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No. 582 • August 10, 2017 outwordmagazine.com Wide Open Walls to Transform Sacramento page 13 Gold Rush Common Set to Sac Zombie Revenge of the Days Return Perform in Sac Walk Chick Flicks page 9 page 10 page 12 page 16 COLOR COLOR Rainbow Chamber Rebukes Trangender Military Ban commentary by Richard Hernandez n July 26th the President of the United States revoked the right of transgender individuals to serve in the U.S. Omilitary,-a hard-fought right won only a year ago. The Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of their country simply because of the way they Commerce rebukes the President’s actions in were born is inhumane and wrong. the strongest possible terms Which community will be next to lose its and calls upon our fellow equal rights? Americans to take a stand The Rainbow for the full equality Chamber remains and inclusion of committed to transgender defending the people, and for equal rights of all human our transgender beings, neighbors and regardless of friends, and to their sex, gender working with identity or sexual our community orientation. All of and corporate us are human allies to resist the beings. intolerant and Transgender discriminatory Americans live, work, actions of the current volunteer and serve administration toward alongside us every day, transgender people. including thousands currently serving Richard Hernandez, President, in the U.S. military. The President’s Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of action to strip them of the right to serve Commerce, www.rainbowchamber.com. Healthcare Repeal Bill’s Defeat Saves LGBTQ Lives he Republican plan to repeal the Afforable Care Act would have gutted healthcare for as many as 32 million Americans, Tdefunded Planned Parenthood for one year, and allowed states to offer junk insurance policies once again. It was released under the cover of night, The LGBTQ community would have as if that would blind anyone to who was been hit especially hard by a repeal of the responsible for what the bill would have Affordable Care Act, with millions losing done. Its defeat on July 28th, late at night, healthcare coverage under the legislation. was a fitting end, at least for now. Being transgender or having HIV or other “Repeated efforts to repeal the Affordable preexisting conditions meant that many Care Act collapsed late last night thanks to LGBTQ people received coverage for the the hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ and first time under the ACA. other Americans who attended town hall Additionally, LGBTQ people are twice as meetings and rallies, made phone calls to likely to be living in poverty as the general their elected officials, sent emails, wrote public, making the Medicaid expansion and letters and kept the pressure on senators,” federal subsidies important components of the ACA which significiantly increased siad Equality California Executive Director healthcare coverage for people in the Rick Zbur. ”Passage of the bill would have LGBTQ community. cost thousands of LGBTQ lives and we’re “Our work is not finished on healthcare,” profoundly grateful to all who took a said Zbur. “Congress will have to work on courageous stand.” stabilizing the insurance marketplace and In their obsessive attempts to gut many states may now choose to expand healthcare coverage for millions of Medicaid. Equality California will continue Americans, Senate Republican leadership to fight to ensure that LGBTQ Americans has followed a cynical playbook that are protected and continue to have vital makes a mockery of our political process. healthcare access.” outwordmagazine.com August 10, 2017 - August 24, 2017 • No. 582 Outword Magazine 3 Standing in Love Outword by Tom Moon, MFT, The Examined Life n this world there are only two tragedies; one is not getting Staff what one wants, the other is getting it.” This line from Oscar PUBLISHER Wilde reminds me of the two most common questions I Fred Palmer “I hear from gay men. ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION The first is ‘How can I find a boyfriend?’ even a sense of betrayal All-too-frequently, Ron Tackitt The second, once he shows up, is all-too- this is where the relationship ends. often “How do I get rid of this guy?” Successful relationships seem to be those GRAPHIC DESIGN Nothing begins more frequently with Ron Tackitt in which both partners at this point make excitement and hope than romantic love, the decision to “stand in love” – to stay EDITOR or ends more consistently in together and find their way to a love that is Charles Peer disappointment and bitterness. more realistic and grounded. If romantic [email protected] Psychology, on the whole, is fairly intensity is an initial phase of love; real skeptical of romantic love. The consensus ARTS EDITOR depth of connection comes to those willing Chris Narloch seems to be that it’s mostly based on a to work at knowing each other after the combination of lust and projection. We projections fade. SALES create, out of our wounds and unmet Partners who commit to stand together at Fred Palmer needs, an idealized picture of the partner this point begin to embody Scott Peck’s who has the power to soothe, transform, CONTRIBUTING definition of love. He calls it “the will to WRITERS and heal us, and then project this image extend one’s self for the purpose of Diana Kienle onto some unsuspecting soul who happens nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual Colt McGraw to look the part. growth.” As one of my friends puts it, “It’s Chris Narloch In other words, “falling in love” involves not all sex and puppies.” Bonnie Osborn not knowing each other. Love, literally, is Charles Peer It’s a spiritual truism that the opposite of blind. love isn’t hate, but fear, and that PHOTOGRAPHY There’s no denying that romantic love is overcoming the fear that keeps us separate Charles Peer one of life’s great adventures. It’s typically is one of our most basic tasks. a roller coaster ride of emotions that All schools of personal development ON THE COVER swing from ecstasy to agony and back WOW Artist’s Mural confront the strange paradox that, on the Character by Christina Angelina again – hardly the road to inner peace and one hand, our true nature is love, but that Bird by SV Williams balance. we’re all more or less out of touch with our And it has a dark side. “Love” can be as depths because of various hindrances selfish as hell – demanding, suspicious, – usually involving fear-based perceptions DISTRIBUTION petty and jealous. It’s volatile and Kaye Crawford of threats to the ego. The task is to remain Michael Crawford unpredictable; and, as Walt Whitman vigilant toward all the inner and outer acknowledges in poem, is generally forces that cause us to close the heart, and short-lived (“one brief hour”). Scientific to work continually to stay open. 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