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Alvin Bethea has said in a series of emails Distinguished Service Award, which will be to local community activists that he and presented at the group’s 43rd Anniversary his wife, Judean Jones, envision the public Reception scheduled for Aril 30. service announcements or short programs GLAA says it presents the annual awards to include appearances by parents talking to local individuals and organizations “that about their experiences in losing their have served the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender children through violence. transgender community in the national He has said the aim is to help change the capital area.” hearts and minds of viewers through fi rst- Clark, a health benefi ts consultant, is chair hand accounts by parents who tell of their of the D.C. Statehood Coalition, political love and acceptance of their transgender director of D.C. for Democracy, and board children and their support of efforts by the member of the Coalition to Stop Gun LGBT community to end discrimination and Violence. Among other endeavors, he is anti-trans violence. a member of the Democratic National “Mr. Bethea introduced himself to me Committee’s Gay and Lesbian Leadership at a recent D.C. Council hearing and I Council and a former board member of the thought it would be ideal to have him in National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. the production,” Richardson said in an Gill is government affairs director of ANDREW BARNETT is leaving to pursue a doctorate. email to the Blade. He said the producer of The Trevor Project, a leading national the program was expected in the process organization providing crisis intervention WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY of interviewing the participants in the and suicide prevention services for LGBT program and an update on the status of the and questioning youth. production would be announced soon. Fowlkes is president and CEO of the LOU CHIBBARO JR. Center for Black Equity, formerly known as SMYAL exec director to step down the International Federation of Black Prides, Alston Foundation which serves as the world’s only black LGBT SMYAL Executive Director Andrew Barnett on Tuesday announced he plans to international organization. Fowlkes also step down in August to pursue his doctorate in clinical psychology. names new director serves as chair of the Democratic National “After nine years as part of the SMYAL family, I look forward to this new chapter of Committee’s LGBT Caucus. my life, where I plan to research psychosocial factors impacting health among LGBTQ The Wanda Alston Foundation, which LOU CHIBBARO JR. youth,” said Barnett in a press release. “Serving as SMYAL’s executive director and operates the city’s Wanda Alston House being part of such an extraordinary organization has been an incredible experience.” for homeless LGBT youth, announced Anti-gay Episcopal Barnett became a SMYAL staffer in 2005. He has been the organization’s executive on Tuesday that its board has named director since 2009. Ken Pettigrew as the foundation’s interim faction loses court fi ght SMYAL in 2012 adopted a new strategic plan that Barnett said would allow his executive director. in Falls Church organization to identify issues facing LGBT youth and how it can most effectively “Ken recently served as the director of respond to them. It includes a new logo and acronym — Supporting and Mentoring programs for the Wanda Alston Foundation Youth Advocates and Leaders as opposed to Sexual Minority Youth Assistance and has extensive experience in program The U.S. Supreme Court on March 10 League – that Barnett unveiled last April. management, fundraising and advocacy for upheld a Virginia court ruling denying Former SMYAL Board of Directors Chair Betsy Pursell will oversee the effort to the LGBTQ community,” said Christopher ownership rights to an Episcopal Church select Barnett’s replacement. Dyer, chair of the foundation’s board, in a building in Falls Church, Va., from a MICHAEL K. LAVERS March 11 statement. conservative congregation that broke Dyer said that prior to joining the Alston away from the church in 2006 over the Foundation, Pettigrew served as Chief of appointment of gay Bishop Gene Robinson Programs at the local D.C. group Metro of New Hampshire. Teen AIDS and as Senior Program Director The high court gave no reason why it Us Helping Us debuts new and implementation of the program, which of the local HIV/AIDS services group Us let stand an earlier ruling by the Virginia HIV testing van is called “Testing Makes Us Stronger.” Helping Us-People Into Living. Supreme Court that the multi-million dollar That slogan along with a large drawing In a separate action, the board promoted church building and grounds belonged An eye-catching new mobile health of a bare chested young man fl exing the Lisa Dupree, who had been serving as the to the mainline Episcopal denomination screening van launched on February 28 muscle of his raised arm appears on the Alston Foundation’s director of operations of Virginia. The breakaway congregation, is carrying out its mission of encouraging side of the new van. to become director of programs and which named itself the Congregation of black gay and bisexual men throughout LOU CHIBBARO JR. operations, according to Dyer. Anglicans of North America, initially seized the city to get tested for HIV, according to “Brian Watson, previous executive control of the historic church building and Ron Simmons, president and CEO of Us Trans PSA to appear director, has resigned to pursue other sprawling grounds before being ousted Helping Us, the HIV advocacy group that’s opportunities,” Dyer’s statement says. “The from the building by a lawsuit fi led by operating the van. on cable TV board thanks him for his service and wishes members of the mainline church. Simmons said the mobile health unit him success in his future endeavors.” Nick Benton, editor and publisher of the van is part of a national HIV testing and The parents of slain transgender woman Dyer said the Alston House is operating Falls Church News-Press, which reported prevention program directed toward black Deoni JaParker Jones are collaborating with at full capacity with eight residents and has on the dispute, called the court rulings gay and bisexual men through a grant from the D.C. Offi ce of Cable Television Director a waiting list for youth seeking to move into siding with the establishment Episcopal the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Eric Richardson in developing public service the facility. Church an important victory for the more Prevention, which developed the program. announcements about discrimination LOU CHIBBARO JR. progressive, LGBT supportive faction within The CDC says the program is aimed at and violence targeting the transgender the Episcopal denomination. lowering the HIV infection rate of black men community. GLAA reveals service He said the decision by the congregation who have sex with men, which is the highest Richardson told the Blade the OCT was to leave the Episcopal Church was based of all the population groups deemed to be in the “pre-production stage of what we awards winners “explicitly on grounds that the leadership of affected by the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. hope will be a half-hour program” with the National Episcopal Church had voted to Simmons is a nationally recognized expert a talk show type format that would be The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance elevate an openly gay priest, the Rev. Gene on HIV-related services for people of color. broadcast over the District of Columbia announced it has selected community Robinson, to standing as a bishop in the He served as a member of a working group Network (DCN), which was formerly known activists Jerry Clark, Alison Gill and church in 2003.” that advised the CDC in the development as the city’s Channel 16 cable station. Earl Fowlkes Jr. as recipients of its 2014 LOU CHIBBARO JR. WASHINGTONBLADE.COM MARCH 14, 2014 • 05

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Attorney General Mark Herring in January Gray beat D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), his closest rival, by a announced he would not defend Virginia’s margin of 58 percent (112 votes) to 38 percent (74 votes) in a runoff ballot, with 4 constitutional amendment that defi nes percent voting for no endorsement. marriage as between a man and a woman. Virginia Gov. TERRY MCAULIFFE denied a “I am so happy about the number of people that came out and supported us State Dels. Bob Marshall (R-Prince William request from Republicans to defend the state’s tonight,” Gray said after the vote. “It really is an affi rmation of our record and we’ll County) and Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah ban on same-sex marriage. continue to do the things that got us here tonight.” County) subsequently introduced a bill that WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY In a fi rst ballot vote, Gray came in fi rst with 115 votes, ahead of Evans, who received would have allowed any state lawmaker to 56 votes. Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) came in third with 28 votes, just defend a law if the governor and attorney ahead of Council member Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4), who captured 26 votes. Council general decline to do so. “She clearly had a view coming in,” member Vincent Orange (D-At-Large) fi nished fi fth with 8 votes. One person voted The Republican-controlled Virginia former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told for no endorsement. House of Delegates last month Bruce DePuyt of News Channel 8 during Under club rules, members have the option of holding a run-off vote between the overwhelmingly approved the measure, but an interview after Allen issued her decision, top two vote getters in the fi rst vote if no one obtains the 60 percent margin needed the state Senate Rules Committee on Feb. referring to the quote from Mildred Loving for an endorsement. 24 struck it down by a 12-4 margin. Gov. on the 40th anniversary of the landmark U.S. � CONTINUES AT WASHINGTONBLADE.COM Terry McAuliffe also denied a request from Supreme Court ruling that struck down the LOU CHIBBARO JR. Marshall, Gilbert and 28 other legislators commonwealth’s interracial marriage ban to appoint a special counsel to defend the she used to open it. “We expect judges to Levine seeks U.S. House seat from Va. marriage amendment. look at these things more objectively.” State Del. Mark Cole (R-Fredericksburg), Lieutenant Gov. Ralph Northam, who chair of the House Privileges and Elections took offi ce in January alongside McAuliffe Gay rights attorney and radio talk show host Mark Levine on March 9 offi cially Committee, announced at the start of and Herring, is among those who launched his campaign for the U.S House seat in Northern Virginia being vacated by the 2014 General Assembly it would not applauded Allen’s ruling. retiring Rep. Jim Moran (D). consider proposed resolutions that sought “We shouldn’t as a government be At a rally in his Old Town Alexandria townhouse packed with supporters and to repeal the marriage amendment until telling people who they should and family members, including his parents, Levine described himself as an “aggressive next year. State Del. Joseph Yost (R-Giles shouldn’t love,” Northam told the Blade progressive” who will fi ght for the progressive causes and policies that he said many County) a few weeks later became the during a celebration of Allen’s decision that fellow Democrats have shied away from. fi rst Republican state lawmaker to back took place at a gay-owned furniture store in As a staff attorney for gay former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Levine said LGBT marriage rights for same-sex couples. Norfolk on Feb. 14. “In 2014 one should be rights and marriage equality would be an important part of his campaign platform “As far as same-sex marriage goes, able to love and marry who they want.” and would be at the top of his agenda if elected to Congress. it does not bother me,” Yost told the The 2014 General Assembly otherwise “I think all too often Democrats take what they can get and maybe cast a vote but Washington Blade during an exclusive proved a mixed bag for Virginia LGBT rights aren’t out there changing the course of the debate,” he said. interview at an Equality Virginia reception advocates on a range of issues that include “So those of you who know me and even some of you that don’t know me that in downtown Richmond on Jan. 29 that adding sexual orientation and gender well know that I’m really not a quiet person,” he said, drawing laughter and applause. coincided with the group’s annual Lobby identity and expression to existing anti- “I don’t think we need quiet people in Congress.” Day. “I don’t think the government should discrimination laws. Levine is one of 11 candidates running in the hotly contested Democratic primary be involved in marriage period — straight McAuliffe is expected to sign into law a in a heavily Democratic district where the winner of the primary is expected to win the or gay. I feel like we have bigger things to bill the House approved last week by a 100- general election in November. worry about.” vote margin that seeks to repeal Virginia’s Among the others running are gay Virginia State Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria), U.S. District Judge Arenda L. Wright sodomy law. An identical measure passed and State Del. Mark Sickles (D-Fairfax), who came out as gay last month in a column Allen on Feb. 13 struck down the gay unanimously last month in the state Senate. in the Washington Post. nuptials ban in a case that two same-sex The Senate Rehabilitation and Social The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, which raises money for out LGBT candidates, couples from Norfolk and Chesterfi eld Services Committee in January struck down has endorsed Ebbin. The group called Ebbin a champion for progressive causes brought against it. The 4th U.S. Circuit a measure introduced by state Sen. Janet and LGBT equality during his nine years in the Virginia General Assembly, both as a Court of Appeals in Richmond earlier this Howell (D-Fairfax Country) that would have senator and former delegate. week granted a motion from Lambda extended second-parent adoption rights to Levine said he hopes to distinguish himself from his rivals by drawing attention to Legal and the American Civil Liberties gays and lesbians. his experience in legal and public policy work for more than 20 years. He pointed Union — which fi led a separate lawsuit State Del. Joseph Yost (R-Giles County) to his stint as a congressional staffer and his outspoken advocacy for progressive against the marriage amendment last introduced a similar measure in the Virginia causes, including universal health care, in his regular appearances on radio and TV August on behalf of two lesbian couples House of Delegates that two Republicans political talk shows such as those on Fox News and MSNBC. from the Shenandoah Valley — to join — state Dels. Gordon Helsel (R-Poquoson) LOU CHIBBARO JR. the case for which oral arguments are and Tom Rust (R-Fairfax County) — co- tentatively scheduled to begin on May 12. sponsored. It died in committee last month. WASHINGTONBLADE.COM MARCH 14, 2014 • 07

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BROOKLYN, N.Y. — ESPN.com on Tuesday reported the Brooklyn Nets will sign center Jason Collins for the remainder of the season later this week. Collins on Feb. 24 signed a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets that has subsequently been extended. On the same day he became the fi rst openly gay male athlete to play in a game for a major professional sports league when he played during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers. The former Washington Wizards center has chosen 98 as his jersey number in POPE FRANCIS startled many by saying civil unions could ‘provide fi nancial security to cohabitating honor of Matthew Shepard. couples.’ Collins, who came out as gay last April in a Sports Illustrated op-ed, has also made a number of appearances at LGBT events since his historic announcement. These include marching in Boston’s annual Pride parade in June and sitting on a U.N. panel last December that commemorated the 65th anniversary of the ratifi cation of the Pope, Dolan at odds Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Lesbian couple in Texas found murdered over gay relationships

PORT BOLIVAR, Texas — Texas authorities continue to investigate the murder of N.Y. archbishop says society saying they were contrary to the position of a lesbian couple found dead early on March 7. suffers due to civil unions the pope. Lone Star Q reported a deliveryman found the bodies of Britney Cosby and Crystal “Since Day 1 of this papacy, Cardinal Jackson in a dumpster outside a convenience store in Port Bolivar. Dolan has sought to minimize the teachings The newspaper reported the two women left their Houston home on March 5 to By CHRIS JOHNSON of Francis and the new and welcome drive to nearby Galveston for the city’s annual Mardi Gras celebration. The Galveston [email protected] message of inclusion, but the Cardinal is County Sheriff’s Offi ce over the weekend released a composite sketch of a man out of step with the Pope, out of step with whom they said was seen driving Cosby’s new 2006 Kia Sorrento. Despite recent comments from Pope the great majority of American Catholics “What did they do to you to kill my sister,” Jackson’s sister, Lequetia Jackson, told Francis suggesting he may be open to who support the freedom to marry, and out KTRK in Houston. the idea of civil unions, one of the more of step with the true values of love and the Authorities continue to investigate whether the killings were a hate crime. infl uential U.S. bishops in his church doesn’t Golden Rule,” Wolfson said. “Equality Texas is deeply saddened by this murder and our hearts and prayers are share the same view. The remarks on civil unions from both with Ms. Cosby’s and Ms. Jackson’s family and friends during this diffi cult time,” said New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Dolan and Francis come at a time when Equality Texas Executive Director Chuck Smith. who’s known for his conservative views and virtually no jurisdiction is debating them as opposition to same-sex marriage, said he’d states and countries are instead moving Oregon GOP backs marriage referendum be uncomfortable with even civil unions toward marriage equality for relationship when asked about the issue on NBC’s recognition for gay couples. “Meet the Press” by host David Gregory. Dolan’s main point during his “Meet SEASIDE, Ore. — Republicans who attended an annual GOP conference on “If we water down that sacred meaning the Press” interview was that Francis was March 8 voted to endorse a proposed referendum on whether marriage should be of marriage in any way, I worry that not only shrewdly adapting the message of the extended to same-sex couples in the state. the church would suffer, I worry that culture church in a time when public sentiment The Oregonian reported those who attended the annual Dorchester Conference and society would,” Dolan said. is changing, but church doctrine remains voted 233-162 in favor of the referendum. Dolan also rejected the notion that Francis the same. “We’re not a threat to the institution [of marriage], believe me,” gay Portland was expressing support for the legalization “And so Francis is reminding us, look, if attorney Jerry Keene told the newspaper. “If we’re allowed access to the institution, of such agreements in his comments to an we come across as some crabby, naysaying we’ll take care of it.” Italian magazine that were widely reported shrill, we’re not gonna win anybody. If we Oregon United for Marriage maintains it has enough signatures to place the issue last week. come across as a loving, embracing holy on the November ballot. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum last month announced “It wasn’t as if he came out and approved mother church who says, “Come on in. We she will not defend the state’s same-sex marriage ban that voters approved in 2004. them,” Dolan said. “But he…in a sensitivity love you. We need you. We want you. And that has won the heart of the world, he said, once you get to know us, then maybe we Former Puerto Rican lawmaker comes out “Rather than quickly condemn them, let’s… can invite you to the conversion of heart that just ask the questions as to why that has is at the core of the gospel. And then maybe appealed to certain people.” we can talk about changing behavior. That’s SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A former member of the Puerto Rico Senate who According to CNN, Francis said during a very effective pedagogy.” resigned after naked pictures he posted to a gay website were revealed has come an interview with Corriere della Sera that Dolan was also asked for his views on out of the closet. he remains opposed to same-sex marriage, the coming out announcement of Michael “Yes,” Roberto Arango told the Puerto Rican radio station NotiUno in response to but added “we have to look at different Sam, the Missouri collegiate defensive a question about whether he is gay as Blabbeando reported on March 7. “On top of cases” and civil unions could “provide lineman who could be the fi rst openly gay that I am a businessman. On top of that I am a father, I am a brother, I am a son. On fi nancial security to cohabitating couples.” person to play in the NFL. top of that I like doing community work and volunteering.” That’s along the lines of the support “Good for him,” Dolan said. “I would Arango opposed efforts to extend rights to LGBT Puerto Ricans that include civil Francis expressed for civil unions when he have no sense of judgment on him. God unions for same-sex couples while in the Puerto Rico Senate. He also used an anti- was Archbishop of Buenos Aires prior to bless ya. I don’t think the same Bible gay slur to refer to a San Juan mayoral candidate during a 2004 rally. the legalization of same-sex marriage in that…teaches us well about the virtues Arango resigned in 2011 after nude pictures of himself that he placed on Grindr Argentina in 2010. of chastity and the virtue of fi delity and began to circulate in the Puerto Rican media. Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom marriage also tells us not to judge people. to Marry, criticized Dolan for his remarks, So I would say, ‘Bravo.’” WASHINGTONBLADE.COM MARCH 14, 2014 • 09

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Carson, Reed criticize back against the advancement of marriage push for marriage, equality as numerous federal courts — most recently in Texas, Virginia, Kentucky, while others steer clear Utah and Oklahoma — have struck down state constitutional bans on same-sex By CHRIS JOHNSON marriage amid expectations the U.S. [email protected] Supreme Court will deliver a fi nal ruling on the issue in 2015. NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — To witness The anticipated resolution of the the conservative movement’s struggle with marriage issue in the courts invoked the the widely held perception that nationwide ire on stage of Eric Metaxas, a conservative marriage equality is imminent, you need pundit who insisted voters must decide the not look further than the stage of the 2014 issue of marriage equality instead of judges. Conservative Political Action Conference. “The idea of same-sex marriage, the idea After remaining silent on the fi rst of paying for contraceptions, we should day of the conference, voices against let the voters decide,” Metexas said. “This same-sex marriage emerged on Friday, is the United States of America. We don’t although they were restricted to certain need the ‘Mandarins of Justice’ to make Former Sen. RICK SANTORUM (R-Pa.) speaking at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference. conservative activists as others expressed these decisions; we’re supposed to trust the confl ict over the issue and elected voters to make those decisions, and let the WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY Republican offi cials ignored LGBT rights voters decide.” altogether in their speeches. But those considered possible 2016 Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith and presidential candidates shied away from the Freedom Coalition, was among the most issue of marriage equality. vociferous in his opposition to same-sex Rick Santorum, known for his opposition marriage as he accused U.S. Attorney to same-sex marriage and support for a U.S. General Eric Holder of committing a constitutional amendment banning same- “brazen act of lawlessness” by counseling sex marriage, expressed regret on stage state attorneys general not to defend that he became known for that viewpoint marriage laws against litigation. over the course of his 2012 presidential bid. It should be noted that during his speech “I don’t want to talk about redefi ning to the National Association of Attorneys marriage; I want to talk about reclaiming General, Holder said he believes it’s OK for marriage as a good for society and state attorneys general not to defend a ban celebrating how important it is for our on same-sex marriage if they believe they’re economy,” Santorum said to applause. unconstitutional, but he never instructed Santorum continued to discuss the them to take that course of action. importance of the institution of marriage “From now on, we’re going to accept — in itself, saying businesses could advance it by 2014, 2016 and beyond — nothing beyond offering marriage counseling as a benefi t. unapologetic, unalloyed ‘conservative’ Amid the (often disputed) perception that that defends the principles upon which Pope Francis is more lenient on gay rights, RALPH REED criticized Attorney General Eric Holder over his support for marriage equality. this nation was founded, including the particularly after his recent suggestion he biblical principles of freedom of religion, the could support civil unions, Santorum, who’s WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY sanctity of life and the sacred institution of Catholic, commended the pontiff for saying marriage,” Reed continued. the Catholic Church should steer away from candidate turned Fox News commentator for bestiality and pedophilia. Also injecting anti-gay sentiment social issues. Mike Huckabee, known for championing On stage at CPAC, Carson denied he before the estimated 8,500 attendees “He’s going out there and not talking social issues, was silent on stage about ever made such a comparison and said at CPAC was Oliver North, a Fox News about what the Christian faith is against, the issue of marriage equality, although he reporting on his televised remarks was a commentator known for his role in the he’s going out there and talking about spoke more generally about upholding fabrication of the media, although he said Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan what we’re for,” Santorum said. “He hasn’t religious liberties in the country. to applause he still believes “marriage is administration in the 1980s. changed a single policy. He won’t change But not everyone shied from talking between a man and a woman.” Ending his speech, North equated a single policy. But what he’ll do is he’ll go marriage. Ben Carson, a conservative “Of course they’re not the same thing,” the conservative struggle to stop the out there and talk about the good news to commentator and former neurosurgeon at Carson continued. “Anybody who believes advancement of marriage equality to a hurting world because he believes that Johns Hopkins University, doubled-down that is a dummy, but anybody who believes abolitionists’ efforts in 19th century America that’s what the world needs.” Saturday on his opposition to same-sex somebody who says that somebody said to end slavery. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a known opponent marriage, saying gay people “don’t get to that is a dummy, that’s the problem.” “Some say that we must ignore social of LGBT rights including allowing openly redefi ne marriage.” Carson made the controversial remarks issues, like the defi nition of marriage, the gay people in the Boy Scouts, turned his “Of course gay people should have the last year when speaking to conservative sanctity of life, religious freedoms,” North attention to deriding the advancement same rights as everyone else,” Carson said. commentator Sean Hannity about said. “I say those are not social issues, they of welfare states under the Obama “But they don’t get extra rights, they don’t restricting marriage to unions betweens are deeply moral and spiritual issues and administration. get to redefi ne marriage.” one man and one woman. should be part of America’s elections.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has a Carson has a history of making “It’s a well-established fundamental pillar North also made a veiled criticism of reputation as a libertarian, delivered infl ammatory statements against gay of society,” Carson said. “And no group, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, saying a speech criticizing the exposed data people. Last year, he gave up his speaking be they gays, be they NAMBLA (North the administration is treating U.S. troops collection by the National Security Agency role at a commencement ceremony for American Man/Boy Love Association,) be like “laboratory rats” as part of a “social as he urged adherence to the U.S. Johns Hopkins under pressure following they people who believe in bestiality — it experiment.” Constitution. controversial remarks he made on Fox doesn’t matter what they are. They don’t These conservative activists are pushing Even 2008 Republican presidential News comparing gay people to advocates get to change the defi nition.” WASHINGTONBLADE.COM MARCH 14, 2014 • 11

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At the time executive order, all of which would be take action now to protect millions of order just months ago, reportedly adding one letter was signed in 2011, Wasserman wiped out the day after the president of workers across the country from the “I don’t know where I would be today if the Schultz told reporters during an Immigration the other party takes power, you really threat of discrimination simply because executive order had not been used to get Equality fundraiser she supported the haven’t advanced the ball much,” Kirk of who they are or who they love,” the rid of slavery.” The Blade is unaware of any action, but didn’t feel comfortable making said in 2011. “That’s why the legislation is letter states. public comments from Hoyer on the LGBT demands on the administration because of absolutely necessary.” Although this is the fi rst letter intended executive order. her position in the DNC. In the House, six Republicans co-sponsor to include signatures from members of At the time the 2013 letter was made “Given that I’m the chair of the DNC, ENDA: Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), both the House and Senate, it’s not the fi rst public, Pelosi’s offi ce cited a policy that she it’s a little odd for me to be asking the Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.), Charlie Dent (R- time lawmakers signed letters calling for refrains from signing group letters because administration to do specifi c things,” Pa.), Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.), Chris Gibson the executive order. Last year, 110 House of her position in Democratic leadership. Wasserman Schultz said at the time. “So I (R-N.Y.) and Jon Runyan (R-N.J.). 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2014, by encouraging homophobia and stigmatization, is in contravention of the duty of the government to respect, protect and promote the rights and freedoms of persons likely to be affected by the act.” The activists’ petition asks the court to block enforcement of the law and prevent Ugandan media outlets and websites from publishing the names and pictures of those who are open about their sexual orientation or suspected of being gay. Jeffrey Smith of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, which honored Mugisha in 2012 and whose president, Kerry Kennedy, discussed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill with Museveni in January, welcomed the petition to the Ugandan Constitutional Court. “The Anti-Homosexuality Law clearly violates a host of constitutionally protected rights in Uganda, not to mention international human rights standards pertaining to nondiscrimination, the right to privacy, and freedom of expression,” Smith told the Blade on Tuesday. “These rights belong to every Ugandan citizen, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, and the government has a duty to not only protect these rights, but to both promote and advance them as well. Today’s constitutional challenge is therefore a signifi cant step forward in the struggle for the respect of basic human rights for all Ugandans.” The Obama administration announced after Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law that it has begun reviewing its relationship with Uganda. U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who met with Museveni in January during a trip to the East African country with other members of Congress, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay are among those who also criticized the measure. “I certainly disagree with the controversial legislation that Uganda may enact in the coming days,” Inhofe told the Washington Blade before Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. Ugandan LGBT rights advocates and their supporters maintain U.S. evangelicals exploited homophobic attitudes in the East African country and encouraged lawmakers to approve the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. A federal judge in Massachusetts last August ruled a lawsuit the Center for Constitutional Rights fi led against Scott Lively on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda, a Ugandan LGBT advocacy group of which Mugisha is executive director, can A group of African gays and their supporters demonstrated Friday at the Nigerian embassy. proceed. Lively described the law as “overly harsh on its face,” but “typical of African criminal law WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY DAMIEN SALAS across the country” to the Blade during a press conference last month at the National Press Club in downtown Washington. “Poor countries with limited criminal justice systems tend to rely on the harshness of the Protesters target Nigerian embassy letter of the law to be a deterrent to criminals,” said Lively. “In practice, the sentencing is usually pretty lenient. Kenya, for example, has the death penalty for burglary, but burglars are A group of activists gathered outside the Nigerian embassy in Washington last defi nitely not being executed there.” week to protest anti-gay laws in the African country and to condemn the leadership MICHAEL K. LAVERS of President Goodluck Jonathan. Babakekere, a gay Nigerian man attending the protest, fl ed to the U.S. in Lesbian elected to Colombian Congress December of 2012 from Africa. Fearing for his safety, Babakekere uses a pseudonym to protect his identity. “I moved here because of the discrimination toward LGBT citizens,” said A lesbian former Councilwoman in the Colombian capital this week became the fi rst out Babakekere, “and I am trying now to claim asylum.” person elected to the South American country’s Congress. Sentamu Kiremerwa, originally from Uganda but now a U.S. resident of 14 years, Angélica Lozano received more than 30,000 votes as a candidate for the Green Alliance led the group in chants, and spoke out against the leadership of Nigeria and Uganda Party to represent Bogotá in the Colombian House of Representatives in legislative elections. in a personal speech. “Homophobia is not what African culture is about,” said “It is very important that our fi ght in the name of equality and respect, justice and the Kiremerwa, “African culture is about love, acceptance, and family.” recognition of our rights has been achieved,” Lozano told the Washington Blade on Monday. DAMIEN SALAS “For the LGBT community this means that we are completely out of the closet, that we have a voice from our own community in the Congress, that we are going to have an openly lesbian congresswoman in an institution that has been historically misogynistic and homophobic.” Lozano, a lawyer who is the former mayor of Bogotá’s Chapinero district that has a large Uganda anti-gay law challenged in court gay population, has advised Colombian lawmakers Antonio Navarro Wolff and Íngrid Betancourt Pulecio, whom members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) kidnapped in 2002 while she was campaigning for president. Lozano also took part in A coalition of Ugandan human rights organizations and activists on Tuesday challenged a a USAID-backed training in May that nearly three dozen Colombian LGBT rights advocates law that imposes a life sentence upon anyone found guilty of repeated same-sex sexual acts. attended in Bogotá. Ugandan LGBT rights advocates Frank Mugisha, Julian Pepe Onziema and Jacqueline The country’s Constitutional Court in 2011 ruled same-sex couples could legally register Kasha Nabagesera are among those who signed onto the Civil Society Coalition on Human their relationships in two years if Colombian lawmakers did not pass a bill that would extend Rights and Constitutional Law’s challenge of the so-called Anti-Homosexuality Bill that to them the same benefi ts heterosexuals receive through marriage. President Yoweri Museveni signed into law on Feb. 24. The Colombian Senate last April overwhelmingly rejected a bill that would have allowed They argue in their petition to the Ugandan Constitutional Court that the statute violates gays and lesbians to tie the knot. A handful of same-sex couples have exchanged vows in the right to equality and privacy outlined in the country’s constitution. The advocates said the country since the Constitutional Court’s deadline passed last June, but Inspector General the anti-gay law also discriminates against people with HIV and disabilities and imposes a Alejandro Ordóñez Maldonado has spearheaded efforts to challenge them. “disproportionate punishment for the offense (of homosexuality) in contravention of the right Lozano told the Blade during an interview in her Bogotá offi ce last May that LGBT to equality and freedom from cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.” Colombians continue to face social inequalities in spite of efforts to extend more legal rights The activists also contend Ugandan parliamentarians approved the measure late last year to them. She said on Monday she and Colombian LGBT rights advocates continue to fi ght without the necessary quorum. to secure recognition of gay and lesbian families and other measures to “guarantee our “The spirit of the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2014, by promoting and encouraging dignifi ed life” and ensure “we will be on the right side of history.” homophobia, amounts to institutionalized promotion of a culture of hatred and constitutes “Today Bogotanos have endorsed this mandate,” Lozano told the Blade. a contravention of the right to dignity,” reads the petition. “The Anti-Homosexuality Act MICHAEL K. LAVERS WASHINGTONBLADE.COM MARCH 14, 2014 • 15 washingtonblade.com 16 • MARCH 14, 2014 COVER STORY LGBT supporters remain loyal to Gray

U.S. Attorney says to reporters and court observers that Mayor “It’s shocking to me, ” Gray told the Post. Gay Democratic activist Peter Rosenstein, mayor knew about 2010 Vincent Gray was Mayoral Candidate A. “Lies, these are lies.” another Gray supporter, said he and Machen declined to say whether Noting that Thompson made the others in the LGBT community were not ‘shadow’ campaign Mayoral Candidate A or other candidates accusations as part of a deal in which he condoning illegal campaign practices. receiving illegal campaign contributions pleaded guilty on Monday in exchange “I believe Thompson should be By LOU CHIBBARO JR. from Thompson were being targeted for a more lenient sentence and a promise prosecuted to the full extent of the law [email protected] for prosecution, saying only that the to cooperate with prosecutors, Gray said as should anyone else found to have government’s investigation was ongoing. Thompson’s credibility was in doubt. knowingly participated in his schemes,” Similar to their straight counterparts, Gray has not been charged in the case Thompson, 58, is the former chairman Rosenstein said. “Knowing the mayor and many LGBT supporters of D.C. Mayor and has repeatedly denied he had any and CEO of a company that had a multi- Thompson I am still inclined to believe the Vincent Gray said their commitment knowledge of illegal actions by Thompson million dollar city contract to process mayor. If there is defi nitive proof the mayor to his re-election has not wavered over and others associated with the campaign. Medicaid-related services and other health- knew what was going on the U.S. Attorney allegations by the U.S. Attorney this week “This doesn’t change my level related services for the D.C. government. owes it to the citizens of the District to share that Gray knew about an illegal scheme of support for the mayor,” said gay He pleaded guilty on Monday to a federal it now,” he said. to raise more than $660,000 for his 2010 Democratic activist Lane Hudson, who charge of conspiring to violate federal “All I know is that Mayor Gray is a great election campaign. has served as a volunteer fundraiser campaign fi nance laws and to submit false friend of the LGBT community and denies New details about Gray’s alleged and coordinator of the Gray campaign’s fi lings to the IRS. He also pleaded guilty to the allegations,” said Rick Rosendall, knowledge of a so-called “shadow” outreach to the LGBT community. “In fact, a D.C. offense of conspiring to violate D.C. president of the Gay and Lesbian Activists campaign surfaced at a hearing in U.S. it probably increases it.” campaign fi nance laws by “defrauding the Alliance. “Machen’s news conference District Court Monday morning in which Hudson was among the Gray supporters District of Columbia’s Offi ce of Campaign and charges against Thompson seem businessman Jeffrey E. Thompson pleaded that questioned Machen’s motive behind Finance,” according to a statement released suspiciously timed given the upcoming guilty to secretly channeling more than $2 the government’s decision to fi le felony by the U.S. Attorney’s offi ce. primary election, which is galling given the million in illegal contributions to federal and campaign violation charges against “Jeff Thompson is a man who’s trying to paternalistic position the U.S. Attorney is in local political campaigns. Thompson and linking Gray to the cling to his freedom and offered allegations over the District,” he said. In a news conference following the court fundraising scheme less than a month that have not been substantiated or Rosendall was referring to longstanding hearing, Ronald Machen, the U.S. Attorney before the city’s April 1 mayoral primary. repeated by anyone else,” Hudson told the complaints by D.C. home rule advocates for the District of Columbia, said someone Gray told the Washington Post and Blade. “And until the U.S. Attorney provides that the city’s prosecutors are federally identifi ed in court documents as “Mayoral at least two local TV news stations that evidence to the contrary, Mayor Gray is appointed rather than elected, as is the case Candidate A” was among the recipients Thompson’s accusations that he knew entitled to the presumption of innocence, with most other cities and states. of the illegal contributions. Although about the illegal campaign scheme especially when his reputation is far more Machen did not say so directly, it was clear were “lies.” valuable than an admitted felon.” � CONTINUES AT WASHINGTONBLADE.COM Catania enters race for mayor

Gay Council member these are the ones that have guided me Catania, however, said the timing of prevails in the Democratic primary. I’ve got reiterates call for since I was elected,” he said. his declaration of candidacy for this week a record that I’m very proud of and that I’m In what many LGBT activists will likely was set in motion over a week ago, before very excited to share, and I’m very excited to Gray to resign view as a twist of fate, a large segment of the revelations of the U.S. Attorney were talk about my vision for the city.” the city’s LGBT community has already known, when he set up a campaign bank The most recent poll on the Democratic By LOU CHIBBARO JR. lined up behind the re-election campaign account that required him to formally enter primary, which was conducted before the [email protected] of Mayor Vincent Gray, who they consider the race this week. latest revelations about Gray’s alleged the most LGBT-supportive mayor in the Catania said he’s ready to run 2010 shadow campaign, show Gray D.C. Council member David Catania history of the city. against Gray or any of the other seven leading his closest rival, Council member (I-At-Large) fi led papers on Wednesday The potential dilemma of LGBT voters Democrats challenging Gray in the city’s Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4), by a margin to become a candidate for mayor in the having to choose between an out gay April 1 Democratic primary, including of 28 percent to 20 percent. Council November general election, saying he candidate with a longstanding record four of Catania’s Democratic colleagues members Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), Tommy has the “values and the vision and the of support on their issues and a pro- on the Council. Wells (D-Ward 6), and Vincent Orange tenacity” to tackle the challenges facing LGBT mayor they consider a longtime In response to questions by reporters, (D-At-Large), were trailing with 13 percent, the city. friend and ally was likely heightened on Catania said he’s not at all deterred by 12 percent and 4 percent respectively. As a 16-year veteran on the Council with a Wednesday when Catania reiterated his the fact that he’s an independent and Businessman Andy Shallal had 6 long record of legislative accomplishments, call for Gray to resign. former Republican running in a city with an percent, attorney and former State including his role as author of the city’s When asked by reporters at his news overwhelmingly Democratic electorate. No Department offi cial Reta Jo Lewis had 3 historic marriage equality law, Catania conference what he thought about non-Democrat has ever won election as percent, and civic activist Carlos Allen had becomes the fi rst serious openly gay revelations by the U.S. Attorney earlier mayor in the District of Columbia. less than 1 percent. contender for the offi ce of D.C. mayor with this week that Gray was aware of an illegal “I want to be as clear as I can be,” he said. Political observers, including Bob a shot at winning. “shadow campaign” orchestrated by “I won more citywide races than everyone Summersgill, former president of the Gay “This is a city that believes strongly in businessman Jeffrey Thompson to benefi t else in the race combined. I’ve won fi ve and Lesbian Activists Alliance, said that if equality of opportunity, a strong sense of Gray’s 2010 mayoral campaign, Catania said times citywide. I’ve represented every Gray squeaks out a victory in the primary fairness and the importance of playing he believes the allegations to be true. corner of the city since 1997.” with around 30 percent of the vote or by the rules,” Catania said at a news “I made my feelings known about the Catania added, “I believe I have the less, many of the Democratic voters that conference outside the city’s Reeves mayor’s shadow campaign when it was fi rst values and the vision and the tenacity to backed his rivals could turn to Catania in the Center municipal building, where he disclosed nearly two years ago,” he said. tackle the challenges facing the city and I November election. registered his candidacy. “I said he should have resigned then and I have the record of accomplishments that “These are the values we all share and believe that today.” supports it. So I’m not worried about who � CONTINUES AT WASHINGTONBLADE.COM WASHINGTONBLADE.COM MARCH 14, 2014 • 17 FINALLY– THE STATUS YOU DESERVE Married Filing Jointly Zoning Regulations Review Our experienced and friendly staff can Zoning Commission navigate you through the dramatic changes Case No. 08-06A

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Victory Fund endorsements privileges as their peers. They will be cred- refl ect need for inclusion We understand the frustration that many individuals ible voices, spoken from personal experiences as openly gay Americans — about at the GOP table in our community are having with Victory’s the need for progress on laws, such as endorsements of Republicans, particularly in races ENDA to protect LGBT workers. We know By CHRISTIAN BERLE & MARISA UCHIN this because their commitment to equal- against strong Democratic allies. ity is not new; they both have considerable As a Democrat from San Francisco and track records on LGBT issues. a Republican from New England, we have Many in the LGBT community rightfully put our heads together on why the work the push for marriage equality. They also hap- edge our appreciation for the signifi cant call on the Republican Party to drop its out- Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund does is critically pen to be Republicans. We understand the contributions of our allies and what they dated opposition to LGBT rights. But to do important to achieving LGBT equality. frustration that many individuals in our com- have been able to accomplish at all levels so will require change to the GOP from the From Arizona to Mississippi to Kansas, re- munity are having with Victory’s endorse- of government, but it is Victory’s fi rm belief inside as well as the outside, and at all levels cent attempts to pass anti-LGBT legislation ments of Republicans, particularly in races that to sustainably move the needle for- of government. That is why Victory supports remind us of the adage “if you’re not at the against strong Democratic allies. Victory’s ward we must help create change in both the election of openly LGBT candidates, table, you’re on the menu.” These examples endorsements do not take place without cloakrooms. As we have seen with marriage both Democrats and Republicans as well illustrate why it is so important that we elect considerable amounts of forethought and equality in state legislatures, out LGBT leg- as independents, who have demonstrated openly LGBT candidates to offi ce: to ensure planning. islators have to be at the table to help their leadership in advancing freedom and equal that our voice is heard, and that basic free- This debate brings our community to colleagues understand how these votes af- rights for all LGBT Americans. The election dom and human rights are guaranteed for a critical juncture. Without openly LGBT fect them as people. Put another way, does of openly LGBT candidates in recent years everyone, regardless of whom they are or members of Congress from both parties, anyone think Arizona Republicans would has helped bring that goal within reach who they love. That goal has remained the how will we continue to move full speed have had such an easy time passing anti- — but we cannot expect to achieve all we Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund’s central credo ahead toward the equality we deserve? LGBT discrimination if an LGBT colleague deserve without having out LGBT Republi- ever since its founding in 1991. The answer does not lie in concentrating on sat alongside them in those caucus meet- cans at all levels of public offi ce, especially Last week, the Victory Fund was proud to short-term partisan gains, but by continuing ings? in Congress. announce the endorsement of two openly to endorse openly LGBT viable candidates If elected, Dan Innis and Richard Tisei gay congressional candidates: Dan Innis, across the political spectrum who have a will have the ability to speak to their col- CHRISTIAN BERLE is a member of the Victory Fund Campaign Board; reach him at Christian.Berle@gmail. running in New Hampshire, and Richard demonstrated leadership record in support leagues about why DOMA needs to be fully com. MARISA UCHIN is the Western Caucus Chair of Tisei, running in Massachusetts. These two of LGBT equality. repealed. As married men with same-sex the Victory Fund Campaign Board; reach her at Marisa_ candidates were key players in their states’ We believe it is important to acknowl- spouses, they deserve to have the same [email protected].

VIEWPOINT Bringing a new energy to the Council

I will focus on the issues, the nation in implementing the ACA’s boards and commissions. I am especially LGBT equality, fairness and inclusion, both mental health parity requirement. LGBT committed to ensuring transgender rep- through my work with Jews United for not the latest scandal youth are more likely to attempt suicide. resentation. Justice on marriage equality, and through LGBT adults are more likely to experience Overall reported instances of hate crime my role as an ANC commissioner. My re- By BRIANNE K. NADEAU psychological distress, which requires violence fell by 14 percent in 2013 com- cord is a refl ection of my core beliefs and medication and access to mental health pared to 2012. However violence based on an indication of how I plan to govern as I am proud to live in a city with the most services. I will fi ght to increase funding gender identity or expression increased by the Ward 1 representative on the Council progressive laws and policies related to for adult mental health services, as well as 33 percent. Between the years 2007-2013, of the District of Columbia. I plan to use LGBT equality, fairness and inclusion in the expand access to mental health services violence based on sexual orientation in- my power as the Ward 1 Council member United States. We have marriage equality, for our youth. This includes increasing creased 58 percent while gender identity- to exercise effective oversight, not inter- hate crimes protections and anti-discrimi- availability of school counselors and psy- based violence increased by 71 percent. ference. With me as your Council mem- nation statutes. But I know we can go even chologists, and expanding access to pub- Even more appalling is that 61 percent of all ber you will have an ethical voice whose further, and with a new energy and ethical lic mental health services for transitioning bias-related crimes in the District are target- focus is on the issues, not on managing leadership on the Council, we will. homeless LGBT youth and seniors. ed toward sexual minorities. Unfortunately, the latest scandal. Our laws are meaningless without en- Our outdated qualifying conditions for Ward 1 is home to the highest percentage Together, we will ensure that Ward 1, and forcement. It is incumbent upon our elected medical marijuana services must also be re- of these crimes. District of Columbia are safe, inclusive, and offi cials to hold the Offi ce of Human Rights pealed. Medical marijuana usage is proven One of my top priorities is to reduce this welcoming communities for LGBT individu- accountable for addressing every last hu- to provide relief for a wide range of condi- senseless violence and address the cultural als from across the country and around the man rights violation and complaint brought tions including mental health ailments like and structural problems underlying bias- world. Early voting is already under way, and before it. post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disor- related crime, including anti-bullying initia- I hope you will join our movement and sup- We must also ensure that insurance com- der, anxiety, depression and others. tives in our public schools, sensitivity training port me with your vote in the April 1 Demo- panies fully comply with non-discrimination We need more LGBT representation in the workplace and rebuilding the highly cratic primary. sections of the Affordable Care Act. This on our government boards and commis- effective Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit. The includes ensuring that insurance policies sions. Working with the mayor’s offi ce, GLLU was severely cut under the Fenty ad- BRIANNE K. NADEAU is a candidate for D.C. Council cover the full range of transgender health- the LGBT community, and my Council ministration, languishes under our current in Ward 1, who received a majority vote at the Gertrude care needs, without exclusion or unneces- colleagues, I pledge to identify and pro- mayor, and has been forgotten by Ward 1’s Stein Democratic Club endorsement forum. She has served as an advisory neighborhood commissioner and sary denials. mote the nominations of qualifi ed LGBT current Council member. a board member of Jews United for Justice. Reach her The District of Columbia should lead individuals to serve on our government I have a proven record fi ghting for via briannefordc.com/. washingtonblade.com 22 • MARCH 14, 2014 VIEWPOINT All Va. Dem leaders must back marriage equality Richmond’s mayor out saying, “We preach a gospel of love.” I would dare say that LGBT Virginians of step, unfi t for role couldn’t care less about what he is as party chair Gov. McAuliffe’s selection of preaching in his church, but would care about how he will be conducting Demo- By EARL D. FOWLKES, JR. Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones as cratic Party business and using his lead- the new chair of the Virginia State Party ership role to end discrimination for all On Saturday, March 15, 32 members Virginians. of the Virginia Democratic Central Com- has raised concerns among LGBT Democrats If Mayor Jones is not for LGBT mar- mittee will come together in Richmond throughout the commonwealth. riage equality then we must assume that to elect the chair of their party. As Vir- he is against it and therefore should not ginia governor, Democrat Terry McAu- be the chair of the Virginia Democratic liffe is the tutorial head of the party. His Party. LGBT Virginians have waited long nomination as the Democratic Party banning same-sex marriage. In fact, The bottom line is that the American enough for their party leadership to Chairman along with the ratifi cation by just recently, U.S. District Judge Aren- people are steadily coming around to evolve on this issue. I should add that as the party central committee is normally da Wright Allen struck down Virginia’s this equality issue for the LGBT commu- an African-American gay man, I cringe a foregone conclusion. However, Gov. constitutional amendment banning nity. The president supports marriage when I hear black clergy talk about McAuliffe’s selection of Richmond May- same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. equality, the national Democratic Party preaching the gospel of love but not or Dwight Jones as the new chair of the Ironically, this is highlighted on the Vir- leadership supports marriage equality, always practicing the tenets of Christian Virginia State Party has raised concerns ginia Democratic Party website under and Virginia’s governor, lieutenant gov- love, which is rooted in fairness and jus- among LGBT Democrats throughout the banner “Virginia is for All Lovers.” A ernor and attorney general all support tice, and often code for everyone but the commonwealth. recent Washington Post-ABC News poll marriage equality. So it’s not unreason- LGBT folks. The major concern is that Mayor showed that 50 percent of Americans able for LGBT Democrats in Virginia I would ask that Gov. McAuliffe name Jones, who is also the senior pastor say the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of to expect their state party chairman to a party chair who believes in protect- of the First Baptist Church of South equal protection gives gays the right to support marriage equality. Opposing ing the rights of all Virginians, including Richmond, does not support marriage marry, while 41 percent says it does not. same-sex marriage is on the wrong side LGBT Virginians. equality for LGBT Virginians. It would In the 33 states that prohibit same-sex of social justice and history in Virginia appear that Mayor Jones is out of step marriage, 53 percent of those polled and in America. EARL FOWLKES is president and CEO of the Center For Black Equity, a Black LGBT social justice with the recent changes in attitudes and support allowing it, while 40 percent op- Mayor Jones, referencing his church, organization, and the Democratic National Committee what the courts are saying about laws pose doing so. was quoted in the Washington Post as LGBT Caucus Chair.

VIEWPOINT Michaud’s disappointing voting record Gay congressman falls ler has also been a steadfast supporter of LGBT rights beyond marriage, endorsing short in LGBT support, efforts to ensure safe schools, for cultural- reproductive freedom ly competent health care and for inclusive communities. By JAMES SCHWARTZ Signifi cantly, unlike his opponent, Cutler is also a vocal advocate of a woman’s right As a former D.C. resident now living to choose; Michaud has voted repeatedly in Maine, I read the Washington Blade against women’s reproductive rights. with interest. But I have to say that Chris One more insight about Cutler’s sup- Johnson’s Feb. 26 piece on the gover- port for gay people and equality: When my nor’s race here missed the mark. Yes, partner and I decided to marry last year, we Rep. Mike Michaud (D-Maine) recently asked Eliot if he would offi ciate. He never came out and is running for governor, hesitated, never cited concerns about the but his record of support for LGBT rights campaign or his public image, never asked is mixed at best. us to keep the ceremony quiet. He said only Serving in the state legislature from 1981 two words: “Yes” and “When?” We were to 1997, he voted 19 times against efforts married on the front porch of his house in to prohibit discrimination of LGBT people August with his wife and two other friends in Maine. While his record of support in the serving as witnesses. U.S. Congress has been much stronger, he It’s important and long past due that we MIKE MICHAUD’s record on reproductive freedom should be of concern to LGBT voters. was conspicuously quiet during the 2009 have openly gay candidates running for of- WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY and 2012 fi ghts for marriage equality. The fi ce in Maine and throughout the land. But other U.S. Representative, Chellie Pingree sexual orientation isn’t reason enough to (D), attended public events, spoke up on dent opponent, Eliot Cutler, was a “peren- year’s governor’s race. He and his wife, endorse anyone. Records matter. And Rep. the House fl oor, and used her position to nial candidate.” But Eliot ran only once be- Melanie, were invaluable supporters dur- Michaud’s is deeply disappointing. underscore support for marriage equality. fore — in 2010 — losing to his Republican ing the battles for marriage equality. They But not Mike Michaud. opponent by fewer than 11,000 votes. hosted the state’s largest reception for JAMES SCHWARTZ is a former D.C. resident now Johnson wrote that Michaud’s indepen- Full disclosure: I back Cutler in this the campaign at their home in 2012. Cut- living in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. washingtonblade.com OUR BUSINESS MATTERS MARCH 14, 2014 • 23 ‘Promoter bill’ wrong approach with negative results

Proposal would arbitrarily evitably lead to additional protocols, restric- What is notably odd about establishing component could waive them for inde- curtail nightlife marketing, tions and costs and result in bureaucratic an implied shared responsibility for venue pendently promoted events under the expansion of hurdles and hoop jumping. operational management is it is entirely loosely defi ned standards. stifl e event diversity The world of event concept and pro- counterintuitive. Current law is clear — ven- The most compelling argument against motional marketing would suddenly be- ues are responsible for regulatory compli- this proposal is one unconsidered. Many come complicated and less diversity in ance and are liable for incidents. Simulta- specialty events are organized and promot- entertainment options would result. All neously diluting venue responsibility while ed by small informal groups of demograph- without real benefi t. extending it to encompass event promoters ic, cultural or ethnic affi nity, usually hosted at Graham indicated his proposal was in is wholly inappropriate. Licensed businesses smaller bars and restaurants. Whether a gay response to three incidents resulting in vio- are, and should remain, legally liable for op- retro-era dance party, a homeland-nostalgic lence at or near local nightlife venues over erational performance. international music event or similar gather- a period of more than two years. Graham Some of the few instances of violence ings promoted through social media net- MARK LEE is a long-time entrepreneur and community notes that these random occurrences were have occurred at venues with weak man- works and with a cover charge to fi nance business advocate. Follow on Twitter: @MarkLeeDC. Reach him at [email protected]. associated with promoter-organized events. agement or inadequate security who have DJs or talent or marketing expenses – host Given the longstanding and pervasive mistakenly and illegally “handed over” groups with the singular ability to promote engagement of promotion groups repre- at least partial venue control to non-em- these events would be subject to the pro- D.C. Council member Jim Graham in- senting both large “corporate” entities and ployees. The solution is not diversion of posed requirements. troduced legislation last week to license, small informal shared-interest collabora- responsibility, unrelated licensing require- This promotional model — including regulate and impose special requirements tions at hundreds of venues throughout the ments or paper shuffl ing. Regulatory ad- some of the most innovative and culturally and restrictions on nightlife event promot- city, this is tantamount to observing that a ministration should be focused on improv- contributing events — would no longer be ers and promotion groups. His proposal single plane crashed while all other fl ights ing management training and providing functionally possible. The city would lose would arbitrarily impose limits on common safely landed. More violence occurs in or technical assistance, in collaboration with part of its soul and unique venues would marketplace activity, inhibit community- near Metrorail stations than nightlife venues. industry groups, as is better provided in lose needed revenue. centric gatherings and stifl e cultural event Every night of the week, scores of inde- other jurisdictions. The simple fact is, inevitably and unfor- innovation. pendently marketed events occur without Event marketers not employed on an in- tunately and rarely, patrons will get out of I should know — I was a nightlife special incident. Claiming that they are the exclu- house basis — which would exempt them hand and bad things will happen. This will event producer and promoter for two de- sive or even preponderant source of prob- from the law — should not be held legally occur at businesses not given due credit cades. lems is misleading. liable for management responsibilities be- for responsible management and it will Graham’s bill would institute mandatory Many establishments rely on promoters yond their control. occur at less experienced locales. Bottom licensing, permit fees, training classes, ac- to host events and invite guests. Owners, Conversely, the law is easily circum- line, though, the issue is not how an event quisition of a minimum $3 million in person- operators and managers at many of the vented by hiring of promoters as employ- is promoted, but how the establishment al liability insurance and other requirements. city’s largest and most prominent venues ees — as many already are — eliminating is operated. Creation of a new licensing category will in- started in the business promoting events. special requirements. Even a charitable That is where the focus should be.

VIEWPOINT Importance of openly gay elected offi cials Having one of our own ic. I became more “right sized.” Being residents were living in poverty. My re- For example, I was just honored by gay was a key part but only one part of cord at Whitman-Walker demonstrated the DC Center for my work on a re- at the table still counts my make-up. When I ran for D.C. Coun- a commitment — to all people as well cently passed bill establishing an LG- cil in 1998, I ran on that basis and got as poor people — especially those liv- BTQ homeless services program with 10 By JIM GRAHAM elected, and re-elected ever since. ing with HIV and AIDS, from the earliest beds for these kids only. With all that in mind, I was struck by a days of the pandemic. Would that have passed without the Like so many others, I have gone recent suggestion by a Blade columnist Why do people vote a particular energetic support of a gay Council through many stages as a gay that it wouldn’t matter if the D.C. Coun- way? The reasons are limitless, and member? Maybe, maybe not. But the man. Knowing who I am, and being cil went from its current two gay mem- surely sexual orientation, race, gender, DC Center surely thought it made a comfortable with all that, has taken bers to none at all. religion, are all part of it. “Identity poli- positive difference. time. I have gone from denying my It’s amazing that a gay columnist for a tics” is hardly dead. It matters — some- And why else does the Victory Fund sexuality and marrying a woman (who I gay newspaper would suggest that not times positive, sometimes negative — endorse openly gay and lesbian candi- loved then and still do to this day), to having gay elected leaders is of no sig- that a candidate is gay. It can make a dates? It’s not because — as the colum- divorce. What followed were awkward nifi cance! Harvey Milk must be turning big difference. nist suggested — “that the gay commu- personal times working in the U.S. Sen- over in his grave. My sexual orientation informs what I nity is fully integrated into our different ate where there was then zero tolerance I have never campaigned just as a do and say. But being gay is only part of communities.” It’s because that having for being gay. “gay man.” Had I done so, I would nev- who I am. I work every day to integrate one of our own at the table counts. But when I became the volunteer er have won. When I was fi rst elected all aspects of my life. But that is just the start. I, along with President of Whitman-Walker Clinic on in 1998, Ward One was 71 percent mi- Yet to suggest as the columnist did hundreds of other out LGBT elected of- April 1, 1981, I came out of the closet nority population — 46 percent black “that LGBT residents are fully integrat- fi cials, cannot win without earning the with a roar — for a time everyone and 25 percent Latino. I ran against an ed into the fabric of local life” — and trust of our communities to stand with (whether they liked it or not) had to be incumbent, African-American male, well that “sexual orientation of elected of- them and fi ght for everyone. told by me that I was gay. Those were known for his leadership in D.C. and fi cials is inconsequential” is just plain my “Billboard Years.” More change fol- in the national Civil Rights Movement. wrong. LGBT candidates bring a unique JIM GRAHAM is a D.C. City Council member lowed after 16 years as head of the Clin- In 1998, one out of every four Ward 1 experience to government. representing Ward 1. 24 • MARCH 14, 2014 WASHINGTONBLADE.COM

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In Louis Bayard’s new novel, Col. Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, are kidnapped by a mysterious Amazonian tribe in Brazil circa 1914 and must ﬁ nd and kill a ravenous beast to survive.

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Mark of the ‘Beast’ Novelist Louis Bayard His comments have been slightly edited thought, “Why not take it straight to them?” where they can experiment and fi nd their for length. It was a good fi t for what I was doing. … But own voices. … It’s a workshop, so I’m explores Brazil circa then when I had an idea for this book about basically like Socrates there in the midst, 1914 in new adventure WASHINGTON BLADE: You went to Tiny Tim (2003’s “Mr. Timothy”), I thought, throwing out questions and making them Princeton and Joyce Carol Oates is quoted “I don’t just want this to be plunked on the think about things. on the back of your new book. Did you take gay shelf at Borders.” There was that sense By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO her creative writing course? of being ghettoized by virtue of being with BLADE: About how many would you say [email protected] LOUIS BAYARD: Yes. She was also my a gay press. You go on that one shelf in have been good enough to get published? adviser. the back of the store. I wanted this out in BAYARD: Of the three years I’ve been Washington-based novelist Louis Bayard, the front, so I found an agent, fi nally, after doing it, I would say, maybe there were whose new work “Roosevelt’s Beast” will be BLADE: What did you learn from her? several tries, and he pitched it to the big about that many who had the potential released Tuesday, spent a whirlwind hour BAYARD: She was a very exacting houses and one of them bit. to do it. It would really be about desire. with the Blade two weeks ago touching reader, so it forced me to think about every Actually the best writer I know of, and I can’t on everything from how he got started word I write and I really do sweat every BLADE: Would you call that your big even remember her name offhand, but she and how his career developed to what he word. You do sometimes start to think break? was exceptional but actually was the least tells young writers in his classes at George over the course of a book, “Does this really BAYARD: I guess you’d call it a break. interested in pursuing it. I kept saying, “You Washington University and how he wrestled matter,” but I revise and review and I think It seemed like a break at the time. It was a really need to try this,” but she kept saying, the “Beast” that is his latest novel. it’s because I had that kind of very hard eye break toward the mainstream, I guess, but “Well, I’m going to Europe” and she had Bayard, 50, and his partner of 26 years, that sniffs out deceit and fl abbiness and I never felt like I’ve left the gay sensibility all these plans. She just didn’t seem excited Don Montuori, are married and have two all the stuff that can go wrong in prose. I entirely behind. about it. That’s where perseverance pays off sons, ages 13 and 11. They live in Capitol don’t recall any specifi c lesson. I just recall as much as anything. Hill. Bayard, born in Albuquerque but how nice it was to feel understood by BLADE: Do you enjoy teaching? raised mostly in Springfi eld, Va., moved somebody of her caliber. BAYARD: I do. I wish it paid a little more BLADE: You went from gay to Washington in 1988, worked on the Hill honestly. I’m there as an adjunct where contemporary fi ction into several novels and later did PR for various environmental BLADE: Was it a big leap from Alyson to you’re paid some ridiculous pittance for a of historical fi ction. How did that creative groups through the ‘90s. His fi rst novel, HarperCollins, which published your third lot of work, but I have other income sources. decision come about? the gay-themed “Fool’s Errand,” was book “Mr. Timothy”? How did that play I just teach one fi ction writing class. BAYARD: I thought it was an accident published by gay press Alyson Books in out? when I had this idea to see what became of 1999. “Roosevelt’s Beast” is his sixth book. BAYARD: Alyson was one of the few BLADE: What do you tell your students? Tiny Tim, but it achieved a certain amount He’s not sure how many books he’s sold places that would take an un-agented BAYARD: To me, every student is a little of success so they kind of wanted me to total, but upon consulting with his publisher, manuscript. The fi rst book was gay-themed different and they all bring something a estimates the number to be about 100,000. and they were a gay publisher so I just little different so I just try to create a space CONTINUES ON PAGE 38 washingtonblade.com 28 • MARCH 14, 2014 QUEERY: 20 QUESTIONS FOR JAMES STILLWELL

How long have you been out and who If your life were a book, was the hardest person to tell? what would the title be? I have been out nearly 13 years, since Can I rip off that old Highlights magazine the summer after my freshman year of tagline? “Fun with a Purpose.” college. The hardest people to tell were my grandparents, and sadly I never did. All If science discovered a way to change but one died without knowing (unless they sexual orientation, what would you do? fi gured it out themselves). Disbelieve any fi ndings predicated on discrete classifi cations of sexual orientation Who’s your LGBT hero? and investigate the funding sources of My friends, family and neighbors in this such studies. amazing city. They have embraced me since the day I told them I’m gay — such a What do you believe simple and powerful act that every LGBT in beyond the physical world? person deserves upon coming out. I believe in an energetic love that unites everyone and everything in the cosmos. What’s Washington’s best nightspot, past or present? What’s your advice for WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY DAMIEN SALAS Badlands will always have a special spot LGBT movement leaders? in my heart. One of the only places I could Don’t call it a day after marriage equality get into at age 19, its Thursday college is won throughout the United States; pay By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO night was where I came out in June 2001, attention to the needs of LGBT people [email protected] met my fi rst boyfriend and indirectly came who still suffer mightily in the U.S. and to know a dear friend I’ve had ever since. abroad. James Stillwell never thought he was good enough to sing with the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington. Apparently he was wrong — not only has he Describe your dream wedding. What would you walk sung baritone with them for the past year, he plays Liesl in “Von Trapped,” One in which I don’t really care whether across hot coals for? the group’s all-male “Sound of Music” takeoff that plays this weekend at the napkins match the tablecloths or A society that prioritizes food, shelter the Lisner Auditorium (730 21st St., N.W.; tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m., the caterer shows up late (which I might and health care as basic human rights. Sunday at 3; details at gmcw.org). otherwise fuss about), because I’ll be “I think it was a combination of shyness and stage fright and just having marrying this awesome guy with whom What LGBT stereotype heard the Chorus before and how good they were … it just didn’t occur to it’s just another day, albeit a special one, annoys you most? me that I could be up on the stage with them, that I would make the cut.” together. The way “top” and “bottom” are often Stillwell’s involvement, though, has scratched a personal itch. Though presented as fi xed identity categories, he says he doesn’t regret his more traditional career path — the 31-year- What non-LGBT issue rather than as more open tendencies or old Harvard grad is program coordinator for undergraduate studies are you most passionate about? preferences. at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy — he harbored Human-induced climate change and entertainment aspirations growing up and says part of him still wonders biodiversity loss. When you look at the What’s your favorite LGBT movie? what life would be like as an actor. data, it’s hard not to be horrifi ed and “Jeffrey” “I love it, it’s a wonderful community of guys,” he says. “And gives me a discouraged. chance to exercise a different part of my interests and capabilities. It’s nice What’s the most to get up on stage and perform and be involved in the arts and express a What historical outcome overrated social custom? message that’s important without hitting you over the head with it. … It’s would you change? I struggled the most to answer this one become a major part of my life.” I’m tempted to say, “Bobby Kennedy’s quickly, so maybe instant gratifi cation Stillwell, 31, grew up in Annapolis, Md., and has been in Washington since assassination,” or “the outcome of the he fi nished school in 2006. 2000 presidential election,” but I also What trophy or prize He’s single and lives in Capitol Hill. In his spare time, he enjoys journaling, wouldn’t want to interfere with the causality do you most covet? reading and spending time with friends. that led to the exciting historical moment A lead role in a feature fi lm or serialized we live in now. So many glimmers of hope drama with a gay or socially probing theme and justice seem to be breaking through on so many fronts and real progress feels What do you wish you’d known at 18? possible. Again, I’m tempted to say something like, “I wish I’d known the life lessons that What’s been the most memorable pop come from being able to experience culture moment of your lifetime? teenage sexuality openly, which I missed Ellen DeGeneres’s coming out out on by being closeted,” but if I could wave a magic wand and change the past, I On what do you insist? doubt I would. Wholesome food with real ingredients Why Washington? What was your last It is both a small town and a world Facebook post or Tweet? capital, and I am continually amazed The following message, with a at how much diversity, wonder and map highlighting the criminalization of community is packed into its 68 square homosexuality around the world: “LGBT miles. Washington feels like home, and has citizens in all of these countries deserve to practically since the day I came out here. express their love consensually and freely. 202.747.2077 It’s painful to imagine what recriminations they may suffer for that simple human act.” WASHINGTONBLADE.COM MARCH 14, 2014 • 29

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GAETANO DONIZETTI THE ELIXIR

PHOTO COURTESY OF ISOTOPE FILMS OF LOVE ELAINE STRITCH shares stories of Noel Coward, Tennessee Williams and more in a new ﬁ lm. Donizetti's loveable comic opera is a warm and inspired masterpiece cherished for its whimsical wit, endearing characters, beautiful arias, and intoxicating duets.

“Witty and mischievous at times, Stage icon Elaine Stritch Broadway, and James Gandolfi ni wonders flashy and lovely at others!” about the torrid affair they might have had. —LA Daily News subject of new doc Directors George C. Wolfe (“Elaine Stritch at Liberty,” a 2001 Tony-winning one-woman By BRIAN T. CARNEY show) and Harold Prince (“Company” and “Show Boat”) talk about Stritch’s incredible Footage of great stage stars — little of skills as a performer. Long-time friend Julie whose life work survives — is great to get Keyes relates how she met Stritch at an AA in the can when you can, especially for meeting and how the two become close subjects approaching their 90s. On that friends, despite Keyes’ unfl attering fi rst level alone, but also for many other reasons, impressions of the imperious star. a new Elaine Stritch documentary is a highly At Stritch’s side throughout the movie is welcomed piece. her devoted music director, Rob Bowman. “I like the courage of old age,” The talented and energetic musician plays declares the legendary star in “Elaine a number of roles for the aging star. He Stritch: Shoot Me,” feeds her lyrics when she loses her way the fascinating new fi lm by Chiemi through the complicated lyrics of Stephen Karasawa that opens today at Washington’s Sondheim and gives her orange juice when West End Cinema (2301 M St., N.W.). her blood sugar drops too low. He is fi rm, Karasawa creates a captivating and multi- but endlessly patient and gentle, bringing faceted portrait of the tireless performer to mind a loyal retainer to the Queen Lear as she faces a number of daunting events, of musical theater. including celebrating her 87th birthday, Through it all, Stritch shares her story with preparing for her impending move from an amazing candor as she looks back fondly her beloved Manhattan to her childhood over her remarkable career and incredible home in Michigan, and rehearsing what is life. There are stories about Noël Coward probably her last show at the Café Carlyle. and Tennessee Williams and her dates with

Stritch tackles it all with equal parts grit and John F. Kennedy (which didn’t go anywhere Photo by Carol Pratt glamour, fueled by what appears to be an because Stritch was still “a good convent insatiable need to perform, even as her girl”). There are memories of her beloved mind and body begin to fail her. late husband John Bay, the B ritish actor Karasawa’s cameras had amazing whose family runs the famous English muffi n access to Stritch over what appears to be a company (which are featured in a delightful Mar.20–29 | Opera House period of several months (the chronology sequence in which Stritch tries to tell the sometimes gets a little confusing). She cameraman how to shoot the scene). Tickets on sale now! captures Stritch in a variety of settings In the present, Stritch bravely shares the (202) 467-4600 kennedy-center.org — holding court on the streets of New perils and pleasures of her twilight years. Tickets also available at the Box Office| Groups (202) 416-8400 York, an endless stream of rehearsal She has troubles with her health (struggles rooms and performance spaces, bars and with diabetes and alcoholism) and memory David and Alice Rubenstein are the Presenting Underwriters of WNO. restaurants, the set of “30 Rock,” hospitals (forgetting names and lyrics), but she still General Dynamics is the proud sponsor of WNO's 2013-2014 Season. and doctor’s offi ces, and her corner suite enjoys the company of friends and the at the Carlyle, where she has lived and adulation of fans and she still knows how to Generous support for WNO Italian opera is provided by Daniel and Gayle D’Aniello. performed for years. work an audience and sell a song. Additional support for The Elixir of Love is provided by The fi rst-time director wisely breaks In the end, Chiemi Karasawa’s fi ne the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts. up the footage of Stritch with moving documentary about Elaine Stritch is a bit like testimonials from friends and collaborators. the lady herself — a little grating at times, Actor Cherry Jones describes Stritch as but ultimately courageous and triumphant, a conduit back to the Golden Age of and well worth the price of admission. washingtonblade.com 32 • MARCH 14, 2014 CALENDAR

part of a special two-night event. There will E-mail calendar items to calendars@washblade. com two weeks prior to your event. Space is lim- be another showing on March 26. ited so priority is given to LGBT-speciﬁ c events or those with LGBT participants. Recurring events must be re-submitted each time. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 Bookmen D.C., an informal men’s gay TODAY literature group, discusses “The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered” edited Bachelor’s Mill (1104 8th St., S.E.) holds by Tom Cardamone at the American a happy hour from 5-7:30 p.m. tonight with Foreign Service Association (2101 E all drinks half price. Enjoy pool, video games St., N.W.) tonight at 7:30 p.m. All are and cards. Admission is $5 after 9 p.m. welcome. For details, visit bookmendc. Must be 21 and over. For more details, visit blogspot.com. bachelorsmill.com. The Tom Davoren Social Bridge Club Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) hosts free vodka meets tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Dignity Friday tonight from 9 p.m.-3 a.m. Free rail Center (721 8th St., S.E.) for social bridge. vodka 11 p.m.-midnight. Two DJs on two No partner needed. For more information, ﬂ oors. Cover is $10. Admission is limited to call 301-345-1571. guests 21 and over. For more information, visit cobaltdc.com. THURSDAY, MARCH 20

SATURDAY, MARCH 15 Freestyle Fitness presents “Go Live and Rewind,” a fi tness dance party that The Latino Queer Bilingual Writing benefi ts Capital Pride 2014, is at Town Group hosts its monthly workshop today (2009 8th St., N.W.) tonight from 7-11 p.m. at the D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.) Enjoy music from DJ miGGL from the from 12:30-2:30 p.m. The focus will be on ‘80s, ‘90s and today from pop, hip-hop, memoirs. Open to writers of any genre Latin and more while getting a workout. and levels of experience to share creative For more details, visit facebook.com/ work in Spanish or English. Workshop is freestylefi tnessmoves. free and no prior experience is necessary. Congressional Chorus presents “New For details, call 202-682-2245 or email York, New York: An American Cabaret” at [email protected]. Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H St., Young Artists of America perform N.W.) tonight at 8 p.m. through March 23. an orchestrated version of Tony Award- A cast of 85 singers and dancers perform winning composer Jason Robert musical selection from notable people Brown’s “Songs for a New World” at in the music industry from New York City Winston Churchill High School (11300 including Stephen Sondheim, Billy Joel, Gainsborough Rd., Potomac, Md.) tonight STILL COURTESY OF JUSTIN MORRISON AND KELLY O. Alicia Keys and Jay-Z. Tickets are $45. For at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. For details, visit atlas arts.org. details, visit youngartistsamerica.org. A still from one of the fi lms to be screened next week as part of the Dan Savage ‘Hump’ Film Dan Savage, gay author and co- Mr. D.C. Eagle 2014 hosts “Leather Festival at Woolly Mammoth. founder of the “It Gets Better Project” Invasion: 17th Street N.W.,” a St. Patrick’s brings his “Hump!” Film Festival to Day weekend bar-crawl. The crawl begins Rainbow Theatre Project presents a Woolly Mammoth Theatre (641 D St., at the Duplex Diner (2004 18th St., N.W.) at SUNDAY, MARCH 16 reading of the Noel Coward play “Long N.W.) tonight with showings at 6, 8 and 7:30 p.m. and ends at Green Lantern (1335 Island Sound” tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Source 10 p.m. These 15 short fi lms discuss Green Ct., N.W.) at 12:30 a.m. for the “Bears Chick Chat, an ages-50-and-over (1835 14th St., N.W.). It tells of an author sexual situations and include straight, Can Dance” party, Jell-O shots and a price lesbian singles group, celebrates Women’s seeking peace and quiet at a friend’s house gay, lesbian and transgender stories. raffl e. Money will be raised for SMYAL. “Herstory” month with a tour of the Clara who is interrupted by a large gathering of Tickets are $20. Screenings go through GLBT Outreach and Engagement Barton House (5801 Oxford Rd., Glen Echo, boisterous artists and socialites of whom March 22. For more information, visit (GLOE) hosts “Masquerade and Md.) today at noon. For details and to RSVP he becomes the main attraction. About humptour.strangertickets.com. Mischief: Purim Drag Ball” at the email [email protected]. 20 local and student artists will present the Whole Foods (1440 P St., N.W.) hosts Washington D.C. Jewish Community Perry’s (1811 Columbia Rd., N.W.) hosts reading. Rainbow Theatre Project is a new “Drag Bingo on P Street” featuring the Center (1529 16th St., N.W.) tonight from its weekly “Sunday Drag Brunch” today LGBT-specifi c theater company. Imperial Court of Washington tonight 8:30 p.m.-midnight. There will be a drag from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The cost is $24.95 for an from 7-9 p.m. There will be prizes and performance by Ms. Hilda Seaview and all-you-can-eat buffet. For more details, visit TUESDAY, MARCH 18 snacks. All proceeds benefi t Whole an amateur drag/costume parade and perrysadamsmorgan.com. Planet Foundation. For more details, visit contest with prizes. Tickets are $25 in Transgender Legal Advocates of wholefoods.com/events. advance and $35 at the door. There is a MONDAY, MARCH 17 Washington (TransLAW) hosts its annual LGBT personnel assigned to the free open bar for anyone who comes in celebration and fundraiser tonight at Lost Pentagon meet at Freddie’s Beach Bar (555 costume. Food and desserts are included. United Soldiers and Sailors of America, Society (2001 14th St., N.W.) tonight from 23rd St., Arlington) today from 5-7 p.m. for Admission limited to guests 21 and over. a non-profi t organization that supports 6:30-9:30 p.m. There will be an open bar happy hour. This monthly event (the third For more information, visit betmish.org. combat wounded and their families, hosts with wine and specialty cocktails and light Thursday of each month) is open to military, Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) hosts “Bare: a St. Patrick’s Day event at Jake’s Boiler hors d’oeuvres from 6:30-7:30 p.m. There is Department of Defense civilians and Military Appreciation St. Pattie’s Day” Room (5018 Connecticut Ave., N.W.) from a suggested $10 donation at the door but military contractors who work in and around tonight from 10 p.m.-3 a.m. Admission 4-11 p.m. Admission is $10 and includes a no one will be turned away for lack of funds. the Pentagon. is free for those with a valid Military ID. complimentary green beer and St. Patrick’s For more information, visit translawdc.org. The band cut/copy plays Echo Stage There will be beer pong and fl ip cup on Day mug. There will be $5 Smithwicks and “Elton John: The Million Dollar Piano,” (2135 Queens Chapel Road, N.E.) tonight at the fi rst fl oor. Jameson and Fireball shots Harp, $8 Irish car bombs and $15 corned a fi lmed concert special of John’s “Million 7 p.m. Tickets are $35. Visit echostage.com are $3. Domestic beers are $5. Music by beef and cabbage platter. All proceeds Dollar Piano” show at Caesars Palace in Las for details. DJs Rosie and Keenan Orr. For more benefi t United Solders and Sailors of Vegas, plays at AMC Mazza Gallerie (5300 details, visit cobaltdc.com. America. For details, visit jakesdc.com. Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) tonight at 7 p.m. as MARIAH COOPER washingtonblade.com ADVICE MARCH 14, 2014 • 33

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Local Rainbow Spinnakers it be diffi cult to navigate a boat that is new to you? member gearing up HERTZENDORF: Navigating a new boat for competition should not be diffi cult. I’ve sailed on many different types of boats, as have the other team members. Rupert Harmsaga Savannah Bay Penny Plain By KEVIN MAJOROS March 12–15 March 15 & 16 March 19–22 March 20–22 BLADE: What will your training regimen This week in the continuing series on consist of leading up to the Gay Games? the LGBT athletes of Washington who will HERTZENDORF: Our team members compete at the 2014 Cleveland/Akron Gay have limited racing experience since Games, we visit with Mark Hertzendorf of that hasn’t been the focus of Rainbow the Rainbow Spinnakers Sailing Club. Spinnakers. Most of the team has signed up for a racing seminar at J-World in Annapolis. WASHINGTON BLADE: What is your We haven’t settled on specifi c training sailing background? schedule, but we intend to participate A Midsummer Not by Bread Alone Green Snake Solomon and Marion Night’s Dream March 25 & 26 March 27–30 March 28–30 HERTZENDORF: I took my fi rst sailing in local races throughout the season in March 20–23 class when I was a freshman in college at preparation for the Games. SUNY-Oswego on Lake Ontario. Although WORLD-RENOWNED THEATER COMPANIES I sailed a bit on Lake Ontario that year, the BLADE: What is it about sailing that Melbourne Theatre Company • Baxter Theatre Centre training didn’t really take hold until years keeps you in the sport? later. It was several years before I found out HERTZENDORF: There is nothing like Bristol Old Vic in association with Handspring Puppet Company about Rainbow Spinnakers Sailing Club at being out on the water. A famous quote LA MAFIA Teatro • Nalaga’at Theater Capital Pride. Since joining the Rainbow says, “A bad day on the water is always Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble • Théâtre de l’Atelier Spinnakers, I haven’t stopped sailing. I better than a good day on land.” There National Theatre of China • Tapioca Inn began sailing with them on the Potomac is always something new to learn and River from Belle Haven Marina using Flying opportunities to improve your skill set. As Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes Scots. After a number of years, I started you get older, you just get bigger boats. Tokyo Theatre Company KAZE and Les Souffleurs dividing my time equally between sailing on commandos poétiques • Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord the Potomac River and sailing in Baltimore BLADE: Any embarrassing sailing stories The National Theatre of Iceland Harbor mostly on Sonar23s — a racing boat to share? popular in this area. More recently I’ve spent HERTZENDORF: Too many to count. time sailing and fi xing up my Catalina 25 If you don’t have any embarrassing stories Presenting Underwriter currently located at Belle Haven Marina. to tell, you haven’t been a serious sailor. HRH Foundation My favorite such story is the time I tried Major support is provided by David and Alice Rubenstein. BLADE: Did you play any other sports to impress my friends in Seattle with my Corporate support is provided by Chevron. growing up? relatively new sailing skills. The fi rst day Additional support is provided by A. Huda and Samia Farouki, The Florence Gould Foundation, HERTZENDORF: My only other form of visiting my friends I rented a boat from the The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Amalia Perea Mahoney and William Mahoney, consistent exercise has been swimming. Center for Wooden Boats on Lake Union. The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, and the State Plaza Hotel. Inside of an hour I had managed to sail into International government support is provided by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, BLADE: Will you be racing in the a houseboat. A guy in a rowboat with his the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States, the Embassy of Israel in the United States, the Canada Council for the Arts, The National Theatre of Iceland, and the Japan Foundation. competitive division or the recreational dog attempted to rescue me, but the effort ultimately required a power boat from the Major support for education and related artistic programming is provided by division at the Gay Games? David and Alice Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Arts Access Program, HERTZENDORF: The Rainbow CWB. I swear it wasn’t my fault. Apparently the National Committee for the Performing Arts, and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts. 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