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marriage conference
Uruguayan university. She is also
the rst and only trans lawyer in MICHELLE SUREZ is the rst openly
transgender person elected to the
the South American country that Uruguayan Senate. She assumed her seat on
borders Brazil and Argentina. Oct. 10.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MARA LAURA VILA
Surez, who was a member of
Activists from across the Western Hemisphere are gathering in Costa Rica this week Ovejas Negras, a Uruguayan LGBT
for the rst-of-its-kind conference that will focus on marriage rights for same-sex advocacy group, helped write
couples in Latin America. a same-sex marriage bill that became law in 2013. Surez was elected to the
The Civil Marriage Equality Congress was scheduled to ocially begin in San Jos, countrys Senate two years later, but she was an alternative senator without full
the Costa Rican capital, on Wednesday afternoon with a forum at the University of voting privileges until she took her seat last month.
Costa Rica. A screening of The Freedom to Marry a documentary that features She described Uruguay to the Blade as a vanguard in Latin America in terms
Evan Wolfson, founder of Freedom to Marry, and the lead-up to the 2015 U.S. Supreme of rights, noting same-sex couples can legally marry and adopt children. Surez
Court ruling in the Obergefell case that extended marriage rights to same-sex couples also pointed out Uruguay allows trans people to legally change their gender
throughout the U.S. was slated to take place at a local theater a few hours later. without undergoing surgery.
The conference is taking place at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights on Surez told the Associated Press after she took her seat that she would
Thursday and Friday. The Costa Rica Supreme Court will host conference attendees on introduce a bill that would allow trans people to legally change their identity
Friday afternoon. (Editors note: The Blades Michael K. Lavers is scheduled to speak at without a court order. The measure would also require Uruguay to set aside 1
the conference on Friday.) percent of government jobs for trans people and create a pension to compensate
Herman Duarte of Fundacin Igualitos, a Costa Rica-based group that advocates those who suered persecution during the countrys military dictatorship, which
for marriage rights for same-sex couples throughout Latin America, organized the was from 1973-1985, because of their gender identity.
conference alongside his law rm, Hduarte-Lex that ghts discrimination based on These advances dont mean that Uruguay as a country has less discrimination,
sexual orientation, and the Costa Rican advocacy groups Acceder and Asociacin Surez told the Blade.
Costarricense de Derecho Internacional. In addition to advocating on behalf of LGBT Uruguayans, Surez has also
Costa Rican Vice President Ana Helena Chacn and Wolfson are among those who are championed the rights of women and the poor. Surez is also a healthy body
expected to take part in the conference. The U.S. and Canadian Embassies in Costa Rica, image advocate.
the U.N., the Costa Rican government and LGBT advocacy groups from across Latin MICHAEL K. LAVERS
America have co-sponsored it.
The main goal is to open the debate around equal access to the civil institution of
marriage, said Duarte in a press release. U.S. blocks removal of bias reference
The Financial Times on Oct. 25 announced Duarte, a lawyer who was born in El
Salvador, is among its top 50 future LGBT leaders. He is the rst person from Central
from Olympics resolution
America to be included in the list.
Gays and lesbians can legally marry in the U.S., Canada, Mexico City and several The U.S., France and Brazil last week blocked eorts to remove a reference to
Mexican states, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, discrimination that includes sexual orientation from an Olympics resolution at the U.N.
St. Barts, St. Martin, Saba, St. Eustatius, Bonaire, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay and The U.N. General Assembly on Nov. 13 is expected to adopt an Olympic Truce
Argentina. The governments of Aruba, Curaao and Sint Maarten recognize same-sex Resolution that calls for peace around the world during the 2018 Winter Olympics
marriages that are performed in the Netherlands. in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The resolution also calls for global peace during the
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet in August introduced a bill that would extend week before and after the Olympics, which will take place from Feb. 9-25.
marriage rights to same-sex couples in her country. The Panamanian Supreme Court Egypt and Russia sought to remove a reference to Principle 6 the Olympic
over the summer heard oral arguments in a case that would allow gays and lesbians to Charters nondiscrimination clause from the resolution because it specically
legally marry. includes sexual orientation along with religion, gender and other factors.
Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto and Panamanian First Lady Lorena Castillo are The version of resolution that is currently before the U.N. General Assembly
among the prominent Latin American politicians and ocials who support the issue. includes the gay-inclusive Principle 6 language.
Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Ral Castro who spearheads LGBT-specic The Olympics is an event that should focus on what brings us together
issues as director of her countrys National Center for Sexual Education, has also publicly friendly competition by the worlds best athletes not what makes us dierent,
backed marriage rights for same-sex couples. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley told the Washington Blade on Tuesday
Cuban activists who work independently of Mariela Castro and her organization, in a statement. No athlete should face discrimination of any kind when
which is known by the acronym CENESEX, in recent years have sought to promote the representing their country in the games.
issue on the Communist island. Neither Mariela Castro nor CENESEX have publicly MICHAEL K. LAVERS
commented on these eorts.
MICHAEL K. LAVERS
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and make it dicult for you to solicit lost because of it. That was very helpful
money for your campaign. in setting the foundation. That vote sent a shockwave through the Frank and HRC had totally lost touch with
In the year Democrats assumed control In his book A Life in Politics, Frank transgender community, which quickly what the community was, Keisling said.
of the U.S. House after more than a decade recounts the deliberative process that went marshaled opposition to the bill and So they did not understand that this
of Republican majorities, then-House into bringing the gay-only version of ENDA protested any further advancement without would not be alright with the community
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) brought to the House oor, maintaining Republicans their protections. Many angrily accused and we all found out very quickly in a
the gay-only version of ENDA to the oor would have sought to amend the bill to the Human Rights Campaign and Frank of matter of hours that it really was not,
after Frank determined an initial version remove the transgender protections. abandoning the transgender community. that the movement had really become an
of the bill that included protections based Baldwin disagreed with moving forward Mara Keisling, executive director of LGBT movement and it wasnt going to
on gender identity wouldnt get a majority without transgender inclusion, Frank the National Center for Transgender y to take trans people out. So not only
vote in the chamber. wrote, even though she ultimately voted Equality, said the vote was one of the were we against the vote happening, we
That version of ENDA would pass on the for the bill. (Baldwins oce didnt respond most important things that happened in were the leaders of being against the
House oor by a vote of 235-184. (Among to a request to comment for this article.) the movement in the last 20 years. vote happening.
those voting in favor of the bill was Rep. As we approached the nal vote, We wanted everything to be about The gay-only version of ENDA never
Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), although he also voted Tammy did her own informal whip count setting up for what the movement was reached Bushs desk for his veto, nor did
in favor of a motion to recommit that and concluded we would have enough after this vote happened, after the bill any version of the bill trans-inclusive or
would have killed the legislation.) Democratic votes, Frank wrote. Speaker died for the year, Keisling said. What otherwise come up in the U.S. Senate
Voting no on the legislation were 25 Pelosi, a strong supporter of the bill, were the lessons the movement was even though Democrats controlled both
Democrats, many of whom such as asked Tammy for her count, checked it going to learn, what was the lesson HRC chambers of Congress.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), former Rep. herself with the members, and decided was going to learn, what was the lesson Had ENDA been brought to the oor
Anthony Weiner (N.Y.) and former Rep. that Tammy had been too optimistic Barney Frank was going to learn? for a vote in the Senate, the sponsor
Michael Michaud (Maine) rejected a conclusion that [former Rep. George The night before the vote, Keisling said, she would likely have been the late Sen.
the measure on the basis it lacked Miller and I, based on our own work, fully received a call from Franks oce and was Edward Kennedy, who was one of the rare
protections for transgender people. agreed with. We did not have the votes informed it was over a for trans-inclusive champions of LGBT rights at the time.
Then-Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), now for the inclusive-bill. It was sadly but version of ENDA. Together with Dave Noble, Solmonese said he didnt immediately
a U.S. senator and still the only out lesbian unmistakably clear to Pelosi, Miller and then policy director of the National LGBTQ remember why ENDA never came up in
in Congress, proposed an amendment to me that we could pass ENDA only in its Task Force, Keisling said she planned to the Senate and said it may have had to
insert gender identity, but withdrew the earlier form, covering only lesbian, gay write a letter to Baldwin in hopes she could do with timing, but said Kennedy would
measure before it could come to a vote. and bisexual workers. inuence the vote, but was told the gay-only only have moved forward with a trans-
Joe Solmonese, president of the Backing that move was the Human ENDA would move forward. inclusive bill, not a gay-only ENDA, as part
Human Rights Campaign at the time Rights Campaign, which continued to That night, Keisling and Noble reached of the strategy for the House vote.
of the vote, backed ENDA and 10 years support the gay-only measure as one of out to the National Center for Lesbian He understood and supported the
later stood by his decision as a means to ve co-signers in a letter to Congress dated Rights and other groups to form a coalition rationale of having an overarching
develop the legislation, citing no hope Nov. 6, 2007 organized by the Leadership against the trans omission. By morning strategy, Solmonese said. George Bush
of passing any legislation into law with Conference on Civil & Human Rights. more than 60 organizations had joined is the president. This things not going to
George W. Bush as president. With each signicant step toward United ENDA, Keisling said, a coalition get passed into law. You do one version
It was a tactical decision to take a step in progress, the civil rights community has that refused to support the gay-only bill in the House, an inclusive version in the
the direction of getting what we ultimately also faced dicult and sometimes even and pledged to work with lawmakers to Senate, the leadership of both chambers
wanted, which was maybe a non-inclusive agonizing tradeos, the letter said. We support a trans-inclusive measure. is such that the conference committee
bill in the House, and inclusive bill in have always recognized, however, that Keisling said other groups were calling would likely end up with something that
the Senate that would end up as a fully each legislative breakthrough has paved up slightly annoyed that they hadnt been was fully inclusive, right?
inclusive bill or that would end up as a fully the way for additional progress in the asked to sign on and soon the coalition Keisling, however, said there was no
inclusive bill by the time Obama became future. With respect to ENDA, we take the grew to several hundred members. Senate plan because the Democratic
president, Solmonese said. same view. It essentially was because Barney
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Powers of Attorney Living Wills consequence of their sexualities, Science Alert reports.
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Health) is reminding men who have sex with men (MSM) to get the hepatitis A
vaccine, Outbreak Today reports citing a department press release.
Serving the LGBT Community Public Health reports 12 cases among MSM so far in 2017, which is three more
cases than were reported in 2016. MSM are known to be at risk for Hepatitis
in DC/MD/VA since 1983 A (HAV) and have been recommended nationally to receive the vaccine. Public
Health is informing health care providers of the increase in cases this year,
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and nearly 30 percent African-American, and more than half were current sex
workers or had been incarcerated. Nearly all of the respondents reported a
history of substance abuse and most were uninsured.
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three times as many HIV tests as transgender men.
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JANET JACKSON returns to D.C. on her acclaimed State of the World Tour on Nov. 16.
Its not often you have the opportunity an introspective and deeply personal 2. GLAAD award. In 2008, Ellen extremely signicant.
to see a bona de music icon and legend collection of songs that touched on her DeGeneres presented Jackson with 3. Ebony magazine interview about
perform live, so dont miss Janet Jacksons depression, but also tackled LGBT issues. the Vanguard Award at the 19th her sexuality. In 2001, Jackson gave an
acclaimed State of the World Tour On the track Free Xone, she spoke out annual GLAAD Media Awards. GLAADs interview to Ebony magazine in which she
coming to D.C. (Nov. 16) and Baltimore forcefully against anti-LGBT bias. She president said, We are delighted to was asked about her sexual orientation.
(Nov. 18). also covered Rod Stewarts Tonights the honor Janet Jackson at the 19th annual I dont mind people thinking that Im gay
In celebration of Janets arrival, weve Night, without changing the pronouns GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles as or calling me gay, she said. People are
compiled a list of 10 ways she has in the love song, prompting speculation such a visible, welcoming and inclusive going to believe whatever they want. Yes,
demonstrated her love and support for about her sexual orientation. But it was ally of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and I hang out at gay clubs I go where the
the LGBT community. In no particular her international No. 1 hit Together transgender community. Ms. Jackson music is good. I love people regardless
order, they are: Again that continues to resonate with has a tremendous following inside the of sexual preference, regardless of race.
1. The Velvet Rope project. In 1997, LGBT fans. An upbeat, joyful dance song, LGBT community and out, and having her No, I am not bisexual. I have been linked
Jackson released her critically acclaimed It was conceived as a tribute to Jacksons stand with us against the defamation that
sixth studio album The Velvet Rope, friends who died of AIDS. LGBT people still face in our country is
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ED FIGUEROA/BOM BALICIOUS EK LAVER
Ed Figueroa, who performs as drag alter ego Bombalicious Eklaver, is
relatively new to performance drag having started about a year ago.
Ive been cross dressing for several years, the 38-year-old Manila,
Philippines native says. I started posting comedy videos online and one
became viral in the Philippines so that motivated me to continue. I have How long have you been out and who If science discovered a way to change
always been doing drag in dierent forms at various stages in my life but Im was the hardest person to tell? sexual orientation, what would you do?
doing it more now than ever before. I came out late in college and my I would protest.
His event Asian Explosion will be held Friday, Nov. 17 at 10 p.m. at the family has been supportive.
Baltimore Eagle (2022 N. Charles St.). Bombalicious will host. Performers include What do you believe in beyond the
Lady Geisha Stratton, Jasmine Tea, Sue Nami, Sirius Prism and Labella Maa. Whos your LGBT hero? physical world?
Theyre all Asian queens from China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Thailand and Florence Nightingale Nothing
more. RuPauls Drag Race alum Gia Gunn is the guest star. General admission
is $15; reserved seating tickets are $25. VIP meet-and-greet tickets with Gia are Whats Baltimores best nightspot, Whats your advice for LGBT
$45. Look for the event on Facebook or go to thebaltimoreeagle.com. past or present? movement leaders?
Asian Explosion is my baby from conceptualization to production, Figueroa Club Hippo & GAY, RIP Remain steadfast and strong,
says. Its a celebration of heritage, culture, drag and performance art. Were the ght is not over.
bringing together the best Asian drag performers in the DMV and beyond. Describe your dream wedding.
Figueroa works by day as a nurse. He came to the Baltimore area 11 years My actual wedding. What would you walk
ago to work at Mercy Medical Center. He and partner Ivn Manahan live in across hot coals for?
Hanover, Md., with their Pomeranians Bogart and Bertha. Figueroa enjoys What non-LGBT issue are you most Love
dining, traveling and wine in his free time. passionate about?
Racial discrimination What LGBT stereotype
annoys you most?
What historical outcome That were sexual predators.
would you change?
Trump getting elected. Whats your favorite LGBT movie?
Die Beautiful
Whats been the most memorable pop
culture moment of your lifetime? Whats the most overrated
Miss Philippines winning Miss social custom?
Universe 2015. Asking How are you? without any
real concern.
On what do you insist?
Equality What trophy or prize
do you most covet?
What was your last Facebook Powerball or MegaMillions.
post or Tweet?
That was short and sweet. Im already What do you wish youd known at 18?
obsessed. #ShadeQueensofNYC It will all happen, just wait.
If your life were a book, what would Why Baltimore?
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Toris invasion
Fiery singer/songwriter
delights crowd with hits,
deep cuts
By CHRIS GERARD
grapples with dual fractures the political brimming with anger like the searing Blood
upheaval that is broiling our nation and Roses and the solemn and heartbreaking I love wandering through
the massive stroke that Tori Amos mother Marianne. She was in ne voice throughout Smithsonian museums, eating
suered earlier in the year, which has and watching her shift back and forth from on H Street with friends, and going
impaired her ability to speak. The album organ to piano and sometimes play them to shows at Howard Theatre.
connects the universal and the personal. simultaneously is always fascinating. As
Its somber and beautiful, restrained and a songwriter, musician and performer,
poetic and perhaps not as immediately Amos remains as compelling as when she
engaging as many of her albums. That
said, Amos was anything but restrained on
launched her career with the now-classic
Little Earthquakes in 1992.
Im a
Friday night when she performed for her The show featured tour debuts. Girl, transgender woman
ardent D.C.-area fans. She didnt lecture,
but the ssion and turmoil infusing our
on which she warned she might have to
start over if she screwed up and then, not
and Im part of DC.
world was a ery thread through the set surprisingly, she absolutely nailed it, and
that was impossible to miss. an energetic take on her late 90s classic
Amos opened with iieee, and its lines Raspberry Swirl, which paired with her epic
couldnt be more appropriate: I know were Precious Things as a powerhouse nale Please treat me the way any
dying and theres no time for a parachute that left the audience wanting more. woman would want to be treated:
/cant we get a little grace and some Yeah, her sets these days are a little bit with courtesy and respect.
elegance/no we scream in cathedrals/why shorter than on past tours, but Tori Amos Discrimination based on gender identity and
expression is illegal in the District of Columbia.
cant it be beautiful? Why does there gotta still gives her all on stage every night and
If you think youve been the target of
be a sacrice? From that searing opening, her delight at the fans response and their discrimination, visit www.ohr.dc.gov
she rolled through 90 minutes spanning obviously genuine love for her is moving to or call (202) 727-4559.
her entire catalog, as ery and passionate behold. There is nobody quite like Tori Amos
as ever as she enters her third decade in in popular music, and if youre one of those
the music business. lamenting the fact that she didnt play her OFFICE OF
GLBT
She opened her powerful allegory two most recognizable hits, then perhaps the AFFAIRS
Amber Waves, which portrays America solution is to dive deeper into her catalog.
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TUES, NOV 14 The observance will pay tribute to transgender people who have been The program is dedicated to LGBT
murdered due to anti-transgender violence. The rst Transgender Day of themes and will include You Are Here
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Channeling Viola
Out actress says Twelfth
Night role is one she
couldnt pass up
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Spirit of the
Since she was a girl growing up in
suburban Pugerville, Texas, actor
Antoinette Robinson has been drawn to
the classics.
As a kid I did prose and poetry
Season2017
competitions in Austin. And every time
Id choose a poem, Id pick some heavy
Greek classic. There I was a little 8-year- PHOTO COURTESY STC
old reciting this, she recalls clearly ANTOINETTE ROBINSON says fashion heavily
amused by the memory. And though informs her performance in Twelfth Night.
there arent many opportunities to do
classic Greek drama, Robinson says
shed one day love to play the title role in appears dressed as Cesario, everyone
Sophocles Antigone, the timely story of is expected to believe shes a man. The
one woman against the state. Duke admires Cesarios lips and small
Until then, Robinson who identies voice all the while believing hes truly a
as bisexual, happily busies herself with boy. And Olivia, charmed by Cesarios
Shakespeare. She currently is playing more feminine characteristics, falls hard
Viola, the clever heroine in director Ethan for the young man.
McSweenys production of the Bards A woman disguising herself as a man
comedy Twelfth Night at Shakespeare didnt feel familiar to Robinson exactly,
Theatre Company. but she instantly related to the world
After having been shipwrecked on theyre creating in Illyria where the
the coast of Illyria, Viola assumes her boundaries of femininity and masculinity
twin brother Sebastian is drowned. are blurred. The lines of what it means
Ever resourceful, she disguises herself to act or love as a man or woman are
as Cesario, and is hired as a page boy crossed in this play. And thats something
in Duke Orsinos court. Soon she nds I really enjoy.
herself in the middle of a volatile love Robinson is bisexual, but concedes its
triangle involving both Orsino (Bhavesh new to her in many ways.
Patel) and Olivia (Hannah Yelland), a Im experiencing my rst relationship
young countess in mourning who resides with a woman. Only a year ago I didnt
at a neighboring estate. identify, so every day I learn new things
Viola is one of those parts, says and I catch myself breaking through and
Robinson, 30. Just like with Rosalind breaking down on things weve taught
(As You Like It), Lady M. (Macbeth), and about who we are based on our sex.
Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing) After having worked o-Broadway
when you get the opportunity to play the and regionally, Robinson rst came to
part, you take it.
She rst learned the company was
Washington to play Celia in Folger Theatres
As You Like It in the summer of 2016.
D.A.R. Constitution Hall
looking for a Viola when she playing loyal
friend Flavius in Timon of Athens at Folger
D.C. felt more like home than New
York City. I immediately fell in love.
1776 D St., N.W.
Theatre earlier this year (director Robert
Richmond had switched the characters
Politically, times are rough right now
but doing things like participating in the
Washington, D.C.
gender and race). Robinson auditioned, Womens March gives me a voice.
was called back and waited. Eventually she
got the call oering her Viola, a moment
Thankfully busy, Robinson is currently a
company member at the REP in Delaware too.
Saturday, Dec. 9 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Robinson compares to Christmas morning.
The crossdressing is so much fun.
If I could maintain that relationship
but also work and live in D.C. then my life Sunday, Dec. 10 at 3 p.m.
The production is set in 2017 and would be made, she says.
designer Jennifer Moellers costumes
are wonderful. She has real vision and ANTOINETTE ROBINSON for FREE tickets, visit:
its exciting. Personally, I love when a
woman can wear a suit with a pair of
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