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Service members torn over coming out

In wake of repeal, some ready to talk,
others staying in closet
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com

For one gay Air Force pilot, it remains business as usual as he

keeps his sexual orientation a secret despite passage of legislation
allowing for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
The Charleston, S.C., resident, who spoke on condition of anonym-
ity, said he considers himself a private individual and sees no need to
make public to his Air Force comrades his gay identity.
“It’s just not my style,” he said. “So, no, I’m probably not going to
say anything. If somebody asks me, I might say, ‘Well, if you’re asking
the question, then you probably already know the answer to it, so I’ll
leave it at that.’”
The pilot said he sees no need to take a date to squadron picnic as
straight airmen might bring their spouses.
“As far I can tell, nobody suspects that I’m gay at work, other than
I’m single,” the pilot said. “We’re a bunch a pilots, so sometimes it’s
not easy for relationships, so a lot of guys that are even older than I
am have never been married, so it’s not uncommon. I don’t stand out
being in my early 30s and single.”
The pilot’s decision to keep his sexual orientation a secret repre-
sents one option for gay service members now that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Washington Blade photo by Michael Key

President Obama signed repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ last month, prompting service members to wrestle with
the question of when — and if — to come out to colleagues.
Continues on page 12

Md. marriage bill coming

GOP Senate leader steps down over civil unions flap
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
nationalnews lchibbaro@washblade.com
New RNC Chair Reince Preibus supports ban on same-sex marriage
PAGE 10 A Republican lawmaker in Maryland who plans to introduce a civil unions bill startled colleagues
this week by resigning from his position as minority leader in the State Senate one week before the
scheduled introduction of a same-sex marriage bill.
Sen. Allan Kittleman (R-Howard County) said he decided to withdraw from the minority leader post
he held for two years after determining he was not conservative enough for the other 11 GOP senators
in the 47-member Senate.
Observers at the state capital in Annapolis said it became clear to Kittleman that his moderate to
liberal views on social issues troubled the other GOP senators after he announced plans to introduce
legislation allowing civil unions in Maryland for same-sex and opposite-sex couples.
“I’m a social moderate and I wanted to stand up for what I believe in,” the Baltimore Sun quoted him
as saying. “It’s more important for me to stay true to my beliefs than it is for me to be the minority leader.”
socialagenda LGBT advocates pushing for a same-sex marriage bill in the Maryland Legislature had expressed
concern earlier this month that Kittleman’s civil unions measure might take away votes from the mar-
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LOCALNEWS
Washington Blade file photo
A police source is skeptical about recent
claims of an armed robbery inside Omega.
Credibility questioned
in robbery report
D.C. police investigators are ques-
tioning the credibility of a customer who
reported being robbed at gunpoint in-
side the men’s bathroom at the Dupont
Circle gay bar Omega on Jan. 3, and at
least one investigator doesn’t believe a
gun was involved in the case, according
to a police source.
A separate source familiar with a
video surveillance system installed
throughout Omega for security purpos-
es said video images of the customer
who reported the robbery and three
people he identified as suspects contra-
dicts the customer’s version of how the
reported robbery unfolded.
The source said the surveillance
video — which shows the movements of
the customer and the alleged suspects
inside the bar — raises questions about
the customer’s claim that the robbery
took place in the bathroom.
“Do I think something happened in
that place? Absolutely,” said the police
source, who spoke on condition of ano-
nymity. “But do I think it panned out the
way he said it did? No I do not.”
A police report of the incident says
that according to accounts by the victim
and at least one witness, the reported
robbery took place about 8:45 p.m. af-
ter the victim said he played pool with
three people now listed as suspects in
the case. The report says a witness told
police that after the victim and the sus-
pects played pool the victim bought the
suspects drinks at the bar.
According to the report, the victim
told police he went to the restroom and
one of the suspects followed him there,
pulled out a “dark colored handgun,”
pointed it at his waistband, and stated
“give it up.”
The report says the victim told police
he turned over his wallet, which had at
least $400 in cash. The report says the
victim also told police the suspect stole
his North Face coat, which he says has
a value of more than $400; his driver’s
license and his cell phone.
After committing the robbery, the sus-
pect left the bathroom and fled the bar,
and the victim ran after him, the victim told
police, according to the police report.
The victim spoke to the Blade by
phone on condition that the Blade not
disclose his name. He confirmed that
he ran out of Omega to look for the sus-
pect, saying all three suspects “were
gone” by the time he exited the bar.
But he disputed the police report’s
assertion that he played pool with the
suspects, saying he did not play pool
with them. He also disputed the police
report’s claim that the incident hap-
pened about 8:45, saying it happened
no later than 6 or 7 p.m. and that he had
been in the bar drinking since the time it
opened at 4 p.m.
“I was too damn drunk to play pool
because I was a little high,” he told the
Blade. “I ain’t going to lie to you. I was
drinking at the time.”
But later in the 20-minute interview,
he said he wasn’t drunk. “The police
knew I wasn’t even drunk at all,” he
said. “The police asked me was I drink-
ing. Yes I was drinking. And they knew I
wasn’t drunk because of how I was talk-
ing to them.”
When asked if he often carries $400
or more in cash on him, he said, “No, I
had to pay my rent. I went to the bank
to get my rent and I had a drink in there
and I was about to leave is what I was
about to do.”
The police source said the case re-
mains under investigation, with the pos-
sibility that it may be closed due to lack
of evidence that an armed robbery oc-
curred. One possibility, the source said,
is the victim may have been “duped” by
the suspects, who could have stolen his
jacket and other possessions while he
left them unattended.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Mara enters race for
D.C. City Council
Pro-gay Republican Patrick Mara, who
won election last year to the D.C. school
board from Ward 1, announced Wednes-
day he is entering the race for the at-
large City Council seat up for grabs in a
special election set for April 26.
Mara is among at least 17 candidates
running for the seat, which became
vacant Jan. 2 when Council member
Kwame Brown (D-At-Large) was sworn
in as the new City Council Chair.
The special election is open to candi-
dates of all parties as well as indepen-
dents who obtain 3,000 valid petition
signatures from registered D.C. voters.
Many of the city’s LGBT activists have al-
ready lined up behind former Ward 4 school
board member Sekou Biddle, a Democrat
who won an interim appointment to fill the
Council seat by the D.C. Democratic State
Committee, which approved the interim ap-
pointment earlier this month.
Some political observers believe
the interim appointment gives Biddle,
Patrick Mara is among 17 candidates in a special election to fill the Council seat vacated by
Kwame Brown, who is the new Council chair.
a strong supporter of LGBT rights, the
advantage of incumbency. But other ob-
servers note that less than 10 percent of
the city’s registered voters usually turn
out for special elections, making it pos-
sible for a lesser known candidate like
Mara to win, especially in a race with as
many as 17 candidates.
Another lesser-known candidate vy-
ing for an upset win is 26-year-old Josh-
ua Lopez, who served as a political ad-
viser to former Mayor Adrian Fenty and
organized a Fenty write-in campaign af-
ter Fenty lost the Democratic primary last
September to City Council Chair Vincent
Gray. Gray won election as mayor in No-
vember and took office Jan. 2.
Gray has so far remained officially
neutral in the special Council election,
but some of his key political operatives
are backing Biddle.
Among the other candidates consid-
ered viable in the race is Vincent Orange
(D), the former Ward 5 Council member.
Others running for the seat are Leo Al-
exander (D), an unsuccessful mayoral
candidate last year; Arkan Haile (I), an
attorney and political newcomer; Jacque
Patterson (D), a Ward 8 political activist;
and Kelvin Robinson (D), an unsuccessful
candidate last year for the Ward 6 Council
seat held by incumbent Tommy Wells (D).
The Blade will provide information
on all of the candidates and their po-
sitions on LGBT issues in the coming
weeks. The final number of candidates
to be placed on the ballot won’t be de-
termined until late February, when the
election board confirms which ones
have obtained the required number of
petition signatures.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
GLOV to elect new
leaders on Jan. 27
Gays & Lesbians Opposing Violence
will hold its annual leadership elections
on Thursday. The meeting is open to the
public and will be held at the D.C. Cen-
ter, at 1318 U St., N.W.
Current co-chairs Kelly Pickard and
Joseph Montoni have nominated sev-
eral candidates. Although the potential
candidates have not yet accepted or
Photo courtesy of Mara
declined their nominations, all nomi-
nees are drawn from the group’s core
of “poor volunteers,” Pickard says. The
names of nominees had not been re-
leased as of Blade press time.
Last year, GLOV and other commu-
nity-based outreach groups became di-
rectly involved in training police officers
to recognize and respond to LGBT-re-
lated crimes. Officers who volunteered
to work with the Gay & Lesbian Liaison
Unit received a three-day intensive
training session from the community
groups, while all MPD officers received
some degree of training. Among those
nominated for GLOV co-chair are sev-
eral coaches who directed the training
sessions for law enforcement.
Looking toward the tasks that face
GLOV’s new leadership in 2011, Pickard
sees an expansion of the officer training
program.
“I believe we’re looking at another
four training sessions led by LGBT
groups, with more intensive training
again for the GLLU affiliate officers,”
Pickard said.
Although pleased that the community
has begun to play a direct role in educat-
ing officers, Pickard remains concerned
about the impact of Police Chief Cathy
Lanier’s move to decentralize the GLLU.
“With the restructuring, there’s a lon-
ger chain of command, so the biggest
stumbling block continues to be the
length of time it takes for information to
get out of the community.”
Lanier’s decision to restructure the
GLLU initially prompted activist groups
including GLOV to release an open let-
ter to then-Mayor Adrian Fenty, asking
him to override Lanier.
Although the unit remains decentral-
ized, the efforts to train police officers
have been praised by GLOV and others.
“The community-led effort to [train]
affiliate officers was a huge undertak-
ing, not just by GLOV. It’s been a long
process of refining information and
finding the best way to present it to law
enforcement officers,” Pickard says. “Al-
though there was some frustration with
the restructuring, I think the ability to
have genuine community-led training of
officers should in a long term be a posi-
tive thing.”
MICHAEL NAGLE
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LOCALNEWS
Supreme Court rejects D.C. marriage challenge
End of the legal road for
Jackson’s campaign
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an
order Tuesday denying a request by a lo-
cal minister to consider a case seeking
to force the District of Columbia to allow
voters to decide whether to repeal the
city’s same-sex marriage law.
The order, which did not include any
statement or opinion, ends the effort by
Bishop Harry Jackson and other local
opponents of same-sex marriage to go
through the courts to impose a ballot
measure calling for overturning the Reli-
gious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equal-
ity Amendment Act of 2009, which legal-
ized same-sex marriage in the District.
None of the Supreme Court’s nine
justices issued a dissent in their unani-
mous determination not to take the case.
“We are pleased that the Supreme Court
turned down Bishop Jackson’s request for
review of the Court of Appeals decision on
marriage equality,” said Peter Rosenstein,
president of the Campaign for All D.C.
Families, the local group that campaigned
for passage of the marriage equality law.
“This confirms our belief that what the
D.C. Council did is both legal and just,”
he said. “Equality will not be denied.”
Rosenstein was referring to a decision
last October by the D.C. Court of Appeals
that upheld an earlier ruling by the city’s
Board of Elections and Ethics to reject a
voter initiative proposed by Jackson and
other same-sex marriage opponents call-
ing for repealing the marriage equality law.
In the case known as Jackson v. the
D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, Jack-
son sought to force the city to hold a voter
initiative that, if approved, would repeal the
same-sex marriage law and replace it with a
new law defining marriage in the District as
a union only between a man and a woman.
The Court of Appeals decision stated
that D.C. City Council acted within its au-
thority under the city’s congressionally man-
dated Home Rule Charter when it imposed
certain restrictions more than 30 years ago
on the types of initiatives and referenda that
could be placed on the ballot.
Among the restrictions adopted then
was a ban on ballot measures that, if ap-
proved by voters, violate the non-discrimi-
nation provisions of the D.C. Human Rights
Act. The act, among other things, bans dis-
crimination based on sexual orientation.
Jackson and a team of lawyers repre-
senting him argued that Council violated
the Home Rule Charter by adopting the
ballot measure restrictions.
The Supreme Court today rejected
Jackson’s request for a Petition for a Writ
of Certiorari, which asked the court to hear
the case to enable Jackson to appeal the
ruling of the D.C. Court of Appeals. By
denying that request, the Supreme Court
allowed the Court of Appeals decision to
permanently remain in effect.
“Today’s action by the Supreme Court
makes abundantly clear that D.C.’s human
rights protections are strong enough to
withstand the hateful efforts by outside an-
ti-LGBT groups to put people’s basic civil
rights on the ballot,” said Joe Solmonese,
president of Human Rights Campaign.
“For almost two years, the National Or-
ganization for Marriage and the Alliance
Defense Fund, along with Bishop Harry
Jackson, have fought a losing battle to
shamelessly harm gay and lesbian cou-
ples in D.C. who seek nothing more than
to share in the rights and responsibilities
of marriage,” Solmonese said.
According to the Supreme Court’s pub-
lic docket, the nine justices deliberated
over whether to hear the Jackson case in a
private conference held last Friday. Under
longstanding court rules, the justices usu-
ally announce a decision on whether to ac-
cept or reject a case on the next business
day following such a conference.
With the Supreme Court denying
Jackson’s court challenge to the same-
sex marriage law, marriage equality op-
ponents are expected to take their fight
back to Congress by resuming earlier
requests for Congress to either overturn
the D.C. marriage law or to impose a new
law forcing the city hold a ballot measure
to allow voters to decide the issue.
D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson
(D-At-Large), who chairs the committee
that shepherded the same-sex marriage
law through the Council in 2009, said city
voters have demonstrated through the
city’s 2010 primary and general election
that the marriage law was not a pressing
issue for them.
He noted that despite promises by
same-sex marriage opponents to work
for the defeat of all Council members
who voted for the marriage law, just a few
candidates opposing the law surfaced in
the elections and all of them lost by lop-
sided margins.
“They’ve lost in the courts, they lost
overwhelmingly in the Council 12 to 1
[when the marriage bill came up for a
vote in December 2009], and they lost at
the ballot box,” he said. “Now they’ve lost
their last chance, their last gasp in the
judicial system.”
Jackson couldn’t be immediately
reached for comment.
Rev. Anthony Evans, a D.C. minister
who is working with Jackson to overturn
the D.C. same-sex marriage law, called
the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the
Jackson case “a travesty of justice.”
“This law was forced down the
church’s throat and what the Supreme
Court has set up is the greatest civil war
between the church and the gay commu-
nity,” Evans said. “And let me just state
for the record, we don’t want that fight.
We love our gay brothers and sisters. But
if the Supreme Court is not going to ac-
knowledge the fact that we have a right
as religious people to have a say-so in
the framework of religious ethics for our
culture and society, then we reject the
Supreme Court on this issue.”
Supporters of the same-sex marriage
law have noted that large numbers of lo-
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
The U.S. Supreme Court this week ended the legal effort by Harry Jackson to impose a ballot
measure calling for overturning D.C.’s same-sex marriage law.
cal religious leaders from all denomina- House earlier this month, GOP leaders
tions, including black churches, came revoked Norton’s limited floor voting privi-
out in support of the law. Many have be- leges that Democrats gave her when they
gun performing same-sex marriages. took control of the House in 2007. House
Evans, an official with the D.C.-based GOP leaders also revoked the limited vot-
National Black Church Initiative, said local ing privileges for delegates representing
same-sex marriage opponents have begun U.S. territories and Puerto Rico.
discussions with “our Republican friends” “[O]ur first action was to make sure that
in Congress to take steps to challenge the Eleanor didn’t get a vote as punishment
D.C. marriage law. He declined to disclose for her wholehearted support for same-
further details but said he and others op- sex marriage in this city and also for her
posed to the marriage law lobbied GOP to ignore the black religious community,”
leaders on the Hill to strip congressional Evans said. “There is a consequence to
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) of her her actions. That was one of them.”
voting privileges on the House floor. A Norton spokesperson could not be
Since Republicans took control of the immediately reached for comment.
obituary
Trent Royster, 51
William Trent Royster died in Washington on Jan. 7 at
the age of 51. He was gay and a long-term survivor of HIV.
He died of complications from kidney failure and HIV/AIDS.
Royster was born Jan. 3, 1960 in Rochester, N.Y., the
son of Gladys and Graham Royster. He was a graduate
of the Harley School in Rochester and Tufts University in
Medford, Mass. At Tufts he received a bachelor’s degree in political science and
was a member of Theta Chi Fraternity. He also spent many summers attending and
working at the Highfields Camp in Union, Maine.
In Rochester he worked for the R.T. French Co., Hutchins Young & Rubicam
and the Aquagenesis Wholistic Center. At a time when others living with HIV were
silenced, he dedicated his life to improving the situation of the LGBT community
and those affected by HIV at the local, state and national level.
Royster served on the boards of AIDS Rochester from 1994 to 2001, serving as
vice president in 1998-99, and of the Rochester Area Task Force on AIDS. In 1998,
he joined the board of AIDS, Medicine & Miracles, ultimately chairing the organiza-
tion in 2001-02, and influenced many families affected by HIV through his work with
Camp SOAR in Rochester and Family Unity in Lake Luzerne, New York. He was
also affiliated with the Advertising Council of Rochester, the Black Gay & Lesbian
Leadership Forum and the Empire State Pride Agenda.
In 2001, Royster moved to Washington to live with his partner, whom he had been dat-
ing about a year and was with until he died. He worked for Us Helping Us and the District
of Columbia Department of Health, served on the board of Human Rights Campaign and
volunteered with Burgundy Crescent. Other affiliations included the National Minority AIDS
Council, D.C. Black Pride and the National Association of People with AIDS. He spent time
living with his partner in Jerusalem and while there volunteered with Seeds of Peace.
He is survived by his partner, Charles “Chuck” Hunter; mother Gladys Roys-
ter; brother Anthony Royster; niece LaTonya Royster; nephew Anthony Royster Jr.;
aunts Mildred Burs, Willie Mae Brown, and Eula Brown; several grand-nieces and
-nephews and numerous cousins. Royster is also survived by friends Ken Wilson,
Carolyn Covington and Robyn Jones, whom he considered family.
Memorial services were held at All Souls Episcopal Church last week in Wash-
ington. Donations can be made in Royster’s memory to the Trevor Project of Wash-
ington, Us Helping us, So Others Might Eat or SMYAL. A Rochester service is also
planned but no date has been set.
JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
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NATIONALNEWS
Mystery lingers about death of Minn. gay teen
MILTONA, Minn. — A high school senior who’d
lived in Minnesota and was gay appears to have
committed suicide, according to KSAX, a regional
ABC news affiliate there, although his family dis-
putes the report and says he died of coronary
edema.
About 10 p.m. on Jan. 15, the Douglas Coun-
ty Sheriff’s Office responded to an emergency
call at the home of the teen in Miltona, Minn.
They found 18-year-old Lance Lundsten in
need of emergency medical care. He was tak-
en to Douglas County Hospital where he died,
KSAX reported. The sheriff’s office confirmed to
KSAX that they believed Lundsten committed
suicide but they would not say the nature of the
emergency.
According to friends and his Facebook page,
Lundsten was openly gay. On a Facebook me-
morial page, friends said he’d been bullied at
school for his sexual orientation. Some students
who knew Lundsten believed the bullying may
have led to his suicide, KSAX reported.

Gay history museum opens in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO — A gay history museum, believed to be the first in the U.S. and
only the second in the world, has opened in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood.
The GLBT History Museum, a project of the GLBT Historical Society (an archives and
research center started in 1985), was slated to open this week at 4127 18th St. near
Castro Street. The space includes two galleries, a reception area and a museum shop.
With assistance from Bevan Dufty, former member of the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors for the district, the Historical Society negotiated an agreement under
which the master tenant for the storefront, Walgreen Company, constructed the
1,600-square-foot space to the society’s specifications. Funding from the City of
San Francisco, Castro district merchants and other sponsors and donors covered
the cost of custom fixtures and display cases, lighting and multimedia installations.
There are two debut exhibitions. One in the front shows memorabilia the Society
has collected in its 25 years. In the main gallery, 450 items give an overview of gay
life in San Francisco over nearly 100 years featuring items from the city’s Historical
Society, many of which have never been displayed before.
The GLBT History Museum joins the Schwules Museum, the queer museum
founded 25 years ago in Berlin, as one of only two stand-alone, full-scale museums
devoted to LGBT history. Admission is $5.

New hospital visitation regulations take effect

WASHINGTON — New federal regulations regarding patients’ hospital visitation
rights were scheduled to go into effect this week. These new regulations require all
hospitals participating in Medicaid and Medicare programs – virtually every hos-
pital in the country – to permit patients to designate visitors of their choosing and
prohibit discrimination in visitation based on a number of factors, including sexual
orientation and gender identity.

Facebook co-founder to wed his partner

NEW YORK — Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, 27, is planning to marry his
long-term boyfriend, Sean Eldridge, the New York Post reported this week.
Hughes, a multi-millionaire, was a roommate of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
at Harvard and served as the social networking site’s spokesman. He’s now the
founder and director of jumo.com.
Eldridge is political director for Freedom to Marry, a same-sex marriage advo-
cacy group. They announced their engagement at a Freedom to Marry reception
at their SoHo loft.

Gay themes, stars win big at Golden Globes

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Gay themes, shows, jokes and winners were center
stage at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards, the annual movie and TV prizes
given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Gay actors Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer each won for their roles on the uber-
popular “Glee,” which also won “Best Comedy Television Series.”
Annette Bening won for her lead role in the lesbian-themed dramedy “The Kids
Are All Right.”
“I’m very proud to be a part of this very special film about two women who are
deeply in love and try to keep their family together,” Bening said in her speech.
8 washingtonblade.com • january 21, 2011
NATIONALNEWS
Administration defends DOMA in court
Gibbs skeptical about
repealing it this Congress
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The U.S. Justice Department contin-
ued its defense of the Defense of Mar-
riage Act in court this week by filing a
brief in a U.S. appellate court affirming
the constitutionality of the statute.
“Congress’ decision to enact DOMA
was not unconstitutional under the Court’s
binding precedent,” states the brief. “With
respect to the Gill plaintiffs’ equal protec-
tion challenge and Massachusetts’ Spend-
ing Clause unconstitutional condition
challenge, DOMA is rationally related to
legitimate governmental interests.”
The 39-page brief was issued in response
to two lawsuits against DOMA pending be-
fore the First Circuit Court of Appeals: Gill v.
Office of Personnel Management and Com-
monwealth of Massachusetts v. Department
of Health & Human Services.
The Gill case was filed by Gay & Les-
bian Advocates & Defenders while the
Commonwealth case was filed by Mas-
sachusetts Attorney General Martha
Coakley. In July, U.S. District Judge Jo-
seph Tauro ruled in favor of plaintiffs and
the Justice Department appealed the
Hunter seeks to block ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal
GOP congressman
accused of being ‘stuck
in another era’
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
An opponent of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
repeal in the U.S. House intends to in-
troduce legislation that would effectively
block implementation of an end to the
military’s gay ban.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), an Iraq
and Afghanistan war veteran and two-
term House member, plans to introduce
legislation that would expand the certi-
fication requirement for enacting “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal.
Under current law, which President
Obama signed on Dec. 22, repeal would
take effect 60 days after the president,
the defense secretary and the chair of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff certify that the
U.S. military is ready for open service.
Hunter’s proposed legislation would
expand this certification responsibility
to the military service chiefs: the chief of
naval operations, the Marine Corps com-
mandant, the Army chief of staff and the
Air Force chief of staff.
Joe Kasper, a Hunter spokesperson,
said the expansion of certification is im-
portant because the service chiefs have
an intimate knowledge of the military.
“It’s necessary that the service chiefs,
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
‘The president believes … that this is a law
that should not exist and should be repealed
but at the same time we have to represent
the viewpoint of the federal government,’ said
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
decisions to the First Circuit.
In the brief, the Justice Department
disputes the arguments in the lawsuits
that DOMA violates the Equal Protection
Clause under the U.S. Constitution or a
state’s right under the Tenth Amendment
to regulate marriage.
“The Constitution permitted Congress
to enact DOMA as a means to preserve
the status quo, ensure consistency in the
distribution of federal marriage-based
benefits and respect policy develop-
ments in the states without implicating
other states or the United States, pend-
Photo courtesy of Hunter
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is proposing
legislation that could derail repeal of ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell.’
who understand more than anyone else
the unique challenges within their re-
spective branches, are part of this pro-
cess,” Kasper said.
Passage of the legislation would likely
block repeal from happening because
many service chiefs have testified before
Congress that they oppose “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal at this time.
Most prominent among them is Marine
Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos,
who in December told reporters that an
end to the military’s gay ban would cause a
distraction that could “cost Marines’ lives.”
Hunter has been among the most vo-
ing the resolution of the debate taking
place in the states over whether to permit
same-sex marriage,” the brief states.
Passed in 1996, DOMA prohibits the
federal government from recognizing
same-sex marriages and allows states
not to recognize same-sex marriag-
es from other jurisdictions. The lawsuits
pending before the First Circuit specifical-
ly target the section of DOMA prohibiting
federal recognition of same-sex marriage.
Mary Bonauto, who’s leading the
DOMA team for GLAD, said she finds
“nothing really new in this brief, which re-
iterates many of the same arguments the
government made in the District Court.”
“We’re prepared to meet these argu-
ments head-on, and bring to an end the
discrimination that is suffered by mar-
ried same-sex couples like our plaintiffs
and that DOJ has admitted is caused by
DOMA,” Bonauto said.
The next step in the case is for GLAD
and Coakley to file their response briefs,
which are due March 1.
Many gay rights supporters have
expressed frustration with the Obama
administration’s continued defense of
DOMA in court. President Obama has
called DOMA discriminatory and said it
should be repealed legislatively, but his
Justice Department has defended the
statute against litigation.
cal opponents of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
repeal in the U.S. House. In December,
he vehemently spoke out against ending
the military’s gay ban as the chamber de-
bated a repeal measure.
“It sounds good to make that compari-
son, that this is like the civil rights move-
ment,” Hunter said. “The problem is the
United States military is not the YMCA. It’s
something special. And the reason that
we have the greatest military in the world
is because of the way that it is right now.”
During a Senate Armed Services
Committee hearing in December, some
service chiefs — including Army Chief of
Staff Gen. George Casey – testified that
they didn’t feel the need to have the re-
sponsibility of issuing certification for re-
peal because Defense Secretary Robert
Gates would adequately represent their
voice going forward.
“I am very comfortable with my ability to
provide input to Secretary Gates and to the
chairman that will be listened to and con-
sidered,” Casey said. “So you could put it
in there, but I don’t think it’s necessary.”
Casey added that he thinks an ex-
pansion of the certification requirement
would undercut the Goldwater-Nichols
Act of 1986, which set up the chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the principal
military adviser to the president.
Kasper said the legislation is currently
in draft form and Hunter hasn’t yet made
final plans on when it would be introduced.
The Hill newspaper, which first re-
ported the news, quoted a congressional
Joe Solmonese, president of the Hu-
man Rights Campaign, called on Obama
to support same-sex marriage and for his
Justice Department to acknowledge that
DOMA is unconstitutional.
“It’s time for him to help lead the
American public toward full equality for
all Americans,” Solmonese said. “We ask
him to fully recognize the dignity of LGBT
Americans and their families by support-
ing marriage equality.”
Obama opposes marriage rights for
gay couples, but has suggested that his
position on the issue could change. In a
news conference in December, the presi-
dent said he’s “wrestling” with the idea of
same-sex marriage.
Also this week, White House Press
Secretary Robert Gibbs said it would be
“inordinately challenging” to repeal the
Defense of Marriage Act given the GOP
takeover of the House.
He added that although President
Obama supports repeal of DOMA, the
administration is obligated to represent
the federal government in two lawsuits
challenging the law.
“The president believes … that this is a law
that should not exist and should be repealed
but at the same time we have to represent
the viewpoint of the federal government,”
Gibbs said at a Tuesday press briefing in re-
sponse to questions from the Blade.
aide as saying the bill could be intro-
duced as soon as Tuesday and that 15
to 20 Republicans have already signed
on in support.
Whether House Republican leader-
ship would bring the legislation up for a
vote on the floor is unknown. A spokes-
person for U.S. House Speaker John
Boehner (R-Ohio) didn’t respond to a re-
quest for comment.
In the Senate, where Democrats have
retained control, it’s unlikely the legisla-
tion would come up for a floor vote as a
standalone bill. Still, the situation could be
different if the House passed the measure
as part of a larger vehicle — such as an
upcoming defense authorization bill.
Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of
the Servicemembers Legal Defense Net-
work, said the announced plans to intro-
duce the legislation aren’t surprising, but
are disappointing.
“Let there be no doubt this is an at-
tempted [plan] to placate a vocal minor-
ity and stir up discord before certification
happens,” he said. ”Mr. Hunter’s intent is
to derail [‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’] repeal if
he possibly can.”
Sarvis said he doesn’t think the ma-
jority of members of the House want to
disrupt repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
at this stage.
“Congress, the most senior leader-
ship in the Pentagon, and the American
people have spoken on this issue,” Sar-
vis said. ”Mr. Hunter, like a few of his col-
leagues, is stuck in another era.”

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President Obama is scheduled to deliver the annual State of the Union address on Tuesday.
High hopes for State
of the Union speech
Activists want Obama to
endorse same-sex marriage
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Support for same-sex marriage tops
the list for what LGBT rights supporters
want to hear from President Obama next
week during his State of the Union ad-
dress.
The demand from advocates makes
for great expectations for the speech,
which is set to take place before a joint
session of Congress on Tuesday.
An opponent of same-sex marriage,
Obama has suggested his position
could “evolve” on the matter and said
last month he’s “wrestling” with the idea
of marriage rights for gay couples.
Obama hasn’t stated support for
same-sex marriage even though several
states — including Rhode Island and
Maryland — could advance marriage
equality legislation this year, while others
— including New Hampshire, Indiana
and North Carolina — could see restric-
tions on such rights.
Rea Carey, executive director of the
National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, said
stating support for same-sex marriage
during the State of the Union address
would demonstrate Obama’s leadership.
“We would like for him to publicly state
his support for marriage equality,” Carey
said. “We have wanted him to lead on
this issue. He has talked about ... expe-
riencing some evolution, and we’d like to
say, ‘Evolve now!’”
Carey said she expects that Obama
will discuss the economic hardships fac-
ing the country, which she said would
present an opportunity for the president
to acknowledge that a lack of marriage
rights exacerbates these problems for
same-sex couples.
“One of these stresses for same-sex
couples on their families is because we
can’t get married in so many places and
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support of marriage rights for same-sex
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“I think that it’s important for him to get
to the other side of the journey as quickly
as possible because he is the leader of
our country and he needs to be leading
us and the nation in a direction of accep-
tance of full equality for LGBT people,”
Socarides said.
Still, Socarides said he thinks Obama
will focus on the economy as well as
the political tone in Washington and ex-
pressed skepticism that Obama would
broach the topic of same-sex marriage
during his speech.
“I think it would be a perfect opportu-
nity for him to announce that his evolution
is complete,” Socarides said. “But just
because I think it’s a good idea doesn’t
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NATIONALNEWS
New GOP chair backs ban on same-sex marriage
Log Cabin is hopeful
Priebus will support
‘big tent’ policy
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The head of Log Cabin Republicans
said he is hopeful that the newly elected
chair of the Republican National Commit-
tee, Reince Priebus of Wisconsin, would
maintain cordial relations with LGBT Re-
publicans, even though Priebus supports
a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
Priebus, 38, chair of the Wisconsin
Republican Party, defeated controversial
RNC Chair Michael Steele and four other
candidates in a hotly contested race for
the RNC leadership post at an RNC meet-
ing in suburban Maryland on Jan. 14.
In a Jan. 3 debate at the National
Press Club in Washington, Priebus,
Steele and the three other candidates
for the RNC chair position each said they
believe marriage should be restricted to
a union between a man and a woman.
“I don’t believe that judges can rewrite
the Constitution and redraft what mar-
riage is,” Priebus said during the debate.
“I think…there’s a sanctity of marriage…
I believe my kids and believe children
should grow up with one father and a
mother if possible,” he said.
He then added, “I don’t believe any-
body should be denied dignity in this
discussion, everyone should be loved.
But at the end of the day, I believe that
marriage, through the sanctity of mar-
riage, should be between one man and
one woman.”
In an earlier interview broadcast on
YouTube with Maggie Gallagher, presi-
dent of the National Organization for
Marriage, the leading group opposing
same-sex marriage, Priebus said he
supports the Republican Party platform
position on marriage, which calls for a
constitutional amendment to ban same-
sex marriage.
He also noted in his interview with Gal-
lagher, which took place shortly after he
entered the race for RNC chair, that he
was a strong advocate for the Wisconsin
state constitutional amendment banning
both same-sex marriage and civil unions.
Voters in the state approved that amend-
ment in 2006.
“I was a part of that,” he said. “I
was helpful to make sure that that hap-
pened…It’s an important issue because
I believe marriage is a gift from God and
the sanctity of marriage ought to be pro-
tected,” he told Gallagher.
“I believe the Defense of Marriage Act
is important,” he continued in the interview.
And it’s something that certainly as chair-
man of the Republican National Committee
that we ought to be committed to.”
In marked contrast, the Democratic
Party platform expresses opposition to
both a constitutional ban on same-sex
marriage and the Defense of Marriage
Act, or DOMA, which it calls for repealing.
Reince Priebus of Wisconsin was elected the new RNC chair. He has supported the GOP platform language opposing same-sex marriage and
also supported a ban on civil unions.
DOMA, which Congress passed in
1996, defines marriage under federal
law as a union only between a man and a
woman. The law prevents same-sex cou-
ples married in states that have legalized
such unions from receiving any federal
benefits or rights related to marriage.
The GOP platform also recognizes “the
incompatibility of homosexuality with mili-
tary service” while the Democratic plat-
form called for the repeal of the “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” law barring gays and les-
bians from serving openly in the military.
The subject of gays in the military did
not come up in the debate among RNC
chair candidates or in Gallagher’s inter-
view with Priebus. But in discussing the
GOP platform, Priebus told Gallagher, “I
have no beef with any part of that plat-
form that’s set forth within the Republican
National Committee.”
R. Clarke Cooper, executive director
of Log Cabin Republicans, joined other
GOP leaders in releasing a statement on
the day Priebus was elected RNC chair
calling for party unity and inclusion.
“As Chairman Priebus stated, ‘we must
come together over common interests. We
must unite,’” Cooper said in his statement.
“I look forward to continuing our suc-
cessful partnership with the Republican
National Committee, and urge Chair-
man Priebus to continue the Committee’s
strong record of coalition-building, which
was an important part of GOP success in
2010,” he said.
Cooper said Log Cabin did not take
sides in the RNC chair race. He said he
personally supported one of the candi-
dates but declined to say which one.
GOProud, a national organization rep-
resenting “gay conservatives and their
allies,” called Priebus’ election as party
chair “a good day for conservatives and
for the Republican Party.”
Christopher Barron, chair of GOProud’s
board, said the group worked hard for
Steele’s defeat but did not say if it backed
another candidate. GOProud was among
a number of conservative groups that crit-
icized Steele for making a statement last
year saying the U.S. could not achieve its
objectives in the war in Afghanistan.
“Michael Steel’s tenure as chairman can
only fairly be characterized as an unmiti-
gated disaster,” Barron said “Were it not for
the hard work of outside groups, who were
forced to step in to fill the void left by an in-
effective RNC, success at the ballot box in
November would never have happened.”
Robert Kabel, the gay chair of the
D.C. Republican Committee, had a far
different view on Steele, saying the now
ex-GOP chair did an overall good job.
Kabel said he backed Steele’s re-
election bid, saying Steele was “highly
supportive” of the D.C. Republican Party
and of Kabel’s role as the nation’s only
out gay leader of a state or local Repub-
lican Party committee.
Kabel, who is a member of the RNC,
said he voted for former RNC official Ma-
ria Cino, another of the candidates com-
peting for the chair post, when Steele
dropped out of the race after trailing Prie-
bus in the fourth round of voting.
Cooper noted that Steele had wel-
comed Log Cabin and gay Republicans
in general into the RNC’s fold during his
two-year tenure as RNC chair and hired
at least one out gay staffer to work at
the RNC’s Coalitions Department, which
reached out to Republican constituency
groups like College Republicans, Young
Republicans, and Log Cabin.
Kabel said the gay staffer, Matt Simeon,
who resigned from his post this week, is
among nearly a dozen RNC staff members
who have resigned or that Priebus fired
during his first week in office. The resigna-
tions and firings are said to be part of the
normal personnel changes that take place
whenever a new party chair takes office.
Both said the firings and resigna-
Photo courtesy of Wisconsin GOP
tions were part of the normal personnel
changes that take place whenever a new
party chair takes office.
The Hill newspaper reported that Prie-
bus dismissed most of the staff that had
been hired by Steele to work on the 2012
Republican National Convention.
“They recognized the gay commu-
nity, they were very open to Log Cabin
and they were really delighted when
Clarke Cooper was finally selected as
the new Log Cabin director,” Kabel said
of the RNC Coalitions Department under
Steele’s tenure.
Cooper said he could not say for sure
but he expected Priebus to keep the Co-
alitions Department in place, although he
said the new party chair might rename it or
change its place within the RNC structure.
A staff member with the RNC’s press
office, who identified himself only as Mi-
chael, said he would seek to obtain a re-
sponse to a Blade inquiry about Priebus’
plans for the Coalitions Department and
its interaction with Log Cabin. The staffer
did not get back by press time.
Priebus led in the balloting in a pro-
tracted election in which the 168-mem-
ber RNC was unable to deliver the 85
votes needed to elect a chair until Prie-
bus finally obtained 97 votes on the sev-
enth round of voting.
In addition to Steele, the other can-
didates in the race were Cino, a former
Bush administration official who had
been friendly to Log Cabin; Ann Wagner
of Missouri; and Saul Anuzis of Michigan.
In a related development, on the same
day Priebus won his race for RNC chair,
the RNC elected D.C. resident and long-
time Republican activist Tony Parker as
RNC treasurer, which is considered the
second most important post at the RNC.
Parker has held the position of Repub-
lican National Committeeman from D.C.
His views on LGBT issues could not be
immediately determined.
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NATIONALNEWS
Some in military coming out, others not so sure
Continued from page 1
Tell” is on its way out the door.
On Dec. 22, President Obama signed
into law legislation allowing for repeal of
the military’s gay ban, bringing to a close a
long struggle to repeal the 17-year-old law.
Following the signing of the legislation,
some service members say they intend
to make no changes in how they interact
with their military colleagues, others plan
to make their sexual orientation public,
while others say they’re already out to
others in their unit.
Alex Nicholson, executive director of
Servicemembers United, said he thinks
the service members will respond to the
lifting of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the va-
riety of ways that civilian gays and lesbi-
ans handle their sexual orientation.
“I largely think it’ll reflect civilian so-
ciety,” Nicholson said. “Some people
will make that personal judgment to not
come out, some people will decide to
come out for the first time.”
But for the most part, Nicholson said he
thinks the end of the military’s gay ban will
“in all likelihood be a boring event” that won’t
change things for gay service members.
“Some people are already out, and
that will continue,” Nicholson said. “Oth-
ers are not out, and it’s not necessarily
because of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ that
they’re not out because of personal
choice or environmental judgments.”
Nicholson predicted that a “small mi-
nority” of gay service members will come
out to make a statement about their sex-
ual orientation.
“In the rest of the gay community, you
see some people who subscribe to the
philosophy it’s important to be out to get
people more accustomed with gays and
lesbians,” Nicholson said. “And I think
you’ll see that reflected in a certain group
of the military as well.”
One Navy corpsman who spoke to the
Blade said he expects no changes after
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal because
he’s already out to the majority of his col-
leagues in his unit.
“I’ve also never straight-up told people,
but a lot of people have met people that I’ve
dated or people have come out to a bar with
me or just with my friends,” he said.
The corpsman, a D.C. resident, said
he hasn’t been discharged under “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” even though he’s out to
many of his colleagues because “it was
never an issue.”
“You’re carrying yourself in a certain
way wearing the uniform and whatever you
do outside of work has nothing to do with
your job performance,” he said. “I feel like I
performed to where anything I did in my off
time shouldn’t bother anybody.”
Meanwhile, in Southern Maryland,
a Marine Corps sergeant who’s not out
to his unit said he intends to make his
sexual orientation public after repeal has
been in effect for a while.
“In the military life, I don’t see right
now as the time to jump out of the closet
until after everything goes through and
Alex Nicholson of Servicemembers United said he expects members of the military to react differently to repeal of the gay ban, with some coming
out and others remaining closeted.
they do all the sensitivity training,” he
said. “Probably within a couple years, I’ll
probably slowly start just coming out.”
But delaying his coming out process
doesn’t mean the sergeant is indifferent
to passage of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” re-
peal legislation. When Obama signed re-
peal, he said his reaction was to “have a
couple bottles of Champagne.”
“I was ecstatic about it,” he said. “It
came a lot faster than I thought it was go-
ing to come because I didn’t see it com-
ing before Congress let out.”
The sergeant said he wants to wait
before making any declarations about
his sexual orientation because he wants
senior military leadership that may be un-
comfortable with gays to retire first.
“I want to see a lot of more them retire
and get out of the picture and a lot more
of my peers and my generation move up
into their spots,” the sergeant said. “The
others from my age range, from what I
see, are a lot more accepting of it.”
The sergeant said younger Marines
went to school “with five, six, seven, 10
people in their graduating class who
were openly gay” — an experience not
shared by senior leadership.
Among the strongest opponents of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal prior to
Obama’s signing of the legislation was
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James
Amos, who said an end to the military’s
gay ban could be a distraction that could
“cost Marines’ lives.”
Still, after the law was signed, the com-
mandant issued guidance stating that the
Marine Corps will lead the way in imple-
menting “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal.
The sergeant said he doesn’t share
Amos’ earlier concerns that open service
in the military would be a problem and
predicted that Marines would still be able
to work as a team.
“That person still wants to survive just
as much as I want to survive and go
home to mom’s home cooking with apple
pie,” he said.
As others make plans to come out at a
future time, some service members who
were previously closeted are reportedly
already making headway in the com-
ing out process in the short time since
Obama signed repeal.
The co-director of OutServe, a global
network of LGBT service members, who
goes by the alias J.D. Smith to avoid be-
ing outed under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,”
said he’s already seeing an “interesting
trend” of gay service members starting
to come out to their families and others
with whom they’re close.
“I think the process is people are com-
ing out to people in their units,” Smith
said. “People are coming out to their close
friends that they trust because they know
that it’s about to happen, so I think the
coming out process in general has begun
even with the law still in effect.”
Smith said he knows gay service
members who for the first time brought
home their significant others over the hol-
idays to introduce them to their families
as a result of Obama signing “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal.
Even though the president has signed
the legislation, repeal has yet to take ef-
fect and gay service members could still
be ousted under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
for some time.
Open service will only happen after
the president, the defense secretary and
the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
certify that that U.S. military is ready for
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal.
The law provides no timeline for when
this certification must take place, but
Obama said in a recent interview that he
foresees it happening in the course of
“months, not years.”
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has
said he wants to implement training for
service members before going forward
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
with allowing gays to serve openly in the
military. Gates hasn’t given a specific
timeline for how long the process would
take, but has told reporters he wants to
move in a “matter of weeks” through the
early stages of the process.
Further, after certification takes place,
a 60-day waiting period for congressio-
nal review must pass before gays can
serve openly in the military without fear
of discharge.
Although an implementation date re-
mains uncertain, gay service members
are expressing confidence that “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” will soon be off the books.
The naval corpsman said he’s confi-
dent that repeal of the military’s gay ban
will become final, but said he still antici-
pates that the end may take between six
months and a year.
“You can’t expect for something like night
to day,” he said. “It’s going to take a little bit
of time for all these things to go through and
for people to be accepting of it.”
The Air Force pilot said he thinks repeal
will be implemented this year because he
believes Gates and Chairman of Joint
Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen want
open service to happen on their watches.
“They don’t want to drag it out forever,”
the pilot said. “I’m thinking that probably
by the end of September, it’ll be all said
and done. That’s my personal opinion
just based on what I heard about how it’s
going to take to do the different training
at different levels.”
Nicholson said the perception that
open service will come to the military
soon is widely shared among gay troops
and that the people who are “raising the
alarm bells” tend to come from outside
the military.
“The tone is celebratory and one of re-
lief,” Nicholson said. “I think a lot of peo-
ple that I’ve talked to and that have proac-
tively talked to me about it seem to think
it’s inevitable, it’s just a matter of time.”
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NEWS

Md. GOP Senator steps down over civil unions flap

Continued from page 1
riage bill. In other states, lawmakers re-
luctant to back same-sex marriage have
embraced civil unions as a less contro-
versial alternative, saying it provides the
same legal benefits as marriage.
But this week, the head of the state-
wide LGBT group Equality Maryland said
she was hopeful that Kittleman’s action
would create an opportunity for same-sex
marriage advocates to point out the differ-
ences between marriage and civil unions
and why civil unions don’t provide full pro-
tections for lesbian and gay couples.
“This was an incredibly brave and
important move on his part to stand by
his principles,” said Morgan Meneses-
Sheets, Equality Maryland’s executive
director.
“And we really thank him for that and
we will continue to communicate with him
and talk with him,” she said. “We certain-
ly hope we will have his support when the
marriage bill comes.”
Meneses-Sheets said the marriage bill
is scheduled to be introduced next Tues-
day at a time when her organization and
most political observers believe support-
ers of the bill have the votes to pass it in
both chambers.
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has
said he will sign a same-sex marriage
measure approved by the legislature.
Kittleman has not said when he plans
to formally introduce his civil unions bill,
and he has not released details of its con-
tent other than to say it would cover both
same-sex and heterosexual couples.
His office said he was not immediately Washington Blade file photo

available for comment.
Meneses-Sheets said she doesn’t be-
lieve Kittleman was planning to introduce
a civil unions bill with the intention of de-
railing the marriage measure.
“I really think that he truly supports
providing protections for gay and lesbian
couples and that he’s in a challenging
position,” she said. “Clearly, where his
party isn’t offering support for that posi-
tion, he’s standing by his principles.”
Added Meneses-Sheets, “We’re hop-
ing to have those conversations with him
and a good open dialogue about why it
really needs to be marriage, what the key
Morgan Meneses-Sheets, Equality Maryland’s executive director, said the state’s marriage equality bill would be introduced next Tuesday.
differences are in both the rights and re-
sponsibilities and the important status of
marriage in our society.”
The national same-sex marriage
advocacy group Freedom to Marry is
scheduled to hold a joint news confer-
ence with Equality Maryland at the state
capital in Annapolis at 11 a.m. on Jan.
25 to announce the official introduction
of the marriage bill.
Equality Maryland has announced
an increase in its staff to boost its lob-
bying capabilities on behalf of the bill.
The group has begun holding meetings
throughout the state to recruit volunteers
to engage in grassroots campaigns to
rally support for the legislation. Meet-
ings have already taken place in Prince
Georges and Montgomery counties, with
meetings scheduled Wednesday night in
Baltimore and Anne Arundel County.
“They’ve been well attended, and
people are incredibly excited and really
ready to pitch in every way they can,”
said Meneses-Sheets.
The National Organization for Mar-
riage, which is leading efforts to oppose
same-sex marriage nationwide, has
vowed to spend large sums of money in
Maryland to work against passage of a
marriage bill.
The group is expected to organize a
voter referendum to prevent the bill from
becoming law if the legislature passes
it and O’Malley signs the measure, set-
ting in motion what some predict will be
Maryland’s version of Proposition 8, the
California ballot measure that ended
same-sex marriage there.

Will Obama talk marriage, ENDA in State of the Union?

Continued from page 9
“This year, I will work with Congress and our military to
finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right
to serve the country they love because of who they are,”
Obama said. “It’s the right thing to do.”
Socarides said the State of the Union address pres-
ents “the perfect place” for Obama to set up the path for
advancement on LGBT issues like marriage rights for
same-sex couples.
“When, as president, one mentions something in the
State of the Union, you are conveying to the public at
large that this is something that is crucially important to
you,” Socarides said. “So, I think that highlighting the is-
sue of marriage equality in the State of the Union speech
would be very significant.”
In addition to support for same-sex marriage, LGBT
rights supporters said they would like to hear about a
trans-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act in
the address.
Autumn Sandeen, a San Diego-based transgender
activist, said Obama needs to address employment dis-
crimination experienced by transgender people as well
as gays on the national level.
“Honestly, I would also just like to hear him say the
word ‘transgender’ on the floor of the House,” she said.
“That would be awfully nice.”
With Republicans in control of the U.S. House, San-
deen said she doesn’t think ENDA would pass Congress
for at least the next two years and wants to hear from
Obama on what he would do to address employment
discrimination for the duration of that time.
Carey said renewing support for ENDA would be an-
other way for Obama to recognize that economic hard-
ships in the country are also affecting LGBT people.
“There are so many LGBT people in this country
whose jobs are not protected from basic bias and dis-
crimination,” Carey said. “We would like to see him call
for those employment protections for LGBT people.”
Other issues that Carey identified as important for Obama
to address include school bullying and passing immigration
reform and ensuring that Social Security benefits aren’t cut.
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INSIDELGBTWASHINGTON
The lost art of civil discourse
Honor Tucson victims
by changing the tone
By PETER ROSENSTEIN
As we watched the funer-
als of those gunned down in
Tucson, and continued to pray
for the recovery of Rep. Gabri-
elle Giffords and others injured
there, we must begin to turn the
page and focus on the future.
As a nation we must determine
what we will do that will have
both a lasting impact and honor
the memory of that tragic day.
Static memorials or plaques are
not enough. We need to find a
way to remember the fallen and
the injured that could actually
change lives.
We need to do this not as
Democrats, Republicans or in-
dependents, but as President
Obama said so eloquently,
“As part of the American fam-
ily, which is 300 million strong.”
We are a nation that was born
out of war, survived a civil war,
and moved on from civil rights
riots and anti-war demonstra-
tions. We are a nation that has
seen our fair share of death
and destruction in the name of
freedom. But we are also a na-
tion that continues to prove to
the world every few years that
a peaceful transfer of power in
FEEDBACK
The following comments were
posted to our website. Visit
washingtonblade.com to join
the discussion.
Re: “2011 to bring new mar-
riage fights across U.S.” (news,
Jan. 14)
This really is a mixed bag isn’t
it? Moving forward in Rhode Is-
land, Maryland, Hawaii & Dela-
ware; moving backward in New
Hampshire, North Carolina &
Indiana. What a disaster the Re-
publican wave in 2010 was for
America and the LGBT communi-
ty. Lesson to everyone — vote the
GOP out of office in every state
and at every level of government
in 2011 and 2012! Maybe then
we can get ENDA, the Domestic
Partnership Benefits & Obliga-
tions Act, the Uniting American
Families Act and DOMA repeal
done; along with marriage recog-
nition in a number of new states.
—Tim
Re: “Marriage in Maryland?”
government can happen. We
are a nation of strong and di-
verse individuals who strive to
survive and prosper.
Today, as in times of trag-
edy in the past, we must take
the opportunity to look at our-
selves anew. Take a moment to
stand back and look into our
own consciences and deter-
mine how we can be better in-
dividuals and then collectively
a better people. We must ask
what it is that we can do that
will make us better.
We need to find ways to
teach our children to be bet-
ter people. Maybe the place to
start is to teach about our Con-
stitution, that glorious document
that has guided us as a nation
for more than 200 years. While
we may differ on how to read it,
some believing it is a guideline
and meant to be a living breath-
ing document and others read-
ing it as a strict construction of
beliefs that we must abide by,
we all agree it is an amazing
document.
Then we must teach our chil-
dren that life is a series of expe-
riences, some good, some not
so good and others very bad.
We must teach them that some-
times bad things do happen to
good people. Teach them that
life requires of us to share this
planet with a great diversity of
(op-ed by Kevin Naff, Jan. 14)
As someone who worked for
the current Sen. Kittleman, I can
assure you that his heart is in the
right place. He has the most pro-
gay rights record of anyone in
his caucus. Before passing judg-
ment I encourage you to contact
him and hear him out for yourself.
—DMB
To think that Allan Kittleman
would be against civil rights is
to truly not know the man. I know
Sen. Kittleman personally, and I
can assure you that the reasons
he has for calling it “civil union”
versus “marriage” are very real.
It has nothing to do with being
separate and unequal, it has to
do with giving the same respect
to people who hold the religious
context of the word dear, as he
gives respect to his goal of true
and total equality for ALL peo-
ple under the law.
To say anything less of Sen.
Kittleman is to simply not un-
derstand what he’s trying to do.
people both those with whom
we share beliefs and those
whose beliefs differ from ours.
And show them by our actions
that the way to do that peace-
fully is to respect each other.
We are not called on to agree
with each other but we must
respect each other. We must
teach our children that violence
is not the way to solve prob-
lems. We need to teach them
how to have civil discourse
and to argue and debate with
others in a way that still allows
us to live together in harmony
once the debate is over.
To do this we aren’t required
to change our beliefs but just
maybe we can change how we
verbalize and present them.
Maybe we can all refrain from
using violent terms in public
discourse and find more civil
language to use in debate.
That’s not to suggest we
shouldn’t use terms like “tar-
geted for defeat” when talking
about a politician, as that term
has various colloquial defini-
tions and meanings. But maybe
we could refrain from using
targets or gun sights as the
indicators on a map. Maybe it
is time to once again have de-
bate classes and clubs in all
our schools, from elementary
school on, to teach children
how to debate each other in
Please talk to him before pass-
ing judgment in this way.
—HoCo Dude
Re: “Would ENDA have a
shot as a jobs bill?” (news, Jan.
14)
ENDA will pass in the Senate
on the day after pigs take wing
and fly over the Capitol. Not one
second before.
—K in VA
I think ENDA could pass in
the Senate if they change the
rules to prevent the filibuster
from holding up the legisla-
tion. It might be able to get 51
votes and pass the Senate, but
of course, the Republican-con-
trolled House will never allow
it to pass, and I don’t think we
can count on President Obama
to push hard for it either.
—Tim
Unfortunately with the House
under GOP control, ENDA won’t
even get a fair up or down vote.
civil ways — something that ap-
pears to be a lost art.
Today some people think
that all occasions and issues
call for dramatic quotes and im-
ages like Patrick Henry’s, “Give
me liberty or give me death.”
But in reality few things de-
mand that we go so far. There
are few things that are really life
and death in the political arena
or in everyday life. And no one
can deny that some on all sides
of the political spectrum and
many media personalities have
dramatized issues using bom-
bast rather than civil reasoned
discussion.
It is time to turn the page,
and make a commitment to talk
to each other civilly, debate the
crucial issues of the day in rea-
sonable and reasoned ways.
Maybe that could be our last-
ing monument to those who
died in Tucson.
Peter Rosenstein is a d.C.-based lGBt
rights and democratic Party activist. he
writes regularly for the Blade.
The GOP has no integrity and their
right-wing Christian base is against
it and demands obstruction!
The GOP platform specifically
is against gay rights. Further, when
George W. Bush was president,
the GOP claimed they couldn’t
pass the legislation because it
was unconstitutional. A [phony]
excuse as they claim that since
gay people aren’t protected spe-
cifically by the Constitution, you
can’t pass laws to protect them.
Well neither are the disabled but
we passed a law against discrimi-
nating against them! The trans-
gender inclusion gives the GOP
ammunition to raise hysterics and
a visceral discomfort with them to
further derail the legislation.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid
failed us by refusing to allow
ENDA a vote while the Demo-
crats were in power. Now we may
have to waste another genera-
tion or more before this bill has a
real chance of passage. Such a
waste. It’s hard not to be bitter.
—EL
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VIEWPOINT
Holding movement leaders accountable
Criticizing HRC
without seeking its
destruction
By LANE HUDSON
A few weeks ago, I wrote a
column for the Blade questioning
whether HRC President Joe Sol-
monese was engaged in lobbying
rank-and-file members of Con-
gress. The reaction to that column
requires a response on my part.
The headline “How engaged
is HRC in ‘Don’t Ask’ fight?” was
not written by me and does not
reflect the content of the column.
In addition to what I wrote in the
column, I know that Allison Her-
witt, HRC’s legislative director,
and her team have been working
diligently in lobbying Congress
on our legislative priorities. I also
know that HRC’s field team was
doing what they could back in
the states to advance repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
I also believe that the work
done by the HRC Foundation
is beyond reproach. Whether
it be Darryl Herrschaft at the
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‘HRC … is our movement’s leading presence
in Congress. It is fair to ask whether its leader
regularly lobbies and it is fair to expect a
reasonable response to the question.’
HRC Workplace Project, Donna
Payne’s outreach to the African-
American community, the work
that Harry Knox has done over
the years on religious issues, or
Candace Gingrich-Jones’ youth
outreach, HRC is full of people
who do incredibly meaningful
work everyday.
Some have questioned
whether I unfairly published an
e-mail to me from HRC’s head
of communications, Fred Sainz.
I e-mailed Sainz to let him know
that I had heard that Solmonese
viewed his job as fundraising
rather than lobbying members
of Congress and told him that
I was writing a column on the
subject. I offered to include any
information on Solmonese’s lob-
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while providing commentary on
the state of our movement.
never hid her lobbying work.
Why would Solmonese?
This leads me to another reac- In all of the criticism, ques-
tion that I received to my previous
column. Some believe that I see
tions and responses to that
column, no one ever disputed
the claim that Solmonese does
myself as leading a movement
to destroy HRC. That is as ridicu- not engage in lobbying rank-
lous as it sounds. What I do be-
lieve is that we all have a respon-
and-file members of Congress.
If Solmonese views his job as
sibility to further our movement fundraising instead of lobbying,
and that includes holding people then he and his staff should be
in leadership accountable. That’s able to justify it. That they ad-
bying activity. Here is his exact why I’m writing this column and opted such a defensive posture
response to me: “Here’s what why I wrote the last. must mean that they can’t.
you can say Lane and attribute The most interesting response HRC was founded as an ad-
it to me: that’s fucking bullshit!” to that column was a joint state- vocacy organization and is our
This didn’t answer the ques- ment from Sens. Susan Collins movement’s leading presence in
tion; and it was only the beginning and Joe Lieberman in which Congress. It is fair to ask whether
of Fred’s effort to distract from the they wrote, “repealing this policy its leader regularly lobbies and it
question I was posing. He sug- is testament to Joe’s leadership is fair to expect a reasonable re-
gested that I should be disquali- and HRC’s role in this legislative sponse to the question.
fied from commenting on HRC battle.” When I read this, it struck
because the organization had me as an outsized response to
fired me after exposing the Mark my Blade column.
Foley scandal several years ago. I’ve heard stories of how for-
I have long put that behind mer HRC Executive Director
me. In fact, when asked about it, Elizabeth Birch would passion-
I usually say that being fired by ately lobby congressional staff
HRC opened up more opportu- on legislative priorities during
nities than I had before. One of the workweek and would then
those opportunities is to some- barnstorm the country on week- Lane Hudson is D.C.-based LGBT rights
times play a leadership role in ends raising money and recruit- activist and occasional Blade contributor.
Reach him at lane@lanehudson.com.
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blood orange, goat cheese

potage crémeux à la courge musquée

butternut squash soup, pumpkin seed oil

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washingtonblade.com • vol. 42, issue 03 • january 21, 2011 • Page 19

Rebuilding & By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO

joeyd@washblade.com

reconnecting
Chely Wright is sick.
Nothing major but it’s her third day of
a cold she picked up last weekend at a
songwriter’s festival in Florida. It’s bad
enough that a doctor’s visit is planned.
Lesbian country singer Chely She’s at home in Manhattan, where she
Wright to play the Birchmere moved nearly three years ago to finish
her autobiography. She’s confident she’ll
be recovered enough to play the Birch-
Chely Wright mere in Alexandria, Va., Friday night.
with Deep River “Several of us were kind of passing it
Tonight, 7:30 p.m. around at the festival,” she says sound-
The Birchmere
ing clear-voiced during a phone inter-
3701 Mount Vernon Ave.
Alexandria view.
Tickets: $25 This is her first show at Alexandria’s
Birchmere but she knows the venue from
other singer/songwriter friends. Tickets
were still available as of Blade press time
Wednesday.
“It’s a very discerning audience
there,” she says. “I’m excited.”
The venue doesn’t regularly book
country acts but has hosted shows by
Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, the
late Johnny Cash as well as current acts
like Sugarland and the Zac Brown Band.
Michael Jaworek booked Wright sev-
eral times at the Alexandria country club
Zed in the early years of her career and
is excited to have her play the Birchmere
where he’s been booking acts since
1988.
“Musically, her current work fits the
club, plus she has an audience,” he
says. “It’s made up of her old fans from
her Top 40 country career and the new
ones who have discovered her since
coming out. The new album shows that
she can write solid songs and is pro-
duced by one of the best songwriters
today, or any day, Rodney Crowell. We
don’t book many country acts but we do
book those we think can fill the venue.”
It’s been, of course, a life-altering time
for Wright, who came out last May with a
high-profile media blitz that included the
Crowell collaboration album “Lifted Off
the Ground,” the aforementioned memoir
“Like Me” and appearances on “Oprah,”
at Capital Pride and more. She’s known
for a string of late ’90s/early ’00s country
hits that found her charting about 15 sin-
gles on the country radio charts includ-
ing the No. 1 cut “Single White Female.”
“Ground” is the 40-year-old Kansas na-
tive’s seventh studio album.
“I’m still having what Oprah calls those
Continues on page 34

Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key

20 washingtonblade.com • january 21, 2011
QUEERY: 20 questions for Darrell Sampson
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com How long have you been out and who
was the hardest person to tell?
Darrell Sampson came to D.C., he I have been out since I was 21.
says, on “a fluke” but one thing that kept Ironically, my father was the hardest
him here was the city’s appreciation for to tell, but he was prepared for it and
classical music. The baritone, a fan of all knew ahead of time. I thought it would
choral music but especially that written come as no great surprise when I told
before 1750, has found several outlets my mother, and yet she was completely
— he sings with the National Master shocked.
Chorale, the Woodley Ensemble and
Chantry, a group that specializes in this Who’s your LGBT hero?
era. Any gay man or woman who has
The 16-member Chantry, under the come before me and survived the in-
direction of David Taylor, is having the evitable struggles that one undergoes
second concert of its 10th season Sat- —Stonewall, the AIDS epidemic, Liza
urday at St. Mary Mother of God Church in “Sex and the City 2.” I have had it
(727 5th St., N.W.) at 8 p.m. “Three easier because of those who came be-
Kings: Masterpieces for the Magi” will fore me and young people coming out
feature motets by Victoria, Lassus, Pal- now will have had it easier because of
estrina, Dufay, Handel, Poulenc and oth- my generation.
ers. Tickets are $27 and are available at
chantrydc.org. Several of the singers, What’s Washington’s best nightspot,
including Sampson, are gay. past or present?
So what’s the appeal of such ancient Nellie’s or Freddie’s in Arlington.
music? Sampson, a school counselor
who has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music, says he discovered his passion Describe your dream wedding.
for it in an early music survey class. My dream wedding would be an ex-
“I remember hearing the Gloria from the Missa Papae Marcelli by Palestrina and tremely small affair. Close friends and
I almost burst into tears,” he says. “It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever heard. family would attend, perhaps outdoors in
There’s nothing really that can describe what that was like.” the fall. Poetry, writings done by friends.
The 35-year-old Decatur, Ill., native also loves “Glee,” Jane Austen novels (he Being a musician, I would probably want
found the zombie mashups “surreal”), hiking and yoga. to have a small consort of singers so one
He lives in Arlington and he and boyfriend Josh Israel are looking for a place slight “frill.”
together.
What non-LGBT issue are you most
passionate about?
Education. All our children deserve
a quality education to prepare them
to become productive citizens in the
world. In my job I work with a wide vari-
ety of students and their families, from
those who have every material advan-
tage in the world to those who have
very little and whose lives are con-
stantly undergoing change. All of these
students need assistance in some way
sale
… Children failing is rarely going to be
the result of one party’s actions. Rather,
we as a whole society are responsible
for helping these students grow and
achieve. The schools have a responsi-
bility, the families have a responsibility,
the neighborhoods have a responsibili-
20% - 50% ty and most of all we as a citizenry have
a responsibility.
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I would welcome being able to
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On what do you insist?
Kindness, respect and really listening
to others. Think about it — we rarely truly
“listen” to each other any more without
interjecting and getting defensive.
What was your last Facebook post or
Tweet?
Come hear some wonderful music
from the early music ensemble Chantry!
Saturday, January 22nd at 8 p.m. at St.
Mary, Mother of God in Gallery Place,
Chinatown.
If your life were a book, what would
the title be?
“Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict:
My Eternal Search for Mr. Darcy.”
If science discovered a way to change
sexual orientation, what would you
do?
Personally, nothing. I am happy the
way I am.
What do you believe in beyond the
physical world?
No comment. I like to remain open
and neutral to all faiths and belief sys-
tems that come into my office.
What’s your advice for LGBT move-
ment leaders?
Perseverance. Change has already
come to pass, more is on the way.
What would you walk across hot
coals for?
The chocolate pear tart at the Queen
of Tarts bakery in Dublin, Ireland. I’m not
kidding — I would.
What LGBT stereotype annoys you
most?
Most stereotyping annoys me. There
is a huge wealth of diversity in the LGBT
community, as there is in any other.
What’s your favorite LGBT movie?
“Beautiful Thing.” Corny, schmaltzy,
and I love it every time I watch it.
What’s the most overrated social
custom?
De-friending on Facebook. It’s Face-
book, people … really?
What trophy or prize do you most
covet?
Winning the lottery. Who wouldn’t?
What do you wish you’d known at 18?
It’s not always important that I be right.
Why Washington?
I came out here to look around for
work, for life, on a whim one sum-
mer — I had no idea what I was hop-
ing for. Frank Albinder, the conductor
of the Woodley Ensemble, hired me
to sing a choral gig after I had been
here a week, and I found myself sing-
ing Renaissance music in the National
Cathedral not long after. I was hooked
— it was what I had been searching for
over five years. It is in those moments
of creating incredible music that I know
that I am home.
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CALENDAR the Birchmere Dec. 17. (Photo courtesy of the Roches)
Lace Lounge, a D.C. lesbian bar, has its ‘Social Climax’ party tonight from
10 p.m. to 3 a.m.
TODAY
Chely Wright will be at the
Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon
Ave.) in Alexandria, Va., tonight
at 7:30 p.m. with special guest,
Deep River. Tickets are $25 and
ourtesy
can be purchased online at
birchmere.com.
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.
Apex (1415 22nd St., N.W.)
presents Caliente Grande with
DJ Michael Brandon in the main
hall. Jamaica and Friends will
perform in a drag show at mid-
night. Drink specials include $4
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margaritas. Attendees must be
18 to enter and there is a $10
cover. For more information, visit
apex-dc.com or calientedc.com.
Enigma, a monthly sub-
stance-free, no-alcohol party,
is tonight at the Green Lantern
(1335 Green Court, N.W.) from
10 p.m. to 3 a.m. on the second
floor with a separate entrance
and a security guard working
the door to make sure no one
with drinks from downstairs
comes up. Cover is $5 and all
are welcomed.
Lace Lounge (2214 Rhode
Island Ave., N.E.) presents
Social Climax from 10 p.m. to
3 a.m. with free drinks before
11:30 p.m. Attendees must be
21 or older and there is a $10
cover. For more information,
visit lacedc.com.
Metropolitan Community
Church of Washington’s fun-
draising team is hosting a
bingo night tonight at 7 p.m.
at the church (474 Ridge St.,
N.W.). The evening begins with
four early bird games which
costs $2 for four cards or $3 for
eight cards. This is followed by
17 regular and special games
which are packaged for as low
as $25. There will be home-
made refreshments available.
Saturday, Jan. 22
Merrifield Garden Center
is returning with its free gar-
dening, landscaping and now
cooking seminars today at 10
a.m. Next to the Merrifield loca-
tion, in the Merrifield Community
Hall (8104 Lee Highway), Vivian
Mitchell, a tropical plant spe-
cialist, will be teaching about
easy-to-grow houseplants. Jon-
athan Kavalier, a horticulturist
with the Smithsonian Institution,
will be at the Fair Oaks location
(12101 Lee Highway) in Fairfax
teaching how to grow orchids.
Lilienne Conklin, a chef, will be
teaching about cooking with
line at the Gainesville location
(6895 Wellington Rd.). Registra-
tion is not required for any of the
seminars, but Merrifield asks at-
tendees of the wine seminar to
register online at merrifieldgar-
dencenter.com.
Mixtape D.C. is tonight at
DC9 (1940 9th St., N.W.) from
10 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. Mixtape is
a dance party for queer music
lovers and their pals that fea-
tures DJs Shea Van Horn and
Matt Bailer playing an eclectic
mix of electro, alt-pop, indie
rock, house, disco, new wave
and anything else danceable.
$5 cover for 21 and over.
Chantry, a classical vocal
group, presents “Three Kings:
Masterpieces for the Magi” to-
night at 8 p.m. at St. Mary Moth-
er of God (727 5th St., N.W.).
DJ Brett Henrichsen will be
at Town (2009) tonight at 10 p.m.
with music and video downstairs
by Wess. The drag show starts
at 10:30 p.m. Cover is $8 before
11 p.m. and $12 after. Attendees
must be 21 or older.
Starting tonight, every fourth Sat-
urday of the month, Green Lantern
(1335 Green Court, N.W.) is hosting
Jocks vs. Jocks from 10 p.m. to 2
a.m. Cover is $5 if wearing sports
attire, $7 if not. There’s a trophy and
cash prizes for the winning team.
Sunday, Jan. 23
The Shakespeare Theatre
Company presents “Cymbe-
line,” directed by Rebecca
Bayla Taichman, tonight at
7:30 p.m. at the Lansburgh
Theatre (450 7th St., N.W.).
Tickets range from $37 to $70
and can be purchased online
at shakespearetheatre.org.
Before the performance, there
will be a “Windows Discus-
sion,” which offers an intro-
duction and a talk about the
show moderated by literary
manager, Akiva Fox. The dis-
cussion is at 5 p.m. in the Sid-
ney Harman Hall (610 F. St.,
N.W.) and is free to the public.
Camp Rehoboth Chorus
presents “Strike Up the Band”
today with two performances,
one at 3 p.m. and another at 7.
Tickets are $15 and can be pur-
chased by calling 302-227-5620.
Burgundy Crescent Volun-
teers is holding a karaoke so-
cial tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Ba-
nana Café (500 8th St., S.E.) in
the upstairs piano bar.
Monday, Jan. 24
SAGE Metro D.C. will be
holding its monthly meeting to-
night at 6:30 p.m. at the D.C.
Center (1318 U St., N.W.).
Tuesday, Jan. 25
Synetic opens its limited en-
gagement presentation of “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream” at 8
p.m. at Crystal City (1800 South
Bell St.) in Arlington.
Nellie’s (900 U St., N.W.)
will be have a watch party for
President Obama’s State of the
Union address tonight at 7 p.m.
with the usual drag bingo and
“Glee” watch party at 8 p.m.
Busboys and Poets (2021
14th St., N.W.) hosts an open
mic poetry night tonight from 9 to
11 p.m. featuring SMYTE-IX and
hosed by Jenny Lares. This event
is $4 and wristbands will be sold in
the bookstore beginning at 10 a.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 26
Whitman-Walker will have
HIV testing today from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m. at the Elizabeth Taylor Medi-
cal Center (1701 14th St., N.W.)
and from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at
the Max Robinson center (2301
Martin luther King Jr., Ave., S.E.).
Thursday, Jan. 27
Lambda Sci-Fi will have its
book discussion group meeting to-
night at 7 p.m. at 1425 S St., N.W.
This month’s book is “The Steel
Remains” by Richard K. Morgan.
Call James at 202-232-3141 or
e-mail to info@lambdascifi.org to
RSVP. For more information, visit the
group’s website, lambdascifi.org.
Put On the Gloves, an orga-
nization to help fight against
bullying, is hosting a fashion
show at Town (2009 8th St.,
N.W.) tonight from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
The show will be hosted by ce-
lebrity stylist and author Phillip
Block and Will Thomas of Fox 5
with a special performance by
Mya. Tickets are $50 and can be
purchased online at putonthe-
gloves.com. Proceeds will ben-
efit the Trevor Project.
Mautner Project presents a
yoga wellness workshop tonight
from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at 1875 Con-
necticut Ave., N.W. on the sev-
enth floor with Danielle Polen
from Tranquil Space. The work-
shop is free.
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Suzanne Westenhoefer plays the Birchmere in Alexandria, Va., next weekend.

Westenhoefer gets ‘Semi-Sweet’ at Birchmere

Suzanne Westenhoefer will be performing at the Birchmere Music Hall (3701 Mt.
Vernon Ave.) in Alexandria on Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m. as part of her “Semi-Sweet” tour.
“I’m calling the new show Semi-Sweet because there’s a lot of sweet stuff to talk
about …. and a lot of stuff that, well, isn’t,” says Westenhoefer on her website. “It’s
all about the changes that have occurred in my life over the past year. Some have
been good and some not-so-much. I thought the name Semi-Sweet captured that
perfectly.”
The show will have new material.
Westenhoefer, voted at “America’s Funniest Lesbian” by Curve magazine, was
the first openly gay comedian to appear on television when she appeared on an
episode of “Sally” (with Sally Jessy Raphael) in 1991.
She was also the first openly gay comic to host her own HBO comedy special
in 1994.
Westenhoefer will be seen in the upcoming Nicole Conn film, “A Perfect End-
ing,” which is scheduled to begin filming this spring.
Tickets are $45 and can be purchased at birchmere.com.
For more information on Westenhoefer, visit her website, suzannew.com.

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Even though the days have been cold
and the nights even colder, the local
LGBT sports groups are still finding ways
to be active.
“Forget fear — Worry about the addic-
tion” is the motto for MYOB Adventures
series of flying trapeze lessons at the Navy
Yard. The next sessions are scheduled for
Feb. 12 and 19. Each session is $80 and
is limited to 10 people. Contact kevinmnor-
ris@aol.com for more information.
MYOB Adventures is also offering a
snow tubing day trip at Whitetail Ski Re-
sort on Jan. 29. The package will include
luxury bus transportation, two hours of
snow tubing and lunch. Contact kevinm-
norris@aol.com to sign up.
The D.C. Ice Breakers will be joined
by the Federal Triangles Soccer Club
on Feb. 16 from 8:15 to 9:15 p.m. at the
Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, Va.
Skating is $8 and skate rental is $3. After
the skate, join the group at Bailey’s Pub
for socializing. Details can be found at
www.dcicebreakers.com.
The D.C. Gay Flag Football League
(DCGFFL) has just closed registration for
its spring season which begins Feb. 6. The
second season registration topped out at a
jaw-dropping 180 players. Members play
VIDA
at the Carter Barron fields and you can still
get on the wait list at www.dcgffl.org.
Join the Adventuring Outdoors Group
for its annual trek to Pennsylvania for the
FITNESS Gettysburg Battlefield Hike on Sunday.
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day’s battle was fought on July 1, 1863,
an action ending with a deceptively con-
vincing Rebel triumph that planted the
seeds for their ultimate defeat.
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Total length of the hike should not ex-
ceed 8 miles over gently rolling and po-
tentially icy and/or muddy terrain. Bring
beverages, lunch and about $12 for fees.
The group will carpool at 9 a.m. from the
Grosvenor-Strathmore Metro Station and
will be back by dinnertime. Contact craig-
howell1@verizon.net for more information.
The Adventuring Outdoors Group
is also offering a much shorter hike on
Jan. 30. The hike at Scott’s Run Nature
Preserve is near the Capital Beltway’s
American Legion Bridge. Total length of
the hike will not exceed 3 miles and will
go past the waterfall on Scott’s Run and
along the Potomac River as well as up
and down the palisades of the Potomac.
Bring beverages, lunch and $3 trip fee
as well as fees for non-drivers. The
group will at 10 a.m. at a place to be de-
termined near the Pentagon City Metro to
carpool to the site and will return by 3:30
p.m. Contact jcowden@earthlink.net.
The organizers of the Capital Queer
Prom will be hosting a Wizards Night Out
on Feb. 5 versus the Atlanta Hawks at
7 p.m. Tickets are $32 with $10 of each
ticket going to the Capital Queer Prom
which helps benefit the Capital Youth Al-
liance. The after party is at Nellies Sports
Bar. Tickets can be purchased at veri-
zoncenter.com/wiz/2011wiznightout.
Team D.C. is hosting a casino night on
Feb. 19 from 9 p.m. to midnight at Buffalo
Billiards. Members will be joined by the
Washington Wetskins (water polo), Federal
Triangles Soccer Club, D.C. Gay Flag Foot-
ball, District of Columbia Aquatics Club
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Area Rainbowlers Association (bowling)
and the D.C. Ice Breakers (ice skating).
There will be blackjack tables, poker
tables and a billiards tournament. Buffalo
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THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS OPENINGS
Fri, Jan. 21
Shawn Mikael’s Theater, DC Arts Center
(DCAC). 202-462-7833. dcartscenter.org
Spot-LYTE Company presents the DC
area premiere of END DAYS, Work-
house Arts Center. 703-584-2900. work-
housearts.org.
The Carpetbagger’s Children, Ford’s
Theatre. 202-397-7328. fords.org.
Thu, Jan. 27
National Symphony Orchestra:
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor /
Beethoven & Zemlinsky, Kennedy Cen-
ter. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
LAST CHANCE
Sun, Jan. 23
American Ballet Theatre, Kennedy Cen-
The Tango Fire Company of Buenos Aires ~ Tango Inferno: The Fire Within ter. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org
Tue, Jan 25 The Body Inside and Out: Anatomi-
Strathmore cal Literature and Art Theory Selec-
tions from the National Gallery of Art
strathmore.org Library, National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
The Tango Fire Company of Buenos Aires, Argentina’s most acclaimed dance com-
Spencer Finch: My Business, with the
pany performs Tango Inferno to traditional tango music by live musicians.
Cloud, Corcoran Gallery of Art. 202-639-
1700. corcoran.org.
Tue, Jan. 25
Beltway Poetry Slam, The Fridge DC.
202-664-4151. thefridgedc.com.
Wed, Jan. 26
Artist in Residence: Ted Garber, singer-
songwriter, Strathmore. strathmore.org.
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
Jan. 22 - Jan. 23
TAKE Dance, Dance Place. 202-269-
1600. danceplace.org.
Jan. 22 - Jan. 24
A Midsummer Night’s Dream National Symphony Orchestra: Chris-
toph Eschenbach, conductor / Tzimon
Jan 25 - Jan 30 Barto, piano, plays Gershwin, Kennedy
Synetic Theater
Center. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
Crystal City Theatre
800-494-8497 ONE NIGHT ONLY
synetictheater.org
Synetic brings this smash hit to Crystal City after its tour to Williams College. If you
Fri, Jan. 21
Friday Night Eclectic: X.O. and RAth-
missed it the first time, are looking for a great gift, or just want to see it again, don’t
eMC with AB the Pro, Strathmore.
miss your chance to experience the joy of this fantastical, playful game of love, mis-
strathmore.org.
taken identity and the supernatural.
Open Rehearsal: American Ballet
The Guide to Arts & Culture is produced by CultureCapital.com, the one-stop shop to arts & culture for Theatre, The Kennedy Center. 202-467-
Metro DC, a program of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington. THE TANGO FIRE COMPANY: Sup- 4600. kennedy-center.org.
plied by Strathmore; A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM: Supplied by Synetic Theater.
Sat, Jan. 22
Music in the Mansion: Shir Ami ~ Song
of Our People, Strathmore. strathmore.org
National Philharmonic: Ganz Chopin
Piano Recital, Strathmore. 301-581-
5100. nationalphilharmonic.org.
The Capital City Showcase, DC
Arts Center (DCAC). 202-462-7833.
dcartscenter.org.
Sofya Gulyak, piano, Washington Per-
forming Arts Society, The Kennedy Cen-
ter. wpas.org.
Sun, Jan. 23
Amit Peled, cello, Eli Kalman, piano,
Washington Performing Arts Society, The
Kennedy Center. wpas.org.
Tue, Jan. 25
A Tribute to the Pablo Casals Concert in
the Kennedy White House, Kennedy Cen-
ter. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
Bio Ritmo on Salsa Tuesdays!, Arling-
ton Cultural Affairs, ARTISPHERE. 703-
875-1100. arlingtonarts.org.
Music in the Mansion: Gabriela Mon-
tero, piano, Strathmore. strathmore.org.
Wed, Jan. 26
Adam György, piano- all-Liszt, The Em-
bassy Series, Embassy of Hungary. 202-
625-2361. embassyseries.org.
Joshua Bell, violin, Sam Haywood, pia-
no, Washington Performing Arts Society,
Strathmore. wpas.org.
Thu, Jan. 27
Ari Hest, Wolf Trap. 1-877-WOLFTRAP.
wolftrap.org.
Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract
Painter, Corcoran Gallery of Art. 202-
639-1700. programs.corcoran.org.
Adam Györgyi, piano- all-Liszt, The
Embassy Series, Embassy of Hungary.
202-625-2361. embassyseries.org.
ONGOING STAGE
A Shadow of Honor - Keegan Theatre,
Keegan Theatre, Church Street Theater.
703-892-0202. keegantheatre.com.
Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O’Neill,
American Century Theater, Gunston The-
atre Two. 703-998-4555. americancen-
tury.org.
The In Series - Pagliacci and Maria La
O - Winter Pocket Opera Double Bill, In
Series, Source Theatre. 202-204-7763.
inseries.org.
Return to Haifa, Theater J. 800-494-
8497. washingtondcjcc.org.
Washington Stage Guild: Magic by
G.K. Chesterton, Washington Stage
Guild, Undercroft Theatre. 240-582-
0050. stageguild.org.
Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet, The
Studio Theatre. 202-332-3300. studiothe-
atre.org.
Tynan, The Studio Theatre. 202-332-
3300. studiotheatre.org.
Shear Madness, The Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
ONGOING EXHIBITONS
Corcoran Gallery of Art. corcoran.org.
Washington Color and Light.
Kreeger Museum. 202-338-3552.
kreegermuseum.org. In Unison: 20
Washington, DC Artists, Monoprints: 20
DC Artists.
National Gallery of Art. 202-737-4215.
nga.gov. From Impressionism to Mod-
ernism: 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.
ReSolve: New Works by Richard Sieg-
man, DC Arts Center (DCAC). 202-462-
7833. dcartscenter.org.

THEATERAGENDA
Anna Deavere Smith in Second Stage’s production of ‘Let Me Down Easy,’ directed by Leonard Foglia.
Quick change artist
Smith embodies
interviewees in tour de
force health care survey
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
With her solo show “Let Me Down Easy,”
Anna Deavere Smith again holds up mir-
rors. This time, they’re on health care.
The topic of discussion isn’t as laser
focused as Smith’s previous forays into
the one-woman arena (“Fire in the Mirror”
and “Twilight: Los Angeles,” about the ri-
ots in Crown Heights and South Central,
respectively), but the touring show’s mes-
sage is still pretty clear: neither illness nor
U.S. health care are fair. Through a selec-
tion of 20 disparate, engrossing testimoni-
als, Smith, who declines to disclose her
sexual orientation, gradually makes her
point.
As with her earlier works, Smith ex-
tracts her monologues verbatim from in-
terviews she conducted. A consummate
mimic, she brilliantly trots a cross-section
of America (including a boxer, bull rider,
doctor, Buddhist monk, professor) onto
the stage of Arena’s intimate Kreeger
Theatre, seamlessly morphing from one
person to the next. As she takes on their
physicality, voice and demeanor without
ever entirely losing her own formidable
presence in the enthralling process,
Smith allows us to meet her interviewees
(each of whom is identified by a project-
ed name and title).
Longtime model Lauren Hutton, never
one to be deterred by the velvet rope,
brags about gaining entrée to New York’s
best health care professionals. It’s all about
connections. Seven-time Tour de France
winner Lance Armstrong discusses how
his intensely competitive nature helped
him to beat cancer and eventually return
to his sport. Lesbian choreographer Eliza-
beth Streb remembers lighting herself on
fire as she performed a fire dance for her
girlfriend. Not all of Smith’s subjects are
well known. Her aunt, retired Baltimore
school teacher Lorraine Coleman, hilari-
ously recalls the last words her dying sister
said to her: “You still got that big ass!”
During her 100-minute performance,
Smith goes beyond the usual health care
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BOOKAGENDA
‘Annabel’ tells story
of intersex child
A novel of secrets,
desires and a family
that’s splintered
By TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER
We all know people with the “Type A,”
all-or-nothing personalities. Many of us
even fall into that category ourselves.
You always jump in with both feet.
There’s nothing hesitant about you;
when you’re in, you’re in. You go whole-
hog, pedal to the metal, all or nothing.
People can count on you because you’re
not the least bit wishy-washy. With you,
there’s no half way.
That’s not the case for Wayne Blake,
child of Treadway and Jacinta. In the
new novel, “Annabel” by Kathleen Win-
ter, Wayne can only go half way because
he’s only half a boy.
On the morning that Wayne Blake
entered the world, the midwife, Thoma-
sina Baikie, did what came natural: she
checked to see if the baby was male or
female, and was shocked.
The child appeared to be both. After
tending to the mother, Jacinta, Thoma-
sina broke the news to the new father.
Treadway Blake, like his father and his
father’s father, was a trapper in his native
Labrador. Spending six months outdoors
was something he could live with; a child
like Wayne was not. When Thomasina
told Treadway that his son was also his
daughter, Treadway declared that Wayne
was a boy. Jacinta, broken-hearted and
already loving the girl inside her son, re-
luctantly agreed with her husband.
Wayne was never told. Thomasina,
grieving for her own lost family, escaped
Labrador. Jacinta took her child to see
doctors. Treadway finally had his son.
But Wayne wasn’t the son his father
wanted. Growing up, Wayne preferred
the company of girls, especially that of
Wallace Michelin. The friendship he had
with Wally was happy and easy because
january 21, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 29
she never noticed that Wayne wasn’t like
other boys, even though other children
saw it. But then Wayne’s body did some-
thing medically unusual and though
Treadway held fast on his ideal of a son,
it was time for Wayne to learn a truth that
explained so much, yet so little.
Confused and ashamed, Wayne knew
he could never speak of his secret to any-
one in Labrador. He couldn’t talk to his
parents about it, and he could never tell
Wally, who had drifted from him years ago.
Then Wayne, himself, began to drift. Wan-
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Have you ever asked “Where are we go- Dear Blade People, Her eps ar
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we get there?” That’s what it’s like reading Thank you for the incredible coverage and exposure that
“Annabel” — you’re along for a trip, the
GMCW received for Men in Tights: A Pink Nutcracker. The
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Nuanced, heartbreaking, near-po- video that Steve produced is the finest we’ve seen and was
etic, but with a certain droll, twinkle-in- made available almost immediately after the shoot. Joey’s
her-eye sense of humor, author Kathleen well written and engaging article was clearly widely read by the
Winter tells the story of secrets, desires, GLBT community and shared
dreams and a family that’s splintered be- “Our success could not have
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that the article garnered.
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FILMAGENDA
A scene from the gay-themed Spanish movie ‘Undertow,’ playing this week at Landmark E Street Cinema.
Documenting desire
D.C. screenings slated for
two arresting depictions
of same-sex love
By DAVID HOFFMAN
Two worthy gay-themed pictures are
being screened today in Washington —
“The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister”
(originally produced for BBC television)
and “Undertow” (Peru’s entry in this
year’s Oscar choice for best foreign film).
The first is at the D.C. Jewish Commu-
nity Center tonight only, the second be-
gins a one-week run today at the Land-
mark E Street Cinema.
A stylish cinematic look at lesbian
love, “Lister” bears the stamp of the BBC
in a costume drama set in early 19th cen-
tury England about the life and times of
a real woman, the defiantly unwed Miss
Anne Lister, the woman dubbed the first
modern lesbian by scholars of sexuality
and known with a snicker as “Gentle-
man Jack” by her scandalized Yorkshire
neighbors.
From the opening scene, we know
we are in England as a distant figure —
it turns out to be the eponymous Miss
Anne Lister — strides over the brow of
a moorland hill, the sky slightly overcast
as if to prefigure the moodiness to follow.
“I want you with me, at my side, always,
to be my wife,” Anne tells her intended, Mari-
202 965 2684 anna Lawton, with whom she maintained a
relationship, on again and off again, for 16
years. But Marianna already has a spouse,
her faintly ridiculous and vastly unattractive,
overweight and unbathed husband — who
does offer, however, one undeniable attri-
bute, an income of six thousand pounds a
year, in those days a sizable sum. Always
desperate to find a way that they can live
together, and wearing black in mourning
because they cannot, Anne tells Marianna at
one point, that by marrying a man — and not
living together as two women in love — that
she has succumbed to “legal prostitution” in-
stead of following her heart.
“You broke my heart,” sobs Anne, when
it appears they can never be together.
British actress Maxine Peake plays
Anne Lister as proud and determined to
live life only to love women, not men.
Directed by James Kent and filmed on
location in Yorkshire, the film evokes the
period well, the sense of chill in the air,
Photo by Hector Alvarez; courtesy of the Film Collaborative
the rustle of the wind on the moors, the
repression of sexual feeling. But a much
different setting — one marked by aqua-
blue seas and sweeping sunlit beaches
— comes in the second film, “Undertow,”
a film suffused in a seductive and sen-
sual spell and shown first locally last year
in an earlier One in Ten event. It opens
today at the Landmark E Street Cinema.
The “undertow” of the title (in Span-
ish called “Contracorriente” and shown
in Spanish with English subtitles) is the
pull the protagonist, Miguel, a fisherman
living in Cabo Blanco on Peru’s Northern
coast, feels tugging at him as he tries to
resolve the competing claims he feels —
from the wife he loves both emotionally
and physically, and his clandestine love
affair with the handsome gay artist, San-
tiago, who visits the small fishing village
to paint and remains there to seek a life
together.
The film’s director, Peruvian former
physician Javier Fuentes-Leon, who is
gay, has said that he made this film —
his first that is feature length — “born
out of a personal quest to define what it
is to be a true man and how manhood
relates to sexual identity.” “Undertow” is
a fable that confronts this task with hon-
esty, never cutting corners, and always
recognizing that in the triangle his wife
Mariela is also equally compelling and
sympathetic.
This film, winner of the 2010 Sundance
Film Festival audience award for best
drama, will challenge viewers both gay
or straight, or like Miguel in between, with
lessons about love and loss, honesty and
integrity, family and community.
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DCAGENDA
Chely Wright says she’s found herself more ‘lyrically free’ as songwriter since coming out.
Etheridge, lang, expressed
support for lesbian Wright 
Continued from page 19
‘a-ha’ moments,” Wright says. “Time is
still revealing what this freedom brings
even just in simple things like going to
my girlfriend’s house for the holidays.
I’m still in my first year of doing all those
once-a-year things. The holidays are a
stressful time for a lot of gay couples be-
cause they’re often split up. With my ex-
partner, it was a stressful time.”
Wright has been dating someone
since year but they don’t live together.
She spent last summer pushing her book
with in-store appearances to which she’d
bring her guitar and sing a few songs.
She spent the fall writing songs, touring
some and doing behind-the-scenes ad-
vocacy work with several national LGBT
advocacy groups. She says the chance
to positively impact young LGBT people
was one of the reasons she came out.
At one time suicidal herself, she says
last year’s spate of teen suicides brought
a bevy of mixed emotions.
“I felt incredibly thankful to be out. It would
have really devastated me to be in the closet
when that happened and know I was still
locked into silence. It really galvanized my
mission. This isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s
happening every single day. America just
paid attention this time and it got out of hand.
Kids were feeling hopeless. And while yes,
there has been an upside to it, dare I say
that, in that people started paying attention,
the downside is that the negative volume
gets turned up to and out in the schools each
day, gay kids are still being bullied.”
So what’s life like for Wright now that
the initial coming out hoopla has calmed?
She says she’s found herself more
“lyrically free” as a songwriter.
“I do have a liberty and a freedom
that wasn’t there before. I don’t have to
Gay Owned & Operated stop and think about how I can make this
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be a feminine lesbian.”
Wright, who’s said in other interviews
that Mary Chapin Carpenter was the
only other celebrity who made a public
statement of support when Wright came
out, says others have shown behind-the-
scenes solidarity. She spent “a little time”
with Melissa Etheridge, perhaps the most
famous lesbian singer/songwriter in the
U.S. who’s in the midst of a not-so-amica-
ble split from Tammy Lynn Michaels.
She says Etheridge “had some great
mentoring words and very supportive
words — she was lovely.”
And she knows k.d. lang’s manage-
ment team whom she says “reached out
in support.”
She hasn’t spoken to Brad Paisley,
whom she once dated briefly, since last
year but says he made a donation to one
of her LGBT charities, which she de-
scribed as “a beautiful gesture.”
And in terms of other celebrity happen-
ings she says seeing the backlash against
the Dixie Chicks several years ago, espe-
cially on country radio, made a huge im-
pression on her and, at the time, cemented
her resolve to stay in the closet.
“Oh yes, I was definitely watching that
situation and it had a huge effect on me,”
Wright says. “Yes, it’s apples and orang-
es, but it’s all fruit. I’m very well aware of
how our industry works. It’s commerce.
It’s like McDonald’s selling hamburgers.
You don’t want to anger your sales demo-
graphic. … I saw the repercussions and
just thought, ‘Holy crap, I might get outed
at some point, but I’m never gonna do it
myself.’ I steeled myself against it then
because I saw the nastiness they faced.”
Wright feels the support from the LGBT
community — playing her first Pride date at
last year’s Capital Pride was “very emotion-
al” — but she knows that solidarity won’t
necessarily translate into record sales.
“There’s a big difference between hitting
‘like’ on Facebook and coming out to a show,
but that’s what rebuilding is all about and this
is a time of rebuilding for me. I’d love it if they
say, ‘I want to hear music that’s great so I’ll
go hear her,’ if those dots connect, but it’s
two different things. And we actually have a
fairly robust LGBT following in country music
generally though I certainly have been made
aware of the new consciousness.”
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Use Curb Appeal to Seal the Deal

REAL ESTATE

By Valerie M. Blake
Prudential Carruthers
REALTORS®

While it’s still a bit early for

Punxsutawney Phil to poke his
head out of his hole to search-
for his shadow on Groundhog’s
Day, during the past two weeks
potential home buyers have-
awakened from hibernation and
are beginning to tiptoe back into
the market. And now that the-
holiday decorations have been
packed away for another year,
sellers are gearing up for spring.
So what can you do as a
seller do to make a buyer holler,
“Honey, stop the car!” in frontof
your home? The answer: en-
hance your home’s curb appeal!
Curb appeal is simply
REALTOR®Speak for how invit-
ing your home looks from thes-
treet or curb. Improving it makes
it more likely that your home will
be visited by the largest number
of buyers so you can quickly ob-
tain an offer and be on your way
to the settlement table.
Here are my top five sugges-
tions for getting the exterior of
your home in tip-top shape.
1) Brick and Mortar: Brick
pointing is a necessary evil but
thankfully, not something that
has to be done often. Check
your home for missing mortar or
cracked walkways and steps.
Take a critical look at the fa-
çade for areas that buyers will
notice when they first walk up to
your front door and repair them.
And – dare I say it? – remove the
Astroturf from your front porch!
2) Roof and Gutters: Some
of us are still dealing with roof
and gutter problems that oc-
curred as a result of the 2009-
2010 winter snowstorms. If you
have missing slates or sections
of roofing, or have clogged or
sagging gutters, climb up on
that ladder or hire that handy-
man and get ‘er done.
3) Paint and Polish: Check
for peeling paint on the façade,
under the porch overhang and
on the trim. Sand those areas,
being mindful of potential lead
paint hazards, and apply a
fresh coat of paint. Don’t forget
iron railings, fences, steps and
doors. Power-wash or remove
awnings. Polish light fixtures,
door knobs, mail slots, house
numbers and historic signs.
4) Windows and Doors:
Clean your windows, includ-
ing any transoms over the front
door. Replace any cracked win-
dow panes – yes, even in the
basement windows. Remove
any iron bars from your win-
dows unless they are vital for
your security. Make sure shut-
ters are straight and secure.
If your mahogany front door is
faded, re-stain and shellac it.
5) Access and Landscap-
ing: Make it easy for a buyer
to get to your front door. Clear
walkways and remove trip haz-
ards such as toys, gardening
equipment and trash cans. Oil
hinges on gates and doors.
Rake leaves and shovel snow.
Replace light bulbs. Spruce up
your front yard.
You needn’t be a gardener
extraordinaire – chances are
your new buyer will either be
delighted that the front yard is
low-maintenance or will want
to add personal touches her/
himself, so landscape inexpen-
sively with small plants, colorful
flowers, pebbles and the old
stand-by, mulch.
And please, please clean up
after Fido.
No yard? In multi-family hous-
ing, a buyer will want to feel that
the building is well cared-for.
Here, your curb appeal begins
outside your condo or co-op
and extends into the lobby and
down the hall to your unit. Even
though these are common ar-
eas, you can still make a few
simple enhancements.
Make it a daily habit to pick
up any trash that has accumu-
lated in front of your building.
Check the maintenance
schedule for cleaning, vacu-
uming and painting common
areas. If there is none, volun-
teer to do it yourself while your
home is on the market. Plump
up the pillows on the lobby sofa.
Empty any ashtrays on the roof
deck. Remove anything on your
door that may obscure your unit
number and clean and polish
your door knob, knocker, or bell.
Now take a break and watch
some HGTV. I’ll be calling soon
to make an appointment to show
your home to my buyers. Those
other homes will have to wait.
Valerie M. Blake can be reached
at (202) 246-8602 or at Valerie@
DCHomeQuest.com. Prudential
Carruthers REALTORS® is an in-
dependently owned and operated
member of Prudential Real Estate
Affiliates, Inc., a Prudential Financial
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