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Alexander-Reid saw
Women in the Life
evolve into non-prot
over 18 years
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Lesbian activist and events promoter
Sheila Alexander-Reid has announced
shes stepping down from heading the
D.C.-based Women in the Life Association
after 18 years. It concludes with a bounty
of activities this weekend.
A party being billed as The Last First
Friday is tonight from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. at
the Loft at the Warehouse (4th and Penn
streets, N.E. off New York Avenue). An
open mic night was held Thursday night.
On Saturday, a cocktail reception will be
held at Martins Lounge at 1919 9th St. (near
9th and U) from 7-11 p.m. featuring singer/
songwriter Angie Head. Admission to
tonights party is $20. Saturdays is $15. Visit
lastrstfriday.com for more information.
Women in the Life has been mostly
inactive for the last year. Alexander-Reid
said many of the factors that contributed
to the groups founding are moot points
now. Shes also at a different time and age
in her own life, she said.
Im quite frankly just tired, she said.
Im hearing from all over the country
people saying, You cant let this die, it
needs to continue, and so on. When we
started there was more of a need for safe
spaces for professional lesbians of color to
get together, raise visibility in the greater
LGBT community some of the main
reasons we started are no longer needed.
There are other needs that Id eventually
like to address, things like mental health
concerns, obesity, smoking, but right now
Im taking a break. It remains to be seen if
this is just a hiatus for Women in the Life
or the end. It may come back in a different
incarnation, but well see. Im open to that
but Im not committing to that.
Bob Witeck, of Witeck-Combs
Communication and a former Women in
the Life board member, said its a different
era in many ways from when Alexander-
Reid formed the organization.
She was pre-Internet, he said. None
of us had these tools to connect the way
we do now. I wouldnt say shes old school,
but the place she held has changed and
those gaps and vacuums are different than
they used to be.
Witeck said Alexander-Reid deserves
high praise for her efforts.
She fullled a pioneering leadership
that is unparalleled, he said. There really
isnt a counterpart for the bridge that she
built. Plus shes just exciting to be around
with her warmth and her curiosity. Shes
a dynamo who changes and improves
everything she touches.
Women in the Life began as a for-
prot events agency providing First Friday
nightclub events for local black lesbians.
Alexander-Reid said over the years, her crowd
was typically between 75-80 percent black. It
broadened into the scope of a non-prot in
the early 00s when she started publishing
a newsletter/magazine for her regulars that
was extraordinarily popular. After her friend,
Wanda Alston, was murdered, she started
Wandas Will Project to encourage lesbians
to get wills in place. All along, Alexander-
Reid maintained her job as a business
development manager at City Paper. She
said eventually Women in the Life got out of
control and could have easily been a full-time
job, so she pulled back.
I feel good about what I accomplished,
she said. But our community has so much
more now and Id like to take a break.
Trans group gets
rolling while Equality
Maryland regroups

By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Things continue percolating for LGBT
activist groups in Maryland. Gender Rights
Maryland, a new group dedicated to
getting trans protection legislation passed,
had its launch events last weekend. And
this week Equality Maryland announced a
strategic plan for how it plans to regroup
and rebuild for the rest of the year.
On June 23, Gender Rights held a
gathering at Blair Mansion Inn Restaurant
in Silver Spring. According to Dana Beyer,
the groups volunteer executive director,
about 60 attended.
It was kicked off with a lot of
enthusiasm, Beyer said. There was a nice
broad spectrum of people there and it was
very inspiring. There was denitely a sense
that this was a historic event. Theres never
been a trans-focused politically directed
organization in Maryland before.
Last weekend, the groups organizers met
with leaders from national LGBT groups
based in Washington at the DoubleTree
Hotel on Rhode Island Avenue, then on
Sunday the board held its rst meeting.
The organization has a 16-member board
but hopes to expand to 18.
Beyer, who co-founded the organization
with four other transgender Maryland
residents, says the group has been a
dream of hers for years. A number of
considerations, Beyer says, factored into
the timing of the groups formation a
public accommodations bill getting further
along toward passage (though it ultimately
fell one vote shy of what it needed) in the
states most recent legislative session and
the national media attention that a video
received showing Maryland resident Chrissy
Lee Polis getting beaten in a McDonalds
restaurant in April. Beyer says many in the
group have assisted Polis in getting help.
They say shes doing well. Polis attended
Baltimore Pride two weekends ago.
Also last week, Equality Maryland
announced a six-month strategic action
plan that the organizations remaining
ve board members are enacting. The
organization is in the midst of a thorough
self-evaluation the release said. Recent
months have been tumultuous for the
group. Former director Morgan Meneses-
Sheets was red in April. Two LGBT bills
one for same-sex marriage and another
for transgender accommodations failed
earlier this year. The board is about half the
size it was six months ago. Only one person
remains on staff, an ofce manager. Other
employees of recent months had contracts
that were not renewed, the board said.
Over the past two months, the remaining
members of the board have undertaken a
thorough process of self-evaluation, said
Patrick Wojahn, chair of Equality Maryland
Foundation, which leads the organizations
education efforts, in the announcement.
Through individual conversations, over a
dozen Listening Tour stops and more than
1,200 responses to our online survey, we
have actively gathered input about what
people want to see from their statewide
equality organization. We have coupled that
input with the results of a comprehensive
internal review and developed a strong six-
month plan that will allow Equality Maryland
to become the organization it must be in
order to achieve legislative and cultural
equality in our state.
Board Chair Lisa Polyak mentioned
several other goals, such as a major
reconstitution of the board with more
diversity and a bigger skills set, the
hiring tentatively slated for fall of
a new executive director with a new job
description, nancial stabilization and
more input from the community about
what our mission should be.
Polyak said board members have
left for a variety of reasons. At least one
resigned over the handling of Meneses-
Sheets employment but another, Scott
Davenport, moved out of the area and
another took on more responsibilities at
his job, Polyak said.
It wouldnt be fair to characterize it as
any one thing, she said.
Polyak said the formation of Gender
Rights Maryland is a natural evolution
for the trans community and cited
other states, such as New York and
Massachusetts, that have both state LGBT
organizations and separate transgender
political groups.
I think its a great thing, she said. It
ultimately gives more power to the issue
of gender identity concerns, which, frankly,
just based on numbers, is numerically
small. It makes sense that they might have
their own organization for protections.
We look forward to working with them.
Did the Equality Maryland upheaval
contribute to the formation of Gender Rights
Maryland? Beyer, a former Equality Maryland
board member, said nothing in politics or
life is ever completely isolated and that its
hard to quantify to what degree one series of
events affected her groups launch.
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Gender Rights Maryland launches
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02 JULY 01, 2011 LOCAL NEWS
SHEILA ALEXANDER-REID is discontinuing her Women in the Life events after this weekends bevy of
activities. It remains to be seen if the group will continue in another incarnation.
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But no change in
her opposition to
gay nuptials
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke
about New Yorks new marriage law on
Monday, acknowledging its importance to
the LGBT community and the Empire State
but she didnt announce a change in her
own stated opposition to marriage equality.
During a speech commemorating Pride
month at the State Department, Clinton
referenced legislation enacting same-sex
marriage in New York as a monumental
achievement for the supporters of LGBT
rights in her audience.
A former U.S. senator from New York,
Clinton called the passage of the marriage
law a historic vote and said it gives
such visibility and credibility to everything
that so many of you have done over so
many years.
Later during her speech, Clinton noted
during the debate in New York a key vote
toward the end was switched in favor
of the marriage bill from a Republican
senator from the Buffalo area whom
Clinton said became convinced that it
was just not any longer fair for him to see
one group of his constituents as different
from another. Clinton was presumably
referring to State Sen. Mark Grisanti, a
freshman senator who had sought ofce
promising to oppose same-sex marriage.
Senators stood up and talked about
nieces and nephews and grandchildren
and others who are very dear to them, and
they dont want them being objectied or
discriminated against, Clinton said. And
from their own personal connections and
relationships, they began to make the
larger connection with somebody elses
niece or nephew or grandchild and what
that family must feel like.
Despite the remarks and her suggestion
that the lack of marriage equality in the
state enabled discrimination against
same-sex couples, the secretary has yet to
endorse marriage equality.
Asked whether she supports gay
nuptials in November during a forum in
Australia, Clinton replied, I have been a
strong supporter of ending discrimination
and particularly focusing on hate crimes
and workplace bias and the like. I have
not supported same-sex marriage. Ive
supported civil partnerships and contractual
relationships, yet I am supportive of our
states taking actions that they believe reects
the evolution of attitudes about this.
Clintons remarks on the New York
marriage win come at a time when
President Obama is facing increased
pressure to endorse same-sex marriage.
Obama has said hes wrestling with the
idea of same-sex marriage, but has yet
to endorse marriage equality. As a senior
member of the Obama administration,
Clinton could feel compelled to toe the
line of the president when talking publicly
about same-sex marriage.
Richard Socarides, president of Equality
Matters, said he thinks its important that
Clinton publicly state support for marriage
equality just as he has called on Obama
to declare support for same-sex nuptials.
Given the ofce she holds, there are
some constraints on her, but Im not giving
her a pass, Socarides said. I hope she
would soon nd the appropriate venue to go
further and clearly articulate her support.
Also during her 14-miunte speech,
Clinton referenced the work the State
Department has done in the past year to
address LGBT issues overseas, including
facilitating passage of a resolution at the
United Nations recognizing the human
rights of LGBT people worldwide.
And with that we took a huge step
forward in our work to refute the hateful
suggestion that LGBT people are
somehow exempt from human rights
protections, and we made it absolutely
clear that, so far as the United States is
concerned and our foreign policy, and our
values that gay rights are human rights
and human rights are gay rights, she said.
Clinton was warmly received during
the event by her audience at the State
Department, which consisted largely of
State Department employees and LGBT
rights supporters. The event was held by
GLIFFA, or Gays & Lesbians in Foreign
Affairs Agencies, the LGBT afnity group
for State Department workers.
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04 JULY 01, 2011 NATI ONAL NEWS
Clinton talks N.Y.
marriage in Pride speech
13 senators release It Gets Better video
WASHINGTON U.S. Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chuck
Schumer (D-N.Y.), Mark Udall (D-Col.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) unveiled
a new It Gets Better, Wednesday, aimed at encouraging LGBT youth not to give
up when facing bullying and depression.
The video also features Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Dick
Durbin (D-Ill.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Kirsten Gillibrand
(D-N.Y.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).
A study released last year by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
found 90 percent of LGBT students were harassed at school. The It Gets Better
Project, which has produced more than 10,000 encouraging videos for LGBT
youth from everyone from the president to sports teams, seeks to ease those
fears for youth.
Were proud so many elected ofcials are working to make it better for
struggling LGBT youth and hope other leaders from both sides of the aisle will
join them, said Scott Zumwalt, a spokesperson for the It Gets Better Project.
Chicago Pride marred by violence
CHICAGO Despite celebrating the beginning of Illinois civil unions law,
vandalism prior to the Chicago Pride march cast a pall over the Midwests best-
attended Pride parade, Sunday.
Tires were slashed on 51 oats gathered in a lot operated by Associated
Attractions. Several of the entries were forced to abandon their oats completely.
It was a reminder of why we are still marching in the streets with pride
celebrating the LGBTQ community in remembrance of the beginning of the ght
for our civil rights, said Anthony Martinez, executive director of the Civil Rights
Agenda whose oat won Best Organizational Float, despite being damaged.
During the Lincoln Park neighborhood-based parade, tensions heightened by
overcrowding led to several ghts, which forced Chicago police to reroute parts
of the contingent at the last minute. During the violence at least one parked car
was damaged near the route.
I think the violent act that started the Pride parade and the overcrowding set
a negative tone for some bystanders, said Lindsey Dietzler co-founder of the
Video Action League. Some organizations and businesses like GayCo and Berlin
had their oats diverted and were devastated to be unable to participate in the
parade after months of hard work.
Andy Thayer, co-founder of the Gay Liberation Front, said the vandalism was
clearly a hate crime, and suggested that the violence during the Pride parade
was due to overcrowding from Pride-goers running into fans arriving for a Cubs
game blocks away from the path of the parade.
With all the perks that professional sports teams get in our town, youd think
that the mayor and aldermen could jaw-bone the Cubs into scheduling away-
games on Pride weekend, Thayer said.
Group les suit in N.J. seeking marriage rights
TRENTON, N.J. On Wednesday, Lambda Legal, Garden State Equality and
seven same-sex couples announced Garden State Equality v. Dow, a new suit
against New Jersey in an effort to correct what advocates call inequalities in the
states institutions for recognizing same-sex couples.
In a joint statement, the groups announced the case argues that the civil union
law violates both the New Jersey Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment of
the federal Constitution.
In Lewis v. Harris October 2006, the New Jersey Supreme Court struck down as
unequal a domestic partnership registry law enacted in 2003, compelling the state
legislature to offer the same rights to same-sex couples as opposite-sex married
couples. However, in December, the lawmakers turned down the opportunity to
become the second marriage equality state and opted instead for civil unions.
In 2009, outgoing Gov. John Corzine pushed to upgrade the unions to full
marriage, but a bill failed to pass. Current Gov. Chris Christie is opposed to same-
sex marriage.
In addition to naming workplace benets, and medical visitation as primary reasons
for upgrading civil unions to marriages, the statement concludes exclusion of same-
sex couples from marriage deprives them and their children of their dignity as a family
and certainty in their legal rights and status to each other.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week
marked Pride month with a speech but failed
to announce a change in her opposition to
marriage equality.
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35 million now live in
jurisdictions with
same-sex nuptials
By PHIL REESE
preese@washblade.com
New York will become the largest state
in the country to offer same-sex marriage
next month, dramatically changing the
landscape of the marriage equality ght.
Last Friday, in a close 33-29 vote, the
Republican-controlled New York State
Senate approved a marriage equality bill,
matching language on the legislation
agreed to between leaders in both houses.
The bill was signed by same-sex marriage
advocate Gov. Andrew Cuomo just before
midnight, which sets the ofcial date the
law takes effect as July 24.
Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom
To Marry, a national marriage equality
advocacy organization, sees New York
as a turning point in the effort to extend
marriage to same-sex couples in the
United States.
It means that the number of Americans
living in a state where gay people share
in the freedom to marry is more than
doubling from 16 to 35 million, Wolfson
told the Blade this week. Because this is
New York, people across the country and
around the world are going to see and
hear the stories that prove that families are
helped and no one is hurt when marriage
discrimination ends.
Over the next 18 months if we do our
work right, we can hope to bring other
states to the freedom to marry, from Maine
to Oregon, and others in between,
Wolfson continued. But the key in all 50
states is to have the conversations, support
the campaigns and continue the national
momentum that New York has just boosted.
Currently, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, and D.C.,
where same-sex marriages are currently
licensed, make up approximately 5 percent
of the U.S. population. However, with the
introduction of New York at the end of July,
11.4 percent of American citizens will live in
a jurisdiction that offers marriage licenses
to all couples, regardless of gender.
This does not include the 5.8 million
residents of Maryland, which recognizes
same-sex marriages performed
elsewhere, and the 81,406,229 who enjoy
most or all of the same benets and
obligations as married couples in Oregon,
Washington, Wisconsin, California,
Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, New
Jersey and Nevada through Civil Unions
or Domestic Partnership registries.
Including these states brings the total
number of Americans whose states
ofcially recognize and protect same-sex
relationships to nearly 40 percent.
With a jurisdiction the size of New York
opening up the institution of marriage to
all couples, same-sex partners throughout
the country will likely be taking advantage
of the new law, and the Empire State
will become a top wedding destination
for New York couples and couples from
surrounding states alike.
Among those couples will be Carl Parker
and Greg Wysocki of White Plains, N.Y.
Parker, 43, and his partner Wysocki, 46, grew
up in D.C. and until 2002, lived in suburban
Maryland. Theyve been together nine
years and now live in New York and both
are eager to solemnize the relationship.
We have a registered domestic
partnership with Westchester County, New
York, Parker told the Blade, but plan on
going to City Hall in White Plains as soon
as possible to le for our marriage license.
Our family and friends are so excited for
us, theyre battling to be witnesses and a
part of the ceremony. We are planning a
larger event next year, since many of our
friends are international and cant make it
to New York on such short notice.
The bills sponsor, Sen. Tom Duane, who
is gay, was overjoyed at the bills passage.
I want to commend the incredible
leadership and passion of Gov. Andrew
Cuomo who made good on his promise
to make Marriage Equality the law in
New York State, the Senator said in a
statement to the Blade on Monday. I also
want to thank my colleagues in the State
Senate on both sides of the aisle, and in
the Assembly, who took a courageous
stand when it would have been far easier
for them to turn away from what I know for
many was a difcult issue.
The law goes into effect on July 24,
however, since that is a Sunday, couples are
more likely to be able to get their licenses
on Monday, July 25. New York has a 24-
hour waiting period after applying for the
marriage license before the wedding can
take place, therefore most likely, the rst
weddings will take place on Tuesday, July 26,
barring special exceptions in cases where a
judge waives the 24-hour waiting period, or
county clerks nd a way to open on Sunday.
Of 30 Democratic senators, only one
voted against the bill, Ruben Diaz who,
despite having a lesbian granddaughter,
has been a strong opponent of marriage
equality since long before voting against
the failed 2009 marriage bill.
Of 32 Republicans, four voted for the
bill, including Senators James Alesi, Roy
McDonald, Stephen Saland and Mark
Grisanti. Though the overwhelming
majority of the 33 votes in favor of passage
came from the Democratic side of the
aisle, that four Republicans defected from
their party, and that this bill was even
allowed by Majority Leader Skelos to
come to a vote marks a sea change in the
ght for extending these rights to more
couples nationwide.
The legislation included some
amendments that would reduce the legal
liability of religious organizations that
refuse to solemnize any of the marriages
that would be made legal under the new
law. The amendments were added in the
Senate on Friday, and before the Senate
voted on the law, they were approved
Friday afternoon by the lower house,
which had already approved the bill 80-63
on June 15. The amendments would also
allow non-prots afliated with religious
organizations to refuse to allow their
facilities to be used in ceremonies related
to same-sex weddings.
One major proponent of the law, New
York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
released a statement on Saturday, the
morning after the bills passage.
Todays passage in the New York State
Senate of legislation recognizing the right
of couples to marry regardless of their
gender is a historic triumph for equality
and freedom, the statement reads in
part. New York has always been a leader
in movements to extend freedom and
equality to people who had been denied
full membership in the American family.
Many activists noted as crucial to
victory the open collaboration between
the various groups on the ground in New
York. Some of the most visible groups on
the front line of pushing public opinion
and lobbying for votes were the Human
Rights Campaign, as well as New York-
headquartered groups like Fight Back
New York, Empire State Pride Agenda and
Freedom to Marry.
We congratulate everyone who
worked so hard, with special thanks to
Gov. Cuomo, to have New York join us in
the District of Columbia as a jurisdiction
that recognizes the rights of gays and
lesbians to marry, said Peter Rosenstein,
president of Campaign for All D.C.
Families. The ght in New York shows
that by working together with victory
being the goal, rather than who can claim
credit for the victory, LGBT organizations
and their allies can be successful.
N.Y. marks turning point in marriage ght
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New Yorkers celebrated the passage of marriage equality at an especially festive Pride celebration last weekend in Manhattan.
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President says its
a state issue
By CHRIS JOHNSON
President Obamas position on
marriage equality came under renewed
scrutiny Monday during a press brieng
at the White House when press secretary
Jay Carney was asked about Californias
Proposition 8, which overturned marriage
rights for same-sex couples in 2008.
A Wall Street Journal reporter asked if
Obamas belief that marriage should be
left to the states means California voters
should decide for themselves whether or
not to legalize same-sex marriage.
Im not disagreeing with that
interpretation, Carney said. But he
has said quite clearly, as he did with the
[Defense of Marriage Act] decision, and as
he did on Thursday that he believes that
its for the states to decide.
On Thursday one day before New
York legalized same-sex marriage
Obama reiterated his view that marriage
is a state issue during an LGBT fundraiser
in New York City.
In June 2008, the Alice B. Toklas Club in
San Francisco announced that it had received
a letter from then-Democratic presidential
candidate Obama reading, And that is why I
oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts
to amend the California Constitution, and
similar efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution
or those of other states.
Asked to clarify Carneys comments
on Monday, Shin Inouye, a White House
spokesperson, replied, The president has
long opposed divisive and discriminatory
efforts to deny rights and benets to
same-sex couples and believes strongly
in stopping efforts designed to take rights
away. That is why he opposed the Federal
Marriage Amendment and Proposition 8.
After voters approved Prop 8 and state
litigation seeking to overturn the ban
failed, the American Foundation for Equal
Rights led a federal lawsuit challenging
the marriage ban. Last year, a U.S. district
court in San Francisco determined that
Proposition 8 violated the U.S. Constitution.
The lawsuit is on appeal, so the fate of Prop
8 remains unknown. Some advocates say
Obamas position on marriage could have
an impact on how courts examine the issue.
Carney was cautious about saying more
about the presidents position on the
marriage ban and maintained that Obama
very strongly supports equal rights.
Im not going to put words into his
mouth applying to another state, Carney
said. You can analyze that because I
havent heard him say that. But obviously,
the DOMA decision, what he said in New
York is about his belief our belief that
this is a matter the states should decide.
In February, Obama announced that
he would no longer defend DOMA in
court because he believes the statute is
unconstitutional. At the fundraiser on Thursday,
Obama indicated he believes DOMA is
unconstitutional because it interferes with a
states right to regulate marriage.
Later, during the brieng, the issue of
same-sex marriage emerged again when
reporter Bill Press asked how the president
can square his belief that marriage should be
left to the states while at the same time saying
he believes same-sex couples deserves the
same rights as opposite-sex couples.
Well, look, Im not going to the
president has made his position clear,
Carney replied. Its not very useful for us
to have this debate. I think the president
spoke about this on Thursday, hes spoken
about it sorry a number of times in
the past.
Obama has held various positions on
same-sex marriage. In 1996, when running
to become an Illinois state senator, Obama
in a questionnaire response to what is
now the Windy City Times wrote, I favor
legalizing same-sex marriages, and would
ght efforts to prohibit such marriages.
But during his 2008 presidential
campaign, Obama said he believes
marriage is between one man and one
woman and backed civil unions for
gay couples. Since October, Obama
has suggested he could evolve on the
marriage issue, but he has yet to endorse
gay nuptials.
Dont Ask repeal to
conclude within weeks
By CHRIS JOHNSON
President Obama addressed on
Wednesday at a White House Pride
reception an adoring audience of LGBT
supporters who seemed largely unaffected
by discontent over his lack of support for
marriage equality.
Upon Obamas entrance in the East
Room of the White House, the few
hundred attendees, largely made up of
U.S. government workers and grassroots
organizers, greeted Obama with applause
and shouts of approval.
During a short, eight-minute speech,
Obamas most noteworthy remark was an
announcement that he expects to certify
Dont Ask, Dont Tell repeal in a matter
of weeks, not months.
A lot of people said we werent going to
be able to get Dont Ask, Dont Tell done,
including a bunch of people in this room,
Obama said. It took two years through
Congress working with [Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff] Adm. [Mike] Mullen and
[Defense] Secretary [Robert] Gates and the
Pentagon. We had to hold together a fragile
coalition. We had to keep up the pressure.
But the bottom line is we got it done.
Obama also said hes kept his promises
to LGBT Americans, although he added
he recognizes more work remains on the
LGBT political agenda and hes relying on
his audience to keep up the pressure.
So bottom line is, Ive met my
commitments to the LGBT community,
Obama said. I have delivered on what
I promised. Now, that doesnt mean our
work is done. There are going to be times
where youre still frustrated with me. I know
there are going to be times where youre
still frustrated at the pace of change. I
understand that. I know I can count on you
to let me know. This is not a shy group.
Among the attendees were high-
ranking openly gay ofcials within the
Obama administration, including John
Berry, director of the U.S. Ofce of
Personnel Management, and Nancy
Sutley, chair of the White House Council
on Environmental Quality. As attendees
mingled and ate hors doeuvres from the
White House kitchen, a band played light
jazz and R&B music in the background.
Despite increased pressure to endorse
marriage equality, Obama made no explicit
endorsement of same-sex marriage during
his speech. However, he did mention the
recently passed marriage law in New York
and possibly alluded to litigation and
ballot initiatives related to the right to marry
while listing ways in which progress is
happening throughout the country.
Its propelled not by politics but by love
and friendship and a sense of mutual regard
and mutual respect, Obama said. Its
playing out in legislatures like New York. Its
playing out in courtrooms. Its playing out in
the ballot box, as people argue and debate
over how to bring about the changes where
we are creating a more perfect union.
No attendees at the White House
reception shouted complaints or heckled
Obama to urge him to back same-sex
marriage, unlike at a LGBT fundraiser in
New York City last week.
Obamas lack of support for same-sex
marriage continues to rile many activists
who say hes missing a chance to lead on
the issue. In addition to staying mum on
his personal views on marriage during
the Pride reception, Obama declined to
endorse marriage equality during a news
conference earlier in the day and during
the fundraiser in New York City last week
Still, many suspect Obama backs same-
sex marriage without actually saying so and is
waiting until after the 2012 election to come
out for gay nuptials as a political calculation.
John Aravosis, the gay editor of
AMERICAblog, said Obama offered nice
remarks during the reception, but missed
another opportunity to come out in favor
of same-sex marriage.
Obama cheered at Pride reception
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Hecklers, protesters
want president to
evolve already
By CHRIS JOHNSON
NEW YORK CITY President Obama
reiterated last week that the marriage
issue should be left to the states during an
LGBT fundraiser in New York City that took
place amid increasing pressure for him to
endorse marriage rights for gay couples.
During his remarks, Obama referenced
legislation that later passed the New York
State Legislature that legalizes same-sex
marriage in the nations third-largest state,
but offered no explicit remarks either for
or against the bill.
Obama drew on his opposition to the
Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits
same-sex marriage, in his remarks on the
New York marriage bill and said the issue
should be left to the states. The president
has called for legislative repeal of DOMA
and, in February, announced the law was
unconstitutional and his administration
would no longer defend it in court.
Part of the reason that DOMA doesnt
make sense is that traditionally marriage has
been decided by the states, Obama said.
I understand there is a little debate going
on here in New York about whether to join
ve other states and D.C. in allowing civil
marriage for gay couples. I want to say that
under the leadership of Governor [Andrew]
Cuomo, with the support of Democrats and
Republicans, New York is doing exactly what
democracies are supposed to do. Theres
a debate; theres deliberation about what
it means here in New York to treat people
fairly in the eyes of the law.
Obamas remarks that relationship
recognition should be left to the states
emphasizes a different note of what hes
already said on the issue, but slightly deters
from the White House and presidents
greater emphasis in recent months on
how the president could evolve to support
same-sex marriage.
About 600 donors, mostly male, sat at
round tables in a large ballroom for the
$1,250-a-plate dinner at the Sheraton Hotel
and Towers in New York. Gay actor Neil
Patrick Harris and Capt. Jonathan Hopkins,
a West Point graduate who was discharged
under Dont Ask, Dont Tell, introduced
Obama at the start of the event.
Advocates had been hoping that
Obama, who has previously suggested
his position could evolve on same-sex
marriage, would come out for gay nuptials
and endorse the New York marriage bill
during the fundraiser. But before the
fundraiser, White House Press Secretary
Jay Carney said during a press gaggle
that Obama wouldnt issue such an
endorsement during the speech.
At an earlier point in his remarks, while
beginning to list his achievements for the
LGBT community, Obama was interrupted
by hecklers who shouted, Marriage!
Marriage! in an apparent attempt to get the
president on board with marriage equality.
The president replied, I heard that.
Believe it or not I anticipated that.
Despite the heckling, no attendees were
escorted out of the event.
Obama continued listing his
accomplishments for the LGBT community
and said he would press the ght against
discrimination against LGBT people,
recalling that legislative passage of a hate
crimes bill and legislation allowing for
Dont Ask, Dont Tell repeal occurred
under his watch.
I believed that discrimination because
of somebodys sexual orientation or
gender identity ran counter to who we are
as a people, and its a violation of the basic
tenets on which this nation was founded,
Obama said. I believe that gay couples
deserve the same legal rights as every
other couple in this country.
The president made a reference to
Lady Gagas Born This Way during
his list of accomplishments for the
LGBT community, eliciting laughter and
applause from the audience.
Ever since I entered into public life, ever
since I have a memory about what my mother
taught me, and my grandparents taught me,
I believed that discriminating against people
was wrong, Obama said. I had no choice. I
was born that way in Hawaii.
Josh Cohen, a gay New York City-based
activist who attended the fundraiser, said
the two most important parts of Obamas
speech were his assertion that gay couples
deserve the same legal rights as opposite-sex
couples and his stated empathy over peoples
frustration with the slow pace of progress.
When people in the audience hollered
for an explicit answer on the M-word
question, [Obama] didnt blame them for
doing so, Cohen said. He expressed
understanding for why people holler and
keep the pressure up. He even understood
the need for people to holler and keep
the pressure up on him.
Cohen said hed like the president to
move faster on LGBT rights, but added,
given the tools he has to work with, and
all the constituencies he needs to balance
to stay in ofce, hes moving along at an
acceptable pace.
Prior to the fundraiser, grassroots LGBT
groups demonstrated outside the hotel.
About 20 activists afliated with Queer
Rising and GetEQUAL waved banners and
shouted chants urging President Obama
to endorse marriage equality.
Some protesters held a sign listing a
number of prominent Republicans who
support same-sex marriage including
former Vice President Dick Cheney, former
rst lady Laura Bush and gay former
Republican National Committee Chair
Ken Mehlman while noting Obama has
yet to do the same.
The protesters shouted the now familiar
GetEQUAL refrain, I am somebody
and I deserve full equality. They later
chanted, What do you we want? Marriage
equality! When do we want it? Now!
Dan Fotou, eastern regional eld director
for GetEQUAL, said the demonstration
was held because the president came to
an LGBT fundraiser in New York amid the
marriage equality battle in the state while
remaining opposed to same-sex marriage.
Were here to remind him that
his position on marriage equality is
unacceptable, Fotou said. Hes got other
Republicans, prominent Republicans, who
are for marriage equality whove never
promised equality, whove never promised
to be our erce advocate theyve
come out for marriage equality.
Eugene Lovendusky, secretary of Queer
Rising, also said he wanted to protest
because of Obamas lack of support
for marriage equality amid the push for
marriage legislation in New York.
Fifty-eight percent of New Yorkers are
in favor of marriage equality and Obama is
staying silent, but has no problem taking
money from the gays here, though, so
thats why were here, Lovendusky said.
Fotou said Obama should come out for
same-sex marriage because his leadership
position means his support for marriage
equality would lead to greater protections
for the LGBT community.
When we have governmental
support hate crimes, suicides, LGBT
homelessness all the things that are
really part of our community that are
harmful it has a tendency to take the
sting out of that, Fotou said. The more
equal we become, the more visible we
become in society, the less harm we are
facing. So that, I think, is a really important
thing that I think Obama can recognize
in his position to evolving to support for
marriage equality.
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the state legislature was debating a marriage
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Letter to Clinton
addresses last years
Pride promises
By CHRIS JOHNSON
U.S. House members concerned with
LGBT rights and foreign affairs last week
called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
to provide an update on pro-LGBT
policy changes underway at the State
Department.
In a letter dated June 24, members of
the LGBT Equality Caucus seek an update
on several topics, including U.S. assistance
with the investigations of anti-gay crimes
overseas; the extent to which the State
Departments regional bureaus are focusing
on LGBT issues; and what the State
Department is doing to prepare Foreign
Service ofcers for dialogue on LGBT issues.
The 45 names on the letter are
noteworthy because two signers are
also leaders of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee: Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
(R-Fla.), the Republican chair of the panel,
and Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the panels
ranking Democrat. The State Department
didnt immediately respond to the letter
after a request from the Washington Blade.
In the letter, lawmakers make particular
note of anti-gay activity in Uganda and
Honduras. With respect to Uganda, the
letter expresses concern over the murder
earlier this year of David Kato, an activist
who worked against pending legislation in
the country that would institute the death
penalty for homosexual acts. Kato was
brutally beaten to death after a publication
in Uganda identied him as gay.
The letter also expresses concern
over recent murders of LGBT activists
in Honduras. Lawmakers write the
Obama administration has issued strong
statements against anti-gay violence in
both countries, but want more action.
We commend you for your ongoing
efforts to push for effective investigation
and prosecutions in those cases, the
letter states. In that context, we would
appreciate more detail on what assistance,
if any, the United States, is providing to the
governments of Uganda and Honduras in
those investigations.
On Monday, Clinton addressed during
her Pride speech the extent to which
Foreign Service ofcers in Honduras
encouraged action after investigations
into 30 anti-LGBT crimes in the past year
appeared to be heading nowhere.
Then our embassy team got involved,
Clinton said. They publicly called on
the Honduran government to solve
the murders, bring the perpetrators to
justice, do more to protect all Hondurans
from harm. Soon after, the government
announced it was creating a task force to
investigate and prevent hate crimes. And
with the help of a United States prosecutor
and detective, which our embassy
arranged to be made available to assist in
this effort, we are making progress.
On other issues, lawmakers base their
requests on the speech Clinton gave
last year for Pride in which she said the
State Department was implementing
several policy changes to benet the LGBT
community abroad. Clintons speech was
noted for her ad-libbed line, human
rights are gay rights and gay rights are
human rights, which has been echoed in
other foreign policy statements on LGBT
issues from the Obama administration.
The letter recalls Clinton said during her
speech last year she has asked the State
Departments regional bureaus to enhance
the reporting on the condition of LGBT
communities abroad; has elevated the
dialogue with which Foreign Service ofcers
discuss LGBT issues overseas; and has
implemented changes to grant LGBT people
asylum in the United States. Lawmakers seek
updates on each of these areas.
For example, on helping LGBT refugees,
lawmakers say they would appreciate
more information on the progress made
by the Bureau of Population, Refugees
and Migration to achieve this goal, as well
as on resettlement procedures for LGBT
refugees who face imminent danger.
The letter also asserts that Clinton
specied in previous correspondence with
Congress that the State Departments
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights &
Labor has set up a task force to enhance
interdepartmental and interagency
coordination of LGBT issues overseas.
Lawmakers seek an update on this process
and what efforts have been made to
integrate these issues within the strategic
planning process at the State Department
and at the interagency level.
Mark Bromley, chair of the Council
for Global Equality, said Ros-Lehtinens
signature on the letter is signicant
because she has a powerful voice in foreign
affairs as chair of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee and because her name makes
the missive a bipartisan request.
Its a clear signal that support for
the fundamental human rights of LGBT
communities should not be a bipartisan
issue, Bromley said.
Bromley added that Rep. Tammy
Baldwin (D-Wis.), the only out lesbian in
Congress and chair of the LGBT Equality
Caucus, deserves special credit because
she worked to organize the letter in a
bipartisan way.
Lawmakers seek update on State Dept. LGBT policies
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Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), the only out
lesbian in Congress and chair of the LGBT
Equality Caucus, reportedly worked to get
bipartisan input for the letter sent to Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton.
Agency fosters growth of
developing countries
By CHRIS JOHNSON
A top ofcial with the U.S. Agency for
International Development announced
this week that a senior coordinator would
soon be named to guide the administrative
division on LGBT issues overseas.
Donald Steinberg, USAIDs deputy
administrator, unveiled plans to create the
new position during a panel discussion in
which ofcials discussed ways the State
Department was integrating LGBT concerns
abroad as part of U.S. foreign policy.
In order to highlight these concerns,
were pleased to announce that USAID
will shortly name a senior coordinator for
sexual orientation and gender identity who
will be responsible for advising the USAID
administrator on this agenda, Steinberg said.
USAID is an agency under the State
Department charged with fostering
the growth of developing countries as
well as supporting U.S. foreign policy
objectives by promoting global health
and democracy abroad.
Steinberg said USAID has integrated
four pillars as part of its mission to
address LGBT issues overseas, including
working to enhance the political, social and
economic development of LGBT people;
ensuring that the LGBT community is part
of overseas development; and promoting
social and legal equality for LGBT people.
In addition to announcing that a senior
ofcial for LGBT issues would soon be
named, Steinberg said USAID would
create a new policy committee to facilitate
the integration of LGBT issues into the
agencys work.
Were establishing an agency policy
coordinating committee to perform such
functions as information and knowledge
exchange, consensus building, sharing
and documenting of best practices and
advising on policy and strategy gaps,
Steinberg said.
The new committee, Steinberg added,
would begin with a landscape analysis
to evaluate where USAID stands with
the four pillars he previously described
and the agencys foreign development
assistance strategy.
Steinberg offered limited details on
the creation of the new position and new
committee. USAID didnt immediately
respond to requests to offer more
information on the change.
Mark Bromley, chair of the Council for
Global Equality, said the creation of a
dedicated staff position for LGBT issues
is signicant because USAID has had
success with focusing efforts in other areas,
such as issues involving the disabled.
The lessons learned from that effort
show the importance of dedicated
funding, dedicated planning guidelines
and dedicated staff, Bromley said. It is
important to see that USAID has taken
the rst step of stafng up this new work
to support he rights and development
potential of LGBT communities as well.
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An army of gay donors,
volunteers awaits
his next move
Jonathan Capehart, writing this week
in the Washington Post, made many
strong points regarding the passage of
marriage equality in New York.
I agree with him when he writes, Cuo-
mos victory in New York has raised the bar
on leadership and the gay communitys ex-
pectations. Patience with Obamas evolu-
tionary process has run out. But I disagree
when he says, Unlike Cuomo, the presi-
dent doesnt have a coalition of gay and
lesbian groups and deep-pocketed donors
all working together to get him to say I do
and to have his back after he does it.
It may be unfortunate that HRC rushed
its Obama endorsement in its effort to
raise millions of dollars for him before
he evolves, but if Obama quietly indi-
cated to a group of individuals that he
was ready to fully evolve, the group
that Capehart says isnt there would be
formed quickly.
There are many groups of donors, both
large and small, and an army of volunteers
ready to have his back. The young on col-
lege campuses are just waiting for an issue
to excite them and get them as involved in
this election as they were in 2008 and the
debate over the economy isnt doing it.
Recent polls of youth show that they over-
whelmingly support marriage equality, by
as much as 75 percent. This is the type of
issue that can excite them. There are also
politicians and clergy in every state who
will join with just plain folk who are ready
to have his back on this issue. The coalition
forged in New York included Republicans,
Democrats and independents and that co-
alition can be forged nationally on this is-
sue when the president is ready to lead. All
the national polling shows that this issue is
no longer a losing one. All indications point
to the fact that those who will decide their
vote on this issue alone will most likely not
vote for President Obama anyway.
The president wont be considered a
leader on this issue as long as he is making
innocuous statements about wanting full
rights and then saying he leaves it to the
people in each state to ght it out. At some
point soon he will have to change from
avoiding the issue, to letting people close to
him know he is ready to come out in support
of marriage equality and ask for their help
in working behind the scenes to build that
coalition of support that will have his back.
I understand and respect that by na-
ture President Obama is a careful and
thoughtful person. After all, he was a con-
stitutional law professor. But on this issue
many think he has already evolved.
The president should take some point-
ers from the way New York Gov. Andrew
Cuomo spoke to groups on marriage
equality. Cuomo urged those who were
uncomfortable with the word marriage to
focus instead on the second word, equal-
ity, and make their decision of support
based on that. It is said that among those
who inuenced Cuomo on this issue were
his girlfriend and his father, former Gov.
Mario Cuomo, who reportedly said to his
son, What is it you want to be remem-
bered for in your rst six months as gov-
ernor, balancing the budget or moving
forward civil rights for millions of Ameri-
cans? Andrew Cuomo chose the lat-
ter and I believe in his heart that Barack
Obama would have done the same.
It is time for the president to assume
the mantle of leadership. While some say
it is already too late on this issue I dis-
agree. There is a long way to go before
all gay and lesbian Americans are able to
marry and enjoy all the rights and respon-
sibilities civil marriage confers.
With the right background work and
preparation the president and his wife
(and yes this is a place where I hope that
Michelle Obama will join with her hus-
band) should be able to stand in front of
the TV cameras and speak to the nation
about equality and what full equality and
civil rights means for all Americans. The
president should tell the nation that when
some of our people are not fully free and
equal under our civil laws, no one is.
There are millions of people out there
of all parties, all faiths, all ages, with mil-
lions of dollars, who will have his back
when he indicates that he is ready to lead
on marriage equality.
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sage of N.Y. marriage bill (June 25)
This carefully crafted doublespeak only
makes the president look foolish. The leader
of the Democratic Party cowers in the shad-
ows of conservative Republicans like Ted
Olson and Dick Cheney regarding this most
fundamental issue? Just not credible. How
does President Cuomo sound? Brian
Brian: So, vote for the Republicans in
2012. Meanwhile, the more astute of us will
bide our time (not easily, mind you, because
he has pissed us off) until his second term,
when I suspect well see more of the Obama
who campaigned and who we voted for.
You can have that (even though hes disap-
pointed a lot of us, myself included), or you
can have whatever P.O.S. the Republicans
send down the pipe, someone who most
denitely wont even try to be a friend to our
community. Whats it gonna be? Yitzchak
Yitzchak, please dont miss my point.
Specically, why is the president falling so far
behind the progressive curve this cycle? Na-
tional polls show a rapid shift among Dems
and independents for marriage equality.
Of course, your argument isnt a new
one (nor a necessarily astute one) ei-
ther. It is there nearly every election, es-
pecially for incumbents. But it is the ultra-
safe/ cynical/ where else are they going
to go(?) argument. They (e.g., 2008s
highly motivated Obama voters) dont
have to go anywhere politically. They can
stay home, have dinner out, see a movie,
etc. i.e., do all the things ones unmoti-
vated political base(s) do.
Voters of all ages are pretty bright. They
generally recognize a PR snow job when
they hear it. The White House risks insult-
ing/ ticking-off their supporters with such
dishonesty, too. Add growing dissatisfac-
tion with their snow job on Afghanistan
well, IMHO, theyre assuming a lot. Brian
Sometimes, I think too many gays
dont know a rats toenail about politics.
Sure, Obama could say he is for gay mar-
riage. What is that going to accomplish?
It wont pass Congress with the Republi-
cans in charge of the Senate. Obama is
biding his time. Would you really prefer
to have the homphobe of a Bachmann in
the WH? Hank Kelly
Re: Clinton talks N.Y. marriage in
Pride speech (June 28)
Neither Hillary Clinton nor President
Obama supports same-sex marriage. One
assumption has been that it was a politi-
cal issue that could sink their ship. New
York has proven that this isnt a political
hot potato but, rather, as Ms. Clinton so
eloquently states, a human rights issue.
To declare their belief in full equal-
ity but deny the right to same-sex mar-
riage is an absolute parallel to freeing the
slaves but denying them the right to mar-
ry or retain family with their offspring.
Full equality has no exceptions.
Ricci Levy
Why LGBT advocates are
better off now that the
love affair is over
By SEAN COTTER
With the Netroots Nation 2011 con-
vention having taken place in Minneapo-
lis last month, media coverage was lled
with stories about how liberal and pro-
gressive activists have been disappoint-
ed with the Obama administration. LGBT
activists have been at the center of many
of these stories, as they have had much
to criticize the president for his slow ac-
tion on repeal of Dont Ask, Dont Tell
and his vague and shifting stance on
same-sex marriage.
These issues have forced a debate
within the progressive base as to the de-
gree to which he should be supported
in his upcoming bid for reelection. In
some circles, there is talk about the need
to stand with the president so as to not
cost him political capital. This is based on
the idea that any attempt to challenge
the president will weaken his image and
may cost him a second term, leading to a
Republican win and a more conservative
regime that would be an active opponent
of gay rights.
But while these fears are understand-
able, activists need to remember how
much historical precedent there is for us-
ing the pressure of the grassroots to re-
mind politicians that they are expected to
do the right thing.
LGBT activists should look back to the
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
(MFDP) as an example of how a grassroots
organization can play an adversarial role in
the reelection of a president with produc-
tive results. In 1964, voting rights activists in
Mississippi were facing a local Democratic
Party that was determined to bar African
Americans from voting. Activists formed
the MFDP to protest the seating of dele-
gates who had been elected through a sys-
tem of legal and physical intimidation that
had shut black voters out of the system,
and they took their protest to the Demo-
cratic National Convention that year.
The MFDP captured the attention
of the media and the impassioned ad-
dress of sharecropper-turned-activist
Fannie Lou Hamer to the Conventions
Credentials Committee was seen as such
a threat to Johnsons campaign that his
staff called for an emergency press con-
ference in an attempt to divert news
cameras away. The activists knew that the
alternative to a President Johnson was
a President Goldwater, but this did not
stop them from increasing their pressure.
Their goal was not to destroy the Demo-
cratic Party, but to make it stronger.
Ultimately, the MFDP delegates were
denied ofcial recognition by the nation-
al party, but the attention given to the is-
sue and the pressure placed on Johnson
from the voting rights activists altered the
course of his presidency. President John-
son did not sign the Voting Rights Act of
1965 out of charity. He did it out of pres-
sure from an activist base that knew to
be adversarial toward the former Senate
Majority Leader from the State of Texas, a
base that was never in love with him. He
was a better president for it.
Perhaps due to the fact candidate
Obama was such a brilliant and charismatic
speaker, progressive activists came to be-
lieve that they were electing one of their
own. Being African American, and having
worked as a community organizer, he does
indeed have a background previously un-
seen in the politics of the American presi-
dency. But Barack Obama is the president
of the United States and, like any politician,
it is wrong to assume that he will make all of
the right moves without the pressure of his
constituents, particularly when such actions
run against the status quo.
So indeed, the love affair between
the president and the netroots is over,
and has been for some time. Knowing
where things stand between LGBT activ-
ists and the president is a good thing, be-
cause it means that now we can look back
at the work of our predecessors in the Civil
Rights Movement and take the struggle
right up to the conventions if need be.
Liquor licensing process
ensures neighbors
voices are heard
By WILLIAM SCHULZ
As one of the neighborhood provo-
cateurs more than 30 and counting
protesting the Vida Fitness liquor license
application for a rooftop bar/pool at 1612
U St., N.W., I must respond to Mark Lees
misleading and ill-informed commentary.
Whatever reputation David von Storch
earned as owner of the Dakota disco-
theque in Adams Morgan in the late
1980s, I can tell you that his reputation
in my neighborhood recently has taken a
nosedive. His failure to properly manage
the health clubs construction, his divisive
words to our community, and the outright
falsehoods in his liquor license applica-
tion have generated considerable ill will
and opposition.
But rst, Lees assertion that it is
somehow unfair for a group of neigh-
bors to protest a liquor license is absurd.
Wealthy developers and bar owners like
von Storch cannot just march into any
neighborhood in Washington, D.C., and
open any kind of alcohol-serving estab-
lishment they want. And for good reason
the neighborhoods belong to the en-
tire community. The liquor licensing pro-
cess ensures that all voices are heard, and
that all possible impacts on a neighbor-
hood noise, litter, parking, real estate
values are considered before a license
is granted. This is basic democracy.
Now to the situation at hand: The
rst hints that a nightclub might be in
the works for the new Vida Fitness facil-
ity came late this past winter when von
Storchs marketing campaign for his
wellness center began in force. The
signs advertising an outdoor pool/club
on the buildings roof caught everyones
attention. When copies of the liquor li-
cense application itself surfaced, people
were aghast.
It reveals von Storchs plan to operate
a nightclub until 2 a.m. every weeknight
and until 3 a.m. on weekends. Whats
more, each member of his club may
bring up to eight friends with them and
any member at any time can hold private
rooftop parties. The noise alone is sure to
be intolerable.
Concerns deepened as demolition
and rebuilding of the existing structure
got underway in March. From the start,
von Storchs contractor has been in vio-
lation of the city-issued construction
permit. Most often, the violations have
consisted of working beyond the desig-
nated hours, both in the morning and the
evening sometimes on Sundays. To
the people like me who have been wak-
ing up to the sound of jackhammers for
the past three months, there is not a lot
of appreciation for von Storch as a com-
munity leader. I and many others have
complained repeatedly to him, the D.C.
Ofce of Illegal Construction, the Dupont
Circle ANC, and to Council member Jack
Evans ofce, all to no avail. Incredibly,
the night before von Storchs woefully
late June 2 meeting with neighborhood
residents, his contractors were once
again breaking the law and working well
past 8 p.m.
Von Storch began the community
meeting with a lengthy ramble about
his understanding and concern for our
neighborhood. One of his assurances
was that we need not worry because his
health club/pool/bar would only attract
the kind of people who can afford to
pay the more than $100 a month in dues
that he is charging. To hear that sort of
people like us argument in our cultur-
ally and economically diverse neighbor-
hood was alienating to say the least and
demonstrates his ignorance of what our
neighborhood is really about. There are
many people, including many families
with children, who could never afford to
set foot in von Storchs club. And yet, he
exhibits no remorse in his willingness
to trample on our quality of life as he
reaches for the most protable estab-
lishment possible.
When von Storch was nished with
his speech, I asked his attorney Andrew
Kline to read from von Storchs liquor li-
cense application. The form asks for a de-
tailed explanation as to the effect of the
proposed establishment on peace, or-
der and quiet in the neighborhood. Von
Storchs answer: No negative effect. The
site is surrounded by business and retail
establishments.
Confronted with this blatant false-
hood, von Storch tried to evade respon-
sibility until his signature on the docu-
ment was pointed out to him and he had
to admit, in front of city ofcials, that the
document is not true. Nonetheless, this
is the legal instrument that has been
led with the city. Unless rejected by the
ABC board, it will unfortunately become
the starting point for negotiations with
residents of the many condos, apartment
buildings and private homes that actually
do surround Vida Fitness and who will be
directly impacted by von Storchs bar, if it
is approved.
For those of us who live in the 17th
and U Street, neighborhood people
who have invested in the real estate, put
down roots, tended community gardens,
planted trees, all of the things that neigh-
bors do to contribute to a vibrant and
peaceful urban communityit is David
von Storch who is the provocateur.
Whos the provocateur in Vida Fitness ght?
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Learning from adversarial activism of the past
Sean Cotter is a New York-based author who studied
LGBT history and literature. Reach him at scotter@
gm.slc.edu.
William Schulz is president of the Wilton
Condominium Association at 1931 17th St.
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Theres an ironic bit of life imitating art though it would
take years to come to fruition anticipated in Marnie.
In an early scene of the Alfred Hitchcock classic that stars
Tippi Hedren as a frigid kleptomaniac scared of red and
storms, Marnie (Hedren) asks Mark (Sean Connery) about
a photo in his ofce of a large cat. Its Sophie, a jaguarundi
whom he trained to trust him.
Is that all?, Marnie asks.
Well thats a great deal for a jaguarundi, Mark says.
Even Hedren had no idea at the time the degree to which lions,
tigers and other large cats would dominate her life in the coming
years. For those who know her only as the last of the Hitchcock
blondes or Melanie Grifths mother, Hedren is full of surprises.
After Hitchcock more on him in a bit Hedren made two movies
in Africa in the late 60s, Satans Harvest and Mr. Kingstreets War.
Neither are widely remembered today to the degree that the two she
made with Hitchcock (The Birds and Marnie) are, but Harvest,
especially, started a chain of events that eventually led to her self-
nancing a movie (Roar) with her then-husband, the late Noel
Marshall.
It incited in Hedren a erce passion for wild cats in captivity in
the U.S. Though initially nave about the dangers of keeping lions in
the house photos in her memoirs show teen daughter Melanie
in bed with their rst lion, the monstrously large Neil Hedren
has become a safety advocate. After decades of providing refuge
for large cats impulsive animal lovers buy then quickly become
overwhelmed (or in some cases even killed) by, Hedren is
lobbying for a Federal Ban on Breeding Exotic Cats for Personal
Possession Act, a tougher law than the 2003 Captive Wildlife
Safety Act, which Hedren co-authored and Congress passed
unanimously. Circuses, like Ringling Bros., oppose it.
But thats not all Hedren is in Washington this weekend
to accept the Vietnamese-American Patron Saint Award from
the Boat People SOS, a Falls Church-based organization for
Vietnamese-Americans. Turns out who knew? in all her
free time in the late 60s and early 70s, Hedren volunteered
widely with natural disaster relief organizations after two trips (in
66 and 68) to Vietnam.
In 1975, she volunteered at the Hope Village facility near
Sacramento, which Food for the Hungry had established to aid
in the integration of refugees. Hedren became acquainted
with a group of Vietnamese women whod sought refuge in
California. They were fascinated by her nails, so Hedren had
her manicurist train them and in the coming years a boom
in Vietnamise-owned U.S. nail shops ensued. Theyve never
forgotten that Hedren got the ball rolling.
Through her volunteer work, which helped resettle many
Vietnamese refugees arriving in America at the end of the Vietnam
war, Tippi Hedren may not realize how many lives she has touched and
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Tippi Hedren on her wild
cat preserve, gay appeal
and the pros and cons of
working for Hitchcock
TIPPI HEDREN, seen here in a 1963 publicity still for
The Birds, is in Washington this weekend to collect
an award for her activism for displaced Vietnamese-
Americans.
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and birds,
oh my!
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
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When Michael Rogers moved to Washington in 1996, he was convinced it
would just be for a two-year gig with the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force.
A native of Suffern, N.Y., (a suburb of the Big Apple), Rogers always felt like a
New Yorker at heart.
But upon arriving in D.C., it was love at rst sight.
Within two weeks I knew I would stay, Rogers says. Im totally into politics,
so of course theres that, but I just really love the city, the people are amazing
and I really love the scale of D.C. It was one of those things where I didnt realize
how much I didnt like New York until I left it. You kind of think its the center of
the universe, but here Im on the top oor, I have a balcony with an incredible
view I think its the most beautiful city in America.
Rogers, managing director of Raw Story Media, started his career as a
fundraiser in public television. He later worked for New Yorks Harvey Milk High
School and Greenpeace before coming to Washington with the Task Force.
By 2004, he was burned out on fundraising and was becoming increasingly
frustrated with the Bush administration. The wheels for his later work quickly
started turning.
They were basically using marriage to hurt gay people, Rogers says. They
were using us as a tool to get elected. I was working from home and had a lot
of time on my hands, so I ended up setting up a website to start exposing these
people.
Rogers eventually made a name for himself as a blogger who became
successful at outing closeted Republicans. His biggest claim to fame was
breaking the story of former U.S. Sen. Larry Craigs Minnesota airport mens
room controversy. Rogers got a tip a year before from someone who claimed
to have had sex with Craig. That started a lengthy investigation in which Rogers
corroborated the story with Craigs arrest.
I would never go on a story like that with one source, Rogers says.
He eventually joined forces with John Byrne, who founded Raw Story. Byrne
found Rogers audio les online of former U.S. Rep. Ed Schrock (R-Va.) soliciting
sex from a male prostitute in 2004. A six-hour phone conversation between
Rogers and Byrne conrmed they were kindred spirits.
Rogers is also the director of Netroots Nations Netroots Connect program,
an umbrella group for bloggers.
The 47-year-old Rogers, whos single and lives in Adams Morgan, is a self-
described news junkie and enjoys putzing around his workshop and spending
time with friends in his free time.
Rogers says hes highly honored to have his Queery published after last
weeks subject, his friend Diego Sanchez.
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN OUT
AND WHO WAS THE HARDEST
PERSON TO TELL?
Ive been out since 1986. The hardest
person to tell was my friend Chris,
because he was the rst. He laughed
and said the Streisand and Midler
records made that clear a while back.
WHOS YOUR LGBT HERO?
There are so many to pick from.
Ann Northrop comes to mind, the rst
fearless woman I met. She is my friend
from the Harvey Milk School days with
whom I was arrested in 1989. She takes
risks knowing the consequences and
takes them anyway.
WHATS WASHINGTONS BEST
NIGHTSPOT, PAST OR PRESENT?
At home, relaxing with friends.
DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM WEDDING.
Not something Ive dreamed about,
its only recently that we can even think
about it.
WHAT NON-LGBT ISSUE ARE YOU
MOST PASSIONATE ABOUT?
Justice for all.
WHAT HISTORICAL OUTCOME
WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Failure of the 1978 Washington, D.C.
Voting Rights Constitutional Amendment
to be ratied by the states after it passed
Congress.
WHATS BEEN THE MOST
MEMORABLE POP CULTURE
MOMENT OF YOUR LIFETIME?
Billy Joel, Madison Square Garden,
1981. My rst concert ever. I held the
lighter in my hand during the entire
show, just so I wouldnt miss the
moment.
ON WHAT DO YOU INSIST?
Respect for our animal friends.
WHAT WAS YOUR LAST FACEBOOK
POST OR TWEET?
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IF YOUR LIFE WERE A BOOK, WHAT
WOULD THE TITLE BE?
He Changed the World: One
Keyboard at a Time
IF SCIENCE DISCOVERED A WAY TO
CHANGE SEXUAL ORIENTATION,
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Stay the way I am. Theres such a thing
as the straight community.
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN BEYOND
THE PHYSICAL WORLD?
As Yogi Berra said, It aint over till its
over and when you die its over.
WHATS YOUR ADVICE FOR LGBT
MOVEMENT LEADERS?
Ignore the online army at your own
peril. The days of the moneyed people
calling all the shots are over.
WHAT WOULD YOU WALK ACROSS
HOT COALS FOR?
My best friend John; hes been there
for me when I needed it most. I try to do
the same.
WHAT LGBT STEREOTYPE ANNOYS
YOU MOST?
That you can pray away the gay.
WHATS YOUR FAVORITE LGBT
MOVIE?
Outrage, isnt it everyones favorite?
WHATS THE MOST OVERRATED
SOCIAL CUSTOM?
Suits and ties.
WHAT TROPHY OR PRIZE DO YOU
MOST COVET?
I hope some day to be worthy of a
tombstone that says The world is better
because he dwelt upon it.
WHAT DO YOU WISH YOUD KNOWN
AT 18?
How much I would learn by the time I
was 40.
WHY WASHINGTON?
D.C. is a company town. If the nations
capital were somewhere else, Id move
there.
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Songstress lang back
with new album,
band and tour
By JULIETTE EBNER
Lesbian singer and songwriter, k.d. lang
is back with a new C.D. and an upcoming
performance at Wolf Trap (1845 Trap
Rd.) in Vienna on Wednesday night with
special guest The Belle Brigade.
lang, whose favorite part of touring is the
music, will be performing with her new band,
Siss Boom Bang, her rst new band since
her work with The Reclines that launched
her career more than 20 years ago.
The performance will include mostly
new songs with the set rounded out with a
few of her classics.
Were trying to play venues that are
conducive to dancing and spontaneous
outbursts, lang wrote in a press release
for the tour, adding, I wanted to focus on
outdoor venues and folk festivals.
lang, a self described vocalist, likes to
have a good rapport with the audience.
This show is a slightly more up-tempo and
rock than her past shows.
Her newest album, Sing it Loud,
was released on April 12 by Nonesuch
Records. Many of the songs on the new
album were recorded live in the studio
This is the multiple Grammy winners rst
studio album since 2008s Watershed.
She marked the 25th anniversary of her
recording debut with Recollection, a
career retrospective.
Im trying to keep myself interested
and fresh, lang says about the different
sound of Sing. I just keep following my
musical interests and where it leads me ...
I was just feeling it.
She seemed to instantly connect with
Joe Pisapia, who acts as the bands musical
director, when they met back stage at the
Grand Ole Opry.
The pair started writing and putting the
band together.
It was magical, says lang of the
process. It turned out way beyond my
expectations.
The band, which got its name after a
friend of langs said the record sounds like
a typical k.d. lang record, but then siss,
boom, bang, the band kicks in! The band
is comprised of Pisapia, Daniel Clarke, Fred
Eltringham, Josh Grange and Lex Price.
On top of the original material, the new
album includes a cover of Talking Heads
Heaven.
I always could imagine that song having
a more country feel to it, says lang of the
cover. I also like the ... concept ... heaven
is a place where nothing happens.
langs music has been featured in many
movies and television shows, including her
version of Youre a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
in the Christmas episode of Glee.
She also sang Hallelujah at the
opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter
Olympics in Vancouver. Her performance
was nominated for a Juno Award for
Singe of the Year.
Tickets range from $25 to $45 and are
available for purchase online at wolftrap.
org, as well as a free download of langs
Sugar Buzz from the new album.
The North American tour will continue
through Oct. 24 with a few other shows
in the area. She will be performing in
Baltimore on July 14 at the Meyerhoff
Symphony Hall and in Newport News
on Oct. 1 at the Ferguson Center for
the Arts.
An exclusive 14-track extended version
of Sing is available to purchase on langs
ofcial website. For more information on
lang and the band, visit kdlang.com.
Back with a Bang
K.D. LANG plays Wolf Trap next week.
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Gay teen ees home
in new Tomas
Mournian thriller
Gay teens face all kinds of existential
dread and disproportionate numbers are
homeless, but few are truly on the lam-
Fugitive style.
In the new novel Hidden by Tomas
Mournian, staying concealed may be a
life-or-death matter.
Ahmed was drugged. At least, he
was sure he was. He felt really high and
everything was slow. His father and
Stepmother Number was it four?
had come to pick him up at Serenity
Ridge, and they expected complacency
on the way home. No problems here.
But even woozy, Ahmed knew that escape
was essential. There was no way he was
going to be sent back to SR, a residential
treatment facility for queer teens.
So when whispers turned out to be
correct that there was a certain truck
stop near a certain sign in the middle of
the desert where he could nd help
Ahmed told his father that he had to go.
And when two women motioned for
him to follow them, he went.
Passed from vehicle to vehicle, Ahmed
ended up in a bus station with a phone
number in his hand and a ticket to San
Francisco. But getting there and nding
the safe house he was told to seek wouldnt
be easy. There were men, bounty hunters,
whose job it was to nd runaway teens who
could potentially embarrass their parents.
And they were looking for him.
In the safe house, Ahmed became Ben.
Someone dyed his hair and told him that
he couldnt look out the window. He was
told that he couldnt leave, either, but the
other kids living there found a way: there
was a rooftop area, perfect for smoking
and listening to music. It was comfortable
and semi-private. It was the perfect place to
escape the drama of too many kids hiding.
Its only a book. Those are the words
youll want to remember while reading this
pulse-racing novel.
Hidden is an easy book to get caught
up in. The rst half is pure classic chase-
scene, complete with evil henchmen,
vicious dogs and an Underground
Railroad-like passage to safety. You almost
want to look over Ahmeds shoulder for
him, lest he get caught.
Then author Tomas Mournian switches
gears by adding a tiniest amount of
malevolence to the discomfort of a dozen
varied personalities packed in a small area for
an unspecied time. This only ratchets up the
tension, making Hidden a heart pounder.
Though geared for older teens, its an
excellent read for adults too. If youre
looking for a book from which your
attention may never escape, Hidden is
one to seek.
Sizzling summer
suspense
Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading since she was 3
years old. She lives in Wisconsin with two dogs and 12,000
books. Reach her at bookwormsez@yahoo.com.
HIDDEN BY TOMAS MOURNIAN
c.2011, Kensington
$15
387 pages
Hidden is a pulse-pounding suspense tale featuring a gay teen forced to go on the lam.
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Queer comedy tonight in Baltimore
The Creative Alliance presents New York comedians Jessica Halem and Ben
Lerman in a night of queer comedy at The Patterson (3134 Eastern Ave.) in
Baltimore tonight at 8 p.m.
Violet Gray, a Baltimore librarian, who has also performed at Charm City Kitty
Club will be opening.
The Alliance is group that provides support to Baltimore area artists and
promotes the city as a center for creative production. The group offers many
programs including classes like iMovie Editing, Intro to Improv and more.
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for Alliance members.
For more information on the Alliance and to purchase tickets, visit
creativealliance.org.
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JESSICA HALEM (right) and BEN LERMAN are in Baltimore tonight.
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Gay-helmed dance outt at Gala
Gala Hispanic Theatre (3333 14th St., N.W.) presents Daksina/Daniel Phoenix Singh
Dance Company in Frida, Homenaje a David Alfaro Siqueiros and Vasanth on July
8 and 9.
Both numbers are by American modern dance pioneer Anna Sokolow and stage her
remembrance of her time in Mexico.
Frida sketches the famed Mexican painters life from her youth, to her love-hate
relationship with Diego Riviera, to the end of her life.
Homenaje a David Alfaro Siqueiros commemorates of the life of the Mexican
muralist and activist. This is the rst time Homenaje a David Alfaro Siqueiros has been
performed since its 1984 commissioning premiere.
Vasanth is an original work by Daniel Phoenix Singh that explores the Indian myth of
how spring arrives when Sivas meditation causes the seasons to stop their cycles.
Tickets range from $18 to $25.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit galatheatre.org.
Oklahoma! enjoys encore run
Arena Stage is re-opening its production of Rodgers and Hammersteins Oklahoma!
for a 12-week engagement starting July 8 and running through Oct. 2.
Arenas production won four Helen Hayes Awards: Outstanding Musical, Outstanding
Lead Actor for Nicholas Rodriguez, Outstanding Choreography for Parker Esse and
Outstanding Musical Direction for George Fulginiti-Shakar.
There will be a VIP event July 14 that will include an opportunity to meet some of the
cast after the show during a reception with hors doeuvres and drinks.
Tickets range from $46 to $106 and tickets for the VIP event are $125.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit arenastage.org.
Gay shows at Fringe
The Capital Fringe Festival begins July 7 and there are several shows based on LGBT
experiences.
Theres I Love You, (Were Fucked) by Kevin J. Thornton which tells the story of
a gay man looking back over the greatest loves and sex of his life. Thats What She
Sang features six men in a gay mens support group discussing life while singing songs
traditionally sun by women.
Theres also Boston Marriage which tells the story of the complex relationship
between two women living together in the Victorian era.
Not all the shows seem obviously LGBT from their descriptions, such as Who Killed
Captain Kirk? an interactive murder mystery where the audience decides whodunit
and Assembly Required: Comedy A to Y which features Rob and Flick teaching the
audience everything there is to know about comedy.
Individual tickets start at $17, not including the $7 Fringe admission button that all
attendees must present or wear to get into any Fringe show. There are also various pass
packages.
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Two childrens classics
among summer
theatrical offerings
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Looking for something fun to do with the
kids this summer? D.C.-area family theater
offers an entertaining (and air-conditioned)
alternative to parks, pools and wherever
else it is those little ones like to go.
And because some children-focused
troupes are employing top notch local
talent and turning out productions of
ever-increasing quality, its an outing that
the grownups will enjoy too.
Imagination Stage in downtown
Bethesda is currently presenting The
Wind in the Willows, a musical adaptation
of the same-named 1908 classic by Kenneth
Grahame. Centered mostly on the exploits
of motor car-crazy Mr. Toad (of Disney
World Wild Ride fame), it tells the tale
of four anthropomorphized pals who learn
the value of loyalty, friendship and home in
Englands idyllic Edwardian countryside.
It is springtime and curious Mole
(Christopher Wilson) leaves his hole for the
riverside where he befriends gentleman
versier Rat (Vaughn Irving). Together they
enjoy outdoor adventures and meet the
reclusive Badger (Doug Wilder). They also
are drawn into the follies of the very rich and
madcap Mr. Toad (played by Sasha Olinick
who recently nished his run as Mozart in
Roundhouses Amadeus). Hes obsessed
with the worlds latest craze- automobiles
and the results are disastrous. Luckily for
Toad, he has his new friends to help him out.
Its a transporting 90 minutes. With the
help of an inventive design team, director
Janet Stanford (who is also the companys
artistic director) imaginatively takes the
play from place to place: river rowing,
underwater, court, jail and stately Toad Hall.
With the driving dusters, linen suits and
boaters, Katie Touarts costumes are very
Ivory Merchant but with a hint of wildlife
whimsy. A rabbit, played by Maya Jackson,
sports jaunty knickerbockers; a cottontail is
sewn to the back of her linen vest.
The very good cast also includes
Matthew Schleigh and Phillip Reid as a
gang of insufferable, thieving weasels who
have neither cozy homes nor posh accents.
Tia Shearer nicely doubles as a maniacal
girl weasel and a stinky barge woman.
Faithfully adapted by Richard Hellesen
with a pleasing song score (words and
music by Michael Silversher) featuring
titles like Poop Poop! and Poop
Poop! (Reprise) the show keeps young
audiences interested. Imagination
Stages theater is large and comfy. Loud
and extra squirmy kids are advised to view
the musical from a smallish glass room not
unlike those airport smoking aquariums,
but at a recent matinee there was no need
the children were rapt.
Over in historic Glen Echo Park,
Adventure Theater is ending its season with
E.B. Whites beloved Charlottes Web
(cleverly adapted by Joseph Robinette).
As readers may well remember, its the
story of young farm girl Fern who saves
runt piglet Wilbur from certain death.
When Fern can no longer ensure that a
growing Wilbur wont become bacon,
Charlotte an ingenious barn spider saves
him by spinning phrases and words like
Some Pig and Humble above his pen.
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Fun for all ages
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
Through Aug. 14
Imagination Stage
4908 Auburn Avenue, Bethesda, MD
$10-$22
301-280-1660
www.imaginationstage.org
CHARLOTTES WEB
Through Sept. 5
Adventure Theatre
7300 MacArthur Blvd, Glen Echo, MD
$17
301-634-2270
www.adventuretheatre.org
DEIDRA LAWAN STARNES as Charlotte in Adventure Theatres Charlottes Web.
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Beach landmark thriving
after surviving early
homophobic attacks
By PETER SCHOTT
For many gay Washingtonians, the rst
stop on Friday night in Rehoboth Beach for
the past 30 years has been the Blue Moon.
Built in 1907 as a Sears Craftsman Home
it has evolved into a welcoming blue and
yellow landmark on Baltimore Avenue,
which serves as a place to socialize, share
news, nd the parties in town, see the
latest summer fashions and nd love.
More than a building and a social center,
many feel that the presence of such a gay-
friendly establishment has helped change
the face of Rehoboth Beach from a sleepy
town, where locals occasionally clashed
with the gay community, to one of the
most popular gay resorts in the country.
Even before there was a CAMP Rehoboth,
many regarded the Moon as the
community center for Rehoboth Beach.
Joyce Felton, an original owner of
the Blue Moon, said she realized, that
there was a need for a community service
center. It was in one of her restaurants,
according to Felton, that organizing
meetings were held for both the Sussex
County AIDS Committee and a newsletter
that later became Letters from CAMP
Rehoboth, a local LGBT newsmagazine.
Although there were gay restaurants
and bars in the beach resorts when Felton
opened the Moon in 1981, unlike some of
the others, this one was not tucked away on
a quiet street with windows covered. The
Blue Moon was out in the open, gay and
proud, but the early years were not easy.
We deliberately wanted our restaurant
to be in the open and have a cutting edge,
Felton said, adding that she was surprised
at the hostility she received from some
locals when she opened. According to
local lesbian author Fay Jacobs, in an article
printed in Delaware Beach Life, sometime
during the rst year the Moon was open,
the mayor at the time said he had received
a letter complaining about gay food in
Rehoboth and explained that there was no
way this town wanted a gay restaurant.
The harassment and threats continued
for years, wrote Jacobs, with objects
thrown into the Moon by angry local
residents. But now Felton believes that
economically it would be disastrous to
turn back the clock to the 1970s when such
homophobia reigned.
John Berdini, co-owner of Cloud Nine
and a bartender at Blue Moon from 1984-
1993 remembers the hostility its employees
and customers faced during those years.
Police, he said, often wouldnt show up
when there were bottles thrown into the
bar and after other anti-gay incidents. But
because of Feltons perseverance, the
restaurant and bar succeeded.
The best years of my life were spent
at the Blue Moon, as we became a family
because we knew we were in this ght
together, Berdini said. He calls Felton
a trailblazer for gay businesses, noting,
Joyce Felton legitimized gay businesses
in Rehoboth Beach.
Current owner Tim Ragan says The
Moon has become the anchor of Baltimore
Avenue, and as such has attracted other
LGBT businesses, making Rehoboth Beach
a great destination point for LGBT tourists.
Since its inception, the Blue Moon was
always changing and evolving. Although the
restaurant has always remained, the bar area
was built in what was the houses garden in
1982 and two years later an atrium area was
opened. Locals and visitors alike look forward
to the annual opening of the Blue Moon to
see the structural changes that occur inside
virtually each off-season, including raising the
oor in the outdoor bar area and adding a
retractable roof to deal with the Rehoboth
summer showers and heat.
In addition to the physical changes in the
Blue Moon, the changes in entertainment
have kept the crowds coming. At one
time the bar was for drinking and cruising,
then it began to have piped in music and
occasional live performers. In recent years
it has established itself as a place to enjoy
live entertainment; one of the most popular
resident acts is singer/songwriter Pamala
Stanley, who performs most summer
evenings and is in her sixth season at the
Moon. During the summer months there
are cabaret performers, karaoke, drag and
special events most nights. Drag queen
Mona Lotts hosts a popular karaoke party.
Added to the mix this year is Joe Kovacs, a
famous puppeteer and actor who performs
every Tuesday night with his puppet Gretta.
For some, no trip to Rehoboth Beach is
complete without a visit to the Blue Moon,
be it for food, drink or entertainment.
For Knight Champion, a D.C. Realtor
and frequent visitor to Rehoboth, each
night at the Blue Moon that I hear Pamala
Stanley is a joy, especially since each show
is so different.
For Paul Kuntzler, longtime gay activist
in D.C., his rst stop is the Moon. I start
every trip with dinner at the Moon, said
Kuntzler, and then I come to the bar to
have a few drinks.
No story about the Moon would be
complete without talking about its unique
Moon Pie. For some who come just to
eat at the highly rated restaurant, a meal
must include this dessert, a delicious
combination of Oreo cookies, meringue
and four types of ice cream, piled about
eight inches high. For many, the challenge
is to nish the pie on their own, but more
often than not it is regarded as a dessert
for the whole family to share.
On Oct. 9, the Blue Moon will ofcially
celebrate its 30th anniversary and to its
current owners, another 30 years is not out
of the question.
As times change, we are willing to
make the changes to keep us a relevant
part of the community, Ragan said.
The rich history of the Blue Moon,
its struggles against homophobia and
its willingness to change with the times
suggest that, indeed, the Moon can
continue to thrive and help build a better
Rehoboth Beach.
Rehoboths Blue Moon at 30
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Love Weekend
in Rehoboth
This holiday weekend marks
the annual Love celebration in
Rehoboth Beach, a two-night
dance party held at the Rehoboth
Beach Convention Center.
Red Love Saturday July, 2, 8
p.m.-2 a.m., with DJ/Remixer Joe
Gauthreaux. Open bar/$40
Blue Love Sunday, July 3, 9
p.m.-2 a.m., with DJ Mike Reimer.
Open bar/$40
Red and Blue Love Dance Ticket
Package: $75
Ladies 2000 Lady Love Tea
Dance on Sunday, July 3, 4-8 p.m.
with DJ Steve Singer. Cash bar/
tickets $15.
For more information and
to purchase tickets, visit
camprehoboth.com.
Wednesday, August 17 Judy & Liza
Starring TommyFemia and Rick Skye, these awarding winning
performers will pull out all the stops singing classic solos, duets, and
parodies bythe greatest mother/daughter team in show biz history.
$25 per person. 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 24 Del Shores
The Southern-loved writer/director/producer and creator of the cult
favorite Sordid Lives, most recentlyadded stand-up comedian to the list and
plays to rave reviews in his new stand-up show. No subject is off-limits. $25
per person. 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 31 Miss Coco Peru
A New York and Hollywood legend she has unleashed her hilarious and
incisive confession of bittersweet personal baggage intercut with sassysongs
to audiences on stage and screen for over a decade. $25 per person. 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 7 Kristine W
Her debut with the global dance floor anthem "Feel What You Want reached
the highlycoveted No. 1 and she currentlyholds the worlds record for Most
Consecutive #1 Billboard Club Hits. $25 per person. 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 6 Sherry Vine & Joey Arias
International Drag Darlings, JoeyArias and SherryVine in their all new,
all live, cabaret extravaganza! The show will combine elements of the
Post Modernism of the 1960's with a dragtastic contemporarytwist!
Rudi Gernreich meets LadyGaga! $25 per person. 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 13 Linda Clifford
Linda ranks among the best classic soul singers as well as a legendaryDisco Diva.
Singer, songwriter and actress, she electrifies audiences with her music and
amazing live performances in sold-out shows around the world in front of
millions on TVand film. $25 per person. 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 20 Lindsey Alley
Six seasons as a Mouseketeer on DisneyChannels MickeyMouse Club, Broadway
Actor and Cabaret Entertainer. If you dont know Lindseyyet you will surelyknow
and love her after her show. $25 per person. 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 27 Jimmy James
The one and manyvoices of JimmyJames will astound you Cher, PatsyCline,
Eartha Kitt, Bette Davis, JudyGarland, BoyGeorge, Billie Holidayand more. His
classic club anthem, Fashionista, reached the top of the Billboard Dance Charts.
Wednesday, August 3 The Shirelles
starring Original Member and Co-Founder BeverlyLee. Rock & Roll Hall
of Fame Members & the originators of the Girl Group Sound. Their long
string of hits include Soldier Boy, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?,
Dedicated To The One I Love, Mama Said, and more!
Wednesday, August 10 Telly Leung
Hes a "Teenage Dream" on hit show Glee as the recurring character Wes of
the Dalton AcademyWarblers. His Broadwaycredits include Flower Drum
Song, Rent and Pacific Overtures. $25 per person. 9:30 p.m.
35 Baltimore Ave. / Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
302.227.6515 / www.bluemoonrehoboth.com
Join us from 6 - 8 p.m. with the world renowned
singing sensation Pamala Stanley. No Cover.
Every Sunday - Thursday
PAMALA STANLEY
Dont miss the best karaoke in town with our
hostess Mona Lotts from 9:30 - 11 pm and
enjoya Stoli martini of the dayfor only$7.
No Cover.
Every Thursday
Karaoke & Martinis
with Mona
Advance
tickets are
highly
recommended.
NEW! An all live show bythe Blue Moon cast of
celebrityimpersonators. No cover charge.
OPENINGS
TUE, JUL 5
Hobey Ford and Robbie Schaefer, Wolf
Trap. 703-255-1860. wolftrap.org
Reduced Shakespeare Company: The
Complete World of Sports (abridged),
Kennedy Center. 800-444-1324.
kennedy-center.org
LAST CHANCE
SAT, JUL 2
City Dance and Music with Milkshake, Wolf
Trap. 703-255-1860. wolftrap.org
One Destiny, Fords Theatre.
202-397-7328. fords.org
SUN, JUL 3
Reduced Shakespeare Company:
Completely Hollywood (abridged),
Kennedy Center. 703-875-1100.
kennedy-center.org
Mamma Mia!, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org
Bootycandy, Woolly Mammoth.
202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net
Don Quixote, Synetic Theater.
800-494-8497. synetictheater.org
The History of Kisses, The Studio Theatre.
202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org
Opus, Olney Theatre Center.
301-924-3400. olneytheatre.org
Night and Day, Washington
Shakespeare Company & Tennessee
Continuum. Artisphere. 888-841-2787.
washingtonshakespeare.org
Purge, SCENA Theatre at H Street
Playhouse, H Street Playhouse.
703-683-2824. ScenaTheater.org
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
Bee, Keegan Theatre, Church Street
Theater. 703-892-0202.
keegantheatre.com
Young Turg, OutOftheBlackBox Theatre
Company, Inc., Greenbelt Arts Center.
301-441-8770. OutOftheBlackBox.org
Spiritual Challenges, Montpelier Arts
Center. 301-377-7800. arts.pgparks.com
TUE, JUL 5
Ann Zahns The Gravitational Pull of
Memory, The Art League. 703-683-1780.
theartleague.org
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
JUL 2 - JUL 3
New Releases Showcase, Dance Place.
202-269-1600. danceplace.org
ONE NIGHT ONLY
FRI, JUL 1
Jazz in the Garden: Rumba Club, National
Gallery of Art. 202-737-4215. nga.gov
MON, JUL 4
Independence Day Celebration, National
Archives. 202-357-5000. archives.gov
WED, JUL 6
Adventure at the Bottom of the World,
National Geographic. 202-857-7700.
nglive.org/dc
Summer Outdoor Concerts: Chopteeth
Afrofunk Big Band, Strathmore. 301-581-
5100. strathmore.org
THU, JUL 7
Backyard Theater: Sin Miedo, Strathmore.
301-581-5100. strathmore.org
ONGOING STAGE
Next to Normal, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org
Wicked, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org
Venus in Fur, The Studio Theatre. 202-
332-3300. studiotheatre.org
ONGOING EXHIBITONS
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Free Summer
Saturdays at the Corcoran, Chris Martin:
Painting Big, Washington Color and
Light. 202-639-1700. corcoran.org
Kreeger Museum. Tom Wesselmann
DRAWS. 202-338-3552.
kreegermuseum.org
National Gallery of Art. Gabriel Metsu,
1629-1667, Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde
de Nuit, The Gothic Spirit of John Taylor
Arms. 202-737-4215. nga.gov
National Geographic. Machu Picchu:
A Lost City Uncovered, Photographs
from the Hiram Bingham Expeditions
1911-1915, Race to the End of the Earth
Exhibition, The Etruscans: An Ancient
Italian Civilization. 202-857-7700. nglive.
org/dc
Museum of Women in the Arts. Pressing
Ideas: Fifty Years of Womens Lithographs
from Tamarind, The Guerrilla Girls Talk
Back. 202-783-5000. nmwa.org
ONGOING GALLERIES
Contain, Maintain, Sustain; Frieze Project:
Leila Holtsman; Barcode Orchestra,
Artisphere. 703-875-1100. artisphere.com
Pods - Drawings by Lauren Sleat,
Gallery plan b. 202-234-2711.
galleryplanb.com
IN FLUX: Victoria Greisings Material
Narrative, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts
Gallery at Smith Farm Center.
202-483-8600. smithfarm.com
Freedom, Washington
Printmakers Gallery. 301-273-3660.
washingtonprintmakers.com
Arts & Stripes: Curated Military Art
Exhibition, Workhouse Arts Center.
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34 JULY 01, 2011 FI TNESS
Nobody likes getting
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group from 9 years of age to 105 and the
clients who have been the most stimulating
tend to be in the older age bracket.
I have always found older adults insightful,
wise and motivating and I decided to dig
deeper and nd out just what motivates this
age group and what keeps them staying
healthy as the years pass.
What I discovered was that indeed
exercise and eating well was part of their
lifestyle, but I also discovered that a positive
state of mind, balance and emotional
well being were common denominators
among the few people I interviewed. Each
of them had a lot to say so I decided to
let them speak for themselves about what
keeps them healthy and vital.

Chick Yeager, 69.
I exercise because it helps my arthritis
because a little hurt in the morning is
better than hurting all day. And the people
in the gym are interesting and diverse
and keep me thinking about things that I
wouldnt be thinking about if I was home
watching TV.
I do 20 minutes on the treadmill, some
yoga and some strength bearing routines
for about 50 minutes three or four times a
week. I also ride my bike everywhere I can.
I also read a lot of politics, science and
technology stuff for at least three hours a
day and I am engaged with other people
at least three hours a day to keep my mind
growing. I sometimes go to think tanks
that disagree with what I think in order to
keep my brain active.
If I would give advice to younger
people I believe the best way to live is
to surround myself with people who are
smart, interesting and challenging to what I
believe. Keep active, ride a bike all over the
city and meet happy people everywhere.
Be excited about the future and want to
live longer in order to see it happen.
I am very grateful for all of the people
who bring love and joy into my life for I
have a life second to none.
Michael Faubion, 59.
Beginning this year, I work out with
a personal trainer two evenings per
week. For the last 20 years or so, I have
worked into my weekly routine a one-hour
workout three times per week at a gym. I
often scheduled a two-hour break during
the middle of the day for a one-hour
workout and a 30-minute walk to and from
the ofce. That provided me a second
wind to return to the ofce for another
four hours with renewed energy. But the
trick for me is to incorporate exercise
activity into my daily routine and stick to it.
In addition, and especially in the spring/
summer/fall months, I work in the garden
every weekend. As I age, I have to enlist
help with some of the more daunting
tasks, but even a couple of hours on
Saturdays and Sundays works wonders,
both physically and spiritually.
I believe staying in good health at almost
60 helps by maintaining a positive attitude
about life in general. Also, incorporating
preventative measures such as annual
physicals, a healthful diet and good exercise;
and containing stress-inducing work-related
issues. In addition, the support of a lifelong
partner is a tremendous comfort.
Besides exercise, diet is the most
important ingredient in maintaining my
health. Fortunately, I have always liked
fresh fruit and vegetables and sh more
than red meat, and salads have always
been a mainstay. The old saying An
apple a day is something I follow
religiously. In recent years, Ive eliminated
desserts and alcohol from my diet.
My personal experience in following
the guidelines outlined above has yielded
positive results. Overall, I would advise
people younger than I to not worry too
much about the aging process, to accept
it as part of the natural human progression,
dont compare yourself to others too much
and accept the aging with grace.

Richard Witter, 79
What has given me this longevity? I
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day at a time enough to make a good
and interesting life.
I believe in the benets of exercise and
diet and physical exams; you never know
when a health problem will arise. My last
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symptoms, except a weight gain which I
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I pay attention to naturopathic medicine
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and grocery reminder. There is no smoking
and drinking (although I did in early years)
and no drugs. I walk about a mile a day and
do strength training with small weights here
at home, although not always consistently.
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Raw, hosted by DJs Bil Todd and Shea
Van Horn with special guest DJ TMY, will
be at Green Lantern (1335 Green Court,
N.W.) tonight from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Theres a $5 cover. There will be an open
bar from 10 to 11 p.m. Attendees must be
21 or older.
DJs Will Eastman and Brian Billion
return to the 9:30 Club (815 V St., N.W.)
with their No Scrubs: 90s Dance Party
tonight at 9 p.m. featuring music by Salt
N Pepa, Nirvana, Ace of Base and more.
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased
online at 930.com.
Remingtons (639 Pennsylvania Ave.,
S.E.) is hosting Okla-homo, a free dance
lesson with Helen Hayes Award-winning
choreographer, Parker Esse, and cast
members of Oklahoma!, tonight at 9
p.m. There will also be a chance to win
tickets to see Oklahoma! at Arena Stage.
The Lodge (21614 National Pike)
in Boonsboro presents Drag Wars
featuring performances by the Western
Maryland Girls and Drag City: D.C., co-
hosted by Stephanie Micheals and Shi-
Queeta Lee. Doors open at 9 p.m. There
is a $5 cover before 10:30 p.m. which then
goes up to $8.
Apex (1415 22nd St., N.W.) presents
Liquid Ladies, a weekly womens dance
party with DJs Randy White and Rosie. This
week the D.C. Kings will be performing as
well. Doors open at 10 p.m. There is a $10
cover charge and all attendees must be 18
or older.
SATURDAY, JULY 2
Code has its monthly installment
tonight at Green Lantern (1335 Green
Court, N.W.). Gear, rubber, skin, uniform
or leather dress code will be strictly
enforced. Music provided by DJ Frank
Wild. Admission is $10. All attendees must
be 18 or older. There will be an open bar
from 9 to 10 p.m.
Black Cat (1811 14th St., N.W.) presents
Hellmouth Happy Hour where every week
an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
will be screened and drink specials will
be offered. This week the episode is
Halloween.
Camp Rehoboths annual Love dance
event starts today with the Red Love
dance party featuring DJ/Remixer Joe
Gauthreaux and an open bar from 8
p.m. to 2 a.m. at the Rehoboth Beach
Convention Center (229 Rehoboth Ave.)
in Delaware. Tickets are $40. For more
information and to purchase tickets, visit
camprehoboth.com.
Wicked, which tells the story of the
Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the
Good Witch long before Dorothys arrival,
will be performed at the Kennedy Center
(2700 F St., N.W.) today at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Tickets range from $37 to $250 and can be
purchased online at kennedy-center.org.
The Red Palace (1212 H St., N.E.)
presents the Va Va Voom Room with Miss
Astrid tonight at 9:30 and 11:30 p.m.
featuring boylesque performer Tigger,
local performer BooBoo Darlin and the
magic act the Lies of Brian. Tickets are
$12 in advance and $15 at the door. Doors
open a half hour before the performances.
Attendees must be 21 or older.
SUNDAY, JULY 3
Ladies 2000 and Camp Rehoboth have
teamed up for Lady Love Tea Dance today
at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center
(229 Rehoboth Ave.) in Delaware from 4 to
8 p.m. featuring a light and sound show
with music by Steve Singer. Admission is
$15 and a portion of the proceeds go to
benet Camp Rehoboth. Also that night
is the Blue Love dance party featuring
DJ Mike Reimer and an open bar from 9
p.m. to 2 a.m. also at the Rehoboth Beach
Convention Center. Tickets are $40. For
more information and to purchase tickets
for both events, visit camprehoboth.com.
Black Cat (1811 14th St., N.W.) is
bringing back Couch Night, a night of just
sitting in the Red Room and listening to
DJs. This is a free event and doors open
at 8 p.m.
DJ Shea Van Horn hosts Nellies (900
U St., N.W.) Guil-Tea Dance today from 3
to 8 p.m. featuring guilty pleasure pop
music and sweet tea vodka specials.
MONDAY, JULY 4
Bears do Yoga at Green Lantern (1335
Green Court N.W.) tonight at 6:30 p.m.
Class lasts for an hour and serves as an
introduction to yoga for people of all
different body types and physical abilities.
Its taught by Michael Brazell. For more
information, visit dccenter.org.
The National Independence Day
Parade will being at 11:45 a.m. today and
will move down Constitution Avenue from
7th to 17th Street.
A Capitol Fourth, featuring the National
Symphony Orchestra will take place on
the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building
at 8 p.m. The celebration will be hosted
by award-winning actor Jimmy Smits
with performances by Steve Martin with
the Steep Canyon Ranger, Josh Groban,
Glees Matthew Morrison, Jordin Sparks
and more. Gates open to the public at 3
p.m. This is a free event.
TUESDAY, JULY 5
Join Burgundy Crescent Volunteers to
help pack safer sex kits from 7 to 9 p.m.
tonight at FUK!Ts packing location, Green
Lantern, 1335 Green Ct., N.W.
Busboys & Poets has two art exhibits,
Food for Thought featuring works by
J. Ford Huffman, and Tiny Treasures:
Size Matters featuring works by Bensonn
Anspach, Bat Favitsou Boulandi and
Tim Rodgers, showing at the Shirlington
location (4251 South Campbell Ave.) in
Arlington through Aug. 4. The restaurant
is open from 8 a.m. to midnight.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6
The Tom Davoren Social Bridge Club
will be meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m.,
at the Dignity Center (721 8th St., S.E.)
across from Marine Barracks for Social
Bridge. No partner is needed. For more
information, visit lambdabridge.com and
click Social Bridge in Washington.
Bravo! Bravo! (1001 Connecticut Ave.,
N.W.) is hosting its weekly Barcode Happy
Hour today from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. hosted
by Jamorr Entertainment. There is no
cover for this event.
Twisted Knickers Burlesque presents
Stars and Strip Forever at Red Palace (1212
H St., N.E.) tonight at 9 p.m. featuring
Stella Sweet, Tapitha Kix and more. Tickets
are $10 and can only be purchased day of
the performance. All attendees must be
21 or older.
THURSDAY, JULY 7
Steven Petrow, author of Complete
Gay and Lesbian Manners, will be
promoting his book in conversation
with Bob Witck, CEO of Witeck Combs
Communications at Barnes & Noble (555
12th St., N.W.) tonight at 7 p.m.
The Washington Design Centers (300 D
St., S.W.) new exhibit, MADE: In America,
featuring furniture by Century Furniture,
Keith Fritz, Duralee Fine Furniture, Kindel,
Brighton Pavilion, MacKenzie Dow and
McNeilly. The center is open from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Visit dcdesigncenter.com for
more information and admission policies.
Next to Normal, starring Alice Ripley,
will be performed at the Kennedy Center
(2700 F St., N.W.) tonight at 7:30 p.m.
Next tells the story of a family trying to
care of themselves and each other while
the mother loses her sanity. Tickets range
from $35 to $120 and can be purchased
online at kennedy-center.org.
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changed, says Trang-Khanh Tran, director
of eld operations for the BPSOS. She has
contributed tremendously to the survival
and growth of the Vietnamese-American
community. Her helping the refugee
families set up nail salons blazed the trail for
tens of thousands more. (Tickets may still
be available for the BPSOS award dinner,
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Hedren perhaps more than the
other Hitchcock blondes has also
managed to exude a paradoxically strong
queer appeal, memorably immortalized
by lesbian cultural scholar Camille Paglia
in a 1998 essay.
Paglia, hearing Hedren was being
honored, leapt at the chance to weigh in.
I was shocked that in all the scholarly
writing on Hitchcocks movies, there wasnt
one positive thing about Tippi, she says.
They say shes wooden, shes this, shes
that, he wanted Grace Kelly there was
no appreciation for how brilliant she is
in (The Birds). Gays have always had a
special affection for the dismissed. For
years, gay men were the only ones who
took Carmen Miranda seriously. Now
shes been rediscovered. Tippi had this
tremendous sense of artice of planning
her move for the camera. Gay men, not
lesbians, but gay men, have that too, that
sense of persona, of composing the self.
Tippi is so sophisticated, but also warm.
You just cannot teach what she has.
Hedren says she became aware of the
idolization as soon as The Birds became
a hit. She knew early on her character,
Melanie, with her trademark torn green
suit, bloodied face and disheveled
hair, had become a popular Halloween
costume, especially for gay men in drag.
She says shes always been pleasantly
amused by it.
As soon as it started, people
were doing this, she says. I think its
wonderful.
Now 81, Hedren indulges dozens of
questions about all facets of her life during
a nearly hour-long phone interview from
her home on the Shambala Preserve on
the edge of the Mojave Desert in Acton,
Calif., about 40 miles outside Los Angeles.
Shes in great health, she says. The
only thing that dogs her are chronic
headaches. Not migraines, but trying
nonetheless. Shes the same size she was
when Hitchcock signed her in 1961. She
modeled one of the Edith Head gowns
Hitchcock ordered for her about 10 years
ago for People magazine.
I just like being thin, she says. I dont
overeat. I never really had to diet. If I have
to lie down on the bed to zip up my jeans,
I dont eat that day. Thats my diet.
Though her work for Hitchcock is by far
her most well remembered, Hedren has
continued acting nearly all along. Most
recently shes been on TV as Lily on USAs
The 4400, Doris on Fashion House and
had a 2008 guest spot on CSI. Cousin
Sarah, a thriller with Linda Blair, is slated for
a Halloween release. Shes also involved in
an upcoming lm with Billy Bob Thornton.
She says her lm work has been out of
necessity. She doesnt draw a salary for her
work at Shambala and says she wouldnt
dream of taking any donated money away
from care for Preserves current crop of about
60 rescued lions, tigers, leopards, bobcats
and more. Two of its latest inhabitants
are tigers Michael Jackson formerly had
at Neverland, Thriller and Sabu. Keeping
Shambala open, Hedren says, costs about
$75,000 per month and securing money has
become increasingly hard.
People ask me all the time how I do
it and I dont know, I just do, Hedren
says. Were just sort of living by the skin
of our pants. Its really, really difcult.
(shambala.org)
Hitchcock saw Hedren, a successful
model, on a Today show commercial for
a diet drink called Sego in the fall of 1961,
the year after he made Psycho. At the
height of his popularity, the director had his
agents at MCA track her down and within
weeks had signed her to a seven year
exclusive contract. This being the Mad
Men era and Hitchcock being one of the
most famous directors in Hollywood, things
eventually soured between the two as he
became more controlling. After Marnie
he sabatoged her career by keeping her
under contract but refusing to give her
work or loan her out. She nally got out with
a supporting role in Charlie Chaplains last
lm, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren.
Hedren, however, has forgiven, if
not exactly forgotten. Shes a regular at
Hitchcock tributes and eagerly participates
in festivals at which The Birds is shown.
Even during Hitchcocks lifetime, she paid
tribute to him at a star-studded tribute the
American Film Institute threw in 1979, the
year before he died. Yes, he was responsible
for her acting career and starred her in two
of his most well-remembered lms, but
after declining his advances, he worked just
as hard to keep her down.
Early on I just made peace with it
and thats what I literally had to do, she
says. I think bitterness and hatred and
negative feelings can really destroy your
life. There was still too much for me to
do. I never saw that kind of reaction in my
parents and they instilled a really, really
good background in me.
For all the mythic iconography of the
archetypical Hitchcock blonde over
the decades, Hedren only had limited
interaction with others in his stable. They
never appeared, of course, in any one
lm. Hedren never met Grace Kelly, who
was already married and living as Princess
Grace by the time Hedren started making
movies. Before Janet Leigh (Marion in
Psycho) died in 2004, she and Hedren
had been photographed together at
various Hitchcock events.
Did they get to know each other?
A little, Hedren says. I mean we
didnt become BFFs or anything.
And what about Kim Novaks (Madeline
in Vertigo) noticeable absence at such
gatherings? Hedren says Novak always
declines.
She doesnt come to anything,
Hedren says. Its not that shes not invited.
She just never wants to do it.
For all the unpleasant Hitchcock
memories shooting the nal attack
scene was notoriously arduous and took,
like the shower scene in Psycho, a
full week to shoot Hedren has fond
memories. Before her scene in which she
brings tea to a distressed Jessica Tandy
in The Birds, Hitchcock told her to
play it kind of bitchy, Hedren says. At
Tandys request after watching the dailies,
Hitchcock re-shot it so Hedren could play
it more compassionately.
I loved Jessica Tandy, Hedren says.
All the actors were really wonderful to me
on that, absolutely wonderful.
Hedren says shed long been a
Hitchcock fan and Spellbound,
Rebecca and The Trouble With Harry
are her favorites aside from her two.
She remembers a story meeting in
which the famously ambiguous Birds
ending was discussed. Her favorite
proposal was shots of famous monuments
around the world, all covered in birds.
Hitchcock historians have said this was too
expensive to pull off.
I think he just liked to leave people
wondering what happened to them as
they drove off, Hedren says.
Had things not deteriorated on
Marnie, Hedren says Mary Rose,
a ghost story about a woman who
disappears for 30 years and comes back
with no memory of being gone, would
have been their next collaboration.
He gave me the play to read, Hedren
recalls. Oh, I loved it. My daughter owned
it for awhile. Whats difcult was how do
you show a woman as a ghost? How do you
do that visually? That became the reason
it wasnt done with or without me. Now, of
course, they could do it very easily.
Some of the thorny Hitchcock/Hedren
legend has gotten misconstrued, the
actress says. An oft-told story that the
director sent Hedrens daughter Melanie,
then a child, a doll of her mother in a cofn,
has been wildly exaggerated. Yes, there
was a doll and yes, it was sent in a pine
box, but it was merely a container in which
to ship it. A makeup man on Marnie had
made the doll and Hedren says shes sure
Hitch had no intent of upsetting the child.
Im not sure whatever happened to
that doll, Hedren says.
Though she no longer interacts
personally with lions and tigers, she did for
years. Both she and Melanie were injured
making Roar and she admits our
thinking was very different then.
There isnt one good thing about
owning an animal like this, Hedren says.
Its hideously expensive and hideously
dangerous. Theyre apex predators at
the top of the food chain. Having them
around is like having a loaded gun on the
coffee table. Would anybody do that? Not
in their right mind.
Hedren says shes never surprised when
she hears of attacks. Even entertainers
with long relationships with big cats, like
gay former Las Vegas headliner Roy Horn
(Sigfried & Roy).
I cant tell you how many lions and
tigers I bottle raised, they slept with me,
they can be as caring and loving as a dog
so you come to trust the dog, but you try
that with a lion or a tiger and theyll turn
on you in a split second. They just have
that instinct and it will always be there.
Famously discarded by Hitchcock,
Hedren, in some ways, has had the last
laugh. This weekends BPSOS award is just
the latest of several recent accolades. She
was honored by the Hollywood Chamber
of Commerce in May, at a tribute to
leading ladies at the Smithsonian and,
also this weekend, was slated to receive
the Women Together Award from the
United Nations.
Of the BPSOS award, Hedren says shes
deeply honored.
This is something that I am so surprised
about, she says. Not just the award, but
so surprised at this enormous enterprise
that has happened. I just wanted to
help 20 women I loved very much. It just
became so much more than that.
Actress made peace with her Hitchcock years early on
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Identify, recruit, organize, and retain volunteers
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