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COLOR Mayoral Candidate Forum to Focus on Policy by Bonnie Osborn ll four declared candidates in the Sacramento mayor’s race will appear Thursday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m., at KVIE Public ATelevision for a public policy forum, “Beyond 2016: A Vision for Sacramento’s Future.” Currently Sacramento Councilmember however, space is limited, and preregistration Angelique Ashby, former boxer and three- is required. The forum venue at KVIE Public time World Champion Tony “The Tiger” Television is located at 2030 El Camino Lopez, community organizer Russell Avenue in Sacramento. Doors will open at Rawlings and former State Senate President 6:30 p.m., and the discussion will begin Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg are running to be promptly at 7:00 p.m. the next Mayor of Sacramento and are To register, visit www.rainbowchamber. confirmed to participate in the forum. com and click on the event listing (http:// In contrast to a traditional political debate business.rainbowchamber.com/events/ format, candidates will be asked to discuss details/mayor-s-campaign-policy-forum-172). specific policy questions as they relate to the For more information, email PAC@ Mayor’s office and the city of Sacramento RainbowChamber.com. rather than focus on their own experience, Forum co-sponsors are Stonewall backgrounds, and campaigns. Democratic Club of Greater Sacramento, Scott Lay, author of popular daily political Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of blog “The Nooner,” will serve as forum Commerce/RainbowPAC, Sacramento LGBT moderator. Community Center and KVIE. There are no plans to broadcast the forum Bonnie Osborn is a freelance writer and at this time, but media are invited to cover the owner of Writeaway Communications the event. Services. She can be reached at 916-212- The forum is free and open to the public; 9110 or [email protected]. Angelique Ashby Tony Lopez Russell Rawlings Darrell Steinberg Survey of LGBTQ Immigrants Reveals Harassment new report uncovers high levels of discrimination and harassment in employment, healthcare, housing and education and a distrust A of law enforcement within the LGBTQ immigrant community. United We Dream, a national network of Immigrant Project. “In fact, some of our immigrant youth, has just released its “No nation’s leading change makers are LGBTQ More Closets” report, the largest national immigrant youth - out of great struggle can survey of the LGBTQ immigrant community come great strength.” ever conducted. In addition to the survey data, the report The report tells the collective and also includes several individual testimonies individual stories of some 461 individuals of LGBTQ immigrant leaders themselves who self identify as LGBT or queer and who including this one from Bianey Garcia of are either born outside of the United States New York City: or are U.S.-born citizens with foreign-born parents. The survey was conducted in late “Coming out for me was not about 2015 both online and through individual visibility, it was about survival and about interviews. being able to share my strength with other “With this survey, we aim to both tell our youth who continue to remain in the stories to policymakers as well as to the shadows and in fear as undocumented and young people in our communities who are LGBTQ. As a transgender immigrant struggling that they are not alone and that woman, being out and counted is a critical together we can turn our shared struggle step so other people in my community can and power into the change we seek,” said feel safe.” Carlos Padilla, National Coordinator of You can find more about UWD online at United We Dream’s Queer Undocumented www.unitedwedream.org 4 Outword Magazine February 11, 2016 - February 25, 2016 • No. 546 outwordmagazine.com Share Art & Love on Valentine’s Day at the Crocker by Elena M. Macaluso ooking for some fun, unique Valentine’s Day plans? Maybe something beyond dinner, roses and wine? Then spend the Lafternoon at the Crocker Art Museum! Start your date with a special Valentine’s Day-themed, docent-led tour of works in the Crocker’s permanent collection. It’s a great way check out pieces you may not have seen before. Crocker docents are vessels of information and full of fun tidbits. Later, discuss which pieces jumped out at you and why. It’s a fun way to get to know your partner better, regardless of whether you’ve been together five months or five decades. Here’s the best part: The tours, which take place at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., are free with Museum admission. After the tour, enjoy a classical concert presented by the Saturday Club, the oldest musical organization in Sacramento. Each year the Saturday Club selects five outstanding piano, vocal, string, woodwind and brass students from area colleges to perform. Think of it: You and your beloved checking Elmer Bischoff’s Models II, a 1968 Charcoal, out the next “American Idol” winner. Well, brush and black wash on off white laid paper is except the music is more likely Tchaikovsky one of the drawings in the Back to Life: Bay instead of Taylor Swift, and there are no Area Figurative Drawings exhibit at the Crocker Art Museum. celebrity judges. Still, if you are a classical music lover and want to hear the best of Life: Bay Area Figurative Drawings,” “The local talent on the cusp of exciting Age of Albrecht Dürer: German Drawings professional careers, this is a not-to-miss from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris,” and performance. “Rain Forest Visions: Amazonian Ceramics The concert is $6 to $12 after Museum from Ecuador, The Melza and Ted Barr admission of $5 to $10. Space is limited, so it Collection.” (“The Age of Albrecht Dürer” and is recommended that you buy tickets in “Rain Forest Visions” both close on Feb. 14.) advance. Prelude Tours, which happen before The Crocker Art Museum is located at 216 and after concerts and put the music in O St. in Sacramento. Museum hours on context, are drop-in; no advanced registration Valentine’s Day are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For required. Sweet! more information, call 916-808-7000 or visit The Museum opens at 10 a.m. on crockerartmuseum.org. Valentine’s Day, so there is plenty of time to Elena Macaluso is the Public Relations enjoy our current exhibitions: “Ai Weiwei: Associate at the Crocker Art Museum. She Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” “Back to can be reached at crockerartmuseum.org. Create Your Own Pride Festival with New Game App Atari has released Pridefest, an original social-sim game inspired by the LGBTQ community. Pridefest is a free-to-play game designed to emulate the colorful atmosphere and inclusive spirit of the hundreds of real-world Pride parades held annually around the world. Available now on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch as well as on Google Play for Android devices. For more on the gameplay, check out the official trailer at bit.ly/PridefestTrailer. outwordmagazine.com February 11, 2016 - February 25, 2016 • No. 546 Outword Magazine 5 Outword Accepting Your Vulnerability Can Set You Free Staff by Nicola Simmersbach PsyD LMFT LPCC PUBLISHER ’m no Girl Scout but something tells me you shouldn’t be Fred Palmer igniting an indoor fire with a steady stream of lighter fluid ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION directly from the can. This is what my friend Erin is doing. Ron Tackitt I (Erin isn’t her real name but I’m protecting her identity - not from GRAPHIC DESIGN you; from the fire marshal.) “Relax, I do this all the time” she says. Ron Tackitt Awesome. EDITOR She’s not interested in my fire safety way. If you need help, ask someone who has Charles Peer lecture but she wants to know why my last experience cleaning out under their own [email protected] article was “too short and cut off right before bed. That way you know they have the it got interesting when you talked about ARTS EDITOR capacity to sit with you while you fish out Chris Narloch being vulnerable and aware.” (Outword, Jan.