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Lawyer's Murder Sparks Concern Among D.C. Activists FEBRUARY 27 2015 VOLUME 46 ISSUE 09 • AMERICA’S GAY NEWS SOURCE • WASHINGTONBLADE.COM State lawmakers target it’s a thinly veiled attempt at targeting LGBT non-discrimination ordinances in cities like Little Rock and Eureka Springs. gay rights from West Va. to Texas Amid court victories advancing marriage rights throughout the country, the Arkansas law was one among By CHRIS JOHNSON several measures pending in state legislatures aimed rolling [email protected] back rights for LGBT people. Many of these bills are known as Religious Freedom Restoration Acts and would enable Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson allowed an anti-LGBT bill individuals and businesses to refuse service to LGBT people to become law on Monday, raising fears among advocates and allow clerks to opt out of issuing marriage licenses to that the measure is an omen of more attacks on gay rights to same-sex couples. come in other states. Hutchinson had declared he would allow the measure to Senate Bill 202, approved by the new Republican majorities become law through inaction, but LGBT advocates attempted in the state legislature, bars municipalities from enacting non- to convince him to veto the bill. discrimination ordinances for classes of people not already Eff orts to combat the measure included a website, Arkansas Gov. ASA HUTCHINSON (R) protected under state law. Although sexual orientation allowed a new anti-LGBT bill to become and gender identity aren’t explicitly mentioned in the new law, CONTINUES ON PAGE 14 law this week. Lawyer’s murder sparks concern among D.C. activists Signs of ‘pick-up’ killing in Donovan Hotel near Thomas Circle shortly before he stabbing death of married man was found dead. A public document in support of a police search warrant for the hotel room fi led in D.C. Superior Court By LOU CHIBBARO JR. shows that the case has some of the similarities of a [email protected] “pick-up” murder. Among the items found in the hotel room, The mystery surrounding the murder of 30-year-old according to the search warrant document, were a D.C. attorney David Messerschmitt, who was found condom and lubricant, an enema, a wallet with credit stabbed to death on Feb. 10 in a downtown hotel cards, a computer and cell phone. The document says room hours after his wife reported him missing, has Messerschmitt was found lying face down on the fl oor captured the attention of activists who monitor anti- with stab wounds to his back. LGBT violence. “Apparent blood was observed on the fl oor D.C. police have yet to disclose whether they know throughout the room, the walls of the hotel room, how Messerschmitt met the person who killed him or the door of the hotel room, and on the body of the the motive of the crime. Last week police said they decedent,” a police affi davit in support of the search DAVID MESSERSCHMITT was found stabbed to death at the Donovan Hotel on Feb. 10. didn’t know why Messerschmitt, who lived on Capitol Hill with his wife, checked into a room at the upscale CONTINUES ON PAGE 15 PHOTO COURTESY OF FACEBOOK HONORING MAME OFF THE STREETS BEHIND THE MUSIC Locals mourn death of Gay man talks about Gay hit maker leaves longtime drag star being homeless in D.C., pop for drag, dishes on Mame Dennis at age 74. dreams for the future. drama of working with Gaga. PAGE 8 PAGE 20 PAGE 23 02 • FEBRUARY 27, 2015 WASHINGTONBLADE.COM 2015 Is Off tO An AmAzIng stArt! www4604Fourth.com ~ 3 Bed / 2.5 Bath / Parking Under Contract in 3 Days Over Asking Price! But We need mOre InventOry! thInkIng Of sellIng? COntACt us tOdAy! WWW.dltreAltOrs.COm the Denny & LeyLa LD team WWW.E VERS CO. 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LAVERS and I had injuries on my head,” said [email protected] Nadya, speaking Russian as her girlfriend interpreted. “She had told him everything BALTIMORE — Nadya, a 31-year-old about me and he decided just to teach lesbian from Russia, and her girlfriend of me and show me I’m a freak.” nearly six years were talking at a coff ee Nadya said a group of six men attacked shop in Northwest Baltimore early in the her in 2005 as she left an LGBT party in evening of Feb. 20. the city of Voronezh. The temperature outside was a bitterly She told the Blade that her assailants cold 12 degrees as the two women sat followed her as she walked toward a along the window that overlooked the taxi she had called. Nadya said the men parking lot of the Shops at Quarry Lake. knocked her to the ground and began Russian LGBT rights advocates in October held a protest in Moscow to commemorate National Nadya and her girlfriend continued kicking her in the face and shoulders. Coming Out Day. Police offi cers later detained them. talking about their homeland, their She said her left eye was nearly swollen shut PHOTO COURTESY OF NIKOLAI BAEV relationship and the life they hope to and her face was like “jelly” after the attack. build in the United States. “I was trying to hide my head with my Russia decriminalized homosexuality in other Russian offi cials over the annexation “We dream about having a house, arms,” said Nadya. “The taxi left because 1993. of Crimea during the ongoing war between children and dogs,” Nadya told the nobody wants to get in trouble.” Nadya told the Blade she feels anti-LGBT Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists in the Washington Blade. Nadya told the Blade she suff ered a broken attitudes persist, in part, because people eastern part of the country. Nadya and her girlfriend moved to nose during Moscow Pride in May 2012. remain afraid of the prison sentences that Some, including gay journalist Jamie Baltimore from Moscow in late October. Russian police detained more than gay men received during the Soviet era. She Kirchick and Spectrum Human Rights, a group They are among the growing number of three-dozen people — Nikolai Alekseev said Russian politicians and religious offi cials that advocates on behalf of LGBT Russians, LGBT Russians who have fl ed to the United and other LGBT rights advocates and “provoke people just to be anti-gay.” have urged the Obama administration to States to escape what they describe as a handful of Orthodox Christians who “Everybody should be against gay use a 2012 law — the Magnitsky Act — that increased anti-LGBT discrimination and confronted them during the event that people,” she said in Russian as she spoke freezes the assets of Russian citizens and persecution in their homeland. descended into violence. A Moscow court about Putin’s LGBT rights record. “It’s offi cials directly responsible for human rights Nadya declined to be photographed a few weeks later upheld local authorities’ some kind of honor to kill LGBT people.” violations and bans them from entering the and asked the Blade only to publish her decision to ban the gathering from taking The Obama administration in March U.S. to punish those behind the country’s fi rst name. place for 100 years. 2014 froze the American assets of Yelena anti-gay crackdown. Her girlfriend declined to take part in “When you go to such prides, you Mizulina, a state Duma deputy who the interview, but she agreed to translate still have hope,” Nadya told the Blade, sponsored the propaganda bill, and six � CONTINUES AT WASHINGTONBLADE.COM Nadya’s answers to the Blade’s questions discussing the attack and the police who from Russian into English. arrested those who took part in the event. “I’m a little bit afraid actually,” said Nadya. “The government not only sees it actually, Nadya grew up outside of Rossoch, a but they pretend that everything’s fi ne city near the Ukrainian border.
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