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Will court decision


build momentum for
non-discrimination bill?
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Politicalobservers agree that the U.S. Supreme
Court decision for same-sex marriage will have
some kind of political impact on Election 2016
but the nature of that impact diers depending
on whom you ask.
Steve Elmendorf, a D.C.-based gay Democratic

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lobbyist, said the ruling is a plus for Democrats


based on reactions from GOP candidates.
You have two reaction from Republicans: You
either have a very negative reaction, which will
not sit well with the vast majority of the public, or
you have silence, or hand-wringing, or an eort
to thread the needle, and that doesnt sit well
either, Elmendorf said. I think people actually
are pro-marriage, the vast majority of the country
is pro-marriage, and the extent to which the
Republican Party is on the wrong side of that, its
going to hurt them in 2016.

Group seeks to raise awareness


of LGBT issues on island
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS
mlavers@washblade.com
Members of the Gay Mens Chorus of Washington
will travel to Cuba on Saturday where they are
scheduled to perform with their Cuban counterparts.
The 20 members of the Gay Mens Chorus of
Washington who are traveling to the Communist
island will perform in a series of nine concerts in and
around Havana with Mano a Mano, a gay chorus,
before returning to the U.S. on July 18. They will also
raise money for Cuban HIV/AIDS prevention eorts

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Democratic 2016 frontrunner HILLARY CLINTON praised the


marriage ruling, while GOP frontrunner JEB BUSH wants to protect
religious liberty.

during a performance at Miamis Trinity Episcopal


Cathedral on Friday.
Mariela Castro Espn, daughter of Cuban President
Ral Castro who directs the countrys National Center
for Sexual Education, in April formally invited the Gay
Mens Chorus of Washington to travel to Cuba.
I would very much like as suggested in the
formal invitation that these two choruses can meet
each other and can do something together during the
days that they are going to be here, Mariela Castro
told Francisco Rodrguez Cruz, a gay Cuban blogger
and LGBT rights advocate, in May.
Gay Mens Chorus of Washington Executive Director
Chase Maggiano told the Washington Blade that he
hopes the trip will raise awareness of LGBT rights in
Cuba. He further noted that members will hold what

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he described as open forums with no rules after


each performance.
Were going to have a lot of person-to-person
interactions, said Maggiano. We just want to
experience people and experience what their attitudes
are like to the LGBT environment.
Members of the Gay Mens Chorus of Washington
are scheduled to leave the island two days before the
U.S. and Cuba will reopen embassies in Havana and
D.C. They are slated to arrive on the Communist island
15 days after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling
that extended marriage rights to same-sex couples
throughout the country.
This concert tour has taken on a new level of
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Cardinal Wuerl conciliatory on marriage ruling?

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the


Archbishop
of
Washington,
surprised at least some LGBT
Catholic activists last week when
he appeared to set a conciliatory
tone in response to the U.S.
Supreme Court ruling legalizing
same-sex marriage in all 50
states.
The law of the land is the law
of the land, Wuerl said at a news
conference called to announce
Pope Franciss schedule of
activities during his visit to
Washington in September.
We certainly follow what the
law says, he told reporters. That
doesnt mean we change the
word of God. That doesnt mean
we change the Scriptures, or the
We certainly follow what the law says,
Churchs millennia-long tradition
Cardinal DONALD WUERL said regarding the
of what marriage is.
Supreme Court marriage ruling. That doesnt
mean we change the word of God.
But he added, Nobody is
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turned away because of their
sexual identity, because of their
race, because of their ethnic
background. And are we not all struggling to live the gospel?
As reported by WTOP News, Wurel told the news conference, which was held
at St. Matthews Cathedral on Rhode Island Avenue, N.W., that while church
teaching wont change, Pope Francis has been more inclusive.
He keeps saying, Go out. Go out and meet people where they are. And in
that encounter, walk with them, accompany them, Wuerl said. I think thats
what the church is saying. We all need to walk together as we try to make our
way closer to God.
WTOP cited a recent Pew Research Center poll showing that 56 percent of U.S.
Catholics support same-sex marriage compared to 55 percent of Protestants,
who say they do not support same-sex marriage. According to the poll, 85
percent of religiously unaliated people support the right of gays to marry.
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Gay man shot to death in Southeast D.C.

D.C. police homicide detectives are investigating the shooting death of a


21-year-old gay man who was found lying in the street unconscious near the
intersection of 16th and Galen Streets, S.E. about 3:44 a.m. on June 25, according
to a police statement.
The statement says Stephon Marquis Perkins, a Maryland resident, was taken
to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A police source said the
cause of death appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head.
The source, who spoke on condition of not being identied, said there was no
evidence so far to indicate the murder was a hate crime. Although police have
not disclosed whether they have uncovered a motive for the killing, the police
source said the area where Perkins was shot is considered a dangerous highcrime area and the shooting could have resulted from a robbery gone bad.
An employee of the D.C. LGBT community services center Casa Ruby, who
identied herself only as Molly H., told the Blade she and Perkins were close
friends and that Perkins identied as gay.
He was almost like family, she said. He was a kind, open hearted person. He
could be the life of the party.
The police source said homicide detectives investigating the case have spoken
to Perkins boyfriend and have consulted with the departments Gay and Lesbian
Liaison Unit as part of their investigation into the incident.
Police have also notied a coalition of local LGBT groups known as the Violence
Prevention and Response Team, or VPART, about the case, the source said. The
groups, which include Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), had not
released a public statement about the incident as of Tuesday morning.
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Fairfax approves LGBTsupportive curriculum


Opponents vow to
oust supporters in
November election

By LOU CHIBBARO JR.


lchibbaro@washblade.com
The Fairfax County School Board voted
10-2 on June 25 to amend the school
systems Family Life Education Curriculum
to add lessons on sexual orientation and
gender identity that stress support for
diversity and respect for LGBT students.
The vote followed a sometimes
contentious meeting in which angry
opponents of the proposal, including
the president of the anti-gay Traditional
Values Coalition, denounced it as a radical
attempt to normalize homosexuality and
transgenderism.
Some of the opponents called for
the defeat of the 10 board members
supporting the curriculum changes in
November, when all 12 members of the
school board are up for re-election.
It speaks volumes about the
commitment our school boards 10
Democratic-endorsed members who
recognized the importance of arming
LGBT kids and families, said Northern
Virginia gay activist Joshua Israel.
Israel noted that in drafting the curriculum
changes a school board committee
considered the ndings of a recent youth
survey that showed lesbian, gay, bisexual
and questioning youth in Fairfax County
have much higher rates of depression and
suicidal thoughts compared to the general
youth population.
School Board Chair Tamara Derenak
Kaufax pointed out during the boards
debate over the proposal that parents
will have the option to opt their child out
of any of the lessons to which they object.
Nine of the 15 citizens who spoke either
in person or on video prior to the vote
expressed opposition to the curriculum
changes while six expressed support.
Among those speaking against the
proposal was Andrea Laerty, president
of the Traditional Values Coalition, a
national group founded by her father,
the Rev. Louis Sheldon. Many of the
more than 200 members of the audience
shouted no when Laerty asked whether
parents support what she called an illconceived proposal to teach kids about
homosexuality and transgenderism.
Laerty and other opponents said
they were especially concerned that the
curriculum changes call for beginning
the teaching about sexual orientation

The recommendations strive to promote an


environment free of bias and discrimination,
said JAMES PARRISH, executive director of
Equality Virginia.
WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY

and gender identity in grades 7 and 8.


Supporters of the changes have said the
curriculum additions have been carefully
vetted by experts and are age-appropriate.
The recommendations strive to
promote an environment free of bias
and discrimination, said James Parrish,
executive director of the statewide LGBT
advocacy group Equality Virginia.
This shouldnt be controversial,
Parrish said. The proposed curriculum
will benet all students, promote
understanding and knowledge, and make
Fairfax County Schools a safer and more
welcoming place for everybody.
Fairfax gay rights advocate Charles
Keener noted that one of the two school
board members who voted against the
curriculum changes, Patty Reed, is being
challenged in the November election by
an LGBT supportive teacher, Dalia Palchik.
We need to support a school board rep
that will protect and value every kid instead
of seeking to impede progress toward
justice and inclusion, Keener said.
The vote by the Fairfax School Board
to approve the LGBT-supportive changes
in the Family Life Education Curriculum
came less than two months after the
board voted on May 7 to expand the
school systems non-discrimination policy
to include protections for transgender
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Equality Maryland faces uncertain future


Financial crisis could force
organization to close
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS
mlavers@washblade.com
The chair of the Equality Maryland
Foundation on Wednesday said LGBT
youth and other vulnerable people will
have a harder time in the state if the
advocacy group closes its doors.
Our organization is a part of the
safety net to help educate and inform
organizations,
corporations,
police
departments, health care workers,
teachers about the realities of the LGBT
community, Isabella Firth told the
Washington Blade during a telephone
interview. We think that our work is
part of the safety net that protects those
more [vulnerable groups.]
Firth spoke with the Blade eight days
after she and Stephanie Bernstein,
chair of the Equality Maryland board of
directors, announced the organization
may close later this month because of a
budget shortfall.
They noted in their statement that
funding dwindled after Maryland
voters in 2012 upheld the states samesex marriage law and, later, the passage
of a transgender rights bill. Firth and
Bernstein also announced the nancial
crisis prompted Equality Maryland to
lay o Carrie Evans, who had been the

organizations executive director since


November 2011.
Firth told the Blade the organizations
annual budget in recent years ranged
between $200,000 and $300,000.
We have been trending downwards,
she said.
Firth said the board is currently
researching how much money it needs
to raise in order for Equality Maryland
to remain open. Firth also noted the
organization is accepting donations on
its website.
Firth told the Blade the board will meet
in the coming weeks to determine the
organizations future.
Were in the next phase of the
movement, she said.
Longtime
Equality
Maryland
supporters with whom the Blade spoke
this week agreed the organization can
still play an important role in the state.
I feel strongly there needs to be an
LGBT watchdog in place in Maryland,
said Larry Jacobs, a former president of
the Equality Maryland board of directors.
If thats not going to be Equality
Maryland, whos it going to be?
Scott Davenport, another former
president of the Equality Maryland board
of directors who joined the organization
after it and the American Civil Liberties
Union of Maryland led a marriage
lawsuit in 2004, agreed.
The community needs a voice in
Annapolis, he told the Blade. They have

a proven track record.


Gay state Sen. Rich Madaleno
(D-Montgomery County), who received
Equality Marylands endorsement last
year in his campaign against Gender
Rights Maryland Executive Director
Dana Beyer in the Democratic primary,
said the organization is a victim of their
own success. The Montgomery County
Democrat nevertheless said he feels that
Equality Maryland can still play a role
in organizing, education and political
outreach in Annapolis.
We should have a conversation about
this as a community, Madaleno told the
Blade.
Gay Somerset Mayor Jerey Slavin, a
longtime Equality Maryland donor who
was a member of the search committee
that hired Evans, made a similar point.
Slavin pointed out to the Blade that
Evans is a former staer of the Human
Rights Campaign, which made signicant
nancial contributions to the 2012
campaign that defended the states
same-sex marriage law. He questioned
why the current Equality Maryland board
members did not approach HRC and tell
them the shape they were in.
Do people in the movement really
want to see Equality Maryland shut
down, asked Slavin. It just looks bad.
Love Makes a Family of Connecticut in
2009 dissolved after same-sex couples
won marriage rights in the state.
Freedom to Marry plans to close in the

coming months after the U.S. Supreme


Court ruled gays and lesbians have the
constitutional right to marry throughout
the country.
The Equality Maryland supporters
with whom the Blade spoke this week
dismissed suggestions that former
Executive Director Morgan MenesesSheets 2011 termination played any role
in the organizations current nancial
crisis.
I really dont think thats true from
what I know being involved in the
organization, Jacobs told the Blade,
noting that Evans had ties with national
LGBT advocacy groups. If anything she
did a better job through the marriage
campaign and afterwards.
Madaleno saidthat issues surrounding
parenting, insurance and name changes
for trans Marylanders will continue to
pop up in Annapolis. He acknowledged
these issuesfrom a legislative perspective
may not be enough to sustain a whole
organization like Equality Maryland.
Weve accomplished almost everything
we want legislatively, said Madaleno.
Observers
have
discussed
the
possibility of Equality Maryland merging
with Free State Legal Project and the
ACLU of Maryland.
Firth told the Blade that the board
has had discussions with other
organizations but they didnt work out.
She declined further comment when
the Blade asked her for specic reasons.

Gay Mens Chorus to perform in Cuba


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relevance that is beyond what we


expected, Maggiano told the Blade,
referring to the full restoration of relations
between Havana and Washington and
the decision in the Obergefell case. As
an organization we are all working that
much harder to make sure we honor our
purpose for being down there.
Cuban
LGBT
rights
advocates
with whom the Blade spoke on the
Communist island in May were largely
critical of Mariela Castro and her fathers
government. They noted, among other
things, they feel the National Center for
Sexual Education, which is known by the
Spanish acronym CENESEX, does not
represent the interests of the countrys
LGBT rights movement.
Navid
Fernndez
Cabrera,
an
independent LGBT rights advocate, on
June 28 claimed he was prevented from
attending a Pride march in Havana that
he organized. He posted to Facebook
a picture of one of the two security

Twenty members of the Gay Mens Chorus


of Washington will travel to Cuba on July 10,
where they will perform with their Cuban
counterparts.
WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY

agents he said would not allow him and


his partner to leave the area around
their home in the Cuban capitals 10 de
Octubre neighborhood.
Maggiano told the Blade that he and
members of the Gay Mens Chorus of
Washington who are traveling to Cuba

have taken the countrys human rights


record into account.
I totally expect that we will hear many
dierent sides of the issue, he said.
Maggiano nevertheless told the Blade
he feels Cuba has made progress on a
number of LGBT-specic issues in recent

decades. He specically applauded


Mariela Castro and CENESEX for
embracing trans people more quickly
than the U.S.
They have been doing a lot of great
work, said Maggiano. We dont want to
lose sight of any of that.

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Thomas Roberts pulls out of Trump event


NEW YORK A gay MSNBC anchor
who was to have co-hosted the Miss
USA pageant on June 30 announced
he has pulled out of the event.
A spokesperson for NBC on
Tuesday conrmed to Variety that
Thomas Roberts will not host the
pageant that is scheduled to take
place in Baton Rouge, La., on July 12.
Roberts decision to withdraw from
the pageant came a day after NBC
Universal, which is MSNBCs parent
company, announced that it had cut
ties with Donald Trump, who owns
the Miss USA and Miss Universe
pageants, over the controversial
MSNBCs THOMAS ROBERTS dropped
out of hosting Donald Trumps Miss USA
comments he made about Mexican
pageant.
immigrants during his presidential
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campaign announcement.
Both Univision and Televisa
announced they would not broadcast the Miss Universe pageant as a result of
Trumps comments. Cheryl Burke, a dancer and choreographer with Dancing
with the Stars who was to have co-hosted the Miss USA pageant with Roberts,
also announced she would no longer participate in the event.
I cannot in good conscience move forward with participating in this years
Miss USA Pageant as its co-host, said Burke in a statement she posted to her
Facebook page.
Roberts decision to co-host the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow amid
concerns over Russias LGBT rights record sparked controversy.

West Va. DMV adopts trans policy


CHARLESTON, W. Va. The West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles has
announced it will no longer require trans people to wear certain clothes while
presenting themselves in their drivers license photos.
The Los Angeles Times reported the agency formally changed its policy on
July 1 in response to a potential lawsuit the New York-based Transgender Legal
Defense and Education Fund threatened to le on behalf of three trans women.
These include Trudy Kitzmiller and Kristen Skinner, who claim ocials insisted
they remove their makeup and jewelry in order to look male in their license
photos.
The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund in a press release it
released on July 7 identied Valerie Woody as a third potential plainti.
Getting my license updated has been a long struggle, said Kitzmiller in the
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund press release. I am relieved
that the DMV will nally allow me to have a license that reects the real me and
will treat transgender people fairly.
A new West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles policy that allows trans people
to change the gender listed on their drivers licenses after they submit a doctors
form also took eect on July 1.

Jenner to write about LGBT issues


LOS ANGELES Caitlyn Jenner on July 6 posted the rst of what the Associated
Press described as weekly online editorials about LGBT issues.
Jenner in her post described the reaction to her decision to come out as trans
earlier this year as overwhelmingly positive.
Up until now, I have totally isolated myself from the transgender community
so I have a lot of catching up to do, she wrote. I feel such a responsibility to this
courageous group to try to get it right and tell all sides of the story.
Jenner further acknowledged she had dinner with six trans women in New
York a few weeks ago. The former Olympian also included a link at the end of
her post that highlights GLAAD, the National Center for Transgender Equality
and other LGBT advocacy groups.
I have so much to discover and hope that youll join me on this adventure,
wrote Jenner.

NATIONAL NEWS

High hopes for


White House
Conference on Aging
Order barring anti-LGBT
bias in nursing homes
among requests
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Wallace Corbett has high hopes for
the upcoming White House Conference
on Aging.
The 54-year-old gay D.C. resident
recalled an event for local seniors
hosted by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser
in which attendees responded to the
screening of a gay-themed movie in a way
that didnt sit well with him.
Many of the older people realized it
was a gay movie and said, We dont attend
things like that, Corbett said. Those
types of reactions from older people
toward each other is just unacceptable.
Corbett, who has worked 20 years
registering people at the front desk of
the radiology department at George
Washington University, said the response
at the event doesnt bode well for older
LGBT Americans who may be seeking
housing or assisted living in a country
with no federal law explicitly protecting
LGBT people fromdiscrimination.
If you have those kinds of things going
on [over] the simple thing of going to a
movie and being educated, I cant imagine
what they would say if you were with your
husband, or your wife, or lover, or friend,
or partner to get housing as a couple,
Corbett said.
Even in places like D.C., which has
a local law prohibiting anti-LGBT
discrimination, Corbett said employees
need training so they either comply with
the law when working with LGBT seniors
or be removed from their posts. Now
that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in
favor of same-sex marriage nationwide,
Corbett said he hopes the decision clears
up any ineciencies.
They need to have the same rights and
they dont need to feel a fear when they
walk in the door, he said.
Michael Adams, executive director
of SAGE, or Services & Advocacy for
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender
Elders, said the experience that Corbett
observed and other issues are among the
common kinds of problems facing LGBT
Americans.
Theyre aging in isolation, which
creates a great need for social services

and support, Adams said. But,


unfortunately, what we nd, more often
than not, is that the existing aging services
world is not particularly welcoming to
LGBT older people, so you have isolation
and greater need for services.
Older LGBT Americans are four times
less likely to be parents than straight
people in their same age groups, and
twice as likely to be single and living alone
in a country where children and parents
are the primary caregivers, Adams said.
The rate of discrimination against
LGBT older Americans is markedly high.
According to a 2014 SAGE report, onein-eight LGBT adults and one-in-four
transgender adults say they were the
victims of discrimination on the basis
of their sexual orientation and gender
identity when searching for housing.
But Adams said other problems
facing LGBT elders stem not from social
institutions, but fellow elders who arent
part of the growing tide in support for
LGBT rights.
I think the real challenge is that if
you look at public opinion polls in this
country, the older people are, the more
likely they are to harbor bias against LGBT
people, Adams said. So what we see for
LGBT elders is that when theyre in senior
centers, when theyre in nursing homes,
when theyre in assisted living, they are
surrounded by other older people, and
that is really in a sense a big part of that
problem. Its not even so much from sta
that these institutions, its from other
seniors, other elders.
Issues like these are among the many
issues facing LGBT elders that LGBT
advocates hope receive attention during
an upcoming White House Conference on
Aging set for Monday. The event, which
has taken place each decade at the White
House since the 1960s, seeks to identify
and advance actions to improve the
quality of life for older Americans.
In addition to recognizing the 50th
anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid and
the Older Americans Act as well as the
80th anniversary of Social Security, the
event is an opportunity to bring together
older Americans, caregivers, government
ocials, the public and business leaders
to discuss issues expected to shape the
landscape for older Americans in the
next decade, according to a White House
announcement of the event.
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Kansas guv signs religious freedom exec order


Prohibits state action
against clergy,
religious organizations
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback acceded
on Tuesday to the U.S. Supreme Court
decision in favor of same-sex marriage
by recognizing gay nuptials in his state,
but on the same day signed an executive
order prohibiting adverse action against
clergy and religious organizations for
opposing same-sex unions.
In a statement, Brownback said he
signed the directive Executive Order
15-05, Preservation and Protection of
Religious Freedom to uphold religious
liberty in the aftermath of the court ruling.
The Kansas Bill of Rights arms the
right to worship according to dictates
of conscience and further protects
against any infringement of that right,
Brownback said. Todays executive order
protects Kansas clergy and religious
organizations from being forced to
participate in activities that violate their
sincerely and deeply held beliefs.
Brownback, a Republican who opposes
same-sex marriage, added he disagrees
with the court decision, but it is important
that all Kansans be treated with the
respect and dignity they deserve.
Meanwhile, after holding out since the
Supreme Court decision in favor of samesex marriage, Kansas is now recognizing
those unions in the state.
Eileen
Hawley,
a
Brownback
spokesperson, conrmed Monday to

Gov. SAM BROWNBACK (R-Kansas) signed a religious freedom executive order.


WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY

the Washington Blade the state is now


recognizing same-sex marriages for the
purposes of spousal benets to state
employees and changing names on a
drivers license. The state had resisted
making those changes in the days after
the Supreme Court decision.
The executive order prohibits state
action against any individual clergy,
religious leader or religious organizations
on the basis they believe marriage should
be limited to one man, one woman or act
on that belief.
The order specically prohibits punitive
action against religious leaders or clergy
who refuse to perform a same-sex marriage;
religious organizations that refuse to
solemnize or provide any goods for a samesex wedding; or religious organizations that
otherwise act on a religious or moral belief
against same-sex marriage.

The executive order is along the lines


of a similar directive signed by Louisiana
governor and Republican presidential
candidate Bobby Jindal on Monday. But
the Kansas order doesnt go as far as the
Louisiana directive.
Brownbacks order is limited to
clergy, religious leaders and religious
organizations, but Jindals expands the
denition of person under the states
religious freedom law to include individuals,
non-prot, or for-prot corporations that
oppose same-sex marriage.
Micah Kubic, executive director of the
ACLU of Kansas, slammed the executive
order as unnecessary and harmful.
Religious institutions have never been
required to marry anyone outside their
faith traditions, Kubic said. Allowing
same-sex couples to marry as the U.S.
Supreme Court has now ruled is the law

of the land in all 50 states does not


change that in any way, and so todays
executive order is unnecessary.
According to the ACLU of Kansas, the
order is harmful because it could enable
religious organizations that receive
taxpayer money to engage anti-LGBT
discrimination. For example, a homeless
shelter that receives a state contract
or grant could deny family housing to a
gay couple with a child, or a foster care
agency could refuse to place a child in a
same-sex household, the organization
said. Moreover, singling out just one form
of religious beliefs about marriage poses
serious constitutional concerns, the ACLU
of Kansas says.
But Kansas has no state law prohibiting
anti-LGBT
discrimination,
so
the
directive wont interfere with any such
statute. The only municipality in Kansas
with a pro-LGBT non-discrimination
ordinance is Lawrence, but that measure
exempts
non-prot
fraternal
and
social associations as well as religious
organizations and non-prots for the
purpose of public accommodations. The
directive doesnt seem to have any impact
on the ordinance.
It remains to be seen whether
Brownback will face lawsuits over his
executive order. In Louisiana, the ACLU
led a lawsuit last week against Jindal over
his religious freedom executive order.
Kubic said the ACLU of Kansas is closely
monitoring the impact of the directive
in the state. Asked whether a possible
action could be a lawsuit, Kubic replied,
We are still guring out all of the various
implications of the executive order, so it is
too early to rule any particular option out.

Putting the Religious Right on notice


Protect Thy Neighbor to
ght backlash against
marriage ruling

By LOU CHIBBARO JR.


lchibbaro@washblade.com

Americans United for Separation


of Church and State launched a new
initiative on Tuesday that it says will ght
the growing idea that religious freedom
gives people a right to thwart marriage
equality for LGBT Americans.
At a news conference at the National
Press Club, Americans Uniteds top three
leaders said the groups new Protect Thy
Neighbor project would also challenge
eorts by the religious right to deny
women access to reproductive care and

use taxpayer dollars to discriminate.


Same-sex couples may have won the
right to marry, but that doesnt mean
that extreme fundamentalist zealots who
oppose any expansion of LGBT rights are
going to sit by quietly, said Rev. Barry W.
Lynn, an attorney who serves as executive
director of Americans United.
In fact, we know whats coming, said
Lynn. They will try to erect as many barriers
as possible on the road to true equality. Its
an immature reaction, yes, but that doesnt
mean it wont get traction.
Lynn was joined at the news conference
by Maggie Garrett, Americans Uniteds
legislative director; and Gregory Lipper, the
groups litigation counsel. The three said the
new project would be a three-pronged eort
to challenge so-called religious freedom
advocates seeking to take away rights.
They said the project will ght proposed

discriminatory laws in state legislatures


and in Congress as well as through
litigation and legal work and through
public education.
Emboldened by the Supreme Courts
2014 ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
Stores and indignant over the high
courts recent ruling in the marriage
equality case, legislators across the
country are introducing bills that would
undermine marriage equality, trump nondiscrimination laws, and deny women
access to reproductive healthcare all in
the name of religion, Garrett said at the
news conference.
Lipper said that if Americans United
and its allied groups arent able to block
discriminatory legislation, he and his legal
team will challenge those laws in court.
He pointed to successful eorts in the
1960s to challenge businesses such as

restaurants that used religious beliefs to


refuse service to African Americans.
But now, were seeing bakers, orists,
T-shirt makers, and even pizzerias and
DJs, argue that their religion allows
them to discriminate against same-sex
couples, Lipper said. We will continue
to argue in court that businesses do not
have the right to tell customers that we
dont serve your kind.
Lynn said the Protect Thy Neighbor
project, which can be accessed at
protectthyneighbor.org, is aimed at
attracting a diverse range of Americans
regardless of where and if they worship,
no matter their political beliefs, their
gender, their age or who they love.
With Protect Thy Neighbor, we are
putting the Religious Right on notice, he
said. Your politics of division, homophobia
and exclusion will not stand.

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50 years of protests and progress


Philly marks anniversary
of historic gay rights
demonstrations
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS
mlavers@washblade.com
PHILADELPHIA Hundreds of people
gathered at Philadelphias Independence
Hall on Saturday to commemorate the
50th anniversary of one of the countrys
rst gay rights demonstrations.
James Obergefell, the lead plainti
in the U.S. Supreme Court case in
which the justices late last month ruled
same-sex couples have the right to
marry throughout the country, and
Edith Windsor, a New York widow who
successfully challenged the Defense of
Marriage Act in 2013, were among those
on hand to honor the 40 advocates who
participated in the rst of what became
known as the annual reminders that
took place in front of Independence Hall
on July 4, 1965. Dennis and Judy Shepard,
U.S. Chief Technology Ocer Megan
Smith and Walter Naegle, longtime
partner of Bayard Rustin, who organized
the 1963 March on Washington, also
joined Obergefell and Windsor on stage
during the event that comedian Wanda
Sykes emceed.
Local LGBT rights advocates re-enacted
the annual reminders during the ceremony.
40 people stepped forward on our
behalf and changed the course of history,
said Equality Forum Executive Director
Malcolm Lazin.
Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings
organized the annual reminders in
which gay men dressed in suits and
lesbians wearing dresses and pantyhose
picketed in front of Independence Hall.
They held signs bearing Equal treatment
before the law, Equality for homosexual
citizens and other slogans.
More than 100 people participated in
the annual reminder on July 4, 1969,
that took place less than a week after the
Stonewall riots in New Yorks Greenwich
Village. The annual protests ended in
1970 when advocates took part in a
march from Greenwich Village to Central
Park that became the countrys rst LGBT
Pride march.
Barbara (Gittings) was a hero when
many in our community could not be,
said National Center for Lesbian Rights
Executive Director Kate Kendell during
the ceremony.
U.S. Army Oce of Energy Initiatives
Executive Director Amanda Simpson,
who is the highest-ranking transgender
federal employee, said that Kameny and
Gittings and the other advocates who
picketed in front of Independence Hall
laid the groundwork for future activism.

From left, DENNIS SHEPARD, WANDA SYKES, JUDY SHEPARD, EDITH WINDSOR, JAMES OBERGEFELL, MALCOLM LAZIN and BISHOP GENE
ROBINSON attend an awards ceremony at the Hotel Monaco following the anniversary celebration.
WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY

I stand on their shoulders, said Simpson.

Obergefell, Windsor,
Shepard honored

The ceremony took place eight days


after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its
ruling in the Obergefell case.
Lazin and organizers of the event
honored Obergefell during a postceremony reception. Windsor and Judy
Shepard were also presented with
awards at a lunch that took place at the
Independence Visitor Center.
Thank you Jim Obergefell for lending
your name and your presence and
your love story heartwarming and
heartbreaking at the same time for
this total win for all LGBT couples, said
Windsor, referring to last months U.S.
Supreme Court ruling.
Obergefell on July 2 laid a wreath at
a historic marker near Independence
Hall that commemorates the annual
reminders. Three of the original
protesters were among those who
attended the ceremony.
Friday was a landmark day, said
Obergefell as he spoke at Independence
Hall on Saturday, referring to the
day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in
support of him and the other plaintis
in the landmark same-sex marriage case
that bares his name. But we need to

remember who came before us and the


risks and the sacrices that they made.

Looking beyond marriage


Obergefell and others who spoke
during Saturdays events said the
movement needs to address lingering
issues facing LGBT Americans.
Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund CEO
Aisha Moodie-Mills and Out and Equal
Workplace Advocates CEO Selisse Berry
both noted as they spoke at Independence
Hall that dozens of states lack LGBTinclusive discrimination and employment
protections. Retired New Hampshire
Bishop V. Gene Robinson described
religious freedom measures that critics
contend would allow discrimination
based on sexual orientation and gender
identity as an abomination.
We have accomplished a lot, but we have
much to do, said Point Foundation Executive
Director Jorge Valencia. We all know that
legislation doesnt change society.
Members of GALAEI, a Philadelphiabased LGBT Latino advocacy group, on
Saturday held signs in support of rights
for trans people and undocumented
immigrants as they re-enacted the
annual reminders protests in front of
Independence Hall.
I dont feel free, said Tamika Butler,
an LGBT rights advocate who lives in Los

Angeles. I might be able to marry my


white ance, but I am not truly free.
Pennsylvania State Sen. Anthony Williams
(D-Philadelphia) earlier in the day made a
similar point as he introduced Windsor at
the Independence Visitor Center.
The Philadelphia Democrat, who,
along with gay state Rep. Brian Sims
(D-Philadelphia) have introduced bills in
the Pennsylvania Legislature that would
ban so-called conversion therapy in
the commonwealth applauded the U.S.
Supreme Court ruling in the Obergefell
case. He also referenced last months
massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church in Charleston, South
Carolina, and other recent events.
When immigrants now land theres
a dierent perspective, said Williams.
Those words that Donald Trump said,
thats why he got red. Unfortunately
when a young minister, a state senator,
was gunned down in South Carolina the
nation stopped and paused, not just in
horror, but in shock that we can still act
that way as Americans.
Our struggle for LGBT equality
must merge with other social justice
movements, added Robinson during his
remarks at Independence Hall. Black lives
matter. Immigrant Dreamers lives matter.
People living in wheelchairs and in poverty
matter. We who are LGBT are black, are
immigrants, are disabled and are poor.

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Dominican HIV/AIDS groups work to end stigma


Service providers hope
LGBT tourism will
promote tolerance
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS
mlavers@washblade.com
GUAYACANES, Dominican Republic
More than two-dozen young LGBT
Dominicans aliated with Este Amor, a
local HIV/AIDS service organization, on
June 20 welcomed several journalists from
the U.S. and Latin America to a beachfront
villa overlooking the Caribbean.
Several of them spent the next two
hours dancing to merengue, reggaeton
and Spanish pop music on a wooden stage
overlooking the water as passersby on the
beach watched through a chain-link fence.
A young man who emceed the impromptu
dance party repeatedly referred to himself
as Washington Heights, which is a
predominantly Dominican neighborhood
in upper Manhattan.
The young people who greeted the
foreign journalists were also eager
to discuss their eorts to combat the
countrys HIV/AIDS epidemic.
We work to meet the needs of the
LGBT community, Este Amor Executive
Director Melvin de Aza told them before
they left Guayacanes, which is about 30
miles east of the Dominican capital of
Santo Domingo.
Este Amor, which is based in La Romana,
the countrys third largest city that is
roughly 75 miles east of Santo Domingo
near the resort of Casa de Campo, formed
in June 2012 to combat the HIV epidemic
in the eastern Dominican Republic. Grupo
de Jvenes Aliados Este Amor (JALEA), a
group within Este Amor that works with
young LGBT people in the region, came
into existence earlier this year.
Este Amor distributes condoms
and provides information about the
virus to men who have sex with men,
transgender people, sex workers and
other vulnerable groups in the provinces
of Altagracia, Hato Mayor, El Seibo and
San Pedro de Macors. The organization
also oers support and free health care
to those living with HIV and other sexually
transmitted infections in the region.
We are for prevention and helping
you and educating you, de Aza told the
Washington Blade during an interview at
the villa before the journalists returned
to Santo Domingo. It is about bettering
yourself in our society as part of the LGBT
community so you can better yourself.
De Aza, 21, told the Blade that one of
the overarching goals of his group is to
change stereotypes about the epidemic in
the socially conservative, predominantly
Roman Catholic country.

Dominican LGBT youth aliated with Este


Amor, an HIV/AIDS service organization, look
out over the Caribbean from a beachfront
villa in Guayacanes, Dominican Republic, on
June 20.
WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY MICHAEL K. LAVERS

It is a country that is totally


homophobic, said de Aza. It is a country
that rejects us and that thinks HIV is a
sentence for gays.
We try through one form or another
to convince (those with HIV) to break this
taboo and to be comfortable with us so
they understand HIV is not a disease that
will kill you, he added. It is a life condition
you live with, as you would with a u, like
anything else, like diabetes. You can live
with this like any other type of problem.
A UNAIDS report notes that 40,000 people
were living with HIV/AIDS in the Dominican
Republic in 2013. The National HIV and AIDS
Council, a group known by the Spanish
acronym CONAVIHSIDA that implements
the Dominican governments policy against
the epidemic, notes that trans people and
men who have sex with men are among the
groups that are disproportionately aected
by the virus in the country.
The Center for Integrated Training
and Research, a Santo Domingo-based
HIV/AIDS service organization known
by the Spanish acronym COIN, has
worked to ght the epidemic among
LGBT Dominicans, immigrants and other
vulnerable groups since its founding in
1988. COIN is also a member of Caribbean
Vulnerable Communities, a coalition that
ghts HIV/AIDS in the region.
COINs clinic in Santo Domingos Villas
Agrcolas neighborhood provides an
array of medical, psychological and other
services to 500 to 600 people who visit it
each month
The organization has oces in La
Romana and Santiago, the countrys
second largest city that is roughly 90
miles northwest of Santo Domingo.
COIN, which provides funding to
Este Amor, has also launched launched
ProActividad, an economic empowerment
program for LGBT Dominicans. The
Santo Domingo-based organization is

also working with government ocials


and travel industry representatives to
promote LGBT rights in the country.
COIN works closely with the Dominican
Ministry of Health, in part because many
of its staers are former employees. It
also receives funding from the Presidents
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, UNAIDS
and other international organizations.
We are always looking out for the needs
of the population, said Merelin Muoz, a
doctor who works at the COIN clinic.
COIN operates an observatory that
monitors human rights in the Dominican
Republic. It is also among the dozens
of organizations throughout the region
that are members of the Pan-Caribbean
Partnership Against HIV and AIDS.
COIN Executive Director Antonio
Santos acknowledged to reporters during
a meeting in his oce on June 19 there
are many violations of rights in the
country that include violence against
trans sex workers.
Santos during the meeting highlighted
COINs campaign that seeks to raise
awareness of Dominican police ocers
who plant drugs on young people in
order to extort money from them or
meet arrest quotas. He also criticized the
Dominican governments controversial
plan to legalize Haitian migrants and
others who have entered the country
without documentation.
CONAVIHSIDA Director Victor Torrero
was among those who spoke at a press
event in Santo Domingo on June 19 that
highlighted the LGBT tourism campaign.
Gay U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican
Republic James Wally Brewster and his
husband, Bob Satawake, also attended
the gathering.
The event took place two days after the
deadline for migrants to register with the
Dominican government passed.
The images that you have seen are

based on the desperation of many


Haitian citizens, said Torrero in response
to the Blades question about eorts to
document migrants in the Dominican
Republic and how he feels the tourism
campaign would improve human rights
in the country. We hope that in our
future all the problems that we have with
the business that take advantage of their
illegality is overcome.
Torrero stressed that President Danilo
Medina and his administration has a rm
conviction to work on human rights issues.
He further noted that CONAVIHSIDA is also
the driving force behind a comprehensive antidiscrimination proposal that would include
sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Dominican Ministry of Tourism is
currently working with CONAVIHSIDA to
review the measure.
This present government is very clear
that we need to create a Dominican
Republic that respects the rights of all
people, Torrero told the Blade.
COIN Medical Director John Waters
during the Santo Domingo press event
described Torrero as a strong ally.
De Aza told the Blade that he feels the
Dominican government has not done
enough to combat the HIV epidemic.
The Dominican government is not
doing anything to combat HIV and above
all to help the LGTB community, he said.
His colleague, Luis de Paula, coordinator
of Grupo JALEA, agreed.
They are doing very little, he said.
De Aza nevertheless said eorts to
promote LGBT tourism in the Dominican
Republic could potentially make the
country less homophobic. He told the
Blade he feels these eorts could also
benet LGBT Dominicans.
There are many beautiful places here,
de Aza told the Blade. (Tourism) could
increase income and spur development
in an impressive and great way.

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Examining political implications of marriage ruling


CONTINUED FROM PAGE 01

Elmendorf added its highly unlikely at


this point in the election cycle there will
be a Republican candidate who is progay marriage, which is the position you
should be in for this election.
According to a recent CNN/ORC poll, 59
percent of Americans say they back the
Supreme Court decision making samesex marriage legal in all 50 states.
Democratic presidential candidates
Hillary Clinton, Bernard Sanders and
Martin OMalley each praised the ruling.
It reects the will of the vast majority
and growing multitude of Americans who
believe that LGBT couples deserve to be
recognized under the law and treated
equally in the eyes of society, Clinton
said. And it represents our country at its
best: inclusive, open and striving towards
true equality.
Pro-LGBT
Republican
political
observers say damage to the GOP will
depend on whether the party nominates
someone vocal in opposition to the
decision or a candidate with a more
muted response.
Some in the mix Jeb Bush, Chris
Christie and Marco Rubio have said
they disagree with the decision, but are
generally seeking to move on with the
exception of calls to protect religious
liberty. Others Rick Santorum, Mike
Huckabee and Ted Cruz are urging
deance and calling for a constitutional
amendment against the decision.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is backing
an amendment that would return the
marriage issue to the states.
David Lampo, a gay Virginia Republican
activist who has said the party would
benet if the Supreme Court takes
the marriage issue o the table, said
the party should and is likely to
nominate someone in the rst category
to remain viable.
In the end, the partys candidate will
be someone who explicitly accepts where
America is right now on this issue, i.e., in
support of the courts decision, and who
tries to energize the partys base with
other issues that have broad support
across the party and that can appeal to
younger voters as well, Lampo said.
Liz Mair, a pro-LGBT Republican
political strategist, said her general sense
is the ruling is a boon to the GOP because
it takes an issue o the table for a lot of
voters that would normally be targeted
by Democrats, but shared the sense it
depends on the nominee.
The numbers on the issue have already
shifted enough that those who want to
make things like proposed constitutional
amendments a centerpiece of their
campaigns are probably creating a hard,
articially low ceiling for themselves,

Wisconsin Gov. SCOTT WALKER supports


a constitutional amendment that would
return the marriage issue to the states.
WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY

Mair said. But thats hardly been the


response of every candidate, and I
suspect that this issue is largely going
away what I think the end result will
be, unlike with, say Roe v Wade is
probably benecial to Republicans who
would rather be hitting former Secretary
Clinton on her economic and national
security policies, her terrible civil liberties
record, and her record of failure in high
government oce.
Shortly after the decision, Bush
declined to endorse a constitutional
amendment that would reverse the
ruling, clearing up persistent questions
on whether he would back the measure.
The candidate assumes a position
dierent from his brother, former
President George W. Bush, who made a
constitutional amendment a centerpiece
of his 2004 presidential campaign.
A spokesperson for the Bush campaign
is quoted in the Tampa Bay Times as
saying the former Florida governor
doesnt back a constitutional amendment
on marriage.
Gov.
Bush
does
not
believe
amending the Constitution is the right
course, spokeswoman Kristy Campbell
reportedly said. Right now, we should
focus on defending religious liberty
by protecting those who act on their
conscience and appointing judges who
understand the limits placed on them by
the Constitution.
According to the conservative website
Breitbart.com, the anti-gay National
Organization for Marriage, which recently

distributed a questionnaire to candidates


asking about the extent to which theyll
oppose same-sex marriage, declared
it couldnt support Bush or Rubio, who
has previously refused to back a Federal
Marriage Amendment.
Walker, Santorum, Jindal, Huckabee,
and Perry have all made strong
commitments at this critical time, NOM
President Brian Brown reportedly said.
Rubio and Bush, on the other hand, are
simply caving. Period. Right now I cant
see conservatives supporting either.
But the political implications of the
decision arent limited to the upcoming
election. LGBT advocates are banking on
the ruling creating momentum to pass a
comprehensive LGBT non-discrimination
bill. Among those advocates is Human
Rights Campaign President Chad Grin,
who has made public appearances in
Texas and on news talk shows to discuss
the need to end LGBT discrimination in
all major areas of the law.
In the majority of states in this country,
even after this historic opinion, you know
that a couple can get married at 10 a.m.,
they can be red by noon and they can be
evicted by their landlord at 2 p.m. simply
because there are no explicit protections
in federal law when it comes to nondiscrimination, Grin said on CNN.
Elmendorf said he expects the
Supreme Court ruling to boost eorts
in passing the legislation, although he
acknowledged that the task will be hard
with large Republican majorities in both
chambers of Congress.
I think that once people see that
people are getting married all over the
country in all 50 states and the world
is not coming to an end, then it builds
momentum to do something else,
Elmendorf said. A comprehensive nondiscrimination bill is the next thing, so
whether it can happen this Congress is
really up to the Republican leadership.
I think its chances are enhanced by the
marriage decision.
Its unknown when the legislation will
be introduced, or the exact nature of
the measure. The oces of Rep. David
Cicilline (D-R.I.) and Sen. Je Merkley
(D-Ore.) havent responded to multiple
requests to comment about the bill.
Previously, they had said theyd introduce
the legislation in the spring, but that time
has passed.
Advocates have called for a measure
enacting non-discrimination protections
in
employment,
housing,
public
accommodations,
education,
federal
programs and credit with a religious
exemption identical for other classes of
individuals under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Tico Almeida, president of Freedom
to Work and a proponent of the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act

in the previous Congress, said he


supports the comprehensive bill, but said
advocates should look to the courts to
pass non-discrimination protections.
The LGBT movement has won far
more marriage victories by litigating as
compared to lobbying, Almeida said. The
lesson is to return to the federal courts
now with LGBT litigation challenging
workplace and housing discrimination
as sex discrimination banned by the Civil
Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act and other
federal statutes. I bet we can get LGBT
workplace or housing cases to the U.S.
Supreme Court sooner than the U.S. House
of Representatives will allow an up-ordown vote on a comprehensive LGBT bill.
It should be noted gender isnt covered
under the public accommodation
protections of the Civil Rights Act, so
LGBT advocates would not be able to
argue in court that portion of the law
applies to LGBT people. That section of
the law, Title II, is also limited to hotels,
restaurants and theaters.
Yet another eort to which LGBT
advocates are hoping the Supreme
Court adds momentum is keeping an
endorsement of a Federal Marriage
Amendment out of the upcoming
Republican Party platform in 2016.
In 2012, the Democratic Party platform
for the rst time endorsed same-sex
marriage, but the Republican Party
alternative said the union of one man and
one woman must be upheld as the national
standard and endorsed a constitutional
amendment against gay nuptials.
Last week, Republican presidential
candidate
Lindsey
Graham
said
opponents of same-sex marriage could
renew the anti-gay marriage plank in
2016, but that eort would be ill-advised.
You can put it in the platform, but in
my view it will hurt us in 2016, Graham
said on NBCs Meet the Press.
Jerri Ann Henry, campaign manager for
Young Conservatives for the Freedom to
Marry, said she thinks the ruling reects
growing support for marriage equality
amongRepublicans and a desire to reform
the platform to remove the anti-gay plank.
Many candidates agree that our
current Republican platform could hurt
the GOP and should be reformed, Henry
said. We believe 2016 presidential
candidates should recognize and respect
members of the Republican Party who
support the freedom to marry and the
view of those who believe the party
should be a big tent and welcome
conservative voters regardless of where
they stand on this issue. Potential and
current presidential candidates Gov. Jeb
Bush, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Gov. John
Kasich and Sen. Marco Rubio have all
reinforced the need for respect of the
courts ruling as the law of the land.

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Patrick Paschall, the newly named executive director of Free State Legal,
will be the guest speaker at the next general meeting of the Prime Timers of
Baltimore. The meeting takes place Sunday. FreeState Legal is a legal advocacy
organization for the low-income LGBTQ community, oering legal services and
policy advocacy.
Paschall has more than a decade of experience in LGBTQ activism, which he
will describe to the membership Prime Timers of Baltimore. He will explain the
work of FreeState Legal and his vision for its future.
Sometimes gay people need legal help to obtain the services that they
deserve and Free State Legal has had a history of assisting them, says Ralph
Welsh, president of Prime Timers.
The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at St. Marks Lutheran Church, 1900 St. Paul
St. (at the southeast corner of St. Paul and 20th Streets) in Baltimore.
Prime Timers of Baltimore is a chapter of Prime Timers World Wide, a group of
older gay or bisexual men (and younger men who admire mature men). For further
information, call 410-252-7239, or contact Prime Timers at info@ptbalto.org.

Trans groups to march for visibility


Using the hashtag #BaltimoreTRANSUprising, members of various transgender
advocacy organizations have scheduled a march on July 24 originating in Charles
Village. The event is being coordinated by the Baltimore Trans Alliance.
#BaltimoreTRANSUprising, will be an opportunity for the transgender
community and our allies in Baltimore City to put a voice and a face to our
anguish from the various traumas we have experienced in this city and to
demand accountability from the systems that our supposed to represent and
protect us, Bryanna Jenkins, founder of Baltimore Trans Alliance, told the Blade.
The group will hold a rally in Charles Village on North Avenue and Charles
Street at 5 p.m. and then march to Mt. Vernon Place.
The rally and march, which are scheduled to take place one day before
Baltimores Pride celebrations, are aimed at raising awareness and visibility of
transgender issues and showing solidarity for the transgender community and
allies in Baltimore City.
We invite you to join us as we lift or voices to begin a new narrative on how
this city will make the transgender residents matter, says Jenkins. We hope that
this demonstration of power and unity will bring attention to the issues of police
brutality, racial discrimination, high STI infection rates, lack of access to health
care, unemployment, violence and homelessness faced by transgender people
in Baltimore City.
The Baltimore Trans Alliance is requesting donations to help oset some of
the costs of putting this rally together. A goal of $1,500 has been set. To donate,
visit http://www.gofundme.com/bmoretransup.
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of Progress on Transgender Health and Rights will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m.
in the Jack Morton Auditorium on the George Washington University campus
(2125 G St., N.W.).
Mixed martial artist ghter Fallon Fox, whos transgender, is the celebrity guest
panelist and is subject of the new documentary Game Face. Mara Keisling of
National Center for Transgender Equality, Ilan Meyer of the Williams Institute,
Naseema Sha of Whitman-Walker Health and Ruby Corado of Casa Ruby will
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Get married or get dropped, some companies advise


NEW YORK Some same-sex couples across the country that enjoyed
domestic partner benets from their employers may now be under pressure to
wed to retain those benets, CBS News and other outlets report.
Domestic partner benets may decline as employers reassess their humanresources plans following the ruling, according to Aon Hewitt, which estimates
that 77 percent of employers currently oer same-sex domestic partner health
care coverage. Many employers extended these benets because gay couples
often didnt have the right to marry, but now that marriage is legal for them
nationwide, HR experts say some of those companies may drop domestic
partner benets, CBS reports.
Even before the Supreme Court made its ruling, some companies were already
tweaking their benets, given that 37 states and the District of Columbia had
legalized gay marriage. Verizon and Delta Air Lines were among those that gave
ultimatums to their employees: Get hitched or lose your partners coverage, the
article said.
Verizon gave same-sex couples in states where it was legal six months to get
married, or else forfeit the benets. The company said its reasoning was to level
the playing eld for both gay and straight couples.

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according to a new study from Rice University reported on by MedicalXpress
and other outlets.
A New Piece of the Puzzle: Sexual Orientation, Gender and Physical Health
Status will appear in an upcoming edition of Demography. The study examined
the self-rated health of 10,128 LGB adults and 405,145 straight adults to see how
it diered.
In addition to recording self-rated health information, the researchers
analyzed the participants lifestyle according to a number of factors that
traditionally impact health, including socio-economic status (including education
level, employment status, household income and access to health insurance),
health behaviors (smoker or nonsmoker, drinking habits, body mass index and
access to health care) and social support and well-being, the MedicalXpress
article said.
The study found that 19.5 percent of bisexual men and 18.5 percent of bi
women rated their health as poor or fair, the highest proportion among the
groups surveyed. In contrast, only 11.9 percent of men identifying as gay and
10.6 percent of women identifying as lesbian rated their health as poor or fair,
the lowest proportion of those surveyed. Health was also rated poor by 14.5
percent of straight men and 15.6 percent of straight women, the article said.
Across the groups surveyed, the researchers also found that bisexual men and
women are disproportionately disadvantaged on important social, economic
and behavioral factors strongly associated with health and well-being. For
example, bisexual men and women were the least likely of the three groups to
be college educated, researchers said.
Bisexual men and women were more likely to smoke (23.8 percent and 21.9
percent, respectively), compared with 14.9 percent of gay men, 16.6 percent
of lesbian women, 11.1 percent of heterosexual men and 8.3 percent of
heterosexual women, according to the study.

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Making history
in Mississippi
The times are nally
changing in the Deep South
By BRANDIILYNE DEAR
Just south of the Mason-Dixon line
there is a place cemented in time welcome to Mississippi. This is where folks
wave as they pass by on the road, laws
protect the majestic magnolia trees,
and sweet tea is the house wine. Down
here people take pride in their heritage,
which includes, but is not limited to, their
younguns, their pick-up trucks and their
church. Although living in the Deep South
has its charms, there are giants in the
land that many continue to ght. Those
giants include discrimination, close mindedness and racism.
Religion, the mother of all giants, is
such an intricate part of the tapestry that
is the south. Many of us were raised on
a church pew and have been instructed
on the laws of God. These laws were very
clear, love God, respect your momma,
dont mix races, and homosexuality is the
unpardonable sin. Many of these laws
were never spoken aloud. They were just
understood as the laws of the land, the
foundation of southern heritage, and

statues that would never change. Until


June 26, 2015.
These southern regulations were so
deeply engrained in my own identity
that I did not accept my sexuality until I
was 37. As soon as I broke free from religious misconceptions, I quickly founded
The Dandelion Project, an LGBT advocacy group, and Joshua Generation MCC
(Metropolitan Community Church), a
radically inclusive church. These things
were unheard of in southern Mississippi. We joined forces with others across
the state and began to ght to tear
down some of these decrees that were
not only causing people harm, but were
denying them equal rights. So when the
ruling from the Supreme Court came
down we rushed to the courthouse; this
was one of the most surreal moments
of my life.
Only minutes after the decision, there
I stood, a lesbian pastor, on the steps of
the Forrest County courthouse ociating, not only the rst same-sex marriage
in the state of Mississippi, but this was
an interracial couple as well. As I prayed
over the newlyweds, Amber Hamilton
and Annice Smith, it was as if I could see
many of those giants begin to fall. The
social climate was changing right before

E DIT OR IA L C A R T OON

my eyes. That was a victorious moment


as we began breaking free from the Old
South and her heritage. I wrapped my
arms around Amber and Annice and we
wept. We not only made history, but we
overcame it!
There were more couples that began to come in that day to apply for a
marriage license; only two more were
issued. The fourth couple was denied.
This giant was not going down easily.
We were soon forced to halt all ceremonies; it was devastating. But there
was no way that we were going to stop
fighting now.
Despite the delays on Friday, we
got the all-clear early on Monday and
quickly rushed back to the courthouse
where same-sex marriages resumed.
The couples that were denied on Friday
were first in line, each afraid that this
window of opportunity would close as
it had seemingly always done before.
I have since, in less than one week,
had the honor of officiating nearly 20
same-sex ceremonies from all walks
of life. Some have waited three years
to marry the one they love, while others have been waiting 30. However,
whether 3 years or 30, we have waited
a lifetime to overcome discrimination,
bigotry, and the heritage that haunts
the South.
Although the laws of the land have indeed changed and same-sex couples can
now partake in the constitutional right of
marriage, minds are not so easily swayed.
There is still work that has to be done. We
have made progress, albeit slow, we have
progressed nonetheless.
As with any place, there are positives
and negatives of living in Mississippi, but
as things go here in the South, slowly and
surely as the biscuits are rising in the
oven on Sunday morning, the positive is
overcoming the negative. I can still hear
the faint echo of the old southern mantra, the South shall rise again! Im not so
sure she has ever been on top, but today
I am certain that she is now rising freer
from bigotry and hate because times,
well, they are a changing. Yall come
back now, ya hear?

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D.C. AIDS plan ambitious but must include community


Diverse group of stakeholders
should shape new policies

KENYON FARROW is a local resident and U.S.


and Global Health Policy Director for Treatment
Action Group.

Could D.C. be the next place that declares


a bold plan for ending the HIV epidemic in
just a few years? New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was the rst governor to announce such
an eort. Now it appears that Mayor Muriel
Bowser wants to make this a priority in her
rst term. But while I applaud the mayor for
taking on this ambitious (yet achievable) goal,
she needs to make the community part of
the process of conceiving, developing, and
implementing this new plan.
Last week, Bowser announced the
citys new HIV surveillance report, which
shows a decline in new HIV diagnoses for
the sixth consecutive year and no cases
of mother-to-child transmission. But, in

The citys new HIV surveillance report shows


a decline in new HIV diagnoses for the sixth
consecutive year and no cases of mother-tochild transmission.
many ways, the mayor buried the lead.
In a press release about the report, she
announced a new HIV plan for D.C. to
mirror the new global targets set by UNAIDS, stating, We are setting a bold goal
of 90-90-90-50 by the year 2020:meaning
90 percent of D.C. residents with HIV will
know their status, 90 percent of persons
living with HIV will be in treatment, 90 percent of persons with HIV will achieve viral
load suppression, and the District will see
a 50 percent decrease in new HIV cases.
This is a great goal for D.C. Currently about
2.5 percent of the city is HIV positive, a gure
twice as high as the baseline denition of an
epidemic. Among the citys black population,
that rate is nearly double the citys overall
rate: 3.9 percent of black Washingtonians
are HIV positive, and 5.8 percent of black gay
and bisexual men in D.C. have HIV.
So the mayor is well justied in increasing high-quality care for people with HIV

and expanding prevention eorts in the


most heavily aected communities. She
announced that her administration is partnering with D.C. Appleseed, a local think
tank, to develop the plan to achieve these
goals. Appleseed has a long history of evaluating the citys progress on reducing HIV
infections and scaling up access to care; it
makes sense to have the organization on
board as a partner to help shape this plan.
However, in order for the plan to be successful, it will have to be developed by a
broad range of stakeholders across D.C.
from the very beginning. It should include
a task force comprising a diverse range of
stakeholders including people living with HIV
and representatives from aected communities. It should also include medical providers,
insurers, epidemiologists, social science researchers, service providers and advocates; it
should not be created without a wide range
of stakeholders being able to put their ideas

forward, in a transparent process.


Treatment Action Group was one of the
organizations that advocated for a plan in
New York State before Cuomo adopted it.
What made the New York plan so ambitious in its goals, and what will ultimately
make it a success, is that stakeholders
from all over the state sent in hundreds
of policy recommendations that were
debated by the governors appointed
task force. Its meetings were open to the
public and allowed public comment from
stakeholders and experts who were not
on the ocial task force.
For New York, it felt as if this was a plan
the community could own and be proud
ofa plan in whose ongoing work, implementation and evaluation the community
could participate. My fear is that if the D.C.
plan to end the HIV epidemic here is developed largely in secret with only select
voices at the table, well lose the richness of
ideas from the people whose input matters
most. Just as importantly, we could lose
public condence that were committed
to ensuring not only that no more babies
are born with HIV, but that no more (or
very few) others contract the virus and that
people currently living with the virus get the
best care without fear, shame or stigma.

I N S I D E LGB T W A S HING TON

How has your world changed since marriage ruling?


Time to be less selsh and ght
for underrepresented people

PETER ROSENSTEIN is a D.C.-based LGBT rights


and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly
for the Blade.

After the initial thrill of winning marriage equality the question some are now
asking is, How has your world changed
since we won two weeks ago? The answer for many is not much.
There is no question seeing the White
House lit up in rainbow colors was a
high. Those who stood in front of the
Supreme Court the day the decision was
announced will surely never forget that
experience. Suddenly what we fought for
over decades was a reality. I cried when I
saw pictures of couples in Texas, young
and old, take advantage of the chance to

say I do. One couple had been together


for more than 50 years and looked so
cute.
But for most of us the initial excitement
of the day has worn o and our daily lives
havent changed much. The news cycle
comes so fast these days within a day we
were more focused on what the Greek
people would do on their referendum regarding default. We were afraid to look at
our 401k accounts. Most of us were more
worried about whether it will cause us to
work longer before we can aord to retire than about getting married or even
whether the people of Greece will be able
to aord rent and food.
We know we will still read about kids
being bullied in school and transgender
persons being beaten in the street. We
will still hear about the young gay boy or
girl ending up on the street, homeless,
because their parents threw them out
when they came out to them.
So how do we deal with the fact most
of us are really kind of selsh? Is that
something terrible or just human nature?
It is natural to get caught up in the daily
grind; going to work, paying the rent or
the mortgage, looking at what to do on

Saturday night, and trying to gure out


where to go on our next vacation.
There are people out there who have
a responsibility to start planning, if they
havent yet, for what comes next for the
LGBT community. That includes those
who run our national civil rights groups
including the Human Rights Campaign,
The Task Force and PFLAG, among others. They need to question what impact
the marriage equality ruling will have
on them. How do they move forward
after the two biggest fundraising issues,
Dont Ask, Dont Tell and marriage
equality, are basically settled? Evan
Wolfson has smartly announced that
Freedom to Marry will close. It has accomplished its mission. He needs to be
congratulated not only for all his work
on the issue but as one of the few leaders to close an organization after its
mission is accomplished.
HRC has tried to plan ahead by announcing its support for a comprehensive
civil and human rights bill in Congress.
Instead of just ENDA, this bill will in essence try to add sexual orientation and
gender identity to protected classes under Title 7, which is basically the bill Bella

S. Abzug (D-N.Y.) introduced in 1974. They


know this wont be easy. Those who have
fought marriage equality will now ght to
keep such a bill from passing without a
religious exemption big enough to drive
a Mack truck through. HRC hopes this
proposed bill will help it raise money for
years to come. But it has nowhere near
the appeal of DADT or marriage and it will
be hard to keep the money owing.
So the answer is each one of us will
have to take the initiative, be a little less
selsh, and dedicate some time and money working for the good of the community. Those of us in cities like New York,
Washington D.C., San Francisco, whose
lives are largely free of discrimination, will
have to step up to the plate. But being
less selsh means we also need to recognize even in these cities there are many
who dont have everything. Members of
our community, people of color, transgender people and young people need
our help but also need to be seen and
heard. They need to be included at the
table. It will take our whole community,
working together, if we are to successfully
take the next steps toward equality. We
cant leave anyone behind.

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West Bank, Gaza no haven for LGBT Palestinians


Pink washing allegation
against Israel doesnt wash
By CHRISTOPHER SCOTT McCANNELL
The recent opinion editorial Seattle
mayors trip highlights dangers of pink
washing tried to make the point that the
gay mayor of Seattles address in Israel at
the 40th anniversary of Tel Aviv Pride was
done to distract attention from Israels
control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip
and its impact on Palestinians.
The author contends that the mayors
visit to Israel and the West Bank was nothing more than pink washing a pejorative
term for highlighting Israels pro-LGBT
policies without recognizing the pain and
suering the Israeli-Palestinian conict
has caused to both sides. This is nonsense.
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray visited the only
Democratic state in the Middle East and the
only one that protects the rights of all minorities, including gay and lesbian citizens.
His visit to Israel as well as time spent in
the West Bank, where he experienced rst-

Neither the Palestinian Authority nor Hamas


recognizes LGBT rights and has maintained
a hostile environment for gay citizens
forcing them to ee their homes.
hand the challenges facing the Israeli and
the Palestinian populations is one that is
often taken by American elected ocials to
understand the daily security threats the Israeli people endure. As the Syrian war continues to rage on at Israels northern border
and the threat of ISIS grows throughout the
Middle East, Israels strong and vibrant democracy is needed more than ever.
While in Tel Aviv, Mayor Murray spoke
at a conference marking the 40th anniversary of Tel Aviv Pride, which reected the
accomplishments and continuing work
that Israel needs to do to achieve true
equality. This conference was hosted by
the U.S.-based NGO A Wider Bridge, which
promotes LGBT support for Israel and the
Agudah, Israels version of the Human
Rights Campaign. Israels record on LGBT

issues has been one of the strong hallmarks of a democratic and civil society and
includes being one of the rst countries to
allow gays to serve openly in the military,
allowing equality at workplaces and recognizing same sex marriages performed
outside of Israel. Tel Avivs vibrant gay
community is known for its 150,000 strong
Pride march as well as a vibrant LGBT center supported by politicians of all stripes.
Finally the author talks about the treatment of the Palestinian people. While the
majority of Israelis recognize the need for
a two-state solution, the gay community
has been some of the most vocal in their
support. While pointing ngers at Israel
though, and the Israeli people, the author
seems to miss the fact that to be gay in the
West Bank or Gaza is a very scary proposi-

tion for most Palestinians. Since the Oslo


Peace Agreement, Israel has given the
Palestinian Authority civil authority over
the West Bank, and since 2005s unilateral
withdrawal from Gaza, Hamas has been
the governing authority there. Neither the
Palestinian Authority nor Hamas recognizes LGBT rights and has maintained a hostile environment for gay citizens forcing
them to ee their homes. Many of these
gay Palestinians have found refuge in Europe and North America.
Israel is not perfect, and Israel has
much further to go to provide equality
for all, but to say that Israels acceptance,
recognition and freedom of LGBT citizens
is somehow pink washing is trying to
divert attention from the poor record for
LGBT Palestinians in the West Bank and
Gaza.
CHRISTOPHER SCOTT MCCANNELL is a
member of the advisory board of A Wider
Bridge, a group that promotes connections
between LGBT Americans and Israelis. In
addition he serves on the board of the Jewish
Community Relations Council of Greater
Washington

O U R BU SI N E SS MA T T E RS

Gay-owned Dacha Beer Garden battles license protest


Popular D.C. outdoor venue
draws diverse locals, LGBT
patrons in Shaw

MARK LEE is a long-time entrepreneur


and community business advocate. Follow
on Twitter: @MarkLeeDC. Reach him at
OurBusinessMatters@gmail.com.

Business popularity poses unique


challenges, but nothing like obstacles to
conducting commerce in D.C. One innovative local enterprise faces the burden
of both.
Thats what Ilya Alter and Dmitri Chekaldin, co-owners of third-season Dacha
Beer Garden and chef-enhanced eatery
in the developing Shaw neighborhood of
Northwest Washington, have discovered.
Alter often hears comparisons between
the Soviet bureaucracy of his and Chekaldins childhood and the byzantine and
bewildering business licensing process in
the District.
Most of the eye-rolling in the neighborhood, however, is due the endless

loop of regulatory hurdles the duo have


faced battling a cadre of cranks opposing emerging amenities welcomed by
the many. Its the local lore for which the
city has become notorious and perplexes Shaw residents who have witnessed
neighborhood vitality diminished elsewhere by similar obstinacy.
Since transforming a paved-over chainlink fenced vacant lot eyesore known for
drug dealing by opening an attractive and
inviting summer garden space in September 2013 at the corner of 7th and Q
streets, the two learned doing business in
D.C. isnt easy or encouraged. They fended o skepticism from wary observers
who thought the still-shabby Shaw area a
tough spot for success.
What surprised them was immediate neighborhood patronage beginning opening day. The outpouring of
community support wasnt prompted
by advertising, Alter recalls, noting
the initial lack of even a website. Now
they have an online petition to counter the few, but vocal, objectors complaining about the venues popularity
and what they argue is all about the
N word: noise.
The problem for license protesters,
besides being outside mainstream opinion, is Dacha has never been cited for
violating the citys low-threshold noise
ordinance. Sound engineers who have

surveyed the site and adjacent alley also


found full compliance.
Dacha has, however, been cited for having too many customers comfortably ensconced within the decorative wroughtiron fencing and garden plantings of the
commercially zoned corner lot.
That is what most upsets advisory
neighborhood rep Alex Padro, who opposes the venues application to update
total seated-and-standing capacity based
on the higher allotment of an upwardly
revised permanent certicate of occupancy. The owners also plan investing $2
million to construct an adjoining threelevel building for a full-service restaurant,
also increasing occupancy.
Alter and Chekaldin, MBA graduates in
corporate jobs, decided to think outside
the box in contributing a community
asset and creating new careers. That required the same of city agencies, as the
then-novel operating model wasnt an option to check on government forms.
Classifying the concept and determining
initial space-based usage took months of
discussions with city agencies and proved
dicult from the get-go. Now a mindnumbing serial-issued array of both diering occupancy and licensing numbers is a
point of contention with a small citizens
group and advisory neighborhood commissioners in ANC sector 6E.
They have targeted a business that

waived standard operating hours when


applying for a liquor license to alleviate
nighttime noise concerns. Open only until 10:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday
and midnight on Fridays and Saturdays,
no music or amplied sound is oered.
Yet what Alter characterizes as a handful
mostly a city block away claim unacceptable conversational noise.
Padro, spearheading the ght, complains about daytime noise on weekend
afternoons. Residents either scratch or
shake their heads.
Dacha supporters live nearby, even
across the street, and hundreds of
Shaw residents have petitioned for
greater allowed occupancy. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board will
consider the application this summer
along with an ANC protest if they
back Padro, and the protesting citizens association.
D.C. residents clamor for roof-deck
bars, sidewalk patios and outdoor venues
that ll up as quickly as hospitality businesses create them. Demand for outdoor
spaces to socialize soars in a densely populated urban environment.
Instead of allowing licensing revisions
to languish for months or be rejected
due only objection by a few, city ocials
should streamline the process and consider prevailing opinion.
So far, D.C. has failed to do both.

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F r i n g e o n t o p
Summer festival returns for 10th anniversary season
By MARIAH COOPER
For all the talk of Washington being
more of a theater town than people
realize, when Julianne Brienza moved
here more than a decade ago, she found
it lacking in some key elements.
For one thing, she says she found a
livelier arts and culture scene in the City
of Brotherly Love.
I was really surprised that the city was
not as lively as Philadelphia was. I just
kind of thought that all major cities were
somewhat similar, Brienza says.
Brienza returned to Philadelphia for
its Fringe Festival and after coming back
to D.C., decided that the District could
benet from having one of its own. She
consulted with Damian Sinclair, Capital

Fringes other co-founder, and they


decided they needed to bring the Fringe
Festival to D.C.
The Capital Fringe Festival (capitalfringe.
org) celebrates its 10th anniversary this
year and runs through Aug. 2 at various
venues throughout D.C. It had its kick-o
Thursday.
Fringe festivals began in 1947 in
Edinburgh, Scotland as an alternative
festival that would run at the same time
as the Edinburgh International Festival.
Since then, Fringe festivals have arrived
all over the United Kingdom, Europe,
Canada, Australia and the United States.
Capital Fringe has grown to be the
second largest Fringe Festival in the

United States. Over the past decade it


has managed to generate $1.7 million
for artists, premiered more than 600
new works and also provided 886 paid
positions. On average, about 130 shows
are brought to the Fringe festival each
year.
Hopefuls can go online to submit their
proposals for shows and spots are given
on a rst-come, rst-served basis.
Brienza says that the focus of Fringe
Festival isnt about individual shows
but more about the performing arts
community as a whole succeeding and
collaborating together in the District.
Its about a place for artists to really
network and form companies and do

things outside of the festival, Brienza


says. The festival is just a launching pad
for other things to happen in the city with
the performing arts.
Mark Williams, playwright of Straight
Faced Lies, and Jimmy Grzelak,
playwright and star of his solo show St.
Jimmy Celebrates The Food at Our Feet,
are both returning. This will be Williams
third Fringe and Grzelaks second. Both
are gay.
Williams wrote poetry in high school
and half-heartedly decided to apply for
the dramatic writing program at New
York University.
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They wanted creative material so I was


like, Heres all my sad boy poetry, take
that, Williams says. I think it actually
had peanut butter stains on it. I put no
real thought or eort into it.
He didnt expect the program to lead
him toward playwriting in the long term
and was pleasantly surprised.
When I saw my rst play in front of an
audience at the end of freshman year it
just hooked me, Williams says. It was
like magic. I couldnt stop.
Williams rst play showcased at Capital
Fringe was titled Recovery in 2013. He
returned again in 2014 with his play The
Other Day. This year Straight-Faced
Lies tells the story of a dysfunctional
family Thanksgiving that includes a
loving wife and mother preparing for her
husbands arrival home from jail, a drunk
and homeless aunt and a closeted gay

son who is outed by his lover at dinner,


among other shenanigans.
Capital Fringe provides the venue
for these plays to be shown as well as
handling the main marketing to promote
the shows. The playwright must handle all
other fees, including costumes, payment
to cast, crew and director and any other
costs. Williams funded his show by saving
up his money in little ways and not eating
a $10 salad for lunch every day.
The play will also have a special timely
political twist as those who wish to get
married can bring their marriage license
and can be married by an ociated cast
member after the play.
Williams says the decision to include
a marriage ceremony at the play came
right after the Supreme Courts decision
to legalize marriage across the country
and decided it would be a fun celebration
after the play.
Grzelaks St. Jimmy Celebrates The

Food at Our Feet is the culmination of a


project Grzelak began right after college.
He received a grant from the alumni
of Williams College to travel the world
for 365 days to increase international
understanding and world peace. Grzelak
used the grant to meet dierent people
around the world who claimed to be God.
They
didnt
have
any
specic
requirements for the project, Grzelak says.
They kind of just said go out there and nd
yourselves and thats what I tried to do.
While meeting dierent gurus, teachers
and other people who claimed to be saints
or gods, Grzelak, whose rst play How
to be a Terrorist was in Capital Fringe in
2013, made a peculiar connection.
I noticed a dierence between
dierent religious leaders and cooking
hosts, Grzelak says. I really think that
those two things in the end are not so
dierent. The project is putting that crazy
idea out there and showing how it might

not be so crazy in the end.


He describes his solo show as a cooking
show meets a church service. The
show explores the connection between
religious teachers like the Buddha and
cooking hosts such as Rachael Ray and
Paula Deen.
Shows like Straight-Faced Lies and
St. Jimmy Celebrates The Food at Our
Feet can be the kick-o for more theater
success down the road. Both Williams
and Grzelak have showcased their work
at other Fringe Festivals in the country.
Brienza notes that many artists
from Capital Fringe have taken their
shows beyond the festival and started
theater companies such as Pinky Swear
Productions, to show their work yearround in the District. Its The Last
Burlesque is in the festival this year.
Its a goal many artists at Capital Fringe
would love to have the opportunity to do
for D.C. audiences.

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2 0 G A Y Q U E ST I O N S F O R D U ST Y MA RT I N E Z

DUSTY MARTINEZ
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN
OUT AND WHO WAS THE
HARDEST PERSON TO TELL?
Ive been out since I was 15. The hardest
person to tell was my mom, although it
wasnt hard at all. She loved me just the
same and is my best friend.
W H O S Y O U R L G B T H E R O ?
I really look up to Ed Bailey. He is one
of the owners of Town, Town Patio and
Number Nine. Ive learned so much from
him through the years and Ive watched
him start and support so many LGBT
causes. I admire how he always gives
back to our community.

WHATS WASHINGTONS
BEST NIGHTSPOT, PAST OR
P R E S E N T ?
Im a Nation kid. I loved that place,
everything about it. The foam parties,
Wess the DJ spinning in the Blue Room,
waiting to get stamped at the VIP room,
the gritty side of the gay city.

The Town Patio


manager answers
20 gay questions
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
About a year ago, Town Danceboutique (2009 8th St., N.W.) expanded and
opened Town Patio, an outside space that bar manager Dusty Martinez says,
has a totally dierent vibe from the rest of the club.
Our music is more low key during the day and bumping at night, the 28-yearold Ferndale, Md., native says. We have a more relaxed and laid-back vibe from
our fun, easy cocktails and our homemade life-size Jenga set, its just a great and
fun place to come during the week and hang.
Martinez, who also runs his own bartending business called D&D Cocktails,
has been at Town (towndc.com) o and on for about eight years in various
positions. He says the patio is a great addition to the citys gay scene.
Theres really no other place or space like this, he says. Its unique in every way
and has really shown people what an outdoor space should look and feel like.
Martinez lives with his boyfriend, Drew Ransom, in Shaw. He enjoys being
outside, working with his hands, traveling, singing country music in the shower,
biking and spending time with his family in his free time.

DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM


WEDDING.
Something intimate. I think relationships
and marriages are built on family and Id
want something that would really showcase
how our two families are now connected
here and forever. Romantic sap here!
WHAT NON-LGBT ISSUE ARE
YOU MOST PASSIONATE
A B O U T ?
Better early education in our schools.

WHAT HISTORICAL OUTCOME


WOULD YOU CHANGE?
I think most historical outcomes happened
the way they needed to happen. Wed be living
in a much dierent world if any changed.

WHATS BEEN THE MOST


MEMORABLE POP CULTURE
MOMENT OF YOUR LIFETIME?
Im a big ole country music fan so I
thought it was pretty amazing that Steve
Grand came out as a gay country singer. I
loved his music video and it really shows
how far our movement has come.
ON WHAT DO YOU INSIST?
I insist that every person should spend
at least one year in the service industry.
WHAT WAS YOUR LAST
F A C E B O O K P O S T O R T W E E T ?

I posted a video of a Jenga set I built for


the Town Patio. Its a life-size set thats so
much fun to play.
IF YOUR LIFE WERE A BOOK,
W H A T W O U L D T H E T I T L E B E ?
There is always a handkerchief color for
that!

IF SCIENCE DISCOVERED A
WAY TO CHANGE SEXUAL
ORIENTATION, WHAT WOULD
Y O U D O ?
Nothing. I love me and I love men. Id
never want to change that.
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE
IN BEYOND THE PHYSICAL
W O R L D ?
I believe we are all connected spiritually.

WHATS YOUR ADVICE FOR


L G B T M O V E M E N T L E A D E R S ?
We had a great leap forward a week ago
in equality but that shouldnt stop the
momentum.

WHAT WOULD YOU WALK


A C R O S S H O T C O A L S F O R ?
Anything to do with my family.

WHAT LGBT STEREOTYPE


A N N O Y S Y O U M O S T ?
That gay guys only drink fruity drinks.
Pour me some whiskey please!
WHATS YOUR FAVORITE LGBT
M O V I E ?
But Im a Cheerleader
WHATS THE MOST OVERRATED
S O C I A L C U S T O M ?
Kissing on the cheek.
WHAT TROPHY OR PRIZE DO
Y O U M O S T C O V E T ?
Last year the Blade readers gave me the
title as Best Bartender in D.C. I had that
paper framed.
WHAT DO YOU WISH YOUD
K N O W N A T 1 8 ?
Invest early.
W H Y W A S H I N G T O N ?
I love the feel this city gives me. A
small town in a big city. I love walking/
biking around town and recognizing my
neighbors. I also love that its fairly close
to my family.

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Cafe Berlin Anniversary giveaways, and WARSTEINER USA and Knig Ludwig
glass giveaways.
Cafe Berlin has been serving traditional authentic German cuisine on Capitol Hill since 1985. Changing seasonal menus feature fresh asparagus in
the spring, Bavarian dishes during Oktoberfest, and wild game in the winter.
Desserts are made in-house and include apple strudel, black forest cake,
and luscious cream tortes. The bar offers a selection of imported German
beers and wines as well as cocktails.
Walking distance from Union Station and the Capitol, Cafe Berlin draws
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NEON TREES are here next week


for two shows in the region.
PHOTO BY MATTHEW HARTMAN

The 29th annual ADODI summer


retreat for black same-gender-loving
men is July 15-19 at Cacapon Resort State
Park in Berkeley Springs, W.Va. Cost is
$575. Details at adodi.org. The group has
a local chapter thats active in Washington
and meets bi-monthly at Metropolitan
Community Church of Washington.
Idina Menzel plays Jiy Lube Live
(7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow, Va.) at 8
p.m. on July 18. Tickets range from $25270. Details at livenation.com.
Neon Trees, with out lead singer Tyler
Glenn, play Rams Head Live! (20 Market
Place, Baltimore) at 7 p.m. on July 18 and
the 9:30 Club (815 V St., N.W.) at 7 p.m.
(doors) on July 20. COIN and Fictionist
open. Tickets are $25 for each show.
Details at ramsheadlive.com and 930.
com respectively.
Out singer Derek Bishop plays Tree
House Lounge (1006 Florida Ave., N.E.) at
10 p.m. on July 18. Tickets are $10 and are
available at the door only. Hes touring his
new album Bicycling in Quicksand.
Gay
Los
Angeles-based
singer/
songwriter Ryan Amador plays a benet
concert for Casa Ruby at Brookland
Artspace Lofts (3305 8th St. N.E.) at 7:30

p.m. on July 20. Admission is free but


donations are requested. Half of the
money given will go to Casa Ruby. E-mail
to brooklandartspace@gmail.com for
information.
Shania Twain brings her Rock This
Country Tour to the Verizon Center
at 7:30 p.m. on July 21. Tickets range
from $50-150 and are available through
ticketmaster.com. The tour, her rst in 11
years, is billed as a farewell tour.
Gay-arming pastor and author Rob
Bell brings his Everything is Spiritual
Tour to the Fillmore Silver Spring (8656
Colesville Road, Silver Spring, Md.) at 8:30
p.m. on July 22. Tickets are $25-35 and
are available at llmoresilverspring.com
or ticketmaster.com.
Grammy-winning gay singer Sam Smith
plays Merriweather Post Pavilion (10475
Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, Md.)
at 8 p.m. on July 24. Tickets are $45-97.50.
Details at merriweathermusic.com.
Baltimore Pride is July 24-26. The parade
and block party are on Saturday (July 25)
and the festival is on Sunday (July 26). A
bevy of other events are planned as well as
the festivity celebrates its 40th anniversary.
Full details at baltimorepride.org.

D.C. Log Cabin Republicans have their


14th annual Rehoboth Beach Retreat July
24-26. Details at dclogcabin.wordpress.com.
Well Strung, an all-male string quartet
that plays classical and pop, plays the
Rehoboth Beach Convention Center (229
Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth Beach, Del.) at
8 p.m. on July 25. This CAMP Rehoboth
event is part of a year-long celebration of
its 25th anniversary. Tickets are $35-100.
Details at camprehoboth.com.
The Indigo Girls, long-time out folkrockers, play the Filene Center at Wolf
Trap (1551 Trap Rd., Vienna, Va.) at 8 p.m.
on July 28. Michelle Malone opens. Tickets
are $32-54. Details at wolftrap.org.
The fth annual OutWrite LGBT Book
Fair, a weekend of readings, discussions,
author appearances and more, is July
30-Aug. 1 at the Reeves Center, home
of the D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.
#105). The Center also has constant
events all summer long including coee
and conversation for older LGBT adults,
volunteer nights, FUK!T packing parties
(packing safer-sex kits), workshops,
support groups, HIV texting and much
more. Details at thedccenter.org.
Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett play the

Kennedy Center (2700 F St. N.W.) at 8 p.m.


July 31-Aug. 1 performing songs from
their duet album of jazz standards Cheek
to Cheek. Tickets are sold out.
Its shaping up to be an uber-gay
summer at Wolf Trap. Out singer/
songwriter Rufus Wainwright performs
with the National Symphony Orchestra at
8:15 p.m. on July 31 at the Filene Center
(1551 Trap Rd., Vienna, Va.). Tickets are
$25-58 for the two-and-a-half-hour show.
Out author and comedian David Sedaris
performs at 7 p.m. on Aug. 2. Tickets are
$25-55. And Culture Club plays at 8 p.m.
Aug. 10. Tickets are $30-60. Other Wolf
Trap shows coming soon include Abba the
Concert on Aug. 16, Kristin Chenoweth on
Aug. 28 and Kelly Clarkson on Sept. 12-13.
Details at wolftrap.org.
Melissa Etheridge performs a solo show
behind her This is M.E. album at 8 p.m. on
Aug. 26 at the Strathmore (5301 Tuckerman
Lane, North Bethesda, Md.). Tickets are
$45-85. Details at strathmore.org.
Reel Armations, an LGBT lm festival,
returns Aug. 28-30 at the Tivoli/GALA
Hispanic Theatre (3333 14th St., N.W.).
Festival passes are available in a variety
of packages ranging from $20-265. Visit

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Nikki ONeill explores primordial life in her series on


display now at Waverly Street Gallery in Bethesda.
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RYAN AMADOR plays a benefit show for Casa Ruby July 20.
PHOTO COURTESY AMADOR

reelarmations.org for lineup and details.


In other gay lm festival news, DIRECTV
and the Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film
Festival have launched Outfest Online
(outfestonline.com) where content from the
festival will be available for viewing anywhere.
The festival continues through July 19 and
features a variety of shorts, documentaries
and features with LGBT themes.
The Strathmore continues its free
summer outdoor concerts every
Wednesday at 7 p.m. through Aug. 19.
Upcoming performers are Team Familiar
on July 15, No BS! Brass Band on July
22, Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen on
July 20 and more. These are held at the
Mansion at Strathmore in the Gudelsky
Outdoor Concert Gazebo (10701 Rockville
Pike, North Bethesda, Md.) Details at
strathmore.org.
The Kennedy Center continues its free
concert series on the Millennium Stage with
daily performances at 6 p.m. Performers
this month include youth participants in
the 2015 NSO Summer Music Institute, the
WNO Opera Institute and performers from
the 25/40 Celebration, a festival in honor of
the 25th anniversary of the American with
Disabilities Act. Now in its 17th year, the

Millennium Stage performances are also


available to be viewed online. Details at
kennedy-center.org.
The Georgetown Business Improvement
District (BID) continues its Georgetown
Sunset Cinema series on Tuesdays
through Aug. 4. The lms are shown at
the Georgetown Waterfront Park at the
intersection of K/Water Street and Cecil
Place, N.W. Admission is free. Blankets
only (no chairs). Picnics welcome.
Upcoming lms include State of Play on
July 14, No Way Out on July 21, Burn
After Reading on July 28 and more. Details
at georgetowndc.com/sunsetcinema.
Rosa Mexicano (575 7th St., N.W.) holds
its annual Ice Cream Festival through the
end of July. Flavors of Mexico a la Mode
features desserts inspired by classic
Mexican dishes paired with handmade
ice creams infused with Mexican avors
such as prickly pear-blueberry sorbet
and cinnamon-chili spiced chocolate.
Details at rosamexicano.com.
Waverly Street Gallery (4600 EastWest highway, Bethesda, Md.) features
an exhibit called Benthos by Nikki
ONeill featuring discoveries and marine
habitats in glass. Her work is inspired by

evolutionary themes such as the watery,


primordial origins of life and the intricate
and richly colored primitive creatures that
live there all displayed in glass gures
she manipulates with heat, gravity, gas
and more. An opening reception is this
evening (July 10) from 6-9 p.m. An artist
talk is July 18 from 3-5 p.m. Details at
waverlystreetgallery.com.
Inner Light Ministries under the
leadership of gay pastor Bishop Kwabena
Cheeks, continues its 22nd anniversary
celebration through this weekend (July 12).
Details at innerlightministries-dc.com.
The Al Sura White Attire Aair is at 8
p.m. on July 18 at the Thurgood Marshall
Center for Service and Heritage (1816
12th St., N.W.). Tickets are $35 in advance
or $50 at the door. Details at alsura.org.
Ingenue to Icon, an exhibit featuring
70 years of fashion from the collection of
legendary socialite Marjorie Merriweather
Post, is on display now and through
years end at Hillwood Estate, Museum
and Garden (4155 Linnean Ave., N.W.).
Hillwood also has its French Festival July
11. Details at hillwoodmuseum.org.
The Ask Rayceen Show has its August
taping on Aug. 5 at LIV Nightclub (2001 11th

St., N.W.) with doors opening at 6 p.m. The


August installment will feature a poetry slam
with $100 cash prize, listening lounge with
Nia Simmons, DJ Honey and more. Details
on the Ask Rayceen page on Facebook.
The D.C. Metro Circle of Friends (part
of the National Friendship Movement)
hosts its second annual picnic in the park
from noon-dusk on Aug. 15 at picnic area
no. six in Rock Creek Park. Find the group
on Facebook for details.
The Night OUT series continues with
Night OUT at the Kastles on July 16, Night
OUT at the Mystics on Aug. 5. Details at
teamdc.org.
Itching to shop? Gay-owned furniture
and home decor shop Mitchell Gold+Bob
Williams (1526 14th St., N.W.) has its
summer tag sale with 20-60 percent o
through July 26. More at mgbwhome.com.
And lest September sneak up on you,
mark these events now: Brother Help
Thyself Pride Day at Kings Dominion
(Sept. 5) and the D.C. Shorts Film Festival
(Sept. 10-20). Saturday, Sept. 12 is shaping
up to be jam-packed with Imperial Court
Gala of the Americas, Richmond Pride
and the 17th Street Festival. Oh, and
Madonnas here that day too.

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BUCKY MITCHELL, whos gay, believes in


a fun, challenging workout that results
in weight loss, more muscle and a
stable core. Follow his newly updated
page on Facebook: Be Healthy 360 and
Instagram and Twitter
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The Watergate Steps were built


as part of the Arlin gton Memorial
Bridge between 1925-1932 and
were designed by William Mitchell
Kendall. They make a great and
scenic spot to get in a good
D.C. workout.
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Breaking a D.C. sweat


The region has several ideal spots for great workouts
By BUCKY MITCHELL
As is tradition here at the Blade, every
summer we provide an issue that rounds
up the best D.C. has to oer if youre
staying in the area. Here are some of my
favorite places that you can not only get
in a great workout, but that you can also
enjoy the beautiful sights and sounds of
D.C. this summer.
The Watergate Steps Nestled
between the Potomac River and the
Lincoln Monument, you will nd the often
overlooked and oddly placed Watergate
Steps. While they look like they are
ascending from the water below, the
Watergate Steps were originally intended
as a water port to dock the arrivals of
dignitaries and heads of state who wanted
to awe at the marvel and grandeur and
scale of the Lincoln monument.
While the steps never lived up to their
intended purpose, they have become a

great for place for runners and tness


enthusiasts to add a little extra punch to
their workouts. Not quite the same as the
Rocky steps in Philly, you still denitely
feel like you have conquered the world
when you sweat your way through a good
10 to 20 rounds of running this scenic
ight of steps. As an added bonus, the
steps have been also come a great place
for many Washingtonians to relax, nd
solitude, journal or even have a picnic
lunch with friends or a date.
The Yards Park Conveniently
location along Anacostias southeast
waterfront and Nats Park, the Yards Park
has become a great destination for not
only a great weekend workout, but also
for a great place to walk around, take in
some music and enjoy the blend of old
and new architecture that captures both
the heart of the citys past and present.

Designed for with the tness enthusiast


in mind, the Yards Park has teamed up
with VIDA tness and DC Bt to provide
a weekly calendar of free tness classes
that happen along the boardwalk. From
Zumba, to yoga and high intensity tness
classes, you will denitely nd a good
workout at the Yards Park. The class
schedule is at yardspark.org/events/
calendar. As an added bonus, you can
experience some great new restaurants
like Bluejacket and Osteria Morini, all
while enjoying the sounds of live local
bands on Friday evenings.
Key Bridge Boathouse Tucked
away under the Key Bridge is the cute
and quaint boathouse. While it seems to
be located smack in the hustle and bustle
of Georgetown, you still feel like youre
thousands of miles away when you get in
the kayak or canoe and paddle down the

Potomac. For a brief moment you get to


observe your own city from an outsiders
perspective.
You get to appreciate and enjoy the
sights along the Potomac as you pass
by Roosevelt Island, the Georgetown
Waterfront and some of our most
treasured monuments. You get to
view all this while getting a fantastic
back, shoulder and arm workout at
the same time. So what if youve never
been kayaking or canoeing before? No
worries! Everyone at the boathouse is
extremely knowledgeable and more than
willing to give you a short kayak/canoe
lesson before sending you on your way.
As an added bonus, when youre done
canoeing/kayaking, you can take a nice
leisurely walk along the C&O Canal or
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HSIAO-KANG (LEE KANG-SHENG) in Rebels


of the Neon God. A restored print of
the 1992 Taiwanese classic is screening
now at the Landmark Theatres in the
Washington area.
PHOTO COURTESY BIG WORLD PICTURES

Beat the heat at the movies

Ingrid Bergman, Bugs Bunny, Meryls latest, Reel Affirmations and more on summer slate
By BRIAN T. CARNEY

One of the best places to beat the heat


this summer in D.C. is inside a movie
theater. Luckily for LGBT audiences in the
metro area, there are lms coming up to
suit every taste.
Opening today at the Landmark
Theatres is a newly restored HD print
of Rebels of the Neon God, the 1992
debut lm by openly gay director Tsai
Ming-liang. The widely acclaimed Tsai is
one of the central gures of the Second
New Wave of Taiwanese cinema. He
is frequently cited as one of the most
inuential living directors of international
lm and his works frequently appear on
annual Best Of world cinema lists.
The loosely structured Rebels tells the
stories of two disaected Taiwanese youth
whose lives intertwine as they ride their
scooters through the neon-lit streets of
Taipei. Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng
(Tsais cinematic alter ego who has appeared
in all the directors lms) plays Hsiao-kang, a
bored student at one of the cities buxiban
(cram schools). Chen Chao-jung plays Ahtze, a petty thief who sets the plot in motion
when he smashes the rear-view mirror on
the taxi driven by Hsiao-kangs father.
American audiences may have a
harder time fully appreciating the lms
homoerotic undertones, but the poster of
James Dean and the references to Rebel
without a Cause provide some important
clues. The restored print is lush and
gorgeous, although more captions and
subtitles would help Western audiences
understand the movie better. Tsais

restored and seldom-seen debut lm


is a must-see for LGBT cinephiles. (In
Mandarin with English subtitles.)
The Landmark Theatres will also feature
other LGBT lms in their late summer
schedule. These include Tangerine,
about transgender prostitutes and their
johns; Mr. Holmes, which reunites
actor Ian McKellen and director Bill
Condon (both openly gay) in a moving
lm about the famous detectives last
case; Boulevard, a moody coming-out
tale that features the nal feature lm
performance by Robin Williams; Do I
Sound Gay? the funny and insightful
documentary about gay men and their
tell-tale vocal mannerisms; and, Best of
Enemies, the acclaimed documentary
about the rivalry between conservative
icon William F Buckley Jr. and iconoclastic
homosexual writer Gore Vidal.
Later this month, the West End
Cinema will reopen as part of the
Landmark Theatre chain, joining the
Landmark E Street Cinema and Landmark
Bethesda Row. For opening dates, go to
landmarktheatres.com.
Reel Armations continues to bring the
latest LGBT indie releases to D.C. audiences.
On July 24, the monthly lm series will
continue with Fun in Boys and Girls
Shorts, a series of sharply focused new
lms that capture the contemporary queer
experience from a variety of viewpoints.
The weekend-long lm festival will return
from Aug. 28-30 at the Tivoli Theatre.
Meanwhile, fans of Bette Midler can

learn more about her role model Sophie


Tucker as part of the summer lm
festival at the D.C.-JCC (the D.C. Jewish
Community Center). The Outrageous
Sophie Tucker, a documentary about
the bawdy trail-blazing performer,
will be screened on July 28. Other
LGBT highlights of the Washington
Jewish Film Festival include Dog Day
Afternoon, the 1975 fact-based drama
about an ill-fated bank robber (Al Pacino)
whos trying to raise money for his lovers
sex-change operation, and Forbidden
Films, a provocative documentary about
reserving
controversial
propaganda
lms produced by the Nazi regime. For
information on single tickets and season
passes go to washingtondcjcc.org.
Another great place to beat the heat
is AFI Silver in downtown Silver Spring
(near the Metro station and surrounded
by a wide variety of restaurants). AFI
Silvers roster includes an intriguing mix
of the latest indie releases and classics
from American and global cinema.
Opening today is Amy, a documentary
that tells the incredible story of six-time
Grammy winner Amy Winehouse. Special
programming this summer includes
a look back at recent movies that still
resonate today (Best of Totally Awesome:
Great Films of the 1980s, and Keepin It
Real: 90s Cinema Now); Tell It Like It
Is, a retrospective of black independent
lmmakers; and, the Ingrid Bergman
centennial featuring about two dozen
classics such as Casablanca and lesser-

knowns gems like Voyage To Italy.


Finally, for the whole family, from
Aug. 1-16, there are six programs of
Bugs Bunny cartoons to celebrate the
75th anniversary of everyones favorite
rabbit. Ticket information and a complete
schedule can be found at a.com/silver.
On Aug. 7, Meryl Streep returns in
Ricki and the Flash as a hard-rocking
singer who returns home to make
amends with the family she left behind.
Directed by Academy Award winner
Jonathan Demme, the cast also includes
Streeps daughter Mamie Gummer, Rick
Springeld, Kevin Kline and the big screen
debut of Tony Award-winning Broadway
legend Audra McDonald.
There are also the summer blockbusters.
Lingering at area multiplexes are some big
releases that are well-worth seeing: Mad
Max: Road Fury, with some amazing 3-D
landscapes and Charlize Theron as a kickass hero with a prosthetic arm; Jurassic
World with incredible CGI dinosaurs and
the most magical pair of Hollywood heels
since The Wizard of Oz; Magic Mike
XXL with lots of gyrating bu bodies; and
Spy with Melissa McCarthy as a sexy,
smart and funny secret agent.
Upcoming mainstream releases of note
also include Trainwreck, a sex comedy
written by and starring Amy Schumer
(July 17); Ant-Man (July 17); Mission:
Impossible Rogue Nation (July 31);
Fantastic Four (Aug. 7); The Man from
U.N.C.L.E. (Aug. 14); and, Lily Tomlin in
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Staycationing?
Theres a drink for that
D.C. offers delights every night of the week and beyond
By KRISTEN HARTKE
Sometimes you want to get away,
but life conspires against you work,
nances, whatever and you nd
yourself having to opt for a staycation.
No swim-up pool bar, no hula lessons, no
cabana boys. Sigh.
Buck up, loves, because theres still a way
to get a glimpse of the good life right here
in D.C., with tasty daily diversions that can
help remind you that theres a reason why
tourists come to our fair city in droves. Grab
your Panama hat and that day-glo Hawaiian
shirt in the back of the closet here are ve
ways to vacay each weekday, D.C.-style.
Monday: Start your staycation o at
Bar Charley, midway between Dupont
Circle and Adams Morgan, which boasts
an all-night happy hour on Mondays,
featuring $5 tiki taps like the Suering
Bastard (gin, bourbon, housemade ginger
beer, bitters and lime) and a particularly
good classic Mai Tai, that may go down
just a tad too easily. Chill out on the back
patio with Catalan Fries, topped with
romesco, manchego, ramps and a fried
egg, or the spicy Thai Mussels in coconut
milk, lemongrass and chili peppers. (1825
18th St., NW; barcharley.com)
Tuesday: Wander on down to the
Georgetown Harbor to Orange Anchor for

a cool preppy vibe with the motto Where


everyone is treated like a captain. In
fact, diners are immediately provided
with a glass of champagne, compliments
of the captain, upon arrival always
a nice way to start any meal. $1 oysters
are on the menu every weekday from 5-6
p.m. and drink specials from 4-7 p.m.,
including the Orange Crush, a blend of
Stoli Oranj vodka, triple sec, orange juice
and Sprite. You may also want to check
out the Champagne Oysters fresh
Chincoteague oysters on the half shell
lled with champagne and the Frozen
Dark and Stormy dessert, a concoction of
frozen whipped eggs and cream mixed
with rum, ginger and lime. (3050 K St.,
NW; orangeanchordc.com)
Wednesday:
After
youve
been
kayaking on the Anacostia (yes, people do
that check out Ballpark Boathouse at
boatingindc.com), theres nothing like a
margarita at Agua 301, which boasts not
just one, but two, happy hours each day,
from 3:30-7 p.m. and again from 9 p.m.closing. The trick here is that sometimes
the happy hour prices are only available
inside the restaurant which has a nice
bar and tables by the window, so its not
exactly a hardship but the place to be is

on the outdoor patio, fronting onto Yards


Park and its beautiful river views. The
classic margaritas are very good, not too
sweet with just a squirt of agave nectar,
fresh lime juice and a splash of orange
juice for good measure, and the sangria
is made with a summery tempranillo,
fresh fruit and Licor 43, a citrus-forward
Spanish liqueur with notes of vanilla and
honey. The guacamole is simple and
plentiful and there are several good light
bites on the happy hour menu, including
a Mexican-style atbread topped with
spicy pineapple and roasted corn. (301
Water St., SE; agua301.com)
Thursday: Satisfy your tiki bar lust at
Cantina Marina down at the Southwest
Waterfront, where you can sit out over
the water watching the boats sailing
by, listen to an 80s playlist and relive
all those spring break memories. This
really is the place to get away from it all,
as D.C.s marina community provides
a certain Key West spirit where else
can you listen to Coronarita-swilling
customers banter about bilge pumps and
Senate budget committee deals all in one
breath? If youve never had a Coronarita
(a margarita with a chilled Corona added
to the glass), nows your chance, or you

can opt for the housemade Michelada


mixer, which can be added to the beer of
your choice. Theres also plenty of fried
seafood in baskets and sunsets galore.
(600 Water St., SW. cantinamarina.com)
Friday: Vacays almost over, so nish it
waterside back at Yards Park with an oldfashioned picnic at the Friday Night Concert
Series (yardspark.org), which includes
music for every taste, from country to pop
to indie folk rock. The Navy Yard area oers
plenty of places to pick up sandwiches,
but Cornercopia (1000 3rd St., SE) may
have some of the best, although they do
close at 7 p.m., so plan accordingly; try the
Green Line (homemade pesto, avocado,
smoked gouda cheese, tomato, onion
and cranberries on a wheat roll) or Moms
chicken or egg salad. Stop at Bluejacket
(300 Tingey St., SE; bluejacketdc.com) to
grab a bottle of freshly brewed and bottled
beer out of the cooler near the host stand,
then top things o on your way home with
a scoop or three of the citys best ice
cream from Ice Cream Jubilee (301 Water
St., SE; icecreamjubilee.com).
KRISTEN HARTKE is a D.C.-based
food and beverage writer who has
staycationed many times. Follow her
kitchen adventures on Twitter: @
khartke.

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Garfield, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof among summer offerings
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
OK, so its not three weeks in Tuscany,
but a staycation does have its less stress
and lower-cost charms, particularly in
D.C. where theres so much to see and do.
And with local theater going almost full tilt
year round, summer is an ideal to take in
some live performances, many of which
hold special appeal for LGBT audiences.
Following are some places to start.
After extensive renovations, the
Keegan Theatres (keegantheatre.com)
Church Street venue is reopening with a
production of Tennessee Williams Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof (through July 25).
Set in Big Daddys Mississippi plantation
home, Cat deals with the stalled
relationship between feisty Maggie and
her brooding husband Brick (played by
Brianna Letourneau and Kevin Hasser)
who cant get over the death of his best
friend Skipper.
Studio 2ndStage (Studio-theatre.org) is
presenting Silence! The Musical (through
Aug. 9), a raunchy takeo on the 1991 lm
The Silence of the Lambs. The cast features
Laura Jordan as FBI agent-in-training Clarice
Starling, Tally Sessions is the rened
cannibal Hannibal Lecter and out actor Tom
Story plays serial killer Bualo Bill.
Arena Stage (Arenastage.org) is
premiering Dear Evan Hansen (through

Aug. 23), a new coming-of-age musical


starring Ben Platt. The music and lyrics
are by Benj Pasek who is gay and Justin
Paul, and the librettist is Steven Levenson.
Broadways Michael Greif directs.
Synetic
Theater
(Synetictheater.
org), the award-winning movementbased company located in Crystal City,
is remounting its playful adaptation of
Shakespeares comedy A Midsummer
Nights Dream (July 15-Aug. 9). Out actor
Alex Mills is reprising his memorable turn
as mischievous sprite Puck. Also featured
is Helen Hayes Award-winning actor
Philip Fletcher who plays Oberon, the
Fairy King.
Throughout July, Signature Theatre
(Signature-theatre.org) kicks o its
2015/16 season with the Sizzlin Summer
Nights Cabaret Series. The line-up of
guest performers includes Christiane
Noll, Mitchell Jarvis, Christine Pedi,
Natascia Diaz, Will Gartshore and more.
If children gure into your staycation
equation, there are options. Glen
Echos
Adventure
Theatre
MTC
(Adventuretheatre-mtc.org)
is
doing
Gareld (through Aug. 23), a family
friendly hour-long musical for all ages
inspired by the beloved comic strip and
staged by out director Nick Olcott. Local

actor Evan Casey plays the cynical and


lazy title feline. In addition, Adventure
Theatre is borrowing digs at Round
House Theatre in Bethesda to mount the
full-length, two-act musical Oliver (July
24 through Aug. 16) based on Dickens
classic orphan tale. With a 28-person
cast and a small chamber orchestra, the
production is the rst of this size in the
venerable theaters long history. Helmed
by out director Joseph Ritsch, Olivers
players include out actor Rick Hammerly
as career criminal Fagin and talented
Felicia Curry is playing the tough but
goodhearted Nancy.
Childrens theater has its challenges,
says Adventures out producing artistic
director Michael J. Bobbitt. An hour-long
show costs just as much to produce as a
full-length show for adults but we cant
ask the same price for a ticket. Also our
audience age out at just 8 years old, so
doing a more sophisticated musical like
Oliver is an attempt to keep them around
longer. More and more family friendly
shows in New York are based on works
intended for children. Childrens theater
is inltrating the market everywhere, so
while its an ambitious summer for us, its
also a nice progression.
Bobbitt adds, We take childrens

theater very seriously. Its high art for


us and we do our very best to entertain.
A childs introduction to theater can
be a memorable event and leave a
longstanding impression. I became
hooked at early age because I saw a great
show. If its bad, it can be a turno. The
hope is that kids who see our show may
want to become an artist or a lifelong
supporter of the arts.
Other staycation theater fare for kids
includes Peter Pan (through Aug. 16)
performed in a massive tent-theater with
impressive 360-degree projections at
Tysons Corner Center, (Peterpan360.com)
and Double Trouble (akaThe Parent
Trap) through Aug. 14 at Bethesdas
Imagination Stage (Imaginationstage.org).
For its annual Free For ALL, Shakespeare
Theatre Company (Shakespearetheatre.
org) is remounting director Ethan
McSweenys take on A Midsummer
Nights Dream (Sept. 1-13) which hes
set in the ruins of an abandoned theater.
A popular Washington tradition for 22
years, Free For All oers free tickets to the
general public to experience Shakespeare
in the late summer. No longer performed
under the stars, the love and magic play
out in the cool comfort of STCs Sidney
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HOT HITS & HIDDEN JEWELS


From CultureCapital.com
YOUR LINK TO THE ARTS IN METRO D.C.

Queen Aisha
Jul 12. Howard Theatre
202-803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com.

Mo Better Funny: 20+ Years of DC Laughter! Featuring Queen Aishah, Chris


Thomas, Miss Gayle, Skiba, Mike Washington, plus Surprise Special Guests &
Music by Nonchalant.

Capital Fringe Festival


Jul 9 Aug 2. Various Locations.
202-737-7230. capitalfringe.org.

For 22 days Capital Fringe Festival creates a city lled with non-stop theatre, dance,
music, visual art, and everything in-between. Youll enjoy creative experiences as
artists develop their visions in total freedom without any curatorial barriers. Best of
all art takes over DC neighborhoods -- Trinidad, Brookline H Street, animating the
spaces from traditional theaters, to corner bars, to vacant storefronts.For a full
schedule of Fringe events, visit CultureCapital.com.

Pink Martini
Jul 10. Wolf Trap.
877-965-3872. wolftrap.org.

The self-described little orchestra has become an international phenomenon,


mixing glamour and sophisticated easy listening with multilingual songs and
the unexpected (The Guardian)see them on tour for hits like Sympathique,
Amado mo, Dnde ests, Yolanda?, and more.

1460 Wallmountables
Jul 10-Aug 30. DC Arts Center.
202-462-7833. dcartscenter.org.

THEATRE
The Book of Mormon. Thru Aug 16.
Once. Thru Aug 16. Shear Madness.
Ongoing. Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
Sizzlin Summer with UrbanArias:
Craigslist Cabaret. Jul 16.
Signature Theatre. 703-820-9771.
signature-theatre.org.
The Second Citys Let Them Eat Chaos.
Thru Aug 2. Woolly Mammoth.
202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net.
Silence! The Musical. Jul 15-Aug
9. Studio Theatre. 202-332-3300.
studiotheatre.org.
The Producers. Thru Jul 26. Olney
Theatre. 301-924-3400. olneytheatre.org.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Thru Jul
26. Keegan Theatre. 703-892-0202.
keegantheatre.com.
John Corigliano: The Ghosts of
Versailles. Jul 10-Jul 18. Wolf Trap.
877-965-3872. wolftrap.org.
CATS Spectacular: Opera Scenes
I. Jul 16. Romo et Juliette. Thru Jul
18. Our Town. Thru Jul 18. Lheure
espagnole (The Spanish Hour) & World
Premiere of Scalia/Ginsburg. Jul 11-Jul
19. Castleton Festival. 866-974-0767.
castletonfestival.org.
Twelve Angry Men. Jul 16-Aug 8.
American Century Theater. Gunston.
703-998-4555. americancentury.org.

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Get Out More!

MUSEUMS
National Gallery of Art. Drawing in
Silver and Gold. Thru Jul 26. In Light of
the Past. Thru Jul 26. The Memory of
Time. Thru Sep 13. Pleasure and Piety.
Thru Oct 4. 202-737-4215. nga.gov.
Folger Shakespeare Library. Ships,
Clocks, & Stars: The Quest for Longitude.
Thru Aug 23. folger.edu.
National Archives. Spirited
Republic. Thru Jan 10. 202-357-5000.
archivesfoundation.org.
Museum of Women in the Arts. Daisy
Makeig-Jones. Thru Aug 16. Super
Natural. Thru Sep 13. 202-783-5000.
nmwa.org.
Prince Georges African American Museum
and Cultural Center. Patented Ingenuity: The
Art of African American Inventors. Thru Sep 12.
301-809-0440. pgaamcc.org.
National Geographic. Monster Fish.
Thru Oct 11. Indiana Jones. Thru Jan 3.
202-857-7000. nglive.org.

DANCE

GALLERIES

Ballroom with a Twist. Jul 11.


Strathmore. 301-581-5100.
strathmore.org.
DC Hip-Hop Theater Festival. Jul 10Jul 11. Dance Place. 202-269-1600.
danceplace.org.
National Ballet of China. Jul 14. Wolf
Trap. 877-965-3872. wolftrap.org.

Strathmore. Creative Crafts Council. Thru


Jul 26. 301-581-5100. strathmore.org.
Arlington Cultural Aairs, Gallery
3700. Nauck Community Portrait
Exhibition. Thru Sep 6. arlingtonarts.org.
The Art League Gallery. Shiho Rice:
Quietly Cutting Through. Thru Aug 3.
703-683-1780. theartleague.org.
Fisher Art Gallery. Paintings by Brian
Williams. Thru Jul 12. 703-534-5726.
schlesingercenter.com.
JCCNV. Scots Jews: Identity, Belonging
and the Future. Thru Jul 31.
703-323-0880. jccnv.org.
Target Gallery. Borders &
Boundaries. Thru Jul 19. 703-838-4565.
torpedofactory.org.
VisArts at Rockville. Parabolic. Thru Jul
12. 301-315-8200. visartsatrockville.org.
Zenith Sculpture Space. Earth, Fire,
Stone - The Works of Hadrian Mendoza.
Thru Aug 23. zenithgallery.com.
WPA at Capitol Skyline Hotel. South
Capitol Skyscape: Avi Gupta. Thru Aug 1.
Lobby Project: Tang. Thru Aug 28.
202-234-7103. wpadc.org.
Flashpoint Gallery: CulturalDC. Erik
Thor Sanderberg+ Megan Van Wagoner:
Saturated with Subconscious. Jul 10-Aug
8. 202-315-1305. culturaldc.org.
Publick Playhouse. Lynda Payton. Thru
Oct 13. 301-277-1710. arts.pgparks.com.
Gallery Underground. July Members
Show. Thru Jul 31. Adrienne Kralick
Solo Show. Thru Jul 31. 571-483-0652.
arlingtonartistsalliance.org.

MUSIC

Each summer over 100 artists from across the city participate in 1460 Wallmountables,
presenting over 300 artworks on practically every inch of our gallery.

R5: Sometime Last Night Tour. Jul 12.


Punch Brothers, Bla Fleck & Abigail
Washburn. Jul 15. Guster and Kishi
Bashi. Jul 16. Beethovens Symphony
No. 5: Sarah Chang Plays Bruch. Jul 11.
Wolf Trap. 877-965-3872. wolftrap.org.
Nomadic Jazz: Elijah Jamal Balbed. Jul
11. Torpedo Factory Art Center.
703-838-4565. torpedofactory.org.

Free Summer Outdoor Concert: Team


Familiar. Jul 15. Strathmore.
301-581-5100. strathmore.org.
The Persuasions. Jul 10. The VI
Kings. Jul 11. AMP. 301-581-5100.
ampbystrathmore.com.
Jazz in the Garden: Hendrik Meurkens.
Jul 10. National Gallery of Art. NGA
Sculpture Garden. 202-737-4215.
nga.gov.
Sizzlin Summer: Bob McDonald. Jul 10.
Christine Pedi. Jul 11. Christiane Noll.
Jul 13. Signatures Summer Bash. Jul 14.
Ines Nassara. Jul 15. Signature Theatre.
703-820-9771. signature-theatre.org.
Los Autenticos Decadentes. Jul
11. Howard Theatre. 202-803-2899.
thehowardtheatre.com.
Free Summer Concert Series: Matuto.
Jul 11. BlackRock. 301-528-2260.
blackrockcenter.org.
SJMO: The Legacy of Hard Bop Pianist
Horace Silver. Jul 11. The Smithsonian
Associates. Museum of Natural History.
202-633-3030. smithsonianassociates.org.

Romo etJuliette

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Saturday July 18 7:30pm


Sunday July 19 3:00pm
Friday July 24 7:30pm
Sunday July 26 3:00pm

Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center


at the University of Maryland
Semi-staged, in French with English surtitles

For tickets call


(301) 405-ARTS
or order online at
www.MarylandLyricOpera.org

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Pink Martini back for Wolf Trap concert


Pink Martini, a multi-genre and multi-lingual musical group, performs at Wolf
Traps Filene Center (1551 Trap Rd., Vienna, Va.) tonight at 8 p.m.
Pink Martini, led by co-lead vocalists China Forbes and Storm Large, are known
for their hit songs Donde estas Yolanda, Hey Eugene, Hang on Little Tomato
among others. Ari Shapiro, NPRs London correspondent, will also be featured as
a special guest performer. Shapiro has appeared on a few Pink Martini albums
including Splendor in the Grass and Joy to the World. Pink Martinis latest
album Dream a Little Dream reached number one on the Billboard Jazz Albums
chart.
Tickets range from $28-50. For more information, visit wolftrap.org.

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Panhandle Pride returns this weekend


Eastern Panhandle LGBTQ Alliance of West Virginia hosts its Pride celebration
at Morgans Grove Park (4198 Kearneysville Pk., Shepherdstown, W.Va.) on
Saturday from 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Performers include Kipyn Martin, Luscious Purr, New Wave Singers of
Baltimore Inc., Stephanie Michaels and her Drag Performers and DJ JerrBear.
Featured speakers for the event will be Del. Stephen Skinner, Rod Snyder and
founder John Mason, all of whom are gay. There is limited free parking available.
Shepherdstown is about 75 miles from Washington. If you want to make a day
of it, the Contemporary American Theater Festival is in full swing starting this
weekend on the campus of Shepherd University. Details at catf.org.
For more details, visit facebook.com/easternpanhandlelgbtqalliance.

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Memoirist Jacobs oers


50 Shades of Fay
Lesbian comedian Fay Jacobs presents
her solo show Aging Gracelessly: 50
Shades of Fay at Camp Rehoboth
Community Center (37 Baltimore Ave.,
Rehoboth Beach, Del.) on Saturday at 8
p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m.
The show is a two-act reading based
on Jacobs memoirs and columns about
her life. Jacobs also discusses LGBT
issues such as lesbian invisibility and
marriage equality. There will also be an
intermission with cocktails.
Tickets are $20. Saturdays show is
sold out. For more information, visit
camprehoboth.com.

Salvation oered for lm


shorts in new event
D.C. Shorts hosts itS new lm event
Cheers and Sneers at Penn Social (801 E
St., N.W.) on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
The audience will watch lms rejected
by D.C. Shorts and after the three-minute
mark will vote to stop watching the lm
or save the lm for consideration. At the
end of the night, there will be one lm
that will be saved from rejection and will
be shown at the D.C. Shorts Film Festival
in September. There will also be drink
specials until 7 p.m.
Tickets are $10. Bar opens at 4 p.m.,
lms begin screening at 7:30 p.m. and the
event ends at 9:30 p.m. For more details,
visit cheers.dcshorts.com.

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MIKAs new album is his most mature and autobiographical to date, yet its no less fun to listen to
than his earlier work.

Pop wunderkind shines


on gayest album yet
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Its pretty staggering to note in
retrospect when pop acts or any artist
were on great runs.
Realizing, for example, that Fleetwood
Mac released Fleetwood Mac, Rumours,
Tusk and Mirage successively or that
Joni Mitchell released Blue, For the
Roses, Court and Spark, Hissing of
Summer Lawns and Hejira in a legendary
70s streak, simply boggles the mind. Its
harder to recognize when its happening,
but glimpses of this kind of thing are
discernible in contemporary pop. With the
June release of his fourth album No Place
in Heaven, pop wunderkind Mika is on
that kind of a masterpiece-dropping fever
cycle. Its also his gayest album yet.
It would be tempting to think, based on
album opener and rst single Talk About
You, that were in for a slighter, more
throwaway aair than the last album
(released in 2012) which opened with an
epic bang on the title cut Origin of Love.
But that would be a mistake as this opener,
though catchy, turns out to be the most
disposable thing here. A treasure trove
of near Beatles-caliber pop magic awaits
on the rest and makes for a very strong
winning streak when considered alongside
Origin and 2009s The Boy Who Knew
Too Much. Long-time co-producer Greg
Wells (Adele, Katy Perry, Pink) returns for
much of the proceedings.
What makes it so great? Its a
masterpiece of tone balance both lyrically
and musically. Mikas often earnest
yet manages never to lose his sense of
humor. The cuts are tight and stylistically
varied with nary a dud in the batch.
Having grown more comfortable in
his gay skin he came out ocially in
2012 though hed suggested openness
to male lovers a few years prior and
even, at just 31, matured as a songwriter,
this album and Origin have a gravitas
lacking on the rst two. Refreshingly, his

material has lost none of its fun along the


way. Even on ponderous torchy songs like
Ordinary Man, its never heavy handed.
Queer themes abound and provide
the albums strongest moments from the
cheeky All She Wants, (about a mom
who straight-washes her son to the point
of wishing he were someone else entirely)
to the tightly hooked shue Rio to
the highly syncopated, tough-yet-slinky
bonus cut Promiseland where he lived
my life as the good boy I was told I should
be/prayed every night to a religion that
was chosen for me.
For a guy who sang euphorically of
teenage dreams in a teenage circus (on
We Are Golden), to nd him grappling
with larger questions of faith and
marriage is startling at rst, but works.
A trio of cuts stand above the rest:
with a sly reference to the Paula Cole hit
Where Have all the Cowboys Gone, Mika
wonders where have all the gay guys
gone on Good Guys while a backing
outt that sounds like the Polyphonic
Spree sing lines like we are all in the
gutter with the same joyousness you hear
on Id Like to Teach the World to Sing.
Good Wife nds him playing consoler to
a straight guy hes crushing on whose wife
ran out. Its both funny and poignant.
The nest moment is the tender prayer
of the title track in which the singer, over
a noodling piano gure, sings of being
cast away by the church and begging
God to learn to love me anyway. Its
a sophisticated lament to which many
burned by religion will relate. The
melodies are memorable and rst rate
throughout theyre ear worms rst,
meditations on life and love second.
It only takes one bad gay singer/
songwriter pop album to make you
realize how easily these kinds of outings
can backre and how truly rare the
great ones are. If youve never heard of,
say, Matt Zarley, thank your lucky stars
(queer unctuousness run amok). There
are legions of others who are decent: the
Tom Gosses and Jason & deMarcos of the
world. Rufus Wainwright is clearly talented
but about as much fun as a Good Friday
service. Mika is in a league of his own.

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events must be re-submitted each time.

TODAY
A Forever Home Rescue Foundation,
a charity that provides temporary housing
for dogs in transition or waiting for a
foster home, hosts the Imagine Summer
Gala at Raspberry Plain (16500 Agape
Ln., Leesburg, Va.) tonight from 5-11 p.m.
There will be dining, dancing and a silent
auction. There will also be the chance to
win a genuine diamond. Black tie attire is
required. Single tickets are $175 and a pair
of tickets is $300. For more information,
visit aforeverhome.org.
Black Cat (1811 14th St., N.W.) hosts
Church Night, a dance party, tonight at
9:30 p.m. There will be appearances and
performances by Paris Sashay and Dainty
Dandridge. Stronger Sex will provide
music. There will also be a shots-andtots communion and sing-a-long hymns.
Cover is $12. For more details, visit
blackcatdc.com.
Bear Nonsense hosts Bear Happy Hour
at Rock and Roll Hotel (1353 H St., N.E.)
from 5-10 p.m. tonight. Drink specials
will include $6 Ketel One drinks, $4 rail
drinks, $4 Yuengling pints, $3 PBR pints
and $1 o everything else. DJ DAdhemar
and DJ Tommy Cornelis will play music for
the night. There is no cover charge. For
more information, visit facebook.com/
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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.

SATURDAY, JULY 11
Mixtape, a gay dance party, is at 9:30
Club (815 V St., N.W.) tonight at 11 p.m.
There will also be a special performance
by Double Duchess. Tickets are $15. For
more details, visit 930.com.
The Imperial Court of Washington
hosts its Mr. and Miss D.C. Royale Pageant
2015 at Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) tonight at
8 p.m. Categories include formal wear and
evening gown, talent, self-expression and
question and answer. For more information,
visit facebook.com/imperialcourtdc.
Green Lantern (1335 Green Ct., N.W.)
hosts Jox, an underwear dance party, tonight
at 9 p.m. DJ David Merrill will play music for
the night. There will be drink specials and
a free clothes check. Cover is $5. For more
details, visit greenlanterndc.com.
The D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.)
holds free and condential HIV testing
today from 4-7 p.m. For more information,
visit thedccenter.org.
GENDERF*CK: Not Another Queer
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Phase 1 (525 8th St., S.E.). DJ Ego, resident


DJ at Phase, will spin for this party billed
as an all-inclusive, no-nonsense, antiracist safe space to get down and dance.
Cover is $5. Details at phase1dc.com.

SUNDAY, JULY 12
Burgundy Crescent, a gay volunteer
organization, volunteers for D.C. Central
Kitchen (425 2nd St., N.W.) today from 9
a.m.-noon. Volunteers will cook alongside
chefs who are graduates of D.C.
Central Kitchens job training program.
To volunteer, RSVP at jonathan@
burgundycrescent.org.
For
more
information, visit burgundycrescent.org.
Foundry Gallery (1314 18th St., N.W.)
hosts Bare the Walls, a fundraising party,
today from 2-5 p.m. Guests will be able
to choose an original work by a Foundry
artist or guest artist who has been juried
into one of Foundrys shows. There will
also be drinks and food. Tickets are $150
and admit two. For more information,
visit foundrygallery.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.

MONDAY, JULY 13
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,
share perspectives and have meaningful
conversations. For details, visit uhupil.org.

TUESDAY, JULY 14
SMYAL (410 7th St., S.E.) hosts a
rap group, a support group for LGBT
youth, today from 5-6:30 p.m. For more
information, visit smyal.org.
Bachelors Mill has half-price drinks
all night long from 5 p.m.-2 a.m. tonight.
They also have pool, video gaming
systems and cards. Admission is free. For
more details, visit bachelorsmill.com.
D.C. Bi Women hosts its monthly
meeting in the upstairs room of Dupont
Italian Kitchen (1637 17th St., N.W.) from
7-9 p.m. tonight. For more details, visit
thedccenter.org.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15
Bookmen D.C., an informal mens gay
literature group, discusses selected essays
from Love, Christopher Street: Reections
of New York City edited by Thomas Keith,
a collection of stories by LGBT writers
about LGBT life in New York City, at the
D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.) tonight at
7:30 p.m. All are welcome. For details, visit
bookmendc.blogspot.com.
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.


Woman to Woman, a support group
for HIV-positive women who love women,
meets at the Womens Collective (1331
Rhode Island Ave., N.E.) today from 5:30-7
p.m. There will be light refreshments. For
details, visit thedccenter.org.
Rainbow Response, an LGBT intimate
partner violence prevention group, meets
at the D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.)
today from 6-7 p.m. For details, visit
thedccenter.org.

THURSDAY, JULY 16
Team D.C. hosts Night Out at the
Kastles at the Smith Center at George
Washington University (20th and G streets.,
N.W.) at 7 p.m. The Washington Kastles of
World Team Tennis will play the San Diego
Aviators. For more details, visit teamdc.org.
The LGBT Bar Association of the
District of Columbia hosts a social at
Nelliess Sports Bar (900 U St., N.W.)
tonight from 6:30-8:30 p.m. There will
be an extended happy hour and $5 Titos
vodka drinks. For more information, visit
facebook.com/dclgbtbar.
Nellies Sports Bar (900 U St., N.W.)
hosts its weekly Beat the Clock Happy
Hour tonight from 5-8 p.m. Drink specials
start at $2 and increase by a dollar
each hour. For more information, visit
nelliessportsbar.com.
SMYAL (410 7th St., S.E.) hosts Womens
Leadership Institute, a group for LBT
women and their straight allies ages 13-21
to discuss female sexuality, relationships
and womens rights today from 5-7 p.m.
For more information, visit smyal.org.

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Thats what were told these days, from
the time were able to understand language
until the moment we run out of life. You
can become whatever you want, they say,
with a little luck and hard work and so
author Elliot Tiber did. In his memoir
After Woodstock, he shares how.
Though their decision to purchase and
operate a run-down motel in upstate New
York was a disaster from the beginning,
Elliot Tibers parents refused to give up the
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owning. Tiber, a dutiful Jewish son, had
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But in the summer of 69, something
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and when it was over, the hippies were
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Belgian student who had to return home
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Yes, hes got a wicked funny bone and yes,
this is an appealing look at gay life from the
Stonewall years forward, but it can be too
much. Delightful though it is, sometimes I
needed a break from the frenzy.
I think stop-and-go readers will be
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tale and biography lovers will easily be
able to ignore it. If, in fact, you like a little
madness with your memoir, nd After
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There are many players
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By TED SMITH
Buying a home is not just a duet between
the buyer and the real estate agent. Although
these two parties will spend a lot of time together in the process of looking for and buying a home, there are many other players involved in this process. Hence, It takes a village
to buy a home.
The first players may not even know the
Realtor whom the buyer chooses: these are
your financial planner and/or CPA. These players will help you decide the right time to buy
a home, and the implications for your savings
and taxes.
Your next step before beginning to look
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and to secure a pre-approval letter that you
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with a bank that has a mortgage department,
so you may want to start there. Your Realtor (if
already chosen) will probably also have some
suggested lenders with whom she has prior
positive experience. The lender will analyze
your financial suitability to buy a home at the
current moment, and will figure out your allowance in terms of what you can afford to
buy given the loan program you are using.
Although you have seven days after getting
a signed contract to make formal loan application, it is usually a good idea to stay with
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Realtors to use (or to avoid). Make sure that
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GCAAR (Greater Capital Area Association of
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forms creating a Buyer Agency Agreement between you and him. This agreement protects
you by creating an advocate on your side who

will represent your best interests in the transaction. Although there is no financial commitment on your part, you may wish to wait to
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quickly can you close? What kinds of contingencies will you place on the offer? (For example, will you require a home inspection?)
You will also go back to your lender to get a
pre-approval letter with exactly your offering
price so that the seller doesnt see that you
could offer more.
Its pretty safe to say that in this market, the
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(especially all cash) and the fewest contingencies (especially none). Many homebuyers
are now performing a pre-offer inspection
to identify any problems with the property
before they make an offer, as well as to remove one of the most common contingencies
(home inspection) from the contract offer.

Congratulations, youve got a ratified contract offer signed by all parties! Now youve
got about another month of activities before
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money and a copy of the ratified contract to
the title company specified in the contract to
begin the legal process of preparing title (ownership) transfer and to schedule an appointment for the closing day.
You will need to make formal loan application. This process is more detailed than the
pre-approval process.
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and your agent will want to be present for this
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done on the property to make sure the contract price is justified by fair market value. Although you are paying for this appraisal, only
the sellers agent is typically present at the appraisal visit, but you will receive a copy of the
report when the lender does.
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You (or your agent or the lender or the title


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responsible for them immediately afterwards.
At last closing day arrives. Youll do a final
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hour), and receive the keys to your new home.
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on May 23, 2015, which remained in existence on the date of his death on 6/18/15, and
Thomas M. Funk, whose address is 1113 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005 is the
currently acting trustee, hereinafter the Trustee. Communications to the trust should be
mailed or directed to Thomas M. Funk at 1113 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005.
The Trust is subject to claims of the deceased settlors creditors, costs of administration of
the settlors estate, the expenses of the deceased settlors funeral and disposal of remains,
and statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children to the extent the deceased
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Claims of the deceased settlors creditors are barred as against the Trustee and the trust
property unless presented to the Trustee at the address provided herein on or before
1/10/16 (6 months after the date of the first publication of this notice. An action to contest
the validity of this trust must be commenced by the earliest of (1) 6/18/16 (one year from
the date of the deceased settlor) or (2) 1/10/16 (one year from the date of first publication
of this notice) or (3) ninety days after the Trustee sends the person a copy of the trust
instrument and a notice informing the person of the trustss existence, the Trustees name
and address, and the time allowed for commencing a proceeding.
The Trustee may proceed to distribute the trust property in accordance with the terms of
the trust before the expiration of the time within which an action must be commenced
unless the Trustee knows of a pending judicial proceeding contesting the validity of the
trust or the Trustee has received notice from a potential contestant who thereafter
commences a judicial proceeding within sixty days after notification.
This Notice must be mailed postmarked within 15 days of its first publication to each heir
and qualifiedd beneficiary of the trust and any other person who would be an interested
person within the meaning of DC Code, sec. 10-101(d).
Signed: Thomas M. Funk
Date of first publication 7/10/15
Anne Meister, Register of Wills.
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PROBATE DIVISION
2015 ADM 788
Timothy D. Sweeney, Name of Decedent
Matthew R Barnes, Ackerman Brown, PLLC, 2101 L Street, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC
20037, Name & Address of Attorney.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Thomas M Funk, whose address is 1113 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005 was
appointed personal representative of the estate of Timonty D. Sweeney who died on
June 18, 2015 with a Will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and
heirs whose whereabouts re unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.
Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedents will) shall be filed with
the Register of Wills, DC, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20001,
on or before 1/10/16. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned
with a cop to the Register of Wills or filed with the Tegister of Wills with a copy to the
udnersigned, on or before 1/10/16., or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or
legates of the dcedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its
publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.
Signed: Thomas M. Funk
Date of first publication: 7/10/15
Anne Meister, Register of Wills

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