No. 508 • July 10, 2014 • outwordmagazine.com An Innovative Car Worth Waiting For page 8 Coloring Our Soaring Over Are You Ready for Beautiful Men Make World with Pride the Napa Valley Driverless Cars? Beautiful Music page 4 page 12 page 13 page 15 COLOR Announcements Sac LGBT Center Is Hiring an This call for submissions will culminate in the printed publication of Voices de Queer Operations/Office Manager Femmes, and may include original visual art, Dear Outword Readers, poetry, song lyrics and mixed media, but Felicia Johnson, our operations manager, we’re particularly interested in poetry, who has been part of the Center family since personal narratives/essays, creative non- she started attending our youth group many fiction, social commentary submissions. years ago is leaving the post at the end of Deadline for Submissions is July 31, 2014. this month to work with her family’s Send your questions and submission to business. [email protected] with the subject line We will miss her dearly and are in search as follows: Voices de Queer Femmes of a new operations and office coordinator. submission. The position reports to the Executive Thank-you for sharing your voices. Director and supports the senior Ms. Vihil Heather Vigil, MBA management team with front office coordination, facility management, marketing and communications, Wisdom Project for LGBT administrative HR, and fundraising Seniors to Hold Open House assistance. The Wisdom Project, a new program at the Ideal candidates will have at least 2-3 E. M. Hart Senior Center designed to serve years of related experience, the ability to the LGBT elder population of the greater manage multiple projects simultaneously Sacramento area, is holding an Open House and meet deadlines, exceptional - Community Gathering for LGBT elders, organizational skills, strength in empowering allies and care providers on Wednesday, July volunteers, and demonstrated integrity, 30, from 2 – 4 p.m. in the Redwood East compassion, and the capacity to exercise Room of the Center, located at 915 27th St. discretion and good judgment when working There will be an LGBT Senior cultural independently and as part of a team. competency presentation by a SAGE Full time, non-exempt, $12-14 per hour. Educational Ambassador, and representatives For a full description and to apply go to from local organizations and agencies that SacCenter.org/careers. serve aging seniors and LGBT elders will Sacramento LGBT Center provide overviews of what they offer and More than 100,000 Letters participate in the information fair that will follow. Sent to Legislators For more information, please call or email Dear Outword Readers, Cathy at 218-760-2415 or cathy.perry@att. The counting for July is not over yet, and net or www.servant-hearts.org. yet, we have already delivered over 100,000 of your letters to our California state legislators since the beginning of the year. President Says He Will Sign For those of you who made that possible, I Executive Order Protecting thank you from the bottom of my heart for your loyalty and dedication. Trans Federal Workers A really high percentage of the bills we have worked on have been approved each time they were voted on. We can’t claim sole credit for that, but I bet the shear volume of mail we are delivering has something to do with it. I believe, the more mail we deliver, the more effective we are. So, I hope those of you who have been faithfully responding to our alerts will continue to do so, and those who have not been responding will start doing so now. It’s easy and effective. Find out how you can make a difference at www.CalComUI.org Again, thank-you for your support. Boyce Hinman California Communities United Institute Seeking Submissions from Speaking at the White House LGBT Pride Reception on June 30, President Barack Obama Feminine LTQ Women announced that he will sign an executive order Dear Outword Readers, barring gender identity discrimination for I am seeking to compile at least 50 stories federal employees. “… I’ve asked my staff to for publication to express how you navigate prepare a second executive order so that federal employees — who are already life as Queer or Lesbian Femme. protected on the basis of sexual orientation — Stories submitted can be in the form of a will now formally be protected from poem, a review or analysis of a particular discrimination based on gender identity as well.” No timetable for the order was situation, or of an ongoing situation or announced. Pictured with the President is Jim lifestyle. Darby. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza). outwordmagazine.com July 10, 2014 - July 24, 2014 • Volume 27 • Issue 13 • No. 508 Outword Magazine 3 Outword Coloring Our World with Pride by Corey Egel ride is a hyperkinetic celebration of the GLBTQI community’s Heights in Sacramento or any other gay area across the country, these places should hold Staff shared history, accomplishments and continuing strides special meaning. In many instances, it is Ptoward equality. Perhaps, best exemplified in 2013, when where we volunteered time at a LGBT PUBLISHER just days before San Francisco Pride, Prop 8 was overturned and Center sponsored event, participated in a Fred Palmer rally, or, yes, excitedly scurried to meet up the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, with friends for a drink during happy hour. ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION setting the stage for a fabulous weekend in the City. The commonality — that camaraderie Ron Tackitt which exists in these havens allowed us to So, how do you top a party like that? By greater whole. We are a vast group and our explore our identities in a safe environment, GRAPHIC DESIGN Coloring Our World with Pride! needs and struggles vary. Ron Tackitt become comfortable in our skin, and form With that theme, San Francisco Pride 2014 Each letter of GLBTQI represents a strong bonds with people in the community. marked its 44th year with a spectacular separate entity of individuals – Gay, Lesbian, EDITOR That commonality is being challenged by Charles Peer parade featuring as Grand Marshals TV Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex. apps such as Grindr, Scruff, Jack’d, Hunters [email protected] personality Ross Mathews, author and Among us there are families, partygoers, (and the list goes on) that permit users to transgender rights activist Janet Mock, and activists, people who aren’t “into the scene,” order-in, with many people now choosing to ARTS EDITOR Roberta Kaplan, who helped defeat a portion individuals who are still coming out, and so stay home and subsequently weakening our Chris Narloch SALES Coloring Our World with Pride! was Fred Palmer the theme of the 2014 SF Pride Parade. Image by Corey Egel. 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It is important to show daily lives, but which manifests itself during neighborhoods. The value is priceless, but our pride not just once a year, but to come this annual event: Camaraderie. the significance is meaningless unless we together as a community, support and love The gay community uses the term remember whom we are and where we each other, celebrate and embrace each other “community” quite a bit, but in reality, we came from. as a whole – coloring our world with pride Outword Magazine Inc. are fragmented microcosms that make up a Whether it is the Castro, WeHo, Lavender every day of the year. Office 372 Florin Road, #133 Sacramento, CA 95831 PHONE: (916) 329-9280 FAX: (916) 498-8445 www.outwordmagazine.com [email protected] ISSN # 1084-7618 United States Library of Congress Nat. Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce Nat. Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association Midtown Business Association 4 Outword Magazine July 10, 2014 - July 24, 2014 • Volume 27 • Issue 13 • No. 508 outwordmagazine.com Briefly Put Senate Committee Approves Condoms in Adult Films Bill Legislation by Assemblymember Isadore Hall, III (D – Los Angeles) to require documentation of condom or other personal protective equipment use in California produced adult films, and mandatory employer paid STD testing of adult film actors was approved on June 25 by the California State Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee. “Today, the members of the Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee overwhelmingly saw beyond the adult film industry’s flaccid misinformation campaign and took decisive action to protect these actors in the workplace.” AB 1576 passed on a vote of three to one and now heads to the Senate Appropriations Committee for further action.