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Local gay bars and organizations hosted debate watch parties on Monday.
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anti-LGBT record.
The actions follow Trumps creation of a 35-member
Catholic Advisory Council, which includes, in addition
to Santorum, other individuals with anti-LGBT records.
Accompanying the creation of the council is a new
statement from Trump outlining Issues of Importance
to Catholics and reiterating his support for the First
Amendment Defense Act, a federal religious freedom
bill that would enable anti-LGBT discrimination.
Emphasizing his commitment to religious liberty,
Trump hints at opposition to the U.S. Supreme
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Former D.C. Police Chief CATHY LANIER has said the department does not tolerate
anti-LGBT discrimination.
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The rabbi for a D.C.-area Jewish congregation says an unknown suspect or suspects
vandalized her car parked in a private garage next to the New Carrolton Metro and
Amtrak train stations by ripping in half magnets and stickers attached to the back and
sides of the car that included messages about the Jewish faith and LGBT rights.
Rabbi Nehama Benmosche, who works part-time for Machar: The Washington
Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism, said that when she returned to her car in
the garage about 11:45 p.m. Saturday night, Sept. 24, she discovered the torn magnets
and stickers strewn on the ground next to the car.
Benmosche told the Washington Blade the vandal or vandals also wiped o a written
message promoting Judaism that she had written on the rear window of her car with a
felt marker.
She said the vandal or vandals did not touch one magnet that had a non-religious and
non-LGBT message on it, leading her to believe that the Jewish magnets and a Jewish
star with rainbow ag strips running across it were specically targeted.
And the car itself hadnt been scratched or vandalized in any way, which I think is an
indication that this was specically targeting the Jewish and gay stickers that I had on
the car, she said.
She said she immediately called Prince Georges County police, who dispatched
an ocer to the scene. She said shes hopeful that police will work with the parking
garages security sta that operates multiple surveillance cameras installed throughout
the garage.
I hope the police are now going to obtain the footage and go back and look at the
tape and see what happened and seek to identify one or more suspects responsible for
what she believes is an anti-Jewish and anti-gay hate crime, she told the Blade.
She said the magnets and stickers she attached mostly to the rear of her 2015 Kia
Soul were aimed at promoting her congregation and its form of progressive Judaism as
well as LGBT rights.
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An Oxon Hill, Md., based security company has hired ve transgender women as
part of an outreach program established after a security guard at a Giant Food store in
D.C. was arrested for allegedly assaulting a transgender woman for using the womens
bathroom.
The company, Washington Fields Protective Services, had no connection to the security
guard arrested at the Giant Food store on H Street, N.E. But according to longtime D.C.
transgender activist Earline Budd, one of the companys top ocials reached out to her
after observing the extensive media coverage of the arrest of the guard at the Giant.
At the time of the arrest, Giant announced that the guard, Francine Jones, 45, had
been hired and placed at the Giant by another security company.
D.C. police charged Jones with misdemeanor simple assault after receiving a 911
emergency call from Ebony Belcher, 32, who reported being forcibly ejected from the
womans bathroom and shoved out of the stores entrance by Jones.
Belcher told the Washington Blade that before physically removing her from the
store, which police said constituted an assault, Jones burst into the bathroom and began
hurling anti-transgender slurs at her, humiliating her on grounds that trans women
were not allowed to use womens restrooms in D.C.
D.C. ocials quickly rebuked that claim, pointing out that the D.C. Human Rights Act
prohibits discrimination against transgender people and allows them to use a public
bathroom that matches their gender identity.
Budd, meanwhile, said an ocial with Washington Fields Protective Services asked
her to refer prospective transgender people as candidates for the companys training
program for security guards and other security related jobs. Budd, who works as an
outreach ocial with the local social services group HIPS D.C., arranged for HIPS to refer
ve trans women to the company.
They have since completed most of the training program and have been hired by
the company. Budd said three would become security guards and two would work in
security related administrative positions.
D.C. Superior Court records show that the U.S. Attorneys oce, which is prosecuting
Jones, elevated the assault charge against her in July to a bias-related oense, which
could result in a more stringent sentence if she is convicted. Court records show her
trial was scheduled to begin on Dec. 6.
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eleven-year-old girl.
The decision comes on the heels
of a ruling last week from a federal
judge in Wisconsin ordering Kenosha
Unied School District to allow a male
transgender student to use the restroom
consistent with his gender identity.
The ruling also follows an order from
a federal court in Texas enjoining the
Obama administration from enforcing
guidance instructing schools to allow
transgender students to use the
restroom consistent with their gender
identity. (Marbleys decision comes on the
same day the judge ordered a hearing on
Friday to clarify the scope of the decision
in response to a request from the Justice
Department.)
Representing Jane Doe in the case is the
National Center for Lesbian Rights as well
as the Cleveland-based law rm Hickman
& Lowder and the New York-based law
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Democratic Party.
One issue that could emerge is the possibility of appointing an openly LGBT Cabinet
member in the next administration, which is an achievement that has yet to occur even
during the Obama era despite its record number of at least 300 LGBT appointees.
Asked what Obama would say in response to that issue, or any kind of achievements
in LGBT rights sought by those in attendance, Earnest touted the general diversity of
appointees in the administration, saying Obama is quite proud of appointing senior
ocials in his administration that reect the diversity of the country.
Whether you evaluate that diversity based on race, or religion, or sexual orientation,
the presidents record surpasses that of his predecessors, and hes quite proud of that
legacy, Earnest said.
Earnest added Obama believes thats a legacy that can be built on, but deferredto
Clinton for the kinds of appointments that she would choose to make if she were
elected president.
Clinton has expressed a commitment to advancing and protecting LGBT rights
over the course of her campaign, but hasnt explicitly said whether shed be open to
appointing an openly LGBT Cabinet member.
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Opponents of marriage rights for same-sex couples march in Mexico City on Sept. 24.
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children to have a dad and a mom and recalled that adoption is not a right for adults.
The march took place roughly four months after President Enrique Pea Nieto
announced that he would seek to amend the Mexican constitution to allow same-sex
marriage and adoption across the country.
The Mexican Congress would have to consider the proposed amendment. Two-thirds
of each chamber would have to support it and half of the countrys 31 states would have
to ratify it.
Diego von Stauenberg of the National Organization for Marriage and roughly a
dozen others gathered outside the Mexican Embassy in D.C. on Friday to show their
support for the National Front for the Family. Pilar Vazquez Calda, a D.C. resident who
is originally from Mexico City, submitted a petition to Mexican Ambassador to the U.S.
Carlos Sada Solana that expresses opposition to the proposed amendment.
We should defend the institution (of marriage,) Vazquez told the Blade.
NOM President Brian Brown was in Mexico City on Saturday. Von Stauenberg told
the Blade that he did not take part in the protest.
He happens to be in Mexico as an observer, said von Stauenberg.
Same-sex couples can legally marry in Mexico City and in several states across the country.
The Mexican Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that laws banning same-sex marriage are
discriminatory.
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Troy Dayton and Johnny Mercado
Troy Dayton and Johnny Mercado were married on Sept. 16 at the Fairfax
County Courthouse on the occasion of their 20th anniversary as a couple.
They were wed by Rev. Felix Baldeon. In 1997, they had their union blessed
by Rev. V. Phillip Matthews of Metropolitan Community Church with family and
friends present. This time, they were unattended for the marriage.
Dayton formerly worked at the Washington Blade as a graphic artist in the
1980s. The couple lives in Northern Virginia.
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Richard L. Rindskopf died Sept. 20 at the age of 63 following a stroke, according
to his family. He had been a Washington resident for more than 30 years, his
family said.
Rindskopf was born in Des Moines, Iowa on Dec. 4, 1952 to Dr. Wallace and
Lorraine Rindskopf. He completed a bachelors of arts degree in music at the
University of Maryland and had a lifelong love of music, though he spent his
career in the restaurant industry.
He is survived by his brother, Dr. David Rindskopf, niece Lindsay Rindskopf
and sister-in-law Dr. Laurie Rindskopf.
A memorial is planned for Saturday, Oct. 8 at noon at the Hawk n Dove
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About 50 people gathered at the Ynot Lot in the Station North area of
Baltimore on Sept. 19 to pay tribute to Crystal Edmonds, an African-American
transgender woman who was shot and killed the previous Friday in Northwest
Baltimore. She was 32.
The event was organized by The Baltimore Trans Alliance, Black Trans
Advocacy and Black Trans Men, Inc.
Members of Edmonds immediate family spoke including her mother and
sister, and friends reminisced fondly about her life. Some speakers made
appeals for bringing people in the community together.
In the recent past, gatherings like this werent the norm, community like this
was didnt exist, and the people here didnt know each other, Ava Pipitone,
executive director of The Baltimore Trans Alliance, told the Blade. Crystals
death is a reminder of how important it is for us all to come together and build
community while we are here and not wait until another person is taken.
Merrick Moses, servant leader of Black Trans Advocacy, said, We are in fulledged mourning for our sister, Crystal. She was much loved and we will be
greatly missed. We are tired of being targeted, maimed and murdered. We are
tired of all the murders and bashings.
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communitys help. A reward of up to $2,000 is being oered for information
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BEIJING As HIV infections soar in China among gay men according to a new
report, health ocials there are grappling with how to best address it, the Wall
Street Journal reports.
A report from health authorities in Nanchang, a city of ve million, said the
HIV infection rate among college students there grew 43 percent annually in the
past ve years, the Journal reports. More than 80 percent of those cases came
from male same-sex encounters. It was a small sample 135 infections and
seven deaths across 37 colleges but its eect was strong in the country that
until 2001 classied homosexuality as a mental illness and where there was little
public discussion of gay issues or rights, the Journal reports.
In the early days of Chinas AIDS epidemic, drug users and sex workers were
the main patients. A decade ago, men who have sex with men accounted for less
than one percent of new HIV infections in China, according to government data.
In 2015, they made up 27 percent. In the U.S., gay and bisexual men account for
about 67 percent of new HIV infections, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
More alarmingly, while the total number of people living with HIV in China is
still smaller than that of the U.S. about 575,000 compared with 1.2 million
it is growing faster, at a rate of around 100,000 a year compared with around
40,000 in the U.S., government data from both countries show. The rate of
new infections peaked in the U.S., which health ocials attribute to eective
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HIV infection, Health Canal reports.
Researchers at St. Michaels Hospital developed a mathematical model to
evaluate the impact of PrEP on the number of new HIV infections among gay
men in Toronto, the number of HIV-related deaths averted and the cost impact
on the health-care system. Their ndings were published online last week in the
Journal of the International AIDS Society.
Previous studies have found that a daily dose of Truvada, a Health-Canada
approved preventative oral medication, could reduce HIV acquisition in men who
have sex with men by 44 percent, or as much as 99 percent with high adherence.
The model developed at St. Michaels suggests that over 20 years, PrEP use
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will tend to look for oversimplied solutions at work, drink more, drive more
aggressively and suer the physiological
and mental eects of general stress.
His remedy is that people try to shift to
the adult brain. That brain has the ability to
weigh evidence, see nuance, plan for the
future and replace blame, denial and avoidance with an appreciation of complexity.
Really? Shift to the adult brain? Thats
all hes got?
And what are we supposed to take as
the national adrenal systems short out in
the lead-up to the presidential debates? As
the frenzied Wrestlemania graphics blaze,
a smoky ringmaster voice barks the promise of the biggest viewing audience for a
presidential debate. Ever. Bigger than the
biggest Super Bowl. In this corner, Hillary
D for Deplorable Clinton. And in this corner Donald the Master Baiter Trump. Live.
And on stage. For the rst time. Ever.
To soar above this mass psychosis and
its delusional ideation, there is no profound
part of my brain that will help with the stress.
The thing my adult brain needs is a Klonipin
and it better be the size of a hubcap.
It all boils down to basic fairness, to repairing an out-of-balance D.C. business licensing
system residents across the city have long lamented and more often than not cursed.
Current regulatory protocols deny a common desire to allow all community voices an
equal opportunity to have input absent bestowing special standing and intervention
powers to self-anointed groups representing
only a few.
The D.C. Council is currently weighing reform of the liquor-licensing system for the
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the bars, restaurants, and nightclubs that are
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deal, where the gendered focus transverses all the points and agreements that
have been achieved, recognizing the grave
consequences the conict has had against
LGBTI people and the need to achieve a
society free of discrimination and with
equal rights for everyone.
This gendered approach has been
taken into account with the participation
of civil society during the negotiations to
bring about the agreement where distinct
organizations, leaders, Caribe Armativo
among them, in February 2015 shared
some of the experiences that LGBT people had within the context of the conict,
the contributions they have historically
made for peace and the reections that
they have had in a Colombian society
that has not accepted diversity for many
years. But in order to achieve a peace
that reaches the whole country and all
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Small towns have long served as
reliable settings for American musicals.
Keeping in that tradition, Irene Sanko
and David Heins Come From Away
takes place in Gander, a remote burg in
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Based on a true story, the Broadwaybound show currently enjoying an
uplifting run at Fords Theatre, tells how
little Gander with its nearby big airport
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ve days following 9-11 when scores of
planes were rerouted to the Canadian
province. Totally unprepared for hosting
thousands, the towns small but plucky
population willingly opened its homes,
schools and businesses to feed, clothe
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romance. Come From Away delivers on
all that as well as giving layered, believable
characters. Propelled by a driving rock
musical score, events unfold swiftly and
unpredictably; there are solemn moments
but the musicals lighthearted moments
prove its most poignant.
The solid cast is led by charismatic out
actor Jenn Colella who plays Beverley
Bass, American Airlines trailblazing rst
woman pilot who melodically relays her
story with Me and the Sky. Colella also
hilariously plays a Gander librarian who
continuously misconstrues meetings with
various men as near erotic encounters.
The Kevins (Chad Kimball and
Caesar Samayoa) are a gay couple who
share the same name. They adapt to
Gander culture with varying degrees of
enthusiasm. Samayoa also plays Ali, an
Egyptian Muslin passenger who quickly
becomes the object of suspicion once
the background of the perpetrators
of the 9-11 attacks is revealed. Sharon
Wheatley and Lee MacDougall are the
unlikely couple whose future is sealed at
a raucous Gander V.F.W. hoedown. Astrid
Van Wieren and Joel Hatch revel in their
roles as salt-of-the earth townies, and
D.C. triple threat Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan
memorably plays the towns animal rights
activist who singlehandedly saves various
pets and a pair of zoo-bound chimps
stuck in cargo.
Scenic designer Beowulf Boritts
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Sense and Sensibility
Thru Nov 6. Folger Theatre.
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Reason and passion collide in Jane Austens beloved tale of sisterhood and
romance. When sudden nancial straits force the Dashwood family to move
to a distant cottage, sisters Elinor and Marianne become ensnared in heartwrenching romances.
After three years of renovations the National Gallery of Art East Building
reopens with community celebrations. Renovations include new galleries and a
roof terrace.
THEATRE
The Gulf. Thru Nov 6. Pride Night.
Sep 30. Freaky Friday. Oct 4-Nov 20.
Signature Theatre.
signature-theatre.org.
Hand To God. Thru Oct 9. Cloud 9.
Thru Oct 16. Motherstruck. Thru Oct
23. Studio Theatre. studiotheatre.org.
Aquila Theatre: Much Ado About
Nothing. Sep 30. GMU Center for the
Arts. cfa.gmu.edu.
Shear Madness. Thru Nov 20. The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time. Oct 5-Oct 23. Kennedy
Center. shearmadness.com.
District Comedy. Oct 1. BlackRock.
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MUSIC
Mark G. Meadows. Oct 5. Courage
Has A Voice. Sep 30. Jessica Krash.
Oct 6. Strathmore. strathmore.org.
Rusted Root. Sep 30. Blue Highway.
Oct 2. Christian McBride. Oct
5. Faireld Four. Oct 6. AMP.
ampbystrathmore.com.
WNO: The Marriage of Figaro. Thru
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Elgar. Thru Oct 1. NSO: Emanuel
Ax plays Beethoven. Oct 6-Oct 8.
Kennedy Center. kennedy-center.org.
Measure+Dido. Oct 1. Folger Consort.
Kennedy Center. folger.edu.
Metro Mambo: Melting Pot. Oct 4.
Library of Congress. loc.gov.
Tristan Perich. Sep 30. Yves Klein.
Oct 1. Philip Glass. Oct 2. National
Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
Global-Phonic Music Series:
Femina. Oct 1. Arlington Cultural
Aairs. Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre.
arlingtonarts.org.
Pianist Yoko Miwa. Oct 3. Arts Club of
Washington. artsclubofwashington.org.
Oscar Peas. Sep 30. Atlas.
atlasarts.org.
October Noontime Cantata. Oct 4.
Washington Bach Consort. Church of
the Epiphany. bachconsort.org.
MUSEUMS
Folger Shakespeare Library. Will &
Jane. Thru Nov 6. folger.edu.
National Archives. Amending
America. Thru Sep 4.
archivesfoundation.org.
Kreeger Museum. Selected Works:
Sam Gilliam & Simmie Knox. Thru Dec
30. kreegermuseum.org.
National Gallery of Art. Hubert
Robert, 17331808. Thru Oct 2.
Drawings for Paintings in the Age of
Rembrandt. Oct 4-Jan 2. nga.gov.
National Museum of Women in the
Arts. Alison Saar In Print. Thru Oct 2.
GALLERIES
Strathmore. Rise Up. Thru Nov 6.
Works by Mojdeh Rezaeipour. Thru
Nov 6. strathmore.org.
DCCAH. The Creative Age Exhibition.
Thru Oct 21. dcarts.dc.gov.
The Art League Gallery. Op-Ed. Oct
3-Nov 6. Transformations: Tapestries
in Glass. Oct 5-Nov 6. theartleague.org.
gallery Neptune & Brown.
William Kentridge. Thru Oct 22.
galleryneptunebrown.com.
Glen Echo Park. Visions and Voices
2016. Thru Oct 2. Memories. Thru Oct
2. glenechopark.org.
Goethe-Institut. 2,000 Miles: Divided
Land, Common Humanity. Thru Nov 4.
goethe.de.
ISAAG. Adriana Carambia &
Artesanos Don Bosco. Oct 3-Oct 17.
idbstaassociationartgallery.org.
ReCreative Spaces. Back to Balance
- Gallery Hours. Sep 30-Oct 28.
recreativespaces.com.
Torpedo Factory. Bodyscapes by
Three Women Artists. Thru Oct 16.
torpedofactory.org.
Waverly Street Gallery. Jane Callen
and Janet Wittenberg. Thru Oct 8.
waverlystreetgallery.com.
Zenith Gallery. Humor Heals. Thru Oct
29. zenithgallery.com.
AND MORE...
Author Talk with Nicholas Vaca. Oct
1. Smithsonian Anacostia Museum.
anacostia.si.edu.
Equal Means Equal. Oct 4. National
Archives. archivesfoundation.org.
The Trouble with Hitchcock: The
Thirty-Nine Steps. Sep 30. Crossing
Borders: Sushi Rolling. Oct 6. Hill
Center. hillcenterdc.org.
Danielle Smith: Post-Graduate
Resident Talk. Sep 30. Torpedo
Factory. torpedofactory.org.
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STACEYANN CHIN in Motherstruck at Studio Theatre. This one-woman show has lesbian
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TODAY
Bear Nonsense hosts Bear Happy
Hour at Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) tonight
from 6-11 p.m. There will be drink
specials until 11 p.m. and free pizza at 7
p.m. There is no cover. For more details,
visit bearnonsense.com.
BitchLand, an alternative queer
dance party, presents DJ Trillnatured
and gender-queer DJ Precolumbian at
Love and Solidarity Collective (439 Park
Rd., N.W.) tonight from 10 p.m.-2:30 a.m.
The party is BYOB and there will be free
Jell-O shots. Cover is $8 for guests who
RSVP on the Facebook event all night and
SATURDAY, OCT. 1
Crafty Bastards, an arts and crafts
SUNDAY, OCT. 2
THURSDAY, OCT. 6
MONDAY, OCT. 3
Bet Mishpachah hosts a Rosh ha-Shana
service at Luther Place Memorial Church
(1226 Vermont Ave., N.W.) today at 10 a.m.
For more details, visit betmish.org.
The D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W..)
hosts coee drop-in hours this morning
TUESDAY, OCT. 4
D.C. Log Cabin Republicans hosts a
watch party for the Vice Presidential
Debate at Nellies Sports Bar (900 U
St., N.W.) tonight from 8-11 p.m. There
will be food and drink specials. For
more information, visit facebook.com/
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Green Lantern hosts its weekly FUK!T
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14th St., N.W.) from 7-9 p.m. tonight. For
more details, visit thedccenter.org or
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