Volume 45, Issue 21, May 23, 2014

Two years ago, a gay Rehoboth
bartender left work drunk,

climbed into his Jeep and killed
another gay man, shocking a
community and highlighting the
problem of addiction and the
power of forgiveness
By KEVIN NAFF
kna@washblade.com
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. Before Brian Meegan
left for work on June 30, 2012, he updated his
Facebook status, Working [a] double today, ready
for Super July Fourth Week.
The double shift bartending at the L Bar was
long, extending from afternoon happy hour to past
close at 1 a.m. and there was a promotion that day.
Sterling remarks, ESPN kiss reveal a
nation still struggling with bigotry
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Theres good news and bad, as is always the case
with LGBT rights issues.
With D.C. Black Pride in full swing this weekend (see
our events listings and more coverage on page
39) and the country reeling from the latest eruption
of ugly racism Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald
Sterlings comments and bewildering CNN interview
and homophobia the reaction to out football player
Michael Sam, who kissed his boyfriend in a clip shown
on ESPN last week illustrate how thorny life can be at
the intersection of the black, LGBT experience.
I wouldnt even call these isolated little pockets,
says Sharon Lettman-Hicks, an LGBT ally and executive
director and CEO of National Black Justice Coalition.
[This is] the 60th anniversary of the Brown vs. the
Board of Education ruling and its very clear that
structural racism does still exist and African Americans
deal with it everyday in some form or fashion of their
everyday lives. For Donald Sterling to be talking to a
person of color in those terms shows an attitude thats
deeply steeped in an attitude of superiority, to use this
boy dynamic in how he characterized a grown black
man, its just deeply steeped in structural racism.
She says the reactions to Sams kiss are no dierent.
For him going so low in the draft and to only go in his
home state where there was a level of familiarity, for
someone of his talent and his accomplishment, where
he went in the draft was an insult, Lettman-Hicks says.
Yes, we have to celebrate the nuggets of victory, but we
should not always have to be on the very lowest level
of success. I see great similarities between racism and
homophobia as I live and advocate at the intersection
of these issues everyday.
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Theres a unique opportunity for us as black gay people
to bridge the issues and remind people of what its like
and the way its compounded for those of us with multiple
identities, said the Task Forces DARLENE NIPPER.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TASK FORCE
BRIAN MEEGAN, shown here at Sussex Correctional Institution where hes serving at least 8.5 years, struck and killed
RUSSELL HENMAN two years ago.
MEEGANPHOTO BY KEVINNAFF; HENMANPHOTO COURTESY OF BARBARA KESSLER
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Gay Democratic group
instead announces
support for the ticket
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.

lchibbaro@washblade.com
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club,
the citys largest LGBT political group, has
decided not to schedule a vote from its
members to formally endorse Democratic
mayoral nominee Muriel Bowser.
In an action that has puzzled some of the
citys LGBT Democrats, the club announced
in a press release on May 12 that it is
supporting the Democratic ticket in the
Nov. 4 general election in which Bowser
and six Democratic City Council candidates
will appear on the ballot. The press release
doesnt mention Bowser or the Council
candidates by name.
Other Democratic candidates running
that the club is supporting are D.C.
Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes
Norton and shadow Senate and House
nominees Paul Strauss and Franklin Garcia.
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club
is proud to support a Democratic ticket
of experienced leaders and new voices
ready to move our party and our city
forward, the press release states.
As the D.C. LGBT community grows
it is important for Stein Club and our
members to do what we can to increase
our ranks and turn out our community
to win Democratic victories, the press
release quotes the clubs president,
Angela Peoples, as saying.
Peoples and the clubs Vice President
for Legislative and Political Aairs Martin
Garcia told members attending the
clubs regular monthly meeting on May
12 that a formal endorsement vote was
unnecessary because it was presumed
and expected that a Democratic club
would support all Democratic nominees
in a city election, according to members
who attended the meeting.
Gay Democratic activist and Stein Club
member Lane Hudson, whos backing gay
D.C. Council member David Catania (I-At-
Large) in the mayors race, introduced a
motion at the meeting calling for the club
to withhold any support for Bowser and
other candidates until at least September,
when the board of elections certies all
candidates for the ballot.
Hudsons motion was defeated by a
wide margin, a development considered
to be a vote of condence in the o cers
proposals for backing Bowser and the
other Democratic candidates.
But at least two club members who
spoke on condition that they not be
identied said they believe the clubs
o cers chose not to schedule an
endorsement vote out of fear that Bowser
would not win the required 60 percent
majority to secure the endorsement.
According to the two club members
and several other members who
spoke to the Blade, an unknown but
potentially signicant number of Stein
Club members are supporting Catania
over Bowser in the November election.
Although the clubs bylaws dont allow
the club to endorse a non-Democrat
in a race in which a Democrat is on the
ballot, Catania supporters would have the
option of voting for no endorsement in
a club endorsement election.
If enough Catania supporters voted for
no endorsement, several club members
said, they could block Bowser from
receiving the 60 percent super majority
required under the clubs bylaws for an
endorsement. Such a development would
be highly embarrassing for the club, the
members told the Blade, and this is most
likely the reason that the o cers have
decided not to hold an endorsement vote.
Peoples disputes that claim, saying the
o cers were following a club precedent
established in recent years in which the
club doesnt schedule a membership vote
on endorsements in a general election
for Democratic candidates that have not
been endorsed in the primary.
There was no intention on my part
to prevent an up or down vote on an
endorsement for fear that one candidate
or another may not get an endorsement
or any Democratic candidate might not
get the endorsement, Peoples said.
I simply would not jeopardize the
opportunity for the club to vote simply
because I was afraid of the outcome, she said.
One possible consequence of not
formally endorsing Bowser and the three
Democratic Council candidates that didnt
win the clubs endorsement in the primary
is that the club may not be allowed to
make a campaign contribution to those
candidates under the clubs bylaws.
The vote to make a nancial
contribution to an endorsed candidates
campaign must be voted as a separate
question from the vote to endorse, the
bylaws state on the issue of campaign
contributions.
Peoples said she isnt sure if that
provision actually bans the club from
making contributions to Bowser and the
non-endorsed Council candidates. But
she said a separate section of the bylaws
allows the club to take out newspaper
ads in support of non-endorsed
candidates. Peoples said the o cers plan
to submit a proposal to the members
at the June meeting to purchase one or
more media ads on behalf of Bowser
and the other non-endorsed candidates.
She said the members will likely vote on
whether to approve the proposal.
The clubs o cers talked to former
Stein o cers, including former president
Jerey Richardson, on the issue of whether
an endorsement vote was necessary
for the club to support candidates in a
general election, Peoples said. She said
the consensus among former o cers
was that a clear precedent exists for not
taking a formal endorsement vote in a
general election for Democratic nominees
not endorsed in the primary.
Peoples noted that the clubs press
release focuses mostly on the clubs plans
for increasing the turnout of the LGBT
vote in the general election following a
disappointingly low overall voter turnout
for the April 1 primary.
At least one former club president, Kurt
Vorndran, disputes Peoples assessment
that a longstanding precedent exists for
not voting to endorse candidates in the
general election. According to Vorndran,
in past years the club has almost always
voted to endorse Democratic nominees
that the club didnt endorse in the
primary at the rst regularly scheduled
club meeting following the primary.
There has always been an a rmative vote
and its usually done with all of the fanfare of
the approval of the minutes, he said.
Vorndran called the clubs decision not
to vote to endorse Bowser a mistake,
saying he believes Bowser supporters have
enough support among club members to
secure the endorsement for her.
I think whatever plans are being
developed may be very well intentioned,
he said. But I think the way the public
will perceive it is that the Stein Club, a
Democratic organization, is not coming out
100 percent for the Democratic nominee
and it will be perceived as a statement of a
lack of condence in her, he said.
And I dont think thats justied. Muriel
Bowser has been a great friend of our
community, he said.
Gay Democratic activist Paul Kuntzler,
a founder of the Stein Club who is backing
Catania, said Vorndrans account of the
clubs practices of voting to endorse
Democratic nominees in a general
election is correct. However, Kuntzler said
the current situation is unprecedented
because Catania has emerged as one of the
strongest non-Democratic contenders ever
to run for mayor in a D.C. general election.
We have never had a division like
this in the LGBT community in a general
election, Kuntzler told the Blade.
Catania, who holds one of two at-large
Council seats that are reserved under
the City Charter for a non-majority party
candidate, has received strong support
from Democratic voters, including LGBT
Democrats, in his past Council races. His
supporters predict his long record as a
reform politician will prompt large numbers
of Democrats to vote for him for mayor.
In the case of Bowser, Stein members were
divided in the primary between Bowser and
her primary opponents, including Mayor
Vincent Gray and Council members Tommy
Wells (D-Ward 6), Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), and
Vincent Orange (D-At-Large). Businessman
Andy Shallal also garnered support among
some of the clubs members during the
primary campaign.
At a club endorsement forum in
March, Gray came in rst but fell short
of obtaining the required 60 percent
threshold, resulting in the club not
endorsing anyone in the Democratic
mayoral primary.
A similar no-endorsement outcome
emerged in the at-large City Council race
and the Council races in Wards 1 and 6.
Bowser beat Gray in the primary
by a wide margin and emerged as the
winner in most voter precincts with high
concentrations of LGBT residents.
Incumbent Council member Anita
Bonds (D-At-Large) won the primary as did
Ward 1 challenger Brianne Nadeau, who
defeated gay Council member Jim Graham
(D-Ward 1). Ward 6 contender Charles
Allen also won the nomination in his race
for the seat being vacated by Wells, who
gave up the seat to run for mayor.
D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson
(D-At-Large) and incumbent Council
members Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) and
Kenyan McDu e (D-Ward 5) won the Stein
Clubs endorsement prior to the primary,
which the three easily won against token
opposition. The three are longtime strong
supporters of the LGBT community.
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It is important for Stein Club to do what
we can to increase our ranks and turn out
our community to win Democratic victories,
said Stein Club President ANGELA PEOPLES.
WASHINGTON BLADE FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY
Stein Club wont endorse Bowser in mayors race
Highlighting petition
drive will only hurt us
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS
mlavers@washblade.com
Some Maryland LGBT advocates have
expressed concern over highlighting
eorts to force a referendum on the states
recently signed transgender rights law.
The Washington Blade obtained an
e-mail that Brigida Krszysztok of Gender
Rights Maryland sent to Mara Keisling,
executive director of the National Center
for Transgender Equality, on May 14
after her organization sent a message
to supporters asking them to report
petition-gatherers in your area. NCTE
asked its supporters to stop people from
signing the petition and e-mail Keith
Thirion of Equality Maryland to become
more involved in the eort to defend the
trans rights law.
Telling people being approached by
signature-gatherers that the law simply
ensures everyone can work for a living,
securing housing and get served at a
restaurant will make them think twice
about joining an eort to repeal it, reads
the NCTE message. Its most important
they hear that the law is about ending
discrimination.
It may feel more empowering to rally
your members to discourage others from
signing, but in the end it will only hurt us,
Krszysztok told Keisling in her e-mail
to which Dana Beyer, Sharon Brackett
and Jonathan Shurberg of Gender Rights
Maryland were copied. Better to put all
our hands together to get ready to ght
this eectively, so that were ready.
Krszysztok e-mailed Keisling the day
before Gov. Martin OMalley signed into
law Senate Bill 212 the Fairness for
All Marylanders Act that state Sen.
Rich Madaleno (D-Montgomery County)
introduced earlier this year. Beyer in
January announced she would challenge
the Montgomery County Democrat in
next months Democratic primary.
Well settle this in the courtroom,
Shurberg told the Washington Blade,
referring to a possible referendum on
the trans rights law. Highlighting it and
drawing attention to it is only going to
give it more oxygen than it deserves.
Shurberg, the chair of Gender Rights
Marylands Legislative Committee
who is seeking to represent House
District 20 in the Maryland House of
Delegates, was the lawyer who led
eorts to successfully block a possible
referendum on the Montgomery County
trans rights law in 2008. Eorts to keep
a statute that extended in-state tuition to
undocumented immigrants o the ballot
in 2012 failed, but voters later approved
the Maryland Dream Act alongside
the states same-sex marriage law that
OMalley signed earlier in the year.
The Montgomery County Ethics
Commission in 2008 cleared Beyer of
allegations that she told opponents of the
local trans rights law who were collecting
signatures outside a local supermarket
that she worked for then-County Council
member Duchy Tractenberg as she
confronted them.
Beyer is a former member of the
Equality Maryland Board of Directors.
State Del. Neil Parrott (R-Washington
County) last month announced he has
begun to collect signatures to prompt a
referendum on the trans rights law.
The Washington County Republican
and other opponents need to collect a
third of the 55,737 necessary signatures
by the end of this month. The remainder
of them are due to state election o cials
by June 30 in order for the law to appear
on the November ballot.
Parrotts website, MDPetitions.com,
urged opponents of the trans rights law
to sign the Bathroom Bill petition during
a gubernatorial candidates forum in
Germantown on Tuesday.
State Del. Nic Kipke (R-Anne Arundel
County) on Sunday sent an e-mail to
supporters that included a link to Parrotts
website that contains a link to the
referendum petition. The Anne Arundel
County Republican also listed four locations
in his district where people can sign it.
Formally (and deceptively) named the
Fairness For All Marylanders Act, the
bill requires businesses to open up their
public facilities including bathrooms,
saunas, shower rooms, changing rooms,
locker rooms, etc. so that men can use
the ladies room and women can use the
mens room, wrote Kipke.
Equality Maryland declined to comment.
Its important Equality Maryland, the
Maryland Coalition for Trans Equality
and the National Center for Transgender
Equality is out there saying thats
informed other people about whats
going on, to make sure people are not
duped as some claim they were about
marriage, Madaleno told the Blade on
Tuesday. It makes sense to be out there
letting our supporters know where they
are and why this is bad.
Keisling told the Blade that NCTE continues
to work with Equality Maryland and other
partner organizations on the issue.
The people on the ground who have
been doing all the work have asked all the
member organizations of the coalition
to reach out to all of our Maryland
constituencies, so we did, she said. As a
national organization if we question the
tactical choices of the 30 groups working
on this without us being on the ground, it
wouldnt be wise.
OMalley pointed out to the Blade during
a telephone interview before he signed
SB 212 that voters in 2012 approved the
states same-sex marriage law and the
Maryland Dream Act. A Goucher Poll in
March indicates 71 percent of Marylanders
support the trans rights law.
Whatever success they might have
in initially working up the gullible and
petitioning this to referendum I believe
the people of our state will agree that
to discriminate against another human
being is wrong, OMalley told the Blade.
Va. cookouts highlight marriage ght
SPRINGFIELD, Va. Equality Virginia last weekend organized a series of
cookouts designed to highlight support of marriage rights for same-sex couples
in the commonwealth.
Kelly Cole and Suzanne Freeze, who married in D.C. in 2011, hosted nearly
45 people at their Fairfax County home on May 18. State Sen. Dave Marsden
(D-Fairfax County) is among those who attended.
I look forward to the day when the debate over gay marriage will be over, and
no one will doubt that anyone and everyone should be able to marry who they
love, said Marsden in a statement to the Washington Blade. When people look
back at the history of Virginia, the ban on marriage equality will be yet another
chapter that we will have to explain to our children.
Nearly two-dozen people attended a cookout that Dwayne and Rodney Byrum
hosted at their Alexandria home on May 17.
The two men, who have been together for four years, married on the Puerto
Rican island of Vieques last December.
Everybody is kind of ghting the inevitable, Dwayne Byrum told the
Washington Blade.
The cookouts took place less than a week after a three-judge panel with the
4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., heard oral arguments in a
lawsuit challenging the commonwealths same-sex marriage ban.
The judges are expected to announce their ruling in the coming months.
Its a long time coming, Cole told the Blade when asked about when she
thinks same-sex couples will be able to legally marry in Virginia. I just cant
believe its not here.
MICHAEL K. LAVERS
06 MAY 23, 2014 LOCAL NEWS
Maryland Gov. MARTIN OMALLEY last week signed a transgender rights bill into law. Advocates disagree on whether to highlight eorts to force
a referendum on it.
WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY
Md. advocates divided over trans law referendum
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Anti-gay senator said Jones
understands our values
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The unanimous conrmation of U.S.
District Judge John Edward Jones III was
hardly controversial in 2002, but the
judge, who on Tuesday brought marriage
equality to Pennsylvania, had at the time
a notable cheerleader: Rick Santorum.
The two-term Republican U.S. senator
from Pennsylvania known for his
comparison of same-sex relationships
to man on dog sex and his vehement
opposition to same-sex marriage
recommended Jones to then-President
George W. Bush, who later named him
to the U.S. District Court for the Middle
District of Pennsylvania.
Its not unusual for Republican-appointed
judges to rule in favor of marriage equality
following the U.S. Supreme Court decision
against DOMA, but Santorums faith in
Jones as someone who would uphold
traditional values stands out considering
the judges later decision to bring same-sex
marriage to Pennsylvania.
According to a 2002 article in the Lehigh
Valley-based newspaper The Morning
Call, Santorum said he was excited about
Jones at the time of his investiture because
he understands our values and traditions.
Too often we forget about having
judges who understand our values and our
traditions, Santorum is quoted as saying.
Reportedly, Santorum recalled a ruling
from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals at the time that determined the
Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional
because it contained the words under
God, saying that would be the kind of
ruling Jones wouldnt make.
That wouldnt happen in Schuylkill
County, Santorum was quoted as saying,
because people here are the salt of the
earth and true Americans.
But the values that Jones espoused in his
decision Tuesday against Pennsylvanias
ban on same-sex marriage are decidedly
dierent from the American values often
cited by Santorum.
We are a better people than what these
laws represent, and it is time to discard
them into the ash heap of history, Jones
wrote about Pennsylvanias same-sex
marriage ban.
The same article describes then-
Secretary of Homeland Security and
former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge
as supportive of Jones, but Ridge now
supports marriage equality as he
indicated in a recent address at the annual
dinner for the Log Cabin Republicans.
It was only a couple of years later that
Santorum would become a leading voice
in the U.S. Senate for a U.S. constitutional
amendment banning same-sex marriage
throughout the country. During his
presidential bid in 2012, Santorum ran in
support of that measure and was vocal in his
opposition to the referendum in Washington
State that brought marriage equality there.
During Jones conrmation hearing
2002, Santorum praised Jones as an
eective attorney with established
credentials, according to a Senate
transcript of the hearing.
John Jones is another outstanding
lawyer and has served not just as an
outstanding lawyer, but served the
community beyond the practice of law,
Santorum said.
Santorum pointed to Jones work as
head of the Liquor Control Board in
Pennsylvania, saying Jones shepherded
the agency through di cult waters and
dramatically improved its e ciency.
It shows his commitment to public
service, but he has also been, as Senator
Specter noted, an outstanding litigator,
an outstanding attorney in Schuylkill
County, Santorum concluded.
One might may have expected Jones
to rule in a conservative manner. He was
aligned with the Republican Party, and
in 1992, unsuccessfully ran on the GOP
ticket to represent Pennsylvanias 6th
congressional district in the U.S. House.
But the marriage equality decision is not
the rst time that Jones ruled in a manner
contrary to the philosophy of social
conservatives. In 2005, he struck down a
law in Pennsylvania requiring that schools
teach intelligent design, an alternative
to the theory of evolution that espouses
Creationist views of life on earth.
Santorum-backed judge brings marriage equality to Pa.
Attorney General Kane
declined to defend law
A federal judge on Tuesday struck
down Pennsylvanias statutory same-sex
marriage ban.
U.S. District Judge John E. Jones, III,
issued his ruling in a lawsuit led last July
on behalf of 11 gay and lesbian couples
and a widow who are seeking marriage
rights in the commonwealth.
We are better people than what these
laws represent, and it is time to discard
them into the ash heap of history, wrote
Jones in his 39-page decision.
The plaintis and their lawyers were
quick to applaud the ruling.
We as the Whitewood family are
absolutely ecstatic about this decision,
said Deb Whitewood, who has been with
her partner, Susan Whitewood, for 22 years
during a conference call with reporters.
Maureen Hennessey, whose wife of 29
years, Mary Beth McIntyre, passed away
last May, said she was missing my better
half to hug after the court published
Jones decision.
I know this means a lot to our
children and to our grandchildren, said
Hennessey.
Pennsylvania Attorney General
Kathleen Kane announced shortly after
the American Civil Liberties Union of
Pennsylvania and the ACLU led the
lawsuit on behalf of Hennessey and the
11 plainti couples that she would not
defend the states same-sex marriage
ban. Gov. Tom Corbetts administration
continues to defend the law.
State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler
County) has led eorts to impeach Kane
over her decision not to defend the same-
sex marriage ban. Democratic members of
the State Government Committee earlier
this month walked out of a hearing the anti-
gay Republican held to consider the issue.
We have an opinion that is now a bell
ringer, said Mark Aronchick, a lawyer
who represents the plaintis.
I join millions of Pennsylvanians
today in supporting the federal courts
decision, added state Rep. Brian Sims
(D-Philadelphia) who co-introduced a
same-sex marriage bill last fall. Today, a
federal court in Pennsylvania has a rmed
what a majority of Pennsylvanians already
support: the fundamental right to marry
the person they love.
Then-President George W. Bush appointed
Jones to the federal bench in 2002.
The ruling unilaterally makes an end-
run around the democratic process and
places the capricious will of one man
above the desires of millions of citizens,
said National Organization for Marriage
President Brian Brown.
Jones did not stay his ruling, but it
appears likely that Corbett will appeal it.
Corbetts spokesperson Melissa
Ferdinand said the governor and his chief
counsel are reviewing the decision. The
governor has 30 days to appeal the ruling.
The Philadelphia Registrar of Wills
issued a marriage license to Rue Landau
and Kerry Smith shortly after Jones
announced his ruling. The ACLU said
judges are waiving the three-day waiting
period between the time a couple
receives their marriage license and when
they can exchange vows under state law.
The ACLU of Pennsylvania plans to
celebrate the decision at a series of rallies that
are planned to take place later on Tuesday in
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Erie.
Neighboring New Jersey, New York,
Delaware and Maryland are among the
states that have extended marriage rights
to same-sex couples.
Gays and lesbians in Oregon on
Monday began to exchange vows after
a federal judge struck down the states
same-sex marriage ban.
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Gay judge strikes down Ore. marriage ban
A federal judge in Oregon struck down the states ban on same-sex marriage Monday,
marking the 13th consecutive win for gay nuptials in the federal courts since the U.S.
Supreme Court decision against the Defense of Marriage Act last year.
In a 26-page decision, U.S. District Judge Michael McShane ruled in the consolidated
case of Rummell v. Kitzhaber and Geiger v. Kitzhaber that Oregons ban on same-sex
marriage violates equal protection rights under the U.S. Constitution.
Because Oregons marriage laws discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation
without a rational relationship to any legitimate government interest, the laws violate
the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,
McShane wrote.
McShane makes heavy use in his ruling of U.S. Associate Justice Anthony Kennedys
decision against Section 3 of DOMA, but acknowledges the Oregon case and the DOMA
lawsuit have dierent characteristics.
Windsor may be distinguished from the present case in several respects, McShane
wrote. Yet, recounting such dierences will not detract from the underlying principle
shared in common by that case and the one now before me. The principle is one
inscribed in the Constitution, and it requires that the states marriage laws not degrade
or demean the plaintis in violation of their rights to equal protection.
McShanes ruling means 13 federal courts have ruled in favor of marriage equality
since the Supreme Courts decision against DOMA. That doesnt count state courts in
New Jersey, New Mexico and Arkansas.
The decision also has the distinction of being handed down by a judge whos openly
gay. McShane has raised a child with his ex-partner and is now raising another child with
his current partner.
Hes not the rst gay federal judge to deliver a ruling on marriage equality. Now retired
U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, who struck down Californias Proposition 8, is gay.
One case in the litigation, Rummell v. Kitzhaber, was led in December 2013 by the
American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Oregon and private attorneys on behalf of
two same-sex couples seeking to marry in Oregon as well as Basic Rights Oregon. The
other case, Geiger v. Kitzhaber, was led in October 2013 by private attorneys on behalf
of an additional two same-sex couples in Eugene, Ore., seeking to marry. McShane
consolidated the cases on Jan. 23.
Paul Rummell, one of the plaintis in the lawsuit, said in a statement hes, thrilled to
have the freedom to marry the love of my life.
Marriage strengthens families like mine, and for me, its as simple as treating others
as one would hope to be treated, Rummell said. No one should be told it is illegal to
marry the person they love.
Vanessa Usui, board chair of Basic Rights Education Fund, said the decision represents
a historic day for Oregon and individuals in the state who fought to legalize same-sex
marriage.
After years of working in every way possible way to bring the freedom to marry to
Oregon, today is a historic day, Usui said. Starting with a ballot measure, and ultimately
with this court victory, we have nally ensured that all loving, committed same-sex
couples are free to marry in Oregon.
McShane also ruled against the state ban on same-sex marriage after not a single
party would defend the law in court. Its the rst time that no party defended a ban on
same-sex marriage during the course of a lawsuit seeking marriage equality.
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced in February the law was
indefensible, as did attorneys for Multnomah County, who were also named as
defendants in the lawsuit and had pledged to hand out licenses to same-sex couples as
soon as law was struck down.
Thalia Zepatos, director of public engagement at Freedom to Marry and a key adviser
to Oregon United for Marriage, said McShane, did the right thing for families by striking
down the states ban as unconstitutional.
In recognition of the strong support for marriage among Oregonians, no one with
legal standing, including our state attorney general, wanted to go down in history as
defending discrimination, Zepatos said. Across the country, the courts agree: same-
sex couples and their families need the protections of marriage, and anti-marriage laws
are indefensible.
With no one defending the ban in court, the anti-gay National Organization for
Marriage two days before oral arguments had sought to intervene in the lawsuit. The
group also raised concerns about the impartiality of McShane presiding over a lawsuit
seeking marriage equality because hes gay. McShane rejected the groups request to
participate in the litigation, saying the lawsuit would remain an Oregon case.
Ark. Supreme Court halts marriages
The Arkansas Supreme Court halted same-sex marriages taking place in the
state late last week, once again prohibiting gay couples from marrying in the
state and for the indenite future.
In a one-sentence decision issued from the court on Friday, the court writes
that stays on marriage equality are grantedpending appeal of the lawsuit that
brought it to Arkansas. One stay was requested by Arkansas Attorney General
Dustin McDaniel, another was led by White, Washington, Lonoke and Conway
counties.
The fate of same-sex marriage in Arkansas could be in limbo for many months.
According to the Arkansas Times, the case will now go through the appeals
process, and its uncertain whether that will be completed before the end of the
year. A decision in the case could be reached by fall.
The case, Wright v. Arkansas, was a state lawsuit led last year on behalf of 20
same-sex couples either seeking to marry in Arkansas or seeking to have their
marriages recognized by the state. Last week, Circuit Judge Chris Piazza struck
down the states marriage ban, which enabled hundreds of same-sex couples
to wed in Arkansas. However, the state appealed the decision and requested a
stay.

Court orders Utah to recognize marriages
Utah must recognize the estimated 1,300 same-sex marriages performed
within the state as legally valid, a federal judge ruled Monday. In the case of
Evans v. Utah, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball issued a preliminary injunction
requiring Utah to recognize the unions performed in state in the aftermath of
another court decision in December striking down Amendment 3, the states
ban on same-sex marriage.
The State has placed Plaintis and their families in a state of legal limbo with
respect to adoptions, child care and custody, medical decisions, employment
and health benets, future tax implications, inheritance, and many other
property and fundamental rights associated with marriage, Kimball wrote.
These legal uncertainties and lost rights cause harm each day that the marriage
is not recognized.
Kimballs preliminary injunction isnt a permanent order, but demonstrates
the court believes plaintis are likely to prevail and would suer irreparable
harm if their marriages arent recognized. A 21-day stay was included in the
order to allow Utah to respond.
Utah briey had marriage equality after the district court ruling in favor
of marriage equality, but that ended when for the time being when the U.S.
Supreme Court issued a stay on the marriage pending appeal of the lawsuit.
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said Utah
wouldnt recognize marriages already performed in the state for the purposes
of the state benets. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, on the other hand, said
the Obama administration would recognize the marriages under federal law.
In January, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Utah and the Salt
Lake City-based rm Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC, led the lawsuit in state court
on behalf of four same-sex couples that married in Utah suing to force the state
to recognize their marriage. The case was moved to federal court because there
were federal claims.
John Mejia, legal director of the ACLU of Utah, said in a statement that the
preliminary injunction comes as welcomes news to the plainti couples as well
as all other couples that wed in Utah.
Our clients, like over 1,000 other same-sex couples, were legally married and
those marriages cannot now be taken away from them, Mejia said. While we
await a permanent decision, we are relieved that our clients will receive the full
recognition they deserve as lawfully married couples.
CHRIS JOHNSON
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Sam kiss ofends talk show host
DALLAS A Dallas talk show host abruptly walked o the set of her program
last week during a discussion about those who criticized ESPN for showing a
video of Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend after the St. Louis Rams drafted him.
When parents do not have a choice as to whether or not they want their
children to see this, its wrong, said Amy Kushnir, co-host of The Broadcast on
KTXD, on May 13 before walking o the set. Its being pushed in faces.
Kushnir discussed the incident during an interview with Fox News on May 15.
ESPN used it as an opportunity to put out shocking video when ESPN is a
sports network that families watch, she said. I mean, weve got children that
play sports. They watch ESPN all the time. So, it bothered me that they used this
as an opportunity to promote their left-wing agenda in my opinion.
President Obama is among those who congratulated Sam who came out in
February after he became the rst openly gay man drafted into the National
Football League on May 10.
The Miami Dolphins ned and suspended safety Don Jones after describing
Sam kissing Vito Cammisano as horrible on Twitter.
LGBT groups criticize Fla. lawmaker
ORLANDO, Fla. A video that shows a Florida lawmaker using homophobic
rhetoric to describe an organization developing a statewide test for students
under a new education curriculum modeled after Common Core emerged this
week.
State Rep. Charles Van Zant (R-Clay County) said during a speech at the
Operation Education Conference in March that American Institutes for Research
would attract everyone of your children to become as homosexual as they
possibly can. The Republican also said curriculum supporters are promoting
as hard as they can any youth that is interested in the LGBT agenda.
Think Progress published a video of Van Zants comments on May 19.
It is reprehensible whenever an elected o cial conjures up homophobic
scare tactics for political gain, said Equality Florida Institute CEO Nadine Smith.
His assertion that an educational program seeks to make children gay is simply
absurd.
SAVE Dade, a South Florida LGBT advocacy group, described Van Zants
statements as ignorant at best and hateful at worst.
Van Zant who has previously made anti-LGBT comments defended his
remarks during an interview that a Jacksonville, Fla., television station broadcast
on May 20.
Breakthrough for
gay and lesbian veterans
and their spouses
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
A lesbian military spouse who fought
more than a year for survivor annuities
announced Saturday she had nally
received notice she would receive the
entitlement, raising questions about
whether the Department of Veterans
Aairs has enacted a blanket change in
policy for same-sex benets.
During her speech upon receiving
an award at the inaugural dinner in
D.C. for the American Military Partners
Association, Tracy Johnson said she
received a notice in the mail earlier in
the month verifying that she would
be eligible for survivor benets. They
would be retroactive, she said, to the
time of the death of her spouse, Sta
SergeantDonna Johnson, who was killed
on patrol in Afghanistanon Oct. 1, 2012.
This decision from the Department
of Veterans Aairs is an important
step toward our end goal of achieving
equal treatment for all military families,
Tracy said. This would not have been
possible without your support.
But Tracy also said her work isnt done
and her biggest goal, which has yet to
be achieved, is to get the Army to change
Donnas death certicate to recognize
their marriage.
Speaking with the Washington Blade
on Sunday, Johnson said she was
stunned when she received the April 23
letter verifying she would receive the
benets earlier this month at her home
near Ft. Bragg, N.C.
It took me a moment to realize exactly
what I was reading, Johnson said. When
I opened it, it really took me a minute.
I had to set it down and read it the day
after when my emotions cleared and
I was able to think, and pretty clearly, it
was pretty powerful. It took me o my
feet for a few minutes; I just sat there and
cried and when I read it.
Because same-sex marriage isnt legal
in North Carolina, Tracy Johnson married
Donna Johnson in D.C. on Feb. 14, 2012. It
was not even eight months later on Oct.
1. when Donna Johnson was killed by a
suicide bomber in Afghanistan.
In January 2013, Tracy led for survivors
benets through her local veterans aairs
o ce, then made another ling in July
2013 after the U.S. Supreme Court decision
against the Defense of Marriage Act.
She said she was never denied
benets, but was told the administration
was evaluating her case and would
reach out to her with any questions. Her
understanding, she said, was the process
for receiving the benets could take
anywhere from two to three months or
up to a year if the claim is contested.
Tracy refused to disclose the amount
of initial money she received with her
nal notication, but said the monthly
entitlement was $1,233 and the payment
start-date is retroactive to Nov. 1, 2012.
The acknowledgement that Tracy will
receive veterans benets could have broad
implications. Following the court decision
on DOMA, the Department of Veterans
Aairs has been aording veteran spousal
benets to married same-sex couples in
states that recognize their marriages, but
the administration has withheld these
benets including survivor benets,
disability benets and joint burial at a
veterans cemetery to same-sex spouses
living in states without marriage equality.
Title 38 section 103(c), which governs
veterans benets, looks to the state of
residency, not the state of celebration, when
determining whether a couple is married.
That means same-sex spouses have been
unable to obtain veterans benets if they
reside in non-marriage states, such as
Tracys home state of North Carolina.
According to a CNN Money article in
March, the VA brought up that portion of
the law in response to the media outlets
inquiry on why Tracy hasnt received
the benets even though the only
notication she said she had personally
received was her request was being
processed or was in a holding pattern.
The Department of Veterans Aairs has
told the Washington Blade its working
with the Justice Department to develop
guidance to ensure same-sex couples
receive veterans benets to which their
opposite-sex comrades are entitled.
16 MAY 23, 2014 NATI ONAL NEWS
Benets for lesbian widow
may signal change in VA policy
TRACY JOHNSON has received survivor
benets following the death of her spouse.
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Last year brought advances,
setbacks across the world
LGBT rights advocates in more than 120
countries will commemorate this years
International Day Against Homophobia
and Transphobia (IDAHOT) with a series
of vigils, conferences and other events.
Geena Rocero, a transgender Filipino
fashion model who founded Gender Proud,
a trans advocacy group, is among those who
are scheduled to take part in an IDAHOT
event outside of Manila, the countrys capital,
that the Association of Transgender People
in the Philippines has organized. Rocero on
Thursday also participated in a candlelight
vigil in Hong Kong that local LGBT rights
advocates organized.
The Rainbow Pride Foundation, a Fijian
LGBT advocacy group, on May 10 held its
own candlelight vigil at a church in Suva,
the Pacic island nations capital. Cubas
National Center for Sexual Education
on the same day held a conga against
homophobia in the Cuban capital as
part of a series of events throughout the
country that will commemorate IDAHOT.
The Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-
Sexuals and Gays on Friday will hold a
symposium at a hotel in the Jamaican
capital that will examine challenges that
LGBT people in the Caribbean country
continue to face. Mara Eugenia Gonzlez,
co-founder of the Georgia Safe Schools
Coalition, is scheduled to attend an anti-
bullying conference in the Peruvian city of
Iquitos on May 21.
So-called rainbow ash mobs are
scheduled to take place in at least 11
Russian cities on May 17. An estimated
100 people are expected to gather in
Khabarovsk to release rainbow colored
balloons in an IDAHOT demonstration that
city o cials have allowed to take place.
Svetlana Zakharova of the Russian
LGBT Network told the Washington Blade
earlier this week that her colleagues are
willing to defend their rights in spite
of the Kremlins ongoing crackdown on
LGBT rights. These include a 2013 law
that bans the promotion of so-called gay
propaganda to minors.
Whatever the di culties, many LGBT
(people) and their supporters in Russia
are looking forward to participating in the
International Day Against Homophobia
and Transphobia, said Zakharova.
Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals
and Gays Executive Director Dane Lewis
had a similar view, noting anti-LGBT
violence and discrimination remain
pervasive in the country.
We need to begin to have discussions
about the layers of stigma and
discrimination experienced by LGBT
Jamaicans and the challenges faced by
those who identify as Christians, he said.
Kate Montecarlo Cordova, chair of the
Association of Transgender People in the
Philippines, noted to the Blade that LGBT
Filipinos lack legal protections and access
to health care. She said hate crimes
and speech, anti-trans harassment and
bullying in the predominantly Muslim
portion of the country that includes the
island of Mindanao often go unreported.
We, from the transgender community,
feel that the IDAHOT celebration is
important in our advocacy and in our
lives, said Cordova.
The Mexican government this year is
o cially organizing IDAHOT for the rst time.
Enrique Torre Molina, an LGBT rights
advocate and blogger in Mexico City,
told the Blade earlier this week that he
is hopeful that President Enrique Pea
Nieto will speak at an IDAHOT event.
The British Council Mexico on Friday
hosted an event that government o cials,
local LGBT activists and journalists attended.
The conversation will go beyond the
governments o cial position and public
policy on the subject of homophobia,
said Molina. Fighting homophobia and
promoting respect is, at the end, a task
that concerns us all.
The Finnish government on Thursday
announced it will increase its contribution
to the Global Equality Fund, a public-
private partnership founded by C-SPAN
co-founder John Evans that seeks to
promote LGBT rights, by one million Euros.
A State Department press release noted
that Helsinki will continue to work with
the governments of Croatia, Denmark,
France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands,
Norway and Sweden, the Arcus Foundation
and other groups to build on our shared
commitment and partnership to advance
freedom, equality and dignity for all.
Today of all days, we are reminded
that the cause of justice can and must
triumph over hatred and prejudice, said
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. This is
a day of action for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender (LGBT) communities and
their allies all over the world. It is time to
rea rm our commitment to the equality
and dignity of all persons, regardless of
their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Many victories in 2013
IDAHOT rst took place on May 17,
2005, to commemorate the World Health
Organizations decision to declassify
homosexuality as a mental disorder.
This years commemoration takes
place against the backdrop of signicant
progress in the LGBT rights movement in
the U.S., Europe, Latin America and other
regions of the world.
Ten U.S. states, Brazil, Uruguay, France,
England, Wales and New Zealand have
extended marriage rights to same-sex
couples over the last year. The U.S.
Supreme Court last June struck down a
portion of the Defense of Marriage Act.
The Dutch Senate last December
approved a bill that would allow trans
people to legally change the gender
on their birth certicates and other
o cial documents without undergoing
sterilization and sex reassignment
surgery. A similar measure advanced in
the Chilean Senate earlier this year.
Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley on
Thursday signed a bill that bans anti-
discrimination in his state. A similar measure
took eect in neighboring Delaware last year.
The Indian Supreme Court last month
issued a landmark ruling that recognizes
trans people as a third gender.
Jamaican and Belizean judges last year
heard lawsuits challenging their countrys
laws that criminalize homosexuality. A
Lebanese judge in March struck down
the Middle Eastern nations anti-sodomy
statute in the case of a trans woman
who faced charges for allegedly having a
relationship with a man.
Gay Luxembourg Prime Minister
Xavier Bettel was sworn into o ce last
December. Anglica Lozano, a former
Council woman in the Colombian capital,
in March became the rst openly LGBT
person elected to the South American
countrys Congress.
Crackdowns in Africa, Russia
In spite of this progress, anti-LGBT
violence and discrimination remain
pervasive in many parts of the world.
The U.S. and several European countries
cut aid to Uganda after the countrys
president, Yoweri Museveni, in February
signed into a law a bill that imposes a life
sentence upon anyone found guilty of
repeated same-sex sexual acts. Nigerian
President Goodluck Jonathan in January
signed a draconian anti-gay bill that,
among other things, bans membership
in an LGBT advocacy group and punishes
those who enter into a same-sex marriage
with up to 14 years in prison.
The 2014 Winter Olympics took place
in Sochi, Russia, in February against the
backdrop of criticism over the Kremlins
LGBT rights record.
Police arrested 10 activists who held
rainbow and Russian ags as they sung the
countrys national anthem near Moscows
Red Square just before the games opening
ceremony began. Authorities earlier
in the day arrested four Russian LGBT
rights advocates in St. Petersburg as they
marched with a banner in support of
adding sexual orientation to the Olympic
charters anti-discrimination clause.
The Indian Supreme Court late last
year recriminalized homosexuality it
announced in April it will consider a motion
to reconsider the controversial decision.
A new Brunei legal code that punishes
those convicted of homosexuality by
stoning them to death has sparked global
outrage that includes calls to boycott
hotels the Bruneian government owns.
A report the International Gay and
Lesbian Human Rights Commission
released earlier this week found
discrimination and violence against
lesbians, bisexual women and trans
people in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, the
Philippines and Japan remains pervasive.
Grupo Gay da Bahia, a Brazilian LGBT
advocacy group, noted more than a
quarter of the 338 reported LGBT homicide
victims in Brazil in 2012 were trans.
Carlos Vela of the Homosexual
Community of Hope in the Loreto Region
(of Per) told the Blade that one LGBT
person a week is murdered in the South
American country. This violence continues
to take place, even as Peruvian lawmakers
debate a bill that would allow same-sex
couples to enter into civil unions.
It is the most extreme expression of
systematic violence, said Vela, referring
to the murders of LGBT Peruvians.
Jasmine Kaur of Oceania Pride, which
took part in the May 10 candlelight vigil
in the Fijian capital, noted homophobia,
anti-LGBT hate crimes and violence is
quite strong for the LGBTIQ community
in the South Pacic country. She said
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discrimination clause, but it is awed.
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Representatives from a vodka company
were on hand promoting new avors and
cocktails and Meegan joined in, downing
shots throughout his shift.
Even though he had two previous arrests
for driving under the inuence, Meegan left
work early in the morning and climbed into
his 2003 Jeep Wrangler. He turned left onto
Rehoboth Avenue, headed for Route 1 when
he hit what he thought was a bicycle from a
nearby bike shop. For a moment, he couldnt
see anything through the windshield but
kept driving, nally pulling over in a CVS
parking lot nearby. He got out and noticed a
bike stuck in the wheel well and tried to pull
it out when he was spotted by police.
Meegan had struck a fellow gay man
and one of the L Bars patrons that night,
Russell Henman, 44. The impact sent
Henman onto the hood and windshield
of the car. He was carried 400 feet before
the Jeep struck a curb, sending Henman
onto the road. He died at the scene.
Meegans blood-alcohol level was nearly
three times the legal limit; he was charged
with rst-degree vehicular homicide and
driving under the inuence, pleaded guilty
and sentenced to 15 years with a chance
to reduce the sentence to eight-and-a-half
years by completing a drug and alcohol
rehabilitation program in prison.
Nearly two years after that tragic night,
Meegan is serving his time at the Sussex
Correctional Institution in Georgetown,
Del., and is one of the only openly gay men
at the facility. He granted the Washington
Blade his rst interview to discuss the
events of that night and what he hopes
to do with his life during and after prison.
There are conicting versions of exactly
what happened at the L Bar that night and
lingering concerns about the problem of
drunk driving in Rehoboth and the safety
of busy Route 1. Some of Henmans friends
remain angry that Meegan was allowed to
drink alcohol while working; others are
frustrated with Delaware o cials for not
making safety improvements to Route 1 in
the wake of the crash.
Meegan touched on a wide array of
topics during about two hours of interviews,
conducted in prison with Meegan wearing
a white Department of Correction jumpsuit
and handcued to the cinderblock wall of a
private o ce. Hed had no visitors in prison,
until this interview.
I wouldnt want to be anyplace else,
Meegan said, because I killed someone.
It was one of the Ten Commandments I
thought I could never commit.
He continued, This is someone I never
knew, someone who had never done
anything to me or anyone I know and I
never met and I have no animosity for.
Theres no way to ever take it back, to make
it better; theres nothing you could ever do.
I remember watching TV afterwards and
something was funny and I was laughing
and I just felt horrible because thats
something he could never do again.
Asked if he had anything to say to
Henmans family and friends, Meegan
replied, I really hope this article doesnt
hurt them. I dont want to hurt them more
than I already have. There is nothing to
say. I hate the fact that it doesnt change
how people drink and drive. It doesnt
stop us. To his family I should just be
dead. I want to hide and for them to
never remember who I am. I dont think
anyone wants to hear from me.
To the gay community in Rehoboth,
Meegan oers a piece of advice: Get
a designated driver and stick to it. The
rst thing to go is your judgment. If my
story stops one person from drinking and
driving, then its worth telling.
Meegan said he didnt know Henman
and doesnt remember seeing him in the
bar that night. He also said he has no idea
how much he drank that day, but that it
was a lot.
It was not unusual for bartenders to
drink, he said.
But John Meng, the L Bars co-owner,
denied that Meegan was drinking during
his shift.
Brian was not drunk, Meng told the
Blade in an interview last year. We have
video of him at work. I dont understand
what the State Police said. He was not
drinking while on his shift.
Meegan disputes Mengs assertions
and said denitively, I was drinking.
Some of Henmans friends questioned
why Meegan was allowed to drink on
the job, but theres nothing in Delaware
law that prohibits bartenders from
consuming alcohol while working.
Theres nothing that says they
cant, said Robert Kracyla, deputy
director of Delaware Alcohol & Tobacco
Enforcement. He noted that legislation
would not be required to make it illegal
for bartenders to drink on the job. Such
a rule could be enacted by the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Commission.
Kracyla said there was no ne or penalty
assessed against the L Bar for what
happened the night Henman was killed.
We conducted a full investigation,
Kracyla said. We were not able to move
forward with enough to issue a violation
on our end. We did a parallel investigation
to the police but there was not enough
forensic evidence.
Delaware is not a dram shop state. Such
laws allow for the criminal prosecution
of a bar owner or anyone who provides
alcohol to someone who causes injury
or death as a result. Meegan was not
interviewed as part of the investigation
as he invoked his Miranda rights against
self-incrimination, according to Kracyla.
One issue that remains unclear is
whether the company promoting its
vodka that night violated a rule about
giving away alcohol for free. Meegan said
representatives of the company gave
him the vodka he consumed. Meegan
identied the company as Absolut, but
the Blade could not conrm that account.
According to Alcohol Beverage Control
rules you cant give away alcohol, so if that
was going on that would be a violation,
Kracyla said.
The L Bar, which catered to a gay
clientele, has since closed and been
replaced by a dance club that appeals to
a mixed crowd. Meng and his business
partner retain ownership of the building,
though they are not operating the new
club, called Dive.
He killed my best friend
Meegan had a DUI and came back to work
unsupervised and was allowed to drink, thats
one thing Im angry about, said Barbara
Kessler, 56, a close friend of Henmans. From
a business point of view, the bar should have
done something to intervene.
Kessler and her husband, Steve, 59, live
part-time in Rehoboth. They met Henman
at a popular area Mexican restaurant, Dos
Locos, listening to live music, and quickly
became close friends, with Henman
regularly staying at their home.
He was the biggest-hearted guy in the
world, she said. He loved his family and
was utterly devoted to his mother.
Henman had two brothers who have
families of their own and he lived with
his mother in Snow Hill, Md. He used to
always say, Im going to take care of my
mom, Kessler added. Henman had always
dreamed of owning a place in Rehoboth
and just eight weeks before he died had
purchased a trailer there, she said.
He was loving life, this was going to be
his summer, he had his own place to call
home, Kessler said. It was so unfair it
was snatched from him.
Asked about Meegans sentence,
Kessler said, I feel bad for his situation but
he killed my best friend. I dont know what
to think of that. I miss Russ every day. I feel
for Brians family having a son who went to
the dark side. Ive forgiven him, it doesnt
bring Russ back to hate him.
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RUSSELL HENMAN was killed two years ago after being hit by a drunk driver in Rehoboth Beach, Del.
PHOTO COURTESY OF BARBARA KESSLER
Her husband Steve echoed other
friends who said they hope Meegan will
nd help while in prison.
Its a confounding thing that people
can have so many DUIs and remain on
the road, he said. To drag him and then
drive away, we were distraught over that.
I dont know whats fair but nothing brings
Russ back. I hope he uses prison to turn
his life around.
Barbara Kessler said Henmans mother
has decided against pursuing a civil
lawsuit against the L Bar. She said were
not the type of people that sue, nothing
can be gained from it, Kessler recalled.
Two previous arrests
Meegan moved to Rehoboth in May
2012 from Fort Lauderdale. He had never
been to Rehoboth before but said he met
some people from the area in Florida who
encouraged him to visit. He was arrested six
weeks before Henman was killed on a DUI
charge in Rehoboth after he said he backed
into another car in the L Bar parking lot.
The other guy wanted a police report,
Meegan said. He called the cops and
they did sobriety tests and I got arrested
for a DUI.
In 2005, Meegan was arrested in
New York on a DUI charge. He said he
drove 20-30 miles out of his way on the
Southern State Parkway in Long Island,
headed in the opposite direction of his
intended destination.
Thats one of those moments when, as
a drinker, you delude yourself, he said.
You should say, Im an alcoholic and
instead you say Wow, Im a really great
driver. It scared me then, but it didnt last.
He was sentenced to attend driving
classes but received no jail time.
From privilege to addiction
Meegan, 39, grew up in Garden City,
N.Y., a small town of 22,000 mostly white
residents about 20 miles from Manhattan.
A 2007 estimate put the median income
for a family there at more than $160,000.
Its a wealthy enclave and a privileged
place to grow up.
One thing about rich white suburban
kids is that we drink, Meegan said. Drinking
was fun especially if you feel awkward.
After high school, Meegan pursued
a degree in marine sciences at the
University of Miami but dropped out
in 1994 after just one year. He said he
wanted to come out to his father but
feared being cut o nancially as a result.
His mother discovered hes gay in high
school, but Meegan said they kept it from
his father. He dropped out and became
independent so his father wouldnt have
nancial control over his life.
My Dad didnt want me to go through
the struggles associated with being gay,
Meegan said. He was afraid of me getting
HIV and he still doesnt know Im positive.
The pressure of tting in and feeling
awkward is something Meegan said he
experienced again later in life when he
came out as gay.
Going into the gay community is
like going through adolescence again,
he said. So you feel like a 13-year-old
awkward kid again and now youre legally
able to drink and it helps.
Looking back, Meegan now says that
dropping out of school was one of the
biggest mistakes he made. After leaving
school and coming out to his father he
spent some time in Miami working as a
bartender, then moved to New York City.
That period began a spiral of destructive
behavior, including drug abuse, prostitution
and stripping that spun out of control.
There were years spent following the gay
party scene Miami, Fort Lauderdale and
Aspen in the winters and Fire Island and
Provincetown in the summers.
He also found work as a model, which
ironically led to more problems with his
self-esteem.
I was not a cool kid, he said. Suddenly
to be a bartender and model and to be
sought after by people was hard for me.
Im a geek whos fat with braces and
bifocals and now people want to pay me
$7,000 to stand in front of a camera.
He turned to alcohol and drugs to
cope, a strategy familiar to many in
the LGBT community, which suers
disproportionately high rates of alcoholism
and drug addiction, according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
When you start doing the bartending
and acting and modeling, they are scenes
that are very big on drinking and drugs so
it just becomes part of a normal life, you
dont think of it as this seedy lifestyle,
Meegan said. Youre not going to the
back alley to get these things.
In 2001, just after the terrorist attacks of
Sept. 11, Meegan returned to the city from
Fire Island to check on an ex-boyfriend
who lived near the towers. His friend
was OK but on that same day, Meegan
said he received an email from a former
client of his prostitution services informing
him that he was HIV positive and urging
Meegan to get tested. A few weeks later
he did and learned he, too, was positive.
At the time, HIV was more of a death
sentence, he recalled. I obliterated
my feelings [with alcohol] so I dont
remember that time very well.
Crystal meth soon became his drug of
choice.
I drank for condence and comfort,
then I met meth, he said. I was thin,
felt sexy, had energy to do everything I
wanted. I could clean, cook, do laundry,
have sex, spend time at the beach and
work because I barely slept.
In 2007, he said he started to gain
weight and to sleep on meth and thats
when he knew he was doing too much
and quit on Aug. 4, 2007, cold turkey. His
weight ballooned to 250 pounds and he
continued to drink.
My ex dumped me for weighing 250
pounds but he was supportive of me
quitting drugs, he said.
Meegans peripatetic existence
eventually led him to Rehoboth, another
gay-popular resort town.
Rehoboth dream realized
Henman loved Rehoboth, according
to friends, and he saved money for ve
years to purchase his rst place in 2012.
As Rusty got more enamored with
Rehoboth he wanted to see if he could
swing a place on his own, said Brian Gray,
46, a close friend and part-time Rehoboth
resident. He bought a camper and was
renting space and was talking about
buying a permanent mobile home.
Friends describe him as fun loving,
someone who appreciated an over-
the-top gesture and who enjoyed
entertaining, spending weekends with
friends and especially karaoke.
Gay inmate nds power in coming out behind bars
Critics say these green plastic lane dividers separating busy Route 1 from a service road are insu cient and dangerous. Russell Henman was
killed on the service road after being hit by a drunk driver.
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He lived a simple life but would give
you the shirt o his back, Gray said. He
loved Rehoboth, karaoke, Rigbys, he loved
Purple Parrot, anywhere with karaoke. He
loved music and he liked to sing.
Henman worked for about 25 years as
a loan o cer at PNC Bank and was single
when he died. He adored his dog Maddy.
He always did things by the book, said
Bryan Hecksher, another close friend. His
heart was as big as he was. He loved to cook
and to do crafts. I used to joke with him that
Im not that gay, he said laughing. I really
miss his Facebook posts on what he made
for dinner. I used to look forward to those
every night and would comment on them.
A fateful night
In a small town like Rehoboth, everyone
crosses paths with everyone else
eventually. Hecksher knew Meegan from
the L Bar and even picked him up from
the police station after his rst Rehoboth
DUI arrest in May 2012.
I made him promise not to do it again,
Hecksher said. People cared for Brian
too. I dont hate Brian Meegan but I dont
understand his actions. You can call a cab
or call a friend he could have called me.
He had plenty of choices.
Gray, meanwhile, was with Henman on
the night he died and even oered him a
ride home just minutes before he was killed.
Earlier in the evening, he was at Henmans
home for a cookout and the two decided
to go to the L Bar. When the bar closed at
1 a.m., they walked to 7-Eleven, ordered a
pizza and sat in a nearby park talking and
eating. Gray recalled that Henman talked
about his family and his young niece in
particular. After about an hour in the park,
Gray said they walked back to the L Bar,
where Henman had left his bike. Gray said
Henman turned on his bikes safety blinkers
and invited him to breakfast in the morning.
I oered to drive him and put his bike
in my car and he said no, Gray said. He
rode into town most evenings and felt
safe doing that. He avoided Route 1.
Gray insists neither he nor Henman was
intoxicated. Other friends said Henman
wasnt a big drinker. Meegan, on the other
hand, appeared drunk, Gray said. He said
he and Henman observed other customers
in the L Bar buying shots for Meegan.
His eyes were bloodshot, Gray said.
He seemed under the inuence of
something. You never see that happen
at the Blue Moon you dont see
bartenders drinking. All of the bartenders
were doing shots that night.
Gray said he followed Henman for a
short distance, then drove home. It was
only minutes later that Meegan pulled
out of the parking lot.
I texted him the next morning about
breakfast and there was no response,
Gray said.
Meegan said he remembers very little
about what happened.
I thought I hit the curb, I couldnt see out
the windshield, he said. The police were
adamant that I must have known but I didnt.
I remember the police being very upset that
I wasnt more upset. I had one cop tell me,
Ive had people arrested for shoplifting and
theyre crying, but I was in shock.
Despite his lengthy sentence, Meegan
said he doesnt regret pleading guilty. The
prosecutor sought six years in prison, but
in February 2013, Judge Richard Stokes
sentenced him to 15 years, reduced to
8.5 years upon completion of the Key
program, a drug and alcohol treatment
program. The judge decided to make an
example of me, Meegan said.
Bias behind bars
Today, Meegans days are spent reading,
writing and serving food in the prison
cafeteria. Early on, he described ts of
crying at night. Now he survives by isolating
himself from other inmates and writing.
As an openly gay man, he knows there are
constant risks to his personal safety. He
said he endures frequent anti-gay slurs
from inmates. Sometimes the corrections
o cers chime in, too.
Im upfront about being gay, he said.
When someone new starts talking to me, I
tell them right away because just for talking
to me, people are going to hate you.
Even the lone minister at Sussex
Correctional preaches against
homosexuality, he said. The only minister
who comes in every Sunday is against
it and I have people saying things like
God bless you, fucking faggot, he said.
Meegan has stopped attending services
but has maintained contact with his former
Episcopalian minister from New York, who
did not respond to a Blade inquiry.
Despite the abuse, Meegan seems
to have found a purpose in coming out
behind prison walls a purpose inspired
by Rusty Henman. Meegan said Henmans
mother talked at the trial about her
sons advocacy work for LGBT and other
charitable causes.
I think my sentence here is to make it
easier for the next generation, he said.
I know some people in here who are in
their 20s and have long sentences and are
gay and they hide it. They wont talk to me
because it would implicate them. Theyre
worse to me than other inmates. If I can
make people understand that being gay isnt
this horrible thing maybe that could help.
He added that he prays for Henmans
mother every night and has even talked
to Rusty in prison.
Although hes out as gay, Meegan
said the inmates do not know hes HIV
positive. He lies to them about the daily
medication he takes when they ask,
Whats the Skittles youre getting? Hes
been positive for 13 years and his health
is good, he said. He attends weekly
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Henmans friends seem satised with
the sentence and hopeful that Meegan
will turn his life around after prison.
I hope he uses this time to change his core
behavior, said Hecksher. I think the sentence
was fair and will give him time to reect.
Gray echoed that sentiment.
People make mistakes in life, Gray
said. Hopefully hell have an opportunity
to take care of the alcohol problem he has.
Hes being punished and hopefully when
he gets out hell be a changed person.
Barbara Kessler urged forgiveness. I
think hes hurting also, she said. You
have to nd forgiveness in your heart,
otherwise itll eat you up.
Another thing they agree on: Sussex
County needs to improve pedestrian
safety on Route 1, especially the spot
where the highway intersects with
the main road leading into downtown
Rehoboth and the service road where
Henman died.
Whats tragic is that two years later,
were still working on ideas for improving
safety on Route 1, Hecksher said.
Something should be done.
Gray said there are plenty of ideas for
improving safety, including construction
of a jersey wall at the accident site to
better insulate the service road from
Route 1. In addition, he noted the lack
of crosswalks in the area and said a
seasonal shuttle should be expanded to
year-round service.
Absolutely nothing has been done
to improve safety on Route 1, he said.
How many people have to die for Sussex
County to wake up and do something?
The other fear they share is of drunk
drivers, especially in summer, which
arrives uno cially this week with
Memorial Day celebrations.
In Rehoboth, I worry all the time about
drinking and driving, Hecksher said.
In prison, Meegan has settled into a
new routine and he worries that as life
goes on, he will forget the details of what
he did that put him there.
We have a very easy time of
disassociating, Meegan said. Something
I thought I would never stop thinking
about every single day, in here, there are
days when you forget completely now,
which feels horrible the next day when
I remember it. How could I do that and
now its becoming a distant memory,
which feels horrible.
The memory remains fresh for the
friends and loved ones left behind.
One life ended and one is forever
changed, said Hecksher. One careless move
left a huge void in the whole community.
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shooting dies
Lawrence Peterson, a victim in the
Aug. 10, 2012 shooting that killed Joseph
Alexander Alex Ulrich, Jr., 40, died on
May 15. Both Ulrich, Jr. and Lawrence R.
Peterson were standing on the front steps
of a building near the Belvedere Hotel on
East Chase Street just before 4 a.m. on
that day when shots rang out. Both victims
were taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital
where Ulrich died several hours later.
The men were allegedly shot by
Quinton Bass, who had come to Baltimore
from Raleigh, N.C. in 2012 and lived in
homeless shelters and vacant buildings.
He was arrested on gun charges three
weeks after the double shooting.
Peterson, 56 at the time of the attack,
was in critical condition and underwent
multiple surgeries and rehabilitation
as a result of shots to his torso, but
he eventually succumbed after a long
struggle. Longtime friend Don Davis said
of Petersons death, He was a ghter, but
surgery after surgery I guess his system
could not take it any longer. So sad.
Police determined robbery was the
motive for the attack and not a hate
crime though both victims were gay.
Bass trial had been postponed on several
occasions and has been postponed again
as a result of Petersons death. He will be
charged with double homicide.
A fund was set up to nance causes
Peterson was interested in. To donate to
the Larry Peterson Fund, visit mvba.org/
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New Wave Singers to
perform concert
The New Wave Singers of Baltimore
concludes its concert season on June 7
with a benet concert titled The Road
Traveled. It will take place at St. Marks
Evangelical Lutheran Church (1900 St.
Paul St. in Baltimore) at 7 p.m.
Fifty percent of ticket sales from the
performance of The Road Traveled will
support Moveable Feast (mfeast.org), which
brings food, hope and dignity to people
suering from HIV/AIDS, breast cancer
and other debilitating illnesses. Tickets
are $20 and can be purchased online at
newwavesingers.org or at the door.
Founded in 1985, The New Wave
Singers of Baltimore is Marylands only
gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and
straight chorus.
The New Wave Singers presence
has been evident over the years in
the outreach we do, both to LGBT
organizations and other places where we
put a face on our community, said Scott
King, a spokesman for the group.
LGBT rally set for
Courtney Watson
To kick o Pride month, gay Howard
County Register of Wills Byron Macfarlane
will host a rally on behalf of Democrat
Courtney Watson, a candidate for county
executive. LGBT individuals have been
invited to show their support for Watson
and her eorts to secure transgender
rights in the county.
The event will take place on June
1 between 1-3 p.m. at Azul 17, 9400
Snowden River Parkway in Columbia. To
RSVP, call Anna Mudd, 301-848-5173 or
email anna@courtneywatson.com.
Im thrilled to be joining her to
celebrate LGBT Pride Month with
colleagues in government and a host of
community leaders, Macfarlane told the
Blade. Watsons opponent is Republican
Allan H. Kittleman whom many LGBT
activists regard as a champion of
marriage equality.
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N.Y. lawmakers seek ban on conversion therapy
NEW YORK New York lawmakers last week heard testimony on a bill that would
ban licensed therapists from counseling gay and lesbian minors to change their sexual
orientation, amid a growing wave of backlash against the practice, Reuters reports.
The so-called conversion therapy has seen increasing scrutiny recently from medical
professionals and gay and lesbian rights advocates who say it damages the health and
identities of gay youth. If the measure becomes law, New York would become the third
state to ban the practice with minors since 2012, Reuters said.
The anti-gay practice of so-called conversion therapy destroyed my life, tore apart
my family, and nearly killed me, said Ryan Kendall, 31, at the hearing. According to
Reuters account of the testimony, Kendall said the practice led him to homelessness,
drug abuse and thoughts of suicide.
The bill would ban licensed health professionals from administering therapies aimed
at changing a persons sexual orientation to patients under 18 years old. Violators could
be ned up to $10,000 and lose their license to practice. California banned conversion
therapy for minors in 2012, and New Jersey passed a similar law the following year.
The American Psychological Association and an array of other health and social welfare
groups have concluded that conversion eorts can pose health risks to youth including
confusion, depression, substance abuse and suicide, Reuters said.
New York City psychiatrist Jack Levy was the sole voice to testify against the bill, calling
the bill politically motivated.
Its putting the government in the consultation room with doctors and their patients,
Reuters quoted Levy as having said.
Univ. of Ark. reverses partner benets decision
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. The University of Arkansas System has reversed its decision
to include same-sex couples in the health benets oered to spouses, the Associated
Press reports.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that UA attorney Fred Harrison this week
cited a ruling by the Arkansas Supreme Court that stays a lower courts ruling that an
amendment banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, the AP article said.
UA revised its health benets last week to include same-sex married couples
although the coverage would not be eective until June 1. The state Supreme Courts
stay was issued May 16, the AP said.
UA spokesman Ben Beaumont estimated that fewer than 15 employees had begun
the enrollment process to receive the benets for a spouse, the AP said.
AIDS groups praise
CDC advice on PrEP
HIV/AIDS groups are jointly praising new recommendations from the Centers
for Disease Control encouraging gay and bisexual men to take medication
designed to block them from contracting HIV.
In a joint statement last week, 68 groups announced their strong support for
the CDC guidance promoting use of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis, also known
as PrEP for those vulnerable to HIV infection includinggay and bisexual men
not in monogamous relationships who have had sex without a condom.
PrEP has the potential to help many individuals in the U.S. and around the
world protect themselves from HIV, the statement says. Failure to strategically,
eectively and responsibly implement this scientically sound strategy as part
of comprehensive prevention and treatment programs in our ght against HIV
would be a true catastrophe.
Among the signatories to the statement are amfAR, the AIDS Institute,
the National Minority AIDS Council and the New York City-based Gay Mens
Health Crisis. On Wednesday, the CDC issued new recommendations on PrEP,
saying health care providers should consider advising use of the drug for
uninfected patients who are at substantial risk of infection, including men who
have sex with men.
According to both the HIV/AIDS groups and CDC, PrEP can reduce the risk of
HIV infection by more than 90 percent when taken daily as directed, although
inconsistent use results in much lower levels of protection. CDC Director Tom
Frieden said in a statement PrEP can be an eective tool to stop contraction of
HIV when used with other prevention methods. HIV infection is preventable, yet
every year we see some 50,000 new HIV infections in the United States, Freiden
said. PrEP, used along with other prevention strategies, has the potential to
help at-risk individuals protect themselves and reduce new HIV infections in the
United States.
CHRIS JOHNSON
AIDS groups are praising CDC recommendation that gay and bisexual men not in monogamous
relationships should take Truvada.
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Massachusetts marriage
a key milestone but
only the beginning
It was a cool spring night as Chuck
Colbert, my then-colleague for the now-
defunct InNewsweekly, and I arrived at
Cambridge City Hall to witness the rst
same-sex couples in Massachusetts ap-
ply for and receive marriage licenses
starting at 12:01 a.m. on May 17, 2004.
I didnt fully comprehend the history I was
about to witness as I drove to Cambridge
from southern New Hampshire. I was a
22-year-old soon-to-be-college graduate
who thought he was simply on another as-
signment. My last nal at the University of
New Hampshire was the following morn-
ing, and my graduation from UNH was ve
days later. I was also starting to nalize my
plans to move to New York City.
All of those thoughts quickly took a back
seat to the scene that greeted Chuck and
me as we arrived at Cambridge City Hall.
More than 2,000 people had gathered
around the building to witness this wa-
tershed moment in the history of the U.S.
LGBT rights movement that began at 12:01
a.m. when Massachusetts became the rst
state in the country to allow gays and lesbi-
ans to legally marry. They sang God Bless
America and Going to the Chapel as the
more than 200 same-sex couples that re-
ceived marriage licenses began to leave the
building. People were jubilant, emotional
and deeply grateful to the Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial Court for extending them
the dignity of basic legal recognition in their
home state.
A decade later, my home state of New
Hampshire is among the 18 states along-
side my adopted hometown of D.C. that
now allow same-sex marriage. Argentina,
Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico City, Iceland, Eng-
land, Wales, France, Portugal, Spain, Nor-
way, Denmark, Sweden, South Africa and
New Zealand have also extended marriage
rights to gays and lesbians.
The U.S. has seen signicant progress
in terms of LGBT rights in other areas
since gays and lesbians began to marry in
Massachusetts.
Maryland last week joined 17 other
states, the nations capital and Puerto
Rico that have added gender identity and
expression to their anti-discrimination
laws. Delaware and Nevada last year
joined 13 other states alongside D.C. and
Puerto Rico with transgender-inclusive
hate crimes statutes.
President Obama has signed bills that
expanded the federal hate crimes law to in-
clude sexual orientation and gender identi-
ty and expression and repealed Dont Ask,
Dont Tell. This White House also speaks
out in support of global LGBT rights in a
way that gives tangible hope to advocates
in Uganda, Nigeria, Russia and other coun-
tries who are literally under siege and even
dying for simply who they are.
This country has seen signicant prog-
ress in terms of LGBT rights over the last
decade. One can certainly make a clear
case, however, that much remains to
be done in this post-Goodridge world in
which we live.
Congress has yet to pass the Employ-
ment Non-Discrimination Act and LGBT
people in more than two-dozen states still
lack even the most basic of statewide legal
protections. Trans people remain dispro-
portionately aected by hate crimes and
violence in the U.S. and around the world.
Homosexuality remains criminalized in
more than 70 countries, including several in
which those convicted of same-sex sexual
acts face the death penalty. The case of Nikki
Mawanda, a Ugandan trans advocate whose
stepfather nearly strangled his mother to
death when he was 13 because she gave
birth to him, and numerous others around
the world whom Ive interviewed as a Wash-
ington Blade reporter underscore the fact
there is much to be done to ensure our
LGBT brothers and sisters enjoy the same
basic dignity and respect that many of us in
the U.S. simply take for granted.
It is only natural for advocates and allies
to celebrate the 10th anniversary of a land-
mark moment in this countrys LGBT rights
movement that I and countless others had
the good fortune to witness. May 17, 2004,
meant so much to so many people the
couples who were now able to legally marry
and the hard-working advocates at MassE-
quality, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and De-
fenders and other groups who made that
day possible. They should not be made to
feel guilty about celebrating a watershed
milestone in the history of this countrys
LGBT rights movement.
It is equally appropriate to acknowledge
the work that remains to be done in this
country and around the world to ensure
that all of our LGBT brothers and sisters re-
ceive the rights to which they are entitled.
This is our collective responsibility in the
post-Goodridge world in which we live.
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More than 2,000 people had gathered around
the building to witness this watershed moment
that began at 12:01 a.m. when Massachusetts
became the rst state in the country to
allow gays and lesbians to legally marry.
EDI TORI AL CARTOON
MICHAEL K. LAVERS is a reporter for the
Washington Blade. Reach him at mlavers@
washblade.com.
LGBT equality in the post-Goodridge era
Parallels between polio,
AIDS patients
When I left the hospital, no one would
come near me, my now deceased friend
Sharon said to me in the 1980s during the
AIDS epidemic. I got polio when I was 7,
and people in my small Oklahoma town
were scared as hell that theyd catch it
from me. They wouldnt hug me or touch
a glass that Id had a drink in.
William G. Stothers, chair of the board
of Post Polio Health International, con-
tracted polio at age 10.
They knew it was a virus, but they
didnt know what caused it or how to treat
it, Stothers, a former ombudsman and
city editor with the San Diego Union Tri-
bune, said in a telephone interview with
the Blade. Many people didnt know that
[polio] wasnt contagious after the initial
period of contagion had passed. They
were afraid to hang out with me or my
family. They nearly shut down our fam-
ilys hardware store.
Cyndi Jones, Stothers wife, who got po-
lio as a child, was a poster child with the
St. Louis area March of Dimes. One day,
Cyndis at school, Stothers said, and the
teacher holds up a poster with a picture
of Cyndi with her crutches and another
picture of a child without crutches. Under-
neath Cyndi, it said not like this. Under-
neath, the other little girl, it said like this.
To this day, Jones remembers the stig-
ma that she felt when she saw that post-
er, Stothers said.
Why am I telling you this? Because,
nally, (more than 30 years since it pre-
miered at the Public Theater in New York
City) a movie has been made of Larry
Kramers iconic, searing play The Normal
Heart. And the lm of the same name,
which premieres on HBO on May 25, re-
minds me yet again of the parallels that
exist between the polio and AIDS epidem-
ics (as well as between the stigma that
people with polio and AIDS have, and
continue, to encounter).
Id never want to say that polio and AIDS,
or ableism (disability-based prejudice and
homophobia) are the same. Its not a per-
fect match, Stothers said, the fear factor
with polio wasnt homophobia.
Yet, being queer and disabled (legally
blind), and having known over several de-
cades people with polio and AIDS, I cant
help but see connections in these com-
munities. To begin with, many polio sur-
vivors and people with AIDS Ive met have
been scorned both by the culture at large
and by their own groups. Theyve run up
against discrimination in the workplace
and in housing; been denied service ev-
erywhere from hospitals to restaurants
and even turned away by houses of wor-
ship and funeral directors. At the same
time, people with polio and with AIDS
continue to be shunned by some within
their own communities.
In The Normal Heart, Kramer castigat-
ed closeted gay people, including then-
New York Mayor Ed Koch, who look away
from and keep research funds away from
people with AIDS.
Many people with polio tried to pass,
Stothers said. They didnt want to associ-
ate with others with polio.
I wasnt surprised to learn that Dr.
Linda Laubenstein, a pioneer in AIDS re-
search in the early years of the AIDS epi-
demic, had polio. Laubenstein was one
of only a few doctors then who treated
people with AIDS.
She is incredibly important in the his-
tory of AIDS ... a real ghter for what she
believed, Kramer told The New York
Times, when Laubenstein died at age 45
in 1992.
The character of Dr. Emma Brookner in
The Normal Heart (Julia Roberts) in the
HBO movie is based on Laubenstein. Po-
lio is a virus, too, Brookner says in The
Normal Heart to Ned Weeks, a character
based on Kramer. I scare the shit out of
people ...Youve got to get out there on
the line more than ever.
Laubenstein and Kramer are among
lifes few heroes. Check out HBOs The
Normal Heart.
Lack of openly gay CEOs
illustrates ongoing
need for change
The LGBT community is moving for-
ward legally at a fast clip. We recently cel-
ebrated 10 years since marriage equality
became legal in Massachusetts and are
seeing judges rulings every few days
from Arkansas to Utah striking down
state prohibitions on marriage equality.
But even with this progress there is a
long way to go until we are accepted as
equals at all levels and every area of so-
ciety. We arent alone and we know the
struggle to gain acceptance continues for
other minorities and women. It has been
60 years since Brown v. Board of Educa-
tion was decided and there is still segrega-
tion in some school systems. Women still
face a struggle to control their own health-
care and get equal pay for equal work.
We were reminded of how far we still
have to go in a New York Times story by
Claire Cain Miller, Where are the Gay Chief
Executives? It shows clearly that there
are still major strides to be made until we
are accepted by society in many places.
She writes, When the National Football
League last week drafted its rst openly
gay player, Michael Sam, he joined a roster
of recent rsts from the rst out nightly
news and morning-television anchors,
United States senator and pro-basketball
player. But one major realm of society lags
behind: corporate America. There is not a
single openly gay chief executive at the na-
tions 1,000 biggest companies.
The LGBT community makes up be-
tween ve and 10 percent of the popula-
tion by most estimates and there must be
at least one of those 1,000 CEOs who is a
member of the community. Miller writes
that some may be out in private but that
none of them has had the courage of a
Michael Sam or an Anderson Cooper to
come out in a very public way. People in
many walks of life and many professions
are displaying the courage to come out.
We know how important that is and the
impact it has on how people view us. Its
important for future generations to know
they will be able to live their lives openly.
It was jarring to hear the negative reac-
tion to Michael Sam when he kissed his
boyfriend in celebration after being draft-
ed. What struck home was knowing that
while people could accept him as a black
gay man who played football, so many of
the same people couldnt deal with his
simple heartfelt display of aection. So
many times we have seen straight sports
heroes kiss their wives or girlfriends after
winning a golf tournament or the Super
Bowl and it has elicited no comment. Yet
when Michael Sam kissed his boyfriend it
seemed to shock so many people.
It is a stark reminder that acceptance
of the LGBT community in concept is
one thing, while acceptance in fact is an-
other. We have a ways to go before we
are included in the culture of society. Yet
at the same time the story in the Times
was troubling there was good news re-
ported by Services and Advocacy for Gay,
Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Elders
(SAGE). It reported that the Adminis-
tration for Community Living (ACL) an-
nounced how it will implement last years
historic Supreme Court decision, United
States v. Windsor, which struck down the
Defense of Marriage Act on June 26, 2013.
Specically, the ACL issued guidance to
its grantees that they must now follow a
place of celebration rule and consider
the terms spouse, family and relative
as being inclusive of same-sex married
couples.So while there are still many is-
sues facing same-sex married couples in
gaining rights to Social Security and other
benets this must be considered a big
step forward. This new directive from the
federal government impacts everything
from accessing Meals on Wheels, homec-
are assistance, and who can be consid-
ered a family member able to direct care.
Because of the ongoing issues related
to gaining our rights, but even more to
ensure inclusion in the culture we will
continue to need our major national or-
ganizations like HRC and the Task Force,
among others. They are concerned about
how they will raise money to continue
when the issues they are ghting are no
longer the ones that generate front-page
headli nes.
When these battles are won, the con-
tinued struggles will be less obvious
ones. Members of the community and
the organizations that represent us must
strategize on how to move forward. The
organizations will debate how to continue
to raise money, while the rest of us are
ghting to navigate the everyday battles
of life we will continue to face.
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VI EWPOI NT
Moving forward but a long way to go
Normal Heart a searing reminder of stigma
PETER ROSENSTEIN is a D.C.-based LGBT rights
and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly
for the Blade.
KATHI WOLFE is a writer, poet and regular
contributor to the Blade. She can be reached
through this publication.
New postage stamp an
appropriate honor
for LGBT icon
By DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ
On Thursday, the United States Postal
Service released the new Harvey Milk
commemorative postage stamp.
In light of his historic accomplishments
and the tragedy of his death, there is a
poignancy to this recognition.
Throughout his life, in fact, Harvey Milk
struggled for the right to be recognized at all.
Through failed political campaigns, traumat-
ic personal trials and mass cultural upheaval
in the United States, Milk persevered call-
ing for fairer treatment for gay Americans
and ghting for his voice to be heard.
When he nally won a seat on the San
Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey
Milk didnt just become a symbolic gure
as the rst openly gay man to win election
to public o ce. He took on the hard work
of ghting for equal rights for all people
no matter who they loved. He helped
pass civil rights legislation that banned
discrimination on the basis of sexual
orientation, referred to by the New York
Times at the time as the most stringent
and encompassing in the nation.
Milk used his position to ght for others
overlooked by society. His populist agen-
da for the city included support for public
transportation and aordable housing.
With his advocacy on issues like expanded
child care, working-class families discov-
ered they had a strong ally in Milk.
But like too many in our nations his-
tory who had the courage to speak up for
those who had no voice, Milk was silenced
far too soon. The impact of Harvey Milks
legacy is still strong to this day. Current
LGBT elected o cials include a United
States Senator, the rst openly bisexual
member of Congress, the rst openly gay
person of color in Congress, and the may-
or of the nations fourth-largest city. This
year, Maine has the opportunity to elect
the nations rst openly gay governor.
Marriage equality has been legalized in
eighteen states and the District of Colum-
bia, and federal judges have struck down
bans in more than half a dozen states.
While Democrats remain committed to
expanding full marriage equality to every
state, each of these milestones brings us
closer to breaking down the barriers that
Harvey Milk was among the rst to crack.
Last year, the USPS celebrated the civil
rights movement with a series of stamps
depicting the freedom promised by the
Emancipation Proclamation, the courage
of Rosa Parks, and the struggle for equal-
ity on the 50th anniversary of the March
on Washington.
Today, Harvey Milk takes his rightful
place among Americas civil rights pio-
neers, joining Martin Luther King, Jr., Med-
gar Evers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and
Csar Chvez among the civil rights icons
formally recognized by the United States
Postal Service to adorn a postage stamp.
It is an opportunity to recognize his contri-
butions in the ght to end discrimination
on the basis of sexual orientation and gen-
der identity once and for all.
Local leaders should x
vote-counting mess in
the nations capital
D.C. election management is the car-
toon version of participatory democracy.
How long will we tolerate waiting un-
til the wee hours of the night and next
morning to know the tally of the increas-
ingly small number of votes cast?
During the past few election cycles vot-
ers have witnessed a comic series of poor
performances by the D.C. Board of Elec-
tions that have embarrassed the city. The
District occupies the bottommost rungs
in almost all categories of registration
protocols, voting procedures and election
executions compared to other jurisdic-
tions across the country.
Yet local bewilderment at the stunning-
ly decient conduct of local elections fast
fades after each ballot cycle. No eective
oversight or remedial action by mayoral
administrations or the D.C. Council has
followed each turn-your-head-away-in-
shame episode. Nothing gets done to x
the notorious mess.
Its time to clean house at the Districts
center of vote counting. No more excus-
es. No more delays. No more accepting
the ba ing explanations of incompetent
agency leadership and dysfunctional
sta. When the most important known
activity and obvious task cant be deliv-
ered adequately, there should be no hesi-
tation to hold those responsible fully ac-
countable for repeated failure.
The explanations are unacceptable, the
rationalizations are ridiculous and the de-
nials of deciencies are inexcusable. Pink
slips are extremely overdue.
No longer should we have to watch as
other cities and, yes, even states, report
their vote totals before more than a few
D.C. ballots are tabulated. Media sources
shouldnt have to rely on passed-around
photocopies of partial counts provided
by agency sta as if operating in another
technological era. Local elections should
never again appear to be dependent
on stone tablets slowly retrieved from
gnomes atop mountains utilizing an aba-
cus. We shouldnt have to wait multiple
hours for the online posting of updated
election returns or days for the nal pre-
liminary numbers.
There is no reason not to know election
outcomes before Jimmy Fallon appears
on late-night TV lest we once again be-
come the butt of talk show jokes. Other,
and larger, localities manage to do it
why is it such an unachievable task here?
Residents of the capital city of the plan-
ets most prominent democracy should
expect a world-class election operation.
Weve been reduced, however, to merely
wanting them to do their jobs and, even-
tually, tell us who won.
Repairing D.C. elections should be a
top priority for D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray.
A party-primary-defeated politician not
participating in the general election, he
is in a unique position to accomplish im-
provement in his nal months in o ce.
Gray should, however, do more than
simply right the agency and install com-
petent management and personnel. Its
also time to begin to think big and deter-
mine how the elections board might bet-
ter contribute to the political process.
Other city and state election agencies
organize and conduct, in collaboration
with nonpartisan groups and media or-
ganizations, high-prole serial televised
debates for top o ces. D.C. has oddly
not developed such a tradition. Instead,
candidates are reduced to traipsing
around the city on a nightly basis to ap-
pear before miniscule assemblages of
just about every special interest organi-
zation and small neighborhood group
imaginable.
The mind-numbing volume of these
events, and the tiny numbers of people
participating, is more a measure of can-
didate stamina and patience than the
most eective way to conduct campaigns
or best provide the broadest possible
survey of candidates by the larger com-
munity. These events may number more
than a hundred but they oer little to pro-
vide an opportunity for citywide voter as-
sessment of the competitors. Of course,
select small-scale political forums serve
a purpose and allow for a few to see the
candidates up close and personal. But
they are no substitute for accessible larg-
er audience events.
Should we not expect that, in addition
to nally xing the reporting of voting re-
sults, the elections board coordinate and
sponsor a series of live-audience televised
candidate debates for major o ces?
I vote yes.
36 MAY 23, 2014 VI EWPOI NT
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You can dance all night
at D.C. Black Pride, but
organizers say theres
much more to the weekend
By MARIAH COOPER
D.C. Black Pride has been more heavily
attended by those 35 and younger in the past
several years as many from both the District
and thousands more from out of town ock
here each Memorial Day weekend.
Kenya Hutton, one of the directors
of Black Pride, has noticed more young
people staying in the District to celebrate
Black Pride than previously.
There were a lot of kids going down
to party in Miami that weekend, Hutton
says. But now theyre coming back to
D.C. Its expensive in Miami. You have
to get hotels and rental cars. Its more
economical to stay in D.C.
Hutton says that attendance numbers
have been steadily increasing each
year. Last year, Black Pride had 20,000-
30,000 guests a number it arrived
at by counting heads attend their
many parties and other events. In 2012,
attendance numbers were between
18,000-20,000.
Black Pride in D.C. oers plenty of
options for young people to party all
night or day. Clubs open their doors to
partygoers for club events all throughout
Friday and Saturday nights, including
an after-party. There are also daytime
parties on Sunday and Monday, unusual
times for parties but something that is
normal during Black Pride weekend.
Besides the never-ending parties, there
are also more relaxed and informative
events to attend. There is a health and
wellness festival that gives plenty of
information on HIV/AIDS awareness.
There is also a picnic on Memorial Day that
includes live music and entertainment.
Also, there will be a panel titled Are You
Afraid of Aging? on Saturday that will
allow younger people to explore their
feelings about getting older.
Young peoples open enjoyment of
Black Pride is something that wasnt
always as easy as it is now. Those who
attended Black Pride when it started as a
fundraiser for AIDS in 1991, were much
more tense. Alan Sharpe, who has been
attending Black Pride since it began,
remembers the fear people felt at Black
Prides inception.
People were nervous and scared for
Black Pride, Sharpe says. The rst time
we held it was in a eld. There was no
fence or way to shield it from prying eyes.
Since then, Black Pride has moved
beyond D.C. and is celebrated all over the
country as well as internationally.
Although Black Pride is well known for
being a fun party weekend, Sharpe says
it didnt start that way. When the Club
House, a D.C. venue that had hosted the
Childrens Hour, a popular LGBT black
dance party on Memorial Day weekend
since the mid-70s, closed its doors in 1990,
Welmore Cook, Theodore Kirkland and
Ernest Hopkins were concerned that there
were few opportunities for the community
to gather and ever fewer ways to properly
disseminate information on HIV/AIDS,
which was ravaging the community in the
pre-anti-retroviral therapy era.
Thats always been part of the
foundation, says Earl Fowlkes, a long-
time Black Pride organizer. It was more
about building community as opposed
to Capital Pride which has had its
parade for many, many years. They are
dierent community celebrations and
we encourage participation at both, but
a big part of how it formed was that we
needed a way to get information out to
the community. There was no Internet
and no way to nd people, to disseminate
information on testing, counseling and
so on, so that became the way to do it.
We didnt have a lot of media, we had no
networks to have those big discussions.
Black Pride provides an LGBT space to
deal with our issues apart from all the
religious homophobia, so workshops
have always been part of our tradition.
The organization has increasingly in
the past few years worked with event
promoters who throw lavish parties that,
at various times, have been sanctioned or
not sanctioned by D.C. Black Pride. This
year, Daryl Wilson Promotions, Omega
Entertainment and Unleashed D.C. are
o cial promoters for the various dance
parties. Fowlkes says although there
are pros and cons to the arrangement,
ultimately the community benets from a
concerted eort.
There are always di culties, he says.
These are independent entrepreneurs.
Were not working with all of them, but with
most of them we are. We encourage them
to organize and come together. Although we
have done it a few times in the past, were
not really in the business of throwing parties
and thats not what keeps you relevant.
Thats why we do HIV testing, messaging
around anti-violence. Thats why we have
to take advantage of the opportunities we
have, especially for those under 35 who are
hugely impacted by these things.
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Darlene Nipper, deputy executive
director of the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force and a black lesbian, agrees.
This ction of us being a colorblind
society is just that ction, Nipper
says. People are still being impacted
by this on all sides, thats the reality of
the kind of racism and bigotry that still
exists in this country. You really see
it in the comments sections of these
articles when these stories break. You
see, rst, what Sterling said, or what
happened with the Sam video, but then
you scroll down through the comments
and it really tells you a lot about where
we are. You begin to see that these
attitudes are not so isolated and we are
impacted across society by these issues
and theres a lot more work to do around
black LGBT issues and with other people
of color. Before you even get to the issues
of sexual orientation or gender identity,
you have all this racism that still exists.
I think theres a unique opportunity for
us as black gay people to bridge the
issues and remind people of what its
like and the way its compounded for
those of us with multiple identities. For
so many black trans people or gender
nonconforming people, its really bad and
ends in violence.
And with racial hatred continuing
to are up in the national dialogue 60
years after the Brown case and 50 years
after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, what
does that say about where we might be
nationally on LGBT issues in 50 or 60
years with several legislative victories still
eluding activists?
Kylar Broadus, senior public policy
counsel for the Trans Civil Rights Project
with the Task Force, says it will take a long
time for public attitudes to catch up.
I would like to say no and look through
rose-colored glasses, but Im a pretty
straight shooter and in terms of human
behavior, we dont tend to learn our
lessons very well, says Broadus, whos
transgender. We do it over and over and
over again. We might pass a law, but it
takes a long time to implement that law
and to roll out everything and understand
how it really works in society. The 1964
Civil Rights Act took years for it to really
take hold. Sometimes in the LGBT world,
we want everything on the fast track.
Thats great and I would love to see that,
but it really takes a while to fully embrace
things culturally.
Earl Fowlkes, president and CEO of the
Center for Black Equity and a longtime
organizer of D.C. Black Pride, says theres
a degree of removal from these cultural
issues and those who attend Black Pride
events, which are in their 24th year this
weekend and of which organizers predict
about 20,000 or more people will attend
in some capacity, with as many as half
coming from out of town according to
Fowlkes estimate.
Theres always this inux of young
people coming for the rst time so we
see all these young people, theyre 22
years old and they say, This is my rst
Pride, Fowlkes says. Its like being on
a college campus, its not really the real
world. Were seeing things through the
eyes of these young people and theyre
really not hung up on the same things
people were hung up on 20 years ago.
Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend on TV,
theyre not shaken up by it and nobody is
really talking about it in that age group.
I travel all around to all dierent cities. I
was just at the beach in Galveston, Texas
two weeks ago and I saw young couples
same-sex couples holding hands
on the beach. Younger people just dont
have the same hang-ups.
That can be good and bad, some argue.
Nipper says LGBT safe spaces are
needed for queer black youth.
Theres something very valuable in
creating that thing we all long for and
that is being expressed at D.C. Black
Pride, she says. It gives you that sense
of what it could be like if you could live
out loud to that degree in all areas of your
life. Its important that were doing all the
analysis and tearing down all the negative
stu, but we can do that political work but
we still need the celebrations, the place
to be reminded that were ghting for
something that is wonderful and beautiful
free expression and the ability to be
creative and share experiences with
other people like yourself.
Broadus says theres also a danger,
however, that black LGBT youth will lose
sight of how ugly society, at times, can get.
He saw a similar thing happen during his
many years teaching at a historically black
college where he saw rampant apathy
about education and little sense of how
much struggle had preceded the students.
Of course Im making generalizations,
but we had many who didnt want to study,
didnt even buy the textbooks, just didnt
get it that people had died so they could
have access to that education, he says.
For people younger than me, they dont
have that burning desire many times. We
see that in the LGBT movement, in the
transgender movement. Once we have
attained certain rights, people who come
after havent experienced that struggle.
We dont want them to have to suer
those same things, but in that curve,
something is lost too.
Too much of that, leaders say, can
backre over time. Broadus cites the
disproportionately high HIV rates among
black men who have sex with men,
especially among youth who didnt see
rst-hand the deadliest AIDS years before
the advent of anti-retroviral therapy.
Lettman-Hicks cites the Supreme Court
upholding Michigans ban on a rmative
action last month.
Activists say entrenched views take decades to eradicate
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was the hardest person to tell?
I have been out with my family for 27
years. The hardest to deal with were my
parents because they found out before I
could have the conversation with them.
Whos your LGBT hero?
My LGBTQ shero is my very best
friend June Crenshaw. She is a tireless
and passionate worker in the DMV
community.
Whats Washingtons best
nightspot, past or present?
I used to love Tracks! When I was in
my 20s, I used come up to D.C. and fall
out of a smoke-lled van in front of the
club.
Describe your dream wedding.
A private ceremony on a small island.
As the breeze comes o of the water, the
linen my anc and I are wearing blows
in the breeze. We stand barefoot in cool
sand. While looking into the eyes of the
most amazing and beautiful woman, I
would nervously recite my vows to her in
lyrical poetry and prose. Then we would
come home, throw a huge party and
dance the night away!
What non-LGBT issue are
you most passionate about?
I am most passionate about juvenile
justice. The fact that so many of our
youth nd themselves incarcerated or
on probation because they are often
failed by their parents, the community,
church and their educational system
irritates my soul.
What historical outcome
would you change?
The founding of this country at the
expense of an entire nation of people.
Whats been the most memorable pop
culture moment of your lifetime?
Seeing Prince perform for the 1999
tour when I was 16 years old. If my
mother had only known that he would
be gyrating on a heart-shaped bed, I
would have never been at that concert!
On what do you insist?
I am very smell sensitive. Everything
must be fresh linens, food, women.
What was your last
Facebook post or Tweet?
Dont make me embarrass myself by
doing drag, Support Fall of the House
of Snow or my next step is pole dancing
and I have weak wrists!
If your life were a book, what would
the title be?
Lies Lesbians Tell: Karma is a
Boomerang!
If science discovered a way to change
sexual orientation, what would you do?
Why would I do anything? I am
perfectly happy as a swagtastic lesbian!
What do you believe in
beyond the physical world?
I believe in oneness of being that is
guided by a Great Spirit.
Whats your advice for
LGBT movement leaders?
Some of us need to get out of the
LGBTQ bubble. The messages that
resonate the loudest with people are
those that touch the hearts of our family
and friends. We have too many highly
intellectual ideas and conversations over
cocktails. Lets get the work done and
invest time and money in our youth and
community.
What would you walk
across hot coals for?
My son Jordon and my family.
What LGBT stereotype
annoys you most?
I am annoyed that many people
believe that because a woman assumes
a masculine style of dress she wants
to be a man. I am clear that I am 100
percent woman in boxers and it feels
liberating that I dene who I am as a
woman and defy who others tell me I am
based on clothing I purchased with my
hard-earned money.
Whats your favorite LGBT movie?
Pricilla Queen of the Desert you
gotta love desert drag to ABBA tunes!
Whats the most overrated social
custom?
Texting. I just abhor when my texts are
misinterpreted. Then I have to go back
and forth trying to clarify. You can break
up over a crazy text. I am old fashioned.
Just call me!
What trophy or prize do you most
covet?
I am most proud of winning the 2007
Maryland State Arts Council Award for
my rst play, Fall of the House of Snow.
What do you wish youd known at 18?
I wish I had known the importance of
living my truth and causing as little harm
to those I love and those who love me.
Age has a way of humbling you, or at
least it should.
Why Washington?
With all of its contradictions and
political shenanigans, Washington is
still more liberal than most places and it
attracts people from around the world.
Lots of room to build multi-cultural
relationships.
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Though she always had a passion for writing and self-expression, Patricia
R. Corbetts parents discouraged her from pursuing a creative career. But she
always wrote anyway.
I wrote my rst play in elementary school, says the 48-year-old Richmond,
Va., native. My mother kept every bad poem, everything I wrote as a kid. It
was just always the medium I had a strong a nity for.
Friday night at Black Prides opening ceremony, Corbett will receive the
Wemore Cook Award for her work on the Black Pride board and overall in
the community. She says shes very surprised and honored and thinks Black
Pride is still very relevant and very, very important. Her 27-year-old son,
Jordon, is her date for the evening.
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would do anything in this movie because
its such a special project, Gro recalls. I
feel very lucky to be in it.
In the movie, Gro plays Craig Donner,
a character barely mentioned in the play,
but one who has an extremely important
role in the lm. He plays the boyfriend of
Bruce and ex-boyfriend of Ned.
Craig is based on one of Larrys friends
from Fire Island, when the gay cancer at
the time started hitting this circle of friends,
and Craig was the rst one to go, Gro says.
It hit him so quickly that when he died, his
body was still tan. It was horrifying.
For the part, Gro worked on location
at Fire Island, shooting some of the
earliest scenes of the movie.
We did a bunch of the boys partying it
up on Fire Island, he says. It was nice to be
at the beginning of the movie. We were all
having a blast, and then it got pretty dark.
With longtime friend Lea Michele by his
side, Gro joined the cast for an opening
night screening last week at New York Citys
Ziegfeld Theater and said it was unlike any
movie premiere he had ever attended.
Here we are at the Ziegfeld with the
whole cast and crew and a lot of the
men and women who lived through the
AIDS crisis in New York City at the time
and watching it in that venue was just
incredibly powerful and a night I will
never forget, he says. Everyone in that
room felt so personally connected to the
story we were telling. It is such an amazing
movie and has such an eect on people
some had to walk out because it was
so much. When we left the theater, there
was that same sadness and reverence
you have when you leave a funeral, it was
a really powerful experience.
Gro admits that the movie is a little
dierent from the play, but that it almost had
to be to pull o its importance on screen.
Ryan is so visual, so he creates some
amazing pictures and the way he pulls
the story together has the spirit of
the play and a lot of those same lines
and speeches that we love, but theres
something very specically Ryan Murphy
about the movie that makes the sensibility
a little dierent, he says. Its the same
overall experience, but you are served it
in a dierent way.
The Normal Heart debuts on HBO at
9 p.m. Sunday and is expected to be seen
by millions, a far greater reach than the
play ever could secure.
When its on a network like HBO that
everyone looks to as the benchmark
of quality programing, you get a lot of
people paying attention to what they put
out, Gro says. We have Taylor and Julia
and Matt and Mark, and hopefully it adds
a lot of eyes to the story of those who
wouldnt have watched it before and that
reach grows once the movie starts to air.
In addition to being part of this landmark
movie, Gro has had a pretty exciting year
already. He starred in HBOs new series,
Looking, which will be returning for
season two this fall and voiced Kristo in
Disneys mega-hit Frozen.
The movie exploded in ways that I
dont think anyone who worked on it
thought it would, certainly we all thought
it was great, but you can never predict a
phenomenon, he says. I feel extremely
lucky to be a part of this history.
For those who know him from his Tony-
nominated role of Melchior Gabor in
Spring Awakening or one of the many
other theatrical productions hes done,
Gro says he is itching to get back to the
Great White Way.
I rented an apartment in New York a
couple of weeks ago and I spent every
night last week watching plays. I am a
theater nerd and a fan and I try to see
everything and I want to be back on that
stage. Its just hard to nd the time and
nd the right project, but its something I
denitely hope to be doing soon.
Born in 1985, Gro feels he is part of a
younger gay generation whose members
dont always understand the history of
those who came before. He hopes the
movie will change the way that some
approach their advocacy eorts.
I think theres a disconnectedness that
my generation has in some ways for the
AIDS crisis and what the generation before
us went thought emotionally but fought for
and got political and advocated about, he
says. I hope probably more than anything
that the movie reaches my generation and
not only teaches us about what happened
before us, but inspires us to advocate and
stay connected to each other and protect
each other and continue to be vocal.
PHOTO BY JOJO WHILDEN; COURTESY OF HBO
JONATHAN GROFF, center, as Craig in The Normal Heart.
44 MAY 23, 2014 OUT & ABOUT
From the Heart
British import improbable
but engaging
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Is sexuality set in stone?
In his titillatingly titled Cock, British
playwright Mike Bartlett explores
that often asked question through
protagonist John, a youngish gay man
who cant decide whether to stay with
what he knows a stale relationship
with another man or pursue the new
found joys of heterosexual bliss with a
woman hes recently met.
Cock is funny but painfully real, too.
Crisply staged by David Muse, Studios
production is fast paced and features a
terric cast that successfully plumbs their
parts for whats likable and what isnt.
There are no props. Debra Booths set is
simple a circular sandbox. Overhead
hang uorescent tubes. Its the perfect pit
for a wrestling match, cockght, or battle
of words. Scenes are like boxing rounds
but each ends with a buzzer rather than
a ding. Hitting below the belt is allowed.
John (Ben Cole) is unhappy with his
older boyfriend simply known as M (Scott
Parkinson). While taking a brief respite
from the relationship, John has a ing with
a woman, W (Liesel Allen Yeager). After
several weeks, a contrite John returns to M
bearing a teddy bear and the news of his
aair. M is both incredulous and enraged.
Despite going back to M, John continues
to see W. She is aware that John is gay and
knows of his life with M, but is undeterred.
For the youngish divorcee, John is a way
to stave o the loneliness that sets in
on Saturday afternoons. Together they
imagine romantic jaunts to Paris and
future holidays surrounded by contented
ospring. Shes charmed by his halo of
disorganization. A relationship develops.
To soften the blow of his indelity,
John describes his decidedly feminine
new girlfriend to M as manly. The
ever snarky M responds with a barrage
of tranny jokes along with some other
unsavory cracks. John retorts with
annihilating blasts of truth: Youre not
as good-looking as you think you are, he
tells his older boyfriend. Youre lucky to
have me. John informs M that the sex is
better with his newfound girlfriend. Yet
M remains steadfast in his attachment.
Along with his excellent job and great
apartment, John is a trophy that hes
reluctant to let go.
Then the script becomes a tad
improbable. The trio decides to meet at M
and Johns place for dinner to hash things
out. M invites his supportive, widowed
father (Bruce Dow) for backup. Dow does a
wonderful job, but this production calls for
an older actor. Unsurprisingly, the evening
devolves into something less than polite.
After all, M and W are ghting for the
same man. Thrown by her far-from-manly
looks, M makes digs at Ws career, bitchily
asking why she doesnt have a real job. (W
is a teachers assistant. M is stockbroker.
Were told John works but what he does is
never revealed.) W is less rude, but then
she can aord to be. She goes into the
dinner condent that shes going to win
John, the dithering prize.
Unfortunately, its up to the
excruciatingly indecisive John to make all
the decisions.
Cock is as much about the power
dynamics in relationships as it is about
sexuality. Its about bending anothers will
to meet ones own needs. Whos in charge
the dominant or passive partner? In an
intense scene, the plays most compelling,
M struggles to regain dominance over
John. Will he succeed? Its uncertain.
With Cock, Studio powerfully concludes
its New British Invasion Festival, a
marvelous celebration that has showcased
some incredibly accomplished and
innovative plays by British writers under 40.
COCK
Through June 22
Studio Theatre
1501 14th St, NW
$39-85
Studiotheatre.org
202-332-3300
THEATER MAY 23, 2014 45
PHOTO BY TEDDY WOLFF; COURTESY OF STUDIO THEATRE
BEN COLE, left, as John, SCOTT PARKINSON as M and LIESEL ALLEN YEAGER as W in Cock at
Studio Theatre.
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Washington D.C. 20007
202-580-8852
Latino Pride returns this weekend

The Latino GLBT History Project (LHP) presents its eighth annual D.C. Latino
Pride Celebration Sunday through June 5 at various locations around the District.
On Sunday, there will be La Coronacin, the Projects 2014-2015 Royal Court
Coronation, at Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Royal Court members
include Miss Latino GLBT History Project Gladys Gonzalez and Mr. Latino GLBT
History Project Juan Alvarez. There will also be special drag performances by
Roxy Saint Cartier, Mayline Guerreo and many more. On Thursday, there is La
Pltica Panel Discussion: Community and Family Supporting Latino LGBT Youth,
a panel discussion about the challenges facing LGBT Latino youth, at the Human
Rights Campaign Equality Forum (1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W.) from 6-9 p.m. A
reception with appetizers and wine follows the panel.
There is a $5 suggested donation for both events. Guests must be 21 or older
to attend La Coronacin. For more details, visit latinoglbthistory.org.
White, Clarke to play Birchmere
Country singer-songwriter Brandy Clarke performs at the Birchmere (3701
Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria, Va.) Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Clarke, a lesbian, has written songs for popular country artists including
Miranda Lambert and the Band Perry. She has also toured with Jennifer Nettles
and John Prine. Her debut album, 12 Stories includes the single Stripes,
which she has performed on Ellen. Amelia White, also a longtime out singer/
songwriter, will also perform.
Tickets are $20. For more information, visit birchmere.com.
Trans comedy doc
opens Charm Fest
Creative Alliance (3134 Eastern Ave.,
Baltimore) holds its third annual Charm
City LGBT Film Festival starting Thursday
through June 1.
Ian Harvie Superhero screens Thursday
at 7:30 p.m. The documentary, produced
by Margaret Cho, follows transgender
comedian Ian Harvie as he explores gender
through his standup shows.
Tickets for an individual lm are $7 for
members and $12 for non-members. A
weekend pass that includes all ve lms
is $35 for members and $60 for non-
members. For more details including
a complete list of lms and times, visit
creativealliance.org.
Gay/Bash returns to Black Cat
Gay/Bash, a burlesque show and dance
party, returns to Black Cat (1811 14th St.,
N.W.) Saturday from 9:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m.
Glam Gamz will be the guest burlesque
performer. Hosts for the evening will be
drag performers Rumor Millz and Heidi
Glum. DJs Joshua and Dean Sullivan will play
a mix of pop, rock and electronic music.
Tickets are $5. There will be two shows:
the rst at 11:30 p.m. with a 1 a.m.
to follow. For more information, visit
blackcatdc.com.
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EARPHUNK
W/ THE GOOD THING
HOLLY
WILLIAMS
W/ JUSTIN JONES
Its more about overall
respect than carbon
footprint size
DEAR MICHAEL,
Im struggling with my long-time
girlfriend because we have very dierent
stands on an issue thats extremely
important to me.
Ive been passionately involved in
environmental advocacy since high
school and now am employed by an
environmental nonprot. Im highly
invested in my work because I believe
that there is no more important issue
than keeping our planet livable. So in
my personal life, I aim to live sustainably
(usually walking/biking, small though very
comfy condo, mainly vegan diet).
Marissa has very dierent priorities
from me. She sometimes mocks my work
and my choices, telling me that Im really
not going to make a dierence, and that
Im too severe, although I treat myself
very well and enjoy my lifestyle. When she
talks like this, I feel really disrespected
and unsupported. And when I ask her to
stop, she says shes only joking and that I
have no sense of humor.
On the ip side, its true that I dont
respect some of her choices lets
just say shes leaving a pretty big
environmental footprint. I dont really
hide my reactions from her and while she
usually blows them o, this whole thing is
causing frequent tension.
To make matters seriously worse,
lately Ive been lled with tremendous
despair as signs of global warming are
becoming more ominous. Im starting
to feel hopeless about the future and
wonder what the point is of even having
a relationship, much less having kids as
weve planned, when the planet is going
to hell. My bleak mood isnt helping us
have many good times recently, and is
increasing the tension because Marissa
thinks my worrying is ridiculous.
Believe it or not, outside of this stu,
which is major, we have had a great
connection and many good times.
Intellectually, I believe that two people with
dierent priorities can be a couple, but is
there such a thing as being too dierent?
MICHAEL REPLIES:
I often tell couples I work with that the
hardest part about being in a relationship
is guring out how to deal with the major
dierences that inevitably arise between
two people. Every couple has to deal
with this struggle at some points in their
relationship.
The most important thing for both you
and Marissa to remember is that you
arent going to convince the other person
that you are right and she is wrong. Its
pointless to try and will only result in
each of you feeling disrespected, just as
is happening now.
Yes, its hard to respect someone
elses decisions and actions when theyre
antithetical to your deeply held beliefs.
Nevertheless, its not possible for you to
change how your girlfriend thinks and
behaves, so the best that you can do is
accept that she has some aspects that
you really dislike, and decide whether you
want to stay with her anyway. The same
is true for Marissa, of course, and for all
couples with major disagreements.
I want to advocate for each of you to
stop overtly criticizing the other, whether
in jest or in disgust. All this does is create
bad feelings. That isnt to say that you
should start pretending that you love your
girlfriends choices when theyre actually
the opposite of all you believe. Its about
being respectful in your manner, words,
tone and facial expressions. And although
you can never count on changing your
partner, you may nd that youre actually
better positioned to inuence her to see
your point of view when you arent hitting
her over the head with the righteousness
of your position. Again, I say this to both
you and Marissa, and to all couples who
have dierent points of view about
weighty issues.
As far as your hopelessness goes, I can
certainly understand it, as our planets
wellbeing seems ever more in danger.
Only you can decide if its worth your living
with hope in the face of possible calamity,
while doing all you can to help bring about
a better future. I do know that life is always
fragile, and that none of us ever has a
guarantee of how things will turn out.
I wish you the best in your relationship
and in your important work.
ADVI CE MAY 23, 2014 47
MICHAEL RADKOWSKY, Psy.D. is a licensed
psychologist who works with gay individuals
and couples in D.C. He can be found online
at personalgrowthzone.com. All identifying
information has been changed for reasons
of condentiality. Have a question? Send it to
Michael@personalgrowthzone.com.
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YOUR LI NK TO THE ARTS I N METRO D. C.
ANDREW WYETH: LOOKI NG OUT, LOOKI NG I N
THRU NOV 30. 202- 737- 4215. NGA. GOV.
Andrew Wyeth returned to windows repeatedly, producing more than 300
works that explore the formal and conceptual richness of looking both in
and out of windows. Some 60 of these watercolors, drawings, and tempera
paintings are on view, many for the rst time.
ORDI NARY DAYS
MAY 28- J UN 22. ROUND HOUSE BETHESDA.
240- 644- 1100. ROUNDHOUSETHEATRE. ORG.
An honest, funny musical about making real connections in the city that never
sleeps. Told through a series of intricately connected songs and vignettes, this
O-Broadway hit is a vibrant, original musical about growing up and enjoying
the view.
BOLSHOI BALLET: GI SELLE
THRU MAY 25. KENNEDY CENTER.
202- 467- 4600. KENNEDY- CENTER. ORG.
Russias Bolshoi Ballet returns with unparalleled intensity and brilliance
(Washington Post) to the Opera House to dance Giselle, one of the most
romantic and visually striking works in the classical canon.
CAROUSEL LATI NO
MAY 29- MAY 31. I N SERI ES. SOURCE THEATRE.
202- 204- 7763. I NSERI ES. ORG.
Cabaret, zarzuela, tango, bolero, and more (even opera) in a celebration of
Latin arts and heritage.
IMAGE COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
48 MAY 23, 2014 THE GUI DE TO ARTS & CULTURE
THEATRE
Fiasco Theaters The Two Gentlemen
of Verona. Thru May 25.
Folger Theatre. 202-544-7077. folger.edu.
Cock. Thru Jun 22. Studio Theatre.
202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
The Threepenny Opera. Thru Jun
1. Signature Theatre. 703-820-9771.
signature-theatre.org.
Shear Madness. Thru Sep 28.
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
The Piano Lesson. Thru Jun 1. Olney
Theatre. 301-924-3400. olneytheatre.org.
A Midsummers Night Riot. Thru Jun
5. Things You Shouldnt Say Past
Midnight. Thru Jun 7. Keegan Theatre.
703-892-0202. keegantheatre.com.
Freuds Last Session. Thru Jun 29.
Theater J. 800-494-8497. theaterj.org.
Swing Time The Musical!.
Burke Theater: US Navy Memorial.
swingtimethemusical.com.
Rulebreaker Rep: Bloody Poetry. Thru
May 31. Charm. Thru May 31. Taety
Punk Theatre Company. CHAW.
800-838-3006. taetypunk.com.
The Love of the Nightingale. Thru
May 25. Constellation Theatre.
Source Theatre. 202-204-7741.
constellationtheatre.org.
Nero/Pseudo. Thru Jun 1. WSC Avant
Bard. The Shop - at Fort Fringe.
866-811-4111. wscavantbard.org.
Kwaidan. May 29-Jun 22. Spooky Action
Theater. Universalist National Memorial
Church. 202-248-0301. spookyaction.org.
Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing
of the Dog). Thru Jun 8. Synetic Theater.
703-824-8060. synetictheater.org.
DANCE
Step Afrika!. May 29-Jun 1. WPAS.
Hartke Theater, Catholic University of
America. 202-785-9727. wpas.org.
MUSI C
A Prairie Home Companion with
Garrison Keillor. May 23-May 24. Wolf
Trap. 877-965-3872. wolftrap.org.
19th Annual Mary Lou Williams Jazz
Festival. May 23-May 24.
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
Jazz in the Garden: Elikeh (Afro-funk
from Togo). May 23. NGA Sculptor
Garden. 202-737-4215. nga.gov.
MUSEUMS
National Gallery of Art. Garry
Winogrand. Thru Jun 8. Modern German
Prints and Drawings from the Kainen
Collection. Thru Jun 29. The Monuments
Men and the National Gallery of Art.
Thru Sep 1. Degas/Cassatt. Thru Oct 5.
Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In.
Thru Nov 30. 202-737-4215. nga.gov.
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Rineke Dijkstra:
The Krazyhouse. Thru Jun 15. American
Journeys - Visions of Place. Thru Sep 21.
Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing #65. Thru Mar
15. 202-639-1700. corcoran.org.
National Archives. Making Their Mark:
Stories Through Signatures. Thru Jan 5.
202-357-5000. archivesfoundation.org.
National Geographic. Peruvian Gold
Ancient Treasures Unearthed. Thru Sep
2. 202-857-7000. nglive.org.
Folger Shakespeare Library.
Shakespeares the Thing. Thru Jun 15.
folger.edu.
Fords Theatre. Abraham Lincoln and
the Technology of War. Thru Jul 6.
202-347-4833. fords.org.
Kreeger Museum. K@20 Kreeger
Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition.
Thru Jul 31. John L. Dreyfuss
Inventions. Thru Apr 1. 202-337-3050.
kreegermuseum.org.
Museum of Women in the Arts. Meret
Oppenheim: Tender Friendships. Thru
Sep 14. 202-783-5000. nmwa.org.
The Phillips Collection. Made In The
USA: American Masters From The Phillips
Collection, 1850-1970. Thru Aug 31.
202-387-2151. phillipscollection.org.
GALLERI ES
Strathmore. A Shared Universe:
The Art of Comic Books. Thru Jun 8.
301-581-5100. strathmore.org.
Artisphere. Jessica van Brakle: Industrial
Paradise. Thru Jun 7. 703-875-1100.
artisphere.com.
BlackRock Center for the Arts. Vivid:
Paintings by Susan Makara and Leslie
Nolan. Thru Jun 6 7. 301-528-2260.
blackrockcenter.org.
Flashpoint Gallery: CulturalDC.
Judy Rushin &. Thru Jun 21. 202-1305.
culturaldc.org.
Gallery plan b. Paintings & Drawings by
Bernardo Siles. Thru Jun 8. 202-234-2711.
galleryplanb.com.
Goethe-Institut. The Blue Note
Photographs of Francis Wol. Thru Jul 3.
202-289-1200. goethe.de.
Neptune Fine Art. Je Chyatte: Straight
from the Studio. Thru Jul 19.
202-338-0353. neptuneneart.com.
Target Gallery. Identication. Thru May
26. 703-838-4565. torpedofactory.org.
The Art League Gallery. Courtney
Hengerer: Playground. Thru Jun 2.
703-683-1780. theartleague.org.
VisArts at Rockville. Liz Lescault and
Alison Sigethy. Thru Jun 1. 301-315-8200.
visartsatrockville.org.
Washington Printmakers Gallery.
Jambo, Tanzania - Marian Osher.
Thru May 25. 301-273-3660.
washingtonprintmakers.com.
FRIDAY, MAY 30
WOMENS KICK-OFF PARTY

SATURDAY, MAY 31
BUILD YOUR BEST LIFE: Total Health Festival
PRESENTED BY KAISER PERMANENTE

SUNDAY, JUNE 1
DAY IN THE PARK: DRAG BALL AND OUTDOOR MOVIE

MONDAY, JUNE 2
MUSIC IN THE NIGHT
PRIDE INTERFAITH SERVICE

TUESDAY, JUNE 3
LGBT POETRY CELEBRATION
WOMENS SPOKEN WORD

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4
HRC, Capital Pride and SpeakeasyDC Present
"BORN THIS WAY"
Stories about Queer Culture in America

DC BIKE PARTY PRIDE RIDE

THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014
ROOF TOP RALLY

FRIDAY, JUNE 6
PRIDE RUN 5K DC Front Runners
BLS-OFF! Opening Dance Party

SATURDAY, JUNE 7
PROUD GARDEN PARTY
Cocktails & Fun Prior To The Parade

PRIDE PARADE PRESENTED BY MARRIOTT

F.U.S.E. Women's Main Event
CAPITAL PRIDE/CHERRY FUND
AMAZING AFTER HOURS

SUNDAY, JUNE 8
PRIDE FESTIVAL IN FRONT OF THE CAPITOL
PRESENTED BY HOT 99.5

CAPITAL SUNSET CLOSING PARTY
PRIDE
IN THE
NATIONS CAPITAL
TODAY
The D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.)
hosts Women in Their Twenties,
a discussion group for LGBT women
to discuss sexuality and other issues.
It meets tonight from 8- 9:30 pm. For
details, visit thedccenter.org.
Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) hosts its
weekly event, Bear Happy Hour,
tonight from 6-11 p.m. There is no cover
charge and admission is limited to guests
21 and over. For more information, visit
towndc.com.
SATURDAY, MAY 24
Burgundy Crescent, a gay community
service organization that volunteers in
D.C., Maryland and Virginia, volunteers
today for Food and Friends at its facility
near the Fort Totten Metro Station
(foodandfriends.org). Volunteers will
help with food preparation and packing
groceries for more than 1,000 D.C.
residents living with AIDS. To sign up to
participate, visit burgundycrescent.org.
Raven, runner-up from season two
of RuPauls Drag Race, performs live
at Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) for the rst
time tonight. Doors open at 10 p.m, and
the drag show begins at 10:30 p.m. You
must be 21 or older to enter. For more
information, visit towndc.com.
hosts a free relationship workshop
for lesbian couples with professional
relationship coach Jayne Kelly, who will
address relationship needs and how to
build a successful family. Participants are
encouraged to bring lunch to the event,
which takes place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For details, visit thedccenter.org.
D.C. Pride Weekend hosts Primetime
at the Hard Rock Caf (999 E St. N.W.)
for women tonight at 10 p.m. VH1S
Sassy from Black Ink and L.A.s Carter the
Body will host, and Poca the Papergirl
and DJ Kidd Swag will be featured, along
with a special set from DJ India. Visit
dcprideweekend.com for advanced
tickets and VIP table information.
The Black Cat (1811 14th St. N.W.)
hosts its monthly Gay/Bash, featuring
burlesque performer Glam Gamz, hostess
Rumor Millz and Best of Gay D.C. winner
Heidi Glum. Doors open at 9:30 p.m., with
performances at 11:30 p.m. and 1 a.m.
Cover charge is $5. For more information,
visit blackcatdc.com
SUNDAY, MAY 25
Burgundy Crescent, a gay community
service organization that volunteers in
D.C., Maryland and Virginia, volunteers
today for the Lost Dog and Cat Rescue
Foundation, which hosts pet adoptions
in Potomac Yards. To participate, visit
burgundycrescent.org.
The Howard Theatre (620 T St. N.W.)
hosts the D.C. black gay pride version of
Drag Salute to the Divas tonight at 7
p.m. Its the rst female impersonation
show at the theater since the 1960s Jewel
Box Revue. Tickets are $20 in advance
and $25 the day of the show. Doors open
at 6 p.m. For more information, visit
thehowardtheater.com.
Flash (645 Florida Ave., N.W.) hosts
its monthly Flashy Sundays tonight,
featuring D.C.s own DJ TWiN and DJ Sean
Morris. The cover is $7; doors open at 9
p.m. You must be 21 or older to enter. For
more information, visit Facebook.com/
ashydc.
Perrys (1811 Columbia Rd., N.W.) hosts
its weekly Sunday Drag Brunch an all-
you-can-eat buet, today from 10 a.m.-3
p.m. The cost is $24.95. For more details,
visit perrysadamsmorgan.com.
Cobalt hosts the Latino GLBT History
Project Royal Court Coronation
tonight. The party features Cobalts newly
crowned Royal Court and a drag show.
Doors open at 10 p.m. and the charge is
$5. For more details, visit cobaltdc.com.
MONDAY, MAY 26
JR.s hosts Showtunes Monday at 9
p.m., playing show tunes and sing-alongs.
The D.J. also plays requests. For more
information, visit jrsbar-dc.com.
TUESDAY, MAY 27
Whitman-Walker Health hosts free
HIV testing at Crew Club (1321 14th St.
N.W.) today from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. For more
information, visit whitman-walker.org.
hosts its monthly genderqueer discussion
group tonight from 7-8:30 p.m for people
who identify outside of the gender binary.
For more information, check out the
Genderqueer Facebook page (facebook.
com/genderqdc) and Twitter handle (twitter.
com/genderqueerdc).
The Owen Brown Interfaith Center (7246
Cradlerock Way, Columbia, Md.) hosts a
free support group and question and
answer session for parents of transgender
kids from tonight from 7:30-9 p.m. For more
information, email cvhyde@gmail.com.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28
The Job Club, a weekly support program
to help job seekers including the long-
term unemployed improve condence
and motivation meets tonight at the D.C.
Center (2000 14th St., N.W.) from 6-7:30 p.m.
Attendees will learn strategies on how to
set goals and improve self awareness. The
event is geared toward helping attendees
nd meaningful employment. To register
for this event or to learn more information
about other career-oriented programs at the
Center, e-mail centercareers@thedccenter.
org or visit centercareers.org.
An HIV Prevention working group
meeting gathers at the D.C. Center (2000
14th St. N.W.) tonight from 7-9 p.m. For
details, visit thedccenter.org.
The Lambda Bridge Club meets at 7:30
p.m. at the Dignity Center (721 8th St., S.E.) for
duplicate bridge. No reservations are needed,
and newcomers are welcome. If youre looking
for a partner, call 703-407-6540.
The Victory Fund hosts Victory For
Michigan, a fundraiser for LGBT candidates
running for o ce in Michigan, at 6:30 p.m.
Michigan is one of 11 states with no out
members of its state legislature. The guests
include Jon Hoadley, Rudy Serra, Garnet Lewis
and Jeremy Moss, all of whom are on the ballot
in the state. The suggested donation is $100.
For more information, visit victoryfund.org.
THURSDAY, MAY 29
Whitman-Walker Health hosts HIV
testing at Miriams Kitchen (2401 Virginia
Ave., N.W.) from 4-6 p.m. For more
information, call 202-797-4454 or email
hivtesting@whitman-walker.org.
The Jacques Initiative hosts HIV Support:
Substance Abuse and HIV at the Institute
of Human Virology in Baltimore (725 West
Lombard St.) from 2-3 p.m. The event is
geared toward clients living with HIV and
recovering from substance abuse. For
more information, call 410-706-4323.
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Swimmer Todd Harvey is
already veteran champ
for D.C. Aquatics Club
By KEVIN MAJOROS
When Todd Harvey was living in Austin,
Texas, he was looking to get back into the
sport of swimming but was unable to nd
a team that was a good match for him.
At the end of 2012, his job in public health
administration at the National Alliance of
State & Territorial AIDS Directors moved
him to Washington and he was still itching
to get back in the water.
I didnt know many people here, says
Harvey, 34. Besides wanting to get back
into swimming, I wanted to expand my
friendship base in a healthy way.
He joined the District of Columbia
Aquatics Club within a few months of
moving to D.C. and has already proven
himself a valuable asset to the team
winning nine medals at the International
Gay & Lesbian Aquatics Championships
in Seattle last August.
Harvey grew up in Uniontown, Pa., and
went through the sports of soccer and
wrestling before discovering swimming at
age 10. He joined the local YMCA, fell in
love with the sport and went on to captain
his high school swim team.
This August, Harvey will compete at the
2014 Gay Games in Cleveland in the 50,
100 & 200 buttery, 50 backstroke and
200 freestyle. His training leading up to
the Games will consist of swimming four-
to-ve times a week, weightlifting and
solidcore training.
Harvey remains dedicated to the sport
of swimming for a number of reasons.
I think the best thing about swimming
as an adult is that I have found an
incredible team, says Harvey. DCAC is
a serious group of well-trained, amazing
athletes, who push one another to put
forth their best eorts in the pool. We
also do a lot of things socially and provide
emotional support for one another when
it is needed.
One thing that seems to be a common
denominator for all competitive
swimmers, Harvey says, is the love of
the rush that comes right before a race.
There is no time for mistakes in a race
and the desire to perform their best puts
pressure squarely on the shoulders of
each swimmer.
Swimming is my time to feel athletic and
t. I love being able to measure myself now
versus my old self. There is no better feeling
than when you feel good in the water. Its
my runway walk and I feel strong.
This will be Harveys rst Gay Games
and he is looking forward to experiencing
the LGBT athletic community, swimming
fast and seeing Cleveland from a new
perspective.
He also gamely admits there will be a
fun side to the proceedings as well.
I am really looking forward to the on-deck
gossip. Who met who, who did what and did
you see what he looks like in that Speedo?
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TODD HARVEY says being in the water is his runway walk time.
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D.C. Black Pride events
TODAY
Grand Hyatt Washington (1000 H St.,
N.W.) holds the opening reception and
awards ceremony in the Independence
Ballroom tonight from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Awards given will include the Ruth Ellis
Award to the D.C. Metropolitan Police Gay
and Lesbian Liaison Unit. Local recording
artist Rose Breyae will perform. There will
also be hors doeuvres and a cash bar.
Kabin Lounge (1337 Connecticut Ave.,
N.W.) hosts The Warmup!, the opening
reception, pass distribution and happy
hour, today 4-9 p.m. There is no cover
charge. Music will be a mix of hip-hop,
R&B, reggae and house.
Ibiza (1222 First St., N.E.) hosts
5000 Men Pride Mega Party with a
performance by soul singer Elle Varner
tonight from 9:30 p.m.-3:30 a.m. Real
Housewives of Atlanta cast member
Marlo Hampton will host.
Vita Lounge (1318 9th St., N.W.) hosts
Gurls Play, a dance party, tonight from
10 p.m.-3 a.m. The night will be hosted by
Dynce with music by DJ Jai Sincere and DJ
Lady Mysterious. Tickets are $10 in advance,
$15 before midnight and $20 after midnight.
Rainbow Connects hosts speed dating
and networking at the Grand Hyatt
Washington (1000 H St., N.W.) tonight from
8:30-10:30 p.m. Check in starts at 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, MAY 24
Fitness trainer Coach G presents a
Powercore workshop at the Grand Hyatt
Washington (1000 H St., N.W.) today from
10:30-11:30 a.m. The workshop teaches
how to workout to dene core muscles
through a series of exercises focused on
improving strength, exibility, balance and
mobility. Coach G has shared his tness
expertise on CNN, Fox News and writes a
regular tness column for the Blade.
There will be a writers forum at the
Grand Hyatt Washington (1000 H St.,
N.W.) today from 12:30-1:45 p.m. The
moderator will be journalist Wyatt OBrian
Evans. Writers scheduled to appear are
Buddah Desmond, La Toya Hankins, J.
Omar and more.
Ballroom Community 101: Everything
You Wanted to Know about the
Ballroom Community, a workshop that
explores the ballroom culture as shown in
the documentary Paris is Burning, is at
the Grand Hyatt Washington (1000 H St.,
N.W.) on the Independence level today
from 1-2 p.m. Guests are encouraged to
bring questions to discuss.
Are You Afraid of Aging: An
Intergenerational Discussion is at the
Grand Hyatt Washington (1000 H St., N.W.)
today from 2-3 p.m. The discussion will
explore how each generation views aging.
Poet Timm West hosts D.C. Black
Pride Poetry Slam at the Grand Hyatt
Washington (1000 H St., N.W.) from 7-9
p.m. Sign up begins at 6 p.m. There will
only be 15 spots available for the rst
round of poetry. Five audience members
will be chosen to judge. The rst place
winner will receive $250, second place
$100 and third place $50.
The Park on 14th (920 14th St., N.W.)
hosts The Chill Out Super Day Party
today from 3-9 p.m. There will be three
DJs on three levels spinning tracks. Free
food is included for pass holders.
Echostage (2135 Queens Chapel Rd.,
N.E.) hosts the Wet Dream Mega Party
tonight from 9:30 p.m.- 4 a.m. R&B singer
Amerie will perform.
Upscale Ballroom (3900 Bexlery Pl.,
Suitland, Md.) hosts the Insomniac Pride
After Party from 3 a.m. until sunrise.
There will be dancers and hip-hop, R&B
and house music.
SUNDAY, MAY 25
There will be an interfaith service at
the Grand Hyatt Washington (1000 H St.,
N.W.) today from 9-11 a.m.
The Rock the Block Party will be held
at the Fairgrounds (1299 Half St., S.E.)
today from 3-9 p.m. DJs will be playing
hip-hop, R&B, reggae, and house music.
Rapper Fly Young will perform.
The Health and Wellness Festival an
HIV/AIDS awareness festival, is at Francis-
Stevens School (2425 N St. N.W.) today
from noon-6 p.m There will be vendors,
food and activities for children.
African-American Collective Theatre
presents Missing Pieces at Anacostia
Playhouse (2020 Shannon Pl. S.E.) with
two performances at 6:30 and 8 p.m. The
play tells the story of a veteran detective
and his rookie partner who try to solve
the murder of a popular gay activist.
Aqua Restaurant and Bar (1818 New
York Ave., N.E.) holds its sixth annual
House Rocker Female Dancer of the
Year Competition from 9 p.m.-4 a.m.
There will be a $1,000 cash prize.
MONDAY, MAY 26
The Annual Picnic will be held at Fort
Dupont Park from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. There
will be live music and entertainment.
Kabin Lounge (1337 Connecticut Ave.,
N.W.) hosts the Apocalypse Chapter V:
The Close Out Party tonight from 10
p.m.-2 a.m. There will be dancers and hip-
hop, R&B, reggae and house music.
Tickets are available to become a pass
holder at any of the parties and picnic
for $130. They include perks such as
free food, drinks, no cover charge and
skipping lines.
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Setting a price is one of
Realtors toughest tasks
By DAVID HOWELL
One of the great evolutions in real estate
over the last decade is the power of the Inter-
net, and more than 90 percent of homebuy-
ers begin their search there. We think thats
great, and buyers are more empowered than
ever with loads of information. Some of that
information can come from sites like Zillow
that oer whats called an automated valua-
tion model AVM for short that purportedly
presents a great estimate of the current mar-
ket value of millions of homes.
Its cool technology, amassing an enor-
mous amount of information from publicly
available sources in one place that is then
scrubbed through very sophisticated algo-
rithms to predict value. And all of that is pre-
sented in an easy-to-use user interface. And
to their enormous credit, Zillow has done a
tremendous job in reaching top of mind
status with consumers. Theres just one
problem: Those predicted values are wildly
inaccurate and inconsistent.
As Realtors, we know that one of our most
di cult tasks is pricing a home. That holds
true whether we are representing a seller
or a buyer. Market pressures change from
week to week and from neighborhood to
neighborhood. The motivation of the par-
ties is always a factor, as is the condition of
a home and those around it. No algorithm,
however sophisticated, can quantify the
value of a kitchen that was remodeled just
before a home was put on the market or a
yard that is poorly maintained. It simply isnt
possible for any AVM to predict the value of
a home with a level of accuracy su cient to
make a housing decision. Zillow knows thats
true and they say as much on their web-
site (although you have to dig a bit to nd
it). They have this to say about their zesti-
mates of value:
The Zestimate is not an appraisal and you
wont be able to use it in place of an appraisal,
though you can certainly share it with real es-
tate professionals. It is a computer-generated
estimate of the worth of a house today, given
the available data. Zillow does not oer the
Zestimate as the basis of any specic real-
estate-related nancial transaction. Our data
sources may be incomplete or incorrect; also,
we have not physically inspected a specic
home. Remember, the Zestimate is a starting
point and does not consider all the market in-
tricacies that can determine the actual price a
house will sell for.
Yet not a week goes by that we dont en-
counter a consumer who is xated on a par-
ticular value for a home because thats what
Zillow says it is. Kudos to Zillow for making this
kind of impression on the public brilliant mar-
keting. But our research shows that, on aver-
age, those zestimates are within 5 percent
of the actual value of a home just half of the
time. (Funny, thats what their research shows
as well.) As Realtors, if we got within 5 percent
of the value of a home that infrequently wed
be out of business.
So if a consumer wants to base their valua-
tion of a home purchase or sale on what they
nd on the Internet, we suggest they take out
a coin and ip it. Heads that value is within
5 percent (high or low) of what the home is
actually worth. Tails that value could be 10
percent, 20 percent or more o target.
How accurate
are Zestimates?
A detailed analysis of 500 recent sales in
Metro Washington, D.C.: Beginning in 2010,
McEnearney Associates has examined the
accuracy of the estimates for property values
that Zillow provides their zestimates of
value. This marks our fourth and most com-
prehensive analysis.
We took 500 properties in MRIS, our region-
al multiple listing system, that were scheduled
to settle between March 24 and March 31,
2014. During that week, we looked for the
zestimates of those 500 properties. Once the
properties settled, we compared the actual
sold price to the predicted values on Zillow.
And to be as fair as possible, we excluded new
home sales from our research because it is
highly unlikely that Zillow would have details
of the home to be built.
To provide some context, we compared
the results of the March 2014 research to
that of our September 2012 research. In
2012, we researched 280 properties, and
we were able to nd a zestimate for all
280. In the research we just concluded, we
were able to nd values for all but two of
the 500 properties.
Generally, Zillows predicted market value is
not any better now than it was 18 months ago.
The zestimate is within 5 percent of the actual
sales price roughly half the time. In September
2012, the zestimate was just as likely to be too
low as too high; now, it is roughly twice as likely
to be too low.
As one might expect with a computer-
generated value, there are always outli-
ers. In September 2012, of the 280 zesti-
mates, the highest was roughly 140 percent
of the actual sales prices. The lowest was 82
percent. In the research we just concluded,
the highest predicted value was 256 per-
cent of the actual sales price and the lowest
was 62.8 percent.
There are signicant geographic dier-
ences in Zillows performance in our current
research. They get within 5 percent of the ac-
tual sales price just over a third of the time for
properties in Washington, DC, and within 10
percent of the sales price less than 60 percent
of the time. They are within 5 percent of sales
price 43 percent of the time in Maryland and
almost 60 percent in Virginia.
Zillow is a bit less accurate for condo
and coops than for attached or detached
homes. Mirroring the overall results, in all
three property types Zillow is at least twice
as likely to predict a value that is at least 5
percent lower than the actual value as pre-
dicting 5 percent high.
Not surprisingly, those properties that sold
for $1,000,000 and more were a little tougher
for Zillow to estimate accurately. They got
within 5 percent of the actual price just over
one third of the time. They fared much bet-
ter for homes selling between $500,000 and
$999,999, getting within 5 percent almost 60
percent of the time, but for homes selling for
less than $500,000 they were within 5 percent
less than half the time.
REAL ESTATE
DAVID HOWELL is executive vice president and
chief information o cer for McEnearney Asso-
ciates. He is responsible for the rms technolo-
gy, market information and public relations. He
is also principal broker for McEnearney Associ-
ates in Maryland, and is an associate broker in
Virginia and D.C.
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