Volume 45, Issue 15, April 11, 2014

Mayors race poses dilemma for LGBT Dems
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.

lchibbaro@washblade.com
D.C.s overwhelmingly Democratic-leaning LGBT community will
likely be navigating unchartered waters this summer and fall as an
LGBT-supportive Democrat, Council member Muriel Bowser, runs
against a prominent openly gay Council colleague, independent
David Catania, in a hotly contested race for mayor.
I have no idea how it will come out, said Rick Rosendall, president
of the non-partisan Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance.
Many people are talking about supporting Catania, Rosendall
said. At the same time, some people are circling the wagons as
Democrats.
Rosendall is among many activists who see a potential dilemma
for LGBT voters in a city in which virtually all elected o cials and
nearly all credible candidates for public o ce are supportive on
LGBT rights. Many have longstanding records of support on issues
that were once considered highly controversial, such as the citys
same-sex marriage law.
Bowsers decisive victory over D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray in the citys
April 1 Democratic primary appears to have come with the support
of large numbers of LGBT voters, even though the citys most
prominent LGBT leaders backed Gray.
A Washington Blade analysis of 18 voter precincts believed to have
EEOCs Feldblum on her
long career and how U.S. might
nally ban anti-gay job bias
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
As the two-year anniversary of a landmark
decision granting non-discrimination protections to
transgender Americans approaches, Chai Feldblum
is ready for the next case that could extend those
workplace rules to gays, lesbians and bisexuals.
Feldblum, a lesbian attorney conrmed by the
U.S. Senate to her second term as a member of the
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in
December, said a decision a rming that gay, lesbian
and bisexual people are protected would provide
clarity under the law.
I think it would benet everyone, the agency,
the development of the law if we got a case that
presented the sexual-orientation issue as clearly as
the transgender issue, Feldblum said.
The decision in Mia Macy v. Holder, delivered by the
EEOC on April 20, 2012, a rmed for the rst time that
transgender people are protected under Title VII of
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often that lessons from history are also lessons from ones
own lifespan, said CHAI FELDBLUM.
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Remingtons to
close on Monday
The D.C. gay bar Remingtons will close
its doors for good on Monday ending a
run of 34 years in which Remingtons and
its predecessor gay bar Equus operated
in the same building on Capitol Hill at 639
Pennsylvania Ave., S.E.
Remingtons owner Douglas Bogaev
said the bars customers are invited
to join the sta on Monday night for a
closing party.
Bogaev said a company that bought
the building last year informed him of its
plans to gut the inside structure to make
way for a redesigned interior.
He said the new owner, which city
property records identify as Mountain
View Burleson, LLC, did not tell him what
it plans to do with the building when the
renovation is completed.
According to Bogaev, the previous
owner oered to sell him the building
but he declined, saying he wasnt in a
position nancially to make the purchase.
He said the company didnt oer to rent
him space in the building following the
renovation. City records show Mountain
View Burleson paid just over $3 million
for the two-story structure that consists
of two adjacent buildings.
The rent was high and our country-
western crowd died out, Bogaev said. I
have a day job, and it was getting to be
too much for me.
He was referring to the reputation of
Remingtons and its earlier incarnation of
Equus as the citys preeminent country-
western gay bar. At its peak in the 1990s
and early 2000s Remingtons often was
packed to capacity on weekends and
some weekday evenings with country-
western dance enthusiasts lling the
bars large dance oor.
Bartender Mike Swain said Remingtons
turned to other forms of entertainment
and music around 2007 when the country-
western crowd stopped coming. Drag
shows, hip-hop music nights, a popular
Latino night on Saturdays, and Karaoke in
the bars upstairs room were among the
oerings in recent years, Swain said.
Business has been good, he said. Its
really a shame this is happening. Im very
sad to see it go.
Since it opened in 1980 as Equus, the
bar catered to a mostly gay male clientele
with a country-western theme. The late
Steven Smith, Bogaevs domestic partner,
bought the bar with business partner Dick
Brandrupt in 1985, Bogaev said. He said
Smith and Brandrupt changed the name
to Remingtons around 1986 or 1987.
Smith became the sole owner around
1997, according to records from the citys
liquor board. Bogaev assumed ownership
following Smiths death in 2011 of liver
cancer.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Ebbin wins informal

Alexandria straw poll
Gay Virginia State Sen. Adam Ebbin
(D-Alexandria) came in rst place in an
April 6 straw poll among voters in the
June primary in which 10 Democratic
candidates are running for the 8th District
U.S. House seat being vacated by retiring
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.).
We won last night not because our
campaign bought the most tickets or
because we have popular friends
we won because you and I know that
Congress needs a representative who can
get progressive legislation passed, Ebbin
said in an April 7 statement.
The win shows the continued
momentum my grassroots driven
campaign has been gathering, he said.
The straw poll was conducted at a
beer tasting fundraising party for the
Alexandria Democratic Committee at
the Port City Brewing Company in which
participants paid $40 for advance tickets
or $45 at the door to gain admission. The
Democratic Committee organized the poll.
Although not scientic, political
observers noted that Ebbin, who received
90 votes, beat Alexandria Mayor William
Bill Euille, who came in second place
with 68 votes, and former Virginia Lt. Gov.
Donald Beyer, who came in third place
with 62 votes.
Beyer, a businessman who has
widespread name recognition, is
considered by political pundits to be the
frontrunner in the race.
Among the other candidates, Patrick
Hope came in fourth with 58 votes;
Charniele Herring received 21 votes;
Laver Chatman received 12 votes; gay
rights attorney and TV talk show host
Mark Levine nished seventh with 8
votes; Satish Korpe came in eighth place
with 3 votes; Derek Hyra nished ninth
with 2 votes; and Bruce Shuttleworth
nished tenth with 1 vote.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Alston Foundation stafer
spent funds for personal use
The Wanda Alston Foundation, which
operates D.C.s Alston House for homeless
LGBT youth, released a statement on
Tuesday disclosing that a former sta
member resigned after admitting to
spending some of the organizations
funds for personal use.
The Wanda Alston Foundation has
recently discovered that some of its funds
were spent by a former sta member for
personal use, the statement says. Once
the funds were discovered missing, the
sta member immediately resigned and
has agreed to a repayment plan, the
statement says.
The statement doesnt identify the
former sta member that allegedly
used the funds for personal use. But the
statement follows an earlier statement
released by the Alston Foundation board
on March 11 announcing that Brian
Watson, the foundations founder and
executive director, resigned to pursue
other opportunities.
According to sources familiar with the
Alston Foundation, no other sta member
has resigned from the organization
between the time of Watsons resignation
and the date when the latest statement
disclosing the misused funds was
released on Tuesday.
The board of directors has had an
external accountant conduct a complete
review of all accounts and has determined
that no government funds were misused,
the April 8 statement says.
Additionally, sta and the board have
worked together to strengthen internal
controls to ensure that this doesnt
happen again, including requiring all
disbursements to be made by check, and
restricting authority for direct withdrawal
of funds, the statement says.
The board moved swiftly to address
this misuse of funds, and is condent
that the strict nancial controls that have
been instituted in its wake will prevent
any future issue of this type, it says.
At the time it announced Watsons
resignation on March 11, the board also
announced it had named Ken Pettigrew,
the Alston Foundations director of
programs, as interim executive director.
Watson couldnt immediately be
reached for comment.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Obituary
ERIC LEE, 69
Eric H.M. Lee, an attorney, former legislative
director for the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii),
and most recently the principal partner in Lee and
Associates, a Washington consulting rm specializing
in telecommunications issues, died March 31 from
complications associated with a stroke. He was 69.
Prior to founding his consulting rm, Lee worked in
the 1990s in various positions with AT&T and an Internet
trade association on projects credited with shaping
current federal policies for the U.S. telecommunications
industry.
He played a role in developing the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which, among
other things, addressed and the then nascent commercial Internet.
Lee, who was gay, was a supporter of LGBT rights organizations and provided behind-
the-scenes advice to many of his activist friends working on strategy for advancing LGBT
rights legislation, according to friends and professional colleagues.
He was a very active supporter and informed participant, said Will Burrington, a former
colleague at AT&T who later became president of D.C.s Gertrude Stein Democratic Club,
the citys largest LGBT political group.
To me, aside from his brilliance, as a person, he was just a very authentic,
nonjudgmental, inclusive friend, Burrington said.
A native Hawaiian, Lee graduated from Honolulus Iolani college preparatory school
before going to Princeton University, where he received a bachelors degree with honors
in European and modern Asian history. He received a law degree from Harvard University
School of Law.
A Lee and Associates biography says he began his career in Washington working for
Inouye on issues under the jurisdiction of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation. He later became sta counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on
Foreign Trade and Tourism before serving as Inouyes legislative director.
He next joined AT&Ts Regulatory Aairs Division in Basking Ridge, N.J. and later
became public policy director for AT&T International before returning to Washington as a
member of AT&Ts Government Relations o ce.
After working on issues surrounding the Telecommunications Act, Lee left AT&T to
become public policy director of the Commercial Internet Exchange Association (CIX), the
worlds rst Internet trade association, his biography says.
Lee is survived by his sisters Brenda and Terri Lee; his brother Earl Lee; and his nieces
Alyson, Annaliese and Katrina Kintscher all of Honolulu.
Other survivors include his friends, many from Washington, who say they considered
themselves part of Lees extended family. They include Will (Bill) Burrington, Craig
Human, Bruce Lehman, Robert Garnet, Patrick Keating, John Weinfurter, Raymond
Zahrobsky, John Gallagher, Hana Sakuta, Kevin Hartmann, and numerous other friends.
Family members and friends said contributions can be made in Lees memory online
or by mail to the Daniel K. Inouye Institute Fund, c/o Hawaii Community Foundation, 827
Fort Street Mall, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 or through hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/
daniel-k-inouye-institute.
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Teen says taking marriage
case to Supreme Court
would be so cool
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS
mlavers@washblade.com
CHESTERFIELD, Va. The forsythia shrubs
behind Emily Schall-Townleys suburban
Richmond home were in full bloom on
Saturday morning as she and her friend,
Jordan Cramer, took pictures of each other
around an abandoned house. The two
teenagers joked, laughed and even teased
each other as they took pictures of each other.
Youre weirdly normal, Cramer said to
her friend.
Schall-Townley repeatedly stressed to
the Washington Blade during a series of
exclusive interviews at her home on April
4-5 that she is simply a normal teenager in
spite of her parents decision to challenge
Virginias constitutional amendment that
denes marriage as between a man and
a woman.
Im just a normal, run-of-the-mill
person, she said while siting on a couch
in the living room as her parents Mary
Townley and Carol Schall and Nicholas
Graham of the American Foundation for
Equal Rights listened.
Schall-Townley, a sophomore at
Monacan High School in North Chestereld,
has played basketball since she was in third
grade. The 16-year-old who obtained her
learners permit a few months ago also
enjoys reading, watching television and
spending time with her friends.
Shes an honor student, noted
Schall proudly after Schall-Townley and
another friend, Haley Eiser, left to go to
watch Captain America at a local movie
theater. Next year shes taking four or
ve AP classes.
Schall-Townley excitedly noted to the
Blade while sitting in her living room that
she has a celebrity crush on Darren Criss
from Glee. She said she had a dream
the night before that Graham received a
phone call from Criss on his cell phone
while he was working in her familys home
and she was able to talk with him.
I love him so much, said Schall-
Townley.
She also noted she would like to meet
Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning
screenwriter of Milk who is a founding
AFER board member.
I think the chances are high for that
one, said Schall-Townley as her parents
began to laugh. I know who Dustin Lance
Black is. Hes dating Tom Daley and Tom
Daley is beautiful.
Schall-Townleys rst experience in the
spotlight came last September when her
parents and Timothy Bostic and Tony
London of Norfolk who two months
earlier led a lawsuit against Virginias
marriage amendment attended a press
conference at the National Press Club in
D.C. where AFER announced former U.S.
Solicitor General Ted Olson and David
Boies had joined the case.
Schall and Townley who have
been together for nearly 30 years and
married in California in October 2008
told their daughter a few weeks earlier
that they were going to challenge the
commonwealths same-sex marriage
ban. Schall-Townley told the Blade the
D.C. press conference was the rst time
she realized OK, so this is big.
I felt important, she said. Its not like
I got asked the questions or anything like
that, but it was like, Wow, Im on TV with
my parents. I was nervous.
Schall-Townley was with her parents inside
a federal courtroom in Norfolk on Feb. 4
when U.S. District Judge Arenda L. Wright
Allen heard oral arguments in the case.
Schall and Townley broke down their
lawyers arguments against the marriage
amendment in an e-mail they sent to
Schall-Townley before the hearing. They
also wrote notes to each other during the
oral arguments.
Schall-Townley said she felt bad for
the lawyers for the defendants Norfolk
Circuit Court Clerk George Schaefer, III,
and Prince William County Circuit Court
Clerk Michle McQuigg who referred
to accidental procreation during the
proceeding. Schall-Townley also recalled
Austin Nimocks of the Alliance Defending
Freedom arguing that same-sex marriage
is bad for children.
That was hard to hear, she said.
Schall-Townley was at home watching
the mens Olympic gure skating nals
on Feb. 13 when her parents learned
Allen had found Virginias marriage
amendment unconstitutional. It snowed
earlier in the day, and Schall shoveled the
driveway in anticipation that she and her
family would have to drive to Norfolk if
the judge issued her decision.
I was really excited to watch the mens
gure skating nal and then we got the call,
she said. All the attention was demanded
there and so we never got to watch it.
Schall-Townleys friend Dominque
joined her, her parents, Bostic and
London and their lawyers at a Norfolk
press conference the next morning. She
also attended the annual Equality Virginia
Commonwealth Dinner in Richmond on
April 4 with Schall and Townley.
At the hearing I had talked to reporters
with a TV camera, so it was at least a little
bit less daunting, said Schall-Townley,
referring to the reporter from a Norfolk
television station with whom she spoke
after Allen issued her ruling. It wasnt my
rst time doing it.
Schall, to whom Schall-Townley refers
as mama, then proceeded to open up an
ottoman in the living room that contained
clips about the case. She refers to Townley,
who is her birth mother, as mommy.
Schall-Townley teased Schall about the
six copies of a recent Richmond Times-
Dispatch feature on her and her family
that Schall kept in a shopping bag.
Its getting harder and harder to keep
up, said Schall.
Schall-Townley told the Blade the
strangest question she has received thus
far came from a radio host who asked her
about whether she likes boys.
I just felt really awkward answering
it, she said. They didnt use it, but I was
still like I dont know. Its because people
assume that maybe if you have two lesbian
parents they have to have a lesbian child.
Thats not true if you have two straight
parents and then you have a gay kid.
Schall-Townley said her classmates,
friends and their parents have been
supportive of her and her parents as the
case works its way through the courts. She
noted she thought the same-sex marriage
opponents who gathered outside the
Norfolk courthouse on Feb. 4 were funny.
I just kind of laughed it o, said Schall-
Townley. It didnt bother me.
Were never going to win them over,
added Schall. If somebody has the strength
and puts the eort into making a sign to
stand out in front of a courthouse, theyre
not the people that we want to win over. We
want to win over the people who are sitting
in their living rooms and looking at us and
saying, well they look normal, maybe its
OK. Its the middle we want to move, not the
end. And those are the wing nuts.
Oral arguments in the case are
scheduled to begin in the 4th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in Richmond on May 13.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, the
Liberty Counsel and other anti-LGBT
groups have led briefs with the federal
appeals court that argue marriage
between a man and a woman is necessary
for procreation.
They actually brushed over our story
as if it didnt exist, said Townley. They
never mentioned Emily, I mean purposely I
think. They dont mention there have been
actual harms that have happened to us.
Sta at a Richmond hospital admitted
Townley when she had pregnancy-related
complications, but they refused to allow
Schall to see her for several hours. Schall
has joint and legal custody of her daughter,
but Virginia law does not allow second-
parent adoptions for same-sex couples.
A clerk at a local post o ce in 2012 told
Schall she is nobody, you dont matter
when she and Townley tried to renew
Townley-Schalls passport.
They dont even mention that we have
a daughter because its so counter to their
entire argument, said Schall, referring to
the Alliance Defending Freedom and other
groups that continue to defend Virginias
marriage amendment. Its their game.
Schall-Townleys friends repeatedly
told the Blade they love her parents.
Its great what theyre doing, said
Eiser, discussing how she feels her friend
has handled the attention around the
case. Emilys handled it perfectly.
They deserve the right to be married,
added Cramer. Somebodys always
going to nd somebody to be prejudiced
against. Its ridiculous. Theyre still human
beings; they have the right to do that and
theyre not dierent just because they like
the same sex.
Schall-Townley and her parents feel
hopeful ahead of next months oral
arguments in the 4th Circuit. She described
the prospect of the lawsuit reaching the
U.S. Supreme Court as so cool.
Any of the cases could be the one that was
making [same-sex marriage] for the entire
nation legal, said Schall-Townley. The fact
we could be the case would be cool.
Va. plaintifs daughter leads normal life in the spotlight
EMILY SCHALL-TOWNLEY is the teenage daughter of a lesbian couple seeking marriage equality
in Virginia.
WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY
Lawsuit claims red gay
employee protected by
Civil Rights Act
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
A federal judge on March 31 ruled
that a gay man who sued the Library of
Congress for ring him in 2012 because of
his sexual orientation has legal standing
to claim hes entitled to protection under
Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In a 34-page opinion, U.S. District Court
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied a
motion by the U.S. Attorney for D.C. that
the discrimination lawsuit led by former
Library of Congress management analyst
Peter TerVeer should be dismissed on
summary judgment.
Kollar-Kotelly rejected the U.S. Attorneys
assertion that TerVeer failed to show he
has standing to pursue his claim that
hes covered under the U.S. Civil Rights
Act on grounds that he was subjected to
illegal sex discrimination based on gender
stereotyping as a gay man.
In a split ruling, Kollar-Kotelly granted
the U.S. Attorneys request to dismiss other
claims by the lawsuit that the Library of
Congress violated TerVeers constitutional
rights as well as violated Library of
Congress regulations and policies.
But according to TerVeers attorney,
Christopher Brown of the D.C. law rm
Ackerman Brown, the ruling upholding
TerVeers ability to move ahead to trial
on the Title VII grounds is an important
development for gay rights.
We are pleased that we will have the
opportunity to develop these claims and
present them in court, Brown told the
Blade. In my opinion this represents
movement forward for the LGBT
community bringing us one large step
closer to equal treatment under Title VII.
He noted that had Kollar-Kotelly
dismissed the lawsuits claim seeking
redress under Title VII, as the U.S. Attorney
had urged, the opportunity to push for
Title VII protection for gay people would
have been lost in this case.
Title VII of the famed 1964 Civil Rights
Act bans discrimination based on race,
religion, ethnicity, gender, and, according
to recent court rulings, gender identity,
but not sexual orientation by itself.
With legislation calling for banning
job discrimination based on sexual
orientation and gender identity stalled
in Congress, gay rights attorneys have
argued in cases similar to TerVeers
that lesbians and gay men are covered
under Title VII. The attorneys, including
those with Lambda Legal, claim that
anti-gay discrimination is based on sex
discrimination which is covered under
Title VII because its perpetrators
perceive gay people as not conforming to
traditional gender roles.
In prior decisions, federal courts
have ruled that transgender people are
covered under Title VIIs prohibitions
against sex discrimination.
In his lawsuit, TerVeer charges that
he was red after being harassed
and humiliated by a supervisor who
repeatedly quoted biblical passages
condemning homosexuality.
The lawsuit says although TerVeer
was targeted because hes gay, he
encountered employment discrimination
and harassment based on his gender,
gender stereotyping and his religious
beliefs, which he says didnt conform to
those of supervisor John Mech.
Mech and library o cials have declined
to comment on TerVeers allegations, saying
they are bound by a Library of Congress
policy of not discussing pending litigation.
Brown said the judges decision to grant
the governments motion to dismiss the
constitutional and other legal claims by the
lawsuit dont pose a signicant disadvantage
to the case. He said those claims had been
made as a backup in the event that the court
dismissed the Title VII claims.
As Plainti has alleged that Defendant
denied him promotions and created
a hostile work environment because
of Plaintis nonconformity with male
sex stereotypes, Plainti has met his
burden of settling forth a short and plain
statement of the claim showing that the
pleader is entitled to relief as required by
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure, Kollar-
Kotelly said in her ruling.
Accordingly, the Court denies
Defendants Motion to Dismiss Plaintis
sex discrimination claim (Count I) for
failure to state a claim, the judge stated
in her ruling.
Diversity campaign features UVA swimmers
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Five members of the University of Virginia swim
team appeared in a pro-gay spot as part of an ad campaign promoting diversity.
The swimmers held a handwritten sign that reads 2 of us are gay. The other
3 dont care that appeared in the We Are All UVa campaign modeled after a
similar initiative at Harvard University.
Parker Camp, a UVA swimmer who came out to Outsports.com last month, told
the website he wanted to take part in the campaign after he saw its Tumblr page.
Outsports.com did not identify the other gay swimmer who appeared in the ad.
Taking the photo with them was the least I could do to prove to them that
our friendships are unaected by their coming out, UVA swimmer Brad Phillips
told the website.
Senate conrms State Dept. nominee
WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate on April 2 conrmed Tom Malinowski as
assistant secretary for the State Departments Bureau of Democracy, Human
Rights and Labor.
There are many places around the world where human rights, democracy,
and labor rights are under assault think China, Venezuela, and Bangladesh for
starters, said U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who chairs the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. To monitor and confront these abuses, U.S. leadership is
essential and the conrmation of Tom Malinowski to promote American values
is vital and long overdue. He is the right person for this job to counter attacks on
civil society, press freedom, and democratic aspirations.
Human Rights First President Elisa Massimino also applauded Malinowskis
conrmation to head the o ce that oversees LGBT-specic policies and initiatives.
We look forward to working with Tom to advance American policies that
uphold human rights and the rule of law, she said.
Malinowski, who was born in Poland, is the former Washington director for
Human Rights Watch.
Uzra Zeya had served as acting assistant secretary of the State Departments
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor before Malinowskis conrmation.
Minn. anti-bullying bill advances
ST. PAUL, Minn. The Minnesota Senate on April 3 approved a measure that
would strengthen the states anti-bullying laws.
Minnesota Public Radio reported the bill passed by a 36-31 vote margin after
lawmakers debated it for nearly six hours. The measures sponsor, gay state
Sen. Scott Dibble (DFL-Minneapolis,) said his proposal would require schools to
train teachers and other personnel on how to better respond to bullying and
mandate the district to investigate and track incidents.
It provides for that balance of local initiative and control, said Dibble,
according to Minnesota Public Radio. Theres some training and some resources
so people have tools to respond in an appropriate fashion.
The Minnesota House of Representatives on April 8 debated an anti-bullying
bill that state Rep. Jim Davnie (DFL-Minneapolis) introduced.
The Associated Press reported that Gov. Mark Dayton has said he would sign
the bullying measure if it were to reach his desk.
Judge refuses to dismiss bias case
against Library of Congress
Five UVA swimmers appear in this ad promoting diversity.
NATI ONAL NEWS APRI L 11, 2014 07
PETER TERVEER was allegedly subjected to
harassment based on his sexual orientation
while working at the Library of Congress.
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New calls for order barring
workplace discrimination
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
President Obama unveiled executive
actions on Tuesday to reduce the gender
pay gap in the workforce as he called on
Congress to take further action causing
some LGBT rights supporters to scratch
their heads over why he hasnt taken similar
steps to address discrimination based on
sexual orientation and gender identity.
Speaking on Equal Pay Day in the
East Room of the White House, Obama
talked about the need to ensure women
receive equal pay for equal work. The
president spoke onstage following an
introduction from Lily Ledbetter, who
became the face of pay inequity after she
discovered she received less pay than her
male counterparts as a supervisor at a
Goodyear plant in Alabama.
So in this year of action Ive used my
executive authority whenever I could to
create opportunity for more Americans,
Obama said.And today, Im going to take
action executive action to make it
easier for working women to earn fair pay.
One action Obama took aimed at
creating more transparency was to sign
an executive order prohibiting federal
contractors from retaliating against
employees who discuss their pay
with each other. Additionally, Obama
issued a presidential memorandum
requiring federal contractors to provide
data to the Labor Department about
employee compensation.
Asked during the regular news brieng
about GOP criticism that Obama took
these actions out of political motivation
ahead of the congressional mid-term
elections, White House Press Secretary
Jay Carney said Obama went forward
with them because Republicans are
blocking passage of the Paycheck
Fairness Act, legislation to address the
pay inequity issue.
If they wanted to take politics out of it,
they should do what the president asked
them to do today and pass the Paycheck
Fairness Act, Carney said. Instead, they
are for reasons that I have yet to quite
understand, but appreciate, have decided
to engage in a debate about whether or
not this is the right thing to do.
But the same situation applies to the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act,
legislation that would bar employers
from discriminating against LGBT workers
that passed the Senate on a bipartisan
vote last year, but remains stalled in
the House. The discrepancy in action
has prompted some LGBT advocates to
renew their calls on Obama to sign the
much sought executive order.
Chad Gri n, president of the Human
Rights Campaign, said Obama should
immediately follow up on his actions on
equal pay with an executive order barring
federal contractors from discriminating
on the basis of sexual orientation or
gender identity.
President Obama will take a
tremendous step today by signing
executive orders reducing sex
discrimination in federal contracting,
Gri n said. Issuing these executive
orders helps build momentum for
Congress to act on paycheck fairness
legislation. The exact same logic applies
to the executive order that would aord
protections to the LGBT workers of
federal contractors. By the stroke of
his pen, the president can immediately
protect over 16 million workers and
pressure Congress to pass ENDA. There is
simply no reason for President Obama to
wait one second longer.
It should be noted that Obamas
executive order on equal pay is actually
an amendment to Executive Order
11246, which prohibits discrimination on
the basis of race, color, religion, sex or
national origin. LGBT advocates said this
directive could serve as a model for an
executive order on sexual orientation and
gender identity, or simply be amended to
include LGBT workers.
Tico Almeida, president of Freedom to
Work, said Obama has an opportunity
during an upcoming speech in Texas on
the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 to follow-up on actions for equal
pay with an announcement on action
against LGBT workplace discrimination.
We applaud President Obama for
signing this weeks executive orders
combating sex discrimination in federal
contracting, Almeida said. In fact, the
presidents new executive action amends
and improves on President Lyndon
B. Johnsons still-functional executive
order that has survived for decades
through Republican and Democratic
administrations. Its time for President
Obama to keep his campaign promise to
the LGBT community by including us in
federal contractor workplace protections.
His keynote speech on civil rights later this
week at the LBJ Library would be a perfect
venue to announce another tremendous
step forward for LGBT Americans.
In response to a question from
American Urban Radio, Carney declined
to preview Obamas remarks in his
upcoming speech in Texas, saying where
the president comes from and where
his thinking is on race is known and that
should be reected in his address.
The White House didnt respond to
the Blades request for comment on why
Obama took action on equal pay with
executive action, but not yet on LGBT
workplace discrimination. Numerous
times in response to similar inquiries,
the White House has said it prefers a
legislative approach to addressing LGBT
discrimination in the workforce.
Also of note is that Obama issued
the executive actions on Equal Pay Day,
raising questions about whether Obama
is waiting for a similar occasion for the
LGBT community, such as Pride month in
June, to take action against LGBT workplace
discrimination by executive order.
Meanwhile, Obama made the case during
his remarks that the equal pay problem
is not just an economic issue, but about
making sure that all Americans have a shot
a success an assertion that supporters
of ENDA and an executive order for LGBT
workers have been saying about LGBT
workplace discrimination for some time.
Its also about whether were willing to
build an economy that works for everybody,
and whether were going to do our part to
make sure that our daughters have the
same chances to pursue their dreams as
our sons, and whether or not were willing
to restore to the heart of this country that
basic idea you can make it, no matter
who you are, if you try, Obama said.
Anti-gay McAllister caught
in cheating scandal
A Louisiana Republican who won his seat in Congress following an endorsement
from a star of A&Es Duck Dynasty was caught on camera engaging in an
extramarital kiss with a woman identied as his congressional staer.
In a surveillance video obtained byThe Ouachita Citizen,Rep. Vance McAllister
(R-La.) is seen on camerain an extramarital kiss with a woman identied as his
congressional staer, Melissa Anne Hixon Peacock. According to the Citizen,
the video was taken on Dec. 23 inside his congressional o ce ve weeks
after McAllister assumed o ce. McAllister married his spouse, Kelly Duncan
McAllister, in 1997.Peacock is also married and she and her husband donated
money to McAllisters campaign.
According to a statement, McAllister is asking for forgiveness for his actions.
Theres no doubt Ive fallen short and Im asking for forgiveness, McAllister
said. Im asking for forgiveness from God, my wife, my kids, my sta, and my
constituents who elected me to serve. Trust is something I know has to be
earned whether youre a husband, a father, or a congressman. I promise to do
everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone Ive disappointed.
McAllister is a freshman member of Congress after winning a special election
last year, so he doesnt have a signicant record on LGBT issues. However,
he campaigned for o ce in opposition to same-sex marriage and has not co-
sponsored any pro-LGBT legislation.
He invited Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson as his guest to the 2014 State
of the Union address following controversial anti-gay remarks made by co-star
Phil Robertson. Willie Robertson endorsed McAllister during his special election
campaign.
CHRIS JOHNSON
12 APRI L 11, 2014 NATI ONAL NEWS
Obama acts on equal pay, but not LGBT bias
PRESIDENT OBAMA took executive action on equal pay, but hasnt yet done so on LGBT
workplace discrimination.
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shows that Bowser won 14 of them, with
Gray and mayoral candidate Tommy
Wells, a Council member from Ward 6,
each winning two of the LGBT precincts.
Several of the precincts won by
Bowser are located in areas long known
as gay neighborhoods, including
Dupont Circle, Logan Circle, Adams
Morgan and Shaw. Other precincts
she won are in areas considered up
and coming neighborhoods into which
many LGBT people are moving, such as
the 14th and U Street, N.W. corridor,
Bloomingdale, and Ledroit Park.
Everett Hamilton, owner of a local
public relations rm and longtime gay
Democratic activist, is serving as a
volunteer communications strategist for
the Bowser campaign. He said he believes
Bowser captured the majority of LGBT
votes for the same reason that she won
the overall citywide vote.
At the end of the day, LGBT people, like
all city residents, are going to vote for the
person who can best run the city and who
they believe is best for the city, he said.
With a gay brother and a gay campaign
manager, Hamilton said no one can
dispute the fact that Bowser and her
campaign have strong ties to the LGBT
community, Hamilton said.
Other political observers, however, point
out that Gray was ahead of Bowser and the
other mayoral candidates until U.S. Attorney
Ronald Machen took the extraordinary step
of implicating Gray in an illegal scheme to
raise more than $600,000 for Grays 2010
mayoral election campaign less than a
month before the primary.
Gray has long denied having any
knowledge in the scheme that led to
the indictment of businessman Jerey
Thompson, who pleaded guilty to
orchestrating the scheme in exchange
for being promised a more lenient jail
sentence. It was Thompson who has told
prosecutors Gray knew about the illegal
activity and approved it.
The revelations by Machen resulted in
an immediate rise in support for Bowser
that many observers believe led to her
victory at the polls.
Catanias LGBT supporters, meanwhile,
have said that Catanias reputation as a reform
politician with a strong legislative record on
issues such as healthcare, education, and
LGBT rights will have none of the negative
baggage that Gray had as the general election
campaign for mayor moves forward.
Longtime gay Democratic activist
Paul Kuntzler, one of the founders of
the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club,
surprised many in the LGBT community
last week when he announced his support
for Catania over Bowser. Ben Young,
Catanias campaign manager, said many
more prominent LGBT Democrats would
soon announce their support for Catania.
Veteran gay Democratic activist Peter
Rosenstein, a Blade columnist, has
emerged as one of Catanias leading
critics, saying Catanias status as a
former Republican whose philosophy
isnt as progressive as people think will
work against Catania in a city with an
overwhelmingly Democratic electorate.
Angela Peoples, president of the Stein Club,
the citys largest LGBT political group, said the
clubs bylaws prevent it from endorsing a
non-Democratic candidate when a Democrat
is running in a particular race.
Even if the club could endorse a non-
Democrat, Peoples said she expects
the club to back Bowser, although its
members have yet to set a date to vote
on an endorsement.
As always, I will certainly yield to the
will of the membership, she said. This
election poses an interesting situation
for many folks and for LGBT folks in the
District as there is an LGBT candidate on
the ballot, Peoples said.
However, I think what Ive seen thus far
coming out of the primary is Democrats
are uniting around Councilwoman
Bowser. And I think thats great to see,
she told the Blade.
Peoples said the club would likely adopt
a plan for an endorsement vote at its April
meeting scheduled for next Monday night.
The citys most prominent transgender
activists, who were solidly behind Gray in
the primary, also have yet to say whether
they will back Bowser now that she
defeated a mayor that many in the trans
community considered a champion for
their rights.
Although Bowser has voted for all
transgender equality measures that
have come before the Council, Catania
has been the author of several of those
measures, including a landmark bill
removing longstanding obstacles to the
ability of trans people to obtain a new
birth certicate to reect their transition
to a new gender.
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We cannot tolerate a non-Democrat, said JACK EVANS of David
Catanias campaign for mayor.
WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY PETE EXIS
Visit washingtonblade.com for more reaction to last weeks D.C.
primary election, including an interview with Council member Jim
Graham on why he lost to Brianne Nadeau.
Nearly all of the Democratic candidates that won or lost
their races in last weeks D.C. primary attended a Unity
Breakfast at a church in Ward 8 on Friday to pledge their
support for Democratic mayoral nominee Muriel Bowser.
Several of the speakers at the breakfast gathering,
including unsuccessful mayoral candidates Mayor Vincent
Gray and D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), called
on the more than 200 people attending the event to work
hard to prevent a non-Democrat from being elected mayor.
Gray and Evans were among the few who identied the
non-Democrat as D.C. Council member David Catania (I-At-
Large), who has announced he is running for mayor in the
November general election as an independent candidate.
We cannot tolerate a non-Democrat, said Evans, who
came in fourth place in the primary behind Bowser, Gray and
Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6). Evans praised
Bowser as an excellent candidate, saying she emerged from
the primary campaign battle tested and battle ready for her
face-o against Catania in the general election campaign.He
predicted Bowser would win the general election.
And David Catania will not only not be mayor he will
not be on the Council anymore, Evans said, drawing loud
applause from the audience.
Gray raised eyebrows among some attending the event by
reiterating his praise for Bowsers successful campaign but
stopping short of directly endorsing her and not mentioning
her by name during his speech. However, Gray made it
clear that he would not be supporting Catania, who more
than a year ago called on Gray to resign as mayor over
the campaign nance scandal associated with Grays 2010
election campaign that most observers believe led to Grays
defeat by Bowser.
In a comment likely to anger Catania supporters, Gray
said Catania has benetted from a requirement imposed on
the city by Congress in the 1970s that requires two at-large
seats on the City Council to be reserved for a non-majority
party candidate, which eectively prevents Democrats from
competing for the two seats.
Although Catania rst won his seat on the Council as a
Republican against Democrat Arrington Dixon in a 1997
special election, he competed in subsequent years for the at-
large Council seat designated for a non-Democrat. According
to Gray, the non-Democratic seat requirement served as a
training ground for somebody now to be a candidate for
mayor in November.
On a separate issue, Gray criticized Catania for raising
objections to a school funding issue during a meeting on
Thursday in which Gray briefed members of the Council on
his scal year 2015 budget.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Democrats target Catania at unity breakfast
the Civil Rights of Act of 1964 against job
discrimination. From that point forward, it
was clear the EEOC the federal agency
that enforces laws against workplace
discrimination would take cases
for transgender people who say they
encountered discrimination, harassment
or bias in employment.
But even as she seeks a sexual-
orientation case for greater clarity,
Feldblum said during an interview with
the Washington Blade in her o ce
Monday that historic decision extends
not only to claims of gender-identity
discrimination, but to sexual-orientation
discrimination as well.
It might also be sexual-orientation
discrimination, but for the purposes
of the law, thats sex discrimination,
Feldblum said. If you have a stereotype
that women should be sexually involved
with men, thats a sex stereotype.
Still, Feldblum tempered the impact of
Macy by saying courts could reject EEOCs
interpretation of the law. She insisted that
other legal measures, such as an executive
order from President Obama barring LGBT
workplace discrimination among federal
contractors or passage of the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act, are needed.
Prior to her conrmation to the EEOC
during the Obama administration, Feldblum
worked as a longtime advocate for the
LGBT community. Starting her work during
the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, Feldblum was
part of the unsuccessful campaign to stop
Dont Ask, Dont Tell from becoming law in
the early 1990s and is credited with drafting
the Americans with Disabilities Act and an
early version of ENDA.
On the wall in her o ce is a framed
picture of an America ag surrounded
by the rainbow colors of the Pride ag
memorabilia from her time with the
Campaign for Military Service against
Dont Ask, Dont Tell. Among the plaques
and photos on her desk is a small framed
collection of her best quotes in the
Washington Blade compiled in the 1990s.
Now that so many of the goals on
LGBT issues that she worked toward over
decades are coming to fruition within the
space of a few years, Feldblum said the
feeling is remarkable and wonderful.
I attribute it to a host of things, Feldblum
said. To people being open and honest,
to people being courageous and asking
for things inside their workplaces even
without ENDA, forming alliances, asking for
protections, voluntary protection. I attribute
it to municipalities passing laws that say
were not going to have contracts with
you unless you have a non-discrimination
policy. I attribute it to some of the legal
cases. I attribute it to some of the novels.
None of it moves by itself.
An abbreviated Q&A between the
Blade and Feldblum follows. Visit
washingtonblade.com for the full
transcript.
Washington Blade: Almost two years
since the Macy decision, how eective do
you think that ruling has been in prohibiting
or stopping transgender discrimination?
Chai Feldblum: Well, I think it has
been eective in light of the sphere in
which that opinion operates. So, the
ruling was a ruling in the federal sector
that said that federal employees who
were discriminated against because of
their transgender status could come
through the EEOC process because we
ruled it was a form of sex discrimination.
And, because that was a position of the
commission, that was going to be the
agencys position not only for federal
employees, but for anyone who would
show up at our door.
So, thats not a ruling that any court
is bound by. Its certainly a ruling that a
court could look at to see whether the
reasoning makes sense to a particular
judge, but mostly its about eecting our
practices inside the agency. So, I would
say, inside the agency, it has done the
work its supposed to do.
I would say that both before the
Macy decision and before our strategic
enforcement plan, there were probably
transgender and gay people showing
up at EEOC, complaining about
discrimination and had just been told
the agency could not do anything to help
them. And now, we have a bit over 200
charges in our system across the country
that our investigators are investigating,
and my guess is some of these folks
knew to come to the EEOC because of
the Macy decision. I bet you a lot of other
folks didnt know before that they werent
covered, got discriminated against, they
know that when theyre discriminated
against, they go to the EEOC, so they
showed up at our doors. And now, theyre
not being turned away.
Blade: That sounds like youre making
a distinction. Youre saying that decision
made a lot of impact within the agency, but
theres still some question about whether
the courts are going to agree with you
that there was gender discrimination?
Feldblum: Of course, because courts
have the autonomy to decide. But do I
think the Macy decision has had and will
have an impact on how federal and state
courts reason? Absolutely, yes. Because I
think we did the smart legal analysis.
So if you look at the TerVeer case that
came out in the federal district court just
last week, the judge didnt reference the
EEOC, but I know that briefs that were put in
that case absolutely referenced the EEOCs
decision not only in Macy, but in other
federal sector cases that the commission
issued. Veretto, Castello, Baker, I mean,
other cases where we explained, in that
case that sexual orientation could be
covered on sex discrimination.
I absolutely believe it will have an eect;
its just not an absolute necessary eect.
When people say do you still need ENDA if
you have TItle VII protection, well, of course,
why wouldnt you want a law that very
clearly explicitly says sexual orientation is
covered, gender identity is covered? Now,
of course, you dont want that law to be so
weak that it gives you less than what you
potentially have now. And that is where I
think the debate will go in the future.
But its important not to underplay
the importance of the EEOCs Macy
decision and its other sexual-orientation
decision because its not aecting just the
agency because it set a standard for legal
reasoning. Its important not to underplay
the importance of those rulings, but its
also important not to overplay them.
Blade: As a result of the decision, is it
fair to say that transgender Americans
have greater protections under the law
in terms of employment thanks to Macy
than gay, lesbian or bisexual people
currently have?
Feldblum: Oh, no, thats completely
wrong because the point of Macy was it
said its a form of sex discrimination when
youre acting on the basis of a gender
stereotype. And we said youre inherently
acting on the basis of gender stereotype
when you suddenly dont like the fact that
someone is transgender. We said its got
to be because you have some stereotype
that someone whos designated male at
birth should stay that way.
Blade: Lets talk about the big picture.
A lot of these LGBT issues youve been
ghting for your entire life are now
coming to fruition. How does that feel?
A lot of these youve been ghting for
for decades, and now in a short space of
time, theyre all happening. I know you
said you wont talk feelings, but will you
make an exception?
Feldblum: I am permitted to have a
feeling about that. Im willing to have a
feeling about that. It feels remarkable and
wonderful. Its denitely living through
history. We talk about taking lessons from
history and its not very often that lessons
from history are also lessons from ones
own lifespan.
So, I think the culture has done an
amazing amount in terms of enabling the
changes. I think the AIDS epidemic was
horrifying. Its sort of hard to describe to
people who didnt live through it what
it was like to have your friends dying all
around you. But it also meant that a lot
of people were outed to their families not
intentionally. People who would never
the families would never have known, or
would never have talked about the fact
that they were gay. It would always have
been Uncle George who went over to San
Francisco or New York.
You now have people across the
country, ordinary families who now knew
they had a gay son or a gay brother. And
thats when I came into this movement.
I graduated law school in 85 and started
working on AIDS issues after two years
of clerking, so 87, 88. People came out
and as the disability grew, as the disability
world is learning right now, and its
something Anupa and I work on together
is trying to get people with disabilities to
come out, so as to destigmatize.
Its so important that people can see a
competent strong person with something
that had been stigmatized. I dont think we
can underestimate the importance of Will
& Grace, the importance of Ellen, just
these simple things that made it ordinary.
Blade: Lastly, I want to get personal.
Your partner, Nan Hunter, an attorney
at Georgetown University is someone I
quote quite a bit. Can you share with us
any future plans?
Feldblum: I assure you if and when we
ever get married, the Blade wont be the
place that people will ever know about
it. But we are not married at this point.
Our plans are to continue to support each
other and the good work that I think were
each doing. We certainly do not always
agree, and that makes for interesting
dinner conversations, but clearly both
of us care a lot about these issues.
Personally, I feel very lucky that I got to be
with the love of my life.
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importance of Ellen,
just these simple
things that made
it ordinary.
Breaking the Silence
with GLSEN
Day of Silence is a national day
of action organized as a grassroots
project by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight
Education Network. People around the
country take a vow of silence to protest
the bullying, harassment and silencing of
LGBT students and their supporters. The
Day of Silence has been held each year in
April since 1996.
This year, GLSEN Baltimore is hosting
a Breaking the Silence event today at
5:30 p.m. at Baltimores Washington
Monument on the Cathedral Street side.
Attendees are asked to bring posters
identifying the reasons for silence and a
bring-your-own picnic dinner.
The event will be held to honor the
memory of GLSEN Baltimore steering
committee member Kay Halle, who
fought for safe and inclusive schools in
Baltimore and built school partnerships
with GLSEN. Participants are asked to
bring a single ower in honor of Kay and/
or anyone who has helped break the
silence for LGBT youth
Many students in the Baltimore area
participate in the Day of Silence, said
GLSEN steering committee member
Johanna Miller. This event is an extension
of their action that increases visibility
around the silence LGBT youth face and
allows them and their allies to come
together and briey experience their
collective strength. For more information,
visit glsen.org/chapters/baltimore.
Police commissioner
to meet community
The Baltimore Police Commissioners
LGBT Advisory Council Meeting has
scheduled a community meeting
with Baltimore Police Commissioner
Anthony W. Batts. It will take place on
Monday from 7- 9 p.m. at the Northwest
District Community Action Center, 3939
Reisterstown Rd. in Baltimore.
The Advisory Council indicated that
Commissioner Batts is eager to hear from
members ofBaltimores LGBT community
and request that folks attend to share any
compliments, concernsand thoughts.
The 10-member advisory council,
announced last June, consists of
advocates within the LGBT community
and members of the Baltimore City Police
Department including Commissioner
Batts. Its mission is to seek ways to
improve the relationship between the
LGBT community and the police.
GLCCB to host
town hall on PrEP
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgender Community Center of
Baltimore and Central Maryland (GLCCB)
will host a town hall panel and discussion
on April 28 on the use of Pre-Exposure
Prophylaxis (PrEP) an HIV prevention
method in which people who do not have
HIV take a daily pill to reduce their risk of
becoming infected.
The use and eects of PrEP still remain
a mystery to many in our community,
GLCCB board member Chris Adkins said
in a statement. This months town hall is
designed to allow for an open dialogue
between community members and
health care professionals to educate,
clarify, and demystify the use of this often
misunderstood HIV prevention method.
The town hall will be held in the Mason
Lord Room of the Waxter Center from 7-9
p.m. and will feature guest speakers Deb
Dun of Chase Brexton Health Services;
Brian M. Palmer of Gilead Sciences,
Inc.; Dr. Renata Arrington-Sanders of
Johns Hopkins Hospital; and Dr. Patrick
Ryscavage of University of Maryland
Medical Center.
The panel will address the risks and
benets of the medication, accessing
health insurance and co-pay assistance
programs needed to cover the costs, and
ways to access medication in Baltimore.
Additionally, HIV testing will be oered
and local physicians will be available to
answer any related questions.
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is a
medical protocol that is designed to treat
people who have not been exposed to
specic diseases, but are at high risk of
contracting them.
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Truvadas use as HIV prevention drug raises concerns
NEW YORK Debate persists in the gay community over the use of Truvada, a drug
hailed as a lifesaver for many with HIV, about its use and eectiveness as a prevention
technique for uninfected men who have gay sex without condoms, the AP and other
news outlets report.
Many doctors and activists see immense promise for such preventive use of Truvada,
and are campaigning hard to raise awareness of it as a crucial step toward reducing new
HIV infections, which now total about 50,000 a year in the U.S., the AP reports.
Yet others despite mounting evidence of Truvadas eectiveness say such
eorts are reckless, tempting some condom users to abandon that layer of protection
and exposing them to an array of other sexually transmitted infections aside from HIV.
If something comes along thats better than condoms, Im all for it, but Truvada is not
that, Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, was quoted as
having said by the AP. Lets be honest: Its a party drug.
Truvada, produced by California-based Gilead Sciences, has been around for a
decade, serving as one of the key drugs used in combination with others as the basic
treatment for people who have HIV. However, the drug took on a more contentious
aspect in 2012 when the Food and Drug Administration approved it for pre-exposure
prophylaxis, or PrEP in other words, for use to prevent people from getting sexually
transmitted HIV in the rst place, the AP said.
Since then, critics have warned that many gay men wont heed Truvadas once-
a-day regimen and complained of its high cost roughly $13,000 a year. Truvadas
proponents say most insurance plans including Medicaid programs now cover
prescriptions for it, and they cite studies showing that the blue pill, if taken diligently,
can reduce the risk of getting HIV by more than 90 percent, the AP said.
A town hall panel discussion on PrEP is planned for April 28 from 7-9 p.m. at the GLBT
Community Center of Baltimore. Visit glccb.org for details.
England of cial calls conversion therapy abhorrent
LONDON Englands Health Minister Norman Lamb says gay conversion therapy is
abhorrent and has no place in modern society, the Guardian reports.
It is based on the completely false premise that there is something wrong with
you if you happen to be gay, Lamb, the minister for care and support, was quoted as
having said by the Guardian. I certainly want to do what I can, as a liberal Democrat, to
eradicate this.
Lamb spoke to the Guardian as 15 cross-party MPs (members of Parliament) wrote to
him demanding tougher measures, including consideration of a ban on gay conversion
therapy.
3 more dead from
bacterial meningitis strain
LOS ANGELES The strain of bacterial meningitis that infected 22 gay men and
killed seven in New York City starting in 2010, continues to be a small but lethal
public health risk with eight more having contracted it this year in Los Angeles
County. Three died and all were men who had sex with men, the Associated
Press reports.
Last week, the countys Department of Public Health urged gay men who have
had HIV or multiple partners to get vaccinated against invasive meningococcal
disease, the AP said.
However, the department said the three men who died didnt have any direct
contact with each other. The disease still is considered rare and sporadic and the
department is shying away from declaring any outbreak in the gay community,
the AP said citing authorities.
Four of the eight people who came down with the illness had sex with other
men and three were HIV positive. The three who died in February and March
were 27 or 28 years old and two were HIV positive, according to the department.
Of the other ve people who fell ill, four are out of the hospital and one is
hospitalized but recovering, the AP said.
The agency was insensitive for failing to announce the deaths earlier, Michael
Weinstein, executive director for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, told the Los
Angeles Daily News.
About a third of the 32 bacterial meningitis cases reported in the county since
October 2012 involved men who had sex with men, the Daily News reported.
That population is most at risk right now, said Dr. Robert Bolan, medical
director for the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
The county health department is paying attention and acting in a timely
manner by urging vaccinations for members of the gay community, he told the
newspaper.
MICHAEL WEINSTEIN, executive director of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, said the L.A.
Department of Public Health was insensitive in responding to a meningitis outbreak.
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L.A. outbreak stokes new
fears among gay men
By DANIEL ONEILL
Anxiety has again increased this past
week following reports of new cases of
invasive meningococcal disease (IMD), i.e.
meningitis and/or sepsis caused by the
bacteria Neisseria meningitidis, among
gay men in Los Angeles County. IMD cases
are typically scant and sporadic with little
cause for broad public health concern. But
this recent spate of apparently connected
cases, concentrated in the gay community
resonates with us dierently, given our
long history with a certain other disease.
Several burning questions remain for
gay men amid the fear and uncertainty of
what this new outbreak means for them:
What is my personal risk? What can I do to
protect myself from infection? And should I
get vaccinated?
Since 2010, an outbreak in New York has
been tracked among men who have sex with
men (MSM), identifying 22 cases through
April 2013, which led to seven deaths. Even
so, the absolute number of annual cases
within the U.S. general population remains
vanishingly small, at less than half of what it
was two decades ago.
Curiously, despite the recent escalation
of IMD in MSM, the disease was still not on
many of our radars until last spring, when
four cases were detected in Los Angeles.
At that time, there was much confusion
over apparently conicting messages from
dierent departments of health and false
insinuation that this was another gay
disease, which government o cials were
dragging their heels on addressing. The
frenzy of media coverage left many of us
without clear answers on whether getting
vaccinated or even worrying about the
disease appearing in D.C. next was merited.
And now, following news of eight
conrmed IMD cases in LA County this
year half among MSM, of which three
were HIV-positive and reported residence
in or socializing around West and North
Hollywood the LA County Department
of Public Health last week broadened its
previous recommendation for vaccination.
Health o cials there now advise that all
MSM be vaccinated if their residence, travel
or social interactions have put them or will
put them in regular close contact with other
MSM. Close contact is dened as kissing,
sexual contact, sharing eating utensils or
drinking containers, sharing cigarettes or
being within a three-foot distance for more
than eight hours.
Because the recent cases in LA appear
to be linked, a push to increase local
vaccination to include almost all MSM is
indicated to prevent secondary cases in
the setting of an epidemic. However, the
question is more nuanced for gay men in
other major cities like D.C.
Notably, Seattles public health o cials
discouraged expanded vaccination among
local gay men last spring, stating that doing
so would be an overreaction. Meanwhile,
health departments in San Francisco and
D.C., advised vaccination for sexually active
gay men, who connect through social
networking applications or planned to
attend parties, clubs or other venues where
gay men meet.
So what about vaccination now? In short,
it still depends on your HIV status, current
and anticipated sexual practices, and most
importantly, ones tolerance for risk. Broad
vaccination for IMD is not practical in places
where there is no ongoing epidemic; and to
date, D.C. has had no reported cases. No
real herd immunity would result from such
an eort anyway, considering after several
years the vaccines eectiveness wanes,
requiring a booster at ve-year intervals.
For now, simple recognition of symptoms
that suggest infection followed by prompt
medical attention is more powerful
than any vaccine. Some of the vague
constitutional symptoms that may precede
the onset of IMD include sudden fever,
nausea, confusion, headache, sensitivity to
light and sound, severe muscle aches, and
rash in a previously healthy person.
Although these initial clinical features are
similar to many common, self-limited viral
illnesses, left untreated ones condition
may rapidly decompensate to more
ominous and specic symptoms of neck
stiness, mottled or discolored skin, and
cold or painful extremities.
If you believe you have been in close
contact with an established IMD case, a
vaccine will not acutely protect you. Rather,
you should consult your provider regarding
a one-time antibiotic dose to prevent
developing the disease. Beyond 14 days
from a suspected exposure the evidence
suggests no need for antibiotic prophylaxis.
For those interested in vaccination, either
of the two recommended quadrivalent
conjugate vaccines (Menactra or Menveo)
would cost you about $85 without
insurance at CVS pharmacy or $150 as a
walk-in at Whitman-Walker Health, with
insured patients paying less. HIV-positive
individuals should receive both an initial
and booster shot two months apart.
DANIEL ONEILL, MD is an internal medicine
resident at Virginia Mason Medical Center in
Seattle and plans to move back to D.C. this
summer to continue his training.
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In last weeks Democratic primary elec-
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election being held in April rather than
later in the year, among other factors.
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primary should be held closer to the
general election. By holding the primary
in April, incumbents who were defeated
have a nine-month lame duck period.
That is simply too long and can potentially
be disruptive to the District accomplishing
its goals during this time. We now have a
lame duck mayor presenting a budget to
the D.C. Council. Thats quite an incentive
for Council members to disregard some
of the priorities that the mayor presents.
Mayor Gray simply does not have the
same power post-election as he did prior
to the election. It also gives the mayor al-
most a year to implement changes as he
sees t, with no regard for how the elec-
torate might react.
In addition, we have lame duck Coun-
cil members in Wards 1 and 6. It will not
have an impact in Ward 6 since Council
member Tommy Wells chosen succes-
sor, Charles Allen, prevailed in the Dem-
ocratic primary after Wells chose not to
seek re-election to his Council seat to run
for mayor. Thus, the transition between
Wells and Allen will be seamless and I
do not believe that Ward 6 residents will
disregard Wells during the lame duck pe-
riod. It may, however, impact Wells ability
to negotiate with his Council colleagues.
In Ward 1, where Brianne Nadeau
defeated Jim Graham in his Council re-
election bid, Grahams lame duck status
may have more of an impact. Though
Graham publicly pledged to ensure that
there is a smooth transition between him
and Nadeau, constituent services may be
murky over the next nine months. Graham
is highly regarded in the area of constitu-
ent services, but after a contentious race,
there may be a portion of the electorate
that is confused about whom to contact
in constituent service matters. Highly en-
gaged voters may understand that Graham
is still the Council member for the next nine
months, but lesser engaged residents, who
often are the ones that need the most as-
sistance, may not understand. There also is
not much incentive to introduce legislation
or to build coalitions with colleagues over
legislative or budget battles.
Hence, the nine-month lame duck pe-
riod will result in a lengthy timeframe in
which some elected o cials do not feel
beholden to other legislators or to the
voters. In reality, the negative impact will
probably be limited because all three
lame duck elected o cials Mayor Vin-
cent Gray and Council members Jim Gra-
ham and Tommy Wells have too much
integrity and care too much about their
legacies to not work hard until their last
day in o ce. All the same, to be on the
safe side, the primary date should be
moved back in future elections, so we
never have to deal with a lengthy lame
duck period again.
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He deed conventional
wisdom once and
can do it again
By PAUL KUNTZLER
Although I was disappointed that May-
or Vincent Gray did not win the Demo-
cratic nomination for mayor, last weeks
results resolved a conict that I was fac-
ing:I now do not have to chose between
Mayor Gray and D.C. Council member Da-
vid Catania.
Before I went to bed early Wednesday
morning, I sent a letter to Catania that I
was now enthusiastically supporting his
election as mayor next Nov. 4 and that
I would be sending my rst check to his
campaign manager, Ben Young.
Council member Muriel Bowser, who
ran asthe candidate of resentment, said
that she would not support the Demo-
cratic nominee if Mayor Gray won the pri-
mary. Now that she has won the Demo-
cratic nomination, Bowser has reversed
herself and says that she now expects ev-
ery Democrat to support her candidacy.
As chair of the D.C. Council commit-
tee with oversight of housing, Bowser
has accomplished little. Catania said on
Wednesday, In a year and a quarter of
chairing the committee, she has not ad-
vanced a single substantive measure to
address a single part of the problem.
Also on Wednesday, Catania said that
in her years on the Council, all that she
has done is to vote yes on about 50 pieces
of legislation which I introduced.
In addition, Bowser scored only a me-
diocre rating of +5.5 from the Gay and
Lesbian Activists Alliance on its candidate
questionnaire.
In contrast, Colbert King wrote in his
Washington Post column that, Catania is the
Councils hardest-working member. Prob-
ably the smartest and feistiest, too.
As an openly gay candidate, Catania
has won the endorsement of the Victory
Fund, which raises funds nationally for
gay candidates.
In 1997, Catania rst ran an for an at-
large Council seat as a Republican against
Democratic candidate and former Coun-
cil chair Arrington Dixon. The conven-
tional wisdom then as now was that
Catania had no chance of winning. Back
then, I believed that wisdom. But I told
myself, I am going to vote for him anyway.
On that Tuesday morning, while wait-
ing for a cab to take me to Washington
National Airport for a ight to Chicago, I
ran over to Jeerson Junior High School
and voted for Catania. The following
Thursday afternoon, I was on another
ight to San Francisco when I noticed that
someone had left a copy of USA Today on
an empty seat. I picked up the paper to
discover that Catania had won. I was as-
tonished!Our LGBT community now had
its rst openly gay member of the D.C.
City Council.
Org should broaden its
scope to assist even
more LGBT candidates
Last Sunday was the annual Victory
Fund National Champagne Brunch and
by all accounts it was a success. There
were fewer people than last year but that
could be attributed to the steep price in-
crease for tickets.
Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of
the Victory Fund, began the program
and spoke of his recent heart attack and
thanked the sta and board for all their
hard work during his illness. It was good
to see him back. He is often seen as the
heart and soul of the Victory Fund and de-
serves much of the credit for its success in
recent years. He introduced Steve Elmen-
dorf, board chair, along with Kim Hoover,
board treasurer and event co-chair.
The brunch is often a moving event in
which LGBT leaders from across the na-
tion gather to celebrate how far we have
come and remind each other how far we
still have to go for full equality. Each year
there is a featured speaker and this year
it was Rep. Mike Michaud (D-Maine) who
is running for governor and recently came
out as gay. If elected, he would be the rst
openly gay person to be elected as a gov-
ernor. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) introduced him
and remarked that it is becoming increas-
ingly di cult to be the rst of anything in
the LGBT community because of the suc-
cesses we have had in recent years.
We had a New Jersey governor who came
out in o ce and a gay governor who never
came out in another state, but this would
still be a rst. Polis talked about how hard it
must have been for Barney Frank when he
was the only out person in Congress while
today when Michaud came out there were
others there to throw him a coming out
party. They served pink cupcakes and the
musical selections included Somewhere
Over the Rainbow.
When Michaud spoke he said, never
before, and most likely never again will I
eat pink cupcakes. He also commented
on the beautiful people in the room and
reminded everyone that he is still single
and was going to be in Washington all
weekend. The line formed to the right.
Among the other candidates who
spoke to the welcoming crowd were
Maura Healey, whos running for attor-
ney general in Massachusetts, and Mary
Gonzalez, a candidate for the House of
Representatives in Texas. David Catania,
D.C. Council member and mayoral can-
didate, also spoke and talked about his
record in D.C. and how the Victory Fund
has been instrumental in his past races.
He commented on how far behind he is
in the polls at this point but said he could
make that up. The applause for him was
denitely on the lighter side as many in
the room are from D.C. and supporting
the Democratic nominee.
It is my understanding that the Victory
Fund will be going through a strategic
planning process in the coming months.
All good organizations do this and it is
time for the Victory Fund to rea rm its
mission and to look at what they are do-
ing well and what they need to work on.
There were people I spoke to who didnt
come to this years brunch for reasons
other than the cost. Some stayed home
because of the Victory Funds endorse-
ment of Republican Richard Tisei in his bid
for Congress from Massachusetts. Others
didnt come because of the early endorse-
ment of Catania, which occurred before he
even announced. These and other issues
surely will be part of the discussion during
the strategic planning process.
The Victory Fund should nd a way to
let their huge mailing list and those visit-
ing their website know about LGBT can-
didates they arent endorsing. There are
many such candidates around the nation
running for posts from county commis-
sion to school board to town council.
They are running for the rst time and
may not meet the criteria for an endorse-
ment. But these candidates deserve to
have people know they are stepping up
to the plate. Others, like longtime activist
Dana Beyer, who is running for State Sen-
ate in Maryland against an LGBT incum-
bent endorsed by Victory Fund, at least
deserves recognition on the website to
let people know she is running even if she
isnt endorsed.
These candidates are part of the future
and they make up, as they say in baseball,
our bench.
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PAUL KUNTZLER is a longtime LGBT advocate
and D.C. resident.
Hardworking Catania is right choice for mayor
PETER ROSENSTEIN is a D.C.-based LGBT rights
and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly
for the Blade.
Victory Fund President CHUCK WOLFE told
Sundays crowd about his recent heart attack
and thanked supporters for their work
during his absence.
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Irony of discriminating
against those with difering
views lost on some
Based on the over-hyped pseudo con-
troversy of the past week, it appears that
pitchforks and lit torches have suddenly
become fashion accessories among some
gays and lesbians and even a few straight
supporters.
Its an ugly trend.
If youre out of the loop on this, be
grateful. Its almost too painful to re-
count. The gay community has, once
again, been embarrassed by the impul-
sive impatience and frenzied frustration
of activist-extremists. It is likely weve
also lost the condence of more than a
small number of more conscientious al-
lies along the way.
A troubling display of bloodlust tends
to do that.
Most reputable LGBT organizations
didnt take the bait when last weeks con-
troversy regarding open-source technol-
ogy company Mozilla and its selection of
Javascript and Firefox developer Brendan
Eich as CEO exploded online like projec-
tile vomiting. The political fringe began
calling for his head on a platter, or at least
the loss of his employment. He would re-
sign in the wake of the ensuing brouhaha
over a long-ago political donation.
No matter that had the situation, or
politics, been reversed, the outcry would
have been righteously and inversely in-
dignant. Why quibble over principle when
a retributive beheading is possible?
His oense? As was long-ago known
and publicly debated, Eich had made a
small personal contribution to support
Californias Proposition 8 campaign op-
posing the legalization of same-sex mar-
riage. He did so eight years ago, when
quite a few others, including prominent
public gures and national politicians of
many stripes, were not yet willing to sup-
port marriage equality along with the
voters of the state.
Never mind that he was universally re-
garded as a fair administrator, had no his-
tory of discriminating against anyone, and
pledged to continue and expand corporate
diversity policies and programs encourag-
ing acceptance and accommodation. A
sort of hapless techno-nerd unskilled in
public relations would not be accorded
the same courtesy or rights his detractors
would expect if roles were reversed.
The transparently ill-considered and
contradictory rationalizations for de-
manding his ring were both simultane-
ously disheartening and hilarious. Cultural
cleansing and purication of opinion were
deemed to be superior considerations.
Too many in the chattering class and
so-called progressive activists gleefully
rushed to make an example of an iconic
heretic. Consternation by others, notably
writer and political commentator Andrew
Sullivan, only fueled the ire of what was
rapidly devolving into a seething, albeit
small, online mob. Soon the crazy only
got crazier. Leftist anger bred right-wing
outrage and vice-versa, generating the in-
evitable cycle of viciousness and cartoon-
ish characterizations.
It wasnt long until liberal Bill Maher dis-
missively belittled this boorish behavior on
his political-comedic TV show, telling view-
ers amid a backdrop of chortling guest
panelists and cackling audience members,
I think there is a gay maa. I think if you
cross them you do get whacked.
A well-reasoned op-ed by New York
Times columnist Frank Bruni last week-
end concluded, Sullivan is right to raise
concerns about the public ogging of
someone like Eich. Such vilication wont
accelerate the timetable of victory, which
is certain. And it doesnt reect well on
the victors.
It is astonishing that in the midst of
winning hearts and minds on the most
essential elements of equality, some
would gamble the goodwill of the many
for the pleasure of revenge on the few.
Punishing those reluctant or unwilling
to yet concur only yields suspicion that
those who countenance divergent politi-
cal views might be next.
Call it a moral issue exception if you
want, but concocting an illegitimate justi-
cation oers no comfort to those caused
to wonder exactly who might suer a good
old-fashioned public shaming. If this type
of inappropriate and unacceptable reac-
tion is allowed on one instance, what cit-
izen-suspects on what other public issues
will also be rounded up for punishment?
Have we lost the ability to be mag-
nanimous when winning or gracious in
victory? Are we incapable of shedding a
victims impulse for retribution?
If so, thats sad.
Pitchforks, lit torches become gay accessories
Gay of cial is most
successful legislator running
By SETH MORRISON
Residents of the 8th Congressional Dis-

trict are in the midst of a unique Demo-
cratic primary to replace our retiring
Congressman Jim Moran. At this point
we have 12 candidates vying to show that
they are more progressive than the oth-
ers regardless of when they adopted
their progressive platforms.
After reading in the Blade about three
out gay Republicans running for Congress
in other states I realized that our nation
has turned a major political corner. With
every candidate in this race fully support-
ing LGBT rights, marriage, non-discrimi-
nation, etc., we no longer have to focus
on LGBT candidates in the same way. In
fact, I am strongly supporting Adam Ebb-
in for many dierent reasons.
Yes, many of us know that Adam, who
11 years ago became the rst openly gay
member of the Virginia General Assem-
bly, was also the man who persuaded
two governors to sign the rst executive
orders protecting LGBT Virginians from
discrimination in state employment and
the legislator who expanded life insur-
ance benets to domestic partners long
before the current wave of marriage vic-
tories. But we have moved past the time
when it was essential to support the out
candidate because they were out.
Why then am I strongly supporting
Adam in this race? The answer is simple:
He is by far the most successful legisla-
tor in the race.Adam is that rare individ-
ual who upholds our progressive values
while partnering with the other party to
get good legislation passed. Democrats
have been in the minority in the Virginia
General Assembly until the recent switch
in the Senate. Adam has never let that
stop him from reaching out to Republi-
cans and nding ways to get progressive
legislation passed.
Adam has written good legislation and,
most importantly, passed many bills.
Thanks to Adam, pregnant immigrant
mothers now have access to Medicare;
hybrid car owners no longer pay a tax
penalty; and every homeowner can install
solar panels. In other areas, Adam passed
legislation establishing mental health pi-
lot programs in community colleges, led
our Commonwealth in ghting human
tra cking and won approval of legisla-
tion to enable lower interest rates on de-
ferred property taxes for seniors.
I encourage you to compare Adams re-
cord and consider who can most eective-
ly champion our progressive values in the
highly partisan House of Representatives.
Please join me, the Victory Fund, Sens.
Chap Peterson and Mark Sickles, retired
Sen. Patsy Ticer and many others, straight
and gay alike, in supporting Adams cam-
paign. America needs his unique ability to
bring together legislators with very diering
viewpoints to pass progressive legislation.
VI EWPOI NT
Ebbin has earned our support in Va. House race
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SETH MORRISON is a resident of Arlington, Va.
ADAM EBBIN is running in a crowded eld to
replace retiring Rep. Jim Moran in Virginia.
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Detroit Baptist o cial
resigns after coming out;
plans Silver Spring church
By MARIAH COOPER
Bishop Allyson Abrams is no stranger
to challenge. When her secret threatened
to come out in her Detroit church that
she was a lesbian married to a woman
she knew she had to act fast to save her
job and livelihood. Now, several months
and one resignation later, Abrams is
starting over by opening a new church in
Silver Spring, Md.
Abrams, original ly from Alabama,
grew up in the church with her mother,
grandmother and grandfather all very
involved. She remembers sitting in the
back of the church at around age 8 and
having a conversation with God in which
she felt he was telling her to become
involved in ministry.
After receiving her bachelors of science
in mechanical engineering at Howard
University, she followed that calling to a
seminary in Ohio. While there, one of her
favorite professors challenged her that
scripture prohibits homosexuality.
I had so much respect for my
professor so I went back and looked at
the scripture, Abrams says. That began
my journey to question homosexuality.
God began to reveal to me what scripture
meant. It was like a light bulb going o.
We cant be so religious that we hurt and
wrong people.
Abrams, who before marrying her
wife had been married to a man and
had children, began to question her
sexuality after this revelation. She went
on to pastor at one church in Detroit for
seven years. Then, she moved on to Zion
Progress Baptist Church becoming its rst
female pastor. During that time, Abrams
married her wife, Diana Williams, in Iowa,
though she declines to go into details
about exactly when they were married or
to what degree she intended to keep her
marriage hidden.
Word eventually traveled around that
Abrams had married a woman and some
of her friends began to receive phone
calls and text messages asking if it was
true. Abrams was afraid that her church
would hear about it from someone else
and decided to tell the deacons of her
church. They urged her to share the news
with the congregation.
During a sermon on the love of Christ,
Abrams disclosed to her church that she
was a lesbian and married to a woman.
I wasnt sure at all what people would
say or feel, Abrams says. Some were
supportive of me. I just needed to be
honest with them and have them hear it
from me and not somebody else.
Abrams says she felt freedom after
revealing her secret.
Theres a certain joy that you have that
you cant share with the congregation
because of what the church says about it.
I thought about it all the time.
After ve years with the church,
Abrams felt it best to resign. She says she
did not feel coerced into stepping down,
only that she felt it was the best decision
at the time.
She and her wife wanted to move to
a marriage equality state where there
were groups moving the LGBT movement
forward. Both having connections to the
D.C. area, they decided Maryland was a
good t.
Her new church, Empowerment
Liberation Cathedral (633 Sligo Ave., Silver
Spring, Md.), opens in May. Its conceived as
a welcoming and a rming Baptist church
that she is starting with support from
her wife. Abrams has needed additional
nancial support and has been holding
fundraisers including concerts with other
fellowships asking for donations.
We welcome and a rm every race,
gender, sexuality and disability, Abrams
says. We want to give them a safe space,
teach principles and to pour into them
Gods love. People say its amazing to hear
a pastor say that God loves us the way we
are. Im always going to make sure God
knows them.
Rev. Charles Christian Adams of
Hartford Memorial Church in Detroit is a
colleague of Abrams. He believes her new
church will be a success.
Shes conscientious and preaches
with an open heart. Theres not a lot of
love in churches. Any church she pastors
will have that trademark, he says.
Empowerment Liberation Cathedral
also oers virtual membership. Abrams
says she received lots of requests for
her to preach all over the country after
her story came out. Unable to travel all
over and meet everyones requests, she
decided to create a virtual membership
for her church so that anyone can hear
her preach.
Its very di cult still. All I worked
hard for is over. Its like being back at the
beginning. Its hard as a woman to get
to the top level. Im kind of kicked to the
curb. Now Im reaching out for support.
Im still the same preacher and the same
person. Im asking the Maryland LGBT
community for support.
Bishop ALLYSON ABRAMS left Detroit after coming out as a lesbian minister.
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Saturday, April 12
Dignity Washington, an LGBT-
a rming Catholic group, meets for
weekly Mass on Saturday evenings and
will have a special Stations of the Cross
service today at 11 a.m. at the Franciscan
Monastery (14
th
and Quincy streets, N.E.).
Visit dignitywashington.org for details on
all its Holy Week events.
Sunday, April 13
Palm Sunday
Washington National
Cathedral(3101 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) is
having a Palm Sunday service today at 8
a.m. Details at nationalcathedral.org.
Metropolitan Community Church of
D.C. (474 Ridge St., N.W.) holds Sunday
worship services today at 9 and 11 a.m.
Details at mccdc.com.
The United Church (1920 G St., N.W.)
has a Palm Sunday service today at 11
a.m. Details at theunitedchurch.org.
Foundry United Methodist
Church (1500 16th St., N.W.) holds Palm
Sunday services at 9:30 and 11 a.m.
Details at foundryumc.org.
Unity Fellowship D.C. under the
leadership of founding pastor Rev. Abena
McCray has a Palm Sunday and pastoral
anniversary service today at its new
location at the Howard Thurman Chapel
(1400 Shepherd St., N.E.) at 10:30 a.m.
Visit ufcdc.com for details on this and
other Holy Week services.
Friday, April 18
Good Friday
The 6th and I Historic Synagogue
(600 I St., N.W.) hosts a Passover Shabbat
tonight at 6:40 p.m. for those in their 20s
and 30s. Admission is $8 in advance and
$10 day of service. Details at sixthandi.
org.
Bet Mishpachah holds Shabbat service
at the Washington Jewish Community
Center (1529 16th St., N.W.) tonight at 8
p.m. Visit betmish.org for details.
National City Christian Church (5
Thomas Circle, N.W.) holds a Good Friday
organ meditation service at 12:15 p.m.
and a Good Friday service at 7:30 p.m.
Details at nationalcitycc.org.
Church(1500 16th St., N.W.) holds Good
Friday services at noon and 7 p.m. Details
at foundryumc.org.
Saturday, April 19
Washington National
Cathedral (3101 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.)
holds the Great Vigil of Easter tonight at 8
p.m. Details at nationalcathedral.org.
Margarets Episcopal Church (1830
Connecticut Ave., N.W.) celebrates the
Great Vigil of Easter tonight at 6:30 p.m.
Details at stmargaretsdc.org.
Sunday, April 20
Easter
Washington National Cathedral(3101
Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) will have its Easter
Sunday Festival Holy Eucharist today at 8
and 11 a.m. Admission is free but tickets
are required. Visit nationalcathedral.
org for more information. Details at
nationalcathedral.org.
Church (1500 16th St., N.W.) has its
Sunday worship services today at 9:30
and 11 a.m. Details at foundryumc.org.
National City Christian Church (5
Thomas Circle, N.W.) holds Easter
worship in a gospel service at 8:30 a.m.
and traditional service at 11 a.m. Details
at nationalcitycc.org.
Margarets Episcopal Church (1830
Connecticut Ave., N.W.) celebrates the
Festival of the Holy Eucharist at 9 and
11:15 a.m. Details at stmargaretsdc.org.
Metropolitan Community Church of
D.C. (474 Ridge St., N.W.) has its Easter
Sunday services at 9 and 11 a.m. Details
at mccdc.com.
The United Church (1920 G St., N.W.)
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a.m. Details at mccdc.com.
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Jesu, Word of God Incarnate by Wolfgang A. Mozart at 7 PM
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How long have you been out and who
was the hardest person to tell?
Ive been out for eight years and the
hardest person to tell was my mother.
Shes a highly religious person and to
have to face the homophobic rhetoric
that has been taught over the years was
tough. But, her love for me superseded
all the negativity. She loves me and my
wife; we all have come a long way but
love brought us through.
Whos your LGBT hero?
I have many but the one that most
comes to mind is Bishop Yvette
Flunder. She came out and expressed
the importance of being your true self
when it wasnt popular in the religious
community. She has stood toe to toe
with LGBT religious oppressors and for
that Im grateful and encouraged.
Whats Washingtons best

nightspot, past or present?
When my wife and I like to wind down we
go to Gazuza. The sushi is awesome!
Describe your dream wedding.

My dream wedding was on 9-10-11 when
I married my wife, Angelica. Shes my
best friend and my greatest supporter.
We were married at the Embassy Suites
Convention Center in D.C. surrounded by
our family and friends, which made our
day super special.
What non-LGBT issue are

you most passionate about?
Our youth is the one area where I know
Im called to empower. We have an
awesome generation coming up behind
us that we must protect, encourage and
support them.
What historical outcome

would you change?
I would make it legal for LGBT persons to
be married wherever they may be. Laws
against love and acceptance should be,
and hopefully will be, non-existent in our
future.
Whats been the most memorable pop
culture moment of your lifetime?
Legalizing gay marriage.
On what do you insist?
Equal opportunity for everyone.
What was your last

Facebook post or Tweet?
Today, allow God to upgrade your
vision! As you move forward in faith I
pray you will develop the ability to see
beyond where you are! Youre due an
upgrade! #Liveforward
If your life were a book,

what would the title be?
Overcomers Unite
If science discovered a way

to change sexual orientation,
what would you do?
Absolutely nothing! That discovery would
nd no place in my life because that
would denitely alter my purpose and
destiny. I love who I am and what I do as
a pastor.
What do you believe
in beyond the physical world?
I believe there is a God who loves and
cares for all people. And I believe in faith
that can change and transform your
present reality.
Whats your advice

for LGBT movement leaders?
Keep pushing for equality, love and
peace.Remember to place high value
and importance on your spiritual
grounding whatever that may be.
What would you walk

across hot coals for?
My wife. I love her with all my being.
What LGBT stereotype

annoys you most?
That we are sinners and that we have no
place in a productive relationship with
God.
Whats your favorite LGBT movie?

Imagine Me & You. I love Piper Perabo.
Whats the most

overrated social custom?
Shaking hands; we should hug more.
What trophy or prize

do you most covet?
The lottery.
What do you wish youd known at 18?

That I could be loved and accepted for
being gay. I wish I wouldve known more
out spiritual role models to help make
the way a little easier.
Why Washington?
The city is electric, on re and highly
accepting to all cultures, people and
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Carla Denise Nolan Pastor C. to her parishioners says reconciling the
Apostolic theology she was raised and taught at Hood Theological Seminary with
her sexual orientation was a process that took several years.
I was actually serving in my home church in Charlotte, North Carolina when I
heard the Lord speak to me and say, You need to bring gay people back to me,
she says. I was shocked and afraid because I knew I would have to come out
myself, which I didnt do till 2006.
Upon moving to the D.C. area seven years ago, Nolan took a few years o
from ministry and worked solely as a pharmaceutical rep, which she still does.
But then two years ago, she began Gathering International Worship Center
(giwc.org), which meets at Kettering Elementary School (11000 Layton St., Upper
Marlboro, Md.) and has about 50 people (she guesses about 90 percent are
LGBT) on any given Sunday for its 11:45 a.m. services. She says although many
D.C. churches may be welcoming to gays, she sensed a need for a pro-gay, non-
denominational church in Prince Georges County.
Nolan and her wife, Angelica Nolan-Brooks, live in Indian Head, Md. She enjoys
writing, watching movies and going to the beach in her free time.
QUEERY
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Rufus Wainwright on
his new best of release,
tour and inspirations
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
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Rufus Wainwright took a few minutes
during a tour stop in Warsaw a few weeks
ago to talk to us by phone about his show
next week in Washington.
Touring behind two projects that were
released last month hits package
Vibrate and the Blu-ray video Rufus
Wainwright: Live From the Artists Den
Wainwright, 40, says hes at a logical
career mid-point that inspired revisiting
his catalogue.
WASHINGTON BLADE: Are the
audiences signicantly dierent in Europe
versus the U.S.?
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: It really varies.
I did shows in Latvia and Lithuania
recently and you could have been talking
about the East Coast and then the West
Coast in terms of dierences and its
fascinating how its real peaks and valleys
on this continent. Its a little daunting.
Occasionally you get some kind of icy
folks, but mostly theyre very happy Im
here.
BLADE: The Artists Den show was
recorded in May 2012 but just released
last month for purchase. Did you always
plan it as a home video release?
WAINWRIGHT: I just thought it would
be a TV special and then we did a good
job on it, so it made sense to keep the ball
rolling. Ive always concentrated really
hard on my live performance and making
sure that the pinnacle of my career is
really what you see on stage in front of
you when youre in the room. I put a lot
of faith in my live work, so its good to
release it.
BLADE: But your tour is an entirely
dierent show from the Artists Den show?
WAINWRIGHT: Oh yes, very dierent.
Now Im mostly promoting the Vibrate
CD, the best-of CD, so Im just doing a
lot of songs from the expanse of my
career and even a couple of new ones to
whet peoples appetite. But its a much
more intimate show, just one on one. Or
hopefully one on a thousand, at least. But
yeah, youre hitting the core of the matter
when you come see this new show in the
spring.
BLADE: Its a solo show? No band?
WAINWRIGHT: Just me and either
piano or guitar.
BLADE: You have a strong body of
work built over many years. Whats your
philosophy of set list construction? To
what degree is it informed by what youre
promoting at any given time?
WAINWRIGHT: Well theres a few
projects now so its denitely dictated
to some degree by what Im trying to
sell. Theres lots of good stu to talk
about. For instance, Im raising money
now to record my opera Prima Donna
(pledgemusic.com/projects/primadonna)
which will be my next album, but I also
sing some of my mothers material (the
late Kate McGarrigle) to promote some of
her work, because I feel she was a great
genius. And theres also just the fun of
making music.
BLADE: How long do you play on
average?
WAINWRIGHT: About 90 minutes.
BLADE: In addition to the
aforementioned projects, you also had
a lavish box set out a couple years ago.
Are you curating your body of work in a
sense?
WAINWRIGHT: Well, I have a lot of
it and I hit 40 so I have 40 years left to
ll up in terms of my career so yeah,
Ive denitely spent the last ve years
going over whats happened and putting
it in its rightful place. Ive also been
writing another opera, Hadrian, and
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Black to Silver returns for second year
Dissonance Dance Theatre presents Black to Silver: A Black LGBT Experience,
at Joy of Motion Dance Center (5207 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) Saturday at 8 p.m.
and Sunday at 7 p.m.
Black to Silver is the rst theatrical platform for African-American LGBT
dancers and choreographers. Performers will express their personal narratives
of interpersonal relationships, identity and love through their own signature
choreography. This is the shows second year.
Tickets are $18 online and $25 at the door. For more information, visit ddtdc.org.

Gay Little Black Book has D.C. release party
The Haus of Vanity hosts a release party for its new book Boy Meets Boy,
The Gay Mans Little Black Book: Kiss and Tell at The Avalon (1160 First St., N.E.)
Saturday from 6-10 p.m.
The book, the rst in a three-part installment of adult-themed dating diaries, is a
catalog meant to record a persons dating experiences in a fun and hilarious way.
The event is free. For more details, visit thehausofvanity.com.
Gay Mens Chorus
upcoming performances
The Gay Mens Chorus of Washington
performs Forte with the Rock Creek
Singers, Potomac Fever and high school
students from GenOUT at New York
Presbyterian Church (1313 New York
Ave., N.W.) tonight at 8 p.m. There will
be another performance April 19. Some
member of the chorus also will perform
as part of a sold-out Marian Anderson
tribute concert at DAR Constitution Hall
(1776 D St., N.W.).
The Rock Creek Singers are the Gay Mens
Choruss chamber choir and Potomac Fever
is its a capella group. They have performed
concerts all over the region.
Tickets are $40 for Forte. For more
information and to purchase tickets, visit
gmcw.org. For more details on the Marian
Anderson tribute concert, visit dar.org.
Sonia returns to
region for Java show
Lesbian folk singer Sonia performs
with her band disappear fear at Jammin
Java (227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna, Va.)
Saturday at 8 p.m.
Sonia has performed with popular
musicians such as Bruce Springsteen,
Sara Bareilles and Sheryl Crow. Disappear
fears latest album Broken Film is a
mixture of country, reggae and folk-rock.
Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at
the door. For more information, visit
jamminjava.com.
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New force/collision
work celebrates iconic
late lmmaker
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Iconoclastic 80s lmmaker Derek
Jarman was a standout among his peers.
Gay and fearless, Jarman eschewed
traditional movie making methods for
more experimental, semi-narrative
forms. His lms like Sebastiane and the
Caravaggio are deeply personal, wildly
inventive and strongly homoerotic. Hes
best remembered as one of the founding
fathers of new queer cinema.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of
Jarmans death from AIDS complications.
In commemoration there are myriad
salutes and retrospectives, mostly in
London. Washington-based theater
company force/collision is celebrating the
artist with its latest oering Jarman (all
this maddening beauty).
Acted and staged by the companys
founding director John Moletress and
written by Obie Award-winning playwright
Caridad Svich with lmed footage by
talented local lmmaker Ben Carver,
Jarman combines theater and lm to
create a glorious mishmash of sound,
images and live performance.
In making the project, says Moletress
who identies as queer, We sought
inspiration from Jarmans work. We
werent attempting to recreate or make
a comment. We approached it from a
contemporary point of view keeping in
mind how were making art today. Youll
see images of the lefts then-nemesis
Margaret Thatcher, but youll also see
images of Putin as well.
At 80 minutes, Jarman is a solo show
staged on a spare set, reminiscent of
the lmmakers bare-bones studio.
Moletress plays both the title character
and a young artist from today.And while
hes the only actor onstage, 50 other
actors contribute performances through
voiceover and lm projection.
Jarmans work is beautiful and rageful,
Moletress says. As a lmmaker, he cared
about community, queer identity and
ensemble work. So does force/collision.
Company members are involved in all
facets of the production, but our intent
has always been to tour Jarman (its
slated to play in England in the fall) and
from a nancial perspective its more
feasible with a cast of one.
The shows footage was shot by Carver
on locations throughout D.C., including
the Arboretum and the shuttered, historic
Washington Coliseum (located near Union
Station) where the company staged a
decadent end-of-the-world party.
It was sort of an apoplectic tea dance,
Moletress says. We had fog machines, a
DJ, cheap Champagne and lots of actors
drawn from D.C.s mainly underground
performance art scene. Ben (Carver)
was instrumental in accessing unique
locations and some interesting and well-
built actors.
In keeping with Jarmans aesthetic, the
production is homoerotic and theres nudity.
Im naked onstage thats something
I havent done since I was a twink. But
Im not nervous. Im more concerned
about dressing as Margaret Thatcher and
dancing around violently with a butcher
knife while giving the audience lap dances
and remembering my lines.
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Art, food, hikes and the
White Party await
By BILL MALCOLM
Palm Springs is a great little desert city
among eight cities in the Coachella Valley
region two hours east of Los Angeles.
Getting There: Fly into the Palm Springs
regional airport, PSP, and skip the drive out
from L.A. (although LAX, Ontario, Burbank
and even San Diego are options).
Many major airlines now go to Palm
Springs, including my favorite, Virgin
America, which ies nonstop to San
Francisco (and you can connect to Chicago,
Washington, D.C., and New York.
Stay: Bargain hunters will enjoy
the Motel 6 downtown. Its handy to
a Starbucks and near the bars and
restaurants. The Motel 6 East is also nice
and is across the street from the Ace Hotel
(where the urban hipsters can be found).
The Best Western Las Brisas is also
downtown and one block from the bars on
Arenas Road. The location and landscaping
are great. The gay resorts on Warm Sands
Drive are another option.
Check tripadvisor.com for other hotels.
I found rates lower here during the week.
What to do:
Bike: Rent a bike ($20 half-day includes
helmet) from Bike Palm Springs, 194
S. Indian Canyon (info@bikePSrentals.
com), and ride around town. Enjoy the
mid-century modern architecture of
many of the homes. Ride west to where
the mountains start. The city has several
marked trails and you can ride all the way
out to Cat City (Cathedral City).
Swim: The city pool is $5 and is open
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. every day. It has a
view of the mountains and is located near
the library.
Run/Walk: The Frontrunners group
meets every day except Sunday at 8 a.m.
or so in the Mizzell Center parking lot.
If you like hiking, there is also a Great
Outdoors chapter.
If youre feeling adventurous, hike the
strenuous Museum Trail to the Lykken
Trail. It starts above the museum. Youll
need to be in good shape. Bring sunscreen
and water and start early in the day to
avoid the heat.
Explore: Dont miss Joshua Tree
National Park named for the odd yucca-
like tree (yucca brevifolia). Take a class
from the Joshua Tree Institute (joshuatree.
org). Plenty of April classes are scheduled,
including Geology of the Joshua Tree
National Park, which runs from April 25-
27. The park is about an hour north of
Palm Springs.
Enter from the north side of the park
and work your way south. Stop along the
way at the Boulders, Ocotillo Patch, the
Cholla Cactus Garden and Cottonwood
Canyon.
The park lies in two deserts (Mojave
and Colorado) both with their own types
of vegetation. Some wildowers should
still be in bloom. Bring a jacket as it can be
cooler up there.
Eat: I liked Shermans Restaurant
downtown (a New York deli with corned
beef). La Tablita oers excellent Mexican
food (on East Palm Canyon in Cathedral
City). Next door try Dragon Sushi (yes,
same owners).
Bars: The Barracks had a beer bust
Sunday. Hunters (the video bar) has a
happy hour nightly until 7 p.m. Hunters is
on Arenas Road where you can also nd
a few other bars. The Tool Shed on Sunny
Dunes Drive is near the Motel 6.
Museum: Check out Secrets of the
Sun: Stephen H. Willard Photographs of
the West at the Palm Springs Art Museum
(psmuseumorg) downtown.
Special events: April brings the annual
White Party celebrating its 25th anniversary
this month. Check out jesanker.com for
details; it runs from April 25-28.
Palm Springs makes a great vacation
destination for the winter-weary. Pick up
a copy of Palm Springs Life or visit them
online for more ideas and local information.
Thats all for April. Next month, we travel
to a historic Midwest city celebrating its
250th birthday.
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The iconic MARILYN MONROE statue in downtown Palm Springs.
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By KEVIN MAJOROS
Growing up, Glenn Conklin was much
more passionate about tennis than he
was softball. Though he would tag along
to practices and warm up with his younger
sister, who was quite serious about the
game, tennis was his main sport.
But times have changed. Though he
eventually ended up competing in major
junior tennis tournaments and attended
the University of South Carolina on a
Division I tennis scholarship, softball is
now the sport Conklin is most invested
in. In August hell travel to the Gay Games
in Cleveland with the Chesapeake and
Potomac Softball League (CAPS), of which
hes enjoying his third season currently.
I have become addicted to playing
softball because of my teammates and
the great friends I have made along the
way, the 35-year-old Warwick, N.Y., says.
Softball is wonderful because everything
I do on the eld is a shared experience
with 15 or so other guys. We triumph
together and we fall together. I have a
great appreciation for the skill and talent
it takes to play the sport and I keep
coming back because I know the more I
play, the better I will get. I have a great
deal of room to get better.
Conklin, by day a Human Capital
Strategist for Natural Resources
Conservation Service, an agency within
the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
spends a lot of his free time playing
softball. The CAPS, which came in ninth
out of 50 teams in its division at the
North American Gay Amateur Athletic
Alliance Gay Softball World Series held
in Washington last summer, also have a
travel team that Conklin co-formed with
CAPS Commissioner Ed Vincent. Last
year, members played tournaments in
Las Vegas, Atlanta and Columbis, Ohio.
This year, theyll be in Philadelphia
for Memorial Day weekend and in the
Bourbon Street Classic in New Orleans in
December, in addition to the Gay Games.
This will be Conklins rst time at the
Gay Games. Hes looking forward to
what he hopes will be a loud and proud
contingent of (D.C.) athletes to represent
our area.
To prepare, hes focusing on playing as
much as possible in the months ahead,
building up game speed and regular trips
to the batting cages to work on hitting.
Stamina and endurance are everything
in a tournament that spans multiple
days where you may need to play 10-15
games in the span of ve days, so I will
take cardio and endurance training more
seriously this summer to make certain I
am ready to play whenever I am needed,
Conklin says.
He also, of course, hopes to stay free of
injury as well.
I do seem to be more prone to injury
than others, he says. One time as I was
sprinting through rst base, I clipped the
rst basemans leg, ew forward in a mid-
air roll, banged my head on a rock and
knocked myself unconscious. Who says
softball is a non-contact sport?
And as with any athlete going to a
major tournament, he has envisioned
what it would feel like to stand on the
podium at Firestone Atadium in Akron,
Ohio, hearing the National Anthem and
winning a gold medal.
I am looking forward to giving it 100
percent at the softball diamond and
being a leader for my team, he says. I
expect the competition to be focused and
intense, but friendly. I am looking forward
to spending time with my teammates
and sharing this experience with them,
and I am looking forward to making new
friends from all over the globe.
SPORTI N I N D. C. APRI L 11, 2014 41
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GLENN CONKLIN, rst at left standing, with his CAPS teammates during last summers North
American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance Softball World Series in Washington.
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THEATRE
Fiasco Theaters The Two Gentlemen
of Verona. Apr 17-May 25. Folger
Theatre. 202-544-7077. folger.edu.
Tender Napalm. Thru May 11.
Signature Theatre. 703-820-9771.
signature-theatre.org.
Virginia Opera: Carmen. Apr 11-Apr 13.
GMU Center for the Arts. 888-945-2468.
cfa.gmu.edu.
The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee. Thru May 17. One Destiny.
Thru May 17. Fords Theatre.
800-982-2787. fords.org.
Water by the Spoonful. Thru Apr 13.
Moth. Thru May 4. Studio Theatre.
202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
Arguendo. Thru Apr 20. Woolly
Mammoth. 202-393-3939.
woollymammoth.net.
Two Trains Running. Thru Apr 27.
Round House Bethesda. 240-644-1100.
roundhousetheatre.org.
Once On This Island. Thru May 2. Olney
Theatre. 301-924-3400. olneytheatre.org.
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go
Blind. Apr 11. The Alden. 703-790-9223.
aldentheatre.org.
Oh Dad, Poor Dad. Thru Apr
12. ACT. Gunston. 703-998-4555.
americancentury.org.
Shear Madness. Thru Jun 30.
Shear Madness. Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
DANCE
American Ballet Theatre. Apr 15-Apr
20. Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
Global Beat: Washington Korean
Dance Company. Apr 12. Publick
Playhouse. 301-277-1710.
arts.pgparks.com.
Canciones De Temporada. Apr 12.
Los Quetzales Mexican Dance Ensemble.
Gunston Theatre. 703-638-0585.
quetzales.org.
MUSI C
Atomic Yacht Fax. Apr 11. Gabriel
Kahane & Rob Moose Duo. Apr 17.
Strathmore. 301-581-5100.
strathmore.org.
Marian Anderson 75th Anniversary
Celebration. Apr 12. WPAS. DAR
Constitution Hall. 202-785-9727.
wpas.org.
Louis Lortie, piano. Apr 11. Zakir
Hussein & Masters of Percussion.
Apr 13. WPAS. Kennedy Center.
202-785-9727. wpas.org.
BlO. Apr 11. Artisphere. 888-841-2787.
artisphere.com.
MUSEUMS
National Gallery of Art. Garry
Winogrand. Thru Jun 8. Modern German
Prints and Drawings from the Kainen
Collection. Thru Jun 29. The Monuments
Men and the National Gallery of Art. Thru
Sep 1. 202-737-4215. nga.gov.
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Jennifer
Steinkamp and Jimmy Johnson: Loop.
Thru Apr 20. American Journeys - Visions
of Place. Thru Sep 21Rineke Dijkstra:
The Krazyhouse. Thru Jun 15. Corcoran
Gallery of Art. 202-639-1700.
corcoran.org.
National Archives. Making Their Mark:
Stories Through Signatures. Thru Jan 5.
202-357-5000. archives.gov.
Museum of Women in the Arts. Judy
Chicago: Circa 75. Thru Apr 13. New
York Avenue Sculpture Project: Chakaia
Booker. Thru Apr 27. Workt by Hand:
Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts. Thru
Apr 27. 202-783-5000. nmwa.org.
The Phillips Collection. Made In The
USA: American Masters From The Phillips
Collection, 1850-1970. Thru Aug 31. Jean
Meisel: 50-65 Horizon Line. Thru May 4.
202-387-2151. phillipscollection.org.
GALLERI ES
Artisphere. Jessica van Brakle: Industrial
Paradise. Thru Jun 7. 703-875-1100.
artisphere.com.
Flashpoint Gallery. Emily Biondo &
Bradford Barr: Touch Me. Thru May 10.
culturaldc.org.
Gallery plan b. Paintings by Kathy
Beynette. Thru Apr 27. 202-234-2711.
galleryplanb.com.
Gallery Underground. Bodies of Work:
Art in Series. Thru Apr 26. 571-483-0652.
arlingtonartistsalliance.org.
Goethe-Institut. Gute Aussichten: New
German Photography 2013-2014. Thru
Apr 25. 202-289-1200. goethe.de.
ISAAG. Kate T. Williamson: A Year in
Japan. Thru Apr 11. 202-623-2217.
idbstaassociationartgallery.org.
Neptune Fine Art. Jimmy Miracle:
Yantras. Thru May 10. 202-338-0353.
neptuneneart.com.
Robert Brown Gallery. Oleg
Kudryashov. Thru May 10. 202-338-0353.
robertbrowngallery.com.
The Art League. Natalie Shudt: Sway.
Thru May 5. 703-683-1780.
theartleague.org.
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Sunday, April 27 at 7 p.m.
You probably already know the work of Brahms, Schumann, and
Liszt as some of the nest composers for piano of all time. Now
learn about the great loves of their lives. For his last concert of
the season, Jeffrey Siegel introduces those who inspired Romantic
music from the heart to the heart. Praised by The New York
Times as a performer who colors with virtuoso artistry, Mr. Siegel
has enchanted piano enthusiasts and classical music newcomers at
the Center for more than 20 years. $19, $30, $38 ff
An Evening with
Branford Marsalis
Saturday, April 12 at 8 p.m.
Grammy-winner Branford Marsalis returns to the Center for the
Arts stage with his acclaimed quartet to treat us to an evening of
unsurpassed jazz. Marsalis, a New Orleans native, offers up an
impressive collection of original compositions and modern and
classic jazz standards. It will be a great night of music!
$24, $40, $48 ff
Virginia Opera
Carmen
Friday, April 11 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 13 at 2 p.m.
Operas most famous femme fatale Filled with passion, betrayal,
and jealousy, Bizets sizzling, sultry tragedy is one of the most
popular works in opera literature, due in no small part to its great
music. Sung in French with English supertitles.
Friday, $44, $72, $86
Sunday, $48, $80, $98
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Rock and Roll Hotel (1353 H St., N.E.) hosts
Bear Happy Hour tonight from 6-10 p.m.
There will be $4 rail drinks, $3 draft pints, $7
draft PBR pitchers and more. For more details,
visit rockandrollhoteldc.com.
Siren hosts its fourth annual Robyn
Riot at Green Lantern (1335 Green Ct.,
N.W.) tonight from 10 p.m.-3 a.m. There
will be an open vodka bar from 10-11 p.m.
Music will be mostly Robyn with a few
other artists mixed in. DJ Majr, DJ Delia
Volla and DJ Sam Blodgett will spin tracks
with a performance by Pussy Noir. For
more details, visit greenlanterndc.com.
Women in Their 20s, a social discussion
group for lesbian, bisexual, transgender and
all women interested in women, meets today
at the D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.) from
8-9:30 p.m. All welcome to join. For details, visit
thedccenter.org.
Number Nine (1435 P St., N.W.) hosts a
happy hour today from 5-9 p.m. All drinks
are half price. Admission is free. For more
information, visit numberninedc.com.
SATURDAY, APRIL 12
Washington Humane Society hosts
Fashion for Paws Eighth Annual Runway
Show at the Omni Shoreham Hotel (2500
Calvert St., N.W.) tonight from 8 p.m.-midnight.
Cocktail attire is required. Dinner begins at 8
p.m. and the runway show starts at 9:15 p.m.
Tickets start at $100.
Kelly Mantel from RuPauls Drag Race
season six comes to Town (2009 8th St.,
N.W.) tonight. Doors open at 10 p.m. Cover
is $8 from 10-11 p.m. and $12 after 11 p.m.
Drinks are $3 before 11 p.m. The drag show
starts at 10 p.m.
Pink and Drink, a Dupont Circle bar
crawl, returns today from 1-9 p.m. There will
be music, ra es and prizes. Drink specials
include $4 pink 52 shots, $3 Finlandia Vodka
drinks, $3 Southern Comfort and more. Wear
pink to help raise breast cancer awareness.
Participating bars include The Front Page
(1333 New Hampshire Ave., N.W.), Rumors
(1900 M St., N.W.) and many more. Admission
is limited to guests 21 and over. Tickets are
$15. For more information and to purchase
tickets, visit pinkanddrink.com.
Countdown to Yuris Night, a
commemoration of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri
Gagarins historic rst manned space ight,
is tonight at 8 p.m. at Anacostia Arts Center
(1231 Good Hope Road, S.E.). Tickets are $25
in advance and $30 at the door. Shuttle service
will be provided to the Eastern Market and
Anacostia Metro stations free. Visit c2yn.com
for details.
SUNDAY, APRIL 13
Special Agent Galactica performs with
guitarist Peter Fields at Shaws Tavern (520
Florida Ave., N.W.) tonight at 7:30 p.m.
Galactica mixes music with anecdotes about
her life and people she has met as a cadet.
There is no cover charge. For more details, visit
shawstavern.com.
Chick Chat, a lesbian 50-and-over singles
group, tours the Cylbum Arboretum (4915
Greenspring Ave., Baltimore) today from 2-3
p.m. To RSVP, email woernerc@yahoo.com.
For more information, visit thedccenter.org.
Perrys (1811 Columbia Rd., N.W.) hosts its
weekly Sunday Drag Brunch today from
10 a.m.-3 p.m. The cost is $24.95 for an all-
you-can-eat buet. For more details, visit
perrysadamsmorgan.com.
Nellies Sports Bar (900 U St., N.W.) hosts
a drag brunch today with two shows
at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. For more
information, visit nelliessportsbar.com.
MONDAY, APRIL 14
The D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.) hosts
coee drop-in hours this morning from 10
a.m.-noon for the senior LGBT community.
Older LGBT adults can come and enjoy
complimentary coee and conversation
with other community members. For more
information, visit thedccenter.org.
Us Helping Us (3636 Georgia Ave., N.W.)
holds a support group for gay black men
to discuss topics that aect them today,
share perspectives and have meaningful
conversations. For details, visit uhupil.org.
Nellies Sports Bar (900 U St., N.W.) hosts
poker night tonight at 8 p.m. Win prizes.
Free to play. For more information, visit
nelliessportsbar.com.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15
Green Lantern (1335 Green Ct., N.W.)
hosts its weekly FUK!T Packing Party
from 7-9 p.m. tonight. For more details, visit
thedccenter.org or greenlanterndc.com.
a MENA discussion forum today at 6:30 p.m.
The panel discussion topic is LGBT issues in the
Middle East and North Africa region (MENA).
For more information, visit thedccenter.org.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16
The Tom Davoren Social Bridge Club
meets tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Dignity
Center (721 8th St., S.E.) for social bridge. No
partner needed. For more information, call
301-345-1571.
The D.C. Center hosts Woman to Woman,
a support group for HIV-positive women
who love women, today at the Womens
Collective (1331 Rhode Island Ave., N.E.) from
5:30-7 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
For more details, visit thedccenter.org.
SMYAL (410 7th St., S.E.) hosts free and
condential HIV testing today from 3-5
p.m. For more information, visit smyal.org.
Bookmen D.C., an informal mens gay
literature group, discusses two novellas by
Allan Gurganus, Preservation News and
Hes One, Too at 7:30 p.m. tonight at AFSA
headquarters (2101 E St., N.W.). All welcome.
Visit bookmendc.blogspot.com for details.
THURSDAY, APRIL 17
Whitman-Walker Health presents Be the
Care, its annual spring aair, at National
Museum of Women in the Arts (1250 New
York Ave., N.W.) tonight at 6:30 p.m. Jerey
Crowley, program director of the National
HIV/AIDS Initiative at the ONeill Institute
for National and Global Health Law, will be
presented with the Partner for Life award.
There will be a cocktail reception. NBC 4 news
anchor Pat Lawson Muse will emcee the
event. Tickets start at $75. For more details,
visit whitman-walker.org.
its monthly Poly Discussion Group at 7
p.m. People of all dierent stages are invited
to discuss polyamory and other consensual
non-monogamous relationships. This event
is for newcomers, people in established
polyamorous relationships and open to folks
of all sexual orientations. For details, visit
thedccenter.org.
The D.C. Center and Professionals in the
City host speed dating for women in their
20s and 30s at Finn and Porter located
inside the Embassy Suites Hotel (900 10th
St., N.W.) tonight from 7-9 p.m. Dating is
approximately one hour. After enjoy a mixer
with fellow speed daters. Cash bar. Check
in is at 7 p.m. and dating begins at 7:20 p.m.
Complimentary valet parking oered to
anyone who purchases two drinks or other
items from the bar or restaurant. Cost is $30.
For details, visit thedccenter.org.
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44 APRI L 11, 2014 CALENDAR
Theres almost always a
trade-o in choosing LTR
vs. hook-up sex
DEAR MICHAEL,
I was intrigued by your Valentines Day
column featuring the long-term couple
who arent having sex anymore. Im in
a similar boat with my husband of 12
years, where we dont have much sex
and dont do much when we do have sex
(porn movies and mutual masturbation).
To be honest, I hook up with other guys
from time to time at the gym and Im
pretty sure Mark does too. Its far hotter
and more exciting than the same old
same old.
You suggest that couples should accept
that sex with the same person loses some
of its steaminess as time goes by and that
we should focus on enjoying the other
aspects of sex, like emotional connection
and closeness.
My problem with this is when I dont
hook up, Im jealous of the hotter sex that
I hear my single (and some partnered)
friends are having. There are so many
gorgeous guys out there and life is short.
I feel like Im getting old and missing
out if Im not taking advantage of all the
pleasure that I could enjoy. You only live
once. Its hard to just enjoy the warmth and
coziness of ho-hum sex in my marriage
when I could be out there screwing my
brains out with some amazing guy, like I
constantly hear my friends are doing. And
yet, I love Mark and want to stay with him.
I feel like Im going crazy over this and
sometimes Im really bummed about
not getting the good stu that others
are enjoying.
Michael replies:
You are facing a few tough, inter-
related dilemmas.
First, the FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)
factor: Many gay men place a heavy
emphasis on sex (think Grindr and
similar apps). Theres nothing wrong with
pursuing or enjoying sex, but when lots
of sex/multiple partners is the standard
of success in your circle and you believe
youre not meeting that standard, its
easy to feel like youre missing out. Even
a guy who isnt interested in pursuing
high-volume sex may feel like a loser for
following his own path.
Second, our entire culture glories
youth and disparages aging and gay
men are not immune to this outlook.
The white-hot sex of a new connection
is associated with youth, just as the
inevitable decrease of this sort of sex
in an ongoing relationship is associated
with aging. Most of us dont like the
idea of getting older and letting go of
youthful abilities and pleasures, so
we glorify and chase intense sex while
looking down on the less scorching sex
that were more likely to have with a
long-term mate. Who wants to give up
on the prospect of hot sex?
Third, if you make the choice to be in
a monogamous relationship, you are
denitely going to miss out on possibly
steamy sex with other guys. But if you
are in a relationship and have outside
sex, jealousy may sour your marriage,
one of you may leave for a seemingly
hotter prospect, the time and attention
you spend on hookups may erode your
connection with your spouse and the
secrecy, if you are not open about what
you are doing, may create distance. Also
the quality and quantity of sex at home
may decline as you put in less eort.
The truth is, aging is inevitable and we
cant have everything. What we can do is
decide whats most important to us and
go for it.
Toward this end, gure out whether
you want to keep looking for outside
encounters so that you dont miss out
or whether you want to really make the
best of the relationship you are in. I dont
think you can do both. Should you choose
the latter, heres a question: If youre so
bored sexually, why are you and Mark
settling for merely jerking o together to
porn? Couldnt you nd something more
exciting to do together?
People have all kinds of reasons why
they stop having good sex with their
partners. The one that I hear most often
in my practice is, It shouldnt take work.
Something must be wrong if we dont
spontaneously want to have sex. But the
truth is, nothing is wrong. Its inevitable
that the excitement of newness fades,
but it is not inevitable that you have to
stop having sex when it does. Nor does
long-term sex have to be dull, unless you
believe that it does and put no eort into
making it worth having.
If you and Mark stay together and
stay bored, please nd a skilled couples
therapist to help you nd a way to have
more cozy, intimate, connected sex that is
even occasionally hot! Good luck.
ADVI CE APRI L 11, 2014 45
MICHAEL RADKOWSKY, Psy.D. is a licensed
psychologist who works with gay individuals
and couples in D.C. He can be found online
at personalgrowthzone.com. All identifying
information has been changed for reasons
of condentiality. Have a question? Send it to
Michael@personalgrowthzone.com.
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Hollywood and putting together some
other tracks for another pop record but
were denitely at the middle point right
now. The best is yet to come.
BLADE: Its obvious, though, that you
put some care and thought into these
things. Fans can always tell when theyre
just slapped together by the label. Yours
clearly were not.
WAINWRIGHT: Well, I have a lot of
supportive and very intellectual people
who helped me do that along the way.
Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys was
inuential and instrumental I should say
in putting together the list of songs for
Vibrate. And, you know, I had such a
great band for the Artists Den recording.
You know, youve got to have good people
around you.
BLADE: What was it like singing with Joni
Mitchell at her birthday tribute last year?
WAINWRIGHT: Oh, that was wild.
Really amazing. I cant say that I was the
biggest Joni Mitchell fan growing up. Not
so much because I didnt like her music
but my mother was very jealous of Joni
Mitchell. My mother was a very well
known Canadian songwriter as well, so
we werent allowed to listen to much Joni
Mitchell in the house. So I wasnt really
that familiar. So it was really an amazing
education and kind of a baptism by re
and the last lesson was singing with her
on stage. It was a lot of fun.
BLADE: Did you get to interact much
with her aside from what we saw on stage?
WAINWRIGHT: Oh yeah, a lot. We
hung out a lot. I went to her house a
few times because my husband (Jorn
Weisbrodt) runs the festival, we had to
really work with her on everything so we
spent a lot of time together, Joni and I. It
was a great honor.
BLADE: In interviews, shes never been
one to mince words. Is that how she is
when the cameras not rolling too?
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lter there whatsoever. You know, shes
lived in her own universe for so many
years, theres no way to really encapsulate
and explain what she is. Shes kind of
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of emulate that. But growing up, even
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thing always attracted me more than,
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me and I see it happen and I wonder, you
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havent quite attained yet, so Im thankful
for this as an impetus.
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for the masses?
WAINWRIGHT: I think that might be
an issue. When I sing, it tends to grab
your attention fully. Im not very good
background music. It seems like most
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With the variety of housing terms oat-
ing around, its often confusing to renters
and buyers to say just what it is they are
looking for. So heres a guide to two cat-
egories that are often confused:
Housing type refers to the architectural
conguration of a desired home. In DC,
the MLS service (MRIS) designates various
housing types. Apartments (sometimes
called ats) are typically living spaces
all on one oor in multi-unit buildings.
Apartment buildings are categorized by
the number of stories: garden buildings
have from one to four stories, mid-rise
buildings have from ve to eight stories,
and high-rise buildings have nine-plus
stories.
Attached housing types include row-
houses, townhouses, fourplexes, and du-
plexes (not an exhaustive list). Rowhouses
are usually two-story living spaces (may
include a basement) that are connected
with shared side walls. Townhouses are
typically three- or even four-story liv-
ing spaces that may include a basement
rental apartment (in older townhouses)
or a ground-oor garage and o ce (in
newer townhouses), also attached in a
row like rowhouses. Fourplex and duplex
houses typically only share one common
side wall; in the case of fourplexes, there
is also an upstairs/downstairs barrier be-
tween the units.
Detached houses share no common
walls or oors/ceilings with other houses,
and may even have additional buildings
on the property like an exterior garage
or toolshed.
Ownership refers to the legal status of
a house. Here the big divide is between
rental housing and owned housing,
whether the ownership is for the whole
property (fee simple) or whether it is for
partial ownership (co-operative or con-
dominium). There is often confusion be-
tween the latter two, so here is a good
way to distinguish them: In a housing
co-operative (or coop), you own a propor-
tional share of the corporation that owns
the building; in a condominium (condo),
you actually own the real property consti-
tuting your house.
Now lets combine housing type and
housing ownership categories. Its pos-
sible to rent any housing type. However,
not all owned housing categories can be
combined with all housing types. For
example, its only to purchase detached
house or duplex on a fee simple basis.
Any other type of multiple-unit housing
requires a dierent form of ownership.
Typically, smaller clusters of the same
housing type (rowhouses, townhouses,
fourplexes, duplexes, even detached
houses in an enclosed community) use
a condominium form of ownership, and
condominium ownership is also common
for apartment buildings. In contrast, typi-
cally only multi-unit apartment buildings
use co-operative ownership. For exam-
ple, many of the co-operatives in Wash-
ington are former rental apartment build-
ings, e.g. the buildings along Connecticut
Avenue in Woodley Park and Cleveland
Park. In next months article, Ill talk more
about the dierences between condo-
miniums and co-operatives, and the rela-
tive advantages of each.
Meanwhile, armed with a better under-
standing of the dierence between hous-
ing type and housing ownership catego-
ries, you should have a clearer sense of
how to focus your search for a new home.
Happy hunting!
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Tasting the sweet success of 10 years
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popular culinary enterprise.
Quintessential small business entre-
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Carlos Cesario who joined them three
years ago, are as confdent as their clients
are appreciative that they smell a good
opportunity to grow in scope their local
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Specializing in both corporate events
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Peruvian-born longtime D.C. resident
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enterprise management. Also a graduate
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preparing for the next phase of the trios
business plan by complementing his col-
lege law degree with the practicalities of
business administration.
While awaiting classes to begin next
month, Neira has immersed himself in the
favors, sounds and smells of the capital
city and its fast-growing economy. Speak-
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Peruvian cuisine in both Washington and
worldwide, he notes the countrys pletho-
ra of native spices and colorful ingredients
utilized in regional cooking and the 300 va-
rieties of locally grown potatoes.
Neira remains engaged in the D.C.-
based catering operation, connecting
regularly with his colleagues via Skype to
plan scheduled events and revise event
menus, while also handling administra-
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ing now-husband Herndon who notes
their one-year wedding anniversary later
this month, also use meeting times to de-
tail their new venture.
Having developed a strong client base
in the D.C. area, they plan to initiate ca-
tering operations in Lima early next year.
Excited about the expansion, they are
quick to point out that local service for a
constantly expanding client base will con-
tinue unabated. They are also exploring
the launch of a small import operation
featuring company-branded quinoa, Pe-
ruvian chocolate and pisco liqueur.
Most of our new catering accounts and
event requests come from existing clients,
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Herndon, who primarily handles on-site cli-
ent relations. The quality of our food and
attention to detail is what recommends us,
he adds. We have built our business on
customer satisfaction, and repeat business
and referrals. QCaterers was voted Wash-
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is currently focused on expanding service
for same-sex wedding events. Wedding
clients tend to trust someone who catered
their own, Herndon jokes.
Venezuelan-native Cesario landed his
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caterer, working for a decade alongside a
former White House chef. With no prior
experience, it was his passion for food
and familiarity with world cuisines from
extensive travels and architectural stud-
ies in Europe that landed him the job.
Cesario was sometimes assisted in the
kitchen by an occasional chef-freelancer
Neira and the two became fast friends.
Cesario would eventually accept a job of-
fer at QCaterers, recalling that joining a
small business operation was one of the
most important decisions of my life, not-
ing his enjoyment working for himself
alongside others.
What is most exciting about this jour-
ney, says Neira, is the chance to work
with great customers. Were at the top of
our game, he adds, and now have the ex-
citing opportunity to expand what we do.
MARK LEE is a long-time entrepreneur and
community business advocate. Follow on Twit-
ter: @MarkLeeDC. Reach him at OurBusiness-
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