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washingtonblade.com • vol. 42, issue 13 • april 1, 2011 • Still sharp after 40 years

Frank skeptical about ENDA’s chances

Ready to introduce bill,
seeking more co-sponsors
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) announced on Wednesday that he’s

prepared to unveil the Employment Non-Discrimination Act for the
112th Congress but is still in the process of lining up additional co-
sponsors before formally introducing the bill.
During a news conference on Capitol Hill, Frank said the upcoming
introduction of ENDA would help educate lawmakers and the public
about the bill as he continued to express skepticism that it would ad-
vance with Republicans in control of the House.
“This is a chance to continue — not begin, but continue — a lob-
bying effort that I am convinced will be successful, frankly, next time
the Democrats take back the House of Representatives,” Frank said.
As it was introduced in the 111th Congress, ENDA would bar job
discrimination against LGBT people in most situations in the public
and private workforce. According to Frank’s office, job discrimination
on the basis of sexual orientation is legal in 29 states and legal in 38
states on the basis of gender identity.
Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), a planned original co-sponsor of
ENDA, called for continued lobbying and education on ENDA for at Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
least two years under GOP control to ensure its passage in later years.
Rep. Barney Frank said this week that he’s ready to introduce ENDA to help educate his colleagues about anti-
Continues on page 16 LGBT discrimination.

Md. lawmaker blasted

for derailing trans bill
socialagenda ‘Mike Miller wants it dead, it’s that simple’
Cherry Fund board member James Decker answers 20 questions.
PAGE 24
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com

The chief sponsor of a transgender non-discrimination bill in the Maryland Legislature took the un-
usual step of publicly criticizing the president of the State Senate on Wednesday, saying he was being
disrespectful to her and those who would benefit from the bill by seeking to kill it in committee.
Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk (D-Prince George’s & Anne Arundel Counties) said she was dismayed
that Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller (D-Prince George’s & Calvert Counties) diverted the Gen-
der Identity Non-Discrimination Act to the Senate Rules Committee, where it will likely die without a vote
or hearing.
filmagenda “Mike Miller wants it dead, it’s that simple,” Pena-Melnyk told the Blade in an interview Wednesday.
Celebrating Elizabeth Taylor’s contributions to film, LGBT rights. “Out of 94 bills that the House passed and sent to the Senate in a timely fashion, this was the only bill
PAGES 19 & 30
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2 washingtonblade.com • april 1, 2011
LOCALNEWS
Stein Club endorses Pannell in school board race
Forum addresses
LGBT issues, bullying
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club
Tuesday night endorsed gay rights and
Ward 8 civic activist Phil Pannell for a
seat on the D.C. State Board of Educa-
tion for Ward 8 in the city’s April 26 spe-
cial election.
The club made the endorsement fol-
lowing a forum in which candidates run-
ning for the Ward 8 and Ward 4 school
board seats spoke to club members on
a wide range of issues, including issues
related to LGBT youth.
“I’m honored and humbled,” Pannell
said following the endorsement vote.
“This is an endorsement that I really
wanted and that I really need. And I think
it’s important for people to know in this
GLAA activists grade D.C. City Council hopefuls
Modest ratings for
Democrats Biddle, Weaver
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
D.C. City Council candidates Sekou
Biddle and Bryan Weaver, both Demo-
crats, each received a rating of +5.5 this
week from the Gay and Lesbian Activists
Alliance, the highest score given by the
group for the nine Council candidates run-
ning in the city’s April 26 special election.
GLAA, a non-partisan political group,
rates candidates on LGBT and some
non-LGBT issues on a scale of -10 to
+10. The group says it bases its ratings
on responses given by candidates to a
GLAA questionnaire and on their record
on LGBT and AIDS issues.
“No candidates in the April 26 special
election for At-Large D.C. Council mem-
ber approached the ‘perfect tens’ from
the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance
that were earned in recent elections by
Council members Jack Evans, David
Catania, Jim Graham, and Phil Mendel-
son,” the group said in a statement. Cat-
ania and Graham are gay.
Republican candidate Patrick Mara and
Statehood-Green Party candidate Alan
Page each received a +4 rating. Democrat
Vincent Orange, a former Ward 5 Coun-
cil member, received a +3.5 rating; and
Democrat Joshua Lopez, an aide to former
Mayor Adrian Fenty, received a +2.5.
Democratic candidates Tom Brown
and Dorothy Douglas and independent
candidate Arkan Haile each received a
rating of “0.” GLAA said the three failed
to return the questionnaire and the group
automatically assigns a 0 rating to such
candidates unless it can verify a record
on LGBT-related issues.
Each of the candidates that returned
city that there are those of us in the LGBT
community who put public education at
the top of our agendas.”
Pannell, a longtime member of the
Stein Club, received 62.5 percent of
the votes cast, bringing him over the 60
percent vote threshold required for an
endorsement under the club’s rules. His
closest rival was D.C. civic activist and
LGBT rights supporter Eugene Kinlow,
who received 34 percent of the vote.
Ward 8 candidate Sandra Williams
received 3 percent and the remaining
three Ward 8 candidates attending the
forum – Tijwanna Phillips, Larry Pretlow
II, and Cardell Shelton – did not receive
any votes.
Three other candidates running in the
nine-candidate Ward 8 race – Trayon
White, R. Joyce Scott, and Anthony Mu-
hammad – did not attend the forum.
In the Ward 4 race, none of the four
candidates participating in the Stein
Club forum received 60 percent of the
GLAA awarded a +5.5 out of a possible +10 points to Sekou Biddle and Bryan Weaver, who are
running for Council.
the questionnaire expressed support for
LGBT rights, including support for the
city’s same-sex marriage law.
In a statement accompanying the re-
lease of its ratings, GLAA acknowledged
that the candidates indicated in their
questionnaire responses that they support
GLAA’s positions on nearly each of the 14
issues the group raised in its questions.
It said most of the candidates lost points
by not providing sufficient substance to
their responses, which, according to the
group, would demonstrate a better grasp
and understanding of the issues.
“We just don’t want yes or no an-
swers,” said GLAA Vice President Rick
Rosendall. “We want the substance be-
hind the answers.”
Rosendall said the substantive issues
surrounding each of the questions asked
of the candidates are included in a 24-
page GLAA “agenda” briefing paper for
the D.C. LGBT community published on
the group’s website. He said the group
sent each candidate a copy of the paper
vote, preventing the club from making
an endorsement in that contest. Ward 4
educator An Almquist came close, cap-
turing 54.5 percent of the vote in a sec-
ond ballot runoff against Ward 4 activist
D. Kamili Anderson, who received 39.3
percent of the vote. The other two Ward 4
candidates who participated in the forum
were Andrew Moss and Bill Quirk.
Adam Tenner, executive director of
the local group Metro Teen AIDS, served
as moderator for the forum. Among the
questions he asked was how the can-
didates would address the D.C. public
school system’s high drop-out rate, which
Tenner said was believed to be high
among LGBT students. He also asked
about HIV prevention programs, includ-
ing condom distribution in the schools.
Pannell said school bullying and ha-
rassment of LGBT students was a con-
tributing factor in students’ decision to
drop out of school. He said many stu-
dents, including LGBT students, regu-
Washington Blade file photo
along with the questionnaire.
The subjects covered in the question-
naire, among other things, include mar-
riage and family, public health, public
safety, human rights, youth, and protec-
tion for LGBT consumers and businesses
– all in connection to how they pertain to
the LGBT community, according GLAA.
One question asks what steps the
candidates would take to improve the
performance of the city’s AIDS office.
Another asks, “Do you support the right
of adults in the District to choose adult-
oriented entertainment for themselves,
and the right of appropriately licensed
and zoned businesses to provide it?”
All of the candidates answering the
questionnaire responded with a “yes” an-
swer to the latter question, although they
gave differing explanations of their views
on the subject of adult businesses.
Each of the candidates except one —
Statehood-Green Party candidate Page —
gave a “no” answer to a question asking
if they would consider supporting decrimi-
larly fail to attend school, contributing
to what he called an unacceptably high
truancy rate in the school system.
“So many of our LGBTQ students find
that the school experience isn’t working
for them,” he said.
In addition to improving programs
aimed at curtailing bullying, Pannell said
he would push for allowing students to
form LGBT-related student organizations
and for encouraging them to serve as
volunteers for LGBT-related organiza-
tions in the city such as the Whitman-
Walker Clinic and Us Helping Us.
Each of the other candidates par-
ticipating in the forum also promised to
provide support in varying ways to LGBT
students in the city’s schools.
Pannell and the other candidates ex-
pressed support for age appropriate HIV
prevention and sex education programs.
All of the candidates said they would re-
strict condom distribution in the schools
to parental consent.
nalizing, zoning, taxing, and regulating
prostitution in the District. GLAA noted in
its questionnaire that marginalized groups
such as low-income LGBT and transgen-
der youth sometimes turn to prostitution as
a means of economic survival and often
are subjected to further difficulties if ar-
rested for engaging in the sex trade.
Page and the other candidates said
their favored solution to the problems of
LGBT and trans youth is city-sponsored
job training, substance abuse counsel-
ing, and enforcement of non-discrimina-
tion laws that would eliminate the need
for marginalized groups to turn to prosti-
tution for survival.
GLAA said Biddle’s questionnaire was
“generally positive but offered limited
substance and was often vague.” The
Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the
city’s largest LGBT political group, en-
dorsed Biddle.
Mara, a member of the city’s board of ed-
ucation from Ward 1, has expressed strong
support for LGBT rights, including same-
sex marriage. GLAA said he lost points on
his rating, among other things, because
he lobbied Congress for a federal school
voucher program. The program pays D.C.
students’ tuition in private, religious elemen-
tary and secondary schools that are exempt
from the city’s human rights law, which bans
discrimination based on sexual orientation
and gender identity.
In his questionnaire response, Mara
said he backs the program because it
allows students from low-income families
to attend schools considered better aca-
demically than city public schools.
Mara this week received the endorse-
ment of the Log Cabin Republicans of
Washington.
Copies of the candidates’ responses
to the GLAA questionnaire and a break-
down of their ratings by points can be
viewed at glaa.org.
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LOCALNEWS
Log Cabin endorses Mara for Council
Strong supporter of
LGBT rights, marriage
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The D.C. chapter of the Log Cabin
Republicans, an LGBT political group,
voted unanimously last week to endorse
GOP candidate Patrick Mara in the city’s
April 26 special election to fill an at-large
seat on City Council.
Mara, a member of the city’s board of
education from Ward 1, expressed strong
support for LGBT rights, including same-
sex marriage, in an unsuccessful race
for a D.C. Council seat in 2008 and in his
successful school board race last year.
“Patrick is an amazing candidate and a
great friend not only to Log Cabin, but also
to the entire LGBT community,” said Log
Cabin D.C. President Robert Turner II.
Although Turner didn’t mention it in a
Log Cabin press release announcing the
Mara endorsement, Mara has surfaced
as one of the lead rivals to Democrat
Sekou Biddle, considered by most pun-
dits as the frontrunner in the nine-candi-
Trans rights bill likely dead in Maryland
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that went to the Rules Committee – the
only bill,” she said.
The Rules Committee has long been
viewed as a “graveyard” for bills in the
State Senate that are unpopular with the
Senate leadership, especially the presi-
dent, during the closing days of the leg-
islative session.
Neither Miller nor a spokesperson for
his office immediately returned calls from
the Blade seeking comment.
The Maryland Legislature adjourns for
the year on April 11. Bills like the gen-
der identity measure that are sent to the
Rules Committee at such a late date are
deemed “dead on arrival” unless Miller
were to have a change of heart and
agree to send it to a standing committee
for a required hearing and vote.
Pena-Melnyk and LGBT supporters of
the gender identity bill expected Miller
to follow normal Senate procedures for
bills passed by the House of Delegates
by sending it to the Senate Judicial Pro-
ceedings Committee. The bill has died
in that committee for the past four years,
but supporters were hopeful it would
clear the panel this year.
They were optimistic because the
House of Delegates passed the bill by
a vote of 86-52 on March 25, represent-
ing the first time a transgender non-dis-
crimination measure has passed in either
body of the Maryland Legislature.
The bill calls for prohibiting discrimina-
tion against transgender Marylanders in the
area of employment, housing, and credit.
date race for the at-large seat.
Biddle has the backing of most of the
city’s establishment politicians, includ-
ing Mayor Vincent Gray and D.C. Council
Chair Kwame Brown (D-At-Large). He also
received the endorsement of the Gertrude
Stein Democratic Club, the city’s largest
LGBT political group, and is backed by
many of the city’s prominent LGBT activists.
“He is the only candidate who actu-
ally testified in support of bringing mar-
riage equality to the District,” Turner said
of Mara in the Log Cabin press release.
“Recent events have shown that the
Council needs a watchdog looking out
for taxpayers, and we believe Patrick
Mara will provide that oversight.”
Robert Kabel, the gay chair of the
D.C. Republican Committee, called Mara
“the only candidate for the April 26 spe-
cial election who has a proven record on
gay and lesbian issues.” He noted that
Mara “vigorously” lobbied Republican
members of Congress last year against
a Republican proposal to overturn the
city’s same-sex marriage law.
Gay Democrats backing Biddle note that
Biddle expressed strong support for the
city’s same-sex marriage law as it moved
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
Sen. Brian Frosh denied reports from some
Annapolis insiders that he initiated the ef-
fort to derail the trans rights bill by asking
the Senate president to divert it to the Rules
Committee rather than sending it to Frosh’s
committee.
Pena-Melnyk said she sought to meet
with Miller on Tuesday with the intent of
urging him to release the bill from the
Rules Committee and to send it to the Ju-
dicial Proceedings panel.
“I waited an entire hour for him, a
whole hour in his office, and he refused
to see me,” she said.
She called Miller’s action disrespectful to
her and to the transgender community and
their allies who have worked hard to secure
passage of the bill for more than four years.
“What message does that send? How
does that speak of us that we can treat
through the City Council for approval in
2009 and has been an outspoken backer of
LGBT issues on the school board.
But they acknowledge that Biddle
could be hurt by his endorsements from
Gray and Brown following the sensational
revelations over the past two months that
media reports have labeled as scandals
swirling over the heads of Gray and Brown.
Brown’s request for, and his deci-
sion later to return, two city funded and
“fully loaded” Lincoln Navigator vehicles
for his use as Council chair drew wide-
spread criticism from voters in all parts
of the city.
Gray, meanwhile, has come under in-
vestigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office
over allegations that a top official in his
election campaign allegedly paid anoth-
er candidate to denounce Mayor Adrian
Fenty, Gray’s main rival in the election, at
candidate forums across the city.
Gray’s mayoral staff later hired the
rival candidate, Sulaimon Brown, for a
$110,000 city job before firing him from
the job when news surfaced that Brown
had a record of more than one arrest, in-
cluding an arrest for an assault charge
that was later dismissed. Other allega-
people like that in the State of Maryland?”
she said. “It’s so disrespectful.”
Miller and Sen. Brian Frosh (D-Mont-
gomery County), chair of the Judicial
Proceedings Committee, have denied re-
ports from some Annapolis insiders that
Frosh initiated the effort to derail the bill
by asking Miller to divert it to the Rules
Committee rather than sending it to Fro-
sh’s committee.
One source familiar with the legislature
said Miller appeared to confirm that Frosh
asked him to send the bill to the Rules pan-
el when he told Sen. Richard Madaleno
(D-Montgomery County) during a caucus
meeting of Senate Democrats on Tuesday
that he acted on Frosh’s suggestion.
Madaleno, who is gay and is a lead
supporter of the gender identity bill, told
the Blade Wednesday that Miller did, in-
deed, tell him at the caucus meeting that
Frosh favored sending the bill to the Rules
Committee. But Madaleno said Miller ap-
proached him privately about 10 minutes
later to say he misspoke at the caucus
meeting and that Frosh did not ask him to
divert the bill to the Rules panel.
“He said it was his decision,” said Ma-
daleno.
According to Madaleno, Miller’s expla-
nation to him on why he diverted the gen-
der identity bill was similar to Miller’s expla-
nation to the Baltimore Sun on Tuesday.
The Sun reported that Miller expressed
concern that the Senate had attempted to
advance the gender identity bill several
times in the past four years and it has died
due to lack of support in that chamber.
“There are not the votes to move it in
tions surfaced that high-level officials in
Gray’s new administration hired relatives
to fill various city jobs in a possible viola-
tion of rules prohibiting nepotism.
Mara’s campaign initially seized on
the scandals surrounding Gray and
Kwame Brown, with Mara calling on
voters to elect an “independent voice”
to the Council to monitor what his cam-
paign called an out-of-control Democrat-
ic political machine.
But Mara faced ethics questions about
his own campaign when the D.C. Board of
Elections and Ethics earlier this month dis-
closed it had discovered at least 160 forged
signatures on Mara’s nominating petitions
required for placement on the ballot. Board
officials said the forged signatures were
found on petitions turned in by petition cir-
culators who were paid for their services by
the D.C. Republican Committee.
Although the city’s election law gives
the election board authority to disqualify
all nominating petitions if some are “taint-
ed by fraud,” the board ruled that Mara
submitted more than 3,000 valid signa-
tures needed to place him on the ballot,
and that he should not be penalized for
the actions of the paid circulators.
committee,” he told the Sun, referring to
the Judicial Proceedings Committee. “At
this point in time I’d say the chances of
passage of that bill are next to none,” the
Sun quoted him as saying.
Morgan Meneses-Sheets, executive
director of the statewide LGBT group
Equality Maryland, issued an alert to the
group’s supporters and allies Wednes-
day urging them to make phone calls
and send e-mail messages to their sena-
tors demanding that the gender identity
bill be released from the Rules Commit-
tee. She said the group remains hopeful
that the bill has a chance of passing if it
reaches the Senate floor for a vote.
Equality Maryland joined LGBT activists
last week in hailing the bill’s passage in the
House of Delegates by a wide margin.
But the group Trans Maryland, which
is opposing the bill because a public ac-
commodations clause was stripped from
the legislation this year, has sent out its
own alert asking members and allies to
contact the Rules Committee to urge that
the bill be killed unless the public ac-
commodations provision is restored.
Pena-Melnyk said she removed the
public accommodations provision be-
cause doing so was the only way the bill
could clear a House of Delegates Com-
mittee and reach the House floor. She
said the bill could never pass this year,
even in the Senate, if the public accom-
modations provision is added to the bill.
[See full coverage of the House of
Delegates debate and vote to approve
the Gender Identity Non-Discrimination
Act at washingtonblade.com.]
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6 washingtonblade.com • april 1, 2011
NATIONALNEWS
261 troops kicked out under
‘Don’t Ask’ in FY2010
Significant drop from
previous years, but
investigations continue
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Recently released data from the Pen-
Photo courtesy of Universal/MCA tagon and the Department of Homeland
Farley Granger (left) plays a gay pianist opposite James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rope.’ Security reveal that 261 troops were dis-
Granger, who was bi, died this week in New York. charged under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in
fiscal year 2010, according to Service-
members United.
Bi actor Farley Granger dies at 85 The organization released the num-
NEW YORK — Actor Farley Granger, a star of two Alfred Hitchcock films, died bers for FY2010 — which spans from
Sunday of natural causes in New York. He was 85. In his 2007 memoir “Include Me October 2009 through September 2010
Out,” he wrote of affairs with both men and women and included several famous — last week after obtaining the data
names like Shelley Winters, Ava Gardner, Leonard Bernstein and others. His long through a Freedom of Information Act
relationship with producer Robert Calhoun ended with Calhoun’s death in 2008. request. According to Servicemembers
Granger starred in Hitchcock’s 1948 film “Rope” and in the 1951 classic “Strangers United, 250 service members were dis-
on a Train.” His other films included “Side Street,” “They Live By Night,” Edge of charged from services run by the Penta-
Doom” and “Our Very Own.” He also acted in many New York stage productions. gon and 11 service members were dis-
Granger remembered “Strangers” fondly during a 2008 Blade interview. “It’s one of charged from the Coast Guard.
Hitch’s best really,” he said. “He knew just how to do it.” Granger was in town for a In a statement, Alex Nicholson, execu-
screening of the film at the AFI Silver. tive director of Servicemembers United,
said the numbers are lower than dis-
charges under the military’s gay ban in
Del. Senate introduces civil unions bill previous fiscal years, but demonstrate
DOVER, Del. — Gov. Jack Markell is backing a bill that would legally recog- that gay, lesbian and bisexual troops
nize same-sex civil unions in Delaware, the Associated Press and other news continued to face expulsion under “Don’t
outlets reported this week. The bill unveiled Tuesday would make Delaware the Ask, Don’t Tell” through FY2010.
seventh state in the nation permitting civil unions. The bill restricts civil unions to “While this latest official discharge
same-sex couples, keeping marriage under Delaware law limited to opposite-sex number represents an all-time annual
couples. Couples that enter into civil unions would have the same rights and obli- low, it is still unusually high considering
gations as married spouses, and most employers would have to extend the same that the Secretary of Defense issued a
benefits offered to spouses of workers to partners of employees in civil unions. directive half-way through the fiscal year
The bill also calls for Family Court to have jurisdiction over the dissolution of civil to make it much harder for military units
unions. Same-sex couples moving to Delaware from states that allow same-sex to discharge troops under ‘Don’t Ask,
marriages would have such a marriage recognized in Delaware only as a civil Don’t Tell,’” Nicholson said. “Despite this
union, the AP reported. law clearly being on its deathbed at the
time, 261 more careers were terminated
and 261 more lives were abruptly turned
New magazine debuts for gay service members upside down because of this policy.”
WASHINGTON — OutServe, a network of about 2,900 LGBT military personnel, The 261 number is significantly lower
this week launched a magazine for gay service members. It will be in print and than separations under “Don’t Ask, Don’t
available at select military bases and contain features about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Tell” in previous fiscal years. According to
repeal implementation, OutServe chapters and other gay news. “Our first objec- Servicemembers United, 499 troops were
tive with the magazine is to let all the gay, lesbian, bi and trans members currently discharged under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in
serving know that they are not alone,” said OutServe’s co-director, an active-duty FY2009, 715 in FY2008 and 696 in FY2007.
officer who goes by the pseudonym JD Smith. “And we also want to communicate In a statement, Aubrey Sarvis, execu-
to all troops that there are capable gay military members serving honorably, and tive director of Servicemembers Legal
that accepting that and moving on will make our military stronger.” The magazine Defense Network, also noted the num-
can be downloaded online through outserve.org. bers are lower than they have been in
previous years, but added they demon-
strate the need for enacting “Don’t Ask,
Anti-gay attack reported in New York Don’t Tell” repeal.
NEW YORK — Police in New York are investigating an alleged gay bias attack “But these numbers underscore the
that happened last weekend outside a McDonald’s in Manhattan’s West Village. need to accelerate the timeline for train-
Damian Furtch, 26, and a friend had just finished shifts at the nearby Pink Tea Cup ing and repeal,” Sarvis said. “The reality
Restaurant in the West Village and were eating at the McDonald’s on Sixth Avenue is that investigations continue and ser-
early Sunday when two men began to hassle them, NBC News reported citing vice members are still in danger of be-
multiple sources. Furtch and his friend left but were followed and attacked, the ing discharged. … Until we achieve full
report said. Furtch, who was wearing pink, suffered serious head and eye injuries; equality for all LGBT service members,
his friend wasn’t hurt, NBC said. He posted photos of his bruises on his Facebook the job is not done.”
page. Police are still looking for the alleged attackers. One of the suspects report- In March 2010, the Pentagon unveiled a
edly has a large tattoo of a Gothic cross under his left eye, NBC reported. Police new policy limiting third-party discharges
have heightened their attention to potential hate-crime investigations after a spate under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and raising
of anti-gay attacks across the five boroughs in recent months. At least one teen- the rank of Pentagon officials who could
ager has died as a result of what investigators believe to be a hate-crime beating. initiate investigations and separations.
In October, Defense Secretary Robert
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
‘Despite this law clearly being on its death-
bed at the time, 261 more careers were ter-
minated … because of this policy,’ said Alex
Nicholson, executive director of Service-
members United.
Gates further raised the bar for “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” expulsions by limiting the
discharge authority to the military service
secretaries “in coordination” with the un-
dersecretary of defense for personnel
and readiness and the Pentagon’s gen-
eral counsel, although this change took
place in FY2011 and isn’t reflected in the
FY2010 numbers.
As a result of the changes in October,
Nicholson told the Washington Blade
he expects to find no separations under
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” for FY2011 when the
data from that period are made public.
“DOD has said a couple of times that
there have been no discharges since the
heightened restrictions were put in place
in October,” Nicholson said. “So I would
expect the discharge numbers for FY11
to be zero. I would find it very odd if there
was even one discharge in FY11 based on
what the Pentagon has said several times.”
According to Servicemembers United,
the official discharge statistics for “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” since its inception now
stands at 13,686. However, the organiza-
tion previously discovered that the Penta-
gon often omits from its official data Na-
tional Guard separations, which are also
excluded from the official FY2010 num-
bers. Therefore, the total number of service
members discharged under “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell,” according to the organization,
now stands at least 14, 316.
In December, President Obama signed
legislation allowing for repeal of “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell,” but the repeal law won’t take ef-
fect until 60 days pass after the president,
the defense secretary and the chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff certify the military
is ready for open service. Gates has said
he won’t issue certification until training for
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal is implement-
ed throughout the services.
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NATIONALNEWS

Most U.S. Catholics back civil marriage for gays

Support for LGBT rights
stronger than among
general public
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com

U.S. Catholics are more support-

ive of LGBT rights, including same-sex
marriage, than the general public and
other Christians, according to a newly
released study analyzing public opinion
polls taken in 2010.
The study, conducted by the D.C.-
based Public Religion Research Institute
(PRRI), found that nearly three-quarters
of Catholics support either allowing
same-sex couples to marry (43 percent)
or allowing them to legalize their relation-
ships through a civil union (31 percent).
Just 22 percent of Catholics indicated
same-sex couples’ relationships should
not be legally recognized, the study found.
“If marriage for gay couples is de-
fined as a civil marriage ‘like you get at
city hall,’ Catholic support for allowing
gay couples to marry increases by 28
points, from 43 percent to 71 percent,”
a 22-page report describing the study’s
findings says.
“It may come as a surprise to many
that rank and file Catholics are more sup-
portive of rights for gays and lesbians
than other Christians and the public,”
said Robert P. Jones, PRRI’s chief execu-
tive officer. “But the best data available
paints this consistent portrait across a
range of issues, including same-sex
marriage, workplace non-discrimination,
open military service, and adoption
rights for gay and lesbian couples.” Washington Blade photo by Michael Key

PRRI released its study report, Catho-
lic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues:
A Comprehensive Portrait from Recent
Research,” on March 22, four days after
the release of an ABC News-Washington
Post poll showing similar views among
U.S. Catholics.
The ABC News/Post poll, conducted
March 10-13 by landline and cell phone
among 1,005 adults — of all Americans,
not just Catholics — found that an all-
time high of 53 percent of those respond-
ing said it should be legal for gays and
lesbians to marry.
The 53 percent support for legalized
same-sex marriage represents an increase
from 32 percent support for same-sex mar-
riage shown in a similar poll conducted in
2004, the ABC News-Post pollsters said.
Forty-four percent of respondents in the
March 2011 ABC-Post poll said they op-
pose legalizing same-sex marriage com-
pared to 62 percent saying they opposed
such marriages in the 2004 poll.
The ABC News-Post poll showed that
support for same-sex marriage among
white Catholics increased by a dramatic
23 points between 2006 and 2011, from
40 percent to 63 percent.
Support for same-sex marriage
among white Evangelical Protestants
rose from 14 percent in 2006 to 25 per-
Phil Attey, executive director of Catholics for Equality, said poll findings showing Catholics are more supportive of LGBT equality than the general
public are ‘heartening but not surprising.’
cent this year, the poll shows. It shows
that support for marriage equality among
white non-Evangelical Protestants in-
creased from 41 percent in 2006 to 57
percent in 2011.
The Public Religion Research Institute
study is based on findings of six sepa-
rate polls conducted between July and
December of 2010. Three were conduct-
ed by PRRI and three were conducted by
other survey research organizations.
The sample size for the six polls
ranged from a little more than 1,000 to
just over 3,000. According to the report,
the Catholic “subsample” for the six polls
ranged from just over 185 to a little over
350, resulting in a margin of error ranging
from plus or minus 3 percent to plus or
minus 7 percent, the report says.
The PRRI study report lists these ad-
ditional findings:
• “Seventy-three percent of Catholics
favor laws that would protect gay and
lesbian people against discrimination in
the workplace; 63 percent of Catholics
favor allowing gay and lesbian people to
serve openly in the military; and 6-in-10
Catholics favor allowing gay and lesbian
couples to adopt children.”
• “Compared to the general church-
going public, Catholics are significantly
less likely to hear about the issue of ho-
mosexuality from their clergy, but those
who do are much more likely to hear
negative messages.”
• “Compared to other religious groups,
Catholics are significantly more likely to
give their church poor marks for how it
is handling the issue of homosexuality.”
Thirty-nine percent of Catholics give their
own church or parish a grade of either
“A” or “B” on its handling of the issue of
homosexuality.
• “Seven-in-ten Catholics say mes-
sages from America’s places of worship
contribute a lot (33 percent) or a little (37
percent) to higher rates of suicide among
gay and lesbian youth.”
• “Catholics overwhelmingly reject
the idea that sexual orientation can be
changed. Nearly 7-in-ten (69 percent) of
Catholics disagree that homosexual orien-
tation can be changed; less than 1-in-4 (23
percent) believe that it can be changed.”
• “A majority of Catholics (56 percent)
believe that sexual relations between two
adults of the same gender is not a sin.
Among the general population, less than
half (46 percent) believe it is not a sin.”
The PRRI study found that support for
same-sex marriage among Catholics varied
greatly depending on how frequently they
attend church. A PRRI poll conducted in
September 2010 found that just 38 percent
of Catholics respondents who reported at-
tending church weekly or more frequently
support legalizing same-sex marriage.
The poll found that 43 percent of those
saying they attend church “once or twice
a month” support legalizing same-sex
marriage. Among Catholics saying they
attend church less often than once or
twice a month, 59 percent support legal-
ized same-sex marriage, the poll found.
Phil Attey, executive director of the
D.C.-based group Catholics for Equality,
said poll findings showing Catholics are
more supportive of LGBT equality than
the general public are “heartening but
not surprising.”
“American Catholics consistently poll
higher on progressive social justice is-
sues – including the freedom to marry for
all,” Attey said. “Our Catholic faith tradi-
tion is strongly based on social justice
and our duty to take care of those who are
unjustly oppressed and marginalized.”
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NATIONALNEWS

Bob Barr to keynote Log Cabin convention

DOMA author now supports
repeal of anti-gay law
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The author of the Defense of Marriage
Act, who has since come out for repeal of
the anti-gay law, is set to headline the up- lution on marriage looks like” — presum-
coming national convention for the Log
Cabin Republicans.
In a statement to the Washington
Blade this week, Log Cabin announced
that former Congressman Bob Barr
would be the keynote speaker for the or-
ganization’s 2011 national dinner, which
is set to take place at the Hilton Anatole
Hotel in Dallas on April 30.
R. Clarke Cooper, Log Cabin’s execu-
tive director, called Barr’s attendance at
the dinner “living proof that Republicans
tional Republican respect for states’ rights,
and that DOMA should be repealed.”
Passed by Congress in 1996, DOMA
prohibits federal recognition of same-sex
marriage. Both President Clinton, who
signed the bill into law, and Barr have since
come out in favor of repealing the law.
Cooper added that Barr’s new stand
on DOMA demonstrates “what a real evo-
ably a dig at President Obama’s remark
that his lack of support for same-sex mar-
riage could “evolve” into a endorsement
— and said Log Cabin looks forward to
hearing the former lawmaker’s remarks
at the convention.
“As evidenced by the last election,
in which gay and lesbian support for
Republicans nearly doubled and inde-
pendent voters helped sweep a GOP
majority into office, inclusion can and
does win,” Cooper said. “Log Cabin will Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key

are becoming more inclusive, and doing continue to work to expand the base of
so for conservative reasons.” the Republican Party, all the while gain-
“As a freshman member of Congress ing new allies in the fight for freedom.”
in 1996, Barr wrote DOMA,” Cooper said. Barr served as a Republican con-
“He has since come to the conclusion that gressman representing Georgia in the
‘DOMA’s language reflects one-way feder- U.S. House from 1995 to 2003. Following
alism’ and that the law ‘has become a de his retirement from Congress, Barr left
facto club used to limit, if not thwart, the the GOP and joined the Libertarian Party.
ability of a state to choose to recognize In 2008, Barr was the Libertarian Party’s
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R. Clarke Cooper, Log Cabin’s executive director, called Barr’s attendance at the group’s national din-
ner ‘living proof that Republicans are becoming more inclusive, and doing so for conservative reasons.’
less than 1 percent of the popular vote U.S. Constitution. The measure failed to
during the election. pass in Congress in 2004 and 2006.
In addition to coming out for repeal According to Log Cabin, other guests
of DOMA, Barr in 2003 testified before at the national convention are set to in-
Congress against the Federal Marriage clude Fox News contributor Margaret
Amendment, which would have made a Hoover and gay former Republican Na-
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NATIONALNEWS

Polis backs exec order barring anti-LGBT job bias

Gay lawmaker skeptical
about ENDA’s prospects
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com

Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) announced

support this week for an executive order
that would protect LGBT people against
bias in the workforce by prohibiting the
federal government from contracting
with companies that don’t have non-
discrimination policies based on sexual
orientation and gender identity.
“I would applaud that step,” Polis
said. “I think that would show a lot of
courage on behalf of the administration
and demonstrate that they’re committed
to moving to a discrimination-free work-
place environment.”
The executive order endorsed by Polis
during a Washington Blade interview has
been seen as an interim alternative to
passage of the Employment Non-Dis-
crimination Act — legislation that would
bar job discrimination against LGBT peo-
ple in most situations in the private and
public workforce — while Republicans
are in control of the House and progress
on the measure is unlikely.
Polis’ announcement comes as gay
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) announced
the House introduction of ENDA this week.
Polis has a dim view of the chances of
passing ENDA — as well as other pro-LG-
BT legislation — for at least the next two
years with House Speaker John Boehner
(R-Ohio) in charge of the chamber.
“ENDA had several Republican co-
sponsors, but I don’t think it’s likely the
Republicans will advance employment Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
non-discrimination,” Polis said
Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) expressed skepticism about the prospects for passing pro-LGBT bills during the 112th Congress in a wide-ranging Blade
In the meantime, Polis said support- interview this week.
ers in Congress should try to educate
the public on the issue of job protection
and grow the number of co-sponsors for publicans opposed,” Polis said. “It’s tied into the fate of ESEA reautho- istration to fine tune these bills and help
ENDA. Still, Polis expressed optimism about rization, and so if this Congress moves the administration deliver on its promise
“Nationally, we just need to continue to the Student Non-Discrimination Act — a forward with reauthorization of the feder- to reduce and end bullying,” Polis said.
educate other members of Congress and measure he introduced earlier in March al education law, I’m optimistic that we’ll Another larger vehicle that advocates
their staff on what it means,” Polis said. in the House along with Sen. Al Franken be able to implement protections against are hoping to use to pass a pro-LGBT
As he expressed skepticism about (D-Minn.) in the Senate. bullying in the bill,” Polis said. measure during the 112th Congress is
the prospects for passing pro-LGBT bills The legislation, which as of Monday Still, Polis said he couldn’t at this point comprehensive immigration reform.
during the 112th Congress, Polis said the had 103 co-sponsors in the House, estimate the chances for the success of As talks have reportedly begun again
LGBT community will instead for this pe- would prohibit discrimination, including passing education reform — with or with- on Capitol Hill related to immigration,
riod have to focus on beating back anti- harassment, against LGBT students in out anti-bullying or anti-discrimination LGBT rights supporters are seeking to
gay measures. public schools throughout the country. language. ensure this larger legislation would in-
“I think we’ll be playing defense,” Po- Polis predicted the number of co- Polis said while the Democratic-con- corporate language that would allow gay
lis said. “Certainly there are members of sponsors for the legislation would con- trolled Senate intends to pursue broader Americans to sponsor foreign partners for
the Republican caucus that want to go tinue to grow and would see increased education reform legislation, Republican residency within the United States. In the
after and attack some of the progress support from both Democrats and Re- leadership in the House is only “looking 111th Congress, standalone legislation
that’s been made [in the few] last years. I publicans. at a couple of changes rather than a full- that would have had this effect was known
wouldn’t be surprised if we have to work “I think it’s one thing that conserva- out reauthorization.” as the Uniting American Families Act.
hard to maintain that progress.” tives and liberals can agree on — people “It’s too early to tell whether the 112th But Polis dismissed the possibility
Among the anti-gay measures that Polis should feel safe in school,” he said. [Congress] will issue major changes in of passing comprehensive immigration
said could emerge during the 112th Con- Polis noted that supporters of the federal education policy,” Polis said. reform for the next two years — with or
gress is revocation of “Don’t Ask, Don’t legislation have been pushing for its in- President Obama has yet to enumer- without UAFA-like language — given the
Tell” repeal and repeal of hate crimes pro- clusion — along with the Safe Schools ate support for the Student Non-Discrim- current makeup of Congress.
tections legislation — both measures that Improvement Act, a measure requiring ination Act, even though the Obama ad- “I don’t see much hope for compre-
were passed during the 111th Congress schools to set up anti-bullying policies — ministration has taken steps to address hensive immigration reform given the
when Democrats had control of both the as part of education reform legislation, or bullying in schools, such as holding a fact that most of the members of the cur-
House and the Senate. Elementary & Secondary Education Act summit on the issue in March. Polis said rent majority ran against it, so it’s unlikely
“Those are the two main pieces of reauthorization, which President Obama he hopes to work with the White House to this Congress,” Polis said.
progress that we made in the last [Con- has been calling on Congress to pass obtain an endorsement for his bill.
gress], both of which nearly all the Re- this year. “We’re working closely with the admin- Continues on page 13

NATIONALNEWS
Polis hopeful Colorado will enact civil unions
Continued from page 12
Still, Polis said he welcomed the deci-
sion from U.S. Citizenship and Immigra-
tion Services to hold in abeyance the
deportation of foreign nationals who are
seeking green cards through a same-sex
American spouse, although he noted the
limitation of this move.
“It’s certainly a step in the right direc-
tion, but keep in mind that those individu-
als would still be unable to work in this
country and be unable to access various
services legally, so it’s not really a solu-
tion,” Polis said.
Polis said he was unsure about pros-
pects for another piece of expected leg-
islation that would eliminate the federal
tax on employer-provided health cover-
age for same-sex couples. In the previ-
ous Congress, the legislation was known
as the Tax Equity for Health Plan Benefi-
ciaries Act.
With the GOP in control of the House,
Log Cabin Republicans has said it would
push for the legislation and has main-
tained it has a shot at passage because
it relates to lowering taxes, an effort that
Republicans traditionally favor.
Polis said he supports the legislation,
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“I think it’s unfair that same-sex cou-
ples have disparate treatment, but you’d
have to ask the question to the Repub-
lican majority to see if they support it,”
Polis said.
On “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, Polis
said he’s awaiting certification for ending
the law as the Pentagon implements train-
ing for open service in the U.S. military.
The repeal law that President Obama
signed in December allows for repeal
only after 60 days pass when the presi-
dent, the defense secretary and the chair
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certify that the
U.S. military is ready for open service.
Servicemembers Legal Defense Net-
work has called for expedited training
to implement repeal more quickly in the
armed forces.
Asked whether he thinks the training is
proceeding at a satisfactory pace, Polis
replied, “The proof will be in the pudding
and we all look forward to the certification
of the process — hopefully in the weeks
or the very few months ahead when the
policy formally is repealed.”
LGBT advocates have been calling on
President Obama to issue an executive
order that would provide explicit protec-
tions for gay service members who feel
they’ve experienced discrimination in the
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armed forces. The White House hasn’t
explicitly endorsed or rejected the idea,
but has noted policy guidance stating
that harassment or abuse based on sex-
ual orientation would be unacceptable in
the military.
Despite this call, Polis stopped short
of endorsing such an executive order for
the U.S. military.
“The military is not my area of exper-
tise,” Polis said. “I’ve been on the board
of the Air Force Academy for two years.
I’m learning a lot more about defense is-
sues, but I don’t really have an opinion
on that yet.”
While expressing skepticism about
the chances for federal progress on
LGBT issues in this Congress, Polis was
optimistic about the prospects for a pro-
LGBT bill in his home state of Colorado: a
measure that would legalize civil unions.
“It passed the Senate and has the
governor’s support, so hopefully it’ll pass
the House,” Polis said.
Polis said lawmakers are pursuing civ-
il unions instead of same-sex marriage
legislation because no lawmaker intro-
duced a measure to expand marriage in
the state to include gay couples.
Obama hasn’t come out in favor of
same-sex marriage, although in Decem-
ber he said he’s been “wrestling” with the
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Asked whether support for same-sex
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the door for gay nuptials in Colorado,
Polis replied, “I think the president’s
journey is similar to the journey of many
people here in Colorado. Many people
aren’t quite sure what to think on this
issue. They’ve come a long way from
where they are or were a decade or two
ago, and, of course, the younger genera-
tion is already there.”
“Just as the president is wrestling with
this issue, many mainstream Americans
are wrestling with this issue,” Polis added
Evaluating Obama’s work on LGBT is-
sues as a whole, Polis said the president
is “doing a great job” and emphasized
Obama can’t enact legislation that mem-
bers of the LGBT community have been
pushing for on his own accord.
“Keep in mind that the president can’t
initiate legislation,” Polis said. “It has
to pass the House and the Senate. But
with regard to his executive orders and
his legal strategy — not defending [the
Defense of Marriage Act] — I applaud
his efforts. I think this administration
has been working closely with the LGBT
community on the issue of equality.”
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House GOP to hold hearing
on ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal
Moved criticized as
‘ideologically driven’
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
A Republican-controlled House Armed
Services subcommittee on Friday is set to
hold a hearing to oversee the implemen-
tation of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal.
The witnesses scheduled to testify at
the hearing — slated to begin at 9:30 a.m.
in Room 2212 of the Rayburn House Of-
fice Building — are top Pentagon officials.
Undersecretary of Defense for Person-
nel & Readiness Clifford Stanley, who’s
charged with overseeing repeal of the
military’s gay ban at the Pentagon, and
Vice Adm. William Gortney, director of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, are set to testify.
According to the committee website,
the title of the hearing is “Review of the Im-
plementation Plans for the Repeal of Law
and Policies Governing Service by Openly
Gay and Lesbian Service Members.”
The House Armed Services personnel
subcommittee, which will hold the hear-
ing, is chaired by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-
S.C.), who gained notoriety after shouting
“You Lie!” at President Obama during the
2010 State of the Union address. Wilson
was a vocal opponent of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” repeal last year and cast a “no” vote
against ending the military’s gay ban.
The House Armed Services Committee
didn’t immediately respond to the Wash-
ington Blade’s request to provide details
about the hearing or explain its purpose.
Eileen Lainez, a Pentagon spokes-
person, said during the hearing Stanley
will “provide an update on the progress
of training efforts and policy revisions
supporting [‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’] repeal
implementation.”
The hearing apparently has the en-
dorsement of U.S. House Speaker John
Boehner (R-Ohio). Asked via e-mail
whether the speaker supports the hear-
ing to oversee “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
repeal implementation, Michael Steel, a
Boehner spokesperson, replied, “That
seems to be appropriate.”
Drew Hammill, a spokesperson for
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-
Calif.), criticized Republicans for schedul-
ing the hearing after Congress completed
action to repeal the anti-gay law last year.
“This issue has been resolved in the
Congress and in the minds of the Ameri-
can people,” Hammill said. “The Ameri-
can people want action on jobs not more
ideologically driven social policy from
right wing Republicans.”
But R. Clarke Cooper, executive direc-
tor of the Log Cabin Republicans, said
he backs congressional oversight to
monitor the process of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” repeal.
“As a current Army Reserve officer,
I strongly support the congressional
oversight on the measured progress of
the Pentagon’s [repeal implementation
april 1, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 15
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Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel &
Readiness Clifford Stanley is charged with
overseeing repeal of the military’s gay ban at
the Pentagon.
team],” Cooper said. “In my capacity as
an officer, I have already provided input to
the [repeal implementation team] as well
as several Republican members of the
[House Armed Services Committee] and
[Senate Armed Services Committee].”
According to Cooper, a full House
Armed Services Committee hearing on
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal is sched-
uled for April 7. The Washington Blade
couldn’t immediately confirm with the
committee that an additional hearing has
been set for that day.
“Both [House Armed Services Com-
mittee] hearings provide the necessary
transparency and accountability for De-
partment of Defense leadership, training
and implementation of open service and
open recruitment,” Cooper said.
Alex Nicholson, executive director of Ser-
vicemembers United, said his organization
supports the routine practice of congressio-
nal oversight, but added the purpose of the
House hearing is “rather transparent.”
“Some House Republicans, including
and especially the chair of the House
Armed Services Committee, would like
nothing more than to derail the Defense
Department’s thus-far successful plan-
ning for repeal implementation, or at
least slow it down considerably,” Nich-
olson said. “This cadre of reactionaries
needs to understand once and for all that
this issue is settled and no more time or
taxpayer money should be wasted trying
to take us backwards on this.”
President Obama in December signed
legislation that would allow for repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but the gay ban
will remain in effect until 60 days pass af-
ter the president, the defense secretary
and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff certify the military is ready for open
service. Defense Secretary Robert Gates
has said he won’t issue certification un-
til the training for open service is imple-
mented throughout the military.
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NEWS
Frank seeks co-sponsors before introducing ENDA
Continued from page 1
“I think it’s very important we intro-
duce this legislation, that we begin the
process anew, that we don’t have a big
gap of activity on behalf on ending this
discrimination,” Miller said.
Miller, the ranking Democrat on the
House Education & Workforce Commit-
tee, said the process should begin again
so that “we no longer continue to live in a
country where depending on where you
live, your employers can legally fire, re-
fuse to hire, demote or pass over you for
promotion based upon your sexual orien-
tation or gender [identity].”
A number of LGBT groups — ranging
from the Human Rights Campaign, the Na-
tional Gay & Lesbian Task Force and the
National Center for Lesbian Rights —issued
statements praising Frank for introducing
ENDA on Wednesday even though he had
yet to formally introduce the legislation.
Harry Gural, a Frank spokesperson,
confirmed that ENDA had yet to be intro-
duced on Wednesday and said his boss
wants more support before going forward.
“It was announced but not formally
introduced — the bill has not been
‘dropped,’” Gural said. “We have the bill
text exactly as it will be [introduced] —
which is exactly the same text as last
year. But before it is formally introduced,
we are still collecting cosponsors.”
Fred Sainz, vice president of com-
munications for the Human Rights Cam-
paign, said HRC was told ENDA would
be introduced on Wednesday, but is be-
hind Frank’s decision to hold off on intro-
duction until additional support is found.
“If the congressman believes that the
legislation would be best served by col-
lecting more co-sponsors, then we would
completely support that,” Sainz said.
“Their plan may have been to introduce
it today, but the congressman may have
made a very good decision to wait until
there are co-sponsors that have signed
on, and I think that if that’s his judgement,
then we would concur with his judgment.”
Both Frank and Miller during the news
conference noted that the transgender pro-
tections in ENDA contribute to the difficulty
in passing the legislation. Miller said “great
strides” were made on ENDA in the 111th
Congress, but added that more education
is needed on the gender identity language.
“We went round and round on the is-
sue of transgender and discussing it with
members of Congress,” Miller said. “I just
think it’s very important that the transgen-
der community just insist — as the school
lunch community does, or the Head Start
community, or the community develop-
ment block grant community, or the [Na-
tional Rifle Association] or whatever it is —
insist upon sitting down with members of
Congress and getting them to understand
and recognize what is happening.”
With Republicans in control of the
House, a number of LGBT advocates
have been calling on President Obama
to issue an executive order barring the
federal government from contracting
with companies that don’t have policies
barring discrimination based on sexual
orientation and gender identity. Earlier
this week, gay Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.)
endorsed such a directive from the presi-
dent (see related story).
Asked by the Washington Blade
whether he would also support such an
order, Frank said he would support the
directive in principle, but would need to
examine the move further.
“I have to look at the legality of that,”
Frank said. “I would be in favor of it, but
there are limits to what you can do by exec-
utive order and we don’t want to overreach,
but I support it in principle and I’ll look at it.”
Frank also dismissed the idea that a
discharge petition could move ENDA
forward if House Speaker John Boehner
(R-Ohio) refuses to hold a vote on the
legislation in the 112th Congress. A dis-
charge petition requires the signature
of a majority of House members — 218
names — to advance legislation.
“I don’t think there are 30 Republicans
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that would sign a discharge petition for
a bill that includes transgender,” Frank
said. “If there were, frankly, we could have
passed this bill in the [111th] Congress. ...
There are not 218 members at this point
ready to support it. We have an over-
whelmingly number of Democrats, but not
all, and a number of Republicans.”
Frank said a number of House mem-
bers in principle never sign a discharge
petition and predicted ENDA would
lose about 15 or 20 supporters if an at-
tempt were made to pass the legislation
through that route.
“I think it’s a mistake to hold that out as
a possibility because I don’t want people
wasting their effort on urging people who
are already ready to vote for this to do
something else, which isn’t going to ad-
vance it one iota,” Frank added.
A number of LGBT advocates are frus-
trated that ENDA didn’t even see a House
committee vote — let alone a vote on the
House or Senate floor — during the 111th
Congress when Democrats had control of
both chambers of Congress.
Frank cited a “traffic jam” in the LGBT
legislative agenda with the passage of
hate crimes protections legislation and
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” as a reason why
ENDA didn’t move in the 111th Congress.
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VIEWPOINT
No pro-choice litmus test for Victory Fund
Some out gay
politicians just
happen to be pro-life
By ROBERT TURNER
I had the pleasure of attend-
ing the Victory Fund’s National
Champagne Brunch last week.
It was a day of firsts.
It was my first time going,
and it was their first time at the
Washington Hilton. They were
celebrating their 20th anniver-
sary. There was a wonderful
performance to start the day
from the D.C. Cowboys. The
speeches were good and not
too long. And thanks to David
Perruzza and JR.’s, the Cham-
pagne was definitely flowing.
The work that the Victory Fund
does is important. We need
more gays and lesbians serv-
ing in elective office. We need to
build leaders who today will run
for the city councils and state
houses so that tomorrow, they
can run for governor, Congress
and even the White House.
Victory Fund endorses can-
didates who have gone through
a vetting process to ensure that
the candidate has a serious
campaign and that they’ve dem-
Closing gaps in health care for our community
HHS report on LGBT
concerns is an historic
breakthrough
By SCOUT
“Don’t ever call an ambu-
lance for me. I don’t care if I get
hit by a car, let me die on the
street. Just do not call an am-
bulance,” Arlene admonished
me. I’d heard the horror story
about the last time she went to
a hospital so I couldn’t really
blame her, but still, it was sad.
No one should fear the medical
system. But Arlene, like many
other transgender people, has
a learned and warranted fear
of the medical system. Yet fear
of the medical system isn’t the
only problem out there.
As a cultural competency
trainer, I know the stats all too
well. Doctors and nurses feel free
to openly express their personal
disdain for LGBT people. Far
from being a helping profession
for us, accessing health care can
be a minefield where political ide-
ologies and personal prejudices
trump the Hippocratic oath.
While abortion is a very important issue to
many in the LGBT community, it is not, nor
should it be, what defines us. The one thing
that should define us is our goal to bring full
equality to all LGBT Americans.
onstrated a real path to electoral
success. There are not many,
but Victory Fund does endorse a
few Republicans each cycle.
Their mission is simple: “To
change the face and voice of Amer-
ica’s politics and achieve equality
for LGBT Americans by increasing
the number of openly LGBT officials
at all levels of government.”
However if you look closer,
in a bit of mission creep, they
add in a few caveats that are
limiting. They almost always en-
dorse pro-choice candidates. In
fact, to my knowledge, they’ve
only endorsed one pro-lifer in
recent history — Dan Hill, who
ran for the General Assembly in
Nevada last year.
Now this column is not intend-
ed to start a discussion about
abortion. Let’s save that for an-
other day. But is it wise to cou-
ple being gay with being pro-
choice? Of course not. Although
it is true that the inspiration to
And while discrimination
can be deadly, it is the more
often the widespread igno-
rance that more often hurts
us. Does a doctor know how
to prescribe hormones for a
transgender person? Have
intake forms that don’t alien-
ate LGBT people by asking
about marriage? Have trained
front-line staff who know to
treat all with respect? Do the
staff understand what health
problems are more common
for LGBT people? Do health
care providers understand
how to talk to us without
stumbling and steering awk-
wardly clear of any issues of
sexual orientation or gender
identity? Lots of questions.
And our community deserves
not answers but solutions.
Well, I’m happy to say that
this week the federal govern-
ment made a major stride in both
acknowledging and prioritizing
LGBT health disparities. The
U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services released the his-
toric Institute of Medicine Report
on LGBT Health. The Institute of
Medicine imprimatur carries the
highest regard among health
create the Victory Fund comes
from EMILY’S List, that’s where
the similarities should end.
In limiting the scope of their field,
Victory Fund risks circumventing its
very own mission – electing more
out LGBT people to office.
While abortion is a very im-
portant issue to many in the
LGBT community, it is not, nor
should it be, what defines us.
The one thing that should define
us is our goal to bring full equal-
ity to all LGBT Americans.
What would be next in this
mission creep? Only supporting
out gay and lesbian pro-choice
candidates who are pro-union,
left-handed, recycle and support
federal funding for National Pub-
lic Radio? Now that’s just silly.
Unlike other national organi-
zations in our communities with
big budgets, Victory Fund has
done a good job showing that it’s
not a political arm of the Demo-
cratic National Committee.
professionals, so the mere exis-
tence of this report is a great step
forward in prioritizing our health
disparities. The report reviews
the highest level of science avail-
able about our health disparities
and makes strong suggestions
for action at every level.
One of the most important
suggestions is the simplest,
count us. When the Census or
health surveys don’t ask who is
LGBT, it’s like locking us in the
closet. It effectively hides our
lives and all evidence of the dis-
parities we struggle against. This
is one simple step that LGBT ad-
vocates have been asking for
ages and it is too long overdue.
I applaud the National In-
stitutes of Health for commis-
sioning this prestigious and
comprehensive study, for not
leaving transgender people
behind, for taking due care to
ferret out as much information
as possible on LGBT commu-
nities of color. Each of these
actions is a great stride. As
the director of the Network for
LGBT Health Equity I’ve been
advocating for LGBT inclusion
in health policy for many years,
so trust me when I say, this is a
But it needs to understand that
being pro-life is not bad for the gay
cause. And what would happen if
science were to ever discover the
“gay gene?” Would everyone in
the community suddenly become
pro-life so parents don’t abort ba-
bies who have “it?” Again, silly.
My message to Victory Fund
is simple: Get rid of the pro-abor-
tion plank in your vetting process
and move on. Chuck Wolfe, Vic-
tory Fund’s executive director,
said it best at the Sunday brunch
about the type of people we need
to help get elected: “Not just out
candidates, but outstanding
candidates.” Some of them just
might be pro-life. And that should
be OK. There should not be a
litmus test other than being out
and proud and having a credible
campaign with a chance of suc-
cess. That’s the winning ticket.
Robert Turner is president of the d.C.
chapter of log Cabin republicans and
can be reached at robert.turner@
dclogcabin.org.
truly historic moment.
But there is much to do. I
think of my vulnerable young
queer nephew and cousin. I
don’t want them to take the path
I did, and try to commit suicide.
But I can see their isolation, I
know how they struggle to find
people who accept them. It’s
going to take a lot to change
their reality. So, at the end of
the day we must remember this
Institute of Medicine Report on
LGBT health is just a book. The
real change will come when
federal officials, policymakers
and medical providers take this
book off their shelf and turn it
into action. Action that cannot
come a moment too soon.
Scout is the director of the network for
lGBt health equity at the fenway in-
stitute. A longtime lGBt activist, scout
is an openly transgender person living
in a small town in rhode island and
struggling to get his three kids through
the trials of being teenagers.
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INSIDELGBTWASHINGTON
Running for GOP nod a fool’s errand?
It’s only April, but
2012 candidates are
already embarrassing
themselves
By PETER ROSENSTEIN
It’s April Fools’ Day 2011 and
we are at the starting line of the
2012 presidential campaign.
Some people on both sides of
the aisle may think it’s a fool’s
errand but clearly there are
enough fools out there willing to
put on their running shoes.
President Obama is on a tear to
raise another fortune but this time
it seems he will look to rich people
as well as the Internet. He is go-
ing all out to appeal to business
and even suggested bringing a
neighborly cake to the Chamber
of Commerce might have helped
earlier. So why not haul in some of
their money? Republican candi-
dates are beginning to set up ex-
ploratory committees as the way
to test the waters and see if they
sink or swim. Some of them better
have their lifevests on.
Democrats know who their
VIEWPOINT
Rest in peace, our own ‘Mother Courage’
Elizabeth Taylor
embraced us before
it was fashionable
By KATHI WOLFE
One night in 1985, my gay
friend John, his boyfriend Da-
vid and I ate Chinese takeout,
as we watched TV. We were
far more terrified than hungry.
David had just learned that he
had AIDS, then a fatal illness
shrouded in stigma. John ago-
nized over how to care for his
partner. Though queer, I had
to keep telling myself that you
couldn’t get AIDS by sitting
next to someone with HIV. (At
the time, many feared that AIDS
was spread through the air.) In
the midst of our despair, we saw
Elizabeth Taylor on TV. She was
speaking in support of her good
friend Rock Hudson who had
died from AIDS and on behalf
of everyone with the illness. For
the first time during that terrible
One thing the frontrunners for the Republican
Party presidential nomination have in common
is that they are all apparently uncomfortable
with the LGBT community and are
against us getting married.
candidate for president will be. So
the entertainment will be watch-
ing the Republican candidates
fight it out. Rep. Michelle Bach-
man who thinks that Lexington
and Concord and Paul Revere’s
ride occurred in New Hampshire
and Sarah Palin, who thinks, well
I guess she must at times. Tim
Pawlenty who has been testing
the waters for months announced
recently that he is going from dip-
ping his big toe in the water to put-
ting his whole foot in — or is it in his
mouth? Then there are the Donald
and the Newt. Those two would
make a great ticket; two adulter-
ers, six wives between them, run-
ning on a family friendly morality
ticket. Wouldn’t that be fun and it’s
not even an April Fools’ joke.
One thing the frontrunners for
the Republican Party presiden-
tial nomination have in common
period, we smiled. If Liz with
those great violet eyes was on
our side, there was hope.
That is one of the memories
that came to my mind when I
learned that Elizabeth Taylor
died at age 79 on March 23. In
this age of instant celebs and
reality TV clones, there aren’t
many true stars. But, with the
passing of Taylor, it’s not hyper-
bolic to say that a star has gone.
Whether you remember laugh-
ing and crying as Taylor be-
came Martha in “Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf”; the witty, steamy
romance of LizandDick; or Tay-
lor hugging someone with AIDS
(when people feared touching
anyone with HIV), life without Liz
is as unthinkable as Manhattan
without the skyline or the U.S.
Capitol without its dome.
It’s breathtaking to recall
how brave Elizabeth Taylor
was when she spoke out dur-
ing the beginning of the AIDS
epidemic. Now, everyone from
TV talk show hosts to clergy
talk informatively and empa-
is that they are all apparently
uncomfortable with the LGBT
community and are against us
getting married. So much so that
they think it is a great idea to say
it loud and often. Now I know that
President Obama isn’t for our
marrying yet either but at least
he has come out for the repeal of
the Defense of Marriage Act and
asked his Justice Department not
to defend it in the courts. We can
only hope he will fully “evolve” be-
fore the elections. Viewing 2012
from this distance he is so tied to
the LGBT community now that he
might as well support full human
and civil rights for us because
anyone who really continues to
think we are the devil incarnate
won’t vote for him anyway.
As we look beyond the presi-
dential primaries, the Republicans
have the same problem this year
thetically about people with HIV.
Your straight grandmother has a
queer BFF and it’s not newswor-
thy that “Modern Family,” the
hit ABC sitcom has gay char-
acters. But in the mid-1980s,
the word AIDS was rarely men-
tioned in mainstream society.
In New York Times obituaries,
people with AIDS were often
reported as having died from
a “long illness.” Then, LGBTQ
people were much less visible
than now and homophobia was
far more prevalent.
“People were telling me not to
get involved,” Taylor told a report-
er speaking of that time. “I got
death threats. I got angrier and
angrier. So I put myself out there.”
All sentient beings on this
planet, hetero or queer, will re-
member Taylor’s ravishing, in-
describable beauty both on and
off screen. A gay male friend of
mine saw her speak on AIDS
research at the National Press
Club in Washington.
“She was the most incredibly
beautiful woman I’ve ever seen,”
april 1, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 19
that Democrats have often had.
Democratic progressives of the
more liberal persuasion make up
most of their primary voters and
conservatives of the most extreme
make up most of the Republican
primary vote. Add the Tea Party
members to the Republican pri-
mary mix and they can get a whole
bunch of Sharon Angles and “I’m
not a witch” Christine O’Donnells as
their candidates. Democrats could
then end up with a lot of accidental
senators like Chris Coons (D-Del.).
Taking that race as an exam-
ple I would suggest to the Demo-
cratic Senatorial Campaign Com-
mittee that they recruit strong
candidates — rich ones if pos-
sible — because we have seen
in 2010 that anything can happen
on the way to the Senate.
And then there are our LGBT
organizations. Wouldn’t it be great
if they could play nice for two
years and work together? Maybe
they can call a truce to the com-
petiveness long enough to pro-
duce a comprehensive plan to
elect more members of Congress
who both believe in and will vote
for our rights. There are so many
smart people in these organiza-
tions but sometimes it seems as
he e-mailed me. “I’ve seen a
number of Hollywood stars over
the years, and she is the only one
who literally looked as if she’d just
stepped off the screen.”
Taylor’s cinematic presence
was mesmerizing. Whether
you’re watching Taylor in her
best films “National Velvet,” “A
Place in the Sun,” “Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof” or “Who’s Afraid of Vir-
ginia Woolf?” or in schlock like
“The Flintstones,” you can’t take
your eyes off her. Yet we who are
queer, will most remember Tay-
lor for her loyalty to and comfort
with our community (decades
before it was fashionable for
straight women to have a gay
“plus one”); her AIDS advocacy
(prior to when red ribbons be-
came ubiquitous); her embodi-
ment of camp and her honesty.
As William J. Mann reports in
“How to Be a Movie Star: Eliza-
beth Taylor in Hollywood” (one of
the most illuminating of the more
than 50 books written about Tay-
lor), Elizabeth from her youth on-
ward had queer friends, including
if their only role is to see who can
get more press or TV time. If the
talent at HRC, the Task Force,
Equality Matters, and GetEQUAL,
among others could join hands,
just think what they could accom-
plish. I don’t expect Log Cabin or
Stonewall to join this sewing circle
because their roles are politically
defined by party. But the others
could combine resources and
brain power and make a real dif-
ference in our world.
The world is changing and
I think the LGBT community is
changing with it. Some are now
part of the establishment. But
for the next two years our goal
shouldn’t be to support the few
in the establishment, but rather
to make all of us free to live our
lives in dignity with our human
and civil rights secured.
Peter Rosenstein is a D.C.-based LGBT
rights and Democratic Party activist. He
writes regularly for the Blade.
gay actor Montgomery Clift. Taylor
saved Clift’s life when he was in a
car accident. “He was my best
friend,” Taylor said of Clift. “... I
loved Monty with all my heart and
... knew that he was meant to be
with a man and not a woman, and
I discussed it with him.”
The term brave is so often
overused that it’s become al-
most meaningless. Yet, Tay-
lor who didn’t flinch when the
Vatican denounced her love for
Richard Burton or the right wing
deplored her support for queers,
truly was courageous. “I’m
Mother Courage,” she so rightly
called herself. R.I.P. Elizabeth.
Kathi Wolfe is a writer, poet and regu-
lar contributor to the Blade. She can be
reached through this publication.
20 washingtonblade.com • april 1, 2011
OURBUSINESSMATTERS
D.C. small businesses face worst-in-nation obstacles
LGBT entrepreneurs
disproportionately
impacted
By MARK LEE
When local community ac-
tivists gather to assess the po-
litical environment in D.C. and
reflect on their efforts to attain
LGBT legislative equality and
legal protections, they cele-
brate the support received from
the District’s political establish-
ment and the relative ease by
which civil fairness and equity
are achieved.
In contrast, when local com-
munity small business owners
and entrepreneurs hang out
together, they commiserate
with one another regarding the
legendary obstacles and seem-
ingly incessant burdens of op-
erating a commercial enterprise
in Washington.
They do so with good reason.
Once again, D.C. has main-
tained its perennial notoriety as
the least-friendly environment in
the nation for the development
and success of small business
endeavors.
The latest annual survey and
analysis by the Small Business
VIEWPOINT
Focus on facts in HIV prevention debate
Use of treatment
drug found to reduce
infection risk
By DR. ROBERT GRANT &
DR. ALBERT LIU
A robust public debate is un-
derway about the potential use of
anti-HIV drugs to prevent HIV in-
fection (also known as pre-expo-
sure prophylaxis or PrEP).
Our study, called iPrEx, provid-
ed the first conclusive evidence
that the daily use of PrEP with the
FDA-approved HIV treatment Tru-
vada® can significantly reduce
HIV infection risk in gay, bisexual
and other men who have sex with
men (MSM) and transgender
women, when delivered as part of
a comprehensive package of pre-
vention services, including con-
doms. The protection provided
by PrEP and condoms together
could have a substantial impact
in reducing new HIV infections
and Entrepreneurship Council
again ranks the District of Co-
lumbia dead last among itself
and the 50 states when mea-
suring governmental barriers to
community enterprise and inde-
pendent professional activities.
This is the same embarrassing
position our local political lead-
ership has earned for as long as
anyone can recall, and a distinc-
tion mirrored by other sources.
In its 15th annual “Small Busi-
ness Survival Index: Ranking
the Policy Environment for En-
trepreneurship Across the Na-
tion” released recently, the SBE
Council’s widely reported and
well-regarded measurement
based on 38 critical areas of
government policy and gov-
ernment-imposed costs, D.C.
occupies last place. In fact, as
the report notes, if all measure-
ments by which the 50 states are
judged were included — some
of which the study exempts D.C.
due to its unique status — its
ranking would shoot through the
floor and register a far distance
from the closest state jurisdic-
tions with the worst rankings.
This harsh day-to-day opera-
tional reality for small business
enterprises disproportionately
affects gays and lesbians due
to the significantly higher preva-
among MSM worldwide.
Recently, a private health-
care provider has begun a paid
advertising campaign urging
the FDA not to even consider
approving the use of PrEP –
charging, among other things,
that MSM will stop using con-
doms if PrEP is permitted. The
pros and cons of PrEP use
should be vigorously debated
— but that debate should be
based on facts, rather than the
assumption that MSM will not
act to protect themselves and
others from infection. Here are
the facts about the iPrEX study:
A diverse group of 2,499 HIV-
negative MSM and transgender
women on four continents with
a range of sexual practices par-
ticipated in iPrEx. All participants
received a comprehensive pack-
age of HIV prevention servic-
es. Half also received Truvada,
while the other half received a
placebo (blank pill). Neither the
study participants nor the inves-
tigators knew which pill they re-
lence of our numbers engaged
in entrepreneurial activities.
While difficult to quantify, it
has been long and generally
accepted that the LGBT com-
munity represents a higher per
capita percentage than the
general population of those en-
gaged in small business owner-
ship and operation, leadership
roles in entrepreneurial enter-
prises, professional services
employment, sole proprietor-
ships, independent contractors,
work in creative class industries
and artistic endeavors, tech-
nical consultancies, personal
services and a wide range of
similar occupational categories.
The available statistical and
anecdotal evidence suggests that
this has been and continues to be
the result of a higher proportion
of gays and lesbians engaged in
diversified professional paths due
to factors such as a self-directed
desire to operate outside of con-
ventional norms, foregoing a tradi-
tionally truncated career advance-
ment track historically outside of
reach, pursuing lines of work that
dictate or lend themselves to in-
dependent engagement, willing-
ness to take on challenges and
confront risk, and a ready-made
community “village” requiring
and encouraging its own internal
ceived during the study.
The group that received PrEP
with Truvada in addition to con-
doms had 44 percent fewer HIV
infections. This protective ef-
fect was seen across different
groups in the study, including
those of different age, ethnicity
and education level.
Men in both study groups re-
duced their risk behaviors and in-
creased their condom use – dem-
onstrating that MSM can use PrEP
and condoms together. PrEP does
not protect against other sexually
transmitted infections and should
never be considered as a substi-
tute for condom use or other safer
sex precautions.
Ensuring daily pill use will
be critical to the success of
PrEP. While many iPrEx study par-
ticipants used the pill consistently,
about 50 percent did not, which
impacted the effectiveness of PrEP
in the study. Among those who
took the medication consistently,
the level of protection PrEP pro-
vided reached 72 to 95 percent. A
consumer services and business
supply environments.
The National Gay and Les-
bian Chamber of Commerce
(NGLCC) reports that an esti-
mated 10 percent of the nation’s
LGBT consumers are them-
selves entrepreneurs and busi-
ness owners.
For that reason alone, the
D.C. government’s hostile po-
litical culture and heavy-handed
counterproductive policy pos-
ture thwarting small business
development and a healthy
private sector economic envi-
ronment should be an issue of
concern to our community and
our advocates.
Of course, a shift in the
historically self-destructive
policies of local government
leaders more eager to extract
increasingly higher business
and consumer taxes and fees
and impose burdensome over-
regulation of which they are ill-
equipped to administer won’t
be easy or quick.
The D.C. Council’s propensity
for freewheeling and wasteful
government spending has con-
tributed to the current budget
crisis and financial emergency.
Plundering even more resources
from community small business-
es and diminishing the inherent
second phase of the iPrEx study
will begin soon, in which all partici-
pants who want PrEP will receive
it. We are hoping to learn whether
knowing that PrEP works will help
participants achieve higher rates
of pill use and protection in this
phase of the study.
Truvada is widely used for
HIV treatment because it is
generally well tolerated. Rates
of side effects were very low in
the iPrEx study. A small amount
of bone loss was seen among
those receiving PrEP, a finding
commonly seen in HIV-positive
individuals starting anti-HIV
treatment; these changes had
no apparent negative health
impact. Studies to date also
show no evidence of HIV drug
resistance associated with PrEP
use. HIV testing and medical
evaluation before starting PrEP
and while using PrEP are impor-
tant to prevent resistance.
A daily PrEP dosing regimen
was used in the iPrEx study. It
is not known whether PrEP can
benefits to the local economy
has long proven easier than con-
fronting their profligate ways.
Until our local government
leaders reform these practices
and grasp the implications of their
all-too-eager reflex to hamstring
indigenous enterprises with ex-
cessive regulation and taxation,
the environment for entrepreneur-
ial success won’t improve.
Our community has a unique
stake in the ability of local politi-
cians to discern what truly drives
local economic development,
strengthens the economy, gener-
ates local jobs and creates en-
hanced amenities for residents
as a result of policies expanding
opportunities for success among
local businesses.
Our message to them
should be a simple one: stop
killing the geese that lay all
those golden eggs.
Mark Lee is a local small business
manager and long-time community
business advocate. Reach him at Our-
BusinessMatters@gmail.com.
be taken less frequently to pre-
vent HIV infections. Additional
studies are underway or being
planned to look at whether dif-
ferent dosing regimens (e.g.,
taking PrEP before and after
sex, or on a regular schedule
several times a week) would be
safe and effective.
The iPrEx study was paid for
by the U.S. National Institutes of
Health and by the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, and was not
organized or run by any drug
company. IPrEx requested and
received a donation of study
drug from Gilead Sciences, but
Gilead had no other input into
the study.
Continues at
washingtonblade.com
Dr. Robert Grant is iPrEx protocol chair.
Dr. Albert Liu is iPrEx medical officer and
San Francisco Site Researcher. This col-
umn was co-signed by two additional site
researchers and two investigators.
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22 washingtonblade.com • april 1, 2011

Films with LGBT topics in this year’s

Filmfest DC
For 80 Days
Jon Garaño/José María Goenaga, Spain, 104 mins.
Two women who were best friends meet again
by accident 50 years later and reassess their
lives and the choices they’ve made — and
possibly make some difficult new choices.
Sunday, April 10, 7:30 PM
Monday, April 11, 8:30 PM
Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave., NW

Circumstance
Maryam Keshavarz, Iran/France/USA, 107 mins.
As a young Iranian woman experiments with
her burgeoning sexuality, her relationship with
her brother sours, and the two siblings become
entangled in a triangle of suspense, surveil-
lance, and betrayal.
Friday, April 15, 9:00 PM
Saturday, April 16, 6:00 PM
Regal Cinemas Gallery Place, 701 7th St., NW

Loose Cannons
Ferzan Ozpetek, Italy, 110 mins.
In this charming comedy, everyone is hiding or
ignoring something as the father of this lively
Italian clan attempts to pass the family pasta
business to his reluctant sons.
Friday, April 8, 9:00 PM
Saturday, April 9, 7:00 PM
AMC Mazza Gallerie, 5300 Wisconsin Ave., NW

We Were Here
David Weissman/Bill Weber, USA, 90 mins.
APRIL 7 – 17, 2011

The thriving tight-knit gay community in San

Francisco came under with the arrival of AIDS
in the early 1980s. Filmmaker David Weissman
reconstructs the era that saw unspeakable hor-
rors inspire courageous action.
Friday, April 8, 6:30 PM
Saturday April 9, 6:30 PM
Regal Cinemas Gallery Place, 701 7th St., NW

For Tickets And More

Information Visit
filmfestdc.org
General Admission is $11.00.

For Information visit filmfestdc.org or call 202-234-film

 JAMES DECKER ANSWERS 20 QUESTIONS
washingtonblade.com • vol. 42, issue 13 • april 1, 2011 • Page 23
Studio’s Muse
David Muse, the new artistic director of the Studio Theatre.
New artistic director first to
succeed founder Zinoman
By DAVID HOFFMAN
He has been labeled a “wunderkind,” but no one
would mistake this young man who has taken the helm
of the Studio Theatre as a “wild child,” a Rimbaud on the
rampage, scary, impudent, a feral genius in a state of
artistic nature.
For with David Muse, who became at age 36 Stu-
dio’s second artistic director when founder Joy Zinoman
passed him the reins last September, the clearest im-
pression is of a young man with artistic time and motion
studies on his mind, with a bookkeeper’s talent for cut-
ting costs or adding a new line to the budget — either
way, it’s the temperament of a manager.
But that would be the wrong impression also.
The best explanation about what makes David Muse
run — as an artist himself, Yale-educated twice over, as
PAGE 24
arts & entertainment
well as the new manager of Studio Theatre — may come
from Zinoman, who says, “David’s story is the classic,
American story of a smart, talented kid from a small
town who finds his passion, pursues it with dedication
and intensity, and manages to win friends and admirers
by virtue of his charm, sensitivity and intelligence.”
She has also said of the preternaturally calm and
highly cerebral Muse, a vegan, a cyclist and a fitness
buff, that “he’s very seductive and charming,” and Su-
san Butler, Studio’s board chairman, told the Washington
Post that “I hope he likes to raise money.” That’s a handy
charm in that rarefied realm of courting wealthy patrons,
coaxing those birds from their tall trees and out of their
mansions, just another talent for Muse to demonstrate.
Muse must use persuasion to find new patrons just
as he has also found old patrons, key sponsors like Zi-
noman of course but also Michael Kahn at the Shake-
speare Theatre Company who plucked Muse from New
York City to return to Washington in 2004 to become his
artistic aide-de-camp. His talent is in having talent and
in inspiring others more senior also with talent to appre-
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
ciate and invest in his own talent. Which is sizable.
Consider that he has amassed a glittering resume
as a director — including staging an all-male version of
“Romeo and Juliet” — since arriving in D.C. in 1996 to
teach calculus to kids at Eastern High School, when he
was soon drawn to theater at Studio’s own acting con-
servatory, where first he was a student and then began
to dabble part-time as a “juvenile,” the theatrical term for
a male newcomer, enchanted by the stage, focusing on
acting at the beginning, one time even dressing as an os-
trich in size-13 high heels. He later tackled directing also.
Today he is filling even bigger shoes, succeeding the
trail-blazing Zinoman in command of about 60 staff in four
stages seating 900 in three buildings with about 60,000
square feet set in the heart of D.C.’s Logan Circle neigh-
borhood, anchoring in a former auto showroom at 14th
and P Streets. With its more than $5 million annual bud-
get, Studio is a major force on the local theater scene,
mounting major productions every year and with its new
Continues on page 41
24 washingtonblade.com • april 1, 2011

QUEERY: 20 questions for James Decker

By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com

James Decker moved to Washington 10

years ago after a three-year stint in Flagstaff,
Ariz. He came, he says, “to change the world.”
“That really was it,” the Lansing, Mich., na-
tive says. “I’m not sure I believe that anymore,
but I’d always been an activist with my hand
in a lot of different pots. Civil rights, the envi-
ronment. It just seems like if you’re into acting
and film, you go to L.A. If you’re into the finan-
cial industry, you go to New York. But politics
is really the action here in Washington.”
Decker worked as a graphics designer at
Human Rights Campaign for six years, then
had a stint with Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen. Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
He’s freelance now (thinkdamnit.com).
Decker started attending Cherry as soon as he came to D.C. The nightlife/dance
music fan joined the board this year to help “put D.C. back on the map” as a destina-
tion spot for nightlife enthusiasts.
“It’s certainly been bigger in the past and kind of ebbed and flowed,” he says of
Cherry attendance. “There were a few years where it wasn’t quite where it needed to be.
When you think of Miami, New York, Dallas, L.A., Montreal — the places where people
travel to hear world-class DJs, I wanted to help D.C. be part of that circle again.”
He’s excited about the crop Cherry — which runs all weekend with a bounty of
events (go to page 25 or cherryfund.org for more information) — has attracted this
year. He says Oscar G., who’ll be at the main event Saturday night at Town, is one
of the biggest talents who’s been in the region “in years.”
“I have a saying among my friends — it’s really all about the music for me,” Decker
says. “That it’s also a charity, all the better, but for me it’s really to showcase the qual-
ity DJs. As far as the wow factor, Cherry really has no equal in Washington. If there
is anytime to go dancing here, it’s this weekend.”
Decker is single and lives in Dupont Circle. He enjoys hiking, camping, working
out, biking, dancing, film, art, painting and beer.

Washington Blade photo by Michael Key

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DJ Alyson Calagna says she likes to start her sets slow and work to a boil.
Gaining ‘Momentum’
DJ Alyson Calagna
kicks off Cherry with
Apex party tonight
By JULIETTE EBNER
Cherry Fund’s annual charity circuit par-
ty may have officially kicked off Thursday,
but the party has barely started with more
events all day today, Saturday and Sunday.
The big party tonight is Momentum
hosted by Miss Foozie at Apex (1415
22nd St., N.W.) with lesbian DJ Alyson
Calagna and DJ Steve Henderson.
With a line-up of mostly male DJs,
Calagna, who has been spinning for 19
years, kind of sticks out of the crowd,
and she likes it that way.
“It feels pretty good ... now things
have changed and it’s a lot easier to be
a girl DJ,” Calagna says. “I have a much
more masculine essence so its good to
be among the boys.”
She doesn’t stay at one club and spin,
but tours and goes somewhere new ev-
ery weekend, with fans sometimes travel-
ing to hear her at the bigger parties.
Circuit parties don’t seem to be as big
as they once were, and Calagna thinks it’s
just the way the club culture goes every
five or six years with peaks and drops.
“Right now, I think we’re in a bit of a
reorganizing phase, weeding out what’s
not working, changing things,” she says.
“There are some circuit parties that do
really, really well.”
Music has always been a part of
Calagna’s life.
When she was young, she wanted to
be a radio DJ, until she started clubbing.
She became a resident dancer at a
teen club, getting close to the different
DJs there. One night, she went up to the
DJ and just asked if he’d teach her.
“The first time I went to his studio where
he practiced, that was it ... I knew the mo-
ment I touched a turntable, that was what
I wanted to do,” Calagna says, adding
she almost gave up dancing right there.
This isn’t Calagna’s first turn at Cherry.
april 1, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 25
celebrate the national
cherry blossom festival
3-COurSE
prix fix mENu
$45.00++/person
Photo courtesy of the Cherry Fund
“I play a lot of circuit parties ... Cherry
is one of the ones that really still stands
for something,” Calagna says. “I really
like what they’re doing.”
Her style is house-based, but Calagna mENu
doesn’t stay in a single genre or follow a set
list when she spins, rather going with the vibe torchon au foie gras
of the crowd, comparing what she does to a goose liver torchon
chef visiting another country and changing cherry orange compote
regional recipes to fit his style of cooking.
Don’t expect the music to be fast and
frisee salad warm brioche
rocking right away tonight. That’s one of
her biggest DJ pet peeves, time-appro- entrecôte grillée
priate music.
“I start deeper and more soulful and char grilled ny strip
melodic in the beginning because I don’t roasted fingerling potatoes
like to bang out clubs until there’s a lot green asparagus cherry reduction
of people in there,” Calagna says. “I like
the music to start slow and kind of build.”
Calagna does get paid for her appear- panna cotta au vanille
ance at Cherry, but she gives the organizers
a big break and she donates a large por- vanilla bean panna cotta
tion of the money she receives to the Cherry cherry crumble
Fund, which benefits AIDS charities. dark and white chocolate short bread
Calagna is probably looking forward
to seeing the other DJs on Saturday night
at the main event the most.
“I’ve always really enjoyed playing in
D.C.” she says. “I love the city ... I’m look-
ing forward to having the next night off.”
DJs Oscar G, BennyK and Town’s own
Wess will be spinning at Town (2009 8th St.,
N.W.) from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. with performanc-
es by Macaviti and the Ladies of Town.
Friday also has two other events, a
fashion show at Caramel Boutique (1603
U St., N.W.) with local designer Andrew
Nowell from 2 to 8 p.m. and a bachelor
auction at Town with DJ Bandit and D.C.
Bear Crue from 7 to 9 p.m. 03.26.11 — 04.10.11
After the main event on Saturday is an
café dupont
++
Plus tax & gratuity
after-hours party at Fur (33 Patterson St.,
N.E.) with DJ Peter Rauhofer from 4 to
9:30 a.m.
Sunday continues with a Tea Dance
at Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) from noon by The Dupont Hotel
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CALENDAR the Birchmere Dec. 17. (Photo courtesy of the Roches)
Britney Spears’ new album is the centerpiece of the ‘Femme Fatale Ball’ tonight at Apex.
Today
RAW, hosted by DJs Bil Todd
and Shea Van Horn with special
guest DJ Joshua, will be at Green
Lantern (1335 Green Court, N.W.)
tonight from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Free entry before 11 p.m. with a
$5 cover after. There will be an
open bar from 10 to 11 p.m. At-
tendees must be 21 or older.
Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) pres-
ents the Femme Fatale Ball, a
release party for Britney Spears’
new album, “Femme Fatale,”
from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. with DJs
Randy White and Keenan Orr. At-
tendees will have a chance to win
a free copy of the album.
The D.C. Center (1318 U St.,
N.W.) has its open mic night to-
night from 8 to 10 p.m. featur-
ing Avata J and hosted by Mike
Brazell. This is a free event.
AnniethingGoes and Forward
Fest present Dory, Charles Mar-
tin and vANNIEty Kills at Jimmy
Valentine’s Lonely Hearts Club
(1103 Bladensburg Rd., N.E.)
tonight from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.
This is Dory’s D.C. debut. Cover
is $5 or free with the FWD pass.
All attendees must be 21 or
older. For more information, visit
forwarddc.com.
The Lodge (21614 National
GAYNERD BY THOMAS GONYEA
Pike) in Boonsboro presents Ten
Queen. One Crown. The Journey
to Miss Gay Maryland: A Con-
testant Revue Show hosted by
Onyx Revlon and Ashley Bannks.
Doors open at 9 p.m. with a $5
cover until 11 and $8 after. The
show starts at 10:30 p.m.
Touchstone Gallery (901 New
York Ave., N.W.) is hosting an
opening reception tonight from
6 to 8:30 p.m. for its newest ex-
hibits, “Grasses” by Mary D. Ott
featuring hand-pulled prints of
diverse images with grasses
as their theme and “Nest with a
Twist” by Janet Wheeler featuring
mixed media pieces that depict
nature’s endless cycle of renewal.
Saturday, April 2
John Doe and Jill Sobule, the
singer of the original “I Kissed
a Girl,” will be performing at
Rams Head On Stage (33 West
St.) in Annapolis today at 13:30
p.m. Tickets are $15 and can be
purchased online at ramshead-
onstage.com.
Apex (1415 22nd St., N.W.)
presents RuPaul’s DragRace
season three star, India Ferrah,
tonight at 11 p.m. with Kristina
Kelly and Her Girls of Glamour.
DJ Gigi will be spinning starting
Photo courtesy of Jive Records
at midnight. There is $10 cover.
Code has its monthly installment
tonight at Green Lantern (1335
Green Court, N.W.). Gear, rubber,
skin, uniform or leather dress code
will be strictly enforced. Music pro-
vided by DJ Frank Wild. Admission
is $10. Code is an 18-and-older
event. There will be an open bar
from 9-10.
DJs Will Eastman and Brian
Billion return to the 9:30 Club (815
V St., N.W.) with their No Scrubs:
‘90s Dance Party tonight at 9 p.m.
featuring music by Salt N Pepa,
Nirvana, Ace of Base and more.
Tickets are $15 and can be pur-
chased online at 930.com.
Busboys & Poets is holding a
bake sale for Japan on the pa-
tio of its 5th and K Sts. location
(1025 5th St., N.W.) at 10 a.m.
This is part of a simultaneous
national bake sale. All money
raised will be donated to Peace
Winds Japan. For more informa-
tion, visit bakesalforjapan.com.
Adventuring, a D.C. gay and
lesbian outdoor group, will be
hosting a cherry blossom day
hike. The group will meet at
the station attendant’s kiosk
at the Rosslyn Metro at 9 a.m.
and hike a trail to the cherry
blossoms and back. The only
required cost is the $2 trip fee.
For more information, visit ad-
venturing.org.
Sunday, April 3
Nicki Minaj will be perform-
ing tonight at 7 p.m. at the Ve-
rizon Center (501 F St., N.W.)
as part of Lil Wayne’s I’m Still
Music tour also featuring Rick
Ross and Travis Barker with
MixMaster Mike. Tickets range
from $49.75 to $125.75 and can
be purchased online at ticket-
master.com.
For the 2011 Kennedy Cen-
ter Spring Gala, the Kennedy
Center (2700 F St., N.W.) pres-
ents “Michael Kaiser at the Ken-
nedy Center: A Celebration of
Ten Years” at 8 p.m. hosted by
honoree Smokey Robinson with
performers like Joshua Bell,
Barbara Cook, Audra McDon-
ald and dancers from various
ballet companies. Tickets range
from $35 to $150. For more in-
formation and to purchase tick-
ets, visit kennedy-center.org.
Monday, April 4
The Queer Network of the
Women’s Information Network is
having a volunteer night at the
D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.)
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. to make
safer sex kits.
Bears do Yoga at Green Lan-
tern (1335 Green Court N.W.)
tonight at 6:30 p.m. Class lasts
for an hour and serves as an
introduction to yoga for people
of all different body types and
physical abilities. It’s taught by
Michael Brazell. For more infor-
mation, visit dccenter.org.
Tuesday, April 5
“Shear Madness,” a comedy
whodunit, will be performed
twice tonight at the Kennedy
Center Theater Lab (2700 F St.,
N.W.) at 5 and 8 p.m. “Mad-
ness” takes place in present-
day Georgetown, in the Shear
Madness Hair Styling Salon.
Tickets are $42. Visit kennedy-
center.org for more information
and to purchase tickets.
Conflict Solutions Interna-
tional is hosting an event on
Islam and Western Society to-
day at the Western Presbyte-
rian Church (2401 Virginia Ave.,
N.W.) at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 6
The Tom Davaron Social
Bridge Club will meet at 7:30
p.m. at the Dignity Center (721
8th St., S.E.) for social bridge.
No partner is needed. For more
information, visit lambdabridge.
com and click “Social Bridge in
Washington, D.C.”
Green Lantern (1331 Green
Court, N.W.) will host the weekly
Poz D.C. happy hour upstairs
from 8 p.m. to midnight. DJs,
C-Dubz, Keith Hoffman, Jason
Horswill and T-N-T Music facto-
ry will be spinning. Jacob Pring
will host and bartend.
Thursday, April 7
Team D.C. presents Spring
Sportsfest, a happy hour and
“open house expo” for LGBT
athletes and newcomers in-
terested in joining a team this
season today from 7 to 10 p.m.
at Room & Board (1840 14th
St., N.W.). More than 25 sports
groups have been confirmed as
being in attendance. For more
information, visit teamdc.org.
Nellie’s (900 U St., N.W.) is
hosting AIDS Walk 2011 Kick-
Off today at 6 p.m. There will
be raffle prizes, free fries, free
walk registration and fundrais-
ing guide and one free beer.
The Crime Victims’ Rights
Week National Observance and
Candlelight Ceremony is tonight
at the U.S. Chamber of Com-
merce (1615 H St., N.W.) from
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. featuring Judy
Shepard, mother of slain hate
crime victim, Matthew Shepard.
This is a free event. For more in-
formation, visit ncvrw.org.
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ARTSINBRIEF

Photo courtesy of Nervous

Michael
Feinstein
Michigan-based queer folk duo, Nervous but Excited, plays the Black Squirrel in Adams Morgan on Monday.

Nervous but Excited to play the Squirrel

Michigan-based, queer folk duo Nervous but Excited play the Black Squirrel
(2427 18th St., N.W.) on Monday at 8 p.m. There is a $5 suggested donation.
The duo, comprised of Kate Peterson and Sarah Cleaver, has performed on-
stage with Ani Difranco, The Butchies, Melissa Ferrick and Girlyman.
This tour is in support of their latest project, a six song EP “Just the Two of Us
(Our Duo Doing Duos),” a collection of covers of other famous duos such as the Sunday, April 17 at 7pm
Indigo Girls and Tegan and Sara.
For more information, visit the duo’s website, nervousbutexcited.com. Kennedy Center Concert Hall
Ba’Naka hosts pie contest at Nellie’s
Nellie’s Sports Bar (900 U St., N.W.) is having a pie eating contest hosted by
“Smooth, rippling, perfectly
Ba’Naka on Wednesday from 7 to 10 p.m. The top three competitors will receive
their choice of Nellie’s gear. First place will also receive $100 and second place will manicured vocal and pianistic lines.”
also receive a $50 bar tab. The contest costs $10 to enter plus a $1 beer donation.
~ New York Times
‘Butterfly’ gets another local production
The Virginia Opera will have two performances of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”
starring Sandra Lopez as Cio-Cio San and Brian Jagde as Lt. Pinkerton, tonight at
8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at the George Mason University Center for the Arts
Concert Hall in Fairfax.
The opera is performed in Italian with English supertitles.
There will be a free pre-opera discussion before each performance by Glenn
Winter, Virginia Opera’s community musical outreach director.

Photo courtesy of the Atlas Performing Arts Center

Christine Thompson as Sarah and John Simmons as Todd in Gross National Product’s pro-
duction, ‘The Sound of Palin,’ part of its new show, ‘State of DisUnion’ at Atlas.

Palin spoof opens at Atlas this weekend

Gross National Product comedy group presents “State of DisUnion” at the Atlas
Performing Arts Center (1333 H St., N.E.) on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. start-
ing today through April 22.
Featuring a condensed version of their last show, “The Sound of Palin,” GNP’s
new show features sketch comedy and improv mocking the members of Congress
and other politicians.
Tickets are $15 for students, $20 for seniors and $25 for general admission
and can be purchased online at atlasarts.org (listed as Gross National Product
Returns). (202) 785-9727 (WPAS) • WPAS.org
28 washingtonblade.com • april 1, 2011
FOODISTCOLONY
High style and inventive sweets make for a memorable dining experience at Ted’s Bulletin.
Ted’s Bulletin a stylish delight
Eastern Market eatery is
perfect for date night
By TIMUR TUGBERK
Spring in Washington is an enchanting
time. The smells, the colors and the warm
weather combine to make the District a
wonderful place for springtime romance.
The neighborhoods in Washington each
have their own unique charm perfect for
a first (or 400th) date. Recently, I chose
to explore what Southeast’s Eastern Mar-
ket has to offer. This quaint neighbor-
hood has always had a welcoming vibe,
so what better place for an end-of-the-
weekend dinner than there?
Eastern Market’s eclectic variety of
bars, restaurants and boutiques entices a
diverse array of visitors and residents. We
decided to try one of its newer delights,
Ted’s Bulletin, which was opened in May
2010 by the people who brought us Match-
box. Upon entry, I was immediately trans-
ported back to an era of simple living. This
early 20th century styled ice cream shop
meets tap room provides a comfortable
setting for a night out with your significant
other. Immediately, my eyes were drawn
to the guests perched on bar stools sip-
ping decadent milkshakes and nibbling on
what looked like gourmet Pop-Tarts. Pass-
ing through the adorable ice creamery, we
arrived in the dining room.
Styled as an authentic 1940s era up-
scale diner, my eyes were instantly drawn
to a vintage projector, suspended from the
ceiling, showing a black and white film on
the wall. We were immediately greeted by
an enthusiastic server, Jordan. I asked for
a table for two and he promptly grabbed
two newspapers, which I soon realized
were the menus, and escorted us to a
comfortably sized booth. He welcomed
us with vigor to Ted’s Bulletin, and allot-
ted us some time to review the fare. I was
immediately impressed with the variety
and allure of the classic homestyle Ameri-
Photo courtesy of Ted’s Bulletin
can cooking they offer. I began to have
flashbacks to my childhood and other cu-
linary adventures I’ve had during travels
around the country and wanted to order
everything on the menu. After interrogat-
ing Jordan about our options, he patiently
helped us with our selections and plan of
attack. To start, we chose Bulletin’s gravy
fries. Having spent time in Quebec, I im-
mediately thought of their “national dish,”
poutine (gravy-cheese fries). We asked
the kitchen to add melted mozzarella to
replicate the delicacy. “Not a problem,”
Jordan said, “in fact I may suggest to the
chef that we add cheese permanently,
sounds great!”
After savoring our starter, it was time
for the main course. I chose the Ted’s
Burgh, a “smash with hand” cheese-
burger. Served on buttered and toast-
ed white bread, with classic American
cheese, and an egg sunny-side up, it
was impossible to resist. In lieu of fries,
considering our appetizer, I had Brussels
sprouts with blue cheese (if you are not
drooling right now, I don’t know what to
tell you). My date enjoyed Ted’s famous
grilled cheese and tomato soup, a dish
that instantly brought me back to Mama
Tugberk’s favorite snow day treat.
When dessert time rolled around, we
were ready to indulge. Having passed
the glass showcase 45 minutes prior,
I knew temptation would have the best
of me. Per our delightful server Jordan’s
recommendation, I selected the S’mores
Milkshake and my date chose the lemon
meringue pie. Blended and baked to
perfection, both the shake and the pie
were delicious and the perfect end to
our meal. I did, however, sufficiently fill
myself, and to my dismay was unable to
order the “Pop-Tart.”
I will return to Ted’s Bulletin, not only
because it is a perfect Sunday night date
spot, but because I can’t wait to try some
of the other delicious selections they
have to offer. From start to finish, we give
it four very perky thumbs up.

THEATERAGENDA
Alma Cuervo as Mme. Gimaud speaks on behalf of her French ballet troupe in ‘And the Curtain
Rises,’ the current production at Signature Theatre in Arlington. It runs through April 10.
Behind the ‘Curtain’
Gay-themed Signature
production explores 19th
century musical creation
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Signature Theatre’s “And the Curtain
Rises” is definitely a backstage story —
and nothing reinforces this more than set
designer Beowulf Boritt’s clever rendition
of a 19th century Manhattan theater.
For much of the new musical comedy,
we observe the action from a traditional
perspective; but at other times, when the
set’s back wall opens to reveal a sea of
red plush seating and the actors look up-
stage toward an imagined audience, sud-
denly we’re sharing their point of view. It’s
a marvelous bit of stage magic that ups
the immediacy of the experience.
A tribute to the American musical, “Cur-
tain” revisits one of the first times music,
words and dance came together on a New
York City stage — the making of “The Black
Crook,” an actual 1866 extravaganza that
enjoyed a long run at Niblo’s Garden The-
atre and toured the country for decades af-
terward. This groundbreaking musical pro-
totype resulted after a French ballet troupe
(stranded after the theater where they were
booked burnt to the ground) joined forces
with a cast of dramatic American actors
and came up with something entirely new.
But as “Curtain’s” creators — com-
poser Joseph Thalken, librettist Michael
Slade and lyricist Mark Campbell (all of
whom are gay, by the way) — relay in
the program notes, while the trio has re-
searched this post Civil War theater mo-
ment, they have totally re-imagined it in
their own way, allowing them not only to
focus on collaboration and community,
but also to contrive a backstage tale rid-
dled with duplicity, sex, love and rivalry.
Staged by New York-based director
Kristen Hangii, the action kicks off auspi-
ciously with Niblo’s cigar-chomping stage
manager Timoney (William Diggle) casu-
ally lighting the stage’s gas footlights as
he takes us back to a time before “wrist-
watches and electric lights” when to-
day’s idea of a musical didn’t exist. Soon
after however, things devolve, at least
temporarily. The first act with its plodding
storyline — novice director/producer Wil-
liam Wheatley (Nick Dalton) struggles
april 1, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 29
Photo by Scott Suchman; courtesy of Signature Theatre
to please both a disdainful playwright
Charles Barras (Sean Thompson) and
some unhappy actors while trying to turn
a bad melodrama into a certain hit — is
essentially a drawn-out set up for the mu-
sical innovation that takes place later in
the show. It can be tiresome.
After intermission, things improve
significantly: There’s a rousing can-can
number (quite the scandal in the 1860s)
and a budding same-sex romance be-
tween the company’s veteran actor
played by the excellent Erick Devine,
who is gay, and the ballet troupe’s tal-
ented Hungarian accompanist (Brian
Sutherland); as well as memorable mu-
sic including “Stay,” William’s balladic
plea to his production’s leading lady, Mil-
licent Cavendish (Rebecca Watson), an
aging ingénue with whom he’s falling in
love. Overall, the pacing quickens con-
siderably and the jokes are less stale.
“Curtain” was especially commis-
sioned by Signature as part of its Ameri-
can Musical Voices Project. As such
the work benefits from the Tony Award-
winning company’s full treatment: Boritt’s
clever set is beautifully lit by Colin Bills.
Kathleen Geldard’s post- Civil War peri-
od costumes are impeccable — from the
men’s fine jackets and ladies’ hoop skirt
dresses to the ballerinas’ pretty, Degas-
inspired dance gear.
Mostly young but peppered with a few
more seasoned performers (like the excel-
lent Alma Cuervo as a resourceful ballet
mistress), the energetic ensemble cast is
terrific and in very good voice, particularly
Dalton and Watson as William and Milli-
cent. Thalken’s melodic score (superbly
executed by a small orchestra conducted
by Boko Suzuki) is contemporary for sure,
but makes wonderful, sporadic reference
to the waltz and the lively march, popular
musical forms of the era.
Uneven but fun and well-produced,
“Curtain” offers glimpses into the first
days of American musical theater, on-
stage and off.
‘AnD The CuRTAIn RIses’
Through April 10
Signature Theatre
4200 Campbell Avenue, Arlington
$55-$81
703-573-SEAT
www.signature-theatre.org
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FILMAGENDA

Photo courtesy of filmposter.net

A French poster for John Huston’s 1967 film ‘Reflections in a Golden Eye.’ In a career whose
films are liberally peppered with gay themes, this is perhaps Elizabeth Taylor’s gayest film.

Reflections in a queer eye

Taylor’s filmography dotted While on holiday together, he used her, in
a scandalous white bathing suit, to lure
with gay-themed storylines young local men for sex. They turned on
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him and killed him in a gruesome attack.
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The legendary actress, who died of Taylor would do Williams again —
congestive heart failure last week at 79, 1968’s “Boom!” is an adaptation of his
was one of our few remaining ties to old play “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here
Hollywood. Taylor’s part of the Golden Anymore.” It’s worth seeing as a curios-
Age because she started so young. She ity piece, but Taylor and then-husband
was only 10 when she made her first Richard Burton are both wildly miscast.

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movie in 1942. The film mostly just made me yearn some
Her close friendships with her gay and record existed of what Tallulah Bankhead
bi costars have been well documented and gay actor Tab Hunter did with the ma-
— Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson, terial during a very short Broadway run.
James Dean. And she seemed to have Gayer still — but sadly, not nearly as
Immigration Law Firm some kind of platonic Will-and-Grace good a film — is 1967’s “Reflections in a
thing going on with Michael Jackson. Golden Eye,” a tawdry and sensational
– Immigration and Nationality Law – Her AIDS activism, too, has also been John Huston-directed piece that finds
widely covered. Marlon Brando, in a wildly over-the-top
• Leaders in Deportation Defense But one of the curious Taylor gay re- performance, as a closeted, sadistic
• Specializing in employment and family curring themes, especially considering Army Major married to Taylor and, like
based immigration the era in which she made most of her Newman in “Cat,” not the least bit inter-
• Conveniently located in Dupont Circle films, is how many of their storylines are ested in her sexually.
gay. In two of the best — 1958’s “Cat on a I have the film on VHS but only watched
• Always up-to-date with the changing Hot Tin Roof” and 1959’s “Suddenly Last it once, years ago. It wasn’t particularly
immigration landscape… Summer,” that’s largely because gay memorable but researching this piece, I
playwright Tennessee Williams penned came upon the trailer on the film’s IMDB
202.293.3123 their source material. page. For the curious, that’s probably all
www.dcimmigrationattorney.com In “Cat,” Taylor plays Maggie to Paul
Newman’s depressed, alcoholic Brick,
you need to see. It offers a nice, compact
two-minute, unintentional laugh-a-thon as
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A lot of it is coded of course, as was Novak and, again, old pal Hudson. The
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check out gay author William J. Mann’s bril- in deliciously rare form as a conniving
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Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood.” costume epic.
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p s o f lor’s next film, “Summer,” a sordid-but-fas- the 2001 TV movie “These Old Broads,”
and sho . cinating Joe Mankiewicz (“All About Eve”)- in which she co-starred with Joan Col-
t h e s treets tists featured directed Williams adaptation that tells, in lins, Shirley MacLaine and old rival-
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Parsons Dance Russian National

with East Village Opera Company Ballet Theatre
Remember Me Romeo and Juliet and
Friday, April 8 at 8 p.m. Chopiniana
Don’t miss this chance to see Remember Me,
a dynamic original modern ballet telling a Saturday, April 9 at 8 p.m.
compelling tale of jealousy and rivalry, and
featuring David Parsons’ electrifying chore- Swan Lake
ography, cutting-edge music from Grammy-
nominated East Village Opera Company, Sunday, April 10 at 4 p.m.
stunning costumes by Austin Scarlett Russian National Ballet Theatre founder and
(“Project Runway”) and dramatic multime- legendary Bolshoi dancer Elena Radchenko
dia special effects by Tony Award-winning has dedicated this company to preserving the
Howell Binkley. The Village Voice praised its national tradition of Russian ballet works, while
“eye-popping effects, excellent showbiz-savvy also developing new talents throughout Russia.
performers” and “lusty sensual movement” Classic tales, resplendent costumes and sets, the
and raved, “Parsons enters the realm of pop beautiful music of Chopin and Tchaikovsky, and
spectacle with a vengeance!” wonderful choreography by Petipa (Romeo and Ju-
$22, $36, $44 liet, Swan Lake) and Mikhail Fokine (Chopiniana)
make for two very satisfying opportunities to see
This tour of Parsons Dance is made possible by a grant ballet in grand style. “A cut above many of its
from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the rivals.” (The Washington Post)
National Endowment for the Arts.
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THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS OPENINGS
Fri, Apr. 1
Green Sneakers, by Ricky Ian Gordon, Ar-
tisphere. 703-875-1100. artisphere.com.
Sat, Apr. 2
Glory Denied, by Tom Cipullo,
Artisphere. artisphere.com.
Mon, Apr. 4
One Destiny, Ford’s Theatre.
202-397-7328. fords.org.
Tue, Apr. 5
New York City Ballet, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
Wed, Apr. 6
The Walworth Farce, Studio Theatre. 202-
332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
Stage Door, American Century Theater,
Gunston Theatre Two. 703-998-4555.
americancentury.org.
Thu, Apr. 7
Divorciadas, Evangèlicas y Vegetarianas/
King Lear, Synetic Theatre Divorcees, Evangelists and Vegetarians,
through Sun, April 24 GALA Hispanic Theatre. 202-234-7174.
galatheatre.org.
Lansburgh Theatre. 202-547-1122. synetictheater.org.
National Symphony Orchestra: Dawn
The seventh installment of Synetic’s “Silent Shakespeare” series is a modern, pro-
Upshaw, soprano. Kennedy Center.
vocative take on one of the Bard’s greatest tragedies-King Lear. This eye-popping
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
production, packed with apocalyptic visuals, farce, knife-play, and acrobatics.
Le Corsaire, The Washington Ballet
LAST CHANCE
Wed, April 6 through Sun, April 10 Sat, Apr. 2
The Kennedy Center. 800-444-1324. washingtonballet.org. National Symphony Orchestra: Jozsef
Lendvay Jr., violin. Kennedy Center.
A swashbuckling adventure of pirates, pashas, and the slave girls who love them in
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
this thrilling, new production of the 19th century classic by Marius Petipa.
Sun, Apr. 3
National Cherry Blossom Festival 3rd Annual Jewish Film Festival, Jewish
through Sun, April 10 Community Center of Greater Washing-
nationalcherryblossomfestival.org. ton. 301-348-3805. jccgw.org.
This weeks highlights include Ikebana International Annual Spring Flower Show on Penelope, Studio Theatre.
Friday; Cherry Blast: Art + Music Dance Party & National Cherry Blossom Festival 202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
Fireworks Show on Sat. Lantern Lighting Ceremony on Sun. Check website for The Trip to Bountiful, Round House
information about these events and more. Theatre Bethesda. 240-644-1100.
roundhousetheatre.org.
The Capital City Showcase Tue, Apr. 5
Sat, April 2 Orpheus & Euridice, by Ricky Ian Gordon,
DC Arts Center (DCAC). 202-462-7833. dcartscenter.org. Artisphere. artisphere.com.
DC-themed variety show that will feature any and all things DC, including local musi-
cians, comedians and artists as well as interviews with local athletes and politicians. LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
Along with the various performers, there will also be skits and videos performed by Apr. 2 - Apr. 3
the Capital City Players. Human, Joe’s Movement Emporium.
301-699-1819. joesmovement.org.
The Guide to Arts & Culture is provided by CultureCapital.com, Your Link to the Arts in Metro DC, a program
All Beethoven, National Philharmonic,
of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington. Photo courtesy of Synetic Theatre.
Strathmore. 301-581-5100.
nationalphilharmonic.org.
Apr. 6 - Apr. 7
Órla Fallon, formerly of Celtic Woman,
Wolf Trap. 1-877-WOLFTRAP.
wolftrap.org.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Fri, Apr. 1
All Roads Film Project: Professor Norman
Cornett, National Geographic.
202-857-7700.
events.nationalgeographic.com.
Friday Night Eclectic: ilyAIMY & Primitiv-
ity, Strathmore. 301-581-5100.
strathmore.org.
Roger McGuinn, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
The Embassy Series Presents: Mendels-
sohn Piano Trio, The Embassy Series,
Embassy of Austria. 202-625-2361.
embassyseries.org.
Sat, Apr. 2
Charlie Parker and Strings, Artisphere.
703-875-1100. Artisphere.com.
Stranger Blues, National Geographic. 202-
857-7700. events.nationalgeographic.com.
Toots Thielemans & Kenny Werner,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
Sun, Apr. 3
Open Door Reading with Ellen Dorè
Watson and Carol Moldaw, The Writer’s
Center. 301-654-8664. writer.org.
Mon, Apr. 4
Creative Dialogue: Anthony de Mare,
Clarice Smith. 301-405-2787.
claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.
Wed, Apr. 6
Open Rehearsal: New York City
Ballet, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
Thu, Apr. 7
Acoustic Africa, Smithsonian Resident
Associate Program, Lisner Auditorium.
202-633-3030. residentassociates.org.
Friday Morning Music Club: Chamber
Music Concert, Friday Morning Music
Club, Strathmore. 301-581-5100. fmmc.
org.
Potiche, Filmfest DC, Lincoln Theatre.
filmfestdc.org.
ONGOING STAGE
Liberty Smith, Ford’s Theatre.
202-397-7328. fords.org.
Photograph 51, Theater J. 800-494-8497.
washingtondcjcc.org.
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
& Bootcandy, Woolly Mammoth.
202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net.
Protest and Passion, In Series, Atlas.
202-204-7763. inseries.org.
The Weir, SCENA Theatre, H Street Play-
house. 703-683-2824. ScenaTheater.org.
iMusical -- The Improvised Musical!,
Washington Improv Theater. 202-315-
1318. washingtonimprovtheater.com.
ONGOING EXHIBITONS
National Gallery of Art. Venice: Canaletto
and His Rivals, Gauguin: Maker of Myth,
Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit,
In the Tower: Nam June Paik, From Im-
pressionism to Modernism: The Chester
Dale Collection. 202-737-4215. nga.gov.
National Geographic. Great Migrations: A
Photography Exhibition, America I AM,
Beyond the Story: National Geographic
Unpublished. 202-857-7700. events.
nationalgeographic.com.
Museum of Women in the Arts. Eye
Wonder: Photography from the Bank
of America Collection. 202-783-5000.
nmwa.org.
The Textile Museum. Second Lives: The
Age-Old Art of Recycling Textiles. 202-
667-0441. textilemuseum.org.
ONGOING GALLERIES
Hamtdaa Together, Artisphere; Ishihara
by Yoav Brill; Contra Sonic. Artisphere.
artisphere.com.
Knowing Science, Seeing Art, Montpelier
Arts Center. 301-377-7800. pgparks.com.
Try A Little Tenderness As Painful As It
Seems, The Honfleur Gallery. 202-631-
6291. honfleurgallery.com.
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THEATERAGENDA
Jeffrey Johnson cited finances as the main reason for Ganymede’s closing.
Ganymede Arts to close
Board, Johnson to shutter
gay theater company
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Ganymede Arts, Washington’s only
gay-specific theater and arts company,
is closing. Board members and director
Jeffrey Johnson cited finances as the
main reason.
“Since I took over in 2003, artistically
it’s always been very successful,” John-
son said. “But there’s never been anything
left over after each production. It’s part of
the reason the previous guy left. There
was no security, no savings or money
pushed back that made it easier on the
front end. We’d have ticket sales and sell
out most nights but after production ex-
penses — and this was fairly across the
board — we were back to zero.”
Ganymede was originally known
as Actor’s Theatre of Washington but
changed names in 2007 to be an LGBT-
specific company with theater, dance,
music and art. For four years, it held a fall
arts festival, which sometimes attracted
well-known celebrities like Karen Black,
Charles Busch and Holly Woodlawn.
The board suffered several setbacks.
Former board president Noi Chudnoff —
also a big financial contributor — died
in 2007 and the stock market crashed in
2008 affecting many arts organizations
that rely on donations. Former board
president Kevin Minoli said the board
worked hard for the 2010 season —
which included full-scale productions of
“Naked Boys Singing” and “Falsettos” —
in an effort to restore Ganymede to where
it had been previously.
“I feel we got there last year and we
were hopeful that once we got to that full
production schedule things would re-
bound financially as well, but it took an
enormous amount of work to make that
happen and all of us on the board are
volunteers,” Minoli said. “We mutually
agreed that it made the most sense to
close the company.”
Challenges dogged the organization
over the years. Because the company
lacked a permanent home — shows
were often staged in storage spaces at
Miss Pixie’s and Go Mama Go, both on
14th Street — seasons couldn’t be an-
nounced in advance. The board never
knew if it would have the money or the
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
space to open shows.
And because seasons couldn’t be an-
nounced in full, establishing a subscrip-
tion base for patrons as many local the-
ater outfits do, was impossible.
Johnson says he thinks the mental-
ity for gay Washingtonians is to support
larger operations.
“People give a lot of money to HRC,
you know, the bigger-name stuff,” he
said. “They always acknowledged us
and came to our shows. We were always
able to turn out a great audience when
we’d have celebrities. Karen Black is
still nuts about us to this day, but when it
comes to larger donations, I think it goes
to the Kennedy Center, Studio. This was
our problem from the get go. We’ve nev-
er been able to compete with the Arena
Stages and those theaters. We’ll take
$2,000 and build a stage. They’ll put that
into one costume.”
Johnson says he feels “no regret at
all.” He’s proud of the work Ganymede
produced but says he’ll now have time
to focus on his own endeavors. He per-
forms often in D.C. as Special Agent
Galactica, his pink-coiffed drag persona
who, last New Year’s, started singing live
after years of lip-syncing. Two Galactica
shows are planned May 20-21 at the
Black Fox in D.C.
Johnson says none of the big compa-
nies had gay nights or “pride nights” sev-
eral years ago. He thinks Ganymede’s
existence made them realize there was a
market for the local LGBT audience.
That also became part of the problem.
“It’s one of those interesting things,”
Minoli said. “As gay people have gotten
more integrated in society as a whole,
more companies are doing gay-themed
shows. There’s the Albee festival going
on right now. Gay people are going to
see gay theater and gay art all across
the city, so where there was a need for us
at one point, maybe we’ve evolved and
integrated to the point that the need isn’t
as pressing now.”
But isn’t there something to be said for
gay art produced by gays for gays?
“I think there is,” Minoli says. “We al-
ways said we were doing different things
in different ways than what Studio, or
whomever, was doing. They might do
one gay show a season. So it is a loss to
lose that, but I’m not blaming the com-
munity for not supporting us. We appre-
ciate the support and all of our donors
over the years.”
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SPORTIN’INDC
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By KEVIN MAJOROS
April is stocked full of things to do with
the sports groups in D.C. Here’s an over-
view of this month’s action:
Spring SportsFest, hosted by Team
D.C. will take place on April 7 from 7 to 10
p.m. at Room and Board at 1840 14th St.,
N.W. This is an opportunity to meet and
mingle with about 25 LGBT sports teams
in the area and a perfect opportunity to
see all the sports groups in one space.
There will be a DJ, beer and soft
drinks and an outdoor deck for network-
ing. Clint Khoury, the in-stadium host of
the Washington Nationals, will be the
special guest and there will be a raffle for
signed Nationals memorabilia, theater
tickets and a $250 shopping spree from
Room & Board. Log onto the Team DC
Facebook page for a complete list of the
teams that are attending.
Social volleyball has reemerged after
a six-month hiatus. It returns on Tuesdays
beginning April 19 from 6-9 p.m. at the
King Greenleaf Recreation Center at 201 N
Street, S.W. Random teams will be drawn for
all skill levels and the cost is $5 per person.
Ultimate Frisbee has also returned. Ul-
timate Out has joined forces with the Jol-
ly Boozers of the Washington Area Fris-
bee Club, a gay-friendly D League team.
Men and women of all skill levels are wel-
come. Contact Ben Schock at schockb@
gmail.com for more information.
The Capital Tennis Association will
take over the Duplex Diner on Tuesday
from 6-8 p.m. There will be hot trainers
and a raffle with prizes including personal
training packages from Results Gym, tick-
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lessons and more. To learn more about
the group, go to www.capital-tennis.com.
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adventures including a 350 foot zipline.
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D.C. has several rock climbs coming up
in April. You can meet its members at
SportsFest and read more about them on
their Facebook page.
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be hosting the Turkey Run Hike on Sun-
day. The trail is approximately four miles
long and will take a little over two hours
to complete. There is an elevation gain of
400 feet and the trail is marked as moder-
ately difficult. Dogwood trees should be in
bloom along the trail and there is always
the possibility of sighting a bald eagle.
They will meet at the Rosslyn Metro Sta-
tion (Blue/Orange Line) at 9:30 a.m. Bring
water, lunch and the $2 trip fee. Those car-
pooling from Rosslyn bring an additional
$3 for driver fees. Contact d.michael.da-
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There are several “Night Out” events
coming up this summer:
Night Out at the Nationals VII will be held
on June 21 v. the Seattle Mariners. Tickets
will go on sale at the Spring Sportsfest and
can be found at Nellie’s Sports Bar.
Night Out at the Kastles is to be held
in mid-July with details on the specific
date to be announced soon.
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More than 350 athletes in 16 teams played in the first round of games in the Stonewall Kickball League Sunday in Stead Park. Players began their pre-game socializing at JR.’s and wrapped the afternoon at Cobalt. Games
take place every Sunday culminating in championship games on May 15 and 22.

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David Muse says Studio Theatre ‘is not a place that needed someone to come in, to save or reinvent it.’
Several gay edges to
Studio’s new season
Continued from page 23
and impressive 2011-2012 season just
announced. And of course he is also in
charge, with Joy Zinoman still as its lead
faculty member, of the Studio Theatre Act-
ing Company, where his serious career in
theater began.
Born in Appleton, Wis., he spent most
of his childhood in Fulton, Mo., a small
town (11,000). In high school he threw
himself into theater and graduated vale-
dictorian. In 1992 he left Fulton, the first
student from his high school to attend an
Ivy League school, for New Haven and
Yale University where he studied ethics,
politics and economics. Upon gradu-
ation, Muse joined Teach for America
and headed for D.C., teaching math and
also leading Outward Bound wilderness
programs for troubled youths during the
summer. But he also found his way to
Studio’s acting school, to hone his pas-
sion for drama, and in 2000 he returned
to Yale, this time to its drama school, to
earn a master’s in directing.
Next he moved to New York City, but
then he soon came back to D.C. when
summoned by Kahn to become his sec-
ond in command as associate artistic di-
rector at the Shakespeare Theatre Com-
pany, where he helped grow the company
from its single theater at the Lansburgh
with the addition of the new Harman Hall.
He also was primary liaison for all the tal-
ent. He also began to direct plays at Stu-
dio’s smaller and edgier 2nd Stage.
The next year, 2006, also at Studio, he
directed Bryony Lavery’s critically laud-
ed “Frozen.” Then, last year, while also
directing an electrifying version of Neil
LaBute’s “Reasons To Be Pretty” there,
he also threw his hat into the ring to re-
place Zinoman. After a scrupulous na-
tionwide search lasting a year, he pulled
april 1, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 41
Reserve Your Date Now!
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
that rabbit from out of that hat, emerging
from half a dozen finalists to step into her
shoes there officially last September.
Asked about his artistic vision, he
demures at first, saying that he finds it
“challenging to say the least” to define
such an overview “when the work here
is so purposefully eclectic, with so broad
a range of theatrical offerings.” He also
offers what he calls “another disclaimer”
to having any “broad vision,” in that “you
need to leave room,” he insists, for the
thespian Holy Spirit, “for what feels right,
this year, or at any other moment.”
Besides, Muse says, Studio “is not a
place that needed someone to come in,
to save or reinvent it.” But that said, he
has even so his own vision of course,
which is why in addition to his manage-
rial mindset he was chosen for this job.
“The challenge,” he says, is “to bal-
ance all the historic strengths of this
place with some new energy, and that’s
what I aim to do.”
Those strengths, he says, include
that it stages what he rightly boasts are
“plays of real literary and theatrical mer-
it.” He intends, he says, to build on that
Studio strong deck of cards by pulling
out some new ones — by “going in a little
less familiar direction,” in part by bring- When the last sip of champagne is gone and the lights go dim,
ing in more international productions but the enduring things left are your commitment, one other—and
especially by “working with living writers,
and working with them on the creation your wedding photos. When you plan your wedding, invest in
of new work,” not generally seen as a photography that will keep your memories alive for decades.
strong card at Studio in the past.
“We want to welcome these writers
into the building as active collaborators,”
he says, pointing to two world premieres
slated for Studio in its just-announced
2011-2012 season.
This year, meanwhile, has included a
season of superb performances in pro-
ductions like the gay-themed “Marcus; or
Continues on page 48
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son should know what you want and how
much you can afford. He or she should
be a person with whom you can com-
municate, who inspires your trust, knows
the area where you want to buy, is ready
to do research for you and can help you
plan your strategy when you make the of-
fer. An added bonus to using an agent
is that your offer will be much better re-
ceived when it comes through a third
party, so let your agent do the talking.
2. Don’t be greedy. Here’s a good
rule of thumb to follow: never make an
offer lower than the lowest price you think
the seller might actually accept. Any offer
lower than that will only be considered an
insult and when you make an insult in-
stead of an offer, you end up having to
overcompensate in your next counterof-
fer because the seller is now mad at you.
3. Buying a home is an emotional
buy. You are not buying stocks or bonds;
you’re buying a home for yourself. But, in
any case, it’s a statement of who you are
and how you want to live. So when you
find yourself getting excited or angry, get
advice from your buyer’s agent and from
friends. Negotiations can fail before they
begin when a buyers lose their cool.
4. Get the facts straight and com-
pare apples with apples. Let’s say you
are interested in a certain property. Your
agent has access to the sales and tax
records for all the properties “for sale”
and “sold” in the area where the prop-
erty is located. Pay the most attention
to the “sold” prices of similar properties
that have changed hands in the past six
months. Drive by the houses, if you can,
and get the details on the interior fea-
tures of each one. Compare like proper-
ties; don’t think you can get a house with
a new kitchen for the same price as the
one that needed renovation.
5. Concentrate on the sale rather
than the sellers. Buyers are often tempt-
ed to assign all kinds of attributes to the
sellers, even if they have no idea of what
the people are really like. They might
think the sellers are cheap or unreason-
able or stubborn, and use up all their
energy second-guessing the sellers’ mo-
tives, rather than focusing on how to get
the price and terms they want.
reviewing contracts an extra day to give
them a chance to sit down and write an
offer. The sellers agreed and the buyers
then asked if they could see the house
one more time. The sellers agreed and
the buyers then asked if the sellers would
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expensive furnishings as part of the list
price. Needless to say, these buyers did
not get the house.
9. Stay in the game and don’t over-
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on your part and a change in terms that
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reach your target price range.
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matter how clever you are. If the property is
overpriced, it may eventually come down in
price, but as long as the sellers’ expectations
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Continued from page 41 other world premiere comes next Febru-
ary and March in Studio’s 2nd Stage, in
the Science of Sweet” (though Muse is a new play, “Astro Boy and the God of
Joel C. Ang, M.D. Becky Carroll, Ph.D. straight and has a girlfriend), a season that Comics,” by Georgetown University the-
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