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washingtonblade.com • vol. 42, issue 12 • march 25, 2011 • Still sharp after 40 years Liz Taylor hailed for LGBT and AIDS activism Legacy lives on at D.C. medical center bearing her name

By LOU CHIBBARO JR. [email protected]

The death of Elizabeth Taylor on Wednesday drew expressions of sadness and admiration from AIDS and LGBT activists in D.C., who said they were honored that the city’s Whitman-Walker Clinic building that bears her name would serve as a local legacy to the famous actress. Taylor, a two-time Academy Award-winning actress who starred in more than 50 ﬁ lms over a period of nearly 70 years, died at a hospital in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure. She was 79. “She was an extraordinary personality and it’s a wonderful feeling that we have a little part of her legacy right here on 14th Street, said gay D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1). Graham served as executive director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic in November 1993, when Taylor came to D.C. for a ceremony to dedi- cate the Clinic’s main building for patient services as the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center. The building is located at 1701 14th St., N.W. Graham and Cornelius Baker, then executive director of the D.C.- Continues on page 14 Washington Blade ﬁ le photo by Doug Hinckle Visit washingtonblade.com for a photo gallery of Elizabeth Elizabeth Taylor had a long association with Washington, from her marriage to Sen. John Warner to her AIDS activ- Taylor’s visits to D.C. ism and support of the Whitman-Walker Clinic. At last, room at the inn Va. B&B changes policy, will allow gay couples to stay

By CHRIS JOHNSON viewpoint [email protected] More reaction to the failure of Maryland marriage bill. PAGES 16 & 17 In an abrupt change of policy, owners of a Virginia bed and breakfast now say they will accept reservations from same-sex couples, after an online report in the Blade this week revealed a gay couple’s claims of being denied a room at the inn. Russell Williams, 56, of Hanover, Pa., said his spouse, David Schaefer, 54, tried to make reservations in late February at Stafford House in Fairfax, Va., as part of a trip for the wedding of their nephew. However, they said they were denied a room over the phone on the basis of their relationship. “So they, in that conversation — they ascertained that this was two men,” Williams said. “It’s a husband-and-wife operation. The wife was on the phone with David, and she said, ‘Well, we don’t accept non-traditional couples.’” Williams, who married Schaefer ﬁ ve years ago in Boston after being together 35 years, said his spouse tried to “push back a bit” on the Stafford House owner, but she remained ﬁ rm in denying the nationalnews reservation. Williams, a racehorse breeder, said the owner also told Schaefer, a physician, that unmar- ried opposite-sex couples would be unable to obtain a reservation. Advocates push Obama to advance anti-bullying legislation. PAGE 10 Continues on page 12 2 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011 LOCALNEWS

D.C. LGBT Center to be displaced again The planned construction of a new hotel could force the D.C. LGBT community center out of its Md. trans rights bill current storefront location at 1318 U St., N.W., as soon as June 2012, according to Center executive director David Mariner. Mariner said the Center’s landlord, JBG Properties, just informed him that it could no longer renew clears subcommittee leases of tenants along the 1300 block of U Street beyond June 2012. He said JBG offi cials cited plans to demolish all buildings along more than half of the south side of the block, including the Center’s building, Gender identity Other sources familiar with to make way for the hotel. the legislature, who requested “We don’t know the exact date because we don’t know what the timeline for the construction will measure must pass that they not be identifi ed, were be,” Mariner said. “We could be asked to leave as soon as June 2012, and that will be right before less certain about the bill’s the international AIDS conference,” he said. full House by Monday chances in the full House. They The Center, among other things, will host the National Gay Men’s Health Summit set to coincide to stay alive said many delegates were still with the international AIDS conference, which begins in July 2012. “We’re looking forward to bring- reeling over the tense debate ing a lot of gay, bisexual and transgender men to D.C. to talk about gay men’s health, and hopefully on March 11 over a same-sex we’ll have a place to do it.” By LOU CHIBBARO JR. marriage bill that was withdrawn Mariner said that while the Center continues to grow it is not yet capable of purchasing its own [email protected] from consideration and sent building without help from the city. City offi cials have said the city’s current fi nancial problems, in- back to committee after sup- cluding a large projected budget defi cit, prevents the city from providing the Center with funds to A bill pending before the Mary- porters determined it didn’t have buy a building at this time. land Legislature that would ban the votes to pass. One proposal being discussed, according to Mariner, is for the city to give the Center free space discrimination in employment and Meneses-Sheets said that or space at below market rent in the nearby Reeves Center, a city-owned offi ce building with fi rst- housing for transgender people while opposition to the gender fl oor retail space. The Reeves Center is located at the corner of 14th and U streets, N.W., one block cleared its fi rst hurdle Wednes- identity bill is signifi cant among from the U Street Metro Station. day when a subcommittee of the some of the same groups and — LOU CHIBBARO JR. House of Delegates voted 5-3 to conservative activists who op- approve it. posed the marriage equality bill, The bill was expected to come the intensity of the opposition Rehoboth official cited for ‘conflict’ in patio crackdown up for a vote on Thursday or early isn’t as strong. Friday before the House of Del- “This bill comes during tough The Delaware State Public Integrity Commission has issued an opinion stating that a Rehoboth Beach egates Committee on Health and economic times and is very city commissioner who initiated a city crackdown against the use of outdoor patios by bars and restaurants Government Operations as law- much viewed as a common may have violated a state confl ict of interest law. makers scramble to complete sense anti-discrimination poli- Several establishments that cater to a gay clientele, including the popular restaurant and bar work on dozens of bills. cy,” she said. “It’s about people Aqua Grill, were among the establishments targeted in a Labor Day weekend crackdown against Transgender activist Dana working and earning a living. late night use of outdoor patios. A city ordinance bars use of outdoor patios after 10 p.m. for drinking Beyer, who ran unsuccessfully And I think it resonates with law- and after 11 p.m. for dining in accordance with a separate city noise ordinance. The ordinance had for a seat in the House of Del- makers.” not been widely enforced prior to the crackdown. egates last year, said the sub- Some transgender activists Rehoboth police arrested the Aqua Grill’s co-owner during the crackdown, even though the es- committee approved at least are opposing the bill on grounds tablishment was exempt from the patio ordinance. The ordinance includes a “grandfather clause” two “minor” technical amend- that it doesn’t include protec- exempting establishments in business prior to the enactment of the ordinance. ments that don’t change the tions for public accommoda- The city’s police chief joined other city offi cials and the head of the Rehoboth LGBT community substantive language of the bill. tions, such as hotels, health center, Camp Rehoboth, in saying the crackdown was not aimed at gay establishments. Members of the House of Del- clubs and public bathrooms. The PIC said in an advisory opinion that Rehoboth Commissioner Stan Mills should not have egates, including the bill’s spon- Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk lobbied city offi cials to take action against establishments thought to be in violation of the patio or- sors, were in session Wednes- (D-Prince George’s County), the dinance because he owns a bed and breakfast business located next to one establishment with a day afternoon at Blade press author and lead sponsor of the patio – the gay bar Blue Moon. time and could not be reached bill, said she removed a public According to Delmarva Now, an online news outlet, Mills walked around the town on Labor Day week- to confi rm the contents of the accommodations provision from end last year to observe which establishments were violating the patio ordinance and reported to city amendments. the bill after determining it could offi cials that about a dozen of them were in violation. He then urged police to begin enforcing the ordi- Under a longstanding rule not clear a committee vote with nance, Delmarva Now reported. of the legislature, the gender the provision intact. She noted — LOU CHIBBARO JR. identity bill along with all other that the bill failed to clear the bills pending in the House of committee every year since she Delegates must be approved fi rst introduced the measure in obituary by the full House by midnight 2007. David Michael Womack, 45 Monday, March 28, in order to The bill’s approval in subcom- “cross over” to the State Senate mittee on Wednesday marked David Michael Womack died March 18 at age 45 at his home in Shepherdstown, W.Va., surrounded for consideration. Bills that fail to the fi rst time it has been ap- by those he loved. The family is not sure about his cause of death. win approval by the deadline are proved by any component of the Born in 1965 and raised in Huntsville, Ala., as an adult, Womack traveled widely, living in many places considered dead for the year. Maryland Legislature. including Mobile Ala., Silver Spring Md., and most recently, D.C., Palm Springs, Calif., and Shepherdstown. All Senate bills similarly must Meneses-Sheets said if the bill Womack, who was gay, was an LGBT activist and formerly worked as an accountant for the Human be completed and approved by clears the committee this week, Rights Campaign. He retired in 2008 to focus on his health. His husband of six years, Ian Gibson-Smith, that date in order to survive to be as she expects it will, it would remembered Womack’s “brilliant mind and quirky sense of humor” and said Womack was, “always armed considered by the House. likely come before the full House with a joke or well-placed zinger.” LGBT activists following the of Delegates late Friday or over “He referred to himself as a misanthropic curmudgeon and never met a stranger he did not want to gender identity measure say they the weekend as lawmakers rush get to know better,” Gibson-Smith said. “David was a passionate, life-long learner with varied talents are reasonably certain it will win to complete dozens of bills before and interests including pottery, fi ber-arts, sculpting, writing and cooking. An eclectic reader, David approval in the Health and Gov- the March 28 deadline. could usually be found curled up with yet another obscure book on art, philosophy, history, or social ernment Operations Committee. She said she was also confi - theory. Even at the end of his life David was organizing the myriad of books he still hoped to read.” They say they’re hopeful it will dent that the bill would clear a Womack is survived by his husband; his mother, Martha Delaney of Huntsville, Ala.; sisters Lisa East win approval by the full House. committee of the State Senate and Holly Snow also of Huntsville; his niece Samantha East of Salt Lake City, Utah; his husband’s par- “The votes look very good,” within the next week or two and ents, Clifford and Valerie Smith; and his sister-in-law, Julia Lam, and two nephews, Collin and Duncan said Morgan Meneses-Sheets, would win approval in the full Lam of Shepherdstown. Womack was preceded in death by his stepfather, Frank Delaney. executive director of the statewide Senate. All bills must be com- A wake is set for Saturday in Martinsburg, W.Va. A memorial service is planned for next month in LGBT group Equality Maryland. pleted in their respective bodies Alabama. In lieu of fl owers, Womack requested friends give blood in his memory. Or memorial con- “But of course we are keeping up by April 11, when the legislature tributions can be made to Hospice of the Panhandle, 122 Waverly Court, Martinsburg, WV, 25403 or our grassroots organizing to main- adjourns for the year. the IanThom Foundation, 39 Stagshead Court, Martinsburg, WV 25404. tain the support and are confi dent Gov. Martin O’Malley has said — JOEY DiGUGLIELMO it will come out of the House in time he would sign the gender iden- for the cross over deadline.” tity bill. march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 3 4 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011 LOCALNEWS White House protesters appear in court Judge questions similar to the way we see this case — as a civil rights exercise, as a First Amend- prosecution of LGBT ment exercise as people who non-vi- olently expressed their opposition to a demonstrators policy which has now been repealed,” said defense attorney Mark Goldstone By LOU CHIBBARO JR. after the hearing. [email protected] Goldstone said Assistant U.S. Attor- ney Angela George, the prosecutor in A U.S. District Court judge told a fed- the case, has so far declined to consider eral prosecutor in court on Friday that a number of possible alternative charges the government appeared to be invoking proposed by the defense. Among them is an overly harsh charge against 13 LGBT a less serious disorderly conduct charge activists who were arrested for handcuff- that falls under D.C. law rather than the ing themselves to the White House fence current federal charge filed against the last November to protest the “Don’t Ask, defendants: failure to obey a lawful order Don’t Tell” law. by U.S. Park Police. In a status hearing at the U.S. court- Park Police, which patrols the space Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key house in D.C., Judge Magistrate John M. surrounding the White House, made the Thirteen activists arrested during a ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ protest will be back in court in May. Facciola said the government’s decision arrests in the case after the protesters to charge the protesters with a misde- handcuffed themselves to the fence in Facciola directed George to continue combat veteran Crpl. Evelyn Thomas meanor offense that carries a maximum front of the White House. to negotiate with the defense on a pos- and Army veteran Rob Smith. penalty of six months in jail seemed out George cited various reasons why sible alternate charge or course of ac- Others include Robin McGehee, co- of keeping with other non-violent civil dis- the government chose not to accept the tion. He scheduled a follow-up status founder of GetEqual, the direct action obedience cases that involve the arrest suggested options offered by Goldstone hearing for May 17. If no agreement is LGBT group that organized the White of protesters. and attorney Ann Wilcox, who is assist- reached by then he directed the parties House protest; Dan Fotou, GetEqual’s Facciola noted that attorneys repre- ing Goldstone in the defense. Among to return to court on Sept. 19 for either eastern regional field director; Fr. Geoff senting the 13 activists — including for- other things, she said technical and legal the start of a trial or a plea to an agreed Farrow, a Catholic priest who was sus- mer Army Lt. Dan Choi and former Army restrictions would likely prevent the gov- upon charge. pended by Catholic authorities in Cali- Staff Sgt. Miriam Ben-Shalom – have ernment form filing other charges. A spokesperson with the U.S. Attor- fornia for defending the state’s same-sex called for a trial of each of the defen- Goldstone and Wilcox have proposed, ney’s office said Monday that the office marriage law against Proposition 8; Scott dants unless the government agrees to a among other things, a “post and forfeit” would have no comment on the case Wooledge, an LGBT rights advocate and less serious charge. A trial for 13 people option that allows the defendants to pay while is pending in court. blogger; and Michael Bedwell, a longtime would cost the government a consider- a fine and calls for the charge to be In addition to Choi and Ben-Shalom, LGBT activist and friend of Leonard Mat- able amount of money and would take up dropped. The two also proposed that the the other defendants in the case include lovich, the late LGBT activist and former court time that could better be used for defendants be charged with another mis- former Petty Officer Autumn Sandeen, Air Force sergeant who became the first other cases, the judge said. demeanor offense that allows the govern- former Cadet Mara Boyd, former Maine known gay to publicly declare his sexual “We think the judge was telegraphing ment to drop the charge if they success- Corps Sgt. Justin Elzie, former Army orientation in 1975 to challenge the mili- very clearly that he sees the case very fully perform community service work. Arabic linguist Ian Finkenbinder, Marine tary’s ban on gay service members. Jury rejects hate crime charge in gay murder Defendant found guilty of “This murder was marked by an un- ficials joined LGBT activists in speaking dant’s pants for him” while teenagers speakable brutality,” said U.S. Attorney at a community forum on anti-gay hate began laughing at Navarro. Some of the slaying victim in bedroom Ronald C. Machen Jr. “Today’s first- crimes hosted by Foundry United Meth- teens began teasing Navarro by “saying degree murder conviction ensures that odist Church near Dupont Circle. Mr. Massey was going to make the de- By LOU CHIBBARO JR. the defendant will be held accountable Machen told forum participants about fendant ‘his next bitch,’” the U.S. Attor- [email protected] for this senseless and deplorable act of his office’s prosecution of Antwan Hol- ney’s office statement says. violence.” comb, 21, who was convicted March 1 The statement says witnesses report- A D.C. Superior Court jury on Tuesday Machen told the Blade his office by a D.C. Superior Court jury of first-de- ed that Navarro turned toward Massey found District resident Justin L. Navarro, couldn’t discuss certain specifics, such gree murder while armed in the Decem- and gave him the “evil eye.” 25, guilty of first-degree murder while as the jury’s decision not to convict on ber 2009 murder of gay District resident A source familiar with the case said armed for stabbing a gay man at least 15 the hate crime charge, prior to sentenc- Anthony Perkins. Witnesses testified that the building where Massey lived was times in the back seconds after police said ing, which is scheduled for May 24. Holcomb was overheard boasting about known as a place where illegal drugs he referred to the victim as a “faggot.” A law enforcement source said juries meeting Perkins on a gay telephone chat were sold and sometimes used. The But the jury declined a request by sometimes find it difficult to grapple with line and luring him to a secluded spot in source said Navarro was being carried prosecutors that it designate the Nov. 6, bias-related charges in criminal cases Southeast D.C., where he shot him in the out of the building with his pants falling 2009 murder of District resident Kevin because it’s hard to prove beyond a head inside Perkins’ car. because he was highly impaired due to Massey, 31, as an anti-gay hate crime. reasonable doubt whether a defendant Machen told the forum his office con- alleged drug use and apparently was un- “The U.S. Attorney’s office had used bias or hatred as his or her motive sidered but ruled out charging Holcomb able to walk. charged the defendant with committing in committing a crime. with a hate crime in connection with the According to the statement, during this murder because of Mr. Massey’s D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Perkins murder. the following month, Navarro became the sexual orientation, but the jury did not the department is committed to “fully in- A statement released by the U.S. At- target of rumors questioning his sexual make that finding beyond a reasonable vestigate” hate crimes. torney’s office said witnesses testified orientation. It says that on at least one oc- doubt,” the office said in a statement. “In this case, MPD investigators during Navarro’s week-long trial that he casion he was overheard “loudly denying In addition to handing down a first- worked diligently with the United States became angry at Massey about a month the rumors and vowing to kill Mr. Massey.” degree murder conviction, the jury found Attorney’s office to gather all of the facts before the murder when people saw On Nov. 6, 2009, Navarro knocked Navarro guilty of obstruction of justice, that were available,” Lanier said. “It is un- someone carry him out of the apartment on the door of Massey’s apartment at tampering with evidence, and carrying fortunate that the jury did not find in favor building where Massey lived while his 4211 2nd St., N.W., and asked, “Where’s a dangerous weapon. He faces a mini- of the hate bias enhancement.” pants were falling down. the faggot,” the statement says. It says mum sentence of 30 years in prison and The verdict in the case came two The statement says witnesses saw a maximum sentence of life in prison. days after Machen and D.C. police of- Massey lean over to “pull up the defen- Continues on page 14 march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 5

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3467-5_GIL_tat_CAUC_WAblade.indd 1 3/9/11 5:48:48 PM 6 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011 NATIONALNEWS Protesters converge on Quantico to support Manning Gay service member accused in Wikileaks scandal

By DAVID HOFFMAN

There were many memorable images from last Sunday’s protest aimed at calling attention to the plight of a gay service member accused of treason by the federal government, but two images stood out above all others. The line of riot police, hooded with glass visors and carrying truncheons and heavy shields, standing silent at first, shoulder to shoulder, buffed out with padded body armor, flanked by other riot police with lunging dogs, and other hulking men carrying automatic weapons, and even an armored Humvee, its engine running, and the full line now several hundred strong. Photo by Diane Perlman The other image appeared peaceful. A line of demonstrators walking forward, Several hundred protesters gathered Sunday at Quantico, where PFC Bradley Manning is being held in connection with the Wikileaks scandal. This toward the police, linking their arms also, photo was taken at an earlier demonstration demanding Manning’s release at the White House. but singing while walking down Virginia Route 1, not carrying weapons but bou- asts at Boston University. crowd of “yes, he can” echoed among he’s charged with, if he’s the man who re- quets, to deliver flowers to the foot of the Manning’s arrest as a suspect accused other shouts of “shame.” leased the Wikileaks documents, I consider Iwo Jima monument there, the replica of handing over 250,000 U.S. diplomatic While saying that the burden of proof him a hero of the highest order ... and he statue at the gates of the Quantico Ma- cables to Wikileaks, came in May 2010 is on the authorities to prove that Man- is not an exception, as a whistleblower, but rine Corps Base. when he had returned to his duty station ning passed the classified documents he is a herald of things to come. … I hope That’s where PFC Bradley Manning as an Army intelligence analyst stationed to Wikileaks, something Manning hasn’t Barack Obama is listening to this!” has been held in solitary confinement for with a combat team near Baghdad. Those admitted, Ellsberg declared of Manning Later, House told the Blade that Man- eight months in pre-trial detention, wait- charges came in July last year, updated that “if he did do what he’s charged with, ning “considers himself to be a very ethi- ing for the charges against him to be pre- this month with further charges including then Bradley Manning is an American cal person and an American patriot,” and sented, including one carrying the death the capital one of “aiding the enemy.” The hero,” noting of himself, that “while this that “he’s a very humble, intelligent and penalty. Manning is the accused whistle- first of the Wikileaks cables were pub- may sound self-serving or boastful, but kind individual.” blower, the alleged source of the explo- lished in February 2010, with newspapers I was the Bradley Manning of my day ... After the speakers finished and the sive Wikileaks revelations from secret including the New York Times publishing I was called a traitor, as he is, and Brad- rally ended, an event orchestrated be- documents released by Julian Assange, the rest from November onward. ley Manning is no more of a traitor than I forehand with police authorities, includ- that detail case after case of alleged U.S. Manning has never said he was the was, and he’s not, and I’m not!” ing those from the Virginia State Police government misconduct. source for the documents, written by 250 and the Prince William County Police, Manning, a gay man, is accused of embassies and consulates in 180 coun- McMICHAEL: allowed six activists, including Ellsberg, “aiding the enemy,” and has been “tor- tries, which had been downloaded from “Thank you all for being here, this has McMichael and Wright, to pass through tured” while in custody, according to his SIPRNet, the classified State Department become a notorious event and cause police barriers, cross Route 1, and ap- attorney, in an alleged attempt to wring computer deposit for diplomatic cables. celebre around the world.” He then ex- proach the Iwo Jima statue. However, a confession from him. A court martial But he is alleged to have contacted a for- pressed his personal “outrage at the way they were kept back from entering Marine could lead to life in prison or possibly mer computer hacker, Adrian Lamo, and the prosecution of Bradley Manning is Corps Base property and were forced execution. sent him several encrypted e-mails and being conducted, and the harsh condi- to toss their bouquets of red and white About 500 protesters chanting “Free then chatted with Lamo online. Lamo lat- tions in which he is being held, so severe carnations through an opening onto the Bradley Manning” had met several hours er told the FBI that Manning had basical- as to violate both U.S. and international base of the statue. earlier on a muddy field a few hundred yards ly said that he was the Wikileaks source. law, and you could call it torture.” Then they sat down, in the middle of away from the monument and the gate, now Those documents included military war McMicheal read further from his letter the highway, and then, at the mournful both walled off by police barriers to prevent logs and documents from both the Iraq to the president about Manning that “the sound of a bugler, the assembled crowd the crowd from entering the base. and Afghanistan wars as well as the so- lesser evil is not a good enough reason burst through the barriers and thronged It began as demonstrations usually called “Collateral Murder” video, shot from to support you again,” and that in 2012 onto the highway joining the six, and do, with a raised platform, and micro- a U.S. military Apache helicopter gunship he would, though “a loyal Democrat,” op- many of them also sat down. And for two phones and speakers, amid banners in July 2007 of an airstrike and published pose Obama for re-election. hours the chants and songs and prayers and placards. Speakers included Marine by Wikileaks in April 2010, showing the were heard, until finally, after the protest- Corps veteran and famed Vietnam War- deaths of civilians including two journalists WRIGHT: ers refused to vacate the intersection, the era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who for the Reuters news agency. “I’m horrified at how a member of the police moved in and arrested one by one released to Richard Nixon’s great embar- Below are excerpts from some of Sun- U.S. military is being treated, right here at about 30 of those still seated, including rassment the Pentagon Papers; retired day’s speeches. Quantico, and we want this stuff to stop! Ellsberg and Wright, on misdemeanor Marine Corps Captain David McMichael, Let’s get Bradley Manning fair treatment charges of unlawful assembly, and im- now 83 but still ramrod straight, whose ELLSBERG: while he’s in pre-trial detention, so he can peding access to the road. last post was as a company commander “I feel shame as a Marine myself that get an honest trial, and he should be treat- Marine Col. Thomas V. Johnson, a at Quantico; Army Colonel, retired after members of the Marine Corps are tortur- ed with respect” until his trial, instead of spokesperson for the base, said access 29 years in uniform, and former State ing Bradley Manning by keeping him in with “cruel and unusual punishment.” to the Iwo Jima memorial was denied Department official, Ann Wright; and solitary confinement 23 hours a day, and because protest activity is not permitted Manning’s close personal friend, David sometimes forcing him to sleep naked HOUSE: on base grounds. But he also said that, House, an expert on information eco- and stand in the nude for inspection … “It’s stuff like this that gives Bradley Man- “we’re pleased that people were able nomics, who met Manning in January “President Obama could stop that ning hope, and when I tell him there are peo- to express their First Amendment rights 2010 at an open-house meeting of a with one phone call,” continued the ple like you in the ‘transparency’ movement, in a manner that did not infringe upon group of computer technology enthusi- 72-year-old Ellsberg, as cries from the his eyes light up. If he’s guilty of the things base property.”

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Apple yanks ‘gay cure’ app DENVER — An iPhone app critics called “hateful and bigoted” has been pulled Frank: ENDA to be introduced by Apple, several media outlets reported this week. The company as of Blade press time had not released a statement but on Tues- day pulled the app released by Exodus International, an “ex-gay” organization that ‘any day now’ claims it can cure gays of unwanted same-sex desire. According to Apple’s guidelines for app store submissions, “Any app that is de- famatory, offensive, mean-spirited or likely to place the targeted individual or group Remains skeptical about in harms way will be rejected.” passage in GOP House The “reparative therapy” offered by Exodus International’s counseling services has been rejected by most major medical organizations, including the American Psycho- By CHRIS JOHNSON logical Association, as damaging to the self-esteem and mental health of its patients. [email protected] An online petition against the app, organized by Change.org, has received more than 150,000 signatures since March 9 and coverage from major news web- Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said last sites and organizations. week that he expects the Employment Exodus says the iPhone application can help as an alternative to homosexuality Non-Discrimination Act to be introduced not a “cure.” in the House “any day now” but he remains skeptical about its chances for Gay marriage ban remains in effect in Calif. passage in the 112th Congress. “We’re going to be [introducing the SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. appeals court this week left in place a ban on gay bill] any day now,” Frank told the Wash- marriage in California, denying requests to allow same-sex weddings during a ington Blade. “We’ll introduce it the way it lengthy appeals process, Reuters and other news outlets reported. was introduced last year. But that one — A federal district court judge last year struck down the ban on the basis that it there’s no real prospects for in this Con- violated the U.S. constitution, but his decision is on hold pending the appeal. gress, but we are going reintroduce it.” The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is waiting for Califor- As it was introduced in the previous nia’s supreme court to issue guidance on whether a group supporting the ban had Congress, ENDA would bar job bias the right to make the appeal. based on sexual orientation and gender California’s decision will add a year or so to the federal appeal process, Reuters said. identity in most private and public workforce settings. Colorado Senate passes civil unions measure But the general consensus among Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key Capitol Hill observers is that passage Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said he ex- DENVER — A proposal to give same sex couples similar protections as mar- of any pro-LGBT legislation, including pects some Republican support for ENDA ried couples passed the Colorado Senate Wednesday, KUSA-TV, a station there, ENDA, will be a significant challenge but that its chances were not good in this reported this week along with several other news agencies. for at least two years with Republicans Congress. The Senate passed the measure on a voice vote. After a third reading in the in control of the U.S. House. Last year, Senate this week, the bill moves to a tougher battle in the Republican-controlled Frank told the Blade there would be “zero and scuttle the bill. House of Representatives. chance” for the passage of any legisla- “Without the transgender piece, you Sen. Pat Steadman of Denver sponsored the bill and spoke vigorously on the tion that would directly benefit the LGBT have a dozen, but on the transgender Senate floor to give same-sex couples benefits such as medical decision making community. issue, we had, as I said, nine commit- powers, increased inheritance rights and an easier process to list each other as Still, Frank said introduction of the leg- ments and we’ll be approaching them to dependants on health insurance, KUSA-TV reported. islation is important to educate the public see how many of them will co-sponsor,” “There are people that get left out in the cold because they have no legally rec- and members of Congress, especially on Frank added. ognized relationship, they don’t have access to our court system” Steadman told the transgender protections included in Asked whether the House introduction the station. “I think we can make Colorado law more fair and more inclusive and, in the bill. of ENDA would coincide with a Senate the process, make families and society stronger.” “It’s important to introduce it to give introduction, Frank said he was unsure. Steadman, who is openly gay, says he would pursue a civil union if the bill people a chance to lobby their members “I don’t know,” he said. “It doesn’t eventually makes it past Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk. He hugged many fellow on it,” Frank said. “Having a bill there make any difference. What difference lawmakers after the vote, the station reported. encourages people to lobby their mem- does it make whether it’s simultaneous or Republican Sen. Kevin Lundberg of Larimer County voted against the measure bers. Particularly, we need people to not? I don’t focus on things that have no and spoke openly on the house floor about his disapproval. do more lobbying and educating on the significance.” “This would change the very concept of what marriage is,” Lundberg said, “And transgender issue, and so having a bill In the previous Congress, Sen. Jeff what the family unit is all about and what role that plays in the state of Colorado.” there is a very important part of getting Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced the Senate Gay couples would still not be able to marry, because voters banned same-sex the votes ultimately to be able to pass it.” version of ENDA. It was the first time that marriage in 2006. Hawaii recently became the seventh state to allow civil unions. Frank, the longest-serving openly a Senate version of ENDA had been in- Illinois passed a civil unions law in January. gay member of Congress, said he didn’t troduced with transgender protections. immediately have an estimate for how Julie Edwards, a Merkley spokesperson, Indiana takes further step to ban gay marriage many co-sponsors he would have for said she had no updates for when ENDA ENDA upon its introduction, but said the would be introduced in the Senate dur- INDIANAPOLIS — State lawmakers in Indiana took another step Wednesday legislation may have some Republican ing the 112th Congress. toward amending a gay marriage ban into Indiana’s constitution, the Evansville supporters based upon conversations Even though Democrats remain in Courier & Press and other outlets reported this week. he had in the 111th Congress. control of the Senate, Frank said he The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a constitutional amendment that “I personally talked to nine Republi- doesn’t think supporters of the legislation would limit marriage to one man and one woman, and would bar civil unions or cans who were ready to vote for the bill will be able to pass ENDA in that cham- other legal recognition of same-sex couples’ relationships, on a 7-3 vote. House with transgender inclusion last year,” ber alone. Joint Resolution 6 has already cleared the House and now moves to the full Senate, Frank said. “We lost [former Delaware Asked about the prospects for Senate where it is expected to pass with little resistance, the paper reported. Rep.] Mike Castle, but I believe we will passage of ENDA, Frank replied, “No. Sen. Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn, noted the Senate has approved such a ban five have some co-sponsors. But I worked Because first of all you need 6o votes. times. In the past, it’s been blocked by Democratic majorities in the House. But very hard on Republicans. We did have Secondly, the way it works — if there is Republicans now control both chambers. nine Republican hard commitments to zero chance of passing a controversial “The basic unit of our society is our family, and I think the cornerstone of the fam- vote with us against any effort to knock bill in the other house, the one house, ily is the marriage of a man and a women and having children,” he said. “I think that out transgender.” people say, ‘Why should I do that?”‘ is part of the main thrust of the whole idea here is to protect that unit that is basic Frank was referring to a potential mo- “It’s very hard to get members to vote to our society and all other societies.” tion to recommit in the 111th Congress for a controversial bill in any case, but to Sen. Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, said he is concerned that banning civil unions in which opponents of ENDA could have get them to vote for a controversial bill will affect domestic partnership health benefits. called for a vote on a portion of ENDA when there’s no chance of passing it in — such as the transgender protections the other house becomes impossible,” — to return the legislation to committee Frank added. march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 9

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[email protected] said. “To deal with issues of bullying or Gaylord said additional GOP co-spon- discrimination -- it’s not as if that’s not sors for the standalone pro-LGBT legisla- LGBT rights supporters are pushing for what ESEA reauthorization would cover.” tion would help bolster their chances of the inclusion of student anti-bullying and A Republican strategist familiar with success as part of education reform. non-discrimination measures as part of education reform, who spoke on condi- “I just think more Republican support upcoming education reform legislation as tion of anonymity, said it’s too early to tell for these bills will obviously be important, observers say bipartisan support and pres- whether education reform -- LGBT-inclu- particularly in the House,” he said. sure from the White House are needed to sive or otherwise -- can make it to the The Republican strategist said leader- ensure they’re included in any larger vehicle president’s desk during this Congress, ship from Senate Democrats “saying that that makes it to President Obama’s desk. but expressed optimism about the effort. this is something important” is needed Obama has identified reauthorization “The good thing is that, obviously, Re- to ensure LGBT anti-bullying and non- of the Elementary & Secondary Educa- publicans and Democrats haven’t been discrimination language are included in tion Act, updated during the Bush admin- agreeing on too much lately, but the one education reform. istration as No Child Left Behind, during area where folks think there is a real chance “You’re also going to need to demon- his State of the Union address as among for them to come to agreement is on edu- strate enough Republican support on the his priorities for the 112th Congress and cation and what to do with No Child Left House side that Republicans are able to has been touring the country with educa- Behind reauthorization,” the strategist said. allow it to end up in the final package,” tion leaders -- including Education Sec- “If anything can get bipartisan support and the strategist said. retary Arne Duncan -- to make the case Washington Blade photo by Michael Key get done this year, it’s probably that.” LGBT rights supporters also say that for education reform. President Obama convened a first-of-its- With Republicans in control of the pressure from the White House and explict Last week during a speech before kind anti-bullying conference at the White House and a Democratic majority in the endorsements of the anti-bullying and non- Kenmore Middle School students in House earlier this month. Senate, observers maintain that biparti- discrimination from Obama are important to Arlington, Va., Obama noted support san agreement on inclusion of the pro- ensure they’re part of larger legislation. for updating No Child Left Behind in Con- Similar legislation that aims to help LGBT measures is necessary for them to Support for those measures from gress and called on lawmakers to send LGBT students is the Student Non-Dis- stay on as a component of the larger bill. Obama would build on the anti-bullying him education reform legislation before crimination Act. Introduced by gay law- One LGBT rights advocate, who spoke conference that the White House held the next school year begins in the fall. maker Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) in the on condition of anonymity, said staffers this month to shed light on harassment “I am proud of the commitment by House and Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) in on the Senate HELP Committee have of students and devise ways to miti- Democrats and Republicans in Congress the Senate, the legislation prohibits pub- indicated that passage of No Child Left gate bullying against students -- both in to fix No Child Left Behind, to make this lic schools and school programs from Behind reauthorization with LGBT inclu- schools and online. reform a reality -- because they recognize discriminating against LGBT students. sion will depend on support from law- Shin Inouye, a White House spokes- education is an area where we can’t afford Additionally, the Tyler Clementi Higher makers on both sides of the aisle. person, said the president supports “the to drag our feet,” Obama said. “As Arne Education Anti-Harassment Act -- spon- “I would say that they are hopeful, but goals” of SSIA and SNDA and wants to says, our kids only get one shot at an edu- sored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) realistic that the likelihood is almost en- ensure students are free from harass- cation, and we’ve got to get it right.” in the Senate and Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) tirely dependent on a bipartisan effort,” ment as they pursue their studies. Whether the 112th Congress can re- in the House -- would require colleges to the source said. “This year, when the Elementary and authorize No Child Left Behind remains establish policies against harassment. A spokesperson for House Speaker Secondary Education Act is being con- in question as the leaders in the Republi- The bill is named after a Rutgers Uni- John Boehner (R-Ohio) deferred com- sidered, we look forward to working with can-controlled House and the Democrat- versity student who leaped off the George ment on the issue to the House Educa- Congress to ensure that all students are ic-controlled Senate differ on what reform Washington Bridge in September after a tion & Workforce Committee, which didn’t safe and healthy and can learn in envi- should look like. Even if passage can video was posted online of him reported- respond to the Washington Blade’s re- ronments free from discrimination, bully- happen, many political observers have ly having a sexual encounter with anoth- quest for comment. ing and harassment,” Inouye said. said Obama’s goal of passing education er man in his dorm room. However, this On the Senate side, Tom Harkin (D- Gaylord said he welcomes the steps reform by end of summer is unrealistic. legislation has a lower profile than either Iowa), chair of the Senate Health, Educa- that White House has taken against stu- Components of education reform that the Safe Schools Improvement Act or the tion, Labor & Pensions Committee, is a dent bullying and harassment, but noted Obama has enumerated support for Student Non-Discrimination Act. co-sponsor of the Safe Schools Improve- the president has yet to voice explicit include implementing an accountabil- LGBT advocates working to ad- ment Act. Justine Sessions, a committee support for the pro-LGBT bills. ity system that shares responsibility for vance these measures say talks are spokesperson, said Harkins hopes to in- “The administration has not yet called improvement and rewards excellence; already taking place on Capitol Hill to clude the pro-LGBT measures as part of for passage of either [the Safe Schools having a flexible system that empowers include them as part of No Child Left education reform. Improvement Act or the Student Non- school administrators and teachers; and Behind reauthorization as discussions “Chairman Harkin is a strong support- Discrimination Act] by name, so that is having a system that targets resources begin over passage of the larger vehicle. er of efforts to protect students against sort of the next step,” Gaylord said. “Now to persistently low-performing schools Shawn Gaylord, director of public pol- discrimination and bullying, and hopes would be that time that we would really and ensures the most effective teachers icy for Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education to address these issues in the reauthori- anticipate the administration to step up serve students most in need. Network, confimed talks have already zation of the Elementary and Secondary and be even more specific in their sup- But LGBT rights supporters are look- started on including pro-LGBT measures Education Act,” she said. port for legislative vehicles.” ing to No Child Left Behind reauthori- as part of education reform. Bipartisan support could emerge for The anonymous Republican strategist zation as as a vehicle to pass various “We and other groups have been talk- the Safe Schools Improvement Act be- said “there’s no question” anti-bullying bills pending before Congress that aim ing to committee staff for quite a while cause Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) is an original efforts are a priority for the Obama ad- to combat bullying and discrimination about that possiblity,” Gaylord said. co-sponsor for the legislation. A former ministration, but the extent to which the against LGBT students. “Throughout this Congress, we’ve been House member, Kirk has said in the lower president will fight for passage of legisla- In the Senate, Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) talking to committee staff and making chamber of Congress Rep. John Shim- tion remains to be seen. sponsors the Safe Schools Improvement sure they were aware of our hope of get- kus (R-Ill.) could be an original co-spon- “That has not been translated into Act, an anti-bullying measure, which, ting legislation included in ESEA reau- sor of the legislation. support for specific legislation, so I think among other things, would require pub- thorization.” Neither the Student Non-Discrimina- the jury’s still out on the degree to which lic schools to establish codes of conduct Gaylord said he’s “hopeful” that the tion Act nor the Tyler Clementi Higher the administration will advocate for this explicitly prohibiting bullying and harass- pro-LGBT measures will be integrated Education Anti-Harassment Act has a particular change -- whether they’ll advo- ment. Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) is as part of No Child Left Behind reautho- single Republican co-sponsor in either cate for it all or whether they’ll advocate expected to introduce companion legis- rization. In 2007, when Congress was the House or Senate. for it specifically as a part of this educa- lation in the House. undertaking a previous attempt to enact The sources said Kirk’s support for the tion revamp.” march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 11

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This includes but is not limited to placement, by brown naff pitts omnimedia llc, arising out of or related to advertiser’s breach of any of the foregoing representations payment and insertion schedule. and warranties. 12 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011 NEWS DOMA repeal supporters seek Senate hearings But Congress unlikely to riage discrimination.” any Republican co-sponsors. Maggie Gallagher, chair of the anti- A Senate Democratic aide, who spoke Favorable hearings on DOMA repeal gay National Organization for Marriage, overturn law anytime soon on condition of anonymity, also empha- are unlikely in the House with Repub- told the Washington Blade via e-mail sized the importance of hearings as leg- licans in control of the chamber. Rep. that she would appreciate the oppor- By CHRIS JOHNSON islative repeal remains unlikely during the Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chair of the tunity to speak at a congressional hear- [email protected] 112th Congress. House Judiciary Committee, has spo- ing on marriage, but questioned why “One of the key steps that senators ken out in support of maintaining the they would need to take place if DOMA Supporters of repealing the Defense of can take to build momentum is to have anti-gay statute. repeal legislation has no chance of Marriage Act are calling on the Senate to a hearing, or hearings, on the topic,” the Consequently, the decision on wheth- passage. hold hearings on the impact the denial of aide said. “I think a thorough and per- er to hold hearings rests with Sen. Patrick “I certainly would welcome a chance the federal benefits and responsibilities of haps even a dramatic hearing could gal- Leahy (D-Vt.), chair of the Senate Judi- to make the case for DOMA again, per- marriage is having on married same-sex vanize opinion in the Senate and hope- ciary Committee. Known as an LGBT ad- sonally, however I think it would be rather couples throughout the United States. fully even serve as a galvanizing moment vocate, Leahy is among the co-sponsors silly for the Senate to waste its time on Evan Wolfson, executive director of more broadly in the public.” of the DOMA repeal legislation. hearings on a bill that has exactly zero the New York-based Freedom to Marry, As a result of DOMA, which was A Judiciary Committee spokesperson chance of passage,” she said. said hearings before the Senate could passed by Congress in 1996, married said she couldn’t provide a comment on But Richard Socarides, president of help raise the level of discussion on mar- same-sex couples cannot participate whether Leahy intends to hold hearings Equality Matters, said hearings could be riage on Capitol Hill. in federal programs. For instance, they during the 112th Congress because he’s part of the plan that would bolster sup- “One of Freedom to Marry’s top goals can’t file joint federal income taxes, currently serving as part of a congressio- port for passage of the legislation in the is to take the marriage conversation in receive spousal benefits under Social nal delegation overseas. Senate. Washington, D.C., to a higher level -- Security or obtain exemptions of the Even with support growing in the Sen- “If we’re able to get Senate Judiciary putting real faces, presenting the real estate tax law upon the death of one of ate, the repeal legislation faces tremen- Committee hearings, I think the right evidence and dispelling the bogus the spouses. dous odds against reaching President thing to do would be obvious for a lot of arguments -- to give elected officials Last week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D- Obama’s desk during the 112th Con- senators,” Socarides said. “It’s possible and other policy makers a better un- Calif.) introduced legislation in the Sen- gress with Republicans in control of the at some point before the end of this Con- derstanding of why marriage matters,” ate known as the Respect for Marriage House. Even with Democrats in control of gress, we could have a majority of sena- Wolfson said. “Holding hearings is cer- Act, which would repeal the anti-gay the upper chamber, reaching the 60-vote tors who understand the importance of tainly one important opportunity for us to statute. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) has threshold for passage of the Respect repealing this law. ... It’s very important help continue the momentum in support introduced companion legislation in the for Marriage Act in the Senate would be to make progress and hearings could be of overturning DOMA and ending mar- House. Neither piece of legislation has challenging. an important part of that.” Va. B&B will now admit gay couples

Continued from page 1 Williams said facing this discrimina- in public accommodations. tion reminded him of the mistreatment “These kinds of things should not be that racial minorities in the United States happening in this day and age, and the “There were no harsh words,” Wil- once faced in similar situations. frustrating part is that they happen all too liams said. “Apparently, the husband is “The first thing that popped into my frequently in areas all across our coun- a minister and it’s a religion-based policy head was now I knew how black people try,” Sainz said. “It’s even more frustrat- that they have. And that was that. I guess felt 50 years ago,” Williams said. “It was ing when they happen right across from we’ll stay at the Marriott.” bizarre. David felt the same way.” the nation’s capital — in a city that is vir- But following the online posting of the Virginia State Del. Adam Ebbin (D- tually within walking distance of the na- Blade article on Tuesday, Donna Staf- Alexandria), the only openly gay mem- tion’s capital.” ford, an owner of Stafford House, said ber of the General Assembly and a can- Sainz said the incident “makes clear that the bed and breakfast has changed didate for a Virginia State Senate seat, the need for uniformity of laws nation- its policy and will no longer bar anyone called the alleged discrimination faced wide that protect all Americans, specifi- from making a reservation. by Williams and Schaefer “an embar- cally on the basis of sexual orientation “We were in the process of [changing rassment to Virginia.” and gender identity.” But Sainz also said our policy] even before your article came “It’s surprising, in spite of our lack of the situation speaks to the need for state out,” Stafford said. “We’re not going to protections and laws, that this would non-discrimination legislation in Virginia put restrictions on anyone that stays.” happen in Fairfax County,” Ebbin said. because he said states have always In a separate e-mail, Stafford noted “It’s another outrage that makes me been “first and strongest” to protect Photo by Meghan Moore that the prior policy of Stafford House want to redouble my efforts in support of LGBT families. Russell Williams, 56, and his spouse, Da- was within the letter of all relevant state equality in Virginia.” Williams said although he felt he faced vid Schaefer, 54, tried to make reservations and local housing laws. Ebbin said a change in law to prohibit discrimination, he doesn’t think sympa- in late February at Stafford House in Fairfax, In a joint statement, Williams and discrimination of all types would be the thizers should retaliate against the own- Va., but were rejected. Stafford House has since changed its policy Schaefer told the Blade on Wednesday best way to remedy the situation. In the ers of Stafford House. via e-mail that following Stafford House’s 2011 session of the General Assembly, “I would not want to see the people announced change in policy, they Del. Ken Plum (D-Fairfax) introduced at the B&B persecuted,” Williams said. Virginia General Assembly to pass non- booked a room. legislation that would amend the Virginia “I think it’s wrong and I think they’re ig- discrimination laws. “Pursuant to your update we have Human Rights Act to include safeguards norant, but I hope that — and I’ve talked “We constantly hear complaints from reserved a room at the Stafford House for LGBT people against unlawful dis- about this with a lot of friends — gay peo- Richmond that there are no documented and plan to stay there this weekend,” crimination. ple should not retaliate against this kind cases of discrimination,” Ebbin said. they wrote. “Tolerance doesn’t require “Clearly, we need to change the laws of thing. I think we should just go ahead “Every incident like this helps us make agreement about everything and if they to prohibit discrimination of all types,” and do what we have to do to get our civil it more clear to my colleagues that we learned that across the river in Congress Ebbin said. “Unfortunately, we’re still at rights and make sure that people comply.” need to move forward on protecting the whole country would be better off.” the building-block level.” LGBT advocates said they felt draw- LGBT people along with all others.” Virginia has no LGBT-specific non- Fred Sainz, vice president of coming attention to this issue can help with Sainz added he believes more LGBT discrimination law, nor one that protects munications for the Human Rights Cam- efforts to pass laws to prevent such dis- couples throughout the country face this kind same-sex couples against discrimination paign, also expressed frustration that no crimination in the future. Ebbin said such of discrimination, but few make the incidents in public accommodations. legal protections exist for LGBT people examples can help build the case in the public because they’re embarrassed. march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 13

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This includes but is not limited to placement, omnimedia llc, arising out of or related to advertiser’s breach of any of the foregoing representations and warranties. payment and insertion schedule. 14 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011 LOCALNEWS Whitman-Walker Clinic cherishes Liz Taylor ‘legacy’ Continued from page 1 area based National Association of Peo- ple with AIDS, told of Taylor’s genuine interest and concern for individual patients affected by the disease, especially those encountering discrimination. “She not only permitted us to use her name but she also made a $50,000 donation,” Graham said. According to Graham, on the day following the dedication ceremony, Taylor visited a separate Clinic facility where people with AIDS lived. “She visited patients there and auto- graphed T-shirts,” he said. “She had an amazing presence.” “Today the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community lost an extraordinary ally in the movement for full equality,” said Jarrett Barrios, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defama- tion (GLAAD). “At a time when so many living with HIV/AIDS were invisible, Dame Taylor fearlessly raised her voice to speak out against injustice,” Barrios said. “Dame Taylor was an icon not only in Hollywood, but in the LGBT community where she worked to ensure that everyone was treated with the respect and dignity we all deserve.” GLAAD released an excerpt from remarks that Taylor made in 2000 at the organization’s 11th Annual GLAAD Media Washington Blade file photo by Doug Hinckle Awards event, where she received the Elizabeth Taylor, pictured here with gay Council member Jim Graham who then served as director of Whitman-Walker, on a 1993 visit to the Clinic. group’s Vanguard Award for advancing the cause of LGBT equality. Taylor was among the founders of the extended millions of lives and will enrich the Lincoln Memorial. “Why shouldn’t gay people be able American Foundation for AIDS Research countless more for generations to come.” “She was just incredible,” Baker said. to live as open and freely as everyone (AMFAR) in 1985, when she served as Baker noted that Taylor returned to “She was so dedicated. She was a won- else?” she said. “What it comes down the group’s international chairperson. D.C. in 1996, three years after dedicat- derful activist and a great inspiration to to, ultimately, is love,” Taylor told the au- “She was among the first to speak ing the Elizabeth Taylor Building, to par- all of us.” dience. “How can anything bad come out on behalf of people living with HIV ticipate in a candlelight vigil and march Don Blanchon, Whitman-Walker’s out of love? The bad stuff comes out of when others reacted with fear and often along the National Mall during the week- current executive director, said the Clin- mistrust, misunderstanding and, God outright hostility,” AMFAR said in a state- end of the displaying of the National ic is benefiting from Taylor’s early efforts knows, from hate and from ignorance.” ment. “For 25 years, Dame Elizabeth has AIDS Quilt. on behalf of AIDS causes beginning in Taylor has said her interest in helping been a passionate advocate of AIDS Taylor traveled the entire route of the the 1980s. those impacted by AIDS began when she research, treatment and care. She has march from the Capitol to the Lincoln Me- “Her dedication to raising money watched firsthand how her close friend, testified eloquently on Capitol Hill, while morial in a golf cart alongside hundreds along with awareness has helped to save actor Rock Hudson, suffered from the raising millions of dollars for AMFAR.” of activists participating in the event, countless lives both by helping to treat stigma associated with AIDS in the early The statement adds, “She leaves a Baker said. She addressed the gather- people living with the virus and by pre- 1980s before he died of the disease. monumental legacy that has improved and ing from a speaker’s platform in front of venting new infections,” Blanchon said. Guilty verdict in murder of D.C. gay man Continued from page 4 Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrest- crime in the Massey murder. persuade juries that their client lost con- ed the defendant in a hotel room in South- “As this case shows, it is ultimately up trol of his actions due to a fear of homo- someone answered the door and told west D.C.,” the statement says. to the jury in the end, but it’s important sexuality and lashed out and killed the Navarro that Massey was in the bedroom. The statement says that during his to fiercely prosecute these cases to stem victim in a state of temporary insanity. The statement says witnesses reported trial, Navarro testified that he acted in the growing level of hate in our commu- Gay rights attorneys have pointed to that Navarro then went into the kitchen, self-defense, saying “he did not know Mr. nity,” Singletary said. evidence showing that some defendants grabbed a “large butcher knife,” walked Massey and that Mr. Massey attacked He said GLOV will write a community using this defense sought out and target- into the bedroom and “without any warning him for no apparent reason.” impact statement to be submitted to the ed gay victims for and assault and rob- began stabbing Mr. Massey repeatedly.” Says the statement, “The defendant judge prior to Navarro’s sentencing that bery and invoked the gay panic defense It says Massey died on the scene. An testified that he believed Mr. Massey was “conveys the effects of this crime on the after being caught. autopsy later revealed that he had been either going to kill him or rape him.” LGBT community.” “We all must be vigilant to make sure stabbed between 18 and 20 times, in- Attempts to reach Navarro’s court ap- Singletary also noted that Navarro, that nothing remotely close to a gay pan- cluding 15 times in the back. pointed attorney, Nathan I. Silver II, for with the help of his attorney, sought to ic defense is seriously considered, or “In the days that followed, the defen- comment were unsuccessful. use a form of the so-called “gay panic worse, upheld in court,” Singletary said. dant threatened witnesses, burned his A.J. Singletary, chair of Gays & Lesbi- defense” in the case. “Police and prosecutors must always be clothes, and told relatives he would not be ans Opposing Violence, said the group In past cases, attorneys representing skeptical when they hear the gay panic around for a while,” the statement says. appreciates the U.S. Attorney’s office’s defendants charged with killing gay men defense, which as this case shows, is “Five days after the murder, the Capital decision to charge Navarro with a hate have invoked the gay panic defense to prevalent and dangerous.” march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 15

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Address PO Box 73647 Learning from our mistakes in Maryland Washington dC 20056 PhOne 202-747-2077 rights to all citizens of Maryland. oped — to gain support from their rights. Those actions are Activists ignored e-mAil Those churches have the right black communities, particularly not in the spirit of Martin Luther [email protected] warnings from to define marriage as being only in Prince George’s County. The King, Jr. and others in their fight internet between a man and a woman black community was taken for to gain civil rights. There must www.washingtonblade.com black leaders about for their churches only. They can granted and same-sex mar- also be more willingness among marry whomever they want in riage rights will be denied for at proponents of LGBT rights to PuBlished By church opposition Brown naff Pitts Omnimedia, inc. their churches — only! The fact least one more year in Maryland engage in supporting issues By EARL FOWLKES that a handful of churches saw as a result of the arrogance. that are important to blacks, PuBlisher fit to deny rights to others based What must we do to make Latinos, Asian Pacific Islanders lynne J. BrOWn Many of us were helpless wit- on their narrow construct of what certain that this reversal of for- and other social issues, (e.g. [email protected] ext. 8075 nesses to the drama that played marriage for Marylanders should tunes does not occur again? education reform, immigra- editOriAl out in Annapolis, regarding the at- be by putting pressure on several First, all interested progressive tion, job creation and training, editOr tempt to pass legislation extending elected officials is egregious. organizations need to sit down etc.). Several black elected of- Kevin nAff [email protected] ext. 8088 marriage rights to same-sex cou- Unfortunately, some pro-mar- and develop strategies to ap- ficials, as well as communities feAtures & multimediA editOr ples in Maryland. Suddenly, what riage groups did not learn the peal to the hearts and minds of of color in general, have grown JOey diGuGlielmO was once a sure thing became an painful lessons from the Proposi- African Americans in Maryland tired of the narrow agenda that [email protected] ext. 8081 unsure thing and finally a thing that tion 8 battle in California where and across the country. This has been presented to them by sr. neWs rePOrter simply was not going to happen. there were limited strategies for must go beyond creating ads some LGBT organizations. lOu ChiBBArO Jr. The votes were counted engaging minorities groups. featuring same-sex couples Finally, we should never give [email protected] ext. 8079 and Gov. Martin O’Malley was The International Federation of talking about family. We must ground to those church and faith neWs rePOrter waiting for this all but certain Black Prides and Baltimore Black not be afraid of using the term organizations that will use LGBT Chris JOhnsOn [email protected] ext. 8083 law to come across his desk Gay Pride attempted to meet “civil rights” and defining it in people as scapegoats in order with Equality Maryland for three a broader context. We must not to deal with their own short- editOriAl intern for signature. Somehow, de- Juliette eBner feat was snatched out of the months to discuss strategies for be willing to have discussions comings. It’s amazing that a per- PhOtO editOr jaws of expected victory. In this Baltimore and Prince George’s not with narrow-minded minis- son could go to church where the miChAel Key case, there is plenty of blame to counties. Through our networks, tries and faith leaders but with love of Jesus is drowned out by [email protected] spread around. Unfortunately, we had been hearing that several the tens of thousands of black hate for a group of people who CreAtive in many ways what occurred in black churches were not happy people who are undecided or only want to be treated like every- CreAtive direCtOr Maryland also occurred in Cali- with the prospect of same-sex decided but unmotivated to one else in accordance with the JAmes m neAl fornia during the highly conten- marriage and might organize to give their opinions to their elect- very laws that govern our nation [email protected] ext. 8074 tious Proposition 8 process. As fight the passing of any law. Time ed officials as well talking with and embody the principles of jus- seniOr GrAPhiC desiGner Yogi Berra once said, “It was after time, everyone was too busy those who do not belong to a tice and equality for all. riChArd W.C. sKiPPOn déjà vu all over again.” to meet with us. homophobic church. [email protected] Much of the blame has to Everyone thought since there Secondly, we must avoid the sAles & AdministrAtiOn be placed firmly in the laps of a were enough votes in favor of visceral language and reac- sr. ACCt. exeCutive number prominent black church- same-sex marriage that it was a tion that will turn potential allies BriAn Pitts [email protected] ext. 8089 es in Prince’s George County. done deal. We all forgot about into enemies. Some of the e- ACCt. exeCutive The ministers of those churches the cult-like devotion that some mails received by several black Jeryl PArAde engaged in the type of homo- people have for their pastors elected officials not to mention [email protected] ext. 8072 phobic pandering that encour- and follow their instructions comments on mainstream and ACCt. exeCutive aged their parishioners to believe without a second thought. Once LGBT websites and blogs, were Earl D. Fowlkes, Jr. is president/ Curtis dOrGAn once again that the sanctity of again, not enough thought or equally hateful as some black CeO of the Washington-based inter- [email protected] ext. 8076 minister instructing their parish- national federation of Black Prides, ACCt. exeCutive their marriages would be threat- resources were devoted — nor inc. ened by extending civil marriage were there strategies devel- ioners to deny LGBT people dAn hAZArd [email protected] ext. 8077 ClAssified AdvertisinG PhilliP G. rOCKstrOh [email protected] ext. 8092 Holding the politicians accountable for distribution, contact lynne Brown at 202-747-2077, ext. 8075 Md. delegates individuals who put their personal Thoughtful people in our com- We have a governor who’s com- distributed by mediaPoint, llC lives on hold to advance equality munity can disagree on strategy. mitted to signing the bill. 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They are dedicated, hard working Benedict Arnold. a few votes short in the House. him at [email protected]. march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 17 VIEWPOINT Happy birthday, Tennessee Williams On writer’s centennial, ences in people — he helped proud in the way that many in me, a straight kid in the deep the queer community are today, let’s celebrate South, understand the human Williams was (once he obtained ‘Widely considered to be this country’s condition,” my friend George success as a playwright in the contributions to told me over the phone. 1940’s, more than 30 years queer life greatest 20th century playwright, Williams Williams’ work is universally before the modern gay rights is an icon whose work has made an indelible respected and his plays are movement) open about his sex- By KATHI WOLFE constantly produced all over uality. “I never considered my impact on everyone from famous actors and the world (a new production of homosexuality as anything to Years ago on a walking tour “A Streetcar Named Desire” is be disguised,” Williams told the in New Orleans, I fell asleep af- celebs to intellectuals to ordinary people of playing in Paris and a revival New York Times. ter taking a few too many sips of every sexual orientation and permutation.’ of one of his later plays “Vieux For much of Williams’ life, you bourbon. (I hadn’t learned how Carre” just ended off-Broadway were a misfit if you were queer. strong this libation can be.) Wak- in New York). Yet, Williams has While causing suffering in his life, ing up, I found myself sitting in a a special resonance for the being an outsider created mate- chair by a swimming pool on an queer community and his sexu- rial for his art. Even now when estate, looking up at my guide. Williams, who was born in country’s greatest 20th century ality informed his writing. homophobia is less prevalent, “You said you’re queer and a Columbus, Miss., 100 years ago playwright (he received the Pulit- The grandson of an Episco- many LGBTQ folk identify with poet,” he said. “I thought you’d this week on March 26, 1911 zer Prize twice, a Tony Award and pal minister and the son of a pu- Williams’ characters. It would like it here. This is one of the and died at age 71 in 1983, has the Presidential Medal of Free- ritanical, repressed mother and be unfair to Williams to overem- places where Tennessee Wil- influenced renowned straight dom), Williams is an icon whose a hard-drinking absentee father, phasize his sexuality, overlook liams hung out.” and queer writers and play- work has made an indelible im- Williams didn’t discover his his incredible talent or deny his I can’t remember the name wrights from Carson McCullers pact on everyone from famous sexual orientation until he was stature in straight culture. Yet on of the mansion or of the guide. to Edward Albee to David Mam- actors and celebs to intellectuals in his late 20s. Coming to terms his centennial, let’s celebrate But I can vouch for his percep- et to John Waters. This year, fes- to ordinary people of every sex- with being queer wasn’t easy for Williams’ contribution to queer tiveness. I was thrilled to be in tivals are being held nationwide ual orientation and permutation. Williams. Yet, Williams’ struggle life. Happy birthday, Tennessee! a place where Williams, who from New Orleans to Provinc- Growing up, my late parents with his sexuality fueled his cre- was openly gay, (reportedly) etown, Mass., to commemorate told me how moved they were ativity, writes journalist and critic had socialized. If I were lucky, Williams’ 100th birthday. This by Williams’ plays. “He makes Michael Paller in “Gentlemen maybe a speck of his genius week, as reported in the Blade, you like people who don’t fit in,” Callers: Tennessee Williams, would rub off on me. Like count- the Tennessee Williams Centen- my Dad said. Homosexuality, and Mid-Twenti- less scribes, queer and hetero, nial Festival is being held March “We’re not from the South, eth-Century Broadway Drama.” I grew up wishing I could create 24-27 at Georgetown University. but we have people here like in “... The instinctive lure of sex even a sentence as memorable (Georgetown and Arena Stage his plays,” my Mom said. “He and an almost ingrained repul- as “The Glass Menagerie,” “A are partners for the event. The gets you to see how people can sion by it, would be necessary Streetcar Named Desire,” “Cat festival featured a conversation be cruel, but kind.” before Williams could do his Kathi Wolfe is a writer, poet and regu- on a Hot Tin Roof” or any of Wil- with Albee on Thursday.) “When I was growing up, Wil- best work,” Paller writes. lar contributor to the Blade. She can be reached through this publication. liams’ other plays. Widely considered to be this liams made me accept differ- Though he wasn’t out and Standing by decision to delay marriage vote 2012 is Maryland’s have we reached the level of second, if the House voted on committed to bringing up the bill We thus stand by the decision success that we achieved this the bill, certain Delegates who again in 2012. To preserve our to recommit the bill. Of course, best bet for year in moving marriage legis- might take a risky “yes” vote prospects of success, therefore, people can disagree, and we lation through the General As- to pass a meaningful piece of it was best not to hold a vote encourage healthy discussion. advancing bill sembly. For the first time ever, legislation would vote “no” be- now, given the chances of the We also commend the bill’s the marriage bill made it through cause they knew the bill would bill’s defeat by a wide margin. co-sponsors in the House and By CHUCK BUTLER & committees in both houses of the fail. So rather than garnering It would be more difficult, within Senate, the LGBT Caucus, the PATRICK WOJAHN legislature, passed the Senate 68 or 69 votes — still short of a year, to convert “no” votes to governor, our national partners, and was debated in the House. the 71 needed — the bill could “yes” than to obtain a “yes” from and our friends at Alexander & On March 11, the Maryland At the same time, in the last be defeated with only 50-some delegates who had not locked in Cleaver for working to advance House of Delegates voted to election, the House of Delegates votes in support. their position with an actual vote. the bill. We look forward to joining “recommit” the bill that would lost six Democrats, five of whom We spent the night in discus- Those who believe that we with each next year to achieve have provided marriage equal- firmly supported marriage equal- sions among Equality Maryland had a chance of attaining 71 the bill’s enactment. In addition, ity to same-sex couples, send- ity. For this reason, we knew that board and staff, members of votes on March 11 are mistaken. we are proud of Equality Mary- ing the legislation back to com- the House would pose a bigger the Assembly’s LGBT Caucus, Immediately before the House land’s staff, led by Morgan Men- mittee and effectively ending challenge than the Senate in en- and our national partner organi- voted to recommit, a whip count eses-Sheets, for their impressive its chance for passage this acting marriage legislation. zations, trying to find a way to revealed that we still lacked 71 dedication. Finally, we want to year. This came as a bitter dis- It’s understandable that be- save the bill. Everyone realized votes to pass the bill. Had there acknowledge that if not for the ef- appointment to all who had cause the marriage bill moved that if the legislature passed been at least 71, the speaker forts of certain board members, worked to achieve equal mar- so swiftly through the Senate, the bill, opponents would likely would have held the vote. the bill never would have pro- riage rights in Maryland. As the many thought the bill would sail gather sufficient signatures to We understand the need gressed as far as it did. chairs of Equality Maryland, we through the House. For several place a repeal referendum on for clarity and how those who We hope that supporters of take full responsibility for the reasons, including the results the next election ballot. The po- fought so hard for marriage equality for LGBT people join us decision to recommit and stand of last year’s election, this didn’t litical realities of a referendum equality deserve an up or down in learning from our experience by that decision. We want to ex- happen. The night before the meant that, if we didn’t pass the vote on the issue. Equality this year and moving forward in plain why we believe that, given March 11 vote, House leaders bill in 2011 or 2012, we wouldn’t Maryland’s mission, however, is a positive direction. the circumstances, sending the informed us that the bill did not have another shot until 2015. to achieve equal rights for the bill back to committee was the have the 71 votes necessary for So we agreed that if we could state’s LGBT citizens as soon Chuck Butler is board chair of Equal- best course of action. passage. They made clear two not pass the bill this year, we as possible. A vote now would ity Maryland; Patrick Wojahn is chair First, let’s put what happened key issues: first, as time went should try again next year. Im- have hurt our chances next year of the Equality Maryland Foundation. in perspective. Never before on, the bill was losing support; portantly, House leadership and possibly in 2015 as well. Reach them via equalitymaryland.org. 18 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011

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REHOBOTH SHARE ADS ARE FREE! Place your housing to share ad on www.washingtonblade.com and the ads print free in the paper and online! (25 words or less prints free - anything more it is $1.00 per word) march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 19 VIEWPOINT The tipping point on anti-LGBT bullying Obama’s leadership watched in awe as the com- Among Young People (includ- bined leadership of the Obama ing violence against transgen- already helping to presidency sent a clear and under youth) in April, a first-ever equivocal message: We can’t federal Summit on LGBT Youth make things better ‘On April 6, 2009, Carl decided wait for it to get better for LGBT in June, and a second an- kids — we need to make it bet- nual federal Bullying Summit in By KEVIN JENNINGS he couldn’t take it anymore and hung himself. ter right now. September. In other words, the Carl was 11 years old when he decided he’d This high profile event was Obama administration is in this Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover not a one-shot deal for the for the long haul. was a sixth grader in the Spring- rather die than go back to school.’ Obama administration. Our Every day I wear on my suit field, Mass., schools in the 2008- work against bullying began in a button with Carl Joseph Walk- 2009 school year. School was 2009, when a six agency Fed- er-Hoover’s school picture on an awful place for Carl, a place eral Partners in Bullying Preven- it and the dates of his far-too- where he was relentlessly bul- tion work group was convened short life. It reminds me of why lied as “gay” by his peers be- to tackle this problem. The part- I came to Washington in the cause he was a good student Looking both stricken and Bullying and hosting it person- ners staged the first-ever fed- first place, which was to do my who dressed neatly and didn’t fit moved, the first lady grasped ally in the East Room of the eral Bullying Summit in August part to make sure these kinds of the gender stereotype assigned the picture, looked at it intently, White House, the president and 2010, long before the national tragedies come to an end. Sit- to him as an African-American and then wrapped Walker in a the first lady made the strongest media frenzy that accompanied ting in the Blue Room watching male. On April 6, 2009, Carl tight embrace. At that moment, statement possible that they the tragic suicides of young Mrs. Walker tell Carl’s story to decided he couldn’t take it any I thought that perhaps some- believe the moment for bully- people like Tyler Clementi in the the president and first lady, I be- more and hung himself. thing good could come out of ing to end has arrived and that fall of 2010. The work group con- gan to believe that — with this Carl was 11 years old when Walker’s loss, that perhaps her they are putting themselves and tinues its efforts today, unveiling president’s leadership — that he decided he’d rather die than son did not die in vain, that our entire administration on the a new web site — stopbullying. day might be coming very soon. go back to school. perhaps Walker’s courage in front lines of this fight. From the gov — on March 10 to provide a On March 10, 2011, I sat speaking out about the greatest first remarks made by president one-stop shop for those looking in the Blue Room of the White nightmare that could befall any and Mrs. Obama through the for resources to fight all forms House and watched Carl’s mother might help bring us to a closing remarks by Secretary of bullying, including anti-LGBT Mom, Sirdenear Walker, tell tipping point where bullying be- of Health & Human Services bullying. her son’s story to President comes simply unacceptable in Kathleen Sebelius and Secre- The Department of Educa- and Mrs. Obama right before America’s schools. tary of Education Arne Duncan, tion also announced that day the start of the first-ever White If that happens, I believe anti-LGBT bullying was specifi- its intention to set up a special House Conference on Bullying. March 10, 2011 will go down cally and frequently called out technical assistance center The moment I will never forget in history as the date when the as unacceptable. As someone dedicated to bullying preven- Kevin Jennings is the assistant dep- uty secretary for the U.S. Department was when Mrs. Walker pulled tide turned. who spent more than two de- tion. This will be followed by of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug- out her son’s 8x11 school photo By convening the first-ever cades fighting this battle before the department’s national sum- Free Schools. This column is dedicated and handed it to Mrs. Obama. White House Conference on I joined this administration, I mits on Gender-Based Violence to Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover. The personal cost of getting equal How much are we sue at play here and the zealous to ordinary equality. Do we in ‘The 13 of us handcuffed ourselves to the prosecution by the federal gov- the LGBT community believe willing to sacrifice ernment appears to us to be one “some things are so dear, some for justice? White House fence chanting, ‘I am somebody’ of message censorship. things so precious, some things to send the message that the president and The facts of our case aren’t in so eternally true, that they are dispute. The 13 of us handcuffed worth dying for?” By AUTUMN SANDEEN Congress needed to act to ourselves to the White House Ordinary equality for mem- fence, chanting “I am some- bers of the LGBT community “... And so this social revolution repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’’ body” to send the message that is going to take sacrifice. We taking place can be summarized the president and Congress should all already know that it’s in three little words. They are not needed to act to repeal “Don’t going to take more effort than big words. One does not need an what to do. If he doesn’t beat you, On March 18, 12 of the 13 Ask, Don’t Tell,” and allow les- just lobbying alone to see the extensive vocabulary to under- wonderful. If he beats you, you activists who came together bian, gay and bisexual service Employment Non-Discrimina- stand them. They are the words develop the quiet courage of ac- for a direct action on the White members to serve openly. tion Act and the repeal of the ‘all,’ ‘here,’ and ‘now.’ We want all cepting blows without retaliating. If House fence met for a court The bottom line for the 13 of Defense of Marriage Act pass of our rights, we want them here, he doesn’t put you in jail, wonder- date in Washington. The 13 of us was that in unanimity we were into law. The question has re- and we want them now. ful. Nobody with any sense likes us who handcuffed ourselves to ready to go to trial but that deci- ally become how much we, as a “Now the other thing that we to go to jail. But if he puts you in the White House fence on Nov. sion has been postponed until community, as well as individual must see about this struggle is jail, you go in that jail and trans- 13, 2010, were a group of LGBT May because we still aren’t sure community members, are willing that by and large it has been a form it from a dungeon of shame military service veterans and ac- what the final charge against us to sacrifice for ordinary equality. nonviolent struggle. Let nobody to a haven of freedom and human tivists who wanted to see “Don’t will be. If there is a trial — or even make you feel that those who are dignity. And even if he tries to kill Ask, Don’t Tell” repealed. if we end up pleading to lesser engaged or who are engaging in you, you’ll develop the inner con- The 12 of us who were at charges that have us ending up the demonstrations in communities viction that there are some things the courthouse (one was ill and with no federal record — the next all across the South are resorting to so dear, some things so precious, couldn’t make it) and our two at- court date set for either of those violence; these are few in number. some things so eternally true, that torneys agreed, before going into two outcomes will be Sept. 19. “ … You see, this method has they are worth dying for. And I sub- court, to go to trial over our arrest. The 13 of us who went to jail a way of disarming the opponent. mit to you that if a man has not dis- We, as a group, perceive that the spent time in what has become It exposes his moral defenses. It covered something that he will die U.S. District Attorney represent- to us and others “a haven of weakens his morale, and at the for, he isn’t fit to live.” (Martin Lu- ing the federal government is freedom and human dignity.” I Autumn Sandeen is a military vet- same time it works on his con- ther King Jr., Speech at the Great too aggressively prosecuting this believe our efforts helped move eran and LGBT rights activist. Reach science, and he just doesn’t know March on Detroit, June 23,1963) case. There is a free speech is- the LGBT community closer her at [email protected]. 20 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011

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Photo courtesy of the Tennessee Williams Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Tennessee Williams’ homosexuality widely informed his work, often in coded ways.

Legendary gay playwright Tennessee in an Episcopal rectory there, where his grandfather, Rev. desires have a place in society” — or do not. Goldman Walter Dakin, was the local Episcopal priest, and later is also associate professor of theater and performance Williams honored in centennial festival changed his name to “Tennessee” in honor of that same studies at Georgetown University, where the Williams grandfather, who was born in that state. Festival — known for short as “Tenn Cent Fest” — is By DAVID HOFFMAN Williams’ sense of sin and salvation in sexuality was housed, and he directs the university’s Davis Performing central to his inner drives, says Derek Goldman, artistic Arts Center. Goldman says the festival, most of which He is the poet laureate of the American theater. director of this weekend’s Tennessee Williams Centen- runs from today through Sunday, has “certainly been a He pursued young men and boys with sexual vorac- nial Festival, a raft of plays and staged readings and labor of love,” including being able to teach a seminar ity, especially hustlers, often rough trade, and those panel discussions featuring appearances by among on Williams work and “for this past year” he says he has obsessively so in his latter years, but he also delighted others Edward Albee and John Waters (Visit performin- been “steeped in all things Williams.” greatly in the company of women. garts.georgetown.edu/tenncentfest/festival/ for details). Goldman’s own fi rst encounter with Williams came on His greatest creations on stage were in fact women, For a long time, Williams was closeted, though he let it cable TV, however, when he was about 13 and saw the though some argue they were really coded fi gures who be known to his friends. Goldman says that though Wil- fi lm adaptations of “Streetcar Named Desire” (1951,) and were actually gay males in drag. Certainly most of his hero- liams had a long-time love relationship with his life part- “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (1958). In each case, of course, ines — especially perhaps Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar ner Frankie Merlo, he was also “very promiscuous, and Hollywood producers insisted on excisions, and Gold- named Desire” — were extensions of himself, valorous but slept around a lot,” when “his need was for several boys man admits that “I now blush at the fact that they were so doomed, haunted by desire, shadowed by failure, driven a day at times, and the younger and prettier the better.” sanitized, taking much of the sexuality out.” to despair and sometimes even to madness or to death. In his writing, however, Goldman says, the thirst to For example, Goldman points out that in the origi- He is Thomas Lanier Williams, born 100 years ago this slake his need for constant sexual consummation, took nal version of “Cat” (which was on Broadway in 1955 weekend on Palm Sunday, March 26, 1911, in Columbus, a different form through sublimation, because in his writ- Miss., to Edwina and Cornelius Williams. He was reared ing, he “explores not so much the sex but how those Continues on page 33 22 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011 QUEERY: 20 questions for Daniel Phoenix Singh

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Dancing for Daniel Phoenix Singh is a passion, a notion with which many artists can re- late. So much so, in fact, that he essentially works two full-time jobs to make it happen.

He works in information technology by day Washington Blade photo by Michael Key (“To pay the bills,” he says) and spends four or five days a week dancing with his eponymous How long have you been out and who change. I don’t know where to start. group, the Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh was the hardest person to tell? Dance Company, a seven-year-old outfit of I’ve been out for close to 15 years now. What’s been the most memorable pop 14 dancers that specializes in modern Ameri- The hardest person to tell was my mother, culture moment of your lifetime? can, classical and traditional Indian dance. she didn’t know what gay meant. So it was When Dana Fuchs, one of the heroines Their next performances are next weekend a bit difficult/humorous to try to explain and in “Across the Universe” locked lips with (April 2-3) at Dance Place in Washington come out at the same time — perhaps more me (among several others) at her concert. where they’ll perform “By the Light,” a dance humorous in hindsight. When I first came the late D.C. choreographer Eric Hampton out, it made me reel that someone who On what do you insist? created while suffering the latter stages of the loved me so much — that she gave up a Kindness. Lou Gehrig’s disease to which he eventually comfortable life in India to work 80-90 hours succumbed. a week so I could have a good education What was your last Facebook post or “It’s really about what dance meant to him,” and life — could hate a part of me so un- Tweet? Singh says. Go to danceplace.org for information. questioningly because of what her church Mornings = Bad. Singh grew up in India but moved to the Washington Blade photo by Michael Key told her. But she has had a pretty incredible U.S. when he was 17 in 1990. He chose “Phoe- change of heart. Props to my mom, even If your life were a book, what would the nix” as a translation of his middle name because his Indian name was too long to though she doesn’t understand it complete- title be? fit on his passport and green card. Dakshina means offering in Sanscrit, a name ly and is still a pretty conservative Christian, “Artful Mischief.” he chose to honor his company’s Indian roots. Four of its male members, including she grew to accept me and love me again. Singh, are gay. He says queer sensibilities inform his work in several ways. If science discovered a way to change “I never think of gender in terms of casting,” he says. “I might cast two men for Who’s your LGBT hero? sexual orientation, what would you do? a dance, two women or a man and a woman. It’s whoever does the work the best. Audre Lorde, she lived a composite, Make everyone poly-sexual? If every- It’s very freeing for me. I have a strong interest in social justice that comes from my nuanced, self-analytical, socially con- one loved everyone, maybe some of our LGBT sensibilities, and also an awareness of how the arts can be used to speak to scious/active, artistic life that I covet. problems will go away. something larger. It’s not just something that’s pretty, it’s a way to address something that’s relevant to our lives.” What’s Washington’s best nightspot, What do you believe in beyond the past or present? physical world? Chaos! I loved Chaos and miss the I don’t believe in an afterlife — learning space where people from diverse back- to let go of the ego of permanence was a grounds and age groups gathered hard lesson for me. But I do believe integ- to dance the night away. My favorite mem- rity in our lived lives survives us. ory of Chaos is when a young guy brought his grandmother to the drag show that What’s your advice for LGBT movement happened before the Salsa nights. leaders? To find a community-based, grassroots Describe your dream wedding. solution to our host of issues, instead of Intellectually, I’m not sure I believe in trying to create a top-down abstract mod- the institution of marriage — it’s too hetero- el. Have stakeholders present in very early normative for me. But my heart strings still planning stages, don’t just invite them as tug when I see a traditional Indian wedding, “community sponsors” after the main con- and I’m always the first person to start cry- versation has finished. And to try to frame ing when a couple begin saying their vows. issues as more than the hetero-homo bina- ries. What non-LGBT issue are you most passionate about? What would you walk across hot I’m very passionate about the arts. I’m coals for? concerned that we as a community don’t My dance company and my friends. realize the long-term effects of this steady decline in engaging with the arts whether What LGBT stereotype annoys you it is in the K-12, general public, senior citi- most? zens or immigrant communities. To me it is That we’re here to recruit. inconceivable to define a progressive de- veloped society without the arts having a What’s your favorite LGBT movie? central role. There is a lot of talk about the “Milk” loss of nuance, abstraction and engagement in our conversations (both social and What’s the most overrated social political). People often take the most polar- custom? ized views, everything comes down to a Clubbing (different from dancing). yes/no check box and then they wonder why we can’t get along or move forward. To What trophy or prize do you most me, the arts are about the subtleties of life, covet? about finding the gray areas and looking at The MacArthur Fellowship life from various angles. Most importantly art is about self-reflection and awareness What do you wish you’d known at 18? — something critical for us to grow as a That I should have started dancing society. earlier.

What historical outcome would you Why Washington? change? Like Goldilocks, it’s just the right size There are several things I’d like to — not too big, not too small. march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 23 SOCIALAGENDA

Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key The Town bears say they don’t mind the non-bear types who drink with them on Friday evenings. Bear and bear alike Friday happy hour many of my social circles intersect here. Besides that, I love meeting new people gathering at Town and I find the atmosphere to be inviting and stress free.” attracts all types “BHH is a great place to relax and meet friendly people with no frills or fuss,” By KAMAL KAMARA says Matt Molli, a 26-year-old non-bear. Tenebrae The lively but low-key crowd at Town Washington’s bear scene, now several seemed to confirm their comments. Guys Friday, March 25, 7:30 pm months into its new home at Town, is mor- of all ages were chatting, laughing, eat- phing into a strong event that attracts all ing free pizza and having a good time. It Washington National Cathedral types and is spilling into the large dance was a racially diverse crowd of bears and club’s second floor. almost as many non-bears, a few lesbians vocal chamber ensemble “I love it here. It’s more like New York,” and a handful of straight women. Michael McCarthy, conductor is not a comment you typically hear when And what do some of the regular at- D.C. guys talk about their favorite spot to tendees think of the non-bear attendance get their drink on for happy hour. But that’s at BHH? “I don’t think it really matters” exactly what was heard on a recent Friday says Art Thomas, a 52-year-old bear and inspiring music at washington national cathedral at D.C. Bëar Crüe’s Bear Happy Hour. happy hour regular. “The bear community Bear Happy Hour, BHH to the initi- is very ‘live and let live’ and encourages ated, takes place every Friday from 6 to people to be whoever they are, so I’m not The Cathedral's vocal chamber 10 p.m. at Town. Managed by Nicholas surprised that BHH is seen as welcoming ensemble performs settings Baatz, BHH has drink specials, free piz- and more inclusive to non-bears.” za and is the largest weekly happy hour “We’re starting to bring in non-bears of the Tenebræ Responsories by in the country for bears and friends. and keep [Bear Happy Hour] no drama,” sixteenth-century composer Since moving from its recent home at says Baatz, who has also started Bear In- Victoria and by contemporary the now-closed EFN Lounge, BHH has vasions, a new monthly bear party similar Scottish composer MacMillan, been so popular that it expanded to the to the old Guerilla Queer Bar parties. as well as Martin’s Mass for larger second floor space at Town. “We “We invade local dive bars that are are averaging crowds of 400 to 700 peo- gay friendly and give people a chance to double choir. ple every Friday,” Baatz says. BHH is also hang out and have a better conversation. gaining notoriety for its friendly “no dra- It’s also letting the straights know that not ma” atmosphere, which is attracting more all gays fit your typical stereotype.” Tickets start at $25—visit patrons who are non-bears every week. Bear Invasions takes place the sec- “I like coming with my friends to catch ond Tuesday of every month. More infor- www.nationalcathedral.org up on the week,” said Jim Rosario, a mation can be found about Bear Happy or call (202) 537-2228 today! 46-year-old non-bear who came to BHH Hour and Bear Invasions via the DC Bëar to have a drink with friends. “I love that so Crüe group on Facebook. 24 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011 CONCERTAGENDA

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TODAY F. St., N.W.) presents Bowen McCauley Dance’s 15th anni- Caliente Grande is tonight versary season “Red. Hot. Fab- at Apex (1415 22nd St., N.W.) ulous.” tonight at 7:30 p.m. in starting at 9 p.m. DJ Michael the Terrace Theater. The show is Brandon will be spinning the made up of five different pieces, Latin dance party in the main “Haiku Suite,” “World Premiere,” hall. There is a $10 cover “Time and Clouds,” “Ozone” charge. Attendees must be 18 and “Telemetry.” Tickets are $36 to enter, 21 to drink. and can be purchased online at Brightest Young Things kennedy-center.org. presents “A Night at the News- Ultrabar (911 F St., N.W.) eum II: Way Out of Line” at the hosts Ladies Night: Coyote Ugly Newseum (555 Pennsylvania Edition tonight from 9 p.m. to 3 Ave., N.W.) tonight at 8 p.m. a.m. featuring The House Tribe with DJs Nickodemus and An- and DJs Tektronics, Mario and cient Astronauts. Tickets are Saam and an open bar from 9 $15 in advanced and drink tick- to 10 p.m. on the main floor. Get ets are $4. For more information free and reduced admission and to purchase tickets, visit passes at dcclubbing.com. brightestyoungthings.com. “Shear Madness,” a come- The New Gay hosts Beat dy whodunit, will be performed City at Chief Ike’s Mambo Room twice tonight at the Kennedy (1725 Columbia Rd., N.W.) to- Center Theater Lab (2700 F St., night from 9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. N.W.) at 6 and 9 p.m. “Mad- featuring music from artists such ness” takes place in present- as Joan Jett, Le Tigre, Bloc Party day Georgetown, in the Shear and more. There will also be a Madness Hair Styling Salon. giveaway and the winner will Tickets are $42. Visit kennedy- get a pair of tickets to see The center.org for more information Raveonettes at Black Cat and a and to purchase tickets. copy of their new record, “Raven The Congressional Cho- in the Grave.” For more informa- rus presents “Stompin’ at the tion, visit, thenewgay.net. Savoy: A 1930s Cabaret Ball- Women in Their Twenties, room” at the Atlas Performing a social discussion and dinner Arts Center (1333 H St., N.E.) group, will be meeting tonight tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets are $35 from 8 to 9 p.m. at the D.C. Cen- for general admission. Contact ter (1318 U St., N.W.). Debby McConnell at 202-399- Signature Theatre (4200 7993, ext. 182 or debby_mcco- Campbell Ave.) in Arlington [email protected] presents “Pride Night” with a for information. performance of “And the Cur- tain Rises” at 8 p.m. followed by Sunday, March 27 a post-show cocktail and hors d’oeuvres reception. The D.C. Jazz Jam, a weekly The Lodge (21614 National jam free for both musicians and Pike) in Boonsoro presents “So jazz lovers, is tonight from 6:30 You Think You Can Sing!,” a kara- to 9:30 p.m. at Dahlak (1771 U oke and dance party, tonight from St., N.W.). Image courtesy of Touchstone Gallery 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. with DJ Christy. All Busboys & Poets will be ‘Blue, Yellow and Green Grasses’ is part of an exhibit called ‘Grasses’ by artist Mary Ott that will be on display start- participants get a free rail or do- showing the film “The Nine ing Wednesday and throughout April at Touchstone Gallery in Washington. Receptions with the artist are planned for mestic beer with their first perfor- Lives of Marion Barry” tonight at April 1 and 10. mance. There is a $5 cover. 8 p.m. as part of its “Focus-In! The “1st Friday of the Cinema for a Conscious Com- Professionals in the City performing at the Birchmere (3701 ing an organic happy hour today at Month,” a professional wom- munity,” at the 5th and K loca- and the D.C. Center are hosting Mt Vernon Ave.) in Alexandria to- 4 p.m. featuring Butte Creek IPA en for women social group, is tion (1025 5th St., N.W.) and the a speed dating event for lesbian night with Joe Robinson. Tickets Sam Smith Ale cocktails, Eco Mo- meeting tonight at Beacon Bar film “Pushing the Elephant” in and bisexual women at Chi-Cha are $25 and can be purchased jito Tree-Tini and more. & Grill (1615 Rhode Island Ave., the Langston Room at 14th and Lounge (1624 U St., N.W.) from online at ticketmaster.com. N.W.) at 7 p.m. V location (2021 14th St., N.W.). 7 to 11 p.m. Attendees will date Busboys & Poets (2021 Thursday, March 31 for about an hour and then be 14th St., N.W.) is hosting an Saturday, March 26 Monday, March 28 able to mingle with everyone. open mic poetry night tonight Adventuring, a D.C. gay After the event, matches can be at 9 p.m. in the Langston Room. and lesbian outdoor group, will Every fourth Saturday of the The GLBTA Resource Cen- made online. Tickets are $20. Wristbands will be on sale in the be hosting a cherry blossom month, Green Lantern (1335 ter at American University is For more information, visit pros- bookstore for $4 starting at 10 evening hike. The group will Green Court, N.W.) is hosting hosting a workshop entitled “Bi- inthecity.com. a.m. until they are sold out. meet at the top of the escalators Jocks vs. Jocks from 10 p.m. sexual 101” today from 2 to 5 Bears do Yoga at Green at Waterfront Metro and leave at to 2 a.m. Cover is $5 if wearing p.m. in the Mary Graydon Cen- Lantern (1335 Green Court Wednesday, March 30 6 p.m. The only required cost if sports attire, $7 if not. There’s a ter, Room 247. The workshop will N.W.) tonight at 6:30 p.m. Class the $2 trip fee. For more infor- trophy and cash prizes for the look at issues related to bisexu- lasts for an hour and serves as The reality show “Drag City: mation, visit adventuring.org. winning team. ality as well as bisexuality across an introduction to yoga for peo- D.C.” will be taping a drag show Cherry 2011 kicks off tonight Busboys & Poets (1025 5th cultures and historical epochs ple of all different body types on roller skates tonight from 7 to at Nellie’s (900 U St., N.W.) with St., N.W.) presents “Wake up and look at some prominent bi- and physical abilities. It’s taught 11 p.m. at the Temple Hills Skat- a pre-game and pass pick-up and Smell the Coffee!: A Com- sexuals. To RSVP, e-mail glbta@ by Michael Brazell. For more in- ing Center (3132 Branch Ave.) with DJ Nick Centrik Purcell munity Gathering on D.C. Voting american.edu with your name. formation, visit dccenter.org. in Temple Hills. The show starts from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. followed Rights and Statehood” today at SAGE Metro D.C. is holding at 8. Admission is $15 with an by Ignition with DJs Randy Bet- 9 a.m. in the Cullen Room. This its monthly meeting tonight from Tuesday, March 29 buffet for an additional $5. tis and Jason Horswill at Cobalt is a free event. 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the D.C. Center Busboys & Poets (4251 South (1639 R St., N.W.) from 10 p.m. The Kennedy Center (2700 (1318 U St., N.W.). Out musician Kaki King will be Campbell Ave.) in Arlington is host- to 2:30 a.m. march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 27 THEATERAGENDA

Photo by Scott Suchman; courtesy of Shakespeare Theatre Company Rachel Pickup as Lady Chiltern (left) and Nancy Robinette as Lady Markby in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of ‘An Ideal Husband,’ directed by Keith Baxter. Michael On the Wilde side Shakespeare ‘Husband’ The sumptuousness of director Keith Baxter’s production beautifully brings to Feinstein production hits close life society’s obsession with appearance. Sunday, April 17 at 7pm to home For the Chiltern’s London house, set designer Simon Higlett has envisioned a Kennedy Center Concert Hall soaring, dark marble manse — a verita- By PATRICK FOLLIARD ble monument to riches and raw power. Similarly impressive are Robert Perdzi- Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband” ola’s gorgeous gowns inspired by the “Smooth, rippling, perfectly may not be the gay literary genius’ best works of la belle époque portraitist John work, but where it lacks his usual comic Singer Sargent. More than once, slender manicured vocal and pianistic lines.” brilliance, it funnily enough exudes D.C. Pickup as Lady Chiltern strikes a pose in relevancy. the drawing room or on the grand stair- ~ New York Times A social and political satire set in late- case, and (artfully lit by Peter West) she Victorian London where money and pow- momentarily becomes a Sargent painting. er are king, the over-a-century-old come- While Wilde’s script can be a bit over dy (currently running at the Shakespeare the top at times, Baxter coaxes what’s Theatre Company) is sure to strike a best about it to the fore: Cheveley’s ruth- chord with today’s audience. less power play. Chiltern’s grappling with Rapidly ascending politico Sir Rob- what he believes is an unavoidable loss ert Chiltern (Gregory Woodell) is Lon- of reputation and his wife’s realization don’s golden boy. Not only is he rich that an ideal husband doesn’t exist. and powerful with a brilliant career, but As dandified idler Lord Goring, ver- he’s also married to Lady Chiltern (Ra- satile New York-based actor Cameron chel Pickup), a decidedly good woman Folmar displays a venerable light comic who considers him the ideal husband. touch. Obsessed with the size of his bou- His charmed world is suddenly upset tonnière, Goring seems the most trivial of when a blackmailing Mrs. Cheveley his rarefied circle, but in fact, he’s the (Emily Raymond) appears on the scene only one who sees through the hypocrisy armed with an incriminating letter prov- of society and understands the impor- ing that Chiltern, like most politicians and tance of compassion. those who’ve benefited from a meteoric Handsome Gregory Woodall makes rise in fortunes, stepped outside of the a sympathetic Chiltern. A winner at the law at some point in his career. Though game of life, he is all energy and ambi- now a thoroughly honest fellow, it seems tion, but not smug. Even when it seems that as an ambitious young man — titled he’s lost everything, he is more resigned but poor — he sold cabinet secrets to a than angry. As the too good Lady Chiltern stock-exchange speculator. and her venomous enemy Mrs. Cheveley, Despite coming dangerously close to Baxter has wisely cast British actresses social and political death, our com- Pickup and Raymond. They both deliver prised hero Chiltern ultimately avoids splendidly nuanced performances. public scandal and remains on top The remainder of the excellent large thanks mainly to the doings of his wise cast includes Shakespeare Theatre and compassionate bachelor friend Lord Company regulars David Sabin and Goring (Cameron Folmar). Sadly, Oscar Nancy Robinette who nicely play a pair Wilde’s real life scandal didn’t end so of old guard stalwarts, and Floyd King as neatly. Not long after the very successful Phipps, Goring’s knowing manservant. London debut of “An Ideal Husband” in 1895 followed by the equally triumphant opening of “The Importance of Being ‘AN IDeAL HusBAND’ Earnest” that same year, Wilde sued his Through April 16 young male lover’s father for libel. Wilde Shakespeare Theatre Company lost the suit and evidence of his sexual Sidney Harman Hall relations with men that came up during 610 F Street, N.W. the trial landed him in jail. Neither he nor 202-547-1122 www.shakespearetheatre.org (202) 785-9727 (WPAS) • WPAS.org his career ever recovered. 28 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011 FITNESSAGENDA

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HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS Mirû Quartet with Colin Currie, OPENINGS The Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. Thu, March 31 kennedy-center.org. National Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Jozsef Lendvay Jr., violin, Kennedy Cen- ONGOING STAGE ter. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. King Lear, Synetic Theater at Lansburgh Theatre. 202-547-1122. LAST CHANCE synetictheater.org. Sat, March 26 The Trip to Bountiful, Round House The 3 Rascals- A3vidos [Atrevidos], Theatre Bethesda. 240-644-1100. Teatro de la Luna, Gunston Theatre Two. roundhousetheatre.org. 703-548-3092. teatrodelaluna.org. Photograph 51, Theater J. Sun, March 27 800-494-8497. washingtondcjcc.org. Bootycandy, Woolly Mammoth. The Chosen, Theater J, Arena Stage. 202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net. 800-494-8497. washingtondcjcc.org. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Mon, March 28 Jobs, Woolly Mammoth. 202-393-3939. The Corsica Series, Montpelier Arts woollymammoth.net. National Cherry Blossom Festival Center. 301-377-7800. pgparks.com. Liberty Smith, Ford’s Theatre. 202-397- March 26 through April 10 LIMITED ENGAGEMENT 7328. fords.org. nationalcherryblossomfestival.org 877- 44BLOOM Penelope, Studio Theatre. Tidal Basin, Sylvan Theater on the Washington Monument Grounds and other March 25 - March 27 202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org. venues throughout the city. Protègès III, Kennedy Center. Fighting Improv Smackdown Tour- nament (FIST), Washington Improv This yearís Festival boasts nearly 400 free events and performances surrounding 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. traditional and contemporary arts and culture, natural beauty, and community spirit; March 26 - March 27 Theater. 202-315-1318. in celebration of the 99th anniversary of the gift of cherry blossom trees. Nicholas Leichter Dance, Dance Place. washingtonimprovtheater.com. 202-269-1600. danceplace.org. In Your Ear: Avant Garde Poetry, DC Penelope March 29 - March 30 Arts Center (DCAC). 202-462-7833. Through Sunday, April 3 dcartscenter.org. Dave Mason, Wolftrap. The Weir, SCENA Theatre, H Street Studio Theatre, 1501 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org. Playhouse. 703-683-2824. studiotheatre.org 202-332-3300 ScenaTheater.org. At the bottom of a drained swimming pool, four jealous suitors dressed in Speedos and terry- ONE NIGHT ONLY Protest and Passion, In Series, Atlas. cloth robes woo a beautiful young widow. In provocative Irish playwright Enda Walsh’s extraor- Fri, March 25 202-204-7763. inseries.org. dinary rift on Homer’s Odyssey, Penelope’s four remaining admirers share a dream prophesy- An Evening with Naturally 7, Strath- ing the return of her husband and the end of their lives. The clock’s ticking! more. 301-581-5100 . strathmore.org. ONGOING EXHIBITONS

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Lesbian Kaki King plays the Birchmere tonight Lesbian musician Kaki King will be performing at the Birchmere (3701 Mt. Ver- non Ave.) in Alexandria tonight at 7:30 p.m. with Joe Robinson. King’s newest album, “Junior,” features songs not like her previous works, such as “Spit It Back in My Mouth,” which she describes as her “Cure song” based on its happy groove and depressing lyrics. In February 2006, King was the only woman and the youngest artist to be included in Rolling Stone’s list of “The New Guitar Gods.” Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at ticketmaster.com.

Signature hosts ‘Curtain’ pride night Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave.) in Arlington hosts “Pride Night,” a special event for the LGBT community, tonight. The evening includes a performance of the musical comedy “And the Curtain Rises,” at 8 p.m. followed by a post-show cocktail and hors d’oeuvres reception. Loosely based on true events, “And the Curtain Rises” tells the story of how the first American musical, 1866’s “The Black Crook,” came to be, including all the issues trying to stop it such as a cast on the verge of revolt and the scenery and th costumes being destroyed. 1541 14 STREET NW There will be a shuttle bus picking people up from Dupont Circle on P Street and 202.299.0597 bringing them directly to Signature at 6:30 p.m. and will leave the theater at 11:30 WELLBUILTLLC.COM to ring them back. Seats on the shuttle are limited and reservations must be made through the Signature Box Office at the time of ticket purchase. Attendees cannot simply show up in the Circle and board. Tickets are $82 and $87 and include the reception with complimentary wine and beer and light appetizers. The round-trip ticket for the shuttle is an additional $5. Call 703-820-9771 to purchase tickets and reserve a spot on the shuttle. The show will run through April 10. Conner thinks outside box with new exhibits support blade Zoe Charlton, Mia Feuer and Coble/Riley Projects all have exhibits at Conner Contemporary Art (1358 Florida Ave., N.E.). advertisers Charlton’s exhibit, “Paladins and Tourists,” features large-scale drawings of nude, white male figures and a video entitled “Be Sarah,” about Sarah Baartman, a South African slave who was exhibited for public entertainment as the “Hottentot Venus.” They WANT and NEED Feuer’s “Stress Cone” is a special gogo art projects exhibition featuring a large, your business. site-specific sculptural installation modeled on electrical transformer stations sus- pended from the gallery’s ceiling. The Coble/Riley Projects exhibit is the collaborative debut of Mary Coble and Blithe Riley with a two-channel video, “Ascension/Immersion.” The team transformed an abandoned house by cutting two large holes in the roof, allowing Coble to enter the structure from above and exit from below repeatedly dropping five feet into a pool of water inside.

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VICTORY FUND held its 20th anniversary brunch last weekend in Washington. march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 33 DCAGENDA Gay identity informed Williams’ work Continued from page 21 Asked about the legacy of Williams — his many plays as well as novels and when it was directed by Elia Kazan and short stories and occasional screen- won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama), it’s plays — Goldman says, “it’s more than clear that Brick (first played by the ac- a legacy, it’s the urgency still in his work, tor Ben Gazzara) is actually bisexual, or because it’s still very fresh,” in what he even gay, as he admits to his feelings for calls its “incredible lyricism and heat, the his pro football buddy Skipper who has poetry of its fierce and ferocious imagery, committed suicide. Goldman says that in its language as windows into the soul.” “the back story for Brick is his relation- “He’s the poet of the vulnerable, ship with Skipper,” and that while Brick’s whose compassion is in the size of his “sexuality is pretty complicated,” he has tenderness and faith in the beauty of the Photo by Sue Kessler, courtesy of Georgetown University certainly “lost interest in Maggie sexual- broken, those who have suffered the col- ly,” and “we understand that he definitely Georgetown University’s production of ‘Glass Menagerie,’ one of Tennessee Williams’ most famous lateral damages of a world that doesn’t works. From left are recent alumni Rachel Caywood and Clark Young with Prof. Sarah Marshall. has homosexual desires.” celebrate individuality, that doesn’t make We, of course, mainly know Williams denly, Last Summer,” that opened off- Maya Roth, Georgetown’s director of allowances for the beauty of the broken,” from his work. That is the only reason Broadway in 1958 as part of a double-bill theater and performance studies, is di- Goldman says. “He’s the one who pierc- he rates such a “Tenn Cent Fest” week- titled “In The Garden District,” the play is recting “Suddenly, Last Summer” at the es the heart and the intellect, but it’s the end, more than a quarter century after basically two long monologues, considered Davis Performing Arts Center April 7-16. heart, the emotional connection that we his death, as Goldman is now curating. one of his starkest and most poetic works. “It is a play about violence against ho- have to his work, that is most indelible.” But behind and beneath that work was Best known from the 1959 film adapta- mosexual men,” she says. “It’s about Se- “He’s our American Shakespeare,” always his beating heart. Reading his tion, it is a mystery melodrama about why bastian,” who is never seen, except at a Goldman says, “combining the eleva- private writing shows him “so emotionally Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor in the film) has distance in memory, “and his queerness tion of lyricism and magician-ship of naked, as he was working out his own been institutionalized for severe emotional that can’t be mentioned, the love that language with the power of great story- stuff,” Goldman says. disturbance, the result of the violent death dare not speak its name, that’s what ‘Sud- telling,” and for Goldman, of all of Wil- “It shows the undulation between guilt of her cousin Sebastian by dismember- denly, Last Summer’ is about.” Though liams’ work there stands what he calls and shame (at being gay), not being ac- ment and cannibalism by local boys, the sanitized in the film version, it was written “the holy trinity,” his own “personal pan- cepted for who he really was, and also objects of his predatory sexual desire, she as one of his early plays but for a long theon” of Williams’ three greatest cre- being able to claim it with pride,” Gold- had witnessed during their trip to Spain. time remained unproduced. When it was ations: “The Glass Menagerie” (1944), man says. “It was not just one thing. It Sebastian’s wealthy mother, Violet Venable finally presented on stage, it was a kind “Streetcar Named Desire” (1948) and was a stew of contradictions pulsing (Katharine Hepburn) is determined to hide of “coming out” for Williams, she says, “Camino Real” (1953). The latter is being back and forth in private.” the exact circumstances of her son’s death “and it was really radical, and the reason performed in a staged reading directed In one of Williams’ one-act plays, “Sud- and the fact that he was gay. why Hollywood had to airbrush it out.” by Goldman tonight at 7:45 p.m.

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Popular restaurant and bar in the Washington DC 20009 Adams Morgan area; happy hour Party featuring disco house, electro, indie annie’s ParamoUnt specials and many other special events. pop, dance and industrial every Friday steaK hoUse See web site for updated schedule. night. 1609 17th St., NW Washington Blade photo by Michael Key Washington, DC 20009 fab loUnge remingtons 202-232-0395 1805 Connecticut Ave., NW 639 Pennsylvania Ave., SE NELLIE’S In Dupont Circle area; popular longtime Washington, DC 20009 Washington, DC 20003 restaurant and steakhouse with recently 202-797-1122 202-543-3113 Piano bar attracts a mostly male renovated Upstairs Lounge. thefablounge.com remingtonswdc.com baltimore crowd, though welcoming to women In Dupont Circle area; popular with men twitter.com/remingtonsWDC 1722 and straight patrons. aPex but hosts regular women’s events. Popular country/Western nightclub in 1722 N. 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