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No. 539 • October 22, 2015 • outwordmagazine.com Special Issue! Homemade Cat Food Recipes page 9 Why Can’t They Be Friends? page 10 Do You Have the Same Personality as Your Dog? page 11 Pooch Parade & Halloween Festival page 14 CCAF Awards Rainbow Crosswalk Patty Griffin & Shawn Photo Show Spotlights Scholarships Unveiled Colvin Keep Folk Alive Drag Queens page 4 page 5 page 17 page 21 COLOR Outword Governor Signs Assisted Reproduction Law overnor Jerry Brown on October 7th signed a bill that up being required to pay child support by updates the state’s assisted reproduction laws to ensure that the state, for example, if the parents Staff conceived through at-home insemination. Gall families are equally protected under the law. AB 960 goes into effect January 1, 2016. PUBLISHER Authored by Assemblymember David family relationships are respected by the Fred Palmer Chiu, Assembly Bill 960 updates current law,” said NCLR Family Law Director Cathy assisted reproduction laws in three ways: Sakimura. “Every child deserves this ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION Ron Tackitt first, unmarried couples using assisted protection, no matter how they were reproduction to become parents will be conceived.” GRAPHIC DESIGN recognized as such on the same terms as Current law does not provide legal Ron Tackitt married parents from the moment their child protection to many families using assisted is born; reproduction. Today, many unmarried EDITOR Charles Peer Second, it removes the requirement that a couples using assisted reproduction are not [email protected] doctor or sperm bank must be involved recognized as the child’s parents when their when using assisted reproduction in order to children are born because this protection is ARTS EDITOR ensure that the donor is not a parent; and limited to married couples. Chris Narloch finally, AB 960 provides clear direction for California law also only recognizes that SALES how egg donors should be treated under sperm donors are not legal fathers only Fred Palmer California law. when a doctor or sperm bank is involved. AB 960, which goes into effect on January However, many parents, including many CONTRIBUTING 1, 2016, is co-sponsored by the National same-sex parents, transgender parents, and WRITERS Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Equality intended single parents, use at-home Diana Kienle Frances Marlatt California (EQCA), and Our Family Coalition insemination to conceive because using a Colt McGraw (OFC). sperm bank or doctor can costs hundreds or Chris Narloch “AB 960 protects children born through thousands of dollars per month. Bonnie Osborn assisted reproduction by ensuring that their Without AB 960, a sperm donor might end David Chiu Charles Peer PHOTOGRAPHY Charles Peer Midtown Launches Stand Against Violence Drive ON THE COVER he Midtown Business Association (MBA), has launched a community Association”) at the MBA office located at Clark. Just Clark. fundraising drive to raise reward funds that will aid the Sacramento 919 20th St. or drop off donations in-person Looking fabulous, and knowing it. at the Midtown Farmers Market information TPolice Department in bringing closure to the investigation into the desk open on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 1 DISTRIBUTION senseless stabbing of hometown hero Spencer Stone. p.m. and located at J and 20th Streets or Kaye Crawford Support for the drive is coming from a online at www.gofundme.com/MidtownSac. Michael Crawford growing number of Midtown restaurants and The “Midtown’s Stand Against Violence” nightclubs including Badlands, FACES, “Midtown will not tolerate fundraising effort is being administered by ADVERTISING SALES LowBrau Bierhall, Mango’s and Sidetrax. violence occurring in the Midtown Business Association (MBA), a Interested community members and non-profit organization with a mission to Northern California businesses are encouraged to make a our community.” - Emily make Midtown the center for culture, (916) 329-9280 Fred Palmer donation of any size to support this effort. Baime Michaels, Executive creativity and vibrancy in Sacramento’s “Midtown will not tolerate violence urban core. All donated funds will be National Advertising Representative occurring in our community,” said Emily Director of the Midtown collected by the executive director of the Rivendell Media (212) 242-6863 Baime Michaels, Executive Director of the Business Association MBA and hand-delivered to the Sacramento Midtown Business Association. “Please help Police Department. us take a stand, fight back and celebrate Anyone with information about the safety in Midtown and our community at matched by MBA and supporting Midtown altercation that happened in Midtown on large. Collectively, we need to do everything businesses in an effort to generate helpful October 8, 2015 is urged to call police at we can to support the tireless efforts of the tips to the Sacramento Police Department’s 916-808-0650 or Crime Alert at 916-443- Sacramento Police Department in bringing “Crime Stopper” program. HELP. For more information about the closure to this investigation.” Those interested can mail or drop off Midtown Business Association, please visit checks (written to the “Midtown Business Outword Magazine Inc. Donated funds up to $3,500 will be www.exploremidtown.org. Office Assemblymember David Chiu, (D-District 3) 372 Florin Road, #133 Sacramento, CA 95831 PHONE: (916) 329-9280 FAX: (916) 498-8445 www.outwordmagazine.com [email protected] ISSN # 1084-7618 United States Library of Congress Nat. Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce Nat. Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association Midtown Business Association 2 Outword Magazine October 22, 2015 - November 12, 2015 • No. 539 outwordmagazine.com COLOR COLOR CCAF Awards Record Number of Scholarships by Joyce Mitchell here was a time when 32-year-old Garrett Henderson just wanted to die. “I was diagnosed with HIV when I was 19,” Henderson said. “I made lots of mistakes because I had simply given up. I Tdidn’t know anybody who had HIV — until it was me. I was lost.” Family, friends and medical professionals kind of public aid. I’m doing connected Henderson with treatment. “I everything on my own. The thought I had been diagnosed with a death scholarship is a life line.” sentence,” Henderson said. “Then, I decided CCAF is adamant. Investing in to stop punishing myself and the people HIV+ students clears the way for who care about me.” reducing stigma. “I believe Henderson now attends Sacramento State investing in students is an University and heard about the Helen Veress investment in our community and Mitchell Scholarship from a friend. The future,” Henderson said. “To allow scholarship is a project of Capital City AIDS decay spells out our own cultural Fund (CCAF) and awards HIV+ students destruction.” $1,500 per year for as many years as they Henderson, like thirteen other continue attending college or technical CCAF scholarship recipients, will be school. “For me, the amount of money is buckling down this semester, huge and invaluable,” Henderson said. studying and making their “Books alone are a small fortune.” education work for them. “It’s time For the 2015-2016 school year, CCAF to make something of myself,” funded fourteen students, the most ever since the scholarship program started in Henderson said. “It’s been a long 2002. Currently, two youth are pursuing struggle, but it’s paying off.” PhDs. One is studying the HIV/AIDS Henderson is a junior at Sac transmission among at-risk young gay men. State studying Business Another is researching the impact of HIV/ Administration. “I have re-entered AIDS medications on the brain. the academic arena with the fervor “The scholarship is 100 percent essential and determination like never in keeping me in school,” Henderson said. before,” Henderson said. “It’s an “Again, when I was diagnosed, I gave up on honor to be a recipient of the Helen myself and education. Then, I realized I am Veress Mitchell Scholarship Fund.” going to survive and now want to make To learn more, visit something of myself. I do not receive any Garrett Henderson www.capcityaidsfund.org. CCAF Unveils New Dual- Protections for Transgender Chamber Condom Dispenser Foster Youth Signed into Law at U.S. Conference on AIDS egislation that provides new protections for transgender foster youth in California was signed into law on October 10 Lby Governor Jerry Brown, ensuring ensures that all foster youth, including those who identify as transgender, are placed in appropriate homes where they feel safe and accepted. Senate Bill 731, authored by Senator Mark specific guidance on placing youth who are Leno(D-SF) requires caregivers tasked with transgender. SB 731 provides that needed placing foster youth in homes to take a direction. young person’s gender identity into The bill is co-sponsored by the National consideration when making this critical Center for Lesbian Rights, Equality California decision. and Transgender Law Center. he Capital City AIDS Fund “Young people have a better opportunity to Studies show that LGBT youth are at exhibited its new dual-chamber thrive in situations where they are fully higher risk for homelessness, abuse, Tcondom dispenser at the U.S. Conference on AIDS held accepted and supported for who they are,” depression and suicide. Transgender youth in in Washington DC in September. said Senator Leno, D-San Francisco. particular are at high risk for poor health Sacramentan Ted Ross created the “Entering the foster care system is outcomes due to the rejection and dual-chamber dispenser to individually challenging for all youth, but it can actually harassment they face. These risks are hold lube on one side and condoms be damaging for young people whose magnified for young people in foster care, on the other. Thousands of CCAF’s identities are not affirmed by their caregivers many of whom have already experienced dispensers are used on college and peers.” significant trauma.