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The R• Your LGBTQainbow News in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, T Connecticutimes & Vermont • RES U T C I L P ERSA V NI PHOTO: U p3 YNAN POWER T PHOTO: JUstIN TIMBERLAKE p6 Plays Gay Again LL HA Y IT D C PROJECT ONE OR Launches Campaign F HART With Forum On Bullying Y RTES U And Suicide Prevention O PHOTO: C PEDRO SEGARRA p14 Hartford’s Latin & Gay Mayor pB15 ATION C NI U OMM C MODERN FAMILY’s PHOTO: KIDDMADONNY.COM SCIssOR SIstERS PHOTO: REGAN DON’T MIND sh(E)ARING: AN INTERVIEW WIth thE BAND’S FRONT MAN pB14 Jesse Tyler Ferguson DJ KIDDPHOTO: MADONNY UNIVERSAL Mans The Decks At Machine’s THE VILLAGE PEOPLE pB18 And The First Gay TV Kiss p7 PHOTO: ROBERT MANNIS BOstON PRIDE PARTY Celebrate 33 Years With Show At Quincy’s OCEAN CLUB Friday, June 11th HRC, BestBuy & Target saga p12 • In the Name of God: “I like your Christ, not your Christians” p4 • August 19, 010 - September 1, 010 • The Rainbow Times • www.therainbowtimesnews.com We need to foster our communication Our liberation is tied to everyone’s liberation: and cooperation to achieve progress The U.S. Military’s actions continue to restrict our liberation By: Gricel M. Ocasio*/TRT Publisher feel that way yet. Let’s try to give our LG- By: Jason Lydon/TRT Opinion Writer gon Papers, has called Manning or the past month, I have heard BTQ family the same respect, opportunities rmy Pfc. (Private First Class) and time that we like to receive. Most impor- Bradley Manning is currently a “hero.” The from various community members wars in Iraq and about our unity or lack thereof. tantly, let’s not take advantage of those with- sitting in solitary confinement at Desk A F a military prison in Virginia. The New Afghanistan out a voice because that is tragic to our cause Such comments have made me ponder are destroying about our relationships with each other. and detrimental to all of us in the end. With York Times, Wired Magazine, CNN, the LGBTQ population being just a small seg- and countless Internet sources are writ- those countries I have always thought that we should and anyone who remain a cohesive entity, and focus on ment of society, do we really want to isolate ing and reporting about this man. Man- ourselves further? ning is currently being charged with attempts to drop the struggles that affect us all and how to a wrench in the cooperatively overcome them. No matter counts of violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice, including eight war machine is Jason Lydon what segment of the LGBTQ community Gricel Martínez Ocasio taking action to we belong to, we are always affected by criminal offenses and four non-crimi- Opinion bring us back to our collective humanity. our brothers and sister’s afflictions. We *Gricel M. Ocasio is the co-founder, co-own- nal violations of Army regulations. Publisher’s I have taken the time to read a number of are all in the same boat—struggling for er and Publisher of The Rainbow Times. She is These charges are coming after Man- ning, allegedly, leaked classified information to stories and pages written about Manning, but I rights and fairness under the laws of this, our a graduate of Temple University and has been do not claim to under- country. Some people in our community feel in the journalism and publishing field for almost Wikileaks and other Internet sources. The “ But the question must be asked, what is stand the reasoning be- they have more rights than others, and that’s 20 years. You can reach her at: publisher@ hind his choice to join fine. But, let’s not forget that others may not therainbowtimesnews.com. most well-known of the alleged leaks is so bad about being a traitor when your the military. However, the video of U.S. sol- military is committing war crimes in its The New York Times It takes time before you can state the obvious diers murdering over a ever expanding imperialist agenda? … reports that Manning dozen people in New is a humanist with pro- By: Susan Ryan-Vollmar*/ for the interference with his arrangement there Baghdad. The video (viewer discretion is ad- gressive politics who has long been opinionated TRT Columnist would be no cause for such marriages. The fact vised) is available at www.colateralmurder.com. and passionate about the world being different. I · People of different that he separated the races shows that he did Two Reuter’s employees were among those in- can only imagine what it must have been like for races should be al- not intend for the races to mix. “ dividuals murdered. Manning also, allegedly, him, as a computer “wiz,” to have access to such lowed to marry. Read today, Bazile’s words are repugnant. released over 90,000 Afghanistan war reports. a vast amount of information that he believed But another eight years would pass before the Because Manning is gay his actions are bring- could possibly lead to greater outrage by the · Women should be al- United States Supreme Court looked at the lowed to vote. ing into question the current campaigns to repeal American people. In the transcripts of his chats same issue and —finally— stated the obvious Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. While the conversation is with people he hoped would share the informa- · Children should not in 1967’s landmark Loving v. Virginia: “Mar- tion with others, he stated that, “Everywhere work in factories. being focused on his sexual orientation and his riage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” challenging experiences coming out many are there’s a U.S. post, there’s a diplomatic scandal fundamental to our very existence and survival. Susan Ryan-Vollmar Few would disagree missing the bravery of his actions. Daniel Ells- See Liberation on page 6 To deny this fundamental freedom on so un- berg, the man responsible for leaking the Penta- with these statements. They are unremark- supportable a basis as the racial classifications able descriptions of our social mores. They are embodied in these statutes, classifications so obvious. directly subversive of the principle of equal- But that wasn’t always the case. In 1959, ity at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, Letters to the Editor The Rainbow Times Virginia trial Judge Leon M. Bazile sentenced is surely to deprive all the State’s citizens of 351 Pleasant St., #322 Dear Editor, Northampton, MA 01060 Richard and Mildred Loving to one year in liberty without due process of law. The Four- I have learned that things are NOT always prison for violating state law banning inter- www.therainbowtimesnews.com teenth Amendment requires that the freedom of as they seem regarding a local trans event in racial marriages. In delivering the sentence, choice to marry not be restricted by invidious [email protected] which he suspended for 5 years provided New England. Someone needed to “grow a racial discriminations. Under our Constitution, pair” and say what so many of us are think- [email protected] the couple left the state of Virginia, Bazile the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person ing! And here I am. These are, however, Phone: 413.282.8881, 617.444.9618 proclaimed: “Almighty God created the races of another race resides with the individual and or Fax: 206.203.0436 white, black, yellow, malay, and red, and he cannot be infringed by the State.” only my opinions and I can only speak for placed them on separate continents. And but myself. See Obvious on page 8 It is my opinion that some things ought to Publisher Columnists be left alone to run their own natural course Gricel M. Ocasio Lorelei Erisis Supporting the non-profits that make our community go round of life and death; meaning let this event, that Editor-In-Chief Deja N. Greenlaw appears so pretty and sparkly on the outside, Nicole Lashomb Paul P. Jesep motivated people to join Jason Lydon By: Jenn Tracz*/CABO’s Executive Director come to an end so that a constructive and Assistant Editor ast edition I encouraged readers to take us on our journey. We’re truly empowering FAIR, EQUAL, and FIFI Nigel Natalia Muñoz their first steps towards action within the looking for volunteers in DEMOCRATIC event might rise from the J.M. Sorrell Lcommunity and invited everyone to join a variety of areas, such as ashes of what seems to me to be becoming Sales Manager Jenn Tracz event planning, marketing CABO at Mohegan Sun Arena for a special a huge fiasco! Bill Berggren Reporters event. A special thank you goes out to all of and building membership. We need something run by an Organiza- Sales Associates you who joined us for a wonderful evening. CABO is in the business Joe Siegel tion with a real Board of Directors! We need Chris Gilmore But did you know there are many other differ- of building member busi- something that showcases the talent of the Tynan Power ent ways you can take action today? nesses and creating a more amazing TransMen as well as the incred- Liz Johnson Susan Ryan-Vollmar No matter what your interest there is a non- inclusive and vibrant econ- ible TransWomen in New England or the Webmaster Lead Designer profit, business or related cause that could use omy for the community at North East! I’m all for a “contest” of some Jarred Johnson Jim Curran your help.