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Victim recalls brutal attack;
woman arrested in shooting of

gay man in separate incident

By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
A 29-year-old gay man spoke to the Blade
Tuesday through jaws wired shut to facilitate the
healing of facial injuries brought about by a brutal
beating that extended over several streets near
his home in Columbia Heights on March 12.
It happened so fast, said the man, who
asked not to be identied out of fear of
retaliation from his unidentied attackers, who
remain at large.
I remember being dragged. I remember being
kicked. I remember being yelled at and being
called faggot, he said. And my mind wants to
say there were three of them, but its all ashes.
Sitting beside his partner at the kitchen
table of the couples home, the two said
they decided to grant a series of news media
interviews this week to draw attention to a
rash of violent incidents against members of
the LGBT community.
Both said their spirits were lifted when they
learned one day earlier, on Monday, March 26,
that D.C. police arrested a 27-year-old woman
in connection with the March 11 shooting
of a gay man at the International House of
Pancakes restaurant in Columbia Heights.
They say police have told them investigators
are hopeful they will soon identify the attacker
in the 29-year-old gay mans case and will
make one or more arrests in the case.
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Election outcome not likely to change
Council support on LGBT issues
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com

The Districts inuential LGBT vote was expected to be
divided on April 3 in the hotly contested race for an at-large D.C.
Council seat held by Democratic incumbent Vincent Orange.
Orange and four of his Council colleagues Jack Evans
(DWarc 2), Muriel Bowser (DWarc 4), Yverre Alexancer
(DWarc 7) anc Marion Barry (DWarc 8) are runnin
for re-election in the Democratic Party primary. Evans, a
longtime supporter of LGBT rights, is running unopposed.
Similar to nearly all past elections, the winner in
the primary is expected to win the general election in
NovemLer in a ciry where reisrerec Democrars lar
outnumber Republicans.
But unlike most D.C. primaries in recent years, where
almost all incumbents win, political observers say
Democratic opponents with the backing of LGBT activists
have a shot at unseating Orange and Alexander.
And the president of the gay GOP group Log Cabin
Republicans of D.C., Robert Turner, says gay Republicans
are joining their moderate to progressive fellow party
activists to wage a spirited challenge for at least three
Council sears in rhe NovemLer elecrion.
Based on the candidates running, most LGBT activist
leaders say they dont expect the election outcome in the
April primary or NovemLer eneral elecrion ro chane rhe
D.C. Councils overall longstanding support for LGBT equality.
I do not see any changes that will impact the LGBT
community, said gay Democratic activist Peter Rosenstein.
"We are a srron communiry wirh rhe supporr ol rhe ma|oriry
of the Council today and that will continue, he said.
Alexander and Barry were the only two Council members
that voted against the citys same-sex marriage law when it
passed in the Council by a vote of 11-2 in 2009. Both have
been supportive on most other LGBT issues in the past.
However, the Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance this year
assigned Alexander and Barry a -3.5 rating on LGBT-related
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The vicrim ol a Lrural anriay arrack (lelr) uncerwenr rwo sureries in which his
badly severed jaw was reattached with two permanent titanium plates. He spoke to
the Blade this week on condition of anonymity and is pictured here at home with
his partner.
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I remember being
kicked, called faggot
On the
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D.C.s LGBT Center
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at 14th & U, faces
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with a weekend full
of events planned.
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D.C. anti-bullying
bill stalls
An anti-bullying bill introduced in the
D.C. City Council in January 2011 is stalled
in committee because its supporters
havent been able to gure out how to
pay for its implementation, according to
an aide to D.C. Council member Tommy
Wells (D-Ward 6).
Charles Allen, Wells chief of staff,
said Wells is facilitating discussions with
advocates for the legislation and with the
citys Chief Financial Ofcer to identify
funding sources and make changes to
lower the potential cost of putting the
bills provisions in place.
Wells is chair of the Councils
Committee on Libraries, Parks, Recreation
and Planning, one of two committees
with jurisdiction over the Bullying and
Intimidation Prevention Act.
The bill would require D.C. public
schools, city public charter schools, the
Department of Parks and Recreation, the
D.C. public library system, and the University
of the District of Columbia to adopt policies
prohibiting harassment, intimidation or
bullying at their respective facilities.
At the time it was introduced, 11 of the
Councils 13 members signed on as co-
introducers or co-sponsors of the bill.
LGBT activists said the bill was needed
because large numbers of LGBT youth
are victims of bullying in schools, parks
and other public places. They praised the
introduction of the bill but called on the
Council to strengthen its enforcement
and implementation provisions, saying
shortcomings in the bill would prevent it
from having a meaningful impact on the
problem of bullying.
Allen said a problem arose when the
Ofce of the D.C. Chief Financial Ofcer,
an agency independent of the Council
and the mayor, reviewed the bill in its role
of preparing a nancial impact statement
for all proposed city legislation. According
to Allen, the Ofce of the CFO indicated
informally that the cost would be high for
implementing the anti-bullying bill and
the Council would have to determine
where it would obtain the funds to pay for
the implementation.
He said Wells wants to make changes
to the bill to reduce the potential costs
before the CFOs ofce issues its ofcial
nancial impact statement.
Unless there is a plan to pay for it we
would be passing empty legislation,
Allen said. We dont want to do that. We
want to make sure that whatever we pass,
it is something that can be put in place
and implemented.
He said Wells was hopeful that revisions
could be made in the legislation that
would lower the potential costs.
Council Chair Kwame Brown (D-At-Large)
serves as chair of the Councils Committee of
the Whole, which has concurrent jurisdiction
over the bill in its role of overseeing the
citys public school system. Allison Abney,
a spokesperson for Brown, said Brown has
delegated the task of resolving the funding
issue to Wells committee.
Were working with them and
monitoring this very closely, she said.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.

Gay & Lesbian Chamber
honors locals

The Capital Area Gay and Lesbian
Chamber of Commerce (CAGLCC) will
honor six local business and community
leaders on April 20 at its annual awards
gala at the Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel, where
it will also celebrate its 22nd anniversary,
the group said in a statement.
Each year the Chamber recognizes
outstanding individuals and organizations
that have contributed to the economic,
social and cultural fabric of the LGBT
community in the metro D.C. area,
the statement says. Awardees display
exemplary business success and have
been strong leaders within the LGBT
community based on philanthropy,
advocacy and awareness.
Recipients of this years awards include:
Excellence in Business Awarc Chel
Art Smith: Known as a celebrity chef, Smith
served as personal chef to Oprah Winfrey
for 10 years. He regularly appears on
popular TV shows, authored three award-
winning cookbooks, founded a non-
prot group that teaches children about
tolerance, and oversees the operation
of several restaurants, including the D.C.
restaurant Art and Soul.
Business Leacership Awarc D.C.
Allen, owner of the Crew Club, a gay-
oriented gym and spa located in D.C.s
Logan Circle area on 14th Street, N.W. In
opening the Crew Club in 1995 Allen has
been credited with helping to revitalize
the 14th Street corridor as a thriving
neighborhood and business area. He
has made the Crew Club available for
on-site testing for HIV and other sexually
transmitted diseases; funded a $40,000
advertising campaign in local LGBT media
to promote awareness of a resurgence
of syphilis, which has been credited with
reducing the rate of syphilis infections
among gay men in D.C. He has also
supported the DC LGBT Community
Centers Took Kit safer sex campaign.
Emerin Enrrepreneur Awarc
JD Warford DVM and Jessica Serensits-
DC MetroVet: Warford and Serensits
are business partners and spouses who
operate a veterinary medicine business
that specializes in veterinary house calls.
They service more than 130 patients in
D.C. and Maryland, with a large majority
of their clients in the LGBT community.
The two serve as volunteers with feral cat
organizations, have plans for seminars for
dog and cat owners and for helping the
local group Pride of Pets.
volunreer ol rhe Year Awarc June
Crenshaw: An IT project manager for
Coventry Health Care company, Crenshaw
has been a volunteer at Whitman-Walker
Health since the 1980s. She serves on the
Whitman-Walker board and is a former
board chair. She has served as board co-
chair for Rainbow Response Coalition,
a local group that addresses domestic
violence in the LGBT community. She
has also helped victims and survivors of
domestic violence, rape and child abuse
as a volunteer for more than six years with
the local group Heartly House.
Communiry Acvocacy Awarc Joe
Solmonese. For the past seven years
Solmonese has served as president of
the Human Rights Campaign, the nations
largest LGBT civil rights group. CAGLCC
says that in addition to overseeing
legislative and political efforts to advance
LGBT rights on the national and state
level, Solmonese played a key role in
launching new programs and projects in
the faith and business sectors.
Corporare Ally ol rhe Year Awarc
Signal Financial Federal Credit Union. A
long-time member of CAGLCC, Signal
Financial has provided consistent and
valuable support for CAGLCCs programs
and events, the group says. It has also
worked hard to help CAGLCC members
expand their businesses through loans,
mortgages and merchant services.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
LGBT Center seeks
space in city building

The D.C. LGBT Community Center, which expects to be displaced next year
from its current location at 1318 U St., N.W., is applying for rental space at the
city-owned Reeves Municipal Building located less than a block away, according
to David Mariner, executive director of the Center.
Mariner said the Center will submit a bid in response to a public offer by the city
to seek tenants in various spaces in the Reeves Building. He said the space the
Center would like to rent is a rst-oor store front space on 14th Street.
The building is located at the corner of 14th and U Streets, N.W., in a bustling
entertainment and residential area where large numbers of LGBT people live and
visit to patronize restaurants and nightclubs.
The Centers current location provides just 1,200 square feet of space, Mariner
said. He said the space being sought at the Reeves Building would provide about
2,500 square feet of space. The building where the Center currently resides is
slated to be torn down to make way for a new hotel.
This is an open and competitive process, Mariner said, adding that the center
is likely to be competing for the space in the Reeves Building with businesses such
as stores or bars and restaurants. Such businesses have operated in the Reeves
Building in past years.
Mariner said the Center is calling on the LGBT community to urge city ofcials
to approve its bid for the rental space on grounds that the center is a non-prot
organization that provides services to city residents.
Gay activist Nick McCoy, a member of the Centers board, is coordinating
efforts to win the bid to rent space in the Reeves Building through his role as
chair of the Centers Relocation Committee. He said committee members will be
meeting with members of the D.C. City Council and representatives of the mayors
ofce to seek support for the bid.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
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DAVID MARINER, executive director of the D.C. LGBT Community Center, said the Center will submit
a bid for new space in the Reeves Building at 14th and U streets.
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The IHOP restaurant is about seven
blocks from where the 29-year-old gay
man was attacked at Georgia Avenue and
Irving Street, N.W., one day later.
The man shot at the IHOP, said to be 31,
suffered a non-life threatening gunshot
wound to the abdomen. Witnesses said
the shooting took place after the woman
arrested, LaShawn Yvonne Carson, and
two men with her called the victim anti-
gay names and a scufe broke out.
Similar to the incident involving the
29-year-old gay man who spoke to the
Blade, police listed the shooting incident
as a hate crime related to the victims
perceived or actual sexual orientation.
On the same day the 29-year-old gay
man was beaten and robbed, a transgender
woman was knocked unconscious at about
11:45 p.m. at West Virginia Avenue and
Mt. Olivet Road, N.E. Police said they had
insufcient evidence to list that incident as
a hate crime, but they were looking into the
possibility that it was.
The 29-year-old gay man and his partner
said the two were also buoyed by a silent
march organized by their friends that
took place March 20, the day the 29-year-
old beating victim was released from the
hospital. As many as 700 people marched
past where the attack against him took place
after beginning the procession at the IHOP.
The victim said he was too weak to
march after having spent eight days in the
hospital. He underwent two surgeries in
which his badly severed jaw, broken in two
places by attackers who kicked him in the
face, was reattached with two permanent
titanium plates.
It was stellar. It was reassuring, he said
of the march. It makes me proud to be
where Im at friends who I have in my
life. And it gave me a lot of strength. It
gave me a lot of security. It re-instills my
faith in people.
Although the attack against him began
at Georgia Avenue and Irving Street,
police said they found the victim four
blocks away at Georgia and Morton Street.
The victim said he recalls being dragged
through an alley a short distance from
Georgia Avenue after the initial attack.
He said minutes after the attackers
appear to have left him alone, he called
his partner on his cell phone to tell him he
had been attacked and needed help. But
the partner said he sounded dazed and
couldnt say where he was.
Seconds later, the partner heard other
people speaking to the victim. The victim
told the Blade he believes another group
of attackers beat and robbed him, taking
his iPhone and the iPad he had in the
briefcase he was carrying.
It was really hard to be attacked the
second time and think that someone
would do that, he said.
I just want to give thanks for the
amazing support and outpouring that
weve had from everyone lately, he said.
It makes me proud to be part of the
community that I belong to.
Arrest in shooting
In the case of the IHOP shooting, D.C.
Mayor Vincent Gray and Police Chief
Cathy Lanier announced at a Monday
news conference that police charged
LaShawn Yvonne Carson with aggravated
assault while armed.
D.C. Superior Court records show
that Carson appeared at a presentment
hearing on Monday shortly before the
news conference. Court records show that
Judge Diana Harris Epps ordered Carson
held without bond pending a preliminary
hearing scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday. (Visit
washingtonblade.com for updated news.)
I am pleased and relieved to announce
that a suspect in this dastardly crime has
been arrested, Gray said in a statement
released at the news conference.
As I said at the time of the shooting,
while all crime is horric and destructive to
the fabric of our community, hate crimes
are particularly insidious because they
instill fear in an entire group, he said. All
of our residents should have the right to
walk the streets of our neighborhoods free
of fear that they will be targeted because of
their identities beliefs or characteristics.
Lanier said at the news conference that
although police classied the shooting as
a bias crime related to the victims sexual
orientation, it would be up to the United
States Attorneys ofce to decide whether
to add a bias-related designation to the
charge of aggravated assault while armed.
Matt Jones, a spokesperson for the
U.S. Attorneys ofce, said Tuesday that
prosecutors with the ofce dont make a
decision on whether to designate a case as
a hate crime until it comes before a grand
jury further along in the prosecution.
Our investigation in the case is
ongoing, he said. That is not something
we normally charge at this point.
Under the D.C. hate crimes law, those
convicted of a hate-designated crime of
violence are subjected to a greater penalty,
including additional time served in prison.
This is an enormous relief, said D.C.
Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward
1), in commenting on the arrest. Graham,
whos gay and who spoke at the news
conference, called the shooting an
insane act that created an atmosphere of
fear in the community.
To shoot somebody at breakfast in a
public restaurant over a perceived slight is
insane behavior by any standard, he said
So this is a great relief for the community
that I represent, said Graham, noting that
the IHOP restaurant is located in his ward.
Police said the 31-year-old male victim in
the shooting reportedly had been subjected
to anti-gay name calling. The victims cousin,
who was present during the incident, told
the Blade that a scufe broke out near the
entrance of the restaurant when the woman
and two male friends blocked the victims
path when he got up to pay the bill. Police
said witnesses saw a scufe break out and
heard the ring of a gun.
Assistant Police Chief Peter Newsham
said last week that the incident may have
been captured on a video surveillance
system at the restaurant.
Police said the victim had been treated
in a hospital for a non-life threatening
gunshot wound.
I would like to thank the mayor,
chief of police and the MPD for the swift
response and arrest of a suspect in the
heinous shooting of a member of the
LGBT community at the IHOP in Columbia
Heights, said gay activist Peter Rosenstein.
No one, no matter what their cultural
background, color or sexual orientation
should feel unsafe in our community.
Victim recalls attack,
thanks community
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Pro-gay effort dwarfs NOMs Starbucks boycott
SEATTLE Despite an effort by an anti-gay group to pressure coffee retail
giant Starbucks to change course on its stance supporting same-sex marriage, the
push is severely lagging behind a pro-gay effort to thank the company.
After Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz stood by the companys backing of an effort
to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples in Washington State, the National
Organization for Marriage launched the boycott website called dumpstarbucks.
com where visitors recorded their pledge to avoid the coffee retailer. However,
with less than 25,000 pledges, the effort has been overshadowed by a pro-gay
response in which nearly 300,000 have recorded their appreciation for Starbucks
through the corporate accountability site, SumOfUs.org.
Frankly, we were stunned, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, executive director
of SumOfUs.org told the Washington Blade, saying she believes theyre on track
to reach 500,000 signatures. I think it shows that consumers really are for LGBT
rights, and they really are for marriage equality.
Bully to be unrated after petition protest
LOS ANGELES After a public outcry, the MPAA has reversed its decision to
rate as R a movie about the effects of bullying.
About 475,000 people signed Katy Butlers petition on Change.org to urge
the ratings group to change or lower the rating on the documentary, slated for a
March 30 release, because of its message to teens to combat bullying. The R
rating was applied due to some offensive language that appears in the lm
language that advocates say reects a small portion of what bullied kids actually
hear in their schools every day. The movie will now be released unrated, according
to the Weinstein Company.
7 in 10 hid orientation in Alaska: survey
ANCHORAGE A recent Identity, Inc survey shows that more than 70 percent
of LGBT respondents in Anchorage, Ala., hid their sexual orientation from an
employer for fear of losing their jobs. Forty-four percent report having been
harassed by an employer or co-worker for their sexual orientation.
The survey results, published in the Anchorage Daily News, come just ahead
of a citywide vote on a proposed ordinance to extend job protections to citizens
based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Alaska is one of 31 states where
it is legal for private employers to re someone solely based on sexual orientation.
Anchorage votes on April 3.
2 school districts face LGBT-related lawsuits
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. The school district in the small town of Camdenton,
Mo., faces a lawsuit by the ACLU after allowing students to visit anti-gay websites,
while blocking safe, pro-gay sites.
The New York Times reports that students complained they could reach anti-
gay websites, like those of ex-gay group Exodus International, but could not
visit the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or the Gay-Straight Alliance
Network. Though the blocking was done by software, the ACLU accuses the
school of inaction after complaints were led.
In another school in Atlanta, Reuben Lack is suing to be reinstated as Student
Council president, after he was removed by administrators for proposing gender-
neutral replacements to Prom King, and Prom Queen in an effort to be
inclusive to LGBT students, according to TV station 11 Alive.
Philly to pay damages for evicting Boy Scouts
PHILADELPHIA A judge has ruled the city of Philadelphia must pay the Boy
Scouts nearly $900,000 after attempting to evict the group from a city building
over the national organizations policy of excluding gays as troop leaders.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the scouts won their case in 2010, but
have been wrangling with the city over a settlement until now.
Some call for ships to
bypass anti-gay ports
By PHIL REESE
preese@washblade.com
After authorities in Dominica arrested two
gay men aboard an Atlantis cruise, some are
questioning why a gay cruise would visit a
nation that criminalizes gay sex.
Just days into the Atlantis-sponsored
Caribbean cruise, Palm Springs couple
Dennis Mayer and John Hart were called
to guest relations on the Celebrity ship
Summit and arrested for allegedly having
sex on their balcony, according to several
accounts, bringing to an abrupt end their
vacation, and marking the beginning of a
legal drama.
Representatives from Atlantis Events
did not respond to several attempts
by the Blade to discuss the incident,
however the companys president, Rich
Campbell, posted a statement addressing
the controversy on the Atlantis Events
Facebook page on March 22.
Please understand that the
complaint and subsequent arrests had
nothing to do with the guests sexual
orientation, nor was any anti-gay law
invoked, the statement said, despite
the fact that a charge of buggery
was dropped by authorities and
reduced to indecent exposure. These
guests were engaged in behavior that
is inappropriate in any port of call, or
major city for that matter.
But in interviews after returning home,
both Mayer and Hart said they were not
having sex but were partially clothed
on their balcony. They pleaded guilty
to indecent exposure and paid a $900
ne. They claimed that their treatment in
Dominica was frightening.
I know what it really does feel like now
to be hated, hated by a country, Mayer
told Palm Springs NBC afliate, KMIR.
He said hundreds of locals lined up to
taunt the couple as they were paraded
through town, while the local media
fanned the ames of gay hatred. They
did try to make an example out of us.
It was scary, Hart said.
Mayer told the AP that a law
enforcement ofcer told the couple after
a four-hour interrogation that they were
being arrested for being gay, and that
the ofcer threatened to take them to a
medical facility to have them examined for
proof of homosexual behavior.
Campbells Facebook post asserts that
both Celebrity Cruises and Atlantis Events
left representatives with Mayer and Hart
for the remainder of their ordeal, and that
their safety was monitored by the U.S.
Embassy in Barbados.
If they were having sex or were naked
on the balcony on the ship in the middle
of the port, theyre subject to the laws of
Dominica, just as they would be if they were
in the port of Fort Lauderdale, Charlie
Rounds, managing director of Brand g
Vacations, which plans trips to gay-friendly
destinations for smaller groups, told the
Blade. If that is what happened it certainly
seems reasonable that the local authorities
would stop the behavior.
However, Rounds a veteran of the gay
travel industry and former co-owner of RSVP
Vacations said hes never heard of anyone
getting arrested for being seen naked on
the balcony of a cruise ship before.
Most ships are so big and theres
nothing around them in the ports
that the possibility of actually seeing
somebody even if they were naked, is
relatively small globally, Rounds told the
Blade. There are just not that many ports
... where somebody could actually see
you. The sides of the ship are higher than
the actual buildings.
Rounds was part of the Atlantis Events
team from 2007-2010 as president of
RSVP Vacations after Campbells company
purchased RSVP, and says he believes
Campbells claim that the couples sexual
orientation was likely not a factor.
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GOP attacks on Planned
Parenthood, contraception
take center stage
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Move over gays. The dominant social
issue heading into the 2012 election isnt
marriage or Dont Ask, Dont Tell, but a
topic many thought was resolved decades
ago: womens rights.
Republican presidential candidates rail
against Planned Parenthood; the Senate
votes on allowing employers to opt out
of providing birth control coverage; and
Republicans derail legislation aimed
at helping women who are victims of
domestic violence. As a result, some are
asking: Are women the new gay?
Terry ONeill, president of the National
Organization for Women, said womens
rights have become the No. 1 social issue
creating a truly unprecedented war
against women because of the Tea
Partys success in the 2010 elections.
In addition to health care services, this
war on women really includes repeated
efforts by conservative lawmakers to
slash social programs, like Head Start
and after-school programs and family
planning centers as well as Medicare and
Medicaid and Social Security, ONeill
said. These are all programs that women
disproportionately rely on.
Rea Carey, executive director of the
National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, said
womens issues are a prominent part of
public discourse in 2012, but not in a way
that separates them from LGBT rights or
other social issues.
There are many women who are
lesbian, bisexual and transgender, Carey
said. If you look at Planned Parenthood,
we know that many members of the LGBT
community rely on Planned Parenthood
for health services, so even if were looking
at the attacks on Planned Parenthood
these are not separate from the attacks on
our own community.
Republican presidential candidates have
criticized President Obama for instituting
a regulation requiring employers even
religious organizations to provide birth
control as part of insurance coverage to
female employees. In February, the rule
was amended so companies with a moral
objection could opt out of such coverage,
but in their stead, the private insurers with
which the employers contracted would
have to offer contraception.
Republican presidential candidate Rick
Santorum has railed against the change as
an affront to religious liberty and attacked
contraception, saying it leads to the
spread of sexually transmitted diseases
and unplanned pregnancies.
Santorum articulated his views in an
interview with a conservative blogger last
fall before he became a strong contender
in the presidential race.
One of the things I will talk about
that no president has talked about is, I
think, the dangers of contraceptives in
this country, Santorum said. The whole
sexual libertine idea. Many in the Christian
faith have said, Contraceptions OK. It is
not OK. Its a license to do things in the
sexual realm that is counter to how things
are supposed to be.
Romney, viewed as a more moderate
candidate in the race, has also articulated
his views on womens issues, telling a local
reporter in Missouri earlier this month that
he would get rid of Planned Parenthood.
Of course you get rid of Obamacare,
thats the easy one, but there are others,
Romney said. Planned Parenthood, were
going to get rid of that.
Romney campaign strategist Eric
Fehrnstrom later claried the former
Massachusetts governor was talking
about cutting federal funding for the
organization.
Conservative talk show host Rush
Limbaugh has joined the attacks
related to contraception. On Feb. 29,
he called Georgetown University law
student Sandra Fluke a slut after she
gave congressional testimony in support
of mandating health insurers to cover
contraceptive costs.
It makes her a slut, right? Limbaugh
said. It makes her a prostitute. She
wants to be paid to have sex. Shes
having so much sex she cant afford the
contraception. She wants you and me and
the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.
Obama personally called Fluke to
express solidarity with her after Limbaugh
made the remarks. After advertisers began
withdrawing from Limbaughs show, he
apologized, saying his insulting word
choices were meant to be humorous.
Planned Parenthood has taken the
brunt of attacks as womens issues have
come to the forefront. In January, the
Susan G. Komen organization, the largest
breast cancer organization in the country,
cut funding to Planned Parenthood after
conservative Karen Handel was named
senior vice president for public policy. A
public backlash ensued in which Planned
Parenthood received nearly $1 million in
donations more than the $600,000 a year
that Komen had contributed each year. The
next month, Komens board of directors
apologized, issuing a statement pledging,
to fund existing grants, including those
of Planned Parenthood, and preserve
their eligibility to apply for future grants.
Handel resigned a few days later.
The emphasis on womens issues
doesnt mean Republican hopefuls
havent addressed LGBT issues in their
campaigns. Santorum and Romney back
a Federal Marriage Amendment and
have pledged to defend the Defense of
Marriage Act in court.
Still, the discussion of LGBT rights this
year hasnt been as high prole or drawn as
much media attention as womens rights.
And its a far cry from 2004 when the
issue of same-sex marriage was center
stage in the presidential election. The
legalization of same-sex marriage in
Massachusetts and then-San Francisco
Mayor Gavin Newsoms decision to
marry gay couples prompted both
Democratic candidate John Kerry and
former President George W. Bush to
repeatedly declare their opposition to
same-sex marriage. Bush made support
for a Federal Marriage Amendment a
cornerstone of his campaign.
Whether womens issues will remain
on the front-burner of the presidential
campaign remains to be seen.
ONeill said she thinks Republicans
will drop womens issues as a point of
contention once they settle on Romney as
their nominee.
Mitt Romney is going to run to the
center as hard as he can, and hes going to
run away as hard as he can from womens
issues because he gets that this war on
women is a losing war for his party,
ONeill said.
Moreover, LGBT rights might return to
the forefront as voters in as many as ve
states Minnesota, North Carolina, Maine,
Washington and Maryland take up the
issue of same-sex marriage at the ballot.
Carey said she doesnt want LGBT
people to think theyre off the hook in
the 2012 election because these issues will
be coming up soon.
I have no doubt that as the marriage
amendments around the country start
heating up, even more than they are now,
we might have a similar conversation a
few months from now saying, Wow, the
dominant conservation in the presidential
election has become the marriage
amendments, Carey said.
The emphasis on womens issues isnt
just occurring in the national presidential
contest; it can be seen at the state level
as well.
In Virginia, Gov. Bob McDonnell signed
legislation requiring women to have
ultrasound exams before electing to have
an abortion. The initial bill called for a
vaginally invasive form of the examination,
but was changed following protests.
At the same time, an anti-gay adoption bill
that would allow private adoption agencies
to discriminate in placements conicting
with their religious or moral beliefs, including
on the basis of sexual orientation, is awaiting
McDonnells signature.
In some instances, controversy over
womens rights issues has had a direct
impact on LGBT issues.
On March 1, the Senate narrowly agreed
by a vote of 51-48 to table a measure known
as the Blunt amendment. Sponsored
by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the measure
was aimed at allowing not only religious
groups but any employer with moral
objections to opt out of contraception
coverage for employees.
Retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)
was the only Republican to vote with
Democrats to table the amendment.
Other Republicans considered to be
moderates such as Sens. Scott Brown
(R-Mass.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa
Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted with their
caucus. Democrats joining Republicans
were Sens. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Joe Manchin
(D-W.Va.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.).
But the amendment was seen as having
an impact on LGBT people because its
broad language could have also affected
the health care services LGBT people
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REA CAREY, executive director of the Task Force, said all elements of the progressive movement
should stand together this year.
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Boehner to drop
defense of anti-gay law
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Litigation challenging the Defense
of Marriage Act as well as House
Republicans continued defense of the
anti-gay law is receiving renewed
attention as a court hearing is set to
take place next week in Boston on the
constitutionality of the statute.
On Wednesday starting at 10 a.m., a
three-judge panel on the First Circuit Court
of Appeals will hear arguments on DOMA,
which prohibits federal recognition of
same-sex marriage, marking the rst time
an appellate court has considered the
constitutionality of the statute.
Normally, oral arguments before the
court last 30 minutes, but that time has
been extended for an entire hour because
judges are hearing two cases: Gill v. Ofce
of Personnel Management, led by Gay
& Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v.
Department of Health & Human Services,
led by Massachusetts Attorney General
Martha Coakley.
The three-judge panel will be made up
of Chief Judge Sandra Lynch as well as
Juan Torruella and Michael Boudin. Lynch
was appointed by a Democrat, former
President Bill Clinton, while Torruella was
appointed by former President Ronald
Reagan and Boudin was appointed by
former President George H.W. Bush.
Representing GLAD at the hearings will
be plaintiffs in the GLAD case as well as
Mary Bonauto, GLADs civil rights project
director, who in 2003 successfully argued
for the legalization of same-sex marriage
in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Assistant
Attorney General Maura Healey is set
to argue on behalf of her states lawsuit
against DOMA.
The Justice Department, which,
after dropping its defense of DOMA,
joined in efforts to declare the law
unconstitutional, will also have a presence
in the courtroom. Stuart Delery, whos
gay and the acting assistant attorney
general for the civil division, is set to
represent the Obama administration.
He was promoted Feb. 27 to the position.
Defending the anti-gay law in court will
be Paul Clement, a solicitor general under
former President George W. Bush whom
House Speaker John Boehner hired to
defend the statute. Clement will be coming
to Boston to defend DOMA fresh from oral
arguments before the Supreme Court in
D.C. against the health care reform law.
The arguments that attorneys will make
before judges will likely reect the basis
of the lawsuits they led. GLAD contends
that DOMA violates its plaintiffs rights
under the Equal Protection Clause, while
the State of Massachusetts has said
DOMA interferes with a states Tenth
Amendment right to regulate marriage.
The Justice Department will likely join in
these arguments.
On the other hand, Clement will likely
argue that DOMA is justied because
it ensures uniformity with marriage laws
and that marriage should be reserved
for opposite-sex couples to ensure
procreation.
In both DOMA cases that are coming
before the First Circuit, DOMA was found
unconstitutional at the district court level.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro, a Nixon
appointee, ruled in July 2010 that the anti-
gay law was unconstitutional in both cases.
The cases come before the First Circuit
just months after a California federal
court ruled against DOMA in the case of
Golinski v. United States. In February, the
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ruled
against DOMA on the basis that the anti-
gay law unconstitutionally discriminates
against married same-sex couples.
Jason Wu, a staff attorney for GLAD,
said the California district court decision
may play out in the oral arguments before
the appellate court.
It always helps when another court
afrms what we believe is right, which is
that DOMA represents a straight-forward
equal protection violation and there
is really no good reason to treat gay
married couples differently from straight
married couples, Wu said. The court in
Golinksi agreed with us; the district court
in Massachusetts, Judge Tauros opinion
agreed with us. And thats what will be
presented to the First Circuit.
Wu said GLAD hopes for a decision
from the First Circuit in a timely fashion
after the oral arguments, but said he
couldnt offer a more precise prediction
for when a ruling would be handed down.
The case dragged out after the Obama
administration dropped the defense of
DOMA and the House took up defense
of the statute, and Wu said the prolonged
duration of the lawsuit has harmed plaintiffs.
Its been almost two years actually since
the district courts ruling came down in
our favor, and in that two-year period, our
plaintiffs continue to be harmed, Wu said.
One of our plaintiffs is owed $50,000, I
believe, in tax harm. One of our plaintiffs,
Herb Burtis, is 82 years old and continues
to be denied the survivor Social Security
benets from his deceased spouse.
Despite his hopes the case will be
resolved, Wu added he expects the
Supreme Court will take up the case after
a decision is handed down.
We need resolution as to the
constitutionality of DOMA for all married
couples in the country because its not just
couples in Massachusetts who are being
harmed by DOMA everyday, Wu said.
House Republicans elected to take
up defense of DOMA in court after the
Obama administration early last year
announced it would no longer defend
the anti-gay statute. In the past week, the
Republican defense of DOMA has come
under re from Democrats.
During a hearing before the
House Appropriations Legislative Branch
subcommittee on Tuesday, House Chief
Administrative Ofcer Dan Strodel
asserted Republican leadership had
collected nearly $742,000 to fund defense
of DOMA in court. Boehner had last year
raised the cost cap of defending DOMA
to $1.5 million.
Strodel testied that the money had
come from the House Salaries, Ofcers
and Employees account. Boehner had
threatened to redirect funds from the
Justice Department to pay for defense of
the law, but Strodel said those funds hadnt
contributed to defense of the statute.
According to the Hufngton Post, the
issue of defending DOMA prompted a
ery debate between Democrats and
Republicans.
Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) reportedly
asked House General Counsel Kerry
Kirchner why the House is defending an
unconstitutional law that separates all of
us and said the money could go to better
uses, such as resources to the family of
Trayvon Martin in Florida.
Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) toed
the Republican line on DOMA saying,
When is the Department of Justice going
to do their job? You cant pick which laws
you want to defend and which laws you
dont feel like enforcing.
On Monday, six House Democrats
Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Barney
Frank (D-Mass.), Tammy
Baldwin (D-Wis.), Jared
Polis (D-Colo.), David Cicilline (D-R.I.)
and John Conyers (D-Mich.) sent a letter
to Boehner renewing their earlier request
for a brieng on his defense of DOMA as
they urged him to stop defending the law
in the wake of a California federal courts
decision against the statute.
There simply is no legitimate federal
interest served by denying married same-
sex couples the federal responsibilities
and rights that other married couples
receive, and the harm caused to these
families is unjustiable, the letter states.
Two federal courts have agreed, and it is
no longer credible to claim that the law is
not constitutionally suspect.
Boehners ofce didnt respond to the
Washington Blades request for comment
on the letter, but Michael Steel, a Boehner
spokesperson, dismissed the letter when
talking to the Hufngton Post.
Washington Democrats had two years
of unied control over the House, the
Senate and the White House to overturn
the Defense of Marriage Act, Steel was
quoted as saying. They chose not to try.
We will continue to respect the law, which
passed both Houses of Congress with
bipartisan support and was signed into
law by President Bill Clinton.
Activity also continues in other DOMA
cases. On Monday, the Justice Department
submitted briefs in the Golinski case asking
the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
to expedite consideration of the case.
Boehners lawyers last month appealed
the decision to the the appellate court.
Boehners intervention in McLaughlin
v. Panetta, the lawsuit led on behalf
of gay troops against DOMA by the
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network,
is also expected soon. The House has until
April 28 to decide if it will defend the anti-
gay law against the lawsuit.
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Appeals court set to hear DOMA case
House Speaker JOHN BOEHNER took
over defense of DOMA after the Obama
Justice Department declared the anti-gay law
unconstitutional.
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receive. According to the Task Force, the
measure could have allowed an employer
to deny a gay man treatment for HIV/AIDS,
hormone therapy for a transgender person
or in-vitro fertilization for a lesbian couple.
The same could be said for the Violence
Against Women Act reauthorization,
legislation before the Senate that
would extend and strengthen programs
working to combat domestic violence. A
vote on the bill, which was reported out
by the Senate Judiciary Committee in
February, is being held up by Republicans.
On March 15, a group of mostly women
senators took to the Senate oor to decry
Republican obstructionism, saying its
passage is necessary to fund programs to
help women who are victims of violence or
sexual assault. Sen. Barbara Mikuski (D-Md.)
was among the lawmakers who spoke out.
Weve got to remember our
communities and our families, and I think
if youre beaten and abused, you should
be able to turn to your government to
either be rescued and put you on the path,
and also to have those very important
programs early on to do prevention and
intervention, Mikulski said.
But the VAWA reauthorization also
impacts the LGBT community because it
has language extending protections to
people in same-sex relationships who are
victims of domestic violence.
The bill would make grants available for
programs providing services to LGBT victims
of domestic violence. Additionally, the
bill contains non-discrimination language
prohibiting VAWA grantees from
discriminating against LGBT people.
These enumerated protections are among
the reasons Republicans are blocking the bill
from a Senate vote. During the committee
markup of the bill, Sen. Charles Grassley
(R-Iowa) voiced opposition to language
protecting undocumented immigrants and
expanding powers of Indian tribes as well as
provisions for LGBT people.
I agree that shelters and other grant
recipients should provide services equally
to everyone, but advocates of this provision
havent produced data that shelters have
refused to provide services for these
reasons, Grassley said. The provision is a
solution in search of a problem.
Data exists showing that LGBT people are
victims of domestic violence and suffer from
discrimination when seeking help at shelters.
According to a 2010 report from the National
Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 44.6
percent of LGBT domestic violence survivors
were turned away by a shelter and 54.4
percent of LGBT survivors seeking an order
of protection were denied help.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
articulated the need for LGBT provisions in
VAWA reauthorization during her speech,
saying opponents refuse to support the bill
because of these expanded protections.
In my view, these are improvements,
Feinstein said. Domestic violence is
domestic violence. I ask my friends on the
other side, if the victim is in a same-sex
relationship, is the violence any less real? Is
the danger any less real because you happen
to be gay or lesbian? I dont think so.
The Task Forces Carey said the joint
impact of these measures on women
and LGBT people demonstrates the
interconnectedness of the two communities.
What we know, and I think society has
learned over the past 40 years is that LGBT
people are part and parcel of every other
community in this country, Carey said.
The Blunt amendment and the Violence
Against Women Act are two specic
examples of where our fates are tied.
Progressive activists say the takeaway
is that the LGBT community and womens
rights advocates should work together
in the 2012 election as part of a broader
coalition to protect their interests.
Hilary Rosen, a lesbian D.C.-based
Democratic activist, also said the new
attention to womens issues demonstrates
the need for the progressive coalition to
stand together in the election.
I think it means there is a great alliance
forming more important than in any
recent election among women, LGBT,
Latinos and others depending on continued
social progress in this country, Rosen said.
Romney has declared he is going to be the
Etch-a-Sketch candidate, which means he
doubles down on oppositon to all of us.
washingtonblade.com
14 MARCH 30, 2012 NATlONAL NEWS
Womens issues trump LGBT concerns in 2012
HRC exposes
anti-gay groups
internal documents
By PHIL REESE
preese@washblade.com
The Human Rights Campaign this week
revealed internal documents it obtained from
the anti-gay group National Organization for
Marriage that reveal a strategy to drive a
wedge between gays and blacks.
NOMs internal communications
released by HRC originate from court-
led investigations in Maine over ethics
violations during the 2009 battle to
overturn Maines marriage law.
The strategic goal of this project is to
drive a wedge between gays and blacks
two key Democratic constituencies, the
documents read. Find, equip, energize and
connect African American spokespeople
for marriage, develop a media campaign
around their objections to gay marriage
as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage
base into responding by denouncing these
spokesmen and women as bigots.
The Latino vote in America is a key
swing vote, and will be so even more so in
the future, both because of demographic
growth and inherent uncertainty, another
passage reads. Will the process of
assimilation to the dominant Anglo culture
lead Hispanics to abandon traditional family
values? We must interrupt this process of
assimilation by making support for marriage
a key badge of Latino identity a symbol
of resistance to inappropriate assimilation.
LGBT and black leaders were quick to
condemn the language revealed in the
documents.
NOMs underhanded attempts
to divide will not succeed if black
Americans remember their own history
of discrimination, said Julian Bond,
chairman emeritus of the NAACP. Pitting
bigotrys victims against other victims is
reprehensible; the defenders of justice
must stand together.
It conrmed a suspicion that some evil
hand was behind this, Bond told The Hill
newspaper.
Others echoed Bonds criticism.
African-American men and women
of faith are not a political football to
be tossed around in a cynical game of
resentment and division, said minister
Leslie Watson Malachi, director of People
For the American Way Foundations
African-American Ministers Leadership
Council. We, like all Americans, struggle
thoughtfully with issues of faith, family
and politics. Anti-equality activists such as
NOM consistently attempt to use a deeply
cynical wedge strategy to divide African
Americans and the gay community, playing
up what are now old and tired clichs.
NOMs wedge strategy memos detail
its campaign to funnel money to a handful
of African-American clergy in order to
attack gay couples and, appallingly,
discredit the strong and clear voice
of those African-American civil rights
champions, such as John Lewis, Julian
Bond, and Coretta Scott King, who have
stood up for the freedom to marry and the
equal civil rights of all people, including
gay people of color, said Freedom To
Marry President Evan Wolfson in response
to the document release.
NOM President Brian Brown addressed
the controversy in a Tuesday statement.
[NOM] has worked extensively with
supporters of traditional marriage from
every color, creed and background,
Browns statement read. We have worked
with prominent African-American and
Hispanic leaders, including Dr. Alveda C.
King, Bishop George McKinney of the
COGIC Church, Bishop Harry Jackson
and the New York State Senator Reverend
Rubn Daz Sr., all of whom share our
concern about protecting marriage as
the union of one man and one woman.
Gay marriage is not a civil right, and we
will continue to point this out in written
materials such as those released in Maine.
The documents, however, point to
an organizational vision that stretched
beyond attempting to halt domestic
efforts to attain marriage rights for same-
sex couples. The memos point to efforts
to attack White House programs that,
in NOMs words, have the effect of
sexualizing young children.
The group also sought to broaden its
focus into other social issues, addressing
plans for developing side issues,
through its American Principles Project
such as pornography, issues surrounding
the Guantanamo Prison, opposing
administration appointments and divorce.
The group discussed nding glamorous
non-cognitive elites across national
boundaries, when approaching Hollywood
which they accused of having cultural
biases by proactively seeking to gather
and connect a community of artists, athletes,
writers, beauty queens.
The only celebrity known to work
directly with NOM as a spokesperson is
former Miss California, Carrie Prejean,
who made national headlines when she
responded to a question by Perez Hilton
about same-sex marriage by saying she
opposed extending rights to gay couples.
Often, the internal NOM
communications brag about NOMs
outsized role in funding the media tactics
used to turn out California voters in favor
of 2008s Proposition 8.
NOM sought to divide gays, blacks
NOM President BRIAN BROWN responded to
the document leak this week, claiming the anti-
gay group works with black and Hispanic leaders
to combat marriage equality.
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issues in a rating system with -10 as the lowest
possible score and +10 the highest. (A full
listing of GLAAs ratings of all D.C. Council
candidates and the candidates responses to
GLAAs questionnaire on LGBT-related issues
can be viewed at glaa.org.)
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club,
the citys largest LGBT political group,
has endorsed both Alexander and Barry
in past elections. This year the club
endorsed Ward 7 challenger Tom Brown
over Alexander. The club didnt make an
endorsement in the Ward 8 race after none
of ve Democratic candidates running
were able to obtain a 60 percent vote from
club members to secure an endorsement.
The club also endorsed Bowser in the
Ward 4 race, whos favored to emerge
as the winner over ve Democratic
challengers. Bowser, who voted for the
same-sex marriage bill, received a +6.5
rating from GLAA.
Orange wasnt on the Council at the
time of the same-sex marriage vote. He
came out against same-sex marriage when
he ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2006
but said he changed his mind on the issue
a short time later. He says he now strongly
supports the citys marriage equality law
and points to his past support on a wide
range of other LGBT-related issues during
his tenure as a Ward 5 Council member
from 1999 to 2007.
GLAA, which assigned Orange a rating
of +0.5, says Orange lost points for backing
a number of initiatives opposed by GLAA,
including a bill to make permanent certain
locations in the city designated as prostitution
free zones. Many of the citys gay activists
have joined transgender rights leaders and
civil liberties advocates in calling for repeal of
the law that created temporary prostitution
free zones, saying it has been used to target
and prole transgender women for police
harassment on grounds that they appear
to be engaging in prostitution by merely
standing in certain parts of the city designated
as prostitution free zones.
Orange said he no longer supports the
bill to make the zones permanent. The bill
calling for making them permanent was
introduced by Alexander.
He is being challenged by former D.C.
school board member Sekou Biddle, who
was appointed to the at-large Council seat
for less than a year in 2011, before losing it
to Orange in an April 2011 special election.
The seat became vacant in January 2011
after Council member Kwame Brown, who
held the seat, won election to the post
of Council chairman. Biddle received a
GLAA rating of +5.5.
Also competing for the seat in the April
3 Democratic primary are Peter Shapiro,
a former Prince Georges County Council
member who recently moved to D.C.,
who also received a +5.5 GLAA rating,
and E. Gail Anderson Holness, a Ward 1
Democratic activist and pastor of D.C.s
Christ Our Redeemer AME Church, who
received a -1.5 GLAA rating.
Biddle and Shapiro have expressed
strong support on LGBT issues. Both have
lined up support in the LGBT community,
with the largest number of prominent
LGBT activists backing Biddle. Holness,
who has called for a voter referendum on
the citys same-sex marriage law, failed
to obtain a single vote at a Stein Club
endorsement meeting earlier this month.
Biddle nished ahead of Orange in the
Stein endorsement vote but fell ve points
short of the 60 percent needed for an
endorsement. Gay supporters of Orange
and Shapiro said support for their respective
candidates prevented Biddle from winning
the clubs endorsement, saying the
development indicates Biddles support in
the LGBT community may be declining.
They note that the Stein Club endorsed
Biddle over Orange in the April 2011
special election, in which Biddle nished
in third place behind Republican Patrick
Mara and Orange, who won the election.
Biddle supporter John Fanning, a
longtime gay Democratic activist, said
polling data shows that Biddle has
emerged as Oranges strongest challenger
and has a shot at beating Orange if the
opposition vote isnt evenly divided
between Biddle and Shapiro.
Biddle has been endorsed by gay
D.C. Council member David Catania
(I-At-Large), and former rival Mara, a pro-
LGBT school board member from Ward 1
who campaigned for the citys same-sex
marriage bill when it was pending before
the Council.
Stein Club President Lateefah Williams
said she believes challenger Tom Brown
has a reasonable chance of beating
Alexander in the Ward 7 primary. But
similar to the at-large race, Williams and
others seeking to replace Alexander say
Alexander is likely to win if what they
believe is a majority of the electorate
opposing Alexander is divided among
several candidates. Brown received a
GLAA rating of +3.5.
Five candidates in addition to Brown are
running against Alexander in the primary,
including Kevin Chavous Jr., son of former
Ward 7 Council member Kevin Chavous
Sr., who also received a +3.5 GLAA rating.
Also running unopposed in the primary is
D.C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes
Norton, who is considered to be among the
strongest supporters of LGBT rights in the U.S.
Congress; and shadow U.S. House candidate
Nate Bennett-Fleming. Both received
endorsements from the Stein Club. GLAA
doesnt issue ratings for federal ofces.
The Stein Club didnt make an
endorsement in the race for the citys
shadow Senate seat, in which incumbent
Michael D. Brown is being challenged in
the Democratic primary by Pete Ross. Both
have expressed support for LGBT rights.
Republican Mary Brooks Beatty is
running unopposed in the April 3 D.C.
Republican primary for the at-large Council
seat. In the Statehood-Green Party primary,
Ann Wilcox and G. Lee Aikin are also
competing for the at-large Council seat.
Brooks received a 0 GLAA rating for not
returning the groups questionnaire and
not having a known record on LGBT issues.
Wilcox received a +0.5 rating. GLAA said
she, too, did not return the questionnaire
but received a half point for her record of
support as an attorney for the gay direct
action group Get Equal.
In the Ward 7 Council race, longtime
community and anti-crime activist Ron Moten,
who has helped the former LGBT gang
Check It convert into a youth organization
promoting a fashion clothing line, is running
for the Republican nomination. He is being
challenged by GOP candidate Don Folden
Sr. The Log Cabin Republicans of D.C.
has endorsed Moten and Brooks. Moten
received a +1.5 GLAA rating.
Candidates vie for LGBT vote in primary
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Romney favored in D.C. GOP primary

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is considered the favorite to
win 16 delegates in D.C.s winner-take-all Republican presidential primary on
Tuesday.
Romney is competing in the D.C. primary against GOP presidential contenders
Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul and former GOP presidential candidate Jon
Huntsman, whose name has remained on the D.C. ballot even though he
dropped out of the race months ago.
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum did not le papers to run in the
D.C. primary.
In a little-noticed development, lesbian Republican activist Rachel Hoff is
among the 16 delegate candidates included in Romneys D.C. delegate slate that
are expected to go to the Republican National Convention in August if Romney
wins the D.C. primary.
At least two D.C. gay Republicans Jose Cunningham and David Trebing are
slated as Romney alternate delegate candidates.
R. Clarke Cooper, president of the national gay GOP group Log Cabin
Republicans, is slated as an alternate delegate candidate for Huntsman.
Under rules established by the D.C. Republican Party, all presidential candidates
running in the primary must name 16 delegate candidates and another 16
alternate delegate candidates on a slate linked to their names in order to be
placed on the ballot in the April 3 primary.
D.C. gay GOP activist Marc Morgan is slated as a delegate candidate
committed to Gingrich. Local gay Republican activist Timothy Day, who is running
in a special election in May for the citys vacant Ward 5 City Council seat, is slated
as a Gingrich alternate delegate.
President Barack Obama is running unopposed on the D.C. primary ballot as
a Democrat.
In a separate Republican contest, Robert Kabel, the gay chair of the D.C.
Republican Party, is running in the April 3 primary as a candidate for Republican
National Committeeman from D.C. Kabel, an attorney in private practice, is a
former board chair of Log Cabin and is a supporter of same-sex marriage.
He is being challenged by conservative Republican activist Jordan Gehrke,
who worked on the campaign of former presidential candidate Herman Cain and
raised money for the 2006 Republican opponent of gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank
(D-Mass.).
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unseating Council member VINCENT ORANGE in next weeks primary. Orange once opposed
marriage equality but later changed his mind.
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AIDS Action Baltimore celebrates 25 years
More than 200 supporters of AIDS Action Baltimore attended the organizations
25th anniversary gala March 25 at the Four Seasons Hotel. AAB raises money
to support its own patient services programs and to advocate for more efcient
and effective treatment services and research programs for people with HIV as
well as fair pricing for newly approved drugs and reasonable price increases for
all HIV drugs.
Founder and president Lynda Dee, a Baltimore attorney, acknowledged the
work of many individuals and companies over the course of its 25-year-history.
Most notable was the late Garey Lambert, whom she credited as the visionary
for the creation of AAB.
Special awards were given to Dr. John G. Bartlett, presented by Dr. Anthony
S. Fauci; Rev. Debra Hickman presented by Heather Hauck and Charlie Reid
presented by Lynda Dee.
This is not about altruism, this is about my friends and my fear of losing them,
Dee told the Blade.
The event was underwritten by PNC Bank. For more information, visit
aidsactionbaltimore.org.
Gay mens social group debuts
A new gay mens discussion and social group was launched in Baltimore
earlier this month. Based on the success of a similar groupthe Gay District
in Washington, D.C.Charm City Gay Social was formed and meets each Friday
from 8:30-10 p.m. at the First United Church - United Church of Christ, 1728
Eastern Ave. in the Fells Point area. A move to the Mount Vernon neighborhood
may take place eventually.
The group, which was founded by David Sugar and Ian Damm Luhr, is aimed
at gay men 18 and over. It holds weekly discussions on a variety of subjects,
including What Kind of Gay Are You: New Gay Stereotypes and How Have
John Waters Movies Helped Shape Gay Culture in Baltimore. The organizers are
seeking discussion facilitators for future meetings.
There may be a game night added to the mix or other activities to be
determined. Following the discussion, participants go out for dinner in the area
or head to the clubs.
Charm City Gay Social is a community-based social and discussion group
with the focus on building an understanding of gay culture and personal identity,
and awareness of community events and civil rights for gay, bi, trans, queer,
questioning, and inter-sexed men, says Sugar.
To join the group, visit Charm City Gay Social on Facebook or call 410-790-3592
for information.
Gay man named to county commission
A year ago, Scott Bowling was appointed as an interim member to the Anne
Arundel County Ethics Commission. The appointment was mostly ceremonial as
he was nishing out the term of a member who resigned.
On March 19, the Anne Arundel County Council voted 6-0 to reappoint Bowling
to serve a full four-year term. In a county as conservative as Anne Arundel
accompanied by all the turmoil that is going on with the county government these
days an appointment to this commission is particularly signicant, Bowling, who
is gay, told the Blade.
Students of Color conference announced
GLSEN-Baltimore will hold a Students of Color Organizing Conference that will
take place from the evening of Friday, April 27 through the early afternoon of
Sunday April 29 at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center downtown. The goal is to
help make schools in the local community safer for LGBT students of color and
their allies.
We expect it to be a very exciting weekend with many LGBT and ally youth
from a number of other cities participating, said Michael Franklin of GLSEN.
For more information and to download an application, visit glsen.org/SOCO.
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S.H.E. productions and Grand Central (1001 North Charles St.) present The
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The evening will include free champagne cocktail and dessert bar from 9 to 10:30
p.m., a golden egg giveaway with special prizes, music by DJ Image and more.
Dress code is anything goes.
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Film critics proled in new documentary
The Maryland Institute College of Art (1301 W. Mt. Royal Ave.) has a few events
of interest coming up this week.
On Monday, Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu will be talking at the Brown Center
at 10:30 a.m. about her work, which acts as commentary of a social and personal
nature where the female body functions as a site of engagement and provocation.
This event is free and open to the public.
Also Monday is a screening of For the Love of Movies: The Story of American
Film Criticism, a documentary that shows the story of American movie reviewing
at 7 p.m. in Falvey Hall. Directed by Gerald Peary, the movie includes commentary
by Roger Ebert, Liza Schwarzbaum and more. The screening will include a
introduction by Peary and a Q&A about lm criticism.
On Thursday, the play Fat Pig opens at BBox (1601 Mt. Royal Ave.) at 8
p.m. The show is about a stereotypical young man who falls in love with a plus-
sized librarian and explores how society treats their romance. Tickets are $15 for
general admission and $10 for students and are available online at store.mica.edu
and brownpapertickets.com, as well as at the door.
WAMMFest at Towson this weekend
WAMMFest (Women and Minorities in Media) is celebrating its fth anniversary
tonight and Saturday at Towson University.
WAMMFest strives to celebrate and encourage women and minorities in media
production by calling for works, talks and screenings by everyone from students
to professionals in categories such as animation, documentary, music and more.
This years guest artists are director and actor Jamil Walker Smith and producer
Brittany Ballard. They will be screening their new lm An American Dream on
Saturday at 6 p.m. in Van Bokkelen where they will also talk about their experiences.
Tickets to the screening are $5.
The two will also teach a master class Script to Screen at on Saturday 3 p.m. in
the Media Center. Following the class will be a critique/feedback session.
WAMM winners will be presented this evening at 6 p.m. in Van Bokkelen.
For more information and to RSVP, visit wammtu.com.
Miss Gay Maryland tonight at the Hippo
Club Hippo (1 West Eager St.) has two big events going on this week.
Josie & the PussyCats present Miss Gay Maryland Contestant Show tonight at 11 p.m.
The show will featuring Eva Couture, Miss Gay Central Maryland 2012, Victoria
Blair, rst alternate Miss Hippo 2012, Anastacia Amor, Miss Gay FreeState 2012,
Charity Suade, Miss Hippo 2012, ChaNel Von Cartier Couture, rst alternate Miss
Gay FreeState and LuLu La Diva, rst alternate Miss Gay Central Maryland.
Tickets are $7. For tickets and more information, call 443-926-2678.
Doors open at 10 p.m.
On Wednesday, the club has its weekly bingo game at 8:30 p.m. The game will
also serve as an album release party for Madonnas MDNA. Participants could
win copies of the album and more. Proceeds from the game will benet the GLBT
Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland.
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The excitement that followed Mary-
land Gov. Martin OMalleys public sign-
ing of the states marriage equality bill
was tempered by the threat of a referen-
dum that will likely require state voters to
determine the laws fate.
Right now is the calm before the in-
evitable storm. Opponents of the law are
gathering the 55,000 or so signatures they
need, mostly by targeting churchgoers who
are being urged by pastors to sign the pe-
tition. It seems unlikely they will fail in that
signature-gathering effort. Meanwhile, the
Marylanders for Marriage Equality coalition
of local and national supporters is working
to reorganize and hire someone to lead the
campaign to preserve the law. The road
ahead is daunting and will require a massive
fundraising effort at a time when LGBT mon-
ey is already needed for Obamas re-election
campaign, Tammy Baldwins U.S. Senate bid
and marriage initiatives in a handful of other
states. Make no mistake: the national net-
work of LGBT donors is stretched thin.
The national advocacy group Freedom
to Marry has invested in Maryland in the
past, but announced that it would take a
pass this time around. Evan Wolfson, the
groups president, told the Blade, Freedom
to Marry has made it clear to members of
the coalition and to lawmakers that our goal
is to win, not simply to pass a bill, if there
is not sufcient groundwork and investment
in a campaign to win at the ballot. We have
continued to press for clarity and progress
on benchmarks for success, and have urged
elected ofcials, national organizations, and
advocates on the ground to show the plan,
investment, and activities needed now to
build public support and succeed at the bal-
lot, not just the legislature.
Clearly, Wolfson lacks condence in
the coalition, led by the Human Rights
Campaign, and implies here that there
isnt sufcient groundwork and invest-
ment to preserve the law. The anti-gay
National Organization for Marriage pre-
dictably pounced on Wolfsons remarks
as evidence that the law lacks support.
The most recent public poll available
in Maryland shows that 52 percent of vot-
ers would support the marriage law and
44 percent would oppose it. The state-
wide survey was conducted by Public Pol-
icy Polling of 600 Maryland voters March
5-7. Its unclear whether national donors
and Freedom to Marry have established
a threshold of support necessary to at-
tract their support. Fifty-two percent isnt
an overwhelming majority, but its better
than the numbers in other states where
Freedom to Marry is fully engaged.
Public Policy Polling conducted a poll
in Washington about marriage after that
state passed its marriage bill Feb. 22. The
results showed that 50 percent would up-
hold the bill and 46 percent would repeal
it. Interestingly, Freedom to Marry an-
nounced a new initiative last week, the
Win More States Fund, with a goal of
raising $3 million for state marriage ef-
forts in New Hampshire, New Jersey,
Minnesota, Maine and Washington.
Bloggers quickly condemned the
omission of Maryland and North Caro-
lina from the list. Bil Browning, editor of
Bilerico, wrote, Bluntly put, this is a big
Fuck you out of the usually respectful
Freedom to Marry gang They dont
think they can win in those states, so
theyre only attaching their names to the
battles they think will win.
Pam Spaulding of Pams House Blend
called the omission of North Carolina of-
fensive, given NC is a battleground state,
is hosting the DNC in Charlotte, and the
President last Friday specically came out
against Amendment One.
Although I dont think Wolfson is giv-
ing Maryland and North Carolina the n-
ger here, he ought to refrain from public
remarks that undermine the hard work of
his allies in states facing an admittedly
uphill battle.
Further, Freedom to Marry should refrain
from raising money in Maryland and North
Carolina during this time. The group says it is
not soliciting money for the Win More States
fund from North Carolinians or Marylanders,
but a Feb. 28 solicitation from the group did
go to Marylanders, several of whom object-
ed. Its misleading at best for a group
called Freedom to Marry to seek nancial
contributions from Maryland and North Car-
olina residents who might logically assume
the group is engaged in the marriage ghts
in those states. Unfortunately, it is not and
donors from Maryland and North Carolina
should give all they can to the groups who
havent walked away from the ght.
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This week marks the annual National LGBT
Health Awareness Week. When it comes to
social justice and equality for the LGBT com-
munity, we are well versed in policy issues like
marriage rights, bullying of LGBT children
and adolescents, and workplace discrimina-
tion. It is not surprising that these three issues
are foremost in our collective thoughts as
the issues are extensively covered in gay and
mainstream media outlets.
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ing social justice and equality that is often
overlooked in our community: timely access
to high-quality, competent and afrming
health care. And, for our entire Whitman-
Walker Health family, it serves as the strong
foundation for our mission of caring for met-
ro D.C.s LGBT community.
Far too many LGBT people dont get the
comprehensive health care they deserve.
Many health care practitioners may be un-
aware of LGBT health disparities, such as
higher rates of smoking and an increased
risk of certain types of cancer. Some health
care professionals do not have open com-
munication with their LGBT patients, and,
sadly, some providers still harbor prejudices
toward LGBT people. Luckily, there are sev-
eral efforts underway to address these is-
sues, such as more LGBT health education
in medical schools. But, there is a way to im-
prove your health care now.
Studies have shown that LGBT people
will often put off regular health care or not
disclose their sexual orientation or gender
identity to their health care practitioner out
of fear of discrimination or harassment. Be-
cause of this, they may also not disclose such
things as sexual behavior, substance use,
mental health issues or domestic violence.
This is why its vital to come out to your
health care practitioner. You will have a
stronger doctor-patient relationship based
on trust and honesty, which will lead to im-
proved health care and health outcomes.
Also, medical practitioners will be able to ac-
knowledge the health issues more common
in LGBT patients and perform appropriate
evaluations and screenings.
Once you come out to your health care
practitioner, you will need to talk with him
or her about specic issues. The Gay and
Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) has
published lists of important LGBT medical
issues. These lists are based on what GLMAs
practitioners have identied as the most
common concerns for each LGBT popula-
tion. The lists can be found at GLMAs web-
site, glma.org. These lists are certainly not
comprehensive and you should feel free to
discuss any issue with your practitioner.
Providing high-quality and afrming care
for the LGBT community was Whitman-
Walkers founding principle back in 1978.
Back then, our services were limited to
screening and treatment of sexually trans-
mitted infections and treatment for mental
health issues and substance abuse.
Today, we have nally fullled our mis-
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for the LGBT community. Here, you can
see a practitioner for primary medical and
dental care, including specialties such as
gynecological care, viral hepatitis and HIV
treatment. Patients can also benet from
an on-site pharmacy.
Whitman-Walker Health can also provide
services that few other providers offer, like
anal cancer screening for gay and bisexual
men and HIV post-exposure prophylaxis.
For the transgender community, we offer
hormone and testosterone therapy and
trans-afrmative physical exams.
Our Medical Adherence Unit can help you
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GOP candidates ignore
Constitutions promise of
religious freedom
Romney, Santorum, Gingrich and Paul
it sounds like a law rm instead of the
Republican candidates who are still stand-
ing. The only one who, if he went back to
his roots may not totally embarrass mod-
erate Republicans, is Romney and while
winning delegates he is still having a hard
time galvanizing support. With Santorum
winning Alabama, Mississippi and Louisi-
ana it is clear that the Republican ght for
the nomination will continue to shouts of
glee from Democrats.
Looking at the close polls, it would
appear that if Mitt Romney had run as
he did to become governor of Massa-
chusetts (embracing his record, includ-
ing healthcare reform) he would have
had a chance to beat Barack Obama. He
couldnt win the Republican nomination
like that but then this year neither could
Barry Goldwater or Ronald Reagan if they
ran on their records. That is something
the Republican Party will have the next
four years to ruminate about.
As Americans, we need to take a long
look at how to ensure we are living up to
our Constitution. We are a nation born out
of the quest for religious freedom and the
separation of church and state was recog-
nition of that and the desire not to foist
one set of religious beliefs on everyone.
The Republican candidates are del-
ing the meaning of religious freedom.
They pretend that many religious institu-
tions are still supported by the generosity
of their believers rather than by money
from the government, which is paid by all
of us. Consequently if they hire outside
the religion they can no longer expect
that everyone working for them should
be obliged to live within the principles of
the religion that operates the institution.
Republicans exemplied by Newt Gin-
grich and Rick Santorum think they can
turn the world upside down claiming that
government is impinging on religious
freedom when it insists that a hospital
or school receiving public money allow
its employees access to the healthcare
they would have in every other situation.
They conveniently forget we are a nation
where Christians, Jews, Mormons, Mus-
lims, Baptists, believers and non-believ-
ers alike have equal rights under civil law.
There is a wonderful website called
Stop the Hate, stop-the-hate.org, which
has words of wisdom from many religions,
poets, politicians, activists and authors.
They all speak of loving your fellow man
and woman. It seems Republican candi-
dates have forgotten that and instead
are preaching hate and separatism in the
name of religion.
One of the roles of government is to
protect minorities and ensure they have
the same rights as all others. Our Consti-
tution is a living document and we have
amended it many times over the years,
but always to guarantee rights, never to
take them away. Church law and policy, as
in the Catholic Church, has also changed
over the years from having popes who
were married with children to requiring
them to be single and celibate. Another
example of the exibility of the Catholic
Church would be welcoming Gingrich
who is on his third marriage while Catho-
lic doctrine doesnt recognize divorce. It
is time that we as a nation reject those
who would try to use either the Constitu-
tion or religion to deprive people of their
civil and human rights.
While I favor moving forward it would
be appropriate to go back to a time when
we adhered to a doctrine that this coun-
try stood for: separation of church and
state. John F. Kennedy eloquently stated
that doctrine in a speech he gave in 1960
when he said, I believe in an America
where the separation of church and state
is absolute where no Catholic prelate
would tell the president (should he be
Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant
minister would tell his parishioners for
whom to vote. And where no church or
church school is granted any public funds
or political preference and where no man
is denied public ofce merely because his
religion differs from the president who
might appoint him or the people who
might elect him. I believe in an America
that is ofcially neither Catholic, Protes-
tant nor Jewish, where no public ofcial
either requests or accepts instructions on
public policy from the pope, the National
Council of Churches or any other eccle-
siastical source and where no religious
body seeks to impose its will directly or
indirectly upon the general populace or
the public acts of its ofcials and where
religious liberty so indivisible that an act
against one church is treated as an act
against all. We elected him because he
was willing to state those views so clearly.
Not only will the next president have
a say on how this doctrine is applied but
he will also have the opportunity to ap-
point Supreme Court justices who will sit
in judgment on the issue for many gen-
erations to come.
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By JOY FREEMAN-COULBARY
The expression driving while black
(DWB) was coined to reect the criminal-
ization of black drivers through racial pro-
ling that has led in the last few decades
to numerous Department of Justice (DOJ)
consent decrees in major cities across the
U.S. to monitor and stymie such prejudi-
cial and arbitrary police practices.
Perhaps the federal investigation be-
ing launched to probe the shooting death
of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Central
Florida allegedly by George Zimmerman,
28, a self-appointed vigilante and neigh-
borhood watchman, will lead to much-
needed and long overdue DOJ consent
decrees prohibiting the law enforcement
tactic targeting walking while black
(WWB) the criminalization of the too
young, too urban, too old, too suspicious,
too rowdy, too hood, but most denitely
the too brown and too black to be freely
walking the streets unmolested by unwar-
ranted law enforcement intrusion.
In the crime-stopping mind of Zim-
merman, nearly a decade older and 100
pounds heavier than the young teen, Tray-
vons act of WWB, conducted so cavalierly
and slowly during a jaunt with skittles and
iced tea, was criminal because Trayvon
was a young black male wearing a hoodie
in a Sanford, Fla., gated community.
It appears that Zimmermans stalking
and shooting of Trayvon was fueled by
unjust and misguided stereotypes too
often guised as legitimate police practic-
es and crime ghting tools used in de-
termining who belongs and who doesnt,
whos a villain and whos law abiding, and
ultimately who deserves due process and
the benet of the doubt versus who war-
rants swift and immediate justice.
A federal and state prohibition against
the controversial stop and frisk police
practice, also known as Terry stops,
which disproportionately affect low-
income minorities would send a strong
message against the type of racial prol-
ing that contributed to Trayvons death.
In this instance Zimmerman was a po-
lice wannabe whose obsession with cops
and robbers had fatal consequences.
However, the type of discriminatory ste-
reotyping that led Zimmerman, the self-
appointed neighborhood watchman, to
deem Trayvon as suspicious and wor-
thy of a stop, plays out in major cities
across the nation in the form of stop-and-
frisk police activity.
According to the New York Civil Liber-
ties Unions (NYCLU) website:
The NYPDs stop-and-frisk practices
raise serious concerns over racial prol-
ing, illegal stops and privacy rights. The
Departments own reports on its stop-
and-frisk activity conrm what many
people in communities of color across
the city have long known: The police are
stopping hundreds of thousands of law
abiding New Yorkers every year, and the
vast majority are black and Latino.
NYCLU and the NAACP Legal De-
fense Fund, along with dozens of other
grassroots and advocacy organizations,
have protested the discretionary and
often discriminatory practice of police
stopping suspicious persons and frisk-
ing them without necessarily having
probable cause. Hip-hop mogul Russell
Simmons and former Princeton professor
and civil rights activist Cornel West have
also opposed the stop-and-frisk police
practice. Quantitatively, racialized police
practices do not impede crime. NYCLU
has found that nine out of 10 New Yorkers
stopped and frisked were innocent.
However, law enforcement ofcers,
whether policemen or neighborhood
watchmen, who conduct detentions and
searches in a discriminatory manner have
robbed not only the wrongfully stopped,
stereotyped suspects of their dignity,
but have also undermined our collec-
tive sense of humanity and justice. What
happened to Trayvon Martin because of
prejudicial and unsound community polic-
ing tactics, which up until now has gone
unprosecuted, indicates that stops and
frisks and discriminatory law enforce-
ment, puts us all in jeopardy. Who knows
when anyone of us could be wrongfully
judged, mistaken and fatally stereotyped?
Capitol Hill school
takes innovative
approach to teaching
By JESSICA WODATCH

A new documentary hits the nations
movie theaters today. Bully tells the story
of ve brave families and challenges view-
ers to move from shock and resignation
about bullying to action, the movies pro-
motional website thebullyproject.com re-
ports. Recent surveys indicate that about 13
million U.S. children are bullied each year
and 3 million are absent from school each
month because they feel unsafe.
Across the country, adults awareness of
bullying, willingness to treat it as a serious is-
sue, and take action about it is on the rise.
Last year, a celebrity-led campaign, It Gets
Better, reached out to children who are
being bullied to offer encouragement and
support. Even President Obama recorded
a video. Recently, New Jersey announced
$1 million would be added to the states
Bullying Prevention Fund to help school dis-
tricts meet the requirements of the states
anti-bullying law, following the lead of many
other states. Such investment is an improve-
ment on ignoring the problem. But spend-
ing such vast sums begs a question: what if
bullying could be prevented before it starts?
In 2004, a group of Capitol Hill parents
and myself founded a new public charter
school. We believed that creating a safe,
caring environment that taught children
social skills and gave them opportunities to
practice them would prevent bullying before
it starts. As a result, while I welcome any ef-
fort to try to stop bullying where it has taken
hold, I also am convinced that investing in
children early and often works best.
At the heart of our educational program
is a commitment to teach students how to
learn, and use the knowledge they have ac-
quired to solve problems. Accordingly, we
view behavior as an opportunity to learn,
rather than simply assigning students a con-
sequence when they make a mistake. We
help our students to understand the impact
of their behavior, so that they will want to
change it in the future.
Of course, negative behavior can be
observed, criticized, and punished. But
that doesnt address the root cause of
the behavior. We engage our students to
help them understand and internalize why
what they did is wrong, and how they can
act better in the future. When a student is
able to fully understand why behavior like
name-calling or bullying is wrong and the
impact it has on their peers, they are more
likely to want to not repeat it in the future.
Why does bullying persist? Adult com-
plicity is part of the story as is the idea
that it is just a rite of passage but does
not totally explain its prevalence. The failure
to engage students to learn and internal-
ize positive behavior is another important
factor. Its easy to scare children, or entice
them with rewards to get them to behave,
but we want students to choose good be-
havior and make good decisions on their
own, when adults arent around.
We teach our preschool through eighth
grade students social and emotional prob-
lem-solving strategies through example and
instruction. Skills such as advocating for one-
self, peaceably resolving disputes, and un-
derstanding and communicating with one
another are essential for success in life, as
well as school. Students are encouraged to
request opportunities to talk through their
disagreements and resolve them. While our
youngest students often need teacher facili-
tation to solve problems in this way, students
who have been at Two Rivers for many years
do this with ease. After years of practice,
many Two Rivers students are more adept
at problem solving with their peers than
most adults I know. This approach helps
address conicts before they escalate and
develops skills that will serve children well
throughout their lives.
Our school also sweats the small stuff.
Big problems like fear arise when seem-
ingly innocent activities such as name-
calling go unchecked, injuring childrens
sense of well being. By intervening early
and teaching our students how to talk
to one another and support each other,
we are able to create a climate of mutual
trust and respect, in which everyone feels
welcome. This way, students can ourish
socially, emotionally and academically.
Preventing bullying before it starts isnt
easy it takes determination, thought-
fulness, and hard work. But it isnt impos-
sible and its critical for all our students.
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Gunned down for walking while black
Jessica Wodatch is executive director of Two Rivers
Public Charter School. She grew up on Capitol Hill in
D.C., and lives on the Hill with her partner, Liz, and
their three children all proud Two Rivers students.
Joy Freeman-Coulbary is a Washington-based
lawyer and blogger. Reach her at freemancoulbary@
gmail.com or @enJOYJFC.
Who knows when anyone of us could be wrongfully
judged, mistaken and fatally stereotyped?
Preventing bullying isnt easy it takes
determination, thoughtfulness, and hard work.
But it isnt impossible, and its critical for all our students.
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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray released his
proposed 2013 city government budget for
the scal year beginning Oct. 1 last Friday
at a news brieng. Included was a one-hour
extension of business operation and alcohol
service for bars and restaurants throughout
the week until 3 a.m. on weekdays and 4
a.m. on weekends.
The budget proposal also allows for retail
liquor sales beginning two hours earlier at 7
a.m. Monday through Saturday, with beer and
wine sales permitted at grocery stores begin-
ning at the same time on Sundays. Sunday
liquor purchases, however, would still be pro-
hibited an always unpopular restriction. In
addition, special operating hours for eligible
restaurants and bars would again be in effect
for the Presidential Inauguration, as in 2009.
Expanded alcohol sales are expected to
generate an annual increase of $5.3 million
in additional sales tax revenue, helping close
another projected budget decit, this one to-
taling $172 million. These additional monies
represent nearly 8 percent of the $69.4 million
in new revenue sourcing required to balance
the budget under the plan.
This is not the rst time that the District has
sought additional revenue from alcohol sales.
Last year, the city began allowing stores to
sell alcohol as late as midnight and raised the
sales tax for retail sales for off-premise con-
sumption from nine to 10 percent. Restau-
rants and bars were also permitted to initiate
alcohol sales two hours earlier on Sundays,
beginning at 8 a.m.
Initial public reaction has been nonchalant
and even-tempered, and the mayors pro-
posal has been noteworthy primarily for be-
ing unanticipated. No one has yet predicted
sky-falling doom, although that will undoubt-
edly come originating with the usual wet
blanket liquor-licensing opponents.
Later bar and restaurant operating hours
and alcohol sales are smarter policy than
readily apparent.
The local hospitality industry is a rst-tier
business segment and employer in D.C.,
directly and indirectly contributing a sizable
portion of the Districts tax revenues. In fact,
restaurants, bars and hotels accounted for
more than 60 percent of the new jobs cre-
ated in the Washington metropolitan area
during the past year, adding more than
18,000 new employees.
Growing this local revenue generator
and strengthening the citys reputation as
an evolving world-class dining and enter-
tainment destination is economically savvy
certainly as an alternative to increasing
taxes already among the highest in the na-
tion. Other international East Coast cities
popular with business, leisure and tourist
trades such as New York and Miami
understand the importance of this hospital-
ity service distinction.
Any fear that Washington nightlife would
suddenly rage with debauchery is to over-
look the inherently conservative culture in this
button-down locale. Only a relatively small
number of specic venues would nd merit
in remaining open later during the week, with
a slightly larger number of establishments
choosing later hours on weekends. Most ear-
ly-closing restaurants, and many bars, would
not nd it protable or consistent with their
business model.
Most important, a signicant number of
bars wouldnt even have the option, due to
restrictions imposed by so-called Voluntary
Agreements with Advisory Neighborhood
Commissions (ANCs), small civic groups and
license protest gangs of only ve or more resi-
dents as still permitted under D.C. regulations.
When implementing special extended
hours during President Obamas 2009 inau-
guration, former D.C. Attorney General Pe-
ter Nickles issued a determination that any
venue with stated operating hours even
if merely reecting standard maximum ser-
vice hours is prohibited from exceeding
them. Later bar service for businesses with
such language would require an Alcoholic
Beverage Control (ABC) board hearing and
license revision.
An overlooked benet of variable service
hours at venues in close proximity is allowing
patrons to depart in a more orderly manner.
Rather than forcing hundreds of people or
thousands in some entertainment districts
simultaneously onto the streets, customers
would leave in a staggered fashion similar
to arrival. This natural behavior would lessen
crowd pressures in vibrant commercial zones
to the benet of all.
While several Council members have ex-
pressed generally favorable reactions to the
mayors overall budget proposal, public hear-
ings and legislative negotiations will precede
adoption this summer.
Perhaps thoughtful consideration of a
modest expansion of bar service hours will
prevail and next fall well be toasting city busi-
ness smarts a little bit later in the evening.
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D.C. Council should approve later bar sales
Mark Lee is a local small business manager and long-
time community business advocate. Reach him at
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By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
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Thom Filicia says the work he does on
TV and with his eponymous design rm is
apples and oranges most people may
know him from the small screen but its his
years of work on the latter that gives him
the credibility to do the former.
He says his TV work is usually fast
and furious and personality-driven
incorporating product from retail shops like
Crate and Barrel and Pottery Barn, while
the work he does for his private design rm
recent clients are Tina Fey and Jennifer
Lopez is kind of a different breed.
He rattles off a torrent of adjectives
for his product line authentic,
real, substantive, smartly designed,
accessible, but not super accessible,
familiar, comfortable, approachable.
Its silhouettes and designs that are
familiar but also fresh and different and
unique and authentic, he says during a
break at his Manhattan-based SoHo ofce
where he and a 12-member staff work.
Its for the way we live now as opposed to
trying to reproduce a look and feel from
decades prior or trying to make something
that feels extremely sleek and modern.
Filicia says his pieces can temper
whatever spaces theyre in.
The furniture I design can make a loft
in the city feel warm and inviting or it can
make the Georgetown colonial outside
the city feel hip and cool. Its a really nice
bridge of modern and classic and I feel
that we do it in a way that feels different.
Washington-area residents will get to
see Filicias work up close and personal
at Belfort Furniture (three miles north
of Dulles Airport in Virginia), which is
unveiling his collection Thom Filicia
Home Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Filicia will
be on hand to answer questions and will
mingle with guests during a wine reception
immediately after. A book signing was
planned but his latest tome, Thom Filicia
Style, is sold out at the moment.
Its a good problem to have, he says
with a laugh. We sold about 15,000 of
the rst run, so thats both the good news
and the bad news. But sure, if somebody
wants me to sign a napkin or something,
Ill be happy to.
Belfort management says its happy to
have Filicias line in its store.
Were very excited to add this distinctive
American-chic collection to our lineup,
says Michael Huber, Belfort Furniture CEO.
The Thom Filicia Home Collection offers
unexpected design elements for every
dcor from classic to modern.
Filicia, of course, is best known from
Queer Eye (originally called Queer Eye
for the Straight Guy), the groundbreaking
2003-07 Bravo series on which he was one
of the Fab Five along with Ted Allen, Kyan
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When asked why he gave up a 15-year computer science career to become
a full-time DJ, Columbia Heights resident David Merrill has a simple answer:
Because I could.
Merrill started spinning in college but soon his day job took over.
When youre working 60 to 70 hours a week, which is normal for that eld,
you dont have the energy to be out spinning til 4 in the morning, he says. I
always wanted to do it and I was just nally at a point where I could.
Listen for Merrill tonight at the Boys on Fire party from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. at
the Warehouse Loft (411 New York Ave., N.E.) where hell open for DJ Paulo.
Though hes attended Cherry each year for about 10 years, this is Merrills rst
time spinning and only his second circuit party. He also has monthly gigs at
Code (rst Saturday of each month at Green Lantern), Triple X (every third
Friday at the Crucible) and a radio show called Club Queer. On Saturday night,
hell be at Cobalts Raw event.
I have very eclectic tastes, he says. The only hard-and-fast rule is if it
makes me want to shake my ass, Ill play it.
He says tonights set will have elements of tribal, progressive and acid
house grooves. Hell spin about three hours. Go to cherryfund.org for details
on all Cherry events. See page 33 for more information.
Cherry is all about the music, all about the dancing, he says. Youre gonna
see some amazing dcor and there will be lots of hot guys half naked and thats
great, but like all great parties, its really about the music rst and foremost. Itll
be some of the greatest music you ever hear in your life. DJ Paulo is amazing.
Its such an honor to open for him.
Merrill grew up in Alexandria and has also lived in North Carolina and Florida
at various times for school and career. He worked for years in Tampa doing
computer work. Hes been back in Washington for about 10 years.
Though mum about his personal life, Merrill lives in Columbia Heights and
enjoys dinner-and-a-movie evenings at home to relax.
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN OUT
AND WHO WAS THE HARDEST
PERSON TO TELL?
I never really came out ofcially. My
mother eavesdropped on a phone call from
my boyfriend, who called on Christmas
Eve to wish me a Merry Christmas, and she
outed me to the rest of the family. My father
threw me out of the house that very night.
I was 15. Since I had nothing to lose, I have
ever since then been completely out.
WHOS YOUR LGBT HERO?
I have so many, but I would have to say
Harvey Milk really stands out. So much of
what we have accomplished is due to his
leadership and the inuence that he, and
his assassination, had on the gay rights
movement.
WHATS WASHINGTONS BEST
NIGHTSPOT, PAST OR PRESENT?
Thats a hard one, and I know I might
offend some current club owners but
I have to say Tracks. But the lousiest
nightclub can be heaven if a great DJ
is playing. I dont need lights and fog
and lasers. Sure, theyre cool, but its all
about the music for me.

DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM WEDDING.
All of my family and friends on the
roof of the Hay-Adams Hotel, across the
street from the White House.

WHAT NON-LGBT ISSUE ARE YOU
MOST PASSIONATE ABOUT?
Im passionate about all civil rights
issues. Every person deserves to be
treated with dignity and respect no matter
their gender, orientation, religion, race or
any other characteristic they might have.

WHAT HISTORICAL OUTCOME
WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Im going to say the constitutional
compromise that left slavery not only legal,
but ofcially enshrined in our Constitution.
Slavery is Americas original sin and I
have to wonder what America would be
like today if we had started out without
that millstone around our neck.

WHATS BEEN THE MOST
MEMORABLE POP CULTURE
MOMENT OF YOUR LIFETIME?
The rst time I saw Rocky Horror
Picture Show. I was about 12 or 13
years old so for me at that age it was
incredibly subversive and Ive loved
subversive art and theater ever since.

ON WHAT DO YOU INSIST?
I insist on always doing my absolute
best. There will always be someone who
can run faster, or make more money, or
whatever, but as long as I always work
hard and do my very best, I can look in
the mirror and be proud of myself.

WHAT WAS YOUR LAST FACEBOOK
POST OR TWEET?
I posted a quote from Dan Savage:
Hostile parents cant make their gay kids
straight, but they can make them dead.

IF YOUR LIFE WERE A BOOK, WHAT
WOULD THE TITLE BE?
Wrong Turns That Turn Out Right

IF SCIENCE DISCOVERED A WAY TO
CHANGE SEXUAL ORIENTATION,
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Drop it in the Gatoraid at a nearby
locker room? OK, I wouldnt really
do that, but its a nice fantasy. I sure
wouldnt take it myself. I am very happy
with who I am, thank you very much.

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN BEYOND
THE PHYSICAL WORLD?
I dont really know if there is a G-d
in the Judeo-Christian sense, but I do
believe that there is such a thing as
sacred, and I try to nd it in everyone.

WHATS YOUR ADVICE FOR LGBT
MOVEMENT LEADERS?
I would just like to thank them for all the
good work that they do, and encourage
them to keep the faith, because our cause
is just and we will prevail.

WHAT WOULD YOU WALK ACROSS
HOT COALS FOR?
I would do anything for my family.

WHAT LGBT STEREOTYPE ANNOYS
YOU MOST?
I think the stereotype that we all cut
hair or design interiors is ridiculous.
Sure, lots of us are fabulous at those
things, but lots more of us arent.

WHATS YOUR FAVORITE LGBT
MOVIE?
Angels in America. I love the part
where Hannah responds to Blanche
DuBois I have always depended on
the kindness of strangers; Well thats a
stupid thing to do.

WHATS THE MOST OVERRATED
SOCIAL CUSTOM?
Talking about the weather.

WHAT TROPHY OR PRIZE DO YOU
MOST COVET?
A great DJ can create a mood, really
connect with a crowd of dancers, and take
them on a musical and emotional journey.
And when youve done that, when you
have the crowd in the palm of your hand,
you know it. You feel it. And THAT is the
prize I work so hard to achieve. I live for
that feeling. Its why Im a DJ.

WHAT DO YOU WISH YOUD KNOWN
AT 18?
At 18 I was on the street, off and on,
living in empty lots. If I had known that
things would eventually work out for me,
it would have saved me so much fear
and worry about the future. Life for me
has just gotten better and better. At 18
the future looked really bleak.

WHY WASHINGTON?
I love Washington! There are so many
things to do, places to go, museums to
visit and great restaurants. You could
never do it all.
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dance weekend returns
with series of events
By JULIETTE EBNER
This year marks the 15th anniversary of
Cherry and the Cherry Fund, which is now
under new management.
The Cherry Fund has raised and
provided about $980,000 in grants since
its start in 1997 and 90 percent of that
comes directly from ticket sales to Cherry,
Washingtons trademark gay dance party.
James Decker, a member of the Funds
board, says this years goal is to raise
$20,000, which could be double what
was raised last year and would bring the
organization over the $1 million milestone.
Theres denitely something symbolic
behind it, Decker says of hitting that
milestone on this anniversary. That
would be a signicant achievement given
the economy and a lot other factors, but
theres no reason why they couldnt reach
that goal.
Last years beneciaries were The Metro
D.C. Center, Capital Pride, Us Helping Us,
Whitman-Walker Health, Metro TeenAIDS,
Pediatric AIDS/HIV Care, Womens
Collective, La Clinica del Pueblo, Youth Pride
Alliance, Capital Trans Pride, Latino GLBT
History Project (Latino Pride), API Queers
United for Action and D.C. Black Pride.
We try to spread the wealth, Decker
says.
This years beneciaries will not be
announced for another couple months.
We get a lot of people from out of
town, Decker says. Thats how the circuit
works. A lot of people will just go from
party to party.
There are some new venues this year,
including Phase 1 Dupont (1415 22nd St.,
N.W.), Ibiza Nightclub (1222 1st St., N.E.) and
Warehouse Loft (411 New York Ave., N.E.).
While Fund organizers think the local DJs
are great, they try to recruit those who dont
come to the D.C. area that often, making
their events a bigger draw. There are many
DJs who ask about participating and this
year, all the opening DJs are volunteers.
Tonights (Friday) events start with a
welcome center at No. 9 (1435 P St., N.W)
from 5 to 9 p.m. followed by two events.
There will be a womens event at Phase 1
Dupont from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. and Boys
on Fire with DJ Paulo from Los Angeles
at Warehouse Loft from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m.
with DJ David Merrill (check out his Queery
prole on page 32) spinning the opening set
and DJ Bryan Yamasaki in the back room.
Saturday brings the Moody Horror
Picture Show, a birthday celebration for
party pioneer, Moody Mustafa featuring
DJ Joe Gauthreaux from New York City at
Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) from 2 to 7 p.m.
Town is also hosting that nights
Blossom with DJ Mark Anthony from
Montreal from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. DJ Timothy
Mykael will provide the opening set. There
will also be a special performance by
Circuit Mom. Attendees are asked to wear
red to this event.
The festival ends on Sunday with
Momentum with Cherry alum DJ Alyson
Calagna from Miami at Ibiza Nightclub
from 4 to 9 a.m. with an opening set by
DJ BennyK.
Shes great, a real sweetheart and an
awesome DJ, Decker says of Calagna.
Were honored to have her back.
That will be followed by a brunch and
tea dance at Cobalt from noon to 6 p.m.
with DJ Tim e. The nal event is Ovation
with DJ Eddie Elias from New York City at
Ultra Bar (911 F St., N.W.) from 9 p.m. to 2
a.m. with DJ Sean Morris opening.
They give us that club for the night,
Decker says of Ultra Bar. They are very
generous, very supportive of our event.
Tickets for individual events range
from $17 to $50. The 2012 Cherry Host
Pass is $120 and includes entrance to all
six major events, access to VIP lounge at
Ibiza, goodie bag, complimentary day
pass to VIDA Fitness, two-hour open bar
at Sunday tea, T-shirt and CD, but it does
not include admission to Moody Horror
Picture Show.
For more information and to purchase
tickets visit cherryfund.org.
Cherry blossoms under
new leadership
Cherry Fund board member JAMES DECKER on the Mall.
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Woolly unveils Arias With a Twist
Drag singer Joey Arias and master puppeteer Basil Twist will be performing Arias With
a Twist at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (641 D St., N.W.) starting Wednesday.
This is the D.C. premiere of the show, created in 2008, marking Arias return to New
York after a six-year stint in a Cirque Du Soleil production in Las Vegas.
There will also be some special events through the shows run. There will be four post-
performance conversations on April 11, 15, 19 and 25. Woolly Mammoth will also be
hosting a post-performance Glamazon Pageant on April 13 with local burlesque and
vaudeville performers competing for a chance to be crowned as the ultimate Glamazon.
Tickets start at $30 and can be purchased online at woollymammoth.net. The show will
run through May 6.
Rainbow Seder this weekend at HRC
GLOE Kurlander Program for GLBT Outreach and Engagement is having its fth annual
National Rainbow Seder on Sunday at the Human Rights Campaign (1640 Rhode Island
Ave., N.W.) starting at 5 p.m.
This year, GLOE will be focusing on Heroes of Freedom, the leaders of freedom and
equality movements throughout history.
There will be drinks and hors doeuvres and the Seder, led by Rabbi Toby Manewith,
will start at 6 p.m.
Tickets are $36 for general admission, $24 for GLOE members, students, seniors and
those with limited income, children 18 and under and volunteers can attend for free.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit washingtondcjcc.org.
MTV chooses gay venue for Real World casting call
MTVs The Real World is holding an open casting call for the 28th season on Saturday
at Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Casting directors from Bunim/Murray Productions will be looking for people with
strong personalities who are not afraid to speak theirs minds. Past seasons have included
an HIV/AIDS educator, an Iraq War vet, a recovering addict and many more.
They are particularly interested in cast members who have had to work hard to support
themselves and move ahead in their lives.
Applicants are asked to bring a recent picture of themselves that will not be returned
and a photo ID. Those interested must be 21 by March 1, 2013 and appear to be between
the ages of 20 and 24.
For more information and to download the application form, visit bunim-murray.com/
rwcasting.
Different Drummers hold weekend concert
D.C.s Different Drummers Capital Pride Symphonic Band and Capitol Pride
Winds will be in concert on Saturday at the Columbia Heights Education Campus
Auditorium (3101 16th St., N.W.) at 7:30 p.m.
The program will be kicked off with a commission medley by Matthew Leonhardt
and continues with selections such as The Sound of Music, Hobbits from The
Lord of the Rings, Godzilla Eats Las Vegas and more.
The bands will be joined by K. Scott Baker, guest conductor and artistic director.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. They can be purchased
online at dcdd.org with an added service fee or from any DCDD band member.
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D.C.S DIFFERENT DRUMMERS' Capital Fride Symphonic Band will be in concert on Sunday with
the Capitol Fride Winds.
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By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
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It seems to take a few years to fully
assess a new Madonna album. That may
be true for many recording artists to
some degree, but theres always so much
excitement and anticipation around a new
Madge disc, its only after thats died down
a bit can one determine how it stands up
to her best projects.
The downside to being such a consistent
hitmaker is that she has no Tapestry,
Jagged Little Pill, or Miseducation
to her name. All her albums have several
great songs, but theres always a dud or
two Words from Erotica, Mer Girl
from Ray of Light, I Love New York
from Confessions or Spanish Lesson
from Hard Candy that keep her from
having a start-to-nish masterpiece. Even
Like a Prayer, which many consider her
most consistent effort, gets derailed slightly
by the clunky Love Song, a Prince duet.
MDNA, out this week on new label
Interscope after Madonna spent decades
at Warner Bros., is refreshingly clunker free.
Only a couple tracks the throwaway
Turn Up the Radio and nursery rhyme-
ish Im a Sinner sound like they could
have been B-sides. As expected, there are
several killer batches of smoking dance
songs more on those in a sec but the
biggest surprise is the bonus material on
the deluxe edition.
Get the no-frills version and youre
missing out on some mind-blowing stuff.
Beautiful Killer is the most traditional
bonus cut here, an old-fashioned pop
song with a strings topcoat, but then
things get really interesting. I Fucked
Up sounds a little ho-hum at rst, even
though its a great idea for a song. It kicks
into high gear with a killer middle section
that slowly works up a nice lather. B-day
Song is cute and silly with a late 60s
vibe but the whole project simmers into
a shattering climax with Best Friend, a
mid-tempo barn burner that beautifully
captures the mixed emotions of a
shattered relationship courtesy of some
of Madonnas all-time most insightful lyrics
and the Benassi production duo.
Madonna, acknowledging (presumably)
the complicated relationship she shared
with ex-husband Guy Ritchie, sums things
up cleverly when she suggests they were
driving with two hands on the clutch.
She gets the anger out elsewhere on
the campy, crunchy Gang Bang and rap-
doused I Dont Give A, which veers into
high drama with its Carmina Burana-
esque outro. But once the anger subsides,
Friend is the more cathartic experience.
It didnt take a genius to realize these
two had a complicated marriage fans
sensed they were a mis-match from the Im
Going To Tell You a Secret documentary
and the last albums melancholy Miles
Away. But its refreshing, both musically
and emotionally, to hear Madonna address
and assess her own disappointments. Shes
never so much as acknowledged that her
brother wrote an unattering memoir; at
least with her marriage, MDNA brings
insight and closure. She can pose for
glamorous photos, pull off tour acrobatics
and craft mindless dance pop til the end
of time, but all that resonates more when
we have a sense of the woman behind the
face, and MDNA brings us that.
Though more notable for its eye-
popping video, album opener Girl
Gone Wild is light, catchy fun as is Im
Addicted, rst single Give Me All Your
Luvin, and the aforementioned Killer.
The Golden Globe-winning ballad
Masterpiece, the theme from the W/E
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lush Falling Free, which doesnt even
have a rhythm track, giving the beat-heavy
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By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
The Dana Tai Soon Burgess dance
company kicks off its 20th anniversary season
next week with several performances.
On April 5-6, the outt will perform
several works over two nights at the
Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre (800 21st
Street, NW) on the George Washington
University campus.
Among the works are:
Becoming American which
explores the experience of a Korean child
uprooted from her birthplace when she is
adopted by Caucasian American parents.
The lead dancer is Katia Chupashko
whose personal story is told in the work.
Hyphen which looks at the
experience of being a hyphenated
American (as in Korean-American). It
features the full company.
Khaybet a solo dance performed
by associate artistic director Connie Fink
which depicts a woman at the end of her
life. Burgess participated in a cultural
exchange which led to the work in Pakistan.
Fractures a spare work depicting a
love triangle to be performed by Yeonjin
Cho, Kelly Southall and Sarah Halzack.
Tickets are $25 for general admission
but discounts are available. Details are at
dtsbco.com.
Burgess, whos openly gay, says its
exciting to see his eponymous company
reach 20 years.
Often we associate dance with being
something very ephemeral and once its
done, its gone, but it really attests to the
staying power of our company and the work
we do and the aesthetic weve developed
to still be here, he says. Our community
really supports us and thats tantamount for
an arts organization to feel we have a place
and a home and we feel that.
Though Burgesss work isnt LGBT
specic, four of the 11 dancers in his
company are openly LGBT. While other gay
arts companies, such as Ganymede Arts,
have either closed or are struggling, how
has Burgess kept going despite the tough
economy?
There are several ways an organization
like ours can grow even within those
connes, he says. When youre
producing work of high quality and
individuals are really taken by that work,
then they want to get involved if you ask
them. If theres enough of a structure in
place for them to be a supporter and to
feel part of an organization, they will. Its
a lot of work you also have to realize
ways to make even very specic themes,
like this piece about being a Korean
adoptee, reach out and have meaning to
a larger group. Theres a universality that
must reach out to all audience members
so while they might think, Wow, thats
specic, Im not a Korean adoptee, it
still says something about diversity and
inclusion and they can feel an empathy
and beauty in the work they can relate to
there are lots of approaches you can
take to make niche work successful.
When Burgess, who grew up in an art-
rich household in Santa Fe, started the
company just two years after moving
to Washington, there were just seven
dancers working mostly on a volunteer
basis. The company now has a different
structure altogether and Burgess, who last
danced himself in about 2008, works full
time in the eld; he also teaches dance at
George Washington.
He says he doesnt particularly miss
performing himself because in his
coaching hes constantly moving.
I feel completely connected to the eld in
a way thats perhaps more three dimensional
than it was 20 years ago, he says.
The group also plans a May 18 anniversary
performance at the National Portrait Gallery,
a spring tour of the Middle East sponsored
by the U.S. State Department, a September
perfornance also at the Marvin Theatre
with other works including the gay-themed
Charlie Chan and the Mystery of Love,
and a private reception for donors.
The Washington Post once called Burgess
the regions leading dance artist, consistently
following his own path and producing
distinctive, well-considered works.
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Few things excite Robert Chapman
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t specically in mid- 20th century
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Since opening in October, Archers
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Almost everything is made to order.
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beginnings of Chapmans career.
When Chapman was 22 (not long after
he graduated from Virginias Longwood
University with a degree in business), his
grandmother died. Rather than hold a
traditional estate sale, he sold her things
on eBay. During the process, Chapman
discovered it wasnt his grandmothers Greek
and Asian antiques that red his imagination,
but rather the orange and teak mid-century
items that other vendors were selling.
Pretty quickly he found a niche for himself
facilitating eBay sales for antiques dealers
in the Northern Virginia area. Eventually he
opened his own showroom, Modernicus, in
a funky antiques mall outside the Beltway
in Alexandria. What he didnt learn selling
online, he learned here. After four years,
Chapman decided to relocate and go high
end, to exclusively sell the things he loves.
His real estate broker suggested a move to
his present location, an area popular with
architects, interior designers, design stores
and perhaps most importantly, customers
with deep pockets.
When Archer opened last fall, Chapman
had already begun designing furniture.
While some people are born with an
eye to design, Chapman says he wasnt.
Frequently re-arranging Modernicus
showroom gave him a sense of proportion,
scale and what works. He found inspiration
in the work of mid-century industrial
designer Dieter Rams and architect
Mies van der Rohe; and slowly but surely
developed his own aesthetic, simple and
elegant. Currently, hes into blackened
metal. My design work gives me an
opportunity to be creative, but its very
much a business too. The bohemian life
of an artist isnt for me. I like to have the
money to afford the things I want.
Chapman may have had to train his
design eye, but he was born a salesman:
My mother still razzes me about how I
once sold a neighborhood kid a length of
garden hose as a musical instrument for
ve dollars.
Since then, (were glad to know) his
sales approach has changed. Chapman is
exceedingly knowledgeable, self-possessed
but not aggressive, and above all honest.
I want my clients to be happy and to get
something they can live with forever. Prior to
a purchase, I like to discuss how it ts into
their lives. A white chaise may not be the
best thing for a house lled with kids.
Eye for design
ROBERT CHAPMAN
Archer
1027 33rd St. NW
(202) 640-2823
archermodern.com
ROBERT CHAPMAN says its important to consider how a piece of furniture will t into your
lifestyle before committing to it.
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Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower
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The Taming of the Shrew, Synetic Theater,
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Mary Alouette, gypsy jazz vocalist,
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New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of
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202-269-1600. danceplace.org.
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nationalcherryblossomfestival.org.
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Genticorum, Baird Auditorium,
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Hot Club of San Francisco, The Barns.
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Samurai Rebellion & The Hidden Fortress,
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You, Me, Them, Everybody Present: This Is
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Anraku-Miyata Duo, National Gallery of
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Works in Progress: The Reticular
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Kevin Costner and Modern West,
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Shiloh, National Geographic.
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Red Riding Hood: A New Fable,
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olneytheatre.org.
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FIST (Fighting Improv Smackdown
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202-204-7770.
washingtonimprovtheater.com.
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,
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By MEGHANN NOVINSKIE &
KIM ROSENBERG
We often stress high levels of maturity as
a key component to a healthy relationship
when advising clients and in writing
this column. Some may wonder why we
emphasize maturity and others have
asked us specically how to determine if
the person youve recently started dating
is mature enough or mature at all.
Multiple factors are at hand and weve
revealed a few of them below.
When dating in our adult lives, we
cannot stress enough the importance
of being able to communicate with your
partner your goals in dating and life
stage. We have seen it time and time
again that couples begin to engage in a
relationship, only to nd out one is more
interested in dating around and
the other more focused on a long-term
goal. Level of maturity goes hand in hand
with communication and being open to
expressing feelings directly. Those who
are immature tend to skirt around the
goals in dating concept those who
are mature do not.
Maturity comes with age but which
age maturity arrives is different for
everyone. Have you ever dated someone
older than you who acts like the person
you were seven or 10 years ago? Its a
huge disappointment when this happens,
though it occurs more often than we can
predict. Dont use age as a determining
factor of who is mature and who is not
only a therapist or a dating coach can
usually help you analyze this person and
their emotional maturity.
Have you ever dated someone overtly
passive aggressive? It tends to sneak up
on you when you want to have the chat
about where your relationship is going or
something similar. Passive aggressiveness
is a sure sign of someone who isnt
comfortable with her/himself. Passive
aggressive conversations, live or over text
message, can be incredibly disappointing
for those who are direct about their goals
in a relationship.
Ever been put on the back burner?
Yes, this is another ugly side of immaturity
and passive aggressive behavior. Most
of us have been in the position where
you have an exciting rst and second
dates, and plans for a third date are in the
works, but your suitor fails to follow up.
Usually, people will say they have been
really busy, which is the reason for lack
of follow up. Dont discard anyone with a
busy profession, just beware of those who
prioritize their friends and other social
plans over exploring another date and
possible connection with you.
What is one of the biggest red ags of
someone who may be immature? Easy
answer: someone who has never had a
serious committed relationship.
Being nancially responsible is
obviously a sign of maturity. If you nd that
someone is jumping from job to job, it is
probably fair to say that they are looking
for the next best thing. Unfortunately, this
could also roll over into their relationship
goals and potential status, in that he/she
may not be ready for commitment, in any
sense of the word.
Another sign of immaturity that we see
these days is where someone is found
hiding behind his/her cell phone. Have
you ever dated someone who refuses to
pick up the phone and chat? We get it
we are all busy and texting is so easy.
But think about how nice it is to hear
someones voice on your voicemail or to
say a quick hello between meetings.
Maturity not only comes with age,
but also with life experience. Many
individuals who move to the D.C. area
may be more mature than their peers
in other areas, due to professional and
educational opportunities locally. But
beware D.C. can also be a playground
for those looking for the next best
opportunity professionally and
personally. Have candid conversations
with your partner about goals and
stability to understand if your partner is
as mature as you are. Dont kid yourself
and recognize the signs.
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for
more updates and advice: @MegNovinskie
@KimRosenbergDC.
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Jen Urban and the Box with Frankie
and Betty play Phase 1 (525 8th St., S.E.)
tonight at 9 p.m. There is a $10 cover and
all attendees must be 21 or older.
The HIV Working Group will be doing
outreach tonight at Town (2009 8th St.,
N.W.) during Bear Happy Hour starting at 7
p.m. and continuing throughout the night
until midnight. Volunteers are needed. For
more information, visit thedccenter.org.
Violent Vickie, Lazerbitch and
Lost Bois play Comet Ping Pong (5037
Connecticut Ave., N.W.) tonight at 10 p.m.
There is a $10 cover for this event.
Patti LaBelle plays the Music Center at
Strathmore (5301 Tuckerman Lane, North
Bethesda) tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets range
from $35 to $120 and can be purchased
online at strathmore.org. She will also be
performing Saturday at 8 p.m.
Shawn Colvin plays the Birchmere
(3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria) tonight
at 7:30 p.m. with Carsie Blanton. Tickets
are $45 and can be purchased online at
ticketmaster.com.
Busboys & Poets will be hosting ASL
open mic poetry tonight at 11 p.m. in the
Langston Room at its 14th and V streets
location (2021 14th St., N.W.). Anyone
with sign language knowledge may sign
up to recite a poem or sign a song by
e-mailing djsupalee@aol.com. There is a
$5 cover.
SATURDAY, MARCH 31
Wayne Brady joins the National
Symphony Orchestra for Wayne Brady
Sings the Sammys, tonight at the
Kennedy Center (2700 F St., N.W.) at 8 p.m.
Tickets range from $20 to $85 and can be
purchased online at kennedy-center.org.
D.C. native comedian and Hufngton
Post writer Tom Rhodes will be at Riot Act
Comedy Theater (801 E St., N.W.) tonight
at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and
available online at riotactcomedy.com.
Ensemble group Hot Club of San
Francisco plays Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Rd.,
Vienna) tonight at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are
$30 and available online at wolftrap.org.
The Lodge (21614 National Pike,
Boonsboro) and Boyz Town present
Spring Fever: The Undies and Panties
Party tonight featuring the Hot Bod
contest and beats by DJ Keith Hoffman.
No cover before 10 p.m., $5 cover after.
Adventuring is having a hike at Little
Devils Stairs and Piney Branch Loop today.
The group is meeting at 8:30 a.m. in the
Pentagon Reservation parking lot on
Army Navy Drive, across from Macys in
Pentagon City. Estimated costs are $15 for
transportation, if not driving, $8 for park
admission and the $2 trip fee. For more
information, visit adventuring.org.

SUNDAY, APRIL 1
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street
Band play Verizon Center (601 F St., N.W.)
tonight at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from
$68 to $98 and can be purchased online at
ticketmaster.com.
The Fridge (516 1/2 8th St., S.E.) presents
Dissociative by grafti artist Scotch
opening today. There will be a stencil and
spray paint class with the artist from 2 to
4 p.m. followed by an opening reception
until 8 p.m.
MONDAY, APRIL 2
Focus-In! Films presents Howl as its
April Film of the Month and in celebration
of National Poetry Month with a screening
at Busboys & Poetss Hyattsville location
(5331 Baltimore Ave., Suite 104) tonight at 7
p.m. The lm stars James Franco as a young
Allen Ginsberg. This is a free screening.
Green Lantern (1335 Green Court, N.W.)
hosts Bears Do Yoga this evening from
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. upstairs and karaoke
hosted by Mike at 9:30.
TUESDAY, APRIL 3
The Chesapeake Squares, a gay square
dancing group, are having a mainstream-
through-advanced club night tonight at
the Waxter Center (1000 Cathedral St.)
in Baltimore from 8 to 10 p.m. For more
information, visit chesapeakesquares.org.
Join Burgundy Crescent Volunteers to
help pack safer sex kits from 7 to 9 p.m.
tonight at FUK!Ts packing location, Green
Lantern, 1335 Green Ct., N.W.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4
The D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.) is
having a four-session course on nancial
planning for same sex couples starting
today at 6 p.m. Material will include
understanding investments, family
protection building and more. To register
for this free program, email daniel@
nadvinc.com.
Riot Act Comedy Theaters (801 E
St., N.W.) monthly gay and gay-friendly
comedy show Gay-larious returns
tonight at 8:30 p.m. with Frank Liotti, Jess
Wood and co-founders Chris Doucette and
Zach Toczynski. Tickets are $15 and can be
purchased online at riotactcomedy.com.
Joan Osborne plays the Birchmere
(3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria) tonight
with Lera Lynn. Tickets are $35 and can be
purchased online at ticketmaster.com.
THURSDAY, APRIL 5
The Transmen Discussion Group meets
tonight at the D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.)
from 6 to 7 p.m. in the conference room.
The Shondes with Troll Tax and Fell
Types will play the Rock and Roll Hotel
(1353 H St., N.E.) tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets
are $10 and can be purchased online at
rockandrollhoteldc.com.
Kevin Costner and his band Modern
West play the Music Center at Strathmore
(5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Besthesda)
tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $35
to $90 and can be purchased online at
strathmore.org.
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two weeks prior to your event. Space is limited so
priority is given to LGBT-specic events or those
with LGBT participants. Recurring events must be
re-submitted each time.
PATTI LABELLE plays the Music Center at Strathmore with back-to-back perIormances tonight and Saturday.
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Gay sports groups get
moving with
warm weather
By KEVIN MAJOROS
With any luck, this past week brought
the last frost of the season and many of the
outdoor LGBT sports teams are in full swing.
The D.C. Front Runners continue to
host their Tuesday and Thursday evening
runs along with their Saturday and Sunday
morning runs. The group meets at 23rd
and P streets during the week and at Rock
Creek Park on the weekends. The runners
also host walks at the same locations on
Tuesday evenings and Saturday mornings.
Recently the Front Runners launched
a 10-week series of track workouts which
will run through the middle of May.
The sessions are on Wednesday nights
from 7 to 8 p.m. and will rotate between
McKinley High School and Banneker High
School. The rotation can be found at
dcfrontrunners.org.
Congratulations to the Washington
Renegades RFC members for kicking off
their spring season by winning the Gray
Ghost Cup tournament in Bel Air, Md., on
March 10. Their Blues squad took down North
Bay, Lockport, Pax River and the Washington
Rugby Club to win the tournament.
This weekend the Blues squad will travel
to Charlottesville, Va., to take on Virginia
RFC, while the Reds squad will be at home
playing the Washington Poltroons. The
Renegades schedule can be found at
dcrugby.com.
Among the many opportunities offered
by the D.C. Strokes Rowing Club is
the Learn to Row Program. This season,
to accommodate busy schedules, they
are holding four different sessions on
weekdays and weekends.
The sessions begin at the end of April,
assume no previous rowing experience
and teach the basics from square one.
Rowers who complete the program are
invited to join the team as part of their
Novice Program. More information is at
dcstrokes.org.
The recreational biking series has begun
for the Adventuring outdoors group and
on Saturday, they will host the Washington
& Old Dominion Rail-To-Trail. This will be an
easy, paved and mostly at trail ride to help
riders get in shape for more challenging
events to come. The route will run from
Falls Church to Herndon and back and will
be a 29-mile ride. Riders will meet at 10:30
a.m. at the East Falls Church Metro Station
in the Kiss & Ride Lot. Bring helmet, uids
and $2. The group will stop for a quick
lunch at a Herndon restaurant or you can
pack a lunch. Contact Mike at d.michael.
davids@gmail.com for more information.
Adventuring has also rescheduled the
Scotts Run Preserve Hike on Sunday. The
hike will be in the range of 2.2 to 3 miles.
The hikers will go past the waterfall on
Scotts Run and follow along the Potomac
River to the Palisades of the Potomac. The
group will also stop by the Burling House
ruins as they cross through the area.
Carpooling to the preserve will depart at
9:30 a.m. from the Rossyln Metro Station.
Bring uids, bug spray and a packed lunch
plus $2 trip fee and $3 for non-drivers. You
can RSVP at meeting.com/Adventuring-
Gay-Lesbian-Hiking-Biking.
The Capital Tennis Association
coordinates league play throughout the
year at both tennis clubs and public courts.
Registration for the summer leagues for
both singles and doubles will begin in
April and the league runs from May to
September. There is also the opportunity
to sign up for sub spots on the league.
More information on the tennis players is
at capital-tennis.org.
The rst tee off of the season for the
Lambda Links Golf Club will be Sunday.
The golfers can be found on the greens
every weekend through October 28. Join
the groups mailing list at lambdalinks.org
for information on its tee-off locations.
The District of Columbia Aquatics Club
will be hosting the 21st annual Swim for Life
on July 14. The event is a fundraiser for HIV/
AIDS nonprots as well as local watershed
organizations. Swimmers will compete in
1-, 2-, 3-, 4- or 5-mile races beginning and
ending at Rolphs Wharf on the Chester
River. This is also a great opportunity for
anyone training for a triathlon. Details on
the event are at swimdcac.org.
Springing into action
Spring has sprung so the local gay sports outts are kicking into high gear.
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The LATINO LGBT HISTORY PROJECT held a Latina networking event Mujeres en el Movimiento last week at MOVA.
Douglas, Carson Kressley and Jai Rodriguez.
He also hosted Dress My Nest for three
years on the Style Network and has more TV
and book projects in the works. A new book
to be called American Beauty is slated for
an October release, he did a holiday special
for HGTV and has pitches for future shows in
discussions with that channel.
Once Queer Eye was over, I knew I
always wanted to keep TV as something
near and dear and something I would
participate in and evolve and grow with
hopefully, but my focus has always been
on my core business.
With the new Belfort relationship,
the Washington area will join retailers
that carry his work in San Francisco,
Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Atlanta,
Chicago, Toronto and more. Some of
the line at Belfort will be pieces from the
last few years that have been popular
elsewhere. Others are new.
Im really excited about this new
relationship, Filicia says. They have
really great sensibility and theyve been
really excited about our product so theres
some great synergy. I really love what
theyre doing and its a great operation
they have in Dulles. Im really excited to
have them on board.
Filicia keeps up with his old Queer
Eye pals. Hes seen Allens current Food
Network competition show Chopped
and says its great.
Its a great hook and its fun, he says.
Hes done a great job with it.
He sees his old pals every couple of
months. Though Rodriguez and Douglas
are based in Los Angeles now (Kressley
is in New York and Allen splits his time
between New York and Chicago), theyre
together enough to have maintained their
friendships.
It usually starts with one of us texting
the others and well start joking around
and soon were all laughing and trying to
gure out a time to meet up.
Filicia and long-time partner Greg Calejo,
who does strategic marketing for Kerzer
International, are almost at the nine-year
mark. He says marriage has been discussed
but admits he has an offbeat take on it.
I kind of feel you have to earn
marriage, he says. I almost feel like it
should be done backwards. Like you see if
it works out, then it should be a reward for
having made it 10 or 15 years. So well see.
And Filicia has gracious words for other
famous gay designers, whether theyre
out or not.
Of Nate Berkus, the Oprah designer
who just wrapped his own talk show, Filicia
says he possesses a really interesting
concept and has a sweet personality.
Ive only seen his show once; I was sad
to hear its been canceled, but he adds
another layer to the world of designers.
My style, of course, is different, both in
design and in our personalities. I think Im
a little more quick witted. I like to have fun
when Im designing and I tend to be a bit
more self deprecating. I think his work is
perhaps a bit drier. I think mine is a little
more intoxicated and his is more sober.
Mitchell Gold (Mitchell Gold+Bob
Williams)?
Ive known Mitchell a long time, Filicia
says. They do really smart things with a basic
furniture collection. I see them as kind of a Gap
of the furniture world doing something
really great with really smart basics.
Filicia chuckles when Christopher
Lowells (Interior Motives, Its
Christopher Lowell!) name is mentioned.
I hate to stereotype, but yeah, I
think hes gayer than a handbag, Filicia
says. Hes kind of like the Corky St.
Clair character in Waiting for Guffman,
always talking about his wife. I think
Christopher Lowell is a really genius
business man and a genius at marketing
but what he does is so very different, its
not something Ive really connected with
aesthetically, but Im certainly a big fan
of him as a businessman and designer.
Its the same reason there are millions of
restaurants. Everybody wants something
different so he lls a niche thats greatly
needed and its wonderful that hes
doing great things with the people who
connect with what he does.
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Considerations when
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When renovating a kitchen, for
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Same-sex couples have
some advantages when
it comes to ling

By NANCY ORTMEYER
Tax season is here and now that mul-
tiple states recognize same-sex marriage,
tax ling season has become a bit more
complicated.
Due to passage in 1996 of the Defense
of Marriage Act, the federal government
does not recognize the newer state laws
regarding same-sex marriages or civil
unions. Only marriages between a man
and a woman are recognized under fed-
eral law. This means that a same-sex cou-
ple is prohibited from ling as Married
Filing Joint or Married Filing Separate
on their federal tax returns.
The IRS makes this exceedingly clear
in the Form 1040 instructions which
state: For federal tax purposes, a mar-
riage means only a legal union between
a man and a woman as husband and wife
and the word spouse means a person
of the opposite sex who is a husband or
a wife. Thus, a same-sex married couple
must le separate federal tax returns using
the ling status of Single or Head of
Household if there is a qualifying depen-
dent. The question is whether, under state
law, the state tax burden can be lightened
if a different ling status is used.
In the District of Columbia, same-sex
married couples may le jointly, separate-
ly but on the same return, or single. Un-
married domestic partners must be reg-
istered with the Vital Record Division of
the D.C. Department of Health, in order
to have tax ling (and other) options. Do-
mestic partners also have the choice of
ling jointly, separately on the same re-
turn, or single.
Depending on circumstances, head of
household may also be an option for one
or both partners if there is a qualifying
child or other qualifying individual. If the
couple has no dependents, the standard
deduction for a joint return is $7,350 while
each single ler has a standard deduction
of $5,675. Unless there are other adjust-
ments, it is usually better for each to take
the $5,675 deduction and le as singles. If
the couple has itemized deductions, then
it may be more benecial to le jointly.
Or, if one spouse has a high income and
one a low income, it may be better for the
high income spouse to le as single and
claim the itemized deductions and the
lower income spouse to le as single and
take the standard deduction, assuming
the itemized deductions are actually paid
by the higher income spouse.
This is not possible for male/female
married couples, federal or state, and so
an advantage can be gained over the op-
tions available to heterosexual married
couples. Generally, a mock federal
return will need to be completed with
married ling joint as the status, in order
to determine if ling jointly will be ben-
ecial. As with all taxpayers, each single-
sex couples individual circumstances will
dictate which tax ling option is best,
and professionals should be consulted in
more complex situations.
If ling in New York, same-sex married
couples are required to le using a mar-
ried ling joint status, starting in 2011.
The instructions are explicit that after
ling federal taxes as single, the fed-
eral form 1040, including all attachments,
must be recomputed using a married l-
ing joint status, and then the couple must
apply those revised numbers to the New
York state return.
The IRS recently issued guidance in
Publication 555, which includes general
information for taxpayers who are regis-
tered domestic partners/same-sex spous-
es living in community property states. In
general, the income of both spouses
must be combined and each spouse re-
ports half of the combined community in-
come earned by the couple. Community
property states that recognize same-sex
marriages currently include California,
Nevada and Washington state.
The gift tax return is another tax bur-
den to be avoided. Heterosexual cou-
ples can freely transfer money and gifts
to each other without incurring any gift
tax. However under federal law same-
sex married couples are limited to giving
gifts totaling no more than $13,000 each
year to each other, or a gift tax return
will need to be led by the gifter and
the amount will be counted against the
individuals lifetime exemption. There-
fore, any joint expenses should be paid
through a joint account, with careful re-
cords kept to avoid recharacterization of
joint expenses as gifts.
Whether ling jointly or separately, it
is wise to keep precise records and to
run the numbers in various scenarios with
your tax advisor to ensure you are choos-
ing the ling status that will result in the
lowest tax burden.
Tax tips
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA
PROBATE DIVISION
2012 FEP 23
November 8, 2008
Date of Death
James Williams
Name of Decedent
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
OF FOREIGN PERSONAL
REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO
CREDITORS
LaNita D. Williams whose address
is 2009 Gaither Street, Temple Hills,
MD 20748 was appointed personal
representative of the estate of James
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Service of process may be made
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#200, Washington, DC 20036 whose
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of Wills, D.C.
The decedent owned the following
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3404 23rd Street SE, Washington, DC
20020.
Claims against the decedent may be
presented to the undersigned and
led with the Register of Wills for the
District of Columbia, 515 5th Street,
N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C.
20001 within 6 months from the date of
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