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Survey shows Catania backers, undecided activists outnumber Bowser supporters

By LOU CHIBBARO JR. [email protected]

An informal survey of 37 prominent LGBT advocates in D.C. found that 13 of them would vote for Council member David Catania (I-At-Large) for mayor if the election were held this week, 12 would vote for Council member (D-Ward 4), and 12 were undecided. All but fi ve of the activists identifi ed themselves in the survey conducted by the Washington Blade as registered Democrats This development suggests a signifi cant number of LGBT Democrats who are normally loyal to their party in D.C. elections are considering voting for Catania, the openly gay independent and former Republican. Veteran activist Jeri Hughes, who was among those saying she’s undecided in the mayoral race, appeared to refl ect the views of many in the LGBT community in weighing their choice between Catania and Bowser. DNC Chair DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (left) is backing Muriel Bowser for D.C. mayor, while CNN commentator HILARY ROSEN endorsed David Catania.

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Ensured LGBT inclusion in would meet its enrollment goals cast a pall over After passage of the Aff ordable Care Act, the Obama Sebelius’ resignation, the overwhelming consensus is administration interpreted the provision in the law Obamacare, hospital she considered HIV/AIDS a priority and ensured LGBT prohibiting insurers from discriminating on the basis visitation rights people were part of health policy during her fi ve years of gender to prohibit on the basis of at the Department of Health & Human Services. and . Fred Sainz, vice president of the Human Rights In August, she delivered an address at a White By CHRIS JOHNSON Campaign, said his organization is “deeply, deeply House summit for the LGBT community geared toward [email protected] grateful” for her work, which helped ensure LGBT encouraging enrollment in health insurance plans. In inclusion in health care reform. 2012, Sebelius also delivered remarks in Philadelphia The announcement that Kathleen Sebelius would “There’s simply no question that she’s been a steadfast for a White House summit on health issues in which depart the Obama administration generated mixed and committed advocate for LGBT Americans,” Sainz she touted the health care reform law. reactions last week, but LGBT and HIV/AIDS advocates said. “It began with her fi ght to help pass the Aff ordable “We need to have an America that values everyone praised her for her work in advancing various LGBT Care Act. The ACA includes key provisions that end and has the same set of values and same set of health issues. limitations on preexisting conditions, making it possible rules for everyone,” Sebelius said at the time. “And Although the troubled rollout of Obamacare and for LGBT people, including those with HIV/AIDS to gain initial questions over whether the administration access to health insurance.” CONTINUES ON PAGE 14

UKRAINE’S PLIGHT GAY BFF SEND IN THE CLOWN

Lesbian activist on protesting Out actor on his new Gay clown isn’t creepy; in Kiev and her hopes MTV show ‘Faking It,’ he’s a star of Ringling’s for closer ties to Europe. premiering next week. new ‘inclusive’ show.

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Ebbin posts $178,000 in Va. race; Levine loans campaign $250,000

Gay rights attorney and talk show host Mark Levine reported cash receipts of more than $322,000 in campaign funds this week, placing him in second place behind front runner Donald Beyer in the 10-candidate race for the Northern Virginia congressional seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.). Federal Election Commission records show Beyer, Virginia’s former lieutenant governor, had receipts of more than $672,000 in campaign funds as of March 31, the end of the most recent campaign fi nance reporting period. ‘The unmistakable purpose and eff ect of Virginia’s marriage prohibition is to stigmatize gay Gay State Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria), who’s also running for the 8th men and ,’ wrote TED OLSON. District congressional seat, had just over $178,000 in campaign funds for the WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY same reporting period. However, unlike Ebbin and Beyer, FEC fi nance records show that Levine’s total receipts include a $250,000 loan he made to his campaign. The records show that just $72,808 of his $322,808 total came from individual contributors. Levine, whose name recognition is not as high as that of Ebbin and Beyer, said Olson: Va. marriage his personal loan helps him become competitive with Beyer unlike most of the other candidates. “I am beholden to no one,” he said when asked about his decision to lend the ban ‘unconstitutional’ funds to his campaign. “It has never been about money for me. I use money as a means to achieve an end – to change the world for the better.” A statement released by Ebbin’s campaign says Ebbin’s campaign funds Lawyer argues amendment aforementioned prohibition remained in came from 653 individual donors, with 70 percent of the total coming from place until 1967 when the U.S. Supreme “grass roots” donors that, according to his campaign manager, gave $200 or ‘actually harms children’ Court struck it down in its landmark Loving less per donation. v. Virginia decision. “I’m honored by the outpouring of support I’ve received from Northern By MICHAEL K. LAVERS “The history of Virginia’s marriage Virginians,” Ebbin said in a statement. “For more than a decade, I’ve been [email protected] prohibition demonstrates that the laws fi ghting for progressive causes in the General Assembly. I look forward to were intended to oppress,” says Olson. continuing my work for our values as the next member of Congress from the Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson “They were designed to exclude 8th District,” he said. last week described Virginia’s same-sex and lesbians from marriage in Virginia on FEC records show Ebbin came in sixth place among the 10 candidates in marriage ban as “blatant discrimination” the baseless supposition that gay men total receipts and cash on hand for his campaign. After Beyer and Levine, those that is “unjustifi ed, un-American and fl atly and lesbians were launching an ‘attack’ on coming in ahead of Ebbin in campaign fund receipts were Virginia Urban League unconstitutional.” traditional families that would ‘weaken’ president Lavern Chatman ($298,696—including a $100,000 donation to herself); “The unmistakable purpose and eff ect the institution of marriage.” Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille ($214,572); and Del. Patrick Hope ($186,534). of Virginia’s marriage prohibition is to Olson fi led his brief in the Bostic case LOU CHIBBARO JR. stigmatize gay men and lesbians – and on the same day Virginia Attorney General them alone – and enshrine in Virginia’s Mark Herring defended U.S. District Judge Gay man running for Arlington school board constitution and statutory code that they Arenda L. Wright Allen’s February ruling are ‘unequal to everyone else,’” he said in a that struck down the commonwealth’s brief fi led with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of same-sex marriage ban. Gay former Air Force Capt. Greg Greeley is running for a seat on the Arlington Appeals in Richmond, Va., that urges it to Herring announced shortly after he County School Board that’s being vacated by retiring incumbent Sally Baird. uphold a federal judge’s ruling that struck took offi ce in January that he will not Baird, who has endorsed Greeley, became Virginia’s fi rst out elected down the commonwealth’s gay nuptials defend the marriage amendment that offi cial when she fi rst won election to the school board post in 2006. ban. Olson said the commonwealth’s voters in 2006 approved by a 57-43 Greeley is a single father of two adopted boys and has been active in school- marriage amendment “actually harms percent margin. Norfolk Circuit Court related activities in Arlington for more than 10 years, according to his campaign children” because it prevents gay men Clerk George Schaefer, III, and Prince website. Among other things, he has served as treasurer of the Randolph and lesbians from tying the knot. William County Circuit Court Clerk Michèle Elementary School PTA, served as vice chair for a Northern Virginia education Three of the four leading plaintiff McQuigg defended the gay nuptials ban advisory council and is a former president and board member of SMYAL. couples who are challenging the state’s in briefs their lawyers fi led with the 4th Since being honorably discharged from the Air Force in 1991, Greeley has same-sex marriage ban – Mary Townley Circuit on March 28. worked in senior management positions in the private sector in the areas of and Carol Schall of Chesterfi eld, Joanne “The clerks’ narrow vision of marriage fi nance, healthcare, and information technologies, his website says. He currently Harris and Jessica Duff of Staunton and and expansive vision of state power to works as a federal government contractor and project manager with a specialty Victoria Kidd and Christy Berghoff of intrude on personal freedoms demean in facilities management. Winchester – are raising children. Timothy the institution of marriage and the dignity Greeley is competing with two other candidates – Barbara Kanninen and Bostic and Tony London of Norfolk, who of gay people as free and equal human Nancy Van Doren – for the Arlington Democratic Committee’s endorsement fi led a lawsuit against the state’s gay beings,” wrote Luke C. Platzer of Jenner and for the school board seat. Endorsement caucuses in which registered nuptials ban last July, have been together Block LLP, a D.C. law fi rm, in a brief he fi led Democrats can vote are scheduled for Thursday, May 15, from 7-9 p.m., for 25 years. with the 4th Circuit on Friday on behalf of at Drew Middle School; and Saturday, May 17, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at “If the commonwealth’s interest truly Harris and Duff and Kidd and Berghoff . Washington-Lee High School. were ensuring that children received the The American Civil Liberties Union Under Virginia law, school board seats are nonpartisan positions, but the law benefi ts of parents’ remaining together and Lambda Legal last August fi led a allows political parties to endorse school board candidates. Greeley told the to rear the children they conceive, that lawsuit against the state’s marriage Blade that traditionally the Democratic candidates who don’t receive their party professed objective would be advanced only amendment on behalf of the women. endorsement drop out of the race, even though they are not required to do so by allowing same-sex couples to marry,” says U.S. District Judge Michael F. Urbanski in under the election law. Olson. Olson also notes in the brief fi led on January certifi ed the ACLU and Lambda LOU CHIBBARO JR. behalf of Townley and Schall and Bostic and Legal lawsuit as a class action. 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Anti-gay activist LaBarbera arrested in Canada

REGINA, Saskatchewan — Canadian police on April 14 arrested a U.S. anti-gay SAMANTHA WOLF and MARTHA RUTLEDGE were married in Michigan and are seeking state activist while on a university campus in the Saskatchewan capital. benefi ts. The Canadian Broadcasting Network reported authorities took Peter PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ACLU OF MICHIGAN LaBarbera and another man into custody as they tried to distribute literature about the “evils of ” at the University of Regina. Offi cials with the Canadian Border Services Agency on April 10 briefl y detained him at Regina International Airport. Lawsuit seeks benefi ts LaBarbera, who is the president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, described his critics as the “local ‘Gay Thought Police’” as the Canadian Broadcast Corporation reported. for Mich. marriages LaBarbera and Scott Lively of Defend the Family International in February announced the creation of a new organization to combat the global LGBT rights movement during a press conference at the National Press Club in D.C. 300 couples wed on single the eyes of the Obama administration. Kary Moss, executive director of the Second N.C. marriage lawsuit fi led day nuptials were legal ACLU of Michigan, said Michigan must follow suit and allow same-sex couples GREENSBORO, N.C. — The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina on By CHRIS JOHNSON married in Michigan to receive the state April 9 fi led a second same-sex marriage lawsuit in the Tar Heel State. [email protected] benefi ts of marriage. The group fi led the lawsuit in federal court on behalf of three married same- “As a matter of law and fundamental sex couples who are seeking recognition of their marriages in North Carolina. A new lawsuit was fi led Monday fairness, the state is obligated to extend They have asked the court to expedite the case because three of the six plaintiff s seeking to extend state benefi ts to the the protections that fl ow from marriage to have serious medical conditions. more than 300 same-sex couples who all those who celebrated their weddings “Without the legal security that only marriage aff ords, these families are left wed in Michigan on the single day the last month,” Moss said. “Doing anything vulnerable,” said Jennifer Rudinger, executive director of the ACLU of North state enjoyed marriage equality. less treats legally married gay and lesbian Carolina. “If they could marry or have their marriages recognized in North The litigation was initiated by the couples like second-class citizens, and Carolina, the law would protect their families in countless ways.” American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan adds to the confusion and instability The ACLU in 2012 fi led a federal lawsuit against North Carolina’s second- on behalf of eight same-sex couples that these loving families have endured.” parent adoption ban on behalf of six gay families. The group last year amended married in four counties on March 22 — The offi ce of the Michigan Attorney Bill the case to directly challenge the state’s constitutional amendment that defi nes the day after U.S. District Judge Bernard Schuette declined to comment on the marriage as between a man and a woman. Friedman struck down the state’s ban lawsuit. Snyder’s offi ce didn’t immediately The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., will hear oral arguments on same-sex marriage. After the U.S. respond to the Washington Blade’s in a case that challenges Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed any request for comment. North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia also fall under the 4th further weddings from happening, Gov. Among the plaintiff couples in the Circuit’s jurisdiction. Rick Snyder announced the state would lawsuit are Clint McCormack and Bryan recognize these couples as married, but Reame, who have been together for 22 La. repeal bill fails suspend state benefi ts for the couples years and are seeking legal protections until the litigation was resolved. for their 13 children. In a statement, BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana House of Representatives on April 15 The lawsuit, known as Caspar v. McCormack said his son Keegan was killed a bill that would have repealed the state’s anti-sodomy law. Snyder, was fi led before the U.S. District in anguish after he learned his parents Lawmakers by a 66-27 vote margin rejected House Bill 12 that state Rep. Court for the Eastern District of Michigan wouldn’t enjoy legal protections aff orded Patricia Smith (D-Baton Rouge) introduced after reports emerged the East Baton and contends that once these were to other children with opposite-sex Rouge Parish Sheriff ’s Offi ce arrested at least a dozen men under the statute legally married in Michigan, the benefi ts married parents. over the last two years. to which they are entitled couldn’t be “To put children through this kind of The U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 found Texas’ sodomy law unconstitutional in taken away. Among the state benefi ts in stress is inexcusable and unforgivable,” its landmark Lawrence v. Texas decision. question is the ability to adopt children McCormack said. “How do I explain that The Associated Press reported that state Rep. Valarie Hodges (R-Denham jointly and the ability to provide health our family isn’t recognized to my fi ve year Springs) defended Louisiana’s sodomy law during the debate on HB 12. insurance to a spouse. According to the old? Or my eight year old? I don’t want “We’re not here to rubber-stamp the Supreme Court,” she said. lawsuit, denying couples these benefi ts them to go through the pain that Keegan violates their rights under the Fourteenth went through.” Gloria Estefan headlines Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Also among the couples are Glenna “By retroactively stripping Plaintiff s’ DeJong and Marsha Caspar of Ingham MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Singer Gloria Estefan served as the grand marshal of the marriages of legal recognition, the County, who have been together for 27 annual Miami Beach parade that took place on April 13. Governor has placed Plaintiff s and their years and became the fi rst same-sex “It’s a wonderful way to support the community,” she told Steve Rothaus of families in an intolerable state of legal couple to wed in Michigan, as well as the Miami Herald. limbo that threatens their wellbeing, Bianca Racine and Carrie Miller of Oakland The singer whose family fl ed to Florida when she was a young child after the health, fi nancial security, and family County; Martin Contreras and Keith Orr Cuban Revolution brought Fidel Castro to power also discussed her support of integrity, and denies their dignity as free of Washtenaw County; Samantha Wolf marriage rights for same-sex couples with the Miami Herald. and equal citizens,” the complaint says. and Martha Rutledge of Ingham County; “I always said that I thought everyone should be able to legally bind Although the state has suspended Frank Colasonti, Jr. and James Barclay themselves, emotionally and religious if so be it if they want to their signifi cant benefi ts for the couples, they’re receiving Ryder of Oakland County; Kelly Callison other,” Estefan told Rothaus. “That’s a human right, it’s a civil rights and I’m the federal benefi ts of marriage thanks to and Anne Callison, of Washtenaw County; happy to support that.” a decision from U.S. Attorney General Eric and James Anteau and Jared Haddock of Holder deeming those marriages valid in Oakland County. 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Two of three seem inclined individual could continue to own slaves district court ruled the state’s marriage marriage through a similar process. Among to strike down gay ban even if they moved to a free state. ban unconstitutional, but before the U.S. the arguments Schaerr made was that the Judge Jerome Holmes, appointed by Supreme Court stepped in to institute a stay. diversity under opposite-sex marriages is President George W. Bush, also seemed Paul Kelly, an appointee of President good for children because it exposes them By CHRIS JOHNSON critical of the marriage ban. Holmes, George H.W. Bush, seemed most to “gender diversity” in the same way the [email protected] who’s black, asked why bans on same- inclined to uphold Utah’s ban on same- state has decided to expose them to racial sex marriage shouldn’t be struck down sex marriage. Several times, he invoked diversity by requiring integration in the DENVER — A three-judge panel of because they aff ect a certain category of the prerogative of Utah voters to defi ne public school system. the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals individuals — much like the 1969 Loving v. marriage through the democratic Invoking the words of prominent same- appeared divided last week during oral Virginia decision striking down interracial system without being overruled through sex marriage opponent Maggie Gallagher, arguments over Utah’s prohibition on marriage bans. the judicial process. At one point, he Schaerr said a boy raised by a father same-sex marriage, although two of the “In Loving, it was about race; in this, it’s questioned why the court shouldn’t also obtains a “deep personal experience of judges expressed skepticism over the about gender,” Holmes said, suggesting require polygamous marriages in Utah masculinity,” and when that’s absent, constitutionality of the ban. he was prepared to strike down the same- if it were to require same-sex marriages, studies have shown they don’t fare as For the fi rst time since the U.S. Supreme sex marriage ban under a ruling guided saying, “It seems like it all goes together.” well in society. Court’s historic decisions on marriage by heightened scrutiny. Still, Holmes Representing Utah in court was Gene Under questioning over whether last year, a federal appeals court heard wasn’t completely sold on the idea that Schaerr, an attorney who left his job children of same-sex parents would be arguments on same-sex marriage. In this the marriage ban should be struck down, as partner at the prominent law fi rm of better off if their parents could marry, case, Kitchen v. Herbert, the question saying he doesn’t see how the court could Winston & Strawn to defend Utah’s ban Schaerr said the same argument could at hand was the constitutionality of overturn the marriage ban through a on same-sex marriage. be made for children being raised in Amendment 3, the same-sex marriage rational basis review standard. Schaerr maintained Utah voters have a polygamous families. At which point, ban approved by Utah voters in 2004. Notably, Holmes was one of two judges right to defi ne marriage as one man, one Lucero retorted there’s plenty of time Over the course of more than an hour, that denied Utah’s request for a stay woman through “democratic means,” just to talk about polygamy, but the issue at judges asked questions about the on same-sex marriages in Utah after a as New York decided to legalize same-sex hand is same-sex marriage. appropriate level of scrutiny for review, whether a ruling against the ban would lead to polygamy and the impact of the ban on children raised by same-sex couples. At no time did they signal when they’d render a decision, even though the court agreed to consider the lawsuit on an expedited basis. The room in the Byron White Courthouse where the arguments took place was packed with observers. Seated near the judges were the plaintiff same- Plaintiff same-sex couples in the Utah sex couples, who sat with arms around marriage equality case. their partners during the proceedings. WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY CHRIS JOHNSON Judge Carlos Lucero, a Clinton appointee, appeared most inclined to rule against Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage. Noting the string of recent court decisions against similar bans, the judge expressed concern about children being raised by Utah couples ‘humble and proud’ after day in court same-sex couples and wondered why a straight couple would be more likely to DENVER — After more than an hour of legal arguments on the constitutionality of banning same-sex marriage, the scene get married if gay couples were banned at the Byron White Court House took on a hopeful tone as plaintiff couples spoke to the media about their involvement in from marriage. litigation seeking marriage equality in Utah. Lucero placed considerable emphasis Derek Kitchen, the namesake of the case, known as Kitchen v. Herbert, said he stands before the court “humble and proud” that on U.S. Associate Justice Anthony the court has given so much weight to the arguments in the case, then embraced his partner, Moudi Sbeity, and gave him a kiss. Kennedy’s decision against the Defense Kody Partridge, who’s also seeking the ability to marry her partner, Laurie Wood, expressed a similar sentiment when of Marriage Act, saying the “expositive addressing reporters. language” of the ruling “disavowed a “We are hopeful that we will see a wonderful decision of this court,” Partridge said. The two were among the six decision predicated on federalism” same-sex plaintiff couples who were present in the courtroom as oral arguments were heard before a three-judge panel of allowing states to ban same-sex the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. marriage. Talking about the stigma faced Judges appeared split over whether they wanted to uphold the ban, known as Amendment 3, or overturn it as a result of the by children raised by same-sex couples appeal. Mark Lawrence, director of the Salt Lake City-based Restore Our Humanity, was also present outside the courthouse that can’t marry in Utah, Lucero asked, and was optimistic the court would rule favorably on the lawsuit he helped initiate. “Wasn’t that precisely the concern that “I think there’s going to be a 2-1 decision,” Lawrence told the Blade. “I think that was made pretty obvious when we heard Justice Kennedy expressed in Windsor the state, and my general impression of the whole thing is I think the state is trying very, very hard to take the humanity out of and to some degree what motivated his this case, or trying to make it a thing instead of a case about people, and I just don’t think they can do that.” decision in the case?” Speaking before reporters, Kitchen was reluctant to answer questions about the legal arguments presented during the case, The judge went so far as to say the nor would he venture to predict which way the judges would rule, saying, “That’s not my job.” But he did talk more about the situation in which a same-sex couple impact of anti-gay marriage laws on couples like him and his partner. “We are loving and committed individuals who have can marry in Iowa, but not have that committed to each other,” Kitchen said. union recognized in Utah, is “identical of CHRIS JOHNSON the situation” created by the Dred Scott case in the 19th century, which held an WASHINGTONBLADE.COM APRIL 18, 2014 • 09 WASHINGTONBLADE.COM 10 • APRIL 18, 2014 INTERNATIONAL NEWS Ukrainian LGBT advocate welcomes closer ties to Europe

“anti-terrorist operation” against them. you,” she told the Blade. “It’s propaganda Shevchenko said some LGBT Crimeans on the TV because in Crimea they’re with whom she said she recently spoke basically watching Russian TV and they told her they support Russia’s annexation think it will be more money for them, of their region. higher salaries and social benefi ts. I don’t “I told them about all those laws that know why they think so because in Russia exist in Russia; it means no freedom for they have nothing.”

India court recognizes ‘’ The India Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a landmark ruling that recognizes transgender people as a “third gender.” Ukrainian LGBT activist OLENA SHEVCHENKO. The 113-page decision orders state offi cials, the federal government in New Delhi and their various agencies to combat anti-trans discrimination in the PHOTO COURTESY OF SHEVCHENKO world’s second most populated country. The ruling also calls for the inclusion of trans Indians in various social welfare and other state-run programs. Shevchenko protested three years of joining the bloc. The decision includes hijras and eunuchs — those who do not identify as against country’s Ukrainian lawmakers last month either male or — in the defi nition of transgender. approved a new anti-discrimination These groups feature prominently in Hindu mythology and religious texts. ousted president measure without sexual orientation. “Discrimination faced by this group in our society is rather unimaginable and BuzzFeed reported a spokesperson for their rights have to be protected, irrespective of chromosomal sex, genitals, By MICHAEL K. LAVERS the European Commission disputed assigned birth sex or implied ,” writes Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan in [email protected] Acting Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavel the ruling. “Rights of , pure and simple, like hijras, eunuchs, etc., Petrenko’s claims that Brussels “removed have also to be examined, so also their right to remain as a third gender as well Olena Shevchenko of Insight, a their demands concerning the indication as their physical and psychological integrity.” Ukrainian LGBT advocacy group, was in the law of guarantees for sexual among the hundreds of thousands minorities.” Malta lawmakers approve civil unions of people who protested in Kiev’s Shevchenko told the Blade she realizes Independence Square against then- the situation is “really complicated” The Maltese Parliament on Monday approved a bill that would allow same-sex President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision because of the escalating tensions couples to enter into civil unions and jointly adopt children. last fall to reject an agreement that would between Ukraine and neighboring Russia Lawmakers in the small island nation located south of Sicily in the have brought his country closer to the that includes last month’s annexation Mediterranean Sea also approved a proposed constitutional amendment that European Union. of Crimea. She nevertheless expressed would ban anti-LGBT discrimination. The demonstrations that began last disappointment over the lack of LGBT- “Malta is now more liberal and more European and it has given equality to all November were initially peaceful, but they specifi c provisions within the anti- its people,” said Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who leads the country’s Labor grew increasingly violent as protesters discrimination bill. Party, after the vote as Reuters reported. demanded an end to government “We understand they will vote for it and Paulo Côrte-Real, co-chair of the ILGA-Europe Executive Board, also applauded corruption and human rights abuses in it will not be sexual orientation or gender the vote in the predominantly Catholic country that only legalized divorce in 2011. the former Soviet republic. identity,” said Shevchenko. “On one hand I “We warmly welcome today’s historic vote for Malta and particularly pay Shevchenko said a friend was shot in the leg understand this, but of course from the other tribute to Maltese politicians and Maltese LGBTI activists,” he said. “The adoption during violent clashes in the square known as hand as a member of the LGBT community I of the law is a result and an example of a successful partnership built Maidan in February that left dozens of people am pretty interested in the adoption of such between the decision makers and the civil society.” dead and hundreds of others injured. She anti-discrimination legislation.” The Associated Press reported opposition lawmakers from the conservative said another friend’s mother is “almost blind” Shevchenko added anti-LGBT violence Nationalist Party abstained from the vote. Auxiliary Bishop Charles Scicluna of after she was beaten. and hate speech remain serious problems the Archdiocese of Malta is among those who also spoke out against the civil “All those killings were really scary, in her country. unions and second-parent adoption measure. but we didn’t realize that because you “A legislator puts [forth] some are trying to protect yourself and your repressive laws [that] will increase the World Bank president meets LGBT advocates friends and somebody next to you was violence on the streets because all those shot,” Shevchenko told the Washington radical people think it gives them a green World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on April 11 met with 15 LGBT rights Blade during an April 9 telephone light to actually go on the streets and to advocates in D.C. interview from Worcester, Mass., where discriminate and to violate someone’s The Washington Blade was unable to attend the meeting because of press she is attending a leadership program for rights,” she said. “They give legitimacy on restrictions that barred access to the building in which it took place, but a World human rights advocates. “You just don’t such violations.” Bank press release described the gathering as the “fi rst conversation of its kind.” get it. It’s just a protest.” Shevchenko said Ukrainian police and It coincided with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund’s annual Shevchenko is among those Ukrainians other offi cials do not monitor incidents of spring meetings that took place in Washington over the past weekend. who feel closer ties between the former anti-LGBT hate speech and violence. “I want to thank the gay and lesbian activists from around the world for their Soviet republic and the E.U. will help advance “They don’t know anything about hate courage in speaking up on behalf of others in vulnerable situations in their the country’s LGBT rights movement. crimes,” she said. countries, and for pressing home the point that discrimination against any Insight over the last two years has Shevchenko spoke to the Blade as group is unacceptable – whether it is religion, race, gender identity or sexual lobbied Ukrainian lawmakers to pass an pro-Russian activists continued to seize orientation,” said Kim. “Their stories will inform us as we move ahead with anti-discrimination measure that includes government buildings and facilities in revisions to the World Bank Group’s long-standing safeguards, which were sexual orientation and gender identity Donetsk, Kramtorsk and other cities designed to protect the interests of individual people in our projects.” and expression. in Eastern Ukraine. 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“Party lines become blurred when the independent candidate represents the Democratic Party line supporting the needy and social welfare to a greater extent and better than most Democrats,” said Hughes. “I am inclined to vote along my party line, Democrat, but I need to know more about Council member Bowser’s vision for the District,” she said. Hughes was also among about 30 mostly Democratic LGBT activists that met privately with Catania on Monday at Catania’s campaign headquarters on Connecticut Avenue, N.W., to engage in a “frank” discussion on a wide range of issues, including non-LGBT issues, according to LGBT advocates in D.C. are divided between MURIEL BOWSER and DAVID CATANIA in the race for mayor. those familiar with the meeting. Others attending the meeting were WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY transgender activists Earline Budd, Ruby Corado, and Alexandra Beninda and gay talk show producer and founder of the public offi ce across the country. Islander association director Gregory Latino activist Jose Gutierrez. lesbians of color advocacy organization “I think David is a candidate who Cendana said they are undecided but are Gay Democratic activist Lane Hudson, Women In the Life Association. can bring people together and most leaning toward Bowser. The two said they who organized the meeting, said most of Hamilton pointed to a statement importantly has shown himself to be are also registered Democrats. the attendees, including him, supported released by Democratic National willing to do the work,” Rosen said in Others identifying themselves as Mayor Vincent Gray in the April 1 Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman her Facebook statement. “For example, undecided are A. Cornelius Baker, former Democratic primary and are now either Schultz congratulating Bowser on the when he chaired the [D.C. Council] Health executive director of the Whitman- undecided or are leaning toward Catania day following her primary victory. He said Committee he created accessible health Walker Clinic; Bob Summersgill, a Ward in the November general election. Wasserman Schultz’s strong backing of clinics for residents all over D.C. but most 3 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Bowser beat Gray in the primary by a Bowser would prompt D.C. Democrats, importantly east of the River.” and former president of the Gay and margin of 43 percent to 33 percent according including LGBT Democrats, to remain Others who identifi ed themselves as Lesbian Activists Alliance; lesbian activist to fi nal returns released by the Board of loyal to their party’s nominee. Catania supporters in the Blade survey Barbara Helmick, a Ward 1 civic activist; Elections. Six other candidates, including “Muriel’s vision to move D.C. in a positive include Deacon Maccubbin, former Lambda attorney, tax preparer and Ward 1 civic another three members of the City Council, direction resonates with the District’s Rising bookstore owner; Joel Lawson, activist Wallace Dickson; and attorney fi nished far behind Bowser and Gray. working and middle class families,” Dupont Circle civic activist; Roger Moff att, and Dupont Circle civic activist Edward Hudson said he now supports Catania. Wasserman Schultz said in her statement. Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in Grandis. All fi ve said they’re Democrats. Although he said Catania’s record on “Her plans to invest in the city’s schools, the Southwest Waterfront area; Alexandra Another survey participant saying he LGBT rights is far more extensive than infrastructure, and economic development Beninda, transgender activist and member was undecided was Robert Turner, the gay Bowser’s, his decision to back Catania is embody the Democratic Party’s priorities to of the D.C. Human Rights Commission; and executive director of the D.C. Republican based on his belief that Catania is better increase opportunity for all.” William Waybourn, former publisher of the Party. Turner, a registered Republican, said qualifi ed to lead the city. Although Wasserman Schultz said she Washington Blade. Each of them said they the local GOP has the legal authority to Among the LGBT advocates supporting believes D.C. Democrats are committed are Democrats. nominate its own mayoral candidate and Bowser are Bil Browning, founder of the to uniting behind Bowser following the Also identifying themselves as Catania may do so in time for the June fi ling deadline LGBT news blog Bilerico Project, and his April 1 primary, at least two nationally supporters in the survey are Marvin for the November general election. partner, Jerame Davis, former executive recognized lesbian and gay Democrats Carter, CEO of the local LGBT charitable In addition to Bowser and Catania, gay director of the National Stonewall have come out in support of Catania. group Helping Our Brothers and Libertarian Party candidate Bruce Majors Democrats. Hilary Rosen, a communications fi rm Sisters; Charles Francis, public relations and Statehood-Green Party candidate Other Bowser supporters, as identifi ed executive, Democratic Party advocate executive and founder of the Kameny Faith, a former Broadway musician and in the Blade survey, include Kurt Vorndran and commentator on CNN, announced Papers Project, which arranged for the perennial D.C. mayoral candidate, will also and Lateefah Williams, both former on her Facebook page last month that preservation of the papers of the late gay appear on the November ballot for mayor. presidents of the Gertrude Stein Democratic she’s backing Catania because, among rights pioneer Frank Kameny; and Berin Majors and Faith ran unopposed in Club; Courtney Snowden, public relations other things, he’s a “candidate who can Szoka, a Libertarian Party activist and their respective party primaries on April 1. executive and former Human Rights bring people together.” 2012 supporter of presidential candidate However, Board of Elections returns show Campaign offi cial; A. 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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 01 that belief means ensuring that LGBT Americans have the same protections and opportunities as their neighbors, as their colleagues, as their family members.” But health care reform was just one aspect of her tenure under which Sebelius worked to advance LGBT issues. One of the fi rst actions that President Obama took on behalf of the LGBT community was a memorandum requiring hospitals receiving Medicare and Medicaid to grant visitation rights to same-sex couples. Sebelius implemented the order, and last year clarifi ed in subsequent guidance those rules also apply to nursing homes receiving funds under those federal programs. In Healthy People 2020, the nation’s report to improve the health of Americans Former HHS Secretary KATHLEEN SEBELIUS over the next decade, HHS under is receiving praise for her work on LGBT Sebelius included a section outlining issues. the needs of LGBT people. Sebelius also WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY commissioned an Institute of Medicine Report on LGBT Health, which called for more data collection and prompted the National Institutes of Health to plan a way HIV/AIDS community. a mixed bag. Sebelius is credited with target vulnerable minority groups within the forward for LGBT health research. “A lot of people say someone is starting the process for allowing questions LGBT community. Sebelius also undertook political champion; I would say she really, really on federal health surveys to collect data “The alarming rise in HIV incidence outreach to the LGBT community as was a champion,” Schmid said. “We’re on the LGBT population. In 2011, she among young black and Latino men over secretary of health and human services going to miss her because she went to bat announced that the National Health the last decade and beyond is of most during Obama’s re-eletion campaign in for us. In health care reform, she really Interview Survey would incorporate immediate and particular concern and 2012, delivering remarks at an HRC dinner cared about HIV/AIDS and made sure questions on sexual orientation by 2013 ensuring timely and sustained access to in Charlotte, N.C., and speaking before the that ACA worked for people living with and hold a series of roundtables to core public health services for persons LGBT Caucus at the Democratic National HIV/AIDS, and cared for the Ryan White determine the best way to collect data at-risk for and living with HIV in states Convention in the same city. program to make sure that continues. related to gender identity. continuing to oppose the ACA also has The director of the Network for LGBT That was one of her personal missions.” Matt Foreman, former director of the primacy,” Lindsey said. Health Equity, who goes by the moniker Sebelius was among the speakers Federal Agencies project that worked Now that Sebelius has departed HHS, Scout, called Sebelius “a staunch ally of the representing the Obama administration with HHS on LGBT health issues between these tasks will be up to the next secretary, LGBT communities” during her time at the in 2012 when the International AIDS 2010 and 2011, commended Sebelius, who will presumably be President Obama’s Department of Health & Human Services. Conference came to D.C. During her but said further work is needed on the nominee Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who “She presided over the fastest set of remarks, Sebelius unveiled four public- data collection issue. currently serves as director of the Offi ce policy changes to benefi t LGBT health in private initiatives aimed at removing barriers “Her achievements are all the more of Management & Budget. It remains to the history of this country,” Scout said. that cause some living with HIV/AIDS within extraordinary because the Bush be seen whether Burwell will be able to “And even when some things did not move the United States to fall out of care. administration literally erased the words address these issues upon confi rmation in forward as expediently as we would have Kali Lindsey, amfAR’s deputy director of ‘gay and lesbian’ — and any recognition of the less than three years that remain in the liked, we always knew she supported us public policy, said the HIV/AIDS and LGBT our community’s needs — from its lexicon Obama administration. unwaveringly. We are saddened to hear communities have “been able to move several and we had to start at less than zero,” , executive director of the she will step down from her position at priorities” through the Obama administration Foreman said. “There is more work to be National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, said in HHS, but look forward to a successor who over the course of Sebelius’ tenure. done in the area of data collection — but a statement Sebelius has a strong legacy can work as diligently for LGBT health “The National HIV/AIDS Strategy, that can’t be put on Secretary Sebelius’ on LGBT health issues upon which her gains as she has done all these years.” through systems authorized by the ACA, shoulders because adding any new data successor can build. HIV/AIDS advocates expressed similar has positioned the U.S. to achieve an AIDS- fi elds costs signifi cant dollars and requires “Because of her hard work and praise for Sebelius. Under her leadership, the free generation, if targeted investments approval by OMB, where there is no pro- dedication, in every state across the country, administration implemented the President’s are made to interrupt HIV transmission LGBT champion like Secretary Sebelius.” LGBT people can buy health insurance National AIDS Strategy, which denoted that among gay and bisexual men in the U.S., For Scout, the lack of identifi cation of plans that don’t discriminate on the basis gay men are among the most vulnerable especially young black and Latino men,” LGBT people as a legally designated disparity of sexual orientation and gender identity,” populations in the AIDS epidemic. Lindsey said. population was the biggest challenge during Carey said. “We’ve also seen data collection Although wait lists for AIDS Drug But not all health issues aff ecting the Sebelius’ tenure, although Scout maintained eff orts begin, cultural competency among Assistance Programs peaked at about LGBT community saw progress under the biggest message is she was “a true ally” health providers increasing, and LGBT 7,000 during the Obama administration, Sebelius’ tenure. An administrative for LGBT people. health issues becoming an integral part of Sebelius re-directed $80 million in rule instituted during the height of the “When that happens it will impact many the national conversation about eliminating funds in 2013 throughout the states AIDS crisis in 1985 by the Food & Drug funding streams across HHS,” Scout said. health disparities. Pending her Senate to eliminate the wait to obtain drugs Administration bars any man who’s had “But I’ve learned you don’t always get what confi rmation, we look forward to working through government assistance. sex with another man since 1977 — even you want, you get what can be delivered.” with President Obama’s nominee to replace Carl Schmid, deputy executive director once — from donating blood. The ban On HIV/AIDS issues, Lindsey said more Secretary Sebelius, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, of the AIDS Institute, said Sebelius was “a has remained in place since that time. work is needed to build off recommendations and hope she will continue the leadership great champion” for LGBT people and the The issue of LGBT data collection is in the National AIDS Strategy, particularly to HHS has shown on LGBT issues.” WASHINGTONBLADE.COM APRIL 18, 2014 • 15 WASHINGTONBLADE.COM 16 • APRIL 18, 2014 BALTIMORE NEWS DIGEST

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Maryland Institute College of Art’s Comes to D.C. (MICA) Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS) will present “Workin’ the Tease: The Art of Baltimore Burlesque,” an exhibition celebrating burlesque as an art form that combines slapstick humor, dance and body spectacle strip tease. From April 22 to May 7 at The Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric (140 W. Mount Royal Ave.), “Workin’ the Tease” will look at burlesque’s rich history in Baltimore

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SAN DIEGO — Although there are no reported cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in San Diego County, health offi cials there are advising residents about the potential benefi ts of getting vaccinated, especially those who plan to attend the White Party in Palm Springs (April 25-28) or those planning to visit New York or Los Angeles where several IMD-related deaths have occurred, the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News reports. San Diego County health offi cials said they are following the recommendations of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health that were made in consultation with the CDC and the California Department of Public Health, the paper said. L.A. County has confi rmed eight IMD cases since January. Four have been with men who have sex with men; three of those cases involved HIV-positive individuals, the News Rep. KELLY CASSIDY sponsored House Bill 5569, also known as the Youth Mental Health Protection Act. reports. Three died, all MSM, two of whom were HIV-positive. Trans workers in Boston eligible for health coverage Therapy ban bill fails in Illinois BOSTON — City workers in Boston seeking gender reassignment surgery would for the fi rst time have their care covered by health insurance under a City Council proposal LONDON — A bill that would have ended attempts to “cure” gay and lesbian supported by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Boston Globe reports. youth of their sexual orientation in Illinois has failed despite Democrats holding City Councilors at Large Michelle Wu and Ayanna Pressley said they planned this week a majority in the state House of Representatives, Gay Star News reports. to fi le a proposal that would guarantee transgender city employees access to gender A total of 54 state representatives voted against the bill while only 44 reassignment surgery, hormone therapy and mental health services, the article said. representatives voted for it. There are 108 seats in the Illinois House of Wu said on April 11 that the ordinance is meant to affi rm human rights for transgender Representatives and 71 of those are held by Democrats, the report said. people and also make city jobs attractive and welcoming to the widest range of talent. House Bill 5569, also known as the Youth Mental Health Protection Act, was “The city of Boston and our city government should be doing everything we can to sponsored by lesbian Democratic Chicago Rep. Kelly Cassidy and stated “being make sure we are doing that with the most inclusive policies,” Wu was quoted as having lesbian, gay or bisexual is not a disease, disorder, illness, defi ciency or shortcoming.” said in the Globe. “It’s the best business decision, as well as the right thing to do.” “Illinois has a compelling interest in protecting the physical and psychological well- Walsh recently recommended a coverage mandate for transgender treatment to being of minors, including (LGBT) youth, and in protecting its minors against exposure the city’s Public Employee Committee, which advises offi cials on health care and other to serious harms caused by sexual orientation change eff orts,” the bill reads. human resources issues, according to his spokeswoman, Kate Norton. With Boston’s The bill would have given Illinois’ Department of Professional Regulation strong-mayor form of government, Walsh’s backing is the surest sign the measure will the power to deregister so-called “ex-gay” therapists by mandating that “any become reality, the Globe reports. sexual orientation change eff orts attempted on a person under the age of 18 Walsh asked that the mandate take eff ect on July 1, when the city begins its new fi scal by a mental health provider or any referral made by a mental health provider year, Norton said. The committee discussed the proposal at a meeting last week but did to a third party practicing sexual orientation change eff orts shall be considered not vote, the Globe reports. unprofessional conduct.” The ordinance set to be fi led by Wu and Pressley would ban the city from contracting However the bill’s opponents said the issue fell outside lawmakers’ fi eld of with any health insurer that denies benefi ts or “discriminates in the amount of expertise, the Gay Star News article said. premium, policy fees, or rates charged” on the basis of gender identity, according to a “This is stuff that we should not be legislating on at all,” Republican Rep. Jeanne draft provided to the Globe last week. Ives said according to The New American. It grew out of the Elevate Boston Coalition, cofounded by Pressley during last year’s “We have no purview in this department. We have no expertise in this mayoral race to highlight issues aff ecting women and girls, communities of color, and department. 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©2014 BROWN NAFF PITTS OMNIMEDIA, INC. WASHINGTONBLADE.COM VIEWPOINT APRIL 18, 2014 • 21 The unfi nished business of the mayor’s race nomic progress of the city, including bringing create an air of illegitimacy to his election. This As a gay man, I have lived most of my life U.S. Attorney must now down unemployment, he has also paid at- has harmed the city in signifi cant ways. First, committing a crime through sex, or love, and put up or shut up tention to the smart ways that government it has prevented the mayor of the nation’s just by being. I do not believe that government can serve to improve the lives of transgender capital from being at the forefront of setting authority is absolute. We must be vigilant men and women, support the formerly incar- a progressive agenda that puts forward new against its powers to harass and oppress its By A. CORNELIUS BAKER cerated (or as he has designated ‘returning ways of thinking about urban America. Sec- citizens. As a black gay man I am deeply fa- citizens’), and address the divide between rich ond, the mayor’s record of inclusion and ex- miliar with how we can be easily marginalized The District of Columbia has now entered and poor neighborhoods. These are issues I panding the franchise of our democracy has and the multiple layers of discrimination in our into an extraordinary period of political insta- care about. gone unnoticed and the lives of the poor and lives. While I respect the rule of law, the rules bility that threatens the positive direction of Unfortunately, the mayor and his admin- marginalized have again been pushed to the and the law must also treat us fairly to earn our city. Since the defeat of Mayor Vince Gray, istration got off to a slow start embroiled in sidelines. Lastly, the citizens have been dealt our respect. The situation we have against the we have now seen an unruly Council begin a amateurish political snafus that have contrib- a bad hand that has resulted in a signifi cant mayor — and by extension the aspirations of silly round of political posturing on the priori- uted to the constant hounding to discredit him disengagement from a fundamental respon- our city — is not just. The U.S. Attorney must ties submitted for consideration in the Mayor’s that we have seen over the past three years. sibility of citizenship with disturbingly low voter charge the mayor now or shut up and leave Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Request, the resigna- And despite the many gains that have been participation in the recent primary. him alone. tion of two senior offi cials with the expectation accomplished, I must admit to being disap- All of this brings us to the unfi nished busi- I do not have an opinion of the mayor’s guilt, of more to come, and the deep uncertainty of pointed that the response to the HIV epidemic ness of the election. After three years of in- only a presumption of innocence till proven the governance in our city for the next nine has not been led by more robust leadership vestigation, the U.S. Attorney has produced otherwise. If convicted, then the mayor will months. The April 1 primary election was with a bold vision to take advantage of the re- a plea agreement with Jeff rey Thompson in have to decide to resign so that his good work indeed a joke on the citizens — but nobody markable moment of scientifi c advancement exchange for a lenient sentence in admit- may continue unfettered by scandal. If there should be laughing. that is at hand. That aside, as a member of the tance of violations in at least 25 federal and are no charges or if he is found not guilty, then As the Blade has recorded, on March 27 Mayor’s Green Ribbon Committee for a Sus- local campaigns, including illegal contributions the voters must be allowed to decide how we I had the privilege of welcoming Mayor Gray tainable DC, I have seen his direct involvement to the mayor’s campaign. Ironically, the day want our city to go forward and under whose to my home for a fundraiser in support of his in an initiative that represents remarkable after the primary, the Supreme Court ruled leadership, including Mayor Gray’s option to campaign. More importantly than the money foresight in transforming the city into a 21st that Thompson’s actions are largely irrelevant run as an independent before the June 30 fi l- contributed that evening was the opportunity century laboratory to promote the health of to future campaigns as the wealthy can now ing deadline. to belatedly thank the mayor for his many ef- citizens and grow toward an innovative future invest with few limits to pursue their vision It is time we get to the unfi nished business forts to better the lives of LGBT people and — as opposed to being a quaint museum for of our republic. In the meantime, despite his of the mayoral election. the most marginalized in our city. It was a long the wealthy. public statements of the mayor’s guilt and bor- overdue show of support. While the mayor The allegations against the mayor and his derline smear campaign, the U.S. Attorney has has kept a steady hand on continuing the eco- associates in the last campaign continue to not fi led charges. This is not acceptable. A. CORNELIUS BAKER is a Ward 1 resident. VIEWPOINT New threats to LGBT free speech rights Loss of net neutrality, ternet Service Providers (ISPs) to carry all traf- itself—as noted in the D.C. Circuit decision— canceling websites and email addresses after fi c, at the same speed, without extra charge by classifying the Internet as an “information six so-called “infringements.” globalization treaty could to providers. For example, under the stricken service” rather than a “common carrier” (like With net neutrality stricken and the surveil- doom some content rule, Washingtonblade.com streams at the the telephone), where carriage discrimination lance requirements in place, ISPs have both same speed as a mainstream site like AOL’s is always barred. the means and reasons to control controver- Huffi ngton Post. So why hasn’t FCC simply reclassifi ed the sial speech (and perhaps hand the data to By SEAN HOWELL & But now, each ISP could make deals with Internet as a common carrier — instantly re- the NSA). Our experience in many countries PETER IAN CUMMINGS sites willing to pay, or excommunicate con- instating net neutrality? Follow communica- across several decades shows that, given troversial sites it dislikes. Or ISPs might mirror tions companies’ lobbyists and campaign con- such power, LGBT content is often fi rst to fall. Few could argue that the Internet hasn’t chain stores that replace brand names with tributions, says Matt Wood, policy director of There are many examples: Facebook treats revolutionized gay life. A generation came out in-store brands. For example, Comcast could Freepress, the D.C. nonprofi t fi ghting for net gay content unequally right now, South Ko- on the web, with freedom to launch a website replace gay newspapers and sites with Com- neutrality. “Remember the ISPs have lobbyists rean ISPs routinely ban gay content, and even based solely on popularity. We both did that, castGay.com, collecting advertising revenue on both sides of the aisle,” Wood says. “This is the UK’s British Telecom blocked LGBT social creating the social networks XY and Hornet. from such generic sites. something of a bipartisan mistake.” networks in the early 1990s, putting several (In fact, equal Internet access may be how you Now, perhaps some ISPs won’t take advan- In a January editorial, Wired stated it out of business. found The Blade.) tage of their new powers to charge powerful more strongly: “The problem isn’t the ISPs, Why should we think ISPs across the That open culture could end soon, unless media companies for speed. But many will— it’s the FCC.” TPP’s 11 countries wouldn’t use these intru- the Federal Trade Commission and Obama for profi t, political reasons or both. Absent the stricken rule or common-carri- sive systems to bankrupt or silence incon- administration strongly defend free speech— One might expect aggressive FCC and er reclassifi cation, warns New America Foun- venient speech? not just by words, but by actions. Otherwise, White House action protecting free speech. dation’s Marvin Ammori, “AT&T, Verizon, and The administration should know better. FCC independent voices on the Internet could be Think again. The administration is pushing the Comcast will be able to deliver some sites should reclassify the Internet as a common- replaced by corporate websites or wealthy semisecret Trans-Pacifi c Partnership (TPP), a and services more quickly and reliably than carrier communications service, and Congress subsidiaries of Comcast, Google, AOL and new globalization treaty requiring ISPs here others for any reason—whim, envy, igno- should deny the administration fast-track au- Facebook; or silenced altogether. and around the Pacifi c to read (a.k.a. deep- rance, competition, vengeance, whatever. Or thority to pass the TPP. If the United States Absent strong government response, a monitor) the Internet and report violations no reason at all.” stands for anything, it stands for free speech. cocktail of two repressive policy changes could to international law enforcement. That puts Worse, the proposed TPP globalization trea- push controversial sites off the Internet. The enormous regulatory and compliance require- ty requires ISPs to deep-monitor all email and fi rst is the loss of net neutrality. ments on social and news websites, making it websites for “copyright infringement” — to In January the Circuit Court of Appeals for even harder for us to compete with Facebook, scan everyone’s email and all web pages, then SEAN HOWELL is founder and CEO of the gay social network Hornet. PETER IAN CUMMINGS, D.C., in Verizon v. FCC, struck down FCC’s Huffi ngton and Comcast. set up a strict enforcement regime. Under publisher of B magazine (bmag.us), also Open Internet Order, which had required In- Of course, FCC brought these problems on TPP, ISPs must enact a “six strikes” procedure published XY Magazine. 22 • APRIL 18, 2014 WASHINGTONBLADE.COM

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RITA VOLK (left) as Amy, MICHAEL WILLETT as Shane and KATIE STEVENS as Karma in ‘Faking It.’

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Out California actor on Marshall. The role garnered attention for nine “American Idol” contestant Katie to his career. his comedic chops. He says comedy came Stevens, and Amy, played by Rita Volk, “My family just always knew,” Willett new MTV show ‘Faking It’ to him naturally and wasn’t a learned skill. who are mistakenly outed as lesbians. says. “Sexuality isn’t a black and white thing. “Comedy is like music. You either Their popularity soars because of it and Everyone is on the scale. Being out has By MARIAH COOPER hear it or you don’t. I like characters that the pair decide to keep up the charade. given me the ability to be diff erent and I’m can be intense and emotional as well as The catch? One of the friends is actually happy to be representing the community.” If you aren’t familiar with actor Michael funny,” Willett says. secretly in love with the other. But Willett hopes that playing gay Willett you may have glimpsed him while Willett’s knack for comedy led him to one Willett plays Shane, a gay teen and the characters won’t have a long-lasting eff ect channel surfi ng past “United States of of the leading roles in “G.B.F.,” the story of most popular boy in school. Willett says on his career. He is prepared to take his Tara” and “Joan of Arcadia” reruns. Now a popular girl clique’s competition to fi nd Shane holds his popularity status because acting skills as far as they can go and Willett, 24, is starring in MTV’s new quirky their “Gay Best Friend.” Willett played quiet he is witty and has a great sense of style. stretch beyond the “gay best friend” role. comedy “Faking It” and is about to show gay teen Tanner who is chosen by the He says that Shane is a “more idealized” “I would like to believe I’m not typecast. I that he’s no fake. girls as the ultimate prize. “G.B.F” placed version of himself. would like to try science fi ction and action. Born and raised in Fresno, Calif., Willett alongside notable actors including At this high school, popularity is based Whatever is needed of me,” he says. Willett caught the acting bug at a “Orange is the New Black’s” Natasha on how diff erent a person can be. Willett, who lives in Los Angeles, has young age. He performed in numerous Lyonne and Megan Mullally. “The more unique you are the cooler kept auditioning for other roles on hold to community theater productions until he His community theater roots left their you are,” Willett says. focus on “Faking It.” However, his ambitions landed an agent at age 13 and began mark on Willett as he still enjoys stage Shane decides to nominate Karma and go beyond just scripts. He is also a musician traveling back and forth between Fresno acting. But he admits there is a diff erence Amy for homecoming queens. They end with an upcoming debut album titled and Los Angeles. Soon after he scored his between acting on stage and acting for up winning and have to kiss in front of the “Diapason” with his fi rst single “Burning fi rst acting job in a commercial for Little the screen. entire school. It leads to one of the girls Desire” to be released soon. He describes Debbie singing “My Girl.” “I would like to continue to do both. realizing her feelings may be deeper and his music as “glam-rock but poppy” and From there Willett went on to appear in You get something diff erent when you’re more complicated than she realized. likens it to psychedelic rock duo MGMT. popular television shows including “Joan performing live. For fi lm and TV you can “It’s an opportunity to see high school Despite his excitement over his new of Arcadia” and “Without a Trace.” His be more settled.” in a diff erent way. It deals with a lot of music Willett is still passionate about breakout role would be in the Showtime “Faking It” is MTV’s newest scripted issues people deal with like fi guring out people watching “Faking It.” He hopes the series “United States of Tara” as Lionel series, a high school-set romantic who you are,” Willett says. audience will connect with the show. Trane, the aggressive gay teen who starts comedy that debuts Tuesday at 10:30 Willett is gay and says he didn’t have “There isn’t another show like it. an LGBT advocacy club at his school and p.m. and depicts two high school best a big “coming out” story. He also believes It’s both funny and meaningful. The later dated the title character Tara’s gay son friends, Karma, played by former season his sexual orientation has been a benefi t characters are human and believable.” WASHINGTONBLADE.COM 24 • APRIL 18, 2014 QUEERY: 20 QUESTIONS FOR JOSHUA MORGAN

JOSHUA MORGAN

How long have you been out and who If science discovered a way to change was the hardest person to tell? sexual orientation, what would you do? I came out my freshman year of Scoff college. I think I had the most diffi cult time telling the rest of my acting class What do you believe in because we were so close and I had beyond the physical world? been lying to them for a while before I consider myself a spiritual person coming out. I was embarrassed. and defi nitely believe in the afterlife and reincarnation. WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY Who’s your LGBT hero? John Cameron Mitchell What’s your advice for LGBT By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO movement leaders? [email protected] What’s Washington’s best Use the younger generation to nightspot, past or present? create change! They’re incredibly open Joshua Morgan, an actor who’s been in the region for four years, has been Ugh. I’m a morning person. So — minded and will shape the future of our named the fi rst-ever executive director of No Rules Theatre Co., an outfi t with Washington’s best morningspot? community. dual headquarters in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Arlington, Va. Tidal Basin. Board chair Violet Jacobson credits Morgan with a “major transition in the What would you walk past year,” including a grant from the Winston-Salem Foundation that enabled Describe your dream wedding. across hot coals for? the company to create the new position. It also moved in with Signature My best friend Farrell has planned Louie Theatre, raised signifi cant amounts during a November campaign and kicked three for me. One will be on an organic off a “terrifi c year of shows.” farm, one will be on a boat and one will What LGBT stereotype “All [occurred] under the visionary leadership of Joshua,” she says. “No be in a theater with a full show as part annoys you most? Rules Theatre Co. is poised for major success.” of the ceremony. Hopefully I don’t have I’m not every girl’s pet. Morgan, a University of North Carolina School of the Arts graduate, moved to three weddings. Washington from New York and has performed at Woolly Mammoth, Signature, What’s your favorite LGBT movie? Arena and several other established companies in the D.C. area. As a director, What non-LGBT issue are you most “The First Wives Club.” That’s basically he helmed sold-out productions of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” for No Rules in passionate about? an LGBT movie at this point. both North Carolina and Washington and received solid reviews for his work on Eating well! We have been duped in Neil LaBute’s “Some Girl(s)” and Andrew Hinderaker’s “Suicide.” FOR THE BEST IN BRAZILIANAmerica FOOD, into eatingSERVICE, crap MUSIC and & FUN! it’s slowly What’s the most overrated Morgan was born in England and raised in Los Angeles and North Carolina. killing us. We haveSPACIOUS to fi PRIVATEght for ROOM good food. social custom? He’s in a relationship with Louis Phillips and lives in Eastern Market. He enjoys Why can’t I have my elbows on the cooking, yoga and tennis in his free time. What historical outcome table when I eat? would you change? Electing George W. Bush. What trophy or prize do you most covet? What’s been the most memorable pop I’m proud of the recognition from Join us for a special culture moment of your lifetime? the Helen Hayes for No Rules as the Kurt Cobain dying. I was young, but outstanding emerging theatre company easter Brunch Buffet my whole family was very upset. back in 2012. That meant a lot to me. Bottomless Mimosas, Seafood Station & many other gourmet Brazilian dishes. $29.95 p/p On what do you insist? What do you wish you’d known at 18? Don’t do business with Start saving money! me on Facebook! Why Washington? What was your last I love how embracing this arts Facebook post or Tweet? community is. I think because the city For The Best in Brazilian Food, Service, Music & Fun! I posted a picture of Louie and me in is so transient, it’s open to new talent, Spacious Private Room Rehoboth Beach. which his very exciting for me and the young people I work with. It doesn’t hold For reservations: thegrillfromipanema.com If your life were a book, on to preconceived notions as much, 1858 columbia road nw • 202.986.0757 what would the title be? which I love. BACALHOADA DE FORNO facebook.com/thegrillfromipanema “If you’re not behind, where are you? (BAKED DRY CODFISH FILET) @tgfromipanema The Joshua Morgan Story”

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DAVID NATE GOLDMAN and ALLIE VILLARREAL in ‘Moth’ at Studio 2ndStage.

Edgy Aussie import explores years of her life, she responds, “Bullshit.” In the face of the ultimate bully teen angst at Studio embodied in white trash classmate Clinton, Sebastian laughs off the smacks By PATRICK FOLLIARD and insults while Claryssa tries to protect her friend. But when things get In conceiving “Moth,” gay Australian particularly intense, each sells the other playwright Declan Greene knew his out as self-preservation trumps all. upsetting but darkly funny drama’s With its many locations and shifts in time, characters would be a pair of unlikable “Moth” is tricky to direct eff ectively, but PHOTO BY RAVI DEEPRES “über nerds.” Plot details would come later. Story with the help of a top-notch design His memorable creations are Sebastian team succeeds admirably. Colin K. Bills’ and Claryssa, each other’s only friend and lighting, Mimi d’Autremont’s projection the outcasts of their sophomore class. He’s and James Bigbee Garver’s sound create hygienically challenged and anime-obsessed; atmospheres from the mundane to the she’s overweight and an emo-Wiccan. Not fantastic. Brandee Mathies’ costumes are sure-fi re ingredients for suburban teen spot on high school. popularity. Yet, despite holding a special A longtime D.C. actor, Story has played place in rigid high school hierarchy, they myriad classical and contemporary parts aren’t kids you hear much about — at least including terrifi c turns as eff ete artist Andy not until after something bad happens. Warhol in 2ndStage’s “Pop!” and as an That something bad does happen. It takes alleged child killer in Studio’s production place at night on a fl ood light-lit playing of “The Pillowman.” He elicits compelling fi eld. What’s more, the assault is recorded performances from his talented young actors by the pair’s tormentors and posted on Goldman and Villarreal. They come across as social media. Sebastian and Claryssa react if they’ve been friends forever. Their baldly to the traumatic episode in diff erent ways: critical exchanges that lead into punches and she falls into a deep depression that she playful wrestling feel entirely true life. likens to hiding in a cave; whereas he fl ips Some two-person plays leave you out and very publicly becomes a wild-eyed, wishing for another character to enter, but “Impressive…There is much to marvel at!” apocalyptic messenger. Increasingly, things not this one. It’s strongly character driven —THE NEW YORK TIMES go from bad to worse. and never boring. Still in his 20s, playwright “Moth” is currently making its U.S. Greene brilliantly forms his characters’ premiere at Studio 2ndstage. This perfectly oddly insulated world. His unfi ltered paced, ably executed production also marks dialogue (fat, faggot, retard, and that is but the directorial debut of out actor Tom Story. a mild sampling) never sounds stilted. And MAY 1--3 | EISENHOWER THEATER David Nate Goldman and Allie Villarreal play when Sebastian clings insanely to a moth Sebastian and Claryssa. in a jar or wishes for a fi eld force, it seems Before a bank of beige lockers, the perfectly reasonable. Of course, with the friends tell their story, divvying up the obstacles he’s facing, its’ no wonder. Tickets on sale now! parts of their loathsome classmates, silly “Moth” takes us into the world and minds teachers and irritating parents. Sebastian of these misfi t adolescents whose otherness (202) 467-4600 kennedy-center.org and Claryssa’s relationship is based on leads them into dangerous places. It’s a | trading insults. That and each one’s need fascinating and sometimes scary place. Tickets also available at the Box Office Groups (202) 416-8400 to cling to someone in a world where International Programming at the Kennedy Center is made possible through the generosity of the neither fi t. He’s stinky, picks his nose ‘MOTH’ Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts. Through May 4 and enjoys tracing cartoon characters. Studio 2ndStage Claryssa is tough, scathingly articulate 1501 14th St., N.W. $30-35 and willing to fi ght with words and fi sts. 202-332-3300 To the notion that high school is the best Studiotheatre.org WASHINGTONBLADE.COM LIVE 26 • APRIL 18, 2014 OUT & ABOUT UPCOMING PERFORMANCES AN EVENING WITH KELLER WILLIAMS W/ GIBB DROLL AND JEFF SIPE FRIDAY APR 18 EASTER GOSPEL BRUNCHES 10AM, 12:30PM, 3:00PM SUNDAY APR 20

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FRI, APRIL 25 ANDREA GIBSON Lesbian folk-rock duo Indigo Girls perform in two upcoming sold-out shows at W/ JESSE THOMAS Maryland Center for Creative Arts (801 Chase St., Annapolis, Md.) Saturday at 8 p.m. and the Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria, Va.) with Shirlette Ammons on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Indigo Girls Emily Saliers and Amy Ray began performing together in high school and went on to release 13 studio albums and collaborate with popular THEHAMILTONDC.COM artists such as Brandi Carlile and Pink. The Grammy-winning duo’s latest album “Beauty Queen Star” features 13 new tracks. For more information on the Indigo Girls, visit indigogirls.com.

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E-mail calendar items to calendars@washblade. Burgess, debuts “Dancing the Dream,” an For more information, visit thedccenter.org. tickets, visit dupontcircle.biz. com two weeks prior to your event. Space is lim- exploration between dance and modern Taste of Pride holds an oil and vinegar ited so priority is given to LGBT-specifi c events American identity, at the National Portrait at Sapore Oil and Vinegar (660 or those with LGBT participants. Recurring THURSDAY, APRIL 24 tasting events must be re-submitted each time. Gallery (8th and F Streets N.W.) today at 1 and Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets hosts Pennsylvania Ave., S.E.) today from 7-10 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more details, its annual “Spring Fling: Silent Auction and Learn about diff erent oils and vinegars and visit npg.si.edu. Buff et Dinner” at the Washington Hilton diff erent pairings for them such as bread and DJ Hector Fonseca plays at Town (2009 Hotel (1919 Connecticut Ave., N.W.) tonight jam. Tickets are $30. For more details and to 8th St., N.W.) tonight. Doors open at 10 from 6-9 p.m. There will also be a live jazz purchase tickets, visit capitalpride.org/taste. p.m. Cover is $8 from 10-11 p.m. and band. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at $12 after 11 p.m. Drinks are $3 before 11 the door. For more details and to purchase MARIAH COOPER p.m. The drag show starts at 10:30 p.m. Admission is limited to guests 21 and over. For more information, visit towndc.com. LGBT-welcoming holy week events Special Agent Galactica brings her cabaret performance with guitarist Peter Fields to Jay’s TODAY (GOOD FRIDAY) On Read (225 W Read St., Baltimore) tonight National City Christian Church (5 Thomas Circle, N.W.) holds a Good Friday organ meditation at 8:30 p.m. Admission is free and limited to service at 12:15 p.m. and a Good Friday service at 7:30 p.m. Details at nationalcitycc.org. guests 21 and over. For more details, visit Foundry United Methodist Church (1500 16th St., N.W.) holds Good Friday services at noon pinkharedone.com. and 7 p.m. Details at foundryumc.org. Green Lantern (1335 Green Lantern Ct., Ravensworth Baptist Church (5100 Ravensworth Rd., Annadale, Va.) has a Good Friday N.W.) hosts “Bears Can Dance: Bunny Ears service tonight at 7 p.m. Details at ravensworthbaptist.org. Easter Edition” at 9 p.m. tonight. There is no Silver Spring United Methodist Church holds Good Friday service today at 5:30 p.m. They have cover charge. Free bunny ears will be given to two locations at 8900 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, Md. And 33 University Blvd. E, Silver Spring, Md. the fi rst 50 guests to arrive. For more details, Details at silverspringumcp.org. visit greenlanterndc.com. Holy Redeemer Metro Community Church (4907 Niagara Rd., College Park, Md.) holds Good Friday worship service at 7:30 p.m. Details at hrmcc.org. SUNDAY, APRIL 20 Washington Plaza Baptist Church (1615 Washington Plaza N, Reston, Va.) holds a Good JR.’s Bar (1519 17th St., N.W.) holds an Friday service today at noon. Details at washingtonplazachurch.com. PHOTO BY EVAN TAYLOR Easter bonnet contest tonight at 7 p.m. Holy Trinity Parish (13515 Dulles Technology Dr., Herndon, Va.) holds a Good Friday devotions Grand prize is $250. There will be $3 Coors service with Bishop Tony and Father Joe from noon-3 p.m., Good Friday Stations of the Cross service ERIC HIMAN is at Bear Happy Hour this evening. Lights and $3 Skyy vodka. For more details, at 1 p.m. and Good Friday Mass of the Pre-Sanctifi ed at 7:30 p.m. Details at holytrinityhtp.org. visit jrs-bardc.com. Emauus United Church of Christ (900 Maple Ave., East, Vienna, Va.) holds a Good Friday The Mansion on O Street (2020 O St., service tonight from 7-8 p.m. Details at emmausucc.org. TODAY N.W.) holds an Easter brunch and tour Open Door Metropolitan Community Church (15817 Barnesville Rd., Boyds, Md.) holds a Out singer-songwriter Eric Himan performs today from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Brunch includes Good Friday service tonight at 7:30 p.m. Details at opendoormcc.com. songs from his latest album “Gracefully” at two omelets, waffl es, chocolate-covered bacon The United Church (1920 G St., N.W.) holds two Good Friday services today, one in German at upcoming shows. First at Town (2009 8th St., and more. The brunch includes a self- noon and one in English at 1 p.m., led by Pastor Muenz. Details at theunitedchurch.org. N.W.) for Bear Happy tonight. Doors open at guided tour of the 100-room mansion. Foundry United Methodist Church (1500 16th St., N.W.) celebrates Good Friday with two 10 p.m. Cover is $5 from 10-11 p.m. and $10 There will also be prizes for best Easter services today at noon and 7 p.m. Details at foundryumc.org. after 11 p.m. for guests 21 and over. Guests bonnet and decorated egg. Admission is 18-20 there is a $10 cover all night. Drinks are $75 per person. Kids ages 5-11 are half SATURDAY, APRIL 19 (EASTER VIGIL) $3 from 10-11 p.m. Himan will also be the price and kids under 5 are free. Washington National Cathedral (3101 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) holds the Great Vigil of Easter opening act for Ani DiFranco at Rams Head tonight at 8 p.m. Details at nationalcathedral.org. Live (20 Market Pl., Baltimore) on April 26 at MONDAY, APRIL 21 St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church (1830 Connecticut Ave., N.W.) celebrates the Great Vigil of 9 p.m. Tickets are $40. For more details, visit The 30th annual Helen Hayes Awards Easter tonight at 6:30 p.m. Details at stmargaretsdc.org. towndc.com and ramsheadlive.com. is at the National Building Museum (401 F Luther Place Memorial Church (1226 Vermont Ave., N.W.) holds Easter Vigil tonight at 6 p.m. The Arlington Gay and Lesbian Alliance St., N.W.) tonight at 7 p.m. The awards honor Details at lutherplace.org. (AGLA) presents “2014 Miss Gay Arlington” the best in Washington theater. Tickets Holy Trinity Parish (13515 Dulles Technology Dr., Herndon, Va.) holds an Easter Vigil service at Freddie’s Beach Bar and Restaurant (555 start at $150 and include a buff et. For more tonight at 8 p.m. Details at holytrinityhtp.org. 23rd St. South, Arlington, Va.) tonight at 8 p.m. information, visit theatrewashinton.org. Contestants compete in categories including SUNDAY, APRIL 20 (EASTER) talent and evening gown. Cover is $10. 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