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washingtonblade.com • vol. 41, issue 35 • august 27, 2010 • Still sharp after 40 years
An interview with Vincent Gray
Gray promises to fight
hate crimes, AIDS
Council chair won’t
defer to police chief
on gay liaison unit
Editor’s note: This is the sec-
ond of a two-part series featuring
exclusive interviews with the two
leading Democratic candidates for
mayor. An interview with Mayor
Adrian Fenty was published last
week and is available online.
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
D.C. City Council Chairman
Vincent Gray said that, if elected
mayor, he would take a more
socialagenda
Advice for LGBT parents sending kids to school
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An interview with
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aggressive approach to fighting
hate crimes targeting LGBT peo-
ple and would make HIV/AIDS
prevention efforts one of his
highest priorities.
In an Aug. 20 interview with
the Washington Blade, Gray also
said he would take strong steps
to address a wide range of
issues of concern to local LGBT
residents, including speaking out
against efforts to overturn the
city’s same-sex marriage law
through a ballot initiative.
Gray, the main rival to Mayor
Adrian Fenty in the Sept. 14
Democratic primary, challenged a
position Fenty disclosed in a sepa-
rate interview with the Blade —
that he has deferred to Police Chief
for the first time. Page 33
news
A look at the latest
developments from
the campaign trail as
primary draws near.
PAGE 6
Visit washingtonblade.com
to watch video of the Blade’s
interview with Council
Chairman Vincent Gray.
Cathy Lanier on her approach to
decentralizing the department’s
Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit.
Some LGBT activists have
expressed support for the decen-
tralization plan, which includes the
creation of affiliate GLLU officers
stationed throughout the city. But
they have objected to Lanier’s
decision to reduce the number of
full-time GLLU officers assigned
Continues on page 12
Troop survey draws criticism
Activists assail
‘derogatory’
language in Pentagon
questionnaire
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
A new Pentagon study that
aims to gather the views of military
spouses on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
repeal has invoked the ire of LGBT
advocacy groups that are claiming
bias in the questionnaire.
According to the Defense
Department, the survey went out
Aug. 20 to 150,000 military
households and is intended to
inform the work of the Pentagon
group working on a plan to end
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“We’re going to look at that
news
EFN Lounge's closure
leaves community
groups scrambling
to find new homes.
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Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
‘I can’t remember the last time I missed participating in the Pride parade. I
can’t remember the last time I wasn’t involved in Black Pride activities,’ said
D.C. City Council Chair Vincent Gray. ‘I’ve been a consistent supporter.’
information and develop an imple-
mentation plan for a possible
repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’”
said Cynthia Smith, a Defense
Department spokesperson.
But LGBT rights groups advo-
cating for repeal of “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” say the survey ques-
tions are biased and assume a
negative impact of repealing the
1993 law banning open service
in the U.S. military.
Among the survey questions are:
• Has your spouse ever worked
on a daily basis with an individual
he or she believed to be a homo-
sexual service member?
• Compared with other service
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
members in the community, how
much did that service member The Pentagon, under the direc-
participate in military social tion of Defense Secretary Robert
activities? Gates, has distributed a second
survey on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’
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LOCALNEWS
Following the closure of EFN Lounge/Motley Bar, the Tuesday night packing parties for the FUK!T condom
distribution campaign moved to Green Lantern.
Bears roam among 3 bars
after Motley closes abruptly
Condom packing
parties move to
Green Lantern
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
jdiguglielmo@washblade.com
All the groups that used EFN
Lounge/Motley Bar as a meeting
place have found new homes,
although the sudden closure of the
former BeBar space may have
caused one of the groups to splinter.
The only groups that were
meeting at EFN before its sudden
closure Aug. 16 were the Tuesday
night packing parties for the FUK!T
condom distribution campaign and
the Friday night Bear Happy Hour.
Event promoter Jacob Pring, who
used to hold several events at
EFN, had already relocated his
CODE and POZ events to Green
Lantern, another gay bar near
Thomas Circle.
Pring helped facilitate the
relocations. The packing party —
an event that had been held at
Motley, EFN’s upstairs space,
since October and involved vol-
unteers filling small plastic bags
with condoms, lube and safe-sex
information for distribution at
local gay bars and restaurants —
missed its Aug. 14 party as it had
less than 24 hours notice of the
bar’s closure. But the event
returned this week at its new
home in the upstairs of Green
Lantern. Owner Greg Zehn said
he’s happy to have them.
“There’s no charge,” he said.
“Any community group or non-
profit that wants to meet there,
they can use it for their meetings.
If it’s just sitting there empty, and
I don’t have the upstairs open on
Monday or Tuesday nights, I
don’t mind letting them use it at
all. I’m happy to help.”
The D.C. Center, the city’s
LGBT community center that
recently relocated to a storefront
location at 1318 U Street, N.W., is
also holding its Bears Do Yoga
classes at Green Lantern on
Mondays as the new U Street loca-
tion wasn’t conducive to yoga.
“I think they had it there once and
it just didn’t work well,” Zehn said.
As news of EFN’s closure start-
ed spreading Aug. 13, the groups
began to brainstorm ideas about
where they could relocate. Pring
helped Dan O’Neill and Terry
Gerace, organizers of the FUK!T
campaign, make arrangements
with Zehn. Others in the bear
community also helped facilitate
connections.
“We were lucky,” Gerace said.
“[Green Lantern] stepped right
up for us. It was much easier
than I anticipated.”
Gerace learned of EFN’s clo-
sure during a call from EFN bar-
tender Matt Bamford, who also
volunteers with FUK!T.
“He said, ‘You better come
pick up the dispenser,’” Gerace
said. “We had stuff stored there.
It came as a total surprise. They
could have handled that a little
better. It was bad for us, but 10
times worse for the staff.”
The FUK!T campaign is in tran-
sition in other ways. Wednesday
night parties that had been held at
Mova, formerly known as Halo, is
on hiatus. O’Neill said Mova’s
impending move was a factor, but
he also is going to medical school
and needed to step back.
A $60,000 grant from the D.C.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
Department of Health, though,
should enable the campaign to
continue. O’Neill and Gerace
plan to hire a part-time employee
to oversee the packing parties,
which produce anywhere from
2,000 to 3,000 packets to distrib-
ute in local gay bars and restau-
rants each weekend.
Gerace and O’Neill are hop-
ing to expand the effort’s reach
with the grant money.
“It’s critical that the community
plays a role in this,” O’Neill said. “It
allows them to have ownership,
but it’s an integrated intervention.
While people are providing the
kits, they’re also learning about
safe-sex practices themselves
and helping their fellow gay men
be less prone to engage in unsafe
sex themselves. It adds ownership
and we really rely on the commu-
nity to supply these kits.
“EFN Lounge provided a criti-
cal role and we’re sorry to see
that go, but we’re looking to
expand to additional nights and
would love to have other bars
and community organizations
participate beyond just a place
for us to pack kits.”
The transition has been a bit
murkier for the bears. Some com-
petition has emerged for the cov-
eted bear Friday evening crowd, a
large informal group of gay men
who jammed Motley every Friday.
The crowd often spilled down-
stairs to EFN and made Fridays
easily the bar’s most popular night
in recent months.
The bears had met at Motley
since May 2009 when Nicholas
Baatz, a Motley bartender, organ-
ized it as a gathering spot. Before
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Gay comedian to entertain
at Alston House benefit
D.C.-based gay standup comedian Sampson will entertain
tonight at 10 p.m. at the D.C. Arts Center in Adams Morgan with
his routine, “Don’t Make Me Take Off My Earrings.”
Tickets are $15 and benefit the Wanda Alston House,
Washington’s only home for homeless LGBT youth.
Sampson, born Korrell McCormick, grew up in North
Carolina, but has been in the D.C. area for 10 years. The 25-
year-old has been doing standup for about eight years and mixes
social commentary with personal experiences about the foibles
of the black and gay worlds, which often collide, a point he uses
for comedic effect.
He performs in straight and gay venues alike and says it has-
n’t been a problem.
“I’m just as funny as some of the straight comedians,” he says.
“I don’t use the N-word and a bunch of [expletives]. It’s a differ-
ent perspective, being openly gay. I can get away with more.
Even flirting with men in the audience. Even the straight ones.
They’re there to laugh and have fun, so they just go with it.”
Sampson, who has performed at Titan, Town, EFN Lounge and
Phase 1, says tonight’s performance is inspired by his sense of activism.
But how does he balance the seriousness of his convictions
with the lighthearted approach of a comedian?
“I still don’t know,” he admits. “Honesty can be very funny and
open a lot of dialogue through pointing out the absurd. That’s what
makes it funny. People don’t stop to examine how they sound.”
Brian Watson, who oversees Wanda’s House as a division of
Transgender Health Empowerment, says the benefit was
Sampson’s idea. Watson says he’s grateful for the aid.
“Things are going OK at the House, but we received a budg-
et cut last year and are expecting one this year also,” he said.
“Due to limited income this year, we aren’t even having our annu-
al anniversary reception usually held in September.”
Watson said the House is full and has “a good group of kids,”
but Transgender Health Empowerment will have to close its trans
drop-in center on New York Avenue, N.W., this year because of
the lack of funding through D.C. City Council members’ ear-
marks, which helped keep the drop-in center’s doors open.
Tickets for tonight’s performance can be purchased at the
door or reserved by calling 202-462-7833. Guests are asked to
arrive around 9:45 p.m.
JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
Two gay men punched
en route to U Street bar
A gay man who was walking along the U Street corridor with
another gay man toward Nellie’s on Aug. 20 was attacked at
about 11:30 p.m., one of the men told the Blade.
And minutes after being punched, the man said, they encoun-
tered another gay man who also was attacked.
The gay man who wasn’t attacked, a 27-year-old Columbia
Heights resident who asked not to be identified because he does
security work for an overseas non-profit, said he and his friend,
who’s 31, had met on the corner of 14th and U streets, N.W., and
were walking east on U Street when the attack happened near
the Rite Aid between 13th and 14th streets.
“There were tons and tons of people out,” said the man who
wasn’t attacked. “We were just walking and talking, passing tons
of people, and all of a sudden I saw someone turn around and I
had that ‘something’s not right’ feeling really quickly.
“They hit my friend on the side of the head. … My friend
turned and was like, ‘What happened?’ and was looking to see,
and the same person and one other person threw a couple more
punches and then it just kind of ended itself. I got my friend sort
of distanced away enough and those people kept walking.”
The man who wasn’t attacked said the group consisted of three
young black men and two young black women whom he guessed
were either coming or going from one of the straight bars on U
Street. He said the group didn’t say anything to them or appear to
be trying to rob them.
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LOCALNEWS
D.C. campaign notebook
Mendelson could face
Mayoral candidate calls for putting 2nd gay challenger
HIV status on driver’s licenses
D.C. mayoral candidate Leo
Alexander startled some atten-
dees of an Aug. 11 candidates’
forum focusing on HIV/AIDS when
he said he’s considering pushing
a requirement that the HIV status
of D.C. residents be disclosed on
their driver’s license.
“We have to treat this as an
epidemic and do what’s neces-
sary to address it,” he said.
Mayor Adrian Fenty did not
attend the forum and City Council
Chairman Vincent Gray, Fenty’s
main rival, arrived at the forum a
few minutes after Alexander men-
tioned his HIV driver’s license pro-
posal. Two other mayoral candi-
dates present when Alexander
raised the issue, Sulaimon Brown
and Ernest Johnson, did not com-
ment on the proposal.
About 100 people attended
the forum, which was organized
by local HIV/AIDS groups D.C.
Fights Back and AIDSvote.org. It
was held at the Eastern Market
on Capitol Hill.
Christine Campbell, vice presi-
dent for national advocacy and
organizing for AIDS group
Housing Works, and Ron
McInnis, an official with the
International AIDS Society, mod-
erated the forum and asked the
candidates questions before
opening the event to questions
from the audience.
“That’s scary,” said Campbell
GLAA candidate rankings to come
The Gay & Lesbian Activists
Alliance met Tuesday night in
the National Press Building to
rank candidates running for
local office.
The rankings were not imme-
diately available. Look in next
week’s edition for details of how
the local candidates fared.
GLAA sends questionnaires
to candidates for local office and
ranks them based on their
responses — or lack thereof —
to various questions concerning
LGBT issues and other topics.
Seventeen candidates respond-
ed, including D.C. City Council
incumbents Mary Cheh, Harry
Thomas, Jim Graham, Phil
Mendelson, Tommy Wells and
Kwame Brown; Council hopefuls
Marc Morgan, Bryan Weaver, Darryl
Moch, David Schwartzman, Clark
Ray, Vincent Orange, Dorothy
Douglas, Tim Day and Tracey Turner;
and D.C. mayoral frontrunners Vince
Gray and incumbent Adrian Fenty.
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
Leo Alexander, a candidate for
D.C. mayor, is considering pushing
a regulation that would force dri-
ver’s licenses to display the bear-
er’s HIV status.
after the forum, in discussing
Alexander’s call for placing a per-
son’s HIV-positive status on their
driver’s license. “He seemed to
be very serious about that.”
Existing city law prohibits the
Department of Health from pub-
licly disclosing tests results for
any sexually transmitted dis-
ease, including HIV.
All four candidates present,
including Gray, expressed strong
support for strengthening the
city’s programs combating AIDS.
When one questioner asked
the candidates how they would
implement the city’s participation
in President Obama’s recently
released National HIV/AIDS
Washington Blade photo by Joey DiGuglielmo
Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance members Craig Howell and Rick
Rosendall share a toast during Tuesday’s candidate ranking meeting.
Frank Kameny is at left.
GLAA members Rick Rosendall,
Craig Howell, Frank Kameny, Ron
Swanda, Geri Hughes, Cartwright
Moore, Barrett Brick, Miguel
Strategy, Johnson said, “I don’t
even know what it is, but I will
make it better in D.C.”
Saying he would find out what
the Obama strategy is all about,
he added, “I know people appre-
ciate honesty.”
Gray said he would build on
the D.C. HIV prevention and test-
ing strategies developed by Dr.
Shannon Hader, director of the
city’s HIV/AIDS Administration
under Fenty, saying the epidemio-
logical “tracking” Hader devel-
oped for HIV in the District has
worked well.
Hader resigned from her post
earlier this year, triggering specu-
lation that she had irreconcilable
disagreements with the head of
the city’s Department of Health,
Dr. Pierre Vigilance, and that
Fenty sided with Vigilance. Hader
has said she left the AIDS agency
to take a new job with an interna-
tional health foundation. Hader
attended the Aug. 11 forum but
didn’t speak.
“I feel that the candidates,
while they know some about HIV
and AIDS, that there is no real
depth and they don’t have a lot of
plans,” Campbell said.
“I think that Vincent Gray was
probably more well versed in the
issues simply because he has had
to deal with it in some of his previ-
ous positions,” she said.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Tuason and Bob Summersgill
pored over the responses to deter-
mine the rankings.
JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
It’s widely known that D.C. City Council member Phil
Mendelson, a longtime supporter of the LGBT community, is
being challenged by Clark Ray, the gay former director of the
city’s Department of Parks & Recreation in the Sept. 14
Democratic primary.
But in a little-noticed development, Mendelson could face
yet another gay challenger in the November general election.
Darryl Moch, an ordained minister and assistant pastor at
D.C.’s gay-oriented Inner Light Ministries, is one of two candi-
dates running for the at-large seat in the Statehood Green
Party primary.
If Mendelson wins the Democratic primary and Moch defeats
rival David Schwartzman in the Statehood Green primary, the
two will go against each other in the general election. No
Republican candidate is running for the seat.
Moch told the Blade earlier this month that he’s running as
an openly gay candidate with a focus on his party’s longtime
mission: to secure congressional voting rights and eventual
statehood for the District of Columbia. He said he would be an
aggressive supporter of LGBT issues on the Council and is a
strong backer of the city’s same-sex marriage equality law.
“Overcoming the divisions that exist among religious, social
and cultural groups is paramount,” Moch says on his campaign
website, darryl4dc.com. “I believe that bridging those divides will
improve the quality of life for everyone and ultimately, the disad-
vantaged residents within a community.”
Moch also serves as executive director of the Labor Heritage
Foundation, a D.C.-based non-profit group.
In addition to Ray and Moch, three other out gay candidates
are running in the Sept. 14 primary. D.C. Council member Jim
Graham (D-Ward 1) is considered the favorite to win in the pri-
mary and the November general election. Gay Republican Marc
Morgan, who is running unopposed in the GOP primary in
September, is expected to face an uphill fight against Graham in
the November general election.
Gay Republican Timothy Day is running unopposed in the
GOP primary in Ward 5. He is expected to be the general elec-
tion rival of incumbent Ward 5 Council member Harry Thomas,
who is considered the favorite in the Democratic primary.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Kwame Brown takes gay
bar tour, attends drag show
D.C. City Council member
Kwame Brown (D-At Large), who
is running in a hotly contested
race for the Council Chairman’s
seat, took his campaign on a gay
bar tour Aug. 14 with campaign
adviser and longtime gay activist
Phil Pannell at his side.
Brown began his tour at
Nellie’s Sports Bar on U Street,
N.W., and made visits to the D.C.
Eagle downtown; Remington’s,
Phase One and Bachelors Mill
on Capitol Hill; and Ziegfeld’s in
Southwest before going to Lace
and Delta Elite in Northeast.
With Pannell and other cam- Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
paign workers seated beside
him, Brown watched Ziegfeld’s Kwame Brown
drag show, with female illusion-
ist Donnell Robinson, who performs as Ella Fitzgerald, leading a
group of drag performers. At least two of the performers had “Kwame
Brown” stickers attached to their sequined gowns.
“It’s great to get out in the community and visit our local
businesses that provide jobs and support the community,
every community,” Brown said.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
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NATIONALNEWS

Investors urge Target to Obama names gay man to

look at political giving
MINNEAPOLIS — A few Target Corp. and Best Buy Co. institutional share-
HHS in recess appointment
holders weighed in April 19 on the flap over the companies’ political donations in By CHRIS JOHNSON “Until they do, I reserve the right to act
Minnesota, urging the boards of both retailers to increase their oversight of cam- cjohnson@washblade.com within my authority to do what is best for
paign contributions. the American people.”
The Associated Press reported that Walden Asset Management and Trillium President Obama last week made a Sorian was among three openly gay
Asset Management Corp., both of Boston, and Bethesda, Md.-based Calvert recess appointment for a gay presidential presidential nominees awaiting Senate con-
Asset Management Co. filed shareholder nominee awaiting confirmation to a high- firmation to their positions. The other openly
resolutions with both companies. level position at the Department of Health gay nominees who have yet to receive con-
Together, the three firms control less & Human Services. firmation are Michael Camunez, who was
than 1 percent of each company’s out- The president appointed Richard nominated to become assistant secretary of
standing shares — 1.1 million Target Sorian as assistant secretary of public commerce for market access and compli-
shares worth $57.5 million and 344,000 affairs for the Department of Health & ance, and Beatrice Hanson, who was nomi-
Best Buy shares worth $11.3 million — Human Services, along with three other nated to become director of the Justice
but they are moving the debate over the nominees. The recess appointment Department’s Office of Victims of Crime.
political giving to a new arena. enables the appointees to take their posi- Prior to his presidential appointment,
Target gave $150,000 and Best Buy tions in the Obama administration without Sorian was vice president for public poli-
$100,000 to a business-focused political having to go through Senate confirmation. cy and external relations for the National
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key fund helping a conservative Republican “At a time when our nation faces so Committee for Quality Assurance. Before
Shareholders of Target and Best Buy gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota, trig- many pressing challenges, I urge mem- that role, Sorian was director of public
are asking the companies to increase gering a national backlash from LGBT rights bers of the Senate to stop playing politics affairs for the Center for Studying Health
their oversight of campaign contribu- groups. The companies made the donations with our highly qualified nominees, and System Change and a project director at
tions following donations to an anti-gay after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling fulfill their responsibilities of advice and the Georgetown University Institute for
Minnesota gubernatorial candidate. freed them to spend corporate funds on consent,” Obama said in a statement. Health Care Research & Policy.
elections. The candidate, state legislator
Tom Emmer, opposes marriage equality and other rights for same-sex couples.
“A good corporate political contribution policy should prevent the kind of deba-
cle Target and Best Buy walked into,” the Associated Press reported Trillium vice
president Shelley Alpern as saying. “We expect companies to evaluate candidates
based upon the range of their positions — not simply one area — and assess
Antiwar activists rally
whether they are in alignment with their core values. But these companies’ poli-
cies are clearly lacking that.”
The shareholders said the donations don’t mesh with corporate values that include
around suspected leaker
workplace protections for gay employees and risk harming the companies’ brands. HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The gay Army
Walden senior vice president Tim Smith said such giving can have “a major negative private suspected in one of the largest
impact on company reputations and business,” according to the Associated Press. unauthorized disclosures of classified
The Target resolution urges the board to review the effect of future political contri- information in U.S. history has become a
butions on the company’s public image, sales and profitability and to consider the cost hero to many anti-war activists who have
of backing a candidate whose politics conflict with the company’s public stances. joined an international effort to free him.
Spokeswoman Amy Reilly said Minneapolis-based Target had nothing to add According to the Associated Press, at
to previous statements on the matter, including an apology from Chief Executive demonstrations this month in New York,
Officer Gregg Steinhafel. Oklahoma City and Quantico, Va., where
A spokeswoman for Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy didn’t immediately Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is being held,
respond to a message. dozens of supporters have shouted, “Blowing
the whistle on war crimes is not a crime.”
The same slogan appears beside
Trial set for minister who performed Manning’s smiling face on buttons and

same-sex weddings posters offered by Courage to Resist, an

Oakland, Calif.-based support group for
SAN FRANCISCO — A retired Presbyterian minister is facing a church trial for U.S. troops who refuse to fight. The group
marrying same-sex couples during the brief period when it was legal in California. has raised about $45,000 from nearly 750
The Rev. Jane Spahr has been accused of publicly, intentionally and repeatedly people in 18 countries to help pay for a
violating church doctrine when she presided at the weddings of 16 couples civilian defense lawyer for Manning, proj-
between June and November of 2008. The Associated Press reported that 11 of ect director Jeff Paterson told the
the couples were expected to testify as witnesses at the trial that was to begin this Associated Press.
week at the Presbytery of the Redwoods in Napa. “I think we have an imperative to sup-
It’s the second time the 67-year-old Spahr has faced sanctions from the port those people who’ve seen the horrors
Presbyterian Church, according to the Associated Press. A regional church court of battle and want to share that reality with
convicted her in 2007 for marrying two lesbian couples, but the church’s top court the American people,” Paterson said.
later acquitted her, saying the ceremonies were not real marriages. Manning, 22, a former intelligence ana-
lyst in Baghdad, faces possible court-martial
on charges that he illegally downloaded
Ricky Martin’s autobiography classified material. If tried and convicted, he
could be sentenced to 52 years in prison.
due in November The material he allegedly leaked
included 2007 video of a laughing U.S.
NEW YORK — Ricky Martin is set to release his memoir titled simply “Me” on
Nov. 2. The Associated Press reported the book will also be released in Spanish Apache helicopter crew gunning down 11
the same day. That edition will be titled “Yo,” which is Spanish for “I” and “me.” men who were later found to include a
Martin has said that preparing to write the book was one of the reasons he Reuters news photographer and his driv-
decided to reveal earlier this year that he is gay. er. The Pentagon concluded the troops
Martin said in a statement Thursday that the project led him to extract memo- acted appropriately.
ries that he had erased from his mind. He says the book was not easy but allowed The video was posted in April on
for an “incredible spiritual journey.” WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website, and
labeled “Collateral Murder.”
Bradley Manning
The Pentagon suspects Manning is
also the source of 77,000 classified
Afghan war reports that WikiLeaks posted
in July and 15,000 more such documents
that WikiLeaks says it intends to publish in
coming weeks. U.S. officials say the disclo-
sures have endangered innocent people
or confidential informants.
Manning, a native of Crescent, Okla.,
who lived in Potomac, Md. before joining the
Army, has been assigned military lawyers
who declined to comment on the charges.
According to the Associated Press, he has
not yet retained a civilian attorney.
He was arrested in May after telling an
online confidant, who later turned him in
to authorities, that he had sent classified
information to WikiLeaks.
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NATIONALNEWS
Gay candidate in Fla. loses bid for Congress
Galvin, Flippen fail to
win Democratic nods
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Florida’s primaries on Tuesday
brought unwelcome ends for two
high-profile gay candidates seek-
ing office.
Scott Galvin, a North Miami
City Council member, lost his
bid for the Democratic nomina-
tion to represent Florida’s 17th
congressional district in the
U.S. House. He was among
nine Democratic candidates
seeking the nomination in the
primary to pursue a run for
Congress. The victor was
Frederica Wilson, a state sena-
tor who received almost 35 per-
cent of the vote.
In comparison, Galvin
received about 6 percent of the
vote. The number of votes he
received placed him eighth
among the nine candidates.
Galvin said he lost because
Wilson “decimated the field”
with a strong campaign and
because she had the support
of the district.
“There was nobody even
close to her,” he said. “She clear-
ly ran a very good campaign that
reflected her standing in the
community.”
Denis Dison, spokesperson
for the Gay & Lesbian Victory
Fund, which endorsed Galvin in
his bid, attributed the loss in part
to the amount of money that
opponents funneled into the race
during its final weeks.
“It was one of those situations
where you could see a path to
victory if certain things fell the
right way, and so that’s why he
earned our endorsement,” Dison
said. “Unfortunately, there was a
ton of money dumped into the
race in the last few weeks.”
Dison noted that Rudolph
Moise, another Democratic candi-
date who lost the primary, put $1
million of own money into the race.
Nadine Smith, executive direc-
tor of Equality Florida, said many
things needed to happen for
Galvin to have won the primary.
She noted the vote would have
had to split almost uniformly
among the candidates, and Galvin
would have needed an extraordi-
nary turnout of supporters.
“I think he executed the things
that were in his control, and the
things that got in his way were
outside of his field,” she said.
Another factor that Dison said
contributed to Galvin’s loss was
that he was the only white candi-
date among nine choices in a
largely Haitian-American district.
No Republican candidate
has filed to run in the general
election in this Democratic-safe
seat, so Wilson is now the pre-
sumptive U.S. House member
in the district.
In another Florida race, Justin
Flippen, a tourism project coordi-
nator for the Fort Lauderdale
area, lost the Democratic nomi-
nation to run for a state legisla-
tive seat representing a district in
South Florida.
The incumbent Democratic
legislator in the race, Gwyndolen
Clarke-Reid, captured almost 56
percent of the vote, while Flippen
took 44 percent.
Flippen said he pursued a run
against Clarke-Reid because
she wasn’t faithful to the princi-
ples of the Democratic Party as a
lawmaker and didn’t back pro-
LGBT legislation.
Dison speculated that
Flippen’s loss was in part the
result of the significant amount of
money Clarke-Reid raised, some
of which Dison said came from
anti-gay contributors.
“She certainly had the money
to compete,” Dison said. “She is
the incumbent, so there was a bit
of an advantage there.”
Although Flippen lost, Smith
said he did a “fantastic job” in his
campaign and noted he came
within a small margin of victory:
334 votes. Additionally, Smith
noted that Flippen’s entrance
into the race prompted Clarke-
Reid to become a co-sponsor of
additional pro-LGBT bills in the
state legislature.
Despite the losses by Galvin and
Flippen, Smith said the election on
the whole was “a terrific night” for
pro-LGBT candidates and a nega-
tive one for anti-gay candidates.
In the race for the Republican
nomination to become the next
Florida governor, state Attorney
General Bill McCollum, who sup-
ported efforts to keep adoption
by gays illegal in Florida, lost his
bid to former health-care execu-
tive Rick Scott.
Additionally, state Sen. Dan
Gilbert, who championed anti-
bullying legislation in the state
legislature, won the Democratic
nomination to become Florida’s
next attorney general over state
Sen. Dave Aronberg.
“We endorsed [Gilbert] when
the other Democrat was consid-
ered the favorite,” Smith said.
“And he absolutely just cleared
the board.”
Gay candidates running in
other states found success
Tuesday. Jack Jackson, Jr.,
who’s gay and a member of the
Navajo Nation, won a three-way
race for a seat in the Arizona
Senate. Steve Howard, who’s
gay, won the Democratic nomi-
nation to become Vermont’s next
lieutenant governor.
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Gray aims to strengthen D.C. police’s GLLU
Continued from page 1
to its headquarters and to end the
practice of assigning a police ser-
geant to head the unit as his or
her sole responsibility.
At a time when a disproportion-
ate number of the hate crimes in
the city are being committed
against LGBT people, officials
with Gays & Lesbians Opposing
Violence and other activists have
said the GLLU’s headquarters
staff of full-time, highly trained offi-
cers should not be reduced.
“I don’t think it should be an
either-or proposition,” Gray told
the Blade, saying a decentral-
ized GLLU with trained affiliate
officers should compliment a
fully staffed headquarters office.
“I think it’s been very effective
in establishing relationships and
addressing issues, especially
looking at hate crimes and [the]
underlying reasons for those
hate crimes,” he said.
“And I think this is a policy posi-
tion on how we propose to address
the issues that affect a very impor-
tant part of our community. So it’s
not something that I would defer
on,” he said. “It’s something I cer-
tainly would work with the chief on
obviously because the chief is the
person who has to implement it.
“But I think people expect peo-
ple in the mayoral position, the
Council chair position, to have
positions on issues and then work
to see that they’re implemented.”
Gray has declined to say
whether he would replace Lanier or
other high-level Fenty appointees,
noting it would not be appropriate
to make those decisions until after
the election.
Fenty acknowledged in his inter-
view with the Blade that he hadn’t
been as visible as he should have
been in the LGBT community,
including attending LGBT events
and speaking out more on issues
such as hate crimes. Fenty vowed to
be much more visible in the commu-
nity if elected to another term.
But some of Fenty’s LGBT sup-
porters, including former Lambda
Rising Bookstore owner Deacon
Maccubbin, have leveled the same
criticism against Gray, saying that
up until the time Gray decided to
run for mayor, he also had not been
visible or attended many events in
the LGBT community.
“I’m sure they would say that
because they’re his supporters,” Gray
said. “I can’t remember the last time I
missed participating in the Pride
parade. I can’t remember the last
time I wasn’t involved in Black Pride
activities. So it’s understandable that
his supporters would make a state-
ment like that, but they’re wrong.”
Following are excerpts of the
Blade’s interview with Gray. Visit
washingtonblade.com for the full tran-
script and a video of the interview.
Washington Blade: You and
Mayor Fenty have a record of
support on LGBT issues and you
voted for and the mayor signed
the same-sex marriage equality
bill. What, if anything, would you
do differently from Mayor Fenty
and the Fenty administration
relating to LGBT issues?
Vincent Gray: Well, I certainly
want to make sure that I continue
my aggressive support that has
been there as a Ward 7 Council
member and as Council Chairman.
Certainly, you can be absolutely
sure that we won’t be extending
proclamations or any kind of reso-
lutions or proclamations that are
anti-LGBT on issues that are
important to the LGBT community.
I spoke out on that when it
occurred. Also, I’m supportive of
stepped up efforts on hate crimes.
I think it’s fairly clear now that a dis-
proportionately large number of
hate crimes in the city have been
focused on members of the LGBT
community. And I think a related
matter is what we do with the Gay
& Lesbian Liaison Unit. The mayor
and his administration have moved
to deploy those members out to
other areas of the police force. And
they’ve talked about doing more
sensitivity training with the officers
on our police force. I don’t think it
should be an either-or proposition.
I think the GLLU has demonstrated
its effectiveness in, one, getting to
know the issues affecting the
GLBT community. I think it’s been
very effective in establishing rela-
tionships and addressing issues,
especially looking at hate crimes
and [the] underlying reasons for
those hate crimes.
So not only will I retain the Gay
& Lesbian Liaison Unit, I want to
hire a sergeant who will really be
responsible for managing that unit
or have one deployed there. In
addition to that, I do support sensi-
tivity training, but I don’t think it
should be one or the other. I think
it should be both. In fact, I think the
Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit really
ought to be the place where we
develop the expertise, retain the
expertise and see that they spear-
head the training of other officers
in conjunction with the [Mayor’s]
Office of GLBT Affairs.
Blade: When we asked the
mayor about the GLLU earlier this
week, he said he wants to defer to
Chief Cathy Lanier on this
because she’s the expert on polic-
ing strategy and politicians should-
n’t be intruding on these matters.
He said the chief has done an
excellent job on all police matters
and if she wants to make these
changes with the GLLU, he sup-
ports her decision to do so.
Gray: I think people expect
leadership. And certainly you
don’t want to get down and start
micromanaging agencies. I
would never do that and I’ve
never done that in my life. But
people come to these positions
as the mayor as the leader of the
city. And we are expected to and
it’s appropriate that we have pol-
icy positions. And I think this is a
policy position on how we pro-
pose to address the issues that
affect a very important part of
our community. So it’s not some-
thing that I would defer on. It’s
something I certainly would work
with the chief on, obviously,
because the chief is the person
who has to implement it. But I
think people expect people in the
mayoral position, the Council
chair position to have positions
on issues and then work to see
that they’re implemented.
Blade: One of the things we
asked the mayor about is that
there have been complaints by
some in the LGBT community
that he hasn’t been visible
enough in the community. He
told us, as he’s been saying on
the campaign trail, that he
acknowledges he hasn’t been
visible enough in the community
and he promises he’ll be much
more visible in his second term.
But on the other hand, some of
his supporters have told us that
until you decided to run for
mayor, they don’t recall having
seen you at many LGBT meet-
ings and events, either.
Gray: I’m sure they would say
that because they’re his support-
ers. I have been a consistent sup-
porter of the GLBT community. I’ve
been a consistent supporter focus-
ing on an issue, which we know
affects the GLBT community, and
that is HIV/AIDS. I can’t remember
the last time I missed participating
in the Pride parade. I can’t remem-
ber the last time I wasn’t involved
in Black Pride activities. I’ve been
a consistent supporter. So it’s
understandable that his support-
ers would make a statement like
that, but they’re wrong.
Blade: On the marriage ques-
tion, if opponents of same-sex
marriage succeed through a
court order to force a ballot
measure allowing voters to
decide whether to overturn the
same-sex marriage law, what
would you say to the voters on
that? Would you campaign to
keep the law on the books?
Gray: I’ve been very clear
about my unequivocal support for
marriage equality. I have stood
strong, I have stood fast and I will
continue to do that in the belief
that the Council clearly had the
authority as elective representa-
tives of the people — that we have
a very strong human rights law in
the District of Columbia that
makes it clear that we shouldn’t
put anything out before the people
that would actually take rights
away from folks … and that’s been
corroborated by the courts. So I
would continue to be as strong as
I have been in the past in support-
ing marriage equality.
Blade: Do you think it would be
a very acrimonious campaign?
Gray: Oh, I think it could well be.
This is an acrimonious issue. I think
we’re fortunate that it hasn’t been
more acrimonious than it probably
could be. It’s clear that all along the
way, every step of the way, that the
support has been there for moving
forward with this issue. But I don’t
think that that will stop those who
are opposed to it. Certainly, the vic-
tory in California where the proposi-
tion there was not supported by the
courts — I think we’re in the fore-
front of change. And what’s going
on here eventually will move across
the country and I think there will
come a day in this nation where
people will raise questions about
what was this all about.
Blade: On the issue of AIDS,
what would you do differently to
fight the AIDS epidemic in the city
than the current administration?
Gray: Well, first of all, I’ve been a
very strong — as the director of
Human Services, I was the director
that created the first agency on
HIV/AIDS. I was also the director of
Human Services when we created
the first five-year strategic plan. So I
have a track record that long pre-
dates this administration in support
of this issue. As the Council mem-
ber of Ward 7, I was responsible for
developing what initially was called
the Ward 7 Initiative. Then it became
East of the River Initiative and now
it’s the Effi-Barry Initiative, which
focuses on putting more resources
into East of the River communities
where the epidemic is growing — or
pandemic — is growing the fastest.
One of the ideas behind this was to
build the capacity of organizations
that are not traditionally known as
HIV/AIDS agencies so that we
increase the arsenal of organiza-
tions that are focusing on this. So
frankly, [I] would build on the initia-
tive that I have been a proponent,
architect of, advocate for long pre-
dating this administration.
We don’t have a permanent AIDS,
HAHSTA [HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis,
Sexually Transmitted Disease &
Tuberculosis Administration] director
at this stage. I’d get the best person we
possibly can get into that job and
make it clear that it is a priority of
the Gray administration.
I’d work more with our traditional
institutions. We need to do more in
our schools to educate our kids. As
we talk about health issues in the
schools, we need to help kids
understand what the virus is, how
it’s transmitted and the reality that
it’s beyond — way beyond at this
stage — the old saw of men having
sex with men. It’s well beyond that.
It’s heterosexual transmission at this
stage. We’ve got people coming out
of correctional institutions who
return to relationships and transmit
the virus, IV drug use. I was a huge
proponent of condom distribution as
well as needle distribution. As direc-
tor of the Department of Human
Services, we were foreclosed for
many years from funding a needle
distribution program in the city with
public dollars because of congres-
sional interference in our efforts
here in the city. We’ve now gotten
past that. We need to have the most
aggressive needle exchange, nee-
dle distribution program. It’s been
proven to work in cities across
America. I think we may have as
much as 250 cities now that have
needle exchange programs. We
were one of the early ones. We had
to do it through Prevention Works,
which is a privately supported effort.
So much of what I would sup-
port, frankly, represents those
things that I’ve been doing for
years and have been in the fore-
front of and long pre-date this
administration’s efforts. Some of
what this administration is doing is
building upon things that I started.
Blade: You mentioned that we
don’t have a permanent director of
the AIDS office at the moment. Dr.
Shannon Hader, who was the
director of that agency, resigned
abruptly earlier this year. Some are
speculating that she left over an
irreconcilable disagreement with
the director of the Department of
Health, Dr. Pierre Vigilance, and the
mayor sided with him. Council
member David Catania has said
her departure will adversely impact
the AIDS office in the short term.
Do you have any thoughts on this
or any idea why she left?
Gray: I really don’t. I’ve heard
the same things that you cited. I
don’t have first-hand knowledge
of that. I do know that Dr. Hader
is an internationally respected
professional who certainly has
some demonstrable contribu-
tions to the fight against this con-
dition and the development of
our capacity to fight this condi-
tion. But, again, I don’t know first-
hand the reason why she left.
Story continues at
washingtonblade.com.
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LOCALNEWS
Continued from page 4

He said one man in the group was “thin and wiry.” Another was “heftier,” and a third was
a “bigger guy” with shoulder-length dreads who did most of the punching. He noted that
there was no verbal exchange during the attack, but the two girls laughed while his friend
was being punched.
Seconds after the attack, another gay man approached them and asked if they’d
been attacked, saying he had just been punched as well. The man who wasn’t attacked
said the other gay man, whom he didn’t know, also was en route to Nellie’s when he
was punched by the same group. They called police and waited together. Neither man
who was attacked was seriously injured.
The man who wasn’t attacked said he believes they were targeted because they are gay.
“I don’t know for sure because they didn’t say anything, but there were so many peo-
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him in the chest and called him a faggot, according to the report.
JOEY DiGUGLIELMO

‘Housewives’ charity event a bust

A party for “Real Housewives of D.C.” held at the now-closed EFN Lounge on Aug.
5 with show stars Tareq and Michaele Salahi raised no money for an AIDS charity.
Ads for the event said an unspecified portion of the proceeds would be given to Dab the
AIDS Bear Project, an organization that, according to its founder, works in collaboration with
the Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network, a registered 501c3 organization.
The Blade could not independently confirm the connection between the two organiza-
tions before deadline, but Dab Garner, founder and CEO of Dab the AIDS Bear Project said
Howard Cromwell, a gay Washingtonian who publishes D.C.’s Most Fabulous Magazine, told
him that the event, was not successful and therefore no donation would be made.
Cromwell, who asked that questions about the event be submitted via e-mail and
then did not respond, told Garner in an e-mail dated Aug. 12 that he couldn’t send any
money to the charity because the event was not profitable.
“The goal was to donate 40 percent of the profit to each organization,” Cromwell
wrote in the e-mail, which Garner shared with the Blade. “Unfortunately, we did not pull
a profit from this event as expected. We barely broke even. Even though this event
wasn’t financially successful for the charity organizations involved, we feel that it was
still a huge success media-wise shedding a national spotlight on your organization.”
Garner said he sent teddy bears for the housewives to pose with for publicity shots
at the party, but Michaele Salahi was the only cast member to attend. Other cast mem-
bers attended a separate and official premiere party for the show.
Cromwell, Garner said, forgot to bring the teddy bears to the party and hasn’t
returned them. Garner uses the teddy bears to promote his charity.
Garner, a 29-year HIV survivor, met Cromwell last year at an AIDS Drug Assistance
Program Summit in Washington and said Cromwell approached his organization about
being a benefactor of the “Housewives” party.
Other groups appear to have also been jilted. The New York Post reported that
Honor & Remember was to receive 40 percent of the profits from Cromwell’s event, but
also was told the event made no money so no donation would be given. Staff at Honor
& Remember did not respond to the Blade’s requests for comment.
Tickets for Cromwell’s party ranged from $25 to $500. Bill Gray, who was manager of EFN
Lounge at the time of the event and on scene that night, said the event seemed chaotic.
“They comped most of the tickets for press and their friends,” he said. “It seemed
like a joke.”
JOEY DiGUGLIELMO

Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key

An Aug. 5 ‘Real Housewives’ party hosted by Tareq and Michaele Salahi failed to turn a prof-
it, meaning no money went to any of the charities named as beneficiaries in promotional
materials for the event.
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NATIONALNEWS
New troop survey on ‘Don’t Ask’ draws criticism
Continued from page 1
• Would a repeal of “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” affect your prefer-
ence for your spouse’s plans for
his or her future in the military?
• Assume “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” is repealed and you live in
on-base housing. If a gay or les-
bian service member lived in
your neighborhood with their
partner, would you stay on-base
or would you try to move out?
Alex Nicholson, executive direc-
tor of the Servicemembers United,
said Monday in a statement that
the spousal survey was even more
derogatory toward gay and lesbian
personnel than a previous survey
sent directly to U.S. troops.
“While it is wise to solicit and con-
sider military spouse input on policy
changes that will have a major
impact on military families, it is
extremely unwise to do so for issues
that have minimal impact on spous-
es while also using poorly designed,
biased and derogatory survey
instruments,” Nicholson said.
Nicholson added that the
Pentagon should be concerned with
what he called “real family readi-
ness issues,” such as excessive
deployments, inadequate mental
health support and low troop pay.
Michael Cole, a Human Rights
Campaign spokesperson, said in
response to a Blade inquiry on the
survey that his organization does-
n’t believe the survey is necessary
in the first place.
“Gay and lesbian troops are
serving now, albeit in silence,” Cole
said. “Given that this entire process
is about how, not if, to implement
repeal, we look forward to the day
sometime soon when all of these
are non-issues to open service.”
The spousal survey comes on
the heels of another survey the
Pentagon issued to 450,000
troops to collect their views on
eliminating “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
According to the Pentagon,
only about one-quarter of those
surveys were returned by their due
date on Aug. 25. Smith said the
Pentagon received 110,000 of the
450,000 surveys it distributed.
Nicholson said such a return rate
shows troops have little interest in
the survey and don’t care about
changing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“While the Department of
Defense and [survey coordinator]
Westat are spinning the low
response rate to the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell’ survey as expected and suffi-
cient, neither are disclosing the fact
that the military leaders have had to
put significant pressure on troops on
multiple occasions to even get this
level of response,” Nicholson said.
“Some commanders and senior
leaders have even told subordinates
that participation is mandatory.”
Nicholson said the limited
responses degrade of the credibili-
ty of the survey and “violate ethical
standards that prevent researchers
from compelling respondents to
participate in survey research.”
In addition to seeking input
from military spouses, the
Pentagon also is working with
LGBT groups to find a way to
obtain feedback from the same-
sex partners of U.S. service mem-
bers without outing those troops
under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
Smith said the Pentagon is “cur-
rently in the process” of working
with advocacy groups to determine
how to reach out to partners of gay
and lesbian service members.
Trevor Thomas, spokesperson for
the Servicemembers Legal Defense
Network, said SLDN is among the
groups with which the Pentagon is
consulting on this matter.
“While there are legal ques-
tions and concerns around confi-
dentiality, we’re working to find
the safest approach possible and
make sure their important voices
are heard,” he said.
Palm Center report
shows ‘Don’t Ask’ costs
In a related development, the
Palm Center, a think tank on gays
in the military at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, last
week published a report outlining
12 “costs” of the law.
The report, titled “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell: Detailing the Damage,”
cites several ways in which the
U.S. military has been harmed as
a result of having the law in place
for 17 years. According to the
report, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
harms the armed services by:
• wasting the talents of essen-
tial personnel with critical skills
who were fired for their sexual
orientation, including Arabic lan-
guage specialists, medical pro-
fessionals and combat aviators.
The report cites a Governmental
Accountability Office study say-
ing 757 troops with “critical occu-
pations” were fired between fis-
cal years 1994 and 2003;
• hampering recruitment and
retention by shrinking the pool of
potential enlistees for the U.S. mili-
tary. The report cites a study from
the Williams Institute at the
University of California that says
41,000 qualified gay Americans
may join the U.S. armed forces if
the ban on open service were lifted;
• imposing financial costs on the
U.S. military. The report cites a
2005 GAO study saying “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” has cost the military
$190.5 million: $95.4 million to
recruit replacements for service
members separated under the pol-
icy and $95.1 million to train them;
• wasting the time of officers who
must investigate and discharge outed
gay, lesbian and bisexual troops.
In a statement, Nathaniel Frank,
who wrote the report as a senior fel-
low at the Palm Center, said the
work is intended to draw new atten-
tion to the damage that “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” inflicts on the military.
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LOCALNEWS
D.C. gay bars vie for bear business
Continued from page 4
that, the bears had been meeting
every Friday off and on at Cobalt,
both before and after Titan/Ramrod
opened and closed.
Baatz, who’s known as Pup
Charger in the bear community,
tried to get the group somewhat
more organized last year.
“It had kind of been at Cobalt
since Titan closed, really almost by
default since it was the only space
big enough with both floors,” Batz
said. “I didn’t really have anything
to do with it. I was just a partici-
pant, a normal customer, until
Motley Bar opened. That’s when I
started kind of trying to round
everybody up and get solidified as
a group and when we started com-
ing together as a community. I kind
of took the spearhead.”
Bear Happy Hour at Motley
typically drew about 300 people.
The bear’s Facebook page,
which has about 800 members,
instructed those interested to go
to Town, which agreed to open
its doors early for the bears from
6 to 10 p.m. Baatz said the first
week at Town went well.
“They loved it, they really did,”
he said of his fellow bears. “It was
busy enough that it felt like we
filled the entire downstairs, but
there was still room to move. The
energy was really high and every-
body was in a really good mood.
We were really disappointed when
[Motley] closed and a lot [of them]
were very kind of down. Their spir-
its were down before this was
arranged and you could definitely
see people were on edge.”
But Zehn said quite a few from
the bear crowd chose Green
Lantern, which made efforts to woo
the crowd, over Town. Pizza is
served on Fridays at 8 p.m. for the
bears and shirtless-bears-drink-
free specials are offered during cer-
tain hours. Last week’s event was
touted as a fundraiser, with 10 per-
cent of profits going to Brother Help
Thyself, a local AIDS charity. And
from 6-11 p.m. starting this Friday,
Zehn is offering valet parking.
“We’re definitely promoting Bear
Happy Hour,” Zehn said. “They always
wanted a larger space but sometimes
a smaller space is cruisier.”
Parking is a factor and per-
haps one reason Bear Happy
Hour worked well at Motley,
which was on Ninth Street, N.W.,
near the Convention Center. The
bar was a significant distance
from Dupont and Logan circles
and 17th Street, where many
D.C. gay bars are located.
“A lot of the bears are less urban
— they come in from Maryland or
Virginia, so parking was an issue,”
Zehn said. “That’s why we’re trying
the valet parking for just $8. If they
show their claim ticket, they’ll get
their first drink free.”
Baatz said parking didn’t
seem to be a problem near
Town’s U Street corridor location.
“Everybody I talked to said it
wasn’t a problem because it was
still early,” Baatz said.
Cobalt attracted some bears
with its usual Friday night happy
hour, according to blog reports
and Cobalt general manager Mark
Rutstein, who said there had been
discussions about the bear party
possibly returning to Cobalt
months before EFN closed.
“I didn’t count, but based on
sales, I’m guessing we had about
200 more than usual last Friday
night,” Rutstein said. “We already
had a pretty good Friday happy
hour crowd anyway, so they kind
of all mixed together. I think they
missed Cobalt. So I think for the
first few weeks it’s going to be
them migrating between Green
Lantern, Cobalt and probably
ending up at Town. It was a
revolving door here. I know that.
But we also had a good amount
who stayed the whole time.”
The only thing different on
Rutstein’s end was bringing in
DJ Jim Gade, who formerly spun
at Bear Happy Hours, to spin last
weekend. He also spun at Motley
for Bear Happy Hour.
Rutstein said discussions on
local bear blog sites have gotten
a bit heated.
“They manufactured that Cobalt
doesn’t want the bears or doesn’t
treat the bears right or only wants
the bears for the money,” Rutstein
said. “Well, you tell me any bar that
doesn’t want business. So this guy
Nick [Baatz] is saying he’s just doing
it for the community or so he could
hang out with his friends, but let’s be
real. He was also going to be behind
the bar and making money from
tips, so it got real nasty.”
Rutstein said he’d love to have
the bears and is willing to make
some provisions for them — smok-
ing patio, games they’ve requested,
a bear DJ — but not to the extent
that other bars are doing.
“Are we going to give away free
pizza and dollar drafts?” he said.
“Absolutely not. That doesn’t
make any money for anybody, so
I’ll leave that for the other bars.”
And the plot may soon thick-
en. Some blogs said that during
Bears Do Yoga on Monday,
rumors circulated that Motley
may reopen for Friday nights to
accommodate the bears, and
possibly for other, special events.
Nothing could be confirmed
before Blade deadline.
And what of the EFN/Motley
employees? Former assistant
general manager Raven Cullen
said most of the employees are
still figuring out their next moves.
“I think we’re all still in the
process of where to go from
here,” he said. “This was really
just a few days ago that this all
happened, so I think most peo-
ple are still trying to figure out
what they’re trying to do.”
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INTERNATIONALNEWS

U.K. adoption charity

can’t ban gay couples
LONDON — A Catholic adoption advi-
sory service that refuses to help gay cou-
ples cannot win an exemption from anti-
discrimination laws, Britain’s charity regu-
lator said Aug. 19.
The Associated Press reported that
Catholic Care, a charity in Leeds, north-
ern England, had argued that as a reli-
gious group it should be allowed to offer
adoption-support services only to het-
erosexuals. It said its funding from the
Roman Catholic church was dependent
on its policy of helping only married het-
erosexual couples to adopt.
In March, it won a High Court appeal
of the original decision in the case, but
Photo courtesy of Catholic Care, Diocese of Leeds
in a final ruling Britain’s Charity
Commission said the group’s policy A regulator has ruled that Catholic Care, an adop-
was discriminatory and breached tion charity in England under the direction of
European human rights laws. Bishop Arthur Roche, cannot be granted an
The commission ordered the group exception from anti-discrimination laws. This
to either cease its work to place chil- means the charity must either consider same-sex
dren with adoptive parents or to abide couples as prospective parents or cease its worth.
by equality laws — meaning it would
need to consider gay couples as prospective parents.
“The charity is very disappointed with the outcome, Catholic Care will now consid-
er whether there is any other way in which the charity can continue to support families
seeking to adopt children in need,” the group said in a statement.
Andrew Hind, Charity Commission chief executive, said that under British equality
laws there almost no circumstances in which organizations are allowed to discriminate
on the basis of a person’s sexuality.
“We have concluded that in this case the reasons Catholic Care have set out do not
justify their wish to discriminate,” the Associated Press reported Hind as saying.
Other Catholic agencies have either withdrawn from placing children or have cut
their ties with the church since the British government imposed anti-discrimination
rules in 2007.
“The law is carefully weighted to balance the rights of organizations such as reli-
gious charities and the rights of minority groups such as those with a particular sexu-
al orientation,” Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission said in a statement.
“We believe the outcome in this case helps reinforce that balance.”

Germany considering income tax

equality for same-sex couples
BERLIN — Germany’s justice minister says she is considering changes to income
tax laws to iron out disadvantages for same-sex couples.
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger told the Muenchner Merkur newspaper she
thinks same-sex legal partners should be granted income tax breaks similar to those
enjoyed by heterosexual married couples, the Associated Press reported Aug. 19.
Germany’s highest court last week ruled that gay partners are entitled to the same
inheritance tax privilege as heterosexual spouses. A decision on income tax rules is
pending — a touchy issue as the constitution privileges marriage.
Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger says the government shouldn’t wait for the court’s
decision as the direction of its rulings is clear.

Mexican Catholics, gay rights

protesters face off over marriage
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Gay rights activists and a group of Roman Catholics in
Mexico yelled insults at each other Sunday during dueling demonstrations over same-
sex marriage.
Some 200 gay rights activists waved rainbow flags and held signs reading, “Thank God
I’m gay” at a plaza next to the cathedral in Guadalajara, the Associated Press reported.
A similar number of protesters opposed to marriage equality prayed at the cathe-
dral’s doors. One of them ripped up a sign held by a gay rights activist, prompting
screaming by both sides.
It was the second confrontation in two days in Guadalajara, according to the
Associated Press. Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez stirred controversy by suggesting
Mexico’s Supreme Court was bribed to uphold a Mexico City law allowing adoptions
by homosexual couples.
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CAGLCCBUSINESSCONNECTIONS
Thrill of striking out on your own
Head of 360 Group
relocated from
Boston to build
business in D.C.
By GARRETT PECK, J. MAX
BARGER & ERNESTO SANTALLA
Striking out on your own and
moving to a new city where you
know almost no one is a scary
prospect for just about everyone.
But that’s what James Jones, man-
aging partner of 360 Sustainability
Group, did when he moved to D.C.
from Boston, just a year after found-
ing the eight-person company.
Jones had a leg-up in the com-
munity: several years ago he was
the managing director of Boston’s
version of CAGLCC. He immedi-
ately got involved in CAGLCC not
only to build business opportuni-
ties, but also to build personal
contacts and friendships. “I know
what the chamber can do for your
business,” Jones says. “I was new
to the city – it is really a great
avenue for me to get involved.”
360 is in the business of man-
agement consulting, centering
on organizational development,
communications, CSR and envi-
ronmental sustainability. “We try
to help organizations be more
efficient, sustainable and socially
engaged, but also develop an
effective branding and communi-
cations strategy to get their mes-
sage out,” Jones explains. They
work with businesses and non-
profits of all sizes to help build a
competitive advantage.
Key to Jones’ work is building
collaborative partnerships between
stakeholders. “We really need to
work together to improve our econ-
omy and address social issues.
The government can’t do it alone;
nor can corporations and non-prof-
its. What we do at 360 is build part-
nerships and find solutions.”
360 is currently working with a
national not-for-profit, helping them
develop capacity-building strate-
gies around corporate partner-
ships, board recruitment, organiza-
tional effectiveness and marketing.
“I believe strongly in public
service and being civically
engaged,” Jones adds, who tran-
sitioned very quickly into the
local community. “Washington is
all about making a difference and
that’s our mission at 360 – to
make a difference.”
Learn more about 360
Sustainability Group at
360sgroup.com. Contact James
Jones at jjones@360SGroup.com.
Fenty, Gray and CAGLCC
On Sept. 14, the Democratic
mayoral primary decides who is
most likely going to be D.C.’s
next mayor. The top contenders
for the job, incumbent Mayor
Adrian Fenty and Council
Chairman Vincent Gray, attend-
ed a Forum hosted by CAGLCC
and DCMAP on Aug. 12 at the
Washington Hilton.
“This was the first time the
LGBT community had a one-on-
one public forum with D.C. may-
oral candidates,” observed Ken
White, CAGLCC board president
and vice president of Signal
Financial Services. “LGBT busi-
ness is significant in the D.C.
metro area. We intend to engage
political leaders in this type of
dialogue on a regular basis.”
Travis Slocum, a CAGLCC
board member, notes both candi-
dates’ platforms have plans in place
for economic development in D.C.,
NEWBUSINESS
particularly for small businesses.
However, he said, “Chairman Gray
has more of a focus in this area. On
the other hand, he is in a unique
position to criticize the current
administration.”
Joe Kapp, of Lincoln Financial
Advisors, noted the different views
on the Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit
in the city’s police force.
“Fenty thinks the unit can be
dissolved and provide increased
‘sensitivity training’ to police offi-
cers. Gray thinks it’s possible to do
both. Feeling safe and the success
of businesses in neighborhoods
where hate crimes have been
committed go hand in hand.”
Who is going to be the next
Democratic candidate for D.C.
mayor? If you’re voting Democratic
and are decided or undecided, go
Photo courtesy of CAGLCC
to fentyreelect.com and
vincegrayformayor.com to James Jones, managing partner
learn more about these candi- of 360 Sustainability Group,
dates’ plans for D.C.’s future. believes in public service and
‘being civically engaged.’
CAGLCC member news
CAGLCC supporter EPS time exclusively to sales. For all of
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Graphics. Mike Larson, a CAGLCC CAGLCC means business,
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VIEWPOINT
Boycott politicians, not Target
Condemning a retailer
while two-faced
Democrats get a pass
By KEVIN NAFF
The news that Target donated
$150,000 to MN Forward, a
group that supports Republican
Minnesota gubernatorial candi-
date Tom Emmer (who happens
to oppose marriage equality),
has triggered investor protests,
extensive national media cover-
age and demonstrations at
stores. Everyone loves a boycott!
One group even protested
inside a Target store and
announced over a loud speaker,
“When shopping at Target know
that your money is fueling hate
and discrimination. Today’s bigot
special: two-ply toilet tissue,
because when you’re full of shit
like Target is, you need some-
thing to wipe the shame with.”
Target is, well, an obvious target
for such crude tactics, given that gay
shoppers have embraced the trendy
retailer over down-market rival
Walmart. How could Target support
“bigotry” after we bought all those
iPods, stainless steel coffee makers
and fabulous faux fur throws?
The answer, of course, is that
Target isn’t funding bigotry. In fact,
HRC has lauded the company’s
“model employment policies.” The
donation was made to support a
candidate who pledged to lower
corporate taxes in Minnesota. The
fact that Emmer opposes marriage
equality was incidental and puts
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While a sitting Illinois senator,
Barack Obama voted for the D.C.
Voting Rights Act. During his cam-
paign for the White House, Obama
overwhelmingly won the District of
Columbia presidential primary and
he received all 15 votes at the
Colorado convention.
In November 2008, Obama
received the District’s three elec-
toral votes, continuing the
District’s perfect record of never
casting its presidential votes for
the Republican Party since it was
first granted those rights in 1964
via the 23rd Amendment.
Mayor Adrian Fenty proclaimed
that a President Obama would
work hard to obtain our voting
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
LGBT activists have taken aim at Target for donating money to an anti-
gay Minnesota politician.
him in good company. Most stands by his outdated civil
Democrats, including President unions position, will be the fea-
Obama and Vice President Biden, tured speaker at its annual
also oppose same-sex marriage. October fundraiser. This is a
Locally, you’d be hard- prime example of why things
pressed to find a prominent never change: LGBT Democrats
Maryland or Virginia Democrat line up like sheep each October
who supports marriage equality. before an election and hand their
But that doesn’t stop our lobby- money and votes to politicians
ists from working hard to elect who never deliver on their prom-
them. And re-elect them. ises to us. In four years as gover-
Just last week, Equality nor, O’Malley has claimed to sup-
Maryland announced that Gov. port civil unions but never done
Martin O’Malley, who stubbornly anything to advance them.
rights and threw his support of the Union urging passage of the
behind him. Since then, our D.C. voting right bill. His response
mayor does get invited to some was a resounding “no.”
wonderful events at the White I am on DC Vote’s board of
House and takes the president to directors. During a gathering of
Ben’s Chili Bowl. I wish the mayor some of my fellow directors, I
had the sense to ask the president theorized that one of the rea-
to pass our voting rights bill while sons for Obama’s lack of sup-
asking him to pass the mustard! port was the administration’s
Meanwhile, back on the Hill, internalized racism or fear of
Eleanor Holmes Norton toils away being perceived as too con-
and gets what appears to be zero trolled by the African-American
support from the White House on community. Judging from the
her quest for voting rights. At one looks on some of their faces,
point the president says his plate is they thought I was drinking the
too full with other matters. I will water from the Anacostia River.
grant him that war and health care Our city, the capital of a nation
and the economy do take the pres- that fights wars for democracy
ident’s time. But let’s get real! and human rights, has a chief
Would it have taken him any time executive not willing to
to order someone to change his spend any political capital to put
car fleet’s license tags to the one an end to the plantation mentali-
that most of us have on our cars? ty on the Hill. Is our president
A concerted effort was made to afraid that since this District of
ask him for a one-liner in the State Columbia is a majority black city
The only criteria needed to win
the support of most LGBT state lob-
byist groups like Equality Maryland is
a pledge to be marginally better than
the Republican. And so Democrats
like O’Malley (and Obama) aren’t tar-
geted with protests and boycotts, but
rewarded with campaign cash and
standing ovations.
Meanwhile, misguided gay
activists are invading Target stores
to demand their equality. Even HRC
got in on the act, holding negotia-
tions with Target about making an
equivalent $150,000 donation to a
pro-LGBT organization, reportedly
to OutFront Minnesota or Project
515, two state LGBT groups. Those
talks broke down and the donation
wasn’t made, prompting HRC to
make its own $150,000 donation to
pro-equality candidates.
It’s an odd paradox: Why are
we so quick to jump on a corpo-
rate boycott — even one targeting
a high-profile gay-friendly busi-
ness — yet when it comes to
politicians, our advocates are just
as quick to turn the other cheek?
If the community at large could
muster the indignation it has dis-
covered for Target and direct it at
some of the politicians who have
broken their promises, we could
break out of the current logjam in
Congress and finally
advance some of
the long-stalled
bills that now
appear doomed.
Kevin Naff is editor of
the Washington Blade.
Reach him at
knaff@washblade.com.
that the right would accuse him
of selling out? As always, actions
speak louder than words and our
president disappoints those who
welcomed him to Washington. —
John Klenert
Re: “Mayor promises greater
visibility in LGBT community”
(news, Aug. 19)
Visibility — after four years?
Funny how politicians get religion
right around re-election time. At
present, isn’t the front-and-center
issue for the D.C. gay community
that of safety? We get the kind of
government we demand. Are you
satisfied? — Bill
Keep up the great work mayor!
The farther we get away from the
past dark days of Marion Barry
and the giveaways, the better off
we, the citizens of this city, will be.
— Frankie James
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VIEWPOINT
A new kind of Republican for Council
Look beyond party
politics at the polls
this year
By MARC MORGAN
The other day, I was confront-
ed by a concerned Ward 1 resi-
dent with one simple question.
Although I’ve been asked this
question over a thousand times,
I’m compelled to offer up the same
response that I gave this resident.
The question was direct and
to the point, and definitely one
that deserves a response and
explanation: “Mr. Morgan, why
are you a Republican?”
As a resident of the District of
Columbia, I realize that the word
“Republican” is taboo. In a city
that is overwhelming Democrat,
Republican’s are few and far
between.
I’m a Republican because I
believe that for the Republican
Party to get back to the virtues
that it was founded on – those
VIEWPOINT
Vote pro-LGBT Green Party in Maryland cians? While you fight for the right
Tired of O’Malley
and Ehrlich? There’s
an alternative
By MARIA ALLWINE
Aren’t you sick and tired of the
empty promises and the shifting
rhetoric from Martin O’Malley and
the Democratic Party, who prom-
ise you everything and deliver
nothing? Aren’t you tired of fight-
ing for “your rights” when those
rights are already inherently
yours? Aren’t you angry waiting
for equal protection under the law
to guarantee you the same safe-
guards as everyone else? Don’t
you resent working hard just to
make sure legislation aimed at
rolling back the gains you’ve
made doesn’t become law?
And aren’t you utterly disgust-
ed by politicians, like Robert
Ehrlich, who deny you your right
to legal marriage because of a
belief in “traditional marriage”
and O’Malley, who doesn’t have
the guts to say he will sign a mar-
riage equality bill?
What is wrong with these politi-
‘ ’
Where are our local jobs that are promised
every year? Why are we seeing an increase
in crime and homelessness?
virtues of equality, justice, fair-
ness, and economic prosperity,
they need progressive minded
people like me to remind them
every day that the Party of
Lincoln is not the Party of today.
The Republican Party is not
about race, sexual orientation,
age or gender…it is about ideals
and ideals I believe in.
Yes, I’m a Republican. I’m
pro equality, pro environment
and have worked tirelessly to
protect human rights and defend
equality. I support preserving our
natural resources and believe
that green technologies will cre-
ate new jobs for local residents.
I also support small business as
the key to unlocking our eco-
nomic woes. I’m a Republican
that believes the primary role of
government is to work with resi-
to live in peace and marry the per-
son you love, they placate the very
groups guided by hate and fear
who oppose you because of who
and how you love. Every move they
make is calculated to ensure their
reelection and if they have to sacri-
fice the LGBTQ community to get
it, they will do it every time. They
want and need your votes, but they
want and need those other votes
more. They keep you dangling on
the end of their dulcet promise of
wait a little longer while they shift
and spin and in doing so guarantee
your struggle will go on and on
while you wait and wait.
That struggle has been far too
long already and while it has been
marked by significant victories, no
thanks to either O’Malley or
Ehrlich, it has seen far too many
defeats. Yes, there has been good
legislation passed, but gender
identity anti-discrimination and
marriage equality languish in
Maryland’s General Assembly and
may do so a long time to come.
There is a solution and it’s
been in front of us all the
time: support, work for and, most
importantly, vote for the party
dents to build programs and
services that actually address
the needs of the community, and
to leverage funding that will help
sustain them.
So, am I the “typical”
Republican? Of course not! I’m
the new face of the Republican
Party, and a candidate that has
a history of working with
Democrats to build sound pro-
grams around HIV/AIDS, green
economics, and small business
development.
Don’t label me as a “Just
another Republican” until you
have the opportunity to under-
stand that my focus is on our
economic prosperity, safety, and
security. Simply put, I am work-
ing to bring more jobs backs to
the District of Columbia and
make this a more livable city. At
‘ ’
Aren’t you sick and tired of the utter lack of
courage and political will on Martin O’Malley’s
part and the absolute immorality of Robert
Ehrlich’s stand on marriage equality?
and its candidates who will rep-
resent and fight for you: the
Green Party. I am Maria Allwine,
the Green Party candidate for
governor of Maryland and I have
always publicly fought for the
LGBTQ community for one rea-
son only – because it is the
moral, just and right thing to do.
I work with progressive legislators
in the Maryland General Assembly
on many issues and lobby with
Equality Maryland. When I ran for
Baltimore City Council president in
2007 (I received 17 percent of the
vote), I was the only candidate to
state unequivocal support for mar-
riage equality on my website, cam-
paign literature and at public speak-
ing events. How can anyone run-
ning for elected office do any less?
One of the 10 Key Values of
The Green Party is ending dis-
crimination and fighting for gen-
august 27, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 27
the same time, I am working to
bring funding into the city to sup-
port programs like affordable
housing, HIV/AIDS prevention,
and expanded services for our
elderly and disabled, and mak-
ing sure these programs are
fully funded so we don’t have to
worry about them being cut each
year during the budget process.
For too long the other side
has had complete control of the
debate, and I am not happy with
the result. Where are our local
jobs that are promised every
year? Where are our minority-
owned businesses in our cultur-
ally rich neighborhoods? Why
are we seeing an increase in
crime and homelessness?
I’m not asking the residents of
Ward 1 to change their party
affiliation; I’m asking the resi-
dents of Ward 1 to just once, look
beyond party and politics. Let’s
stand together and look toward
progress and growth. I’m asking
the residents of Ward 1 to sup-
port a common sense approach
to creating more jobs, a stronger
der and sexual equality and an
end to homophobia. Green Party
candidates across the country
always publicly support these
goals and yet we are rarely
endorsed by the LGBTQ commu-
nity. It’s time for that to change.
I strongly believe that until the
LGBTQ community cuts the
umbilical cord to the Democratic
Party, you will struggle for a
much longer time than you would
if you support candidates who
fight for you because we know
it’s right, not because we covet
your votes. It can no longer be
enough for elected officials to
“believe” in you, if they’re not
fighting for you, their belief
means nothing in the long run.
Even if I do not win, by sup-
porting and voting for me, you will
send a strong message to the
Democratic Party that the LGBTQ
school system, and a climate
that supports business develop-
ment. Just once, take a chance
on a progressive minded
Republican that will work with
and for the people of Ward 1 to
ensure their needs are met with
efficiency and progress.
For over 12 years, we’ve had
nothing but the status quo.
Right now, we need something
new, something and someone
fresh and different. We need
balance and fairness, and a
playing field where everyone
can participate.
So, again, ask yourself, “Why
would I support a Republican?”
All I ask is that just once, you
look beyond party politics and
names. Just once, support a
candidate who desires nothing
more than to work with and for
his neighbors to improve our
quality of life!
Marc Morgan is a candidate for D.C.
Council from Ward 1. Reach him via
morganfordc.com.
community will wait no longer and
will now support candidates who
fight for you. Only when the con-
stituencies that the Democratic
Party takes for granted (and no
longer represents or fights for)
break from that party and support
candidates who deserve it, will
anything change for the better. You
know as I do that Martin O’Malley
and Robert Ehrlich are two sides
of the same coin with minor differ-
ences. The election of either of
them guarantees that the LGBTQ
community will continue to be
ignored and will continue to strug-
gle for rights that are already
inherently yours.
Aren’t you sick and tired of the
utter lack of courage and political
will on Martin O’Malley’s part and
the absolute immorality of
Robert Ehrlich’s stand on mar-
riage equality? I know I am and
have been for a long time. It’s
time to leave them and their par-
ties in the dust and join with me
and the Green Party. I ask for
your vote on Nov. 2.
Maria Allwine is the Maryland Green
Party candidate for governor. Reach her
via allwineforgovernor.org.
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CONDO... CO-OP, WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Many buyers these days are
quite savvy when it comes to
condominium shopping, and not
uncommonly, they also have an
agent who knows the ins and
outs of all the buildings in the
area and has the resources to
research the many properties
they are less familiar with. For
the most part, Condominiums
seem fairly straightforward,
since what is included in the
monthly condo fee is itemized in
the condo documents. Co-ops,
on the other hand, seem to
leave buyers, and sometimes
agents, a bit wide-eyed and per-
plexed. Even when the technical
differences are spelled out, peo-
ple continue to ponder, “what’s
the difference?”.
First, the condominium...
Condos are found in urban loca-
tions as well as in the suburbs and
are defined as “real property”
ownership as opposed to person-
al property, like your car. A condo
combines fee simple or real prop-
erty ownership for each individual
unit together with an individual
interest in all the common areas
and facilities of the association.
Common areas include the hall-
ways, lobby, pool and land that is
outside of each individually owned
unit. The common areas and the
land on which the building stands
are held by all condominium unit
owners as tenants in common.
Buying a condo makes sense if
the buyer intends to own the prop-
erty for at least 3 years or desires
Photos courtesy of Ron Whitesell
to rent to a tenant some time in
the future. Although the ability to
rent is highly probable, condomini-
ums usually set maximum
investor ratios in order to maintain
property values and owners may
have to wait until the number of
rented units allows it. Traditionally,
condo owners are first-time home
buyers who transition from renting
to property ownership and home-
owners looking to down-size while
enjoying most of the benefits of
fee simple ownership.
Co-ops are more commonly
found in large, densely populated
cities such as New York, DC and
Chicago. This is because the
establishment of a cooperative
was a means to transfer older
rental buildings into owner occu-
pied properties. In general terms,
a co-operative unit is considered
an interest in personal property
because the co-op corporation
has fee simple title or real title
ownership of the entire property.
This corporation gives each mem-
ber/owner the right to occupy a
portion, basically known as a
‘unit’. A person’s interest owner-
ship in the corporation and the
right to occupy a unit is consid-
ered an ownership interest in per-
sonal property and not in real
estate. Membership in the corpo-
ration is proven by a certificate of
stock and a proprietary lease.
Simply stated, a co-op is a corpo-
ration, owned and operated by it’s
members (you) and formed to pro-
vide housing for it’s members.
Now what about those fees?
Many say they understand condo
fees but are confused by co-op
fees. Because a co-operative is
considered personal property
rather than real estate, there is no
deed, and therefore no transfer or
recordation taxes are collected at
closing. The co-operative itself
usually has an underlying mort-
gage that is used for major
improvements or acquisition. Each
individual co-op unit is responsible
for a portion of the underlying mort-
gage, usually paying it down
through a portion of the monthly
fee. When an owner sells, the bal-
ance of the unit's share of the
underlying mortgage transfers to
the new owner. If the payment will
be included in the monthly fee, the
balance of the underlying mort-
gage is subtracted from the sales
price to determine the net amount
that the buyer will finance.
Obtaining financing for a con-
dominium purchase is quite stan-
dard and available from most
lenders, and is similar to single
family home financing. Co-op’s,
however, are a bit different. Co-op
financing is offered by relatively
fewer lending institutions and
often involves additional reviews
and approvals. Also, co-ops typi-
cally have minimum cash down-
payment requirements, which
may be higher than those required
by lenders. Not all lending institu-
tions which offer co-op financing
have a Recognition Agreement
with each and every co-operative
association so you may be
required to use the approved
lender. A good listing agent for a
particular co-op should provide a
list of lenders willing to provide
financing for qualified buyers.
Co-ops can offer great value
and substantial savings in settle-
ment costs. This type of owner-
ship makes sense if the buyer
intends to own for 3 for more
years, has little or limited need to
rent to a tenant, and agrees with
the overall objectives of the co-
operative. Additionally, those high-
er monthly fees may include all
utilities which is attractive to many
budget-minded buyers.
While there are similarities to
condos and co-ops, the differ-
ences should not be ignored. The
deals are out there for both types
of living and always remember
you are really looking to find a new
place to call home. So, when
you’re out shopping with your
agent on that 90 degree day and
hiking from one building to the
next and the word co-op comes
up, you now can feel a bit more
comfortable (heat excluded) in
saying, I’d like to check out this
really nice place listed as a co-op.
Ron Whitesell is a
Real Estate agent
with Century 21
Redwood Realty
(703.528.8195) and
can be reached at
202.656.7355 or ronw@c21red-
wood.com.

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32 washingtonblade.com • august 27, 2010

‘All gay parents should be part of some kind of support system with other gay parents so that children can look around and say, ‘gee I’m not the only one with this kind of family,’’ said local
attorney and parent Susan Silber.
LGBT parents offer
advice to those
enrolling kids for
first time
By JULIETTE M. EBNER
Although students often expe-
rience anxiety and stress at the
beginning of a new school year,
the same can hold true for par-
ents, particularly for LGBT par-
ents unsure of how a new school
and its teachers and administra-
tors will accept their families.
Richard Gervase, a board
Bill Gray answers 20 questions.
Queery, PAGE 34
washingtonblade.com • vol. 41, issue 35 • august 27, 2010 • Page 33
member at Rainbow Families
D.C., a nonprofit organization for
LGBT families and their allies,
has a son entering fourth grade
and another starting kinder-
garten at a private school.
Visiting your child’s school
and speaking to the teacher and
principal about your family is the
best advice Gervase said he has
for LGBT parents sending their
kids to school for the first time.
“We started this whole process
of working with the schools when
they were in preschool,” said
Gervase. “Get in as early as possi-
ble to meet with the teacher ...
even before school and just start
arts & entertainment
the conversation about your family.
You can’t control the random
things that another child might say
or if another family has issues
about our family, but to have the
teacher be kind of primed and kind
of on your side is really important.”
Susan Silber, an attorney in
Takoma Park, has two adult chil-
dren, a daughter, 27, and son,
21. She agrees that getting to the
teachers and administrators
early helps, but she emphasized
it’s important to describe your
family to school officials in a way
that is familiar to the child.
“The most important thing is
that people describe the family to
the teacher or the school adminis-
trators in the way the child knows
the family,” said Silber. “The child
should get support reflected back
of their real family rather than hav-
ing to distort their own image
based on some sense of what a
family should be.”
Gervase echoed those senti-
ments.
“We go by Daddy and Papa to
the kids,” said Gervase. “We
have experienced on the play-
ground before, I’m Papa, where
some other parent would call me
Daddy. It’s kind of like calling
someone named Jane, Susan or
Bob. It’s a completely different
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
person in the child’s life.”
John Parkhurst has twin boys
who started fourth grade in public
school this week and he adds talking
to other gay parents really helps.
“Choosing a school, and one
where you know there are other gay
families and you know the environ-
ment is favorable and highly diverse.”
said Parkhurst. “I talked to other gay
parents and went to a school sever-
al of my friends had chosen.”
Silber agreed that finding
other LGBT parents is important.
“All gay parents should be
part of some kind of support sys-
Continues on page 44
34 washingtonblade.com • august 27, 2010
QUEERY: 20 Questions for Bill Gray
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
Bill Gray is in a period of transition. He
left EFN Lounge/Motley Bar shortly
before it closed abruptly last week and is
formulating a potential new business plan
he calls Grind Espresso Bar. But he
wants to find co-partners before proceed-
ing. The 34-year-old Philadelphia native
earned a business degree in Pittsburgh
but returned to Philly where he opened
seven Jazz & Java coffee shops in the
region between 1997 and 2005. The
chain was eventually sold to Saxbys.
Gray moved to D.C. in the summer of
2005 but then moved to Tuscon, Ariz., for
about a year (2006 mostly) before settling
in Washington in early 2007, where he
became a staple bartender of the local gay
scene having mixed drinks at several bars
and clubs before taking the reins at EFN
Lounge/Motley about 18 months ago.
Several of his relocation decisions have
been motivated by love, which led him to
relocate both to Arizona and D.C. “I think I
was raised to be an Italian housewife,” he
says. “Just kidding, though that is why I
moved to Arizona for my boyfriend at the
time who was an engineer. I did what I felt
was right for my family at the time.”
He admits to being a hopeless romantic
and is in a new relationship now but doesn’t
want to talk details. He says hardcore chis-
eled abs — Gray’s are displayed in all their
glory on his Facebook page — are “not that
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
difficult to get; I learned a long time ago that
abs are mainly hidden because of diet, not
how many crunches I can do. I try to eat a
balanced diet and stay away from overeat-
ing, but I definitely have a weakness for
chocolate and ice cream. I inhale the stuff.”
Gray says being a successful bar-
tender is more about personality, being
genuine and making good drinks than
being a pretty face. He went through a few
bumpy years with his family after coming
out but says they came around after a few
years of missed holidays. Gray lives in
Thomas Circle and loves working out at
Vida, spending long hours with his
boyfriend watching old movies, window
shopping, coffee tasting and going to
spots outside the gayborhood. He’s ready
to start the next chapter of his profession-
al life and says, “the sky is the limit.”
How long have you been out and
who was the hardest person to tell?
I have been out for 17 years. The hardest
person to tell was definitely my mother. I
went away to college in ‘93 and wrote her a
letter apologizing for being gay and I under-
stood if she and Dad didn’t want me
around. I had multiple suicide attempts
before writing that letter to the point where
I had to come out for my sanity. I was
rejected at first and welcomed eventually.
Who’s your gay hero?
I have a few gay heroes.Professionally, I admire
anybody who steps out in business and
makes it; most notably David von Storch of
Vida Fitness and Thomas McGuire of
WorkSpaces. I also admire everyone who
has served in our military under “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell.” They have more strength and
courage than anyone I know.
What’s Washington’s best nightspot,
past or present?
Good question. I am just going to per-
sonalize this. I have the best time when
I go to event-driven parties. I’ve been a
bartender and have worked at most of
the nightspots in this city. I loved work-
ing at Cobalt when I first arrived in D.C.,
I loved the family feel of working at
Nellie’s, I loved the energy at Town. I
loved the sense of accomplishment at
EFN/Motley. In my opinion, there is no
“best” nightspot. I do enjoy all of the
spots but tend to make my choice
based on what event is going on, which
seems to be the trend in D.C.
Describe your dream gay wedding.
I think what most people don’t know
about me is that I am a hopeless roman-
tic. My dream wedding would take place
in a locale that is conservative with
friends and family. I think I will be the one
proposing because I am the type to set
up the romantic proposal setting.
What non-gay issue are
you most passionate about?
The medical reform that our president
pushed through Congress.
What historical outcome
would you change?
The assassination of JFK.
What’s been the most memorable
pop culture moment of your lifetime?
MTV!
On what do you insist?
Expressing an informed opinion before
making assertions.
What was your last
Facebook post or Tweet?
“Saying Goodbye for Now …”
If your life were a book,
what would the title be?
“Gray’s EFN Anatomy”
If science discovered a way to change
sexual orientation, what would you do?
I am very happy with the way God has
created me. I would choose God over
science in this instance.
What do you believe in
beyond the physical world?
My heart/soul/spirit will be all I have for
eternity. I have to live everyday with
those three things in mind.
What’s your advice for
LGBT movement leaders?
My advice is simple and seems to work
for most: “You attract more flies with
honey rather than vinegar.”
What would you walk
across hot coals for?
My family.
What gay stereotype
annoys you most?
I have embraced all facets of our com-
munity. Stereotypes certainly apply to
some. I would say the inability to be
monogamous.
What’s your favorite gay movie?
I used to volunteer with the Gay and
Lesbian Film Festival in Philly so I have
seen a bunch. I would have to say
“Touch of Pink” is one of my favorites. I
also liked “It’s My Party,” but it makes
me cry too much.
What’s the most overrated
social custom?
I remember being a child and my moth-
er would scold me if I didn’t remove my
hat when I entered a home. I think that
is pretty overrated.
What trophy or prize
do you most covet?
Two off the top of my head. I was voted
Best Bartender in D.C. in 2008 by City
Paper. That meant a lot to me as it was-
n’t just the gay community. I was recent-
ly named the Community Partner of the
Year by the Non-Profit Al Sura.
What do you wish you’d known at 18?
That everything I did at that age would
impact my future as significantly as it
has.
Why Washington?
I moved here for love. I always follow my
heart above all else. My next career will
hopefully keep me here as I have grown
attached to the city.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
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SOCIALAGENDA
Friday, Aug. 27
OFFICIAL 2011 RIPPED GENES
CALENDAR RELEASE PARTY tonight at
the Engineer’s Club at the Garrett-Jacobs
Mansion, 11 W. Mount Vernon Pl.,
Baltimore, tonight at 8 p.m. View the work
of renowned photographer, Robert Mercer
Jr. and the swimwear fashion show.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Rd.,
Silver Spring, Md., will be showing the D.C.-
area premiere of “ALL ABOUT EVIL” at 9:30
p.m. The directorial debut of Joshua Grannell
(better known as Peaches Christ), “All About
Evil” is a twisted black comedy with perform-
ances by Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Dekker,
Noah Segan, cult icon Mink Stole, and
Cassandra Peterson (better known as Elvira).
MICHAEL JACKSON BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION tonight at 9:30 club, 815
V St., N.W., with a marathon DJ set by DJ
Dredd and a video tribute. Doors open at
8 p.m. Tickets are $15 and can be pur-
chased at 930.com.
GAY DISTRICT, a weekly, non-church
affiliated discussion and social group for
GBTQ men between 18 and 35, meets
tonight from 8:30-10:30 p.m. at St.
Margaret’s Episcopal Church, 1820
Connecticut Ave., N.W. For more informa-
tion, e-mail gd@gaydistrict.org.
THE DC GURLY SHOW is gonna give this
summer ending thing one more go
with a GooGoo for GaGa show tonight at
Phase 1, 525 8th St., S.E. There will be a
$5 cover and doors open at 9 p.m.
APEX DRAG SEARCH tonight at Apex,
1415 22nd St., N.W., hosted by Big Daddy
and Arione DeCardeza with the winner
being picked by audience participation.
Grand prize includes $50 cash and a book-
ing with Kristina Kelly and her Girls of
Glamour. Showtime is 11 p.m. There will be
a $10 cover charge and you must be 18 or
older to enter and 21 and older to drink.
Saturday, Aug. 28
Join BURGUNDY CRESCENT VOLUNTEERS
help prep for Books Plus, the nonprofit
library store at MLK Jr. Memorial D.C. Public
Library, 901 G St., N.W., 8th Annual DCPL
fall book sale. Volunteers will be unpacking
boxes, selecting interesting titles and sorting
them by category on book carts. Volunteers
will get special pricing and dibs on books
they would like to purchase.
NOVA GL Professionals, the Straight
Eights Car Club, DCthirtysomething, DC
Lambda Squares, and DC Ice Breakers
co-host the 3RD ANNUAL LAZY RIVER
TUBING with optional picnic and dinner
on the Shenandoah near Harper’s Ferry.
Bring-your-own picnic is at noon, tubing is
at 2 p.m. and dinner at Bugaboo Creek
Steakhouse in Gaithersburg is at approxi-
mately 5:30 p.m. Visit dcicebreakers.com
for more information.
THE OFFICIAL BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR
THE GODFATHER OF GO GO CHUCK
BROWN featuring D Floyd, Ms. Kim,
Lissen, and Be’la Dona, an all female Go-
Go Band, will be at the 9:30 club, 815 V
St., N.W., at 9 p.m. Tickets are $25 and
can be purchased at 930.com
ELECTRIK at Green Lantern, 1335 Green
Ct., N.W., hosted by Timur Tugberk at 10
p.m. This new dance party features the
best in dance, electro, deep and dirty Photo courtesy Peaches Christ
house, trance, and circuit music provided
by DJ Tom from Prague. Arrive early and The D.C.-area premiere of ‘All About Evil’ featuring Peaches Christ is tonight at AFI.
enjoy an open rail vodka bar and no cover
from 10 to 11:30 p.m. The party continues ner is needed. Visit lambdabridge.com and
with a $5 cover. Enjoy a $17 all-you-can- Monday, Aug. 30 click on “Social Bridge in Washington, D.C.”
drink Bacardi buffet from 10 p.m. to closing. THE DISTANT RELATIVES TOUR featur- DC ICE BREAKERS SKATING AND
ing NAS and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley with SOCIAL AT THE KETTLER CAPITALS
Gyptian will be at the 9:30 club, 815 V St., ICEPLEX, on the top of the Ballston
Sunday, Aug. 29 N.W. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $44 Common Mall parking garage, 627 N.
CAMP REHOBOTH AND THE SEASHORE and can be purchased at 930.com. Glebe Rd., Arlington, Va. Skating is $8
STRIDERS will host the inaugural Sundance plus $3 for skate rental and goes from
5k: Run, Walk, or Sashay! in Rehoboth 7:45 to 8:45 p.m with a social at a local
Beach, Del., to kick off Sundance Week. The Tuesday, Aug. 31 bar from 9 p.m. to whenever.
race starts at 7:30 a.m. with pre-registration Join BURGUNDY CRESCENT VOLUNTEERS
starting at 6 a.m. to help pack safer sex kits from 7-9 p.m. at
Rock the Bells with Snoop Dogg, A Tribe FUK!T’s new packing location, The Green Thursday, Sept. 2
Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim, Lantern, 1335 Green Ct., N.W. Kele of Bloc Party with DOES IT OFFEND
KRS-One, Lauryn Hill, Slick Rick, and YOU YEAH? and Innerpartysystem will be
more will be at Meriweather Post Pavilion, at the 9:30 club, 815 V St., N.W., at 6:30
10475 Little Patuxent Pkwy., Columbia, Md. Wednesday, Sept. 1 p.m. This is a new date and all Aug. 7 tickets
Doors open at 11 a.m. Tickets range from The Art Gallery at the University of will be honored. Tickets are $25 and can be
$66 to $150.50 and can be purchased at Maryland presents the exhibition, “THE purchased at 930.com.
merriweathermusic.com. VERY QUEER PORTRAITS OF HEYD THE DC CENTER FALL RECEPTION will
Inspired by the queer tea dances of the San FONTENOT” by Austin, Texas-based artist be held at the Artists Inn Residence, 1824
Francisco area, OVEREASY: A TEA DANCE Heyd Fontenot. There will be an opening R St., N.W., from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. For more
FOR LADIES AND THEIR FRIENDS will be reception from 5 to 7 p.m. There will be a information, visit thedccenter.org.
at Little Miss Whiskey’s Golden Dollar, discussion with the artist at a later date. The Atlas Performing Arts Center pres-
1104 H St., N.E., from 3 to 9 p.m. On the back “GRAY PRIDE” FUNDRAISER to support ents SUMMER FILM SERIES: GAY 101
patio, Chef Kywon’ll be grilling up perfect Vincent Gray for Mayor from 7 to 8:30 p.m. SHOWING “STEEL MAGNOLIAS” star-
summer afternoon fare and Leslie will be at the rooftop pool at the Donovan house. ring Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton and Sally
serving oversized Bloody Mary’s and THE TOM DAVARON SOCIAL BRIDGE Field at the Paul Sprenger Theatre, 1333
mimosas to chase the Sunday blues away at CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m., at the Dignity H St., N.E., at 8 p.m. Buy tickets at
the bar. There is no cover for this event but Center, 721 8th St., S.E., (across from atlasarts.org or at the box office one hour
remember that Miss Whiskey’s is cash only. Marine Barracks) for Social Bridge. No part- prior to the movie.
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38 washingtonblade.com • august 27, 2010
THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
HOT HITS AND
HIDDEN JEWELS OPENINGS
DONNA SUMMER tuesday, august 31
Sunday, August 29 RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S THE
Wolf Trap SOUND OF MUSIC. Wolf Trap. 1-877-
1-877-WOLFTRAP WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
wolftrap.org
Catchy hits “Last Dance”, “She Works Hard for wednesday, september 01
Her Money”, “Hot Stuff” and others fill the night FACULTY EXHIBITION. Corcoran Gallery
with electric energy by this Grammy-winning of Art. 202-639-1700. corcoran.org.
dance club queen.
CHERRY SMOKE LAST CHANCE
August 27 - September 5 friday, august 27
Round House Theatre Silver Spring LA FEMME. Arlington Artists Alliance at
240-644-1100 Arlington County Board Offices. arling-
roundhousetheatre.org tonartistsalliance.org.
Cherry Smoke-by James McManus,
winner of the 2006 Princess Grace sunday, august 29
Award for playwriting, directed by NOISES OFF. The Keegan Theatre at
Jessica Burgess and featuring Tim Church Street Theater. 703-892-0202.
Getman, Julia Proctor, Jjana keegantheatre.com.
Valentiner, and Cliff Williams. Fish was PASSING STRANGE. The Studio Theatre.
born in fire, and takes care of himself. 202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
In the economically devastated area between Pittsburgh and West Virginia, he TAKE YOU HOME. Gallery plan b.
makes a living in the underground boxing matches. 202-234-2711. galleryplanb.com.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.
SOMETHING YOU DID SCENA Theatre at H Street Playhouse.
August 28 - October 3 703-683-2428. scenatheater.org.
Theater J
800-494-8497 tuesday, august 31
washingtondcjcc.org PLAY BALL. Arlington Artists Alliance at
Theater J produces thought-provoking, publicly Arlington YMCA. arlingtonartistsalliance.org.
engaged, personal, passionate and entertaining plays SAMPLES 2003 BY ROBERTO BOCCI.
and musicals that celebrate the distinctive urban voice Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. 202-547-
and social vision that are part of the Jewish cultural 6839. chaw.org.
legacy. Dedicated above all to a pursuit of artistic excel-
lence, Theater J takes its dialogues beyond the stage,
offering an array of innovative public discussion forums ONE NIGHT ONLY
and outreach programs. friday, august 27
CINEMA UNDER THE STARS: THE
SCAPES: THE ANNUAL PRINCESS AND THE FROG. Workhouse
LANDSCAPE EXHIBIT Arts Center. 703-584-2900. workhousearts.org.
Through September 6 TONY BENNETT. Wolf Trap. 1-877-
The Art League WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
703-683-1780
theartleague.org saturday, august 28
The landscape has been visually rendered CINEMA UNDER THE STAR: JAWS.
since the beginning of time and remains Workhouse Arts Center. 703-584-2900.
one of the most venerable subjects in art. workhousearts.org.
For Scapes, the annual August landscape DOLLEY AT DUMBARTON DAY!
exhibit at The Art League Gallery, member Dumbarton House. 202-337-2288. dumb-
artists submitted works inspired by and artonhouse.org.
depicting all elements of our external world. THE ART OF COOKERY. Riversdale House
Museum. 301-864-0420. pgparks.com.
The Guide to Arts & Culture is supplied by CulturalCapital.com, a program of the Cultural Alliance of THE ULTIMATE DOO-WOP SHOW. Wolf
Greater Washington. SCAPES: Supplied by The Art League; CHERRY SMOKE: Supplied by Round House
Theatre; SOMETHING YOU DID: Supplied by Theater J; DONNA SUMMER: Supplied by Wolf Trap.
Trap. 703-255-1868. wolftrap.org.
tuesday, august 31
BELTWAY POETRY SLAM LAUNCH. The
Fridge DC. 202-664-4151. thefridgedc.com.
ONGOING
SKETCHING IN THE ATRIUM. Corcoran
Gallery of Art. 202-639-1700. corcoran.org.
CHALK DRAWINGS. Corcoran Gallery of
Art. 202-397-7328. programs.corcoran.org.
CM DUPRE’S ALICE. The Art League at
National Harbor. 703-683-1780. theartleague.org.
DISCOVERING THE CIVIL WAR - BEGIN-
NINGS. National Archives. archives.gov.
DESIGN FOR THE OTHER 90%.
National Geographic. 202-857-7588.
events.nationalgeographic.com.
BEAT MEMORIES: THE PHOTO-
GRAPHS OF ALLEN GINSBERG.
National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
ART BY THE YARD: WOMEN DESIGN
MID-CENTURY BRITAIN. The Textile
Museum. 202 667 0441. textilemuseum.org.
WOMEN TO WATCH 2010 BODY OF
WORK: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON FIG-
URE PAINTING. National Museum of
Women in the Arts. nmwa.org.
CHUCK CLOSE PRINTS: PROCESS AND
COLLABORATION. Corcoran Gallery of
Art. 202-397-7328. corcoran.org.
FROM PRISON TO ARTS CENTER: 100
YEARS AT THE WORKHOUSE. Workhouse
Arts Center. 703-584-2900. workhousearts.org.
SINK THE BELGRANO! SCENA Theatre
at H Street Playhouse. 703-683-2824.
scenatheater.org.
DA VINCI -THE GENIUS. National Geographic.
202-857-7588. events.nationalgeographic.com.
JUNE WAYNE’S, DOROTHY SERIES.
National Museum of Women in the Arts.
JUYEON KIM: THE IN-BETWEEN.
National Museum of Women in the Arts.
nmwa.org.
THE COLLABORATIVE PRINT: WORKS
FROM SOLO IMPRESSION. National
Museum of Women in the Arts. nmwa.org.
IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR
PLAY. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net.
RARE: PORTRAITS OF AMERICA’S
ENDANGERED SPECIES. National
Geographic. events.nationalgeographic.com.
HISTORY ON FOOT: ELIZABETH KECKLY.
Ford’s Theatre. 202-347-4833. fordstheatre.org.
MONTPELIER FALL JAZZ SERIES.
Montpelier Arts Center. 301-377-7800.
pgparks.com.
HISTORY ON FOOT: DETECTIVE
MCDEVITT. Ford’s Theatre. 202-347-
4833. fords.org.
EDVARD MUNCH: MASTER PRINTS.
National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
GERMAN MASTER DRAWINGS FROM
THE WOLFGANG RATJEN COLLECTION,
1580-1900. National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
IN THE TOWER: MARK ROTHKO.
National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
AMERICAN MODERNISM:THE SHEIN COL-
LECTION. National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
THE ART OF LIVING: TEXTILE FUR-
NISHINGS FROM THE PERMANENT
COLLECTION. The Textile Museum. 202-
667-0441. textilemuseum.org.
TORTURE AT THE WORKHOUSE.
Workhouse Arts Center at The
Workhouse Museum. 703-584-2900.
workhousemuseums.org.
FREE
friday, august 27
JAZZ IN THE GARDEN: MILES
STIEBEL (SMOOTH JAZZ VIOLINIST).
National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
saturday, august 28
VIRGINIA VIRTUOSI. Corcoran Gallery
of Art. 202-639-1700. corcoran.org.
RUG AND TEXTILE APPRECIATION
MORNING: COLLECTOR’S POTPOURRI.
The Textile Museum. 202-667-0441. tex-
tilemuseum.org.
wednesday, september 1
ASK-A-CURATOR, ASK-A-CONSERVA-
TOR. The Textile Museum. 202-667-0441.
textilemuseum.org.
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THEATERAGENDA
A gutsy take on a Vonnegut cult classic
Longacre Lea’s
‘Cat’s Cradle’ is
ambitious, timely
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
It takes guts to fiddle with a
cult classic. In adapting and
staging Kurt Vonnegut’s much-
loved novel “Cat’s Cradle,”
Longacre Lea Productions’ artis-
tic director Kathleen Akerley
proves not only that she’s long
on confidence, but also that she
grasps the book’s intelligent and
devilishly satirical spirit.
When Vonnegut penned the
1963 work, nuclear proliferation was
very much on America’s mind.
(Sadly, today not a lot has
changed.) In “Cat’s Cradle,” he
spoofs the West’s absolute devotion
to modern science: Ironically, rather
than improving our lives, these
advancements move us closer to
the end of the world. Employing sci-
ence fiction and a healthy dose of
dark humor, the author thrashes out
the horrors of the modern world.
Akerley offers a pretty straight for-
ward rendition of Vonnegut’s vision.
Cat’s Cradle
Through Sept. 6
Longacre Lea Productions
Catholic University’s
Callan Theatre
3801 Harewood Rd., N.E.
202-460-2148
longacrelea.org
The story begins in fictional Ilium,
New York, where writer Jonah is
researching his new book, “The Day
the World Ended,” an account of
what (the also fictional) scientist Felix
Hoenikker, one of the inventors of
the atomic bomb, was doing at the
exact moment that the weapon was
dropped on Hiroshima. While inter-
viewing a selection of colorful, local
contacts, Jonah (an even-keeled
everyman played by the excellent
Michael Glenn) becomes increas-
ingly immersed in Hoenikker’s odd-
ish life as well as the lives of the late
scientist’s offbeat, adult children.
Continued research puts Jonah
on a plane to San Lorenzo, a tin pot
republic located somewhere in the
Caribbean. While in the air, he
meets two of Hoenikker’s three chil-
dren, Angela and Newton, a little
person. Once on the ground, he
meets the third and oldest, wackiest
Don’t miss ‘CAT’S CRADLE’ at Catholic University through Sept. 6.
sibling Franklin (Joe Brack), who
serves as San Lorenzo’s Minister of
Science and Progress. To Jonah’s
dismay, he learns that each of the
Hoenikker offspring possess a por-
tion of their father’s last invention —
Ice Nine — a substance that is
(rather unwittingly) more lethal than
the A-bomb. Consequently, an end-
of-the-world scenario soon ensues.
With the exception of Glenn, who
plays Jonah, other members of the
versatile 10-person take on at least
Photo courtesy Longacre Lea Productions
two characters — a veritable kaleido-
scope primarily composed of distinct-
ly American types. Danny Gavigan
and Suzanne Richard respectively
play — to great effect — a low key
Ilium bartender and a wisecracking
hooker. In an inspired stroke of cross-
gender casting, the pair returns as
the genteel Angela Hoenikker and
her unassuming brother Newton.
Heather Haney is terrific as Hazel, the
eternally optimistic Hoosier.
Gay actor Christopher Henley
wonderfully portrays both haughty
scientist Asa Breed, and later
Horlick Minton, the cynical
American ambassador to San
Lorenzo. Marcia Kirtland is com-
pletely convincing as the ambas-
sador’s perceptive wife, Claire.
Henley’s real life partner, Jay
Hardee, very admirably pulls dou-
ble duty as a perky, wig-wearing
flight attendant and an American
expat artist in San Lorenzo.
Clocking in at nearly three
hours with two intermissions, this
“Cat’s Cradle” is decidedly long,
but thankfully not slow-moving —
for the most part it keeps a swift
pace. At times (particularly with
some of the San Lorenzo scenes),
the narrative becomes a little
ungainly and a tad too heavy on
exposition, but these shortcom-
ings are redeemed by Akerley’s
splendidly inventive staging and
the show’s particularly able actors.
Assisted by John Burkland’s
evocative lighting as well as Neil
McFadden’s impressive and metic-
ulously executed sound design, the
often smoke-drenched multi-lev-
eled, monochromatic gray set (com-
pliments of Tom Donahue) magical-
ly morphs into far flung locales.

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SOCIALAGENDA
Exploring the mysteries of Leonardo
Exhibit reveals a
‘superhuman’ artist,
inventor
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN
“His mind and personality seem
to us superhuman, the man him-
self mysterious and remote.”
Thus wrote art historian Helen
Gardner about the archetype of
Renaissance Man, Leonardo da
Vinci. But is there a mystery still about
Leonardo’s sexual orientation?
This giant polymath of the High
Renaissance — painter, sculptor,
scientist, civil and military engi-
neer, architect, mathematician,
musician, anatomist, botanist and
writer — appears to have no close
relationships with women, except
for one. He kept his private life
indeed quite secret.
His sexual orientation has
been the subject of analysis and
speculation and even satire.
He has been thought by many,
including Sigmund Freud, to have
been gay, but Freud believed him
to have merely been latent — gay-
oriented but that those desires
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were unfulfilled.
Some have concluded that he
was chastely gay, traumatically stung
into sexless celibacy after a charge
against him of sodomy with a male
prostitute in 1476 when he was 24.
Or instead, as the art historian
Kenneth Clark supposed, was
Leonardo intimate with two of his
pupils? One of them confided
to Leonardo’s brothers after his
death that the great man’s feelings
for his young students were “svis-
cerato et ardentissimo” (“deeply felt
and most ardent love”).
And then there are Leonardo’s
private, erotic drawings of one of
those pupils, also his ward, the
notorious boy known by his well-
deserved nickname “Salai” (the
little unclean one), who came to
live with Leonardo when he was a
10-year-old in 1490 when the
painter was 38, and lived with him
for 30 more years. Other paint-
ings, especially “John the Baptist”
and “Bacchus,” depict androgyny
and homoeroticism.
An exhibit at the National
Geographic Museum, “Da Vinci -
the Genius,” which closes there
on Sept. 12, should help to
sweep away some of the myster-
‘Da Vinci - the Genius’
National Geographic Society
1145 17th St., N.W.
Free, 9 a.m. through Sept. 12
ies surrounding da Vinci, the
man who was perhaps the most
diversely talented person ever to
have lived, whose unquenchable
curiosity was equaled only by his
vast powers of invention.
The exhibit, which concen-
trates on his scientific and engi-
neering side as much as his artis-
tic scope, illustrates the point
made by the historian Marco
Resci who declared of Leonardo
that his vision of the world was
cooly rational and empirical and
not mysterious at all.
For example, in the National
Geographic exhibit, which offers
a stunning catalogue of the
range of da Vinci’s epic genius,
consider the section on flight,
summed up by Leonardo himself
in these words: “There shall be
wings! If the accomplishment be
not for me, t’is for some
other.” For Leonardo was the first
to look at the science of flight
and in the process to create the
engineering of aeronautics.
Historians have long speculated
that Leonardo da Vinci was gay,
citing his homoerotic work and
relationships with young male
students.
Leonardo began this study
working on the design for flying
machines based on wing move-
ments he observed closely by
analyzing the flight patterns of
birds and bats and dissecting
them to study the anatomy of
their wings. Later, however, he
realized that humans — with less
than a quarter of their weight in
their arms and chest muscles —
would simply never have the
strength to fly like birds.
So he began instead to investi-
gate flight without wing movement,
by careful study of wind velocity
and ways to use air currents to
reach great heights. And his ideas,
sketched in his many notebooks
using his striking mirror-image cur-
sive (being left handed, it was eas-
ier for him to write from right to left),
foreshadow the use of gliders, air-
planes and helicopters and also
parachutes of today.
The genius of the National
Geographic Exhibit is how it demon-
strates the full scope of Leonardo’s
genius. It is a comprehensive travel-
ing presentation that required more
than a decade to complete and fea-
tures a vast array of full-scale
machine inventions built according
to his personal “codices” (or note-
books). It also includes reproduc-
tions of his most famous paintings,
including the “Mona Lisa.”
To understand the mystery
and the genius of Leonardo da
Vinci, this is an opportunity not to
be missed.
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SOCIALAGENDA
Working out an intervention
Jackie Warner returns
to Bravo with new
show, ‘Thintervention’
By JULIETTE M. EBNER
“Thintervention” is unlike
other weight-loss shows on tele-
vision today, according to Jackie
Warner, 42, best known for her
other Bravo show, “Work Out.”
“I don’t think this is a weight-loss
show. I think it’s a life-changing
show,” Warner said in an interview
with the Blade this week. “I think peo-
ple are having to deal with and work
on a different level in life, not just to
lose the 20- to 60-pound goal.”
“A work out from the inside
out,” added Craig Ramsay, the
other trainer on the show.
“Thintervention with Jackie
Warner” follows Warner as she
helps eight clients reach their
weight loss goal and change their
habits to keep the weight off.
“I’m really interested in dealing
with that whole person. I want their life
to be happier,” said Warner. “I want
them to have a better quality of living.”
Everything Warner teaches her
clients in the show comes from her
book, “This is Why You’re Fat (and
How to Get Thin Forever).”
“Every secret, every tip, the cul-
mination of my career, is in this
book,” said Warner. “Each and
every individual ... got a copy of the
book. That was their bible. They
were to read it cover to cover.”
Warner offered up a few of her
best tips.
“Always eat the whole fruit, never
juice,” said Warner. “Juice hasn’t
touched my lips in like 15 years. It’s
loaded with sugar and doesn’t have
much nutritional value.”
One of the clients is Jenna
Keough, 54, a former Playboy cen-
terfold, best known for starring in
another Bravo series, “The Real
Housewives of Orange County.”
“I felt like the little ones didn’t
give me any respect,” said Keough
about being the oldest of the cast.
“But that could have just been me
being a complainer. I definitely felt
my age when I went home.”
There were several factors
that led Keough to join the show.
“Andy Cohen from Bravo origi-
nally suggested to me,” said
Keough. “I tried everything. I need-
ed someone to kick me in the butt.”
“I think I told Jenna in the begin-
ning that she was my favorite
housewife,” said Warner in response
to a question about how Keough
came to the show, “but we did not
know each other previously.”
The new show is different from
“Work Out” in that it doesn’t follow
Warner’s personal life. Warner, a
lesbian, allowed Bravo’s cameras
to record the ups and downs of
previous relationships on the ear-
lier show, but not this time.
“On Work Out, I had to be very
vulnerable and I had to be honest
and I had to allow that insertion of
the cameras,” Warner said, when
asked if the new show was easier on
her personal life. “I had to be more
engaged than ‘Work Out.’ On ‘Work
Out’ I had to think of me. In this proj-
ect, I had to think outside of me. I had
to think of [the clients] only.”
There are other differences
between the two shows. Warner
is now an executive producer.
“‘Work Out’ happened to me,”
said Warner. “I made ‘Thintervention’
happen.”
Photo courtesy of Bravo
“Thintervention with Jackie
Warner” premieres Sept. 6 at ‘I don’t think this is a weight-loss show. I think it’s a life-changing show,’
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10 p.m. for the rest of the season.
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challenges as school starts
Continued from page 33
tem with other gay parents so that chil-
dren can look around and say, ‘gee I’m
not the only one with this kind of family,’”
said Silber. “It should be something peo-
ple think about, making sure that their
kids know other kids with gay families.”
There are other issues that may sur-
face that do not have directly to do with
the parent’s sexual orientation. Gervase
and his partner adopted both of their chil-
dren from abroad. That aspect of their
family needs to be discussed as well.
Teachers need to know how open the
family is about the child being adopted.
“We got to know what kinds of assign-
ments and projects they did that might
touch on family issues,” said Gervase. “A
lot of schools are avoiding [Mother’s Day
and Father’s Day] assignments. There are
other things to be on the lookout for, a lot
of younger classes asked the kids to
bring in a baby picture or family picture.”
“The teachers, every single year, have
been just fine to say, ‘well you can just do
you dad instead,” said Parkhurst when
asked abut Mother’s Day projects in the
classroom. “So every year they’ve brought
me home something on Mother’s Day.”
These kinds of assignments need to be
discussed because a child who is adopted
may not have any baby pictures because
they may have been adopted when they
were older. Some classes have students
create family trees that could raise the
same issues and questions.
“As part of the initial conversation with
the teacher, we’ve asked to think through
any assignments, to give them some
ideas about the kinds of things we might
be concerned about,” said Gervase.
When meeting with your child’s
teacher, Gervase suggests not only offer-
ing to be a resource, but bringing some
resources, such as books or articles on
LGBT families.
“We always tried to see ourselves as
partners in educating the teacher or
teachers and administration and, in gen-
eral, I think that is really appreciated,”
said Gervase. “There may be a little bit of
nervousness, on the school’s end, if
you’re the first, or they are concerned
about saying something wrong. I think
you really can disarm that by coming in
and being really comfortable and asking if
they have any questions.
Gervase and Silber suggest offering
yourself as a resource for when issues
arise in the classroom.
“You can sort of make this alliance
where you’re not critical of the teacher but
you want to be a resource so that if some-
thing happens, she might even turn to you
and talk about how to respond,” said
Gervase. “For example, a question of gay
marriage came up in the classroom, and
the teacher called on us to talk about it.”
“I think every parent should act as a
mentor, almost diplomat, to try to raise
issues,” said Silber. “Figure out how to
sensitize the co-parents or co-teachers to
these realities we have.”
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
SUSAN SILBER has two adult children
and urges LGBT parents to network with
other gay parents for support.
Gervase suggested bringing in a copy
of the Welcoming School guide, produced
by the Human Rights Campaign.
“[It] has been super helpful to us,” said
Gervase. “When [the kids] were in preschool,
we actually wrote some stuff like that.”
“Give it to every principal, because there
is so much good information,” Gervase.
“First, [parents should] read it themselves if
they don’t already know about it.”
The guide includes a list of resources
where teachers can learn more.
“There is a tremendous bibliography, so
one of the things our school did was take
that bibliography and every teacher read
one of the books that had a family diversi-
ty theme,” said Gervase. “They each used
it in the classroom for discussion then met
and compared notes to figure out which
ones worked well at which age.”
“There are also legal issues around actu-
al legal authority to do things,” said Silber.
She said it’s important to ensure the
school knows that the parent who may not
have adopted the child has the authority to
do things like pick the child up from school
or be called when something goes wrong
and the other parent is not home.
“The ideal thing is to use the school
experience as a way of reminding your-
self that both parents should have legal
authority,” said Silber. “In the absence of
[adoption] at least have some legal docu-
ments that give authority from the legal
parent to the other parent.”
Parkhurst admits that one of the tough-
est aspects of back-to-school season has
nothing to do with being a gay parent —
but rather just being a parent in general.
“Looking at their little faces when
they’re trying to be brave. They do what
they’re supposed to do and be where they
are supposed to be, and the parents just
sort of stand there and let them go,” said
Parkhurst. “The first ... one of my boys
was really good and strong about it, but ...
when he saw me at 3:15, his little lip start-
ed to quiver, but it wasn’t anything com-
pared to me. Teachers were pulling me
aside and giving me a box of Kleenex.”

FOODISTCOLONY
What’s on the menu as summer dining scene fades
Geoff Tracy’s new
book, Freshii’s
healthful choices and
‘Top Chef’ drama
By WILLIAM GEORGE
If you’ve ever found yourself at a
formal event wondering which
course you’re on or which fork to
use, D.C. restaurant The Caucus
Room (401 9th St. NW) is hosting
an event to help you overcome your
fears. On Sept. 13, Alexandra
Kovach and other members of the
Caucus Room staff are offering a
three-course dinner to provide din-
ers with a tutorial on proper order-
ing etiquette, flatware usage and a
simple approach to appropriate din-
ner conversation. Intended for
those who either need a refresher
course on business etiquette or
those whose table manners are in
dire need of an overhaul are invited
to attend. Cost is $59 per person
and the seating is at 7 p.m.
Business attire is suggested.
Contact Cristina Cravedi in special
events to reserve your place at the
table, 202-393-3223.
Photo courtesy of Bravo
Chef ALEX REZNIK has made it
to the final four weeks of compe-
tition on ‘Top Chef D.C.,’ but is his
luck about to run out?
Washington Chef Geoff Tracy
of Chef Geoff’s has a new book
on the horizon focusing on the
importance of nutrition in children.
“Baby Love,” available Aug. 31,
highlights techniques for preparing
meals for children ages 6 months
to 18 months old using less
processed, more organic ingredi-
ents for a fraction of the cost of
jarred baby food. Co-authored with
his wife, MSNBC chief correspon-
dent Norah O’Donnell, “Baby
Love” teaches the new generation
of health conscious parents how to
make two weeks worth of baby
food in less than an hour per week,
“even if you’ve never cooked a day
in your life.” The book is available
at Amazon.com.
For those of us trying to dodge
the influx of super calorie meals
on the go, there’s a new player on
the scene. Freshii, a new health
food quick service eatery in
Dupont Circle (20th and M
streets, N.W.) offers a variety of
healthful alternatives at accessi-
ble prices. Since its doors
opened in April, Freshii has
steadily gained a foothold in an
area where foot traffic abounds,
already serving close to 40,000
customers. Menu items include
burritos, wraps, soups and sal-
ads, along with a formidable
breakfast selection and a fat-free,
probiotic yogurt bar to calm the
august 27, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 45
sweet cravings. The most innova-
tive feature of the Freshii website
is a calculator that allows you to
build your own entrée and keeps
a nutritional tally as ingredients
are added or subtracted. It’s per-
fect for those of us who really
want to see the difference in fat
content between feta and blue
cheese and how it will affect
those pesky calories we all seem
to be counting. (freshii.com)
Four weeks remain in this
cycle of food competition main-
stay “Top Chef,” and it seems
as though Chef Alex Reznik’s
luck has finally run out.
Following the infamous “Pea-
gate” scandal at The Palm,
Reznik skated past elimination
during a tumultuous Restaurant
Wars by running the front of
house for the winning team, yet
not ostensibly preparing a dish
for service. Despite the efforts
of Chefs Kevin Sbraga and
Kenny Gilbert to get Reznik
eliminated, the judges decided
that the rules of the competition
would be upheld and that
Reznik would be allowed to stay
simply by virtue of his being on
the winning team. Chef Gilbert,
thought to be a favorite to win
the competition, was in turn told
to “pack his knives and go.”
However, the next week’s chal-
lenge, set at the CIA headquar-
ters in Langley, Va., proved to be
Reznik’s proverbial Waterloo. After
a dismal performance in a quick-
fire challenge judged by molecular
gastronomist Wylie Dusfresne,
Reznik utterly failed at the elimina-
tion task dubbed “Covert Cuisine.”
The challenge was to take a stan-
dard dish and prepare it in such a
way that it was unrecognizable at
first glance, but unmistakable
upon tasting. Sleeper powerhouse
Chef Tiffany Derry of Beaumont,
Texas won with a deconstructed
Greek gyro consisting of a roasted
leg of lamb served with smoky
eggplant, tomatoes and pickled
onions. Chef Reznik’s version of
veal parmesan was marred by
poor execution and faulty ingredi-
ent choices. Head judge Tom
Colicchio even went so far as to
say that he had eaten better food
“out of a box.”
It goes to show that in the
end, there’s no worse karma
than kitchen karma. This week,
the chefs take on running a con-
cession stand at Nationals Park.
(bravotv.com)
46 washingtonblade.com • august 27, 2010
SPORTIN’INDC
Golf sees revival after Olympic reinstatement
Lambda Links offers
tournaments, weekly
play through Oct. 31
By KEVIN MAJOROS
With the rise and fall of Tiger
Woods and the reinstatement of
golf for the 2016 summer Olympics,
the sport is experiencing a mini
revival. The Lambda Links Golf
Club is the local LGBT chapter of
the sport boasting a membership
roster of 80 players. The members
play each weekend from April 1 to
Oct. 31, rotating weekly between
Saturday and Sunday. Membership
is $35 and entitles the players to
three guest passes for the season
and priority tee times for them-
selves and guests with passes.
Also included is eligibility for official
United States Golf Association
(USGA) handicap as a member of
a sanctioned USGA golf club.
The Links play different courses
every weekend in the D.C.,
Maryland, and Virginia metro area
utilizing the stroke play format. Matt
LaChance, secretary of the Links
stated, “The costs range from $40
The Lambda Links play weekly through Oct. 31.
to $80 for 18 holes depending on
the course.” In stroke play, golfers
record the number of strokes taken
at each of the 18 holes and the
player with the lowest score is the
winner. When taking the handicap
into consideration, the player sub-
tracts their handicap from the total
score to generate their net score,
and the player with the lowest net
score is the winner. Handicaps are
essentially a representative of the
average over par of a number of a
player’s previous above average
rounds, adjusted for course difficul-
ty. To keep things interesting, the
Lambda Links toss in six special
club events during the season,
which include a four-person scram-
ble event, a two-person best ball
event and the season end club
championship.
If you are interested in becom-
ing a member, the Links welcome
Photo by Kevin Majoros
all skill levels though the following
criteria must be met:
• You have played at least five
18-hole rounds of golf.
• You know about pace of play.
• You are familiar with the rules
of golf.
• You are familiar with golf eti-
quette.
Nonmembers may play with the
Links for an extra $5 each time.
However, nonmembers must wait
until Thursday before the playing
weekend to request a tee time slot,
taking what is still available. A non-
member is a person who does not
have a guest pass from a current
club member. A nonmember or
guest may also participate in the
special club events for an extra
cost of $10. They may also partic-
ipate in the club championship but
are not eligible for prizes or tro-
phies. The remaining events for
the 2010 season are the club
championship on Sept. 25 and the
Halloween tournament on Oct. 31.
Inquiries can be directed to lamb-
dalinks@yahoo.com Check out the
Lambda Links at lambdalinks.org
Gay Games update
A couple of local athletes were
omitted from the last column’s
Cologne Gay Games medal count:
Karen Dixon took gold in golf and
power lifting; Jay Walton won two
bronze medals in figure skating.
Kevin Majoros has been a member of
the District of Columbia Aquatics Club
since 1996 and a Team DC board
member since 2006. Reach him at
kmajoros@verizon.net.
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