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No. 551 • April 28, 2016 • outwordmagazine.com Paris 2018 Gay Games 10 page 6 Dying to Live LGBT Sacramento Valley Mr. Bolt Leather CGNIE Crowns a New Veterans Stand Down 2016 Ray Sherwin Emperor and Empress page 11 page 14 page 15 page 20 COLOR COLOR Find Your Escape! 2016 Subaru Outback Remembering Gerald Louis “Gerry” Arredondo Remembering Daved Girard Gerald Louis “Gerry” Arredondo, age 62, My Beautiful Daved is gone and I am so Outword passed away at Kaiser Hospital, Roseville, on heart broken. He was my partner of six Sunday, April 10, 2016. wonderful years and my one true LOVE. I Born on December 12, 1953, in San Jose, would like to share with you a poem that he Staff he graduated from Mount Pleasant High wrote, so that you might know him better. TJ Bruce PUBLISHER School in San Jose and worked and lived Fred Palmer several years in San Jose before settling in Roseville, 13 years ago. ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION He worked at the Lincoln Station of the Ron Tackitt United States Postal Service as a Rural GRAPHIC DESIGN Carrier, and was a member of the Ron Tackitt Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus. Marc Hébert Survivors include his partner, Michael Harrison; and his daughter, Nicole Terry and EDITOR her husband, Leslie and children, Hannah Charles Peer [email protected] and Madison; and his son, Niklaus Arredondo and his companion, Maria, and ARTS EDITOR children, Soyla and Selma; and his parents, Chris Narloch Jay and Mary Arredondo, and his sister, Betty Gerald Louis “Gerry” Arredondo Arredondo. In addition, he has several A funeral service will be held Tuesday, SALES Fred Palmer Uncles, Aunts and Cousins; and a wealth of April 19, at 1:30 p.m. at Lind Brothers people who call Gerry, their best friend for Funeral Home in Carmichael, with Robert CONTRIBUTING life. Elster officiating. WRITERS Diana Kienle Frances Furio Colt McGraw Remembering Mark F. Cesa Chris Narloch He was known for his great sense of Bonnie Osborn humor and a quick wit combined with an Charles Peer insightful intelligence that allowed for a Daved Girard PHOTOGRAPHY capacity to always see and accept our Charles Peer humanity. A memorial in his honor is planned in ON THE COVER the McKinley Park Rose Garden at 33rd 2018 Gay Games will be in Paris and H Streets in Sacramento, CA on DISTRIBUTION Saturday, April 30, 2016 at Noon. Kaye Crawford Mark Florian Cesa was born in 1954 Michael Crawford and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated from Ohio State University. In ADVERTISING SALES 1979, he moved to California to pursue a thirty-five year career in the healthcare Northern California (916) 329-9280 information technology field while Fred Palmer working with several companies. He is survived by a sister, Laura, and National Advertising Representative Rivendell Media five nieces in addition to an abundance of (212) 242-6863 friends. He was preceded in death by his mother, Lee, in May, 1985; father, Florian, Mark F. Cesa in January, 1998; and another sister, Susan, in May, 1998. Mark F. Cesa, a resident of Sacramento Mark enjoyed optimism and joy into his for over thirty years, passed away final days with care from his beloved cat, peacefully in Marina del Rey, California on Lee-lee and Companion Hospice of April 1, 2016 from complications due to Southern California. cancer. Outword Magazine Inc. 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. Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association Midtown Business Association 4 Outword Magazine April 28, 2016 - May 12, 2016 • No. 551 outwordmagazine.com Mark Your Calendar Now for Paris 2018 – Gay Games 10 by Connie Wardman ince the first Gay Games, held in San Francisco in 1982 thanks to founder Dr. Tom Waddell, the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) has continued to promote equality, diversity and inclusion in Ssports and culture. ceremony will welcome all the participants to march in the Jean Bouin Stadium located in Paris. And all those attending will have access to an amazing selection of hotels, apartments and other accommodations across Paris. The Paris 2018 organizing team includes former members of the Federation of Gay Games Board and leaders of the Paris sports and cultural community. With support from the City of Paris, the Ile-de-France region and the national Ministries of Sports, Culture and DIGES (the inter-ministerial delegation for large sporting events), Paris 2018-Gay Games 10 involves the entire Paris community as well as those across France. Supporters known as “Gay Games Champions” are part of a global network located in every country to provide information about Paris 2018-Gay Games 10. The idea behind the Gay Games is to involve all who would like to part of this celebration of LGBT sports and culture. If you would like to be a Gay Games Champion, please contact the FGG at: [email protected]. Registrations for Paris 2018 – Gay Games 10 will open on May 16 The Inclusion Paris 2018 foundation is raising funds for the Gay Games Scholarship Over the years the Gay Games has grown event. Young or mature, experienced or Fund that helps bring athletes and artists to into the world’s largest sports and culture novice, gay or straight, the Gay Games is for festival open to all under the founding everyone. All participants will march in the the Games. With the financial support from principles of Participation, Inclusion, and Opening Ceremony as proud athletes or the foundation and the FGG, deserving Personal Best. artists, sharing their experiences with the economically-challenged candidates from Under the banner of those guiding anticipated 15,000 attendees from around the under-represented populations and regions principles, 15,000 participants will celebrate world. are identified and given a chance to together in Paris, the world’s City of Light, After two years of planning, registrations participate. taking part in a menu of 36 different sports, for Paris 2018–Gay Games 10 will open on To learn more about Paris 2018-Gay 14 cultural events and multiple conferences. May 16 and all those wanting to be part of Games 10, take a look at the Paris 2018 Held by the FGG, the motto for the Paris the Gay Games will be able to sign up for brochure and presentation. Also watch the 2018-Gay Games 10 is “ALL EQUAL,” their chosen sport and cultural events. charming video, ‘Imagine Paris’ that will reflecting the openness and inclusion of this Individual participants will then receive a bring tears to your eyes and make you want important event. transportation pass and a participation to sign up right away. Open to everyone, the Gay Games has no medal for being an important part of this Connie Wardman is editor in chief requirements or qualifications for people exciting quadrennial event. Compete Magazine, the world’s only sports wanting to take part in this life-changing On August 4th the festive opening diversity magazine. CompeteNetwork.com 6 Outword Magazine April 28, 2016 - May 12, 2016 • No. 551 outwordmagazine.com Statewide Transgender Movement Promotes Safety os Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has joined individuals from the transgender community, statewide LGBT organizations, Llocal officials, civil rights groups, businesses, faith-based leaders and community members to launch Transform California – a statewide movement founded by Equality California and the Transgender Law Center to promote respect, understanding and safety for the transgender community. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaking at the launch of Transform California. As part of the effort, coalition members transgender woman, Quartney Yochum, who signed a Transform California pledge – was murdered last month. Transform opposing discrimination against transgender California is building a coalition of people. Californians committed to ending this “California and its residents are known violence and lifting up the voices and around the world for standing up for the solutions of transgender people. values of tolerance and equality,” said Mayor The statewide launch celebration in Los Eric Garcetti. “Trans people should have the Angeles was held on the steps of Los freedom to live their lives, to dream, and to Angeles City Hall and attended by more plan for the future without worrying about than 50 coalition members, including Pat their safety or basic rights. I am proud to add Manuel, a transgender Californian, amateur my voice to the broad coalition supporting boxer and small business owner; Maria Transform California, a new step in the Roman, a transgender Californian and march toward full inclusion for our trans community activist. brothers and sisters.” Following the Los Angeles launch, According to the National Center for Transform California will host regional Transgender Equality, “transgender people rallies throughout the state, which will be face extraordinary levels of physical and attended by organizations and individuals sexual violence, whether on the streets, at from vastly different landscapes, including school or work, at home, or at the hands of civil rights organizations, business leaders, government officials. More than one in four and local and state elected officials, among transgender people has faced a bias-driven many others. While varied in background, assault, and rates are higher for transgender women and transgender people of color.” the mission of every Transform California “My message today, is that there are still coalition member is the same: promote many ways in which the world we live in respect, understanding and safety for the tells transgender people like me that we transgender community, and oppose aren’t welcome. And I encourage folks to discrimination of all kinds.