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washingtonblade.com • vol. 42, issue 08 • february 25, 2011 • Still sharp after 40 years

Justice Dept. drops defense of DOMA

Historic decision triggers calls for repeal
of federal ban on same-sex marriage
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com

The Justice Department, in a historic announcement this week,

said it would no longer defend the controversial Defense of Marriage
Act in court.
“After careful consideration, including a review of my recommenda-
tion, the President has concluded that given a number of factors, in-
cluding a documented history of discrimination, classifications based
on sexual orientation should be subject to a more heightened stan-
dard of scrutiny,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
“The President has also concluded that Section 3 of DOMA, as ap-
plied to legally married same-sex couples, fails to meet that standard
and is therefore unconstitutional. Given that conclusion, the President
has instructed the Department not to defend the statute in such cases.
I fully concur with the President’s determination.”
LGBT rights groups quickly praised the decision.
“The administration today acknowledges that there is no legitimate
reason for this discrimination and therefore it cannot be defended
under the Constitution,” said Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to
Marry. “This a momentous step forward toward Freedom to Marry’s
goal of ending federal marriage discrimination and fully protecting all Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key

Continues on page 8 Attorney General Eric Holder announced this week that the administration will no longer defend DOMA in court.

Adjusting to freshman life on the Hill

Gay Rep. Cicilline on being in the minority,
the prospects for a pro-LGBT omnibus
bill — and D.C.’s social scene
nightlifeagenda
Freddie’s Beach Bar marks 10 years with month-long celebration.
By CHRIS JOHNSON
PAGE 20
cjohnson@washblade.com
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key

As Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and his fellow House Dem- Rep. David Cicilline became the fourth
ocrats are discovering, being in the minority is rough. sitting out gay member of Congress when
he joined the House just weeks ago.
The freshman lawmaker — and fourth sitting openly gay
member of Congress — offers help to the best of his abilities to a group of disability advocates from
his district, but knows his influence is limited with U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) running
the chamber and pledging to slash billions from government programs.
The Blade spent a day shadowing Cicilline last week. Six weeks into his first term as a member of
Congress, he meets with about a dozen constituents working on disability issues in his office at the
Cannon Office Building.
socialagenda The meeting is one of four today for the Providence, R.I., mayor-turned-member of Congress, which
Gay dancer finds success working with Lady Gaga.
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LOCALNEWS
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
Mayor Vince Gray this week announced creation of a new
commission ‘to help end the HIV epidemic in the District of
Columbia.’
Gray creates new
HIV/AIDS commission
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray was scheduled to an-
nounce on Wednesday that he has created a new
Mayor’s Commission on HIV/AIDS “to help end the HIV
epidemic in the District of Columbia, according to a
statement released by the mayor’s office.
“The commission will focus on treatment, the needs
of people living with HIV and expanded prevention to
stop new infections,” the statement says.
“The objectives include the best way to achieve
‘Treatment on Demand,’ examining emerging trends
and needs, developing evidence-based policies, im-
proving access to critical support services (mental
health, substance use, housing), recommending orga-
nization changes and improved citywide coordination,
[and] maximizing research opportunities,” according
to the statement.
It adds that the new commission would also advise
Gray on the best ways the city can adopt President
Obama’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy for D.C.’s AIDS
programs.
The initial statement announcing the creation of the
commission did not include a list of the names of the
commission’s members. Visit washingtonblade.com for
an update.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Pannell runs for
Ward 8 school board seat
Veteran gay and Ward 8 community activist Phil Pan-
nell has emerged as one of nine candidates competing
for a vacant seat on the D.C. State Board of Education
for Ward 8 in the city’s April 26 special election.
Pannell, a recognized expert on issues and prob-
lems related to city neighborhoods east of the Anacos-
tia River, said he is running on a platform to address
such issues as school truancy, improved reading skills
and ways to curtail an “epidemic” of youth violence in
schools.
He said anti-LGBT bullying and harassment at
schools is also an issue he plans to address if elected
to the school board.
Races to fill vacancies for the Ward 8 and Ward 4
seats on the Board of Education have received far less
media coverage than the competition for an at-large
City Council seat vacated by Democrat Kwame Brown,
who won election in November as Council Chair. The
Council race will also be decided in the April 26 spe-
cial election.
Ten candidates are competing for the Council seat.
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city’s largest
LGBT political group, is scheduled to hold a candi-
dates forum and vote on an endorsement in the Coun-
cil race at a meeting on March 14, to be held at Town
nightclub.
The club voted at its monthly meeting Tuesday night
to hold a separate forum for school board candidates
on March 28, at which time the club will vote on en-
dorsements in those two contests.
Pannell, a longtime member of the club, is expect-
ed to be among the frontrunners for a Stein Club en-
dorsement at the March 28 meeting. He is the only
out gay running in any of the three races in the April
26 election.
The other candidates competing with Pannell for the
Ward 8 school board seat are Eugene Dewitt Kinlow,
Anthony Muhammad, Tijwanna Phillips, Larry Pretlow
II, R. Joyce Schott, Cardell Shelton, Trayon White Sr.,
and Sandra Williams.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Longtime lesbian activist
Carlene Cheatam leaving D.C.
Veteran lesbian activist Carlene Cheatam, who
helped form the D.C. Coalition of Black Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender Men and Women in 1978,
will be honored at a March 19 farewell party following
her announcement that she will be moving to New Jer-
sey later that month.
Cheatam said she is joining her partner, who resides
in New Jersey, shortly after Cheatam retires from her
job with the D.C. government, where she has worked
at various city agencies as an administrator for more
than 30 years.
The Rainbow History Project, which has designated
Cheatam as an LGBT community pioneer, describes
her as a highly acclaimed community organizer who
has “actively expanded opportunities for Washington,
D.C.’s gay and lesbian community, particularly for Afri-
can Americans.”
The farewell tribute to Cheatam is scheduled for
8 p.m. March 19 at the Dupont Circle gay bar Fab
Lounge at 2022 Florida Ave., N.W.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Gay youth gang linked to
assaults, robberies in Chinatown
A gang or “crew” of gay male teenagers based in
the city’s Trinidad neighborhood has been linked to
thefts, fights with other gangs, and some robberies
over the past year or more, according to D.C. Deputy
Police Chief Diane Groomes.
Groomes and Ron Mouten, co-founder of the D.C.
group Peaceoholics, which works to discourage youth
participation in gangs and acts of violence, said the
gay gang calls itself the “Check It” crew. Mouten said
Check It has as many as 100 active members.
“Most of them act in an effeminate way, but they are
tough, very tough,” said Mouten. He said the Check
It crew got into a violent altercation with a rival crew
last month outside the Potomac Gardens public hous-
ing complex on Capitol Hill, which is located about five
blocks from the headquarters and drop-in center of the
Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL),
which offers programs for LGBT youth.
Groomes said a number of Check It members have
been arrested for thefts and fights in the Chinatown-
Gallery Place area near the Verizon Center.
Gay and community activist Phil Pannell, who is run-
ning for a seat on the city’s school board from Ward 8,
said he would push for stepped up action by the city to
address the youth gang problem in the city if elected
to the board.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Gay man accused of hate
crime pleads guilty
A gay man charged with assaulting a panhandler
and threatening him with a chain during an altercation
outside the 17th Street, N.W. gay bar JR.’s in January
pleaded guilty on Feb. 14 to two of three charges filed
against him as part of a plea bargain agreement.
D.C. police initially charged Kevin “Jaden” Perry,
35, with assault, possession of a prohibited weapon (a
chain), and threats to do bodily harm at the time of his
arrest on Jan. 23. Police designated the incident as a
gay-related hate crime.
The following day, the United States Attorney’s of-
fice dropped the hate crimes designation at the time
of Perry’s appearance in court for an arraignment. A
police report said officers listed the incident as “biased
related” because the panhandler and an unidentified
witness said Perry repeatedly called the panhandler
a “faggot” at the time he allegedly assaulted him by
punching him in the back. The police report says the
panhandler was not injured in the incident.
Perry disputed those allegations, telling the Blade
following his arraignment in D.C. Superior Court that
the panhandler started the incident by calling Perry a
“faggot” and lunging at Perry with his fists raised after
Perry refused his request for money. Perry said he re-
peated the word faggot in the form of a question, say-
ing he raised his own fists and waved a chain he car-
ries to attach his wallet to his pants at the panhandler
in self-defense.
According to the police report, the witness quoted
Perry as saying to the panhandler, “I will kill you. You’re
a faggot…I’m a real faggot, bitch. You don’t want to
fuck with a real faggot, bitch. I will fucking kill you.”
Perry disputed that account, saying no one was on
the street to witness the incident except the panhan-
dler and two friends of Perry’s, who left JR.’s with Perry
minutes before the altercation started. The two friends
backed up Perry’s version of what happened.
According to court records, Perry pleaded guilty to
charges of threats to do bodily harm and simple as-
sault in exchange for the government dropping the
charge of possession of a prohibited weapon.
Perry was scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 23,
after the Blade’s print deadline. Visit washingtonblade.
com for updated news.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Transgender woman found
dead in Baltimore
A transgender woman was found dead Saturday in
a vacant building in Northwest Baltimore, according to
a report in the Baltimore Sun. An autopsy revealed that
Anthony Trent, known as Tyra, died of asphyxiation.
Trent, 25, had been reported missing two weeks
earlier. Homicide detectives are investigating.
A family member told the Sun that Trent was a vi-
brant person who loved animals and worked with peo-
ple with disabilities.
Trent had been arrested dozens of times between
2003-2008 on charges of loitering and prostitution but
had not been arrested since 2008.
STAFF REPORTS
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LOCALNEWS
Partner accused of murder in Md. man’s death
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
The arrest of a gay man for allegedly
murdering his partner one day before
Valentine’s Day in the partner’s apart-
ment in Temple Hills, Md., has prompted
friends and family members to struggle
over the specter of domestic violence,
people who knew the victim have said.
Prince George’s County police have
charged Eldridge Slaughter, 42, a North-
east D.C. resident, with first-degree mur-
der in the stabbing death of Christopher
Alan Trueheart, 44.
“Christopher was such a gentle soul
who loved everyone. His friends are truly
stunned and saddened,” said Dwayne
Smith, one of Trueheart’s friends.
Friends said Trueheart’s romantic
relationship with Slaughter was widely
known. Trueheart’s Facebook page – still
active as of last week – included a photo
of the two men leaning their heads to-
gether in an intimate pose.
In his Facebook profile, Trueheart
wrote, “I currently have a partner who I
love and care for very much.” He stated
in his profile that the anniversary of the
relationship was Sept. 28, 2008.
A spokesperson for P.G. County po-
lice declined to discuss the relationship
between the two men and said he could
Delaware lawmakers prep civil unions bill
Couples would receive
rights of marriage
By PETER ROSENSTEIN
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — More
than 150 people gathered in this beach
town on a windy Saturday to hear about
the effort to introduce a civil unions bill in
the Delaware Legislature.
A new group, Equality Delaware,
chaired by Wilmington attorney Lisa
Goodman, is behind the effort and has
already drafted the bill and found spon-
sors to introduce it. Steve Elkins, execu-
tive director of CAMP Rehoboth, the ar-
ea’s LGBT community center, welcomed
attendees and then turned the meeting
over to Equality Delaware.
Goodman, along with others from
Equality Delaware, answered questions
and listened to comments from those in
attendance. It was announced that the
sponsors of the bill will be state Rep.
Melanie George (D-Bear) and state Sen.
David Sokola (D-Newark).
Lawmakers plan to introduce the mea-
sure next month. It is anticipated that if
the bill passes that civil unions in Dela-
ware would be available only to gay and
lesbian couples. Full marriage rights
would remain limited to opposite-sex
couples.
Rep. Pete Schwartzkopf, the House
Majority Leader, whose district includes
Rehoboth Beach, attended the meeting.
Photo via Facebook
Eldridge Slaughter (left) is charged with
first-degree murder in the death of his former
partner, Christopher Alan Trueheart
not confirm whether the murder was an
incident of domestic violence.
The spokesperson, Cpl. Henry Tip-
pett, said the murder was related to
some kind of “personal dispute.”
The Washington Post reported on Feb.
15 that police and law enforcement sourc-
es identified Slaughter and Trueheart as
being in a “romantic relationship.”
Police said a member of Trueheart’s
family found him unconscious in his
apartment on the 4400 block of 23rd
Parkway, Temple Hills, on Sunday after-
noon, Feb. 13.
A police report says an autopsy de-
Supporters gathered last weekend in the gay-friendly resort town of Rehoboth Beach to hear about plans for a civil unions bill in the Delaware
Legislature.
Schwartzkopf is a longtime supporter of
the LGBT community and has played a
key role in moving LGBT legislation in the
past. He said he believes that this leg-
islation can pass the Senate and that if
it does it will sail through the House. He
urged the audience to contact their law-
makers and to get their friends and allies
to do so as well.
The bill will address the Delaware
Defense of Marriage Act law and, in es-
sence, repeal the current criminal pen-
alties under Delaware law that prohibit
Delawareans from marrying a same-sex
spouse in another jurisdiction and would
recognize such marriages as civil unions
termined the cause of death was “mul-
tiple sharp force injuries.” The police re-
port says investigators quickly identified
Slaughter as a suspect in the case and
brought him in for questioning. According
to the report, Slaughter was in possession
of property belonging to Trueheart.
“The defendant waived his constitu-
tional rights and provided a full confession,
including details of the murder that would
have been only known by the person com-
mitting the murder,” the police report says.
Slaughter is being held without bond
pending trial.
Others who knew Trueheart said
friends and family members, stricken
with grief over Trueheart’s death, were re-
luctant to immediately talk about whether
they were aware of signs of abuse in
Slaughter’s behavior toward Trueheart.
Amy Loudermilk, co-chair of Rainbow
Response, a D.C. group that monitors
domestic violence in the LGBT commu-
nity, said domestic violence is a “major
public health” issue and should not be
treated as a private matter.
“Silence only contributes to the stigma
and taboo around this issue, especially
in the LGBT community,” she said. “While
friends should certainly be respectful to
surviving relatives, and should take their
own time to heal before speaking out if
in Delaware. Current law in Delaware
provides for a $100 fine and up to 30
days imprisonment for holding oneself
out as a married same-sex couple.
Rehoboth Beach is in Sussex County
— the only county that voted for Chris-
tine O’Donnell for Senate in the last elec-
tion. It was reported at the meeting that
O’Donnell has come out in support of
civil unions, but that could not be imme-
diately confirmed.
In response to a question, organizers
said Equality Delaware made the deci-
sion to move forward with civil unions
rather than marriage equality at this time
because they strongly believe that the
they need to do so, every voice possible
is needed to fight the epidemic of do-
mestic violence.”
Said Loudermilk, “Additionally, many
friends find strength and healing in
speaking out and doing something to
help prevent another tragedy.”
Rainbow Response provides informa-
tion about how domestic violence im-
pacts the LGBT community and how the
community should address the issue on
its website, rainbowresponse.org.
Loudermilk said Rainbow Response
supports the routine disclosure by police
about whether a crime is linked to do-
mestic violence.
“Again, silence only contributes to the
perpetuation of the problem,” she said. “It’s
important for another person going through
the same situation to be able to read about
it and realize that they are not the only one,
and perhaps reach out for help.”
She said reporting cases of domes-
tic violence also helps gather statistics
on the frequency of the problem that’s
needed to better enable advocacy and
anti-domestic violence groups to provide
services to victims.
She said anyone who feels threatened
over possible domestic violence can call
the National Domestic Violence Hotline 24
hours a day at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233).
Washington Blade file photo by Henry Linser
bill can pass the legislature.
Under the bill, couples in a civil union
would be accorded all the rights of mar-
riage in Delaware unless prohibited by
federal law. Civil unions would be per-
formed and resolved in the same man-
ner as marriages. Religious institutions
and members of the clergy would not be
required to perform civil unions. How-
ever, Clerks of the Peace (state officials
who perform civil marriage ceremonies)
would be required to perform civil union
ceremonies if asked. Organizers estimat-
ed that about 700 couples in Delaware
would quickly take advantage of a civil
union option if passed.
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Md. Senate advances

Colo. senator introduces civil unions bill 
DENVER — A Colorado state senator introduced a civil unions bill on Feb. 14. “Civil
unions will allow committed couples to share in the responsibilities and protections in
Colorado law that most families take for granted,” Sen. Pat Steadman said in a press
release. He said he considered the less-than-equal argument many gays make against
civil unions but said everyday matters like medical care and inheritance are too vital to
ignore, according to reports from the Colorado Independent. Coloradans voted in 2006
marriage bill
to ban same-sex marriage but polls show deep support in the state for civil unions. Opponents win push to
San Francisco mural draws controversy  drop ‘religious freedom’
SAN FRANCISCO — A proposed mural on San Francisco’s Polk Street in the city’s
from title
Tenderloin neighborhood has drawn controversy, a California NBC affiliate reported. Artists
who unveiled a sketch of the mural were met with backlash at a community meeting last By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
month. Attendees didn’t like the quality of the art and content that alluded to the neighbor- lchibbaro@washblade.com
hood’s gay history. The artists said the Lower Polk Neighborhood Association hired them
to paint a gay history mural. Before the ‘70s, when the Castro emerged as the city’s gay The Maryland State Senate on
area, Polk Street was the center of gay life. Some who objected say the era is too rife with Wednesday voted 25 to 22 to give pre-
well-documented incidents of police harassment and brutality to warrant a nostalgic mural. liminary approval of a bill to legalize
same-sex marriage in the state, indicat-
Anti-gay marriage amendment filed in N.C. ing the historic marriage equality mea-
sure is likely to pass in a final Senate vote
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina state senator this week filed a constitutional amend- expected on Thursday or Friday.
ment to ban same-sex marriage. The text of the proposed amendment, which has not yet The vote was expected to come after Washington Blade photo by Michael Key

been filed in the House, would ban any recognition of any “domestic legal union” other than Blade print deadline; visit washington-
a marriage between an opposite-sex couple, Q Notes, a Charlotte-based LGBT newspa- blade.com for updated news.
per reported. If approved by the legislature, the amendment would appear on the Novem-
Wednesday’s vote came after the Sen-
ber 2012 ballot. Three-fifths of both the House and Senate must approve the amendment ate defeated four proposed amendments
before it can appear on the ballot; the governor has no veto authority on amendments. introduced by opponents of the bill call-
Republican state Sen. James Forrester of Gaston County filed the amendment. The state ing for allowing private businesses or in-
has laws against same-sex marriage but not a constitutional amendment. dividuals not affiliated with religious insti-
tutions to discriminate against same-sex
Alaska regents vote to ban anti-gay bias couples in services or public accommo-
dations based on a religious conviction.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The University of Alaska Board of Regents voted last week But opponents garnered enough sup-
to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, with its president saying the state may port to pass by a vote of 26 to 21 an
have been the only one in the nation not to have sexual orientation specifically listed as a amendment changing the bill’s name
protection in a public university policy, the Associated Press reported this week. The pro- from the Religious Freedom and Civil
posal, approved 8-2, adds sexual orientation to university policy that bans discrimination. Marriage Protection Act to the Civil Mar-
riage Protection Act.
Gays barred from Creation Museum ‘date night’ Sen. C. Anthony Muse (D-Prince
George’s County), who introduced the
PETERSBURG, Ky. — A “date night” event at the Kentucky-based Creation Museum name change amendment, argued that
was disrupted earlier this month when a male couple was denied admission, the Associ- the bill was about same-sex marriage and
ated Press reported. A friend of one of the men who was barred entry, told the AP no one had “nothing to do” with religious free-
in their group was gay but Joe Sonka, the man who was not allowed in, had blogged in dom, especially for those who object to
January that a “flamboyantly” gay couple should attend the tour and told security guards same-sex marriage on religious grounds.
he was waiting for his “date” who was male. Mark Looy, chief communications officer for “That was the one unfortunate turn of
the Creation Museum, said it was clear from promotional material that the event was for events,” said Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Mont-
straight couples only and said it presented the “biblical view of marriage.” gomery County), a sponsor of the bill who
served as floor leader on behalf of the bill.
Facebook adds two relationship status options “I was disappointed in the title change
but otherwise today it could not have
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook recently began offering users new ways to describe gone better for us,” he said.
their romantic situation by adding “in a civil union” and “in a domestic partnership” to Raskin, an American University law
its official list of relationship statuses, according to reports from many news outlets professor, noted that four hostile amend-
this week. In the past, Facebook’s 600 million users were offered choices including ments were defeated and three others
“single,” “in a relationship” and “it’s complicated.” The decision to include the options were withdrawn by senators after backers
came after Facebook negotiated with users and rights advocacy groups, a company of the marriage bill argued against them.
rep told the San Francisco Chronicle. Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is openly The Senate approved two amend-
gay. The option is available in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and France. ments aimed at clarifying the bill’s exist-
ing provisions allowing clergy, churches
Kansas student op-ed draws controversy  and other religious institutions to refuse,
on religious grounds, to provide services
WICHITA, Kan. — Gay rights advocates in Kansas are calling for Wichita school lead- or accommodations for same-sex wed-
ers to “undo the damage and hurt” caused by a student newspaper column that they dings. Raskin, acting as floor leader, ac-
say promotes violence against gays, according to a report from the Wichita Eagle, a cepted the two as friendly amendments.
regional paper. The opinion column, published Feb. 11 in the editorial section of the Senate President Thomas V. Mike Mill-
Messenger, East High School’s student newspaper, says same-sex relationships “just er (D-Calvert and Prince George’s Coun-
are not normal” and “should be frowned upon.” Its author, an East High student, also ties) ended discussion on the marriage
cited a Bible verse that says men who lie with other men have “committed an abomina- bill shortly after noon following comple-
tion: they shall surely be put to death.” District officials, the newspaper’s faculty adviser tion of consideration of amendments. He
and student editors say the column constitutes free speech and is protected by the First scheduled the debate on the bill itself to
Amendment and the Kansas Student Publications Act. Jessica Thomas, a senior at East begin Thursday morning.
High and one of the newspaper’s three editors, said she and her colleagues “knew the Supporters and opponents of the bill
column could possibly be controversial.” “We don’t necessarily agree or disagree. It’s expected the debate to continue through
one person’s personal opinion,” she said. at least early evening on Thursday, with a
vote on the final bill expected late Thurs-
Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery Coun-
ty), a sponsor of the marriage bill, said he
was disappointed in the change of the bill’s
name but otherwise ‘it could not have gone
better for us.’
day or early Friday.
Nearly all political observers in the
state believe the Maryland House of
Delegates will approve the marriage bill
next month by a margin wider than the
vote in the Senate. Gov. Martin O’Malley
has said he would sign the measure if it
clears the two houses of the legislature.
Lisa Polyak, a spokesperson for the state-
wide LGBT group Equality Maryland, which
is leading lobbying efforts in support of the
bill, said most supporters believe the 25 to
22 vote by the Senate in support of the bill on
Wednesday was “predictive” of the outcome
of the final Senate vote on the measure.
Among those voting for the bill was Sen.
Joan Carter Conway (D-Baltimore City),
who promised privately to vote for the bill
only if her vote was needed for its passage.
Twenty-four votes are needed to pass
legislation in the 47-member Maryland
Senate. Carter’s decision to vote “yes,”
even though the bill could have cleared
its preliminary approval Wednesday
without her vote, indicates she chose to
vote for “equality,” Polyak said.
“We’re very heartened by what we
heard,” she said.
One of the amendments defeated dur-
ing Wednesday’s floor session called for al-
lowing religious organizations that provide
adoption services to the general public,
such as the national group Catholic Chari-
ties, to refuse to facilitate an adoption by
any prospective parent – either a couple or
single person – if such an adoption would
be contrary to their religious beliefs.
Raskin noted that while the amend-
ment may have been aimed at allowing
a group like Catholic Charities to refuse
adoptions for same-sex couples, it would
create a broad exemption to Maryland’s
existing non-discrimination regulations
than ban discrimination in adoptions.
“I was resisting every effort to use the
marriage bill as an opportunity to reopen
and rewrite decades of settled anti-dis-
crimination law,” he said.
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NATIONALNEWS

Boehner mum on ‘Don’t Ask’ certification bill

GOP plan could delay
repeal of gay ban
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-
Ohio) deferred to the House Armed Ser-
vices Committee last week when asked
about his interest in legislation that would
complicate efforts to implement “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal.
Asked by the Washington Blade
whether legislation that would expand
the certification requirement for repeal
would see a vote in the 112th Congress,
Boehner replied, “We’ll see what the
committee recommends.”
Under the current repeal law signed by
President Obama on Dec. 22, an end to
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will be achieved 60
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
House Speaker John Boehner is waiting
for a committee recommendation before an-
nouncing whether a bill to expand certifica-
tion responsibility for ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal will
see a vote.
days after the president, the defense sec-
retary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff certify that the U.S. military is ready.
Pending legislation before the U.S.
House, sponsored by Rep. Duncan Hunt-
er (R-Calif.), would expand the certifica-
tion responsibility to the military service
chiefs: the Army chief of staff, the chief of
Naval Operations, the Marine Corps com-
mandant and the Air Force chief of staff.
Many of the service chiefs have ex-
pressed concern about implementing
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, so the ex-
panded certification requirement could
delay an end to the military’s gay ban.
However, each of the services has
been directed by Undersecretary of De-
fense for Personnel & Readiness Clifford
Stanley to devise a procedure to imple-
ment an end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
R. Clarke Cooper, executive direc-
tor of the Log Cabin Republicans, said
“there is no appetite” for preventing re-
peal because the mandate that Ameri-
can voters gave the Republican Party in
the 2010 election was reigning in spend-
ing, reducing the national debt, balanc-
ing the budget and enabling job growth.
“There is much to be done this Con-
gress,” he said. “Revisiting ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell’ would be an unnecessary distraction.”
Cooper said the Pentagon wouldn’t
support any additional thresholds for
certification because the repeal imple-
mentation team is already moving for-
ward with implementing open service.
Drew Hammill, spokesperson for
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-
Calif.), said the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” re-
peal law was passed by Congress last
year after careful consideration.
“The certification process contained
in the bipartisan legislation passed by
the Congress and signed by the presi-
dent has the support of the Department
of Defense,” he said. “The repeal law was
carefully drafted and contains reasonable
requirements for implementation.”

Feinstein, Nadler to seek DOMA repeal

Continued from page 1
loving and committed couples.”
The Justice Department reported
its decision to Congress; it’s possible
that anti-LGBT members of Congress
could take up defending DOMA in court,
though Holder emphasized that the U.S.
government remains a party in the case.
Michael Steel, a spokesperson for
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)
criticized the timing of the announcement.
“While Americans want Washington
to focus on creating jobs and cutting
spending, the President will have to ex-
plain why he thinks now is the appropri-
ate time to stir up a controversial issue
that sharply divides the nation,” he said.
DOMA, passed in 1996 and signed by
President Clinton, defines marriage as
between a man and woman and allows
states to refuse to recognize same-sex
marriages performed in other jurisdic-
tion. The federal law denies more than
1,000 benefits of marriage to gay and
lesbian couples.
In response to the news, Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jerrold
Nadler (D-N.Y.) each announced plans
to introduce bills to repeal DOMA.
White House Press Secretary Jay
Carney on Wednesday emphasized the
Obama administration “had no choice” in
deciding to no longer defend DOMA in
court because of legal issues surround-
ing new litigation against the statute.
Under questioning from the Washing-
posed deadline to make this decision.
This case in the Second Circuit was
unique in that it lacked the precedent
upon which to defend the Defense of
Marriage Act in the way that this admin-
istration defended it in previous cases,
and therefore, required this decision on
its constitutionality, and we had to act be-
cause of the deadline.”
The Obama administration had until
March 11 to respond in court to the Ped-
ersen case, filed by Gay & Lesbian Ad-
vocates & Defenders, and the Windsor
case, filed by the American Civil Liber-
ties Union. Both lawsuits were initiated in
November.
Carney maintained the president’s
position on DOMA “has been consis-
tent” and said he’s “long opposed it as
unnecessary and unfair.” Full repeal of
DOMA was among Obama’s campaign
promises in 2008.
Still, Carney maintained the U.S. gov-
ernment will remain a party to the DOMA
cases to allow them to proceed and help
facilitate efforts from Congress to defend
the statute if lawmakers desire to do so.
“The administration will do everything
it can to assist Congress if it so wishes
to do that,” Carney said. “We recognize
and respect that there are other points of
view and other opinions about this.”
Carney also emphasized the Obama
administration would continue enforce-
ment of DOMA. Asked whether there
could be any outcome at the district or
appellate level that would prompt the
president to discontinue enforcement of Washington Blade photo by Michael Key

ton Blade, Carney noted the new DOMA
lawsuits — Pedersen v. Office of Person-
nel Management and Windsor v. United
States — are unique because there’s no
legal precedent for handling laws relat-
ing to sexual orientation in the Second
Circuit, where the cases are pending.
“The administration had no choice,”
Carney said. “It was under a court-im-
the statute, Carney replied, “You’re ask-
ing me to speculate. I would also note
that the president is obligated to enforce
the law.”
Asked by the Associated Press
whether this decision is related to the
president’s position on same-sex mar-
riage, Carney said Obama’s position on
marriage rights for gay couples is “dis-
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney emphasized the Obama administration ‘had no
choice’ in deciding to no longer defend DOMA in court.
tinct from the legal decision.” Obama cent statements on that,” Carney said.
has said he’s “wrestling” with the idea of “He’s grappling with the issue, but he,
same-sex marriage and suggested his again, I want to make the distinction be-
position could evolve, but hasn’t yet en- tween his personal views, which he has
dorsed marriage equality. discussed, and the legal issue, the legal
“I would refer you just to his fairly re- decision that was made today.”
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Pro-LGBT laws may be ‘impossible’ in this Congress
Continued from page 1
is a typical load for Cicilline. Among
his planned meetings is a talk with
gay Rhode Island State House Speaker
Gordon Fox, a leader in the fight to legalize
same-sex marriage in the Ocean State.
But for this meeting, Cicilline listens
intently as the advocates voice their
concerns and hand him data sheets on
problems facing the disabled and poten-
tial cuts to government programs.
Donna Martin, executive director of
Rhode Island’s Community Provider Net-
work, asks the lawmaker to push for con-
tinued funding for Medicaid programs
through appropriations to the Depart-
ment of Health & Human Services.
“The FMAP, the federal Medicaid
match, the increased FMAP percentage
is due to expire at the end of June,” she
says. “That is going to have a tremendous
impact on Rhode Island, specifically on
our services. We are asking for consider-
ation that those funds be extended until
[health care reform] can be implemented
-- a provision in [health care reform] that
expands the Medicaid safety net, if you
will, which is active in 2014.”
Martin acknowledges that the Repub-
lican-controlled House doesn’t have “a
whole lot of appetite” for talking about
the extension of Medicaid funds, but em-
phasizes the importance of the program.
“It is a piece that has managed to
keep many of these organizations afloat,”
she says.
The disruptive noise of a loud conver-
sation is heard from an adjoining room.
Ever the attentive host, Cicilline rises from
his seat to shut the door to his office.
Meanwhile, Jack Padien, CEO of Arc
of Blackstone Valley, discusses the need
for continued funds for the Department of
Housing & Urban Development and Sec-
tion 811 programs, which provide housing
for low-income people with disabilities.
“The concern is, and I’m sure the con-
cern with you and everyone else on the
Democratic side, is that the Republicans
have just put in a $63 billion cut — pro-
posed cut — and that takes out a lot of
things,” he says. “It would be devastat-
ing to take out $250 million out of a $300
million budget for low-income housing.”
Clad in a pinstripe suit, French cuffs
and Italian loafers, Cicilline articulates his
response in his distinctively raspy voice,
starting with a comparison of President
Obama’s fiscal year 2012 budget request
to what the Republicans are proposing.
“If you look at the president’s bud-
get — I mean, there are many things in
that budget that I don’t agree with,” he
says. “There’s some cuts in programs
that I know are good programs, but the
distance between the president’s budget
and what the Republicans are proposing
are just night and day.”
Cicilline cites figures that the Repub-
lican proposal would cost 80,000 jobs
and, by comparison, says the president’s
budget would be effective in reducing
the deficit and spending while providing
funds for infrastructure and education.
“It’s what families would use by tight-
ening the belt by taking out the things
that aren’t working and you don’t need,
but also continue to invest in things that
your family needs for its future security,”
Cicilline says.
The freshman pledges to work hard
to pass the president’s agenda in the
House, but says he suspects Democrats
won’t be able to accomplish that while
being in the minority.
“It’s going to depend a lot on the role
the Senate plays and how we stop some
of this because I think the House Re-
publicans are going to pass something,
which, I think, everybody in this room
would find really unacceptable,” he says.
As a final request, Cicilline asks for
specific examples of how cuts proposed
by Republicans would cost jobs or harm
programs that rely on federal programs.
“We talk about it in public hearings
— $2 billion we cut here or $5 billion
here,” Cicilline says. “That much money?
It should get cut. And I think to the extent
that you can provide me, ‘Look if this pro-
gram is cut in half, 25 less people will be
enrolled in this service and we’ll have to
close that,’ that would be very useful both
in terms of making the case to other col-
leagues and also just describing to peo-
ple back home what the consequences
of the Republican budget would mean.”
The meeting concludes with a group
photo of Cicilline and the Rhode Island
constituents who sat in on the meeting.
Staffer Brad Greenburg is poised to take
the photo, although Cicilline has to re-
mind him to remove the cap from the lens
before hitting the flash button.
The theme of Republicans work-
ing to slash funds from programs while
Democrats urge for continued appropria-
tions is a common one lately.
On Tuesday, as the House debates a
resolution to continue funds for the re-
mainder of the fiscal year, Cicilline takes
to the floor to denounce cuts Republi-
cans are proposing.
“The Republicans are moving forward
with a dangerous spending bill, one that
continues to give rewards to the rich and
literally guts the initiatives most mean-
ingful to middle class families,” Cicil-
line says. “Simply put, the Republicans’
spending bill is irresponsible and tone
deaf to the needs of a healing nation.”
Cicilline says the Republican spend-
ing proposal would cut Pell Grants by
$800 per student and kick more than
200,000 children out of Head Start. Ad-
ditionally, he says the measure would un-
dermine domestic security by eliminating
1,330 police officers and 2,400 firefight-
ers throughout the country.
“The work of reducing our deficit and
controlling spending will be hard, to be
sure,” Cicilline says. “The fact of the mat-
ter is that we have to cut spending. But we
have to do it responsibly. We cannot cut
what makes us competitive and what helps
us to innovate, to succeed in the global
economy, and ultimately to create jobs.”
But in the end, the Republicans have
their way on the continuing resolution. On
Rep. David Cicilline said it might be ‘impossible’ to pass pro-LGBT legislation in this Congress,
but is exploring the feasibility of an omnibus LGBT rights bill.
Saturday, the House passes a measure
with $61 billion in cuts from last year’s
spending levels by a vote of 235-189.
The legislation now heads to the Dem-
ocratic-controlled Senate, and a failure
of both chambers to reach an agreement
by March 4 could result in the shutdown
of the U.S. government.
Following the vote, Boehner com-
mends the House for passing the con-
tinuing resolution with reduced spend-
ing, noting, “the House works best when
it is allowed to work its will.”
“This week, for the first time in many
years, the People’s House was allowed
to work its will — and the result was one
of the largest spending cuts in American
history,” Boehner says in a statement.
“We will not stop here in our efforts to
cut spending, not when we’re broke and
Washington’s spending binge is making
it harder to create jobs.”
Learning the ropes
After his constituents leave his office,
Cicilline removes his jacket and retires
behind his desk as he prepares for his
interview with this reporter.
Papers and folders are neatly piled
in different stacks. Also on his desk is a
copy of “The American Way to Change”
by Shirley Sagawa and “George Wash-
ington’s Sacred Fire,” a biography on the
first president by Peter Lilback.
Adorning his wall is a large green ab-
stract painting by Tom Sgorous, a Rhode
Island artist. On a nearby table, a glass
bowl is displayed with the inscription,
“Italio-American Club Man of the Year
2003 — Mayor David Cicilline.”
During his six weeks in office, Cicilline
has been busy hiring staff and setting up
offices both in D.C. and in Rhode Island’s
1st congressional district. He’s also been
serving on the policy steering committee
to set the House Democratic agenda for
the 112th Congress.
“I’ve been really learning how Con-
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
gress operates and how I can have the
greatest impact as a new member and as
a freshman in the minority,” Cicilline says.
He made the trip from Rhode Island to
D.C. solo. Asked whether he has a part-
ner, he says he’s single.
“You’re asking me that right after Val-
entine’s Day?” he jokes. “How cruel!”
Still, Cicilline says he’s already visited
at least one local gay bar since arriving
in the District, although he can’t imme-
diately recall the name of the establish-
ment he visited last week.
When asked if it could have been Co-
balt, Nellie’s or JR.’s, he quickly interrupts.
“JR.’s,” Cicilline exclaims as he snaps his
fingers. “It was just like a bar, bar. I met a
friend from Rhode Island for a drink who
works here in Washington.”
But focusing on the business before
him on Capitol Hill, Cicilline says his top
legislative priority is passage of what he
calls the “Made in America” block grant.
As he envisions it, the legislation would
encourage companies to keep manufac-
turing jobs in the United States by provid-
ing $2 billion in funds to retrofit factories,
retrain workers and buy new equipment.
“I think one of the things that we have
to do to really rebuild the economy in this
country is start making things again and
selling them in the global market,” he says.
Cicilline says he’s already spoken
with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) about the “Made in America”
block grant, which he says she supports.
Figuring out how to advance LGBT
issues is also on the agenda. Upon
his swearing in, Cicilline became a co-
chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus and
is learning from more senior openly gay
members of Congress — Reps. Barney
Frank (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-
Wisc.) and Jared Polis (D-Colo.) — about
where to focus their attention.
Cicilline emphasizes that he’s new to
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Congress and learning about the legis-
lative priorities for the LGBT community,
but knows that with Boehner as presiding
officer of the House, moving forward will
be challenging to say the least.
“But this is the year when it’s going to
be very, very difficult — maybe impos-
sible — to make progress on most of our
issues,” he says. “We’re going to be very
defensive mostly. Protecting the prog-
ress we’ve made and try to prevent the
clock from turning back with Republican
leadership in the House.”
Cicilline says he isn’t sure what kind
of anti-gay measures, if any, the Republi-
cans might pass out of the House, but ex-
presses confidence that the Democratic-
controlled Senate would block any such
initiatives from reaching Obama’s desk.
One item that has Cicilline’s interest
is comprehensive legislation that would
roll all pro-LGBT initiatives — such as
the Employment Non-Discrimination Act,
the Uniting American Families Act and
repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act —
into one piece of legislation.
“One of the things I’d like to explore is
this idea of developing an omnibus bill
that contains many of the specific piec-
es of legislation that have been on our
agenda for a number of years and put
them together in a comprehensive equal-
ity measure for the LGBT community,”
Cicilline says. “I’d like to obviously talk to
my colleagues about that as a strategy
versus individual bills.”
But what to do about ENDA, one of the
LGBT community’s top outstanding leg-
islative priorities? What’s the best way to
draw attention to the issue of job discrim-
ination in the interim as Republican con-
trol of the House makes passage of the
legislation unlikely for at least two years?
Cicilline notes as a legislator in the
Rhode Island State House, he worked to
help pass legislation that would bar dis-
crimination in the state against LGBT peo-
ple in situations of housing, credit, public
accommodations and employment.
The Rhode Island lawmaker says the
best way to draw attention to the lack of
employment protections for LGBT peo-
ple is to showcase people who’ve been
wronged under current law.
“I think people are really fair-minded,”
he says. “Most people if you sat them
down and said, ‘Someone who’s working
everyday and goes to work and is doing
their job, their employer can say, ‘You
want what? I’m firing you because you’re
gay.”’ Most people would say, “That’s
wrong!” They would be surprised even to
learn you can do that.”
Tongues are also wagging about an-
other LGBT march on Washington in
2012 as a means to draw attention to
LGBT issues and energize the Demo-
cratic base in the upcoming election.
Still, Cicilline says he thinks resources
could be better spent on constituents en-
couraging their members of Congress to
support pro-LGBT initiatives.
“I guess you could get lots of people
to march on Washington,” he says. “I just
assume they were door-knocking for pro-
gressive candidates that support mar-
riage equality, but if they’re willing to do
both, I think it’s fine.”
Cicilline has landed choice commit-
tee assignments, including seats on the
Small Business and Foreign Affairs com-
mittees. The lawmaker says he hopes
his position on the panel overseeing in-
ternational affairs will give more visibility
to “the hideous treatment of LGBT mem-
bers all over the world.”
For example, Cicilline says he hopes
he can build awareness about the plight
of LGBT people in Uganda, where activ-
ist David Kato was murdered in January
and a bill that would institute the death
penalty is pending before parliament.
“I think we need to be sure that we
have hearings on the issue,” Cicilline
says. “I’ll be raising awareness and us-
ing my role on the foreign affairs com-
mittee to work to develop a strong U.S.
policy against that.”
Earlier in the week, Cicilline met with
Frank Mugisha, an LGBT Ugandan activ-
ist and executive director of Sexual Mi-
norities Uganda.
Another LGBT agenda item that’s im-
portant to Cicilline: the advancement
of same-sex marriage. Rhode Island
is among a few states seeing progress
this year on relationship recognition for
same-sex couples.
Cicilline says he’s “very much” glued
to the legislative effort to pass marriage
legislation in Rhode Island and believes
“the prospects are very good this year”
for enactment of such a measure.
“I think there is strong support from the
House leadership and from the members,”
he says. “The challenge is to make sure
that it comes out of the House strongly be-
cause I think the fight is in the Senate.”
Cicilline adds that Gov. Lincoln
Chafee’s (I) support for the marriage bill
“is a big changer” from when former Re-
publican Gov. Donald Carcieri, who op-
poses marriage rights for gay couples,
was running the state.
But what about Obama’s position on
same-sex marriage? The president has said
his position could evolve on the issue and
that he’s wrestling with the idea of same-sex
marriage, but he hasn’t yet endorsed mar-
riage rights for same-sex couples.
“I think the president is being very
honest about his thinking that — and I
take him at his word — that his position is
evolving,” Cicilline says. “I think marriage
equality is the right answer because it
shows that every single American has
access to this important institution.”
Cicilline dismisses the notion that
Obama’s lack of support for same-sex
marriage has a significant impact on leg-
islative efforts to enact marriage rights for
gay and lesbian couples in Rhode Island.
“I think legislators in Rhode Island will
make up their minds on the issue of mar-
riage equality based on their own view on
it and by listening to constituents on it,”
he says. “I’m not sure that the president’s
position will have a direct impact on that.”
He adds that he doesn’t have any way
of knowing whether Obama will come to
support same-sex marriage, but has high
hopes the president will come around.
“Everything that I know about him
leads me to believe that he will look very
strongly at equality and justice and end-
ing discrimination of any kind,” Cicilline
says. “So, I would hope that the conclu-
sion of his thinking will also get him to
where he supports marriage equality.”
With his Blade interview complete,
Cicilline moves on to the rest of the day’s
meetings. However, his schedule isn’t lim-
ited to private meetings with constituents.
Busy day on the Hill
Cicilline is scheduled to hear testimony in
the afternoon as part of the House Small
Business Committee. The title of the hear-
ing is “Putting Americans Back to Work:
The State of the Small Business Economy.”
The Republicans who control the
committee — and the GOP-chosen wit-
nesses — use the hearing to denounce
the Obama administration’s policies.
House Small Business Committee
Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) plays up the
trials that small businesses face in the
United States even in times when the
economy is prosperous.
“Even though there has been recent
signs that our economy is starting to
improve, our recovery from this reces-
sion remains sporadic at best,” Graves
says. “As we’ve said many time before,
small businesses need certainty for plan
for not only the next day but also the next
month and the next year.”
Graves also takes a dig at the health
care reform law passed by the 111th
Congress. Repealing or defunding the
initiative has been a priority of Republi-
can leadership in the current Congress.
“After the new health care law passed
last year, I heard from countless small
businesses in my district and right here
in this committee room that not only will
this new law fail to provide health care
benefits to employees, but the costs will
put them out of business,” Graves said.
The Republican-appointed witnesses
offer testimony bemoaning practices the
Obama administration has put in place.
Representing the U.S. Chamber of Com-
merce — known for its hostility to the presi-
dent — is Bill Feinberg, president of Allied
Kitchen and Bath, Inc., in Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., who blasts the health care reform law.
“I know that in 2014 the new employer
mandate starts — the mandate says an
employer with 50 or more employees
must offer government-approved health
insurance or pay steep fines,” he says.
“Wouldn’t incentives, rather than penal-
ties, have been a better way to send the
message that government and business-
es can work together?”
Dixie Kolditz, owner of Open-Box Cre-
ations in Cathlament, Wash., says regula-
tions that the Obama administration has put
in place are stifling her import business.
“We have had to be creative and make
our money stretch more than it used to,” she
says. “This becomes harder when there are
expected and unexpected regulations and
hidden government taxes and fees.”
Cicilline arrives at the committee hear-
ing after the witnesses have given their
opening statements. Taking his seat
on the dais — far to the end in accor-
dance with his freshman status — the
lawmaker dons a pair of spectacles and
presumably reads the written testimony
submitted by witnesses.
When Graves gives Ciclline the green
light to begin his questioning, he starts
by expressing his interest in growing
small businesses in the United States.
“I think we’re all very interested in what
we need to do to make small business
grow and to create more jobs,” Cicilline
says. “So, I’m interested in specifics —
because I understand the feeling that you
may have of small business being overreg-
ulated and overburdened, but to be helpful
in terms of coming to address that, I need
to understand what the specifics are.”
Beginning his questioning with Fein-
berg, Cicilline notes the small business
owner already provides health care ben-
efits to employees, even though he is not
required to do so.
“I presume you do that because you
decided it’s valuable to have employees
who are healthy and well and can be pro-
ductive,” Cicilline says.
“My employees are my partners,” Fein-
berg says. “That’s what grows my business.”
Cicilline presses Feinberg on whether
the entrepreneur thinks “it’s a good idea”
to have a system in place that provides af-
fordable health care to small businesses.
“I can’t say whether or not,” Feinberg
says. “As a business owner, I look at
what’s going to grow my business. Know-
ing that I have to provide insurance —
that limits me. That does not give me the
flexibility as a business owner that I think
is required to grow my business.”
Following up, Cicilline asks whether
he’s aware that he’s entitled to a tax cred-
it in exchange for providing health insur-
ance to at least 50 employees. Feinberg
says he’s aware of the law.
“The reason I ask that is that I think
it’s important that we also at the [Small
Business Administration] or relevant
federal agencies should share that in-
formation with small businesses,” Cicil-
line says. “The tax cut is designed to
help small business and make providing
health care affordable, so I think that’s an
important responsibility.”
On his way out of the hearings, Cicil-
line tells the Blade he realizes the com-
mittee lineup was orchestrated to favor
Republican policy.
“The witnesses are clearly invited by
the majority party, so I think they have a
very clear view on what they think about
some of those issues that was reflected
in the witnesses,” Cicilline says.
Cicilline heads back to his office, but
not before a constituent approaches and
asks for a picture with him. This reporter
complies with a request to take a photo
of the two, then watches as the Rhode Is-
land lawmaker heads back to the Cannon
House Office Building to continue his work.
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VIEWPOINT
2012 march on Washington is a mistake
Let’s focus on state,
local victories for
next two years
By SCOTT ZUMWALT
We may still be on a bit of a
high. Just months after our his-
toric (and a bit lucky) success
in repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell,” friends of mine in the LGBT
rights movement are clamoring
to paint protest signs and go
marching on our National Mall.
While it may seem appealing
to some, politically it’s the wrong
move. Now, I’m not against
marches. In college I marched
for women’s lives and in 2009
I was in the National Equality
March even though at the time
I couldn’t really decide if it was
beneficial to the movement.
I enjoyed it but it clearly di-
rected resources away from im-
portant statewide battles we were
fighting at the time. So at the end
of the day it just ended up being
a really expensive therapy ses-
sion for a few thousand people.
Yes, that may sound harsh
and I respect the organizers a lot,
but I wanted to make my point
VIEWPOINT
Repeal would harm LGBT Americans
Refighting health
care battle would
be a mistake
By KATHLEEN SEBELIUS
To win the future, America will
need to make the kind of invest-
ments and reforms that allow
our nation to out-innovate, out-
educate and out-build the rest
of the world. Effectively imple-
menting the Affordable Care
Act is a vital part of this effort.
But some in Congress want to
refight the political battles of the
past two years and repeal the
law along with all the new con-
sumer protections and benefits
that go with it. That would be
a major setback for everyone,
including lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender Americans.
Evidence suggests that at
least a portion of the LGBT
community is disproportionate-
ly uninsured. And historically,
many LGBT individuals have
‘At the end of the day, the National Equality
March ended up being a really expensive
therapy session for a few thousand people.’
very clear because a march in
2012 would be a mistake.
First, I am not sure what a
march would accomplish. I’ve
worked for two current cabi-
net secretaries and three cur-
rent members of Congress and
while they do pay attention to
these things, at the end of the
day they are not going to vote
or even do something unless
something is going to move.
Let’s face it: Barney Frank is
right. Not much is going to hap-
pen with LGBT rights on a fed-
eral level through 2012.
As perplexing to so many of
us as it may seem, people like
Sen. Lindsay Graham and Rep.
Aaron Schock are never going
to come around and support the
rights of their LGBT constituents.
Even the Student Non-Discrim-
ination Act (SNDA) oddly faces
opposition in Congress. If we can’t
pass a bill that protects America’s
been misunderstood, ignored
or openly discriminated against
in our healthcare system.
For people living with HIV it
can be even worse: Fewer than
one in five has private insur-
ance, and nearly 30 percent do
not have any coverage at all.
Thanks to the Affordable
Care Act, that is changing. The
health care law is already offer-
ing new coverage options to
many Americans.
The Pre-Existing Condition In-
surance Plan is already helping
people living with pre-existing
conditions like HIV/AIDS to get
coverage. As of last fall, insurers
can no longer deny coverage
to children because of their pre-
existing health conditions. And in
2014, this protection will extend to
all Americans. That’s when new,
competitive health insurance mar-
ketplaces will be established un-
der the law, along with expanded
Medicaid eligibility and new tax
credits for middle class families.
The law is also protecting LGBT
Americans from many of the worst
youth from bullies, then ladies and
gentlemen, we ain’t getting much
from this Tea Party Congress.
This is why we need to do ev-
erything in our power from now
until 2012 to support candidates
up for election who believe their
LGBT constituents are just as im-
portant as everyone else. Lead-
ers like Sen. Sherrod Brown from
Ohio, who while in a swing state,
gave what is probably the most
passionate “It Get Better” speech
on the U.S. Senate floor last fall:
“History is on your side. It
will, in fact, get better. Workers
fought for the right to organize,
women fought for the right to
vote, African Americans fought
for equal justice, and now LGBT
Americans of all backgrounds
are fighting for equality.
“It is up to us to join this fight.
It is up to us to be on the side
of people whose lives are a
little bit more difficult, perhaps,
abuses of the insurance industry. A
year ago, insurers could cancel
your coverage when you got sick
just because you made a mistake
on your application. Under the Pa-
tient’s Bill of Rights, this practice
has been banned, along with other
harmful policies like lifetime dollar
limits on coverage, which often
meant your benefits disappeared
when you needed them most.
Thanks to the law, LGBT
Americans are getting some re-
lief from skyrocketing premiums
with new resources for states
to strengthen their oversight of
insurance companies and new
rules that limit the amount of
your premium dollars that insur-
ers may spend on marketing
and CEO bonuses.
And the law is helping millions
of LGBT Americans gain access
to recommended preventive care
and screenings for free, includ-
ing for certain diseases that af-
fect LGBT populations at a rate
higher than other populations.
The Affordable Care Act is
also making additional invest-
than others’ lives. It is that spirit
of inclusion, it is the pursuit of
the American dream, that will,
in fact, make it better for these
young people, and it will make it
better for all Americans.”
Sure gridlock in Washington
is frustrating but there is a lot
going on in states around the
country to keep us busy. It may
not be as sexy as protesting on
the Mall or chaining oneself to
the White House, but it is just as
effective, if not more so.
Maryland is about to pass
marriage equality and Rhode
Island is just behind. Across the
country, districts and states are
considering anti-bullying legis-
lation. This is where our battles
should take place through 2012:
in our state capitals, local gov-
ernments and school districts.
So let’s go to where the fight is.
And when Obama is re-elected
and the American public real-
izes what a disaster the Tea Party
Congress has been, we can shift
our focus back to the beltway –—
and I hope you’ll join me then.
Scott Zumwalt is manager of the it
Gets Better Project, a lGBt activist
and new media consultant. the views
expressed here are his own.
ments to address health dispari-
ties. New funding will help build
a more diverse and culturally
competent health care workforce
and help community health cen-
ters to serve up to 20 million more
patients. And increased research
and data collection on health dis-
parities will give policymakers the
knowledge and tools they need
to continue to target resources to
underserved communities.
For LGBT communities, the new
health care law is already making a
difference in people’s lives, helping
families get care, addressing health
disparities and putting our nation on
a better path for the future.
Undoing this progress now
would be a terrible mistake.
Kathleen Sebelius is the secretary of
health and human services.
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VIEWPOINT
Obama rolls back Bush’s ‘conscience clause’
Sanity returns to
health care policy
By ROD McCULLOM
The past two weeks have not
been kind to the LGBT com-
munity. True, there have been a
few wins — advances on mar-
riage equality in Maryland and
the passage of civil unions in
Hawaii, the most obvious ones
— but recent weeks have seen
a relentless social conservative
assault on gays, especially on
non-discrimination protections
and health care.
Take, for example, the
Pence Amendment, with House
Republican leadership an-
nouncing they would strip mil-
lions from HIV/AIDS funding.
And a flurry of activity in state
legislatures that have laid the
foundation for constitutional
marriage bans in Indiana, Iowa
and Wyoming. Marriage equal-
ity appears safe in Iowa—for
now. Not so much in Indiana
and Wyoming, where same-
sex marriage is already illegal
and the amendments serve as
“double secret” anti-gay mar-
riage decoder rings.
And, of course, the hateful
legislation moving forward in
Montana that would nullify Mis-
soula’s gay rights ordinance.
So much for the GOP prom-
ise to “focus” on jobs and the
economy.
But a major win for our com-
munity happened quietly and
without fanfare last week. The
Obama administration an-
nounced it was finally rescind-
ing most of the Bush-era health
care provider “conscience
clause” regulations that have
been used to discriminate
against gay men and lesbians,
transgender people, patients
with HIV/AIDS, and, of course,
women seeking contraception
or abortions.
The regulation was ap-
proved in 2008 during the
sunset of the Bush adminis-
tration supposedly to allow
health care workers to opt out
of treating patients based on
personal and/or religious be-
liefs. But like George W. and
Dick Cheney’s supposedly
benign brand of “compassion-
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were much more insidious to
our community, the Washing-
ton Post reported.
“[The] rule was widely in-
terpreted as shielding workers
who refuse to participate in a
range of medical services, such
as providing birth control pills,
caring for gay men with AIDS
and performing in-vitro fertiliza-
tion for lesbians or single wom-
en. Friday’s move was seen as
an important step in counter-
ing that trend, which in recent
years had led pharmacists to
refuse to fill prescriptions for the
emergency contraceptive Plan
B, doctors in California to reject
a lesbian’s request for infertility
treatment …”
The often-abused regulation
was described as one of Bush’s
“most controversial legacies.”
That says a helluva lot about the
Texas oilman who presided over
the Iraq war. It allowed the fed-
eral bureaucracy to become a
Petri dish of movement conser-
vatism — complete with quasi-
theocratic legal precedents and
state-sponsored bigotry that
bred contempt and prosecution
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for gay men, lesbians and the
trans community.
The policy was a cruel
joke coming from the same
anti-choice, anti-science and
anti-gay right-wing cultural
Neanderthals that promoted
“abstinence” to teens in this
country — hello Bristol Palin
— and to men and women in
AIDS-ravaged Africa.
In the past two years, the rule
has been exercised with alarm-
ing randomness. CVS locations
in Washington, D.C., have been
accused of limiting access to
condoms. Gay activists in Chi-
cago also cited several Wal-
greens locations for allowing
clerks to refuse to sell condoms
to men whom they believed
were gay.
That may help an evangeli-
cal sales clerk sleep better at
night, but it can cost lives. The
District’s HIV/AIDS rate is the
highest in the country. The HIV/
AIDS rate among black gay and
bisexual men is much, much
higher and those men were
more likely to be affected in
those cases above.
Only weeks after taking of-
fice, the Obama administration
announced its intent to repeal
the conscience clause. When
the new regulations were finally
announced last week, almost
two years later, there wasn’t too
much coverage in gay media,
but the right wing went into a
virtual meltdown.
“It’s the day pro-life activists
have been waiting for, “ CBN
bemoaned. “Very disappoint-
ing,” said the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops, which
has been busy in the past few
weeks fighting marriage rights
in Maryland.
A virtual high-five to the
Obama administration for re-
turning some sanity to health
care policy, especially when
LGBT lives are at stake. Let’s
hope over the next two years
we will see more regulatory
changes that will benefit the
LGBT community. And if Pat
Robertson is unhappy about
something, then we’re probably
on the right track.
Rod McCullom is a TV news producer
and writer who blogs on politics, pop
culture and LGBT news at Rod20.com.
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By JULIETTE EBNER
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards is Sunday and
there are a few LGBT favorites hoping to walk up to the
stage and accept an Oscar.
“The Kids Are All Right” is up for Best Picture and
Writing (Original Screenplay) and a couple of its stars,
both straight, are nominated too. Annette Bening is up
for Actress in a Leading Role and Mark Ruffalo is nomi-
nated for Actor in a Supporting Role.
The other Best Picture nominees are “Black Swan,”
“The Fighter,” “Inception,” “The King’s Speech,” “127
Hours,” “The Social Network,” “Toy Story 3,” “True Grit”
and “Winter’s Bone.”
Benning is up against Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Law-
rence, Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams. Ruffalo is
up against Christian Bale, John Hawkes, Jeremy Renner
and Geoffrey Rush.
If she wins, Lisa Cholodenko, the director and co-
writer of “Kids,” would not be the first openly gay person
to win an Oscar.
Melissa Etheridge and Elton John — both openly gay
Gay winners reflect on their Academy Award victories
PAGE 18
arts & entertainment
— have won Oscars for Best Original Song. Etheridge
won in 2009 for “I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconve-
nient Truth” and John won in 1994 with “Can You Feel
the Love Tonight” from “The Lion King.”
Other gay winners have been behind the scenes
and are not household names. Costume designer Al-
bert Wolsky, an 80-year-old French costume designer,
won for “All That Jazz” and “Bugsy.” Australian anima-
tor Adam Elliot, who won in 2004 for “Harvie Krumpet,”
a clay-animated short film, is also gay as was the late
Howard Ashman who won twice (once posthumously) in
the song category for his lyrics in the Disney films “The
Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast.”
Another gay winner, Dustin Lance Black won Best
Writing (Original Screenplay) in 2009 for his work on the
film “Milk.”
“Winning an Oscar for that film was unbelievably
meaningful,” Black said in an interview with the Blade.
“That project was so meaningful to me ... and whose
lives are depicted in it. So many of them were there in
the room that night.”
Black was not the only person to win for “Milk.” Sean
Dustin Lance Black accepts
an Oscar for writing ‘Milk.’ (Photo
courtesy of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences)
Penn won Best Actor for his depiction of Harvey Milk.
Producer Dan Jinks won Best Picture for “American
Beauty” with his production partner Bruce Cohen in
2000. He was also nominated in 2009 for “Milk.”
“The whole experience was pretty surreal,” says
Jinks about winning. He remembers feeling a sense of
relief because he “loved the movie so much,” hugging
his boyfriend, who was sitting next to him, and then hug-
ging his parents.
“I remember walking up the steps, and looking down
at my foot ... as it was landing on the lit up step going up
to the stage and saying ‘Wow, I have got to remember
this moment for the rest of my life,’” he says.
Once on stage, neither Black nor Jinks pulled out a
piece of paper with their speech on it.
“I think that anybody who’s nominated for an Oscar is
an idiot if they don’t prepare something,” Jinks says. He
also had to coordinate with Cohen on who was going to
say what.
The Academy does prep nominees on what to do
Continues on page 29
18 washingtonblade.com • february 25, 2011
QUEERY: 20 questions for Dito Sevilla
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com How long have you been out and who
was the hardest person to tell?
The story of Dito Sevilla coming out I came out on October 20, 2000. Af-
to his father, who was in Argentina work- ter coming out to my mother, the hardest
ing as an ambassador at the time, is like person to tell was my father. I sent him a
hearing a rapid-fire stand-up comedy rou- fax. Needless to say, it was not my shin-
tine. It would be impossible to duplicate ing moment.
in print but its core components — a de-
cree from his mother that he tell his father Who’s your LGBT hero?
within days and a horoscope that led to “Show me a hero and I will write you
confession-via-fax — give Sevilla a lot of a tragedy”
fodder with which to play. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, and now the
Shifting voices and accents — his poor guy is buried on Rockville Pike. You
family is Nicaraguan — and bringing into just can’t win.
play several relatives, his description is a
tour de force. It incorporates much of the What’s Washington’s best nightspot,
charm and personality Sevilla undoubted- past or present?
ly uses at Floriana, where he’s been bar Nothing compares to the clandestine
manager since 2004, a gig he stumbled elegance of Mark Lee’s original Sunday
into. He was working on his aunt and un- night Lizard Lounge. A welcoming and
cle’s web business at the time when the totally unexpected oasis of style. VIP
spot opened and the owners, who knew glamour on what then was a much differ-
him as a regular, twisted his arm to join ent 14th Street. I made some great friends
their staff. He’d just closed an antique there. Then again, ‘01, ‘02, ’03 … those
store in Kensington, Md., and was ready Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
were some great years for D.C.’s nightlife.
for something new. Who can forget Chaos’s Tuesday night
The 32-year-old has spent most of his life in the D.C. area. He was born near drag bingo or the triumvirate of debauch-
Georgetown and has also lived in Forest Hills and Potomac, Md. He went to college ery that was Southeast then? Great times.
in Delaware and spent four summers with his family in Argentina, but considers D.C.
home. He’s been on 17th Street for seven years. Sevilla, who’s single, enjoys read- Describe your dream wedding.
ing, especially history and biographies. He also likes collecting memorabilia and My dream is that as a community we
antiques. His apartment walls are covered and he’s an eBay junkie. “I love things would learn from our straight forefathers’
that connect me to the past or to history or things that remind me of people I love or track record and focus less on the wed-
wish I could have known,” he says. ding and more on the marriage. That
aside, two grooms in white tie, escorting
their mothers up an aisle flanked on both
sides by family and friends, gathering
at an altar to commit their lives to each
other does seem pretty dreamy.
What non-gay issue are you most
passionate about?
The fight to prevent the spread of HIV
and AIDS.
What historical outcome would you
change?
The election of our 39th president.
What’s been the most memorable pop
culture moment of your lifetime?
It involved an Oval Office, a cigar, a
nice Jewish girl and one very soiled blue
dress.
On what do you insist?
Authenticity, loyalty and freshly cut,
seedless Persian limes. I am repulsed by
liars, traitors and old fruit.
What was your last Facebook post or
Tweet?
“Egypt still has better internet than
Comcast customers.”
If your life were a book, what would
the title be?
“DICKTATOR”
If science discovered a way to change
sexual orientation, what would you do?
Russian science already has. They call
it vodka. Serve it chilled. The results are
mixed and short lived, but very effective.
What do you believe in beyond the
physical world?
Redemption
What’s your advice for LGBT move-
ment leaders?
Get it together. Literally, unite. Stop
trampling over each other’s messages
and form one diverse but clear resound-
ing voice, and use it. Loudly.
What would you walk across hot
coals for?
Family, friends, Gnocchi (my dog, not
the pasta) and David Rak. As they would
for me.
What gay stereotype annoys you most?
That which portrays gays as weak not
only annoys me, but more importantly in-
sults the men and women serving in our
armed forces. Gay means many things,
but weakness is not among them.
What’s your favorite gay movie?
“Auntie Mame.” I have been blessed
with a life overflowing with beautiful,
powerful and inspiring women. “Mame”
resembles them all in different ways.
What’s the most overrated social
custom?
Without good manners and traditions
we’d be barbarians. The world as we
know it today is held together with duct
tape and thank-you notes.
Though we could do away with the ex-
changing of heart-shaped crap on Valen-
tine’s Day.
What trophy or prize do you most
covet?
It is an honor just to be nominated.
What do you wish you’d known at 18?
Gravy is not a beverage.
Why Washington?
Interns, motorcades, proximity to
power, a 555-foot obelisk — because
there’s no place like home.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
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Freddie’s purple reign

NoVa staple celebrates 10
years with month
of festivities
By DAVID HOFFMAN
Freddie Lutz knows what it takes to
succeed as a restaurateur. But how to
put it into words?
Certainly it’s that ineffable “je ne sais
quoi” — that intuitive yet practical sense of
how to succeed in the world of hospitality,
as a purveyor of food and drink and good
times. And it’s second nature to the man
known to everyone simply as “Freddie.”
His is the motto for many who suc-
ceed — “excellence equals success.”
In Lutz’s words, “They say if you make it
past the first year, you’re doing good, but
if you make it past the third year, you’re
really doing good.”
However, the well-known rule of thumb
in the restaurant industry is this sober-
ing statistic: most new ones don’t make
it much past one year. Therefore, Lutz
says, “I guess if you make it past a de-
cade, you’re doing fabulous.”
March is his 10th anniversary celebra-
tion month, starting Tuesday. He calls it
“our purple party,” and it begins at 8 that
night with a complimentary hors d’oeuvre
buffet and an atmosphere of merriment
with party favors. There is, as Freddie
insists, “no cover charge” whatsoever,”
because, he calls it “a big celebration,
and everyone’s invited.”
“It’s a thank-you to the community,” he
says, “for all their love and support over
the last 10 years.” Lutz’s favorite color is
purple, so that’s the theme.
Purple streamers deck the small stage
— a mainstay for karaoke and drag shows,
flanked by a white baby grand piano.
Lutz admits he borrowed — he calls it
“artistic license” — the purple hue from
elsewhere. He dubs it “royal purple” and
says proudly, “I stole it from a diner in
Key West, where I fell in love with it.” So
back in Arlington, he immediately went to
a Duron paint store, and found it.
But Tuesday’s kick-off party is just the
beginning.
March 4 at 9 p.m., the lesbian band
Wicked Jezebel will perform. Then on
March 10, Lutz plans to give more back
to the community, by, he says, “donating
110 percent of the proceeds” — not the
profits, but the proceeds — of all sales
that evening to Food and Friends’ “Din-
ing Out For Life” fundraiser. March 20
brings the drag artist “Mimi I’mFurst,”
well-known from “Ru Paul’s Drag Race.”
But Lutz is counting on staging more
events. He’s planning them in concert
with his general manager, his 24-year-
old nephew Ryan, whom Lutz insists
is straight, saying he is sort of like the
young man Val — played by actor Dan
Futterman in “The Birdcage.”
One touch of décor, of course, is Lu-
tz’s sense of fashion style, through his
own collection of colorful Hawaiian shirts
— at first he simply estimates there are
“a lot of them” in his closet, but then con-
cedes that maybe it’s around 40. “Hey,”
he says, “it’s a beach bar.”
Lutz also says that he has aimed to
transplant the atmosphere of “The Bird-
cage” -- set in Miami’s South Beach -- to
his place, with its “islandy feeling,” on
23rd Street in a commercial strip between
Arlington Ridge and Crystal City. Its decor
was spun through his own mixing bowl
of styles. “I didn’t need to hire a decora-
tor,” he says, “I pretty much did it myself, I
guess my theme song is ‘I Did It My Way.’”
Lutz lives on Meade Street, near the
restaurant in the old Lutz family home,
with his partner of 13 years, Johnny Cer-
vantes. It’s the same house where Lutz
lived with his parents, from when he
was age 3. He boasts a degree from the
Rhode Island School of Design.
Lutz just celebrated another landmark
anniversary — his 60th birthday, on Dec.
3, with a big bash at the restaurant. Cer-
vantes, meanwhile, only owns up to be-
ing “39-ish, again, but I never give out
my age.” When interviewed, they had
just returned from their second home —
in Rehoboth Beach — and Cervantes’
fondness for his partner was palpable.
“With Freddie, what you see is what
you get,” Cervantes says. “But it’s true,”
adding that “it’s his honesty and his integ-
rity,” plus, “he’s got so much energy.” In
Freddie Lutz adorned his bar and restaurant in his favorite color — purple, a hue he fell in love with
after seeing it on the walls of a Key West diner.
their relationship, Cervantes says, “he’s
always the one who is willing to take the
risks — and the only way I can describe
him is as a free spirit, while also remaining
respectful of everyone that he knows.”
“He doesn’t step on anyone’s toes.
The bottom line is this, everybody loves
Freddie, and Freddie loves everybody,
whether in this neighborhood, in the
business community, straight or gay.”
Cervantes says the secret of the suc-
cess of the bar and restaurant is that Lutz
has “great negotiating skills.”
Asked about that, Lutz acknowledges
that when he started out a decade ago,
after a 25-year career working down the
street as manager and maitre’d at Cafe
Italia, “I just wanted to see if I could do it
myself, to see if I could make it happen,
to create a gay bar and restaurant, but
also — gay or not — to just see if I could
do it on my own.”
Yes, he sees Freddie’s as “just one big,
happy, dysfunctional family, with all the
crazy drama that goes along with a gay
bar, the intensity and all that, but this is
important,” he adds, “the accent is on the
word ‘happy,’ that’s definitely a key word.”
So yes, he feels “a great sense of ac-
complishment” now, to hit the 10-year mark.
Asked about the new LGBT bar in
Northern Virginia, whether or not he feels
any rivalry with the So Addictive Lounge
at 733 Elden St. in Herndon, Lutz insists,
“Absolutely not, in fact, I welcome it.”
He says there’s plenty of room in
Northern Virginia for another gay bar. It’s
managed by a former Freddie’s employ-
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
ee and they’ve talked about how they
can help each other. Lutz sent flowers
opening night. He got flowers in return.
When Lutz began 10 years ago, buy-
ing the location of the old Foxhole — he
called it “a neighborhood, ‘Cheers’-type
sports bar.” But then he started to change
everything, he says, though they stayed
open the whole time. Several of the Fox-
hole regulars hung around. He told them
to hang on, the purple paint and redeco-
rating were just part of “a work in prog-
ress,” a phrase he says still applies.
FreDDIe’s BeAcH BAr
AND restAurANt
555 So. 23rd St.
Arlington, Va.
ANNIVersAry FestIVItIes:
• 8 p.m. Tuesday “Purple Party” — buffet
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• March 4 — Wicked Jezebel
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9 p.m.-11 p.m.
• March 8, 10 and 11 — WiseCRACK
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weekly)
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Sarah Marshall and Clark Young in Georgetown’s ‘Glass Menagerie’ production.
The allure of Amanda
‘Glass Menagerie’ heroine
celebrated in Williams
centennial production
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
D.C. favorite Sarah Marshall isn’t the
type of actor who readily rattles off a
wish list of roles she’s dying to tackle. But
last year when she was asked how she
might want to participate in Georgetown
University’s Tennessee Williams Centen-
nial Festival (“Tenn Cent Fest”), Marshall,
who is gay, quickly responded that she’d
really like to play Amanda Wingfield, the
determined mother from Tennessee Wil-
liams’ classic “The Glass Menagerie.”
Commemorating the gay playwright’s
100th birthday, Georgetown University The-
ater and Performance Studies Program
(where Marshall is a professor), in partner-
ship with Arena Stage, has scheduled an
extensive program of Williams-related plays,
readings, concerts and screenings celebrat-
ing the playwright’s enduring place in Ameri-
can culture. A major element of the festival is
“The Glass Menagerie Project” comprised of
a full production of the play as well as many
smaller associative pieces like gay play-
wright Chris Durang’s parody “For Whom the
Southern Belle Tolls,” and “Elegy for Rose”
an ensemble-created/devised piece about
Williams’ relationship to his sister Rose, who
was institutionalized and lobotomized, as ex-
plored from Rose’s perspective.
Highly autobiographical, “The Glass
Menagerie” is the story of Tom, a young
poet who longs to shake a boring ware-
house job and stifling home life where
his faded southern belle mother Amanda
(based on Williams’ own mother Edwina)
obsesses over the impossible tasks of
making ends meet in Depression era St.
Louis and finding a potential mate for her
painfully shy and slightly lame daughter
Laura.
When local theatergoers think Aman-
da they may not think Marshall: the
Helen Hayes Award-winning actor is
most widely known for more support-
ing, quirkier roles. Still Marshall, who has
played leading roles and mothers in the
past (including the frighteningly fertile
Sister Woman in Williams’ “Cat on a Hot
february 25, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 21
Photo by Laura Mertens; courtesy of Georgetown University
Tin Roof” at Arena Stage), says she is not
out to prove anything: Amanda is simply
a character with whom she relates and
wants to explore further.
Marshall explains the affinity: “Well first,
there’s a lot of humor in the play, and that’s
something I do. And like Amanda, my moth-
er — though not southern — was a kind of
belle: She was very verbal, funny and rye
and she had a million boyfriends before
meeting the love of her life, my father.
“Also, like a lot of Williams’ best female
characters, Amanda reminds me of some
great gay men. And then there are all
those layers of tragic/comic, heartbreak-
ing, nerve-wracking humanity. Williams de-
scribes her as being a fierce little woman,
and of course being kind of little, I like that.”
The festival’s artistic director Profes-
sor Derek Goldman describes The Glass
Menagerie Project as a prism through
which a lot of other work can be viewed
and connections drawn. Goldman is also
staging the play. He says a lot of produc-
tions tend either to be too reverential or try
to entirely reinvent the material. Like Mar-
shall, his intent is to go back to what is on
the page. Goldman says, “Sarah is relent- Book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson. Music and lyrics by carol hall.
lessly honest about getting to the brass
tacks of Amanda. Asking questions like Produced by special arrangement with samuel French.
‘How does she run a household on very
little money?’ It’s easy to get caught up
in the aura of ‘Amanda-ness’ associated
with the part, and Sarah doesn’t do that.”
While recently re-reading “Tom: The
Unknown Tennessee Williams,” (the 1995
bio by Lyle Leverich), Marshall became —
quite fittingly for someone playing Amanda
— rather protective toward the playwright.
She sometimes thinks about young Tom
(Williams’ name prior to taking on the geo-
graphically inspired moniker Tennessee)
and worries about his destructive behavior
and is amazed at how he survives all that
risky boozing and cruising. Then inevitably
she returns to the beauty of his plays.
“For months I’ve been steeped in Wil-
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liams’ work and it’s been wonderful,”
Marshall says.
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CALENDAR the Birchmere Dec. 17. (Photo courtesy of the Roches)
Betsy Forster’s “After the Storm” is part of her exhibit, “Inspirations” at Touchstone Gallery.
Today
Beat City, a rock and roll
lounge party for queer folks
and their friends, is tonight
from 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. up-
stairs at Chief Ike’s Mambo
Room (1725 Columbia Rd.,
N.W.). There is no cover for
this event and all attendees
must be 21 or older.
Caliente Grande is tonight
at Apex (1415 22nd St., N.W.)
starting at 9 p.m. DJ Michael
Brandon will be spinning the
Latin dance party in the main
hall. There is a $10 cover
charge. Attendees must be 18
to enter, 21 to drink.
The D.C. Cowboys host
Brodeo tonight at Reming-
tons (639 Pennsylvania Ave.,
S.E.) from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The party will feature country/
western and disco/club music,
live performances, giveaways,
Jell-o shots and an auction.
DJ Chord Bezzera will be
at Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) to-
night at 10 p.m. as part of Club
London. There will be free vod-
ka drinks from 11 p.m. to mid-
night and attendees could win a
roundtrip ticket to London.
Women in Their Twenties,
a social discussion and dinner
group, will be meeting tonight
from 8 to 9 pm. at the D.C. Cen-
ter (1318 U St., N.W.).
Lace Lounge (2214 Rhode
Island Ave., N.E.) presents So-
cial Climax tonight from 10 p.m.
to 3 a.m. There is a $10 cover
all night and free drinks before
11:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 26
Burgundy Crescent Volun-
teers will be helping Food and
Friends with food preparation
and packing groceries today
from 8 to 10 a.m. For more in-
formation, e-mail jonathan@bur-
gundycrescent.org.
Lincoln Congregational
Temple UCC presents “From
Slavery to Freedom: An Histori-
cal Musical Perspective” per-
formed by the Community Cho-
rus of Washington today at 3:30
p.m. at Lincoln Congregational
Temple (1701 11th St., N.W.).
Every fourth Saturday of the
month, Green Lantern (1335
Green Court, N.W.) is hosting
Jocks vs. Jocks from 10 p.m.
to 2 a.m. Cover is $5 if wearing
sports attire, $7 if not. There’s a
trophy and cash prizes for the
winning team.
Shift presents “Surrender.
Your. Booty.” a celebration of
its two year anniversary tonight
at Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.)
from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. The party
will feature resident DJ MAJR
and guest DJs Matt Bailer of
Mixtape, Junebullet of She-
Rex and Zack Rosen of Homo/
Sonic. Brightest Young Things
will be there judging pirate cos-
tumes and the best dressed will
win two tickets to Kylie Minogue
at the Patriot Center on April 30.
DJ Escape will be at Town
(2009 8th St., N.W.)tonight. Mu-
sic and videos downstairs will
be by Wess. Drag show starts
at 10:30 p.m. Doors open at 10
pm. Cover is $8 before 11 p.m.
and $12 after. All attendees
must be 21 or older.
Sunday, Feb. 27
Flip-Out, D.C.’s LGBT flip
cup league, has its weekly
games today at 5 p.m. at Cobalt
(1639 R St., N.W.). For more in-
formation, visit flipoutdc.com.
Lace Lounge presents “Lyr-
ics and Lace,” an open mic,
live entertainment exhibition.
Appetizers will be half off and
there will be drink specials. The
Coolats band will be performing
an the show starts at 8 p.m. E-
mail dclace@yahoo.com to per-
form. Visit lacedc.com for more
information.
The Catholic University of
America presents “She Said/
She Said” by Rebecca Gin-
grich-Jones. Tickets range from
$3 to $15. For more information
and to purchase tickets, visit
drama.cua.edu/hartke-season.
cfm.
Nellie’s (900 U St., N.W.) is
hosting an Oscars watch party
today starting at 5 p.m.
The D.C. Center presents
“Glamour, Glitter and Gold,” its
sixth annual Oscar celebration
from 7 to 11:30 p.m. at Town
(2009 8th St., N.W.). Tickets
range from $20 for general ad-
mission to $50 for V.I.P.
Monday, Feb. 28
Bears do Yoga at Green Lan-
tern (1335 Green Court N.W.)
tonight at 6:30 p.m. Class lasts
for an hour and serves as an
introduction to yoga for people
of all different body types and
physical abilities. It’s taught by
Michael Brazell. For more infor-
mation, visit dccenter.org.
SAGE Metro D.C. is having
its monthly meeting tonight from
7 to 8 p.m. at the D.C. Center
(1318 U St., N.W.).
Tuesday, March 1
Join Burgundy Crescent Vol-
unteers to help pack safer sex kits
from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight at FUK!T’s
new packing location Green Lan-
tern, 1335 Green Ct., N.W.
Mautner Project presents
SHE Circle, a wellness commu-
nity by and for African-American
lesbian and bisexual women, to-
day from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Unity
Fellowship Church (502 Rhode
Island Ave., N.W.). For more in-
formation and to RSVP, e-mail
rdixon@mautnerproject.org or
dmagrini@mautnerproject.org.
“A Room of Our Own,” an
exhibit at Pepco Edison Place
Gallery (702 8th St., N.W.) by
the f11 Women’s Photography
Collective opens today. The gal-
lery is open from noon to 4 p.m.
The exhibit will be on display
through April 1.
Wednesday, March 2
The Tom Davaron Social
Bridge Club will meet at 7:30
tonight at the Dignity Center,
721 8th St., S.E., (across from
Marine Barracks) for social
Image courtesy of Touchstone Gallery
bridge. No partner is needed.
Visit lambdabridge.com and
click on “Social Bridge in Wash-
ington” for more information.
Bill Briggs and David Mari-
ner invite executive directors
of local LGBT organizations to
join them for a local LGBT lead-
er lunch today. The group will
meet at the D.C. Center (1318
U St., N.W.) at noon and go to a
local restaurant from there.
Touchstone Gallery (901
New York Ave., N.W.) has two
exhibits opening today: “Inspi-
ration” with paintings by Betsy
Forster and “Surfaces” with
paintings by Michelee Cormi-
er. Forster paints landscapes,
particularly uninhabited areas.
Cormier “captures the deteriora-
tion of urban surfaces over time.”
The gallery is open from 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m. and the exhibits will be
on display through March 27.
The D.C. Center (1318 U
St., N.W.) presents a speech by
Opening Horizons founders Tony
and Christina Vanderveldt on
polyamory, open relationships
and swinging from 7 to 9 p.m.
Thursday, March 3
“Shear Madness,” a come-
dy whodunit, will be performed
at the Kennedy Center Theater
Lab (2700 F St., N.W.) at 5 and
8 p.m. “Madness” takes place
in present-day Georgetown, in
the Shear Madness Hair Styling
Salon. Visit kennedy-center.org
for more information and to pur-
chase tickets.
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Josh Sticklin plays 13 roles in the one-man show ‘Basra Boy’ and gives a tour de force.
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It may sound preposterous, but it’s true. Josh Sticklin, 25, makes his bid for a
future career of real acting renown by his role — really, 13 of them — in a one-man
show, the world premiere of “Basra Boy,” now in rep, rotating with another play,
“The Weir,” at Keegan Theatre’s Church Street Theater in Dupont Circle.
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THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
OPENINGS
Sat, Feb. 26
Madama Butterfly, Washington National
Opera, Kennedy Center. 800-444-1324.
dc-opera.org.
Sun, Feb. 27
Gauguin: Maker of Myth, National Gal-
lery of Art. 202-737-4215 . nga.gov.
Tue, Mar. 1
Washington Bach Consort: FREE
Noontime Cantata Series, Washington
Bach Consort, Church of the Epiphany.
202-429-2121. bachconsort.org.
Thu, Mar. 3
Hamtdaa: Together, ARTISPHERE.
703-875-1100 . artisphere.com.
How to Avoid Falling in Love with the
Wrong Man / Cómo Evitar Enamor-
arse del Hombre Equivocado, Teatro
de la Luna, Gunston Theatre Two.
703-548-3092. teatrodelaluna.org.
National Symphony Orchestra: Zakir
HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS Hussain, tabla / Kelley O’Connor,
mezzo-soprano, Kennedy Center.
Paul Browde and Murray Nossel: Two Men Talking, 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
Thu March 3 – Sat March 5
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center LAST CHANCE
301-405-ARTS. claricesmithcenter.umd.edu Sat Feb. 26
Real-life adversaries when schoolboys in South Africa, one a bully and the other In Unison: 20 Washington, DC Art-
his victim, Browde and Nossel are now creative partners who use structured ists, Kreeger Museum. 202-338-3552.
improvisation to address emotionally charged issues like bullying, HIV/AIDS and kreegermuseum.org.
the corrosive effects of prejudice. In improvised performances that are unique Mash-Up Fest, DC Arts Center (DCAC).
each time, they use theatrical storytelling to steer through the dangerous waters 202-462-7833. dcartscenter.org.
of frank discussion toward the realm of reconciliation.
Sun, Feb. 27
By Any Other Name: An Evening of Shakespeare in Klingon Charming Billy, Round House Theatre
Washington Shakespeare Company at Artishpere Bethesda. 240-644-1100. roundhous-
etheatre.org.
Sunday, February 27 La cándida Eréndira/ Innocent Eré-
800-494-8497 ndira and her Heartless Grandmother,
WSC and By Any Other Name: An Evening of Shakespeare in Klingon will be
GALA Hispanic Theatre. 202-234-7174.
featured on a BBC documentary series called Planet World in 2012. Join WSC for
galatheatre.org.
this live TV recording.
Ultraviolet to Infrared: Paul Reed 50
Years, Workhouse Arts Center.
Peking Acrobats: 25th Anniversary Tour,
703-584-2900. workhousearts.org.
Thu March 3
Excellence in Printmaking Exhibition,
Strathmore
Washington Printmakers Gallery. 301-
301-581-5100 . strathmore.org 273-3660. washingtonprintmakers.com.
The Peking Acrobats Silver Anniversary show features all new acts and new
twists on old favorites, incredible costumes and special effects. For the first time
Thu, Mar. 3
National Philharmonic: All Mozart,
ever, The Women’s Peace Orchestra of China shares the stage with the Peking
Strathmore. 301-581-5100. nationalphil-
Acrobats adding a live music component to an already spectacular performance.
harmonic.org.
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program of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington. Photo provided by Clarice Smith Performing Arts LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
Center in Maryland.
Feb. 26 - Feb. 27
Tzveta Kassabova and Betty Skeen,
Dance Place. 202-269-1600. dance-
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Fri, Feb. 25
Cypress String Quartet, Wolf Trap.
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Friday Night Eclectic: The Funk Ark,
Strathmore. 301-581-5100.
strathmore.org.
Haunted Drive-In, The Fridge DC. 202-
644-4151. thefridgedc.com.
Wu Han, David Finckel and Philip
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Smith. 301-405-ARTS.
claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.
Sat, Feb. 26
Video Games Live, Strathmore.
301-581-5100 . strathmore.org.
Sun, Feb. 27
Washington National Opera: Juan
Diego Flórez—In Concert, Kennedy
Center. 202-295-2400. dc-opera.org.
WPAS: Hilary Hahn, violin Valentina
Lisitsa, piano, Strathmore. wpas.org.
Wed, Mar. 2
Al Stewart, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
Randy Newman, Strathmore. 301-581-
5100 . strathmore.org.
Thu, Mar. 3
The Monsoon Club at the Terrace
Gallery: Emergence, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
EVENINGS AT THE TM Trading Tex-
tiles: Indian Cottons in the Bazaars
of Central Asia, The Textile Museum.
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Leon Redbone, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
Pink Boots and a Machete, National
Geographic. 202-857-7708. events.
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ONGOING STAGE
Juno and the Paycock, Washington
Shakespeare Company, ARTISPHERE.
800-494-8497.
washingtonshakespeare.org.
Basra Boy and The Weir, Keegan The-
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0202. keegantheatre.com.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, Olney Theatre Center.
301-924-4485. olneytheatre.org.
Oedipus El Rey, Woolly Mammoth.
202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net.
ONGOING EXHIBITONS
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington
Color and Light. 202-639-1700. corco-
ran.org.
National Gallery of Art. Venice: Ca-
naletto and His Rivals, Gauguin: Maker
of Myth, From Impressionism to Modern-
ism: The Chester Dale Collection.
202-737-4215. nga.gov.
National Geographic. America I AM,
Beyond the Story: National Geographic
Unpublished. 202-857-7700. events.
nationalgeographic.com.
Museum of Women in the Arts. P(art)
ners: Gifts from the Heather and Tony
Podesta Collection, Eye Wonder:
Photography from the Bank of America
Collection. 202-783-5000. nmwa.org.
The Textile Museum. Colors of the Oa-
sis: Central Asian Ikats, Second Lives:
The Age-Old Art of Recycling Textiles.
202-667-0441. textilemuseum.org.
ONGOING GALLERIES
Resonant Forms: Alonzo Davis,
Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Frank Smith,
Brentwood Arts Exchange. 301-277-
2863. arts.pgparks.com.
Paint Mix Five DC/VA Painters, DC
Arts Center (DCAC). 202-462-7833.
dcartscenter.org.
Objects and Apparitions, Fisher Art
Gallery at Schlesinger Concert Hall &
Arts Center. 703-845-6156. nvcc.edu.
2011 Student/Faculty Show, The Art
League. 703-683-2323. theartleague.org
Lauren Rice: Heirlooms, Transformer.
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SOCIALAGENDA
Gay L.A. dancer finds
Mike Munich, in back, carrying Lady Gaga’s egg into the Grammys on Feb. 13 in Los Angeles.
The egg bearer
high-profile success
working with Gaga 
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
Many head to California, of course, with
big dreams. Mike Munich is one of the
lucky ones who’s watching his come true.
The 24-year-old gay Minneapolis na-
tive moved to Los Angeles five-and-a-
half years ago. He’s been in West Hol-
lywood the last 18 months.
“I came here basically to dance when
I was 19,” he says. “Now it’s working out
great but it’s been a journey and a strug-
gle and a process with lots and lots of
emotions, but now it’s going great.”
Munich can’t point to one “big break,”
but says a major resume builder was land-
ing a regular gig in the house dance troupe
that backs acts on “America’s Got Talent.”
He’d had other jobs and waited tables to
supplement the lean times, but that break in
August 2008 allowed him to dance full time.
He shot the pilot for the uber-popular (and
uber-gay) “Glee” as part of Vocal Adrena-
line, the rival group of New Directions, and
stayed with the show all along. He also did
an American Music Awards performance
with gay singer Adam Lambert and was in
Lambert’s “For Your Entertainment” video.
“He’s great,” Munich says. “He’s so
lovely and sweet and he really took care
of us. After the AMA performance, he
gave all of us and the band $100 gift cer-
tificates for (spa) Burke Williams. He’s so
talented and so fun to be around. Some
of my good friends were friends of his
before he was famous.”
But high plateaus soon beckoned.
Munich now has several Lady Gaga
gigs under his professional belt. Most
recently, he was one of the minions car-
rying Gaga’s egg Cleopatra-style into
the Grammys two weeks ago. Ironically,
though, his initial response at a possible
chance at working with Gaga was indif-
ference. He heard about an audition for
the “Alejandro” video but passed initially.
“I’d gotten an e-mail about it but it said
you had to be willing to shave your head
and I didn’t really want to do that,” he
says. “I just didn’t want to have a bald
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BOOKAGENDA
Death of a heartthrob
Mineo bio examines a
star’s troubled life
By TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER
Family is a strange thing sometimes.
How we interact with our siblings — and
how parents treat siblings differently —
may seem like innocuous childhood stuff
but it can have interesting ramifications
in adulthood.
Family is a big part of a new entertain-
ment bio on Sal Mineo, the ‘50s-era mati-
nee idol.
In the new book “Sal Mineo: A Biogra-
phy” by Michael Gregg Michaud, you’ll
see that Mineo was close to his siblings
early on, and they shared everything.
But when he was murdered, they
hadn’t a clue.
Sal Mineo’s parents always treated
their children equally: opportunity and
possessions were strictly balanced. So
when Sal, the youngest son, became
smitten with acting at age 8, his parents
paid for music lessons for their two older
boys while Sal learned to dance.
Quickly becoming a regular at New
York City auditions, Sal was obsessed
with dancing, which led to an obsession
with acting that worried his mother. By
age 11, he was working on Broadway.
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Co-stars and co-workers described
Mineo as an “angel” and a “puppy-dog”
who was open and eager to learn. He
was friendly but focused on his acting
and was willing to try anything his di-
rectors asked of him. Mineo and Wood
became close friends, as did Mineo and
James Dean. Some even say that Mineo
had a crush on Dean.
“Rebel Without a Cause” made Mineo
a star. His singing career and his good
looks made him a teenage heartthrob. In-
deed, he was known as a ladies’ man who
dated women as often as possible, and he
was nearly engaged to longtime girlfriend,
Jill Haworth. But Haworth noticed certain
Mineo quirks that made her uncomfortable.
Mineo was heavily into drugs and par-
tying, and requests for his talents had
begun to dry up. He was also heavily in
debt and had distanced himself from his
family, who vociferously denied rumors
coming from Hollywood. But then there
was the night Haworth caught Mineo in
bed with Bobby Sherman.
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FITNESSAGENDA
We need protein to maintain health but knowing what kinds and how much gets tricky.
Protein pros and cons
Not all sources of the
essential nutrient are
created equal
By KEVIN NORRIS
It’s amazing how much information is
out there on protein consumption. And
how much of it is contradictory.
Dieticians and doctors are the best
sources for this topic, but there’s also lots
of good information that can be helpful
from other places.
Protein is one of three essential macro-
nutrients crucial to proper health. The other
two are carbohydrates and fat, which I will
cover in subsequent columns. And until
the craze of high-protein diets a few years
ago, protein was often not as focused
upon and was wholly misunderstood.
The traditional wisdom is that in order to
gain weight (lean muscle mass) you need
to consume higher amounts of protein than
the norm. To lose weight some experts
state that you would also need to increase
protein consumption in substitution for de-
creasing your carbohydrate consumption.
But how much is required and are there
health risks that compromise the benefits?
First, let’s point out that adequate
protein consumption is crucial to sev-
eral bodily functions and overall health.
Protein is necessary in maintaining the
body’s normal growth and its muscle
mass, the immune system, the heart and
respiratory functions.
And protein consumption tends to satiate
you, so you feel full and may help maintain
a healthy weight. A 2005 study published
in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
found that increasing protein and reducing
fat resulted in sustained weight loss.
So just how much protein do we need
for optimal health? Madelyn Fernstrom, di-
rector of the Weight Management Center at
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Cen-
ter offers some basic protein consumption
calculations for general health. According
to Fernstrom, as a rule we need between
10-15 percent of our total calories in protein.
For a 2,000-calorie diet, the recom-
mended dietary allowance is 50 grams of
protein or 10 percent of total calories. One
calorie is equal to 3 grams of protein. The
other well-regarded method of protein cal-
culation is consuming 1 gram of protein
per kilogram of body weight or around .4
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grams per pound. Also note that some
registered dietitian’s and nutritionists rec-
ommend as much as 1 gram per pound of
body weight for lean mass stimulation, i.e.
healthy weight gain; where healthy weight
gain referring to lean muscle mass.
Now you have methods to calculate
protein intake; next you should place
strong consideration into the types of
protein you should consume because all
proteins are not created equal.
Protein comes from a variety of sources
from meat, fish and dairy to nuts, legumes,
eggs and vegetables. But what makes a
healthy protein-rich source? Typically, this
depends on what other macro nutrient is
contained with the protein and it can often
be fat, particularly saturated fat — a known
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Gays increasingly
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Continued from page 17
and say if they win. According to Black,
nominees receive a DVD with examples
of good and bad speeches.
“You just hope yours will be counted
amongst the good,” says Black.
Black, who first heard the story of
Harvey Milk when his parents moved to
California from Texas when he was 13,
said in his acceptance speech, “It gave
me hope ... It gave me the hope one day
I could live my life, openly as who I am
and that maybe even I could fall in love
and one day get married.”
Black thinks his Oscar win has allowed
him the opportunity to work on films with
some more challenging subject material.
“I’m not sure that something like
this film I’m doing right now, ‘J. Edgar
Hoover,’ would have been met with the
same sort of enthusiasm,” says Black,
adding that the Oscar might get him
more meetings. “But in the end, the work
has to be good.”
With the success of films like “Milk,”
the Academy, which both Black and
Jinks are members of, seems to be fairly
gay friendly.
“It seems to be getting increasingly gay
friendly,” says Black. He says it reflects
society and the membership is changing
just as much as America is changing.
The Academy was founded in 1927
by 36 people in the industry at the time.
There are now more than 6,000 members
ranging from actors and actresses to ex-
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“I’m certainly one of those who will
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tain’ and feel like ‘Boy, ‘Brokeback Moun-
tain’ should have won Best Picture that
year,” Jinks says. “One wonders if the
scales weren’t tipped by people who
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car because of homophobia.”
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samples are not on the table to geous for the self-employed if
add to the scrutiny. Everything used properly.
else that you can think of involv-
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even more toilsome. reported 1040’s to qualify for
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best. In calls only.
ALL-AMERICAN BOY 25y/o, 5’9,
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703-568-1560.
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ENASARIS 5’ 11”, 155lbs, 30yo, 9X6,
Versatile Top 202.271.0440
M2M SENSUAL MASSAGE BY LATINO,
40, in-shape, shaved head. OUT
CALLS ONLY! 202-276-9272.
SEXY*LATIN*BOY 21 y/o, 5’6”, 130lbs,
28w. cute, young, affectionate, loves
older guys, with a very smooth thin/
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202-710-2224
ANYTHINGS POSSIBLE - FULL NUDE
EROTIC MASSAGE, BY VGL 30 yr old,
5’9”, 150 lbs, Bl, Great Rates In/Out.
Looking to relax and enjoy? You found
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BODYWORK
DAVID EROTIC MASSAGE by certified
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Thank you for your repeat business.
Days & evenings. Easy parking or
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HOT LATINO with a special touch.
32 yo, 5’ 9”, 165 lbs, Offering
full body release in a private
atmosphere. In/out. Parking
Available, hotels welcome, Silver
Spring/DC area, 24/7. 240-462-8669
BLONDE GI 6 0 , 165LBS Good looking,
athletic, well-endowed. Sensual
Massage & More. Eli (703) 599-2668.
Erotic Swedish Massage - healthy clean
cut guy, 6’1”, 160lbs, Dupont Circle,
massage table, noon to 1:00 a.m.,
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MASSAGE SILVER SPRING
Spanish/Irish, 160 lbs, 5’10” great
shape, beach tan, strong soothing
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masculine energy. Stress release.
Comfortable studio, private home.
$70/hr. Days/evenings, metro.
BRUNO (301) 580-2716.
CREATIVE & SEXY
DCBEAU.BLOGSPOT.COM
202.495.1091
AVAILABLE FOR IN/OUT CALLS
BEAR HUNTING Strong sensual
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(202) 289-7367.
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