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Gay Linguist Escapes Horrors of Iraq, Settles in D.C. OH, CANADA OUR FAMILIES INCLUSION WINS Talk of 'Religious Liberty' MARCH 11, 2016 VOLUME 47 ISSUE 11 • AMERICA’S GAY NEWS SOURCE • WASHINGTONBLADE.COM 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. By MICHAEL K. LAVERS [email protected] 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 OH, CANADA OUR FAMILIES INCLUSION WINS Justin Trudeau says Gay foster parent At last, gay marchers he’ll march in Pride talks love for his sons will take to streets in parade. Will Obama? in our special section. NYC’s St. Pat’s parade. PAGE 10 PAGES 24-28 PAGES 18 & 31 02 • MARCH 11, 2016 WASHINGTONBLADE.COM ADVERTISING PROOF PROOF #2 ISSUE DATE: 03.11.16 SALES REPRESENTATIVE: BRIAN PITTS ([email protected]) REVIEW AD FOR COPY AND DESIGN ACCURACY. Revisions must be submitted within 24 hours of the date of proof. 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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.
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