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Volume 25 • Issue 3 • No. 450 • February 9, 2012 • outwordmagazine.com romance is in the air... Court Decides Not To Release Prop 8 Trial Tapes page 7 What Do You Look for? page 10 Star in Your Own Romance Novel page 13 New Cocktails for Valentine’s Day page 15 Aqua OutwordMagFeb9_2012ISS:FINAL 1/30/12 2:51 PM Page 1COLOR Outward Mag FULLpgHOR 4C bleed trim10.8125” w X 13”h Issue Date: feb2012 Ship Date: Jan 30 2012 HOTELS AS DIVERSE® AS OUR GUESTS WAIKIKI | MAUI | KAUAI | MOLOKAI | LANAI www.AquaGayTravel.com Aqua offers an array of hotels on 5 islands, each with their own unique personality. Customize your stay by choosing an Aqua property that fits your individual style and budget. With excellent service, great rates and plenty of FREE stuff, there’s never been a better time to visit Hawaii. 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Member FDIC. .com/usbank COLOR Outword Letters Staff Freedom to Marry Reception Phillips- LGBTQA+ youth to experience the same Equality California and the Sacramento Lesenana. “rites of passage” enjoyed by their classmates PUBLISHER Gay & Lesbian Center are hosting a fund “I look and “where u can dress as u want, invite Fred Palmer raising reception and discussion on forward to whom u want, and be whom u want!” California’s fight for marriage equality on serving The evening will be filled with live ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION with this entertainment and dancing, the selection of a Ron Tackitt Thursday, Feb. 23 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. There will be hors d’oeuvres, wine from Board and Prom King and Queen and raffle prizes. GRAPHIC DESIGN Ficklin Vineyards and beer from Hoppy working QProm will be held at Beatnik Studios, Joy Culley with our 2421 17th St. in Midtown from 7:30 to 11:30 Ron Tackitt Brewing Company. The cost for the reception is $50 to benefit the G&L Center. new p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 10 Executive and are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. EDITOR/OFFICE The reception will be held at the Kennedy MANAGER Gallery, 1114 20th St. Please RSVP at Director Visit www.saccenter.org or stop by The Charles Peer 916-442-0185 or [email protected] Shara Center at 1927 L St. to purchase tickets. [email protected] Perkins Benjamin Phillips-Lesenana. Murphy.” ARTS EDITOR Chris Narloch “We are also asking the public to get Sac G&L Center Adds New involved as we move forward to re-imagine Share Your Confessions CALENDAR EDITOR Board Member and reinvent the Center by volunteering Dear Outword, Charles Peer The Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center’s and/or making a donation,” said Heitstuman. I am currently working on a book based “I encourage individuals who want to be around how secrets and confessions have CONTRIBUTING Board of Directors has appointed Benjamin WRITERS Phillips-Lesenana as their newest member. involved to visit our Web site at SacCenter. changed or altered my life. Boyce Hinman “Benjamin is a terrific addition to the org.” In between my short stories, I’d like to Chris Narloch Center’s Board of Directors. His energy and publish short and sweet anonymous Bonnie Osborn experience is exactly what is needed as we confessions from your gay male readers. Charles Peer transform the Center into a pivotal and I’m looking for confessions about love, sex, PHOTOGRAPHY energetic force in the LGBT community,” Fourth Annual QProm Set friends, family, church, religion, boyfriends, Larry Lauszus said David Heitstuman, President of the Once Upon a Time is the theme for the ex’s, work, etc. Charles Peer Center’s Board of Directors. 4th Annual QProm hosted by the Sac G&L If you are interested in participating, “I’m encouraged by the boundless Center and scheduled for March 17. please write me at [email protected]. DISTRIBUTION The Center is committed to providing a Thank you, Kaye Crawford opportunities for the Center and its many programs that benefit our community,” said safe, alcohol and drug-free, social space for Joshua ADVERTISING SALES Northern California (916) 329-9280 Fred Palmer Charles Peer National Advertising Representative Rivendell Media (212) 242-6863 Outword Magazine Inc. 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Information contained provided not an advertisement to extend consumer credit as defined by section 226.2 of Regulation Z. Rate, terms and programs are subject to change without notice. Sacramento’s theatre community has been saddened by the deaths of two of its brightest stars this January, Bob Delucia and Sonny Sorrells. Delucia was well known throughout the Sacramento community both as an actor and director, and served as mentor for many of Sacramento’s current community theatre icons. His list of acting credits and Elly-awards is as extensive as the number of lives he touched. Sorrells moved to Sacramento from Hawaii in 2003 after a career in professional theatre that spanned the globe. Since moving to Sacramento he worked extensively with the now defunct Lambda Players, often portraying off-beat characters, which garnered him much critical acclaim as well as Elly nominations and awards. They will be especially missed by fellow actors and fans of the former Lambda Players, where they brought audiences a few tears and many, many laughs. Question One Makes West Coast Premiere at the Crest Question One, a newly released documentary on Maine’s 2009 referendum battle over same-sex marriage made its West Coast premiere on February 1 at the Crest Theater. Joe Fox, the film’s director was on hand for the screening that was sponsored in part by the Sac G&L Center, Equality Action Now, Sacramento Stonewall Democrats and the Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce. Pictured with Fox (center) are Dennis Mangers, who helped make the screening possible and the Center’s Executive Director Shara P. Murphy and board members Rosanna Herber, David Heitstuman and Benjamin Phillips-Lesenana. outwordmagazine.com February 9, 2012 - February 23, 2012 • Volume 25 • Issue 3 • No. 450 Outword Magazine 5 Broad Coalition Launched to Repeal DOMA coalition made up of civil rights, labor, progressive, faith, student, health, legal, women’s, and LGBT organizations A have announced support of the Respect for Marriage Act – the bill to repeal the discriminatory so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that withholds federal protections and respect for legally married gay and lesbian couples. The Respect for Marriage Act (H.R.1116 coalition shines a bright light on the heart- and S.598) enjoys broad support with a wrenching discrimination against loving, majority of Americans and has a record committed families caused by DOMA.” number of Congressional cosponsors with DOMA denies legally married gay and 136 in the House and 32 in the Senate. lesbian couples any of the over 1,100 federal “Because of the ‘gay exception’ created by responsibilities and protections of marriage, DOMA, America’s legally married gay and including Social Security survivors benefits, lesbian couples – including servicemembers federal employee health benefits for spouses, risking their lives on the front lines for our protections against spouses losing their safety – are treated as strangers under homes in cases of severe medical federal law, rather than provided the respect emergencies, the right to sponsor a foreign and protections federal law normally assures born spouse for immigration, the guarantee to married couples and their loved ones,” of family and medical leave and the ability said Evan Wolfson, founder and President of to file joint tax returns, among many others.