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washingtonblade.com • vol. 41, issue 50 • december 10, 2010 • Still sharp after 40 years

Rollercoaster week for ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal

Senate takes up issue as time runs
short for lame duck session
Editor’s note: The Senate was expected to vote on repeal of ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ after the Blade went to press. Visit washingtonblade.
com for updated news.

By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com

Efforts to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” continued on Capitol Hill this
week as Senate leaders engaged in negotiations to bring on Republi-
can support to advance the legislation.
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) post-
poned a planned vote on major defense budget legislation containing
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to allow more time to come to an agreement on
procedural issues.
Jim Manley, a Reid spokesperson, said the vote on moving forward
with the fiscal year 2011 defense authorization bill could come as early
as Thursday. Check the Blade’s website (washingtonblade.com) for
the latest updates on the vote.
The major players involved in the Senate negotiations are Reid as
well as Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), the sponsor of repeal legis-
lation in the Senate, and Susan Collins (R-Maine), who supports repeal Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
and is seen as the most likely Republican to vote in favor of moving
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) emerged as a major player in the repeal of the military’s gay ban this week and the
most likely Republican to vote in favor of moving forward with the legislation.
Continues on page 16

Officer accused of anti-trans assault

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Police chief says incident under investigation
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
D.C. police last week arrested a transgender woman for spraying a chemical repellent into the face
of a man who she says called her names and assaulted her before identifying himself as an off-duty
District police officer.
Chloe Alexander Moore, 25, was charged with simple assault following a 2 a.m. incident on Dec.
1 along the 1500 block of K St., N.W. According to court records, Officer Raphael Radon alleges that
Moore squirted him with pepper spray in an unprovoked action following a brief exchange of words.
But two police sources said a sergeant and detective who responded to the scene determined
through interviews with witnesses that Officer Radon initiated the altercation and may have committed
a bias-related assault against Moore.
The police sources, who spoke on condition that they were not identified, said a night supervisor
apprised of the incident by phone while at her office at the First District D.C. Police station overrode
the recommendations of the sergeant and detective and ordered that Moore be charged with simple
assault.
Officer Radon was not charged in the incident.
Continues on page 2
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LOCALNEWS
Council restores proposed cuts for AIDS groups
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The D.C. City Council Tuesday
voted to restore $427,000 in pro-
posed cuts by Mayor Adrian Fenty
in city funding for community-
based AIDS organizations, includ-
ing the Whitman-Walker Clinic.
At the request of Mayor-elect
Vincent Gray, who is finishing his
term as Council chair, the Coun-
cil approved a series of revisions
to the mayor’s budget proposal
that included restoring the cuts
for groups that provide HIV-relat-
ed services to city residents.
The action came during a
marathon session that lasted
until 9 p.m. in which the Coun-
cil grappled with reconciling a
projected $188 million budget
shortfall the city is facing for fis-
cal year 2011 and far greater
Off-duty officer accused of anti-trans assault
Continued from page 1
A police report filed in court
identifies the supervisor as
Capt. Michelle Williams, who
was acting as the First District
watch commander. The police
sources said Williams gave the
order to charge Moore in the
case while speaking to officers
on the scene by phone.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy
Lanier said this week that the
department’s Internal Affairs
Bureau was investigating the
incident.
“Both the officer and the ar-
restee received medical treat-
ment in relation to the occur-
rence,” Lanier told the Blade
in an e-mail. “Additionally, this
matter was properly reported
as per our protocols and is al-
ready under investigation. Rest
assured we will also address
these allegations in our investi-
gation.”
Moore, whose legal name is
Alexander Moore, was taken to
the First District at 101 M St.,
S.W., for booking and later to
George Washington University
Hospital before being trans-
ferred to the police Central Cell-
block at 300 Indiana Ave., N.W.,
where she remained until being
taken to court.
Court records show she
pleaded not guilty before a D.C.
Superior Court magistrate and
was released on her own recog-
nizance. She was scheduled to
return to court on Dec. 13 for a
status hearing.
Moore told the Blade the in-
expected shortfalls for the fol-
lowing two years.
Gay D.C. Council member
David Catania (I-At-Large), who
chairs the Council’s Committee
on Health, said he was pleased
that his colleagues backed
Gray’s proposal to restore the
AIDS-related funds.
But he said a decision by the
city to participate in an expand-
ed Medicaid reimbursement
program for low-income resi-
dents under President Obama’s
health insurance reform pack-
age would likely have offset the
cuts even if the Council did not
restore them.
Catania said the funds Fenty
proposed cutting were for paying
community-based service pro-
viders like Whitman-Walker Clinic
to perform a variety of HIV-relat-
ed services for low-income resi-
D.C Police Chief Cathy Lanier confirmed that the Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating an incident in which an
off-duty officer allegedly assaulted a transgender woman.
cident began when she and a
female transgender friend were
walking along the 1500 block of
K St., N.W., and crossed paths
with the man later identified as
Officer Radon. Moore said Ra-
don was with two friends, a man
and a woman.
“We didn’t have a lighter and
we see a gentleman who had a
cigarette lit,” Moore said. “My
friend goes and asks for a light
and he said, ‘Hey ladies, how
you doing?’ And we said we’re
doing fine.”
According to Moore, as Ra-
don got closer to the two he
realized they were transgender.
dents, including HIV testing and
counseling. He said the expand-
ed Medicaid coverage made
possible under the Obama health
reform program, which Congress
approved last year, now enables
community clinics to obtain reim-
bursement for their services from
patients’ Medicaid or other health
insurance providers.
He noted that that phase
of the Obama health program
went into effect this year.
Due to a shortfall in tax rev-
enue caused by the recession,
Catania, Gray and other Council
members said during Tuesday’s
Council session that cuts would
be needed in city spending. The
said a failure to either cut the
budget or approve steep tax in-
creases could lead the city into
bankruptcy or to a congressio-
nal take-over of the city’s budget
“He was like, ‘I’m not go-
ing to give you a light because
you’re a man,’” said Moore, who
added that Radon suddenly be-
came hostile and began making
disparaging comments about
her appearance, especially the
dress she was wearing.
“He said he could see my
dick and my balls. And he was
very hostile and angry and I
was afraid of what he would do
and then he pushed me,” Moore
said. “Not knowing if he was go-
ing to really hurt me I got real
scared and in self-defense I
pepper sprayed him.”
Moore said she immediately
process similar to the one that
occurred in the early 1990s.
“Ninety-four percent of our
residents now have health insur-
ance,” Catania said. “We have
the second lowest rate of unin-
sured in the country. As such,
providers are going to have to
work harder to get reimbursed
from insurance companies that
provide reimbursement as op-
posed to simply relying on local
city grants,” he said.
“Everyone has to roll up their
sleeves and work harder,” he said.
Whitman-Walker Executive
Director Don Blanchon said that
if the Fenty cuts were approved
by the Council, a $145,000 city
grant to the clinic for HIV test-
ing and counseling would have
been cut by $14,500, reducing
the grant to $130,500.
Blanchon said a separate city
Photo courtesy of the D.C. Police Department
ran from the scene, with Radon
chasing after her for nearly two
blocks.
“He grabbed the back of my
neck and he throws me on the
ground,” Moore said. “My mid-
section was on the curb and
he puts his knee in my back
real hard, and it caused a lot of
pain.”
It was at that time, according
to Moore, that Radon pulled out
his badge and identified himself
to her as a police officer. Within
seconds, she said, uniformed,
on-duty police officers ap-
peared on the scene. Minutes
later she said she was placed in
grant of $144,500 for HIV-related
legal services for low-income
patients at the Clinic’s Max Rob-
inson facility in Anacostia also
would have been targeted for
reduction, although he did not
know the size of the reduction.
Ron Simmons, executive
director of Us Helping Us, a
community-based group that
provides HIV-related services to
black gay men, said his group
expected to receive a similar cut
in an HIV testing and counseling
grant from the city had the Coun-
cil approved the proposed cuts.
Simmons and Blanchon
noted that the overwhelming
amount of funding for the city’s
AIDS programs, especially pa-
tient medical care, comes from
the federal government through
the Ryan White CARE Act and is
not subject to city budget cuts.
handcuffs and a short time later
placed inside a police car.
“We stayed out there about
three hours after it occurred,
waiting to see what was go-
ing to happen,” said Moore.
“The police were talking among
themselves and trying to make
up their minds what they were
going to do.”
She said the officers initially
ignored her request that they
call an ambulance to examine
her because she was in pain
from being knocked down by
Radon.
Eventually an ambulance
arrived, but she observed Ra-
don getting inside and being
taken away.
“He was saying his eyes
were burning,” she said.
A police report filed in court
says the incident began about
2:05 a.m. and that Moore was
placed under arrest at 4:26 a.m.
“At approximately 0426 the
undersigned officer was or-
dered to place D1 [Defendant
1] under arrest for simple as-
sault,” says the report prepared
by an officer identified only as
B. Dass.
“The order was given by the
1D Watch Commander (Capt.
Williams) through Lt. Dykes.
“Then D1 was transported to
1D for further processing,” the
report says.
The report gives Officer
Radon’s account of what hap-
pened, saying he told an officer
responding to the scene that he
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LOCALNEWS
Gay GOP donor helped fund ‘Hide/Seek’ exhibit
N.Y. businessman
wants crucifix video
restored
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
A gay Republican business-
man from New York who led the
fundraising campaign to under-
write the National Portrait Gal-
lery’s gay exhibit “Hide/Seek”
has added his voice to those
calling on the gallery to reinstate
a controversial video by the late
gay artist David Wojnarowicz.
Donald Capoccia, a real
estate developer who was ap-
pointed by President George
W. Bush in 2001 to serve on
the U.S. Commission on Fine
Arts, and his partner, Tommie
Pegues, sent a letter this week
to the head of the Smithsonian
Institution requesting that the
video be “returned to the exhi-
bition floor, without fail, and as
soon as possible.”
The role of Capoccia and
other gay donors who helped
fund the exhibit has been over-
shadowed by a series of events
beginning Dec. 1, when Nation-
al Portrait Gallery director Mar-
tin Sullivan removed the Wojn-
arowicz video from the exhibit.
Sullivan said he acted in re-
sponse to complaints by the
Catholic League and Republi-
can members of Congress that
an 11-second segment of the
video, which showed ants crawl-
ing over a crucifix, was offensive
and an anti-Christian slur.
“I regret that some reports
Police investigating assault of trans woman
Continued from page 2
was approached by “two trans-
genders who engaged him and
[Witness 1] and [Witness 2] in
conversation.”
According to the report, Ra-
don said the two transgender
women asked him for a ciga-
rette light and then asked him
where he was going.
“It’s unclear which witness
pointed across the street to a
club,” the report says. “[Moore]
then stated, ‘We have every-
thing better than where you’re
going for $10,” the report said
Radon told officers at the scene.
“Officer Radon then told
[Moore], ‘No thank you, I am not
into guys.” “And told [Moore]
about the exhibit have created an
impression that the video is inten-
tionally sacrilegious,” Sullivan said
in a statement. “In fact, the artist’s
intention was to depict the suffer-
ing of an AIDS victim. It was not the
intention of the museum to offend.
We have removed the video.”
News of Sullivan’s deci-
sion, which surfaced on World
AIDS Day, prompted an outcry
among gay and AIDS activists
and leaders of the arts commu-
nity, who denounced the action
as a form of censorship.
Sullivan told the New York
Times he was sympathetic to
the activists and artists who
decried the decision to pull the
video. He said his decision,
which he said had the support
of the leaders of the Smithson-
ian Institution, was aimed at
quelling a “distraction” from the
overall exhibit, which features
important works from leading
gay and lesbian artists.
The National Portrait Gallery is
an arm of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, which, among other things,
operates the federally funded
museums in the nation’s capital.
Among those who criticized
the video and the exhibit itself
were Rep. John Boehner (R-
Ohio), who will become Speaker
of the House in January, and
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who will
become majority leader at the
same time, when Republicans
assume control of the House.
Rep. James Moran (D-Va.),
whose district includes the
Northern Virginia suburbs just
outside D.C., said Boehner and
Cantor along with other Repub-
licans were exploiting an exhib-
‘You don’t know who you’re
talking to,’” the report says.
“[Moore] then pulled out a can
of pepper spray and sprayed
Officer Radon in the face. Of-
ficer Radon then pulled out his
MPDC credentials at which time
[Moore] ran [eastbound] on K
Street,” the report says.
“Officer Radon gave foot
pursuit and then an apprehen-
sion was made in the 1400
block of K Street. Both Witness
1 and Witness 2 collaborated
[Radon’s] statements,” the re-
port says.
But the report says two other
witnesses backed up Moore’s
version of what happened. One
of the two apparently is the
transgender woman who was
A video featuring a crucifix covered in ants triggered outrage from con-
gressional Republicans and led to what some call censorship of the gay-
themed exhibit.
it, in which just 11 seconds of
a single video was offensive to
some, for political gain.
Cantor said his concern was
that the Smithsonian Institution,
of which the National Portrait
Gallery is a part, was using
government funds to pay for an
exhibit that was highly offensive
to many Americans.
Cantor and other critics of the
exhibit dismissed assertions by
Smithsonian officials that private
donors picked up the cost of the
exhibit, saying taxpayer funds
are used for the upkeep of the
building and to pay the salaries
with Moore. The report, which
does not identify any of the
witnesses by name, suggests
that Witness 3 may have been
standing nearby and was not
with any of the others involved
in the incident.
“Witness 3 recounted the
same story as D1 [Defendant
1—Moore],” the police report
says.
Local attorney Dale Edwin
Saunders, who practices crimi-
nal law in the District, described
as “highly unusual” the decision
by police and the United States
Attorney’s office to charge
Moore in the case.
“This person would have
never been arrested or papered
if the complaining witness had
december 10, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 7
of Portrait Gallery employees
who operate the exhibit.
The National Portrait Gallery
has called the exhibit, “Hide/
Seek: Difference and Desire in
American Portraiture,” the na-
tion’s first major museum exhi-
bition to “focus on sexual differ-
ence in the making of modern
American portraiture.”
LGBT activists involved in
the arts have said the exhibit
also shows how gay artists,
through their varied works, have
grappled with anti-gay bias
and prejudice against differ-
ent forms of gender expression
been a civilian,” Saunders said.
“The defendant had two wit-
nesses corroborating her ver-
sion of the events.”
The U.S. Attorney’s office,
which prosecutes most crimi-
nal cases in D.C., could not
immediately be reached for
comment.
Moore, who said she’s un-
employed, acknowledged that
she had been arrested on an
unrelated solicitation for prosti-
tution charge on Nov. 20 along
the 300 block of K St., N.W., in
an area known to be frequent-
ed by transgender prostitutes.
She called the arrest unjustified
and said she is challenging it
in court.
She said she’s also planning
over the past century.
Phillip Clark, chair of the board
of D.C.’s Rainbow History Project,
called David Wojnarowicz, a gay
man who died of AIDS in 1992,
an important figure in the LGBT
arts community. Clark noted that
Wojnarowicz used ants in his vid-
eo and still photography works
as a symbol for depicting human
suffering and injustice.
“The image of the Christ fig-
ure attacked by ants in ‘A Fire
in My Belly’ [the name of the
Wojnarowicz video pulled from
the exhibit], far from being sac-
rilegious, is actually a commen-
tary on the destructiveness of
society toward AIDS patients in
the 1980s,” Clark said.
D.C. gay rights advocate
Charles Francis, who recruited
former President Gerald Ford
to become a board member
of a national gay GOP group,
the Republican Unity Coalition,
before Francis left the Repub-
lican Party in 2004, called on
the LGBT community to remain
supportive of the Smithsonian.
Francis, who joined Capoccia
in contributing money to the Hide/
Seek exhibit, said he disagrees
with the decision by the Portrait
Gallery to remove the Wojnarow-
icz video. But he said the gallery
and the Smithsonian as a whole
have been supportive of LGBT-
related projects in recent years.
“The Smithsonian is doing
a great job step by step in ex-
panding and including LGBT
Americans in the stories they
tell, in the collections they
show,” he said. “I think it’s time
for the gay community to rally
around the Smithsonian.”
to file a police abuse complaint
against Officer Radon and was
in the process of seeking assis-
tance from Transgender Health
Empowerment, a transgender
advocacy group.
Transgender activist Jeri
Hughes, who is on the T.H.E.
staff, said transgender women
who can’t find work, often due
to anti-transgender bias, some-
times turn to prostitution “to
survive.” Hughes said the facts
surrounding Moore’s interaction
with Officer Radon strongly sug-
gest her arrest was a “miscar-
riage of justice” and called on
police to thoroughly investigate
the incident.
Radon could not be immedi-
ately reached for comment.
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forces that we are asking so much of
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back from the survey, my recommen-
dation is that we should not implement
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day in a two-day series of hearings on
the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
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week. During the previous hearing,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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lief that gays should be able to serve
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raised their concerns and criticism
about the Pentagon report.
Pentagon leaders — as well as
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tary Robert Gates and Mullen as well as
both co-chairs of the Pentagon working
group report: Pentagon general coun-
sel Jeh Johnson and Gen. Carter Ham,
commander of U.S. Army Europe.
The witnesses endorsed the Penta-
gon report and its findings pave a way
for the Defense Department to institute
an end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” if Con-
gress repeals the statute. The defense
officials urged senators to take action
to repeal the law.
In his opening statement, Mullen
said the Pentagon report backs his ear-
lier testimony from February in which
he said he personally believes gays
should serve openly in the U.S. military.
“I am convinced that repeal of the
law governing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
is the right thing to do,” Mullen said.
“Back in February, when I testified to
this sentiment, I also said that I be-
lieved the men and women of the
armed forces could accommodate
such a change. But I did not know it
for a fact. Now, I do.”
But Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a
leading opponent of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” repeal in the Senate, attempted
to poke holes in the report during the
hearing.
One of McCain’s main concerns was
that the surveys sent out to 400,000
service members as part of the report
– which were returned by about 115,000
respondents – didn’t ask troops whether
they favored a change in “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” and instead focused on im-
plementation of repeal.
“What I want to know and what it is
that Congress is going to be determin-
ing is not can our armed forces imple-
ment a repeal of this law, but whether
the law should be repealed,” McCain
said. “Unfortunately, that key issue
was not the focus of the study.”
McCain also argued that the lim-
ited number of troops who responded
to the survey — around 28 percent —
undermines the results.
“That’s almost six percent of the
force at large,” McCain said. “I find it
hard to view that that is a fully repre-
sentative sample set.”
But Ham said the 28 percent re-
sponse rate is well within the norm for
previous surveys for military person-
nel.
“I’m comfortable that the response
rate overall is within norms and prob-
ably more importantly, senator, that
each category that can be analyzed
has a statistically significant number
of responses,” Ham said.
Aubrey Sarvis, executive direc-
tor of the Servicemembers Legal De-
fense Network, later rebuked McCain
for suggesting that service members
should be polled on whether they want
to repeal ”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“That would be a dangerous prec-
edent to set irrespective of how you
feel about ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” Sarvis
said. “That has never been done on any
major personnel policy initiative that the
military has undertaken. Never.”
Sarvis also pushed back on claims
that the 28 percent response rate on
the survey was insufficient as he main-
tained the number represented “an ex-
traordinary response rate.”
“As a matter of fact, I think … most
pollsters would gratified by such a re-
sponse,” Sarvis said.
Repeal advocates had been await-
ing statements from the service chiefs
on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” following the
release of the Pentagon report. In May,
the service chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air
Force and Marine Corps sent a letter to
Congress urging lawmakers not to take
action until the study was complete.
While the service chiefs had differ-
ing views on whether Congress should
act to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,”
they each expressed concerns to
some degree on the implementation of
open service.
Roughead expressed unease that
the Pentagon report showed that
sailors in irregular warfare special-
ties, such as the Navy SEALS, ex-
pressed greater negativity over repeal
and a lower propensity to reenlist than
other sailors.
“While these effects may not be
fully realized, these specialties must
be monitored closely to ensure we
are positioned and resourced to re-
spond to changes over the long-term,”
Roughead said. “We cannot assume
these projected retention losses away
and we must take into account the
past, current and future combat em-
ployment of these combat specialties.”
But even the service chiefs who
said they opposed repeal expressed
confidence in their branch’s ability
to implement a change if ordered by
Congress.
Casey said if open service in the
U.S. military is properly implemented,
he doesn’t envision that it would pre-
vent the Army from accomplishing its
worldwide missions.
“We have a disciplined force and
seasoned leaders, who, with appro-
priate guidance and direction, can
oversee the implementation of the re-
peal with moderate risk to our military
effectiveness in the short-term, and
moderate risk to our ability to recruit
and retain our all-volunteer force over
time,” Casey said.
Members of the committee had dif-
ferent interpretations for what the tes-
timony of the service chiefs means for
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal in the
lame duck session of Congress.
McCain said the differing opinions
of the service chiefs demonstrates the
need to hold off on legislative action
on ending the military’s gay ban.
“I think it’s pretty obvious from
the comments made by certainly the
chiefs of staff — the service chiefs of
the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine
Corps today that there is significantly
divided opinion on this issue,” McCain
said. “It’s very obvious to me that there
is a lot more scrutiny and work in-
volved before passing this legislation.”
McCain said he wants to hear from
the senior enlisted personnel who
would be training service members on
the implementation of open service as
well as combatant commanders be-
fore Congress takes action.
But Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-
Conn.), the sponsor of repeal legis-
lation in the Senate, noted the chiefs
each expressed confidence that they
could faithfully execute a new policy
if given time to implement a change.
“My conclusion is that really, in the
end, all six of you favor repeal of ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell,’” Lieberman said.
Observing the service chiefs con-
cerns about implementation, Lieber-
man noted that repeal legislation
pending before the Senate requires
the president, the defense secre-
tary and the chair of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff to certify that the military is
ready for open service before repeal is
fully implemented.
The senator noted Defense Secre-
tary Gates said he wouldn’t certify open
service until he felt the service chiefs
were comfortable with moving forward.
Asked by Lieberman whether they were
assuaged by this statement, each of the
service chiefs said they comfortable
with Gates’ decision on when open ser-
vice could be implemented.
Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), a strong
proponent of repeal, similarly brought
out favorable responses for repeal
from the service chiefs when he asked
each of them if they were comfortable
with the certification process and with
their ability to implement repeal.
Each of the chiefs said they had
confidence in Gates’ decision and
their service’s ability to execute the
change in law.
“I believe we can implement the
policy and will implement the policy
with moderate risk to our short-term
effectiveness and long-term health of
the force,” Casey said.
Alex Nicholson, executive director
of Servicemembers United, said he
thought the testimony from the ser-
vice chiefs “actually went better” than
what he had expected.
“I think what it really brought out
was the point that although the service
chiefs and many people may have dif-
fering opinions on what they want to
happen and varying ways in which
they would like to see it go about hap-
pening,” Nicholson said. “In the end,
they seem to all agree that it’s possible
to make it happen and make it happen
in a safe and smooth way.”
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
said during her questioning that al-
though the direct question isn’t asked,
the survey does have information on
whether troops would support a repeal
of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“Given the extensive feedback that
the authors of the report and the task
force did and that they received from
tens of thousands of service members
in the forms of survey responses, e-
mails, and town hall meetings, the
report, in fact, does convey a sense
of what service members think about
repeal of the law, even if a direct ques-
tion was not included in the survey,”
Collins said.
The Maine senator voted for a “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal amendment
when it came before the committee
in May, but angered many LGBT ad-
vocates in September when she voted
with the Republican caucus to prevent
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” legislation from
coming to the Senate floor over what
she said was a lack of a fair amend-
ment process.
While attacking the methodology
of the report on day one of the hear-
ings, McCain also used information in
the study in his effort to derail legislative
efforts to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
He noted the survey accompanying
the report found that between 40 to 60
percent of service members serving in
the Marine Corps as well as combat
arms specialties predicted a negative
impact of repeal.
“I remain concerned as I have in
the past — and is demonstrated in
this study — that the closer we get to
service members in combat, the more
we encounter concerns about whether
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ should be re-
pealed and what impact that would
have on the ability of these units to
perform their mission,” McCain said.
During the hearing, Gates predict-
ed this opposition could be overcome.
The defense secretary said with “prop-
er time for preparation, for training”
concerns among these groups would
be mitigated.
For the example of Marines in com-
bat arms specialties, Gates noted that
many of those service members are
under 25 years old.
“Most of them have never served with
women either, and so they’ve had a very
focused, very limited experience in the
military … but I think that with time and
adequate preparation, we can mitigate
their concerns,” Gates said.
McCain also noted that 12.6 per-
cent of survey respondents — which
he said translates into 264,600 service
members — said they’d leave the U.S.
military sooner than they had planned
if “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is repealed.
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) also
expressed concerns about the effect
of lifting “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” on what
he said is historic levels of retention in
the U.S. military as he said, “If it ain’t
broke, don’t fix it.”
“Right now, we have probably the
best retention and recruitment per-
centages, over 100 percent, in every-
where except, I think, just the Army
guard, and there’s other reasons for
that,” Inhofe said. “There is some con-
cern to me about how this would af-
fect that.”
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NATIONALNEWS
Senate takes up ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal
Continued from page 1
forward with the defense legis-
lation.
In a brief exchange on Capi-
tol Hill, Lieberman expressed
optimism about the progress of
the negotiations and said the
parties involved are “getting
closer” to reaching an agree-
ment.
“The good news is that we
really do have the votes for the
defense authorization bill with
repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’”
Lieberman said. “It’s the ques-
tion of making sure that we don’t
miss the opportunity to fulfill our
responsibility to get both of
these things done because of
some procedural obstacles.”
In a statement, Collins said
she was “encouraged” that Reid
decided to hold off on the “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” vote that he had
initially planned for Wednesday.
“I urged him to do this so
that we could consider the tax
legislation first, which I believe
could be on the floor as early as
tomorrow and completed quick-
ly,” Collins said. “At that point, I
believe we could move immedi-
ately to the Defense Authoriza-
tion bill under a fair agreement,
and I would vote to do so.”
Last week, all 42 members of
the Republican caucus signed
a letter stating they would op-
pose moving forward with other
legislation until the Senate first
addresses the extension of the
Bush-era tax cuts and a con-
tinuing resolution to extend
funding of the U.S. government.
Additionally, many Repub-
lican senators — including
Collins — have said they want
a more open amendment pro-
cess on the defense authoriza-
tion than what was proposed
in September when a previous
attempt was made to bring the
legislation to the floor.
A Senate Democratic aide
told the Blade that Reid intends
to allow 10 Republican amend-
ments and five Democratic
amendments when the legisla-
tion comes to the floor.
Kevin Kelley, a Collins
spokesperson, said the remain-
ing issue isn’t the number of
amendments on the defense
authorization bill, but the time
allotted for debate for each of
the measures.
“She has asked for fair de-
bate on each amendment and
the question has been what is
fair,” Kelley said. “What I be-
lieve they’re talking about now
is basically two hours on each
amendment — one hour, Re-
publican, one hour, Democrat
— and then, there would be two
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) is lead sponsor of legislation to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and expressed
optimism this week that it would pass.
amendments that would each
have two hours of debate.”
With limited time remain-
ing on the legislative calen-
dar, talk is emerging about
extending the session beyond
the target date for adjourn-
ment on Dec. 17.
Lieberman said he’s been
asking Reid to extend the
legislative calendar until the
week before Christmas to give
lawmakers additional time to
work on the defense authori-
zation bill.
“It would be an outrage if
this doesn’t get done because
we didn’t take enough time,” he
said.
White House Press Secre-
tary Robert Gibbs told reporters
on Wednesday that President
Obama has been engaged with
Republican and Democratic
senators to build support for re-
pealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,”
although he declined to iden-
tify the senators with whom the
president has been speaking.
“On ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ I
think we are very, very close
to seeing that repeal happen,”
Gibbs said. “We’ve had impor-
tant endorsements over the past
few days that I think in many
ways is the result of the process
and survey that the Pentagon
issued last week. The president
is hopeful and encouraging
Democrats and Republicans to
get behind that.”
Since the release of the Pen-
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
tagon report last week, a num-
ber of senators who have here-
tofore been on the fence over
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal
have now come out in support
of repealing the law.
On Monday, Sen. Mark Pryor
(D-Ark.), who voted against the
motion to proceed on the de-
fense authorization bill in Sep-
tember, announced that he’s
now backing repeal and would
vote for cloture on the legislation.
“I have now carefully re-
viewed all of the findings, re-
ports, and testimony from our
armed forces on this matter and
I accept the Pentagon’s rec-
ommendations to repeal ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell,’” Pryor said. “I
also accept the Secretary of
Defense and Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs’ commitment that
this policy can be implemented
in a manner that does not harm
our military’s readiness, recruit-
ment or retention.”
Other Republican senators
have also come out for repeal,
although they haven’t stated
if this support translates into a
vote in favor of the motion to
proceed on the defense autho-
rization bill.
Among them is Sen. Scott
Brown (R-Mass.), who said
he’s basing his endorsement
of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal
on the Pentagon report and the
recommendations of Defense
Secretary Robert Gates.
“I accept the findings of
the report and support repeal
based on the secretary’s rec-
ommendations that repeal will
be implemented only when the
battle effectiveness of the forc-
es is assured and proper prep-
arations have been completed,”
Brown said.
On Wednesday, Sen. Lisa
Murkowski (R-Alaska) also is-
sued a statement saying she’s
ready to back an end to “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“America is the loser when
it denies those who are willing
to make the great sacrifices de-
manded of our men and women
in uniform the opportunity do
so on grounds of sexual orien-
tation,” she said. “I agree with
Defense Secretary Gates’ view
that the military can success-
fully implement a repeal of the
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ law pro-
vided that proper preparations
are implemented.”
Still, Murkowski said she wants
a more open amendment pro-
cess as a condition for her vote in
favor of moving forward with the
defense authorization bill.
“This is a weighty, policy-
laden bill that normally takes
several weeks to debate and
amend,” she said. “If the major-
ity attempts to push it through
allowing little or no debate or
votes on amendments, I will
be inclined to oppose those ef-
forts.”
But Sen. Richard Lugar (R-
Ind.), another Republican sena-
tor whom repeal advocates had
been courting, told the Blade
on Wednesday he has decided
to vote against cloture even
though he supports “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal.
“I’m not aware of Sen. Reid’s
plans, but we’ve been told we’d
have a vote on cloture on autho-
rization, and I plan to vote ‘no’
on that if that is what we’re vot-
ing on,” Lugar said.
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NATIONALNEWS
Lawyers cite procreation in defending Prop 8
Judges grill marriage
ban supporters in
televised court case
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
A lawyer defending Califor-
nia’s voter-approved ban on
same-sex marriage told a three-
judge federal appeals court
panel Monday that the ban
must be upheld to protect the
institution of marriage, which he
said is essential for procreation
and child rearing.
In a hearing that lasted more
than two hours, the panel of
judges for the San Francisco-
based Ninth Circuit U.S. Court
of Appeals fired sharp questions
at lawyers backing and oppos-
ing Proposition 8, the 2008 bal-
lot measure that repealed the
state’s same-sex marriage law.
But two of the three judges
appeared to subject the law-
yers defending Proposition 8 to
greater scrutiny and a stronger
challenge of their arguments.
That led some legal observers
to predict the liberal-leaning
court would likely uphold a de-
cision in August by a U.S. Dis-
trict Court judge declaring Prop
8 unconstitutional.
Judge Stephen Reinhardt, an
appointee of President Jimmy
Carter, is considered one of the
court’s strongest liberals and is
expected to act favorably toward
the two same-sex couples chal-
lenging Prop 8 in a case known
as Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
Judge Michael Hawkins, a
Clinton appointee, is also con-
sidered a liberal with a likely fa-
vorable leaning toward the gay
plaintiffs in the case. The third
judge on the panel, N. Randy
Smith, was appointed by Presi-
dent George W. Bush and served
as chair of the Idaho Republican
Party. Legal observers expect
him to vote to uphold Prop 8.
Smith is a graduate of
Brigham Young University and
media reports identified him as
a Mormon. The Mormon Church
supported the passage of Prop
8 and received criticism from
gay activists for encouraging
church members to contribute
millions of dollars into the Prop
8 election campaign.
Both the plaintiffs in the case
– two same-sex couples who are
challenging the gay marriage
ban – and supporters of Prop 8
have said they would appeal the
case to the U.S. Supreme Court
if the Ninth Circuit appeals court
rules against them. That would
bring the question of whether
gay marriage is protected by
the Constitution before the high
court for the first time.
“The key reason that mar-
riage has existed at all in any so-
ciety and at any time is that sex-
ual relationships between men
and women naturally produce
children,” said Charles Cooper,
one of two attorneys defending
Proposition 8 before the appeals
court hearing Monday.
Cooper sought to use the
procreation element of tradition-
al heterosexual marriage as one
of several “rational” reasons
why California could ban same-
sex marriage without violating
the U.S. Constitution.
U.S. District Court Judge
Vaughn Walker ruled in August
that Proposition 8 violated the
federal Constitution’s equal pro-
tection and due process claus-
es, in part, because there was
no rational reason to deny mari-
tal rights to same-sex couples.
In his arguments, Cooper
told the judges that when a re-
lationship between a man and
a woman becomes a sexual
one, “society immediately has
a vital interest in that.” Among
other things, “society needs the
creation of new life for the next
generation,” he said.
Society’s vital interests are
also threatened by the possi-
bility of “unintentional and un-
wanted pregnancy” and single
parent households in which
children have “poorer out-
comes,” he said.
“That sounds like a good argu-
ment for prohibiting divorce,” Judge
Hawkins said, drawing laughter
from the courtroom audience.
“But how does it relate to hav-
ing two males or two females
marry each other and raise chil-
dren as they can in California
and form a family unit where
children have a happy, healthy
home?” Hawkins asked. “I don’t
understand how that argument
says we ought to prohibit that.”
Cooper responded by reiter-
ating his procreation argument.
“The point and the question is
whether or not the State of Cali-
fornia has a rational reason for
drawing a distinction between
same-sex couples who can-
not, without the intervention of a
third party of the opposite sex,
procreate, and opposite-sex
couples who…can procreate.”
Theodore Olson, a prominent
Republican attorney and consti-
tutional law expert who surprised
his GOP colleagues by join-
ing the legal team challenging
Proposition 8, strongly disputed
claims that same-sex marriage
Ted Olson and David Boies were in court this week working to overturn
Prop 8. Supporters of California’s gay marriage ban may not have legal
standing to pursue the appeal and the issue is most likely headed for the
U.S. Supreme Court.
would harm or inhibit procreation
or the institution of marriage.
“Same-sex marriage is not
going to discourage heterosex-
ual people with heterosexual
marriage,” he told the judges
Monday. “It is not going to keep
them from getting divorced. It is
not going to have an effect at
all on their choice about having
children. On the other hand, the
elimination of Proposition 8 can-
not possibly hurt the heterosex-
ual relationship at all,” he said.
While Olson argued the mer-
its of why the appeals court
should uphold the lower court’s
finding that Proposition 8 is un-
constitutional, attorney David
Boies, a prominent Democrat
who teamed up with Olsen in
the legal challenge of Prop 8,
argued that Prop 8 supporters
lacked legal standing to appeal
the lower court ruling.
At the time he issued his rul-
ing in August overturning Prop
8 on constitutional grounds,
Judge Walker said a decision by
California Gov. Arnold Schwar-
zenegger and the state’s attor-
Photo courtesy of the Equal Rights Foundation
ney general, Jerry Brown, not to
appeal his ruling meant it was
unlikely that another party could
emerge with legal standing to
challenge Walker’s decision.
Walker issued a stay on his
own ruling so that the appeals
court would have a chance to
determine whether the same-
sex marriage ban should remain
in effect during the appeals pro-
cess. The Ninth Circuit court ex-
tended the stay until it issues its
own decision in the case.
But at Monday’s hearing, the
judges appeared sympathetic to
Boies’ arguments that the conser-
vative political advocacy groups
that organized the election cam-
paign for passage of Prop 8 in
2008 did not have legal standing
to appeal the lower court ruling.
Boies noted that Prop 8 was
a state law in the form of a state
constitutional amendment that
could only be defended in court
at the appeals level by the state
or an agent of the state.
A second attorney defend-
ing Prop 8 before the Ninth Cir-
cuit appeals court Monday ar-
gued that a deputy clerk who
processes marriage licenses in
California’s conservative leaning
Imperial County had joined the
defense team for the proposition.
The attorney, Robert Tyler, told
the judges that the deputy clerk
was a legitimate representative
of the state and thus had legal
standing to appeal the case.
But Judge Hawkins ap-
peared to join Boies in express-
ing strong doubt that the deputy
clerk had such standing.
Hawkins and the other appeals
court judges said Monday that
they would issue a decision on the
legal standing matter before they
consider the case on its merits.
If they determine the Prop 8 sup-
porters and their legal team don’t
have standing, they will send the
case back to Judge Walker, who
likely would order state officials to
cease enforcing Prop 8.
However, Prop 8 backers
would then be expected to im-
mediately appeal the case to
the U.S. Supreme Court and ask
the high court to reinstate a stay
to keep Prop 8 on the books un-
til the Supreme Court issues its
own decision in the case.
“I think the arguments made
even clearer to all of us that
the judges are wrestling with
whether this litigation even can
continue with the only party
seeking to appeal being those
who do not appear to have le-
gally recognizable interests in
this case,” said Jennifer Pizer,
an attorney with Lambda Legal.
“So I would not be at all sur-
prised if they decide that the
appeal should not proceed”
based on a lack of legal stand-
ing, Pizer said.
Meanwhile, one of the lead-
ing groups supporting Prop 8
issued a statement Monday
denouncing Ninth Circuit Judge
Reinhardt for refusing to recuse
himself from the case because
his wife is a prominent attorney
with the ACLU who has worked
to oppose Prop 8.
“This hearing makes a
mockery of the federal judicia-
ry,” said Brian Brown, president
of the National Organization for
Marriage. “Citizens are entitled
to a guarantee of impartiality
from their judiciary,” he said.
“Yet here we have the spectacle
of a federal appeals court jus-
tice ruling on a case in which
his wife represents a group that
is a participant.”
Reinhardt issued his own
statement last month saying his
wife’s views on the case would
not detract from his ability to be
fair and impartial in his ruling on
the case.
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NATIONALNEWS
Judge, lawyer spar over Prop 8 during hearing
The following exchange be-
tween attorney Charles Cooper,
one of the defenders of Propo-
sition 8, and Ninth Circuit U.S.
Appeals Court Judge Michael
Hawkins provides a glimpse
into the sometimes heated dia-
logue between the lawyers and
judges at Monday’s court hear-
ing in San Francisco on the
Prop 8 case.
In this exchange, Judge
Hawkins presses Cooper to
explain the constitutionally re-
quired “rational” basis for how
banning same-sex marriage
through Proposition 8 would
benefit the State of California.
Charles Cooper: We are ar-
guing that the test that applies
here is a rational basis test and
that any rational basis for the
opposite-sex traditional defini-
tion of marriage then that tra-
ditional definition of marriage
must be upheld. And only if
this court concludes that there
is nothing to say in favor of the
definition of marriage that has
prevailed in this country and in
all places essentially at all times
since time immemorial there’s
nothing to say in defense of it,
there’s no rational basis for it —
then this court would have to
strike it down.
But that is the test that we
submit to you that applies, your
honor. And we believe that there
is clearly a rational basis justi-
fying the traditional definition
of marriage. The key reason
that marriage has existed at all
in any society and at any time
is that sexual relationships be-
tween men and women natu-
rally produce children. Society
has no particular interest in a
platonic relationship between
a man and a woman, no matter
how close, no matter how com-
mitted it may be, or emotional
relationships between other
people as well.
But when a relationship be-
tween a man and a woman
becomes a sexual one, society
immediately has a vital interest
in that for two reasons. One, so-
ciety needs the creation of new
life for the next generation. But
secondly, society — its vital in-
terests are actually threatened
by the possibility that uninten-
tional and unwanted pregnancy
will mean that the child is born
out of wedlock and is raised
by, in all likelihood, its mother
alone. And that directly impli-
cates society’s vital interests,
both in terms of its immediate
interests because society will
have to step in and assist that
single parent in all likelihood.
A Washington Prop 8 protest shortly after the controversial measure passed
in November, 2008.
That is what usually happens in
the raising of that child. But as
well in the undeniable fact that
children raised in that circum-
stance have poorer outcomes
— when California law really says
Judge Michael Hawkins:
That sounds like a good argu-
ment for prohibiting divorce.
But how does it relate to having
two males or two females marry
each other and raise children as
they can in California and form a
family unit where children have
a happy, healthy home? I don’t
understand how that argument
says we ought to prohibit that.
Cooper: Your honor, the
point and the question is wheth-
er or not the State of California
has a rational reason for draw-
ing a distinction between same-
sex couples who cannot without
the intervention of a third party
of the opposite sex procreate,
and opposite-sex couples who
not only can procreate but can
do so unintentionally and cre-
ate unwanted pregnancies.
Washington Blade file photo
That is not a phenomenon that
exists with respect to same-sex
couples.
Hawkins: But what is the ra-
tional basis for an initiative that
that homosexual couples have
all the rights of marriage, all the
rights of child rearing, all the
rights that others have. What
is the rational basis, then, if, in
fact, the homosexual couples
have all of the rights that the
heterosexual couples have?
Cooper: We’re left with a
word — marriage.
Hawkins: What is the rational
basis for that?
Cooper: Your honor, you are
left with a word but a word that
is essentially the institution. And
if you redefine the institution,
if you redefine the word, you
change the institution. So you
cannot separate the two. The
name of marriage is effectively
the institution. And the issue
here is whether it will be rede-
fined essentially to be a gender-
less institution that bears little or
no relationship to the traditional
historic purpose of marriage.
Hawkins: Why aren’t the
merits of this case controlled
by Romer? [The 1996 U.S. Su-
preme Court decision Romer v.
Evans overturned Amendment
2, a Colorado state constitu-
tional amendment approved by
the voters that prohibited the
state and its local jurisdictions
from adopting laws protecting
gays from discrimination.] After
all, before the proposition was
passed in California, same-sex
couples had the right to marry.
The proposition takes it away.
Isn’t that exactly what the posi-
tion in Colorado did?
Cooper: Your honor, in
Romer the court was dealing
with a sweeping law that placed
undifferentiated burdens and
disqualifications on homosexu-
als —
Hawkins: So if you take away
a bunch of rights that’s bad, but
if you just take away one right
its OK?
Cooper: Your honor, it isn’t a
question of taking them away.
The Supreme Court
Hawkins: Did or did not
same-sex couples have the
right to marry before the pas-
sage of Proposition 8 in Califor-
nia?
Cooper: Your honor, the Cali-
fornia Supreme Court affirmed
they did, yes. And the people
of California disagreed with that
and the people of California re-
versed it.
Hawkins: How is that differ-
ent from Colorado? A few lo-
cal communities decided they
wanted to extend preferred sta-
tus to individuals — homosexu-
als, gays, lesbians, etc. And
the voters of Colorado passed
a proposition saying you can’t
do that. You have no right to do
that. Stop doing that.
Cooper: Your honor, Amend-
ment 2 rendered homosexuals
strangers to the law. It essentially
eliminated any and all protections
for homosexuals with respect to
the ordinary pursuits of civic life,
as the court put it. It was a sweep-
ing, undifferentiated — essentially
rendered them an isolated class
and strangers to the law all to-
gether. The court stressed that it
was an unprecedented and ardu-
ous prudence kind of statute.
The traditional definition of
marriage, your honor, is any-
thing but unprecedented in our
jurisprudence. It has existed
throughout the history of this
country. It has been the govern-
ing understanding and defini-
tion of marriage in this state
since its founding and through-
out the country and throughout
the world for all time. The defini-
tion of marriage is not anything
like the kind of statute that the
court was dealing with in Romer.
And in fact in this case I
would submit to you that your
question, your honor, is gov-
erned by the Crawford case,
where the court said it would
refuse to interpret the 14th
Amendment. And these are its
words to require the people of
the states to adhere to a judicial
construction to their state con-
stitution when that constitution
itself—that final authority in the
people.
Hawkins: You told us that
the people of California could
not reinstitute racial segrega-
tion in public education. So we
know there are some things they
cannot do without flying in the
face of the 14th Amendment.
The Romer case opens with a
quotation from Justice Harlan’s
dissent in Plessy [the infamous
1896 U.S. Supreme Court deci-
sion Plessy v. Ferguson that up-
held racial segregation laws un-
til it was overturned by the high
court’s 1954 decision Brown v.
the Board of Education]. And
here’s what Justice Kennedy
says: “The Constitution neither
knows nor tolerates classes
among citizens. Those words
are now understood to state a
commitment to the law’s neutral-
ity, for the rights of persons are
at stake.” Aren’t you flying right
in the face of that?
Cooper: Your honor, if there
are no reasons, no rational rea-
sons to distinguish between
citizens, then the Constitution
doesn’t permit the law to distin-
guish between them and treat
them differently.
Hawkins: The proponents of
the ballot initiative in Colorado
made the perfectly logical ar-
gument that all they were doing
was leveling the playing field.
And Justice Kennedy said that’s
not right. That’s not correct.
Cooper: And your honor it
wasn’t right. They were doing
much more than that. They were
essentially opening gays and
lesbians to public and private
discrimination and disabling
any governmental body from
intervening in that private dis-
crimination as Justice Kennedy
emphasized…
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VIEWPOINT
Democrats’ last chance for redemption
Editor’s note: The Viewpoint
pages were printed before
Senate action Wednesday on
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Visit
washingtonblade.com for up-
dated news and commentary
on the status of repeal.
By KEVIN NAFF
The Democrats’ sloppy and
so far inadequate attempts at
repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
have led to all sorts of dramatic
commentary: Repeal is dead!
Obama is finished! He won’t run
for re-election!
Repeal may or may not be
dead, but let’s at least allow
Sen. Harry Reid and the rest
of the Senate to finish the lame
duck session before making
such dire pronouncements.
Reid on Monday reiterated on
the Senate floor his intent to
push repeal during the lame
duck; the administration must
by now understand it needs to
deliver a high-profile victory to
its progressive base. The votes
are there, all that’s needed is
enough time to debate the full
VIEWPOINT
I can see repeal from my front porch
GOP delivered
the votes, now it’s
Obama’s turn
By ROBERT TURNER
There has been a lot of talk
in last few weeks about “Don’t
Ask Don’t Tell” in and around
the United States Senate. First,
there were 13 senators (Joe
Lieberman and 12 Democrats)
who held a press conference
to announce that they had the
60 votes to beat back a John
McCain-led filibuster.
Lieberman said that repeal-
ing the gay ban was merely a
question of process.
That “process” is the guaran-
tee of a fair and open amendment
process to the underlying bill – the
National Defense Authorization
Act of 2011. You see, when the
defense authorization bill was first
brought up back in September,
Senate Republicans wanted to of-
fer germane amendments to the
bill that had no effect on the repeal
of DADT. But Majority Leader Sen.
Harry Reid said no.
So as long as there is a fair
and open amendment process,
defense spending bill. So Reid
and President Obama should
demand that the Senate stay in
session until their work is done.
Watching this process unfold
over the past few months hasn’t
exactly inspired confidence in
the Democrats’ strategic prow-
ess. Say what you want about
George W. Bush, but if he’d
wanted to repeal “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” and had Republi-
can majorities in Congress, he
would have just bloody done it.
Contrast that with Obama’s
foolish, naïve inclination to seek
common ground and friendship
with everyone and you can’t help
but wish the Democrats had their
own decider-in-chief right now.
The Republicans have been
clear from the very beginning
of this presidency that they
care about one thing: ensuring
Obama is a one-term president.
Senate minority leader Mitch
McConnell admitted it in an Oc-
tober interview. Achieving that
goal supersedes all else, in-
cluding salvaging the economy.
But Obama keeps giving the
GOP the benefit of the doubt.
Lieberman says that Sens.
Susan Collins (R-Maine) and
Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) can be
counted as yes votes.
Soon after, returning Sen.
Lisa Murkowski (I-Ala.) said she
would “not vote against a bill that
had that repeal in it.” And then we
learned that Sen. John Ensign (R-
Nev.) intended to vote in favor of
moving forward with the defense
bill while retaining the provision
that would end the law.
On Nov. 30, the Pentagon re-
leased its long-awaited report exam-
ining the implementation of repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The “Report
of the Comprehensive Review of the
Issues Associated with a Repeal of
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” as it is titled,
runs more than 250 pages long and
is extremely comprehensive.
Two days later, the Senate
Armed Services Committee began
a two-day hearing on the report
and on the issue of repeal of the
1993 Clinton-era law. Unfortunate-
ly, the questions from the Republi-
can side of the aisle were predict-
able, even off course at times.
However, shortly after the
hearing, Sen. Scott Brown (R-
Mass.) issued a statement that
read in part, “Having reviewed
the report, having spoken to ser-
Consider that a day after the
much-hyped White House meet-
ing with the new GOP House
leaders that was supposed to
signal a new era of cooperation
between the parties, McConnell
announced that all 42 Republi-
can senators would oppose any
legislation unrelated to tax cuts.
What will it take for Obama
to understand that all the cam-
paign rhetoric about changing
the tone in Washington is just
that — rhetoric? It’s a hopeless
task, at least as long as McCon-
nell and his ilk are in charge.
The result of waiting around for
Republicans to play nice is squan-
dered opportunities and a laundry
list of priorities that are now frozen
for at least two year. Let’s hope
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” isn’t on that
list, but the Employment Non-Dis-
crimination Act, Uniting American
Families Act and Defense of Mar-
riage Act repeal certainly are on it.
There is much blame to go
around for the sorry results deliv-
ered by this Congress: Obama for
failing to lead and lobby lawmak-
ers; our national advocacy organi-
zations for the failed and now total-
vice members, and having dis-
cussed the matter privately with
Defense Secretary Gates and
others, I accept the findings of
the report and support repeal.”
So if you’re keeping count, Mr.
President, that’s five Republicans
who have now signaled that they
are willing to vote for repeal. That
is what you demanded from Log
Cabin Republicans Executive Di-
rector Clarke Cooper – to get you
two to five Republicans. “It can’t
be that hard,” you said.
Well Mr. President, you con-
tinue to say that repeal remains
a top priority. Now it’s your turn.
Where is your leadership on
this issue? Where is that swift
urgency of now – that audacity
of hope? Get on the phone and
demand that Harry Reid have
an open and fair debate for the
National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act. Allow the GOP to of-
fer amendments. You still have
58 Democrats. What are you
scared of? It can’t be that hard.
To McCain: It’s time for you to
sit down and shut up! That, or sim-
ply get out of the way. You can no
longer continue to move the stick
for when repeal is OK. Back in
2006, you said you would revisit
your views on DADT if and when
ly discredited strategy of aligning
exclusively with Democrats; our
supposed allies in Congress who
continually demanded we wait for
change rather than deliver on their
promises. The fat lady has yet to
sing in this Congress, so it’s pre-
mature to start calling for mass
resignations within the LGBT
movement leadership.
But if Congress doesn’t re-
peal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
this month, then LGBT people
across the country have a right
to an explanation: How did the
Democrats manage two years
of wide majorities (remember
they had those elusive 60 votes
until Sen. Kennedy died) without
repealing the gay ban or even
holding hearings on ENDA?
Kevin Naff is editor of Washington
Blade and can be reached at knaff@
washblade.com.
military leadership said it was
time. Ten months ago, Joint Chiefs
of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael
Mullen said it was the right thing
to do; that it “came down to integ-
rity.” Once they said it was time,
you then wanted to see a study.
Now that they have completed the
study, you say the right questions
weren’t asked; that the service
members weren’t consulted.
This will happen, Sen. Mc-
Cain. And you will go down in
history as a bigot who tried to
stand in the way of equal pro-
tection for all Americans.
It is time that we repeal this
law in an orderly fashion that
does not disrupt the organiza-
tional structure of our military.
That is best done through Con-
gress. If not, we’ll continue to
see you in court.
Robert Turner is president of the d.C.
chapter of log Cabin republicans and
can be reached at robert.turner@
dclogcabin.org.
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INSIDELGBTWASHINGTON
Media Matters to the LGBT community
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By PETER ROSENSTEIN
It was fascinating to see the
Washington Post publish a story
on Media Matters for America
(MMA) just days after Jamison
Foser of MMA reported on the
Post’s skewed reporting of Pen-
tagon report on the repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
The Post first leaked the story
of the report a week earlier, but
when the full report came out
the newspaper kicked of its ar-
ticle about the troops’ views by
emphasizing the fears of a small
minority of military personnel.
The headline screamed, “Voic-
es from the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
report of the troops who oppose
repeal” and it wasn’t until para-
graph three that the reporter fi-
nally shared that 70 percent of
active-duty and reserve forces
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‘When newspapers and broadcast news
outlets skew stories someone must hold them
accountable and tell the truth to the public.’
ending the 17-year-old policy.
Then again, last Saturday the
headline was “Military chiefs:
Right move, wrong time” when
not all the chiefs held that view
and you had to read the story to
find out the truth.
There is no problem reporting
negatives but there is a problem
when the leads and headlines
don’t reflect the real story. That
is more like Fox News slanting a
story or in the case of Fox often
lying about it. The Post’s head-
line writers and photo editors,
more so than reporters, are do-
ing this more often and did so
recently during the D.C. may-
oral election.
The media have a responsi-
bility to report all sides of a story
and to report the facts.
But because they don’t, or-
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ganizations like Media Matters
for America have become more
important in our society. When
newspapers and broadcast
news outlets skew stories some-
one must hold them accountable
and tell the truth to the public.
(In the interest of full disclosure,
I was an original incorporator and
short time member of the found-
ing board of Directors of MMA.)
I claim no credit for the idea to
start the organization — that was
all the doing of David Brock. And
while some may still have issues
with David, I realized as soon
as he shared his idea for MMA
how important an organization
it would become and that Brock
had the ability to make it happen.
Since the time MMA was
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and has corrected thousands of
misstatements, bad reporting and
outright lies that have appeared. I
think the organization will become
ever more important as we con-
tinue to see less and less interest
in reporting full stories or making
sure they are reported in a fair and
balanced way.
Let’s hope that MMA gives
more focus to reporting on
LGBT issues. I have often read
or seen stories on TV about our
community and think to myself,
do these people live in the same
universe that I do? I respect dif-
fering points of view, but when
outright lies are reported as
truths and when the Washington
Post devotes major space to a
one-sided sympathetic story on
the president of the National Or-
ganization for Marriage — turn-
ing him into an acceptable fig-
ure when the Southern Poverty
Law Center names the organi-
zation a terrorist group — you
have to wonder what happened
to balance and truth.
The misinformation reported
about our community must be
constantly refuted and currently
no one is doing that very effec-
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design b
tively. Media Matters for America
can serve that role and if history
is prologue they will do it well.
This isn’t about getting into the in-
ternal debates in our community
but monitoring stories that reach
the public. Our own organiza-
tions have a hard time doing that.
Media Matters for America
has earned the respect to get
into the trenches with various
sectors of the media that like to
portray the LGBT community in a
negative light by using innuendo,
misquotes, partial quotes and
outright lies. We need Media Mat-
ters for America to stand up for
the truth because of their proven
willingness to do the research re-
quired to call out the lies and liars
and do it independently.
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rights and Democratic Party activist. He
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As the holidays fast ap-
proach (faster and faster each
year, it seems), one interesting
Christmas or Hannukah pres-
ent I’ve noticed a lot of people
shop for is a home. Yes, despite
all the hustle and bustle of more
modest holiday gift shopping,
plus the added stress of dealing
with frigid weather, darkness at
4PM and holiday parties (hope-
fully less stressful and more
merry!), we Realtors find that
there are lots of home buyers
shopping in the month of De-
cember. What a lot of Realtors
also know is that as soon as the
Christmas lights go dim, so too
can the heat of the real estate
market for a cold, dark winter
hiatus. The market is differ-
ent every year, but in between
our own holiday shopping ob-
ligations, we agents must stay
available and energized for our
clients now, since most January
and February sales volumes dip
along with the temperatures.
Perhaps it’s the idea of starting a
new year in a new home, or maybe
the commercials advertising the
idea of a new Lexus for Christmas
have encouraged larger and larg-
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giving and Christmas.
2009 and 2010 were fairly
stable years for an analysis of
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therefore can be a model for nor-
mal market activity in the rest of
the District and perhaps through-
out the country. The data show
that just as we agents feel a bit
of a slowdown in winter months,
so was the actual market activity.
True, much of the slowdown could
also be attributed to the meltdown
of September 2008 (beginning
with the bankruptcy of Bear Stea-
rns) and the subsequent three-
or four-month market standstill,
which reverberates a month or
two later in the data due to a 30-
45 day normal settlement period.
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Editor’s note: This is the fourth of a five-part series on holiday gift-giving Home decor gifts
ideas. Previous installments can be read at washingtonblade.com. The
can be tricky since

Accents & Accoutrements

series concludes next week with a look at inexpensive gift ideas.
taste is so personal.
But chosen wisely,
a vase or figurine
can be a timeless
treasure. Here are
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
some suggestions
from local retailers.

Even with the mini resur-

gence of LPs, they’re most-
ly for collectors and DJs.
Vinylux recycles vintage
records by cutting out the
labels to make coasters
and melting the wax into
These whimsical items from Urban Essentials bring a touch bowls. A set of coasters is
of wit and charm. The wall climbers are $85. The “walking” $24 at gay-owned Vastu.
eggs are $198. Gay-owned urban essentials is at 1330 The bowls are $28. Vastu
U Street, N.W. is at 1829 14th Street, N.W.
Turn any photo into a vintage-looking Polaroid with these clev-
er frames available at gay-owned Home rule at 1807 14th
Street, N.W. They come with several options for display. The
shop also carries small clocks from Mine Design featuring the
names of D.C. neighborhoods. They’re $19.99 and make a
great inexpensive gift with a local touch.

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A warm throw is always a

Classy yet funky, gay-owned ReinCaRnations Furnishings welcome gift, especially
Another reasonable option is the always-rotating bounty of vin- (1401 14th St., N.W.) has lots of classy, unusual potential gifts. during chilly D.C. winters.
tage glassware and Christmas ornaments from Miss pixie’s These small statues of nude men range from $45 to $59. Hour- These cotton herringbone
FuRnishings and Whatnot at 1626 14th St. N.W. Some are as glasses that come with sand in several colors are $29. The blankets from Sferra are
old as Victorian era. Others are from the ‘70s and newer. Orna- shop also carries a bounty of off-the-beaten-path Christmas $80 at tiMothy paul,
ments start at $1. Sets of glassware range from about $5 to $35. decor items in many colors. 1404 14th St., N.W.

MitChell golD+BoB WilliaMs has endless possibilities for

RooM & BoaRD, a new addition to 14th Street, has tons of items that would make great and unusu-
al gifts. These Tivoi radios come in blue, yellow, white or red and have iPod speaker jacks and great
sound. They range from $149 to $299 and have been wildly popular this year. These Makenge wall
baskets from Zambia make for eye-catching decor. No two are alike. They range from $79 to $189.
gifts. These blown glass vases from gay Los Angeles designer
Joe Cariati are $315 to $435. And these butterfly shadowboxes,
made with real butterflies, from gay Seattle designer Christo-
pher Marley’s Pheromone collection, range from $275 to $400.
Gay-owned Mitchell Gold+Bob Williams is at 1526 14th St., N.W.

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This lamp from Kartell comes in two
sizes — for floor or desk — and
five colors. “The Toobe” can take
fluorescent or incandescent bulbs
and are made by Italian designer
Ferraccio Laviano. Gay-owned
ILLUMINATIONS (415 8th Street,
N.W.) carries them for $310 or $620.
DECEMBER 10, 2010 • 31
Those with a little more to spend
will surely find something inter-
esting at the BRASS KNOB, an
antique shop in Adams Morgan
(2311 18th St., N.W.). Bring plenty
of cash, though. Small knobs and
fixtures start at just less than $100.
Large lamps and chandeliers run
into the thousands.
Gay-owned RCKNDY at 1515 U
St., N.W. carries many whimsical,
retro-looking gifts. This queen clock
from Naked Decor is $49. “Mad
Men”-looking mid-century clocks
like this one from Bullitt in the U.K.
is $59. And keep your whiskey from
getting diluted with freezable rocks
from Teroforma. A set retails for $22
or buy them with two rocks glasses
for $60.
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‘big brother’
star bares all
Former reality show competitor turned
porn god at Secrets tonight 
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN

It’s no secret at all. Steven Daigle — the gay rodeo star whose burst of
fame came on the reality-TV show “Big Brother” in 2008 — is today one of
the hottest stars in the gay male adult film industry.
A top star for king-of-gay-porn Chi Chi LaRue, Steven is also winner of the
GayVN award for “the most rented title” of 2010, “Steven Daigle XXXposed.”
He makes his Washington premiere appearance live and nude tonight
at Secrets, “so his many fans can see him, not just on video, but this time
up close and very personal — it’s a real coup for Secrets,” says the club’s
promoter Jon Royce.
“Without sounding cocky,” Daigle says, “the success of that first video,
‘Steven Daigle XXXposed,’ was because of me, because I brought a main-
stream name to the film, because of being on ‘Big Brother.’”
There are other signs of his popularity too. Topco Sales even sells a dildo
molded from his unit.
“He came into the molding session with a great attitude and ready to do
Continues on page 35

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QUEERY: 20 Questions for Elke Martin

By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO How long have you been out and who If science discovered a way to change
joeyd@washblade.com was the hardest person to tell? sexual orientation, what would you do?
Since 1975 or ‘76. The hardest person Call all my heterosexual friends.
Elke Martin, a native of Hamburg, Ger- to tell was my mom because I knew she’d
many, didn’t grow up in the Jewish faith. But be so embarrassed before her friends, What do you believe in beyond the
shortly after moving to the U.S. in 1990 with and I wanted her to be proud of me. It physical world?
her former employer Greenpeace, she met took us a while to reconcile but we did. I believe there is a benevolent orga-
her partner of nearly 19 years, Eva Freund, nizing principle or energy out there.
a Jew. Martin, who didn’t grow up with re- Who’s your gay hero?
ligion, found herself intrigued and eventu- Del Martin (no relation) and Phyllis Lyon. What’s your advice for LGBT move-
ally joined Bet Mishpachah, Washington’s ment leaders?
LGBT synagogue. She’s so involved now What’s Washington’s best nightspot, Think outside the box, be as outspo-
she’s president of its governing board. past or present? ken as possible and keep pushing the
“I was a feminist for so many decades so No idea. envelope.
I didn’t feel connected to religion at all,” Mar-
tin says. “It was all this patriarchy, you know, What’s your dream gay wedding? What would you walk across hot
the father and the son, so to me it seemed A celebratory event that is not just coals for?
you were either religiously inclined or you wonderful to share with friends and fam- My friends.
were a feminist. But I really liked the feeling ily but also legal on state and federal
of togetherness and family that I saw.” Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
levels. What gay stereotype annoys you most?
Martin was downsized from Greenpeace in the mid-1990s and bounced around That all gays are fairies and all lesbi-
doing various things until six years ago when she joined Greenspring, a retirement What non-gay issue are you most ans are butch.
community at which she works in Springfield, Va. She lives in Vienna. passionate about?
Martin says getting involved is just her nature. But is there anything intrinsic about Women’s rights, violence against chil- What’s your favorite gay movie?
the Jewish faith that resonated with her? dren and environmental protection. “Torch Song Trilogy.”
“What really appeals to me in the Jewish faith as I understand it is that it focuses
so much on this life and our responsibility here and now, not just for some gain of What historical outcome would you What’s the most overrated social
eternal life,” she says. “You have a responsibility to help others and to do your part change? custom?
here and now period.” The rise of Nazism in Germany in the Giving gifts to people who attend your
She and Freund celebrate Hanukkah, which ended this week, but modestly. late 1920s and 1930s. birthday party – huh?
“It’s not a major festivity but we visit family, light candles and give very small
presents. To me it’s a good expression of something to do against all this insane gift What’s been the most memorable pop What trophy or prize do you most
giving which is just totally out of hand I think.” culture moment of your lifetime? covet?
Martin enjoys hiking, biking, kayaking, fused glass, reading and vegan cooking I attended a Tina Turner concert in The Right Livelihood Awards, also
in her free time. Hamburg once. That was pretty amazing. called Alternative Nobel Prizes impress
me because they shed light on some
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anything we asked of him in order to get
the best possible mold,” says Topco’s
Miranda Lancaster.
“What I go through for my fans,” Daigle
says. “I hope you enjoy it.”
The replica became rather famous in
August when Daigle and his then boy-
friend, fellow porn star Trent Locke, ap-
peared live on a Manhunt video chat.
Locke and Daigle unfortunately came
to blows recently, and definitely not in a
good way. It happened Oct. 18 at the Ab-
bey, the West Hollywood gay bar where
Steven gathered with friends for a view-
ing party to watch his appearance on
“The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” the hit
reality show now in its third season on the
Bravo cable channel.
According to TMZ, Locke (who was
named by his porn name, Ryan Purdy)
approached Steven and started a fight,
which turned ugly and bloody. It was
Daigle, however, not Locke, who was ar-
rested. Held by the Los Angeles Coun-
ty Sheriff’s Department overnight on
$20,000 bail, he was charged with one
count of misdemeanor battery. Convic-
tion means up to one year behind bars.
But there may be more to the story.
Daigle’s mug shot, which TMZ posted,
shows he clearly took a beating. Nev-
ertheless TMZ reported that Locke was
rushed to the hospital.
Royce says “any domestic violence
is unfortunate” and when he heard the
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“I feel lost, confused, and afraid,” he
wrote.
This is the second time Locke has ac-
cused a boyfriend of domestic violence.
Royce says that in person “Steven
is genuine, not a fake nice person, but
real, who will mix and mingle with his
fans in the crowd, sign autographs,
take pictures, and have a really good
time with everybody” at Secrets tonight
(which also just happens to be Royce’s
birthday party). Long-time adult industry
impresario Royce — a D.C. native who
returned here, and runs MightyMen.com,
after years spent in Los Angeles — has
booked porn stars on a monthly basis for
Secrets’ shows since he brought in Fal-
con mega-star Matthew Rush in 2009.
Rush, a biracial bodybuilder and win-
ner of the 2010 Grabby Award for Best
Versatile Performer, appeared in his first
post-Falcon work in a 2009 video and
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Budding lesbian playwright Kate Bishop hit a nerve with her debut with lesbian Baltimore residents.
When I get the sensation
Baltimore lesbian playwright
has ‘fresh sensibility’
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
By titling her new play “A Peppermint
Patty Christmas,” Kate Bishop puts a queer
spin on a holiday classic. Like the beloved
Peanuts TV special of everyone’s youth (“A
Charlie Brown Christmas”), Bishop’s piece
in some ways explores the deeper mean-
ings of the season.
And though inspired by the animated
favorite’s freckle-faced Tomboy whose
female sidekick addresses her as “sir,”
Bishop has written a grownup work about
a lesbian striving to strengthen relation-
ships with partner and family.
In Bishop’s play (commissioned by
Baltimore’s Strand Theater Company),
girlfriends Patricia and Marcie live in
Brooklyn where the former is a gym-own-
ing jock and the latter, a brainy graduate
student writing her dissertation on Christ-
mas. Not a big fan of the yuletide, Patricia
has vowed to change things up this year.
When she takes her girlfriend to spend
Christmas with her less-than-functional
family in Dundalk (a working class Balti-
more suburb), Patricia is intent on forego-
ing small talk for total honesty. It’s time to
be completely above board about her life.
Bishop came out to her family long be-
fore she ever brought a girlfriend home
for the holidays. Still, a lot of her play is
autobiographical: Like Patricia and Mar-
cie, Bishop and her partner of nine years
are an interracial couple. But perhaps
most importantly, Bishop’s real life ex-
periences with family and her career as
a social worker (her clients are primar-
ily Baltimore teens who’ve recently been
diagnosed with HIV) prompts her to write
– often humorously — about real life. Few
of us, she says, truly recognize the ideal-
ized holidays we see depicted on greet-
ing cards and commercials.
Last June, Bishop began her associa-
tion with the Strand when her first play, a
one act titled “How I learned to Eat Pussy,”
was produced as part of their 2010 Friends
and Neighbors Festival. Jayme Kilburn,
the company’s artistic director, was initially
attracted to the playwright’s unapologetic
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Candide
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Photo courtesy of Bishop
and mature voice. She explains, directed and newly adapted from the Voltaire
“I have read too many plays where
the central character is a lesbian in high by Mary Zimmerman
school and falls in love with a pretty girl,
experiments, is tortured by her feelings of
inadequacy, etc., etc.,” Kilburn says. “Al-
though those plays have their place … this
was very different from that. It celebrated
the discovery of her sexual orientation and
was a very positive and detailed account
of her first experience with a woman.”
Not surprising given the title, Bishop’s
play struck a chord with Baltimore’s les-
bian, theater-going community. The show
ran for only a weekend, but each of the
performances was sold out. Lesbians
were letting the Strand know that they
wanted to see more work about lesbian
women, so when the company decided to
commission an original holiday piece (to
add to its season comprised of plays all
written by women), they went to Bishop. “The best of all
A resident of Baltimore’s Mt. Vernon
neighborhood, the city’s cultural epicen- possible casts.”
ter, for almost five years, Bishop, 37, grew TimeOut Chicago
up in the Pittsburgh suburbs and lived in
Cleveland for a decade. She has a Bach-
elor of Arts in gender studies from Hiram
College and a master’s in social work from “A pleasure
Case Western Reserve University.
“This theater stuff is still pretty new to
me, but I now feel a future in it,” Bishop
to behold...
says. “While I still need to work on some
polished, pretty
of the basics, I think I have a fresh sensi- and well-sung.”
bility and a lot to say. More and more I’m The New York Times
writing for a broader audience.”
Kilburn concurs.
“Kate has said that she wants to see
more butch women on stage, and is not
entirely satisfied with the current portray-
als of lesbian women,” she says. “I think
Kate could be instrumental in pushing
lesbian characters into the spotlight.
Anybody can watch her plays and relate
to her characters. The Strand’s mission is
to promote women’s voices, and Kate’s
work fits into the mission perfectly.” Call 202.547.1122 or visit ShakespeareTheatre.org
Groups of 10+, 202.547.1122, option 6
‘A Peppermint Patty Christmas’
Through Dec. 18
Presented by
Strand Theater Company
1823 N. Charles Street, Baltimore The HRH Foundation
Production Support:
$10-$15 Maxine Isaacs and James A. Johnson
443-874-4917
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TODAY
Trumpet Grrrl will be live at Baked
& Wired (1052 Thomas Jefferson St.)
from 7 to 9 p.m. This will be the first time
Trumpet Grrrl performs with a full band.
This is a free event.
Mautner Project will be hosting a
dance and learn fundraiser at the Chevy
Chase Ballroom and DanceSport Center
(5207 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) today from
8:30 to 11 p.m. Admission is $15 and will
go to Mautner Project for all attendees who
say they are there for the organization.
Mini-classes in salsa, swing, waltz or fox
trot argentine tango, will be offered.
She.Rex will be at Chief Ike’s (1725
Columbia Rd., N.W.) tonight from 9:30
p.m. to 3 a.m. This is a free event.
Apex (1415 22nd St., N.W.) presents
Club Christmas, a holiday dance party
with DJ Randy White. Attendees can sit
on shirtless Santa’s lap and get a free
photo. There is a $10 cover.
Secrets and MightyMen.com pres-
ent “Big Brother” reality TV star and
gay rodeo champion-turned-porn star,
Steven Daigle, live tonight at 9 p.m.
VIP passes will be available for $20 and
include access to the VIP lounge, ac-
cess to a waiter, a complimentary drink,
a meet and greet with Daigle and a spe-
cial performance. Visit secretsdc.com to
sign up for a VIP pass. There will be a
$5 cover before 10:30 p.m. and $10 after.
The Bethesda Art Walk is tonight from
6 to 9 p.m. and features 10 galleries that
will stay open late in downtown Bethesda.
Kandi from “Real Housewives of At-
lanta” will be at Town (2009 8th St., N.W.)
tonight. Town is also having its monthly
So You Think You’re a Drag Queen con-
test tonight. Contestants should arrive at
10 p.m. Cover is $5 before 11 p.m. for
those who are 21 and over and $10 after.
It’s $10 all night for those 18-20.
Saturday, Dec. 11
AQUA D.C. will be holding its an-
nual holiday party and membership
meeting tonight at 1829 Phelps Place,
N.W., from 7 to 10 p.m. E-mail aquadc@
yahoogroups.com or call Andrew at 202-
294-3456 or DeeJay at 571-292-7966
with questions.
Cosponsored by Domku Bar & Café
and CoreHaus D.C., the Upshur Street
Arts Fair is today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
at the 800 block of Upshur St., N.W.
Girls Rock! D.C. is hosting a cheap
art sale today from 1 to 8 p.m. at La Casa
(3166 Mt. Pleasant St., N.W.). All art will be
$50 or less and 50 percent of the proceeds
will be donated to Girls Rock! D.C. For
more information, visit girlsrockdc.org or e-
mail cheaartsaledc@gmail.com
Pamala Stanley will be performing
at Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) tonight at 9
p.m. There will be a $7 cover.
Ten LGBT groups are co-hosting a
“Mega Skate Night and Social” tonight
at 5:45 p.m. at the Ballston Common
Mall in Arlington. The event will start with
an hour of skating at the Capitals Com-
plex and then move onto Bailey’s Pub in
the mall. All beers will be $1 off and the
pool tables will be free to use. Skating
costs $8 plus $3 for skate rental. For more
information, visit DCIceBreakers.org.
The Proud Bookstore (39 Baltimore
Ave.) in Rehoboth will be hosting a five-
author book signing today from 3 to 5
p.m. The authors scheduled to appear
are Renee Bess, Lisa Gitlin, Sheri Reyn-
olds, Stefani Deoul and Fay Jacobs.
DJs Ralphi Rosario and Abel will be
at Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) tonight for
Winter Wonderland. Doors open at 10
p.m. and the drag show starts at 10:30.
Cover is $8 before 11 p.m. and $12 after.
Allie Wilson and Jacob Nathan-
iel Pring present “Cotton Candy” at
Green Lantern (1335 Greem Court,
N.W.) tonight at 10 p.m. DJs David Mer-
rill and Bryan Yamasaki will be providing
music. This is a 18 and older party and
admission is $5.
Sunday, Dec. 12
The D.C. Center is partnering with
Human Rights Campaign for its Na-
tional Capital Area holiday party at
Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) tonight from 7
to 10 p.m.
Pocket Gays is hosting its monthly
party, Cake Face Sunday School today
from 3 to 9 p.m. on the rooftop of Local
16. This month is in celebration of pocket
Devon’s birthday. The roof is enclosed
Photo courtesy of the Roches
and heated. Music will be provided by
DJ Keenan. This is a free event.
Church of the Holy City (1611 16th
St., N.W.) will have a Christmas art con-
cert today at 3:30 p.m. The concert will
feature Gilda Kornhauser, Aman Shan-
kardass and teenage musicians and
singers. A reception will follow. This is
a free event. For more information, visit
swedenborgcenter.org.
Georgetown jingle is tonight from
5 to 8 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel
Washington. There will be a VIP/Spon-
sor reception from 4 to 5 p.m. There will
be a silent auction, a performance by Pa-
mala Stanley and more. Tickets can be
purchased at georgetownjingle.com and
range from $50 to $350.
Monday, Dec. 13
The Choral Arts Society of Wash-
ington presents “Christmas Music: The
Treasured Holiday Tradition” at the Ken-
nedy Center concert hall (2700 F St.,
N.W.) tonight at 7 p.m. This event will be
followed by the CASW 30th annual Holiday
Gala. Tickets range from $15 to $65 and
can be purchased at kennedy-center.org.
The American City Diner (5532 Con-
necticut Ave., N.W.) will be showing the
film “Pretty Woman” starring Julia Rob-
erts and Richard Gere. The movie starts
at 8 p.m. The full menu will be available.
Admission is free. For more information,
visit americancitydiner.com.
Tuesday, Dec. 14
SpeakeasyDC will be hosting an
open mic night tonight at 8 p.m. at
Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) featuring sto-
ries about being a guest, having guests
and hospitality. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
This event will be catered by Nellie’s.
Join Burgundy Crescent Volunteers
to help pack safer sex kits from 7 to 9
p.m. tonight at FUK!T’s new packing loca-
tion Green Lantern, 1335 Green Ct., N.W.
Street/Studio 2.0 is an exhibit which
showcases artists who work in uncon-
ventional sites and media. It will be on
display at Irvine Contemporary (1412
14th St., N.W.) The gallery is open from
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. or by appointment.
Wednesday, Dec. 15
SAGE Metro D.C. is hosting “LGBT
and Home for the Holidays: designing
and remodeling your home to stay inde-
pendent for the holidays and beyond,”
today at Residences at Thomas Circle
from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Bill Millholland, execu-
tive vice president of Case Design and Re-
modeling will be the featured speaker.
The Studio Theatre presents “Supe-
rior Donuts” by Tracy Letts and starring
Richard Cotovsky and Johnny Ramey,
in his Studio Theatre debut, tonight at 8
p.m. Donuts is about a hippie who owns
a donut shop and how a new employee
changes his life. Tickets range from $35 to
$50 and can be purchased at studiothe-
atre.org.
Thursday, Dec. 16
Penn State LGBTA Alumni Associa-
tion will be having a holiday happy hour
tonight at Nellie’s (900 U St., N.W.) at 6 p.m.
The Philips Collection (1600 21st
St., N.W.) will have conservator Dana
Hemmenway tonight for “TruthBeauty:
Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art,
1845-1945” at 6:30 p.m. The discussion
is included in admission to the exhibit.
Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for stu-
dents and visitors 62 and over and free
for members and visitors 18 and under.
A John Waters Christmas will be
having an encore performance tonight
at 7:30 p.m. at the Birchmere in Alexan-
dria. Tickets are $45 and can be pur-
chased at birchmere.com.
Friday, Dec. 17
The Roches will be performing at the
Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Ave.)
in Alexandria tonight at 7:30 p.m. Lucy
Wainwright Roche will be opening. Tick-
ets are $35 and can be purchased at
birchmere.com.
The Gay Men’s Chorus production
“Men in Tights: A Pink Nutcracker”
opens tonight at 8 p.m. at Lisner Audi-
torium at George Washington University.
Saturday, Dec. 18
Dan Noel will be celebrating his
50th birthday and has chosen Mautner
Project as a beneficiary for his birth-
day benefit at Cloud 9 (234 Rehoboth
Ave.) in Rehoboth tonight at 9 p.m. There
is a suggested donation of $10 and the
proceeds will go to Mautner Project and
AIDS Delaware.
Sunday, Dec. 19
Eatonville Restaurant (2121 14th St.,
N.W.) will be holding another installation
of its monthly series, Food and Folklore,
which intertwines storytelling and food,
tonight at 6:30 p.m. This month is Gullah
with Charlotte Jenkins, author of “Gullah
Cuisine.” To purchase tickets, visit eaton-
villerestaurant.com
Lambda Divers will be having its
monthly happy hour at Nellie’s (900 U St.,
N.W.) tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. $1 from every
Nellie beer sold goes to Lambda Divers.
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By DAVID J. HOFFMAN
Shortstop Yogi Berra once famously
called it “deja vu all over again.” But it was
Karl Marx who perhaps defined it best as
“when history repeats itself — the first time
as tragedy, the second time as farce.”
That was the feeling at least for a mo-
ment last week, when officials at the Na-
tional Portrait Gallery censored a video
component of its exhibit titled “Hide/
Seek,” the show about gay and lesbian
sexual love and its impact on American
art. Complaints by right-wing Catholics
over 11 seconds of a depiction of ants
crawling on a crucifix was enough for
NPG director Martin E. Sullivan to decide
Georgetown’s to turn tail and yank an entire half-hour-
long 1987 video, titled “A Fire in My Belly”
Oldest French Bistro — a meditation on the ravages of AIDS
by David Wojnarowicz, the gay artist who
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another gallery — this time Flashpoint —
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courageously took up the challenge and
began to show the offending video.
But what about the groundbreaking
NPG show itself, which opened in Oc-
Open Christmas Eve 11:30am-10pm tober and runs through mid-February?
Open Christmas Day 4-10pm It’s stunning with 105 pieces of art from
the canon of America’s greatest artists of
the past century and more, depicting the
ways in which their sexual orientations
WILD GAME MENU expressed themselves - usually coded
and concealed - visually on canvas and
other surfaces and as images in motion.
The exhibit is titled as a playful remind-
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sotto voce, the name of taboo love, bold-
ly snaps in two the several decades-long
taboo, welded firmly in place after the
Mapplethorpe fiasco, of acknowledging
same-sex desire in major U.S. museums.
The range of artists begins with
Thomas Eakins and his scenes of na-
ked boys swimming and passes through
other giants of American painting - John
Singer Sargent, George Bellow, Geor-
gia O’Keefe, Jasper Johns, Robert
Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others
— to our own new century. But as co-cu-
rator Jonathan D. Katz contends, “seek-
ing and noticing” the sexual subtexts of
their work “are two very different acts,”
and this exhibit “seeks to turn such see-
ing into noticing.”
As with their work itself, nothing is as
it seems at first. Therefore, “HIDE/SEEK”
features, Katz says, “straight artists rep-
resenting gay figures, gay artists repre-
senting straight figures, gay artists rep-
resenting gay figures, and even straight
artists representing straight figures,
when of interest to gay people/culture.”
For Katz, considered the dean of aca-
demic study of gay and lesbian art his-
tory, this has been the curatorial work of
more than 15 years. Katz shaped this ex-
hibit with Smithsonian historian David C.
Ward, who has openly called Katz “my
camerado — per Walt (Whitman).”
Ward also says that Katz, who found-
ed the gay and lesbian studies program
at Yale University and is the first tenured
professor in LGBT studies in the nation,
“is a model of the engaged scholar” and
as a result ran afoul of academic norms
in the past for his avowed interest in
these subjects.
“He’s someone who managed to be
thrown out of two institutions, the Uni-
versity of Chicago and Johns Hopkins
University,” Ward says, “for daring in the
1970s to want to write about gay and les-
bian Americans.”
In the magisterial catalogue accom-
panying the exhibit, Katz confesses that
their choice of subjects is “firmly canoni-
cal” and rooted in “the register of great
American artists … within the American
mainstream,” so that many artists, less
well known, have been excluded.
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A promo shot for the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s ‘Pink Nutcracker’ show which opens
next weekend.

Gay Men’s Chorus plans ‘Nutcracker’ holiday show Defeating HIV takes action.
HIV-negative men between 18 and 50 years of age can take action
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington begins its 30th anniversary season with its by volunteering in an HIV vaccine research study. There is no risk
holiday production “Men in Tights: A Pink Nutcracker” on Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. at the
Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University (730 21st St., N.W.).
of infection from the vaccine, and you will be compensated for
“This year’s holiday extravaganza begins with glorious choral music performed your participation.
by over 200 singers filling the stage and for the first time in GMCW history we are
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The second half of the performance is the chorus’s take on the Nutcracker suite,
opening with a holiday party in which the two principal dancers meet and fall in love. NIAID

Tickets range from $20 to $50 and can be purchased at gmcw.org or at the door.
Other performances will be Dec. 18 at 3 and 8 p.m. and Dec. 19 at 3 p.m. with
ASL interpretation. Look in next week’s edition for more information about this show.

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Singer Stanley plans two weekend performances
Fri, Dec. 10, 2010
Pamala Stanley will be in town this weekend performing at Cobalt (1639 R St.,
N.W.) and as part of Georgetown Jingle. 1/8H (4.75” x 2.6875”) Non-SAU
Stanley, who often performs at Blue Moon in Rehoboth, is coming back to Theatres/EB
Landmark Cobalt
for a performance Saturday at 9 p.m.

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Stanley will also be the main entertainment at Georgetown Jingle Sunday night.
The event starts at 5 p.m. and goes until 8 at the Four Seasons Hotel Washington
(2800 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.).
Created by the Four Seasons Hotel Washington, JDS Designs, Inc., the Wash-
ington Design Center and the Georgetown BID, the Georgetown Jingle is an event
to celebrate fashions of the holiday season and support families battling cancer.
Funds raised will benefit Georgetown University Hospital and their Pediatric He-
matology, Oncology, Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program as well as their
Childhood Cancer Survivorship Program.

Proud Bookstore hosts book signing

On Saturday, the Proud Bookstore on Baltimore Avenue in Rehoboth, Del., will
have five authors signing books from 3 to 5 p.m.
Three of the authors, Renee Bess, Lisa Gitlin and Sheri Reynolds will be visiting
PRESENTS
the bookstore for the first time.
Reynolds latest book, “The Sweet In-Between,” is about a gender-confused
teenage girl whose mother is dead and father is in jail, growing up a Virginia tide- “Don’t dream it, be it.” It’s three against one!
water town. She also authored “The Rapture of Caanan,” an Oprah Book Club
selection and “New York Times” bestseller.
Gitlin’s debut novel, “I Came Out for This?” is a comic coming out tale written like
a journal. It was published by Bywater Books.
Bess, whose latest book is “The Butterfly Moments” from Regal Crest publish-
ers, writes about African-American lesbians. Moments is about a Philadelphia pa- FEATURING LIVE SHADOW CAST BILL
role officer with a homophobic daughter who is given the task of supervising a SONIC TRANSDUCERS! MURRAY
“renegade” probation and parole officer.
Also appearing at the signing will be Stefani Deoul and Fay Jacobs from Rehoboth.
Jacobs will be reading from her newest book “For Frying Out Loud,” a collection
of her latest columns plus some new, never-before-published material.
Deoul will be reading from “The Carousel,” about a woman who stops in a small
northeast town to refuel and notices a pile of discarded carousel horses, bringing gos- Fri & Sat, December 10 & 11 at Midnight!
sip, mystery and a restorative journey for the horses, the townspeople and herself. Buy Advance Tickets Online tickets.landmarktheatres.com
42 washingtonblade.com • december 10, 2010
THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS
OPENINGS
The Nutcracker
Through Dec 26 Sat, Dec. 11
The Washington Ballet Wrap It Up, Annual Holiday Exhibition,
Warner Theatre CHAW. 202-547-6839. chaw.org
202-397-7328
washingtonballet.org Tue, Dec. 14
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pa-
Septime Webre’s The Nutcracker returns to the
cific, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
Warner Theatre to offer a unique twist on this fam-
kennedy-center.org
ily favorite. Set in Washington, DC and filled with
hints of Americana, this production features the
heroic George Washington as the Nutcracker,
LAST CHANCE
King George III as the Rat King and cherry blos-
soms dancing on the Potomac.
Sat, Dec. 11
Capital Irish Film Festival, Solas Nua,
Goethe-Institut. 202-315-1317. irishfilm-
National Symphony Orchestra:
dc.org
Handel’s Messiah
Thu, December 16 through Sun, December 19 Sun, Dec. 12
Tuesday, December 14 through NSO Pops: Happy Holidays! Marvin
Sunday, January 16
Hamlisch, conducts Kennedy Center.
Kennedy Center 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org
The Master and Margarita, Synetic The-
202-467-4600
kennedy-center.org ater, Lansburgh Theatre. 202-547-1122.
synetictheater.org
Lincoln Center Theater brings their reinvention
of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical Richard III & Mary Stuart, Washington
Shakespeare Company, ARTISPHERE. 703-
South Pacific for an enchanting holiday engage-
418-4808. washingtonshakespeare.org
ment in the Opera House.
A Wrinkle in Time LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
Through Dec 26
Round House Theatre Bethesda
Dec. 10 - Dec. 11
Guillermo Gomez Peña & Reverend
240-644-1100 Billy, GALA Hispanic Theatre. 202-234-
roundhousetheatre.org 7174. galatheatre.org
Before Harry Potter or Percy Jackson, there was
Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, the origi- Dec. 11 - Dec. 12
nal youth sci-fi classic. National Philharmonic: Handel’s Mes-
siah, National Philharmonic, Strathmore.
Swingtime,In Series 301-581-5100. nationalphilharmonic.org
Through Dec 12 Eureka Dance Festival 2010, Dance
Atlas Performing Arts Center Place. 202-269-1600. danceplace.org
202-204-7763
inseries.org ONE NIGHT ONLY
Directed and written by Tom Mallan, Swingtime
is the original story of six entertainers in 1943, Fri, Dec. 10
whose careers and relationships are tested by An Irish Christmas Celebration, Na-
wartime, show business, discrimination, and a tional Geographic. 202-857-7700.
culturally changing world, coming face to face events.nationalgeographic.com
with the booming entertainment industry of the Bowfire: Holiday Heart Strings, Strath-
1940’s and the unforgettable music that made more. 301-581-5100. strathmore.org
America swing.
Sat, Dec. 11
The Guide to Arts & Culture is produced by CultureCapital.com, the one-stop shop to arts & culture for DCypher Dance Mid-Year Showcase,
Metro DC, a program of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington. SWINGTIME: Supplied by In Series; Joy of Motion Dance Center, Atlas. 202-
THE NUTCRACKER: Supplied by The Washington Ballet; WRINKLE IN TIME: Supplied by Round House 399-6763. joyofmotion.org
Theatre; NSO, Handel’s Messiah: Supplied by Kennedy Center.
NPR’s A Jazz Piano Christmas, Ken-
nedy Center. 202-467-4600. kennedy-
center.org
Sun, Dec. 12
Washington Performing Arts Society:
What Makes It Great? Mozart’s Clarinet
Concerto in A Major, K. 622, Baird Audi-
torium. 202-785-9727. wpas.org
Christmas with the Camerata, Washing-
ton Men’s Camerata, Bradley Hills Presbyte-
rian Church. 202-364-1064. camerata.com
Wed, Dec. 15
Art After Hours: Taurus Soul ~ A Trib-
ute to Sam Cooke, Strathmore. 301-
581-5100. strathmore.org
Thu, Dec. 16
Anonymous 4, Kennedy Center. 202-
467-4600. kennedy-center.org
ONGOING STAGE
Superior Donuts, The Studio Theatre.
202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org
Mojo, The Studio Theatre. 202-332-3300.
studiotheatre.org
Golden Boy, Keegan Theatre, Church
Street Theater. 703-892-0202. keegan-
theatre.com
A Christmas Carol, Ford’s Theatre. 202-
397-7328. fords.org
A Girl’s Guide to Washington Politics,
Woolly Mammoth. 202-393-3939. woolly-
mammoth.net
ONGOING EXHIBITONS
Corcoran Gallery of Art. 202-639-1700.
corcoran.org. Spencer Finch: My Busi-
ness, with the Cloud, Washington Color
and Light. Discovering the Civil War
- Consequences, National Archives. ar-
chives.gov
National Gallery of Art. nga.gov. Arcim-
boldo, 1526ñ1593: Nature and Fantasy,
In the Tower: Mark Rothko, American
Modernism: The Shein Collection, Ger-
man Master Drawings from the Wolfgang
Ratjen Collection, 1580-1900, The Pre-
Raphaelite Lens: British Photography
and Painting, 1848ñ1875, From Impres-
sionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale
Collection.
National Geographic. 202-857-7588.
events.nationalgeographic.com. Geck-
os: From Tails to Toepads, Simply Beau-
tiful, Great Migrations: A Photography
Exhibition.
Museum of Women in the Arts. 202-
783-5000. nmwa.org. Loös Mailou
Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color, Books
Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elis-
abetta Gut.
Smithsonian American Art Museum.
202-633-3030. residentassociates.org.
21st Century Consort, Smithsonian Resi-
dent Associate Program.
The Textile Museum. 202-667-0441.
textilemuseum.org. The Art of Living:
Textile Furnishings from the Permanent
Collection, Colors of the Oasis: Central
Asian Ikats.
ONGOING GALLERIES
Winter Art Fest, Arlington Artists Al-
liance, Arlington Art Gallery. arlington-
artistsalliance.org.
Impressed: New Visions in Printmak-
ing. An Exhibition of Work by Univer-
sity of Lawrence: Prints, 1963 - 2000, A
Comprehensive Survey, David C. Driskell
Center. driskellcenter.umd.edu.
Amalgamate: Paintings by Cindy
Neuschwander, McLean Project for the
Arts. 703-790-1953. mpaart.org.
Resident Artists Exhibition, Montpelier
Arts Center. 301-377-7800. pgparks.com
Monday Movies, Reston Community
Center, Reston Community Center, Cen-
terStage. 703-476-4500.
Two Artists, Many Journeys, Washing-
ton Printmakers Gallery. 301-273-3660.
washingtonprintmakers.com.
MAD for Color, 2010 MAD Artist! Col-
lective Exhibition, The 4th Annual Small
Works Exhibition Workhouse Arts Center.
WorkhouseArts.org.
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Carrey went on a tomato-soup crash
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too far-fetched to think that Carrey could win
an Oscar nod for this anti-hero role. It’s a re-
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