Volume 44, Issue 17 - April 26, 2013

Mariage pour tous
From Delaware to Paris,

lawmakers embracing
marriage equality
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS
mlavers@washblade.com
It was another momentous week for
marriage equality, as lawmakers from
France to Delaware took steps to legalize
nuptials for gay and lesbian couples.
Amid protests from right-wing groups,
the French National Assembly on
Tuesday gave nal approval to a bill that
would extend marriage and adoption
rights to gay and lesbian couples.
The 331-225 vote took place less than
two weeks after the countrys Senate
approved the measure. The bill passed
in the National Assembly in February by
a 329-229 vote margin.
In voting for this law, we want to offer
it to the tens of thousands of children who
want, after they leave school, the power
to give their hand to their two dads or
to their two moms, Bernard Roman,
a Socialist member of the National
Assembly, said before lawmakers
approved the bill as Le Monde reported.
Herv Mariton, who is a member of the
Union for a Popular Movement (UMP,)
spoke against the proposal.
In a few weeks, perhaps, friends,
Diane and Franoise, will marry, he said,
according to Le Monde as he criticized
his fellow legislators for not allowing a
referendum on the issue. Marriage,
before being rights, are obligations.
The measures supporters have
become increasingly concerned in
recent weeks with rhetoric against the
bill they contend has sparked a spate of
anti-gay violence across France. These
include a librarian whom a group of men
beat unconscious as he and his boyfriend
walked to their Paris home on April 7 and
a gay cabaret singer who was attacked
early Saturday morning as he and his
partner left a Nice nightclub.
National Assembly President Claude
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By BRENT ADAMS MUNDT
EDITORS NOTE: This is the second installment in a series assessing
the LGBT climate on university campuses as told by alumni were
pairing with current students to tell their stories. This week: Jeff
Trammell and William & Mary. Next in the series: Lesbian author Fay
Jacobs returns to American University.
Speaking of her beloved college, the acclaimed actress
Glenn Close once saic, " have an incesrrucriLle, visceral
connection to this place a connection which is vital and real
and which has sustained me through good times and bad.
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Close threads the needle for this series. As we explore
the experiences and struggles of gay alumni, the actress
known for her roles in Dangerous Liaisons and Fatal
Attraction serves apt imagery.
For Jeff Trammell, in the early 1970s, any same-
sex liaisons would have been dangerous and any
attraction could be fatal to his reputation, or worse.
So, while heterosexual classmates were sewing their wild
oats, Trammell buried himself in books, basketball and
life in the Lambda Chi fraternity. One can picture him with
20 pounds of history books in his backpack, waiting in
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A couple kisses on the streets of Paris during a demonstration in favor of marriage
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Silverman takes gay
precincts in special election
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
Incumbent Democrat Anita Bonds
won the race for an at-large seat on the
D.C. Council in the citys special election
on Tuesday, beating ve rivals, including
pro-gay Republican Patrick Mara, who
drew support from LGBT activists.
But Democratic candidate Elissa
Silverman, who came in second place
citywide, won in 12 of the citys 14
precincts identied as having high
concentrations of LGBT residents.
Mara came in second in the same 12
precincts, with Bonds coming in third.
Bonds won by a wide margin in the
two remaining gay precincts, one
in Anacostia and the other along the
Southwest waterfront area, where large
numbers of black LGBT residents live.
I know I have many friends in
the LGBT community for which I am
blessed, Bonds told the Blade after
delivering her victory speech at the
Channel Inn Hotel located on the
Southwest waterfront.
I dont know how they all voted, but
when we look at the data well probably
discover that persons who have been
members of the community 15 to 20
years, they knew Anita, she said. Those
who are relatively new to D.C., many
didnt know me or know my record.
David Meadows, former president of
the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club,
the citys largest LGBT political group,
serves as press secretary for Bonds
Council ofce. He noted that Bonds
became a member of the Stein Club
as a straight ally in 1978, two years after
the club was founded, and has been a
strong LGBT rights supporter ever since.
I wouldnt say it was overwhelming,
Meadows said in describing Bonds
support among LGBT voters in Tuesdays
election. But I think that there were
many long-term LGBT residents that
understood the support that Anita
Bonds brought to our community.
In the citywide race, Bonds received
32 percent of the vote, with Silverman
receiving 28 percent. Mara received 23
percent. Democratic candidates Matthew
Frumin and Paul Zuckerberg received
11 percent 2 percent respectively.
Statehood Green Party candidate Perry
Redd also received 2 percent.
As predicted by many political
observers, only about 10 percent of the
citys registered voters turned out to vote in
the special election, appearing to be one
of the lowest turnout elections ever in D.C.
Each of the candidates expressed
strong support for LGBT rights,
including backing for the citys same-
sex marriage law. Bonds and Silverman
drew support from many of the citys
prominent LGBT activists.
Mara also drew support from some
of the citys prominent gay Democratic
activists, raising speculation that he
could win the race as a reform candidate
appealing to Democratic voters, both
gay and straight, who yearn for a fresh
face on the Council.
But Silverman appears to have won
over a majority of the voters that political
pundits say Mara attracted in his two
previous races for a City Council seat.
Silverman came in rst in Wards 1 and
2, and 6, where large numbers of LGBT
voters live. Mara won in Ward 3, where
the majority of the citys registered
Republicans reside. Silvermans win over
Mara in Ward 1 came as a surprise to
some because Mara, a Ward 1 resident,
won election last year to the Ward 1 seat
on the citys Board of Education.
Bonds won by wide margins in the
majority black Wards 4, 5, 7 and 8.
Silverman received the most votes
among members of the Gertrude Stein
Club at an endorsement meeting in
March. But she fell ve points short of the
60 percent majority vote required for a
Stein Club endorsement. Bonds came in
second place in the endorsement vote.
Individual Stein Club members
appeared to be evenly divided in their
backing between Silverman and Bonds.
LGBT activists familiar with city voting
trends caution that the so-called LGBT
precincts may not be representative of
all LGBT voters because most of them
are in majority white sections of the city.
Gay Democratic activist Phil Pannell,
a longtime resident of Ward 8, has
said black LGBT residents tend to be
dispersed in many different precincts
and tend not to be concentrated in a few
specic precincts such as those in Dupont
Circle, Logan Circle and Adams Morgan.
GLAA head calls move
act of disrespect

By LOU CHIBBARO JR.

A political consultant who was paid by
an anti-gay group to lead the effort to
place D.C.s same-sex marriage law on
the ballot in a voter referendum in 2010
is serving on a fundraising committee for
D.C. Council member Muriel Bowsers
campaign for mayor.
Robert Bob King, a Ward 5 Advisory
Neighborhood Commissioner, is listed
as one of more than 100 people serving
on the host committee for a May 2
kickoff celebration and fundraiser
for Bowsers bid to win the Democratic
nomination for mayor next year.
Bowser, a Democrat from Ward 4, is
a strong supporter of LGBT rights and
voted for the citys same-sex marriage
law when it came before the D.C.
Council in 2009. The Council passed
the law by a vote of 11-2. Then Mayor
Adrian Fenty signed the measure less
than a week later.
King emerged as one of the top
lieutenants of Bishop Harry Jackson, the
Beltsville, Md., minister who came to
D.C. to lead the campaign to overturn
the marriage law.
King told the Blade this week that he
has never taken a public position for or
against the gay marriage law. He said
he was retained as a consultant by the
National Organization for Marriage
which opposes same-sex marriage
to coordinate a campaign to place the
D.C. marriage law on the ballot in a
voter referendum.
My position was to give the people
the right to vote on the issue, he said.
My personal view is not the issue. The
issue was democracy and whether the
people should be given the right to vote.
In a brief interview with the Blade
Tuesday night at the election victory
party for Council member Anita Bonds
(D-At-Large), Bowser said she had yet
to hear from anyone who objected to
King being on the host committee for
her campaign kickoff event.
When asked how King was selected
to be on the committee, Bowser said,
Well, we certainly invite people who
want to support my candidacy for mayor
all across the city. And certainly Bob
King is a xture in this community, she
said. But he wont change my views.
Rick Rosendall, president of the Gay
and Lesbian Activists Alliance, said King
and others who clearly oppose marriage
equality seek to hide behind the let
the people vote mantra in their efforts
to kill same-sex marriage laws.
The fact is that no other peoples
rights are put to a plebiscite, he said.
People have a right to support
whatever candidate they like, of course,
Rosendall added. But for a candidate to
welcome the support of a documented
organizer for bigotry, and even to welcome
such a person on their host committee,
is at the very least a signicant act of
disrespect for the LGBT community.
Among others serving on the Bowser
campaign host committee are gay
activists Christopher Dyer, who served
as director of the D.C. Ofce of GLBT
Affairs under the Fenty administration;
and gay activist and businessman
Everett Hamilton.
King said he has been an advocate for
D.C. residents, including senior citizens,
for more than 30 years in his role as a
civic activist and ANC commissioner. He
said hes supporting Bowser because
he believes she is highly qualied to be
mayor and would move the city forward.
That issue has been decided, he
said of the D.C. marriage law. We
move on now to other issues.
Records from the D.C. Ofce of
Campaign Finance show that the
National Organization for Marriage
paid King $60,900 to, among other
things, distribute iers during the 2010
City Council election to urge voters to
vote against Council members up for
re-election who voted for the marriage
equality law.
Bonds wins at-large D.C. Council race
Anti-gay consultant working for Bowser mayoral campaign
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04 AFRl L 2, 2013 LOCAL NEWS
'l know l have many Iriends in the LGBT
community Ior which l am blessed,' ANITA
BONDS told the Blade aIter her win on Tuesday.
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State Department trip
connects activists with
U.S. counterparts
Six Colombian LGBT rights advocates
have visited D.C. and two other states
this month as part of a State Department-
sponsored trip to learn how activists,
politicians and government ofcials in this
country advance civil and human rights.
The group which includes lawyer
Viviana Baharquez Monsalve; Wilson
de Jess Castaeda Castro, director
of Corporacin Caribe Armativo in
Cartagena; Juan Carlos Pietro Garca,
director of the city of Bogots Ofce of
Sexual Diversity and Federico Ruz Mora
of the Santamara Fundacin in Cali
arrived in D.C. on April 14.
The advocates met with State
Department ofcials, Lisa Mottet of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
Human Rights Campaign and Victory
Fund staffers, transgender activists and
others while in the nations capital. They
will have also traveled to Des Moines,
Iowa, and San Diego before returning
to Colombia this week.
Castaeda, whose group advocates
on behalf of LGBT Colombians who live
along the countrys Caribbean coastline,
told the Washington Blade during an April
18 interview that he and his fellow activists
highlighted their work on behalf of their gay,
lesbian, bisexual and trans countrymen. He
said they also wanted to learn about this
countrys elections, documentation of hate
crimes and anti-bullying efforts in schools
while in the United States.
Ruz, whose group advocates on
behalf of trans women, discussed how
the Colombian LGBT rights movement
compares to that in the United States.
Things are rather similar to those
in our country, but there are clearly
obvious differences, he said.
The activists arrived in the United
States less than a month after the
U.S. Supreme Court heard oral
arguments in two cases that challenge
the constitutionality of Californias
Proposition 8 and the Defense of
Marriage Act. Their trip also coincided
with the ongoing debate over a bill that
would extend marriage rights to same-
sex couples in Colombia.
The Colombian Senate had been
scheduled to vote on the proposal on
April 18 the same day the activists
spoke with the Blade, but it was
postponed until Tuesday. Baharquez
said it will prove very, very difcult
to pass the same-sex marriage bill
because of opposition from religious
conservatives in the countrys Congress.
There is little hope that something is
going to pass, she said.
Colombian senators in 2007 defeated
a bill that would have allowed gays and
lesbians to enter into civil unions.
The countrys Constitutional Court in
three separate rulings it issued later that
year and in 2008 extended property and
inheritance rights, social security and
pension benets to same-sex couples.
The tribunal in 2009 issued a ruling
that said co-habitating gay and lesbian
couples must receive the same rights
that unmarried heterosexual couples
receive under Colombian law.
The same court in 2011 ruled
lawmakers must pass legislation within
two years that extends the same
benets that heterosexuals receive
through marriage to same-sex couples.
If legislators fail to act on this mandate
by June 20, gays and lesbians can legally
register their unions.
While attention remains focused on
extending marriage rights to same-sex
couples, violence against trans women
remains rampant throughout the country.
A report from the Latin American and
Caribbean Network of Transgender
Women (REDLACTRANS) notes 61
trans women in Colombia have been
reported murdered between 2005-
2011. The group further notes none
of the alleged perpetrators have been
prosecuted Ruz said authorities
often exacerbate the problem.
Colombia is the same as many Latin
American countries and others around
the world; the trans community is that
which is the most affected, he said
as he discussed the issue. This has
to do with historic discrimination and
exclusion accompanied by systematic
acts of violence. This violence has to do
with transphobic acts because of [the
victims] gender identity.
The advocates hope to launch a
campaign in support of a trans rights
bill that would, among other things,
guarantee a dignied life for trans
women in Colombia. Ruz further
described them as those who are in a
helpless situation against the constant
violation of their human rights.
Argentine President Cristina Fernndez
de Kirchner in May 2012 signed a
bill that allows people who have not
undergone sex-reassignment surgery
to legally change their gender without
a doctor or judges approval. The law
further mandates public and private
health insurance plans to cover SRS,
hormone therapy and other trans-specic
treatments without additional premiums.
Castaeda told the Blade the
campaign through which Argentine
LGBT rights advocates secured passage
of their countrys trans rights bill is
important to us. He stressed, however,
their own effort should take into account
the particularity of the situation that
trans Colombians currently face with
regard to discrimination and violence.
The U.S. Agency for International
Development earlier this month
announced a public-private partnership
designed to promote LGBT rights
around the world. The Victory Institute
and the Astraea Foundation will
conduct the initiatives rst training in
Bogot, the Colombian capital, from
May 30-June 2.
Colombian LGBT advocates visit D.C.
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FRANK ZAMPATORI, 68

Frank J. Zampatori Jr. died April 15 at his Capitol Hill East home. He was 68.
He had been a longtime D.C. resident and Democratic Party activist.
Friends and family members said he died of natural causes believed to be
linked to heart disease.
D.C. Council member Anita Bonds (D-At-Large) said she and Zampatori
became friends in 1978 when the two worked on then-Council member Marion
Barrys rst campaign for mayor. It was a time when Barry became one of the rst
big-name politicians to aggressively court the gay community for support.
Zampatori a short time later became a member of the Gertrude Stein
Democratic Club, a local gay advocacy group, and worked on LGBT rights
causes over the next 35 years. Bonds said he became a member of the
D.C. Democratic State Committee in the 1980s and remained active in local
Democratic Party affairs until the time of his death.
At the recommendation of LGBT activists, Barry appointed Zampatori in
the 1980s to the citys Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, making him the rst
openly gay person to serve on the alcohol regulatory body.
Antonette Russell, a friend and neighbor of Zampatoris, said Zampatori
also played a key role as a Capitol Hill East civic activist. In recent years,
according to Russell, Zampatori closely monitored city plans for developing
a tract of land where the former D.C. General Hospital was located to make
sure development wouldnt have a negative impact on the surrounding
neighborhood where Zampatori lived.
He monitored that closely, she said, in a way that beneted the
neighborhood.
Friends said Zampatori worked most of his career as an ofcial with the U.S.
Appalachian Regional Commission, a joint federal-state agency that coordinated
economic development programs for the nations Appalachian region.
He was a very active, very committed community person, said Ron
Collins, a retired D.C. government ofcial and friend of Zampatoris.
He was on the front lines of the LGBT struggle when it wasnt easy to be
there, Collins said. We owe him a large debt of gratitude.
A memorial service for Zampatori was scheduled to take place 6:30 p.m.
April 25, at Pope Funeral Home at 2617 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E. After the
memorial service friends and family members planned to celebrate Franks
life and share how he made such an enormous impact on the community at
Trattoria Alberto restaurant at 506 8th St., S.E., around 8:30 p.m., according
to Russell.
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SMYALs new strategic plan
SMYAL on Thursday unveiled a new
logo and acronym as part of its ongoing
rebranding efforts.
The organization retired the blue,
spiky-haired logo affectionately dubbed
Shannon and replaced it with one that
contains SMYAL in magenta print above
a rainbow-colored banner and a slogan
that reads empowering LGBTQ youth.
SMYAL, which had previously stood for
Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League,
is now Supporting and Mentoring Youth
Advocates and Leaders.
SMYAL Executive Director Andrew
Barnett told the Washington Blade in
an exclusive interview on Tuesday that
young people whom the organization
serves and local groups with which
it works increasingly found the term
sexual minority out of touch.
We want a name that when people see
it they say oh, this is something that I see
myself in, Barnett said. The actual spelling
out of the acronym was not something that
people identify with anymore.
A group of advocates and those
who work with young people founded
SMYAL in 1984 after they organized a
conference on LGBT youth issues after
they learned cross-dressing students
had been admitted to St. Elizabeths
Hospital in D.C. The organization has
subsequently provided direct services
to more than 7,500 young LGBT people
from the nations capital, Prince Georges
County in Maryland and other parts of
the Washington metropolitan area.
SMYAL in March 2012 adopted a new
strategic plan that Barnett said during
his organizations annual Fall Brunch
last October would allow it to identify
key issues facing LGBT youth and how
the organization can most effectively
respond to them.
Barnett told the Blade the process of
speaking with board members, staffers,
clients, funding partners and donors
about the new strategic plan began in
July 2011. He said SMYAL also sought
feedback and suggestions from other
community organizations and agencies
with which it partners.
We really wanted to get an accurate
and comprehensive picture of SMYAL
and LGBTQ youth in the region and
what makes sense for us as the next
step for our organization, Barnett said.
Barnett said it quickly became clear
SMYALs after school programs were
providing really great support for youth.
He added his organization has heard from
a lot of young people who said they were
interested in attending them.
At SMYAL were providing really
great opportunities for youth to engage
in social activities with their peers and
engage in positive youth development,
Barnett said. They feel like theyre
part of the community [and] ultimately
they can grow into happy, healthy and
productive adults.
The average age an LGBT person
comes out is 13; but many of them
cannot attend SMYAL programs that
take place at the organizations youth
center on 7th Street, S.E., near Eastern
Market because they are involved with
other after-school programs, cannot get
to a Metro station or are not ready to
come out to their parents.
We also want to expand our ability to
provide programming outside of the four
walls of SMYAL, Barnett said. We want to
bring those safe spaces and opportunities
for youth leadership development to
other places in our community.
Barnett further pointed LGBT
young people continue to experience
disproportionate rates of bullying and
harassment in school.
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight
Education Networks 2011 National
School Climate Survey reported 81.9
percent of students said their classmates
verbally harassed them because of their
sexual orientation. Nearly a fth of them
said they were physically assaulted on
campus because they are gay.
The GLSEN report also found roughly
two-thirds of LGBT students had
experienced verbal harassment because
of their gender identity and expression
12.4 percent of them said their classmates
physically attacked them at school. Nearly
30 percent of LGBT students said they
skipped class at least once because they
did not feel safe at school.
GLSEN and other advocates also note
LGBT students are more likely to face
suspension or other disciplinary actions
in school than their straight classmates.
One of the ways SMYAL hopes to
expand beyond the organizations drop-in
center near Eastern Market is through its
D.C. Regional GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance)
Network it launched last month.
Working in collaboration with the San
Francisco-based Gay-Straight Alliance
Network that coordinates more than
900 GSAs throughout California, the
SMYAL initiative seeks to support and
strengthen the 77 groups in the D.C.
metropolitan area. The organization
hopes to achieve this goal through an
activist camp in August, its annual GSA
conference that takes place each fall
and trainings with individual clubs and
their members at their schools.
SMYAL in 2011 hosted a GSA Network
gathering that drew more than 75 young
LGBT advocates and GSA sponsors
from 20 states. The organization last
November also hosted 78 student
leaders from across the region at its rst
GSA conference.
Barnett is also a member of D.C. Public
Schools LGBTQ Steering Committee.
We know that GSAs or gay-straight
alliances are really effective ways for
us to make schools safer for LGBTQ
students, Barnett said.
He added the D.C. Regional GSA
Network takes into account the goal set
forth in its new strategic plan to expand
its programming beyond its youth center.
We also saw that there was a huge
unmet need throughout our region
for youth who werent able to access
programming at SMYAL, Barnett said.
They didnt have access to any other
programming.
Barnett said he feels SMYALs
rebranding efforts will better position
it to expand its reach in the D.C.
metropolitan area in the years to come.
Its a chance for us to take a big step
forward in better meeting the needs of
LGBT youth throughout the region, which
is at the heart of our mission, he said.
D.C. LGBT youth group rebrands itself
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SMYAL changed its logo. lts president,
ANDREW BARNETT, said the rebranding eIIort
includes a Iocus on its regional Gay-Straight
Alliance Network.
Says hes talked with
Portman, sees committee
vote in May or June
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The lead sponsor of the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act in the Senate
is excited about the bills prospects
upon reintroduction and anticipates
committee action in May or June.
In an interview with the Washington
Blade on Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Merkley
(D-Ore.) talked about the future for
ENDA, which hes planning to introduce
on Thursday. The bill is set to debut on
the same day as the House version by
gay Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.).
Merkley, who prior to being elected
as U.S. senator was Oregon State
House Speaker, said hes very excited
about leading the ght on ENDA for
two reasons: it builds off the state
LGBT non-discrimination legislation
he helped usher into law in 2007, and
it honors the legacy of the late Sen.
Edward Kennedy, who previously
championed ENDA.
Part of the reason its exciting to
me is I led the ght in Oregon for basic
rights, Merkley said. It was a huge
honor to have Sen. Kennedy ask me to
carry the torch on this bill. And I want
to fulll the responsibility he gave me
of getting the bill passed in the Senate.
I think were going to be a lot of closer.
We have a chance of getting this done,
and getting it done this year.
Merkley said hes spoken with the
Senate Health, Education, Labor &
Pensions Committee Chair Tom Harkin
(D-Iowa), whos already pledged to
have a panel vote on ENDA this year,
and received assurances a markup
would happen in the coming months.
He was very publicly saying the
moment he got the bill in his hands
as soon as it was introduced that
he wanted to move forward quickly,
Merkley said. My understanding, to be
conrmed obviously in conversations
with him, is hed like to have the markup
in May or June.
The Oregon senator afrmed the
Senate version of the bill would have
ve original co-sponsors: himself,
Harkin as well as lesbian Sen. Tammy
Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Republican Sens.
Susan Collins (Maine) and Mark Kirk
(Ill.). On Friday, the legislation will be
open to additional co-sponsors.
Merkley also conrmed that two
areas that were previously under
reconsideration with respect to ENDA
the religious exemption and no
mention of disparate impact would
be unchanged upon reintroduction.
However, Merkley said ENDA would
be different because other provisions
were modied following conversations
with stakeholders and with Republican
partners.
Among the changes relates to
shared facilities. The previous version
of ENDA stated an employer wouldnt
be in violation of the law if it denied a
transgender person access to dressing
facilities in which being seen unclothed
is unavoidable provided that the
company provides access to adequate
facilities consistent with the employees
gender identity. Merkley said the new
version of ENDA wont address the
issue of shared facilities.
Were going to adopt the model
that has been the dominant state
model, which is simply not to have
discussion on facilities in any of the
sections of the bill, which is what the
states have done and its worked very
well, Merkley said.
The Oregon senator is eager for a full
Senate oor vote on ENDA once the
bill is moved out of committee, saying,
I think its time for every senator to
have to take a position on this.
We have senators who have been
silent on where they stand, Merkley
said. We have other senators who
may have been recognizing they have
been hesitant before, but really theres
a hugely compelling principle at stake
here: that of equal opportunity to be
a full participant in our economy. Its
only right and just that people not be
discriminated against in employment.
And Merkley was bullish about
reaching the 60-vote threshold in
the Senate to end a libuster on the
legislation in the wake of additional
senators coming out in support of
marriage equality.
I think I was the ninth, Merkley said.
Now there are over 50. Thats a huge
transformation in four years. I cant
imagine that anyone who is supportive
of marriage equality wouldnt also fully
be there on non-discrimination.
Gay Air Force nominee conrmed
WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate on April 18 conrmed a gay man to the
second-highest civilian position within the Air Force.
Senators conrmed Eric Fanning, who President Obama nominated last
August, as an Air Force under secretary in a voice vote. He had previously
been the deputy under secretary and deputy chief management ofcer for
the Department of the Navy.
It would be my honor to play a role in making sure that the best men and
women our country has to offer get all the support they need in undertaking
the mission of defending our country, a mission for which they freely
volunteered, Fanning said before his conrmation.
Allyson Robinson, executive director of OutServe-SLDN, applauded
Fannings conrmation.
We look forward to working with him to advance the cause of full military
equality, she said.
Repeal of gay scout ban proposed
IRVING, Texas The Boy Scouts of America on April 19 unveiled a
resolution that proposes to repeal the ban on openly gay scouts.
No youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on
the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone, it reads.
The organization has faced increased pressure from LGBT rights advocates
and others in recent months who have urged it to repeal the ban on openly
gay scouts, scoutmasters and troop leaders.
The Boy Scouts in February announced it needs more time for a more
deliberate review of its membership policy.
Members of the Boy Scouts of Americas National Executive Board will
consider the resolution, which does not call for an end to the ban on openly
gay scoutmasters and troop leaders, at their annual meeting next month.
Nevada lawmaker comes out
CARSON CITY, Nev. A Nevada lawmaker on April 22 came out during a
debate on a bill that would repeal the states constitutional ban on same-sex
marriage.
Im black, Im gay, state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson (D-North Las Vegas) said as
the Associated Press reported.
The state Senate by a 12-9 vote margin approved the proposal that would
amend the constitution to repeal the ban on nuptials for gays and lesbians
that Nevada voters approved in 2002. The states domestic partnership law
took effect in 2009.
The bill to repeal the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage now goes to
the state Assembly where observers expect it will pass. The measure would
go before Nevada voters in 2016 if lawmakers approve it.
GLAAD honors Bill Clinton
LOS ANGELES GLAAD on April 20 honored former President Bill Clinton
at its annual Media Awards.
The former president urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the
Defense of Marriage Act he signed into law in 1996 after he accepted an
award from his daughter, Chelsea Clinton.
I want to keep working on this until not only DOMA is no longer the law of
the land but until all people no matter where they live can marry the people
they love, Bill Clinton said.
GLAAD honored Bill Clinton amid criticism from some who questioned why
the media watchdog would honor someone who signed DOMA. Journalist
Karen Ocamb of Frontiers noted the lack of apology from the former
president during the event.
Saying youre wrong is not the same as saying, Im sorry for all the pain
I caused, she wrote on her blog. And expecting a Clinton apology for
DOMA is not uncalled for.
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in relationship with
Panamanian man
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
A gay Republican former U.S. House
member testied before the Senate
on Monday in favor of including bi-
national same-sex couples as part of
comprehensive immigration reform
an issue that affects him personally.
Jim Kolbe, who represented
Arizona in Congress from 1985 to
2007, spoke during a Senate Judiciary
Committee hearing about LGBT
inclusion in immigration reform both in
personal terms and about the economic
benets for the country.
While the bill you are considering is
an excellent starting point for reform, I
submit to you that it is still incomplete,
Kolbe said. Families like mine are left
behind as part of this proposal.
Language to enable gay Americans to
sponsor a same-sex partner for residency
in the United States wasnt included
as part of the 844-page base bill for
comprehensive immigration reform that
was produced by the Gang of Eight.
Standalone legislation along these
lines is known as the Uniting American
Families Act. LGBT advocates say
theyve received assurances such
language would be offered as an
amendment possibly by Senate
Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick
Leahy (D-Vt.) when the committee
marks up the reform legislation.
Kolbe is in an eight-year relationship
with Panama native Hector Alfonso,
who came to the United States on a
Fulbright scholarship to pursue studies
in special education and has been a
teacher for two decades. The couple
had to endure a year-long separation
when Alfonso had to return to Panama
while immigration issues were being
sorted out, although hes now in the
United States on a green card.
It was a long process; it was
expensive far beyond the reach of
most families, Kolbe said. We are
immensely fortunate that Hector has
now secured an investment visa that
allows him to remain here with me.
Many other couples, however, are not
so fortunate. Their ability to secure a
solution that will allow them to build a
home, family and business together is
elusive and difcult to realize.
Kolbe, a trade expert who works at
the German Marshall Fund think tank,
also addressed the economic benets
of passing language for bi-national
same-sex couples as part of immigration
reform particularly support for the
provision among U.S. businesses.
The comprehensive immigration
reform bill now under consideration
by this committee includes important
provisions to make U.S. businesses more
competitive, Kolbe said. UAFA does
the same, which is why it is supported
by Fortune 500 companies like Intel,
Marriott, Texas Instruments and US
Airways, who have called on lawmakers
of both parties to support its passage.
The failure to recognize lesbian and gay
families in our immigration laws has a
direct impact on American business.
As part of his testimony, Kolbe read a
letter signed by 28 prominent American
businesses calling for UAFA citing loss
of productivity, costs of transferring
and retaining employees and missed
opportunities to bring talent into the United
States as a result of the current system.
Kolbe and Alfonso plan to wed in D.C.
on May 18. While straight Americans are
able to sponsor their foreign spouses
for residency within the United States,
Kolbe doesnt have that option because
of the Defense of Marriage Act, which
he voted for as a member of Congress
in 1996. The U.S. Supreme Court could
address this problem if justices issue a
ruling by June striking down Section 3 of
DOMA as a result of pending litigation.
Bartolone on Monday received a letter
that contained gunpowder. French
police placed water canons outside the
building to deter those who may have
sought to disrupt the vote.
Le Manif Pour Tous, which opposes
the same-sex marriage and adoption
bill, protested the measures passage
outside the National Assembly.
The deputies in the majority stress
equality, it said in a Tweet just before
the vote. What equality is there for the
new legal orphans create by this law?
The bills opponents can prompt a
constitutional review of the measure if their
effort receives the support of 60 members
of the Senate or the National Assembly.
President Franois Hollande, who publicly
backed the extension of marriage and
adoption rights to same-sex couples
during his 2012 presidential campaign,
has already said lawmakers and not the
constitution should decide the issue.
This is a historic moment that
the world should celebrate, All Out
Executive Director Andre Banks said in
a statement after the vote. Once the
constitutional court reviews the bill, and
President Hollande signs the bill, loving
and committed gay and lesbian couples
will nally be able to marry in France.
Frances rst same-sex marriages are
expected to take place in Montpellier in
mid-June.
Meanwhile, closer to home, the
Delaware House of Representatives on
Tuesday approved a bill that would allow
same-sex marriage in the First State.
The 23-18 vote took place less than
a week after the House Administrative
Committee advanced House Bill 75 to the
full chamber. State Rep. Melanie George
Smith (D-Bear,) who formally introduced
the measure on April 11, stressed before
the vote the bill protects religious freedom.
The bill allows freedom for churches
that want to perform same-sex marriage
and churches that dont, she said.
Equality Delaware Foundation President
Mark Purpura told state Rep. Steve Smyk
(R-Milton) during his testimony in support
of HB 75 that extending marriage rights
to same-sex couples in Delaware is about
equal status.
Its about equal treatment under
the law, Purpura said. Marriage is the
ultimate commitment that two people
can make to each other.
Nicole Theis of the Delaware Family
Policy Council reiterated during her
testimony in opposition to HB 75 that she
feels the states civil unions law affords
same-sex couples the same benets that
heterosexual couples receive through
marriage. State Rep. Tim Dukes, who is
a pastor at the Central Worship Center in
Laurel in Sussex County, agreed.
Also this week, a Rhode Island Senate
committee voted to advance a bill that
would allow same-sex marriage in the state.
The 7-4 vote came a month after the
Senate Judiciary Committee held a
marathon hearing on Senate Bill 38. The
Rhode Island House of Representatives
in January overwhelmingly approved
the same-sex marriage proposal. A full
vote was expected after Blade deadline;
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line to use a public pay phone to call
his date a coed with whom only
polite conversation would take place.
No liaisons, no attractions. The oats he
sewed were mild. He only risked coming
out once, quietly, to his straight little
brother in the fraternity. Much later in
life, Trammell would come to lead the
Lambda Alliance for LGBTQs, but, typical
of Trammell, he didnt drop his ties to
Lambda Chi. To this day he is thankful to
and a dear friend of his little brother
and sole condant, Dave Blount.
Trammell took one shot at wild
oats back then. It was a secret mission
into D.C. to check out the legendary
gay bar, Lost and Found. He arrived at
7 p.m. and entered solo. The bartender
just laughed and said, Come back at
11. The star senior hoopster was a
rookie in gay life so he anxiously sat out
in the parking lot. Once inside at the
stroke of 11, he saw men dancing with
men. As he puts it, Breathtaking. But,
across the crowded dance oor he
spotted the captain of the tennis
team, and frightened, he slunk into the
shadows, which is not easy at 67.
Like many southern boys,
Trammell relies on those immortal
words from Steel Magnolias: That
which doesnt kill us makes us stronger.
And strong is an understatement. Settled
down with Stuart Serkin, his husband
with whom he has danced for 36 years,
they laugh at having met taking the
Florida Bar exam and Serkin had
to coax out of Trammell that his great
uncle was indeed that former Gov.
Trammell of Florida. Their rst date was
to see Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf
and here they are 36 years later
watching the potential reality horror
show Whos Afraid of Virginia Under
Ken Cuccinelli? But, ever present in
their politics, both are at the barricades
working for Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Terry McAuliffe.
Trammell has worked for Democrats
on Capitol Hill for decades, run LGBT
outreach for both the Al Gore and
John Kerry campaigns and gone toe-
to-toe on gay issues with the likes of
Sean Hannity and Bill OReilly on Fox
News. Throughout his life, he has always
stayed involved in William & Mary
alumni affairs. Last year, he agreed once
again to mentor an undergrad this
time Davey McKissick, a senior whose
experiences are quite different.
First off, McKissicks books and phone
are both on his iPad, and literally
balanced in the palm of his hand. In
his other hand? His boyfriends. No
pay phones, no book bags, no coed
beards. And if McKissick were single
and ran into a gay tennis player, he
wouldnt feel the need to run away. He
leads an authentic life. He has learned
his gay history through documentaries,
lectures at W&M and through
Trammell. His ambition was to intern in
D.C. and among the 15,000 alumni in
the D.C. area, hes sitting at Trammell
and Company with Jeff the rst
openly gay board chair (rector) of a
major university.
William & Mary elected the rst openly
gay board chair of a major university
in the United States. It didnt happen
in Cambridge, Berkley or Madison. It
happened in Williamsburg, Va. I owe it all
to the GALA students and faculty at the
university, Trammell said. They created
the climate for this to happen. There are
many reasons to look up to this former
basketball star, and his height isnt even
at the top of the list. Start with McKissicks
gay hero, Barney Frank. It so happens that
Trammell co-founded Stonewall Democrats
with Frank, so the next thing you know,
bang, McKissick is shaking hands with his
hero. McKissick is interested in LGBT
outreach at the DNC, and poof, hes sitting
in the director, Jeff Marootians ofce,
working the Obama-Biden campaign.
When not mentoring students, Trammell
can be found funding LGBT lectures at
W&M with Chris Bram, fellow alum and
the author of Gods and Monsters, or
helping to fund the Boswell Project,
named for John Boswell, class of 1969
the historian of same-sex relationships
in the middle ages. Ironically, Boswell
was lost in the AIDS plague. Or you
can nd Trammell working with David
Mixner on the gay issues documented
in the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Hes been
appointed to the board of the Association
of Governing Boards of Universities and
Colleges, which represents 38,000+
trustees across the U.S. Hes answering his
Blade interview questions at 1 a.m. and
then at press time, hes on the front page of
the Washington Post dealing with the new
tuition structure. Throughout, his trips to
Williamsburg and Richmond are frequent.
Back in Williamsburg, McKissick
has already navigated the same gauntlet
of traditions Trammell did swimming
the Crim Dell pond, jumping the wall of
the Governors Mansion, and running
the Sunken Gardens. But today, gay
campus life is lived in Technicolor with
Pride festivals, movie nights and the
occasional drag show. There are safe
zones throughout campus, letting
LGBT students know they are welcome.
Reecting on all this change, Trammell
recalls his mothers reaction late in life to
his coming out post-college.
Well, she was very WASPy and southern
and that adds up to being polite,
Trammell said. She said Oh, honey, Ive
known that for a long time. Now, we dont
need to talk about it.
He got unconditional love, but
conditional parameters for discussing it.
McKissicks answer to the question about
his straight heroes is heart-warming. He
answers: Betty and Ron. That would
be his parents, the McKissicks.
I could not ask for more supportive
inuences in my life, he said. They
motivate me to set high goals for
myself and to be relentless in achieving
them. Betty and Ron have no problem
talking with or about their son.
Its remarkable to see Davey is fully
out and authentic, things not possible
for me back then, Trammell said. I
think no matter what the size of your
alma mater, gay alums should get back
involved and support their students.
As rector, he will ofciate
commencement at William & Mary
Hall this summer, on the same oor he
played his rst basketball game.
The college marks 1918 as
admitting the rst woman student and
1951 the rst African American. Gays
have been there since 1693, but the
price to pay for being admitted was no
admission of who you were. Those
days are steadily fading behind us.
Because of its history, W&M has been
called the alma mater of a nation:
Hark the students voices swelling
Strong and true and clear
Alma Maters love their telling
Ringing far and near

Today, each students voice is strong
and clear. Liaisons arent dangerous
and attractions arent fatal to your
reputation. LGBT alumni proudly join
Glenn Close in a visceral connection that
has sustained them all through the years.
And so, even from a famed Sunken
Garden, when hes standing on
Trammells shoulders, McKissick can see
nothing but rainbows in a clear blue sky
ahead of him.

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Health ofcials monitoring
meningitis cases
SAN DIEGO Health ofcials in several major cities have made recommendations
to gay and bi residents in recent weeks about getting vaccinated against the
meningitis that has killed seven men in New York since 2010 and two in Los
Angeles since December.
In San Diego County seven cases of meningitis have been reported but thats
considered lower than normal, the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News reported last
week. None of them involved men who have sex with men (MSM), the paper
reported citing ofcials from the San Diego County Health & Human Services
Agency.
Toronto Public Health ofcials have urged residents there to get vaccinated
if they plan on traveling to New York City, the Toronto Star reported last week,
despite no known cases in Canada.
Ofcials in Dallas say theyre monitoring the disease, which results in an
inammation of protective membranes around the brain and spinal column and
can result in headaches, u, fever and nausea.
We did not ring the bell quick enough with HIV, said Bret Camp, a regional
director with AIDS Healthcare Foundation Texas, in a comment to Dallas Voice, a
gay paper there.
In Washington, Whitman-Walker Health is advising all gay and bi men who
meet the criteria set forth by the New York City Department of Health to be
vaccinated.
The criteria are: any gay man or MSM who is at least 18 years of age, regardless
of HIV status and has had intimate contact with a man they met through a website
(Manhunt, Adam4Adam, etc.), ditial application (Grindr, Scruff, etc.), a bar or a
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CHICAGO A report released last week from SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders)
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in 10 areas to address the ndings, the Windy City Times, a gay Chicago paper, reported.
The study, dubbed Health Equity and LGBT Elders of Color, found that LGBT elders
of color are historically marginalized on multiple fronts and their needs are often under-
addressed in the mainstream aging eld and in the popular LGBT rights movement,
according to Michael Adams, SAGEs executive director.
Among the areas targeted were linguistic competence, federal funding for needs-
targeted programming, stronger Social Security, decreasing elder abuse, secure and
affordable housing and access to safe and necessary care for transgender seniors.
The full report is available from sageusa.org.
Younger MSMs face increased challenges: study
SAN DIEGO A new study indicates that young men who have sex with men around
the world experience higher levels of homophobia, unstable housing, violence and other
factors that hinder access to HIV services compared to older MSM, the San Diego Gay &
Lesbian News reported last week.
Researchers said this was the rst study that looked at data focused on younger men
as opposed to studying all MSM groups together.
Using data from a 2012 study that polled 5,779 young MSMs (30 and younger) from 165
countries, the study found that only 33 percent of those surveyed reported that low-cost
condoms were easily accessible and only 18 percent said they had access to low-cost
lubricants, low-cost STI treatment (14 percent), HIV education materials (9 percent) and
HIV risk reduction programs (7 percent).
Rates for HIV treatment for those infected in some instances were as high as 44 percent
not taking any anti-retroviral medication compared with 17 percent for older MSMs.
Twenty percent said they had no income and 30 percent had no stable housing. They
also experienced greater levels of homophobia and violence, the report said.
Conversion therapy debated in California
SAN FRANCISCO A federal appeals court in California last week grappled with a
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and whether the issue was one of free speech or a mere regulation of medical treatment,
the Los Angeles Times reported.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals considered two lower-
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healthy eating.
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hours.
Rule no. 2: Never get Thirsty. This one is
a little more manageable. You should be
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of our so-called hunger cravings are
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the day. One thing many people dont
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small sips every few minutes during your
workout. This will help you to maintain
hydration and therefore avoid cravings
post workout
Rule no. 3: Keep Snack Stashes. I
am constantly grazing throughout the
day. My friends wonder where I keep
them. I suggest keeping emergency
healthful snacks everywhere. I have
at least three cans of nuts in my car,
emergency protein shake powder in
my work and gym bags and I even have
hidden a few granola bars in case I get
hungry between classes. You may look
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The key to snacking is to remember
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How umbilical cord blood is
transforming research
Last week, doctors in Minnesota
performed a rst-ever procedure on a
young boy that could lead to nding
a cure for both HIV and leukemia.
This case is similar to that of Timothy
Ray Brown (also known as the Berlin
Patient), a founder of our organizations,
the Timothy Ray Brown Foundation and
the World AIDS Institute. If successful, it
will be the rst time a person has been
cured of HIV as a direct result of an
umbilical cord blood transplant.
Both procedures used blood cells
from a human donor with CCR5 Delta 32
negative, a genetic deformity; persons
born with the abnormality are naturally
resistant to HIV. Timothys procedure,
which was performed in Berlin, used
stem cells instead of umbilical cord cells.
Fortunately, the German health care
system supports access to multiple
matches of CCR5 Delta 32 negative stem
cell donors. In the case of the Minnesota
child, because no CCR5 Delta 32 negative
stem cell procedure has yet to be tried in
the United States, the medical team used
an umbilical cord blood match.
An hour before the boys cord blood
transplant procedure, Timothy and I
had an emotional discussion with Dr.
John Wagner, head of the medical
team at the University of Minnesota
medical center. Dr. Wagner and
Timothy discussed the differences and
similarities in the procedures, as well
as a sad truth: In the United States,
doctors face near-insurmountable
barriers to obtaining Food and Drug
Administration clearance for such
groundbreaking procedures.
The use of umbilical cord blood is still
controversial in this country, with most
of the opposition fueled by politics
and religion. Today, Dr. Wagner told us,
there is a very small amount of umbilical
cord blood being released or available
for medical procedures such as the one
performed last week. His team was
permitted access to only a small fraction
of cord blood.
What if cord blood were more readily
available? Consider the immediate
and long-term impact on all sorts of
diseases, beyond leukemia and HIV.
An hour after the procedure was
completed, Timothy called the young
boy to wish him all the success in the
world for a good and speedy recovery.
When I had my procedure done, I got
caught up in the trap of lying around in
my bed in the hospital watching television
and not exercising, Timothy told the boy.
Make sure as soon as you are able, get
out of bed and do some exercise, go do
what you love, go play some basketball.
Timothy said he could hear the boys
mother and team of doctors laughing, as
they seconded the sound strategy.
Timothys procedure has been
performed on others in Germany, but
none has survived. It became almost too
much, Timothy said. I would receive
one phone call after another letting me
know another patient who received the
same procedure I did had passed away.
In many cases, the leukemia and HIV
was just too much for their frail bodies.
In all cases, there were multiple stem cell
donors available for each patient. But
that was in Germany, not here.
It is unfortunate the United States
puts political and religious beliefs
over potential life-saving scientic and
medical discoveries. We have so much
to be proud of in our country as it relates
to science and medicine and also much
cause for shame. In the case of the
boy in Minnesota and Timothy Ray
Brown, both could have said no to the
groundbreaking procedures. Instead,
they said yes, giving a major push to
nding a cure for HIV for everyone.
What is really quite beautiful is the
impact of physical hardship on the
human spirit a man and a boy now
share virtually the same experience
medically, yet its also different. One
received stem cells from an adult, the
other umbilical cord blood from a baby.
However in the end, it very well may be
that Timothy Ray Brown, the rst person
ever cured of HIV, now will have more
company. More important ly, he has a
new friend and a potential new leader
who might understand what its like to
be cured of AIDS.
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as quick treatment is vital
There has been growing concern in
the community in recent weeks about a
number of cases of bacterial meningitis
among gay men in New York City and
Los Angeles.
Whitman-Walker Health is and always
has been dedicated to helping protect
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While we encourage people to pay
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proper precautions to protect your
health, we do want to make sure you
have the correct information to take
care of yourself.
Bacterial meningitis is not a gay
disease as anyone can acquire the
infection and it will tend to spread
through communities. To date, New
York City has reported 22 meningitis
cases and seven deaths among gay
men since 2010. Los Angeles has
reported three meningitis deaths in gay
men since December.
There have currently been no cases
of meningitis among gay and bisexual
men in D.C. If such an outbreak does
occur, the citys Department of Health
will issue a warning.
The most common symptoms of
meningitis are stiff neck, headache
and fever. Other potential symptoms
include nausea, vomiting, confusion
or disorientation, sensitivity to light
or noise and a rash. The symptoms
of bacterial meningitis can appear
quickly or over several days. Typically
they develop within three to seven
days after exposure. If you have any of
these symptoms, please see a health
care provider right away. If you do have
meningitis, immediate treatment is vital.
Meningitis is transmitted from person
to person through exposure to an
infected persons oral uids. This could
be from kissing, coughing or sneezing. It
can also be transmitted through sharing
eating utensils or drinking glasses.
There is a vaccine for bacterial meningitis.
We currently have the meningitis vaccine in
stock for our patients.
The New York Department of Health
and Gay Mens Health Crisis have
released the following criteria for who
should be vaccinated in New York. If you
are a gay man or a MSM, you should
consider being vaccinated: Regarding
who should receive the vaccine during
this outbreak, any gay man or MSM who
is at least 18 years of age, regardless of
HIV status, and has had intimate contact
with a man they met through a website
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on having such contact in the future.
WWH is monitoring the situation
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If an outbreak does occur in D.C., we
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ensure the general public will be able to
come to Whitman-Walker for vaccination.
If you are a gay man or a MSM,
especially someone who travels
frequently, you can request the vaccine
from your health care provider.
We will keep you abreast of all
developments in order to keep the
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Republican politics
Congratulations to Anita Bonds on
her win for Council member at-large.
Congratulations also to Elissa Silverman
for running a good campaign and I hope
she will stay involved in politics and get
more involved in community affairs. As
for Patrick Mara, this marks his third loss
and I hope that he will be successful in
his career as he moves on with his life,
his new wife and expected child. Pat is a
nice guy but his politics were shown to
be just wrong for D.C. voters.
Like many, I was disappointed in the
small turnout. Maybe those voters who
stayed home are happy with every-
thing. In many ways the District under
the leadership of Mayor Gray is doing
better than it ever has before. We are
scally solvent and envied by cities and
states across the nation. The economy
is booming with 55 cranes up across
the District in every ward building both
commercial space and new rental apart-
ments and condos. The mayor has sub-
mitted a balanced budget to the Coun-
cil with pay increases for city workers
for the rst time in years; $100 million
for affordable housing; $15 million for
competitive grants for small non-prots;
funding for libraries to remain open sev-
en days a week; a capital budget that
addresses the renovation of the MLK
library, additional new and renovated
schools, rebuilding and renovating of
parks and recreation centers and all
without any increase in taxes or fees. In
fact there are certain tax reductions such
as getting rid of the tax on other than
D.C. municipal bonds and the elimina-
tion of the double tax on those who own
cooperative apartments in the District.
There is much that still needs to be
done and it is important for residents to
give voice to their ideas on how to move
forward. There are complaints about
not enough police; the need for more
ambulances; and a host of issues from
what to do about the homeless popula-
tion to how to improve our schools.
This was a special election to ll the
seat vacated by Phil Mendelson who
won as Council chair last November. It is
possible people felt the winner was only
being elected for 1.5 years and would
have to run again next year so they
didnt bother to come out. Or they were
unhappy with all the candidates and
therefore stayed home. Or the media
didnt pay enough attention to the can-
didates, or the candidates were boring
or some other reason.
What some forgot was that there was
another important issue on the ballot
and that was whether the District should
have budget autonomy. That means
Congress could not interfere with the
part of the D.C. budget passed by the
Council and signed by the mayor that
dealt with the money coming from our
own tax collections. That ballot mea-
sure, which won with 84 percent of the
vote, could be a major step forward for
District independence. It could mean
we wont be totally beholden to Con-
gress every time they have a budget
stalemate like the one we have now.
Beginning today and moving for-
ward the people of the District need
to make their voices heard. Bonds will
now have a vote on a host of issues in-
cluding the mayors budget; issues re-
lated to the new healthcare exchange
mandated by the Affordable Care Act;
determining how or if to vote on new
ethics reform; whether to make sur-
rogacy contracts in the District legal;
regulatory reform; and so many other
issues that no one ever really asked her
about during the election.
Voters and the media appeared to
accept the contest being run on the
platitudes given to us by most of the
candidates. I do have faith that Bonds
will work hard but her seat, along with
that of many other council members,
is up again next year so vigilance and
oversight on what all our Council mem-
bers do remains an important role for
all of us.
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Owner Franco honored for
Excellence in Business
The clothes have changed since the
rst store opening 20 years ago.
As Universal Gear celebrates its plati-
num anniversary on Saturday with an
all-day customer appreciation event,
serving Champagne and cake and giv-
ing away $20 gift cards with purchases
of $100 or more, one trend is still in
vogue. The mens clothing establish-
ment remains a landmark commercial
enterprise and an ever-popular retail
destination for mens casual dress and
athletic wear.
The Capital Area Gay and Lesbian
Chamber of Commerce this month
honored co-founder and owner Da-
vid Franco with the organizations 2013
Excellence in Business award. In ac-
cepting the honor at the CAGLCC an-
nual dinner last week, Franco noted that
the longtime success of the business is
measured by the relationships we de-
velop and the sense of community with
those we serve.
On Saturday, April 24, 1993, during
the weekend of the March on Wash-
ington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal
Rights and Liberation that attracted
nearly a million people to the National
Mall, the rst customers lined the blocks
outside a new clothing store catering
to gay men. Located above the former
Trumpets Restaurant and Lounge at
the corner of 17th and Q streets, where
Franco was also a business partner, the
then-named Off Gear was at the epi-
center of the citys gay business district
in the Dupont Circle area.
Once inside, seasonal club wear of-
ferings of the era were quickly snatched
up a pair of Daisy Duke frayed-hem
denim shorts, printed vest or tan nubuck
construction boots with stripe-accented
white athletic socks among them in
preparation for going out later. In fact,
Franco recalls the wildly successful store
launch as akin to a nightclub opening.
With D.C. overowing with locals and
visitors for the gay rights event, it was
a momentous chapter in local LGBT
history and a frenetic time for Franco.
Launching the store in less than six
months with then business partner and
former architect Keith Clark, now an art-
ist in Ft. Lauderdale, the entrepreneurial
duo sped toward a grand opening coin-
ciding with the equality march.
Franco additionally served as co-
chair of the Spring to Life mega-
dance party at the Old Post Ofce Pavil-
ion that night beneting the march and
AIDS research. He was also a partner at
the time in the legendary former Tracks
nightclub that hosted round-the-clock
events throughout the weekend.
After a brief foray adding womens
fashions at a second suburban Rockville
location that prompted a name change
to Universal Gear, the original store
expanded to include an upper level in
1996. Refocusing exclusively on mens-
wear, the addition of successful stores
in Chicago, Atlanta and the rst of what
are now two New York City locations
over the next ve years followed. A Re-
hoboth Beach store opened in 2011.
Seismic cultural shifts including
gradual dissolution of gay ghettos
and growth in online shopping options,
along with the recession, led to store
closings in Atlanta and Chicago after a
decade of brisk business. In November
2008, the D.C. store followed its custom-
ers to Logan Circle, opening a spacious
retail space in a new mixed-use build-
ing on 14th Street. A second Manhattan
location was launched in Hells Kitchen
last spring. In-store celebrations are
scheduled at all four current locations.
The D.C. store will move north on
14th Street in December to storefront
space in a new residential building be-
ing built near U Street by the real estate
development rm Franco operates with
a business partner.
Proud of this weekends milestone,
Franco leads Universal Gear into a third
decade adapting to, and reecting, the
constant changes in the marketplace of
fashion and the communities it serves.
From bus riding and foot
washing to gay bashing
A friend, a lapsed Catholic, was at the
family home for her mothers funeral.
Her sister called from the mothers bed-
room, Lisa, where is Moms statue of
The Infant of Prague? Lisas partner, a
lapsed Congregationalist, looked puz-
zled, The impotent frog?
The Infant of Prague statue was the
American Boy Doll of my Catholic child-
hood in the 50s. My mother had an
eight-inch statue of the IOP under a
glass dome on her beloved Ethan Al-
len sideboard. The cherubic child with
the ornate dresses and enviable golden
curls, held up two ngers of the right
hand, not in a victory sign, more an iPad
swipe. In the left hand, the child held an
orb that looked a lot like the decora-
tive but dusty, gold-banded Courvoisier
bottle lled with blue -colored water in
the musty pine-paneled basement bar
my parents never used. My Dad was so
not Mad Men.
Like the American Girl Doll, the IOP
came with his own infant-icon back sto-
ry. The statues lineage is an extended
episode of Antiques Roadshow. The
original wax-coated wooden statue has
been traced back through Polish Prin-
cesses and Papal patents to Teresa of
Avila, a major mystic and heavy-hitting
self-agellator during the Inquisition.
Congratulations! Youve got something
there!
It is not clear from my own extensive
wiki-search how the IOP, heirloom of
Polish nobility and mascot of the Car-
melites, came to be the patron saint
of felicitous weather. Even today I hear
otherwise secular planners of family re-
unions, gay weddings and outdoor fun-
draisers say they have, turned the stat-
ue around in hopes of good weather.
Just in case.
Our family IOP is quite antique. If
I could nd him, I would put him on a
lazy Susan on the windowsill. It has spun
through many shifting winds of differ-
ent papacies just in my lifetime: Pius XII
the anti-Semitic dried apple head pope;
John XXIII who opened the Vatican win-
dows to let in some air; John Paul who
installed double-paned Anderson win-
dows then locked them tight, and Bene-
dict XVI who put bars on the windows
and installed a better alarm system. I
only wish I had paid more attention to
the Roman numerals. Id be such a bet-
ter crossword puzzle solver.
Pope Francis I certainly started off
his papacy with some hopeful gestures:
bus-riding, soccer loving, papal crowd
surng, prisoner foot-washing. Unlike
ex-Benedict, he didnt seem to scare the
children. But soon the Pope was kicking
the nuns off his bus, and espousing the
Papal party line of the glories of celibacy
and evils of homosexuality. Turns out it
was all atmospherics. The impotent fog.
Early disappointments from new pope
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Universal Gear celebrates 20 years on Saturday
DAVID FRANCO said the success of his
business is measured by the relationships we
develop and the sense of community with
those we serve.
KATE CLINTON is a humorist who has entertained
LGBT audiences for 30 years. Her monthly column
appears exclusively in the Blade. Reach her via
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Its vital to support those
ghting for equality
By CELINA GERBIC & LEE GRANADOS
Girl. Friend. Female. Mom. Tomboy.
When we were in elementary school,
there wasnt a name for what we were or
who we were friends with. When we were
in college, it was a term that was equally
offensive to both us and our gay friends,
fag hag. Thankfully there is now a term
(do we thank the PC movement for this?)
that we can proudly use: straight ally. We
didnt actually realize that the term had
come into use, we just simply went on do-
ing what weve always been doing, which
is not letting labels get in the way. Yet this
is one label that were proud is sticking.
Our children have grown up in Du-
pont Circle, a welcoming community
of all groups, and do not see the need
for such a label. To them, everyone is
equal, or should be. They have friends
with two dads, friends with two moms,
friends with one mom or dad, and yes,
even friends with both a mom and a
dad. They dont question that diversity.
One of the rst weddings they attended
was the wedding of their friends two
dads, right after D.C. started allowing
same-sex marriages. So why the need
for a label like straight ally?
Having grown up in a world with a great
deal of prejudice and a best friend who is
gay (though he wasnt saying that at the
time he was denitely not out), we recog-
nize the need for straight allies. Whether you
like having a label or not, its vital to stand up
for what you believe in, and support people
who should have the same rights as me and
other straight people, but using the term
straight ally goes beyond that and actu-
ally shows your support. Adding the term
ally says so much. It says we support our
friends, our colleagues, our community. It
tells our children, and others, that we dont
want to just be on the sidelines, looking on,
but rather, completely involved.
And involved we are as straight al-
lies. After working on Straight Ally Out-
reach and fundraising for the Point Foun-
dation for the last several years, Celina
joined Points Washington, D.C. regional
board of trustees. Point Foundation pro-
vides scholarships and mentoring to LG-
BTQ students, allowing them to achieve
their full academic and leadership po-
tential despite the obstacles often put
before them. Lee spent time building
an inclusive community at Ross Elemen-
tary School, running logistics for Capital
Pride, and starting the 17th Street Fes-
tival that has embraced the whole com-
munity, old and new. Participating in
Points Regional Leadership Forum and
hearing the scholars speak at the annual
D.C. Cornerstone Event has shown just
how important it is to include straight
allies in supporting these missions. Lee
saw that embracing families in a small
public school was the best way to edu-
cate her children and other families on
the benets of looking past labels.
As members of the host committee
for the Point Foundations upcoming
Cornerstone Event in May, we believe
everyone deserves the right to an educa-
tion, and this is something that everyone
should be supporting, regardless of your
label. It also sets the stage for our future
generations, including our children, who
are proud of their straight ally moms. As
straight allies, we owe it to our children to
proudly support our friends, colleagues
and relatives. There may be a day when
labels are no longer necessary, but for
now, were sticking with straight ally.
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CELINA GERBIC serves on the Point Foundations
Washington, D.C. Regional Board of Trustees. She
is co-chair of the Trevor Project DC Ambassadors
Committee and a board member of Urban
Neighborhood Alliance, and works for School for
Friends. LEE GRANADOS works for Pacers Events
as the Community and Outreach Development
Liaison for all the events in D.C. She serves on the
board for Girls On the Run and UNA and is co-chair
of the 17th Street Festival. The Point Foundations
Annual Cornerstone Event will take place on
May 9 at Room & Board. Tickets are available at
pointfoundation.org/dc2013.
Straight ally: A label thats sticking
Women, LGBT people
susceptible to public attacks
By PATRICK McNEIL
Its April and Im glad the weather is toler-
able. I love taking walks and I love spending
time outside. Its beautiful, but warmer tem-
peratures unfortunately also mean more
opportunities for street harassment.
Its a blessing and a curse.
For women and LGBTQ individu-
als (and those perceived to be LGBTQ),
street harassment is a systemic, year-long
problem, but were reminded at this time
every year, when we engage in public
interaction with greater frequency, how
large of a problem it is.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness &
Prevention Month and earlier this month
was International Anti-Street Harassment
Week, a week during which activists work
to raise awareness about how serious of an
issue street harassment is. The event began
two years ago as one day, an initiative start-
ed by Stop Street Harassment founder Hol-
ly Kearl. For the past two years, hundreds of
organizations from around the globe have
participated in weeklong movements.
As a gay man living in one of the gayest
cities in America (and the gayest state), Ive
been particularly interested in the public ha-
rassment of this community. While my mas-
ters thesis covered only gay and bisexual
men, I am part of the community and an ally
to everyone in the community. I dont want
anyone to experience street harassment.
Unfortunately, we do. Recently, the New
York Times published a piece about the
unfair treatment of transgender individuals
by police ofcers in New York. I shed a tear
while reading the article, a cruel reminder
that, if youre in public and not cis gender,
youre likely to be harassed. For gay men
and lesbians, too, public displays of femi-
ninity and masculinity that at least border on
gender non-conforming result in verbal as-
saults. And sometimes it gets physical.
Earlier this month in Paris, a gay cou-
ple was brutally beaten for holding hands
in public. And this isnt uncommon. Cou-
ples in the LGBTQ community are con-
stantly required to negotiate a desire for
visibility while recognizing the very real
dangers of being out in public. Couples
are reminded all the time that their pres-
ence is unwanted in public spaces. Its a
great source of stress and something thats
always on our minds, coupled or alone. In
fact, according to my own research, about
71 percent of gay and bisexual men con-
stantly assess their surroundings when
navigating public spaces.
And were reminded in examples like
these that our struggles are unique. When
a heterosexual woman is accompanied by
her partner, her chances of being harassed
go down. For LGBTQ individuals the op-
posite happens. Ive been there. Ive been
harassed on the street and on the Metro for
holding hands with a guy. Its not news to
anyone that it happens, but it does happen
with alarming frequency.
The public harassment of LGBTQ in-
dividuals is also unfortunate because of
how different everyones identity develop-
ment looks. I didnt even come out to my-
self until college, but I was certainly bul-
lied growing up for being gay. I felt social
pressures and I felt uncomfortable. When
youre internally reconciling a queer iden-
tity and simultaneously being harassed
because of the identity you refuse to ac-
cept, life is not easy, and it can stall the
coming out process. One of my research
participants, even though he was out to
himself, delayed his coming out because
he knew his small-town Iowa peers would
adversely react. People shouldnt have
to hide their identities because they fear
public retribution.
And really, I cant say that I experience
street harassment every day, as I know many
women and many other LGBTQ individu-
als can. I dont have to experience it to feel
its effects, because I am always afraid. Im
afraid because its possible, because its
happened before and will happen again,
and because we live in a society where its
unfortunately normal and expected.
These problems wont be xed in a
week of activism and were likely not to
even make a dent. But we have to start
somewhere. Stop Street Harassment, re-
gional Hollaback organizations, and others
work year-round to combat the public ha-
rassment of women and LGBTQ folks, and
they need our help.
If youre harassed, share your story. The
more of us who speak out, the more atten-
tion it will get. Its about collectively ampli-
fying each others voices, about standing
in solidarity and saying that this isnt OK.
Its about human rights and creating social
spaces where all humans are free from this
form of public harassment.
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Fighting back against street harassment
As members of the host committee for the Point
Foundations upcoming Cornerstone Event
in May, we believe everyone deserves
the right to an education.
PATRICK MCNEIL is a D.C.-based writer. Reach
him at patrickryne@gmail.com.
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The planning and organizing has taken on all the earnestness and care of a high
school or college reunion.
But in a series of events scheduled for this weekend at three D.C. clubs,
patrons and employees of a gay nightclub called Tracks which entertained
and some say mesmerized thousands during its run from 1984 to 1999
will come together for a reunion that may have a far greater meaning
for them than a school reunion, according to organizers.
Tracks nightclub is widely revered as the legendary
nightclub of Washington, D.C., says a statement on the
events website, TracksDC.com.
And although there have been many other
nightclubs, parties, events and gathering places that
may hold fond memories for many from Washington,
Maryland, Virginia and the surrounding region, there
is no denying that Tracks meant considerably more
to considerably more people for considerably
more years than any other nightclub in D.C.
history, the statement says.
Patrick Little, a Tracks bartender and
manager and one of the lead organizers of
the reunion, said 100 percent of the proceeds
for the reunion will go to seven non-prot
charitable groups, including Whitman-
Walker Health, the House of Ruth shelter
for homeless women, the Sexual Minority
Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) and the
Mautner Project for lesbians with cancer
and other serious illnesses.
Other recipients of the proceeds include
the AIDS service group Us Helping Us,
the D.C. Center and the Metropolis Fund,
which raises money to support local and
national AIDS causes.
Denver-based businessman Marty Chernoff,
founder and owner of Tracks, has been credited
with bringing to D.C. a gay nightclub that offered
features that no other nightclub offered in the
area, gay or straight, from the time it opened in
1984 through at least a decade or longer, Little and
others working on the reunion say.
Little and Ed Bailey, who worked as a Tracks
DJ and later as its director of promotions, pointed
to some of the features of Tracks that set it apart
from other clubs. Located in a sprawling warehouse
building at 1111 First St., S.E., the clubs main room or
hall included the regions largest dance oor at the time.
Chernoff, who had been operating a Tracks nightclub in
Denver, installed in the D.C. club the same state-of-the-art
theatrical lighting and sound system he had been using in the
Denver club. Chernoff also built in the D.C. club a separate video
room with its own dance oor and sound system.
According to Bailey, the video screens were among the largest of
any of the existing clubs in the area at a time when video screens were just
starting to be installed in clubs in big cities like New York and Los Angeles.
And unlike most other clubs at the time, Chernoff had a large outdoor space as
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part of the Tracks property in which
he installed a volleyball court with
beach sand. He also built an 18-inch-
deep pool surrounded by a large deck
with chairs and an outdoor bar and
grill, where hot dogs and hamburgers,
among other food items, were served.
The outdoor space also featured yet
another dance oor and sound system
that became popular in the warm months.
I built what I thought would work
well, including some things where
people said, Are you crazy? Who
ever heard of a volleyball court in a
nightclub? Chernoff says. And I said,
Well I tried it in Denver and it worked
pretty well. Lets give it a try here.
Bailey and others familiar with Tracks
say the volleyball court along with the
numerous other amenities at the club
worked well, as capacity crowds came
to the club on most weekends.
The video, sound system and
lighting were way ahead of their time,
Bailey says. The music was always
cutting edge. And it was far more laid
back than other nightclubs.
Tracks featured nationally known
live performers almost once a month
for several years. Among them were
Gloria Gaynor, Thelma Houston, Crystal
Waters, The Village People, Robin Ess,
Martha Washington and CeCe Peniston.
Unlike many other gay clubs at
the time, Tracks attracted a diverse
cross section of the LGBT community,
including whites, blacks, men and
women, Latinos and Asians, Bailey and
Little say. As word got out about Tracks
grand scale, straights began to come to
the club at various times.
Before long, Little says, Friday nights
became known as straight night,
even though gays continued to come
to the club on that night.
It was the biggest, coolest club in
the city so other people started going,
Bailey says. The straight crowd knew
it was a gay club but they couldnt nd
anything like it anywhere else.
Chernoff says he and his staff welcomed
the diversity of the crowds that packed
the club, which sometimes exceeded its
occupancy limit of 1,300 people.
He made it clear in no uncertain terms
on a sign posted at the entrance that
while everyone was welcome, Tracks
was a gay club and if that is a problem
for you then you shouldnt come in.
The one absolute we had is we were
not going to discriminate, Chernoff says.
Little says the three nights of the reunion
set for this weekend Friday through
Sunday were put together to reect the
different types of music and crowds that
came to Tracks on different nights.
Chernoff says he was especially proud
of the lighting system and other features in
the Tracks main hall. The enormous
dance oor was surrounded by an
elevated standing area where people
could watch the action on the oor.
He arranged for a small platform to be
placed high above the main hall dance
oor from which a giant mosaic mirrored
disco ball was suspended that could be
lowered and raised.
A heavy-duty cable was sometimes
used to lower performers from the
platform above the dance oor. During
one of the clubs New Years Eve parties,
a heavy-set drag queen dressed only
in a diaper was lowered from the perch
above the dance oor to the hoots
and hollers of the crowd below, which
was taken by complete surprise.
Celebrity encounters
Chernoff says one of the horror stories
he recalls during the years he operated
Tracks was when singer Grace Jones,
who was booked for a live performance,
refused to go on stage when the time for
her act was scheduled to begin.
She was just impossible to work
with, Chernoff says. She said, Ill
decide if I go on or not go on. Ill see how
I feel about it. I said, You owe it your fans
out there. Please go on stage. She said,
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28 AFRl L 2, 2013 ARTS & ENTERTAl NMENT
Tracks customers could escape the dance Ioor
and play volleyball outside in the shadow oI the
U.S. Capitol.
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Tracks drew
celebrity talent,
diverse crowd
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Ill decide if I want to go on or not.
Maybe I dont feel like going on. So
nally I said, Enough is enough. Just
get the hell out of my building. I dont
need to put up with this crap.
He says Tracks refunded the money for
everyone who paid for admission to see
Jones perform, writing off the episode as
one of our biggest disasters.
Among the most pleasant encounters
with a performer or group booked at
Tracks was the appearance of the Village
People, one of the most popular disco-
era acts, especially for gay audiences,
Chernoff says.
It was such a great experience and
such a great vibe, he says. So after they
put the show on they didnt leave. They
stayed and partied with everybody until 5
or 6 in the morning. They said, We dont
want to go home. Were party people
and this is the best party in town.
Changing times
It became a home for a lot of
people, says Reg Tyson, who was part
of a group that partnered with D.C.
businessman Paul Yates, who bought
Tracks from Chernoff around 1990.
I think it was the right place at the
right time, Tyson says. It was a new
place that allowed people to be free to
be themselves, to express themselves.
The club ourished under Yates
ownership as Bailey, who had been
working as a DJ, was moved by Yates to
the post of director of promotions.
Chernoff says around 1996 Yates
decided to withdraw from the business,
and Chernoff resumed his position
as Tracks owner until the time the
club closed its doors in 1999. By that
time Bailey had left Tracks to become
involved with a new and even bigger
nightclub located one block away called
Nation, which started a Saturday night
gay dance party called Velvet Nation.
Like everything else, Tracks time
had come, Chernoff says. You cant
hang on to the previous concept and
expect it to move into the next decades
and next generations. What made
Tracks unique and phenomenal it
had run its course.
Ongoing negotiations with a
developer that had expressed interest in
buying the Tracks property to build a new
ofce building reached the stage where
a deal was nalized, Chernoff says.
Bailey says he was honored
to have worked for Chernoff and
credits him with teaching him the
ins and outs of operating a nightclub,
skills that Bailey says helped him in his
work at Nation.
Tracks innovated the nightclub
scene in a way that Nation beneted,
Bailey says.
Bailey says he was also honored that
Chernoff and the Tracks staff invited
him to work as DJ at Tracks during its
closing night party in November 1999.
Kevin Brennan, a Tracks customer who
was later hired as a lighting technician at
the club, says he and his partner of 18
years, Don Oberholzer, have especially
fond memories of Tracks.
Thats where we met, Brennan
says. I think he was dancing on one of
the dance boxes in the big room and
we just started talking. They had their
rst date about a week later and have
been a couple ever since. The two were
married in D.C. last year.
It made an impression on me in
the sense that nothing else has ever
compared, Brennan says of the club.
I never felt like there was another club
that had everything that Tracks had.
TONIGHTs kick-off event will be held in DC 9 Nightclub at 1940 9th St., N.W. It will
be reminiscent of the Goth/industrial/techno/college crowd that came to Tracks on
Thursday and Friday nights, organizers say.
On SATURDAY night, a cocktail mixer, memorabilia display and silent auction will be
held from 6-10 p.m. at Town Danceboutique at 2009 8th St., N.W. Tracks owner Marty
Chernoff is scheduled to speak. A Tracks reunion dance party reective of the mostly
gay male crowed that came to Tracks on Saturday nights is scheduled to take place at
Town immediately following the mixer and auction.
On SUNDAY, a dance event modeled after Tracks Sunday night venue, which attracted
a large black gay and lesbian crowd, is scheduled to take place at 9 p.m. at Phase 1 of
Dupont at 1415 22nd St., N.W.
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It became a
home for a lot
of people
Tracks of my queers
How long have you been out and
who was the hardest person to tell?
I came out when I was 14. It was
pretty smooth; nobody was surprised.
Whos your LGBT hero?
Transmasculine forefathers like
Jack Bee Garland and Lou Sullivan;
Chicana feminists, Cherre L. Moraga
and Gloria Anzalda; and my mentor
and best friend, Dr. Jaime M. Grant.
Whats Washingtons best
nightspot, past or present?
I spend a lot of time at Chief Ikes
Mambo Room, especially on She.Rex
night, which is my favorite D.C. party.

Describe your dream wedding.
Im more likely just to have a really
fun party but Ill have some delicious
uffy cake. Oh, and there will be
toasts. I like toasts.

What non-LGBT issue are you most
passionate about?
Racial justice and D.C. statehood,
which of course arent mutually exclusive.

What historical outcome
would you change?
Colonization of the global south;
genocide of indigenous people;
partition of the Korean peninsula. How
many do I get to pick?

Whats been the most
memorable pop culture
moment of your lifetime?
The release of Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows. It came out while I
was working at a feminist organization in
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and only one
bookstore in the city had it. We had to
wait until the moment it was released
in London and I was leaving on a short
jaunt to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, just
hours after that so right after the doors
opened and we all hurried to get our
copy, I ran all the way across town and
boarded the bus on which I read it and
openly wept the entire ride.

On what do you insist?
The existence of male bisexuality.
What was your last Facebook
post or Tweet?
I love an ensemble cast. -@jch59

If your life were a book, what would
the title be?
Tabletop Whimsy: The Jack
Harrison-Quintana Story
If science discovered a way to
change sexual orientation, what
would you do?
Laugh at the people who think
heterosexuals have more fun.
What do you believe in beyond the
physical world?
The collective unconscious.

Whats your advice for LGBT
movement leaders?
Invest rst and foremost in
mentoring your own replacement;
prioritize the leadership of people of
color and trans folks.

What would you walk
across hot coals for?
The chance to have seen Kate Bush
live at the Hammersmith Odeon; the
ability to visit Hong Kong in 1969.

What LGBT stereotype
nnoys you most?
That queer men and queer women
dont mingle.

Whats your favorite LGBT movie?
John Greysons Zero Patience
(1993)

Whats the most overrated
social custom?
Modesty

What trophy or prize do you most
covet?
Now that is a good question.
And kind of an embarrassing one,
but Ill be honest and say The Task
Forces own Susan J. Hyde Award for
Longevity in the Movement given at
Creating Change every year.

What do you wish youd
known at 18?
I was a pretty smart kid, but I wish
Id known that Id be so much happier
with Zoloft.

Why Washington?
Not too big, not too small.
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Jack Harrison-Quintana is a great example of someone willing to start at
the bottom to get a foot in the proverbial door.
He started as an unpaid intern at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
shortly after nishing his undergraduate degree at Georgetown University
and is now the Task Forces policy institute manager where he worked on
a national transgender discrimination survey and several other books and
projects.
One of the most important things is just showing up and being in the
room and holding on as long as you can, he says. Thats the track I took
and it denitely worked.
On Tuesday, hell be a panelist at Opening Dialogue & Challenging
Assumptions, a discussion of LGBT youth and homelessness at St.
Columbas Episcopal Church at 4201 Albemarle St., N.W., from 6-8 p.m.
Calvin Gerald, Ruby Corado and Brian Watson will also be on the panel.
RSVP to moneill@cchfp.org if you plan to attend.
Harrison-Quintana, a 26-year-old Signal Mountain, Tenn., native who says
he oscillates between gay, bi and queer in terms of his own identity, says
trans work is his biggest passion in the world of LGBT activism. His rst
serious relationship was with a person who transitioned shortly after they
broke up from male to female and hes had other close relationships, he
says, with trans people. It led, in part, to his work for about ve months
in 2007 in Cambodia where he helped women activists there clean up
their English on grant applications to the U.S. and the U.K. He started the
aforementioned survey project at the National Center for Transgender
Equality upon returning, then went to the Task Force, which was jointly
working on the project with NCTE.
Harrison-Quintana is single and lives in Columbia Heights. He enjoys
reading, Dungeons & Dragons, live theater and collecting and watching
My Little Pony in its current fourth generation reboot which he says is
refreshingly broad in its queer perspective.
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Wade Davis headlining
Youth Pride on Saturday
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Youth Pride Day, the regions largest
event for LGBT youth staged each year
by the Youth Pride Alliance, is Saturday
and about 500 teens and 40 organizations
are expected for an afternoon of music,
videos, dance, drag and more.
Wade Davis, a former NFL player who
came out last year as gay, will speak at the
event. He entertained a bevy of questions
during a phone interview this week from
his Manhattan ofce where he works as
assistant director of job readiness and
academic enrichment at Hetrick-Martin
Institute. Some comments have been
edited for length and clarity.
BLADE: How did the invitation come
about to visit Washington?
DAVIS: They reached out and asked
if I could come. Anytime I have an
opportunity to work with young people,
Im gung ho. Im also nervous because
the expectations with kids are a lot
different than they are with adults, but
they inspire me and give me strength
when they share their stories with me.
BLADE: Youve spoken before about
being able to pass for straight and how
that saved you from likely grief in the
NFL. Do you think queer teens who are
more likely to be perceived as LGBT
have a tougher time overall?
DAVIS: Yes, because not all kids have
the ability to exist as I did and if their
gender representation is deemed to be,
say, more effeminate, they are targeted.
Thats one thing I try to do is illuminate
the issue and point out that its not
OK to bully and demean those who
dont have the option of passing.
BLADE: Does your youth advocacy
work on LGBT issues dovetail with the
youth work you do with Hetrick-Martin?
DAVIS: Yes, they t in perfectly.
BLADE: What recurring theme you
hear from LGBT teens has been the
most surprising?
DAVIS: One of the big things is they
say people who identify as LGBT are
actually the ones that are most critical of
them. They say our young people have
to exist in certain ways to further the gay
movement, like not wear pants that sag
or talk to loud. They think they should
be more buttoned up and show a more
pristine view of what it means to be
LGBT. The kids feel they arent accepted
in many adult LGBT circles because
people want them to act differently. I
think its very tragic.
BLADE: Youve said before it was
good you werent out during your years
playing as you didnt have enough
LGBT experience or interaction to have
contributed anything meaningful to the
national dialogue at that time. Can you
elaborate on what your feelings were at
the time?
DAVIS: When I was playing from
around 2000 to 2004, there were no
conversations around gay athletes. It
just wasnt in my purview then and I had
little if any contact with anyone who was
gay. Even when I came out to myself in
college nally I still wasnt able to say
the words but I was very conscious of
liking guys but it was this unspoken
thing that nobody was talking about
so I certainly wasnt going to talk about
it either. When youre not exposed
to anything different, you dont even
have the language to really say what
it is. I wouldnt have even known how
to articulate it. I didnt know there was
an acronym. I thought a transgender
person was just drag. I had pretty much
zero understanding so looking back
Im glad I didnt say or do things at the
time that would have been harmful to
young people because of my lack of
knowledge.
BLADE: Are you in a relationship now?
DAVIS: Yes. Ive been in a relationship
now for six years. He keeps me in line
and makes sure I have a good work/life
balance.
BLADE: You live together in
Manhattan?
DAVIS: Yes, but hes trying to convince
me to move to Italy one day soon. He
owns his own line of high end Italian
furniture and thinks we should live there.
BLADE: Hes Italian?
DAVIS: No, Steven is Australian, he
just loves Italy.
YOUTH PRIDE DAY
Saturday
Noon-5 p.m.
Dupont Circle
Youthpridealliance.org
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The Gay Mens Chorus of
Washington presents its Disco
Inferno Spring Affair Gala
Fundraiser Saturday evening
at 6:30 p.m. at the Grand Hyatt
Washington (1000 H St., NW).
The fundraiser includes a
cocktail hour, silent auction, a
dinner with live entertainment
and a live auction followed by the
after-party. The proceeds go to
support the chorus which routinely
performs around the area.
Tickets are $175-$300. For
details, visit gmcw.org.
Equality Forum starts next week in Philly
The Equality Forum 2013 kicks off in Philadelphia Thursday at 7 p.m. with the
National Religious Colloquy at the University of the Arts (211 South Broad St.).
The forum is part of the groups goal to advance national and international LGBT
civil rights through education. The weekend includes several panel discussions
along with dinners and parties in the evening. The panels discuss several subjects
including LGBT Youth Advocacy and surrogacy for prospective LGBT parents.
Most events are free. For more information, visit equalityforum.com.
Lewis, Glitterlust among weekend concerts
Two gay concerts are slated for the coming days.
Stewart Lewis plays Sky Bar (1615 Rhode Island Ave., NW) tonight at 7 p.m., and
the queer disco-punk band Glitterlust performs with bear rapper the Big Dipper at
Comet Ping Pong (5037 Connecticut Ave., NW) on Sunday night at 9 p.m.
Lewis music is a blend of pop and folk and he has opened for artists such as Sheryl
Crow, Ani Difranco and Shawn Colvin. There is no cover charge for this event. For
more information, visit bbgwdc.com.
Glitterlust is an electro-pop band that was inspired by other groups such as the
Scissor Sisters. The band was started by Mikey Torres who likes to look at the darker
side of gay culture in his lyrics. The Big Dipper is a Chicago-based bear rapper.
Cover is $10. For more information, visit cometpingpong.com.
Eagle veterans benet is Saturday night
The D.C. Eagle (639 New York Ave., NW) and its charity division Eagle Wings host
an event to fundraise for Virginias local Veterans Suicide Prevention Programs and
LGBT outreach efforts Saturday night at 10 p.m.
Eagle Wings was formed to provide support for different organizations in 2004,
and has since donated $90,000 to different organizations. The night will include drink
specials, veteran auction, self-choice rafe, military recruit haircuts and bootblack
services.
For more information, visit dceagle.com.
PHOTO COURTESY OF REVERBNATION.COM
Any party with the Gay Mens Chorus is always
a fun event. These are shots from last years
Spring Affair.
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When his elderly mother Mary learns
she has just six months to live, middle-
aged Bill is forced to make a big decision:
Go back to his life as a writer and Jesuit
priest in the city or do what he thinks
is the right thing move in with mom
and see her through to the end. Being
the consummate dutiful son, Bill opts
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In his latest work, the intensely
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Book for the Bible (now at Roundhouse
Theatre), playwright Bill Cain recounts
the wide-ranging details of his 82-year-
old mothers death from liver cancer
while also celebrating his life spent as the
younger son in a mostly functional family.
The story takes place in Marys upstate
New York apartment with frequent ashbacks
40 years prior to the Cains apartment in
Queens. Speaking to the audience, Ray
Ficca as Bill, warmly draws us into the world
of his family, assuring everyone that the
unfolding tale at turns sentimental, funny,
touching and occasionally starkly real (bring a
hanky) is true.
During development, the playwright
dubbed this work The Mom and
Dad Play. Yes, the lifelong love affair
between sensible Mary (MaryBeth
Wise) and her easier going spouse Pete
(Mitchell Hbert) who could cut a rug
and enjoyed a three scotch night out,
is important to Bible, but a more apt
working title might have been The Cain
Family Play. In addition to the parents,
both Bill (the plays protagonist) and
his older, athletic brother Paul (Danny
Gavigan) are integral to the story. While
Paul is deemed more physically capable
by the parents, his clumsy but bright
little brother Bill is still perceived as the
favorite, setting the boys up for a mild,
long ongoing rivalry. Nonetheless, the
playwrights respect and affection for his
barely awed characters is clear. Cain
loves his family dearly.
Marys mantra is simple: life is tough, but
if you work very hard it gets better. When
Paul was a little boy he saved his pennies
to buy a model from the hobby shop. At
the register, he came up a nickel short.
Mary refused to front him the ve cents.
She wanted to teach her son a lesson. She
did as soon as he comes of age, hes
off to Vietnam (a transformational military
experience, compellingly played by
Gavigan) and later raises a family faraway
in Texas. But like all Cain family ghts,
Mary and Pauls is eventually sorted out
and put to rest.
Out actor MaryBeth Wise is
extraordinary as Mary, fast forwarding
40 years, shifting from middle to late
years, uncannily acquiring the rheumy
eyes and slow gait that come with
old age and sickness. As Bill, Ficca
effectively portrays the frustrations and
satisfactions concomitant with end-of-
life caregiving. The remainder of the
cast is equally good. Besides playing
father and son, Hbert and Gavigan
also effectively ll in as various annoying
health professionals. Hbert additionally
takes on a pair of smaller female roles,
playing a recently bereaved hairstylist
and Marys thoughtful, best friend
Paulette.
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Roundhouse Theatre
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$10-$61
240-644-1100
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MARYBETH WISE as Mary and RAY FICCA as Bill in Roundhouse Theatres production of How to
Write a New Book for the Bible.
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OPENINGS
FRI, APR 26
Alchemical Vessels Exhibition, Joan
Hisoka Gallery. 202-483-8600.
smithcenter.org.
In Time of Roses, Clarice Smith.
301-405-ARTS.
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TUE, APR 30
Twelfth Night, Folger Theatre.
202-544-7077. folger.edu.
WED, MAY 1
In My Nature & Signs and Seasons,
Washington Printmakers Gallery.
301-273-3660.
washingtonprintmakers.com.
The Golem, Taffety Punk Theatre
Company, CHAW. 800-838-3006.
taffetypunk.com.
THU, MAY 2
Gentlemens Club / Love Torn [Club de
Caballeros - Rotos de Amor], Teatro
de la Luna, Gunston. 703-548-3092.
teatrodelaluna.org.
Gilgamesh, Constellation,
Source Theatre. 800-494-8497.
constellationtheatre.org.
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4000 Miles, Studio Theatre.
202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
Nevilles Island, Olney Theatre Center.
301-924-3400. olneytheatre.org.
Smithsonian Craft Show,
Building Museum. 202-633-3030.
residentassociates.org.
Drawing for Art, Strathmore.
301-581-5100. strathmore.org.
Pauls Case, Artisphere. 703-875-1100.
artisphere.com.
Trash Talk, Target Gallery. 703-838-4565.
torpedofactory.org.
MON, APR 29
Oxygen, Taffety Punk Theatre
Company, CHAW. 800-838-3006.
taffetypunk.com.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
FRI, APR 26
The Sweater Set CD Release Party &
Daryl Davis: Jump, Jive, and Boogie
Woogie, Strathmore. 301-581-5100.
strathmore.org.
BeBe Winans, Lisner Auditorium.
202-994-6851. lisner.org.
Ninety Miles, Clarice Smith.
301-405-ARTS.
claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.
Robbie Schaefer, The Barns.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
Games Evening with Wallenstein
(Spieleabend), Goethe-Institut.
202-289-1200. goethe.de.
SAT, APR 27
Maryland Day, Clarice Smith.
301-405-ARTS.
claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.
Birding Adventure, National
Geographic. 202-337-3050.
nglive.org/dc.
The Emerson String Quartet, Baird
Auditorium, Smithsonian Residents.
202-633-3030.
smithsonianassociates.org.
You, Me, Them, Everybody Live! On a
Big Screen!, Artisphere. 703-875-1100.
artisphere.com.
SUN, APR 28
The Acting Company: Of Mice and Men,
GMU Center for the Arts. 703-993-2787.
cfa.gmu.edu.
MON, APR 29
2 or 3 Things I Know About Him.
The Present of the Past of a German
Family. Goethe-Institut. 202-289-1200.
goethe.de.
TUE, APR 30
Specialty Tea: Chocolate Tea,
Strathmore. 301-581-5108.
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Paris Combo, Reston Community
Center, CenterStage. 703-476-4500.
restoncommunitycenter.com.
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Chelsey Green, violin, Strathmore.
301-581-5100. strathmore.org.
Patty Larkin, The Barns.
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The Alexandria Band and the NOVA
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Hello, Dolly!, Signature Theatre,
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Pas de Deux (Skin Tight and 2-2
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studiotheatre.org.
Andy and the Shadows, Theater J.
202-777-3210. washingtondcjcc.org.
The Elder Statesman, Washington Stage
Guild, Undercroft Theatre.
240-582-0050. stageguild.org.
Optimism! or Voltaires Candide, Spooky
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ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
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Kaki King revives debut
album at Howard show
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Guitarist Kaki King brings her short
Retrospective Tour, in which shell
play her rst album Everybody Loves
You in its entirety in the rst set, to
Washingtons Howard Theatre Monday
night, the end of a four-date mini-tour
she launched this week in Boston. She
also plays New York and Philadelphia
in the coming days before heading to
Portugal for more shows.
The 33-year-old music vet, who has
six eclectic albums in her canon and was
included by Rolling Stone in 2006 on
a list of new guitar gods, says a full
decade into her career felt like the right
time to revisit her earliest material.
I really think I kind of needed to
acknowledge it myself that its been a
decade (since 2003s Everybody Loves
You) and its really not like saying
goodbye to the past so much as it is
putting a bookend on it. Going through
these old songs has brought me back to
all these memories of when I was 20, 21,
22, 23 its made me more aware and
grateful and I feel this is a nice way to
acknowledge it.
King says the rst half of the show
shell be joined by a band in the second
half for more recent material will
feature fairly faithful renditions of the
Everybody Loves You cuts. Some of
the songs have been in her set all along
while others she hasnt played since the
album was recorded. She says shes been
working this week to even it all out.
King has acknowledged, especially
when talking about her most recent
album (last years guitar-based but
augmented Glow) that despite being
relatively happy and content in her
personal life she married wife Jessica
last year in New York the music is
sometimes darker than she expected.
It probably saved my life at times,
she says. Sometimes its not just
darkness but maybe just melancholy
but whatever it is, Im lucky I have an
outlet for it and Im happy that its
music, this outlet for emotional feeling
which, of course, sounds like a clichd
response but its absolutely true in my
life. Thankfully I dont have to bare the
weight of the world.
She says thats been true practically
her whole life.
Yeah, sure, it sucks when youre
a gay teen at a Christian school,
she says. Im not going to lie, it was
horrible. But I knew there wasnt a lot I
could do about it at the time so it kind
of expressed itself in a not-very-positive
outlook on life but the good news was I
was playing in bands and went to shows
so thats the thing I did have. I didnt
have a gay community and I didnt
understand what that looked like as a
teen, but I did have a music community
that looked like a very different thing
and that got me through. Im a very
happy gay person now, but I think
in many ways with music, youre not
particularly in control its a very weird
thing. I think it controls you more than
you control it.
Road separation, especially being a
newlywed, is tough, King admits. She
and her wife time their e-mails and
Skype sessions around whatever time
zone they happen to be in. Jessica is a
freelance set decorator for lm and TV.
Thank God for modern
communication, King says. It makes it
bearable but its not fun. I think theres
something about when you really love
someone, no experience feels complete
without them.
Kaki King
Retrospective Tour
Monday at 8 p.m. (doors at 6)
Howard Theatre
620 T Street, NW
Washington
$17.50 ($22.50 at door)
kakiking.com
howardtheatre.com
Guitarist Kaki King has earned critical raves for her innovative approach to the instrument.
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At what point should
unhealthy habits become
relationship deal breakers?
DEAR MICHAEL,
Ive been with Susan for almost a
decade and Ive always believed that
we have a great relationship. But a
few months ago, she told me that
shes thinking of leaving me unless she
sees some changes, because shes not
attracted to me anymore.
Ive put on a fair amount of weight
in the last few years. But I am getting
older, my metabolism is slowing down,
and as Ive gotten further into my career,
exercise is harder to nd time for. I do
what I can, but am not achieving the
results that shed like to see.
Susan says I spend too much time in
front of the television true, but I have
a stressful job and like to veg out for a
few hours when I come home at night.
And she says I drink too much. I see her
point that alcohol is empty calories, but
dont think that two glasses a night (my
maximum) makes me an alcoholic, and
again, it helps me relax after a tough day.
I denitely dont want to lose her, but
I feel that she is asking something of
me that is impossible: to stay as t and
attractive as when I was 30.
Is this a valid reason to leave a loving
partner?
MICHAEL REPLIES:
First, if I were talking to Susan, I
would say: People inevitably change
over time. You may like some of your
partners changes and you may dislike
others. You dont have to stay married.
But if you do want a happy long-term
relationship, you need to nd a way to
accept some things about your spouse
that you really dont like.
I would also say that threatening your
partner to get her to make changes is
a bad approach, simply because threats
and hostility lead to more threats
and hostility. A better approach is to
explain why the change that you want
is important to you, keeping in mind
that your partner gets to make her own
decisions about what she does.
Turning now to you: How do you make
sense of Susans unhappiness? When
you talk with her, is it mainly about your
stressful day? How much do you interact
with her when you come home, versus
watching television? After youve had
two drinks, how engaging a partner are
you? Do you make regular effort to be
physically intimate?
You are describing yourself as having
checked out of your relationship, to a
fair extent; and I can well imagine that
Susans criticism and unhappiness may
be leading you to further withdraw.
Certainly, it isnt easy or pleasant
to interact with someone whom
we feel is judging us. But then of
course, considering Susans possible
perspective, it isnt easy or pleasant to
interact with someone whom we feel
has been shutting us out, and perhaps
ignoring our requests for change.
The two of you are a system: both
of you contribute to the quality of your
relationship through your behaviors,
what you say and what you dont say.
And, either of you could improve your
relationship simply by making a move
to do so.
Would you like to be a more engaging
partner? Would you like to be more t?
Would you like to alleviate stress through
activity rather than through numbing
yourself and shutting down? If so, it is
worth doing all you can to accomplish
these goals, both for yourself and for
your relationship.
Begin a conversation with Susan about
the unresolved and undiscussed issues
that lie between you. For example: How
long was Susan unhappy before she told
you she was no longer attracted to you,
and that she was considering leaving?
How long have you been aware that you
were withdrawing from Susan, without
discussing this with her?
Beginning such a conversation may
help the two of you start to live in your
relationship not as silent adversaries,
but as loving collaborators.
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3 AFRl L 2, 2013 ADVlCE
Michael Radkowsky is a licensed psychologist
who works with gay couples and individuals
in D.C. He can be Iound online at
personalgrowthzone.com. All identiIying
inIormation in the questions has been changed
Ior reasons oI conIdentiality. Have a question?
Send it to Michael@personalgrowthzone.com.
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By KEVIN MAJOROS
I excitedly await the television
broadcast of the triathlon Ironman World
Championship in Kona, Hawaii every
year. Nothing tugs on my heartstrings
like the triumph of the human spirit over
the limits of the human body.
As expected from events like Kona
or even the Olympics, the back stories
of the athletes add to the emotional
impact felt from watching them
accomplish their goals. The triathletes
who compete at Kona consist of
everyone from top athletes to cancer
survivors to paraplegics and even the
Iron Nun, Sister Madonna Buder.
Many people believe that bragging
rights drives many of these athletes
to push their bodies to the brink of
collapse, but the truth is that once the
sport grabs you, it is hard to let it go.
My own path to triathlons started during
a four-day hike on the Appalachian Trail.
After traversing mountain ranges with
a 50-pound pack on my back for four
days, I realized that the mountains had
beaten me as I barely made my way into
Harpers Ferry. My wish to redeem
myself and get in the best shape of my
life led me to the sport of triathlon.
With about 1,200 members,
Washington is home to one of the
largest triathlon clubs in the United
States, the D.C. Triathlon Club. The
club welcomes triathletes of all ages,
both veteran and novice. The clubs
mission is to foster camaraderie among
local triathletes and build interest in the
sport of triathlon throughout the D.C.
region. The clubs tagline is We are
Tri-Partisan, welcoming athletes of all
athletic goals, backgrounds and skills.
Annual membership is $50 and gives
members access to a wide range of
member-only programming, benets
and discounts.
The group training opportunities
include over a dozen regularly
scheduled weekly workouts. The
members regularly post notices looking
for groups or partners to swim, bike
and run. The swimming might be a
pool workout or open water swim, the
biking might be an open road ride or a
spinning session and the running might
be a track workout or an open road run.
The group also offers a Club
Training Race Series thats only open
to members and includes swim meets,
duathlons, triathlons, 5K/10Ks and a
Splash-N-Dash. These training races
give members a chance to experience
racing before their big race day.
Members compete locally, nationally
and internationally and offer a number
of club training programs to prepare
the members for race day. Skills clinics
are offered in all three sports within the
club training programs, which include
the New Athlete Program, the Half
Ironman Program, the Ironman Training
Program, the Masters Swim Program,
the Off Season Spin Program, the
Olympic Distance Speed Program and
the DCTri Snapple Elite Team.
In 2011, the D.C. Triathlon Club began
a loosely organized effort to reach out
to the huge number of LGBT athletes in
the D.C. area. This year, the club began
a more formal outreach spearheaded by
club member David Lutz. The club hosts
happy hours every second Thursday of
the month for the LGBT contingent of
DCTri and their friends. They are also
new members of Team D.C., the local
LGBT sports clearinghouse and will have
representation at Capital Pride in June.
Next year the Club will be sending a team
of athletes to the Gay Games in Cleveland
to compete in the triathlon event.
Lutz is a former swimmer who has
also competed in 5K/10Ks and a few
Century rides in cycling. Competing
in the triathlon seemed like the next
natural step.
DAVID LUTZ, leader of the LGBT contingent of the D.C. Triathlon Club.
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NoVA Gay and Lesbian Professionals
host a spring social at the Kora Lounge
(2250 Crystal Drive, Arlington, Va.) this
evening at 6 p.m. Visit gogaydc.com for
more information.
Special Agent Galactica returns
with her happy hour show this evening
at 6 p.m. at the Black Fox Lounge
(1732 Connecticut Ave., NW). The
show includes live jazz, blues, cabaret,
standards and comedy all while Galactica
is backed by a three-piece jazz combo.
There is no cover charge. For more
information, visit pinkhairedone.com.
SATURDAY, APRIL 27
FLEX, a group of artists and curators
who come together to produce
temporary exhibitions, has a free event
tonight from 7-10 p.m. at Flats at Atlas
(1600 Maryland Ave., NE) that features
several artists. Among the exhibits will be
a hard hat only pop-up gallery, a live
exhibition from D.C. Cheer and indoor/
outdoor 3D and projected works. More
details are at capitolex.com.
Youth Pride Alliance hosts Youth
Pride Day today at noon in Dupont
Circle featuring free games and
performances. The keynote speaker is
Wade Davis, a former NFL player and
assistant director of job readiness and
academic enrichment at Hetrick-Martin
Institute. LGBT families and allies are
welcome. Visit youthpridealliance.org
for more details.
Taste of 8th featuring 22 restaurants
on Barracks Row near the Eastern
Market Metro stop is today from 1-4
p.m. A ticket booth will be located at
the corner of 8th and G streets, S.E. in
front of Spring Mill Bakery or they can
be purchased online at barracksrow.org.
Tickets are available for $5 for one stop
or $20 for ve tickets in which guests can
plan their own progressive dinner at the
various participating restaurants.
Burgundy Crescent volunteers this
morning at Food and Friends (219
Riggs Rd., NE) at 8 a.m. and again at
9:45 a.m. Volunteers will help with food
preparation and packing groceries. The
shifts are limited to 10 per shift. For more
information, visit burgundycrescent.org.
The AFI Silver Silent Cinema
Showcase (8633 Colesville Rd., Silver
Spring, Md.) continues today at 1:30
p.m. and features silent lm actors Mary
Pickford, Harold Lloyd, Janet Gaynor,
Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy.
Tonights particular showcase is Street
Angel, with Gaynor starring as a girl
who walks the streets of Naples to help
support her family. When she is arrested
for stealing medicine for her mother,
she eludes the police and joins a circus.
She falls in love with a painter, but her
past threatens to destroy their young
love. Tickets for this particular screening
are $7-$11.50. For more screenings and
their tickets, visit a.com.

SUNDAY, APRIL 28
Metropolitan Community Church
(474 Ridge St., NW) holds its weekly
9 and 11 a.m. worship services. The
church has one of the most diverse
communities and communion is open
to everyone. For more information, visit
mccdc.com.
MONDAY, APRIL 29
Kaki King comes to the Howard
Theatre (620 T St., NW) on her
Retrospective Tour tonight at 8 p.m. King,
a lesbian, has performed with several
iconic bands including the Foo Fighters
and she contributed to soundtracks
such as Into the Wild. Tickets are
$17-$23. Visit thehowardtheatre.com for
more information.
The D.C. Center (1318 U St., NW)
holds coffee drop-in for the senior
LGBT community today at 10 a.m.-noon.
The Center will provide complimentary
coffee and a community to chat with. For
more information, visit thedccenter.org.
Bears do Yoga takes place this
evening 6:30 p.m. as part of a series at
the Green Lantern (1335 Green Court,
NW). This is part of a basic yoga series
that takes place every Monday and is
open to people of varying body types
and experience. There is no charge. For
more information, visit thedccenter.org.
Whitman-Walker Health (1701
14th St., NW) holds its HIV+ Newly
Diagnosed Support Group tonight at
7. It is a condential support group for
anyone recently diagnosed with HIV
and the group welcomes all genders
and sexual orientations. Registration
is required and attendees must call
202-797-3580 or email peersupport@
whitman-walker.org. For details, visit
whitman-walker.org.
Pop singer Rihanna performs at the
Verizon Center (601 F St., NW) tonight.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are
$35-$169. For more information, visit
verizoncenter.com.
TUESDAY, APRIL 30
The Friendship Place presents a panel
discussion on homeless LGBT youths
at St. Columbas Episcopal Church
(4201 Albemarle St., NW) this evening
at 6 p.m. Expert panelists from the
LGBT community discuss their personal
experiences. Attendees are asked to
RSVP to moneill@cchfp.org. Visit cchfp.
org for more details.
Whitman-Walker (1701 14th St., NW)
holds its group Starting Over for Women
tonight at 7. The group is for women
whose long-term relationship with
another woman. Registration is required
and attendees must call 202-797-
3580 or email peersupport@whitman-
walker.org. For more information, visit
whitman-walker.org.
Green Lantern (1335 Green Court,
N.W.) hosts its Safer Sex Kit-packing
program tonight from 7-10:30. The
packing program is looking for more
volunteers to help produce the kits
because they say they are barely keeping
up with demand. Admission is free and
volunteers can just show up. For more
information, visit thedccenter.org.

WEDNESDAY, MAY1
The Philadelphia Orchestra returns
to the Kennedy Center (2700 F St.,
NW) under the guidance of conductor
Yannick Nezet-Seguin tonight at 8
p.m. Nezet-Seguin, whos openly
gay, has been the musical director of
the orchestra since the start of the
2012/2013 season. The night includes
a performance by two-time Grammy
Award-winning violin soloist Hilary
Hahn. Tickets are $35-$105. For more
information, visit kennedy-center.org.
Busboys and Poets (2021 14th St.,
NW) launches its gender and sexuality
series Zami: A Circle of LGBTQ
Cultural Performances & Discussions
with Jamaican-born writer Staceyann
Chin. The series goal is to energize
community discussion about the
intersection of sexuality, gender, race
and human rights. A $5 donation is
suggested. Visit busboysandpoets.com
for more details.
Whitman-Walker Health (1701
14th St., NW) holds its HIV+ Newly
Diagnosed Support Group tonight at
7. It is a condential support group for
anyone recently diagnosed with HIV
and the group welcomes all genders
and sexual orientations. Registration
is required and attendees must call
202-797-3580 or email peersupport@
whitman-walker.org. For details, visit
whitman-walker.org.
The Tom Davoren Social Bridge Club
meets tonight at the Dignity Center
(721 8th St., SE) at 7:30 p.m. for social
bridge. Newcomers are welcome and
no reservations are needed. For more
information or if you need a partner, visit
lambdabridge.com.
THURSDAY, MAY 2
Whitman-Walker Health (1701 14th St.,
NW) holds its gay men over 50 support
group this evening at 6:30 p.m. The group
is for gay men entering a new phase of
life. Registration is required to attend.
Registration is required and attendees must
call 202-797-3580 or email peersupport@
whitman-walker.org. For more information,
visit whitman-walker.org.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY
Gay conductor YANNICK NEZET-SEGUIN makes his Washington debut conducting the Fhiladelphia
Orchestra at the Kennedy Center Wednesday night with perIormances oI works by Korngold and
Bruckner.
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of architectural inuences
By JAMES DEAN
Spring is in the air and its the House
& Garden Tour season. From Capitol
Hill to Brookland, Georgetown to de-
signer showcases, houses and gardens
are being primped and proudly dis-
played its all about style.
But what style is it? Colonial Revival,
Queen Anne or Italianate? Architecture ex-
presses specic styles and periods of time.
First, lets dispel a myth. There is no
such thing as a Victorian house. Why
you ask? Theyre all over Washington.
The term Victorian represents a pe-
riod of time coinciding roughly with
the reign of Queen Victoria but is not a
dened style. Within that period, tastes
changed and numerous architectural
styles developed. So lets take a look
at some of the most common building
styles in Washington. And dont forget
to impress your house tour mates with
your architectural knowledge.
In 1792, George Washington signed the
party wall proclamation allowing com-
mon walls to straddle property lines thus
shaping Washington neighborhoods as
row house communities. As you tour these
neighborhoods you see that the Wash-
ington Row townhouse with projecting
bay is our dominant building stock. Many
have no distinctive design and some are
transitional with elements of several styles.
Others are full blown examples of a spe-
cic architectural movement.
The earliest buildings in the District
reect Georgian roots. These feature
symmetrical fenestration, a hipped roof
and often a central entry. The White
House is a classic example of this. Fed-
eral design, with a rened semblance
to Georgian, closely followed as the
Republic grew. A prime example, De-
catur House, faces Lafayette Square.
Its also expressed, though, in simpler
wood frame houses with their gable
roofs and modest cornices.
As the 19th century progressed,
many styles developed quickly. Gothic
Revival, a reaction to the preceding
classical examples, can be seen with
Christ Church on Capitol Hill. Attrib-
uted to Benjamin Latrobe, its stylistic
denition comes primarily from the
prominent bell tower, added in 1849,
rather than the original construction.
Carpenter Gothic, Egyptian and Moor-
ish Revival also came into vogue. Short
lived and not widely constructed, they
werent dominant after the Civil War.
Washingtons major building boom
was post Civil War roughly from 1865
through the early 1900s. As the century
progressed there was an explosion of
competing styles. This is truly the Victori-
an era when the architecture we see daily
was popular. A battle of styles, as we see
with haircuts and skirt lengths, had begun.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
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PROBATE DIVISION
2013 FEP 40
Date of Death: July 25, 2000
Annie Green McNeil
Name of Decedent
Notice of Appointment of Foreign
Personal Representative and Notice to
Creditors
Ronald G. Flowers and Robert G. Flowers
whose addresses are 3900 16th St, NW
#403, Washington, DC & 743 Madison
St NW, Washington, DC were appointed
Personal Representatives of the estate of
Annie Green McNeil, deceased, by the
Circuit Court for Surry County, State of
Virginia, on February 27, 2013.
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Washington, DC 20011 whose designation
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led with the REgister of wills, DC.
The decedent owned the following
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
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PROBATE DIVISION
2013 ADM 361
Date of Death: March 23, 2013
Jerome J. Feik
Name of Decedent
Notice of Appointment, Notice to
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Helen A. Hope whose address is 217
Jarman Branch Drive, Centerville,
MD 21617 was appointed Personal
Representative of the estate of Jerome
J. Feik, who died on March 23, 2013 with
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or before October 26, 2013, or be forever
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25 days of its publication shall so inform
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address, and relationship.
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/s/ Helen A. Hope. TRUE TEST COPY /s/
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