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BE THE FIRST TO THE PARTY: Lancaster kicks off midstate's 2018 Pride season PRIDE GUIDE PGS. 11-14 REAL GAY NEWS. WE GIVE IT TO YOU STRAIGHT. THECENTRALVOICE.COM | MAY & JUNE 2018 | FREE FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES “I fear for my life in one of the places I should feel safest.” Spoken by Central Dauphin High School Junior Eamonn Wrightstone (pictured left) at Harrisburg's March For Our Lives rally By Frank Pizzoli The March 24 Harrisburg March for Our Lives rally, one of 800+ events held worldwide, drew several hundred gun-control advocates, including one whose home-made sign said “Gays Against Guns”. When it happened, the Pulse nighclub shooting had been the worst active-shooter incident on record. (See Pulse Owner: “Within a few weeks I knew” on p. 5.) After speaking on the steps of the State Capitol, 17-year old Eamonn Wrightstone tells The Central Voice his future plans include studying cinema and filmmaking. But right now he’s focused on social justice. “I do a lot of social justice work at my school and in the community. I work with the Community Responders Network and the YWCA, two great and incredible organizations,” he says. He also works on gun control because it affects his life. “School shootings are no longer a rarity, they are common-place. We currently average 1.5 a week,” Wrightstone explains. Although he has never expe- rienced a shooting, and is grateful he hasn’t, “that Please see FIGHTING, page 21 s 24 people and a panel of six speakers community?” Notario asked. Same as it does outside the LGBT community was the panel’s consensus. Aassembled for Queering Racial Justice, One panelist talked about attending a Harrisburg Queering Amanda Arbour, executive director of the rally celebrating marriage equality. No people of color had been invited to speak. “Let’s just be happy with LGBT Center of Central PA, and Heidi No- what we’ve achieved,” is what she was told by one tario, the center board’s president, looked rally attendee. He really meant “We’ll get to you later.” racial justice This exclusionary scenario – repeated via comments out at a group that ranged in age from – is perhaps why Arbour prefaced the discussion by Panel asked to consider the ways we oppress 20-something to well over 60. asking the audience to consider “the ways we oppress each other within the LGBT community each other” within the LGBT community. Three simple questions with no simple but achiev- “We must open ourselves up to some discomfort so able answers had been prepared. By Frank Pizzoli Please see , page “What does racism look like inside our own LGBT QUEERING 20 We give it to you straight. theCentralVoice.com is more than a general interest news website. We bring you LGBT politics, public policy, world affairs, analysis, art, theatre, .com CENTRAL PA'S LGBT NEWS SOURCE wellness and everything else that matters. Free content. No paywalls. No email sign-ins. No fake news. Political Updates | WORLD & NATIONAL VOICES PANAMA: INTERNATIONAL Lawyer Iván Chanis Barahona, head of Panama’s mar- NATIONAL riage-equality group, La Fundación Iguales Panamá, WATCH LIST: says the January 2018 Inter-American Court of Human AIDS RESEARCHER NEXT CDC HEAD A pioneering AIDS re- by Rex Wockner Rights marriage-equality ruling is “totally binding” on MARRIAGE EQUALITY Panama. “Case closed.” A Panama Supreme Court of searcher who’s also an Justice draft opinion rejecting marriage equality that expert on treating heroin CHILE: had been circulating at the court was withdrawn on Feb. addiction may become the A marriage-equality bill is pending in Congress and 15, 2018, because of the Inter-American Court ruling. new director of the Centers come March 11 both houses will have majority support On Jan. 16, 2018, Panamanian Vice President Isabel for Disease Control and for marriage equality, even as a new president takes De Saint Malo said the Inter-American court ruling is Prevention, reports Ron office who has little interest in the matter. Chile is indeed binding ("vinculante”) on Panama. Johnson. Dr. Robert R. required to bring in marriage equality to comply with a Redfield, 66, founded the In- stitute for Human Virology 2016 settlement with the Inter-American Commission PARAGUAY: on Human Rights. The nation is also bound by the with Dr. Robert C. Gallo, Jan. 9, 2018, Inter-American Court of Human Rights According to activists, there’s nothing in Paraguay’s who co-discovered the HIV retrovirus and developed the marriage-equality ruling, which created binding constitution that stands in the way of marriage equal- blood test for HIV. Redfield now oversees a Maryland precedent for 16 nations without marriage equality ity. In the wake of the January 2018 marriage-equality program providing HIV care and treatment to more than that are signatories to the American Convention on ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 6,000 patients in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area. Human Rights. See the "Sixteen Americas nations" activist group SomosGay announced two new lawsuits It also combats HIV/AIDS in several African nations. item in the "Final rulings issued" section at Wockner. at the nation›s Supreme Court of Justice. As a first step, Redfield would replace Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, President com for background. the suits seek recognition of two marriages of same-sex Trump’s first CDC appointment, who resigned in Janu- couples who married abroad. ary amid complaints about her investments in tobacco and health-care companies. Fitzgerald was appointed COSTA RICA: PERU: by Tom Price, Trump’s first secretary of Health and Human Services, who resigned in September after Six marriage-equality cases are pending in the Consti- In the wake of the Inter-American Court of Human criticism for lavish travel spending. tutional Chamber of Costa Rica›s Supreme Court of Rights’ January 2018 marriage-equality ruling, the Justice — four of them filed since the Inter-American president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Duberlí Court of Human Rights marriage-equality ruling in Rodríguez, said, “Peru is part of the Inter-American IVANKA ROLLBACK January 2018. The cases include actions of unconsti- system, and the organism that defends and protects Bilerico Project’s John tutionality against the nation›s Family Code, which these rights is called the Inter-American Court of Hu- Gallagher asks: Remem- prohibits marriage equality, as well as amparos — in- man Rights and ... if the court has taken a decision, I ber when Ivanka Trump dividuals› demands for protection from discriminatory believe that all the parties are called to respect that was going to be the fire- government action. The amparos target the government decision.” A legal case is on appeal in the Fourth Civil wall between us and the for not complying with the Inter-American Court rul- Chamber of the Lima Superior Court of Justice in crazies in her dad’s ad- ing, the Superior Notary Council for blocking couples› which veteran LGBT activist Óscar Ugarteche is trying ministration? In a profile marriages after the Inter-American Court ruling, and to get the national registry to recognize his Mexican in the Washington Post, the Constitutional Chamber justices themselves, for marriage to Fidel Aroche. Ugarteche and Aroche won Ivanka acknowledges that not having ruled on the two older cases. in a lower court, and constitutional experts say the ap- she doesn’t see her role peal is one path for Peru to move toward compliance as advocating publicly ECUADOR: with the Inter-American Court ruling. Meanwhile, a against policies she dis- marriage-equality bill was introduced in Congress in agrees with. “When people say, ‘Where is Ivanka and A marriage-equality case (an “extraordinary protection 2017 and is awaiting action by the Justice Committee. why is she silent on X, Y, Z?,’ they don’t understand action”) is pending before Ecuador›s Constitutional how any White House works,” Ivanka told the paper. Court and the ruling is, by law, years overdue. In the In Ivanka’s opinion, her duty is to get behind the White wake of the January 2018 Inter-American Court of Hu- PHILIPPINES: House, no matter what. “No West Wing staffer should man Rights marriage-equality ruling, if the Ecuador The Supreme Court will hear a marriage-equality tweet things that are inconsistent with the policy of decision doesn›t come soon, plaintiffs say they will case June 19, 2018. President Rodrigo Duterte has ex- the White House,” she said. National Press Club photo advance to the Inter-American system. On Jan. 15, pressed support for marriage equality. 2018, the Ecuadorian Federation of LGBTI Organiza- JUDGE LEARNS HARD WAY tions called on President Lenín Moreno to recognize VENEZUELA: marriage equality immediately. Alex Bollinger reports Two marriage-equality lawsuits are in their final that Marion County Cir- cuit Judge Vance Day was NORTHERN IRELAND: stage in the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, reportsVenezuela Igualitaria. suspened by the Oregon Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, The group said it expects rulings soon and expects to Supreme Court for three doesn’t have a government because the Democratic win. One lawsuit targets Civil Code Article 44, which years without pay for six Unionist Party and Sinn Féin power-sharing agreement says: “Marriage cannot be contracted except between misconduct charges, in- collapsed in January 2017 and hasn’t been restored due one man and one woman.” (“El matrimonio no puede cluding several about his to disagreement about marriage equality and local lan- contraerse sino entre un solo hombre y una sola mu- refusal to marry same-sex guage rights.

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