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Legendary gay playwright Transgender bias Spring’s arrival means
Tennessee Williams is bill clears hurdle it’s time for the annual
honored with local festival in Maryland House as Cherry Fund parties.
marking his 100th birthday. session winds down. The fun kicks off next week.
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Liz Taylor hailed for LGBT and AIDS activism

Legacy lives on at D.C. medical
center bearing her name
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com

The death of Elizabeth Taylor on Wednesday drew expressions of

sadness and admiration from AIDS and LGBT activists in D.C., who
said they were honored that the city’s Whitman-Walker Clinic build-
ing that bears her name would serve as a local legacy to the famous
actress.
Taylor, a two-time Academy Award-winning actress who starred in
more than 50 films over a period of nearly 70 years, died at a hospital
in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure. She was 79.
“She was an extraordinary personality and it’s a wonderful feeling
that we have a little part of her legacy right here on 14th Street, said
gay D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1).
Graham served as executive director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic
in November 1993, when Taylor came to D.C. for a ceremony to dedi-
cate the Clinic’s main building for patient services as the Elizabeth
Taylor Medical Center.
The building is located at 1701 14th St., N.W.
Graham and Cornelius Baker, then executive director of the D.C.-
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Washington Blade file photo by Doug Hinckle

Visit washingtonblade.com for a photo gallery of Elizabeth Elizabeth Taylor had a long association with Washington, from her marriage to Sen. John Warner to her AIDS activ-
Taylor’s visits to D.C. ism and support of the Whitman-Walker Clinic.

At last, room at the inn

Va. B&B changes policy, will allow gay couples to stay
By CHRIS JOHNSON
viewpoint cjohnson@washblade.com
More reaction to the failure of Maryland marriage bill.
PAGES 16 & 17 In an abrupt change of policy, owners of a Virginia bed and breakfast now say they will accept res-
ervations from same-sex couples, after an online report in the Blade this week revealed a gay couple’s
claims of being denied a room at the inn.
Russell Williams, 56, of Hanover, Pa., said his spouse, David Schaefer, 54, tried to make reserva-
tions in late February at Stafford House in Fairfax, Va., as part of a trip for the wedding of their nephew.
However, they said they were denied a room over the phone on the basis of their relationship.
“So they, in that conversation — they ascertained that this was two men,” Williams said. “It’s a hus-
band-and-wife operation. The wife was on the phone with David, and she said, ‘Well, we don’t accept
non-traditional couples.’”
Williams, who married Schaefer five years ago in Boston after being together 35 years, said his
spouse tried to “push back a bit” on the Stafford House owner, but she remained firm in denying the
nationalnews reservation. Williams, a racehorse breeder, said the owner also told Schaefer, a physician, that unmar-
ried opposite-sex couples would be unable to obtain a reservation.
Advocates push Obama to advance anti-bullying legislation.
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LOCALNEWS
D.C. LGBT Center to be displaced again
The planned construction of a new hotel could force the D.C. LGBT community center out of its
current storefront location at 1318 U St., N.W., as soon as June 2012, according to Center executive
Md. trans rights bill
director David Mariner.
Mariner said the Center’s landlord, JBG Properties, just informed him that it could no longer renew
leases of tenants along the 1300 block of U Street beyond June 2012. He said JBG officials cited plans to
clears subcommittee
demolish all buildings along more than half of the south side of the block, including the Center’s building,
to make way for the hotel.
Gender identity Other sources familiar with
the legislature, who requested
“We don’t know the exact date because we don’t know what the timeline for the construction will measure must pass that they not be identified, were
be,” Mariner said. “We could be asked to leave as soon as June 2012, and that will be right before
the international AIDS conference,” he said. full House by Monday less certain about the bill’s
chances in the full House. They
The Center, among other things, will host the National Gay Men’s Health Summit set to coincide
with the international AIDS conference, which begins in July 2012. “We’re looking forward to bring-
to stay alive said many delegates were still
reeling over the tense debate
ing a lot of gay, bisexual and transgender men to D.C. to talk about gay men’s health, and hopefully on March 11 over a same-sex
we’ll have a place to do it.” By LOU CHIBBARO JR. marriage bill that was withdrawn
Mariner said that while the Center continues to grow it is not yet capable of purchasing its own lchibbaro@washblade.com from consideration and sent
building without help from the city. City officials have said the city’s current financial problems, in- back to committee after sup-
cluding a large projected budget deficit, prevents the city from providing the Center with funds to A bill pending before the Mary- porters determined it didn’t have
buy a building at this time. land Legislature that would ban the votes to pass.
One proposal being discussed, according to Mariner, is for the city to give the Center free space discrimination in employment and Meneses-Sheets said that
or space at below market rent in the nearby Reeves Center, a city-owned office building with first- housing for transgender people while opposition to the gender
floor retail space. The Reeves Center is located at the corner of 14th and U streets, N.W., one block cleared its first hurdle Wednes- identity bill is significant among
from the U Street Metro Station. day when a subcommittee of the some of the same groups and
— LOU CHIBBARO JR. House of Delegates voted 5-3 to conservative activists who op-
approve it. posed the marriage equality bill,
The bill was expected to come the intensity of the opposition
Rehoboth official cited for ‘conflict’ in patio crackdown up for a vote on Thursday or early
Friday before the House of Del-
isn’t as strong.
“This bill comes during tough
The Delaware State Public Integrity Commission has issued an opinion stating that a Rehoboth Beach egates Committee on Health and economic times and is very
city commissioner who initiated a city crackdown against the use of outdoor patios by bars and restaurants Government Operations as law- much viewed as a common
may have violated a state conflict of interest law. makers scramble to complete sense anti-discrimination poli-
Several establishments that cater to a gay clientele, including the popular restaurant and bar work on dozens of bills. cy,” she said. “It’s about people
Aqua Grill, were among the establishments targeted in a Labor Day weekend crackdown against Transgender activist Dana working and earning a living.
late night use of outdoor patios. A city ordinance bars use of outdoor patios after 10 p.m. for drinking Beyer, who ran unsuccessfully And I think it resonates with law-
and after 11 p.m. for dining in accordance with a separate city noise ordinance. The ordinance had for a seat in the House of Del- makers.”
not been widely enforced prior to the crackdown. egates last year, said the sub- Some transgender activists
Rehoboth police arrested the Aqua Grill’s co-owner during the crackdown, even though the es- committee approved at least are opposing the bill on grounds
tablishment was exempt from the patio ordinance. The ordinance includes a “grandfather clause” two “minor” technical amend- that it doesn’t include protec-
exempting establishments in business prior to the enactment of the ordinance. ments that don’t change the tions for public accommoda-
The city’s police chief joined other city officials and the head of the Rehoboth LGBT community substantive language of the bill. tions, such as hotels, health
center, Camp Rehoboth, in saying the crackdown was not aimed at gay establishments. Members of the House of Del- clubs and public bathrooms.
The PIC said in an advisory opinion that Rehoboth Commissioner Stan Mills should not have egates, including the bill’s spon- Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk
lobbied city officials to take action against establishments thought to be in violation of the patio or- sors, were in session Wednes- (D-Prince George’s County), the
dinance because he owns a bed and breakfast business located next to one establishment with a day afternoon at Blade press author and lead sponsor of the
patio – the gay bar Blue Moon. time and could not be reached bill, said she removed a public
According to Delmarva Now, an online news outlet, Mills walked around the town on Labor Day week- to confirm the contents of the accommodations provision from
end last year to observe which establishments were violating the patio ordinance and reported to city amendments. the bill after determining it could
officials that about a dozen of them were in violation. He then urged police to begin enforcing the ordi- Under a longstanding rule not clear a committee vote with
nance, Delmarva Now reported. of the legislature, the gender the provision intact. She noted
— LOU CHIBBARO JR. identity bill along with all other that the bill failed to clear the
bills pending in the House of committee every year since she
obituary Delegates must be approved
by the full House by midnight
first introduced the measure in
2007.
David Michael Womack, 45  Monday, March 28, in order to The bill’s approval in subcom-
“cross over” to the State Senate mittee on Wednesday marked
David Michael Womack died March 18 at age 45 at his home in Shepherdstown, W.Va., surrounded for consideration. Bills that fail to the first time it has been ap-
by those he loved. The family is not sure about his cause of death. win approval by the deadline are proved by any component of the
Born in 1965 and raised in Huntsville, Ala., as an adult, Womack traveled widely, living in many places considered dead for the year. Maryland Legislature.
including Mobile Ala., Silver Spring Md., and most recently, D.C., Palm Springs, Calif., and Shepherdstown. All Senate bills similarly must Meneses-Sheets said if the bill
Womack, who was gay, was an LGBT activist and formerly worked as an accountant for the Human be completed and approved by clears the committee this week,
Rights Campaign. He retired in 2008 to focus on his health. His husband of six years, Ian Gibson-Smith, that date in order to survive to be as she expects it will, it would
remembered Womack’s “brilliant mind and quirky sense of humor” and said Womack was, “always armed considered by the House. likely come before the full House
with a joke or well-placed zinger.” LGBT activists following the of Delegates late Friday or over
“He referred to himself as a misanthropic curmudgeon and never met a stranger he did not want to gender identity measure say they the weekend as lawmakers rush
get to know better,” Gibson-Smith said. “David was a passionate, life-long learner with varied talents are reasonably certain it will win to complete dozens of bills before
and interests including pottery, fiber-arts, sculpting, writing and cooking. An eclectic reader, David approval in the Health and Gov- the March 28 deadline.
could usually be found curled up with yet another obscure book on art, philosophy, history, or social ernment Operations Committee. She said she was also confi-
theory. Even at the end of his life David was organizing the myriad of books he still hoped to read.” They say they’re hopeful it will dent that the bill would clear a
Womack is survived by his husband; his mother, Martha Delaney of Huntsville, Ala.; sisters Lisa East win approval by the full House. committee of the State Senate
and Holly Snow also of Huntsville; his niece Samantha East of Salt Lake City, Utah; his husband’s par- “The votes look very good,” within the next week or two and
ents, Clifford and Valerie Smith; and his sister-in-law, Julia Lam, and two nephews, Collin and Duncan said Morgan Meneses-Sheets, would win approval in the full
Lam of Shepherdstown. Womack was preceded in death by his stepfather, Frank Delaney. executive director of the statewide Senate. All bills must be com-
A wake is set for Saturday in Martinsburg, W.Va. A memorial service is planned for next month in LGBT group Equality Maryland. pleted in their respective bodies
Alabama. In lieu of flowers, Womack requested friends give blood in his memory. Or memorial con- “But of course we are keeping up by April 11, when the legislature
tributions can be made to Hospice of the Panhandle, 122 Waverly Court, Martinsburg, WV, 25403 or our grassroots organizing to main- adjourns for the year.
the IanThom Foundation, 39 Stagshead Court, Martinsburg, WV 25404. tain the support and are confident Gov. Martin O’Malley has said
— JOEY DiGUGLIELMO it will come out of the House in time he would sign the gender iden-
for the cross over deadline.” tity bill.
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LOCALNEWS
White House protesters appear in court
Judge questions
prosecution of LGBT
demonstrators
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
A U.S. District Court judge told a fed-
eral prosecutor in court on Friday that
the government appeared to be invoking
an overly harsh charge against 13 LGBT
activists who were arrested for handcuff-
ing themselves to the White House fence
last November to protest the “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” law.
In a status hearing at the U.S. court-
house in D.C., Judge Magistrate John M.
Facciola said the government’s decision
to charge the protesters with a misde-
meanor offense that carries a maximum
penalty of six months in jail seemed out
of keeping with other non-violent civil dis-
obedience cases that involve the arrest
of protesters.
Facciola noted that attorneys repre-
senting the 13 activists — including for-
mer Army Lt. Dan Choi and former Army
Staff Sgt. Miriam Ben-Shalom – have
called for a trial of each of the defen-
dants unless the government agrees to a
less serious charge. A trial for 13 people
would cost the government a consider-
able amount of money and would take up
court time that could better be used for
other cases, the judge said.
“We think the judge was telegraphing
very clearly that he sees the case very
Jury rejects hate crime charge in gay murder
Defendant found guilty of
slaying victim in bedroom
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
A D.C. Superior Court jury on Tuesday
found District resident Justin L. Navarro,
25, guilty of first-degree murder while
armed for stabbing a gay man at least 15
times in the back seconds after police said
he referred to the victim as a “faggot.”
But the jury declined a request by
prosecutors that it designate the Nov. 6,
2009 murder of District resident Kevin
Massey, 31, as an anti-gay hate crime.
“The U.S. Attorney’s office had
charged the defendant with committing
this murder because of Mr. Massey’s
sexual orientation, but the jury did not
make that finding beyond a reasonable
doubt,” the office said in a statement.
In addition to handing down a first-
degree murder conviction, the jury found
Navarro guilty of obstruction of justice,
tampering with evidence, and carrying
a dangerous weapon. He faces a mini-
mum sentence of 30 years in prison and
a maximum sentence of life in prison.
similar to the way we see this case — as
a civil rights exercise, as a First Amend-
ment exercise as people who non-vi-
olently expressed their opposition to a
policy which has now been repealed,”
said defense attorney Mark Goldstone
after the hearing.
Goldstone said Assistant U.S. Attor-
ney Angela George, the prosecutor in
the case, has so far declined to consider
a number of possible alternative charges
proposed by the defense. Among them is
a less serious disorderly conduct charge
that falls under D.C. law rather than the
current federal charge filed against the
defendants: failure to obey a lawful order
by U.S. Park Police.
Park Police, which patrols the space
surrounding the White House, made the
arrests in the case after the protesters
handcuffed themselves to the fence in
front of the White House.
George cited various reasons why
the government chose not to accept the
suggested options offered by Goldstone
and attorney Ann Wilcox, who is assist-
ing Goldstone in the defense. Among
other things, she said technical and legal
restrictions would likely prevent the gov-
ernment form filing other charges.
Goldstone and Wilcox have proposed,
among other things, a “post and forfeit”
option that allows the defendants to pay
a fine and calls for the charge to be
dropped. The two also proposed that the
defendants be charged with another mis-
demeanor offense that allows the govern-
ment to drop the charge if they success-
fully perform community service work.
“This murder was marked by an un-
speakable brutality,” said U.S. Attorney
Ronald C. Machen Jr. “Today’s first-
degree murder conviction ensures that
the defendant will be held accountable
for this senseless and deplorable act of
violence.”
Machen told the Blade his office
couldn’t discuss certain specifics, such
as the jury’s decision not to convict on
the hate crime charge, prior to sentenc-
ing, which is scheduled for May 24.
A law enforcement source said juries
sometimes find it difficult to grapple with
bias-related charges in criminal cases
because it’s hard to prove beyond a
reasonable doubt whether a defendant
used bias or hatred as his or her motive
in committing a crime.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said
the department is committed to “fully in-
vestigate” hate crimes.
“In this case, MPD investigators
worked diligently with the United States
Attorney’s office to gather all of the facts
that were available,” Lanier said. “It is un-
fortunate that the jury did not find in favor
of the hate bias enhancement.”
The verdict in the case came two
days after Machen and D.C. police of-
Thirteen activists arrested during a ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ protest will be back in court in May.
Facciola directed George to continue
to negotiate with the defense on a pos-
sible alternate charge or course of ac-
tion. He scheduled a follow-up status
hearing for May 17. If no agreement is
reached by then he directed the parties
to return to court on Sept. 19 for either
the start of a trial or a plea to an agreed
upon charge.
A spokesperson with the U.S. Attor-
ney’s office said Monday that the office
would have no comment on the case
while is pending in court.
In addition to Choi and Ben-Shalom,
the other defendants in the case include
former Petty Officer Autumn Sandeen,
former Cadet Mara Boyd, former Maine
Corps Sgt. Justin Elzie, former Army
Arabic linguist Ian Finkenbinder, Marine
ficials joined LGBT activists in speaking
at a community forum on anti-gay hate
crimes hosted by Foundry United Meth-
odist Church near Dupont Circle.
Machen told forum participants about
his office’s prosecution of Antwan Hol-
comb, 21, who was convicted March 1
by a D.C. Superior Court jury of first-de-
gree murder while armed in the Decem-
ber 2009 murder of gay District resident
Anthony Perkins. Witnesses testified that
Holcomb was overheard boasting about
meeting Perkins on a gay telephone chat
line and luring him to a secluded spot in
Southeast D.C., where he shot him in the
head inside Perkins’ car.
Machen told the forum his office con-
sidered but ruled out charging Holcomb
with a hate crime in connection with the
Perkins murder.
A statement released by the U.S. At-
torney’s office said witnesses testified
during Navarro’s week-long trial that he
became angry at Massey about a month
before the murder when people saw
someone carry him out of the apartment
building where Massey lived while his
pants were falling down.
The statement says witnesses saw
Massey lean over to “pull up the defen-
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
combat veteran Crpl. Evelyn Thomas
and Army veteran Rob Smith.
Others include Robin McGehee, co-
founder of GetEqual, the direct action
LGBT group that organized the White
House protest; Dan Fotou, GetEqual’s
eastern regional field director; Fr. Geoff
Farrow, a Catholic priest who was sus-
pended by Catholic authorities in Cali-
fornia for defending the state’s same-sex
marriage law against Proposition 8; Scott
Wooledge, an LGBT rights advocate and
blogger; and Michael Bedwell, a longtime
LGBT activist and friend of Leonard Mat-
lovich, the late LGBT activist and former
Air Force sergeant who became the first
known gay to publicly declare his sexual
orientation in 1975 to challenge the mili-
tary’s ban on gay service members.
dant’s pants for him” while teenagers
began laughing at Navarro. Some of the
teens began teasing Navarro by “saying
Mr. Massey was going to make the de-
fendant ‘his next bitch,’” the U.S. Attor-
ney’s office statement says.
The statement says witnesses report-
ed that Navarro turned toward Massey
and gave him the “evil eye.”
A source familiar with the case said
the building where Massey lived was
known as a place where illegal drugs
were sold and sometimes used. The
source said Navarro was being carried
out of the building with his pants falling
because he was highly impaired due to
alleged drug use and apparently was un-
able to walk.
According to the statement, during
the following month, Navarro became the
target of rumors questioning his sexual
orientation. It says that on at least one oc-
casion he was overheard “loudly denying
the rumors and vowing to kill Mr. Massey.”
On Nov. 6, 2009, Navarro knocked
on the door of Massey’s apartment at
4211 2nd St., N.W., and asked, “Where’s
the faggot,” the statement says. It says
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NATIONALNEWS
Protesters converge on Quantico to support Manning
Gay service member
accused in Wikileaks
scandal
By DAVID HOFFMAN
There were many memorable images
from last Sunday’s protest aimed at call-
ing attention to the plight of a gay service
member accused of treason by the fed-
eral government, but two images stood
out above all others.
The line of riot police, hooded with
glass visors and carrying truncheons
and heavy shields, standing silent at
first, shoulder to shoulder, buffed out with
padded body armor, flanked by other
riot police with lunging dogs, and other
hulking men carrying automatic weap-
ons, and even an armored Humvee, its
engine running, and the full line now sev-
eral hundred strong.
The other image appeared peaceful.
A line of demonstrators walking forward,
toward the police, linking their arms also,
but singing while walking down Virginia
Route 1, not carrying weapons but bou-
quets, to deliver flowers to the foot of the
Iwo Jima monument there, the replica
statue at the gates of the Quantico Ma-
rine Corps Base.
That’s where PFC Bradley Manning
has been held in solitary confinement for
eight months in pre-trial detention, wait-
ing for the charges against him to be pre-
sented, including one carrying the death
penalty. Manning is the accused whistle-
blower, the alleged source of the explo-
sive Wikileaks revelations from secret
documents released by Julian Assange,
that detail case after case of alleged U.S.
government misconduct.
Manning, a gay man, is accused of
“aiding the enemy,” and has been “tor-
tured” while in custody, according to his
attorney, in an alleged attempt to wring
a confession from him. A court martial
could lead to life in prison or possibly
execution.
About 500 protesters chanting “Free
Bradley Manning” had met several hours
earlier on a muddy field a few hundred yards
away from the monument and the gate, now
both walled off by police barriers to prevent
the crowd from entering the base.
It began as demonstrations usually
do, with a raised platform, and micro-
phones and speakers, amid banners
and placards. Speakers included Marine
Corps veteran and famed Vietnam War-
era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who
released to Richard Nixon’s great embar-
rassment the Pentagon Papers; retired
Marine Corps Captain David McMichael,
now 83 but still ramrod straight, whose
last post was as a company commander
at Quantico; Army Colonel, retired after
29 years in uniform, and former State
Department official, Ann Wright; and
Manning’s close personal friend, David
House, an expert on information eco-
nomics, who met Manning in January
2010 at an open-house meeting of a
group of computer technology enthusi-
Several hundred protesters gathered Sunday at Quantico, where PFC Bradley Manning is being held in connection with the Wikileaks scandal. This
photo was taken at an earlier demonstration demanding Manning’s release at the White House.
asts at Boston University.
Manning’s arrest as a suspect accused
of handing over 250,000 U.S. diplomatic
cables to Wikileaks, came in May 2010
when he had returned to his duty station
as an Army intelligence analyst stationed
with a combat team near Baghdad. Those
charges came in July last year, updated
this month with further charges including
the capital one of “aiding the enemy.” The
first of the Wikileaks cables were pub-
lished in February 2010, with newspapers
including the New York Times publishing
the rest from November onward.
Manning has never said he was the
source for the documents, written by 250
embassies and consulates in 180 coun-
tries, which had been downloaded from
SIPRNet, the classified State Department
computer deposit for diplomatic cables.
But he is alleged to have contacted a for-
mer computer hacker, Adrian Lamo, and
sent him several encrypted e-mails and
then chatted with Lamo online. Lamo lat-
er told the FBI that Manning had basical-
ly said that he was the Wikileaks source.
Those documents included military war
logs and documents from both the Iraq
and Afghanistan wars as well as the so-
called “Collateral Murder” video, shot from
a U.S. military Apache helicopter gunship
in July 2007 of an airstrike and published
by Wikileaks in April 2010, showing the
deaths of civilians including two journalists
for the Reuters news agency.
Below are excerpts from some of Sun-
day’s speeches.
ELLSBERG:
“I feel shame as a Marine myself that
members of the Marine Corps are tortur-
ing Bradley Manning by keeping him in
solitary confinement 23 hours a day, and
sometimes forcing him to sleep naked
and stand in the nude for inspection …
“President Obama could stop that
with one phone call,” continued the
72-year-old Ellsberg, as cries from the
crowd of “yes, he can” echoed among
other shouts of “shame.”
While saying that the burden of proof
is on the authorities to prove that Man-
ning passed the classified documents
to Wikileaks, something Manning hasn’t
admitted, Ellsberg declared of Manning
that “if he did do what he’s charged with,
then Bradley Manning is an American
hero,” noting of himself, that “while this
may sound self-serving or boastful, but
I was the Bradley Manning of my day ...
I was called a traitor, as he is, and Brad-
ley Manning is no more of a traitor than I
was, and he’s not, and I’m not!”
McMICHAEL:
“Thank you all for being here, this has
become a notorious event and cause
celebre around the world.” He then ex-
pressed his personal “outrage at the way
the prosecution of Bradley Manning is
being conducted, and the harsh condi-
tions in which he is being held, so severe
as to violate both U.S. and international
law, and you could call it torture.”
McMicheal read further from his letter
to the president about Manning that “the
lesser evil is not a good enough reason
to support you again,” and that in 2012
he would, though “a loyal Democrat,” op-
pose Obama for re-election.
WRIGHT:
“I’m horrified at how a member of the
U.S. military is being treated, right here at
Quantico, and we want this stuff to stop!
Let’s get Bradley Manning fair treatment
while he’s in pre-trial detention, so he can
get an honest trial, and he should be treat-
ed with respect” until his trial, instead of
with “cruel and unusual punishment.”
HOUSE:
“It’s stuff like this that gives Bradley Man-
ning hope, and when I tell him there are peo-
ple like you in the ‘transparency’ movement,
his eyes light up. If he’s guilty of the things
Photo by Diane Perlman
he’s charged with, if he’s the man who re-
leased the Wikileaks documents, I consider
him a hero of the highest order ... and he
is not an exception, as a whistleblower, but
he is a herald of things to come. … I hope
Barack Obama is listening to this!”
Later, House told the Blade that Man-
ning “considers himself to be a very ethi-
cal person and an American patriot,” and
that “he’s a very humble, intelligent and
kind individual.”
After the speakers finished and the
rally ended, an event orchestrated be-
forehand with police authorities, includ-
ing those from the Virginia State Police
and the Prince William County Police,
allowed six activists, including Ellsberg,
McMichael and Wright, to pass through
police barriers, cross Route 1, and ap-
proach the Iwo Jima statue. However,
they were kept back from entering Marine
Corps Base property and were forced
to toss their bouquets of red and white
carnations through an opening onto the
base of the statue.
Then they sat down, in the middle of
the highway, and then, at the mournful
sound of a bugler, the assembled crowd
burst through the barriers and thronged
onto the highway joining the six, and
many of them also sat down. And for two
hours the chants and songs and prayers
were heard, until finally, after the protest-
ers refused to vacate the intersection, the
police moved in and arrested one by one
about 30 of those still seated, including
Ellsberg and Wright, on misdemeanor
charges of unlawful assembly, and im-
peding access to the road.
Marine Col. Thomas V. Johnson, a
spokesperson for the base, said access
to the Iwo Jima memorial was denied
because protest activity is not permitted
on base grounds. But he also said that,
“we’re pleased that people were able
to express their First Amendment rights
in a manner that did not infringe upon
base property.”
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NATIONALNEWS
Apple yanks ‘gay cure’ app
DENVER — An iPhone app critics called “hateful and bigoted” has been pulled
by Apple, several media outlets reported this week.
Frank: ENDA to be introduced
The company as of Blade press time had not released a statement but on Tues-
day pulled the app released by Exodus International, an “ex-gay” organization that ‘any day now’
claims it can cure gays of unwanted same-sex desire.
According to Apple’s guidelines for app store submissions, “Any app that is de-
famatory, offensive, mean-spirited or likely to place the targeted individual or group
Remains skeptical about
in harms way will be rejected.” passage in GOP House
The “reparative therapy” offered by Exodus International’s counseling services has
been rejected by most major medical organizations, including the American Psycho- By CHRIS JOHNSON
logical Association, as damaging to the self-esteem and mental health of its patients. cjohnson@washblade.com
An online petition against the app, organized by Change.org, has received
more than 150,000 signatures since March 9 and coverage from major news web- Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said last
sites and organizations. week that he expects the Employment
Exodus says the iPhone application can help as an alternative to homosexuality Non-Discrimination Act to be introduced
not a “cure.” in the House “any day now” but he re-
mains skeptical about its chances for
Gay marriage ban remains in effect in Calif. passage in the 112th Congress.
“We’re going to be [introducing the
SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. appeals court this week left in place a ban on gay bill] any day now,” Frank told the Wash-
marriage in California, denying requests to allow same-sex weddings during a ington Blade. “We’ll introduce it the way it
lengthy appeals process, Reuters and other news outlets reported. was introduced last year. But that one —
A federal district court judge last year struck down the ban on the basis that it there’s no real prospects for in this Con-
violated the U.S. constitution, but his decision is on hold pending the appeal. gress, but we are going reintroduce it.”
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is waiting for Califor- As it was introduced in the previous
nia’s supreme court to issue guidance on whether a group supporting the ban had Congress, ENDA would bar job bias
the right to make the appeal. based on sexual orientation and gender
California’s decision will add a year or so to the federal appeal process, Reuters said. identity in most private and public work-
force settings.
Colorado Senate passes civil unions measure But the general consensus among Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key

Capitol Hill observers is that passage
DENVER — A proposal to give same sex couples similar protections as mar- of any pro-LGBT legislation, including
ried couples passed the Colorado Senate Wednesday, KUSA-TV, a station there, ENDA, will be a significant challenge
reported this week along with several other news agencies. for at least two years with Republicans
The Senate passed the measure on a voice vote. After a third reading in the in control of the U.S. House. Last year,
Senate this week, the bill moves to a tougher battle in the Republican-controlled Frank told the Blade there would be “zero
House of Representatives. chance” for the passage of any legisla-
Sen. Pat Steadman of Denver sponsored the bill and spoke vigorously on the tion that would directly benefit the LGBT
Senate floor to give same-sex couples benefits such as medical decision making community.
powers, increased inheritance rights and an easier process to list each other as Still, Frank said introduction of the leg-
dependants on health insurance, KUSA-TV reported. islation is important to educate the public
“There are people that get left out in the cold because they have no legally rec- and members of Congress, especially on
ognized relationship, they don’t have access to our court system” Steadman told the transgender protections included in
the station. “I think we can make Colorado law more fair and more inclusive and, in the bill.
the process, make families and society stronger.” “It’s important to introduce it to give
Steadman, who is openly gay, says he would pursue a civil union if the bill people a chance to lobby their members
eventually makes it past Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk. He hugged many fellow on it,” Frank said. “Having a bill there
lawmakers after the vote, the station reported. encourages people to lobby their mem-
Republican Sen. Kevin Lundberg of Larimer County voted against the measure bers. Particularly, we need people to
and spoke openly on the house floor about his disapproval. do more lobbying and educating on the
“This would change the very concept of what marriage is,” Lundberg said, “And transgender issue, and so having a bill
what the family unit is all about and what role that plays in the state of Colorado.” there is a very important part of getting
Gay couples would still not be able to marry, because voters banned same-sex the votes ultimately to be able to pass it.”
marriage in 2006. Hawaii recently became the seventh state to allow civil unions. Frank, the longest-serving openly
Illinois passed a civil unions law in January. gay member of Congress, said he didn’t
immediately have an estimate for how
Indiana takes further step to ban gay marriage many co-sponsors he would have for
ENDA upon its introduction, but said the
INDIANAPOLIS — State lawmakers in Indiana took another step Wednesday legislation may have some Republican
toward amending a gay marriage ban into Indiana’s constitution, the Evansville supporters based upon conversations
Courier & Press and other outlets reported this week. he had in the 111th Congress.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a constitutional amendment that “I personally talked to nine Republi-
would limit marriage to one man and one woman, and would bar civil unions or cans who were ready to vote for the bill
other legal recognition of same-sex couples’ relationships, on a 7-3 vote. House with transgender inclusion last year,”
Joint Resolution 6 has already cleared the House and now moves to the full Senate, Frank said. “We lost [former Delaware
where it is expected to pass with little resistance, the paper reported. Rep.] Mike Castle, but I believe we will
Sen. Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn, noted the Senate has approved such a ban five have some co-sponsors. But I worked
times. In the past, it’s been blocked by Democratic majorities in the House. But very hard on Republicans. We did have
Republicans now control both chambers. nine Republican hard commitments to
“The basic unit of our society is our family, and I think the cornerstone of the fam- vote with us against any effort to knock
ily is the marriage of a man and a women and having children,” he said. “I think that out transgender.”
is part of the main thrust of the whole idea here is to protect that unit that is basic Frank was referring to a potential mo-
to our society and all other societies.” tion to recommit in the 111th Congress
Sen. Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, said he is concerned that banning civil unions in which opponents of ENDA could have
will affect domestic partnership health benefits. called for a vote on a portion of ENDA
— such as the transgender protections
— to return the legislation to committee
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said he ex-
pects some Republican support for ENDA
but that its chances were not good in this
Congress.
and scuttle the bill.
“Without the transgender piece, you
have a dozen, but on the transgender
issue, we had, as I said, nine commit-
ments and we’ll be approaching them to
see how many of them will co-sponsor,”
Frank added.
Asked whether the House introduction
of ENDA would coincide with a Senate
introduction, Frank said he was unsure.
“I don’t know,” he said. “It doesn’t
make any difference. What difference
does it make whether it’s simultaneous or
not? I don’t focus on things that have no
significance.”
In the previous Congress, Sen. Jeff
Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced the Senate
version of ENDA. It was the first time that
a Senate version of ENDA had been in-
troduced with transgender protections.
Julie Edwards, a Merkley spokesperson,
said she had no updates for when ENDA
would be introduced in the Senate dur-
ing the 112th Congress.
Even though Democrats remain in
control of the Senate, Frank said he
doesn’t think supporters of the legislation
will be able to pass ENDA in that cham-
ber alone.
Asked about the prospects for Senate
passage of ENDA, Frank replied, “No.
Because first of all you need 6o votes.
Secondly, the way it works — if there is
zero chance of passing a controversial
bill in the other house, the one house,
people say, ‘Why should I do that?”‘
“It’s very hard to get members to vote
for a controversial bill in any case, but to
get them to vote for a controversial bill
when there’s no chance of passing it in
the other house becomes impossible,”
Frank added.
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10 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011
NATIONALNEWS
Advocates push Obama on education reform
Seeking bipartisan support
for pro-LGBT changes
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
LGBT rights supporters are pushing for
the inclusion of student anti-bullying and
non-discrimination measures as part of
upcoming education reform legislation as
observers say bipartisan support and pres-
sure from the White House are needed to
ensure they’re included in any larger vehicle
that makes it to President Obama’s desk.
Obama has identified reauthorization
of the Elementary & Secondary Educa-
tion Act, updated during the Bush admin-
istration as No Child Left Behind, during
his State of the Union address as among
his priorities for the 112th Congress and
has been touring the country with educa-
tion leaders -- including Education Sec-
retary Arne Duncan -- to make the case
for education reform.
Last week during a speech before
Kenmore Middle School students in
Arlington, Va., Obama noted support
for updating No Child Left Behind in Con-
gress and called on lawmakers to send
him education reform legislation before
the next school year begins in the fall.
“I am proud of the commitment by
Democrats and Republicans in Congress
to fix No Child Left Behind, to make this
reform a reality -- because they recognize
education is an area where we can’t afford
to drag our feet,” Obama said. “As Arne
says, our kids only get one shot at an edu-
cation, and we’ve got to get it right.”
Whether the 112th Congress can re-
authorize No Child Left Behind remains
in question as the leaders in the Republi-
can-controlled House and the Democrat-
ic-controlled Senate differ on what reform
should look like. Even if passage can
happen, many political observers have
said Obama’s goal of passing education
reform by end of summer is unrealistic.
Components of education reform that
Obama has enumerated support for
include implementing an accountabil-
ity system that shares responsibility for
improvement and rewards excellence;
having a flexible system that empowers
school administrators and teachers; and
having a system that targets resources
to persistently low-performing schools
and ensures the most effective teachers
serve students most in need.
But LGBT rights supporters are look-
ing to No Child Left Behind reauthori-
zation as as a vehicle to pass various
bills pending before Congress that aim
to combat bullying and discrimination
against LGBT students.
In the Senate, Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.)
sponsors the Safe Schools Improvement
Act, an anti-bullying measure, which,
among other things, would require pub-
lic schools to establish codes of conduct
explicitly prohibiting bullying and harass-
ment. Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) is
expected to introduce companion legis-
lation in the House.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
President Obama convened a first-of-its-
kind anti-bullying conference at the White
House earlier this month.
Similar legislation that aims to help
LGBT students is the Student Non-Dis-
crimination Act. Introduced by gay law-
maker Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) in the
House and Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) in
the Senate, the legislation prohibits pub-
lic schools and school programs from
discriminating against LGBT students.
Additionally, the Tyler Clementi Higher
Education Anti-Harassment Act -- spon-
sored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
in the Senate and Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.)
in the House -- would require colleges to
establish policies against harassment.
The bill is named after a Rutgers Uni-
versity student who leaped off the George
Washington Bridge in September after a
video was posted online of him reported-
ly having a sexual encounter with anoth-
er man in his dorm room. However, this
legislation has a lower profile than either
the Safe Schools Improvement Act or the
Student Non-Discrimination Act.
LGBT advocates working to ad-
vance these measures say talks are
already taking place on Capitol Hill to
include them as part of No Child Left
Behind reauthorization as discussions
begin over passage of the larger vehicle.
Shawn Gaylord, director of public pol-
icy for Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education
Network, confimed talks have already
started on including pro-LGBT measures
as part of education reform.
“We and other groups have been talk-
ing to committee staff for quite a while
about that possiblity,” Gaylord said.
“Throughout this Congress, we’ve been
talking to committee staff and making
sure they were aware of our hope of get-
ting legislation included in ESEA reau-
thorization.”
Gaylord said he’s “hopeful” that the
pro-LGBT measures will be integrated
as part of No Child Left Behind reautho-
rization. In 2007, when Congress was
undertaking a previous attempt to enact
education reform, Gaylord said nearly the
entire Safe Schools Improvement Act was
included in the discussion drafts of Ele-
mentary & Secondary Act reauthorization.
“So there’s precedent for it,” Gaylord
said. “To deal with issues of bullying or
discrimination -- it’s not as if that’s not
what ESEA reauthorization would cover.”
A Republican strategist familiar with
education reform, who spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity, said it’s too early to tell
whether education reform -- LGBT-inclu-
sive or otherwise -- can make it to the
president’s desk during this Congress,
but expressed optimism about the effort.
“The good thing is that, obviously, Re-
publicans and Democrats haven’t been
agreeing on too much lately, but the one
area where folks think there is a real chance
for them to come to agreement is on edu-
cation and what to do with No Child Left
Behind reauthorization,” the strategist said.
“If anything can get bipartisan support and
get done this year, it’s probably that.”
With Republicans in control of the
House and a Democratic majority in the
Senate, observers maintain that biparti-
san agreement on inclusion of the pro-
LGBT measures is necessary for them to
stay on as a component of the larger bill.
One LGBT rights advocate, who spoke
on condition of anonymity, said staffers
on the Senate HELP Committee have
indicated that passage of No Child Left
Behind reauthorization with LGBT inclu-
sion will depend on support from law-
makers on both sides of the aisle.
“I would say that they are hopeful, but
realistic that the likelihood is almost en-
tirely dependent on a bipartisan effort,”
the source said.
A spokesperson for House Speaker
John Boehner (R-Ohio) deferred com-
ment on the issue to the House Educa-
tion & Workforce Committee, which didn’t
respond to the Washington Blade’s re-
quest for comment.
On the Senate side, Tom Harkin (D-
Iowa), chair of the Senate Health, Educa-
tion, Labor & Pensions Committee, is a
co-sponsor of the Safe Schools Improve-
ment Act. Justine Sessions, a committee
spokesperson, said Harkins hopes to in-
clude the pro-LGBT measures as part of
education reform.
“Chairman Harkin is a strong support-
er of efforts to protect students against
discrimination and bullying, and hopes
to address these issues in the reauthori-
zation of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act,” she said.
Bipartisan support could emerge for
the Safe Schools Improvement Act be-
cause Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) is an original
co-sponsor for the legislation. A former
House member, Kirk has said in the lower
chamber of Congress Rep. John Shim-
kus (R-Ill.) could be an original co-spon-
sor of the legislation.
Neither the Student Non-Discrimina-
tion Act nor the Tyler Clementi Higher
Education Anti-Harassment Act has a
single Republican co-sponsor in either
the House or Senate.
The sources said Kirk’s support for the
Safe Schools Improvement Act could be
used to leverage support from Sen. Mike
Enzi (R-Wyo.), ranking member of the
Senate HELP Committee, for inclusion of
the bill as part of the larger vehicle.
Gaylord said additional GOP co-spon-
sors for the standalone pro-LGBT legisla-
tion would help bolster their chances of
success as part of education reform.
“I just think more Republican support
for these bills will obviously be important,
particularly in the House,” he said.
The Republican strategist said leader-
ship from Senate Democrats “saying that
this is something important” is needed
to ensure LGBT anti-bullying and non-
discrimination language are included in
education reform.
“You’re also going to need to demon-
strate enough Republican support on the
House side that Republicans are able to
allow it to end up in the final package,”
the strategist said.
LGBT rights supporters also say that
pressure from the White House and explict
endorsements of the anti-bullying and non-
discrimination from Obama are important to
ensure they’re part of larger legislation.
Support for those measures from
Obama would build on the anti-bullying
conference that the White House held
this month to shed light on harassment
of students and devise ways to miti-
gate bullying against students -- both in
schools and online.
Shin Inouye, a White House spokes-
person, said the president supports “the
goals” of SSIA and SNDA and wants to
ensure students are free from harass-
ment as they pursue their studies.
“This year, when the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act is being con-
sidered, we look forward to working with
Congress to ensure that all students are
safe and healthy and can learn in envi-
ronments free from discrimination, bully-
ing and harassment,” Inouye said.
Gaylord said he welcomes the steps
that White House has taken against stu-
dent bullying and harassment, but noted
the president has yet to voice explicit
support for the pro-LGBT bills.
“The administration has not yet called
for passage of either [the Safe Schools
Improvement Act or the Student Non-
Discrimination Act] by name, so that is
sort of the next step,” Gaylord said. “Now
would be that time that we would really
anticipate the administration to step up
and be even more specific in their sup-
port for legislative vehicles.”
The anonymous Republican strategist
said “there’s no question” anti-bullying
efforts are a priority for the Obama ad-
ministration, but the extent to which the
president will fight for passage of legisla-
tion remains to be seen.
“That has not been translated into
support for specific legislation, so I think
the jury’s still out on the degree to which
the administration will advocate for this
particular change -- whether they’ll advo-
cate for it all or whether they’ll advocate
for it specifically as a part of this educa-
tion revamp.”
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12 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011
NEWS
DOMA repeal supporters seek Senate hearings
But Congress unlikely to
overturn law anytime soon
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Supporters of repealing the Defense of
Marriage Act are calling on the Senate to
hold hearings on the impact the denial of
the federal benefits and responsibilities of
marriage is having on married same-sex
couples throughout the United States.
Evan Wolfson, executive director of
the New York-based Freedom to Marry,
said hearings before the Senate could
help raise the level of discussion on mar-
riage on Capitol Hill.
“One of Freedom to Marry’s top goals
is to take the marriage conversation in
Washington, D.C., to a higher level --
putting real faces, presenting the real
evidence and dispelling the bogus
arguments -- to give elected officials
and other policy makers a better un-
derstanding of why marriage matters,”
Wolfson said. “Holding hearings is cer-
tainly one important opportunity for us to
help continue the momentum in support
of overturning DOMA and ending mar-
Va. B&B will now admit gay couples
Continued from page 1
“There were no harsh words,” Wil-
liams said. “Apparently, the husband is
a minister and it’s a religion-based policy
that they have. And that was that. I guess
we’ll stay at the Marriott.”
But following the online posting of the
Blade article on Tuesday, Donna Staf-
ford, an owner of Stafford House, said
that the bed and breakfast has changed
its policy and will no longer bar anyone
from making a reservation.
“We were in the process of [changing
our policy] even before your article came
out,” Stafford said. “We’re not going to
put restrictions on anyone that stays.”
In a separate e-mail, Stafford noted
that the prior policy of Stafford House
was within the letter of all relevant state
and local housing laws.
In a joint statement, Williams and
Schaefer told the Blade on Wednesday
via e-mail that following Stafford House’s
announced change in policy, they
booked a room.
“Pursuant to your update we have
reserved a room at the Stafford House
and plan to stay there this weekend,”
they wrote. “Tolerance doesn’t require
agreement about everything and if they
learned that across the river in Congress
the whole country would be better off.”
Virginia has no LGBT-specific non-
discrimination law, nor one that protects
same-sex couples against discrimination
in public accommodations.
riage discrimination.”
A Senate Democratic aide, who spoke
on condition of anonymity, also empha-
sized the importance of hearings as leg-
islative repeal remains unlikely during the
112th Congress.
“One of the key steps that senators
can take to build momentum is to have
a hearing, or hearings, on the topic,” the
aide said. “I think a thorough and per-
haps even a dramatic hearing could gal-
vanize opinion in the Senate and hope-
fully even serve as a galvanizing moment
more broadly in the public.”
As a result of DOMA, which was
passed by Congress in 1996, married
same-sex couples cannot participate
in federal programs. For instance, they
can’t file joint federal income taxes,
receive spousal benefits under Social
Security or obtain exemptions of the
estate tax law upon the death of one of
the spouses.
Last week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-
Calif.) introduced legislation in the Sen-
ate known as the Respect for Marriage
Act, which would repeal the anti-gay
statute. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) has
introduced companion legislation in the
House. Neither piece of legislation has
Williams said facing this discrimina-
tion reminded him of the mistreatment
that racial minorities in the United States
once faced in similar situations.
“The first thing that popped into my
head was now I knew how black people
felt 50 years ago,” Williams said. “It was
bizarre. David felt the same way.”
Virginia State Del. Adam Ebbin (D-
Alexandria), the only openly gay mem-
ber of the General Assembly and a can-
didate for a Virginia State Senate seat,
called the alleged discrimination faced
by Williams and Schaefer “an embar-
rassment to Virginia.”
“It’s surprising, in spite of our lack of
protections and laws, that this would
happen in Fairfax County,” Ebbin said.
“It’s another outrage that makes me
want to redouble my efforts in support of
equality in Virginia.”
Ebbin said a change in law to prohibit
discrimination of all types would be the
best way to remedy the situation. In the
2011 session of the General Assembly,
Del. Ken Plum (D-Fairfax) introduced
legislation that would amend the Virginia
Human Rights Act to include safeguards
for LGBT people against unlawful dis-
crimination.
“Clearly, we need to change the laws
to prohibit discrimination of all types,”
Ebbin said. “Unfortunately, we’re still at
the building-block level.”
Fred Sainz, vice president of com-
munications for the Human Rights Cam-
paign, also expressed frustration that no
legal protections exist for LGBT people
any Republican co-sponsors.
Favorable hearings on DOMA repeal
are unlikely in the House with Repub-
licans in control of the chamber. Rep.
Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chair of the
House Judiciary Committee, has spo-
ken out in support of maintaining the
anti-gay statute.
Consequently, the decision on wheth-
er to hold hearings rests with Sen. Patrick
Leahy (D-Vt.), chair of the Senate Judi-
ciary Committee. Known as an LGBT ad-
vocate, Leahy is among the co-sponsors
of the DOMA repeal legislation.
A Judiciary Committee spokesperson
said she couldn’t provide a comment on
whether Leahy intends to hold hearings
during the 112th Congress because he’s
currently serving as part of a congressio-
nal delegation overseas.
Even with support growing in the Sen-
ate, the repeal legislation faces tremen-
dous odds against reaching President
Obama’s desk during the 112th Con-
gress with Republicans in control of the
House. Even with Democrats in control of
the upper chamber, reaching the 60-vote
threshold for passage of the Respect
for Marriage Act in the Senate would be
challenging.
in public accommodations.
“These kinds of things should not be
happening in this day and age, and the
frustrating part is that they happen all too
frequently in areas all across our coun-
try,” Sainz said. “It’s even more frustrat-
ing when they happen right across from
the nation’s capital — in a city that is vir-
tually within walking distance of the na-
tion’s capital.”
Sainz said the incident “makes clear
the need for uniformity of laws nation-
wide that protect all Americans, specifi-
cally on the basis of sexual orientation
and gender identity.” But Sainz also said
the situation speaks to the need for state
non-discrimination legislation in Virginia
because he said states have always
been “first and strongest” to protect
LGBT families.
Williams said although he felt he faced
discrimination, he doesn’t think sympa-
thizers should retaliate against the own-
ers of Stafford House.
“I would not want to see the people
at the B&B persecuted,” Williams said.
“I think it’s wrong and I think they’re ig-
norant, but I hope that — and I’ve talked
about this with a lot of friends — gay peo-
ple should not retaliate against this kind
of thing. I think we should just go ahead
and do what we have to do to get our civil
rights and make sure that people comply.”
LGBT advocates said they felt draw-
ing attention to this issue can help with
efforts to pass laws to prevent such dis-
crimination in the future. Ebbin said such
examples can help build the case in the
Maggie Gallagher, chair of the anti-
gay National Organization for Marriage,
told the Washington Blade via e-mail
that she would appreciate the oppor-
tunity to speak at a congressional hear-
ing on marriage, but questioned why
they would need to take place if DOMA
repeal legislation has no chance of
passage.
“I certainly would welcome a chance
to make the case for DOMA again, per-
sonally, however I think it would be rather
silly for the Senate to waste its time on
hearings on a bill that has exactly zero
chance of passage,” she said.
But Richard Socarides, president of
Equality Matters, said hearings could be
part of the plan that would bolster sup-
port for passage of the legislation in the
Senate.
“If we’re able to get Senate Judiciary
Committee hearings, I think the right
thing to do would be obvious for a lot of
senators,” Socarides said. “It’s possible
at some point before the end of this Con-
gress, we could have a majority of sena-
tors who understand the importance of
repealing this law. ... It’s very important
to make progress and hearings could be
an important part of that.”
Photo by Meghan Moore
Russell Williams, 56, and his spouse, Da-
vid Schaefer, 54, tried to make reservations
in late February at Stafford House in Fairfax,
Va., but were rejected. Stafford House has
since changed its policy
Virginia General Assembly to pass non-
discrimination laws.
“We constantly hear complaints from
Richmond that there are no documented
cases of discrimination,” Ebbin said.
“Every incident like this helps us make
it more clear to my colleagues that we
need to move forward on protecting
LGBT people along with all others.”
Sainz added he believes more LGBT
couples throughout the country face this kind
of discrimination, but few make the incidents
public because they’re embarrassed.
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Whitman-Walker Clinic cherishes Liz Taylor ‘legacy’

Continued from page 1

area based National Association of Peo-

ple with AIDS, told of Taylor’s genuine in-
terest and concern for individual patients
affected by the disease, especially those
encountering discrimination.
“She not only permitted us to use her
name but she also made a $50,000 do-
nation,” Graham said.
According to Graham, on the day fol-
lowing the dedication ceremony, Taylor
visited a separate Clinic facility where
people with AIDS lived.
“She visited patients there and auto-
graphed T-shirts,” he said. “She had an
amazing presence.”
“Today the lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender community lost an extraor-
dinary ally in the movement for full equal-
ity,” said Jarrett Barrios, president of the
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defama-
tion (GLAAD).
“At a time when so many living with
HIV/AIDS were invisible, Dame Taylor
fearlessly raised her voice to speak out
against injustice,” Barrios said. “Dame
Taylor was an icon not only in Hollywood,
but in the LGBT community where she
worked to ensure that everyone was
treated with the respect and dignity we
all deserve.”
GLAAD released an excerpt from re-
marks that Taylor made in 2000 at the or-
ganization’s 11th Annual GLAAD Media Washington Blade file photo by Doug Hinckle

Awards event, where she received the
group’s Vanguard Award for advancing
the cause of LGBT equality.
“Why shouldn’t gay people be able
to live as open and freely as everyone
else?” she said. “What it comes down
to, ultimately, is love,” Taylor told the au-
dience. “How can anything bad come
out of love? The bad stuff comes out of
mistrust, misunderstanding and, God
knows, from hate and from ignorance.”
Taylor has said her interest in helping
those impacted by AIDS began when she
watched firsthand how her close friend,
actor Rock Hudson, suffered from the
stigma associated with AIDS in the early
1980s before he died of the disease.
Elizabeth Taylor, pictured here with gay Council member Jim Graham who then served as director of Whitman-Walker, on a 1993 visit to the Clinic.
Taylor was among the founders of the
American Foundation for AIDS Research
(AMFAR) in 1985, when she served as
the group’s international chairperson.
“She was among the first to speak
out on behalf of people living with HIV
when others reacted with fear and often
outright hostility,” AMFAR said in a state-
ment. “For 25 years, Dame Elizabeth has
been a passionate advocate of AIDS
research, treatment and care. She has
testified eloquently on Capitol Hill, while
raising millions of dollars for AMFAR.”
The statement adds, “She leaves a
monumental legacy that has improved and
extended millions of lives and will enrich
countless more for generations to come.”
Baker noted that Taylor returned to
D.C. in 1996, three years after dedicat-
ing the Elizabeth Taylor Building, to par-
ticipate in a candlelight vigil and march
along the National Mall during the week-
end of the displaying of the National
AIDS Quilt.
Taylor traveled the entire route of the
march from the Capitol to the Lincoln Me-
morial in a golf cart alongside hundreds
of activists participating in the event,
Baker said. She addressed the gather-
ing from a speaker’s platform in front of
the Lincoln Memorial.
“She was just incredible,” Baker said.
“She was so dedicated. She was a won-
derful activist and a great inspiration to
all of us.”
Don Blanchon, Whitman-Walker’s
current executive director, said the Clin-
ic is benefiting from Taylor’s early efforts
on behalf of AIDS causes beginning in
the 1980s.
“Her dedication to raising money
along with awareness has helped to save
countless lives both by helping to treat
people living with the virus and by pre-
venting new infections,” Blanchon said.

Guilty verdict in murder of D.C. gay man

Continued from page 4
someone answered the door and told
Navarro that Massey was in the bedroom.
The statement says witnesses reported
that Navarro then went into the kitchen,
grabbed a “large butcher knife,” walked
into the bedroom and “without any warning
began stabbing Mr. Massey repeatedly.”
It says Massey died on the scene. An
autopsy later revealed that he had been
stabbed between 18 and 20 times, in-
cluding 15 times in the back.
“In the days that followed, the defen-
dant threatened witnesses, burned his
clothes, and told relatives he would not be
around for a while,” the statement says.
“Five days after the murder, the Capital
Area Regional Fugitive Task Force arrest-
ed the defendant in a hotel room in South-
west D.C.,” the statement says.
The statement says that during his
trial, Navarro testified that he acted in
self-defense, saying “he did not know Mr.
Massey and that Mr. Massey attacked
him for no apparent reason.”
Says the statement, “The defendant
testified that he believed Mr. Massey was
either going to kill him or rape him.”
Attempts to reach Navarro’s court ap-
pointed attorney, Nathan I. Silver II, for
comment were unsuccessful.
A.J. Singletary, chair of Gays & Lesbi-
ans Opposing Violence, said the group
appreciates the U.S. Attorney’s office’s
decision to charge Navarro with a hate
crime in the Massey murder.
“As this case shows, it is ultimately up
to the jury in the end, but it’s important
to fiercely prosecute these cases to stem
the growing level of hate in our commu-
nity,” Singletary said.
He said GLOV will write a community
impact statement to be submitted to the
judge prior to Navarro’s sentencing that
“conveys the effects of this crime on the
LGBT community.”
Singletary also noted that Navarro,
with the help of his attorney, sought to
use a form of the so-called “gay panic
defense” in the case.
In past cases, attorneys representing
defendants charged with killing gay men
have invoked the gay panic defense to
persuade juries that their client lost con-
trol of his actions due to a fear of homo-
sexuality and lashed out and killed the
victim in a state of temporary insanity.
Gay rights attorneys have pointed to
evidence showing that some defendants
using this defense sought out and target-
ed gay victims for and assault and rob-
bery and invoked the gay panic defense
after being caught.
“We all must be vigilant to make sure
that nothing remotely close to a gay pan-
ic defense is seriously considered, or
worse, upheld in court,” Singletary said.
“Police and prosecutors must always be
skeptical when they hear the gay panic
defense, which as this case shows, is
prevalent and dangerous.”
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VIEWPOINT
Learning from our mistakes in Maryland
Activists ignored
warnings from
black leaders about
church opposition
By EARL FOWLKES
Many of us were helpless wit-
nesses to the drama that played
out in Annapolis, regarding the at-
tempt to pass legislation extending
marriage rights to same-sex cou-
ples in Maryland. Suddenly, what
was once a sure thing became an
unsure thing and finally a thing that
simply was not going to happen.
The votes were counted
and Gov. Martin O’Malley was
waiting for this all but certain
law to come across his desk
for signature. Somehow, de-
feat was snatched out of the
jaws of expected victory. In this
case, there is plenty of blame to
spread around. Unfortunately,
in many ways what occurred in
Maryland also occurred in Cali-
fornia during the highly conten-
tious Proposition 8 process. As
Yogi Berra once said, “It was
déjà vu all over again.”
Much of the blame has to
be placed firmly in the laps of a
number prominent black church-
es in Prince’s George County.
The ministers of those churches
engaged in the type of homo-
phobic pandering that encour-
aged their parishioners to believe
once again that the sanctity of
their marriages would be threat-
ened by extending civil marriage
Holding the politicians accountable
Md. delegates
abandoned us in
the public square
By KEVIN WALLING
As the former communica-
tions and development director
for Equality Maryland, I’ve been
following the marriage fight in
Maryland very closely. In the
wake of the vote to recommit
the bill, our community is grap-
pling with what went wrong and,
of course, pointing fingers.
As someone who worked for
two years to advance marriage
equality and transgender anti-
discrimination, I have a different
perspective on the fight.
The staff, board and volun-
teers of Equality Maryland are
some of the finest people I know.
They are dedicated, hard working
rights to all citizens of Maryland.
Those churches have the right
to define marriage as being only
between a man and a woman
for their churches only. They can
marry whomever they want in
their churches — only! The fact
that a handful of churches saw
fit to deny rights to others based
on their narrow construct of what
marriage for Marylanders should
be by putting pressure on several
elected officials is egregious.
Unfortunately, some pro-mar-
riage groups did not learn the
painful lessons from the Proposi-
tion 8 battle in California where
there were limited strategies for
engaging minorities groups.
The International Federation of
Black Prides and Baltimore Black
Gay Pride attempted to meet
with Equality Maryland for three
months to discuss strategies for
Baltimore and Prince George’s
counties. Through our networks,
we had been hearing that several
black churches were not happy
with the prospect of same-sex
marriage and might organize to
fight the passing of any law. Time
after time, everyone was too busy
to meet with us.
Everyone thought since there
were enough votes in favor of
same-sex marriage that it was a
done deal. We all forgot about
the cult-like devotion that some
people have for their pastors
and follow their instructions
without a second thought. Once
again, not enough thought or
resources were devoted — nor
were there strategies devel-
individuals who put their personal
lives on hold to advance equality
for our families. Don’t believe me?
Ask my ex-boyfriend.
Members of the LGBT Gener-
al Assembly Caucus: Rich, Mag-
gie, Heather, Anne, Bonnie, Mary,
Luke and now Peter (Welcome,
Peter, we always knew, but it’s
great to have you!) are dedicated
public servants who gave their
all to pass this bill. Don’t believe
me? Listen to the audio record-
ings of their floor speeches and
try not to reach for the Kleenex.
Sam Arora and Tiffany Alston
have no business serving in the
House of Delegates. Your word
is your bond. When you run as
a marriage equality advocate,
raise money from the LGBT
community and then abandon
your principles in the face of
political pressure, you’re a cow-
ard. Don’t believe me? Google
Benedict Arnold.
oped — to gain support from
black communities, particularly
in Prince George’s County. The
black community was taken for
granted and same-sex mar-
riage rights will be denied for at
least one more year in Maryland
as a result of the arrogance.
What must we do to make
certain that this reversal of for-
tunes does not occur again?
First, all interested progressive
organizations need to sit down
and develop strategies to ap-
peal to the hearts and minds of
African Americans in Maryland
and across the country. This
must go beyond creating ads
featuring same-sex couples
talking about family. We must
not be afraid of using the term
“civil rights” and defining it in
a broader context. We must
be willing to have discussions
not with narrow-minded minis-
tries and faith leaders but with
the tens of thousands of black
people who are undecided or
decided but unmotivated to
give their opinions to their elect-
ed officials as well talking with
those who do not belong to a
homophobic church.
Secondly, we must avoid the
visceral language and reac-
tion that will turn potential allies
into enemies. Some of the e-
mails received by several black
elected officials not to mention
comments on mainstream and
LGBT websites and blogs, were
equally hateful as some black
minister instructing their parish-
ioners to deny LGBT people
Thoughtful people in our com-
munity can disagree on strategy.
That’s to be expected. I agree
with Mark McLaurin, as Lou Chib-
baro Jr. quoted him in his recent
Blade article (“Strategic blunder
of monstrous proportions,” March
16) saying that we should have
called for a vote. I believe that we
often let folks off the hook when
they commit to us in private but
then abandon us in the public
square.
But to use McLaurin’s lan-
guage, inflammatory comments
like his are pure “poppycock.”
Grandstanding does nothing
to advance the fight for equal-
ity. What we need to do is take
this time and regroup, lick our
wounds and come back stron-
ger next year. This should be
a galvanizing moment for our
community. We passed the bill
out of the Senate. We came up
a few votes short in the House.
their rights. Those actions are
not in the spirit of Martin Luther
King, Jr. and others in their fight
to gain civil rights. There must
also be more willingness among
proponents of LGBT rights to
engage in supporting issues
that are important to blacks,
Latinos, Asian Pacific Islanders
and other social issues, (e.g.
education reform, immigra-
tion, job creation and training,
etc.). Several black elected of-
ficials, as well as communities
of color in general, have grown
tired of the narrow agenda that
has been presented to them by
some LGBT organizations.
Finally, we should never give
ground to those church and faith
organizations that will use LGBT
people as scapegoats in order
not to deal with their own short-
comings. It’s amazing that a per-
son could go to church where the
love of Jesus is drowned out by
hate for a group of people who
only want to be treated like every-
one else in accordance with the
very laws that govern our nation
and embody the principles of jus-
tice and equality for all.
Earl D. Fowlkes, Jr. is president/
CeO of the Washington-based inter-
national federation of Black Prides,
inc.
We have a governor who’s com-
mitted to signing the bill. No
other state is in this same posi-
tion.
Delegates on the fence should
hear from us every single day.
They should know the names of
the gay middle school student in
their district who is bullied for be-
ing different. They need to meet
the lesbian moms living down
the street raising four kids. They
need to see first hand what it’s
like to be kicked out of your home
for being transgender.
The blame game will con-
tinue. But it in the end it really
doesn’t accomplish anything.
We will win this fight and anyone
who disagrees is on the wrong
side of history.
Kevin Walling served as equality mary-
land’s director of communications and
development from 2009 to 2011. reach
him at kevin.walling@gmail.com.
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VIEWPOINT
Happy birthday, Tennessee Williams
On writer’s centennial,
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queer life
By KATHI WOLFE
Years ago on a walking tour
in New Orleans, I fell asleep af-
ter taking a few too many sips of
bourbon. (I hadn’t learned how
strong this libation can be.) Wak-
ing up, I found myself sitting in a
chair by a swimming pool on an
estate, looking up at my guide.
“You said you’re queer and a
poet,” he said. “I thought you’d
like it here. This is one of the
places where Tennessee Wil-
liams hung out.”
I can’t remember the name
of the mansion or of the guide.
But I can vouch for his percep-
tiveness. I was thrilled to be in
a place where Williams, who
was openly gay, (reportedly)
had socialized. If I were lucky,
maybe a speck of his genius
would rub off on me. Like count-
less scribes, queer and hetero,
I grew up wishing I could create
even a sentence as memorable
as “The Glass Menagerie,” “A
Streetcar Named Desire,” “Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof” or any of Wil-
liams’ other plays.
Standing by decision to delay marriage vote
2012 is Maryland’s
best bet for
advancing bill
By CHUCK BUTLER &
PATRICK WOJAHN
On March 11, the Maryland
House of Delegates voted to
“recommit” the bill that would
have provided marriage equal-
ity to same-sex couples, send-
ing the legislation back to com-
mittee and effectively ending
its chance for passage this
year. This came as a bitter dis-
appointment to all who had
worked to achieve equal mar-
riage rights in Maryland. As the
chairs of Equality Maryland, we
take full responsibility for the
decision to recommit and stand
by that decision. We want to ex-
plain why we believe that, given
the circumstances, sending the
bill back to committee was the
best course of action.
First, let’s put what happened
in perspective. Never before
‘Widely considered to be this country’s
greatest 20th century playwright, Williams
is an icon whose work has made an indelible
impact on everyone from famous actors and
celebs to intellectuals to ordinary people of
every sexual orientation and permutation.’
Williams, who was born in
Columbus, Miss., 100 years ago
this week on March 26, 1911
and died at age 71 in 1983, has
influenced renowned straight
and queer writers and play-
wrights from Carson McCullers
to Edward Albee to David Mam-
et to John Waters. This year, fes-
tivals are being held nationwide
from New Orleans to Provinc-
etown, Mass., to commemorate
Williams’ 100th birthday. This
week, as reported in the Blade,
the Tennessee Williams Centen-
nial Festival is being held March
24-27 at Georgetown University.
(Georgetown and Arena Stage
are partners for the event. The
festival featured a conversation
with Albee on Thursday.)
Widely considered to be this
have we reached the level of
success that we achieved this
year in moving marriage legis-
lation through the General As-
sembly. For the first time ever,
the marriage bill made it through
committees in both houses of the
legislature, passed the Senate
and was debated in the House.
At the same time, in the last
election, the House of Delegates
lost six Democrats, five of whom
firmly supported marriage equal-
ity. For this reason, we knew that
the House would pose a bigger
challenge than the Senate in en-
acting marriage legislation.
It’s understandable that be-
cause the marriage bill moved
so swiftly through the Senate,
many thought the bill would sail
through the House. For several
reasons, including the results
of last year’s election, this didn’t
happen. The night before the
March 11 vote, House leaders
informed us that the bill did not
have the 71 votes necessary for
passage. They made clear two
key issues: first, as time went
on, the bill was losing support;
country’s greatest 20th century
playwright (he received the Pulit-
zer Prize twice, a Tony Award and
the Presidential Medal of Free-
dom), Williams is an icon whose
work has made an indelible im-
pact on everyone from famous
actors and celebs to intellectuals
to ordinary people of every sex-
ual orientation and permutation.
Growing up, my late parents
told me how moved they were
by Williams’ plays. “He makes
you like people who don’t fit in,”
my Dad said.
“We’re not from the South,
but we have people here like in
his plays,” my Mom said. “He
gets you to see how people can
be cruel, but kind.”
“When I was growing up, Wil-
liams made me accept differ-
second, if the House voted on
the bill, certain Delegates who
might take a risky “yes” vote
to pass a meaningful piece of
legislation would vote “no” be-
cause they knew the bill would
fail. So rather than garnering
68 or 69 votes — still short of
the 71 needed — the bill could
be defeated with only 50-some
votes in support.
We spent the night in discus-
sions among Equality Maryland
board and staff, members of
the Assembly’s LGBT Caucus,
and our national partner organi-
zations, trying to find a way to
save the bill. Everyone realized
that if the legislature passed
the bill, opponents would likely
gather sufficient signatures to
place a repeal referendum on
the next election ballot. The po-
litical realities of a referendum
meant that, if we didn’t pass the
bill in 2011 or 2012, we wouldn’t
have another shot until 2015.
So we agreed that if we could
not pass the bill this year, we
should try again next year. Im-
portantly, House leadership
march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 17
ences in people — he helped
me, a straight kid in the deep
South, understand the human
condition,” my friend George
told me over the phone.
Williams’ work is universally
respected and his plays are
constantly produced all over
the world (a new production of
“A Streetcar Named Desire” is
playing in Paris and a revival
of one of his later plays “Vieux
Carre” just ended off-Broadway
in New York). Yet, Williams has
a special resonance for the
queer community and his sexu-
ality informed his writing.
The grandson of an Episco-
pal minister and the son of a pu-
ritanical, repressed mother and
a hard-drinking absentee father,
Williams didn’t discover his
sexual orientation until he was
in his late 20s. Coming to terms
with being queer wasn’t easy for
Williams. Yet, Williams’ struggle
with his sexuality fueled his cre-
ativity, writes journalist and critic
Michael Paller in “Gentlemen
Callers: Tennessee Williams,
Homosexuality, and Mid-Twenti-
eth-Century Broadway Drama.”
“... The instinctive lure of sex
and an almost ingrained repul-
sion by it, would be necessary
before Williams could do his
best work,” Paller writes.
Though he wasn’t out and
committed to bringing up the bill
again in 2012. To preserve our
prospects of success, therefore,
it was best not to hold a vote
now, given the chances of the
bill’s defeat by a wide margin.
It would be more difficult, within
a year, to convert “no” votes to
“yes” than to obtain a “yes” from
delegates who had not locked in
their position with an actual vote.
Those who believe that we
had a chance of attaining 71
votes on March 11 are mistaken.
Immediately before the House
voted to recommit, a whip count
revealed that we still lacked 71
votes to pass the bill. Had there
been at least 71, the speaker
would have held the vote.
We understand the need
for clarity and how those who
fought so hard for marriage
equality deserve an up or down
vote on the issue. Equality
Maryland’s mission, however, is
to achieve equal rights for the
state’s LGBT citizens as soon
as possible. A vote now would
have hurt our chances next year
and possibly in 2015 as well.
proud in the way that many in
the queer community are today,
Williams was (once he obtained
success as a playwright in the
1940’s, more than 30 years
before the modern gay rights
movement) open about his sex-
uality. “I never considered my
homosexuality as anything to
be disguised,” Williams told the
New York Times.
For much of Williams’ life, you
were a misfit if you were queer.
While causing suffering in his life,
being an outsider created mate-
rial for his art. Even now when
homophobia is less prevalent,
many LGBTQ folk identify with
Williams’ characters. It would
be unfair to Williams to overem-
phasize his sexuality, overlook
his incredible talent or deny his
stature in straight culture. Yet on
his centennial, let’s celebrate
Williams’ contribution to queer
life. Happy birthday, Tennessee!
Kathi Wolfe is a writer, poet and regu-
lar contributor to the Blade. She can be
reached through this publication.
We thus stand by the decision
to recommit the bill. Of course,
people can disagree, and we
encourage healthy discussion.
We also commend the bill’s
co-sponsors in the House and
Senate, the LGBT Caucus, the
governor, our national partners,
and our friends at Alexander &
Cleaver for working to advance
the bill. We look forward to joining
with each next year to achieve
the bill’s enactment. In addition,
we are proud of Equality Mary-
land’s staff, led by Morgan Men-
eses-Sheets, for their impressive
dedication. Finally, we want to
acknowledge that if not for the ef-
forts of certain board members,
the bill never would have pro-
gressed as far as it did.
We hope that supporters of
equality for LGBT people join us
in learning from our experience
this year and moving forward in
a positive direction.
Chuck Butler is board chair of Equal-
ity Maryland; Patrick Wojahn is chair
of the Equality Maryland Foundation.
Reach them via equalitymaryland.org.
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The tipping point on anti-LGBT bullying
Obama’s leadership
already helping to
make things better
By KEVIN JENNINGS
Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover
was a sixth grader in the Spring-
field, Mass., schools in the 2008-
2009 school year. School was
an awful place for Carl, a place
where he was relentlessly bul-
lied as “gay” by his peers be-
cause he was a good student
who dressed neatly and didn’t fit
the gender stereotype assigned
to him as an African-American
male. On April 6, 2009, Carl
decided he couldn’t take it any
more and hung himself.
Carl was 11 years old when
he decided he’d rather die than
go back to school.
On March 10, 2011, I sat
in the Blue Room of the White
House and watched Carl’s
Mom, Sirdenear Walker, tell
her son’s story to President
and Mrs. Obama right before
the start of the first-ever White
House Conference on Bullying.
The moment I will never forget
was when Mrs. Walker pulled
out her son’s 8x11 school photo
and handed it to Mrs. Obama.
The personal cost of getting equal
How much are we
willing to sacrifice
for justice?
By AUTUMN SANDEEN
“... And so this social revolution
taking place can be summarized
in three little words. They are not
big words. One does not need an
extensive vocabulary to under-
stand them. They are the words
‘all,’ ‘here,’ and ‘now.’ We want all
of our rights, we want them here,
and we want them now.
“Now the other thing that we
must see about this struggle is
that by and large it has been a
nonviolent struggle. Let nobody
make you feel that those who are
engaged or who are engaging in
the demonstrations in communities
all across the South are resorting to
violence; these are few in number.
“ … You see, this method has
a way of disarming the opponent.
It exposes his moral defenses. It
weakens his morale, and at the
same time it works on his con-
science, and he just doesn’t know
‘On April 6, 2009, Carl decided
he couldn’t take it anymore and hung himself.
Carl was 11 years old when he decided he’d
rather die than go back to school.’
Looking both stricken and
moved, the first lady grasped
the picture, looked at it intently,
and then wrapped Walker in a
tight embrace. At that moment,
I thought that perhaps some-
thing good could come out of
Walker’s loss, that perhaps her
son did not die in vain, that
perhaps Walker’s courage in
speaking out about the greatest
nightmare that could befall any
mother might help bring us to a
tipping point where bullying be-
comes simply unacceptable in
America’s schools.
If that happens, I believe
March 10, 2011 will go down
in history as the date when the
tide turned.
By convening the first-ever
White House Conference on
‘The 13 of us handcuffed ourselves to the
White House fence chanting, ‘I am somebody’
to send the message that the president and
Congress needed to act to
repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’’
what to do. If he doesn’t beat you,
wonderful. If he beats you, you
develop the quiet courage of ac-
cepting blows without retaliating. If
he doesn’t put you in jail, wonder-
ful. Nobody with any sense likes
to go to jail. But if he puts you in
jail, you go in that jail and trans-
form it from a dungeon of shame
to a haven of freedom and human
dignity. And even if he tries to kill
you, you’ll develop the inner con-
viction that there are some things
so dear, some things so precious,
some things so eternally true, that
they are worth dying for. And I sub-
mit to you that if a man has not dis-
covered something that he will die
for, he isn’t fit to live.” (Martin Lu-
ther King Jr., Speech at the Great
March on Detroit, June 23,1963)
Bullying and hosting it person-
ally in the East Room of the
White House, the president and
the first lady made the strongest
statement possible that they
believe the moment for bully-
ing to end has arrived and that
they are putting themselves and
our entire administration on the
front lines of this fight. From the
first remarks made by president
and Mrs. Obama through the
closing remarks by Secretary
of Health & Human Services
Kathleen Sebelius and Secre-
tary of Education Arne Duncan,
anti-LGBT bullying was specifi-
cally and frequently called out
as unacceptable. As someone
who spent more than two de-
cades fighting this battle before
I joined this administration, I
On March 18, 12 of the 13
activists who came together
for a direct action on the White
House fence met for a court
date in Washington. The 13 of
us who handcuffed ourselves to
the White House fence on Nov.
13, 2010, were a group of LGBT
military service veterans and ac-
tivists who wanted to see “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” repealed.
The 12 of us who were at
the courthouse (one was ill and
couldn’t make it) and our two at-
torneys agreed, before going into
court, to go to trial over our arrest.
We, as a group, perceive that the
U.S. District Attorney represent-
ing the federal government is
too aggressively prosecuting this
case. There is a free speech is-
march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 19
watched in awe as the com-
bined leadership of the Obama
presidency sent a clear and un-
equivocal message: We can’t
wait for it to get better for LGBT
kids — we need to make it bet-
ter right now.
This high profile event was
not a one-shot deal for the
Obama administration. Our
work against bullying began in
2009, when a six agency Fed-
eral Partners in Bullying Preven-
tion work group was convened
to tackle this problem. The part-
ners staged the first-ever fed-
eral Bullying Summit in August
2010, long before the national
media frenzy that accompanied
the tragic suicides of young
people like Tyler Clementi in the
fall of 2010. The work group con-
tinues its efforts today, unveiling
a new web site — stopbullying.
gov — on March 10 to provide a
one-stop shop for those looking
for resources to fight all forms
of bullying, including anti-LGBT
bullying.
The Department of Educa-
tion also announced that day
its intention to set up a special
technical assistance center
dedicated to bullying preven-
tion. This will be followed by
the department’s national sum-
mits on Gender-Based Violence
sue at play here and the zealous
prosecution by the federal gov-
ernment appears to us to be one
of message censorship.
The facts of our case aren’t in
dispute. The 13 of us handcuffed
ourselves to the White House
fence, chanting “I am some-
body” to send the message that
the president and Congress
needed to act to repeal “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell,” and allow les-
bian, gay and bisexual service
members to serve openly.
The bottom line for the 13 of
us was that in unanimity we were
ready to go to trial but that deci-
sion has been postponed until
May because we still aren’t sure
what the final charge against us
will be. If there is a trial — or even
if we end up pleading to lesser
charges that have us ending up
with no federal record — the next
court date set for either of those
two outcomes will be Sept. 19.
The 13 of us who went to jail
spent time in what has become
to us and others “a haven of
freedom and human dignity.” I
believe our efforts helped move
the LGBT community closer
Among Young People (includ-
ing violence against transgen-
der youth) in April, a first-ever
federal Summit on LGBT Youth
in June, and a second an-
nual federal Bullying Summit in
September. In other words, the
Obama administration is in this
for the long haul.
Every day I wear on my suit
a button with Carl Joseph Walk-
er-Hoover’s school picture on
it and the dates of his far-too-
short life. It reminds me of why
I came to Washington in the
first place, which was to do my
part to make sure these kinds of
tragedies come to an end. Sit-
ting in the Blue Room watching
Mrs. Walker tell Carl’s story to
the president and first lady, I be-
gan to believe that — with this
president’s leadership — that
day might be coming very soon.
Kevin Jennings is the assistant dep-
uty secretary for the U.S. Department
of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-
Free Schools. This column is dedicated
to Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover.
to ordinary equality. Do we in
the LGBT community believe
“some things are so dear, some
things so precious, some things
so eternally true, that they are
worth dying for?”
Ordinary equality for mem-
bers of the LGBT community
is going to take sacrifice. We
should all already know that it’s
going to take more effort than
just lobbying alone to see the
Employment Non-Discrimina-
tion Act and the repeal of the
Defense of Marriage Act pass
into law. The question has re-
ally become how much we, as a
community, as well as individual
community members, are willing
to sacrifice for ordinary equality.
Autumn Sandeen is a military vet-
eran and LGBT rights activist. Reach
her at autumn@phblend.net.
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America’s bard
Photo courtesy of the Tennessee Williams Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Tennessee Williams’ homosexuality widely informed his work, often in coded ways.

Legendary gay playwright Tennessee
Williams honored in centennial festival
By DAVID HOFFMAN
He is the poet laureate of the American theater.
He pursued young men and boys with sexual vorac-
ity, especially hustlers, often rough trade, and those
obsessively so in his latter years, but he also delighted
greatly in the company of women.
His greatest creations on stage were in fact women,
though some argue they were really coded figures who
were actually gay males in drag. Certainly most of his hero-
ines — especially perhaps Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar
named Desire” — were extensions of himself, valorous but
doomed, haunted by desire, shadowed by failure, driven
to despair and sometimes even to madness or to death.
He is Thomas Lanier Williams, born 100 years ago this
weekend on Palm Sunday, March 26, 1911, in Columbus,
Miss., to Edwina and Cornelius Williams. He was reared
in an Episcopal rectory there, where his grandfather, Rev.
Walter Dakin, was the local Episcopal priest, and later
changed his name to “Tennessee” in honor of that same
grandfather, who was born in that state.
Williams’ sense of sin and salvation in sexuality was
central to his inner drives, says Derek Goldman, artistic
director of this weekend’s Tennessee Williams Centen-
nial Festival, a raft of plays and staged readings and
panel discussions featuring appearances by among
others Edward Albee and John Waters (Visit performin-
garts.georgetown.edu/tenncentfest/festival/ for details).
For a long time, Williams was closeted, though he let it
be known to his friends. Goldman says that though Wil-
liams had a long-time love relationship with his life part-
ner Frankie Merlo, he was also “very promiscuous, and
slept around a lot,” when “his need was for several boys
a day at times, and the younger and prettier the better.”
In his writing, however, Goldman says, the thirst to
slake his need for constant sexual consummation, took
a different form through sublimation, because in his writ-
ing, he “explores not so much the sex but how those
desires have a place in society” — or do not. Goldman
is also associate professor of theater and performance
studies at Georgetown University, where the Williams
Festival — known for short as “Tenn Cent Fest” — is
housed, and he directs the university’s Davis Performing
Arts Center. Goldman says the festival, most of which
runs from today through Sunday, has “certainly been a
labor of love,” including being able to teach a seminar
on Williams work and “for this past year” he says he has
been “steeped in all things Williams.”
Goldman’s own first encounter with Williams came on
cable TV, however, when he was about 13 and saw the
film adaptations of “Streetcar Named Desire” (1951,) and
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (1958). In each case, of course,
Hollywood producers insisted on excisions, and Gold-
man admits that “I now blush at the fact that they were so
sanitized, taking much of the sexuality out.”
For example, Goldman points out that in the origi-
nal version of “Cat” (which was on Broadway in 1955
Continues on page 33
22 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011
QUEERY: 20 questions for Daniel Phoenix Singh
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Dancing for Daniel Phoenix Singh is a pas-
sion, a notion with which many artists can re-
late. So much so, in fact, that he essentially
works two full-time jobs to make it happen.
He works in information technology by day
(“To pay the bills,” he says) and spends four or
five days a week dancing with his eponymous How long have you been out and who
group, the Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh was the hardest person to tell?
Dance Company, a seven-year-old outfit of I’ve been out for close to 15 years now.
14 dancers that specializes in modern Ameri- The hardest person to tell was my mother,
can, classical and traditional Indian dance. she didn’t know what gay meant. So it was
Their next performances are next weekend a bit difficult/humorous to try to explain and
(April 2-3) at Dance Place in Washington come out at the same time — perhaps more
where they’ll perform “By the Light,” a dance humorous in hindsight. When I first came
the late D.C. choreographer Eric Hampton out, it made me reel that someone who
created while suffering the latter stages of the loved me so much — that she gave up a
Lou Gehrig’s disease to which he eventually comfortable life in India to work 80-90 hours
succumbed. a week so I could have a good education
“It’s really about what dance meant to him,” and life — could hate a part of me so un-
Singh says. Go to danceplace.org for information. questioningly because of what her church
Singh grew up in India but moved to the Washington Blade photo by Michael Key told her. But she has had a pretty incredible
U.S. when he was 17 in 1990. He chose “Phoe- change of heart. Props to my mom, even
nix” as a translation of his middle name because his Indian name was too long to though she doesn’t understand it complete-
fit on his passport and green card. Dakshina means offering in Sanscrit, a name ly and is still a pretty conservative Christian,
he chose to honor his company’s Indian roots. Four of its male members, including she grew to accept me and love me again.
Singh, are gay. He says queer sensibilities inform his work in several ways.
“I never think of gender in terms of casting,” he says. “I might cast two men for Who’s your LGBT hero?
a dance, two women or a man and a woman. It’s whoever does the work the best. Audre Lorde, she lived a composite,
It’s very freeing for me. I have a strong interest in social justice that comes from my nuanced, self-analytical, socially con-
LGBT sensibilities, and also an awareness of how the arts can be used to speak to scious/active, artistic life that I covet.
something larger. It’s not just something that’s pretty, it’s a way to address something
that’s relevant to our lives.” What’s Washington’s best nightspot,
past or present?
Chaos! I loved Chaos and miss the
space where people from diverse back-
grounds and age groups gathered
to dance the night away. My favorite mem-
ory of Chaos is when a young guy brought
his grandmother to the drag show that
happened before the Salsa nights.
Describe your dream wedding.
Intellectually, I’m not sure I believe in
the institution of marriage — it’s too hetero-
normative for me. But my heart strings still
tug when I see a traditional Indian wedding,
and I’m always the first person to start cry-
ing when a couple begin saying their vows.
What non-LGBT issue are you most
passionate about?
I’m very passionate about the arts. I’m
concerned that we as a community don’t
realize the long-term effects of this steady
decline in engaging with the arts whether
it is in the K-12, general public, senior citi-
zens or immigrant communities. To me it is
inconceivable to define a progressive de-
veloped society without the arts having a
central role. There is a lot of talk about the
loss of nuance, abstraction and engage-
ment in our conversations (both social and
political). People often take the most polar-
ized views, everything comes down to a
yes/no check box and then they wonder
why we can’t get along or move forward. To
me, the arts are about the subtleties of life,
about finding the gray areas and looking at
life from various angles. Most importantly
art is about self-reflection and awareness
— something critical for us to grow as a
society.
What historical outcome would you
change?
There are several things I’d like to
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
change. I don’t know where to start.
What’s been the most memorable pop
culture moment of your lifetime?
When Dana Fuchs, one of the heroines
in “Across the Universe” locked lips with
me (among several others) at her concert.
On what do you insist?
Kindness.
What was your last Facebook post or
Tweet?
Mornings = Bad.
If your life were a book, what would the
title be?
“Artful Mischief.”
If science discovered a way to change
sexual orientation, what would you do?
Make everyone poly-sexual? If every-
one loved everyone, maybe some of our
problems will go away.
What do you believe in beyond the
physical world?
I don’t believe in an afterlife — learning
to let go of the ego of permanence was a
hard lesson for me. But I do believe integ-
rity in our lived lives survives us.
What’s your advice for LGBT movement
leaders?
To find a community-based, grassroots
solution to our host of issues, instead of
trying to create a top-down abstract mod-
el. Have stakeholders present in very early
planning stages, don’t just invite them as
“community sponsors” after the main con-
versation has finished. And to try to frame
issues as more than the hetero-homo bina-
ries.
What would you walk across hot
coals for?
My dance company and my friends.
What LGBT stereotype annoys you
most?
That we’re here to recruit.
What’s your favorite LGBT movie?
“Milk”
What’s the most overrated social
custom?
Clubbing (different from dancing).
What trophy or prize do you most
covet?
The MacArthur Fellowship
What do you wish you’d known at 18?
That I should have started dancing
earlier.
Why Washington?
Like Goldilocks, it’s just the right size
— not too big, not too small.

SOCIALAGENDA
The Town bears say they don’t mind the non-bear types who drink with them on Friday evenings.
Bear and bear alike
Friday happy hour
gathering at Town
attracts all types
By KAMAL KAMARA
Washington’s bear scene, now several
months into its new home at Town, is mor-
phing into a strong event that attracts all
types and is spilling into the large dance
club’s second floor.
“I love it here. It’s more like New York,”
is not a comment you typically hear when
D.C. guys talk about their favorite spot to
get their drink on for happy hour. But that’s
exactly what was heard on a recent Friday
at D.C. Bëar Crüe’s Bear Happy Hour.
Bear Happy Hour, BHH to the initi-
ated, takes place every Friday from 6 to
10 p.m. at Town. Managed by Nicholas
Baatz, BHH has drink specials, free piz-
za and is the largest weekly happy hour
in the country for bears and friends.
Since moving from its recent home at
the now-closed EFN Lounge, BHH has
been so popular that it expanded to the
larger second floor space at Town. “We
are averaging crowds of 400 to 700 peo-
ple every Friday,” Baatz says. BHH is also
gaining notoriety for its friendly “no dra-
ma” atmosphere, which is attracting more
patrons who are non-bears every week.
“I like coming with my friends to catch
up on the week,” said Jim Rosario, a
46-year-old non-bear who came to BHH
to have a drink with friends. “I love that so
march 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 23
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
many of my social circles intersect here.
Besides that, I love meeting new people
and I find the atmosphere to be inviting
Tenebrae
and stress free.”
“BHH is a great place to relax and
meet friendly people with no frills or fuss,”
says Matt Molli, a 26-year-old non-bear.
The lively but low-key crowd at Town
seemed to confirm their comments. Guys Friday, March 25, 7:30 pm
of all ages were chatting, laughing, eat-
ing free pizza and having a good time. It Washington National Cathedral
was a racially diverse crowd of bears and
almost as many non-bears, a few lesbians vocal chamber ensemble
and a handful of straight women. Michael McCarthy, conductor
And what do some of the regular at-
tendees think of the non-bear attendance
at BHH? “I don’t think it really matters”
says Art Thomas, a 52-year-old bear and
inspiring music at washington national cathedral
happy hour regular. “The bear community
is very ‘live and let live’ and encourages
people to be whoever they are, so I’m not The Cathedral's vocal chamber
surprised that BHH is seen as welcoming ensemble performs settings
and more inclusive to non-bears.”
“We’re starting to bring in non-bears of the Tenebræ Responsories by
and keep [Bear Happy Hour] no drama,” sixteenth-century composer
says Baatz, who has also started Bear In- Victoria and by contemporary
vasions, a new monthly bear party similar Scottish composer MacMillan,
to the old Guerilla Queer Bar parties. as well as Martin’s Mass for
“We invade local dive bars that are
gay friendly and give people a chance to double choir.
hang out and have a better conversation.
It’s also letting the straights know that not
all gays fit your typical stereotype.” Tickets start at $25—visit
Bear Invasions takes place the sec-
www.nationalcathedral.org
ond Tuesday of every month. More infor-
mation can be found about Bear Happy or call (202) 537-2228 today!
Hour and Bear Invasions via the DC Bëar
Crüe group on Facebook.
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Up close with Janet
Carry out Janet Jackson brought her sold-out
Delivery “Number Ones: Up Close and Personal
Private parties Tour” to D.C.’s DAR Constitution Hall this
week for two shows packed with hits
MON-THUR 12-3, 5-12 from her long career.
FRI 12-3, 5-1 She dedicated the song “I Get Lonely”
to D.C. and its video played before Jack-
SAT 12-1 son, clad in a futuristic cat suit, opened
SUN 12-12 with a barrage of tracks from 1986’s
“Control” before segueing into the more
recent “Feedback.” The set was spare
and the focus was on Jackson’s vocals
and her iconic dance moves. The venue
1326 14th St. NW was more intimate than in previous tours
2nd Floor and Jackson playfully engaged with the
crowd throughout the show.
202.588.5889 A set of ballads included “Nothing,”
202.588.5599 “Come Back to Me” and “Again,” and
TSUSHI.US marked the only portion of the show
Owned and Operated by Thai Tanic staff. when fans sat down. During one costume
change, clips from Jackson’s TV and film
roles played to audience cheers.
After the ballads, it was back to dance,
with another string of No. 1 hits, includ-
ing “All for You,” “Escapade” and “Love
Will Never Do (Without You).” The crowd
erupted again when Michael Jackson’s
image appeared on screen and Janet
launched into a raucous rendition of
the 1995 hit duet “Scream.” She closed
with a medley of “Diamonds,” “The Best
Things in Life Are Free,” and “Make Me”
before performing a poignant “Together
Again,” complete with childhood photos
of Janet and Michael on video screens.
At 44, Jackson shows no signs of
slowing down. She has said she plans
to record a new album later this year.
The North American leg of the world
tour wraps next month and then Jackson
heads to Europe.
— STAFF REPORTS

SOCIALAGENDA
Partygoers at last year’s Cherry event. The annual party series benefits HIV and AIDS services
in Washington.
Dancing for dollars
Cherry proceeds benefit
local HIV/AIDS non-profits;
events kick off Thursday
By JULIETTE EBNER
Cherry 2011, the annual charity dance
event hosted by the Cherry Fund, begins
Thursday and continues through next
weekend with parties and other events
every day.
The Cherry Fund is a non-profit organi-
zation with the sole purpose to raise funds
for the HIV/AIDS service community with
beneficiaries such as Whitman-Walker
Clinic, Mautner Project, Sexual Minority
Youth Assistance League and more.
The party kicks off with an event at
Nellie’s (900 U St., N.W.) from 6:30 to
9:30 p.m. with DJ Nick Centrik Purcell,
where passes will be for sale. After the
event, there’s Ignition at Cobalt (1639 R
St., N.W.) from 10 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. with
DJs Randy Betties and Jason Horswill.
Friday’s events begin at 2 p.m. with
another pass pick-up and an evening
of fashion with local designer Andrew
Nowell at Caramel Boutique (1603 U St.,
N.W.). There will be an auction during
Bear Happy Hour at Town (2009 8th St.,
N.W.) with DJ Bandit and D.C. Bear Crue
from 7 to 9 p.m.
The Momentum party at Apex (1415
22nd St., N.W.) with Ms. Foozie as the
hostess and DJs Alyson Calagna and
Steve Henderson starts at 10 p.m. There
is a $15 cover for this party.
Saturday brings the main event at
Town from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. with DJs Os-
car G, BennyK and Wess and perfor-
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celebrate the national
cherry blossom festival
3-COurSE
prix fix mENu
$45.00++/person
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mENu
torchon au foie gras
goose liver torchon
cherry orange compote
frisee salad warm brioche
mances by Macaviti and the Ladies of
Town. Tickets for this event are $20.
The main event is followed by an after- entrecôte grillée
hours party at Fur (33 Patterson St., N.E.) with
DJ Peter Rauhofer and opening DJ Timothy char grilled ny strip
Mykael. Tickets for this party are $45. roasted fingerling potatoes
Sunday continues with a tea dance at green asparagus cherry reduction
Cobalt from noon to 4 p.m. with DJ Mike
Reimer and Level One is hosting the
Cherry Brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. by panna cotta au vanille
reservation only at opentable.com. There
is a $5 cover for the tea dance and the
vanilla bean panna cotta
brunch is $20.11. cherry crumble
Cherry ends with Ovation at Ultrabar dark and white chocolate short bread
(911 F St., N.W.) with DJs Stephan Gron-
din and Sin Morera from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Tickets for this party are $20.
There are also some sanctioned
events that will be happening the same
time as Cherry events.
Lace (2214 Rhode Island Ave., N.E.)
is hosting a party for the ladies, Blossom,
with DJ Ron on Friday at 7 p.m. There is
a $10 cover.
The second annual Big Cherry Block Par-
ty is Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in down-
town Silver Spring (916 Ellsworth Drive).
03.26.11 — 04.10.11
Moody Ga Ga with DJ Joe Gauthreaux
is on Saturday at Town from 2 to 7 p.m.
Tickets are $50 for this event.
café dupont
Code D.C. presented by David Merrill ++
Plus tax & gratuity
and Jacob Pring is also on Saturday at
Green Lantern (1335 Green Court, N.W.)
from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. There is a $10 cover
for this event.
All tickets must be purchased in ad- by The Dupont Hotel
vance online at boxofficetickets.com/ 1500 New Hampshire Avenue, NW • Washington, DC 20036
cherry. A VIP Host Pass is available for (202) 797-0169 • www.doylecollection.com/cafedupont
$100 and includes admission to five
events. Sanctioned events are not in- STAY CONNECTED!
cluded in the Host Pass. For more infor- Like us on Facebook – Follow us on Twitter
mation, visit cherryfund.org.
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CALENDAR the Birchmere Dec. 17. (Photo courtesy of the Roches)
TODAY
Caliente Grande is tonight
at Apex (1415 22nd St., N.W.)
starting at 9 p.m. DJ Michael
Brandon will be spinning the
Latin dance party in the main
hall. There is a $10 cover
charge. Attendees must be 18
to enter, 21 to drink.
Brightest Young Things
presents “A Night at the News-
eum II: Way Out of Line” at the
Newseum (555 Pennsylvania
Ave., N.W.) tonight at 8 p.m.
with DJs Nickodemus and An-
cient Astronauts. Tickets are
$15 in advanced and drink tick-
ets are $4. For more information
and to purchase tickets, visit
brightestyoungthings.com.
The New Gay hosts Beat
City at Chief Ike’s Mambo Room
(1725 Columbia Rd., N.W.) to-
night from 9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.
featuring music from artists such
as Joan Jett, Le Tigre, Bloc Party
and more. There will also be a
giveaway and the winner will
get a pair of tickets to see The
Raveonettes at Black Cat and a
copy of their new record, “Raven
in the Grave.” For more informa-
tion, visit, thenewgay.net.
Women in Their Twenties,
a social discussion and dinner
group, will be meeting tonight
from 8 to 9 p.m. at the D.C. Cen-
ter (1318 U St., N.W.).
Signature Theatre (4200
Campbell Ave.) in Arlington
presents “Pride Night” with a
performance of “And the Cur-
tain Rises” at 8 p.m. followed by
a post-show cocktail and hors
d’oeuvres reception.
The Lodge (21614 National
Pike) in Boonsoro presents “So
You Think You Can Sing!,” a kara-
oke and dance party, tonight from
9 p.m. to 2 a.m. with DJ Christy. All
participants get a free rail or do-
mestic beer with their first perfor-
mance. There is a $5 cover.
The “1st Friday of the
Month,” a professional wom-
en for women social group, is
meeting tonight at Beacon Bar
& Grill (1615 Rhode Island Ave.,
N.W.) at 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 26
Every fourth Saturday 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.
Busboys & Poets (1025 5th
St., N.W.) presents “Wake up
and Smell the Coffee!: A Com-
munity Gathering on D.C. Voting
Rights and Statehood” today at
9 a.m. in the Cullen Room. This
is a free event.
The Kennedy Center (2700
F. St., N.W.) presents Bowen
McCauley Dance’s 15th anni-
versary season “Red. Hot. Fab-
ulous.” tonight at 7:30 p.m. in
the Terrace Theater. The show is
made up of five different pieces,
“Haiku Suite,” “World Premiere,”
“Time and Clouds,” “Ozone”
and “Telemetry.” Tickets are $36
and can be purchased online at
kennedy-center.org.
Ultrabar (911 F St., N.W.)
hosts Ladies Night: Coyote Ugly
Edition tonight from 9 p.m. to 3
a.m. featuring The House Tribe
and DJs Tektronics, Mario and
Saam and an open bar from 9
to 10 p.m. on the main floor. Get
free and reduced admission
passes at dcclubbing.com.
“Shear Madness,” a come-
dy whodunit, will be performed
twice tonight at the Kennedy
Center Theater Lab (2700 F St.,
N.W.) at 6 and 9 p.m. “Mad-
ness” takes place in present-
day Georgetown, in the Shear
Madness Hair Styling Salon.
Tickets are $42. Visit kennedy-
center.org for more information
and to purchase tickets.
The Congressional Cho-
rus presents “Stompin’ at the
Savoy: A 1930s Cabaret Ball-
room” at the Atlas Performing
Arts Center (1333 H St., N.E.)
tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets are $35
for general admission. Contact
Debby McConnell at 202-399-
7993, ext. 182 or debby_mcco-
nnell@congressionalcorus.org
for information.
Sunday, March 27
The D.C. Jazz Jam, a weekly
jam free for both musicians and
jazz lovers, is tonight from 6:30
to 9:30 p.m. at Dahlak (1771 U
St., N.W.). Image courtesy of Touchstone Gallery
Busboys & Poets will be ‘Blue, Yellow and Green Grasses’ is part of an exhibit called ‘Grasses’ by artist Mary Ott that will be on display start-
showing the film “The Nine ing Wednesday and throughout April at Touchstone Gallery in Washington. Receptions with the artist are planned for
Lives of Marion Barry” tonight at April 1 and 10.
8 p.m. as part of its “Focus-In!
Cinema for a Conscious Com- Professionals in the City performing at the Birchmere (3701 ing an organic happy hour today at
munity,” at the 5th and K loca- and the D.C. Center are hosting Mt Vernon Ave.) in Alexandria to- 4 p.m. featuring Butte Creek IPA
tion (1025 5th St., N.W.) and the a speed dating event for lesbian night with Joe Robinson. Tickets Sam Smith Ale cocktails, Eco Mo-
film “Pushing the Elephant” in and bisexual women at Chi-Cha are $25 and can be purchased jito Tree-Tini and more.
the Langston Room at 14th and Lounge (1624 U St., N.W.) from online at ticketmaster.com.
V location (2021 14th St., N.W.). 7 to 11 p.m. Attendees will date Busboys & Poets (2021 Thursday, March 31
for about an hour and then be 14th St., N.W.) is hosting an
Monday, March 28 able to mingle with everyone. open mic poetry night tonight Adventuring, a D.C. gay
After the event, matches can be at 9 p.m. in the Langston Room. and lesbian outdoor group, will
The GLBTA Resource Cen- made online. Tickets are $20. Wristbands will be on sale in the be hosting a cherry blossom
ter at American University is For more information, visit pros- bookstore for $4 starting at 10 evening hike. The group will
hosting a workshop entitled “Bi- inthecity.com. a.m. until they are sold out. meet at the top of the escalators
sexual 101” today from 2 to 5 Bears do Yoga at Green at Waterfront Metro and leave at
p.m. in the Mary Graydon Cen- Lantern (1335 Green Court Wednesday, March 30 6 p.m. The only required cost if
ter, Room 247. The workshop will N.W.) tonight at 6:30 p.m. Class the $2 trip fee. For more infor-
look at issues related to bisexu- lasts for an hour and serves as The reality show “Drag City: mation, visit adventuring.org.
ality as well as bisexuality across an introduction to yoga for peo- D.C.” will be taping a drag show Cherry 2011 kicks off tonight
cultures and historical epochs ple of all different body types on roller skates tonight from 7 to at Nellie’s (900 U St., N.W.) with
and look at some prominent bi- and physical abilities. It’s taught 11 p.m. at the Temple Hills Skat- a pre-game and pass pick-up
sexuals. To RSVP, e-mail glbta@ by Michael Brazell. For more in- ing Center (3132 Branch Ave.) with DJ Nick Centrik Purcell
american.edu with your name. formation, visit dccenter.org. in Temple Hills. The show starts from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. followed
SAGE Metro D.C. is holding at 8. Admission is $15 with an by Ignition with DJs Randy Bet-
its monthly meeting tonight from Tuesday, March 29 buffet for an additional $5. tis and Jason Horswill at Cobalt
6:30 to 8 p.m. at the D.C. Center Busboys & Poets (4251 South (1639 R St., N.W.) from 10 p.m.
(1318 U St., N.W.). Out musician Kaki King will be Campbell Ave.) in Arlington is host- to 2:30 a.m.

THEATERAGENDA
Rachel Pickup as Lady Chiltern (left) and Nancy Robinette as Lady Markby in Shakespeare
Theatre Company’s production of ‘An Ideal Husband,’ directed by Keith Baxter.
On the Wilde side
Shakespeare ‘Husband’
production hits close
to home
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband”
may not be the gay literary genius’ best
work, but where it lacks his usual comic
brilliance, it funnily enough exudes D.C.
relevancy.
A social and political satire set in late-
Victorian London where money and pow-
er are king, the over-a-century-old come-
dy (currently running at the Shakespeare
Theatre Company) is sure to strike a
chord with today’s audience.
Rapidly ascending politico Sir Rob-
ert Chiltern (Gregory Woodell) is Lon-
don’s golden boy. Not only is he rich
and powerful with a brilliant career, but
he’s also married to Lady Chiltern (Ra-
chel Pickup), a decidedly good woman
who considers him the ideal husband.
His charmed world is suddenly upset
when a blackmailing Mrs. Cheveley
(Emily Raymond) appears on the scene
armed with an incriminating letter prov-
ing that Chiltern, like most politicians and
those who’ve benefited from a meteoric
rise in fortunes, stepped outside of the
law at some point in his career. Though
now a thoroughly honest fellow, it seems
that as an ambitious young man — titled
but poor — he sold cabinet secrets to a
stock-exchange speculator.
Despite coming dangerously close to
social and political death, our com-
prised hero Chiltern ultimately avoids
public scandal and remains on top
thanks mainly to the doings of his wise
and compassionate bachelor friend Lord
Goring (Cameron Folmar). Sadly, Oscar
Wilde’s real life scandal didn’t end so
neatly. Not long after the very successful
London debut of “An Ideal Husband” in
1895 followed by the equally triumphant
opening of “The Importance of Being
Earnest” that same year, Wilde sued his
young male lover’s father for libel. Wilde
lost the suit and evidence of his sexual
relations with men that came up during
the trial landed him in jail. Neither he nor
his career ever recovered.
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Photo by Scott Suchman; courtesy of Shakespeare Theatre Company
Michael
Feinstein
The sumptuousness of director Keith
Baxter’s production beautifully brings to
life society’s obsession with appearance. Sunday, April 17 at 7pm
For the Chiltern’s London house, set de-
signer Simon Higlett has envisioned a Kennedy Center Concert Hall
soaring, dark marble manse — a verita-
ble monument to riches and raw power.
Similarly impressive are Robert Perdzi-
ola’s gorgeous gowns inspired by the “Smooth, rippling, perfectly
works of la belle époque portraitist John
Singer Sargent. More than once, slender manicured vocal and pianistic lines.”
Pickup as Lady Chiltern strikes a pose in
the drawing room or on the grand stair- ~ New York Times
case, and (artfully lit by Peter West) she
momentarily becomes a Sargent painting.
While Wilde’s script can be a bit over
the top at times, Baxter coaxes what’s
best about it to the fore: Cheveley’s ruth-
less power play. Chiltern’s grappling with
what he believes is an unavoidable loss
of reputation and his wife’s realization
that an ideal husband doesn’t exist.
As dandified idler Lord Goring, ver-
satile New York-based actor Cameron
Folmar displays a venerable light comic
touch. Obsessed with the size of his bou-
tonnière, Goring seems the most trivial of
his rarefied circle, but in fact, he’s the
only one who sees through the hypocrisy
of society and understands the impor-
tance of compassion.
Handsome Gregory Woodall makes
a sympathetic Chiltern. A winner at the
game of life, he is all energy and ambi-
tion, but not smug. Even when it seems
he’s lost everything, he is more resigned
than angry. As the too good Lady Chiltern
and her venomous enemy Mrs. Cheveley,
Baxter has wisely cast British actresses
Pickup and Raymond. They both deliver
splendidly nuanced performances.
The remainder of the excellent large
cast includes Shakespeare Theatre
Company regulars David Sabin and
Nancy Robinette who nicely play a pair
of old guard stalwarts, and Floyd King as
Phipps, Goring’s knowing manservant.
‘AN IDeAL HusBAND’
Through April 16
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Sidney Harman Hall
610 F Street, N.W.
202-547-1122
www.shakespearetheatre.org (202) 785-9727 (WPAS) • WPAS.org
28 washingtonblade.com • march 25, 2011
FITNESSAGENDA
Some foods offer a temporary mood boost, such as the natural boost the body gets from a sugar
rush, but healthier options will yield more long-term benefits throughout the day.
Natural mood enhancers
Knowing what to eat and
when is key to boosting
mental health
By KEVIN NORRIS
Every morsel of food and drink we
consume has an impact on how we feel,
our state of being and our energy level,
from caffeine, chocolate, alcohol, whole
grains and more.
Food affects mood and we can use
food to help regulate our moods through-
out the day and in winding down in the
evening preparing ourselves for sleep.
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HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS OPENINGS
Thu, March 31
National Symphony Orchestra, Ivan
Jozsef Lendvay Jr., violin, Kennedy Cen-
ter. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
LAST CHANCE
Sat, March 26
The 3 Rascals- A3vidos [Atrevidos],
Teatro de la Luna, Gunston Theatre Two.
703-548-3092. teatrodelaluna.org.
Sun, March 27
The Chosen, Theater J, Arena Stage.
800-494-8497. washingtondcjcc.org.
Mon, March 28
The Corsica Series, Montpelier Arts
Center. 301-377-7800. pgparks.com.
National Cherry Blossom Festival
March 26 through April 10
nationalcherryblossomfestival.org 877- 44BLOOM
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
Tidal Basin, Sylvan Theater on the Washington Monument Grounds and other March 25 - March 27
Protègès III, Kennedy Center.
venues throughout the city.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
This yearís Festival boasts nearly 400 free events and performances surrounding
traditional and contemporary arts and culture, natural beauty, and community spirit; March 26 - March 27
in celebration of the 99th anniversary of the gift of cherry blossom trees. Nicholas Leichter Dance, Dance Place.
202-269-1600. danceplace.org.
Penelope
March 29 - March 30
Through Sunday, April 3 Dave Mason, Wolftrap.
Studio Theatre, 1501 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
studiotheatre.org 202-332-3300
At the bottom of a drained swimming pool, four jealous suitors dressed in Speedos and terry- ONE NIGHT ONLY
cloth robes woo a beautiful young widow. In provocative Irish playwright Enda Walsh’s extraor-
dinary rift on Homer’s Odyssey, Penelope’s four remaining admirers share a dream prophesy-
Fri, March 25
An Evening with Naturally 7, Strath-
ing the return of her husband and the end of their lives. The clock’s ticking! more. 301-581-5100 . strathmore.org.
Friday Night Eclectic: Scrapomatic
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Thu, March 31 through Tue, April 5 301-581-5100 . strathmore.org.
ARTISPHERE. 1101 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA.
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Sat, March 26
Diva’s Night Out, soprano Carmen
The ancient myth seen through the prism of modern life. In Gordon’s version, Or-
Balthrop, National Chamber Ensemble,
pheus is a clarinetist, Euridice a soprano. They sing together, with and without
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24th Annual Evening of Comedy,
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international, indigenous cultures. A discussion with the director will follow each
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Woman of the Gospel Choir, Wash-
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King Lear, Synetic Theater at
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Photograph 51, Theater J.
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Bootycandy, Woolly Mammoth.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve
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Liberty Smith, Ford’s Theatre. 202-397-
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Penelope, Studio Theatre.
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Fighting Improv Smackdown Tour-
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In Your Ear: Avant Garde Poetry, DC
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Protest and Passion, In Series, Atlas.
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National Gallery of Art. Venice: Canaletto
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Beyond Form: Expressing Art, Del Ray
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Lesbian Kaki King plays the Birchmere tonight

Lesbian musician Kaki King will be performing at the Birchmere (3701 Mt. Ver-
non Ave.) in Alexandria tonight at 7:30 p.m. with Joe Robinson.
King’s newest album, “Junior,” features songs not like her previous works, such
as “Spit It Back in My Mouth,” which she describes as her “Cure song” based on
its happy groove and depressing lyrics.
In February 2006, King was the only woman and the youngest artist to be in-
cluded in Rolling Stone’s list of “The New Guitar Gods.”
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at ticketmaster.com.

Signature hosts ‘Curtain’ pride night

Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave.) in Arlington hosts “Pride Night,” a spe-
cial event for the LGBT community, tonight.
The evening includes a performance of the musical comedy “And the Curtain
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Call 703-820-9771 to purchase tickets and reserve a spot on the shuttle.
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Blithe Riley with a two-channel video, “Ascension/Immersion.” The team trans-
formed an abandoned house by cutting two large holes in the roof, allowing Coble
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into a pool of water inside.
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The QUEER PROM, held March 19, gave LGBT locals who missed out in high school a chance to recreate the night for charity.

VICTORY FUND held its 20th anniversary brunch last weekend in Washington.
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DCAGENDA

Gay identity informed Williams’ work

Continued from page 21
when it was directed by Elia Kazan and
won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama), it’s
clear that Brick (first played by the ac-
tor Ben Gazzara) is actually bisexual, or
even gay, as he admits to his feelings for
his pro football buddy Skipper who has
committed suicide. Goldman says that
“the back story for Brick is his relation-
ship with Skipper,” and that while Brick’s
“sexuality is pretty complicated,” he has
certainly “lost interest in Maggie sexual-
ly,” and “we understand that he definitely
has homosexual desires.”
We, of course, mainly know Williams
from his work. That is the only reason
he rates such a “Tenn Cent Fest” week-
end, more than a quarter century after
his death, as Goldman is now curating.
But behind and beneath that work was
always his beating heart. Reading his
private writing shows him “so emotionally
naked, as he was working out his own
stuff,” Goldman says.
“It shows the undulation between guilt
and shame (at being gay), not being ac-
cepted for who he really was, and also
being able to claim it with pride,” Gold-
man says. “It was not just one thing. It
was a stew of contradictions pulsing
back and forth in private.”
In one of Williams’ one-act plays, “Sud-
Georgetown University’s production of ‘Glass Menagerie,’ one of Tennessee Williams’ most famous
works. From left are recent alumni Rachel Caywood and Clark Young with Prof. Sarah Marshall.
denly, Last Summer,” that opened off-
Broadway in 1958 as part of a double-bill
titled “In The Garden District,” the play is
basically two long monologues, considered
one of his starkest and most poetic works.
Best known from the 1959 film adapta-
tion, it is a mystery melodrama about why
Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor in the film) has
been institutionalized for severe emotional
disturbance, the result of the violent death
of her cousin Sebastian by dismember-
ment and cannibalism by local boys, the
objects of his predatory sexual desire, she
had witnessed during their trip to Spain.
Sebastian’s wealthy mother, Violet Venable
(Katharine Hepburn) is determined to hide
the exact circumstances of her son’s death
and the fact that he was gay.
Photo by Sue Kessler, courtesy of Georgetown University
Maya Roth, Georgetown’s director of
theater and performance studies, is di-
recting “Suddenly, Last Summer” at the
Davis Performing Arts Center April 7-16.
“It is a play about violence against ho-
mosexual men,” she says. “It’s about Se-
bastian,” who is never seen, except at a
distance in memory, “and his queerness
that can’t be mentioned, the love that
dare not speak its name, that’s what ‘Sud-
denly, Last Summer’ is about.” Though
sanitized in the film version, it was written
as one of his early plays but for a long
time remained unproduced. When it was
finally presented on stage, it was a kind
of “coming out” for Williams, she says,
“and it was really radical, and the reason
why Hollywood had to airbrush it out.”
Asked about the legacy of Williams
— his many plays as well as novels and
short stories and occasional screen-
plays — Goldman says, “it’s more than
a legacy, it’s the urgency still in his work,
because it’s still very fresh,” in what he
calls its “incredible lyricism and heat, the
poetry of its fierce and ferocious imagery,
in its language as windows into the soul.”
“He’s the poet of the vulnerable,
whose compassion is in the size of his
tenderness and faith in the beauty of the
broken, those who have suffered the col-
lateral damages of a world that doesn’t
celebrate individuality, that doesn’t make
allowances for the beauty of the broken,”
Goldman says. “He’s the one who pierc-
es the heart and the intellect, but it’s the
heart, the emotional connection that we
have to his work, that is most indelible.”
“He’s our American Shakespeare,”
Goldman says, “combining the eleva-
tion of lyricism and magician-ship of
language with the power of great story-
telling,” and for Goldman, of all of Wil-
liams’ work there stands what he calls
“the holy trinity,” his own “personal pan-
theon” of Williams’ three greatest cre-
ations: “The Glass Menagerie” (1944),
“Streetcar Named Desire” (1948) and
“Camino Real” (1953). The latter is being
performed in a staged reading directed
by Goldman tonight at 7:45 p.m.

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Washington, DC 20037 firePlaCe Multi-level after-hours dance club 870 Park Ave.
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By David Bediz, REALTOR Geizekamp explained that the
Coldwell Banker model used in his country al-
Residential Brokerage lows for a fair, efficient and
even a fun transaction for most
In my travels through Syd- people involved (or at least the
ney I noticed that the appealing seller and the winning buyer),
panels in front of houses were but that there may be draw-
complemented by a very ag- backs in some respects when
gressive marketing campaign an agency has individual listing
in print media as well. One pub- agents without a company-wide
lication, the Wentworth Courier, approach. Callagher’s team
is a glossy magazine over 250 of sales agents work together
pages long (yes, it’s almost the to sell each property, so if one
weight of a phone book) and agent sells another’s listing
is delivered to just about every they each share equally in the
house and business I saw. It commission, which is generally
has only about 20 pages of lo- around 2-2.2%. However, he
cal news content, perhaps 50 says most other brokers do not
pages of advertisements for fur- use such a practice, so there is
niture companies, restaurants no incentive for any agent to find
and other vendors, and the rest, the buyer for any property other
amazingly, were full-page ads than their own listing. Even with
for properties coming to auc- Callagher’s approach, there
tion soon. Each page, again, is no incentive for a Callagher
looked like a model home and I agent to help a buyer acquire
was simply flabbergasted at the any other broker’s listing, so
expense that must have been buyers are ultimately on their Even modest homes in Sydney are generally staged, photographed and sold as if they’re model homes. The sellers
paid for that exposure. I found own in their search. So most foot the bill for it all, though, even the cost of a virtual tour.
out that the sellers, not the properties are at the mercy of
agents, paid for every print ad, a single agent pushing its sale, chasers here. Besides the ben- curity. As a buyer’s agent I can tion of each listing is, whether
every photograph, even the fly- which could be bad for the sell- efit of a trusted guide, a skilled show as many as 20 properties in print, online or delivered to
ers, postcards and those lovely er. And conversely, each buyer negotiator and, if nothing else, in an afternoon, and while that a buyer’s door, and confirmed
sign panels in the front. Not sur- is completely on their own (un- another set of eyes on a buyer’s may make some buyers’ heads that my own devoted approach
prisingly, the commission paid less they pay a buyer’s agent transaction, the system of buyer spin, it also ensures that they to sales with that in mind is the
to the agents is about half that from their own pocket), which agency allows an agent to truly ultimately get the home that is way things ought to be done,
of American sales to balance may not do much service to the help a buyer find the home that perfectly suited for their prefer- auction or no auction.
out the equation, so at the end buyer. That leads me to find one is right for them, regardless of ences and budget.
of the day the cost to sellers for real benefit in the American sys- the listing brokerage, by provid- Ultimately, each market has
David Bediz is a Realtor at Coldwell
marketing their home is about tem, which is truly unique the ing a financial incentive and a its own advantages and disad- Banker Residential Brokerage and
the same as here in the States. world over, and which allows for logistical opportunity for them to vantages, but I have to admit part of the Dwight and David Real
All this led me to wonder compensation of buyer’s agents show and sell any listed prop- I was truly impressed with the Estate Group. He can be reached
whether the system we have by the seller: buyer agency. erty. The electronic lockbox is, professionalism of Callagher’s at 202 352 8456 or through www.
DwightandDavid.com. Callagher
here is superior or inferior to Buyer agency is a relatively in my opinion, a miraculous approach and the sheer ap- Estate Agents can be found at
the system employed in Aus- new phenomenon in the U.S., invention that streamlines the peal of the marketing I saw from www.callagher.com.au.
tralia (and for that matter, in but it has provided an enor- process of showings while pre- many brokerages. It reminded
most of the rest of the world). mous advantage to home pur- serving seller privacy and se- me how important the presenta-

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