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Talk of ‘religious liberty’ “Religious liberty,” which is considered code to mean enabling anti-LGBT discrimination, completely supplants overt anti-gay attacks subsumed any explicit talk by the candidates of opposition to LGBT rights or same-sex marriage during By CHRIS JOHNSON the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference. [email protected] In defense of holding off on confi rming a replacement for the late U.S. Associate Justice Antonin NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — If you need evidence Scalia to the Supreme Court until a new president is that the defense of “religious liberty” has supplanted elected, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said religious liberty overt anti-LGBT rhetoric in the Republican Party, would be in jeopardy if President Obama is allowed TED CRUZ avoided same-sex marriage at CPAC, but instead look no further than remarks from GOP presidential talked about religious liberty. candidates last weekend. CONTINUES ON PAGE 12 WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY

Gay linguist escapes horrors of Iraq, settles in D.C.

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Sham Hasan, a gay former linguist for the U.S. Army, vividly recalls the day he learned the U.S. government had granted him a visa that would allow him to leave Iraq. It was March 25, 2014, when he received a phone call from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Hasan on the same day learned the U.N. Refugee Agency was going to help him leave Iraq. These two phone calls were the culmination of a process that began more than three years earlier. Hasan during an interview with the Washington Blade at a Dupont Circle coff ee shop was quick to praise the International Refugee Assistance Project for helping him navigate the bureaucratic process and lengthy security and background checks that delayed his visa application. “The day that I got the call I literally stopped functioning SHAM HASAN (right) in Iraq when he worked for the U.S. Army as a linguist. PHOTO COURTESY OF HASAN CONTINUES ON PAGE 13

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04 • MARCH 11, 2016 LOCAL NEWS

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Trump Hotel won’t displace D.C. Pride festival

A decision by the D.C. government to keep one lane open on Pennsylvania Avenue, D.C. Police Chief CATHY LANIER said LGBT Liaison Unit affi liate offi cers have been responding to calls for LGBT-related matters during the midnight shift and at other N.W., at all times near the soon-to-be-opened Trump Hotel to allow for hotel valet times. service has prompted the annual Cherry Blossom Festival to move to a new location WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY near the Southwest waterfront. But the president of D.C.’s Capital Pride Festival said the one-lane requirement will not impact that event, which has become the largest single gathering of LGBT people and their supporters in the mid-Atlantic region each June. D.C. Police LGBT unit “This will not be an issue for Capital Pride,” said Bernie Delia, the organization’s ‘greatly diminished’ president. “We occupy the space on Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., from 3rd Street, N.W. to 7th Street, N.W,” he said. “The concern of the Trump Hotel is valet service for the hotel. We are blocks away.” The chair of the D.C. Anti-Violence Project, which formerly was called Gays The Trump Hotel is being built within the historic Old Post Offi ce Building at 12th and and Lesbians Opposing Violence or GLOV, told a City Council hearing on March 2 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. It is scheduled to open in September. that the presence of the police department’s LGBT Liaison Unit has been “greatly The Japan-American Society of Washington, which sponsors the Cherry Blossom diminished” in recent years. street festival, says it decided to move that event because the elimination of one lane D.C. AVP Chair Stephania Mahdi presented the group’s concerns over the would no longer provide enough space for all of its vendors and exhibit booths. current direction of the LGBT Liaison Unit in testimony before a police oversight According to the Washington Post, Cherry Blossom festival organizers decided to hearing conducted by the D.C. Council Committee on the Judiciary. move their event this year, even though it takes place months before the Trump Hotel “In January 2016 the D.C. police department made the problematic decision is scheduled to open. to end the LGBT Liaison Unit’s midnight shift,” Mahdi told the committee. “The Delia said Capital Pride was informed that the section of Pennsylvania Avenue where midnight shift has often been the unit’s busiest time period; higher rates of its street festival and two stages where entertainers perform would include all six lanes violent crime and domestic violence occurs during late-night hours,” she said. — the full width of the street. “The unit has also seen a sharp reduction in its full-time staff ,” she continued. LOU CHIBBARO JR. “Furthermore, liaison offi cers are being tasked to unrelated patrol duties for a majority of their shift. One could deduce that offi cer response time and focus on Trump wins D.C. GOP straw poll LGBT-related calls for service has been greatly diminished,” she said. Added Mahdi in her testimony: “The truth of the matter is the LGBT community does not feel the same level of support from the Liaison Unit that they have Presidential candidate Donald Trump came in fi rst place March 2, in a straw poll received in previous years.” conducted at the D.C. Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Douglas Dinner. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier, who also testifi ed before the committee, said A statement released by the D.C. Republican Committee says Trump received 31 LGBT Liaison Unit affi liate offi cers have been responding to calls for LGBT-related percent of the vote, with GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio coming in second matters during the midnight shift and at other times. The affi liate offi cers are with 28 percent. GOP presidential contender Ted Cruz received 16 percent, John Kasich assigned to each of the department’s seven police districts. received 14 percent and Ben Carson received 5 percent. Lanier also said that the full-time LGBT Liaison Unit offi cers are on call at D.C. GOP Chair Jose Cunningham said in the statement that “hundreds” of D.C. all times and have responded to LGBT-related calls during the midnight shift. Republicans who attended the annual dinner at the Lowes Madison Hotel voted in the During the past year Lanier has said the department was facing a shortage of straw poll. offi cers due to a “retirement bubble” and she has had to reassign offi cers in Cunningham noted that “thousands of D.C. registered Republicans” will have a various specialized units to street patrol duties during part of their daily shifts. chance to vote for the Republican presidential candidate of their choice and how many LGBT activists, including offi cials with the DC AVP, have expressed concerns delegates from D.C. they receive at a March 12 convention also to be held at the Lowes that the LGBT affi liate offi cers may not have received the training needed to Madison. enable them to carry out liaison unit duties. Activists have said the department Republicans participating in the convention will also vote to select who the city’s 16 may also have cut back on the number of offi cers taking a longstanding LGBT delegates and 16 alternate delegates will be who will attend the Republican National cultural competency course. Convention in July. “The department’s support of a robust dedicated liaison unit, carefully vetted At least seven gay candidates who are members of the local D.C. Log Cabin Republicans and trained liaison offi cers, support of the LGBT cultural competency course, group are among 160 candidates competing for the delegate and alternate positions. and fi nally the restoration of the LGBT Liaison Unit’s midnight shift” are actions “You see a similar race developing in the District that we’ve witnessed in virtually all the department should take in the coming months, Mahdi said. the states so far,” Cunningham said in referring to the D.C. 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06 • MARCH 11, 2016 LOCAL NEWS Baltimore mayoral candidates talk LGBT issues

Emotional forum tackles questions, the candidates explained Mosby responded to Patterson’s other matters relating to governance, question by pointing out the issue is HIV, homelessness such as the need for new leadership for preventable and treatable. “We must take opportunity, education and the ills of the trajectory of young African-American By STEVE CHARING crime and poverty men seriously,” he said. Each candidate off ered their personal Harris added that there was $6 More than 100 members of the commitment to LGBT equality with million being held up by the city’s Health Baltimore’s LGBT community and allies some more familiar with the issues than Department earmarked for the Ryan attended an emotional mayoral forum others. Stokes said he has a long history White program, which recently had to fold hosted by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual with LGBT rights. “I am not a friend of due to lack of funding. He also said that and Transgender Community Center of the community but am a part of the sexual orientation and gender identity Baltimore and Central Maryland (GLCCB) community,” he said. ought to be taught in schools as part of on March 8. The event, which took place Sen. Pugh cited several legislative the sex education curriculum. at the University of Baltimore’s H. Mebane initiatives she led, including group life The candidates fi elded questions from Turner Learning Commons, featured a insurance policies for domestic partners the audience on a variety of matters. dozen mayoral candidates out of the and co-sponsoring the Religious Freedom Longtime activist Monica Yorkman, a 29 vying for the offi ce held by outgoing and Civil Rights Protection Act. trans woman, emotionally described Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Walsh said she has fought for equal being fearful of police because of her Democratic candidates who protection for many years. “We have experiences of being harassed by police participated included: Elizabeth Embry, gay rights but not equal protection,” she and how she, as a homeless person, had chief of the Maryland Attorney General’s explained. been afraid to go to a homeless shelter Offi ce criminal division; Patrick Gutierrez, On the other hand, both Caminiti and even more so now as a 62-year-old former operations manager; DeRay CATHERINE PUGH (standing) addresses the Murray indicated that while they support transgender person of color. Mckesson, a gay civil rights activist; crowd at Tuesday’s forum. full equality for all, they admit to not Many candidates decried lack of Council member Nick Mosby; State Sen. WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY STEVE CHARING having much experience with LGBT issues. management and accountability in the Catherine Pugh; Council member Carl The forum was interrupted by activist current city government. “This city is Stokes; academic researcher Cindy Walsh; The candidates, following opening Akil Patterson who questioned why none corrupt,” Stokes said. When asked what and engineer Calvin Allen Young III. statements, fi elded pre-determined of the candidates have addressed the issue left behind by the current mayor Former Mayor Shelia Dixon, a Democrat questions regarding their records on HIV/AIDS crisis among young black gay that she would like to tackle, Embry and who is perceived as the frontrunner, advancing LGBT rights, what they would and bisexual men. Lynda Dee, founder pointed to “so little accountability.” did not attend. do to stop police profi ling and violence of AIDS Action Baltimore criticized the Jabari Lyles, president of the GLCCB Other participants who will compete in against LGBT people, particularly current and past administrations for not was pleased with the forum. the general election only include: Green transgender people of color, what overtly publicizing HIV/AIDS in Baltimore “The candidates provided enough Party candidate and activist Joshua Harris they would do to support homeless and demanded that each candidate insight to their platform to where our as well as unaffi liated candidates dispute LGBT youth, and what they would pledge to use a public information community can make an informed resolution manager Nicholas Caminiti, do to ensure equal education and campaign to call attention to HIV/AIDS. decision at election time,” Lyles told the state employee LaVern Murray and employment opportunities for LGBT Another audience member, Kinji Scott, Blade. “We have 29 candidates running activist Andre Powell. people, particularly youth, seniors and who is running for City Council, said, “We for mayor. Only one will win but based on None of the fi ve Republican candidates transgender people of color. have to do something about HIV in the tonight, we should have 28 leaders that attended. In addition to responding to those African-American community.” can still be held accountable.” Gay man seeks Delaware House seat

Daigle would be interview as he discussed his campaign. “I Chase, was a member of the Newark Arts May at the age of 46. am extremely passionate about building Alliance board of directors. He stepped “His passing was extremely tragic,” said fi rst out gay to join community.” down as president of the Barbara Gittings Daigle. “It was hard for everyone in the chamber if elected The 7th Representative District includes Delaware Stonewall Democrats last month community and it was equally hard for Claymont, Arden and portions of North in order to run for the state House. us. It’s a huge loss for Delaware not only Wilmington. Daigle and his husband, Dan Cole, are because he was a great advocate and a By MICHAEL K. LAVERS Daigle, 27, will face former state Rep. the fi rst same-sex couple who had not leader, but he was such a genuine guy.” [email protected] David Brady and Ashbourne Hills Civic previously entered into a civil union to Daigle on Tuesday also discussed the Association President Robert Cameron legally marry in the state. Then-Delaware presidential campaign. A gay man has announced his in the Democratic primary on Sept. 13. Attorney General Beau Biden was among “Our national attention on candidacy for the Delaware House of The three men are hoping to succeed those who spoke at their wedding that sensationalism is scary,” he told the Blade. Representatives. state Rep. Bryon Short (D-Newark), who is took place on July 1, 2013, the day the “It’s very scary that we continue to reduce Joe Daigle fi led his campaign paperwork running for Congress. state’s same-sex marriage law took eff ect. politics, leadership and community on Feb. 11. The North Wilmington resident Daigle would be the fi rst openly LGBT “This was one of the most exciting to buzzwords and staring down other who hopes to represent Delaware’s 7th person elected to the Delaware House if moments of my life,” Daigle told the Blade groups of people.” Representative District offi cially kicked off he were to win in November. State Sen. shortly after he and Cole exchanged vows Daigle said he is “still personally thinking his campaign on March 1. Karen Peterson (D-Stanton) came out in in the Marian Cruger Coffi n Gardens at about” whether to endorse former “It started like a lot of things from 2013 as she spoke in support of a same- the Gibraltar Mansion in Wilmington. “I Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or U.S. a personal place, from a point of self- sex marriage bill before it passed in the am so happy to be married to Dan.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president. refl ection,” Daigle told the Washington Delaware Senate. Biden, who was the son of Vice “I’ve been a fan of both Bernie and Blade on Tuesday during a telephone Daigle, who currently works for JPMorgan President Biden, died of brain cancer last Hillary for years,” Daigle told the Blade. WASHINGTONBLADE.COM MARCH 11, 2016 • 07

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08 • MARCH 11, 2016 NATIONAL NEWS De Blasio issues bathroom exec order Missouri Senate approves NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on March 7 issued an executive order ‘religious freedom’ measure that requires city agencies to allow their employees and members of the public to Anti-gay resolution use restrooms consistent with their gender identity. survives 39-hour fi libuster “Today’s order makes it clear that New York City fully supports the right of every New By CHRIS JOHNSON Yorker to use the single-sex facility consistent [email protected] with their gender identity,” said de Blasio in a press release. “New York City is the birthplace After a 39-hour fi libuster from Missouri of the fi ght for LGBT rights, and we continue Democrats attempting to thwart a to lead in that fi ght so every New Yorker can religious freedom resolution seen to ‘New York City fully supports the live with dignity.” right of every New Yorker to use enable anti-LGBT discrimination, the The press release notes the New York the single-sex facility consistent state Senate approved the measure early City Commission on Human Rights recently with their gender identity,’ said Wednesday by a 21-11 vote. New York Mayor BILL DE BLASIO. announced that employers, housing providers The measure, Senate Joint Resolution PHOTO BY KEVIN CASE; COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA or those who provide public accommodations 39, now heads to the Missouri House, can face prosecution under the city’s Human where majority approval in that chamber Rights Law if they deny someone access to a restroom based on their gender would send the initiative to ballot for identity. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order that eff ectively prohibits anti- voters to ratify on Election Day. trans discrimination in New York State took eff ect in January. The resolution, sponsored by State Missouri Gov. JAY NIXON opposes the anti- Gay New York City Council members Corey Johnson and Rosie Mendez are Sen. Bob Onder, is a religious freedom gay measure. among those who attended the ceremony during which de Blasio signed his order. measure seen to enable anti-LGBT PHOTO BY BERNARD POLLACK; COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA discrimination in Missouri following NGLCC partners with Major League Baseball the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor salute the senators who courageously of same-sex marriage nationwide. It fi libustered this hateful bill for a record- would allow religious organizations and breaking 39 hours, and were willing to NEW YORK — Major League Baseball announced a fi rst-of-its-kind partnership individuals to deny services to same-sex keep standing, even as the numbers were with the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce that is designed to couples out of religious objections. against them. The country is watching and help certifi ed businesses become its offi cial suppliers. Steph Perkins, executive director of the we will continue to fi ght until we’ve landed NGLCC President Justin Nelson discussed the partnership in an exclusive Missouri statewide LGBT group PROMO, on the right side of history.” interview with Fortune. was among those who decried passage of The law has four parts aimed at allowing “We take great pride in the fact that this not only puts us closer to Major the measure in the Senate. religious people and organizations to deny League Baseball and the ability to bring innovative suppliers to their operation, “We agree that religion is a fundamental wedding services to same-sex couples. but also that we get to work with incredible advocates and athletes like Billy right, which is why it is protected in the • It prohibits the state from imposing Bean,” said Nelson. First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution a penalty on a religious organization Bean told Fortune the partnership “allows our community to get more and in our existing Human Rights Act,” that acts in accordance with a sincere coverage and exposure on the programs that [business owners are] working Perkins said. “We are not arguing that religious belief concerning same-sex very, very hard to expand.” clergy and churches should be denied marriage, which includes the refusal to Fortune reported the partnership will be formally announced this week at their freedom of religion. But those perform a same-sex marriage ceremony MLB’s business diversity summit in Phoenix. same religious beliefs cannot be used or allowing a same sex wedding ceremony News of the partnership comes days after NGLCC offi cially launched its latest as a reason to deny someone the same to be performed on the religious international affi liate in the Dominican Republic. services that are off ered to the rest of organization’s property. (A religious the public by private businesses. And organization under the resolution is NFL prospect asked about sexual orientation that is exactly what SJR 39 aims to do. construed broadly to include religious Businesses and organizations have societies, corporations, schools, social already been rightly concerned about service providers and hospitals.) • It bars ATLANTA — A former member of the Ohio State football team last week said the consequences of this bill and are the state from penalizing an individual a coach with the Atlanta Falcons asked him whether he is gay. outspoken in their opposition.” who declines, due to sincere religious “The Falcons coach, one of the coaches, was like, ‘So do you like men?’” said Eli The lawmakers leading the fi libuster beliefs, to provide goods of expressional Apple on March 4 during an interview with Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia. “It eff ort were State Senate Minority Leader or artistic creation for a same-sex was like the fi rst thing he asked me. It was weird. I was just like, ‘no.’ He was like, Joseph Keaveny, State Sen. Jamilah wedding ceremony. • It explicitly doesn’t ‘if you’re going to come to Atlanta, sometimes that’s how it is around here, you’re Nasheed, State Sen. Jill Schupp and State prevent the state from providing lawful going to have to get used to it.’” Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal. marriage licenses or other marital “I guess he was joking but they just ask most of these questions to see how The 39-hour fi libuster of the measure benefi ts. Under the resolution, hospitals you’re going to react,” added Apple. started Monday shortly after 4 p.m. couldn’t refuse to treat a marriage as Apple said the coach — who he did not identify — asked the question during Central Time. According to media outlets, valid for the purposes of a spouse’s a meeting at the National Football League’s combine. Republicans used a rare procedural move right to visitation or to make health care The Associated Press reported that Marquand Manuel, a secondary coach for to shut down debate and force a vote on decisions. • It allows individuals protected the team, is the one who asked Apple the question. the measure. under this resolution to use the law as Falcons head c oach Dan Quinn in a statement said he was “really disappointed.” Jeff rey Mittman, executive director of a claim or defense in a legal proceeding “I have spoken to the coach that interviewed Eli Apple and explained to him ACLU of Missouri, expressed indignation regardless of whether the state is a party how inappropriate and unprofessional this was,” said Quinn, according to over the Missouri Senate’s approval of the in the dispute. Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia. “I have reiterated this to the entire coaching measure, saying Republicans used a “rare The resolution explicitly prohibits the staff and I want to apologize to Eli for this even coming up. This is not what the procedural move” to shut down debate. state from forcing clergy to offi ciate same- Atlanta Falcons are about and it is not how we are going to conduct ourselves.” “Discrimination has no place in our state sex marriages, but they’re already allowed and we are resolved to continue to fi ght to opt out of such ceremonies under the this bill in the House,” Mittman said. “We First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. WASHINGTONBLADE.COM MARCH 11, 2016 • 09

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10 • MARCH 11, 2016 NATIONAL NEWS Trudeau commits to marching in Pride parade Will Obama follow his lead? either during his presidency or during beliefs to join us as we celebrate the his previous roles as a U.S. senator or a many successes of the community and as state senator in Illinois. If Obama were to we prepare to undertake the work that is By CHRIS JOHNSON march in a Pride parade, he would be the not yet accomplished.” [email protected] fi rst sitting U.S. president to do so. Delia added that Obama’s schedule Obama and fi rst lady Michelle Obama and security requirements are two Canadian Prime Minister Justin are scheduled on Thursday to welcome issues that have likely prevented him Trudeau won some new LGBT fans Trudeau and his wife Gregoire Trudeau to from participating in Capital Pride. following his recent pledge to march in the White House for an offi cial visit with a Brett Hayhoe, co-president of the an upcoming Pride parade — something state dinner. Australia-based international Pride President Obama hasn’t committed to Last month, Trudeau announced he organization InterPride, said he welcomes doing, despite his strong support for would take part in the Toronto Pride Trudeau’s decision to march in Toronto LGBT rights. Parade, which is set to take place on July 3. Pride and would support a similar gesture Ahead of Trudeau’s state visit to Marching in the event will make Trudeau from Obama. Washington this week, the Washington the fi rst Canadian prime minister to “Throughout the entire time President Canadian Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU Blade asked during the White House said he would march in the Toronto Pride march in a Pride parade. Obama has been in offi ce, he has constantly news briefi ng if Obama would be open parade later this year. Bernie Delia, board president of the shown support for our community, during his fi nal year in offi ce to marching PHOTO BY ALEX GUIBORD; COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA Capital Pride Alliance, said he’d welcome including publicly declaring June each year in a Pride parade, such as the upcoming Obama’s participation in either the parade Pride Month and having a leading hand in Capital Pride parade in June in D.C.. during his eight years in offi ce, Earnest or festival for D.C.’s Capital Pride in June. signifi cant legislative change to remove White House Press Secretary Josh replied, “Probably as president, but not “The president and his administration discriminatory government policy against Earnest was non-committal in his the fi rst time that has done that.” have been strong supporters of equality the LGBTI community,” Hayhoe said. response: “I have not heard of a “I don’t have any scheduling updates for for members of the LGBT community, “Given this sincere support for all citizens presidential commitment like that. My you at this point, but if this is something and he and Vice President Biden have of the USA, his participation at a Pride guess is it would not be the fi rst time that the president chooses to do, we’ll matched their words with deeds and march or parade would be extremely he’s marched in a Pride parade.” defi nitely let you know,” Earnest said. actions on a number of fronts, including welcomed by the Pride community. It When the Blade interjected by saying The Blade is unaware of any time marriage equality,” Delia said. “We would indeed be a fi tting gesture in his Obama hasn’t marched in a parade Obama has marched in a Pride parade welcome all people who share our core fi nal year of tenure.”

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12 • MARCH 11, 2016 NATIONAL NEWS GOP dropping marriage attacks in favor of ‘religious freedom’

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 01 The candidate didn’t say anything liberty as the general election approaches But in the end, support for religious liberty about LGBT rights, but his words echo the refl ects that the electorate at large would as these candidates articulate it also seeks to to appoint the successor. defense uttered by Barronelle Stutzman, likely be unreceptive to candidates undermine LGBT rights. Nearly 200 anti-LGBT “We are one liberal justice away a fl orist in Washington State penalized that oppose LGBT rights. Although a bills have been introduced in state legislatures from the Supreme Court ruling that under the state’s civil rights law for Reuters/Ipsos poll after the Supreme throughout the country, many of which seek government can take our religious liberty denying fl owers for a same-sex couple’s Court ruling on same-sex marriage in to compromise LGBT rights in the name of away and force every one of us to violate wedding; Oregon bakers Aaron and 2015 found 63 percent of Republicans are “religious liberty.” Just this week, Democrats our faith on penalty of prison or fi ne,” Melissa Klein, who were fi ned $135,000 opposed to the ruling, a slim majority of in the Missouri Legislature fi libustered a Cruz said. after they turned away a lesbian couple 51 percent of Americans as a whole said state constitutional amendment that would Not explicitly mentioned by Cruz was his seeking a wedding cake; and Masterpiece they support marriage equality. allow religious organizations and individuals opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling Bakeshop in Colorado, which was found The language of the candidates is to deny services to same-sex couples on in favor of same-sex marriage, a decision to have violated the state civil rights law consistent with the 2012 autopsy report religious grounds. in which Scalia dissented. The candidate by denying a cake to a gay couple. from the Republican National Committee, Jimmy LaSalvia, a gay independent raising fears of penalty or jail time sounds Donald Trump ended up skipping CPAC which concluded opposition to gay who bolted the Republican Party, said like the fi ve-day imprisonment of Rowan to appear at campaign events ahead of the people would be a turnoff to voters who the reality is debate on marriage equality County Clerk Kim Davis for enforcing a “Super Saturday” contests. However, during consider support for LGBT rights a “gateway” is over, but the party base is “living in “no licenses” policy in her Kentucky offi ce a news conference after his victory speech, issue in selecting a presidential candidate. the past, so the language has turned to after the ruling. the candidate declined to answer a question “For the GOP to appeal to younger religious liberty.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) hit on the on his opposition to same-sex marriage, voters, we do not have to agree on “For most of America the debate about importance of religious liberty during his ordering the reporter who made the every issue, but we do need to make marriage has moved beyond right versus speech before CPAC when talking about inquiry to “sit down.” Although Trump didn’t sure young people do not see the party left to right versus wrong,” LaSalvia said. the importance of faith in American life. mention religious liberty, he didn’t utter the as totally intolerant of alternative points “The candidates talking about religious “To move forward in a better direction, word marriage in his response. of view,” the report says. “Already, there liberty are just affi rming their voters’ right to it does mean re-embracing and following “I’ve made it very strong; we have policy is a generational diff erence within the be wrong. Of course, if all you do is defend the First Amendment, for what that on it,” Trump said. “I’ve said it very, very conservative movement about issues others’ right to be wrong, then you remind stands for is not just the right to believe strongly. And I think you know it. And it’s all involving the treatment and the rights voters that you’re wrong too, so pretending anything you want, but the right to live done. How many times do I have to say it?” of gays — and for many younger voters, not to talk about marriage in favor of talking out the teachings in every single aspect The shift away from talking about these issues are a gateway into whether about religious liberty still reminds voters your life,” Rubio said. same-sex marriage in favor of religious the party is a place they want to be.” that the candidates are wrong on marriage.”

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NEWS MARCH 11, 2016 • 13 From Iraq to Nellie’s: gay linguist recounts journey

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 01 Midwestern family, blond, blue eyes, very white, beautiful car, the lawn is mowed as a human being,” he said. “I never, ever really well,” said Hasan. “It was like I was thought that I would leave Iraq after a living in a movie that I used to watch on three-and-a-half-year battle with the U.S. TV when I was back home with my family.” government to get my visa.” Hasan told the Blade he woke up the Hasan told the Blade that he clenched the next morning and saw a deer and a rabbit package in which his passport and visa were in front of his host family’s home. held as he left the embassy, noting he was “I was like ‘ohmigod, if that was in Iraq, “so scared to get hurt or go near a suicide people would have killed them,’” he said. bomber that might explode at any minute.” Hasan while in Indiana had a second He soon left Baghdad and returned to his surgery on his injured knee. He then “safer harbor” in Iraqi Kurdistan. decided that he wanted to move to a Hasan on May 11, 2014, fl ew from the larger city. Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah to the “That really broke their hearts, but I never Jordanian capital of Amman. He traveled told them that I am gay,” said Hasan. “I was from there to Chicago the next day. really concerned about my homosexuality “I was in a state of mind where I couldn’t SHAM HASAN (right) with his partner, DAVID MANUEL, and their cats Babel and Ishtar. and did not really want to ruin that.” process that I was in America,” Hasan PHOTO COURTESY OF HASAN “When I arrived in America I still had told the Blade, recalling the moment he my Middle East mindset, like how people arrived in the U.S. “I was like crazy. I was Hasan said he provided “linguistic to America. I already lost my life back view me as a homosexual. It didn’t matter like someone who really lost his mind. services” for two months, but quickly in Baghdad because of my uncle and if I was in America, I was still in that type I couldn’t think of anything else. I was became unhappy because of the security because the group who kidnapped me. of mentality.” thinking about my freedom.” restrictions. They were pretty much sure that I was Hasan eventually came out to his host Hasan, 29, was born and raised in “I was literally in an offi ce that was gay and they beat the hell out of me.” family. Baghdad. His parents are Kurdish, but they surrounded by two walls,” he said. “It was really impossible to live in Iraq “They texted me back, they said Sham too were born and raised in the Iraqi capital. Hasan decided to transfer to a large after being gay and right now I’m being we love you no matter who you are,” he Hasan had just completed his second U.S. military base in the city of Basra in viewed as an infi del,” he said. told the Blade. “That was such a huge year at Al-Mustansiriya University’s southern Iraq. It was there that he told He told the Blade that the offi cers relief to me.” College of Arts in Baghdad in 2006 when the Blade he met “the real Sham,” who with whom he worked wrote letters of With his host family’s support, Hasan members of the Madhi Army, a Shiite was a medic. recommendation in support of his visa moved to D.C. in September 2014 after a militia group known as Jaysh al-Mahdi in “He was like, ‘Sham, you speak very application. In the meantime, Hasan was former sergeant with whom he had worked Arabic, kidnapped him and his uncle. good English and the U.S. Army needs working with their Iraqi counterparts. in Iraq and his roommates “off ered him a Hasan told the Blade that the militants your services more than here,’” Hasan “They were trying to enforce a good couch” in their home. He told the Blade killed his uncle — a member of a Kurdish told the Blade, recalling the conversation relationship between the base and the that his fi rst gay experience came shortly political party they accused of working he had with his chosen namesake. “‘Being neighboring villages around the area,” he afterwards when he visited Nellie’s. with U.S. forces to obtain information here with this company is doing nothing said. “We used to get shot at with mortars “I was so overwhelmed,” said Hasan. “I about insurgents. and we really need you.’” every single day. They were losing lives.” just wanted to sleep with everyone. I mean He said the militants forced him to “So he was like, ‘Why don’t you try to Hasan said the offi cers with whom imagine coming from Iraq as a gay person, confess his homosexuality “as a sin.” fi nd a way to join the Army as a linguist,’” he worked began going out on patrols how would you react. I was like, ‘ohmigod I Hasan told the Blade he was released he added. a few months later to look for bombs am in a room that is full of gays.’” nearly 10 hours after they kidnapped him. Hasan said he approached a company and rockets and to speak with local Hasan began working with Dog Tag “I was on the list to be killed,” Hasan that hired Iraqis to work as linguists with residents. He told the Blade that a man Bakery, a Georgetown business that told the Blade. “They wanted to get the U.S. Army. He passed the test and the at a checkpoint walked out of his car, supports veterans. information out of me because of my company hired him. approached him and spit in his face. Hasan last March met PFLAG Director uncle’s affi liation.” “They asked me what name I would “He called me a traitor,” said Hasan. of Operations David Manuel. The two Hasan said that his uncle’s wife a few like to choose to keep my identity safe in “He’s like, ‘You’re an asshole. Why do you now live together with their two cats, days later received a phone call from Iraq,” Hasan told the Blade. “I chose Sham work for them? Why do you facilitate their Babylon and Ishtar, who are named in someone who “made her listen” to verses because Sham inspired me.” mission?’” honor of Hasan’s homeland. of the Quran that indicate a person has Hasan three days later arrived at Imam “By then I realized there was no way I “I never, ever thought that I would leave died. He told the Blade his uncle’s body Ali Air Base near the predominantly Shiite could stay in Iraq,” he said. Iraq,” Hasan told the Blade as he discussed has never been found, but his family city of Nasariyah. Hasan arrived in South Bend, Ind., his relationship. “I thought about death suspects the militants beheaded him. shortly after his arrival in the U.S. in 2014. more than I thought about life.” “He’s still missing,” said Hasan. ‘Impossible to live in Iraq’ He told the Blade that he knew people Hasan said he and his entire family fl ed in D.C., but didn’t want to make the Anti-immigrant to Kurdistan after the kidnapping. resettlement process more complicated. He told the Blade that he didn’t return Hasan was working with U.S. military “I was like, ‘Please just get me out of rhetoric ‘shameful’ to school for a year because he was offi cials who were supervising the Iraqi Iraq and I will be fi ne there,’” said Hasan. traumatized. Hasan said he was also army. He said he found out about a “They told me that I’m going to South Hasan spoke with the Blade two days recovering from shrapnel-related injuries program in 2010 that off ers immigrant Bend, Ind. I had no idea what South Bend before a suicide bombing at a security to his right knee that he suff ered when visas to Iraqi and Afghan linguists and is, what Indiana is.” checkpoint in the city of Hillah for which the militants threw a grenade at him. translators who worked with the U.S. Hasan said the resettlement agency the so-called Islamic State claimed “I was literally sick,” he said. “I was living military in their respective countries. was not “ready to have me” when he responsibility killed more than 40 people. on medication.” “They were telling me about this arrived in Indiana. He told the Blade that The interview also took place against the Hasan eventually re-enrolled in college. special visa program for those who an employee of a local church agreed to backdrop of anti-immigrant rhetoric that He graduated and began working for an provide faithful services and risk their allow him to live with him and his family Republican presidential candidates have American company that was providing lives to work with the U.S. Army and the for four months. used on the campaign trail. security to the U.S. Embassy inside U.S. government,” Hasan told the Blade. “Imagine I arrive there and here is this Baghdad’s Green Zone. “I was like, alright it doesn’t hurt to go typical American image in my head: A WASHINGTONBLADE.COM In MeMorIaM 14 • MARCH 11, 2016 BALTIMORE NEWS Ronald Edwin ShElton Ronald Edwin Shelton (70) passed away on February 19, 2016 following complications from lung cancer. At his death he was Advocates push for parentage rights in Md. comforted and surrounded by his partner of eight years and friends who will all miss the charm, happiness, and fun that Ron brought to everyone who knew him. FreeState Legal/Equality Maryland, a Baltimore-based statewide civil rights organization, announced on Feb. 29 that it had fi led seven friend-of-the- Ron had a long career in finance and banking in Washington, court briefs (also known as “amicus” briefs) in the Maryland Court of Appeals DC having held positions at the United Virginia Bank, Riggs last Thursday that will determine whether Maryland will provide equal legal National Bank, and the Adams National Bank. He retired as recognition to families headed by same-sex couples. The initiative was joined by Manager of Collections from the World Bank-IMF Staff Credit a diverse array of more than 45 organizations and legal scholars in support of Union in 2013 after more than 23 years with that institution. FreeState Legal/Equality Maryland’s appeal on behalf of Michael Conover in the case, Conover v. Conover. Ron was well-known for his love of film, music, opera, dance FreeState Legal/Equality Maryland represents Conover, a transgender man and theater. As a boy in his home town of Templeville, who, before his gender transition, had a child with his same-sex partner, Maryland, he would create theaters out of cardboard, prepare Brittany. At the time that their son was conceived by artifi cial insemination of coming attractions on the billboards and prepare sets for his Brittany, Maryland did not recognize marriage equality for same-sex couples. theatrical creations. Through sheer determination, he made his cardboard dreams a reality when he The court will hear arguments in the case on April 5 in Annapolis. More grew up and moved to Washington, DC in the early 70’s. information about the case, including copies of the seven amicus briefs and other As a close friend of the Washington Post Theater Critic, the late Richard L. Coe and his wife, Christine, legal fi lings in the case, is available at freestatelegal.org/conover-v-conover/. Ron attended theater tryouts and opening nights in most of the theaters along the Eastern Seaboard. STEVE CHARING He was known by theater critics, performers, publicists, and producers as well as the bartenders near the theaters! A “Gin Martini” or an “Old Fashion” and a Playbill were all he needed for a great evening at the theater, preferably third row center in the orchestra, on the aisle. EEOC sues Md. company for discrimination

Eventually, according to him, he saw more Shakespeare plays than were produced at the Globe Theater, attended more opening nights than some theater critics, and met more theater personalities The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission fi led a lawsuit in federal court than he ever imagined possible as a young boy. Ron loved to describe his lunches with Helen Hayes, in Baltimore on March 1 against Maryland-based Pallet Companies on behalf of drinks with Rock Hudson, discussions about Vivien Leigh with Sir Laurence Olivier, sitting at the feet Yolanda Boone who alleged discrimination based on sexual orientation. Pallet of Sophia Loren at a cocktail party, gossiping with Christopher Plummer, discovering that Eva Marie operates as IFCO Systems North America. Saint was a charming dinner companion, realizing that Carol Channing’s husband started every one The suit accuses the company of discriminating against Yolanda Boone, a of her standing ovations and imitating Ms. Channing’s “spontaneous curtain call dialogue” which lesbian whose sexual orientation is known to her co-workers, “by subjecting her he learned from seeing her in more than a dozen of performances of “Hello Dolly.” He shared his to harassment” resulting in her being fi red, and by retaliating against Boone stories and gossip as well as his enthusiasm for the theater with everyone. He was responsible for when she complained about the harassment. many of us becoming theater lovers. How could we not, as he made it so much fun! According to the lawsuit, Boone began working on the night shift three months after beginning her employment at IFCO in 2014. Her manager, Charles Ron’s love of theater extended to his own life. While he never performed on stage, he was in the Lowery, who knew about her sexual orientation, began harassing Boone with truest sense of the word “an entertainer.” He loved to make people laugh, saying it was his destiny such comments as, “I want to turn you back into a woman,” and “You would since his Mother picked his middle name, Edwin, after her favorite entertainer Ed Wynn! look good in a dress,” the lawsuit contends. He also quoted biblical passages Part of Ron’s charm was that he knew how to make people feel special. At the Banana Café’s lounge stating that a man should be with a woman, not a woman with a woman and he noticed that the pianist’s 80 year old Polish grandmother, who spoke no English, was sitting in a also allegedly held his crotch while staring at Boone, according to the lawsuit. corner obviously bored. Ron said, “I’m going to ask her to dance.” Friends thought he was crazy but The EEOC seeks injunctive relief to prohibit IFCO from engaging in unlawful within minutes, the two of them were dancing around the floor—he was waltzing and she appeared sex discrimination in the future, as well as back pay, compensatory damages to be doing a polka but with a huge smile on her face. Ron made her evening and everyone else’s and punitive damages for Boone. as well just by seeing the effect he had on her. Of course, when the song ended, she didn’t sit down, STEVE CHARING but wanted to keep dancing. It was hilarious to watch Ron try to communicate in sign language that he needed to go to the bathroom. She relented and returned to her seat but continued smiling at him the entire evening. Town hall assesses past, points to future Ron was, indeed, a magical person and a wonderful friend. He often quoted lines of poetry by Wordsworth, which he knew as dialogue that Natalie Wood spoke to Warren Beaty in the movie, Thirty community members attended a town hall meeting on March 2 held by “Splendor in the Grass.” They seem particularly appropriate now: the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland (GLCCB). The meeting focused on the GLCCB’s response to the Though nothing can bring back the hour issues raised by the community at last November’s town hall, updates on plans Of splendour in the grass; of glory in the flower; for Baltimore Pride, changes at the Center, and upcoming events. We will grieve not, rather find The updates included steps to expand diversity in staff and on the board; Strength in what remains behind building community trust; the search for a new building to house the GLCCB’s expanding calendar of programs; and amendments to the bylaws to abolish the Ron has left us with many wonderful and sweet memories, as well as people loved and lives touched position of executive director in favor of direct management of center staff by the by his kind spirit. No one can do more in a life well lived. Now we must find the strength to accept board president and executive committee. In addition, plans were announced to what he has left behind. reinstitute voting membership in the GLCCB that had existed during more than two and a half decades from the center’s founding to encourage community Ron is survived by a loving partner and his sister, Doris Brittingham (Robert), of Smyrna, Delaware as investment in the center. well as many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. Pride updates included the appointment of a faith coordinator for Pride, who serves as a liaison to the local LGBT-supportive faith community; raising funds A memorial service is planned for Saturday, March 12th, at Faries Funeral Home, 29 South Main to pay outstanding debts from last year as well as this year’s festival permit; Street, Smyrna, Delaware with visitation at 1:00 p.m. to be followed by a funeral service at 2:00 pm. and the Pride 2016 budget. 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NEWS REPORTER identifying how this change came about. O’Connor. Again: they lied, they were powerful Jamaica. And let’s celebrate the tactic of boy- LOU CHIBBARO JR. But this lockstep “moving forward” is like and they got away with it. cott that prevented elected offi cials and multi- [email protected] ext. 8079 reconciliation without the truth part. It erases • Mayor Giuliani on the city’s website cel- national corporations from continuing the NEWS REPORTER CHRIS JOHNSON history. It erases the power of people to create ebrating the arrest of those trying to protest fi nancial support of the Fifth Avenue parade. [email protected] ext. 8083 change collectively. It diminishes the history of our exclusion (hours before the parade) as a Some of the many Irish values I cherish are REPORTER & INTERNATIONAL NEWS EDITOR the courage and grit of people that push back, quality of life achievement. to be contrary, to stand up for what is right, MICHAEL K. LAVERS stand up and speak out. 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VIEWPOINT MARCH 11, 2016 • 19 Tracy Morgan’s transphobic Oscar spoof

Off ensive portrayal shows Calling out off ensive humor may be the bathroom facilities. Last week, a law for- off ending. But it’s harder. As long as it’s how far we still have to go hardest line activists walk. Nobody wants bidding transgender students from us- acceptable to draw easy laughs by put- to be accused of inability to take a joke, ing correct restrooms narrowly missed ting a man onscreen in drag, writers will By SUZI CHASE or worse, political correctness. Morgan’s enactment in South Dakota. And in North see no incentive to accept the challenge skit had a social justice message of its Carolina, calls mount for a special legisla- of creating humor that doesn’t rely on de- Among the controversies surrounding own, compounding that problem. He’s tive session to reverse Charlotte’s recent grading images. last week’s Oscars, debate raged about lampooning the plight of minority actors, anti-discrimination ordinance, yes, over The saddest takeaway from the reac- a skit in which comedian Tracy Morgan long relegated to stereotypical roles. It’s the possibility of trans women using la- tion to Morgan’s “Danish Girl” sketch is spoofed Eddie Redmayne’s performance an important issue, deserving of seri- dies’ restrooms. that it still is acceptable to denigrate the as a pioneering transgender woman in ous redress. Even pointing out the skit’s Media must counter, not compound image of transgender people in the name “The Danish Girl.” Morgan is pictured shortcomings feels like participating in decades of unfavorable portrayals. These of humor. That Morgan and ABC were not wearing delicate feminine garments, the oppression. portrayals matter. When voters and legis- concerned whether it off ended us under- stroking his smooth skin while waxing But it does have shortcomings. lators support draconian bathroom rules scores how far we still have to go before ecstatic in a feminine voice about eating Morgan’s transgender portrayal rein- or reject civil rights protections, they rely we command the respect and deference a Danish pastry and starring in his fi rst forces and amplifi es three of the most on internalized images of transgender given to other marginalized groups. dramatic role. pernicious prejudices held about us. His people. Does their mind’s eye show com- True, the general audience has no Most reaction has been positive. USA self-caresses portray transness as fetish- petent professionals like accomplished problem with it. But the prerogative to Today’s Erin Jensen declared it to be “our istic, an out-of-control sexual urge, rather author Jennifer Finney Boylan, computer determine whether a given portrayal is favorite.” TMZ called it a “brilliant skit” than the need to express a gender iden- chip pioneer Lynn Conway, or technol- off ensive to trans people rests with us and according to Landon Haaf at our local tity. The man-in-a-dress image visually ogy visionary Martine Rothblatt? Or do and only us. Cisgender performers, writ- ABC affi liate WUSA channel 9, it deserves categorizes trans women as male. And his they visualize Morgan’s unsettling perfor- ers, producers and media executives can an Oscar. furtive motions play into the common no- mance? have no conception of how tired we are A few isolated voices expressed tion of transgender people as deceitful. Am I saying we should prohibit humor of seeing ourselves drawn that way. The qualms. MTV’s Marcus Patrick Ellsworth While trans people would like to be ca- involving transgender people? Of course fact that they were not even interested in examined what it “really asks us to laugh pable of laughing at ourselves, this skit not. But a thick line separates humor what off ense we might take shows how at,” concluding it “asks us to giggle at the simply cannot be divorced from its na- around transgender people from hu- much work still lies ahead. sight of Morgan in a dress.” Kelli Busey of tional context. We are only a few months mor in which a trans person is the joke. Planet Transgender goes further, labeling removed from seeing Houston’s anti-bias Anyone familiar with Sophie LaBelle’s hi- the performance “transface” and calling it HERO law defeated amid fears of mas- larious Assigned Male webcomic knows SUZI CHASE is a freelance writer based in “off ensive on so many levels.” culine trans women using female-only transgender humor can be funny without Maryland.

VIEWPOINT Gay. And approaching 40. mature than most. I was chatting to an- The pursuit of happiness can be a real Dameron pointed out upon his 50th birth- Am I too old for house other guest there, a bit of a twink no more struggle for many gay men. And we can day, we have spent a great deal of time parties and fast dancing? than 21, and after introducing myself he throw so many barriers in each other’s convincing others that being gay isn’t a basically said to me, “nice to meet you, way. Older gay men are too quickly la- choice, we should also remember that By BROCK THOMPSON but I’m not taking on any new Facebook beled creepy trolls with little to off er. (And getting older isn’t a choice either. If we as friends right now.” don’t point out the fact that I freely used a community start accepting all of that, Next week I enter the last year of my Yeah. the word “twink” above. It’s diff erent.) maybe we’ll all be a bit happier. And while 30s. And I have to say, I’ve really enjoyed I may not be aging perfectly, I’m perfectly the past decade. Think of your 30s as aware of it. And I will continue the formu- your 20s, but with more money and a bit la of daily moisturizer, cultivating friends more sense. And I’d like to think I’m hap- The pursuit of happiness can be a real struggle for from every generation, activity, and keep- pier now, too. ing at bay anyone who makes you feel Nevertheless, I fi nd getting older a bit many gay men. And we can throw so many barriers bad about yourself. hard, especially knowing that in the gay in each other’s way. And as I close, this article became less community, age is not something we put about how to age gracefully, but maybe a premium on. In many ways we’re sur- about reminding those to respect grace- rounded by those with severe Peter Pan fully those that age. In many ways, I hope Syndrome — boys that refuse to grow Probably a good idea. Don’t get me Some suggest that as a community to be my dad at that family wedding. up. As a community we cherish vigor and wrong, I certainly wasn’t going to send we lost far too many in the past to AIDS Someone who has aged with style and six-pack abs. While I generally think I have him a friend request, and talking to him that we simply don’t have enough strong managed to keep his honor and his kind- the vigor part covered, I have stopped try- any further may very well have triggered voices or role models to look to on how ness, too. And he doesn’t put much stock ing for the six-pack and settled for just “an an Amber Alert. But I began to think — to grow up with style and dignity. That into what people think. He says having a ab” of sorts. am I too old for this? Am I embarrassing may very well be part of it. But fi nding gay son helped him out there. What brought all this worry about ag- myself by being here? All those thoughts and keeping happiness as one ages must And keeps on dancing. Especially at ing on exactly? Last Saturday I went to akin to the fi rst time I saw my dad fast be its own formula. As long as you aren’t family weddings. a house party celebrating the birthday dance at a family wedding. Is this whole hurting yourself or others, keep moving of a friend of mine. Granted, he’s a little thing getting a bit unseemly? forward in your life, ditch the fear of miss- BROCK THOMPSON is a D.C.-based freelance younger than I am, but wiser and more But then again, who cares? ing out, and just live. As writer William writer. WASHINGTONBLADE.COM

20 • MARCH 11, 2016 VIEWPOINT Keep it zippered The danger of losing our where’s the fun in that? See how fast we question, I fell in love as instantly as I did leads the Republican fi eld, thoughtful, in- can descend into locker room talk? a half century ago when I watched a defi - formed national policy will be replaced by social fi lters Some people say “Little Marco” Ru- ant young boxer say that the heavyweight a demagogue’s whim. Is it really so awful bio is a closet case. If that is true, his re- champion of the world should be pretty having a black president or a gay family cent behavior has been so dreadful that like him. Granted, it’s a diff erent kind of down the block that it makes sense to we should all deny him sex. There was love, a chaste, public-spirited love where spray gasoline all over and light a match? a precedent for this in the 1990s, when no nasty bits factor into it. It is a short step from saying anything someone unhappy with Bill Clinton urged I bet you would have said, had some- to doing anything, as when Trump en- lesbians to deny sex to his cabinet offi - one asked you a month or two ago, that courages his crowds to beat up protest- cers Janet Reno and Donna Shalala. our national discourse could not get any ers. Since he and his rivals so loudly tout I think we had better stop this unseemly worse. Please stop saying that. It only their Christianity, let me point out that RICHARD J. ROSENDALL is a writer and activist. speculation before we get to also-rans like tempts the gods! But this degraded situ- their Savior says, “Whatever you do to the Reach him at [email protected]. Mike Huckabee and Carly Fiorina. Imagine ation is the result of letting demagogues least of these, you do to me,” not “Knock- waking up from a drunken binge in Vegas get away with branding every social cour- est thou the crap out of someone.” If both So apparently the Republican nomina- and fi nding one of them lying next to you, tesy and civil gesture as a crime of “politi- messages mean the same to you, you tion for president hinges on the size of propped up on an elbow and leering at cal correctness.” That phrase is a reliable should be neither president nor pastor. Donald Trump’s penis. I am sorry this is you expectantly. I’m sorry, I said stop. signal that an ugly sentiment is coming. The Lords of Misrule, as we might dub even a topic. Surely almost any other pe- The provocation for this juvenile joust- The virtue of honesty is raised in its de- the Party of Lincoln in its evident death nis is of more interest than Mr. Trump’s. I ing traces back before Rubio’s campaign- fense. Not honesty in the sense of show- throes, have overstayed their welcome. mean, please, put that thing away. trail antics to Graydon Carter of Vanity ing a humble regard for the truth, but in It is time for them to stagger home and Trump actually boasted last week that Fair, who once called Trump a “short-fi n- the sense of sharing whatever brutish sleep it off , and for the poor bastards he could have gotten Mitt Romney to fel- gered vulgarian.” Trump never disputed thought pops into your head. on the morning shift to hose down the late him. (“I could’ve said, ‘Mitt, drop to the second part. The conduct of the Republican prima- street and prepare for a new day. Better your knees,’ and he would’ve dropped to Let me end this bawdy banter by re- ries makes “Lord of the Flies” look like a we all sober up now than wait until after his knees.”) I suppose I might consider calling the moment in the Benghazi hear- well-ordered society. But however long the election, when we could groggily sur- one of Romney’s sons, assuming he’d ing when a Republican congresswoman the GOP’s nihilist orgy continues, we vey the wreckage and say, “Did I really do stop trying to convert me long enough demanded to know if Secretary Clinton will still live in a diverse society whose that?” to be of use. Or Ben Carson, except his spent the fateful night alone. When Hill- peaceful functioning requires mutual re- Copyright © 2016 by Richard J. Rosendall. voice would rapidly put me to sleep, and ary burst out laughing at that ridiculous spect. If we elect the crude blowhard who All rights reserved.

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GOP stands to lose Senate, even our nominee, the prospects for a safe and think Donald Trump could do to this coun- hot rock,’ according to his colleagues.” House, if Trump is nominee prosperous future are greatly diminished.” try, to its reputation, to the people of this Although I hope this will lead to the elec- He added “Think of Donald Trump’s per- country.” tion of Clinton, the country is always better sonal qualities: The bullying, the greed, the I don’t remember this kind of dissension off when there are two rational political par- showing off , the misogyny, the absurd third within the Republican Party in the past and ties that discuss and debate the issues of grade theatrics. You know, we have long if it occurred it was behind closed doors. the day intelligently, with respect for each referred to him as ‘The Donald.’ He’s the There is a palpable fear in Republicans I other and the people they are trying to rep- only person in the entire country to whom know who believe if Trump is the nominee resent. Trump is neither respectful nor dis- we have added an article before his name, the Republican Party will not only lose the playing any signs of intelligence. His ranting and it was not because he had attributes we White House and the Senate but possibly against Mexicans and Muslims; his anti-LG- admired.” even the House. According to a New York BT, racist and misogynist rhetoric, all used PETER ROSENSTEIN is a D.C.-based LGBT rights Members of the Log Cabin Republicans in Times report on Senate Majority Leader to denigrate anyone who disagrees with and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly D.C. are running as delegates to the Repub- Mitch McConnell (R- Ken.), “Mr. McConnell him is pathetic. His use of foul language for the Blade. lican National Convention on an uncom- has begun preparing senators for the pros- and innuendo typical of a schoolyard bully mitted slate. They clearly have a hard time pect of a Trump nomination, assuring them should embarrass all who hear it. Never thought I’d say this, but I feel for supporting any of the candidates who col- that, if it threatened to harm them in the There is much discussion about who is to the Republican Party. Over the years there lectively are a disaster on LGBT issues. general election, they could run negative blame for the condition of the Republican have been many Republican candidates for Huffi ngton Post reported, “Senator Ben ads about Mr. Trump to create space be- Party today. Some believe it is the rise of president who were anathema to me, but Sasse (R-Neb.) who is in his fi rst term, put tween him and Republican senators seek- the Tea Party; others blame the racism in- never before have there been more who up a lengthy Facebook post Sunday night, ing re-election. Mr. McConnell has raised cited by attacks on President Obama. Some are anathema to other Republicans. going after the Republican Party frontrun- the possibility of treating Mr. Trump’s loss blame the party elders for doing nothing Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) recently ner for the fact that his “relentless focus as a given and describing a Republican Sen- and stonewalling all legislative eff orts to said about Republicans’ choices, “Nomi- is on dividing Americans and talking like ate to voters as a necessary check on a Pres- move the country forward. nating Donald Trump or Ted Cruz could he’s running for king.” Former New Jersey ident Hillary Clinton, according to senators It will most likely take years, and some prove fatal for this party. It’s like being Republican Gov. Christie Todd Whitman at the lunches. He has reminded colleagues question if it can ever be accomplished, to shot or poisoned. What does it really mat- said, “While I certainly don’t want four more of his own 1996 re-election campaign, when bring the party back to a point where ra- ter?” More recently Mitt Romney, the last years of another Clinton administration or he won comfortably amid President Bill tional conservatives and moderates who Republican presidential nominee said, “If more years of the Obama administration, I Clinton’s easy re-election. Of Mr. Trump, Mr. made up the GOP in the past can once we Republicans choose Donald Trump as would take that over the kind of damage I McConnell has said, ‘We’ll drop him like a again take it back. WASHINGTONBLADE.COM MARCH 11, 2016 • 21

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22 • MARCH 11, 2016 VIEWPOINT Helping us get to an AIDS-free generation the planting of that HIV advocacy seed to “do introduced me to an accomplished CDC- generation. This is information for anyone We can all do something to help something.” Over these last two decades I’ve trained epidemiologist and one of the fi n- but for my sisters in particular, I want you to done a few things. Some incredible young est infectious disease physicians I know. Dr. be in the know about these three things at girls who’ve lived with HIV from birth have Lisa Fitzpatrick, who with her vision, literally least. allowed me to mentor and grow with them. changed the trajectory of my work in HIV. HIV TREATMENT WORKS is a CDC cam- As executive director of a local non-profi t, I From hospital operations, to research trials, paign featuring people from across the have helped children and families use the to meeting Alicia Keys to working with fed- United States who are living with HIV talking about how sticking with care and treatment helps them stay healthy, protect others, and live longer, healthier lives. Meet Angie who inspires me to keep tell- KHADIJAH TRIBBLE is a longtime D.C. LGBT Martin Luther King Jr. said it plain and simple, activist. She runs Ground Game, a public aff airs ing these stories of regular extraordinary and management consulting fi rm. ‘Everyone can be great because people living well with HIV. It is possible! everyone canold serve.’ town commonsPrEP IS |FOR alexandria, WOMEN TOO . PrEP stands va 22314 In 1987, the Names Project displayed the for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. 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Stories have power. Two new gently humorous, and at times poetic collections of stories about the creation style. At the same time, he also teases of LGBT families reinforce that point with out the connections between individual two very diff erent approaches. family stories and the social systems in PFLAG promotes the equality and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual, “Modern Families: Stories of which they are immersed. and transgendered persons, their families and friends through: Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship,” “There is no separation between the by Joshua Gamson (NYU Press: 2015), ways we make our families and the • Support to cope with an adverse society. is a collection of creation tales about various social hierarchies in which we all • Education to enlighten an ill-informed public. Gamson’s own family and several other fi nd ourselves,” he says. • Advocacy to end discrimination and secure equal civil rights. LGBT families he knows, woven together His goal is not a systematic study, by insights on the meaning of families but rather an exploration of how these Trained facilitators lead the Arlington Support Group and confidentiality is maintained. For today and the intersecting and sometimes hierarchies — of gender, ethnicity, race further information about the Arlington Support Group, contact us at [email protected]. confl icting social, legal and economic and class — may aff ect our family making Our groups meet on the second Sunday of each month, from 3 – 4:30pm at the Unitarian contexts in which we create them. and are illuminated by it in turn. Often- Universalist Church in Arlington, at George Mason Drive & Route 50. Gamson, a professor of sociology at the expensive assisted reproduction, for University of San Francisco, was motivated example, “facilitates the creation of some A.L.Y. is a group for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Questioning Youth and Allies in to write, he says, by people inquiring queer families even as it reinforces the grades 7-12. Our goal is to give LGBTQ youth a safe place to gather. Trained facilitators lead the about his own family. Gamson, white and distance between haves and have nots.” youth group. Confidentiality maintained. For more info, contact: [email protected]. Jewish, and his biracial husband Richard This is not an “academic” book, had one child with a friend of Gamson’s however, despite Gamson’s credentials. Our Washington DC Chapter of PFLAG may be reached at 202-638-3852. as their surrogate, and eggs from another Gamson places his book between what friend. For their second child, they used he calls “repro lit” — personal, honest a surrogate from an agency and eggs accounts of starting families — and “repro donated by a friend. While he sometimes crit” — often critical academic analyses bristled at questions about his family, he of the institutional structures of family strengthening minds realized that, “People really just wanted creation. The stories of the parents in honoring individuality to know about origins: how a life and a his book, he says, cannot be understood ensuring equity family started when not everything was outside their structural context, but also easy and scripted.” cannot be understood apart from the He was surrounded by such stories. In personal, intense, creative drive that his immediate social circle were a single motivated them to become parents in the LOWELL SCHOOL mother by choice who adopted a child from fi rst place. His deft blending of the two Ethiopia; a lesbian couple who used one makes his book a must-read for anyone Come, learn more about woman’s eggs while the other carried the interested in families today. fetus, fertilized from donor sperm; another our programs for children lesbian couple co-parenting two adopted � CONTINUES AT WASHINGTONBLADE.COM ages 2 1/2 through 8th grade. children (from Nepal and India) with a gay male couple; and a couple consisting of Check out our summer camp, too! a woman and a transgender man, who DANA RUDOLPH is the founder and publisher of Mombian (mombian.com), a GLAAD Media started a family through private adoption. Award-winning blog and resource directory for He shares their tales with an engaging, LGBT parents. 1640 Kalmia Road NW | Washington, DC 20012 | lowellschool.org

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Sessions for overnight stays, sports and science, musical activities such as arts and crafts, music N.W.) off ers full day camp for children ages grades one-six range from $800-850. theater or even beauty school, there is a and movement, instructional swimming six through 12 and half day for children Grades six-12 sessions range from $1,150 program nearby to keep kids entertained and story time. Prices range from $369- ages 4-7. Activities include mindful yoga through $1,200. For more information, visit while they learn a thing or two. 499 depending on camp session. For a and movement, crafts and creative arts, adventurestheatre-mtc.org. Camp RimRock for Girls (343 Camp complete list of sessions and prices, visit play at the park, group games, camp Green Acres School (11701 Danville Rim Rock Rd., Yellow Spring, W.Va.) headfi rstcamps.com. songs, relaxation and journaling. Full-day Dr., North Bethesda, Md.) off ers camp gives young girls from rising fi rst grade Synetic Theatre (1800 S Bell St., camp is from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and is $365 sessions for rising pre-kindergarten through rising 10th grade, the chance to Arlington, Va.) off ers two-week camp per week. Half-day camp is from 9 a.m.- students through seventh grade. Kreative have fun away from home. Rising second sessions from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Campers noon and is $250 per week. For more Kangaroos for Pre-K students includes through 10th can choose General Camp will work with senior artistic company information, visit circleyoga.com. outdoor play, swimming, dancing and which includes activities such as sports, members to stage an original play “A The YMCA in D.C. off ers camp carpentry. Junior camp for kindergarten horseback riding, aquatics, performing Tale of Two Ghostbusters” complete with programs ranging from traditional camp through second grade includes cooking, arts and arts and crafts. General Camp musical numbers and an original score. activities like art, aquatic, dance, sports, drama and music, dance and swimming. sessions are available in two-week Regular registration is $707 by May 1. technology and theatre. Specialized Senior camp is for grades three through sessions for $2,675 or four-week sessions Late registration is $757. Extended day program such as beauty school, creative six and includes cooking, wood shop, for $4,700. Rising fourth through 10th care is available in one- or two-week writing and gardening are also available. fi lmmaking, photography, rock band and graders can also choose Riding Specialty packages from 3-6 p.m. for an extra fee YMCA also off ers a day and overnight robotics. Pricing and session times vary. Camp, which focuses on horseback riding, of $100 or $200. For more information, camp, Camp Letts (4003 Camp Letts For a complete tuition list and session for a one-week session for $1,850. First visit synetictheater.org/camps. Rd., Edgewater, Md.), which includes times, visit greenacres.org. time sleep away campers in rising fi rst, Washington Performing Arts music outdoor activities such as kayaking and Silver Stars Gymnastics has a Silver second and third grade can try Mini Camp and dance camps run at various locations horseback riding. For more details on Spring (2701 Pittman Dr.) location and for one week. Mini Camp sessions are in the District from June 27 through Aug. camp programs and for a list of prices, a Bowie (14201 Woodcliff Ct.) location. $1,400 and designed to adjust children to 12. Capital Jazz Camp is for children in visit ymcadc.org and campletts.org. For a list of pricing and details, visit sleep away camp. For more details, visit rising grades three through eight with Adventure Theatre off ers Summer gosilverstars.com. camprimrock.com. prior vocal and instrumental experience. Musical Theater Camp for grades fi rst The Beauvoir School (3500 Woodley HeadFirst Summer Camps off er Capital Strings Camp is for children in through sixth for a two-week session in Rd., N.W.), Rochambeau: the French activities at St. Albans School (3001 Mount rising grades three through six with no Glen Echo Park. Grades six-12 also have a International School (which has campuses Saint Alban, N.W.), Mater Dei School (9600 experience necessary. Capital Voices Summer Musical Theater Training Program in Bethesda and Chevy Chase, Md.) and Seven Locks Rd., Bethesda, Md.) and Camp is for children in grades fourth in Wintergreen Plaza for a three-week the Lowell School (1640 Kalmia Rd., Flint Hill School (3320 Jermantown Rd., through 12th and requires basic vocal session. Campers dance, sing and act with N.W.) also have summer camp programs. Oakton, Va.) for rising pre-kindergarten training experience. 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These days, there are lots of resources “Adult children of LGT parents clearly for LGBT families. reject the notion that they have been Rainbow Families has its 2016 Family damaged by their parents’ sexuality/ Conference on Saturday, April 30 from gender identity,” the researchers said. 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at Georgetown Day Find the study online at tandfonline.com. School (4200 Davenport St., N.W.). Every If you happen to be in Dallas, California two years, the conference provides local Cryobank has a free Gay Women’s gay families a space to gather for learning, Gathering: an Evening on Lesbian networking and fellowship. Pregnancy on Wednesday, March 16 at The conference brings together the Cathedral of Hope’s Interfaith Peace hundreds of parents and families, panelists, Chapel (5910 Cedar Springs Rd., Dallas) service providers, businesses, schools from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The group had an and others with workshops, discussion event in Houston last week. groups, social events and a resource fair. This series focuses on educating gay A “kids’ camp” for children will be held women with critical information they concurrently. Registration is $40 per adult need when considering pregnancy. A for Rainbow Family members and $50 for core focus on family building safety for non-members. Camp registration is $25 LGBT families from legal and medical per child (members) and $30 for non- perspectives, despite the strides made members. Spaces must be reserved online in marriage equality, is stressed. Issues in advance. include choosing between known and The group has a family dance party unknown sperm donors, conceiving planned on Friday, March 25 from 7-9 at home or in a doctor’s offi ce, fertility p.m. at the D.C. Center (2000 14th St., health and more. IVF specialists from the N.W. no. 105) and several other events Dallas area will be there. planned throughout the year. Full details “The Gay Women’s Gatherings are at rainbowfamiliesdc.org. my absolute favorite events and we’ve The deadline to apply for the 2016 had amazing responses from attendees SMYAL Youth Leadership Awards, which over the last few years,” says Scott will be announced in May, is Friday, April Brown, director of client experience and 15. The scholarships are available to LGBT communications in a California Cryobank youth in the D.C. area. Details at smyal.org. press release. “We’re even starting to see A traditional summer day-camp Bus A new study called “Not a big deal? familiar faces from a year or two ago with transportation Exploring the accounts of adult the babies they were only dreaming about experience on 45 wooded acress with available children of lesbian, gay and trans when we fi rst met. Twenty years ago, over on site ponds, stables, trails, archery, 14 miles from Columbia, MD parents” was recently published and 90 percent of our clients were heater presents the results of researchers who couples. Today, thanks in large part to the canoeing, kayaking, and swimming ICC/MD Route 200 surveyed 14 adults, 13 of whom were eff orts of groups like Path2Parenthood Exit 10 pool. Please visit for Georgia Ave born to a heterosexual relationships and these events, more than half are two- barrie.org/camp Layhill Road more information and to enroll. Connecticut Ave where one partner was outed as gay, mommy families.” lesbian or trans. Participants shared their A drawing for one free vial of sperm Barrie stories of childhood and the present and from the donor of your choice, valued

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The offi cial word announcing that the of attrition,” says Jeff Stone, a spokesperson board of directors of the St. Patrick’s Day for Dignity New York. “Eventually the older, Parade, a non-profi t that runs the annual more conservative members who were New York City event every March 17, had against it either left or died or whatever invited the LGBT group the Lavender and I understand that Barbara Jones, the & Green Alliance to the event is a bare- consul general of Ireland in New York, tried bones statement indicating nothing of to urge the committee to let them march. the decades of eff ort that led to the That’s also in line with what’s happening change of heart. in Ireland, especially now with the pro- “Since 2016 marks the 100th anniversary same-sex marriage vote. The people of that of the Easter Rising, the birth of Irish country have clearly spoken.” Independence, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Despite studies that show disparities on March 17 is a special opportunity for renewed all kinds of issues between offi cial Catholic commitment to Irish values and tradition and Church teaching and the laity, the anti- the Irish role in the 21st century,” board chair gay theology is well documented. As just John Lahey said in a press release. one example, earlier this month the AOH Brendan Fay, founder and chair of the issued a press release calling for Disney/ Lavender & Green Alliance, which has held ABC to “immediately apologize” for its new its own St. Pat’s For All Parade annually in gay-themed sitcom “The Real O’Neals.” Queens since 2000, was granted a quote Although careful not to slam gays, it cites Irish in the release. stereotypes, anti-Catholicism and gay activist/ “We celebrate the welcome,” he said. writer Dan Savage, the show’s executive “March 17, 2016 will be a great day for producer, in a scathing assessment. hospitality and inclusion.” “Dan Savage has a well-documented There were signs that change was hostility to the Catholic Church,” the imminent. At last year’s St. Patrick’s Day statement says. “(We) question the Parade, Out@NBC, a gay employee group New York City Mayor BILL DE BLASIO speaks at the St. Pat’s for All Parade on March 6 in New wisdom and motivations of Disney/ at the affi liate WNBC-TV 4, which broadcasts York. BRENDAN FAY, founder of the Lavender & Green Alliance, is in the rainbow scarf. The ABC giving him a national platform to mayor boycotted the St. Patrick’s Day Parade the last two years for its LGBT exclusion but will go perpetuate his intolerance.” the event locally, was the fi rst out group this year. welcomed into the parade although unlike Stone says movement on same-sex Lavender & Green, they weren’t particularly PHOTO BY JOHN NALLEY marriage, both in Ireland and the U.S., Irish. Some Alliance members viewed the welcoming gays into the parade, the NBC group’s inclusion while their own was Fay told the Blade there “were many in the Roman Catholic Church — Ireland use of more inclusive language among left out, a slap in the face. factors bringing us to this historic was essentially a pawn in the Protestant Catholic leaders and more are all aspects The ongoing rancor had led to moment,” and cites boycotts by other Reformation battles between Italy and to the policy change. He also says the signifi cant tension. New York City Mayor elected offi cials, some of which go back England — are strong and deep. tide has shifted enough that there were Bill de Blasio this year announced the end 25 years, pressure from the New York City Although the St. Pat’s for All Parade economic considerations as well. of a two-year boycott of the 253-year-old Council, letters of support from straight has developed into its own thing and “It’s just not a good situation for them event, the largest St. Patrick’s Day parade Irish New Yorkers, pressure from beer will continue (there were about 100 when there’s all this bitterness and in the country. He marched in and spoke companies like Guinness and Heineken contingents in the March 6 event), Fay says controversy surrounding the parade,” he at Sunday’s St. Pat’s for All Parade. that threatened to pull out and more. the signifi cance of the Alliance’s inclusion in says. “It’s counter to the law in Ireland, “The St. Patrick’s Day Parade is a New “It was the persistent determination of the offi cial parade cannot be overstated. it’s not good for tourism. I think they York City tradition but for years, Irish LGBT activism of a determined and hope-fi lled “History will be made for the fi rst time on wanted to get this resolved so that the New Yorkers could not show their pride,” community,” Fay says. “Not just the LGBT March 17,” he says. “We’ll be carrying the parade could return to being a symbol he told the Associated Press in a March community, but the Irish community green Alliance banner and we’re all really of celebration and of Irish-American 2 story. “Finally they can celebrate their as a whole.” feeling the moment. There’s so much joy pride and not a source of division and heritage by marching in a parade that So why was it such a big deal? And in in the Irish community of New York City bitterness that it had become for many now represents progress and equality.” New York City, of all places? and back home in Ireland as well.” people. The parade lost a lot of sponsors The parade, held rain or shine, begins The controversy ties in deeply with the Dignity New York, an LGBT Catholic over this.” on Fifth Avenue at 44th Street and ends parade’s Catholic roots. First held in 1762, group that’s the local chapter of Fay says the change makes a powerful on Fifth Avenue uptown at 79th Street. It the parade marches up Fifth Avenue and DignityUSA, members — of which Fay is statement. typically runs from about 11 a.m. to 4:30 is reviewed from the steps of St. Patrick’s one — have been watching this drama “I think it’s conveying a message p.m. About 200,000 people are in the Cathedral. In the mid 1800s, the Ancient unfold for years. They say it just took time about equality and what I call cultural parade each year. About 300 are expected Order of Hibernians (AOH), an Irish-Catholic for the strong opposition to play out. hospitality,” he says. “There’s an overall to march under the Alliance banner. fraternal organization, became the offi cial “Brendan is much more well versed in feeling of excitement and just really great So why now? Fay told the AP de Blasio’s sponsor of the parade. Although in 1992, the politics of this and all the ins and outs and joyful expectation. … I’ve really come boycott had an eff ect. He was the fi rst the National AOH directed all its chapters … but I think gradually, you know, the to appreciate how important cultural mayor in more than 20 years to refuse to to form separate corporations to run people who wanted the group to march gatherings and parades are in our lives participate,” the Associated Press reports. their various parades, the parade’s roots fi nally won out and I think it was a matter and communities.” WASHINGTONBLADE.COM 32 • MARCH 11, 2016 QUEERY: 20 QUESTIONS FOR STACEY WILLIAMS-ZEIGER

How long have you been out and who was going on. the hardest person to tell? I have been out for 30 years. I have been What’s your advice for LGBT movement fortunate to have the most wonderful family leaders? and friends that I have had since high school. Try and keep everyone energized and I came out and said, “Well, that’s that” and informed. We have a long way to go with that was that. true equality being the end game. We all still have to fi ght together for everything. Even if Who’s your LGBT hero? some of us get what we want we have to help Harvey Fierstein, love him. What a others in the community get rights they are wonderfully talented and courageous role being denied. model. What would you walk across hot coals What’s Washington’s best nightspot, past for? or present? To help anyone or any animal that needed I am in bed by 11 so I will go with the past and help. And Adele tickets. Yes I want Adele say the Phase of long ago. tickets really bad. I tried so hard. I even did a video of me on YouTube doing an Adele Describe your dream wedding. Christmas carol that I wrote trying to get her Santorini, sunset, everyone I love standing attention. Did I mention Adele tickets? around us. A lone saxophone playing “(You Make Me Feel Like (A Natural Woman).” Then What LGBT stereotype annoys you most? PHOTO BY DENIS LARGERON we all jump on donkeys and go down to the That lesbians are either butch or fem. I can be water and head to the catamaran where we both. Just like the straight girls. I can change sail the islands until sunrise. the oil in my car then put on a dress and go dancing. I have a nice long straight drive What non-LGBT issue are you most (that’s a golf drive, not what you’re thinking) passionate about? and I also make some mean banana muffi ns. STACEY WILLIAMS-ZEIGER I am a vegetarian and an animal rights Labels need to go in general. For everyone. activist. We donate as much as we can to various groups that are out there getting What’s your favorite LGBT movie? things done. “La Cage aux Folles,” the original and “The By JOEY DiGULIELMO Birdcage.” [email protected] What historical outcome would you change? What’s the most overrated social custom? Stacey Williams-Zeiger didn’t originally plan a career in real estate, although I would change whatever caused dinosaurs Being a little bit late for a party. I never know she’s the only child of a builder and a mortgage broker. to go extinct. Then we could send in a what time to get anywhere. I am an on-time She grew up familiar with open houses but eventually opened her own Tyrannosaurus Rex to eat Hitler. kind of person, so I have to not be on time so auto dealership in her native Maryland. 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PATRICK VAILL as Cassio and JONNO ROBERTS as Iago in ‘Othello.’

New STC ‘Othello’ production As Othello, Tahar (a stage and screen actor best known for his work on TV’s not entirely convincing “American Crime”) initially appears to be the avuncular general. When his By PATRICK FOLLIARD men get too rowdy, he quiets them like a schoolmaster chastising a roomful of The green-eyed monster is back and naughty schoolboys. But the longer he running amok on Shakespeare Theatre remains in Cypress and longer Iago has Company’s stage. his ear, the more he changes. Othello No other Shakespeare work deals more eschews his military uniform for a loose- directly with jealousy than “Othello.” It’s fi tting exotic robe and trades his dignity jealousy that reduces the disciplined for rash behavior. title character to a brutish murderer. Roberts has the best handle on the In past STC productions, Othello has language and unlike much of the cast, been played twice by African-American he never swallows his words. His Iago is actor Avery Brooks and once by Patrick every man’s most intimate friend. From Stewart, a white actor in an otherwise the start, the audience is made aware of almost entirely African-American cast. the extent of Iago’s treachery and expects This time, Brazilian director Ron Daniels him to come to a bad end. And indeed he has cast Faran Tahir, an American actor of does. After his wife Emilia (Merritt Janson) Pakistani descent as the tragic hero. connects the dots and reveals Iago’s evil The action kicks off in Venice where deeds he is sentenced to be tortured in Othello, a self-made Moorish general and the most horrifi c ways imaginable. Christian convert, has secretly married Daniels has set production just after Desdemona (Ryman Sneed), the fair World War I. Riccardo Hernandez’s daughter of an aristocratic house. Fueled striking set is a bare stage backed by by racism and rancor, Othello’s standard fi ve outsized turbines, bright headlights. bearer and supposed best friend Iago Arriving in Cypress, the soldiers raise (Jonno Roberts) vows to use Desdemona a huge banner depicting the Venetian to destroy rising young offi cer Cassio lion of St. Mark. Costume designer Emily (Patrick Vaill) and bring down Othello. Rebholz turns out a handsome mix of Called to war with longtime enemy military and civilian wear including, Iago’s Turkey, the soldiers set off to outpost brown leather trench coat, high riding island Cypress. Desdemona follows. boots, formal cutaways and white linen It’s here that Iago’s machinations go travel suits evocative of “Downton Abbey” into play. He convinces Othello that his season two. wife is cuckolding him with handsome Like always, the challenge with Cassio. Othello suff ocated in feelings of “Othello” is to buy into Iago’s epic hatred The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion insecurity and suspicion, causing him to for Othello, and to believe that a shrewd, stated the following statistics about the complications from Type 2 Diabetes: fall into paroxysms of jealousy and make worldly general might be so easily • Diabetes, especially in people with high blood pressure and high cholesterol, causes heart disease and is the #1 some seriously bad life decisions. convinced that his new wife is cheating killer of diabetics • Diabetics are 2-4 times more likely to suffer a stroke vs non-diabetics. In director Daniels’ hands, the story on him despite her most sincere and • Diabetes can cause blurred vision and can lead to blindness. unfolds lucidly — every turn of the plot reasonable protestations. But that’s the • Diabetes can lead to kidney damage and dialysis. is clear. But aspects of the production nature of jealousy, isn’t it? • This is NOT a complete list. lack passion. Othello and Desdemona’s Please call to see if you qualify for a seat at our next Diabetes Dinner. connection is rather tepid. It seems ‘OTHELLO’ *Diabetologia. 2011 Oct; 54(10): 2506-2514 Othello’s fi re is saved for jealousy. Through March 27 Shakespeare Theatre Company But even so, the moments before Sidney Harman Hall Desdemona’s death come off more like 610 F St., N.W. $20-108 a domestic squabble than a woman 202-547-1122 fi ghting for her life. ShakespeareTheatre.org

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ANDY BELL takes a creative left turn on his new solo album.

featuringDolly the Parton music of Dixie Chicks Reba McEntire Garth Brooks Patsy Cline LyleL Lovett Erasure singer tackles show dance-pop Bell is known for with Erasure and on his two prior solo albums (2005’s tunes on ‘Torsten’ album “Electric Blue” and 2010’s “Non-Stop”), seek elsewhere. This is musical theater, By CHRIS GERARD and Bell’s expressive tenor suits the medium perfectly. Erasure’s music has Andy Bell has enjoyed a 30-year run of always been family friendly and generally hits with his musical partner Vince Clarke upbeat, so it’s something of a shock in Erasure, the legendary duo who’ve hearing Bell singing pieces like “Blow Jobs managed to navigate the fi ckle world of for Cocaine” and “Ooh Baby, You’re so pop music far longer than most artists Queercore,” but it works. can dream. The songs deal with various aspects Early hits like “Sometimes” and “A Little of Torsten’s experiences and they are Respect” are still beloved, and they continue often grandiose and richly beautiful. to release vital new music. “Violent Flame” “Beautiful Libertine” is an early highlight, (2014) was their 16th album and they emphasizing the always-impressive vocal promoted it with a successful tour before range that Bell continues to possess. The wildly enthusiastic crowds that included sardonic ballad “This Town Needs Jesus” two nights at the 9:30 Club in D.C. It would is another standout, with Bell delivering be easy for the dynamic vocalist to spend an impassioned vocal over a piano his down time from Erasure enjoying the accompaniment. He’s clearly invested in fruits of his success. this material and gives one convincing But resting on his laurels doesn’t seem performance after another. to be in the cards for Andy Bell. His Some tracks, like “Lady Domina Bizarre” new solo album “Torsten the Beautiful and “The Slums We Loved,” are highly Libertine” is an ambitious collection of orchestral, but there are unexpected left songs featured in the stage show of the turns. “We Were Singing Along to Liza” is same name, which opened this week at a poignantly nostalgic dance track that London’s Above the Stag Theatre (which will surely inspire a bevy of remixes. bills itself as “The UK’s LGBT Theatre”). “Photos of Daniel” is a hauntingly Torsten fi rst appeared as a character beautiful reminiscence of better days. in a 2014 song cycle written for Bell by “My Precious Ones,” which has been A rousing salute to country Barney Ashton-Bullock and Christopher issued as the album’s lead single, has the Frost called “Torsten the Bareback Saint” most standard pop arrangement on the music with special guests the that was performed in London and album. It’s a melodic guitar-based track DC Cowboys! Edinburgh, and made into an album. The with terrifi c harmonies. new show and album — also written by As with any musical theater piece, Ashton-Bullock and Frost — is a more it’s a challenge to fully realize the vision fully developed exploration of a decidedly conceptualized in “Torsten The Beautiful unique character. On the Above the Stag Libertine” without seeing the show. March 12 8pm website, Torsten is described as an “age- There are so many ideas thrown at us March 19 3pm (ASL) & 8pm defying, polysexual hero” who lives an over the span of 17 tracks that it’s hard abnormally long life, and has plenty of to completely absorb it. But even as a March 20 3pm (ASL) time to refl ect on all of the connections — conceptual album, “Torsten” is always Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U Street NW sexual and otherwise — he’s made over entertaining and surprising, as the songs the years. Seeing a neverending parade veer in unanticipated directions. Bell’s of deaths unfold before him renders voice shines throughout, the writing is Tickets: 1-877-435-9849 Torsten melancholy and unwilling to get smart and unpredictable and Torsten or visit GMCW.org close to anybody to protect himself from is an interesting character that will ASL tickets or groups of 10 or more: call 202-293-1548 the continued pangs of loss. hopefully stick around to chronicle more If you’re expecting the electrifying triumphs and tragedies and adventures. WASHINGTONBLADE.COM MUSIC MARCH 11, 2016 • 35

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Gospel diva SANDI PATTY says new album ‘Forever Grateful’ and its current tour are her swan songs.

Legendary gospel diva says Christ.” Long-time producer Greg Nelson is of a thousand church choir renditions is capable of operatic thunder and it’s held back and with writing credits on four tracks, and holds up well. up well. Though the bell-like eff ortlessness goodbye with new album it’s Patty’s most self-penned eff ort ever. “Praise Medley” features Patty classics of her early years has matured, the range It’s also Patty’s most stylistically diverse like “Let There Be Praise” and “Hosanna” and oomph are all still there (they were By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO eff ort in years. “Anthem of Praise” is a in a medley she’s been using in practically on fabulous display last November at [email protected] sturdy church number by Patty, Michael every concert she’s given in the last 15 her D.C. concert, the closing night of her W. Smith and David Hamilton that years. With such heavy live use, it feels “Everlasting Tour”). Why waste time on It’s a pretty easy case to make that features a soaring melody and the kind a bit worn into the ground but the Jay quiet, tender little ballads like “Song of the Sandi Patty is the fi nest contemporary of worshipful lyrics Patty has long been Rouse arrangement featuring a delightful Redeemed” when you could be raising the gospel singer of her generation. known for. new orchestration by Phillip Keveren roof? It’s a head scratcher that has plagued Only one other female singer outsold “Alleluia (Glory, Honor, Majesty)” is a is still an effi cient way to cover a lot of many of Patty’s choices and was especially her — Amy Grant, but she was more classically fl avored worship aria. “All I classic ground quickly. chronic in the ‘90s. singer/songwriter-oriented and couldn’t Got to Do” is black gospel and the family Patty’s husband Don Peslis and several of It will never happen, especially now, hold a candle to Patty vocally. The only eff ort “Farther Along” is a Southern Gospel their highly talented adult children join her but I would have loved to have heard artistic rivals she ever remotely had — standard Patty has known all her life. on the Steven Curtis Chapman-penned “Love Patty do something truly classical like Karla Worley and Cynthia Clawson — are Three simple acoustic ballads — “In Will Be Our Home,” a song that hasn’t been the fabulous “Divine Redeemer” album pretty much forgotten footnotes. She can the In Between,” “Song of the Redeemed” sung live since her 1989 tour. Perhaps it was soprano Christine Brewer just released outsing and outsell pretty much all the and the title cut — are just so-so. They’re too much of a reminder of strained times to with organist Paul Jacobs (who’ll be at the men in the fi eld as well. lovingly sung and suit Patty’s low register sing it for a long time — Patty was married to Kennedy Center March 16, by the way). With Patty currently on her fi nal tour fairly well. Despite their sincerity, though, someone else when she originally recorded Patty only ever fl irted with the classics (no D.C.-area dates announced as yet) none are especially memorable. The title it. But enough time has passed that we’re on occasional Christmas-type eff orts but and her farewell album “Forever Grateful” track is the strongest of the three. A simple able to take it again at face value and the she could have pulled off these works just out, it’s the beginning of the end of prayer, it becomes something of a sonic harmonies are rich and varied here. by Bach, Handel, Puccini and Gounod an era. The singer, a 59-year-old fi ve- bookend to the title cut of her fi rst major There are a few disappointments. magnifi cently and it’s a shame she never time Grammy winner and Gospel Music label eff ort “Sandi’s Song” 37 years ago. Overall, the whole aff air feels a bit slight, sank her teeth into the classical canon. Association Hall of Fame inductee, is going “It was not the symphonies or sold-out especially for a farewell album. Ten all- On some level, I get it. That was just out with a bang and while this is certainly stages/I always found you in the quiet new songs with the remakes used as never her thing. A 2011 richly orchestrated preferable to so many contemporary spaces/this is my song for you/this is bonus cuts would have given the album album of Broadway standards — not gospel acts who seem to just fall off the the one thing I can bring/you’ve taken all a more robust overall feel. A new duet particularly my thing — was one of her face of the earth, it’s a bittersweet season. that’s broken, every bruise/and handed with long-time partner Larnelle Harris strongest eff orts of recent years. But The good news is that after years me a song to sing.” is a noticeable absence, especially since when you have a voice that could blow all of mediocre covers-heavy albums like Another three cuts are remakes of their last collaboration (“Then Came the the Celine Dions, Lady Gagas and even (in “Everlasting” (2013) and “Songs for the earlier material. An impressive lineup of Morning” from his 2013 album) didn’t her prime) Julie Andrewses of the world Journey” (2008), with “Grateful” she has fellow singers such as Kristin Chenoweth, light the world on fi re the same way their out of the water without breaking a sweat, fi nally made a record of mostly new Natalie Grant, Nicole C. Mullen, her old classic ‘80s material did. One more barn- one sort of yearns to have had heard her material. It pales in comparison to her touring singers First Call and Russ Taff burner for the ages would have been nice. take on more substantive material at classic ‘80s work on albums like “Morning join her “We Are the World”-style on the And while Patty delivers convincingly least once — sort of like when Katharine Like This” (1986) and “Make His Praise old warhorse “Love in Any Language.” The on the aforementioned low-key ballads, Hepburn played Shakespeare in the ‘50s. Glorious” (1988), but it’s easily her fi nest arrangement is faithful — it’s the vocal why so much of that? Though she’s almost Ultimately, though, the album is gospel eff ort since 2003’s “Take Hold of colors that give it punch. It’s the material always stayed in the pop vein, Patty’s voice something for which to be “Grateful.”

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The D.C. Front Runners meet for a run last Saturday morning.

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Conversations provides a forum for dialogue and connection through art Cleo Parker Robinson Dance GALLERIES and music for individuals with memory disorders and their caregivers. Each Ensemble. Mar 12-Mar 13. Dance Place. program includes a musical component and is designed to stimulate refl ection, 202-269-1600. danceplace.org. The Art League Gallery. Fritz Desroches. reduce stress, and increase communication and sociability. This week’s Thru Apr 3. 703-683-1780. program examines Picasso’s Head of a Woman with a Hat. MUSIC theartleague.org. Foundry Gallery. Fran Abrams. Thru PHOTO COURTESY OF KEEGAN THEATRE Cassandra Allen. Thru Mar 23. Mar 27. 202-232-0203. Strathmore. 301-581-5100. foundrygallery.org. strathmore.org. Gallery Neptune & Brown. Erick Global-Phonic Music Festival: Johnson. Thru Mar 26. 202-986-1200. Lulacruza. Mar 11. Arlington Cultural neptunefi neart.com. Aff airs. Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre. VisArts at Rockville. Rachel Hamel. 703-228-1850. arlingtonarts.org. Thru Mar 20. 301-315-8200. Tribute to Charlie Byrd. Mar 11-Mar 12. visartsatrockville.org. AMP. 301-581-5100. Zenith Gallery. Turning 38... Continuing ampbystrathmore.com. to Innovate. Mar 11-Apr 16. Buy Christoph Eschenbach, conductor: 202-783-2963. zenithgallery.com. Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano. Thru Mar Arts Club of Washington. March Art 12. Osmo Vänskä, conductor: Nikolai Exhibition. Thru Mar 26. 202-331-7282. Lugansky, piano. Mar 17-Mar 19. Organ artsclubofwashington.org. Recital: Paul Jacobs. Mar 16. NSO. JCCNV. Local Color and More. Discount Tickets The Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. Thru Apr 4. 703-323-0880. jccnv.org. kennedy-center.org. Fisher Art Gallery. Al-Mutanbbi Street Rob Kapilow’s What Makes It Great? Starts Here. Thru Mar 13. 703-534-5726. Mar 13. Church of the Epiphany. schlesingercenter.com. Montreal Symphony. Mar 14. WPA. ReCreative Spaces. Prometheus - Solo ticketPLAce.org The Kennedy Center. 202-785-9727. Show by Arthur Kwon Lee. 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Autobiography: Writings from Whitman Rd., Gaithersburg, Md., for individuals dancers, carnival rides and a DJ party hosts a drag brunch today with shows to Sedaris” edited by David Bergman in Montgomery County. The group tent. VIP tickets are $74.99 and include at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. For more at the D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.) will discuss coming out of marriage, bottomless beer from 3-8 p.m., a souvenir information, visit nelliessportsbar.com. tonight at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome. For homophobia, parenting issues, fi nding ShamrockFest koozie, VIP area access details, visit bookmendc.blogspot.com. intimate relationships, LGB resources to restrooms and VIP seating. General MONDAY, MARCH 14 The Tom Davoren Social Bridge in the suburbs and more. For more admission tickets are $29.99. For more Club meets tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the information, visit thedccenter.org. information, visit shamrockfest.com. The Rainbow Theatre Project presents Dignity Center (721 8th St., S.E.) for social Gamma VA, a support group for men Exposed D.C. presents its 10th annual a staged reading of “Beautiful Thing,” a bridge. No partner needed. For more in mixed-orientation relationships, meets photography show at the Historical 1993 play about two teenagers in England information, call 301-345-1571. at 1772 Church St., N.W. today from 7:30- Society of Washington at the Carnegie who movie from neighbors to lovers, Woman to Woman, a support group 9:30 p.m. The group is for men who are Library (801 K St., N.W.) through April by Jonathan Harvey at Source Theatre for HIV-positive women who love women, attracted to men but are currently or were 1. The exhibit features 47 images from (1835 14th St., N.W.) tonight at 7:30 p.m. meets at the Women’s Collective (1331 at one point in a relationship with a woman. around the Washington metro area that Tickets are $15. For more information, visit Rhode Island Ave., N.E.) today from 5:30-7 Meeting locations are in private residences. focuses on the location as a place people rainbowtheatreproject.org. p.m. There will be light refreshments. For For more information about the group and live and work instead of as a tourist The D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.) details, visit thedccenter.org. location, visit gammaindc.org. attraction. All photographs on display hosts coff ee drop-in hours this morning will be for sale. For more details, visit from 10 a.m.-noon for the senior LGBT THURSDAY, MARCH 17 SATURDAY, MARCH 12 exposeddc.com. community. Older LGBT adults can come and enjoy complimentary coff ee Arlington Gay and Lesbian Alliance PostClassical Ensemble performs a SUNDAY, MARCH 13 and conversation with other community (AGLA) hosts a St. Patrick’s Day dinner tribute to composer and gay and lesbian members. 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