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No. 542 • December 11, 2015 • outwordmagazine.com GiveGive thethe GiftGift ofof GreatGreat MusicMusic FromFrom BetteBette,, Ivy,Ivy, LindaLinda andand AdeleAdele page 15 The Incomparable Bette Midler SPCA Sacramento See a Do Your Brigthen Launches Commemorates Show This Last Minute up your Fleas World AIDS Holiday Shopping in Holiday Navidad Day Season Midtown Parties page 4 page 8 page 12 page 16-17 page 23 COLOR COLOR Help Provide LGBT Youth Scholarships Outword Dear Outword Readers, most of its giving on scholarships and The tax year is ending soon, please organizations that help LGBTQI youth. consider the Rainbow Chamber Foundation Your contribution to the Rainbow Staff as a year-end tax-deductible contribution! Chamber Foundation is tax deductible and PUBLISHER The Rainbow Chamber Foundation’s goes right back into our community and Fred Palmer mission is to promote mentoring, guidance, youth here in the greater Sacramento area. and education, and to support programs that Please mail your check, payable to ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION improve the quality of life of the LGBTQI Ron Tackitt community. Rainbow Chamber Foundation, to P.O. Box Since 2008, the Foundation has 160126, Sacramento, CA 95816. GRAPHIC DESIGN Please gift today. Thank you in advance Ron Tackitt contributed more than $60,000 to fund college and vocational education for your generous support. EDITOR scholarships for LGBT and LGBT-supportive Diana Rogalski Charles Peer youth and non-profit organizations, focusing Foundation Chair [email protected] ARTS EDITOR Chris Narloch SPCA Launches Fleas Navidad SALES Fred Palmer Adoption Special Adopt don’t shop this holiday season! CONTRIBUTING During the SPCA’s “FLEAS NAVIDAD” WRITERS Diana Kienle special (running now through December 23), Frances Furio you can adopt any adult animal (age one- Colt McGraw year or older) for 50 percent-off the regular Chris Narloch adoption price, and receive a dose of Bonnie Osborn Advantage flea treatment for dogs or cats, a Charles Peer species-appropriate toy, a special gift from PHOTOGRAPHY The Container Store, and a lifetime of love Charles Peer and devotion. Give an animal a home for the holidays, ON THE COVER and give yourself the gift of love! The Incomparable Bette Midler The Sacramento SPCA is located at 6201 Florin Perkins Road in Sacramento. Regular DISTRIBUTION adoption center hours are Wednesday Kaye Crawford through Sunday from 11 am to 6pm. 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Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association Midtown Business Association 4 Outword Magazine December 11, 2015 - December 23, 2015 • No. 542 outwordmagazine.com A Greener, Leaner Christmas Is Good for the Spirit by Doug Moss & Roddy Scheer, EarthTalk ipping eggnog, listening to carols by the fire and enjoying the beauty of colorfully decorated homes are all warm memories Sthe holiday season conjures. Yet with the rising popularity of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, millions of people are now increasingly absorbed in the season’s commercialism. Unfortunately, all of this shopping year don’t have to end up in landfills — some generates a lot of trash. According to the U.S. areas have recycling programs that turn Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Christmas trees into wood chips and mulch, Americans throw away approximately one and some companies will home-deliver million extra tons of trash between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. full-size, potted live trees and pick them up “Simplify the Holidays,” an e-booklet from after New Year’s and re-plant them. the Center for a New American Dream And with nearly 60 percent of Americans (CNAD), reports that nine in 10 Americans admitting they receive unwanted gifts during believe holidays should be more about the holidays, asking friends and family what family and caring for others, not giving and gifts they really need or want is an easy way receiving gifts, yet the average U.S. consumer to save waste and minimize time-consuming plans to spend more this year — about $805 returns. — on holiday shopping than last year. To help provide meaningful ways to have Greening your holiday season certainly fun with less stuff this season, “Simplify the helps the environment, but research shows it Holidays” includes ideas for simple gifts, is also good for personal and family well- low-waste wrapping, ways to connect with being. The 2002 study, “What Makes for a your children during the holidays, and more. Merry Christmas?” by psychologists Tim Readers are asked to “consider creating Kasser and Kennon Sheldon concluded that holidays that instill more meaning into the “family and religion provided the greatest season and encourage more sharing, laughter, creativity and personal renewal.” benefit to holiday well-being.” “It’s not about depriving yourself of things Kasser recently told the American during the holiday season,” Wen Lee, director Psychological Association (APA): “[Our study] of online media and engagement with found that to the extent people focused their CNAD, emphasizes. “It’s about refocusing on holiday season around materialistic aims like things that really matter, and reducing spending and receiving, the less they were stress.” focused on spiritual aims … we also found Easy, stress-free ways to respect the environment during the holidays include people reported ‘merrier’ Christmases when carrying reusable totes when shopping for spirituality was a large part of their holiday, gifts, and considering e-cards instead of the but reported lower Christmas well-being to traditional Christmas card. According to the extent that the holiday was dominated CalRecycle, the 2.6 billion holiday cards sold by materialistic aspects.” each year could fill a football field 10 stories find out more at www.newdream.org; EPA, high — fortunately, the multitude of e-cards www.epa.gov; APA, www.apa.org. available on the web today provide a no-waste alternative. Doug Moss & Roddy Scheer produce Further, the 33 million Christmas trees the EarthTalk and E — The Environmental U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Magazine, and can be contacted at estimates are sold in North America each [email protected]. outwordmagazine.com December 11 - December 23, 2015 • No. 542 Outword Magazine 5 COLOR What Would You Like Santa to Put in Your Christmas Stocking? Byron Jackson Jen Kennedy Keys to a brand new car – pronto! Santa, a Lots and lots of coal, because I am hoping Toyota Prius would be nice. to be very naughty between now and then. Kammy Caruss Paul Jones A hot Rugby player. Anything pork related – or covered in chocolate! Stens Christensen Geri Ann Alviso My family has been in Aviation for quite Keys to a Ford Transit Connect. awhile, so what I would like is my pilot’s license so I can fly the family plane. 6 Outword Magazine December 11, 2015 - December 23, 2015 • No. 542 outwordmagazine.com COLOR Sacramento Commemorates World AIDS Day 2015 acramento came together on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day 2015 to remember those lives we as a community, and generation, Shave lost to this vicious disease, and to celebrate the lives of the long time survivors who are living with HIV/AIDS. Held at the Clunie Community Center in McKinley Park, featured speakers included Mayor Christopher Cabaldon, Dr. Olivia Kasirye, Arturo Jackson, Alexis Gilbert and Nicholaus Johnson. Rob Stewart emceed the event. You can see more photos, and download them for free, at outwordoutabout.shutterfly.com/#:albumId=13547 8 Outword Magazine December 11, 2015 - December 23, 2015 • No. 542 outwordmagazine.com Shopping Local Means Community First by Bonnie Osborn ith the winter holidays upon us, many of our readers are in holiday shopping mode. We at Outword always Wadvocate shopping our LGBT-owned and -friendly businesses first, before we hit the mall. Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce Cardoza, offers $10 off to all first-time clients President Paul Weubbe, who also is managing and specialize in cat grooming. Look for them partner of Billy’s Farm organic Christmas tree on Yelp or in the Rainbow Chamber member farm, says he hopes members of the LGBT directory (www.rainbowchamber.com). community will consider shopping first with Shopping for stocking stuffers? Consider a LGBT-owned or allied businesses year-round. gift of beautifully crafted artisan soaps and “One of the ways we can work toward skincare products from Sudz by Studz and inclusion and equality is to help our LGBT Gratitude Soapery (sudzbystudz.com) owned community prosper economically and to support and operated by Preston Tillotson and Tylor those businesses who support Robinson.