May 24, 2019 | Volume XVII, Issue 2 Taking Steps Against HIV by Aaron Cahall Community Partners
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May 24, 2019 | Volume XVII, Issue 2 Taking Steps Against HIV BY AARON CAHALL community partners. AIDS Walk Chase Brexton Health Care With the event right Are you ready to walk and rock to bring around the corner, we & Music HIV and AIDS in Baltimore to zero? asked Clare Elliott, de- In just two weeks, the Baltimore AIDS velopment manager for Festival set Walk & Music Festival 2019 will take over Chase Brexton Health for June 9th Power Plant Live for a day of activities, Care, to share a little music, food, and fun in support of HIV bit more about how the event will help end and AIDS education, prevention, testing HIV and AIDS in Baltimore, and what’s and treatment programs of Chase Brex- new this year. ton Health Care and its How will proceeds from the event be used? Funds raised by the Baltimore AIDS Cult classic Walk & Music Festival will fund Chase – John Brexton’s new HIV medication delivery Keeping Waters service. This new service allows pa- the pace – credit: Greg AIDS Walk Gorman tients living or working near our centers 2018 to receive their prescriptions at no ad- —continued on page 4 BY ED GUNTS In his in- Filmmaker John Waters calls his terview with 1988 movie Hairspray “the gift that Meyers, keeps on giving,” because it has had Waters, 73, so many versions. said he doesn’tMister mind being labeled a cult Know it But there’s one version that has director, even though not everyone would version.” yet to see the light of day. say that’s good. “I can’t believe “I want to do the porn version,” “In Hollywood, it’s the worst thing that Pecker wasn’t dirty he revealed recently. “Pubic Hair- you can ever say, because to them ‘cult’ enough for you,” spray!” means two smart people like it and Meyers all Waters, who is based in Balti- it lost every penny. Which is true in John Waters replied. more, went on NBC’s “Late Night my movies.” Meyers wanted to know with Seth Meyers” show to kick off Waters said he didn’t tell studios kicks off how Waters pulled off one a nationwide tour to promote his he wanted to make cult movies. nationwide scene in Pecker, in which he new book, Mr. Know-It-All: The “I never went in and said I want got rats to have sex a certain Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth El- to make a cult movie,” he said. “I al- tour for part way. der. ways had to lie and say, Everybody “I know how to get them to The book, his ninth, is part in America is going to love this mov- advice book, have oral sex. You put peanut advice book, part memoir, part ie! And they believed it sometimes. I part memoir butter on there,” Waters said. recap of his last seven films, and failed upwards.” “But I wanted the missionary part celebrity tell-all, with anec- Waters wanted to make sure position. They wouldn’t do it dotes about many of the stars Meyers didn’t mispronounce the sexually and I thought, what do we have to put on, he’s worked with over the years. suggestive title of his 1998 movie, Pecker. like Ben or Willard, show them rat movies? Farrar, Straus, and Giroux is It’s “Pecker, Pecker. I thought you said Rat porn?” the publisher. Packer,” he corrected. “That’s the porn —continued on page 3 Co-Publishers Jim Becker • Jim Williams [email protected] Executive Editor Jim Becker [email protected] [email protected] Associate Editor & Director of Marketing & Production Mary Taylor [email protected] Arts and Entertainment Editor Frankie Kujawa [email protected] Leather Editor Rodney Burger [email protected] Contributing Writers for Baltimore OUTloud Andre Shakti • Bill Redmond-Palmer Brynn Devereau • Charles Dudley, MPT Chuck Duncan • David Egan David Placher • Dr. Eva Hersh MD Elyse Buchbinder • Frankie Kujawa Gregg Shapiro • Jabari Lyles Janan Broadbent, Ph. 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In addition to Mister Know it all being named by the Maryland Daily Record BY RicHARD FINgeR as one of Maryland’s “Top 100 Women” in —continued from page 1 It was “so pitiful,” he said. “It was one Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting 1998, 2000, and 2009, and being enshrined Finally, he said, prop master Brook set with six folding chairs, and she told me Senator Mary Washington at a Maryland in their “Circle of Excellence,” Delegate Yeaton “took ’em and shook ’em” and he that I was the only person that sold not one LGBT Chamber of Commerce Champions McIntosh has been honored by the Wom- got the shot he wanted. thing. I was pushing the video of ‘Des- event. Mary was gracious, taking time to en’s Law Waters recalled a time perate Living,’ my lesbi- snap pictures with our table group. I am Center and when he was in kindergar- an political melodrama. now pleased to inform the ten and talked to his mother Not one person bought readers that Mary is one about an unnamed student in one.” of our Grand Marshals. his class. “Well, hopefully we’ll More about Senator “I used to come home do better with the book Mary Washington: She is and I said, there’s this weird tonight,” Meyers offered. an advocate for Maryland’s little kid in my class and “Hopefully,” Waters re- 43rd District as a legislator, he only draws with black peated. professor, ally, public poli- crayons,” Waters relates. Over the next several cy leader, and trail-blazer. “I talked about him so weeks, Waters will make In 2010, she made much my mother asked a dozen stops on his book history becoming the first the teacher and she said, tour, including locations openly LGBT African-Amer- Pride Grand That’s your son. So I was in New York, Philadelphia, ican elected official in Mary- Marshal State creating characters for Washington, Chicago, Se- land – and only the second Senator Mary myself as I was young.” attle, San Francisco, Los such state legislator in the Pride Grand Washington He also remembered Angeles, and New England. Marshal Delegate country. As a current state a disappointing appear- In Baltimore, he had a book Maggie McIntosh senator and over her two- awarded the Dorothy Beat- ance he made on a show signing scheduled at Atomic terms as a member of the ty Memorial Service Award that the late comedienne Joan Rivers had Books (3620 Falls Road) on t Maryland House of Delegates, she has for her work on behalf of expanding legal on the Home Shopping Network. May 25th. distinguished herself as a leader fighting rights and protections for all women and for affordable access to water, protecting their families. In 2015 she was named an families at risk of losing their homes to Admiral of the Chesapeake, the highest unfair tax sales and foreclosures, making honor a governor can give a Maryland res- sure Baltimore city schools get the fair and ident for their contributions to our natural equitable funding they deserve and helping environment. unaccompanied homeless youth get the Delegate McIntosh has been at the fore- services and support they need. front of legislative and political action to ex- NEW EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY! Senator Washington has also played a pand LGBTQ rights in Maryland. She is the leading role in legislative work to establish first openly LGBTQ member of the Maryland New outdoor resort opening this summer located north of marriage equality, prevent discrimination General Assembly. She has helped lead on Romney, Hampshire Co. West Virginia. against transgender Marylanders, eliminate legislation to enact marriage equality and to We need the following positions filled within the next four the death penalty, and implement the Mary- protect Marylanders from discrimination on to six weeks. Many of these positions will be year round! land DREAM Act. the basis of sexual orientation and gender In Annapolis, Senator Washington identity. In 2013, she was honored by the serves as senate chair of both the Joint Mautner Project for her leadership on the Restaurant: Bakers, Bartenders, Bar-backs, Bus & cleaning staff, Committee on Homelessness and the Joint Question 6 campaign to secure marriage Dish/Pot washers, Food prep & Line cooks, Committee on Children Youth and Fami- equality.