PHI LADELPHIA GAY NEWS
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February 21-27, 2020
POSITIVE THOUGHTS
NJ LESBIAN GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE
AGGRAVATED MANSLAUGHTER IN WIFE’S DEATH ARGUMENTS
VICTORIA A. BROWN-
WORTH
PGN Contributor
After three days of delib-
eration, a Burlington County
Superior Court jury found
Laura Bluestein, 31, guilty of
first-degree aggravated man-
slaughter and evidence tam-
pering in the Aug. 6, 2017,
shooting death of her wife,
Felicia Dormans, 29, in the
bedroom of their Mt. Holly,
New Jersey home.
Prosecutors had argued for
first-degree murder as well as
weapons offenses, but the jury
acquitted Bluestein of both
the murder charge and the gun
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NACIONAL IN MEXICO ON JAN. 23, 2020
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THREE THERAPIES
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ing an HIV therapy trial, in collaboration with Philadel-
phia FIGHT and the University of Pennsylvania.
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ORAL
charge. Dormans was, accord-
ing to her mother, Christine
Dormans, a victim of domes-
tic violence. Felicia Dormans
had called her mother earlier
the day of the shooting to say
the couple had broken up.
Christine Dormans, a for-
mer court reporter, had urged
her daughter to “get out of
there.”
That was the last conversa-
tion she had with her daughter
before Felicia Dormans was
shot to death by Bluestein.
In July, Dormans said her
daughter told her that despite
the problems in the relation-
ship, Felicia wanted to “work
things out, not just walk away
PA G E 4
COMING OUT RESOURCE FOR
On Feb. 13, during Black History Month, the Human
Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation released “Coming
Out: Living Authentically as Black LGBTQ People.”
from the marriage.”
According to Christine
Dormans, Bluestein had text-
ed her to say that the couple
were working things out after
Felicia had called her mother
about the breakup. Shortly
thereafter, Felicia Dormans
was dead.
During the trial, Bluestein’s
attorney, Robin Lord, argued
that the shooting was acciden-
tal. In a 100-minute taped in-
terview the night of the shoot-
ing, Bluestein told police
after her arrest that the gun
had “gone off” after she had
loaded it for Dormans in their
bedroom. Crying
through the inter- page 16
Local woman documents
migrant caravans, LGBTQ
asylum seekers
MICHELE ZIPKIN
michele@epgn.com
Mexican-born fine arts photogra-
pher Ada Trillo, photo-documented
the 2018 and 2020 Central American
migrant caravans seeking asylum in
Mexico and the U.S.
Trillo, a bisexual woman who
lives in Philadelphia, traveled with
the 2020 caravan members as they
departed Honduras on Jan. 15 and
made their way through Guatemala
to Mexico. As they approached Mex-
ico, the asylum seekers were divided
into two groups, both of which were
ultimately deported back to Honduras
against their will. When one group of
migrants initially tried to cross the Su-
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BLACK LGBTQ PEOPLE
HONESTY . INTEGRITY . PROFESSIONALISM
V ol. 44 N o. 8
LAURA BLUESTEIN
IN HER 2017 BOOKING PHOTO
Photo: Burlington County
P r o s e c u t o r ’s O f f i c e
chiate River at the Mexico/Guatemala
border, they were tear-gassed by the
Guardia Nacional, according to Trillo.
Many of the travelers were members
of the LGBTQ+ community escaping
extreme discrimination and violent liv-
ing conditions in Honduras.
Same-sex marriage, adoption for
same-sex couples and the legal recog-
nition of trans people’s identities are
banned in Honduras. The country’s
LGBTQ people have been encounter-
ing violence and homicidal attacks at
high rates. Since 2009, 277 LGBTI
people have been murdered in Hondu-
ras, according to the law organization
Latin American Working Group via
Cattrachas, an organiza-
tion devoted to driving page 17
GREATER PHILADELPHIA HRC
GALA FIGHTS LGBTQ INEQUALITY
The Greater Philadelphia Human Rights Campaign Gala,
one of the biggest LGBTQ fundraising events in Philadelphia,
will take place on Feb. 29 at the Loews Hotel.
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HELD IN
TRANS NAME-
CHANGE CASE
TIMOTHY CWIEK
timothy@epgn.com
A three-judge panel of Com-
monwealth Court heard argu-
ments Feb. 13 on whether Penn-
sylvania residents convicted of
serious felonies should be perma-
nently barred from changing their
name, even if they’re transgender.
The judges on the panel are
Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter,
Patricia A. McCollough and Mi-
chael H. Wojcik. They were asked
to declare unconstitutional a pro-
vision of the state’s name-change
law that bans name-changes for
Pennsylvania residents convicted
of serious felonies.
The oral arguments were held
at the University of Pittsburgh
School of Law in Pittsburgh.
Each side had about 10 minutes
to present their case.
The litigants are Philadel-
phia resident Alonda Talley and
Allegheny County residents
Chauntey Mo’Nique Porter and
Priscylla Renee Von Noaker.
They’re represented pro bono by
the Reed Smith law firm, based
in Pittsburgh, and the Transgen-
der Legal Defense and Education
Fund, based in New York.
The women didn’t attend the
oral-argument proceeding. In
May, they sued the state, the
Department of State and its sec-
retary, Kathy Boockvar. During
oral arguments, the three-judge
panel questioned whether the
correct parties were
sued. page 18
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RESOURCE LISTINGS
LEGAL RESOURCES
PHILADELPHIA COMMISSION ON
HUMAN RELATIONS —
Rue Landau
215-686-4670
PHILADELPHIA POLICE
LIAISON COMMITTEE
215-760-3686
ppd.lgbt@gmail.com
SPARC — STATEWIDE
PENNSYLVANIA RIGHTS COALITION
717-920-9537
ACLU OF PENNSYLVANIA
215-592-1513; aclupa.org
AIDS LAW PROJECT OF PA
215-587-9377; aidslawpa.org
AIDS LAW PROJECT OF
SOUTH JERSEY
856-784-8532; aidslawsnj.org
EQUALITY PA
equalitypa.org; 215-731-1447
OFFICE OF LGBT AFFAIRS —
EVAN THORNBURG
215-686-0330
evan.thornburg@phila.gov
COMMUNITY CENTERS
THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER
255 S. 16th St.; 215-545-4331
atticyouthcenter.org
For LGBT and questioning youth
and their friends and allies.
LGBT CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF PENNSYLVANIA
3907 Spruce St.; 215-898-5044
center@dolphin.upenn.edu
RAINBOW ROOM: BUCKS
COUNTY’S LGBTQ AND ALLIES
YOUTH CENTER
Salem UCC Education Building
181 E. Cour t St., Doylestown
215-957-7981 ext. 9065
rainbowroom@ppbucks.org
WILLIAM WAY
LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER
1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220
www.waygay.org
H E A LT H A N D H I V T E S T I N G
ACTION WELLNESS
1216 Arch St.; 215-981-0088 ac-
tionwellness.org
AIDS TREATMENT FACT LINE
800-662-6080
AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
1211 Chestnut St. #405
215-971-2804; HIVcare.org
AIDS LIBRARY
1233 Locust St, aidslibrar y.org
MOSAIC MEDICAL CENTER FOR
LGBTQ+ HEALTH AND WELLNESS
www.mosaicmedicalcenter.org
610-583-1177
AIDS CARE GROUP
www.aidscaregroup.org
610-583-1177
PrEP DELCO
www.prepdelco.com
610-872-9101
BEBASHI-TRANSITION TO HOPE
1235 Spring Garden St
215-769-3561; bebashi.org
COLOURS
coloursorganization.org
215-832-0100
CONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS
216 W. Somerset St
215-763-8870
GALAEI
149 W. Susquehanna Ave
267-457-3912, galaei.org
Spanish/English
HEALTH CENTER NO. 2
1720 S. Broad St
215-685-1821
LGBT ELDER INITIATIVE
1315 Spruce Street, 4th Floor
lgbtelderintiative.org
215.720.9414
MAZZONI CENTER
1348 Bainbridge St
215-563-0652
mazzonicenter.org
NOVUS ACS
MEDICAL SERVICES
11 DUANE RD, STE A
DOYLESTOWN, PA
267-454-7086
NOVUSACS.COM
PHILADELPHIA FIGHT
1233 Locust St.; 215-985-4448
fight.org
WASHINGTON WEST PROJECT OF
MAZZONI CENTER
1201 Locust St.; 215-985-9206
TRANSGENDER HEALTH ACTION
COALITION
215-732-1207
OTHER
INDEPENDENCE BRANCH LIBRARY
BARBARA GITTINGS GAY AND
LESBIAN COLLECTION
215-685-1633
INDEPENDENCE BUSINESS
ALLIANCE
215-557-0190, independence-
businessalliance.com
LGBT PEER COUNSELING
SERVICES
215-732-TALK
PFLAG: PARENTS, FAMILIES AND
FRIENDS OF LESBIANS AND GAYS
(PHILADELPHIA)
215-572-1833
PHILLY PRIDE PRESENTS
215-875-9288
Coming out resource for Black
LGBTQ people released by HRC
TERINA HILL
PGN Contributor
On Feb. 13, during
Black History Month,
the Human Rights
Campaign (HRC)
Foundation released
“Coming Out: Living
Authentically as Black
LGBTQ People.”
The HRC is the edu-
cational arm of the na-
tion’s largest lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or-
ganization. This online guide “is designed
for those embarking on their own coming
out journey at the intersections of LGBTQ
and Black identities.” The guide aims to
“recognize the unique experiences Black
LGBTQ people have in coming out, while
understanding that coming out is a person-
al choice and the lifelong coming out ex-
perience is different for everyone.”
This free, 66-page guide includes “grap-
pling with faith traditions and teachings
that may condemn or reject LGBTQ iden-
tities,” and details how Black LGBTQ
people must deal with systemic racism and
anti-Blackness in “all facets of their daily
lives — including their LGBTQ identi-
ties.”
“As we mark the beginning of Black His-
tory Month, we celebrate those who made
enormous sacrifices in their own lives to
blaze a trail toward greater freedom and
equality. At the same time, we must also
confront the barriers that continue to exist
for Black people and Black LGBTQ peo-
ple,” said HRC President Alphonso David
in a statement.
The 2019 Black and African American
LGBTQ Youth Report noted that 44 per-
cent of Black transgender and gender-ex-
pansive youth are out to their LGBTQ
friends regarding their gender identity and
only 13 percent are out to their parents.
Sixty percent of LGBTQ youth are out
to their LGBTQ friends about their sexu-
al orientation but only 12 percent are out
to their parents. Only 21 percent of trans-
gender and gender-expansive Black youth
are called by their correct pronouns, and
29 percent responded that they are able
to dress in a way that reflects their gender
identity. When looking at the intersection
of race, 90 percent of Black LGBTQ youth
said they have experienced racial discrim-
ination and 91 percent said racism has im-
pacted the lives of their friends and family.
Here is a sample of what LGBTQ teens
from the Gay-Straight Alliance in a nearby
South Jersey high school had to say about
HRC’s new resource:
“I think it would be cool for people who
want to use it. It’s really hard for some
people to come out, and it would be a lot
easier if people were educated and stuff
about it, because, for some people, it’s
dangerous to come out because of where
Philadelphia Gay News . FEBRUARY 21-27, 2020
they live or if they have a homophobic
family or whatever, but if it helps people to
come out and be who they are, then I think
the resource would be great. I’m already
out so I wouldn’t really need the help or
anything.”
“While I am grateful for the movement
over the last 60 years to help normalize the
LGBTQ+ community (to others) and to make
it safer for LGBTQ teens to be themselves,
there is still so much learned ignorance that
causes parents to become rude and hateful or
even violent towards their children when they
come out. If there is now a resource that could
aid with these hard and unnecessarily uncom-
fortable times, it would be amazing! Not just
for making sure that the children are safe and
loved regardless, but also in educating parents
to understand that they are simply projecting
onto their children things they’ve been taught
and forced to believe by society and their own
parents. I would use a resource like this 100
percent, even if I was not a part of the LGBTQ
community because I fully believe you are
at your best when you don’t harbor hatred
against people for being themselves simply
because someone told you to.”
“It would have definitely been so much eas-
ier to come out for me if I had had a resource
to back me up!”
“I don’t personally think a human rights or-
ganization should aid in coming out. I think
it’s good for them to be there before and after
coming out but coming out is the responsibil-
ity of the person (in the closet). I personally
wouldn’t use this resource purely because I
feel coming out should be personal and pri-
vate for both the person coming out and the
person finding out.”
“Coming Out: Living Authentically as
Black LGBTQ People” is available as a down-
loadable PDF or a digital magazine. It pro-
vides insight into the complexities of coming
out as a Black LGBTQ person, an explanation
of language used in the resource, particularly
“umbrella’ terms that encompass the entire
queer or Black communities without distin-
guishing specific sub-groups or ethnicities
within the Black race.
It also includes affirmations, circumstances
to consider first, myth-busters, suggestions to
manage expectations, and an understanding
that each coming out journey is unique. The
History & Culture section gives accounts of
same-sex interactions throughout the African
diaspora since the dawn of mankind. n
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Institute and Philadelphia FIGHT has been
an integral component of our success as a
group by joining communities, scientists
and trials all at the same time,” said Mon-
taner. “We could have the trial ideas, but if
we don’t have community participants that
can be committed to do these studies, then
we wouldn’t have anything.”
The trial is currently open and Montaner
and his team hope to recruit up to 21 par-
ticipants.
In order for those who are HIV-positive
to participate in the trial, they must be “sta-
bly suppressed under current antiretroviral
therapy,” Montaner said. They must also
first be tested to determine whether the
active form of the virus is able to be sup-
pressed by the two antibodies. Montaner
expects to screen 150-200 patients at the
most and will stop when he finds 21 willing
participants.
If selected, participants must come in for
regular evaluations over their nine-month
trial. They also must go through medical
procedures, as the antibodies are adminis-
tered by an intravenous line. People who
participate in these cure-directed trials
have been referred to in the field as astro-
nauts, Montaner said.
“They become highly selected within
communities and basically venture out to
see exactly what’s going to happen.”
There are currently approximately
19,147 people living with HIV in Phila-
delphia, according to AIDSVu. The Phil-
adelphia Department of Health reported
424 newly diagnosed cases of HIV in
Philadelphia in 2018.
“There are very few trials nationwide
that open cure-directed initiatives for
HIV,” Montaner said. “We happen to be
at a point where we’re about to open one
after a lot of deliberation, and a lot of at-
tention will be placed on these 21 people
because the expectation is that by joining
these [chemicals] we will see first-combi-
nation effects.”
The antiretroviral therapies that are cur-
rently being used to treat HIV are combi-
nation treatments. When each component
was tested separately, they were ineffec-
tive in suppressing the virus in the long
term, Montaner explained.
“Once you put three together now you
can stay on drugs for the rest of your life,”
he said. “This concept of combination is
one that we’re all very intrigued to find
out what will happen.”
This breakthrough research in the field
of HIV treatment is unique to the Wistar
Institute. Over the last decade and a half,
Philadelphia has played a significant role
in participating in HIV therapy trials.
“All the interferon trials that preceded
this one have primarily been done here in
Philadelphia,” he said. “There have been at
least three of them already, creating a jus-
tification for why we then look to combine
it with something else.”
The current group of people participat-
ing in HIV cure-directed trials is doing so
because previous generations of people
living with the virus did the same to help
medical professionals devise the current
medications, Montaner pointed out.
“This is the state of the field,” Montaner
said. “This is the next wave of informa-
tion that will inform whether these strate-
gies are a true path towards a cure.” n
Those interested in participating in the
trial can contact Ken Lynn, trial manager
and RN, by phone at (215) 662-8217 or
by email at kelynn@pennmedicine.up-
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MICHELE ZIPKIN
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Julie Chovanes is a transgender woman,
lawyer and trans rights activist living in
Philadelphia. After working as a partner at
DLA Piper, she started her law firm, Cho-
vanes Law LLC. Though she initially fo-
cused on commercial law, she now exclu-
sively practices gender rights law, focusing
specifically on trans rights.
“To me, the law is a message for justice,
for putting forth and preserving people’s in-
dividual rights,” Chovanes said. “Everybody
has the right to self-define.”
Chovanes is the founder and executive
director of Trans-Help, a nonprofit organi-
zation that provides legal services to trans
folks and educates the general public about
local and large-scale trans communities.
“It originally started with a group of other
trans women,” she said. “It was an attempt
to give Maslow’s Pyramid some effect in the
real world. Trans people lack those basics
even down at the bottom. We were working
on different areas like trans housing.”
As a gender rights lawyer, one of the big-
gest cases that Chovanes has won was Doe
v. Dallas, which quashed Pennsylvania’s
ban on trans Medicaid care.
“Your average trans person is dying for
help, is dying to be recognized, is dying lit-
erally because so many of us are poor,” she
said.
“It’s such a horrible lifestyle — we be-
come sex workers, we become physical-
ly unable to deal with life and hide in our
houses and all these things. With the Medic-
aid case, we were able to make sure that the
state would pay for [trans people’s] medica-
tions, their hormones.”
Chovanes also worked on two cases in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, fighting for
gender-accurate birth certificates in both
states. In the New Jersey case, Chovanes
achieved the first declaration from the
Philadelphia Gay News . FEBRUARY 21-27, 2020
Trans woman of color
seeks day in court
TIMOTHY CWIEK
timothy@epgn.com
people. A decision by the high court on that
issue isn’t expected for several months.
A Feb. 7 reply brief filed on behalf of
A homeless, HIV-positive transgender Doe urges Leeson to move forward with
woman of color is urging a federal judge to the case. “[Doe] is a homeless transgender
move forward with her antibias case against woman,” the brief states. “[Doe] respectful-
a Dunkin’ Donuts shop, despite the shop’s ly contends this is a situation in which she
request to hold the case in abeyance until the was respectfully placed by [Dunkin’ Do-
Supreme Court decides whether LGBT in- nuts], who [Doe] alleges terminated her
dividuals are covered under Title VII of the illegally, thereby leaving her without the
1964 Civil Rights Act. ability to properly support herself. The
From March 2018 to May 2018, “Jane employment discrimination [Doe] faced
Doe” worked as a cashier at the Dunkin’ Do- was compounded by the fact [Doe] was
nuts rendered without stable housing. [Doe]
shop on the 200 block of West Fourth has an interest in the prompt prosecution
Street in Bethlehem. and ultimate resolution of this case, and
Bethlehem is a city located about 48 miles the administration of justice in [Doe’s]
northwest of Philadelphia in the Lehigh case in a timely manner.”
Valley, with about 75,000 residents. It has The 44-page brief also notes that Beth-
an LGBT-inclusive antibias law. lehem has an LGBT-inclusive antibias
Doe’s Nov. 8 federal lawsuit claims she law. Even if the Supreme Court rules that
was subjected to anti-LGBT slurs shortly LGBT people don’t have federal antibias
J U L I E C H OVA N E S
after she began working at the donut shop. protections in the workplace, Doe’s case
Slurs hurled at her by co-workers and cus- under the local ordinance should continue
Trump administration, recognizing that a
tomers include “f--king f---ot,” “tr---y,” to move forward, according to the brief.
trans person experiencing gender dysphoria
“dude,” “b---h,” and “n---a.” Moreover, Doe alleges race discrimina-
is protected under the Americans with Dis-
Doe, 26, alleges that because co-workers tion and disability discrimination on the
abilities Act.
routinely misgendered her, customers would part of Dunkin’ Donuts. She’s disabled
“It’s a difficult area because trans people
do so as well, despite her protests. Doe also due to having gender dysphoria and being
are saying ‘no, I’m not disabled,’” Chovanes
was denied use of the store’s women’s re- HIV-positive. Doe claims that when she
explained. “But the point of the case is no,
stroom, after a customer complained about requested a few days off due to her dis-
you’re not disabled, but gender dysphoria
her using the facility, according to the suit. abilities, she was unlawfully terminated.
can be disabling, and that means we have
In one incident, a customer refused to in- Those claims would continue to be via-
rights, we get treated differently because of
teract with Doe at the cash register. As a re- ble, regardless of how the Supreme Court
that.”
sult, rules on the LGBT issue. Thus, the case
As an activist, Chovanes is engaged in a
Doe was temporarily moved to the rear of should be permitted to move forward in
legal dispute with the Philadelphia District
the store, where she was out of the view of its entirety, according to Doe’s brief.
Attorney’s Office for withholding records
the Doe seeks more than $150,000 in
in the case of Nizah Morris, a Black trans
customer. In another incident, a customer compensatory and punitive damages.
woman who allegedly died while in police
complained that Doe wanted to be referred As of presstime, Leeson hadn’t ruled on
custody or very near to it, according to time-
to as a woman. A store manager sided with Dunkin’ Donuts request to dismiss the
stamped testimony and documentation.
the customer and did not correct the person. case or hold it in abeyance.
After Morrison collapsed on the street
Additionally, Doe was subjected to threats of “We’re confident Judge Leeson will
from intoxication in the post-midnight hours
violence from a former employee of the do- allow this case to move forward,” said
of a December morning, police intervened
nut shop, according to court records. Justin F. Robinette, an attorney for Doe.
and offered her a courtesy ride. Despite
In a Dec. 20 motion, Dunkin’ Donuts asked “My client is facing a horrible situation,
Morris asking to be taken home in West
U.S. District Joseph F. Leeson Jr. of the East- being homeless. And there’s no basis to
Philadelphia, three police officers dropped
ern District of Pennsylvania to either dismiss stall this case. Justice delayed is justice
her off at 15th and Walnut streets, where
the case or hold it in abeyance until the U.S. denied.”
she was ultimately found with severe head
Supreme Court decides whether Title VII An attorney for Dunkin’ Donuts had no
injuries and taken to the hospital. She died
of the 1964 Civil Rights Act covers LGBT comment for this update. n
a few days later. None of the police officers
involved have been charged with a crime.
Police reports are missing information, and
investigative records have been withheld.
“A conspiracy has hidden the documents
surrounding her death for 16 years, a con-
spiracy of silence around the killing of a
Black trans woman potentially in city cus-
tody,” Chovanes said. “It’s amazing that no
one would care enough about her to even
release these documents.”
Even though these records have been
inaccessible for years, Chovanes believes
that she is making headway in this case. “I
feel optimistic,” she said. “That’s what life
should be about. But how can we trust any
organization in this city when we need to so
badly — how can we trust them if they’re
hiding these documents.” n
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8 LOCAL
Local senior
advocacy
organization
honors
LGBTQ
activists
MICHELE ZIPKIN
michele@epgn.com
The Center for Advocacy for the Rights
and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE) will
present its annual Spirit of CARIE Award to
LGBTQ+ elder activists John C. Butts and
Ada Bello. The cocktail party event, “Be the
Voice!,” will take place on April 23 at the stu-
dios of WHYY.
“I think it’s important just to recognize the
people who are so critical to the work that
is important to helping people,” said Diane
Menio, CARIE’s executive director. “We be-
lieve very strongly in
the power of system-
ic change. We help
people individually,
but we know that if
we’re helping one
person, there’s many
more that might have
the same problem.”
Bello, who was
born in Cuba and
came to Philadelphia
in 1962, is a long-
time activist in the
LGBTQ+ communi-
ty. She took part in
founding the Phil-
adelphia chapter of
Daughters of Bilitis,
a lesbian civil and political rights organiza-
tion, as well as its descendant organization,
the Homophile Action League. Bello’s par-
ticipation in the 2010 LGBT Aging Summit,
organized by Heshie Zinman, facilitated her
involvement in the founding of LGBT Elder
Initiative (LGBTEI). Bello also served for
19 years as a long-term care ombudsman for
CARIE.
“I have a very high opinion of CARIE and
their mission,” Bello said. “I’m very honored
by the distinction.” She served as a liaison
between CARIE and LGBTEI. “CARIE was
a great help in starting LGBTEI. From the
very beginning, we were working together,”
she said.
Butts has also volunteered and raised
funds for Philadelphia’s elder and LGBTQ
communities. He has served on CARIE’s
board, as well as on the board for Action
Wellness, where he was involved in the orga-
nization’s annual Dining Out for Life event.
From there, he started his own fundraising
Philadelphia Gay News . FEBRUARY 21-27, 2020
event Cocktails for a Cause, through which
he raised a substantial amount of money for
Action Wellness. He plays an active role in
the religious social justice group Sisters of
Mercy.
“When the award was announced, I can’t
tell you the number of people who called us
and said, what a wonderful selection,” said
Michele Mathis, development director at
CARIE. “[John] is just beloved throughout
the community. Ada Bello is an icon in her
own right.”
A coalition of groups and individuals —
including the Friends’ Committee on Ag-
ing and the ageism advocacy network Grey
Panthers — created CARIE in 1977. CARIE
became a nonprofit organization in 1979 and
offers a variety of programs, including advo-
cacy services and emergency security for el-
derly crime victims, transportation solutions,
Medicaid protection and more. The CARIE
team also engages in national advocacy
work, such as helping to secure nondiscrim-
ination regulations in health care programs.
Though separate from CARIE, LGBTEI
is dedicated to ensuring that LGBTQ older
adults are able to lead authentic, fulfilling
lives. Mathis took part in getting LGBTEI off
the ground when she served as director of ed-
ucation and training for CARIE roughly 10
years ago. She convened with other members
of CARIE as well as members of LGBTQ
and senior communities to discuss methods
of uniting elder ser-
vices and LGBTQ
communities.
“It occurred to me
that there were older
adults... who their
whole lives have
been in the closet,”
Mathis said. “How
do we reach those
people to provide
services?”
Currently,
LGBTEI is com-
prised of “consum-
ers, representatives
ADA BELLO
of the area agencies
on aging, other ag-
ing service orga-
nizations LGBT service and community
organizations and representatives of local
government agencies.”
Menio served on the first board of LGBTEI.
“It was a concern we’ve had for going back
25 years,” she said. “We did a summit in
Philadelphia bringing some pretty good peo-
ple in Philadelphia to talk about the issues.
That’s where the organization started.”
Prior to the cocktail party event, CARIE
will host a VIP reception at 4:30 p.m., where
the award-winners will speak about their
accomplishments. The main event will take
place at 5:30 p.m. on April 23, where guests
can enjoy wine, beer, a selection of food, as
well as live and silent auctions. Tickets are
$100 per person, $75 in advance until March
20, and $150 to be a benefactor.
“I just think that it’s about time,” Menio
said in reference to the recognition of Bel-
lo and Butts. “Both of them are so amazing,
inspiring people and we wanted to recognize
that.” n
FEBRUARY 21-27, 2020 . epgn.com
Greater Philadelphia HRC
Gala will raise funds for
LGBTQ equality
MICHELE ZIPKIN
michele@epgn.com
The Greater Philadelphia Human Rights
Campaign Gala (HRC) will take place on
Feb. 29 at the Loews Hotel. As one of the
biggest LGBTQ+ fundraising events in Phil-
adelphia, this annual dinner honors and ac-
knowledges the steps the organization has
taken toward achieving LGBTQ equality and
recognizes local LGBTQ leaders.
Tri-chairs of the 2020 Greater Philadel-
phia Gala Tom Rogers, Elizabeth Balcom
and Marissa Barnathan, all shared similar
sentiments that this year’s gala bears partic-
ular importance for LGBTQ communities
as HRC members engage in campaign work
ahead of the presidential election.
Balcom and Rogers serve as members of
the HRC National Board of Governors, and
Barnathan works as political action and com-
munity engagement (PACE) board liaison
for the HRC. All three are part of the Greater
Philadelphia HRC Steering Committee. Rog-
ers identifies as a gay man, and Balcom iden-
tifies as a pansexual member of the LGBTQ
community.
“The 2020 Human Rights Campaign
Greater Philadelphia Dinner kicks off a year
of GOTV for equality throughout Pennsyl-
vania,” Rogers said in an email. “The 2020
presidential election is a crucial race, and
coalition-building will be key to our suc-
cess. While HRC volunteers are already on
the ground canvassing and campaigning, the
dinner energizes and unites the LGBTQ+
community-at-large.“
Balcom pointed out that Pennsylvania will
play a pivotal role in determining election
results.
“Pennsylvania remains one of six priority
states for HRC in this election cycle, and the
organization is investing significant staff, re-
sources and time to support our local work
to elect pro-equality candidates in 2020,” she
said in an email. “Flipping our state blue has
the power to fundamentally change the out-
come of the 2020 election — on both a lo- The gala will take place on Feb. 29 at
cal and federal level — and the policies that the Loews Hotel at 1200 Market Street in
will shape our state and country for years to Philadelphia.
come.”
Viet Tran, deputy press secre-
tary, rapid response for the HRC,
H R C ’ S 2 0 1 9 G R E AT E R P H I L A D E L P H I A G A L A
echoed these thoughts about
the gravity of the funds the gala
will provide to support LGBTQ
equality work on a large scale.
“As we head into the most im-
portant election of our lifetime,
HRC is working hard to mobi-
lize 57 million Equality Voters
-— LGBTQ voters and allies —
as a part of our movement, who
will make a significant differ-
ence in the 2020 election,” Tran
said in an email.
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EDITORIAL BY JESS BRYANT

Union’s rience approaching LGBTQ is- health status, less depression,

ZAYA WADE IS A ROLE MODEL FOR ALL OF US
Dwayne Wade’s daughter Zaya
recently came out as transgen-
der, though the superstar ex-NBA
player said she knew her identity
since she was 3-years-old.
In a video posted to Instagram by
Gabrielle Union, Dwayne’s wife
and co-parent to Zaya, Dwayne
and Zaya are seen in a golf cart
speaking about Zaya’s gender and
what it means to come out.
Zaya said, “Be true to yourself,”
adding, “What’s the point of being
on this earth if you’re going to try
to be someone you’re not? It’s like
you’re not even living as yourself.”
Dwayne asked his daughter,
“Even if people are being mean?
And even when people are getting
hurt by it because they’re trying to
be themselves, and even through
that, you still want people to live
their truth?”
Zaya replied, “I know it can get
tough, definitely, but I think you
push through and you be the best
you …. It’s worth it. I feel like It’s
very worth it when you reach that
point in yourself.”
She added, “You can look in
the mirror and say ‘hi’ to yourself,
‘nice to meet you,’ instead of ‘I
don’t really know who I am.’ It’s a
full identity crisis.”
post gath-
ered com-
ments of love from the likes of
Jordyn Woods, Viola Davis, Jamie
Foxx and others. Commentors cel-
ebrated Zaya’s intelligence and
bravery, as well as Dwayne’s sup-
port. But comments of hate were
also posted. Hip-hop artists Boosie
and Young Thug both wrote
transphobic comments on social
media. The good news — both
received a great deal of backlash.
Both Dwayne and Gabrielle
Union have been very support-
ive of Zaya as she’s come out to
the world in a very public way.
Dwayne admitted that parenting
Zaya offered him his first expe-
sues in a way that was personal.
He acknowledged that Zaya has
educated him and Union on trans
and LGBQ issues.
Dwayne’s stand for Zaya is
important for a plethora of rea-
sons, including moving forward
LGBTQ acceptance in profes-
sional sports and masculine ac-
ceptance of trans women and
trans femme folks. But most
importantly, his support of Zaya
is essential to his daughter’s
well-being.
A study by “Pediatric Clinics
of North America” suggested
“family support and acceptance
is associated with greater self-es-
teem, social support, general
less substance abuse and less
suicidal ideation and behaviors
among LGBT youth… . Among
transgender youth specifically,
parental support is protective
against depression and associ-
ated with having a higher quality
of life.”
The Trevor Project reports that
transgender youth report signifi-
cantly increased rates of depres-
sion, suicidality and victimiza-
tion compared to cisgender peers.
Supportive parents like
Dwayne and Union — parents
who do not just accept but cele-
brate their child — can make a
world of difference in a young,
trans person’s life. n

CREEP OF THE WEEK BY D’ANNE WITKOWSKI

LAURA INGRAHAM
Do you have a hobby? Most people do. Per-
sonally, I like to read books. I also like to listen
to true crime podcasts and heavy metal music.
Maybe you like to knit scarves, make art, play
video games or go for bike rides.
Fox Nation’s Laura Ingraham probably has
a number of hobbies, though I don’t know
what they are since most of them she enjoys
privately. But there’s one hobby she is very
passionate and public about, and that’s de-
monizing transgender people.
On the Feb. 3 edition of Fox Nation’s
“Laura and Raymond,” the show she co-
hosts with Raymond Arroyo, Ingraham
was up in arms about a teacher in New York
using a curriculum that encouraged kids to
be “transgender-affirming,” the very idea
of which Ingraham called “child abuse.”
According to Arroyo, the curriculum
stated, “Everybody has the right to choose
their own gender by listening to their own
heart and mind. Everyone gets to choose if
they are a boy or a girl or both or neither or
something else.”
To which Ingraham replied, “I have a
question. If that’s the case, then do pre-kin-
dergartners actually get to choose when
they can have sexual activity?”
I was at first confused by her question.
Because, of course, pre-kindergartners get
to choose when they can have what Ingra-
ham calls “sexual activity.” But then I real-
ized that Ingraham isn’t talking about how
children explore their bodies, how that’s
normal, how good parents encourage chil-
dren in an age-appropriate way to be curi-
ous while still cautioning them that some
things are private and teaching them about
boundaries.
What Ingraham is talking about is appar-
ently pre-schoolers having sex. And she’s
saying that affirming a child’s gender sexu-
alizes them, which is bonkers.
Sex and gender are not the same thing.
Sexual orientation and gender identity are
not the same thing. This is, I understand, claimed that “the left has been on the cul- ing their
very confusing for some people. And the tural warpath to gender-bend our kids into gender
idea that there are more than just two box- submission” and that LGBTQ activists identity
es to check, male or female, makes some were “indoctrinating children” via drag and com-
people really uncomfortable. I get it. The queen story hours at public libraries. petition
unfamiliar can be scary. In 2014 she advised parents of transgen- against
But respecting a child’s gender identity der kids who identify as girls to tell them, girls. I
is not the same thing as giving them a juice “Take the dress off. We’re going to go out definitely see that happening in 3, 2, 1, never.
box and a bag of Goldfish and dropping and play some football.” Fun fact: Laura Ingraham has a gay
them off at a brothel for a playdate. Speaking of sports, in 2019 she called brother.
Demonizing transgender people has letting trans athletes play in gender-segre- “I think she’s a monster,” Curtis Ingra-
real and damaging consequences. Affirm- gated sports “insanity,” putting the blame ham said in a 2018 Daily Beast interview.
ing gender identity has real and life-sav- on feminism. “She’s very smart, she’s well-spoken, but
ing consequences. According to Media “If this is where feminism takes us, and her emotional heart is just kind of dead.”
Matters, “Research shows that transgen- gender politics takes us,” she said on Fox And it’s definitely not resting in peace. n
der youth are best able to succeed when News, “all feminists across the country
their teachers and families accept and af- should, you know, think about it again be- D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and
firm their gender identity, which has been cause this will destroy girls’ sports even- comedian living in Michigan with her wife
proven to reduce their risk of experiencing tually.” and son. She has been writing about LGBT
depression, homelessness and suicidal ide- Yes, just wait until cis boys learn that they politics for over a decade. Follow her on
ation.” can win more at sports simply by chang- Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.
Gosh, that sounds like a good thing, and
not like child abuse at all. In fact, it’s more
like the opposite of child abuse.
But that’s not the way Ingraham sees it.
She sees any affirmation of gender identity
to be a societal scourge.
“The public school system in California
has led the way on this, and this is absolute
indoctrination of children and it’s an as-
sault on religious liberty. The parents who
don’t want to be part of this are ostracized
and meant to feel like they are haters when
they’re just like, ‘We’re just doing what our
conscience and biology informs us.’”
Pretty rich to hear someone from Fox
Nation talk about “indoctrination.”
As for making people feel like haters, it’s
important to point out that you don’t have
to hate someone to harm them. But advo-
cating against another person’s humanity is
a pretty hateful endeavor.
This isn’t the first time Ingraham has
equated gender affirmation to child abuse.
During her June 12, 2019, podcast she
FEBRUARY 21-27, 2020 . epgn.com
MARK MY WORDS WITH MARK SEGAL
Goodbye Archbishop Chaput
This week another
conservative Catho-
lic Bishop goes into
retirement — Phila-
delphia’s Archbishop
Charles Chaput. He
leaves not having ob-
tained his life’s goal,
and we in our commu-
nity can take credit.
This is a form of ac-
tivism that others around the nation need to
learn, so I’m sharing it here.
Before coming to Philadelphia from Den-
ver, Chaput was already known as homopho-
bic. Under his tabernacle reins, LGBTQ peo-
ple were tossed out of their jobs, and lesbian
couples were refused communion.
POSITIVE THOUGHTS BY PORCHIA DEES
I’m a Beautiful Black Queen living with HIV, not stigma
I am a Beautiful Black Queen living with
HIV. It has taken a long time for me to come
to terms with that statement because the con-
cepts of beauty and HIV don’t usually go to-
gether. Growing up poz and trying to cope
with the stigma surrounding my experience
has been challenging, to say the least. I am
a part of the first generation of children who
were born positive. I was born Dec. 5, 1986.
At the time, my biological mother was using
drugs and heavy in her addiction. If it weren’t
for my aunt, who I call mom and who took le-
gal guardianship of me, I don’t think I would
be here today.
My pediatrician told my parents that he
didn’t think I’d live to see my 5th birthday,
but clearly God had other plans. As a kid liv-
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Upon his arrival in Philadelphia, he and I
both had a similar idea. He felt that his work
here would earn him a promotion to cardinal,
which gets one that famous red cap. Due to
his position and actions against the LGBT
community, my goal was to keep him from
getting that cap he so desired.
Each time he took action against our com-
munity, we published that information and
forwarded it to every possible place you
might think, even the Vatican. When he cre-
ated conversion therapy for Catholics, we
wrote about it. When he got caught up in the
various priest sexual assault scandals, we
wrote about it, and not in diplomatic terms
like child abuse, but by blatantly writing that
priests raped children. Words matter and the
truth hurts. When he closed schools in poor
ing with HIV, I was assigned a social worker
who kept me involved in lots of events for
children battling different life-threatening dis-
eases. I attended camp every summer, which
gave me the chance to be around other kids
who understood what I was going through.
We all had our camp “crushes.” But I would
soon find out that dating at camp was a lot dif-
ferent from dating in the real world, and that
the dating and hook-up guidelines we follow
as a society are not inclusive of someone liv-
ing with HIV — someone like me. My parents
are old-school, African-American, super-reli-
gious types, so I never had the sex talk. My
social worker at the hospital didn’t say this
to me directly, but in her attempt to educate
me on HIV transmission, without realizing it,
she led me to believe that I would never be
able to have sex or have babies. And there was
one huge thing she forgot to prepare me for:
stigma.
The next time I learned about HIV, I was
a seventh-grader in sex ed. It terrified me. I
remember sitting in a classroom of about 30
kids, with the health educator showing us all
these disgusting pictures of sexually trans-
mitted diseases and listening to how grossed
out everybody was. When she started talking
about my experience, I got really quiet. The
pictures she showed didn’t look anything
like me. Instead, they were pictures of mid-
dle-aged, white, gay men or Africans wasting
away. They were all pictures of people who
Fairly Safe
neighborhoods, we again told it like it was.
The Church was a business to him, not a place
to go to for services. When he tricked Pope
Francis into meeting Kim Davis, the woman
from Kentucky who wouldn’t issue marriage
licenses to LGBT people, we were among the
first in the nation to print that story. When
he fired lesbian teachers, it became a crusade.
Bishops are accustomed to doing negative
actions in silence. This bishop got scalded.
And guess what happened, other mainstream
media took note, and the churches income
dropped.
Then came his 75th birthday and by cus-
tom, his resignation, which the pope could
ignore. Pope Francis made it clear immedi-
ately — thank you for your service, and we’ll
see you out the door. Chaput became the first
were really sick or dying; there were no pic-
tures of people who were healthy and living.
Everyone left class believing that if you have
sex, you could get HIV. And that if you get
HIV, you are going to die. It made me even
more afraid to have sex, and it further deep-
ened the notion in my mind that someone
with HIV wouldn’t be able to have a normal,
healthy sex life.
Throughout the years, I had to learn how to
navigate dating and sex with HIV on my own.
The only thing I ever learned about disclosure
was from my mom, who told me to be careful
who I shared my business with because peo-
ple in this world could be cruel.
Although my mother didn’t mean to, her
advice, along with the isolation I was already
feeling, further perpetuated stigma. She made
me feel like I had something to hide, which in
turn created more feelings of fear and shame.
I struggled the hardest with stigma in my ado-
lescent years. When I was younger and trying
to fit in with the rest of society, it was hard for
me to accept my HIV status, because it came
with so many different misconceptions.
Dating and maintaining a social life be-
came difficult for me, because of all the igno-
rance surrounding my experience. I dealt with
many fake friends and lovers who would gos-
sip about me and disclose my status to people,
with the intent of making me look less attrac-
tive. I started to internalize all of the negative
things that were being said.
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archbishop of Philadelphia to not be pro-
moted to cardinal in over 100 years.
The point is that the church doesn’t want or
need the kind of negativity Chaput brought.
I have little pity for him since he didn’t
seem to understand a simple Christian fact,
that his hate speech causes harm, and it does
so mostly among the young. How many
LGBT children have been harmed?
It is my hope that Chaput will go into re-
tirement with some grace, and I will no lon-
ger have to admonish him on this issue. You
can be assured that if I must, I will, and I will
speak loudly. Then he can appreciate the tur-
moil he caused and the lives he destroyed. He
can also appreciate his own self-hatred.
As a true Christian might say, “Go in
peace,” and let me add, do no more harm. n
I never thought I’d be able to have kids; I
didn’t know what I could do sexually; I didn’t
think I would be able to find someone open-
minded enough to want to date me. I watched
my mom pass away from AIDS-related ill-
nesses during my junior year of high school,
so I never really planned for a future, because
I didn’t think I’d live to be the age I am today
(33 years strong). I went through this really
dark stage in my early 20s, and I almost died
from rebelling and not adhering to my medi-
cation.
Stigma is killing people more than the ac-
tual disease now. Treatment adherence is
greatly affected by the stigma. Treatment has
come such a long way, and people are able to
live long and healthy lives with HIV — if they
can get connected to care and stay adherent to
HIV medication. It is no longer a death sen-
tence. It is a chronic, manageable illness.
I see it happen often. When someone is
newly diagnosed, they internalize that stigma,
which can lead to deep depression. They be-
lieve their lives are over and they will never
be able to lead a normal, healthy life or find
love. In my opinion, it’s because they struggle
with this sort of pre- and post-diagnosis iden-
tity crisis, and being positive becomes hard to
accept. I don’t have a pre-diagnosis identity to
refer to, but I do know what it’s like to inter-
nalize the stigma that has been programmed
into our minds.
The stigma has never sat well with me.
Living with HIV is my normal, and I didn’t
die. I am still thriving. I had to grow to un-
derstand that the insults, judgments and shade
that people attempted to throw were actually
projections of their own fear, misconceptions,
pain and insecurities and that it had absolutely
nothing to do with me.
For so long, I just let people gossip about
their perceptions of my reality. Even today,
every time I get up and share
my story, I am extremely ner- page 16
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FA M I LY F O R WA R D
Emotional labor and the
need for self-care
JEN COLLETTA
PGN Contributor
“We’re making our way into Savasana, our
final resting pose.”
Craaaaash.
“Take up lots of space, allow the eyes to
close. Take these few moments of stillness
and silence.”
Why are you being so difficult?!
“I encourage you to stay in Savasana for as
long as you’d like. When you are ready to get
up, do so slowly. There is no rush.”
Thaaaaat!
Ugh. “Screw Savasana,” I thought angrily,
flying up off my bedroom floor to see what
havoc Jackson was unleashing on Ashlee in
the living room. As I jogged down the steps,
I left behind the momentary relaxation I had
started to glean from my first crack at a You-
Tube-led yoga session to help her put out the
fires he was causing.
While we have had a year-and-a-half to
learn how to manage the physical and mental
toll of parenting, as Jackson gets older, I’ve
recently noticed emotional exhaustion creep-
ing up — and that it was leaving me feeling
perpetually short-tempered, scattered and like
I had little emotional availability for any other
aspect of my life. As any caretaker will like-
ly agree, being responsible for another being
— regardless of their age or role in your life
— can be an extremely fulfilling experience,
but the emotional labor you have to invest can
also be draining on the spirit. Here’s why:
Putting on a happy face
I work for an HR magazine and, in this
capacity, have come across numerous stud-
ies detailing the deleterious effect of faking
happiness in the workplace: Workers who
have to plaster smiles for customers or man-
agers and suppress true emotions experience
lower levels of job satisfaction, performance
and productivity. We all have bad days or bad
moments in our days, and it’s natural to work
through that reality, but there’s an expecta-
tion that parents — who are supposed to be
modeling healthy emotional displays for their
kids — project a constant even-keeled calm,
meaning they have to consistently reject their
emotional inclinations.
We all likely experience countless mo-
ments of annoyance throughout the day —
a dropped phone, a stubbed toe, a forgotten
task; usually, once we express ourselves (and
maybe a few curses), that irritation will dis-
sipate. With a little one watching your every
move and word, however, that natural process
is stymied.
Jackson is going through a phase where he
hates car rides — even the quick 12-minute
ride home from daycare usually includes red-
COLUMN
faced screaming (after he gets bored with his
new trick of taking off his socks and shoes
and throwing them to places unknown). Af-
ter eight hours of work filled with meetings,
frustrations and unanswered emails, the last
thing my stress-addled emotional state wants
to hear as I hit every red light is blood-cur-
dling screaming from the back seat. While
I may want to scream right along with him,
instead I blast his toddler tunes, adding my
sing-songy voice to the mix and updating him
happily with “Just one more mile!”, “You’re
doing so great!”, “We’ll be home soon!”. No,
he’s not doing great, but honesty wouldn’t get
me any closer to that elusive peace and quiet.
Tonight gave me prime material for this col-
umn, as I was tripped up by annoying mishap
after mishap as Jackson sat in his highchair
awaiting dinner: His plate started sparking in
the microwave; I lost his water cup; I found
his water cup and then spilled the entire thing
on the floor; I realized I was out of paper tow-
els; I knocked a just-bought carton of blue-
berries onto the floor, squashing more than I
could count as I tried to clean them up with
toilet paper. As a topper, my counter-surfer
of a dog (after wrestling me for the dropped
blueberries) deftly swiped the sandwich I was
trying to slap together for my lunch tomor-
row into her mouth and went running. After
a particularly challenging day, every fiber of
me wanted to take that annoyance out with a
battle to the death to pry the food from her
jaws — but I instead gave in and let her win. I
angry whispered some choice words into her
furry ear and unceremoniously shoved her out
the back door — and turned around with a
smile for Jackson to tell him how well he was
eating his dinner.
Riding the wave
of toddler emotions
If I was asked to assign one word to Jack-
son’s 18-month-old self, it would be unpre-
dictable. One minute, he’s a singing, dancing
laugh riot, and the next — perhaps if the dog
brushes past him, you try to take something
out of his hand or the wind blows — he trans-
forms into an angry, screaming gremlin. I love
him more than words can say, but he is a tem-
peramental, emotional mess.
And that’s par for the course as he navigates
this entirely new world with limited ability to
understand his surroundings or communicate
his feelings. Remembering that makes his be-
wildering mood swings a bit easier to tolerate,
but that’s not to say they don’t take their toll
on our own emotions.
Jackson recently went through a hellish
two weeks of disrupted sleep — it may have
been a tooth or it could have been what we’ve
learned is referred to as the 18-month sleep
regression. Whatever caused it, his usual 12
hours of unbroken sleep turned into two hours
Philadelphia Gay News . FEBRUARY 21-27, 2020
up, followed by
two hours down
and so on — and
we had to smile
our way through
it to try to calm
him. One night,
I leaned over his
crib and whis-
per-sang “Twin-
kle, Twinkle,
Little Star” for a
solid 20 minutes
at 4 a.m.; as his
breathing grad-
ually deepened
and my back
nearly gave out,
I slowly moved
my hand off his
back and started
creeping back-
ward. The sec-
ond I stepped
into the hallway,
I was greeted
with an angry
yell. Back I went
with my sing-
songy sweet
voice to soothe
him back down and tell him everything was self for a friend to angrily throw your phone
OK, even though I was ready to jump out of at the wall if you tried to stop her from tak-
his bedroom window. ing 6,000 selfies? What if you knew a family
On another sleepless night, after hours of member would turn on a dime from laugh-
the back and forth, I finally knew I had hit my ing to screaming if you stopped handing him
emotional limit and couldn’t fake it until he snacks? Humorous to picture, but also ex-
made it anymore; I turned off the baby mon- hausting!
itor, went down into the living room, put in Such musings also make me consider how
earplugs and pulled a blanket over my head. grateful I am to be in an LGBTQ relationship.
Then, I tossed and turned for another few While certainly not true across the board, I
hours, turning the monitor off and on every have a feeling many women in heterosexual
10 minutes to make sure he was OK. relationships bear the brunt of managing this
That’s another dimension of the emotional emotional roller coaster. As same-sex part-
upheaval of raising a toddler: Parents absorb ners, we don’t have to grapple with such ste-
each one of their kids’ wild emotions, espe- reotypical expectations for how we care for
cially since they’re so often connected to our Jackson, which makes sharing that emotional
actions. His sadness the night I turned off labor a bit easier.
the monitor wracked me with guilt because I All caretakers have to invest emotional
knew if I could just keep my hand on his back labor, but just as important is finding outlets
the whole night he’d be soothed (though un- through which to naturally express our own
realistic). When Jackson’s scared, I know that emotions — because when our emotion-
a hug and a quick rendition of “Wheels on the al health is suffering, so is our capacity for
Bus” will both calm and comfort him. And nurturing others. So, at the start of the year, I
when he’s happy, I know that my walking out resolved to make self-care a reality, to simply
of the room or not giving him my undivided reserve time I know is all my own, a prospect
attention could knock that adorable smile off that itself can provide relief for bottled-up
course, so I feel rooted to the spot to keep his emotions. I’ve recommitted myself to jog-
constantly wavering emotions in check. ging a couple of miles a few nights a week,
I often think about that dynamic in terms started dusting off the stack of books that
of, what if Jackson was an adult? What if have sat idly on my nightstand for months
you knew a co-worker would collapse into a and am giving this whole yoga thing a go —
kicking and screaming fit on the floor of the though, as evidenced by my abruptly ended
office if you asked them to stop stealing all of first yoga experiment, I may need to find a
your lunch? What if you had to brace your- quieter setting! n
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The impact of bullying
and cyberbullying:
Nowhere to Hide
ANGELA GIAMPOLO
PGN Contributor
bullying: \bu̇-lē-iŋ adj Seeking to harm, in-
timidate, or coerce (someone perceived as
vulnerable).
Cyberbullying:\sī-bər-bu̇-lē-iŋ adj The use
of electronic communication to bully a per-
son, typically by sending messages of an in-
timidating or threatening nature.
Defining what makes a bully seems easy
enough, but it is imperative, however, to re-
alize that these definitions only touch the
surface of an extremely complex and knotted
web of perception and morals. Bullying, es-
pecially of LGBTQ youth, is responsible for
countless suicides and is generally detrimen-
tal to the mental health of impacted youth.
Tragedy in the
Wake of Bullying
In 2014, the world was shocked to hear the
disturbing news that 17-year-old Michelle
Carter coaxed her boyfriend, 18-year-old Con-
rad Roy, to commit suicide through a series of
malicious text messages. She was convicted
of homicide and was originally sentenced to
2.5 years in prison in 2017. Her sentence was
reduced to 15 months plus 5 years of proba-
tion. On Jan. 23, 2020, Carter was released
early for good behavior.
On Sept. 23, 2019, death by suicide claimed
another victim — this time not from the tech-
nology of texts, but through an unceremoni-
ous outing of Channing Smith’s sexuality —
as his sexually explicit texts with another boy
were released through a host of social media
platforms.
The nature of outing and the fact that in
the click of a button, Channing Smith’s en-
tire school became aware of his sexuality
caused him great humiliation. “I really hate
how I can’t trust anyone because those I did
were so fake,” Channing wrote shortly after.
“Bye.” What followed was a fateful decision
that would forever devastate his loved ones.
“My brother committed suicide because of the
actions of two kids that he trusted that turned
personal screenshot messages over to social
media in a deliberate attempt to assassinate
his character,” his older brother, Joshua Smith,
said in the days following Channing’s death
by suicide.
The Smith Family was unhappy with the
handling of the case by the school. Little was
revealed during the investigation, but in the
end, there were no charges brought against
any of the involved teens.
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The laws on bullying vary state-to-state,
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Policies on when, where and how formal or
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Some laws require a school’s bullying pol-
icy to contain certain element, such as defin-
ing “bullying,” where others do not include
this specification. In some states, anti-bully-
ing laws specify that schools may discipline
students on their terms as long as the terms
are appropriate and consistent. Federal case
law allows schools to discipline students for
off-campus behavior if the disruption to the
learning environment is prominent.
All of that’s to say problems arise in an area
of law with so little specificity and federal
standards.
Neurological Development
The human brain doesn’t fully develop un-
til the average age of 25. From the onset of
puberty, throughout teen years, and into the
mid-20s, the brain is taking in information and
making decisions based on maturity. Rational
choices can be more difficult for adolescents.
When a brain is not fully mature, the pre-
frontal cortex is not as functional as it will
become by age 25. Because of this biological
fact, we know that impulse control is more
difficult for adolescents to navigate success-
fully. In simple English, it is easier for adults
to resist peer pressure, control spontaneous
impulses and be more “level-headed” than a
teenager.
When a teenager’s brain is still developing,
bullying affects cortisol levels and the body’s
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view, Bluestein called Dormans “my soul-
mate.” Bluestein asserted that she would
never have shot her wife intentionally.
Bluestein told investigators that she and
Dormans had met when they were 17, but
they had each moved, falling out of touch.
They began dating again around 2014, hav-
ing reconnected on Tinder. Bluestein said
the couple married in 2016. She said the two
argued a lot over small household issues as
well as money. Bluestein worked construc-
tion, but Dormans was unemployed.
In the statement to investigators from
the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Of-
fice and the Mt. Holly Police Department,
Bluestein said her wife had bought a gun
some months earlier for protection. Dor-
mans kept the weapon on her side of the
bed. Bluestein said her wife had always had
difficulty loading the gun.
On the day of the shooting, the couple
was in their bedroom when Bluestein told
investigators Dormans handed her the gun
and wanted Bluestein to load more bullets
into it.
According to Bluestein’s statement, Dor-
mans was sitting on the floor about “5 to
6 feet away,” and Bluestein was sitting on
their bed, “just looking at the gun sights.”
Bluestein had the gun raised and point-
ed above Dormans when “the next thing I
know, she was bleeding out of her eye.”
Bluestein said, “Yes, I did shoot her, but
it was an accident.”
Assistant Prosecutor Jeremy Lackey ar-
gued that Bluestein had been much clos-
er to the victim and that the shooting was
not accidental but intentional. Burlington
County Medical Examiner Ian Hood testi-
fied to the autopsy results. Hood asserted
that Dormans had “gunpowder stippling on
her face.” Hood also estimated that the gun
had been between 1½ to 2 feet from Dor-
mans’ face when she was shot, not the 5 to
6 feet Bluestein claimed.
In her video statement, Bluestein de-
scribed rushing to Dormans to try and stop
the bleeding. She said she knew Dormans
POSITIVE THOUGHTS
from page 11
vous, and my anxiety starts to kick in. I think
it’s because I am experiencing PTSD from all
of the stuff that I went through growing up,
and remembering all the things people said
about me. But then, as I push through that fear,
I experience this sort of liberating sensation. I
get to portray my experience in the way that I
want to, and I get to change the narrative.
In hindsight, I can’t believe I let stigma
keep me silent for so long. Now that I have
embarked on this advocacy journey, it is like
I am seeing things through a new lens. I have
discovered this new world full of people who
can either relate to living with HIV or with
other parts of my story. By remaining silent,
I was unconsciously allowing that stigma to
thrive in the silence.
Disclosure has been one of the scariest,
most difficult things to deal with in my expe-
Philadelphia Gay News . FEBRUARY 21-27, 2020
was dead. Rather than call 911, Bluestein,
who said she “was scared,” and “an emo-
tional wreck,” called both of her parents.
She told them “Felicia’s dead.”
Prosecutors played surveillance video
of what Bluestein did next: she went to
Lowe’s and bought two shovels and blue
tarps. Prosecutors said that once she got
back home, Bluestein dug a grave in the
couple’s yard for her wife’s body.
During the first day of deliberations,
jurors asked, “Does the extreme indiffer-
ence to human life apply to the act or also
to things she did after the act?” New Jer-
sey state law lists “extreme indifference
to human life” as a factor that jurors must
find to convict a defendant of aggravated
manslaughter. To find someone guilty of
murder, jurors have to be convinced a de-
fendant killed someone “purposefully and
knowingly.”
When police arrived at the couple’s
house on the day of the shooting, having
been notified of the killing by Bluestein’s
father, they found a partially dug grave in
the couple’s yard covered by blue tarps.
Lackey had sought a murder conviction
in the case. Lackey told the media after the
verdict that Bluestein faces up to 30 years
in prison for the first-degree manslaughter
charge and five years for the evidence tam-
pering charge. Bluestein has been in custo-
dy since her arrest in 2017. In a statement
after the verdict, prosecutor Scott Coffina
explained that help is available for victims
of domestic abuse and their children and of-
fered local resources.
Dormans family was relieved by the
verdict. Coffina was seen comforting Dor-
mans’ father, Joe. Christine Dormans told
media that she was happy for the verdict.
“We wanted anything but her walking,” she
said.
Defense attorney Robin Lord told media
Bluestein and her family were “extremely
distraught that the jury found her guilty
of anything.” She said she plans to appeal
Bluestein’s conviction.
Superior Court Judge Terrence Cook
scheduled Bluestein’s sentencing for April
23. n
rience. Yes, I have encountered a lot of igno-
rance and hate, but I have also found a lot of
people who understand me, like me, and love
me regardless. Contrary to what people be-
lieve about my experience, it has been a bless-
ing in disguise, and I know now that this is a
gift. I believe God created me specifically for
this purpose: to change people’s perspective
on what it means to live with HIV. To know
me is to love me, and the beauty in that lies
in the fact that my whole being dispels the
stigma.
I am a Beautiful Black Queen, and my sta-
tus doesn’t change that. n
Porchia Dees was born HIV positive in 1986
and is from San Bernardino, California. This
column is a project of TheBody, Plus, Posi-
tively Aware, POZ and Q Syndicate, the LGBT
wire service. Visit their websites – http://the-
body.com, http://hivplusmag.com, http://posi-
tivelyaware.com and http://poz.com – for the
latest updates on HIV/AIDS..
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LGBTQ ASYLUM SEEKERS
from page 1
and protecting LGBTQ rights in Honduras.
Members of the organization successfully
changed three articles of the Honduran penal
code to enforce legal ramifications for hate
crimes against LGBTQ people.
As Trilo documented the 2018 caravan,
ella (Spanish language pronoun) witnessed
LGBTQ people experiencing physical and
verbal harassment from other travelers, forc-
ing them to separate from the group.
“The human rights that are being violated
are extreme with the LGBT communities,”
Trillo said. “They are in incredible danger.”
Trillo also noted that that few news journal-
ists have been covering the Central American
caravans’ trajectories from the beginning, that
most of the coverage takes place at the U.S./
Mexico border.
“I feel that if you can represent the journey
and how hard it is, and what people are will-
ing to do in order to have a new chance at life,
you can have respect for them,” ella said.
While traveling with the 2020 caravan,
Trillo befriended a 27-year-old trans woman
named Ashley.
OUT LAW
from page 16
London shows that long-term changes to the
structure and chemistry of the brain show the
dire effects bullying creates. In these studies,
the stress hormone, cortisol, is the substance
that chemically alters brain development.
Cortisol is released as part of the body’s stress
response and is regulated by the hypothalam-
ic-pituitary area in the brain. The hypotha-
lamic area is an almond-sized region near the
base of the brain, which helps regulate vital
sensory data such as sleep, temperature, hun-
ger, thirst, emotions, and others. Higher levels
of cortisol allow the body to operate at a high-
er performance when it is exposed to a stress-
ful situation. Chronic stress (such as constant
bullying) can have an opposite effect, which
could allow the body and brain never fully to
deactivate from a stressor response.
Suicide Rates and Statistics
Suicide is the second leading cause of death
among young people ages 10 to 24. LGBTQ
youth, however, are even more at risk than
their heterosexual peers. They are almost
three times more likely to contemplate sui-
cide and almost five times more likely to have
attempted suicide than heterosexual youth.
Also, LGBTQ youth suicide attempts are al-
most five times more likely to require medical
treatment. These suicide attempts by LGBTQ
youth and questioning youth are four to six
times more likely to result in injury, poison-
ing or overdose that requires treatment from
a doctor or nurse, compared to their straight
peers. In a national study, 40 percent of trans-
gender adults reported having made a suicide
attempt. Ninety-two percent of these individ-
uals reported having attempted suicide be-
fore the age of 25. LGBTQ youth who come
from highly rejecting families are eight times
as likely to have attempted suicide as their
peers who reported no or low levels of family
PGN
“She had joined the caravan leaving for
the U.S. border because her life was being
repeatedly threatened in Honduras, simply
for being a transgender [person,]” Trillo
said in an email.
Ashely also told Trillo that she wanted to
become a makeup artist but wasn’t able to
actualize that dream in Honduras.
“She felt that the one place where she
could pursue her dreams without fearing
for her life would be in the United States,”
Trillo said.
Trillo cited the culture of machismo that
pervades some Latin American countries as
a contributing factor of violence directed
toward LGBTQ people.
“Having lived in Mexico and traveled in
Latin America... It’s very male-dominated
and you can’t really be your own person. I
understand those stigmas. They can really
damage entire generations of families.”
President Trump’s new asylum policy,
which thwarts the efforts of those fleeing
persecution to seek asylum in the U.S., is
in violation of the U.S. Constitution and
numerous treaties signed by members of
the U.S. government. One such treaty is the
1951 Refugee Convention, which dictates
rejection. Each episode of LGBT victimiza-
tion, such as physical or verbal harassment or
abuse, increases the likelihood of self-harm-
ing behavior by 2.5 times on average.
A Yale University study discovered that
those who are bullied are between two and
nine times more likely to consider suicide
than non-victims and that 10-14-year-old
girls may be at an even higher risk for sui-
cide.
Recently, ABC News reported that 160,000
kids stay home from school daily because of
a fear of bullying. Thirty percent of students
in schools are either bully victims or bullies
themselves.
Nowhere to Hide
Unlike in my era, in today’s social media,
texting and an instant-access technology
world, there is nowhere to hide for an ado-
lescent who’s bullied at school. In my day,
and I’m only 39, a kid could stay home from
school, skip and go to the movies or, better
yet, make friends with a teacher who lets
them stay in study-hall all day. Today, with-
out you even knowing it, your life can be
displayed on a billboard for the entire school
to see within nanoseconds, and bullies can
you reach you through multiple apps on your
phone and your computer.
This new reality of bullying is why a) the
laws need to catch up with the impact of
modern-day bullying and b) parents, educa-
tors and administrators need to all be vigilant
to spot the signs of bullying and to not play it
off as “kids will be kids.” The mental health
of our younger generation is dependent on
our defining this area of law and designing
laws that will ensure bullies suffer real con-
sequences for their actions.
If you are having thoughts of suicide, call
the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at
1-800-273-8255 (TALK). You can find a list
of additional resources at SpeakingOfSui-
cide.com/resources. n
17
that “a refugee should not be returned to a
country where they face serious threats to
their life or freedom.”
Trillo explained that before President
Trump threatened Mexico with tariffs,
Mexican President Andrés Manual López
Obrador supported safe passage for asy-
lum seekers. Now, Mexican officials have
positioned soldiers at the border to prevent
Central American migrants from entering
the country.
“The human cost of Trump’s political
agenda is denying people their fundamen-
tal human rights,” Trillo said. “For many
asylum seekers, deportation will result in
living a life of extortion, impoverishment
and even death. The full effect of Trump’s
xenophobic policies toward immigrants
and asylum seekers will no doubt be felt for
generations to come.”
In addition to the migrant caravans,
Trillo has photographed forced sex work
in Juarez, Mexico. Trillo’s work has been
shown internationally, including in Lon-
don, Luxembourg and at Saint Joseph’s
University in Philadelphia, and is part of
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Philadelphia Gay News . FEBRUARY 21-27, 2020

NAME CHANGE
from page 1
Attorney M. Patrick Yingling, who present-
ed oral arguments on behalf of the women,
said the correct parties were sued. He also
called the name-change ban “over broad” be-
cause it presumes that someone with a felony
conviction wants to change their name for a
fraudulent purpose.
After the hearing, Yingling told PGN that
he told the judges the Department of State is

flowers
the right party to sue “because it supervises
and administers the part of the statute at is-
sue.”
Deputy Attorney General Alexander Korn

after hours defended the name-change ban for the com-

monwealth. He argued that overturning the
name-change ban for serious felons could
frustrate employers seeking accurate back-
ground checks. Korn also noted that felons
face many consequences, including losing the
right to own a gun or serve on a jury. He said
the inability to change one’s name is another
consequence, according to published reports.

Let’s Dance
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Sha-
piro issued this statement: “I understand
that being required to live with a name that
doesn’t represent who you really are creates
a myriad of hardships. That being said, my
office, under the Commonwealth Attorneys
Act, is responsible for defending the constitu-

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tionality of all Pennsylvania laws — despite
my personal opinion about those laws.”

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The case began in May 2019, when the
women filed their legal challenge of the
name-change ban in Commonwealth Court.
In September 2019, Shapiro filed a brief,
asking the court to dismiss the women’s case
as meritless.
Shapiro’s brief claims the state legislature
acted properly in 1998 when it unanimous-
ly enacted the name-change ban for persons

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clients will have an opportunity to change
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The judges are expected to issue a ruling
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Genderqueer ex-nun tified folks who are on

and comedian Kelli the road doing regular

Out performer goes

Dunham released her comedy clubs. But the
new comedy album, difficulty is that peo-
“Not the Gym Teach- ple are just coming to

from convent to comedy

er” this month. The ti- see the headlining co-
tle references the many median. They are not
times she is mistaken necessarily coming to
for the gym teacher, see the queer comedi-
though she is actually an. So that limits you
the school nurse. in the material that you
But let’s unpack the L A R RY N I C H O L S can do. I’ve feel lucky
ex-nun thing first, as larr y@epgn.com that I’ve been able to
you usually don’t see pick and choose. A lot
a holy calling as a pre- of female comics have
amble to queer standup stopped doing road
comedy. tours because people
Dunham left the New are sexually assaulted
York convent when she in the comedy condo.
was 26 years old and I haven’t had anything
moved to Philadelphia, like that happen to me,
where her sister lived. but it’s happened. It’s
She moved into a place really not a great scene
on the Main Line with for anyone. I’m enjoy-
someone she had vol- ing the alternative.”
unteered with before Dunham said she
joining the convent. doesn’t know if women
At some point, she re- and queer folks step-
alized “Oh, I’m gay! ping away from com-
That explains every- edy clubs and creating
thing.” After that, she their own spaces or at-
did what many young tending more accepting
LGBTQ folks do. spaces will change any-
“I joined a gay soft- thing, but she’s hope-
ball league and got a ful.
therapist and all those In the meantime,
important things. But I Dunham is focusing on
always wanted to be a balancing her job as a
comic. The sisters used school nurse and mak-
to say sometimes ‘Oh, ing people laugh about
you think you’re fun- all the things that hap-
ny?’ I think I’m kind of pen in and around her
funny even though you life.
don’t think I’m funny.” “People tease me
Thus, her transition KELLI DUNHAM, Photo Credit: Morgan H. Goode
for looking like a gym
from nun to comedian teacher, but really our
began. While her life is gym teacher is way
very different now, she cooler than me,” she
said, “Everything I was looking for then, I hours later, I had an entire tour booked of church, which is going to be really interest- said. “People can relate to all 50-year-old
still value now — building communities, preview concerts, where I could work out ing… . In April I’m going to Florida, Texas butches looking the same. I am mistaken for
feeling like you’re making a difference in material. That was amazing. People had a and Mississippi.” Lea DeLaria all the time even though I prob-
the world. That’s still on my plate. It looks great time, and it created this lovely com- Queer comedy in the reddest of states? ably weigh 60 pounds more than her, and
pretty different, and I have a different hair- munity. People got to enjoy each other.” How audacious and bold! she’s at least three inches taller than me and
style now. “ Dunham said house concerts allow her “That was part of the plan,” she said. “I 10 years older — and our comedy styles are
Her first tour went hand-in-hand with and her audiences to gather and enjoy the was a queer kid at a Bible college. That was nothing alike. But I guess all chubby mid-
that philosophy. After moving to New York art of comedy in non-traditional spaces, free not a smooth time in my life.” dle-aged butches look the same.”
and trying to hone her craft in heterosexual of homophobic language and jokes at the She wanted to visit red states to provide Dunham added that masculine women are
cis-male dominated spaces and catering to expense of one’s lived experience. access to queer comedy and life. Dunham often mistaken for those much younger —
audiences of varying degrees of acceptance, “Our people, we don’t trust stand up com- also put a call out to Christian colleges and like a ninth-grade boy. She said these tropes
she thought of an idea to curate communi- edy,” she said. “Queer people have been the Bible colleges to let LGBTQ students know are well-known in the LGBTQ community
ty — a tour she called “House Concerts of brunt of standup comedy.” about her performances. and “people enjoy hearing their experience
Resistance.” People who wouldn’t otherwise attend a Dunham acknowledges that a true com- held up, and their story told.” n
Her idea was to tie house performances to comedy show feel safe and comfortable in edy utopia is still a ways off for a plethora
a progressive cause. She would perform for Dunham’s spaces, she said. And the spaces of people but said comedians exiting main- Kelli Dunham’s new comedy album, “Not
free if folks would give her the space to do come in all forms. stream venues to move forward. the Gym Teacher” is out now. For more
so, and the hosts could use it as a fundraiser. “Somebody I went to Bible College with “Comedy, in general, is behind the information, visit www.kellidunham.com.
“I posted [my idea] on Facebook. Five is allowing me to use the basement of his times,” she said. “I know some queer-iden- Dunham uses she/her pronouns.
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Out director talks
Philly production of
‘Everything is Wonderful’
CAMERON KELSALL
PGN Contributor
Chelsea Marcantel’s “Everything Is
Wonderful” receives its local premiere
at Philadelphia Theatre Company, Feb.
14-March 8. The play explores forgive-
ness and community in the aftermath of a
horrific accident. Out director Noah Him-
melstein, who helmed the play last year at
Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre, returns to
stage the drama once again.
PGN recently spoke with Himmelstein
about getting the play’s tone just right,
working in Philadelphia and what attracts
him to projects. Some responses have been
condensed and edited for clarity.
Can you tell me a little about the plot
of “Everything Is Wonderful”? Our
playwright Chelsea Marcantel was in-
spired by a story where a driver was texted
and hit an Amish buggy, and she imagined
what would happen in the aftermath. There
have been so many horrific events — either
accidents or violent acts — perpetrated on
the Amish, and their response has been
one of enormous compassion, tolerance
and forgiveness. Chelsea imagined a sto-
ry where an addict crashes into a buggy
and two teenage boys perish. He goes to
the family’s home when he’s hit rock bot-
tom, and he asks for them to press charges.
He feels he needs to be held accountable.
They invite him to live in their barn. Jacob,
the father character, tells him that he needs
him there for his own forgiveness so that
he can face it daily as an active practice.
Half the play is set in the past, and you learn
that the family’s oldest daughter was ex-
communicated five years earlier. The crash
brings her back.
What attracted you to this story? When
I read it, I was really moved by the Amish
spirituality. Instead of most religions that
ask you to believe in someone else’s expe-
rience, they ask you to experience spiritual-
ity on your own. What does that feel like in
terms of ritual, behavior, compassion? The
play is very nuanced and very layered. The
secondary narrative about why Miri, the old-
er daughter, left deals with issues of assault
within the Amish community. That was so
fascinating and so topical. It brings the ini-
tial play we thought we were getting into in
a much deeper experience and into the con-
versations we’re having around consent and
gender norms. There’s just a lot to chew on,
and structurally it’s a feast for a director.
How does it feel to come back to this
play, in a new city with a new set of ac-
tors, after having directed a previous
production? I learned a lot from how peo-
ple responded to the play last year, which
was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.
A RT S
Photo by Michael Hull
People were writing to the theater, email-
ing me through my website, reaching out
to the actors. They were writing about how
this particular community could impact us
in such a universal way. It caused people to
want to call people they felt disconnected
with, or to rectify something in their own
lives. But the play is so rich that I basically
threw out my notes from last year and ap-
proached it from scratch. I’ve grown in the
last year. The world has evolved, in terms
of the horrors and divisions of the country.
There’s a need for a story like this about
forgiveness that is not political but is very
humanist. To me, it addresses what’s hap-
pening in our country in a very rich, charac-
ter-based way that’s not at all about politics.
And the company of actors here is so differ-
ent from the cast we had last year. I knew
they were going to bring their own ideas to
the process. They have taught me so much
about the play in our shared discovery of it.
It would be a mistake to try and just repli-
cate what we had before.
How have you enjoyed working in Phil-
adelphia? I live in New York, and I love
being in a city, but Philly feels more relaxed.
It’s a little bit of a low-key city. I love vis-
iting restaurants and museums. My partner
has been able to visit on weekends, which
has been great because New York is so close.
Working on a new play is a grueling process,
and at the end of the day, you just have to
go home and unplug a bit. We were hoping
to go to Lancaster on Monday to get a little
more of the story’s local color, but we were
all kind of zonked. But we’re invigorated by
the play. n
For tickets and information, visit https://
philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/every-
thing-is-wonderful/.
Philadelphia Gay News . FEBRUARY 21-27, 2020
Edie Falco is Tommy
VICTORIA A. BROWNWORTH
PGN Contributor
In 1981, when “Cagney & Lacey” first
aired, the show recast the role of Christine
Cagney with Sharon Gless after the first sea-
son because studio execs thought Meg Fos-
ter looked and acted too lesbian in the role.
The complication of women in uniform
looking too masculine in our binary-driven
society has always been one TV series have
answered with a super-abundance of lip-
stick, big hair and extreme femme-presen-
tation. Edie Falco’s uncomplicatedly butch
Abigail “Tommy” Thomas is a tectonic shift
from what viewers have come to expect over
40 years of TV policewomen.
CBS is a surprising network to debut
“Tommy,” a new series about the first wom-
an police chief of Los Angeles, who is also
a lesbian. According to the GLAAD annu-
al TV report, CBS remains the least queer
network with the fewest representations of
LGBTQ characters.
“Tommy” is a stand-out. As she was in her
roles as the eponymous “Nurse Jackie” and
as Carmela Soprano in “The Sopranos,” the
Emmy-winning Falco commands the screen
playing Tommy. With her Brooklyn accent
and her strong physical presence, Falco is
utterly believable as the policewoman who
rose through the ranks in New York, only to
be stalled for promotion after reporting that
a senior officer attempted to rape her.
Tommy gets the job as Los Angeles po-
lice chief when scandal rocks the depart-
ment. The former Chief of Police, Milt
Leakey (Corbin Bernsen), was a known
womanizer and serial sexual harasser — but
it was the accusation of running a sex work
ring that got him investigated and fired. The
LAPD needed a woman for optics, so they
brought in Tommy from New York — her
hire court-mandated.
That no one wants Tommy there is an
undercurrent that creates a natural tension
she has to cope with on a daily basis. But
as she notes to her chief of staff, “If I fail,
it will be 20 years before they give another
woman this job.”
The series was created by Paul Attana-
sio, an Oscar nominee for his screenplays
for “Donnie Brasco” and “Quiz Show.” The
writers are 50/50 women and men. Half of
the writers identify as LGBTQ. There is a
real commitment to getting “Tommy” right,
and it shows.
Attanasio and Falco make “Tommy”
more than just another police procedural.
Sharp, gritty writing, politically driven sto-
rylines, and Falco’s great big-screen pres-
ence immediately connect us with Tommy
— we get how tough her life has been, as
a woman, as a lesbian, as a not-so-good
mother. Thomas Sadoski is a perfect foil to
Falco as Los Angeles Mayor Buddy Gray, a
charismatic second termer who is plotting
his legacy with every nuanced focus group
response. Gray’s Deputy Mayor Doug Du-
dik (Joseph Lyle Taylor) develops an im-
mediate antipathy to Tommy, seeing her as
thwarting his power. He calls her “Butch
Cassidy.”
In one exchange, Gray is lamenting
to Dudik how Tommy ignored his com-
mands and wonders how they can get her
out quickly. Dudik says, “Did you ask her
about her sexuality?” And Gray says, no, of
course not. Dudik says, “Well, gay people
are more independent minded by definition
because they are diverging from the major-
ity view.”
Tommy is forced to come out publicly
just days into the job — something she had
hoped to forestall a little longer. But as she
falls into an easy near-assignation with an
attractive woman attorney, it’s apparent ev-
eryone already knows.
Tommy has complicated history. She
was married young to a man and has a bi-
racial daughter, Kate (Olivia Lucy Phillip).
Tommy didn’t fight her daughter when she
wanted to go live with her father
in Los Angeles. Now Kate has
her own failing marriage and
young daughter caught in the
middle. Tommy is still apologiz-
ing for not being heterosexual
to a daughter who resents her
mother’s gayness and sees it as
the reason they were never close.
“Tommy” delves deep into
what it means to be a 50-some-
thing queer woman running the
second-largest police force in
the country. The story lines are
current and real, including con-
flicts with ICE and undocument-
ed folks, police violence against
Black people, sex trafficking
and the ubiquitous anti-gay bias.
“Tommy” is a cut above the
standard police procedural. And
it is the first TV series in history
with a lesbian cop in a leading
role. Falco is mesmerizingly
good and makes “Tommy” well
worth watching. n
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Matt Rader: Wake up and smell the hyacinths
SUZI NASH
PGN Contributor
“Flowers always make people better, happier,
and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and
medicine to the mind.”
­— Luther Burbank, American botanist
Bonjour mes amis! Are you tired of these
frigid temperatures? Ready for winter to be
over? Well, we’re almost there. Spring is offi-
cially here on March 20, but if you can’t wait
that long to get your green groove on, I sug-
gest you head over to the Philadelphia Flower
Show. If you haven’t been to the flower show
before, it’s an event for the senses. Before you
even enter the doors, the fragrance of earth
and foliage and flowers in bloom teases you
of things to come. When you get inside, you
are met with a profusion of dazzling colors,
shapes and sounds. The Philly Flower Show
is known for its show-stopping entrances, and
this year will be no different with the theme
“Riviera Holiday.”
This week we took time to smell the roses
with Matt Rader, executive director of Phila-
delphia Horticultural Society (PHS), the orga-
nization that presents the show each year.
How far is Mercersburg? Mercersburg!
My home town! It’s about three hours west
of Philadelphia, right on the Maryland border.
I read that you first came to the Philadel-
phia Flower Show when you were a kid.
How did that happen? Oh my gosh, so
my mom was from Burlington County, New
Jersey. We came back here often to visit fam-
ily. Both my grandmother and uncle were big
flower show fans. I remember going to the
flower show when it was at the Civic Center
in West Philadelphia before it moved down-
town and then later when it moved to Center
City.
Were you into the finer arts of horticul-
ture as a kid? Ha. I was more lawn and gar-
den. I grew up in a small town of just 1,500
people, so it was a little place. My parents ran
a couple of small businesses. A grocery store
— kind of a small-town version of a bodega
— a few rental properties and a single-screen
movie theater. As a kid we had a big yard; I
did hedge trimming and lawn mowing and
snow shoveling — all under duress I might
add. But then at some point, I got interested
in vegetable gardening and flower gardening.
My grandmother on my dad’s side taught me
a little about growing vegetables, as did my
dad, and I was given responsibility for taking
care of them at home.
OK, back up. Did you just say you had a
movie theater? Yes, they owned the little
Main Street theater. Single screen, and I think
it sat less than 200 people. It closed pretty
early in my youth, “Karate Kid” was the last
big-screen film they showed. But 10 years
PROFILE
ago, it reopened with different owners, and
they do country music jamborees there now
along with a few movies. It’s wild.
What was your favorite movie as a kid?
To be honest, I wasn’t a very good movie or
TV person. I loved the movie “Clue,” but my
brother was the big TV guy. I was more into
riding bikes and being outside. I like to read
and have some artistic pursuits but nothing
too serious.
What did you want to be when you grew
up? I went to third-grade at Catholic school
in Chambersburg, which is very rural Penn-
sylvania. One career day, I decided I was go-
ing to be an interior decorator.
“I CAME OUT TO MY PARENTS
WHEN I WAS 19, AND AT 16
TO MYSELF. BUT IT WASN’T
SOMETHING I WRESTLED
WITH; IT WAS SOMETHING
I JUST REALIZED.”
That’s great! Yeah, I went in front of my
class and talked all about interior design.
Then in high school, I thought about being
a landscape architect, a classicist (Greek and
Latin scholar), a building architect or a his-
toric preservation person. I ended up apply-
ing to a bunch of different schools pursuing
a bunch of different majors and ended up at
UVA studying architecture, and then switched
over to architectural history in my last two
years.
Tell me three of your favorite architec-
tural structures in Philadelphia. Oh my
gosh, there are so many great buildings here!
One of my favorites is a recent discovery,
the Las Parcelas Community garden in Nor-
ris Square in North Philadelphia. They have
two structures built by the gardeners. One is
a replica of a farmhouse in Puerto Rico circa
1940, and the others are replicas of structures
from indigenous peoples in the Caribbean.
It’s the most amazing kind of vernacular ar-
chitecture in Philadelphia that also, for the
people who built them, was a way of ex-
pressing themselves within the urban fab-
ric, which can be pretty homogenous. I also
love the PSFS building; it’s a landmark for
architectural history — the first modern sky-
scraper in the world.
Aside from the annual show, what are
some of the things that PHS does? A
FA M I LY P O R T R A I T
big part of what we do is working in neigh-
borhoods, working with people to try to use
horticulture as a way to improve quality of
life and health and well-being. We help plant
trees and take care of community vegetable
gardens, cleaning and greening residential
blocks and vacant lots, classes and work-
shops, and a lot more.
What project makes you particularly
proud? Last summer, we produced a
project called “Farm for the City.” We built
a pop-up farm right on the plaza across
from City Hall. It was a vegetable garden,
and there was a team of people who were
knowledgeable agriculturalists to help out.
We grew food for the guests at Broad Street
Ministries and taught passersby all about
growing vegetables and community gar-
dening. It was a really neat opportunity to
have people encounter farming in a place
they wouldn’t expect to see it. It was also
a great cultural exchange, as people would
stop by and talk about the traditional foods
they grew that were passed down from
their grandparents. It was really amazing.
We also raised a lot of money to support
community gardens in Philadelphia. There
are hundreds of them across the city, and
there’s no city agency that’s responsible
for them. They’re mostly labors of love
for people in a neighborhood, but
as the areas get developed,
people are losing
these gardens.
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That happened to us. There was an aban-
doned lot next to my house that I got
fixed up, and we made it into a beautiful
community garden. We would show films
on the side of my house, and it brought
everyone together until someone bought
the property and built a giant house on it.
Yeah, that’s why we’ve been working really
hard with the Neighborhood Gardens Trust,
an organization that tries to make sure that
that type of land gets preserved and that com-
munity gardens have access to good technical
assistance, so that system of gardens can con-
tinue as the city grows.
What do you like to do for fun outside
of work? I like to go for long, long, long
walks. My partner Michael and I will walk
from Chestnut Hill into Center City on a Sat-
urday. Last year I walked from Lansdowne to
Bryn Mawr for an afternoon stroll. It’s an in-
teresting way to see the world; it’s very con-
templative. I also like to read a lot of books
about history, a lot of books about cities. My
partner is the organist and choirmaster at St.
Thomas. He’s a musician, so I spent a good
bit of time following him around and going to
his performances.
What was an early sign that you were gay
other than declaring to your class that
you wanted to be an interior decorator? I
came out to my parents when I was 19, and at
16 to myself. But it wasn’t something I wres-
tled with; it was something I just realized.
I never dated or had any interest in girls. I
don’t know, it just was. I was concerned with
how to communicate it and how it would be
received, but in my last year of high school,
I went away to boarding school in England,
and it was a good chance for me to be out in
the world on my own and figure things
out. By the time I came back, I
felt very comfortable com-
ing out and moving
on.
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T H E AT E R & A R T S
CROSSING BORDERS: PAINTING IN THE
CROWN OF ARAGON, 1400–1500
Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an
exhibition exploring a vast Mediterranean
region encompassing much of present-day
Spain and Italy, through Feb. 23, 26th
Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.
DESIGNS FOR DIFFERENT FUTURES
Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an
exhibition exploring visionary and some-
times controversial designs that promise
to transform how we live, eat, heal, travel
and even love, in any number of possible
futures, through March 8, 26th Street and
the Parkway; 215-763-8100.
DIEGO RIVERA: FRESCOES
Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an
exhibition of murals the revered Mexican
artist created in New York for display in an
exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in
1931, through spring, 26th Street and the
Parkway; 215-763-8100.
DRAG DIVA BRUNCH: LEVIOSA MIMOSA!
WIZARDS AND WAFFLES
Mimi Imfurst and special guests perform a
Harry Potter themed drag show, noon Feb.
22 at Punch Line Philly, 33 E. Laurel St.;
215-606-6555.
EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL
Philadelphia Theatre Company presents the
story of an Amish family struggling with
issues of faith and forgiveness, through
March 8 at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480
S. Broad St.; 215-985-0420.
HELLO, DOLLY
Broadway Philadelphia presents the classic
comedic musical, through March 1 at the
Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St.; 215-
893-1999.
KOGEI: ART CRAFT JAPAN
Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an
exhibition celebrating Japanese kogei —
one-of-a-kind, handcrafted objects made
with traditional techniques and natural ma-
terials, through summer 2020, 26th Street
and the Parkway; 215-763-8100.
LADIES NIGHT OUT COMEDY TOUR
Nene Leakes and special guests Loni Love,
Adele Givens, Sherri Shepherd, Kym Whit-
ley and B Simone perform, 8 p.m. Feb.
22 at The Met, 858 N. Broad St.; info@
TheMetPhilly.com.
MAN OF GOD
InterAct Theatre Company presents the
story of four Korean-American teenage
girls on a Christian mission in Bangkok
who discover a hidden camera in their hotel
bathroom and decide they are going to do
something about it, through Feb. 16 at The
Drake, 302 S. Hicks St.; 215-568-8079.
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MARISA MERZ
Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an
exhibition of sculptures and drawings
celebrating the life and legacy of the pi-
oneering Italian artist, through summer,
26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-
8100.
OFF THE WALL: AMERICAN ART TO
WEAR
Philadelphia Museum of Art presents
an exhibition of works by mixed-media
artists exploring nontraditional materi-
als and methods to create adventurous,
deeply imaginative works, through May
17, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway;
215-763-8100.
REALLY FUNNY COMICS (WHO HAP-
PEN TO BE WOMEN)
A showcase of women comedians, 8 p.m.
Feb. 19 at Punch Line Philly, 33 E. Lau-
rel St.; 215-606-6555.
SECOND NATURE
The William Way LGBT Community
Center presents a solo exhibition from
photographic collage artist Briana She-
wan, through Feb. 28, 1315 Spruce St.;
215-732-2220.
SHEN YUN
The classical Chinese dance show re-
turns, through March 1 at Merriam The-
ater, 250 S. Broad St.; 215-893-1999.
SHIP
Azuka Theatre presents the story of a
woman fresh out of rehab trying to return
to glory in her hometown, Feb. 26-March
15 at Proscenium Theatre at The Drake,
302 S. Hicks St.; 215-563-1100.
WELCOME TO THE IRONSIDE PLAY-
HOUSE
The William Way LGBT Community
Center presents an exhibition of photos,
film and ephemera from the Jack Van
Alstyne Collection, through April 24,
1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220.
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
Walnut Street Theatre presents Os-
car Wilde’s classic comedy of errors,
through March 1, 825 Walnut St.; 215-
574-3550.
MUSIC
LIL’ BABY
The rapper performs 8 p.m. Feb. 21 at
The Fillmore Philadelphia, 29 E. Allen
St.; 215-625-3681.
SOUL ASYLUM & LOCAL H
The alternative rock bands perform 8:30
p.m. Feb. 21 at TLA, 334 South St.; 215-
922-1011.
WE’RE
LISTENING:
Drag star and comedian Coco
Peru performs her one-woman
show “Have You Heard?”
featuring her favorite mono-
logues and songs, Feb. 27-28
at L’Etage, 624 S. Sixth St. For
more information or tickets,
call 215-592-0656.
Out folk artist Chris Pureka (pic-
tured) opens for fellow acclaimed
singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer
when the two perform 8 p.m.
Feb. 27 at World Cafe Live, 3025
Walnut St. For more information
or tickets, call 215-222-1400.
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events
MARDI GRAS PARTY: A NIGHT OF
FUNK & SOUL
Philly Gumbo and Bad Kitti perform, 8
p.m. Feb. 22 at World Cafe Live, 3025
Walnut St.; 215-222-1400.
DIGABLE PLANETS
The hip-hop group performs 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 23 at Ardmore Music Hall, 23 E.
Lancaster Ave., Ardmore; 610-649-
8389.
CELINE DION
The pop singer performs 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 26 at Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S.
Broad St.; 215-389-9543.
NIGHTLIFE
PEEK-A-BOO REVUE: HEART & SOUL
The burlesque troupe performs, 8:30
p.m. Feb. 21 at World Cafe Live, 3025
Walnut St.; 215-222-1400.
GOLDEN GIRLS GONE WILD
Drag Wars thanks you for being a friend
7-11 p.m. Feb. 21 at Voyeur Nightclub,
1221 Saint James St.; 215-735-5772.
ILLUSIONS OF DRAG
The celebrity drag/impersonator show
hits the red carpet, 6:30 p.m. Feb. 22
at Tabu, 254 S. 12th St.; 215-964-9675.
BELLY DANCERS FIGHT FOR AIR
Join Philly’s favorite belly dancers for
an evening of performances benefitting
the American Lung Association’s 2020
Fight For Air Climb, 5 p.m. Feb. 23 at
Franky Bradley’s, 1320 Chancellor St.;
215-735-0735.
O U T TA T O W N
ARMY OF DARKNESS
The horror classic is screened, 9:45
p.m. Feb. 21 at The Colonial Theatre,
227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610-917-
1228.
AMERICA
The rock band celebrates its 50th an-
niversary performing 8 p.m. Feb. 22
at Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick
Ave.; 215-572-7650.
AMELIE
The French romantic comedy film is
screened, Feb. 23-24 at The Colonial
Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville;
610-917-1228.
TIFFANY HADDISH
The comedian and actress performs 8
p.m. Feb. 28 at the Borgata Hotel, Casi-
no & Spa Event Center, 1 Borgata Way,
Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.
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BY INEZ CARVALHO
ARIES
(Mar. 21 - Apr. 20)
Despite our current Mercury ret-
rograde status, a favorable wind
blows in your direction. The new
moon in Pisces occurring on Sun-
day brings receptive energy, joins
the new with the old and opens
minds to compassion and under-
standing. It’s up to you to discover what that means for
you as an individual. Pay special attention to your inner
monologue this week; there is bound to be a lot going on.
TA U R U S
(Apr. 21 - May 21)
On Friday and Saturday, the
moon will be in your social and
reputation zone, so tread lightly
and put your best foot forward.
The new moon in Pisces hap-
pening on Sunday will open
doors and hearts in unexpected
ways, and you may find yourself reflecting deeply on
personal matters. With Mars on your side all week,
you have an urge to take the initiative and be decisive,
despite Mercury retrograde throwing the occasional
curveball. People look toward you as someone who
can get things done.
GEMINI
(May 22 - Jun. 21)
The new moon in Pisces occur-
ring on Sunday happens to co-
incide with other astrological
frictions arising in your social
and communications sector. You
might have some trouble get-
ting your point across at the beginning of the week, and
a little spell of the blues might pay a visit. Caution is
advised in work and romantic spheres until next week
when things calm down. You’ve seen a lot of ups and
downs lately. On the bright side, this could motivate you
to streamline and fine-tune your daily flow and move
with greater intention.
CANCER
(Jun. 22 - Jul. 22)
The weekend holds many harmo-
nious aspects for you. Mars has
your senses razor-sharp and keen.
Your powers of observation may
be pointing you in a fruitful direc-
tion concerning something that’s
been bugging you. The new moon
in Pisces on Sunday has a hauntingly beautiful sensual-
ity to it and is all about understanding and acceptance.
Sometimes the truth doesn’t have to be a scary monster
that we run from; sometimes, it is something special that
we can embrace. The week finishes out strong with the
momentum of lunar and Venusian energy.
ASTROLOGY
LEO
(Jul. 23 - Aug. 22)
A vibrant, emotional landscape
emerges this week. It may be in-
tense at times but awakens an en-
thusiasm and passion from within
that was lying dormant. The new
moon in Pisces could have you
feeling daring, bold and roman-
tic. As a Leo, this kind of stuff shouldn’t scare you too
much. For you, this moon is one of self-expression and
self-awareness. As with any new moon, intention set-
ting and truth-seeking take precedence. Material matters
temporarily fall by the wayside as you look within. Just
don’t get too distracted and float away.
VIRGO
(Aug. 23 - Sep. 23)
You have been sensing something
for some time now that has been
difficult to put into words. This
weekend’s new moon in Pisces,
which is your opposite sign, gets
you out of your comfort zone. It
highlights more esoteric and spir-
itual matters. Logic and duty have their time and place,
but reflecting on a more emotional level will be most pro-
ductive at this time. Articulating your thoughts, dreams
and intentions to yourself and those around you may be
easier after some deep pondering. Do you have some-
thing sincere to offer that you’ve put on the back burner?
LIBRA
(Sep. 24 - Oct. 23)
A mysterious energy seems to
loom over you on Friday and Sat-
urday. By Sunday, all is revealed.
The new moon in Pisces on Sun-
day may stir up neglected emotions
that need some attention and care.
This new moon is one of compassion, self-compassion,
understanding and acceptance, which can be challenging
for you since you have been all business lately. The rest
of the week has you in your head, thinking deep thoughts
and feeling quieter than usual. Now is a time to gather
your thoughts and build a positive self-image. Don’t base
your value on the work you get done for others.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 24 - Nov. 22)
Intense and polarizing moods and
experiences that seem to contradict
one another exist in the same place
at the same time this week. The full
moon in Pisces this Sunday brings to
light some ways you may have been
self-sabotaging recently. It’s tough to admit, but maybe your
pessimism has gotten the best of you recently. Moments of
joy and sadness, nostalgia and motivation come in and out
with the tide. This week is spent philosophizing. Don’t let
old hurts hold you back. Bitterness is not in the cards, Scor-
pio. Allow yourself to hope and dream, even though it can
be scary.
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S A G I T TA R I U S
(Nov. 23 - Dec. 21)
A stellar and clarifying week
lies ahead. The weekend has
good energy that can be direct-
ed toward practical matters.
Wheels can be set into motion
that will help to resolve job,
home or financial issues in the
future. The new moon in Pisces this Sunday will bring
that energy inward. You may meditate on personal and
deep emotional matters. Truthfulness and self-aware-
ness will be the driving force in the intentions you set.
What lies ahead is better than what is beginning to be
behind you.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)
A Mars and solar alignment in
your chart will have you feeling
alert throughout the weekend and
into the new week. The new moon
in Pisces on Sunday seems to dis-
rupt your otherwise matter of fact
mood. You’ve had money and material on your mind, and
it could be causing more stress than motivation. The new
moon will have you asking yourself what really matters
to you and offering help in the insight and understand-
ing department. An open mind will be a great ally to you.
Things in the romance and creativity sector aren’t looking
too shabby either if you are willing to take some initiative.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 21 - Feb. 19)
The weekend forecast bodes good
fortune in the form of new oppor-
tunities and good vibes. The new
moon in Pisces on Sunday may
call you inward, and you could
be craving some solitude in order
to examine that more thorough-
ly. Hearts feel tender, and minds feel open. Set your in-
tentions, and don’t hesitate to express yourself. Bottling
things up is not sustainable. Wednesday and Thursday feel
a little tumultuous because let’s not forget that Mercury
is still retrograde, but by Friday, you will be back in the
groove.
PISCES
(Feb. 20 - Mar. 20)
There is a lot going on for you
right now. 2020 has busy skies in
store. The new moon occurring
in your sign on Sunday will have
you feeling quite in your ele-
ment. Intention setting is the best
way to celebrate such a lunar event — consider it the
practical version of wishing on a star. You hold power,
and all you have to do is believe in yourself. It can be a
bit intense. This week will have you looking to engage
in meaningful discussions, seek out information and ob-
serve art and music closely and with much satisfaction.
Your mind is absorbing inspiration like a sponge.
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Art meets queer desire in ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’
GARY M. KRAMER
PGN Contributor
Out lesbian director Céline Sciamma’s
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” opening Feb.
21 at the Ritz Five, is an exquisite, excep-
tional romantic drama. Set in the 1700s, the
film opens at an art school where Marianne
(Noémie Merlant) is teaching drawing. Her
attention, however, is suddenly arrested
by the titular painting, and the film flashes
back to the time when Marianne was com-
missioned to paint Héloïse (Adèle Haenel).
As Marianne arrives in Brittany, she
slowly comes to understand the dynamics
of the family she meets and her situation.
Sophie (Luàna Bajrami), the servant of
the household, explains that Héloïse has
recently returned home from a convent as
her sister has passed. As Marianne comes
to learn, the death may have been a suicide.
Moreover, Héloïse’s mood is glum as she is
engaged to be wed to a Milanese man; she
has no interest in the wedding. As a con-
dition of the marriage, Héloïse’s mother,
La Comtesse (Valeria Golino), wants her
daughter’s portrait painted — without her
daughter’s knowledge.
Marianne feels up to the artistic chal-
lenge. She comes to observe Héloïse by
escorting her on walks along the cliffs and
shoreline. As the two young women slowly
get to know one another, Marianne studies
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her subject intently, stealing away to sketch
Héloïse’s hands to paint later. She also
plays piano for Héloïse as a way of bond-
ing with her. These scenes build the sexu-
al tension between the women. Marianne
is transfixed by Héloïse’s beauty, and yet,
MARIANNE (NOÉMIE MERLANT) AND HÉLOÏSE (ADÈLE HAENEL). Cour tesy of NEON.
the artist does not act on her attraction. She
expresses her desire in her work. Howev-
er, Héloïse, upon learning the truth about
Marianne’s role as a portrait artist (and not
her companion), dislikes the painting and
requests another be done. La Comtesse
leaves for five days, and the painting is
required to be completed by her return.
Of course, the women fall in love while
alone together.
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is a
sparse, elegant, and seductive period
drama, where the characters slowly and
subtly reveal themselves to each other.
There is more said by what the women
do not express to each other that what
they actually say. When Héloïse asks
Marianne if she has ever known love,
her curiosity is coded. Likewise, a dis-
cussion of the myth of Eurydice and
Orpheus is a metaphor that plays out in
the film.
Sciamma’s drama is as much about
how others see us as it is about the im-
ages we project, the image of ourselves
that we control, and what we show oth-
ers about ourselves. Once Marianne
is bewitched by Héloïse, she fantasiz-
es about the object of her affection in
a flowing white gown. When the two
women finally kiss, it is electrifying;
the desire between them burns slowly
over time.
The filmmaker is also attentive to
the roles of women in society in the
era. Marianne explains how she cannot
paint nude men because of her gender,
and Héloïse appreciates convent life
because there is an “equality” living
among women. A subplot involves So-
phie, who is pregnant, trying to lose her
baby through some drastic actions and
with the help of an abortionist (a com-
pelling if hard to watch sequence.)
The emphasis on gender roles helps
Philadelphia Gay News . FEBRUARY 21-27, 2020
generate sympathy for the characters, who
try to assert their desires. Thankfully, the
film does not rely on the hoary plot device
of the lovers being discovered. Their rela-
tionship is finite, given the arrangements
made by La Comtesse. That creates suffi-
cient drama.
There is considerable pleasure in watch-
ing the women kiss and cuddle in mildly
sensuous scenes or when Marianne gives
Héloïse a drink of water by passing the
liquid from mouth to mouth. And as in ev-
ery good romance, the lovers fight, caus-
ing minor tension in their relationship.
Sciamma takes care not to overempha-
size any of the romantic elements, which
is why her film is so compelling. The story
may unfold at a leisurely pace, but that is
part of its charm; the characters are well
developed that there is anticipation in
Marianne finding a way to make Héloïse
smile. And it is clear why a scene of
Héloïse “on fire” is so vivid for Marianne.
The performances are also strong, with
Merlant doing standout work as Marianne.
Her expressions through the film convey
her burgeoning desires. Her release once
she and Héloïse connect is palpable. In
support, Haenel gives a lovely perfor-
mance as the enigmatic Héloïse. She also
has a remarkable final scene (although it
echoes “Call Me by Your Name.”)
The film’s costumes are fabulous, and
the cinematography is crisp. Sciamma art-
fully frames her shots, from Marianne na-
ked in front of a fireplace to the first time
Héloïse is seen from behind — a mysteri-
ous woman in a vibrant blue cape.
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is an ex-
ceptional drama that creates tremendous
emotions as it depicts the relationship that
develops between these two women. The
film’s coda, which recounts an episode
later in the lives of the characters, is also
highly satisfying. Don’t miss it. n
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A lot of horticulture is about great
design — taking spaces and us-
ing horticulture to improve them
environmentally and make them
more beautiful and/or productive.
So for me, whether you’re design-
ing buildings or creating gardens,
you’re trying to craft something
better than what you’d been given.
At the flower show, we cultivate
the best and brightest in the field,
and we try to show how plants
can make the world more beau-
tiful, help the environment and
take care of the people. We want
to craft a show that is both gor-
geous and educational and fun out
of the concrete floors of the con-
vention center, which isn’t a very
forgiving landscape to work with,
but we create something beautiful
from it nevertheless.
Indeed, you do. How do you
choose the themes? It’s a col-
laborative effort. We pass out
questionnaires at the show and
float a few suggestions out to our
guests and visitors to see how they
respond to which ideas, and we
see which ones support our mis-
sion and are feasible for us to pull
off!
Let’s talk about the theme this
year? It’s Riviera Holiday, and
the focus is on the plants and de-
signs of the Mediterranean region.
It is an area that is experiencing
a rapidly warming climate and
reduced water. We’ve partnered
with Monaco, which is a country
that has a strong commitment to
climate change research and envi-
ronmental sustainability, and, of
course, they have a connection to
Philadelphia with Princess Grace
Kelly. We will immerse visitors
in the sights, scents and tastes of
the region so you’ll see an enor-
mous variety of Mediterranean
plants — everything from olive
trees, lemon trees, lavender and
rosemary. We will have French
designers attending and lots of
workshops. There are also sev-
rev. dr. Nadine Rosechild Sullivan, ph.d. eral new interactive experiences
like the “PHS Grow It!” Center
and Mobile “Pop Up” moments
Spiritual Counseling to show how some of the show’s
drsullivan@rosechild.org incredible displays are brought to
life. The Bloomin’ Brunch is also
215.704.4264 a new event held daily for food-
www.rosechild.org ies and horticulture lovers. The
“Taste of Saint Tropez” themed
Spirituality • Sexuality • Relationships • Self-Esteem Brunch will treat guests to an ex-
clusive dining menu in a beautiful
setting. The opening night party is
‘80s themed and al-
ways a big draw. page 29
FEBRUARY 21-27, 2020 . epgn.com
Kristin Stewart
captures the essence
of Jean Seberg
in new biopic
GARY M. KRAMER
PGN Contributor
Out actress Kristin Stewart plays the
title character in “Seberg,” an engrossing
character study opening at area theaters
on Feb. 28. The film, directed by Bene-
dict Andrews, and written by Joe Shrap-
nel and Anna Waterhouse, traces the ac-
tress-turned-activist Seberg’s life starting
in May 1968. The story focuses on a spe-
cific period of her life — when she was
under surveillance by the FBI for her asso-
ciation with the Black Panther Party. This
approach allows viewers to understand and
appreciate the difficulties the actress faced
under a specific kind of scrutiny. While
there are references to her best-known
films, “Joan of Arc” (and director
Otto Preminger’s cruel treatment of
her) and “Breathless,” “Seberg” is
hardly a hagiography.
The film opens in Paris, as Jean
leaves her husband, Romain (Yvan
Attal), and their young son, Diego
(Gabriel Sky), to return to Los An-
geles for work. She is accompanied
by her manager, Walt (Stephen
Root), who wants Jean to get the
female lead in the Western musical,
“Paint Your Wagon.”
On the flight, Jean encounters
Hakim Jamal (Anthony Mackie),
a Black Panther, and connects with
him after deplaning — striking a
pose with the Black Panthers on the
tarmac for the media. Walt is dis-
mayed, but Jean is not discouraged.
Later that night, she visits Hakim
in Compton, and they talk about
social justice politics and have sex.
FAMILY PORTRAIT
from page 28
What’s your favorite family tradition?
The night before Thanksgiving, all the cous-
ins bake pies together. It’s something we’ve
done since we were in preschool. It started
out in my grandmother’s kitchen, and we’ve
kept it going ever since. She is no longer with
us, but now the next generation of kids are
participating as well.
What’s the strangest conversation piece
in your house? No question it’s ... I can’t
believe I’m telling you this; we have a porce-
lain statue of a baby that sits on our window-
sill. I saw it at a rummage sale, and I thought
it was the most bizarre thing I’d ever seen, so
FILM
As this late-night meeting takes place,
FBI agent Jack Solomon (Jack O’Connell),
is in a van, parked outside, recording it all.
Soon, the bureau sees Jean, a celebrity, as
being “dangerous.” Jack and his colleague
Carl (Vince Vaughn) are given full autho-
rization by their boss, Frank Ellroy (Colm
Meaney), to tail Jean, bug her house and
prove that her relationship with Hakim
and her association with and support of the
Black Panthers pose a threat to America.
The FBI wants to “cause her embarrass-
ment and cheapen her image in the eyes of
the public.”
“Seberg” crackles as it shows how Jean
operates blithely unaware of all the atten-
tion she is drawing to herself. She writes
checks to help fund the Panthers and opens
I bought it, and it now sits on the windowsill
and stares at everybody walking by.
Most unusual job? I’ve done a lot of dif-
ferent jobs, but my favorite crazy one was
washing pots and pans in a hotel in Yellow-
stone National Park. It was a huge dining
room, and we received piles of dirty pots.
Somehow getting them all cleaned and shiny
gave me a huge sense of accomplishment.
What would you put in a time capsule? I
would put Philadelphia plants that won’t exist
once climate change takes hold, so people can
see the world we were surrounded by before
it was gone. I’d clip the front pages from the
Inquirer and the PGN, the Tribune and Al Dia,
so we’d have a sense of what was happening.
her home for a party that is attended by
Bobby Seale (Grantham Coleman).
Curiously, Andrews parallels Jean’s story
with Jack’s to create a thematic bond be-
tween the characters. He shows how this
surveillance assignment takes a toll on both
of their lives, which is perhaps a misstep
because it shifts the focus away from Jean.
While several smear campaigns Carl
hatches victimize jean — the most nefar-
ious involves a pregnancy rumor — Jack
becomes more sympathetic to his target. It
is as if he is experiencing Stockholm Syn-
drome in reverse. In a critical episode in a
New York hotel room, Jean realizes she is
under surveillance and that she is not par-
anoid. Moreover, Jack is prompted to call
Jean, anonymously, and warn her. This,
however, inspires her to double down on
her actions.
Andrews’ film starts to get a little con-
trived here. The scene in the hotel room is
manipulative. And Jean’s descent into mad-
ness, which affected her work, personal life
and emotional state (she attempted suicide),
feels rushed. Stewart conveys the stress and
strain and Jean’s self-destructive behavior,
but “Seberg” veers into melodrama here,
losing the cool tone of the film’s stronger
first half. As Jean, full of despair, walks,
drink in hand, into her swimming pool, it
feels cheap and obvious. In contrast, Jack’s
morals are strengthened after he witnesses
Three favorite smells? Hyacinths are a
pretty good spring scent. That incredible
perfume. I also love the smell of a newly
mown lawn, particularly being barefoot and
smelling the grass clippings underneath you
— that’s summer to me. And, there’s some-
thing about the smell of the city when it’s
wet. It’s not necessarily a beautiful smell,
but there’s something intimate about it to
which I attach.
Others are embarrassed when you…
Mansplain too much. I’ll give you an exam-
ple. Before I met Michael, I was on OkCu-
pid. I love public transit; I think it’s really
fun riding buses as a curiosity. Someone
on the site expressed a similar interest, and
I sent them 500 words on my favorite bus
29
an ugly (and heavy-handed) moment be-
tween Carl and his daughter Jenny (Jade
Pettyjohn), at a dinner table. Thankfully,
the film recovers from these lapses with a
quietly powerful ending.
“Seberg” benefits from Stewart’s assured
performance. Stewart is less interested in
mimicking the actress than capturing her
essence. And she is magnetic sporting Se-
berg’s iconic, short pixie haircut and the
fabulous period costumes. (The 1960s pro-
duction design is also notable). Stewart is
best in a scene where she absorbs an in-
tense exchange with Dorothy Jamal (Zazie
Beetz) — who learned that Jean slept with
her husband. And the way she handles a
difficult press conference, where she must
suppress her anger while trying to gain pub-
lic sympathy, is impressive.
As Jack, O’Connell gives a largely in-
ternal performance, which shows how he,
like Jean, must control his emotions. This
makes the few scenes of Jack displaying his
rage forceful.
Andrews’ film nobly wants to address the
politics Jean championed, but what “Se-
berg” does best is validate its subject’s sto-
ry, which is both tragic and a travesty. This
biopic may not have the same impact as gay
filmmaker Mark Rappaport’s fantastic 1995
documentary, “From the Journals of Jean
Seberg,” but it should generate some inter-
est in the actress’ brief life and career. n
routes and why. Obviously, they did not re-
spond. So if you ask me about a building,
I’ll probably give you a whole lecture about
it.
So to wrap it up, I read that there are
4,000 volunteers for the flower show.
Is it too late for people to get involved?
Not at all, and it’s a great way to experi-
ence it up close. You can go on the website
and sign up for the flower show or see what
we’re doing the rest of the year. We have vol-
unteer opportunities year-round. And here’s
something most people don’t know, anyone
can enter a plant or flower into the flower
show competition. If you have something
you’ve grown that you think is great, you
can enter the flower show! It’s not too late! n
30 COMIC
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FEBRUARY 21-27, 2020 . epgn.com
SHERIFF’S SALE
Properties to be sold by
ROCHELLE BILAL Sheriff
on Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at
First District Plaza, 3801
Market Street, at 9:00 AM.
(EST)
Conditions of Sheriff’s
Sale for
JUDICIAL/FORECLOSURE
SALE
Ten percent of the highest
bid for each property auc-
tioned off shall be deposited
in certified check, attorney’s
check or money order with
the Sheriff by each bidder
when his bid is registered,
provided that in no case shall
less than Six Hundred Dollars
($600.00) be deposited, other-
wise upon failure or refusal to
make such deposit, the bidder
shall lose all benefit of his bid
and the property may be  of-
fered again and sold unless
a second bid has been regis-
tered, then, the second highest
bidder will take the property at
the highest bid price.
Additionally, where there
is active bidding, the highest
bidder, and the second high-
est bidder, if any must post
the entire amount of the cost
of the distribution policy
for the property at the time
of sale by certified check,
attorney’s check or money
order with the Sheriff.   The
Sheriff reserves the right to
reject any certified check,
attorney’s check or money
order that on its face has
an expired use date and is
presented for payment of the
deposit.
The balance of the
purchase money must be
deposited in  certified check,
attorney’s check or money
order together with a Deed
poll for execution by the high-
est bidder to the Sheriff at his
office within 30 days from the
time of the sale. An extension
of time for an additional 30
days may be granted at the
discretion of the Sheriff upon
receipt of written request from
the buyer requesting the same,
except when a second bidder
has been duly registered. Also,
if the first bidder does not
complete settlement with the
Sheriff within the thirty (30)
day time limit and a second
bid was registered at the sale,
the second bidder shall be
granted the same thirty (30)
day time limit to make settle-
ment with the Sheriff on his
second bid. Thereafter, the
Sheriff shall be at liberty to re-
turn the writ to court. A second
bid must be registered on any
property immediately after
it is sold. The second bidder
must present the same amount
of deposit that the highest bid-
der delivers to the Sheriff at
the sale. An extension of time
under no circumstances will
be granted or honored by the
Sheriff whenever a second bid
is registered on a property at
the sale.
The first bid or opening
bid on each property shall be
set by the City of Philadelphia.
In no event will the successful
bidder be allowed to settle
on the property unless all the
Sheriff’s costs are paid not-
withstanding the final bid.
The deposit by any bidder
who fails to comply with the
above conditions of sale shall
be forfeited and the funds will
be applied to the Sheriff’s cost,
then to any municipal claims
that the City of Philadelphia
has on the property. Finally, if
a balance still remains, a Sher-
iff’s Distribution Policy will
be ordered and the money will
be distributed accordingly.  Robin Evans a/k/a Robin M.
No personal checks, drafts
or promises to pay will be
SHERIFF’S SALE
accepted in lieu of   certified
checks, attorney’s checks or
money orders made payable
to the Sheriff of Philadelphia
County.  following show the amount of
The Sheriff reserves the
right to grant further exten-
sions of time to settle and
further reserves the right to
refuse bids from bidders who
have failed to enter deposits
on their bids, failed to make
settlement, or make fraudulent
bids, or any other behavior
which causes disruption of the
Sheriff Sale. Said bidders shall
be so refused for the sale in
which said behavior occurred
and for said further period of
time as the Sheriff in his dis-
cretion shall determine.  settlement, under certain terms
The Sheriff will not ac-
knowledge a deed poll to any
individual or entity using an
unregistered fictitious name
and may, at his discretion,
require proof of identity of the
purchaser or the registration
of fictitious names. The bid
of an unregistered fictitious
name shall be forfeited as if
the bidder failed to meet the
terms of sale.  Philadelphia
All bidders are advised to
remain at the sale until after
the last property is sold. The
Sheriff reserves the right to
re-sell any property at any
time before the end of the sale,
upon the successful bidders’
failure to tender the required
deposit. The Sheriff reserves
the right to postpone or stay
the sale of any property in
which the attorney on the writ
has not appeared and is not
present at the sale.  Sheriff’s Office cannot decide
Prospective purchasers
are directed to the Web site
of the Philadelphia Bureau
of Revision of Taxes, (BRT)
brtweb.phila.gov for a fuller
description of the proper-
ties listed. Properties can
be looked up by the BRT
number – which should be
cross checked with the ad-
dress. Prospective purchas-
ers are also directed to the
Room 154 City Hall, 215-
686-1483 and to its website
philadox.phila.gov and to
its website at http://phila-
dox.phila.gov where they
can view the deed to each
individual property and
find the boundaries of the
property. PROSPECTIVE
PURCHASERS ARE RE-
SPONSIBLE FOR DETER-
MINING THE NATURE,
LOCATION, CONDITION
AND BOUNDARIES OF
THE PROPERTIES THEY
SEEK TO PURCHASE. The
BRT # refers to a unique
number assigned by the City
Bureau of Revision of Taxes
to each property in the City
for the purpose of assessing
it for taxes. This number can
be used to obtain descriptive
information about the prop-
erty from the BRT website.
Effective Date: July 7, 2006  DeNardo, LLC
 NOTICE OF SCHED-
ULE OF DISTRIBUTION  5108 Duffield St 19124 62nd
The Sheriff will file in his
office, The Land Title Build-
ing, 100 South Broad Street,
5th Floor, a Schedule of
Distribution Thirty (30) Days
from the date of the sale of
Real Estate. Distribution will
be made in accordance with
the Schedule unless excep-
tions are filed thereto within
ten (10) days thereafter.  Robin M. Evans-Jones a/k/a
The name first appearing
in each notice is that of the
defendant in the writ whose
property is being sold. All
Writs are Writs of Executions.  PROPERTY Maureen A.
The letters C.P., Court
of Common Pleas; O.C.,
Orphans’ Court; Q.S., Court
of Quarter Sessions; C.C.,
County Court - indicate the
Court out of which the writ of
execution issues under which
SHERIFF’S SALE
the sale is made: S. 1941. 223.
means September Term, 1941.
223, the term and number of
the docket entry; the figures
debt; and the name following
is that of the attorney issuing
the writ.  his/her capacity as Heir of
Attention is called to the
provisions of Act No.104, ap-
proved July 27, 1955, which
requires owners of properties
which are used, designed or
intended to be used by three
or more families, or of com-
mercial establishments which
contain one or more dwelling
units, to deliver to the buyers
of such properties a use reg-
istration permit at the time of
and conditions. Sheriff Sales
are not subject to provisions
of the said Act and the Sheriff
will, therefore, not deliver use
registration permits in connec-
tion with any sales conducted
by him.  2003-304
Very truly yours,
ROCHELLE BILAL
Sheriff
City and County of
www.Officeof
Philadelphia
Sheriff.com
SPECIAL NOTE: All Sheriff’s
Sales are conducted pursuant
to the orders of the Courts and
Judges of the First Judicial
District. Only properties that
are subject to judgments issued
by the First Judicial District
are listed for sale. By law, the
if a property can be listed for
sale; only the District Courts
can order a property to be sold
at auction.
SHERIFF’S SALE
OF
Tuesday,
March 3, 2020
2003-301
547 N Wanamaker St
19131 4th wd. 825 Sq. Ft.;
Improvements: 1,220 Sq. Ft.
OPA#043142300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 2 STY MA-
SONRY Doris Clark, in Her
Capacity as Heir of Bernard
A. Levine; Unknown heirs,
successors, assigns, and all
persons, firms, or associa-
tions claiming right, title,
or interest from or under
Bernard A. Levine C.P.
June Term, 2019 No. 06689
$50,032.15 Robert Crawley
2003-302
33 W Seymour St 19144
12th wd. Improvement
Area: 1,628 Sq. Ft.;
Land Area: 1,332 Sq. Ft.
OPA#123053700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Thomas A.
Jones a/k/a Thomas Alexan-
der Jones, Sr. a/k/a Thomas
A. Jones, Sr., Individually
and in His/Her Capacity as
Heir of Robin M. Evans-
Jones a/k/a Robin Evans
Jones a/k/a Robin Evans-
Jones a/k/a Robin Marcia
Jones a/k/a Robin Evans
a/k/a Robin M. Jones; Regi-
nald Evans, in His Capacity
as Executor of The Estate of
Robin Evans Jones a/k/a
Robin Evans-Jones a/k/a
Robin Marcia Jones a/k/a
Robin Evans a/k/a Robin M.
Jones; Kareem N. Oliver, in
his/her capacity as heir of
Robin M. Evans-Jones a/k/a
Robin Evans Jones a/k/a
Robin Evans-Jones a/k/a
Robin Marcia Jones a/k/a
Jones; Toshaan M. Oliver,
PGN
SHERIFF’S SALE
in his/her capacity as heir of
Robin M. Evans-Jones a/k/a
Robin Evans Jones a/k/a
Robin Evans-Jones a/k/a
Robin Marcia Jones a/k/a
Robin Evnas a/k/a Robin
M. Jones; Coy H. Evans, in
Robin M. Evans-Jones a/k/a
Robin Evans Jones a/k/a
Robin Evans-Jones a/k/a
Robin Marcia Jones a/k/a
Robin Evans a/k/a Robin M.
Jones C.P. February Term,
2019 No. 02618 $74,002.22
Robert Flacco, Esq.
2003-303
3617 Wallace St 19104
24th wd. 542 Sq. Ft.
OPA#242096600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Charles
Roundtree HTTA Charles
Roundtree, III and Dawn N.
Roundtree C.P. July Term,
2019 No. 03013 $57,221.07
KML Law Group, P.C.
37 W Rockland St 19144
12th wd. 1,505 Sq. Ft.
OPA#123037600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Andri Coucil Jr.
C.P. February Term, 2015
No. 01113 $120,061.53 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-305
7540 Sherwood Rd 19151
34th wd. 1,389 Sq. Ft.
OPA#343237200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kia S. Sawyer
C.P. January Term, 2019 No.
00320 $136,104.67 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-306
4038 M St 19124 33rd
wd. 1,125 Sq. Ft.
OPA#332458100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Jaselly Citron-
Garcia C.P. August Term,
2019 No. 04515 $102,668.25
Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC
2003-307
1148 S 60th St 19143
3rd wd. (formerly 46th
wd.) 1,583 Sq. Ft.
OPA#033215100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Jaime Weath-
erbe ad Michael Weatherbe
C.P. April Term, 2019 No.
02957 $182,811.00 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-308
732 S Alden St 19143
46th wd. 900 Sq. Ft.
OPA#463260800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Mark Abrams
C.P. October Term, 2019 No.
00514 $50,357.15 Shapiro &
DeNardo, LLC
2003-309
2113 Ripley St 19152
56th wd. 2,625 Sq. Ft.
OPA#561581000 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Karen S.
Strawbridge and Thomas H.
Strawbridge, Jr. C.P. Janu-
ary Term, 2019 No. 01478
$201,678.72 Shapiro &
2003-310
wd. Land: 1,980 Sq. Ft.;
Improvement: 1,632 Sq. Ft.;
Total: 1,980 Sq. Ft. OPA#62-
2-2386-00 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Keatrisha
Allen C.P. November Term,
2017 No. 01532 $98,001.68
Richard M. Squire & Associ-
ates, LLC
2003-311
10 Shipley Pl 19152
57th wd. 3,693 Sq. Ft.
OPA#571054600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
Rose and Shackarah S. Vera
C.P. March Term, 2019 No.
03441 $185,142.02 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-312
5100 N 15th St 19141
17th wd. 1,806 Sq. Ft.
SHERIFF’S SALE
OPA#172057300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Emanuel T.
Frederick, as Administra-
tor of The Estate of Carrie
Frederick, Deceased C.P.
February Term, 2016 No.
05060 $79,802.73 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-313
3705 Genesee Dr 19154
66th wd. 1,800 Sq. Ft.
OPA#663429300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Mark Nast,
as believed Heir and/or
Administrator of the Estate
of Kathleen Nast; Melissa
Nast, as believed Heir and/or
Administrator of the Estate
of Kathleen Nast; Unknown
Heirs and/or Administrators
of the Estate of Kathleen
Nast C.P. June Term, 2019
No. 05165 $214,194.24
Cristina L. Connor, Esquire;
Manley Deas Kochalski,
LLC
2003-314
7418 N 21st St 19138
10th wd. 1,815 Sq. Ft.
OPA#101192200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Derrick G.
Rose a/k/a Derrik Rose C.P.
August Term, 2019 No.
02364 $102,285.46 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-315
3533 Shelmire Ave 19136
64th wd. 1,608 Sq. Ft.
OPA#642180900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kenneth C. Pug-
liesi, a/k/a Kenneth Pugliesi
C.P. August Term, 2018 No.
00001 $131,704.79 Meredith
H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski, LLC
2003-316
7401 Lapwing Pl 19153
40th wd. 2,609 Sq. Ft.
OPA#406668100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Maria T. Do-
nato, a/k/a Maria T. Parrillo
C.P. January Term, 2019 No.
00139 $165,579.38 Justin F.
Kobeski, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski LLC
2003-317
2889 Tremont St 19136
57th wd. 2,249 Sq. Ft.
OPA#572059374 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Peter C. Danis
C.P. February Term, 2018
No. 02419 $166,070.05 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-318
6942 Cresheim Rd 19119
22nd wd. S/D W/B GAR 2
STY MASONRY; 2,068 Sq.
Ft. BRT#223205900 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Marian
D. Hill and United States of
America c/o United States
Attorney for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania C.P.
April Term, 2017 No. 00151
$343,251.66 McCabe, Weis-
berg, & Conway, LLC
2003-319
4325 E Wingohocking St
a/k/a 4325 Wingohocking St
19124 23rd wd. 1,752 Sq. Ft.
OPA#234208500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Lisa M. MacK-
enzie C.P. March Term, 2017
No. 03166 $80,273.47 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-320
404 N 64th St 19151 34th
wd. S/D CONV APT 2 STY
MASONRY; 2,232 Sq. Ft.
BRT#343081900 Subject
to Rent IMPROVEMENTS:
RESIDENTIAL DWELL-
ING Lethia M. Miller-Berry
F/K/A Lethia M. Miller
$11,209.91 McCabe, Weis-
berg, & Conway, LLC
2003-321
1207 S 46th St a/k/a
1207-1209 S 46th St 19143
27th wd. ROW 3 STY
MASONRY; 3,255 Sq. Ft.
BRT#272161500 Subject
SHERIFF’S SALE
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Rosa Reed-
Simmons a/k/a Reverend
Rosa Reed-Simmons C.P.
July Term, 2016 No. 03366
$367,526.71 McCabe, Weis-
berg, & Conway, LLC
2003-322
931 N Fallon St 19131
44th wd. 825 Sq. Ft.
OPA#442203500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Shawnnette
L. Johnson a/k/a Shawn-
nette D.L. Johnson C.P.
September Term, 2019 No.
02371 $27,379.81 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-323
7114 Grays Ave 19142
40th wd. 1,320 Sq. Ft.
OPA#404209200 Subject To
Mortgage: This Sale is Un-
der and Subject to 1st Mort-
gage IMPROVEMENTS:
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
Fitsum A. Abay a/k/a Fitsum
Abay C.P. July Term, 2019
No. 01431 $25,582.33 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-324
5537 Larchwood Ave 19143
60th wd. 1,178 Sq. Ft.
OPA#604137700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Eddie Green
Solely in His Capacity as
Heir of Anthony Green De-
ceased C.P. June Term, 2019
No. 06526 $44,675.57 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-325
1013 E Slocum St 19150
50th wd. S/D W/B GAR 2
STY MASONRY; 1,474 Sq.
Ft. BRT#502393600 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Catherine A.
Adams C.P. November Term,
2018 No. 02463 $112,967.37
McCabe, Weisberg, & Con-
way, LLC
2003-326
9347 Edmund St 19114
65th wd. 3,750 Sq. Ft.
BRT#652390810 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
REAL ESTATE Denise
Hewitt C.P. February Term,
2016 No. 00438 $224,495.06
Stern & Eisenberg, P.C.
2003-327
3227 Turner St 19121
32nd wd. 1,360 Sq. Ft.
BRT#324025400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
151 Properties Inc., by:
Arik Klein, President C.P.
August Term, 2019 No.
02581 $238,056.54 Stern &
Eisenberg, P.C.
2003-328
6613 N Smedley St 19126
10th wd. ROW B/GAR 2
STY MASONRY; 1,416 Sq.
Ft. BRT#101033500 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Brian K. Hill
a/k/a Brian Hill , Known
Surviving Heir of Nandell
Brown, Tobie Hill, Known
Surviving Heir of Nandell
Brown, Kim Hill, Known
Surviving Heir of Nandell
Brown and Anthony Hill,
Known Surviving Heir
of Nandell Brown and
Unknown Surviving Heirs
of Nandell Brown C.P.
December Term, 2017 No.
00559 $58,102.27 McCabe,
Weisberg, & Conway, LLC
2003-329
6056 Callowhill St 19151
34th wd. 1,710 Sq. Ft.
BRT#341042400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
Tyrail Frederick Stewart,
solely in his capacity as
Administrator of the Estate
of Cindy Stewart, deceased
C.P. August Term, 2019 No.
04648 $84,154.51 Stern &
Eisenberg, PC
2003-330
1158 E Sanger St 19124
62nd wd. 1,504 Sq. Ft.
SHERIFF’S SALE
BRT#621047500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
REAL ESTATE Lorenza
Peralta-Rodriguez C.P.
September Term, 2018 No.
00590 $107,574.51 Stern &
Eisenberg, P.C.
2003-331
3706 Vader Rd a/k/a
3706 Vader Dr 19154
66th wd. 1,800 Sq. Ft.
OPA#663424200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Carole Jane
Tyre a/k/a Carol Jane C.P.
May Term, 2018 No. 02724
$38,993.97 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-332
6500 Hasbrook Ave 19111
35th wd. 1,847 Sq. Ft.
OPA#353192100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Steven Klep-
czynski C.P. August Term,
2014 No. 00834 $198,137.17
KML Law Group, P.C.
2003-333
636 Allengrove St 19120
35th wd. 1,343 Sq. Ft.
OPA#351085100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Peterson Rene
C.P. June Term, 2019 No.
05256 $78,660.66 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-334
1833 Wilmot St 19124
23rd wd. 2,062 Sq. Ft.
OPA#232135005 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Belinda Harris
C.P. June Term, 2016 No.
00674 $68,534.83 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-335
10209 W Keswick Rd 19114
66th wd. 3,018 Sq. Ft.
OPA#661057900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Elva Lennox,
Solely in Her Capacity as
Heir of John Lennox, De-
ceased C.P. April Term, 2018
No. 04021 $158,201.34 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-336
2723 W Silver St 19132-
2539 28th wd. 754 Sq. Ft.
OPA#281412700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Lorenzo E.
Bailey a/k/a Lorenzo Bailey;
Vernon Ackridge a/k/a
Vernon Akridge C.P. October
Term, 2018 No. 00356
$33,385.33 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
2003-337
6521 Windsor Ave 19142
40th wd. 1,600 Sq. Ft.
OPA#403078100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Cheryl Owens
a/k/a Cheryl Vanessa Owens
C.P. July Term, 2017 No.
02506 $80,342.21 Meredith
H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski, LLC
2003-338
1245 W Westmoreland St
19140 43rd wd. ROW 3 STY
MASONRY; 2,208 Sq. Ft.
BRT#431047010 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Theresa Jones
C.P. March Term, 2019 No.
03132 $121,369.66 McCabe,
Weisberg, & Conway, LLC
2003-339
628 N 64th St 19151-3837
34th wd. Land: 2,500 Sq.
Ft.; Improvement: 1,924
Sq. Ft.; Total: 2,500 Sq. Ft.
OPA#344246300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Rufus Johnson
C.P. August Term, 2019 No.
01818 $106,508.47 Richard
M. Squire & Associates,
LLC
2003-340
1036 S 54th St 19143 51st
wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY
MASONRY; 1,344 Sq. Ft.
BRT#513126200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Daniel S. Toe,
Sr. and Lula M. Wilson-Toe
C.P. February Term, 2014
31
SHERIFF’S SALE
No. 00852 $78,867.59 Mc-
Cabe, Weisberg, & Conway,
LLC
2003-341
1834 S 22nd St 19145-1941
48th wd. 1,440 Sq. Ft.
OPA#482197800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Reginald
Selden, Jr a/k/a Reginal
Selden, Jr; Rls Property
Management LLC, A New
Jersey Limited Liability
Company C.P. October Term,
2019 No. 00663 $133,036.17
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-342
7901 Ridge Ave 19128
21st wd. 13,854 Sq. Ft.
OPA#882920460 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: MISC DAY CARE
MASONRY Les Petits
Cherubs LTD and Amelia
O’Donnell Narcisi C.P. Janu-
ary Term, 2019 No. 01056
$1,222,598.45 William F.
Saldutti, III, Esquire
2003-343
6315 Elmwood Ave 19142-
2908 40th wd. 1,320 Sq. Ft.
OPA#402225800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Marlo L. Tribble
a/k/a Marlo L. Hunter C.P.
April Term, 2019 No. 02200
$24,213.32 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
2003-344
807 E Haines St 19138 59th
wd. DET W/D GAR 2.5
STY STONE; 6,817 Sq. Ft.
BRT#592013000 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Marie Jerome
C.P. December Term, 2015
No. 00282 $333,789.80 Mc-
Cabe, Weisberg, & Conway,
LLC
2003-345
3023 Livingston St 19134
25th wd. 863 Sq. Ft.
OPA#251315300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Patricia
Conklin, as believed Heir
and/or Administrator to the
Estate of Patricia A. Krause;
Michael Infanti, as believed
Heir and/or Administrator
to the Estate of Patricia A.
Krause; Robert Infanti, as
believed Heir and/or Ad-
ministrator to the Estate of
Patricia A. Krause; Unknown
Heirs and/or Administrators
to the Estate of Patricia A.
Krause C.P. July Term, 2018
No. 02217 $77,889.85 Justin
F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski LLC
2003-346
2655 Levick St 19149
62nd wd. 1,898 Sq. Ft.
OPA#621288600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW B/GAR 2
STY MASONRY Karen
Sue Silberstein, in Her
Capacity as Heir of Donald
P. Schleicher a/k/a Donald
Schleicher; Unknown heirs,
successors, assigns, and all
persons, firms, or associa-
tions claiming right, title,
or interest from or under
Donald P. Schleicher a/k/a
Donald Schleicher C.P.
September Term, 2019 No.
00529 $115,903.51 Robert
Crawley
2003-347
3571 Stouton St 19134
45th wd. 824 Sq. Ft.
BRT#452393300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
REAL ESTATE Tracy Hua
and Chi-Hung Mu C.P.
January Term, 2017 No.
00307 $116,648.86 Stern &
Eisenberg PC
2003-348
6619 Leeds St 19151-3029
34th wd. 1,188 Sq. Ft.
OPA#344035900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Richard H.
Schofield a/k/a Richard Sco-
field C.P. September Term,
2018 No. 00327 $70,235.47
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SHERIFF’S SALE
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-349
1700 Kennedy St 19124
62nd wd. 1,630 Sq. Ft.
OPA#622156510 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Robert Fulford
a/k/a Robert Fulford III
and Wendy B. Fulford C.P.
October Term, 2018 No.
02291 $68,481.66 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-350
2655 S Massey St 19142
40th wd. 1,240 Sq. Ft.
OPA#406118300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kemp Carter
C.P. June Term, 2019 No.
06732 $80,618.69 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-351
5906 Tabor Ave a/k/a
5906 Tabor Rd 19120
35th wd. 1,269 Sq. Ft.
BRT#352332000 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Darrin L.
Chapman in his capacity as
the Executor of the Estate of
Patricia E. Carter, Deceased
C.P. February Term, 2018
No. 02914 $73,902.11 Mar-
tha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C.;
Martha E. Von Rosenstiel,
Esq.; Lorraine Gazzara
Doyle, Esq.
2003-352
9240 Wesleyan Rd 19114
57th wd. 5,000 Sq. Ft.
BRT#572235000 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Anthony J.
Hughes, Sr. C.P. March
Term, 2017 No. 02926
$282,852.97 Martha E. Von
Rosenstiel, P.C.; Martha E.
Von Rosenstiel, Esq.; Lor-
raine Gazzara Doyle, Esq.
2003-353
2044 S. Bonsall St 19145-
2606 48th wd. 800 Sq. Ft.
OPA#482286500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: SINGLE FAMILY
RESIDENTIAL DWELLING
Somchay Sayamanh and
Phetsamone Phanthavong
a/k/a Phe Samone Phan-
thavong C.P. July Term,
2019 No. 04062 $56,220.29
Hladik, Onorato & Feder-
man, LLP
2003-354
2243 N. 22nd St. 19132
16th wd. Land: 1,625 Sq.
Ft.; Improvement: 2,126
Sq. Ft.; Total: 2,126 Sq. Ft.
OPA#162208700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Theresa Meggett
C.P. August Term, 2019 No.
03102 $19,031.48 Richard
M. Squire & Associates,
LLC
2003-355
31 Hamilton Cir 19130
8th wd. 1,694 Sq. Ft.
OPA#084050785 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Mitchell Pren-
sky; Jennifer L. Prensky,
a/k/a Jennifer Prensky C.P.
February Term, 2019 No.
03091 $102,769.16 Justin F.
Kobeski, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski LLC
2003-356
6144 Webster St 19143
3rd wd. 3,316 Sq. Ft.
OPA#033037400 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Joree Pettey
C.P. May Term, 2016 No.
02317 $99,431.08 Meredith
H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski, LLC
2003-357
5437 Gainor Rd 19131
52nd wd. 3,125 Sq. Ft.
OPA#522107000 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Lucille James,
a/k/a Loucille James C.P.
May Term, 2019 No. 00237
$50,289.62 Meredith H.
Wooters, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski, LLC
SHERIFF’S SALE
2003-358
1024 S 22nd St 19146
30th wd. 1,457 Sq. Ft.
OPA#302296800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Nicholas A.
Offenbacher C.P. December
Term, 2013 No. 00110
$308,921.71 Meredith H.
Wooters, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski, LLC
2003-359
518 N Simpson St 19151
34th wd. 1,830 Sq. Ft.
OPA#343109700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY George Snoke,
Sr. a/k/a George Snoke,
a/k/a George J. Snoke, Sr.
C.P. June Term, 2019 No.
06016 $64,030.60 Justin F.
Kobeski, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski LLC
2003-360
5743 N Hope St 19120
61st wd. 1,365 Sq. Ft.
OPA#612464400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Unknown Heirs
and/or Administrators to the
Estate of Alirio Rojas, a/k/a
A. Rojas; Jennifer Galarza,
as possible heir and/or
administrator to the Estate
of Alirio Rojas C.P. August
Term, 2018 No. 02208
$42,158.33 Cristina L. Con-
nor, Esquire; Manley Deas
Kochalski, LLC
2003-361
933 E Ellet St 19150
50th wd. 2,064 Sq. Ft.
OPA#502436200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Angela I. Alex-
ander, a/k/a Angela L. Al-
exander; J. Hite Alexander,
Jr. a/k/a J. Hite Alexander
C.P. May Term, 2017 No.
04207 $166,595.28 Cristina
L. Connor, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski, LLC
2003-362
134 Dimarco Dr 19154
66th wd. 3,767 Sq. Ft.
OPA#662300400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Thomas Abru-
zzo, a/k/a Thomas B. Abru-
zzo, Jr. C.P. December Term,
2018 No. 01116 $187,623.86
Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire;
Manley Deas Kochalski LLC
2003-363
488 W Clapier St 19144
13th wd. 1,416 Sq. Ft.
OPA#133058800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Dallas Byus,
Known Heir of Sherman
Byus, deceased, A. Yvonne
Davis, Known Heir of Sher-
man Byus, deceased, and
Unknown heirs, successors,
assigns, and all persons,
firms, or associations claim-
ing right, title, or interest
from or under Sherman
Byus, deceased C.P. May
Term, 2019 No. 01189
$140,224.14 Shapiro &
DeNardo, LLC
2003-364
9831 Hoff St 19115
58th wd. 3,240 Sq. Ft.
OPA#581416400 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Steven
Argondezzi, as believed
Heir and/or Administrator
to the Estate of Vincent
Argondezzi; Unknown Heirs
and/or Administrators of the
Estate of Vincent Argondezzi
C.P. May Term, 2019 No.
01613 $103,187.89 Cristina
L. Connor, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski, LLC
2003-365
3005 N Ringgold St 19132
38th wd. 750 Sq. Ft.;
Improvements: 1,000 Sq. Ft.
OPA#381019100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 2 STY MA-
SONRY Charleene Flowers
Smith a/k/a Charleene Smith
a/k/a Charleen F. Smith,
Individually and as Execu-
trix of the Estate of Arleene
SHERIFF’S SALE
Flowers a/k/a Arleene Bell
a/k/a Arleene Bell Flowers
a/k/a Arleene B. Bell C.P.
September Term, 2019 No.
00560 $32,090.33 Robert
Crawley
2003-366
6119 Walton Ave 19143
3rd wd. 2,250 Sq. Ft.;
Improvements: 1,258 Sq. Ft.
OPA#032168300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: SEMI/DET 2 STY
FRAME Charles W. Smith
C.P. April Term, 2019 No.
03305 $43,493.79 Robert
Crawley
2003-367
3137 Willits Rd 19114 57th
wd. 6,000 Sq. Ft. OPA#57-2-
0925-00 IMPROVEMENTS:
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
Marc A. Wagner and Karen
McCarthy C.P. June Term,
2015 No. 04010 $236,942.45
Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC
2003-368
3104 W Berks St 19121
32nd wd. 1,120 Sq. Ft.;
Improvements: 2,166
Sq. Ft. OPA#323026601
IMPROVEMENTS: ROW
3 STY MASONRY Patricia
A. Fountain a/k/a Patricia
Fountain; The United States
of America C.P. May Term,
2019 No. 01638 $57,954.06
Robert Crawley
2003-369
4830 A St 19120 42nd wd.
1,669 Sq. Ft.; Improve-
ments: 1,350 Sq. Ft.
OPA#421292600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 2 STY
MASONRY Wesley Thomas,
Personal Representative of
the Estate of Daisy Hall; Un-
known heirs, successors, as-
signs, and all persons, firms,
or associations claiming
right, title, or interest from
or under Daisy Hall, De-
ceased; Regina Patricia Hall,
Known Heir of Daisy Hall;
Fatima Charmaine Hall,
Known Heir of Daisy Hall;
Lakita Monique Hall, Known
Heir of Daisy Hall; Estate of
Daisy Hall C.P. March Term,
2013 No. 03529 $35,925.25
Robert Crawley
2003-370
2125 Stenton Ave 19138-
2509 10th wd. 1,236 Sq. Ft.
OPA#102338300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Andre Raynor,
in His Capacity as Adminis-
trator and Heir of The Estate
of Brenda C. Raynor a/k/a
Brenda Celestine Raynor;
Eionna A. Raynor, in Her
Capacity as Heir of The
Estate of Brenda C. Raynor
a/k/a Brenda Celestine
Raynor; Unknown heirs,
successors, assigns, and all
persons, firms, or associa-
tions claiming right, title,
or interest from or under
Brenda C. Raynor a/k/a
Brenda Celestine Raynor,
Deceased C.P. August Term,
2018 No. 00266 $29,641.72
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-371
1413 Hemlock Pl 19116-
1512 58th wd. 1,296 Sq. Ft.
OPA#583074900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY William Jordan
C.P. October Term, 2017 No.
00073 $226,475.53 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
2003-372
127 N. Peach 19139 44th
wd. 867.1 (14’7” x 59’6”)
OPA#44-1-1799-00 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL USE/RESIDENTIAL
MIXED-USE Robin Single-
ton C.P. November Term,
2015 No. 04093 $29,827.23
Jon Marshall
2003-373
1015 E Dorset St a/k/a
1015 Dorset St 19150-3101
50th wd. 1,474 Sq. Ft.
OPA#502375900 IMPROVE-
PGN
SHERIFF’S SALE
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Ruth A. Carv-
alho, in Her Capacity as Ad-
ministratrix and Heir of The
Estate of Joseph T. Carvalho,
Jr a/k/a Joseph T. Carvalho;
Steven K. Carvalho, in His
Capacity as Heir of The
Estate of Joseph T. Carvalho,
Jr a/k/a Joseph T. Carvalho;
Unknown heirs, successors,
assigns, and all persons,
firms, or associations claim-
ing right, title, or interest
from or under Joseph T.
Carvalho, Jr, Deceased C.P.
May Term, 2014 No. 03607
$232,814.38 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
2003-374
12227 Medford Rd 19154
66th wd. 2,000 Sq. Ft.
OPA#663253400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Jessica Dolan
and Michael Dolan C.P.
July Term, 2019 No. 04686
$185,873.45 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-375
5604 Bloyd St 19138-
2304 12th wd. 918 Sq. Ft.
OPA#122235400 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kim D. Moody
C.P. February Term, 2012
No. 00506 $54,645.34
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-376
2053 Titan St 19146
36th wd. 903 Sq. Ft.
OPA#361093600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Unknown heirs,
successors, assigns, and all
persons, firms, or associa-
tions claiming right, title, or
interest from or under Alice
Darden, Deceased; Arthur
Darden, in His Capacity
as Heir of Alice Darden,
Deceased; Denise Darden
a/k/a Denise Ginyard, in
Her Capacity as Heir of
Alice Darden, Deceased C.P.
April Term, 2018 No. 03281
$91,636.16 RAS Citron,
LLC - Robert Crawley, Esq
2003-377
927 Scattergood St 19124
35th wd. 1,108 Sq. Ft.
OPA#351168600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Maximilian
Wiggins C.P. July Term,
2019 No. 02501 $64,181.00
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-378
1137 S 13th St 19147-
4534 2nd wd. 1,632 Sq. Ft.
OPA#021603900 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY The Unknown
Heirs, Executors and/or
Administrators of the Estate
of Sallie J. Mcallister a/k/a
Sally J. Mccallister; Belinda
Dickens, in Her Capacity as
Heir of Sallie J. Mcallister
Deceased C.P. February
Term, 2017 No. 02504
$151,304.42 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
2003-379
335 E Cliveden St 19119
22nd wd. 2,699 Sq. Ft.
OPA#221049200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Vance Wright
a/k/a Vance L. Wright C.P.
December Term, 2018 No.
00079 $205,287.47 Cristina
L. Connor, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski, LLC
2003-380
6753 Guyer Ave 19142-2610
40th wd. 1,105 Sq. Ft.
OPA#406313900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: TWO STORY
MASONRY ROW HOME
B/GARAGE Derlyn Owens
C.P. June Term, 2019 No.
06681 $51,829.96 Hladik,
Onorato, & Federman, LLP
2003-381
2801 Fanshawe St 19149
SHERIFF’S SALE
55th wd. 3,349 Sq. Ft.
OPA#551118100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Michele L.
Armstrong and Gregory M.
Armstrong C.P. July Term,
2019 No. 00477 $149,921.51
Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC
2003-382
5360 Priscilla St 19144
12th wd. 966 Sq. Ft.;
Improvements: 1,048 Sq.
Ft. OPA#124136700 IM-
PROVEMENTS: ROW2 STY
MASONRY Joanna Lightfoot
a/k/a Joanne Lightfoot a/k/a
Joanne L. Tyer a/k/a Joanna
Tyer, Individually and as
Executrix and Heir of The
Estate of Leon Tyer a/k/a
Leon Joseph Tyer, Sr. a/k/a
Leon Tyer, Sr.; Leon J. Tyer,
Jr. in His Capacity as Heir
of Leon Tyer a/k/a Leon
Joseph Tyer, Sr. a/k/a Leon
Tyer, Sr. and Joann Whitest
a/k/a Joanne Whitest a/k/a
Joanne L. Tyer; Rachel Tyer,
in Her Capacity as Heir of
Leon Tyer a/k/a Leon Joseph
Tyer, Sr. a/k/a Leon Tyer,
Sr. and Joann Whitest a/k/a
Joanne Whitest a/k/a Joanne
L. Tyer; Unknown heirs,
successors, assigns, and all
persons, firms, or associa-
tions claiming right, title, or
interest from or under Leon
Tyer a/k/a Leon Joseph Tyer,
Sr. a/k/a Leon Tyer, Sr.; Un-
known heirs, successors, as-
signs, and all persons, firms,
or associations claiming
right, title, or interest from
or under Joann Whitest a/k/a
Joanne Whitest a/k/a Joanne
L. Tyer C.P. May Term,
2019 No. 09025 $97,619.07
Robert Crawley
2003-383
1621 W Huntingdon St
19132-3944 16th wd. 1,806
Sq. Ft. OPA#161309900
Subject to Mortgage Subject
to Rent IMPROVEMENTS:
RESIDENTIAL DWELL-
ING, ROW CONV/APT 3
STY MASON KP Invest-
ments Group, LLC C.P.
December Term, 2014 No.
02308 $65,801.93 Timoney
Knox, LLP
2003-384
8306 Dorcas St 19152-2258
56th wd. 4,274 Sq. Ft.
BRT#562313756 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
Dorit Mairantz a/k/a Dorit
Maraintz and Meir Gola C.P.
October Term, 2018 No.
02944 $110,392.11 Stern &
Eisenberg PC
2003-385
4542 Strahle St 19136
65th wd. 1599 Sq. Ft.
BRT#652062400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
Jean Lund a/k/a Jean M.
Lund and Michael Miller
C.P. August Term, 2019 No.
02740 $131,592.34 Stern &
Eisenberg PC
2003-386
2157 Furley St 19138
17th wd. 834 Sq. Ft.
BRT#171114300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
REAL ESTATE Edna R.
Latham a/k/a Edna Renee
Latham C.P. August Term,
2019 No. 04423 $73,107.45
Stern & Eisenberg PC
2003-387
111 S 15th St 308 a/k/a
111 S 15th St Unit P308
19102 8th wd. 0 Sq. Ft.
BRT#888087492 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RES CONDO 5+
STY MASNORY Kevin
Jones a/k/a Kevin K. Jones
C.P. March Term, 2015 No.
02570 $422,216.68 Milstead
& Associates, LLC
2003-388
5724 Vine St 19139
4th wd. 1,232 Sq. Ft.
BRT#042157900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
REAL ESTATE Glenn C.
Davis C.P. May Term, 2018
SHERIFF’S SALE
No. 03346 $95,376.06 Stern
& Eisenberg, P.C.
2003-389
113 W Apsley St a/k/a 113
Apsley St 19144-3601
12th wd. 1,792 Sq. Ft.
OPA#123004700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Jeanette R.
Willams a/k/a Jeanette
Williams C.P. August Term,
2019 No. 04916 $108,207.37
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-390
1525 Catharine St 19146-
2138 30th wd. 1,680 Sq. Ft.
OPA#301119300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Jerome Whack
C.P. June Term, 2019 No.
07472 $120,846.54 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
2003-391
2028 Tasker St 19145 36th
wd. Land - 1,088 Sq. Ft.;
Improvement - 1,132 Sq. Ft.
OPA#363071400 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 2 STY
MASONRY Thomas Wright
C.P. June Term, 2019 No.
05135 $156,145.49 Jennifer
Popelack, Esquire; Mattioni,
Ltd.
2003-392
1706 Wagner Ave 19141
17th wd. 1,050 Sq. Ft.
OPA#171028000 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Monique Wells
C.P. September Term, 2008
No. 04422 $84,915.05 Shap-
iro & DeNardo, LLC
2003-393
3226 W Oxford St 19121
32nd wd. 2,514 Sq. Ft.
OPA#292227500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Sandra Horsey,
Administratrix of The Estate
of Geraldine E. Horsey, De-
ceased Mortgagor and Real
Owner C.P. March Term,
2014 No. 01463 $132,028.22
RAS Citron LLC - Robert
Crawley, Esq
2003-394
2622 N 30th St 19132
28th wd. 982 Sq. Ft.
OPA#282083400 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Ruth Lawrence
C.P. August Term, 2019
No. 00840 $22,534.99 RAS
Citron LLC - Robert Craw-
ley, Esq
2003-395
4338 Chippendale St a/k/a
4338 Chippendale Ave
19136 65th wd. 1,200 Sq. Ft.
OPA#651122300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Yvonne
Gibbs, Individually and as
Administratrix of the Estate
of Steven Gibbs, deceased
C.P. April Term, 2016 No.
02747 $48,689.96 Shapiro &
DeNardo, LLC
2003-396
2318 N Van Pelt St 19132
16th wd. 692 Sq. Ft.;
Improvements: 1,146 Sq. Ft.
OPA#162198500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 2 STY
MASONRY Walter Scriven,
in His Capacity as Executor
and Devisee of The Estate of
Grace W. White a/k/a Grace
Warner, Deceased; Medis
Scriven, in His Capacity as
Heir of Grace W. White a/k/a
Grace Warner, Deceased;
Sherol Floyd Cofield, in Her
Capacity as Heir of Grace W.
White a/k/a Grace Warner,
Deceased; Iris Tucker, in
Her Capacity as Heir of
Grace W. White a/k/a Grace
Warner, Deceased; Chelda
Ruff, in Her Capacity as
Heir of Grace W. White a/k/a
Grace Warner, Deceased;
Theda Floyd Cammon, in
Her Capacity as Heir of
Grace W. White a/k/a Grace
Warner, Deceased; Edwin
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Floyd, in His Capacity as
Heir of Grace W. White a/k/a
Grace Warner, Deceased
C.P. August Term, 2018 No.
00594 $29,660.29 Robert
Crawley
2003-397
1345 E. Luzerne St 19124
33rd wd. 2,260 Sq. Ft.
BRT#332025200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Wilnelia Cotto
C.P. September Term, 2018
No. 03010 $66,191.32
DWaldmanlaw, P.C.
2003-398
11773 Dimarco Drive 19154-
3716 66th wd. 1,528 Sq. Ft.
OPA#662249500 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Bryan E. Kent-
ner a/k/a Bryan Kentner;
Carol P. Kentner a/k/a Carol
Kentner C.P. May Term,
2014 No. 01011 $111,859.57
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-399
8113 Crispin St 19136
64th wd. 1,950 Sq. Ft.
OPA#642023700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Christopher
Rodriguez C.P. August Term,
2013 No. 01846 $166,046.62
KML Law Group, P.C.
2003-400
3400 Lester Rd 19154 66th
wd. (formerly part of the
58th wd.) 3,506 Sq. Ft.
OPA#663097500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kimberly
Dewald and Sean Duffy
C.P. August Term, 2018 No.
02257 $230,983.74 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-401
2403 S 72nd St 19142
40th wd. 1,124 Sq. Ft.
OPA#404002900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Ruben J. Gach-
elin C.P. August Term, 2019
No. 02367 $81,046.01 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-402
5705 Kingsessing Ave 19143
40th wd. 1,280 Sq. Ft.
OPA#401123200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Crystal Beck-
with and George Beckwith,
Jr. C.P. April Term, 2019 No.
02759 $39,773.02 Shapiro &
DeNardo, LLC
2003-403
6160 Locust St 19139
3rd wd. 1,024 Sq. Ft.
OPA#031098805 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Eric L. Powell
C.P. December Term, 2018
No. 01464 $111,317.24 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-404
2529 Maxwell St 19152
57th wd. 2,777 Sq. Ft.
OPA#571132800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Crystal Kanef-
sky and Alan E. Kanefsky
C.P. September Term, 2019
No. 01637 $123,200.90 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-405
2014 Rowan St 19140
13th wd. 1026 Sq. Ft.
OPA#131357500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
ROW 2 SOTRY MASONRY
Annie Taylor, Alyssa Ken-
nedy and Donald Kennedy
C.P. November Term, 2018
No. 03381 $64,859.59 Chris-
tina J. Pross, Esquire
2003-406
212 Race St Apartment 4B
19106 5th wd. 1,690 Sq. Ft.
OPA#888040511 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Melissa A.
McCafferty and Brian P. Mc-
Cafferty C.P. March Term,
2015 No. 03538 $239,082.74
KML Law Group, P.C.
2003-407
4963 Rubicam St 19144-
SHERIFF’S SALE
1808 12th wd. 2,518 Sq. Ft.
OPA#121196800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kohren Row-
land a/k/a Kohren Dawson
C.P. August Term, 2019 No.
03436 $209,708.70 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
2003-408
6126 Chestnut St 19139
3rd wd. 1,746 Sq. Ft.
OPA#031033300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Violetta Kidd,
Known Heir of Eloise Hill,
deceased and Unknown
heirs, successors, assigns,
and all persons, firms, or
associations claiming right,
title, or interest from or
under Eloise Hill, deceased
C.P. December Term, 2018
No. 02903 $61,969.07 Shap-
iro & DeNardo, LLC
2003-409
1865 Conlyn St 19141
17th wd. 1,632 Sq. Ft.
OPA#171145700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Jasmin D. Davis
C.P. September Term, 2019
No. 00690 $96,712.84 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-410
104 E Pastorius St 19144-
2026 59th wd. 1,110 Sq. Ft.
OPA#592095100 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Quanita Ruff
a/k/a Quanita R. Ruff C.P.
October Term, 2019 No.
01175 $25,458.10 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
2003-411
3709 Clarendon Ave 19114-
1920 66th wd. 1,260 Sq. Ft.
OPA#661264100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Tamarra Clark
C.P. May Term, 2019 No.
01819 $202,006.03 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
2003-412
7431 Rockwell Ave 19111
63rd wd. 3,204 Sq. Ft.
BRT#631113700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Ruth Sullivan
C.P. June Term, 2019 No.
05506 $206,724.40 Powers
Kirn, LLC
2003-413
6838 Ogontz Ave 19138-
2644 10th wd. 1,760 Sq. Ft.
OPA#102009500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kristina M.
Fripps C.P. March Term,
2019 No. 00807 $202,247.22
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-414
7021 Ditman St 19135-
1829 41st wd. 1,440 Sq. Ft.
OPA#412363300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Elizabeth A.
Mcglynn a/k/a Elizabeth
Mcglynn C.P. August Term,
2019 No. 00883 $97,219.76
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-415
3059 N Bambrey St 19132
38th wd. 644 Sq. Ft.
BRT#38-1-1169-00 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Marcus
Little a/k/a Marcus A. Little
C.P. September Term, 2019
No. 01242 $42,172.30 Mar-
tha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C.;
Martha E. Von Rosenstiel,
Esq.; Lorraine Gazzara
Doyle, Esq.
2003-416
322 A Ripka St, a/k/a 322
Ripka St #A 19128-4606
21st wd. 1,216 Sq. Ft.
OPA#211421838 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Jason Wayne
Buscio a/k/a Jason W.
Buscio C.P. August Term,
2019 No. 04669 $55,874.89
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Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-417
511 E Westmoreland St
19134-1742 7th wd. 1,152
Sq. Ft. OPA#073241600 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Unknown
heirs, successors, assigns,
and all persons, firms, or
associations claiming right,
title, or interest from or
under Ronald A. Bishof, De-
ceased C.P. September Term,
2019 No. 02962 $53,126.99
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-418
724 Glenview St 19111-4310
53rd wd. 1,653 Sq. Ft.
OPA#532143100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Edana S.
Peterson C.P. August Term,
2019 No. 02230 $165,116.52
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-419
1136 N. 65th St 19151
34th wd. 1,495 Sq. Ft.
BRT#344314300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Steven Elliot
Brown a/k/a Steven Brown
C.P. August Term, 2018 No.
01816 $171,527.98 Powers
Kirn, LLC
2003-420
6050 Agusta St 19149-3228
53rd wd. 1,132 Sq. Ft.
OPA#531253800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Oneida Collazo
C.P. November Term, 2017
No. 01714 $108,577.02
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-421
6558 N Bouvier St 19126-
3413 17th wd. 1,250 Sq. Ft.
OPA#172232700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Jilna L. Hall
C.P. January Term, 2019 No.
02305 $109,379.32 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
2003-422
5125 Reno St 19139 44th
wd. Land - 630 Sq. Ft.;
Improvement - 896 Sq. Ft.
OPA#441309800 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 2 STY
MASONRY Mainstreet JP,
LLC C.P. August Term,
2019 No. 01237 $87,649.54
Jennifer Popelak, Esquire;
Mattioni, Ltd.
2003-423
5845 N 7th St 19120 61st
wd. (formerly part of the
42nd wd.) 1,320 Sq. Ft.
OPA#612249700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Vanessa DeJesus
C.P. June Term, 2019 No.
07215 $73,435.24 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-424
448-52 N 62nd St 19151-
4101 34th wd. 1,600 Sq. Ft.
OPA#341231400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Warren K.
Nix, Jr, in His Capacity as
Co-Administrator and Heir
of The Estate of Warren K.
Nix, Sr a/k/a Warren Nix;
Jeffrey Nix, in His Capacity
as Co-Administrator and
Heir of The Estate of Warren
K. Nix, Sr a/k/a Warren Nix;
Unknown heirs, successors,
assigns, and all persons,
firms, or associations claim-
ing right, title, or interest
from or under Warren K.
Nix, Sr a/k/a Warren Nix,
Deceased C.P. September
Term, 2019 No. 01796
$14,382.81 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
2003-425
4256 Romain St 19124 23rd
wd. Land - 1,205 Sq. Ft.
OPA#232457500 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: VACANT LAND
RESIDE ACRE Mainstreet
SHERIFF’S SALE
JP, LLC C.P. August Term,
2019 No. 01340 $48,025.56
Jennifer Popelack, Esquire;
Mattioni, Ltd.
2003-426
2238 Sepviva St 19125
31st wd. 684 Sq. Ft.
OPA#311219600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Barbara Trautz
C.P. September Term, 2019
No. 01635 $166,646.10 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-427
2057 E Orleans St 19134-
3628 25th wd. 1,050
Sq. Ft. OPA#252173600
IMPROVEMENTS:
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
Morgan S. Baker, Jr; Mary
D. Samuels, in Her Capacity
as Administratrix and Heir
of The Estate of Benjamin
Samuels; Benjamin Samuels,
Jr, in His Capacity as Heir
of The Estate of Benjamin
Samuels; Unknown heirs,
successors, assigns, and all
persons, firms, or associa-
tions claiming right, title,
or interest from or under
Benjamin Samuels, Deceased
C.P. September Term, 2018
No. 02033 $8,753.85 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
2003-428
5422 Webster St 19143
46th wd. 953 Sq. Ft.
OPA#463118800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kevin Wilbanks
Solely in His Capacity as
Heir of Gloria Wilbanks
Deceased and Cheryl
Wilbanks-Douglas Solely
in Her Capacity as Heir of
Gloria Wilbanks Deceased
C.P. October Term, 2019 No.
00856 $86,259.26 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-429
4501-03 Sheffield Ave 19136
65th wd. 15,394 Sq. Ft.
OPA#871297630 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Edward Bradley
and Joseph Wicker C.P. Au-
gust Term, 2019 No. 03300
$339,974.63 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-430
4541 N 7th St 19140
49th wd. 1,026 Sq. Ft.
OPA#491199900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Nilsa Morales
and Roberto Morales C.P.
August Term, 2019 No.
01873 $16,065.07 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-431
2441 N. Gratz St 19132
28th wd. Land - 704 Sq. Ft.;
Improvement - 1,030 Sq. Ft.
OPA#162051300 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 2 STY
MASONRY Fly Y Properties
LLC C.P. October Term,
2019 No. 01310 $164,735.39
Jennifer Popelack, Esquire;
Mattioni, Ltd.
2003-432
6514 N 21st St 19138
10th wd. 1,200 Sq. Ft.;
Improvements: 1,718 Sq. Ft.
OPA#102088500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW B/OFF STR
2 STY MASON Jacqueline
Stevens C.P. June Term,
2019 No. 06594 $79,085.07
Phillip D. Berger, Esq.;
Berger Law Group, PC
2003-433
6138 Grays Ave 19142-
3208 40th wd. 1,740 Sq. Ft.
OPA#402157700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Debra Mcduffie
a/k/a Deborah Mcduffie;
Jasper Golatt C.P. October
Term, 2017 No. 00225
$63,274.91 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
2003-434
801 Marlyn Rd 19151
34th wd. 2,440 Sq. Ft.
BRT#344264200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
SHERIFF’S SALE
DWELLING Charles
A.J. Halpin, III, Esquire,
Personal Representative of
the Estate of Burnett Dozier,
Deceased C.P. September
Term, 2019 No. 03219
$160,665.89 Law Office of
Gregory Javardian, LLC
2003-435
1937 73rd Ave 19138
10th wd. 1,127 Sq. Ft.
OPA#101353300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Cassandra A.
Richardson a/k/a Cassandra
Richardson C.P. May Term,
2017 No. 04440 $83,876.33
KML Law Group, P.C.
2003-436
6851 Chester Ave 19142-
1206 40th wd. 1,188 Sq. Ft.
OPA#403235700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Shay Johnson,
Individually and in her
capacity as Administratrix
of the Estate and Heir of the
Estate of Valorie Johnson
a/k/a Valerie Johnson a/k/a
Valorie Y. Johnson; Milton
D. Johnson, in his capac-
ity as heir of the Estate of
Valorie Johnson a/k/a Valerie
Y. Johnson a/k/a Valorie
Y. Johnson; Unknow heirs,
successors, assigns, and all
persons, firms, or associa-
tions claiming right, title or
interest from or under
Valorie Johnson a/k/a Valerie
Y. Johnson a/k/a Valorie
Y. Johnson, Deceased. C.P.
February Term, 2019 No.
02743 $101,247.04 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
2003-437
113 Roseberry St 19148
39th wd. 696 Sq. Ft.
OPA#391139500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Janine McAlo-
nan and William McAlonan
C.P. March Term, 2018 No.
03038 $163,773.86 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-438
3802 Arendell Ave 19114
57th wd. S/D W/B GAR
1 STY MASONRY; 1,060
Sq. Ft. BRT#572140700
IMPROVEMENTS: RESI-
DENTIAL DWELLING Paul
Grzeszczak C.P. February
Term, 2019 No. 00081
$163,584.40 McCabe, Weis-
berg, & Conway, LLC
2003-439
2525 S Massey St 19142-
0000 40th wd. 1,252 Sq. Ft.
OPA#406113800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: SINGLE FAMILY
RESIDENTIAL DWELLING
Global Transitional Hous-
ing, Inc. C.P. July Term,
2019 No. 02862 $66,671.08
Hladik, Onorato & Feder-
man, LLP
2003-440
2067 E Sergeant St 19125
31st wd. ROW 3 STY
MASONRY; 1,480 Sq. Ft.
BRT#314090200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Kyle B.
Newmuis C.P. August Term,
2019 No. 04678 $217,178.05
McCabe, Weisberg, & Con-
way, LLC
2003-441
5371 Morse St 19131
52nd wd. 1,422 Sq. Ft.
OPA#521075400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Dawn Nemb-
hard; Owen A. Nembhard
C.P. January Term, 2014 No.
02341 $79,688.36 Meredith
H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski, LLC
2003-442
1453 Stevens St 19149
54th wd. 1,028 Sq. Ft.
OPA#541049100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Keith D.
Willse a/k/a Keith Willse
C.P. May Term, 2019 No.
09295 $67,878.03 KML Law
Group, P.C.
PGN
SHERIFF’S SALE
2003-443
3217 Hamilton St 19104
24th wd. 2,154 Sq. Ft.
BRT#241187700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: COMMERCIAL
REAL ESTATE W.N.B.
Investments, LLC C.P.
January Term, 2019 No.
00314 $265,984.63 Stern &
Eisenberg PC
2003-444
5128 N Marvine St 19141-
2815 49th wd. 1,276 Sq. Ft.
OPA#493098200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Larry A. Adams,
Jr C.P. October Term, 2019
No. 03403 $105,175.79
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-445
537 E. Tulpehocken St
19144 59th wd. 2,945 Sq. Ft.
OPA#592121000 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Antonette Buf-
ford C.P. June Term, 2014
No. 02865 $71,157.45 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-446
6118 Chestnut St 19139
3rd wd. ROW 2 STY
MASONRY; 1,260 Sq. Ft.
BRT#031032900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Deborah E.
Jones C.P. September Term,
2016 No. 00372 $79,278.95
McCabe, Weisberg, & Con-
way, LLC
2003-447
8025 Mansfield Ave 19150
15th wd. S/D W/B GAR 2
STY MASONRY; 1,518 Sq.
Ft. BRT#502020200 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Unknown
Surviving Heirs of Freddie
Ricks a/k/a Freddie T. Ricks
C.P. January Term, 2019 No.
01467 $137,217.60 McCabe,
Weisberg, & Conway, LLC
2003-448
4351 Pearce St 19124
23rd wd. 2,588 Sq. Ft.
OPA#231062800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Keith Jelleyman
and Christi M. Strunk C.P.
January Term, 2017 No.
03730 $164,816.90 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-449
2447 76th Ave 19150 50th
wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY
MASONRY; 1,578 Sq. Ft.
BRT#501414400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING David P.
McFarlin and Marlene Jones
C.P. January Term, 2016 No.
02115 $143,497.33 McCabe,
Weisberg, & Conway, LLC
2003-450
6944 Cedar Park Ave 19138
10th wd. 1,421 Sq. Ft.
BRT#102501200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Winter Boat-
wright, Personal Representa-
tive of the Estate of Robert
L. Boatwright, Deceased
C.P. February Term, 2019
No. 03093 $10,449.37 Law
Office of Gregory Javard-
ian, LLC
2003-451
2025 N 62nd St 19151 34th
wd. S/D CONV APT 3 STY
MAS+OT; 4,012 Sq. Ft.
BRT#342304200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Theodore
W. McBride, Jr., Known
Surviving Heir of Theodore
McBride, James McBride,
Known Surviving Heir of
Theodore McBride, Octavia
McBride, Known Surviving
Heir of Theodore McBride
and Unknown Surviving
Heirs of Theodore McBride
C.P. March Term, 2017 No.
01291 $277,052.18 McCabe,
Weisberg, & Conway, LLC
2003-452
4638 Adams Ave 19124
23rd wd. 1,456 Sq. Ft.
BRT#234007600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
SHERIFF’S SALE
DWELLING Marie D.
Camilien a/k/a Marie
Denise Camilien a/k/a Marie
Joachim and James Camilien
C.P. September Term, 2018
No. 02126 $119,283.96 Pow-
ers Kirn, LLC
2003-453
2 Rudy Robinson Way
19139-0000 6th wd. 2,355
Sq. Ft. OPA#061004990
IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE
FAMILY RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Darryl A.
Walston, Deceased C.P.
November Term, 2018 No.
02712 $23,742.30 Hladik,
Onorato & Federman, LLP
2003-454
1372 N 76th St 19151
34th wd. 1,600 Sq. Ft.
OPA#343308400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Tracey Dennis
C.P. September Term, 2018
No. 01345 $95,341.35 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-455
31 N 58th St 19139 4th wd.
ROW CONV/APT 2 STY
MASON; 1,296 Sq. Ft.
BRT#042084700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Joseph Jenkins,
Known Surviving Heir of
Elizabeth P. Baker, Steven
Jenkins, Known Surviving
Heir of Elizabeth P. Baker
and Unknown Surviving
Heirs of Elizabeth Baker
C.P. February Term, 2019
No. 00087 $71,982.16 Mc-
Cabe, Weisberg, & Conway,
LLC
2003-456
6629 Limekiln Pike 19138-
3127 10th wd. 1,056 Sq. Ft.
OPA#102050900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Ellsurze Oliver
Individually and in Her
Capacity as Executrix of The
Estate and Devisee of The
Estate of Mary E. Barnes
a/k/a Mary Barnes a/k/a
Mary Elizabeth Barnes C.P.
October Term, 2018 No.
00837 $66,945.80 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
2003-457
1918 Montrose St 19146-
2629 30th wd. 1,590 Sq. Ft.
OPA#301219500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Martha Leather-
berry a/k/a Martha Bowen-
Letherberry; Doila Welch
a/k/a Doila A. Welch; Janette
Welch a/k/a Janet Jennifer
Welch; Gilbert Welch a/k/a
Gilbert Leopold Percival
Welch C.P. May Term,
2010 No. 03329 $47,944.03
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-458
1407 S Taylor St 19146
36th wd. 770 Sq. Ft.
OPA#364173700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Demetri G.
Botsaris C.P. May Term,
2019 No. 00183 $268,043.51
KML Law Group, P.C.
2003-459
32 S. 61st St 19139 3rd wd.
1,300 Sq. Ft. OPA#03-1-
1749-00 IMPROVEMENTS:
RESIDENTIAL DWELLING
Adlena Blackwell, Surviving
Joint Tenant with Right of
Survivorship C.P. March
Term, 2019 No. 00081
$109,240.71 Pressman &
Doyle, LLC
2003-460
3438 F St 19134 33rd
wd. 968 Sq. Ft.; Improve-
ments: 1,200 Sq. Ft.
OPA#331287900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 2 STY MA-
SONRY Gladys Morales C.P.
June Term, 2019 No. 05726
$35,241.96 Robert Crawley
2003-461
1328 S. 18th St 19146 36th
wd. Land - 1,635 Sq. Ft.
OPA#361145600 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
SHERIFF’S SALE
MENTS: VACANT LAND
RESIDE ACRE South
18th St Capital LLC C.P.
August Term, 2019 No.
01715 $373,068.02 Jennifer
Popelack, Esquire; Mattioni,
Ltd.
2003-462
134 W Gale St a/k/a
134 W. Gale St 19120
42nd wd. 1,800 Sq. Ft.
BRT#422298600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Norris Green
and Janet Reed C.P. Febru-
ary Term, 2019 No. 02621
$102,635.78 Powers Kirn,
LLC
2003-463
6511 Walnut Park Dr a/k/a
6511 W Walnut Park Dr
19120-1031 61st wd. 1,120
Sq. Ft. OPA#611029400
IMPROVEMENTS:
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
Toshika Salmons-Green C.P.
July Term, 2018 No. 01365
$103,831.82 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
2003-464
2984 Chatham St 19134
25th wd. 1,051 Sq. Ft.
OPA#251411500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY The Unknown
Heirs of Krzysztof P.
Wisniewski Deceased C.P.
July Term, 2019 No. 02997
$36,718.01 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-465
8313 Fayette St 19150
50th wd. 1,643 Sq. Ft.
OPA#501046600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Anthony Rich-
ardson, Solely in His Capac-
ity as Heir of Charmaine
Richardson, Deceased and
The Unknown Heirs of Char-
maine Richardson, Deceased
C.P. November Term, 2017
No. 00858 $129,157.58 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-466
7601 Crittenden St, G3
19118-3243 88th wd. 1,566
Sq. Ft. OPA#888200600 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Joycean
A. Moseley, in her capacity
as Executrix and Devisee
of the Estate of Walter E.
Washington a/k/a Walter
Elijah Washington a/k/a
Walter Washington; Darlene
F. Andrews, in her capacity
as Devisee of the Estate of
Walter E. Washington a/k/a
Walter Elijah Washington
a/k/a Walter Washington C.P.
April Term, 2019 No. 02334
$203,035.79 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
2003-467
6242 Brous Ave 19149
62nd wd. 1,050 Sq. Ft.
BRT#621588800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW B/GAR 2
STY MASONRY Robert S.
Steskal and Alice D. Steskal
C.P. July Term, 2019 No.
02616 $144,588.87 Milstead
& Associates, LLC
2003-468
3014 N. Marshall St 19133
43rd wd. RESIDENTIAL
ROW 2 STORY MASONRY
OPA#372032100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ERECTED
THEREON Geneva Drum-
monds C.P. April Term,
2018 No. 02409 $22,203.28
Christina J. Pross, Esquire
2003-469
6731 Lyndford St, a/k/a
6731 Lynford St 19149
54th wd. 1,567 Sq. Ft.
OPA#542204300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Cincearae Kelly
C.P. June Term, 2017 No.
00504 $185,460.24 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-470
2834 Fanshawe St 19149
55th wd. 1,580 Sq. Ft.
OPA#551106900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Debra Elia;
SHERIFF’S SALE
Paul Elia, Jr. C.P. May Term,
2015 No. 01589 $126,554.91
RAS Citron LLC - Walter
Gouldsbury, Esq
2003-471
7115 Forrest Ave 19138-
2020 10th wd. 1,412 Sq. Ft.
OPA#102536100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Shirley Ann
Mims a/k/a Sabriya J. Bilal
C.P. April Term, 2018 No.
02084 $81,641.69 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
2003-472
5006 Tulip St 19124
62nd wd. 1,050 Sq. Ft.
OPA#622456400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Patricia A.
Hull; David R. Hull, Jr C.P.
February Term, 2014 No.
00854 $30,371.22 Cristina
L. Connor, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski, LLC
2003-473
706 Rodman St 19147-
1324 5th wd. 1,488 Sq. Ft.
OPA#053078320 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Jeremy R.
Berger a/k/a Jeremy Berger
C.P. March Term, 2019 No.
02257 $144,499.21 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
2003-474
848 Brill St 19124-1006
35th wd. 1,034 Sq. Ft.
OPA#351173800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Bernice Love
C.P. December Term, 2017
No. 04216 $86,611.44
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-475
2069 Larue St 19124
41st wd. 1,111 Sq. Ft.
BRT#411013300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Michelle To-
maselli, Deceased C.P. Oc-
tober Term, 2017 No. 01041
$32,870.09 Law Office of
Gregory Javardian, LLC
2003-476
63101 Delaire Landing Rd
19114 65th wd. 0 Sq. Ft.
OPA#888650860 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Seth A.
Defulgentis C.P. April Term,
2018 No. 04629 $71,534.15
Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC
2003-477
8513 Temple Rd 19150
50th wd. 1,544 Sq. Ft.
BRT#501109800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
Eugene R. Williams a/k/a
Eugene R. Williams, Sr.
a/k/a Eugene Richard Wil-
liams, Sr. solely as Executor
of the Estate of Eugene O.
Williams a/k/a Eugene Odell
Williams and Yowanda Wil-
liams C.P. April Term, 2018
No. 02218 $114,239.97 Stern
& Eisenberg, P.C.
2003-478
2123 Glenview St 19149
54th wd. 1,839 Sq. Ft.
OPA#542027600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Robert B.
Lightcap Sr. a/k/a Robert
B. Lightcap C.P. December
Term, 2018 No. 03312
$64,829.31 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-479
2937 N Lambert St 19132-
1528 11th wd. 1,120 Sq. Ft.
OPA#111273400 Subject
to Mortgage Subject to
Rent IMPROVEMENTS:
RESIDENTIAL DWELL-
ING, ROW B/GAR 2 STY
MASONRY KP Investments
Group, LLC C.P. December
Term, 2014 No. 02308
$65,801.93 Timoney Knox,
LLP
2003-480
1131 E Sharpnack St 19150
50th wd. 1,742 Sq. Ft.
BRT#502333400 IMPROVE-
33
SHERIFF’S SALE
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
Ingram Bellamy, Admin-
istratix of the Estate of
Georgia Bellamy, Deceased
and Georgia M. Bellamy
C.P. January Term, 2019 No.
00095 $64,666.85 Stern &
Eisenberg, P.C.
2003-481
2206 S. Norwood St 19145
48th wd. Land Area 658
Sq. Ft. OPA#482159000
IMPROVEMENTS: ROW
2 STY MASONRY Jessica
Lundy C.P. March Term,
2018 No. 1853 $24,606.09
Bezark, Lerner & Devirgilis,
P.C.
2003-482
6033 N Mascher St assessed
as 6033 Mascher St 19120
61st wd. 1,108 Sq. Ft.
OPA#612447400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Cornelia J.
Strowder C.P. October Term,
2019 No. 00512 $49,447.07
Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC
2003-483
6532 Windsor St 19142
40th wd. 1,600 Sq. Ft.
OPA#403082400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kodjo Kped-
enou C.P. October Term,
2019 No. 00608 $97,840.05
Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC
2003-484
2110 S Lambert St 19145
48th wd. 892 Sq. Ft.
OPA#481354300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Remona A. Gary
C.P. January Term, 2018 No.
00867 $109,405.25 Shapiro
& DeNardo, LLC
2003-485
6962 Cedar Park Ave 19138
10th wd. 1,409 Sq. Ft.
BRT#102502100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW B/GAR 2
STY MASONRY Prestina
E. Alexander a/k/a Prestina
Alexander, Deceased C.P.
February Term, 2017 No.
03393 $101,196.33 Milstead
& Associates, LLC
2003-486
406 N 53rd St 19139
44th wd. 1,171 Sq. Ft.
OPA#442326400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Mawiyah Bawa
C.P. February Term, 2019
No. 02212 $69,641.88 KML
Law Group, P.C.
2003-487
1215 N 56th St 19131
4th wd. 1,590 Sq. Ft.
OPA#041216800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Patricia D.
Sample C.P. April Term,
2017 No. 02762 $40,087.48
KML Law Group, P.C.
2003-488
4543 N Bouvier St 19140
13th wd. Land Area: 726 Sq.
Ft. OPA#132162200 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Tyrone Abney
C.P. May Term, 2017 No.
01705 $34,308.67 Michael
Boland, Esq
2003-489
7643 Woolston Ave 19150
10th wd. 1,426 Sq. Ft.
OPA#102427100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Emma Fortune
C.P. June Term, 2018 No.
02551 $113,076.16 Justin F.
Kobeski, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski LLC
2003-490
4629 N Broad St 19140-
1217 49th wd. 2,616 Sq. Ft.
OPA#491542300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Vernon
Ackridge, in His Capacity as
Executor and Devisee of The
Estate of Leon M. Frye a/k/a
Leon Frye; Donna Ackridge,
Individually and in Her
Capacity as Devisee of The
Estate of Leon M. Frye
a/k/a Leon Frye C.P. Janu-
ary Term, 2019 No. 00071
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SHERIFF’S SALE
$157,050.99 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
2003-491
4303 Chippendale St 19136
65th wd. 1,240 Sq. Ft.
OPA#651125700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Cheryl
McLaverty, as Administra-
trix of the Estate of Joseph
P. McLaverty Deceased
C.P. April Term, 2019 No.
00084 $38,785.22 KML Law
Group, P.C.
2003-492
2250 S Bonsall St 19145
48th wd. 1,120 Sq. Ft.
OPA#482289300 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Trinh Tran; The
United States of America,
Department of Treasury,
Internal Revenue Service;
Guowei Qiu C.P. October
Term, 2018 No. 02497
$60,434.15 Justin F. Ko-
beski, Esquire; Manley Deas
Kochalski LLC
SHERIFF’S SALE
2003-493
3701-3711 K St assessed
as 3701-11 K St 19124
33rd wd. 5,800 Sq. Ft.
OPA#331397500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Carmen L.
Moore C.P. March Term,
2019 No. 02656 $86,020.86
Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC
2003-494
6824 Ditman St 19135 41st
wd. Beginning Point: Situate
on the Northwesterly side of
Ditman Street, beginning at
a point at the distance of 150
feet, 3 7/8 inches Southwest-
wardly side of Longshore
Street OPA#412349300
IMPROVEMENTS: DET 2
STY FRAME Angel Cardona
C.P. August Term, 2019 No.
02146 $160,643.58 Patrick J.
Wesner, Esquire
2003-495
6126 Tackawanna St 19135
55th wd. 1,790 Sq. Ft.
OPA#552239000 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
SHERIFF’S SALE
PROPERTY Pawel Podhajny
C.P. April Term, 2019 No.
03489 $39,996.05 Cristina
L. Connor, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski, LLC
2003-496
5444 Catharine St a/k/a
5444 Catherine St 19143
46th wd. 1,503 Sq. Ft.
OPA#463103000 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Clarence
Henderson and Charlene
Parmenter a/k/a Charlene D.
Parmenter C.P. April Term,
2016 No. 00722 $119,661.88
KML Law Group, P.C.
2003-497
6437 Tulip St 19135
41st wd. 4,866 Sq. Ft.
OPA#411448500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Ean J. Smith
C.P. January Term, 2019 No.
00410 $126,202.07 Shapiro
& DeNardo, LLC
2003-498
482 Evergreen Ave 19128-
4017 21st wd. 8705 Sq. Ft.
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SHERIFF’S SALE
OPA#212389000 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Diann L.
Forster; Stephen D. Forster,
III C.P. April Term, 2018
No. 02486 $330,840.67
Phelan Hallinan Diamond &
Jones, LLP
2003-499
142 Gay St 19127 21st wd.
1,418 Sq. Ft.; Improve-
ments: 1,508 Sq. Ft.
OPA#211146200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 2.5 STY
MASONRY + OTHER Lisa
Fiorilli a/k/a Lisa Fiorelli
C.P. April Term, 2019 No.
04651 $315,876.21 Robert
Crawley
2003-500
638 E. Thayer St 19134
33rd wd. Improvement Area:
784 Sq. Ft.; Land Area: 637
Sq. Ft. OPA#331136900
IMPROVEMENTS: ROW
2 STY MASONRY; RESI-
DENTIAL PROPERTY Piper
Investment Group, L.L.C.
C.P. April Term, 2018 No.
SHERIFF’S SALE
01588 $48,125.44 Ryan A.
Gower
2003-501
4715 N Rorer St 19120 42nd
wd. Land Area: 1,200 Sq. Ft.
BRT#421533500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW B/GAR 2
STY MASONRY Sonia
Sanchez Rivera a/k/a Sonia-
Sanchez Rivera a/k/a Sonia
Sanchez C.P. May Term,
2019 No. 00931 $79,126.95
Milstead & Associates, LLC
2003-502
1121 McClellan St 19148
39th wd. 1,906 Sq. Ft.
OPA#394560021 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL Jo-
seph Costa and Maria Costa
C.P. May Term, 2019 No.
02033 $49,393.00 Michael J.
Shavel, Esquire
2003-503A
1809 W. Wingohocking St
19140 13th wd. 785 Sq. Ft.
BRT#132370600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Ernestine Geary
C.P. July Term, 2019 No.
SHERIFF’S SALE
02490 $596,192.17 Weber
Gallagher Simpson Stapleton
Fires & Newby, LLP; Sarah
A. Elia, Esq.
2003-503B
1811 W. Wingohocking St
19140 13th wd. 785 Sq. Ft.
BRT#132370700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Ernestine Geary
C.P. July Term, 2019 No.
02490 $596,192.17 Weber
Gallagher Simpson Stapleton
Fires & Newby, LLP; Sarah
A. Elia, Esq.
2003-504A
2023 McKinley St 19149
62nd wd. 1,425 Sq. Ft.
OPA#62-1-254700 IM-
PROVEMENTS: ROW B/
GAR 2 STY MASONRY
Osama S. Siam C.P. Septem-
ber Term, 2019 No. 00409
$162,377.59, plus interest
through the date of the sher-
iff ’s sale, plus costs William
J. Levant, Esquire
2003-504B
2352 Mascher St 19133 19th
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SHERIFF’S SALE
wd. 693 Sq. Ft. OPA#19-1-
063600 IMPROVEMENTS:
ROW 3 STY MASONRY
Osama S. Siam C.P. Septem-
ber Term, 2019 No. 00409
$162,377.59, plus interest
through the date of the
sheiff ’s sale, plus costs. Wil-
liam J. Levant, Esquire
2003-505A
7640 Williams Ave 19150
50th wd. 3,000 Sq. Ft.
OPA#502239600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Daniel Wilson
C.P. June Term, 2017 No.
02327 $218,434.70 Shapiro
& DeNardo, LLC
2003-505B
7642 Williams Ave 19150
50th wd. 3,000 Sq. Ft.
OPA#502239700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Daniel Wilson
C.P. June Term, 2017 No.
02327 $218,434.70 Shapiro
& DeNardo, LLC
2003-506A
521 E Washington Ln 19144
SHERIFF’S SALE
22nd wd. 2,860 Sq. Ft.
BRT#592151400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: SEMI/DET 3
STY MASONRY Denise A.
Frazier a/k/a Denise Frazier
C.P. July Term, 2017 No.
02509 $124,542.77 Milstead
& Associates, LLC
2003-506B
521 E Washington Ln 19144
22nd wd. 3,649 Sq. Ft.
BRT#592151500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: VACANT LAND
RESIDE <ACRE Denise A.
Frazier a/k/a Denise Frazier
C.P. July Term, 2017 No.
02509 $124,542.77 Milstead
& Associates, LLC
2003-507
4431 N 9th St 19140
43rd wd. 1,740 Sq. Ft.
OPA#433397900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
Andrew J. Shaw C.P. March
Term, 2019 No. 03374
$45,520.18 Michael J.
Shavel, Esquire
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