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No. 578 • June 8, 2017 • outwordmagazine.com magazine SomeSome SuperSuper sacramento WomenWomen OnOn TheThe SilverSilver ScreenScreen page 17 Out & About Sac Pride Pics - Page 11 Edie Windsor Legends of Celebrate Women Rock How to Be To Be Courage Queer This Year’s That Guy’s Honored Film Project Cinema French Film Fest Go-To page 4 page 7 page 8 page 20 page 21 COLOR COLOR Convention Center Renovation Gets OK Years of Progress to End AIDS he Sacramento City Now Threatened commentary by MSMGF Council on at their ital programming for gay, bisexual and other men who have TTuesday, May 30th sex with men around the world will be slashed if the President’s meeting approved the go-ahead Vproposed budget released earlier this week is approved. for project design to start Over $1 billion in arbitrary cuts to global Vaccine Initiative (IAVI); HIV programs at the State Department and $2.4 billion from the development drawing plans for a larger, USAID in the President’s budget would assistance and economic support fund more attractive and competitive mean increases in avoidable HIV accounts, which would hamper the U.S’.s Convention Center. transmission and more unnecessary deaths. ability to support critical LGBTI rights The White House’s budget calls for an programs abroad; and No major physical improvements have approximate 17 percent cut to components of Voluntary contributions to UN agencies been made to the Convention Center in the the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS – such as UNDP and UNAIDS – which last two decades. Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to would seriously threaten progress and The project expands building capacity, Fight AIDS, commitments within those makes the building easier to navigate, Tuberculosis and agencies to gay men and other expands the use of flexible space, upgrades Malaria, a key populations, as articulated the interior and technology and includes complete by the Global Platform to Fast indoor/outdoor meeting and function defunding of HIV Track the HIV and Human areas. at USAID, as well Rights Responses with Gay “I’m extremely pleased with the hard as deep cuts to and Bisexual Men. work everyone has undertaken to get us to other life-saving PEPFAR, formed in 2003 global health by President George W. this point,” said Mayor Darrell Steinberg. programs, including Bush, is widely seen as one “This plan will allow us to invest in the the prevention and of the most effective and Sacramento Convention Center and other treatment of strategic programs the U.S. civic amenities in ways that go beyond tuberculosis – the has ever undertaken. simply updating and maintaining – so we leading killer of Combined with its are innovating and championing our people with HIV – investment in global health natural assets like the riverfront to make and family planning made through the Global Sacramento a true destination city.” and reproductive Fund, the United States Specifically, the first phase includes health programs. has a deeply rooted expanded exhibit space, a new kitchen, MSMGF joins bipartisan, forward- additional meeting rooms, east lobby and a partner organizations thinking commitment to global HIV new west lobby in a 205,000 square-foot in the United States and around the world in treatment and prevention. calling on Members of Congress to continue These proposed cuts to the foreign building. The project also includes an long-standing bipartisan support for a assistance account, which currently event plaza between the Center and the comprehensive, stigma-free domestic and comprises less than one percent of the U.S. Honesty. Community Center Theatre for convention global AIDS response. federal budget, would reverse progress made functions or a community gathering place. The White House’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget and be devastating to the health and safety Respect. If the finance plan is approved by City decimates years of US investment in the of millions of people around the world. Council later this summer, construction global HIV response and promotion of MSMGF urges the Congress to reject Professionalism. may start as soon as March of 2018 and global sexual and reproductive health. Trump’s budget in the forthcoming wrap up in late 2020. The construction and Specifically, it proposes to cut: appropriations processes. Courtesy. other costs associated with labor, design State Department HIV/AIDS funding by MSMGF is an expanding network of and environmental review of the project is approximately 10 percent; advocates and other experts in sexual anticipated to be $125 million for phase 1. The global AIDS programs at the U.S. health, LGBT/human rights, research, and It’s how I treat all my customers. And you Staff will return to City Council in Agency for International Development policy, working to ensure an effective can be sure I’ll always do my best to meet (USAID) entirely – a $330 million cut; response to HIV among gay men and other August with a framework for the financing your needs. The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) men who have sex with men. We are directly ® of both phases 1 and 2 of renovation and Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. global AIDS budget; linked with more than 120 community- CALL ME TODAY. expansion of the Convention Center. 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CONTRIBUTING The 14 grand justices on May 24th, WRITERS demanded that current laws be amended Diana Kienle within two years to allow for same-sex Colt McGraw marriage, in the event laws have not Chris Narloch Bonnie Osborn changed in that timeframe, couples will be Charles Peer able to register their marriage anyway. “This is a great victory for Taiwan and for PHOTOGRAPHY all of Asia,” said Jessica Stern, Executive Charles Peer Director of OutRight Action International. ON THE COVER “Taiwanese activists have been campaigning Gal Gadot stars as ‘Wonder Woman’ for years to achieve this outcome and all of Edith Windsor at a press conference following her SCOTUS hearing. their efforts have paid off in full. Amidst DISTRIBUTION “Edie has proven herself to be a true that gay people have dignity, and that the conservative pushback against LGBTIQ Kaye Crawford rights and equality in other parts of Asia, this Michael Crawford pioneer in the fight for LGBTQ rights for Constitution mandates that this dignity be decades,” said The Trevor Project’s Interim respected equally under the law. Since is much welcomed good news and reason to Executive Director Steve Mendelsohn. “She Windsor, more than forty federal district celebrate. Love trumps hate.” ADVERTISING SALES has fought relentlessly for marriage equality, court opinions and four circuit courts have The ruling did not clarify whether the civil law will be changed or whether a new law Northern California and remains a trailblazer and inspiration to held that the U.S. Constitution requires that (916) 329-9280 the LGBTQ community across the world. gay people be allowed to marry. will be enacted to allow for same-sex couples Fred Palmer We’re honored and delighted to present The “Being honored by The Trevor Project is to marry. Activists in the country have been Trevor Project’s Icon Award to Ms. Windsor a very big deal for me,” said Windsor. “I’m advocating for a change in the civil code. 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In its landmark 2013 ruling in averting crisis gives us all a future we can Windsor, the Supreme Court struck down believe in.” Section 3 of the so-called Defense of Fans and advocates will be able to Marriage Act (DOMA) which by its terms experience the TrevorLIVE red carpet had excluded gay couples from all the arrivals and show via Facebook livestream benefits and protections of marriage under on the Trevor Project’s Facebook page. For more information on TrevorLIVE New Outword Magazine Inc. federal law. At the heart of Windsor is the principle York, visit ny.trevorlive.org/. The Chinese flag reimagined Office 372 Florin Road, #133 Sacramento, CA 95831 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 Nat.