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November 6 Gay City News NOVEMBER 6 - 12, 2008 VOLUME SEVEN, ISSUE 45 ■ STATE SENATE FLIPPED ■ CALIFORNIA HEARTBREAK New York Democrats Pledged Voters Narrowly Overturn to Deliver Marriage Equality P. 4 Marriage Equality Court Win P. 6 AMERICA’S LARGEST CIRCULATION GAY AND LESBIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPER! NEWSTM SERVING GAY, GayLESBIAN, BI AND TRANSGENDERED NEWCity YORK • WWW.GAYCITYNEWS.COM PAUL MORIGI/WIREIMAGE PAUL THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT TURN THE PAGE © GAY CITY NEWS 2008 • COMMUNITY MEDIA, LLC, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / 2 Politics 6 - 12 NOV 2008 Tensions Amidst Victory 7 DAYS New president-elect cites “steep climb” as local ugliness mars evening 7 NIGHTS BY DUNCAN OSBORNE he race between John THU.NOV.6 McCain and Barack T Obama wasn’t the only GALLERY contest happening on Novem- Art We Can ber 4. In the rear of Gym Believe In Sportsbar, the Stonewall Riots Politics and art? As impossible a faced the Gym Griffins in a mix as oil and water? Hardly. Has there game of pool. ever been a more powerful anti-war With televisions blasting the message than Picasso’s “Guernica”? election results and the crowd 2008 has proven that Americans want cheering as CNN called one to engage in politics again. To cel- state after another for Obama, ebrate the excitement now bubbling the match grew increasingly as the coming election approaches, Art impossible to play as patrons Gotham chose the timely theme “Elec- pressed nearer to the pool tion 2008” for its biannual “Square table and ignored pleas from Foot Show.” Artists were provided with the Griffins and the Riots to 12” x 12” canvases and asked to think give them some room. politically as they created works for the “I was pretty upset,” said show. Nothing like a tough assignment Rose Ng, captain of the Riots. for producing amazing results. 192 “I don’t think we should be Sixth Ave., btwn. Spring & Prince playing on election night... It’s Sts. 1-6 p.m. through Nov. 9. For more difficult to focus on two things information, visit artgotham.com. at once.” ✯✯✯✯✯✯✯ Both teams belong to the New York Gay Pool League, THEATER which has raised and donated Passion Unspoken $250,000 to local AIDS and The New Group presents the US gay groups since it started premier of Kevin Elyot’s “Mouth to 25 years ago. The current 11 Mouth,” a play that opens with Frank, teams in the league, which are a gay writer living with AIDS, attend- sponsored by local bars, meet ing a party thrown by his friend Laura on weeknights to play matches to celebrate the return of her teenage of best-of-15 games. son from abroad. The story is a haunt- During a game, players get ing, twisting tale of undeclared passion one minute to make a shot and the fine line between intimacy and while another player acting betrayal. Mark Brokaw directs. Acorn as the ref prowls around the Theatre, 410 W. 42nd St. Mon., table, holding a cell phone to Wed.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Tue., 7 p.m.; Sat., keep track of the time, and 2 p.m. through Dec. 27. Tickets are occasionally calls out the $56.25 at ticketcentral.com or 212-279- seconds left. Usually they do 4200. not also contend with CNN LUONGO T. MICHAEL ✯✯✯✯✯✯✯ and a mob. “It is both a hindrance and COMEDY a great way to relax,” said Homo Comicus Chris Bess, co-captain of the Michael Brill hosts an evening of Griffins. queer and queer-friendly comics includ- As the evening continued, As the LGBT crowd cheered Barack Obama’s victory at Room Service, out lesbian City Council Speaker Christine Quinn appeared to celebrate, ing actress Jackie Hoffman, fresh from the crowd at the Eighth Ave- but was interrupted by activist Ira Manhoff (seen here being hustled away by security), who objected to her efforts on extending the city’s her turn in Broadway’s “Xanadu,” the nue bar, those who gathered term limits law. Quinn urged security to allow Manhoff to stay. big gay pimpin’ Jonny McGovern, Jim in other places, and even New David, Becky Donohue, Leah Dubie, Yorkers who later were trav- sonant moments that should ing in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisex- House and everything else, I and Dave Rubin. Gotham Comedy eling home by subway after have reminded celebrants that ual and Transgender Com- would do that.” Club, 208 W. 23rd St., 7:30 p.m. The watching Obama crush McCa- the heady expectations of vic- munity Center on West 13th It was a powerful moment cover charge is $15, with a two-drink in, were cheering and chant- tory would have to give way to Street stood and cheered when for an audience that lost many minimum. For reservations, call 212- ing “Obama.” The celebratory politics and what is possible. Obama included “gay” in the friends to AIDS during the ’80s 367-9000. mood was understandable. The president-elect nod- long list of Americans who had and had yet to see the anti-HIV ✯✯✯✯✯✯✯ President George W. Bush ded to that in his post-vote supported his candidacy. drugs that have since saved has dragged the nation into speech that was broadcast Another successful Demo- many gay men. POLITICS two endless wars, wrecked from Chicago. cratic contender for presi- We now know that new Now What? the American economy, “The road ahead will be dent, William Clinton, often HIV infections among gay The Queer Justice League, a group trashed the liberties in the US long, our climb will be steep,” hit the right notes when talk- and bisexual men increased of LGBT progressives dedicated to Constitution that protect tax- Obama said. “We may not get ing to the gay community. At a throughout Clinton’s two change through coalition with other payers, and run up stagger- there in one year or even one 1992 Los Angeles fundraiser, terms and over the past eight social activist organizations, holds a ing federal deficits. Bush has term, but America, I have Clinton told 400 gay men and years with Bush in the White forum tonight looking at the election been no friend to the queer never been more hopeful than lesbians “If I could wave my House. results and contemplating next steps. community. I am tonight that we will get arm for those of you who are Clinton also approved the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. While Obama supporters, there. I promise you, we as a HIV-positive and make it go military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t 13th St., 8 p.m. including many in the gay people will get there.” away tomorrow, I would do it, Tell policy that has cost near- CAREERS community, partied, the eve- Earlier in the speech, the so help me God I would. If I ning also had its share of dis- crowd of roughly 300 watch- gave up my race for the White ᭤ CHALLENGES, continued on p.15 ᭤ NOV 6, continued on p.8 WWW.GAYCITYNEWS.COM 6 - 12 NOV 2008 3 www.KPAXpharm.com Pharmaceutical Quality Supplements 10% OFF Invince-A-Tor™ in Naturally Lower OCTOBER Super Probiotics Cholesterol and Strengthen Triglyceride Your Gut With Immune Support Levels! Beneficial Bacteria! Immune Support Formula Protein Blend The Only Research Proven New Flavor! Immune Booster! 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Padavan Senate for the first time in 43 phin Maltese, a sponsor of a is also a DOMA sponsor and years. state Defense of Marriage Act voted against the 2002 gay With all but one of the 62 (DOMA), a proposal that has rights law in Albany. A recount Senate races decided, Demo- gone nowhere in Albany. Add- is expected in the race. crats now control at least abbo had a 15-percent edge Gennaro was not wide- 32 seats in the Legislature’s in that race. ly seen as posing a real upper chamber, while Repub- A pro-LGBT vote in his challenge to Padavan and licans will have at least 29. years on the Council, Addabbo received little support from Democrats already control the said he supports the Gender the Democratic Senate Cam- State Assembly and the gover- Expression Non-Discrimina- paign Committee, in stark norship. tion Act (GENDA), which would contrast to Addabbo and With a working Democratic NEWS CITY GAY provide transgender civil rights Foley, each of whom received majority in the Senate, sev- ESPA’s Alan Van Capelle and Joe Tarver celebrate the Obama victory and State Senate gains protections, and the Dignity hundreds of thousands eral initiatives benefiting the at a Democratic Party bash at the Sheraton on Election Night. for All Students Act (DASA), of dollars. ESPA endorsed lesbian, gay, bisexual, and the anti-bullying measure, but Gennaro, but made no transgender community — a der rights, and school bullying was no longer willing to take has not taken a position on the financial contribution, while marriage equality bill, a trans- legislation would win reelec- up significant pieces of LGBT marriage equality bill.
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