs, engaging in different projects over time or simultaneously managing multiple enterprises. This aint their rst time at the rodeo. If they werent when they started,
theyre extroverts now. They take great pride in what they do and delight in sharing it with their customers and clients almost more than life itself. For those managing employees, they couldnt do it without the support of co-workers. They count on them every day. They hope more of us will think to shop, buy or source local and choose to support small businesses. Likewise, their relationships with nearby businesses and other entrepreneurs sustain them through a unique kinship only they can appreciate. The regulatory red-tape and hoopjumping required to open and operate are among the greatest obstacles to success. Theyve all got hair-raising and eyeball-rolling stories, but most think local area governments are slowly becoming more sensitive to that. Those hoping to grow or expand cite the paucity of conventional nancing or community funding available to small businesses. They wish for better. Taxes and fees are too high. Most small businesses operate on thinner margins than most realize. They dont have basements full of cash. If engaged in business with a partner, spouse, lover or longtime friend as many are, working together is sometimes stressful but also a source of strength. They learn a lot about one another and that often changes them. Creating time apart is key to best managing relationships. If gay, their businesses are integrated within the larger community just like our lives are these days. They prove that every day. Theyre proud of that. First and foremost, their mission is serving the community. They wouldnt claim to be Mother Teresa, but they do beseech her spirit when in line at the permit renewal ofce. They spontaneously giggle, even the serious types. Theyre happy people and happy to see you come through the door.
MARK LEE is a long-time entrepreneur and community business advocate. Follow on Twitter: @MarkLeeDC. Reach him at OurBusinessMatters@gmail. com.
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