Volume 44, Issue 37 - September 13, 2013

D.C.
courthouse staff
overwhelmed as DOMA
ruling triggers boom in
marriage applications

By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The number of people applying for
marriage licenses in D.C. each month has
nearly tripled since the Supreme Court
issued its landmark ruling on June 26
overturning the Defense of Marriage Acts
provision barring the federal government
from recognizing same-sex marriages.
The D.C. Superior Courts Marriage Bureau
doesnt keep track of the gender or sexual
orientation of the couples applying for a
marriage license. But court observers say gay
and lesbian couples make up the overwhelming
majority of the additional couples going to
the Marriage Bureau on most days at the
courthouse at 500 Indiana Ave., N.W.
We were sitting there and there were
so many same-sex couples, said veteran
lesbian activist and businesswoman Eva
Freund in describing the scene in the
waiting room at the Marriage Bureau last
week as she and her partner of 21 years,
DAVID KERO-MENTZ and his new husband KEN KERO-MENTZ waited two hours for their marriage license to be processed in July.
Despite the delay, the couple praised D.C. courthouse staff.
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Lesbian City Council
speaker nishes third;
de Blasio wins
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
New York City Council Speaker
Christine Quinn lost her bid to become
New Yorks rst openly gay and rst
female mayor on Tuesday, nishing
third in a bruising Democratic primary
in which she was assailed on issues
unrelated to her sexual orientation.
With pro-LGBT candidate Bill de
Blasio, who holds the citys elected
post of Public Advocate, holding a
commanding lead in the nal weeks
of the campaign, Quinn struggled to
come in second.
A second place nish could have
placed her in an Oct. 1 runoff election
against de Blasio if de Blasio failed to
reach a 40 percent threshold needed
to win the Democratic nomination
outright.
But with 98 percent of the voter
precincts counted shortly after 1 a.m.
Wednesday, Quinn was in third place
with 15.5 percent of the vote, trailing
former city comptroller William
Thompson, who had 26 percent of
the vote.
De Blasio had 40.2 percent. However
city election board ofcials said it
could take a week before they count
absentee and challenged ballots to
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their application for a marriage license.
The two women, who live in Vienna,
Va., are among the large number of
same-sex couples from states that dont
recognize same-sex marriage that are
now getting married in D.C., which
doesnt have a residency requirement
for obtaining a marriage license.
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place, Freund told the Blade. And
then they called a name and it was a
heterosexual couple. And Elke and I
looked at one another and said, What
are they doing here? And then we said,
Oh yeah, they need papers, too.
According to courthouse observers,
Freunds humorous anecdote may be the
exception to the disposition of many of
the couples both gay and straight who
become irritable after waiting two hours
or longer while the Marriage Bureau
staff struggles to process the seeming
explosion of applications since late June.
Ken Kero-Mentz, a U.S. Foreign
Service ofcer, and his new husband,
David Kero-Mentz, a German national,
described their experience with the
D.C. Superior Courts Marriage Bureau
as favorable, even though the two
waited close to two hours in early
July to have their license application
processed. The couple also had to wait
about eight weeks for an appointment
to be married in a civil ceremony at
the courthouse, a service the court
began providing long before same-sex
marriage became legal in D.C.
Everyone was so nice to us, said
David Kero-Mentz, who is applying for
U.S. permanent residency status now
that the longstanding prohibition of
immigration rights for gay bi-national
couples ended with the Supreme Court
ruling on DOMA.
Ken Kero-Mentz said he and David,
while thrilled to be legally married,
didnt view their D.C. ceremony as that
big a deal because they were joined as
a couple in an ofcial registered life
partner ceremony in Berlin in 2008,
with 95 friends and family members
in attendance. Under German law,
registered life partners have all the
rights and benets of a marriage,
including immigration rights for foreign
national partners.
The D.C. Superior Court has
processed same-sex couple
applications for marriage licenses since
March of 2010, when the citys marriage
equality law took effect.
Court spokesperson Leah Gurowitz
said that prior to the Supreme Courts
DOMA decision in late June, the court
received on average between 300 and
400 license applications a month. But in
July the number of couples applying for
a license jumped to 977 and in August
the number of couples applying totaled
908 more than double the average,
Gurowitz told the Blade.
The D.C. Superior Court is
committed to addressing the needs of
those seeking our services as promptly
as possible, she said in a statement. In
order to meet the increased demand,
additional staff have been detailed to
the Marriage Bureau.
Gurowitz added, In addition, we
are working to locate additional ofce
space to help handle the number of
applicants we are currently seeing each
day, as well as evaluating work processes
to improve our customer service.
Gay rights attorneys have said they
expected more same-sex couples to
marry following the Supreme Court ruling,
which cleared the way for married same-
sex couples to obtain most if not all of the
Activists to receive Stein Club awards
LGBT Youth Pride Alliance leader Nikisha Carpenter, D.C. Trans Coalition
organizer Andy Bowen, and former D.C. Young Democrats President Toby Quaranta
were named Tuesday as recipients of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Clubs Annual
Leadership Awards for 2013.
The Stein Club, the citys largest LGBT political organization, issues its leadership
awards each year during its anniversary celebration and fundraising reception. This
years event, which marks the 37th anniversary of the clubs founding in 1976, is
scheduled to take place 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Sonoma Restaurant and
Wine Bar on Capitol Hill.
These awardees represent some of the brightest leaders and advocates we
have in our movement and we are proud of the work theyve done to advance our
equality within the Democratic Party and across the D.C. community, said Stein
Club President Martin Garcia in a statement.
Our community is ripe with outstanding leaders and deciding who among them
to recognize was challenging, Garcia said.
Carpenter, president of Youth Pride Alliance for the past four years, is credited
with expanding the organizations capacity to fulll its mission of representing the
citys LGBT young people. She will receive the clubs Heil-Balin Community Service
Award, named in honor of the late Stein organizers Jerry Heil and Ron Balin, who
were partners in life.
Bowen is credited with coordinating the D.C. Trans Coalitions efforts on several
fronts, including shepherding through the D.C. Council legislation reforming the
citys policies for issuing new birth certicates for transgender people and providing
safe shelters for LGBT homeless people. She will receive the clubs Wanda Alston
Award, named after the late LGBT and womens rights advocate Wanda Alston.
Quaranta, a former ofcial with the Human Rights Campaign, is credited with
advancing LGBT rights work within the D.C. Young Democrats and drawing more
participants to the groups projects, including its involvement in the Obama re-
election campaign, during his tenure as president. He will receive the Stein Clubs
Desi Deschaine Young Democrat of the Year Award, named for the late Stein Club
member and youth advocate Desi Deschaine.
In addition to the awards for the three individuals, the club will present its Richard
Rausch Equality Award to the D.C.-based organization TransLAW, which serves as a
legal clinic providing assistance to the transgender community, including legal help
in the process of changing ones name and gender. The award is named after the late
Stein Club organizer and Democratic Party activist Richard Rausch.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
D.C.s rst Bi Pride Day set for Sept. 23
Organizers of the rst Bisexual Pride Day in the District of Columbia have scheduled
a single event on Monday, Sept. 23 to commemorate the occasion a community
forum at a downtown hotel to discuss issues of interest to the bi community.
Organizers, including longtime D.C. LGBT rights advocates A. Billy Jones-Hennin
and Loraine Hutchins, are encouraging members of the bi community and their
supporters to hold their own Bi Pride events such as pool parties, potluck dinners,
and panel discussions.
The forum, entitled Bisexual at Any Age, is scheduled to take place from 6:30-8
p.m. on Sept. 23 at the Residence at Thomas Circle Hotel, 1330 Massachusetts Ave.,
N.W., in the rst oor conference room.
In response to the prejudice and marginalization in both the straight and LGBT
communities, many bisexuals are made to feel, and/or remain, invisible, a statement
released by organizers says.
Washington, D.C.s rst ofcial Bi Pride Day aims to raise awareness about
bisexuality in the metro area, to educate the community about bisexual issues, and
to encourage bisexual people and those who love them to come out about bisexual
visibility, the statement says.
According to the statement, the forum will include a panel discussion in which
Jones and D.C. LGBT rights advocate Sabrina Sojourner will share their experiences
as bisexuals.
The event is being sponsored by Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)
of Metro D.C., the Alliance of Multicultural Bisexuals (AMBi), and the D.C. Center for
the LGBT Community.
We also encourage everyone to create their own events to commemorate the
day, the statement says. Whether simple or elaborate, the DIY (do-it-yourself)
style for family and friends offers creative ways to celebrate: pool parties, BBQs,
fundraisers, potlucks, masked balls, panel discussions, art exhibits, talent shows,
concerts, bi kiss-ins at local venues or ash mobs, says the statement. Have fun
and post it online. Lets get visible!
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Supreme Court ruling triggers
increase in D.C. marriages
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Wentworth Miller says he considered suicide
SEATTLE Newly out Prison Break star Wentworth Miller told an
audience of Human Rights Campaign supporters last weekend that he
attempted suicide as a teenager while struggling with his sexual orientation.
The rst time I tried to kill myself I was 15, Miller said in the speech
posted to YouTube this week. I waited until my family went away for the
weekend and I was alone in the house and I swallowed a bottle of pills. I dont
remember what happened over the next couple days, but Im pretty sure
come Monday morning I was on a bus back to school pretending everything
was ne. And when someone asked me if that was a cry for help, I say no,
because I told no one.
You only cry for help if there is help to cry for.
Miller came out last month while declining an invitation to a lm festival in
St. Petersburg, Russia, citing the nations recently passed anti-gay laws. Miller
was long rumored to be gay, but said he had feared the repercussions on his
career if he were to come out.
AFL-CIO bans anti-trans discrimination
LOS ANGELES At its national convention in California this week, the
nations largest federation of labor organizations added gender identity and
expression to the groups constitutionally protected classes.
The AFL-CIO which represents 57 national and international unions
also considered a resolution to eliminate barriers to adequate healthcare for
the groups trans employees, and advocate for trans-inclusive healthcare for
its members and members dependents during bargaining negotiations with
employers. However, according to BuzzFeed, the resolution was scrapped
temporarily due to technicalities, though the DC-Baltimore chapter of the
AFL CIOs LGBT organization, Pride at Work, pledges the language is slated
to be introduced at a future gathering.
Currently 17 states and the District of Columbia bar discrimination based
on both sexual orientation and gender identity in the law.
Drag exhibit forced to remove photos
ATLANTA A gallerys photo exhibit showing Atlantas local drag
performers in various states of undress has been edited after complaints from
businesses sharing the gallerys space.
According to LGBT newspaper, GA Voice, various pieces in the Legendary
Children exhibit at Gallery 1526 have been moved, or partially covered by
gallery owner and curator, Melanie Bell, upon the request of Dov Jacobson,
managing director of GamesThatWork.com, which shares the art gallerys
space.
In a series of emails exchanged with Jacobson that Bell shared with the
Voice, the game tester repeatedly called parts of the exhibit porn, and
asked for the pieces which are visible in the hallways throughout the
building to be moved or covered, requests which Bell reluctantly complied
with. In replies, Bell chastised Jacobson for using obscene language to
describe the exhibit, and defended the artistic value of the series.
Jon Dean, whose photography was featured in the exhibit, implied the
requests to take down drag queen photos while not complaining about
photos and paintings of nude women, belies a double standard.
Anti-bullying,
marriage-related
measures also on tap
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
As lawmakers return from August
recess, advocates are anticipating
movement on pro-LGBT legislation
in the Senate during the upcoming
weeks, although the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act appears to have the
most momentum.
The long-pursued legislation to
bar anti-LGBT job bias passed out of
committee in July on a bipartisan basis
and supporters of the bill are expecting
a vote sometime this fall.
Michael Cole-Schwartz, spokesperson
for the Human Rights Campaign, said
ENDA is the legislative focus for the
organization as well as for the multi-
group Americans for Workplace
Opportunity campaign it formed after
the panel vote.
Obviously the congressional
calendar has many agenda items but
we fully expect to see a Senate vote
on ENDA in the fall and were working
with our partners in the Americans for
Workplace Opportunity campaign to
build support for this critical bill, Cole-
Schwartz said.
But when ENDA will come up in the
Senate this fall remains unclear. The
ofce of Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid (D-Nev.), hasnt responded to
multiple requests from the Blade to
comment on the timing for an ENDA
oor vote since the bill was reported
out of committee. Reid has previously
pledged in a Pride statement this year
to bring up the legislation soon.
Allison Preiss, spokesperson for the
Senate Health, Education, Labor &
Pensions Committee, echoed remarks
from panel Chair Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
that a vote would take place this fall, but
wasnt more specic.
Chairman Harkin is also optimistic
that this fall, the Senate will consider the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act,
which passed the HELP Committee on a
bipartisan basis and includes for the rst
time protections against discrimination
based not only on sexual orientation
but on gender identity as well, Preiss
said.
Christian Berle, legislative director
for Freedom to Work, said the time has
come for a Senate oor vote on ENDA
because the organization believes that
sufcient lobbying will be needed to
reach the 60-vote threshold required to
overcome a libuster.
Based on Freedom to Works
outreach to Senate Republicans
since ENDA passed out of the HELP
Committee, we are condent that we
have the 60 votes necessary to advance
and pass this critical legislation, Berle
said. It is now time for Senator Reid
to keep his six-and-a-half year old
commitment to bring ENDA to the oor
of the Senate as soon as possible.
Moreover, Berle said holding the
Senate vote on ENDA as soon as
possible is necessary to generate
momentum to move the legislation in
the Republican-controlled House, where
passage of ENDA will be challenging
to say the least. Two options that have
been oated are attaching ENDA to a
larger vehicle bill or a discharge petition.
The sooner we pass ENDA out of
the Senate, the sooner we can begin a
robust campaign to get ENDA through
the House of Representatives and on the
presidents desk, Berle said. Whether
we attach ENDA to a spending bill in the
Senate or launch a discharge petition in
the House, we know that we can only
win on ENDA if we are willing to try.
But ENDA isnt the only piece of pro-
LGBT legislation that is pending on the
Senate calendar for a vote. The Senate
HELP Committee has also reported
out education reform legislation
known as the Strengthening Americas
Schools Act that includes anti-bullying
measures known as the Student Non-
Discrimination Act and the Safe Schools
Improvement Act.
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Advocates turn up heat,
hope for vote on
long-stalled bill
By CHRIS JOHNSON
As Congress returned this week
from its summer recess, the effort to
advance the long-stalled Employment
Non-Discrimination Act picked up
momentum with an event in New
York and a new fundraising push from
Obama surrogates.
Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom
to Marry, was scheduled to be among
the speakers at Freedom to Works
premiere Situation Room in New York
City at New York Law School the rst
in a series of public forums to strategize
on the way forward for ENDA. (The Blade
had a reporter in New York to cover the
meeting; visit washingtonblade.com for
updated reports.)
Wolfson told the Washington Blade
he envisions that his participation will
facilitate a discussion on the ways
successes from the marriage equality
movement can be applied to ENDA.
Its going to really be more of a
conversation about what are some of
the lessons that we applied from history
and from other movements in the
shaping our strategy and campaign to
bring the freedom to marry to the United
States, and how can we apply some of
those in the work to end employment
discrimination, Wolfson said.
The cross-pollination of the marriage
equality strategy to other movements
isnt new for Wolfson, who said hes
been asked by other campaigns
ranging from the environment to voting
rights efforts to talk about the ways in
which marriage equality achievements
can be applied to other initiatives.
Although hes credited with being
a founder of the marriage equality
movement, Wolfson is no stranger to
advocating on behalf of other LGBT
causes. In 2000, he argued before
the U.S. Supreme Court that a New
Jersey law prohibiting the Boy Scouts
of America from banning gay scouts
was constitutional. The court ultimately
ruled the other way.
Other LGBT causes in which Wolfson
said hes been involved are employment
cases, work to abolish state sodomy
laws as well as protections for people
with HIV/AIDS.
In all my years working in our
movement, Ive never really been
a fan of pitting one so-called issue
against the other, Wolfson said. To
my mind, marriage has never been just
about marriage. Marriage has been a
powerful vocabulary of helping people
understand who we are as LGBT people
and to tap into their values of fairness
and respect and help them move.
After talking on this initial panel,
Wolfson said hell speak out to aid
LGBT workplace non-discrimination
efforts where it can be appropriate
and helpful, but added he has no
immediate plans to do so.
Obviously, my primary mission right
now is continue leading the campaign
to win the freedom to marry, and I want
to nish the job, and we are not done,
Wolfson said.
Freedom to Work President Tico
Almeida rst announced the Situation
Room in July as a way for groups
working on federal workplace non-
discrimination protections to lay out
their contributions to the effort.
Wolfson is set to speak on a second
panel as part of the Situation Room
alongside Almeida in a session titled,
Lessons from Freedom to Marry for
the Campaign to Win the Freedom to
Work, according to a statement from
Freedom to Work.
Another panel earlier in the day was set
to consist of Brad Sears, executive director
of the Williams Institute at the University
of California, Los Angeles, as well as two
LGBT advocates representing both major
political parties: Gregory Angelo, executive
director of the Log Cabin Republicans
and Melissa Sklarz, president of Stonewall
Democrats of New York City.
In a statement, Almeida billed the
Situation Room as a bipartisan event
and said it would help lead to victory for
ENDA on the Senate oor, where a vote
is expected to take place later this year.
Were honored to host a bipartisan
group of leading experts and advocates
for this rst of its kind ENDA event,
Almeida said. Im condent were
going to win a big Senate victory this
year, and then ride that momentum
into a robust campaign in the House of
Representatives.
Moderating the rst panel was
Towelroad legal editor and New York
Law School professor Ari Ezra Waldman
of New York Law School.
Almeida declined to comment on
whos set to moderate the second panel
with Wolfson, but added additional
speakers will be named later in the week.
A second ENDA Situation Room is
planned later for Miami, which Almeida
said will include Spanish-language
content for Latino voters. Depending
the timing of the ENDA Senate vote,
similar events may place in Phoenix, Las
Vegas and Philadelphia.
Given where the undecided senators
reside in states like Arizona, Nevada,
and Florida, we believe Latino voters
are a critical part of any winning ENDA
coalition, Almeida concluded.
This shouldnt be legal
In a related development, President
Obamas political arm is raising money from
supporters to push for passage of ENDA.
Organizing for Action, the successor
organization to Obamas presidential
campaign apparatus that advocates for
his policy positions, sent out an email
from Executive Director Jon Carson to
supporters last week with the subject line,
Its 2013 this shouldnt be legal.
A lot of Americans dont know that its
still legal in some states to discriminate
in the workplace on the basis of sexual
orientation or gender identity, Carson
writes. Yep its 2013, and every
American still doesnt have that basic
protection under the law.
The email continues to say that ENDA
would rectify this issue by making sure
no one can legally be discriminated
against in the workplace for being gay
or transgender.
A link within the email redirects to
the OFA site, which allows the reader
to sign a petition calling on Congress to
pass ENDA.
After the reader enters an email
address, another page pops up asking
for a donation to OFA in several
designated amounts up to $1,000. Its
not immediately clear whether the
donations will be used for ENDA or for
other purposes.
LGBT Americans deserve the same
treatment in the workplace as everyone
else, and ENDA is a common-sense bill
with bipartisan support, Carson writes
in a follow-up email. We all know this
wont be easy. Itll take the people who
believe in equality standing up and
ghting for it.
Heather Cronk, managing director
for GetEQUAL, said shes glad OFA has
nally agreed theres a need an end
workplace discrimination for LGBT people,
but said the organization can do more than
compiling a list of ENDA supporters.
If OFA is serious about ending
workplace discrimination and not simply
building a list, they will immediately call
on President Obama to show leadership
on this issue by doing two things:
1) signing an executive order, in the
tradition of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that
would end the practice of discrimination
by federal contractors, and 2) calling on
Sen. Reid to schedule a vote on ENDA
as soon as possible, Cronk said.
ENDA in the spotlight as Congress returns
washingtonblade.com
Freedom to Marry President EVAN WOLFSON
was set to speak at Freedom to Works
Situation Room this week in New York.
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Task Force hires leader
for trans rights project
The rst-ever transgender person to
testify before the U.S. Senate on the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act
has been tapped by the National Gay &
Lesbian Task Force to become head of
its transgender initiative.
Kylar Broadus, a transgender man
who founded the Missouri-based Trans
People of Color Coalition, was named
head of the Task Forces Transgender
Civil Rights Project, which provides
strategy assistance for groups working
to enact pro-trans policy and laws.
I am extremely honored and excited
to be working at the National Gay &
Lesbian Task Force given its history in
general as a progressive organization
but particularly the leadership it
has provided in the transgender
movement, Broadus said. I intend to
build off this great work and continue to
make the Task Force a key player in the
transgender movement.
According to a bio provided by the
Task Force, Broadus has engaged in
his career as an activist, writer, lawyer,
professor, lobbyist and public speaker.
As a lawyer, Broadus had a focus on
LGBT law with a particular focus on
transgender rights. Hes now serving as
faculty at Lincoln University in Missouri.
Shannon Minter, legal director for the
National Center for Lesbian Rights, had
high praise for Broadus upon the news that
hed lead trans issues at the Task Force.
Throughout his career, Kylar has
continually developed cutting edge
strategies to protect transgender
people, worked to raise the visibility
and leadership of transgender people
of color, and demonstrated unfailing
collegiality and collaboration, Minter
said. He is a great leader, and I look
forward to working with him closely in
his new role at the Task Force.
Last year, Broadus became the rst
openly transgender person to testify
before the Senate on ENDA during a
hearing that was set up Senate Health,
Education, Labor & Pensions Committee
Chair Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). At the time,
he recalled the discrimination that he
faced at a major nancial institution
when he announced that he would
transition in 1995.
At work, when I decided to actually
transition, I had been there for a number
of years, and Im a workaholic, and it was
disheartening to me that all this could be
pulled out from under me because people
werent comfortable with the person that I
am, Broadus said at the time.
His written testimony details receiving
harassing phone calls, receiving
assignments after hours that were
due early the next morning and being
forbidden from talking to certain people.
During his testimony, Broadus called
on Congress to pass ENDA to put
into place federal workplace non-
discrimination protections.
I think its extremely important that this
bill be passed to protect workers like me,
Broadus said at the time. There are many
cases that I hear everyday, and people call
me everyday with these cases around
the country because Im also an attorney
that practices and deals with people that
suffer employment discrimination.
CHRIS JOHNSON
N.M. court to consider
marriage next month
The New Mexico Supreme Court has
set Oct. 23 for oral arguments to hear
a case seeking a nal judgment on
marriage equality.
In the three-page order, the court
sets arguments for Oct. 23 in addition
to inviting the six plaintiff couples in the
lawsuit led by the National Center for
Lesbian Rights and the American Civil
Liberties Union to take part in the case.
They must le a response by Sept. 23.
Peter Simonson, executive director
of the ACLU New Mexico, said in a
statement he hopes the hearing will
lead to a speedy decision resulting in
marriage equality for the entire state.
Now is the time for New Mexico
to treat same-sex couples with the
same dignity and respect as all other
couples and fully respect their lifelong
commitments to each other and their
families, Simonson said.
Shannon Minter, legal director for the
National Center for Lesbian Rights, told
the Washington Blade his organization
welcomes the hearing, but when a nal
decision will be handed down is unknown.
We dont know when the court will
rule, but clearly they recognize the
importance of the issue and have set
an expedited brieng and argument
schedule, Minter said. They could issue
a decision anytime after the argument.
Last week, all 33 New Mexico county
clerks joined together in ling a petition
asking the New Mexico Supreme Court
for a nal judgment on marriage equality
in the state after eight county clerks
some under court order, some under their
own volition started giving marriage
licenses to same-sex couples.
CHRIS JOHNSON
Minneapolis recruits Ill.
couples for weddings
MINNEAPOLIS Same-sex
marriages became legal in Minnesota
on Aug. 1, and Minneapolis mayor R.T.
Rybak has wasted no time pushing his
city as a gay wedding destination.
Last week, while in Chicago, the same-
sex marriage supporter launched an
aggressive advertising campaign aimed
at wooing gay and lesbian couples to
marry in his city, according to online
LGBT news site Chicago Phoenix.
Come to an incredible, sophisticated
city called Minneapolis and we believe
that you have equal rights and right
now, people in Chicago dont, the
mayor told an audience at Chicagos
LGBT center. Some day I hope
Mayor Emanuel can come up and try
to steal the same sort business out
of Minneapolis, but in the meantime,
welcome to Minneapolis we want to
marry you.
Illinois efforts to pass a bill backed by
the governor extending marriage rights
to same-sex couples hit a snag in May
when its sponsor, gay Assemblyman
Greg Harris, pulled the bill saying there
were not enough votes to pass it. The
legislature will get another chance to
pass the bill this year in late October
and early November. Illinois neighbor,
Iowa, has allowed same-sex couples to
marry since April 2009.
STAFF REPORTS
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KYLAR BROADUS, the rst trans person to testify before the Senate on ENDA, has been tapped to
lead the National Gay & Lesbian Task Forces trans project.
obituary
MARVETTE PEREZ, 52

Marvette Perez, an
anthropologist and curator of
Latino history and culture at the
Smithsonians National Museum
of American History, died Aug.
18. No cause of death was given.
She was 52.
Perez, a lesbian, was born in
Arecibo, Puerto Rico on June 27,
1961. She earned a degree from
Florida State University in 1982
and a masters from Catholic
University of America in 1986.
She worked the last 16
years collecting, researching,
publishing, lecturing and
developing programs related to
Latinos in the U.S. and curated
many exhibits on the topic. One
of her projects was the community
curation of Latino Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgender
Organizations in Washington,
D.C. 1987-present at the
Historical Society of Washington,
a project spearheaded by the
Latino GLBT History Project.
[Perez was] a big and bold
thinker and she has a vision that
captures the tone, tenor and the
mission of the Smithsonian, said
Lee Baker, associate professor of
Cultural Anthropology at Duke
University, in a statement.
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Out-of-town gay couples ock to D.C. to wed
federal rights and benets of marriage.
The Obama administrations
aggressive effort to quickly implement
the DOMA ruling by directing federal
agencies, including all the branches of
the military, to provide marital benets
to same-sex spouses of federal workers,
civilian and active duty military, has also
boosted the number of lesbian and
gay couples deciding to tie the knot,
experts have said.
D.C. gay activist Christopher Dyer,
who last year obtained a license to
perform marriages as a court-approved
ofciant, said the number of same-sex
couples seeking him out to perform
their marriage has doubled since the
Supreme Court decision.
Im getting more military people
than ever before, he said. Many of
them are from Virginia.
Local gay rights attorney Michele
Zavos, who practices family law in the D.C.
metro area, said she and other attorneys
familiar with the marriage laws of D.C.
and Maryland are advising out-of-state
clients to choose D.C. over Maryland as
the preferred place to marry.
Although same-sex marriage became
legal in Maryland earlier this year, Zavos
points out that unlike D.C., Maryland
has a residency requirement for couples
seeking to get a divorce. This means
that if a same-sex couple from Virginia
or other states that dont recognize gay
marriage decide to marry in Maryland,
they could not obtain a divorce in
Maryland unless they become a
Maryland resident for a year, Zavos said.
She noted that they couldnt
obtain a divorce in their home state
if that state doesnt recognize their
marriage, especially if the state has
a law or constitutional amendment
specically banning same-sex
nuptials as Virginia does.
Nobody wants to hear this, of
course, Zavos said. Theyre about
to be married. They dont want you
to be talking to them about getting
divorced.
Nevertheless, Zavos said many same-
sex couples knowledgeable about the
residency rules for divorce are choosing
D.C. and Delaware, which also allows
out-of-state couples to le for a divorce
without a residency requirement.
Among those encountering the
brunt of the delays at the D.C. Superior
Courts Marriage Bureau are the private
marriage ofciants who, among other
things, le marriage license applications
at the courthouse for their same-sex
couple clients.
Deborah Cummings-Thomas and her
wife, lesbian activist Sheila Alexander-
Reid, co-owners of Marry Me In D.C.,
Inc., specialize in marrying same-sex
couples and taking care of the couples
marriage-related paperwork.
Its a nightmare down there right
now, Cummings-Thomas said. It often
takes two hours, sometimes longer to
le a marriage license application, she
said. Ive been there when people
waiting have gotten very upset. She
said 95 percent of the couples she
marries are from jurisdictions outside
D.C. and at least 95 percent or more of
her clients arrange for her to go to the
courthouse to deal with the application.
The employees are very nice, said
Rev. Starlene Joyner Burns, another
D.C. marriage ofciant who reaches out
to same-sex couples. But they realize
the ofce needs more help. Its not a
system that is broken. Its just that the
demand is greater than what it was in
the past.
Another marriage ofciant, who
spoke on condition of not being
identied, criticized D.C. Congressional
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton for not
pushing for more funds from Congress
to hire additional staff at the courthouse
to handle the greater demand for
marriage licenses.
Congress and various federal
agencies control the D.C. court system
rather than the city government under
the citys limited home rule charter.
Norton spokesperson Daniel Van
Hoogstraten said he would look into
the matter.
Others familiar with the Marriage
Bureau noted that the D.C. City Council
could help the situation by changing
the wording in the citys marriage law
that requires a three-day waiting period
between the time a marriage license
application is submitted and the time
a marriage can take place. Marriage
laws in most other states have a similar
waiting period but those states, like
Maryland, issue the license during
the applicants rst visit to the state
marriage bureau and post-date it to
prevent the marriage from taking place
until after the waiting period expires.
Critics of the D.C. Marriage Bureau
say it requires applicants or ofciants
working on their behalf to return to the
bureau a second time to pick up the
license following the waiting period, a
process that causes further delays.
But according to people familiar with
the D.C. marriage law, the law prevents
the Marriage Bureau from postdating
a marriage license because it states
explicitly that a license shall not be
issued until three days have elapsed
from the time the application is led.
They have two people handling 50
or 60 people at any given time, said
the marriage ofciant who asked not to
be identied. They told me please do
what you can to get out the word and
help us get more staff.
Countrys Supreme Court last year
struck down gay nuptials ban
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS
mlavers@washblade.com
The movement for marriage rights for
same-sex couples in Mexico continues
to gain momentum as more gays and
lesbians across the country seek the
ability to exchange vows.
A gay couple in the city of Mrida in
the state of Yucatn on Aug. 8 tied the
knot after a federal judge in July said
the two men could marry. A judge in
the state of Chihuahua in which Ciudad
Juarez is located on Aug. 19 ruled in
favor of ve same-sex couples who had
sought legal recourse known as an
amparo in the Mexican judicial system
that would allow them to marry.
A judge in the state of Mxico, which
is outside Mexico City, the countrys
capital, in June ruled in support of four
same-sex couples who had sought
marriage rights. Local authorities
appealed the decision.
Gays and lesbians in the states of
Colima; Baja California; Guanajuato;
Morales and Jalisco, in which
Guadalajara and the resort city of
Puerto Vallarta are located, have also
petitioned local authorities to extend
marriage rights to them.
These developments are taking place
nearly a year after the Mexican Supreme
Court found a Oaxacan law that bans
same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
Three couples tried to apply for
marriage licenses in the state, but local
authorities denied their applications.
Lawyer Alex Al Mndez Daz led lawsuits
on behalf of two of the couples in August
2011 and a third in January 2012.
The justices unveiled their decision in
February.
One of the Oaxacan couples that
sought the right to marry tied the knot
in March in what Mndez told the
Washington Blade is the rst same-sex
marriage to take place in Mexico under
a court order. He said a second couple
will exchange vows in December, but
the third couple will not marry in what
Mndez described as a symbol of
solidarity with the local LGBT movement
over legislative indifference to make the
necessary reforms to avoid bringing the
issue to the Mexican federal courts.
Fourteen countries, along with 13
states and D.C. allow gays and lesbians
to legally marry.
Mexico City in 2010 extended marriage
rights to same-sex couples. The Mexican
Supreme Court has ruled other states
must recognize gay marriages legally
performed in the Mexican capital.
Gays and lesbians have also
exchanged vows in the state of Quintana
Roo on the Yucatn Peninsula in which
Cancn is located. The state of Coahuila
offers property and inheritance rights
and other limited legal protections to
same-sex couples.
Opposition to marriage rights for
same-sex couples in Mexico remains in
spite of recent advances on the issue.
Congresswoman Ana Mara Jimnez
Ortiz, who represents the conservative
political party PAN in the state of Puebla
outside Mexico City, last month sparked
controversy when she suggested
ofcials should allow marriage only for
people that can look at each other in
the eye while having sexual intercourse.
[That is] something that does not
happen in homosexual couples, she said.
Catholic groups in the month after
the Mexican Supreme Court released
its Oaxaca ruling submitted to the
countrys Congress a petition against
marriage rights for same-sex couples
with 23,000 signatures.
One can say that the rulings
announced last December with
respect to the Oaxacan cases mean
the possibility that marriage equality is
possible throughout Mexico through
the judicial process, Mndez told
the Blade. Unfortunately established
moral and religious prejudices in the
same state institutions have impeded
any rapid movement on the issue.
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relations through prism
of human rights alone
By CHRIS JOHNSON
Russian activists who attended a
meeting last week with President
Obama in St. Petersburg came away
with mixed feelings about the event,
with one claiming Obama told them he
couldnt make human rights the lone
priority in U.S.-Russia relations.
Both LGBT activists who attended the
meeting with Obama on Friday spoke
to the Washington Blade and said they
were pleased the meeting took place,
but disagreed with some of what Obama
said. They were among nine civil society
representatives who took part in a
roundtable discussion with Obama as part
of his visit to Russia for the G-20 summit.
Igor Kochetkov, director of the LGBT
Network in Russia, spoke with the Blade
in a phone interview through a translator
from Human Rights First and said Obama
told activists he had to prioritize issues
other than human rights.
Obama said that his agenda is quite
extensive and he cannot approach U.S.-
Russia relations through the prism of
human rights alone, Kochetkov said.
He said theres economic partnerships,
military/strategic cooperation, and in
order to achieve consensus on those
subject areas, he has to compromise
and nd a balance in discussions about
human rights.
Kochetkov said he disagrees with
Obama on this view of human rights issues.
I think this approach does not have
a future because in Russia, racist and
homophobic attitudes are proportional
to the growth of anti-Americanism and
anti-Western attitudes, Kochetkov
said. And the West wont be able to
get what it wants in the economic or
military realm while being silenced on
human rights.
Still, Kochetkov said he wouldnt
characterize himself as disappointed
in Obamas remarks and noted he
was pleased the meeting took place.
I think its very important that
Obama invited human rights activists,
including specically LGBT activists
from Russia, Kochetkov said. It was a
serious signal to the global community,
a signal that its impossible to discuss
human rights in todays world without
a conversation about the status of
gay rights. Not everyone, especially in
Russia, understands that.
Olga Lenkova, communications
director for the St. Petersburg-based
LGBT group Coming Out, told the
Washington Blade via email she was
also satised with the experience.
We did not have any particular
expectations from the meeting, other
than hoping for a good exchange of
ideas, which has in fact taken place,
Lenkova said.
Lenkova said the focus of the meeting
was on human rights in general, and
the complicated situation for civil
society leaders in Russia in addition to
global challenges such as the relative
ineffectiveness of the United Nations
and global warming.
President Obama tried to respond to
all questions raised despite our obvious
disagreements on Syria for example,
Lenkova said. He mostly talked about
the U.S., highlighting that there are
many challenges and problems, the
ones we mentioned death penalty,
Guantanamo, surveillance, etc. and
others that cant be easily overcome by
a president, but where the active civil
society plays the key role.
According to Lenkova, Obama
concluded the session by saying,
Any state has to guard itself from
protecting itself instead of its citizens.
Youve challenged me to do more and
I will. And sometimes I will succeed and
sometimes not.
Which LGBT issues came up during
the meeting? Kochetkov said he urged
Obama to be more open and vocal
in his criticism of whats happening in
Russia. He also urged Obama to build
international awareness of LGBT issues.
I also asked President Obama to
consider ways of monitoring hate crime
incidents through the international
community, Kochetkov said. Hate crimes
motivated by sexual orientation or gender
identity bias are not totally investigated or
investigated at all sometimes, so we need
an international mechanism to look into
those cases as well.
Amid growing international
attention, the activists said they also
raised concerns with Obama about a
controversial anti-gay law that prohibits
pro-gay propaganda to minors in Russia.
Dmitri Makarov, a member of the
Russia-based International Youth Human
Rights Movement who was a non-LGBT
participant at the meeting, told the
Blade via email the anti-gay law took up
a signicant part of the discussion.
The Russian anti-gay laws were
brought up and were a signicant
part of the discussion, Makarov said.
There was a press brieng also at the
end of the meeting by LGBT Network.
Kochetkov said he raised the anti-
propaganda law with Obama, but the
president declined to comment on it.
He made no comment, but he
was there to listen to the situation in
Russia, Kochetkov said.
Lenkova said the measure did come
up during the discussion, but LGBT rights
werent the main topic of the meeting.
Regarding LGBT issues he said that
he had already been quite explicit about
what he thinks about discrimination
against LGBT people, Lenkova said.
He also referred to the changes that
took place in the U.S. in this regard
within the last 10 to 15 years, when he
was saying that though problems in the
U.S. are still many, the system is capable
of change.
Some LGBT activists said prior to the
meeting they hoped Obama would
take his opposition to the anti-gay law
directly to the Russian government and
media during his trip to St. Petersburg.
A video report on Saturday from
European television station Euronews
claimed gay activists left the meeting
with Obama feeling disappointed. It
based that conclusion on an interview with
Kochetkov, who talked through a translator.
Kochetkov responded to the report
by reiterating he wasnt disappointed in
the meeting, but said he disagrees with
Obama on some issues.
Its more nuanced, Kochetkov
said. Im not disappointed. I said that
I disagree with President Obama on
certain things.
Nonetheless, International Youth
Human Rights Movements Makarov
said he thinks the report is quite
accurate or at least as much as a
one-minute report focusing on just one
aspect can be accurate.
I would have liked to hear a more
decisive stance, but I do understand
the argument that there are other issues
that the president has to care about,
Makarov said. Yet, as a human rights
defender I would push for human rights
to be prioritized in relations with Russia
in particular.
The White House didnt respond to a
request for comment on the report or
reactions from the activists.
According to a transcript of remarks
provided by the White House after the
event, Obama talked about freedom of
the press and assembly with activists.
I think it is important for us to
remember that in every country
here in Russia, in the United States,
around the globe that part of good
government is making sure that were
creating a space for civil society to
function effectively: freedom of the
press, freedom of assembly, making
sure that people can join together
and make common cause around the
issues that they care deeply about,
Obama said.
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Russian activists said they were not
disappointed by their meeting with PRESIDENT
OBAMA, but that they disagree with him on
some key issues.
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count remains at 40 percent or higher.
I want to congratulate my opponents
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hard-earned victory, Politicker.com blog
quoted Quinn as saying at her election
night gathering at a hotel in Chelsea.
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The New York Times reported that an
exit poll showed LGBT voters comprised
9 percent of the Democratic primary
electorate on Tuesday. According to the
Times, the exit poll showed de Blasio
beating Quinn among LGBT voters by
a margin of 47 percent to 34 percent.
Thompson received 9 percent of the LGBT
vote, former New York Congressman
Anthony Weiner received 4 percent, and
city comptroller John Liu received 3 percent
of the LGBT vote, the exit poll showed.
Many political observers view Quinns
third-place nish as an astonishing
turn of events following her status as
the frontrunner in the nine-candidate
race during the rst several months
of the campaign. At one point Quinn
approached the 40 percent mark in
public opinion polls, placing her far
ahead of de Blasio both in potential
votes and in money raised.
Kenneth Sherrill, a political science
professor emeritus at New Yorks Hunter
College, said a number of factors
contributed to Quinns stunning decline
in the polls and de Blasios dramatic
rise. Among them, he said, were Quinn
and her campaign advisers failure
to recognize early on the intensity of
voter animus toward incumbent Mayor
Michael Bloomberg, with whom Quinn
was perceived as a strong ally.
Sherrill said the negative impact of Quinns
perceived association with Bloomberg was
compounded by her decision to wage
a campaign geared more for a general
election than a Democratic primary.
In the general election you have to
appeal to the broader centrist voters,
he said. In a primary, the best strategy
is to appeal to the most ideological and
activist voters.
According to Sherrill, de Blasio skillfully
took the latter approach, positioning
himself as a progressive champion of
New Yorkers struggling to retain their
hold on the middle class. He said de
Blasio capitalized on Bloombergs
unpopularity and succeeded in dening
Quinn as a Bloomberg crony, stressing
Quinns key role in 2009 in backing a
change in the city charter that allowed
Bloomberg to run for a third term.
Sherrill and other political observers say
Quinns campaign was also hurt badly by
an independent expenditure organization
formed by labor and animal rights activists
called Anybody But Quinn. Among
other things, the group produced attack
ads denouncing Quinn for not supporting
legislation to ban horse drawn carriages
in New Yorks Central Park.
Although Quinn sought to distance
herself from some of Bloombergs
positions, especially the mayors support
for a stop and frisk policy initiated
by the citys police commissioner,
which civil rights groups said targeted
minority communities, her reluctance
to more aggressively oppose the policy
subjected her to strong criticism by de
Blasio and some of the other candidates.
Sherrill said the litany of problems
Quinn encountered in her campaign
had absolutely nothing to do with her
sexual orientation.
It didnt matter one bit, he said of
Quinns status as an out lesbian. What
mattered was her proximity to the mayor.
Quinn won the endorsement of the
citys three major daily newspapers
the New York Times, Daily News, and
New York Post. She also received the
endorsement of Gay City News, the
citys LGBT newspaper, along with
endorsements from most of the citys
prominent LGBT leaders.
The national LGBT groups Human
Rights Campaign and Gay and Lesbian
Victory Fund contributed thousands of
dollars to her campaign and dispatched
volunteers and eld organizers to help
in locations throughout the city.
Victory Fund President and CEO
Chuck Wolfe issued a statement
Tuesday night noting that eight of its 10
endorsed candidates in New York races,
including City Council candidates, won
their races in the New York primary.
As you know by now, Council Speaker
Christine Quinn was not successful in her
bid for the Democratic nomination for
mayor, Wolfe said. Theres no sugar-
coating what an emotional loss this is for
her, her many supporters and all of us
here at the Victory Fund, he said.
Ive known Chris for a long time,
he added. She has been a remarkably
effective and passionate advocate for
LGBT equality and, most importantly, for
everyone who calls New York City home.
Political observers said the LGBT vote
appeared to be divided, with many
activists supporting de Blasio over Quinn.
Sherrill said that while de Blasio and
Quinn emerged as rivals in a heated
political campaign both made great
strides to normalize what have been
viewed as non-traditional families. He
noted that de Blasio, who is white, put his
black wife and bi-racial son and daughter
in the forefront of his campaign.
Quinn and her wife were around all
the time, Sherrill said. She talked about
her wife. She talked about her in-laws.
Added Sherrill, This was a campaign in
which families that never were talked about
before were being portrayed as normal,
everyday, wholesome, all-American real
New Yorkers. And its not causing a stir. Its
an amazing breakthrough.
Finishing behind Quinn in the New
York primary on Tuesday were New York
City Comptroller John Liu, who received 7
percent of the vote and former U.S. Rep.
Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who received 4.9
percent. Four other lesser known candidates
received less than 4 percent each.
Joseph J. Lhota, a top aide to GOP
former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani,
won the Republican nomination in
Tuesdays primary. Although Democrats
outnumber Republicans in New York
City by a 6 to 1 margin, no Democrat
has won the citys mayoralty since 1989
when Democrat David Dinkins became
the citys rst black mayor.
Four years later, Dinkins lost big to
Giuliani, and Giuliani and Republican-
turned-independent Bloomberg have
dominated the general elections for
mayor ever since that time.
Now, Lhota, who supports same-sex
marriage, is viewed as progressive on social
issues while, like Bloomberg, he is a strong
ally to New Yorks business interests. With
de Blasio being perceived by many in the
business sector as anti-business, some
political observers think Lhota has a shot at
winning in the November general election.
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all of us here at the Victory Fund, said Victory
Fund President Chuck Wolfe of Christine
Quinns defeat this week.
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A benet for
trans awareness
In April 2011, Chrissy Lee Polis, a
transgender woman who was 22 at
the time, was beaten by two females,
one a 19-year-old and the other age
14 at a McDonalds restaurant in
Rosedale, Md. The attack was caught
on video and received national and
international attention.
To highlight awareness of transgender
people in Baltimore, a benet titled
The Real Me will take place on
Sept. 28 at the Universal Nightlife and
Entertainment facility, formerly known
as The Overlea, 6809 Belair Rd. in
Baltimore. A portion of the funds will
go to area transgender awareness
organizations. Polis is scheduled to
make an appearance.
Co-hosted by Melody Lyryshal
and Miss Mixers Anita Minett, The
Real Me will feature a number of
local drag performers including Dee
Attitude, Phoenix King, Tamia Gisele
Mykles, Jalah Nicole, Franz Fiddler and
Danielle Revlon.
I was asked at Queen of Pride what
I would do if I won, explains Melody
Lyryshal who is organizing the event. I
said I wanted to bring awareness to the
transgender community. I lost that night,
but that did not mean I could not make a
difference. A crown did not decide what
I could do for the community. I did.
Tickets will be $10 at the door
and $8 in advance. They can be
purchased at gofundme.com/4880fk.
Trans 101
on tap for PFLAG
The Westminster-Carroll County
chapter of PFLAG will feature Catherine
Hyde, who will present the topic
Transgender 101 on Sunday during
the chapters general meeting.
Catherine Hyde, a mother of a
transgender child and a Transgender
Coordinator for Children and their Parents,
will discuss the key facts about transgender
individuals and how one can be a supportive
ally. In addition, a panel discussion will
take place whereby members share their
personal stories and answer questions.
Hyde did not listen to her child
when he, at the age of 4, told her that
something had gone wrong in her belly
and that he was supposed to be a she.
She did not understand transgender or
gender identity until NPR educated her
11 years later. Today, she speaks and
trains on transgender understanding
and sensitivity. Hyde also serves on
the Public Advisory Board of Gender
Rights Maryland. She can be reached at
cvhyde@gmail.com.
The meeting takes place at 5 p.m.
at St. Pauls United Church of Christ,
17 Bond St. in Westminster. For more
information, visit pagwcc.org.
Iron Crow to present
Apartment 213
The Iron Crow Theatre Company
will present Apartment 213 at the
Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St.
in Baltimore. The play, conceived
and written by Joseph Ritsch and
directed by Stephen Nunns, examines
the psyche of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer
who committed the rape, murder and
dismemberment of 17 men and boys
between 1978 and 1991 with many of his
later murders also involving necrophilia,
cannibalism and the permanent
preservation of body parts typically
all or part of the skeletal structure.
The play ofcially opens on Sept. 28
at 8 p.m., following a pay-what-you-
can preview on Sept. 27. It will also
run Thursday to Saturday, Oct. 3-5 at 8
p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 6 and Wednesday to
Saturday, Oct. 9-12 at 8 p.m.
For more information, visit
ironcrowtheatre.com. Tickets may
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Gay Missouri man charged with spreading HIV
NEW YORK Prosecutors in rural Missouri have charged a gay man with exposing
his partner to HIV and say he may have exposed about 300 other people as well,
CNN and other outlets reported last week.
David Mangum told police he had at least that many unprotected sexual
encounters with people he met online or in parks since he was diagnosed as HIV-
positive in 2003, CNN reported citing Detective Sgt. Corey Mills of Dexter, Mo.
Mangum was arrested after his former partner told police Mangum had lied to him
about his status, CNN said citing a police afdavit. Mangum was arraigned last week
in Stoddard County, about 160 miles south of St. Louis. The former partner, only
identied by initials in the report, tested positive for HIV, police said.
Knowingly exposing someone to HIV without his or her consent is a felony under
Missouri law and can bring prison terms of 15 years. Infecting someone can bring a
life term, CNN said.
Dating abuse higher for LGBT teens: report
WASHINGTON LGBT teens are at a much greater risk of dating abuse than
their straight counterparts with trans teens being especially vulnerable, an Urban
Institute report released last week shows.
Dating Violence Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Youth is one of the rst studies of dating violence examined through the lens of
sexual orientation, researchers said. It found victims are more likely to be female
or transgender and are also more likely to be depressed, have lower grades, have
committed delinquent acts and have a history of sexual activity, the report said.
Researchers studied 3,745 youth in grades seven through 12 in New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Six percent identied as LGBT. Of the LGB respondents,
43 percent reported dating violence compared to 29 percent of straights, 59 percent
reported emotional abuse compared to 46 percent of straights, 37 percent reported
digital abuse and harassment compared to 26 percent of straights and 23 percent
reported sexual coercion compared to 12 percent of straight respondees.
Only 18 trans youth were surveyed but they had the highest rates of victimization
89 percent reported physical dating violence, 61 percent were sexually coerced,
59 percent had been emotionally abused and 56 percent reported digital abuse and
harassment, the study found.
Gay porn actor tests positive for HIV
LOS ANGELES A second porn star whos straight but works exclusively in
gay porn said last week that he recently tested positive for HIV two weeks after
his girlfriend, who also works in the porn industry, was infected, the Pasadena
Star News reported citing a report from the Los Angeles Daily News.
Joshua Rodgers, 32, who works in gay porn under the stage name Rod
Daily, told the Daily News last week that he was infected sometime in the last
month. Last month, porn actress Cameron Bay said she tested positive, which
led to a weeklong shutdown of adult lm production in the San Fernando
Valley area where much of it is produced, the Daily News said. Rodgers said
hes worked exclusively in gay porn since 2010 on sets that require condoms.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a Los Angeles-based company, said in
a statement to the Daily News that its gravely concerned that the porn
industry continues to endanger its workers by ignoring prudent health and
worker safety laws by shooting adult lms without condoms.
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Fall is a great time to
reassess your tness goals
The summer has come and gone and
we are now entering a new fall season
and looking forward to slipping into our
fall wardrobe.
With the kids going back to school
and work getting back into full swing,
what better time than now to put your
health back into the forefront? Ive always
looked at Labor Day and September as
a great time to get back into gear by
revisiting our goals. When it comes
to goal setting, there are a few must
dos I like to have clients stick to, in
order to help make this unofcial second
half of the year even healthier than the
rst. Follow my three Rs of Getting
Real, Reassessing and wRiting it
down to make sure we get it right.
Dos:
Do Get Real Getting real means
staying realistic with your thinking.
Theres no better way to discourage
yourself than to make a goal that you
can not achieve. If your goal is to lose 25
pounds by the end of the year, realize
that a healthy weight loss goal is about
one pound a week and there s only
18 weeks left in the year. Not saying
its impossible, but knowing that we all
have setbacks, we may want to be more
realistic in our goal setting. If thats not
enough to make you second guess
your goals, dont forget Halloween,
Thanksgiving, winter holidays and
that fall getaway are all haunting our
healthy eating habits, so we may want
to reevaluate that goal to 15 pounds.
Do Reassess So lets think about
this as halftime in the big game of
the year. What goals did you set in
the beginning of the year or earlier in
life that havent worked for you? Why
havent they worked? What did work?
Why did they? Have you vowed to start
running three times a week, but yet your
running shoes are still as fresh as when
you bought them?
Reassess doesnt necessarily mean
to throw that goal out the window.
It means to see how we can tweak it
so it can be achievable. If you arent
doing well running on your own, maybe
you need to join a running club or
hire a coach who can help hold you
accountable. Maybe start with one day
a week until you build up the mental
strength to accomplish three times
a week. Remember that though a
challenge is important to growth, we
also want to always set ourselves up for
success to stay motivated.
Do Write it down A goal that is
unwritten is like a lost song that no one
will ever hear. Its important to write things
down and place it in a place where you
will constantly see it. For some reason,
its like making a contract with ourselves
and works as a constant reminder of
what you are trying to achieve. Just as
that cookie on the counter stares you
down and says eat me, a visible list of
your goals challenges you every day to
take the steps to achieve them. This also
helps if you live with others because
surprisingly enough, they will also keep
you on your toes by asking you about
your goals routinely. This serves as a
constant reminder to get off your rear
and get into gear.
Fall is the perfect time to get back
into a routine dedicated to our health
and tness after a summer that may
have had up toasting way more than
treadmilling. Think of your goals as small
steps to becoming a better, healthier
you. Focus on the small things like
staying active, eating breakfast and not
drinking calories, and the big things like
weight loss, looking better and feeling
stronger, will take care of themselves.
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Could drug resistance
become No. 1 killer?
For those living with HIV and fortunate
to have access to AIDS drugs, one of the
scariest things they face is drug resistance.
At some point, they know, their bodies
will begin to resist their current drug
regimens. This means their doctors
will need to nd out whats happening,
when to switch therapies and which
drugs to switch to. Then you hope there
is no cross resistance meaning that an
entire class of drugs will be rejected. Its a
complicated and scary process.
Tragically, if they dont switch or other
drug regimens arent available or theyre
resistant to other available drugs, as well,
eventually they will succumb to AIDS and
die. This is the harsh reality of living with
HIV: Your options may eventually run out.
A recent study estimates more than 76
percent of the U.S. HIV-positive population
has some form of drug resistance.
But here is some good news. The Food
and Drug Administration just approved a
new antiretroviral called Tivicay. The once-
daily drug is a class of antiretorvirals known
as integrase inhibitors that actually block the
virus from entering your immune systems
T-cells. Tivicay is the rst new treatment
delivered by ViiV Healthcare in an HIV joint
venture among GlaxoSmithKline, Pzer and
Shionogi in which GlaxoSmithKline is the
largest shareholder, with a more than 75
percent stake.
Tivicay can be used to treat infected
adults who have been taking other drugs
or are new to treatment. So that is some
good news in the ght against drug
resistance: Now theres another treatment
option available.
The approval of ViiVs Tivicay is important
because a number of companies already
have or soon will get out of the HIV drug
business. One is Roche, which developed
the rst protease inhibitor many believe
saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Some
rumors point to Abbott as the next.
Now here is really scary news: Drug
resistance is on the rise worldwide,
especially in Africa. A recent article in the
Daily Nation reports that in Tanzania, around
Lake Victoria, patients have stopped taking
their HIV drugs. Why? Side effects and drug
supplies. In addition, there are reports other
African countries have inconsistent HIV
drug supplies.
It appears if clinics run out of one or more
drugs, they switch their patients to new
HIV drug regimens. Abrupt switches of
antiretroviral are threatening our health,
Samwell Chuma, an HIV patient in Tanzania,
stresses, and some new anti-HIV regimens
are too strong for our weak bodies to
withstand. The sad truth is our brothers
and sisters in Africa and the rest of the
developing world are being given older
drugs that many physicians in the United
States and in other developed countries
would hesitate to prescribe. Its all about
access unfortunately.
The sad reality is we can ght drug
resistance only with different, that is,
new drugs.
Now lets look at the last time a new AIDS
drug was approved before the emergence
of Tivicay. I emphasize I mean new, and
not existing combinations of older drugs
contained in one daily pill.
This means weve already eliminated two
recently approved drugs. One is Gileads
drug Stribild, approved a year ago and
known by some in the HIV community as
the Quad. You can also discount their other
combined-in-one pill drugs, Complera,
approved in August 2011, and in Atripla,
approved in 2006. Good treatments, but
not a new drug.
A new drug, Edurant, produced by
Janssen, went on the market in 2011.
However, Edurant is not approved for
patients already using antiretrovirals.
Translation? If you are living with HIV now
and on an AIDS drug regimen, then you
are SOL as it relates to Edurant and, by
the way, to some other antiretrovirals
available now.
Clinical trials are now underway to
explore the use of newly approved Tivicay
in a once-daily, xed dose combination
that includes two drugs approved 15 years
ago. Looks like ViiV is going to take a
chapter out of Gileads game plan: Just
combine older drugs into one convenient
pill. This is the strategy that allowed Gilead
to capture more than half the entire AIDS
drug market, which is estimated in the tens
of billions of dollars.
Sadly, the last time that Gilead actually
had a new drug approved (again, Im not
including combination drugs in one pill
that uses older existing drugs) was August
of 2004. Thats almost 10 years ago. Clearly
the trend, if you look at drug approvals over
the past six years, is to combine several
drugs into one convenient pill. But if we are
going to survive this epidemic in the long
term, its critical we have new drugs and
fast! It could mean the survival of millions of
people living with HIV worldwide.
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Issues new policies on
guns, but not on
workplace discrimination
Two weeks ago, Vice President Biden
announced two new executive poli-
cies related to getting more guns off
the streets in the United States. The
rst makes it harder for Americans not
eligible to buy certain types of weapons
to skirt the law and get them through
trusts or corporations. Under the new
policy those associated with the trusts
or corporations will have to undergo the
same background checks as individuals
to buy guns. The second policy will ban
all re-importation of military style weap-
ons back into the United States.
I applaud the president for taking
these actions and using his executive
authority to try to save lives. As Vice
President Biden said, The Obama ad-
ministration remained committed to
the pursuit of new legislation designed
to reduce gun deaths. In announcing
these two new executive policies Biden
also said, We are going to get this
done. The takeaway is the administra-
tion still wants the legislation passed by
Congress but is willing to use its con-
stitutional authority to act when it real-
izes this Congress wont. While many
still want Congress to pass legislation
proposed by the president to make it
harder to buy guns without comprehen-
sive background checks, and to again
pass legislation prohibiting civilians
from owning assault weapons, most
acknowledge that wont happen in this
Congress. There is broad support for
the presidents efforts to do everything
he can with the extensive powers of the
presidency.
The administration also deserves tre-
mendous credit for continuing to act in
response to the Supreme Court decision
to repeal Section 3 of DOMA. The IRS
made it clear that legally married same-
sex couples could le joint federal tax re-
turns no matter where they currently live.
This is a huge step forward. In addition,
gay spouses of retired military will get
benets, and the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid announced new policies
that relate to married same-sex couples
being entitled to many of the same ben-
ets from Medicare Advantage policies
that heterosexual couples receive.
The question many in the LGBT com-
munity continue to ask is: If he can act
on guns and other issues why is the
president so reluctant to act to ban
employment discrimination against
LGBT individuals who work for federal
contractors? Biden made it clear in an-
nouncing the new policies on guns that
the administration hasnt totally given
up on trying to work with Congress on
gun control but they recognize getting
anything done in this Congress is a long
shot. The time has come for the admin-
istration to also accept that Congress
will not act in 2013 to ban employment
discrimination against the LGBT com-
munity and it must act on this issue,
something Obama rst committed to
doing when he ran in 2008. Adding in-
sult to injury on this issue was a recent
email from Jon Carson at BarackO-
bama.com asking us to donate to Or-
ganizing for America to get Congress to
pass ENDA and telling us how much the
president cares.
It is perplexing that the president is
able to commit the administration to
work with Congress on gun control even
as he acts unilaterally but continues to
refuse to do the same thing with regard
to the Employment Non-Discrimination
Act. It is time for the president to sign
the executive order that by all accounts
has been ready for his signature for the
past year and ban discrimination against
members of the LGBT community in all
federal contracting.
The president was willing to move
forward and evolve on marriage equal-
ity. He speaks up for the rights of the
LGBT community in many speeches in
front of many diverse audiences and
even met with LGBT activists in Rus-
sia. But when he talks about the need
for jobs and how a good job enables
people to move into the middle-class
he seems willing to leave out the LGBT
community. With the stroke of a pen
he can ensure that at least in all fed-
eral contracting, members of the LGBT
community will have the same right to
compete for and have protection from
being red from a job as everyone else.
The vice president can make the
same statement on this that he made
regarding guns. He can say that the ad-
ministration will continue to work with
Congress to pass ENDA, but that in the
meantime, the president will do all he
can to ensure that LGBT workers will
have protections against being discrimi-
nated against by federal contractors.
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the Blade.
40 years ago, 50 million
watched King beat Riggs
in Battle of the Sexes
I know nothing about tennis except that
its thrilling to watch athletes play the sport.
Im in love with love but am clueless about
love on the tennis court. As to a match
point, well, Ive always avoided playing with
matches. Yet, when Billie Jean King beat
Bobby Riggs in the historic Battle of the
Sexes 40 years ago this month on Sept. 20,
1973, my life, as was the case with so many
women (and men), changed.
The PBS program American Masters:
Billie Jean King, which commemorates the
40th anniversary of the Battle of the Sexes
as well as Kings iconic impact on both tennis
and the culture, premiered last week. The
engaging lm, a part of the Emmy-winning
series American Masters, can be viewed
on the website pbs.org/americanmasters.
The show highlights Kings founding of the
Womens Tennis Association in 1973, the
year when the U.S. Open became the rst
Grand Slam tournament to award equal
prize money to men and women.
Perhaps most movingly for those of us
who are queer, King talks in the lm about
how hard it was for her when she was outed
by her lover Marilyn Barrett (who led a pal-
imony suit) before she was at peace with
being a lesbian. When the story broke, King
told her publicist that she had to be open
about being gay. Its about being truthful
to my audience and to my fans and to the
world, King said, adding, Id do anything I
can to help the LGBT community.
Four decades ago, we were mesmerized
watching (in person or as an estimated 50
million of us in the United States alone did
on TV) the King and Riggs Battle at the
Astrodome in Houston. King, then 29, and
a tennis champion, and now a feminist and
queer icon, was carried in, hoisted by hunky
young men like a 20th century Cleopatra.
Riggs, now deceased, then 55 and a former
tennis champion, was escorted in a rickshaw
by beautiful young women his bosom
buddies. With a nod to the then emerging
(2nd wave) feminist movement and enter-
tainment, the ABC broadcast of the event
began with the playing of the showbiz stan-
dard Anything You Can Do I Can Do Bet-
ter from Annie Get Your Gun.
Yet, far more than glamour was at stake
in the Battle of the Sexes for people not
only my generation, but for my parents and,
even future generations. Its hard to imagine
how hard things were for girls and women
back then. Title IX (legislation prohibiting
discrimination based on sex in programs in
schools, including sports) was just passed in
1972. Women couldnt legally have an abor-
tion in many states until the Supreme Court
ruled in Roe. v. Wade in 1973. Women had
to be tough as nails if they hoped to enter a
profession such as the law or the clergy. My
Dad, who was a vet, encountered ridicule
from some of his professional colleagues
when he hired a woman to join his veteri-
nary practice.
In 1973, womens tennis had only been
considered professional for three years.
Before that, women tennis players were
paid as amateurs though they were as
skillful as their male counterparts. When
King accepted Riggs challenge (after
Riggs said the place for women was not
the tennis court but the kitchen and bed-
room), she was ghting for women not
only in sports, but in all areas of life. When
King defeated Riggs it was the victory felt
around the world. Men, women, boys and
girls saw what women could do. You see
that? my Dad said to me, after King wal-
loped Riggs, dont listen to guys wholl
steer you wrong! Girls can do anything!
I like the idea of playing for some-
one else besides myself, King says in the
American Masters lm.
Thank you for playing for all of us, Billie
Jean King.
You see that? Girls can do anything!
New rules would
mandate waiting period
for tattoos, piercings
Another bewildering instance of D.C.
government regulatory overreach became
the talk of the town last Friday. When the As-
sociated Press offered it up as national news
later in the day, District ofcials once again
became the messengers of an unselfcon-
scious citizen-as-imbecile perspective and
symbols of an unabashed government-as-
goddess proclivity.
Hot off the presses were proposed
D.C. Department of Health rules gov-
erning skin tattoo and body piercing
businesses. Buried in a lengthy 66-
page head-hurting avalanche of regu-
lations, one provision garnered atten-
tion. The agency had determined that
a waiting period be instituted requir-
ing that all adults delay a day before
being allowed to get a tattoo or have
their body pierced.
The licensee or operator of a body
art establishment shall ensure that no
tattoo artist applies any tattoo to a cus-
tomer until after twenty-four (24) hours
have passed since the customer rst re-
quested the tattoo, the edict species,
also applying to piercings. The inevitable
compliance paperwork and signature-
conrmed time-stamped ling forms
would undoubtedly follow.
The District may be giving New York
City Mayor Michael Bloombergs nanny
state a run for its money, was the top-line
assessment of Washington City Paper re-
porting on the announcement. In fact, only
a very few small towns scattered around the
country require anything similar, with nary a
like law among cities.
Washington would be instituting the
most prohibitive rules governing tattoos
and piercings in the country.
Surely there must have been a rash
of controversial consumer incidents or a
series of harmful health-related catastro-
phes to warrant such intrusion. Perhaps
widespread remorse by now-complaining
customers caused by unscrupulous artists
and technicians utilizing magically seduc-
tive powers of persuasion.
Nope.
All it took was discovery by D.C. Coun-
cil members, still trumpeted by Commit-
tee on Health Chair Yvette Alexander,
that local service purveyors were merely
subject to standard business licensing,
operating and tax regulations result-
ing in passage of the Regulation of Body
Artists and Body Art Establishments Act.
Rankled legislators deployed city agency
regulators tasked with developing special
rules governing the small number of art-
ists and parlors in the District. The result
was all too predictable.
Instructing bureaucrats to behave
as hammers in search of a nail is akin to
unleashing them with magnets in a hard-
ware store.
Its not even the stereotypic drunk-as-a-
sailor what-is-this-thing-on-my-butt morn-
ing-after reaction that worries them. Busi-
nesses dont object to banning body artistry
or esh piercings for clients impaired by in-
toxication, already a professional practices
guideline observed by vendors.
No, government functionaries are at-
tempting to outlaw regret.
The all-too-intrinsic paternalistic zeal for
regulation among D.C. lawmakers and of-
cials was most nakedly embodied in a
statement defending the rule by Health
Department spokesperson Najma Roberts,
reported by the Washington Post. Roberts
declared that those seeking tattoos or pierc-
ings cant be responsible for themselves
Were making sure when that decision is
made that youre in the right frame of mind,
and you dont wake up in the morning
saying, Oh my God, what happened?
Government apparently knows best
whats good for us whether we want,
need or like it.
Never-mind that walk-in clients consti-
tute half of business volume, with revenue
impact expected to be signicant. Cus-
tomer decisions, however, are not typically
spontaneous. Given the popularity of both
services among gay and lesbian residents,
the community is well aware of the com-
monplace advance consideration and de-
liberative artistic planning involved.
Owners have indicated their busi-
nesses wont remain nancially viable or
be able to meet overhead under such
restrictions. Relocation to neighboring
Virginia or Maryland in order to survive is
the obvious business solution. Otherwise,
customers might go there ahead of them
seeking convenience.
What we really need is protection
from the type of regulatory ridiculous-
ness that has become so commonplace
as to only capture public attention when
most outlandish.
Well love or hate our own choices, thank
you very much, without interference. Please
step aside.
washingtonblade.com
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VI EWPOI NT
Body art: All the markings of D.C. regulatory pain
MARK LEE is a long-time entrepreneur and
community business advocate. Follow on Twitter: @
MarkLeeDC. Reach him at OurBusinessMatters@
gmail.com.
Kathi Wolfe is a writer, poet and regular
contributor to the Blade. She can be reached
through this publication.
Dont prejudge position
on alcohol license ban
By BILLY SIMPSON
In Mark Lees opinion piece on Sept.
6, he wrote an assessment of alcohol
license moratoriums that included the
following assertions:
It appears that the advisory neigh-
borhood group for the namesake Ad-
ams Morgan of epithetic nomenclature
is again likely to refuse shedding its nay-
saying notoriety. The odds are long that
they will ask the city to terminate a 14-
year alcohol-license ban when it expires
next April, despite plethoric negative
effects on community business devel-
opment It is expected that, at best,
only modest revisions will be advanced
for city agency consideration.
As the chair of the Advisory Neigh-
borhood Commission 1C, the advi-
sory neighborhood group for Adams
Morgan that you reference, I defy Lee
to provide to Blade readers any facts in
his possession that he believes support
these statements.
To my knowledge, neither the com-
mission itself, nor any of our eight com-
missioners, has said or done anything
that could possibly lead Lee to draw
these conclusions, or any conclusion
about what we might or might not
do. We have been completely neutral
in our approach and we are seeking to
have a thoughtful community discussion
on the topic over the months ahead.
Once that public process has run its
course, it may turn out that we end up
seeking to extend the Adams Morgan
moratorium. Or it may turn out that we
end up not seeking to extend the Ad-
ams Morgan moratorium. Or it may turn
out that we end up seeking to extend
parts of the moratorium, not seeking to
extend others, and seeking to make ad-
justments to yet others.
I dont know and neither does Lee.
He is entitled to have whatever opin-
ions he wishes concerning the pros or
cons of moratoriums. But he is not en-
titled to fabricate assertions about what
our Commission is or isnt likely to do.
We have a talented and dedicated
group of commissioners. We put in a
tremendous amount of work and effort
to take fair and informed decisions on
every matter that comes before us.
Whatever determination we ultimately
make with respect to the Adams Morgan
moratorium will carefully and thought-
fully take into account all viewpoints. In
that context, the thing that particularly
angered me about the assertions Lee
made concerning our commission is that
their primary effect will be to iname the
public discussion. Our commissioners
put in way too many volunteer hours try-
ing to promote constructive and respect-
ful community dialogue to deserve to be
made subject to that.
washingtonblade.com
26 SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 VI EWPOI NT
Whatever determination we ultimately
make with respect to the Adams Morgan
moratorium will carefully and thoughtfully
take into account all viewpoints.
Unfair judgments about Adams Morgan ANC
BILLY SIMPSON is chair of Advisory Neighborhood
Commission 1C.
The following were submitted as letters to the
editor. Submit letters to knaff@washblade.com
or join the discussion at washingtonblade.com.
To the Editor:
Thank you for publishing Dave Pur-
dys Aug. 8 article, The Sex Addiction
Epidemic. I am writing on behalf of
several gay men in the D.C. area who
are recovering from sexual addiction.
As Purdy states, there is considerable
stigma attached to this disease. (For
that reason, I have chosen not to sign
this and to remain anonymous.)
Purdy does a great service by high-
lighting the work of Dr. Patrick Carnes,
who has devoted much of his life to
shedding light on this issue. He and his
colleagues have been instrumental in
bringing sexual addiction into the main-
stream. This has led to more treatment
options, a growing number of therapists
and counselors working in this eld,
more literature on the topic and an ex-
plosion of self-help and 12-step groups.
There has also been heightened inter-
est within the LGBT community. Not too
long ago, many of us in recovery found
ourselves in situations where our sexual
addiction turned our lives upside down,
creating nancial turmoil, destroying
relationships and leading to negative
health and legal consequences. Purdy
is correct when he describes how easy it
is to access sexual content online or to
hook up with a Smart Phone. However,
many of us who used the Internet and
phones to look for sex now use these
same tools to heal from our addiction. By
acknowledging our addictive patterns
and nding new ways of living, many of
us have been able to break out of the
chaos and isolation. We are healing our
shattered lives, one day at a time.
To those of you in the D.C. area who
are struggling with sexual addiction, we
want you to know that there is a commu-
nity including many gay men whose
lives have been positively changed as a
result of recovery from sexual addiction.
Recovery is truly only a click away.
A grateful recovering
sex addict in D.C.
To the Editor:
As the Blade reported last week, ac-
tor Wentworth Miller came out as gay
in a letter condemning the way Russia
is treating LGBT people. He signed it
as a member of HRC, GLAAD and The
ManKind Project. MKP is an interna-
tional organization of men dedicated
to healing themselves, supporting each
other and working to create a safer and
more compassionate world. We do that
through a powerful weekend retreat,
the New Warrior Training Adventure
(NWTA), and ongoing mens circles.
I joined the Project in 2005 and am
grateful for how it has equipped me to
move past my shame and victimhood,
love myself, and embrace my power as
a man. Ive found men who challenge
and support me. We are a brother-
hood: if Wentworth came to D.C., hed
be welcome (like any other out-of-town
brother) at our circles.
Although MKP is mostly straight, it
values and embraces gay, bi, trans and
questioning men. One way is by offer-
ing special gateway NWTAs, where
most of the staff and participants are
GBTQ. We are about to have our second
mid-Atlantic gateway NWTA on Oct. 11-
13 in the Charles Town, W.Va., area.
If you want what Wentworth and I
have, please contact me (rmarksftc@
yahoo.com) or check out Mankindpride.
org or mkp.org. Or come to an open
circle on Monday Sept. 16 or 30, 7-9:30
p.m., in the Convention Center area,
and/or an open house on Monday Sept.
23 at 7:30 p.m., at Cedar Lane Unitarian
Church, 9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda.
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A lot has happened for Jason &
deMarco since we last heard from them.
Now based just outside of Nashville
in Franklin, Tenn., the singing duo
partners on stage and off have gotten
married, moved, started a family and are
guring out how to have a good work-life
balance while maintaining a music career.
The fall leg of their Celebrating
Diversity Tour kicks off in their new
hometown on Sept. 27. Theyll be in
Washington on Oct. 4 for a show at
Metropolitan Community Church and also have stops planned for Hagerstown,
Md. (Oct. 5) and Frederick and Bethesda, Md. (Oct. 6). We caught up with them
last week by phone. Their comments have been slightly edited for length.
WASHINGTON BLADE: Why the Nashville area after ve years living in
Houston? Were you hoping to get closer to the music biz?
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great thing, but its just a sense that everything we were involved in there had some
closure to it. We had the babies, wed been working on staff at a church there and
there was just a sense that wed done everything wed been able to do there. Wed
actually been looking at Austin but wed always loved Tennessee in general and
just decided on here even though we hadnt really thought of it initially.
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Married
with children
With Laramie, Torch and Gypsy,
season rife with gay themes
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
This falls local theater offerings are
a particularly promising blend of old
and new, several of which have LGBT
appeal. Heres an overview.
Fifteen years after Matthew Shepards
death, Fords Theatre (fordstheatre.org)
is presenting an anniversary production
of gay playwright Moiss Kaufmans The
Laramie Project (Sept. 27-Oct. 27).
Kaufman powerfully affecting ensemble
piece gives insight into the communitys
response to the 1998 brutal murder
of Shepard, a young gay man living in
Laramie, Wyo. Matthew Gardiner (who is
gay) directs. Local stalwart Holly Twyford
(also gay) is in the cast.
Studio Theatre (studiotheatre.org)
opens its season with the bittersweet
comedy Torch Song Trilogy staged
by Michael Kahn (Shakespeare Theatre
Companys gay artistic director) and
starring the sensational Brandon Uranowitz
as Arnold, a caustically funny drag queen
who refuses to give up on his longings for
love and commitment. Penned by gravelly
voiced gay icon Harvey Fierstein (who
created the shows lead character Arnold
on Broadway in 1981), Torch Song can
feel a little dated around the edges, but its
central issues of relationships, authenticity
and family never go stale. The cast includes
local actor Alex Mills, who is gay, as Arnolds
younger love interest.
At Rep Stage (repstage.org) in
Columbia, Md., the season opens
with Horton Footes A Young Lady
of Property (Sept. 11-29), directed
by Michael Stebbins, whos gay. Set
in a small Texas town, it deals with a
young woman struggling to hold on to
the house that her late mother left her.
Following Footes sentimental drama is
gay playwright Doug Wrights powerful
Pulitzer Prize winning I am My Own
Wife (Oct. 30-Nov. 17), a compelling
solo show about Charlotte von
Mahlsdorf, a German transsexual who
survives the Nazis and the East German
secret police. Stebbins will swap out his
directors hat for an actors to play the
demanding part of Charlotte.
Olney Theatre Center (olneytheatre.org)
is presenting New Yorks critically acclaimed
BEDLAM Theatre in rotating repertory.
Productions include Shakespeares
Hamlet (through Oct. 20) and George
Bernard Shaws Saint Joan (also through
Oct. 20). Both directed by Eric Tucker.
After BEDLAMs take on the classics,
Olneys gay artistic director Jason
Loewith is staging Steven Dietzs
Rancho Mirage (Sept. 26-Oct. 20), a
tale of three seemingly well-adjusted
couples who at a dinner party decide
to stop fronting and get honest. Dietz
is best known for Lonely Planet, an
intriguing exploration of the AIDS crisis
as experienced by two gay men from
within the connes of a quiet map shop
set in an unnamed big city.
Taffety Punk Theatre Company
(taffetypunk.com) presents the
Riot Grrrls all-woman version of
Shakespeares Titus Andronicus
(Sept. 27-Oct. 26), featuring Isabelle
Anderson in the title role. Lisa Bruneau
directs. In the past, the Riot Grrrls have
successfully pulled off testosterone free
takes on Romeo and Juliet, Julius
Caesar, and more from the Bards
canon. Its the Grrrls credo that a great
actress can play a great role, regardless
if its male or female.
Longtime Washington favorite director
John Vreeke is staging Round House
Theatres (roundhouse.org) area premiere
production of The Lyons (Nov. 27-Dec.
22), a savagely funny family comedy by
gay playwright Nicky Silver. At Woolly
Mammoth (woollymammoth.net), Vreeke
(who is gay) is also directing Lisa DAmours
Detroit (through Oct. 6), a comic
takedown of the suburban dream. The cast
of local favorites includes Emily Townley,
Michael Willis, Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey,
Tim Getman and Danny Gavigan.
Arena Stage (arenastage.org) opens
its season with Eric Cobles two-hander
Velocity of Autumn (through Oct. 20)
starring the great Estelle Parsons (Bonnie
and Clyde; she played gay on Roseanne)
and gay actor Stephen Spinella who
created the part of Prior Walter, a gay
character with AIDS, in Tony Kushners
seminal Angels in America. An intense
90 minutes, Cobles play focuses on the
relationship of a middle-aged son who
returns to his mothers home after a 20-year
estrangement to help her deal with some
potentially explosive old age issues.
Exciting things are happening at
the National Theatre (thenationaldc.
com). The season opens with the world
premiere of If/Then (Nov. 11-Dec. 8),
a romantic musical about a woman on
the cusp of middle age, who returns
to New York City where she deals
with love and the unexpected. It stars
Idina Menzel who famously created
the part of the green witch Elphaba in
Broadways Wicked.
If/Then reunites Menzel with Tom Kitt
(music), Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics), and
Michael Greif (director), the same creative
team behind the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony
Award-winning musical Next to Normal.
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Fall peppered with bounty
of LGBT releases
By TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER
So youre dreaming, maybe, of a
wedding coming up. Maybe its yours,
or you can live vicariously through the
pages of several great books on gay
marriage that are out this year.
Lawfully Wedded Husband by
Joel Derefner (University of Wisconsin
Press) is a rompishly fun book about
wooing and cooing, chapel bells,
wedded bliss and all that comes with
it and more, including a reality show.
Didnt I say it was fun?
And then theres Lawfully Wedded
Wives, edited by Nona Caspers
and Joell Hallowell (Spuyten Duyvil,
spuytenduyvil.net). In this book, youll
read a series of vignette-interviews
from lesbians who fell in love and took
the plunge. This book is huge and lush
with page after page of dual tales,
each speaking to the romantic and the
practical-minded, both. Each story is also
lled with love and happiness and
if you need some great ideas for your
own wedding, check out the beautiful
pictures that accompany each chapter.
Local lesbian poet Kathi Wolfe has a
new collection out called The Green
Light from Finishing Line Press. Shell
read selections at Busboys & Poets (2021
14
th
Street, N.W.) on Sunday from 5-7 p.m.
(bosboysandpoets.com) and at the Nora
School (955 Sligo Ave. in Silver Spring, Md.)
on Thursday. Details at nora-school.org.
Coming out to your family may have
been easy, or it may have been difcult. In
My Brother My Sister by lm critic Molly
Haskell (Viking), the author tells the story
of her brother who reveals his long-time
angst: hes a woman trapped in a mans
body and at 60-something, he decides to
make things right by going through the
process to become the woman he knows
hes always been. This is a book about
trans history and transsexuals in Western
culture, but thats not all. Theres grief and
confusion, dealing with memories and
plenty of open-hearted learning; and a
story about coming to accept the people
you love, all told from the point of view
of a family member who watches this
transformation.
Who can resist a good scare? Not
you, especially when the nights get
longer and darker, so youll want to look
for This House is Haunted by John
Boyne (Other Press), which will be out
just in time for Halloween.
Boyne, author of my absolute all-time
favorite books (The Absolutist) goes
classic here with a proper British nanny
whos hired to tend two children living
in a large (and remote!) estate. The kids
are creepy, there are no adults around
and theres something watching her
or, at least, theres something very
malevolent lurking around.
Knowing what it is will require some
sleuthing some dont-open-that-
door kind of sleuthing, which means
you shouldnt read this book alone. Or
in the dark. Or on a stormy night.
Sometimes, all you want is comfort
reading (kind of like literary comfort food,
if you will) and for that, reach back to
When Women Were Warriors Book
1: The Warriors Path by Catherine M.
Wilson, as read by Janis Ian (Dog Ear
Audio). This is the story of a young woman
who follows in the footsteps of her
mother, her mothers mother and many of
the women in her family whove gone to
war. The girl, Tamras, begins by becoming
a warriors apprentice.
Legend has it that Janis Ian loved
this book. When Wilson found out, she
met Ian and the rest is herstory. When
Women Were Warriors was released
in 2008, but this fresh audio take on the
ages-old story of warfare and wisdom will
surely come as a welcome fall surprise for
brand-new fans of this series.
So go ahead and admit it: youre
positively gleeful on Glee nights. And
thats why youll want to look for Drama
High by Michael Sokolove (Riverhead
Books). This is the story of a real-life
high school theater company and their
teacher, Lou Volpe; his life, his 40 years
of teaching and the thousands of kids
hes directed in plays that arguably
rival that of Broadway. Going further,
Sokolove one of Volpes former
students follows a small group of
high school actors through one year on
the stage and behind the scenes.
And nally, if youre looking for a
gift for yourself or if you really want
to impress someone, then look for
something a little different from the
publishing house of Bruno Gmunder.
The classic photography of David Vance
is proled in Men and Gods, due out
in November, and it will surely give you
some religion. Or if youre looking for
something with a little more action, look
for Tie Me Up! The Complete Guide
to Bondage by Stephan Niederwieser,
which also includes how-tos, suggestions
for tools to use and a guide for putting
aside your inhibitions. And Beards:
An Unshaved History by Kevin Clarke
offers a history of facial hair from the gay
perspective, and shows how hot a beard
can make a man.
Another interesting coffee table book
is the lavishly illustrated 2013 Best of
Gay Erotic Art: Capolavoro di Uomo:
Masterpiece of Man. Its $69.95 and
available at capolavoroart.com.
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forists assistant, twenty-two and a year out of college. I must have
seemed an easy prey that night by comparison to those kids, me a
dandy in my chinos and loafers. My intent for appearance, not that
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Many disciplines represented
in seasons dance offerings
By JONATHAN HOWARD
Theres always a wide variety of dance
performances in Washington and this
fall is no different. Here are just a few of
the dance offerings hitting the stage in
the District this fall.
Gay-led dance outt Dakshina/
Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company
(dakshina.org) hosts its 10th annual
Fall Festival of Indian Arts Sept. 20-22
and Sept. 27-28. Each performance
features a headlining artist as well as an
opening artist. Guest artists from India
include Leela Samson and Sadanam
Balakrishnan, Astad Deboo and Madhavi
Mudgal and Dancers. All performances
will take place at The Shakespeare
Theater (610 F Street N.W.).
On Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. and Sept. 29
at 4 p.m., Dance Place hosts the Latin
Sizzle Festival at the Atlas Performing
Arts Center (1333 H Street N.E.).
Performances include D.C. Casineros,
Furia Flamenca and Maru Montero
Dance Company. General admission
tickets purchased in advance are $25
or $30 at the door, For tickets and more
information, go to atlasarts.org.
The Velocity D.C. Dance Festival
(velocitydc.org) kicks off its fth year Oct.
10 at the Shakespeare Theater Companys
Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street N.W.).
Velocity D.C. is presented in a fast paced
gala format of movement, music and
spoken word. All main stage evening
performances are preceded by RAMP!-to-
Velocity; this series brings up-and-coming
dancers, established choreographers
and audiences together in an informal
setting. Tickets are available through the
Shakespeare Theater company box ofce
for as little as $18.
Gay helmed VT Dance/ Vincent
Thomas performs at Velocity D.C.
Dance Festival on Oct. 10-12.
Choreographer Susan Marshall brings
her new work Play/Pause to the
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater (2700 F
Street N.W.) from Oct. 29-31. The piece
couples her structured choreography
with the seductiveness of pop music
in an effort to explore our relationship
with the media we consume everyday.
Tickets are available starting at $36 at
kennedy-center.org.
Starting Oct. 30 and continuing
through Nov. 3, The Washington Ballet
offers Giselle. Under the leadership of
gay artistic director Septime Webre, they
will be taking on one of the worlds most
beautiful and technically difcult ballets.
The performances will take place at The
Kennedy Centers Eisenhower Theater
(2700 F Street N.W.). Tickets start at $25.
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet performs
with the Kennedy Center Opera House
Orchestra from Nov. 6-10. Suzanne
Farrell was George Balanchines
favorite muse and she continues to
share her deep understanding of the
late choreographers work through the
Kennedy Centers own ballet company.
Tickets are available starting at $29 at
kennedy-center.org.
The New Adventures, led by Matthew
Bourne, will perform Sleeping
Beauty at the Kennedy Center Opera
House (2700 F Street N.W.) November
12-17. The New Adventures recently
celebrated 25 years of performances
and have presented pieces like
Cinderella, Dorian Gray, Edward
Scissorhands and Bournes most
renowned work Swan Lake. Tickets
are available starting at $30.
Gay dancer and choreographer Dana
Tai Soon Burgess and his company
perform at the National Portrait Gallery
(Eighth and F Streets N.W.) on Nov. 16,
where the company will be in residency
until July 2014. For additional information
call the National Portrait Gallery at 202-
633-1000 or visit dtsbdc.org.
At the end of the fall season, Dance
Place hosts its Modern Moves Festival
at the Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333
H Street N.E.) on Jan. 4 and 5, 2014.
This festival will feature 12 world-class
contemporary dance companies each
with a different point of view. Some of
the companies include VT Dance/Vincent
Thomas, Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Bowen
McCauley Dance and gay-helmed Daniel
Burkholder/The PlayGround.
As always Dance Place has a full
schedule of events slated for fall. For
more information or a full listing of fall
performances visit danceplace.com. Until
February Dance Place performances will
be held at various theatres as Dance
Place expands and renovates.
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Laura Benanti
Saturday, September 28 at 8 p.m.
one of the most beautiful voices in musical theater.
(New York Times) Tony-award winning (Gypsy) Laura
Benanti (Te Wedding Singer, Swing!, Into the Woods)
presents a lovely evening of sensational showstoppers
and emotional ballads. $40, $55, $70
Aquila Theatre
Twelfth Night
Friday, October 4 at 8 p.m.
One of Shakespeares greatest comedies; a hilarious
tale of love flled with shipwrecks, illusions, disguises,
and deception. Aquila Teatre bring the Bards poetry
to life in a delightful production that includes an
original musical score. $22, $36, $44
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
Sunday, October 6 at 4 p.m.
Included: Serenade in E minor by Elgar, Dvoks
carefree Serenade for Strings, and Shostakovichs
dark Chamber Symphony followed by the contrasting
masterpiece by Bach, Contrapunctus No. 1 from Te
Art of the Fugue. $25, $42, $50
Virginia Opera
Falstaf
Verdis fnal operaa pure comic gem! Falstaf
loves the ladies, but they dont love him back and,
unsurprisingly, complications ensue. Sung in Italian
with English supertitles.
Friday, $44, $72, $86 Sunday, $48, $80, $98
Mariza
With her hauntingly beautiful voice and luminous
stage presence, Mariza is remaking fados ancient
sadness into a majestic modern sound. (Rolling Stone)
$23, $38, $46
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
Hungarian Rhapsody
Saturday, October 19 at 8 p.m.
Dont miss the live music and the dancing, the
acrobatics, and the grace and passion that Te
Washington Post called a Forceful, tasteful
presentation of ethnic expression. $23, $38, $46 ff

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
Lubovitchs choreography shines. (Dance
Magazine) Program includes Transparent Tings,
Crisis Variations, Segundo (a Washington, D.C. area
premiere), and more. $23, $38, $46
L.A. Theatre Works
The Graduate
Friday, November 1 at 8 p.m.
Tis funny and memorable story is brought to the
stage by Americas premiere radio theater company,
which has been hailed as a national theatrical
treasure by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
$22, $36, $44
Sir James Galway
with the Irish Chamber Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Lady Jeanne Galway, fute
Saturday, November 2 at 8 p.m.
Program includes Hartys fantasy for fute, In Ireland,
Mozarts Flute Concerto No. 2, Hammonds Carolan
Variations, and also features Mozarts Jupiter
Symphony. $37.50, $67, $75
Parsons Dance
David Parsons is a whiz at whipping up entertaining
dances. (Te New York Post) Few dance companies
can match the sheer joy and exuberance conveyed by
this internationally renowned ensemble.
$23, $38, $46
World Blues
Featuring Taj Mahal, Vusi Mahlasela, and Deva
Mahal with Fredericks Brown
Taj Mahal has about the deepest and widest roots of
any popular music performer today. (Te New York
Times) All music lovers should experience this night of
inspired music-making.
$23, $38, $46 ff

Washington Symphonic Brass
From Bach to Classic Rock
Sunday, November 17 at 4 pm.
Enjoy this extraordinary program that will take you
from music originally played in powdered wigs to music
meant to be played with black t-shirts and pyrotechnics.
It will change the way you think about brass!
$22, $36, $44 ff

SITI Company
Caf Variations
Anne Bogart, artistic director
Unabashedly romantica series of vivid and visceral
explorations of life, love, and identity [that] cast
Gershwin classics in a new light. (Boston Globe)
$22, $36, $44
Shanghai Ballet
The Butterfy Lovers
La Sylphide
Sunday, November 24 at 4 p.m.
With lovely sets and choreography, this classical ballet
company from China performs two spellbinding
ballets of love, loss, and the hearts unending search
for true love.
Saturday, $28, $48, $56 ff

Sunday, $28, $48, $56 ff

Chanticleer
A Chanticleer Christmas
Celebrating their 35th anniversary season! Chanticleers
popular Christmas celebration is a sign that the holiday
season has truly begun. $25, $42, $50
Virginia Opera
The Magic Flute
Friday, December 6 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, December 7 at 2 p.m.
A magnifcent work, it was Mozarts fnal opera,
premiering just three months before his death, and is
as popular today as it was when it was frst performed.
Sung in English with English supertitles.
Friday, $44, $72, $86 Saturday, $48, $80, $98
Vienna Boys Choir
Christmas in Vienna
Friday, December 13 at 8 p.m.
Winning the hearts of the world with their purity of
tone and charming presence, the Boys present a
heartwarming evening of music for the entire family
to enjoy. $25, $42, $50 ff

Mariachi Laos Camperos de Nati Cano
Fiesta Navidad
Sunday, December 15 at 4 p.m.
Tis Grammy-winning Mexican mariachi ensemble
presents a rollicking holiday celebration with
traditional Mexican and American carols, spirited
dancing, and a joyful sing-along.
$25, $42, $50 f
Eileen Ivers
An Irish Christmas An Nollaig
Saturday, December 21 at 8 p.m.
If youre not feeling it yet, Eileen Ivers will get you
into the Christmas spirit with favorite Celtic holiday
tunes, lively step-dancing, and tales of Irish Christmas
traditions. $25, $42, $50 ff

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Ferrick, Lauper, Pink and more
among upcoming shows
By ERIN DURKIN
From the biggest names in pop to the
best and brightest of D.C.s local LGBT
talent, the fall concert season is nothing
if not eclectic.
For starters, in case you missed the
show here last year at about this time,
Madonnas MDNA World Tour
concert DVD released in multiple
formats this week.
Sonia Rutstein and her band
Disappear Fear release their album
Broken Film with a world release
concert on Sept. 17 at Creative Alliance
at the Patterson (3134 Eastern Ave.,
Baltimore). This will be Rutsteins 17th
album in her 25-year career of writing
and performing songs about important
issues of the heart and of society.
Tickets are $18 in advance and $20 at
the door. For more information, visit
creativealliance.org.
Lesbian singer Melissa Ferrick makes
two stops to the District this fall on her
CD release tour of the truth is. Shes
with with Catie Curtis (also a lesbian)
at the Church of the Epiphany (1317 G
St., N.W.) on Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. Tickets
are $25. Ferrick will return to the 9:30
Club (815 V St., NW) on Nov. 5 at 7 p.m.
where she will appear with Ani DiFranco.
Tickets are $40. Visit melissaferrick.com
for more information.
The Birchmeres SpeakeasyDC
show features gay comedian Chelsea
Shorte on Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the
Birchmere Music Hall (3701 Mount
Vernon Ave., Alexandria, Va.). In her act,
Shorte shares her story about evolving
from a closeted comedian to nding
her authentic voice. Tickets are $20. For
more information, visit birchmere.com
Ravens Night returns the Birchmere
(3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria,
Va.) on Oct. 26 at 5 p.m. to celebrate
the sexy trick or treats of Halloween.
The evening includes an All Hallows
Eve Carnival, which is a ashback to
Worlds Fairs, a Salon Lunaire Concert
and a Cabaret Macabre Belly Dance
Show. Tickets are $25. For details, visit
birchmere.com.
Gay duo and Capital Pride vets Jason
& DeMarco come to Metropolitan
Community Church of Washington (474
Ridge St., N.W.) on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. as a
part of their tour Celebrating Diversity
to commemorate their 10 years
together as well as welcoming twin boys
into their lives. The group will perform
in several venues around Maryland
throughout the month of October. This
performance is free but a $20 donation
is suggested. For more information, visit
jasonanddemarco.com.
The Choral Arts Society of
Washington kicks off a new season with
its show Legacy and Life, featuring
performances of Steven Stuckys
Take Him, Earth and Giuseppe Verdi
Requiem, on Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. The
society will also bring in the holiday
season with An Enchanted Christmas
on Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. All performances
will be at the Kennedy Center (2700
F St., N.W.). There are several ticket
packages as well as individual tickets
from $54-$141. Visit kennedy-center.org
for more information.
Cyndi Lauper, LGBT rights activist,
comes to the Warner Theatre (513 13th
St., N.W.) on her Shes So Unusual Tour
on Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. Shes celebrating the
30th anniversary of her landmark debut
album this year and, as on the spring leg,
will perform the album in its entirety with
an encore devoted to newer hits. Tickets
are $33-$73. For more information, visit
warnertheatredc.com.
Pink returns to the Verizon Center
(601 F St., N.W.) on Nov. 24 at 7:30
p.m. as part of her Truth About Love
Tour. This tour takes the name from
her sixth studio album, with Just Give
Me a Reason adding to her Top 10
hits overall. Tickets are $50-$142. Visit
verizoncenter.com for more details.
To bring in the holiday season, the
Gay Mens Chorus of Washington will
have its concert Sparkle, Jingle, Joy
with special guest Grammy Award-
winner Matt Alber on Dec. 20 at 8 p.m.
and Dec. 21 at 3 p.m. at the Lisner
Auditorium (730 21st St., N.W.). Tickets
are $25-$50. For details about the shows
or for subscription information for the
upcoming season, visit gmcw.org.
Gay-friendly church First Baptist
(1328 16th Street, N.W.) is celebrating
the installation of its massive new
ve-manual pipe organ with a host of
recitals. Resident organist Lon Schreiber
gives the inaugural recital Sunday at
4 p.m. Ken Cowan plays on Oct. 20,
Christopher Houlihan on Nov. 24 and a
special event is planned for the evening
of Halloween as well. Visit rstbaptistdc.
org for details.
Speaking of organists, queer
virtuoso Cameron Carpenter will
make a special appearance on the
new Rubenstein Family Organ at the
Kennedy Center (2700 F Street, N.W.)
for the season-opening ball of the
National Symphony Orchestra on Sept.
29. Hes back for a solo recital Oct. 16
(kennedy-center.org).
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MELISSA FERRICK will be in Washington twice this fall.
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Music in the air
With Cher, Elton, Pink Martini
and Icona Pop ready to go,
Sept. 24 may be musics gayest
release day ever
By RYAN ROSADO
Get ready for some major diva action
this fall from legends like Cher and
Elton to red-hot-at-the-moment Icona
Pop, this falls album releases should
pack some major aural wallop.
Gloria Estefan returns with her
latest offering The Standards, which
dropped this week. Estefan takes on
The Great American Songbook this
time around, experimenting with jazz
and soulful classics. Listen for guest
work from gay sax man Dave Koz.
Gay staple Goldfrapp also has an
album out this week, Tales of Us, which
nds the group returning to its ambient
down-tempo sound featured on their
debut album, Felt Mountain. Their most
conceptual LP to date, Tales of Us leads
off with the melodic ballad single Drew.
Sheryl Crow released Feels Like
Home this week. Its being billed as her
most country-inuenced album to date.
Gay singer, activist and feminist Sonia
Rutstein and Disappear Fear release their
17th album Broken Film on Sept. 17.
Fun/peppy Be Like You is the rst single.
Chers Closer to the Truth is out
Sept. 24, her rst studio album since
2001s Living Proof. Lead single
A Womans World hit No. 1 on the
Billboard Dance/Club Play Chart.
The album also features production
from Pink co-writing two tracks and
Timbaland producing one. Scissor
Sisters front man Jake Shears joins her
for duet Take It Like a man.
It doesnt get much gayer than Pink
Martini, the gay-helmed band set to
release Get Happy on Sept. 24. Guests
include everyone from the late Phyllis
Diller (on a cover of Charlie Chaplins
Smile of all things) to the Von Trapps
to regular collaborator Are Shapiro to gay
singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright.
Capital Pride vets Icona Pop also
have a Sept. 24 project planned
debut album This is Icona Pop,
which will feature double platinum hit I
Love It, second single All Night and
nine other cuts from the EDM duo.
The 24th is shaping up to be perhaps
the gayest musical release day in history.
Besides those already mentioned, Elton
Johns The Diving Board is also set to
drop that day. Written and recorded in
10 days, expect 12 new songs and three
piano interludes from John who worked
with usual suspects Bernie Taupin and T
Bone Burnett for this rst solo album in
seven years.
Sweeping the MTV Video Music
Awards recently by winning the Michael
Jackson Video Vanguard Award and
Video of the Year, Justin Timberlake
is back with The 20/20 Experience
Pt. 2. Set for release on Sept. 30.
Timberlakes fourth full-length LP will
feature collaborations with Jay-Z, Drake
and trademark sounds by Timbaland.
Also making quite the impression at
the VMAs earlier this year was diva in the
making, Miley Cyrus. Her latest offering
Bangerz is scheduled to drop on Oct.
8. Along with the summertime top ve
smash We Cant Stop, Cyrus fourth
disc will feature collaborations with
Britney Spears and Ludacris. Hannah
Montana is all grown up folks.
TLC plans another retrospective, this
time with four new songs, slated to drop
Oct. 15.
Katy Perry returns with her third
studio album Prism set for an Oct.
22 release. The lead-off single Roar
has already reached No. 1 on the
Billboard Hot 100. Perrys latest set will
also include a song co-written by 2013
Capital Pride performer Emeli Sand.
The ferocious diva has revealed her
latest record is more stripped down
and wont contain any darkness,
despite a recent divorce.
Gay pop legend Boy George is set to
release his rst studio album in 18 years
on Oct. 28. His new disc This Is What
I Do includes 12 new tracks produced
by longtime collaborators such as Richie
Stevens and John Themis. George
revealed his new album is a baggy
record and not overproduced.
After two years of recording, Lady
Gaga remerges also with her third
studio album Artpop dropping Nov.
11. Artpops rst single Applause
has reached the top 5 on the Billboard
Hot 100 already. The pro-LGBT divas
latest offering will feature production by
several DJs including DJ White Shadow,
Madeon and Zedd.
Erasure Vince Clarke and Andy
Bell is set to release its new album
Snow Globe on Nov. 11 as well.
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By SANTIAGO MELLI-HUBER
The National Museum of Women in
the Arts (1250 New York Ave., N.W.) is
showing Equal Expos ure: Anita Steckels
Fight Against Censorship from Nov.
4-May 9. Steckel, who died last year, was a
feminist artist who caused a scandal in the
70s by refusing to censor her exhibition
featuring male and female erotic gures.
The exhibit features personal papers,
photographs and art that represent her
career and her activism.
American People, Black Light: Faith
Ringgolds Paintings of the 1960s is
currently on display. It showcases the
work of Faith Ringgold, who painted art
in direct response to the Civil Rights and
feminist movements. The art represents
people of all backgrounds black and
white, male and female, rich and poor
and shows tension that arose from
interracial contact at the time.
Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for
students and seniors, and free for
museum members and those under 18.
For more information, visit nmwa.org.
A Night at the Opera, a 50-item
exhibit of artifacts related to composers
Verdi and Wagner, is on display now
at the Library of Congress in the
Performing Arts Reading Room. Its up
through Jan. 25. Visit loc.gov for details.
Portraits of Life: LGBT Stories
of Being features prominent LGBT
people in photographs at the Pepco
Edison Place Gallery (701 9th Street,
N.W.) in an exhibit presented with
Montgomery College. Visit pepco.com
for details. It runs through Dec. 17.
The Latino GLBT History Project has
a photo exhibit on display at the Mt.
Pleasant Neighborhood Library (3160
16th Street, N.W.) starting Sunday and
running through Oct. 15. Immigrant
Roots Paving the Way for Today is the
theme for the groups eighth annual
Hispanic LGBTQ Heritage Celebration,
which culminates with its Heritage
Awards on Sept. 27. The exhibit features
about 40 LGBT Latino/a leaders in black-
and-white photos by Kevin Kenner. The
group is online at latinoglbthistory.org.
Waverly Street Gallery (4600 East-
West Highway, Bethesda, Md.) is
showcasing Text/Message by Kanika
Sircar, a partner with the Gallery. The
collection includes ceramic vessels
and wall pieces focusing on the visual
impact of writing. The imagery is based
on texts, grafti and calligraphy layered
together to reference images such as
manuscript pages and envelopes. The
exhibit is open now through Oct. 5
with a reception tonight (Friday) from
6-9 p.m. For more information, visit
waverlystreetgallery.com.
Artisphere (1101 Wilson Boulevard,
Arlington, Va.) is showcasing Andy
Warhol: Silver Clouds for the rst time
in the D.C. region, an exhibit on loan
from The Andy Warhol Museum in
Pittsburgh. It is on display now through
Oct. 12. Admission is free. The exhibition
will feature a series of complementary
programs, including the Night of 1,000
Andys Dance Party on Oct. 12 at 8 p.m.
Admission to the dance party is $15 in
advance or $18 on the same day. For
more information, visit artisphere.com.
Corcoran Gallery of Art (500 17th
St., N.W.) is also featuring work by
Andy Warhol as part of the Modern
and Contemporary Art Since 1945
collection. The collection is a new
permanent exhibit and features art by
Warhol, Jessica Stockholder and many
other contemporary artists. Admission is
$10 for adults, $8 for seniors and students,
and free for children under 12. Members
enjoy free admission year-round. For
more information, visit corcoran.org.
The National Building Museum (401
F St., N.W.) will host the Smithsonian
Craft2Wear show from Oct. 25-27.
The weekend-long show will feature
wearable crafts for men and women in all
price ranges. Items sold include jewelry,
shoes, scarves, clothing and handbags.
Admission is $5. The Advance Chance
Party is on Oct. 25 from 6-9 p.m. and
requires advanced reservation. Tickets
for the party are $50 and include wine
and hors doeuvres, music and more.
Some LGBT vendors include
outerwear designer Jeffrey Weiss
(jeffreyweissdesigns.com), scarf and
clothing designers Randy Darwall and
Brian Murphy (randalldarwall.com) and
hat designers Ignatius Creegan & Rod
Givens (ignatiushats.com).
For more information, visit craft2wear.
smithsonian.org.
HEMPHILL (1515 14th St., N.W.) is
celebrating its 20th anniversary with
Represent, a gallery that includes
three outstanding works from each
one of the 30 gallery artists. Because
90 pieces are too many to t into the
space, the content will rotate in regular
intervals, providing a new experience for
returning visitors. The public opening
reception is on Sept. 21 from 6-8 p.m.
From then, the exhibit will be open
through Nov. 27. For more information,
visit HemphillFineArts.com.
The Phillips Collection (1600 21st
St., N.W.) is currently featuring History
in the Making: 100 Years After the
Armory Show, a celebration of New
Yorks controversial 1913 Armory Show.
The show originally included work
by Manet, Monet, Picasso, van Gogh
and Goya. The celebration features
acquisitions made by Phillips Collection
founder Duncan Phillips in the decades
following the show at the Armory. The
exhibit is running now through Dec. 1.
The Phillips Collection is also
showcasing Ellsworth Kelly: Panel
Paintings 2004-2009 now through Sept.
22. The exhibition falls during Kellys
90th birth year and features seven works
consisting of canvases of solid color.
Kelly developed his focus on color and
shape while immersing himself in the art
and architecture of Paris in the late 1940s.
Admission is $12 for adults, $10
for students and seniors, and free
for members and visitors 18 and
under. For more information, visit
PhillipsCollection.org.
Touchstone Gallery (901 New York
Ave., N.W.) is showing Garden Variety
by Linda Bankerd. The exhibit is a series
of abstract landscapes of scenes from
across the country, from the cheery trees
in Washington to the snowy woods of
the Arizona mountains and back to the
artists home of Alexandria.
Touchstone is also showing ReBirth
by Janathel Shaw. The show tells a
narrative of a personal journey. Themes
in the collection of sculptures include
the struggle of a young black man
facing racism and the rise of a phoenix.
Both collections are on display until
Sept. 29. For more information, visit
TouchstoneGalleries.com.
Studio Gallery (2108 R St., N.W.)
is showcasing Barbarella, by Brian
Williams, an Arlington-based painter.
In the exhibition, the 1968 lm was
brought to life again via Netix
curating. The paintings capture the
otherworldly landscapes of the lm. The
exhibition runs through Sept. 28.
Studio Gallery will also present
WildFlowers by Micheline Klagsbrun.
The collection is inspired by a tale in
Greek mythology. Orchis had a lustful
appetite which ended with him being
torn to pieces and scattered, where he
grew into the rst orchids. The exhibition
will run from Oct. 2-26. The run will
include a First Friday Reception on Oct.
4 from 6-8 p.m. and an Artists Reception
on Oct. 12 from 4-6 p.m. For more
information, visit StudioGalleryDC.com.
Zenith Gallery (1495 F St., N.W.) is
showcasing Great Streets: The Urban
Life of D.C. through Nov. 8. The
exhibition features art capturing the
essence of Washington from a variety
of artists. It celebrates the Districts
creative economy, which is third in the
nation, behind New York City and Los
Angeles. For more information, visit
ZenithGallery.com.
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By BRIAN T. CARNEY
One of the highlights of the fall lm
season in Washington is the annual D.C.
Shorts Film Festival (Sept. 19-29).
Under the direction of openly gay
lmmaker Jon Gann, the 10th festival
(dcshorts.com) features 150 movies all
less than 20 minutes long. Films will
be shown in six venues throughout
D.C., Maryland and Virginia and
events include a DIY online festival,
free weekday lunchtime screenings,
free weekend family screenings, a
screenwriting competition and parties
where attendees can mingle with
lmmakers from around the world.
LGBT lms in the festival include
the animated Sufferin Till Youre
Straight, described as Schoolhouse
Rocks meets the Stonewall Riots, Gay
4 Pay and Legal Stranger.
Afternoon Delight opens
today at Landmarks E Street Cinema
(landmarktheatres.com) and features
out actress Jane Lynch in a lm about a
womans sexual awakening in a sexless
marriage.
To celebrate the 75th anniversary
of The Wizard of Oz, a completely
remastered version of the movie in
IMAX and 3D will open for a limited
engagement on Sept. 20. Producers
promise that the new edition will create
a unique environment that will make
audiences feel as if they are in the movie.
Speaking of Old Hollywood, the
series Joan Crawford: Queen of the
Silver Screen opens Sept. 23 in the
Helen Hayes Gallery at National Theatre
(thenationaldc.com). Its free, runs each
Monday through Nov. 25 and features
classics like Grand Hotel, Whatever
Happened to Baby Jane, Mildred
Pierce, Humoresque and more.
Stuart Blumberg, screenwriter of
the lesbian-themed The Kids Are All
Right, makes his directorial debut
with Thanks for Sharing (Sept. 20).
A romantic comedy about three men
(Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins and Josh
Gad) who meet while attending 12-step
meetings for sex addicts, the movie also
features a performance by singer and
actress Alicia Pink Moore.
Also on Sept. 20, D.C. fans of openly
gay writer David Sedaris will be treated
to the rst lm adaptation of the
humorists work. Based on Sedaris
essay C.O.G. from his book Naked,
the movie tells the story of a pompous
Yale grad named David whose world
is shaken when he travels to Oregon
to pick apples and see how the other
half lives. Written and directed by
out lmmaker Kyle Patrick Alvarez,
C.O.G. stars openly gay actors
Jonathan Groff (televisions Glee and
Broadways Spring Awakening) and
Dennis OHare (televisions American
Horror Story and Take Me Out on
Broadway). Sedaris is slated to be in
D.C. on Oct. 18 for a performance at the
G.W. Lisner Auditorium.
Marta Cunninghams moving
documentary Valentine Road makes
its HBO debut on Oct. 7. The lm
unravels the complicated circumstances
surrounding the 2008 shooting of
eighth grader Larry King at the hands
of his classmate Brandon McInenery
and tells the story of two troubled and
abused teenagers searching for a sense
of belonging.
Fans of Lady Gaga can rejoice when
the pop goddess makes her acting
debut in Robert Rodriguezs Machete
Kills on Oct. 11. Gaga appears as La
Chamelen in the sequel to 2010s
campy Machete, part of a star-
studded cast that also includes Cuba
Gooding, Jr. as El Camelen, Soa
Vergera (Modern Family), Jessica
Alba, Vanessa Hudgens, Charlie Sheen
(billed as Carlos Estevez), Mel Gibson
and Danny Trejo as Machete.
Literary biopic meets murder mystery
in Kill Your Darlings, slated for national
release on Oct. 16. Its 1944 in New York
City and the artists who will become
the founding fathers of Beat movement
(Daniel Radcliffe as Alan Ginsberg,
Ben Foster as William Burroughs and
Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac) meet at
Columbia University and are arrested
as suspects in the murder of David
Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) who has
been stalking their charismatic classmate
Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan).
Just in time for Halloween, lesbian
director Kimberly Pierce, the award-winning
creator of Boys Dont Cry, returns to the
big screen with a fresh look at Stephen
Kings classic horror story, Carrie. The
script is by openly gay playwright and D.C.
native Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, whose
wildly diverse career includes Broadways
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark, the
television series Glee and Big Love,
the Fantastic Four comics for Marvel and
a comic book adaptation of the Stephen
King novel The Stand. Rising star
Chlo Grace Moretz tackles the title role
and queer favorite Julianne Moore plays
Carries abusive mother Margaret White. As
can be expected, Pierce promises to bring
a queer subtext to the well-known story of
high-school bullying, religious repression
and paranormal powers. Carrie opens
Oct. 18.
This year, the theme of the Fall Film
Series at Anne Arundel Community
College is LGBT Themes and Issues.
Sponsored by the colleges Womens
Initiative, the free screenings include
Small Town Gay Bar, Fagbug and
XXY. The schedule is available online
at aacc.edu/women.
Reel Afrmations (oneinten.com) will
offer a variety of LGBT lm events this fall.
On Oct. 19, there will be a screening of
Wildness by Wu Tsang, a documentary
portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic Los
Angeles bar popular among the citys
Latin and LGBT communities. Chad
Durnells Birthday Cake, showing
Nov. 8, is a feature-length follow-up
to the popular short Grooms Cake
and celebrates Daniel and Stevens rst
anniversary and the rst birthday of their
baby. Finally, the group will mark World
Aids Day with a day-long HIV/AIDS lm
series on Nov. 30.
HIV medications are at the center of
the (loosely) fact-based Dallas Buyers
Club, which opens Nov. 1. Matthew
McConaughey stars as Ron Woodroof,
a straight, homophobic drug user who
was diagnosed with AIDS. With the help
of Rayon, an HIV-positive transgender
woman played by Jared Leto, he takes on
the FDA and smuggles alternative AIDS
drugs over the border from Mexico.
Finally, a number of ne indie LGBT
movies are slowly making their way
across the country at art houses and
lm festivals. Some of these recent
releases include Big Gay Love, a
comedy starring the talented Jonathan
Lisecki; Concussion, about a lesbian
housewife whose world is changed
when she is hit by a stray baseball; Out
in the Dark, about an affair between a
Palestinian student and an Israeli lawyer;
and Blue is the Warmest Color, a
sizzling lesbian coming-of-age story
from France. Hopefully some of them
will nd a venue in D.C. this fall.
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Netixs hit original series Orange
is the New Black continues to be a
popular choice for subscribers and was
renewed for a second season. Set in a
womens prison, it features many lesbian
relationships and a richly developed
transgender character played by
Laverne Cox.
The 65th Primetime Emmy
Awards airs Sept. 22 on CBS at 8
p.m. with host Neil Patrick Harris. Top
acting award nominees include Jim
Parsons, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and
Zachary Quinto. 30 Rock is the most
nominated series for its nal season.
Masters of Sex, starring Lizzy
Caplan and Michael Sheen, premieres
on Showtime on Sept. 29 at 10 p.m.
The two play Virginia Johnson and
Dr. William Masters, researchers who
pioneered the eld of human sexuality
from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Toni Collette stars in Hostages as a
surgeon ordered by terrorists to kill the
president during surgery in order to save
her family. The show airs on Mondays at
10 p.m. on CBS and premieres Sept. 23.
ABC premieres Trophy Wife on
Sept. 24 at 9:30 p.m. on ABC. Malin
ckerman stars as the new wife of
Bradley Whitfords character. She raises
her new stepchildren and deals with her
husbands ex-wives, played by Marcia
Gay Harden and Michaela Watkins.
On Sept. 10, American Masters
proled Billie Jean King, the rst
time an athlete was the subject of the
biographical series. Sept. 20 marks the
40th anniversary of Kings victory in the
Battle of the Sexes match.
Anna Faris and Allison Janney star in
Mom, a CBS sitcom airing Sept. 23 at
9:30 p.m. Faris plays a single, alcoholic
mom who moves to Napa Valley to
rebuild her life. Janney plays Fariss
mother.
Project Runway is just a few
episodes away from its season 12 nale
on Oct. 17 at 9 p.m. on Lifetime. This
season features mentor Tim Gunn in a
more active role in the judging process.
The Newsroom wraps up its
sophomore season this Sunday. Will,
Mackenzie and the rest of the news
team face the aftermath of Genoa as
General David Petraeuss affair comes to
light during election night coverage. The
season nale airs at 10 p.m. on HBO.
Lil Mama, KeKe Palmer and Drew
Sidora star in CrazySexyCool: The TLC
Story, on VH1. The lm premieres on
Oct. 21 at 9 p.m. Surviving TLC members
T-Boz and Chilli served as consultants and
executive producers of the biopic.
LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian
will star in a new VH1 reality show to
premiere in December. LeAnn &
Eddie will explore their marriage and
tabloid presence.
Sean Hayes stars in a new NBC sitcom,
Sean Saves the World. Hayes plays
a divorced gay dad whose teenage
daughter moves in with him full-time.
Megan Hilty also stars in the show as
Seans best friend. Linda Lavin (Alice)
also has a role.
Season three of ABCs Revenge,
starring Emily VanCamp and Madeline
Stowe, premieres Sept. 29 at 9 p.m.
Season three will see Gabriel Manns
character Nolan Ross in another same-
sex relationship.
Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson
Hannigan return for the nal season of
How I Met Your Mother on Sept. 23
at 8 p.m. on CBS. Cristin Milioti joins the
cast as The Mother.
The Amazing Race began its 23rd
season on Sept. 2 at 8 p.m. on CBS. The
show consistently features a diverse cast.
This season includes Shane Partlow and
Rowan Joseph, the duo behind The
Queen of Bingo, a comedic drag show.
Glee returns Sept. 26 at 9 p.m.
on Fox. The rst two episodes of the
season will pay tribute to The Beatles
while the third episode will address
Cory Monteiths passing.
Modern Family will kick off season
ve with a nod to the recent legalization
of same-sex marriage in California. The
hour-long premiere airs on Sept. 25 at 9
p.m. on ABC.
Ryan Murphys American Horror
Story: Coven premieres on Oct. 9 at
10 p.m. on FX. Jessica Lange, Sarah
Paulson and other series regulars return
and welcome newcomers Angela
Bassett, Patti LuPone and Leslie Jordan.
Andy Sambergs Brooklyn Nine-
Nine premieres Tuesday 17 at 8:30
p.m. on Fox. The series will feature
Andre Braugher as the openly gay
captain of the 99th Precinct.
Season 39 of Saturday Night Live
airs on Sept. 28 at 11:30 p.m. on NBC
with Tina Fey hosting. The cast includes
rising star Kate McKinnon, the third
openly gay actor in the shows history.
One episode will feature Lady Gaga
performing double duty as host and
musical guest.
Maggie Lawson stars in Back In The
Game on ABC with the series premiere
on Sept. 25 at 8:30 p.m. The series
features child actor J.J. Totah as a gay
adolescent.
Web Therapy, starring Lisa Kudrow,
wraps up its third season with guest
stars Lily Tomlin and Alan Cumming.
The show was created by Kudrow and
married couple Dan Bucatinsky and
Don Roos. Episodes air Tuesdays at 11
p.m. on Showtime with the season nale
on Sept. 24.
Lisa Kudrow will also guest star in an
arc on season three of Scandal. Star
Kerry Washington is nominated for an
Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in
a Drama Series, which could make her
the rst African-American to win in the
category. The season premieres Oct. 3
at 10 p.m. on ABC.
Greys Anatomy kicks off its 10th
season with a two-hour premiere Sept.
26 at 9 p.m. Season nine ended with the
birth of Merediths baby, Arizona and
Callies marriage rocked by indelity and
an unconscious Richards fate unknown.
Old Dogs & New Tricks is a web
series that explores the sex lives of older
gay men in West Hollywood. The series
returns next year for a third season and
current episodes can be found online at
OldDogsNewTricksTheSeries.com.
Husbands has been picked up by
CW Seed for its third season. Originally
an independent web series by Brad Bell
and Jane Espenson, it stars Bell and
Sean Hemeon as gay celebrities facing
life together after drunkenly marrying in
Las Vegas. New episodes can be found
on CWSeed.com.
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Matthew Shepards death.
washington national cathedral
honors lgbt youth
friday, october 4, 7:30 pm
Premiere flm screening:
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
$16 for adults; limited free
student tickets available
sunday, october 6, 10:10 am
Forum discussion with Judy Shepard, Jane Clementi,
Joshua Deese, and Cathedral Dean Gary Hall
sunday, october 6, 11:15 am
Special service of Holy Eucharist to pray for lgbt youth
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Strokes return triumphant
from Out Games
By KEVIN MAJOROS
With the fall season upon us, all the
LGBT sports leagues in Washington
are already in action. Several of the
local teams have recently wrapped up
successful tournament action and several
more have tournaments approaching.
The D.C. Strokes Rowing Club
(dcstrokes.org) sent 15 rowers to the
Out Games in Antwerp, Belgium in
August to compete against athletes
from all over the world. They returned
home with a Gold, four Silver Medals
and a Bronze.
The Strokes will pack up their boats for
the winter in November and continue
their ergometer and cross-training
indoors until spring.
The Capital Tennis Association
(capital-tennis.org) hosts the Capital
Classic XXI this weekend. The event will
include matches in singles, doubles and
mixed doubles.
Open and B draws will be played on
clay and A, C and D draws will be played
on hard courts (indoor and/or outdoor).
The tournament will be contested at the
Rock Creek Tennis Center and the East
Potomac Tennis Center at Hains Point.
The CCE Sports Network, the
nations only live web streaming online
gay and lesbian sports network, will
stream live coverage. It has showcased
more than 200 tournaments, matches
and games on its site.
The Network recently covered
the International Gay and Lesbian
Aquatic Championships where the
District of Columbia Aquatics Club
captured the world title. Check out live
tournaments and archived videos at
ccesportsnetwork.com.
The District of Columbia Aquatics
Club brought home an amazing 384
medals from the IGLA championships
in Seattle in August along with setting
several IGLA world records on their way
to winning the world title. The records,
in short course meters, are as follows:
Lindsey Warren- Shriner (25-29): 1500
free 19:33.06
Lucas Amodio (18-24): 50 back
27.65; 50 y 26.35
Meredith Stakem (30-34): 50 free
28.31
Neill Williams (45-49): 50 back
29.32; 50 y 26.78
Jose Cunningham (55-59): 100 IM
1:10.20
Jeff Mead (55-59): 50 back 34.37
Mens relays:
72-99: 4 x 200 free relay Lucas
Amodio, Dustin Sigward, Evan Schlank,
Joe Labriola 8:43.82
72-99: 4 x 100 free relay Lucas
Amodio, Joe LaBriola, Peter Volosin,
Paul Quincy 3:40.15
72-99: 4 x 50 free relay Joe LaBriola,
Paul Quincy, Peter Volosin, Dustin
Sigward 1:42.31
200-239: 4 x 50 medley relay Neill
Williams, Jose Cunningham, Geoff
Heuchling, Stan Young 1:58.71
200-239: 4 x 50 free relay Neill
Williams, Jose Cunningham, Geoff
Heuchling, Stan Young 1:45.15
DCAC will host the annual Columbus
Day Classic swim competition on Oct.
12 at the Woodrow Wilson Aquatic
Center in D.C. Information on the event
is at swimdcac.org.
The Columbus Day Classic will also
feature a water polo tournament hosted
by the Washington Wetskins water polo
team. The event will be contested at the
Tacoma Aquatics Center on Oct. 12-13.
More information is at wetskins.org.
Local bloggers Puck Buddys
(puckbuddys.com) are gearing up for
the start of the 2013-2014 National
Hockey League (NHL) season. This
season they will have 15 contributors
covering their respective NHL teams
and they have begun to zero in on
coverage of the Sochi Olympics and the
Russian anti-LGBT laws.
They recently posted a Q&A with
a Russian hockey journalist about
the cultural and historic roots of
homophobia in Russia. Coming up for
the bloggers is an interview with a gay
journalist who is traveling to Sochi to
cover the Games in February.
The D.C. Ice Breakers (dcicebreakers.
com) will host their next social skate on
Wednesday from 8:10-9:20 p.m. at the
Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington.
The fee for skating is $8 and skate rental
is $3. After the skate, they will host a
social hour at Baileys Pub.
Ski Bums (ski-bums.org) have
posted their 2014 group trips for skiing
and snowboarding. The list includes
Steamboat, Colo.; Snowshoe, W.Va.;
Jay Peak, Utah; Lake Tahoe, Calif.;
Chugach Mountain, Alaska; and Granite
Peak, Wis.
The D.C. Gay Flag Football League
(dcgf.org) will be sending at least two
of its travel teams to Gay Bowl XIII in
Phoenix from Oct. 10-14.
The Chesapeake and Potomac
Softball League (capssoftball.org)
hosted the NAGAAA Gay Softball
World Series from Aug. 26-31 at three
separate complexes in the area. The
tournament, the largest annual LGBT
sporting event in the world, welcomed
170-plus teams that participated in
more than 600 softball games. Results
are at dcseries2013.com.
The D.C. Sentinels basketball team will
open registration in October for the winter
edition of the Washington D.C. Gay
Basketball League (wdcgbl.leagueapps.
com). The League will be a 10 week
season including playoffs along with team
practice days. Registration is on its site.
Team D.C. and the Federal Triangles
Soccer Club and D.C. United co-host
United Night OUT (unitednightout.
com) Sunday at 4 p.m. as D.C. United
take on L.A. Galaxy at RFK Stadium.
The event is part of the Team D.C. Night
OUT Series and is a great opportunity for
the LGBT community to experience a
professional soccer match in a safe and
welcoming environment. Tickets available
at the Night OUT website.
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By GREG MARZULLO
Washington National Operas fall
season can best be described as fateful,
in no small part due to the repertoire
chosen by artistic director Francesca
Zambello. Although she took over the
helm of the company in January of this
year, the 2013-2014 lineup marks the
rst full season shes planned, so its
tting that both of this falls main stage
operas hinge on inscrutable turns of
fortunes wheel.
Richard Wagners legendary love
story Tristan und Isolde opens the
gate, in a production borrowed from
Opera Australia and directed by Neil
Armeld, a gay theater and opera
director who makes his WNO debut with
this production. Swedish soprano Irene
Theorin will star as Isolde. She replaces
Deborah Voight, who withdrew from
the production. British soprano Alwyn
Mellor will sing the nal performance on
Sept. 27.
Joining Theorin are two Tristans,
the primary being Ian Storey (last seen
here in a 2008 Flying Dutchman)
with one performance taken by Clifton
Forbis in his company debut. Storey
has a rich history with Tristan, including
opening the 2007 opera season at La
Scala with the role. His 20-plus year
career has brought him all over the
world a far cry from his humble
upbringing as the youngest in a long
line of English coalminers but his La
Scala Tristan reportedly lacked some
of the Wagnerian heft sought after by
enthusiasts. Hopefully, the intervening
years have helped him round out his
interpretation.
This production marks the 200
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birthday anniversary of Wagner, whose
operatic version of the Tristan myth
was rst performed in 1865. The story
follows the star-crossed title lovers,
but more than just a simple love-
gone-awry cautionary tale, Tristan
und Isolde highlights themes of
personal transguration through loves
transcendent consummation.
Forces beyond the protagonists
control rule the lives of WNOs next
offering, Verdis La Forza del Destino
(here titled in English as The Force of
Destiny). Zambello directs this new
production of Verdis mammoth story
about the cruel twists of fate that plague
the Incan hero Alvaro and his Spanish
love Leonora. WNO audiences havent
seen Forza in decades and Zambello
has assembled a strong cast of singers
for this sweeping work.
Adina Aaron takes on the role of
Leonora, sharing it for two performances
with Amber Wagner. Opera fans will
wait breathlessly for her famous nal
act aria Pace, pace mio Dio, where
the heroine begs God for emotional
peace despite the tumultuous love she
still feels raging in her heart for a man
shes forsworn. Its Verdi at his best, and
Aarons career features a strong Verdian
presence, most notably Aida, Amelia in
Ballo and now Forzas Leonora. Her
large voice and stage command might
just be an electrifying presence in a
sometimes-wandering piece, although
in many ways, the grounding force of
the opera is the tenor.
Chilean singer Giancarlo Monsalve
plays Alvaro, sharing the role only briey
with Rafael Davila (seen here last year as
Pollione in the companys hauntingly
beautiful Norma). His ringing heroic
tenor also seems like a dream for
the tormented Alvaro, although his
real challenge will be to scale the
voice back when appropriate, adding
human warmth to the drama instead
of overdone Italianate bellowing, a
temptation for any spinto style tenor.
Leonoras brother Don Carlo is shared
between ngel dena and Luca Salsi,
both bringing strong pedigrees to the role.
Part of the excitement around
Forza is the conductor Xian Zhang.
A diminutive Chinese woman who has
quickly risen to great heights on the
world conducting podium, Zhangs
reviews have hailed her ability to draw
riveting performances from orchestras
in complex works as diverse as Brahms
and Chinese composer Chen Yi. While
seeing a woman conducting opera
isnt a novelty, its rare enough to take
note. In an interview with the Blade last
spring, Zambello alluded to the fact that
audiences could plan on seeing more
women involved in top positions during
upcoming WNO seasons.
Along with that promise is the
premiere of Jeanine Tesoris opera
The Lion, the Unicorn and Me, a
musical version of Jeanette Wintersons
charming childrens book of the same
title. The story takes place shortly before
the birth of Jesus, when a donkey is
up for a very special job carrying
the Virgin Mary to Bethlehem. Tesori
is best known for her Tony-nominated
musical theater scores: Twelfth
Night, Thoroughly Modern Millie
and Caroline, or Change. WNO will
run Tesoris opera in December as its
holiday offering.
At the start of her tenure, Zambello
talked about wanting a more interactive
opera experience, and with the plethora
of post- and pre-performance talk-backs
and lectures, the company appears
hopeful of courting burgeoning opera
fans, as well as the old standbys.
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This Fall at The Kreeger Museum
Special Exhibit:
Mindy Weisel I Not Neutral
Mindy Weisels art is her memoir, her
journal, her autobiography. This exhibiton
is comprised of three signifcant bodies of
work that parallel one another in large-
scale human and environmental tragedies:
Paintngs of the Holocaust (ca. 1980), Survival
of Beauty (2010), and Afer Tohoku (2012).
Mindy Weisel Not Neutral reveals in each
series the artsts exploraton of deep emoton
through color, gestural marks, surface
tension, and compositon. These works are
a profound expression of the triumph of
beauty, reconciliaton, and healing over human
tragedy, loss, and destructon.
The Kreeger Museum
Sculpture Garden Project
The Museum celebrated Phase I of the
Sculpture Garden Project in May with the
opening of Inventons by John L. Dreyfuss.
Dreyfuss will fabricate and install three
additonal pieces to commemorate the
20th anniversary of The Kreeger Museum
in 2014. The Kreeger Museum Sculpture
Garden Project is a three-phase project that
will provide an additonal exhibiton area
for sculpture and celebrate the Museums
spacious grounds and natural wooded
setng. Phase I was generously funded by
an anonymous donor and a contributon
from Walter and Annete Vandaele.
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Fall season peppered
with LGBT events
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Some events dont t in our other fall
arts categories. Here are a few to note.
On Sept. 20, the D.C. Center has its
fall reception at 6:30 p.m. at the Reeves
Center (2000 14th Street, N.W.). Tickets
are $75. Visit thedccenter.org for details.
On Sept. 21, Hope D.C., a mens
HIV-positive social group, has its 25th
anniversary at 7 p.m. a private residence
in Arlington. For details, call 202-466-
5783 or visit hopedc.org/events.
Sept. 27 is National Gay Mens HIV/
AIDS Awareness Day. Details are at
cdc.gov or aids.gov/awareness-days.
On Sept. 28, the Gertrude Stein
Democratic Club has its 37th anniversary
Leadership Awards Reception at Sonoma
Restaurant and Wine Bar (223 Pennsylvania
Ave. S.E.). Tickets are available at
steindemocrats.org or at the door.
Sept. 28 is also Gay Day at Hillwood
Estate (4155 Linnean Ave., N.W.) from
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tickets are $15. Visit
hillwoodmuseum.org for details.
If you happen to be in Los Angeles
that weekend, the National Gay &
Lesbian Task Force has its 40th
anniversary event on Sept. 29 at 11
a.m. at Sportmens Lodge (12833 Ventura
Bouevard, Studio City, Calif.). Tickets are
$125. Visit thetaskforce.org for details.
On Oct. 5, Human Rights Campaign
has its national dinner at the
Convention Center (801 Mt. Vernon P.,
N.W.). Its sold out but a waiting list is
available at hrcnationaldinner.org.
Oct. 11 is National Coming Out Day.
Theres a Facebook page devoted to it.
On Oct. 14, Us Helping Us has its 25th
anniversary awards event (A Passion
for Living at 6 p.m. at Arena Stage (1101
6th Street, S.W.). Actress/singer Jennifer
Holliday will be honored. Tickets are
$150. Visit uhupil.org for details.
Oct. 15 is National Latino HIV/AIDS
Awareness Day. Details are at aids.gov/
awareness-days.
Oct. 24 is the Blades Best of Gay
D.C. party/awards reception at Huxley
(1730 M Street, N.W.). Details pending.
Oct. 26 is AIDS Walk Washington.
Visit aidswalkwashington.org for details
or to register.
Oct. 29 is the High Heel Race on 17th
Street, N.W. A Facebook page has details.
Nov. 20 is Transgender Day of
Remembrance. Details pending on the
Washington event.
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How long have you been out and who
was the hardest person to tell?
I came out when I was 19 and I was
fortunate to have a supportive family
and close friends. I nd it hardest to tell
strangers the receptionist at a hotel, the
lady on the Metro who asks about your
girlfriend, etc. because you just never
know what peoples perceptions of the gay
community might be.
Whos your LGBT hero?
Aside from Batman and Robin? Dennis
and Judy Shepard are true heroes.
They have managed to turn a severe
personal loss into a national message of
compassion. Their mission of replacing
hate with understanding goes way beyond
the tragedy they suffered and speaks to
people in all walks of life.

Whats Washingtons best
nightspot, past or present?
This years best nightspot will be Town
Danceboutique on Saturday, Nov. 9 for the
Gay Mens Chorus Home Cooked Cabaret.
Since cabaret is my favorite art form, its
going to be a hot show!

Describe your dream wedding.
Outdoors, surrounded by my
family, friends and a string orchestra.
The reception would be a giant party
culminating in a cabaret by my amazing
singer friends.
What non-LGBT issue are you
most passionate about?
I told my dad recently that I never
thought I would be a part of the gay
movement, yet here I am running one of
the largest choruses in the country whose
mission is very much equality-driven.
His response was, We are all part of a
movement called humanity. I think its
important to look outside of ourselves and
see what issues we have in common with
other communities instead of focusing on
what makes us different.

What historical outcome
would you change?
I would have picked winning lottery
numbers last year.

Whats been the most memorable pop
culture moment of your lifetime?
I saw Adele at the 9:30 club just
before she cancelled her U.S. tour. She
was so authentic in her singing and so
comfortable in her own shoes, and I have
never seen an artist who compares.

On what do you insist?
Honesty with myself.

What was your last
Facebook post or Tweet?
It was a video of GMCW singing
Make Them Hear You from Ragtime
at the 2012 GALA conference. We sang
that song in front of SCOTUS this year
when the DOMA decision dropped.
Ragtime composer Stephen Flaherty
saw it on YouTube and wrote us the most
encouraging, heartfelt letter. That song is
our anthem, and who knows, may become
an anthem for equality everywhere.

If your life were a book,
what would the title be?
I cant, I have rehearsal.

If science discovered a way to change
sexual orientation, what would you do?
Id probably go grocery shopping and
rent a movie.

What do you believe in
beyond the physical world?
I believe in goodness and I believe it
exists in everyone. My personal religion is
love each other.

Whats your advice for
LGBT movement leaders?
The best way to make friends is to reach
out your hand to those who dont expect it.

What would you walk
across hot coals for?
My family.

What LGBT stereotype
annoys you most?
That all we do is sing show tunes and
throw parties. Oh, wait.

Whats your favorite LGBT movie?
Brokeback Mountain. My whole family
wanted to watch it together in the theaters
and we all left in tears. That was a very
afrming moment for me.

Whats the most
overrated social custom?
No clue.

What trophy or prize
do you most covet?
I am very much in love with my violin. Its
a French instrument from the 1860s.

What do you wish youd known at 18?
I wish I had understood that I had my
whole life to be serious, and that my
college years were for letting loose.

Why Washington?
I grew up in Northern Virginia, and my
family and friends are mostly here. Theres
a comfort in that, and also an excitement
in the burgeoning arts scene that has kept
me here.
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Chase Maggiano, the new executive director of the Gay Mens Chorus of
Washington, says it wont be hard to adapt to his new role.
A professional violinist he toured with South Pacic and played for the
GMCW production of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas a few years ago
Maggiano says hes perfectly happy on the managerial side of things now.
I actually love what I do and think it really gives my type-A personality
a chance to shine, the 29-year-old McLean, Va., native says. It also allows
me to impact more people. When Im playing my own little song, I only
reach the people who happen to be in the concert hall that day. This gives
me a broader reach.
Maggiano grew up in the region, went to college at George Washington
and worked in business development for a software marketing company for
several years before going into arts education work. He spent a bit more
than a year with Washington Performing Arts Society and is now succeeding
David Jobin at the helm of the GMCW.
Im thrilled to be part of the GMCW family, he says. Its an exciting
time for the Chorus. We have an opportunity to harness our voices and
family of supporters to bring more music and life to the D.C. community.
The Chorus is just regrouping for its fall season. Visit gmcw.org for details
on its various concerts, productions and ensemble and cabaret nights.
Maggiano recently moved to Logan Circle from the Hill and enjoys music,
running, wine and time in the water in his free time.
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Boyfriends waning interest
means time for a frank chat
HI MICHAEL,
Ive been in a relationship with Chris
for over a year and a half. Although
Im in school, when I come home for
breaks I stay with him at his place. We
have been through a lot together and
have supported each other through job
changes, family drama and distance.
Recently Chris has moved from the
suburbs to share a place in the city with
a friend and now he always seems to be
too busy even to call or text me during
the day. I am busy too, but I always reach
out to him. I feel that he is completely
neglecting me.
Although we never agreed to an
open relationship, he did tell me that
he slipped a few times while I was at
school. Now that he has moved into the
city and is more distant, I am worried
that the cheating will increase. While
I understand that it is hard to go for
months without sexual interaction, I feel
a strong sense of loyalty toward him, so
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