Volume 43, Issue 48 - September 21, 2012

Supportive candidates lead eld in
host of November races

By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
Nearly all candidates supportive on LGBT issues
are expected to win their races in the Nov. 6 election
for seven seats on the D.C. City Council, the citys
non-voting seat in Congress and ve seats on the
D.C. school board.
But LGBT activists say they are joining fellow
citizens across the city in watching with concern the
unfolding ethics-related questions surrounding D.C.
Council member Michael Brown (I-At-Large), a long-
time friend and supporter of the LGBT community.
Revelations this month that more than $113,000 have
gone missing from Browns 2012 campaign coffers and
a Washington Post report that Brown had his drivers
license suspended ve times over the past eight years
due to trafc violations have fueled speculation that
Browns re-election bid could be in jeopardy.
The fact that his main opponent, David Grosso, is
also supportive on LGBT issues prompted Gay and
Lesbian Activists Alliance Vice President Rick Rosendall
to note that D.C.s LGBT community has been blessed
with highly supportive political candidates and elected
ofcials for the past 20 years or longer.
Its a luxury to be choosing between LGBT-friendly
candidates, he said. Its a luxury to have to choose
among friends. Here in D.C., most candidates are gay
friendly. We should remember how lucky we are.
Two openly gay candidates are running for seats
this year on the D.C. State Board of Education. One
of them, Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood
Commissioner Jack Jacobson, is running unopposed
for the Ward 2 Board of Education seat.
Longtime Ward 8 gay rights and community activist
Phil Pannell is making a second try at capturing the
Ward 8 school board seat. Pannell ran and lost his
bid for the seat last year in a special election after the
incumbent died. Pannell is running against his former
opponent and now incumbent Trayon Tray White,
who has received the backing of Ward 8 Council
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High court may take up
DOMA, Prop 8 cases;
announcement expected
next week
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
All eyes will be on the U.S. Supreme
Court next week when it could announce
whether it will take up high-prole cases
challenging the Defense of Marriage Act
and Californias Proposition 8 and the
results of those decisions could have an
immediate impact on the marriage rights
of same-sex couples.
On Monday, justices are scheduled to
hold their rst conference to decide cases
they will consider when they reconvene in
October following their summer recess.
Among the cases docketed for this meeting
is federal litigation challenging Prop 8, now
known as Hollingsworth v. Perry, and one of
the cases challenging Section 3 of DOMA,
Windsor v. United States.
Justices can decide to take up a case,
decline to hear it or put off the decision
on considering the lawsuit for a future
conference. It takes a vote of four justices
to grant a writ of certiorari (to take up a
case) but the decision will be put off if any
one justice wants more time to decide.
The decision on the Prop 8 case is
of particular note because if the court
decides against taking up the case and
lets stand an appeals court decision
against the same-sex marriage ban, gay
couples would once again have the right
to marry in the nations most populous
state immediately following a mandate
from the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals.
But if the Supreme Court decides to
take up the case, the ban would remain
in effect until the justices make their own
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Gay and lesbian couples have been marrying in a handful of states for years but without
federal benets or recognition of their unions. Will couples soon be celebrating again? The
Supreme Court could take on several related cases after it returns next week.
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D.C.s gay-friendly election
Hypocrite?
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Calif. marriage ban is
also assisting Romneys
presidential campaign.
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Man charged in killing of gay photographer
Baltimore police have arrested a North Carolina man in connection with a double
shooting last month in Mount Vernon that left a gay aspiring photographer dead.
Anthony Guglielmi of the Baltimore Police Department told the Washington Blade
that Quinton Bass, 25, of Raleigh, N.C., was arrested on gun charges on Aug. 31.
He said ofcers who had been dispatched to patrol the neighborhood in the weeks
after the Aug. 10 shooting that left Alexander Alex Ulrich, Jr., dead and community
activist Lawrence R. Peterson critically injured took Bass, who has a criminal record,
into custody after they found him and four others drinking alcohol in East Mount
Vernon Park.
Patrol ofcers gave that information to the homicide detective based on what was
captured during an interview that corroborated what Homicide had, said Guglielmi.
Bass allegedly shot Ulrich and Peterson during what Guglielmi described as
a robbery as they stood on the front steps of a building near the Belvedere Hotel
on East Chase Street. Guglielmi told the Blade in the days after the crime that it
appeared Ulrichs sexual orientation did not play a role in the crime.
He noted a third unidentied person was also robbed during the incident.
MICHAEL K. LAVERS
Gay Mens HIV/AIDS Awareness Day nears
The head of the National Association of People with AIDS stressed that he feels it
remains important to honor those who have lost their battle with the virus.
We deserve to have our own day because we have to commemorate, said Frank
Oldham, Jr., as he discussed National Gay Mens HIV/AIDS Awareness Day that
will take place on Sept. 27. For me, AIDS has always been the Holocaust for gay
men, gay men of color. It doesnt matter. This for our community is the worst thing
that happened to us, so Im very proud that we have National Gay Mens HIV/AIDS
Awareness Day.
NAPWA will mark National Gay Mens HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which it rst
organized in 2008, with a daylong conference at the Barbara Jordan Conference
Center at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in downtown Washington on Sept.
28. It will feature panels on gay men and HIV/AIDS policy, the impact that the 2010
health care reform law that President Obama signed has had on those with the virus,
dating among those who are positive and other topics. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray is
also scheduled to hold a press conference with NAPWA outside the Wilson Building
to commemorate National Gay Mens HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
Oldham noted that NAPWA has also invited Human Rights Campaign staffers,
gay doctors with HIV and other HIV/AIDS service providers to participate in the
conference. He said his organization has also invited California Congresswomen
Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters, Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, gay U.S.
Reps. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Dr. Gregory Pappas of
the D.C. Department of Healths HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Disease
and Tuberculosis Administration to take part.
HIV/AIDS activists and others will also release balloons in Dupont Circle to
commemorate those who were lost to the virus on the day itself.
This day is important because of our history, said Oldham, who lived in New York
Citys Chelsea and Greenwich Village neighborhoods during the height of the HIV/
AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Its as important as Stonewall because its a mark on our
history.
MICHAEL K. LAVERS
OMalley attends NYC marriage fundraiser
Gov. Martin OMalley was among those who attended a star-studded New York
City fundraiser for the campaign to defend Marylands same-sex marriage law last
Thursday.
The battle is on in Maryland and we all need to get up for this ght, said OMalley
at the St. James Hotel in lower Manhattan. The Baltimore Sun posted a video of the
governors remarks on its website. There are Democrats here, there are Republicans
here. There are black people here. There are white people here. There are people
from every strain of life in our country here in this great city of New York and the same
is true in Maryland. We are going to succeed only if we help one another.
Gay MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts, actors Edward Norton and Josh Charles, gay
director John Waters, supermodel Hilary Rhoda, former professional hockey player
Sean Avery and comedian Sandra Bernhard were among those who paid between
$250 and $25,000 to attend the event.
It was a great event, said Josh Levin, campaign director of Marylanders for
Marriage Equality. It was great to have so many Maryland natives come out and join
us.
Brian Ellner, who directed the Human Rights Campaigns efforts in support of New
Yorks same-sex marriage bill that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law in June 2011,
co-organized the fundraiser. He pointed to what he described to the Washington
Blade after the event as tremendous energy and great turnout
The New York momentum is real and focused on winning in all four states in
November, added Ellner, referring to efforts to defend same-sex marriage laws or
defeat proposed constitutional amendments to dene marriage as between a man
and a woman in Maine, Maryland, Washington and Minnesota respectfully.
Former Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman, who also co-hosted
the fundraiser, agreed.
It was a great, well attended and very diverse event that brought both people who
have supported marriage equality in the past, as well as new folks, he told the Blade.
Levin declined to comment on the amount of money raised; Blade reporters were
denied credentials to the event, though other mainstream outlets, including the
Baltimore Sun, were allowed in.
MICHAEL K. LAVERS
Vandals target Blade, Metro Weekly boxes
D.C. police continue to investigate several incidents of vandalism that have
damaged the distribution boxes of LGBT publications in the city.
Lynne Brown, Washington Blade publisher, said the newspaper began to receive
these reports in February with some readers claiming they witnessed the vandalism
as it happened. She said that the unidentied vandal or vandals have also stolen
newspaper copies from these boxes throughout Dupont and Logan Circles this
reporter observed empty Blade boxes last week on 17th Street, N.W., between P and
Q Streets, N.W., and along Connecticut Avenue near Dupont Circle hours after that
weeks issue was delivered to them.
Thanks to all who have called, written and texted me their locations after witnessing
the events, said Brown, who noted that she remains condent that the Metropolitan
Police Departments Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit will apprehend those responsible for
the vandalism. A big thanks to Peggy and the Caf Berlin folks on Capitol Hill and
our tireless distribution company Media Point LLC. Those guys restock and repair as
fast as humanly possible.
The vandals have also targeted Metro Weekly boxes in Dupont Circle and
surrounding neighborhoods.
The news magazine reported last week that the latest incidents occurred just hours
after it distributed its latest issue when rotting food and what it described as human
and animal waste were found in its boxes. This reporter observed banana peels and
other garbage placed in Metro Weekly boxes in front of the CVS on the corner of 17th
and P Streets, N.W., and near Annies two blocks north last week.
MICHAEL K. LAVERS
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LOCAL NEWS SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 11
Gay photographer ALEX ULRICH was allegedly shot to death by Quinton Bass during a robbery.
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Lesbian chef relieved
after protesters forced
Pride week closure
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board released a decision last week
allowing lesbian chef Jamie Leeds to
expand the outdoor seating and operating
hours of her popular Dupont Circle area
restaurant Hanks Oyster Bar.
The boards decision appears to have
ended a two-year dispute in which a group
of six neighborhood activists sought to block
the restaurants application to expand its
outdoor patio to accommodate 20 additional
customers, an increase from 20 to 40.
It feels like such a relief, Leeds told the
Washington City Paper. Were thankful
that its over and that we can move on.
Hanks bills itself as a neighborhood
restaurant rather than a gay bar, and
Leeds and her supporters have said
opponents did not appear to be targeting
the establishment because its gay owned.
But D.C. nightlife advocates, both gay
and straight, said Leeds emerged as one
of the rst neighborhood businesses with
a liquor license to rally public support
behind her challenge to a longstanding
city policy that allows just ve citizens
to protest a liquor license and impose
a voluntary agreement to restrict the
hours of operation and prohibit the lateral
expansion of a bar or restaurant.
At the time Hanks rst applied for the
expanded patio space in 2010 a group of
six citizens, one of whom didnt live in the
immediate neighborhood, invoked their
legal right to protest the proposal. The
Gang of Six, as nightlife advocates called
them, acknowledged that no problems
had been reported with Hanks during its
ve years in business. But they said the
termination of a voluntary agreement
would set a harmful precedent for future
businesses that did cause problems in the
neighborhood. The six citizens argued that
as a matter of principle, they would oppose
ending all voluntary agreements, including
the one signed by Hanks ve years earlier.
The dispute received widespread media
attention in June of this year when one
of the citizens opposed to Hanks patio
expansion reportedly called the liquor
board to report that Hanks was planning to
use the additional patio space on the day of
the citys Capital Pride Parade, which passes
next to the restaurant on 17th Street.
City inspectors responded on the night
before the parade by ordering Hanks to
shut down the expanded patio space,
citing a court order obtained by the
opponents several weeks earlier.
The ongoing harassment by this small
band of residents is astonishing and the
timing of this individuals complaint before
the annual celebration is despicable, Leeds
wrote in an open letter to the community.
Leeds called for the repeal of the law
that allows as few as ve citizens to contest
liquor license applications.
She said that at the time she rst
opened Hanks Oyster Bar in 2005 at
1624 Q St., N.W., in the heart of the
17th Street business and restaurant
district, she was pressured by some of
the same nearby residents into signing
the voluntary agreement. Among other
things, the agreement prevented Hanks
from laterally expanding its seating and
occupancy. The agreement also required
that the restaurant close both its indoor
and outdoor space at midnight.
Leeds said that had she resisted signing
the agreement the neighborhood activists
pushing it threatened to continue their legal
protest against her license application,
forcing her to spend large sums in legal
fees and delaying for months if not more
than a year her ability to open for business.
Five years later, when Leeds learned
that an adjacent restaurant was closing,
she applied to the ABC Board to have
her voluntary agreement terminated to
enable her to expand into the adjacent
space, which would allow for more
outdoor seating. She noted that in her
ve years of operating Hanks she had yet
to encounter any complaints or problems
with nearby residents.
The Dupont Circle Advisory
Neighborhood Commission quickly
approved Leeds request and forwarded
its decision to the ABC Board, which has
authority to make the nal decision on
liquor related matters.
The board approved the request, saying
that various changes, including a change
in zoning regulations for 17th Street and
the elimination of a moratorium on new
liquor licenses, met the legal requirements
for voiding a voluntary agreement.
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Hanks wins ght to
expand outdoor patio
Hanks Oyster Bar may now expand its outdoor
seating from 20 to 40, though it lost out on an
entire summers worth of business.
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Polls show progress for Baldwin
MADISON, Wis. The U.S. Senate campaign for Tammy Baldwin released
the results of an internal poll conducted recently that show the Wisconsin
congresswoman in a slight lead over the states former Republican Gov. Tommy
Thompson.
According to The National Review the campaign reports that Baldwin leads
Thompson 50 percent to 45 percent, with an additional 5 percent of voters
undecided. The lead, however, falls within the polls margin of error.
Recently, Thompson staffers have come under re for using anti-gay tactics to
attack Baldwin, the only openly lesbian member of the U.S. House. Notably, a
Thompson staffer emailed to media outlets a video of Baldwin at Madison LGBT
Pride, with a comment reading Clearly, theres no one better positioned to talk
heartland values than Tammy.
Philly to name street for gay rights pioneer
PHILADELPHIA An LGBT rights pioneer will be honored in her hometown
when Philadelphia dedicates Barbara Gittings Way on Oct. 1, in the heart of the
gay neighborhood at the intersection of Locust and 13th Streets.
Gittings, along with Washingtons Frank Kameny, is considered one of the early
key organizers of the LGBT civil rights movement prior to the 1969 Stonewall Riots,
working with Kameny to plan marches on Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell
in Philadelphia, as well as to pressure the American Psychological Association to
remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. The dedication kicks off
LGBT History Month for Philadelphias LGBT community, a celebration organized
nationally by Philadelphias Equality Forum.
New app helps trans users nd bathrooms
LOS ANGELES A new app just released for the iPhone allows users to nd
gender-free bathrooms near them.
TranSquat uses geo-location along with the safe2pee directory launched
earlier this year to document trans-safe bathrooms across the country as
well as user-submitted locations. According to the website Queerty, the app is
developed by transmasculine programmer, Billy Bolt, who explains on the apps
Facebook page that proceeds will go toward Bolts sexual reassignment surgery.
amfAR donates $800,000 to nding AIDS cure
WASHINGTON The Foundation for AIDS Research has invested in three
efforts to cure AIDS, according to POZ Magazine.
The three grants are going to teams that are studying cases that have shown
promise in terms of eradicating the virus that causes AIDS. Recipients include a
team studying the effect of an FDA-approved drug used for treating alcoholism
that has shown an ability to get dormant virus cells out of latency, enabling HIV
drugs to better attack the virus. A second team is researching two cases similar
to the case known as the Berlin Patient, in which a man undergoing a cancer
treatment has shown signs the virus has been eradicated from his system. A third
recipient team is studying adolescents born with HIV who now test HIV negative
after being put on AIDS drugs shortly after birth.
LGBT groups pledge to help dream generation
SAN FRANCISCO The National Center for Lesbian Rights, is leading a
group of LGBT organizations, community centers, clinics and AIDS charities in
contributing $75,000 to a fund to help support the legal fees of adolescents
born outside of the U.S. but raised here after being brought here as infants and
toddlers.
A new program developed by the White House called Deferred Action for
Childhood arrivals, allows these youths known as Dreamers after the DREAM
Act, to apply for work permits. The money from NCLR and groups like New
Yorks Gay Mens Health Crisis will help pay the fees for these permits.
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Chen questioned on
judicial modesty, but LGBT
issues dont come up
By CHRIS JOHNSON
A lesbian federal court nominee faced
questions during her nomination hearing
on Wednesday about her history in party
politics and judicial temperament, but
sexual orientation or LGBT issues didnt
come into play.
Pamela Ki Mai Chen, whom President
Obama nominated in August for a seat
on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of New York, took questions
during her hearing before the Senate
Judiciary Committee on a panel of ve
judicial nominees.
If conrmed, Chen would join four
other openly gay judges currently sitting
on the federal bench and be the rst
Asian-American member of the LGBT
community to sit on the federal court.
Perhaps the most the pointed question
came from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa),
the ranking Republican, who asked about
her work in party politics. The senator said
that there wasnt anything wrong with a
judicial nominee having this history, but
questioned whether it would interfere with
her ability to rule impartially on cases.
Absolutely, I can assure you that politics
will play no role in my decision making were
I fortunate enough to be conrmed, Chen
said. The assurances I can give you are based
on my career as a public servant and working
for the Department of Justice. No one
accused me of ever making a decision based
on any kind of political ideology, and I think my
record speaks for itself over the last 20 years.
No questions came up during the
hearing about sexual orientation or how
shed rule if presented with an LGBT-related
case. Those issues are also largely absent
from the questionnaire she submitted to
the committee, which largely discusses her
casework as a federal prosecutor and her
focus on prosecuting human trafcking.
The only LGBT reference found in the
questionnaire was her membership in the
National LGBT Bar Association.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who
recommended the Chen nomination
to Obama, introduced the nominee to
the committee as he chaired the panel
in the absence of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-
Vt.). Schumer made a special mention of
Chens partner, Amy Chester, as well as her
partners sister, Sara Glasser.
Schumer touted Chens work as a
U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of
New York, where she has served since
1998 now as chief of the ofces civil
rights litigation unit. The senator said
shes prosecuted all manner of public
corruption, gang, narcotics, and terrorism
cases, but he particularly praised her work
against human trafcking, saying shes
become internationally renowned for her
tough and important prosecutions.
Ms. Chen is, all in all, not just a career
prosecutor although that in itself is
a high calling but a person whose
lifelong dedication to justice, and to
simply doing the right thing, bespeaks
a perfect temperament for the bench,
Schumer said. Anyone who knows her
whom you talk to in New York will attest
to this quality, and I look forward to many
more years of Ms. Chens public service.
Keeping her opening remarks concise,
Chen recognized her partner seated
behind her and family watching via the
webcast in addition to thanking Obama
for nominating her for the position.
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President Obama in August for a seat on the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
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that Romney will
defend marriage
By CHRIS JOHNSON
Republican ofcials including the
partys vice presidential nominee
weaved opposition to same-sex marriage
into their speeches during an annual
conservative conference in D.C. last week
as they criticized President Obama and
reafrmed support for traditional values.
Speakers at the 2012 Values Voters
Summit, which was hosted at the Omni
Shoreham Hotel by the anti-gay Family
Research Council, addressed an estimated
2,500 attendees who cheered references
to prohibiting marriage rights for gay
couples and making abortion illegal.
Perhaps the most high-prole speech
at the three-day summit came from GOP
vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan,
who made a reference to marriage when
touting the values of the candidate at the
top of the ticket: Mitt Romney.
We can be condent in the rightness
of our cause, and also in the integrity and
readiness of the man who leads it, Ryan
said. He is a solid and trustworthy, faithful
and honorable man. Not only a defender
of marriage, he offers an example of
marriage at its best. Not only a ne
businessman, hes a ne man, worthy of
leading our country and ready to lead the
great turnaround we have spent four years
waiting for.
Ryans description of Romney as a
defender of marriage directly lifts from
his speech at the Republican National
Convention.
But marriage didnt make up a signicant
portion of Ryans remarks. Abortion and
the Obama administrations decision to
mandate birth control as part of health
insurance policies were more prominent.
In the Clinton years, the stated goal
was to make abortion safe, legal and rare,
Ryan said. But that was a different time
and a different president. Now, apparently,
the Obama-Biden ticket stands for an
absolute, unqualied right to abortion at
any time, under any circumstance, and
even at taxpayer expense.
Twice during Ryans speech, protesters
interrupted and shouted. The second
protester said something about Romneys
now infamous remarks that Corporations
are people, my friend before being
escorted out of the room. In a YouTube
video posted after the speech of one of
the protesters being taken away, she was
shown decrying corporate inuence over
the national political parties.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor
(R-Va.) was also among the speakers at
the summit and talked of Republican
support for traditional marriage
because of the institutions ability to
keep people out of poverty.
That is why we believe in traditional
marriage, because marriage, more than
any government program ever has or ever
will, has lifted up people out of poverty,
even those who felt there was no hope,
Cantor said. Marriage has proven to
be that formula, which has been more
successful at allowing for that pursuit of
happiness. And that is why we stand tall
and stand proud for traditional marriage.
Cantor is among the House Republicans
who sit on the Bipartisan Legal Advisory
Group and voted to take up defense of
the Defense of Marriage Act in court after
the Obama administration announced it
would no longer defend the law.
Romney didnt make a live appearance
at the Values Voters Summit, but spoke
to attendees via video. During the video,
Romney talked about his commitment to
social issues, saying his administration will
defend marriage, not try to redene it.
But Romneys name didnt often come
up in speeches during the day except
for anomalies such as Ryans speech
and the vice presidential nominees
introduction by conservative pundit Bill
Bennett as others took the opportunity
on stage to criticize Obama without
praising his opponent.
Wayne Besen, executive director of
Truth Wins Out, attended the summit and
took note of the general absence of praise
for Romney.
Youd think that Ronald Reagan was
running with Paul Ryan, said Besen,
whos gay. Theres almost no mention
of Romney except in Bennetts speech.
Theyre really not enthusiastic at all.
Besen also said the emphasis on
defending marriage and supporting
traditional marriage were coded ways for
speakers to communicate to conservatives
they dont support the LGBT community.
I wouldnt call it quite red meat, I would
call it perhaps a red meat appetizer,
Besen said. [Theyre] talking about
supporting traditional marriage, but its
not outright gay bashing. Theyre clearly
sending signals to their voters, but they
dont want to look like theyre attacking
LGBT people, and theyre intolerant.
LGBT and progressive groups criticized
the event and said public ofcials were
participating in a conference hosted by an
extreme right-wing organization. Earlier
this week, several groups, including the
Human Rights Campaign, sent a letter to
public ofcials urging them not to attend,
although the calls didnt seem to have an
impact on the schedule.
Michael Keegan, president of
progressive advocacy group People For
the American Way, said in a statement
that Ryan sends a clear message by
participating in the summit that hes
decided to embrace the entrenched
bigotry advocated by the farthest of the
far right.
The Family Research Council and
the American Family Association are
not mainstream groups, Keegan
continued. The FRC frequently and
falsely links homosexuality to pedophilia.
The AFA has claimed that gay men were
responsible for the Holocaust. Both have
defended laws at home and abroad that
criminalize homosexuality. These are not
innocent differences of opinion; they are
full-scale efforts to smear and denigrate
LGBT Americans.
Rep. Tim Hueslkamp (R-Kansas), a
freshman Tea Party lawmaker who this
year submitted a DOMA amendment to
the House oor, had stern words for the
Obama administration over its refusal to
defend DOMA, misstating the action the
administration took by telling his audience
Obama isnt enforcing the law anymore.
Theyre using your taxpayer money to
undermine marriage in court, after court,
after court, Hueslkamp said. Last time I
checked, the Constitution doesnt allow a
president to pick and choose what law
to enforce. Theyre using those dollars, your
taxpayer money, to undo your very values.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, co-chair
of the Republican Party platform drafting
committee, praised the Republican Party
platform language opposing same-sex
marriage and his own states decision to adopt
a constitutional amendment banning same-
sex marriage, saying the concept seems
foreign to the Obama administration.
We were very clear that we strongly
disagree with a president who will not
enforce the DOMA law to be able to
protect traditional marriage, McDonnell
said. Weve already adopted that in
the constitution of Virginia; in fact, every
state I think 30 of them now that have
actually voted in their states to protect
traditional marriage have done so. And
so embracing that concept as a national
idea should not be a foreign concept, but
it appears to be to this administration.
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Not only a defender of marriage, he offers an
example of marriage at its best, said Rep. PAUL
RYAN of Mitt Romney.
A group of pro-LGBT protesters afliated with the group GetEQUAL demonstrated against the Values
Voters conference over its anti-gay message last week.
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Attorney TED OLSON will help prep Paul Ryan
for his debate against Vice President Joe Biden.
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ght to overturn Calif.
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A lead attorney in the federal lawsuit that
would overturn Californias Proposition
8 is facing criticism for assisting the
Mitt Romney campaign with debate
preparation despite the tickets support
for policies that would undo his work to
advance marriage equality.
Ted Olson, whos been litigating
against Prop 8 on behalf of the American
Foundation for Equal Rights, is set to play
the role of Vice President Joseph Biden
in debate practice against Republican
vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan.
Buzzfeed and Politico reported the news
late last week, which was conrmed to
the Washington Blade by Brendan Buck,
a Ryan spokesperson working on the
Romney campaign.
Joe Biden has been in elected ofce
for more than 40 years, Buck said. There
are few people in politics with more
experience debating the issues than
Joe Biden, so we are taking this process
seriously. Mr. Olson is one of the most
skilled, intelligent, and successful litigators
in America just the kind of opponent
needed to prepare the congressman for
Mr. Biden.
Buck said Olson will receive no
compensation from the Romney campaign
for his role impersonating Biden as part of
debate preparation.
Olsons involvement with the Romney
campaign surprised and alarmed one
LGBT group aligned with the Democratic
Party.
Jerame Davis, executive director
of the National Stonewall Democrats,
said Olsons assistance to the Romney
campaign demonstrates the former
solicitor general is subject to the
same cognitive dissonance as other
conservatives who vote against their own
interests in favor of ideological purity.
After he has spent as much time,
money, and reputation on overturning
Prop 8 as he has, its shocking to learn
that Ted Olson would lift a nger to help
the Romney-Ryan ticket during debate
prep, Davis said. The Romney-Ryan
ticket stands completely counter to the
goals of AFER and Ted Olsons stated
belief that Prop 8 should be overturned.
I have always been concerned that the
architect of Bush v. Gore was one of the
lead attorneys in the ght to overturn Prop
8, but I honestly never expected Olson to
so blatantly contradict his own argument
by supporting a ticket that would stand
squarely in opposition to what he calls one
of the most important cases of his career.
Olson, who served as U.S. solicitor
general under former President George
W. Bush, isnt a stranger to advocating
on behalf of Republican presidential
candidates. Olson was the lead attorney
representing the Bush candidacy in Bush
v. Gore, the lawsuit that helped Bush win
his rst term in the White House. David
Boies, whos partnering with Olson in
the Prop 8 lawsuit, represented then-
Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore
in the lawsuit.
Since his time with the Bush
administration, Olson has come out in
favor of marriage equality calling his
work against Prop 8 the highlight of
my life and has spoken before LGBT
groups about his support for same-sex
marriage. As a result of the litigation that
Olson has spearheaded, a U.S. district
court in California and the U.S. Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled against
Californias marriage ban. On Sept. 20,
Olson is set to be a keynote speaker at the
Log Cabin Republicans Spirit of Lincoln
dinner in D.C.
Romney and Ryan back a U.S.
constitutional amendment banning same-
sex marriage throughout the country. In
2008, Romney donated $10,000 through a
political action committee to the anti-gay
National Organization for Marriage as part
of efforts to pass Prop 8.
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member Marion Barry (D).
A third openly gay candidate, D.C.
libertarian activist and Realtor Bruce
Majors, is running as a Libertarian candidate
against incumbent D.C. Congressional
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.).
Norton, who is running for her twelfth
term, is considered among the most LGBT
supportive members of Congress and is
highly popular in the LGBT community.
She is considered the strong favorite to
win re-election. Majors has acknowledged
that his chances of defeating Norton
are slim. He said his main objective is to
promote the Libertarian Party cause and to
capture at least 7,500 votes, which would
give the Libertarian Party an automatic
place on the ballot in future D.C. elections.
Leaders of the citys three main LGBT
political organizations GLAA, the
Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, and
D.C. Log Cabin Republicans said this
week they would not be taking an ofcial
position on an investigation into the
Brown campaigns missing funds.
Stein Club President Lateefah Williams,
D.C. Log Cabin President Robert Turner, and
GLAA Vice President Rick Rosendall said
their respective groups also would not be
taking an ofcial position on three proposed
D.C. City Charter amendments that will be
on the ballot in the November election. The
amendments were placed on the ballot as
part of a sweeping city ethics reform bill
approved by the Council last December.
The Charter amendments, if approved
by the voters and later cleared by
Congress, will give the D.C. Council
authority to vote by a 5/6 majority to
remove from ofce a fellow Council
member or a sitting mayor if the mayor or
Council member is convicted of or pleads
guilty to a felony charge. One of the
amendments would also give the Council
authority to remove from ofce a Council
member that demonstrates a gross
failure to meet the highest standards of
conduct expected of an elected ofcial.
This is something we will leave to
our individual members to decide, said
Williams, who added that the club might
consider taking a position on the charter
amendments as well as on Council member
Browns ethics probe if members raise the
issues at upcoming club meetings.
Of the seven incumbent Council
members on the ballot in November,
political observers say Brown could
become the only one in jeopardy of losing
his seat, although most political insiders
say they expect him to win unless more
damaging revelations surface.
Brown is running in a contest in which
two at-large Council seats are at play, with
one of them earmarked only for a non-
majority party candidate. With Democrats
being the majority party in the city, the
seat Brown holds and is seeking to retake
must go to a non-Democrat.
Council member Vincent Orange (D-At-
Large), the incumbent in the so-called
Democratic seat, is considered the favorite
to win re-election in November. Orange, a
former Ward 5 Council member, came out
against same-sex marriage in past years but
has since said he changed his mind and fully
supports the citys same-sex marriage law.
Grosso worked on the staff of pro-LGBT
former Council member Sharon Ambrose
(D-Ward 6) and is a former staffer to
Norton. He has expressed support for
LGBT issues during his campaign for
Council this year.
In other Council races, acting Council
Chair Phil Mendelson (D-At-Large) is
considered the strong favorite to win
election as permanent Council chair in a
Nov. 6 special election to ll the unexpired
term of Council Chair Kwame Brown
(D-At-Large), who resigned earlier this
year after being indicted on corruption
related charges.
Mendelson is being challenged by
Democrat Calvin Gurley, who expressed
mixed views on LGBT issues during a bid for
a Council seat two years ago. Hes also being
challenged by Republican Mary Brooks
Beatty, who has been endorsed by D.C. Log
Cabin Republicans; and Statehood Green
Party candidate Ann Wilcox, an attorney
who has represented gay activist and former
Army Lt. Dan Choi after Choi was arrested
in one of his White House protests against
Dont Ask, Dont Tell.
Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward
2), another longtime supporter of LGBT
rights, is running unopposed as is Council
member Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4), another
strong supporter of LGBT equality.
Former D.C. Mayor and Council
member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) and
Council member Yvette Alexander
(D-Ward 7) both considered strong
supporters of the LGBT community in past
years lost support from many of their
LGBT allies in 2009 when the two voted
against the same-sex marriage law.
The law passed by a vote of 11 to 2,
with Barry and Alexander emerging as
the only ones to vote no. Both said their
constituents were strongly opposed to
same-sex marriage. Both also told LGBT
activists they remain strong supporters of
LGBT equality on nearly all other issues. At
an endorsement meeting for the Stein Club
earlier this year, Barry pointed out that he
was among the nations strong politicians
backing gay rights during his years as D.C.
mayor in the 1980s and 1990s.
Although the Stein Club had endorsed
Barry and Alexander four years ago, Stein
members chose not to endorse the two
Council members this year. Most political
observers, however, consider Barry and
Alexander the odds on favorites to win
re-election.
The two are being challenged by the
two co-founders of Peaceoholics, a city
anti-gang youth organization that has
received millions of dollars in city funding.
Co-founder Ron Moten is running as a
Republican against Alexander. The other
co-founder, Jauhar Abraham, is running
as an independent against Barry. Mouten
has pointed out that Peaceoholics has
provided support services to LGBT youths
afliated with Checkit, a group with mostly
gay and transgender members.
In the race for the citys so-called
shadow seat for the U.S. House of
Representatives, the Stein Club has
endorsed Democrat Nate Bennett-
Fleming, who has expressed strong
support for LGBT issues. He is being
challenged by Statehood Green Party
candidate G. Lee Aikin.
In the contest for the shadow U.S. Senate
seat, D.C. Log Cabin-endorsed Nelson
Rimensnyder is running as a Republican
against Democratic incumbent Michael
D. Brown, who is unrelated to Council
member Michael A. Brown. Statehood
Green Party candidate David Schwartzman
is also competing for the seat. The city
created the shadow congressional seats
as unpaid advocacy positions to push for
D.C. statehood and D.C. congressional
voting rights. The positions have no voting
rights or other privileges in Congress.
At least 20 out gays, and possibly far more,
are running for seats to the citys Advisory
Neighborhood Commissions, which were
created as citizen advisory bodies to
assist D.C. agencies neighborhood issues
such as trash collection, crime, and liquor
licenses for bars and restaurants. There are
296 total seats.
The Washington Blade will provide a
full report of the LGBT ANC candidates
as they become fully identied in the next
few weeks.
Plenty of LGBT-friendly candidates in D.C.s election
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Its All About
ChAnge!
Event marks one year
since repeal of Dont Ask
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS
mlavers@washblade.com
NEW YORK More than 1,000 people
gathered at the Intrepid Sea, Air and
Space Museum in Manhattan on Tuesday
to commemorate the rst anniversary of
the repeal of the militarys ban on openly
gay and lesbian service members.
Servicemembers Legal Defense
Network, OutServe and the Interbank
Roundtable Committee honored former
chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike
Mullen for the role he played in the repeal
of Dont Ask, Dont Tell. Advocates
note that his testimony before the Senate
Armed Services Committee in February
2010 in support of openly gay and lesbian
service members was a pivotal moment in
the ght against the Clinton-era law.
President Obama signed the repeal bill
into law later that year after it passed with
bi-partisan support.
One of the things I pass on and I
know you know this is its actually pretty
easy to stand up for what you believe in,
said Mullen, who attended the event with
his wife Deborah. Its pretty easy to stand
up and represent the values you have held
close for your entire life and be fortunate
enough to be in a leadership position
where that value actually crosses over in a
time and a place and in a way where you
as a leader can really make a difference.
So I feel blessed to [have been] there and
blessed to [have represented] all of us in
the United States military at a time that
made such a difference in so many lives.
Mullen, who retired from the U.S. Navy
last September, further noted that 70,000
service members remain in Afghanistan
nearly 11 years after the war began after
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Keep them in our thoughts and our
prayers, he said. Theyre courageous
young people who have made such a
difference as you have, so this celebration
tonight is one of great gratitude.
ABC newswoman Barbara Walters, who
emceed the event, described Mullen as
her hero before she applauded gay
service members and those who fought to
repeal Dont Ask, Dont Tell.
You have fought for something that is
right the end of the Dont Ask, Dont
Tell policy, so tonight is about history.
Tonight is also honoring each and every
one of you who has served our nation,
she said. Tonight for the rst time in
American history, you have the chance to
stand before this leader, an admiral, the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
the man who helped you on this journey
and we all simply say, thank you sir.
As the Washington Blade reported late
last month, U.S. Marine Corps Commandant
Gen. James Amos echoed other military
commanders who have said the integration
of openly gay men and lesbians into the
armed forces has gone smoothly since the
repeal of Dont Ask, Dont Tell became
ofcial on Sept. 20, 2011.
In how its affected the military, its
only been positive, retired U.S. Army
Brigadier Gen. John Adams told the Blade
before Mullen spoke. The military works,
the services work, theres been zero effect
on combat cohesion as some people said
there would be.
Josh Seefried, co-director of OutServe,
agreed.
People can go to work and feel like
they dont have to look over their shoulder
anymore, he said when asked how things
have changed since the Pentagon allowed
gays and lesbians to serve openly. Its a
lot easier to go to work and not have to
worry about losing their career they love
and being red.
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ruling in the lawsuit. Its possible the court
could make a decision saying lower courts
erred in overturning Prop 8. For the same-
sex marriage ban to come to an end at
that point, another lawsuit coming up
from the district courts or repeal of Prop 8
at the ballot would be necessary.
Jennifer Pizer, legal director for the
Williams Institute, said while she thinks
the court is likely to take up cases related
to DOMA, its a much harder guess
whether justices will decide to hear the
Prop 8 litigation.
There might well be four justices that
disagree with what the Ninth Circuit held,
but I think it would be challenging for them
probably as it is for everybody else
whos watching the court to wonder
where a fth vote might go, Pizer said.
So I think its even odds that the court will
not review in Perry.
Jon Davidson, legal director for Lambda
Legal, said in the event that the Supreme
Court decides not to hear the Prop 8 case, gay
couples should wait for the mandate from the
Ninth Circuit before marrying in California.
My advice to people is plan a nice
wedding as opposed to running that day
to go get married because theres always
some risk for couples that get married
and 10 years split up, one might say, You
didnt really get legally married because the
injunction wasnt in place yet and Prop 8 was
still the law and they shouldnt have married
us, Davidson said. Although I think that
argument would lose, people dont need
to take on potentially having to ght about
that later. If they just wait until the mandate,
there wont be any question.
There could be an advantage for the
LGBT community if the Supreme Court takes
up the lawsuit because it could produce a
ruling that would affect not only California,
but all states with same-sex marriage bans
throughout the country. Still, this level of
examination bring a new scope of review
to the Prop 8 lawsuit because the Ninth
Circuit was limited in the way it restricted its
reasoning to California.
Pizer said the Supreme Court could rule
with a larger scope when considering the
constitutionality of Prop 8, but such an
evaluation would be unlikely given the
limited nature of the Ninth Circuit ruling.
I think its extremely unlikely that there
would be a ruling either calling in question all
the marriage restrictions of all the states that
have them, or on the ip-side, holding that
marriage absolutely as a matter of federal
law must be restricted just to different-
sex couples, Pizer said. The things that
could be done on the more extreme ends
of something favorable or unfavorable to
same-sex couples is not so likely.
The situation is slightly different for the
DOMA lawsuits because the Windsor case
is the only one that has been fully briefed
and docketed for the Sept. 24 conference.
The court may not issue a decision on
reviewing DOMA until the full range of
lawsuits challenging the anti-gay law have
been scheduled for consideration.
More DOMA-related cases havent yet
been set for consideration even though
the high court has been asked to consider
them. Theyre the consolidated case of
Gill v. Ofce of Personnel Management
and Commonwealth of Massachusetts
v. Department of Health & Human
Services, the only lawsuit in which an
appeals court has ruled against DOMA,
as well as Golinski v. Ofce of Personnel
Management and Pedersen v. Ofce of
Personnel Management.
Davidson said the Supreme Court could
also wait to make a decision on whether to
hear the Prop 8 lawsuit until making a decision
on whether to hear the DOMA cases.
Different issues in the cases, but they
might say, Well, lets think about all these
at the same time to think about whether we
should grant review in both kinds of cases
or one, and which order, Davidson said.
As with the Prop 8 case, if the Supreme
Court decided against hearing the DOMA
cases, it would have signicant immediate
impact. The federal government would
recognize the same-sex marriages of
states within the jurisdiction of the First
Circuit and other challenges against
DOMA would continue up the pipeline.
But the court is widely expected to
decide to take up the constitutionality
of DOMA because unlike Prop 8, the
issue is related to federal law and the
U.S. Justice Department has interceded
rst in July and again this month to
ask the court to take up each of the four
cases pending before the court related to
the law. And a ruling from the Supreme
Court would almost certainly have a
nationwide scope that would enable
federal recognition of same-sex marriages
throughout the country as opposed to a
ruling that would affect only one state.
Theres another benet to the LGBT
community if the Supreme Court were
to take up the cases: the application
of higher standard of review for cases
related to sexual orientation. The Golinski
and Pedersen cases are unique among
the other DOMA lawsuits because they
are the only ones in which lower courts
have ruled against DOMA on the basis
that they dont meet the standards of
heightened scrutiny, or the assumption
theyre unconstitutional. If the Supreme
Court were to consider these cases
along with other DOMA cases, it could
set precedent for applying heightened
scrutiny to other laws in the future.
A Supreme Court ruling in favor of
the anti-gay side would be signicantly
burdensome for supporters of same-sex
marriage. That would mean opponents
of the law would have to ght through
the legislative process to lift the ban
a daunting task especially if Republicans
were to retain control of the House.
Justices also have an opportunity in
taking up the DOMA cases to assert
whether the House Republican-led
Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, which
took up defense of DOMA after the
Obama administration declined to defend
the law, has standing to defend it. Some
lower courts have hinted BLAG may lack
standing to defend DOMA because its a
committee within the House that hasnt
been approved by a oor vote in either
chamber of Congress.
Doug NeJaime, whos gay and a law
professor at Loyola Law School, said the
role of BLAG and where the committee
derives its authority presents an interesting
question to the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court may take up DOMA, Prop 8 cases
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The U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes next week after summer recess and could take up several cases
related to marriage rights for gay couples.
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Rocking the referendum
Equality Maryland along with The Whiskey,
a rock club in Annapolis, and three local
bands will present Rock the Referendum,
a special concert to benet marriage equality
next week. Featured bands include Sweet
Leda, Mamas Black Sheep, and Frenamie.
Sweet Leda vocalist Julie Cymek
explained the bands support for marriage
equality: Sweet Leda loves love. In fact,
we feel so strongly about supporting same-
sex marriage that we actually wrote a song
called Let Her Love Her, which features Jay
Crawdads of the band Higher Hands. I know
there are many musicians out there who
feel the same way, and I encourage them to
shout it from a nearby mountaintop! (Let
Her Love Her can be heard at the bands
website and downloaded on iTunes.)
For Baltimore-based duo Mamas Black
Sheep, marriage equality in Maryland
holds personal signicance. The duo,
comprised of Ashland Miller and Laura
Cerulli, had to leave their home and
travel to D.C. to be legally married in
2011. This really is a matter of treating
all Maryland families fairly, says Cerulli.
We are honored to be a part of this
event, and hope that in bringing people
together through music we can raise
both the funds and awareness needed to
ensure Marylanders cast a FOR vote for
marriage [on Question 6] in November.
We are very excited to work with these
bands to promote equality for all Marylanders,
said Carrie Evans, executive director of Equality
Maryland. We know that the local music fans
are overwhelmingly supportive of marriage
equality, and Rock the Referendum is a terric
way to engage them as we prepare to defend
marriage equality at the ballot box.
Rock the Referendum will take place
on Sept. 28 at 9 p.m. (doors open at 8).
Tickets are $25, and all proceeds will go
toward defending marriage equality in the
November referendum. Tickets can be
purchased at eqmd.org/rock.
Caps player joins You
Can Play campaign
Last week, the Washington Capitals and
forward Matt Hendricks announced their
support for the You Can Play project,
an organization dedicated to ensuring
equality, respect and safety for all athletes,
without regard to sexual orientation.
Hendricks joins many professional and
amateur athletes from around the world
to speak in support of You Can Play by
recording a public service announcement
focusing solely on an athletes skills and
work ethic rather than sexual orientation.
Launched earlier this year, the project uses
video testimonials from a growing group of
players in the National Hockey League. You Can
Plays primary goal is make the environment
safer for a gay pro athlete to come outnot
just in hockey but all sportspro and amateur.
The theme is, If you can play, you can play.
Im honored to join many other athletes
and show my support for You Can Play,
said Hendricks. I believe in equality for
all people, and everyone should be able
to be given a fair opportunity to compete
and play the game they love.
From Blaine, Minnesota, the St. Cloud
State alumnus made his NHL debut with
the Colorado Avalanche before signing
with the Washington Capitals. The
Avalanche and the Capitals both have
nominated Hendricks for the Bill Masterton
Memorial Trophy, awarded to the NHL
player who best exemplies perseverance,
sportsmanship and dedication to the sport.
The video featuring Hendricks can be
seen on YouTube.
We share a platform with a number of
the projects goals of erasing intolerance
and promoting equality, including programs
founded by other athletes, Brian Kitts, a co-
founder of the project, told the Blade. You
Can Play is different in that the partnership
is between gay and straight allies, and that
the focus is solely on changing the culture of
sport. We dont ask our supporters or video
messengers to take a stand on marriage
or workplace equality, for instance. Were
specically trying to change the culture of
locker rooms and arenas.
For more information on You Can Play,
visit youcanplayproject.org.
Forum on marriage and
the Dream Act
The Civil Marriage Protection Act and
the Dream Act will be among the questions
petitioned to referendum in Novembers
election. Both issues will be debated at a
League of Women Voters forum on Oct. 9
from 7-9 p.m. at Morgan State Universitys
Student Center Theater.
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Cho brings Mother
to Rams Head
Margaret Cho, a queer comedian,
comes to Rams Head On Stage (33 West
St., Annapolis) on Tuesday at 6 p.m. on
her tour of her new standup comedy show
Mother.
The entirety of show is dedicated to
Chos observations of her mother and how
their relationship has changed over time.
Cho has been doing stand-up comedy for
20 years and has appeared on a series of
television shows including Liftimes Drop
Dead Diva and Dancing With the Stars.
Tickets are $30. For more information,
visit ramsheadonstage.com.
Trans children group,
PFLAG join forces
The Howard County PFLAG has two
groups meeting Tuesday night a group
for parents of transgender children and its
Rainbow Youth Meeting.
The groups meet concurrently at the
Owen Brown Interfatih Center at 7246
Cradlerock Way in Columbia, Md.
On Sept. 30, the Howard County PFLAG
has its annual picnic at Cedar Lane Park
West from noon to 5 p.m.
For more information about either
group, visit pagmd.org.
Hippo bingo has
anniversary event
Bingo in the Dance Bar has its 11th
anniversary event at Club Hippo (1 West
Eager Street) Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Doors open at 7 for advance ticket
holders and doors will open for general
admission ticket holders at 7:30. Advance
tickets cost $20, while general admission
tickets are $25 at the door.
Each game has a $100 cash prize and
the jackpot game includes a guarantee
$1,000 cash prize. There will be a drag
show during intermission and a chance
to win the new No Doubt CD Push and
Shove.
All proceeds will go to the Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, Transgender Community Center
of Baltimore and Central Maryland. For
more information, visit clubhippo.com.
Grand Central hosts
Divas on the Dance Floor
Grand Central (1001/1003 N. Charles
St.) hosts the Divas on the Dance Floor
event on Sunday night. Doors open at 9
and the show will start at 10. Cover charge
costs $5.
This show will include appearances and
performances by Sue Nami, Anastacia
Amor and Victoria Blair. Shawanna
Alexander hosts. Visit centralstationpub.
com for details.
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endorsement of GOPs
cynical nominee
This week may be remembered as the
turning point in the presidential election
the moment when the narrative that
Obama supporters have advanced about
Mitt Romneys out-of-touch privilege was
crudely conrmed and masses of inde-
pendent voters were alienated.
Romney just a day after embark-
ing on a campaign reset was seen
on a hidden video speaking to a group
of wealthy donors talking derisively and
cynically about half of American voters.
There are 47 percent of the people
who will vote for the president no matter
what, Romney said. There are 47 per-
cent who are with him, who are dependent
upon government, who believe that they
are victims, who believe the government
has a responsibility to care for them, who
believe that they are entitled to health care,
to food, to housing, to you-name-it, that
thats an entitlement. And the government
should give it to them. And they will vote
for this president no matter what. These
are people who pay no income tax.
He added that it would be helpful to his
election prospects if he were Latino, because,
you know, weve had so many presidents who
were people of color that its really hard for a
rich white guy to get elected in this country.
What are the Republicans thinking?
Its hard to fathom a more wrong-head-
ed choice for president or a candidate
more ill suited to the times than Mitt
Romney. At a time of Occupy protests
and real, genuine concerns about in-
come and wealth disparities, the GOP
has nominated a man so wealthy that he
hides hundreds of millions in off-shore
accounts where they are safe from U.S.
taxes. As the part owner of a small busi-
ness that pays exorbitant taxes, it infuri-
ates me that someone of such wealth and
privilege who aspires to be president of
us all can get away with dodging his tax
obligations and do it with a clear, entitled
conscience. His tax schemes may not be
illegal, but they certainly are not ethical.
Weve gone from Bill Clinton feeling
our pain to Mitt Romney openly admit-
ting he doesnt give a shit about anyone
in pain. Hes better suited to be president
of an all-white country club.
If Romney would take a closer look at
those 47 percent or so of American house-
holds that pay no federal income taxes, hed
see that they consist of poor people and
the elderly. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Cen-
ter, in a New York Times report, notes as an
example: A couple with two children earn-
ing less than $26,400 a year: The household
would pay no federal income tax because its
standard deduction and other exemptions
would simply erase its liability.
Meanwhile, the National Log Cabin Re-
publicans remain conspicuously silent on
the matter of endorsing this insufferable
jerk. Its time for Log Cabin to get off the
sidelines and do the right thing by with-
holding an endorsement. The arguments
about Obamas allegedly reckless steward-
ship of the economy dont hold water given
that Romney espouses many of the same
policies that led to the economic melt-
down. No one was going to x George
Bushs colossal, epic mess in four years.
And on LGBT issues, of course, there
simply is no comparison. Romney and the
Republican Party seek to turn back the
clock on myriad advances made under
Obamas rst term. Romney, who once
billed himself as a gay rights supporter,
now backs an effort to ban marriage
equality in the U.S. Constitution and sup-
ports the Defense of Marriage Act.
In 2004, Log Cabin declined to en-
dorse then-President George W. Bush
in his bid for re-election largely over his
support for the Federal Marriage Amend-
ment. In an op-ed published in 2004,
then-Log Cabin President Patrick Guer-
riero explained why his organization with-
held its endorsement, noting disappoint-
ment with the 2004 GOP platform.
Even as we saw the GOPs future high-
lighted with fair-minded prime-time con-
vention speakers, we saw the passage of
an extremist party platform that opposes
any basic protections for gay and lesbian
families, Guerriero wrote. The incongru-
ity between the partys platform and its
list of prime-time speakers symbolizes a
wider battle for the GOPs heart and soul.
That battle continues today. Log Cabin
members are not self-loathing closet cases
more concerned with their bank accounts
than their basic civil rights. They are smart,
thoughtful people working thanklessly for
change within a party whose leadership
disdains them. Withholding a Romney
endorsement isnt an easy decision and
would certainly cost Log Cabin access to
Romney. But lets face it: Romney cant win
this thing. Sure, national polls are close,
but in the handful of swing states that re-
ally matter, Romney would have to run the
board of states all won by Obama in 2008
to prevail. Given his endless gaffes, sloppy
and disorganized campaign, tone-deaf
messaging and inability to connect with
average voters, Romney is a deeply awed
and doomed candidate.
Log Cabin should withhold its endorse-
ment and continue working to change Re-
publican hearts and minds with an eye on
eliminating the anti-LGBT rhetoric in 2016.
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Attorney in Prop 8 case
working to aid Romney-
Ryan ticket
How can Ted Olson look himself in
the mirror without cringing? Many in the
LGBT community were concerned when
Olson took on the California case seeking
to overturn Proposition 8 and its ban on
marriage equality. They wondered how
such an ultra-conservative and supporter
of the Republican Party and George Bush
could suddenly become an icon in the
ght for marriage equality.
But the American Foundation for
Equal Rights (AFER) convinced the com-
munity that Olson really believed in what
he was doing and was not just taking on
such a high-prole case to add luster to
his legal resume. Well today we have our
answer. Ted Olson may be a good lawyer,
but at heart he is still a right-wing conser-
vative willing to support and enable can-
didates who have sworn to ght against
the civil and human rights of the LGBT
community. By helping Paul Ryan, an anti-
gay rights candidate who is diametrically
opposed to what Olson said he believes,
Olson has unveiled a side of himself that
many people believe is the true Ted Ol-
son. Instead of being honored by both
sides in this battle, men like Olson should
be shunned.
I understand that good people can
disagree on foreign and domestic policy.
These debates can be had in good faith
with respect for each others opinions.
We can and must compromise on many
issues if the nation is to move forward.
But on human and civil rights there can
be no compromise. Here we must rely
on peoples basic belief in the morality of
right and wrong. No compromise should
be acceptable to decent honorable
people. Civil rights, not to be confused
with or impinging on the right to practice
ones religion, must be non-negotiable.
These are rights that our government
must guarantee equally to all its citizens.
Olson now supports and works for
a party whose leaders have sworn to
deny those rights. They have signed a
document supporting a constitutional
amendment the rst to enshrine dis-
crimination stating that civil marriage
in our nation is only for one man and one
woman.
Some have claimed Olson could use
his time to convince Ryan to change his
mind. That is absurd since we know that
Ryan has made his political career as a
right-wing ideologue catering to those
who support and fund hate groups like
the Family Research Council. How can
Olson, who worked with AFER to ght the
legal battle over Prop 8, be so two-faced?
Olson and AFER received national
publicity and the thanks that came with
winning that case. But today we see what
is in his heart. It must be assumed that
when Olson looks himself in the mirror
each night he sees two images one
receiving a pat on the back for being a
good lawyer, the other a pat on the back
for supporting ideologues who will have
the power to undue what he won.
Olson was clearly not the only lawyer
that could have won the case and in fact
he didnt do it alone but with the help of
David Bois. Many other attorneys could
have worked with AFER but they deter-
mined Olson would garner them plenty
of publicity and money and they were
right. Today they must look into their
hearts and wonder about that decision.
We must never accept apologists for
the Republican ticket who say, Dont
worry the constitutional amendment cant
pass, or Romney isnt really as bad as
he seems after all he could ip-op on his
positions again. We must take people
like Romney and Ryan at their word and
when we do we must also see Olson for
who he really is: a man helping to con-
tinue to ght against the civil and human
rights of the LGBT community. He is help-
ing those who would move us backwards.
He has joined those on the wrong side of
history and is now an example of hypoc-
risy of the worst kind.
Hospitality businesses and
District residents deserve
real regulatory reform
Despite the citys regulatory embar-
rassment and widespread public outrage,
District ofcials havent yet offered Hanks
Oyster Bar an apology. They should.
An increasingly impatient public, however,
is no longer in the mood for a mere mea culpa.
D.C. residents continue to wait for elect-
ed ofcials to x the long festering mess of
an alcohol licensing protest process that al-
lowed a handful of residents to wage an ex-
asperating seven-year-long battle against
the beloved community eatery. It was a war
of attempted attrition that began even be-
fore the restaurant opened in 2005.
Only late last week was Hanks permitted to
reopen its full outdoor dining area. Given the
relentless obstinacy of the ad hoc gang of 5
license protesters, it may not yet be over.
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray spent an eve-
ning during the Independence Day holiday
dining at the Dupont Circle Hanks loca-
tion, near the corner of 17th and Q streets,
to signal his support. Gray spoke with res-
taurateur and chef Jamie Leeds regard-
ing the impact of the ongoing regulatory
protest on her enterprise and that of similar
renegade objectors throughout the city.
A welcomed gesture, but he hasnt
been heard from since.
D.C. Council members Jim Graham,
chair of the Council committee overseeing
alcohol licensing matters, and Jack Evans,
representing the popular neighborhood
establishments district, were bombarded
with messages calling for a change in city
regulations. Not only advocating fairness
for Hanks, but also demanding overdue
reform to repair the citys dysfunctional
and out-of-balance licensing process.
Not much resulted from that either, and their
Council colleagues continue to look away.
They should turn their heads in shame
realizing the deleterious effect on the citys
economy and tax revenues, if nothing else
but no one is offering any real solutions.
In addition, although the D.C. Al-
coholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board
again laudably decided in Hanks favor,
it couldnt even manage to comply with
the statutory requirement to rule on the
matter within a mandated 90-day period.
This despite board chair Ruthanne Millers
public commitment at a June 13 hearing
pledging to expedite a decision due to
the recognized economic hardship being
borne by the business in the interim.
The ve-member ABC board failed to meet
its legal obligation issuing an order, dated the
day prior, two days after the deadline.
Alcohol-licensed businesses are ned
$50 per day for failing to renew a license
on time. Perhaps each ABC board mem-
ber should whip out their checkbook and
provide Hanks with a $100 payment for
their own violation of D.C. law.
Even if they were to do so, those ve-hun-
dred-dollars wouldnt begin to compensate
the restaurant for being denied use of half of
its outdoor patio during the entire summer
season. Proprietor Leeds has indicated that
the business lost more than an average of
$3,000 for each day awaiting adjudication. A
pittance from board members also wouldnt
replenish the wallets of the neighborhood
employees with fewer shifts and lesser earn-
ings, or those without work.
D.C. law permits notorious gangs of
5 or more and small unrepresentative
citizens groups to directly intervene in
the licensing process. Both are allowed
to brandish the weapon of an inappropri-
ately named Voluntary Agreement and
cavalierly wave it around like a magical
wand of obstruction. They abuse the pro-
cess to threaten license delay and denial
in order to force unpopular operating re-
strictions on community small businesses.
There is no legitimate justication for
not requiring these groups to partici-
pate like everyone else in the established
public forum provided by elected Advi-
sory Neighborhood Commissions (ANCs)
open to all stakeholders. Why bestow
special powers to self-anointed czars?
Graham has opened the door to remedial
action by introducing a bill, co-sponsored by
Evans. Their timid legislative draft, however,
falls far short of a solution and fails to ade-
quately address the inherent problems of the
citys licensing scheme. Yet it does provide an
opportunity for much-needed reform.
Until the city precludes the ability of
random ad hoc protest groups and serial
objector citizens associations from single-
handedly interjecting themselves into the li-
quor licensing process, nothing will change.
Tinkering around the edges aint gon-
na x it.
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I NSI DE LGBT WASHI NGTON SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 39
Peter Rosenstein is a D.C.-based LGBT rights and
Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly for the Blade.
Two-faced Ted Olson should be shunned
He has joined those on the wrong side of history and
is now an example of hypocrisy of the worst kind.
Mark Lee is a local small business manager and long-
time community business advocate. Reach him at
OurBusinessMatters@gmail.com.
Pull quote if needed:
OUR BUSI NESS MATTERS
D.C. ofcials owe Hanks more than an apology
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Ordinarily Somer Bingham likes to
hang out at Phasefest whether shes
playing that night or not.
The musician behind Clinical Trials
has played Phasefest the past four
years and is up again for a mini-set
tonight. During a phone chat this week
from West Hollywood where shes
getting ready for a solo show, she says
its probably best shes not planning
to be at Phasefest on Saturday night.
Theres a little drama thats gone down
with her old group, Hunter Valentine,
the headline band for Saturday.
Its probably best I wont see
them since I just got kicked out of the
band, Bingham says. I was never
technically a full member, but we
played together almost six months.
They kind of decided I just wasnt
the right t. Kiyomi (McCloskey, lead
singer of Hunter Valentine) and I just
werent getting along as band mates
and it kind of just exploded.
Fans of the Showtime reality show
The Real L Word know the story
the drama played out in July and
August during the series tense third
season, a segment of which was
lmed at Phase 1 in March.
But the drama should be avoided
at Phasefest where the focus will be
on the music. For the record, though,
Bingham is pragmatic about the way
things went down.
We denitely wrote some cool
songs together and played some
great shows, she says. I thought
we had good chemistry, but its such
a bummer because we were great
friends before.
McCloskey says they parted ways
amicably.
Playing with Somer was always
meant to be a trial run, she says.
She didnt know whether she wanted
to be in the band permanently and
we didnt know whether she was
the right fourth member. She is an
amazing musician but it turned out
not the right t for Hunter Valentine.
We wish her the best.
Bingham says she played on
about half of the cuts on the new
Hunter Valentine album, Collide
ART S AND E NT E RTAI NME NT WAS HI NGT ONB L ADE . COM V OL UME 4 3 I S S UE 3 8 S E P T E MB E R 2 1 2 0 1 2 PAGE 4 1
Hunter Valentine is, from left, VERO SANCHEZ (bass), KIYOMI MCCLOSKEY (vocals/guitar) and LAURA PETRACCA (drums).
PHOTO BY LESLIE VAN STELTEN; COURTESY OF PHASE FEST
PHASEFEST GIVES QUEER BANDS PLATFORM IN D.C. THIS WEEKEND
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
When Steven Wilson moved to Washington in 2008 because his husband,
Brandon Wilson, got a job in the area, the 28-year-old dancer and choreographer
decided to re-launch his Oasis Dance Company here.
Its evolved since then this weekends event The Affair: Bow Ties & Pumps,
a benet for Transgender Health Empowerment and the Wanda Alston House for
homeless LGBT youth, is the launch of his expanded vision which will be known as
the Oasis Dance Collective. It will continue to encompass his adult company for
18-25-year-olds (there are 13 dancers in the troupe) but a youth contingent is also
launching along with a series that will nd well-known choreographers coming to
D.C. to offer master classes (the group is online at oasisdanceco.com). Wilson re-
launched the group with co-founder Jami Shackles.
Sunday nights event, to be held at THEARC Theater (1901 Mississippi
Ave., S.E.), is designed as a dance tribute to several local public gures, both
LGBT and allies, who are making a difference in the D.C. area. Similar to the
Kennedy Center Honors, Wilson is overseeing mini-tributes to each of this
years honorees: Revs. Dennis and Christine Wiley, pastors of LGBT-welcoming
Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ; comedian Sampson McCormick;
youth advocate Kenya Hutton; Abdur-Rahim Briggs, president of Al Sura; drag
performer Shi-Queeta Lee; The Centers David Mariner; and Rev. Aaron Wade,
pastor of Community Church of Washington.
Imagine Victorias Secret meets the Grammys meets So You Think You Can
Dance, Wilson says. It will be so many different things and highly entertaining.
Red carpet starts at 6:30 p.m. The performance is at 7:30. General admission
is $30; VIP admission is $50. Tickets will be available at the door or can be
purchased in advance at thearcdc.org. Proceeds go to the Alston House and
THE. Details are at oasisdanceco.com/events.
Wilson works by day in Annandale, Va., as a clinical research assistant at Clinical
Alliance for Research Education in Infectious Diseases (CARE-ID) and lives in Fairfax,
though all his Oasis work is in Washington. The Norwich, Conn., native enjoys dancing,
writing and hiking in his free time. He and Wilson have two dogs, Joi and PJ.
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42 SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 QUEERY: 20 QUESTI ONS FOR STEVEN WI LSON
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN OUT
AND WHO WAS THE HARDEST
PERSON TO TELL?
I have been out since my
sophomore year of college in 2004
and my father was the hardest person
to tell.
WHOS YOUR LGBT HERO?
Alvin Ailey
WHATS WASHINGTONS BEST
NIGHTSPOT, PAST OR PRESENT?
Town
DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM WEDDING.
With all family in attendance on the
coast of Spain.
WHAT NON-LGBT ISSUE ARE YOU
MOST PASSIONATE ABOUT?
Education
WHAT HISTORICAL OUTCOME
WOULD YOU CHANGE?
The transfer of HIV/AIDS from
primates to humans.

WHATS BEEN THE MOST
MEMORABLE POP CULTURE
MOMENT OF YOUR LIFETIME?
My rst concert was a Janet concert
(the Velvet Rope Tour) and it just
kind of solidied everything I wanted
to do in life. A lot of my friends were
really into Michael Jackson, but I didnt
really grow up on Mike. I grew up way
more on Janet.

ON WHAT DO YOU INSIST?
Faith

WHAT WAS YOUR LAST FACEBOOK
POST OR TWEET?
The Affair Sunday, September 23,
2012

IF YOUR LIFE WERE A BOOK, WHAT
WOULD THE TITLE BE?
Pieces of a Dream

IF SCIENCE DISCOVERED A WAY TO
CHANGE SEXUAL ORIENTATION,
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Nothing. I am proud of who I am and
wish everyone else the same just be you.
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN BEYOND
THE PHYSICAL WORLD?
Heaven
WHATS YOUR ADVICE FOR LGBT
MOVEMENT LEADERS?
Stay connected, make sure the
messaging remains relevant and
focus on legal issues more than
emotional ones. A person may not
agree with me, but I want to ensure
that they cannot legally hinder my
happiness.
WHAT WOULD YOU WALK ACROSS
HOT COALS FOR?
My family
WHAT LGBT STEREOTYPE ANNOYS
YOU MOST?
That gay equates to be a feminine
male or butch female.

WHATS YOUR FAVORITE LGBT
MOVIE?
I dont have one. Center Stage, but
that not really gay.

WHATS THE MOST OVERRATED
SOCIAL CUSTOM?
Shaking hands

WHAT TROPHY OR PRIZE DO YOU
MOST COVET?
My ultimate goal is to win a Tony
Award for choreography.

WHAT DO YOU WISH YOUD KNOWN
AT 18?
The only person who must buy into
your vision is you!

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Sunday, October 7 at 4 p.m.
The lovely but temperamental Katherina meets her match in
Petruchio in Shakespeares adored comedy, brought to the CFA
stage by the outstanding Aquila Theatre (described by The
New York Times as extraordinarily inventive and disciplined).
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Royal Drummers and Dancers
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Friday, October 5 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 6 at 8 p.m.
The Burundi beat: thunderous drum rhythms based on sacred
ancient traditions passed down from fathers to sons; originally
played and danced for ceremonial occasions only; now famous
world-wide and infuencing contemporary artists as diverse as Joni
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enough to have already seen them in Burundi or abroad rave! Now
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Sutton Foster
Saturday, September 29 at 8 p.m.
Tony award winner Sutton Foster has the voice of a trumpet
and a big, gleaming presence that foods the house. (The New
York Times) If you didnt see her on Broadway in Anything Goes,
Thoroughly Modern Millie, or Shrek The Musical, come see her now
in an evening of Broadway show-stoppers and cabaret ballads
and maybe meet her over dessert after the show!
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Well-crafted lesbian-
themed character study
closes at Theater J Sunday
By BRIAN T. CARNEY
Its wonderful when you leave a play
wanting more more of the interesting
multi-faceted characters, more of the
thought-provoking themes, more of the
crackling dialogue and more of the nuanced
acting, striking design and condent
direction. And luckily for Washingtons LGBT
theater audiences, that is denitely the case
with Theater Js excellent production of
Annie Bakers Body Awareness. But act
fast this is the last weekend to catch it as
it closes Sunday.
As the play opens, its Body Awareness
week at Shirley State College in Vermont.
Psychology professor Phyllis (Susan
Lynskey) predicts all too accurately that,
we have ve eventful days ahead of
us. Like Wendy Wassersteins The
Heidi Chronicles, Body Awareness is
structured around a series of addresses by
a feminist academic, but Bakers writing is
less self-conscious and more self-assured
and her characters use of humor is more
organic and less self-defensive.
One of the guest artists for the politically
correct-yet-intellectually-and-artistically-
scattershot week is Frank Bonitatibus who
takes nude photographs of women of all ages.
Frank is staying with Phyllis and her partner
Joyce, and thats when the drama starts.
Phyllis categorically rejects Franks
photos as manipulative and exploitative.
Joyce quickly sees Frank as a kindred
spirit with a common interest in Judaism
and a mutual yearning for self-expression.
Joyces 21-year-old son Jared, who still
lives with Joyce and Phyllis, sees Frank as
a potential role model who might be able
to teach him how to get a girlfriend.
Baker skillfully draws out the shifting
alliance and antagonisms between the
characters: the feminist psychologist verses
the visionary artist; the arrogant college
professor and the caring high school
teacher (your mothers job does not count
as academic); the politically correct lesbian
versus the warm fuzzy lesbian hippy; the
well-meaning mothers and the quirky son
who insists he does not have Aspergers
Syndrome, despite his lack of social skills,
his obsessive interest in etymologies and
his bursts of violent language.
Under the smooth direction of Eleanor
Holdridge, the cast brings these rich
characters to energetic theatrical life,
Lynskey is strong as a rather rigid ideologue
whose more tender feelings are betrayed
by a suspected facial tic and a meltdown
during her Friday lecture. MaryBeth Wise
is superb as Joyce, the woman who plays
peacekeeper to the warring factions and
still tries to address her own needs. Michael
Kramer is fascinating as Frank, striking a ne
balance between a sensitive empowering
artist and a somewhat creepy voyeur who
has his own issues relating to women.
Adi Stein is somewhat less successful as
Jared, who may, or may not, have Aspergers
Syndrome. He captures the characters mood
swings and idiosyncrasies with admirable
precision, but his lively performance leaves
the young mans diagnosis in little doubt. A
atter aspect might have preserved more of
the characters mystery.
The play is also well served by the subtle
work of the design team (Scenic Designer
Daniel Ettinger, Lighting Designer Nancy
Schertler, Costume Designer Kelsey Hunt
and Sound Designer Chas Marsh). The set
design is uid and effective and the lighting
evocatively captures the shifting moods of the
different scenes. Director Holdridge brings
all this together with a casual effortlessness
that works well with the tricky verbal and
emotional rhythms of Bakers dialogue. The
scene transitions are especially effective,
creating lovely stage pictures with lively
underscoring while giving the actors and
audience a chance to regroup and rethink.
There are a few bugs in the writing.
Phylliss instant antagonism to Frank and
his art, and her lack of awareness about
the content of his exhibition, dont make
a lot of sense and a nal twist involving
Jared and one of his mothers students
comes out of nowhere. Despite these
relatively minor aws, Body Awareness
is an exciting early work by an important
new female playwright.
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44 SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 THEATER
BODY AWARENESS
Theater J
1529 Sixteenth Street, NW
Through Sept. 23
Tickets: $25
theaterj.org
MARYBETH WISE, SUSAN LYNSKEY and ADI STEIN in Body Awareness by Annie Baker at
Theater J through Sunday.
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Bi theater head recalls
emerging sexuality
By KATHI WOLFE
The artistic director of the only disability-
specic off-Broadway theater in New York,
knows a few things about being different.
The 72-year-old head of Breaking
Through Barriers recalls during a phone
interview his early sexual explorations.
Id gone to a folk sing in a dorm, Ike
Schambelan says. He was at Swarthmore
College when another male student
invited him to his room.
I was told, Dont do that, stay on the
sofa, he says. I knew without anything
being verbalized that I was being
protected. I did not want to be protected.
He co-founded Theater Breaking
Through Barriers (then known as Theater
By the Blind) in 1979 not to be altruistic,
but to support my directing addiction,
Schambelan says.
Its the only off-Broadway theater, and
one of the few in the country, dedicated
to advancing actors and writers with
disabilities. The company can be a
tough sell to people wary of disability,
Schambelan says.
They spend ve minutes trying to
gure out whos disabled and whos not,
often getting it wrong. But, then they relax
and get into the play.
Schambelan, who was raised in
West Philadelphia with the theater bug
embedded in his DNA, grew up with many
of the conicts around sexuality held by
many of his generation.
My grandmother, who went blind, lived
with us until I was 10, he says. Every
Monday night, wed listen to Lux Radio
Theater and Id brush her hair. I came to
associate blindness, affection and theater.
When Schambelan was in junior high a
friend invited him to go to a drama at school.
I was hooked, Schambelan says.
I acted in high school. When I went to
college I mostly stage managed, which I
loved, as I wasnt a very good actor.
In his junior year, Schambelan directed
the annual Thanksgiving musical.
It was a big hit and I was hooked to a
discipline, directing, he says.
After graduating from Swarthmore in
1961, Schambelan earned a degree from
Yale Drama School in 1967.
There, his passion for the theater and his
burgeoning, conicted sexuality merged.
On my rst night at the Drama school, a
med student picked me up, Schambelan
says. We had sex. Then, I ... didnt have
sex until the end of the year. I dated women
a little, but I didnt do a lot of sex.
In the 1960s during the pre-Stonewall era,
being queer was more openly accepted at
the Drama School and in the theater than
in other parts of society, Schambelan says.
Despite this, he was conicted.
It was internalized homophobia
feeling it was wrong to have sex with men.
In the 60s and 70s, Schambelan
directed productions at such companies
as Playwrights Horizons and the George St.
Playhouse. He shot a TV commercial with
Farrah Fawcett (She was lovely to work
with, he says) before she was famous.
Over these years, Schambelan dated
women and men.
Id take up with a woman during the
summer and the romance would last until
the fall, he says.
He married a woman in 1980, Joan, who
remains his wife. Shed been a dancer
so shed known gays and just felt her
husbands bisexuality made him more
interesting.
For years, he saw a psychotherapist who
... wanted me to be straight, Schambelan
says. But, then, being gay had just been
removed as the list of mental illnesses by
the American Psychiatric Association.
The therapist he sees today is
completely accepting of his bisexuality,
Schambelan says.
He admits its not always an easy thing
to explain.
The LGBT community doesnt always
get what it means to be bisexual, he says.
Sometimes people have worked so hard
to come out as gay, they have difculty
understanding the greater complexity of
being bi. They want you to be gay.
IKE SCHAMBELAN, artistic director of Breaking Through Barriers, an off-Broadway theater outt
in New York.
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17th Street Festival Saturday
The third annual 17th Street Festival is Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. on the 17th
Street N.W. corridor. The event is produced by the Urban Neighborhood Alliance
and the Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets.
The event is designed as a community-building event showcasing the regions
shops, schools, restaurants, clubs, parks, art and residents. Streets will be closed
from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Look for booths, exhibits, games, entertainment and more.
Details are at 17thstreetfestival.org.
Dana Tai Soon Burgess Co. caps 20th season
Dana Tai Soon Burgess premieres his new work Caverns tonight at 8 at the George
Washington University Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre (800 21st St. NW). Tickets for
students are $15, $22 for artists and $25 for general admission.
Caverns explores the topic of memory and shows a journey of a woman remembering
certain moments in a relationship. It will be performed by dancers Katia Chupashko Norri,
Felipe Oyarun and Connie Fink. The performance will also include other works from the
Company and followed by a panel discussion with Burgess, whos gay, and the dancers.
For details, visit vendini.com.
Madonna brings MDNA Tour to D.C.
Madonna is back at the Verizon Center (601 F. St. NW) for her rst D.C. shows since
her 2004 Re-Invention Tour this weekend. Both shows begin at 8 p.m. on Sunday and
Monday. The Sunday night show is sold out but tickets may still be available for Monday.
Before the concert Town (2009 8th St. NW) is celebrating all things Madonna,
including her music, her videos and live performances by Tha Dance Camp. They call it
MadonnaRama. Doors open Saturday night at 10. The cover costs $8 from 10-11 p.m. and
$12 after 11. All drinks are $3 before 11 and you must be 21 and older to enter. For details
on MadonnaRama information, visit towndc.com.
Black Fox Lounge hosts gay-themed Spill
Thursday night at 8, the Black Fox Lounge (1723 Connecticut Ave. NW) is hosting Spill
True Stories of Queer Sex, Desire and Romance, a new monthly performance hosted
by Jefferson. Every performance includes storytellers, comedians, sex educators and
many others sharing their sexual experiences.
The host, Jefferson, is a sex educator and writer, whos known for his blog, One Life,
Take Two. It goes in depth of his life as a parent and his own sexual experiences. The bi
New York resident also hosts a monthly series called Bare! True Stories of Queer Sex,
Desire and Romance.
For more information on Spill, visit spillstories.wordpress.com.
A four-legged 17th Street resident enjoys last years event.
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Mind-boggling array
of multi-course meals
available at N Street spot
By JONATHAN HOWARD
Every once in a while every diner
should spoil himself with a special meal
and Rogue 24 (922 N Street NW) proves
a great option for the adventurous diner
who is looking for an extravagant night full
of delicious bites.
Rogue 24 lets the diner sit back and
enjoy everything the restaurant has to
offer. You dont even need to make those
pesky decisions about what to eat or
drink. Simply make a reservation, decide
how many courses you want and leave the
rest up to the staff.
They offer a couple options for diners.
My husband Greg and I opted for the
eight courses on the Evolution Menu but
there were also 16- and 24-course options
available. Chef RJ Cooper did inform me
that the eight course Evolution Menu is
evolving into a 16-course seating this fall
but that they will also be offering a four-
course Prix Fix Menu. The changes are
based on feedback Cooper says.
We were seated and the hostess said
she hoped we would enjoy our dining
experience; the emphasis was clearly on
experience. And what an experience
it was. Rogue 24 is not for an immature
palate or a closed mind. Sometimes
the avors on your plate are subtle, and
sometimes they are bold, but each and
every plate that makes its way out of
the kitchen in the round that is the
centerpiece of this raw and open space
is rich and well thought out. Even if you
have the most adventurous palate you
may not like every plate, but thats part of
the journey. When speaking with Cooper
he offered some advice for patrons dining
at Rogue Keep an open mind.
Rogue 24 is like Cooper says,
completely out of the box. We dined on
a variety of dishes starting with snapper
with red pepper that warmed the back of
your throat, followed by a cool cucumber
gazpacho, and then a pungent course of
parmesan cheese with artichokes.
The pacic moonsh was rich and
delectable with olives and a touch of citrus;
an interesting plate of peaches in a mole
sauce with heart of palm followed. I was
then introduced to escargot, not a plate
that I was terribly fond of but the potato
foam that it was served with was exquisite.
My favorite savory dish of the evening
was the braised and fried ox tail that was
both chewy and crispy; a creative play on
textures. Part of the joy of these courses
was you didnt know what would be
arriving next; each course was a complete
surprise. I asked Cooper which of these
many courses was his favorite but he
couldnt answer, Because that would be
like having a favorite child, which shows
how much passion he has for his food.
The desserts began arriving, starting with
the passion fruit with coconut meringue and
white chocolate. This was followed by the
sweet decadence of the triple chocolate
mousse. The plate had white, dark and milk
chocolate mousse and crumbles on it, and
I scraped my plate clean. The nal dish was
a plate of homemade candies, chocolates
and mini cookies.
Every plate throughout the meal was
paired with a cocktail or wine and each
beverage revealed nuances in each dish.
When service was over we werent quite
prepared to end the night, so Greg
ordered a port that he insisted tasted like
liquid trail mix complete with M&Ms
and I had quite possibly the most dynamic
drink ever in the form of a scotch (neat of
course) from India called Amrut.
As we sat and savored our drinks we
quietly reviewed the meal. The service
was impeccable, well choreographed
and thoughtful, and the plates consisted
of bites we will be talking about for years
to come whether we loved them or not.
Every employee in the restaurant gives
100 percent of their attention to the
patrons whether in the kitchen or on the
oor. While no two experiences at Rogue
24 will be the same especially since
the menu is constantly changing, it is a
worthwhile adventure at least once. So,
my recommendation is to save up some
cash (it is an expensive meal), shed your
inhibitions about food and experience all
that Rogue 24 has to offer.
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Its football season, so look for muscle on
the eldand in showrooms. A new crop
of sport sedansfrom a pint-sized BMW
to the poshest Jaguar yetare packed
with plenty of power and panache. Think
Brendon Ayanbadejo, the straight Ravens
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Mixing macho with moxiethats what
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AUDI A6
$42,500
MPG: 25 CITY/33 HIGHWAY
0-TO-60 MPH: 7.5 SECONDS
Lets not play favorites, but Audis A7 four-
door hatchback wowed me big-time last year.
So how does the new A6 compare? The main
difference is the A6s traditional trunk. The
liftback hatch in the A7 means more cargo
room, easier access and a sleeker, coupe-like
prole. But it also reduces visibility. While the
A7 handles better on highways and twisty
roads, the A6 costs less (especially the base
model), gets better gas mileage and has
higher ground clearancea plus for boomers
with back issues. Otherwise, both these
midsize sedans have superb t and nish in
the cabin, with lots of frills: heated steering
wheel, blind-spot warning system, head-up
display on the windshield and in-car WiFi that
connects Google Earth to the nav system.
BMW 328I
$37,000
The fully redesigned 328i is a bad boy
hottie. This compact is larger but lighter
than before, with a faster and more fuel-
friendly four-cylinder turbo replacing the
outgoing V6. An automatic start/stop
feature turns the engine off when the car
stops to also save fuel and gives the 328i
an almost hybrid-car feel. But step on the
gas, and this is no hybridacceleration,
handling and braking are sporty and sure.
BMW interiors are typically minimalist-chic,
but this new sedanwhich is exceptionally
quiet insideoffers a choice of cabin colors
and trims for more customization. Another
plus: faux leather seats that actually look and
feel better than the real thing.
INFINITI M37X SPORT
$55,000
This is the rst time Inniti has offered a
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worth the wait. From the snug suspension and
brakes to the sturdy all-wheel drive, the M37
Sport feels as quick and nimble as a BMW.
Along with 20-inch wheels, the front fascia,
headlights and grille have been beefed up for
a more rugged look. And the bolstered seats
are almost Porsche-like. There are various
driving modes, depending on your need for
speed or fuel-efciency. Auto-dimming side
mirrors and power trunk lid are now standard,
along with rain-sensing wipers and courtesy
lights hidden in the front-door handlesa
nice touch. Though pricey, there are a few
must-have options: 10-speaker Bose stereo,
a large 8-inch touchscreen for the nav/audio/
climate system and blind-spot and lane-
departure warning systems that automatically
intervene if a potential crash is detected.
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Sport sedans dont come cheap. And the
XJL Supercharged is at the top of the heap.
This is the long-wheelbase version, with lots
of legroom and exquisite detail. The rear
foot-wells are large and so well padded
that my 70-pound pooch quickly curled
up and went to sleep instead of splaying
out across the backseat. Humans, too,
will enjoy all the pizzazz: a 12-way drivers
seat, large panoramic sunroof, front/rear
parking sensors with rearview camera and
an adjustable and self-leveling suspension
just like in a Range Rover.
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NATI ONAL GEOGRAPHI C. 202- 857- 7700. NGLI VE. ORG/DC.
National Geographic presents the 8th annual All Roads Film Festival, featuring
stories and talent from vibrant, diverse, indigenous cultures. Meet the lmmakers
at panel discussions, dance to live music Friday night, and enjoy a free photography
exhibition in the National Geographic courtyard.
A MI DSUMMER NI GHT S DREAM
THU, SEP 27 SUN, SEP 30
CLARICE SMITH. 301-405-ARTS. CLARICESMITHCENTER.UMD.EDU.
A co-production with The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. William
Shakespeares whimsical tale of love and mistaken identity comes to life in a
completely new way in this bilingual Chinese and American co-production.
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THRU SUN, OCT 14
STUDI O THEATRE. 202- 332- 3300. STUDI OTHEATRE. ORG.
This savage, hypnotic, and impassioned adaptation of Invisible Man by Oren
Jacoby, based on the novel by Ralph Ellison explores bigotry and its effects on
the minds of both victims and perpetrators.
SHOCK OF THE NEWS
SUN, SEP 23
NATI ONAL GALLERY OF ART. 202- 737- 4215. NGA. GOV.
The exhibition presents works by more than sixty European and American artists,
from Marinetti, Picasso, and Man Ray to Adrian Piper who incorporated a fragment
of real newspaper into a work of art.
Image provided by National Geographic.
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YOUR LI NK TO THE ARTS I N METRO DC
Plan Your Season of Fall
Theatre with DCs best
dramas, comedies, musicals
& classical theatre at
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OPENINGS
FRI, SEP 21
Fly, Fords Theatre. 800-982-2787. fords.org.
A Couple of Blaguards, Keegan Theatre,
Church Street Theater. 703-892-0202.
keegantheatre.com.
WED, SEP 26
Over the Tavern, Olney Theatre Center.
301-924-3400. olneytheatre.org.
Alex Braden: Orphan, Artisphere.
703-875-1100. artisphere.com.
LAST CHANCE
SAT, SEP 22
Jesus at Guantanamo, DCAC.
202-462-7833. dcartscenter.org.
SUN, SEP 23
Body Awareness, Theater J. 202-777-3210.
washingtondcjcc.org.
Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park
Series, Corcoran Gallery of Art.
202-234-7103. corcoran.org.
Women Silversmiths, Museum of Women
in the Arts 202-783-5000. nmwa.org.
Han-Mee Artists: Blurring Boundaries,
Workhouse Arts Center. 703-584-2900.
lortonarts.org.

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
SEP 22 - SEP 23
Colonial Market & Fair, George
Washingtons Mount Vernon Estate
and Gardens. 703-780-2000.
mountvernon.org.
Nan Jombang, Dance Place.
202-269-1600. danceplace.org.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
FRI, SEP 21
Park(ing) Day 2012, Artisphere.
Anthony de Mare - Liaisons: Re-imagining
Sondheim, Clarice Smith. 301-405-ARTS.
claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.
The Apple Pushers, Artisphere.
SAT, SEP 22
2012 Reston Multicultural Festival, Reston
Community Center at Lake Anne.
703-476-4500.
restoncommunitycenter.com.
Yuliya Gorenman Returns, Alexandria
Symphony Orchestra, Schlesinger.
703-845-6156. alexsym.org.
The Capitol Steps, Hylton Performing Arts
Center. 703-993-7550. hyltoncenter.org.
Unraveled: An improv-story mash-up with
WIT & Speakeasy DC. Atlas. 202-399-7993.
speakeasydc.com.
SUN, SEP 23
Joseph Kalichstein, piano, JCC Greater
Washington. 301-881-0100. jccgw.org.
Kings and Commoners, Washington Bach
Consort, National Presbyterian Church.
202-429-2121. bachconsort.org.
WNO Celebrity Concert Series: Nathan
Gunn, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
MON, SEP 24
Last Call for Planet Earth, Goethe-Institut.
202-289-1200. goethe.de.
TUE, SEP 25
DJ ipek ipekioglu Eklektik Berlinistan,
Goethe-Institut, U Street Music Hall.
202-289-1200. goethe.de.
THU, SEP 27
Frdric Yonnet, urban jazz harmonica,
Strathmore. 301-581-5100.
strathmore.org.
ONGOING STAGE
WNO: Anna Bolena & Don Giovanni,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Round
House Theatre Bethesda. 240-644-1100.
roundhousetheatre.org.
Jekyll and Hyde, Synetic Theater.
800-494-8497. synetictheater.org.
In Spite of Love, GALA Hispanic Theatre.
202-234-7174. galatheatre.org.
J.B., American Century Theater,
Gunston Theatre Two. 703-998-4555.
americancentury.org.
siGHt, Joes Movement Emporium.
301-699-1819. joesmovement.org.
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
National Gallery of Art. George Bellows,
Elegance and Renement: The Still-
Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst,
The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished
Collection of Drawings and Watercolors.
202-737-4215. nga.gov.
National Geographic. 1001 Inventions:
Discover the Golden Age of Muslim
Civilization. 202-857-7588.
ngmuseum.org.
Museum of Women in the Arts. Women
Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power.
202-783-5000. nmwa.org.
Fords Theatre. The Test: The Tuskegee
Airmen Project. 800-982-2787. fords.org.
ONGOING GALLERIES
The Art League. Theresa Esterlund,
Microcosms. 703-683-1780.
theartleague.org.
Artisphere. Pattee Hipschen: Rural
Beauty, A Visual Diary Of The American
Landscape, Beyond The Parking Lot:
The Change And Re-assessment Of
Our Modern Landscape. 703-875-1100.
artisphere.com.
DCAC. Microscapes Exhibition.
202-462-7833. dcartscenter.org.
Schlesinger. Reections on the Figure
by Marcie Wolf-Hubbard. 703-845-6156.
nvcc.edu.
Gallery plan b. Paintings by Sheep Jones.
202-234-2711. galleryplanb.com.
Goethe-Institut. Parks & Passages:
Inspirations from Berlin for Washingtons
Dupont Underground. 202-289-1200.
goethe.de.
Hillyer Art Space. Lo Studio dei Nipoti,
Valeria Caisch: Evidences. 202-338-0680.
artsandartists.org.
JCCNV. Midrash The Artist as
Commentator. 703-537-3000. jccnvarts.
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Ready for CrossFit,
Kettlebells or P90X? Fitness
crazes have to prove their
merit to stick around
Its always interesting to monitor what
the current fads eeting popularity
contests susceptible to hype and
marketing and trends longer-lasting
waves that tends to have more merit and
basis in research and study are in the
tness world.
A fad can become a trend if enough
people deem it worthwhile and stay with
it, but most fall out of grace within a year
or two when their novelty wears off.
Some of the latest tness fads are
CrossFit, Kettlebell training, P90X,
Insanity and pole dancing. It is yet to be
seen if any of these exercise modalities
will be around long enough to convert
to a trend. A few of those deciding
factors that will shift a fad to a trend in
the tness world is on whether the fad
is evidence based, safe and effective
or if its a one-trick pony. Also, unsafe
or downright dangerous exercise fads
or those geared to a small and specic
population will often and thankfully
disappear. Its the exercise modalities
that engage the general population that
tend to become trends.
Trends are the direction in which a
fad can move and they last far longer
generally at least a decade. Trends hold far
greater merit than fads and garner more
wide-spread popularity. Business leaders
in the health and tness industry look more
toward investing in trends because of
their staying power and ability to produce
revenue for longer periods of time.
Fads are viewed as quick xes and
trends as long-term solutions. Quick xes
generally do not work and long term
behavioral changes do. This is one of the
biggest factors that separate a fad from a
trend in the industry.
The American College of Sports
Medicine produces the most widely
regarded top 20 yearly tness trends.
The ACSM is the premier gold standard
association in the health and tness
industry and essentially bridges the gap
between the health and tness industry
and the medical and scientic community.
For 2012, the ACSM has some notable
differences from 2011 with some trends
dropping off the list and several others
moving up the ladder.
The only fad to make the list once again
that solidies its trend status is Zumba at
number nine. There have not been any
other fads to convert in a few years and it
will be interesting to see what fads convert
to trends in the coming years.
New to the list at number 19 is wellness
coaching which should, in my humble
prediction, quickly move up the ladder
and become a more wide-spread and
embraced trend and very much part
of the health paradigm. Exercise is
not just about sets and reps, its about
behavioral changes that supersede the
short-lived bout of inspiration. Wellness
coaching addresses these elements and
embraces health and tness as lifestyle
fundamentals.
Interestingly, both Pilates and Swiss
Balls are off the list and Pilates for the
second year in a row. Both of these have
been trends for more than a decade and
its important to note that just because
a trend is no longer in the top 20, that
doesnt mean it no longer has merit. It
can simply mean that is has fallen out of
popularity. Pilates and Swiss Balls have
made their impact and will be around for
years to come.
Baby boomers and training specically
for older adults are indeed here to stay
and have moved up from number ve to
number three and as most experts will
agree, this population will grow and more
rapidly over the next 20 years.
Still at number one since 2008 and
hopefully stay there is accredited and
educated tness professionals. Hopefully
we have seen the last of weekend-based
personal training certications and with the
introduction of third party accreditation
associations, our industry will continue
garnering wide-spread respect and
credibility. Thankfully personal training is
revered as a profession and no longer a
hobby.
Its hard to predict what else is knocking
on the tness trend door. Could it be anti-
gravity Yoga, Physique 57 or Piloxing or
will CrossFit and kettlebells keep moving
up the fad ladder and solidify into a trend?
And what about the latest diet Paleo
that is quickly gaining momentum? It will
be interesting to see what prevails and
I will keep you abreast in subsequent
columns.
I will predict and can stipulate with
certainty that dumbbell utensils will
not become a trend and will fall by the
wayside much like vibration belts and
thighmasters. Also extreme workouts
that are scary to the general population
and beyond their ability will lose
popularity. This is a good thing because
in extreme workouts, most people cant
maintain perfect form and arent in total
control of the weight, which doesnt
equal successful completion. Lets see if
controversial workouts like CrossFit and
weighted box jumps fall from grace.
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52 SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 FITNESS
Fads vs. trends
Kevin M. Norris is a health and tness columnist for the
Blade and owner of Mind our Own Body, LLC. Personal
Training. Reach him at kevinmnorris@aol.com.
Its not fair to consider
leaving until youve
fully explored the
relationships potential
DEAR MICHAEL: My partner Jim and I have
been together four years. We had a really
great relationship at rst, but things have
been getting increasingly strained, especially
since we moved in together two years ago.
We get on each others nerves and snipe
at each other more than we used to, over
all sorts of random little things. Also, the
sex is not as exciting as it used to be. Ive
gotten pretty bored with what we do but
Im afraid Ill hurt Jims feelings if I suggest
something different because he seems to
really like our routine.
To make matters more complicated,
I am developing a crush on a colleague
and had dinner with him last week without
telling Jim. We had so much to talk about
and I wonder if maybe my relationship with
Jim has gone stale and its time to move on.
But, we really love each other. I had high
hopes of having a fantastic relationship, but
somehow the one Im in has become dull.
Help! Dullsville
DEAR DULLSVILLE: Many of us fantasize
that in our relationship, we will never get
on each others nerves, always have great
sex and be fascinating companions to each
other, 24-7. This is the script of many movies
and urban legends. When our relationships
dont play out this way, we feel as if weve
been short-changed or that were doing
something wrong. And many of us wonder,
just as you do, if its time to move on.
Heres the reality: Being in a relationship
is tough. You have to live up-close with
someone who is quite different from you. It
is unavoidable that your partner will annoy
you, bore you and drive you crazy at times.
And vice versa!
If you can grasp that the always peaceful,
happy and hot relationships exist only in
fantasy, then you have a shot at achieving
an interesting, solid relationship that is
frequently peaceful, happy and hot. Why?
Because in order to effectively deal with
disappointment, irritation and tension in
your relationship, you must be willing to
accept that their presence is inevitable at
times. If you want the possibility of a better
relationship, you must be willing to take
risks that shake things up.
Consider this: Your fear of addressing
your sexual boredom with Jim is one big
reason why you have a boring relationship.
Most of us dont want to hurt our partners
or reveal things about ourselves that our
partners may not approve of or like. But
when you keep your dialogue limited to
safe topics, youre bound to wind up with
exactly what you are now experiencing: a
non-intimate relationship where you are
frustrated and snapping at each other.
By not wanting to address your problem
with sex, youre tying your hands from
introducing necessary changes that would
improve sex, at least for you.
As far as your budding relationship
with your colleague goes, keep in mind
that there are big differences between
courtship and marriage. Newness is
always exciting, so you cant compare
what you feel with a handsome semi-
stranger to what you feel with your
partner of four years. As a new person
becomes more familiar, he will inevitably,
at times, become less exciting and more
irritating to you. If you were to leave Jim
and pursue New Guy, not too far down
the road you would have to face the hard
task of speaking up about uncomfortable
issues with him instead.
In any case, cavorting with New
Guy is certainly not going to help your
relationship. So, if you are bored and
irritated but love Jim, roll up your sleeves
and get to work doing everything you can
to create a more interesting and intimate
relationship with him. Its premature to
consider ending the relationship until
youve fully explored its potential for
healthy change and growth.
Michael Radkowsky is a licensed psychologist who works
with gay couples and individuals in D.C. He can be found
online at personalgrowthzone.com. Send him questions
at michael@personalgrowthzone.com.
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Is the grass always
greener elsewhere?

TODAY
Clean House star Mark Brunetz is
featured in The Capital House Show at
the Dulles Expo Center (4320 Chantilly
Center Chantilly, Va.) today from 10 a.m.-9
p.m. Tickets are $10 at the box ofce adult
admission, $7 adult online admission and
$3 children (6-12 years old) admission and
free for children 5 years and under. For
more information about the show and
tickets, visit capitalhomeshow.com.
The Nitecamp Dancers will perform
at Town (2009 8
th
St. NW) tonight at 10:30
p.m. Doors open at 10. There is a $5 cover
from 10-11p.m. for the 21-and-up crowd
and $10 cover after 11 p.m. Those 18-20,
have a $10 cover all night. $3 drinks last
from 10-11 p.m. For more information, visit
towndc.com.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 22
Team D.C. Dodgeball holds its rst
ever tournament at the Columbia Heights
Recreation Center (1480 Girard Street) today
at 10 a.m. Team D.C. was created to educate
the LGBT community on the benets
of sports participation, while dismissing
discrimination of those partaking in sports.
The group also gives the opportunity for
the community to participate in various
local, regional, national and international
competitions. For more information, visit
teamdc.org/Dodgeball.htm.
Brother Help Thyself has its rain date
for Gay and Lesbian Night at Kings
Dominion for tonight from 8 p.m. to 1
a.m. As the groups biggest fundraiser,
all benets go to Brother Help Thyself.
Although the event was changed because
of bad weather, all Sept. 8 tickets will be
accepted. Tickets costs $34 online and
$36 at the gate. For more information, visit
thedccenter.org.
The third annual 17
th
Street Festival is
today from noon-6 p.m. The community
will celebrate the 17
th
Street Corridor
from Riggs Place to P St. N.W. Including
many different musical performances,
artist vendors, a pet and kid zone
and appearances from various city
ofcials, everyone is coming together
to commemorate business and the
community itself. For more information,
visit thedccenter.org.
The Green Lantern (1335 Green Ct.)
hosts The Tainted Love, an International
80s Dance Party tonight from 10 p.m. to
3 a.m. The party features all worldwide hits
provided by DJ Tom from Prague. Dress
code is enforced, meaning high tops,
big hair and bright makeup. The cost is
$5 all night. For more information, visit
greenlanterndc.com.
The 12
th
annual National Book
Festival is back at the National Mall today
at 10 a.m. This free event, organized and
sponsored by the Library of Congress
with President Barack Obama and First
Lady Michelle Obama as honorary chairs,
will celebrate many different books
while honoring authors such as, Michael
Connelly and R.L. Stine. Singer Jewel will
make presentations, along with a variety
of other illustrators, poets and writers. For
more information, visit loc.gov/bookfest/.
Grubbs NW Specialty Pharmacy (1517
17th St. NW) hosts a free seminar today at
noon, for those interested in learning how
to accomplishment parenthood in the
LGBT community. Discussions will include
psychological issues related to in vitro
fertilization in the LGBT community and
legal implications of the process. Space
is limited and RSVP is required. To RSVP,
contact Emily or Daphne at 202-503-2644.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 23
Diamond Rings performs at the 9:30
club (815 V St. NW), for the Stars Concert
with the California Wives tonight at 7 p.m.
The Canadian gay singer is known for his
glittery makeup, animal print and leotards.
For more information, visit 930.com.
Nellies Sports Bar (900 U St. NW) hosts
its weekly Drag Brunch today at 11. The
cost is $24 for the brunch buffet, while your
rst mimosa is free. Also, Zing Zang Bloody
Marys are $4 and Absolut Peppar Bloody
Marys are $6. For more information, visit
nelliessportsbar.com.
LGBT Families Day at National Park (1500
South Capitol Street SE) happens today at 1:30.
The Nationals will play the Milwaukee Brewers
today at 1:35 p.m. For more information, visit
washington.nationals.mlb.com.
MONDAY, SEPT. 24
Cobalt (1639 R St. NW) hosts its Martini
Monday tonight at 10. There is no cover
charge and martinis are $5. For more
information, visit cobaltdc.com.
Whitman-Walker Health (1701 14
th
St.
NW) holds its HIV+ Newly Diagnosed
Support Group tonight at 7. The group
is a condential support system for those
recently diagnosed with HIV and all are
welcome. For more information, visit
whitman-walker.org.
The 2012 Gay Mens HIV/AIDS
Awareness Day Reception will be tonight
at 7 p.m. at The D.C. Center (1318 U St
NW). The center will be thanking bars,
clubs and other local businesses that have
helped ght HIV in D.C. by distributing the
safer sex kit, FUK!Ts, around town.
The Marylanders for Marriage
Equality is holding a fundraiser at Joes
Movement Emporium (3309 Bunker
Hill Road Mount Rainier, Md) tonight
at 6. Entertainment, wine and light
fare will be included. For details, visit
marylandersformarriageequality.org.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 25
The Green Lantern (1335 Green Ct.)
hosts the D.C. Centers FUK!T Packing
Party tonight at 7 p.m. The goal is to
circulate these packets around the city
and the clubs to spread HIV awareness.
For more details, visit thedccenter.org.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26
The Lambda Bridge Club meets
tonight at 7:30 at the DignityCenter (721
8th St., SE) for duplicate bridge. No
reservations are needed and newcomers
welcome. For details and/or a partner, visit
lambdabridge.com.
Whitman-Walker Health (1701 14
th
St.
NW) holds its Gay Men Over 50 group
meeting tonight at 6:30. This support
group is condential for gay men over 50
(or soon to be 50) seeking to continue their
quality of life and sense of purpose while
beginning a new chapter. For details, visit
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 27
The Lambda Sci-Fi Book Group meets
tonight at 7 to discuss this months book,
Beyond Binary, edited by Brit Mandelo.
Bring a snack and/or a non-alcoholic drink
to share. The meeting will be held at Peter
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information, visit lambdasci.org.
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By TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER
To out or not to out?
At this point in your life, youve made
your decision but sometimes, you get
a little angry that its even an issue.
Sometimes that anger really gets you
down, enough to make you want to just sit
and think or sit and drink, and thats not
good, either.
Youve had enough hate ung your way.
Youve had your share of isolation and
family problems. So isnt it time to get
your share of love and acceptance? In the
completely revised, updated edition of
The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs, youll
nd a road map for the journey.
Is self-destruction inherent in gay men?
Alan Downs believes so, and he thinks
he knows why: shame.
Shame, he says, is the fear of being
unlovable. Its not embarrassment over
being gay; it is the belief that being gay is
a symptom of your own mortally awed
psyche. And perhaps because its a secret
[a man] cannot reveal, it often leads to self-
destructive habits including suicide.
Shame starts in childhood.
The rst man you loved, says Downs,
was your father. If he withheld acceptance,
you turned to your mother and were
drawn to the feminine. This led to a
change in family dynamics, which might
have taught you to hide ugly realities
as a means of survival and avoidance,
resulting in shames accompanying rage.
To live a life of happiness, Downs says,
there are three stages that gay men must
endure. The rst is characterized by being
overwhelmed by shame, coping with it
by splitting, or leading two discordant
lives. Splitting helps avoid shame, but
leads to a breakdown in relationships and
a crisis in identity.
Stage two is marked by compensation
for shame and a belief that there is
something fundamentally awed,
internally. This is where addiction and
depression often appear, especially when
former validation is no longer enough
to soothe the gay mans distress.
Resolution of this takes all gay men to
the next stage.
In stage three, a gay man seeks a better life
for himself. Old self-destructive behaviors
no longer hold interest. Relationship
trauma (betrayal, abuse, abandonment and
relationship ambivalence) is healed. Joy
becomes possible.
Aside from the overgeneralizations,
The Velvet Rage is pretty good.
The beginning chapters of this book
may make readers feel like a bobble-head
doll, nodding, nodding, nodding. Thats
eerie, because it may be hard not to see
yourself in at least some of what author
Alan Downs portrays, in fact.
What is most appealing about this
book, though, are its last chapters. There,
Downs helps readers along with his Skills
for Leading an Authentic Life, which are
good strengths to cultivate, no matter
where you are (or are not) on Downs
continuum.
Meant, perhaps, for a younger man
whos just starting this journey, I also
think this book has words of wisdom for
older gay men, too. If youre in search of
comfort and a more peaceful life, The
Velvet Rage is a book to check out.
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Megaforce Records.
McCloskey says her band will denitely
include songs from that project in their
hour-long set Saturday night.
The albums been streaming on our site
for a couple weeks, we actually just took it
down, she says. But the fans have gotten
a chance to hear it and people are really
pumped. It has a great range of everything
from guitar rock to ballads to mid-tempo
pop songs. Were really proud of the wide
range there and we think it shows the most
growth weve had in the band so far.
For Bingham, Hunter Valentine was
never her only musical outlet. Shes been
doing Clinical Trials for about eight years
in between her time working as a sound
engineer in New York, where she lives. She
calls Trials a PJ Harvey-meets-Nirvana-
meets a little more production-with some
MIA and weird samples thrown in.
She says the high quality of Phasefest,
now in its sixth year and one of the few
queer-specic music festivals in the
country, keeps her coming back.
These bands dont just happen to be
queer, she says. Its all really great music.
All genres are represented. Youll nd
something there you like musically and it
will also be really high caliber.
Phase 1 manager Angela Lombardi,
who launched the festival, expects about
700 people to visit the bar this weekend,
a number theyve roughly been holding
steady at for the past few years. She says
about 75 percent of the bands slated for
this year are returning acts.
I do get some shit about it. People
sometimes say, Why not try to create
an entirely new festival every year?
Lombardi says. But these are all bands I
really love and people I really care about.
Ive become friends with many of them
and so for me, its really about supporting
great queer artists.
Its not a hard-and-fast rule that all the
bands have LGBT members, but Lombardi
can only think of one band that played
there once that didnt have at least one
queer member.
And she says as time has gone on, the
original Phase 1 widely thought to be
the oldest continually operating lesbian bar
in the U.S. has retained its own identity
from its sister location in Dupont Circle
which opened in February at the old Apex/
Badlands location on 22nd Street. They were
never meant to be the same experience
and though Lombardi helped open that
location, the two Phase spots operate
largely independently of each other. All the
Phasefest events will continue to be at the
original Phase in Eastern Market.
We did talk about the possibility of
having one night (of Phasefest) there, but
at the end of the day, we felt like offering
the same festival experience people have
come to expect from us was the best way
to go, she says. We kind of thought if
we go bigger, it will change to the point
that its not this thing we love and think is
great. We love this space and the feeling
here and so after all the discussion, we just
decided to keep it real and kept it at the
original Phase.
But did the new Phase cut into the
original Phases customer base?
Were making it happen, Lombardi
says. Some people go back and forth,
but were always doing crazy shit at the
original Phase. As of right now, were
making it work.
Alongside bands with national exposure
and following like Hunter Valentine are
indie local bands like Glitterlust, which
played only its fourth date at last years
Phasefest. Lead singer Mikey Torres
Glitterlust is the only male-fronted band
on the roster this year says Phasefest
was our rst real show.
I was actually just watching the
YouTube video of our set from last year
and its really amazing how much weve
evolved in that time, Torres says. Weve
played a lot more shows since then and
added a lot more interactive elements.
Everythings just a lot bigger and amped
up. Our focus now is making everything
larger than life.
So why is it important for queer bands
to have outlets such as Phasefest at
which to play? Isnt it best to inltrate the
mainstream as much as possible for queer
visilibity?
I live for music so being able to support
music that I know has endured some sort of
hardship just be existing and giving them
a safe space to perform in a totally queer
rock and roll environment, its really a great
thing, Lombardi says. Its also just totally
rad to have one space where you can go
and hear a lot of bands. Yeah, its fun to
go hear the Scissor Sisters and these great
shows, but more often than not, youre just
hearing one band. This also gives some of
our local bands some chances to perform
alongside the bigger bands who have more
national followings.
Torres agrees.
Even if we were fully accepted in
mainstream society, well always need our
own spaces, he says. Its great to have
acceptance, but sometimes I just need to
be with my gay friends. Theres a dialogue
that can happen there that doesnt
happen with straight people. You can
unwind most around the people youre
totally comfortable with.

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As the Washington Metro area housing
market continues to be one of the stron-
gest markets in the nation, there are sub-
stantial opportunities for both buyers and
sellers this fall to purchase and sell proper-
ties in this very active and robust market.
The key for buyers and sellers to be suc-
cessful in this competitive market is to act
now or miss out on the big opportunities
this market has to offer.
It is essential that buyers be poised
and ready to act quickly when they fnd a
property they want to buy, as low inven-
tory and many other motivated buyers
often means competitive, multiple-offer
situations. The shortage of properties
for sale means sellers can win big when
selling appropriately priced properties,
especially in popular and sought after
neighborhoods in the area.
Here are some of the top things buy-
ers and sellers should consider about the
current area housing market. Top reasons
why buyers can beneft:
The metropolitan D.C.-area market is
charted to show that the bottom of the
market occurred in late 2008 and early
2009. It is clearly improving, with prices
going up steadily, especially in close-in
D.C.-area markets. This should give buy-
ers some assurance of knowing that, while
the market is improving, prices are far
from reaching their zenith, and they can
still get in on some relatively good buys.
Mortgage interest rates are at all-time
record lows. Since at least 20 percent of
the purchase is fnanced with borrowed
money, the cost of these funds should be
an even bigger factor for buyers than the
purchase price of the property. It is cer-
tainly a compelling reason to buy now and
take advantage of this unusual situation.
The property you buy today will prob-
ably be worth more in a year, and cer-
tainly in the near future. Once the market
starts moving in one direction, it picks
up momentum and just keeps going. It
takes a catastrophic circumstance to turn
it around, like the mortgage meltdown of
2006-2007.
Sellers can also enter the market with
confdence for the frst time since 2005.
Three things sellers should consider:
If you price your property according
to the most recent comparable sales
and if you make improvements that will
help your property sell, like painting, de-
cluttering and landscaping, you may well
receive more than one offer to purchase,
which gives you tremendous leverage in
getting your asking price or more.
If you are selling and buying in the
same market, there may actually be a
savings to be realized. Although you may
not receive what you would have gotten
in 2005, the property you are purchasing
will also not be as expensive as it would
have been at the peak of the market.
And, if you are buying up, there is a
defnite savings for you. In addition, rates
will probably be lower on your purchase
than on the property you currently own.
Rather than focus on the margin of
proft you wont get compared to 2005,
keep the big picture in mind. Metro area
market analyses show that prices are now
up to 80 percent or better of the prices
at the peak of the market. If you have a
good reason to move, like shortening
your commute so you can spend more
time with your family and have some lei-
sure to enjoy, it may simply not be worth
waiting to get the last dollar out of your
current property. Weighing the degree
of loss and savings versus quality of life
is important.
Whats the key takeaway? It is going to
continue to be a strong and busy hous-
ing market this fall and the best advice
for interested buyers and sellers is to act,
and act now.
REAL ESTATE
D.C. fall market a win-win
for buyers and sellers
Donna Evers is the broker and owner of Evers & Co. Real
Estate, the largest woman-owned and run residential real
estate frm in the Washington Metro area and the propri-
etor of Twin Oaks Tavern Winery in Bluemont, Va. Reach her
at devers@eversco.com.
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services also available. Licensed &
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or Call John 202-905-1195.
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ARLINGTON AVAIL. Immed. $1895/
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704 6401 majors.bruce@gmail.com
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Historic Mount Rainier $260,000
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Large fenced yard! Garage! 4
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2297.
INSURANCE
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LEGAL SERVICES
FULL SERVICE LAW FIRM Representing
the GLBT community for over 30 years.
Family adoptions, estate planning,
immigration, employment. (301) 891-
2200. Silber, Perlman, Sigman & Tilev,
P.A. www.SP-Law. com.
ADOPTION & ASSISTED
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PAINTERS
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546-5790. Holsteinj@aol.com.
PETS & SUPPLIES
ADOPT AN ADORABLE PUPPY OR
DOG All-breed, non-proft rescue. 100%
volunteer run. Donations welcome &
needed. www.aforeverhome.org.
LOOKING FOR THAT special
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cats & kittens waiting to meet
you. Feline Foundation 703-920-
8665. Application & adoption fair
schedule online at www.ffgw.org.
PHOTOGRAPHY
STEVE OTOOLE PHOTOGRAPHY
Fine Art Photographer for portraits,
weddings & dating photos for the
internet. Call (703) 532-3031. www.
steveotoolephotography.com.
ROOFING
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Upscale English Basement Apartment. 950 sq ft. New Construction.
1br / 1ba. Gourmet Kitchen. Granite Counter Tops. Stainless Steel
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BRUNO (301) 580-2716.
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