No. 503 • April 24, 2014 • outwordmagazine.com Fetish Wear Designer Takes a Stand! page 21 Sacramento Pride LGBT Center Enlists New Elton John, Boy George Festival Turns 30 Development Director & George Michael page 7 page 12 page 19 COLOR The lives we touch inspire us To see Xavier in action, you’d never guess he was born with a rare congenital heart defect that leaves one side of the heart severely underdeveloped. If untreated, a child rarely survives beyond the first hours or days of life. That was Xavier’s path when an air ambulance whisked the newborn to UC Davis Children’s Hospital, where Pediatric Heart Center surgeons performed the first in a complex series of three procedures to reconstruct his tiny heart and increase blood flow to his body. With two surgeries now behind him, the bubbly toddler takes it all in stride – and greets each day with a smile that’s uniquely heartening. Xavier and other children like him inspire the UC Davis team to push the boundaries of health care every day. To learn more about Xavier’s story, and the specialty services offered at this region’s one nationally ranked comprehensive hospital for children, visit children.ucdavis.edu One team. One choice. One UC Davis. THE REGION’S COMPREHENSIVE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN COLOR 1041926_09351 10.8125 x 13 Full Page 4c I’m an art guy, not a numbers guy We can help. Talk to a Wells Fargo banker today. It started with a dream, and now you’re dealing with the day-to-day realities of running a business — one of 1.4 million LGBT businesses in America. That’s why we invite you to come in and have a conversation with a Wells Fargo banker about your priorities and goals. We’ll help evaluate your situation, give you financial guidance, and introduce you to financial products and services that could help keep your business thriving. For ten years running, Wells Fargo has loaned more money to small businesses than any other bank,* and we have a long history of meeting the needs of the LGBT business community. Call 1-800-35-WELLS (1-800-359-3557), click wellsfargo.com/biz, or stop by to start a conversation today. *2002 – 2011 Community Reinvestment Act government data © 2013 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. All rights reserved. Member FDIC. (1041926_09351) COLOR SF Pride Grand Marshals, Pink Brick “Honoree” Selected ith the public vote now counted and verified, SF Pride has While initially a close race, in the end, Scott Lively took the faux honor of the Pink announced that the LGBTQ and ally communities have Brick Award with almost 36 percent of the SacPrideLetters Vendor and Parade Wchosen, overwhelmingly, Jewlyes Gutierrez for their 2014 vote. An extremist anti-gay U.S. pastor, Lively SF Pride Community Grand Marshal. is accused of engineering the Uganda ‘Kill Applications Now Available Garnering 54 percent of the votes cast, the Costa District Attorney’s Office pressed The Gays’ bill. He allegedly said LGBT Hello Potential Vendor- Hercules teen edged out in front of a close assault and battery charges against people are the ‘new Nazis’ and recommended We are very excited to announce that the field of worthy competitors, in the final Gutierrez. Russia’s ‘gay propaganda’ laws. 2014 Sacramento Pride Vendor Applications polling days. Her attackers were suspended from school, The Pink Brick Award is given to a are available! We have updated our At age four Gutierrez identified as female, but not similarly charged. Her case is still recipient who has done great harm to the application process this year, so please read and came out to her family when she was pending. LGBTQ communities. information below: 14-years old. The now 16-year-old Trans March, with 22 percent of the total The 2014 Pride Parade and Celebration Ways to apply: transgender teen allegedly suffered peer public vote, is the 2014 SF Pride will take place on June 28 and 29 with the Online at www.sacramentopride.org/ bullying at school, which was reported to the Organizational Grand Marshal. The San theme, “Color Our World With Pride.” exhibitors.shtml Vice Principal, but still continued for two Francisco Trans March is the City’s largest Information on participating in the parade, years. transgender Pride event and one of the purchasing grandstand or City Hall VIP Party Finally, she fought back. Even though it largest trans events in the entire world. It is tickets, or becoming an exhibitor, sponsor, or was apparent from cell phone captures that always the Friday of Pride weekend and donor may be found at sfpride.org or by she was merely defending herself, the Contra thousands of people attend. calling 415-864-0831. Effort Begun to Reform 2016 GOP Platform on Marriage oung Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry is launching a 2. Mail: download your application at $1 million campaign to reform the national Republican Party www.sacramentopride.org/exhibitors.shtml platform between now and the 2016 GOP convention. or attached Y The group’s aim is to strike existing their families — and more focused on Parade applications are available too, at anti-gay language from the official party unifying all conservatives around our core www.sacramentopride.org/parade.shtml.- platform and replace it with more respectful beliefs of freedom, family and limited Sacramento Pride 2014 will be on and unifying language. government. Saturday June 14. If you have any questions “It’s time to modernize the Republican “The future of the Party is clear on the please feel free to contact me at anytime. Party,” said Tyler Deaton, campaign manager marriage issue — a seismic shift is already Kelli Hannaford Tyler Deaton, campaign manager for the Young for the Young Conservatives for the Freedom underway in support of the freedom to Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry. Details Details Event Management to Marry. “Our aim is to make the national marry.” 916-443-3855 [email protected] GOP platform less divisive toward gay people and A Pew poll earlier this year shows 61 continues on page 22 outwordmagazine.com April 24, 2014 - May 8, 2014 • Volume 27 • Issue 8 • No. 503 Outword Magazine 5 Give a Little, or a Lot, to the Center on Outword BIG Day of Giving Staff tarting at midnight on May 6, the Sacramento LGBT increase the rate of health coverage for Community Center is asking everyone to “give where your LGBT families, improve access to community PUBLISHER resources, provide cultural competency Fred Palmer Sheart is,” as part of the region’s 24-hour BIG Day of Giving training to businesses and organizations, online challenge, organized by the Sacramento Region Community support marginalized populations within our ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION community and host a variety of events, Ron Tackitt Foundation and GiveLocalNow. GRAPHIC DESIGN Sadly, the Sacramento area falls 15 percent Ron Tackitt below the national average for giving, so local nonprofits will participate in the EDITOR/OFFICE challenge with the goal of increasing the MANAGER number of donors and the amount of their Charles Peer [email protected] donations across the region. “We are very excited to be a part of this ARTS EDITOR regional effort and hope to increase our Chris Narloch donor base so that we can ensure a bright future for programs currently offered at the SALES Fred Palmer Center and expand our operations to meet changing community needs,” said Interim CONTRIBUTING Executive Director David Heitstuman. “We WRITERS are so thankful for the hundreds of people Chris Narloch Colt McGraw who have stepped up to give back to the Bonnie Osborn community with donations of time and Ken Pierce money in the past and hope this 24-hour Charles Peer challenge will encourage even more of our PHOTOGRAPHY friends and supporters to invest in their Charles Peer community center.” Board Members and supporters of The Sacramento LGBT Center ask you to be a Big Giver on May As a bonus, every donation made on May 6, the BIG Day of Giving. DISTRIBUTION 6 will be matched by funds from a regional Kaye Crawford table at Fremont Park on May 6 to showcase educational programs and cultural activities. pool of businesses and organizations. thier work to the community and media. “The Sacramento LGBT Community ON THE COVER Additionally, funds raised will be matched by The BIG Day of Giving is an amazing Center needs everyone to mark May 6 on Fetish wear from the Seduction collection. a pool of contributions from Center board opportunity for the Sacramento LGBT their calendar to give where their heart is by Photo by Ronen Zilberman. members. There will also be a variety of Community Center to raise funds that will logging on to SacCenter.org/donate and be a bonus funds challenges the Center will be help support the 25 percent of homeless part of this incredible effort to build a ADVERTISING SALES competing for as part of the Day of Giving youth who are LGBT, reduce new HIV/STD stronger, healthier, more welcoming and safe Northern California and the Center was also selected to have a infections and the stigma attached to HIV, community,” said Heitstuman. (916) 329-9280 Fred Palmer Charles Peer Buzz Haughton Thanked for National Advertising Representative Years of Service and Dedication Rivendell Media (212) 242-6863 to the Lavender Library Board members, both current and past, and volunteers at the Lavender Library Archives and Cultural Exchange gathered on April 5 to bid a fond farewell to Buzz Haughton. After over 13 years of service Buzz is retiring from LLACE to continue his library sciences teaching and to get in more time with his husband Sam Catalano.