Volume 25 • Issue 21 • No. 468 • November 8, 2012 • outwordmagazine.com VegasVegas BabyBaby Yeah!Yeah!Yeah! Putting the Sin Back in Sin City page 12 Supporting Capital City Classic Halloween the Center Draws Top Players 2012 Pics page 6 page 9 page 19 COLOR 2 Outword Magazine November 8, 2012 - November 22, 2012 • Volume 25 • Issue 21 • No. 468 outwordmagazine.com COLOR Letters For more information, dates, locations and Breaking Barriers Begins times, please contact: Luanne Leineke, Holiday Food Drive Sacramento Tree Foundation, 916-974-4304 Breaking Barriers has begun their annual or visit www.sactree.com. effort to collect food to deliver to local people living with HIV/AIDS in our area this Mr. Bolt Corrects the Record holiday season. In the October 25, 2012 issue of Outword They are asking for your help in five ways: we reported that Mr. Bolt Leather 2012 1. Make a monetary donation in person at Miguel Rubio had raised $50,000 for local the Breaking Barriers Office or online. Each charities and nonprofits. Rubio has informed food basket costs $25 to make, but any us that the actual amount was over $15,000. amount helps. To make an online donation, We apologize for the mistake in the dollar please visit: networkforgood.org/donation/ amount, but as an ambassador for ExpressDonation.aspx?ORGID2=680456738] Sacramento’s LGBT community, Rubio has 2. You can bring your extra canned food to easily surpassed that amount. their offices, located at 2210 21st St. They are accepting food from noon until 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, in the office and A Night to Fight Bullying other times by appointment. One in four teachers see nothing wrong 3. You can drive food out to clients on the with bullying, even though bullying in days that they are making deliveries for both schools is rampant, and 56 percent of holidays. They can accommodate almost any students have reported being picked on; two schedule and would love to have you on the out of five for their appearance or body size. team. Sadly, nine out of ten gay kids report 4. You can also help by spreading the being bullied, threatened or injured at word. Repost this message on Facebook or school, and a victim of bullying is twice as Twitter, send it out to your email list, collect likely to commit suicide as a child who is food at your work or church, or just make not. some phone calls. Yet something can be done: Schools with 5. You can also help by attending the Fun strong rules of conduct and fair discipline Turkey Bowling Tournament on Sunday, practices report less bullying. Education is November 18, from 1 - 4 p.m. at Fireside the key. Lanes in Citrus Heights. To help reinforce that message, Carina If you have any questions or would like to Lampkin, a lesbian and the owner of participate in this year’s drive, please contact Blackbird Kitchen & Bar, and Shara P. their offices at either 916-447-2437 or via Murphy, Sacramento G&L Center ED are email at [email protected]. hosting “A Night to Fight Bullying,” a fundraiser for the Center’s youth programs. The event will be held Monday, November Free Tree Pruning Clinics 19, from 6 - 9 p.m. at the Blackbird Kitchen Learn how to help your trees develop good + Bar, located at 1015 9th St. There will be structure and form at these free clinics. live cooking demonstrations for a $35 A variety of pruning tools will be donation, and for a $50 VIP donation there presented and discussed and there will be a will also be a cocktail and appetizer walkabout on library grounds to look at tree reception from 6 - 6:30 p.m. structure and pruning. For more information call 916-498-9224. Miguel Diaz Joins Sac. G&L Center’s Board he Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center Board of Directors has appointed Miguel Diaz as its newest board member, Tciting his community activism and experience working with local non-profits. “Miguel has been a longtime activist in the LGBT community especially in the area of HIV issues,” said David Heitstuman, President of the Center’s Board of Directors. “He has a wide breadth of experience in assisting non-profits, especially in the area of fundraising, and will be a tremendous asset as the Center moves forward to grow and better serve the thousands of members of the LGBT community in the greater Sacramento region.” Diaz is a budget analyst with the California Water Resources Control Board and a member of the board of directors of the Capital City Aids Fund. “I am excited to be joining the Center’s board at such a pivotal time in the organization’s history,” said Diaz. “There is a great opportunity for the Center to lead in advocating Miguel Diaz, pictured here at the 2012 Sacramento Valley AIDS and educating on healthy living and I look forward to Run Walk, has joined the Sac. helping lead that effort.” G&L Center’s Board of Directors. 4 Outword Magazine November 8, 2012 - November 22, 2012 • Volume 25 • Issue 21 • No. 468 outwordmagazine.com Supreme Court to Consider Hearing Proposition 8 Case Outword he United States Supreme Court has indicated that it will one step closer to the day when the nation consider whether to grant review in will be able to live up to the promise of Hollingsworth v. Perry liberty and equality enshrined in our Staff T(formerly Perry v. Brown), the federal constitutional challenge Constitution, and all Americans will be able to California’s Proposition 8. to marry the person they love.” PUBLISHER The Supreme Court is expected to either Fred Palmer The Perry case, along with federal law. several cases challenging the “For far too long, gay and grant or deny review in Perry. Should the Court grant review, the Justices will go on to ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION federal Defense of Marriage lesbian couples in Ron Tackitt Act (DOMA), will be California have been consider whether Proposition 8 violates the considered at the Justices’ waiting to exercise the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States GRAPHIC DESIGN Constitution. Ron Tackitt private Conference fundamental freedom scheduled for Tuesday, to marry that the If the Court denies review, the February EDITOR/OFFICE November 20. United States 2012 decision of the United States Court of MANAGER Enacted in November Constitution already Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that struck Charles Peer 2008, Proposition 8 tells them they have,” down Proposition 8 is made permanent, [email protected] eliminated the said Adam Umhoefer, ending four years of marriage inequality in ARTS EDITOR fundamental freedom of Executive Director of California. Chris Narloch gay and lesbian the American Foundation The Supreme Court is expected to release Californians to marry. DOMA, for Equal Rights (AFER), an Order List with its decisions on cases it SALES which was enacted by Congress the sole sponsor of the Perry has granted or denied review from its Fred Palmer in 1996, nullifies the marriages of gay case. “With the distribution of our November 20 Conference by Monday, CALENDAR EDITOR and lesbian couples for all purposes of case for the Court’s consideration, we move November 26. Charles Peer CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Boyce Hinman Lambda Awards to Recognize Our Heroes Chris Narloch Bonnie Osborn he Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center will honor two important Charles Peer figures whose legacies will certainly be a part of California’s PHOTOGRAPHY TLGBT history, Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez and a long Larry Lauszus overdue posthumous recognition of Stan Hadden, one of Sacramento’s Charles Peer Sacramento Daniel Villanueva earliest HIV/AIDS activists, at this year’s Lambda Awards. activist Stan Although a Democratic Assemblymember on AIDS policies in Sacramento, where he Hadden will ON THE COVER be recognized Le Rêve at Wynn Las Vegas Beam of Light3 from the Los Angeles area, Pérez has spent so also worked as a reporter and editor for posthumously Tomasz Rossa much time in Sacramento that he has been Mom…Guess What! newspaper. He is at this year’s Lambda adopted by many as our unofficial favorite credited with spurring the passage of the Awards, along DISTRIBUTION son. He has attended and officiated at many Senate bill which established the California with Kaye Crawford Sacramento events, including being the Grand AIDS Advisory Committee in 1983, the 1985 Assembly Marshall of the 2010 Sacramento Pride legislation which encouraged a coordinated Speaker John A. Pérez. Parade. approach to local AIDS programs and Pérez is the first openly gay Assembly services, and was an early supporter of needle The 2012 Lambda Awards mark a return of ADVERTISING SALES legislature in California to become Speaker of exchange programs to reduce the risk of HIV the ceremonies after a few years absence that the Assembly, and the second nationally to infection. were originally started when the Sacramento Northern California reach that office. In the Assembly and in the Hadden served on Sacramento’s Mayor’s G&L Center was known as the Lambda (916) 329-9280 Fred Palmer Speaker’s office, he has been an outspoken Task Force on AIDS, a City/County effort Center. The awards seek to remind us of those Charles Peer advocate of marriage equality, the repeal of formed in January 1986 and tasked with who have paved the way, and of those who DADT and DOMA and is a member of the recommending public policy relative to are leading the way to a future more inclusive National Advertising Representative Rivendell Media LGBT Legislative Caucus. methods of transmission prevention; human of the LGBT community.