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Uncertainty remains after Md. marriage opiniondon’t think it’s necessary for them to been recognized in Maryland courts. and making funeral decisions. Gansler’s opinion was constitutionally
Attorney general’s do the right thing.” “That would be one of the really Jana Singer, a University of valid and the attorney general could not
finding brings more Family law contains several rights
and administrative advantages
interesting questions,” she said. “If
the second parent hasn’t adopted the
Maryland law school professor, said
the attorney general’s opinion was
be removed from office for issuing it.
Friedman wrote to House Speaker
questions than answers reserved for married couples and child, [would] the court give legal legally sound and would be treated Michael Busch this week regarding the
designed to protect families in the guardianship or legal authority to the with greater weight than an ordinary powers of attorney general after state
By HARLEY DENNETT event of divorce. If the courts choose non-biological parent? That’s a “friend of the court” brief. Del. Don Dwyer (R-Anne Arundel
Special to DC Agenda to recognize Gansler’s opinion, remaining question that isn’t as clear She said that one case could be County) threatened impeachment pro-
same-sex married couples would under the family law statute. all that is required to clarify the issue, ceedings against Gansler.
Even the experts are uncertain have access to family breakdown “I would suspect that in the law in or it could take many cases in differ- The American Civil Liberties
how Maryland courts will now treat services, child support, alimony and the state where the couple was mar- ent areas of law. Union of Maryland is standing in
legally married same-sex couples. division of marital property. ried, both parents would be seen as “If they decide to be narrower, they support of Gansler’s opinion saying
Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) promised Other safety-net statutes that are the child’s parent. If that’s the case, could say within this particular statute, the state should recognize out-of-
state agencies would comply with currently available to same-sex fami- then Maryland would honor that. But Maryland law extends recognition in state same-sex marriages due to
Attorney General Doug Gansler’s lies but made easier with legal mar- the courts have chosen not to follow this context,” Singer said. “It’s more the doctrine of comity, in which con-
finding two weeks ago that Maryland riage recognition include child-in-need the de facto parent doctrine, so there likely that we’ll get a broader opinion tracts are valid anywhere in the
may legally recognize out-of-state and civil protection orders in the event are certainly areas of law that the where they say recognition applies United States if they are valid in the
same-sex marriages. of neglect or domestic violence. court has taken pretty strident stand widely to Maryland law statutes.” state they were created.
But circuit courts that handle fam- But it gets more complex during on with regard to same-sex couples Equality Maryland’s study of state “Unless and until something con-
ily violence protection orders and the creation of a family. Stepchild raising children already.” law found 425 statutes that utilize mar- trary is said, same-sex families should
divorce cases are not bound by adoption would be significantly Other areas of law where courts ital status of familial relationship as a consider themselves married in the
O’Malley’s directive and must consid- streamlined for married same-sex extend benefits to married couples, basis for granting a right, privilege or state of Maryland and expect to be
er the opinion on its own merits, couples, Babb said, but not all mar- such as the establishment of trusts, restriction. Such restrictions, where a treated as such,” said David Rocah,
according to several legal experts riage certificates are equal. wrongful death suits, presumptive spouse has fewer rights than an indi- staff attorney for ACLU of Maryland.
who spoke with DC Agenda. “Although Maryland currently claims on estates, mutual debt respon- vidual, include conflict of interest prohi- “But it will take some time for it to be
“It’s certainly their prerogative authorizes second-parent adoption, sibility and spousal legal immunities, bitions on areas like awarding of con- clear what rights are extended to them.
whether to follow that. I would like to it would be very clear — assuming also are dependent on whether courts tracts to family members, corporate All of the things couples did to protect
think the courts would accept the the judges follow the attorney gener- accept Gansler’s opinion. directorship limitations and exemptions their families, they should continue to
opinion, but we don’t know,” said al’s opinion,” she said. A further set of rights for married from first right of purchase. do, in addition to expecting to be treat-
Barbara Babb, director of the But children who have not been for- couples required of third parties are Dan Friedman, Gansler’s counsel ed like the married couples they are.”
University of Baltimore’s Center for mally adopted by their non-biological automatic in theory, but may ultimately and a former University of Maryland ACLU, Lambda Legal and Equality
Families, Children and the Courts. parent could be left in legal limbo, have to be decided by courts, such as professor of constitutional law, was Maryland have created an informa-
“Legislative direction would cer- Babb said, because presumptive par- extending health insurance benefits to unable to speak publicly on how the tional sheet on the issue and are pub-
tainly be a help to the courts, but I enting rights have not traditionally a spouse, the right to hospital visitation courts should rule, but said that lishing it online at www.aclu-md.org.
Virginia colleges mum on Cuccinelli letter ty, said some schools would defy the With most students away from
Student groups push request if they could, but they would campus on spring break, Kaye said
back against anti-gay face significant political pressure to
comply with the current administration.
campaigning on the issue has been
largely performed online, with a par-
attorney general Campus groups, meanwhile, have ticular focus on Facebook and e-
begun campaigns asking school mail. He wondered if the letter’s tim-
By HARLEY DENNETT administrators to ignore Cuccinelli’s ing was deliberate to avoid a more
Special to DC Agenda directive. University of Virginia’s robust student backlash.
Queer & Allied Activism group began For his part, Cuccinelli took to local
Public colleges and universities in by uploading to Facebook photos of airwaves this week to defend his
Virginia were considering their options the attorney general that were doc- advice to schools. He said his letter
this week after state Attorney General tored to poke fun at him. was consistent with opinions of the
Ken Cuccinelli declared their policies bar- Inspired by the grammatically incor- state’s previous five attorneys general,
ring discrimination against gays illegal. rect lolcatz pictures, some photos of which included three Democrats.
Many student and LGBT groups Cuccinelli included the words “In ur AG But on his Twitter profile,
mobilized against Cuccinelli’s letter office … hatin’ on ur gays” and “Gays? Cuccinelli was less cautious: “Still
March 4 to 40 school presidents, which We don’t have them in my state.” much sound and fury about simply
says the institutions cannot treat sexu- One group on Facebook that stood stating what the law is now and has
al orientation, gender identity and gen- against Cuccinelli’s letter, “We Don’t been pretty much forever in Virginia
der expression as protected classes in Want Discrimination in Our State … but on a touchy subject.”
non-discrimination policies. But the Universities and Colleges,” gathered Fears that the Republican would
schools largely reserved comment. more than 4,000 members within days. use his office to advance a socially
Photo courtesy of McDonnell’s office
Only one major institution, Virginia Seth Kaye, a second year engi- conservative agenda, rather than
Commonwealth University, released One week after Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli declared college policies neering student at UVA and member merely advise on law, were expressed
before DC Agenda deadline any official barring discrimination against gays illegal, a spokesperson for Gov. Bob McDonnell coordinator of Queer & Allied as early as his campaign launch,
statement, but it said only that students, said the governor expects ‘no Virginia college or university, or any other state agency, Activism, said he felt hurt by the including from vocal members of the
faculty and staff would be consulted. will engage in discrimination of any kind.’ attorney general’s attack and wanted Log Cabin Republicans of Virginia.
Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) seemed to to know why anyone thought it was “Just as we feared, Mr. Cuccinelli
offer the schools a small reprieve earlier Virginia college or university, or any who wrote the thesis from 20 years acceptable to go after LGBT people. is becoming an embarrassment to
this week. A spokesperson affirmed the other state agency, will engage in ago,” Blair said, referring to past writ- “I don’t understand how that can the entire state with his extreme
governor’s view that only the General discrimination of any kind.” ings where the governor opposed gay pass a rational basis test,” Kaye said. views on this issue,” said David
Assembly can extend anti-discrimina- Equality Virginia CEO Jon Blair rights. “I think if he fails to act on this, “It seems totally biased.” Lampo, vice president of the Log
tion protections to a new class, a view called on McDonnell to prove his he’s proven exactly which one he is.” UVA was making significant Cabin Republican Club of Virginia.
consistent with Cuccinelli’s advice. stance against discrimination by ask- On Tuesday, the state House voted improvements toward offering services “We call on Virginia’s state colleges
But the spokesperson, Tucker ing the General Assembly to send down a motion to force a vote on the to LGBT students, Kaye said, including and universities to resist this outra-
Martin, noted executive branch him a bill adding sexual orientation to bill that would have added sexual ori- starting a queer studies minor program geous demand and to continue their
appointments to school boards the state’s policy. entation to the state’s non-discrimina- and a new gay fraternity. policies of hiring and firing on the basis
would not focus on this issue. “Attorney General Cuccinelli’s letter tion laws. The measure failed 55-42. “I hope the universities all come of merit rather than sexual orientation,
“The governor will appoint board was Gov. McDonnell’s opportunity to The bill previously passed the state together and say we’re not going to fol- and we call on Gov. McDonnell to end
members based solely on their abili- prove whether he was the Robert Senate, but did not make it out of sub- low this order,” he said. “Hopefully, if this legal limbo for gay and lesbian
ty and on their strong commitment to McDonnell who said through his entire committee in the House. the state sues them, it turns out in our state employees by supporting a bill to
educational excellence in Virginia. campaign that he opposed discrimina- One university’s diversity coordina- favor and maybe [we] even get sexual outlaw employment discrimination on
The governor expects that no tion or he was the Robert McDonnell tor, who spoke on condition of anonymi- orientation as a protected class.” the basis of sexual orientation.”
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Gay man is official ‘voice’ of U.S. House Lorraine Miller, the House clerk and about who I am and it’s always been
Novotny ‘tremendously chamber’s official record keeper. met with understanding and respect.”
proud’ of role as U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
appointed Novotny to his role in
But one challenge Novotny has
encountered in his new role is need-
reading clerk December, and he’s served in the posi- ing to recognize all 435 House mem-
tion for six weeks. No newcomer to bers immediately.
By CHRIS JOHNSON Capitol Hill, Novotny was a congres- “Basically you have to learn every
cjohnson@dcagenda.com sional page when he was 16. For 15 single person by name and by sight,”
years, he was a staffer for the House he said. “If somebody’s coming up and
It’s part of making history. Education & Labor Committee, most you’re at the podium, you’re responsi-
That’s part of the reason Joe recently as chief clerk for the panel. ble for announcing who that member
Novotny enjoys his role as reading Now as someone who sits on the is as they’re voting at the end of the
clerk for the U.S. House. podium with the speaker or speaker vote or announce their changes.”
Just last week, he had the distinc- pro-tempe as lawmakers debate Since his years at George
tion of reading to House members DC Agenda photo by Michael Key bills, Novotny is one of the more visi- Washington University, where he stud-
Rep. Charlie Rangel’s (D-N.Y.) mes- Joe Novotny, the first openly gay U.S. House reading clerk, reads bills, resolutions ble figures in the House. ied political communications, Novotny
sage announcing his intent to resign and messages from the president to Congress. In a statement, Pelosi highlighted the said he’s had an affinity for politics.
as chair of the Ways & Means importance of Novotny’s job and his “I’ve always been fascinated by pol-
Committee. That message, issued by person to work as a clerk in the U.S. legislative measures before the cham- qualifications for taking on the position. itics,” he said. “I think that people lose
Novotny, went through the media to House. Charged with reading mes- ber are clearly articulated to lawmakers “As reading clerk, Joe will be the voice sight of the fact that politics is not just
reach people across the country. sages to lawmakers and having his per- and the public. He also tracks changes of the House of Representatives and will about policy, it’s about relationships.”
Other milestones in which Novotny formance broadcast across the world to bills made on the House floor. play an integral role in the daily operations Novotny said people “use politics
may soon take part could include the on C-SPAN, Novotny is one of the most “As House reading clerk, you’re of Congress,” she said. “Joe brings his every day in our lives” in relationships
passage of health care reform — or visible figures in House proceedings. responsible for reading all the bills experience and professionalism from the with colleagues, loved ones and friends.
the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” “I’m tremendously proud,” he said. “I and resolutions that come up Education & Labor Committee, and we “So, I guess I’m fascinated by
“You just feel the energy when feel like it’s an opportunity to represent throughout the day — and so there are grateful for his service.” relationships that people have and
you walk out on the House floor,” the community. When you think about are all these other letters that come Novotny said his sexual orienta- how everybody uses politics in form
Novotny told DC Agenda. “If there’s a the diversity in this House now — and and messages from the president, tion hasn’t made his job any more or another,” he said.
vote, or even just a heated debate, if the fact that we have the first woman and so you are responsible essen- difficult or impaired relationships with It’s that fascination with politics that
something’s happening — the feeling speaker and we have the first African- tially for reading and representing his colleagues. led him to take a position as staffer on
that you get from that room is proba- American clerk of the House — this is these people,” Novotny said. “I’ve been very, very lucky that the House Education & Labor
bly unlike anything everywhere else sort of a Congress of firsts, so to be a Novotny is one of two reading throughout my career on the Hill, I’ve Committee under the supervision of
that you could really describe.” part of that is a tremendous honor.” clerks for the House. The other read- always been met with people who Chairman George Miller. Novotny said
And yet, Novotny is making history As reading clerk for the House, ing clerk, Susan Cole, was appointed have looked at me pretty much just at leaving his old job to become reading
simply by holding the job. The 34-year- Novotny is charged with reading mes- by Republican leadership. Novotny face value, and it’s never been an clerk was “bittersweet” because Miller
old Chicago native is the first openly gay sages to House members and ensuring and Cole are under the jurisdiction of issue,” he said. “I’ve always been open is “such a great boss.”
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Schwartz said repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Sen. Roland Burris said former Joint Chiefs of
Tell” shouldn’t undermine the effectiveness of Staff Chair Colin Powell ‘probably never’ would
the armed forces and cautioned lawmakers have achieved that rank ‘if we had started study-
against taking legislative action now. ing’ whether blacks should be allowed to serve.
“This is not the time to perturb the force that
is stretched by combat operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan and important missions elsewhere
without due deliberation,” he said.
“We’ve had an African
Schwartz also expressed concern regard- American who’s chairman of
ing “inadequate current scholarship on this
issue” and “insufficient current survey data on the Joint Chiefs ... under this
our airmen and their families.” He also said he program, if we had started
wants to make sure Air Force standards con-
tinue to apply to airmen in the event of “Don’t studying and waiting, Colin
Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal. Powell … probably never
“[Defense] Secretary [Robert] Gates’ effort
to carefully evaluate and study this issue is would’ve made it.”
obviously essential to our getting to the right
spot on this,” Schwartz said. Senate, seized on Schwartz’s remarks as evi-
The Air Force chief’s comments mean the dence that military leaders don’t want
chiefs for all four services are urging Congress Congress to change the law.
to refrain from legislative action at this time on “This idea out there that’s being pushed that
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Army Chief of Staff Gen. the service chiefs somehow support — [are]
George Casey, Chief of Naval Operations supporting a campaign promise made by the
Adm. Gary Roughead and Marine Corps president of the United States is obviously not
Commandant Gen. James Conway voiced true,” McCain said.
their opposition in previous testimony. Asked by McCain whether passing a mora-
Standing in contrast to their remarks is tes- torium “would be foolish,” Schwartz replied, “I
timony given last month by Chairman of the think, sir, that any interim change” would not be
Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen, who appropriate.
said he personally believes gays should be McCain said he wanted to “congratulate”
allowed to serve openly in the military. the service chiefs for coming out in opposition
The service chiefs’ views also are contrary to both repeal and a moratorium at this time.
to the position of Air Force Secretary Michael “Clearly, a moratorium would be a change in the
Donley, who endorsed both the review and policy — just a backdoor way of doing it,” he said.
repeal during last week’s hearing. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), the spon-
Donley said he supports the review current- sor of repeal legislation in the Senate, attempt-
ly underway at the Pentagon. Noting he was ed to allay Schwartz’s concerns by saying the
involved in the Defense Department when Air Force standard of conduct would remain
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was instituted in 1993, even if “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” were overturned.
Donley said the process put forward by Gates “There must be an understanding that …
“has put us in a much better situation than we standards of conduct of Air Force members,
were in 1993.” and that of members of other services, cannot
Pressed further by Senate Armed Services be altered in any way if ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is
Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) on repealed,” he said. “We would be eliminating
whether he supports repeal at this time, one policy, but then everybody in the military
Donley replied, “I do.” has to live by those standards.”
Despite these views, the service chiefs’ Lieberman asked Schwartz whether he
viewpoints could influence lawmakers who cur- believes that service members should be dis-
rently are on the fence on voting for either full charged solely because of their sexual orientation.
repeal or a legislative moratorium. “Sir, I have to tell you that the answer to that
After the hearing, Senate Armed Services question is more complex than ‘yes’ and ‘no,’”
Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) told Schwartz said. “It is dependent on the conse-
DC Agenda he believes the service chiefs’ oppo- quences given a change a policy.”
sition would drive how lawmakers would vote on Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) urged Schwartz
either legislative item, but couldn’t say how much. to recall the discrimination that blacks and
“I think it will have some impact,” he said. “I women once faced in the military.
can’t gauge the amount.” “We’ve had an African American who’s
And opponents of repeal are emphasizing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” Burris
the service chiefs’ position in their attempt to said. “Now, under this program, if we had start-
keep “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in place. ed studying and waiting, Colin Powell … prob-
During the hearing, Sen. John McCain (R- ably never would’ve made it because of the
Ariz.), a leading opponent of repeal in the delays and the understanding.”
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The following comments were about would not end until AFTER Washington Blade.” I wish you much Since I am not a lawyer nor partic- including Catholics, have no qualms
posted to our web site. Visit dcagen- midterm elections, which, unless the success. — Iver K. Nielsen ularly well versed in the law, I have to whatsoever about falsifying state-
da.com to join the conversation. whole world is wrong, means there ask for some help. If a man and ments about homosexual persons,
wouldn’t be enough [votes] in Congrats indeed: those 40 years of woman get married in Massachusetts, despite the cascade of deleterious
Re: “Three gay nominees among Congress open to repeal to make it original photo images are not found in or the Netherlands or Spain, I believe effects like violence and bloodshed. To
the 27 confirmed by U.S. Senate” happen, study or no study. It’s time to any other local archives! It would have that the state of Maryland and all pick up on something another com-
(news story by Chris Johnson) admit Gates played us, regardless of been a shame to have them dis- other states and the District recognize menter said, “they” try to explain how
I’m glad to hear these low-level whether or not it was on Obama’s pensed or thrown away by the court or those marriages as valid. If two men the Bible is literally true except what
appointees finally got their votes in instructions. — Michael any other buyer. — Paul K. Williams or two women marry in a jurisdiction they cherry pick. Our level of tolerance
the Senate, but I really want to see that recognizes such marriages, what for ideological sewage disguised as
Obama appoint an openly gay per- “Played” is right. Gibbs admits to What a great victory for you and legal basis is there for a state to religious belief is inexcusable. I am
son as a cabinet secretary or some the playwriting required of all political the LGBT community! The archives refuse recognition? — Jerry way past caring about their accept-
appointments to the federal judici- theatre when he says, “…we have are priceless in documenting our his- ance, but their tolerance under the
ary. An LGBT member of the cabinet talked to many about the process for tory. — Greg Alexander The LGBT community in Maryland law, I demand. — H. (Bart) Vincelette
or federal judiciary tends to catch this. We have talked to them prior to really needs to run candidates against
people’s attention; whereas a few making some of these announce- Re: “Last hurdle removed to the anti-gay Democrats who sit on key Re: "Conservative Calif. state sen-
appointments to minor positions ments and prior to some of this testi- start of D.C. same-sex marriages” committees and replace them with pro- ator comes out as gay in radio inter-
within the administration doesn’t get mony.” They’ve formulated the play- (news story by Lou Chibbaro Jr.) LGBT Democrats. The Republicans view" (news story by Chris Johnson)
a great deal of attention and accom- book of our lives, and again, it says Excellent! When will this hate mon- (like Del. Dwyer) are almost always I am happy for him that he came
plishes very little for the LGBT com- “WHEN IT COMES TO BASIC gering preacher from Maryland, (the against us, but really, it’s a handful of “out”, but isn’t it hyprcritical that he
munity. I am still waiting for HUMAN RIGHTS IN AMERICA, WE obnoxious Bishop Jackson) buzz off and homophobic Democrats on these com- fought against us for so long and now
Congress to pass the Domestic WILL DO WHAT WE WANT TO DO – let the people of Washington, D.C., mittees that are keeping Maryland all of a sudden we find out he was a
Partnership Benefits & Obligations BUTT OUT.” So, HRC, are you help- decide to do the right thing and allow from recognizing and allowing same- closet case, I think he owes the gay
Act and the Employment Non- ing write the playbook? Or getting same-sex marriage. In fact, I think it’s sex marriage. — Tim community a heartfelt apology. — BJ
Discrimination Act, both of which played by the players? I’m sick of the time for the Maryland General Assembly
would bring significant benefits to playing. What a cesspool Washington to get moving on passing same-sex Re: “Sullivan, Gallagher trade Re: "Filibuster threat makes
the LGBT Community. — Tim is. — Peter the Saint marriage in Maryland. — Tim barbs on marriage at forum” (news ENDA unlikely in 2010" (news story
story by Chris Johnson) by Lou Chibbaro Jr.)
Re: “Gibbs: ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal Re: “Brown Naff Pitts Omnimedia, Re: “Md. may recognize out-of- I grew up Catholic, although I’m no So let me try to understand this
off to ‘strong start’” (news story by Inc. purchases Washington Blade state gay marriages” (news story longer involved in religion. I have no stupidity – people who are transgen-
Chris Johnson) assets” (news story, staff reports) by Lou Chibbaro Jr.) great opposition to the church despite der should not be given the opportuni-
Peculiar, isn’t it, how Gibbs, yet Congratulations. I’m very proud Hey, does this mean that Harry its numerous errors and have only ty to work because some str8s don’t
again, did not answer the question that that your team pulled together and Jackson will go home to Maryland warm memories of church life and want to go to the bathroom with them?
was asked, which included words kept this vital newspaper alive. You and re-register to vote there so he being an altar boy back in the days of I suppose in some heteroidiotic way
solely referencing repealing “RIGHT have quickly developed a successful can oppose this? He won’t even have the old Latin Mass. But we were this would make sense in heterosu-
NOW”… and that the “process for new brand with “DC Agenda.” to rent an apartment or buy a condo taught to tell the truth at all times. In premacy land, but in the real world
evaluating, studying and ULTIMATELY Nonetheless, your team deserves to pretend he lives there, as he’s other words not to tell lies to suit a everyone has the right to earn a living
repealing” DADT Gibbs is crowing the legacy that is embodied in “The doing now in the District. — John B. purpose. Conservative Christians, without fear. — PlanetSpinz
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friday, march 12 gender and other interested women in in the mid-Atlantic, features 40+
“IT’S BRITNEY BITCH” features Britney the D.C. area. The group is led by sev- bands, including the Roots and Train.
look-a-likes, karaoke, trivia, music and eral facilitators on a rotational basis. Held at RFK Stadium, 2400 E.
more at Town, 2009 8th St., N.W., 202- New participants are always welcome. Capital St. (Stadium-Armory Metro).
234-TOWN or towndc.com. Doors open The discussion is followed by dinner at Gates open at 11:30 a.m.; tickets start
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for those 21+ and $10 all night for 18-20. saturday, march 13 THE WASHINGTON WIZARDS take
Visit Apex, 1415 22nd St., N.W., for MIXTAPE at EFN Lounge/Motley on the Orlando Magic, 7 p.m. at
CALIENTE GRANDE! Expect the Bar, 1318 9th St., N.W., from 10 p.m. Verizon Center. Tickets start at $10.
hottest Latin music from DJ Michael to 3 a.m. MIXTAPE is an alterna-gay- Visit ticketmaster.com for information.
Brandon with doors opening at 9 disco-electro-pop-indie dance party for WOMEN ARTISTS/WOMEN HEALING
p.m. 18 to get in and 21 to drink. queers, gays, lesbians, trans, queens, II: “HEALING POWER OF MYTH,
The second Friday of each month at the kings, boys, girls, and every combina- RITUAL & CELEBRATION,” features
Green Lantern, 1335 Green Court, tion thereof. 21 and over; $5 cover. mostly women artists, writers and
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music of the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and ’00s. Sean Morris presents “FLY” at Mova, movement, storytelling and more.
The DJs for the evening will be T&T 1435 P St., N.W. Expect music from Free, open to the public, 12:30 p.m.,
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GAY DISTRICT is a weekly, non-church Houston, Madonna and even Amy “TURNER TO CEZANNE: MASTER-
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GBTQ men between 18 and 35. The p.m.; no cover, 21 and up. COLLECTION” continues at the
group meets from 8:30-10:30 p.m at St. Black Cat, 1811 14th St., N.W., 202- Corcoran Gallery, 17th Street and
Margaret’s Episcopal Church, 1820 667-4490, hosts its long-running New York Avenue, N.W. Tickets are
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Connecticut Ave., N.W. For more infor- MOUSETRAP, a Brit-pop dance night, $10; $8 for students. And if you can’t
mation, e-mail gd@gaydistrict.org. on the main stage beginning at 9:30 get enough Cezanne, don’t miss the Celebrate all things BRITNEY SPEARS at Town on Friday night.
WOMEN IN THEIR TWENTIES will p.m. Tickets are $10 general admission. BMA’s “CEZANNE AND AMERICAN
meet at the DC Center, 1810 14th St. Visit blackcatdc.com for information. MODERNISM” now through May 23, BURGUNDY CRESCENT, a gay vol- nastage.org for information.
N.W., at 8 p.m. WiTT is a social discus- NATIONAL SHAMROCKFEST, billed 10 Art Museum Dr., Baltimore, 443- unteer organization, volunteers today PACKING PARTY at EFN Lounge/
sion group for lesbian, bisexual, trans- as the largest St. Patrick’s Day festival 573-1700, artbma.org. Tickets are $15. for D.C. Central Kitchen. To partici- Motley Bar, 1318 9th St., N.W., from
pate, visit burgundycrescent.org. 7-8 p.m. Volunteers will be assem-
Check out Cobalt, 1639 R St. N.W., bling safer sex kits and enjoying drink
for X and party the winter blues away specials, 7-10:30 p.m.
by welcoming daylight savings time.
This Month: DJ Glanson (NYC) with wednesday, march 17
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Dancers, live drag performance by BRIDGE CLUB will meet at 7:30
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of similar events for gays on college A new dimension this year is Queer
Queer dance helps campuses and realized she could Prom’s Casino Royale theme. Metro
gays replace high adapt it to a broader forum.
She was right. She started in 2005
Casinos is bringing gambling para-
phernalia to the party and attendees
school injustices with with a women’s only event. It sold out can play poker, blackjack, roulette and
with about 200 people boarding the craps. Fake money and chips will be
fun memories Spirit of Washington on the waterfront. used to play and each ticket comes
The next year she opened it up to men with $500 worth of chips. Additional
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO and it grew to nearly 300. The real chips can be purchased reasonably for
marker of success, though, she says, real money — it’s meant to be more fun
Ebone Bell did the whole prom is the money that’s raised each year for than high stakes and Bell says prom
thing in 1999 when she was an 18- local LGBT non-profits. The Women’s goers who don’t know the games can Photo by Penny Hoelting; courtesy of Bell
year-old senior at Sherwood High Collective, Wanda’s Will and One in learn at the event.
School in Olney, Md. But she wasn’t Ten were the recipients the first three “I just thought it sounded like Queer Prom founder EBONE BELL (left) at last year’s prom with her girlfriend,
out yet and went with a guy to con- years. This year it’s the Wanda Alston something unique and different that ANGELL GARRIGAN.
form to societal expectations and the House, D.C.’s transitional home for hadn’t been done before in the LGBT
whole evening just felt off. homeless LGBT youth, managed by community,” she says. 1998, was out in high school but still “I had never been to my prom,” she
“I was going through the motions,” Transgender Health Empowerment. And though drinking and gam- sorting through identity issues and says. “I just thought, ‘OK, whatever,’ and
the 28-year-old lesbian says. “I had the “We look for groups that don’t get bling are antithetical to high school didn’t feel comfortable going to prom I got over that, but when my friends told
whole long hair, nails, long dress, make- as much funding or promotional help prom, Bell does have more tradition- with a girl so she stayed home. me about Queer Prom, I thought, ‘Oh,
up and everything. And I’d even say I as some of the bigger non-profits,” al elements planned. A prom court “I had a girlfriend but I didn’t know that sounds fun. Why not?’”
had a good time because I was with my Bell says. “The Wanda Alston House and king and queen — who could be how to properly identify myself back She went last year with a friend and
friends. But I didn’t have that monumen- lost some funding last year and it’s a of either gender in either category — then at prom. I was nervous. I didn’t says it was an incredible evening.
tal rite of passage that it’s supposed to shame, it really is. It’s the only place will be named again this year. want to wear a dress or a suit. I didn’t “I had an awesome time,” she says.
be. I was obviously battling something like it in this area so we really want to Tia Terchila, a local activist and drag know who I was. If I was a girl, if I was “I don’t think I would have had that much
and I guess I kind of knew then.” do our part to help it as much as pos- king who performs as Rusty Nutz, was a boy, if it mattered. Why I think prom is fun at my high school prom. I wasn’t
Nobody can go back in time, of sible. Even if you don’t go to prom, named prom king last year, in part for cool now, for those of us who didn’t get really interested in it and I couldn’t see
course, but local LGBT people can find please go online and make a dona- her extensive volunteer efforts. She to experience prom in the open way we what everybody was so excited about.”
prom nightmare redemption in tion to the Wanda Alston House.” says the honor meant more than it wanted to, we can dress how we want Last year Steggemann wore a
Saturday’s fourth annual Capital Queer Proceeds come from sponsors and might appear to on the surface. to dress and not be judged. It’s fun black and blue pinstripe suit with a
Prom, which runs from 7 to 10:30 p.m. ticket sales but mostly from a silent “It totally had a deeper meaning,” without the pressure of high school.” white dress shirt and rainbow tie. She
at the Almas Temple (1315 K St., N.W.). auction. Queer Prom has raised about Terchila says. “It really made my Liz Steggemann, an Alexandria, has another suit chosen for this year.
Tickets are $50 per individual through $2,000 for each of its charities in pre- entire year. It was really special and Va., lesbian, also skipped her high Bell says the event is formal but
today (www.capitalqueerprom.com). vious years, a figure Bell hopes to made me feel good and made me school prom. She heard about Queer attendees don’t have to feel any
Bell, a local party and events promoter, exceed this year. Miller Lite is the want to keep helping others.” Prom last year through some of her pressure to spend a lot of money.
got the idea watching a teen movie with event’s sole corporate sponsor but Terchila, who graduated from friends at Burgundy Crescent “It’s a gay prom so I expect all kinds
a de rigueur prom scene. She’d heard many locals have made donations. Albuquerque’s Cibola High School in Volunteers and offered to help. of creativity,” Bell says.
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gay actor reflects on a booming career
full palette of colors,” says Rodriguez,
Star of Arena’s ‘Piazza’ 31. “The show’s soaring, deceptively ‘The Light in the Piazza’
headed to big screen uncomplicated score taps my operat-
ic training and musical theatre expe-
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Out actor Nicholas Rodriguez can’t Penned by gay playwright Craig career, it requires rigid discipline —
shake the bad memory of a gay bash- Lucas, “The Light in the Piazza” is it’s a tough life,” says Rodriguez.
ing that ended with a trashcan full of based on Elizabeth Spencer’s novel. “Early on I envisioned a career that
garbage being poured over his head. The show premiered to acclaim at New included musical theater.”
Fortunately, the hate crime wasn’t real, York’s Lincoln Center in 2005. At the He saw correctly. Shortly after arriv-
but rather a dramatization on ABC’s time, Rodriguez was considered for the ing in New York City, affable Rodriguez
daytime drama “One Life to Live.” While coveted Fabrizio role but didn’t get the with his good looks and golden throat
Rodriguez describes playing earnest part. So, when the opportunity came up began to get cast. In addition to origi-
but sexy activist Nick Chavez, the third for him to be part of the Arena Stage nating the role of Tarzan on Broadway,
man in a tumultuous gay love triangle, production, Rodriguez jumped at the he has appeared off-Broadway in “The
as an intense but positive experience, chance: “Working with Molly [Smith, the Toxic Avenger,” “Almost Heaven,” and
the Broadway hunk is happy to return show’s director and Arena’s artistic “Bajour” and toured in “Jesus Christ
to his musical roots for now. director] has been great,” says Superstar” (Jesus), “Evita” (Che), and
Through mid-April, Rodriguez is at Rodriguez. “Arena possesses both “Hair” (Claude). This summer, he can
D.C.’s Arena Stage playing Fabrizio, the artistic integrity and equally important — be seen in the film “Sex and the City 2,”
handsome Italian lover in Adam Guettel’s resources. I worked with both an Italian about which he’s unfortunately been
gorgeous musical “The Light in the instructor and a dialect coach [because sworn to secrecy and would not Photo courtesy of Arena Stage
Piazza.” The Tony-winning work follows Fabrizio and his family speak in Italian], divulge any details.
the experiences of American matron allowing me to get the accent right and “Being out professionally is very Out actor Nicholas Rodriguez plays Fabrizio in ‘THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA,’
Margaret Johnson (Hollis Resnick) and concentrate on my performance.” freeing,” shares Rodriquez who lives now featured at Arena Stage.
her daughter, Clara (Margaret Anne A native Texan, Rodriguez holds in New York City with his partner of
Florence) as they tour Italy in the early both undergraduate and graduate seven years. “You no longer have that ly as a positive force in the gay com- Rodriguez doesn’t have any immedi-
1950s. When Clara and Fabrizio fall in degrees in vocal performance from nagging worry about slipping up or munity, especially gay youth.” ate plans. He may take a breather at
love, Margaret is torn over whether or not the University of Texas at blowing your straight cover in some At home in New York, he’s volun- his getaway in the Catskills, but
to reveal her daughter’s well kept secret Austin. Though educated in classical way. Instead, you can simply be your teered at the Harvey Milk High mostly he likes to work. “With every
that might surely end the young lovers’ voice, he knew that his professional authentic self and put all that energy School, and while in D.C., hopes to new part,” he says, “comes an adven-
happiness, as well as her own. path would lead elsewhere. “I into the work and your life in general. do some work with gay youth. ture and a lesson. I never, ever dread
“Playing Fabrizio, I get to use my absolutely love opera, but as a What’s more I’m able to serve open- After the Arena production, starting my next job.”
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losing the oscar, teaching a lesson
Corporation, Ellsberg was an MIT- The film chronicles one man’s
Pentagon Papers doc is trained specialist in decision-making. political and spiritual odyssey and
a profile in courage The documents known as the Pentagon
Papers comprised 7,000 pages of high-
reveals what great risks Ellsberg
took at the time. Now 78 but decades
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN ly classified documents dating from later still boyishly slender and hand-
Special to DC Agenda 1945 to 1967 and was completed in some as a silver fox, he stood before
1969 when Nixon had meanwhile suc- the audience at a recent special
Daniel Ellsberg — the man who ceeded Johnson in the White House. screening of the film in D.C. with film-
brought the Pentagon Papers to light As he read through the documents, maker Rick Goldsmith and former
in 1971, those secret U.S. govern- Ellsberg became convinced that it was a U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel, who also
ment documents detailing the path of virtual mother lode of proof that the U.S. risked prison to make the docu-
deception leading to the war in government had used systematic ments public at a congressional
Vietnam — is today the darling of a deception about our purposes in hearing, after Ellsberg passed him a
feature-length film that was nominat- Indochina since the 1940s when we first set of the documents in a secret ren-
ed for the Best Documentary Oscar aided the French into trying to retrieve dezvous one night in front of the
(it lost to “The Cove”). their colonial power there against the Mayflower Hotel.
Photo courtesy of mostdangerousman.org
The film is playing at the Cinema popular nationalist forces of Vietnamese After the screening, Gravel mod-
Arts Theatre in Fairfax as well as in ‘THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA’ lost the Oscar this week, but seeking an end to the French empire erated an audience Q&A with
downtown D.C. at the Landmark E holds important lessons related to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. there, and then, after the French defeat, Ellsberg and Goldsmith, and asked
Street Cinema on 11th St., N.W. the U.S. tried to manipulate a puppet Ellsberg about the differences
Ellsberg is the onetime Cold Warrior began to publish the secret history of derring-do and an audacious bid for regime in the south of the country. And between the anti-war movement dur-
and Marine platoon leader in Vietnam, how the Kennedy and Johnson admin- redemption as Ellsberg sought to the rest, as they say, is history — deeply ing the Vietnam conflict and today.
who as a young soldier brandished an istrations had misled the American change the course of history by setting tragic history for hundreds of thousands Ellsberg replied that one difference is
automatic weapon in combat and later people as we stepped — almost the dominos falling to bring that awful of those killed and maimed. that today “grownups, if we can use
a doctorate in political science from sleepwalking — “waist deep into the war to an end and in the eventual course So Ellsberg then faced the ulti- that term, are not filling the role that
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. big muddy” of the Vietnam civil war. of things also to help topple Nixon him- mate uncertainty — whether to risk they did in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Ellsberg was famously dubbed by “The Most Dangerous Man in self, for the origins of Nixon’s Watergate everything, throw away his career, Noting that he had taken “an action
President Nixon’s national security America: Daniel Ellsberg and the “high crimes and misdemeanors” were incur possible imprisonment — all in at some risk” in leaking the Pentagon
adviser Henry Kissinger as “the most Pentagon Papers” is a remarkably dra- planted in the efforts to uproot the the uncertain hope that he could papers, he pointed out that “without
dangerous man in America,” when he matic, fast-paced drumbeat of a feature- whistleblower Ellsberg and others on the make a difference, so he rolled the that, the war would have gone on.”
and Nixon feared that Ellsberg was length documentary film that is must- White House “enemies list.” dice, copied the documents and then
ready to make public Nixon administra- viewing for anyone who wants to under- It all began in the bureaucratic bow- began an odyssey to bring them to For more information on the
tion papers about deception and chi- stand how we got into — and then final- els of the Pentagon when then Defense public attention. In so doing, he would film, go to www.mostdangerous-
canery over the Vietnam War. ly out of — a mistaken war in a remote Secretary Robert S. McNamara in 1967 also change his life and his footsteps man.org. For a videotape of the
Ellsberg went underground in corner of the globe. Sound at all familiar? authorized a top-secret history of U.S. would lead him to a lifetime of resist- Ellsberg-Gravel-Goldsmith dis-
1971, on the run while he feared arrest The film is a gripping montage of decision-making in Indochina. As a ing U.S. militarism up to and including cussion, go to www.afterdown-
in the days before the New York Times high political drama complete with secret strategic analyst with the RAND the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ingstreet.org.
30 dcagenda.com • march 12, 2010
literaryagenda
delve into a mature love story
is no fool for love, he can be just a tad naked abandon. So rest assured that
Gay author explores needy, and I’m not like that, oh no no no!” the novel is replete with happy end-
race, sex and related Wyatt points out that Wes “enjoys
power.”
ings, even if the ultimate happy ending
remains in doubt until the very end —
issues in new book “I also enjoy power,” Evans says, will they wed or will the green-eyed
“but I don’t enjoy it probably as much devil drive them apart?
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN as Wes does, in other words I’m a soft- Wes is stalked by a crime-lord
Special to DC Agenda er version of him.” In person, however, eager to exploit suspicions Wes and
“soft” is the very last adjective that ‘Tonio have about their mutual fideli-
In a truly distinctive genre of LGBT would come to mind, for Evans is pow- ty. For issues of monogamy and also
literature — dubbed here “the stroke erfully gym-built with a cocoa com- partner abuse are just as central to
love story” — the blow-by-blow plexion and gleaming pate and laugh- this tale as are real-life credible ten-
steamy sex doesn’t begin until page ing eyes exuding sensuality and com- sions within the LGBT community, as
115. And by then it will blow the white- mand, from years spent on the stand- seen in the relationship between
walls off your tires. That’s the welcome up comic circuit — a career he plans Wes and ‘Tonio in veiled disquiet and
character of the new novel, “Nothing to reactivate later this year. even sometimes outright hostility
DC Agenda photo by Michael Key
Can Tear Us Apart” by gay African- In addition, Evans has had a long between Latino brown and African-
American writer Wyatt O’Brian Evans, Local gay author WYATT O’BRIAN EVANS will read from his new book March 20 career as a journalist. He holds two American black in what Evans calls
a native Washingtonian. at the DC Center. bachelor’s degrees from George “racism” pure and simple.
Spoiler alert! This is not a Harlequin Washington University — in journalism “We’re not in a post-racial society,”
romance of the sort where the lovers of color,” real men, facing challenges in Wes, some of me is not, but the core and in political science — after gradu- he says, adding, “I have white friends,
court and spark and sulk and simmer the relationship as they are caught up of me is,” says Evans. ating from D.C.’s McKinley Tech High I have black friends and Latino friends
but then the action suddenly ceases in the undertow and cross-currents of a “Wes is like me in that he has core School. His career in journalism really and I’ve been screwed by them all.”
when the tight, straining bodice is final- powerful romance, their lives etched values,” pointedly including a belief in began in boyhood when, he recalls, “I The ultimate purpose of the ideology
ly torn away from the heaving bosom, sharply in an intensely erotic love story, God and Jesus Christ, true also for created my own comic book company, of white supremacy, Evans says, is “to
or the sleek six-pack abs. not as mere erogenous images. Evans, who puts it bluntly about his and I would write dialogue, draw and prevent white genetic annihilation on
Read this novel, yes by all means, Get to know them also on Saturday, own life: “I wouldn’t be here today color the panels. … I love to write, and Earth, a planet on which the overwhelm-
for its steamy sex scenes, for they truly March 20 when the author — now a without a strong belief in God and journalism has always fascinated me.” ing majority of people are classified as
sizzle with sexy-cool and super-hot, resident of Silver Spring, Md. — brings Jesus Christ,” adding, “I’m very spiri- The novel is a fascinating blend of non-white by white-skinned people.”
get-it-on, hard-core action. But first, them fully alive as they were formed in tual — I pray several times a day.” mature love story, dogged by the real- Evans’ book reading takes place 6-9
also get to know the two lead gay char- his imagination when he gives a book “Wes is like me, very loyal, some- life challenges of worry over being p.m., March 20 at the DC Center, 1810
acters: fabulously wealthy black enter- reading at the DC Center. times to a fault, and he is affectionate — cheated on, and also questions of 14th St., N.W., and copies of ‘Nothing
tainment mogul and stand-up comic In an interview exclusive to DC manly affectionate — and not afraid to vying for who’s on top (literally), as Can Drive Us Apart’ can be purchased
Wes Kelly, and his lover Antonio Rios, Agenda, Evans acknowledged how show it,” says Evans. “I want to blow well as a seductively sexy and slam- then at a $20 special discount price.
also his fabulously muscled bodyguard. much his protagonist Wes embodies away all the stereotypes in this novel.” bam account of nights and days spent Copies can also be obtained for $24.95
Get to know them first, in other words, his own identity but also that he is no But the author believes he is unlike his in the proverbial sack, when all inhibi- at wyattobrianevans.net or directly from
as real, three-dimensional, “manly men carbon-copy cutout. “Some of me is creation in key respects, for while “Wes tions are cast aside in a tangle of lulu.com/content/83337.
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