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Volume 24 • Issue 20 • No. 443 • October 27, 2011 • outwordmagazine.com page 16 Sac Center Hires ED Leno and Ammiano Call for Bad Sex on LOGO page 4 End to Attack on Marijuana page 16 page 6 Outword Letters visit the city shelter at 2127 Front Staff Keep Cats and Dogs Street from noon – 5:30 p.m. PUBLISHER Safe During Halloween Wednesday through Sunday. Fred Palmer Halloween can be a frightening Stray animals that are found time for goblins, ghouls and our without tags can be reported to ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION family pets. So keeping pets safe Animal Control in the city limits by Ron Tackitt during Halloween is something all dialing 311 or 916-264-5011. GRAPHIC DESIGN responsible pet owners are Happy Howl-O-Ween! Joy Culley encouraged to do. Ron Tackitt Crowded streets, an abundance of food that is often toxic to Help Support the EDITOR/OFFICE animals and cruel Halloween MANAGER Lavender Library Charles Peer pranks are some of the reasons this Dear Outword, [email protected] holiday can be scary for animals. It will probably come as no The change in routine can often surprise to you and your readers ARTS EDITOR cause pets to run off in a panic and Chris Narloch that the past three years have been become lost. financially trying ones for the CALENDAR EDITOR Sacramento residents are Lavender Library. Memberships Charles Peer encouraged to keep pets indoors have remained somewhat stable, during this season. All pets in the but while donations have declined, CONTRIBUTING region are required to be licensed, our expenses have remained WRITERS microchipping is optional, yet, Boyce Hinman unchanged. Love, Chris Narloch another great safeguard. But having In an attempt to increase our hope, success, Bonnie Osborn an ID tag and collar on your pet is appeal to our members, LLACE Charles Peer perhaps the quickest and easiest embarked on an ambitious project family, way to make sure your cherished to purchase DVDs of LGBT interest PHOTOGRAPHY family member gets home quickly Larry Lauszus not in our collection, and this security. Charles Peer and safely. Often, a Good project, encompassing about a year, Samaritan will find your stray pet cost approximately $1,000. We DISTRIBUTION and can immediately call the continue to look for new DVDs to Kaye Crawford number listed on the collar, thus add. preventing your pet from ending Stephanie Slagel CLU, Agent Some things we all have in common. ON THE COVER A couple of potential funding up in a local shelter. Insurance Lic. #: 0C34763 Steel Burkhardt and Paris Remillard sources are no longer available to 6130 Fair Oaks Blvd, Suite E There’s nobody like me to protect in the “Hair” National tour. The Sacramento City Shelter is www.stephanieslagel.com the things we all value. Like a good Photo by Joan Marcus. launching an effort to provide free Bus: 916-485-4444 Fax: 916-485-5629 neighbor, State Farm is there.® ID tags to all pet owners in the city. LETTERS Anyone interested is encouraged to continues on page 21 CALL ME TODAY. ADVERTISING SALES Northern California (916) 329-9280 Fred Palmer Charles Peer 1101022 State Farm, Home Office, Bloomington, IL National Advertising Representative Rivendell Media (212) 242-6863 Outword Magazine Inc. Office 1722 J Street, Suite 6 Sacramento, CA 95811 PHONE: (916) 329-9280 FAX: (916) 498-8445 www.outwordmagazine.com [email protected] ISSN # 1084-7618 United States Library of Congress Nat. Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce Vinnie Lyons - Nat. Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association Midtown Business Association Golden Gate Business Alliance My Sweetpea, My Pumpkin, My Bear, My Buddy, My Friend, My Love, You will be missed and loved forever. Daddy Anti-LGBT Referendum Bites The Dust Commentary by Boyce Hinman Sacramento G&L Center Hires he Capitol Resource Institute has announced that it has failed to get the necessary number of petition signatures to put an New Executive Director anti-LGBT referendum on the ballot. This may be a sign of the he Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center Board of Directors T unanimously voted to hire Shara Perkins Murphy as the growing acceptance of LGBT people by the residents of California. Center’s new Executive Director. Murphy is a Sacramento native In July of this year, Governor Brown signatures by the Oct. 11 deadline. T signed SB 48 after it was sent to him by the Opponents of SB 48 contend that and currently works in the Speaker’s Office of Member Services for California Legislature. SB 48 will, among recognizing LGBT people in our schools is John A. Pérez, the first openly gay leader of the Assembly. other things, require California’s divisive and objectionable to Murphy has a long history of experience our region. public schools to teach students families that disapprove of in leadership, organizational management, “As a black woman raised in Sacramento, about the contributions of homosexual lifestyles for community outreach and fundraising. In the I’ve seen our city and region change and LGBT people to the religious, moral or other 2010 election, she was the Northern diversify. The deed for my and my husband’s development of our state and reasons. California Field Director for the Assembly Tahoe Park home (built in the 1940s) states of the nation. SB 48 will “We cannot afford to stay Democrats and was instrumental in helping that non-Whites cannot occupy the main become effective on January silent or stand on the Richard Pan (D) defeat the author of house on the property. Yet, in 2002, this city 1, 2012. sidelines,” Brad Dacus, Proposition 8, in what was traditionally a was recognized as one of the most racially Soon after SB 48 was president of Pacific Justice Republican district. She has also managed and ethnically integrated cities in the nation. signed, the Capitol Resource Institute, said in a written campaigns with budgets in excess of $1 The Queer movement is making the same Institute submitted documents to statement. “Californians are the California Secretary of State extremely tolerant, but we draw the asking the state to hold a referendum whose line when history is revised to please a purpose would be to overturn the bill. They special interest group.” hoped to place the referendum on the Because of the failure of the referendum November, 2012 ballot. tolerance will now be taught in the schools, The Secretary of State authorized a and that will have two benefits. It should petition drive to gather enough signatures to contribute to the growing acceptance of qualify the referendum for the ballot. Capitol LGBT people in our state, reduce Resource was given until October 12 to stereotyping of LGBT people and reduce gather 504,760 signatures on petitions bullying of LGBT children by their peers. requesting that the referendum be placed on Boyce Hinman is the founder of the the ballot. California Communities United Institute. Capitol Resource announced they had He can be reached at b.hinman@calcomui. failed to gather the necessary number of org or calcomui.org. Shara Perkins Murphy is the new Executive Director of the Sacramento G&L Center, seen here answering questions at a forum that was held at Head Hunters on Sunday, Oct. 16. million for the Assembly and Congress. strides for equality and justice.” Murphy was selected after an exhaustive The Center currently provides programs search and is very much looking forward to and activities to serve the LGBTQ working with the Center. community including the Lavender Angels, “The Center is the place for LGBTQ people Sacramento Pride Festival, free legal and their allies to assemble, centralize consultation, HIV testing and meeting space information and resources, find safety and for a variety of peer support and education services, and develop strategies for groups. progressive change,” said Murphy. “Over the “Later this year, the Center will complete a next few years, the Center will become an strategic plan. Ms. Murphy will be the even greater catalyst for strengthening of community and social justice in our city and NEW ED continues on page 21 4 Outword Magazine October 27, 2011 - November 10, 2011 • Volume 24 • Issue 20 • No. 443 outwordmagazine.com Service of Remembrance to Remembering Frank Kameny, Honor Victims of Hatred an American Hero hose who have died violently because they identified ew individuals are accorded the honor of being called the themselves as LGBTQ or were perceived to be LGBTQ, as founder of a movement. Frank Kameny was one of them. Twell as countless others whose names are not known will be FSuffering the insult of being fired from his job with the Army remembered at Sacramento’s Annual Service of Remembrance on Map Service in 1957 for being gay, Kameny decided not to slink Sunday, November 6. away as so many before him had. He decided to fight. The organizers are inviting the community And fight he did. He petitioned the U.S. 1961, he co-founded the Mattachine Society at-large to attend to “remember those lives with Supreme Court in 1961 for relief, arguing of Washington, a “chapter” of the national love, bear witness to the atrocity of their deaths that the federal government’s treatment of organization, and pressed aggressively for and affirm together that hatred and violence him was an “affront to human dignity.” He gay and lesbian civil rights, including equal must end.” was the first person to make that civil rights treatment of gay employees in the federal “Their deaths have placed a spotlight on the government. terrifying magnitude of hatred directed towards Working with the Mattachine Society and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, other gay rights groups, Kameny in 1963 questioning and intersex people, those who are launched a 30-year battle to overturn D.C.