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Family Portrait: City attorney wants PAGE 5 Stonewall: Road to Stonewall: PAGE 14
Galia Godel more diversity A personal memoir Daughters of Bilitis

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Religious nonprofit to Philadelphia Police Department issues

file for review of LGBTQ
foster care case
Jess Bryant
jess@epgn.com
Representatives of the American Civil Liberties
Union’s LGBT and HIV project and child wel-
fare advocates held a briefing call June 21 about
a potential Supreme Court petition concerning
LGBTQ discrimination in foster care.
Nonprofit Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is
filing the cert petition, which asks the Supreme
Court to review the decision of a lower-level
court, in the case Fulton vs. City of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services
learned last year that two agencies, Catholic
Social Services and Bethany Christian Services,
hired to provide foster care services for the city,
wouldn’t license same-sex couples to be foster
parents because of the agencies’ religious objec-
tions.
This violated Philadelphia’s Fair Practice
Ordinance, which prohibits discrimination based
on characteristics unrelated to the ability to care
for a child, including sexual orientation. BCS
complied in March 2018, when the city told the
agencies children would no longer be referred to
them if they didn’t follow the nondiscrimination
policy. But CSS sued the city, claiming violations
of constitutional rights to freedom of speech and
religion. PAGE 22
progressive trans, nonbinary policy
Laura Smythe
laura@epgn.com
The Philadelphia Police Department
announced Tuesday a new policy overhaul-
ing guidelines on law enforcement inter-
actions with transgender and nonbinary
people.
Under the new policy, Directive 4.15,
officers will be required to include both a
person’s chosen and legal name on paper-
work, use preferred names and pronouns
when interacting with and speaking to the
media about transpeople, and transport
transpeople in custody to the nearest medi-
cal facility for immediate needs, including
hormone therapy.
The new guidelines also mandate police
to transport and house transpeople in cus-
tody separately from other incarcerated
individuals when possible, and to allow
transpeople to choose the gender of the offi- CUTLINE: Amber Hikes announces Philadelphia Police Department’s
cer searching them. transgender and nonbinary policy overhaul.
The policy is one of the most progres-
sive in the country and makes Philadelphia and transgender policy interns, members of Hikes said. “While this issue is not unique
one of the few cities that addresses non- the Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee to Philadelphia as a city, we are committed
binary people in official police measures, and LGBTQ attorneys and activists to continuing to address this issue head-on
said Amber Hikes, executive director of the informed the new plan. and alongside members of the trans, non-
Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs, at a City “For too long, our transgender and non- binary and gender-nonconforming commu-
Hall press conference. The directive took binary siblings have faced humiliating, nities.”
a year to develop to ensure it was not pro- hurtful and even violent treatment during Although police and city officials
duced from “one singular lens.” Nonbinary their interactions with law enforcement,” announced the over- PAGE 18

App brings self-guided LGBTQ history walking tours to NYC

By Laura Smythe
laura@epgn.com
A tennis club where several LGBTQ play-
ers competed in the U.S. Open prior to its
1978 relocation. The family home of Bronx
native and transwoman Christine Jorgensen.
Crazy Nanny’s, the lesbian bar that operated
from 1991-2004 and attracted a racially-di-
verse crowd to its fundraisers fighting HIV
and AIDS.
These sites are some of the roughly 85
New York City locations featured on travel
app Vamonde in partnership with the NYC
LGBT Historic Sites Project, an initiative that
chronicles stories of historical and cultural
LGBTQ locations across the five boroughs.
The collaboration, which launched June 19,
employs geolocation to take users on inter-
active walking tours through the city’s queer
history dating back to the 17th century.
App users can take trips through LGBTQ
history in neighborhoods including Brooklyn,
Harlem, Jackson Heights and Greenwich
Village — the landmark locale of Stonewall.
A transgender history tour spanning several
city areas is also available.
“Buildings and physical locations tell sto-
ries in a different way, so [people] can have
a connection to the landscape that they’re
walking in,” said Ken Lustbader, co-project
director at NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.
As thousands make their way to the city for
WorldPride on June 30, the Project team is
“hoping that people will come to New York
and recognize that LGBT history is all around
them and that New York City has this rich
cultural landscape that can tell the history of
LGBT New Yorkers and their influence on
American culture and history.”
Each location on the app includes histor-
ically significant details, contemporary and
archived photos, uploads of associated mem-
orabilia and other multi- PAGE 8

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Resource listings Stonewall: A personal memoir

Legal resources Gay Liberation Front 1969-71
• ACLU of Pennsylvania: • Philadelphia Commission By Mark Segal and employees. Those of us who stayed
215-592-1513; aclupa.org on Human Relations — Rue mark@epgn.com formed a semicircle around the double doors
• AIDS Law Project of PA: Landau: 215-686-4670 into the street. My memory tells me that
That night, standing in Stonewall, I could there was 50-100 of us. The doors opened,
215-587-9377; aidslawpa.org • Philadelphia Police Liai- not have imagined what the next few hours and the police shouted out a few insults and
• AIDS Law Project of South son Committee: 215-760- would do to change the gay and lesbian com- told us to disperse. We didn’t. They opened
Jersey: 856-784-8532; aid- 3686; ppd.lgbt@gmail.com munity around the world. I doubt anyone the door a second time and again spewed
else could have known. How could we have insults and demanded we disperse. We didn’t,
slawsnj.org/ • SPARC — Statewide Penn- known, on June
• Equality PA: equalitypa. sylvania Rights Coalition: 28th, 1969, that
org; 215-731-1447 717-920-9537 we’d be partic-
ipating in his-
• Office of LGBT Affairs — tory?
Amber Hikes: 215-686-0330; It started
amber.hikes@phila.gov when the lights
flickered on
and off, alert-
Community centers ing the patrons
to something
• The Attic Youth Center; 255 S. 16th St.; 215-545-4331, atticyouth- imminent,
center.org. For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. though I had
• LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania; 3907 Spruce no idea what.
St.; 215-898-5044, center@dolphin.upenn.edu. It was my sec-
ond month
• Rainbow Room: Bucks County’s LGBTQ and Allies Youth in New York;
Center my second
MARK SEGAL, FAR RIGHT IN STRIPED JACKET
Salem UCC Education Building, 181 E. Court St., Doylestown; 215-957-7981 month walking
ext. 9065, rainbowroom@ppbucks.org. Christopher
Street; my second month being an out and and this time we yelled insults back at them.
• William Way LGBT Community Center proud gay. Looking over at my friend, I asked They closed the door, and at that point people
1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220, www.waygay.org. what was happening, and he said, noncha- picked up whatever was around them. Stones,
lantly: “Oh, it’s just a raid.” As an 18-year- discarded soda cans and bottles. For the first
old new to everything, his words were fright- time in history our community wasn’t just
Health and HIV testing ening. fighting back. We had imprisoned our oppres-
The police barged in, pushing around any- sors, the police. They were now our prisoners.
• Action Wellness: Spring Garden St.; 215- • Mazzoni Center: one who was in drag or stereotypical-looking. This continued for sometime, and it was
1216 Arch St.; 215- 769-3561; bebashi.org 1348 Bainbridge St.; They hurled insults and hurled people around. awhile before police re-enforcement came to
981-0088, actionwell- • COLOURS: colour- 215-563-0652, mazzon- Anyone who looked successful, anyone who their rescue. It is my belief that the reason for
ness.org sorganization.org, 215- icenter.org had a few bucks, was forced to take out their the slow re-enforcement was the police inside
• AIDS Healthcare 832-0100 • Philadelphia wallets and, in the bright light, give the money that gay bar were so embarrassed to call their
Foundation: 1211 • Congreso de Lati- FIGHT: 1233 Locust to the cops, who slid the bills in their pockets. station house and have to tell their fellow offi-
Chestnut St. #405 215- nos Unidos; 216 W. St.; 215-985-4448, Welcome to Extortion 101. They robbed us cers: We’re trapped and surrounded by angry
971-2804; HIVcare.org Somerset St.; 215-763- fight.org in plain sight, and we had no possible recom- fags and dykes. Please save us.
• AIDS Library: 8870 pense. That is how they felt about us. That’s The fact that we had them trapped created
• Washington West
1233 Locust St.; aidsli- how they felt they could treat us: any way a certain joy on the street. People began to
• GALAEI: 149 W. Project of Mazzoni they wished. run to other bars in the area, passersby turned
brary.org/ Susquehanna Ave.; Center: As this was happening, they began to clear their heads as they came around the corner.
• AIDS Treatment 267-457-3912, galaei. 1201 Locust St.; 215- the bar by carding people. To this day, I don’t While this riot was happening, Marty
Fact line: 800-662- org. Spanish/English 985-9206 know why they were carding, since it was an Robinson, who had created a group called
6080 • Health Center No. 2: • Transgender illegal bar and drinking age didn’t matter, but the action group, came up to me with chalk,
• Bebashi-Transi- 1720 S. Broad St.; Health Action Coali- that was the procedure. At 18 and fresh from and said: “Write on the walls and street
tion to Hope: 1235 215-685-1821 tion: 215-732-1207 Philadelphia, I looked like the boy next door. ‘Tomorrow Night, Stonewall.’” I have no
They had little use for me, and I was one of idea where he got the chalk, but I’m thankful
the first to be carded and let out, and I was he got it. That chalk was a catalyst for much
glad about that. more than one night of rebelling.
Other But as I came out, I saw an obvious dif- From the river, to Greenwich, all along
• Independence Branch Library Barbara Gittings Gay and ference in what certain clientele were doing. Christopher Street, I wrote. “Tomorrow
Lesbian Collection: 215-685-1633 Those with family ties, those with a good job, Night, Stonewall.”
those on the fast track to a professional career, People ran and screamed and laughed. It
• Independence Business Alliance; 215-557-0190, Independence- all ran for the subway as soon as they could was a joyous evening. We were fighting off
BusinessAlliance.com get out that door. People like me, a street kid 2,000 years of oppression, though we didn’t
• LGBT Peer Counseling Services: 215-732-TALK living at Sloane House YMCA on 34th street, realize it in that moment.
and others, who today are known as transgen- Amid the joy and the excitement, I had a
• PFLAG: Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and der, just stuck around. We had nowhere safe lightbulb moment. Standing across the street
Gays (Philadelphia): 215-572-1833 to go. Our safety was with each other, right from Stonewall, watching everything around
there, watching what was transpiring. me, I thought to myself: Black people are
• Philly Pride Presents: 215-875-9288 Eventually there were more of us outside, fighting for their lives, women are fighting
and inside the bar remained only the police for their lives. Latinos are fight- PAGE 19
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NJ City Council forgives embattled

“In the commotion, I saw News & Opinion
board member despite opposition a window broken. I didn’t 10 — Creep of the Week
see any Molotov cock- Editorial
By Timothy Cwiek “It doesn’t mean we can guarantee it. tails. I saw a feather boa 11 — Op-ed
timothy@epgn.com That request would then go to the State being put on the statue Street Talk
Department of Education so we could get
Hackensack School Board Trustee guidance from the department on how to of General Sheridan in
Frances Cogelja said she wouldn’t resign, proceed. The school district is fully com- Sheridan Square. I wasn’t Columns
despite writing in February that she was mitted to implementing the new law and there when anyone was 12 — Mombian
“disgusted and appalled” with New Jersey’s providing an inclusive curriculum.” 16 — Out Money
new law requiring public schools to teach Cogelja couldn’t be reached for comment
arrested, but I was there 17 — Thinking Queerly
LGBT history. for this story. each and every night that
The law, which was enacted in February, At a June 17 school-board meeting, followed, along with all Arts & Culture
requires middle and high schools to include Cogelja delivered remarks during the of us who would later call 23 — Feature:
lessons about the political, economic and school-board meeting, “The intention of
social contributions of LGBT individuals my email to Acting Superintendent Marks ourselves Gay Liberation Stonewall 50
— starting in the 2020-21 school year. The was to explore what my options were as it Front.” 25 — Scene in Philly
law doesn’t apply to private schools. pertains to curriculum which I feel may be 27 — Family Portrait
At a June 25 Hackensack City Council uncomfortable for my child and which may 28 — Entertainment
meeting attended by about 50 people, city spark conversations that we prefer to have
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officials said they accepted Cogelja’s apol- at home. We are a faith-filled family with ~ Mark Segal, page 19 30 — Q Puzzle
ogy and declined to call for her resignation. conservative views. I understand now that
“We believe Mrs. Cogelja has learned my remarks can be seen in a very differ- 33 — Comics
from this situation about the need for ent and more troubling light. It was never
everyone to be respectful for each other,” my intention to disparage any person who
said Mayor John Labrosse. “And while we has a different sexual orientation from my
understand that some people may disagree, own. I apologize to anyone who was hurt
we personally accept her apology.” or offended… I would also like to say that
The public acceptance of Cogelja’s apol- I did not violate school board ethics. And I
ogy came after Labrosse and City Council will never resign from my seat on the board
members received an open letter asking for because I am an integral part of a team that
her resignation from faith leaders and com- has a lot of important work to do.”
munity organizations including NAACP Afterward, several attendees publicly
(Bergen County Chapter), Women for urged her to resign.
Progress, ACLU of New Jersey and Rev. Pat Henry, a Hackensack resident, told PGN Phone: 215-625-8501
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stand in solidarity with our LGBTQ com- you have no business being on this board Publisher Photographer
munity and strongly condemn the homopho- making decisions for LGBTQ people in our Mark Segal (ext. 204) Kelly Burkhardt
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City attorney wants to increase
agency’s diversity
By Timothy Cwiek
timothy@epgn.com
Iveliz R. Crespo, the city Law
Department’s diversity officer, says she’s
committed to recruiting a diverse workforce
at the agency, including adding more LGBT
staffers. “One of my goals is to increase
the amount of diverse attorneys including
LGBT attorneys,” Crespo told PGN.
Crespo, 29, who identifies as a queer
woman of color, was hired in September as
the agency’s first Director of Professional
Development, Diversity and Inclusion. The
law department has 332 staffers, including
220 attorneys.
“My main focus is not only to diversify
our workforce, but also to ensure that when
we bring in these
diverse attorneys,
they can thrive in
this environment.
We want to ensure
they’re able to suc-
ceed and grow pro-
fessionally,” she
said.
Crespo said
she’s personally
aware of numerous
LGBT attorneys
at the agency. But
she stopped short
of estimating how
many staffers are
LGBT. In August,
she hopes to launch
an “inclusivity
assessment.” The
voluntary staff survey will contain ques-
tions about the respondent’s LGBT status.
“It’s a way for me to ask questions of
our staff — to collect information on their
race, sex sexual orientation, gender iden-
tity. Really, it’s just a temperature check
to find out what’s going on, what’s going
really well and what we can improve on,”
she said.
Crespo said responses elicited by the sur-
vey will result in a report she’ll provide to
upper management at the law department.
“I’m going to create a report with all of my
findings and provide that to leadership,”
she said.
The report will contain recommendations
for achieving even more inclusivity at the
agency, she said.
Crespo said she’s working hard to recruit
employees from diverse backgrounds,
including LGBT employees. For example,
she makes sure job descriptions are sent to
venues where LGBT applicants are likely,
such as LGBT affinity groups and law-stu-
dent organizations.
Since December, 66 percent of the law
department’s new hires identified as peo-
ple of color and 61 percent identified as
LOCAL
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women. Crespo said the agency doesn’t
WE CAN
collect information about the LGBTQ sta-
tus of new hires but hopes to do so in the
future.
BE CENSUS TAKERS
In August, Crespo will speak at Lavender
Law’s annual conference, to be held in
Philadelphia. “I hope to generate interest
in working at the law department,” she
said. The three-day conference is hosted
by the National LGBT Bar Association APPLY ONLINE!
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students. 2020 Census jobs provide:
“Not only are we recruiting LGBT attor- Great pay
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people can grow and work here longterm. Weekly pay
I want to make sure folks view the law Paid training
department as a space where they can be
their full selves,” Crespo said.
The law
department
also seeks to For more information or help applying, please call
raise its profile 1-855-JOB-2020
among minority Federal Relay Service:
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communities. www.gsa.gov/fedrelay
For example, The U.S. Census Bureau is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
the department
encourages its
attorneys to
take leadership
roles in minori- D-1148
ty-based affin-
ity groups. “We
want to be sure
we’re being as
inclusive as pos-
sible in every
aspect of every-
thing we do,”
Crespo said.
Within the law department, Crespo also
ensures that professional-development
training includes LGBTQ-related cultural
competency workshops. “We’re bringing
in diverse hires and we’re also working
with people who aren’t necessarily diverse
to learn how to effectively be culturally
competent lawyers,” she said.
Before joining the Law Department,
Crespo worked as a civil litigator for vari-
ous non-profits. She has fought for migrant
farm workers in civil rights, labor traffick-
ing, and employment law matters. Her
most recent position at a non-profit was
at Mazzoni Center, where she served as a
staff attorney.
Crespo said she enjoys her work at the
law department very much. “This is proba-
bly one of the most affirming places where
I’ve worked at. It’s a place where I’m not
concerned about being myself, talking
openly about being queer. I feel very sup-
ported by leadership.”
Crespo hasn’t received any negative
feedback about her new position. “Most
people have received me very positively,”
she concluded. “I haven’t received any
negative feedback.” n
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Leadership changes come to NJ
LGBTQ advocacy org
By Laura Smythe
laura@epgn.com
Garden State Equality, a New Jersey-
based LGBTQ advocacy and education
organization, welcomes an interim deputy
director and bids farewell to its director of
policy.
Aaron Potenza stepped down from his
position as director of policy June 21. This
summer, he’ll start a new role as special
initiatives program manager at the New
Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault, a
group dedicated to ending sexual violence.
Potenza represents Garden State
Equality on New Jersey’s Transgender
Equality Task Force, a coalition of orga-
nizations, advocates and medical and legal
professionals that informs policy impact-
ing the LGBTQ community. He will con-
tinue to serve as chair for the organization
until September, when the rank concludes.
“Serving
New Jersey’s
LGBTQ com-
munity at
Garden State
Equality
has been an
honor, and a
time of tre-
mendous
professional
growth,”
Potenza said
in a state-
ment. “As a member of NJCASA’s robust
policy team, I’ll be focused on issue-
based, data-driven research that directly
impacts the LGBTQ community alongside
strategic planning around political and pol-
icy issues. Nothing could have better pre-
pared me for this next professional chal-
lenge than my time working with Garden
State Equality.”
Potenza joined Garden State Equality in
May 2015 as an anti-bullying organizer,
overseeing advocacy and policy work in
New Jersey’s public schools. After mov-
ing up to director of programs, Potenza
committed to expanding programming to
make LGBTQ-inclusive schools, increas-
ing access to queer-inclusive healthcare
and protecting the rights of older commu-
nity members.
He led Garden State Equality’s push for
transition-related healthcare coverage by
New Jersey insurance plans, implementing
statewide guidelines for interacting with
transgender students and passing the Babs
Siperstein Law, which nixed a “proof of
surgery” requirement for changing the
gender denoted on a birth certificate and
created a nonbinary option.
Christian Fuscarino, Garden State
Equality’s executive director, called
Potenza’s departure from the organization
a “bittersweet moment.”
“Aaron has been a pioneer for LGBTQ
equality in New Jersey, and his mark will
be felt for years to come,” he said. “We are
fortunate that we will continue partnering
together through the Transgender Equality
Task Force and NJCASA’s intersectional
work.”
Alisha DeLorenzo, who has worked in
the education and social justice fields in
New Jersey for more than 16 years, will
take on the role of interim deputy director
at Garden State Equality beginning July 1.
DeLorenzo is a licensed professional
counselor trained in an integrative mental
health model. She specializes in working
with LGBTQ individuals and their fami-
lies, focusing on trauma, grief and mental
illness.
The deputy director role is new for
Garden State Equality. DeLorenzo will
oversee the group’s development, policy
and health, wellness and school programs.
The length of her tenure is not yet deter-
mined, DeLorenzo said.
“As the organization expands, it’s help-
ful to have leadership that has the skills
in a spectrum of different components,”
she added. “We have great experience and
policies and practice, and we have great
experience in communication. Bringing
the education component and my history
with mental health and the healthcare
system, it just expanded our expertise and
resources.”
The organization is focusing on provid-
ing resources to support the state’s upcom-
ing LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum, training
healthcare systems to work with both
LGBTQ youth and elderly community
members, and extinguishing prejudice and
bias at all state levels, she added.
“My hope is that this work and the
expansion we’re doing at Garden State
Equality lets the LGBT community know
that they’re supported, know that they’re
included and that their voice is important,”
Delorenzo added. “That means recogniz-
ing how policies, procedures and practices
impact them and making the changes nec-
essary so their lived experiences are mean-
ingful and they know that and feel that and
feel connected.” n
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HISTORY APP from page 1 “We’re hoping that it removes a sense of

media elements. isolation or shame and fosters a sense of
The history-documenting project began in identity and community by understanding the
2015. Its website highlights about 200 his- past,” he added. “They are not alone and they
torical LGBTQ sites in New York City, and are part of the continuum of history.”
the initiative was the first in the city to doc- This app also helps garner attention for
ument queer history, Lustbader said. About meaningful LGBTQ sites that appear insignif-
350 additional locations are being researched icant, Davis said.
by the team of three historic preservation- “Many histories of marginalized groups
ists, who serve as co-directors, and Project often are in buildings that you wouldn’t look
Manager Amanda Davis. twice at,” she added. “You had to find some-
The app launch coincides with the 50th thing cheap or out of the way or indiscrete,
anniversary of
Stonewall, making
the city’s LGBTQ
history easily
accessible to visit-
ing crowds, Davis
said. But she
hopes the project
will show users
that queer history
extends beyond
the famous riots.
“We’re hoping
to broaden peo-
ples’ understand-
ing of [LGBTQ]
history and that it
goes back much
further than they
may think,” Davis
MAP OF LGBTQ HISTORICAL SITES IN NYC COURTESY OF NYC
added. “It is more
LGBT HISTORIC SITES PROJECT.
all-encompass-
ing than just an
uprising, though the uprising was incredibly and if you were an organization, you didn’t
important.” have the funds or the support — it just wasn’t
Due to the NYC LGBT Historic Sites possible at the time to have someone, an
Project’s efforts, on June 18, the City’s architect, create something for you.”
Landmarks Preservation Commission gave Davis said she hopes to continue document-
official landmark designations to six sites ing locations relevant to historically margin-
— the James Baldwin Residence, Audre alized groups, like queer people of color and
Lorde Residence, LGBT Community Center, transpeople.
Women’s Liberation Center, Gay Activists “History is always there to be reinterpreted
Alliance Firehouse and Caffe Cino, widely and to be more fully documented,” Davis said,
known as the birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway adding that the project can empower people
theater. The commemorations were the first in by highlighting the histories and narratives of
the city since the Stonewall Inn received land- diverse groups.
mark status in 2015, Lustbader said. For LGBTQ history buffs in Philadelphia,
Lustbader said the app can support those queer-owned Beyond the Bell Tours offers
not yet out by offering access to history “at historical tours highlighting marginalized
home...without having to feel threatened or communities and runs a daily LGBTQ history
at risk.” tour in Center City. n

HACKENSACK from page 4 she shouldn’t be a Board trustee.”

“I was proud to sign legislation requiring
public school districts to teach LGBTQ
history. Hackensack Board of Education
Trustee Frances Cogelja’s recent statements
do not represent our values of inclusion and
understanding,”
At least two state lawmakers who rep-
resent Hackensack called on Cogelja to
resign.
New Jersey Assemblywoman Valerie
Vainieri Huttle (D-37) and State Sen.
Loretta Weinberg (D-37) called on Cogelja
to resign.
“Frances Cogelja must resign,” Weinberg
said, in a statement. “State law requires cur-
riculum to cover LGBTQ contributions and
history be taught. If a Board of Education
Trustee member finds that so repugnant,
But state Assemblyman Gordon M.
Johnson (D-37) said he also accepted
Cogelja’s apology. “Let her constituents
decide whether she should leave office
when she’s up for reelection in April 2021,”
Johnson told PGN.
Jon Oliveira, director of communica-
tions and membership at Garden State
Equality, said Cogelja wasn’t qualified to
serve on the board. “Every education offi-
cial across New Jersey must understand
that New Jersey’s LGBTQ-inclusive curric-
ulum law must be faithfully implemented,”
he told PGN. “The remarks made by the
Hackensack trustee show that she is not
qualified to serve the educational needs of
our youth or protect and affirm the voices
of LGBTQ youth.” n

Survey: Almost half of LGBTQ
youth consider suicide
By Victoria Brownworth
PGN Contributor
Nigel Shelby was 15 when he took his
own life in April.
The Alabama ninth-grader had come out
to his mother when he was 13 but struggled
with his sexual orientation among his peers.
“I just grabbed him and hugged him and
told him I already knew,” Camika Shelby
told media outlets about the moment her
son told her he was gay. “I told him I would
never turn my back on him. I always told
him, ‘Whatever you want in life, you can
have it.’”
Despite his mother’s acceptance and sup-
port, Nigel
may have suc-
cumbed to the
pressure inher-
ent in being
LGBTQ —
pressure that
led 39 percent
of the nation’s
LGBTQ youth
to seriously
consider sui-
cide in the past
year, according
to The Trevor
Project’s
first National
Survey on
LGBTQ Youth
Mental Health.
For transgender and nonbinary youth, the
statistic is even more staggering: More than
half reported they seriously thought about
ending their lives.
Two-thirds of LGBTQ youth reported
that someone attempted to convince them
to change their sexual orientation or gen-
der identity, while 42 percent of those who
underwent conversion therapy reported a
suicide attempt in the last year.
Amy Green, director of research at The
Trevor Project, led the team in conducting
the survey, with the goal of better under-
standing ways to end suicide among LGBTQ
youth.
“We are committed to producing and
using research that allows us to best support
LGBTQ youth and save more lives,” she
said.
Results of the youth survey parallel, in
part, statistics on suicidality in LGBTQ
adults. Forty percent of transgender adults
reported having made a suicide attempt;
92 percent of this group made that attempt
before they turned 25.
The death earlier this month of
Philadelphia Deputy Sheriff Dante Austin,
27, was ruled a suicide — and served as a
tragic reminder that LGBTQ people are at
greater risk for illnesses like depression.
More than 70 percent of The Trevor
Project respondents reported feeling sad or
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Editorial
Education beyond Stonewall 50
The 50th anniversary of the
Stonewall riots is finally upon us after
a month-long venture engaging with
LGBTQIA-plus history — what a jour-
ney it has been. Every news source and
media outlet is covering the historic
event, featuring LGBTQ history les-
sons and features on our community’s
heroes.
New Jersey passed a law requiring
“middle and high schools to include
lessons about the political, economic
and social contributions of LGBT indi-
viduals” becoming the second state,
alongside California, to pass such leg-
islation.
Education is important. Our commu-
nity is embracing it and bringing other
important events into focus as well,
such as the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot.
As a community, we are in conversation
about our history and future. We are
recognizing the work that’s been done
and the work left to do.
Amid the celebrations of both Pride
month and Stonewall’s 50th anniver-
sary, GLAAD released its fifth annual
Accelerating Acceptance Index — “a
unique index to measure Americans’
attitudes toward LGBTQ people and
issues” — on Monday.
After three years of increased accep-
tance of the queer community, 2018
data showed a decline, prompting gay
rights orgs around the nation to ramp
up advocacy. This year, most statistics
remained stable, but the survey showed
PGN
EDITORIAL
Millennials and Generation Z (ages
18-34) are less “comfortable” with
LGTBQ issues.
In all scenarios offered by GLAAD,
an eight-point drop in acceptance was
the average for the age group. With
a 9-percent drop in acceptance, the
most of any scenario, 18-34 year-olds
responded they were uncomfortable
“learning my child had a lesson on
LGBT history in their school.”
During a time when the LGBTQ pop-
ulation is embracing history, we find
that young people — those that may
represent progress — are uncomfort-
able with LGBTQ history.
Surely it is the perfect time to con-
tinue to embrace history. Hopefully
states follow California and New
Jersey’s lead and begin educating youth
about LGBTQ history. Awareness is
necessary to eradicate fear.
The GLAAD study also found 80
percent of Americans support equal
rights for the LGBTQ community.
While we can’t know exactly, it’s cer-
tain nowhere near that percentage sup-
ported LGBTQ equality in 1969. After
all, Kansas was the first state — in
1969 — to rewrite sodomy laws to only
apply to gay people.
We have those who were before
us to thank for the freedom we have
now. Let’s continue on this road after
Stonewall’s landmark anniversary and
give our community more events to cel-
ebrate in 50 years. n
Creep of the Week D’Anne Witkowski
Grayson Fritts
“Can we at least agree that we can hate
them?”
That’s a question posed by Grayson Fritts,
a preacher in Knoxville, Tennessee in a ser-
mon that’s been making the rounds on the
Internet.
The “them” in question is LGBTQ peo-
ple. Fritts not only hates “them” he wants
“them” put to death.
“The purpose of this sermon is to show
you that our government,” Fritts says, “like
the federal government, the police or what
have you should enforce Leviticus 20:13.”
“The United States government, or
local government, Knox County govern-
ment, Tennessee government should put
murderers to death, should put rapists to
death, should put kidnappers to death,
should put adulterers to death, should put
SODOMITES to death!”
I put “sodomites” in all caps because he
literally yells it out in anger as if it’s the
worst possible category on his list.
“Homosexuality, it should still be a crime,
people. Just like murder and rape and all
these things,” Fritts says. “Government
should do their job. Instead of running radar
on the interstate, why don’t you go arrest
some queers, how about that?”
Again, he yells the part about arresting
queers, shaking in anger.
“The Bible says the powers that be are
ordained of God, and God has instilled the
power of civil government to send the police
in 2019 out to these LGBT freaks and arrest
them, and have a trial for them, and if they
are convicted then they are to be put to
death,” Fritts continues. “If you’re a police-
man then you know what? It should be your
responsibility to carry these things out. You
bring them to the judges and you let the
judges hear the cause and you put that ani-
mal to death.”
Not surprisingly, people are upset.
Tennessee Equality Project Executive
Director Chris Sanders called the comments
“reprehensible.”
“The symbolism is extremely palpable
considering it is Pride month and the anni-
versary of the Orlando pulse shooting,”
Sanders told a news outlet.
U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tennessee),
wrote on Twitter: “Let’s be very clear.
[Fritts] is preaching about murdering
LGBTQ people. There is no ambiguity.
There is no confusion. He is suggesting the
execution of our friends and neighbors.”
But when asked about his sermon, Fritts
didn’t back down.
“I’m not an anomaly, he told the News
Sentinel, adding that other Baptist preachers
should “grow a spine” and “stand up just
like I’m standing up.”
He also rejected the idea that he’s inciting
violence against LGBTQ people.
“I’m not calling anybody in here to arms,”
Fritts told the Huffington Post. “I’m not
calling any-
one here to
violence. I’m
saying it’s the
government’s
responsibil-
ity.”
Ah, got
it. Average
every day people should not put LGBTQ
people to death, but the government should.
Not that this really softens the whole “death
to LGBTQ people.”
Thankfully, as a preacher, Fritts isn’t
a part of the government. But as a Knox
County Sheriff’s Department detective, he
totally is.
Which means he’s inciting his own damn
self to violence, state-sanctioned violence,
in fact. He’s saying that LGBTQ people
should die and that government employees,
especially police officers, should have a
direct hand in their deaths.
The Knox County Sheriff’s Department
has put him on paid leave until he leaves the
force in July. But as of press time he hasn’t
been fired.
Meanwhile a prosecutor for the 6th
Judicial District is reviewing Fritts’s cases
for bias.
But don’t worry! Fritts says there’s no
way his law enforcement work was ever
influenced by his religious beliefs. And by
“religious beliefs” let’s remember he’s refer-
ring to his hatred of LGBTQ people and his
subsequent call for their execution.
To explain how he keeps his church life
and his state life totally separate, he com-
pares himself to a fast food worker making
a burger for an LGBTQ customer.
“I’d make them a hamburger because
that was what my job would be, you under-
stand?” he said according to KnoxNews.
com. “You know, I wouldn’t try to purpose-
fully try to damage their food or anything
like that.”
Um, I’m not a law expert, but carrying
a badge and flipping a burger are two very
different jobs with wildly different levels
of power. I don’t know about you, but I
wouldn’t eat any kind of food prepared by
Fritts, and I sure as hell wouldn’t trust him
with my civil liberties.
Speaking of which, one of the reasons
the Sheriff’s Dept. says he hasn’t been fired
is because of concerns about lawsuits over
“free speech.” But this isn’t a free speech
issue. Calling for the state to murder people
when you yourself are a member the state
is incitement to violence. It is not protected
under the first amendment. So fire his ass
already. n
D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian
living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been
writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow
her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.
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Op-Ed Victoria A. Brownworth

Street Talk
If Caroll can’t get justice, how can we? What does the 50th anniversary of
Like millions of American women, I’ve looking enough to assault. But rape is a
been reading E. Jean Carroll for decades. crime of violence, not an act of mutual, con- Stonewall mean to you?
Witty, incisive, uncompromising and very, sensual sexual attraction.
very smart, her work has appeared in myr- After I heard the interview, I went back
“That’s history, “It means being
iad venues, from Rolling Stone to Esquire, and re-read another rape account, one from
but that’s not open, aware and
Elle to Playboy. She had a talk show on someone Trump could never claim wasn’t
textbook history. honest. It means
NBC and was nominated for an Emmy for his type: his first wife, Ivana. Nearly all the
It’s something a being authenti-
her writing for Saturday Night Live. details were the same as Carroll’s, from the
lot more mean- cally yourself,
Now 75, Carroll has been writing about hair pulling and head slamming to the partic-
ingful, especial- which is a really
sex for more than 50 years as a ribald, ular type of penetration. At the time, Trump’s
ly to people who hard thing —
good-time, why-shouldn’t-women-have- then-attorney Michael Cohen, now in prison,
have been chas- being comfort-
as-much-sex-and-as-much-fun-as-men, said a husband couldn’t rape a wife.
tised and beaten able with your-
no-holds-barred columnist. On June 26, the Washington Post wrote a
down for a long self and owning
Carroll was on the cover of New York sharply worded editorial about Trump and
time just for Dalyla Baker everything that Jaida Burroughs
magazine last week, wearing a black coat- Carroll, calling for an accounting — for
being ourselves. West Philadelphia you are doing North Philadelphia
dress, black tights and black heels, arms her, for us. But no newspaper — includ-
As a black trans- she/her because people she/they
folded across her chest. She’s still mod- ing the Post — had covered the story on
woman, it means see it. Stone-
el-slender and casually elegant, with close- the front page. The New York Times had
a lot to me wall didn’t know
cropped hair. Next to her on the cover, in secreted it in the book section. And when
because it was a black transwoman that that we’d see it, but we saw it and it was
stark black, were the words “This is what the question of a congressional inquiry
led this whole thing. It’s times like this amazing and one of the biggest influ-
I was wearing 23 years ago when Donald was raised, some of the worst responses
that I feel really empowered.” ences in my life and for a lot of queer
Trump attacked me in a Bergdorf Goodman came from Democrats. “Oh my god, we
people. It means bettering tomorrow for
dressing room.” have enough inquiries going on!” said Rep.
anybody.”
I was stunned. Sure, we all know that Karen Bass (D-CA), about the rape accusa-
Trump has been accused of varying degrees tion against Trump and whether the House
of sexual misconduct and sexual assault. should address it. “I think that would be
But I never knew those women. I knew ridiculous,” Bass said. “The 50th anni- “It’s so crucial-
Carroll — or at least felt like I did. Her Is this where we are, now? That the cred- versary of Stone- ly important to
writing was so personal, like she was ible rape accusation from a well-known wall represents folks. Especial-
talking to you, which made seeing her with writer against a sitting president who has freedom, fighting ly, I identify as
those words feel like seeing a friend make famously declared he in fact does grab for our rights trans femme, so
the same bold and shocking accusation. women by their genitalia without consent and, more impor- there’s such an
On June 24 I watched Carroll on CNN’s merits no investigation and would be “ridic- tantly, us as an important nar-
“AC 360” with Anderson Cooper. He ulous”? LGBTQIA com- rative that’s
grilled her. She told her story. She ran into One in five American women is a vic- munity coming emerged about
Trump at Bergdorf’s. He recognized her tim of rape. According to the National together and the role of tran-
from her advice column, she knew him Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) there really making swomen in that.
Gyanna Santana Alex Vallejo
because everyone in NYC knew him. He were nearly half a million rapes in 2016, it known that I’m 36, so I
Northeast Pennsworth
asked for her help, she gave it. As she told most unreported to police. According to we’re people and Philadelphia wasn’t alive then, they/them
the story, it was a fun, flirty adventure of the CDC, rape statistics are higher among we deserve as so it’s hard to
the sort she’d been writing about for years. lesbian, bisexual and transgender women she/they
much as the next feel that so vis-
They were joking, having a good time. She than their heterosexual peers. Acquaintance person on this cerally, like I know a lot of older folks do.
was helping him find a gift for a woman; rape — like that alleged between Trump planet. If we all just come together, even I really admire and am a little jealous
they were enjoying each other’s company and Carroll — is most prevalent, with more in the midst of chaos and hold hands and of that. It’s special to think we can point
and banter. than 70 percent of victims knowing their do this the right way with love and unity, to people and say this is really special,
They joked about who was going to try attacker. we can actually make a difference in this powerful and brave and it’s something
on the lingerie they had chosen as a gift. But why, everyone asks, didn’t Carroll world together.” I’m not sure I would have the bravery to
Then they landed in a deserted dressing report? Why now? do.”
room and he slammed her hard against the She says at the time of the assault a
wall — so hard her head hurt — and he friend she told said she shouldn’t report
raped her. because Trump would bury her with law-
“It’s the begin- “It just means
The details are harrowing and ring intol- yers. We know now that would have
ning of the fighting and con-
erably true. She blames herself. She doesn’t been true. But we also know what the
modern gay tinuing to fight,
like calling it rape because she says other Washington Post reported: that only about
rights movement, even though
women have been more badly hurt. She 0.7 percent of rapes and attempted rapes
we may be
says women are disbelieved. She says — less than 1 percent — end in a felony the first Pride
oppressed and
people “think rape is sexy” because of the conviction. and the begin-
people are going
industry around rape fantasies — the “50 So despite #MeToo, despite all the ning of us really
to talk down at
Shades of Grey” franchise springs to mind. accusations against this president, despite fighting for our
us and look down
It was heartbreaking. Carroll’s stature and her bravery in coming rights.” on us. It means
Trump denied the accusation, saying he’d forward which has brought her harassment
Isabella continuing to Logan Emery
never heard of her. But a photo of the two of and death threats, this story will cycle out.
Casademont fight for what North Philadelphia 
them was embedded in the New York mag- And all that will be left will be all those
South Philadelphia you believe in, he/they
azine story, from the 90s when the alleged other rapes, every few minutes, and all
she/her for who you are
rape occurred. Trump said she “wasn’t my those other victims, never, ever getting jus-
as a person.”
type,” something he’s said before about pre- tice. What’s worse, if Carroll isn’t believed,
vious assault allegations. Never that he’s not why should the LGBTQ population believe
a rapist. Always that the woman isn’t good we will be? n
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Creator shares origins, future of
Hulu’s two-dad fairy tale series
“The Bravest Knight,” a children’s tele-
vision series that centers on a family with
same-sex parents, premiered on Hulu June
21 — the first such series on a mainstream
network. I spoke with creator Daniel Errico
about the show, his motivations, and work-
ing with the all-star voice cast.
The animated series is based on Errico’s
2014 book, “The Bravest Knight
Who Ever Lived” (available in
an updated 2019 edition from
Schiffer Publishing). In the
book, a young pumpkin farmer
named Cedric becomes a knight
and marries the prince of his
dreams. The television series
shows Sir Cedric and Prince
Andrew now with a daughter,
Nia, who is training to be a
knight herself. In each episode,
Cedric shares stories of how
he transformed from a “not-yet
Mombian
With them in mind, he wrote the original
“Bravest Knight” story in 2013. When he
tried to get it published, however, several
large publishing houses said that because
of the story’s same-sex relationship, they
couldn’t publicly support it. They were
afraid of protests and “can’t afford the loss
of money.” Errico then tried pitching the
story as an animated short, but “I
couldn’t even get anyone to put
it up for free because they were
worried there would be backlash.”
In 2015, however, he met
with Hulu, “and they just got it,”
he said. “They understood the
importance of stories; they under-
stood the importance of having
an openly gay protagonist.” They
published ‘The Bravest Knight’
as an animated short, and a
year later, added Errico’s short

knight” to a full-fledged one. Dana Rudolph “Rosaline,” about a young farmer

who outwits a witch and a big
And in a larger arc, the season bad wolf on her way to visit her
is about “helping Sir Cedric’s troll friend girlfriend. Actor Teri Polo, who played a les-
Grunt find his bridge, which was stolen by a bian mom on Freeform’s “The Fosters,” nar-
bigger troll,” Errico said. rated “Rosaline.”
Notably, the show isn’t about having Hulu was then willing to consider a full
same-sex parents. “Just to have parents series, so Errico partnered with animation
being parents is what we’re going for,” studio Big Bad Boo, which he said also
Errico said. Nevertheless, he understands understood the importance of the show’s
the significance of showing a two-dad inclusive message. Errico was the executive
Second Place Honorable Mention family. “It’s so important that kids feel producer, wrote all the episodes, and had a
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represented in the stories they’re seeing,” hand in backgrounds, character design, voice
the Nizah Morris case he affirmed. “It’s a way for them to draw casting and more.
strength, solace, and understanding of He’s effusive about the six voice leads.
themselves. To take that away from any “Each one of them, every time they spoke,
child has consequences for them. It’s also a became my favorite,” he said. T. R. Knight
missed opportunity to introduce them to all (“Sir Cedric”) and Wilson Cruz (“Prince
these beautiful aspects of lives in the world Andrew”) “are everything that you could
and all forms of love and identity.” hope for from parents, from people, and from
Errico had a background in mechanical cast.” Errico added, “T. R. Knight, I think, is
engineering and a career in finance before going to help redefine what a hero is meant
he decided to pursue his love, writing for to be.”
kids. As preparation, he studied old fairy Fifteen-year-old Storm Reid (“Nia”), from
tales, but “I noticed there was really a stark Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” is “the heart
lack of diversity in the characters.” of the show. She’s everything we needed.”
Still, the genre had an appeal. “Fairy Twelve-year-old Chance Hurstfield (“Young
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Scott Drake Jen Colletta tales have always been such a bastion for Cedric”), another Disney alumnus, “just
News Photo: Dr. Martin Luther King Series: Family Forward allegories, and I find that allegories are could not be more perfect.” Saturday Night
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incredibly powerful,” he explained. “You Live veteran Bobby Moynihan (“Grunt”)
get to hear these stories that take place in “made me laugh every day.” And Teri Polo
an unfamiliar world, like a fairy-tale king- (“Saylor the Raven”) “brought this mature
dom, but draw on
them in your own
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Family Plumber Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon founded the
first lesbian civil rights organization in the
for over 30 years U.S., the San Francisco-based Daughters
of Bilitis. DOB was named for a book of
lesbian poetry written by a lover of Sappho,
“Songs of Bilitis.” Martin and Lyon jus-
tified the name, writing later, “If anyone
asked us, we could always say we belong
to a poetry club.”
DOB was formed as an alternative to bar
culture. Bars and nightclubs put lesbians
at risk of police harassment and public
exposure. Martin and Lyon believed lesbi-
ans needed their own group, separate from
men. They asserted, “Women needed pri-
vacy, not only from the watchful eye of the
police, but from gaping tourists in the bars
and from inquisitive parents and families.”
In October 1955, eight women — four
couples — met socially. One of their prior-
ities was to have a place to dance, as same-
sex dancing in public was illegal.
In “Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers:
A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth
Century America,” lesbian historian Lillian
Faderman says of the founding of DOB,
“Its very establishment in the midst of
witch-hunts and police harassment was an
act of courage, since members had to fear
that they were under attack, not because of
what they did, but merely because of who
they were.”
Martin said that she and Lyon wanted
Eating Out Should Be Fun! alternatives to the increasingly danger-
ous bar culture for socializing with other
women and to meet other lesbians without
threat of arrest or exposure. In the early
Read PGN’s food reviews - and check out our days of DOB, women were met at the door
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of the month nothing to fear.
What began as a small, secret social
club broadened quickly into a group with
chapters in Los Angeles, Chicago and New
York City. DOB also published The Ladder,
the first lesbian magazine by and for les-
bians, which debuted in 1956 and contin-
ued publication until 1972. The Ladder
published letters and articles, poems and
fiction featuring writers such as Naiad
Press cofounder Barbara Grier, novelist
Valerie Taylor and award-winning play-
wright Lorraine Hansberry.
DOB was a cross between the lesbian
house parties of the 1940s and what would
become the consciousness-raising groups
of the 1960s. The meetings were open to all
women, not just lesbians. Women question-
ing their sexual orientation, like Lorraine
Hansberry, then married to a man, would
do on the pages of The Ladder, could spend
time with other lesbians without fear or
threat.
The group held dances, discussion
groups and conferences and was dedicated
to advocacy and research. DOB was both
social and political, providing resources to
women about being gay and how to access
help with divorce, custody and medical and
social work concerns. As Martin would
later say, she and Lyon were “fighting the
church, the couch and the courts” a full
decade before the birth of second-wave
feminism.
DOB’s manifesto was short and succinct:
The group’s purpose was to provide as much
information as possible, from a library
with fiction and nonfiction on “sex-variant
themes” to “public discussions” on life as
a lesbian in 1950s America. But DOB was
also clear that things had to change and that
the group would focus on, “Investigation of
the penal code as it pertains to the homo-
sexual, proposal of changes to provide an
equitable handling of cases involving this

minority group and promotion of these
changes through due process of law in the
state legislatures.”
A heady concept from the first politically
driven lesbian organization, it would be
20 years before the American Psychiatric
Association would take homosexuality out
of the DSM list of mental illnesses and 40
years before the decriminalizing of sodomy
laws, which were used against lesbians in
custody battles.
Martin and Lyon were able to propel
DOB forward up to and beyond Stonewall,
expanding the closeted lesbianism they had
been born into with fear and hiding at
its roots, to a lesbian consciousness that
included and embraced feminism as much
as the gay liberation movement and allowed
women the freedom to be openly and joy-
fully lesbian.
DOB was watched from all sides, infil-
trated early by the FBI at the height of
the witch-hunts targeting homosexuals. In
1959, DOB was made a focal point of
the San Francisco mayoral election when
Mayor George Christopher, a Republican
who hosted HUAC hearings in the City Hall
supervisor’s office (and who would later
lose the primary campaign for governor in
1966 to then-Democrat Ronald Reagan)
was challenged by Russell Wolden. Not to
be outdone by Christopher’s embrace of
anti-Communist fervor, Wolden asserted
that Christopher had made San Francisco a
“haven for homosexuals.”
In his campaign literature Wolden named
DOB, warning, “You parents of daughters
— do not sit back complacently feeling that
because you have no boys in your family
everything is all right...To enlighten you
as to the existence of a Lesbian organi-
zation composed of homosexual women,
make yourself acquainted with the name
Daughters of Bilitis.”
Despite fear mongering, the truth was
that local chapters of DOB were relatively
small in size, never more than 100 mem-
bers, but The Ladder was spreading its les-
bian message across the country. The first
issue included only 174 copies mailed to
single women in the San Francisco phone
book, but within a year, the mailing list had
nearly tripled and women from all over the
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criminalization.
DOB also focused attention on research
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by and about lesbians. Rallying empa-
thetic medical and psychiatric profession-
als brought more attention to the organiza-
tion, while also broadening the scope. Soon
chapters were opening outside the U.S.
DOB’s attention remained on extricat-
ing lesbians from feelings of isolation and
believing the stories being told about them,
most notably that women without men
Take a bite out of it.
were somehow not real women, that they
were, as Freud dismissed them, infantile
creatures devoid of real sexuality. Helping
women to see themselves as full human
beings irrespective of men was a singu-
lar job and responsibility, which no other
organization in the country, gay or straight,
was doing.
As Martin and Lyon would say later in
interviews, “If you could only understand
the fear! You just can’t begin to realize the
fear that was involved and how scared we
were. And we [the DOB leadership] were
just as scared as everybody else.”
DOB advertised itself as “A Woman’s
Organization for the purpose of Promoting
the Integration of the Homosexual into
Society.” In 1960, the DOB held their first
convention in San Francisco, which was
so successful that they held one every two
years until 1968. Two hundred lesbians
were in attendance and police came to check
if women were wearing men’s clothes.
After Stonewall, pressure was put on the
organization to be more political and less
“nice.” Activist Barbara Gittings, who had
founded the New York chapter, was frus-
trated by the lack of political action when
women were still being arrested and fired
from jobs for being gay and losing their
children in custody battles.
The organization maintained chapters
globally until 1995, but it effectively ended
in 1972, torn by conflicts over feminism
and a newly public lesbian activism, but
the critical importance of the work Martin
and Lyons did establishing the group in the
darkest period of the 1950s and publishing
The Ladder cannot be overstated.
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon met in
1950, moved in together in 1953 and
remained together until Martin’s death in
2008. Lyon, now 95, still lives in San
Francisco. n
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Factoring in Social Security

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Things to understand about suicide

Our community was recently shaken by
the terrible loss of LGBTQ Liason for the
Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office, Dante Austin
who was only 27 years old when he died by
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POLICE from page 1
hauled policy this week, it took effect in March.
Beforehand, police operated under Directive
152, a 2014 policy that included terms like
“cross-dressers” and “transsexual.” The former
policy indicated an arrested individual’s gender
was denoted by what appeared on the person’s
government-issued ID, except when an arrestee
had undergone gender-affirming surgery. When
an ID wasn’t available, police had the authority
to assign gender based on genitalia.
In 2017, the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office
released its own policy mandating that inmates
be processed based on the gender on their
government-issued ID, but allowing them
to choose to fill out a “Transgender/Gender-
Variant Statement of Search” form indicating
preferred name, gender identity or expression
and a gender preference for the officer search-
ing them.
Deputy Police Commissioner Joseph
Sullivan stressed the importance of LGBTQ
community involvement in crafting Directive
4.15.
“We weren’t satisfied with just writing a
directive that was good enough for today, but
it had to be one that would speak well for us
going into tomorrow and ensure the rights of
everyone and ensure that people were being
properly treated,” he said.
The policy extends to all police interactions
with members of the LGBTQ community,
whether suspects, arrestees, victims or wit-
nesses to a crime.
Philadelphia Managing Director Brian
Abernathy said he hopes the new policy will
pave the way for other municipalities across
the country. Those who crafted the guidelines
were “working to restore a sense of dignity and
humanity for this community,” on top of trying
to improve police relations with LGBTQ resi-
dents, he added.
Transgender people experience higher rates
of mistreatment, abuse and violence at the
hands of law enforcement in the United States.
More than 57 percent of transpeople reported
feeling unsafe in calling police, according to
a 2015 survey from the National Center for
Transgender Equality.
Newer reports indicate violent crimes against
transpeople, particularly those of color, have
spiked. According to the National Coalition of
Anti-Violence Programs, there was a 42-per-
cent increase in hate-violence-related homi-
cides of transgender and nonconforming
people from 2016-17. Most victims were peo-
ple of color.
In May, transwoman of color and activist
Tameka “Michelle” Washington was shot to
death in North Philadelphia. She was at least
the sixth transwoman of color to be murdered
in the city in the last six years.
Deja Lynn Alvarez, trans activist and
co-chair of the Philadelphia Police Liaison
Committee, said she previously “suffered hor-
rible police discrimination, bias and abuse for
years,” like others in the transgender commu-
nity.
“We are asking for everyone to simply
understand that we are not asking for special
rights or special protections,” said Alvarez, a
transwoman, at the press conference. “We are
asking for the same rights and same protec-
tions that are afforded to every citizen, not only
in the city of Philadelphia but every city across
this country and what we want for every nation
around this world. The changes made today to
this directive are monumental and they show
how far we have come.”
The Philadelphia Department of Prisons
has also instituted new options for transgender
inmates. They can be placed in general pop-
ulation, protective custody or a “buddy” unit,
which houses inmates who need help complet-
ing daily living skills. Here, inmates can work,
participate in job training or pursue educa-
tional opportunities.
Officer Jo Mason, who is openly gender-
queer, said when they joined the department
17 years ago they “did not think I could ever
live out and open as a police officer here in
Philadelphia.”
“The first policy existed and it was good, but
was it good enough? Or could we do better?”
Mason added. “Standing here today is proof
that there are people in this department, our
entire department, who believe we can keep
moving forward. We can keep being the lead-
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Thousands march for LGBT
rights in Ukraine’s capital
Thousands of supporters of LGBTQ
rights marched through the center of Kiev,
the capital of Ukraine, despite a heavy
police presence trying to separate them
from opponents.
Police said June 23 that nine people were
arrested on suspicion of preparing provoca-
tions against participants in Kiev Pride.
Ukrainian news reports estimated there
were about 2,500 marchers.
Several people protesting the march scuf-
fled with police as the crowds assembled.
Others stood along the route, shouting and
holding a banner reading “Sodomy is the
road to hell.”
Gay rights opponents argue homosexual-
ity is contrary to Ukraine’s traditional cul-
ture. In turn, a large banner at the front of
the Pride procession declared “our tradition
is freedom.”
Aldo Davila set to be
Guatemala’s 1st openly gay
congressman
Aldo Ivan Davila Morales is poised
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in January, making history as the first
Staff openly-gay man elected to the country’s
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Proudly gay and living with HIV, the
Adrianna Fraser 41-year-old activist said the rainbow flag
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“Philly’s first out trans police officer buried as a man” begin his congressional career with three
main agenda points: fighting endemic cor-
Scott A. Drake ruption, ensuring Guatemalans’ rights to
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2018 Pride with a focus on the LGBTQ community.
“I’m happy, with a lot of mixed feel-
Kristen Demilio ings,” Davila said in an interview. “The
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Scott A. Drake to be done.”
Third Place, News Photography While it hasn’t been officially con-
“Freedom of Assembly” firmed by electoral authorities, experts
said Davila’s left-wing Winaq party won
Victoria Brownworth four congressional seats in the June 16
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“Wave of Aging” a Guatemala City district.
“People have to see me as just another
citizen, since I was elected democrati-
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Guatemala has recently taken steps
newspaper in the country. toward guaranteeing LGBTQ rights, like
adopting measures to identify hate crimes
against members of the community and
allowing people to change their legal
names and choose how they appear in pho-
tos on official IDs, which helps transpeople
better express their identities.
The country larely remains a socially
conservative society, though, with its domi-
nant Roman Catholic and Protestant faiths.
Prejudice and fears over HIV are deeply
rooted. LGTBQ people have historically
been targets of discrimination and some-
times assault, although such treatment is
slowly becoming less socially acceptable.
LGBT refugees allege harass-
ment in Kenya, a rare safe
haven
Burundi national Nina Muregwa said
she feels threatened again. After escaping
death threats back home over her sexual
identity, the 17-year-old thought she had
found a sanctuary in Kenya. Recent inci-
dents, however, have left her scared for
her life once more.
She and other LGBT refugees allege
they have been harassed by police in
recent weeks in Kenya, which is a rare
regional haven for the gay community
and yet maintains that gay sex is illegal.
It is the only East African nation where
someone can seek asylum and be regis-
tered as a refugee based on their LGBT
status, the United Nations refugee agency
says. It is not clear how many are regis-
tered in Kenya.
Muregwa and 16 other refugees allege
that five police officers arrested them at
gunpoint at home and locked them up
without charge earlier this month. After
they were released two days later on June
10, they allege another group of police
officers tried to arrest them but the U.N.
refugee agency intervened.
Nairobi police chief Philip Ndolo said
that the refugees were arrested for their
own protection. He did not give details.
The refugees have now locked them-
selves in their two-bedroom house in
the capital, Nairobi, saying they are too
frightened to venture out even for food
because of threats from local residents.
Kenyan human rights activists say they
saw this coming. They had warned that
a closely watched High Court ruling last
month upholding the criminalization of
gay sex would bring a backlash against
the LGBT community. Some Kenyans
would now feel emboldened to act out,
even with violence, said leading gay
rights activist Eric Gitari.
Gay refugees are especially vulnera-
ble. Last month some of them protested
outside the U.N. refugee agency office
in Nairobi demanding more support from
the agency and more respect from Kenyan
authorities. In April, another group of at
least 55 LGBT refugees held a sit-in pro-
test outside the office demanding reset-
tlement as Kenyan authorities sought to
close the emergency shelter where they
stayed.
Finding a safe place to live has become
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Civil rights lawsuit alleges
anti-gay harassment of stu-
dent
The Chicago Tribune reports a federal LGBTQ pride flag for first
civil rights complaint alleging an Ohio
high school student faced harassment from time
school officials and his basketball coach
after they learned he was gay.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in
Akron, Ohio says the student at Fairless
Local Schools in northeastern Ohio lost
virtually all basketball playing time and
was punished with workouts not ordered
for other players.
The June 6 lawsuit says that beginning
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in Fall 2017, the student was subjected to
threats, harassment, intimidation and dis-
crimination at school because of his sexual
orientation.
The complaint also alleges discrimina-
tion led to him being denied admission to
the National Honor Society. The lawsuit
seeks unspecified compensatory and puni-
tive damages.
The superintendent didn’t respond to an
email seeking comment. Calls to the dis-
trict went unanswered June 21.
Cincinnati City Hall to fly
WLWT Cincinnati reports the City of
Cincinnati is raising a rainbow pride flag
at City Hall for the first time to kick off
Cincinnati Pride.
The rainbow pride flag was to be raised
at City Hall at 11 a.m. June 21.
City Councilman Chris Seelbach, the
council’s first openly-gay member, says
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flag at City Hall for a while and was
inspired by the one raised at the city hall
in Louisville, Kentucky.
Councilman Greg Landsman said he
also had been thinking that a pride flag
would be a good idea. Landsman said
he was inspired by a pride flag raised at
Newark Liberty International Airport.
Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley
described Friday as an historic day for the
city.
Minnesota official urged to
resign for anti-gay posts
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports a
St. Paul City Council member is being
urged to resign for past anti-gay posts on
Facebook.
Gay advocates from Minnesota’s
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party are pre-
senting a resolution at the party’s conven-
tion in St. Paul asking for Kassim Busuri
to resign.
Busuri was appointed to represent Ward 6
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Busuri says his Muslim faith does not
support homosexuality and that crit-
icizing his previous posts amounts to
Islamophobia. He says he will represent
all his constituents regardless of sexual
orientation but won’t recant his past state-
ments.
The posts came to light June 19 after
Busuri was the only council member not
to support a resolution recognizing June as
Pride Month.
In one 2014 post, Busuri said he was
“going back to Uganda” after the country
approved a law criminalizing homosexual-
ity.
Two football players sus-
pended for burning LGBTQ
pride flag
The Deseret News reports two high
students in a Salt Lake City suburb have
been suspended from the football team for
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burning an LGBTQ pride flag.
Granite School District
spokesman Ben Horsley said
discipline was taken against the
Kearns High School students
even though the flag wasn’t
burned on school grounds
because it could have a detri-
mental impact on the school
environment.
A video posted on social
media shows the flag burning
and someone saying, “all gays
die.”
School district officials
became aware of the video June
17. Horsley says the district is
determining if the students will
face additional academic pun-
ishment.
The district plans to have for-
FOSTER CARE CERT from page 1
In July 2018, U.S. District
Judge Petreses B. Tucker
denied CSS’ request to issue
a preliminary injunction that
would order the city to renew
its contract despite not comply-
ing with the city’s nondiscrim-
ination requirement. Tucker
denied that request in July and
on April 22, the Third Circuit
Court of Appeals voted unan-
imously to uphold Tucker’s
ruling. The expected petition
challenges that decision.
Gupta Wessler PLLC, a law
firm based in Washington,
D.C., will represent the City
of Philadelphia, said Deepak
Gupta, the group’s founding
principal. Gupta declined to
provide further comment.
Philadelphia’s Department of
Human Services also declined
to comment.
Cooper said this case is dif-
ferent from other cases and
has “broad and profound
implications…. Implications
that would extend nationwide
should the high court accept
the claims asserted.”
“Other litigation regarding
discrimination by govern-
ment-contracted foster-care
agencies was brought by fam-
ilies who were turned away,
challenging the government’s
authorization of such discrim-
ination in the public welfare
system,” she said. “But unlike
those cases, the issue here is
not whether a government may
allow discrimination by con-
tracted agencies, it is whether a
government must allow it, even
if it violates their contracts and
undermines their child welfare
policy.”
mer students who are LGBTQ
speak to the students and the
entire football team. n
Queer Latina woman
wins New York City
District Attorney pri-
mary race
Tiffany Cabán, a 31-year-old
public defender who identi-
fies as a queer Latina woman,
claimed victory June 25 in the
Democratic primary for district
attorney in New York City’s bor-
ough of Queens.
Cabán was endorsed by 2020
presidential hopefuls and sena-
tors Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
While CSS’s religious
objections currently only pro-
hibit same-sex couples from
adopting, until last year, the
agency also excluded families
unable to provide a pastor’s
letter confirming that they
were of faith, Cooper added.
“The bottom line is that we
need more willing, qualified
and loving parents because
we have many children who
need families,” said Mary
Boo, executive director of the
North American Council on
Adoptable Children. ”Federal
data shows us the foster care
population has risen steadily
for the last five years. … At the
end of federal fiscal year 2017,
there were more than 440,000
children in foster care...13 per-
cent were in group- or congre-
gate- care settings. Each year,
about 20,000 young people
age out of care because they
don’t have a permanent fam-
ily.”
“One of the groups hardest
hit by this potential decision
are, of course, LGBT fam-
ilies who are ready, willing
and able to parent children in
foster care and adoption,” Boo
added. “In fact, studies show
that same-sex couples are six
or seven times more likely
than different-sex couples to
raise children in foster care.”
Melissa Garlick, civil rights
national counsel at Anti-
Defamation League said, “If
CSS’s argument is accepted
by the higher court, it would
open the door for discrimina-
tion against religious minori-
ties, LGBTQ people and oth-
ers and ultimately undermine
the free-exercise rights of all.”
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and Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The
race garnered national atten-
tion as Cabán built a progres- HEALTH AND WELLNESS DIRECTORY
sive platform on criminal jus-
tice reform, including ending
cash bail and decriminalizing
sex work.
With 99 percent of pre-
cincts reporting, Cabán had a
1.3 percentage point lead over
her closest challenger. The vic-
tory comes on the heels of a
similar political upset by Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the
progressive millennial who
nabbed a surprise win in Queens
last year.
The general election will take
place in November. The winner
will represent the 2.3 million
people living in Queens. n
ADL, along with other
faith-based organizations, read
an amicus brief at the Third
Circuit hearing in support of
Philadelphia. Seventeen states
and Washington, D.C. also
supported Philadelphia in an
amicus brief at the hearing. rev. dr. Nadine Rosechild Sullivan, ph.d.
CSS did not provide com-
ment and according to Becket,
the Archdiocese forwarded Spiritual Counseling
PGN’s request to the fund. drsullivan@rosechild.org
Rev. David W. Key, an
ordained Southern Baptist 215.704.4264
minister at Lake Oconee www.rosechild.org
Community Church, said only
in recent years the concept of Spirituality • Sexuality • Relationships • Self-Esteem
religious liberty has been used
as a weapon by conservative
traditions.
”It’s targeted initially to the
LGBTQ community and to
same-sex couples, he added,
“but people of other religious
faiths have begun to be tar-
geted as not being qualified
to serve in the foster-care ser-
vice.”
When Cooper was asked
what the odds were of the
Supreme Court granting cert
in this case, she replied, “I
wouldn’t dare to try to pre-
dict that, and I really couldn’t
tell you how likely it is, but I
can tell you there are no other
cases — this is not for exam-
ple a traditional circuit split
type situation that make the
courts more likely to take a
case. …it’s the only decision
of its kind. There’s one other
case that has been filed rais-
ing virtually identical claims
brought by the same counsel
in Michigan.”
If the Supreme Court decides
to take up this case, it could be
heard as soon as next term. n
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Artists explore the 50th anniversary of Stonewall

a political activist whose art affiliations Ourma aimed to curate a wide representa- munity. We’re very excited about
By Gary L. Day include Da Vinci Arts Alliance, Taller tion of disciplines and contributors, includ- that.”
PGN Contributor Puertorriqueño and Casa de Duende. “It ing emerging artists and those with interna- The curators praised the Pearlstein
includes local artists who either have tional acclaim. Gallery for allowing them to exhibit pieces
The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall work that is identified as celebratory of “The process was invitational,” said that take risks.
riots — one of the most important dates Stonewall or are creating work especially Ourma. “We invited 90 artists and, among “They haven’t batted an eye at any of the
in LGBTQ history and an event that for the exhibition that seeks to celebrate or those, 60 responded to us, resulting in the work being proposed,” said Acosta.
inspired queer liberation and visibility — mark Stonewall as an important landmark largest queer exhibition in Philadelphia He and Ourma noted the importance of
is June 29, and Philly arts advocates David in LGBTQ history. Stonewall and every- history — something to be really proud of.” a gallery with the prestige of Pearlstein
Acosta and Janus Ourma are determined thing it means is the underlying theme of Acosta said they had considered issuing hosting a queer exhibition, given that the
to honor the occasion with “Stonewall at the show.” an open call, “but we thought, between Stonewall riots led to activism centered on
50,” an exhibition that gathers 60 LGBTQ The display contains paintings, draw- Janus and myself, we knew so many artists, invisibility and intolerance.
Philadelphia-area artists and 110 works ings, photographs, videos, sculptures and we were just able to identify an adequate Despite Philadelphia’s large and vibrant
of art. fiber work and incorporates performance list of artists we wanted to invite.” visual-arts community, William Way is the
The road to producing the largest and installation. Featured artists include “We were cognizant of the need to ask only venue in the city that presents regular
LGBTQ exhibition in Philadelphia’s his- Linda Lee Atler, Ebony Malaika Collier, a very wide range of artists, encompassing exhibitions featuring queer artists. Smaller
tory was not easy, according to Ourma, “I Ralfka Gonzalaez, Rayla Meshawn, Noemi a wide range of ages, sexual orientations, exhibits have been on display at smaller
sent out a series of emails starting in June Chartloote Thieves, Vicente Oritz Cortez, racial makeup, ethnicity, all of that,” he venues like Da Vinci and Gayborhood
of last year to 32 different arts organiza- Aaron Kalinay, Shereen Masoud and Kara added. “We think we were able to bring in bar Dirty Frank’s; otherwise, said Acosta,
tions in Philadelphia, saying that the 50th Mshinda, among oth- a range of artists who are very queer artists are grossly underrepresented.
anniversary of Stonewall is coming up. It’s ers. representative of the “And it’s not just queer artists,” he
really incredibly important, a historical Acosta diversity of the added. “There are also extremely limited
milestone — what about doing something and LGBTQ exhibition opportunities for black artists,
to recognize it?” com- for Latino artists, for Asian artists — all the
The response was disheartening, said the marginalized communities.”
40-year Philly resident and William Way In addition to visual artists, the opening
arts advocate. reception for “Stonewall at 50” will feature
“By March of this year, no one performances by Vitche Boul-Ra and Wit
was responding at all. So that was López and a tableaux vivant by Jonas
nine months and no response,” Dos Santos, plus readings by local
Ourma added. LGBTQ poets.
That’s when he said “Both Janus and I are looking
Acosta contacted him forward to opening night when the
and suggested they put artists in the show will be pres-
together an exhibition ent with friends and family to
of their own, gather- celebrate this important show,
ing resources the two which seeks to celebrate half
had accumulated over a century of queer American
their long history in art, culture, politics and the
Philly’s art commu- struggle for equality and
nity. the many achievements
“I said OK! Let’s we’ve gained, while not
go for that. So we taking them for granted
went out looking for and acknowledging that
a space in which to we have to be ever-vigilant
present such an exhi- — because, in the blink of
bition,” said Ourma. an eye, they could just as
Acosta and easily be taken away,” said
Ourma found a will- Acosta. n
ing partner in Drexel
University’s Leonard The opening reception will be
Pearlstein Gallery, and June 28 5:00-8:00 p.m. The
the now record-setting exhibit will run through July 26 at
exhibition will open June the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, 3401
28, just one day before Filbert Street. The gallery is open
the fateful anniversary of Wed.-Fri. noon-4 p.m. and Saturday
Stonewall. from noon-5 p.m. For more informa-
“The show is about a celebra- tion, call 215-895-2548 or email gallery@
tion of Stonewall,” said Acosta, SHEREEN MASOUD-JOINTE, “AHMED” drexel.edu.
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The Film bends genre,

Guide to the queers fairy tale
Gayborhood ments. Instead of lampooning them,
By Gary M. Kramer let’s look at the alternate approach
The Philadelphia Gayborhood is roughly PGN Contributor — that they aren’t exploited, but are
centered at Locust and Camac streets. Look for the inversely being exploited. All the visu-
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Local Philly sci-fi inspired performers

team with Gaaays in Spaaace
By A.D. Amorosi
PGN Contributor
Dan Deevy was compelled to create the
nonprofit, Gaaays in Spaaace, to celebrate
the inclusion of LGBTQ-plus characters
share the ideal set by Gene Roddenberry
of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combina-
tions, “Or IDIC, as the kids say,’” noted
Scrotch Whiskey.
Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek’s creator,
had a future-forward vision where human-
ity overcame its problems and outran its

NLGJA Presents the

in pop-culture storytelling — particular- differences: “They found a way of doing
ly sci-fi tales “hopefully prophetic for so by coming together, not against a com-
the future,” so to “empower and inspire mon enemy but rather a common good.”

2019 Journalism Awards LGBTQ-plus youth through Star Trek’s

utopian vision of that same future.”
Aligned with Deevy’s vision is Philadel-
phia’s, The Roddenberries, a wild, Trekkie
Deevy said there are so few pieces of
fiction that have an optimistic vision of
the future. “The most celebrated stories of
today are dystopian, ones where humanity

Excellence in Newswriting, musical performance-art ensemble. With a

new album on the horizon, “Eat the Rod-
doesn’t prevail. Zombies and evil aliens
are out to destroy us,” and Star Trek is dif-

Non-Daily Award
denberries,” the group will throw a party to ferent.
celebrate on June 27 at World Café Live, He added, “With the recent inclusion of
with its own Klingon rainbow warrior, gay characters in Star Trek’s universe —

To: Adriana Fraser

For “Philly’s First Out Trans Police Officer
Buried as a Man,” Philadelphia Gay News
Scrotch Whiskey. John Cho’s Sulu in the J.J. Abrams’ film
Together for over six years, The Rod- cycle, Anthony Rapp’s Lt. Stamets in ‘Star
denberries have “boldly gone to
Las Vegas, embraced the queer-di-
mensions, and invited Dan Deevy
and Gaaays in Spaaace to come to
Philly and be represented at our
upcoming showcase so that they
can bring their ‘rainbow-tribbles’
out for love and fellowship. To-
gether, we are fighting the good
fight. Every effort to change soci-
ety’s minds requires allies. We are
Allies.”
Deevy met The Roddenberries
at a J.G. Hertzler (Deep Space
Nine) event. He said, “I was sup- RODDENBERRIES Photo: Chris K. Photography
posed to follow them and talk.
There was no way I could follow
that. I couldn’t describe what they did, but Trek: Discovery’ — every minority group
I loved … it. That’s how I feel every time is represented. For 50-plus years, we
they perform.” weren’t there. Representation may often
So auspicious was their introduction that be overlooked as not so important, but I
Deevy used an image of Roddenberries’ believe it is of the utmost importance. Any
Scrotch Whiskey as part of the Gaaays in chance for people to look up on screen and
Spaaace’s logo. “That image is one of my say ‘There I am,’ is necessary.”
favorite photos ever taken anywhere,” said Additionally, Star Trek’s actors have
Deevy, been supportive of the LGBTQ commu-
Captured at one of Deevy’s Vegas par- nity and gay friendly. Famously, televi-
ties, the photo featuring Scrotch Whiskey sion’s original helmsman Lt. Hikaru Sulu,
perfectly depicts the relationship between George Takei, came out in 2005, and
the gay community and Star Trek. “We Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in the
have seen gay Klingons before, but swish- rebooted film franchise, came out in 2011.
ier,” said Deevy. “We love swishy Klin- “But it’s not the same as having gay
gons, but presenting the character as a tra- characters within an author’s story, telling
ditional badass — a tough, strong Klingon us what the future will be,” stated Deevy.
warrior but gay — was awesome.” “The gay characters in ‘Star Trek: Discov-
Scrotch Whiskey believes that each of ery’ were the most talked about relation-
the Star Trek series comes with a message ship on that show.”
of humanity and acceptance of our differ- Even so, Scrotch Whiskey noted that
ences. “We are a work-in-progress,” states within the Trekkie fandom, “there are still
the Klingon. “Star Trek began as a very vestiges of bigotry and intolerance. Yet,
progressive, socially conscience and high- when we take the stage, we let our freak-
ly liberal series. For its time, the late ’60s, flag fly: Gender-swapped heroes, and
it walked ahead of much of pop-culture.” rainbow-Klingons singing parodies of Star
With Scrotch Whiskey’s roots in rock-n- Trek songs seems to be a uniting-force. We
roll cabarets traveling with a Rocky Horror hope that our efforts at celebrating IDIC
troupe, his varied characterizations with- principals has some small effect at advo-
and-through The Roddenberries come as cating equality to the larger body of fans
second nature. who need to be exposed to such progres-
To love The Roddenberries means to sive messages via showbiz.” n

Family Portrait Suzi Nash
Galia Godel: The sex educator you wish you invited to seder
You don’t have to wait for Dr. Ruth
Westheimer’s movie to get advice with
Galia Godel in the house.
Godel, a Philadelphia-based sexual-
ity educator, has been teaching within
and about the LGBTQ community for
more than five years. She performs
double duty as the LGBTQ Initiative
program manager for Jewish Family
and Children’s Service of Greater
Philadelphia.
PGN: Tell me a little about yourself.
GG: I grew up in the Cheltenham/Elkins
Park section of the city. My parents met
when my mom moved to Israel after
high school. She lived there for many
years, and they met through mutual
friends and then moved back to the
U.S. before my older sister was born.
So I was raised just north of the city
and about halfway through undergrad I
moved to West Philly, and I never left.
PGN: Were you a close family?
GG: Yes. My grandfather was a rabbi,
and I grew up really, really involved
with my synagogue. I was a member of
reformed congregation Keneseth Israel,
where I learned to love educating. As
soon as I was old enough to be allowed,
I was working as a wraparound with the
younger students, and I ended up teach-
ing Hebrew school. I got very involved
with my community there. The whole
family was involved. I have an older sis-
ter, a younger brother and a younger sis-
ter, and all of us were synagogue brats.
PGN: What were some of the best les-
sons you learned?
GG: I was part of a Jewish youth
group called NFTY (North American
Federation of Temple Youth) and
through them I learned to love collab-
orating with other people. We would
create services together; we would run
activities together. It was great to be
around other young people who were
there doing the work because they
wanted to be there. We were all so
excited about being young and Jewish
and wild — wait, not wild; we were
praying in the middle of the day, so not
exactly wild — but enthusiastic. It was
also one of the first places that I found
a queer community. We formed a little
subgroup of all of the LGBTQ folks
there. There were only about six of us,
but we did everything together, and it
was really loving and supportive.
PGN: What’s a favorite family tradition?
GG: Every year for Hanukkah, my dad
would take his jar of coins and give
them to us to play dreidel. He let us
keep the money so if you were good or
lucky, at the end of the night you could
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walk away with about $40, which was a
fortune for a kid!
PGN: What was an early sign that you
were gay?
GG: It was Julia Stiles in “10 Things I
Hate About You.” [Laughing] I watched
that movie over and over — that and
“Princess Diaries” with Anne Hathaway.
I could not stop myself from watching
those two movies, and of course I had
no idea why, but now that I rewatch
them as an adult, I’m like, Oh, count-
er-culture high-school girls who don’t
look the way that their peers do and
make friends differently — that’s why
it was so significant to me in sixth and
seventh grade. It’s also when I first real-
ized that I was not into guys. But then a
few years later, I was once again watch-
ing “10 Things I Hate About You” and
started thinking, Hmm, Heath Ledger is
really cute … Maybe “lesbian” isn’t the
right word for me. I guess that movie
did a lot for me!
PGN: How do you identify on the spec-
trum, if you do?
GG: Mostly as bi and queer. I’ve also
been spending time recently trying to
decide if asexual is also a label that fits
for me, but I don’t have an answer to
that yet.
PGN: What were you like as a young
person?
GG: I was really into singing. From
the time I was very young through
my senior year of high school, I really
thought I was going to be an opera
singer as a career. My grandparents
really valued the arts and they very
kindly paid for voice lessons for me.
They knew how much I wanted to be a
professional vocalist. Unfortunately, I
did not get into the colleges that I audi-
tioned for, so I went to Montgomery
County Community College and made a
vocational 180 and started focusing on
sex education.
PGN: Was there adequate sex ed when
you were growing up?
GG: I think so. Between my school, my
mom and my synagogue, I got a very
healthy view of sexuality. My school
had a very comprehensive sex-educa-
tion program. As someone who teaches
it now, I can look back and see where
it could have been improved, but it was
pretty enlightened. They talked about
pleasure; they talked about birth con-
trol; about the different kinds of sex
that a person could have. They didn’t
talk about queer sex explicitly, but they
did talk about oral sex and anal sex, so
for people not interested in intercourse,
it at least had some information about
Philadelphia Gay News www.epgn.com June 28-July 4, 2019
other options. I remember taking a class
in Hebrew school called “Sex in the
Bible” and it was a fantastic class. At
home, my mom was always extremely
open about sex and our bodies, which
I’m still grateful for. The first time I had
sex with a partner, I told her because
I liked keeping her updated on things.
She told me that she was a little con-
cerned because I was young and she
wanted to make sure I was being safe.
So I said, “Well, if it makes you feel any
better, I didn’t enjoy myself.” And she
responded, “That doesn’t make me feel
better. Did you try using your fingers?”
[Laughing] So, yeah, we were pretty
open about talking about sex and sexu-
ality.
PGN: And now you’re the educator …
GG: Yes, I have two main jobs and
two side hustles, because I’m a mil-
lennial. My main job is that I work for
Jewish Family and Children’s Service
of Greater Philadelphia, where I am
the program manager of the LGBTQ
Initiative. In that role, I work with all of
the departments to make sure they have
cultural competency, diversity and inclu-
sion and to make sure that we are direct-
ing services toward the LGBTQ commu-
nity. Pretty much anything that comes
to JFCS that has the word “queer” on it
ends up on my desk. Through our orga-
nization, J.Proud, which is a consortium
of a number of Jewish organizations, we
also do a lot of fun events, book talks,
concerts, art exhibitions, craft nights, a
queer Torah study, a drag-queen story
hour and a huge Passover seder, among
other things. It’s really a lot of fun. I
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try to get to as many as I can. I also do
sexuality trainings and workshops for
various groups, both Jewish and not.
I do a lot of teaching in polyamorous
and queer communities with a focus on
healthy and sustainable relationships,
self-care while handling responsibilities,
and problem-solving within nontypical
relationship structures. And I work as a
sexual-behavior specialist for adults with
intellectual disabilities.
PGN: Do you find that, being openly
gay, you are the person to whom every-
one confesses their secrets?
GG: I’m the one that everyone comes
to with sexual questions, and not just
LGBTQ-specific ones. Everything from,
“How do I spice up things with my part-
ner?” to “I have this vaginal discharge
…”
PGN: Oh boy.
GG: I don’t mind, but what brings me
the most joy is when non-queer people
reach out to me to ask how they can best
interact with the LGBTQ people in their
lives so as to be respectful and a good
ally.
PGN: Do you find, with different seg-
ments of the Jewish community, there
are different levels of acceptance?
GG: It can be surprising, because there
are some Orthodox communities that I
love working with that are really sup-
portive, and some reformed groups that
are not as open to it, and some conserva-
tive groups that just aren’t sure. There’s
not a set way of thinking for
one group. PAGE 32
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Lesbian singer-songwriter takes Theater & Arts

Philly by tour
“Echo,” her fourth compilation, in 2014,
By Suzannah Cavanaugh she won the Philadelphia Songwriter’s
PGN Contributor Project Contest and also was named Tri-
State Indie’s Acoustic Artist of the Year.
Andrea Nardello’s music is the anthem Delaware-based radio station WSTW also
of an open heart. awarded her singles “Leave The Light
In “Human,” the title single from the On” and “Home To Me” as Folk Song of
EP she released last summer, Nardello’s the Year.
crushed-velvet vocals top driving strings Nardello credits WSTW DJ Mark
and the comfortable strum of her guitar as Rogers — whom she met purely by
she sings, “Hold me now/I’m human/I’m chance — for granting her the exposure
broken/Come now.” she needed to graduate from bar gigs to
Vulnerability serves as the framework festivals.
for the four tracks on “Human,” which the “We were at a Dewey Beach music fes-
Philly singer uses to explore setbacks in tival and I was performing and my wife
was in the crowd, and [she and Mark] just
totally hit it off. We had no idea he was a
radio DJ,” she recounted.
Rogers liked Nardello’s music and
asked for a CD.
“He sends a message to my wife [that]
Sunday morning: ‘Hey, I’m gonna play
Andrea’s music tonight on the radio.’ And
I’m thinking to myself, What, do you got
Photo: Shervin Lainez
an Internet radio station or something?
And she’s like, ‘No, 93.7.’ And I’m like,
‘Uh, that’s an FM — that’s a real radio
her own life: the death of her wife’s step- station!”
father and her mental-health struggles. In the five years since, Nardello has
The songs’ emotive cores earned her local released three EPs through Noble Steed
and big-name recognition, along with a Music, with plans for a fourth. “Human,”
full summer tour. which she recorded in her home and pro-
Nardello won a social-media contest duced with longtime friend and collabo-
with her vocals that led to a gig as Brandi rator Matt Duke, is her sixth compilation
Carlile’s opener during Carlile’s inaugural overall.
“Girls Just Wanna Weekend,” a music fes- Nardello described herself as a winter
tival in Riviera Maya, Mexico. writer and summer performer, but said
“People joke about their dreams com- she’s experimenting with weaving song-
ing true, but it really was: She is one of writing into her summer tour schedule.
my biggest influences,” Nardello said of Her goal is to lighten up on the lyrics.
Carlile. “It sounds silly — I’ve been doing “My mom jokes with me. She’s like,
this for a long time — but when you get to ‘When are you going to write a happy
work with somebody of that caliber, it just album?’ And I realized I’m always writ-
validates you as an artist.” ing in the darkest time of year, you know,
The folk singer’s winning spot led to the cold and everything. So, maybe if I
a recorded session on WXPN’s weekly write during the summer, something dif-
“Philly Local” program with Helen Leicht, ferent will come out.”
and it’s no coincidence that her summer is The artist also is striving to perform
brimming with festival stops and other outside her comfort zone. This weekend,
gigs throughout Greater Philadelphia. for instance, she’s playing Robin and
For Nardello, almost 40, such recog- Beth Fest at Peaceville Woodlands in the
nition is a long-sought dream. A South Poconos for the first time.
Jersey native, she took up residence in “Trying to drag people into a dark bar
Atlanta after college, singing cover tunes when it’s gorgeous outside is, uh, really
at bars and working in restaurants before just not fun over the summer,” Nardello
she released her first compilation. said. “I try to book things that embrace
She returned to the area eight years the summer.”
ago to be near family and to exercise her Her performance tonight
writing and vocal talents in the city’s vivid Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens should fit
music culture. the bill.
“I really just wanted to embrace the “The Magic Gardens has an open top
Philly music scene … to be a part of the and they have an art component to it in
community, because it’s really a collab- the first hour. It’s just kind of a different
orative and supportive community,” said experience.” n
Nardello. “I loved Atlanta. It has a spe-
cial place in my heart, but I’m certainly a Andrea Nardello performs 8-9 p.m. June 28 at
Northeast kid.” Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, 1020 South St.
Indeed, the Philly music scene has Tickets are $12 and runs 7-10 p.m. For Nardello’s
embraced Nardello. After she released full tour schedule, visit andreanardello.com.
Martha Graham
Cracker
The Philly drag/cabaret
Arte Povera: Homage
star performs June 28-29
at Wilma Theater, 265 S.
to Amalfi ’68 Broad St.; 215-893-9456.
Philadelphia Museum of
Art presents an exhibition Mimi Imfurst Presents
recreating one artist’s Drag Diva Brunch
reaction to minimalism Mimi Imfurst and special
and pop art through guests perform 11 a.m.-
July, 26th Street and the 2 p.m. June 29 at Punch
Parkway; 215-763-8100. Line Philly, 33 E. Laurel
St.; 215-606-6555.
Bernstein’s Candide
The Philadelphia Minors
Orchestra performs Lantern Theater Company
through June 22 at presents a compelling new
Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, work of musical theater
300 S. Broad St.; 215- that gives voice to the
893-1999. families who fought back
against a corrupt political
Brad Williams machine turning children
The comedian seen into commodities, through
on “The Degenerates” June 30 at St. Stephen’s
performs through June 29 Theater, 923 Ludlow St.;
at Helium Comedy Club, 215-829-0395.
2031 Sansom St.; 215-
496-9001. New Chinese Galleries
Philadelphia Museum of
CATS Art presents an exhibition
Broadway Philadelphia exploring 4,000 years
presents the revival of Chinese art, through
of the iconic musical, summer, 26th Street and
through June 30 at Forrest the Parkway; 215-763-
Theatre, 1114 Walnut St.; 8100.
215-893-1999.
Paula Poundstone
Legally Blonde: The The comedian performs 8
Musical p.m. June 28 at Sellersville
Walnut Street Theatre Theatre, 24 W. Temple
presents the musical Ave., Sellersville; 215-
adaptation of the hit 257-5808.
comedy film about a
SoCal sorority girl who Peter Smith
becomes a law student, The nonbinary comedian
through July 21, 825 and cabaret artist seen on
Walnut St.; 215-574- Comedy Central performs
3550. 10 p.m. June 29 at Good
at
THE SUPREME SUPERSTAR: R&B and pop diva, Diana Ross, takes fans on a trip
through her legendary career when she performs her hits, 8 p.m. June 29 at the
Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Event center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J. For
more information or tickets, call 609-317-1000.
Good Comedy Theatre,
215 N. 11th St.; 215-399-
1279.
Pss Pss
FringeArts presents two
modern-day clowns
performing a wordless
physical comedy show
inspired by Charlie
Chaplin, Buster Keaton
and the stars of silent
films, June 28-30, 140 N.
Columbus Blvd.; 215-413-
1318.
We the People:
American Prints from
Between the World
Wars
Philadelphia Museum of
Art presents an exhibition
of prints depicting the
good times, hard times
and wartime experiences
of everyday Americans in
the 1930-40s, through July
24, 26th Street and the
Parkway; 215-763-8100.
Yoshitoshi: Spirit and
Spectacle
Philadelphia Museum of
Art presents an exhibition
featuring the brilliant
colors and spirited lines of
Yoshitoshi, the last great
master of the traditional
Japanese woodblock print,
through Aug. 18, 26th
Street and the Parkway;
215-763-8100.
Music
Phish
The rock band performs,
7:30 p.m. June 28-30 at

SHOWTUNES FROM THE SHOWMAN: A-List actor, Hugh Jackman, takes a break
from the silver screen to perform songs from the hit musicals he’s starred in
live on stage, 7 p.m. June 30 at Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St. For more
information or tickets, call 215-336-3600.
BB&T Pavilion, 1 Harbour
Blvd., Camden, N.J.; 856-
365-1300.
WDAS Summer Block
Party
Jill Scott, Jazmine Sullivan,
Mase, Musiq Soulchild and
DJ D-Nice perform 6 p.m.
June 29 at Mann Center for
the Performing Arts, 5201
Parkside Ave., 215-546-
7900.
Buddy Guy
The blues legend performs
8 p.m. June 29 at Keswick
Theatre, 291 N. Keswick
Ave., Glenside; 215-572-
7650.
Nightlife
Amateur Drag Attack
2019 Pageant
A superhero- and
supervillain-themed drag
show, 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. June
28 at Tabu, 254 S. 12th St.;
215-964-9675.
Alice in Wonderland:
Down the Rabbit Hole
An “Alice in Wonderland”
themed drag show 9 p.m.-
midnight June 29 at The
Victoria Freehouse, 10 S.
Front St.; 215-543-6089.
A Very Grand Drag &
Burlesque Show
An Ariana Grande themed
drag show, 9:30 p.m. June
29 at L’Etage, 624 S. Sixth
St.; 215-592-0696.
Cabaret Sauvignon
The monthly drag show
returns, 8 p.m. July 5 at
Franky Bradley’s 1320
Chancellor St.; 215-735-
0735.
BEV’s Bitchfest
Drag performer BEV hosts
and evening of local and
regional drag stars, 9 p.m.-
2 a.m. July 5 at Tabu, 254
S. 12th St.; 215-964-9675.
Adventure Time Drag
Show
A drag show based on the
popular cartoon, 10 p.m.-1
a.m. July 5 at The Victoria
Freehouse, 10 S. Front St.;
215-543-6089.
Outta Town
Paris is Burning
The movie about San
Francisco Gay Men’s
Chorus touring the Deep
South, June 28-29 at The
Colonial Theatre, 227
Bridge St., Phoenixville;
610-917-1228.
Vans Warped Tour
311, Andrew WK,
Blink-182, Good Charlotte,
Bad Religion and more
perform at the punk-
rock festival, June 29-30
at Atlantic City Beach,
One Atlantic Ocean;
vanswarpedtour.com.
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PGN LISTINGS
Meghan Trainor
The pop singer performs 8
p.m. July 3 at the Borgata
Hotel, Casino & Spa
Event Center, 1 Borgata
Way, Atlantic City, N.J.;
609-317-1000.
The Legend of Boggy
Creek
The horror film is
screened 9:45 p.m.
July 5 at The Colonial
Theatre, 227 Bridge St.,
Phoenixville; 610-917-
1228.
New Kids on the
Block
The boy band brings their
MIixtape Tour featuring
Salt N’ Pepa, Tiffany,
Debbie Gibson and
Naughty By Nature to the
area, 8 p.m. July 5 at the
Borgata Hotel, Casino
& Spa Event Center, 1
Borgata Way, Atlantic
City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.
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A closing fit for celebrity
ends, backed by a handful of the area’s
By A.D. Amorosi finest musicians.
PGN Contributor The couple lived that dream until
it became unsustainable. Cabaret is a
Glenside’s Dino’s Backstage and hard sell outside of Manhattan — even
The Celebrity Room held a final pri- harder in a bucolic but sleepy sub-
vate, exit-stage-right event June 23 urban town — and pricey, consider-
to mark its closing on the cusp of ing the top-tier talent and white-linen
the venue’s third anniversary — and, dining on offer at Dino’s Backstage.
more surprising to longtime audi- Those glamour-topped cocktails don’t
ences, owners Dino J. Kelly-Cataldi come cheap either.
and Michael Richard Kelly-Cataldi The closing included a soiree filled
announced they are no longer together. with laughter, love, tears, local vocal-
The couple had been together for 21 ists, business machinations and drama.
years and got married in Massachusetts The biggest surprise was that the
in 2004, and then again in their newly marriage between the Kelly-Cataldis
minted Glenside backyard in 2014, had ended. Still amenable friends and
when gay marriage finally became business partners, the two welcomed
legal nationwide. each other’s new significant others to
Dino is a legendary Philadelphia the closing party.
restaurant owner whose Napoleon Another surprise was the news that
Cafe, at 15th and
Locust streets, was
a sensation in the
1990s. Michael is
a cabaret vocalist
whose “Forbidden
Broadway” was a hit
when it came through
Philly’s Bellevue-
Stratford Hotel in the
mid-’80s.
On stage last Sunday,
Michael recounted
how he and Dino met
in 1990, fell in love,
bought vintage cars
and tailor-made suits
and made pilgrimages
to cabaret hot spots
around the globe.
Four years ago,
the couple told PGN
their real dream was
to open an old-school, MICHAEL AND DINO Photo: A.D. Amorosi
Hollywood-themed
supper club — retro
but with modern twists, like a YouTube this may not be the end for Dino’s.
channel live-streaming the club’s per- “So many people asked me what
formances. they had to do to keep it open —
In 2016, next door to the iconic people in Glenside too — that I’m
Keswick Theatre, they fulfilled their definitely considering a different next
dream, with the tagline, “Bringing move,” said Dino.
back glamour, one cocktail at a time,” Then again, he may not. Dino added
crystal halo chandeliers, black and that he has other employment oppor-
white photos of family and familiar tunities and started taking singing les-
Hollywood stars on every wall, indoor sons.
leather banquettes, black cabana The Kelly-Cataldis opened count-
lounge decor outside, digital stage less bottles of wine, served fine food
lighting, an intricate Peavey sound and were on stage together introduc-
system and renovations coming in just ing Bruce, Desmond, Johns, Finnegan
under $2 million. and Simon to sing their goodbyes to
They brought in the crème of cab- the Backstage and Celebrity Room
aret vocalists, from Marilyn Maye space.
to Billy Stritch, Ann Hampton The owners cut up on stage while
Calloway and Nellie McKay, as well Dino emulated Michael’s signature
as locals like Paula Johns, Mary Ellen stage moves and Michael teased
Desmond, Wendy Simon, Eddie Bruce Dino about which microphone to use
and Deirdre Finnegan. Michael — while singing the duet for Dino’s
co-owner and entertainment director theme song “It’s Time to Go to Dino’s
— would sing for supper most week- (Backstage).” n
30 Philadelphia Gay News www.epgn.com June 28-July 4, 2019 PGN
Q PUZZLE

Out filmmaker chronicles late

Philadelphian’s astonishing media project
Wolf interviews her personal assistants,
By Gary M. Kramer Michael Metelits and John Stokes’ chil-
PGN Contributor dren, among others, to provide a por-
trait of an eccentric woman who cre-
In her Rittenhouse Square apart- ated an extraordinary archive.
ment, Marion Stokes recorded 70,000 In a recent phone interview, Wolf
VHS tapes from 1977 until her death spoke with the Philadelphia Gay News
in 2012. Her main focus
was TV news; she simul-
taneously taped multiple
24-hour news channels
to compile an archive
that showed how media
reflected society. She was
interested in the power
of mass media to influ-
ence public opinion. She
also was an early adapter
and stockholder of Apple
products, amassing every-
thing the company pro-
duced.
Out gay filmmaker
Matt Wolf’s fantastic
documentary, “Recorder: MARION STOKES Photo: Eileen Emond
The Marion Stokes
Project,” screening June 28 at 7 p.m. about his documentary.
at Lightbox Film Center, is a profile of PGN: How did you find out about
this remarkable librarian, activist and Marion Stokes’ work, and why did you
archivist. Once a TV commentator, she decide: this story needs to be a film?
appeared on “Input,” a public affairs MW: I like to make films with chal-
program that aired on WCAU from lenging and unprecedented archives, so
Q Puzzle quip 10 Rights activist 35 Drags 1968-1971. when I heard about this woman who
44 Come out on Malala, for one 36 Some stick it It was on the show where she met recorded TV, I was intrigued to know
Not Quite the beach 11 Nuts where it doesn’t be- her second husband, John Stokes. more. I was inspired by this archive
Homo 45 Log Cabin mem- 12 Rufus Wainwright long Their relationship was kind of a closed that contains anything and everything.
ber, for short output 38 “Move your ass!” circuit. When one of John’s daugh- Through a contact at the Internet
Across 46 Refrain syllable 13 Request for 39 One who offers a
1 “I ___ Andy War- ters wanted to contact her father or Archive, where her collection resides,
47 Keanu in “The Vanna breast, e.g.
hol” Matrix” 21 Aussie bounders 42 Beat the skins stepmother, she was instructed to use I met Michael [Metelits], and when I
5 Prod 48 Puts into place 22 Decide not to 43 Gilbert of “The FedEx. Marion was not any closer to arrived at the Barclay and there were
10 Where Galileo 50 Most faithful swallow Talk” her son, Michael Metelits and their hundreds of Apple boxes. … It’s a very
dropped his balls 52 End of the quip 26 Still in bed 49 Male counterpart intense family story too. I’m interested
14 Two of a kind 56 “Brothers & Sis- 27 Time on the job to a Seattle Storm in stories about problematic visionar-
15 Desmond of ters” producer Ken 28 Homosexuality player ies — people who are at once insightful
“Sunset Boulevard” 58 Consumer advo- and lesbianism, to 51 Part of UHF and dysfunctional.
16 Soon, to Shake- cate Ralph Franklin Graham 53 Barneys event
speare 59 Poet Kitty 29 Reader computer 54 Forbidden fruit
17 Manicurist’s PGN: What do you think is the most
62 Petty of “Orange program site
tool unusual or interesting thing about her?
Is the New Black” 30 Euphegenia’s last 55 Kind of phobia
18 Having sex, with 63 “The L Word” name, in a movie 56 Grand ___ Opry MW: I think she’s unequivocally radi-
“it” creator Chaiken 32 Egypt and Syr., 57 It goes on top of cal and not in any conventional sense.
19 Lucci in “All My 64 Janet or niece once a bagel She defies the categories and tropes of
Children” Hunter 34 Dramatist Wil- 60 One, to Frida what a radical person is. She pursued
20 Start of a quip 65 Business VIP liams 61 Saturn model projects outside of established institu-
23 Intense devo- 66 Opera guy tions, and she saw patterns and phe-
tion 67 Really long time nomena in the culture and reacted to
24 Recesses for span them and did something about them.
Rev. Perry
25 Thank a lover Most people are not women of action.
Down She reacted to Apple and the 24-hour
without words 1 Lotion letters at
27 Leave in the South Beach news cycle. The ways she reacted were
text 2 Israeli seaport unusual but insightful. She was polit-
28 Old Hollywood 3 Lube user? ically radical as well, and I found that
film “Quo ___?” 4 YMCA device for very appealing.
31 More of the runners DIRECTOR MATT WOLF
quip 5 “Bewitched” PGN: What can you say about assem-
Photo: Wyatt Garfield
33 Number of mother bling all the footage to tell a story?
bulbs 6 Pull a boner MW: I was always looking at ways
37 Clay Aiken, al- 7 Forbidding
most relationship experienced strained peri- that the archive pointed to Marion and
8 Prefix with sci-
38 Shirt spoiler ods. Marion pointed to the archive; how
ence
40 Broadway light 9 Pesters, as Al- “Recorder” is a fascinating glimpse it is interwoven with her
41 More of the bert to Armand into Marion Stokes’ life and legacy. personal story. It was an PAGE 32

Gay square-dance con will do-si-do to Philly
By Larry Nichols
larry@epgn.com
The celebration of LGBTQ indepen-
dence will kick up a few notches when
hundreds of square-dancers converge
upon the city.
The International Association of Gay
Square Dance Clubs will hold its annual
convention July 4-7 in Philadelphia for
the first time. The gathering, called
Belles Run Philadelphia 2019, will host
more than 900 LGBTQ community
members and allies from around the
world, dancing in seven ballrooms at
Philadelphia 201 Hotel.
The convention will feature tips
(themed dances) such as leather, bears
and women-only. Moves will include the
grand-right-and-left and some 100 other
steps to calls (directions) by well-known
callers.
The producing organization, Dance
for Independence, issued a statement
saying it’s “excited to be bringing this
momentous event to Philadelphia during
the same year in which Stonewall is cel-
ebrating its 50th anniversary.”
Members of Independence Squares,
Philly’s LGBT Western square-dance
club, are preparing for the powwow.
“At every convention, we have what
is called the Fun Badge Tour,” said
member and former club president Tim
Harper.
“You sign up. You’re loaded onto
a bus. You don’t know where you’re
going. You go around the city stopping
at sites the organizers feel are emblem-
atic of the city. You stop there, you
dance, you get on the bus and go.”
Harper expects to have at least four
PGN
DANCE
busloads of dancers rolling throughout
Philly.
Another convention highlight is the
Honky-Tonk Queen contest, a talent
show that will be held for two nights.
The annual convocation also draws
square-dance enthusiasts from outside
of the LGBTQ community and from
outside of the country.
“It’s kind of cool,” Harper said.
“There’s a club in Japan that comes to
our convention every year. They’re fab-
ulous dancers. It’s spread worldwide.”
Mike Rutkowski, caller liaison for
Independence Squares, said straight par-
ticipants also appreciate the conven-
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Out Law
Angela Giampolo
What special challenges
does the LGBT
Photos: Steve Weil
community face when
tion’s world-famous callers, who come
from as far as Europe and Asia. it comes to the law?
Also, he noted, square-dancing’s pop-
ularity is “dying out” in the straight Whether it’s adoption,
community.
Like the convention, the Independence
co-habitation agree-
Squares club is open and welcoming to ments or a will, Angela
allies.
Harper said there are misconceptions Giampolo shares
about square-dancing being antiquated.
“[People think] it’s boring. It’s some- legal advice for our
thing that old people do. I’m too young
to do this because I have so much community each month.
energy. This is going to be really slow
and dreadful. They wear funny clothes,”
he said.
“I think once you show
up at a dance and experi-
ence it, all that goes out
the window.
“It’s a social event,”
added Harper. “You’re
interacting with seven
other people at once. I
don’t think people real-
ize how much physical
activity is involved until
they actually start doing
it. It’s good exercise and
good socialization, and
it’s fun.” n
The International
Association of Gay
Square Dance Clubs
hosts The Belles Run
Philadelphia July 4-7 at
Philadelphia 201 Hotel,
Only in
17th and Race streets.
All square-dancing abil-
ities are welcomed. For
more information, visit
Online and in print
philadelphia2019.com or
e-mail danceforindepen-
every first Friday.
dence@gmail.com.
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WOLF from page 30
elaborate process. We had to fully index
her collection in a grassroots way and
take photos of VHS spines and tran-
scribe them and then create dates to pull
specific dates to digitize. I had to scrub
through tapes to mark interesting things.
The subjects I looked for were through
the prism of her main interests — Cuba
and the depiction of Communism; the
emergence of technology in society; and
race, particularly in regard to police bru-
tality and black leadership in the politi-
cal scene.
PGN: Marion feared judgment and was
secretive about her recording project.
She is described as a visionary, ahead
of her time, but also irrational. What do
you make of her character?
MW: When I was making the film, I
said, I’m not going to use psychological
explanations to understand her behavior.
There are dimensions to her shutting out
PORTRAIT from page 27
PGN: Awkward LGBTQ moment?
GG: I remember one day when my sis-
ter just barged into my room. I had all
these posters of women on the walls —
Maxim models in bras and underwear
— and my sister pointed and asked why
I had all these half-naked women on my
walls. I wasn’t quite ready to come out
to her, so I said, “Um, they’re all busty
women like me and when I’m trying to
decide what bra to wear in the morning,
I can look at the pictures and decide
which one looks good.” She said that it
made sense, and I was proud of myself
for my quick thinking.
PGN: Have you faced any discrimina-
tion?
GG: I’ve had almost no backlash with
my personal identity, but on occasion
I’ll get a little pushback with some in
the more-traditional Jewish communities
who have trouble reconciling the places
where their beliefs disagree with mine.
PGN: Do you remember the first
LGBTQ movie you saw?
GG: Unfortunately, I think it was
“Imagine You and Me.” Remember that
scene, “You’re a wanker, number nine!”
It was great that we got to see women
interact physically with each other, and I
was so, “Oh my goodness!” But now, as
an adult, I wish there were more lesbian
movies back then that didn’t involve
cheating on their heterosexual partner.
PGN: Something most people dislike
that you enjoy?
GG: I’m the only one in my house
who loves halvah, which is a Middle-
Eastern dessert made of sugar and ses-
ame paste. When I was in grad school,
I could polish off a tub of that every
semester, especially during finals. It’s
so good!
PGN
the rest of the world. Elizabeth Stokes
[one of John’s daughters] observes that
Marion was more concerned about get-
ting information through the news than
actual information about or from her
family. The media superseded all other
relationships. That was dysfunctional.
She chose her project over relationships
and for whatever reason, wasn’t able to
have both. Michael said she had unreal-
istic expectations of her family.
PGN: Why do you think the news
media, specifically TV, but also news-
papers, interested her rather than the
Internet?
MW: A lot of it stems from her concerns
about privacy. She didn’t want to use the
Internet or have a modem in her house.
That dovetails with her paranoia. She
was spied on by the government. She
was prescient. Government surveillance
and corporate use of the Internet was a
huge concern. The nature of the news
PGN: If you were in a band, what
would the name be?
GG: Oh gosh, probably “Explicit Verbal
Communication.” I have an overwhelm-
ing obsession with using proper termi-
nology!
PGN: What’s the farthest you’ve trav-
eled?
GG: That would be Turkey. Two sum-
mers ago, my dad and I went to Istanbul
together, and it was the most incredible
trip of my life.
PGN: What was a highlight?
GG: One day my dad decided to do a
trek through the city to find the best
baklava and I went to the ancient walls
of Constantinople. I climbed up onto
the seaside side and walked across the
top of the wall for several miles, which
you’re probably not supposed to do, but
I saw other people up there so I went
for it. Some of it was not so safe and
there was one point where I was hang-
ing from the wall with a 12-foot drop
trying to find a place to wedge my foot
and thinking, This probably wasn’t the
best plan, I should have thought this
through. But, as you’ve probably sur-
mised, I survived.
PGN: I did notice that. What was your
favorite book as a kid?
GG: I’d say anything from the author
Tamora Pierce. She wrote these incred-
ibly diverse, well-rounded characters,
most of them women, some of them
queer and all of them strong in differ-
ent ways. She put a lot of emphasis on
friendships between the women, which
meant a lot to me. I actually just got a
tattoo from one of her books just a few
months ago.
PGN: What was your best birthday?
GG: I had a grilled-cheese party where I
media was shifting. Her project, toward
the end of her life, was becoming obso-
lete, so her collection is unique — made
at a time where TV news had influence.
Out Money
PGN: What observations do you have
Jeremy Gussick
about the importance of her archive
and how it can be used to foment social
change?
MW: It’s difficult to know what it may
be used for. I think that the goal of
the archive isn’t to explain or analyze
or define how it will be used; it is so
others have access. As a documentary
filmmaker, I find material that’s critical
to the expression of ideas the origina-
tor might not have conceived of. We
don’t know what activism, scholarship,
reporting, documentary filmmaking or
consciousness the archive will produce.
There is an array of characters and
actors and historical figures we’ll have
access to. It’s impossible to define its
value or how it might be used. n
From budgets to wills to
bought a ton of cheese and asked people
taxes, financial expert
to bring different food to add. People
brought caramelized onions and ham
Jeremy Gussick gives us
and mushrooms, and I hid out in the
kitchen all day grilling. It was perfect!
all the info we need —
PGN: When did you last cry?
in a way we can under-
GG: This morning in therapy. Oh! I’ll
tell you my funny therapy story. I was
stand. OutMoney runs
going through a rough patch during the
holidays and, instead of talking about
monthly to help readers
it, I decided to go out. I was like, “I’m
going dancing, no boys allowed, screw
find answers to all their
anyone who isn’t a queer lady person!
I just want to forget about everything
money questions.
going on and have fun.” And I get to
Toasted Walnut and my therapist was
there. It was the gayest experience!
PGN: It can be a slightly small com-
munity at times. Any superstitions?
GG: No, but I talk to a lot of inanimate
objects. I yell at my blender if it’s not
chomping up my bananas the way I
want it to; I speak sweetly to my car
when he’s having trouble.
PGN: What celebrity would you want
to do a love scene with?
GG: Tessa Thompson. She plays
Valkyrie in the Marvel Universe
movies and is starring in the new
“Men in Black.” She was also dating
Janelle Monáe, which sent the gay
Twitterverse into spasms of joy.
PGN: Do you have a motto or words
to live by?
Only in
GG: My dad gave me some advice
years ago that has worked for me ever
since. He said, “Don’t think of life as
something that’s supposed to be fun.
Think of life as a series of adven-
tures.” That way, whenever anything
goes wrong, if I’m lost or frustrated, I Online and in print
literally throw my hands up in the air
and shout, “Adventure!” and it helps every second Friday.
me get through it. n
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An Italian feast for the eyes

enly with paper-thin slices of fried egg-
By Larry Nichols plant wrapped in simmering mozzarella
larry@epgn.com and bathed in a robust tomato sauce.

Sometimes you need a change of scen-

ery, and the visually appealing La Strada
(2519 Huntington Pike) is fine dining
Italian BYO capable of appealing to more
than just your sense of taste.
Aesthetically, the bucolic suburban set-
ting paired with an idyllic interior is per-
fect for a date night, a Sunday dinner or
a wedding. Fortunately, the food on the
menu is more than capable of backing up
the sentiments of those occasions.
The Calamari Fritti a la Modena ($14)
is a starter of fried calamari that eschews
the usual marinara sauce for a delightful
sweet and sour chili sauce. But La Strada,
for the most part, sticks to the classics and
traditions featuring house-made pasta and
fresh ingredients with stellar results.
The eggplant melanzane ($20) is heav-
The chicken marsala ($22) is another
well-executed classic from the Italian
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Save room for dessert because La Strada
has some of the best tiramisu ($8) you will
find in the area — light in texture with Tues.-Thurs.:
the ideal level of sweetness that doesn’t 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m.
overpower the notes of coffee found in the Fri.:
lady fingers. Other classics like rice pud- 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.
ding, cannoli, limoncello cake and bomba Sat.:
gelato round out the dessert offerings. 4-10 p.m.,
If you are looking for a scenic and culi- Sun.:
nary escape from the fast pace of the city, 4-9 p.m.
La Strada is primed and ready to clear
your head and fill your belly. n

DIAMANTINO from page 24

and get excited by ideas. We enjoy this crossing of a ton
of storylines. That’s why we tried to do a bonkers film
with 17 storylines. We simplified Diamantino’s siblings,
making them evil twin stepsisters to make space for more
things next to it.
DS: It’s our perspective. My mind can’t help but think
in an associative fashion finding twists and unlikely
pairings. We engender these setups, combining different
things — soccer and adoption — it starts to multiply and
becomes more multidimensional.

PGN: Can you talk about the film’s wild visuals? From
the genetic testing to the giant fluffy puppies?
GA: It’s that old dictum: show don’t tell. Diamantino
was supposed to be dumb, so what would be an image
that shows that idea in a cute and fun way? We came up
with the puppies. All the holograms are visual cues to
make unbelievable things that are viable. The holograms
come from “Iron Man” and “Minority Report.” “Hollow
Man” was a big inspiration. We get a bunch of refer-
ences from a bunch of places. We wanted the story to
anchor them.
DS: It’s a mass of different themes and content. The
story might be unusual, but the relationships between the
elements — a lot of them are stock, like the Cinderella-
esque characters or the holograms. What’s new is the
way we try to suture that variety together and orchestrate
them in some sort of harmony.

PGN: What do you want audiences to take away from

the film?
GA: The power of naiveté; that spectator might have
laughed and had enjoyment, but there’s a secret weapon:
a dumb hunk has come from a naive place. It’s a proxy
for the oversaturation of conflict with our news apps.
There is, in our films, a love and embrace of ambiguity.
There are political questions and questions of gender that
are left open. It’s suggested, not a big slogan.
DS: If audiences feel stimulated, moved or amused by
these collisions, that that could be generative to thinking
in their day-to-day lives. Reorientation to topics that are
delivered and digested by us in these compartmentalized
ways — maybe there’s some freedom or benefit to shuf-
fling the deck and seeing things in a fresh light. n
34 Philadelphia Gay News www.epgn.com June 28-July 4, 2019 PGN

Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Jewell Williams
Overview of the Sheriff Sale Process
There are two types of Sheriff Sales. The Judicial
Mortgage Foreclosure Sales and the Tax Sales. The
Tax Sales include Tax Lien, Tax Collection, and Tax
Delinquent Sales.
Tax Sales
When the owner of a property located in the City of
Philadelphia fails to make a payment arrangement on
municipal debt levied on his/her property, that property
may be sold at the Tax Sheriff Sale to allow the City to
collect on that unpaid debt. These debts can include
outstanding water and sewer bills, School District of
Philadelphia taxes, and city property taxes. The sales
also provide individuals the opportunity bid on and
become the owner of tax delinquent properties, thereby
acquiring lots, houses, or commercial and industrial
buildings.
Judicial Mortgage Foreclosure Sale
The Judicial Mortgage Foreclosure Sherriff Sale is
the process by which mortgage companies and other
financial institutions seek to collect debts owed to them,
particularly in instances where a homeowner defaults
on his/her mortgage payments. As with Tax Sales,
Foreclosure Sales allow individuals the opportunity to
bid on properties and become homeowners.
How much will a property cost?
The lowest bid that can be offered is $600 and each
successive bid must be made in $100 increments. The
highest bidder will win the property and must be pre-
pared to make a $600 or 10% deposit (whichever is
highest) with a certified check or money order made out
to the “Sheriff of Philadelphia.” The remaining balance
must be paid within 30 days of the sale. An extension
of time to pay the balance is rare but may be granted by
the Sheriff upon written request.
The second bidder
If you have been out-bid on a property, you can have
your name recorded as the second bidder. If the highest
bidder does not pay the balance in 30 days, the second
bidder shall be granted the same 30 limit to make settle-
ment with the Sheriff on his/her second bid. The second
bidder must be registered on any property immediately
after it is sold. The second bidder must present the same
Did you know the Sheriff’s Office gives free seminars in English and Spanish on
“How To Buy A Property at Sheriff’s Sale”?
Check out https://www.officeofphiladelphiasheriff.com/en/real-estate/upcoming-seminars for the
schedule of upcoming seminars.
PGN
amount of deposit that the highest bidder delivers to
the Sheriff at the stage. An extension of time under no
circumstances will be granted or honored by the Sheriff
whenever a second bid is registered at the sale.
How do I learn which properties are to be sold?
All properties that are court ordered to be sold at
Sheriff Sales are advertised in the Legal Intelligencer
and on a rotating basis in a paper of general circula-
tion. You can also view a list of properties to be sold at
Sheriff Sale online by clicking here.
When and where do the Philadelphia Sheriff’s
Sales take place?
The Judicial Foreclosure Sale is held on the first
Tuesday of each month. There are also four different
Tax Sales conducted each month and one on a quarterly
basis. Click here for a list of all Sheriff Sales currently
scheduled. All sales will take place at 9:00 AM at the
First District AME Plaza located at 3801 Market Street
on the 3rd Floor.
How are the properties identified before and
during the sale?
Each property has an identification number called the
writ number, which is listed in the newspaper and on our
online listing before the property address. This number
is used together with the property address when the
property is offered for sale. The sale is conducted by an
auctioneer who calls out each party by writ number and
address.
IMPORTANT: Notice of owner’s Right of
Redemption after a Tax Delinquent Sale
Even if you win a bid on a Tax Sale property, within
nine months of the acknowledgement of the deed, the
owner of record can go to court and get permission to
recover the property by paying all back taxes and the
money paid by the winning bidder. This is called the
Right of Redemption. Therefore, if purchase a property
through Delinquent Tax Sheriff Sale and invest funds
to improve the property in the first year, beware that
those funds can be lost. The right of Redemption is
only applicable if the property scheduled for Tax Sale
is determined to be owner occupied 90 days prior to the
sale. If the property is unoccupied or abandoned, there
Philadelphia Gay News www.epgn.com June 28-July 4, 2019 35
is no Right of Redemption.
The Right of Redemption does not apply to any
property sold at the Mortgage Foreclosure Sheriff Sale.
One way to protect yourself is to contact the City’s
Department of Licenses and Inspections to determine
what outstanding code violations, if any, exist in the
property.
Any work done to correct these violations must
be reimbursed to you if the original owner reclaims
the property during the Right of Redemption period.
Therefore, make sure you get and keep detailed and
accurate receipts for code related renovations.
What should you do before you bid?
Take a close look. It is strongly recommended that
persons planning to bid at the sales make a site visit to
the property prior to the sale. Many persons have bid-
ded on vacant lots thinking that they were bidding on a
property containing residential structures. The City is
not authorized to permit or arrange for entry into prop-
erties listed for Sheriff Sales.
In order to buy a property from any tax sale, you must
be tax compliant. Proof of compliance must be provided
at the time of final settlement. You can print a certifi-
cate of compliance by visiting the website of the City
Revenue Department. Once at the site, you will have
to accept the terms of the website, then choose “Sheriff
Sale” as the compliance type. You will then need to
enter the name and tax id number of the person or entity
purchasing the property. If the person or entity is tax
compliant, you will have an opportunity to print out
a compliance certificate. Print this certificate out and
bring it with you when you pay final balance of sale.
Make sure you have a form of government issued
identification. You will need to present this ID at the
sale in order to bid.
Consider the rehab costs. While there are some bar-
gains to be had at Sheriff Sales, potential bidders, espe-
cially those seeking residential properties, are cautioned
that the condition of properties may vary widely.
City loans and grants for income eligible owner occu-
pants are available for Sheriff Sale properties only after
the Right of Redemption period has expired. The City
has set this policy to ensure that its limited resources do
not benefit original owners.
36 Philadelphia Gay News www.epgn.com June 28-July 4, 2019
SHERIFF’S SALE
Properties to be sold by
JEWELL WILLIAMS
Sheriff on Tuesday, July 2, 2019
at First District Plaza, 3801
Market Street, at 9:00 AM.
(EST)
Conditions of Sheriff’s
Sale for
JUDICIAL/FORECLOSURE
SALE
Ten percent of the highest
bid for each property auc-
tioned off shall be deposited
in certified check, attorney’s
check or money order with
the Sheriff by each bidder
when his bid is registered,
provided that in no case shall
less than Six Hundred Dollars
($600.00) be deposited, other-
wise upon failure or refusal to
make such deposit, the bidder
shall lose all benefit of his bid
and the property may be  of-
fered again and sold unless
a second bid has been regis-
tered, then, the second highest
bidder will take the property at
the highest bid price.
Additionally, where there
is active bidding, the highest
bidder, and the second high-
est bidder, if any must post
the entire amount of the cost
of the distribution policy
for the property at the time
of sale by certified check,
attorney’s check or money
order with the Sheriff.   The
Sheriff reserves the right to
reject any certified check,
attorney’s check or money
order that on its face has
an expired use date and is
presented for payment of the
deposit.
The balance of the
purchase money must be
deposited in  certified check,
attorney’s check or money
order together with a Deed
poll for execution by the high-
est bidder to the Sheriff at his
office within 30 days from the
time of the sale. An extension
of time for an additional 30
days may be granted at the
discretion of the Sheriff upon
receipt of written request from
the buyer requesting the same,
except when a second bidder
has been duly registered. Also,
if the first bidder does not
complete settlement with the
Sheriff within the thirty (30)
day time limit and a second
bid was registered at the sale,
the second bidder shall be
granted the same thirty (30)
day time limit to make settle-
ment with the Sheriff on his
second bid. Thereafter, the
Sheriff shall be at liberty to re-
turn the writ to court. A second
bid must be registered on any
property immediately after
it is sold. The second bidder
must present the same amount
of deposit that the highest bid-
der delivers to the Sheriff at
the sale. An extension of time
under no circumstances will
be granted or honored by the
Sheriff whenever a second bid
is registered on a property at
the sale.
The first bid or opening
bid on each property shall be
set by the City of Philadelphia.
In no event will the successful
bidder be allowed to settle
on the property unless all the
Sheriff’s costs are paid not-
withstanding the final bid.
The deposit by any bidder
who fails to comply with the
above conditions of sale shall
be forfeited and the funds will
be applied to the Sheriff’s cost,
then to any municipal claims
that the City of Philadelphia
has on the property. Finally, if
a balance still remains, a Sher-
iff’s Distribution Policy will
be ordered and the money will
be distributed accordingly.  County Court - indicate the
No personal checks, drafts
or promises to pay will be
SHERIFF’S SALE
accepted in lieu of   certified
checks, attorney’s checks or
money orders made payable
to the Sheriff of Philadelphia
County.  following show the amount of
The Sheriff reserves the
right to grant further exten-
sions of time to settle and
further reserves the right to
refuse bids from bidders who
have failed to enter deposits
on their bids, failed to make
settlement, or make fraudulent
bids, or any other behavior
which causes disruption of the
Sheriff Sale. Said bidders shall
be so refused for the sale in
which said behavior occurred
and for said further period of
time as the Sheriff in his dis-
cretion shall determine.  settlement, under certain terms
The Sheriff will not ac-
knowledge a deed poll to any
individual or entity using an
unregistered fictitious name
and may, at his discretion,
require proof of identity of the
purchaser or the registration
of fictitious names. The bid
of an unregistered fictitious
name shall be forfeited as if
the bidder failed to meet the
terms of sale.  Philadelphia
All bidders are advised to
remain at the sale until after
the last property is sold. The
Sheriff reserves the right to
re-sell any property at any
time before the end of the sale,
upon the successful bidders’
failure to tender the required
deposit. The Sheriff reserves
the right to postpone or stay
the sale of any property in
which the attorney on the writ
has not appeared and is not
present at the sale.  Sheriff’s Office cannot decide
Prospective purchasers
are directed to the Web site
of the Philadelphia Bureau
of Revision of Taxes, (BRT)
brtweb.phila.gov for a fuller
description of the proper-
ties listed. Properties can
be looked up by the BRT
number – which should be
cross checked with the ad-
dress. Prospective purchas-
ers are also directed to the
Room 154 City Hall, 215-
686-1483 and to its website
philadox.phila.gov and to
its website at http://phila-
dox.phila.gov where they
can view the deed to each
individual property and
find the boundaries of the
property. PROSPECTIVE
PURCHASERS ARE RE-
SPONSIBLE FOR DETER-
MINING THE NATURE,
LOCATION, CONDITION
AND BOUNDARIES OF
THE PROPERTIES THEY
SEEK TO PURCHASE. The
BRT # refers to a unique
number assigned by the City
Bureau of Revision of Taxes
to each property in the City
for the purpose of assessing
it for taxes. This number can
be used to obtain descriptive
information about the prop-
erty from the BRT website.
Effective Date: July 7, 2006  C.P. March Term, 2018 No. 02736
 NOTICE OF SCHED-
ULE OF DISTRIBUTION  LLC
The Sheriff will file in his
office, The Land Title Build-
ing, 100 South Broad Street,
5th Floor, a Schedule of
Distribution Thirty (30) Days
from the date of the sale of
Real Estate. Distribution will
be made in accordance with
the Schedule unless excep-
tions are filed thereto within
ten (10) days thereafter.  1907-318
The name first appearing
in each notice is that of the
defendant in the writ whose
property is being sold. All
Writs are Writs of Executions.  C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 02183
The letters C.P., Court
of Common Pleas; O.C.,
Orphans’ Court; Q.S., Court
of Quarter Sessions; C.C.,
Court out of which the writ of
execution issues under which
SHERIFF’S SALE
the sale is made: S. 1941. 223.
means September Term, 1941.
223, the term and number of
the docket entry; the figures
debt; and the name following
is that of the attorney issuing
the writ.  PROPERTY Edward S. Rock; The
Attention is called to the
provisions of Act No.104, ap-
proved July 27, 1955, which
requires owners of properties
which are used, designed or
intended to be used by three
or more families, or of com-
mercial establishments which
contain one or more dwelling
units, to deliver to the buyers
of such properties a use reg-
istration permit at the time of
and conditions. Sheriff Sales
are not subject to provisions
of the said Act and the Sheriff
will, therefore, not deliver use
registration permits in connec-
tion with any sales conducted
by him.  and Kelly A. Kucowski a/k/a Kelly
Very truly yours,
JEWELL WILLIAMS
Sheriff
City and County of
www.Officeof
Philadelphia
Sheriff.com
SPECIAL NOTE: All Sheriff’s
Sales are conducted pursuant
to the orders of the Courts and
Judges of the First Judicial
District. Only properties that
are subject to judgments issued
by the First Judicial District
are listed for sale. By law, the
if a property can be listed for
sale; only the District Courts
can order a property to be sold
at auction.
SHERIFF’S SALE
OF
Tuesday,
July 2 , 2019
1907-301
7203 Buist Ave 19142 40th wd.
1,120 Sq. Ft. BRT#404279800 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Bryan L. Brown
C.P. November Term, 2017 No.
00537 $56,215.19 Martha E. Von
Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von
Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff,
Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire
1907-302
7906 Cadillac Ln 19128 21st wd.
7,209 Sq. Ft. OPA#214247608 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Mark Joseph Liparota
and Ellen Coleman Solvibile C.P.
September Term, 2018 No. 00884
$230,638.15 Shapiro & DeNardo,
LLC
1907-303
7030 City Ave 19151 34th wd.
2,323 Sq. Ft. BRT#344188312 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
REAL ESTATE Anthony Watts C.P.
September Term, 2018 No. 02916
$267,931.50 Stern & Eisenberg PC
1907-304
6125 Hegerman St 19135 41st wd.
1,330 Sq. Ft. BRT#411378900
IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY
MASONRY Loretta Schaffer C.P.
August Term, 2018 No. 01210
$46,753.13 Milstead & Associ-
ates, LLC
1907-306
10912 Kirby Dr 19154 66th wd.
2,902 Sq. Ft. BRT#662189300
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Jamie M.
Miles C.P. March Term, 2017 No.
03048 $285,052.40 Martha E. Von
Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von
Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff,
Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire
1907-307
1543 N Bouvier St 19121 47th
wd. 1,062 Sq. Ft. BRT#471275400
IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 3 STY
MASONRY Omar Fisher C.P.
PGN
SHERIFF’S SALE
October Term, 2017 No. 00970
$252,202.43 Milstead & Associ-
ates, LLC
1907-308
7013 Marsden St 19135 41st wd.
1,740 Sq. Ft. OPA#412386900 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
United States of America, Depart-
ment of Treasury, Internal Rev-
enue Service C.P. November Term,
2017 No. 02248 $98,358.98 Justin
F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas
Kochalski LLC
1907-309
341 N Redfield St 19139 4th wd.
660 Sq. Ft. OPA#042249000 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Dianne Claitt C.P.
October Term, 2018 No. 04538
$50,789.15 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-310
2612 Wilmot St 19137 10th wd.
1,348 Sq. Ft. BRT#453087700
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Joshua J.
Kucowski a/k/a Joshua Kucowski
Kucowski C.P. November Term,
2018 No. 00808 $131,464.63 Pow-
ers Kirn, LLC
1907-311
5922 Bustleton Ave 19149 62nd
wd. 2,048 Sq. Ft. OPA#621503000
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Ruth Barreto;
Maria Serrano C.P. March Term,
2017 No. 02378 $129,438.28 Jus-
tin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski LLC
1907-312
3714 N 10th St 19140 43rd wd.
BRT#43-2361100 Perry Goodwin
and unknown heirs, devisees and
personal representatives of Eliza-
beth Bell and his, her, their or any
of their successors in right, title
and interest c/o Perry Goodwin
C.P. September Term, 2018 No.
02364 $42,969.88 Emmanuel J.
Argentieri, Esquire
1907-314
1139 E Price St 19138 59th wd.
Land Area: 1,816 Sq. Ft.; Im-
provement Area: 1,080 sq. ft.
OPA#591095700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Jacquelynne Sam-
mons, a/k/a Jacquelynne G. John-
son in Her Capacity as Heir of
Helynn Lewis a/k/a Helen Lewis,
Deceased; Unknown heirs, suc-
cessors, assigns, and all persons,
firms, or associations claim-
ing right, title, or interest from
or under Helynn Lewis a/k/a
Helen Lewis, Deceased C.P. No-
vember Term, 2018 No. 00911
$126,290.61 Robert Crawley, Esq.
ID 319712
1907-315
2739-41 Pratt St 45th wd. 2,344
Sq. Ft. BRT#453146600 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Donna L. White-
house C.P. October Term, 2018
No. 01558 $116,484.02 Law Of-
fice of Gregory Javardian, LLC
1907-316
6820 Guyer Ave 19142 40th wd.
1,184 Sq. Ft. OPA#406329200
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Diaby Vakar-
amoko a/k/a Vakaramoko Diaby
$60,577.93 Shapiro & DeNardo,
1907-317
1907 S 19th St 19145 48th wd.
1,056 Sq. Ft. BRT#481277800
IMPROVEMENTS: ROW CONV/
APT 2 STY MASON Vincent
Hunt Jr. a/k/a Vincent L. Hunt
Jr. C.P. October Term, 2018 No.
04499 November Term 2018
$150,014.84 Milstead & Associ-
ates, LLC
1506 S 24th St 36th wd. 930
Sq. Ft. BRT#364142400 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Damary Mestre
$117,500.11 Law Office of Greg-
ory Javardian, LLC
1907-319
3333 Emerald St 45th wd. 1,003
Sq. Ft. BRT#452319400 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Mamadou Traore
SHERIFF’S SALE
C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 00163
$63,493.53 Law Office of Gregory
Javardian, LLC
1907-320
2426 S Iseminger St 19148 39th
wd. 750 Sq. Ft. OPA#39-4-4113-00
IMPROVEMENTS: TWO STORY
MASONRY ROW HOME Patrick
K. Klein a/k/a Patrick Klein and
Antoniette M. Klein a/k/a Antoni-
ette Klein C.P. August Term, 2017
No. 03150 $183,364.10 Hladik,
Onorato & Federman, LLP
1907-321
5044 Homestead St 19135 41st
wd. 1,275 Sq. Ft. BRT#411113600
IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY
MASONRY Jose L. Rivera Lopez
a/k/a Jose Rivera Lopez, Magdale-
na Dejesus and Ramon Luis Rivera
C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 02944
$104,499.72 Milstead & Associ-
ates, LLC
1907-322
2138 W Cheltenham Ave 19138
50th wd. Beginning Point: Situ-
ate on the Southwesterly side of
Cheltenham Avenue (45 feet wide)
at the distance of 26 feet 2 inches
Northwestward from the North-
westerly side of Walnut Lane (60
feet wide). OPA#501265400 IM-
PROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2
STY MASONRY Stanley O. Dock-
ery C.P. November Term, 2018
No. 00912 $178,173.80 Patrick J.
Wesner, Esquire
1907-323
2441 S Arcola St 19153 40th wd.
3,755 Sq. Ft. OPA#404156267
Subject to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Alfred Mayo, Jr. (deceased);
Alfreda Mayo C.P. January Term,
2018 No. 01988 $139,778.53 Justin
F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas
Kochalski LLC
1907-326
1632 Harrison St 19124 23rd wd.
2,015 Sq. Ft. OPA#232198800 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Justina Gonzalez and
Julio Gonzalez C.P. October Term,
2018 No. 04338 $15,708.93 Shap-
iro & DeNardo, LLC
1907-327
1921 E Madison St 19134-
2529 45th wd. 1,188 Sq. Ft.
OPA#452018200 Subject to Mort-
gage IMPROVEMENTS: RESI-
DENTIAL PROPERTY Eleuterio
J. Rodriguez, Jr a/k/a Eleuterio J.
Rodriguez, Individually and in His
Capacity as Heir of Elba Monroig,
Deceased; Unknown heirs, succes-
sors, assigns, and all persons, firms,
or associations claiming right, title,
or interest from or under Elba Mon-
roig, Deceased C.P. August Term,
2018 No. 03124 $17,152.02 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-328
4611 N Marvine St 19140 49th wd.
1,200 Sq. Ft. OPA#491419600 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Simone Blake C.P.
December Term, 2018 No. 03060
$102,432.54 Shapiro & DeNardo,
LLC
1907-329
13358 Susan Terr 19116 58th wd.
8,611 Sq. Ft. OPA#583109430 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Michael Mihos C.P.
October Term, 2018 No. 03926
$239,566.94 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-330
4326 Potter St 19124 33rd wd.
1,152 Sq. Ft. OPA#332559600
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Tomasa Garcia
C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 04242
$68,630.74 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-331
5929 Belmar St 3rd wd. 1,130
Sq. Ft. BRT#034104400 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Ernest Roberts C.P.
February Term, 2018 No. 02622
$46,426.69 Law Office of Gregory
Javardian, LLC
1907-332
1125 Columbia Ave, Unit 203 a/k/a
East 1125 Columbia Ave, Unit 203
a/k/a 1125 E Columbia Ave, #P11
19125-4211 18th wd. 1,513 Sq.
Ft. OPA#888180342 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Carol Ann Drumstas a/k/a
SHERIFF’S SALE
Carol Drumstas C.P. August Term,
2018 No. 00545 $308,178.13 Phel-
an Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-333
838 Bridge St 19124 35th wd.
1,038 Sq. Ft. OPA#351144100 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Leah Brown Solely
in Her Capacity as Heir of Jedidiah
Jay Brown Deceased and Erica
Brown-Young Solely in Her Capac-
ity as Heir of Jedidiah Jay Brown
Deceased C.P. October Term, 2018
No. 04363 $34,421.19 KML Law
Group, P.C.
1907-334
6154 N Lambert St 19138 17th
wd. Land Area: 1,064 Sq. Ft.;
Improvement Area: 896 sq. ft.
OPA#172431800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Ernest L. Greenwood,
Jr., Known Heir of Ben Gray; Un-
known heirs, successors, assigns,
and all persons, firms, or associa-
tions claiming right, title, or inter-
est from or under Ben Gray C.P.
November Term, 2016 No. 01119
$54,043.84 Robert Crawley, Esq ID
No. 319712
1907-335
7439 Walnut Ln a/k/a 7439 E
Walnut Ln 19138 10th wd. 1,260
Sq. Ft. OPA#101204000 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS:
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jarel
W. Daniels C.P. February Term,
2017 No. 07607 $144,527.33 Phel-
an Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-336
5412 N 11th St 19141 49th wd.
1,284 Sq. Ft. OPA#493069800 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY George Christian,
Executor of the Estate of Irene B.
Coleman, Deceased C.P. August
Term, 2017 No. 02224 $15,155.43
KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-337
1209 S Broad St 19147-4401 2nd
wd. 3,000 Sq. Ft. OPA#021633300
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Charles Thomas
Bobroff a/k/a Charles T. Bobroff
C.P. November Term, 2013 No.
02365 $821,510.46 Phelan Hal-
linan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-339
12622 Knight Pl 19154 66th wd.
Land Area: 3,085 Sq. Ft.; Im-
provement Area: 1,368 sq. ft.
OPA#663364300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY
MASONRY Devinder Singh C.P.
August Term No. 00701 $67,670.31
plus interest and attorney fees Max
L. Lieberman, Esquire; Max L. Li-
eberman & Associates, P.C.
1907-340
2641 S Watts St 19148 39th wd.
630 Sq. Ft. OPA#394484600 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Ian Thomas C.P. June
Term, 2018 No. 02876 $139,985.11
Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC
1907-341
4635 Naples St 19124 23rd wd.
1,267 Sq. Ft. OPA#234216500 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Unknown heirs, suc-
cessors, assigns, and all persons,
firms, or associations claiming
right, title, or interest from or under
Theodore R. Bauer, Deceased C.P.
December Term, 2018 No. 03081
$94,691.00 Shapiro & DeNardo,
LLC
1907-342
1112 Kenwyn St 19124 23rd wd.
2,750 Sq. Ft. OPA#234172200 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Nafis K. Tyndale a/k/a
Nafis Tyndale and Sadika Thomas
C.P. February Term, 2019 No.
01225 $205,610.93 Shapiro & De-
Nardo, LLC
1907-343
3217 Hamilton St 19104 24th wd.
2,154 Sq. Ft. BRT#241187700 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
REAL ESTATE W.N.B. Invest-
ments, LLC C.P. January Term,
2019 No. 00314 $265,984.63 Stern
& Eisenberg PC
1907-345
6209 Chestnut St 19139 3rd wd.
2,110 Sq. Ft. OPA#031025900 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Vermille C. Blake
C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 00212
SHERIFF’S SALE
$66,655.44 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-346
631 E Locust Ave assessed at 631
Locust Ave 19144 12th wd. 3,220
Sq. Ft. OPA#122073300 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Unknown heirs, suc-
cessors, assigns, and all persons,
firms, or associations claiming
right, title, or interest from or un-
der John H. Kendrick, deceased
and Ruth Kendrick Pringle, Known
Heir of John H. Kendrick, deceased
C.P. October Term, 2018 No. 02320
$126,406.02 Shapiro & DeNardo,
LLC
1907-347
2701 Lardner St 19149 62nd wd.
1,541 Sq. Ft. OPA#621185700 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kevin M. McNulty
C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 03071
$127,769.05 Shapiro & DeNardo,
LLC
1907-348
7252-60 Woodland Ave 19142
40th wd. OPA#882970120 IM-
PROVEMENTS: AUTO REPAIR
SHOP MASONRY Jeron God-
dard, Sinclair Goddard a/k/a Aldis
Sinclair Goddard and Clarence
Goddard a/k/a Clarence Christian
C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 001012
$139,152.89 Christina J. Pross, Es-
quire; Robert W. Williams, Esquire
3434-3456
1907-349
Weymouth St,
(187’x57’) 3434 Weymouth 19134
33rd wd. 10,659 Sq. Ft. Land
Area; 7,040 sq. ft. Improvement
Area OPA#884462600 Robert F.
DiGianvittorio C.P. November
Term, 2017 No. 0259 $70,355.39
principal amount of judgment plus
interest ($6,275.95) and costs IF-
ight4Justice Law Offices of Predrag
Filipovic
1907-350
7624 Wyndale Ave 19151 34th
wd. 2,152 Sq. Ft. OPA#343178000
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Frances E. Till-
man a/k/a Francis E. Tillman C.P.
February Term, 2018 No. 02883
$70,718.33 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-351
2001 Hamilton St, Apt 302
19130 8th wd. 1,440 Sq. Ft.
OPA#888091602 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Marietou Fanny C.P. June
Term, 2016 No. 00003 $560,052.34
KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-352
2533 S Shields St 19142 40th wd.
1,360 Sq. Ft. BRT#406023700 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
REAL ESTATE James C. Jones
a/k/a James Jones C.P. January
Term, 2019 No. 01922 $38,553.14
Stern & Eisenberg PC
1907-353
7309 Brookhaven Rd 19151 34th
wd. 1,478 Sq. Ft. OPA#344153300
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Larry Pearson
C.P. July Term, 2018 No. 01842
$74,870.63 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-354
227 Daly St 19148 39th wd. 742
Sq. Ft. OPA#391094500 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Lynda Longo a/k/a
Lynda Ouslati C.P. December
Term, 2015 No. 01883 $107,266.25
KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-355
6026 N 2nd St 19120 61st wd.
1,514 Sq. Ft. OPA#612421800 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Teresa G. Brooks C.P.
January Term, 2018 No. 03974
$41,641.76 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-356
347 E Gorgas Ln 19119 22nd wd.
4,820 Sq. Ft. OPA#222115600
Subject to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Nathaniel Hines, Jr., a/k/a
Nathaniel Hines; Robin Hines
a/k/a Robin R. Hines a/k/a Robyn
R. Hines C.P. October Term, 2018
No. 03060 $211,001.44 Justin F.
Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas
Kochalski LLC
1907-357
3100 Cedar St 19134 25th wd.
1,096 Sq. Ft. OPA#251444600
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Michelle Butler
SHERIFF’S SALE
C.P. March Term, 2018 No. 00567
$116,296.22 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-359
6630 Elmwood Ave 19142 40th wd.
1,136 Sq. Ft.; Improvments: 1,056
sq. ft. OPA#406230100 Mamud
Jalloh C.P. October Term, 2014 No.
03158 $93,135.81 Robert Crawley
1907-360
6627 N Gratz St 19126 10th wd.
1,472 Sq. Ft. OPA#101099200 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY DS a Minor solely in
Her Capacity as Heir of Katherine
R. Moreland a/k/a Katherine Mo-
reland, Deceased, Duane Johnson
Solely in His Capacity as Heir of
Katherine R. Moreland a/k/a Kath-
erine Moreland, Deceased, The
Unknown Heirs of Katherine R.
Moreland a/k/a Katherine More-
land Deceased, Gabrilla Moreland
Solely in Her Capacity as Heir
of Katherine R. Moreland a/k/a
Katherine Moreland, Deceased and
Majesty Moreland Solely in Her
Capacity as Heir of Katherine R.
Moreland a/k/a Katherine More-
land, Deceased C.P. August Term,
2018 No. 02589 $115,203.01 KML
Law Group, P.C.
1907-361
1101 Hortter St n/k/a 1101 E. Hort-
ter St 19150 50th wd. Land Area:
4,083 Sq. Ft.; Improvement Area:
1,100 sq. ft. OPA#502345100
Derrick Addison; Maria Addison
C.P. March Term, 2018 No. 02620
$131,692.47 Robert Crawley, Esq.
1907-362
1621 Orthodox St 19124 23rd wd.
2,880 Sq. Ft. OPA#871602670
Subject to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Aamir Simpson; Jihad
Simpson C.P. March Term, 2018
No. 00469 $140,883.62 Cristina
L. Connor, Esquire; Manley Deas
Kochalski, LLC
1907-363
2036 Emily St 19145-2823 48th
wd. 658 Sq. Ft. OPA#48-1-1205-
00 IMPROVEMENTS: SIN-
GLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Chaz Henry, as Sur-
viving Heir of Betty Henry, De-
ceased and Devin Henry, as Surviv-
ing Heir of Betty Henry Deceased,
and William Henry, as Surviving
Heir of Betty Henry, Deceased and
Unknown Surviving Heirs of Betty
Henry, Deceased C.P. October
Term, 2018 No. 01333 $45,080.17
Hladik, Onorato & Federman, LLP
1907-364
5520 Warrington Ave 19143 51st
wd. Land: 1,139 Sq. Ft.; Improve-
ment: 1,062 sq. ft.; Total: 1,139 sq.
ft. OPA#514059400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Joseph Gilliam a/k/a Joseph
Gilliam, Jr., individually and as
believed Heir and/or Administra-
tor of the Estate of Rose Gillian;
Unknown Heirs and/or Administra-
tors of the Estate of Rose Gilliam
C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 05037
$81,118.70 Richard M. Squire &
Associates, LLC
1907-365
7514 Thouron Ave 19150 10th wd.
1,320 Sq. Ft. OPA#102494500 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Lorraine Poole-Nara-
njo a/k/a Dr. Lorraine Poole-Nara-
njo, in Her Capacity as Executrix
of The Estate of L.V. Lewis a/k/a L.
Vinmar Lewis a/k/a Larnie Vinmar
Lewis; Valerie Ransom, in Her Ca-
pacity as Devisee of The Estate of
L.V. Lewis a/k/a L. Vinmar Lewis
a/k/a Larnie Vinmar Lewis C.P.
December Term, 2018 No. 02026
$68,680.84 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-366
7344 Sommers Rd 19138-
1330 50th wd. 1,210 Sq. Ft.
OPA#501319600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Rodney A. Grier; Erica L.
Grier C.P. December Term, 2018
No. 00208 $68,308.19 Phelan Hal-
linan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-367
8009 Forrest Ave 19150 50th wd.
3,969 Sq. Ft. OPA#50-2-2224-00
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Iris Pugh, Indi-
vidually and as Trustee of Richard

SHERIFF’S SALE
Pugh, III and Rhonda Pugh, Rich-
ard Pugh III and Rhonda Pugh C.P.
February Term, 2016 No. 02387
$98,576.82 Pressman & Doyle,
LLC
1907-368
2527 W Harold St 19132-
3608 28th wd. 1,096 Sq. Ft.
OPA#281323400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Lorenzo Bailey; Veron
Ackridge a/k/a Vernon Ackridge
C.P. September Term, 2018 No.
02614 $33,610.19 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-369
6402 Oxford Ave 19111-5327 35th
wd. 1,632 Sq. Ft. OPA#353308420
Subject to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Gil Vaisberg C.P.
December Term, 2018 No. 01248
$103,657.41 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-370
2022 68th Ave 19138 10th wd.
898 Sq. Ft. BRT#10-2438100 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING James H. Edwards,
III C.P. January Term, 2017 No.
01704 $110,734.28 Martha E. Von
Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von
Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Ril-
off, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire
1907-371
7417 Rockwell Ave 19111 63rd
wd. 3,000 Sq. Ft. BRT#631113000
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Eugene R.
Bauerle C.P. November Term,
2017 No. 02557 $186,349.44
Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C.,
Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire,
Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J.
Wilk, Esquire
1907-372
3900 Ford Rd, Unit 16L 19131
52nd wd. 0 Sq. Ft. together with
a proportionate undivided inter-
est in the common elements (as
defined in said Declaration and
Amendments) BRT#888520236
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Lonnie H.
Moore a/k/a Lonnie H. Moore, III
in His Capacity as Executor of the
Estate of Edith Moore Stephens,
Deceased C.P. January Term, 2019
No. 01928 $99,508.02 Martha E.
Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E.
Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather
Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Es-
quire
1907-373
1324 Locust St, Unit 1002 19107
5th wd. 0 Sq. Ft. BRT#888115664
IMPROVEMENTS: RES CONDO
5+ STY MASONRY Lisa L. Tal-
ley C.P. January Term, 2019 No.
00836 $114,554.83 Milstead &
Associates, LLC
1907-374
8400 Fayette St 19150 50th wd.
2,408 Sq. Ft. OPA#502297700
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Brian Reed
C.P. March Term, 2018 No. 00827
$180,885.82 KML Law Group,
P.C.
1907-375
4830 A St 19120 42nd wd. 1,669
Sq. Ft.; Improvments: 1,350 sq. ft.
OPA#421292600 Wesley Thomas,
Personal Representative of the Es-
tate of Daisy Hall; Unknown heirs,
successors, assigns, and all per-
sons, firms, or associations claim-
ing right, title, or interest from
or under Daisy Hall, Deceased;
Regina Patricia Hall, Known Heir
of Daisy Hall; Fatima Charmaine
Hall, Known Heir of Daisy Hall;
Lakita Monique Hall, Known Heir
of Daisy Hall; Estate of Daisy Hall
C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 03529
$35,925.25 Robert Crawley
1907-376
21 E Herman St a/k/a 21 Herman
St 19144 59th wd. 1,416 Sq. Ft.
BRT#592085005 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 3 STY MASON-
RY Samantha L. Lomax a/k/a
Samantha Lomax C.P. August
Term, 2017 No. 00986 $86,613.82
Milstead & Associates, LLC
1907-377
6017 Tackawanna St 19135 62nd
wd. 1,267 Sq. Ft. OPA#622323500
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Leonard V.
SHERIFF’S SALE
Ward C.P. September Term, 2018
No. 03610 $101,173.10 KML Law
Group, P.C.
1907-378
2230 S Felton St 19142-2306 40th
wd. 1,128 Sq. Ft. OPA#401162800
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Lawrence J.
Threadgill, Jr, in His Capacity as
Heir of Lawrence Threadgill, De-
ceased; Timothy L. Threadgill, in
His Capacity as Heir of Lawrence
Threadgill, Deceased; Charlene
Michelle Threadgill, in Her Capac-
ity as Heir of Lawrence Threadgill,
Deceased; Unknown heirs, succes-
sors, assigns, and all persons, firms,
or associations claiming right, title,
or interest from or under Lawrence
Threadgill, Deceased C.P. April
Term, 2018 No. 03545 $60,603.08
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-379
5905 Devon Pl 19138-1509 59th
wd. 1,890 Sq. Ft. OPA#592312900
IMPROVEMENTS: RESI-
DENTIAL PROPERTY Corliss
Strickland-Alston, in Her Capacity
as Heir of Faye Snow a/k/a Faye
Beryl Snow a/k/a Faye B. Snow,
Deceased; Terri Hunter-Diaz,
in Her Capacity as Heir of Faye
Snow a/k/a Faye Beryl Snow a/k/a
Faye B. Snow, Deceased; Donald
Astwood-Strickland, in His Ca-
pacity as Heir of Faye Snow a/k/a
Faye Beryl Snow a/k/a Faye B.
Snow, Deceased; Lisa Strickland-
Johnson, in Her Capacity as Heir of
Faye Snow a/k/a Faye Beryl Snow
a/k/a Faye B. Snow, Deceased;
Patti Donna Strickland-Anderson,
in Her Capacity as Heir of Faye
Snow a/k/a Faye Beryl Snow a/k/a
Faye B. Snow, Deceased; Nicole
Johnson, in Her Capacity as Heir of
Faye Snow a/k/a Faye Beryl Snow
a/k/a Faye B. Snow, Deceased;
Benjamin Alston, in His Capacity
as Heir of Faye Snow a/k/a Faye
Beryl Snow a/k/a Faye B. Snow,
Deceased; Thomas Halstead, in
His Capacity as Heir of Faye Snow
a/k/a Faye Beryl Snow a/k/a Faye
B. Snow, Deceased; Wayne David,
in His Capacity as Heir of Faye
Snow a/k/a Faye Beryl Snow a/k/a
Faye B. Snow, Deceased; Unknown
heirs, successors, assigns, and all
persons, firms, or associations
claiming right, title, or interest from
or under Faye Snow a/k/a Faye
Beryl Snow a/k/a Faye B. Snow,
Deceased C.P. August Term, 2018
No. 01894 $220,105.73 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-380
2415 80th Ave 19150-1415 50th
wd. 1,502 Sq. Ft. OPA#501462200
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Lorraine
Poole-Naranjo, in His Capacity as
Executrix and Devisee of the Estate
of L.V. Lewis a/k/a Larnie Vinmar
Lewis C.P. February Term, 2019
No. 00731 $118,968.09 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-381
6037 Lansdowne Ave 19151 34th
wd. 1,520 Sq. Ft. OPA#342051900
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Dorothy David
and Michael David C.P. March
Term, 2012 No. 00742 $86,309.26
KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-382
212 E Sedgwick St 19119-
1806 22nd wd. 1,450 Sq. Ft.
OPA#222126300 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Gail Scott-Harris C.P.
October Term, 2018 No. 03376
$97,384.51 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-383
2801 Willits Ave, a/k/a 2801 Wil-
lits Rd 19114 57th wd. 1,584 Sq.
Ft. OPA#572079710 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Dolores P. Shriver; Kenneth
T. Shriver C.P. May Term, 2018 No.
02767 $202,328.27 Phelan Hal-
linan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-384
4620 Naples St 19124 23rd wd.
1,426 Sq. Ft. OPA#234212900
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Cynthia N.
Ramos C.P. November Term, 2016
SHERIFF’S SALE
No. 01238 $100,848.80 KML Law
Group, P.C.
1907-385
1222 Fillmore St 19124 10th wd.
1,859 Sq. Ft. BRT#23-4110100
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Eileen Segarra
C.P. October Term, 2018 No. 00804
$128,952.86 Powers Kirn, LLC
1907-386
4242 Maywood St 19124 33rd wd.
1,188 Sq. Ft. BRT#332482100
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Yvette Pagan
C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 01415
$107,387.86 Powers Kirn, LLC
1907-387
233-235 N 65th St a/k/a 233 N 65th
St #235 19139-1007 34th wd. 3,629
Sq. Ft. OPA#343112500 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS:
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
Stephanie Barnes C.P. August
Term, 2018 No. 01893 $214,758.32
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-388
2839 Benner St 19149 62nd wd.
1,224 Sq. Ft. OPA#621154500 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Jorge Torres C.P.
November Term, 2018 No. 01697
$147,754.31 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-389
5456 Sansom St 19139 60th wd.
1,920 Sq. Ft. BRT#603022300 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Keith Harris C.P. May
Term, 2018 No. 02323 $58,768.00
Powers Kirn, LLC
1907-390
955 E Sanger St a/k/a 955 Sanger
St 19124-1039 35th wd. 1,116 Sq.
Ft. OPA#351225100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Unknown heirs, successors,
assigns, and all persons, firms, or
associations claiming right, title,
or interest from or under Maria
M. Farmer, Deceased; Adam Kural
a/k/a Adem Kural, in His Capacity
as Heir of Rosemarie Kural a/k/a
Rosemarie C. Kural, Deceased and
in His Capacity as Heir of Maria M.
Farmer, Deceased; Unknown heirs,
successors, assigns, and all persons,
firms, or associations claiming
right, title, or interest from or under
Rosemarie Kural a/k/a Rosemarie
C. Kural, Deceased C.P. October
Term, 2017 No. 03215 $70,523.35
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-391
6214 Wheeler St 19142-2914 40th
wd. 1,116 Sq. Ft. OPA#402185600
Subject to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Helen Beyer C.P. February
Term, 2019 No. 00732 $27,586.01
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-392
4006 N 12th St 19140 43rd wd.
1,169 Sq. Ft. OPA#433163700 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs
of Alice Hubbard Deceased and
Willie Mae Green Solely in Her
Capacity as Heir of Alice Hubbard
Deceased C.P. November Term,
2018 No. 00978 $16,584.51 KML
Law Group, P.C.
1907-393
4740 Melvale St 19137 45th wd.
1,278 Sq. Ft. OPA#453326200 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Brian D. Bendler and
Joy D. Bendler C.P. June Term,
2018 No. 01775 $63,590.39 KML
Law Group, P.C.
1907-394
1927 Haworth St 19124 62nd wd.
1,312 Sq. Ft. OPA#622031500 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Olga Marrero and
Maria Rodriguez C.P. April Term,
2017 No. 02249 $86,688.78 KML
Law Group, P.C.
1907-395
3211 Aramingo Ave 19134 45th
wd. 1,073 Sq. Ft. OPA#451392300
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Arminda L. Paz
C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00302
$137,573.21 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-397
1625 E Hunting Park Ave a/k/a
1625 Hunting Park Ave 19124 33rd
wd. 1,306 Sq. Ft. OPA#332087600
PGN
SHERIFF’S SALE
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Raymond D.
McCray C.P. June Term, 2015
No. 02226 $46,378.18 KML Law
Group, P.C.
1907-398
1736 N 61st St 19151 34th wd.
1,455 Sq. Ft. OPA#342265100 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Danielle L. White
Robinson C.P. February Term,
2016 No. 00367 $81,122.05 KML
Law Group, P.C.
1907-399
3913 Arcadia St 19124 Land: 693
Sq. Ft.; Improvements: 968 sq.
ft. OPA#453165100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: SINGLE FAMILY
DWELLING Yves Prosper; Rose
Danielle Etienne C.P. August Term,
2018 No. 2073 $71,599.96 Adam
Nachmani, Esquire; Sirlin Lesser &
Benson, P.C.
1907-400
1719 Arnold St 19152 56th wd.
1,554 Sq. Ft. OPA#562188800
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Diane Miller
C.P. August Term, 2018 No. 00658
$150,325.74 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-401
3910 L St 19124 33rd wd. 1,172 Sq.
Ft. OPA#332382500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Leshawn D.B. Gomillion
and Omar Santos-Rivera C.P. July
Term, 2018 No. 03973 $68,381.43
KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-402
3531 Teton Rd 19154-1511 66th
wd. 3,500 Sq. Ft. BRT#663137800
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL REAL ESTATE Deneen A.
Rispo C.P. July Term, 2018 No.
03396 $175,908.82 Stern & Eisen-
berg PC
1907-403
3123 Teesdale St 19152 64th wd.
2,447 Sq. Ft. OPA#641164800 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Donna Donohoe and
Brian M. Donohoe a/k/a Brian
Donohoe C.P. November Term,
2017 No. 02775 $217,346.04 KML
Law Group, P.C.
1907-404
9826 Garvey Dr 19114 65th wd.
1,404 Sq. Ft. BRT#652471400 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
REAL ESTATE Maureen B. Cronin
a/k/a Maureen Cronin and William
J. Cronin C.P. August Term, 2018
No. 01363 $194,569.54 Stern &
Eisenberg PC
1907-405
6634 Souder St 19149 54th wd.
1,368 Sq. Ft. OPA#541215900
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Tracy Hua and
Chi-Hung Mu C.P. June Term, 2014
No. 01746 $162,959.16 KML Law
Group, P.C.
1907-406
547 E Locust Ave 19144 12th wd.
3,130 Sq. Ft. BRT#122071200 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
REAL ESTATE Marvetta Palmer
a/k/a Marveta Palmer C.P. July
Term, 2018 No. 02359 $171,795.90
Stern & Eisenberg PC
1907-407
3642 N Percy St 19140 43rd wd.
1,174 Sq. Ft. OPA#432121800
Subject to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Jason Colon C.P. September
Term, 2016 No. 02217 $42,256.31
Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley
Deas Kochalski LLC
1907-408
1026 Knorr St 19111 53rd wd.
2,937 Sq. Ft. OPA#532118200 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Roxanne Stuart as
Executrix of the Estate of Phyllis
Feldman Deceased C.P. April Term,
2014 No. 01865 $90,491.05 KML
Law Group, P.C.
1907-409
5738 Hasbrook Ave 19120-
1622 35th wd. 2,000 Sq. Ft.
OPA#351312200 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Gregory Williams, Jr C.P.
February Term, 2019 No. 00434
$146,339.05 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-410
626 E Locust Ave a/k/a 626 Locust
SHERIFF’S SALE
Ave 19144-1310 12th wd. 1,450
Sq. Ft. OPA#122062900 Subject
to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS:
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Un-
known heirs, successors, assigns,
and all persons, firms, or associa-
tions claiming right, title or interest
from or under Frank Fleming, Jr.,
Deceased. C.P. December Term,
2018 No. 02435 $39,678.16 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-411
1645 N 59th St 19151 52nd wd.
2,030 Sq. Ft. OPA#043307900
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Tyra H. Walker
C.P. August Term, 2018 No. 01725
$54,824.42 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-412
6346 N 18th St 19141-1450 17th
wd. 1,200 Sq. Ft. OPA#172282500
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Decarlo B.
Freeman, Jr C.P. May Term, 2017
No. 02580 $120,231.15 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-413
8030 Mars Pl 19153-1112 40th wd.
1,260 Sq. Ft. OPA#405890055 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Denise Hawkins C.P.
September Term, 2012 No. 00675
$66,468.44 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-415
600 Lindley Ave 19120 49th
wd. Land Area: 6,000 Sq. Ft.;
Improvement Area: 1,600 sq.
ft. OPA#491145500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW B/OFF-STR 3 STY
MASON GTO Properties, LLC
C.P. December Term, 2014 No.
03404 $190,518.09 Ryan A. Gower
and Paul J. Fanelli
1907-417
3512 Woodhaven Rd 19154 66th
wd. 1,674 Sq. Ft. OPA#662615000
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Unknown heirs,
successors, assigns, and all per-
sons, firms, or associations claim-
ing right, title, or interest from or
under Lloyd S. Higgs, Bret Higgs,
Record Owner and Beneficiary
of the Estate of Lloyd S. Higgs,
Byron Higgs, Record Owner and
Beneficiary of the Estate of Lloyd
S. Higgs, Kayana Higgs, Record
Owner and Beneficiary of the Es-
tate of Lloyd S. Higgs, Mark Higgs,
Record Owner and Beneficiary of
the Estate of Lloyd S. Higgs, Val-
erie Ann Higgs, Record Owner and
Beneficiary of the Estate of Lloyd
S. Higgs, Estate of Lloyd S. Higgs
c/o Toni V. Higgs, Executrix, Toni
V. Higgs, Record Owner and Ex-
ecutrix of the Estate of Lloyd S.
Higgs and Bonnie Renee Leftwich,
Record Owner and Beneficiary
of the Estate of Lloyd S. Higgs
C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 02641
$86,600.33 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-418
2401 N 50th St 19131 52nd wd.
10,637 Sq. Ft. OPA#521251500
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Shelia Green,
A/K/A Shelia Green Batchelor
C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 04917
$389,259.53 Cristina L. Connor,
Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski,
LLC
1907-419
3050 N 16th St 19132-2310 11th
wd. 1,350 Sq. Ft. OPA#111195900
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Tuto Investment
LLC; Alexander Barnes C.P. May
Term, 2018 No. 01553 $44,250.83
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-420
9908 Bustleton Ave, Unit C9
19115 58th wd. RES CONDO +
2 STY MASONRY; 978 Sq. Ft.
BRT#888580331 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Anthony Coia,
Known Surviving Heir of Sheila
Coia, Elizabeth Quinn, Known
Surviving Heir of Sheila Coia and
Unknown Surviving Heirs of Sheila
Coia C.P. July Term, 2018 No.
00923 $150,800.14 McCabe, Weis-
berg, & Conway, LLC
1907-421
4538 Tolbut St 19136 65th wd.
ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY;
1,120 Sq. Ft. BRT#652095900 IM-
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SHERIFF’S SALE
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Kathleen Swavely
and Robert Swavely C.P. October
Term, 2018 No. 03862 $126,443.42
McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway,
LLC
1907-422
6738 Paschall Ave 19142-1809 40th
wd. 960 Sq. Ft. OPA#403173700
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY William Butler
C.P. February Term, 2014 No.
01393 $74,714.43 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-423
2038 W Tioga St 19140-3972 11th
wd. 2,808 Sq. Ft. OPA#112089900
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Claire L. Burris;
Gregory K. Burris C.P. December
Term, 2018 No. 02025 $71,930.59
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-424
4622 Oakland St 19124 23rd wd.
1230 Sq. Ft. BRT#234228300
Subject to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Alexander Lopez and
Katherine Lopez C.P. May Term,
2018 No. 025498 $121,793.48 Mc-
Cabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC
1907-425
5232 Castor Ave 19124-1723 23rd
wd. 1,432 Sq. Ft. OPA#233131600
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Kow Anguah
a/k/a Kow G. Anguah C.P. April
Term, 2018 No. 01012 $93,276.48
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-426
5516 Windsor Ave a/k/a 5516
Windsor St 19143 51st wd. ROW
B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1,062
Sq. Ft. BRT#514080800 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Chester Holland, Jr.,
Mortgagor, Real Owner and in His
Capacity as Known Surviving Heir
of Iris E. Holland and Unknown
Surviving Heirs of Iris E. Holland
C.P. February Term, 2018 No.
036120 $53,435.54 McCabe, Weis-
berg, & Conway, LLC
1907-427
2827 Norcross Ln 19114-3455 57th
wd. 1,847 Sq. Ft. OPA#572095553
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Felix T. Ham-
mond a/k/a Felix Hammond C.P.
October Term, 2013 No. 03142
$76,285.92 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-428
6524 Chew Ave 19119 22nd wd.
ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1,312
Sq. Ft. BRT#221253000 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Marcel Fox, Known
Surviving Heir of Erica Fox a/k/a
Erica N. Fox and Unknown Surviv-
ing Heirs of Erica Fox a/k/a Erica
N. Fox C.P. July Term, 2017 No.
02191 $101,718.89 McCabe, Weis-
berg, & Conway, LLC
1907-429
5708 Kingsessing Ave 19143
1,211 Sq. Ft. OPA#401126500 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
Margaret Porter C.P. October Term,
2018 No. 04010 $44,243.05 Jill M.
Fein, Esquire
1907-431
7121 Cedar Park Ave 19138 10th
wd. 1,450 Sq. Ft. BRT#102511600
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL REAL ESTATE Monica M.
Buckner C.P. October Term, 2018
No. 01644 $203,467.59 Stern &
Eisenberg PC
1907-432
78 E Penn St 19144-2308 12th wd.
11,733.44 Sq. Ft. BRT#121135600
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING David Tilson
and Pamela Tilson C.P. April Term,
2015 No. 01716 $273,562.84 Pow-
ers Kirn, LLC
1907-433
1205 Kater St 19147 On the
Northerly Side of Kater St, 33ft.
1/4 in. Westerly of Twelfth St.
Front: 21 ft. 2 3/4 in. Depth: 60ft.
1/4 in. OPA#023173515 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Alpha United, LP, a
Pennsylvania limited partnership
C.P. March Term, 2018 No. 01172
$798,453.60 plus legal interest in
SHERIFF’S SALE
the amount of $177,992.36 for a
subtotal of $976,445.96 Leona Mo-
gavero, Esquire
1907-434
4514 Regent St 19143 46th wd.
1,615 Sq. Ft. OPA#461134700 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs
of Eugene R. Hines Deceased and
Henry Hines Solely in His Capacity
as Heir of Eugene R. Hines, De-
ceased C.P. December Term, 2017
No. 02071 $409,593.94 KML Law
Group, P.C.
1907-435
5021 N Camac St 19141 49th wd.
1,315 Sq. Ft. OPA#491479500 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Anne Edouard and
Martin Edouard C.P. December
Term, 2018 No. 00870 $80,069.91
KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-436
2629 Wilder St 19146 36th wd.
672 Sq. Ft. OPA#364233500 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs
of Alvin D. Williams, Sr. a/k/a
Alvin Williams Deceased, Dianna
Jones Solely in Her Capacity as
Heir of Alvin D. Williams, Sr. a/k/a
Alvin Williams Deceased, Gregory
Williams Solely in His Capacity as
Heir of Alvin D. Williams, Sr. a/k/a
Alvin Williams Deceased and Alvin
D. Williams, Jr. Solely in His Ca-
pacity as Heir of Alvin D. Williams,
Sr. a/k/a Alvin Williams Deceased
C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 00132
$64,086.54 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-437
6657 Erdrick St 19135 55th wd.
1,293 Sq. Ft. OPA#552278200
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Nikki Dyer C.P.
November Term, 2018 No. 02919
$81,707.60 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-438
421-423 E Rittenhouse St
19144 22nd wd. 3,113 Sq. Ft.
BRT#591127000 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Tamara Guilmout-
dinov and Artour Guilmoutdinov
C.P. November Term, 2018 No.
01779 $175,094.01 Martha E. Von
Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von
Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff,
Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire
1907-439
113 E 64th Ave 19120 61st wd.
1,768 Sq. Ft. OPA#611335900 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Chantal L. McKelton
as Executrix of the Estate of Ge-
neva W. McKelton a/k/a Geneva
W. McKeeton Deceased C.P. No-
vember Term, 2018 No. 03386
$107,934.68 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-440
6220 Dickens Ave 19142 40th wd.
1,455 Sq. Ft. BRT#402241400 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Angela Johnson
C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 02244
$54,796.09 Powers Kirn, LLC
1907-441
7313 Hiola Rd 19128 21st wd.
Land: 2,342 Sq. Ft.; Improvement:
1,548 sq. ft.; Total: 2,342 sq. ft.
BRT#214218500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Unknown Heirs of the Estate
of James W. Trignani, deceased
C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 01938
$185,522.75 Richard M. Squire &
Associates, LLC
1907-442
514 Mckean St 19148 39th wd.
1,115 Sq. Ft. OPA#392033300 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Fredreka Long Solely
in Her Capacity as Heir of Willie
Mae Long a/k/a Willie Long, De-
ceased and the Unknown Heirs of
Willie Mae Long a/k/a Willie Long
Deceased C.P. October Term, 2016
No. 01261 $172,573.60 KML Law
Group, P.C.
1907-443
1601 Worrell St a/k/a 1601 E
Worrell St 19124 33rd wd. 1,339
Sq. Ft. OPA#332039205 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Felix A. Demuro C.P.
October Term, 2016 No. 01486
$151,386.57 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-444
4714 Sheldon St 19127 21st wd.
1,766 Sq. Ft. OPA#211524700 IM-
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SHERIFF’S SALE
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Jeffrey Isackman
and Jaime R. Shepherdson C.P.
February Term, 2018 No. 00405
$200,243.61 KML Law Group,
P.C.
1907-445
1850 E Tulpehocken St 19138
10th wd. Land: 1,656 Sq. Ft.;
Improvement: 1,506 sq. ft.; To-
tal: 1,656 sq. ft. OPA#102209100
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Dominga
Goodwin, Sr. and Shyra Godwin
& Unknown Heirs of the Estate
of Dominga Goodwin, Jr. C.P.
June Term, 2018 No. 02701
$140,453.94 Richard M. Squire &
Associates, LLC
1907-446
9414 Torresdale Ave 19114
65th wd. 7,950 Sq. Ft.
OPA#652326500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Jeffrey L. Probst and Kath-
leen V. Probst C.P. April Term,
2018 No. 01904 $290,149.35
KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-447
6512 Wyncote Ave 19138 59th wd.
ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY;
1,008 Sq. Ft. BRT#591022300
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Harold Felder,
Jr. Known Surviving Heir of Julia
B. Felder a/k/a Julia M. Felder,
Ruth Felder, Known Surviving
Heir of Julia B. Felder a/k/a Julia
M. Felder, and Unknown Surviv-
ing Heirs of Julia B. Felder a/k/a
Julia M. Felder C.P. August Term,
2017 No. 02743 $78,015.54 Mc-
Cabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC
1907-448
1636 Pennington Rd 19151 34th
wd. 1,525 Sq. Ft. OPA#343330900
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY The Unknown
Heirs of Robert L. Jenkins, De-
ceased and Gary Jenkins, Solely in
His Capacity as Heir of Robert L.
Jenkins, Deceased C.P. May Term,
2018 No. 01068 $100,997.20
KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-449
2111 S 58th St 19143 40th wd.
1,140 Sq. Ft. OPA#401052300
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY William D.
Thompson Jr. C.P. July Term,
2013 No. 01868 $129,557.45
KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-450
5338 Haverford Ave 19139
44th wd. 1,888 Sq. Ft.
OPA#441048700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Sybelledis Ross C.P. No-
vember Term, 2018 No. 02932
$49,029.23 KML Law Group,
P.C.
1907-451
7120 Rutland St 19149 54th wd.
1,413 Sq. Ft. OPA#542159300
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY The Unknown
Heirs of Joseph Michael Petrocel-
li Deceased C.P. December Term,
2018 No. 02570 $90,663.35 KML
Law Group, P.C.
1907-452
1618 W Glenwood Ave 19132
11th wd. BRT#11-1020700 Sen-
eca T. Willoughby, Sr. C.P. Sep-
tember Term, 2018 No. 02237
$45,831.53 Emmanuel J. Argent-
ieri, Esquire
1907-453
5910 Cobbs Creek Pkwy 19143
46th wd. BRT#03-3159800 Mi-
chael Glenn and Crystal Glenn
C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02987
$163,104.22 Emmanuel J. Argen-
tieri, Esquire
1907-454
7625 Elmwood Ave 19153 40th
wd. 1,168 Sq. Ft.; Improvements:
1,056 sq. ft. OPA#404229700
Festus Mark Ettah a/k/a F. Mark
Ettah C.P. October Term, 2018
No. 02920 $84,229.43 Robert
Crawley
1907-455
5703 Pine St 19143 60th wd.
1,224 Sq. Ft. OPA#604094300
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Antoinette
Stith-Byrd C.P. November Term,
2018 No. 02922 $83,871.82 KML
Law Group, P.C.
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SHERIFF’S SALE
1907-458
2211 N 51st St 19131 52nd wd.
9,971 Sq. Ft. OPA#521274000
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY William La-
comchek C.P. November Term,
2014 No. 01445 $317,963.86
KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-459
5346 Spruce St 19139 60th wd.
1,319 Sq. Ft.; Improvements: 1,484
sq. ft. OPA#871255450 Dennis
O. Carter, Jr. Administrator of the
Estate of Dennis O. Carter, Sr.;
Unknown Surviving Heirs of Ruth
M. Carter C.P. February Term,
2016 No. 04447 $120,213.99 Rob-
ert Crawley
1907-460
8509 Kendrick Pl 19111 63rd wd.
2,841 Sq. Ft. OPA#632269600 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kevin Clark C.P.
November Term, 2018 No. 02902
$204,841.33 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-461
5612 Walton Ave 19143 46th wd.
900 Sq. Ft. OPA#463085000 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Rudolph S. Ballard
Solely in His Capacity as Heir of
Lois Ballard Deceased and the
Unknown Heirs of Lois Ballard De-
ceased C.P. November Term, 2018
No. 02911 $112,211.30 KML Law
Group, P.C.
1907-464
949 Foulkrod St a/k/a 949 and
951 Foulkrod St 19124 23rd wd.
(formerly part of th 35th wd.)
5,000 Sq. Ft. BRT#233037300 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Anthony Woodard
and Samantha Woodard C.P. June
Term, 2018 No. 02016 $74,705.21
Powers Kirn, LLC
1907-465
1141 Passmore St 19111-5411 53rd
wd. 1,278 Sq. Ft. OPA#531111700
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Timothy J. Cer-
vino C.P. October Term, 2010 No.
00504 $117,007.27 Phelan Hal-
linan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-466
4830 Hazel Ave 19143 46th wd.
2,460 Sq. Ft. OPA#461069400 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Karen Vann C.P. April
Term, 2013 No. 04167 $412,442.04
Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC
1907-467
3033 Baltz St 19121 29th wd.
810 Sq. Ft. BRT#292202200 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
REAL ESTATE Alson Alston
C.P. July Term, 2018 No. 00925
$138,983.33 Stern & Eisenberg PC
1907-468
12016 Elmore Rd 19154 66th wd.
7,828 Sq. Ft. BRT#662207100 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
Dean Mahon C.P. March Term,
2018 No. 01633 $280,758.27 Stern
& Eisenberg PC
1907-469
6401 Torresdale Ave 19135 41st
wd. 16,500 Sq. Ft. (land area);
1,956 sq. ft. (improvement area)
BRT#882970610 Subject to Mort-
gage Krishavtar, Inc C.P. June
Term, 2017 No. 03382 $555,942.96
Weir & Partners, LLP; Steven
E. Angstreich, Esquire; Amy R.
Brandt, Esquire
1907-470
330 N 53rd St 19139 44th wd.
1,800 Sq. Ft. OPA#441361100
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Jade Powell
C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03194
$63,101.09 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-471
330 W Logan St 19144 13th wd.
2,784 Sq. Ft. OPA#133049500 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Melody Calloway, as
Executrix of the Estate of Evelyn
E. Livingston a/k/a Evelyn Liv-
ingston, Deceased and William G.
Goslee C.P. December Term, 2017
No. 02090 $135,090.94 KML Law
Group, P.C.
1907-472
6335 N 13th St, a/k/a 6335-37
N 13th St 19141-3309 49th wd.
1,600 Sq. Ft. OPA#493209200
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Cal V. Dye C.P.
January Term, 2019 No. 00440
SHERIFF’S SALE
$54,056.80 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-473
1532 Church St 19124-3935 23rd
wd. 1,196 Sq. Ft. OPA#232037200
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Aurea Rodri-
guez C.P. December Term, 2018
No. 01017 $64,504.96 Phelan Hal-
linan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-474
6323 Palmetto St 19111 35th wd.
1,890 Sq. Ft. BRT#353266900
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL REAL ESTATE Elizabeth
Urbina C.P. February Term, 2019
No. 00523 $123,605.04 Stern &
Eisenberg PC
1907-475
1755 S Avondale St 19142 40th wd.
1,607 Sq. Ft. OPA#401180600 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kehinde Akano C.P.
October Term, 2011 No. 02687
$63,045.80 Justin F. Kobeski, Es-
quire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC
1907-476
116 W Rockland St 19120-
4236 42nd wd. 1,350 Sq. Ft.
OPA#422113600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Joseph Mario Bolanos C.P.
December Term, 2018 No. 01798
$80,439.99 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-477
5267 Burton St 19124 62nd wd.
1,151 Sq. Ft. BRT#622434500 IM-
PROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2
STY MASONRY Mary E. Tucker,
Known Heir and Administratrix
for the Estate of Sarah Tucker
a/k/a Sarah A. Tucker, Deceased
and Sarah A. Tucker C.P. February
Term, 2019 No. 00217 $53,046.43
Milstead & Associates, LLC
1907-478
118 E Colonial St 19120 61st wd.
1,632 Sq. Ft. BRT#61-1-3193-00
Delores Herbert C.P. April Term,
2018 No. 03419 $63,526.96 Mil-
stead & Associates, LLC
1907-479
3313 Princeton Ave 19149-
1631 55th wd. 1,769 Sq. Ft.
OPA#551396100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY William T. Ulmer C.P.
November Term, 2018 No. 03319
$124,493.72 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-480
8030 Ditman St, Unit 145, a/k/a
8030 Ditman St, Unit 145Z, a/k/a
800 Ditman St Apt 145, a/k/a 800
Ditman St Apt 145Z 19136 88th
wd. 784 Sq. Ft. OPA#888651045
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Gwendolyn D.
Waters a/k/a Gwendolyn Waters
C.P. November Term, 2016 No.
00505 $90,418.15 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-481
5225 N 15th St 19141-1601 17th
wd. 1,768 Sq. Ft. OPA#172044600
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Louise Milburn
C.P. October Term, 2018 No. 00744
$109,715.51 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-482
6224 N Park Ave 19141-3330 49th
wd. 1,980 Sq. Ft. OPA#493240500
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Sylvester
Brown, Jr C.P. November Term,
2018 No. 03147 $108,782.83 Phel-
an Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-483
2764 Cranston Rd 19131-
2804 52nd wd. 1,864 Sq. Ft.
OPA#521393500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Misty S. Bullock C.P.
December Term, 2018 No. 00801
$137,437.15 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-484
7387 Wheeler St 19153-1420 40th
wd. 1,056 Sq. Ft. OPA#404213500
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Sara-Jane Rice
a/k/a Rice Sara-Jane C.P. August
Term, 2015 No. 01989 $90,680.35
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-485
4335 L St 19124-4323 33rd wd.
715 Sq. Ft. OPA#332404400
SHERIFF’S SALE
Subject to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Annette Lightner C.P. May
Term, 2018 No. 01985 $72,258.45
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-486
4726 Princeton Ave 19135-
1930 41st wd. 1,280 Sq. Ft.
OPA#412049700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Anna Mary Blankenship
C.P. November Term, 2018 No.
01426 $122,657.82 Phelan Hal-
linan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-487
4847 Hoopes St 19139 44th wd.
994 Sq. Ft. OPA#442039200 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Jeffrey Sanders C.P.
December Term, 2018 No. 03878
$56,722.43 Shapiro & DeNardo,
LLC
1907-488
916 E Woodlawn Ave 19138 12th
wd. 1,385 Sq. Ft. OPA#12-2-0889-
00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Narquita Stead-
man C.P. November Term, 2017
No. 02791 $93,134.03 Shapiro &
DeNardo, LLC
1907-489
1200 Fenwick Rd 19115 58th wd.
4,212 Sq. Ft. OPA#581156400 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Francis Pemper and
Brenda Pemper C.P. March Term,
2017 No. 02621 $244,991.16 Sha-
piro & DeNardo, LLC
1907-490
5524 Hunter St 19131 4th wd.
1,472 Sq. Ft. OPA#041260300
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Myra Jenkins,
Known Heir of Mabel C. Jenks,
deceased, Unknown heirs, succes-
sors, assigns, and all persons, firms,
or associations claiming right, title,
or interest from or under Mabel
C. Jenkins, deceased and John J.
Jenkins, Known Heir of Mabel
C. Jenkins, deceased C.P. August
Term, 2017 No. 00005 $95,479.05
Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC
1907-491
4625 Morris St 19144 13th wd.
Land Area: 1,466 Sq. Ft.; Im-
provement Area: 1,310 sq. ft.
OPA#133139600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RSA-5 Darius Johns and
Raelyse Johns, Possible Heirs to the
Estate of James W. Johns, Jr., De-
ceased and Unknown Heirs Et Al.
of James W. Johns, Jr., Deceased
C.P. August Term, 2018 No. 00343
$41,224.50 plus interest to date of
sale Robert J. Wilson, Esq., Wilson
Law Firm
1907-492
1948 N Hollywood St 19121 32nd
wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY;
1,020 Sq. Ft. BRT#323245300
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Timothy E.C.
Thompson, Jr. and Jocelyn Thomp-
son C.P. January Term, 2018 No.
03187 $37,794.52 McCabe, Weis-
berg, & Conway, LLC
1907-494
5021 W Girard Ave 19131-
4515 44th wd. 1,860 Sq. Ft.
OPA#442086800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Laura Jenkins a/k/a Laura B.
Jenkins, in Her Capacity as Admin-
istratrix Cta and Devisee of the Es-
tate of Eliza E Johnson a/k/a Eliza
Johnson-Jenkins a/k/a Eliza Jenkins
a/k/a Eliza Johnson Jenkins; Etta P.
Jenkins in Her Capacity as Devi-
see of the Estate of Eliza Johnson
a/k/a Eliza Johnson-Jenkins a/k/a
Eliza Jenkins a/k/a Eliza Johnson
Jenkins C.P. July Term, 2018 No.
00834 $50,511.93 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-495
6306 Woodbine Ave 19151-
2630 34th wd. 3,204 Sq. Ft.
OPA#344125400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Donna M. Sweeney C.P.
March Term, 2019 No. 00619
$343,601.50 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-496
814 Wynnewood Rd 19151 34th
wd. SEMI/DET 3 STY MASON-
RY; 2,710 Sq. Ft. BRT#344228100
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
PGN
SHERIFF’S SALE
TIAL DWELLING Tawanda N.
Wilson a/k/a Tawanda N. Brown
C.P. June Term, 2018 No. 00648
$118,563.00 McCabe, Weisberg, &
Conway, LLC
1907-497
429 N 62 St a/k/a 429 N 62nd St
19151-4310 34th wd. 1,888 Sq.
Ft. OPA#341217900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Anthony Cardwell; Cornella
Good Cardwell a/k/a Cornella A.
Cardwell C.P. December Term,
2018 No. 01799 $55,922.00 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-498
4622 Kendrick St 19136-2110 65th
wd. 1,296 Sq. Ft. OPA#652069600
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY James R.
Kitchen; Kelly A. Kitchen C.P.
September Term, 2013 No. 00706
$87,428.86 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-499
2317 E Sargeants St, a/k/a 2317
E Sergeant St & 2316 E Hazzard
St 19125-2247; 19125 31st wd.
2,904 Sq. Ft. OPA#314094500 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Anthony Cancellier
a/k/a Anthony Cancelliere; Thomas
Kane C.P. December Term, 2018
No. 02024 $180,843.99 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-500
4523 Hurley St 19120-4528 42nd
wd. 1,050 Sq. Ft. OPA#421442500
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Dennis Mallon
C.P. March Term, 2019 No. 00817
$59,663.21 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-501
1076 Alcott St 19149 35th wd.
1,192 Sq. Ft. OPA#352062900 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Gabriella Polidoro, in
Her Capacity as Executrix of the
Estate of Richard Hettinger C.P.
February Term, 2019 No. 01697
$14,887.35 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-502
1234 Greeby St 19111-5525 53rd
wd. 1,040 Sq. Ft. OPA#531139100
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Unknown heirs,
successors, assigns, and all persons,
firms, or associations claiming
right, title, or interest from or un-
der Renee Cosom, Deceased C.P.
August Term, 2018 No. 02842
$132,171.66 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-504
7440 Georgian Rd 19138 42nd wd.
3,606 Sq. Ft. OPA#10-1-1361-00
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Henry Jackson,
Surviving Tenant by Entireties C.P.
January Term, 2018 No. 03282
$73,823.71 Pressman & Doyle,
LLC
1907-505
5434 Addison St 19143 60th wd.
1,120 Sq. Ft. BRT#603115700 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
REAL ESTATE Cheryl Jackson
C.P. October Term, 2018 No. 02354
$47,043.73 Stern & Eisenberg PC
1907-506
277 E Walnut Park Dr 19120-
1038 61st wd. 1,152 Sq. Ft.
OPA#611366600 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Lisa M. Hluchan C.P.
October Term, 2018 No. 03594
$76,700.79 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-507
4140 Longshore Ave a/k/a 4140
Longshore St 55th wd. 3,104 Sq.
Ft. OPA#552173400 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY June A. Warren a/k/a June
Warren C.P. May Term, 2017 No.
01702 $34,648.63 plus interest in
the amount of $3,930.24 Andrew R.
Stoll, Esquire
1907-508
8052 Mars Pl 19153 40th wd.
2,890 Sq. Ft. BRT#405890066 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Brian D. Hopkins,
Co-Personal Representative of
the Estate of Francine M. Caulk,
Deceased and Terri L. Williams,
Co-Personal Representative of the
Estate of Francine M. Caulk, De-
SHERIFF’S SALE
ceased C.P. January Term, 2017
No. 02984 $67,399.25 Law Office
of Gregory Javardian, LLC
1907-509
2328 Benson St 19152 56th wd.
3,116 Sq. Ft. BRT#562136500 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Jammie M. Lyani
C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 01533
$180,448.62 Law Office of Gregory
Javardian, LLC
1907-510
5213 N Marshall St 19120 49th
wd. OPA#492113800 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ERECTED THEREON
Lan Toung Ly C.P. January Term,
2018 No. 04946 $56,230.14 Chris-
tina J. Pross, Esquire; Robert W.
Williams, Esquire
1907-511
2069 Larue St 19124 41st wd.
1,111 Sq. Ft. BRT#411013300 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Michelle Tomaselli
C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 01041
$32,870.09 Law Office of Gregory
Javardian, LLC
1907-512
6743 Guyer Ave 19142 40th wd.
1,105 Sq. Ft. BRT#406313400 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Mary Joanna Wood,
Madeline Andrews, Co-Personal
Representative of the Estate of
William J. Wood a/k/a William Jo-
seph Wood, Deceased and Donnie
Andrews, Co-Personal Represen-
tative of the Estate of William J.
Wood a/k/a William Joseph Wood,
Deceased C.P. January Term, 2018
No. 00872 $36,738.03 Law Office
of Gregory Javardian, LLC
1907-513
1326 S Broad St, Apt 1F 19146 36th
wd. 429 Sq. Ft. OPA#888010148
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Melissa A.
Herd C.P. September Term, 2016
No. 03017 $242,912.94 Meredith
H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas
Kochalski, LLC
1907-514
4334 Marple St 19136 65th wd.
1,157 Sq. Ft. BRT#651092200 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
DWELLING Elizabeth Y. Watson
C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 00701
$29,581.30 Law Office of Gregory
Javardian, LLC
1907-515
1446 Creston St 19149 54th wd.
1,271 Sq. Ft. OPA#541007300
Subject to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Jessica Cotto, a/k/a Jessica
M. Cotto; Alexander Lebron C.P.
January Term, 2017 No. 04381
$67,349.93 Justin F. Kobeski, Es-
quire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC
1907-516
2018 N 25th St 19121-1302 32nd
wd. Situate on the West side of
25th Street at the distance of 145
feet Northwardly from the North
side of Norris Street. Containing in
front or breadth on 25th Street, 16
feet and extending width in length
or depth Westward between paral-
lel lines at right angels with 25th
Street, 70 feet to a 3 feet wide al-
ley which leads Southwardly into
Norris Street and Northwardly into
another 3 feet wide alley which
leads Eastwardly into 25th Street
OPA#322181100 Subject to Mort-
gage IMPROVEMENTS: NONE
Pamla D. Smith C.P. September
Term, 2018 No. 002249 $28,927.56
1907-517
8124 Thouron Ave 19150-
2417 50th wd. 1,534 Sq. Ft.
OPA#502153100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Unknown Successor Ad-
ministrator of the Estate of Queenie
Carter a/k/a Queenie Esther Canady
Carter a/k/a Queenie Ester Carter,
Deceased; Regina D. Kornegay, in
Her Capacity as Heir of Queenie
Carter a/k/a Queenie Esther Canady
Carter a/k/a Queenie Ester Carter,
Deceased; Robert D. Kornegay, II,
in His Capacity as Heir of Queenie
Carter a/k/a Queenie Esther Canady
Carter a/k/a Queenie Ester Carter,
Deceased; Bridgette C. Kornegay,
in Her Capacity as Heir of Queenie
Carter a/k/a Queenie Esther Canady
Carter a/k/a Queenie Ester Carter,
Deceased; Unknown heirs, succes-
SHERIFF’S SALE
sors, assigns, and all persons, firms,
or associations claiming right, title,
or interest from or under Queenie
Carter a/k/a Queenie Esther Canady
Carter a/k/a Queenie Ester Carter,
Deceased; Germaine Kornegay,
in Her Capacity as Administratrix
and Heir of the Estate of Maurice
M. Kornegay a/k/a Maurice Milton
Kornegay, Deceased Administrator
and Heir of the Estate of Queenie
Carter a/k/a Queenie Esther Canady
Carter a/k/a Queenie Ester Carter,
Deceased; Unknown heirs, succes-
sors, assigns, and all persons, firms,
or associations claiming right, title,
or interest from or under Maurice
M. Kornegay a/k/a Maurice Milton
Kornegay, Deceased Administrator
and Heir of The Estate of Queenie
Carter a/k/a Queenie Esther Canady
Carter a/k/a Queenie Ester Carter,
Deceased C.P. October Term, 2016
No. 01471 $257,786.87 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-518
3019 Fairdale Rd 19154-1803 66th
wd. 1,152 Sq. Ft. OPA#663024200
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Timothy J. Al-
geo, Jr C.P. November Term, 2017
No. 02912 $177,401.94 Phelan
Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-519
6523 Tulip St 19135-2823 41st
wd. 1,046 Sq. Ft. OPA#411450100
Subject to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Gregory Boyd C.P. May
Term, 2017 No. 04680 $74,135.19
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-520
753 Bergen St 19111-1328 63rd
wd. 1,572 Sq. Ft. OPA#632031400
IMPROVEMENTS: RESI-
DENTIAL PROPERTY Tinatin
Zubashvili; Gabrielle A. Ward C.P.
September Term, 2017 No. 03182
$221,971.80 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-521
3303 Gransback St 19134-1712 7th
wd. 942 Sq. Ft. OPA#073162900
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Mirna M. Her-
nandez Fuentes C.P. December
Term, 2018 No. 03522 $29,828.07
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-522
6529 Kingsessing Ave 19142-
1906 40th wd. 1,120 Sq. Ft.
OPA#403115700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY James Sarr Borward, Jr,
in His Capacity as Heir of James
Borward a/k/a James Sarr Borward
a/k/a James S. Borward, Deceased;
Matu Borward, in Her Capacity as
Heir of James Borward a/k/a James
Sarr Borward a/k/a James S. Bor-
ward, Deceased; Unknown heirs,
successors, assigns, and all persons,
firms, or associations claiming
right, title, or interest from or under
James Borward a/k/a James Sarr
Borward, Deceased C.P. September
Term, 2018 No. 03024 $55,134.76
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-523
1414 S Napa St 19146-3405 36th
wd. 1,024 Sq. Ft. OPA#364443100
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY Tony Dixon,
in His Capacity as Heir of Annie
M. Dixon a/k/a Annie Dixon a/k/a
Annie Mae Dixon, Deceased; Un-
known heirs, successors, assigns,
and all persons, firms, or associa-
tions claiming right, title, or inter-
est from or under Annie M. Dixon
a/k/a Annie Dixon, Deceased C.P.
December Term, 2018 No. 01562
$16,800.58 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-524
5032 Locust St 19139 60th wd.
1,760 Sq. Ft. OPA#602081100 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Kinshasa Hunter a/k/a
Kinshasa K. Hunter C.P. April
Term, 2018 No. 02081 $181,464.69
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-525
4811-13 Garden St 19137 45th wd.
1,472 Sq. Ft. OPA#453343000 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
SHERIFF’S SALE
PROPERTY Michelle Minch C.P.
February Term, 2019 No. 00307
$191,762.32 Phelan Hallinan Dia-
mond & Jones, LLP
1907-526
1234 Marlborough St 19125-
3921 18th wd. 1,584 Sq. Ft.
OPA#181056700 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Cheryl Lutts, in Her Capac-
ity as Executrix and Devisee of the
Estate of Carl Lutts, Sr; Carl Lutts,
Jr, in His Capacity as Devisee of
the Estate of Carl Lutts, Sr; Brenda
Lutts, in Her Capacity as Heir of
the Estate of Carl Lutts, Sr C.P. July
Term, 2012 No. 01198 $96,708.78
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-527
3020 N Ringgold St 19132-
1328 38th wd. 1,000 Sq. Ft.
OPA#381027900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Robin Highsmith, Indi-
vidually and in Her Capacity as
Administratrix of the Estate of
Ellen Highsmith a/k/a Ellen Rae
Highsmith; Rhonda D. Highsmith,
in Her Capacity as Heir of the Es-
tate of Ellen Highsmith a/k/a Ellen
Rae Highsmith; Unknown heirs,
successors, assigns, and all persons,
firms, or associations claiming
right, title, or interest from or under
Ellen Highsmith a/k/a Ellen Rae
Highsmith, Deceased C.P. March
Term, 2018 No. 00700 $24,108.46
Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones,
LLP
1907-528
7626 Wyndale Ave 19151-
2707 34th wd. 1,120 Sq. Ft.
OPA#343178100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Crystal Y. Light a/k/a Crystal
Light C.P. October Term, 2010 No.
01104 $104,366.28 Phelan Hal-
linan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1907-529
2526 W Cumberland St a/k/a 2526
W. Cumberland St 19132 28th wd.
1,726 Sq. Ft. BRT#281268000
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Robert G. Riley
C.P. July Term, 2018 No. 00310
$49,812.78 Powers Kirn, LLC
1907-530
501 E Tulpehocken St 19144
59th wd. Land Area: 3,077 Sq.
Ft.; Improvement Area: 2,048 sq.
ft. OPA#592119200 Chauntae
Hopkins; Darrin K. Hopkins, Sr
$182,749.14 Robert Crawley, Esq
1907-531
2639 S Felton St 19142 40th wd.
1,148 Sq. Ft. BRT#402115800
IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY
MASONRY Patrick S. Carrigan
and David Colletta C.P. October
Term, 2017 No. 00079 $51,777.81
Milstead & Associates, LLC
1907-532
1917-223 W Oxford St 19121
47th wd. 10,556 Sq. Ft.; 17,456
sq. ft. OPA#881439750 IM-
PROVEMENTS: APT. BOARD-
ING HOME MASONRY Oxford
Investments, LP C.P. April Term,
2019 No. 00655 $2,090,338.47
Phillip D. Berger, Esq., Berger Law
Group, PC
1907-533A
1944 E. Westmoreland St
19134 45th wd. 718 Sq. Ft.
BRT#452034900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY
Anthony Pizzaro C.P. November
Term, 2015 No. 03086 $100,000
plus interest from 03/26/2019 in
the amount of $1,627.56 Laurence
A. Mester; Mester & Schwartz, P.C.
1907-533B
1946 E. Westmoreland St
19134 45th wd. 778 Sq. Ft.
BRT#884349900 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY
Anthony Pizzararo C.P. November
Term, 2015 No. 03086 $100,000
plus interest from 03/26/2019 in
the amount of $1,627.56 Laurence
A. Mester; Mester & Schwartz, P.C.
1907-534A
270 W Washington Ln 19144 59th
wd. 4,897 Sq. Ft. OPA#593083000
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY James J. Clark,
Sr. Solely in His Capacity as Heir
of James J. Clark, Deceased, The
Unknown Heirs of James F. Moritz,
SHERIFF’S SALE
Deceased, Jeff Moritz Solely in
His Capacity as Heir of James F.
Moritz, Deceased and Berta Nell
Clark Solely in Her Capacity as
Heir of James J. Clark, Deceased
C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 02615
$92,886.29 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-534B
270 W Washington Ln 19144 59th
wd. 4,897 Sq. Ft. OPA#593083100
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL PROPERTY James J. Clark,
Sr. Solely in His Capacity as Heir
of James J. Clark, Deceased, The
Unknown Heirs of James F. Moritz,
Deceased, Jeff Moritz Solely in
His Capacity as Heir of James F.
Moritz, Deceased and Berta Nell
Clark Solely in Her Capacity as
Heir of James J. Clark, Deceased
C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 02615
$92,886.29 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-535A
777 S. 3rd St #1, 777 S 3rd St
#2, 228-230 Catharine St Rear
#4 19147 2nd wd. 766 Sq. Ft.
OPA#022134120 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Richard Braude C.P. No-
vember Term, 2018 No. 00988
$105,659.54 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-535B
777 S 3rd St #2 19147 2nd wd.
766 sq. ft. OPA#022134130 IM-
PROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Richard Braude C.P.
November Term, 2018 No. 00988
$105,659.54 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-535C
228-230 Catharine St Rear
#4 19147 2nd wd. 253 sq. ft.
OPA#022045650 IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Richard Braude C.P. No-
vember Term, 2018 No. 00988
$105,659.54 KML Law Group, P.C.
1907-536
6069 Frankford Ave 19135 62nd
wd. Improvement Area: 1472
Sq. Ft.; Land Area: 1280 Sq. Ft.
OPA#622221100 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY
MASONRY; RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTY Unknown Heir(s) of
the Estate of Catherine P. Mitchell,
deceased, and the Estate of Cath-
erine P. Mitchell, deceased C.P.
January Term, 2018 No. 02351
$119,340.27 Ryan A. Gower &
Joseph J. Lee; Duane Morris LLP
1907-537
3618 Belgrade St 19134 45th
wd. Improvement Area: 717
Sq. Ft.; Land Area: 896 Sq. Ft.
OPA#451339500 IMPROVE-
MENTS: ROW 2 STY MASON-
RY; RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
Gina Farreny a/k/a Gina DiLauren-
tis Farreny, in her capacity as sole
known heir of the Estate of Joyce
DiLaurentis, Deceased C.P. March
Term, 2018 No. 03299 $58,685.25
Ryan A. Gower & Joseph J. Lee;
Duane Morris LLP
1907-538A
3241 Joyce St 19134 45th wd.
6,100 Sq. Ft. BRT#452290900
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Tina M. Naples
C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 00577
$127,148.52 Powers Kirn, LLC
1907-538B
3243 Joyce St 19134 45th wd.
6,100 Sq. Ft. BRT#452291000
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDEN-
TIAL DWELLING Tina M. Naples
C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 00577
$127,148.52 Powers Kirn, LLC
Philadelphia
Sheriff’s
Office.
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Tyler Henry: The Hollywood Medium Jim Gaffigan | Saturday, August 24 Saturday, November 16 NEW SHOWS ADDED!
Friday & Saturday, July 19 & 20
Rock The Yacht: Featuring Your Favorite Rock Yacht Shin Lim | Saturday, January 11, 2020
Sarah Silverman & Friends | Saturday, July 20 Hits of the 70s and 80s | Saturday, August 24
Brit Floyd | Friday, July 26 Gabriel Iglesias | Friday, August 30

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7/3/19 – 7/7/19. No play required for activation. Rules and regulations will be available at the M life® Rewards Center. Subject to change or cancellation. Winners are responsible for all state and federal taxes.
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