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washingtonblade.com • vol. 42, issue 02 • january 14, 2011 • Still sharp after 40 years

Gay intern credited with saving Giffords

‘I heard gunshots, I ran toward
where the congresswoman would be’
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com

For Danny Hernandez, the shootings on Saturday in Tucson, Ariz.,

that critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) were a life-
changing moment during which many say he demonstrated unparal-
leled heroism.
Hernandez, who’s gay and had worked as an intern for Giffords for
just five days at the time of the shooting, is credited with providing the
first aid that saved her life.
In an interview with the Washington Blade, Hernandez, 20, a politi-
cal science student at the University of Arizona, said he was tasked
with signing in visitors at the “Congress on Your Corner” event when
the shooting began.
“About 10 minutes after the event started, I heard gunshots,” he
said. “I heard someone say ‘gun!’ I ran toward where the congress-
woman would be.”
Giffords, who was shot in the forehead, was among the 20 people
shot by 22-year-old gunman Jared Loughlin, who used a semi-auto-
matic pistol with an extended magazine during his attack. Six people
were killed, including five who died at the scene and a 9-year-old girl
who died at the hospital.
‘Once I saw that the congresswoman was still alive, but she had been severely injured, she became my first prior-
Continues on page 14 ity, not because of her position, but because of the severity of her wounds,’ said Daniel Hernandez.

Gay sex remains a crime

‘Don’t Ask’ repeal leaves sodomy ban unchanged in military
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
queery lchibbaro@washblade.com
Ernest McCarley on philanthropy, HIV and his years at Bachelor’s Mill.
PAGE 20 Much of the nation was riveted over the drama surrounding the congressional vote last month to
repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law barring gays from serving openly in the military.
But in a little noticed development, Capitol Hill observers say Congress is in no mood to take a
follow-up action recommended by Pentagon officials — the repeal of a longstanding military law that
classifies consensual sodomy among both gay and straight service members as a crime.
Gay rights attorneys and experts in military law say the sodomy law provision known as Article 125
of the Uniform Code of Military Justice has been rarely enforced in recent years in cases where sexual
activity has been consensual and “fraternization” between officers and lower ranking members has
not be a factor.
And the experts say a 2004 decision known as U.S. v. Marcum by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Armed Services placed limits on the enforcement of Article 125 based on a U.S. Supreme Court deci-
socialagenda sion one year earlier that declared state sodomy laws unconstitutional.
Yet because the military court did not overturn Article 125, its characterization of gay sex as crimi-
New gay bar opens in Herndon; Bare celebrates a birthday.
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LOCALNEWS
Customer reports armed robbery at Omega bar
A 39-year-old D.C. man reported being robbed by a male suspect with a handgun in the bathroom at the
Dupont Circle gay bar Omega on Jan. 3, according to a police report, which says the victim was not injured.
The report, prepared by Second District police officers, says the incident took place about 8:45 p.m. after
the victim reported playing pool at the bar with three people now listed as suspects in the case. The report says
a witness told police the victim joined the three men at the bar and bought them drinks shortly after playing
pool with them.
“C1 [Complainant 1] went to the men’s restroom, at which time S1 [Suspect 1] entered into the men’s rest-
room, approached C1 from behind, and held a dark colored handgun to the right of C1’s waistband,” the police
report says. “S1 then stated, ‘give it up,’ at which time C1 gave S1 his wallet containing the above listed items,”
the report says.
According to the report, the victim, who asked the Blade not to disclose his name, told police the suspect
took at least $400 in cash, a North Face jacket worth $450, his Maryland driver’s license, and his cell phone.
The victim told the Blade in a phone interview that the suspect also took his iPod.
Omega manager Perry Morehouse said the bar is cooperating fully in the investigation into the incident and
has offered to provide police with a security surveillance video that shows the suspects and the victim inside
the bar. Morehouse said that as of Wednesday morning, police had not come to the bar to pick up a disc with
a copy of the video surveillance that the bar made for them.
Assistant Police Chief Peter Newsham told the Blade in an e-mail that Second District detectives made
several “unsuccessful” attempts to obtain the video. But Morehouse said employees are present in the bar
from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day and no one from the police department came to obtain the video as of early
Wednesday.
The police report describes suspect one as a black male between 25 and 30 years old, about 5 feet, 10
inches tall, weighing between 150 and 170 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair in a pony tail, having a
dark complexion and medium build and wearing a black jacket and blue pants. Suspect two is described as a
black male about 25 years old, about 6 feet tall, weighing about 165 pounds, with brown eyes and long black
hair, having a medium build and wearing a gray jacket and gray pants.
Suspect three is described in the report as being of “unknown” race and gender, appearing between 25 and
30 years old, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 195 to 200 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, having
a dark complexion and having a “heavy/fat/stocky” build. The suspect wore a black jacket and blue pants, the
report says. The victim told the Blade the third suspect was a drag queen.
Anyone with information about the incident should contact the Second District detective’s office at
202-730-1903.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.

Fluker under consideration for GLBT Affairs post?

Clarence Fluker, who served as the No. 2 person at the D.C.
Office of GLBT Affairs under Mayor Adrian Fenty, may be under
consideration to succeed Christopher Dyer as head of the office,
according to a source familiar with the selection process.
Dyer left his post as director of the GLBT Affairs Office Dec.
30 after Mayor Vincent Gray informed him that he would appoint
a new director of the office. The City Council created the office
through legislation making it a cabinet-level agency in the city
government.
Fluker said he remains in his post as the office’s program di-
rector. He declined to comment on whether he’s under consider-
ation for the director’s position, saying all inquires about person-
obituary
nel matters must be directed to the mayor’s press office. A press BILL YAnCOSkY, 67
spokesperson did not respond to an inquiry about the matter by
press time. Bill Yancosky, a gay former manager at Trio Restau-
Last month, sources familiar with Gray’s mayoral transition rant, died at George Washington University Hospital Jan.
team said at least three others were believed to be under con- 4. He was 67 and had been a long-time Washington resi-
sideration for the director’s position at the GLBT Affairs Office. dent.
Among them were Jeffrey Richardson, president of the Gertrude Yancosky was a 17th Street fixture, according to his
Stein Democratic Club; Christopher Fitzgerald, head of Gray friend of nearly 40 years, Roger Gilkeson. He was known
Pride, the LGBT arm of the Gray for mayor campaign last year; to many in the D.C. gay community for the 17 years he
and Sterling Washington, former president of the D.C. Coali- spent as a manager at Trio, which ended in 2007. In re-
tion of Black Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual & Transgender Men Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
cent years, he was at Annie’s Paramount Steakhouse
& Women. Christopher Dyer stepped down as head of the each morning except Sunday where he enjoyed reading
Gray has not said when he plans to name the new director of city’s GLBT Affairs office when Mayor Vincent Gray newspapers and having a martini and lunch.
the office. took office. His deputy, Clarence Fluker, may now Yancosky was born July 23, 1943, in Mt. Pleasant, Pa.
LOU CHIBBARO JR. be under consideration for the job. He’d been in Washington for more than 30 years and
is survived by his partner, Killian Swift, whom he met in
CAGLCC names new board members for 2011 2000 and lived with since 2007. Yancosky was married
early in life. He’s also survived by a former partner who
The Capital Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce elected a new board of directors earlier this week. remained a friend, Darryl Burrell; two sisters, Joyce Fair
The new board includes: Mike Larson, president; Max Barger, vice president of programs and events; Joe and Janice Stone; a niece, Lee Ann Pawlak; and friends
Kolb, vice president of membership; Ernesto Santalla, secretary; and Tavarious Butts, treasurer. Margie DeJarnette and Carlos Crutchfield.
“The Chamber’s new leadership brings fresh perspectives to grow the organization,” CAGLCC executive Yancosky, who enjoyed travel and reading, had suf-
director Mark Guenther said in a statement. “In 2011, CAGLCC will focus on three major initiatives. Our top fered from health problems in recent years. He died of
priority is membership. There is strength in numbers, but also in diversity. Increased membership opens doors cardiac arrest.
to new opportunities for all. Our second area of focus is events and programs. … Finally, we will continue to Friends and survivors are planning an informal “cel-
engage the GLBT community to reinforce the message that CAGLCC means business.” ebration of Yancosky’s life” at Trio on Jan. 22 from 4 to 6
STAFF REPORTS p.m. For more information, contact Gilkeson at 202-333-
0879 or rogerg@erols.com.
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LOCALNEWS
Supreme Court nears decision on D.C. marriage case
Ruling could force a vote on
city’s same-sex unions law
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The U.S. Supreme Court could decide
as soon as next Tuesday whether or not
to hear a case seeking to force the Dis-
trict of Columbia to allow voters to decide
whether to repeal the city’s same-sex
marriage law.
According to the court’s public docket,
the nine justices scheduled a private con-
ference among themselves for Friday, Jan.
14, to discuss the case known as Jackson
v. the D.C. Board of Elections and Eth-
ics. Under longstanding court rules, the
justices usually announce a decision on
whether to accept or reject a case on the
Monday following such a conference.
“Generally, if a case is considered at a
conference, viewers can expect that the
disposition of a case will be announced
on an Orders List that will be released
at 10 a.m. the following Monday,” the
court’s website says.
A court spokesperson said because a
federal holiday, Martin Luther King Day,
falls on Monday, the court is expected to
release its decision on the Jackson case
on Tuesday, Jan. 18.
Harry Jackson, pastor of a Beltsville,
New D.C. Council member backs same-sex marriage
Biddle beats out Vincent
Orange for interim post
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
Ward 4 school board member Sekou
Biddle, who won an interim appointment
to the D.C. City Council last week, says
he’s a strong supporter of LGBT rights,
including same-sex marriage.
Biddle, 39, beat former City Council
member Vincent Orange (D-Ward 5) and
four other Democratic candidates who
competed for the interim appointment
before the 80-member D.C. Democratic
State Committee, which makes interim
Counsel appointments.
“I support same-sex marriage,” Biddle
told the Blade after the vote. “I think it’s an
indication of the kind of city that we have.
It’s what makes us, in my opinion, a top-
flight, world-class city that we have that
level of respect for human and civil rights.”
Biddle will face off against Orange and
other candidates expected to enter the
race from all political parties in a special
citywide election scheduled for April 26.
He was expected to take office imme-
diately in his temporary Council appoint-
ment for a seat made vacant after Coun-
cil member Kwame Brown (D-At-Large)
won election as City Council Chairman.
Before getting elected to the school
board, Biddle began his career as a
classroom teacher for eight years. He
Md. Christian church, and other same-
sex marriage opponents filed a petition
with the Supreme Court Oct. 12 asking
the court to consider hearing the case in
a process known as a petition for a Writ of
Certiorari. The case consists of their ap-
peal of a lower court ruling that rejected
their contention that the city must allow
voters to decide the marriage question in
a ballot initiative.
The D.C. Court of Appeals upheld the
Board of Elections and Ethics’ decision
to bar Jackson and his supporters from
organizing a ballot initiative on grounds
that, if approved, the initiative would
violate the city’s Human Rights Act. The
Human Rights Act bans discrimination
based on sexual orientation.
Jackson and his attorneys argue that
the city did not have the authority to ban
ballot measures that impact the Human
Rights Act because only Congress could
make such a change by amending the
city’s Home Rule Charter. Gay rights at-
torneys have joined city attorneys in dis-
puting that contention, claiming the city
acted within the scope of the Home Rule
charter in the 1970s when it put in place
restrictions on certain ballot measures.
City attorneys defended those restric-
tions in a brief submitted before the Su-
preme Court on Dec. 17. The attorneys,
among other things, argued that the
case involves a local matter pertaining
later served in leadership positions in ed-
ucation advocacy organizations, includ-
ing his current post as executive director
of the group Jumpstart.
Last week’s vote by the State Commit-
tee came after each of the candidates
spoke before the committee and an over-
flowing crowd that gathered in a meeting
room at the Democratic National Com-
mittee headquarters on Capitol Hill.
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club,
the city’s largest LGBT political group,
endorsed Biddle in his race for the school
board, where he has served since 2007.
Three Stein Club members who also
are members of the D.C. Democratic State
Committee endorsed and campaigned for
Biddle in his quest for the committee’s ap-
pointment. The three are Jeffrey Richard-
son, the Stein Club president; Lateefah
Williams, the club’s vice president for leg-
islation and political affairs; and Alexandra
Beninda, the club treasurer.
He also received the endorsement of
Brown, who beat Orange in the hotly con-
tested race in November for the Council
chair race. At least three other Council
members – Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), Harry
Thomas (D-Ward 5), and Marion Barry
(D-Ward 8) also endorsed Biddle.
Mayor Vincent Gray remained neutral
in the contest but some of his top political
operatives backed Biddle. This prompt-
ed many political observers to conclude
that the city’s political establishment had
shifted its support from Orange – who
was considered the frontrunner just two
Harry Jackson, pastor of a Beltsville, Md. Christian church, and other same-sex marriage op-
ponents filed a petition with the Supreme Court that could lead to a referendum on marriage in
the city.
to the city’s initiative and referendum
law. They noted that the high court has
a longstanding precedent of deferring
to state or D.C. appeals courts on cases
that don’t have a national impact.
If the Supreme Court rejects Jack-
son’s request to take on the case, the
D.C. Court of Appeals decision remains
in force to permanently prevent a ballot
measure on the same-sex marriage law.
If it accepts the case, it would be-
come the first time the Supreme Court
addresses a same-sex marriage related
issue. But the case would not address
marriage itself or whether same-sex mar-
weeks ago – to Biddle.
Orange came out strongly against
same-sex marriage during his unsuc-
cessful race for mayor in 2006. When he
ran against Brown for the Council chair
seat last year he announced he had
changed his position to support the city’s
same-sex marriage law. But he was less
clear about whether he would support or
oppose holding a voter initiative seek-
ing to overturn the marriage equality law,
which took effect last March.
It took three rounds of voting for Bid-
dle to nail down his victory over Orange
Thursday night. With 74 of the 80 State
Committee members present to vote,
Biddle won on the third round by a vote
of 40 to 31. Three ballots cast by commit-
tee members were disqualified because
they voted for one of the other candi-
dates that were eliminated after the first
round of voting.
Only Biddle, Orange and candidate
Stanley Mayes, a Ward 1 political activist,
received any votes in the six-candidate race.
Many of the observers at the State
Committee meeting were looking toward
gay Council member David Catania (I-
At-Large) as a possible predictor of what
might happen in the April special election.
Catania stunned the city’s political
establishment in 1997 when, running as
a Republican, he defeated Democratic
frontrunner Arrington Dixon in a special
election to win his at-large Council seat.
Just 7 percent of the city’s registered
voters turned out for the special election.
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
riage is protected under the Constitution
— only the question of whether D.C. vot-
ers should be allowed to decide the is-
sue through a ballot measure.
Arthur Spitzer, legal director of the
ACLU’s D.C. area office, said it’s pos-
sible that the court won’t issue a decision
on the Jackson case on Tuesday.
“If there’s no order that day, that’s also
significant, meaning either that the jus-
tices were not able to decide in their first
discussion, or that someone is writing a
dissent from denial,” he said. He was re-
ferring to a decision denying Jackson’s
request that the court take the case.
But gays and Republican voters turned
out in force, giving Catania his margin of
victory over Dixon, a former City Council
chairman who some observers said was
overly complacent in his campaign.
Catania won re-election to a full term
the following year and has retained his
seat since that time. He withdrew from the
Republican Party in 2004 to become an
independent after the GOP and President
George W. Bush embraced a constitution-
al amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
Some local political pundits say pro-gay
Republican Patrick Mara, who won election
in November to the school board from Ward
1, could be the next “Catania” in the April
special election. With a low voter turnout
and support from Republicans and gays,
among other groups, Mara supporters say
he has a shot at winning. He has yet to an-
nounce whether he plans to run, although
insiders believe he will enter the race.
Catania unofficially backed Mara when
Mara ran against and defeated former Re-
publican Council member Carol Schwartz
two years ago in the Republican primary.
Mara lost the general election to Demo-
crat-turned-independent Michael Brown
in the general election. As a friend of
Mara’s, some observers are wondering if
Catania will throw his support and political
organization behind Mara, with the pos-
sibility of Mara coming out ahead if Biddle
and Orange split the Democratic vote.
STORY CONTINUES AT
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THANK YOU
BECAUSE OF YOUR SUPPORT, WE SAW UNPRECEDENTED
PROGRESS FOR THE NATION’S LGBT COMMUNITY IN 2010.
PRESIDENT OBAMA SIGNED LEGISLATION THAT
WILL REPEAL “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL.”
FROM LAUNCHING A NATIONAL VETERANS TOUR TO GENERATING MORE THAN 19 MILLION
COMMUNICATIONS ABOUT REPEAL, HRC WORKED TO ENSURE THAT THIS UNJUST LAW WILL SOON BE
PART OF THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY. DADT REPEAL JOINS HATE CRIMES PROTECTIONS AS THE SECOND
PIECE OF LANDMARK LEGISLATION FOR THE LGBT COMMUNITY PASSED IN THE LAST TWO YEARS.
SOME OTHER VICTORIES INCLUDE:
 Worked closely with the Obama administration to extend
hospital visitation rights for LGBT couples.
 Fought to bring marriage equality across the country. Led the
effort to enact marriage equality in Washington, D.C., and
organized the key religious voices in support of marriage.
 Launched a campaign to work to pass
marriage equality legislation in New
York and helped elect three new voices for
marriage in the state Senate. NONE OF THIS
 Launched NOMExposed.org to hold the WOULD HAVE
National Organization for Marriage accountable
for the misinformation and hate spread in its
BEEN POSSIBLE
effort to thwart equality. WITHOUT YOUR
 Developed the Countdown 2010 Grass- SUPPORT AND
roots Campaign calling for a fair and inclu-
sive ENDA.
LEADERSHIP.
 Deployed 39 staff to 17 states to
work for pro-equality candidates and recruited more than
4,500 volunteers to support these candidates.
 HRC’s Corporate Equality Index expanded with 337
employers reaching 100 percent scores, the most ever.
 Signed 50 adoption agencies across the country to imple-
ment LGBT-inclusive policies and practices.
 HRC is only LGBT national partner organization to join
the national non-partisan citizenship and voter registra-
tion program Ya Es Hora. HRC mobilized more than 500 volun-
teers for 40 citizenship workshops in 20 communities.
january 14, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 5
www.hrc.org
 Led the campaign to oust bigoted Arkansas school board
member Clint McCance.
 Launched an innovative program to empower transgender
job seekers who are unemployed or underemployed by
providing essential skills training to make the most of the job
market.
Led the call for Mormon leader Boyd
Packer to renounce his discriminatory,
homophobic remarks.
Worked with the Joint Commission,
which accredits most hospitals, to
establish LGBT-specific accreditation
standards to eliminate discriminatory
policies in healthcare facilities.
In response to high profile anti-LGBT
bullying and youth suicides, launched a
new website to help address bullying in
elementary schools.
 Formalized a partnership with National Education Association
(NEA) to extend the reach of HRC’s Welcoming Schools
program.
 Successfully lobbied the Obama administration to issue guid-
ance permitting employees to take federal family and medical
leave to care for a same-sex partner’s child and extending
federal domestic violence protections to include victims in
same-sex relationships.
www.hrc.org/thanks
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NATIONALNEWS
‘Prophet’ claims deaths due to repeal
WASHINGTON — The deaths of thousands of blackbirds in Arkan-
sas may have been caused by the recent repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell,” according to a self-described “prophet” who once claimed the
ability to banish “gay demons,” the Raw Story, a D.C.-based alternative
news site, reported.
Evangelist Cindy Jacobs said on a video posted over the weekend
that the strange phenomenon, that has now occurred in various places
around the world, was an “answer” from God for violating his principles
concerning homosexuality,” Raw Story reported.
“According to biblical principles, marriage is between a man and a
woman, so we have to say ‘What happens when a nation makes a deci-
sion that’s against God’s principles?’” she said in the video. “Well, often
what happens is that nature itself will begin to talk to us – for instance,
violent storms, flooding.”
During an evangelical conference in 2008, Jacobs conducted a
mass exorcism of the audience to cast out the spirits of pornography,
addiction, lust, bisexuality, homosexuality and perversion.
Model charged in death of TV star
NEW YORK — A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder for
allegedly beating and choking a Portuguese journalist and television
personality inside a Times Square hotel room last week, authorities said
Monday according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Renato Seabra, who has been described as a male model in his
native Portugal, had been taken into custody and placed under psychi-
atric care at Bellevue Hospital after the body of Carlos Castro, 65, was
discovered beaten and sexually mutilated inside the InterContinental
Hotel on Friday night, police said.
The pair had been vacationing in New York when the incident un-
folded, and statements Seabra allegedly made to authorities reveal the
young man was conflicted about his sexuality and his relationship with
Castro, a prominent gay rights activist in Portugal, a law-enforcement
official familiar with the matter said. Other media outlets reported that
Seabra castrated Castro with a corkscrew.
Seabra was taken into custody at Roosevelt Hospital in Midtown,
where he went after the slaying for treatment of apparently self-inflicted
wounds to his wrists and face, the official said.
Seabra will be arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court once he is
cleared by doctors, the official said. If he is not cleared, he will be ar-
raigned in a bedside hearing at the hospital, the official said.
White House hopeful excluded from forum
CLEVELAND — The only openly gay Republican exploring a presi-
dential bid is fighting to be included in an upcoming candidates forum
hosted by the Iowa Christian Alliance, On Top magazine, a gay news
outlet in Cleveland, reported.
Fred Karger, a retired GOP consultant from California, told the Ballot
Box he’s been excluded from the March 7 event because of his sexual
orientation. But Steve Scheffler, president of the Iowa group, said Karg-
er wasn’t among the 15 potential candidates invited to attend because
he only talks about one issue — gay rights.
“We’re inviting all potential candidates who are legitimate candi-
dates,” Scheffler told the Ballot Box. Karger “is not a legitimate candi-
date.”
“That’s code for homophobia,” said Karger, who worked as a con-
sultant on the late Ronald Reagan’s campaigns for governor and presi-
dent. “I’m going to send him a letter and ask that I be included, and
I’m going to look to the [Federal Election Commission] to see what the
rules are.”
Palm Springs police chief resigns
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Palm Springs Police Chief David Domin-
guez, who last year was caught on tape using an anti-gay slur and
accused of entrapment when a June sex sting resulted in 19 indecent
exposure arrests — has resigned, the Los Angeles Times reported this
week.
Activists have said the sting was absurd in the heavily — some say
half the residents are gay or lesbian — gay town. Many harbor resent-
ment toward the mayor and even the gay-majority City Council who had
defended him.
During the sting, undercover officers urged men to expose them-
selves. An indecent exposure conviction requires defendants to regis-
ter for life as sex offenders.
ENDA as a ‘jobs bill?’
Some see room for movement,
others not so sure
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
LGBT rights supporters see room for passage
of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in the
U.S. Senate during the upcoming Congress —
even as Republican control of the House makes
final passage of the legislation highly unlikely.
The 2010 elections left the Senate in Demo-
cratic control — although by a reduced margin
— providing an opportunity for passage in that
chamber if certain conditions are met.
A Republican aide, who spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity, said passage of ENDA in the
Senate is “possible” provided that President
Obama strongly advocates for its passage.
“You would need the kind of push that you
had behind ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” the aide said.
Mara Keisling, executive director of the Na-
tional Center for Transgender Equality, said “in
theory” the Senate could pass ENDA because
Democrats retained control of the chamber, al-
though the conversations haven’t taken place
yet about moving the bill forward.
Keisling added that the Senate is in a different
position than it was in the previous Congress be-
cause it’s no longer trying to pass legislation that
is being sent over by the House. With Republican
control of the lower chamber, the Senate would be
more inclined to vote on its own legislation.
“I don’t think of any us know what the Sen-
ate is going to be like this year,” she said. “The
Senate wasn’t moving a lot of stuff regularly
last Congress, but now that they have a differ-
ent Democratic caucus, the Senate is now in a
different position than they were before.”
Fred Sainz, vice president of communications
for the Human Rights Campaign, said the pros-
pects of ENDA passing in the Senate are “un-
known” at this stage, but said his organization will
continue to pursue all important pieces of legisla-
tion in both chambers of the next Congress.
“We think that it is important whether or not
there’s Republican or Democrat control of the
House that there would be a factual record that
those pieces of legislation have been approved
with even more co-sponsors in them,” Sainz said.
As it was introduced in the last Congress,
ENDA would bar job discrimination against
gay and transgender workers in most situa-
tions in the public and private workforce. Gay
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) introduced the
legislation in the House and Sen. Jeff Merkley
(D-Ore.) introduced the bill in the Senate.
The legislation stalled in the last Congress
and saw no movement in either the House or
the Senate. In the House, there was speculation
that opponents would use a maneuver called
the motion to recommit on the floor to target the
transgender language and derail the legislation.
Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she
wouldn’t bring ENDA up for a vote until legislative
action was complete on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
Entering the early days of the 112th Congress,
activists are uncertain about the timeline for mov-
ing forward with ENDA the next time around,
such as when the bill would be introduced or
when hearings might take place. Julie Edwards,
a Merkley spokesperson, said the senator plans
to reintroduce the legislation, although she said
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
Gay Rep. Barney Frank told the Blade he sees
‘zero chance’ of any pro-LGBT legislation advanc-
ing in the 112th Congress.
she doesn’t yet “have a sense of timing.”
Whether Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D-Nev.) would bring up the legislation for a
vote remains in question. Regan Lachappelle,
a Reid spokesperson, said the majority leader
supports ENDA, but said “Republican coop-
eration” will be necessary “to do anything.”
“It’s still early right now, so we’re still work-
ing on the schedule for this Congress, but it is
something that he supports,” she said.
A Democratic aide, who spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity, said the possiblity for action
on ENDA in the Senate would become more
clear following the week on Jan. 24 when Sen-
ate leadership makes it decisions on what the
legislative priorities will be.
Even if it were passed in the Senate, most
observers agree that the new Republican lead-
ership makes passing ENDA highly difficult —
if not impossible. Passage in the Senate could
be a symbolic vote that would build momen-
tum in a future Congress.
Keisling said the legislation has “zero
chance” of making its way to Obama’s desk
because of Republican control, citing a re-
cent Washington Blade interview with Frank in
which he said there was no chance of passing
any pro-LGBT legislation this Congress.
“I never say never, but I can’t imagine the
circumstances in which it’ll be signed into law
this Congress,” she said.
The Republican aide said just because
a clear path to passage doesn’t exist in the
House, advocates shouldn’t give up on mov-
ing forward in the Senate.
“You have to approach this as kind of put-
ting bricks in the wall,” the aide said. “With
hate crimes, we were lobbing it left and right
for years ... but that also set us up to deal with
passing it rather quickly when everything hap-
pened because we were able to say it passed
the Senate five times.”
Sainz said emphasizing that ENDA is at its
core a “jobs” bill could enable it to pick up sup-
port in the Republican House.
“From that sense, it should appeal to mem-
bers of the House — and the Senate for that mat-
ter — because it’s really doing nothing more than
putting people to work, and if they can’t work,
then they’re reliant on government assistance,”
Sainz said. “So it should be fairly intuitive to Re-
publicans that this is really a ‘jobs’ measure.”
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NATIONALNEWS
2011 to bring new marriage fights across U.S.
R.I., Md. best bets for
progress, while N.C., Ind.
face bans
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
With “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repealed,
the issue of marriage returns to center
stage in 2011 as many states are poised
to enact same-sex marriage or civil
unions legislation — or pursue measures
that would repeal or block such rights for
gay couples.
With new governors or changes to
their state legislatures, Rhode Island,
Maryland and New York could advance
same-sex marriage legislation as soon
as this year.
But changes in the political dynamic
after the 2010 elections also mean that
marriage rights could be repealed in
New Hampshire and amendments ban-
ning same-sex marriage could go for-
ward in North Carolina, Indiana and
Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, legislation to enact civil
unions could advance in Hawaii and
Delaware.
Rhode Island is among the states
that could see early action in passing a
same-sex marriage bill.
Newly seated Gov. Lincoln Chafee (I),
who supports same-sex marriage, has
replaced Gov. Donald Carcieri (R), who
opposed gay nuptials.
In his inauguration address, Chafee
encouraged the Rhode Island General
Assembly “quickly consider and adopt” a
same-sex marriage bill to send to his desk.
“When marriage equality is the law in
Rhode Island, we honor our forefathers
who risked their lives and fortune in the
pursuit of human equality,” he said.
Same-sex marriage bills were intro-
duced in both chambers of the Rhode
Island General Assembly last week.
House Speaker Gordon Fox, who’s gay,
supports the passage of a marriage bill
through his chamber.
Kathy Kushnir, executive director of
Marriage Equality Rhode Island, said she
thinks the marriage bill will come before
the House Judiciary Committee before
the end of January.
“So we’ll be holding hearings, and
then, we’ll be looking at, of course, the
committee vote and the floor vote as
soon as possible,” she said.
Karen Loewy, senior staff attorney for
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defend-
ers, said the prospects for passing a
marriage bill in Rhode Island are “really
fantastic” and called Chafee an “active
supporter” of the legislation.
“It was part of his inaugural address,”
she said. “He’s really committed to get-
ting a marriage bill passed.”
The Senate isn’t expected to take ac-
tion on the marriage bill until the House
finishes action on the measure. The leg-
islative session ends in June, so the mar-
riage bill would have to reach the gover-
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, shown here at a meeting with LGBT supporters, backs
same-sex marriage rights.
nor’s desk by that time.
Kushnir said the biggest challenge in
passing a marriage bill in Rhode Island
is ensuring that lawmakers address the
legislation as they take on other issues
facing the state.
“There are really important issues also
— the economy, jobs and the budget —
that are before the legislature,” Kushnir
said. “But you know what? Everyone
knows that passing marriage equal-
ity and treating everybody equal here
in Rhode Island does very well for all of
those issues.”
Loewy said passage in the Senate
remains “a stronger challenge,” but sup-
port should exist in the chamber to pass
a marriage bill.
“Even there, I think, you’ve got folks
who are ready to understand how im-
portant this is for same-sex couples in
Rhode Island,” she said.
LGBT rights supporters are also opti-
mistic about the chances of a same-sex
marriage bill passing in Maryland, where
the configuration of the Senate for the
first time provides a path for passage.
Last month, a majority of members who
support same-sex marriage were named
to Senate Judicial Proceedings Com-
mittee, ensuring for the first time that a
same-sex marriage measure would clear
the panel and reach the Senate floor for
a vote. Up until now, the committee has
blocked the marriage bill, even though
the chamber was in Democratic control.
Sen. Richard Madaleno of Montgom-
ery Country, who’s gay, last week ex-
pressed confidence about passage of
the marriage bill.
“I have never been so optimistic about
getting this done,” he said. “Today at lunch
I sat quietly by myself with a list of the mem-
bers of the new Senate going over again
and again in my head where the votes are,
and I’m feeling really good right now both
for the floor vote and the cloture vote.”
The bill is being introduced by Major-
Photo courtesy of Chafee’s office
ity Leader Kumar Barve (D-Dist. 17) and
Del. Keiffer Mitchell (D-Dist. 44). The
Senate version will be advanced by Ma-
jority Leader Rob Garagiola (D-Dist. 15)
and Madaleno.
Supporters in the Senate believe they
have the 24 votes needed to pass the
marriage bill on an up or down vote but
are less certain about whether they have
the 29 votes needed to invoke cloture
and stop an expected filibuster by same-
sex marriage opponents.
Another obstacle could be a referen-
dum on the marriage law. Nearly all ob-
servers of the General Assembly expect
opponents to initiate petitions to call for
a referendum, which would stop the bills
from taking effect until after voters de-
cide on the issue.
In New York, supporters of same-sex
marriage are looking to the state legisla-
ture to approve a bill extending marriage
rights to gay couples that would be sent
to newly seated Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s
(D) desk for his signature.
As in previous years, a marriage bill is
expected to be able pass again in the State
Assembly, where Democrats have retained
control of the chamber, but the situation is
different in the Senate, where Republicans
have regained control after the election.
Still, Republican Leader Dean Skelos
suggested prior to the election that if
Republicans regain power in the Sen-
ate, he would allow a vote on same-sex
marriage to come, even though — like
all GOP senators — he previously voted
against the marriage bill.
“Let me just say, when we win back
the majority, there is legislation that I be-
lieve all of you interested in, that I believe
should be voted on again,” Skelos said in
October. “We’re not going to stifle discus-
sion. We are not going to stifle votes. And
it is truly my belief that people should be
allowed to vote their consciences.”
Even if the legislation comes up for a
vote in the Senate, the prospects for pas-
sage are uncertain. When the bill previ-
ously came up for a vote late in 2009, the
measure failed 24-38.
Two lawmakers who support same-
sex marriage were elected to the Sen-
ate since the last vote on the legislation,
but that change is far from the 32 votes
needed to pass a bill in the Senate.
Ross Levi, executive director of the
Empire State Pride Agenda, said the “po-
litical dynamic remains very promising”
for passing a same-sex marriage bill as
well as a transgender civil rights bill in
New York.
“The phrase that I’ve been using is that
there’s a clear and credible path to victory
in the not distant future,” Levi said.
Asked whether passage would be
likely in the next two years given the
makeup of the legislature, Levi replied,
“For me, it’s not talking about timeline, it’s
about the work we have to do to make
sure that we can have a successful vote
as soon as we can.”
Dan Pinello, a gay government pro-
fessor at the City University of New York,
said he’s not optimistic about passage of
a marriage bill in the legislature over the
course of the next two years.
“[Skelos] has said a few things sug-
gesting that [he would bring the bill to a
vote], but that’s not a guarantee,” Pinello
said. “So, yeah, he could bring it up for a
vote, but that’s no guarantee it’s going to
pass. I just don’t see it happening, sadly.”
Pinello said the next opportunity to
advance same-sex marriage could be in
2013 as a result of the redistricting this
year. He said political power should shift
from upstate to downstate, which would
give Democrats a majority in the Senate.
“Upstate tends to be Republican and
downstate tends to be Democratic, so
it’s likely even though Republicans will
be redrawing the Senate district lines,
there’s no way they can still maintain a
majority, given the demographic shifts
the Census will reveal,” Pinello said.
Repealing marriage in N.H.?
While several states are poised to
advance marriage rights, other places
could see a rollback of relationship rec-
ognition for same-sex couples.
The most prominent of those states
is New Hampshire, where opponents of
same-sex marriage may have the politi-
cal power to repeal the marriage law en-
acted in 2009.
Gov. John Lynch (D), who signed the
marriage bill into law, is expected to veto
the bill should it come to his desk. But
after the election, Republicans now have
a super majority in both chambers of the
legislature and could override his veto.
Four bills have already been intro-
duced in the legislature to repeal the
marriage law.
State Rep. Leo Pepino (R), who in-
troduced one of the bills, said he thinks
there is support to repeal the marriage
law, according to the Nashau Telegraph.
“I think we have the votes [to repeal],”
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Pepino said. “We have a lot of really
good conservatives and a good conser-
vative doesn’t believe in gay marriage. ...
It’s a matter of ethics.”
GLAD’s Loewy said the chances of re-
pealing the marriage law in New Hamp-
shire are “hard to quantify,” adding she
doesn’t know whether the votes are pres-
ent to take such action.
“The LGBT community in New Hamp-
shire is very much gearing up for a fight
to protect marriage the best way we know
how: by talking to legislators about how
taking away marriage is going to hurt
their families and their kids,” Loewy said.
Loewy added she’s hoping that New
Hampshire won’t go down the path of
repealing the law and would instead pur-
sue “issues like jobs and the economy
that everybody knows is the priority.”
“I think, like I said, the community has
a lot of work to do, but, I think, it’s abso-
lutely fair to expect and hope that that’s
not the path that New Hampshire’s going
to go down,” she said.
Mo Baxley, executive director of the
New Hampshire Freedom to Marry Co-
alition, said the Granite State has never
taken away the rights of its citizen, but
that is what some anti-gay lawmakers are
proposing to do.
“The married gay and lesbian couples
here have in no way impacted anybody
else’s marriage,” she said. “Let’s move
on. Marriage has been debated to death
here and the priority right now is the
economy and the budget.”
Other states are prepared to advance
constitutional amendments that would
ban same-sex marriage.
One such state is North Carolina,
where Republicans swept into power in
both the House and Senate following the
November elections.
Ian Palmquist, executive director of
Equality North Carolina, said his organi-
zation is “fully expecting” that a consti-
tutional amendment banning both same-
sex marriage and marriage-like unions
will advance this year.
“I think there’s a chance of blocking it,
but it’s a very tight vote at the moment,”
he said.
Palmquist said he’s getting mixed sig-
nals on when the vote would come up
and said it could be anytime between
February and July.
In North Carolina, passing a constitu-
tional amendment requires a third-fifths
vote of approval from both chambers of
the state legislature followed by a major-
ity of voters at the ballot box.
Palmquist said the measure could be on
the ballot in 2011, but he expects it would
come to voters in 2012. Such a move would
enable conservatives to turn out their base
during a presidential election year.
“It would definitely be a challenge to
defeat it at the ballot,” Palmquist said.
“There is majority support in North Car-
olina for some form of relationship rec-
ognition. We certainly would use that to
try to stop this kind of amendment from
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D), who signed the marriage bill into law, is expected to veto
any effort to repeal it this year.
moving forward.”
Another state where LGBT rights sup-
porters are anticipating a constitutional
ban on same-sex marriage and mar-
riage-like unions is Indiana.
In previous years, advocates had
been able to block the amendment in the
House because Democrats held a nar-
row majority in the chamber, but the situ-
ation has changed now that Republicans
took control of the House and expanded
their control of the Senate following the
November elections.
Don Sherfick, legislative chair for In-
diana Equality, said the prospects for a
constitutional ban on same-sex marriage
passing this year are good in Indiana.
“I guess I would be less than honest
if I were to say that things were looking
rosy for continuing to unequivocally be-
ing able to fight such a thing coming
through,” he said.
Anticipating hearings in either the
House or Senate or both chambers
within six weeks, Sherfick said Indiana
Equality is mounting a public relations
and lobbying campaign to try to block
the amendment.
“People will at least know what they’re
doing and we’ll set our sights on fighting
it in the next legislature,” he said.
Bil Browning, an Indiana native and
editor of the Bilerico Project, said he’s
99.9 percent certain that the Indiana
Legislature would pass a constitutional
amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
“The two things they wanted to do
most and first and foremost was a bill
that would require a woman to have a so-
nogram three days before any planned
abortion — in the hopes that she’ll see it
and not want to have the abortion — and
a constitutional amendment prohibiting
same-sex marriage,” Browning said.
For a constitutional amendment to
pass in Indiana, it must pass the state
legislature twice — a first time and then
again after an election — before the
measure comes before voters. If the leg-
Photo courtesy of Lynch’s office
islature passed an amendment this year,
the soonest it could get to voters is 2014.
Browning said gay rights supporters can
hope for a change in the makeup of the leg-
islature after the next election as a way to
block the amendment from final passage.
“Two years from now, if we can retake
the Indiana House it’s probably dead, but
for at least passing this session, I’d say
[the chances] are 99.9 percent,” he said.
Browning said one factor working in
advocates’ favor in Indiana is that all the
Fortune 500 companies headquartered
in the state previously testified before the
legislature against the amendment.
Additionally, Gov. Mitch Daniels (R),
who has called for a “truce” on social is-
sues, is widely considered to be thinking
about a run for president and may want
to steer clear of marriage prior to 2012.
Still, the amendment wouldn’t require his
signature for passage.
A similar situation can be found in
Pennsylvania, where Republicans took
control of the House and retained control
of the Senate.
Malcolm Lazin, executive director of the
Philadelphia-based Equality Forum, said
passage of a constitutional ban on same-
sex marriage is “of concern” because of
new Republican control of the House.
“We were able to successfully block it
in the past because the House was con-
trolled by the Democrats,” Lazin said.
“That dynamic has now changed. In ad-
dition, there is now a Republican gover-
nor of Pennsylvania.”
As in Indiana, for a constitutional
amendment to pass in Pennsylvania, the
measure has to be approved by a ma-
jority vote in both chambers of the leg-
islature — once and then again after an
election — before going to voters as a
ballot measure.
Ted Martin, executive director of
Equality Pennsylvania, predicted that the
amendment would be introduced in both
the House and Senate, but was skeptical
of lawmakers’ ability to push it through
the legislature.
Martin said the likelihood of the measure
passing in the House committee is high, but
its passage on the House floor is less cer-
tain. For the Senate, which has been con-
trolled by Republicans for more than two
decades, Martin said he doubts the mea-
sure would make it through committee.
“The Senate, in the past, has always
taken a less active tone about it,” Martin
said. “They’ve become much more lib-
ertarian in their view. Just to remember,
we were able to block this in committee
three times before.”
Hawaii, Del. to take up civil unions
As many states take on the marriage
issue — either to advance gay nuptials
or ban them — two other states are pre-
pared to enact civil unions early in 2011.
In Hawaii, LGBT advocates are ready
to advance a civil unions bill that newly
seated Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) has
pledged to sign.
Last summer, a civil unions bill in the
Aloha State was vetoed by former Re-
publican Gov. Linda Lingle, but with her
gone, gay rights supporters see a clear
path toward passing the legislation.
Alan Spector, co-chair of Equality Ha-
waii, said he expects that the civil unions
bill will easily pass the legislature to
reach Abercrombie’s desk soon after the
session starts on Jan. 19.
“With the November 2010 election be-
hind us, and a new governor and new lead-
ership, we’re pretty confident that we will
pass the bill early in 2011,” Spector said.
Spector estimated that the legislation
would be introduced in the third week of
January and ideally would make it to the
governor’s desk by March.
“The process can go as quickly as a
month or it can take the whole session
— or it can on into 2012,” Spector said.
“It all depends on what happens, but
we’re pretty optimistic that it’s going to
go quickly this year.”
Advocates are pursuing civil unions
in Hawaii instead of marriage because
in 1998, voters approved a constitutional
amendment granting the legislature the
power to ban same-sex marriage, which
lawmakers then pursued.
Similarly, LGBT advocates in Dela-
ware are ready to advance legislation
this year that would enact civil unions in
the First State.
Peter Schott, political vice president
of Delaware Stonewall Democrats, said
the “atmosphere is probably better than
it’s been in a few years” for passing civil
unions in the state.
“We have formed a coalition, which
a number of elected officials are on —
civic leaders,” Schott said.
LGBT rights supporters know they have
the votes in the House, Schott said, but
questions about passage in the Senate
remain because leadership could refer the
legislation to an unfavorable committee.
Schott said supporters of civil unions
in Delaware want to pass the legislation
this year so it doesn’t come up during the
2012 election season.
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Advocates seek repeal of Article 125 sodomy ban
Continued from page 1
nal acts punishable by court martial will
remain on the books until Congress re-
peals the statute, leaving in place what
some activists say is an unfair stigma
associated with gays and lesbians in the
military.
Gay rights attorneys have said the
Supreme Court cold overturn the military
sodomy law by affirming that the Law-
rence decision fully covers the military.
But it could take years before a new mili-
tary case reaches the high court.
Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of
the Servicemembers Legal Defense
Network, which has led efforts to repeal
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” said his group’s
top priority this year is to secure the certi-
fication by President Obama and military
leaders for completing repeal.
The repeal law passed by Congress
and signed by President Obama in De-
cember doesn’t allow full repeal to take
effect until the president, the Secretary of
Defense and chair of the military’s Joint
Chiefs of Staff determine troops and
commanders are fully prepared for the
change.
“So I would say no, that our top prior-
ity for this Congress is not the repeal of
Article 125,” Sarvis told the Blade. “Do
I think it should be repealed? Yes. Has
SLDN been working over the last several
years for repeal? Yes.”
Among those agreeing with Sarvis’ as-
sessment is gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank
(D-Mass.).
“I’m skeptical and frankly at this point I
don’t think it’s a good idea to press ahead
with that one,” Frank said Tuesday, not-
ing that gay rights opponents would like-
ly use a debate on sodomy repeal in the
military to push “hidden agendas.”
Sarvis summarized the views of other
LGBT advocates when he said the Re-
publican-controlled House would almost
certainly refuse to even consider a bill to
repeal Article 125. He said the need for
pushing other LGBT-related issues in the
military and other areas outweighs ex-
pending resources on Article 125.
Although Article 125 applies to gays
and straights alike, gay rights advocates
have said military authorities used it to
target gay and lesbian service members
in the past, especially in the years prior
to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” If it remains on
the books, some wonder whether a fu-
ture president less supportive of LGBT
rights might reinstate its full enforcement.
Longtime D.C. gay rights leader Frank
Kameny, who assisted gay service mem-
bers in the 1970s and 1980s, long before
SLDN and other LGBT rights groups ex-
isted, said military investigators waged
what he and other activists called “witch
hunts” to identify and discharge gays on
grounds that they violated Article 125.
Under Article 125, “any person sub-
ject to this chapter who engages in un-
natural carnal copulation with another
person of the same or opposite sex or
with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Pen-
etration, however slight, is sufficient to
Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of SLDN, said his group’s top priority this year is to secure the certification by President Obama and military
leaders for completing repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’
complete the offense,” the article states.
Under the 2008 version of the mili-
tary’s official manual for courts martial,
unnatural carnal copulation under Article
125 is defined as a person taking into his
or her “mouth or anus the sexual organ
of another person or of an animal…or to
have carnal copulation in any opening of
the body, except the sexual parts, with
another person.”
Sarvis and Aaron Belkin, director of
the Palm Center, an arm of the University
of Southern California that studies issues
related to gays in the military, each said
they know of almost no cases in recent
times where service members, gay or
straight, have been prosecuted under
Article 125 for engaging in consensual
sex in private.
The two noted that nearly all Article
125 prosecutions in recent years have
involved additional infractions and vio-
lations, such as allegations of rape or
sexual harassment or of sexual activity
between an officer and a lower-ranking
enlisted person.
The latter category of cases, known
as fraternization, is considered a strong
breach of military rules because sexual
relations between an officer and a subor-
dinate are believed to harm the system of
order and discipline deemed important
in the military.
Brigit Wilson, a San Diego attorney
in private practice who has represented
gay and lesbian service members for
more than 20 years, said she agrees with
Sarvis and Belkin’s assessment about
the infrequency of Article 125 enforce-
ment in recent years for consensual sex.
But Wilson said the pressure that
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has placed on
gay and lesbian service members to
conceal their sexual orientation during
the 17 years it has been in effect has led
to many cases where service members
“fabricate” a non-consenting allegation
to protect themselves from being thrown
out of the service.
If a service member ensnared in an in-
vestigation over alleged acts of sodomy
admitted to having consented to such
acts, Wilson said, it was equivalent to
an admission to being gay and grounds
for an automatic discharge under “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“What I do see is false accusations of
assaults,” she said in describing some
cases faced by her clients. “You get a lot
of, ‘I was so drunk last night I don’t re-
member a thing’ after he gets busted for
having sex with another man.”
According to Wilson, some military
prosecutors have interpreted impairment
on the part of a service member due to
alcohol consumption as a sign that the
service member could not give true
“consent” to a sexual act.
“So the problem with ‘I was so drunk
that I don’t remember a thing’ is it could
convert from [consensual] sodomy into
forced sodomy with very serious conse-
quences in the criminal courts,” she said.
With the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell,” Wilson said she is hopeful that the
perceived need by frightened service
members to fabricate a non-consenting
sex allegation to avoid being discharged
from the service will become a thing of
the past.
She said military authorities notori-
ously handled similar cases with straight
couples engaging in alleged sodomy
differently because there is no “straight”
version of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“They might find themselves punished
by losing a stripe or losing leave time—
that sort of thing,” Wilson said. “For my
same-sex clients, before ‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell’ goes away, they’re out. They’re
gone. And they’re probably facing ad-
ministrative separation with an other-
than-honorable discharge.”
In its widely publicized Nov. 30 report,
the Pentagon’s Joint Service’s Commit-
tee consisting of top military leaders —
which recommended the repeal of ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ — also called on Con-
gress to repeal Article 125.
The committee report points to both
the U.S. v. Marcum decision, which limits
the enforcement of Article 125, and the
Lawrence v. Texas ruling that declared
state sodomy laws unconstitutional as
they pertain to consenting adults in the
privacy of the home.
“In light of these decisions, we rec-
ommend that Article 125 be repealed or
amended to the extent it prohibits consen-
sual sodomy between adults, regardless
of sexual orientation,” the report says.
“The other prohibitions considered
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
punishable under Article 125, including
forcible sodomy, sodomy with minors
and sodomy that is demonstrated to be
‘service discrediting’ (i.e., in public or
between a superior and subordinate),
should remain on the books,” the report
says.
Michael Cole-Schwartz, a spokesper-
son for the Human Rights Campaign,
said HRC favors a prompt repeal by Con-
gress of Article 125. He said the group
also disagrees with the military court de-
cision upholding Article 125 under some
circumstances and feels the Supreme
Court’s Lawrence decision, which over-
turned state sodomy laws, should also
cover the military in its entirety.
“HRC expects that post-DADT repeal,
Article 125 would only be used in circum-
stances involving non-consensual acts,
so there should be no negative impact
on gay and lesbian service members,”
Cole-Schwartz said.
Former Army Lt. Dan Choi, who
emerged as one of the nation’s most vis-
ible opponents of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
after being discharged under the statute,
said he recognizes that Congress is un-
likely to repeal Article 125 any time soon.
But he criticized SLDN and other LGBT
groups for not being more aggressive in
pushing for its repeal at the present time.
“Leaders [should] do what is impor-
tant and difficult and lead,” he said.
Bryan Thomas, a spokesperson for
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chair of the
Senate Armed Services Committee, said
Senate Democratic leaders were review-
ing the Pentagon report’s call for Con-
gress to repeal Article 125. He said a
Senate repeal measure would most likely
be introduced as an amendment to the
National Defense Authorization Bill, but
he had no further details by press time
on whether or when such a measure
would be introduced.
“We expect the administration to
submit a legislative proposal for repeal
or revision of Article 125 of the UCMJ,
and such a proposal would certainly be
carefully considered by the committee,”
Thomas said.
Spokespersons for Republican and
Democratic leaders in the House and
Republican leaders in the Senate could
not be immediately reached.
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Hernandez urges both sides to cut down on ‘fiery rhetoric’

Continued from page 1
“The attitude that I had,” Hernandez
said, “was trying to make sure that those
who had been injured were going to be
OK, so to try to provide whatever first aid
I could until someone else could come in
and take over.”
When he reached Giffords, Hernan-
dez said he noticed others had been
shot, and said his first priority was to de-
termine who was still alive.
“Once I saw that the congresswoman
was still alive, but she had been severely
injured, she became my first priority, not
because of her position, but because of the
severity of her wounds,” Hernandez said.
After assessing Giffords’s injuries, Her-
nandez propped her up against his chest
to keep her from asphyxiating on her own
blood. Once she was able to breathe
again, Hernandez applied pressure to
stem the blood loss as much as possible.
Medics arrived on the scene to take
Giffords and others to the University
Medical Center in Arizona. Doctors are
now optimistic about her recovery. The
first aid provided by Hernandez, who
said his only training was through a cer-
tified nursing assistant program in high
school, is widely seen as responsible for
saving her life.
Amid the media frenzy and shock over
the shootings, Hernandez has emerged a
figure of hope after rushing into danger to
save Giffords. In the days since the shoot-
ing, Hernandez has appeared on national
TV for interviews with CNN, the “Today”
show and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
Back home in Arizona, Hernandez has
been praised for his actions. The Arizona
State Legislature on Monday gave him
abortion rights, health care reform and
the stimulus package, Giffords beat her
Republican opponent, Tea Party can-
didate Jesse Kelly, to win re-election in
November 2010.
Hernandez said he wanted to work for
Giffords because he’s been following her
since she was a state legislator. After a
stint working on Hillary Clinton’s presi-
dential campaign in 2008, Hernandez
said he had many interactions with Gif-
fords and they became friends. After she
won re-election last year, he decided to
go to work for her.
“She was just an impressive person
whom I always admired,” Hernandez
said. “And in November of 2010, after
she won her seat here again, one of the
first things I did after she won was to
make sure I applied to an internship with
her office because I wanted to continue
working with her as much as possible.”
On LGBT issues, Giffords’s record is
mostly positive. The Human Rights Cam-
paign gave her a score of 81 out of 100
for support for pro-gay legislation in the
110th Congress.
Giffords voted for hate crimes pro-
tections legislation and repeal of “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell.” She additionally was a
co-sponsor of a trans-inclusive Employ-
ment Non-Discrimination Act. She was
not a co-sponsor of the Uniting American
Families Act or legislation that would re-
peal the Defense of Marriage Act.
Even though he has a background in
political science, Hernandez said LGBT
issues haven’t been one of his priorities
and said he’s more interested in public
service in general.
“That’s why I worked for her office, not
because of any one issue but because I Photo courtesy of Gifford’s office

a standing ovation after Gov. Jan Brew-
er (R) applauded his deeds during her
State of the State address.
“Daniel Hernandez, a University of Ari-
zona junior showed no fear in the face of
gunfire,” Brewer said. “His quick action
in going to Gabby Giffords’s aid likely
saved her life.”
Hernandez said he was “very proud”
to receive the honor afforded to him by
the state legislature and the Arizona gov-
ernor, but expressed modesty over his
accomplishment.
“I’m a little press shy, and trying to con-
trol it as much as possible because the
only thing I really care about right now is
making sure that those people who sur-
vived get better and that we give support
to their family members,” he said.
Hernandez also demurred when
asked by the Blade whether he thinks he
should be labeled a hero for his actions.
“Using words like ‘hero,’ I think, is kind of
not the appropriate word because although
those who did step in and took some action
were brave, the real heroes are the people
like Congresswoman Giffords ... and the
people who dedicated their lives to public
service,” Hernandez said.
Dedicating much of her life to public
service, Giffords was elected to the Ari-
zona State Legislature in 2000 before be-
coming a congresswoman in 2007. Seen
by many as a liberal for her support for
wanted to be involved and wanted to be
involved in the political process and try-
ing to help others,” he said.
The degree to which political discourse
in America influenced the shootings has
emerged as a central discussion topic.
Many pundits have questioned whether
right-wing rhetoric against health care re-
form, which Giffords’ supported, contrib-
uted to the action that nearly took her life.
Giffords was among 20 members of
Congress targeted by Sarah Palin on her
website for supporting health care reform.
Palin’s site included a map with Giffords’s
district depicted in crosshairs. The map
has been removed from Palin’s site.
John Aravosis, the gay editor of Ameri-
cablog, said Palin “shares a great deal of
responsibility” for feeding what he called
“America’s culture of violence.”
“Just go to Western Europe, walk
around in any capital at 2 or 3 in the
morning, then try to do the same in
Washington, D.C.,” Aravosis said. “It’s
different in America.”
Aravosis said conservative leaders
like Palin — as well as personalities like
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh — tap
into the culture of violence in the hopes
that it will help Republicans win elec-
tions.
Among other things, Aravosis ac-
cused conservatives of contributing to
violence by saying health care reform
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is expected to survive and doctors say she is breathing on her own
after last week’s shooting in Tucson.
would lead to death panels for the elderly
and insisting that President Obama pals
around with terrorists.
“It’s the GOP that’s cheapened po-
litical discourse, since the founding of
conservative talk radio, and things only
went downhill when they created Fox,”
Aravosis said. “I have no idea what can
be done about it, other than shaming
them, and hoping they learn to restrain
themselves.”
Hernandez said he also believed the
shootings show that political discourse in
the country is “something that needs to
change.”
“I think, if there’s anything that can be
learned from this tragic incident, it’s that
we need to make sure that we cut down
on the fiery rhetoric,” he said. “Instead of
trying to tear each other down and work
on destructive criticism on both sides, we
need to kind of come together as a nation
regardless of every factor and try to work
constructively to move this nation forward.”
In a video posted online Wednesday,
Palin disputed the notion that conser-
vative political discourse in some way
contributed to the violence last week in
Tucson and said people were making “ir-
responsible statements” to assign blame
for the event.
“It is time to restore the American pre-
cept that each individual is accountable
for his actions,” she said. “Acts of mon-
strous criminality stand on their own and
they begin and end with the criminals
who committed them, not collectively
with all the citizens of a state, not with
those who listen to talk radio, not with
maps of swing districts used by both
sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding
citizens who respectfully exercise their
First Amendment rights at campaign ral-
lies, not with those who proudly voted in
the last election.”
Asked whether he thinks Palin had a
role in prompting the shootings, Hernan-
dez said he’s not part of the investigation
and doesn’t know what the causes were.
“I think the only thing that I can say
is making sure that, in the future, we cut
down on any kind of rhetoric, especially
things that can be seen as something
that may cause some violence in the fu-
ture,” he said.
What does the future hold for Hernan-
dez? He said he wants to pursue a role
in public service and isn’t ruling anything
out as part of that path.
“I don’t know in what capacity,” Her-
nandez said. “I’m not ruling anything out,
but, right now, it’s too soon.”
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VIEWPOINT
Shooting shines light on guns, speech
Will tragedy bring
out the best in us
or reinforce
partisan divide?
By KEVIN NAFF
Maybe the shooting of Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) is the
natural outgrowth of our country’s
polarization, hyper-partisan cli-
mate and all of our hateful political
speech. Or maybe we’re all read-
ing too much into it and Jared Lee
Loughner is simply a psychopath.
Regardless, the tragedy in
Tucson has shone a bright light
on our culture — from the way po-
litical adversaries demonize one
another to our lax gun laws that
enable psychopaths to walk into a
big-box sporting goods store and
buy 200 bullets at a time.
When news surfaced that Gif-
fords was among 20 Democrats
targeted by Sarah Palin on her
web site — her congressional
district depicted in the cross-
hairs of a gun — the predict-
able battle lines were drawn.
Palin’s critics on the left rushed
to blame her, while Fox News
commentators turned the tables
and said Loughner was a left-
wing radical. They all missed
the lesson of the tragedy.
Palin didn’t pull the trigger
and isn’t directly to blame. But
she needs to take responsibility
for her dangerous rhetoric. The
First Amendment doesn’t grant
us freedom of speech free of
consequences. A true leader —
which Palin this week showed us
High hopes for marriage in Maryland
The 2011 legislative session
opened this week in Maryland
with high hopes that one of the
bluest of blue states will finally
enact marriage equality.
The composition of the state
Senate’s committees got a big
shakeup and there are now
enough supporters of the same-
sex marriage bill to send it to the
floor for a vote, where it should
pass by a comfortable margin.
Senate minority leader Allan
Kittleman, in an act of despera-
tion, even made a public call for
a civil unions bill, a last-ditch ef-
fort to avert a vote on full equality.
When the Republicans are call-
ing for civil unions, you know the
marriage train has left the station.
I worked for Kittleman’s fa-
ther, Robert, many years ago.
He was a longtime Republican
Daniel Hernandez, a 20-year-old gay hispanic-American intern who’d been working for Giffords for just five days, is
credited with helping save her life.
she is not — would step forward,
apologize for using such violent
metaphors and work to change
the ugly tone that permeates po-
litical debate in this country.
In moments of crisis, we
drop our political affiliations and
come together and it’s been
gratifying to watch the inter-
views this week of the witnesses
and first responders who ran to-
ward the gunfire to help victims.
From doctors who happened
to be grocery shopping nearby
and rushed to administer CPR,
to a young man buying ciga-
rettes who helped subdue the
gunman, there were real mo-
ments of compassion and cour-
age amid the tragedy.
Perhaps the person who
stood out most in the chaos was
Daniel Hernandez, a 20-year-old
gay Hispanic-American intern
Maryland delegate and senator
who also served as president
of the Howard County NAACP
chapter. He was active in the
Civil Rights movement. Many
leaders of that movement have
come to see marriage equality
as the civil rights cause of our
time and I like to think Robert
Kittleman would have been on
the right side of the debate. His
son should honor that record
and not stand in the way of
progress on marriage.
Gov. Martin O’Malley may fi-
nally have the chance to sign a
marriage equality bill. I’ve been
hard on O’Malley on these pages
over the past four years, after
endorsing him for governor and
supporting him as Baltimore
mayor. He disappointed LGBT
Marylanders after backing the
who’d been working for Giffords
for just five days. When most
people would have run away
from the gunfire, Hernandez
instinctively sought out victims
who needed medical attention.
He quickly assessed the scene
and understood the severity
of Giffords’s wound, thanks in
part to his training as a certified
nursing assistant. He realized
that the congresswoman risked
choking on her own blood, so he
propped her up in his lap and
applied pressure to the wound
to slow the bleeding. Even after
medical crews arrived, Hernan-
dez stayed with Giffords.
“I saw my job then as not tak-
ing care of her medical needs
but taking care of her emotional
needs,” a poised and articulate
Hernandez told the “Today”
show. “I tried to comfort her and
state’s high court ruling reject-
ing same-sex marriage in 2007.
At the time, O’Malley invited me
to Annapolis for an on-the-record
interview, which felt more like a
confrontation. But I extracted a
pledge from him during the inter-
view — that he would sign a mar-
riage equality bill if the legislature
could pass it. I knew he wouldn’t
expend any political capital fight-
ing for it, so it would be up to the
legislature and its LGBT caucus
to advance the bill.
That work is now paying off
and Sen. Richard Madaleno (D-
Mont. County) deserves much
of the credit. Madaleno and Del.
Maggie McIntosh, who are both
gay, along with key allies gay
and straight, have worked hard
behind the scenes to advance
the bill. Assuming Republicans
make sure she knew she wasn’t
alone. I let her know I was going
to try to contact her parents and
her husband.”
Some have since questioned
the significance of reporting on
Hernandez’s sexual orientation,
but it’s important for Americans
to see LGBT people as a vis-
ible part of society and, yes,
sometimes as heroes. In the
aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist
attacks, the compelling story of
Mark Bingham, the gay rugby
player who helped bring down
United Airlines Flight 93 over
Pennsylvania, captured head-
lines. Arizona Sen. John Mc-
Cain, in a 2008 interview with
the Blade, cited Bingham as
one of his gay heroes. After
Hernandez’s brave actions in
Tucson, others will surely view
him in the same light.
can’t filibuster it or overturn it
via Prop 8-style ballot measure,
Maryland’s same-sex couples
could soon be walking the aisle.
As a lifelong Marylander, it’s a
development I never thought
possible while growing up and
testament to the dramatic pace
of change occurring within the
larger LGBT rights movement.
Kevin Naff is editor of Washington
Blade and can be reached at knaff@
washblade.com.
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VIEWPOINT

LGBT baby boomers face new challenge

Staying out in old age
can be complicated
By KATHI WOLFE
On New Year’s Day, I, a
queer boomer, welcomed
2011 by breakfasting with
two friends, a 40-something
lesbian couple. Sitting in the
pancake house, I thought
more about how I wanted cof-
fee than perceptions of aging
until Heather said of a woman
she knew, “she must be 60 —
she’s getting up there!”
That woke me up more than
the java, which the server was
pouring in my mug. At 58, like
many of my boomer peers, I
often think of myself as, in
the immortal words of (a few
years older than us boomers)
Bob Dylan “forever young.” I
love Lady Gaga, the TV show
“Modern Family” and Hallow-
een. Yet, though far from 90 or
even 80, I, along with Heath-
er’s acquaintance, am “get-
ting up” there. So is my gen-
eration. On Jan. 1, the oldest
boomers began turning 65.
Who are the boomers?
We’re the 79 million Ameri-
cans born between 1946 and
1964. We make up about 26
percent of the population of
the United States. “There are
estimated to be up to 6 mil-
lion LGBT baby boomers,”
Jan Cullinane, co-author with
Cathy Fitzgerald of “The New
Retirement: The Ultimate
Guide to the Rest of Your Life,
told “Newsweek.”
Elton John, Madonna, El-
len DeGeneres, Wanda Sykes
and writer Michael Cunning-
ham are all queer boomers
leading lives I’d bet we’d all
love to live. They’re doing
great work and, with or with-
out children, they’ve found
their mates.
While we’re not iconic sing-
ers, actresses or writers, many
of us LGBTQ boomers can
still be proud of ourselves.
Like our straight peers, some
of us came of age working
for social justice — whether
protesting the Vietnam War or
fighting for civil rights.
Sure, generalizing about
boomers or any generation is
risky. Some of us supported
the Vietnam War, and too of-
ten, we’ve been narcissistic
and self-pitying. Yet, even
with our self-absorption, to-
day, as social workers, teach-
ers, doctors, lawyers, govern-
ment workers, police officers,
soldiers and chefs some of us
do what we can to make the
world better, safer, more nur-
turing or more fun. Perhaps
our most important contribu-
tion was our role as the first
modern “out” generation.
A few of us took part in the
Stonewall Rebellion. Many of
us have fought homophobia
by coming out of the closet in
our personal and professional
lives. We helped to get the
American Psychiatric Associ-
ation to remove homosexual-
ity as a mental illness in 1973,
worked for gay rights bills in
cities across the country and
are among those now working
for marriage equality.
Ironically, despite our open-
ness about our sexuality – our
refusal to deny our sexual ori-
entation – we queer boomers
are in denial about aging.
Our straight friends, too,
don’t want to let aging on
their radar screen. Yet I can’t
help but wonder: Are LGBTQ
boomers more touchy, more
fearful of becoming old than
our hetero counterparts?
There aren’t definite an-
swers to these questions.
But, according to a 2010 sur-
vey conducted by the Metlife
Mature Marketing Institute
and the American Society on
Aging, queer boomers are
more frightened of becoming
old than their straight peers.
Those of us who are single
and who don’t have children
worry about who will care for
us as we age. Same-sex cou-
ples are concerned because
they can’t receive Social Se-
curity and other benefits that
straight married couples can.
We’re afraid that we’ll have
to go back in the closet in
a nursing home, retirement
community or if we need help
caring for ourselves in our
own homes. “The biggest
fear is not being accepted as
gay or lesbian,” said Kathleen
DeBold, president of Moving
Experiences, a company that
serves queer and straight se-
niors in the Washington, D.C.
area, in a telephone interview.
This fear is realistic, De-
Bold said, citing an example
of homophobia in a retirement
community, “a lesbian couple
introduces themselves to the
president of the community.
As they walked away, he said
in a booming voice, ‘they’re a
lesbian couple!’”
Ensuring that we don’t wind
up in the closet after being
out for most of our lives will be
our Stonewall in our Golden
Years. Let’s begin by coming
out to ourselves about ag-
ing. Though youthful in heart,
we’re not forever young.
Kathi Wolfe is a writer, poet and regu-
lar contributor to the Blade. She can be
reached through this publication.

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fetishes and festivities This weekend’s Mid-Atlantic Leather

convention has new location
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN

It’s back for another year — Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend.

Once again, Washington this weekend becomes a fantasy scene of leather
chaps and cigars, slave collars and chains — with hankie-flagging people seek-
ing the endorphin rush of erotic heat as they cruise hotel lobbies and prowl
upstairs corridors for private play parties or hunt exotic thrills at
live demos of kink at the Code party. But it’s also the chance
to meet old friends and make new ones within the special
brotherhood (and sisterhood) of the men and women
who embrace leather.
And this year’s gathering happening this weekend,
this time at a new hotel, promises once again, ac-
cording to the sponsoring organization, the Cen-
taur Motorcycle Club of D.C., on its website, to be
“one of the hottest leather/fetish events in North
America and the world’s largest leather club run.”
“Thousands of leathermen, gearheads, kink-
sters, rubber freaks and even curious novices
from all over the world,” says the promo material,
will “come to the nation’s capitol for a week-
end of hot, horny fun.”
“We’re literally looking for thousands of
people to come for the weekend,” says a
confident Larry Barat, the Centaur M.C. pro-
motions chair for the weekend. About 600 or
700 people are expected to register for the
full, three-day package, he says, “but we an-
ticipate 2,000 or 3,000 or possibly more to par-
ticipate in side events organized around the week-
end and at the bars,” especially, he said, at the D.C.
Eagle and Green Lantern.
The three-day package is $180 in advance or $200
at the door, a package including access to all events
and exhibits, says Barat, who also pointed
out that “an important new change for
MAL 2011” is that entry into the
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Richard Legg, left, and Matt Bamford at last year’s MAL event. Bamford was last year’s Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather winner. Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
20 washingtonblade.com • january 14, 2011
QUEERY: 20 Questions for Ernest McCarley
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO How long have you been out and who
joeyd@washblade.com was the hardest person to tell?
Fifteen years. Telling one of my three
Ernest McCarley, known to many sisters was the hardest. One sister asked
simply as “E,” got involved with local HIV while the other said she knew. When I
charity work almost through happen- asked why she had never brought it up,
stance. For about seven years he was, she said, “What was there to say?” and
as he puts it, the “bald head and smiling we both laughed.
face” at the coat check at Bachelor’s Mill.
It was a great way to meet a lot of Who’s your LGBT hero?
people and McCarley soon found him- My hero, not just my gay hero, is my
self donating time and money to Us partner.
Helping Us, the Center, the White Attire
Affair, the D.C. Coalition and more. But What’s Washington’s best nightspot,
the epidemic also resonated with Mc- past or present?
Carley. During the decade he lived in At- The Bachelor’s Mill (when the coat
lanta, he’d lost several friends and even check guy was there — LOL), the Fire-
found himself attending “about a dozen” place and Ziegfeld’s.
funerals his first year in D.C.
“It’s not always a lot,” he says. “Some- Describe your dream wedding.
times just $50 here or $100 there, but I A big white church wedding with 400
try to help however I can. It’s so devas- guests to be featured in a national magazine.
tating and has lingered so long.”
McCarley, 48, is a field operations What non-gay issue are you most
manager for Classic Concierge. He and passionate about?
his partner — whom he declines to name The U.S. is the richest country in the
because he’s in the Army and “Don’t Ask, world, but according to the World Health
Don’t Tell” is still being enforced — re- Organization, it ranks number 37 out of
cently moved from D.C. to New Carrollton, 190 countries in overall health care. Some-
Md., mostly, he says, for more space. thing is seriously wrong with these facts.
The Buffalo, N.Y., native enjoys trav- I believe that a great health care system
eling, interior decorating and entertain- should be available to every American
ing with family and friends in his spare citizen given our resources and abilities.
time. He also likes cooking and home
improvement shows. What historical outcome would you
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
change?
Slavery having led to African Americans
being viewed as second-class citizens.
What’s been the most memorable pop
culture moment of your lifetime?
The election of the first African American
as the president of the United States. I nev-
er conceived it would actually happen in
my lifetime. As a black man in America still
going through my struggle to belong and
be viewed as an equal, I am still amazed
by it. During the inauguration I cried.
On what do you insist?
Organization and fairness in both
work and play.
What was your last Facebook post or
Tweet?
A happy birthday wish to my dad and
stepmother who share the same birth-
day. I also thanked my friends for coming
out to celebrate my birthday last week.
If your life were a book, what would
the title be?
“Black Diamond (A Glimmer from the
Dark)”
If science discovered a way to change
sexual orientation, what would you do?
Nothing. My God has made his peo-
ple imperfectly perfect as they are.
What do you believe in beyond the
physical world?
I believe there is a place called heav-
en where love, peace and harmony will
be found again.
What’s your advice for LGBT move-
ment leaders?
Always lead by example and educate
our LGBT youth on the struggles we had
to endure to get to them to this point in life.
Also, advise our youth not to takes these
privileges for granted; they came with at a
price and there is more work to be done.
What would you walk across hot
coals for?
The love I share with my partner and
family. The love and support I receive
from them is unparalleled for many in our
community. I am truly blessed!
What LGBT stereotype annoys you
most?
That all gay men are flaming queens.
No disrespect to effeminate guys …
there is room for all of us. Variety in our
community is what makes us unique.
What’s your favorite LGBT-themed
movie?
“Dirty Laundry”
What’s the most overrated social
custom?
Tipping. Unfortunately, life and servic-
es have become more and more expen-
sive. However, customer service, many
times, has gotten worse. It is my pleasure
to tip for great service, but not just be-
cause you came to work and touched on
the surface of doing “your job.”
What trophy or prize do you most
covet?
To one day be recognized as a great
philanthropist who gave much toward a
cure for HIV/AIDS, which has taken too
many of my friends and cancer, which
took the life of my dear mother as well as
my partner’s mother.
What do you wish you’d known at 18?
I wish I had known my father’s philoso-
phy on saving and financial planning for
the future.
Why Washington?
With the exception of one sister, all of
my siblings attended college in D.C. and
decided to reside here after graduat-
ing from college. Likewise, they all have
children and are raising their families
here. So moving to Washington not only
provided me with better career opportu-
nities, it provided me an opportunity to
reconnect with my family and be a part
of the “village” that it takes to raise chil-
dren today. I also found that there was a
great voice for the LGBT community here
called Washington Blade.
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TODAY
DJ Joshua and TheNewGay
present “Balls!” tonight from 10
p.m. to 3 a.m. at Velvet Lounge
(915 U St., N.W.) featuring the
debut DJ set of Steve Scarlata.
There is no cover for this event.
Drink specials include $3 Natty
Boh and $4 kamikazes.
Gross National Product
returns with “The Sound of
Palin” at Atlas Performing
Arts Center (1333 H St., N.E.)
tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets range
from $10 to $20 and can be pur-
chased at atlas arts.org.
Exposed Tattoo and Baller
Inc., present the D.C. Tattoo
Arts Expo starting today at the
Crystal City Doubletree Hotel
(300 Army Navy Drive) in Arling-
ton with a VIP welcome party in
the Sky Dome from 8 p.m. to
2 a.m. The expo will continue
through the weekend.
The Mid Atlantic Leather
Weekend starts today at the
Hyatt Regency Washington on
Capitol Hill (400 New Jersey
Ave., N.W.). Registration will be
in the ballroom level foyer from
4 to 10:30 p.m. There will be
an exhibit hall from 5 to 11 p.m.
The opening reception will be in
the Yorktown Ballroom from 9 to Image courtesy of Touchstone
11 p.m. with a cash bar and the ‘Where Now’ is part of the exhibit ‘Off-Kilter’ by artist Leslie Nolan on display through Jan. 30 at the newly reopened Touchstone Gallery.
MAL Bar Crawl will be from 10
p.m. to 2 a.m. Events will con-
tinue through Sunday. turing gay DJs Bob Mould and day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The the exhibit “Side by Side: Ober-
Women in their Twenties Richard Morel, will be at 9:30 kick-off event will feature spe- lin’s Masterworks” at the Phillips Wednesday, Jan. 19
will be meeting tonight at the Club (815 V St., N.W.) tonight. cial art installations, art-inspired collection (1600 21st St., N.W.)
D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.) Doors opens at 11:30 p.m. At- cake designs by some of D.C.’s This month for its Sunday Bookmen D.C., an informal
ourtesy
from 8 to 9:30 p.m. tendees must be 21 or older. top pastry chefs and compli- School event, Pocket Gays is group of men interested in gay
DJ Matheus, 5ive, Keep It Tickets are $12 and can be pur- mentary champagne by Food- teaming up with WTF for the literature, meets tonight at 7:30
Terror and Forever the Win chased at 930.com. Arts. The weekend continues “Straightest.Sunday.Ever” at Lo- p.m. at the Charles Sumner
will be at Jammin’ Java to- Bellflur, Mobius Strip, Ar- Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. cal 16 (1602 U St., N.W.) today School and Archives (1201 17th
night at 10 p.m. Tickets are $10 chivists and Southern Prob- The Bach Sinfonia presents from 3 to 9 p.m. Aaron Riggins will St., N.W.) to discuss “Persistent
and can be purchased at jam- lems will be performing at St. its annual chamber concert be DJing from 7 to 9 p.m. There Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to
minjava.com. Stephen’s Church (1525 New- featuring Cut, Wind and Wire will be prizes including entrance AIDS,” edited by David Groff and
Metropolitan Community ton St., N.W.) tonight at 7 p.m. tonight at 8 p.m. at the Cultural to WTF at Town later tonight. Philip Clark.” All are welcome.
Church of Washington’s fun- as part of “100 Shows for Haiti.” Arts Center (7995 Georgia Ave.) The Tom Davaron Social
draising team is hosting a Tickets are $8 and the money in Silver Spring. The program Monday, Jan. 17 Bridge Club will meet at 7:30
bingo night tonight at 7 p.m. raised will be split between two will include works by Francis tonight at the Dignity Center,
at the church (474 Ridge St., organizations, One Hundred Cuttinge, William McGibbon The Starry Mountain Trio 721 8th St., S.E., (across from
N.W.). The evening begins with for Haiti and Haitian Women for and others. Tickets range from (Suzannah Park, Gideon Cre- Marine Barracks) for social
four early bird games which Haitian Refugees. $15 to $30 and can be pur- voshay and Avery Book) pres- bridge. No partner is needed.
costs $2 for four cards or $3 for The Lodge (21614 National chased online at bachsinfonia. ents an eclectic mix of sacred Visit lambdabridge.com and
eight cards. This is followed by Pike) in Boonsboro, Md., hosts org or by calling 301.362.6525. and secular folk songs from the click on “Social Bridge in Wash-
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which are packaged for as low special host, the Mirror Ball Lady discussion at 7:15 p.m. public of Georgia and honoring
as $25. There will be home- tonight from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Best Martin Luther King, Jr. in song Thursday, Jan. 20
made refreshments available. decade costume will win a cash Sunday, Jan. 16 tonight at Church of the Holy
prize. There will be a $5 cover be- City (1611 16th St., N.W.). DJ Chris Nitti will be a special
Saturday, Jan. 15 fore 11 p.m. and an $8 cover after. Family band In Layman guest at this month’s Maison at
Bare celebrates its second Terms and singer Holly Mont- Tuesday, Jan. 18 Napoleon Bistro and Lounge
Jonathan Katz, co-curator anniversary tonight at Cobalt gomery will be performing at (1847 Columbus Rd., N.W.) to-
of the “Hide/Seek” exhibit at (1639 R St., N.W.) from 9 p.m. to Jammin’ Java today at 1:30 Partners in Recovery will be night from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
the National Portrait Gallery, 3 a.m. Admission is $25 for VIP p.m. as Montgomery releases having a facilitated discussion Cosi Restaurant (1350 Con-
will be giving a lecture today and $10 for general. her new CD. Tickets are $10 about addiction, recovery and necticut Ave.) is hosting “Let’s
at the Foundry Gallery (1314 Ziegfeld’s celebrates Ella in advance and $13 same day relationships at the D.C. Center get cozy …” for single women
18th St., N.W.) titled “Artistic Fitzgerald’s birthday with Leath- and can be purchased at jam- (1318 U St., N.W.) tonight from 7 tonight from 5 to 8 p.m.
Representation of Gay Life.” er and Lace tonight with the minjava.com. to 8:30 p.m. Washington Project for the
This event is free and admit- Ladies of Illusion performing at Lace Lounge (2214 Rhode The GLBT Arts Consortium Arts 2011 Experimental Media
tance is on a first-come, first- 11:15 p.m. There’s a $5 cover Island Ave., N.E.) presents “The will be hosting a remembrance Series will be at the Phillips Col-
serve basis. One of Foundry’s before 10:30 p.m. and $10 after. Dream,” a MLK Pride celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., to- lection (1600 21st St., N.W.) to-
current exhibits is a juried show Today starts the Phillips Col- tonight from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Cover night at 7 p.m. at the Capitol Hill night from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. with
titled “Celebrate Gay Marriage.” lection (1600 21st St., N.W.) “90 is $5 before 10 p.m. and $10 after. Presbyterian Church. This is a an appearance by Paul D. Mill-
Blowoff, a dance party fea- Years of New” free weekend to- Today is the last day to see free event. er, also known as DJ Spooky.
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ARTSINBRIEF
Phillips Collection reopens after serious fire
After its disastrous fire Sept. 2, this weekend is the welcome-back celebration/
grand reopening of the newly renovated Phillips House, a museum since Duncan
Phillips opened its doors in 1921 as America’s first museum of modern art. It’s full
of his collection of works by Renoir and Monet, van Gogh and Degas, Picasso and
Klee, and more.
The fire was restricted to the roof and a suite of offices directly under it, and the
famed art was not harmed, but there was extensive water damage to 12 galleries
inside the 1897 building, at 1600 21st St. N.W., in Dupont Circle near 21st and Q.
Now everything is back in place as the museum kicks off its 90th anniversary year
under the banner of “90 Years of New,” beginning with this weekend’s reopening when
the regular $12 admission charges are waived and complimentary champagne will be
uncorked. The museum is open Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. A host of programs, installations, films and more are promised.
The year’s celebration culminates on Nov. 5 with the 90th-anniversary “birthday
bash.” More details at phillipscollection.org.

Gay arts group to honor King holiday

A “Remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” sponsored by the GLBT Arts
Consortium with the Capitol Hills Arts Workshop will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the
Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, 4th and Independence Avenue, S.E.
Participants include the Rock Creek Singers of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Wash-
ington (GMCW); light jazz, pop and folk music from Not What You Think, a 12-per-
son ensemble from the Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington; and Fortissima,
D.C.’s feminist chorus open to “sopranos and altos of all genders,” known as the
Bread and Roses Feminist Singers until 2009. Youth will also talk and sing, from the
Bokamoso Youth Centre in Winderveldt Township near Pretoria, South Africa. The

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Centre offers AIDS awareness and other services and each year 12 of the students
in its performing arts program receive scholarships for a month-long performance
tour in the U.S.
The consortium is a collaboration of varied arts organizations including singers,
painters, actors, dancers and filmmakers. For more details, see dcglbtarts.org or mention this ad to receive
call its co-manager Jill Srachan at 202-547-4102.
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St. Marks Players unveil new production
Also on Capitol Hill beginning today is a new production by the St. Marks Play-
ers of “Inherit the Wind,” the play about the famed “Scopes Monkey Trial” of 1925,
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wrote “Auntie Mame”), were writing in 1955, and taking specific aim at McCar-
thyism, according to Blake Cornish, who plays Henry Drummond, the character
loosely based on civil liberties lawyer Clarence Darrow who battled but lost in the
Tennessee courtroom against three-time presidential candidate and religious fun-
damentalist William Jennings Bryan.
Cornish, who has sung with the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington and is a former
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force attorney, says the play is relevant in 2011 be-
cause it “explores issues around the relationship between religious teachings and
secular law, and pertains to LGBT equality in lots of different ways, when people use
religious beliefs in ways that many in gay community would find to justify bigotry.”
Performance dates are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m.
through Jan 29, at St. Marks Episcopal Church, 3rd and A Streets, S.E. For tickets,
stmarksplayers.org or 202-546-9670.
Come in Join us for
‘Pocket operas’ series continue at the Source
Eight-time Helen Hayes award-winning director Joe Banno brings two more of
the In Series’ “pocket operas” to the Source Theater weekends (8 p.m. with 3 p.m.
from the cold.
Restaurant
matinees) until Jan. 22. The In Series, a small, performing arts organization has
specialized for more than 25 years in an eclectic blend of opera, cabaret, theater
and dance, and Latino-heritage productions.
Relax and
enjoy warm Week
This time it’s 19th century Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona’s “Maria la O,” a conversation. January 17 - 23, 2011
“Zarzuela,” the Spanish lyric-dramatic genre incorporating operatic and popular
song, about a white plantation owner who must choose between the mulatta he
loves, the Havana nightclub star Maria, and the aristocratic woman he is expected Welcome
to wed. Love of course is darkened by betrayal and death. Mezzo soprano Anamer Mid Atlantic Leather
Castrello stars as Maria. DC’s First Participants!
The other opera is Italian composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s world-famous 1892
opera “Pagliacci” (Clowns), where a troupe of entertainers visits a village and their Straight Friendly
show intertwines tragically with real life. The desperately sad clown Canio, des-
tined to make the world laugh while he stands at the brink of self-destruction, is Gay Bar Reservations Suggested
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FITNESSAGENDA
Fitness routines are hard to stick with and one of the top New Year’s resolutions among Americans.
Mustering tenacity
Goals easier to tackle
in small increments
By KEVIN NORRIS
As the second week of January ap-
proaches us, have you stuck to your New
Year’s resolutions? It seems inevitable that
one make a New Year’s resolution or even
several. It may be equally inevitable that
those resolutions are not achieved per-
haps throwing your hands up in frustration.
Why do we make resolutions? And
why do so many of them slip through the
cracks? Are we influenced too much by tra-
dition while we forget about practicality? Is
a resolution achievable with determination
and will power or are there specific tools
that can be applied to achieve the goal?
What happens to the best intentions
and what makes for a successful New
Year’s resolution? Foregoing the psycho-
logical explanation, I have some insight
from my experiences as a personal train-
er for the last 18 years.
For some, the key may be that resolu-
tions are best determined by one’s state
of mind rather than the time of year.
According to USA.gov, the nation’s of-
ficial web portal, Americans commonly
resolve every January to such things
as losing weight, saving money, getting
better jobs, exercising and drinking less,
among others. But why are so many res-
olutions unresolved?
In a Time magazine article and ac-
cording to a Marist poll, 48 percent of
American adults are somewhat likely to
make a New Year’s resolution. The poll
also found that while 65 percent of peo-
ple who made a resolution in 2008 kept
their promise for at least part of the year,
35 percent never made it out of the gate.
So what advice is there for those best
intentions? And how can we stick to our
resolutions?
First and foremost consider setting
goals that are realistic and can be achieved
given one’s circumstances. This means
don’t create a wide-eyed scenario that is
extreme from your norm. A variation from
your routine can be beneficial, but straying
too far from your daily practices may set
you up for failure. If you have a mediocre
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gym five minutes from your house, don’t
opt to join the state-of-the-art option 30
minutes from your house.
What’s more, small incremental changes
stick better for me than grandiose sweep-
ing modifications. If you need more sleep,
begin by going to bed 15 minutes earlier
each night, or if losing 30 pounds is your
goal, start by losing in five-pound incre-
ments. Smaller increments are a much less
daunting task and you allow yourself “mini”
rewards along the way to assist in fueling
your larger, often more-intimidating goal.
In keeping with realistic and incre-
mental goals, I find it beneficial to ac-
knowledge that “every little bit helps.” No
use in making a mountain out of a mole-
hill. Discovering what you can do in each
moment or each day geared toward your
goals can be liberating. Knowing that
you don’t have to lose 30 pounds in one
day or be able to run a marathon in a
week can make an overwhelming task or
resolution much more within reach.
I think back on the 100-mile bike rides I
have done and remember that dissecting
the ride into mini rides was not only a healthy
contest, but a much more effective training
approach than over-focusing on the totality
and grueling nature of 100 miles. Fifteen
miles at a time was easier and I conquered
them with more zest making the final goal of
100 miles more triumphant.
I realize that when I look too far for the end
result or the larger goal that I am paralyzed
and not sure what the next step should be.
When I do “the next right thing,” or think in
terms of what I can do in that given moment
if anything, my goals are far more manage-
able and more enjoyable.
It may be a tired cliche, but “one day
at a time” is good advice. You didn’t gain
30 pounds in one day so losing it that
quickly is just as unrealistic. Quick fixes
simply don’t work for the kinds of goals
most of us have for New Year’s.
Kevin M. Norris is a
health and fitness
columnist for the Blade
and owner of Mind
our Own Body, LLC.
Personal Training. Reach
him at kevinmnorris@aol.com.
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THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS OPENINGS
Sat, Jan. 15
Return to Haifa, Theater J. 800-494-
8497. washingtondcjcc.org
The Emerson String Quartet, Baird Au-
ditorium, Smithsonian Museum of Natural
History. 202-633-3030. residentassoci-
ates.org
In Unison: 20 Washington, DC Artists
& Monoprints: 20 DC Artists, Kreeger
Museum. 202-338-3552. kreegermuse-
um.org
Wed, Jan. 19
Tynan, The Studio Theatre. 202-332-
3300. studiotheatre.org
LAST CHANCE
Sat, Jan. 15
National Symphony Orchestra: Kirill
Washington Color and Light Karabits, conductor / Sergey Khacha-
Through Mar 6 tryan, violin, plays Shostakovich, Ken-
Corcoran Gallery of Art nedy Center. 202-467-4600. kennedy-
corcoran.org center.org
Washington Color and Light presents major works by the artists associated with the New Sculpture by Michael Enn Sirvet,
Washington Color School and their contemporaries. These works are united by an Reyes + Davis Independent Exhibitions.
exploration of the language of abstraction, a desire to experiment with materials, 202-255-5050.
and a love of color. Alptraum!, Transformer. 202-483-1102.
transformergallery.org
American Ballet Theatre Sun, Jan. 16
Jan 18 - Jan 23 Lyme Park, Round House Theatre Silver
Kennedy Center Spring. 240-644-1100. roundhousethe-
202-467-4600 atre.org
kennedy-center.org Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pa-
American Ballet Theatre’s elegant stars cific, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
continue to prove ballet’s enduring power kennedy-center.org
with Ratmansky’s evening-length work Books Without Words: The Visual Poet-
The Bright Stream and a mixed program ry of Elisabetta Gut, Museum of Women
as part of The Presidency of John F. Ken- in the Arts.
nedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration.
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
Chicago City Limits: America Idles Jan. 14 - Jan. 15
Jan 20 - Jan 21 RagnaROCK, DC Arts Center (DCAC).
Wolf Trap 202-462-7833. dcartscenter.org
1-877-WOLFTRAP Jan. 15 - Jan. 16
wolftrap.org KanKouran West African Dance Com-
Hailed by The New York Times as ‘perfect pany. 202-269-1600. danceplace.org
masters of improvisation,’ this high-energy
troupe relies on the audience for inspira- ONE NIGHT ONLY
tion in American Idles, a new show poking
fun at the fame-obsessed culture of today. Fri, Jan. 14
A Conversation Wth Tavis Smiley and
The Guide to Arts & Culture is produced by CultureCapital.com, the one-stop shop to arts & culture for Cornel West, National Geographic. 202-
Metro DC, a program of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington. CHICAGO CITY LIMITS: Supplied 857-7700. events.nationalgeographic.com
by Wolftrap; AMERICAN BALLET: Supplied by Kennedy Center; WASHINGTON COLOR AND LIGHT:
7 Mini Modern Operas, Arlington Cultural
Supplied by Corcoran Gallery of Art
Affairs, ARTISPHERE. arlingtonarts.org
Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: Sutton Fos-
ter, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. ken-
nedy-center.org
The Peabody Trio, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org
Sat, Jan. 15
Buskin & Batteau, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org
Ballet 360˚ - Beyond the Steps I: Re-
awakening the Past, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org
Melodime & The Alternate Routes, Ar-
lington Cultural Affairs, ARTISPHERE.
703-875-1100. arlingtonarts.org
SuluDC: Performance Art Showcase by
Asian Pacific Island Artist Collective,
Arlington Cultural Affairs, ARTISPHERE.
703-875-1100. arlingtonarts.org
Sun, Jan. 16
The Kennedy Center Chamber Players
play Beethoven, Schumann & Men-
delssohn, Kennedy Center. 202-467-
4600. kennedy-center.org
Mon, Jan. 17
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday
Tribute and Celebration, Strathmore.
strathmore.org
Tue, Jan. 18
Alfonso Velez: Singer Songwriter, Ar-
lington Cultural Affairs, ARTISPHERE.
703-875-1100. arlingtonarts.org
Wed, Jan. 19
Dance Wednesdays: Dancing by the
Bayou & Little Red and the Renegades,
Arlington Cultural Affairs, ARTISPHERE.
703-875-1100. arlingtonarts.org
Thu, Jan. 20
The Presidency of John F. Kennedy:
A 50th Anniversary Celebration Open-
ing Concert, Kennedy Center. 202-467-
4600. kennedy-center.org
ONGOING STAGE
A Shadow of Honor, Keegan Theatre,
Church Street Theater. 703-892-0202.
keegantheatre.com
Beyond the Horizon, American Century
Theater, Gunston Theatre Two. 703-998-
4555. americancentury.org
Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet, Studio
Theatre. 202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org
Washington Stage Guild: Magic, Wash-
ington Stage Guild, Undercroft Theatre.
240-582-0050. stageguild.org
The In Series, Pagliacci and Maria La O -
Winter Pocket Opera Double Bill, Source
Theatre. 202-204-7763. inseries.org
ONGOING EXHIBITONS
Corcoran Gallery of Art. 202-639-1700.
corcoran.org. Spencer Finch: My Busi-
ness, with the Cloud.
National Gallery of Art. nga.gov. The
Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photogra-
phy and Painting, 1848ñ1875 , National
Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Ice Rink,
From Impressionism to Modernism: The
Chester Dale Collection.
National Geographic. 202-857-7700.
events.nationalgeographic.com. Great
Migrations: A Photography Exhibition,
Beyond the Story: National Geographic
Unpublished.
Museum of Women in the Arts. nmwa.
org. P(art)ners: Gifts from the Heather
and Tony Podesta Collection.
The Textile Museum. 202-667-0441.
textilemuseum.org. Colors of the Oasis:
Central Asian Ikats.
ONGOING GALLERIES
Sweet-Meat Cherry-Whip Flip: Victoria
Gait·n, Arlington Cultural Affairs, ARTI-
SPHERE. 703-875-1100. arlingtonarts.org.
A Cre@tion Story for Naomi, DC
Arts Center (DCAC). 202-462-7833.
dcartscenter.org
And She Was — Photographs by Gayle
Rothschild, Jewish Community Center
of Greater Washington. jccgw.org
The First 100 Years: The City of Glena-
rden, 1910-2010, Montpelier Arts Center.
301-377-7800. pgparks.com

THEATERAGENDA
From left, Lance Coadie Williams, J. Mal McCree and Nickolas Vaughan in ‘Marcus; or the
Secret of Sweet’ at Studio Theatre.
Sticky and ‘Sweet’
Trilogy concludes with
story of La. teen grappling
with sexuality
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Well, is he or isn’t he? Whether 16-year-
old Marcus Eshu is gay, or “sweet” as it’s
sometimes called down south, seems to
be the question on a lot of people’s minds.
Whether the interested parties truly want a
straight answer is another matter.
After mounting productions of Tarell Al-
vin McCraney’s “The Brothers Size” and
“In the Red and Brown Water,” Studio The-
atre is now closing the gay playwright’s
“The Brother/Sister Plays” terrific trilogy
with “Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet,”
featuring a dynamite eight-person cast
ably directed by Timothy Douglas.
Both a coming-of-age and a compel-
ling coming out story, “Marcus” is set in
fictional San Pere, Louisiana on the eve
of a Katrina-like storm. When we meet
the title character (convincingly under-
played by J. Mal McCree), he has yet to
reveal his true sexuality to his loud-but-
loyal best friend Shaunta Iyun (Shannon
A.L. Dorsey) who’s itching to learn his
secret, or to Osha (Rachel Holmes) the
hood beauty who’d like to up their rela-
tionship to romance status.
Despite uncertainties, Marcus slowly
but surely grows more certain about
his attraction to men. In a cleverly done
scene played to the faint erotic groans
of Donna Summers’ “Love to Love You,
Baby,” he imagines that the sexy straight
boy (Nickolas Vaughan) clamoring for
test answers in Latin class is actually vy-
ing for his sexual favors.
But of course day fantasies soon lose
their novelty and Marcus is ready for
something real, so the first chance he
gets, he hooks up with the more experi-
enced Shua (Lance Coadie Williams), a
Kangol-wearing player on the down low
visiting from the Bronx, and rather brave-
ly, Marcus comes out to his friends.
Other aspects of our hero’s life are less
clear. His sleep is clouded with confus-
ing dreams featuring a mysterious man
in white (Williams again) who talks to him
through sheets of rain. And while awake,
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“Marcus” is very connected with the
other parts of the trilogy. Like those plays,
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SOCIALAGENDA

‘Bare’ essentials
Cobalt lesbian party turns
2; Herndon’s ‘So Addictive’
switches teams  ers. All attendees must be 21 or older.
By JULIETTE EBNER
This Saturday marks the second anni-
versary of Bare, a monthly lesbian event
at Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.)
“From go-go dancers, to multiple lev-
els and DJs, we bring a little bit of ev-
erything into one building,” Karen Diehl,
founder of Lure, the event planning com-
pany that puts on Bare, a monthly event,
said of the party.
Diehl started Lure a few years ago
with a business partner, but has been
going “solo” for about a year and a half.
The company first reached out to Cobalt
early in 2009, but the club was unable to
take on another party at the time.
In August of that same year, they sat
down with Jason Royce and Mark Rut-
stein of Cobalt and came to an agreement
and two months later, Bare was born.
“We want to thank Eric Little and Mark
Rutstein for being so wonderful for the
past two years,” Diehl said. “They really
have stood behind the lesbian commu-
nity and embraced this event as one of
their own.”
This month, the party starts at 9 p.m.
and Diehl recommends getting there early.
Everyone will be able to get her pic-
ture taken by Binxer Photography on the
red carpet with Lure’s backdrop display-
ing all the companies’ allies. Prizes will
be given to the first 100 guests.
its” and the ice luge.
General admission is $10 and in-
cludes drink specials and go-go danc-
Mostly it’s people who come out but
sometimes businesses do as well.
So Addictive Lounge (733 Elden St.)
in Herndon, recently started billing itself
as a gay bar and is the only one in Virgin-
ia’s Fairfax County. It’s only the second
gay bar in Northern Virginia after Fred-
die’s Beach Bar.
Austin Jennings, the manager of So
Addictive, says it has been a dream of
his to create such a bar in Fairfax County.
Jennings grew up in the area and al-
ways wished there was a place he could
go without having to get on interstates
and deal with parking or a metro ride and
crashing at someone’s place.
“People shouldn’t have to drive all
the way into downtown D.C. to have fun
with their fellow gays and gals, or to see
the latest drag queen’s rendition of Tina
Turner and see cute boys dance with
each other,” Jennings said about the lack
of gay bars.
Jennings says the most challenging
part of turning what was once a straight
establishment into a gay bar has been
making it look better.
He says the bar was not pretty when
he started working there.
“Seeing it in the daytime was even
worse,” he says. “At night it only got by
because the lighting was generously
mellow and the customers could drink
their way through the ugliness, just like
Joan Rivers.”
So far, Jennings has given the place a Washington Blade photo by Michael Key

DJs Rosie and Keenan will be spinning.
“Real L Word” fans will be happy to
hear someone from the show will be at
the party for those who purchase VIP ad-
mission. But Diehl won’t say who.
“We would prefer to keep it a secret,
because just like most birthdays, it’s al-
ways nice to be surprised,” Diehl said.
VIP admission is $25 and includes ac-
cess to both floors, giveaways, entry into
a raffle for Phasefest 2011 tickets and
Queer Prom 2011 tickets, $5 “you call-
new paint job, added new furniture and
black curtains, but he says there’s still
a lot to do and that customers can ex-
pect more changes over the next couple
weeks as they put the finishing touches
on their “beautiful debutante.”
So Addictive is open Monday from 6
p.m. to 2 a.m., Tuesday through Saturday
from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. and Sunday from
10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“Everyone always asks if we serve
food, and I almost want to yell, ‘Yes,
Herndon’s So Addictive Lounge has been reborn as a gay bar save for its Monday night metal nights.
yes yes.’ We’re open at 6 for dinner and
we serve our full menu until close every
night,” Jennings said.
There are events going on almost ev-
ery night. There’s drag bingo on Tues-
days at 8 p.m., a drag show with Lacon-
tress Farrington on Wednesdays at 9
p.m., the “L night: karaoke and ladies on
Thursdays,” “t.GAY.i.f.” on Fridays and
college night on Saturdays.
There’s only one non-gay day, “Heavy
Metal Monday,” which features a new
band each week.
“Currently I’m happy with the metal
night, but it does seem to hint at a lack
of integrity if we are calling So Addictive
Lounge a full-gay bar. It’s something I will
need to re-evaluate in the near future,”
Jennings says. “For now, I guess being a
little straight just makes the bar bi.”

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Cameron Monaghan, left, as Ian and Jeremy Allen White as ‘Lip in ‘Shameless,’ a crass new
series that features frank sex and nudity, gay and straight.
‘Shameless’ pushes envelope
British crossover Showtime
series features prominent
gay teen storyline
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN
An edgy hit British show has crossed
the Atlantic with a U.S. version having
just started its 12-episode run. ‘Shame-
less’ airs on Sundays at 10 p.m. (EST)
on Showtime and is raising eyebrows for
its envelope pushing on sexual matters
both gay and straight.
“Shameless” presents the downtrod-
den, dysfunctional, single-parent family,
the lumpenproletariat Gallaghers. With a
tagline that promises wild and unapolo-
getic shamelessness, the show stars
“Fargo” character actor, 60-year-old Wil-
liam H. Macy in the rip-roaring dipsoma-
niac role as the family patriarch Frank.
Shame is, of course, a dogged devil in
the lives of gay people, evidenced by the
frequent emotional distancing and acting-
out spelled out in such detail on the topic
of shame by gay psychotherapist Alan
Downs in his best-selling book “The Vel-
vet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Grow-
ing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World.” So
this is show worth seeing on many levels.
One of the lead characters is a gay
teenager grappling with shame. He’s one
of the six Gallagher siblings Ian, played
by 17-year-old straight actor Cameron
Monaghan as still a boy, furtively hiding his
stash of gay male porn at home but also
still able to face his sexuality openly when
asked about it by one of his older brothers.
Macy, in fact, spends much of his time
as Frank feeling no shame, for when he’s
not slumped over a barstool, he’s sprawled
on the floor at home face up, passed out
in an alcoholic stupor. He lives on disabil-
ity checks from an accident at the poultry
plant near where the family resides in a
rundown Chicago neighborhood.
“Slammed in the ribs by a headless
flying chicken,” he says. “I was lucky. Al-
most missed me.”
A single father to his six children, Frank
expects them to raise themselves and each
other. Thus, eldest daughter Fiona — Emma
Rossum (“Phantom of the Opera”) without
makeup but still enchanting — must act as
mother to her siblings. Her school-smart
younger brother Philip (Jeremy Allen White),
january 14, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 29
Image courtesy of Showtime
nick-named “’Lip,” trades help in schoolwork
for a girl’s blow job, and teenage Ian has hot
sex with his married (male) employer. Mean-
while, young Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) dips into
the collection plate at church to help pay the
household electric bill. And when no one else
can watch baby Liam at home, one sister sim-
ply takes him to school for show and tell.
Despite a sensibility that may be too
seamy for some, this is super-good TV,
helmed and written by John Wells, co-cre-
ator of the NBC-TV shows “The West Wing”
and “ER.” Wells owned the rights for many
years but the major networks simply wouldn’t
touch “Shameless,” even though the first
season of the British original (which began
on Channel 4 there in 2004) later aired here
on BBC America and the Sundance Chan-
nel. The development deal followed years of
Wells negotiating over Washington Blade
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202-296-0505 2161 P St., NW attracts a mixed crowd but remains Baltimore, MD 21201
apex-dc.com Washington, DC 20037 REMINGTONS gay-friendly. 410-539-4993
In Dupont Circle area; popular with men, 202-293-1293 639 Pennsylvania Ave., SE leonsbaltimore.tripod.com
but check schedule regularly for other In Dupont Circle area; neighborhood bar Washington, DC 20003 BALTIMORE EAGLE In business for more than 50 years,
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remingtonswdc.com Baltimore, MD 21218 Baltimore and among the oldest in
BACHELOR’S MILL GREEN LANTERN twitter.com/remingtonsWDC 410-82-EAGLE the country. Friendly bar with juke-
1104 8th St., SE 1335 Green Court, NW Popular country/Western nightclub in Longtime Levi/leather bar not far box gets especially busy on Sunday
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202-544-1931 greenlanterndc.com 6,000 square feet of space for dancing billiards, outdoor patio, videos and a bar located behind Leon’s with a
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bananacafedc.com JR.’S 202-234-TOWN 410-837-3906 gets especially popular when the Ra-
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bar (Eastern Market Metro) for both men Washington, DC 20036 Dance club and bar popular with men attracts men and women; friendly and more.
and women. Features Cuban, Mexican 202-328-0090 and women, features regular drag perfor- service.
and Puerto Rican cuisine. jrswdc.com mances. U Street Metro. QUEST
Longtime friendly Dupont Circle area bar DRINKERY 3607 Fleet St.
BLOWOFF popular with men; videos, regular special ULTRABAR 205 W. Read St. Baltimore, MD 21224
815 V St., NW events. 911 F St., NW Baltimore, MD 21201 410-563-2617
Washington, DC 20001 Washington, DC 20004 410-225-3100 Neighborhood bar in Highlandtown
blowoff.us LACE ultrabardc.com Another of Baltimore’s friendly neigh- area is popular with men and women
Created by musicians Bob Mould and 2214 Rhode Island Ave., NE twitter.com/UltraBar borhood bars in Mount Vernon featur- and offers billiards.
Richard Morel, Blowoff is an occasional Washington, DC 20018 Large dance club with gay-friendly events ing
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held in clubs around the country; D.C.’s lacedc.com Center. service. 1001 N. Charles St.
Blowoff parties are held at the 9:30 club Every night is ladies night at Lace; Baltimore, MD 21201
in the popular U Street corridor. features regular special events for women WHERE THE GIRLS GO GALLERY 410-752-7133
in Brookland neighborhood. Check web wherethegirlsgo.com 1735 Maryland Ave. centralstationpub.com
COBALT site for details on happy hour specials. Queer women’s events in the D.C. area. Baltimore, MD 21201 Part of the Grand Central complex,
1639 R St., NW Check web site for latest info. 410-539-6965 Sappho’s attracts a lesbian crowd
Washington, DC 20009 LARRY’S LOUNGE Longtime bar and restaurant popular and offers comfy couches, outdoor
202-462-6569 1836 18th St., NW with African-American clientele.
ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS patio and more in its second
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In Dupont Circle area; part of complex of 202-483-1483 Washington, DC 20024 GRAND CENTRAL
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So Addictive Lounge, a straight-bar-turned-gay in Herndon, is the only gay bar in Fairfax County, Va.

DCAGENDA
Leather enthusiasts at last year’s expo. This year’s MAL Weekend brings contests, parties and enter-
tainment. The last party wraps at 5 a.m. Monday.
National leather scene has
evolved since ’40s origins
Continued from page 19
weekend area at the hotel, including for
the Leather Exhibit Hall but not the special
events, will now require a “Weekend Admis-
sion Pass.” The cost for such a three-day
pass is $25 if purchased on Friday, $20 on
Saturday, or $10 on Sunday or alternatively
$10 for any one of those days only.
The D.C.-based Centaur club, now in
its 41st year, according to Barat currently
consists of about 30 active members. It
has sponsored MAL, now in its 31st year,
from the beginning. After more than a de-
cade of being housed at the Washington
Plaza Hotel at Thomas Circle, it moves this
year to the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill,
because “we simply outgrew that hotel,”
Barat says. The Washington Plaza has only
360 rooms, while the Hyatt has about 800.
“Obviously with a new home for MAL,
we’re excited about that, but also a little ner-
vous,” he adds, but he has been meeting
with Hyatt staff, along with other Centaur
event planners, and believes everybody
feels that the weekend will be a success.
Another MAL Weekend coordinator,
its chairman and fellow Centaur member
Patrick Grady met Monday for another
meeting “with about 30 hotel managers
in the room,” and Grady says “everybody
at the Hyatt is very enthusiastic indeed.”
This year, they have booked only about
three-quarters of the Hyatt’s rooms be-
cause, says Barat, “we were trying to be a
bit conservative this year and not over-ex-
tend ourselves.” Even so, weekend regis-
tration has spilled over into rooms reserved
at the Liaison Hotel across the street.
All MAL attendees will be on the same
january 14, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 33
Every Man Can
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
floors. Organizers hope next year to fill
the entire hotel.
Grady says his first MAL Weekend be-
gan when he joined the Washington Plaza
Hotel as its director of catering in 1997 and
a month later hundreds of MAL Weekend
participants thronged the hotel, the second
year at that venue, and he got his first real
look close-up at the leather community.
“I was a newbie in ‘97,” he says, “and I
didn’t know their community even existed.”
He was taken in by the friendly vibes
and soon, he says, he began to frequent
the Eagle and then to hang out with the
Centaurs. By 1999 he had sunk his own
roots deep into the leather world.
Grady says that after that first weekend,
“I couldn’t wait to see everybody back in
‘98,” and he was drawn to the sense of
community that he found, especially in
the Centaur MC. Yes, he knows that some
LGBT people are uncomfortable with the
more taboo aspects of the leather world DC’s only gay male owned
— the BDSM sexuality — but he says the
reality is that the leather world — and the
matchmaking service for gay men.
Centaur club — is “very diverse.”
“We have members who have motor-
cycles and those who don’t, who are large
Offering unique strategies to help you reach your
and skinny, tall and short, and the only real full potential in dating, love, and relationships.
common denominator is that we like one an-
other,” he says. “Some are hard-core leather
folk and others are just out for a good time.” Start dating again in 2011.
But he admits that “when we gather together
sometimes we are a little much for some
people — we tend to be very gregarious.”
His objective this year is simple: “to
202.588.7554
make new friends and renew old ac-
quaintances,” a goal echoed by Barat,
Continues on page 34
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DCAGENDA
Sub-groups abound under leather umbrella
Continued from page 33 Ballroom level, with dozens of vendors of and into West Virginia and back.
gear, books and other paraphernalia. Like Grady, Barat was won over by the
who says “our aim is to have fun and The MAL Weekend in 1998 was “the welcoming vibes of community he felt
make sure everybody who comes has first big leather event” he ever attended, at his first MAL Weekend: “I was really
fun, so they can meet new people and though he had lived a leather lifestyle “on kind of shocked at how friendly every-
explore new things.” and off” since he was 19. Now 50 and a one was,” and how eager people were
The signature events, says Barat, are U Street resident for the past seven years, to teach him about the things he didn’t
the Leather Cocktails reception Satur- by day Barat works on international pub- know, and he also began to understand
day evening, the buses for the MAL bar- lic health issues for the U.S. Government. the wide variety of lifestyles subsumed
crawl, the CODE party at the Crucible For him, owning a bike is important to the under the leather label.
S&M club Saturday night into the wee leather lifestyle, and though he recently The gay male leather subculture has ex-
hours of Sunday morning, the Mr. Mid-At- sold his own Harley Davidson “Fat Boy,” isted, according to most accounts, since the
lantic Leather Contest Sunday afternoon, now he says he can’t wait until the weather late 1940s, when it grew out of gay men who
and the finale event, the Reaction dance gets warm again to get his next new bike. had typically worn uniforms during World
at the 9:30 Club from 10 p.m. Sunday un- Though he says another D.C.-based club, War II and mustered out and were looking
til 5 a.m. Monday. Throughout the entire the Spartans, “are more into motorcycles,” for a way to sustain the homosocial world
weekend also, another big draw is the the Cenatur M.C. still sponsors runs two or and its rituals and rules of masculine identity
Leather Exhibit Hall located on the hotel’s three times a year, usually to Skyline Drive they had experienced during wartime. Soon
these men found their way into the culture of
biker clubs, and for them the lure of leather
signified a code of dress rooted for most
— though not all — in sexual activities, of-
ten defined by the sexual practices loosely
grouped under the label of BDSM.
“Leather is a term that includes dress-
ing up and getting into sexual scenes
when dressed up, acting out certain sex-
ual fantasies like getting flogged, at one
end of the spectrum, but you don’t need
to dress for BD events,” Barat says.
At the other end of the spectrum, he
says, people just like the feel of leather
and the thrill of the road and the ride.
“And it’s everything in between,” he
says,”plus, it’s not just leather alone any-
more - there’s rubber, there’s sports-gear,
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key there’s uniforms. And now there’s also a
Members of the Ohio Boys of Leather at last year’s Mr. MAL event at the 9:30 Club. lot of young guys into dressing up as su-
per heroes and comic book heroes.”
MID-ATLANTIC LEATHER WEEKEND 2011 “It’s a whole range of of people and
the nice thing about the community is
Hyatt Regency Hotel Capitol Hill
400 New Jersey Ave. N.W. that it’s very accepting,” Barat says. “You
see a guy in full leather gear talking to a
Tonight guy dressed up like Batman talking to a
• Registration — Ballroom level Foyer — 4-10:30 p.m. guy dressed up in full rubber.”
• Leather Exhibit Hall — Exhibit Area, Ballroom Level 5-11 p.m. For many, participation is a chance to
• Opening Reception (cash bar) — Yorktown Ballroom — 9-11 p.m. distinguish themselves from mainstream
• MAL Bar Crawl Bus — 10 p.m.-2 a.m. sexual activities. For some it can mean
immersion in sexual kink. For others, just
wearing the trappings of black leather is
Saturday the main point, an erotic fashion state-
• Registration continues — 10 a.m.-5 p.m. ment expressing heightened masculinity.
• Leather Exhibit Hall continues — noon-8 p.m. The pioneering gay motorcycle clubs —
• Leather Cocktails — Regency Ballroom — 6:30-9 p.m. the Satyrs of Los Angeles, established in
• Code Party — The Crucible — 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 1954, and others like the Warlocks of San
• MAL partner event — discounted admission for MAL 2001 Full Weekend pack- Francisco — reflected that same sense of
age holders disaffection with the postwar mainstream.
• MAL Bar Crawl Bus — 10 p.m.-2 a.m. It also provided an archetype for gay men
who resisted effeminate stereotypes. For
Sunday years, Larry Townsend’s “Leatherman’s
• MAL Brunch — main lobby — 10 a.m.-noon Handbook” was the guide by which rank
• Leather Exhibit Hall continues in the leather community — slave, boy, sir
• Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather Contest — Regency Ballroom — 1 p.m.-5 p.m. (separate and master — was determined.
tickets are available for this event) But by the 1980s, and perhaps even
• Reaction — 9:30 Club — 10 p.m.-5 a.m. (separate tickets are available for this earlier, a rebellion arose against old
event) guard role rigidity, and instead there
was a new emphasis upon choices and
The Bootblack Brigade hosts a bar night Saturday starting 10 p.m. personal self-identity, in which a person
at Green Lantern, 13335 Green Court, N.W. — no admission fee might consent to begin and end as either
slave or master or switch back and forth.
And at D.C. Eagle, 639 New York Ave. N.W., the MAL Weekend welcome In this new world of greater flexibility,
begins 7 p.m. Friday and continues through Monday starting at 8 p.m. leather practitioners defined themselves
as “new guard,” and an increasing num-
More details at leatherweekend.com ber of pan-sexual clubs evolved as well.
“There’s a generational aspect to it,”
Barat says. “The old guard has to do
with fixed attitudes concerning domi-
nance and submissiveness, and in the
old guard ‘D’ and ‘s’ is not just something
that one does in sexual play, but some-
thing one lives 24-7.”
He says it’s now more flexible and all
a matter of self-identification, not follow-
ing rules.
Barat says he is a good example of
this transition.
“I began as old guard and in the past
I identified as a boy and more recently as
a sir, but now as I get older I’ve stopped
labeling myself, and now I see myself as
a new guard kind of guy.”
As for the Centaurs, he says that some
are into BDSM and others are not, but it’s
not a primary focus of the club.
“Some of us wear leather and are into
gear and not so kinky, and there others
who are kinky and don’t necessarily wear
a lot of leather.
Meanwhile, pop culture itself has ab-
sorbed the look of leather and the feel of
erotic alternatives. Witness the numerous
popular images of Elvis from the 1960s fully
clothed in black leather and then 1970s
heavy-metal bands such as Kiss, Black Sab-
bath and Judas Priest who were cloaked in
leather. The latter’s lead singer Rob Halford,
himself openly gay, wore a leather costume
on stage as early as 1978. Soon codpieces
and even harnesses proliferated on metal-
rock costumes, as such gear became ap-
propriated by internationally successful
bands like the L.A. metal band Motley Crue.
Now numerous lesbians also identify as
leatherwomen and a leather pride sticker
adorns the guitar of singer Joan Jett. San
Francisco leather and lesbian activist Pat
Califa co-founded one of the first lesbian
S&M groups, Samois, and became a pro-
lific contributor to lesbian BDSM literary
erotica and sex handbooks. Leather and
Lace, an “old guard” woman’s BDSM so-
cial group, was founded in Los Angeles
in 1980, and in New York City there was
LSM — the Lesbian Sex Mafia.
Another demographic shift in leath-
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worlds of leather kink, fetish and gear. It
used to be mostly men over 40 graduat-
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young age and we’re seeing guys at our
events in their early twenties.”
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“was once so taboo and is still not fully
accepted within the larger gay communi-
ty.” He hopes these attitudes are chang-
ing, but that “large parts of the gay com-
munity are still very intolerant of leather
folk.” He says “there are very conserva-
tive gay people, who think we should all
be monogamous, live in the suburbs,
have children and go to church.”
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