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washingtonblade.com • vol. 42, issue 11 • march 18, 2011 • Still sharp after 40 years

‘Strategic blunder of monstrous proportions’ 

Insiders rip HRC, Gill decision to
cancel Maryland vote on marriage
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com

The decision to cancel a March 11 vote on a same-sex marriage bill

in the Maryland House of Delegates was a mistake that could hurt rather
than help the chances for passing the bill within the next several years,
according to Maryland-based advocates who lobbied for the bill.
The advocates who expressed this view, some of whom spoke on
condition that they not be identified, said at least four national LGBT
groups put pressure on lawmakers through Equality Maryland, the state-
wide LGBT group, to withdraw the bill rather than risk a losing vote.
One of the advocates called the national groups and their political op-
eratives who came to Maryland to lobby for the bill well intentioned but
unfamiliar with the nuances and “rhythms” of the Maryland Legislature.
“I think this was a strategic blunder of monstrous proportions,” said
Mark McLaurin, political director of Maryland’s Local 500 of the Service
Employees International Union (SEIU), which lobbied for the bill.
McLaurin, a gay man who has lobbied the Maryland Legislature for
progressive causes for more than 15 years, said many insiders familiar
with the legislature don’t think a losing vote by a close margin would
hurt the bill’s chances in the future. Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
On the other hand, McLaurin and others who favored taking a vote
Del. Luke Clippinger (right) was one of several openly gay delegates to speak last week on the House floor in favor of a failed bill
to legalize same-sex marriage.
Continues on page 14

New DOMA repeal effort

Nadler, Feinstein kick off efforts
to remove federal marriage ban
nightlifeagenda By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The Blade and JR.’s to host Janet Jackson post-concert party Tuesday.
PAGE 34
House and Senate lawmakers on Wednes-
day pledged to lift the Defense of Marriage Act
from the books upon the introduction of legis-
lation that would repeal the anti-gay law that
bars federal recognition of same-sex marriage.
In the House, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
introduced the legislation, known as the Re-
spect for Marriage Act, along with 108 co-
sponsors. Among the supporters are the four
openly gay members of Congress: Reps.
Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-
socialagenda Wisc.), Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and David Cicil- Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
Local winners of $100,000 same-sex wedding contest tie the knot. ‘This defies common sense and harms thousands of mar-
PAGE 33 ried couples,’ said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.).
Continues on page 5
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LOCALNEWS
Ethics complaint dismissed
against Dana Beyer
The Montgomery County Ethics Commission on
March 8 dismissed a complaint against retired eye sur-
geon and transgender activist Dana Beyer that alleged
Beyer violated county ethics rules in 2008 by improp-
erly campaigning against a proposed referendum to
overturn a transgender non-discrimination law.
The complaint was filed by Ruth Jacobs, president
of the Maryland Citizens for a Responsible Govern-
ment, an anti-LGBT group. The group filed petitions
calling for a voter referendum to overturn a transgen-
der non-discrimination law passed by the Montgomery
County Council in November 2007.
The referendum never made it to the ballot because
supporters failed to gather the required number of peti-
tion signatures.
Beyer had been working at the time on the staff of
County Council member Duchy Trachtenberg, an at-
large Democrat, who authored the law. The law bans
discrimination in employment, housing, public accom-
modations and other areas based on a person’s gen-
der identity.
Jacobs alleged in her complaint that Beyer and oth-
ers opposed to the referendum improperly interfered
with efforts by her group to gather signatures outside
various Giant Food stores by, among other things, “yell-
ing and screaming” at petition circulators and poten-
tial signers of the petitions. Jacobs also charged that
Beyer abused her role as an employee of the County
Council by allegedly telling the manager of one of the
Giant stores that he would have “problems” with the
county if he allowed the petitions to be circulated on
store property.
Beyer denied the allegations, saying they were fab-
ricated by Jacobs and others as a means of retaliating
against legitimate efforts by supporters of the non-dis-
crimination law to campaign against the referendum.
“In order for [the ethics code] to be violated, the
employee’s conduct must be on the job, include self-
identification as a public employee, or otherwise entail
the prestige of office,” the Ethics Commission said in
its ruling. “Assuming that Dr. Beyer did confront MCRG
volunteers, Giant Food managers, and patrons, there
is no credible evidence that she invoked her county
Arena Stage honors Albee
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater honored gay playwright Edward Albee with the American Artist Award
on Monday. Presenters included actors Tracy Letts and Amy Morton from Arena Stage’s production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?” as well as award-winning actor Kathleen Turner. The American Artist Award honors an artist who has made a significant
contribution to American theater.
position while doing so.”
In a statement Beyer hailed the decision to dismiss
the case but expressed concern that the commission’s
earlier decision to find probable cause that she may
have violated ethics rules indicates the county’s ethics
process is flawed.
“After having failed to defeat anti-discrimination pro-
tections for transgender citizens in the County Council,
and then failing to get their referendum on the ballot, a
small group of narrow-minded, political motivated in-
dividuals tried to obstruct justice a third time by going
after me personally,” she said.
Jacobs could not be immediately reached for com-
ment.
— LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Murder trial opens
in anti-gay ‘hate’ case
A trial began this week for a 26-year-old D.C. man
charged with first-degree murder while armed in con-
nection with the November 2009 stabbing death of
a man that prosecutors have classified as an anti-gay
hate crime.
In charging documents filed in D.C. Superior Court,
police and prosecutors said Justin L. Navarro, 26,
stabbed D.C. resident Kevin Massey at least 18 times
inside Massey’s apartment in the 4200 block of 2nd St.,
N.W., on Nov. 6, 2009.
The court documents say an eyewitness told police
the witness saw Navarro enter Massey’s bedroom after
asking the witness, “Where is the faggy ass nigger?”
“Witness 1 observed the defendant armed with a
large kitchen knife which the defendant used to thrust
into the decedent’s body,” a police arrest affidavit says.
“Witness 1 stated that it observed the defendant thrust
the knife into the decedent’s body twice before Witness
1 fled the apartment for its safety,” the affidavit says.
An eight-count grand jury indictment of Navarro
charges that, “the murder demonstrated the prejudice
of Justin L. Navarro…based on the actual or perceived
sexual orientation of Kevin Massey.”
A law enforcement source said Navarro allegedly
stabbed Massey because he incorrectly believed that
Massey had made a pass at him weeks before the
— MICHAEL KEY
murder and that “rumors were spreading about the two
men.”
Prosecutors filed a motion last September objecting
to plans by the defense to argue that Navarro com-
mitted the stabbing in self-defense. An attorney rep-
resenting Navarro could not be immediately reached
for comment.
The trial before Judge Lynn Leibovitz was expected
to last through this week.
— LOU CHIBBARO JR.
San Fran mayoral candidate
seeks support in D.C.
A gay candidate running for mayor in San Francis-
co, who served for eight years on that city’s Board of
Supervisors, is scheduled to hold a fundraiser in D.C.
on March 21.
D.C. area supporters of Bevan Dufty say Dufty has
the “drive, energy, responsiveness and effectiveness”
to be an excellent mayor and are calling on local ac-
tivists to contribute to his campaign. Dufty is a former
D.C. resident who started his career as a staff mem-
ber to former U.S. Reps. Shirley Chisholm and Julian
Dixon, both Democrats.
He is the only gay candidate in a field of eight com-
peting for the mayoral post in the Nov. 8 election.
Dufty’s campaign announced earlier this year that
he reversed an earlier decision to limit the amount of
campaign contributions he would accept to $200 rath-
er than the legal limit of $500. He also initially vowed
not to accept contributions from donors outside San
Francisco. Those restrictions hurt his campaign, ac-
cording to political pundits, who noted he had fallen
behind most of his competitors in funds raised.
In addition to seeking support from individual do-
nors in D.C., Dufty is applying for the endorsement of
the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, a national group that
supports openly LGBT candidates for public office.
Information about the D.C. event, set to take place
at a private residence near Dupont Circle, can be ob-
tained by contacting Jill McCarthy at 202-316-8006 or
jillmc6@gmail.com.
— LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Correction
A story in the Feb. 24 issue of the
Washington Blade about the mur-
der of Temple Hills, Md., resident
Christopher Alan Trueheart on Feb.
13 incorrectly reported that a man
charged with the murder —D.C.
resident Eldridge Slaughter — was
Trueheart’s partner. A caption ac-
companying a photo published with
the story also incorrectly identi-
fied a man in the photo who posed
alongside Trueheart as Eldridge.
The person posing with Trueheart in
the photo, which was obtained from
Trueheart’s Facebook page, was
another man who was Trueheart’s
partner of two years. That person
is not implicated in the murder. The
mix-up was due to police sources
saying Eldridge and Trueheart were
involved in a romantic relationship
and to someone who knew True-
heart, who incorrectly identified the
man posing beside Trueheart in the
Facebook photo as Eldridge. The
Blade regrets the error.
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4 washingtonblade.com • march 18, 2011
LOCALNEWS
Stein Club endorses
Biddle for Council
All candidates express
support for LGBT rights
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the
city’s largest LGBT political group, endorsed
Democrat Sekou Biddle Monday night for an
at-large seat on the D.C. City Council that’s
up for grabs in an April 26 special election.
Biddle beat former Council member
Vincent Orange (D-Ward 5) and four
other Democratic candidates competing
for the club’s endorsement in a second
ballot vote, capturing 61.2 percent of
the ballots cast. He needed at least 60
percent of the vote for the endorsement
under the club’s election rules.
The D.C. Democratic State Committee
appointed Biddle, a former Ward 4 school
board member, to the at-large Council
seat on an interim basis in January under
rules established for filling vacant Coun-
cil seats. The seat became vacant when
Council member Kwame Brown (D-At-
Large) became Council Chair after win-
ning election to that post in November.
Stein members voted on the endorse-
ment following a candidates’ forum held
at Town nightclub in which Biddle and
each of the other five candidates appear-
ing before the club expressed strong
support for LGBT issues, including sup-
port for the city’s same-sex marriage law.
Biddle won the club’s endorsement in
2007 in his successful race for a school
board seat and was considered the favorite
for winning an endorsement again Monday.
But Orange, in a stronger showing than
expected, received 16 votes, or 38.7 per-
cent, of the 53 votes cast on the first bal-
lot, preventing Biddle from capturing the
needed 60 percent to win. Biddle received
30 votes, or 56 percent, on the first ballot.
Ward 8 Democratic Committee president
Jacque Patterson received four votes in the
first ballot voting. Joshua Lopez, an aide to
former Mayor Adrian Fenty; Bryan Weaver,
a former Ward 1 Advisory Neighborhood
Commissioner; and Dorothy Douglas, a
former Ward 7 school board member, re-
ceived one vote each in the first ballot vote.
On the second ballot, which was lim-
ited to Biddle and Orange, Biddle re-
ceived 30 votes compared to 19 votes
received by Orange.
Three additional candidates running in
the April 26 special election were ineligible
to compete for the Stein Club’s endorsement
because they are not Democrats. They in-
clude Patrick Mara, a Republican and long-
time supporter of LGBT rights; Alan Page, a
Statehood Green Party candidate; and inde-
pendent candidate Arkan Haile.
Democratic candidate Tom Brown did
not return a Stein Club questionnaire re-
quired for the club’s endorsement and for
participation in the forum. Although he
attended the forum, he was not allowed
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
‘It’s exciting to get the support of Gertrude
Stein Democratic Club members,’ Sekou
Biddle said after the vote. ‘I think I’ve shown
in the four years since I’ve been serving the
city that I’ve made people proud and I’ve
led and have really been a champion for the
LGBT community.’
to speak. He has since promised to com-
plete and return the questionnaire, and
the club will post it on its website, ac-
cording to club officials.
The questionnaire responses by
the six candidates who attended the
club’s endorsement meeting, which cov-
er a wide range of LGBT issues, can be
viewed at steindemocrats.org.
“It’s exciting to get the support of Ger-
trude Stein Democratic Club members,”
Biddle said after the vote. “I think I’ve
shown in the four years since I’ve been
serving the city that I’ve made people
proud and I’ve led and have really been
a champion for the LGBT community.”
The Stein Club’s interim president, La-
teefah Williams, said the club’s officers
and members would decide within the next
week on the amount of a campaign contri-
bution the club would make for the Biddle
campaign. She said the club would also
Trans Maryland rallies at Supreme Court
provide volunteers to help the campaign.
“We endorsed a candidate who’s very Activists from Trans Maryland and their allies held a rally in front of the U.S.
committed to LGBT issues,” Williams Supreme Court on Tuesday to demand that lawmakers reinstate language barring
said. “We’re very fortunate that all of our discrimination in public accommodations to the proposed Gender Identity Anti-
at-large Council candidates are indeed Discrimination Bill in Maryland.
supportive of our issues.” The bill, if passed, would bar discrimination based on gender identity in employ-
Nearly all special elections in D.C. ment and housing.
have been known for attracting a low vot- Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk (D-Prince George’s and Anne Arundel Counties), a
er turnout, making the outcome hard to strong LGBT rights supporter who has sponsored a transgender rights bill in the
predict, according to political observers. legislature since 2007, said she removed the public accommodations provision
The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics after determining it was the only way to obtain enough votes to pass the legislation.
issued a ruling on Tuesday disqualifying “The bottom line is discrimination is not right,” she told the Blade. “I have had
Patterson as a candidate in the April 26 this bill now for over three years and initially I introduced it with the section on pub-
election, saying it determined he failed to lic accommodations, which I believe in.”
submit the required 3,000 petition signa- Ashley Love, a transgender and intersex advocate attending the rally, told the
tures needed to be placed on the ballot for Blade, “If the bill is passed in its compromised form, a transsexual woman may
an at-large Council seat. In a separate rul- gain the protection to keep her job as a nurse at a Maryland hospital, but she could
ing, the board confirmed that Mara obtained be denied emergency room care in the same hospital she is employed at if the staff
more than 3,000 signatures and qualifies were transphobic. For instance, Tyra Hunter was refused care for serious injuries
for placement on the ballot. The board in- by EMS worker Adrian Williams, and later by the physician. As a result, she died.
vestigated Patterson, Mara and Weaver’s Without public accommodations protections, this bill has no merit.”
petitions in response to challenges filed by A committee vote on the measure in the Maryland House of Delegates is ex-
the Biddle and Lopez campaigns. A board pected later this month.
spokesperson said the challenges against — MICHAEL KEY
Weaver’s petitions were dropped.

NATIONALNEWS
Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) was among just 14 senators who voted against DOMA in 1996.
She’s among 18 senators who are co-sponsoring repeal.
DOMA repeal bills introduced
in U.S. House and Senate
Continued from page 1
line (D-R.I.).
On the same day, Sen. Dianne Fein-
stein (D-Calif.), among the 14 senators
who voted against DOMA in 1996, in-
troduced companion legislation in the
Senate. Among the 18 co-sponsors of
the Senate bill are Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.),
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Chris Coons
(D-Del.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-
Conn.).
Feinstein’s introduction of the bill in the
Senate marks the first time that DOMA
repeal legislation has been put forward
in the upper chamber of Congress since
the law’s passage 15 years ago.
At a news conference on Wednesday,
Nadler denounced DOMA for treating
married same-sex couples as “complete
strangers” under federal law.
“This defies common sense and
harms thousands of married couples
who are denied federal responsibilities
and rights, including access to programs
like Social Security, that other couples
can count on when getting married,”
Nadler said.
Baldwin said those who have been
fighting DOMA since it became law have
always known fairness and justice were
on their side.
“Repealing DOMA is important sym-
bolically and substantively,” Baldwin
said. “Now that we have repealed ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell,’ the Defense of Marriage
Act remains the only example of overt
discrimination against gays and lesbians
written into our federal statutes.”
In a separate conference later in the
day, Feinstein noted that DOMA bars
married same-sex couples from obtain-
ing access to government programs that
straight couples enjoy for economic sta-
bility.
“Right now, because of DOMA, these
couples cannot take advantage of fed-
eral protections available to every other
married couple in this country,” she said.
Gillibrand said the fight to repeal
DOMA is about fairness and called the
ability to get married and start a family “a
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
basic human right.”
“Every loving couple in America de-
serves this right, and no politician should
stand in their way,” Gillibrand said. “Mar-
riage is the foundation for strong families;
it gives couples the base they need to
build a long-lasting life together, start a
family, raise children and put their chil-
dren on the successful path for their fu-
ture.”
Gillibrand commended states through-
out the country for legalizing same-sex
marriage and added she “looks forward
to the day ... when marriage equality is
the law of the land from coast to coast.”
Passed by Congress in 1996, DOMA
was signed into law by President Clin-
ton. Both Clinton and the bill’s sponsor at
the time, former Republican Congress-
man Bob Barr, have come out for repeal
of the legislation.
DOMA has two components: one that
prohibits the federal government from
recognizing same-sex marriage and an-
other that allows states not to recognize
such marriages performed in other juris-
dictions.
As a result of the component of DOMA
known as Section 3, married same-sex
couples cannot participate in federal
programs. For instance, they can’t file
joint federal income faxes, receive spou-
sal benefits under Social Security or
obtain exemptions of the estate tax law
upon the death of one of the spouses.
At the House news conference, Evan
Wolfson, executive director of Freedom
to Marry, said repeal of DOMA is impor-
tant because “we do not have second-
class citizens, and we should not have
second-class marriages.”
“To be excluded from marriage ... is
personal and a real hardship,” Wolfson
said. “It is an indignity and it is manifest
injustice when it is discrimination prac-
ticed by the government.”
In addition to repealing DOMA, the
Respect for Marriage Act contains a
“certainty provision” that would allow
same-sex couples married in one juri-
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march 18, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 5
Megachurch asks choir to sign anti-gay statement
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — Several choir members at Orange County’s Crystal
Cathedral say they’re upset over a document they’ve been asked to sign that takes
a strong stand against homosexuality, the Associated Press and other news outlets
reported this week.
The “Crystal Cathedral Worship Choir and Worship Team Covenant” recently
handed out to members states that they should commit to being Christians by fol-
lowing the Bible in every way, the Orange County Register reported Tuesday.
Former and current choir members say they are particularly offended by a state-
ment in the document that refers to homosexuality. Long-time church members say
this is the first time they have seen the cathedral take a firm stand against homo-
sexuality and are disturbed by it, the AP reported.
“I understand that in an era where images of family relationship and personal
sexuality are often confused, Crystal Cathedral Ministries believes that it is impor-
tant to teach and model the biblical view,” the covenant reads. “I understand that
Crystal Cathedral Ministries teaches that sexual intimacy is intended by God to
only be within the bonds of marriage, between one man and one woman.”
Sheila Schuller Coleman, daughter of the founder and senior pastor of the
megachurch, issued a statement saying the document is intended to “clarify ex-
pectations placed on them as ministry leaders.” Coleman also apologized for the
pain the covenant has caused some choir members.
Don Neuen, the cathedral’s longtime choir director, left the church last year
because he disagreed with Gretchen Schuller Penner’s view that choir members
should be “vetted” to make sure they are good Christians, the Register reported.
John Charles, a spokesman for the cathedral, said this does not mean gays are
banned from the choir.
“This contract is to educate choir members about what our church believes in,”
he said.
Texas Dem official draws heat for comments
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The chairman of the Democratic Party for Bexar Coun-
ty, Texas, is drawing heat around the country for comments he made to a state
newspaper last week that said gays were like polio-stricken children and Stonewall
Democrats, a gay group, is akin to Nazis.
In immediate response, State Democratic Party Chair Boyd Richie called on
Dan Ramos to resign his post. Texas Stonewall Democrats called on him to apolo-
gize or resign. And Bexar County Young Democrats urged him to apologize and
resign “for his profane display of bigotry.”
Among his more incendiary comments to the San Antonio Current last week,
Ramos said, “I liken [Stonewall Democrats] to the Tea Party — the Tea Party and
the fucking Nazi Party — because they’re 90 percent white, blue-eyed, and Anglo,
and I don’t give a shit who knows that. That’s the truth. Just like the blacks, they’re
strong. And there’s nothing wrong — they’re Americans — but you can’t get your
way just because you’re black.”
Richie lambasted Ramos’ “bigoted attitudes.” Not only that, Richie blamed Ra-
mos in a prepared statement for a “constant state of turmoil” in the Bexar County
party.
San Antonio State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer filed legislation last
week that would give state party leaders power to remove county chairs for “in-
competency or official misconduct.”
Four N.Y. teens charged in fatal attack
NEW YORK — Four teenagers have been charged in connection with an al-
leged bias attack in Queens that claimed the life of an 18-year-old man, NY1, a
New York City-based news affiliate reported this week.
Police say it began around midnight Saturday after five teenagers crashed a
birthday party that had been advertised on Facebook on 90th Street in Wood-
haven.
Once inside, investigators say the teens smashed windows and yelled anti-gay
slurs while flashing gang signs. They then chased Anthony Collao, 18, as he was
leaving the party and beat him with a pipe.
Collao was put on life support, but died Monday at Jamaica Hospital.
The host of the party, who did not want his identity released, tells NY1 that while
the suspects were not invited, they are known in the neighborhood.
He also says while he himself is gay, Collao was not and doesn’t understand
why he was attacked.
Court papers identify the suspects as Luis Tabales, 16, Alex Velez, 16, Chris-
tophe Lozada, 17 and Nolis Ogando, 17.
They are being held on bail and face charges of gang assault, manslaughter
and criminal possession of a weapon. As of late Tuesday, police were still looking
for a fifth suspect. The hate crime task force is involved in the investigation.
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You should take REYATAZ once daily with food (a meal or snack). Swallow the capsules whole; do
not open the capsules. You should take REYATAZ and your other anti-HIV medicines exactly as
instructed by your healthcare provider. Please see Important Patient Information
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. about REYATAZ on the adjacent pages.
Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

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ALERT: Find out about medicines that should NOT be taken with REYATAZ.
Read the section “What important information should I know about taking REYATAZ
with other medicines?”
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a summary about REYATAZ and does not include everything there is to know
about your medicine. This information does not take the place of talking with your
healthcare provider about your medical condition or treatment.
What is REYATAZ?
REYATAZ is a prescription medicine used with other anti-HIV medicines to treat
people who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is the
virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). REYATAZ is a
type of anti-HIV medicine called a protease inhibitor. HIV infection destroys CD4+
(T) cells, which are important to the immune system. The immune system helps
fight infection. After a large number of (T) cells are destroyed, AIDS develops.
REYATAZ helps to block HIV protease, an enzyme that is needed for the HIV
virus to multiply. REYATAZ may lower the amount of HIV in your blood, help your
body keep its supply of CD4+ (T) cells, and reduce the risk of death and illness
associated with HIV.
Does REYATAZ cure HIV or AIDS?
REYATAZ does not cure HIV infection or AIDS. At present there is no cure for
HIV infection. People taking REYATAZ may still get opportunistic infections or other
conditions that happen with HIV infection. Opportunistic infections are infections
that develop because the immune system is weak. Some of these conditions are
pneumonia, herpes virus infections, and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC)
infections. It is very important that you see your healthcare provider regularly
while taking REYATAZ.
REYATAZ does not lower your chance of passing HIV to other people through
sexual contact, sharing needles, or being exposed to your blood. For your
health and the health of others, it is important to always practice safer sex by
using a latex or polyurethane condom or other barrier to lower the chance of sexual
contact with semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. Never use or share dirty needles.
Who should not take REYATAZ?
Do not take REYATAZ if you:
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are taking certain medicines. (See “What important information should I
know about taking REYATAZ with other medicines?”) Serious life-threatening
side effects or death may happen. Before you take REYATAZ, tell your
healthcare provider about all medicines you are taking or planning to take.
These include other prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins,
and herbal supplements.
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are allergic to REYATAZ or to any of its ingredients. The active ingredient
is atazanavir sulfate. See the end of this leaflet for a complete list of
ingredients in REYATAZ. Tell your healthcare provider if you think you have
had an allergic reaction to any of these ingredients.
What should I tell my healthcare provider before I take REYATAZ?
Tell your healthcare provider:
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If you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. It is not known if
REYATAZ can harm your unborn baby. Pregnant women have experienced
serious side effects when taking REYATAZ with other HIV medicines called
nucleoside analogues. You and your healthcare provider will need to decide
if REYATAZ is right for you. If you use REYATAZ while you are pregnant, talk
to your healthcare provider about the Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry.
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If you are breast-feeding. You should not breast-feed if you are HIV-positive
because of the chance of passing HIV to your baby. Also, it is not known if
REYATAZ can pass into your breast milk and if it can harm your baby. If you
are a woman who has or will have a baby, talk with your healthcare provider
about the best way to feed your baby.
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medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Keep a list of your medicines
with you to show your healthcare provider. For more information, see “What
important information should I know about taking REYATAZ with other
medicines?” and “Who should not take REYATAZ?” Some medicines can
cause serious side effects if taken with REYATAZ.
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VIREAD® (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate), you should also be taking NORVIR®
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your next scheduled dose at its regular time. If, however, it is within 6 hours
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3 months to less than 6 years of age. REYATAZ should not be used in babies under
the age of 3 months.
What are the possible side effects of REYATAZ?
The following list of side effects is not complete. Report any new or continuing
symptoms to your healthcare provider. If you have questions about side effects,
ask your healthcare provider. Your healthcare provider may be able to help you
manage these side effects.
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NATIONALNEWS
White House hosts anti-bullying conference
Obamas urge parents
to be more involved in
children’s lives
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
President Obama last week opened
the doors of the White House to anti-
bullying advocates for a conference in
which participants discussed harass-
ment of students and devised strategies
to curtail bullying.
In remarks starting off the conference,
Obama said if the conference had one
goal, it would be dispel the myth that bul-
lying is “a harmless rite of passage or an
inevitable part of growing up.”
“It’s not,” he said. “Bullying can have
destructive consequences for our young
people. And it’s not something we have
to accept. As parents and students, as
teachers and members of the commu-
nity, we can take steps — all of us — to
help prevent bullying and create a cli-
mate in our schools in which all of our
children can feel safe; a climate in which
they all can feel like they belong.”
The conference, in which about 150 stu-
dents, parents, teachers and anti-bullying
advocates participated, wasn’t specifically
directed toward the bullying of LGBT stu-
dents, although harassment of children be-
cause of their sexual orientation or gender
identity was often mentioned.
Bullying of LGBT students received
renewed attention late last year when
several young men who were gay or per-
ceived to be gay took their own lives af-
ter they were reportedly bullied. Among
them was Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers
University student, who leaped off the
George Washington Bridge in Septem-
ber after a video was posted online of
him reportedly having a sexual encoun-
ter with another man in his dorm room.
During his remarks, Obama noted
that students who are gay are among the
types of young people who often face
bullying at school.
“A third of middle school and high school
students have reported being bullied during
the school year,” Obama said. “Almost 3 mil-
lion students have said they were pushed,
shoved, tripped, even spit on. It’s also more
likely to affect kids that are seen as different,
whether it’s because of the color of their skin,
the clothes they wear, the disability they may
have, or sexual orientation.”
Obama also announced that his ad-
ministration had launched a new website,
stopbullying.gov, as a resource housed
within the Department of Health & Hu-
man Services for parents, students and
teachers on how to confront the issue of
bullying in schools. The website is set to
provide information on the risks of bullying
and its warning signs and effects.
First lady Michelle Obama, who in-
troduced the president at the start of
the event, said the issue of bullying is
personal for both her and her husband
because of their concern for their two
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama spoke last week at a White House conference
on bullying, telling attendees that bullying is not a harmless rite of passage.
daughters, Malia and Sasha.
“As parents, this issue really hits home
for us,” she said. “As parents, it breaks
our hearts to think that any child feels
afraid every day in the classroom, or on
the playground, or even online. It breaks
our hearts to think about any parent los-
ing a child to bullying, or just wondering
whether their kids will be safe when they
leave for school in the morning.”
Michelle Obama urged parents “to
make a real effort to be engaged in our
children’s lives” and to listen to them and
be there when needed.
“We need to get involved in their
schools and in their activities so that we
know what they’re up to, both in and out
of the classroom,” she said. “And when
something is wrong, we need to speak
up, and we need to take action.”
Following the president’s remarks, Val-
erie Jarrett, senior adviser to the president,
led a panel discussion of anti-bullying ex-
perts to discuss ways that parents, admin-
istrators and government officials can work
to curtail harassment of students.
Points that were mentioned included
recommending that parents be friends with
their children on Facebook for oversight
purposes and how the behavior of those
who perpetuate bullying must also be ad-
dressed as part of anti-bullying efforts.
After the panel, conference participants
split into five break-out sessions for more
extensive debate on particular issues re-
lated to bullying. Topics of the breakout
sessions included cyber-bullying and in-
school programs to confront bullying.
Top Obama administration officials
during a wrap-up session at the close of
the conference emphasized the support
that anti-bullying advocates have in the
White House.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan an-
nounced a new initiative — a technical as-
sistance center, which would specifically
address harassment to complement anti-
bullying efforts that are already underway.
“By trying to highlight these best prac-
tices, we will help state and local policy
makers and educators work to keep chil-
dren safe and provide the best learning
environment for all students,” Duncan
said. “We can provide support, which
is why I’m happy to announce today our
department’s intention to establish a new
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
technical assistance center specifically
dedicated to bullying prevention.”
Secretary of Health & Human Services
Kathleen Sebelius urged teachers and
others to speak out when anti-gay slurs
are used in schools.
“Building safe neighborhoods and
schools where young people can thrive
is a job for all of us,” Sebelius said. “It
means speaking out next time you hear
a homophobic slur, stepping in when you
see someone being preyed upon and let-
ting your local education leaders — from
principals to schools — know that bullying
is not an isolated part of growing up. It’s a
serious danger for all of our children.”
Participants had a largely positive
reaction to the event and thought it was
productive in devising strategies to
thwart bullying.
In a statement, Jeff Krehely, director of
the LGBT research and communications
project at the Center for American Prog-
ress, said the conference “put a national
spotlight” on bullying and its potentially
“destructive impact.”
“Although the event is born out of
tragedies, the conference will hopefully
spark a robust national discussion about
what we can all do to stop this problem,”
Krehely said. “With an increase in bul-
lying and full-on assaults on youth who
are perceived to be gay or transgender,
as well as those who are perceived to
be Muslim, now is the right time to show
leadership on this issue.”
Caleb Laiseki, executive director of
the Arizona-based Gays & Lesbians
United Against Discrimination, said the
conference was “much more productive”
than he expected.
“I’m coming from Arizona, and Arizo-
na can’t even pass the anti-bullying bill
through committee, so I was extremely
happy to see the White House was very
dedicated to this,” Laiseki said.
Laiseki, who’s 16 and gay, dropped
out of high school after he was bullied
because of his sexual orientation and
completed his education by earning a
general equivalency diploma. He found-
ed GLUAD to help address the problems
he faced in school.
“The reason I started the organization
was because I was pushed into lock-
ers and humiliated,” he said. “I received
death threats [and was] followed home.
It was just one thing after another. And
I also had a friend commit suicide after
several attempts. So, the main goal of
GLAUD is homelessness, suicide pre-
vention and anti-bullying work.”
Laiseki attended the breakout session
focused on cyber-bullying and said he
proposed that law enforcement officials
have the tools to intervene immediately
when such harassment takes place.
“We can immediately track down the
[Internet protocol] address and go from
there,” Laiseki said. “And both of the
representatives [from the Obama ad-
ministration] were in agreement. And we
took notes actually and discussed it for
at least one-third of the meeting.”
Dan Savage, founder of the “It Gets
Better” online video campaign aimed at
helping troubled LGBT teens, said the
conference was of “tremendous sym-
bolic importance” because it identified
bullying as a national problem, but said
more could be done with the issue of par-
ents being the bullies of LGBT youth.
“What was never addressed is when
the parents are the bullies,” Savage said.
“LGBT kids whose parents reject them
are eight times likelier to attempt sui-
cide; kids who are LGBT are four times.
It literally doubles the risk of the already
quadrupled risk of suicide for LGBT kids
when their families reject them.”
Legislation pending before Congress
known as the Student Non-Discrimination
Act and the Safe Schools Improvement Act
would address the issue of LGBT bullying
of students in schools. Savage, who’s gay
and a sex-advice columnist, said the pas-
sage of this legislation would be effective.
“It puts schools on notice,” Savage
said. “It establishes a national sense
of accountability. Schools are reactive.
They don’t like to be sued. They don’t like
to get in trouble with the folks that pay
the bills — at the federal or state level
— and it really creates a way for school
administrators and school boards to be
held accountable.”
Shannon Cuttle, director of Safe
Schools Action Network, said she felt the
event was effective because it drew at-
tention to the issue of bullying.
“I think that anytime that you can col-
lectively get a group of people to work in
collaboration to try to discuss this issue,
it’s going to put a dent in the issue,” Cut-
tle said. “Today is making the right step.
Being able to bring people from across
America — teachers, administrators, in-
dividuals and students — that’s key.”
But Cuttle, a lesbian D.C. activist, said
the best way to address the issue of bul-
lying in schools is to confront harassment
with “boots on the ground.”
“We have to be able to go into the
schools, we have to have conversations and
we have to be able to discuss the issue,”
she said. “We have to be able to have those
honest, open conversations with teachers
and school administrators, and as parents
and students, we need to talk to our school
boards and local officials and be able to put
rules and policies in place to keep kids safe.”
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NATIONALNEWS
Tongues wagging over gay Cabinet member
Will Obama name
nation’s first out
commerce secretary?
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
An upcoming vacancy in the White
House cabinet has tongues wagging in
the LGBT community over whether Presi-
dent Obama will make history by appoint-
ing an openly gay commerce secretary.
Last week, Obama announced his
nomination of current Commerce Sec-
retary Gary Locke to become U.S. am-
bassador to China. Provided he meets
the 60-vote threshold to receive Senate
confirmation, the vacancy created by
Locke’s departure would create the op-
portunity for the appointment of an open-
ly LGBT person to his former role.
The nomination of an openly LGBT
person to the position of commerce sec-
retary would be historic because no one
from the LGBT community has ever been
nominated for a cabinet-level position.
Justin Nelson, president of the Na-
tional Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Com-
merce, said the appointment of an open-
ly LGBT commerce secretary would be
fantastic and bolster the relationship that
already exists between the Commerce
Department and LGBT people.
“I think it would only seek to strength-
DOMA repeal effort likely ‘a long road’
Continued from page 5
diction to continue to receive the federal
benefits of marriage even if they move to
a state that doesn’t recognize same-sex
marriage.
But the proposed legislation wouldn’t
cover all relationship recognition that
same-sex couples can access through-
out the United States. Gay couples in civ-
il unions or domestic partnerships aren’t
covered under the legislation.
Married same-sex couples that claim
they’ve experienced hardship under
DOMA were present at the news confer-
ences to advocate for the law’s repeal.
Pali Cooper, a chiropractor from Corte
Madera, Calif., who married her spouse,
Jeanne Rizzo, executive director of the
Breast Cancer Fund, in 2008 when same-
sex marriage was legal in California, said
DOMA prevented her and her spouse
from receiving full rights under the law.
“We’re married in California, but we’re
single with the government, and it’s con-
fusing, cumbersome and it’s simply un-
necessary,” Cooper said.
Rizzo recalled that when returning from
a trip abroad, U.S. Customs forced she
and her spouse to re-enter into the United
States in separate waiting lines because
they weren’t legally married in the eyes of
the federal government.
en that relationship and mean a lot for not
only LGBT-owned businesses, but busi-
nesses in general,” Nelson said.
Nelson noted that Locke signed a
memorandum of understanding with
NGLCC to collaborate on key depart-
ment initiatives, which will remain in ef-
fect for five years. Among other things,
the partnership helps promote contract-
ing opportunities for LGBT-owned small
businesses with the U.S. government.
Richard Socarides, president of
Equality Matters, also said the nomina-
tion of an openly LGBT person to the role
of commerce secretary would be signifi-
cant for the Obama administration.
“I think it would be an important first
for there to be an openly gay cabinet
member, and I think President Obama,
while he’s president, should definitely try
to make that happen,” Socarides said.
But Socarides added the LGBT com-
munity is “a little bit beyond the politics
of appointments” and said nominating
an openly LGBT commerce secretary
would be less significant than other ac-
tions Obama could take.
The LGBT community would be better
served, Socarides said, by the appoint-
ment of an LGBT person within the presi-
dent’s circle of close advisers, where he
or she could have an important impact
on LGBT issues.
“I would love to see a gay cabinet
member, but I think it’s more important
that President Obama put somebody at
“Right at that moment, it really, really
hit me — the difference between, ‘Yes,
we were all celebrating being married in
California,’ but in the eyes of our govern-
ment, we were not,’” Rizzo said.
Several lawsuits seeking to overturn the
part of DOMA prohibiting federal recogni-
tion of same-sex couples are making their
way through the courts. Last month, Presi-
dent Obama declared the law unconstitu-
tional and said he would no longer defend
the statute against litigation in court, al-
though House Speaker John Boehner has
directed counsel to defend the law.
Nadler said opponents of the law
shouldn’t wait for the lawsuits to end be-
fore moving ahead legislatively.
“Rather than delegating the issue
to the court, Congress should repeal
DOMA now and bring an end to the harm
it causes gay and lesbian families each
and every day,” Nadler said.
The House version of the DOMA re-
peal legislation has new co-sponsors
that weren’t seen in the 111th Congress
when the bill was first introduced in that
chamber, including Frank, House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House
Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).
In the previous Congress, Frank said
he wasn’t a co-sponsor of the legislation
because he thought the certainty provi-
sion of the bill would cause political prob-
the White House with seniority in charge
of LGBT policy issues,” Socarides said.
The Presidential Appointments Project,
a Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund-led initia-
tive, has been pushing for the appoint-
ment of openly LGBT officials within the
Obama administration. The Victory Fund
declined to comment for this article.
Fred Hochberg, who’s gay and direc-
tor of the Export-Import Bank of the Unit-
ed States, has emerged at the top of the
list of LGBT business experts who could
fill the role of commerce secretary.
Hochberg, who has a background in
business management and once served
as deputy administrator of the Small
Business Administration, was cited in
2009 as a contender for the position of
commerce secretary when it was first
open in the Obama administration.
Socarides said Hochberg is a solid
contender for the position because he’s
close to the president and “extremely
well qualified.”
“Fred is perpetually on the list of peo-
ple who would be a good commerce
secretary because he’s part of the Dem-
ocratic establishment, he’s served and
been confirmed before and he has a
stellar business background,” Socarides
said. “He certainly, I’m sure, would be on
anybody’s short list.”
Nelson also said Hochberg would be
a fantastic choice for the position of com-
merce secretary because of his previous
work in the administration.
lems. Frank said he changed his mind
because of the importance of educating
House members.
“It just seemed to me that that was the
more important message to get across at
this point,” Frank said. “I’m less worried
about the distraction on the question of
the recognition by one state violating an-
other state’s right.”
Drew Hammill, a Pelosi spokesper-
son, explained that Pelosi rarely co-
sponsored any legislation during the
time when Democrats held a majority in
the chamber.
“She sponsored bills very rarely as
speaker, and she has fought against
discrimination her entire congressional
career, regardless of what bills she has
sponsored as speaker or leader,” Ham-
mill said.
Despite the new support for the legis-
lation in Congress, passage of DOMA re-
peal legislation remains an uphill battle to
say the least -- especially with a Republi-
can majority in the House. A spokesper-
son for Boehner declined to comment on
the Respect for Marriage Act.
Nadler said the Republican-controlled
House Judiciary Committee is “uncom-
mitted at this point” on whether to take
up the Respect for Marriage Act.
“We’re going to ask for that,” Nadler
added. “The fact that 108 people put
“The work that he’s done at the Export-
Import Bank and his commitment to help-
ing build exports for the next five years has
been a huge help to the president and the
administration,” Nelson said. “Certainly, his
understanding of business and commerce
would serve the president well.”
Phil Cogan, an Export-Import Bank
spokesperson, said Hochberg would
be happy to engage in any position
the president asks him to fill during the
course of the Obama administration.
“He’s honored to have the job he has
now, but he would serve the administra-
tion in any way that he’s asked to,” Co-
gan said.
Another openly gay contender for the
position of commerce secretary could
be Jim Kolbe, a former Republican
congressman from Arizona. An expert
on trade, Kolbe left Congress and now
works as a fellow at the German-Marshall
Fund, where he has specialized in trans-
Atlantic trade issues.
Nelson counted Kolbe as among
those who could fit the bill for commerce
secretary.
Kolbe endorsed Republican presi-
dential nominee John McCain during the
2008 election, which could work against
him in winning a position within the
Obama administration.
Kolbe told the Blade it is highly unlike-
ly he is under consideration for the post.
Continues at washingtonblade.com.
their names on the bill initially before
it’s introduced shows a considerable
amount of support for it, obviously.”
In the Democratic-controlled Senate,
passage would be difficult even if all 53
Democrats in the chamber voted to ap-
prove the repeal legislation. A spokes-
person for Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid (D-Nev.) didn’t respond on short no-
tice to the Washington Blade’s request to
comment on the bill.
A Senate Democratic aide, who spoke
on condition of anonymity, said leadership
from the Obama administration and educa-
tion of members of Congress has to happen
before DOMA repeal moves forward.
“What is on everyone’s radar is bud-
get: Budget 1, Budget 2, Budget 3,” the
aide said. “That’s what everyone is think-
ing about right now in the Senate. The
problem is you’re going to have to get
60 votes in the Senate for this thing, and
that’s a high hurdle, especially with 53
Democrats.”
Shin Inouye, a White House spokes-
person, said the president is committed
to DOMA repeal and will work with Con-
gress to move ahead on the issue.
“The president has long said that
DOMA is discriminatory and should be
repealed by Congress,” Inouye said.
Continues at washingtonblade.com.
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14 washingtonblade.com • march 18, 2011
LOCALNEWS
Activists divided over decision to cancel Md. vote
Continued from page 1
on the marriage bill said the legislature
has a history of not taking up highly con-
troversial bills two years in a row. McLau-
rin said he fears that the bill won’t come
back for a vote until 2015, even though
Speaker of the House Michael Busch (D-
Anne Arundel County) said he would try
to bring the measure back in 2012.
Busch said supporters appeared to
fall just a few votes shy of the 71 votes
needed to pass the bill in the 141-mem-
ber House. However, he said wavering
delegates might have chosen to vote
“yes,” raising the possibility that the bill
could have passed.
Several knowledgeable sources, who
spoke on condition of anonymity, agreed
with McLaurin’s assessment.
“Gill and HRC decided it was detri-
mental to the larger movement to have
the vote go down,” one source said.
“Gays and lesbians in Maryland de-
served a debate and a vote on legislation
that we waited years for.”
Another source criticized Busch’s
handling of the bill.
“[Speaker Michael] Busch could have
squeezed harder but didn’t. This is a new
House of Delegates and this man didn’t
bother to take the temperature of the
new House of Delegates. I was shocked.
I thought House leadership was more
strategic, intelligent and powerful than
this and it all evaporated.
“God forbid we put our swing vote
Democrats on the line to take a vote for
our families. Or maybe the Speaker has
lost control of his chamber.”
There was also criticism of Gov. Martin
O’Malley, who the sources faulted for not
taking a more public stand in support of
the bill.
“O’Malley stopped by Friday for a
photo op with marriage supporters,” one
source said. “What a vacant gesture at
the 11th hour. You couldn’t write an op-ed
the week before?”
The Civil Marriage Protection Act won
approval in the Maryland Senate earlier
this month. It died last Friday for at least
this year when the House of Delegates
approved by voice vote a motion to send
it back to committee.
All of the bill’s sponsors, including sev-
en openly gay members of the House of
Delegates, appeared to support the mo-
tion, a development that stunned LGBT
activists watching the proceedings from
the visitors’ gallery.
The motion to recommit the bill to
committee came after supporters and
opponents engaged in an emotional,
two-and-a-half hour debate over the
bill. Most of the activists for and against
the bill watching from the galleries didn’t
know that the bill’s sponsors had decid-
ed beforehand to cancel the vote.
McLaurin said he learned from those
attending strategy meetings that the
eight-member LGBT Caucus of the legis-
lature was divided over whether to post-
pone the House vote.
The caucus includes Sen. Richard
The Maryland House of Delegates failed to vote on a marriage equality bill last week after two
and a half hours of emotional debate on the issue.
Madaleno (D-Montgomery County), and
House of Delegates members Maggie
McIntosh, Mary Washington, and Luke
Clippinger, each Democrats from Balti-
more; Heather Mizeur, Bonnie Cullison,
and Anne Kaiser, each Democrats from
Montgomery County; and Peter Murphy,
a Democrat from Charles County.
Spokespersons for Equality Maryland,
the statewide LGBT group that led the
lobbying effort for the bill, and officials
with the national groups Freedom to
Marry and Human Rights Campaign de-
fended the decision to withdraw the bill.
They said the decision was made
jointly by the bill’s lead sponsors, includ-
ing the one gay male and six lesbian
delegates, who determined it was better
to postpone the vote than to risk a los-
ing vote, which they said would be per-
ceived as a defeat.
“This is a strategic effort to give our-
selves more time to make the case and
win,” said Evan Wolfson, executive direc-
tor of Freedom to Marry. “And all of us
believe we can win. It’s just a matter of
nailing down the votes and getting there.”
HRC spokesperson Fred Sainz said
the decision to cancel the vote came af-
ter it became clear that supporters didn’t
have the votes to pass it.
“This was a shared decision by all the
stakeholders – Equality Maryland, the
state’s LGBT Caucus, Gill Action, Free-
dom to Marry, and HRC,” he said. “It was
the consensus belief that the best way to
win marriage in Maryland was by a delay
and not by losing a vote.”
Officials with Gill Action, a philan-
thropic group founded by gay busi-
nessman Tim Gill in Colorado that funds
LGBT rights causes, did not return a call
seeking comment.
An official with the Gay & Lesbian Vic-
tory Fund, Robin Brand, also pushed for
postponing the vote, activists familiar
with the legislature said. Brand told the
Blade she discussed the issue with the
gay delegates in the Victory Fund’s role
of working with openly gay elected offi-
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
cials. She said she left it up to them to
decide on whether or not a vote should
be taken.
McLaurin, a former member of the
Equality Maryland board, said the advo-
cates who wanted the vote to go forward
believe it would have been worth “a roll
of the dice” to determine if supporters
had the 71 votes needed to pass the bill.
“In the worst case scenario we would
have come up two or three votes short,”
he said. “And I think that a loss by two
or three votes would be much more gal-
vanizing to the community of supporters
that we’re going to need to rally and ac-
complish this goal.”
McLaurin added, “Either way it was
going to get billed as a failure. I’d rather
have on record who’s with us and who’s
against us.”
Another former Equality Maryland
board member, David Toth, wrote in a
Facebook posting that the group was
deleting messages left on its own Face-
book page that were posted by a large
number of supporters who expressed
outrage over the decision not to have a
vote on the bill.
“Anyone who is asking questions of
EqMD or its staff is having their posts de-
leted like crazy,” he wrote. “After donat-
ing thousands of dollars and working on
the board for over six years I simply find
this appalling.”
Wolfson of Freedom to Marry cau-
tioned that a public fight over the deci-
sion not to have a vote could hurt efforts
to bring the bill back next year.
“This is a temporary pause in the vot-
ing and it’s not a pause in the work,” he
said. “So we don’t need finger pointing
and recriminations, we need redoubling
the effort to win.”
Although Equality Maryland, led by
executive director, Morgan Meneses-
Sheets, was billed as the lead organiza-
tion calling the shots, insiders say field
workers from the national groups like
Freedom to Marry, HRC and Gill Action
Fund far outnumbered Equality Mary-
land’s staffers working the halls of the
legislature in Annapolis.
It was the national groups, rather than
Equality Maryland, that had the ear of
supportive lawmakers, including the
LGBT Caucus members, during the days
leading up to the scheduled vote on the
bill in the House, McLaurin and other in-
siders said.
In a March 10 e-mail sent to LGBT Cau-
cus members and other lawmakers sup-
porting the bill, representatives of Free-
dom to Marry, Gill Action and HRC urged
the lawmakers to postpone the vote.
“With the rights of so many Maryland-
ers on the line, we wanted to flag our se-
rious concern about going to a floor vote
tomorrow when it’s not been confirmed
we have 71 votes,” the e-mail says. “Vari-
ous counts have us at 69 or 70 but not 71
or beyond.”
The e-mail adds, “The decision on
whether to ask the leadership to move
forward or postpone the vote rests with
our openly LGBT legislators and other
sponsors (in consultation with EQMD)
who know their colleagues far better than
we do, and who have so courageously
led the way.”
The e-mail was signed by Bill Smith
and Sarah Vaughn, national political di-
rector and deputy political director of Gill
Action; Marty Rouse and Sultan Shakir,
the lead officials at HRC’s field office;
and Marc Solomon, national campaign
director for Freedom to Marry.
In a separate e-mail sent the next
day to most of the same people, HRC’s
Rouse warned of serious political con-
sequences if a vote on the marriage bill
were to be taken.
“I plead with you to please delay this
vote,” he said. “It would be devastating
to suffer a huge loss. There will be vitriol
and pain that may take years to soothe.”
Rouse said he also feared that a los-
ing vote would damage relationships be-
tween the LGBT community and lawmak-
ers who voted against the bill.
“I am sure that relationships are al-
ready frayed, but, if there are impas-
sioned speeches on the floor, and tears
shed, and we still lose, those relation-
ships will be damaged even more. The
air in the chamber will be toxic for months
if not years,” he said.
McLaurin said at least some of the
strained relations that Rouse mentioned
have already come about, in part, be-
cause of the impassioned debate on the
House floor that took place on March 11.
He said he was puzzled over why those
making the decision chose to have the
debate and not go one step further to al-
low a vote to take place.
According to McLaurin, Speaker
Busch left it up to the bill’s supporters
and Equality Maryland to make the final
call on whether to have a vote.
“From what I’ve been told by people in
the know, he said, ‘What’s your pleasure?
I’ll defer to you.’”
“And so from my understanding, there
was a lot of pressure from the national
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LOCALNEWS
Carney, Obama mum on Md. marriage failure
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
White House Press Secretary Jay Car-
ney was tight-lipped on Monday about any
reaction from President Obama on the re-
cent failure of same-sex marriage legisla-
tion to advance in Maryland or whether the
president would soon make an announce-
ment in support of marriage equality.
Taking questions from the Washing-
ton Blade, Carney said he had no new
information on the president’s position
on marriage since the president’s an-
nouncement in December that he’s
“wrestling” with the issue.
“The president’s position on gay mar-
riage is well known,” Carney said. “He
addressed this in December at the press
conference and I don’t have anything
new for you on that.”
Pressed on whether the president
is unconcerned about the failure of the
marriage bill to advance in Maryland,
Carney replied, “I don’t have anything for
you on that either.”
Last week, the Maryland House of
Delegates by voice vote recommitted
to committee a bill that would legalize
same-sex marriage after proponents felt
that they didn’t have the 71 votes nec-
essary for passage. Backers of the bill
said they would make another attempt to
bring it to the floor in 2012.
Carney has previously said Obama
is “grappling” with the issue of same-
sex marriage. But Carney on Monday
wouldn’t say whether this struggle would
end in the president endorsing marriage
rights for gay couples. Asked whether
the president would come out in favor of
same-sex marriage before efforts start
again to legalize gay nuptials in Mary-
land in 2012, Carney replied, “I don’t
have any timing for you on that either.”
In related marriage news on Monday,
a total of 31 celebrities, athletes and
leaders in the technology field in con-
junction with Freedom to Marry sent a
Will Md. have stomach for 2012 marriage fight?
Continued from page 14
organizations not to pull the trigger on a
vote unless you are certain you had 71
votes because apparently it would de-
moralize our [same-sex marriage] efforts
in Rhode Island and New York,” said
McLaurin.
“I say poppycock. Pulling the bill from
the floor is a defeat every bit as much as
a losing vote is,” he said.
McLaurin said he thinks some of the
national LGBT officials pushing for a
delay in the Maryland vote had a funda-
mental misunderstanding that the Mary-
land House of Delegates would act like
the New York State Senate acted in 2008,
when it defeated a same-same marriage
bill by a 38-24 vote.
Most supporters of the New York bill
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reiterated President Obama’s position on marriage
and declined to respond specifically to the news in Maryland.
letter to President Obama urging him to
endorse same-sex marriage in the wake
of his decision to no longer defend the
Defense of Marriage Act in court. Among
the signers are lesbian talk show host El-
len DeGeneres and her spouse Portia;
gay singer Rufus Wainwright; straight
actress Anne Hathway; gay media mo-
gul David Geffen; and Freedom to Marry
executive director Evan Wolfson.
“Mr. President, marriage matters,” the
letter states. “In law, in love, in life, mar-
riage says ‘we are family’ in a way that
nothing else does. Marriage is the coming
together of two lives, marked by a public
promise of love and responsibility in front
of friends and family. And marriage brings
not only public respect and personal sig-
nificance, but also a safety net of legal
thought the vote would be much closer.
Gay State Sen. Tom Duane (D-Manhat-
tan) said he believed he had lined up
enough votes to pass the measure. But
when a roll-call vote started, a few wa-
vering senators voted no, causing what
observers called a cascading or “ava-
lanche” effect, prompting others whose
support was shaky to vote no.
McLaurin said such a development
could not happen in the Maryland House
of Delegates because all votes are cast
electronically at the same time. No one
knows who votes which way until the final
tally is released seconds after the votes are
cast. Pages on the floor then distribute a
printout showing how the delegates voted.
“That’s why one of my underlying
themes is you’ve got to know the Mary-
land Legislature,” he said. “We can’t have
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
protections, rights, and responsibilities for
which there is no substitute.”
The letter says that the issue of wheth-
er to “end discrimination in marriage” is
a problem that America has faced before
and that “clarity from the president” is
needed to move forward.
“You can offer hope to millions of
young gay and lesbian Americans who
are facing discrimination,” the letter
states. “You can tell them that their future
is bright, that they, too, will be able to
grow up and marry the person that they
love, that the pursuit of happiness truly
belongs to all of us.”
Freedom to Marry is asking other sup-
porters of same-sex marriage to sign the
letter online. As of Monday afternoon, the
letter had more than 10,000 signers.
national groups fly in from L.A. and New
York and train in from D.C. and conduct
this campaign because we’re fundamen-
tally different. We’re a different body.”
If some of the national group represen-
tatives had been in Annapolis at the time
the legislature debated a highly conten-
tious bill to repeal the state’s death penal-
ty in 2007 or during several abortion relat-
ed debates in the 1990s they would have
seen a great reluctance to revisit these
issues a second time, McLaurin said.
“What I fear is next year there’s just not
going to be the stomach to do this again,”
he said in discussing the marriage bill. “If
you listened to the debate on the floor,
everyone spoke of how deeply divided
the House was, how deeply emotional
this was, how it frayed relationships, how
people weren’t speaking to each other.
Shin Inouye, a White House spokes-
person, said in response to the letter that
Obama is committed to offering same-
sex couples the same rights as married
opposite-sex couples.
“The president has long said that gay
and lesbian couples should have the
same rights and benefits as straight mar-
ried couples, and his administration has
already taken steps towards that end
and will continue to do so,” Inouye said.
A partial transcript of the exchange
between Carney and the Blade follows:
Washington Blade: Last week, the
Maryland statehouse recommitted a bill
legalizing same-sex marriage to commit-
tee because proponents didn’t feel like
they had enough votes for passage. The
measure is effectively dead for this year
even though Democrats have control of
the chamber. By not supporting same-
sex marriage, is the president, as head
of the Democratic Party, giving cover to
Democrats in that chamber who don’t
support the bill?
Jay Carney: Chris, the president’s
position on gay marriage is well known.
He addressed this in December at the
press conference and I don’t have any-
thing new for you on that.
Blade: So is the president not con-
cerned that this measure failed to prog-
ress in that chamber?
Carney: I don’t have anything for you
on that either.
Blade: One last question, one last
question. The proponents of this bill
said they’re going to try again in 2012.
You said he’s grappling with the issue of
same-sex marriage. The president said
he’s wrestling with it. Is he going to pin
down support for marriage equality and
make an announcement before next year
in time for these efforts –
Carney: I don’t have any timing for
you on that either.
“Do you think they will have the stom-
ach to do that again next year without
any reasonable expectation of a different
outcome because they’re still pitching
the same ideas to the same audience?”
“No one would be happier to be
wrong about this than me,” he said. “But
I just don’t think that I am. And I know I’m
not alone. Some of the chief strategists
behind this bill feel the same way I do.”
Wolfson of Freedom to Marry disputes
that assessment.
“Anyone who is making comments
to you or to anyone else suggesting that
somehow this is over and it’s now a cause
for finger pointing has failed to understand
that it’s not over,” he said. “We’re in the
midst of the work and we all should keep
our eye on the prize of doing what we can
to round up the last few votes and win.”
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VIEWPOINT
Behind Maryland’s marriage debacle
HRC and Gill
overreach, Democrats
cower and O’Malley
turns invisible
By KEVIN NAFF
The debacle that unfolded
in Annapolis last week can be
traced to multiple causes with
one common root: old-fash-
ioned homophobia.
The Maryland House of Del-
egates abandoned a bill that
would have granted marriage
equality to gay and lesbian cou-
ples in the so-called Free State.
But an epic train wreck de-
railed the wedding plans of so
many deserving couples that
have waited so long for justice.
In all their hateful gloating after
the bill’s defeat, opponents like
those at the National Organiza-
tion for Marriage seem to forget
that this isn’t about a bunch of
gays wanting to throw a fabulous
wedding reception. It’s about
real people — committed cou-
ples and families facing discrim-
ination and adversity because of
our second-class status.
My heart broke last week for
so many of those Marylanders
I’ve come to know and respect
during this process. Elderly
couples together for 40 years
now worried about having to re-
turn to the closet as they move
to retirement communities. Gay
‘Democrats who say they support us
during their campaigns go soft
because they, deep down, don’t really think
our relationships are equal
to their own marriages.’
and lesbian parents raising kids
without the protections and re-
spect afforded by marriage.
The gay schoolteacher whose
partner died suddenly and was
sued by his ex’s parents be-
cause they wanted to exhume
the body and move their son to
the family plot against his direc-
tives. A gay man who legally
adopted his partner because
lawyers determined it was the
only way to guarantee hostile
family members couldn’t sue
for half their estate in the event
one of them died. Foreign-born
partners facing deportation be-
cause U.S. laws don’t recognize
After an emotional day of floor speeches, house leadership sent the maryland marriage bill back to committee, killing
it for this year.
our relationships as legitimate.
And there are more subtle
ways this discrimination affects
us. After 13 years together, my
relationship with my partner isn’t
viewed as equal to our straight
counterparts. It is always some-
thing less than, even though
we’ve seen our straight friends
and family members marry, di-
vorce and remarry. They imme-
diately enjoy the legal benefits
and instant respect afforded by
that word, “marriage,” while we
are referred to by the cold and
clinical “partners.” It’s an empty,
meaningless term. And it’s in-
sulting. Our society has a term
for our relationship — marriage
— but lawmakers aren’t willing to
take a stand and face down their
ignorant (and often closeted)
pastors. They run in fear of Fox
News’s blowhards and NOM’s
$1 million war chest. They are
cowards and don’t deserve our
support for re-election.
This is what gets lost in all the
venom spewed by our oppo-
nents and all the halfhearted, hol-
low arguments made on our be-
half by well-meaning Democrats
afraid to fully embrace us and
demand our full equality under
the law. It’s about love and fam-
ily and children and being able to
properly care for our loved ones
when times are tough.
But our allies sold us out.
They are weak and afraid and
driven by self-preservation.
Lawmakers who campaigned
on support for marriage equal-
ity and co-sponsored the bill
pulled out and opposed it. The
betrayals of Dels. Sam Arora (D-
Montgomery County), Jill Carter
(D-Baltimore), Tiffany Alston
(D-Prince George’s) and Melvin
Stukes (D-Baltimore) must not
be forgotten. No LGBT money,
votes or support for those back-
stabbing traitors.
Maryland has the largest cau-
cus of openly LGBT state leg-
islators in the country, yet they
couldn’t sway one or two votes
to bring the bill across the finish
line. Maybe Sen. Rich Madale-
no could host a Lobbying 101
seminar in the House. He was
able to shepherd the bill, with
support from key straight allies,
through the more conservative
Senate. He helped convert for-
mer opponents into supporters.
And Madaleno’s presence in
the chamber seemed to have a
calming effect on even the most
strident opponents of marriage
equality, ensuring a profession-
al and hate-free debate.
But seven openly gay and
lesbian members in the more
liberal House couldn’t replicate
that success. The most senior
out gay member, Del. Maggie
McIntosh, didn’t even bother
to deliver a floor speech for the
bill. With the vote so close —
perhaps as close as a single
vote — didn’t it occur to her that
junior members who were unde-
cided might be swayed to sup-
port their senior colleague?
Freshmen Dels. Luke Clip-
pinger and Mary Washington
deserve our gratitude for their
visibility and impassioned floor
speeches. They were not in-
Washington Blade photo by michael Key
timidated by NOM and Del. Don
Dwyer and put their own self-
interests aside to do what’s right.
Perhaps the most gratifying mo-
ment of the House debate came
when Del. Peter Murphy stood
up to correct a colleague who’d
said the House had six openly
gay members. Murphy bravely
came out in an interview with me
last week. A grandfather of two,
Murphy represents conservative
southern Maryland, yet found
the courage to take a public
stand when it counted the most.
He stood on the House floor to
correct the record — there are
now seven, he said.
As Murphy stood up, McIn-
tosh sat down — because she
knew the fix was in. The Hu-
man Rights Campaign and Gill
Action intervened and urged
the LGBT Caucus and Equal-
ity Maryland to cancel the
vote. They feared that a failure
might jeopardize similar efforts
in Rhode Island and New York.
It’s more likely they’re worried
about the demoralizing effect
of a marriage defeat on wealthy
gay donors. We wouldn’t want
to upset them so close to 2012.
The people who actually live
in Maryland deserved a vote.
They’ve worked hard for years
to get to this unique opportunity
and it was snatched away pre-
maturely. Some have speculated
that there were 71 votes to pass
the bill; now we will never know.
HRC and Gill argue that if
lawmakers are forced to vote
and then cast a vote against us,
that it’s unlikely they will change
their vote a year later. I would
point them to Sen. James Bro-
chin, a Baltimore County Demo-
crat who campaigned against
same-sex marriage but who
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INSIDELGBTWASHINGTON
A disappointing start for Mayor Gray
But it’s too soon
to get nostalgic
for Fenty
By PETER ROSENSTEIN
Disappointing is the word I
use to describe the first months
of the Gray administration. I rec-
ognize that some good things
have happened. The mayor has
appointed excellent deputy may-
ors, announced Kaya Henderson
as DCPS Chancellor, formed a
new high level HIV/AIDS Com-
mission and is moving forward
on a slew of initiatives.
But all this is overshadowed
by the unproven allegations of
a losing minor mayoral candi-
date. What Gray has called mis-
steps I consider accepting bad
advice from erstwhile “friends.”
I am not surprised, nor should
he be, by how quickly some are
willing to declare a “crisis” in
government. But the “missteps”
of giving jobs to employees’
children and raising salaries for
some in his administration have
only given ammunition to those
that want to see a crisis.
Petula Dvorak in the Wash-
ington Post said, “tempting as it
may be, this is not the time to
Homophobia rears its ugly head in Md.
Continued from page 18
switched his view after hearing
the sickening, bigoted testi-
mony in the Senate committee
hearing. Or to Sen. Allan Kittle-
man, the former Senate minority
leader who gave up that post
over his unexpected support for
marriage equality.
The people at HRC and Gill
are strategic and well inten-
tioned, but this was a bad call.
In a state dominated by Demo-
crats, this vote should never have
been in doubt. But it fell apart
because support was soft. How
will we know who really supports
us and is deserving of our money
and votes in the next election if
we don’t take the vote? Cancel-
ing the vote only gives cover to
cowards. The collective sigh of
relief in the House last Friday was
deafening. Even the LGBT Cau-
cus didn’t speak up to oppose
the motion to send the bill back to
committee. Whew! Kick the can
down the road, avoid a vote and
let’s call it a day.
No one was more relieved
than Gov. Martin O’Malley, who
‘The ‘missteps’ of giving jobs to employees’
children and raising salaries for some in the
administration have only given ammunition to
those that want to see a crisis.’
buy that Fenty bumper sticker
or get all nostalgic about the
former mayor’s cute little Smart
Car. Remember, Fenty had a
Lincoln Navigator, too, and it
was fully loaded with its own
scandals. Maybe Gray is just
front-loading his debacles, get-
ting his screw-ups out of the
way in his first 100 days and
moving on.” Consider also as
some wax nostalgic that our
former mayor has just gone on
TV and endorsed the full sub-
stance and politics of Wiscon-
sin Gov. Scott Walker.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office
must look at these allegations
and do so quickly. If crimes oc-
curred they need to be pun-
ished. Gray must shed some of
the friends who appear more in-
terested in their own gains than
those of the city. We can’t be
sidetracked from working on the
has been celebrated and feted
by LGBT activists and donors
from around the country, de-
spite his outdated support for
civil unions. In a 2007 interview,
O’Malley told me he would sign
a marriage bill if the legislature
could pass it, knowing there
was zero chance of that hap-
pening anytime soon. He reit-
erated that pledge this year to
the LGBT media but was more
circumspect about it when talk-
ing to the mainstream press. In
the run up to the House vote,
O’Malley reportedly helped lob-
by some delegates. Either he
lied or he’s just ineffective.
Where was his public advo-
cacy during the session? His
wife found time to record a vid-
eo for the “It Gets Better” cam-
paign but Maryland’s first couple
lost their voice when it came to
marriage equality. We know the
O’Malleys are privately support-
ive and have gay friends and
family members, but their un-
willingness to speak out under-
mined the effort to pass the bill.
So what now? One key les-
son from this failure: Do not
crucial issues facing D.C. resi-
dents — moving forward on edu-
cation reform, fighting HIV/AIDS
and the right-sizing of our bud-
get. Spending is out of whack
and we have punted problems
into the future instead of dealing
with the reality of current revenue.
The city and the LGBT com-
munity need to move forward on
a myriad of issues that require
no new money but rather may-
oral coordination. The director
of the Mayor’s GLBT Office must
work with GLOV on hate crimes,
with the Rainbow Response
Coalition on domestic violence,
and with the MPD on strength-
ening the GLLU.
Gray has three years and
9ninemonths to prove that he
knows and can do better. Many
voted for him understanding his
commitment to balancing the
budget in a way that will pre-
underestimate the influence of
black pastors. Equality Mary-
land failed to solidify support
among black lawmakers from
Baltimore City and Prince
George’s County. And when
the preaching began on Sun-
days in February, several black
delegates caved under the
pressure. Equality Maryland
must take a page from their
counterparts in D.C., where the
visibility of pro-gay black min-
isters and the involvement of
black gay and lesbian couples
were at the center of their suc-
cessful strategy.
In addition to cultivating
black support, advocates must
grow a backbone and work
to oust Dels. Arora, Carter,
Alston and Stukes. Arora rep-
resents liberal Montgomery
County. Surely we can find a
marriage equality supporter
there. Stukes and Carter are
from Baltimore, which suffers
from a dearth of LGBT activ-
ism. If a politician in D.C. had
done what Carter and Stukes
did, they’d be hammered and
drummed out of office. But Bal-
march 18, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 19
serve the safety net for those
most in need. They voted to
continue education reform with
community involvement and ex-
pect to see a steady improve-
ment in our school system over
the next four years. They voted
for this mayor to work closely
with Congress and our delegate
for more independence and real
home rule and to continue the
improvement in city agency re-
sponse to the public. They voted
to treat both city employees and
its residents with respect.
Ten weeks, and his first bud-
get not submitted to the Council
isn’t enough time to make judg-
ments on where the city is head-
ed. I understand some want to
pounce all over the administra-
tion but when the Washington
Post uses page one banner
headlines to report unproven
allegations the same weekend
the first independent report on
the takeover of the schools by
the previous mayor appears be-
low the fold in the Metro section,
one must question motives. The
Post writes an editorial criticiz-
ing Jack Evans for introducing
a bill to politicize the school
system and only mentions in the
last line that the mayor has al-
ready said he would veto it.
Being in politics since the
timore lacks a vocal and visible
activist presence. So it will fall
to Equality Maryland to finally
get tough with those who take
our money and votes and then
toss us under the bus.
Sadly, it really does come
back to simple homophobia.
Democrats who say they sup-
port us during their campaigns
go soft because they, deep
down, don’t really think our re-
lationships are equal to their
own marriages. Others cave
to pressure from pastors be-
cause somewhere beneath the
surface promises, they’re not
so sure we’re not sinners des-
tined for hell. The governor tells
us in private that he supports
us, but can’t find his voice in
public because it might offend
conservatives who hate us irra-
tionally — and O’Malley might
need some of those votes in a
future run for Senate. And some
members of the LGBT Caucus,
too, lose their voice because
they’re terrified of being known
as the “gay delegate.” As if
that’s a bad thing.
As a lifelong Marylander, I’m
age of 12 and receiving my
first “pay-off” for working in a
campaign, getting to shake
JFK’s hand in New York before
the election, I know something
about political patronage. I have
absolutely no problem with pa-
tronage if those getting patron-
age jobs are qualified. After all,
who should get first crack at
jobs if not those who supported
you? But everyone needs to
be vetted and those who don’t
meet the grade should be told
with no uncertainty, no job!
But as the saying goes, let
us not lose sight of the forest for
the trees. We are facing difficult
times at both the federal and
the District level. Budgets will
be cut and taxes and fees may
be increased. Let’s keep our
eyes on the big picture because
that is what will impact our lives
in the long run.
Peter Rosenstein is a D.C.-based LGBT
rights and Democratic Party activist. He
writes regularly for the Blade.
hurt, disappointed and disil-
lusioned by what happened. I
expect better results in a state
with monopolistic Democratic
control. Marriage equality isn’t
some bizarre, threatening or
abstract concept. It’s a real-
ity in a growing list of countries
around the world. It’s a reality in
five U.S. states. I can hop on the
MARC train and get married in
neighboring D.C.
As Maryland’s Attorney Gen-
eral Douglas Gansler has said,
marriage equality is inevitable
in all 50 states. We know the
work that lies ahead and so we
must pick ourselves up and get
on with it with a renewed sense
of urgency and passion.
Kevin Naff is editor of Washington
Blade and can be reached at knaff@
washblade.com.
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A rainbow of resources
Gay parents,
families find
growing support
network
By DAVID HOFFMAN
Today we know there is not
just one way to see family.
Instead, we see many differ-
ent forms and fashions of fam-
ily, not captured by one cookie-
cutter model.
Ellen Kahn, a lesbian, under-
stands full well what it means to
choose parenting. She studied
families as a profession after all, in
her career as a social worker. She
directs the Family Project at Human
Rights Campaign, so it is her per-
sonal project as an advocate and
educator. But also she brings her
passion for family building home to
Silver Spring, where she lives with
her partner of 22 years. They were
married in D.C. last year and have
two daughters ages 8 and 11.
As she spoke of the so-called
“gayby boom,” she stopped to
say that today parenting has be-
come “a commonplace choice”
for LGBT people, and that “there
are various paths” to get there.
“Now,” she says, gays “can see
yourself with kids, if you want.”
As a barometer for the con-
tinuing boom in LGBT parent-
ing, she says to look at “Mayby
Baby,” the eight-week class
for LGBT prospective parents,
single or partnered, who are
“maybe, just maybe,” she says,
“considering parenthood and in-
terested in learning more about
the options for building a family.”
This “gayby-boom” and at-
tendance at the “Maybe Baby”
classes — offered by Rainbow
Families, a D.C. area group (Kahn
is its board chair) — according
to her “began to spike in about
2006,” at first more so among
women, “but now there’s a steady
increase among men also.”
Family planning, she says,
is really what it’s all about. And
increasingly, it also includes a
choice to become a temporary
parent, through foster care, as well
as a permanent parent, whether
through maternal surrogacy or
sperm donors or regular adoption.
Whether it’s becoming a fos-
ter parent, or taking the step to
adopt a child already in foster
care, Kahn says that “in general
in our community more and more
folks are saying ‘I need to get
educated’ about foster care and
adopting kids from foster care,”
and that such decisions often
include “waiting a little longer
for younger kids, or on the other
hand, when they don’t see them-
selves as changing diapers,”
to decide instead to become a
foster parent or adoptive parent
to someone older, even like the
self-identified LGBT teenagers
that Kenya Grant-Murphy places
in foster care but ideally wants to
see in permanent homes.
“The push has come for us
to place LGBTQ self-identified
children,” says social worker
Grant-Murphy, referring to the
new contract, which went into ef-
fect Feb. 1, between the District
of Columbia’s Child and Family
Services placement administra-
tion unit and the child welfare
agency, KidsPeace, where she
has worked for nearly two years
as a family resource specialist.
Founded in 1882, KidsPeace,
which is a private charity with
services in nine states includ-
ing D.C., Maryland and Virginia,
sees this challenge as a priority,
including “Q” — for questioning
— in its categories of sexual ori-
entation, especially as they apply
to youth. For KidsPeace, says
Grant-Murphy, the philosophy is Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
one that brings “a unified, com- Ellen Kahn of Rainbow Families D.C., shown here with her two daughters, says
prehensive approach to treat- interest in gay parenting is expanding and younger prospective parents are con-
ment” of troubled and at-risk kids. tacting her group for resources.
“We look at this as a case-by-
case scenario,” she says, “where homes she calls “affirming” for that, “we don’t discriminate.”
the goal is permanency for the such kids, each one housing an Foster parents must become
child,” whether that comes in the LGBT young person, two of them licensed through a process that
form of the child’s return to its bio- clearly “out,” a 16-year male and a begins with an application and
logical family, adoption or guard- 17-year-old female. The other two is followed by a background
ianship, but it can also include a have not disclosed their orienta- check with documentation,
transitional approach to help a tion yet, she says, “but there are evaluation of references, train-
child, to meet an immediate need behaviors” that suggest such a ing and interviews and home
that’s temporary in nature, in fos- same-sex orientation. study. Each foster parent is
ter care placements that she says KidsPeace is seeking more fos- eligible to receive a monthly
“can be as short as a week, in an ter homes in the D.C. metro area — stipend, the amount for which
emergency situation, but ideally as well as people willing to adopt is determined by whether the
not longer than 18-24 months.” or become a guardian — who are placement is what Grant-Mur-
Under the new KidsPeace willing to take on the special chal- phy terms “either more tradi-
contract with the D.C. govern- lenges of housing such kids. But tional or more therapeutic.”
ment, “we have to have a certain she points out that to become a Families take many forms.
number of homes available for foster parent is necessarily “an Sometimes it’s one of the parents
LGBTQ kids,” she says, “because intrusive process,” for any foster who comes out as LGBT, not
if we get such a referral, we want parents, who can be either a single the child. Sometimes it turns out
to be able to place that individual parent or a two-parent household,
right away.” Currently she has four and she declares emphatically Continues on page 26

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22 washingtonblade.com • march 18, 2011
Legal protections
Paychecks stop.
Life goes on.
for our families
Community’s baby boom
Retirement can include necessitates planning
a steady income. By SUSAN SILBER
I have always loved the Robert Frost
Learn how you can put your confident line that “home is where they have to
take you in.” In my 30 years of legal
retirement more within reach. practice, I have seen enormous change
in how we support one another and how
we honor the families we create in the
Call me today at 301-320-1457. larger world.
When opponents of marriage equal-
ity argued in Annapolis once again
that marriage between a man and a
Marguerita Cheng, CFP®, CRPC® woman is uniquely entitled to the insti-
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(301)320-1457 The question is not whether the LG-
BTQ community is creating families (we
marguerita.m.cheng@ampf.com are). The question is how legally to pro-
CA License #: 0G89743 tect these family relationships, especial-
ly in times of stress and transition. The
legal tools we employ vary enormously
from state to state. This article should
not substitute for legal consultation
about your particular family. Here I will
simply lay out key principles for you and
Brokerage, investment and financial advisory your loved ones to consider.
When you decide to form a family,
services are made available through Ameriprise clarify your financial arrangements. En-
Financial Services, Inc. Member FINRA and SIPC. ter into a written contract that includes
Some products and services may not be available a dispute-resolution provision, e.g., col-
laborative process, mediation, that will
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If your jurisdiction permits marriage
© 2010 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. All rights reserved. (D.C. only as of March, 2010) or recog-
nizes out-of-state marriage (Maryland),
seek advice regarding the legal conse-
quences of marriage before you marry.
Pre-nuptial agreements can vary
the legal terms of a marriage. If your
jurisdiction recognizes domestic part-
nerships, understand the benefits and
obligations. Whatever family structure
you choose, plan for your death or in-
capacity:
Grant a power of attorney to a trusted
person who can manage your financial
affairs.
Execute an advance medical direc-
KidsPeace is seeking foster parents for children who have self tive that establishes who will handle
identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or questioning. your health-related decisions.
Execute a will.
KidsPeace takes extra care in placing the right kids into the right homes. We will provide If you choose to bring children into
you with special training and professional, round-the-clock support. You don’t need to be your family, careful legal planning is es-
wealthy or married. You don’t need to have kids of your own or a Ph.D. in child psychology. sential to protect and promote the stabil-
What you do need is a desire to provide a safe, nurturing environment to a child. ity of your parent-child relationship.
Ensure that, if both partners will par-
Call us today between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. M–F at 866-4-KIDSPEACE (866-454-3773)
ent your children, each achieves the
or visit kidspeace.org.
full status of a legal parent. This is best
done by joint second parent/stepparent
adoption in Maryland and D.C. In Vir-
ginia, the best available option is a joint
custody court order.
Each parent must have standby
guardianship and a will that names a
guardian to raise one’s child and a trust
or guardianship to provide financially for
the child’s needs.
Be aware of DOMA (Defense of
Marriage Act). DOMA has two disas-
trous effects on the legal recognition
of our families: DOMA allows each
state to decide whether to recognize
same-sex marriages from another
state. Thus, a married gay couple
could pass in and out of recognition
as they drive across country. If they
had a car accident in Arkansas, they
would not be allowed to sue for the
wrongful death of their spouse.
DOMA defines marriage as only be-
tween a man and a woman for all federal
legal purposes. Thus, even if you marry
in D.C., you will not have equal federal
rights, for example, regarding federal
taxes, Social Security, etc. Fortunately,
the Justice Department recently an-
nounced that it would not defend this
aspect of DOMA in pending litigation.
It is just as important to legally sup-
port our families at the time of break-
ups as at the time of formation. All too
often, members of our community argue
against LGBTQ family stability in the
courts. Sometimes, biological parents
selfishly seek to negate the bonds their
co-parent has established with children
they have jointly raised.
Commit to a resolution that is in your
children’s best interest. Use a family
therapist. The best way to divorce is col-
laboratively, with a collaboratively certi-
fied attorney and coach.
Be aware that civil unions, domes-
tic partnerships and marriages may
be difficult to dissolve. For example,
if you marry in Canada, you must be a
resident of Canada for one year before
you can seek a divorce. Seek legal ad-
vice before you enter a legal status. You
have many more options at the front end
when you are in love, than when you are
breaking up.
We are privileged to live in times
when our families have the opportunity
to prosper. But we should judge our ac-
complishments as a community by how
well we protect our weakest members
and achieve equality and justice for all
our diverse families.
Susan Silber practices family law in D.C.
and Maryland and is a lesbian mom of two
adult children. Reach her at Silber@SP-
Law.com.
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thought you were on track to prepare for
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High camp fun for the season
No, we mean
real camp — as
in summer fun for
kids. Here are a
few of the region’s
offerings
By JULIETTE EBNER
Imagination Stage, part of
Artisphere (1101 Wilson Blvd.)
in Arlington, has many summer
camps for children of all ages,
starting at 4 and going all the
way through high school. There
is the Arts Explorer camp for
children ages 4 and 5. Children
ages 6 and 7 can go to the Arts
Adventure camp. The other
camps are either four weeks
long or a week-long flex camp.
There’s also a Filmmaking
Camp for children grades five
to 12 that last either one or three
weeks and dance camps. For
more information, visit imagi-
nationstage.org. Beauvoir, the
National Cathedral Elementary
School, (3500 Woodley Rd.,
N.W.) has multiple summer pro-
grams for different age groups
from ages 3 to 11 that run
throughout the summer. Costs
of the camps vary program to
program. Brown bag lunches
and snacks will be provided for
all-day campers and half-day
campers will receive snacks.
Children are encouraged to
dress comfortably and sock
and tennis shoes are required.
For more information, visit sum-
mer.beauvoirschool.org.
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
(545 7th St., S.E.) puts on a sum-
mer program called “Island Arts
Adventure,” which is two week
sessions that run from June 20
to Aug. 12 for children ages 5 to
13. Each session is divided into
morning and afternoon camps.
In the morning, the campers will
focus on an island such as In-
donesia or Hawaii and then the
afternoon camps are more rec-
reation based. Campers must
have turned 5 by June 1 and
completed a year of kindergar-
ten or equivalent education. For
more information, visit chaw.org.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
has a camp for children ages 5
to 16 called “Camp Creativity.”
The camp is divided into four age
groups. The groups for children
5 to 10 meet at the Georgetown
campus (1801 35th St., N.W.)
and the other groups meet at
the gallery’s downtown campus
(500 17th St., N.W.). Studio A has
campers experimenting with a
variety of materials as they inves-
tigate themes in art. Studio B al-
lows campers to explore a variety
of artists and themes while devel-
oping their artistic skills. Studio C
has campers concentrating on
skill development and they get to
try out things like fashion illustra-
tion and cartooning. Studio D has
campers building their skills in fig-
ure drawing, digital photography
and fashion illustration. Campers
can be signed up for one to eight
weeks. Prices vary based on age
and session. For more informa-
tion, visit Corcoran.org.
TIC Summer Camp (4620
Dittmar Rd.) in Arlington is a
technology- and sports-based
camp for children 7 to 16 at
three locations. The technol-
ogy choices are programming,
robotics, web design, anima-
tion, filmmaking, digital arts and
digital music. All campers get
a sports period each day and
their choices are soccer, basket-
ball, gymnastics, dance, team
handball, street hockey, ultimate
frisbee, flag football, softball,
capture the flag, volleyball and
crazy games. Campers can
also choose drama or tennis for
an additional cost. Campers are
expected to provide their own
lunch. There are four sessions
throughout the summer start-
ing June 20. The base tuition is
$820 per session. For more in-
formation, visit ticcamp.com.
Woodland Horse Center
(16301 New Hampshire Ave.)
in Silver Spring has two sum-
mer camps available this year.
There’s the Pony Pals Summer
Camp for children ages 5 to 7
and the Horsemanship Summer
Camp for children ages 8 to 15.
Horsemanship campers get two
riding lessons, horsemanship
lessons, interactive lectures and
do arts and crafts. A two-week
sessions costs $760 and the
first session starts June 13. Pony
Pals are given a daily riding les-
son, horsemanship lessons,
interactive lectures and do arts
and crafts. A single week costs
$380 and the first session starts
June 20. Both camps will have
special activities such as pizza
day and water games day. For
more information, visit wood-
landhorse.com.
Jonah’s Treehouse (2121
Wisconsin Ave., C-1 Level)
has a summer camp for chil-
dren ages 3 to 6 that runs
from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Regis-
tration is done by week with
a different theme each week.
For more information, visit jo-
nahstreehouse.com.
The Studio Theatre Acting
Conservatory (1501 14th St.,
N.W.) has summer workshops for
young actors ages 12 to 17. The
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to be both. Just ask Alison Delpercio,
who works with Kahn at HRC’s Family
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this 26-year-old has a special mission
— to reach out to those young people
trying to “navigate,” as she calls it, the
choppy waters of adolescence while
facing the added challenge of learning
that a parent is gay.
She knows the feeling. When she
was 15, her father told her that he is gay,
and she admits today that, “my initial re-
action was one of fear, because I didn’t
know what this meant for my family.”
“My feelings were, ‘What does this
mean for my family and what will change,’
and also ‘How can I support my dad
through this?’” Today, she says, “I wish
I’d had something like COLAGE when I
was younger going through this, because
then I felt like I was the only person in the
world who had a gay dad, until I met with
other families just like mine, and that was
amazing.”
Based in San Francisco but with a
local chapter in D.C., COLAGE — Chil-
dren of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
— is a national movement, she says, of
young people and adults with one or
more LGBT parents. Delpercio joined the
local chapter in early 2009 and began to
“co-facilitate a monthly youth group for
middle-schoolers,” kids in sixth through
eighth grades, “who have one or more
LGBTQ parents, to help them lose their
feelings of isolation, and so they can
learn from each other.”
Delpercio, who came out herself
as lesbian when she was 20, says
she is proud of how her own family
toughed it out when her father dis-
closed that he was gay five years
earlier, because she says that “it was
a struggle but we have come out
stronger.” More information is avail-
able at metrodc@colage.org.
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washingtonblade.com • vol. 42, issue 11 • march 18, 2011 • Page 29
20 years of ‘VICTORY’
Sherry Harris, a former member of Seattle City
Council, was the first Victory Fund-endorsed
candidate. She’ll be in town this weekend to speak at
the organization’s anniversary brunch.
(Photo courtesy of Harris)
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Sometimes being conspicuous is a good thing.
It was for Sherry Harris, an electrical engineer in Se-
attle who holds the record for being the first candidate
ever endorsed by the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, an
organization that works to help LGBT candidates get
elected to public office at all levels of government.
The group, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this
weekend with a Sunday brunch at the Hilton in Washing-
ton (go to victoryfund.org for details), helped Harris win
a four-year term on Seattle City Council.
Harris, who’ll be in town this weekend to speak at the
brunch, remembers that her involvement with the then-
new fund in 1991, started innocuously.
She was in D.C. to meet with former U.S. Rep. Jolene
Unsoeld (D-Wash.) and heard about the Fund through
friends.
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arts & entertainment
Celebrating two decades of
helping LGBT candidates
win public office
“Someone just told us about it, I’m not sure who,” Har-
ris says. “But we went over to their offices. … They were
going to be having an event while I was there and said,
‘Why don’t you come to this event?,’ and referred me to
that. I was happy to hear about the organization but I
wasn’t expecting anything.”
Harris was asked to speak that night and found her-
self with support. She says a “process” the Fund put her
through — which it does to this day to vet candidates –
was “more of a formality” in those early years.
On a mailing list sent to Fund supporters, Harris says
her status as a black lesbian helped her stand out.
“I seemed to draw a lot of money,” she says. “I did
very well. Back then there were almost no black women
running. I think I stood out because I was so unusual.”
Though Harris served only one term — she lost her
bid for a second — she is essential to the Victory Fund
story. It, too, began innocuously.
Two gay political activists — Vic Basile and Terry
Bean — had noticed that a group called Emily’s List
had, since 1985, done wonders at helping female can-
didates campaign competitively against better-funded
male opponents by establishing a network of donors
who agreed to contribute at least $100 to two or more
List-endorsed candidates. Basile and Bean wondered
if the model could be adapted to help more gays and
lesbians get into office. After researching the idea, they
came to feel such an entity was desperately needed.
“I believe it helps change people’s opinions about
members of our community and lets everybody else know
there isn’t a special agenda, they have the same agenda,”
says Chuck Wolfe, Victory Fund president. “They’re there
working on what their constituents need. Their transporta-
tion needs, from fixing potholes to building a new highway
connector. They’re there doing what everybody else is do-
ing and the idea that they’re there and simply changing the
Continues on page 32
30 washingtonblade.com • march 18, 2011
QUEERY: 20 questions for Ryan Williams
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
All-male productions obviously mean
some guys have to take female roles. Ryan
Williams, a gay 33-year-old Philadelphia na-
tive, is proving he’s game for it as Miss Mona
Stangley (played by Dolly Parton in the film
version) in the Gay Men’s Chorus of Wash-
ington’s production this weekend of “Best Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
Little Whorehouse in Texas.”
It opens tonight at 8 at the Lisner Auditorium on the George Washington Univer-
sity campus. Additional performances are Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 3. Tickets
range from $30 to $50. Visit gmcw.org for more information. How long have you been out and who
Williams is excited about the show. was the hardest person to tell?
“The Chorus shines brightest when they do a stage production of this magnitude,” I’ve been out since June 2000. The
he says. “It requires so many talents beyond singing and dancing. Every detail you hardest person to tell was my mother. Her
see on stage, from the intricate design of the massive set to the ‘70s-era costumes, response was as if she had dusted off
are taken with great care and love to deliver a great performance.” the PFLAG manual from her nightstand
He calls it “a gorgeous show.” It tells of a Texas-based brothel in the late ‘70s and read off the bullet points on what to
that’s been around for 100 years but faces heat when a TV reporter starts investigat- say when her son FINALLY comes out.
ing. The original opened on Broadway in 1978 and enjoyed a four-year run. The weight was lifted and I regret never
Williams says “Hard Candy Christmas,” which the Chorus previewed at its holiday doing it sooner.
concert last year, is his favorite moment.
“It’s a song filled with such raw emotion and after getting to know these talented Who’s your LGBT hero?
guys over the past few months, it feels like they’re leaving my home for real every I worked at a large non-profit during
time I hear it,” he says. my coming out experience that had three
Williams has been in the D.C. area for 10 years and in the Chorus for seven. He’s openly gay men in various departments.
on the Chorus’s board of directors and development committee. He also participated They were heroes to me and never knew
in Chorus productions of “Grease” and “Wizard of Oz.” it because they led by example. They
By day, he’s a partner in a non-profit consulting firm. He moved to the area upon each excelled in their careers, grew in
finishing college at Penn State. personal and professional relationships
He’s always loved music and says every life should have its own soundtrack. Wil- and lived their lives openly and honestly
liams is single and lives in Arlington. He also enjoys politics, arts, travel, entertain- in a conservative work environment. To
ing, college football and discovering great restaurants. me, heroes aren’t the celebrities who
come out as part of their PR strategy or
musicians who use our community for al-
bum sales. They’re the everyday women
and men who live their lives fully and ex-
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What’s Washington’s best nightspot,
past or present?
Annie’s Paramount Steak House at 3
a.m. on a Saturday night! I swear it looks
like the Cantina scene from “Star Wars.”
I love people watching and after a great
night out, Annie’s has never let me down.
Describe your dream wedding.
Come back to me when I have a fi-
ance. Hell, come back to me when I’m
dating regularly. For now, know the wed-
ding must feature “As” by Stevie Wonder.
What non-LGBT issue are you most
passionate about?
Youth voice and empowerment. Noth-
KEEP THEM CLEAN. NATURALLY. ing freaks me out more than a young per-
son who doesn’t feel as though they can
freely speak their mind.
What historical outcome would you
change?
Nothing. Everything happens for a
reason.
What’s been the most memorable pop
culture moment of your lifetime?
Performing at the Obama inaugu-
ration concert in front of millions on
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On what do you insist?
If you’ve gone an entire day without
saying “thank you,” you’re leading a sad
existence.
What was your last Facebook post or
Tweet?
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that is Celebrity Apprentice #GaryBusey
If your life were a book, what would
the title be?
“Say What? Tales of a Thirty-Some-
thing Smart Ass”
If science discovered a way to change
sexual orientation, what would you
do?
I’d ask the scientists why haven’t they
discovered a cure for Multiple sclerosis,
cancer or HIV — priorities people, priori-
ties!
What do you believe in beyond the
physical world?
I believe in God. It’s the organized re-
ligions that turn me off.
What’s your advice for LGBT move-
ment leaders?
Keep fighting!
What would you walk across hot
coals for?
My family
What LGBT stereotype annoys you
most?
Self-loathing gays
What’s your favorite LGBT movie?
“Trick” (1999). The scene between
Mark and Gabriel before they leave the
diner bathroom is one of the most roman-
tic scenes I’ve ever seen.
What’s the most overrated social
custom?
Did I mention the self-loathing?
What trophy or prize do you most
covet?
My late grandfather’s wristwatch.
What do you wish you’d known at 18?
Do you remember that guy who asked
you for your number at the rush party on
fraternity row? He’s gay and will go on
to be a doctor. Lighten up and give him
your number, fool!
Why Washington?
D.C. is a great cadre of villages and
neighborhoods with its own individual
style and substance. Even after 10 years,
there is still so much to learn and discover.
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fabric of leadership in their community has
a huge advantage for us. It pays dividends
in so many ways but more importantly, it
lets everybody see that there’s no reason
to be exclusionary in hiring practices, in
the business sense. It has ramifications
across sectors.”
The organization has grown enor-
mously in the last two decades. Initially,
the only employee was the first director,
William Waybourn, a former Blade co-
owner. About $30,000 was directed to
candidates that first year. In recent years,
more than $1 million has been given each
year. The Fund now employees 21 full-
time staff members and has endorsed
952 LGBT candidates over 20 years that
has resulted in 637 wins. Last year was
the organization’s most successful with
107 races won out of 167 endorsed.
U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.),
now in her seventh term in the House,
credits the Fund for helping her achieve
her goals.
“The Victory Fund’s early support and
mentoring not only helped me get elect-
ed to the Wisconsin State Assembly, but
gave me the encouragement, skills and
crucial financial backing to run for a seat
in Congress,” Baldwin wrote in an e-mail.
“By propelling openly LGBT candidates
into office, the Victory Fund continues to
change the face of American politics for
the better.”
State Sen. Matt McCoy (D-Iowa) said
in an e-mail that his years in office, aided
by the Fund, have helped achieve pro-
gay strides there.
“Iowa is well positioned on equality
issues having adopted the non-discrim-
ination act and applied this to [LGBT]
citizens,” McCoy wrote. “Iowa has also
adopted anti-bullying legislation that bans
school and cyber bullying based upon
real or perceived sexual orientation or
gender identity. I have had the privilege to
serve while these progressive decisions
were adopted and signed into law. I be-
lieve that having a visible, out gay state
senator has positively impacted the pub-
lic debate and ensured positive results.”
Harris, who enjoyed her time in poli-
tics but is now content in the private sec-
tor, agrees.
“It’s very important that we be open and
show our presence in this country where
there’s still discrimination and prejudice to
this day,” she says. “It is very important for
gay and lesbian candidates to run and to
have people in these rooms speaking on
our behalf. … It makes a profound differ-
ence when we have a seat at the table.”
U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) first
became a Victory Fund candidate in the
early ’00s when he ran successfully for
mayor of Providence, R.I.
“They’ve done a spectacular job over
the last 20 years to ensure members of
our community are elected to office,” he
says. “I’m a firm believer that one of the
most powerful and effective ways we
move forward is by having members of
our community serving in elected office.
There’s no question the Victory Fund has
done it very successfully.”
Gay candidates sometimes seek help
from the Fund; other times the Fund con-
tacts them. To receive an endorsement,
they must go through a four-day training
program that’s held four times a year. Be-
tween 150 and 200 are trained each year.
Candidates are evaluated for their “vi-
ability” as opposed to “winability,” Wolfe
says. He says the Fund looks for “reason-
able investments” and potential leaders
who’ll be “solid” once they’re in office.
Fund staff does sometimes contact
suspected LGBT officials and persuade
them to come out and seek endorse-
ment. The Fund made a “case study”
video using gay U.S. Rep. Jared Polis
(D-Colo.) as an example.
A Victory Fund endorsement can
mean direct cash, independent expen-
ditures, bundled money, technical assis-
tance, field work or staffing, depending
on the needs of the candidate.
Additional anniversary brunches will be
held in Houston (April 17); Sacramento,
Calif. (Oct. 23); and New York (Sept. 18).
A San Diego brunch was held in February.
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Gay couple’s $100,000 wedding
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By SARAH McKIBBEN
Local couple Carl Cox and Darin Hen-
derson know what it’s like to come out in a
big way — as do the other contestants of
the nation’s first same-sex wedding contest.
The competition, a bid by local ven-
dors to commemorate marriage equality in
D.C., promoted the diverse stories of gay
couples all over the U.S. hoping to wed.
The winners, Cox and Henderson,
earned thousands of online votes last
summer and cemented their union on
March 4 with the top prize — a $100,000
all-inclusive wedding. The men, who mar-
ried at Metropolitan Community Church,
were honored to have their relationship
legally recognized.
Nevertheless, the contest challenged
them in ways they’d never imagined.
“[Carl and Darin] had to be out in their
lives, out with their friends, out with ev-
erybody in a way that they’ve never been
before,” says Michael Kress, a local
photographer who headed the Freedom-
2Wed contest.
“When we first decided to get married,
we didn’t even know what that was going
to feel like, what it was going to look like,”
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Cox says. “Nothing about this was private.
We had to let the world know what we were
doing and why we were doing it. And yeah,
it was about winning, but it was also about
getting … our personal story out, about
love surmounting all odds.”
Cox and Henderson weren’t the only pair
whose relationship was placed under a mi-
croscope, however. Six couples competed
for the final prize and runners up Tonya
Agnew and Amy Crampton confronted
a challenge of a different kind. Parents to
two boys, Jesse and Leo, the women had
to broadcast their relationship and family
across the Midwest town of Lafayette, Ind.
When they learned they were finalists, they
were somewhat apprehensive.
“I had a tendency to think of all the
reasons why we shouldn’t go through
with this,” Crampton says. “It was scary
to put my family out there.”
But it’s family that ultimately inspired
the couple to continue on. “Once you’ve
become a parent, there’s really not a
choice whether or not you can hide,”
Crampton says. “I have to be out, I have
to portray how proud I am and I can’t
worry about anyone else’s comfort level.
Raising two boys, I know how important it
is to model behavior for them.”
To the couple’s amazement, the en-
tire town rallied behind them and they
drew in support from family, friends, col-
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leagues and the public.
Although they didn’t win, the journey
brought them closer as a couple and as
a family. They’ve since shared their sto-
ry as keynote speakers at several local
events and they plan to continue to be
vocal about marriage in their home state
of Indiana.
“The experience has been very affirm-
ing and liberating,” Agnew says. “It has
empowered us as a couple and I really feel
like it changed us in a very positive way.”
Agnew is also thankful for the close
bond the contest created between the
finalists. She and her partner attended
their friends’ wedding, along with fellow
runners up Kareem Murphy and De-
Wayne Davis.
Murphy and Davis, longtime Maryland
residents, spoke highly of the contest-
inspired opportunity to make their rela-
tionship public. “The contest was a won-
derful experience for us … we got the
chance to tell our story to thousands of
people,” Murphy says.
For Cox and Henderson, the wedding
was simply the culmination of a long jour-
ney of self-discovery.
“To have so many people standing in
your corner, saying what you’re doing Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
is wonderful … standing up for you … I Carl Cox and Darin Henderson, a local
can’t tell you how much it means,” Hen- couple, won a $100,000 wedding contest and
derson says. were married earlier this month in Washington.
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CALENDAR the Birchmere Dec. 17. (Photo courtesy of the Roches)
Today
The Committee on the Judi-
ciary will have its annual oversight
hearing on the Metropolitan Police
Department today at 10 a.m. Per-
sons wishing to testify should con-
tract Brian Moore at 202.724.7808
or bmoore@dccouncil.us.
The D.C. Center (1318 U St.,
N.W.) is hosting its first open in-
terest meeting for the 2012 Gay
Men’s Heath Summit at 6 p.m.
today. Different issues will be dis-
cussed from locational logistics
to what the event will look like.
Ziegfeld’s (1824 Half St.,
S.W.) presents Miss Gay D.C.
American review tonight with
Coti Collins, Coco Montrese, Vic-
toria DePaula, Catia Lee Love,
Jessica Jade, Victoria Parker,
Ashley Bannks, Gigi Couture
and Monet Dupree. Doors open
at 9 p.m. There is a $5 cover un-
til 10:30 and a $10 afterward.
Gay District presents St. Pat-
ty’s Gay Happy Hour tonight from
7 to 9:30 p.m. at Larry’s Lounge
(1836 18th St., N.W.) Stay for an
extended happy hour with a $4
donation to Gay District.
D.C. Women in Their Thirties
will meet tonight at 8 p.m. at the
D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.).
The New Gay presents Homo/
Sonic at the Black Cat (1811 14th
St., N.W.) tonight from 9:30 p.m.
to 3 a.m. with DJs Zack and Mi-
chael. This is an all ages party
and there is a $10 cover.
Caliente Grande is tonight
at Apex (1415 22nd St., N.W.)
starting at 9 p.m. DJ Michael
Brandon will be spinning the
Latin dance party in the main
hall. There is a $10 cover
charge. Attendees must be 18
to enter, 21 to drink.
Saturday, March 19
The 12th annual Youth Law
Fair, a joint effort of the D.C. Su-
perior Court and the D.C. Bar,
will focus on cyberbullying with
a mock trial, youth speak out
sessions and raffle giveways at
GAYNERD BY THOMAS GONYEA
the Moultrie Courthouse (500
Indiana Ave., N.W.) from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. For more information,
visit dcbar.org/youthlawfair. This
is a free event.
La Clinica Del Pueble/
Mpoderate! Youth Center will be
working in partnership with HAH-
STA to makeover the S.E. STD
Clinic waiting room (1900 Massa-
chusetts Ave., S.E., Bldg. 8) and
will be holding a planning meet-
ing today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Capital Queer Prom is to-
night from 7 to 11:30 p.m. aboard
the Spirit of Mount Vernon.
Mixtape D.C. is tonight the
Rock & Roll Hotel (1353 H St., N.E.)
from 10 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Mixtape
is a dance party for queer music
lovers and their pals that features
DJs Shea Van Horn and Matt
Bailer playing an eclectic mix of
electro, alt-pop, indie rock, house,
disco, new wave and anything else
danceable. There is a $5 cover for
this 21 and older event.
The Servicemembers Legal
Defense Network’s 19th annual
national dinner “Making History,
Moving Forward” is tonight at the
National Building Museum (401
F St., N.W.) The reception begins
at 6:30 p.m. and dinner is at 7:30.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is the
master of ceremonies and Demo-
cratic Minority Whip, Rep. Steny
Hoyer is the keynote speaker. For
more information and to purchase
tickets, visit sldn.org.
The Ladies of Lure present
“Bare: Military Style” at Cobalt
(1639 R St., N.W.) tonight at 10
p.m. with DJs Rosie and Keen-
an to benefit SLDN. Cover is $5
before midnight. Attendees with
a SLDN national dinner ticket
will get in free.
Sunday, March 20
The Kennedy Center (2700 F
St., N.W.) will be showing the film
“Fire,” the first Indian film to por-
tray homosexual relations, today
at 1:30 p.m. There will be an in-
troduction and a post-screening
question and answer with ac-
tresses Shabana Azmi and Nan-
dita Das. This screening is part of
maximum India. Tickets are $12
and can be purchased online at
kennedy-center.org.
Victory Fund is celebrating
20 years of success in growing
the number of openly LGBT lead-
ers in elected offices across the
country with its National Cham-
pagne Brunch today from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Washington
Hilton (1919 Connecticut Ave.).
Congressman David Cicilline,
Oregon Secretary of State Kate
Brown and University of Michigan
Student Assembly President Chris
Armstrong will be present. This
event will feature a silent auction.
Individual tickets are $150. For
more information and to purchase
tickets, visit victoryfund.org.
Burgundy Crescent Volun-
teers are celebrating their 10th
anniversary with a happy hour
at Pinzimini Lounge at the Wes-
tin Arlington Gateway (801 N.
Glebe Rd.) from 5 to 7 p.m.
Pocket Gays present “Sham-
erock Sunday School” tonight at
Local 16 (1602 U St., N.W.) from
3 to 9 p.m. There is no cover.
More Light Presbyterians will
host a special screening and dis-
cussion of the film “Bullied” today
from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Church of
the Pilgrims (2201 P St., N.W.)
with special guests Diane Bruce,
director of Health and Wellness
and Andrew Barnett, the execu-
tive director of Sexual Minority
Youth Action League (SMYAL).
Monday, March 21
WEAVE is holding a support
group for survivors of intimate
partner violence from 6:30 to 8
p.m. at the WEAVE Lighthouse
Center for Healing (5321 First
Place, N.E.).
Bears do Yoga at Green Lan-
tern (1335 Green Court N.W.)
tonight at 6:30 p.m. Class lasts
for an hour and serves as an
introduction to yoga for people
of all different body types and
physical abilities. It’s taught by
Photo courtesy of Live Nation
Feeling nasty? JR.’s and the Blade are sponsoring a post-concert party in
honor of Janet Jackson. Join us Tuesday beginning at 9:30 p.m. at JR.’s for
Janet music and videos and drink specials for those with ticket stubs from
her concert that night. JR.’s is at 1519 17th St., N.W.
Michael Brazell. For more infor- Rock & Roll Hotel’s (1353
mation, visit dccenter.org. H St., N.E.) WTF Wednesdays
presents “Freaks and Geeks”
Tuesday, March 22 tonight. Doors open at 7 p.m.
and the show begins at 7:30.
The Gay and Lesbian Ac- Three 50-minute episodes will
tivists Alliance will be holding be shown on the big screen.
a membership meeting tonight There’s limited seating and at-
from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Charles tendees are welcome to bring
Sumner School Museum and their own seats. This is a free,
Archive (1201 17th St., N.W.). 21-and-older event.
Janet Jackson’s Number
Ones, Up Close and Personal Thursday, March 24
World Tour comes to DAR Con-
stitution Hall (1776 D St., N.W.) Dance Gavin Dance will be
for the first of two concerts to- performing at Rams Head Live
night at 8 p.m. Tickets range (20 Market Place) in Baltimore
from $98 to $149 and can be with Iwrestledabearonce, In
purchased online at ticketmas- Fear and Faith, Close to Home,
ter.com. The second concert is Just like Vinyl and DJ Big Choc-
Thursday, also at 8 p.m. olate tonight at 7 p.m. Tickets
are $15 and can be purchased
Wednesday, March 23 online at ramsheadlive.com.
This is an all-ages show.
The D.C. Center (1318 U St.,
N.W.) will be holding volunteer E-mail calendar items to cal-
training today at 6:30 p.m. Train- endars@washblade.com two
ing is require for all new front weeks prior to your event.
desk volunteers and encourage Space is limited so priority is
for all current front desk volun- given to LGBT-specific events
teers. Other volunteers are also or general events with LGBT
welcome to attend. participants. D.C.-area only.
 march 18, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 35

St. Matthew
Passion
J.S. Bach
Friday, March 18, 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 19, 5 pm
The Cathedral’s vocal ensemble,
Cathedra, performs Bach’s beloved
St. Matthew Passion.

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Washington National Cathedral
vocal chamber ensemble
Michael McCarthy, conductor

featuring
Rufus Müller, Evangelist
Benjamin Park, Jesus
Elizabeth Hungerford & Emily Noël, soprano
Roger Isaacs & Anne-Marieke Evers, alto
Matthew Smith & Aaron Sheehan, tenor
Brendan Curran & Richard Giarusso, bass

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or call (202) 537-2228 today to
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There’s still time to register for softball. Three registration events will be held this month.
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The Chesapeake and Potomac Softball
League (CAPS) is gearing up for its 29th
season, which kicks off May 1 at Watkins
2 Cardinal Park Drive SE Suite 103A Regional Park in Upper Marlboro.
Leesburg, VA 20175 The group has three remaining early
(571) 420-2936 www.altheamedspa.com bird registration events, which will take
place at Cobalt on Saturday, PW’s Sports
Bar on March 26 and Freddie’s on March
27. The registration events are an op-
portunity to meet the board of directors,
coaches and other players along with
getting $10 off the cost of joining, which
is normally $50.
CAPS was founded in 1983 and over
the years has become one of the larger
LGBT sports teams in the area. There are
currently 500 players on 27 teams with
multiple divisions.
There are three open divisions con-
sisting of both men and women with
three different skill categories: B, C and
D. There are two women’s divisions — B
and C. The season runs for nine weeks
and each team plays 18 games during
that period on consecutive Sundays.
For those who may be apprehensive
about playing or just want to recheck
their abilities, the group offers a skills
Photo by Scott Trump
clinic run by professionals. The skills
clinic will be offered at 10 a.m. on April
17 at the Tucker Road Field in Fort Wash-
ington.
A few years ago, CAPS formed Friends
of the League for people who want to be
a part of the group without playing. For
$10 you can become a member and at-
tend the season kick-off party at Cobalt
on April 30 and also the end-of-season
party at Nellie’s on July 31.
CAPS is a member of the North
American Gay Amateur Athletic Alli-
ance (NAGAAA) and the Amateur Sports
Alliance of North America (ASANA).
NAGAAA is a huge organization, which
boasts 680 teams and more than 10,000
players in 41 cities across North Amer-
ica. Each year it hosts the Gay Softball
World Series. In 2010, CAPS sent four
teams to the event held in Columbus,
Ohio. CAPS currently has a bid in for the
2013 World Series and is competing with
Portland and Dallas for the selection.
Ed Vincent, CAPS League Commis-
sioner stated that if they are accepted
as the host city, D.C. can expect to see
more than 2,000 players come into the
area for the event.
In addition to regular season play, the
players also travel to a few tournaments
throughout the 41-city NAGAAA member
circuit. For more information on CAPS,
go to capssoftball.org
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Michael
Feinstein
Sunday, April 17 at 7pm
Kennedy Center Concert Hall
“Smooth, rippling, perfectly
manicured vocal and pianistic lines.”
~ New York Times
(202) 785-9727 (WPAS) • WPAS.org
ARTSINBRIEF
Jackie Beat at Cobalt tonight with two shows
Drag queen and celebrity entertainer Jackie Beat
will have two performances at Cobalt (1639 R St.,
N.W.) tonight.
First, at 9 p.m., Beat will be performing a dinner
show downstairs at Level One. She’ll move upstairs at
midnight for another show with DJ DeMarko.
Beat is the drag persona of Kent Fuher. She has
appeared in many movies such as “Bam Bam and
Celeste” and on television, including an episode of
“Sex and the City.”
Beat also writes a weekly column, “Little Miss
Know-It-All,” for FrontiersWeb.com, covering topics
like Facebook, movie fashions and many others. The
event will feature free vodka drinks will be available
from 11 p.m. to midnight upstairs. DJ Keenan Orr will
spin. Reservations for Beat’s dinner show can be Photo courtesy of Jackie Beat
made at opentable.com. For more information, visit Jackie Beat (aka Kent
cobaltdc.com. Fuher) is at Cobalt tonight.
Capital Queer Prom to benefit Youth Pride
The fifth annual Capital Queer Prom is Saturday from 9 p.m. to midnight abroad
the Spirit of Mount Vernon (600 Water St., S.W., Pier 4).
Queer Prom is a formal gala that gives LGBT men and women a second
chance at their dream prom.
This year the celebration spans three days. There’s a pre-Prom maritime meet
and greet tonight from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at The Reef (2446 18th St., N.W.) that will
include complimentary wine, happy hour specials and music.
The celebration ends with a post-Prom drag brunch at Nellie’s (900 U St.,
N.W.). The brunch includes an all-you-can-eat buffet, complimentary mimosas,
drag queen performances and a special treat exclusively for prom guests. Every
year, the prom benefits a local non-profit organization. This year it’ll benefit the
Youth Pride Alliance, an organization in its 15th year dedicated to creating safe
events and support for LGBT youth, including its annual Youth Pride Day, which is
Apr. 30.
The Queer Prom is for ages 21 and older. Tickets to the prom and brunch are
$95 each. Tickets are also available for the prom only and are $75 each. For more
information on Queer Prom and to purchase tickets, visit capitalqueerprom.com.
Miss Gay Regional Pageant this weekend
The Miss Gay D.C. America 2011
regional pageant is Saturday at Town
(2009 8th St., N.W.).
This is the 40th anniversary of the
Miss Gay America pageant, the first
female impersonator pageant.
The pageant has been an award
winning pageant since 2004 with
more than 50 contestants from across
the U.S. competing for the crown.
Pre-judging and evening gown
starts at 5:45 p.m. and the pageant
will begin at 6:45.
The winner will be crowned Miss
Gay D.C. America 2011 and receive
a prize package worth $4,025. The
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
first alternate will received a prize
package worth $2,000. Coti Collins (David Lowman) being crowned
Last year, Coti Collins not only won Miss Gay D.C. America last year.
Miss Gay D.C. America 2010, but
went on to be crowned Miss Gay America 2011.
Victoria DePaula, who won Miss Gay D.C. America in 2008, also went on to be
crowned Miss Gay America 2009.
Special guests at this year’s pageant will include Collins and DePaula, as well as
Jessica Jade, Miss Gay D.C. America 2009 and first runner-up for Miss Gay Ameri-
can 2010, Victoria Parker, Miss Gay D.C. America 2007, Ashley Bannks, Miss Gay
D.C. America 2006, Catia Lee Love, Miss Gay America 2000, Miss Peaches, Miss
Gay D.C. America 2005, Maxine Blue, Miss Gay D.C. America 1998 and Cham-
pagne Douglas, Miss Gay D.C. America 1990 and Miss Gay D.C. America 1991.
The pageant is also a multiple nominee and winner of the Best Regional Prelimi-
nary Pageant of the Year.
There will be a $10 cover.
For more information, visit missgaydcamerica.com.
— JULIETTE EBNER
 march 18, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 39

Visit us at cfa.gmu.edu

Parsons Dance
with East Village Opera Company
Remember Me
Friday, April 8 at 8 p.m.
Virginia Opera Don’t miss this opportunity to see
Remember Me, a dynamic original modern
Madama Butterfly ballet telling a compelling tale of jealousy
and rivalry, and featuring David Parsons’
electrifying choreography, cutting-edge
Friday, April 1 at 8 p.m. music from Grammy-nominated East Vil-
Sunday, April 3 at 2 p.m. lage Opera Company, stunning costumes
by Austin Scarlett (“Project Runway”) and
Virginia Opera concludes its dramatic multimedia special effects by Tony
season with a stunning production Award-winning Howell Binkley. The Village
of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Voice praised its “eye-popping effects, excel-
This beloved masterpiece transports audiences to the Japanese city of Nagasaki at the lent showbiz-savvy performers” and “lusty
turn of the 20th century. Cultures collide and tragedy follows when a flippant American sensual movement” and raved, “Parsons
officer takes a young geisha as his bride and then leaves her behind as he returns home enters the realm of pop spectacle with a
to the U.S. It’s a captivating opera which touches the heart with its deep human tragedy, vengeance!”
powerful music, and the extraordinary voices of the Virginia Opera. Sung in Italian with
English supertitles. $22, $36, $44
This tour of Parsons Dance is made possible by a grant
$44, $72, $86 – Friday
from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from
$48, $80, $98 – Sunday the National Endowment for the Arts.

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40 washingtonblade.com • march 18, 2011
THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS OPENINGS
Sun, March 20
Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de
Nuit, National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
Mon, March 21
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve
Jobs, Woolly Mammoth. 202-393-3939.
woollymammoth.net.
Wed, March 23
Liberty Smith, Ford’s Theatre.
202-397-7328. fords.org.
Photograph 51, Theater J.
800-494-8497. washingtondcjcc.org.
Investigation: Detective McDevitt,
Ford’s Theatre. 202-397-7328. fords.org.
LAST CHANCE
Sat, March 19
Madame Butterfly, Washington National
Opera, Kennedy Center. 202-295-2400.
dc-opera.org.
Sun, March 20
Affectations, Joe’s Movement
Emporium. 301-699-1819.
Film: FIRE part maximum INDIA Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Sunday, March 20 Dreamcoat, Olney Theatre Center.
Kennedy Center 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org 301-924-4485. olneytheatre.org.
Director Deepa Mehta’s groundbreaking Fire was the first Indian film to explicitly Juno and the Paycock, Washington
portray homosexual relations and continues to invite conversations on homosexual- Shakespeare Company, ARTISPHERE. 800-
ity and freedom of speech 494-8497. washingtonshakespeare.org.
Sculpture Garden Ice Rink,
National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
National Symphony Orchestra,
Beethoven & Zemlinsky,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
Wed, March 23
Artist in Residence: Nathan & Noble
Jolley, jazz, Strathmore. strathmore.org.
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
March 18 - March 20
Symposium on Lincoln’s
Exhibition: Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals Assassination: New Perspectives,
Through Monday, May 30 Surratt House Museum,
National Gallery of Art 202-737-4215. nga.gov Colony South Hotel. surratt.org.
The city of Venice inspired a school of competitive “view painters” whose achieve- March 19 - March 20
ments count among the most brilliant in 18th-century art. The exhibition celebrates The Manganiyar Seduction,
the rich variety of these Venetian views, known as vedute, with 21 masterworks by Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
Canaletto and 34 by his rivals. kennedy-center.org.
The Guide to Arts & Culture is provided by CultureCapitol.com, Your link to the Arts in Metro DC, a program March 22 - March 23
of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington. Photos courtesy of The Kennedy Center and the National Kathy Mattea, Wolf Trap.
Gallery of Art.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
March 22 - March 24
Paul Taylor Dance Company,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Fri, March 18
Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
Lafayette Gilchrist, Montpelier Arts
Center. 301-377-7800. pgparks.com.
Sat, March 19
An Evening with Brahms, Choralis,
Strathmore. 301-581-5100. choralis.org.
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Anil Revri,
Kreeger Museum, . 202-338-3552.
kreegermuseum.org.
WPAS: Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Kennedy Center. wpas.org.
Sun, March 20
The Del McCoury Band, Strathmore.
strathmore.org.
Tue, March 22
Jonathan Biss, piano & Miriam Fried,
violin, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
Words & Music: Justin Trawick with
Christylez Bacon, ARTISPHERE.
artisphere.com.
Wed, March 23
Juan de Marcos & Afro-Cuban All
Stars, Strathmore. strathmore.org.
Thu, Mar 24
Lucy Kaplansky, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
ONGOING STAGE
The Chosen, Theater J, Arena Stage.
800-494-8497. washingtondcjcc.org.
Protest and Passion, In Series, Atlas.
202-204-7763. inseries.org.
The 3 Rascals / A3vidos [Atrevidos],
Teatro de la Luna, Gunston Theatre Two.
703-548-3092. teatrodelaluna.org.
The Trip to Bountiful, Round House
Theatre Bethesda. 240-644-1100.
roundhousetheatre.org.
Red Herring by Michael Hollinger,
Washington Stage Guild, Undercroft
Theatre. 240-582-0050. stageguild.org.
Bootycandy, Woolly Mammoth.
202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net.
ONGOING EXHIBITONS
National Gallery of Art. Venice: Canaletto
and His Rivals, Gauguin: Maker of Myth,
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Notes from Down Under

By David Bediz, REALTOR cations, and many in transition-
Coldwell Banker al areas, are marketed using the
Residential Brokerage auction approach within a 6-7
week timeframe. Just as we do
During a visit to Australia two here, the initial consultation with
weeks ago, I was not only mes- clients involves a pricing strat-
merized by the amazing sights egy, a discussion of suggested
and beautiful weather, the improvements to the home (in-
friendly and attractive people, cluding painting, redecorat-
the fantastic food and fun-filled ing, staging and perhaps even
nightlife, but I was also truly some demolition and construc-
intrigued by the differences in tion), and then a proposed mar-
real estate sales as it is prac- keting plan. Once the home is
ticed there versus here at home. ready for market, it is not simply
What first caught my eye input into a Multiple Listing Ser-
were the panels erected in front vice as we do here. Instead, the
of each home for sale, which property is first marketed to reg-
instead of just a broker’s name istered buyers in the company’s
and phone number actually had contact list for a few weeks, and
large, gorgeous photos that then shown 2-3 times weekly
made each home look like a to the public for about 4 weeks
page from a Crate and Barrel prior to a public auction. Geize-
catalog. The panels also indi- kamp claims his company sells
cated the dates of a few open 90% of their properties at auc-
houses, planned in advance, tion the first time around, and
and then something surprising: those that don’t fetch the right
the date of the auction. Sure price at auction are then kept
enough, most homes sold in online and then marketed using
Sydney, and many other mar- “our” method.
kets throughout the country, are The benefits to the sellers are
sold on the spot by auctioneers clear using this method: they
and not in the way we generally generally deal with the sales
sell homes here in the States. process for a set period of time
I spoke with an agent named without the uncertainty of days
David Geizekamp, Director and and days on the market, anx-
Senior Auctioneer at Callagher iously awaiting any offer. They
Estate Agents about the way also benefit from the psycholo-
things are done there. Calla- gy and frenzy an auction gener- buying power of all the bidders. the auction to preview the prop-
David Bediz is a Realtor at Coldwell
gher is a Sydney-based family ally produces, whereby buyers Such a protocol is obviously erty, perform any inspections Banker Residential Brokerage and
company that was established often are motivated to bid high- more stressful for the buyers they may desire and consider part of the Dwight and David Real
in 1899, just over a hundred er as they see their competi- themselves, and certainly does the location and its value, they Estate Group. He can be reached
years following the colonization tors in front of them. Since the not allow for a lengthy period do have some time prior to the at 202 352 8456 or through www.
DwightandDavid.com. Callagher
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an energetic, articulate sales- for bidders in terms of an initial buyer may ultimately have to it’s really the right home for them. www.callagher.com.au.
person who says that almost deposit and the amount of the pay. However, because the buy- Continued next week: Is the
every property in desirable lo- down payment, sellers know the ers have almost a month prior to Australian system better than ours?

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grade has little meaning, only repre-
in Rough Times
Michael Radkowsky, Psy.D.
inspection ‘letter grade’ sents a “snapshot” of one day, and is
Licensed Psychologist 15 years experience
Near Woodley & Cleveland Park metro
is wrong approach highly subjective based on the training
and efficacy of the overworked inspec-
(202) 234-3278
www.personalgrowthzone.com tor. Even CSPI admits that D.C. has
By MARK LEE fewer than 20 inspectors for more than
5,000 food service locations.
Last week, local diners participated The front windows of local restau-
DAVE LLOYD & ASSOCIATES CANTOR JINNY MARSH in the annual “Dining Out for Life” ben- rants, delis, grocery stores and other
Top 1% Nationwide
NVAR Life Member Top Producer
Officiates Weddings efit for Food & Friends at more than 150 food service establishments would be
703-593-3204 All Faiths restaurants. marred by frayed and yellowing plac-
WWW.DAVELLOYD.NET DC, VA, MD, NYC If D.C. Council member Mary Cheh ards displaying only an uninformative
ENTHUSIASTICALLY (D-Ward 3) gets her way, next year’s letter grade originating with the depart-
SERVING DC & VIRGINIA event participants will be confronted by ment’s last inspection.
a “letter grade” posted in front windows And what happens when a local res-
of restaurants supposedly indicating taurant gets a temporarily lower score
the “cleanliness” and “food safety” of based on “non-critical” demerits requir-
the establishment. ing a re-inspection within a few days?
CYBERLAPTOPS.COM PERSONALIZE Cheh has re-introduced legislation Jonathan ten Hoopen, general manager

dcagenda
— this time with the loss of both a co- of popular Dupont Circle restaurants La
For All Your Computer Repairs YOUR ROSES introducer and a co-sponsor — requir- Tomate and Mourayo, says that he has
New Way of Expression!
ing that the District implement a crude never experienced a follow-up visit by an
the lgbtq community’s news source ESkal FlOwERS “A, B, C, or F” grading system based inspector, although required by law.
PROOF#: 1
1636 R Street, NW
ISSUE DATE: 091218 SALES REP: BP
& GiFt ShOp on a sporadic routine inspection by the Chair of the Dupont Circle Merchants
Washington, DC 20009 1636 R St., NW • WDC 20009 • 202.506.1065 D.C. Department of Health. and Professionals Association and a
202.462.7195
Revisions Please check your ad copy kamal@eskalflowersandgiftshop.com Her bill, bearing a title only a bureau- board member of Dupont Circle Main
support@cyberlaptops.com for accuracy. The ad will eskalflowersandgiftshop.com
Redesign be
Text revisions presumed correct if proof crat could love, is the “Restaurant Hy- Streets, Jonathan is an outspoken critic
Image/Logo revisions corrections are not submitted
by 24 hrs. of receipt of this giene Transparency Act of 2011” and is of Cheh’s proposed legislation and says,
No revisions copy of your ad. part of an effort by the notorious Center “it’s like a ‘scarlet letter’ and is not fair
10% OFF TREE CARE SERVICES FOR JAN & FEB for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) to establishments.” Wondering how a
Signature to impose a mandated grading system restaurant could have its letter grade re-
nationwide. (You might recall CSPI’s viewed by a department already unable
eye-roll-inducing effort attacking movie to conduct timely regular inspections or
theater popcorn butter and summer ice fulfill re-inspections, he suggests that
cream consumption.) the money would be best spent and pro-
Not one to pause before scheming vide better results for consumers “to hire
CERTIFIED new burdensome regulation of commu- more inspectors, provide better training
ARBORISTS nity businesses contributing mightily to
the city’s tax revenues, Cheh has again
for inspectors in the field and have in-
spectors do follow-ups.”
301.589.6181 proposed creating another layer of un- New York City is struggling to com-
necessary and unproductive govern- ply with a similar law passed last sum-
ment operation in a city facing a finan- mer, completing letter grades for only
cial crisis and a budget deficit in the half of the city’s food-serving locations.
hundreds of millions of dollars. The New York Times reports that the
Just ask her about her proposed bill data so far suggests that inspectors
PRUNING•INSECT&DISEASE DIAGNOSIS•TREATMENT•REMOVAL
to “minimize light pollution” by restrict- appear to be ‘bumping-up’ scores for
ing commercial and retail signage to restaurants on the cusp of the arbitrary
BRANCHESTREEEXPERTS.COM prevent, among other things, “contrib- letter grades to avoid the time-consum-
uting to insomnia and interrupting the ing burden of re-inspection required by
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human body’s production of melatonin” a restaurant appeal of their rating.
PROOF #1 ISSUE DATE: 02.25.11 SALES REPRESENTATIVE: JERYL PARADE (jparade@washblade.com) and disrupting “animals’ breeding cy- Instead of proposing another “feel-
REVIEW AD FOR COPY AND DESIGN ACCURACY. Revisions must be submitted within 24 hours of the date of
cles and migration patterns by disori- good” law to appease a special inter-
REVISIONS
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the date of proof. Revisions will not be accepted after 12:01 pm wednesday, the week of publication.Brown naff pitts
enting their sense of direction.” (Seri- est group demanding more mandates
REDESIGN
omnimedia llc (dba the washington blade) is not responsible for the content and/or design of your ad. Advertiser is
responsible for any legal liability arising out of or relating to the advertisement, and/or any material to which users ously, it’s in the bill.) on small business, Mary Cheh should
TEXT REVISIONS can link through the advertisement. Advertiser represents that its advertisement will not violate any criminal laws or
any rgihts of third parties, including, but not limited to, such violations as infringement or misapporpriation of any So what’s wrong with letting custom- smartly spend our tax dollars to im-
IMAGE/LOGO REVISIONS copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, music, image, or other proprietary or propety right, false advertising, unfair
competition, defamation, invasion of privacy or rights of celebrity, violation of anti-discrimination law or regulation, ers know how a food establishment prove the current inspection process
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are agreeing inspection?
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washington blade newspaper. This includes but is not limited to placement,
and existing online report access.
by brown naff pitts omnimedia llc, arising out of or related to advertiser’s breach of any of the foregoing representations
and warranties. Shouldn’t this information be made
payment and insertion schedule.
Rather than branding local restaurants
public? with a meaningless and detrimental let-
Actually, it is. D.C. posts inspection ter grade, she should be encouraging
reports online for easy search access collaborative efforts with them to en-
on the District’s award-winning govern- sure effective implementation of exist-
ment website. ing public health standards to every-
Problem is, the understaffed and al- one’s benefit.
ready-overwhelmed inspection depart-
ment has difficulty correctly posting
Mark Lee is a local small business man-
and updating the information. A quick
ager and long-time community business
search of a few local restaurants result- advocate. Reach him at OurBusinessMat-
ed in mismatched reports and outdated ters@gmail.com.
information.
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