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Hundreds Rally to Support Trans Woman Attacks on DOMA New Blade The Blade this week debuts a new look and logo, along with a redesigned website and mobile apps. DETAILS, PAGE 22 APRIL 29 2011 VOLUME 42 ISSUE 17 • OUR COMMUNITY, OUR STORIES SINCE 1969 • WASHINGTONBLADE.COM Hundreds rally to support trans woman Polis ‘doing great’ kicking Polis in the head and body as she curled up on the restaurant fl oor. It has been viewed hundreds of after attack in Md. thousands of times. McDonald’s; suspect “The turnout tonight is wonderful, I’m so happy,” said Renee Carr, Polis’s mother, who attended the rally could face 10 years with family and neighbors, but without her daughter. in prison “I didn’t think that McDonald’s was a dangerous place, all she wanted to do was eat and use the bathroom.” In an interview with the Blade after the rally, Carr said she has always known her daughter was transgender and that she has supported her “100 percent.” “I even carried her pocketbook on the way to the bus stop as a kid,” Carr said, adding that Polis is doing CHRISSY LEE POLIS, seen here in a screenshot better but was unable to attend. Others at the rally said from a video interview with the Baltimore Polis was afraid to leave her house. Sun, was attacked after attempting to use the “I want to thank everyone personally who came women’s restroom at a Maryland McDonald’s. tonight,” said Kathleen Hand, Polis’s grandmother, who also attended the rally, which was held in the McDonald’s parking lot in Rosedale, Md., where the beating took place. “Chrissy is doing great.” By LOU CHIBBARO JR. & KEVIN NAFF A crowd of about 300 spectators sang “We Shall Several politicians in the crowd expressed surprise Overcome,” as politicians and activists denounced the and gratitude for the strong turnout. A rally to draw attention to anti-transgender violence beating that captured national media attention after it “This is truly an LGBT moment,” said Mary Washington, turned surprisingly upbeat and almost jubilant on was recorded by a restaurant employee and posted to a lesbian member of Maryland’s House of Delegates from Monday night at a Maryland McDonald’s restaurant YouTube. where Chrissy Lee Polis was beaten last week. The video shows two teenage women punching and CONTINUES ON PAGE 16 Attacks on DOMA lawyer ‘misplaced’ Obama, Holder support right of Congress to defend anti-gay law By CHRIS JOHNSON [email protected] President Obama shares the view expressed earlier this week by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder that attacks on the private attorney who volunteered to litigate on behalf of the Defense of Marriage Act are “misplaced,” according to the White House. Youth Pride Under questioning from the Washington Blade, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said during an off- Pride season kicks off camera press gaggle Wednesday that statements from Holder, who earlier this week rebuffed those who would vilify former U.S. solicitor general Paul Clement for taking up defense of DOMA, refl ected Obama’s position. this weekend with the “We do share Eric Holder’s views on this,” Carney said. “We think — as we said from the beginning when we talked 15th annual Youth Pride, about — when I did from this podium — about the decision no longer from the administration to defend the Defense which returns to Dupont Circle. of Marriage Act, that we would support efforts by Congress if they so chose to defend it. And so I have nothing to PAGES 26 & 42 CONTINUES ON PAGE 14 02 • APRIL 29, 2011 WASHINGTONBLADE.COM WASHINGTONBLADE.COM APRIL 29, 2011 • 03 washingtonblade.com 04 • APRIL 29, 2011 LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF Whitman-Walker drops ‘Clinic’ from name The Whitman-Walker Clinic announced on Wednesday that it has changed its name to “Whitman-Walker Health” to refl ect its expanded role in recent years as a primary care provider for a wide range of health and medical services in addition to HIV/AIDS. Whitman-Walker offi cials rolled out the name change along with a new logo and website at the organization’s 19th Annual Spring Gala Wednesday night at a reception hall in Northwest Washington. “This name change best emphasizes who Whitman-Walker is now and what we aspire to be in the future: a full-service, best-in-class health center,” said Whitman- Walker Executive Director Don Blanchon. “We want to educate the metro D.C. community about the full range of health care services we offer,” Blanchon said. “The word ‘Health’ best conveys our current and future role in the community as a health center and refl ects our unwavering commitment to the highest quality of care for our patients,” he said. Blanchon added that Whitman-Walker is staying “true to our roots” by remaining Gay families join Easter Egg Roll committed to serving the LGBT community and people living with HIV/AIDS. In a statement released Wednesday, Whitman-Walker Health said it now offers “primary medical and dental care; mental health and addictions counseling and The White House held its annual Easter Egg Roll on Monday and, as in years past, treatment; HIV education, prevention, and testing; legal services; and medical adherence LGBT families joined in the fun. There were cooking demonstrations with celebrity chefs, care management.” As it has in the past, Whitman-Walker continues to offer non-HIV a farmer’s market and even a beehive station. related sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing and treatment on a walk-in basis. Visit washingtonblade.com for video of interviews with families who participated. The statement adds, “We are especially committed to meeting the health needs of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community and people living WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY with HIV/AIDS.” “The new logo boldly embraces our past, present and future,” Blanchon said. “It honors our past by incorporating the two ‘W’s from the original logo. Its use of color represents the diversity of our patients and the communities we serve. OBITUARY And it includes a triangle symbol, which highlights our commitment to the three principles of community, caring and quality.” Steven Smith, LOU CHIBBARO JR. Remington’s owner, dies at 57 LGBT youth join offi cials for anti-bullying rally A large contingent of LGBT young people joined offi cials from the mayor’s offi ce Steven Smith, a D.C. resident since the early and members of the City Council on April 21 in a “Rally for a Bully-Free D.C.” 1980s and the owner of the Capitol Hill gay The event was held on the steps of the John A. Wilson Building, which serves bar Remington’s, died April 15 at Georgetown as the D.C. City Hall. University Hospital from complications STEVEN SMITH Organizers said the rally was aimed at drawing attention to the longstanding associated with liver cancer. He was 57. PHOTO COURTESY OF DOUG BOGAEV problem of bullying in the city’s public schools, especially anti-LGBT bullying. Nearly Smith’s partner, Doug Bogaev, said all of the more than one dozen speakers called on the D.C. Council to pass a bill Smith and then-partner Dick Brandrupt introduced earlier this year by D.C. Council member Harry Thomas (D-Ward 5) bought Remington’s in July 1985 when it outside the Marine Barracks to demand called the Bullying and Intimidation Prevention Act of 2011. was called Equus. The two renamed the strict disciplinary action against the The bill, which has been co-sponsored by nearly all Council members, would bar Remington’s and continued operating perpetrators of the attack. require D.C. public schools and public charter schools, the University of the District it as a popular gay country-Western bar Smith, who called on the Marine of Columbia, the Department of Parks and Recreation, and the city’s public libraries that featured dancing. commandant to take steps to prevent to develop comprehensive policies to prevent student bullying and harassment. Smith later enlarged the bar by future harassment against the bar by Jeffrey Richardson, director of the Mayor’s Offi ce of GLBT Affairs, read a proclamation expanding it into an adjacent building Marines, told the Blade that a barracks at the rally issued by Mayor Vincent Gray declaring April 21 “Bully Free D.C. Day.” on the 600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, commander apologized and promised to Among the young people speaking at the rally were Victoria Kirby, a graduate S.E., where it has operated since it fi rst take swift disciplinary action against any student at Howard University; Ladera Ellis, Kyrina Harris, Pernell Gordon, and opened as Equus in 1980. Marine creating problems for the bar. Fidelia Iqwe of Metro Teen AIDS; Frieda Smith and D’Angelo Morrison of the According to Bogaev, Smith was born in While saying he was sympathetic to Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL); and Tyrone Hanley, a University Miami, and grew up in Tyrone, Ga. Smith the activists’ protest against the barracks, of the District of Columbia law student. served fi ve years in the U.S. Coast Guard before Smith also told the Blade he supported Most of them gave personal accounts of witnessing or experiencing anti-LGBT moving to D.C. in the early 1980s, Bogaev said. the Marines and didn’t want to see the bullying during their high school years. Morrison said he considered but ultimately Under Smith’s ownership, Remington’s Marines’ reputation tarnished because of rejected suicide after encountering relentless bullying and intimidation when his has been credited with hosting numerous a “few bad apples.” fellow high school students discovered he was gay.
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