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Democrats in danger and playing defense
Pro-LGBT Senate allies
Reid, Feingold, Boxer face
tough re-election battles
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@dcagenda.com
Several veteran senators viewed as
supportive of LGBT rights are facing
tough re-election campaigns, prompt-
ing some activists and lobbyists to gear
up for a defensive battle this fall.
Mike Mings, director of the Human
Rights Campaign’s political action com-
mittee, said his organization is “certain-
ly aware” that Democrats face a more
difficult environment than in the previ-
ous two congressional elections.
“I think the Democrats were able
to play offense in the last two cycles
Photo courtesy of Reid’s office in a way that has created a different
field today,” he said. “So, they’re [now]
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is one of several pro-LGBT lawmakers facing a tough battle for re-election this fall. really looking at defense.”
Recently published polls brings into
stark relief the troubling news for sever-
al incumbent U.S. senators. Rasmussen
unveiled numbers last week showing
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-
Nev.) trailing potential Republican oppo-
nents by double digits.
According to the polls, Reid would
lose in a match with former Nevada
Republican Party Chair Sue Lowden, 54-
39; in a contest between Reid and former
State Assembly member Sharron Angle,
he trails 51-40; and in a contest against
attorney Danny Tarkanian, Reid comes
up short again, 49-42.
Viewed as an LGBT ally on Capitol
Hill, Reid was involved last year in the
decision to attach the hate crimes bill to
the defense authorization bill and has
often spoken in favor of ending “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” in the U.S. military.
Also last year, Reid was the high-
est-ranking elected public official to
endorse the National Equality March
in D.C. A Mormon, Reid also report-
Continues on page 16

2 lesbians among possible

Supreme Court picks
nightlifeagenda Sullivan, Karlan not
Relive the revelry from last weekend’s considered leading
Cherry festivities. Photos, page 32 candidates for job
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@dcagenda.com
The announcement that Supreme
Court Justice John Paul Stevens will
retire at the end of the court’s term
has renewed speculation that
President Obama might consider two
constitutional scholars who are les-
bians as Stevens’ successor.
nationalagenda Stanford University Law School
professors Kathleen Sullivan and
when the White House conducted a
search to replace former Supreme
Court Justice David Souter.
Obama chose U.S. appeals court
Judge Sonia Sotomayor as Souter’s
replacement, making her the high
court’s first Hispanic member.
As speculation this week swirled
over White House plans for selecting
Stevens’ successor, three possible
leading nominees emerged. The
Associated Press reported that U.S.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan, 49,
and federal appeals court judges
Merrick Garland, 57, and Diane Wood,
59, were the leading candidates.
Photo by L.A. Cicero;
But political pundits familiar with
the Supreme Court noted that
courtesy of Stanford University

Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee compares Pamela Karlan were among several Sullivan and Karlan were among the Stanford University College professor
same-sex marriage to incest and drug abuse. Page 8 candidates said to have been con- Kathleen Sullivan
sidered by Obama one year ago Continues on page 16
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localagenda
Gay activists missing at
Fenty campaign kick-off
Few gay Democratic activists
attended a rally last week that marked
the opening of D.C. Mayor Adrian
Fenty’s re-election campaign head-
quarters on Georgia Avenue, N.W.
About 300 supporters and volun-
teers cheered April 10 as Fenty opened
his campaign with a speech highlight-
ing his administration’s accomplish-
ments, including reforms in education
and crime fighting that he acknowl-
edged weren’t always popular.
“We did it because it was the right
thing to do,” he said, reciting a litany
of policy changes and actions that
would make D.C. a “world-class city.”
Among the gays seen at the event
were Christopher Dyer, director of
the mayor’s Office of GLBT Affairs,
and Joe Martin, director of the
mayor’s office of constituent services
for Ward 4. Also present were gay
civic activists John Fanning of Logan
Circle and Martin Moulton, the gay
president of the Convention Center
Community Association.
Fanning, who works for the city’s
Department of Parks & Recreation and
is a former Advisory Neighborhood
Commission member, said he believes
Fenty will receive “solid” support from
the LGBT community.
“I think the mayor has made some
very tough decisions and has signifi-
cantly improved city services and the
delivery of them in many areas,” he said.
“The mayor has always been a longtime
supporter of the LGBT community and I
believe that he remains very sensitive to
our causes and issues.”
Don Colodny, a member of the
Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the
city’s largest LGBT political group,
was one of the few club members
present. He said the lack of a large
obituary
Bill Miles, 52
Bill Miles, 52, a board member and
longtime organizer for Capital Pride,
D.C.’s annual LGBT Pride event, died
April 10 from complications associated
with cancer, according to the group’s
president, Michael Lutz.
Miles served as a leader of the
volunteer committee that organized
Capital Pride events when the
events were produced by the
Whitman-Walker Clinic. He was a
founding board member of the
Capital Pride Alliance, the non-prof-
it organization that now produces
the 10 days of events each year
associated with Pride.
“Bill was a key part to our start-up
success,” said Lutz. “He served for
years as the main stage manager
and co-chair of security, and most
recently as a trusted adviser on non-
profit organization and development.”
A native of Connecticut, Miles
moved to the D.C. area more than 20
years ago and became active in
A rally marking the opening of D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty’s re-election campaign
headquarters had few gay Democratic activists in the crowd.
gay presence at the event was not a
sign that gays won’t vote for Fenty.
“It was held at 10 in the morning on
a Saturday in the far side of the city,” he
said, noting that the location and early
hour most likely discouraged gays from
attending the event. Other people
noted that the event wasn’t widely pub-
licized in the LGBT community.
In his speech at the rally, Fenty did
not mention LGBT issues or the city’s
same-sex marriage bill, which he
signed into law in December. He also
did not reference two recent city stud-
ies that show record high numbers of
HIV infections among city residents,
including African Americans and men
who have sex with men.
LGBT community causes and proj-
ects, Lutz said. He had a doctorate
degree in education from Columbia
University’s Teachers College and
worked until the time of his death as
director of programs for
the National Education
Association Foundation.
He received his bach-
elor’s degree from
Georgetown University
and earned his master’s
degree in education from
Harvard University.
Prior to joining the NEA
Foundation, Miles served
as director of policy and
programs at the National
Public Education Network,
a national network of local
education groups. He also served as a
consultant on educational programs
and development. He began his
career as a middle and high school
teacher and administrator.
In addition to his involvement with
Capital Pride, Miles was an active vol-
DC Agenda photo by Michael Key
He instead pointed to the more
positive findings of the AIDS studies
showing that the city’s aggressive
programs to administer HIV testing
over the past several years — and
placing people who test positive into
city-funded treatment — has reduced
the number of AIDS cases.
“We knew we had to fight the
spread of AIDS,” Fenty said. “The
number of new AIDS cases, ladies
and gentlemen, declined 33 percent
between 2004 and 2008. We have
doubled the amount of testing, dis-
tributed three-and-a-half million free
condoms, [and] removed 350,000
needles from our streets.”
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
unteer with AIDS Walk Washington,
one of the Whitman-Walker Clinic’s
main fundraising events.
Lutz said Miles also designed
and managed lighting for local ven-
ues and parties, including
the annual Cherry Fund
dance party and shows at
the D.C. LGBT nightclub
Ziegfeld’s-Secrets.
“His passion for the
community, and especially
for Pride, was contagious,”
said Lutz. “He brought sta-
bility and balance when
we needed it most. We
have lost a much-valued
part of our program, our
community, and our lives
… but I also know Bill will
want us to carry his passion for-
ward, and that we will do.”
A memorial service for Miles is
scheduled for 11:30 a.m. April 24 at
National City Christian Church, 5
Thomas Circle, in D.C.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
DC Agenda boxes
stolen in Georgetown
Boxes used to distribute the DC Agenda at the corner of Wisconsin
Avenue and M Street, N.W., in Georgetown were discovered to be miss-
ing on three occasions in March, prompting the paper’s publisher to file
a stolen property report with D.C. police.
The boxes were positioned on the sidewalk on Wisconsin Avenue in
front of the United Colors of Benetton clothing store, next to distribution
boxes for Politico, The Hill and Washington City Paper.
Publisher Lynne Brown said that when the first DC Agenda box disap-
peared at the Georgetown location, the newspaper’s distribution company
quickly replaced it with another box. When that replacement box disap-
peared a short time later, a heavier metal box was installed, Brown said.
She noted that that box disappeared sometime before DC Agenda’s
delivery person arrived to deliver the subsequent issue. Because the DC
Agenda is distributed free of charge, Brown said she concluded some-
one appears to be taking the boxes and the newspapers inside with the
intent of stopping their distribution at that location.
Brown is asking that anyone with information that might lead to the iden-
tification of the person or people responsible for stealing the boxes contact
the DC Agenda’s distribution department at 202-747-2077, ext. 8080.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Virginia man sentenced
for assaulting lesbians
A 27-year-old Virginia man has been sentenced to 120 days in jail
after pleading guilty to assaulting a group of lesbians on a sidewalk in
Adams Morgan in September, a crime that police listed as a hate crime.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Craig Iscoe handed down the sentence
April 5 against Christopher McDonald, who pleaded guilty to charges of
simple assault and bias-related threats to do bodily harm.
The United States Attorney’s office, which prosecuted the case,
dropped separate charges of possession of a prohibited weapon — a
knife — and a second count of bias-related threats to do bodily harm in
exchange for McDonald’s agreeing to plead guilty in February.
According to prosecutors, McDonald admitted to “confronting the
women about their sexual orientation and made derogatory, profanity-
laced remarks about their appearance and sexual orientation.”
In an unprovoked action, McDonald, who was born in Jamaica,
“pulled out a knife and began advancing toward one of the women, say-
ing ‘if we were in Jamaica I’d shoot you in the face for being gay,’” says a
statement released by prosecutors.
Police said the incident took place on the 2400 block of 18th Street,
N.W., on Sept. 7.
Under the terms of his sentencing, McDonald’s incarceration will be
followed by a two-year period of supervised probation. He must also
complete 50 hours of community service, obtain substance abuse treat-
ment, and “complete courses in anger management and sensitivity to
issues of sexual orientation,” according to the prosecutors’ statement.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Attorneys spar over evidence
rules in Wone murder case
Attorneys are still arguing over procedures and rules for the submission
of evidence at the upcoming trial of three gay men charged in connection
with the August 2006 murder of Washington attorney Robert Wone.
At a status hearing in D.C. Superior Court on April 5, Judge Lynn
Leibovitz acted as a taskmaster to facilitate agreement between the two
sides on how to deal with a mountain of evidence. Among the items of
evidence is a knife that the three defendants claim an unidentified intrud-
er used to stab Wone to death while he was asleep in a guest bedroom
at their Dupont Circle home.
The defendants, Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky and Dylan Ward, have
pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and evi-
dence tampering. No one has been charged with Wone’s murder.
Prosecutors have alleged in a detailed arrest affidavit that the three men,
among other things, cleaned Wone’s blood off a kitchen knife they say they
found beside Wone’s body as part of a conspiracy to prevent investigators
from determining who killed the prominent Asian-American attorney.
Prosecutors have said they believe the actual knife used to stab
Wone may have been part of a three-knife cutlery set found in Ward’s
bedroom. One of the knives was missing upon police inspection.
Leibovitz scheduled another status hearing for April 23. The trial in
the case is scheduled to begin May 10.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
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localagenda
‘The chamber has made giant strides forward in just these three months,’ said Mark Guenther, executive director of CAGLCC.
Celebrating D.C.’s
business community
Local gay chamber
marks 20 years, honors
entrepreneurs
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN
Special to DC Agenda
About 250 entrepreneurs and
activists crowded the Mandarin
Oriental Hotel in D.C. last week for
the celebration of the first year of the
new Capital Area Gay & Lesbian
Chamber of Commerce (CAGLCC)
and the 20th anniversary of the
group itself, formerly known as PEN,
or Potomac Executive Network.
Even before guests sat down to din-
ner, the air was festive and the mood
was decidedly upbeat, as attendees
dressed to the nines networked, greet-
ing old friends and making new ones.
CAGLCC executive director Mark
Guenther, in his job for a little more
than 100 days, after more than 19
years of the organization being volun-
teer-led, outlined the group’s agenda.
“The chamber has made giant
strides forward in just these three
months,” said Guenther, pointing to a
board of directors retreat where the
organization’s mission was restated
and new goals defined, as well as
new outreach initiatives launched to
bring in corporate employees as
members, and an expanded mix of
events and programs including week-
ly peer-to-peer breakfasts, a book
club meeting and, he said, “of course
our 20-year-long tradition of monthly
Networking Thursday events.”
“The question remains, what’s
next?” and in Guenther’s words, “we
have all seen how a bad economy of
poorly connected management can
dictate layoffs, and how business
downturns can lead to store closings
and lost opportunities.”
However, “united as a network
and chamber, we can buffer the neg-
atives and counteract the shortcom-
ings of business. ... Imagine a woven
fabric of diverse businesses, cus-
tomers, suppliers and vendors that
are constantly communicating and
becoming more interconnected.”
Ken White, from Signal Financial
Federal Credit Union and
CAGLCC’s president, reminisced
that it was “a year ago tonight” that
PEN changed its name, “not an
easy [decision] to make as no one
wanted to erase PEN’s 19-year his-
tory.” But the opportunity was simply
too great and the challenge to grow
so demanding, so when the
National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of
Commerce picked PEN for its local
area affiliate, the road ahead was
clear and growth began in what
White called “such a banner 2009.”
NGLCC co-founders Justin G.
Nelson and Chance Mitchell, presi-
dent and CEO respectively, saluted in
the dinner program the leadership
Photo by Joe Tresh
Photos from CAGLCC’s
20th anniversary and
awards dinner, Page 29
from CAGLCC and that “we need
each other in the movement for LGBT
equality,” noting that the two organiza-
tions will partner for the seventh annu-
al “Out for Business Conference” to
take place Nov. 18-20 at the Capital
Hilton Hotel. CAGLCC chief of staff
Kate Karasmeighan later told the DC
Agenda that a kick-off reception to
help plan the November event will
take place on Wednesday, April 28
from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at The District
Line restaurant and bar at the
Washington Hilton Hotel, 1919
Connecticut Ave., N.W. The event is
invitation only — contact Rick Fowler,
NGLCC’s director of meetings and
special events at rfowler@nglcc.org or
call 202-234-9181. For general infor-
mation, visit nglcc.org/DC2010.
The high points of the evening were
the leadership awards to Cathy Renna,
of Renna Communications; David von
Storch, local businessman and founder
of Capitol City Brewing Company,
Bang Salon and Vida Fitness; web
strategist Thomas Sanchez; Burgundy
Crescent Volunteers president Jonathan
Blumenthal; LGBT activist Bob
Sumnmersgill; and Wachovia Bank.
For more information on getting
involved with CAGLCC, visit CAGLCC.org.
Photo courtesy of Adegbalola
Singer Gaye Adegbalola will perform April 24 at the Gay Community Center of
Richmond in Virginia.
Richmond’s gay center hosts
musical, comedy shows
The Gay Community Center of Richmond in Virginia is hosting three
musical and comedy shows in coming weeks.
Musicians Gaye Adegbalola and Roddy Barnes will be in concert togeth-
er at the Center’s event hall at 8 p.m. April 24. Gregg Johnson, a Center direc-
tor, said the joint performance is expected to be “one hell of a show.”
“Gaye Adegbalola embraces and redefines the classic style of the great
blues divas of the 1920’s and 1930’s, those of ten fiercely independent wild
women who were unashamed to lay their souls bare and unafraid to give
advice,” he said. “She invokes the spirit and addresses the lyrics and improv-
isational techniques of the classic blues women and brings history to life.
Johnson said Adegbalola was a founding member of Saffire the
Uppity Blues Women, and is “truly the epitome of uppity.”
“Roddy Barnes is a classically trained pianist and can play any genre,
but excels in the old-timey sound that works best with this music,” he said.
“Experience the dynamic and compelling performance of Adegbalola and
Barnes as they conjure up another era and put on one hell of a show.”
Tickets for the event are $10 and can be purchased at the Center or
online by following a link at GayRichmond.com.
On April 25, students from Virginia Commonwealth University will stage
a comedy and improvisation show at the Center’s event hall. Tickets to the
three-hour event that begins at 7 p.m. are $3 and available at the door.
And early next month, Johnny Blazes will stage his “wo(n)man show”
at the Center. Johnson described the performance as blending “cabaret
arts with theater to create a series of vignettes that are a humorous look
at gender stereotypes that pervade our world.”
Blazes has a background in theater, clowning and drag. Tickets to the
8 p.m. show May 5 are $10 and available at the door.
The Gay Community Center of Richmond is located at 1407
Sherwood Ave. in Richmond.
JOSHUA LYNSEN
LGBT elder group
opens D.C. office
The New York based Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
& Transgender Elders, also known as SAGE, has opened an office in
Washington, D.C., to strengthen its advocacy for LGBT elders with the
federal government, the group said in a statement.
With the Washington office in place this month, SAGE “will ensure
that the needs of LGBT older people are addressed in public policy and
public discussion across the country,” said Michael Adams the group’s
executive director.
John Johnson, the group’s director of federal government relations
and currently the sole staff person in the Washington office, said the
office is operating out of space rented from the National Caucus &
Center on Black Aged at 1220 L St., N.W., Suite 800.
The opening of the Washington office comes after the U.S. Department
of Health & Human Services awarded SAGE a contract to create and help
operate an LGBT Elder National Technical Assistance Resource Center.
SAGE will manage the center with a network of partners, including the
American Society on Aging and the National Council on Aging.
Johnson, however, said the SAGE Washington office will be involved sole-
ly in advocacy work and won’t take part in operating the new elder center.
Since its founding in 1978, SAGE and its affiliate member groups
have expanded significantly their support services for older LGBT peo-
ple across the country, according to the group’s statement.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
corrections
D.C. Council member Jack Evans was incorrectly identified in a story
in the April 9 edition as representing Ward 1. He represents Ward 2.
The photo accompanying that article of Evans was courtesy of his
office. DC Agenda regrets the errors.
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Pentagon working with gay groups on ‘Don’t Ask’ review
Defense officials
seek advice, are
‘open and inclusive’
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@dcagenda.com
Gay organizations working to end
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” are enjoying an
open relationship with the Pentagon
working group reviewing the law as they
continue to express concerns about the
study deviating from its purpose.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates
and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff Adm. Michael Mullen estab-
lished the working group following a
Feb. 2 hearing on Capitol Hill as a
way to examine how to implement an
end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” should
Congress repeal the law. The work is
expected to be completed Dec. 1.
Alex Nicholson, executive director of
Servicemembers United, said his organi-
zation has had a positive engagement
with the working group since its inception.
“They brought us in — in the very
beginning — to initially brief us on
what they were planning to do, to
answer any questions we had,” he
said. “They were very open and inclu-
sive, but not only to us. They were
that way with our opposition as well.”
In one such conversation, Nicholson
said the working group held a confer-
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“There was a little bit of a worry, I
think, in the beginning that maybe
them bringing us in, being so open in
answering questions, was a one-time,
token gesture,” Nicholson said. “I’m
pleased to say now it’s my impression
that those worries, at least so far, have
been unfounded. The working group
has a primary point of contact for us
within the Department of Defense, and
that point of contact has been extreme-
ly open and extremely available.”
Nicholson said Servicemembers
United first spoke with someone at the
working group to express concern
about the group’s mandate and noted
it would set a bad precedent to poll the
force on potential policy changes.
“The working group responded to
that by telling us that the terms of ref-
erence have been issued, they are
what they are and they don’t have
control over them,” he said.
In a second round of suggestions,
Nicholson said Servicemembers
United passed along some ideas for
the methodology the working group
could institute to examine how to
implement repeal. Some of the rec-
ommendations, he noted, were to
advise against town hall meetings
and focus groups to poll the force.
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because of the phenomena of group think
and posturing,” he said. “On any per-
ceived controversial issue, you’re going to
get a much a different set of answers if
you ask people about it in a group rather
than asking them one on one.”
Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of
the Servicemembers Legal Defense
Network, also said his organization’s
staff have had weekly conversations
and meetings with the working group.
“I think it’s been positive, ongoing,”
he said. “It’s not a process that we
asked for, or that we think is needed,
but we’re dealing with the reality that
it’s in place and we’re going to do
everything that we can to make it work
and have a positive contribution.”
In these conversations, Sarvis
said SLDN has been recommending
voices and organizations that work to
end the ban on open service.
Another organization that has
engaged with the working group is the
Palm Center, a think tank on gays in
the military at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Nathaniel
Frank, a Palm Center research fellow,
said he’s had a “good relationship”
with the Pentagon working group.
“They’ve reached out to us con-
sistently and they’ve been respon-
sive to us and I’m impressed by that,”
he said. “The question will be, obvi-
ously, what are the results of the
study and how are they expressed.
So that proof will be in the pudding.”
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Frank said the working group has
asked the Palm Center to make rec-
ommendations on a litany of issues,
including how to identify the costs to
the military of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“That doesn’t mean just financial
costs,” he said. “It means a litany of costs
to morale, recruitment, cohesion, the
impact on [gay, lesbian and bisexual]
service members, and Palm is coming
out with a memo that I’m finalizing now
that tries to convey all of those costs.”
Frank said the working group also
asked about the pitfalls of using
focus groups; how to measure the
views of military families; and how to
empirically assess the impact of lift-
ing the ban on unit cohesion.
Another item that Frank said he
was asked about was getting the views
of gay service members for the study
without putting them at risk for dis-
charge under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
This challenge has been repeated-
ly discussed in hearings on Capitol
Hill and among those seeking repeal.
In a statement released last week,
Army Secretary John McHugh said
the Pentagon is “likely” to employ a
third party to solicit those views.
Sarvis said his understanding is the
Pentagon is considering the use of a
professional consultant or pollsters
who have worked with the Pentagon
before on manpower issues.
“In addition, I think they’re also
looking to the RAND Corp. as part of
that engagement,” he said.
But the decision on how the
Defense Department will obtain these
views is apparently not yet final. Cynthia
Smith, a Pentagon spokesperson, said
in a statement to DC Agenda on April 9
that the working group is still consider-
ing the best way to incorporate gay
service members into the study.
“Getting the views of gay and les-
bian service members is very impor-
tant to the working group,” she said.
“We are still in the process of devel-
oping the proper instrument to obtain
this information from gay and lesbian
service members currently serving.”
Frank said he would take issue with
any decision from the Pentagon to use
a third party to solicit the views of gay
service members because it would cre-
ate a situation where service members
generally would speak to one group,
and gay, lesbian and bisexual service
members would talk to another.
“Uniform personnel … would be
consulting service members generally
and then they would employ civilians or
a third party only to speak to known
gays and lesbians,” he said. “There’s an
unfairness there in having the military
speak directly to straight service mem-
bers and not to gay service members.”
A better solution, Frank said,
would be for the Pentagon to issue
new regulations that would enable all
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16 Democratic senators uncommitted on ENDA
Despite uncertainties,
House to forge ahead
on job bias bill
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@dcagenda.com
With supporters of the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act expecting a
favorable House vote on the measure
in May or June, LGBT lobbyists are
turning their attention to 16 Democratic
senators who have yet to sign on as co-
sponsors of the legislation.
The bill, also known as ENDA, bars
employment discrimination based on
someone’s actual or perceived sexual
orientation and gender identity.
Its supporters say it’s needed to end
job discrimination in 29 states, where it
remains legal to fire or refuse to hire
someone who’s gay, lesbian or bisexu-
al. Supporters also note that employers
in 38 states can fire or refuse to hire
someone solely because of their gen-
der identity or expression, a practice the
bill would similarly prohibit.
Multiple sources have told DC
Agenda that supporters in the
Senate don’t appear to have the 60
votes needed to overcome a fili-
buster that Republican opponents
are expected to invoke to block an up
Legal effort to overturn DOMA offers ‘promising path’
Attorneys prepare
for May court hearing
in Boston
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@dcagenda.com
The organization spearheading a
lawsuit challenging the Defense of
Marriage Act is busy with prepara-
tions for what could be a monumen-
tal court case for LGBT Americans.
Lawyers on both sides of Gill v. U.S.
Office of Personnel Management will
come before the Federal District Court
in Boston on May 6 to argue their cases.
The litigation, filed by Gay & Lesbian
Advocates & Defenders, aims to over-
turn Section 3 of DOMA, which bars the
federal government from recognizing
same-sex marriages.
Evan Wolfson, executive director
of Freedom to Marry, said the GLAD
litigation is “a very important, very well
prepared case” and “offers a very
promising path to beginning to undo
the destructive and unconstitutional
so-called Defense of Marriage Act.”
“GLAD thought through very care-
fully the best way to present the core
concerns, powerful stories and a
smart remedy to maximize our
chances of winning in the U.S.
Supreme Court,” he said.
Wolfson said he’s certain that GLAD’s
attorneys will “be very forceful” in explain-
ing why the federal government’s treat-
ment of same-sex married couples is
“unacceptable and unconstitutional.”
The plaintiffs in the case are
seven married same-sex couples
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said ENDA supporters should ‘call senators and lobby them’ to help build momentum for the bill
in the Senate.
or down floor vote.
“I’ve tried to get a sense of what’s
going on here,” said Rep. Barney
Frank (D-Mass.), ENDA’s lead spon-
sor in the House. “But I think the best
Photo courtesy of glad.org
Gary Buseck, GLAD’s legal director
and three widowers, including Dean
Hara, the spouse of Gerry Studds,
the late Massachusetts congress-
man and first openly gay person to
serve in Congress.
GLAD contends that as a result of
DOMA, which President Bill Clinton
signed in 1996, these plaintiffs have been
harmed in various ways, including the
denial of survivor benefits, health insur-
ance coverage and Social Security ben-
efits, as well as being forced to pay addi-
tional federal income taxes. The litigation
contends DOMA violates plaintiffs’ rights
under the Equal Protection Clause.
Gary Buseck, GLAD’s legal direc-
tor, said preparations for the court
appearance involve submitting several
documents to the court to make their
case before Judge Joseph Tauro.
The documents, he said, include
memoranda of law to the court, a
thing I can do about the Senate and
ENDA is to get it passed [in the
House] and send it over there.”
Frank’s advice for ENDA backers
worried about the Senate is to “call sen-
series of affidavits from the plaintiff
couples and widowers, and expert affi-
davits showing why these couples
should be treated as a suspect class
for heightened scrutiny from the court.
“What we’re trying to think about is
best arguments and how to succinctly
present our best arguments,” he said.
“We’re trying to think about — given
what the government has put to writ-
ing — what are they likely to lead with,
and are we content with the respons-
es that we’ve written, and trying to
imagine what the judge might ask.”
Representing the seven married
same-sex couples and three widowers
seeking federal marriage benefits in
Massachusetts will be Mary Bonauto,
GLAD’s civil rights project director.
Six years ago, Bonauto was the
lead attorney in Goodridge v.
Department of Public Health, the
state lawsuit that brought same-sex
marriage to Massachusetts, making
the Bay State the first in the country
to legalize gay nuptials.
Buseck said Bonauto is working on
being “as heavily as prepared as possi-
ble” so she can “answer any question.”
Buseck said the court appearance
on May 6 for the GLAD case wouldn’t
be the same as the trial earlier this
year for Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a
lawsuit in California aimed at over-
turning Proposition 8.
Because the U.S. government filed
a motion to dismiss and GLAD filed a
request for summary judgment,
Buseck said he’s expecting about 45
minutes to an hour of courtroom activ-
ity May 6 instead of a trial lasting sev-
eral weeks, as in the Perry case.
“We don’t know exactly how much
Photo by Joe Tresh
ators and lobby them” rather than dwell
too much on “arm chair strategizing.”
But with the 2010 congressional
elections fast approaching, only two
GOP senators have so far committed
time we’re going to have,” he said.
“It’s not like an appeals court where
they give you a set of block of time
and that’s what you get. This is going
to be a little more informal than that.”
The Justice Department didn’t
respond to DC Agenda’s request to
discuss the case.
Buseck said GLAD can guess
how the U.S. government will present
itself during the court appearance
because of the briefs the Justice
Department has already issued.
He noted the Obama administra-
tion has said it doesn’t agree with the
findings Congress presented in 1996
when it passed DOMA and that it
considers the statute is discriminato-
ry, but will nonetheless defend the
statute because it believes the
statute is constitutional.
Buseck predicted that the govern-
ment will argue it was rational for
Congress to enact DOMA in 1996 in
an effort to maintain the status quo
and “wait and see how this cultural
debate plays out.”
“That’s been their fundamental
argument to date, and presumably
that’s where they’re going to stick,” he
said. “So we’re ready for that. We’ve
had to respond to those arguments
in writing already.”
Legal experts following the case
of Gill v. OPM expect it to reach the
U.S. Supreme Court and, if success-
ful, the lawsuit would force the U.S.
government to recognize same-sex
marriages for federal tax purposes
and for Social Security benefits.
Buseck said he thinks it’s possible
a decision could come down from a
trial court in the summer, but more
to vote for ENDA, making it essential
for supporters to line up most of the
16 uncommitted Democrats to secure
the bill’s passage in the Senate.
Nearly all political observers pre-
dict the Democrats’ majorities in the
House and Senate will shrink as a
result of the November election, mak-
ing it far more difficult to pass ENDA
and other LGBT rights bills next year.
As of this week, there were 45
Senate co-sponsors of ENDA, along
with chief sponsor Sen. Jeff Merkley
(D-Ore.), bringing the total commit-
ted votes to 46. Of the 46, 42 are
Democrats and two are independ-
ents. Maine senators Olympia Snowe
and Susan Collins are the only
Senate Republicans that have
signed on as co-sponsors.
Thirty-nine Republican senators have
declined to co-sponsor the bill compared
to the 16 Democrats who chose not to
become a co-sponsor. Sen. Jim Webb
(D-Va.) signed on as a co-sponsor on
March 10, reducing the number of
uncommitted Democrats from 17 to 16.
For the first of a series of reports
on the Democratic senators uncom-
mitted on ENDA, DC Agenda con-
tacted experts and activists in the
states that five of those senators rep-
resent, seeking to assess how they
Continues on page 14
likely a ruling will be issued this fall.
Following the decision, Buseck
said the case would likely go to the
First Circuit Court of Appeals at the
beginning of next year with a possi-
ble decision in Spring 2012. If the
case were to go to the U.S. Supreme
Court, it could go on the 2012 term
and be decided in June 2013.
But Buseck emphasized that
those dates were a “ballpark” esti-
mate and said “there’s a lot of things
that could change those dates.”
Running concurrently with the
Gill lawsuit in the Federal District
Court in Boston is another case
challenging DOMA last year by
Massachusetts Attorney General
Martha Coakley: Commonwealth of
Massachusetts v. U.S. Department
of Health & Human Services.
Like the Gill case, the state lawsuit
challenges the section of DOMA that pro-
hibits the federal government from recog-
nizing same-sex marriage, but contends
that it violates Massachusetts’ state
right to regulate marriage under the
Tenth Amendment.
The Commonwealth case will be
heard in the same court and by the
same judge, but the court date is
scheduled for May 26.
Buseck said the Commonwealth
case and the Gill case “complement
each other” but “are in different boxes
as far as legal theories go.”
“My sense is the judge will proba-
bly just for efficiencies’ sake some-
how work on these cases together
and it’s been my guess — but I’ve no
reason to know that — I won’t be sur-
prised if we get decisions on the
same day,” Buseck said.
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Anti-gay violence, domestic abuse on the rise: report
New study, presented to
White House, outlines
challenges for LGBT victims
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Anti-gay violence is increasing by
staggering percentages each year,
domestic violence among same-sex
couples is as pervasive as it is among
opposite-sex couples and main-
stream service providers for victims
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last year and released in late March.
“Why it Matters: Rethinking Victim
Assistance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender and Queer Victims of
Hate Violence & Intimate Partner
Violence” is a joint policy report by the
National Center for Victims of Crime
and the National Coalition of Anti-
Violence Programs. The Coalition
focuses on LGBT and HIV-affected
communities. The Center isn’t LGBT
specific but bills itself as the country’s
leading resource and advocacy
organization dedicated to helping vic-
tims of crime rebuild their lives. The
groups collaborated to identify and
raise awareness about the gaps in
LGBT victims' rights. The report is
online at ncvc.org and avp.org.
“The collaboration was very delib-
erate,” says Sharon Stapel, a lesbian
and executive director of the New
York City Anti-Violence Project, the
group that coordinates the Coalition.
“The NCVC membership had access
to our LGBT expertise and the
Coalition membership had access to
the Center’s resources. It really
began because we knew a lot of this
information anecdotally but we didn’t
have numbers or know why.”
The study, in which 648 respon-
ders from across the country in a vari-
ety of victim assistance programs par-
ticipated voluntarily, found that their
agencies lacked outreach to LGBT
victims, lacked staff LGBT-specific
cultural competency training, did not
Trans activists ‘not crazy about’ changes to ENDA
Continued from page 10
would vote if the measure reaches
the Senate floor sometime this year.
The five senators include Blanche
Lincoln (D-Ark.), Mark Pryor (D-
Ark.), Thomas Carper (D-Del.), Evan
Bayh (D-Ind.), and Clare McCaskill
(D-Mo.). Spokespeople for the five
did not return calls this week seeking
to determine their position on ENDA.
Many political observers in
Arkansas believe Lincoln is facing an
uphill fight in her re-election bid, with
the state’s lieutenant governor, Bill
Halter, challenging her in the
Democratic primary. As of April 1,
each of four Republicans seeking the
nomination to oppose her in the gen-
eral election was ahead of her in a
Rasmussen public opinion poll by
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Anthony Perkins, who was gay, was
shot and killed in D.C. early this year.
A new study claims that anti-gay vio-
lence is rising and that LGBT-specific
victim service offerings are lacking
across the country with only 36 avail-
able in 21 states.
implement LGBT-specific victim serv-
ices policies and practices and did not
collaborate with those who had, and
were under-resourced to correct the
barriers to LGBT-specific services.
But how pressing is the need?
According to Coalition numbers for
2008, the most recent year for which
numbers are available, hate violence
against LGBT people is continually
on the rise having increased 26 per-
cent from 2006 to 2008 with a 36 per-
cent climb in crimes committed by
strangers, a 48 percent increase in
bias-related sexual assault and an all-
time high rate of hate violence result-
ing in murder. Anti-LGBT bias-related
physical abuse at the hands of law
enforcement personnel increased 150
percent from 2007 to 2008, the
Coalition reports.
It also cites several studies from the
‘00s that show intimate partner violence
affects LGBT couples at the same rate
it occurs in straight relationships —
between 25 and 33 percent of all rela-
tionships. About 11 percent of women
reported being raped by their lesbian
partners while another study found 39
margins of 51 percent to 36 percent.
Officials with the state’s sole
statewide LGBT group, Center for
Artistic Revolution, did not respond
to calls for comment by press time.
Hastings Wyman, editor of
Southern Political Report, a recog-
nized authority on politics and elec-
tions in the South, said support for
ENDA would not help Lincoln in the
current political environment.
“I can’t say how she would vote on
ENDA, but the politics would say it
would help her if she did not vote for
it,” he said.
Wyman noted that Pryor, who is
not up for re-election this year, has a
record as a moderate on most
issues, even though he projects an
image of a conservative Democrat.
“I would not be surprised if he
Sometimes law enforcement and the
courts don’t take these issues seriously.
So there are still major barriers to over-
come just to treat people like people.
percent of gay men reported some
form of battery from their same-sex
partners over a five-year period.
But while the rates are about the
same among gay and straight relation-
ships, heterosexual victims tend to
have many more resources at their dis-
posal. Gay men who flee abusive part-
ners often find shelters only admit
women. Lesbians who turn to shelters
are sometimes harassed by the
straight women there or worse, discov-
er there’s no barrier in place to prevent
their abusive female partners from join-
ing them at the shelter.
Kelcie Cooke is bi and provides
trauma counseling at Boston’s
Fenway Community Health Center,
one of only 36 LGBT-specific victim
assistance providers in the U.S. She
says fundamental shifts need to hap-
pen before mainstream providers are
equipped to help LGBT victims.
“The definition of domestic vio-
lence is really rooted in the feminist
movement,” Cooke says, “which
understood it to be about men’s
oppression over women. That does-
n’t make sense for an LGBT program
and under that paradigm, we don’t
even see LGBT examples when it’s
all about men and women.”
Many other factors often prevent
LGBT domestic violence victims from
finding help or even reporting their
crimes, the report says. Some fear
being outed and perhaps losing their
jobs if they’re in the military for
instance. Others fear being excluded
from their circle of friends if a restrain-
ing order is granted. Transgender vic-
tims face even further obstacles.
Jeff Dion, executive director for the
National Center for Victims of Crime,
remembers one case he worked on in
Miami that illustrated the problem.
voted for it,” he said.
Steve Elkins, executive director of
Camp Rehoboth, an LGBT advocacy
group and community center in
Rehoboth Beach, Del., said he has
spoken with Carper at gay-related
events and believes the state’s sen-
ior senator would vote for ENDA.
“He has been to Camp Rehoboth
and has attended a number of LGBT
events,” including meetings of the state’s
LGBT Democratic group, Stonewall
Democrats of Delaware, Elkins said.
“There is no reason for me to think he
would not vote for the bill.”
Delaware’s other senator, Democrat
Ted Kaufman, who was appointed to fill
the Senate seat vacated when former
Sen. Joe Biden was elected vice presi-
dent, is an ENDA co-sponsor.
By comparison, Indiana political
“Sometimes law enforcement and
the courts don’t take these issues
seriously,” Dion, who’s gay, says.
“Miami even has its own special
domestic violence court but I remem-
ber one lawyer advocate who said,
‘You’re going to have a hard time get-
ting justice if a man goes to court
dressed as a woman.’ So there are
still major barriers to overcome just
to treat people like people.”
Morgan Lynn, a local lesbian attor-
ney who founded an LGBT-specific pro-
gram at Women Empowered Against
Violence, says there are further compli-
cations she sees daily in her work.
“The people I see are just going to
have different issues,” she says. “We
have custody issues that affect us
differently, marriage and divorce, out-
ing is a whole issue that’s unique to
our community. These are just the
kinds of questions that straight folks,
straight women, just don’t have to be
aware of. Like with divorce. There’s
no residency requirement to get mar-
ried in Massachusetts but there is for
divorce. So what are you going to
do? Move there with an abusive part-
ner just so you can get divorced?”
Homophobia and heterosexism
are also challenges, the study says.
“There’s a lot of heterosexism in
domestic violence work in general,”
Lynn says. “You think about the images
you see. A straight woman, she’s prob-
ably white, cowering in the corner.
Advocates like us try to work through
those cultural stereotypes because we
know not all abusers are men, or not all
abusers are the more masculine per-
son. People think the butch in a lesbian
relationship is the abuser but that’s not
always the case. I’ve even had some
women leave abusive heterosexual
relationships thinking there was no
consultant Mark St. John, a member of
the board of the statewide LGBT group
Indiana Equality, said Bayh has a long-
standing reputation as a cautious politi-
cian and has yet to give any indication
of how he would vote on ENDA.
“I wish I had a better answer,” he
said. “Evan is certainly Mr. Cautious on
that issue … but this is not to say he
would vote no on ENDA. He has always
held his cards close to his chest.”
Although McCaskill’s office has
not responded to at least two
inquiries from DC Agenda seeking
her position on ENDA, A.J.
Bockelman, executive director of the
Missouri statewide LGBT group
Promo, said McCaskill told members
of the group at a meeting in Kansas
City in February that she supports
ENDA and would vote for it.
domestic violence among lesbians only
to find their girlfriend is abusive.”
But there is good news. Many of
the mainstream providers who
responded said they’d welcome
LGBT-specific training.
“We weren’t surprised to hear that
but it was gratifying to see the num-
bers of mainstream service providers
who were so vocal about really want-
ing to do this work but really needing
the technical assistance to do it prop-
erly,” Stapel says.
Cooke, though, says it requires more
than an afternoon training session.
“We’ve done a lot of training here in
the Boston area with many front-line
workers,” she says. “They’re very well
intentioned, but they often don’t have
the institutional buy in to really make
the changes necessary to do the work
correctly. There’s a lot to it. Forms
need to be changed for gender vari-
ance, they don’t screen at shelters to
keep same-sex perpetrators from find-
ing their victims there … there really
has to be structural change. It’s not just
about sensitivity training.”
So what’s the answer? The study’s
authors included several recommen-
dations based on their findings. They
advocate collaborations between
LGBT-specific and mainstream victim
assistance providers, advocacy for
state and federal protections to
ensure LGBT victims have equal
access to protections, an increase of
public awareness of the extent and
impact of victimization in the LGBT
community and increases of funding
to see these objectives through.
The two organizations that per-
formed the study are off to a good
start — just last week they presented
the report at the White House to sev-
eral of President Obama’s advisers.
“It might take a year or so for this to
get into the next round of grant solici-
tations and to develop grant programs
but there’s an awful lot of buzz about
this and people are interested and
excited to see the report, particularly
in this administration,” Dion says. “It’s
really helped us quantify the anecdot-
al evidence. We can now offer the
report to validate that and give us a
platform to move forward.”
“We have talked to her office about
the trans provisions in the bill and she
is OK with that,” Bockelman said.
Sources familiar with ENDA have
said several senators and House
members raised objections to the
transgender provision, a develop-
ment that prompted Frank to work
with transgender activists to come up
with proposed revisions in the bill’s
language pertaining to gender identi-
ty. The changes are expected to be
disclosed when the House version of
the bill is marked up in committee in
late April or early May.
“Everyone signed off on the
changes,” said one transgender
activist, who spoke on condition of
anonymity. “We’re not crazy about
them, but they’re acceptable and
they’ll help us get the bill passed.”
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edly criticized the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints for back-
ing Proposition 8, which ended
same-sex marriage in California.
Another longtime senator who
could face an uphill re-election fight
is Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.). A
Wisconsin Public Radio/St. Norbert
College poll published last week
found him behind Tommy Thompson,
a former Wisconsin governor and for-
mer secretary of the U.S.
Department of Health & Human
Services who’s reportedly consider-
ing entering the Senate race.
In a hypothetical matchup,
Feingold would lose to Thompson
45-33, according to the poll.
In 1996, Feingold was one of 14
senators to vote against the Defense
of Marriage Act. Now a co-sponsor of
the Employment Non-Discrimination
Act and legislation to overturn “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell,” Feingold introduced
a resolution earlier this year to con-
demn legislation pending in Uganda
that would institute the death penalty
as punishment for those convicted of
homosexual acts.
Also facing a tough re-election bid
is Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). A
poll published late last month by the
Public Policy Institute of California
found her in a dead heat with three
potential Republican opponents.
According to the poll, Boxer would
be essentially tied with former con-
gressman Tom Campbell, with him
leading 44-43. She would also be in
a dead heat with former Hewlett-
Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, with
Boxer leading 44-43. Late last month,
The Hill newspaper’s election fore-
casters moved the race from “leans
Democratic” to “toss-up.”
Boxer was also among the 14 sen-
ators to vote against DOMA in 1996.
A co-sponsor of ENDA and of legisla-
tion to overturn “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,”
Boxer last month introduced a bill that
would allow same-sex domestic part-
ners to have the same access to
2 lesbians among contenders for Supreme Court
Continued from page 1
favorites of liberal advocates who
want Obama to name a progressive
judicial activist to the court to help
counteract the court’s majority con-
servative wing.
“I think if the president believes
that either Professor Karlan or
Professor Sullivan were the best qual-
ified for the position that he would
have no problem nominating them,”
said Denis Dison, spokesperson for
the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, a
national group that advocates for the
election and appointment of qualified
LGBT people to public office.
“The thing to guard against for our
community is the notion that sexual
orientation alone should be a barrier
to their consideration for a Supreme
Court seat,” he said.
COBRA benefits as married couples
in some circumstances.
The campaigns for Feingold and
Reid didn’t respond to DC Agenda’s
request for comment; Boxer’s cam-
paign couldn’t be reached by deadline.
Mings said he couldn’t predict
whether these senators would
emerge victorious in their re-election
campaigns. Still, he noted that they
have an advantage because they’re
incumbents, who traditionally fare
better in elections.
“It’s not necessarily as big an advan-
tage this year to be an incumbent as it
is in other cycles, but it’s still [a] humon-
gous advantage to be [an] incumbent,
in terms of visibility, in terms of the
organization and operations that they
have, so I certainly wouldn’t count any
of them out,” Mings said.
Hari Sevugan, press secretary for
the Democratic National Committee,
said in a statement that it’s important
for LGBT people to support these
Democrats in their re-election cam-
paigns because the party “values
equality, inclusion and fairness.”
“From expanding partnership
benefits in the workplace to lifting the
ban on travel for those living with
HIV/AIDS, from passage of hate
crimes legislation to beginning to end
[‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell] — we have
worked to advance gay-rights in all
corners of our society,” he said. “It’s
not where we want to be yet, but we
are moving forward.”
Sevugan warned “the progress
we made could be lost” and “we
could once again move backward” if
Democrats aren’t re-elected or lose
their control of Congress.
“We’ve seen what’s happened in
Virginia where a Republican gover-
nor has taken the Commonwealth
backward in history,” he said. “That is
why we are committed to working
with the LGBT community to elect
allies that will continue to move the
country toward fulfilling its promise of
equality and justice for all.”
Mings said HRC has already
given the maximum allowed dona-
Some political commentators spec-
ulated that Obama most likely would
seek a less controversial, center-left
nominee rather than Sullivan or Karlan.
They also noted that Obama’s nomina-
tion of a new Supreme Court justice
comes on the heels of his bruising bat-
tle in the Senate over the health care
reform bill. Public opinion polls show
his and the Democrats’ popularity at an
all-time low going into the mid-term
elections this fall.
Senate Republicans are expected
to oppose almost anyone Obama
nominates for the high court post,
and pundits speculated this week
over whether the president would be
willing to expend greater political
capital on a “lightening rod” nominee.
Sullivan is considered a nationally
prominent scholar and teacher of
constitutional law and is the author of
tions of $10,000 each to Reid and
Boxer to help them with their re-elec-
tion campaigns. For Feingold’s race,
Mings said HRC is waiting to see if
Thompson will enter the fray.
“If he does, obviously, that
changes our calculation quite a
bit,” Mings said. “We need to step in
and make sure that we’re engaging
our membership in Wisconsin as
much as possible to help [Feingold].”
In addition to moving to protect
senators, Mings said HRC donated
the maximum of $5,000 last year to
many vulnerable allies in the U.S.
House who are part of the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee’s
Frontline Program.
“We don’t support all of those
folks because some of them are pret-
ty conservative Southerners or just
conservative Blue Dogs, but we did
make endorsements of a lot of those
folks in late 2009 and made PAC
contributions to them to try and help
them with early money to boost their
early financial filings,” Mings said.
Marty Rouse, HRC’s national
field director, said his organization
for now is focused on field work that
seeks to persuade key senators to
vote in favor of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” and is “still trying, where we
can, to mobilize in support of ENDA,
expecting a vote in the House in
next couple weeks.”
But around mid-to-late summer,
Rouse said HRC will “pivot big time
and shift all of our resources” to re-
electing supporters in Congress,
especially in the Senate.
“Clearly it’s going to take a few
months to really flesh out, but our
membership is already being mes-
saged that our No. 1 priority this fall is
going to be to re-elect our friends
and mobilize our members as much
as possible,” Rouse said.
Rouse said HRC will be as “strate-
gic as possible” in determining the
best way to support its allies, but it’s
too early to say what exactly the plan
will be. Rouse noted that polling data
for these races is still early and many
the nation’s leading casebook on
constitutional law, according to her
biography posted on the Stanford
University web site. The site also
says she has published numerous
articles in law journals on federalism,
religion, speech, equality and consti-
tutional theory. She served as dean
of the law school from 1999 to 2004.
A separate biography of Karlan on
the law school’s web site says she, too,
is a recognized scholar and award-win-
ning teacher at the school, as well as
founding director of the law school’s
Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. It says
Karlan is also considered one of the
nation’s leading experts on voting and
the political process. She has served as
a commissioner on the California Fair
Political Practices Commission and as
assistant counsel and cooperating attor-
ney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
states still have primary elections.
“What is clear right now is that
we’ll be spending the significant
amount of our resources on defense
and protecting our friends and mak-
ing sure that they’re back there in
2011 and beyond,” he said.
Even with HRC’s field team work-
ing to re-elect these senators, Rouse
said it’s important for LGBT people to
look to themselves to ask what
they’re doing to help in the election.
“One can discuss and look at the
polls about where Harry Reid is,
how’s he doing, and what’s going on,
but the fact of the matter is we need
to make sure that anyone we know
that lives in Nevada is working as
hard as they can to help re-elect
Harry Reid,” Rouse said. “So we can
ask those questions, but we really
have to ask, ‘What are you doing to
make sure that Harry Reid gets re-
elected? What are you doing to help
make sure Barbara Boxer gets re-
elected?’”
Rouse said it’s important that
LGBT people are visible and working
to help the re-election of congres-
sional supporters.
“Once we’re in full election mode,
we need to be there on the campaign
trail supporting our allies and working
really hard to be visible in helping them
be re-elected because they will
remember that we are there,” he said.
But could incumbent lawmakers
become victims of political apathy
among LGBT people if legislative pri-
orities like ENDA and repeal of “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” don’t move this year?
Michael Cole, an HRC spokesper-
son, said LGBT voters are “certainly”
looking to this Congress for “action
on pressing equality issues” and will
be mindful of this progress as
November approaches.
“That being said, there are a num-
ber of pro-LGBT champions up for
reelection this year who have the
record to deserve whole hearted sup-
port from the community,” he said.
But Jimmy LaSalvia, executive
director for GOProud, a gay conserva-
Both women have spoken out on
LGBT rights issues and publicly iden-
tify as lesbian.
As speculation swirled over who
could become the next Supreme
Court justice, Lambda Legal Defense
& Education fund issued a statement
April 9 thanking Stevens for his role
in advancing LGBT civil rights.
“The LGBT community owes
much to Justice Stevens,” said Jon
Davidson, a Lambda Legal director.
“He has been a strong, clear, and
consistent voice for the rights of gay
people and other minorities, the dis-
abled, reproductive freedom, and
free speech.”
Davidson noted that Stevens’ dis-
senting opinion in the 1986 Supreme
Court case Bowers v. Hardwick,
which upheld anti-gay sodomy laws
in the states, became the basis for
tive group, said LGBT voters should
carefully consider whether to support
incumbent lawmakers this year.
“There [are] a lot of issues that
gay people care about and there isn’t
a single one of those Democrats, in
my opinion, who have done anything
that I would deem worthy of re-elec-
tion,” LaSalvia said. “So ask yourself
as a gay voter, ‘Well, what have they
done that I agree with?’ And I’ll bet
you that gay and lesbian [voters] can
look at any of those senators and
say, ‘You’re fired!’”
Should enough Democrats lose
their seats this fall, control of either
chamber of Congress could switch
hands. Republicans would have to
take 10 seats in the Senate and 41
seats in the House to regain control
of both chambers of Congress. Such
a loss of control would recall the
1994 election, when Republicans
retook control of the House and
Senate during Democratic President
Bill Clinton’s first term in office.
LaSalvia said it’s too early to tell
whether Democrats will lose control
of Congress this fall, but noted that
the situation would become clearer
as the year progresses.
“I think it’s way too early to tell, but
certainly they would lose seats, and all
signs [show] gains by the Republicans,”
he said. “I think that we’ve got a long
summer ahead of us and the electoral
picture and landscape will be a lot clear-
er when we get to September.”
Mings said he didn’t think
Democrats would lose control of
Congress because not enough seats
are in jeopardy, but he noted that
polling and fundraising numbers indi-
cate the party will lose some seats.
“So the thing that’s important to
remember is that a lot of people were
caught off guard in 1994, and that’s
something the Democrats are not
going to let happen this time,” he
said. “They’re really making sure that
their folks are prepared for a really
tough, brutal, expensive election and
they’re out there really trying to show
that their candidates are doing that.”
the high court’s landmark decision to
reverse itself and overturn state
sodomy laws in 2003.
The latter decision came in
Lawrence v. Texas. It stemmed from
a lawsuit brought by Lambda Legal in
a case where two gay men were
arrested after police entered their
residence for unrelated reasons and
saw them having sex.
“The Lawrence decision quoted
extensively from Justice Stevens’ dis-
sent in Bowers,” Davidson said.
“The administration should pro-
mote judicial integrity through nomi-
nation of jurists who represent the
nation’s diversity, including people
who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexu-
al, transgender, people of color,
women, and those with public
defender and public interest legal
backgrounds,” Davidson said.
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Pentagon, unlike White
House, consulting gay
groups on ‘Don’t Ask’
Continued from page 9

service members to speak to the working

group without fear of being discharged under
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“The only consistent way to do it is to apply
that uniformly to all people and not have sep-
arate standards, which is obviously the prob-
lem with the policy as it is,” he said.
Even with the openness between these
groups and Pentagon officials, some repeal
advocates say they have concerns about the
working group’s direction.
Gates has repeatedly said the purpose of
the group will be to examine how to imple-
ment an end to the ban should Congress
repeal the law during the Senate hearing in
February. But some repeal advocates say
there’s a lack of clarity.
Nicholson said he has “big concerns”
about the direction the group is heading,
recalling testimony that Jeh Johnson, head of
the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel and
co-chair of the group, gave before the House
in March in which the results of the working
group would inform how Congress would pro-
ceed on the issue.
“And that, I think, was very dangerous and
was a new twist,” he said. “If the mission of the
working group is to simply come up with an effec-
tive implementation management plan for after
repeal takes effect, then there really should be no
reason why Congress should need to wait for the
outcome of the working group.”
Frank also acknowledged “some confu-
sion” about whether the purpose of the work-
ing group is to study how to lift the ban or
whether to lift the ban.
“I think the reason for that confusion is
while the group says it’s studying how to lift
the ban, given the strategic intention of the
president, whether the ban is actually lifted is
in the hands of the Congress,” Frank said. “So
if the group comes out with a study that exag-
gerates the risks to cohesion, or other risks
associated with lifting the ban, obviously, that
will make it easier for obstructionists in
Congress to try to block repeal.”
Frank called on leaders handling the group
to “make it more clear that they are assessing
how best to lift the ban” and note that the only
reason they’re evaluating repeal is to deter-
mine how to mitigate any harm.
“It’s important to say that years and years
of research across the board make clear that
that impact will be negligible or non-existent,
and most of us already know that,” he said.
Nicholson was particularly critical of the
White House and said he thinks it’s “extreme-
ly concerning” President Obama hasn’t come
out and clarified the study’s purpose.
Nicholson noted that he’s been asking for
clarification from the White House for several
weeks now and hasn’t received a response.
“I just felt like with the working group, they’ve
been very much great in communicating with us,
been very receptive, I do get the impression that
they’re honestly considering the suggestions we
give to them,” he said. “The White House, on the
other hand, it’s felt like we’ve been throwing sug-
gestions down a black hole.”
Nicholson said he doesn’t think that White
House officials are seriously considering his
organization’s input and that “they ignore a lot
of us for weeks at a time sometimes.”
“Unfortunately, the White House is not only
not listening to or considering our suggestions
and communicating with us, but they haven’t
given any indication that they intend to clarify
the position of the working group or curtail the
expansion of its scope,” he said.
The White House didn’t immediately
respond to Nicholson’s comments.

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Rally participants stood in a line, holding signs with letters made up of petition signatures on Wednesday.
Unitarians rally for LGBT
rights, immigration reform
Campaign delivers 15,000
signatures to Congress
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@dcagenda.com
Activists affiliated with the Unitarian
Universalist Association rallied
Wednesday upon delivering 15,000
signatures to Congress promoting
LGBT rights and immigration reform.
About a dozen participants gath-
ered on the East Lawn of Capitol Hill
to support the effort and hear from
local religious leaders and residents
about the importance of advancing
such issues. The event was coordi-
nated by Standing on the Side of
Love, a campaign sponsored by the
Unitarian Church.
At one point, as participants stood
in a line, they held signs with letters
made up of petition signatures
spelling out the slogan, “We Stand
on the Side of Love.”
Adam Gerhardstein, campaign
manager for Standing on the Side of
Love, said participants gathered with
“a message of inclusion, encourage-
ment and support.”
“While we have a small group
here today, we represent a much
larger constituency,” he said. “Over
15,000 people during this congres-
sional break sent in their words of
support for the immigrant community,
for the gay and lesbian, bisexual and
transgender community. They ask for
immigration reform. They ask for full
equality under all matters governed
by law for gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender people.”
Gerhardstein said issues of immi-
gration reform and LGBT rights “inter-
sect much more than people ever
think” because “many people are gay
immigrants, many people have part-
ners who are gay immigrants.”
Under current immigration law,
LGBT Americans can’t sponsor
same-sex partners who are foreign
nationals for residency in the United
States. Activists are seeking a provi-
sion in immigration reform that would
allow LGBT people to sponsor their
foreign partners for residency, similar
to how straight people can sponsor
their spouses.
Steve Ralls, spokesperson for
Immigration Equality, which helped to
coordinate the event, said the effort
from the Unitarian Association was
particularly important in pushing for
LGBT inclusion in immigration reform.
“This is significant and important
because the faith community is such
a critical part of the immigration
reform coalition,” he said. “Unitarians
have been one of the strongest and
consistent voices calling for a bill that
includes LGBT families.”
The 15,000 signatures include
10,000 signatures calling for full equal-
ity for LGBT people and 5,000 signa-
tures calling on Congress to pass com-
prehensive immigration reform.
Gerhardstein told DC Agenda the
petitions were split into two cate-
gories because his group had been
working on gathering the signatures
of LGBT rights longer than the immi-
gration signatures.
“The important thing is that every-
body who signed those petitions and
postcards did it because they stand on
the side of love with people who are
being marginalized or oppressed just
because of who they are,” he said.
Among those who spoke at the rally
was Erwin de Leon, a gay D.C. resident
and DC Agenda contributor, who mar-
ried his spouse in D.C. last week.
De Leon said “the hard reality” of
his marriage is that his license “isn’t
worth much outside the [local] jurisdic-
tion.” He noted that he and his spouse
feel the need to take their living wills
with them sometimes when they travel
in case of a medical emergency.
“We both dread the thought of not
being able to be by the side of the
one injured [or] worse, not being able
to make the life and death decisions
DC Agenda photo by Michael Key
DC Agenda photo by Michael Key
Adam Gerhardstein, campaign man-
ager for Standing on the Side of Love
only a spouse should make,” he said.
De Leon decried the federal gov-
ernment’s refusal to recognize same-
sex marriage under the Defense of
Marriage Act, which means he and
his partner aren’t entitled to each
other’s Social Security benefits and
would have to pay taxes on the inher-
itance they leave to each other.
Another problem facing de Leon
is his status as an immigrant.
Because the federal government
doesn’t recognize same-sex mar-
riage, de Leon’s spouse can’t spon-
sor him for his green card.
“Even though I consider the
United States my home, I lived here
legally for several years, and in my
heart, I know I’m as American as my
native born cousin, I have no
recourse but to wait for my mother’s
sponsorship to come through, which
will take many years unless the immi-
gration system is reformed,” he said.
De Leon said if he were in an
opposite-sex marriage, his spouse
could apply for a green card for him
that could probably be obtained by
the year’s end.
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Gay man leads in close
vote for Gainesville mayor
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The city of Gainesville, Fla., on Tuesday
appeared to elect an openly gay man as mayor by 35 votes.
Craig Lowe, a 52-year-old gay city commissioner, beat out Don
Marsh, a window-cleaning business owner, in an apparent victory in the
city’s mayoral runoff election.
County law in the area requires a recount in cases where victories are
achieved by a margin of less than 0.5 percent. If Lowe survives this
recount, he’ll become the first openly gay mayor in northern Florida, and
one of fewer than 30 openly LGBT mayors serving in the United States,
according to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund.
In a statement provided by Equality Florida, Lowe gave particular
thanks to the organization’s political action committee for its assistance
in his election.
“I would like to thank Equality Florida Action PAC for their tremendous
help in my race,” Lowe said. ”Not only did they endorse my candidacy early
on, they also served as a watchdog against the lies about my campaign
and put people on the ground to help get our message out to voters.”
According to Equality Florida, Lowe endured “homophobic rhetoric
and smear tactics” in the weeks before his win. A local church displayed
a “No Homo Mayor” billboard on their front lawn.
In addition to the state LGBT organization, Lowe received endorse-
ments from the Victory Fund as well as other local organizations such
as the Gainesville Professional Firefighters’ Association, the African
American Coalition for Political Action and the Alligator Newspaper.
Senate passes resolution
against anti-gay Uganda bill
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved by unani-
mous consent a resolution condemning a harshly anti-gay bill pending in
the Ugandan parliament.
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations
subcommittee on African affairs, introduced the resolution in February.
Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Susan Collins (R-
Maine) were original co-sponsors.
Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda, but the African
nation’s pending legislation would, among other things, institute the
death penalty in some cases for LGBT people and require citizens to
report LGBT people to the police.
In a statement, Feingold praised “so many political, religious and civic
leaders in Uganda and around the world” for speaking out against the
Uganda bill.
“Sadly, this legislation is just one example of actions taken around the
world to restrict the rights of people just because of their gender or sex-
ual orientation,” he said. “We need to speak out consistently against all
such discrimination. The Senate’s passage of this resolution begins to
move us in that direction, and I will continue working with my colleagues
and the administration to continue to address this issue.”
In addition to condemning the Uganda bill, the Senate resolution calls
for repeal of the criminalization of homosexuality in other countries and
urges the State Department to closely monitor human rights abuses
against LGBT people abroad.
In the House, another resolution condemning the Uganda legislation,
introduced by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), is pending before the
House Foreign Affairs Committee. The resolution has 58 co-sponsors.
HRC says Vatican official
‘diverting attention’ on abuses
WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign this week accused
a Vatican official of “diverting attention away from decades of Vatican
cover-ups of pedophile behavior” when he blamed gays for the abuses.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the pope’s top aide, outraged gay advoca-
cy groups, politicians and others with his remarks Monday in Chile.
“Many psychologists and psychiatrists have demonstrated that there
is no relation between celibacy and pedophilia,” said the Italian cardinal,
according to the Associated press. “But many others have demonstrat-
ed, I have been told recently, that there is a relation between homosex-
uality and pedophilia. That is true. That is the problem.”
Harry Knox, an HRC director of religion issues, responded to Bertone
on Wednesday.
“Cardinal Bertone’s statement makes clear that he is more interested
in diverting attention away from decades of Vatican cover-ups of
pedophile behavior than he is in living up to his pastoral role,” Knox said.
“He should actually get to know gay people and read the voluminous
opinions of medical and psychological experts that make clear pedophil-
ia is not related to sexual orientation.”
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personalagenda
Rematch in Maryland
Ehrlich, O’Malley to face
off again, but Gansler
is the real story
By KEVIN NAFF
Maryland Attorney General Doug
Gansler isn’t one to mince words.
“In 10 or 15 years, we will have
same-sex marriage in every state in the
country,” he told a mostly gay and les-
bian audience last week in Baltimore.
Gansler won praise from local
and national LGBT rights groups in
February after issuing a long-awaited
legal opinion that Maryland may rec-
ognize out-of-state same-sex mar-
riages. Since then, anti-gay conser-
vatives have denounced and even
tried to impeach him while the state’s
gay and lesbian couples have tried to
make practical sense of what the
opinion means to them.
In an effort to address some of
those issues, Gansler spoke at
Govans Presbyterian Church in
Baltimore before fielding questions
from the audience that included
many same-sex couples unsure of
the opinion’s meaning.
One male couple, together for 53
years and preparing to marry in D.C.,
worried about the financial implications
marriage might have on their invest-
ments. Another long-term lesbian cou-
ple, also planning to marry in D.C., was
similarly concerned about unforeseen
consequences of marital rights.
Gansler was a good sport and
deserves much credit for taking time
to meet with the state’s gay couples.
He’s a refreshingly candid alternative
to Gov. Martin O’Malley, who always
sounds like he’s reading from a poll-
tested cue card. Unfortunately, it
became clear that no one, including
Gansler, seems to know what exact-
ly the legal opinion means.
He rightly pointed out that the
opinion merely provides guidance for
state agencies and that it would likely
be short lived as the courts and legis-
‘Precious’ deserves praise from LGBT groups Black Wings & Blind Angels.” Sapphire
Racism explains our
collective silence about
this important film
By JULIE R. ENSZER
I finally watched Lee Daniels’ stun-
ning film, “Precious Based on the Novel
Push by Sapphire.” The movie was as
painful and provocative as it was mov-
ing and powerful. After I finished what
may be the most satisfying emotional
experience of my year, I was baffled
about why national LGBT organizations
haven’t awarded Lee Daniels, the film
“Precious,” and Sapphire herself with
every recognition possible.
I came to the film as an early reader
of Sapphire’s luminous book “Push” and
her equally fierce poetry in “Meditations
on the Rainbow, American Dreams, and
lature will now have to weigh in. So,
should couples begin filing lawsuits
demanding recognition of their legal
marriages? Gansler said he hoped
that wouldn’t be necessary but con-
ceded it was probably inevitable. Will
the legislature take action? Gansler
doesn’t think so. And what about the
impact of the opinion on private busi-
nesses? He didn’t address that issue.
And what about taxes?
“In my view, married gay cou-
ples should be filing joint [state]
taxes,” he said.
In response to a question from
DC Agenda, he deflected criticism
that his office took too long — nine
months — to issue the opinion and
denied that political considerations
played a role in the delay.
“I would have liked it earlier,” he
said. “I’m never concerned about the
politics because you lose your credibil-
ity. I don’t engage in the politics of it.”
Of course, an elected official claim-
ing not to be concerned about the
political implications of handling a hot-
button issue like same-sex marriage is
guffaw inducing. But on other matters,
Gansler was much more direct.
He pointed the finger at Republicans
and Catholics and, most surprisingly, at
conservative African-American “old
school” pastors, accusing them of
aggressively lobbying him to reject rela-
tionship recognition for the state’s
same-sex couples. This sort of candor
is exactly what’s needed to overcome
the stalemate in Maryland. Too many
anti-gay Democrats have gotten a pass
from criticism by fellow Democrats and
even LGBT rights activists.
Although Gansler is right about
those forces opposing LGBT rights,
he ignored the fact that Democrats
have had near monopolistic control
of state government for decades. If
Maryland Democrats wanted to do
the right thing and enact marriage
equality, they could do so without a
single Republican vote. The
Democrats — especially entrenched,
“old school” politicians like Senate
President Thomas V. Mike Miller —
is a formidable writer and visionary
poet; she has made incredible contri-
butions to LGBT literature. I under-
stand that recognizing the contribu-
tions of LGBT writers isn’t at the fore-
front of the advocacy and fundraising
agenda of LGBT organizations.
What is uppermost in organizational
leaders’ minds is connecting their mis-
sion and work to Hollywood celebrities.
While Sapphire previously hasn’t been a
celebrity of that ilk, Lee Daniels certainly
is. Daniels was the producer of the
award-winning “Monster’s Ball” as well as
“The Woodsman” and “Shadowboxer.”
These achievements alone should con-
stitute adequate celebrity credentials for
our national organizations.
Directing “Precious” puts Daniels
into another category. In addition to it
being a film directed by an openly
gay man, “Precious” is of great inter-
are the real problem in Maryland.
Despite the confusion over the
opinion and the ongoing frustration
felt by the state’s same-sex couples,
it’s a relief to hear Gansler speak so
openly about gay issues. He is clear-
ly comfortable talking about our
issues, unlike O’Malley, who has
trouble even uttering the word “gay.”
“There aren’t more gay people
now than there were 50 years ago,”
Gansler said, “there are just more
people telling you they’re gay.”
He even engaged in a little pop psy-
chology about his conservative critics.
“Those who protest too much are
probably gay themselves,” he said.
Let’s hope that as Gansler pre-
pares for his inevitable run for gover-
nor in 2014, that his handlers don’t
muzzle him too much. The state
needs honest, fearless leadership
and politicians willing to expend a lit-
tle capital in the interest of justice.
Unfortunately, O’Malley has demon-
strated that he won’t lead on these
issues; he doesn’t deserve LGBT
votes or money in this year’s rematch
with Robert Ehrlich, who announced
last week he will run for his old job.
As bad as O’Malley has been,
Ehrlich was worse during his tenure
as governor. He vetoed the Medical
Decision Making Act, which would
have granted unmarried gay and
straight couples hospital visitation
rights, and he supported a constitu-
tional ban on same-sex marriage.
Ehrlich also vetoed the Transfer &
Recordation Tax Exemption Act,
which would have exempted gay
couples from the taxes involved in
transferring the title of a home.
He also promised to veto legisla-
tion that would have extended
domestic partner benefits to partners
of state employees in 2003, and
once told a constituent that he does
not “condone the promulgation of
homosexual and bisexual activities.”
The Ehrlich administration supported
an anti-gay marriage demonstration
in Annapolis. In four years in office,
Ehrlich never agreed to field a single
est to all who care about LGBT
equality and the history of HIV/AIDS.
The movie is set in 1987, the year of
the second national March on
Washington and a moment when
HIV/AIDS was moving from being an
epidemic in the gay community to infect-
ing more IV drug users and more African
Americans and Latinos. Precious is
transferred to a new school because she
is pregnant with her second child; her
child’s father is her own father. Precious’s
teacher is a lesbian. There is a gorgeous
internal monologue when Precious real-
izes that her teacher and her lover are
lesbians; in the end Precious is fine with
their lesbianism because these women
show her kindness and compassion at a
time in her life when she needs it and it
makes a difference.
The film alone is an achievement
worthy of recognition. In addition,
Daniels, an openly gay man, was nom-
question from a Washington Blade
reporter, despite countless attempts.
Instead, he often restricted his public
remarks to conservative talk radio
hosts and even barred officials in his
administration from speaking to cer-
tain Baltimore Sun reporters, includ-
ing the Annapolis bureau chief.
The choice for 2010 may seem
obvious, but, for the first time since I
was old enough to vote, I plan to sit it
out rather than pick between these
two. I cannot cast a vote for O’Malley,
whose betrayals and flip-flops must
not be forgotten. I stood with heartbro-
ken gay and lesbian couples after the
2007 Maryland high court decision
denying marriage rights as they coped
with canceling their wedding plans. At
a post-decision rally, they gathered in
front of a Baltimore church, many in
tears, as several passing motorists
yelled anti-gay epithets. And their gov-
ernor — who once pledged to support
the case and told the plaintiffs private-
ly that he backed full civil marriage
rights for same-sex couples — issued
a cruel statement that he respected
the court’s decision and invoked the
Catholic sacraments to justify it.
LGBT Marylanders must remem-
ber that stinging rebuke in November
and punish O’Malley for his duplicity.
Regardless of the outcome of that
election, Maryland’s same-sex cou-
ples are likely facing a four-year wait
for progress. Gansler unequivocally
supports full marriage equality for
same-sex couples and is the early
frontrunner for governor in 2014.
In the meantime, the Baltimore
event was a good start at communi-
cating directly with those impacted by
Gansler’s legal opinion, but state
agencies have a long way to go in
translating the opinion to actual bene-
fits for Marylanders. These are life-
and-death issues for many of us and
Maryland’s gay and lesbian taxpayers
deserve a full explanation of just what
marriage recognition means to them.
Kevin Naff is editor of DC Agenda.
Reach him at knaff@dcagenda.com.
inated for an Academy Award this year.
In the end, I know why Daniels,
Sapphire, and the cast of Precious aren’t
recognized by our national LGBT organ-
izations. Racism. Pure and simple.
Why isn’t “Precious” being recog-
nized by our LGBT organizations? Are
our national organizations so myopic
that their interest is only in recognizing
white actors, directors, and celebrities?
“Precious” is a film of keen interest to
LGBT communities. It deserves recog-
nition, praise and accolades from the
LGBT community for its portrayal of les-
bians and for its story about HIV/AIDS.
The silence within our community is
deafening, and it is a function of racism.
Julie R. Enszer is a poet and writer
based in University Park, Md. Her book of
poetry, “Handmade Love,” was just pub-
lished by A Midsummer Night’s Press.
Reach her via JulieREnszer.com.
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friday, april 16
Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education
Network sponsors its annual nation-
al DAY OF SILENCE at thousands of
schools to raise awareness about
anti-LGBT bullying. Visit dayofsi-
lence.org for information.
Premiere of “BACK ROOM” at
Motley Bar (upstairs at EFN Lounge),
1318 9th St. N.W., from 11 p.m.-3
a.m.. It’s unexpected, underground
and uninhibited. It’s a nod toward the
old, with an eye toward the new.
TRAILER PARK DANCE PARTY
every Friday upstairs at the Green
Lantern, 1335 Green Ct., N.W.,
starting at 9 p.m. The Trailer Park
Dance Party features the one and
only “Mama” and A-Ron.the.DJ
Insult comic LISA “THE QUEEN OF
MEAN” LAMPANELLI performs at
the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall,
1212 Cathedral St., Baltimore at 8
p.m. Call 410-783-8000 for tickets,
which cost $36.75.
THE WHITMAN-WALKER CLINIC
Insult comic LISA LAMPANELLI performs in Baltimore this weekend.
HIV MOBILE TESTING UNIT will be
at Club Fuego, 1818 New York Ave.,
NE, 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
GAY DISTRICT from 8:30 p.m. -10:30
p.m. at St. Margaret’s Episcopal
Church, a weekly, non-church affiliat-
ed discussion and social group for
GBTQ men between 18 and 35. The
group meets at 1820 Connecticut
Ave., N.W. For more information,
e-mail gd@gaydistrict.org.
FRIDAY NIGHT EREV SHABBAT
SERVICES, 8:30-10 p.m., Washington,
D.C. Jewish Community Center, 1529
16th St. Friday Night Services are fol-
lowed by an Oneg Social. Please use
the Q Street entrance.
saturday, april 17
DJS MATT BAILER and SHEA VAN
HORN present MIXTAPE at The
Rock & Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. N.E.,
from 10:30 p.m.-3 a.m. (Note: Party
starts at 10:30 this month.) $5 Cover.
21 and over. Specials: $5 Red Bull
Vodka & $3 Miller Lite
Photo courtesy of Lampanelli
ONE TRANS SHOW: THE MANGINA
MONOLOGUES Starring RIKI
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in advance, $10 at the door. Visit
washingtondcjcc.org for more info.
EQUALICON: FROM MARCH TO
MOVEMENT, MID-ATLANTIC LGBTQI
ACTIVIST AND EDUCATIONAL
CONFERENCE, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., All
Souls Church (2835 16th St. at
Harvard Street, N.W.). Brought to you
by Full Equality Now DC, free with sug-
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and workshops to include Grassroots
Organizing for Full Equality, Civil
Rights History, Transgender Politics,
International LGBTQ Rights, Students
Fight Back, Direct Action and Civil
Disobedience, and National/Local
Legislative Updates. Social mixer, held
nearby, starts at 5:30 p.m. For more
info or to register, go to FENDC.org or
call 202-290-7078.
PHILIP DOYLE & DJ HECTOR pres-
ent: FUEGO REINCARNATED at
Club Fuego,1818 New York Ave,
N.E., from 10:30 p.m.-3 a.m.
JELL-O WRESTLING returns to
EFN Lounge, 1318 9th St. N.W.
Anyone can enter the tournament.
Win cash and prizes or just roll
around with hot boys in your under-
wear. The wrestling starts at 9 p.m.
R&B soul singer ANGIE STONE
plays the Lyric Opera House, 140 W.
Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, at 8
p.m. Tickets range $27-57; call 410-
685-5086. On Sunday, Stone takes
her show to the Birchmere, 3701 Mt.
Vernon Ave., Alexandria, Va. Call
703-549-7500 for tickets.
Join the DC COWBOYS starting at
10 p.m. at the Green Lantern, 1335
Green Court, N.W., for their fun, sexy,
late-night “AFTER DARK PARTY”
featuring shirtless Cowboys, live
underwear auction, free giveaways,
Jell-O shooters, and more.
CAPITAL PRIDE WINDS AND
CONCERT BAND performs at 8 p.m.
(and Sunday at 3 p.m.) at the Cafritz
Auditorium at Bell Multicultural
High School, 16th and Irving, N.W.
(two blocks from the Columbia
Heights Metro). The program,
Shades of Blue will include
Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with
guest pianist AnnaMaria Mattolla,
Grainger’s “Children’s March” as well
as Frank Ticheli’s “Amazing Grace”
and “Blue Shades”. Tickets $20
adults/$10 students and senior citi-
zens; tickets available at the door or
online at dcdd.org.
The Victory Fund pays tribute to gay D.C. Council member DAVID CATANIA
(left) at Sunday’s 10th annual Champagne Brunch.
sunday, april 18
THE VICTORY FUND holds its 10TH
ANNUAL CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH to
celebrate the accomplishments of LGBT
elected officials. This year’s event fea-
tures lesbian Houston Mayor Annise
Parker, gay Rep. Barney Frank and
includes a tribute to gay D.C. Council
member David Catania. Tickets $150,
11 a.m. at the Mayflower Hotel, 1127
Connecticut Ave., N.W. Event is sold
out; e-mail events@victoryfund.org to
be added to the waiting list.
DC ICE BREAKERS MEN’S SINGLES
PARTY w/Co-Host Burgundy Crescent
Volunteers at ACKC Cocoa Bar,
1529C 14th St., N.W. (next to Universal
Gear). Mark your calendars for this spe-
cial event as the DC Ice Breakers team
up with Burgundy Crescent Volunteers
for a social event just for the single guys.
Meet single men from DC Ice Breakers
and Burgundy Crescent Volunteers from 6-
8 p.m. RSVP through the DC Ice Breakers
(or Burgundy Crescent Volunteers)
Facebook page, or just show up.
monday, april 19
The DC Center, 1810 14th St. N.W.,
Washington, D.C., invites bears and
their allies to join in for BEARS DO
YOGA from 6:15-7:15 p.m.
tuesday, april 20
DRAG BINGO AT NELLIE’S
SPORTS BAR, 900 U St., N.W., host-
ed by Shi-Queeta Lee, starting at 8
p.m. Free to play, lots of cool prizes.
DC Agenda file photo
wednesday, april 21
CAPITAL PRIDE INTERFAITH
SERVICE PLANNING MEETING,
7 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian
Church, 400 I St., S.W.
THE TOM DAVARON SOCIAL
BRIDGE CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m.,
at the Dignity Center 721 8th St., S.E.
(across from Marine Barracks). No part-
ner needed. Visit lambdabridge.com;
click “Social Bridge in Washington, DC”
POZ WEDNESDAYS from 8 p.m.-12
a.m., upstairs at the Green Lantern,
1331 Green Ct., N.W. DJs C-Dubz,
Keith Hoffman, Jason Horswill & T-N-
T Music Factory rotate. $3 Grey
Goose from 9-11p.m.
thursday, april 22
The DC Center will screen Lydia
Douglas’ 1998 documentary “NAPPY”
at 7 p.m. The film tells the story of 14
black women and girls who choose to
stop straightening their hair and “go
natural.” “Nappy” explores the often
complex relationship between black
women and Western ideals of beauty.
The screening is free and open to
everyone. The DC Center is located at
1810 14th St., N.W.
GLOV will hold its next regular meeting
at 7 p.m. at the DC Center, 1810 14th
St., N.W. The group’s regular meeting
time going forward will be the fourth
Thursday of each month. The primary
mission of Gays and Lesbians
Opposing Violence is to work to reduce
violence against LGBT people. For
more information, e-mail infoglovdc.org.

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fitnessagenda
are you ready for bathing suit season?
Photo by iStockphoto.com/dundanim
Positive mental attitude
can boost your workout
By KEVIN M. NORRIS
Special to DC Agenda
Are you ready for bathing suit
season? Don’t fret — you have plen-
ty of time to get in shape before sum-
mer. Take action now and you will
look and feel immensely gratified.
However, you have probably fig-
ured out that to achieve peak physi-
cal conditioning there are no magic
pills or potions to help you achieve
your fitness goals.
You may or may not realize that
looking and feeling your best will
require hard work, dedication, focus
and a long-term commitment. There
are no quick fixes to a healthier
you. First and foremost, exercise
requires a positive mental attitude
and a consistently healthy lifestyle to
make changes. You must establish a
state-of-being that drives you to suc-
cess and keeps you there.
Real and lasting physical and
mental changes come from aware-
ness, acceptance and action.
As a personal trainer for 17 years,
I have observed the responses peo-
ple have to exercise. What I have
learned is that a person’s attitude
toward exercise and wellness has a
direct impact on their success or fail-
ure. Exercise is not only about physi-
cal achievement, but equally impor-
tant is creating an emotional and
psychological connection. The physi-
cal-emotional-psychological connec-
tion to your health and wellness is a
recipe for success.
Though all of this may seem quite
simple, the reality is that maintaining a
positive attitude is a complex process
and once achieved, it can be difficult
to maintain. Understanding the impact
of embracing a positive mental atti-
tude should better prepare you to
maintain a challenging and fun exer-
cise program and a healthy lifestyle.
Indeed, state of mind affects
everything you do. Your mood and
response to a particular action or
activity and your level of conscious-
ness can affect every action you
take. To be successful at anything,
you must first ask, “Is this something
I passionately want to do,” and “am I
fully committed?” How is anything
accomplished if your heart and soul
are not part of the decision? A weak
state of mind can generate negative
thoughts and result in failure.
We have heard the corny catch phras-
es, “believe and you can achieve” and the
“power of positive thinking.” Realizing
and embracing these truths can actu-
ally lead to a breakthrough and long-
term continued successes.
Each day, the way we feel will not
only affect our mood and the way we
act, but our energy level, our eating
habits and our response to exercise.
If you are currently maintaining a
consistent exercising program, con-
gratulations! If however, you have not
reached this level but are trying to
make changes, begin with some
soul-searching and begin to connect
your mind with your body.
Reach within yourself and discov-
er what will make you take the steps
that allow you to embrace exercise.
Search for those stimuli that will con-
tinue to fuel your successes.
Forget all the things that have stood
in your way in the past and above all
stop making excuses. Excuses serve
no purpose but to diminish us. Excuses
are obstacles and only you can choose
whether to overcome them or allow
them to overcome us.
Here are some tips to keep you
on track:
• Every little bit helps. Even exer-
cising 20 to 30 minutes a day can
help. You can find the time to exer-
cise. Put your workout sessions in
your appointment book and respect
that appointment.
• Get up 30 minutes earlier each
day. Take a longer lunch break and
work late. Work out right after work
before you go home to relax.
• Find the gym that suits you best
and always account for location.
Convenience is the No. 1 reason for
attrition in health clubs.
• Walk or ride your bike to work;
never stand still on an escalator and
avoid elevators. Better yet, walk up
and down the Metro escalator sever-
al times while commuting.
• Find a workout partner with
similar goals and establish a sup-
port network of friends who share
those goals.
• Hire a personal trainer or have
conversations with the floor staff at
your health club.
• Keep a journal and record your
daily hopes, aspirations, setbacks
and strategy.
Do everything in your power to
ingrain exercise into your life and
schedule and establish a focused
exercise routine. Most importantly,
start believing in yourself.
Once you have decided that exer-
cise is important to you, no obstacle
can stand in your way. Prepare to
experience some of the most gratify-
ing rewards you can give yourself.
Remember, “Your body is limited
only by your state of mind and an
enhanced state of mind will liberate
the body.”
Fitness is a journey not a destina-
tion. Enjoy the ride!
Kevin M. Norris is a health and
fitness columnist for DC Agenda and
owner of Mind Your Own Body, LLC.
Personal Training. Reach him at
kevinmnorris@aol.com.
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socialagenda
life after the ‘real world’
MTV’s Mike Manning
on his future plans —
and D.C. show’s
disappointing ratings
By TYRONE FORD
Special to DC Agenda
Mike Manning, the “Real World
D.C.” bisexual wonder boy from
Thornton, Colo., spent hours talking
to MTV’s cameras about coming to
terms with his sexual orientation and
his internship at the Human Rights
Campaign. But what happened after
the season ended?
Did Mike leverage the connections
he made in D.C. to start a career in
politics? Did he start his own advoca-
cy group? And what does he think of
the lackluster ratings for his season of
MTV’s long-running show?
DC Agenda talked to Manning
about his future plans, his desire to
make his own version of the famous
“NOH8 Campaign” ads and why he
doesn’t feel the need to “rally with other
bisexuals” to gain acceptance.
DC Agenda: What is your life like
now that the last episode has aired?
Mike Manning: Well, my life is com-
pletely different now. Before the “Real
World” I was preparing to graduate with
a business degree, and I was going to
get a job in downtown Denver with a
financial firm. Now that I’ve been to
D.C., I’m determined not to work at a
desk job. I can’t be stuck in a cubicle so
I’m moving to California in two months
to pursue acting. I acted a lot in high
school, in theater, but I gave it up in col-
lege because I didn’t want to be a starv-
ing actor. Being on the “Real World”
made me rethink a lot of things and
opened doors and helped me make
some connections that will allow me to
act and be successful. I’ll be graduating
in May then moving to California.
DC Agenda: Do you feel you were
represented fairly on the show?
Manning: Yeah, definitely. I worked
a lot and the season highlighted a lot of
what I did for HRC because I was there
half the time. I did meet with Congress
and lobby them; I did go to a lot of
LGBT fundraisers, events and press
conferences. I did take full advantage of
living in D.C., so they portrayed me as
the driven, goal-oriented guy that knew
how to have fun, but was also involved
with a lot of things in the District.
DC Agenda: You provided a com-
pelling voice for LGBT rights while on
the show. How are you continuing the
fight for equal rights now that the
show has ended?
Manning: I still work with the HRC
in Denver and I travel as an “indepen-
dently contracted public speaker” for
HRC on the national level. I travel to
different states and give speeches on
behalf of HRC as a spokesperson. I’m
also organizing a spinoff of the NOH8
Campaign photo shoots on my cam-
pus because due to legal restrictions I
can’t personally do a NOH8 shoot so
I’m doing a spinoff.
DC Agenda: You’ve said that
before “Real World D.C.” you had “no
idea” what HRC was. What is your cur-
rent involvement with HRC and how
do you feel those from a similar back-
ground to yours can be reached?
Manning: HRC does a good job
right now because they let politicians
know where they stand but not so rad-
ical that they scare people off. That’s
what I liked about HRC because you
know what they stand for, you know
they’re out there trying to make a
change and any person can get
involved without having to be an
expert on the issues. … One sugges-
tion I would have for them is to include
more materials for people to do
actions on their own like workshops on
college campuses and communities.
DC Agenda: How did the LGBT
community view your coming out as
a bisexual man?
Manning: Coming out as a bisex-
ual man sends the statement that I
am myself and I’m not trying to iden-
MIKE MANNING, who appeared in MTV’s ‘Real World: D.C.,’ plans to move to
California after graduating from college in May.
tify under a blanket term for accept-
ance. This isn’t a transitional phase
for me; I came out on national TV so
I have nothing to hide. I feel I don’t
need to rally with other bisexuals to
gain acceptance, I don’t need to rally
with gay people, I don’t need to rally
with straight people. I do find it inter-
esting that my bisexuality is a point
of contention in the LGBT communi-
ty because they all know what it’s
like to be judged and know how it
feels to be treated differently for their
sexual orientation. Then for any gay
person to tell me that it’s only a tran-
sition phase or that there is no such
thing as being bisexual, that is a lit-
tle hypocritical to me.
DC Agenda: The “Real World D.C.”
finale attracted about 1.1 million view-
ers — the smallest finale audience in
Photo courtesy of MTV
the show’s 23-edition history. What do
you feel caused the drop in numbers?
Manning: I think everybody likes
to see drama; it’s evident in shows
like “Jersey Shore.” Their numbers
were huge, but it was just a bunch of
people getting drunk, fighting, punch-
ing girls and making fools of them-
selves. … With the “Real World D.C.”
when compared to other shows it
really tackled hard issues that maybe
aren’t so pleasant to some people
but are still important to mention like
weight issues, depression, relation-
ships and coming out. … It’s things
like this that are unpleasant but real-
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and that’s why maybe some people
were turned off by the season
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theateragenda
fierstein fired up for ‘fiddler’
Anyone who tells me
that I can’t play a part,
I tell them ‘f-you’
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Special to DC Agenda
If you missed him on Broadway,
now’s your chance to see gay icon
Harvey Fierstein in “Fiddler on the
Roof.” Once again, Fierstein has
grown out his grey beard and picked
up his pail to play Tevye the milkman
in the North American tour of the
much-loved musical, which is at
National Theatre through May 2..
Based on stories by Shalom
Aleichem, “Fiddler” is the tale of reli-
gious Jew Tevye, his wife Golde, and
their five daughters, grappling with
family, tradition and hard times in
Tsarist Russia. Tony Award-winning
Fierstein brings humor, pathos and
political edge to the legendary role:
“It’s wonderful entertainment and
means a lot to a lot of people includ-
ing my family,” he explains. “But it’s
important to remember that behind
the familiar songs are some serious,
relevant issues like ethnic cleansing.
I keep that in mind.”
All good interviews require prepa-
ration. But when it comes to Fierstein,
rules don’t apply. In his unmistakably
gravelly voice, Fierstein says what
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needs to be said, scarcely pausing for
a breath: “While many actors have
played Tevye, the interpretation of the
role hadn’t changed much since the
show’s debut in 1964,” he explains.
“Through the course of the show, I
move Tevye away from the fundamen-
talist we meet when the curtain comes
up. As he gets closer to leaving his lit-
tle village for America, he becomes
more open to the world. It’s good
change. Fundamentalism is death.”
When it was announced that
Fierstein would be replacing Alfred
Molina as Tevye the milkman in the
Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the
Roof” in 2005, some skeptics were
unsure about his taking on the role.
How could the guy who’d recently won
a Tony for his star turn as plus-sized,
Baltimore housewife Edna Turnblad in
the musical “Hairspray,” pull off an
Orthodox Jewish patriarch living on
the shtetl? The always direct Fierstein
was, not surprisingly, undeterred:
“Anyone who tells me that I can’t play
a part, I tell them f-you.”
“Tevye is one of the seminal roles
Photo by Joan Marcus; courtesy of National Theatre
Susan Cella (Golde) and Harvey Fierstein (Tevye) star in the National Theatre’s
“FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.’
in the musical theater canon — he’s
the male equivalent to Gypsy’s Mama
Rose,” notes Fierstein, 57. “Before
agreeing to take the part, I consulted
a friend who advised, ‘You can either
play Tevye, or spend the rest of your
life telling everyone that you were
once offered the part, but passed on
it.’ Of course, I had to accept.”
Fierstein’s only trepidation was
that “Fiddler’s” composers — Jerry
Bock and Sheldon Harnick — might
not approve of him singing their
songs. In true bravura fashion,
Fierstein arranged to sing the show’s
entire score (including “Tradition,” “If I
Were a Rich Man,” and “Do You Love
Me?”) for the “boys,” as he endearing-
ly calls the musical team. The boys
liked what they heard and Fierstein
never looked back. He famously tack-
led Tevye, bringing his colossal pres-
ence to the part and earning some
darn good reviews in the process.
Born in Brooklyn, Fierstein made
his acting debut in Andy Warhol’s
only play, “Pork,” and rose to fame in
1982 with his semi-autobiographical
work “Torch Song Trilogy” in which he
played Arnold, a torch song Jewish
drag queen in search of love and
family. He also, among other things,
wrote the libretto for the mega-suc-
cessful musical “La Cage aux Folles.”
Despite being busy with other
projects, Fierstein jumped at the
opportunity to join the North
American tour last October and
reprise his performance. “What can I
say? It’s a great part, and I’m enjoy-
ing touring with a big cast. I’d never
done that before.”
What’s up next for the remarkable
Fierstein? At the time of this inter-
view, the “Fiddler” tour was on a
three-week break prior to opening in
D.C. Instead of resting at his home in
Connecticut, Fierstein was working
in New York City putting finishing
touches on a Broadway revival of “La
Cage” opening this month. He’s also
currently working on the book for
stage adaptation of Disney’s
“Newsies,” and collaborating with
Cyndi Lauper on an as yet undis-
closed musical theater project. “I’m a
longtime fan of Cyndi’s but never did
I know she could morph into a
Broadway composer. Believe me,”
Fierstein loudly assures, “people are
going to be bowled over.”

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dcagenda lgbt nightlife guide

dceagle.com
washington, dc The popular Levi/leather bar’s origins date
to the 1960s. Features billiards, regular
LARRY’S LOUNGE
1836 18th St., NW
30 DEGREES tournaments and other special events. Washington, DC 20009
1639 R St., NW Located near the convention center, two 202-483-1483
Washington, DC 20009 blocks north of Gallery Place Metro. Dupont Circle area bar and restaurant
202-462-6569 popular with both men and women.
cobaltdc.com DELTA ELITE
In Dupont Circle area; popular with men 3734 10th St. NE MIXTAPE
but check schedule for other events. Washington, DC 20017 Different locations
202-546-5979 mixtapedc.com
1409 PLAYBILL CAFÉ thedeltaelite.com twitter.com/MIXTAPEdc
1409 14th St., NW Longtime bar popular with African- Alternative dance party for queer men and
Washington, DC 20005 American men in Brookland women featuring electro, alt-pop, indie
202-265-3055 neighborhood; hosts regular ladies night. rock, house, disco and New Wave. Check
Logan Circle area restaurant and bar Check web site for special events. web site for 2010 schedule of events.
(Dupont Circle Metro) popular with the
theater crowd and featuring open-mike DIK BAR MOVA
nights, karaoke and other special events. 1637 17th St., NW 1435 P St., NW
Washington, DC 20009 Washington, DC 20005
ACADEMY OF WASHINGTON 202-328-0100 202-797-9730
thewashingtonacademy.com dupontitaliankitchen.com halodc.com
Longtime organizers of drag events in the In Dupont Circle area, above Trendy Logan Circle bar and lounge
city; most events held at Ziegfeld’s. See Dupont Italian Kitchen. popular with men features regular happy
web site for full list of upcoming events. hour and other specials. Formerly known
DUPLEX DINER as Halo, MOVA re-launched in early
ANNIE’S PARAMOUNT
STEAK HOUSE
2004 18th St., NW
Washington, DC 20009
2010 as a environmentally friendly bar
with an emphasis on community service.
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1609 17th St., NW 202-265-9599
Washington, DC 20009 duplexdiner.com NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR
202-232-0395 Popular restaurant and bar in the 900 U St., NW
In Dupont Circle area; popular longtime Adams Morgan area; happy hour Washington, DC 20001
restaurant and steakhouse with recently
renovated Upstairs Lounge.
specials and many other special events.
See web site for updated schedule.
202-332-6355
nelliessportsbar.com
baltimore LEON’S/
TYSON PLACE
Sports bar featuring poker events, drag 1722 870 Park Ave.
APEX EFN LOUNGE/MOTLEY BAR bingo, trivia contests and other specials. 1722 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201
1415 22nd St., NW 1318 9th St., NW Popular bar with massive outdoor deck Baltimore, MD 21201 410-539-4993
Washington, DC 20037 Washington, DC 20001 and plenty of TVs for watching sports. Multi-level after-hours dance club attracts leonsbaltimore.tripod.com
202-296-0505 202-341-8281 • 202-642-4537 a mixed crowd but remains gay-friendly. In business for more than 50 years,
apex-dc.com efnlounge.com • motleybar.com OMEGA Leon’s is the oldest gay bar in
In Dupont Circle area; popular with men, but twitter.com/EFN_Lounge 2122 P St., NW BALTIMORE EAGLE Baltimore and among the oldest in
check schedule regularly for other events. Funky, edgy neighborhood lounge in Washington, DC 20036 2002 N. Charles St. the country. Friendly bar with jukebox
Logan Circle with special events galore. 202-223-4917 Baltimore, MD 21218 gets especially busy on Sunday nights.
BACHELOR’S MILL Popular with men and women; features omegadc.com 410-82-EAGLE Tyson Place is a restaurant bar
1104 8th St., SE dancing, videos. Check web site for Dupont Circle area bar and club popular Longtime Levi/leather bar not far located behind Leon’s with a
Washington, DC 20003 event schedule. with men featuring dancing, drag and from Mount Vernon offers friendly bar, separate entrance.
202-544-1931 other special events. billiards, outdoor patio, videos and a
Longtime bar popular with African- FAB LOUNGE full store for your leather needs. PORT IN A STORM
American men in Capitol Hill area. 1805 Connecticut Ave., NW PHASE 1 Mostly men, but welcoming to women. 4330 E. Lombard St.
Washington, DC 20009 525 8th St., SE Baltimore, MD 21224
BANANA CAFÉ 202-797-1122 Washington, DC 20003 CLUB PHOENIX 410-534-0014
500 8th St., SE thefablounge.com phase1dc.com 1 W. Biddle St. Friendly neighborhood lesbian bar gets
Washington, DC 20003 In Dupont Circle area; popular with men twitter.com/phase1dc Baltimore, MD 21201 especially popular when the Ravens
202-543-5906 but hosts regular women’s events. The Phase opened in 1970 and remains 410-837-3906 play. Features billiards, music and more.
bananacafedc.com a popular lesbian bar and club. Features Mount Vernon-area downstairs bar
Popular Capitol Hill area restaurant and FIREPLACE regular special events, including Jell-O attracts men and women; friendly service. QUEST
bar (Eastern Market Metro) for both men 2161 P St., NW wrestling, 80s theme nights and more. 3607 Fleet St.
and women. Features Cuban, Mexican Washington, DC 20037 Check web site for details. DRINKERY Baltimore, MD 21224
and Puerto Rican cuisine. 202-293-1293 205 W. Read St. 410-563-2617
In Dupont Circle area; neighborhood bar REMINGTONS Baltimore, MD 21201 Neighborhood bar in Highlandtown
BLOWOFF popular with men. 639 Pennsylvania Ave., SE 410-225-3100 area is popular with men and women
815 V St., NW Washington, DC 20003 Another of Baltimore’s friendly neighbor- and offers billiards.
Washington, DC 20001 GREEN LANTERN 202-543-3113 hood bars in Mount Vernon featuring
blowoff.us 1335 Green Court, NW remingtonswdc.com billiards, jukebox and welcoming service. SAPPHOS
Created by musicians Bob Mould and Washington, DC 20005 twitter.com/remingtonsWDC 1001 N. Charles St.
Richard Morel, Blowoff is an occasional greenlanterndc.com Popular country/Western nightclub in Capitol GALLERY Baltimore, MD 21201
dance event popular with men. Events are twitter.com/greenlanterndc Hill neighborhood with more than 6,000 1735 Maryland Ave. 410-752-7133
held in clubs around the country; D.C.’s Friendly bar for men hosts regular happy square feet of space for dancing and billiards. Baltimore, MD 21201 centralstationpub.com
Blowoff parties are held at the 9:30 club hours and special events, including One half block west of Eastern Market Metro. 410-539-6965 Part of the Grand Central complex,
in the popular U Street corridor. karaoke and shirtless drink special Longtime bar and restaurant popular Sappho’s attracts a lesbian crowd
nights. Check web site for details. TOWN DANCEBOUTIQUE with African-American clientele. and offers comfy couches, outdoor
B.O.I. PRODUCTIONS McPherson Square Metro. 2009 8th St., NW patio and more in its second
boimarketing.com//community.html Washington, DC 20001 GRAND CENTRAL floor location.
Organizes regular women’s events around JACK’S 202-234-TOWN 1001 N. Charles St.
town. Check web site for updated information. 1527 17th St., NW towndc.com Baltimore, MD 21201
Washington, DC 20036 Dance club and bar popular with men 410-752-7133
COBALT
1639 R St., NW
202-332-6767
jacksdc.com
and women, features regular drag per-
formances. U Street Metro.
centralstationpub.com
Large entertainment complex featuring
northern va
Washington, DC 20009 Dupont Circle area restaurant popular friendly pub, lesbian bar Sappho’s upstairs FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR
202-462-6569 with men and women. ULTRABAR and a dance club on the first floor. 555 23rd St. South
cobaltdc.com 911 F St., NW Arlington, VA 22202
In Dupont Circle area; part of complex JR.’S Washington, DC 20004 HIPPO 703-685-0555
of LGBT businesses at this address, 1519 17th St., NW ultrabardc.com 1 W. Eager St. Freddie Lutz’s Virginia establishment
including Level One restaurant on Washington, DC 20036 twitter.com/UltraBar Baltimore, MD 21201 includes a restaurant and friendly bar,
street level and 30 Degrees bar. 202-328-0090 Large dance club with gay-friendly 410-547-0069 regular specials and is popular with
jrswdc.com events and vibe located downtown near clubhippo.com men and women. Crystal City Metro.
CREW CLUB Longtime friendly Dupont Circle area Metro Center. Large club popular with men and
1321 14th St., NW bar popular with men; videos, regular women featuring billiards, top
Washington, DC 20005 special events. ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS DJs/dancing, karaoke, videos and
202-319-1333
crewclub.net LACE
1824 Half St., SW
Washington, DC 20024
more. Opened in 1972, Hippo’s motto
is “where everyone is welcome.”
laurel, md
Men’s 24-hour gym in Logan Circle area, 2214 Rhode Island Ave., NE 202-863-0670 PW’S
featuring steam rooms, lounges, Washington, DC 20018 secretsdc.com JAY’S ON READ 9855 N. Washington Blvd.
private dressing rooms and more. 202-832-3888 Featuring all-nude male dancers 225 W. Read St. Laurel, MD 20723
lacedc.com Wednesdays-Sundays, drag performances, Baltimore, MD 21201 301-498-8202
DC EAGLE Every night is ladies night at Lace; large dance floor and many regular 410-225-0188 pwssportsbar.com
639 New York Ave., NW features regular special events for women special events, contests and more. Piano bar attracts a mostly male Restaurant and bar is popular with gay
Washington, DC 20001 in Brookland neighborhood. Check web Large parking lot available; located in crowd, though welcoming to women and lesbian sports fans and is known
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