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Special Issue No. 643 • February 27, 2020 • outwordmagazine.com Why You Should Vote page 6 New Season of Love Jams Black LGBTQ History is Featuring Singapore’s American History Pop Sensation Wils! page 13 Sacramento Fell In Love With Pete page 23 “The Call of the Wild” & More page 26 Lizzy patient – BREAST CANCER For erasing breast cancer and embracing the future For Lizzy, discovering healthy meant finding the right specialists who could provide personalized treatment to take a challenging form of breast cancer into a five-year remission. Primary care to specialty care | 150 specialties | 17 clinics in 10 communities For more information visit ChooseHealth.ucdavis.edu Outword Vote on March Third by Faith Colburn oting is unequivocally a civil rights issue. The right to vote is Staff the cornerstone of our democracy and the fundamental right PUBLISHER Vupon which all our civil liberties rest. Those of us with the Fred Palmer privilege to vote have an obligation to participate in the California ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION primary on March 3, 2020. Ron Tackitt GRAPHIC DESIGN Ron Tackitt EDITOR [email protected] ARTS EDITOR Chris Narloch SALES Fred Palmer CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Chris Allan Matthew Burlingame Faith Colburn Diana Kienle Chris Narloch Lauren Pulido PHOTOGRAPHY Chris Allan Voter suppression tactics are being used and a nation represent. Charles Peer to silence some of the most vulnerable It can be very discouraging to try to keep Ron Tackitt members of the LGBTQ+ community. In up with everything that is going on in the ON THE COVER particular, voter ID laws that require voters world. It can be easy to simply look away Singapore pop singing sensation Wils. to present a photo ID that matches their and ignore the barriers that we ourselves Photo courtesy of Beat Box gender identity can block many transgender may not face. But now is the time to rise as a and gender-nonconforming people from collective movement to show this country DISTRIBUTION Kaye Crawford voting. And, many transgender individuals who we are. We must rally together, not Michael Crawford fear the stigma they will face at the polling against hatred but around hope. A hope for a place if they do not have the “proper ID.” future where each individual can live their ADVERTISING SALES Voter suppression remains rampant as truth safely and with authenticity. A hope for certain parties and candidates threaten to a future that acknowledges and accounts for Northern California (916) 329-9280 strip away our most basic freedoms and the intersectional factions of our identities. Fred Palmer protections. Nevertheless, we are determined Voting with hope means making as a community to ensure our needs are thoughtful considerations to the candidates National Advertising Representative Rivendell Media being represented. and ballot measures and their implications (212) 242-6863 According to CNN and the Wall Street for our communities. It means committing Journal, six percent of the voting bloc in the to listening, learning, and educating congressional mid-term elections identified ourselves. This is a serious responsibility as LGBTQ+. This bloc -our bloc- will likely and one that none of us should take lightly. grow in 2020, not just in percentage but So get informed and then cast your ballot. influence. Our level of engagement and Vote for local, state, and national leaders participation will signals the values and who will amplify and elevate the platforms policies that we stand for (and against). Our of our most underrepresented and votes collectively send an undebatable disenfranchised communities. Vote like your Outword Magazine Inc. statement of what we as a city, a county, life depends on it, because it does. 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 4 Outword Magazine February 27, 2020 - March 12, 2020 • No. 643 outwordmagazine.com Sharon Stone to Receive the Elizabeth Taylor Legacy Award The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF) today announced that Golden Globe® and EMMY® Award- Twinning actress, producer, activist and humanitarian Sharon Stone will receive the Elizabeth Taylor Legacy Award at the Foundation’s inaugural fundraising gala The Elizabeth Taylor Ball to End AIDS on April 30, 2020. The Elizabeth Taylor Legacy Award recognizes profound leadership in the fight against HIV and AIDS, recognizing individuals who have historically committed themselves to helping those affected by HIV and AIDS through various efforts from arts to policy to activism. “I started my quest for a vaccine and a cure at the request of Elizabeth Taylor when she asked me to fill in for her at amfAR for one night in Cannes. That one night became a 22-year commitment of HIV/AIDS work, study, and fundraising around the globe and a full understanding of what commitment itself means,” said Stone. “I ask all of you to join me in not only honoring this path which Elizabeth forged, but one which we as committed humanitarians must end. 770,000 people died of HIV/ AIDS last year and one person every three seconds STILL gets HIV/AIDS. Please help us end Elizabeth’s brave and incredibly daring and loving Actress and Activist Sharon Stone task and celebrate that commitment to life!” Off screen, Stone’s charitable foundations Getty (2014). have given life and hope to people around The inaugural Elizabeth Taylor Ball to the world. She has worked tirelessly to End AIDS will include a seated dinner for heighten awareness of HIV/AIDS as a 350 guests, an exciting live auction featuring threat to social and economic stability, and unique works of art and luxury experiences to underscore the urgent needs for with Andrea Fiuczynski serving as continued AIDS research. Stone is dedicated auctioneer, live performance, and dancing. to this cause, helping to raise hundreds of Guests will also be given a first-time millions of dollars for the battle against up-close look at exclusive items from The AIDS. Elizabeth Taylor Archive including Past recipients of the Elizabeth Taylor highlights from Elizabeth Taylor’s personal Legacy Award include Michael Jackson life, film career, and humanitarian legacy. (2018), Elton John (2017), Whoopi Goldberg Sponsoring the event is American (2016), Nancy Pelosi (2015) and Aileen Airlines, ETAF’s official airline. outwordmagazine.com February 27, 2020 - March 12, 2020 • No. 643 Outword Magazine 5 Why You Should Vote by Jackie Smith ebster’s dictionary defines the term “Momentum” as: a. The force or energy exhibited by a moving body. Wb. The driving force or advancing strength of a development or course of events. Pete Buttigieg and Jackie Smith Since the first rock was thrown at Recent polls have shown that almost 65% Stonewall 50 years ago our community has of U.S. adults say same-sex marriages been a relentless, driving force of a course of should be recognized by the law as valid–– events that have led to greater equality. It the highest percentage to date. This is has taken both the individual courage to moment(um). come out and collective action to bring The 2018 mid-term election has been about changes. Each time one of us acts in called the Rainbow Wave. LGBTQ+ political small or large ways, each represent a candidates were on the ballots in 47 seven moment that contributes to our states, and over 150 of them were elected moment(um). into office. The total number of elected Per CNN, “there are 11 million LGBTQ LGBTQ+ officials in the US has reached voters estimated nationwide. An additional almost 600. This is moment(um). 57 million “Equality Voters” have been Gavin Newsom is now Governor of identified. They are friends, family members California and remains a leader of and other allies who prioritize LGBTQ- significant importance to the LGBTQ inclusive policies when deciding which community. We elected our first LGBTQ+ candidates to support.” Collectively, Equality statewide office holder and have an eight Voters accounted for 29% of the electorate, member LGBTQ Caucus in the State making it one of the most substantial voting legislature. When elected to Assembly blocs in the election. This is moment(um). District 6, I will become the ninth member Elections are about the opportunity to of the LGBTQ Caucus. This is moment(um). build power and make change. The 2020 election includes our first I like to remind people in 2004, as San openly gay candidate, Pete Buttigieg. His Francisco’s mayor Gavin Newsom pushed winning performance in the Iowa caucuses the city to issue marriage licenses to gay is a milestone moment for the LGBTQ couples. It was a rebellious gesture at the community and all of America. This is time. Eleven years later, in June 2015, a moment(um). majority of the Supreme Court justices ruled Be a part of this moment(um) and VOTE. that gay marriage was a basic right too long Need help voting? Contact your local denied. county elections office. 6 Outword Magazine February 27, 2020 - March 12, 2020 • No. 643 outwordmagazine.com Capital City AIDS Fund Donates Condom Cart to CSUS by Joyce Mitchell acramento State University is now the owner of a new condom cart, designed and donated by Sacramento nonprofit SCapital City AIDS Fund (CCAF) to help students protect their sexual health and well-being. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) are at an all-time high in Sacramento County, even reaching epidemic levels across California. According to Planned Parenthood, youth are especially hard hit by this epidemic. Sacramento State University is now the In California, Sacramento ranked fifth out of owner of a new condom cart, designed and all counties in the state reporting Chlamydia donated by Sacramento nonprofit Capital infections.