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Volume 24 • Issue 2 • No. 425 • January 27, 2011 outwordmagazine.com How a Gay Man Joined The Real Housewives page 11 Join us for 2011 Oscar Preview Parties Badlands 20th & K Friday, January 28 @ 5:30pm Hoppy Brew Pub 6300 Folsom Blvd. Tuesday, February 8 @ 5:30pm No Cover Drink Specials Letters Napa. SVL Charity Brunch Find out more information Resumes at New online at www.stophate.org. Location, Monthly Dear Outword, Important Additions The SVL Charity Brunch is Made To CalComUI resuming at a NEW location , The Bolt, 2560 Boxwood St., and will Web site now be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dear Outword, the first Sunday of the month, I wanted to let your readers beginning on February 6. know that we have added some The cost is $10 for non-members, important new tools to the $8 for SVL members. The Feb. 6 California Communities United brunch will have a basic menu as Institute web site. shown in the calendar, and future First, we have added a calendar brunches will have an expanded showing deadlines on getting menu as we settle in and get used California legislation through the to the new location. legislative process. To see those We would like to thank Kenny at deadlines, visit our web site at The Bolt for donating the use of the www.calcomui.org and then click bar for the brunches and for on “Legislative Calendar 2011” on opening the bar so attendees may the left side of our home page. purchase cocktails if they wish. This calendar will tell you the All proceeds go into a charity important deadlines which bills fund to be distributed to selected must meet in order to survive in local gay and HIV related charities the California legislature. at the end of the year. 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Training will be held on Thursday, March 31, through Saturday at Napa Valley College Criminal Justice Training Center in outwordmagazine.com January 27, 2011 - February 10, 2011 • Volume 24 • Issue 2 • No. 425 Outword Magazine 3 Outword LCR Continues DADT Camera Phone Photo of the Week Fight at Ninth Circuit Staff og Cabin Republicans have filed a response PUBLISHER to the Obama administration’s latest attempt Fred Palmer Lto indefinitely delay arguments inLog Cabin ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION Republicans v. United States, despite legislation enacted Ron Tackitt last month which removed DADT from U.S. code. GRAPHIC DESIGN The military has emphasized that policy of discrimination, removing Joy Culley the policy remains in force and the the threat and specter of discharge Obama Department of Justice from thousands of patriotic EDITOR/OFFICE continues to defend the ban in servicemembers.” MANAGER Charles Peer court. The repeal of DADT is not yet “Log Cabin Republicans are effective and DADT will likely ARTS EDITOR acutely aware President Obama remain the law of the land until the Chris Narloch and his administration desperately end of 2011. In the meantime, want our case to just go away. That openly gay individuals are not free CALENDAR EDITOR Charles Peer is not going to happen,” said Log to enlist in the armed forces, Outword’s publisher Fred Palmer took a trip to SF to get away from the fog, Cabin Republicans Executive current servicemembers must and caught this shot of SF’s fog blowing into the valley on Monday, Jan. 17. CONTRIBUTING Director R. Clarke Cooper. “The continue to live a lie and the Want to share your pictures with Outword’s readers? It’s easy, just send one or two of your faves, full size, to [email protected]. 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Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association Midtown Business Association Golden Gate Business Alliance 4 Outword Magazine January 27, 2011 - February 10, 2011 • Volume 24 • Issue 2 • No. 425 outwordmagazine.com DOJ Files Brief Supporting DOMA ttorneys for Obama’s Justice Department have Led by Assistant Attorney General Tony West, the DOJ argues filed a court motion in support of the Defense that U.S. District Court Judge Aof Marriage Act, despite the President’s Joseph Tauro in Boston erred last evolving view that the law should be repealed. year in finding one section of the federal DOMA unconstitutional Saying that it is obligated to “not unconstitutional under this and that “back-and-forth changes” defend U.S. policy, regardless of the court’s binding precedent,” and such as those experienced by president’s personal beliefs, the argued that the law “reflects California concerning the Department filed a brief on January Congress’s reasonable response to recognition of same-sex marriages 13 before the U.S. Court of Appeals this still-evolving debate among the “have the potential to cause for the First Circuit in defense of states regarding same-sex inequities in the operation of the law after a lower- marriage. federal programs, and could result court judge ruled it “Indeed, the in administrative difficulties across unconstitutional. president supports a variety of federal programs.” The filing of repeal of DOMA “It is disappointing that the the brief drew and has taken Justice Department is urging the immediate the position that court to give this discriminatory criticism from Congress law a presumption of LGBT rights should extend constitutionality,” said Wofson. “At a organizations, federal benefits minimum, laws that carve out including to individuals in Americans because of race, sex, Freedom to same-sex religion or sexual orientation Marry. marriages,” should be presumed “We regret that the attorneys said in the unconstitutional, and should get Department of Justice brief. “But a consensus heightened scrutiny by the courts. continues to defend a law that behind that approach has not The Justice Department should be President Obama has repeatedly yet developed, and Congress could asking the courts to examine said is discriminatory,” said Evan properly take notice of the DOMA with skeptical eyes, not Wolfson, Executive Director of divergent views regarding same-sex rubberstamping discrimination.” Freedom to Marry, “a law that the marriage across the states.” A three-judge panel of the First Republican Congressman who The brief was filed in the cases Circuit U.S.