Volume 43, Issue 39, September 27, 2013

Laramie sheriff calls writers
claims about 1998 murder

conspiracy theory BS
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
A newly published book that claims gay University of
Wyoming student Matthew Shepard had a sexual relationship
with his killer and his 1998 murder wasnt a hate crime has
triggered expressions of outrage by LGBT activists and
fueled efforts by anti-gay groups to downplay the need for
hate crimes laws.
The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of
Matthew Shepard, written by gay journalist Stephen Jimenez
and ofcially released on Tuesday, comes on the eve of the
15th anniversary of Shepards murder in Laramie, Wyo.
It also comes at a time when the Laramie Project, the
internationally acclaimed play about the Shepard murder and
its portrayal of the slaying as a hate crime, is about to open
at the Fords Theater in Washington with a newly produced
epilogue.
In addition, a documentary lm called Matt Shepard is
a Friend of Mine, directed by a lmmaker who was one of
Shepards high school friends, is scheduled to premiere at the
Washington National Cathedral on Oct. 4. (See related story
on Page 41.)
With the play and lm exploring the Shepard murder as
a hate crime that adversely impacted an entire community
beyond the scope of an individual victim, the startling
assertions made in Jimenezs book have prompted at least
one prominent gay commentator to reassess longstanding
assumptions about the Shepard case.
Events are more complicated than most politicians and
activists want them to be, said gay conservative commentator
BARRETT BRICK died at age 59 after a long battle with cancer.
WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY HENRY LINSER
Memorial service for Barrett Brick planned for Sunday
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Barrett Brick, 59, a D.C. attorney who is credited with playing a lead role in
advocating for LGBT equality on a local, national and international level for
more than 30 years, died Sunday, Sept. 22, at a hospice care facility in Bethesda,
Md. His death followed a 10-year battle with cancer.
Brick spent most of his professional career as an attorney in Washington
working for the Federal Communications Commission.
But friends and colleagues said Brick devoted much of his free time beginning
with his student days at Columbia University in New York as a key player and
leader of a wide range of LGBT organizations.
He served as president of the D.C. Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance from 2006
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Matthew Shepard book creates uproar
Longtime D.C. activist dies
A new book claims Matthew Shepard
sold crystal meth and worked as an
escort. His family said it wont respond
to conspiracy theories.
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lead in new poll
A new poll shows former Democratic
National Committee Chair Terry
McAuliffes lead over Virginia Attorney
General Ken Cuccinelli in the
commonwealths gubernatorial race has
grown.
Forty-seven percent of likely voters
who took part in the Washington Post-
Abt SRBI poll back McAuliffe, compared
to 39 percent who support Cuccinelli.
Ten percent of respondents said they
support Libertarian gubernatorial
candidate Robert Sarvis.
The Washington Post-Abt SRBI
poll comes less than a week after a
Quinnipiac University survey found
McAuliffe ahead of Cuccinelli by a 44-
41 percent margin. The two were set
to square off during a Fairfax County
Chamber of Commerce-sponsored
debate in McLean on Wednesday. For
updated coverage on the debate, visit
washingtonblade.com.
This contest has been and remains
a close race featuring a signicant
percentage of undecided voters,
Cuccinelli campaign spokesperson
Richard T. Cullen said in a statement late
on Monday. Its important to note that
Ken Cuccinelli has a signicant enthusiasm
advantage and Terry McAuliffe has a
history of losing support towards the end
as voters learn more about him.
MICHAEL K. LAVERS
Schwartz to host
PFLAG event

Former D.C. Council member Carol
Schwartz is inviting members of the
LGBT community to join supporters
of the Metro D.C. Chapter of Parents,
Families and Friends of Lesbians and
Gays (PFLAG) for a 30th anniversary
fundraising party for the group at her
Northwest D.C. home on Oct. 1.
Joining Schwartz in organizing the
event are Ike Leggett, the Montgomery
County executive; and Jay Fisette, vice
chair of the Arlington County Board,
whos gay. The three serve as regional
co-chairs of Metro D.C. PFLAG.
This has been a stalwart organization
for 30 years starting before it was
fashionable to support LGBT causes,
Schwartz told the Blade.
The event is scheduled to take place
Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Schwartz
residence at 2029 Connecticut Ave.,
N.W. Tickets are $30 and can be
purchased in advance online at pagdc.
org/support-us/make-a-donation or by
calling Tracy at 202-638-3852.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.

Bill seeks to legalize
marijuana in D.C.
D.C. Councilmember David Grosso
(I-At Large) discussed his bill that would
legalize marijuana in the nations capital
during an interview with the Washington
Blade on Sept. 20.
The bottom line is the war on drugs
when it comes to this issue and marijuana
has not worked, he said as he attended
the D.C. Centers fall reception at the
Reeves Center. Its been a failure and
so what we need to do is reconcile that
and come back and legalize marijuana
and make it regulated.
The bill that Grosso introduced
on Sept. 17 has yet to attract any
co-sponsors. Grosso is among the
Council members who back the bill
that D.C. Council members Tommy
Wells (D-Ward 6) introduced in July that
would decriminalize possession of up
to an ounce of marijuana in the nations
capital.
Grosso told the Blade he is not
concerned about whether members of
Congress will try to block his bill during
the congressional review period if D.C.
Mayor Vincent Gray signs it into law.
I dont think anybody will mess with
it, Grosso said. The tide is turning in
this country toward legalization.
MICHAEL K. LAVERS
Fisette weds on
30th anniversary

Arlington County Board Vice Chair
Jay Fisette married his longtime partner,
businessman Bob Rosen, on the
couples 30th anniversary on Sept. 17.
Fisette became Virginias rst openly
gay elected ofcial in 1997, when
he won election to his rst term on the
Arlington board.
In an announcement sent to his
board colleagues immediately after the
wedding, Fisette said, We held a brief,
private ceremony at All Souls Unitarian
Church in Washington, D.C. We were
joined by our mothers, my sister, and a
handful of close friends. It was lovely.
Added Fisette: The world is
changing. If you would have asked us
15 years ago if we would ever have the
opportunity to get married, we would
have said, Not in our lifetime.
Now, Fisette said, he and Rosen
expect marriage equality will actually
arrive in the Commonwealth of Virginia
in the next ve years.
He said the Supreme Court decision
overturning the Defense of Marriage
Act earlier this year and the Obama
administrations announcement that the
IRS would give the same tax benets
as heterosexual couples to same-sex
married couples regardless of where
they live prompted him and Rosen to
marry at this time.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Beez drop a close one
The Blade is sponsoring Team
Gold (Twerker Beez) in the D.C.
Gay Flag Football Leagues fall
season. The Beez fell just short of
topping Blue Steel in Friday night
lights action last week, 19-18.
Next up for the Beez: A
Sunday contest against Team
Black at 9:45 a.m. at the Carter
Barron elds, 16th and Kennedy
streets. Go Beez, Twerk it!
Gansler enters race for Md. guv
Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler on Tuesday formally announced
his 2014 gubernatorial campaign.
Our campaign is all about ideas, he said in a video posted to his campaign
website that includes gay state Sen. Rich Madaleno (D-Montgomery County)
before he formally announced his bid at Courthouse Square in Rockville.
Were for the people of Maryland.
Gansler, 50, will face Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and lesbian state Del. Heather
Mizeur (D-Montgomery County) in the contest. Harford County Executive
David Craig, state Del. Ron George (R-Anne Arundel County), 2012 U.S.
Senate candidate Brian Vaeth and former congressional candidate Charles
Lollar have also ofcially declared their candidacy on the Republican side to
succeed Gov. Martin OMalley.
Gansler in 2008 became the rst statewide ofcial to back marriage rights
for same-sex couples when he testied in support of gay nuptials during
a state Senate committee hearing. He wrote an opinion in 2010 that said
Maryland would recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other
jurisdictions.
Gansler also enters the race with a signicant nancial advantage over his
Democratic opponents.
The campaign nance report he led in January notes he has a more
than $5.2 million war chest, compared to Brown who reported slightly more
than $1.2 million. Mizeur reported funds of slightly more than $381,000 in a
campaign nance report she led in January.
Gansler will visit Baltimore, Hagerstown, Salisbury and 14 other locations
throughout Maryland over the next week.
MICHAEL K. LAVERS
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GANSLER was the rst statewide
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D.C. Council member DAVID GROSSO (I-At
Large) on Sept. 17 introduced a bill to legalize
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By MICHAEL K. LAVERS
mlavers@washblade.com
Dany, who asked the Washington
Blade not to use his last name, came to
Virginia from Mexico in 2009 to escape
the discrimination and abuse he said he
suffered from his classmates and family
members because he is gay. Those whom
he said kidnapped him after he ran away
from the school to which his parents had
sent him as a child threatened to kill him
because of his sexual orientation.
Dany moved to D.C. last year, but the
woman with whom he was living soon
told him the money he gave her to live
in her home was not enough to pay for
food and rent. He said that his landlord
forced him to prostitute himself. He
made the revelation during a District of
Columbia State Advisory Committee
to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
hearing on trafcking of LGBT youth in
Northwest Washington on Tuesday. Dany
told the Blade in a follow-up interview
she threatened to report him as an
undocumented immigrant if he refused.
I had no guidance because I was very
fearful, he told the commissioners. I
had no direction on what to do.
A report the State Department issued in
June said up to 27 million people around
the world are currently victims of labor
and sex trafcking. Up to an estimated
300,000 people in the United States are
currently involved with human trafcking.
The Polaris Project, an organization
that combats human trafcking,
estimates 100,000 children are currently
in the sex trade in the U.S. The groups
National Human Trafcking Hotline has
also received more than 80,000 calls
from people who want to report cases
as well as victims seeking support.
Those who testied at the hearing
said homophobia and transphobia
only exacerbate the problem of human
trafcking among LGBT youth.
Andrea Powell, executive director of
FAIR Girls, an organization that advocates
on behalf of exploited girls and young
women in the D.C. metropolitan area
and elsewhere, highlighted the case of
a 17-year-old transgender teenager from
Maryland she said had recently been
arrested for solicitation.
Powell said the teen has run away 62
times because of the abuse she said
she suffered in the foster care system in
which she has lived since birth. She said
the teens boyfriend who is in his early
40s sometimes allows her to live with
him in exchange for sex. Powell said
he has also asked his girlfriend to have
sex with others to help him pay the rent.
The situation was pretty normal to
her, Powell said. She would prefer
not to have sex for money. She really
preferred not to have sex with her
boyfriend, but she did not want to be
sent back to foster care and saw this as
the best case scenario
A report the Williams Institute
published last year indicates 40 percent
of homeless youth are LGBT. Nearly
70 percent of service providers who
responded to the survey cited family
rejection as a major contributing factor
to homelessness among this population.
Statistics from the National Coalition
for the Homeless in 2009 indicate
LGBT youth are more susceptible
to victimization and mental health
problems once they become homeless.
The group said nearly 60 percent of
homeless LGBT youth have been
sexually assaulted, compared to
roughly a third of their heterosexual
counterparts. The National Coalition
for the Homeless also found homeless
LGBT youth are 7.4 times more likely to
become a victim of sexual violence than
those who are straight.
One person who requested anonymity
told the committee a man who lived with
his family in Honduras when he was a child
began to abuse him because he is gay. He
said his family kicked him out of the house
after he told local authorities the man
impregnated his 13-year-old sister.
The witness told the committee he
began selling drugs to make money, but
subsequently turned to prostitution. He
said the person with whom he currently
lives threatens to tell his family about
what he is doing.
This person is kind of a bad person
to me, he told the committee. He has
made me do stuff that I dont want to do.
The Polaris Project, the Metropolitan
Police Department and the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops are
among the members of the D.C. Human
Trafcking Task Force that formed in
2004 to increase the amount of trafcker
prosecutions while identifying and
expanding services to victims. It also
receives grants from the U.S. Department
of Justice and the Bureau of Justice
Assistance to combat the issue.
Casa Ruby CEO Ruby Corado, who
told commissioners during the hearing
she had to work four jobs to pay the
family with whom she lived after she
moved to the U.S. from her native El
Salvador in 1986, said homophobic
and transphobic attitudes among some
older D.C. police ofcers remain a barrier
to LGBT trafcking victims. She said the
situation has begun to improve through
the Metropolitan Police Departments
Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit.
There are open-minded law
enforcement out there, D.C. Police Det.
Steven Schwalm told commissioners
during his testimony. If youre being
exploited, by all means give us a call.
Were here to help.
Powell said another potential solution
is to work with law enforcement ofcials
to refer trafcking victims to services
under so-called safe harbor laws as
opposed to placing them under arrest
for solicitation and other crimes.
Incarceration and detention are
not safety planning options, she said.
Theyre not our best case scenarios.
As for Dany, he began volunteering at
Casa Ruby after he said four men beat
him up because he is gay last December
as he left his apartment to see his
psychologist. He has a new place to live
and has applied for a U visa that allows
crime victims to live in the U.S.
Dany, now 23, told the Blade he no
longer prostitutes himself.
If my story is going to help someone,
Im going to tell it, he said.
The National Human Trafcking
Resource Centers hotline is 888-373-
7888 or 233733 via text message.
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06 SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 LOCAL NEWS
D.C. youth report being forced into prostitution
Tony Perkins says life has
changed in aftermath of attack
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
A Virginia man who pleaded guilty
to shooting a security guard in the
arm at the Family Research Council
headquarters in Washington last year
in a foiled attempt to commit a mass
killing of FRC employees was sentenced
last week to 25 years in prison.
Floyd Lee Corkins II, 29, told the FBI
shortly after his arrest that he targeted
the FRC because of its positions
opposing gay rights and same-sex
marriage. He pleaded guilty in February
to committing an act of terrorism while
armed, assault with intent to kill while
armed and interstate transportation of a
rearm and ammunition.
Corkins worked for several months in 2012
as a volunteer at the D.C. LGBT Community
Center, but neither law enforcement
authorities nor D.C. Center ofcials have
disclosed whether Corkins is gay.
D.C. police and the FBI, which
investigated the case, have credited
security guard and FRC building
manager Leonardo Johnson with
preventing Corkins from carrying out
his stated plan to kill as many people as
possible at the FRC building.
In what authorities have called an
act of heroism, Johnson, 47, wrestled
Corkins to the oor in the lobby of the
FRC building at 801 G St., N.W., and
disarmed him after Corkins red three
shots, one of which struck Johnson in the
arm. Authorities said Johnsons action
prevented Corkins from gaining access
to the upper oors of the building where
about 80 employees were working.
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorneys
ofce called for a sentence of 45 years
while Corkins attorney, citing Corkins
history of mental illness, asked for a
sentence of 11 and a half years.
Chief Judge Richard W. Roberts of
the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia said his sentence of 25 years
took into consideration Corkins horric
action as well as mitigating factors such as
his mental illness and his decision to take
responsibility for his behavior.
Roberts told Corkins his stated intent to
kill people to advance his political beliefs
in support of gay rights would have
the opposite effect. He praised others
seeking to advance a political cause,
including gay rights, who use peaceful
means to promote such a cause.
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Trans teenager crowned homecoming queen
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. Students at a southern California high
school on Sept. 20 crowned a transgender classmate their homecoming queen.
Im so proud to win this not just for me, but for everyone out there and
for every kid, Cassidy Lynn Campbell said after she won the honor at Marina
High School in Huntington Beach, as KNBC in Los Angeles reported. It
doesnt matter, you can be yourself.
Campbell, who has documented her transition in a series of YouTube videos,
faced backlash on social media networks after she became homecoming queen.
The one night that should be the happiest day for a girl, it should be so
monumental and memorable, she said in an emotional video she posted on
her YouTube page in which she is wearing her crown and sash. I cant even
enjoy it. I cant even be happy.
Activists interrupt Metropolitan Opera gala
NEW YORK A group of LGBT activists on Sept. 23 interrupted the
Metropolitan Operas opening night gala to protest Russias gay rights record.
Four members of Queer Nation NY unfurled a rainbow ag and urged
Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop his war on Russian gays just before
the start of Tchaikovskys Eugene Onegin as the Associated Press reported.
They also targeted soprano Anna Netrebko and conductor Valery Gergiev,
who are both Russian, for supporting Putin.
The New York Post reported the protesters delayed the performance for 10
minutes until they left the opera house.
Russias LGBT rights record includes a law that bans gay propaganda to
minors continues to spark outrage among advocates inside and outside the
country. The furor also threatens to overshadow the 2014 Winter Olympics
that will take place in Sochi, Russia, in February.
Queer Nation NY members and other LGBT activists gathered outside
Lincoln Center before the Met gala to further protest Russias gay rights record.
College cancels gay marriage lecture
PROVIDENCE, R.I. A Catholic college in Rhode Island has cancelled a
lecture that a prominent same-sex marriage supporter had been scheduled
to give on Thursday.
Hugh Lena, provost and senior vice president of Providence College,
cited a 2004 statement from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in an
e-mail the New York Times reported he sent on Sept. 21 that announced the
cancellation of the event at which Dr. John Corvino of Wayne State University
in Detroit was to have spoken.
The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those
who act in deance of our fundamental moral principles, the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops statement that Lena referenced reads. They should not be
given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.
Rhode Island is among the 13 states and D.C. in which gays and lesbians
can legally marry.
Lena announced his decision to cancel Corvinos lecture two days after
Jesuit journals across the world published an interview with Pope Francis
in which he said the Catholic Church has grown obsessed with same-sex
marriage and other social issues.
Pope Francis, the Catholic Churchs new leader, has been justly celebrated
for his welcoming tone towards gays and lesbians, Corvino wrote on his
website. Notwithstanding my abrupt dis-invitation, I remain hope that
Providence College may soon reect that tone.
Historic step to break
down another barrier
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The U.S. Senate made history on
Tuesday with little fanfare when it
unanimously conrmed for the rst
time an openly gay person to a federal
appellate court.
By a vote of 98-0, the Senate conrmed
Todd Hughes as a circuit judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit, making him the highest-ranking
openly gay judge.
In the half-hour of debate prior to
his conrmation, senators focused on
the budget and imminent government
shutdown, although the signicance of
the Hughes conrmation did come up
on the Senate oor.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chair of
the Senate Judiciary Committee, said
the conrmation of Hughes is an
important milestone.
If conrmed, Mr. Hughes would be
the rst openly gay judge to serve on a
federal appellate court in our nations
history, Leahy said. Im proud the
Senate has nally taken an historic step
to break down another barrier and
increase diversity in our federal bench.
Conservative senators like Charles
Grassley (R-Iowa), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.),
James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Mike Lee
(R-Utah) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
joined Democrats like Debbie Stabenow
(D-Mich.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and
Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) in voting for
the nominee.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit is located in D.C. and
has jurisdiction over issues such as
federal claims, veterans claims and
patent issues.
Under President Obama, the Senate
has conrmed seven openly gay judicial
nominees, but never before has the
Senate conrmed an openly gay person
to an appellate-level court.
During his conrmation hearing on
June 19, Hughes identied delity to
the law as a quality a federal judge
should have.
The rst and foremost quality a
federal judge should have is delity to
the law, Hughes said. He should be
fair to all the litigants. He should be
thoroughly prepared, understand the
facts of the case, the law and come to a
reasoned and equitable decision.
Hughes has most recently served
since 2007 as deputy director for the
Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil
Division at the Justice Department. Prior
to that, he worked for the Commercial
Litigation Branch as a trial attorney.
Obama nominated Hughes for the
seat on the appeals court in February
and the Senate Judiciary Committee
reported out his nomination to the
Senate oor in July.
Hughes practice has been related
to federal personnel law, veterans
benets, international trade,
government contracts and jurisdictional
issues regarding the U.S. Court of
Federal Claims.
Advocates welcomed the news of
Hughes conrmation and called it a
milestone for the LGBT community.
Michael Cole-Schwartz, a
spokesperson for the Human Rights
Campaign, said Hughes conrmation is
signicant both in terms of the barrier it
breaks and the judges record.
Judge Hughes is an eminently
qualied nominee who also happens to
shatter a barrier as the rst openly gay
federal appellate court judge, Cole-
Schwartz said. Its a testament to how
far we have come as a country that his
sexual orientation is irrelevant to his
ability to serve on our nations courts.
DArcy Kemnitz, executive director
of the LGBT Bar Association, said the
conrmation is an important milestone
for the LGBT legal profession.
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Could undermine advances
made after DOMA ruling
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
A new bill that aims to protect
organizations that oppose same-sex
marriage is invoking the ire of LGBT
advocates, who fear it could undermine
advances in marriage equality made in
the past year.
Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), a Tea
Party Republican, last week introduced
the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act,
which is purportedly aimed to prohibit
discrimination in the tax code against
organizations that exercise religious
conscience against same-sex marriage.
Regardless of your ideology, we
can all agree about the importance of
religious liberty in America, Labrador
said. Our bill will protect freedom
of conscience for those who believe
marriage is the union of one man and
one woman. This is not a Republican or
Democrat[ic] issue.
The legislation enjoys bipartisan
support. Among the 60 original co-
sponsors are Reps. Steve Scalise, chair
of the Republican Study Committee as
well as conservative Democrats Rep.
Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.) and Rep. Dan
Lipinski (D-Ill.).
Others co-sponsors are Republicans
well-known for their anti-gay views:
Reps. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), Louie
Gohmert (R-Texas), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)
and Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).
According to the Labrador statement,
most religious institutions fall within
the 501(c) portion of the U.S. tax code,
which allows for tax exemption. Further,
the statement contends if the bill were
passed, no individual or institution that
opposes marriage equality would lose that
exemption for purposes of federal taxes.
An array of conservative organizations
and religious groups have endorsed
the bill, including the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops, the National
Organization for Marriage, Family
Research Council and the Ethics &
Religious Liberty Commission of the
Southern Baptist Convention.
The bill is introduced following the
controversy that ensued after the Internal
Revenue Service apologized for targeting
political groups with closer scrutiny based
on names or political themes if they
applied for tax-exempt status.
LGBT advocates responded to the
introduction of the bill by saying it would
rescind protections that married same-
sex couples have received in the wake of
the Supreme Court decision against the
Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom
to Marry, called the bill a sweeping
Trojan Horse proposal that would
undermine constitutional protections.
Decades of civil rights struggle, and
long experience with both federal and
state non-discrimination statutes, have
made clear that we dont need to gut
non-discrimination laws to protect true
religious freedom, and neither private
religious views nor prejudice should get
a special license to discriminate in the
public sphere, Wolfson said.
Freedom to Marry identied
repercussions of the bill that it says are
particularly egregious:
Allowing businesses to refuse to
provide Family & Medical Leave Act
leave for the same-sex spouse of an
employee to care for a sick loved one
and to deny pension protections to
married same-sex couples.
Allowing federal employees to
refuse to process the tax returns or
Social Security claims of married same-
sex couples.
Allowing individuals to pick and
choose whether they want to comply
with federal laws, simply by invoking
religious views.
Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, a lesbian and
the Third Ways director of social policy
and politics, also said the bill presents
more problems than simply protecting
the tax status of religious organizations.
The sponsors and press clips so far
have focused on the idea of protecting
churches and religious organizations
from losing their tax status due to their
views on marriage for gay couples
something that hasnt ever been an
issue but the effect of the bill would
actually be much broader and incredibly
problematic, Erickson Hatalsky said.
Among the problems with the bill
that Erickson Hatalsky identied are a
potential violation of the Establishment
Clause under the First Amendment
as well as contravening the Bush-
established policy of Charitable
Choice, which says that when a
program is federally funded, a religious
organization may not turn people away.
Further, Erickson Hatalsky said the bill as
written isnt just limited to married same-
sex couples, but would allow federal
beneciaries to discriminate against
anyone whos had sexual relations outside
of an opposite-sex marriage.
That means a government-funded
health clinic could refuse to provide
prenatal care to an at-risk pregnant
woman because she is unmarried,
Erickson Hatalsky said. Again, that
goes against our longstanding principle
that when taxpayer funds are involved,
an organization must serve all comers.
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Facebook co-founders husband
running for Congress
A gay advocate who had a role in bringing marriage equality to New
York has made ofcial his bid to run for Congress although no mention
of his sexual orientation or his own same-sex marriage is so far found in his
campaign material.
In an e-mail blast and an accompanying online video sent out Monday,
Eldridge declares hes running as a Democratic candidate for New Yorks 19th
congressional district.
Right now, the voices of everyday New Yorkers are being drowned out
by the special interests and party politics, causing gridlock in Washington,
Eldridge says in his video. We need an independent voice wholl ght for us,
and thats why Im running for Congress.
New Yorks 19th congressional district, which comprises Columbia,
Delaware and Greene counties in upstate New York, was redistricted in 2012.
President Obama won the district by 6.2 percent in the 2012 election.
Should Eldridge secure the Democratic nomination, hell run against a
Republican incumbent and Iraq war veteran Chris Gibson, who scored a 0
on the Human Rights Campaigns most recent congressional scorecard.
An opponent of same-sex marriage, Gibson has voted in favor of afrming
the Defense of Marriage Act on the House oor. However, Gibson said he
supports civil unions and voted in favor of LGBT-inclusive reauthorization of
the Violence Against Women Act.
Eldridge, who worked with Freedom to Marry to help pass the legalization
of same-sex marriage in New York in 2011, makes civil rights one of his
priorities on the issues section of his campaign website under the heading
Fighting for Equal Protection Under the Law.
But nothing in the campaign material from Eldridge indicates hes gay
or married to Facebook co-founder and owner of The New Republic Chris
Hughes. In June 2012, Eldridge married Hughes, whose net worth has been
estimated by Forbes to be more than $600 million.
Eldridges candidacy has faced controversy even before it kicked off. The
New York Times reported the couple purchased a $2 million home overlooking
a reservoir in Shokan, N.Y., in January. That location would enable Eldridge to
run in the 19th congressional district.
The couple purchased this home after they bought a $5 million estate in
Garrison, which lies in a different congressional district, just two years ago.
However, the Times reported that the couple made the second purchase
after the congressional district in that area became unattainable.
CHRIS JOHNSON
Anti-gay marriage bill draws ire
SEAN ELDRIDGE has faced accusations of district shopping in his bid for Congress.
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Francis says church
obsessed with gays,
abortion, contraception
LGBT Catholics have welcomed Pope
Francis comments that the church
has grown obsessed with same-sex
marriage, abortion and contraception.
We nd much to be hopeful about,
particularly in the Popes rm desire that
the church be a home for all people,
and his belief that God looks on lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender people
with love rather than condemnation,
Dignity USA Executive Director
Marianne Duddy-Burke said in a
statement last week after America,
a Jesuit magazine, published the
pontiffs extensive interview with with
Rev. Antonio Spadaro, editor-in-chief
of La Civilt Cattolica, an Italian Jesuit
magazine, that took place during three
separate meetings last month in Rome.
Francis DeBernardo, executive
director of New Ways Ministry in Mount
Rainier, Md., said Francis comments
amount to a new dawn for the
Catholic Church.
Pope Francis words and example
have opened up new opportunities
for the Catholic Church to welcome
and dialogue with LGBT people,
DeBernardo said. His words will give
courage and hope to thousands of
pastoral ministers and Catholic faithful
who have been doing this work for many
decades, but who have often received
penalties and discouragements from
church leaders who did not share this
popes broad vision.
Francis comments come less than
two months after he told reporters
who asked him about the reported
homosexuality of the man whom he
appointed to oversee the Vatican bank
on his ight back to Rome after a week-
long trip to Brazil for World Youth Day
that gay men and lesbians should not be
judged or marginalized. The Argentine-
born pontiff reiterated this statement
during his interview with Spadaro.
In life, God accompanies persons,
and we must accompany them, starting
from their situation, Francis said. It
is necessary to accompany them with
mercy. When that happens, the Holy Spirit
inspires the priest to say the right thing.
A spokesperson for the Archdiocese
of Washington told the Washington
Blade that Cardinal Donald Wuerl was
traveling and did not have any comment
on Francis statements.
He is a man who profoundly believes
in the mercy of a loving God, and who
wants to bring that message of mercy
to the entire world, including those who
feel that they have been wounded by
the church, New York Cardinal Timothy
Dolan said in a statement. As a priest
and a bishop, I particularly welcome his
reminder that the clergy are primarily
to serve as shepherds, to be with our
people, to talk with them, to be pastors,
not bureaucrats.
Dolan, who is president of the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops, further
discussed the pontiffs comments in a
CBS interview.
If we keep [a] kind of a negative, nger-
wagging tone, its counterproductive,
Dolan said.
LGBT Catholics greeted Francis
election in March to succeed Pope
Benedict XVI, who vehemently opposed
same-sex marriage and condom use
to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and
enforced the Vaticans moral doctrine
before ascending the papacy, with
cautious optimism.
Francis, who is the former archbishop
of Buenos Aires, in 2001 visited a
hospice to kiss and wash the feet of 12
people with AIDS. He told Spadero he
used to receive letters from gay people
who said they were socially wounded
because they felt like the church has
always condemned them.
The church does not want to do
this, Francis told Spadero.
The pontiff was among those who
led the opposition to Argentinas
same-sex marriage law that President
Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner signed
in 2010. Francis described the measure
as a machination of the Father of Lies
that seeks to confuse and deceive the
children of God before Argentine
lawmakers approved it.
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POPE FRANCIS said he received letters from gay Catholics who felt like the church has always
condemned them.
PHOTO BY EDGAR JIMENEZ; COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA
LGBT Catholics welcome popes marriage comments
Appearance slammed as
last gasp for failing industry
An anti-gay Maryland pastor who
vehemently opposes same-sex
marriage is scheduled to deliver the
keynote address at an ex-gay event
slated to take place in D.C. on Sept. 30.
Bishop Harry Jackson of Hope Christian
Church of Beltsville, Md., is expected
to deliver remarks at the rst Ex-Gay
Awareness Dinner and Reception that
Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays
(PFOX), a group that says it advocates on
behalf of former homosexuals and their
families, will host in the nations capital.
Liberty Counsel Chair Mat Staver and
Trace McNutt, a self-described former
Satanic drag queen, will be honored
during the event.
Dennis Jernigan, a Christian singer
who identies as post-gay, is also
scheduled to perform at the dinner.
Voice of the Voiceless, a Virginia-
based organization that claims to defend
the rights of former homosexuals,
individuals with unwanted same-sex
attractions and their families, said a
Capitol Hill lobby day to coincide with
Ex-Gay Awareness Month will also take
place on Monday.
It is my great honor and privilege
to address this historic celebration,
Jackson said in a press release that
Voice of the Voiceless issued on
Monday. I know that I and many others
will be encouraged to hear the amazing
testimonies of the men and women
who have left homosexuality when they
share their stories on September 30.
Voice of the Voiceless President Christopher
Doyle applauded the controversial pastor in
the same press release.
Bishop Jackson has been a beacon
of hope, a leader in the faith community
and an example for all of us to follow,
Doyle said. We are truly blessed to
have such a powerful man of God
address the rst annual Ex-Gay Dinner
and Reception on September 30.
The D.C. event is scheduled to take
place less than two months after New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a
bill that bans so-called conversion
therapy to minors in his state.
The Liberty Counsel last month led
a lawsuit in federal court that seeks
to overturn the law on the grounds
that it violates freedom of speech and
religion under the New Jersey and U.S.
Constitutions. The same group earlier
this month appealed the Ninth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals August 30 ruling
that upheld Californias 2012 law that bars
licensed therapists in the state from trying
to change the sexual orientation or gender
identity and expression of a minor through
conversion or reparative therapy.
The American Psychological
Association, the Pan American Health
Organization and the majority of other
leading mental health groups oppose
reparative or conversion therapy.
Alan Chambers, executive director of
Exodus International, the oldest and
largest ex-gay organization, in June
apologized for the pain and hurt others
have experienced before he announced
his group was shutting down.
Wayne Besen, founder of Truth Wins
Out, an LGBT advocacy group that
challenges the ex-gay movement,
dismissed both Doyle and the scheduled
Sept. 30 events.
What we are really looking at is a
desperate, last gasp of air for a failing
industry, Besen told the Blade. In the
West, this psychological voodoo has
been thoroughly discredited and nearly
vanquished. This is why it is in the hands
of people like Doyle, who have no
credibility and little expertise.
Anti-gay pastor to speak at ex-gay event
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Andrew Sullivan. No one should be
afraid of the truth.
Among the books claims is that
Shepard, 21, knew and socialized with
Aaron McKinney, also 21, one of two
men convicted of his murder, at least
a year before the crime. According
to Jimenezs stated ndings in the
book, Shepard and McKinney each
used and sold crystal meth, both had
been involved with an escort service in
Denver and Laramie that arranged for
them to have sex for money with men,
they were seen at the same parties in
Laramie, and the two occasionally had
sex with each other.
Jimenez told the Blade he devoted
more than 13 years of research and
investigative reporting in preparation
for his book, interviewing more than
100 people on the record, including a
dozen people he identies as friends of
Shepard and more than a dozen friends
of McKinney.
But some of the national LGBT
advocacy groups have joined the
Matthew Shepard Foundation, which
was created by Shepards parents
to combat anti-LGBT violence, in
challenging the accuracy of the book
and the credibility of its sources.
Attempts now to rewrite the story
of this hate crime appear to be based
on untrustworthy sources, factual errors,
rumors and innuendo rather than
the actual evidence gathered by law
enforcement and presented in a court
of law, a statement released by the
Shepard Foundation says.
We do not respond to innuendo,
rumor or conspiracy theories, the
statement says. Instead we remain
committed to honoring Matthews
memory, and refuse to be intimidated
by those who seek to tarnish it.
Albany County, Wyo., Sheriff David
OMalley, who served as Laramie police
commander at the time of the murder,
told the Blade on Tuesday that he
believes the book is full of lies and
described it as conspiracy theory BS.
Jimenez said he and others working
with him have thoroughly and
meticulously scrutinized and vetted
the ndings of his investigation, which
he says included a careful reading
of virtually all of the police and court
records related to the case that initially
had been sealed by a judge.
Laramie ofcials have said the records
became available to the public in late
1999 shortly after the conclusion of the
trial of McKinney, who was convicted
of bludgeoning Shepard to death by
repeatedly striking him in the head
with the barrel of a .357 Magnum pistol
while Shepard was tied to a fence at an
isolated prairie just outside of town.
Co-defendant Russell Henderson
confessed to having tied Shepard
to the fence while accompanying
McKinney on what he said began as
a plan by McKinney to lure Shepard
from a Laramie bar to rob him. Unlike
McKinney, Henderson pleaded guilty
to a murder charge rather than face a
trial. Both men were sentenced to life in
prison without the possibility of parole.
I think the discovery of who Matthew
Shepard was as a person and the
complexity of who he was as a human
being is really important, Jimenez told
the Blade.
And so my reason for writing the book
is to really say lets understand what was
really going on here, he said. If were
serious about dealing with hate and
violence in the culture, lets understand
what really happened here. What are the
forces that came into play that created
this grotesquely violent murder?
Added Jimenez: And certainly as I
know now, the ofcial story that these were
two strangers that walked into a bar and
targeted Matthew because he looked well-
dressed and looked like he had money
and appeared to be gay or that Matthew
came on to them in the bar or that they
lured him out of the bar because he was
gay those are simply not true.
Jimenez was referring to the ndings
in the ofcial police report that was
based in part on a confession by
McKinney to police at the time of his
arrest three days after the murder. In
his confession, McKinney said he and
Henderson planned to rob Shepard,
not to kill him. He said he lost control of
his emotions and actions after Shepard
allegedly groped him in the pickup
truck that Henderson was driving after
Shepard accepted McKinneys invitation
to drive him home from the Fireside bar
on the night of Oct. 6, 1998.
McKinneys lawyers, who attempted
to invoke the so-called gay panic
defense at McKinneys trial, told the jury
in his November 1999 closing argument
that McKinneys judgment was clouded
that night by his consumption of alcohol
and his use of and addiction to crystal
meth amphetamine.
Aaron McKinney is not a cold-
blooded killer, defense attorney Dion
Custis said. What happened is he hit
him too many times after the crystal
meth consumption and Shepards
alleged groping caused him to y into
an uncontrollable rage.
LGBT advocacy groups, noting that
perpetrators of anti-gay hate crimes
often use the gay panic defense as an
alibi, said at the time that McKinneys
use of the gay panic defense conrmed
their belief that McKinneys motive was
anti-gay hatred.
OMalley said the police investigation
found that McKinney had not been using
crystal meth for several days and that
investigators concluded that the murder
had nothing to do with drugs. He said
that the incident started as a robbery
but investigators believe the brutality of
the beating, in which McKinney crushed
Shepards skull, involved a form of
overkill that indicated the true motive
was anti-gay animus.
Jimenez argues in his book that
McKinney was suffering from the effects
of his crystal meth use at the time of
the attack but that some of his animus
toward Shepard was based on alleged
conicts over a drug deal at a time
when the two were working for rival
drug suppliers. He bases this theory
on information from both named and
anonymous sources.
It boggles the mind that this book ies
in the face of all of the evidence related
to the drug use, said Cathy Renna, a
former ofcial with Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation (GLAAD), who
attended the McKinney trial.
Aaron McKinney has changed his
story so many times its not even worth
trying to keep count, said Renna in
referring to subsequent statements
that McKinney has made to reporters in
interviews from jail.
But the one thing that Aaron
McKinney has been clear about and has
remained consistent to is that he didnt
know Matt beforehand.
Renna and others questioning the
reliability of Jimenezs sources have cited
a memo that ABC News correspondent
Elizabeth Vargas mistakenly left at
OMalleys residence in 2004, when she
interviewed OMalley, as conrmation
that Jimenez reached his conclusions
about the Shepard case before he
began research for a controversial
report on the ABC program 20/20. The
memo, according to critics who have
seen it, outlined the view the Shepard
murder was not a hate crime along with
some of the other revelations recounted
in the Jimenez book.
Book claims Shepard abused
drugs, knew his killer
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LOCAL NEWS SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 15
Memorial service planned for Barrett Brick
through 2009 after having served as the
groups treasurer, according to current
GLAA President Rick Rosendall. He served
on the board of the then Capital Area Log
Cabin Republicans from 1995 to 1998.
Brick served as president of D.C.s
Congregation Bet Mispachah, which
reaches out to the LGBT Jewish
community, from 1984 to 1985 after serving
on the congregations board from 1980 to
1984, a GLAA biography of Brick says.
The GLAA biography says Brick
served as executive director of the
World Congress of Gay and Lesbian
Jewish Organizations from 1987 to 1993.
He served in the 1990s as co-chair of
the Committee on Sexual Orientation
and Gender Identity of the American
Bar Association.
In a town swarming with partisan
hackery, Barrett consistently stood up for
principle and put the greater good before
self-interest, said Rosendall. His wide-
ranging interests brought him multiple
circles of friends, he said, adding that
Bricks role as a longtime GLAA collaborator
and adviser was beyond price.
Brick received a bachelors degree
from Columbia University in 1976
and a law degree from Columbia
University Law School 1979. During
his undergraduate studies he served
as treasurer and vice president of Gay
People of Columbia and founded
the Columbia Gay and Lesbian Law
Students Association in 1979.
D.C.s Rainbow History Project, which
inducted Brick as a Community Pioneer
credited with helping to strengthen
Washington, D.C.s LGBT community,
said Brick was a leader in pushing for
immigration rights for LGBT people
beginning in the 1990s. In 2012, the
national LGBT rights organization
Immigration Equality selected Brick as
a recipient of its Global Vision Award
in recognition of his advocacy for LGBT
immigrants and their families.
The Rainbow History Project also
credits Brick with working with fellow
GLAA member Craig Howells campaign
in the early 1980s to persuade founders
of the soon-to-be-opened U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington to
include homosexual victims of the Nazi
death camps as part of its exhibits and
stories of the Holocaust.
With Howell, he met members of the
Jewish Community Council in February
1983 to make the case for inclusion,
the Rainbow History Project states in
its biography of Brick. A short time
later, with the full support of Jewish
leaders and holocaust expert Elie
Wiesel, the Council agreed to include
gay Holocaust victims as part of the
museums commemoration of all victims
of Nazi persecution, the biography says.
Brick spoke about the signicance of
including gay Holocaust victims as part
of the museum during an event held
one day after the Holocaust Memorial
Museum was formally dedicated in April
1993. The dedication took place during
the same week LGBT people from
across the country came to Washington
for a national march for LGBT equality.
For the living and for the dead, for
ourselves and for future generations, we
and this museum bear witness to the truth of
our heritage and our history of community
and survival, of terror and death, of love and
resistance, Brick said. We preserve our
stories, and we tell them.
Howell, who worked closely with Brick
on LGBT rights projects through GLAA,
said he was always witty, passionate
and dedicated to our communitys
welfare. Added Howell, Barrett made
himself a truly indispensable man for so
many years in so many ways.
In addition to his numerous LGBT
political activities Brick was an avid
soccer fan and reader of science ction
literature. His friends say that similar to
his political involvements, Brick pushed
for LGBT visibility in these two areas. He
was an active member of the Screaming
Eagles, an organization of soccer fans
in the D.C. area that roots for the D.C.
United professional soccer team.
He also served on the planning
committee for Gaylaxicon 2008, the annual
international science ction, fantasy and
horror convention for LGBT fans.
Antonio Rufni, Bricks husband,
said the two met in September 1999
at a science ction conference in
Melbourne, Australia. As a native and
resident of South Africa, Rufni said he
and Brick soon began a bi-continental
relationship, with each traveling to one
anothers country as often as possible.
Among Bricks wide range of interests
was astronomy and eclipse chasing,
Rufni said. Bricks practice of traveling
the world to witness an eclipse and on
many occasions taking Rufni with him
gave the two a unique opportunity to
spend time together in such places as
Egypt, Mongolia and Pacic Islands.
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obituary
Trans activist Melenie Eleneke dies at 52
Melenie Mahinamalamalama Eleneke, transgender rights activist, hula
dancer and devoted auntie and sister, died peacefully of natural
causes in her sleep the morning of Sept. 9 at her home in
Daly City, Calif., according to her friend Ricky Everett. She was 53.
Auntie Mele was born Christmas Day 1959 in Honolulu,
becoming the youngest of Jarett Kalani Eleneke and Alene
Kuukamaaloha Parker Eleneke-Pas ve children, including sisters
Char Thompson, Shalei Eleneke and brothers Wayne, Paul and Charles Eleneke.
One year prior to her 1977 graduation from Kailua High School in
Honolulu, Eleneke transitioned to become the woman known and
loved by a vast network of family, friends and colleagues. She was a lifelong
spiritual healer, hula dancer and social justice advocate.
Eleneke was a long-serving community leader with the
Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project in San
Francisco, most notably for her trip to Geneva in February 2008 where
she addressed the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination, holding the United States accountable for its lack of
economic opportunity for transgender women of color.
In addition to her parents and siblings, Eleneke is survived by
Patrice Evans, nephew Tamalani Auvaa, her dogs Jimmy and
Kukunaokala, and her devoted sisters, nieces and nephews from the
House of Valenciaga.
A memorial service was held last week in California and another is planned
in her native Hawaii.
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Nations rst gay bar
remained open during
World War II
AMSTERDAM Formal Dutch LGBT
advocacy began in 1911 when the
Netherlands raised the age of consent for
same-sex sexual relations from 16 to 21.
Koen van Dijk, executive director of
COC Nederland, a Dutch LGBT advocacy
group, told the Washington Blade
during an interview in his Amsterdam
ofce earlier this month the measure
prompted gay men to respond against it.
That spurred gay men that were
insulted by this legislation, but were
also offended by it to become more
organized and start working on
change, he said.
COC Nederland can trace its
origins back to the late 1930s when a
group of gay men who primarily lived
in Amsterdam began to publish a
magazine called The Right to Live.
Gay organizing in the Netherlands
came to an abrupt halt in 1940 when
Germany invaded the Netherlands. Those
who published the magazine burned their
archives and went underground because
van Dijk said they heard stories of what
happened to gay people in Germany
under the Nazi regime.
Caf tMandje, the countrys rst gay
bar that lesbian Bet van Beeren opened
in what is now Amsterdams Chinatown
in 1927, remained open during the war.
Van Beeren hid Jews and smuggled
weapons to the Dutch resistance in
her establishment throughout the
occupation. She even bribed German
soldiers with alcohol.
The Right to Live began to publish
after the war ended in 1945, and COC
Nederland formally came into existence
on Dec. 7, 1946. It began as a social
club under the acronym Center for
Relaxation and Culture or Cultuur-en
Ontspanningscentrum (COC) in Dutch,
and had two ofces in Amsterdam and
The Hague.
It was a social club where people could
meet behind closed doors, van Dijk said.
Discrimination was still very high in the
Netherlands at that time. People would
actually lose their jobs if they were out at
work and could lose their homes.
COC Nederland has two broad
goals: Personal emancipation of LGBT
people and the promotion of greater
acceptance of gay men and lesbians
in the country through legislation and
social acceptance.
Lawmakers in 1971 equalized the age
of consent for same-sex and opposite-
sex sexual relations. The Dutch
government in 1973 formally recognized
COC Nederland, which at that time was
known as the Dutch Association for
Integration of Homosexuality COC.
The Netherlands in 2001 became
the rst country in the world to extend
marriage rights to gays and lesbians.
Van Dijk was quick to point out COC
Nederland continues to work on a host
of issues in spite of the countrys liberal
and pro-gay reputation.
A 2009 report the Dutch Ministry of
Justice commissioned found 70 percent
of LGBT people in the Netherlands
have experienced harassment because
of their sexual orientation and/or
gender identity and expression. A third
of respondents said they experienced
physical violence.
One-third of Dutch LGBT employees
are not out in the workplace, while
more than 30 percent of people in the
Netherlands said they nd gay people
kissing in public shocking.
Van Dijk said anti-LGBT bullying
in Dutch schools remains a problem
COC Nederland in 2008 launched
a program based on Gay-Straight
Alliances in the U.S. to combat
homophobia and transphobia. The
initiative is now in two-thirds of the
countrys public high schools.
The layer of tolerance is thinner than
it looks at rst glance, van Dijk told
the Blade, noting anti-LGBT attitudes
remain among specic religious and
ethnic groups in the Netherlands.
Theres a whole spectrum of intolerance
that is still really worrying.
Van Dijk said lawmakers have been
responsive to concerns his organization
and other LGBT advocacy groups have
had over specic issues.
Dutch lawmakers last September
passed a law that said a resident of the
Netherlands could only sponsor their
partner for immigration purposes if the
couple had already legally married in
the foreign-born spouses country of
origin. The Netherlands is one of only
14 countries in which gays and lesbians
can legally marry.
Lawmakers quickly repealed the
statute after COC Nederland and other
LGBT advocates expressed concern.
We had to go to Parliament, go to
our government to say you probably
dont mean this happening, but this will
make our lives more difcult, van Dijk
said. Theyve been very responsible.
Van Dijk said LGBT asylum seekers
in the Netherlands remain particularly
vulnerable because the government
places them in housing with their
countrymen who may subject them to
anti-gay harassment and violence. He
noted ofcials are sometimes unaware of
this treatment, while others may blame
the victim who experiences mistreatment
because of their sexual orientation or
gender identity and expression.
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16 SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 I NTERNATI ONAL NEWS
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Ros-Lehtinen meets Russian LGBT activists
Florida Congresswoman and pro-LGBT Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
last week met with gay rights advocates from Russia, Ukraine and Georgia.
Igor Kochetkov of the Russian LGBT rights group Sphere, Gay Alliance
Ukraine Director Taras Karasiichuk and Anna Rekhviashvili of the Georgian
advocacy organization Identoba met with the lawmaker in the Rayburn Room
of the U.S. Capitol. The three activists, who traveled to the United States for the
rst time, were in D.C. to take part in an LGBT civil and human rights training
sponsored by the State Departments International Visitor Leadership Program.
During my meetings with these brave LGBT activists, I impressed upon
them my rm belief that they must continue their work for equal rights and
that I have supported them every step of the way, Ros-Lehtinen told the
Washington Blade.
Kochetkov was one of the LGBT advocates who met with President Obama
earlier this month during the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg. The activist told
the Blade he was pleased the meeting took place, but claimed Obama said
he couldnt make human rights a priority in U.S.-Russia relations.
Kochetkov said he disagreed with that sentiment.
Ros-Lehtinens meeting with the three activists comes against the
backdrop of ongoing concern and outrage over anti-LGBT discrimination
and persecution Russia, Georgia and Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in June signed a bill into law that bans gay
propaganda to minors. A second statute that prohibits same-sex couples and
anyone else from a country in which same-sex couples are allowed to marry from
adopting Russian children took effect in July.
Its increasingly difcult for LGBT individuals in Russia, Georgia and Ukraine
to live openly and authentically due to the repressive governments that continue
to advance policies that are hostile and discriminatory, Ros-Lehtinen told the
Blade. These folks just want to live normal lives with their loved ones, but the
governments of these nations are either physically harassing them or intimidating
them through the legislative process. Responsible nations should condemn
these actions and relate to these governments that equality should be for all their
citizens and that these human rights abuses will not be tolerated.
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Macfarlane fundraiser
Howard County Executive and
2014 candidate for Maryland
Lieutenant Governor Ken Ulman will
be the special guest at a fundraiser
for the countys Register of Wills,
Byron Macfarlane, on Oct. 9. The
event runs from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at
7355 Hidden Cove in Columbia
and will kick off Macfarlanes 2014
reelection campaign.
In 2010 Macfarlane, 30, became
the first openly gay candidate in
Howard County to win a contested
election. The Democrat edged out
24-year incumbent Republican Kay
Hartleb in a close race. Macfarlane
had outraised Hartleb by more than
a 2 to 1 margin.
Ulman co-hosted a fundraiser with
Macfarlane in 2012 at the Ellicott
City home of Ulmans parents in an
effort to successfully win the ballot
question on same-sex marriage.
Macfarlanes first term was
characterized by his determination
to modernize the office of Register
of Wills. Ive been committed
to providing compassionate
and professional service to the
public, to enhancing this offices
use of technology and to being a
visible and accessible advocate,
Macfarlane told the Blade. Weve
accomplished a great deal these
past three years but theres more I
plan to do in a second term.
Requested donations for this
fundraiser are as follows: Sponsor
$100, Family $50 and Individual
$30. RSVP at facebook.com/
events/562903857089249 or at
byronmacfarlane.com.
NY Times columnist
to talk marriage
Frank Bruni, New York Times
first openly gay op-ed columnist,
will speak about the recent shift in
public sentiment on gay marriage
in America. The event takes place
on Monday at 8 p.m. at Goucher
College Kraushaar Auditorium,
1021 Dulaney Valley Rd. in Towson.
Bruni, Gouchers fall 2013 Robert
and Jane Meyerhoff Visiting
Professor, has been an op-ed
columnist for The New York Times
since June 2011. He joined the
paper in 1995, first working for
the metropolitan desk. He and
three colleagues won the George
Polk Award that year for coverage
of the child-abuse death of Elisa
Izquierdo.
He later moved to the Washington
bureau, covering Congress and
George W. Bushs presidential
campaign and first year in office.
He left Washington to serve as the
Rome bureau chief from 2002 to 2004
and then became the Times chief
restaurant critic from 2004 to 2009.
Bruni has consistently contributed
to the Times Sunday magazine,
and during two periods most
recently from 2009 to 2011 he
was one of its staff writers. From
2010 to 2011, he additionally wrote
a column on bars and drinking,
called The Tipsy Diaries.
He has also written two New York
Times best sellers: a memoir, Born
Round (2009), and Ambling Into
History (2003), a chronicle of
George W. Bushs campaign for
the presidency, and he was the
co-author of A Gospel of Shame:
Children, Sexual Abuse and the
Catholic Church (1993).
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff
Visiting Professorship was created
to bring distinguished scholars,
teachers, and practitioners to
Gouchers campus to advance local
and national dialogues on pressing
issues of our time. Tickets are $10
general admission. Visit goucher.
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Insurance disparity found for gay families
MINNEAPOLIS Children of same-sex parents are less likely to have private
health insurance than those with opposite-sex parents, according to a study from
the University of Minnesota reported in Pediatrics.
According to the study, 63.3 percent of children with two fathers and 67.5 percent
with two mothers were covered by private health plans compared with 77 percent
of children with married opposite-sex parents who had the same coverage, the
report said.
Those disparities lessened for those living in states that recognize same-
sex marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships or second-parent adoptions,
researchers found.
The researchers identied 5,081 children from same-sex parents, 1,369,789 children
of married opposite-sex parents, and 101,678 children from unmarried opposite-sex
parents. Using American Community Survey census data, the researchers estimate
there are approximately 125,000 same-sex couples are raising 220,000 children in the
United States.
The ACS does not ask participants about sexual orientation, but asks respondents
if they recognize another person of the same sex as a husband, wife or unmarried
partner. Single-parent households were not included in the analysis.
No new N.Y. meningitis cases since February
NEW YORK With no new reports of infections since February of the deadly
strain of bacterial meningitis that has disproportionately affected gay men, health
ofcials in New York are breathing a sigh of relief, CBS 2 reports.
Were very pleased that it appears the outbreak has been stopped. Its the longest
period weve gone without a case since the beginning of 2011, Dr. Jay Varma, the
deputy health commissioner for disease control, told radio station WCBS 880.
Earlier this year, ofcials from the New York City Department of Health urged gay,
bisexual men and men who have sex with men, living or visiting New York to get a
meningitis vaccine after a deadly strain of meningitis hit the area nearly three years
ago, leaving some men dead before they could even see a doctor.
After the announcement was made, the health department warned the citys
LGBT population directly through advertisements on blogs, websites and mobile
gay hookup apps, CBS 2 reports.
In total 22 men were infected with the new strain of meningitis and seven died
since 2010. Health ofcials were confused as to why the virus was impacting the
gay community.
Longtime HIV survivors bring new challenges
WASHINGTON Half of the HIV/AIDS population in the United States will
be 50 or older by 2015, a pivotal development that brings new challenges to the
treatment and prevention of the disease, experts told a congressional panel last
week according to a report from McClatchys Washington bureau.
Drug resistance, other diseases, high rates of depression and a lack of prevention,
screening and early diagnosis could all pose signicant problems as the population
of Americans with HIV or AIDS ages, they said during a hearing of the Senate Special
Committee on Aging, according to the McClatchy article.
As research for a cure for AIDS continues, there is a vital need to examine the aging
AIDS population, since any drug or vaccine must now work on an older population,
said Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., the committees chairman.
The so-called graying of the population comes with the need to refocus our work
on these new challenges, Nelson said.
Controversy at Gay Mens Health Crisis
NEW YORK The head of New York Citys largest AIDS service organization
was forced out by the agencys board of directors after a stormy relationship
with clients and staff, DNAinfo, a regional news agency, reported.
Gay Mens Health Crisis announced Sept. 16 that CEO Marjorie Hill would
leave the organization after seven years at the helm, the report said. It was
called a mutual decision between Hill and the board. Anonymous sources
within the organization, however, were quoted in the DNAinfo piece as saying
Hill was ousted.
Hill did not respond to DNAinfos request for comment.
One employee said things came to a head in July when a three-month
sabbatical was announced for Hill just as many staffers found their salaries
slashed. Hill was paid more than $230,000 in 2012 according to public tax
records. A Washington Blade salary survey in 2009 reported her compensation
package as being worth more than $250,000.
A letter to the board obtained by DNAinfo New York called for Hills
resignation along with that of GMHCs chief operating ofcer Janet Weinberg,
whos now in charge while the board looks for Hills successor.
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HEALTH NEWS SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 21
Gay Mens Health Crisis announced Sept. 16 that CEO Marjorie Hill would leave the organization after
seven years at the helm.
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LGBT community suffers
disproportionally from abuse
September is National Recovery
Month. Sponsored by the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA), National
Recovery Month turns the spotlight on
the topic of mental health and substance
use in the U.S. to highlight that living
well with and even overcoming these
challenges is possible.
Though often associated with the
12-step self-help community, recovery
is a much broader concept. SAMHSAs
denition of recovery is a process
of change through which individuals
improve their health and wellness, live a
self-directed life, and strive to reach their
full potential. This somewhat vague
denition highlights the complexity of
addressing and treating substance use
and mental health disorders. It raises
the question: are we recovering?
SAMHSA recently released the rst
reports from the 2012 National Survey
on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). This
annual survey of people 12 years old and
older attempts to quantify the extent of
alcohol and drug use and mental health
disorders in the U.S. Approximately
70,000 individuals are surveyed and
estimates are derived.
Nationally, illicit drug use continues
to increase, and has for the past 10 years
(from 7.9 percent of the U.S. population
in 2002 to 9.2 percent in 2012). Fifty-two
percent uses alcohol, and binge and
heavy drinking are still common. Since
2002, the rate of opiate abuse in the U.S.
has doubled. While methamphetamine
use decreased since 2011, among those
aged 26 or older, use increased. More
people met criteria for substance abuse
or dependence than in 2011; only a
small fraction (10 percent of those who
needed it) received treatment.
Although local data are harder
to come by, state-level data are
available for the 2009-2010 survey year.
Consistently, D.C. ranks near the top for
illicit drug use, marijuana and alcohol
use. D.C. ranked highest for past year
use of cocaine, and third highest for
binge drinking. Rates of abuse and
dependence in D.C. are higher than
anywhere else in the country, with 12
percent of the population estimated
to meet these criteria. Rates for mental
health issues are similar to other states,
with 20 percent meeting criteria for a
mental health disorder.
Data about LGBT folks are even
harder to come by. Studies that exist
demonstrate that, compared to the
general population, LGBT people are
more likely to use alcohol and drugs,
have higher rates of substance abuse
and are more likely to continue heavy
drinking into later life. We also face
higher rates of depression, anxiety
and suicide, often stemming from
stigma and homophobia. There is wide
variability in these studies, most of
which focus exclusively on gay men, but
they are telling.
Local LGBT data is even more scant.
The 2008 MSM study carried out by the
Department of Health found that, of the
500 men surveyed, just over half reported
non-injection illicit drug use in the past
year. Of these, 77 percent reported use of
marijuana, 46 percent poppers, 39 percent
powder cocaine, 20 percent ecstasy, 15
percent crystal meth, and ve percent
crack. Treatment data from WWH indicates
that about 50 percent of clients seeking
drug treatment in the last year indicated
methamphetamine as their drug of choice,
followed by alcohol (23 percent), crack
(17 percent), cocaine (seven percent), and
opiates (three percent). The trend of high
rates of admission for methamphetamine
treatment has been consistent at WWH for
the past 10 years.
The data are telling and the lived
experience of many of us conrms what
the numbers tell us: We continue to
face many substance use and mental
health challenges. This isnt to suggest
that everyone who uses has a problem
or needs treatment, or that all of us
suffer from a mental health disorder,
but if recovery is, a process of change
through which individuals improve
their health and wellness, live a self-
directed life, and strive to reach their full
potential, the query still remains: are
we recovering?
washingtonblade.com
22 SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 COMMENTARY
National Recovery
Month are we
recovering?
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By LORI BARRIENTOS SANCHEZ
The weekend before school started
for me and other Prince Georges Coun-
ty students, I wasnt at the mall buying
last-minute school supplies or hitting
the pool with friends. Instead, I was sur-
rounded by a multitude of fellow high
school youth activists at the National
4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy
Chase. The Supporting and Mentoring
Youth Advocates and Leaders (SMYAL)
organization hosted a camp that focused
on high school Gay Straight Alliances
(GSAs), which are school clubs that help
provide a safe environment and ensure
equal rights for students. I woke up that
Friday morning skeptical as to why I was
willing to get up at 5:30 in the morning to
get ready and Metro to the SMYAL cen-
ter in Washington, D.C. Before the end
of the night, I knew why.
The camp was a diverse group of us
who were not only seeking to improve
or start our own GSAs but to beat op-
pression and inequality in our com-
munities. I learned so much from the
workshops themselves, which were led
by amazing leaders from D.C. and Cali-
fornia. The real treasure, however, was
meeting so many amazing people at
the camp. These are students from all
over the DMV area, in both public and
private schools. And all of them are
looking to make a difference.
Today, the LGBTQ community is mak-
ing great strides in the United States and
nations across the globe. However, we
are not on the same level as our fellow
cisgender heterosexual counterparts. In
the state of Maryland, my home state,
discrimination based on gender identity
is legal in 20 out of 24 counties. Virginia
does not protect its citizens against dis-
crimination based on gender identity or
sexual orientation, and the legal deni-
tion of marriage is a union between a
man and a woman. I could go on with
other human rights infractions in this na-
tion, but there isnt enough space in this
column for that.
We still face hardships. We still face
discrimination. We still face oppression.
But this camp has given me even
more hope that my generation will seek
to end it on a scale that could rival the
sweeping change weve seen in the last
decade.
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EDI TORI AL CARTOON
My generation working
to end discrimination
One day, I will have the same rights as
anyone walking down Pennsylvania Avenue.
And so will you.
LORI BARRIENTOS SANCHEZ is a senior at
Eleanor Roosevelt High School.
D.C. Council members with
oversight dont know how
wage system works
Only those unburdened by witness-
ing in person or watching by broadcast
D.C. Council sessions are able to main-
tain a belief that things are going well at
the Wilson Building.
The embarrassing lack of shame or
contriteness for all-too-common ethical
lapses, as theyre now casually called,
and the convoluted excuses by some
colleague defenders was on full display
once again last week.
More Council members have recently
resigned in disgrace for graft and cor-
ruption, been reprimanded or censured
once or even twice, had committee lead-
ership positions stripped both actual
and pending, or serve under suspicion of
wrongdoing than have joined the legisla-
tive body during the same period.
But that doesnt even measure the
worst of it.
An illustration splashed across the
slack-jawed expressions of business lead-
ers at the most recent legislative session.
Two D.C. Council members with
committee oversight of hospitality regu-
lation Vincent Orange and Jim Gra-
ham demonstrated a stunning lack
of knowledge regarding how the wage
system functions for tipped bar and res-
taurant employees. As a result, Orange
blithely introduced and Graham eagerly
co-sponsored legislation that manages
to be both meaningless to ensuring that
tipped workers make minimum wage
and simultaneously devastating for
business owners who would be required
to pay a redundant special supplement.
Most troubling is that these two leg-
islators either dont know or dont care
that they have completely misconstrued
the pay protocol for those earning tips.
Their oddball proposal to raise the base
wage paid by employers to tipped
workers would only result in creating an
arbitrary two-tier wage system adding a
216% surcharge to tip earner base pay.
Heres how the existing system works.
Tipped employees in D.C. are paid
a base wage of $2.77 an hour and are
guaranteed the local minimum wage
by employers obligated to make up the
difference in the rare event that servers
and bartenders fail to earn the hourly
threshold. As those who have toiled for
tips know, these workers typically make
much more than the minimum usually
at least two or three times the amount.
Regardless, but as a consequence,
raising the hourly base pay amount to
an astounding $8.75, as Orange and
Graham propose, merely provides
a $5.98 per hour bonus exclusive to
tipped employees. It is simply a selec-
tive super-premium pay hike. There is
no explanation that makes any sense,
despite Oranges proud declaration
from the dais. Clueless calamity is the
more apt descriptor for his proposal,
enthusiastically embraced by Graham.
Who conveys this stultifying special
benet? The already-squeezed thin-prof-
it-margin restaurateur or bar owner, of
course, after they pass 10 cents on each
dollar to city coffers in sales tax payment.
Popular local restaurant operator and
hospitality advocate Geoff Tracy indi-
cated in reaction to this misguided Or-
ange-Graham mess-of-a-measure that
the debilitating cost would wipe me
out. The owner of two Chef Geoffs es-
tablishments calculates that these pre-
mium payments would cost $494,000 in
increased annual wage expenses. Other
owners and managers lamented that
tipped employees would end up earn-
ing more than they.
In the District, this is what commonly
masquerades as legislative leadership
by politicians who havent operated a
prot-contributing enterprise since that
lemonade stand of their childhood.
The greatest affront to community en-
trepreneurs is the cavalier initiation and
enactment of legislation or regulation
based on little more than a modicum of
misunderstood impressionistic notions.
Scant consideration of implications for
the nancial welfare of the District and
the business environment for local com-
merce informs policy decisions.
This towns elected Council mem-
bers, including so-called reformers
and good government types, cant be
bothered with the many details affect-
ing private sector engines that fatten
their part-time paychecks, employ
District residents, fuel the citys nances
and energize the local economy.
But dont bother D.C.s political class
with such piddling details; they are, af-
ter all, busy chasing after self-aggran-
dizement and feel-good headlines. The
real-world repercussions and cumber-
some marketplace realities arent of
much interest to them.
Stop tipping Orange and Graham for bad service
Its time to pass federal law
protecting LGBT employees
By SELISSE BERRY
The Supreme Courts decision de-
claring the Defense of Marriage Act un-
constitutional went further than the fed-
eral government ever has in extending
equal rights to same-sex couples.
California joined a dozen other states
and the District of Columbia in grant-
ing equal marriage rights to roughly 30
percent of United States citizens. Other
states are making progress and are
poised to increase that number.
President Obama quickly praised
the SCOTUS decision: When it
comes to how the state treats people,
how the law treats people, I believe
that everybody has to be treated
equally, he said, promising that the
administration would move quickly
to implement changes across federal
programs.
Indeed, weve come a long way
and we have much to celebrate, but
here is some less-happy news: We still
have no comprehensive federal law to
protect LGBT workers or those who
are simply perceived to be LGBT. In
29 states, anyone can be red simply
for being lesbian, gay or bisexual. In
34 states, it is legal to re someone for
being transgender.
On June 26, we celebrated a long-
fought victory, but today we need to get
back to work. The next frontier for LGBT
rights is, quite literally, the workplace.
When I founded Out & Equal Work-
place Advocates 16 years ago, only 5
percent of the nations largest com-
panies included sexual orientation in
their nondiscrimination policies. At
that time, gender identity was rarely
addressed at all. Today 88 percent of
Fortune 500 companies include sexual
orientation in their policies and 57 per-
cent include gender identity. Corpo-
rate opinion, led by public opinion, is
clearly on our side.
However, millions more workers
those who do not work for large, publicly
traded companies still suffer and live un-
der the threat of harassment and dismissal.
Is it so strange to believe that people
should be judged by the work that they
do and never by their sexual orientation
or gender identity? According to the
Harris/Out & Equal Workplace Survey,
83 percent of U.S. adults agree.
The Employment Non-Discrimina-
tion Act has been introduced again this
year. In fact, its been introduced in ev-
ery Congress since 1994 save one, but
this year could be differentif we care
to make it so.
The bottom line? Washington should
take its cue from corporate America. Its
time for the broken bargain in our na-
tions workplaces to be xed. ENDA is
about to hit the oor of the Senate. If
passed, the legislation will prohibit dis-
crimination in hiring and employment on
the basis of sexual orientation or gen-
der identity by civilian, nonreligious em-
ployers with at least 15 employees.
ENDA currently has 53 cosponsors,
short of the 60 votes needed to avoid
a libuster. We are close just a few
more supporters and the legislation will
be sent to the House. The ght there
will assuredly be tough, but after what
we saw in June, we know theres nothing
we cant do if we set our minds to it and
work together.
To nd out more and to engage in
the process by contacting your elected
representative go to: http://www.out-
andequal.org/enda.
Together we will see, that this time
around, ENDA becomes law.
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SELISSE BERRY is founder and CEO of Out &
Equal Workplace Advocates.
OUR BUSI NESS MATTERS
We celebrated, now we get back to work
MARK LEE is a long-time entrepreneur and
community business advocate. Follow on Twitter: @
MarkLeeDC. Reach him at OurBusinessMatters@
gmail.com.
Whats going on with Francis?
Did he just come out?
In 1978, Joan Rivers made Rabbit
Test, a movie about the worlds rst
pregnant man. In his rst movie role, Bil-
ly Crystal played the lead and Imogene
Coca, George Gobel and Paul Lynde
wandered through in cameo roles. The
movie was panned as visually coarse,
too jokey and lacking continuity. The
critics complained that Miss Rivers nev-
er even bothered to reveal how Crystals
character got pregnant. Apparently her
plot point explanation that he was a
bottom was not enough for them. Gays
in theaters everywhere must have been
blowing popcorn out their noses.
The scene with the pope is my per-
sonal favorite. Stock footage of the
cheering throngs in Vatican Square.
Camera pans in on the tiny white gure
of the Pope waving from his balcony.
Quick cut to the room behind the bal-
cony, where a young cleric is crouching
behind the railing laboriously waving
a large, cardboard cutout of the Pope
slowly back and forth. Soundtrack of the
roaring assembled crowd below.
In the room off the balcony, the ac-
tual Pope is having a mani-pedi. At the
end of the pedi, he asks for his Ah-di-
das. Accent on the Ah. More than a
pregnant man, that little transgressive
scene laid me out.
Once again a transgressive papal
scene has knocked me out. This time its
a very real, newly installed Pope Fran-
cis I. No red Prada pumps for him. No
mani-pedi for him. He washes and kiss-
es the feet of the poor. My recovering
Catholic friends and I have been marvel-
ing for days.
When asked about gay priests search-
ing for Jesus in their hearts, Pope Fran-
cis responded, Who am I to judge? It
sounded like BTDT, been there, done
that. Wait, did he just come out?
In a long interview, Pope Francis said
that the church must not be so obsessed
with gays, gay marriage and birth con-
trol. He said pastoral duties must trump
the xation on such dogma.
He takes seles! He has eschewed
the Popemobile for a Fiat and encour-
aged people to buy less expensive used
cars, making him very popular with the
used car salesman faction.
Sidebar: Has the retired Pope, Ex-
Benedict heard the news on his little
radio in the renovated mother-in-law
cottage out behind the Vatican? And is
he steamed?
What will be the effect, if any, of Fran-
cis shift in tone? Selshly, if this keeps
up, it means about 15 fewer minutes
devoted to papal outrages per show. I
will offer it up.
After the Popes Wednesday inter-
view, U.S. clergy must have been up all
night re-working their Sunday morning
sermons. Cardinal Dolan of New York,
the jovially dangerous president of the
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops,
outspoken critic of gay marriage initia-
tives and federal funds for contracep-
tives, said it was a magnicent inter-
view. Less cheerily he concluded that
bound as Pope Francis is by the timeless
doctrine of the church, his words really
wont change church doctrine or policy.
As someone who has lived through
popes Pius XII, John XXIII, John Paul and
Benedict, this new Jesuit Pope Francis is
a stunning surprise. Yet because of my
personal history and lived experience, I
nd myself waiting for the other Adida to
drop. I hope this Pope is not just Vatican-
nily rebranding Catholicism to a kinder,
gentler Catholic Church. The Pope has
established a group of eight advisers
and has signaled that he wants to shake
up the Vatican hierarchy, but the proof is
in the poping. We will be the judge.
Also, I would recommend the Pope have
a food taster on standby in his cafeteria.
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(STATEPOINT) Keeping your home
in shape may not top your daily to-
do list, but completing certain small
seasonal tasks can save you money,
time and the need to complete larger,
more expensive projects in the future.
Investing a small amount for
preventative fall home maintenance
can save thousands in the long
run, Leah Ingram, personal nance
expert, says.
Dont know where to start? The
following checklist from HomeAdvisor
can help homeowners prepare their
homes for the cooler months:
Clean gutters: During the year,
debris such as leaves and twigs can pile
in your gutter. Cleaning them once a
year prevents problems such as water
damage, roof damage and ooding.
Service your furnace: A well-
maintained furnace can help save on
heating costs and prevent the need
for repairs. Before temperatures drop,
schedule your furnace to be serviced.
Install weather stripping: As fuel
and electricity costs continue to rise,
keeping your home warm without
wasting money and energy is important.
Weather stripping your doors and
windows can make a big impact.
Winterize sprinklers: Removing
all the water thats in the lines, pipes,
ttings, valves, sprinklers and pumps
will prevent your equipment from
freezing, expanding and potentially
breaking. Hire a professional to attach
an air compressor to the system to blow
out the water from the lines, pipes and
other parts. The service is inexpensive
and a professional will know the proper
amount of volume and pressure to use
to ensure no water is left in the system.
Clean your chimney: Chimney
maintenance is not optional. Deadly
res, carbon monoxide poisoning
and expensive chimney repairs are
serious consequences associated with
neglected chimney maintenance. The
National Fire Protection Association
(NFPA) recommends all replaces,
chimneys, ues and venting systems be
inspected at least once a year by a pro.
Flush your water heater:
Generally speaking, water heaters are
fairly reliable, so they usually arent top
of mind. But ushing your water heater
periodically can prevent leaks and
promote efciency.
Hiring a professional for fall
maintenance tasks like these is a great
idea, Ingram says. Use a resource
such as Cost Guide to research the
average price of a project in your zip
code before hiring a pro.
To use Cost Guide and nd a
professional, visit HomeAdvisor.com.
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10. Empty and cover your fountains
before the onset of freezing weather.
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With a homeownership rate at
45 percent, Washington is home to
fewer homeowners than any of the
50 states, even New York, which has a
homeownership rate of 54 percent. Not
only are D.C. residents nomads less likely
to buy a home, but they sometimes are
apprehensive of homes rental policies
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unit and how many units in a building
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nancing climate as well as complaints
from owners occupants about unruly
tenants and neglected hallways.
Limiting the search to condos ignores
the inventory and options that come
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time buyers. For some, a co-op evokes
the idea of a fussy, restrictive Old New
York institution that excludes people
and controls the way you live oh, and
you cant rent it. This is a misperception,
particularly in Washington.
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co-ops as they are in condos and choose
to direct clients away from them rather
than explaining the merits of a different
kind of ownership. In fact, before
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one of the most beautiful voices in musical theater. (New York
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include The Wedding Singer, Swing!, and Into the Woods, presents
a lovely, relaxed and eclectic evening of showstoppers, ballads
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Saturday, October 19 at 8 p.m. / Sunday, October 20 at 4 p.m.
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these gifted Eastern European performers bring us their rich and
colorful traditions with Hungarian Rhapsody, a spirited journey
through time tracing the history of a thousand-year-old culture
through its dance and music. Dont miss the live music and
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Friday, October 25 at 8 p.m.
Lubovitchs choreography shineshighlighting its organic shapes,
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PHASEFEST QUEER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Phase 1 Lounge
525 8th Street, S.E.
Tonight at 7 p.m.
$15 at the door
Saturday at 7 p.m.
$25 at the door
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Kaki King, the Shondes headline
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By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Phase 1 manager Angela Lombardi is her usual self-
deprecating self when it comes to the bar she runs.
Despite its historic signicance, the original Phase 1
the oldest continually operating lesbian bar in the
country inspires Lombardi to call it our little lesbian
dive bar. At the helm for nearly a decade now, shes
gearing up for this weekends seventh annual PhaseFest
Queer Music Festival, which she says despite the
hard work is my favorite time of year.
Tonight starting at 7, The Shondes, Glitter Lust, The
Coolots, D.C. Kings, Freeform Radio, Company Calls
and Tiik W/ Guts will perform. On Saturday, Belladonna,
Pushovers, Sexual Side Effects, Jette Kelly, Frankie &
Betty, Michelle Raymond Band and Lacy Liszt will play.
Guitar legend Kaki King, whom the Blade interviewed in
April when she was here for a Howard show, headlines.
PhaseFest mostly through Lombardis persistence
has made a name for itself among queer musicians
despite its humble origins.
Were pretty fortunate, Lombardi says. Weve
worked with so many headliners over the years.
Sometimes they come with these insane managers or
insane contracts and riders that call for this and that,
dressing rooms for everybody. Im like, Uhhh, yeah. We
have a basement. But weve worked with some really
cool artists and some of them have made some real
sacrices from what theyre used to come play for us.
Hopefully what we lack in amenities, we make up for in
experience. It shows in how many of them come back
year after year. Its really a great thing to be a part of,
from the musicians standpoint as well.
Lombardi says this years lineup is about half D.C.-
based bands versus half from other places. She says
pretty much every act has performed either at
PhaseFest previously or at the Phase some other time.
Most years, about 800 attendees see the shows over
the course of the weekend. All the bands are either
partially or totally LGBT.
Louisa Rachel Solomon, lead singer and bassist
for the New York-based Shondes, cant remember if
theyve played Phase twice or three times previously.
The band just put out its new album The Garden last
week and their set tonight will be their rst since the
album dropped. It will be for sale in CD, vinyl and digital
format at the show. Solomon calls it a mix of almost
an 80s-type rock vibe combined with punkier energy.
Its such a cool place for us, Solomon says during
a phone chat this week. Its small, homey and the crew
is amazing and lovable. Theyre some of my favorite
bartenders in the country. Well keep coming back as
long as they let us.
Solomon says her band is comprised of people
of various genders and sexual orientations and that
queer sensibility is one of the bands hallmarks.
Were heavily rooted in the queer community, she says.
Nathalie Vega is the lead singer of D.C.-based band
Company Calls and she also plays bass. Company Calls
is an all-lesbian band that started playing last September.
They made their live debut at last years PhaseFest.
We had such a great experience there last year,
she says. A lot of doors opened for us just from playing
at PhaseFest.
Vega calls Company Calls music a mix of inuences
from pop to punk to folk to indie-alternative.
She says PhaseFest is important because it gives us
a musical community.
There are lots of place you can go have a drink, but
this gives us both a lesbian and musical community as
well, she says.
Lombardi agrees.
Were like lesbian Cheers, she says.
The Shondes are, from left, ALLISON MILLER, ELIJAH
OBERMAN, LOUISA RACHEL SOLOMON and FUREIGH.
PHOTOBY FRANKSTEFANKO; COURTESY OF THE BAND
How long have you been out and who
was the hardest person to tell?
Ive always been a total mo. When I told
my parents at age 14, they were basically
like, We were just waiting for you to gure
it out and we love you. Im very fortunate
and I love my family very much.
Whos your LGBT hero?
Divine, forever and ever.
Whats Washingtons best
nightspot, past or present?
I really miss Asylum.
Describe your dream wedding.
Marry in a courthouse, then throw a
huge party.
What non-LGBT issue are
you most passionate about?
Womens health care and womens
issues in general. Ive always looked up
to my mother and watched her struggle
in the military and other male-dominated
workplaces. Shes a strong, smart woman
and has always been my hero.

What historical outcome
would you change?
I dont feel comfortable discussing
things like that.

Whats been the most memorable pop
culture moment of your lifetime?
The 1997 VMAs, for Fiona Apples
amazing this-world-is-bullshit speech
and Marilyn Mansons butt-cheek-baring
Beautiful People performance. I was
forever changed.

On what do you insist?
Punctuality

What was your last
Facebook post or Tweet?
It was about how Im sad that summer is
ending. This has been a really good one!
If your life were a book,
what would the title be?
Oh My God, Whatever. It would be a
best seller!

If science discovered a way to change
sexual orientation, what would you do?
Inform the self-hating closeted gays so
theyll shut the hell up and leave the rest of
us alone.

What do you believe in
beyond the physical world?
Nothing, really. Im not exactly spiritual.

Whats your advice for
LGBT movement leaders?
Be more angry and militant. Start scaring
people.
What would you walk
across hot coals for?
A lot of things, probably. I get
passionate.

What LGBT stereotype
annoys you most?
For gay men: That were somehow weak
or not masculine.
For gay women: That they havent found
the right man yet.
For trans people: That theyre confused
and/or impulsive.

Whats your favorite LGBT movie?
Poison by Todd Haynes.

Whats the most
overrated social custom?
So much emphasis on rst impressions.

What trophy or prize
do you most covet?
My trophy for rst place at the third
grade spelling bee.

What do you wish youd known at 18?
It gets harder, so apply yourself.

Why Washington?
Its clean and people are well-educated.
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
GAY/BASH!, a monthly gay rock/dance party at the Black Cat (1811 14th
St., N.W.) started almost as a uke.
Joshua Vogelsong, who co-DJs the event with his roommate Dean Sullivan,
got into a conversation with the cashier at Smash Records in Georgetown
about his love for vintage hair metal. Off the cuff, he mentioned wishing
there was a gay rock party such as those he enjoyed during the two years
(04-06) he lived in New York. Phone numbers were exchanged and passed
on and before long, the Black Cat had the party penciled in for a trial night.
Its been rolling there monthly since February 2011.
It starts at 9:30 p.m. but around 11:30, revelers gather around the stage
for performances by D.C.s most experimental and avant garde queens,
giving them a platform to express themselves in the most unconventional
ways.
GAY/BASH! is the Black Cats rst monthly drag show. Vogelsong, who
works by day at gay-owned Comet Ping Pong and spins other events at
Black Cat, says the Cat has a good mix of gay and straight patrons.
The next GAY/BASH! is Saturday at 9:30 and is open to all ages (though
D.C.s curfew law is in effect). Cover is $5. Find the party on Facebook
for more information. Rumor Millz and Heidi Glum host this weekends
installment.
Its kind of a genre fuck but with a harder rock edge, he says. And
theres a sense of humor about it. We do a lot of stuff people will know.
They just get kind of discombobulated and thrash around. Its cute.
Vogelson, a 29-year-old Houston native, has been in D.C. off and on
for about 10 years. He lives in a group home near Columbia Heights, has
been dating boyfriend Kevin for about a year and enjoys music, movies,
restaurants and live shows in his free time.
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Curtis joins Ferrick for Voices United show
Melissa Ferrick, a lesbian folk-rock singer, performs as part of Voices United:
For Separation of Church and State with Catie Curtis at Church of the Epiphany
(1317 G St., N.W.) tonight. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; show starts at 7.
Ferrick frequently explores her sexuality through her music and is known for
using lesbian themes. Her talent led Morrissey to invite her to be the opening
act on his tour. She has founded her own record label and has more than 16
albums and EPs to date, playing almost every instrument herself.
Tickets are $25. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit
melissaferrick.com.
Latino GLBT History Project has event
The Latino GLBT History Project holds its eighth annual Hispanic LGBTQ
Heritage Awards tonight at the Human Rights Campaign Equality Forum
(1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W.) from 6:30-9 p.m.
The event celebrates LGBT Latino activism with 100 LGBT Latinas and
Latinos who are active in national and local non-prot organizations and
honors their accomplishments. It is also a benet for the Latino GLBT History
Project. The reception includes hors doeuvres and entertainment with emcee
CNN contributor Maria Cardona. The evening will also include a preview of
the Latino History Projects Hroes Latinos LGBTQ photo exhibit.
Tickets range from $30-$150. For more information or to purchase tickets,
visit latinoglbthistory.org.
Gay Day at
Hillwood is Saturday
Hillwood Estate, Museums and
Gardens (4155 Linnean Ave., N.W.)
hosts Gay Day Saturday from 10 a.m.-
5 p.m. with a special directors reception
from 5-7 p.m.
Enjoy a family pancake breakfast with
Rainbow Families D.C. from 10 a.m.-
noon with picture frame decorating,
games, dress up and face painting. In the
afternoon there will be performances
by the a capella group Not What You
Think and square dancing by the D.C.
Lambda Squares. The Straight Eights
Car Club will present a classic American
car display. Visitors are also invited to
view the exhibition Living Artfully: At
Home with Majorie Merriweather Post.
Tickets are $15 for general admission,
$12 for seniors and $10 for Hillwood
members and college students. There is
no fee for children under 18. For more
information, visit hillwoodmuseum.org
or call 202-686-5807.
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Broadway star Stephen Spinella
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Ill only go for incredibly special
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apartment. I have a great support
system of friends. Im just not a happy
camper outside of New York. Its got to
be something really great to tempt me.
Playing opposite Academy Award-
winning actress Estelle Parsons in Arena
Stages The Velocity of Autumn is one
of those impossible-to-refuse situations.
Last winter I got a call from Molly
Smith [Arenas artistic director and
Velocitys director] offering me the
job, says Spinella, who is gay. I asked
why theyd reached out to me. Molly
said I was Parsons rst choice to play
her son. You dont say no to that.
Penned by Cleveland-based
playwright Eric Coble, the two-character
play focuses on 79-year-old Alexandra,
who is experiencing the early signs of
dementia. Holed up in her Brooklyn
brownstone with a cache of homemade
explosives, she threatens to blow up the
house and herself rather than rethink a
less independent living arrangement.
Its then that her estranged gay son
Chris is brought in to mediate.
Spinella, widely known for his brilliant
Tony Award-winning performances as Prior
Walter (a gay man with AIDS) in Angels
in America: Millennium Approaches and
Angels in America: Perestroika, wont
reveal much he believes an audience
should experience a play blind. But he
will say that in 90 uninterrupted minutes,
Chris and Alexandra must nd out where
theyve been, where they are now and how
theyre going to resolve her issues. Its a lot
to cover.
In real life, Spinellas 90-year-old
mother suffers from dementia. She lives
in a care facility in Arizona. But unlike
his mother, says Spinella, Alexandra is
still very alert and aware. Shes an artist
and very self-reliant. Her character is
processing what is happening to her
and what she wants to do. Thats a big
part of what the play is about.
And while were told Spinellas character
is gay, its mentioned rather offhandedly.
The straight playwright Coble, says he was
intrigued with the idea of Chris sexuality
not being the focal point.
So often when being gay is used
as a dramatic device its the entire
focus of the character, Coble says. I
wanted to write a character whos not
struggling with his sexuality. There are
other reasons why he needed to get
out of New York City and live far from
his mother and more conventionally
successful siblings.
Spinella concurs: The fact that hes gay
is almost completely unimportant to the
play. Its a minor revelation. When he left
home, it was probably more important
but its essentially dissolved in the way that
it has for so many of us in this country.
For Coble, having Parsons (who won
her Oscar for Bonnie and Clyde and
hilariously played Bev on Roseanne for
a decade) and Spinella bring his characters
to life has been a joy and slightly unnerving.
Theyre so good and so smart, he says.
Their truthometers are very high they
have a way at getting at the kernel of truth
in every moment. Its an incredible thing to
see and experience.
And Spinella is rhapsodic about
85-year-old Parsons: She has that frank
New England aspect. Its great for the
character. Shes always surprising
incredibly smart and sensitive with a
steel trap mind. She and her husband
Peter are both like jocks. They cycle,
walk, swim and hike. Theyre also fun
really wonderful people.
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New online sports network
devoted to LGBT athletic
tournaments
By KEVIN MAJOROS
The recognition of LGBT sports in the
United States has reached new levels in
the past few years with help from the
support of advocacy groups, politicians
and straight allies.
The emergence in 2012 of the CCE
Sports Network is the latest stamp of
validation for the growing LGBT sports
movement. The CCE Sports Network
is the nations only live web streaming
sports network dedicated to the LGBT
sports community.
The United States is home to more
than 200 LGBT sports tournaments and
the Network is presenting a portion
of those events to athletes, family
members, friends, fans and supporters
all over the world.
The Network, which launched in May
2012, is the brainchild of Thomas Garnet
and Adrian Uribazo who bring 17 years
of video experience to their company.
We had been searching for
something new and different, says
Garnet. We had been considering
Pride Festivals, but that was already
being covered.
During the Miami Pride Festival, the
pair stumbled across the tennis booth,
which was promoting a tournament in Key
Biscayne. The Sunshine Tennis Cup would
become their rst tournament coverage.
As of September 2013, the Network
has lmed 12 live broadcasts in cities
such as Miami, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Las
Vegas, New York City, Fort Lauderdale,
Orlando and Washington. The sports
covered so far have been tennis, soccer,
swimming, water polo, diving and
synchronized swimming. They recently
covered the Capital Classic XXI tennis
tournament in D.C.
Our goal for 2014 is 20 tournaments,
says Garnet. We are also planning
on adding volleyball, ag football,
basketball, rugby and softball to the
sports line up.
The networks production workow
is set up for a multi-camera live web
streaming, complete with play-by-play
commentary, score updates, social
media updates, live chats, commercials
and music. Upgrades can be made to
the broadcast to make it look and feel
more like traditional sports television.
Guest commentators have been a
big hit for us, says Garnet. We invite
player-athletes into the booth to give
their own perspective and insight into
the players and matches. It ends up
being informative and funny.
My rst interaction with the CCE Sports
Network was at the International Gay and
Lesbian Aquatics Championships (IGLA)
in Seattle last month. I walked into the
natatorium, saw their equipment and
was immediately intrigued. I nished
my swimming races for the day and Kris
Pritchard of the Washington Wetskins
told me their next water polo match was
that afternoon.
After returning to my hotel room, I
logged onto the CCE website and there
was the water polo match; live and with
commentary. I was overwhelmed that
this network has set up a platform to
prole and recognize the skill, talent
and athleticism of the LGBT athlete.
The stories that that emerged as
a result of the CCE Sports Network
coverage of IGLA were incredibly
touching.
A water polo athlete went up to the
commentator booth and asked to give a
shout out to his brother, who was serving
in the Paktika Province in Afghanistan
and was watching his little brother play
water polo on his iPad.
A sister got to watch her brother
compete in swimming for the rst time
since high school and a father almost
missed his ight at Chicagos OHare
Airport; he wanted to watch his little girl
compete.
Similar stories were heard after the
CCE coverage of the Capital Classic
tennis tournament, here in D.C. From
their Twitter feed:
@CCESportNetwork Im thrilled w/
your coverage! I hadnt been able to
see my brother compete since HS! I still
cant get over how fun it was to watch
my brother play again! I missed getting
to cheer for him!
With the CCE Sports Network still
ramping up their operations, there will
be many more feel-good moments to
come for athletes and their friends and
families.
By 2015, we hope to have weekly live
tournament broadcasts along with our
own monthly sports show, says Garnet.
For now, CCE is working on gaining
new sponsorships, building their video
archives and acquiring connections
in the European market. The visibility
theyre providing in showcasing the
athleticism of the LGBT sports athlete
will certainly help to further the cause
of the LGBT sports movement to rid the
playing eld of homophobia.
You can see the Capital Tennis
Association players, the Washington
Wetskins water polo players and the
District of Columbia Aquatics Club
swimmers in action in their video
archives at ccesportsnetwork.com.
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15th anniversary of Matthew
Shepards death inspires
doc, theatrical revival,
controversial book and more
By MARIAH COOPER
The 15th anniversary of Matthew
Shepards death, a college student
who was tied to a fence and tortured
for being gay, is being commemorated
with the East Coast premiere of Michele
Jouses documentary Matthew
Shepard is a Friend of Mine at the
Washington National Cathedral (3101
Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) on Oct. 4 at 7:30
p.m. and a month-long run of The
Laramie Project at Fords Theatre (511
10th St., N.W.) beginning Sept. 27.
Matthew Shepard Is A Friend of
Mine explores who Shepard was as a
person, rather than the sensationalized
LGBT rights icon he eventually became,
through interviews with his family and
close friends. Jouse, who met Shepard
at boarding school, explains that making
the documentary was therapeutic for her.
It feels like yesterday sometimes,
she says. I hadnt really allowed myself
to talk about it so much because it was
so painful but its really helped with the
healing process to talk about something
that was so difcult.
The lm delves into personal
moments between Shepard and his
family and friends but also shows
Jouse go through her own journey to
better understand Shepard and the
depression he dealt with before his
death. Jouse visits Shepards home, the
boarding school in Switzerland where
they met and became friends and the
University of Wyoming where Shepard
was a student at the time of his death.
The Laramie Project begins its
month-long run at Fords Theater
today and goes through Oct. 27. Every
Monday night at 7 p.m., a free panel
discussion is scheduled with special
guests Judy Shepard, Shepards mother,
in conversation with Cokie Roberts
Sept. 30 and former Laramie sheriff
Dave OMalley on Oct. 7. Fords hosts
a special Pay What You Can preview
performance Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
In celebration of National Coming
Out Day, Dennis Shepard, Shepards
father, will join leaders of the D.C. faith
community in a candlelight vigil on
Oct 11. There is also a world premiere
exhibition showing through Nov. 3 of
Not Alone: The Power of Response
in which artist Jeff Shengs photograph
Where Matthew Lay Dying is paired
with a selection of letters sent to the
Shepard family. Fords Theatres decision
to participate in the anniversary is an
important one for them.
Matthew Shepards death in 1998
ignited a debate about the denition
of hate crimes and strengthened the
resolve of many to advocate for social
justice, says Paul Tetreault, Fords
Theatre director.
Among these celebrations of
Shepards life, the controversial new
book The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths
About the Murder of Matthew Shepard
by journalist Stephen Jimenez has been
released. The book claims the reason for
Shepards murder was not because he
was gay, but because he was a part of the
drug underworld in Laramie, Wyo., the
place of Shepards death. Jouse refutes
the claim and says she has no plans to
read the book because the sources are
anonymous and unreliable.
If people would really like to learn
more about Matt as a real person and
what happened to him, I would hope they
watch our lm and hear about it through
the point of view of people who actually
knew him and loved him, Jouse says.
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An evening lled with the ballads and showstoppers that skyrocketed Benanti
to fame at the age of 19. Benanti has won critical acclaim and accolades for
her diverse portrayals of a nun-turned-governess in The Sound of Music and
a wallower-turned-stripper in Gypsy (for which she earned a Tony Award), as
well as appearances in The Wedding Singer, Swing!, Nine, Into the Woods,
and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
DI AGHI LEV AND THE BALLETS RUSSES, 1909 - 1929:
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CLOSI NG OCT 6. NATI ONAL GALLERY OF ART.
202- 737- 4215. NGA. GOV.
The Ballets Russes--the most innovative dance company of the 20th century-
-propelled the performing arts to new heights through groundbreaking
collaboration between artists, composers, choreographers, dancers, and fashion
designers, with such familiar names as Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, George
Balanchine, Vaslaw Nijinsky, and Coco Chanel. Washington is the sole US venue
for 150 original costumes, set designs, paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings,
photographs, posters, and lm clips in a theatrical multimedia installation.
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS: SCULPTURE BY KRESHNI K XHI KU
THRU OCT 7. THE ART LEAGUE GALLERY. 703- 683- 1780.
THEARTLEAGUE. ORG.
Sculptor and Art League instructor Kreshnik Xhiku presents a collection of
wood and metal sculptures exploring the bounds between gurative and
abstracted sculpture in Structural Elements.
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THEATRE
Million Dollar Quartet. Thru Oct 6. Shear
Madness. Thru Jan 31. Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
Torch Song Trilogy. Thru Oct 13. Red
Speedo. Thru Oct 13. Studio Theatre.
202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
After the Revolution. Thru Oct 6.
Theater J. 800-494-8497. theaterj.org.
Detroit. Thru Oct 6. Woolly Mammoth.
202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net.
Cabaret Barroco: Interludes of Spains
Golden Age. Thru Oct 6. GALA
Hispanic Theatre. 202-234-7174.
galatheatre.org.
Rancho Mirage. Thru Oct 20. Bedlam
Theatres Hamlet. Thru Oct 26. Bedlam
Theatres Saint Joan. Thru Oct 27. Olney
Theatre. 301-924-3400. olneytheatre.org.
The Sunshine Boys. Sep 28-Oct 19.
Keegan Theatre. 703-892-0202.
keegantheatre.com.
Come Blow Your Horn. Thru Oct 12.
American Century Theater. Gunston.
703-998-4555. americancentury.org.
Miss Saigon. Thru Oct 6. Signature Theatre.
703-820-9771. signature-theatre.org.
The Two-Character Play. Oct 3-Oct 27.
Spooky Action Theater. Universalist
National Memorial Church.
202-248-0301. spookyaction.org.
A Bloody Good Time. Oct 3-Oct 12.
WIT. Source Theatre. 202-204-7770.
washingtonimprovtheater.com.
DANCE
Kollaboration DC IV 2013. Sep 28. GW
Lisner Auditorium. 202-994-6800. lisner.org.
Latin Sizzle Festival. Sep 28-Sep 29.
Dance Place. Atlas. 202-269-1600.
danceplace.org.
MUSIC
Sandy Hacketts Rat Pack Show. Sep 27.
Warren Wolf and the WOLFPACK. Sep
27. Laura Burhenn, Singer-Songwriter.
Oct 2. Aeolus Quartet with Michael
Tree, viola. Oct 3. Strathmore.
301-581-5100. Strathmmore.org.
Tristan and Isolde. WNO. Thru Sep
27. Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
NSO : Yo-Yo Ma. Sep 29. NSO
Hechinger Commission. Oct 3-Oct
5. Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
NEA National Heritage Fellowships
Concert. Sep 27. GW Lisner Auditorium.
202-994-6800. lisner.org.
Music from 13th and 15th Century
Spain. Sep 27-Sep 29. Folger Consort.
Folger Theatre. 202-544-7077. folger.edu.
Jakub Alexander (heathered Pearls):
Vapor Forms. Sep 27-Oct 18. Sidi Tour.
Sep 28. Artisphere. 703-875-1100.
artisphere.com.
End-of-Summer Jazz Soiree. Sep 27.
Dumbarton House. 202-337-2288.
dumbartonhouse.org.
Shelly Markham: Things Ive Learned
Along the Way. Sep 29. DC Cabaret
Network. Arts Club. 202-679-8553.
dccabaretnetwork.org.
MUSEUMS
Corcoran Gallery of Art. WAR/
PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed
Conict and Its Aftermath. Thru Sep
29. NOW at the Corcoran Ellen
Harvey: The Aliens Guide to the Ruins
of Washington, D.C.. Thru Oct 6. Alex
Prager: Face in the Crowd. Thru Mar 9.
American Journeys - Visions of Place.
Thru Sep 21. 202-639-1700. corcoran.org.
Folger Shakespeare Library. Here is a
Play Fitted. Oct 1-Jan 12. folger.edu.
Fords Theatre. Not Alone: The Power
of Response. Thru Nov 3. 202-347-4833.
fords.org.
Kreeger Museum. Mindy Weisel: Not
Neutral. Thru Dec 28. John L. Dreyfuss
Inventions. Thru Apr 1. 202-337-3050.
kreegermuseum.org.
National Gallery of Art. Diaghilev and
the Ballets Russes, 1909 - 1929: When
Art Danced with Music. Thru Oct 6.
Ellsworth Kelly: Colored Paper Images.
Thru Dec 1. In the Tower: Kerry James
Marshall. Thru Dec 7. Yes, No, Maybe:
Artists Working at Crown Point Press.
Thru Jan 5. 202-737-4215. nga.gov.
National Geographic. A New Age of
Exploration. Thru Jun 8. 202-857-7000.
nglive.org.
Museum of Women in the Arts. Awake
in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey
Niffenegger. Thru Nov 10. American
People, Black Light: Faith Ringgolds
Paintings of the 1960s. Thru Nov 10.
202-783-5000. nmwa.org.
GALLERIES
Andy Warhol: Silver Clouds. Thru Oct
20. 703-875-1100. artisphere.com.
Fisher Art Gallery. Mei Mei Chang:
Voyage in Tangible Space, Mixed
Media. Thru Oct 6. 703-534-5726.
schlesingercenter.com.
Gallery plan b. Group Painting: Tory
Cowles, Greg Minah, and Beverly
Ryan. Thru Oct 13. 202-234-2711.
galleryplanb.com.
Goethe-Institut. Cardboard City. Thru Sep
30. European Architectural Photography
Prize 2013 Focus on Attention. Oct
1-Oct 31. 202-289-1200. goethe.de.
Joan Hisaoka Gallery. Depicted/
Connected: Paintings by Tim Okamura.
Thru Oct 31. 202-483-8600. smithcenter.org.
Neptune Fine Art. Objects of
Desire. Thru Oct 26. 202 338-0353.
neptuneneart.com.
Pepco Edison Place Gallery. Cyber In
Securities. Thru Sep 27. wpadc.org.
Target Gallery. In the Flesh 4. Thru Sep
29. 703.838.4565. torpedofactory.org.
Zenith Gallery. Uncommon Objects:
Encaustic Assemblage and Sculpture
by Katie Dell Kaufman. Thru Nov 2.
202.783.2963. zenithgallery.com.
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The Arlington Gay and Lesbian
Alliance (AGLA) and Imperial Court
host their USO-themed Show at
Freddies Beach Bar (555 23rd St.,
Arlington, Va.,) tonight at 8 p.m. The
show is a tribute to the United States
military and a celebration of the second
anniversary of the repeal of Dont
Ask Dont Tell. There is a suggested
door donation of $10. For details, visit
facebook.com/ArlingtonLGBT/events.
Whitman-Walker hosts free HIV
testing at Town (20009 8th St., N.W.)
tonight from 8 p.m.-midnight for National
Gay Mens HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. For
more details, visit towndc.com.
SMYAL hosts The Body Party
at Foundry Methodist Church (16th
and P streets N.W.) tonight from 7-10
p.m. The party celebrates the end
of #SafeSextember and is open to
LGBT and allies. The winner of tickets
and transportation to Six Flags Fright
Fest will be announced. For more
information, visit smyal.org.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 28
The Gertrude Stein Democratic
Club hosts its 37th Annual Leaderships
Awards Reception at Sonoma Restaurant
and Wine Bar (223 Pennsylvania Ave.,
S.E.) today from 2-4 p.m. D.C. leaders
who have contributed to policies
protecting transgender people, young
queer people of color and older LGBT
Americans will be honored. Light food
and drink will be served. Tickets are
$75 and can be purchased online and
at the door. For more details, visit
steindemocrats.org.
The American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention hosts its Out of
the Darkness Community Walk at
Constitution Gardens (17th St. and
Constitution Ave.) today at 5 p.m.
Registration is from 3-5 p.m. Proceeds
benet local and national suicide
prevention and awareness programs.
For more information, email simone.
poetscher@gmail.com or visit afsp.
donordrive.com.
Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) hosts its
CTRL dance party tonight from 10
p.m-3 a.m. Cover is $5. There will be
$3 PBR Tallboys, $5 rail drinks and
$4 Jameson shots. For details, visit
cobaltdc.com.
Legendary drag entertainer Lady
Bunny performs at Town (2009 8th St.,
N.W.) tonight. Doors open at 10 p.m.
Drag show begins at 10:30 p.m. Cover is
$8 from 10-11 p.m. and $12 after 11 p.m.
$3 drinks before 11 p.m. Admission is
limited to guests 21 and over. For more
information, visit towndc.com.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 29
Special Agent Galactica begins her
four-week run with guitarist Peter Fields
at LEnfant Cafe (2000 18th St., N.W.)
tonight at 7 p.m. A mix of jazz, blues
and todays hits will be performed.
Admission is free. For details, visit
lenfantcafe.com.
Perrys (1811 Columbia Rd., N.W.) hosts
its weekly Sunday Drag Brunch today
from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The cost is $24.95
for an all-you-can-eat buffet. For more
details, visit perrysadamsmorgan.com.
Adventuring, an LGBT outdoors
group, host a bike ride along Mt.
Vernon Trail meeting at Columbia Island
Marina (George Washington Memorial
Pkwy., Arlington, Va.,) near the snack bar
today at 11 a.m. All levels of experience
welcome. Bring your own lunch or
buy it during the planned stop at
Firehook Bakery (430 S Washington St.,
Alexandria, Va.,) or at the Mount Vernon
concessions. Helmet is required but any
type of clothing may be worn. For more
information, visit adventuring.org.
MONDAY, SEPT. 30
PEN/Faulkner, Folger and Library of
Congress host District of Literature
today at Library of Congress (101
Independence Ave., S.E.) in the Thomas
Jefferson building and The Church
of the Reformation (212 East Capitol
St., S.E.) from 9:30 a.m.-10 p.m. There
will be readings from writers Dolores
Kendrick, George Pelecanos and
Elizabeth Alexander among others. A
public reception at Folger Shakespeare
Library (201 East Capitol St., S.E.) in the
Exhibition Hall will be from 9-10 p.m.
Admission for all events is free. For
more details, visit folger.edu.
Frank Bruni , The New York Times
rst openly gay op-ed columnist,
speaks at Goucher Colleges Kraushaar
Auditorium (1021 Dulaney Valley Rd.,
Baltimore) tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets are
$10 and must be purchased in advance.
For more information or to purchase
tickets, visit goucher.edu/tickets or call
410-337-6333.
The D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.)
hosts coffee drop-in hours this morning
from 10 a.m.-noon for the senior LGBT
community. Older LGBT adults can
come and enjoy complimentary coffee
and conversation with other community
members. For more information, visit
thedccenter.org.
Mens Circle for gay, bi, trans and
questioning men is tonight from 7-9:30
p.m. at a location near the Convention
Center. The men meet to discuss
thoughts, feelings and life in general.
To RSVP and nd out location, e-mail
Randy Marks at rmarksftc@yahoo.com.

TUESDAY, OCT. 1
Parents, Families, and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) hosts A
Fall Party for its 30th anniversary at
former Councilmember of D.C. Carol
Schwartzs home (2029 Connecticut
Ave., N.W.) from 6-8 p.m. tonight.
Tickets are $30. For more details or to
purchase tickets, visit pagdc.org or call
202-638-3852.
D.C. Strokes, a LGBT rowing club,
hosts a meet and greet happy hour
at Nellies Sports Bar (900 U St., N.W.)
tonight from 7-9 p.m. Meet current
teammates and those curious about
rowing. For details, visit dcstrokes.org.
Green Lantern (1335 Green Ct., N.W.)
hosts its weekly FUK!T Packing Party
tonight from 7-9 p.m. tonight. For
more details, visit thedccenter.org or
greenlanterndc.com.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2
Bookmen D.C., an informal gay
mens literature group, discusses Tom
Spanbauers novel The Man Who Fell
in Love With the Moon tonight at
7:30 p.m. at Tenleytown Library (4450
Wisconsin Ave., N.W.). All are welcome.
Visit bookmendc.blogspot.com for
details.
Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) hosts the
Semi-Annual D.C. Gay Flag Football
League and Stonewall Sports
Mixer tonight from 7:30-10:30 p.m.
Wearing your league T-Shirt/jersey is
encouraged. There is a $10 suggested
donation that will benet the Team D.C.
Scholarship Fund and the D.C. Center.
For more information, visit towndc.com.
The Bachelors Mill (1104 8th St.,
S.E.) hosts happy hour from 5-7:30
p.m. today. All drinks are half price.
Enjoy pool, video games and cards.
Admission is free. For more details, visit
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Us Helping Us (3636 Georgia Ave.,
N.W.) hosts a support group for black
men living with HIV/AIDS tonight from
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THURSDAY, OCT. 3
Author Juan Ahonen-Jover reads
from his book The Gay Agenda 2013:
All In at the D.C. Center (1318 U St.,
N.W.) tonight at 7 p.m. He will discuss
both LGBT equality in D.C. and in New
York City. For more information, visit
thedccenter.org.
NOVA Dynamic Lesbians host its
monthly happy hour at the Pinzimini
Lounge at the Westin Hotel (801 N.
Glebe Rd., Arlington, Va.,) at 7 p.m.
tonight. Valet parking is free with a
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Take it Like a Man may sound a bit
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with Scissor Sisters front man Jake
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Red is a club-ready dance hit waiting
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lm Interview with a Vampire, and
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of this lopsided album.
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the latter half.
Standouts include Pinks second
writing contribution I Walk Alone, the
lingering ballad Sirens that harkens
back to her Heart of Stone days, and
I Hope You Find It, currently being
promoted as her next single.
While this is not quite the epic
comeback album Believe was in
1999, its more varied and satisfying
than the club-oriented Living Proof.
The 11-track album can be purchased
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Dream, Pride, which appears to
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movie Burlesque, You Havent Seen
the Last of Me.
Pride makes the deluxe version
worth getting. An exclusive Target store
deluxe version is available as well. It
includes two unnecessary dance mixes
of Womans World and the somber
Will You Wait for Me which, if album
singles still existed, would probably
have ended up a lost B-side.
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Age-defying CHERs new album Closer to the Truth packs massive dance tracks in its rst half but
takes a stylistic change of pace halfway through.
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