No. 501 • March 27, 2014 • outwordmagazine.com Lesbian Families Score Higher on Self-Esteem page 16 Gay Press Spending Briefly Put Feel the Spirit with Soul Kings and Soul Sets Record Sister Act Queens Reviewed page 5 page 7 page 13 page 18 COLOR COLOR The lives we touch inspire us Like many girls her age, Precious loves animals of all kinds. At 8 years old, after playing with a feral cat, she became ill with what doctors first suspected might be the flu. Soon unable to swallow or stand, Precious was flown to UC Davis Children’s Hospital where she was diagnosed with severe brain inflammation caused by rabies – a combination that’s almost always fatal. A team of UC Davis critical care and infectious disease specialists placed her in a drug-induced coma. With the help of antiviral medication and her own tenacious spirit, Precious fiercely wrestled the disease and became the third person in the U.S. to survive rabies without a vaccine. Today, this vibrant young girl dreams of becoming a veterinarian. To learn more about Precious’ story and the ”one team” approach to care at this region’s one nationally ranked comprehensive hospital for children, visit children.ucdavis.edu One team. One choice. One UC Davis. THE REGION’S COMPREHENSIVE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN Outword Letters Staff 18, from 7 p.m. to midnight, Thanks for Your Help Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the Dear Outword, PUBLISHER Big thanks to you and your crew for our door, and are available available at the Fred Palmer Drag Queen Bingo night on March 6. Center, 1927 L St., or online at qprom2014. Capital City Volleyball Club (CCVC) brownpapertickets.com/. ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION If you would like to help make this event Ron Tackitt appreciates the proceeds from the event which will help to support the LGBT possible as a sponsor and give our youth the GRAPHIC DESIGN Volleyball Program in Sacramento (www. welcoming experience so many of us didn’t Ron Tackitt sacvball.com). have, please email [email protected] or call 916-442-0185. EDITOR/OFFICE Our guys and gals (and those in drag), had MANAGER a great time and enjoyed the evening. Charles Peer On behalf of CCVC, thank you very much [email protected] Outword! Mama’s Making Bacon Drag ARTS EDITOR Ray, CCVC Show & Brunch Chris Narloch Hungry for eggs, bacon, biscuits and Center to Host Take Pride in spectacular dresses? SALES Fred Palmer Your Health Fair Look no further! Back by popular demand Dear Outword Readers, Mama’s Makin’ Bacon combines fantastically CONTRIBUTING Join us for the 3rd Annual Take Pride in clad entertainment and a scrumptious WRITERS Your Health Fair, to be held Sunday, April 6 brunch buffet. Chris Narloch This year’s event, being held at Lucca Colt McGraw at noon at the Pioneer Congregational Bonnie Osborn Church, 2700 L St. Restaurant on Sunday, April 13, will feature Ken Pierce Speakers this year include: Bobby Taryn Thru-U and some of Sacramento’s Charles Peer Christian, ASIST trainer; Patrick Ma; and most noted drag queens LGBTQA Youth Speaker at MHANCA. and kings PHOTOGRAPHY who Charles Peer There will also be free HIV testing provided by Breaking Barriers. 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Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association Midtown Business Association 4 Outword Magazine March 27, 2014 - April 10, 2014 • Volume 27 • Issue 6 • No. 501 outwordmagazine.com Gay Press Spending in 2013 Sets Record at $381.4 Million n annual Gay Press Report produced by Rivendell Media representation firm for most LGBT fully communicate their diversity goals publications in the U.S., reports that and to see a return on investment.” reveals that spending in America’s “Gay Press” for 2013 is at spending for 2014 should continue its “America’s gay newspapers and Aa record high of $381.4 million, up 18.2 percent from 2012 growth based on impressive first-quarter publications so often are the heart of the and showing that LGBT community media is as strong as ever. sales for print advertising. LGBT community,” said Bob Witeck, “Print media remains an important part of President of Witeck Communications. “It Spending and circulation in LGBT print circulation up by double digits,” says Todd the toolkit for any company trying to reach is very encouraging to see the growth media is up for 2013, bucking the trends in Evans, President and CEO of Rivendell the diverse LGBT community,” said Tracy trends and resiliency of the community’s the mainstream press. Actual spending is up Media. The LGBT print media once thought Baim, publisher legacy press.” Since 1993, Bob Witeck has of Windy City advised major corporations and marketers Times in on strategies to connect with LGBT Chicago. “This audiences and households. report shows The Gay Press Report has been that regional produced annually since 1994 and LGBT print provides a unique historical perspective media are on the gay and lesbian press and especially key consumer market. To view the 2013 to national report in its entirety, please visit advertising rivendellmedia.com/ campaigns. documents/2013gaypressreport/. The LGBT Among the other findings in the 2013 community is Gay Press Report: among the • Nine out of every ten dollars spent in most loyal of the gay press is spent locally. The gay consumers, press is comprised primarily of trusted and they pay community-owned businesses that reflect attention to the specific need, interests and tastes of brands that are their readership. creative and • In 2013, America’s gay and lesbian inclusive in publications consisted of 125 individual just over 18 percent from 2012 to $381.4 to be recession proof, was significantly their titles, roughly the same size as 2012 with million making a new all-time high. affected by the recession and advertising marketing efforts. It’s no longer good enough an addition of only three titles. Circulation and readership of LGBT media is showed wide swings from its previous high to say you have achieved a 100 percent The combined circulation of all LGBT also up a healthy 15.1 percent. in 2009 of $349.6 million. ranking on LGBT issues. Brands need to publications is now estimated at “What a nice surprise to see both sales and Rivendell Media, the leading media dedicate marketing dollars to this niche, to 2,700,000, up 15.1 percent from 2012. outwordmagazine.com March 27, 2014 - April 10, 2014 • Volume 27 • Issue 6 • No. 501 Outword Magazine 5 Antibody Evolution Study Charts Course to HIV Vaccine n an advance for HIV vaccine research, a scientific team has VRC26, after several months of infection. Using techniques similar to those discovered how the immune system makes a powerful antibody employed in an earlier study of HIV-antibody Ithat blocks HIV infection of cells by targeting a site on the virus co-evolution, the researchers analyzed blood called V1V2. samples donated by the volunteer between Many researchers believe that if a vaccine 15 weeks and four years after becoming could elicit potent antibodies to a specific infected. conserved site in the V1V2 region, one of a This enabled the scientists to determine handful of sites that remains constant on the genetic make-up of the original form of the fast-mutating virus, then the vaccine the antibody, to identify and define the could protect people from HIV infection. structures of a number of the intermediate Analyses of the results of a clinical trial forms taken as the antibody mutated toward of the only experimental HIV vaccine to its fullest breadth and potency, and to date to have modest success in people describe the interplay between virus and suggest that antibodies to sites within V1V2 antibody that fostered the maturation of were protective. The new findings point the CAP256-VRC26 to its final, most powerful way toward a potentially more effective HIV-fighting form. vaccine that would generate V1V2-directed Notably, the study revealed that after HIV neutralizing antibodies.