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Volume 25 • Issue 16 • No. 464 • September 13 , 2012 • outwordmagazine.com Catching Up with Brandi Carlisle Our 17th Annual page 24 Special Issue Local Choreographer Is on the Move page 10 Photographer Embraces the Business of Art page 12 Vinegar Tom Dives in page 17 Two Gay Men Play Big Roles in Dralion page 19 outwordmagazine.com September 13, 2012 - September 27, 2012 • Volume 25 • Issue 17 • No. 464 Outword Magazine 1 COLOR COLOR Ad Name: Gay Males club Closing Date: 3/28/12 Trim: 10.8125x13 Item #: PBL20109925 QC: CS Bleed: none Job/Order #:238788 Pub: Outword Live: 10.3125x12.5 COLOR 594708_02712 10.8125x13 4c Personal Financial Review You’ve found one another and you’re ready to take the next big step — sharing expenses. Talk to someone who can help you navigate the maze of your personal finances and help you take control of your financial situation. 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Art and music programs in our schools impact of $201.1 billion (2010 estimate) in struggle to stay alive, yet statistics show Los Angeles and Orange Counties alone. children involved with music education are There is a continuing look at ways to more likely to graduate from high school increase in arts funding in the future, and and attend college, and are less likely to be one program that’s working is Arts License involved with gangs and substance abuse. Plates. Funds from sales and renewals of the Sadly, 89 percent of California’s K-12 palm-tree-sunset motif designed by Wayne schools fail to provide arts education in the Thiebaud are the lifeblood of the agency’s recommended four disciplines of music, grant programs. Over 25 influential dance, theater and visual arts. Californians have stepped up to be “Arts California is still one of the largest Drivers” and promote the Arts Plate – from economies in the world, yet California is Debbie Allen to Wolfgang Puck to the cast of ranked 50th in the nation for per capita Glee. See ArtsPlate.org for more details. support for the arts. There are many Arts & Entertainment Craig Watson, Director, California Arts related ads in this issue and these are Council says, “The California Arts Council businesses that count on your support. Their continues with its very modest budget of budget allows for very little advertising, so only $5 million for a state that has over 12 please let them know that their choice to ask percent of the nation’s population and the for the gay dollar in the pages of Outword largest number of working artists. That level Magazine works. of support amounts to just 12 cents per Our region has an abundance of touring person.” theaters, small local theaters, art galleries, According to the Council, the arts performance art, choruses and more to contribute to California’s economy in a very explore and enjoy. We’re also lucky to have direct way. There are two times more film arts organizations like the Sacramento Ballet, and entertainment-related jobs in California Opera and Philharmonic. So, please take a than any other state in the country, including moment to find something new and exciting more than 680,000 full and part-time to do in town on your next date night, or creative jobs, many in high-growth fields. girls night out, and help save the arts in our That translates into an estimated economic community at the same time. Toyota Ad Features Transgender Model A model from Israel who identifies as transgender is the spokesperson for Toyota’s 2013 Auris, with the tagline for the campaign being “not in trend, not casual, not for everyone, not authority, but Auris.” The ads for the Auris will only air in Japan, but you can watch it at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=zVwJrAr7GkY&feature=player_embedded outwordmagazine.com September 13, 2012 - September 27, 2012 • Volume 25 • Issue 17 • No. 464 Outword Magazine 5 13119_05_SAFE12_CashRewards_5.33x6.35.indd 1 9/4/12 2:21 PM Letters Esther Rothblum will be included in the Submit Your Photos to book. Capture “A Day with HIV” I have recently launched a Kickstarter On one day, Friday, September 21, people campaign to help fund the production costs everywhere, both HIV positive and negative, of the book and you can access it at can share an image of coping and care kickstarter.com/projects/1674949952/ through the lens of a camera. fringe-on-the-edges-of-the-mainstream-gay- On that day, Positively Aware magazine is communit. asking people to take a digital photograph to So far, we’ve raised over 50 percent of our record a moment of their day that will focus goal, but we need support to ensure that this the world’s attention on the daily trials and project will come to fruition. triumphs of people living with HIV to help Sincerely, remove the stigma of HIV through a Gayle E. Pitman, Ph.D. collective photographic portrait. The special image could be a time with friends and family, at work or play, or any Sac Valley Veterans to moment in the day that helps people better Celebrate Repeal of DADT understand how HIV impacts people, loved Dear Outword Readers, ones, colleagues and communities. The LGBT Sacramento Valley Veterans are Photos need to be submitted by Tuesday, holding a commemoration of the one-year September 25 to www.adaywithhiv.com anniversary of the repeal of “Don’t Ask, The final photos selected for the photo Don’t Tell,” and invite you to join them for a essay of A Day with HIV will be announced BBQ and potluck to celebrate. in October 2012 and will be published in the The celebration will be on Saturday, Sept. November/December issue of Positively 22, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on The Bolt Bar’s Aware magazine. patio and large “backyard” area. The Bolt is To learn more about this year’s project, located at 2560 Boxwood St. (916-649-8420 view last year’s winners and get tips on how SacBolt.com). to take a great photo, visit adaywithhiv.com. SVV will provide all the essentials for the BBQ, but you are welcome to bring potluck Does Your Company dishes and desserts to share. There will also be one of The Bolt’s infamous Soda/Beer Participate in United Way? Busts. Dear Outword Readers, We’ll bask in our victory, play some games, If you are part of a company that works listen to some tunes and just have a good with United Way, please consider helping time, knowing that this battle has been won. The Center during the Fall 2012 campaign. We would like to thank The Bolt for While we are applying to be a certified sponsoring our celebration, and all veterans, partner in 2013, you won’t see our name on active duty members and allies are invited. the list just yet! However, by writing-in “The We hope you can come out and party with Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center,” your us. sustained giving can be the cornerstone to For more information, visit keeping our doors open. www.sacvalleyvets.com Through United Way, you can create Ty Redhouse, President payroll deductions to make your Sacramento Valley Veterans philanthropy easy and without fail. You can download the giving form and return it to your HR department (visit Now That’s Entertainment saccenter.org), and don’t forget to encourage your coworkers (LGBT and allies) to do the same! Shara P. Murphy, Executive Director Sac. G&L Center Author Seeks Help for New Book Dear Outword Readers, My name is Gayle Pitman and I am a professor of psychology and women’s studies at Sacramento City College. I am in the process of writing my second book, titled Fringe: On the Edges of the Mainstream Gay Community, which focuses on marginalized groups within the LGBTQ community. Among others, interviews with intersex One of Midtown’s best tickets is to see Cabaret activist Hida Viloria; WPATH President-elect in Midtown, featuring Gayiel Von and pianist Jim Jamison Green; BDSM/altsex researcher Jordan. The show is free and is every Saturday from 7 - 9 p.m. You can also catch Jordan at the Charles Moser; DOB and OLOC founder piano bar on Tuesdays from 7 - 11 p.m. Both are Phyllis Lyon; and fat studies researcher at Head Hunters, located at 20th & K Sts. 6 Outword Magazine September 13, 2012 - September 27, 2012 • Volume 25 • Issue 17 • No. 464 outwordmagazine.com Outword Sac. Rainbow Chamber Receives Excellence Award Staff he Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce was honored for excellence in community impact at the National PUBLISHER Fred Palmer TGay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC)’s 2012 ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION Certify Your Success National Business & Leadership Conference Ron Tackitt held Aug.