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washingtonblade.com • vol. 41, issue 47 • november 19, 2010 • Still sharp after 40 years

‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal ‘barely hanging on’

Activists apply last-minute pressure
to White House, Senate
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com

The prospects for repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” this year
continue to fade as LGBT advocates pressure the White House
and Congress in hopes that lawmakers will take action before
they adjourn for the year.
One Senate Democratic aide, who spoke to the Washington
Blade on condition of anonymity, said repeal — currently pend-
ing before the U.S. Senate as part of the fiscal year 2011 defense
authorization bill — is “barely hanging on with life support.”
“The only way to resuscitate this effort and get a ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell’ vote is for President Obama and [Defense Secretary Robert]
Gates to start pushing directly, something we on the Hill had ex-
pected the president and Gates to do long ago,” the aide said.
Frustration over the lack of movement on “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” prompted activists affiliated with GetEQUAL to take action
on Monday and chain themselves to the White House fence in
an act of civil disobedience.
The 13 protesters included Lt. Dan Choi, a gay Iraq war vet-
eran who was discharged under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” this year,
and Robin McGehee, co-founder and director of GetEQUAL.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
In a statement, GetEQUAL said three generations of LGBT
Thirteen activists seeking repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ were arrested at the White House this week.
Continues on page 18

From the ashes, a new Blade

nationalnews
Discharged service members file lawsuit
over halved severance pay. PAGE 8
giftguide
First installment in our annual holiday Gift Guide
features music, novelties. PAGE 29
1 year later, details emerge in former parent company’s collapse
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The U.S. Small Business Administration
filed a court motion last December giving its
approval of a bankruptcy filing by Window Me-
dia, the company that owned the Washington
Blade, resulting in the shutdown of the Blade
after a 40-year run as an LGBT newspaper, ac-
cording to court documents.
But in an unexpected turn of events, the dis-
solution of Window Media through its Chapter 7
bankruptcy wiped out its enormous debt to credi-
tors, clearing the way for Blade employees to
form a new company that purchased the Blade’s
name and remaining assets from the bankruptcy
court debt-free and at a bargain price.
Continues on page 10
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LOCALNEWS
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
‘Hank’s is one of the great recent enhancements of our neigh-
borhood, while the problems are entirely imaginary,’ said rick
rosendall, vice president of the Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance.
Dupont Circle ANC to drop
protest against Hank’s
The Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commis-
sion reached an agreement Wednesday with lesbian
chef and businesswoman Jamie Leeds in which the
ABC Board to deny the request for expanded seating
space. The Dupont Circle ANC, ANC 2B, did not initially
move to oppose the expansion proposal. But it rushed
to pass an opposition “protest” petition last week after
word surfaced that Hank’s representative told the ABC
Board the restaurant might consider extending its oper-
ating hours on its outdoor patio from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m.
on week nights and from midnight to 3 a.m. on week-
ends.
ANC 2B Chairman Will Stevens told the Blade the
ANC will vote in a special meeting later this month to
withdraw its protest after Leeds agreed to stipulate in
her ABC license that she will continue Hank’s current
closing hours of 11 p.m. during the week and midnight
on weekends for its outdoor seating.
ANC commissioner Jack Jacobson, who represents
the single member district that includes Hank’s, was
the only commissioner to vote against the protest of the
Hank’s expansion proposal before this week’s agree-
ment was reached. Commissioner Mike Silverstein, who
is a member of the ABC Board, did not vote in keeping
with his decision to refrain from voting on issues pend-
ing before the ABC Board.
“I am happy to see a slender shaft of reason break
through the clouds of obstruction,” said Rosendall in re-
sponse to the agreement by the ANC to drop its protest.
Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Former Blade employee
victim of anti-gay attack
The Washington Blade’s former videographer, Aram
Vartian, was punched in the face and knocked to the Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key

commission will drop its protest against Leeds’ plans
for expanding seating capacity at her popular Hank’s
Oyster Bar restaurant near Dupont Circle.
The ANC’s action came less than two weeks after the
city’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board voted to end
a five-year-old voluntary agreement prohibiting any ex-
pansion of Hank’s seating space or operating hours. In
2005, a group of neighborhood residents demanded
that Leeds sign the agreement as a condition for open-
ing her restaurant on Q Street, just off the popular 17th
Street strip where several gay bars are located.
Both Leeds’ supporters and opponents agree that
opposition to her proposal to expand her restaurant is
linked to longstanding efforts by some neighborhood
activists to limit what they see as an over-concentration
of nightlife businesses in the 17th Street commercial
strip and is not related to her sexual orientation.
But gay and straight nightlife advocates say Leeds is
being targeted for “heresy” by some nearby residents
associated with the ANC and the Dupont Circle Citi-
zens Association who strenuously oppose any efforts
to curtail or repeal the ABC Board’s system of voluntary
agreements between neighborhood groups and busi-
nesses with liquor licenses – including restaurants and
bars.
Supporters of the “VOAs” say they are needed to
prevent irresponsible businesses from creating noise
and other disturbances that affect nearby residents.
Critics, however, say they are unfair and a form of extor-
tion because they pressure businesses to agree to re-
strictions like early closing times or bans on music and
dancing that are not prohibited by city laws regulating
restaurants or bars.
“Hank’s is one or the great recent enhancements
of our neighborhood, while the problems are entirely
imaginary,” said nearby resident Rick Rosendall, vice
president of the Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance. “That
Jamie Leeds is sick of being hobbled by years of gra-
tuitous restrictions should surprise only those with no
regard for the obligations and risks faced by a small
business owner.”
The Dupont Circle Citizens Association and a small
group of residents, most of who don’t live on the block
where Hank’s is located, have filed petitions asking the
ground outside his apartment near the Washington
Convention Center on Nov. 10 by a male attacker who
shouted anti-gay slurs.
Vartian, 34, who currently works for Metro Weekly,
said the attack came minutes after he walked a male
friend to his car and the two men bid farewell by hug-
ging each other near 10th and M streets, N.W., about
9:30 p.m.
“I gave him a hug. It was a bit of a lingering hug,”
Vartian said. “He got into his car, I waved to him and
turned to walk back home. I took about 10 or 15 steps
and this guy ran up behind me and punched me in the
face—in the right cheek and nose area.”
According to Vartian, the unidentified male attacker,
who was black and appeared in his late teens or early
20s, stood over him and screamed at him with his fists
clinched and a scarf pulled over his face. Minutes earli-
er, Vartian said he saw the attacker standing with about
10 other young men a short distance from where Vartian
stood with his male friend, gay singer and songwriter
Tom Goss.
“It was faggot this and faggot that and not in this
neighborhood,” Vartian quoted the attacker as saying.
It was a diatribe. He was screaming in a rage.”
Two of the other youths who had been with the at-
tacker rushed over to where Vartian was assaulted and
grabbed the attacker and pulled him away from him,
Vartian said.
“They said, ‘We’re sorry, sir. He’s drunk. Please don’t
call the police,’” Vartian said the other two told him.
But Vartian did call police, who responded within
minutes to take a report of the incident, which they clas-
sified as an anti-gay biased related simple assault. Var-
tian said that within a few minutes of their arrival police
drove him to a nearby location where other officers had
detained two youths observed fleeing from the scene.
The officers asked him to look at the two in a make-
shift lineup while he sat in the police car, but he said he
could not positively identify either as the person who
assaulted him.
Capt. Edward Delgado, who oversees the police’s
Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit, said police are seeking wit-
nesses to determine if others could identify the person
who assaulted Vartian. A GLLU officer also arrived on
aram Vartian, a former Blade employee, was attacked last
week by an assailant who shouted anti-gay slurs.
the scene, said Vartian. He praised the officers for be-
ing attentive and helpful.
Vartian said he declined a police offer to call para-
medics to examine him. He said he suffered a bruised
face but doesn’t consider his injury as serious.
Lou Chibbaro Jr.
obituary
Junious Tyler-Turner II
Junious Tyler-Turner II, a former gay resident of
Washington, D.C., died Nov. 4 in San Diego. He was 48.
Tyler-Turner was born in Virginia in 1962 and attend-
ed John Tyler Community College and later Howard
University. He worked for the A.D. Price Funeral Home
in Richmond before moving to D.C., where he worked
for both Hecht’s and Woodward & Lothrop. Most recent-
ly, he worked in retail management at Saks Fifth Avenue
in San Diego, until that store closed earlier this year.
Friends said he was an enthusiastic supporter of
Lambda Squares in D.C. and the Chi-Town Squares of
Chicago, both gay square dancing organizations.
He is survived by his mother, Louise McCowan; step-
mother Elizabeth Turner; his Aunt Lee Anna Waters;
friends Barbara Robinson of North Carolina, Michael
Olivas of California, and Winnie Feldman-Lindauer and
Lee Brian Magnuson of D.C.; four brothers, six sisters
and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
A memorial service was held last week at First Union
Baptist Church in Crozier, Va. In lieu of flowers, memori-
al contributions may be sent to Balboa Park Performing
Arts & Culture, 1549 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego,
CA 92101.
CorrECTioN
An article in the Sept. 20 edition (“Gay Discovery
hostage shares story”) included an incorrect photo
credit for an image of Christopher Wood. The photo
credit should have read: Photo by Pete Exis, Image X
Photography. The Blade regrets the error.
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LOCALNEWS

Washington Blade file photo

Police arrested several business owners in Rehoboth Beach for noise violations, prompting the town
to reconsider its ordinance.

Gay commissioners in Rehoboth

call for easing patio restrictions
Two gay members of the Rehoboth Beach Board of Commissioners are sup-
porting a proposal to ease a little-noticed outdoor patio ordinance that led to the
Sept. 11 arrest of a gay bar owner for keeping his outdoor seating area open after
11 p.m.
The “citation” arrest of Aqua Grill co-owner Bill Shields and the owners or man-
agers of two straight restaurants on the same night on a criminal charge of violating
the Rehoboth Beach patio ordinance has prompted critics to call the police action
an embarrassment to the town. Some are calling the incident “patio-gate.”
Rehoboth Police Chief Keith Banks disputed media reports that police raided
12 restaurants or bars on the night of the three arrests in connection with the patio
ordinance. He said the establishments were “visited” by officers after town inspec-
tors informed them days earlier that the town would begin enforcing an ordinance
that had largely gone unenforced for a decade or longer.
The ordinance requires restaurants or bars to stop serving food or drinks on their
patio at 10 p.m. and to vacate the patio by 11 p.m.
The charge against Shields and the owner of one of the other two establish-
ments was dropped days later. Banks said police discovered that Aqua’s operating
permit included a possible waiver of the ordinance’s requirement that restaurant or
bar patios be vacated by 11 p.m. He said police dropped the charge against the
owner of one of the other establishments cited after learning it was exempt from the
ordinance under a grandfather clause for places in business prior to 1991.
Rehoboth officials said they began enforcing the ordinance after receiving com-
plaints by residents about noise coming from people sitting or standing in the pa-
tios.
Gay Rehoboth Commissioners Dennis Barbour and Pat Coluzzi have joined
other commissioners in calling for reclassifying the ordinance into a civil rather
than criminal statute.
At a Nov. 8 workshop meeting held by the commission, Barbour called for elimi-
nating the grandfather clause and shifting enforcement to establishments found to
be causing excessive noise rather than linking it to patios themselves. The com-
mission, which serves as the town’s legislative body, took no action at the meeting.
Barbour said he would continue to push for a change in the ordinance.
Banks said the three people arrested in September were given a citation dur-
ing the police visit and were not taken into custody or detained. However, he said
an officer finger printed them with a portable, hand-held ink pad. The remaining
person arrested in the incident pleaded guilty and paid a fine.
Gay activist and Rehoboth resident Peter Schott said most of the establishments
named by authorities as past violators of the patio or a separate noise ordinance
are patronized by gays or lesbians, even though most are not considered gay
establishments. The Blue Moon, a popular gay bar and restaurant in Rehoboth,
is among the establishments exempt from the patio law through its grandfather
clause.
Steve Elkins, president of Camp Rehoboth, an LGBT organization, said he did
not believe police or Rehoboth officials were targeting the establishments because
of the perceived sexual orientation of their customers.
Lou Chibbaro Jr.
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NATIONALNEWS
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his successor, Jerry Brown, have both declined to defend Prop 8 in federal court.
Prop 8 rules established
for December face-off 
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals announced
this week how it wants opposing sides to lay out their
cases during a critical Dec. 6 hearing on California’s
gay marriage ban, the Sacramento Bee reported
Tuesday.
Key to the hearing is whether citizen proponents
of Proposition 8 and one California county — Impe-
rial — even have the right to defend the gay mar-
riage ban in the federal appeals court based in San
Francisco.
Organizers of the ballot initiative and Imperial
County claim that they have the right to defend Prop-
osition 8 in federal court. Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg-
ger and Gov.-elect Jerry Brown, as attorney general,
both declined to defend the measure from a chal-
lenge to its constitutionality, the Bee reported.
Last August, the voter-approved same-sex mar-
riage ban was found unconstitutional by U.S. District
Judge Vaughn Walker after a highly publicized trial.
Proponents of the ballot measure and Imperial
County filed an appeal with the 9th Circuit. Their chal-
lenge is two-pronged: First, the panel of judges must
agree that proponents and the county have a right to
appeal Walker’s decision.
That’s a claim that could conflict with U.S. Su-
preme Court opinions finding that ballot proponents
in other cases do not enjoy that legal standing.
Second, the panel will review claims that Walker’s
decision was flawed.
The Dec. 6 hearing, which will cover these two lev-
els of argument, will be divided into two hour-long
sessions.
Mormon Church removes
same-sex attraction from sin list
WASHINGTON — The Mormon Church has re-
moved same-sex attraction from its list of sins ac-
cording to a report from Human Rights Campaign.
The change, announced last weekend, for the first
time in the religion’s history, does not call for coun-
seling for those experiencing same-sex attractions.
The church still teaches that “homosexual behavior
violates the commandments of God” but the policy
differentiates between same-sex behavior and at-
traction.
While some may bemoan the change as minor,
Photo courtesy of Schwarzenegger’s office
HRC said it’s a positive change in that it no longer
advocates for “reparative” therapy.
Lesbian at Catholic school
in employment dispute 
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A lesbian who worked in ad-
ministration at a Catholic university in Springfield, Ill.,
lost her job after her wedding announcement ran in
an Illinois newspaper, the State Journal-Register, a
regional newspaper, reported.
Employers knew Laine Tadlock was a lesbian
when she started working there five years ago and
also knew of her plans to wed partner Kae Helstrom
in Iowa this summer. Tadlock left her position as di-
rector of the education program at Benedictine Uni-
versity Oct. 28. The school said she resigned, ac-
cording to the Journal-Register. Tadlock said she did
not. Benedictine is a Catholic-sponsored university.
Catholic doctrine teaches that homosexual activity of
any kind is a sin.
In a Sept. 30 letter to Tadlock’s attorney, Benedic-
tine President William Carroll wrote, “… By publiciz-
ing the marriage ceremony in which she participated
in Iowa she has significantly disregarded and flouted
core religious beliefs which, as a Catholic institution,
it is our mission to uphold.”
GOP wins put Minnesota
marriage battles on hold
MINNEAPOLIS — LGBT rights activists in Min-
nesota thought 2012 would be the year they could
finally make a serious push for marriage equality in
the state, but a surprise Republican takeover of the
legislature has them back on the defensive instead,
the Associated Press has reported.
Tom Prichard, president of the Minnesota Fam-
ily Council, says his group will push for a statewide
vote in 2012 to ban gay marriage and civil unions in
Minnesota’s Constitution. Previous efforts to do so in
2004, 2005 and 2006 met a firewall in the strongly
Democratic state Senate, but that liberal majority
crumbled Nov. 2.
And despite a vow by new Republican legisla-
tive leaders to focus primarily on job creation and
spending cuts when they take over in January, the
likely new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Commit-
tee, Sen. Warren Limmer, a Republican from Maple
Grove, said there’s “a lot of bottled-up desire” in his
party to finally put gay marriage before state voters.
Photo courtesy of CITN
For Church in the Now’s Bishop Jim Swilley and Debye Swilley,
the decision to divorce so Jim could live openly as a gay man is
‘a real love story.’
After 39 years in
ministry, Ga.
bishop comes out
Swilley urges dialogue
between gays, Christians
By SHANNON HAMES
Georgia Voice
Bishop Jim Swilley founded Church in the Now, the
massive, non-denominational congregation in Conyers, in
1985. But as the church grew over 25 years, and through-
out his almost four decades of ministry, Swilley struggled
with a secret that he hid from his congregation.
“I am approaching my 39th year in ministry — All I have
ever done is preach the gospel,” Swilley told his congre-
gation in an emotional sermon last month, noting that his
parents tell stories of him preaching while still in diapers.
“There are two things in my life that are an absolute: I did
not ask for either one of them, both of them were imposed
upon me, I had no control over either of them,” Swilley said.
“One was the call of God in my life … the other thing,
and I wouldn’t have known what to call it at the time, is my
sexual orientation. I know a lot of straight people think that
orientation is a choice, but I want to tell you that it definitely
is not,” he said.
Swilley discounted rumors that he was cheating on his
wife, who sat in the audience nodding her support, thanked
his children and parents, and said that he was motivated to
speak up by the recent rash of gay youth suicides, and by
ongoing hate crimes targeting gay people.
“I can only hope that you hear me out and you hear me
with an open mind,” Swilley said then.
The video of Swilley’s Oct. 13 coming out speech has
gone viral with more than 50,000 views in three weeks. Jim
Swilley, Debye Swilley and their son Judah Swilley spoke
with the Georgia Voice about the experience.
GA Voice: Debye, people who watched that video really
want to know if you support Jim. Can you speak to that?
Debye Swilley: I look at this as a real love story. I’ve
always loved Jim and we learned to build a life around his
sexual orientation. We built an incredible life together. We
love each other and are best friends.
In March of 2009, it hit me that I was no longer a bless-
ing to Jim. I was handicapping him. I was doing him a dis-
service by keeping him from growing because I was keep-
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NATIONALNEWS

Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key

Mike Almy, a former Air Force officer, is among those who received half separation pay as a
result of his discharge under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’

Lawsuit challenges ‘Don’t

Ask’ separation pay
Discharged service
members get half severance
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
A new lawsuit filed over the halved
separation pay given to some U.S. ser-
vice members discharged under “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” is raising questions about
why the Defense Department hasn’t tak-
en action to resolve the issue.
Last week, the American Civil Liber-
ties Union and ACLU of New Mexico
filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal
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is Richard Collins, a former staff ser-
geant who was in the Air Force for nine
years before he was discharged under
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“After nine years of honorable service,
it’s not fair that I should be deprived of
the same benefits given to other dedicat-
ed service members who are adjusting to
civilian life,” Collins said in a statement.
Another discharged service member
who was affected by the pay inequity is
Mike Almy, a gay former Air Force communi-
cations officer who testified earlier this year
before the Senate about being discharged
under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in 2006.
“I think it’s absolutely ridiculous,” Almy
said. “It’s pouring salt on the wound.
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is horrendous
enough as it is already.”
Almy said he received separation pay
of $40,000 upon his discharge from the
Air Force when he would otherwise have

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ACLU’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-
gender project, said his organization
filed the class action lawsuit, known as
Collins v. United States, as a result of this
severance pay inequity.
“Basically, if you’re discharged under
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ [and serve for at
least six years], under the policy there’s
virtually no way you can qualify for full
separation pay,” Block said.
The issue only affects service mem-
bers separated under “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” who received honorable discharg-
es and who have served for at least six
years because only under those condi-
tions do troops qualify for severance pay.
Further, because of the statute of limi-
tations, the lawsuit would only affect ser-
vice members who’ve been discharged
under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” within the
Block said he’s hopeful the Pentagon
would drop the policy as a result of the law-
suit and pay discharged troops they com-
pensation they would normally receive.
Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of
the Servicemembers Legal Defense Net-
work, said SLDN and the National Gay &
Lesbian Task Force identified the issue
more than a year ago as something that
the administration could resolve with a
policy change.
“In this case, [Defense] Secretary
[Robert] Gates has the authority to stop
this practice, and he should,” Sarvis
said. “Not only should they stop it, we’ll
also be seeking — as we have in the past
— restitution on their back pay.”
But why does the administration con-
tinue the policy when President Obama
has said he wants to repeal “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” and the issue could be re-
solved with a stroke of a pen?
Eileen Lainez, a Pentagon spokes-
person, said in a statement that depart-
ment policy authorizes half separation
payments to members who are “not fully

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Block said the litigation was brought
on behalf of all service members involun-
tarily discharged in the past six years and
estimated that at least 100 discharged
service members will qualify as part of
the class of plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
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qualified to continue to serve” and who
are being involuntarily separated under
honorable conditions.
“Currently, members being dis-
charged for [‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’] … re-
ceive half separation pay, because the
law says they are not qualified to con-
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NATIONALNEWS
Pentagon study leaks are
aiding repeal effort
Reports suggest most
personnel OK with lifting
gay ban
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Capitol Hill observers say recently
leaked details about the upcoming Pen-
tagon study on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” are
having a positive influence on the effort
to repeal the military’s gay ban.
Alex Nicholson, executive director of
Servicemembers United, said “it’s un-
deniable” that the leaked findings were
“extremely helpful” to repeal advocates.
“Whether or not it’ll take us across the
tipping point, I don’t know,” he added.
“That’s anybody’s guess. It’s undeniable
that it moves us more in that direction,
but people disagree on where that tip-
ping point is.”
R. Clarke Cooper, executive direc-
tor of the Log Cabin Republicans, said
media reports on the Pentagon working
group study are still too recent to prop-
erly assess their impact on convincing
Republicans to vote in favor of repeal.
Still, he said he’s confident the findings
will “bring in additional votes.”
“It’s certainly a bolster to the case we’ve
been making with Republican lawmakers
and their staff that the study is beneficial,
it’s very thorough and the terms that De-
fense Secretary Robert Gates laid out are
very clear,” Cooper said.
Repeal advocates said they hope the
leaks, which were published in the Wash-
ington Post, will bolsters efforts in the
Senate to pass the fiscal year 2011 de-
fense authorization bill, which contains
language to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
A previous vote to move forward with the
legislation in September didn’t meet the
60-vote threshold to make it to the Sen-
ate floor.
Last week, the Washington Post re-
ported that the results of a survey sent to
400,000 U.S. service members over the
summer as part of the Pentagon work-
ing group’s efforts will reveal that more
than 70 percent of respondents think the
effect of ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
would be positive, mixed or nonexistent.
A similar report was published Thursday
in The New York Times.
These survey results reportedly led
study authors to conclude that objections
to gays serving openly in the U.S. military
would drop after the implementation of
open service. The deadline for complet-
ing the study and delivering it to Defense
Secretary Robert Gates is Dec. 1.
According to the Washington Post, the
working group report is about 370 pages
long and is divided into two sections.
The first section examines whether end-
ing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will harm unit
readiness or morale. The second part of-
fers a plan for ending enforcement of the
law. This second section is not meant to
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R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of the
Log Cabin Republicans, said he’s confident
the Pentagon study’s findings will bolster re-
peal efforts.
serve as the military’s official instruction
manual on the issue, but could be used
as such if military leaders agreed.
A Democratic aide, who spoke to the
Blade on condition of anonymity, said re-
porting on the Pentagon working group
study is infusing pro-repeal efforts “with
a newfound energy.”
“Some pro-repeal senators are al-
ready touting the findings in discussions
with their colleagues, in hopes of galva-
nizing sufficient support for repeal,” the
aide said.
But the leaked findings have already
riled social conservatives seeking to keep
the ban on open service in place. On
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New details emerge in gay media company’s collapse 

Continued from page 1 tic, behind-the-scenes discussions The bankruptcy and sudden the shutdown. The two directed tential buyers, according to some
last summer and fall over whether shutdown of the Blade and sev- all employees to retrieve their media industry observers.
One year after the Blade shut- the Blade and other newspapers eral other publications owned personal possessions, clear out The lack of competing bids
down on Nov. 16, 2009, and six owned by Window should be sold by Window Media stunned the their desks, and leave the prem- resulted in Brown Naff Pitts Om-
months after its resurrection, to bidders — including a group Blade staff and the D.C. gay ises by 3 p.m. that day when the nimedia obtaining the Blade as-
court documents and new infor- of former Blade employees — or community. Blade publisher office was to be shuttered. sets for $15,000.
mation disclosed by sources fa- whether the company should be Lynne Brown, who is part of the Before leaving, however, Morris, the SBA’s liquida-
miliar with Window and its parent dissolved in bankruptcy. group that bought the Blade’s as- most employees joined Brown, tion office director, disclosed
company, Avalon Equity Fund, Thomas Morris, director of sets from the bankruptcy court, Naff and Pitts in vowing to band this week that the Buffalo, N.Y.-
provide a dramatic glimpse into the SBA’s Office of Liquidation, said she and the Blade’s manag- together to form a new publica- based M&T Bank may have
the final days of a collapsing gay said the SBA played no role in ers and staff learned of the Ava- tion — with the first fledgling been responsible for scuttling
media conglomerate. Window’s ultimate decision to lon receivership in August 2008. edition to come that Friday, just the initial plans by the SBA and
Among the revelations was declare bankruptcy. But he said She said SBA officials work- four days later, when the Blade Window to sell its assets rather
the dismaying discovery by the the SBA joined Window in fil- ing on the Avalon receivership would have hit the streets had it than go the route of bankruptcy.
Blade’s new owners that the ing a Dec. 10, 2009 stipulated told her in early 2009 the SBA not been shut down. When the financially troubled
paper’s electronic archives — motion before a federal court was taking steps to sell Ava- “We wanted to show the world Window defaulted on a loan of
which made all of its content in New York asking the court to lon’s and Window’s assets and we weren’t going away and that close to $1.3 million from M&T,
going back to about 2001 ac- retroactively agree to the bank- publications, including the we could produce a paper with- the bank became the No. 1
cessible online — were erased ruptcy that Window filed 20 Blade. A short time later, Brown out missing a beat,” Naff said. secured creditor or lien holder,
after Window stopped paying days earlier in Atlanta. joined the Blade’s editor, Kevin Not knowing if they would ever Morris said. In that role, M&T
its bills to a company that stored The SBA’s involvement with Naff, and senior sales execu- be able to obtain the Blade’s would not agree to a proposal
the data on rented servers. Avalon and Window stems from tive Brian Pitts to form a group name, the staff met the following by the SBA that it initiate a fore-
“Like any customer, they were its decision in 2008 to obtain a that submitted a bid to buy the morning at a café in the National closure on Window Media, a le-
delinquent in their payment,” court order forcing Avalon Eq- Blade out of receivership. Press Building lobby to plan a gal status that would allow a po-
said Kevin Soendker, chief op- uity Fund into receivership after The SBA organized the bid- new paper, which they decided tential buyer of any of Window’s
erating officer of the Natick, Avalon defaulted on $38 mil- ding process on Window’s be- to name the DC Agenda. assets like the Blade to be free
Mass.-based Inet Services. lion in loans from the SBA. With half and encouraged others to While Naff and the now vol- from liability for Window’s debts.
“The service was cancelled and the SBA placed in full control submit bids. Among those who unteer reporters and editors An interested party would still
the servers were repurposed,” of Avalon through the receiver- submitted a competing bid was planned stories for the new be allowed to buy the Blade but
he said, acknowledging that the ship ordered by the U.S. District gay rights advocate Nicholas paper, Brown and Pitts scram- they would most likely decline
data was erased. Court for the Northern District Benton, publisher of the Falls bled to line up advertisers and to do so if they had to assume
The Blade’s new owner, of New York, SBA also played Church News Press in Virginia. a printer. To the surprise and Window’s debt, Morris said.
Brown Naff Pitts Omnimedia, a key role in Window’s affairs. Benton, like Brown and Naff, acclaim of many in the LGBT “Once that fell through, we
Inc., announced this week that Avalon, then under the control expressed shock and anger community, the first edition of had no viable alternative plan,
it is launching a non-profit foun- of the SBA, owned 75 percent when Window announced on the eight-page newsletter-style and without one we would not
dation to raise money to pay for of total equity in Window Media. Nov. 16, 2009 that it was de- DC Agenda appeared at many have won a challenge to the
digitizing all back issues of the U.S. District Court Judge claring bankruptcy and shutting of the Blade’s distribution loca- bankruptcy filing,” Morris told
Blade and to make them acces- Peter K. Leisure included in down all of its operations rather tions on Friday, Nov. 20. the Blade in an e-mail.
sible to the public. his original Avalon receiver- than sell its papers through the In subsequent weeks and The SBA could have asked
Although the electronic ar- ship order, which he handed SBA bidding process. months, the Agenda expanded its the receivership judge to stop
chives were erased, all printed down Aug. 21, 2008, a direc- The shutdown immediate- pages and evolved into a tabloid the bankruptcy and, as a federal
copies of the Blade going back tive that neither Avalon nor any ly eliminated the jobs of the newspaper similar to the Blade. district court judge, he likely had
to its first issue in October 1969 of its assets, including compa- Blade’s 24-member staff. In a Meanwhile, Brown Naff Pitts authority to do so, Morris said.
have been preserved and are in nies it controlled, could declare development that drew exten- Omnimedia, Inc., the company “But our conclusion at that
the Blade’s possession. bankruptcy without the court’s sive media coverage, Window formed by the Blade’s former time was that M&T was owed
Also emerging within the past advance approval. Leisure ap- co-presidents Kitchens and publisher, editor and sales ex- more than the company was
week are separate accounts by a proved the Dec. 10, 2009 mo- Steve Meyers appeared at the ecutive, responded to an offer by worth,” Morris said.
top SBA official and Window’s for- tion backed by the SBA, clear- Blade’s offices in the National the Window bankruptcy court for He said that meant that no
mer co-president and chief operat- ing the way for the Window Press Building on Monday bids on the Blade’s assets, which other creditors, including Ava-
ing officer, Mike Kitchens, of fran- bankruptcy to move forward. morning, Nov. 16, to announce included the Blade’s name. lon, which was Window’s larg-
“We didn’t know who or what est creditor, would recoup any
we were up against,” Brown said. funds through the sale of Win-
She noted that the new com- dow’s assets. Window owed
pany was seeking investors Avalon close to $5 million.
Blade launches non-profit foundation and advertisers but didn’t have Thus he said the receivership
The Washington Blade this week announced the formation of a new non-profit entity to preserve a huge amount of capital to judge would most likely have
and make accessible the paper’s 40 years of archives. compete with a large company rejected an SBA motion to chal-
The Washington Blade Foundation for Education and Research will work to digitize those archives. or wealthy individual that might lenge the Window bankruptcy.
In addition, the Foundation will fund academic research into LGBT topics and support young LGBT submit a competing bid. Kitchens said resignations
journalists with scholarships. As it turned out, no one else of members of Window’s board
“We are excited by the potential of the Foundation,” said Blade editor Kevin Naff, who will serve as submitted a bid. Media observ- of directors resulted in just he
the first president of the Foundation’s board of directors. “The Blade has played a prominent role in ers said the economic recession and Window co-president Steve
the LGBT rights movement for more than 40 years and that history must be preserved and shared.” and the longstanding decline in Meyers as the only remain-
A new website — washingtonbladefoundation.org — debuted this week where supporters can the print media industry may have ing board members during the
make tax-deductible donations to the Foundation. discouraged investors from seek- months prior to the bankruptcy
The announcement was made on the one-year anniversary of the bankruptcy of the Blade’s former ing to buy and restart the Blade. filing. According to Kitchens,
parent company, Window Media. Since then, Blade staffers purchased the name from the bankruptcy In addition, with the Blade’s former the company’s operating rules
court and resurrected the paper, which was returned to local ownership. staff having started a new D.C. required at least three board
The other members of the Foundation board are: Colleen Dermody, a marketing executive and LGBT community newspaper, members for a quorum to make
proprietor of Out to Market; Peter Rosenstein, an LGBT activist and Blade contributor with a back- the Agenda, the value of buying any important decisions such
ground in non-profit management; Khadijah Tribble, a non-profit executive with experience in LGBT the Blade’s assets — consisting as the sale of assets.
and HIV/AIDS topics; and Mark Meinke, an archivist and historian known for his work with the Rain- only of used office equipment, the He said the SBA could have
bow History Project. paper’s printed archives and its named someone to the board,
STAFF REPORTS name — may not have been ap-
pealing to investors or other po- Continues on page 12
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“They should have taken places on
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Crain said the SBA never responded
to his and Waybourn’s request for finan-
cial information about the company; they
declined to submit a bid.
Blade’s fate tied to
Window’s rise and fall
Waybourn and Crain’s interest in re-
turning as Blade owners would likely
have created an uproar among some
gay activists and media commentators,
who blame the two for setting in motion
the events that led to the Blade’s demise.
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acquisition of Southern Voice, an Atlanta
gay paper. In the next few years, Window
bought gay papers in Houston and New
Orleans and acquired smaller gay enter-
tainment magazines in other cities.
The Blade, which was founded as the
Gay Blade in 1969 by local gay activists,
evolved from a fledgling newsletter style
publication put together in the homes of its
volunteer editors, into what many have called
the LGBT community’s newspaper of record.
Gay activist and businessman Don Mi-
chaels, who became publisher in the late
1970s, has been credited with transform-
ing the Blade into a thriving business as
well as a well-respected news publication.
Window Media bought the Washing-
ton Blade and the New York Blade, which
Michaels founded in the 1990s, in 2001,
when Michaels made plans to sell the
papers and retire. All parties declined to
disclose the sale price, but sources have
said it exceeded $3 million.
Crain said this week that although
Window Media had been financed by
many small investors, it hooked up with
Avalon Equity Fund — a multimillion dol-
lar investment company — to provide the
main financing for the purchase of the
Washington Blade and New York Blade.
He said the financing arrangement made
Avalon the majority shareholder in Win-
dow Media at the time of the closing of
the sale of the two Blades in May 2001.
But he noted that while Avalon had
legal control of Window at that time, it
allowed Crain and Waybourn to run the
company and make all key decisions
up until January 2006, when Waybourn
left the company. At that time, Avalon’s
founder and managing partner, David
Unger, named one of his top Avalon lieu-
tenants, Peter Polimino, as Waybourn’s
replacement as Window president.
In September 2006, Crain left the com-
pany, amid speculation that both he and
Waybourn had been ousted by Unger over
sharp disagreements on how the company
and its newspapers should be run.
Waybourn stated at the time of his de-
parture that he decided to retire after com-
pleting what he said was the creation and
operation of a successful LGBT newspa-
per chain. Sources familiar with Window,
however, said Waybourn left the company
due to irreconcilable disagreements with
Unger over Unger’s management style
and plans for acquiring more publications
at the risk of assuming greater debt.
Crain said it was his decision to leave
the company over a dispute that arose
over Avalon’s decision to abolish Crain’s
position of editorial director of all the Win-
dow publications and to hire individual
editors at each of the Window papers.
Waybourn, who declined to comment
this week on Window’s finances, has said
in the past that the company acquired
more debt than it had planned for over
circumstances beyond its control. He
noted that the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon led to a sharp drop in advertis-
ing sales due to a slump in the economy.
He noted that a decision by Blade em-
ployees to attempt to form an employee
union the week Window assumed owner-
ship of the Blade forced Window to spend
at least $100,000 to fight the union.
Story continues at
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Murphy: Obama will ramp up ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal efforts
Pa. lawmaker says
president is waiting
for Pentagon report
to act
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The champion of “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal in the U.S.
House maintains that President
Obama will provide the “full
spectrum” of engagement in
getting the military’s gay ban re-
pealed once the Pentagon com-
pletes its report on the issue.
In an interview Tuesday with
the Washington Blade, Rep.
Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.) said
Obama has been engaged
in moving Congress to repeal
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and that
this effort will expand once the
Pentagon working group report
— due Dec. 1 — is complete.
“I think there are different lev-
els of engagement and, I think,
once the report comes out, I think
we’ll see the full spectrum of that
engagement,” Murphy said.
The first Iraq war veteran
elected to Congress said he
expects this “full spectrum of
engagement” to come from not
only the White House, but also
the president’s “own Depart-
ment of Defense.”
Murphy said he hasn’t seen a
draft copy of the report, but not-
ed media reports indicating that
the study will be favorable to
open service in the U.S. military.
He said the study should have
a positive impact on senators
who’ve said they wanted to wait
for the report before endorsing
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal.
“The study group came
back and said that this will not
hurt national security, and the
troops, like most Americans,
see that it’s the right thing to
do,” Murphy said. ”And so, now
we need the senators over there
who’ve been a roadblock to put
the political games aside and
do what’s right for our country.”
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-
Conn.), the sponsor of re-
peal legislation in the Senate,
and Sen. Susan Collins (R-
Maine) sent a letter to the Pen-
tagon on Monday calling for the
report to be made available to
members of Congress as soon
as possible. The Human Rights
Campaign issued a similar
statement last week.
Asked whether he similarly
thinks the report should be
available now, Murphy replied,
“I think they should release it as
Rep. Patrick Murphy, who lost his re-election bid, remains hopeful that the
military’s gay ban will be repealed this year.
soon as it’s completely done.”
Murphy said he’s participated
in discussions with Senate lead-
ership and Senate Armed Ser-
vices Committee Chair Carl Levin
(D-Mich.) about moving forward
with the fiscal year 2011 defense
budget bill, which currently con-
tains “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal.
Still, the Pennsylvania law-
maker didn’t offer details on the
discussions and characterized
them only as “productive.”
Amid reports that talks are
taking place to potentially strip
the defense authorization bill
of its repeal language, Murphy
said Republicans have sought
a bill without the “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” provision.
“I think that’s what the Repub-
licans would like to see,” Murphy
said. ”But I think those of us in
the House and 78 percent of
the American people and those
in the military currently serving
want to see the Senate do what’s
right and repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell’ and put it on the president’s
desk, so he can sign it into law.”
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
With limited time remain-
ing this Congress, it’s possible
lawmakers won’t repeal “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” this year, leav-
ing Obama to come up with
another game plan — perhaps
non-congressional action such
as a stop-loss order — to put an
end to the gay ban.
But Murphy was reluctant to
call on Obama to issue a stop-
loss order to end discharges
under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
and maintained Congress can
still repeal the law this year.
“Let’s cross that bridge when
we get there,” he said. ”Now it’s
still in the Congress’ domain to
act and especially, specifically,
the Senate’s domain.”
While seeing a path forward
this year, Murphy doubts that
Republican leadership in the
112th Congress will be willing to
consider “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
repeal as part of its agenda.
Asked whether he thinks
GOP leaders in the next Con-
gress would be willing to ad-
dress the issue, Murphy replied
simply, “N0.”
During his time in Congress,
Murphy has been seen as
a leader for ”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
repeal because of his work mov-
ing a measure that would end
the ban through the U.S. House.
Murphy took up sponsorship
of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” re-
peal legislation last year, which
at the time had about 150 co-
sponsors, and gradually built
support for the measure.
In May, the work paid off
when Murphy submitted a repeal
amendment to the House floor
that passed by a vote of 234-194.
The work earned Murphy con-
siderable support among the
LGBT community in his bid for re-
election. Still, he didn’t survive the
Republican tide on Election Day
and was defeated by his GOP
opponent, Mike Fitzpatrick.
But Murphy said he isn’t go-
ing to “second guess” whether
his leadership on “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal contributed to
his loss on Election Day.
“My dad taught me that if you
don’t stand for something, you fall
for anything,” Murphy said. ”And
I was proud to stand for equality
and for the troops and for nation-
al security, and I’ll continue to do
so until I turn the keys over to this
office on Jan. 3.”
Even with his loss, Murphy
said he stands by other tough
votes in his district, such his
“yes” votes on the $787 billion
stimulus package and health
care reform.
“We stopped the worst re-
cession from turning into a de-
pression,” Murphy said. ”As far
as health care, there are millions
of Americans that will now be
covered, and that’s something
that’s positive.”
And what’s on Murphy’s
docket once his term is com-
plete at the end of the year?
“I’m going to hug and kiss
my kids and hopefully I’ll catch
an Eagles game,” Murphy
said. ”That’s the game plan.”
The transcript of the Murphy
interview follows:
ON ELECTION RESULTS
Washington Blade: What’s
your take on the election re-
sults on Nov. 2? Do you think
that your leadership on “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal con-
tributed to your loss on Elec-
tion Day?
Rep. Patrick Murphy: You
know, I’m not going to second
guess anything. My dad taught
me that if you don’t stand for
something, you fall for anything.
And I was proud to stand for
equality and for the troops and
for national security, and I’ll con-
tinue to do so until I turn the keys
over to this office on Jan. 3.
Blade: Why do you think
you think you lost on Elec-
tion Day?
Murphy: I think it was a tough
year for Democrats, and I think
my opponent ran a great cam-
paign, and I’m proud of the sup-
port that we had, but it was an
historic wave that we got caught
up in, but … we’re going to con-
tinue to stand for middle-class
families and for our country and
do what’s right.
Blade: Is there anything
over your past two terms in
Congress that you regret?
Anything that you think you
could have done differently to
win re-election?
Murphy: You know, I don’t
live my life with regrets. There’s
things here and there. I wish I
would have played the lottery
numbers differently on Saturday
night. … We had an incredible
time serving the families of my
district and our country, and we
helped protect 3,000 jobs, we
helped end the war in Iraq, we
helped move our country in a
new direction. …
Blade: So the vote for the
stimulus package, the vote
for the health care bill — you
stand by them today?
Murphy: Absolutely.
We stopped the worst re-
cession since the Great — we
stopped the worst recession
from turning into a depression.
As far as health care, there are
millions of Americans that will
now be covered, and that’s
something that’s positive.
ON ‘DON’T ASK’ REPEAL
IN LAME DUCK
Blade: How confident are
you that Congress is going to
be able to repeal “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” in the lame duck
session?
Murphy: Well, we need the
Senate to act. It’s in the Sen-
ate’s hands. We did our job over
here in the House. I was proud
to lead that effort and now we’re
continuing to put the appropri-
ate pressure on the Senate to
do what’s right for national se-
curity.
We’re still in Afghanistan and
Iraq and we cannot be forcing
honorable men and women
who are willing to take a bullet
to keep our families safe to be
thrown out just because they
happen to be gay.
Complete interview at
washingtonblade.com
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NATIONALNEWS
Gay Georgia bishop talks about coming out
Continued from page 6
ing him from being who he was. When I
realized that I was hurting Jim more than
helping him, that hurt me. I came to a
place where I knew that I was no longer
the best for him.
Jim Swilley: She came to me and
said, “I think it’s time that you are able to
walk in the way that you direct people.
You tell people that God loves them just
as they are and that God has a purpose
for them just as they are and you don’t
give that same break to yourself.”
I told her, “If we were going to still work
together [in ministry], you realize that
you’re outing me. People will look at us
and wonder if we’re that fine with each
other, why don’t we just stay married?”
Debye: I told Jim Earl, “I will do any-
thing that you want for me to do. If you
want me to be the crazy woman who
freaked out or let people think that I had
an affair, I really don’t care what anybody
says about me. If you don’t ever want to
come out with this, it’s your truth. I just
can’t do it anymore. I will not be in agree-
ment with us not being everything that
we’re supposed to be. Just know that I
will never hurt you and I will always pro-
tect you.”
Jim: The church had a lot of ques-
tions. People still saw us together and
there was speculation about why we
were divorcing. There was enough buzz
about it that I tried to address it at our
church’s 25th anniversary. Somehow,
the word got out into the community
that I came out that day. We kept try-
ing to decide what to do. Should I leave
it? Should I say more? I was talking all
around it.
The real thing that made me go ahead
with it was that two-week period when
those five or six gay teen suicides hap-
pened. I decided that I couldn’t not talk
about this. I was just going to put it out
there and whatever happens would hap-
pen. If I lost the ministry, I’d deal with that.
I wasn’t afraid. I just knew it was right.
Voice: What has been the general
response from the public and from your
church membership?
Jim: In one week, I gained over
1,000 Facebook friends. I’ve heard
from Hong Kong, Japan, London, South
Africa, Kenya, Nigeria… one story after
another from people who say, “Oh my
God. I feel like you totally told my story.”
I’ve heard from other pastors who’ve
come out or pastors who are still in the
closet, afraid to come out. I’ve heard
from teenagers. For every negative one
that I get, there’ll be a hundred that are
loving and affirming. I hear it over and
over: “You saved my life.”
Voice: Judah, what have you ob-
served about people’s reactions to your
dad sharing his truth?
Judah Swilley: Thank God that most
of it has been supportive. Unfortunately,
we’ve heard from closed-minded reli-
gious people that see things a different
way. The crazy thing is that the people
who have extreme religious beliefs and
they bring out different scriptures and try
to pick and choose them to make their
point. You can’t just pick one thing and
take it out of context.
You know, Leviticus says all kinds of
crazy things. …
Debye: What people might not un-
derstand is that Jim carried this fear of
rejection with him that is so deep that it
would come out in the way that he would
minister. I always knew in my heart that
if he just loved himself just the way that
he was and if he embraced his humanity,
the divine part would be exponential.
Voice: Bishop Swilley, what do you
want to tell the gay community in Atlanta?
Jim: One of Jesus’ last words on the
cross was “Father, forgive them. For they
know not what they do.”
What I would to say to the gay com-
munity is that Proverbs says that life is
in the power of the tongue and the only
thing that I know to do is to continue to
communicate. I understand why so many
gay people left the church. I totally get it.
I understand why so many of them don’t
believe in God. I want to be somewhat of
a bridge builder or repairer of the breach.
What I would say to gay Christians is
to continue to dialogue if you can.
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NATIONALNEWS
Activists press Reid to schedule ‘Don’t Ask’ vote
Continued from page 1
activists were arrested as a re-
sult of the action. Others who
were arrested include former
Marine Corps Sgt. Justin Elzie,
who became the first Marine
discharged under “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” in 1993, as well as
Michael Bedwell, a long-time
advocate of LGBT rights and
open service in the U.S. military.
As the protesters were
chained to the White House
fence, Choi called on President
Obama to act on his promise to
end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“After all his rhetoric, I think
we must conclude that there is
truth to the knowledge in ho-
mophobia of both sorts: there
is a loud homophobia of those
with platforms and there is a si-
lent homophobia for those who
purport to be our friends and do
nothing,” Choi said. “Loud ho-
mophobia and silent homopho-
bia have the same result. They
must be combated and this is
what we intend to do today.”
While the protesters were
chained to the White House
fence, they chanted the often-
used GetEQUAL refrain of “I am
… somebody … and I deserve
… full equality.” The protest-
ers also added a new refrain,
“Barack Obama … Silent Ho-
mophobia!”
The protesters superglued
their handcuff locks, and, de-
spite repeated warnings from
U.S. Park Police, didn’t remove
themselves from the White
House fence. As police forc-
ibly removed the activists, they
dragged their feet as they were
hauled into a paddy wagon. It
took five police officers to re-
move Choi from the fence, hand-
cuff him and drag him to the van.
Army Capt. Jim Pietrangelo
II, who previously was arrested
for chaining himself to the White
House, led the chants of the
protesters with a bullhorn from
Lafayette Park and shouted out
to Obama as police dragged
the activists away.
“Why are these courageous
heroes having to be arrested
now?” he shouted. “Mr. Presi-
dent, could you follow the lead
of these brave Americans and
stop ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?’”
Pietrangelo called on Obama
to issue an executive order to
stop the discharges under the
military’s gay ban.
In a statement, Shin Inouye, a
White House spokesperson, re-
sponded to the protest and said
Obama is committed to legislative
repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“As we have said repeatedly,
A group of 13 activists arrested this week accused President Obama of silent homophobia for not pushing harder to
repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’
the president remains commit-
ted to a legislative repeal of
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” Inouye
said. “The White House con-
tinues to work with Congress
toward achieving that compre-
hensive and lasting solution.”
On Wednesday, White House
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
expounded on Obama’s com-
mitment to legislative repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” as he ac-
knowledged that the president
hasn’t yet reached out to sena-
tors to lobby them on the issue.
Asked whether Obama had
made any phone calls to “sway-
able senators” such as Susan
Collins (R-Maine), who voted “no”
on moving forward with the de-
fense authorization bill in Septem-
ber, Gibbs replied that he doesn’t
believe the president has spoken
to the Maine senator on the issue.
But Gibbs said he’d put pas-
sage of the defense authoriza-
tion bill in the “same category”
for passage as other items he
mentioned that Obama wants to
see in lame duck, resolving a tax
cut issue and ratification of the
START Treaty, a nuclear arms re-
duction agreement with Russia.
“The president believes that
this can be done in a way, and
should be done, as you heard
Secretary Gates and others say, in
the next few weeks,” Gibbs said.
Amid doubts about whether
the White House would push
aggressively for “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal this year, Sen-
ate leaders are reportedly con-
sidering dropping the repeal
language from the defense au-
thorization bill to move forward.
Senate Armed Services Com-
mittee Chair Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
reportedly acknowledged to re-
porters on Tuesday that taking
the repeal provision out of the
defense bill is on the table.
“I’m trying to get the bill through
Congress,” Levin was quoted as
saying. “I’m the committee chair-
man for a 900-page bill. ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ is two pages of 900
pages. My focus is different from
the media focus. I’m just trying to
get a bill passed.”
Levin maintained that he
wants get both passage of the
defense authorization bill and re-
peal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but
added “if I can’t get both done,
I want to get one of them done.”
The White House issued a
statement last week saying it
opposed stripping the defense
authorization legislation of its
repeal language. Gibbs reiter-
ated that position during the
press conference.
“We ought to keep this in the
defense authorization bill, we
ought to pass this in the de-
fense authorization bill, and we
ought to end the policy that the
courts are rapidly getting close
to ending on a timetable that
those in the bureaucracy might
not [like],” Gibbs said.
Additionally, activists contin-
ued to pressure Senate Major-
ity Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.),
who’s responsible for the legisla-
tive calendar in the chamber, to
bring up the defense authoriza-
tion bill with the repeal language.
On Monday, the staff for Sen-
ate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D-Nev.) offered non-answers
to LGBT activists and veterans
pressing for a commitment from
the senator to bring “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal to a vote in the
lame duck session of Congress.
A group of about 20 activists
affiliated with GetEQUAL — in-
cluding nine LGBT veterans led
by Choi — came to Reid’s Sen-
ate office in the Hart Office Build-
ing to demand answers on when
the Nevada senator would move
forward with major defense bud-
get legislation containing repeal
of the military’s gay ban.
“We’re here to essentially
ask a very important question,”
Choi said. “When is Sen. Harry
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
Reid going to put the [fiscal
year 2011 defense authoriza-
tion bill] to a vote that’s inclusive
of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?’”
But the staffers offered no
definitive answers to the inqui-
ries on the defense bill, which
is currently pending before the
Senate, and said Reid is plan-
ning to meet with Senate Minor-
ity Leader Mitch McConnell (R-
Ky.) later this week to discuss
which legislative items would
come up before lawmakers ad-
journ for the year.
A deputy chief of staff for
Reid, who didn’t offer his name
during the meeting, referred
activists to a congressional mili-
tary fellow and member of the
U.S. Army in Reid’s office, who
took activists’ questions and
said he’d obtain responses for
them. Reid’s office didn’t imme-
diately respond to the Blade’s
request to identify the staffers.
The source said he couldn’t
give a date for when Reid in-
tends to schedule the defense
authorization bill for a vote.
“If I told you it’s Tuesday and
it doesn’t come up until Wednes-
day — they’ve got three other clo-
ture votes that they’ve got to get
through this week,” the source
said. “There are other things that
are going on this week.”
The source maintained that
passage of the defense autho-
rization bill is “one of the bills
that has to be done this year”
because the legislation provides
funding for the Pentagon and op-
erations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Still, activists insisted that
Senate passage of the defense
authorization bill with “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal be done
before the end of the year and
pressed staffers on whether that
would happen before Thanks-
giving recess.
Most repeal supporters antici-
pate that the Senate would need
two weeks to debate and vote on
the defense authorization bill and
that scheduling the vote early in
lame duck is important.
Asked whether he could say
whether the vote would come
up before Thanksgiving, the
Reid source replied, “I cannot.”
In a statement to the Blade,
Jim Manley, a Reid spokesper-
son, said there’s “nothing new
yet” with regard to scheduling
decisions on the defense au-
thorization bill.
In addition to questions about
scheduling, the LGBT advocates
also sought assurances that Reid
wouldn’t strip the defense au-
thorization bill of its “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal provision before
bringing it to the floor.
The Reid source said he
“couldn’t tell you one way or an-
other” whether the option of pass-
ing the defense authorization bill
without the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
repeal language is on the table.
“I honestly don’t know,” he
said. “Because I am a fellow
that’s one of the things that — I
can look into it.”
Additionally, activists in-
quired about what Reid had
done with Choi’s West Point
graduate ring, which the Iraq
veteran had given to the sena-
tor at the Netroots Nation con-
ference in the summer to re-
mind Reid of his commitment to
repeal the 1993 law.
McGehee asked whether
Reid was keeping the ring in
a shoebox or in his desk and
whether he has “forgotten that
he made a promise in July.”
The fellow said he would look
into the whereabouts of Choi’s ring.
At one point, McGehee
called the fellow a “token mili-
tary person” that Reid’s staff
brought out to “act like” he
knows LGBT issues.
“In my opinion, Sen. Reid
has had the time to show the
leadership, my parents are con-
stituents of his state, and I feel
like he’s failed not only them as
constituents, but Lt. Choi, as a
promise that he made in July,”
McGehee said.
McGehee’s remarks riled the
deputy chief of staff, who in-
sisted the fellow wasn’t a token
and that he was brought out be-
cause staffers thought he was
the most appropriate person to
answer questions.
In response, McGehee main-
tained activists weren’t shoot-
ing the messenger, but said if
Reid wouldn’t give a commit-
ment that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
would come up before the Sen-
ate by the end of the year, activ-
ists would be back.
“It’s in his hands now,” she said.
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VIEWPOINT
Washington Blade’s next chapter begins
One year ago we were shut down; today we
announce non-profit entity to preserve paper’s legacy
By LYNNE BROWN, KEVIN
NAFF & BRIAN PITTS
On Nov. 16, 2009, we
walked into the Washington
Blade’s offices in the Nation-
al Press Building and were
quickly intercepted by the
parent company’s two remain-
ing executives, ushered into a
conference room and told the
company had filed for Chapter
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That scene played out 21
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staff arrived on an otherwise
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The events of that morning have
haunted and motivated the
Blade staff ever since.
In the immediate aftermath
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VIEWPOINT
Shame on John McCain
Former ‘maverick’
flip-flops, backs
anti-gay bias
By KEVIN NAFF
The rancorous debate over
repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
has featured many disappoint-
ments, but perhaps none as
dramatic and opportunistic as
Sen. John McCain’s emergence
as the face of the opposition.
There was no sign of the for-
mer straight-talking “maverick”
as he appeared on “Meet the
Press” on Sunday. McCain said
lawmakers should not repeal
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” before
adjourning for the year and
that congressional hearings
should be convened. He also
took issue with the content of
the recent surveys of service
members, suggesting that the
study should have focused on
the impact on battle effective-
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Mr. Henry’s Capitol Hill lunch
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To mark the one-year anni-
versary of Window Media’s col-
lapse — and the Blade’s rebirth
— Lou Chibbaro Jr. undertook
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report is published this week.
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questions that we are still at-
tempting to answer. Why was
the company shuttered when
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fers on the table for its various
assets? Who authorized the
bankruptcy? Was it legal and
properly executed? What hap-
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online archives?
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regarding your life, your history.
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ness, rather than on how to
implement repeal.
The call for hearings repre-
sents yet another predictable
delay tactic. After waiting nearly
a full year for the Pentagon re-
port, McCain now wants us to
wait some more. But the issue
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recent leaks reported by the
Washington Post indicate that
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spondents don’t see repeal as
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Kolbe (R-Ariz.), a Vietnam War
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repealed and noted he would
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VIEWPOINT

Details of healthcare reform still to be worked out

Why we should
care about new
Medicare panel
By DAVID MIXNER
Over the years, HIV/AIDS ac-
tivists and their allies have been
pioneers in creating new fron-
tiers in the medical establish-
ment. Through their efforts, the
FDA drug approval procedures
were reformed so promising new
therapies could reach desperate
patients quicker. The heroic ef-
forts of the HIV/AIDS community
has made health care better for
millions of Americans.
I celebrated the passage of
the new health reform law. It has
given Americans living with HIV/
AIDS much reason to hope. But
even in victory, there are impor-
tant details that must be worked
out. We should not be afraid of
making changes that will pro-
tect patient rights and total care.
One such change that is needed
relates to the Independent Pay-
ment Advisory Board (IPAB).
IPAB is a new entity com-
prised of 15 presidential ap-
pointees and tasked with cut-
ting Medicare spending. Its
recommendations automatically
become law without congres-
sional action. And it is wholly
exempt from judicial or admin-
istrative review.
These are high stakes for the
HIV/AIDS community. In 2006,
Medicare became the single
largest source of financing for
HIV care. Today, nearly100,000
people with HIV rely on Medi-
care for coverage.
Here are four reasons why
IPAB is bad for the HIV/AIDS
community.
1. IPAB will disrupt the doc-
tor-patient relationship.
For many people with HIV,
finding the right doctor is the
most important decision they’ll
make. But IPAB is likely to dras-
tically cut reimbursements to
physicians, prompting many to
leave the Medicare system. Doc-
tors that treat HIV/AIDS are highly
trained specialists that are partic-
ularly sensitive to payment cuts.
Make no mistake: Pushing
HIV specialists out of Medicare
will compromise patients’ health.
Treating HIV/AIDS is extremely
complicated. HIV specialists fight
an array of progressive, often life-
threatening complications with
multiple medications that require
close and ongoing monitoring.
And since many patients become
resistant to their medication over
time, treatment regimens must
change frequently.
2. Patients and their doctors
cannot appeal IPAB’s decisions.
Patients have no recourse to
appeal any decision made by
IPAB. Doctors, who know better
than anyone about the care a par-
ticular patient needs, are also un-
able to appeal IPAB’s decisions.
Without patient or doctor input,
the HIV/AIDS community will be
left at the mercy of 15 unelected
bureaucrats who can make major
changes to Medicare.
3. There’s effectively zero
congressional oversight.
To prevent an IPAB recom-
mendation from becoming law,
Congress can either outright
reject it via three-fifths majority
vote, or propose its own plan
to achieve the same amount of
savings. Both these possibilities
are politically unlikely.
What’s more, the law requires
Congress to act within an ex-
tremely short time period. And
even if Congress were to achieve
this minor miracle, the president
could still veto their decision.
It’s not certain Congress
would intervene if the IPAB’s
decisions were to result in fewer
HIV/AIDS specialists or limited
treatment options. After all, part
of IPAB’s appeal is that it insu-
lates Congress from actually
having to make politically un-
popular Medicare cuts.
4. IPAB will scare away fund-
ing for medical research.
Medical innovations have
dramatically reduced HIV/AIDS-
related deaths in this country
and throughout the world.
But we’re still years away from
an actual cure or vaccine. And
while current anti-retrovirals are
extending some lives, not ev-
eryone can benefit from them.
Around 40 percent of patients
with access to these improved
medications are either unable to
tolerate them or cannot adhere to
the complex treatment schedule.
We must continue to develop
new treatments and work toward
a cure. Developing these drugs
is expensive, however. Getting a
traditional pharmaceutical to the
market can cost a billion dollars
or more. Newer, more targeted
drugs called biologics are even
more expensive to make.
If IPAB lowers reimburse-
ment rates to providers in the
Medicare drug benefit, biophar-
maceutical researchers will find
themselves with fewer resources
to investigate new treatments.
The HIV/AIDS community
cannot forget this lesson of the
past: If we’re not on top of an is-
sue, we’ll get left behind. IPAB
is just such an issue. Left un-
modified, it will undo much of
the progress we’ve made over
the last two decades. The HIV/
AIDS community must fight to
protect the gains we’ve made
and ensure that all patients get
the care they need.
David Mixner has been involved in
public life creating policy and as an ac-
tivist and writer for more than 40 years.
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By GREGG BUSCH
Last week a friend of mine
called and said he was being
offered a mortgage from one of
the “big banks” at a rate of 3.5%
with no points. I told him we are
offering the same rate as long as
his credit scores were over 740,
which he was confident they
were and therefore not even an
issue. He went to my website
and applied online. Then, when
I ran his credit report his middle
score was 696, shocking both of
us since I know he is anal about
most everything involving financ-
es. Since Fannie Mae and Fred-
die Mac have now put in place
credit based scoring (where bet-
ter scores get the lowest rates),
I had to either add 1 ½ points to
his loan or raise his rate to 4%
to offer him a no point loan. Is
this starting to sound familiar???
Turns out that my friend had an
outstanding bill from a doctor he
saw when he lived at a different
address and never knew the bill
was not paid. That doctor placed
the bill for collection and it hit his
report just last month, resulting in
a derogatory credit blemish and
a significant drop in his score.
Having good credit is more
important than ever before when
it comes to getting the best rate
possible on a mortgage. A few
points lower in your middle credit
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score can mean a difference in
thousands of dollars over the
term of the mortgage. Credit
scores are crucial to the process
of a loan, but quite frankly, the
system has major flaws and that
is why you need to follow yours
on a monthly basis. There are
many factors that go into each
credit score and scores change
constantly. Some of the scoring
criteria is contradictory and some
is entirely illogical. Here are some
tips that I suggest you use to
maintain “healthy scores”:
1) The most impactful way to
keep your scores up is fulfilling
your monthly debt obligations
on time all the time. Obviously,
being late on your payments is
very bad and more recent lates
have a larger impact on your
scores than say 2 years ago.
2) It is your responsibility to
check your credit scores. There
are three credit bureaus that
track your credit history. Some-
times these credit bureaus make
mistakes that will adversely affect
your scores, and when this hap-
pens they have no financial or le-
gal obligation to fix them, unless
you contest.. The burden of proof
is on you to fix the problems that
are dragging your scores down.
Go to www.freecreditreports.com
or any other credit service you
can find that is reputable and
for a modest fee you can sub-
scribe and receive e-mail alerts
whenever there is any activity on
your report. I highly recommend
this to everyone!
3) Credit card balances
above 40% will drive down your
score. To avoid having your
scores drop, you must pay down
your balances to below 40% of
the credit limit on your revolving
cards. If you have one card with
a 70% balance to your credit
limit, break the debt down to 2
cards and get below the 40%
threshold of your credit limit.
4) Keeping open old credit
accounts can be a good thing
for your scores. In the old days
the way to improve your credit
was to cancel old accounts that
were not being used. Cancel-
ing the credit account removes
the credit line from your history.
Part of your credit score is de-
termined by the length of time
you have had certain lines.
5) Dispute negatives on
your report even if they are old.
If the creditor does not respond
to your letter on why the ac-
count is late, then they legally
have to remove it. Some people
I know have had luck disputing
old items with a lender that has
merged with another company,
an event that can leave lender
records a real mess.
6) A variety of credit is best.
The optimal number of lines of
credit to keep open is four and
the four lines of credit should be
different: A mortgage, car loan,
home equity loan, student loans
and one or two credit cards.
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the scores a lot but with a mort-
gage and car loan you should be
well into the 700’s if everything is
paid on time and you do not carry
large balances on credit cards.
These are all important steps
to improving scores so you can
get those low rates everyone
keeps talking about. Remember,
nobody is going to work on im-
proving your credit like you will.
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Editor’s note: This is the first of a five-part
series on holiday gift giving ideas. We’ll
explore gift ideas in five categories. This
week: books, music and novelties.
‘Tis almost the season and you can hardly
go wrong with books, music and novelties
as holiday gifts. So we’ve collected a starter
list here to get the gift-giving wheels turning.
It features everything from local gems you
may have missed to big-name releases that
will anchor the sales season. Paper and CD
or Kindle and iTunes, here are some great
stocking stuffers for the gays on your list.
It’s been an agonizing eight years since Cher
put out a new record. The soundtrack (RCA)
for “Burlesque,” her new movie with Chris-
tina Aguilera (it hits theaters next week), finds
her out with two new cuts including the Diane
Warren power ballad “You Haven’t Seen the
Last of Me.” Available everywhere.
Mariah is back with her second holiday al-
bum, “Merry ChristMas ii you” (Island).
The same energy and festivity that made her
1994 release a seasonal standard — and
one of the top-selling Christmas albums of all
time — is maintained on this new collection
with tracks like “Oh Santa!” and “Christmas
Time is in the Air Again” along with the usual
standards. Available everywhere.
“ChristMas With the PuPPini sis-
ters” (Verve) finds the neo-big band
act aping ‘40s-style harmonies a la the
Andrews Sisters on a holiday set. They
breathe new life into standards such as
“Santa Baby” and “Here Comes Santa
Claus.” Available everywhere.
Annie Lennox — who’s gotten in the unfortu-
nate habit of waiting eons between releases
— is finally back with a new project and her
first-ever holiday release “a ChristMas
CornuCoPia” (Decca). She wraps her
distinctive vocals around favorites like “An-
gels From the Realms of Glory” and “God
Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” plus obscure
cuts like “Coventry Carol” and “As Joseph
Was a Walking.” Available everywhere.
Matt Conner, a gay pianist at Signature Theatre,
has his debut CD “Winter” available now
and features him playing instrumental versions
of standards such as “Jingle Bells” and “We
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“NO LABELS, JUST ME” is a photo book containing more than 150 photos of women
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entries. Compiled by Rain Kirby. $81; Amazon (sootaascreations.com)

“DECONSTRUCTING BEAUTY” is a coffee table book by gay photographer Michael

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And if you want something a little more kitschy and off the beaten path for that special
someone, Barbie dolls are available of gay icons CYNDI LAUPER and DEBBIE HARRY
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Christmas-time fetishes are explored in a
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“THE UN-NATURAL STATE” (University of
Arkansas Press) is a one-of-a-kind study
of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the
last century by gay D.C. resident Brock
Thompson. He analyzes the meaning of
rural drag shows that featured beauty pag-
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“TESTOSTERONE: A MAN’S GUIDE”
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that explores the benefits of testosterone
replacement therapy. ($19.99; Amazon)
“THE PARALLAX CUSP” is a collection
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Local chefs breathe new life
into Thanksgiving staples
Traditions can be tricky for LGBT peo-
ple. Those who’ve been shut out from
family gatherings may prefer Chinese
takeout or pizza on Thanksgiving. But
for those who’ll be cooking next week
but want to breathe a little new life into
the same old thing, we asked local chefs
and foodies for some fresh spins.
From new ways to make traditional
dishes to unexpected fare that won’t be
jarring with the turkey and mashed pota-
toes, here are some ideas to enliven the
proceedings.
Sweet Potato Soufflé with
Marshmallow Cream
From Gillian Clark, the lesbian chef and
owner of General Store in Silver Spring.
4 sweet potatoes
6 eggs separated
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup soft butter
1/2 cup fine bread crumbs
8 ramekins
15 marshmallows
1 tsp. sea salt
Preheat the oven to 425. Rub olive oil all
over the potatoes and place on the sheet
tray into the hot oven. Roast for about 30
minutes or until a knife inserted goes in
smoothly. When the potatoes have cooled,
peel them completely. Mash them and blend
with the six yolks in a food processor. Add
the sugar, salt, pepper and spices. Blend
well. Set aside in a large mixing bowl. With
a pastry brush, completely coat the inside
and the rim of the ramekins with the soft but-
ter. Dust and cover completely with a fine
layer of breadcrumbs. Set aside on a sheet
tray. Whip the egg whites to a soft peak and
gently fold into the sweet potato mixture. Fill
the ramekins with the mixture to about 7/8
full. Place in the oven until puffed high and
slightly browned — about 20 minutes.
While the soufflés are in the oven,
make the marshmallow sauce. Simply
melt the marshmallows over low heat in a
saucepan. With a spoon, pour a puddle
of the warm marshmallow sauce onto an
appetizer plate. Sprinkle with a pinch of
sea salt. Unmold the soufflé by running a
paring knife around the inner sides of the
ramekin. Unmold into a clean towel and
arts & entertainment
then gently place on the marshmallow
sauce and sea salt. Serve immediately.
Cranberry Sauce
From Barbara Hays, a lesbian and project
manager for progressive social/political orga-
nizations and initiatives and owner of Organi-
zational Chemistry, comes this fresh spin on
cranberry sauce made with whole cranberries.
Nothing says “Thanksgiving dinner” like
the aroma of this cranberry sauce wafting
through the house. I usually make it early in
the process, although it usually means there’s
less by the time we all sit down to dinner.
1 medium navel orange
2 cups water
Cut orange in half. Squeeze out and
set aside juice (¼ to a ½ cup – pulp is
good!)
Remove the membrane from the or-
ange peel and cut into a very small dice.
Cook in small saucepan with 2 cups wa-
ter – bring to boil and let cook for 10 min-
utes. Drain and set cooked peel aside.
Granny Smith apple (other tart variety
rethinking tradition
is fine). Peel, quarter and core. Chop into
medium pieces. Set aside.
12 oz. package cranberries (about 3
cups). Wash and go over carefully, dis-
carding any that are soft.
Combine in heavy medium saucepan:
diced orange peel, reserved orange juice,
chopped apple, and cranberries. Add:
1 ¼ cup sugar
½ t. ground cinnamon
¼ t. ground cloves
Bring to a boil and reduce to a sim-
mer and cover partially. Stir gently sev-
eral times while the mixture is cooking
— usually about 15 minutes. Cranberries
should have burst, and apples are very
tender. Let cool to room temperature be-
fore serving.
This recipe can be made well in advance
of the meal, even the day before. Bring to
room temperature if it’s been refrigerated.
Children get a huge kick out of hearing the
cranberries pop when it’s cooking.
Orange Glazed Stuffed Chicken
Guilherme Barreto is the executive
chef of Floriana, a winner in our Best of
Gay DC readers’ poll last month. He of-
fers this orange glazed stuffed chicken
for a meal anchor that’ll sub for turkey.
Chicken Brine: Soak chicken in water,
sugar, salt, whole black peppercorns, cori-
ander, thyme and a fresh squeezed orange.
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QUEERY: 20 Questions for Dustin Schaad aka Ba’Naka
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
How long have you been out and who
joeyd@washblade.com
was the hardest person to tell?
I came out when I was 15. The hard-
Dustin Schaad — aka Ba’Naka — came to
est person I came out to is a tie between
Washington in the winter of 2003 during a rough my Grandmothers Hazel and Rose. I was
time in his life. He’d been through a breakup, afraid to tell them because these women
couldn’t afford college and was on the outs with were my rocks growing up and I was
his parents, so he came to stay with an aunt who
afraid that they would disapprove. I was
was here and life started improving.
blessed that they both accepted me with
The 25-year-old Bradenton, Fla., native had
open arms.
already started dabbling in drag. He’d been doing
drag shows at a place called Triangles in Sarasota, Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
Who’s your gay hero?
Fla., a few nights a week. When he got to Washing- Lena Lett — she’s clever, witty and has
ton, local drag legend Kristina Kelly took him under her wing and he started appearing a tongue sharper than a Ginsu knife but
with her at Omega and Apex occasionally then as a regular at BeBar in 2007. she is also a beacon of compassion and
As Ba’Naka — whose name came about during a middle-of-the-night Wal-Mart
generosity, who’s given me many pearls
confrontation in his home state — Schaad’s drag star has only risen. Ba’Naka is a
of wisdom over the years.
regular at Town and just won the drag queen favorite award in the Blade’s annual
“Best Of” readers’ poll. With Town cohort Shi-Queeta-Lee, Ba’Naka was on “Ameri- What is Washington’s best nightspot,
ca’s Got Talent” a few years ago.
past or present?
“Ba’Naka and Dustin are really the same people,” Schaad says. “We’re both loud and Of course I love where I work, Cobalt
boisterous and in some ways I’m even more comfortable going out as her. Drag queens
and Town, but some of my fondest night-
can get away with murder — all kinds of stuff I could never get away with as Dustin.”
life memories, as blurry as they may be,
Schaad says drag is an art form and that the LGBT community at large should are from the old BeBar Days circa ‘07. I
appreciate queens more. had so much fun, often followed by the
“I always remind people it was a drag queen who threw the first brick at Stonewall worst hangovers imaginable.
so everybody enjoying their gay life today has a drag queen to thank.”
By day Schaad is a buyer for Universal Gear where he’s worked for about seven
Describe your dream gay wedding.
years. He likes working there but also fantasizes about doing drag — which he calls
One in which I have all of my friends
a passion — full time. and family and a man that I am head over
Schaad enjoys fashion design, art, movies, shopping and travel and lives in Sil- heels for — and a 29-inch waist! (Note
ver Spring. He’s single and now on good terms with his parents, grandparents and
that I will NOT have a tacky beach wed-
four younger sisters. Since he works in gay clubs — Ba’Naka co-hosts the package
ding or wear white, I mean let’s be hon-
contest on Thursdays at Cobalt in addition to her work at Town — he can often be est.)
found on off nights at Stetson’s, a straight bar on U Street.
What non-gay issue are you most
passionate about?
Prepping for the Zombie-Apocalypse
... girl, I am stock piled on canned foods
and have a fabulous pair of thigh-high
combat boots on order.
What historical outcome would you
change?
The 2000 presidential election results
because seriously we all could have
done without the pain, fear and suffering
brought on by eight years of Bush.
What’s been the most memorable pop
culture moment of your lifetime?
The Britney/Madonna kiss … come
on! Scandalous!
On what do you insist?
Condoms ... men are dogs, they tend
to roam and I don’t want fleas brought
home.
What was your last Facebook post or
Tweet?
“The maid alphabetized my porn!
Good for her!”
If your life were a book, what would
the title be?
“Taffeta & Shattered Dreams: My life in
the Tragic Queendom.”
If science discovered a way to change
sexual orientation, what would you do?
I would personally lead a One Queen
Revolution against it! I was born gay and
I love my life ... I wouldn’t want to be any
other way.
What do you believe in beyond the
physical world?
Really? You’re asking a drag queen
about her meta-physical philosophies?
No one cares what I think. Ask me about
glitter and shiny things!
What’s your advice for LGBT move-
ment leaders?
Cut the crap, drop the egos. Equality
is an American birthright. Focus on that.
What would you walk across hot
coals for?
Justin, the love of my life. He passed
away this year and I would do anything to
bring him back.
What gay stereotype annoys you most?
Gay stereotypes don’t annoy me; I find
them hysterical!
What’s your favorite gay movie?
“Spice World.” If that’s not a gay movie
I don’t know what is.
What’s the most overrated social custom?
Trust. Wait, does that make me cynical?
What trophy or prize do you most covet?
Ha! Don’t laugh, but my Pinewood
Derby trophy from Cub Scouts. This sis-
syboy showed those manly men how it
was done!
What do you wish you’d known at 18?
That my metabolism would betray me
at age 23.
Why Washington?
I moved to D.C. in 2003 after high
school. I had broken up with my boy-
friend, I couldn’t afford college on my
own and I desperately needed to get
out of Florida. I had an aunt who lived
up here and offered me a way out and
I moved up and started a new adven-
ture. I fell in love with D.C. because it
gave me the chance at a new start. I
love this city and I love our LGBT com-
munity. It’s home!
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
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CALENDAR
Today
The D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.)
will be holding an opening reception to-
day for Body Scapes, an art exhibit by
local artist, Bill Travis from 6 to 8 p.m. The
exhibit will be on display through Jan. 5.
Lace Lounge (2214 Rhode Island
Ave., N.E.) will be celebrating its two year
anniversary this weekend. Tonight is Pink
Friday. There will be a “crazy shoe game”
contest, painted body models, surprise
open bars and more. Visit lacedc.com for
more information.
The 23rd annual Washington Craft
Show opens today at the Walter E. Washing-
ton Convention Center from 10 a.m to 8 p.m.
This events features 190 of the nation’s top
craft artists. Tickets are $15 for general ad-
mission, $13 for senior, $8 for students and
children under 12 are admitted for free. Kelly
Conway, curator of glass at the Chrysler Mu-
seum of Art will be leading a panel discus-
sion with Matthew Fine, Charles Savoie and
Tim Tate at 1 p.m. Libby Mijanovich will pres-
ent “Transformation: Creating Contemporary
‘Green’ Art from Vintage Clothing” at 3 p.m.
Erotica Productions and Breeze of
“Sex is a Breeze” present “Sexxxhi-
bition: the Medical Fetish Edition” at
the Warehouse Loft (411 New York Ave.,
N.E.) from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. Advance
tickets are $20 and can be purchased at
sexxxhibition6.eventbrite.com. Tickets at
the door are $25 for those in costume/
fetish wear and $30 for those in street
clothes before 1 a.m.
The D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.)
will be holding a workshop for those who
have experienced the death of a loved Photo courtesy of Paul Oakenfold
one in the past year today from 6:30 to
DJ Paul Oakenfold spins at Club 9:30 Tuesday.
8:30 p.m. The workshop will include dis-
cussions of strategies for coping with
grief and loss during the holiday season. of She.Rex, Zack Rosen of Homo/Sonic Sunday, Nov. 21 Tuesday, Nov. 23
The blog True Genius Requires Insanity and Joshua of Gay Bash. Doors open at Lace Lounge’s two year anniversary Paul Oakenfold will be at 9:30 Club
is hosting “All Girl Everything: A Happy 9 p.m. and there is a $8 cover. This is a celebration ends tonight with “Lyrics (815 V St., N.W.) tonight with Chuckie and
Hour to Support Rock D.C.” at the U Street 21-and-older event. and Lace,” an open mic, live entertain- Nervo. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are
Music Hall (1115 U St., N.W.) today from 5 The 23rd annual Washington Craft ment exhibition. Appetizers will be half $25 and can be purchased at 930.com.
to 10 p.m. All proceeds from the bar will go Show continues today at the Walter E. off and there will be drink specials. The Nellie’s will be having its weekly
directly to the organization. DJs Natty Boom Washington Convention Center from 10 Coolats band will be performing an the “Glee” watch party on the roof deck to-
and vAnniety Kills will be spinning hits by a.m to 6 p.m. This events features 190 of show starts at 8 p.m. E-mail dclace@ya- night at 8 p.m. featuring $3 Nellie Beer
female artists. To find out more about the the nation’s top craft artists. Tickets are hoo.com to perform. Visit lacedc.com for all night.
organization, visit girlsrockdc.org. $15 for general admission, $13 for senior, more information.
DJs K La Rock and Junebullet will $8 for students and children under 12 Cherry Blossom Bombshells and Wednesday, Nov. 24
be providing music at Wet Girls at Jim- are admitted for free. Bob Devers from the Scare Force One will be competing
my Valentine’s Lonely Hearts Club (1103 the ceramics department at the Corco- today at the D.C. Armory (2001 E. Capi- Omega will hosts its weekly pool
Bladensburg Rd., N.E.) from 9:30 p.m. to ran School of Arts will lead a panel dis- tol St., S.E.). Tickets are $12 for general tournament tonight. First place wins a
3 a.m. This is a free event for those 21 cussion with leading experts in the field admission, $6 for children 6 through 11, $50 bar tab and second place wins a
and over. of American fine craft at 1 p.m. Nancy and children under 6 will be admitted free. $25 bar tab. Shirtless men drink free on
Women is their 30s will be holding a Kubale will present “The Human Condi- Tickets are available at the door or can be both floors from 10 to 11 p.m. The Men
discussion meeting tonight at the D.C. Cen- tion in Clay” at 3 p.m. purchased in advanced. Doors open at of Omega perform at 10 p.m. Doors
ter (1318 U St., N.W.) from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Lace Lounge’s (2214 Rhode Island 3 p.m. For more information and to pur- open at 4 p.m.
Ave., N.E.) two year anniversary celebra- chase tickets, visit dcrollergirls.com. Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) will be hosting
Saturday, Nov. 20 tion continues tonight with the “All Black Alvin Jackson, pastor of Park Avenue its weekly karaoke party tonight at 9 p.m.
Everything” Affair. There will be compli- Christian Church in New York City, will be
Unity Fellowship Church, D.C. will mentary champagne fountains and din- a guest preacher at Michigan Park Chris- Thursday, Nov. 25
be having its annual gospel concert, ner buffet. All black attire highly recom- tian Church (1600 Taylor St., N.E.) today
“Sounds of Zion Choir” tonight from 6:30 mended. This event starts at 9 p.m. Visit for the 10 a.m. morning worship service. Burgundy Crescent Volunteers
to 7:30 p.m. at the Luther Place Memorial lacedc.com for more information. will be having its eighth annual “Clear
Church (1226 Vermont Ave., N.W.). The MIXTAPE D.C. is tonight at the old Monday, Nov. 22 OUT Your Closets” Thanksgiving cloth-
choir will be under the direction of Profes- EFN Lounge space (1318 9th St., N.W.) ing drive for the homeless and needy.
sor David Rogers and will feature a special from 10 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. MIXTAPE is The 2010 annual Electronic Media Clothing drop-off is from 10 a.m. to
presentation by Johnny Sabbat. Tickets a dance party for queer music lovers and Film Fall Film Series presents films noon today at Rosemary’s Thyme res-
are $10 and can be purchased by con- and their pals that features DJs Shea about the relationship between math, taurant’s patio (1801 18th St., N.W.).
tacting the church at 202-246-6299 or e- Van Horn and Matt Bailer playing an sciences and storytelling. This week’s Clothing distribution will be from noon
mailing ufcdcpastor@yahoo.com. eclectic mix of electro, alt-pop, indie film is “Good Will Hunting” starring Ben to 2 p.m.
Balls returns to Velvet Lounge (915 rock, house, disco, new wave and any- Affleck and Matt Damon in the Van Bok- The film “Burlesque” starring Cher,
U St., N.W.) tonight with Troll Tax, the Co- thing else danceable. $5 cover for 21 klen Hall Auditorium at Towson University Christina Aguilera and Alan Cumming
olots, Tayisha Busay and DJs Junebullet and over. at 7:30 p.m. This is a free event. opens nationwide today.

SPORTIN’INDC
Trips, trails and treks
Local gay sports groups
The Capital Punishment gay volleyball team will be in a regional tournament next weekend.
have big plans for
coming months
By KEVIN MAJOROS
Several of the region’s LGBT sports
leagues have major events in the coming
week. Here are some highlights.
The Capital Punishment Volleyball
Club will participate in the 2010 Presi-
dent’s Queer Cup Classic on Nov. 27-28
at the Reckord Armory in College Park,
Md., featuring North American Gay Vol-
leyball Association-sanctioned pool and
tournament play. Visit www.cpvclub.org
for more information.
MYOB Adventures offers a flying tra-
peze lesson Nov. 27 from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
at the D.C. Navy Yard. Cost is $75 per
person. E-mail to kevinmnorris@aol.com
for more information.
D.C. Gay Flag Football League has
its championships on Sunday from 10
a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Carter Barron Fields.
Check out the action as the teams battle
it out for the league championships. Visit
www.dcgffl.org for more information.
D.C. Ice Breakers has its “mega”
skate night and social on Dec. 11 at 5:45
p.m. at the Kettler Capital Iceplex in Ar-
lington. It’s being hosted by 10 LGBT
groups including two lesbian groups.
There will be an hour of casual skating,
then attendees will move to Bailey’s Pub
in the same complex for a social. Skating
is $8, plus $3 for skate rental. The social
at Bailey’s is “pay as you go.” Visit www.
icebreakers.com for more information.
Adventuring Outdoors Group, an
november 19, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 37
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H !
Photo courtesy of Majoros
LGBT hiking outfit, will visit Browntown Trail
H !
Hike on Nov. 27 at 9 a.m. at the East Falls Give the gift of good taste with gift coins
Church Metro Station. This historic, but sel- and gift cards, redeemable at any of our
dom visited, pathway is on the western side
of the Blue Ridge immediately below South
restaurants. Gift coins come in increments
Marshall Peak. Though the trail is rough of $25, $50 or $100 packaged in a velvet-
and rocky, the slope is generally gentle, lined gift box. Gift cards carry easily in
with many switchbacks. Total length of anyone’s wallet and are available in any
this moderate-to-strenuous round-trip
hike is less than seven miles, with about denomination.
1,500 feet of elevation gain. Bring bever- Purchase cards and coins online at
ages, lunch and about $13 for admission, clydes.com along with Clyde’s t-shirts, and
transportation and trip fees. Optional inex-
pensive dinner in Front Royal on the way reproductions of our monthly food special
home. Meet at 9 in the Kiss & Ride lot of posters.
the East Falls Church Metro Station. Go to
www.adventuring.org for more information.
Ski Bums Washington Chapter has a
happy hour for Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. at Nellie’s
Sports Bar. The group will announce its trips
for the coming year. Prizes will be given. Vis-
it www.ski-bums.org for more information.
Washington Renegades Rugby has
its final game of the fall season against
Winchester Rugby on Saturday at 1 p.m. CLYDE’S RESTAURANT GROUP:
at Cardozo High School in Columbia Clyde’s of Georgetown, Tysons Corner, Reston,
Heights. With a win last week against
Rappahannock, the Renegades moved Columbia, Chevy Chase, Mark Center, Gallery
into second place in the Potomac Rugby Place; Tower Oaks Lodge; The Tomato Palace;
Union. Watch the Renegades wrap up Willow Creek Farm; Old Ebbitt Grill;
their season at home against the Win-
chester Cannons. Visit www.dcrugby. The Tombs; 1789 Restaurant
com for more information.
DC Frontrunners are having a clydes.com
“Thanksgiving day trot for hunger” on
Thursday at 8:30 a.m. at West Potomac
Park. This 5K timed run and “family fun
walk” helps SOME Services provide more
than 1,000 meals on Thanksgiving day and
every day for the homeless and hungry.
Go to www.dcfrontrunners.org for more in-
formation.
38 washingtonblade.com • november 19, 2010
AUTOAGENDA
There are a number of great gift ideas out there for the auto lover in your life.
Gifts for the auto-phile
From $12 Ford caps to a
$400 Bugatti umbrella
By JOE PHILLIPS
Finally, after two terrible years in the auto
industry (remember all those closed dealer-
ships and the GM and Chrysler bailouts?)
car sales are up again—even as prices re-
main oh-so-low. But if you still can’t swing a
stylish new ride for those gay and lesbian
auto-philes in your life, here are some auto-
related gifts that are just as fun.
Bugatti Bling
A Bugatti Veyron supercar costs around
$2 million, which makes these Bugatti
accessories a real bargain: polo shirts
($183), jackets ($540 to $615) and a sleek
royal-blue umbrella ($430) that looks like
the perfect accessory for Curt on a Glee-
inspired remake of “Singin’ in the Rain.”
Cobra Baseball Cap
Here’s a butch stocking stuffer for
muscle-car lovers: Ford’s faux snake-
skin cap ($12). It has a brushed-metal
medallion with a sinister, swirling cobra
ready to strike—the logo for Mustang’s
high-performance model, the Shelby Co-
bra. First built from 1965 through 1970,
the Cobra was revived in 2007 after Ford
came out with its fifth-generation Stang.
The new 2011 Mustang Shelby GT500
Cobra is the best one yet, scooting from
0 to 60 mph in just 4.4 seconds.
Tricked-Out Watches
Each year, carmakers try to outdo
each other with auto-oriented time-
pieces. Here are four worth, er, watch-
ing: Renault Formula One—$325 to
$875—with high-end stainless-steel cas-
ing and tachymeter dials (from watch-
maker TW Steel). IndyCar Limited Edi-
tion—$3,000—features titanium casing
and ’70s groovy styling, but only 50 will
be produced (from Ritmo). Royal Oak
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Offshore Grand Prix Collection—$35,000
to $95,000—comes in forged carbon,
rose gold, or platinum; water-resistant to
330 feet; and self-winding with 60-hour
reserve (from Audemars Piguet). Scude-
ria Ferrari One—$300,000—yikes, these
are so exclusive they’re available only to
current Ferrari owners (from Cabestan)
BMW’s Key-like USB Stick
BMW’s new USB memory stick ($45)
may not be an actual car key, but it sure
looks like one. Press on the trunk button,
and the USB plug slides out to fit in a
computer or audio/music port for USB-
capable vehicles.
Toy Cars for Kids—and Grown-Ups
Before there were Hot Wheels, there
were “slot cars.” These miniature model
cars were motorized and ran on slotted
tracks, similar to model railroads. Today’s
slot cars are now digital, so they can
change lanes. And while only two cars
could race in the past, now up to six cars
can compete for the checkered flag. Here
are three of the best: Carrera Digital Motor
Monsters, $270, with two cars and 18 feet
of track (additional cars are $50 extra);
SCX NASCAR Tri-Oval Superspeedway,
$370, with three cars and 19 feet of track;
and Scaalextric Digital PRO GT, $500,
with four cars and 22 feet of track.
Cool Driving Schools
Here’s a gift you may just want to keep
for yourself. These one-day programs
help channel your inner James Bond to
safely out-maneuver bad drivers, errant
pedestrians and potholes:
Skip Barber Racing School, $1,800
Bondurant Racing School, $1,700
Jim Russell Racing Drivers School, $800
For Jeff Gordon wannabes, there are
three-day programs in high-test Formula
One racers:
Skip Barber Racing School, $4,000
Bondurant Racing School, $4,300
Jim Russell Racing Drivers School, $4.800
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THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS OPENINGS
23rd Annual Washington Craft Show Sat, Nov. 20
Nov 19 - Nov 21 A Christmas Carol. Ford’s Theatre. 202-
397-7328. fords.org
Washington Craft Show
Drops of Water / Gotas de Agua. Teatro
Washington Convention Center de la Luna. 703-548-3092. teatrodelalu-
202-249-3000 na.org
CraftsAmericaShows.com Washington Color and Light by Corco-
A premier event of contemporary craft in ran Gallery of Art. corcoran.org
America, the Washington Craft Show pres-
ents masterful work, beautifully displayed. LAST CHANCE
Each piece is one-of-a-kind or limited edition
in a range of prices, all designed and crafted Sat, Nov. 20
in artists’ studios across America. King Ubu/Ubu Rey by Teatro de la Luna.
703-548-3092. teatrodelaluna.org
The Joffrey Ballet: The Nutcracker National Symphony Orchestra: Susan-
na Mälkki, conductor / Garrick Ohls-
Nov 24 - Nov 28
son, piano, plays Beethoven by National
Kennedy Center Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org
kennedy-center.org The Sumi - e Society Exhibition, Oct.
The Joffrey Ballet dancers perform Gerald 13 - Nov. 21 by Workhouse Arts Center.
Arpino’s dazzling version of Tchaikovsky’s 703-584-2900. WorkhouseArts.org
family classic, featuring charming Victorian
scenery and costumes. Sun, Nov. 21
Hair by Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org
New Paintings by Sheep Jones
Jose Barrios and Company in Por si
Through Nov 21 acaso amanece/If it Should Dawn.
Gallery plan b
GALA Hispanic Theatre. 202-234-7174.
202-234-2711
galatheatre.org
galleryplanb.com
Darwin in Malibu. Washington Stage
Sheep Jones returns to plan b with a new
Guild, Undercroft Theatre. 240-582-
collection of paintings which will inevitably 0050. stageguild.org
include images of her favorite bugs and root Blue: An Interpretation by Del Ray
vegetables and little girls and fish and shacks Artisans. 202-362-6405. theDelRayArti-
and perhaps some surprises. sans.org
Golden Boy
Tue, Nov. 23
Food for Thought: The Medici Tondo of
Nov 20 - Dec 19 the ‘Magi’ in the National Gallery of Art
Keegan Theatre
by National Gallery of Art. nga.gov
Church Street Theater
703-892-0202 LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
keegantheatre.com Nov. 19 - Nov. 20
Joe Bonaparte sets aside his dream of be- Living, Breathing, Human Organism.
coming a violinist for the promise of a lucra-
Round House Theatre Silver Spring. 240-
tive boxing career. As he skyrockets to boxing 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org
fame, Joe finds himself torn between the lure
of big money and the distinct possibility of in- Nov. 19 - Nov. 21
juring his hands and permanently destroying The Maltese Bodkin. American Uni-
his musical career. versity Rude Mechanicals, American
University Katzen Arts Center. 239-738-
CREDITS: The Guide to Arts & Culture is supplied by CultureCapital.com, a program of the Cultural Al- 4450. aurudemechanicals.com
liance of Greater Washington. SHEEP JONES: Supplied by Gallery plan b; CRAFT SHOW: Supplied by
Washington Craft Show; GOLDEN BOY: Supplied by Keegan Theatre; THE NUTCRACKER: Supplied by Nov. 20 - Nov. 21
Kennedy Center. Lesole’s Dance Project. Dance Place.
202-269-1600. danceplace.org
Balalaikas Across the Steppes.Wash-
ington Balalaika Society, F. Scott Fitzger-
ald Theatre. 240-314-8690. balalaika.org
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Sat, Nov. 20
The Embassy Series Presents: Edvi-
nas Minkstimas, piano. Embassy of
Lithuania. 202-625-2361. embassys-
eries.org
Kurt Elling. Kennedy Center. 202-467-
4600. kennedy-center.org
Washington Performing Arts Society:
Ravi Coltrane. Sixth & I Historic Syna-
gogue. 202-785-9727. wpas.org
Bringing Wagner’s Vision to Life. In
Cooperation with the Wagner Society of
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Resident
Associate Program, Ripley Center. 202-
633-3030. residentassociates.org
Chaise Lounge. Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org
DancEthos, Brettmann Dances & Cho-
reographers Collaboration in Concert.
Joe’s Movement Emporium. 301-699-
1819. joesmovement.org
Sun, Nov. 21
The Kennedy Center Chamber Play-
ers play Loeffler, Hindemith, Poulenc, &
Dvor·k. Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org
Washington Performing Arts Society:
Toyko String Quartet, Jeremy Denk, pi-
ano. Strathmore. 202-785-9727. wpas.org
ONGOING STAGE
The Master and Margarita.Synetic The-
atre. Lansburgh Theatre.202-547-1122.
synetictheater.org
Washington Shakespeare Company:
Richard III and Mary Stuart. Washington
Shakespeare Company, ARTISPHERE. 703-
418-4808. washingtonshakespeare.org
The War of the Worlds, by Orson Welles
& Howard Koch. SCENA Theatre, H Street
Playhouse. 202-683-2824. scenatheater.org
One Night with Fanny Brice. American
Century Theater, Rosslyn Spectrum. 703-
998-4555. americancentury.org
Superior Donuts. The Studio Theatre.
202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org
The Odd Couple. Theater J. 800-494-
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House of Gold. Woolly Mammoth. 202-
393-3939. woollymammoth.net
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Corcoran Gallery of Art. 202-639-1700.
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Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elis-
abetta Gut, Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in
Vibrant Color
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Discovering the Civil War - Consequences
National Gallery of Art. nga.gov. Arcim-
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The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photog-
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and Reproductive Prints from the Depart-
ment of Image Collections. From Impres-
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National Geographic. 202-857-7588.
events.nationalgeographic.com. Simply
Beautiful, Geckos: From Tails to Toepads ,
Wild Music: Songs & Sounds of Life, Great
Migrations: A Photography Exhibition
The Textile Museum. 202-667-0441.
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Asian Ikats
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Mark(in)g Time: New Paintings by Janis
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Tang: Freedom & Its Owner by Trans-
former. transformergallery.org
Glimpse by Lee Newman by Washing-
ton Printmakers Gallery. washington-
printmakers.com
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Donuts are Arthur Przybyszewski’s life,
or so he says. Lately, the owner of the title
establishment in Tracy Letts’ Chicago-set
comedy “Superior Donuts” (currently play-
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Letts’ uplifting work explores the
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by charismatic young actor Johnny Ra-
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The company of Tectonic Theater Project’s ‘Laramie Project: 10 Years later,’ which will be per-
formed this weekend at Arena’s Mead Center.

Hope amidst hate

This weekend offers rare
chance to see two ‘Laramie’
plays back to back
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN
This weekend Arena Stage provides an
unprecedented opportunity to see the two
“Laramie Project” plays — works inspired
by the death of hate crime victim Matthew
Shepard that have become contemporary
theatrical staples — back to back.
The plays will be performed five times
over three days. Together they present a
poignant and stirring medley of emotions
— shock, rage, grief, and even hope. And
now the two plays are presented here, for
the first time together anywhere, but only this
weekend at the stunning new Mead Cen-
ter for American Theater, in Arena Stage’s
Kreeger Theater. It’s the starting point for a
national tour by the Tectonic Theater Project,
with both plays directed by Moises Kaufman
They returned six more times to Wyo-
ming for further interviews — more than
200 in all — until by the year 2000, it was
ready for its premiere performance in
Denver, next in New York City and, finally
in 2002, in Laramie itself. It was later pro-
duced for television by HBO and the stage
version has quickly become one of the
most frequently produced plays by col-
leges and community groups in America.
Then, 10 years after Shepard’s death,
they returned again to Laramie to produce
an epilogue, based on follow-up interviews
with residents featured in the original play.
These interviews were adapted into the
companion piece, “The Laramie Project:
Ten Years later,” which debuted as a read-
ing in nearly 150 theaters across the U.S.
and internationally in October 2009, on the
11th anniversary of his death.
As the critic Ben Brantley wrote in the
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and Leigh Fondakowski, two of the five co-
authors. For those interested in what being
gay means in modern America, this is a
great chance to catch these seminal works.
But why are they important? And what
more can be said about the Shepard
case, which received more national
press attention than any other anti-gay
hate crime? These works show there’s
much more to the story, and it is one told
with absorbing detail in a vivid recon-
struction of how the people of Laramie
responded in the aftermath of Shepard’s
murder. This was the task tackled less
than a month after Shepard’s death,
when Kaufman and nine other members
of the Tectonic, a New York City theatre
company he had co-founded, arrived in
Laramie, a city of 27,000 people, seeking
playwright’s own words, “for me, there’s a
great wealth of beauty and truth in reality,
and how theatre can articulate this, that’s
what I keep coming back to.”
Only eight actors play the more than
60 parts. The twin plays are constructed
as a series of juxtaposed monologues
and multiple viewpoints, featuring towns-
people and Shepard’s friends as well as
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Build a financial pyramid
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By TERRY-ANN GARDEMAL
Each individual should have a well laid
out financial plan to help pursue short and
long-term goals. It is never too early —
or too late — to put one in place, but the
sooner you have a financial roadmap, the
easier many decisions become.
So where do you start to put a plan in
place? To begin with, gauge your current
financial situation by putting together a
personal balance sheet that lists your cur-
rent income and expenses and details
your assets and liabilities. This will help
you create a budget to manage your short-
term needs and will assist you in develop-
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future. An independent financial planner or
adviser can be a good resource to assist
you in this process and in further crafting
and implementing an overall plan.
Additionally, it is important to recognize
that a financial plan is never static; it is a
moving target. Inevitably, things change
and goals shift. New decisions have to
be made and goals may have to be re-
prioritized. But if you have even a basic
financial plan in place, decisions become
easier because you will make them in the
context of your long-term goals.
What are these basics that can set
you on the right path? Visualize a pyra-
mid with layers. These layers can be
the steps you have to take to reach your
financial goals. They build upon them-
selves and are interdependent as each
level supports the one above it.
Building your financial future involves
three steps in the pyramid.
Protection: Start with the foundation
of your financial plan - protecting your-
self and your loved ones from unexpect-
ed events. This is a crucial stage in the
planning process and needs to be firmly
in place so the rest of your plan does not
falter. For example, if you are disabled
for a period of time and do not have ad-
equate disability insurance to replace
your lost income, you may have to use
money you had earmarked for a differ-
ent purpose, such as retirement savings.
This move could cause you to make sac-
rifices with other financial goals, such as
needing to change the date you become
financially independent or your lifestyle
in retirement. Other considerations at
this level include planning for premature
death, sickness and unexpected large
expenses or loss of a job.
Accumulation: Now you can start
saving for big purchases and begin cre-
ating wealth. It is important at this stage
to prioritize your goals and assess the
best means to accomplish them. For
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payment on a house, it is a good idea to
make sure you have paid off most of your
debt and have some emergency reserve
savings. Other considerations at this
stage include retirement planning and
college funding. If you start early, you
may be able to accomplish all of your
goals, but, if you are in a crunch, priori-
tize while keeping the longer-term goals
in mind. When creating wealth through
investments, we again recommend talk-
ing to a financial adviser who will help
you gauge your tolerance for risk, un-
derstand and assess the time period for
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create a well diversified mix of securities.
Distribution and Preservation: The
last layer in our basic pyramid is living off
of the assets you have accumulated and
planning for how you would like to pre-
serve and transfer some of these assets to
other people or institutions. As is the case
with asset accumulation, you should have
a well thought out plan for asset distribu-
tion, and you should consider a variety of
strategies to diversify your risk. In addition
to a financial advisor, an estate attorney
can be essential at this stage to ensure that
you take the proper steps to look after your
loved ones. This is especially important in
the LGBT community as many states do
not recognize same-sex unions.
More tips in part two of this series
coming later this month.
This material is for informational pur-
poses only and is not intended to act as
specific advice. Please talk to a financial
professional prior to investing and a tax
advisor for tax advice.
Terry-Ann Gardemal is a Certified Finan-
cial Planner and LPL financial adviser with
Potomac Financial Management. Reach
her at 301-840-0770, ext 110 or tagarde-
mal@potomacfm.com.
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Let's Get Engaged...

Image courtesy of the Center
in worship...in study...in social action...in community
‘Gentle Soul,’ a photo transfer with mixed media by gay artist Bill Travis, is one of the works that
will be on display at the D.C. Center this month. Bet Mishpachah
An egalitarian synagogue serving the GLBT community and all who wish to
Gay artist debuts Center exhibit participate in an inclusive environment.
The D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.) will be having an opening reception for its
next art exhibit, “Bodyscapes: The Art of Bills Travis,” tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. Rabbi Toby Manewith
Travis’s, who is openly gay, work in this exhibit pairs images of bodies and land-
scapes to “invite us to contemplate connections that can exist on several levels,” Erev Shabbat Services, 8:30 pm, Fridays
according to his artist’s statement. Shabbat Morning Services, 10:00 am, 2nd & 4th Saturdays
Travis recently moved to D.C. and has a Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of
Fine Arts. He has had more than 60 solo and group shows around the world. DCJCC, 16th and Q Streets, NW
Bodyscapes will be on display through Jan. 5. www.betmish.org
For more information on this event, visit thedccenter.org. For more information
on the artist and to see some of his photographs, visit billtravisphoto.com.

Gay chamber has national dinner tonight

The National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) has its national
dinner tonight as part of its weekend conference festivities. It’s from 5:30 to 11 at
the National Building Museum’s “great hall.”
The theme is “An Evening of Courage.” A “founders and friends” reception and
silent auction will be from 5:30 to 7:30 with the dinner to follow. An after party is
from 10 to 11.
The museum is at 401 F Street, N.W. Tickets were still available as of press time
Wednesday. Call 202-234-9181 or e-mail to ebannon@nglcc.org for more infor-
mation. Tickets start at $250 for non-members. Several other price packages are
available. Visit nglcc.org for more information.

Enigma party tonight at Green Lantern

Enigma is a monthly, alcohol-free and substance-free event at Green Lantern
(1335 Green Court, N.W.) on the second floor with its own entrance at the side door
that bypasses the first floor. It’s tonight at 10 p.m. and runs till 1 a.m.

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CONCERTAGENDA
From performances of Handel’s “Messiah” to the Kinsey Sicks, a drag group shown here that will
have a holiday show at the D.C. Jewish Community Center from mid-December to early January,
the holiday concert season in Washington offers a wildly eclectic bevy of offerings.
Sounds of the season
Local holiday concert
offerings wildly eclectic
By JULIETTE EBNER
The Duke Ellington School of Arts (3500
R St., N.W.) will be performing “Dreamgirls”
in December. Evening performances will be
at 7:30 from Dec. 2 through Dec. 18. There
will be afternoon performances at 2 p.m. on
Dec. 4, 11 and 18. A special gala night will
be held Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. featuring original
Dreamgirl, Jennifer Holliday. Tickets for the
evening and afternoon shows are $25, $30
or $35 and can be purchased by calling 202-
337-4825 or visiting ww.ellingtonschool.org.
Tickets for the gala can be purchased by
emailing info@ellingtonarts.org or by calling
202-333-2555, ext. 2101.
The Kinsey Sicks, a “dragapella beau-
tyshop quartet,” will be performing “Oy Vey
in a Manger” from Dec. 18 to Jan. 2 at The-
ater J in the Washington DCJCC’s Aaron
and Cecile Goldman Theater (1529 16th
St., N.W.). Regular performances will be on
Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.,
Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 and
7:30 p.m. There will be two preview shows,
one on Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. and the other on
Dec. 19 at 3 p.m. There will also be a spe-
cial matinee before the official opening on
Nov. 26 at 2 p.m. Other performances will
be on Dec. 21 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets
range from $35 to $60 and can be pur-
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to 4:30 p.m. and Sundays from 8 a.m. to
6:30 p.m. The Cathedral’s choirs will also
be performing Handel’s “Messiah” on
Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 4 and Dec. 5 at
4 p.m. Tickets range from $25 to $85. The
Cathedrals Joy of Christmas concert will
be Dec. 11 and 12 at 4 p.m. featuring a
grand procession and several well-known
favorites from holiday standards. Tickets
range from $25 to $85. A Christmas pag-
eant will be held on Dec. 18 at 2 p.m. That
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same day, the Cathedral will be hosting
carols by candlelight at 6 p.m. as well as
on Dec. 19 at 4 p.m. Visit nationalcathe-
dral.org to purchase tickets for any event.
Strathmore has many holiday events com-
ing up this season. On Nov. 27, at the Music
Center at Strathmore, the Mormon Orchestra
and Chorus of Washington will be perform-
ing their holiday concert, “O Come Let Us
Adore Him.” A sold out Hanukkah tea will be
served at the Mansion at Strathmore on Nov.
30 at 1 p.m. Dec. 1 brings the King’s Singers
to the Music Center at 8 p.m. with a holiday
program. The 2010 Kenny G Holiday Show
is on Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. at the Music Center. A
child-friendly “Mrs. Claus Tea” will be served
on Dec. 4 at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. at the
Mansion. “A Smooth Jazz Christmas” will be
at the Music Center on Dec. 6 at 8 p.m. with
Dave Koz and Friends. For tickets informa-
tion for all events, visit strathmore.org.
The Hylton Performing Arts Center has
two holiday events coming up. First up is “A
Rockapella Holiday” on Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. in
Merchant Hall. Rockapella is a five-man a
cappella group best known for its “Where
in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” theme
song. This program features classics such
as “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” as
well as popular new pieces like “Little Mary
Snowflake” and a funky new version of “The
Dreidel Song.” On Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. in Mer-
chant Hall, the Center presents “Christmas
in Ireland: An Nollaig in Eirinn” featuring the
band, Danu. Tickets for both events are
$28, $36 or $44 and can be purchased by
visiting hyltoncenter.org.
Many different venues will be hosting
a production of “The Nutcracker.” The
Kennedy Center Opera House will hosts
the Joffrey Ballet on Nov. 24 at 7:30 p.m.
The Warner Theatre hosts the Washing-
ton Ballet performing the family classic
on Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. The Music Center
at Strathmore has another production
by the Moscow Ballet on Dec. 8 and 9
at 7:30 p.m. The Manassas Ballet The-
ater will be performing the show on Dec.
11 at the Hylton Performing Arts Center.
The Gay Men’s Chorus will perform its
own rendition of the Nutcracker, “Men in
Tights: A Pink Nutcracker” at the Lisner
Auditorium at George Washington Uni-
versity on Dec. 17 at 8 p.m., Dec. 18 at 3
and 8 p.m. and Dec. 19 at 3 p.m.
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The Duke Ellington School of the Arts Presents

EvEning PErformancEs:
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DCAGENDA
Local chefs share recipes for an updated Thanksgiving
Continued from page 33
Stuffing: Andouille sausage, onion,
celery, carrots, garlic, parsley, tarragon,
thyme, panko bread crumbs, corn meal,
chicken stock and heavy cream.
Chicken Glaze: Orange marmalade,
star anise, white vinegar, cinnamon
sticks, ketchup and black pepper
Sauce: Brown chicken demi, cara-
mel and a red wine reduction
Method: Take the half chicken out of
the brine, stuff the bird, bake for 30 min-
utes. Remove from oven and apply the
glaze, bake for an additional 5 minutes.
Serve over the sauce with Persian veg-
etables of zucchini, squash and carrots.
Sweet Potato Mash with Caramelized Pears
This is from Connor Ireland, chef of the
Reef in Adams Morgan, another recent
Blade “Best Of” winner. Here are his fresh
spins on Thanksgiving dinner staples.
Two pears, not very ripe. I use green ones.
3 tsp vegetable oil.
Two large sweet potatoes
1/2 cup heavy cream
¼ pound butter
1 tbs. salt
¼ cup real maple syrup.
Cover the sweet potatoes with cold water
in a high-walled pot, and bring them up to a
boil and let them go for 15 minutes. Slice the
pears thinly with the skins on.
In a skillet or frying pan, get the veg-
etable oil very hot, until it just starts to
smoke. Carefully lay the slices of pear in
and sear one side of each. It’s OK if they
burn a little bit. Set them aside.
Put the cream and butter into a small
pot and get them warm enough to melt
the butter. Once the sweet potatoes are
very soft, discard the cooking water and
combine them in a large bowl with the
caramelized pears and salt. Use a whisk
to beat them smooth, adding the cream
and butter slowly. Finish them with enough
real maple syrup to be just noticeable.
Brussels Sprouts with Caramelized
Onions and Bacon
(From Connor Ireland)
2 pounds brussels sprouts, woody
stems cut off.
3 qt. boiling water
2 white onions
2 strips of bacon, chopped.
½ cup pine nuts (any kind of nut will do)
Salt
Neutral oil
Julienne the onions and sautée on
a medium flame for 10 minutes in hot
oil. Cook all the water out of them until
they start sticking to the pan and turning
brown. Turn the flame down to low and
caramelize them for 10 more minutes.
Boil the Brussels sprouts whole for 11
minutes in heavily salted water. Remove
and arrest them in ice water. Chop them
coarsely. Sautee the bacon until it starts
to brown, and add the pine nuts until they
start to brown, then add the Brussels
sprouts and the caramelized onions. Toss
the whole mixture together and serve hot.
Turkey Breast Stuffed with Dried
Apricots and Chestnuts Sausage
(From Connor Ireland)
Preheat oven to 450
One pack split turkey breast with the
skin on.
½ pound dried apricots or dried cherries
1 egg
½ pound chestnuts
½ cup breadcrumbs, about one slice
of bread’s worth
Cross or prick the chestnuts to let steam
escape and roast them for 25 minutes. Peel
them while they’re warm. Pull the tender off
the turkey breasts. It is a strip of loose meat
on the opposite side of the skin. If you don’t
have a tender on your breasts, cut three oz.
from the inside surface of each breast.
Using a knife or food processor, mince
the raw tenders, chestnuts and apricots
together. Crumble the breadcrumbs in
and fold in the egg with 1 tsp of salt.
Using a thin knife, stab a four-inch
deep hole in the thickest side of the
breast, being careful not to pierce all the
way through. Thumb the filling into the
hole you just made.
Clean your workspace, and wrap each
breast tightly in plastic. Put each breast
into a quality Ziploc bag and poach them
for 25 minutes. Shock them in ice water
and store them for use in the next day
or two. When you are ready to eat, take
the turkey out of the plastic and salt the
outside. Sear the skin in hot oil. Put them
in the oven for 30 minutes at 450.
Deep Fried Turkey Breast
Gay chef Patrick Vanas, owner of Patrick
Vanas Events, a local event planning and ca-
tering company, offered the next selections.
Thought I would send in a few recipes
that I love to make and have been for
many years. Some I have updated a bit.
I grew up in the north (on a Michigan
dairy farm), which is not known for deep
frying turkey but as far as I can remem-
ber back my dad built a deep fryer with
thermometer and we were deep frying
turkeys (never had a fire; always very
safe), I have adopted the process but
with a turkey breast as is easier for the in
home cook and those only cooking for a
few friends or family. I purchase a fresh
turkey breast on the bone and remove it
from the bone and make into two single
breasts. I brine it for a full day (breasts,
whole bird maybe more). I have a small
tabletop deep fryer and can easily deep
fry one breast at a time about 20 minutes.
1 bone in turkey breast (fresh or frozen)
Brine mixture:
1 cup kosher salt
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon lemon zest
4 cups boiling water
Table top deep fryer (I got mine from
Costco for $100; it’s easy to use and clean)
If no deep fryer eight-quart heavy duty pot
Thermometer
3-4 quarts peanut oil or vegetable,
canola (not olive; will not work)
Method:
Remove turkey breasts from bone slic-
ing along breastbone (will be about three
to four pounds per side/breast) set aside in
refrigerator. I have a two-gallon container
that I use to brine breasts in. Bring four
cups of water to a boil, in container place
rest of brine ingredients, pour boiling water
over them. Stir until dissolved. Add about
three to four quarts of ice, (brine needs to
be cold when you add the turkey breasts).
Place turkey breast in brine they should be
just covered, you may need to add a little
more ice. Cover container with airtight lid
and place in refrigerator for 24 hours.
Remove breasts from brine and rinse
then place on sheet pan with a cooling
rack to drain about 20 minutes. Pat breasts
dry with paper towels, tie the breast
slightly loose with kitchen string and al-
low to sit until fryer is ready. Bring deep
fryer fryer to 375 degrees. If using eight-
quart heavy pot fill only about 1/3 to 1/2,
the breast will only raise the oil level about
an inch or so. Using kitchen tongs gently
place breast (cooking one at a time) in
oil, there will be some bubbling for about
30 seconds to a one minute, but allow-
ing the breasts to drain and patting them
dry and sitting out will lessen that a great
deal. Oil temperature will drop about 100
degrees but you want to bring temp back
up to 350 degrees and cook for about 15
to 20 minutes, have a clean sheet pan with
cooling rack ready to remove breast and
check temperature. I like to remove breast
when it reaches a internal temp of 155 as it
will continue to cook while resting on rack
covered with foil bringing internal temp to
desired 160 degrees. If cooking second
breast allow oil to come back to 375 and
repeat process; this will leave just enough
time for first breast to rest and allow juices
to even out. Slice and place on platter and
enjoy with your favorite homemade sides
and gravy or sauce. (I am serving mine
with a simple Cranberry Gastrique ) Enjoy!
Green Bean “NOT” Casserole
I understand that many of us grew
up with this at every Thanksgiving and
though I enjoy it, I now have taught my
mom to make it from scratch and it’s so
much more enjoyable and delicious. I
have taken it to the next level. This is a
great appetizer. (From Patrick Vanas)
11 pounds French green beans
(trimmed)
Tempura Recipe:
1 cup rice flour
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
3 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons onion powder
1 teaspoon semolina flour
pinch of salt and pepper
1 cup of ice cold water
3 quarts vegetable oil for deep frying
6-8 quart heavy pot
Thermometer
Method:
Place all dry ingredients in large bowl
stir with a wire wisk, add water to make thin
coating batter, set aside for 30 minutes.
Mushroom Dipping Sauce
2 cups button mushrooms sliced
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
2 cups water
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon of soy sauce
1 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons AP flour
Salt and pepper to taste
Method:
In medium saucepan add water and
mushrooms and reduce water by half,
remove from heat. In another sauce pan
add butter and flour on low to medium
heat and cook until flour mixture just turns
light brown, add garlic and cook a min-
ute and add heavy cream stir to blend
well, turn heat down to low. Take mush-
room stock and strain add just stock to
cream mixture stir well. Take mushrooms
and slice thinly set aside. Cream mixture
should get slightly thick, add soy and
parsley, continue to whisk to make vel-
vety. Reduce heat to just warming.
Bring deep frying vessel to 360 degrees.
Place green beans into batter working in
three to four batches. Drop beans one by
one into oil, cook about two to three minutes
then remove and place on tray with paper
towel to drain and allow oil to come back to
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