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My sister Maggie came out when she as well as artsy East Village was 13, and she definitely set the bar for hangouts like the Pyramid—but how to never apologize for being true they’re all gone today.

to yourself. She never showed even a PL: Why do you think that moment of self-doubt, because even at is? Are gayborhoods in NYC that age, she knew that she had nothing What Inspires me dying a natural death because to be ashamed of. It was almost harder Up-and-coming singer/songwriter Parson James reflects on the of the assimilation caused by coming out after she did—I felt like I was inspirations that drive his art. winning equal rights such as never going to be as sure of myself or same-sex marriage? Is being confident in my own value as she was. But parson james has only ever really wanted to do one thing: make queer is no longer as “special” in getting over that insecurity, I found music. So far, so good. His first single, “Stole the Show,” with Kygo as it used to be? that being honest and open and accept- was a global smash hit. He followed it with a powerful EP titled MM: When I came to Manhat- ing of myself was more than just lifting a The Temple. We asked the future superstar about his influences: tan, I found a thriving gay world burden—it was like a suit of armor. and never looked back. It was Whether we realize it or not, all of us all about the West Village. Then celebrating Pride this summer are cel- Coming Out the gays migrated to Chelsea, ebrating the legacy “When I first came to New York, I was finally able to be myself. The people were just so free and so open. then Hell’s Kitchen, and then of people who Nothing strengthens That’s the message in my lyrics and in the songs that Brooklyn. With assimilation, knew that they I write. I think that everyone should embrace all the Musto circa gays are now all over town and a bad guy as much shouldn’t be made things that make them who they are and just be proud 1990 (above) not in need of a ghetto. While as silence, and nothing to feel ashamed of their identity.” with actor The Rise and Fall of NYC being gay has indeed lost a bit weakens a good guy as of who they were, Gary Coleman, Britney Spears Michael Musto compares the New York of his youth with of its special edge, if that’s the and were willing to Bette Davis much as the fear that “I like to think she’s kind of always looking down and the hustling, bustling city of today. BY TONY ADAMS price to pay for rights and suc- fight to prove their impersonator he’s not good enough. continually blessing me with her good graces and Randy Allen, cess, I can deal with it. worth. Stonewall her holy spirit. When I was a kid growing up in South actress Sylvia wasn’t just a bunch Carolina, she just seemed to have this fire. She was s gay nightlife in New York MM: The city started cracking Miles, and PL: What advice do you have of angry LGBT people outside of a Green- so expressive, and it was exactly what I needed. I was I City vanishing because of down on nightlife in the 1990s, British writer for the 20-year-old gay who obsessed then and I’m still obsessed today.” wich Village bar. It was a protest, a riot, the mainstreaming of gay cul- and community boards have Quentin Crisp; is considering a move to New and (below) with a rebellion. The origin of the whole gay The Church ture? We asked Michael Musto, developed tremendous power York City to find him or her- Brooke Shields pride movement is based in confronting “Things within the church—the choir, the colors, the the durable star of downtown to inhibit nightlife. The result self and their ideal tribe? the people who say that you’re not good energy, and the passion—I like to let that trickle into gay life in NYC for almost 40 is more bars and fewer dance MM: Don’t be a cookie cutter enough with proof that they’re wrong. my world. My songs have a lot of church undertone.” years, about the state of affairs clubs. While they’re fun, they gay! Create your own look. Be The rebellion didn’t get a lot of atten- in his hometown playground. can’t hold a candle to the magic aggressively you, and enjoy Wanda Jackson tion at first—it’s a lot easier to ignore of the past. In the 1970s, Studio every aspect of the city’s oppor- PL: You’ve been tracking New a force for change than it is to change “She’s got this wailing thing that she does—it's like 54 was the ultimate disco—a tunities. You will find a family any lyric that she sings, she’ll just scream it out. It’s York nightlife for decades. with it—but in one of the few newspaper dazzling place where all genders here—sometimes better than pure, unapologetic passion.” How does 2016 compare? articles about Stonewall, the New York and sexualities mixed under the one you left behind. Don’t MM: There are more gays than Daily News wrote, “The police are sure James Dean the great god glitterball. The just sign up with twinks, bears, ever in NYC, and there’s more of one thing: They haven’t heard the last 1980s were also a boom time for muscle queens, or any other “I've been obsessed with him forever. My stage name queer theater than ever. Only from the Girls of Christopher Street.” is actually an homage to him. He was so striking and mixed-crowd euphoria, with group. Be unique. the nightlife is hurting, mainly They sure haven’t. always seemed to have two sides—a rebel with a good artistically done large dance because no one goes out to PL: Looking ahead, what will That’s pride: the determination to never side or a good boy with a bad side. He’s just iconic.” clubs—Area and Palladium— get laid anymore. They do it happen to gay NYC? Will it stop fighting injustice anywhere as a threat Lana Del Ray via their phones, so the clubs vanish? If not, what do you to justice everywhere, even if just being “All of her music is so beautifully written and so well have lost their sexual urgency. think it will look like? yourself is part of the fight. They wanted us done. She’s basically created this whole world she's The result is a couple dozen to die, and we lived. They wanted us to be living in—almost like her own amazing universe.” MM: Vanish? With throngs small bars that are valuable for silent, and we spoke out. They wanted us to of gays everywhere in NYC, schmooze time and drag shows. be ashamed, and we were proud. Hope and dozens of bars, and tons Occasionally the patrons even “When I write or record, I just want to write the of gay culture? Chicken Little Andrew Keenan-Bolger plays John Tuck in the song from the heart and build around it. And the look away from their phones! much? You’ve got nothing to new Broadway play Tuck Everlasting. statements that I like to make celebrate every part of For information and tickets on Tuck Everlasting, yourself. The songs always start kind of somber, but PL: What about the clubs? worry about. We’re not going

go to TuckEverlastingMusical.com. they always have hope in the end.” NEIL KRUG NEIL KRUG LANA DEL RAY: LANA DEL RAY: ANGELO; CHURCH: KAVUNCHIK/ISTOCK; ANGELO; CHURCH: KAVUNCHIK/ISTOCK; JAMES: KOURY JAMES: KOURY FROM TOP: PARSON FROM TOP: PARSON MCGANN MCGANN CATHERINE CATHERINE How are they doing? anywhere.

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Which item is the lie, and which three facts are true? Read on to find out… # 1. True! “Despite what other TESTING people might call me, I just say I make rock and roll, because it’s the most all-encompassing term.”

# 2. Also True! Carlile lists performers like k.d. Lang, Freddie Mercury, Indigo Girls, Elton John, and Erasure among some of her biggest influences. “I think we’re all drawn subconsciously to those that have a similar strife or struggle. You TREATMENT can hear it in their voices. Everyone finds their spokespeople whether they know they’re doing it or not. It’s almost a primal instinct.”

#3. False! “The way my voice cracks there has never happened again,” Carlile laughs. “It was a complete accident. I've done similar things on other songs live, PREVENTION but I can’t replicate it. Every time I am about to sing that note, I get this little flush of anxiety right before it happens. But the truth is, the more fucked up it sounds, the better. I almost can’t fuck that note up because it was always meant to be fucked up.”

#4. True! “When I first fell in love with music, most of my influences were associated with philanthropy in one way or another. Elton John had his AIDS Founda- tion; Neil Young, his Bridge School. Three truths and a lie... Those things stood out about them almost as much as, if not more, than their music. So I always knew with Brandi Carlile I wanted to find a way to marry en years, 6 albums, and 10 EP’s into a career filled with critical those two things. A member of my management team helped us get accolades, how well do you know the Ravensdale, Washington Carlile's most T started, and now I would say it’s recent album, native? PrideLife caught up with uber-prolific performer on the eve of not even secondary to our music The Firewatcher's her summer long tour across the U.S. to find out. Can you spot the lie but just as important.” mixed in with these truths we uncovered during our talk? Daughter

1 She doesn’t believe 2 She believes most 3 That famous note 4 She started her in labels. Despite a gays and lesbians have near the end of her Looking Out Foun- recent Grammy nomination a sort of gay ear, and are breakaway hit “The Story” dation early in her career in the Americana category drawn to music from people was actually suggested by because most of her early and a slew of appearances at within the community. producer T Bone Burnett musical influences were also There is no cure, but when we add it all the Grand Ol’ Opry, she still and required more than a strongly associated with just calls herself a plain ol’ dozen takes before she got it various foundations or up, we can help stop the spread of HIV. rock n’ roller. just right. philanthropy. MCCLISTER MCCLISTER DAVID DAVID Find out more at HelpStopTheVirus.com

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1 Her love for drag started way before RuPaul and Drag Race: 4 “I’d just moved to New York City to go to The First Time college. It was in the summer of 1986 and Three fan favorites from past seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race I was seventeen. My mother told me that I open up about a few of their favorite firsts needed to start going out because that’s how Reasons we love... you met people back then—we didn’t have things like cellphones or Grindr or Adam- Michelle Visage 4Adam. The first club I went to was called The Underground and that’s where I met my Pop star. Reality show royalty. first gay family. We’re still in touch to this BFF to RuPaul. You know her. You love her. day. Once I got involved in the gay scene, I We do too! Here’s why. knew right away that the energy was home. That’s when it all started for me.” JIGGLY CALIENTE WILLAM BELLI CHAD MICHAELS First time in drag? When was the first When was the first time you saw someone time you saw someone 2 She’s a kick-ass performer— It was a dare. I saw a girl and the original Iggy Azalea: doing a Janet Jackson performing in drag? performing in drag? I was 21 and I saw my “When Madonna came around, my life song—and she sucked. I saw a gorgeous, bald- I was so upset. I was headed black man in all “Drag Mother To Be” changed. I knew then that I wanted to like, “I could beat that white lingerie walking Hunter impersonating sing and I wanted to be a pop star. I called bitch!” My friends dared through the Lincoln Annie Lennox. I was this producer (Robert Clivilles) who was me, so I went up. I was Tunnel on my 7th or instantly hooked on starting a girl group and said, “Do you guys literally wearing girls 8th birthday. I assume this new and exciting club clothes, and I had obsession! need a white girl?” They were like, “Um, we he was trying to get to my makeup done at the parade. It might’ve First song you have one.” I said “You don’t have me.” They MAC. It wasn’t drag. But been RuPaul come to performed in drag to? brought me in to sing and that’s how Seduc- it wasn’t bad. think of it. “Hanky Panky” by tion started. We actually made a really good First time meeting Ru? First time in drag Madonna. My friend album. And I’m grateful that I got to rap on It was when she walked yourself? made me the green and it. I grew up loving hip-hop music. I wanted through the doors on I went to school as Vicki white striped lingerie to be the white girl rapper. But the world the first episode of my Vale from Batman in set. I was feeling it. season, on camera. It wasn’t ready for me. [Laughs] first grade. It didn’t go First celebrity crush? was surreal. I’m like, so hot. Jack Tripper—John “Oh my God. I watch Ritter—from Three’s On Drag Race, she’s the toughest your movies. I saw you First celebrity crush? 3 Company. I just judge. And also the most helpful: on the VMAs. I love your I wanted Danny from remember he always “I don’t see what anybody gets out of music. Are you for real?” NKOTB to get me pregnant real bad. dressed to the right. being negative in this world. It’s too easy. When was the first time First job? I’m not there to tear contestants down. you felt successful? When was the first time Working at the Del Mar What I’m there to do is say, ‘You have much I don’t want this to you felt successful? Fair in San Diego at a sound douchey—but After my song “Chow more than what you’re giving me. Show Greek food vendor. I had when I walked the red Down” about Chick-fil-A me something you’ve never done before or a blast riding the Zipper carpet for the premiere came out, I started in the Fun Zone on my never thought you could do.’ ” of the show, I had that to get free shit when breaks. And smoking a “Oh my God, I made I would go to the little weed—it was, like, Her book, Diva Rules, is self-help the it” kind of feeling. Like, restaurant in Hollywood. 4 1986 so…” way self-help should be done: “This is huge. This is That was cool. once in a lifetime.” It First kiss? “People need to be heard and validated Willam is on tour was so overwhelming It was soft, wet, and and know that they matter. It’s comforting now. For dates, go to and cool and exciting— juicy. With a girl! willambelli.com for knowing that you’re not alone. That’s why I all at the same time.” wrote the book—to let people know that they dates. His first book, For more info on Chad’s For more on Jiggly, Suck Less: Where upcoming projects do have a voice. The message is: You don’t follow her social media There’s a Willam, plus upcoming tour have to settle for anything less that you want channels or go to There’s a Way, comes information, go to

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An exploration of the son’s publicist confirmed the Ultimately over-hyped artist’s life from his and over-promoted, actor’s HIV status, making him from hbo to Netflix to the early years in Brooklyn Jobriath is rejected for the first celebrity to publicly film festival circuit, the most to his involvement in being too feminine even acknowledge his HIV status. authentic LGBT voices and the burgeoning S&M as the world of glam What’s scene in the 1970s, this stories in film are often rock explodes around doc reveals the man Shortly after his initial the ones captured in docu- him, never quite letting behind the controversial announcement, Hudson’s friend mentary features, lovingly him grab his rightful images that drew so share of the spotlight. Joan Rivers—an early advocate produced by those looking to much ire—especially for AIDS awareness and sup- Up share an authentic voice and the period leading up > port—was very clear about what viewpoint with the world— to his unfortunate and You’re feeling the actor’s honesty could do for often on a shoestring budget. untimely death. nostalgic… public perceptions. “What Rock Here are 6 of our recent > Strike a Pose has done takes true courage,” favorites. Pick the one that You’re feeling The impact of Doc? Madonna’s infamous she said. “Rock’s admission is a best suits your mood. Or just fashionable... No matter your mood, we’ve got the perfect Blonde Ambition tour, horrendous way to bring AIDS dive in randomly and see Check It documentary for your next movie night. as documented in This remarkable story to the attention of the American where the stories take you. the 1991 film Truth or BY CHRISTOPHER ECKERDT follows four teenage gay public, but by doing so, Rock, in Dare, is still felt every and transgender gang his life, has helped millions.” time a major performer members struggling to takes the stage today. survive on the streets Twenty-five years after She wasn’t kidding. In reading of D.C. Known for their that iconic tour, we are press coverage of Hudson’s pub- mascara, stilettos, and reunited with 6 of the 7 lic battle with AIDS from the Louis Vuitton bags, they dancers we met back Hudson’s most are trading in the knives then to see where their fam ous film s time, one can see a remarkably and mace in hopes that careers have taken include the clear shift in public attitude. In fashion may be what them and how that brief, A Salute to a Legendary the ten short weeks between Pillo w Talk, changes their lives. immaculate time with Love Come Back, the announcement of his illness > the Queen of Pop still Leading Man and Send Me No and his death, private donations impacts nearly aspect of You’re feeling parental Flowers. their lives today. How screen legend Rock Hudson’s diagnosis and death to HIV/AIDS research topped Gayby Baby changed the public’s attitude on HIV and AIDS. more than $1.8 million—double An intimate portrait > the amount collected in the of four Australian You’re feeling nerdy… whole of 1984. And just two children whose parents Gaming in Color ccording to Randy Shilts, cessful career in film for nearly weeks after his death, the Sen- all happen to be gay, Until recently, the A author of And the Band 40 years, capped with a series of ate approved a $220 million bill the film chronicles the idea of fully realized Played On, a monumental 1987 romantic comedies co-starring doubling AIDS research spend- day-to-day challenges LGBT characters and of families you don’t history of the epidemic, AIDS had Doris Day, and ultimately end- ing in the country. themes in video games typically see in media— seemed like a pipe two phases in America—before ing with a stint on the massively smart, funny, sensitive dream. Gaming in Color Rock Hudson, and after. When popular TV soap Dynasty. It In one of his final public state- young people who are examines how much the actor died from complications was during this period, early in ments, Hudson was quoted as simply looking to love this has changed—and of the disease on October 2nd, 1985, that everything changed. saying, “I am not happy that I and support their LGBT how far Silicon Valley parents, even when the 1985, he literally put a face to the have AIDS, but if that is helping developers still have to rest of the world has go. Stepping inside the illness and changed perceptions Although he kept news of his others, I can at least know that turned against them. “gaymer” community, of HIV and AIDS worldwide. condition quiet, Hudson had my own misfortune has had > the film examines Hudson’s career was remark- been diagnosed with AIDS some positive worth.” its rampant cyber You’re feeling glam… able in many ways. Despite a year earlier. 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on the effectiveness of PrEP and there was no detection of 96% of people have the proper by the CDC predicted that drug resistance. This slow- precursors to create these 185,000 new infections could release drug has been shown to antibodies. Now, the challenge be prevented by 2020 through be effective in rodents for up to is to get the right cells to bind to expanded PrEP use (along with 180 days, with the potential to the right HIV protein so it can continued HIV testing and work as a single, annual dose. neutralize the virus. Scientists HOWHOW treatment). Increasing PrEP Another study showcased from the study plan on start- access to at-risk groups like gay at CROI found that when 286 ing a human clinical trial next men and African-Americans, HIV-positive people used an year to find out whether the could keep another 17,000 injectable combo of cabotegra- vaccine can successfully coax people free of infection in the vir and rilpivirine once every the immune system to pro- future, the experts say, stat- 4 weeks or every 8 weeks for duce broad antibodies quickly ing that, “Expanding PrEP maintenance, at least 94% had a enough to attack HIV before it coverage alone could reduce very low amount of HIV in their begins to mutate. TOTO new infections by nearly 20%, system—less than 50 copies per preventing more than 48,000 milliliter at week 32. Over 90% new HIV infections.” were satisfied with the treat- GENE EDITING ment, compared to 70% in the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing is oral control group, indicating a an ancient defense mechanism LONG-ACTING ART positive sign for adherence. used by about 40% of bacteria Antiretrovirals (ART) have to fight viruses, and scientists SAVESAVE come a long way since the debut have recently figured out how to of the side effects-filled AZT in BROADLY NEUTRALIZING fine-tune the technique for our 1987 and the often-confusing ANTIBODIES own use. This new (to humans) and hard-to-tolerate HAART While an HIV vaccine remains technique allows scientists to combos of the ’90s. Some of the the holy grail of truly defeating edit genomes with high preci- single-tablet combinations are the virus, new approaches to sion, efficiency, and flexibility. now simpler to take and easier treatment gained credible trac- It has already been used to on the body, leading to better target or silence genes in a large AA tion in 2015. One of the reasons adherence, less drug resistance, HIV is so wily and hard to clear range of organisms like plants, and lower viral counts all from our bodies is its ability to zebrafish, fruit flies, mice, mon- around. The newest break- rapidly mutate, confounding keys, and even human embryos. through in ART is the advent our immune system and, as a The latest application of of long-lasting antiretroviral result, thwarting traditional CRISPR was used by Temple CourageCourage Required. Required. drugs that allow you to main- vaccines. University researchers to edit tain a lower viral load by taking However, studies show that HIV-1 DNA out of the genome LIFELIFE meds orally every few weeks or about 20% of those who are of human immune cells pulled ApproximatelyApproximately one one in in four four people people living living with with HIV HIV infection infection in in the the US US are are women. women. by injecting ART every one or infected with HIV naturally from HIV-positive people. two months. produce antibodies, or proteins The cells were then cultured MostMost new new HIV HIV infections infections in in women women are are from from heterosexual heterosexual contact contact (84%). (84%).

The annual Conference on that remove foreign invaders, and reintroduced to the virus. AnAn estimated estimated 88% 88% of of women women with with HIV HIV are are diagnosed, diagnosed, but but only only 32% 32% are are virally virally suppressed suppressed Retroviruses and Opportunis- that can destroy many different Scientists found that the new, tic Infections (CROI) in Boston types of the virus. An advanced edited cells prevented HIV this year presented a few inter- new technique is now being replication and reinfection, and SinceSince 1993, 1993, Iris Iris House House has has been been one one of of the the nation’s nation’s leading leading organizations organizations esting studies on long-acting developed that creates a vaccine functioned normally. ART. One small study found able to prompt the body to make This breakthrough could helpinghelping women women and and families families living living with with HIV. HIV. that taking a single 10mg oral these broadly neutralizing lead to an eventual cure for

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Leandro Mena, Donna Futterman, Jeffrey Crowley Ian Bradley-Perrin M.D., M.P.H. M.D. Program director of historiographical HIV Director of the Center Professor of clinical the National HIV/AIDS researcher, Ph.D. for HIV/AIDS Research, pediatrics, Albert Initiative, O’Neill student in socio-medical Education & Policy at Einstein College of Institute for National sciences at the Center the Myrlie Evers-Williams Medicine, and director and Global Health Law for Science & Society, Institute for Elimination of the Adolescent AIDS at Georgetown University Columbia University of Health Disparities Program, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, NY

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THE DRIVEN PEDIATRICIAN Donna Futterman

Donna Futterman has It’s still so sad.” been on the forefront This lifelong HIV/AIDS warrior WE’RE of many important causes thinks, however, that the new throughout her life—she energy surrounding PrEP is came out when she was a DOING making it easier to reach the teenager in the ’60s, then, next generation and truly when she went to Barnard resonate with them: “I can IT College in the ’70s, became feel the end of new infections Testing for an activist fighting against the in sight—if we do this right,” HIV Vietnam War and for women’s she says. “I truly believe we rights and civil rights. In 1981 could see the end of new she entered medical school cases in my working life.” and began a career helping Futterman has also been the young people of New York sharing her HIV expertise THE CLINICAL EDUCATOR City survive the HIV epidemic. by helping at-risk youth #DOINGIT #DOINGIT The early years were tough: in the hard-hit townships Leandro Mena “In the beginning we had no of Cape Town, South #DoingIt treatments and little hope,” Africa, since 2001. She is > Interning at the heralded by none other than says Futterman, “So we had currently chairing the board AAA DoingIt Palm Card_6X4_010716.indd 1 1/11/16 10:55 AM

notorious Cook County the CDC as a way to prevent to put a lot of energy into of an organization called GETGET TESTED TESTED Hospital in Chicago was what HIV transmission through sex providing support and helping mothers2mothers ( started Leandro Mena on by up to 90%—is a relatively each youth mobilize their own ), which hires HIV-positive : his journey to become an new strategy that is not support.” Today, even though women to serve as mentor HIV specialist. “During my seen by many as a morally treatments are easier to mothers to help eliminate second month as an intern I acceptable approach to HIV adhere to and more effective, mother-to-child transmission it has lessened the urgency YOUR #DOINGIT CHECKLIST was assigned to the Infectious prevention,” Mena says. of HIV. “With funding and a of prevention, she says. “The Disease team, and that’s In spite of the ideological lot of work, we helped make a same youth—black, Latino, where I was first exposed to roadblocks, Mena perseveres, huge impact,” she says. “We and gay, transgender men patients with AIDS,” he says. educating and informing are now expanding to life- and women—continue to be CDC recommends that everyone get tested for HIV at least once After his residency was over, those around him in hopes cycle issues and prevention, Get tested for HIV. to find a testing facility near you, learn facts disproportionately impacted. Mena ended up in another that before long we will be just like in the U.S.” as part of routine cdc.gov/DoingIthealth care and that people with certain risk factors get tested notoriously challenging able to provide appropriate more often. Visit place—the Deep South. sexual health education about HIV, and how HIV is affecting our communities. Instead of having to deal with to our youth. “I hope that Promote HIV testing by sharing the facts and the the urban mean streets, he we can build a health care Encourage others to get tested. had to navigate the ignorant system that has learned to be importance of knowing your status on social media. Remember to tag your posts mean streaks of conservative responsive to the needs of the . with #DoingIt Southerners: “One cannot population regardless of their to download free materials and underestimate how difficult sexual orientation and gender Visit cdc.gov/DoingIt is to work in the South in a identity,” he says. Join the #DoingIt movement. health-care area that requires Scaling up strategies such resources to share within your network and your community. acknowledgement that as HIV screening for all, human beings have sex— immediate linkage to care for Testing is Fast, Free and Confidential cdc.gov/DoingIt often for pleasure.” those HIV-infected, and rollout Join Our Mailing List “The South is still a place of PrEP are all possible in the AAA DoingIt Palm Card_6X4_010716.indd 2 1/11/16 10:55 AM where pre-marital sexual acts South given the will: “The are associated with shame opportunity to change the To donate or learn more, visit NBJC.org and follow us on social media: and HIV is the supposed course of the HIV epidemic natural punishment to deviant in our region and address behavior. Pre-exposure the many HIV disparities that facebook.com/NationalBlackJusticeCoalition prophylaxis, or PrEP— plague us is within our reach.” twitter.com/NBJContheMove 40 PRIDELIFE.COM | 2016

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Your numbers are ok on HIV meds. But do THE ACADEMIC ACTIVIST Ian Bradley-Perrin SIDE EFFECTS

Unearthing the historiography of HIV/AIDS, weapons capable of or the history of the history SOMETIMES defeating HIV can be difficult. of HIV/AIDS. I’m trying Most look to easy-to-find, to answer questions like: but extremely potent points How are the stories being GET IN of attack—brightly lit labs, constructed? Who are the halls of government, healing characters being used to tell medical centers, or forgotten the history? What are the street corners. But Ian political consequences of THE WAY Bradley-Perrin decided to different ways of telling the explore some seldom-used story of HIV/AIDS?” of taking your meds tactics to help define and His second project takes every day? Let your defeat the HIV epidemic: “I a more micro look at the use oral history and personal epidemic and is focusing healthcare team know. THE POLISHED POLICYMAKER narrative, as well as media on the ways we talk about analysis and policy analysis, pharmaceuticals and drug Start the conversation by Jeffrey Crowley to reconstruct the past and research along with access its consequences.” Simply and distribution, and the completing the checklist below. put, the way we think and Policy is not something community to identify a small cultural ramifications of talk and write about HIV is many people get number of strategic action preventative medicine. B:11.25” central to understanding and B:11.25” T:10.5” T:10.5” S:10” excited about. Jeffery steps to focus on.” That Both of these projects S:10” conquering the disease. Crowley, however, was deep work was able to develop aim to confront stigma in Bradley-Perrin, is a Ph.D. in to figuring out how to a common road map and a complicated way. “We Check all that apply to you: use government policy to guide the country in the right student in socio-medical need to think about how help people when he was a direction at the right moment sciences at Columbia fear and stigma get used student in high school. He when scientific advances University who has been in marketing,” he says. When taking your HIV meds, living with HIV for the last wasn’t taking classes though, started reinforcing the next “We need to think about have you noticed that you: he was off on his own doing steps to eliminating HIV/AIDS five years. He is working how structural stigma independent study projects in the U.S. on two interrelated projects is enacted through HIV that will confront the hidden, while leaving Civics 101 for And now with his new role criminalization and unequal Feel tired a lot and potentially helpful, the rest of us to slog through. as program director at the access to healthcare.” This story of HIV: “The first is a Thankfully, Crowley National HIV/AIDS Initiative, marginalizing of people Have trouble sleeping nurtured his wonkish-ness Crowley is focusing on one of living with HIV reinforces and grew up to become a his greatest undertakings, the interpersonal stigma that bona-fide policy nerd, even Ryan White Policy Project. “It keeps HIV-positive people in Have frequent diarrhea serving under President provides services to people a viral underclass. Obama as the director of with HIV without insurance, We also need to start Have frequent headaches the White House Office of and fills in the gaps in relying on ourselves and Guy, diagnosed National AIDS Policy. In coverage for those who don’t stop thinking that anyone with HIV in 2007 that prestigious position have it.” If we can strategically will resolve this for us, Often feel dizzy or he was tasked with focus on spreading information Bradley-Perrin says. “It takes have an upset stomach developing our country’s and promoting access to aggressive community action, first comprehensive National healthcare, he says, we can direct action, and people who WHAT’S NEXT? are demanding change to Skipped taking medicine HIV/AIDS Strategy: “I was prevent a lot of new HIV If you checked anything or have any other side effect, talk to incredibly privileged to lead infections. “And, perhaps more reset the agenda—we have to avoid having to deal your healthcare team. There may be something they can do. that effort, which involved importantly, if we can ensure examples of this working in To determine the best treatment option for you, the people not only from across all people with HIV learn their the past—and we must once with a side effect the White House,” Crowley status, get into care, and get again build a broad-based advice of your healthcare team is always best. says, “but from across the on ART, and we support them movement if we want to see Learn more at treatmentcheckin.com federal government coming staying in care, then we can change on that level.” together and working with the end the HIV epidemic.”

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people to complete, some them—also play a big role in fun, some tedious, and some shaping our skills, Rahman so complex they’re barely explained. “It’s much more understandable. He studies than just your genes per se.” the results doggedly and But before I could even each influences his work. begin spouting off about Meeting with him in person stereotypes, he interrupted, one afternoon, he attempted explaining that after years to explain it all to me. of research, he now believes “One of the most common it’s not just a simple case scientific theories about of female-like or male-like sexual orientation is that brains: It’s more a mosaic of gay men should have mental gendered traits—a “gender traits—cognitive abilities, bending brain,” if you will. personalities, aptitudes, In fact, when it comes gender expressions, and to straight and gay brains, so on—that are similar, on it’s actually heterosexual does seem that the science on average, to heterosexual women who Rahman finds the innate biological origin women,” he said. “Scientists the most capable of change, of sexuality has helped many believe this is because they or plasticity, as he calls it. people abandon anti-gay share the same direction of “Most lesbian women are beliefs that were based on sexual preference. Like- pretty rigid in their sexual religious teachings or the wise, lesbians should have a orientation, as are gay men idea of a ‘chosen’ lifestyle.” psychology that is similar to and heterosexual men. I Returning home from our heterosexual men.” think it’s the heterosexual meeting, and thinking about I was dubious. Was my women who are showing the tests I’d taken for Rah- body really that similar to most of the reported sexual man—the way I read maps, a straight man’s? So, we set plasticity. It’s a rather inter- the way words meant certain off to find out. That meant esting twist of fate if it turns things to me and different Inside My Gay Brain completing a long series of out that it is heterosexuals things to others, the way I tests with the good doctor. who can ‘change’ the most.” operated in the space around Qazi Rahman, Ph.D., (above) is a English stand up comedian Rosie Wilby identifies as a lesbian. But would an analysis Hours later, drained and “Looking at the bigger me, the things that made me professor at the Institute of Psychiatry of her brain give her away as one? We tagged along on her journey to find out. curious as to my results, we picture, the question we me—I couldn’t stop thinking at King's College London and the co-author of one of the definitive sat down again to see what he now need to ask is, What’s about Rahman’s work, and books on the relationship between had found out. wrong with male femininity the way his final words had biology and sexuality Born Gay: The The results were mixed. and female masculinity? I struck me. Psychobiology of Sex Orientation. Ever since I once question. With the help of “WHAT’S WRONG WITH MALE skills such as map reading, I was poor at the mental hate that we live in a culture “We need to accept that videotaped, a number of scientists, he FEMININITY AND FEMALE memory, word fluency, and rotation that straight men which seeks to minimize being gay is not just about rewound, and whizzed through all kinds MASCULINITY? I HATE THAT 3D-shape rotation. I was are typically good at but these differences. I think we mere sexual attraction,” he swooned slightly at a tennis of theories about finger WE LIVE IN A CULTURE WHICH fascinated and immediately somewhere in between should celebrate them.” said. “Instead, people need to montage depicting Martina length ratios, hair patterns, SEEKS TO MINIMIZE THESE looked him up. I’ve been in straight men and straight Says Rahman: “My view remember that these identi- Navratilova and Chris Evert and the presence or absence DIFFERENCES. I THINK WE touch with him ever since for women for many other tasks. is that the biology of sexual ties spring from our biology hugging at the net after their of older brothers. Nothing SHOULD CELEBRATE THEM.” ad hoc scientific input for my A lot of these differences in orientation tells the hetero- and manifest themselves in normative world, ‘Deal with match, I’ve wondered, “What particularly caught my eye, — QAZI RAHMAN, PH.D. comedy shows. problem-solving abilities, a unique gay culture. And made me gay?” though, until he underwent Rahman is a Ph.D. and he said, point to variances in it! Our sexualities are part ultimately, they make us who A few years back, and some tests analyzing brain professor of psychiatry, underlying brain structure of human nature.’ While it we are.” many years after my first patterns. An academic by gender and sexuality at between men and women would be good for people to And that—test or no test, tennis crush, the BBC aired the name of Qazi Rahman, King’s College in London. and straights and gays. Sex accept homosexuality on the straight or gay or somewhere a documentary following who has been working in the His work is based around hormones in the womb as basis of fundamental human in between—is something actor John Barrowman on field of sexual orientation for numerous psychological and our bodies are developing— rights regardless of what anybody with a brain should a quest to answer this very more than 20 years looked at mental acuity tests he asks and the way we respond to caused someone to be gay, it happily agree with. JAYNE WEXLER ---- THIS CREDIT IS NOT CONFIRMED WEXLER ---- THIS CREDIT IS NOT CONFIRMED JAYNE JAYNE

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we’d be expecting our little one in no time, and that is what we kept in mind as we jabbed needles into my belly at precisely 9 p.m. every night, followed by mouthful after mouthful of pills (what they all did, we were never really sure).

We knew we were pregnant almost straight away, and three weeks later a line appeared on our fourth test stick, confirming the answer we’d waited so long for. The following day we did another, about schools. Parenthood just to be sure. It was true! is a full-time job, but it’s We were pregnant. hugely gratifying. The joy By some miracle we were we get from spending time able to wait to get beyond the with Leonor is difficult to 12-week mark before telling quantify and overwhelming people, including my mother at times. “Mama” is no longer and a handful of friends. As a random sound, but a word my belly grew, we told my charged with meaning, a father-in-law, coworkers, word that gets the attention and then the world at large. only twice in the last year, of both her mothers, each of We finally made it official and that seems like a lot, whom is still excited to hear with a shotgun wedding to given how tired we both are. it. Her tastes are develop- Parenting Pays Off avoid the lunacy of my wife Because life goes on, you go ing and it’s funny to see how having to adopt her own back to work, you try to get many of her favorite things D. Rodriguez-Garay and her wife Carlota recently became the parents of a lovely child should we remain everything done—and often are things we love too. baby girl. D. tells PrideLife about the joys of starting a family. unmarried. Life carried on fail miserably—and there’s Every now and again I and then boom! Our daughter a little person who’s 100% wonder how we’re doing at suddenly arrived, healthy dependent on you for every- this “gay parenting” thing. and hungry, one lunchtime thing, which takes up a good Are we doing it right? The Opposite page: D. and Carlota Long before we when the time came, we’d go PARENTHOOD IS A FULL- nascent family, and were late in February. Welcome to chunk of your waking life. truth is, I have no clue how it with Leonor. This page: were all grown up the insemination route. TIME JOB, BUT IT’S HUGELY ready to get the baby-making the world, Leonor! That said, in many other differs from “straight parent- D. with Leonor at birth; the and respectable, When the day finally GRATIFYING. THE JOY WE show on the road! Our lives will never been ways, Leo has slotted into ing.” We do the best we can entire family several months later; and bottom: Leonor with my wife and I always knew came for our appointment GET FROM SPENDING TIME the same, of course. But we our lives seamlessly. She’s to keep our child happy and her best friend Six. we wanted children. I had at the fertility clinic, we WITH LEONOR IS DIFFICULT Carlota and I had agreed knew this going in, and we been accompanying us to healthy. We’ll do our best always thought adoption were excited, and we also TO QUANTIFY AND QUITE some time earlier that I’d like to think we’ve adapted restaurants since she was to give her the very best of would be the surest route, felt prepared, thanks to our OVERWHELMING AT TIMES. carry the baby. I’m a couple well to the change. The first a couple of weeks old and us that we can for as long but having fallen in love meticulously-tracked cycle of years younger and, being few months were a non-stop enjoys sitting with us at the as we’re on this earth. That with a Spaniard and moved notes, donor printouts, blood a freelancer, my job was blur of breasts, diapers, table, charming the wait we get to enjoy life with this to Madrid, I discovered tests, X-rays, and numerous more flexible. We decided to and sleeplessness, but our staff with her gappy-toothed incredible little person and that adoption was not only other scans. Carlota and I start treatment just as soon daughter is an “easy” child, grin now that she eats watch her grow into who- incredibly difficult, but also had been together for almost as we had a break in our laid-back and happy. “proper” food. ever she’s going to be is just prohibitively expensive. So a decade, had built our lives work schedules. Everything The main changes to our The trials of making her wonderful. when we started discussing together, were thinking being as it should be, our lives have been logistical. are long in the past, and Honestly, I can’t think of parenthood, we decided that of adding a puppy to our medical team suggested We’ve been to the cinema we’re starting to think anything more rewarding.

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Carson Kressley and the indelible Cyndi Lauper in a one-on-one conversation about music, touring, advocacy, and all things LGBT.

With her new country album, Detour, in stores now and a headlining tour running through the summer, Cyndi Lauper is about to be very busy. Combine that with motherhood, nonstop advocacy work, a successful Broadway career, and a bustling Pride season, and we thought it was the perfect time to check in with the iconic performer to get a glimpse of the calm before her upcoming storm of new projects. And who better to do the talking for us than original Queer Eye alum Carson Kressley, a long time friend of Cyndi’s, board member for her True Colors Fund, and frequent host of her True Colors holiday benefits. Here’s our fly-on-the-wall recap of their conversation.

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Cyndi? staying in with my husband, David, kinda looked like Susan Hayward Hello, Carson? It’s Cyndi! Darling, ordering in, and watching old mov- and she dressed like her too. My aunt how are you? ies. No one makes me laugh harder kinda looked a little like Polly Bergen than him and no one knows me bet- and dressed like her. Everybody had Hi, I’m good. ter. I’m a very lucky woman. I’m also their own movie star look. Where are you? really a homebody—kind of always Right, and that was in Queens? I’m sitting by a pool at a Hampton have been. I work so much, home is Oh yeah, Ozone Park. Listen peo- Inn in Perry, Georgia. I’m at a where I want to be when I’m off. ple gotta dress up no matter where horse show. YOU WANT Nobody has better style or has you live. Come on. Wow. gone through more looks than TO WIN I agree, I agree. I know. Very glamorous. you—what inspires your fashion IN The beauty parlor was always hop- A horse show? Oh my gosh. Do you choices? THIS ping, alright. The beauty parlor was watch the horses at those shows? Everything in life inspires me. hopping. FREAKING WORLD? I love to paint—that’s why I love Of course I do. I live for that. Yes— YOU colors so much. I love a rich and col- So, another detour here... you have to come. I know you’ve GOTTA orful palette. As you can tell from [Laughs] only seen them when they were in my clothes. My hair. My shoes—you the stables. You have to see them STEP UP You’ve been a tireless supporter of know, the shoes alone.... when they’re all dolled up—when AND LGBT rights and causes for years. they have their hair and makeup EMBRACE THE KIDS The sex is in the heel! You love What keeps you going? done and they’re ready to roll. AND shoes—right? Who’s your It’s simple. I am friend and family The horses wear hair and makeup? HELP absolute favorite shoe designer? of the LGBT community, and where Wow, okay. THE KIDS. Christian Louboutin? I come from you stand up for the Well, Christian Louboutin makes people you care about. When civil Everything, yes. I’ll show you pic- some pretty painful shoes. rights are being trampled on, I have tures when I see you next. months was listening to literally a no option but to speak up and take Great. [Laughs] What? thousand great country classics to take for granted that everybody’s action in whatever way I can. I will He should wear them himself for So, are you ready for this? Let’s find the songs that I thought I could gonna love everything I do. But always have their back, just as they eight hours. [Laughs] He’d fix them. talk about your new country relate to. I also wanted all the songs people want to be entertained—so I have always had mine. Make them wider—a little bit wider, album, Detour, which is out now. to tell a story. It was great fun. gotta entertain them. Cyndi little wider, little wider! For somebody who wants to make I’ve been satisfying my country released her I bet! Speaking of entertaining, you’ve a change in their community, how fancy by listening to your cover first album Manolo? I arranged it all live in the studio got an Emmy, a Grammy, and a in 1980 as would you suggest getting started? of “Heartaches by the Number.” I actually like Manolo but with an amazing band—the best of Tony. You’re one O away from the part of the Find an issue that matters to you Where did the idea for the album they kinda hurt. And Alexander the Nashville session guys. We’d get EGOT. Did you plan for that? band Blue and do just one thing to move that come from? Angel. McQueen—but I haven’t found one there in the morning and I’d work on Yeah, I gotta get that O. But no, issue forward. For example, if you Well, it was a bucket list thing, you of his shoes that don’t hurt either, the arrangement with them, then I never set out to “diversify.” I do care about youth homelessness, know? I’ve always wanted to make a you know? [Laughs] we’d rehearse it for a while until always set out to test my boundaries volunteer at your local youth shel- record with the legendary Seymour I found the spirit of the song. We and go after things I’m really pas- Sometimes beauty is pain. ter. Doing just one thing can make a Stein and now I have! He’s such a played it all live and we just picked sionate about doing, though. After a while, I don’t believe it. huge difference. I can tell you from great song guy, so knowledgeable; it’s the best take to put on the CD. [Laughs] personal experience, you’ll end up like sitting with a breathing music I know how scrappy you are and wanting to do even more. library. He suggested it, and the time What else is on that bucket list? what a hard worker you are! I was One of the things I love about period that he suggested—late ’40s, I’d like to do more musical the- thinking you must already have a you—your career, your look, It’s a big election year—what ’50s, ’60s—was the right time period, ater—I’m working on a new show plan for that Oscar nomination. everything—is that you’re always changes would you most like to see you know? It worked. So I thought, and actually just wrote a song for I gotta get an O. I don’t have a plan evolving. You’re edgy, but you also in the country next? let’s do it The SpongeBob Musical. And I’d love but I gotta get on it. have class, you know. A classic If we want to have an inclusive to write a song with Dolly Parton. My heart and soul. Is that accurate? society, each person has to include The sound of the album is so true to I’m sure you’ve been asked this, but other dream would be to write with Well you know I grew up with themselves. And, one of the most classic, old-school country. Was it if girls just want to have fun—how Joni Mitchell. all these Italian movie stars in my important ways that can happen is tough to record? does Cyndi Lauper have fun? neighborhood. Everybody on the by voting. So, please make sure you Believe it or not, there was not a You like to work, don’t you? I like going out to eat and seeing block had their own actress that they are registered and vote! For me, ton of preparation. What took many Well, I have to pay the bills, you live music, but my perfect night is emulated and looked like. My mother youth homelessness continues to know what I mean? [Laughs] I never

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PL16_Feat_Cyndi_BG_CPWM.indd 50 5/8/16 9:16 PM PL16_Feat_Cyndi_BG_CPWM.indd 51 5/8/16 9:16 PM • Cover Story I AM be what I and the True Colors Fund FRIEND are focused on. We have 1.6 million AND youth who are homeless each year FAMILY in America and up to 40% of them identify as LGBT, while only 7% OF THE of the general youth population is LGBT LGBT. That is simply unacceptable. COMMUNITY, We can end youth homelessness in AND America, we just need to make sure WHERE I we put the best solutions in place COME FROM and get the government, private, and public funding to make that possible. YOU STAND UP Right. FOR It’s important to understand that you can’t make kids into what you THE PEOPLE want ’em to be. Trust me. I’ve got YOU an eighteen year old. They are who CARE ABOUT. they are and we can fight ’em tooth and nail but they’re gonna be who and a hero of mine. We’ve done quite Karma, Karma,” like an idiot. they’re gonna be. Nobody asks to a few tours together and it’s always be gay. Nobody asks to be trans and It’s irresistible that song. fun. She is a very generous and kind in the wrong body. And we need all And who knew he was really say- person. When you are on the road the kids. We don’t know who they’re ing, “Loving would be easy if your with her, it feels like you’re joining Detour is gonna be. We don’t know who’s colors were like my dreams. Red gold her team on family holiday. We went Lauper's gonna fix the Earth or who’s gonna and green.” Who knew he was saying bowling and Cher closed this movie eleventh find a cure for cancer or... studio that? I don’t know what I was saying theater so we all went to see movies. album and when I used to sing along with him Mmhmm, mmhmm. There were just a lot of good times, first ever on the radio. When you’re that young, and you having fun and just trying to make foray into feel like nobody cares, you can get sure the audience has a blast, too country I didn’t know either until I saw the into a lot of trouble. You want to win music. video—and then I was like, “Wait What should fans expect from this in this freaking world? You gotta step a minute, this is like some kinda tour—are you switching things up up and embrace the kids and help the Jamaican thing. Red, gold, and or trying new things on the road? kids. An inclusive society is a strong green. Now I’m getting it.” Of course I’ll do all my hits and fan society. You want to win, you gotta [Laughs] faves and some songs from the new stick together. That’s what’s gonna CD, and I have a few surprises too! I wasn’t kidding—when the tour is make the country better. Boy George is also going to do some over, you’re gonna have to come to I know it’s working. I’ve seen it. It’s of the shows. It’s going to be a riot. my farm in Bethlehem, Pennsylva- a great message to put out there. nia. Hang out by my pool and ride I just finished working with him on I love banging people over the horses all day. I’m just saying. The Apprentice. He’s great. head with this stuff. You get ’em in You know, Carson. I never really I’m very excited. I love “Karma and once the doors are shut, “You’re rode a horse. I only walked ’em. Chameleon.” I’ll be standing on mine.” the side of the stage singing along, You’ll be fine. Right. Well, if you’re [Laughs] I have to ask you about “Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma, gonna be a country singer, you touring. You’ve gone on the road gotta learn how to ride, honey. with Cher and Tina Turner—any [Laughs] OK, get your ponies did. KEEP UP WITH CYNDI favorite memories? For more on Cyndi’s new album and a I’m gonna get their hair did and I was pregnant with my son when list of upcoming tour dates, check out their nails done and then you’re I was out with Tina, so I would do the cyndilauper.com. To help with Cyndi’s fight coming over. show and go right back to my hotel or against LGBT youth homelessness, log on All right, hon’! It’s a deal! Bye! onto the bus and rest. Cher is a friend to truecolorsfund.org.

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The legalizing of same-sex marriage last year opened up a chasm of right-wing anti-LGBT bills that are now tunneling through states’ legislatures. Here is a news feed of the latest discriminatory bills and laws across the country and your action plan for fighting back.

By In June 2015 the battle in state after state earlier in 2016, CAT PERRY for marriage equality attitudes toward LGBT people feel changed forever when more unsettled than ever. the Supreme Court Despite 55% of Americans favor- of the United States (SCOTUS), in ing allowing same-sex marriage, a Obergefell v. Hodges, decided to legal- February 2016 AP-Gfk poll found ize same-sex marriage nationwide. that 57% believe wedding-related Yet the fight really didn’t end there. business should be permitted to With the historic decision, LGBT refuse service to same-sex couples, people’s lifelong fights shifted, fam- and a quarter of those favoring ilies were suddenly strengthened, marriage equality believe officials and the country’s will to progress and judges with religious objec- seemed unstoppable. But looking at tions shouldn’t be required to

BOTTOM: PHOTO BY TY WRIGHT/GETTY IMAGES all of the controversial bills proposed issue marriage licenses. In that

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PL16_Feat_News1_CP.indd 54 5/8/16 9:20 PM PL16_Feat_News1_CP.indd 55 5/8/16 9:20 PM Indiana Massachusets UNITED STATES OF FREEDOM Allows public and Requires people to use • News Though not an exhaustive list, here is a snapshot of the private institutions restrooms, locker rooms, anti-marriage-equality and anti-trans bills that have and invidiuals to refuse according to sex either passed or in active legislation as you read this. LBGT people services. on birth certificates. Passed 2015. Still in legislature. vein, a disturbing Human Right ing queer people away. needing governor approval, to ask targeting transgender Americans.” Campaign (HRC) report out in Indiana was the first to roll back citizens in a ballot measure if reli- More than 44 bills are specifically February sounded the alarm that marriage equality protections. Last gious organizations, individuals, and anti-transgender, with 23 that tar- a record-breaking 175 anti-LGBT year the Religious Free Restoration businesses—including child place- get children in schools, attempting bills were proposed in just the first Act was signed into law allowing ment agencies—should be allowed to make it illegal for them to access two months of this year. This back- “public businesses from pharmacists to refuse services to LGBT people bathrooms and locker rooms consis- lash has elbowed past the record to funeral homes to clothing stores, Fight the without legal consequence. tent with their gender identity. 125 anti-LGBT bills debated for all to refuse service based on their reli- Flowers! Missouri Democrats performed a Hayley Gorenberg, Deputy Legal Tap these of 2015. Many of these new bills are gious beliefs,” HRC reported. record-setting 37-hour filibuster in Director of Lambda Legal, explains, Missouri execellent Anti-trans aimed at undermining the SCOTUS Mississippi has passed a law resources an attempt to stop a religious free- the “health consequences of [the bathroom bill marriage-equality decision, and allowing “individuals, religious to find dom bill that would have amended threats] transgender people face, like requires students gay-friendly to use facilities still others are far broader: denying organizations, and private associa- wedding the state Constitution to further being harassed” and denied access, based on sex employment to anyone who doesn’t tions to use religion to discriminate vendors in protect people who didn’t want to “causes people to dehydrate them- assigned at birth. In legislation. align with their religious beliefs, against LGBT people in at work, every state provide services related to same-sex selves, holding it for too long, which for floral prohibiting transgender people from at school, and more,” according to arrange- marriage, from clerks and clergy to can lead to urologic and kidney prob- North using the restroom consistent with HRC. It also allows foster families to ments, businesses. The bill was tabled just lems.” Conservatives fighting for Carolina their gender identity, and refusing subject LGBTQ children to “conver- music, food, before press time. these “bathroom bills” argue that Anti-trans and clergy gays and lesbians the right to adopt. sion therapy.” In Kentucky, the home of anti-gay allowing trans people to use the rest- bathroom bill and you can feel restricts cities' Advocacy group Freedom Okla- good about: county clerk Kim Davis, a similar room consistent with their gender non-discrimination States’ Rights Gone Wrong homa, was tracking 26 anti-gay gaywed- bill expanding legal protections to identity puts women and children in bills. Passed.

bills in the new year as of March. dings.com business owners who deny services danger. To that, Gorenberg asserts, for Marriage Equality ;pridezillas Washington Oklahoma Kansas While SCOTUS took one leap for- House Joint Resolution 1059 is a .com; and to LGBT people was narrowly killed. “Cis-gender women are being used Anti-trans bathroom bill Anti-trans bathroom bill See a trans student in the ward, conservative legislators are Sooner State ballot initiative that engayged The state has a long history of passing as an excuse to justify this discrimi- requires students to use and a sex-reassignment "wrong" bathroom? Sue for weddings facilities based on sex surgery note on marriage $2,500. In legislation. taking 10 steps back. Indiana, Okla- scuttles past the legislature, and religious freedom bills, overriding a nation, and we can’t stand for that.” assigned at birth. license. In legislation. .com. homa, Missouri, Georgia, North governor veto in 2013 to pass one, so North Carolina, and thus the Carolina, Mississippi, and Kentucky this type of legislation isn’t new. country just lost a serious fight have seen dozens of anti-LGBT bills In March, Georgia Governor on this front. Though in March proposed and some passed since Nathan Deal was staring down the 2015 North Carolina Governor Pat the SCOTUS decision. Each state Mike Huckabee barrel of a Hollywood threat until he McCrory vetoed a “religious free- voted on March 22 to kill it for the lence of all types is crucial, plus the has different specifics, but there and Kim Davis vetoed a bill that would’ve broadened dom bill” protecting officials from year, but not forever. passing of a national Equality Act is in Kentucky is a common thread as it relates religious protections to individuals, performing same-sex ceremonies, Kansas also has trans citizens in the best way forward from this mess. to same-sex marriage: Under the foster care agencies, and shelters. he failed when he passed anti-trans its crosshairs. In late March, bills States Introduced by Senators Tammy with active auspices of “religious freedom” Walt Disney Co., Marvel Studios, H.B. 2. The ACLU describes it as the were proposed that would not only anti-trans Baldwin, Jeff Merkley, and Cory (the new code words for anti-LGBT AMC’s mega-hit The Walking “most extreme anti-LGBT bill in ban trans students in public schools bills being Booker and Representatives David proposals), anti-equality advocates Dead, and the NFL Super Bowl LIV the country.” H.B. 2 was hurriedly and colleges from using facilities debated: Cicilline and John Lewis in 2015, Kansas, seek to allow religious institutions, threatened to “take their business passed in response to a Charlotte, consistent with their gender iden- Massa- the Equality Act would ensure private businesses, and even individ- elsewhere.” Alabama also voted to NC, anti-discrimination ordinance tity but would also reward $2,500 to chusetts, “permanent protections against uals to refuse ceremonies, services, uphold marriage equality earlier this making it legal for people to use rest- students who reported them in the Michigan, discrimination based on sexual Mississippi, employment, and more without legal year, striking a bid to prohibit gay rooms consistent with their gender “wrong” bathroom. Concerning the Misssouri, orientation or gender identity in consequence from the government. weddings altogether. West Virginia, identity. H.B. 2 struck that down and unconscionable bills and payouts, North matters of employment, housing, But as HRC President Chad Grif- IN 30 STATES, too, killed a similar bill recently. prohibits cities from passing their Tom Witt, Executive Director of Carolina public places, federal funding, and (passed), fin points out, the First Amendment IT IS STILL LEGAL own anti-discrimination bills in the Equality Kansas, says they are “iso- South education. Plus it’d prohibit sex dis- already protects freedom of reli- TO FIRE SOMEONE Fight Against Trans-Gressions future. Businesses and citizens are lating kids, and it’s not going to end Carolina. crimination in federal funding and gion, meaning that clergy are not Anti-trans discrimination has also demanding the law be repealed, but well. It’s outing them and putting a Go to trans access to public places,” says HRC. BECAUSE equality forced to perform same-sex mar- shifted into high gear in state gen- it still stood at press time. target on their backs.” It’s gaing support—slowly. If passed OF .org to stay riage ceremonies. So this doubling eral assemblies and is, thus, a top While South Dakota recently up to date it’d mean federal protection, but as down on “religious freedom” tears THEIR priority for the HRC, Lambda Legal, struck down a “Genital Check Bill,” Looking Ahead to the Equality Act on your shown, that doesn’t always translate state. open dangerous opportunities for SEXUAL ACLU, and other civil rights organi- Tennessee was busy drafting simi- As Lambda Legal sees it, rebutting to states. So until states reliquish the discrimination—from flower shop OREINTATION. zations. The February HRC report lar legislation requiring students anti-trans bills and religious liberty reintroduction of discriminatory owners and caterers refusing ser- characterizes a lion’s share of those in any school or university to show bills is the priority. HRC spokes- bils and clauses, LGBT equality will vices to businesses denying jobs to 175 anti-LGBT bills firing through a birth certificate before entering person Ianthe Metzger agrees that remain a patchwork rather than a

adoption agencies and shelters turn- state legislatures, as an “onslaught PHOTO BY TY WRIGHT/GETTY IMAGES PHOTO BY TY WRIGHT/GETTY IMAGES restrooms. A legislative committee protecting trans people from vio- certainty. The fight goes on.

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As an asexual, queer, for me. I assumed that, as I got older, agender trans person, some adult magic would be revealed I do not take the lan- and I would somehow grow up to be guage I use to describe someone else: an adult who perhaps By myself for granted. Most of my life would not have to settle for a gender TYLER FORD has been spent searching for a word imposed upon them. or phase to point to and say, “That’s Before learning the words “agen- Photography by it. That’s what I’m feeling. That’s der,” “non-binary,” and “trans,” KATHARINA POBLOTZKI who I am—and I’m not alone.” I was agender, non-binary, and Growing up, I had no idea that I trans—and completely lacking a way could be anything other than a girl— to communicate or comprehend it. even though I absolutely did not feel I couldn’t accurately express how like a girl. I never acknowledged I felt or why I felt different, lost, those feelings in words, but they took afraid, hopeless, frustrated, and dys- root as a blurry sense of certainty phoric. An absence of the vocabulary that persisted throughout my youth. required to describe or define myself I knew myself to be a girl according resulted in a deficient understand- to other people, and I followed their ing of my needs, my desires, and lead, but there wasn’t anything any- my self as a whole. Now, language one could do to make girlhood click is one of the most important tools

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I use to frame my experiences, to in opposition to it. The language I expansive—and erases the perspec- gender in new ways, trans and non- understand my identity, and to com- was so desperate to find as a youth, tives of so many trans people, myself binary people—particularly those municate who I am to the world. while helpful, still comes up short as included. We lose the depth, nuance, of color—are facing increased rates I am forced to navigate my gender in and full understandings of all gender of violence. Black and Latina trans When cisgender (those whose gender a structure that doesn’t hold space identities when we translate them women as well as Black and Latinx identity aligns with the sex they were for my existence. into either/or terms. Instead, we must gender non-conforming people saw assigned at birth), straight people ask Plus, the fight for transgender This page: dismantle the binary and redefine higher reported murder rates in 2015 me why I label myself, I ask them why inclusion in our society without a Ford with gender; we must recognize and cre- than in any other year on record. To violinist, they don’t. “It’s unnecessary” or “I’m critique of the gender binary itself, is composer, ate space for people of all expressions. be trans or gender non-conforming just normal” are frequent responses. an attempt to squeeze trans people and close and a person of color in this world When everyone around them and in into a framework that is designed personal What does it look like when we is to be especially vulnerable to vio- friend every form of media they consume to exclude us. Often, trans people Chrysanthe create space to conceptualize our lence, poverty, homelessness, HIV/ reflects a potential version of them- are discussed in terms of transi- Tan genders outside of inherently oppres- AIDS, and incarceration. selves, it’s easy for them to see their tioning to the “opposite” gender, sive systems and structures? When “We may have more people reject- identity as the default human set- which reinforces the notion that talking about growing into their ing the constraints of gender in pop ting. As a teenager, I often fell into only two genders exist. When I talk gender identity, Alok Vaid-Menon, a culture, but I don’t think this has thinking that way. I didn’t have the about being trans, I am forced to 24-year-old South Asian non-binary necessarily translated into social understanding or vocabulary to talk about my body as though it is artist and activist from New York and economic justice for non- describe myself as queer or asexual. wrong—as though I am “trapped City says, “My gender isn’t fixed or binary people on the ground,” says Instead, I thought I was simply a bro- in the wrong body” as opposed to stable. It depends on where I’m at in Vaid-Menon. “People are increas- ken straight person. My burgeoning trapped in the confines of the gender my life —emotionally, physically, and ingly familiar with gender fluid identity was also my burden; it was binary. Attempting to understand psychologically. My gender is adap- aesthetics but not necessarily the my personal failing. These days, trans identities through a binary tive, reflective, and relational. So it issues like violence, poverty, and when someone tells me they’re “nor- lens puts limits on gender—which is feels like I’m always in a process of homelessness of people living gen- mal,” I ask, “What does that make coming into my gender identity. And der-fluid lives.” me?” They tend to get quiet as they I appreciate that a lot.” Trans and gender non-conforming wrestle with having to confront and Most often, my gender feels like a people are becoming more vul-

express their deep-seated biases. void or an absence. Its rare presence nerable to not only interpersonal An NYC- We’ve all been socialized to believe keep me on my toes in regards to how violence but also state violence as tion of gender, then hell yeah!” based human being. Trans people are that straight, white, cisgender, able- I relate to myself. well. By the end of March 2016, 44 Freedom from the gender binary activist and expected to prove our humanity over writer, Ford bodied people are the only normal As for how I relate to other anti-trans bills had already been is freedom to self-identify, to nar- has been and over, to tell people, “Here is why folks among us, but “normal” is not a people, it is hard to communicate proposed, and some passed, across rate our own experiences, our own published in you should respect us and love us and word fit to describe a human being or that I am agender when we have all 16 states. We cannot afford to discuss bodies, our own genders. We don’t numerous treat us as human beings.” But our magazines any type of human experience. There been socialized to pick up gendered trans lives without critically exam- need to fit ourselves into one cat- and also rights should not depend on whether are as many different and valid ways cues from clothing and physical ining our current systems of gender egory or define ourselves by our appeared or not someone else can fit our lives, to exist as there are human beings in characteristics. It’s frustrating to classification and actively working bodies in order to fit into the world. on Oxygen's genders, and experiences into their The Glee the world. watch people scan my body for clues toward new understandings of gen- By trying to squeeze the expanse Project 2. pre-existing schemata. The gender binary—the classi- instead of asking me how I’d like to der and of humanity itself. of human expression and life into To keep The conversation around gender, fication of gender and sex into two be addressed. It’s even more frustrat- In discussing the current social one of two suffocating boxes, we up with transness, and binaries may seem their work, separate, opposing categories (male/ “WE DON’T NEED ing to hear people refer to me when climate and the labeling of trans end up limiting and policing our check out new, but trans and non-binary man and female/woman)—informs TO FIT OURSELVES they pick up on what they think are and non-binary movements, Joshua expression, silencing ourselves, and myfriend people have been having these con- our standards of what is “normal” INTO ONE my gender tells. They are always Allen, a 20-year-old Black non- often isolating ourselves. Not only tyler.com. versations—or trying to find the and what is not. When we use the CATEGORY OR wrong, because they are always binary activist from NYC states, do we hurt ourselves but we also language to have these conversa- human body as means to define assuming. I am desperate to move “I’m not too concerned with the hurt each other with our expecta- tions—our entire lives. Though and understand human identity, DEFINE OURSELVES beyond assumptions, rules, bodies, linguistic framing of a movement tions of who we think each person the frameworks that have been we simplify the ways in which we BY OUR and violence and into a place where around gender—that in itself seems should be. thrust upon us may not encompass conceptualize our genders and our- BODIES IN our discourse on gender is centered kind of contradictory. I’m more con- As much as I desire to be under- or make room for all that we are, selves. In a society that adheres to a ORDER TO on infinite possibilities. cerned about what the movement stood, I shouldn’t have to be we will never let that stop us from binary system as a way to interpret FIT INTO is. If it’s a movement about bring- easily understandable in order to be working toward a future in which gender, I can’t discuss my non-binary THE WORLD.” Our rates of protection are not ing gender-based violence to a halt, treated with decency and respect. I being a man or a woman is not a identity without referencing the yet on a par with our growing vis- eradicating the gender binary, or have no desire to hide the complexi- prerequisite for being recognized

gender binary and defining myself ibility, either. As we begin to discuss OF JONES CROW OF JONES CROW COURTESY COURTESY THIS PAGE: THIS PAGE: dismantling the oppressive institu- ties that make me a multifaceted as human.

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The Men Who

While U.S. eyes are focused on the meltdown of the Wo u ld B e Republican party, Marine Le Pen of France’s far -right Queen: National Front is eyeing the 2017 presidency, helped by France, an unlikely source: top LGBT party officials and a growing conservative LGBT vote. Le Pen & the By Anne-christine d’Adesky LGBT vote

For months now, America has been transfixed by the political spectacle of the once-unthinkable GOP front- runner Donald Trump, who’s risen quickly in the polls as a charismatic right-wing populist leader with an outrageous brand of bully politics. Across the Atlantic, French voters are also eyeing the growing popular- ity of Marine Le Pen, 47, the blonde, blue-eyed telegenic head of the far- right xenophobic National Front party. She took the reins of power a few years ago from her notorious father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, an avowed racist, misogynist, and Holocaust denier. Like The Donald, she’s confounded political pundits to capture a growing slice of the French vote—including a surprisingly large chunk of the LGBT community. In the wake of the recent Paris terrorist bombings—France’s 9/11 moment—Le Pen’s seal-the-borders, anti-Islamic rhetoric has struck a fresh chord among disaffected voters, including many white, Catholic, and

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large swath of the youth. To the shock Lestrade said he wanted to know tion, and frustration with the usual “Gays and lesbians are scared of court’s ruling underscored the value of progressives, LGBT conservatives how the she was courting LGBT crop of leaders. Marine Le Pen offers a what’s happening in France, and THE French society places on personal are jumping aboard too. In a recent voters and why others would seek new face and she isn’t afraid to offend they’re vulnerable to the rhetoric,” privacy. “Politics is the closet that IFOP survey of French voters, 26% to be candidates, given the National her enemies, though she’s less pugilis- stated Chrisophe Martet, an AIDS NATIONAL FRONT is triple-locked,” joked Martet, who of homosexuals in Paris supported Front’s longtime homophobic, racist tic than Trump or her brutish father. activist and editor of the LGBT IS THE ONLY says the frontist gay camp flies under the National Front, compared with profile. There were several reasons, (Jean-Marie Le Pen is notorious for magazine YAGG. “It’s clear that PARTY WHOSE LEADER the public radar. Although party 16% of heterosexuals. including a reaction to rejection and his scraps with political enemies. since the bombings Marine hasn’t IS A insiders were aware of Philippot’s That may not be accidental. Since a disappointment with the political He once punched a socialist woman had to do a lot and yet her popular- WOMAN sexuality, the outing scandalized taking the party reins in 2011, Le Pen status quo. LGBT conservatives leader and has launched fervent vocal ity has increased. We’re at the point AND ITS party members, revealing a division has surrounded herself with openly who hope for a career in politics attacks on other feminists as well.) where the Socialist party has taken over the party’s pink stripe. gay (and closeted) senior party offi- have found the doors closed at the “We’re shocked but we shouldn’t up the discourse and policies of the DEPUTY Le Pen’s own family members cials, many of who rank among her traditional parties, including the be,” states Renee Fregosi, an aca- extreme right about immigration IS remain staunchly opposed to gay closest advisors. Up to 60% of senior present Socialist government, led demic and self-defined feminist lefty, and terrorism, about dual national- GAY. rights; so do the old guard Le Penists. National Front officials she’s hired by President Francois Holland. He about the LGBT support for Le Pen. ity. It’s very reactionary.” In his view, Marine’s niece, Marion Maréchal-Le or promoted in that time are gay, feels it’s pushed them to the fringe “Gays don’t vote only as gays, but as the current economic crisis impact- Pen, is also a National Front rising according to media reports. Today, parties. “It’s ironic,” Lestrade said. citizens, and they feel an exaspera- ing Europe is a big factor fueling star who seeks to challenge her aunt

Le Pen’s right-hand man (her No. 2) “Right now the National Front is the Le Pen and tion with the present government. right -wing populism and exposing for the top party job one day. She is is Vice-President Florian Philippot, party seen as the friendliest for gays. her GAY [Le Pen] plays on xenophobia and an ugly undercurrent of xenophobia the youngest member of the French who’s in charge of communication Marine Le Pen has invited them in.” advisors: fear of immigrants. They’re respond- and racism. Assemblée Nationale in France’s his- No 2. and strategy for the National Front. The same holds for LGBT conser- Florian ing to the fear.” Like Trump, she tory and views Emperor Bonaparte as He’s credited for the party’s make- vative voters, who share the present Phillipot explains, “It’s the personality and the “The issue here is racism and fear of her role model. Last year she marched over—a “de-diabolisation” campaign anxieties of their countrymen: eco- (opposite) demand. The vote for the National Muslims,” agreed Lestrade, who says with her party’s new wing, Jeunesses and Samuel to distance Le Pen from the fascist, nomic worries, fears of Islamic Chenu Front is really a rejection, of Europe gay men in France fear homophobic Nationale—National Youths—to pro- thuggish image of her now-sidelined terrorism and uncontrolled immigra- (below). and the European Union, too. There’s violence by Islamic extremists. “They test le Marriage Pour Tout (marriage father. Her supporters are referred to also the marketing that Marine Le know that the Islamic religion is very equality). But Marine opted out—an as Marinest vs. Le Penist in the press. Pen has done to present herself as homophobic,” explained Martet. absence interpreted as loyalty to more acceptable.” “They’re seeing what Daesh (ISIS) is her gay friends and one that fueled In 2014, the National Front took doing to gay men, throwing them off ongoing speculation about Le Pen’s first place in the European Elec- National Front supporters are rooftops. It’s on the Internet, it’s on much else. “Jean-Marie Le Pen was “France is personal life. a secular tions, and secured a quarter of votes mostly white, and many are from the TV. They’re afraid.” almost a caricature, but Marine Le country In France, the sniping Le Pen fam- in the first round of March 2015 local south of France. The elder Le Pen So why seek protection from the far Pen is a young woman and much that hasn’t ily feuds provide Kardashian-like polls—a clear sign the rebrand was belonged to the aging generation of right? Is Le Pen really a new friend more presentable thn her father,” dealt with fodder for the tabloids who revel its colonial working. A poll at the time showed ex-colonists who were booted out to the LGBT movement? In inter- says Catherine Michaud, president past. You in the mudfest between modern that if the presidential election were of Algeria—the Pieds Noirs genera- views, LGBT activists on the right of the LGBT conservative group Gay- still have Marine, monstrous Jean-Marie, pur- held right then, Le Pen would be a tion. They include both the laboring and left appear divided on the ques- Lib. “You don’t see the verbal gaffes people in ist Marion, and their ambitious clan. the gay shoo-in. The polling also signaled class and wanna-be royalists who tion of whether Le Pen’s makeover or hear his lamentable remarks on movement Gay neocons like Philippot aren’t the coming to power of a new gen- are nostalgic for the bygone days of is real or fake. For his part, Lestrade Jews and the gas chambers. So she’s asking likely to sway their party’s platform eration of dynamic, neoconservative colonial glory and conquering heroes is buying it. “The National Front is changed the image, yes, but the win- questions on gay topics. “The party maybe like, ‘How LGBT leaders who are transforming like Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte. doing exactly what frontist groups dow is the same—inside you find the can you doesn’t have the same homophobic France’s political landscape. Where Trump talks about winners are doing in Holland. By addressing same products. It’s just as stinky.” In be gay and speech, but they are opposed to gay It’s no wonder French LGBT activ- and “Making America Great,” the gay rights they show they have the Michaud’s view, the National Front Muslim?’ ” marriage—Marine said so,” Martet —Didier ists are sounding the alarm about National Front promises to return same capacity as traditional political “is not a party that unites, but divides. Lestrade stated. “Don’t be fooled. If Le Pen a tide of homonationalism—a new France to the French—a similar parties to see the society. The people It’s racist, anti-semitic, against takes the presidency, she’ll try to buzzword in LGBT circles—while party campaign slogan and thinly- from the National Front aren’t saying women, and homophobic.” roll back gay marriage.” The opposi- frothing on blogs about the neo- veiled rejection of multiculturalism, stuff as hard or as homophobic as the The National Front isn’t exactly tion to Marriage Pour Tout is well con gay pols like Philippot. As with Islam, and darker citizens. Since the traditional left or even the Socialist waving a rainbow flag at Pride either. funded and media savvy, he says, and Trump, they’re stunned in an I-can’t- bombings, Le Pen has homed in on party. Le Pen has done a lot to make V.P. Philippot was publicly closeted is moving to block proposals on gay believe-it kind of way. Islamic terrorism to whip up public the National Front as respectable as until he was outed by Closer maga- adoption, trans rights, and assisted Didier Lestrade is a gay journalist fears, a xenophobic discourse aimed traditional parties. It’s not a posture,” zine in late 2014—the first celebrity fertilization techniques. It’s a funda- and one of the founders of ACT UP- at France’s large Arab and African he concludes. gay outing of its kind in France. He mental rejection of LGBT families. Paris who’s been tracking the rise of citizenry—the children and grand- Others argue that Le Pen has sued and won, forcing the maga- The question remains: how many

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right-wing? For now, the majority of welcome his advocacy, the LGBT the mainstream LGBT movement establishment hasn’t, he said. remains solidly progressive and left. They’re wary of Islamic religion and The organized LGBT conservative homophobia. “It’s a problem for the wing is represented by groups like GAYS left in France. They’re secular and GayLib, an offshoot of the established AND very opposed to religion.” Under- center-right union of Democrats and neath this intolerance, he spies Independents. GayLib formed dur- LESBIANS racism. ing the heyday of Paris gay marriage ARE SCARED OF Lestrade backs up Mohamed- protest marches—a standout moment WHAT’S Zahed when it comes to LGBT of national homophobia, say LGBT HAPPENING anti-Muslim prejudice. “Even if a CenterLink develops strong, sustainable LGBT activists. Michaud took over as pres- IN FRANCE, lot of people have been talking about ident of the group in 2012. Today, it AND racism, nothing is being done right boasts 1,200 members across France, now.” He added, “Immigration is Community Centers and builds a thriving center with 80% being gay men, and a strong THEY’RE another issue. It’s incredible that base in Paris. VULNERABLE TO THE the LGBT community hasn’t even “I consider myself progressive and RHETORIC. started to think about this. The gay network that creates healthy, vibrant communities. a humanist,” explained Michaud, who community here needs to wake up,” views the National Front as xenopho- Lestrade warned. “There’s not a bic and dangerous. “My fight is on the single gay group or demonstration to debate over liberty and equality. I’m address this or to work on issues that rather insistent on freedom.” make his home in Paris, where he could bring people together. ” Michaud was unhappy, but not remains a rare openly gay Muslim Where does that leave gay opinion that surprised, to see one of GayLib’s spokesman in the LGBT movement. on France’s future? Do LGBT activ- controversial founders, Sebastien Since the Paris bombings, he’s Throughout ists really believe Le Pen will prevail Chenu, jump ship to Marine Le amped up his one-man mission to Europe, in 2017? Here, opinions are divided, LGBT Pen. “The National Front is the convince his two core communi- groups are but there’s consensus on the threat. only party whose leader is a woman ties—Muslims and LGBT—that mobilizing “If you ask me, the situation in France and its deputy is gay,” Chenu told a Islam is compatible with gay life. It against could not get worse,” said Lestrade, a similar reporter at Agence France-Presse, remains an uphill road. nationalist view echoed by Martet, Fregosi, Gay- OTHER PROGRAMS INCLUDE: about his defection. “Marine Le Pen “The real root of the problem is one groups Lib’s conservative Michaud, too—and OTHER PROGRAMS INCLUDE: represents a sort of absolute free- of economics and political identity,” such as the a lot of voter polls. All worry another Alternative dom in a political world that is very Mohamed-Zahed said about France’s for Germany ISIS terror attack could push every- Leadership Summit Executive Director Bootcamp policed, where everyone resembles rightward swing and the increased and the one further right. So could Europe’s each other. She has come in and intolerance and violence directed Dutch failure to address the immigration Freedom Webinars & Training LGBT LGBT HealthLinkHealthLink shaken things up.” Chenu recently at Muslims. He agrees with LGBT Party. crisis. They’re bracing for a fresh anti- ran for local office in Beauvais as activists who feel that economic marriage assault in upcoming debates Center Awareness Day YouthLink the National Front candidate, his insecurity is the deeper driver of over gay adoption, trans rights, and sexuality an open public secret. If populism on the left and right. reproductive health. Like everyone Michaud’s GayLib represents gay “Minorities will be target. It’s else, they’re also eyeing the drama ANDAND MUCHMUCH MORE!MORE! Log Cabin Republicans, Chenu is one circumstantial, this wave of nation- in America, wondering if left, center, of the young turks who dub Marine alism,” he explained. “People are and conservative voters will unite to their Catholic Queen. tempted to overtly express their rac- stop Trump—a formula needed to ism, and more people now express block Marine Le Pen at home. VisitVisit www.LGBTCenters.orgwww.LGBTCenters.org toto findfind youryour locallocal centercenter The lure of Le Pen for gays is really support for protectionism when it “I pray she won’t win and right worrying for Ludovic Mohamed- comes to immigration.” now, as of today, the National Front oror callcall 954-765-6024954-765-6024 oror Zahed, founder of the Muslim doesn’t have the votes—at least not LGBT group HM2F (Homo Mus- That’s created an important role yet,” said Martet, summing up the informationinformation@@LGBTCenters.orgLGBTCenters.org forfor moremore information.information. lims of France) and CALEM, a newer for activists like him who are pushing forecast from France. “There are a umbrella for local LGBT Muslim for greater visibility, support, and lot of factors at play; 2017 is going to CenterLink:CenterLink: SupportingSupporting Healthy,Healthy, VibrantVibrant LGBTLGBT CommunityCommunity CentersCenters sincesince 19941994 groups. Born in Algeria, he fled civil a role for gay Muslims in France’s be a critical year for us. Not just for war there with his family in 1995 to LGBT movement. While some France—for all of Europe.”

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IN HIS

MUSICIAN JESSE RUTHERFORD PROVES THAT IMAGE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JESSIE ENGLISH

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In his new book &, songwriter and ally Jesse Rutherford of the band The Neighbourhood explores all facets of style, gender, and physical appearance in an attempt to determine just what it takes to become fully comfortable in your own skin. “In the images, I am both Nancy and Sid,” he says. “I am the symbol in between. I’m not exploring any one side—I’m just doing what my taste buds want me to do and exploring how things fit on the shape of the body I was given.” The rules governing production of the book were simple: use every shot, no retouching, show everything in chronological order. “By the time you get to the end, you can see I’ve definitely become more comfortable with myself,” he says. “You can see that confidence has grown. I want people to have that same kind of experience on their own when looking at the these photos.” When he’s not in front of the camera, Rutherford owns the stage as the frontman for his band, best known for the smash hit “Sweater Weather.” Catch them on tour all summer long as they promote their second album, Wiped Out! For more on &, check out the book’s official site shop.antianti.social.

“I JUDGE BOOKS BY THEIR COVER. “IT’S A SHAME THAT MANY PEOPLE DO. ANYBODY WOULD SO WHY NOT HAVE EVER HAVE TO FEEL A GOOD COVER?” SHAME OVER WHO THEY NATURALLY ARE. THAT’S NOT COOL. IT’S NOT RIGHT.”

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It may not be at the top of your list of places to visit in your lifetime, but that’s a mistake. With its incredible architecture, amazing food, and beautiful—and NORDIC highly accepting—local populace, Stockholm is truly one of the hidden gems of the European continent. And, as the capital city of the land that brought us Abba, Ace of Base, Ikea, H&M, and Alexander Skars- gard, it’s almost impossible not to love. A destination of choice to more than 11 million visitors a year, the city is situated over 14 islands NIGHTS along Sweden’s eastern coast. Stretching from the shores of Lake Malären to the entrance of the Bal- tic Sea, each of the city’s islands has its own distinctive character. Link- ing them all together is a series of 57 bridges, an engineering feat that has earned the city the nickname Venice of the North.

MUST SEE ATTRACTIONS: The Sofo area on the island of Söder- malm, known locally as Söder, with its narrow winding streets, and laid-back urban vibe, is hipster central and home to some of the city’s trendiest eateries and independent shops. If you’re into vintage clothes then an afternoon here will make you think you’ve died and gone to retro heaven. Grandpa (Söderman- nagatan 21, grandpa.se/en) has been selling stylish Swedish fashion and cool accessories and home décor to those in the know since 2003. If you don’t leave here without a groovy shirt or a funky accessory then there’s something seriously screwy with your gay shopping gene. While you’re in the ’hood, don’t forget to pop around the corner to

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Pärlans Konfektyr (Nytorgsgatan 1:15 pm on Sundays and holidays. 38, parlanskonfektyr.se), an old-style Gamla Stan is an enchanting confectioner whose melt-in-your- medieval maze of former merchants’ mouth caramels will tempt even the houses and twisting cobbled streets, strictest carb-hater. including Marten Trotzigs Grand, The spiritual heart of Sofo, and one of the narrowest (and steepest) its local canteen, is arguably Urban streets in the city. Craft shops, galler- Deli (Nytorget 4, urbandeli.org), a ies and quirky bars and restaurants spot-on New York-style deli, restau- are clustered just off Stortorget, the rant, whole-food shop, and bar all main square, which is a great place in one. Proudly proclaiming itself to relax and people watch on a warm anti-violence, anti-homophobia, and summer’s day, especially at the very anti-racism, it’s perpetually packed gay-friendly Chokladkoppen (Stor- with people of all ages, ethnicities, torget 18, chokladkoppen.se/en) and and types and is a fantastic place to its next-door big sister Kaffeekoppen rest your feet and enjoy a smörgås- (cafekaffekoppen.se). bord of charcuterie and cheese. The square is also where you’ll PREVIOUS SPREAD: Be prepared to share a table—this find the Nobel Museum (Stortor- A STREET IN place is always at capacity, espe- get 2, nobelmuseum.se), celebrating THE SOFO AREA cially on the weekend. Most Swedes Stockholm’s son, Alfred Nobel, who speak perfect English, so use that as at his death bequeathed his huge for- BELOW: THE IMMENSE WHERE TO EAT an opportunity to chat up that sexy tune to the Nobel Prizes that bear his AND BREATH- TAKING Swedish cooking isn’t all Sven or gorgeous Elsa. name. Turn your chair upside down 300-YEAR-OLD about meatballs, although A short walk away, housed in at the museum’s bistro and you may VASA you must have them at a massive art nouveau build- least a couple of times ing and former customs house, is find the signature of one of the Nobel during your visit, as every restaurant has a different Fotografiska (Stadsgårdshamnen Laureates who have visited the build- recipe. The city has some 22, fotografiska.eu/en), Sweden’s ing (favorites include author Mario great restaurants offering national museum of photography Vargas Llosa and President Obama). a wide range of cuisines. and one of the world’s foremost Stockholm is best appreciated As well as Urban Deli and centers of the contemporary image. from the water, so don’t forget to take Mälarpaviljongen, here are three more culinary Less than 10 years after opening, it’s a leisurely cruise on one of the regu- favorites: rapidly become one of Stockholm’s lar ferries to Djurgården, a massive trendiest cultural attractions, show- expanse of park and woodland and ZINK GRILL Much loved by casing major retrospectives by the a favorite getaway for Stockholmers Stockholmers, this French likes of Robert Mapplethorpe, Annie and tourists alike, as well home to the bistro is the place to be Leibowitz, and Andres Serrano. In city’s oldest amusement park (Gröna seen on weekends. addition to its cutting-edge shows, Lund, gronalund.com/en) and some Biblioteksgatan 5, Fotografiska also has an excellent of Sweden’s most important muse- zinkgrill.se/en bar and restaurant with some of the ums and galleries. OAXEN SLIP best views of the city proper. An open and airy Nordic The Vasa Museum (Galärvarvsvä- bistro with great service. Just across the water is the tiny gen 14, vasamuseet.se) is the final It’s also very dog-friendly. island of Gamla Stan, Stockholm’s resting place of the Vasa, a 17th-cen- Beckholmsvägen 26, old town and home to the nation’s tury wooden warship that sank on oaxen.com parliament. It’s also the location of her maiden voyage in 1628. The ves- BROMS the Royal Palace (Slottsbacken 1, sel was salvaged 333 years later and A classic neighborhood kungahuset.se), the Swedish Royal was so remarkably well-preserved it restaurant plus delicatessen. It even Family’s official residence, much of has now been restored to its former Built between 1626 and 1628, the CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: sports its own bakery. which is open to the public. The daily glory. Even if maritime history isn’t STREET IN GAMLA STAN; Karlavägen 76, changing of the guard takes place your thing this is an absolute must- SÖDERMALM FROM Vasa filled with water and sank just THE WATER; STOCKHOLM PRIDE; bromskarlaplan.se just after noon on weekdays and at see; it’s Scandinavia’s top museum. AND THE ABBA MUSEUM 1,400 yards into its maiden voyage.

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CO-PRESIDENTS Sue Doster Brett Hayhoe Solidarity Through Pride

on behalf of PrideLife VICE PRESIDENTS OF OPERATIONS the Board of InterPride we hope you enjoy reading the 2016 Magazine— the official magazine of InterPride. Frank Van Dalen Jaime Carrillo Marsha H. Levine Dallas Barnes InterPride, the International Association of Pride Organizers, strives to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender visibility internationally through conferences, communication, education, and Pride events. Our members span across more than fifty countries with a combined VICE PRESIDENT MEMBER SERVICES Sherri Rase reach of more than fifteen million people. While most of our members are based in the United SECRETARY TREASURER States, we work closely with our International Pride Partners: EPOA (the European Pride Organisers Linda DeMarco Ron deHarte Association) and FCP (Fierté Canada Pride). These relationships have assisted us to expand our reach to LGBT communities around the world, enabling InterPride to become a truly global Pride organization. This year’s international theme, Solidarity Through Pride, embodies our mission: Empow- ering Pride Organizations Worldwide. This work is driven by our tireless volunteer Board and Committee Chairs, who, through various committees, address areas such as Human Rights and WorldPride. REGIONAL DIRECTORS InterPride relies solely on membership fees and donations to fund our organization. We, in turn, distribute these funds in two major ways: through the Solidarity Fund, which assists Pride REGION 1 DIRECTORS REGION 4 DIRECTORS REGION 6 DIRECTORS REGION 7 DIRECTORS REGION 12 DIRECTORS projects in areas throughout the world operating in hostile environments, and the Scholarship Ernie Yuen Chris Morehead Michele Chrissy Taylor Stefan Baier Irimia-Bernabe Fund, which provides financial assistance for members to attend our Annual General Meeting Rhonda Fuller Dave Wait Brice Field Uwe Hörner and World Conference. Sylvain Bruni Whether the event is small, large, new, or well established, Pride chapters help build and ALTERNATE REGION 5 DIRECTORS enrich their communities and increase visibility and acceptance for LGBT people in both large REGION 2 DIRECTOR ALTERNATE Dominique Lavergne REGION 13 DIRECTORS Michael Goodnow James Marcy Carr Vincent cities and small towns. We applaud the Boards, Members, and Volunteers of all Prides who work Hermansen-Parker Boileau-Autin to make Pride happen. Thank you for your work and contribution to the global Pride movement. REGION 9 DIRECTOR REGION 3 DIRECTORS Kevin Calhoun Luis "Conti" Rivera We invite everyone to join and add your valuable energy and ideas to the global Pride move- Richard Brethour-Bell REGION 14 DIRECTORS ment. Visit our website at interpride.org to find a Pride, to attend an event or help plan one, find Juan Carlos Alonso ALTERNATE out how your Pride organization can join InterPride, or to make a donation to support our work. Miranda Sedillo Jason Gilmore Reguero Looking ahead, we look forward to welcoming delegates and guests in Montpellier, France ALTERNATE Terry Costa at the joint 2016 InterPride Annual General Meeting and World Conference and EPOA AGM Paul Huddleston in October this year. And finally, we hope to see you in Spain next year when Madrid hosts their largest event to date: WorldPride 2017.

Yours In Pride, Sue Doster & Brett Hayhoe interpride.org CO-PRESIDENTS INTERPRIDE

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During the past 29 years, Pride What is InterPride? ica and in Europe, to strengthen local relationships between our organizations from almost every InterPride is the international continent have participated in members. association of Pride organiz- InterPride’s annual conference. InterPride owns the WorldPride About InterPride ers. Our member organizations title, which is licensed every couple produce Pride events all over the of years to one of our members, world, to celebrate the Lesbian, who becomes the host of the Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and WorldPride celebration. Intersex (LGBTI) cultures and The Pride Radar is a world map participated, shows that communities. InterPride ties Pride maintained by InterPride, which only 20% of those organiz- together globally. lists all the Pride celebrations ers based in Europe perceive What’s the Vision, what’s around the world. So far, the Pride their impact as low or absent, the Mission? Radar includes over 800 Prides! whereas that number climbs InterPride also manages a Our vision is a world where there is Solidarity Fund, which is sustained to 57% in the United States. full cultural, social, and legal equal- from donations by our members The picture is slightly more ity for all. InterPride’s mission is to and sponsors, and grants financial help empower Pride organizations complex in Eastern Europe. support to emerging Pride events worldwide. After the collapse of and community-based efforts InterPride acts as a source of the Soviet Union, several around the world, with a focus on education and a stepping-stone to places where public LGBTI events countries in Eastern Europe elevating community interaction face challenges and hostility. joined the European Union. for Pride events worldwide. We State of the promote Pride on an international In most of these countries, level and increase networking Where is the next Pride events have faced con- opportunities and communication WorldPride? Pride Movement siderable hardship for many among Pride organizations. WorldPride 2017 will be held in BY FRANK VAN DALEN years due to strong conser- Madrid, Spain. WorldPride 2019 Today let’s celebrate an increase vative religious traditions. What is a “Pride event”? will be held in New York City, NY, in number of Prides around the world! Pride events celebrate the LGBTI USA, coinciding with the 50th Organizing Pride events community and can include anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. in these countries became parades, marches, rallies, festivals, Past WorldPride celebrations possible only after uphill art festivals, or other cultural activi- were held in Rome, Italy (2000); ince interpride Europe, Australia, and South battles and massive pres- ties dedicated to people identifying Jerusalem, Israel (2006); London, started its Pride America, the Pride move- sure by the European Union, as LGBTI and/or other emerging England (2012); and Toronto, sexual identities. Canada (2014). Radar initiative ment is gaining strength. international activists, and in 2012, almost At the same time, we see politicians from around What does InterPride do? What are FCP and EPOA? S800 Pride celebrations have blank spots on the world Europe. These Pride events InterPride holds an Annual World Fierté Canada Pride (FCP) and been identified around the map where Prides are absent symbolized the right to be Conference where our members the European Pride Organisers world. And new Prides are or presently unknown. With visible and vocal as LGBTI gather in one city for several days. Association (EPOA) are InterPride’s The conference includes educa- International Pride Partners in discovered on a weekly basis, social climates of exclusion communities. tional workshops and networking Canada and Europe respectively. both in hostile environments and laws that criminalize The lower perception of activities, as well as the annual Members of FCP and EPOA and in smaller cities in the homosexuality, it is beyond impact in the USA could be general meeting of our member- are automatically members Western world. an act of bravery to organize explained by the fact that the ship. Through this conference, our of InterPride. Pride events—whether a Pride event in many areas battle for same-sex marriage members learn new skills, innova- they take the form of of Africa, as well as in regions was fought in large part in tive ideas, and best practices How can we join? for producing Pride events. This We’d be delighted to have you join celebrations, protests, or of Asia, in Russia, and in the courtrooms. Although marches—are intended to much of the Middle East. countries as only a party- equal rights are becoming Our vision is a world where there is full cultural, raise the visibility of lesbian, These regions constitute the oriented event, is for many the law slowly but surely, gay, bisexual, transgender, current frontier of the world- others a means to yield social and even if LGBTI issues social and legal equality for all. InterPride’s mission and intersex people as an wide Pride movement. and legal change, to improve are strongly supported by is to help empower pride organizations worldwide. oppressed minority. Each the lives of LGBTI people. some major political lead- event, wherever it is held, is a Emancipatory Impact The impact of Pride events ers, there is every reason to conference also permits members InterPride as a member organiza- profound political state- The social and legal context on LGBTI emancipation is make Pride celebrations in to interact with one another and tion or as a volunteer to support the ment. Our data shows that of LGBTI people in their also perceived differently by the USA more political. The develop a support and solidarity work of Prides around the world! where the LGBTI equal- country or region influences Pride organizers themselves. LGBTI movement in the U.S. network between LGBTI activists Contact us through our regional around the world. directors (see the list online at ity movement has enjoyed strongly the character of a A recent survey produced by is still struggling with public Regional conferences are also interpride.org) or via social media substantial success, like in Pride event. What is per- InterPride, in which over one accommodations and trans organized annually in North Amer- (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). North America, Western ceived by many in Western hundred Pride organizations rights bills in many states.

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InterPride began in the 1980s. Homo- and trans-phobic vio- The organization was originally known > EUROPRIDE 2016 // AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, JULY 23–AUGUST 7 lence and murder, and youth as the National Association of suicide are additional topics Lesbian/Gay Pride Coordinators. > INTERPRIDE 2016 AGM AND WORLD CONFERENCE // MONTPELLIER, FRANCE OCTOBER 11–16 that need public attention— GLOBAL which can easily be provided > WORLDPRIDE 2017, MADRID, SPAIN, JUNE 23–JULY 2 by the Pride movement, PRIDE > CANADA PRIDE [THE INAUGURAL EVENT], MONTREAL, CANADA, AUGUST 11–20, 2017 therefore creating impact of Prides occurring in EVENTS at the local level. Mexico. The prominence > INTERPRIDE 2017 AGM AND WORLD CONFERENCE, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, U.S.A., OCTOBER 5–8 In Asia, the situation is of new, small Pride events more in flux. For example exemplifies how regional > WORLDPRIDE 2019, STONEWALL 50, NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 2019 in Taiwan, newly elected and local Prides will gain president Tsai Ing-wen and ment. For example, last year, relevance. The large Prides, Connecticut her Democratic Progres- for the second time, a Pride in capital cities for example, HARTFORD sive Party (DPP) endorsed celebration in Belgrade, Ser- will have a national or even HARTFORD CAPITAL CITY PRIDE LGBTI politics heavily, and bia, took place without any international impact if not September 10 hartfordpride.com participated in the Taipei violence, whereas only five on LGBTI-emancipation, NEW LONDON Pride celebration in October years ago, that event ended for sure on LGBTI tourism NEW LONDON PRIDE 2015, advocating same-sex with severe violence against and their local economy. August 26–27 marriage. A Pride event in its participants. Smaller Prides will continue outct.com Phuket, Thailand, however, In Asia, it is perceived that to empower local LGBTI Calendar Delaware focused primarily on HIV- no active support is given to people and the LGBTI com- PRIDE EVENTS 2016 NEWARK prevention, a critical issue Prides. At best, the support munity as a whole, and will DELAWARE PRIDE, INC. delawarepride.org for their LGBTI community from authorities is passive. yield a more inclusive local PORT CHARLOTTE CHARLOTTE COUNTY PRIDE at the local level. With a In many cases, Pride events social environment. This District of Columbia April 30 military coup only two years are ignored by the local is the case particularly in UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF charlottecountypridefl .org ago, and with a continu- authorities. Such was the small cities and in hos- COLUMBIA SARASOTA Alabama CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE SARASOTA PRIDE, INC. ing military ruling of the case, for example, in 2014 tile environments, like in capitalpride.org sarasotapride.org country that bans events in Hong Kong where Pride Uganda where a Pride event BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL ALABAMA PRIDEFEST WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF ST. PETERSBURG considered to be a threat to activists endorsed the pro- is being organized this year, June 4–12 COLUMBIA ST. PETE PRIDE centralalabamapride.org DC LEATHER PRIDE stpetepride.com the ‘happiness doctrine,’ the test demonstrations of the for the fifth time! June 11–12 LGBTI community is hardly Umbrella Movement against In 2019, WorldPride will facebook.com/dcleatherpride TAMPA, Alaska TAMPA PRIDE FESTIVAL & to blame for planning a non- the Chinese government. take place in New York City, ANCHORAGE Florida PARADE political Pride event. Support from local celebrating the 50th anni- IDENTITY, INC. March 24–27 alaskapride.org FORT LAUDERDALE tampapride.org authorities has been found versary of the Stonewall GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE Local Support to be key component to suc- Riots, the birth of the Pride PRIDE WILTON MANORS Arizona pridefortlauderdale.org WILTON MANORS STONEWALL Our Pride Radar research cess, no matter where Prides movement. Since 1969 a lot BISBEE PASADENA FESTIVAL & PARADE FORT LAUDERDALE also uncovered differences in are held. This support can year alone, around 30 Pride has changed for the better, BISBEE PRIDE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY PRIDE, June 18 June 17–19 INC. PRIDE SOUTH FLORIDA wmeg.org support from local authori- be in the form of permits celebrations were identi- but the struggle is far from bisbeepride.com October 15 hotfl yers.com sgvpride.org ties across the globe. The and authorizations to use of fied in Sweden. In 2016, over. Pride events around PHOENIX OCALA Georgia most active perceived sup- roads or parks, complimen- this number is expected the world will continue to PHOENIX PRIDE SAN DIEGO OCALA PRIDE INCORPORATED ATLANTA April 2–3 SAN DIEGO PRIDE ocala-pride.org ATLANTA PRIDE FESTIVAL port from local authorities tary public services, such to surpass 50! The same is play a key role in changing phoenixpride.org sdpride.org October 8–9 for Pride events can be found as free street cleaning, but happening in Mexico. At the social and legal climates atlantapride.org SAN FRANCISCO in Canada and in Europe. In also in the safeguarding of beginning of our research, for LGBTI people wherever California FOLSOM STREET FAIR AUGUSTA the United States, support participants in hostile envi- our team was only aware of they live. LONG BEACH August 25 AUGUSTA PRIDE LONG BEACH LESBIAN & GAY folsomstreetevents.org prideaugusta.org from local authorities is per- ronments. a handful of Pride events. For more Pride Radar PRIDE SAN FRANCISCO VALDOSTA ceived to be more passive. But deeper investigation information and updates, May 21–22 longbeachpride.com SAN FRANCISCO LGBT PRIDE SOUTH GEORGIA PRIDE In Europe, the active sup- Growth of the actually revealed dozens go to interpride.org. CELEBRATION AND PARADE September 17 MONTE RIO June 25–26 southgapride.com port is a positive sign that Pride Movement SONOMA COUNTY PRIDE sfpride.org sonomacountypride.org highlights how an increas- Our data shows that, in the WEST HOLLYWOOD Illinois ing number of countries in years to come, the global PALM SPRINGS CHRISTOPHER STREET CHICAGO PALM SPRINGS PRIDE WEST-LA PRIDE CHICAGO PRIDE MONTH Eastern Europe are starting Pride movement is expected Frank van Dalen is a former Chair of the Dutch LGBT movement COC and Gay November 1–6 June 10 June 1–30 to embrace the Pride move- to keep on growing. Last Pride in Amsterdam. He currently serves as Chair of Pride United, Chair of the pspride.org lapride.org chicagopridecalendar.org LGBTI committee of Liberal International, and Vice-President of InterPride. He is the lead author of the Pride Radar. In recent years he has visited and 88 PRIDELIFE.COM | 2016 contributed to many Prides around the world. 2016 | @ pridelife / Pridelifemagazine 89

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Indiana FORT WAYNE FORT WAYNE PRIDE fwpride.org INDIANAPOLIS INDY PRIDE, INC. indyprideinc.org SPENCER 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPENCER PRIDE FESTIVAL June 4 Missouri spencerpride.org KANSAS CITY KANSAS CITY PRIDEFEST Kentucky June 3–5 LEXINGTON gaypridekc.org LEXINGTON PRIDE FESTIVAL June 25 SAINT CHARLES lexpridefest.org ST. CHARLES PRIDE June 18 LOUISVILLE pridestcharles.org/#!pflag/c1e6o KENTUCKIANA PRIDE FOUNDATION, INC. New Jersey kypride.com EDISON, NEW JERSEY JERSEY PRIDE 25 Massachusetts June 5 BOSTON jerseypride.org STATEN ISLAND BOSTON PRIDE STATEN ISLAND PRIDEFEST June 3–12 New Mexico 2016 bostonpride.org July 9–16 ALBUQUERQUE pridecentersi.org HULL ALBUQUERQUE PRIDE INC. HULL PRIDE June 10–12 SYRACUSE facebook.com/hullpride2014 abqpride.com CNY PRIDE cnypride.org Michigan LOS RANCHOS LOS RANCHOS PRIDE WOODBURY HOLLAND June 5 LONG ISLAND PRIDE PFLAG HOLLAND/LAKESHORE sinatradevine.org lipride.org community.pflag.org/sslpage. COLUMBUS COLUMBIA BROOKLYN aspx?pid=224&tab =68chid=184 New York Nevada COLUMBUS PRIDE FESTIVAL SC PRIDE BROOKLYN PRIDE INC. June 17–19 scpride.org BRONX brooklynpride.org LAS VEGAS columbuspride.org Minnesota OUTBRONX LAS VEGAS PRIDE BROOKLYN October 21–23 Tennessee MINNEAPOLIS Monthly Mixers Oklahoma TWIN CITIES PRIDE [email protected] CHUTNEY PRIDE INC. lasvegaspride.org NASHVILLE chutneypride.org ENID NASHVILLE PRIDE tcpride.org RENO DEWITT ENID LGBT COALITION June 24–25 NORTHERN NEVADA PRIDE enidlgbtcoalition.org nashvillepride.org PRIDE DAY AND LGBT BOOTH July 23 NEW YORK STATE FAIR northernnevadapride.org August 25–September 5 Oregon Texas fairny.org North Carolina EUGENE AUSTIN JACKSON HEIGHTS EUGENE/SPRINGFIELD PRIDE AUSTIN BLACK PRIDE CHARLOTTE DAY FESTIVAL April 1–3 QUEENS PRIDE PARADE CHARLOTTE PRIDE AND FESTIVAL August 13 austinblackpride.com August 20–21 eugenepride.org June 6 charlottepride.org AUSTIN queenspride.org AUSTIN PRIDE DURHAM Pennsylvania austinpride.org PRIDE COMMITTEE OF NC ERIE PA NEW YORK CITY ncpride.org NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA DALLAS HERITAGE OF PRIDE, INC. ALAN ROSS TEXAS FREEDOM June 21–26 PARADE AND FESTIVAL SALISBURY PARADE & FESTIVAL August 27 ROANOKE nycpride.org SALISBURY PRIDE INC. September 18 nwpapride.org ROANOKE PRIDE, INC. salisburypride.com dallasprideparade.com roanokepride.org ROCHESTER WINSTON SALEM Rhode Island ROC PRIDE & ROC PRIDE PRIDE WINSTON-SALEM Virginia GAYMES October 15 PROVIDENCE Washington NORFOLK July 15–17 pridews.org RHODE ISLAND PRIDE BREMERTON HAMPTON ROADS PRIDE gayalliance.org prideri.com KITSAP PRIDE hamptonroadspride.org July 16 SOUTH OZONE PARK, Ohio NORFOLK kitsappride.org QUEENS South Carolina CINCINNATI INTERFAITH SERVICE 2016 CARIBBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT SPOKANE VALLEY CINCINNATI PRIDE BOILING SPRINGS, UPSTATE June 14 June 5–26 June 25 PRIDE SC OUTSPOKANE caribbeanequalityproject.org cincinnatipride.org upstatepridesc.org/home outspokane.com

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BRACEBRIDGE MUSKOKA PRIDE COMMUNITY July 15 -24 muskokapride.com OTTAWA CAPITAL PRIDE FESTIVAL (PRIDE COMMITTEE OF OTTAWA-GATINEAU) August 15–21 JASPER, ALBERTA capitalpride.ca GREECE JASPER PRIDE FESTIVAL LONDON SOCIETY ATHENS PRIDE LONDON March 17–20 ATHENS PRIDE July 14–24 jasperpride.ca athenspride.eu pridelondon.ca THESSALONIKI British Columbia THUNDER BAY THESSALONIKI PRIDE International THUNDER PRIDE ASSOCIATION thessalonikipride.gr KELOWNA June 18 OKANAGAN PRIDE SOCIETY thunderpride.ca August 6–13 HUNGARY Events okanaganpride.com TIMMINS PRIDE EVENTS 2016 FIERTE TIMMINS PRIDE BUDAPEST N. CRANBROOK timminspride.com CRANBROOK PRIDE SOCIETY BUDAPEST PRIDE May 27–29 TORONTO budapestpride.com cranbrookpride.ca FIERTE CANADA PRIDE/PRIDE TORONTO ICELAND Manitoba June 24–July 3 pridetoronto.com WINNIPEG REYKJAVIK AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA PRIDE WINNIPEG WAUBAUSHENE REYKJAVIK GAY PRIDE FESTIVAL INC. SIMCOE PRIDE reykjavikpride.com Sydney VIENNA May 27–June 5 July 28–August 6 HOSI WIEN / VIENNA PRIDE - DARLINGHURST, SYDNEY pridewinnipeg.com saskatoonpride.ca REGENBOGENPARADE IRELAND SYDNEY GAY AND LESBIAN June 18 MARDI GRAS hosiwien.at Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island COLOGNE DUBLIN February 13–March 6 FRANCE HALIFAX CHARLOTTETOWN CHINA COLOGNE PRIDE DUBLIN L.G.B.T.Q. PRIDE LTD. mardigras.org.au June 18–July 3 dublinpride.ie HALIFAX PRIDE SOCIETY PRIDE PEI HONG KONG MONTPELLIER colognepride.de BELGIUM July 14–24 July 24–30 HONG KONG PRIDE PARADE LESBIAN AND GAY PRIDE Victoria halifaxpride.com pride-pei.com BRUSSELS COMMITTEE MONTPELLIER HAMBURG ITALY montpelliergay.com MELBOURNE, VICTORIA THE BELGIAN PRIDE hkpride.net HAMBURG PRIDE E.V. TRANSGENDER VICTORIA thepride.be Ontario Saakatchewan July 30–August 8 MILANO February 20 BARRIE MOOSE JAW hamburg-pride.de/en/home ARCIGAY MILANO transgendervictoria.com CZECH REPUBLIC GERMANY milanopride.it GEORGIAN PRIDE MOOSE JAW PRIDE INC. KONSTANZ, BADEN- SHEPPARTON, VICTORIA CANADA facebook.com/georgianpride May 29–June 4 PRAGUE BERLIN WURRTEMBERG ROMA GOULBURN VALLEY PRIDE INC. moosejawpride.ca PRAGUE PRIDE BERLINER CSD E.V. / BERLIN CSD IN KONSTANZ E.V. / ROMA PRIDE / CIRCULO OUTINTHEOPEN FESTIVAL Alberta REGINA praguepride.com PRIDE KONSTANZ PRIDE DI CULTURA OMOSESSUALE November 4 – 6, 2016 CALGARY, ALBERTA REGINA PRIDE INC. July 23 csd-konstanz.de MARIO MIELI gvpride.org PRIDE CALGARY PLANNING June 20–26 csd-berlin.de romapride.it COMMITTEE MANNHEIM queencitypride.ca DENMARK September 4 BRAUNSCHWEIG CSD RHEIN-NECKAR pridecalgary.ca SASKATOON COPENHAGEN BRAUNSCHWEIG PRIDE / August 6–14 KOREA SASKATOON DIVERSITY COPENHAGEN PRIDE VEREIN FÜR SEXUELLE csd-rhein-neckar.de EDMONTON, ALBERTA NETWORK copenhagenpride.dk EMANZIPATION E.V. KOREA QUEER CULTURE EDMONTON PRIDE FESTIVAL June 5–12 July 15–30 FESTIVAL June 3–12 saskatoonpride.ca csd-bs.de kqcf.org edmontonpride.ca

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What Pride Means to Me… by Matthew Lister, World Champion and reserve Olympic canoeist

“Pride to me means a total true and honest representation of myself—something that only became apparent to me after I took the plunge and officially came out. Immediately afterwards, I felt more myself on the water. I was more focused on the training I had ahead of me; and the results showed more and more. “Pride can be a quiet confidence, or a loud obnoxious boom. It’s so individual to each and every person that I believe there’s no real way to describe it, yet it encompasses every twist and turn that comes along the way. “My pride for my community and my sport has helped me to reach further than I thought I could. I’ve talked at schools and small businesses to large groups of children, teenagers, and adults from all walks of life about my experiences. I’ve taken part in charity events, been invited to awards evenings and this all because of my achievements and staying true to myself. And that’s something I

am very proud of.” LEE ROBERTS

To keep up with Matt’s shenanigans both in the canoe and out, follow him @MrMattLister on Instagram and Twitter. 96 PRIDELIFE.COM | 2016 2016 | @ pridelife / Pridelifemagazine PB

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