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headed to Cologne
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LGBT voters approve of Obama’s performance: poll
But numbers slip on
president’s handling
of gay issues
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
Nearly 77 percent of LGBT par-
ticipants in an unscientific straw poll
the Washington Blade conducted
during last month’s Capital Pride
street festival said they approve of
the job President Barack Obama is
doing as president.
The president’s 76.9 percent
approval rating among the LGBT
respondents — most of whom said
they live in D.C., Maryland or Virginia
— far exceeds the 46 percent
approval rating he received from
American voters nationwide who
participated in a Gallup Poll in June.
Just over 17 percent of the 519
LGBT people who responded to
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October for ‘Heny VIII.’ Page 31
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Cleveland shocks: How will Senate’s
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the Blade straw poll said they dis-
approve of the president’s job per-
formance, and about 6 percent
said they had no opinion.
In a separate question on the
Blade straw poll, about 51 per-
cent of LGBT respondents said
they approve of the job Obama is
doing in “addressing LGBT-relat-
ed issues.” On the matter, about
36 percent said they disapprove
and about 13 percent said they
had no opinion.
A third question asking respon-
dents to grade Obama “on his han-
dling of LGBT issues” showed a
range of opinions. About 8 percent of
the straw poll’s LGBT respondents
gave Obama an “A” grade, whereas
37.7 percent gave him a “B,” 37.5
percent gave him a “C,” about 13 per-
cent gave him a “D,” and about 2 per-
Photo by Pete Souza, courtesy of White House
cent gave him an “F.” The remaining
respondents had no opinion. President Obama received high marks in an unscientific straw poll of LGBT voters the Blade conducted during
Capital Pride.
Continues on page 14
Has gay agenda been shelved?
Further action on
LGBT bills looking less
likely this Congress
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The limited time remaining in the
legislative calendar for this Congress
is raising questions about whether
lawmakers will pass any further pro-
LGBT bills before year’s end — and
whether it will be politically feasible to
pass such bills next year.
Congress advanced LGBT-
related legislation last year when
it passed hate crimes protec-
tions. This year, a measure that
would lead to repeal of “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” seems likely to
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
reach President Obama’s desk. On the long-stalled Employment Non-Discrimination Act, U.S. Rep.
and coming out. Page 26 Barney Frank said ‘we’re still trying to figure out a way to get that done.’
Continues on page 16
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LOCALNEWS
Chief condemns
anti-gay police flier
Following calls by LGBT
activists for a public response,
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier
issued a statement this week con-
demning the distribution of anti-
gay fliers inside a police station by
one or more unidentified officers.
Lanier said the department’s
Internal Affairs unit was investi-
gating the matter.
The fliers include a photo of two
male detectives assigned to the
department’s Major Crash
Investigation Unit. The detectives
are shown in the photo displaying
gang hand signals, which resem-
ble sign language used by the
deaf. They are dressed in civilian
clothes and appear to be standing
in a police station office doorway.
“Celebrating D.C.’s First Deaf
Mute Gay Marriage,” says a title
above the photo. The flier goes on
to describe the two detectives as
“newlyweds using sign language
to express their everlasting love
and commitment for each other,”
and says the men are “pictured as
they enter the honeymoon suite
prepared for hours of naked
sweaty man love.”
Kristopher Baumann, chair of
the labor committee of the
Fraternal Order of Police, which
serves as a police union, said the
detectives pictured in the flier con-
sider it highly offense. Baumann
noted that someone distributed the
same flier in May and department
officials “took no action.”
A police source, who spoke
on condition of anonymity, said
the two detectives shown in the
flier are straight but supportive of
their gay and lesbian colleagues
on the force.
The source said it’s known
Brian Fricke, Brad Catoe wed in Washington
Brian Fricke, a board member
of Servicemembers Legal
Defense Network, and his long-
time boyfriend, Brad Catoe, were
set to marry Friday in D.C.
Fricke, 28, and Catoe, 26,
planned to wed in a civil ceremo-
ny at the D.C. courthouse. Catoe’s
family and Fricke’s friends were
expected to attend the ceremony.
Fricke, a veteran of the Iraq
war and a sergeant in the Marine
Corps before he left the service
in 2005, said service members
he worked with overseas
planned to attend the wedding.
His family opted not to attend.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier this week condemned anti-gay fliers that
were distributed inside a local police station.
that a lieutenant at the crash unit
took the photo, but it could not be
determined if the lieutenant cre-
ated the fliers. According to the
source, police officials initially
appeared more concerned that
the media learned about the inci-
dent than the incident itself.
Gays & Lesbians Opposing
Violence issued a statement last
week calling the fliers a slur against
the LGBT and deaf communities.
The group’s co-chairs, Kelly
Pickard and Joe Montoni,
expressed concern that Lanier had
not yet issued a public statement
about the incident five days after
the Washington Examiner broke a
story July 13 about the flier.
In her June 19 statement,
Fricke, a native of Knoxville,
Tenn., now works as a civilian infor-
mation technology specialist for the
U.S. Navy; Catoe, who hails from
San Diego, Calif., is a patient care
technician for the Washington
Psychological Institute.
The wedding marks the seven-
year anniversary of when the cou-
ple first started dating. Fricke said
he and Catoe decided to wed
because of the tradition of a cou-
ple affirming their love together
through a public ceremony.
“It falls in line with the tradition of
finding somebody that you love and
committing to them, and then being
Photo courtesy of D.C. Police
Lanier said the flier contained com-
ments that were “both offensive
and unacceptable.” She noted that
she initially held off on issuing a
statement because she “did not
want to give attention or credence
to such an unacceptable act.”
“The Metropolitan Police
Department prides itself in having
a diverse police department that
provides above the board police
services to all residents and visi-
tors of the District of Columbia,”
she said. “I am clear to all my
members that I will not stand for
any type of discrimination; there-
fore, individual acts, such as the
creation and distribution of these
fliers, are reprehensible and only
serve to damage the fine efforts
able to display that, or show that
through your vows,” Fricke said.
In his role at SLDN, Fricke has
joined protests against “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” and served as a
spokesperson on the issue. He’s
also a member of the American
Veterans for Equal Rights, an
LGBT veteran organization.
Catoe has also participated in
pro-gay rallies, including a
Capitol Hill protest this year urg-
ing passage of the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act.
The two plan to honeymoon
on a cruise in the Caribbean.
CHRIS JOHNSON
Gray criticized over
Thorpe endorsement
D.C. City Council Chairman and mayoral candidate Vincent Gray
(D-At Large) drew criticism this week for accepting the endorsement
of a controversial Shaw neighborhood activist who has used anti-
gay slurs to denounce people with whom he disagrees.
Leroy Thorpe, who has used the word “faggot” to attack gay
and straight rivals during his tenure as an Advisory
Neighborhood Commission member, endorsed Gray during a
neighborhood block party July 17. Gray attended the event.
“Previously, Mr. Thorpe has said the most vile things about
gay Americans and decent hardworking members of the D.C.
Police force,” said Toni Williams, a supporter of Mayor Adrian
Fenty, in an e-mail to local media. “Mr. Thorpe’s rants and hatred
extend to Latinos, whites, and women.
“Why would Chairman Vincent Gray associate himself with
such a divisive figure in the Shaw Neighborhood? Gray demon-
strates that he truly did not learn from the PFOX incident that
plagued Adrian Fenty,” Williams said, referring to an award the
mayor’s office mistakenly gave the head of the anti-gay Parents
& Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays, also known as PFOX.
Traci Hughes, a spokesperson for the Gray campaign,
addressed Thorpe’s endorsement in an e-mail to the Blade.
“The fact that he is supporting Chairman Gray in no way sug-
gests the two agree on anything more than this: Chairman Gray
is the best person to put an end to cronyism and restore integri-
ty and sound fiscal management to the mayor’s office,” Hughes
said. “We are happy to have Mr. Thorpe’s unsolicited support and
his vote on September 14th.”
Gay activist Peter Rosenstein, a Gray campaign adviser, called
Young’s criticism unfair, and said that Gray’s long record of support
for LGBT rights shows he neither supports nor condones any
inappropriate statements Thorpe may have made in the past.
Rosenstein noted that another controversial neighborhood
figure, Sinclair Skinner, distributed anti-gay posters attacking
gay D.C. City Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) in 2006
at the same time Skinner endorsed and campaigned for Fenty.
“When Thorpe or Skinner endorse candidates, they endorse
the views of those candidates, not the other way around,”
Rosenstein said. “I can assure anyone that asks that Leroy
Thorpe will have zero impact on Vince Gray’s ongoing commit-
ment to the LGBT community, my community.”
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
that our members strive to Jehovah’s Witness religious
achieve in establishing respect pamphlet called “Homosexuality:
and trust in the community.” How Can I Avoid It?”
Baumann said department He said authorities never
insiders have pointed to at least determined who was responsible
two other incidents in which anti- for placing the literature in areas
gay literature was placed inside of the police buildings not open
police stations in recent years by to the public.
members of the force. One was a LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
Brad Catoe and Brian Fricke
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LOCALNEWS
Health report’s trans omission draws criticism
D.C. officials faulted
for missing key
‘opportunity’
By LAURA LEE
Special to the Blade
The omission of transgender data
from a D.C. Mayor’s Office of Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender
Affairs health report drew harsh criti-
cism and little explanation during a
meeting last week.
Trans activists were among those
to criticize the report when the D.C.
City Council’s Committee on Aging
& Community Affairs held a public
oversight roundtable July 14 to
address the issue. Also testifying
against the report were people who
work on local trans health issues.
“It’s sad to say that the ‘T’ is always
silent,” said Brian Watson, director of
programs at Transgender Health
Empowerment. “There is not enough
D.C. court rejects ballot measure on gay marriage
Judges divided on
city charter issue
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The D.C. Court of Appeals has
ruled 5-4 that the city acted within
the law when it refused to allow a
minister to place a voter initiative
on the ballot seeking to overturn
the city’s same-sex marriage law.
The court’s nine judges unan-
imously agreed July 15 with the
D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics
that a ballot measure to overturn
the D.C. Marriage Equality Act, if
approved by voters, would con-
stitute discrimination prohibited
by the city’s Human Rights Act.
But four of the judges, including
Chief Judge Eric Washington, dis-
sented from the majority, saying the
law banning ballot measures that
would result in discrimination prohib-
ited by the Human Rights Act is
invalid because the City Council
passed it in violation of the congres-
sionally approved D.C. Home Rule
Charter. Associate Judge John
Fisher wrote the dissenting opinion.
The majority decision, written
by Associate Judge Phyllis
Thompson, says the Council acted
within the scope of the Home Rule
Charter and a subsequent charter
amendment, which it says gave
the Council sufficient discretion to
restrict ballot measures from tak-
ing away rights protected under
the Human Rights Act.
In issuing its decision, the
appeals court upheld an earlier
done as far as the transgender com-
munity as far as programming, as far
as services, as far as data.”
The report, released June 30,
reviewed behavioral, sexual and
mental health findings for the
District’s gay, lesbian and bisexu-
al populations but offered no
such information about the trans-
gender population.
Watson said the general lack of
data on trans health issues — a
problem the report inadvertently
highlighted — has created chal-
lenges in securing grant funding
for programming to address the
risks of needle sharing for hor-
mone injections or combat trans-
phobia in the medical community.
Ruby Corado, a transgender
activist with Latinos en Accion,
said a stigma surrounding trans
issues remains part of the med-
ical establishment.
“The No. 1 challenge we have,
even to this point, is the access
to care,” Corado said.
Bishop Harry Jackson lost his case before the D.C. Court of Appeals
that sought to place a voter initiative on the ballot seeking to overturn
the city’s same-sex marriage law.
ruling by a D.C. Superior Court
judge, who also held that the
election board acted within the
law in denying Bishop Harry
Jackson’s petition to file papers to
place the Marriage Equality Act
on the ballot as a voter initiative.
Jackson, pastor of a church in
Beltsville, Md., recruited several
D.C. same-sex marriage oppo-
nents to join him as plaintiffs in
the case, Jackson v. D.C. Board
of Elections & Ethics.
Jackson has said he would
appeal the case to the U.S.
Supreme Court if his side lost at
the appeals court level.
Legal experts have said it’s pos-
sible — but unlikely — that the
Supreme Court would agree to
take the case because it is based
During the roundtable,
Corado described herself as hurt
and disappointed in Christopher
Dyer, director of the Mayor’s
Office of GLBT Affairs.
“He has robbed us — the trans-
gender community — of an oppor-
tunity for us to go to funders, to
foundations, to different places
that will allocate money and say,
‘Hey, listen, the government is say-
ing we have needs. The govern-
ment is acknowledging that we
have challenges,’” she said.
Dyer, in turn, said there were limi-
tations associated with the data used
to create the report. He noted that the
data came from the 2005 and 2007
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System surveys, which failed to ask
questions regarding gender identity.
Created by staff from the Centers
for Disease Control & Prevention and
other agencies, the surveys are
intended for national distribution and
contain a standard set of questions.
States are allowed to work with the
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
on a local issue of whether the D.C.
Home Rule Charter and a subse-
quent amendment to the charter
allows ballot measures to be held
that would result in discrimination.
The case would not be on the issue
of same-sex marriage itself or
whether the U.S. Constitution
requires states to accept same-sex
marriage, as other pending lawsuits
in state courts have asserted.
“The court’s ruling today is a sig-
nificant victory for justice, the rule of
law and the protection of all D.C.
residents against discrimination,”
said Human Rights Campaign
President Joe Solmonese on July
15. “It’s time for the National
Organization for Marriage to realize
equality is here to stay no matter
how much money they want to
CDC to add other questions.
Council member Yvette
Alexander, who chaired the July
14 committee meeting, at one
point asked Dyer why he didn’t
work with local trans activists to
create the report.
“I don’t know,” he said.
For its lack of trans data,
Alexander described the report as
incomplete and inaccurate. When
she pressed Dyer on what action
the office would take to improve its
data collection, he said it would
work with the D.C. Trans Coalition
and other organizations to improve
transgender inclusion in the future.
Rhodes Perry of the D.C.
Trans Coalition recommended at
the meeting that a comprehen-
sive needs assessment be creat-
ed to serve as a national model
for transgender data collection.
He also advocated for the
improvement of existing data collec-
tion methods by including questions
that will capture gender identity.
throw at turning back the clock.”
Solmonese was referring to
efforts by the National Organization
for Marriage, an anti-gay group, to
use its sizable financial resources to
support Jackson’s campaign to over-
turn the D.C. Marriage Equality Act.
Solmonese added, “The D.C.
Council made a wise decision
decades ago that no initiative should
be permitted to strip away any indi-
vidual’s civil rights. The court unani-
mously found that the proposed anti-
marriage initiative would have the
effect of causing discrimination, and
in doing so, stood up for the entire
D.C. community.”
Rev. Anthony Evans, president
of the D.C.-based National Black
Church Initiative and one of the
plaintiffs who joined Jackson in
seeking to overturn the same-sex
marriage law through an initiative,
said opponents of the law will
continue their fight.
“Today the court has told the
500,000 residents of the District
of Columbia that we have no right
to vote on their own laws,” Evans
said in a July 15 statement. “This
is wrong. We should have a right
to vote on issues challenging the
fabric of our lives here in D.C. Like
I’ve said in the past, we will con-
tinue to fight — taking this all the
way to the Supreme Court. We
will not give up easily.”
In the majority decision,
Thompson said the claim by
Jackson and those who joined
him in challenging the city’s deci-
sion to ban a marriage ballot
measure rested on the technical
question of whether the City
“Moving forward, we kindly
request a commitment on behalf
of the Office of GLBT Affairs to
authentically improve and
include trans-specific research in
all future studies,” Perry said.
Sophie Druet, an intern for the
D.C. Center, said such research is
especially important because
among the “very little information
available” on trans health issues,
it’s clear that “transgender popula-
tions generally endure higher lev-
els of discrimination, affecting both
their mental and physical health.”
Citing data from the Washington
Transgender Needs Assessment
Survey, Druet said higher rates of
depression and suicidal ideation
exist in the trans community. That
assessment, conducted between
1998 and 2000, was funded by
the District’s Health Department.
No comprehensive governmental
study of local trans community
needs has been completed since
the assessment.
Council had the authority to pass
implementing legislation to restrict
voter initiatives or referenda.
“Appellants’ challenge focuses
on the validity of Council legisla-
tion that requires the [election]
board to refuse to accept any pro-
posed initiative that would author-
ize, or have the effect of authoriz-
ing, discrimination prohibited by
the Human Rights Act,” Thompson
said in the decision.
“Specifically, appellants con-
tend that, in establishing that
requirement, the Council over-
stepped its authority and acted in
contravention of the District of
Columbia Charter. Alternatively,
appellants contend that the pro-
posed initiative would not author-
ize or have the effect of authoriz-
ing prohibited discrimination.
“We disagree with both con-
tentions, and we therefore affirm
the Superior Court’s rulings that
the Council acted lawfully in
imposing the Human Rights Act
safeguard and that the [election]
board correctly determined that
the safeguard required it to reject
the proposed initiative.”
D.C. City Council member Phil
Mendelson (D-At Large), who
chairs the committee that guided
the same-sex marriage law through
the Council, called the appeals
court decision a major victory for
the city and the law’s supporters.
“It’s significant that all of the
judges agree that Bishop
Jackson’s initiative would be dis-
criminatory,” Mendelson said.
Jackson could not be reached
for comment.
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LOCALNEWS
Cleveland Gay Games
organizer may be ousted
Rumors swirl over whether 2014
competition will move to D.C.
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The international LGBT sports organi-
zation that chose Cleveland over D.C. and
Boston for the 2014 Gay Games has
taken steps to oust the non-profit founda-
tion it selected last fall to organize the
quadrennial sports competition.
The Federation of Gay Games’ decision
to begin a process to revoke the license it
awarded last year to the Synergy
Foundation to organize and operate the
2014 Gay Games fueled speculation about
whether Federation officials might seek to
move the multi-million dollar athletic com-
petition to D.C., which was deemed the
runner-up city for hosting the event.
Cleveland city officials and an FGG
spokesperson sought to dispel the specula-
tion this week, saying they expect the Gay
Games to take place in Cleveland as
planned, although they would not comment
on which entity would organize the event.
The Gay Games usually draws thou-
sands of athlete participants and spectators
from Europe, Latin America and all parts of
the U.S. and Canada for two weeks, gener-
ating several million dollars in revenue for
the host city. The Olympic-style competition
includes sporting venues ranging from soc-
cer and swimming to track and field events,
among many others.
Last September, the FGG stunned offi-
cials with the Metropolitan Washington
Gaymes, Inc., the group that organized
D.C.’s bid for the Gay Games, when it
announced its selection of Cleveland as
the host city for the 2014 games.
The D.C. group, which had the full sup-
port of Mayor Adrian Fenty, the City
Council and local business, tourist and
sports groups, expected to win the bid,
saying it had put together an unprece-
dented proposal for the games that
included the use of the Washington
Nationals Baseball Stadium.
FGG officials said D.C., Boston and
Cleveland each submitted equally
impressive and acceptable bids from a
logistical and organizational standpoint.
They noted that they chose Cleveland
because it represented a region less
advanced in LGBT rights and acceptance
than D.C. and Boston and that holding the
Gay Games there would have a greater
impact on LGBT equality.
Recently, though, the LGBT sporting
news blog, Out Sports, and the Cleveland-
based LGBT news publication, Gay
People’s Chronicle, have reported learning
from inside sources that the FGG is dis-
satisfied with the work performance of
Synergy Foundation, the Cleveland-based
group it licensed last September to organ-
ize and operate the games.
A July 7 letter from Traci Nichols, direc-
tor of Cleveland’s Department of
Economic Development, which was
leaked to the media, says the FGG was
“exercising its right to terminate the
license agreement with Synergy for the
2014 Gay Games in Cleveland.”
The letter says the FGG had also
agreed to “pursue voluntary mediation
within fourteen days to attempt to resolve
the outstanding issues.” The letter does
not disclose the issues.
However, it says that Synergy failed to
submit to the city a required project report
due June 1.
“In light of the notice given to Synergy
by the FGG, the City hereby notifies
Synergy that it is suspending any further
payments to Synergy until the outstand-
ing issues between the FGG and Synergy
are resolved and Synergy continues to
hold the license for the 2014 Gay
Games,” Nichols says in the letter.
Andrea Taylor, a spokesperson for the
city, said officials would have no further
comment on the matter. She noted that
any additional information would have to
come either from the FGG or Synergy.
Spokespersons for the two groups did
not immediately return calls this week
seeking comment. In a statement
released on its web site, Synergy said it
was optimistic that the “issues” between
itself and the FGG would soon be
resolved and organizing for the 2014 Gay
Games would proceed as scheduled.
With the selection of a host city made
more than four years in advance, the
organizers and representatives of the
host city of the next Gay Games tradition-
ally appear at the current year’s games to
promote the future event.
But this tradition is expected to create an
awkward situation for the FGG and
Cleveland officials as the FGG grapples
over whether to oust Synergy Foundation
from its role as organizer of the 2014 games.
Gay People’s Chronicle reports that
“financial irregularities and reporting issues”
appear to be among the reasons the FGG
has taken steps to revoke Synergy’s license
to organize and run the 2014 Gay Games.
Vince Micone, president of Metropolitan
Washington Gaymes, said a member of the
FGG board informed him about a week ago
that the Synergy Foundation’s license to
operate the games was in “mediation.”
According to Micone, the board member
gave no further details, saying only that bid-
ding organizations in D.C. and Boston were
being notified of the matter as a “courtesy.”
“Our first priority right now is to make
sure the 2010 Gay Games are success-
ful,” said Micone, who noted that a contin-
gent of LGBT athletes from D.C. will be
participating in the games set for July 31
through Aug. 7 in Cologne.
“We continue to be very supportive of
the FGG and the Cologne games,” he
said. “We don’t know what the situation is
in Cleveland. All I know is what I’m read-
ing about this in the media.”
Asked if D.C. could put together all of
the components of its bid for a D.C.-
based Gay Games if the FGG should
choose to move the event to D.C., Micone
said that would be possible.
“But it’s a moot point since we have not
been asked,” he said. “If we were asked,
we would consider it.”
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VIRGINIANEWS
Va. guv’s former in-law stumps for LGBT rights
Trans woman asks
McDonnell to support
bias protections
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
A transgender Virginia woman
is drawing media attention for
her role in LGBT activism — and
her familial ties to Gov. Bob
McDonnell.
Robyn Deane of Midlothian,
Va., is gaining notoriety for call-
ing on McDonnell, her former
brother-in-law, to come out in
support of LGBT non-discrimina-
tion protections in Virginia.
“It’s just absurd that we have
the issues that we have today,”
she told the Blade. “I don’t want
anybody to be discriminated
[against] on any basis other than
their ability to do a job, their qual-
ifications for their job, their per-
formance on the job.”
Virginia is among the 29 states
where workplace discrimination
based on sexual orientation
remains legal. It’s also among the
38 states where such discrimina-
tion based on gender identity
remains legal. McDonnell, a
Republican, has said he doesn’t
support legislation that would bar
discrimination against LGBT peo-
ple in state and public employment.
Deane, 55, was married to
Ellen Gardner, the sister of
Virginia’s first lady, Maureen
McDonnell, for 17 years. They
divorced in 1999 after Deane
came out as transgender. The
two have three adult children,
ages 26, 22 and 19.
On April 21, in a rally at Capital
Square, Deane addressed her ties
to the McDonnell family and
recalled how her coming out
process showed him “the impact
that all of this coming out and being
who we are can have on one’s life.”
“He had a front-row, center
seat because it is his family that
was directly affected,” she said at
the time.
The Washington Post published
a profile of her last week that
reviewed the impact she’s having.
Deane, who works as a store
department supervisor for The
Home Depot, said she’s received
calls and more attention since the
Post published its article, but her
activism is “really about the cause.”
“I’m just the person that hap-
pens to have been related, or knew
Bob, for all these years,” she said.
Stacey Johnson, a McDonnell
spokesperson, said McDonnell’s
relationship with Deane is “a per-
sonal matter” and that “the gover-
nor wishes Robyn the very best.”
Terry Mansberger, president of
the Virginia Partisans, a statewide
LGBT Democratic group, said
Deane’s visibility is helpful and
“puts the spotlight on the issue,
especially for transgender people.”
“I’m not so sure how much it’s
going to do to sway McDonnell,
but he did campaign on a plat-
form of being moderate, so this
is a good opportunity for him to
show support within his own
family,” Mansberger said.
Mansberger said he hasn’t spo-
ken with Deane since she emerged
in activism, but is hoping to get her
involved in Virginia Partisans.
But David Lampo, vice presi-
dent of the Virginia Log Cabin
Republicans, expressed skepti-
cism about Deane’s motives and
said her “publicity campaign is
more about self promotion than
moving GLBT rights forward.”
“Certainly, the people we need
most to change their minds on this
issue will be totally put off by this
campaign and perceive it as an
effort to embarrass the governor,”
Lampo said. “A behind-the-scenes
effort would have made more
sense from a strategic perspective,
but now it’s too late for that.”
Although she said she hasn’t
spoken with McDonnell in more
than a decade, Deane noted that
she previously had conversa-
tions with him when she was
married to his sister-in-law.
“We never really agreed philo-
sophically,” she said. “I’m a
Christian, and he is, so we come
at it from different angles, and
he’d say that he’ll pray for me
because of something I said.”
Deane said McDonnell’s ties
to conservative politics are well
known because of his affiliation
with Regent University School
of Law, where he earned his
law degree.
Still, Deane said she consid-
ered McDonnell a good friend until
her divorce and said their families
often visited each other when they
lived nearby in McLean, Va.
“Because we’re of a similar
age, and really education, it was
always interesting talking,” she
said. “You could have a conver-
sation with him and you didn’t
get chastised for feeling different.
You could have a conversation
that took on some meaningful
discussion, almost where you
could agree to disagree.”
Deane recalled that upon
coming out as transgender, her
former wife didn’t take the news
well and the ensuing divorce
divided their families.
As an activist, though, Deane
said McDonnell should be a focus
for LGBT activists in Virginia
because of his position as gover-
nor and because he’s well regard-
ed in conservative circles.
“He has that connection to
the right and because they trust
him, or at least they seemingly
do, he’s in a unique position to
make a difference,” she said,
“because he’s witnessed what
happens to a family when some-
one comes out.”
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NATIONALNEWS
UAFA gets renewed
push as clock ticks
Legislation called
‘absolutely essential’ to
immigration reform
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Supporters of immigration
reform and LGBT rights are
renewing their calls on Congress
to pass comprehensive immigra-
tion reform legislation this year
that includes protections for bi-
national same-sex couples.
At a press conference July 15 on
Capitol Hill, several U.S. House
members emphasized the impor-
tance of passing legislation to make
the nation’s immigration laws fair
and enable LGBT Americans to
sponsor their foreign partners for
residency in the United States.
The strengthened call for
passing comprehensive immi-
gration reform comes as limited
time remains in the legislative
calendar for this Congress, rais-
ing questions about whether law-
makers will be able to address
major legislation such as immi-
gration reform this year.
Same-sex partners currently
have no recourse under any portion
of family law in the U.S. immigration
code. The policy threatens to keep
an estimated 36,000 bi-national
same-sex couples from remaining
together in the United States.
Among those who spoke in
favor of passing immigration
reform inclusive of this language
is Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.),
who sponsors the Uniting
American Families Act, a stand-
alone bill that would address the
situation for LGBT families.
Nadler said passing immigra-
tion reform that includes protec-
tions for the LGBT community is
“absolutely essential.”
“In particular, bi-national LGBT
couples must be granted the right
to sponsor their permanent part-
ners for immigration, just as other
committed and straight married
couples can,” he said.
Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.),
the sponsor of another UAFA-
inclusive bill known as the
Reuniting Families Act, also
addressed the importance of
passing such legislation.
Honda said “ending discrimina-
tion” against bi-national same-sex
couples is “in line with American val-
ues and is good for our economy.”
“We know that American work-
ers who have family by their side
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (center) and others are renewing their efforts to
pass the Uniting American Families Act, which would benefit bi-national
same-sex couples.
are happier, healthier and more
able to succeed with this essential
social safety net,” he said.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), a
pro-immigrant lawmaker, said
passing inclusive legislation is
politically viable.
“On a more political note, I am
confident that we can pass immi-
gration reform that includes the
provisions of UAFA this year,”
Gutierrez said, according to his
prepared remarks. “Including
UAFA makes the tent that much
bigger and makes the coalition
that much stronger.”
Late last year, Gutierrez intro-
duced immigration legislation that
was seen as a more liberal alter-
native to the working bill expected
for introduction in Congress.
Although his legislation at the time
didn’t include UAFA-like language,
he recently revealed his support
for including bi-national LGBT fam-
ilies as part of immigration reform.
Other lawmakers who appeared
at the July 15 event to show their
support for such legislation were
Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), a gay
lawmaker and proponent of immi-
gration reform, as well as Rep. Mike
Quigley (D-Ill.).
Erwin de Leon, a gay D.C. resi-
dent and Blade contributor, also
called for UAFA-inclusive legisla-
tion at the press conference.
He said passage of such a bill
would help him obtain a green
card to remain in the United
States with his spouse, whom he
married earlier this year in D.C.
“Thanks to vagaries of the U.S.
immigration system, I still do not
have my green card, even though
I consider the United States my
home, have lived here legally for
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
several years and in my heart
know that I am as American as my
native-born cousins,” he said.
Along with lawmakers, a coali-
tion of 37 organizations — includ-
ing LGBT, immigration and faith-
based groups — joined in the cho-
rus of voices calling on Congress
to act on immigration reform.
Immigration Equality, one of
the organizations working to
pass UAFA, is a leading voice
among those groups. Other
LGBT groups in this coalition
include the Family Equality
Council, the National Gay &
Lesbian Task Force and the
Human Rights Campaign.
Rachel Tiven, Immigration
Equality’s executive director, said
current law is taking LGBT fami-
lies “and sending them into exile.”
“Together we will fight for immi-
gration reform that protects all fam-
ilies,” she said. “We will organize,
we will protest, we will demand that
the Uniting American Families Act
and the Reuniting Families Act be
part of a just, humane and compre-
hensive immigration reform bill.”
Still, challenges remain in pass-
ing UAFA-inclusive legislation.
Patrick Egan, a gay political science
professor at New York University,
said the chances of Congress
passing reform inclusive of LGBT
families are “pretty low.”
“It’s going to be very difficult to
get the 60 votes together in the
Senate to move the bill forward
and they’re going to be reluctant
to put anything in there that jeop-
ardizes its passage,” Egan said.
Capitol Hill observers expect the
Senate to debate and vote on com-
prehensive immigration reform leg-
islation before a bill is taken up in
Lesbian teen settles
Mississippi prom case
JACKSON, Miss. — A
teenage lesbian who sued
her school district over its
ban of same-sex prom dates
has accepted an offer to set-
tle the case.
The Associated Press
reported that American Civil
Liberties Union attorneys rep-
resenting Constance McMillen
filed notice Monday in U.S.
District Court to accept a judg-
ment offer from the Itawamba
County School District to pay
$35,000, plus attorney’s fees.
As part of the agreement, the Photo courtesy of ACLU
school district also said it Constance McMillen
would follow a policy not to dis-
criminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity in any
educational or extracurricular activities.
The ACLU said the case is precedent-setting because the dis-
trict is the first in Mississippi to implement a policy banning dis-
crimination and harassment on the basis of sexual orientation
and gender identity.
“I’m so glad this is all over,” McMillen said in a statement. “I won’t
ever get my prom back, but it’s worth if it changes things at my school.”
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in March when the district canceled
a prom at Itawamba Agricultural High School after McMillen
asked to bring her girlfriend to the event and wear a tuxedo.
Gay rights group gets
U.N. accreditation
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Economic & Social Council
voted Monday to accredit the U.S.-based International Gay &
Lesbian Human Rights Commission after strong lobbying by the
Obama administration.
Obama, in a statement issued by the White House, welcomed
the vote as an “important step forward for human rights.” With the
group’s inclusion, he said “the United Nations is closer to the
ideals on which it was founded, and to values of inclusion and
equality to which the United States is deeply committed.”
The group will now be able to attend U.N. meetings, submit
statements and collaborate with both government and U.N.
agencies on human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-
gender people, commission officials said.
According to the Associated Press, the 54-member council,
known as ECOSOC, approved the U.S.-based group’s applica-
tion for consultative status by a vote of 23-13 with 13 absten-
tions. Many of those voting “no” — including Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
Pakistan, Russia and China — cited procedural reasons.
But the U.S. government and 14 members of Congress who sup-
ported the organization’s application said they believe it had not
been approved previously because the group promotes gay rights.
The International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission,
which has offices in South Africa, Argentina and the Philippines,
has been trying since 2007 to get consultative status with
ECOSOC, which serves as the main U.N. forum for discussing
international economic and social issues.
the U.S. House. Sen. Chuck bill inclusive of LGBT families.
Schumer (D-N.Y.), chair of the In a brief interview with the
Senate Judiciary immigration sub- Blade on Capitol Hill late last
committee, is expected to intro- month, Schumer noted the UAFA
duce the legislation in the Senate. language was in the framework for
While the Senate bill has yet to immigration reform legislation.
be introduced, framework for the Asked whether the provision would
legislation made public earlier this be in the bill upon introduction,
year shows support for passing a Schumer replied, “I believe so.”
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NATIONALNEWS
Obama earns ‘B’ on handling of LGBT issues: poll
Continued from page 1
The Blade straw poll follows a
year in which the president has
faced sharp criticism from some
LGBT activists who say he hasn’t
been forceful enough in pushing
for LGBT-related bills in
Congress, including legislation to
repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
At the time of his election in
November 2008, most LGBT
activists agreed that Obama was
about to become the nation’s
most LGBT-supportive president.
As a candidate, Obama said he
supported civil unions rather
than same-sex marriage, but
expressed strong support on vir-
tually all other LGBT issues.
Among other things, he called
for repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”
and the Defense of Marriage Act, a
measure passed by Congress in
1996 that federally defines mar-
riage as the union of one man and
one woman. The act bars married
same-sex couples joined in states
that allow same-sex marriage from
receiving any of the federal rights
or benefits of marriage that wed-
ded opposite-sex couples receive.
The president has continued to
speak in favor of repealing “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” and DOMA, has
appointed a record number of
high-level openly LGBT officials
throughout the federal govern-
ment, and has hosted LGBT
events at the White House.
His LGBT supporters say the
criticism is unfair. They note that the
Obama administration has taken
extensive action on the LGBT front
and should not be held responsible
for inaction by Congress, which has
stalled in the approval of most
LGBT-related bills.
That the Blade straw poll
shows the president with an over-
all 76.9 percent approval rating
among LGBT respondents sug-
gests large numbers of LGBT
people continue to have confi-
dence in Obama while having
concerns about his handling of at
least some LGBT-related issues.
“I think the overall view is that we
still like him,” said Peter Rosenstein,
a gay Democratic activist.
“But I think it shows there’s a feel-
ing it would be very nice if he spoke
out on our issues in the same forceful
way he did about health care to the
Congress,” Rosenstein said. “There’s
a frustration that he is not speaking
out forcefully enough on ‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell’ and on [the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act] and our com-
munity wants to see more action.”
Andrew Tobias, who’s gay and
serves as treasurer of the
Democratic National Committee,
said he understands the frustra-
tion of some of the Blade poll
respondents who are disappoint-
ed that more LGBT-related
advances have not materialized.
“But we also need to recognize
that in less than two years, with so
much else on his plate, Obama’s
made a terrific start, and a night-
and-day difference over where we
were or where we would have
been with [Republican presidential
candidate John] McCain.”
Tobias said the Blade poll results
show an overwhelming majority
gave the president a favorable rat-
ing and a passing grade.
“If you had asked people to
rate the Republicans, virtually
100 percent would have flunked
them outright,” he said.
But Clarke Cooper, executive
director of the gay partisan group
Log Cabin Republicans, said the
Blade poll indicates that LGBT vot-
ers are questioning the president’s
actions on LGBT issues, especial-
ly the administration’s decision to
oppose in court a Log Cabin law-
suit seeking to overturn the ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ law.
“It is presumptuous of
President Obama and the DNC
to assume LGBT voters will
march in blind lock-step support
of the president,” Cooper said.
Organizers of the Capital Pride
festival, the D.C. area’s annual
LGBT Pride event, estimated
about 200,000 people turned out
for the event, which was held June
13 along Pennsylvania Avenue
near the U.S. Capitol.
The Blade staff invited festival
attendees to participate in the
straw poll as they walked past
the Blade’s booth. Participation
included filling out a one-page,
confidential questionnaire and
placing the completed question-
naire in a closed ballot box.
Of the 559 respondents, about
59 percent identified as gay, about
26 percent as lesbian, about 5 per-
cent as bisexual, about 1 percent
as transgender, and about 3 per-
cent as queer. The remaining 6
percent identified as straight.
The Blade isolated the respon-
dents identifying as straight from
its calculation of the results so that
a more accurate presentation of
the straw poll’s LGBT sample
could be obtained.
A separate calculation of the
poll’s 36 straight respondents,
showed that about 72 percent
approved of the job the president is
doing, while about 22 percent dis-
approved and about 5 percent had
no opinion. On the question of how
the president was doing on LGBT-
related issues, about 34 percent of
the straight respondents expressed
approval, while some 25 percent
expressed disapproval and 40 per-
cent had no opinion.
1. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as
president?
Approve
Disapprove
No opinion
2. Do you approve or disapprove of the job President Barack Obama is
doing in addressing LGBT-related issues?
Approve
Disapprove
No opinion
Among all straw poll respon-
dents, about 82 percent identi-
fied themselves as white, about
10 percent as black, 5 percent as
Latino, about 3 percent as
Asian/Pacific Islander, and
another 3 percent as other.
Similar to nationwide public
opinion polls such as the Gallup
Poll, black respondents to the
Blade poll gave a higher
approval rating to the president
than white respondents.
On the Blade poll’s question on
whether respondents approve or
disapprove of how Obama is
doing as president, nearly 91 per-
cent of the black LGBT respon-
dents said they approve com-
pared to less than 2 percent who
said they disapprove. The remain-
ing 7 percent of black LGBT
respondents had no opinion.
On the same question, more
than 77 percent of white LGBT
respondents said they approve
of the job the president is doing
compared to about 18 percent
who said they disapproved, while
about 4 percent had no opinion.
The difference between black
and white respondents narrowed
on the question of how the pres-
ident is doing on LGBT-related
issues. About 60 percent of black
respondents said they approved
of the president’s handling of
LGBT issues, while about 19
percent said they disapproved
and some 21 percent had no
opinion on the question.
Among white respondents,
nearly 50 percent said they
approved of President Obama’s
handling of LGBT-related issues
and about 35 percent said they
disapproved, while about 15 per-
cent said they had no opinion.
Gallup Poll results from a June
survey shows 46 percent of
American voters approve of Obama’s
job performance. A Rasmussen Poll
also conducted in July shows that just
27 percent of the respondents
“strongly approve” of the overall job
the president is doing compared to 43
percent who “strongly disapprove.”
High unemployment rates and
the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster
were among the issues that the
Gallup and Rasmussen polls
indicated were factors in respon-
dents saying they disapprove of
the job the president is doing.
Dan Pinello, who’s gay and a
political science professor at the
City University of New York, said
the overall support the Blade
straw poll found for Obama’s job
performance is consistent with
national exit polls of LGBT voters
conducted by the news media for
Response Response
Percent Count
76.5% 426
17.6% 98
5.9% 33
answered question 557
skipped question 2
Response Response
Percent Count
50.1% 278
35.7% 198
14.6% 81
answered question 555
skipped question 4
presidential elections.
He noted that the exit polls
have consistently shown that
LGBT voters support the
Democratic presidential candi-
date at about 75 percent.
Pinello said he was unsur-
prised over the Blade poll finding
that the Obama approval rating
drops to about 50 percent on the
question of how the president is
handling LGBT-related issues.
He noted that since the sample
consists of self-identified LGBT
people at a Pride event in
Washington, the respondents
most likely are “skewed” toward
more politically aware people.
“But in the minds of many in
our community, Barack Obama
has not lived up to his campaign
promises,” Pinello said. “Plus,
Barack Obama has had an ambi-
tious political agenda, much of
which he’s accomplished. He got
the health reform bill through
Congress. He got the stimulus
package passed. He got financial
reform passed. Lots of major,
consequential, historic legisla-
tion has passed in the last year
and a half. And I think a lot of gay
people, especially in the nation’s
capital who are very attuned to
these issues, are looking at that
and saying, ‘Why not us?’”

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NATIONALNEWS
Prospects for gay bills fading as recess approaches
Continued from page 1
Still, some LGBT activists and
voters are frustrated that
Congress has taken no action to
advance the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act. Supporters of
the legislation have said several
times a vote was imminent, but no
such action has yet been taken.
Other pending measures include
the Domestic Partnership Benefits &
Obligations Act, which would allow
LGBT federal workers to receive
spousal benefits for their same-sex
partners, as well as the Uniting
American Families Act and repeal of
the Defense of Marriage Act.
Further complicating the situation
is the specter of reduced Democratic
majorities in the next Congress — or
even a Republican takeover — and
whether measures unaddressed this
year would be viable in 2011.
Despite the limited time remain-
ing this year, some LGBT rights
supporters are hopeful that
Congress will move forward with
additional legislation. U.S. Rep.
Barney Frank (D-Mass.), a gay law-
maker and House sponsor of
ENDA, expressed optimism about
the bill passing the House this year.
“That’s going to be next thing
we’ll turn our attention to,” Frank
said. “We have the speaker’s
support and we’re still trying to
figure out a way to get that done.”
The scheduling for a House
vote on ENDA remains an issue.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ear-
lier told the Blade that a House
vote on ENDA wouldn’t occur until
Congress finishes legislative
action on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
Drew Hammill, a Pelosi
spokesperson, said ENDA remains
“a top priority for the speaker,” but a
vote on the bill before work on “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” is complete “jeopar-
dizes both initiatives.”
Anti-gay marriage group targets Maryland, D.C.
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The National Organization for
Marriage, the leading group oppos-
ing same-sex marriage in the U.S.,
has set its sights on Maryland and
D.C., where it plans to pour in
money and resources to overturn
D.C.’s same-sex marriage law and
prevent Maryland from passing one.
The group was scheduled to hold
a rally Wednesday night in Annapolis
at the state capital building to
demand that lawmakers reject a gay
marriage bill that has been intro-
duced in the Maryland Legislature.
NOM has scheduled an Aug.
15 rally in D.C. calling for a ballot
measure to overturn the city’s
Photo by Pete Souza, courtesy of White House
White House Press Secretary
Robert Gibbs has said Repub-
licans could regain control of the
House in November.
“Until then, we should encour-
age the Senate to develop a
course for ENDA to ensure that
when the House passes the legis-
lation, the Senate can move quick-
ly to send the legislation to the
president’s desk,” Hammill said.
Frank said efforts toward repeal-
ing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” displaced
ENDA in the batting order for
Congress because the fiscal year
2011 defense authorization bill
came to lawmakers before a vote
could happen on ENDA.
“If the defense authorization had-
n’t come up earlier, we might have
been able to do ENDA first,” he said.
Frank noted that he thinks the
votes exist in the House to pass a
trans-inclusive ENDA, but he
wouldn’t give a timetable for when
the legislation would move forward
in Congress because he didn’t
want to tip off opponents of the bill.
Michael Cole, a Human Rights
Campaign spokesperson, said a
House vote on ENDA is among the
same-sex marriage law, but it
has yet to announce the event’s
time or location.
The Annapolis and D.C. rallies
are part of the group’s Summer for
Marriage Tour 2010, which includes
a series of 20 rallies “encouraging
supporters to stand up for mar-
riage,” according to an announce-
ment on the NOM website. Staff
and volunteers for the group are
traveling by bus to the rallies, which
began in Maine on July 14.
“We’re excited to get on the road
and meet people face-to-face, shar-
ing with them the importance of
marriage and how critical the future
of marriage is to our country,” said
Brian Brown, NOM’s executive
director. “We need Americans to
pro-LGBT items his organization
has pressed for in the time remain-
ing in this year’s legislative calendar.
“We’re certainly interested in see-
ing the House take a vote on ENDA,”
Cole said. “We’ve been advocating
for that for a long time, and as recess
comes, we’ll be doing a lot of work to
make sure our members are getting
in touch with members of Congress
to push for a vote on it.”
But if the House manages to
pass ENDA this year, getting the leg-
islation through the Senate remains
a significant challenge. Sources
have said 60 votes are lacking in the
Senate to overcome a filibuster on
the legislation. Also, because the
Senate allows non-germane
amendments, opponents of the bill
could attach additional measures in
an attempt to block its passage.
Still, Frank said he believes
passage of ENDA in the Senate
remains a possibility.
“If you ask them if they think
they can pass it, they’ll say ‘no,’
so the important thing to do is for
us [in the House] to try [to] pass
it and send it over there, so they
can’t just avoid it,” Frank said.
Activists also foresee a possibil-
ity of passing the Domestic
Partnership Benefits & Obligations
Act before year’s end.
Cole said the legislation, as well
as the Tax Equity for Health Plan
Beneficiaries Act, which would elim-
inate the tax penalty paid on
employer-provided health insurance
for domestic partners, could be
made part of upcoming omnibus
authorization or appropriations bills.
“We’re following what the plans
appear to be on the Hill to see how
we might be able to get those
pieces of legislation [advanced] as
part of them,” Cole said.
Frank also acknowledged the
possibility of passing the Domestic
Partnership Benefits & Obligations
rally behind marriage as the union
of one man and one woman and
tell the courts and state legislatures
that marriage matters.”
Bishop Harry Jackson, the
Maryland minister who is leading the
fight against D.C.’s same-sex mar-
riage law, was scheduled to join
Brown as one of the speakers at the
Annapolis rally, which came after
Blade deadline. Other speakers were
to include members of the legislature
who are expected to lead the fight
against a Maryland gay marriage bill.
Morgan Meneses-Sheets, exec-
utive director of the statewide LGBT
group Equality Maryland, said the
group was to hold a series of its own
events Wednesday throughout the
state. But she said the group was
Act and said that legislation is “in
serious conversation.”
Still, Frank noted the bill comes
with a price tag — estimated at one
time by the U.S. Office of Personnel
Management to be $56 million a
year — and that concerns associat-
ed with raising the federal deficit may
cause problems in passing the bill.
Frank said finding a way to offset
the legislation’s cost remains an
issue for the Domestic Partnership
Benefits & Obligations Act and “we
have to find a way to pay for that.”
Whatever progress this Congress
makes on passing pro-LGBT bills,
recent polls are casting doubts on
whether enough Democratic law-
makers will retain their seats next
Congress to pass such bills.
Several recent polls have
shown considerable opposition
toward Democrats and the
Obama administration as per-
sistent unemployment and con-
cerns about government spend-
ing linger across the country.
White House Press Secretary
Robert Gibbs gained media atten-
tion and inspired consternation
among Democratic House mem-
bers when, during an appearance
earlier this month on NBC’s “Meet
the Press,” he said Republicans
could regain control of the House.
“I think people are going to have
a choice to make in the fall,” Gibbs
said. “But I think there’s no doubt
there are enough seats in play that
could cause Republicans to gain
control. There’s no doubt about that.”
Larry Sabato, a political scientist
at the University of Virginia, is pro-
jecting that Republicans will win
seven seats in the Senate and 32
seats in House after the election.
Because of this potential shift,
Sabato said passage of more pro-
LGBT bills next Congress is unlike-
ly if it doesn’t happen this year.
“If these pieces of legislation don’t
not planning a counter protest at the
state capital in Annapolis.
“We are asking our people not
to engage them,” she said of the
NOM rally participants. “It’s not in
our best interest for us to be there.
It’s just a [public relations] event
for them.”
Instead, Meneses-Sheets said
Equality Maryland had organized
teams of volunteers to distribute
postcards in Baltimore and several
counties throughout the state,
including Prince George’s and
Montgomery counties, in support
of the state gay marriage bill.
Those accepting the postcards
were to be asked to mail them to
their state representatives in a
show of “growing support” for the
pass now, when both houses have
swollen Democratic majorities, they
certainly aren’t going to pass in the
next Congress, when Democrats will
have narrow majorities, or even be in
the minority,” Sabato said.
Sabato said the loss of a half-
dozen Democratic seats in the
Senate could be enough to “kill
these bills” entirely in the next
Congress because proponents
wouldn’t be able to find 60 votes
to thwart a filibuster.
But Frank said the possibility of
passing more pro-LGBT legislation
in a future Congress is unknown
because the fallout of the November
elections is yet to be seen.
“I don’t think there’s any ques-
tion there will be Republican gains
in both chambers,” he said. “But
what kind of gains? How much?
Three senators? Eight senators?
Fifteen representatives? Thirty-five
representatives?”
Frank also said some mem-
bers of Congress that would lose
in the upcoming election wouldn’t
“be supportive of ENDA anyway.”
Additionally, he said Congress
could more easily take up other
pro-LGBT bills in the future after
items like hate crimes and “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” are off the table.
“To some extent, the more you
have to work on, the harder it is
to do any one of them,” he said.
Cole said although no one
knows what the future holds for
support for pro-LGBT legislation
after year’s end, he noted sever-
al supportive incumbents are in
danger of losing their seats.
“The thing to keep in mind,
though, is cobbling together a pro-
LGBT majority for any piece of leg-
islation has never been a slam
dunk,” Cole said. “It’s not necessari-
ly about party affiliation — it’s about
people who have taken stances
toward equality measures.”
marriage bill, she said.
Also scheduled for Wednesday
night was a Pride in Faith meeting
in Baltimore, where members of
the clergy supportive of same-sex
marriage were to discuss ways to
advance the same-sex marriage
bill in the legislature.
NOM’s 20-city tour was sched-
uled to end with the Washington,
D.C. rally. Local groups have yet to
announce plans on how they might
respond to the D.C. rally.
The D.C. Court of Appeals ruled
5-4 last week against a lawsuit filed
by Jacking seeking to force the city
to hold a voter initiative calling for
overturning the D.C. Marriage
Equality Act, which legalized same-
sex marriage in the District.

NATIONALNEWS
Goodwin said to be ‘open’ on LGBT issues
But new W.Va.
senator an unknown
to advocates
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Many supporters of LGBT rights
are expressing confidence that the
temporary replacement for Sen.
Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) will be sup-
portive of pro-LGBT legislation in
the Senate even though his views
on such issues are unknown.
West Virginia Gov. Joe
Manchin (D) announced last week
that Carte Goodwin, his former
general counsel, would fill the
Senate seat vacated by Byrd
upon his death earlier this month.
At a press conference at the
statehouse in Charleston, W.Va.,
Goodwin reportedly said he has
“no agenda” in the Senate other
than “working to fight hard every
day for West Virginia families,”
according to the Hill newspaper.
Goodwin, who didn’t respond
to the Blade’s request for com-
ment, is seen as a temporary
Photo courtesy of W. Va. governor’s office
Carte Goodwin was named to
succeed West Virginia Sen.
Robert Byrd, who died earlier this
month. Goodwin’s stances on
LGBT issues are largely unknown,
but activists are hopeful he’ll be
‘open to engaging in discussions.’
replacement for Byrd because
the West Virginia Legislature is
considering a change to state
law to allow for a vote to fill the
Senate seat this fall.
At 36 years old, Goodwin
becomes the youngest member
of the Senate. He was sworn in
this week.
Stephen Skinner, board presi-
dent for Fairness West Virginia,
said he had no information on
Goodwin’s background on LGBT
issues, but he thinks the senator
would be open to discussion.
“I think he’s certainly someone
who would be open to engaging in
discussions on LGBT issues,”
Skinner said. “But that, of course,
doesn’t mean that we know any of
his public stances.”
Michael Mitchell, executive direc-
tor of the National Stonewall
Democrats, said Goodwin appears
to be a “very smart and energetic
choice” to represent West Virginia.
“I just hope that he remem-
bers that he will be a senator for
all West Virginians — including
LGBT West Virginians — as well
as remember that he can be a
leader, and should be a leader,
for those West Virginians who
aren’t necessarily there yet on
LGBT issues,” Mitchell said.
Many political observers are
expecting Manchin to pursue a
run for the U.S. Senate in
july 23, 2010 • dcagenda.com 17
November and that Goodwin’s
past work with the governor
means he would be aligned with
Manchin in terms of ideology.
Skinner said believing Goodwin’s
positions on LGBT issues to be sim-
ilar to Manchin’s is “absolutely” a
safe assumption.
As far as Manchin’s views on
LGBT issues, Skinner said the gov-
ernor has been “thoughtful” about
LGBT issues and twice came out
publicly against a state constitution-
al amendment in West Virginia ban-
ning same-sex marriage.
“However, he did that in the
context of saying that our state
[Defense of Marriage Act] was
sufficient,” Skinner said. “So
although the end result was cer-
tainly something that we wanted
from him, he’s clearly not in favor
of marriage equality.”
Skinner said Manchin has
“indicated at least privately” that
he would support a state law pro-
hibiting job bias against LGBT
people in the workforce.
“The important thing about Sen.
Goodwin and Gov. Manchin is that I
know that they will have an open
door and will be fully engaged with
the folks that believe in equality in
West Virginia,” Skinner said.
A lingering question for
Goodwin is how he would vote
on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal
when the issue comes before the
full Senate. A provision for repeal
is in the fiscal year 2011 defense
authorization pending before
Congress, and opponents have
vowed to strip out the language
from the legislation.
Byrd was a “yes” vote in Senate
Armed Services Committee in
May on an amendment that would
lead to repeal of the law.
The late senator’s support
was noteworthy because it came
on the condition of adding 60
days between the time for when
the president and defense lead-
ers would certify that the U.S.
military is ready to end “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” and the time for
when repeal would go into effect.
Skinner said he’s expecting
Goodwin to follow through on
Byrd’s commitment to repealing
the ban on open service.
Story continues at
washingtonblade.com.
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VIEWPOINT
A gay perspective on D.C. gun rights
We need the ability
to defend ourselves
from hate crimes
By JESSICA LEE
I spent most of my young life
opposed to gun rights, as many
urban folks do. I grew up in a
dangerous city in the 1970s and
guns were scary things that got
pointed at you when a bad guy
asked, “Can I ride your bike?”
But my view has changed since
I have encountered many gays
and lesbians who have or carry
arms for self-defense against hate
crimes or for home defense. Some
lesbians, in particular, view their
arms as critical to home defense,
especially if they live alone. I imag-
ine that many straight single
women have a similar view.
Since I started writing this col-
umn many of my lesbian friends
have come out to me as Second
Amendment fans and confessed
that they own guns: rifles, shot-
guns and hand guns that are not
quite legal. Interesting!
The difference between my
friends who own guns and the
criminals who commit crimes with
guns is that my friends are using
guns for defense and would never
instigate a crime; rather, they are
Get to know a queer crip
As ADA turns 20,
some of us are still not
part of the community
By KATHI WOLFE
This month, Disability Pride
Month, people with disabilities, queer
and straight, will celebrate a mile-
stone. July 26 is the 20th anniversary
of the passage of the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA).
Twenty years ago, holding on to
my white cane in my office in
Cleveland where I worked then, I
wept with joy when the Americans
with Disabilities Act was passed.
When the first President George
Bush declared that it was time for
the “walls of exclusion” to come tum-
bling down, I, along with millions of
people with disabilities, LGBTQ and
hetero, went over the moon.
The ADA protects people with
disabilities ranging from blindness to
diabetes from disability-based dis-
crimination in employment, govern-
ment services and public accommo-
dations. When it became law, people
like me had civil rights for the first
time. Earlier in my life, a woman
protecting themselves from one.
The Supreme Court has ruled
that individuals have a right to bear
arms. But even if you disagree with
that it is hard to make a case that
gun restrictions reduce crime.
The District has had one of the
most restrictive laws against gun
ownership in the nation, yet that
did not prevent it from being, in
the 1990s, the “Murder Capital”
or cause the NBA Washington
team to be renamed from the
Bullets to the Wizards, as there
were so many bullets flying
around the District in a bad way.
Nor did the District’s gun laws
prevent the tragedy of a 14-year-
old shooting 10 people and killing
four this past March through the
open door of a minivan.
So if, with such strict gun
laws, horrible crimes like that still
happen, I am left to conclude
that gun laws do not work: they
do not prevent crime but only
prevent law-abiding citizens from
protecting themselves. And gays
often need the most protection.
That is why Tom Palmer, one of
the plaintiffs in the landmark
Supreme Court case of Heller v.
D.C., sued the District regarding
its ban on handguns. Palmer, who
is gay, was close to being a victim
of a hate crime until be pulled out
his gun and defended himself,
perhaps saving his life. I had the
working at a public library told me
that, “a blind person like you should-
n’t be out alone.” My experience was
far from unique. Knowing that we
had the ADA was like catnip to us. If
we encountered discrimination, we
could now seek legal redress.
One in five Americans (51.2 mil-
lion) has a disability and from three
to five million people are LGBTQ
and have disabilities, according to
the U.S. Census Bureau. I am one
of many who are disabled in the
queer community. We are of all
races, classes, ages, genders and
occupations. Reclaiming the pejo-
rative terms “queer” and “cripple,”
increasing numbers of us proudly
call ourselves “queer crips.”
Yet our presence isn’t well known
or always welcomed in the LGBTQ
community. Many places (from bars to
shops) and events (such as confer-
ences) in the queer community aren’t
accessible to folks with disabilities. My
friend, Hugh Gallagher, used a wheel-
chair. Gallagher, the author of “FDR’s
Splendid Deception,” worked on
Capitol Hill. “I can only get into one gay
bar [in Washington, D.C.],” he told me
in 2004, the year he died.
In 2008, I was honored to be
chosen to participate in a Lambda
opportunity to interview Palmer
and our exchange follows.
Washington Blade: What
made you decide to get involved
in gun rights?
Tom Palmer: I have long been a
believer in the idea that if you aren’t
harming the rights of others, you
should be left alone. My own experi-
ence showed that a firearm evens
up the odds when brute force is on
the side of brutal people.
I’m alive today because my
mother gave me a firearm to carry
and I had it when I needed it. No
one got killed, which is just the
way I prefer it. Had I not had it that
night in 1982, we would have
been beaten or stabbed to death.
Blade: How did you get
involved in the Heller case?
Palmer: It was an interesting
coincidence. I had told various
people about how having a
firearm saved my life and the
story was passed along. A gay
friend who’s also a gun owner
asked me one day if I might be
interested in a legal case to
defend second amendment
rights. I said yes and the name
he gave me led me to someone
else and then to a colleague,
Robert Levy [of the Cato
Institute], who had helped to
organize the case and who
Literary Foundation retreat. I had a
fabulous time attending poetry
workshops and hanging out with
other queer writers. But I couldn’t
wholeheartedly benefit from the
gathering, because some aspects
of the event (such as getting to the
dining area) weren’t accessible to
people with disabilities.
Then there’s the perception that
queer crips can’t have or don’t like
sex. Wrong. We can and we do.Years
ago, at a lesbian bar a woman turned
to me and exclaimed, “I love Helen
Keller! What are you doing in a place
like this?” What she meant was that
blind people are inspirational — but
they never look for sex or romance.
Most LGBTQ people don’t know
that disability and gay rights activists
were among those who worked
together to get the ADA passed.
Often, able-bodied people think of
people with disabilities as being dis-
connected from their lives, history or
culture. But this is a false assumption.
Though little known, there are paral-
lels between being queer and crip.
The ADA covers many in the
LGBTQ community, including,
but not limited to, people with
HIV/AIDS, cancer survivors and
recovering alcoholics.
financed it 100 percent, despite
not being a gun owner himself.
Blade: Eleanor Holmes
Norton and the D.C. Council
chose to turn down an opportuni-
ty for D.C. to have voting rights
because of the Ensign amend-
ment to the bill, which significant-
ly restricted the District’s ability
to regulate guns. What do you
think about that choice?
Palmer: It just tells us what
really matters to them. They just
don’t care one whit about the
constitutional rights of residents
of the District.
Holmes Norton and the DC
Council should be held account-
able for their irrational decision to
abandon the voting rights bill so
that they could maintain the
District’s ineffective gun laws.
Holmes Norton, who we send to
Congress for the primary purpose
of getting D.C. residents a vote,
cares more about gun restrictions
than our right to vote or defend our-
selves. Let’s remem-
ber that the next
time that we vote.
Jessica Lee is a new
board member of
GOProud and regular
contributor to the Blade.
Reach her at
jlee@goproud.org.
Disabled people, like LGBTQ
people, are often misunderstood
by their families. For years, laws
and societal pressures prohibited
people with disabilities from marry-
ing and having children. If you’re
queer and crip, you run up against
people who will want to “heal” you.
Don Dew, a gay man who has
epilepsy, is executive director of
ReachOut USA, an organization
that focuses on the intersection of
disability and LGBT concerns.
“Often, when disabled people
come out of the closet, they’re kept out
of the community that they’ve come
out to,” he said in a phone interview.
It’s almost as if “people stay away out
of fear of catching a disability from
you,” Dew said. As we enter the next
decade of life with the ADA, I invite
you to get to know us queer crips
and to celebrate our history. That’s
what must happen if
we are to become a
full part of the
LGBTQ community.
Kathi Wolfe is a
writer, poet and reg-
ular contributor to
the Blade. She can
be reached through
this publication.
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INSIDELGBTWASHINGTON
D.C. earthquake a message from God?
Perhaps a sign of
approval for shaking
things up
By PETER ROSENSTEIN
I woke up early last Friday and
felt the biggest earthquake in
D.C. since they’ve kept records
here. At 5:10 a.m. I was at my
computer checking e-mails when
the desk and chair began to
shake. I looked out the window to
see if a truck was going by but
the street was quiet. So I went on
Facebook and, sure enough, a
friend, Bob Witeck, also up at that
ungodly hour, was reporting an
earthquake. Then Joel Lawson
posted the website to check it
out. It was a 3.6 quake whose
epicenter was in Germantown. I
always knew that Germantown
was going to be famous one day.
But I began to think about the
timing of this quake and that
maybe God was saying some-
thing about how we in the LGBT
community were shaking up the
world. The newspapers that
‘
It was a 3.6 quake whose
epicenter was in Germantown.
morning had the story of gay
marriage becoming legal in
Argentina and the Court of
Appeals denying Rev. Jackson
and his homophobic cohorts the
right to hold an initiative on mar-
riage equality in the District of
Columbia. Some may see the
quake as God’s wrath. I see it as
her approval since it was mild,
just kind of a wake-up call and no
damage or injury involved at all.
This has been an exciting
couple of weeks for the LGBT
community. A federal judge in
Massachusetts, appointed by
Richard Nixon, ruled Article 3 of
DOMA was unconstitutional. The
Log Cabin case against “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” moved forward,
the judge in the Prop 8 case
asked some encouraging ques-
tions, and Elena Kagan got clos-
er to confirmation as a Supreme
Court Justice. Then the charges
against Capt. Jim Pietrangelo
’
and Lt. Dan Choi resulting from
their chaining themselves to the
White House gate were dropped.
But all was not positive. On
July 6 in the Petworth section of
D.C., a young man was called
faggot and beaten. The police
classified this as a hate crime but
not one word has been heard
from the mayor about it. It
appears movement on repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the
Senate will take more time and
ENDA is nowhere near being
passed. So as usual we move
two steps forward and one step
back in our march to full civil and
human rights.
For those who waited breath-
lessly — why I can’t imagine —
for Kathy Griffin’s D-list show
filmed here when she held her
sorry rally against “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” and lobbied Congress
on the issue, it became clear that
it wasn’t worth the wait.
july 23, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 19
Apparently the show, which I
gratefully missed, was as boring
as the events themselves. You
could hear her disrespect a
member of Congress, showcase
her ignorance on how things in
Washington get done, and see
HRC fall all over themselves to
make something out of nothing.
But then again, no one is perfect.
Then I read the debates in the
gay and lesbian blogs over what
role GetEqual has and how they
are or aren’t doing anything posi-
tive. Why can’t we as a communi-
ty accept that all avenues of creat-
ing awareness and moving our
march toward full civil and human
rights are needed? I may be
thankful that Barack Obama is our
president and that we control both
houses of the Congress, but at the
same time I am for saying out loud
that neither side of Pennsylvania
Avenue has been stellar in moving
our rights forward. If Democrats
lose the Congress in the mid-
term elections, either the House
or the Senate or both, we will
most likely be in even a worse
position so let’s keep that in mind
as we go on the attack.
A real highlight of my week
came on Sunday at Foundry
Methodist Church where Senior
Minister Dean Snyder continues
to stand up and speak out for the
LGBT community and is now ask-
ing his congregation to support
marrying us in their church. I had
the chance to hear Rev. V. Gene
Robinson, the gay Episcopal bish-
op, speak on courage and the
future in a sermon titled, “Dancing
in the Temple.” He gave me
renewed hope that we will eventu-
ally win our battles.
His sermon reminded me that
life is never easy but then we
shouldn’t expect it to be. I
enjoyed when Robinson spoke
of his enemies in the church and
how he still loves them. He said,
“We will all meet one day in
heaven and I know that they will
be much more
surprised about
that than I.”
Peter Rosenstein is
a D.C.-based LGBT
rights and Democratic
Party activist. He writes
regularly for the Blade.
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Rent vs. Buy… the age-old question

by DAVID BEDIZ, REALTOR
It used to be a foregone con-
clusion that buying was the obvi-
ous choice in the age-old rent-vs.-
buy debate. Your mortgage inter-
est is tax deductible, your pay-
ments are lower than a rental, and
the value of your investment
always increases over time, right?
In the current real estate market,
even in DC, that conclusion has
been shaken up a bit and the
question is not so easy to answer.
Let’s analyze the factors
involved in making the home
ownership decision more closely.
First of all, what can your rental
dollar buy you in terms of a home
in downtown DC? A typical one-
bedroom apartment costs about
$1,800 in Dupont Circle, more or
less. With today’s amazingly low
interest rates around 4.5% (near
record lows set just last month),
that $1,800 buys you about
$350,000, which happens to be
the average cost of a one-bed-
room here. So, factor in the mort-
gage interest tax deduction on
the loan (which equates to a
deduction of almost $17,000 in
your first year alone, or a tax
credit of almost $5,000 for most
taxpayers) and it’s a done deal!
You should definitely buy.
But we’re forgetting some-
thing… for that price, you’d be buy-
ing a condo rather than a house,
right? Condo fees range from
$150-$500 per month for most
one-bedrooms in the area. Don’t
Image by David Bediz
forget property taxes too, which
would cost about $200 per month.
Add those in, and the tax-deduc-
tion benefit is pretty much gone.
Then there’s the cost of mainte-
nance, repairs, and the possibility
your investment may actually lose
value too. And what if you had to
move or sell suddenly… taxes and
real estate agent commission is
expensive! DC sales taxes are
1.1% for both buyers and sellers
under $400,000, and 1.45%
above. Brokerage commission is
usually around 6%. So to break
even on an investment you make,
the property has to sell for almost
9% more than you bought it for. It
seems like buying in this market
makes no sense, right?
At first glance that may seem to
be the case. Why, then, do so
many people choose to buy rather
than rent these days? Our busi-
ness barely slowed down after the
real estate meltdown, despite flag-
ging property values. Buyers, well
aware of the cost and risks associ-
ated with purchasing, happily went
to settlement for their first homes.
Some of our clients have even sold
and bought again since fall of
2008, perhaps losing a little money
in the long term, but absolutely
unwilling to even consider going
back to a rental. Are these buyers
crazy? Or are they just really good
at wasting hard-earned cash?
For most of these buyers, the
answer is not that they’re crazy.
It’s that the feeling of home own-
ership and the independence
and opportunities it offers is well
worth the risks and cost. True,
we may not be in a market where
it’s significantly cheaper to pay a
mortgage than rent, but there is
an intangible, and perhaps price-
less, value in knowing that if the
washer ever breaks down, I can
control how quickly it gets
repaired. If I get sick of the wall
dividing my kitchen and dining
room, I can tear it down and put
in a breakfast bar. How many
landlords would say “sure, go to
town” if you suggested that to
them? And we may not be party-
ing like it’s 2005 now in terms of
ever increasing property values,
but in time values will increase.
Perhaps in two years, perhaps in
ten, but ultimately real estate will
prove to be a good investment as
it always has been over time.
Further, we must remember
the other huge benefit to home
ownership: your fixed-rate mort-
gage payment amount will never
go up, and rents generally
increase every year. While your
total monthly payment, even
after tax benefits, may be higher
than your rent now, they may be
lower in two or three years, and
seem dirt cheap after ten.
So, if you are asking yourself
the age-old rent-vs.-buy question,
ask yourself how much that feel-
ing of pride and freedom is worth
to you, and then invest wisely in a
property you can see yourself
owning for many years to come. If
you are buying a starter home or
condo, buy one you could rent out
when you want to move out, if
property values haven’t increased
enough to pay for a sale. Or buy a
place a little bigger and a little
more expensive than what you
feel absolutely comfortable with
now, so that you can grow into it
over time and save yourself the
costs of an extra transaction.
Either way, be prudent in your
investment so you can buy with
confidence, knowing you can
weather a storm and bear the
costs of an unforeseen need to
move or sell, and knowing that
those costs are worth it over your
current rental payment.
David Bediz is a Realtor at
Coldwell Banker in the heart of
Dupont Circle. He can be reached
at 202 352 8456 or through
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Going for
the gay gold
Large contingent
of local athletes
heading to Germany
for Games  provide an unrivaled experience.
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
The Gay Games medals that les-
bian attorney Andrea Reister keeps
in her office at Covington & Burling
on Pennsylvania Avenue — three
golds and a silver for cycling — have
had a somewhat unexpected effect.
Natural conversation starters,
Reister says they’ve been a way
to come out to clients without
making a proclamation.
“People who know me very well
know it’s just part of my persona,”
she says. “They’ve become a very
positive aspect of who I am. And it’s
an easy way to get it out there with-
out making it a big deal. They’re
something everybody can relate to.”
Reister, 52, is gearing up for her
third Gay Games. She competed in
Sydney in 2002 and in Chicago in
2006 but is switching gears for this
eighth installment of the Games,
which kicks off next weekend in
Cologne, Germany. She and her
partner of nine years, Marty Ashley,
will compete together in golf.
“I’d done pretty well in cycling
so I thought maybe it was time to
try a different sport,” Reister
says. “And Marty has always
competed in golf and I wanted to
be able to spend time training
and competing with her.”
Ashley, who has a Gay Games
silver medal of her own in golf,
was bitten by the competition bug
after attending the 1998 Games in
Amsterdam as a spectator. She
then competed in Sydney and
Chicago and says training for this
year’s Games has been fun.
Mark Rutstein answers 20 questions.
arts & entertainment
Queery, PAGE 26
washingtonblade.com • vol. 41, issue 30 • july 23, 2010 • Page 25
Ashley, a software manager, also
works at Covington & Burling. The
two train at 5:30 a.m. twice a week at
Hains Point in D.C. before their work-
days begin. Ashley says the Games
“The appeal is first of all, all these
queers together in one city,” she
says. “Normally we’re the 10 percent
but during the Gay Games it revers-
es and we’re the 90 percent and
that’s really fun. … It’s just a very
supportive and vibrant community.”
Modeled loosely after the
Olympics, the Gay Games started in
San Francisco in 1982. Athletes
from all over the world compete.
Most are LGBT but heterosexuals
can enter too. Gold, silver and
bronze medals are awarded in
about 30 sports and athletes of all
skill levels are welcome to compete.
The D.C. area, represented by
Team D.C., a local umbrella organi-
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
zation of LGBT sports leagues,
which has about 2,500 players on Andrea Reister (left) and Marty Ashley practice for the Gay Games Monday evening at Hains Point in Washington.
about 30 teams, will again have a Both have won medals in past Gay Games events, and are hoping to add to their trophy case in Germany next week.
strong representation with about
100 attending. That’s down sharply and I knew I wasn’t alone.” Team D.C. president Brent Minor some of them put all their medals on,
from the roughly 300 who attended Washington resident Scott is having shoulder surgery and can’t they’d sink to the bottom of the pool.
the 2006 Chicago Games, a fact Thompson, 47, competes in tennis go this year but says the Games pro- We also have body builders who do
Team D.C. board member Kevin and the triathlon. He first attended vide a good mix of fun and competi- quite well. We have a volleyball team
Majoros attributes to the distance the 1990 Games in Vancouver and tion. Because anyone can enter and who won bronze last year in their divi-
and cost of flying to Germany. has attended several times since. He most of the participants are gay, it’s sion. It really demonstrates that we
Majoros, a Blade sports colum- won a bronze medal at the 2006 Out infinitely easier to participate in the have an active gay and lesbian
nist who’ll turn 50 during the Games in Montreal, a break-off Gay Games than the Olympics. sports community here.”
Games (which last through Aug. event that emerged during a squab- Many sports have events broken This will be the first Gay Games for
8), will compete in swimming and ble among Gay Games organizers. down into age and/or skill levels, 38-year-old lesbian Claudia Gebert,
in two jumping competitions. The “The great thing about it is you making it easier to qualify for a who’s running in both the 10k and 5k
Baltimore resident and Gay have a lot of people coming togeth- medal. But that doesn’t mean the races. It will give the Germany native
Games silver medalist says the er who are focused on sports,” Games are a field day. Competition a chance to visit her hometown of
Chicago Games were amazing. Thompson says. “You can go to a can be fierce — in swimming espe- Nesskirch, which will require a three-
“You have 12,000 gay athletes all circuit party, but let’s face it, that’s cially — and several world records hour train ride from Cologne.
marching around for 10 days,” he mostly about partying and sex. And have been broken at the Games. She learned of the Games after
says. “It was the first time in my life I felt that’s fine, but here’s a healthier Minor says Team D.C. athletes she joined D.C. Front Runners, a local
like we were all supposed to be the group who are really involved in always come home with a boun- LGBT running outfit. She came here
way we are. Not that I don’t feel normal sports. All that kind of stuff just ty of medals representing the last year as a biomedical researcher.
right now, but I felt even more normal. pales to the good-natured fun you District and its region well. “I have to go back anyway to get
It’s kind of hard to put into words. I felt have at the Gay Games. It’s always “Our swim teams always garner a a Visa stamp and I’ll see my family
part of something bigger than myself such a positive experience.” great deal of medals,” he says. “If too,” she says. “It should be fun.”
26 washingtonblade.com • july 23, 2010
QUEERY: 20 Questions for Mark Rutstein
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
In October 2008, Mark Rutstein, like
many, was feeling the sting of a sluggish
real estate market. He’d had a golden run
since 2002 with Coldwell Banker and
Hounshell Real Estate but ‘08 found his
business “crashing down,” as he puts it.
He wasn’t the only one hurting — Cobalt,
one of the staples of 17th Street nightlife,
had also seen a downturn. Rutstein knew
owner Eric Little because he’d bartended
at JR.’s, which Little also owns, when he
moved to the District in 1999. Rutstein
saw Little at Cobalt one night and they
soon made plans for Rutstein to ride out
the real estate storm by managing Cobalt
and its downstairs restaurant Level One.
The partnership has been so suc-
cessful — Rutstein says sales are up
300 percent from 18 months ago — that
Rutstein has stayed on. He started out
in the restaurant business and, although
he had said “never again” to the grueling
75-hour work weeks, he’s enjoying him-
self now. And he still has a foot in the
door at Hounshell working mostly with
previous clients.
His long-term plan? “Time will tell,” he
says. The 36-year-old Miami native has
been in the D.C. area since the early ‘80s
and has been dating Stephen Rutgers
since January. He lives in Dupont Circle
and enjoys traveling, dining and working
out when he has down time.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
How long have you been out and
who was the hardest person to tell?
Ten years and my mom or my fiancé.
My mom because I didn’t want to disap-
point her and my fiancé because I took
so long to figure out I was gay.
Who’s your gay hero?
There are so many. The activists who
brought us this far today such as Dr.
Frank Kameny and Harvey Milk.
What’s Washington’s best nightspot,
past or present?
Present: Cobalt; past: Nation.
Describe your dream gay wedding.
On the beach on an island surrounded
by my friends.
What non-gay issue are you
most passionate about?
There are so many, but finding a cure
for cancer which took my mother from
me this year.
What historical outcome
would you change?
“I did not have sexual relations
with that woman.”
What’s been the most memorable
pop culture moment of your lifetime?
Meeting Hillary Clinton because she is
totally pop.
On what do you insist?
Honesty and compassion.
What was your last Facebook
post or Tweet?
“Tonight at Cobalt …”
If your life were a book,
what would the title be?
“Nightmare on 17th Street?” LOL, I
don’t know, it’s been an eventful life.
Maybe it would be a lot of these:
#!!@#!@@#!@*&#@$
If science discovered a way to
change sexual orientation, what
would you do?
Nothing now, but I once wished I was
“cured.” I now know I was made to be
this way.
What do you believe in
beyond the physical world?
I’m not sure exactly but I DO know that
a world without spirituality would be an
ugly place.
What’s your advice for LGBT
movement leaders?
Get the younger generation more
involved.
What would you walk
across hot coals for?
Love, family and friends.
What gay stereotype
annoys you most?
That lesbians drive Subarus. It’s not true
because my friend Karen has a Honda.
What’s your favorite gay movie?
“Latter Days”
What’s the most overrated
social custom?
Meeting someone and saying that it’s
nice to meet them. You don’t really know
how nice it is yet.
What trophy or prize
do you most covet?
Real estate sales awards, e.g. top sales
group multiple years.
What do you wish you’d known at 18?
That I’d lose my parents so early. I
would have called them more and spent
more time with them both.
Why Washington?
There are lots of opportunities and it’s
gay friendly.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
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SOCIALAGENDA
Friday, July 23
HIRSHHORN AFTER HOURS is tonight at
the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Independence Ave. at Seventh
Street, S.W., from 8 p.m. to midnight. Come
out for an outrageous night of campy drag
and electrifying dance music hosted by
drag performer Summer Camp. There will
be live performances by Karl Marks,
Brandon Joseph Neukam, and Sunrize
Highway. DJs Matt Bailer (MIXTAPE,
Peach Pit) and Bil Todd (RAW) will be spin-
ning an eclectic mix of electro, alt-pop,
disco, and house, with visual projections by
Richard Sawka and Erik Loften. Catch the
World Premiere of the latest, outrageous
digital short from CRACK, featuring
Summer Camp, Chris Farris, and Karl
Jones and directed by Greg Price with orig-
inal music by Bluebrain. Tickets are $18
and must be purchased in advance by
going to hirshhorn.si.edu/afterhours.
In celebration of the landmark exhibition
“BEAT MEMORIES: THE PHOTOGRAPHS
OF ALLEN GINSBERG” on view at the
National Gallery of Art through Sept. 16,
Busboys and Poets, 5th & K Sts., and Split
This Rock present “HOWL” in the City at 8
and 10 p.m. Renowned poet Anne Waldman,
friend of Allen Ginsberg, will present three
performances of his legendary poem Howl.
Inspired by the spontaneous nature of the
Beats, Matthew Hemerlein leads a string
quartet in a musical improvisation to accom-
pany the poem. Waldman will also perform
her original poems and will be preceded by
local poets Chris August, Kenneth Carroll,
and Venus Thrash. Tickets are $10 and can be
purchased at brownpapertickets.com. Visit
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The Faux-Real Theatre Company pres-
ents QUEER IN THE USA tonight at the
Goethe Institut, 812 7th St., N.w., at 11
Walk, run or sashay in new 5k Rehoboth race
By JULIETTE M. EBNER
CAMP Rehoboth and the Seashore
Striders will hold the inaugural “Sundance
5k: Run, Walk or Sashay!” on Sunday, Aug.
29 in Rehoboth Beach, Del., to kick off
“Sundance Week,” CAMP Rehoboth’s
annual Labor Day weekend benefit.
“We thought that we would add
something that would help to expand
Sundance,” said Chris Beagle, a mem-
ber of CAMP Rehoboth’s board of direc-
tors. “A large number of people said they
would like to see outdoor events.”
The scenic course is considered an “out-
and-back” course, meaning it starts and fin-
ishes at the same point, in front of the CAMP
Rehoboth Community Center on Baltimore
Avenue in downtown Rehoboth Beach.
Runners will continue through town,
crossing Lake Gerar, and head north toward
Cape Henlopen State Park. Just prior to the
park entrance, runners will turn around and
follow the same route back into town.
The top overall finishers will be
awarded prizes as well as the top three
finishers in nine age groups ranging
from 9 and under to 70 and older.
There will also be a one-mile “FUN”
p.m. as part of the Capital Fringe Festival.
A teenage boy’s obsession with Bruce
Springsteen leads him to New York City.
Lovers, rockers, and gypsies challenge
him to embrace his queerness. Does he
have what it takes to rock it out like The
Boss? Tickets are $15 and can be pur-
chased at Fort Fringe, 607 New York Ave.
N.W., or by phone at 866-811-4111.
WET GIRLS tonight at Club Liv, 2001
11th St., N.W., from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Get
drenched with everything from pop to not,
featuring DJs K La Rock (You Ain’t Slick)
and Junebullet (She.Rex/You Ain’t Slick).
$5 cover and must be 18 or older to enter.
Celebrate SHABBAT SERVICES, 8:30-
10 p.m. at the Washington, D.C. Jewish
Community Center, 1529 16th St.
Services are followed by an Oneg social.
BALTIMORE BELTWAY DIVAS SHOW at
Ziegfeld’s, 1824 Half St., S.W., with Tatiyanna
Voché, ChiChi Rae Colby, Phoenix
Bloomingdale, JoAnna Blue, Sparkle
Alexandria, and the comedy of Shawna
Alexander with non-stop club dancing. $5
cover from 9 to 10:30 p.m. and $10 after 10:30
p.m. and always includes $1 off your first drink.
The first ever MSS APEX AND MISS APEX
NEWCOMER hosted by Kristina Kelly and
Tony “I Thank You” Nelson is tonight at Apex
at 10 p.m. Special guest entertainers include
Destiny B. Childs, Serria Spaulding, Big
Daddy, Isis Deverreoux, and Arione
Decardea. There is a $10 cover and you must
be 18 to enter, 21 to drink.
Saturday, July 24
ADAMS MORGAN GIVES BACK is an all
day event. Buy a Citizen Effect wristband
for $10 at citizeneffect.org to receive free
and discounted drinks, food, and more in
the Adams Morgan neighborhood at par-
ticipating businesses. All money raised will
walk where creativity and costumes are
encouraged and prizes will be awarded
in several categories. T-shirts will be pro-
vided to the first 300 registrants.
What started as a rained-out pool
party to celebrate the 10th anniversary
of Steve Elkins and Murray Archibald in
1988, the annual Sundance benefit
takes place the Saturday and Sunday
nights of Labor Day weekend at the
Rehoboth Beach Convention Center.
“It started as a small group that got togeth-
er to celebrate the end of the summer and
friendship and it has evolved into a fundraiser
for CAMP Rehoboth,” said Beagle.
Saturday, Sept. 4 is the Sundance
Auction, both silent and live, from 7 to 10
p.m.; it will include food and an open bar.
Sunday, Sept. 5 is the Sundance. The party
begins at 8 p.m. with dancing until 2 a.m.
There will also be an open bar all night.
Sundance benefits the CAMP Rehoboth
Community Center; a percentage of the
race proceeds will also go to the Center.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary this
year, CAMP Rehoboth is a non-profit com-
munity service organization dedicated to
creating a more positive environment in
Rehoboth Beach and its surrounding com-
Busboys and Poets presents ‘HOWL’ in celebration of the exhibition of Allen
Ginsburg’s photographs at the National Gallery of Art.
be matched by the Charlize Theron Africa
Outreach Project and goes directly to
building a foster home for abandoned
youth in Cloetesville, South Africa.
THE DC WOMEN’S DINNER will be at
Cafe Luna, 1633 P St., N.W., at 7 p.m.
RSVP by sending an e-mail to dcwom-
ensdinner@gmail.com
DC FRONT RUNNERS FUN WALK/RUN at
Rock Creek Park is today from 9:30 to 11:30
a.m. The walk goes from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
and the run goes from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Sunday, July 25
2ND ANNUAL BET MISHPACHAH
KUGEL BAKEOFF at 5 p.m. at DC JCC,
1529 16th St. N.W. Bake and bring your
favorite Kugel. Participants will vote on the
best, and that recipe will be used to make
the Kugels served at the Break the Fast.
Photo courtesy of Beagle
CHRIS BEAGLE, of CAMP Rehoboth,
is helping to organize a new 5k race at
the beach next month.
munities. Its mission is to promote cooper-
ation and understanding among all people,
while working to build safe, inclusive com-
munities with “room for all.”
For more information about Sundance
weekend and CAMP Rehoboth in gener-
al, check out camprehoboth.com.
Pre-registration for the 5k race, held at
7:30 a.m. on Aug. 29, is $20 through Aug.
22. After that, general registration is $25.
For more information on the race and to
register, visit seashorestriders.com.
Photo courtesy of National Gallery
Monday, July 26
The Capital Area Rainbowlers Association
presents the LGBT SUMMER BOWLING
SOCIAL at AMF Annandale Lanes, 4245
Markham St., Annandale, Va., from 8 to 10
p.m. Bowling is just $1.99 per person per
game plus the $4.46 shoe rental fee. There
will be some free pizza and fun door
prizes/raffles. You do not need to field a team.
Just attend and bowl anywhere. RSVP to
Les at president@carabowling.org
SAGE METRO DC MONTHLY MEETING at
the DC Center, 1318 U St., N.W., from 6:30-
8 p.m. SAGE Metro DC provides support and
advocacy for the aging LGBT population.
Tuesday, July 27
Adventuring presents ARLINGTON EVENING
BIKE RIDE at 6:30 p.m. This ride continues the
summer-long series of Arlington Evening Bike
Rides. New riders and those who may be a lit-
tle out of practice are welcome. The ride will go
through Alexandria’s Del Ray neighborhood on
a 17-mile loop using bike trails and quiet resi-
dential streets. Arrive by 6:25 p.m. at the
Clarendon Metro station elevator entrance,
Wilson Boulevard and Highland St., and the
ride starts promptly at 6:30 p.m. Bring helmet,
water and $2 for Adventuring.
Wednesday, July 28
DC CENTER SUMMER LGBT INTERN
MIXER at the DC Center, 1318 U St., N.W.,
from 7-9 p.m. Are you an intern in D.C. this
summer? Know any interns that are LGBT
or allies of the LGBT community? Please
help spread the word about the first LGBT
Intern Summer Mixer at the DC Center.
Mautner Project presents MIND-BODY
WELLNESS FOR WOMEN WHO
PARTNER WITH WOMEN: CURRENT
ISSUES with Leslie Calman, Elizabeth
Ide, and D Magrini at Equality Maryland,
1201 Sharp St., Baltimore, at 6:30 p.m.
This is part of the Speakers Series.
Thursday, July 29
Atlas Performing Arts Center presents
SUMMER FILM SERIES: GAY 101 show-
ing “Where the Boys Are” starring
Dolores Hart and George Hamilton at the
Paul Sprenger Theatre, 1333 H St., N.E.,
at 8 p.m. Buy tickets at atlasarts.org or at
the box office one hour prior to the movie.

THEATERAGENDA
Legendary costume designer on his career in theater
5-time Tony winner
Long returns to D.C.
in October for
‘Henry VIII’
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Legendary gay costume
designer William Ivey Long has
never tried to disguise his sexuali-
ty — neither among friends nor
professional contacts. “Imagine
that? I’m comfortable with who I
am,” Long reports playfully. “It’s
been my experience that so long
as you do your job and pay your
bills most people will accept you.”
Indeed the man does his job.
Throughout his fabulously suc-
cessful costume design career,
Long has won five Tony Awards
(and every other prize that
Broadway and off-Broadway offer).
His amazing body of work includes
hit shows like “Grey Gardens,” “The
Producers,” and “Hairspray.” The
recent production of “9 to 5” marks
his 58th Broadway show.
Long is busy at work designing
for an upcoming Broadway produc-
tion of “A Leap of Faith,” a musical
adaption of the same-titled 1992
Steve Martin screen comedy about
a fraudulent preacher.
“My studio [a loft in Lower
Manhattan] is currently overflowing
with photos of choir gowns and
sheriff uniforms,” reports Long. “It’s
when a designer thinks that they
are most familiar with a certain look
or period that they really need to
take a closer look. Sorting through
archival material is a huge part of
what I do. Research and costume
construction are everything.”
A native North Carolinian, Long
grew up surrounded by theater.
Both of his parents were theater
educators. As a kid, Long designed
his first costume – an Edwardian
collar for his dog. At just eight, he
appeared in a local historical pro-
duction titled “The Lost Colony.”
Long graduated from William
and Mary College with a degree
in history, and then went on to
study set design at the Yale
School of Drama (where house-
mates included Meryl Streep and
Sigourney Weaver). Studying
design under the exalted Ming
Cho Lee was a period that Long
remembers as “a magical time.”
WILLIAM IVEY LONG has won five Tony Awards.
Over the years, his way of
designing costumes has changed.
“The scope has definitely
broadened,” explains Long, 62.
“As I’ve become more successful,
I’ve been able to hire assistants.
Also, I’ve become a destination for
interns and summer job seekers.
But that’s really the only way our
business is passed down. It’s a
guild, really, and that requires
july 23, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 29
Photo courtesy of Long
hands on learning for the next
generation. And whether or not
they adhere to my methods isn’t
important, but it’s crucial for them
to have this kind of experience.”
After graduating from Yale, Long
felt rather at sea and woefully
unprepared for a career in theater,
so he set out to find his next men-
tor. Long moved to Manhattan’s
Chelsea Hotel, that storied home
to artists and bohemians, and
began stalking famous couturier
Charles James. Eventually, James
agreed to an apprenticeship that
lasted an intense three years.
When his sartorial mentor died in
1978, Long returned to the theater,
designing costumes for produc-
tions helmed by directors he’d first
met as classmates at Yale.
“I’d dress the phonebook for the
right director or choreographer,”
adds Long. “Who is in charge real-
ly makes a difference in terms of
inspiration and the overall experi-
ence. I’d count [Broadway’s] Jerry
Zaks and Susan Stroman among
my favorites.”
Long designed the chic black
dress and mink so crucial to
Valerie Harper’s portrayal of
Tallulah Bankhead in “Looped” that
played at Arena Stage last sum-
mer. More recently, he designed
costumes for the national tour of
“Dream Girls.” Sadly, the D.C. run
was recently canceled due to poor
advance ticket sales. Local audi-
ences will have the opportunity to
see Long’s artistry up close once
again in October when he cos-
tumes Folger Theatre’s production
of Shakespeare’s “Henry VIII.”
30 washingtonblade.com • july 23, 2010

BUSINESSAGENDA

‘ ’
Gay couples and the urge to merge
When should you
consider combining
finances?
By DAVID M. TAUBE
Since the momentous March 3
inception of same-sex marriage in
the District of Columbia, the urge
to merge has surged. As of June
24, the D.C. Superior Court’s
Marriage Bureau had recorded
2,966 “spouse-to-spouse” mar-
riage license applications, closing
in on the 3,096 “husband-and-
wife” requests for all of 2009.
In your rush to hire a wedding
planner, register at your favorite
high-end retailer, and select your
exotic honeymoon destination,
have you thought about what mar-
riage means to your finances? In
the excitement of a merger, some
newlyweds may jump at the chance
to combine their finances. But wait,
there are a few things to consider
before registering your names on
joint accounts.
Although most advisers would
recommend that same-sex couples
have a joint account to pay for ongo-
There are a few things to consider
before registering your names
on joint accounts.
ing, joint household expenses, it’s a
different story for investment money.
Maintaining joint accounts builds
shared decision-making, awareness
of financial matters, and perhaps
most importantly, trust. However, tax,
legal, and practical matters offer
cautions for a household account
and red flags for investments.
Taxes. Whether you are mar-
ried, civil unionized, domestic part-
nershipped, or simply co-habitat-
ing, the fact remains that, for taxes,
the federal government does not
recognize your relationship. As a
married couple living in the
District, you would have to file your
city income taxes jointly, but would
file separate federal tax returns.
There are potential federal gift
taxes if one same-sex spouse or
partner contributes more than the
other to a joint account. Under cur-
rent federal law, the portion of cash
or gifts of property worth more
than $13,000 per year given by a
same-sex spouse or partner to the
other spouse or partner is consid-
ered a taxable gift. No limit exists
for federally recognized marriages,
as spouses can freely transfer
money or property to one another
without tax consequences.
Same-sex spouses or partners
should keep a record of how much
each contributes to a joint
account. To avoid having to file a
gift tax return, neither half of a
couple should contribute more
than the $13,000 gift limit over the
amount the other half provided.
Federal estate taxes may also
influence your decision to keep
assets separate. Unless you can
document the contributions by
each same-sex spouse or part-
ner, the IRS will include the
entire value of property owned
as “joint tenants” in the gross
estate of the first to die.
Asset protection. There may be
compelling legal reasons that influ-
ence your decision to keep assets
separate. Depending in which
state you reside, co-owned assets
may be subject to the claims of
your same-sex spouses’ or part-
ners’ creditors. One spouse or
partner may have assets he or she
wishes to protect from the other
who is engaged in a high-risk busi-
ness or occupation.
A spouse or partner may have
significant inherited family assets
that need to be protected for
heirs from potential loss in a
future break up or divorce.
In the District and states with
same-sex marriage, you can own
certain assets as “tenants in the
entirety,” which provides married
couples joint ownership with right of
survivorship, without joint liability.
Practical matters. Each spouse
or partner may have different goals
for the money and approaches to
how it would be invested. While one
may be planning for imminent retire-
ment and dialing back the risk level,
another may be thinking about
returning to school for a new career.
This may take on greater impor-
tance if there is a large age differ-
ence. With the younger half’s long-
term goals further into the future,
the portfolio may have a significant-
ly different (i.e., higher) risk profile.
Couples should discuss financial
expectations and goals they would
like to achieve, including respective
and combined goals such as home
ownership and retirement.
Merging spending and saving
habits should also lead to a talk
about your money history – credit rat-
ing and score, any troubles with cred-
it in the past, including bankruptcy.
Newlyweds and other couples
will also need to figure out who
will actually pay the bills and file
the tax returns. Ideally, you
should address how your assets
and finances will be handled in a
pre- (or post-) nuptial or domes-
tic partnership agreement.
(This article is for information-
al purposes only and is not finan-
cial, legal, or tax advice. Please
consult with your adviser before
making any decisions.)
David M. Taube, CFA, is CEO & Chief
Investment Officer of Kalorama Wealth
Strategies, LLC, a fee-only investment
advisory and financial planning firm in
the District. Reach him at 202-550-7262
or dtaube@kaloramawealth.com.

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THEATERAGENDA
Sesame Street meets South Park
Avenue Q brings
irreverence to
Shakespeare Theatre
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN
Puppets have full-on puppet
sex. Racism and pornography
and unemployment are also
addressed head-on. Hilarity and
irreverence ensue.
But somewhere Kermie is
having a panic attack at the
arrival of “Avenue Q,” set on a
street with a string of tenements
in a low-rent, outer-outer bor-
ough of New York City.
It is sufficiently reminiscent of
Sesame Street, on public TV
since 1969 and beloved by
Generation Y for its politically
correct multi-cultural neighbor-
hood and ethnically diverse fam-
ilies, to merit the following state-
ment in the playbill: “Avenue Q
has not been authorized or
approved in any manner by the
Jim Henson Company or
Sesame Workshop, which have
no responsibility for its content.”
Even so, the show is basically
Avenue Q: The Musical
Shakespeare Theatre
Company
Lansburgh Theatre
450 7th St., N.W.
Through Aug. 15
$76 - $86
202-547-1122
HarmanCenter.org
an homage to the creators of
Sesame Street. It plays at the
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s
Lansburgh Theatre until Aug. 15,
and is a first-rate, road-show ver-
sion of the original, innovative,
foul-language Broadway musical
that in 2004 won the Best Musical
Tony Award, snatching it from the
hands of “Wicked.”
As for “Q” standing for “Queer,”
get over it. It’s really just not that big
a deal. However, Bert and Ernie
(whoops, I mean Rod and Nicky in
this show) are gay, or at least ready
to come out, but only after first
swearing they’re not, as they sing
the duet “If You Were Gay,” while
insisting, a la Seinfeld, “not that
there’s anything wrong with that.”
And hey, no one else in the cast,
including Trekkie Monster, a porn-
obsessed Muppettish furball fac-
AVENUE Q puts a foul-mouthed and gay-inclusive spin on ‘Sesame Street.’
simile of the Cookie Monster, cares
one way or the other.
Remember, most of these char-
acters are puppets, designed by
the ingenious Rick Lyon, who cre-
ated the role of Trekkie Monster
(“Me want porn!”) in the original
Broadway production but who is
also a puppeteer and designer with
more than 25 years experience in
theater, film and TV, including
“Sesame Street.” He and his com-
pany, The Lyon Puppets, build all
july 23, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 31
Photo courtesy of Avenue Q
the puppets, which cost up to
$10,000 each and are so-called
single-rod, double-rod and live-
hands puppets depending on how
the head and arms are animated
by the actor serving as puppeteer
who also generally supplies the
voice. The folks remain in full view
of the audience and make no
attempt to conceal themselves or
their lip movements. The puppets
interact with each other and three
human characters.
The Trekkie Monster is now
“acted” by Michael Liscio, Jr.,
who also plays Nicky, but does
an especially bravura job bring-
ing out the reclusive porn-lover’s
gruff charm. As for Nicky, he is a
sweet but messy and jobless
character living with Rod, a clos-
eted Republican investment
banker (acted by Brent Michael
DiRoma, making his touring
debut on “Avenue Q”).
As for the show’s gay subtext,
Rod likes nothing more than sit-
ting home leafing through his
favorite book, “Broadway Musicals
of the 1940s.” One night a sleep-
less Rod thinks he hears Nicky
say, “I love you, Rod,” in his sleep
and is jubilant that his secret
crush on the slacker is requited.
However, it turns out that it’s actu-
ally Rod who is dreaming all this,
and Rod later angrily denies that
he is gay, insisting that he has a
girlfriend named Alberta who lives
in Vancouver, but no one has ever
seen his “beard” and he some-
times mixes up her name.
Other story lines are woven
into “Avenue Q,” including para-
bles about coming-of-age and
finding “purpose” in life.
32 washingtonblade.com • july 23, 2010
THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
HOT HITS AND OPENINGS
HIDDEN JEWELS saturday, july 24
JAZZ IN THE GARDEN: NOISES OFF. The Keegan Theatre at
YOUNG LIONS (FUSION ROCK/JAZZ) Church Street Theater. 703-892-0202.
Friday, July 23 keegantheatre.com.
National Gallery of Art
nga.gov monday, july 26
For the tenth consecutive year, top local and region- SPECTRUM: MEMORIES OF NATURAL
al artists will perform a mix of eclectic jazz, from FORMS & LIGHT. PAINTINGS BY ELLEN
swing to progressive to Latin, in the National Gallery BAER. Brentwood Arts Exchange. 301-
of Art Sculpture Garden, rain or shine. Visitors can 277-2863. pgparks.com.
relax indoors or out while listening to live jazz ampli-
fied on a state-of-the-art sound system. tuesday, july 27
STELLA MORGAN. THE KEEGAN THE-
CAPITAL FRINGE X CARRIE POTTER ATRE AT CHURCH STREET THEATER.
AT THE NEW MOON PROM 703-892-0202. keegantheatre.com.
Through July 24
Capital Fringe wednesday, july 28
The Studio Theatre TAKE YOU HOME. Gallery plan b.
866-811-4111 202-234-2711. galleryplanb com.
shows.capfringe.org
ìTeen witch Carrie Potter battles bitchy
classmates and the seductive power of LAST CHANCE
Jesus Christ (ìHe Who Really Shouldn't Be sunday, july 25
Namedî) in this satirical send-up ìeverything NEW JERUSALEM. Theater J at
geeky,î featuring Lucrezia Blowzia! From the Washington DC Jewish Community Center.
producers of DIAMOND DEAD!'' 800-494-8497. washingtondcjcc.org.
STEED TAYLOR: PORTRAIT OF A ROAD
NOISES OFF TATTOO. Gallery plan b. 202-234-2711.
July 24-August 22 galleryplanb.com.
The Keegan Theatre
Church Street Theater tuesday, july 27
703-892-0202 PATRICIA PHILLIPS BOWDEN, SAME/
keegantheatre.com DIFFERENT. Montpelier Arts Center.
Called the funniest farce ever written, NOISES OFF 301-377-7800. pgparks.com.
presents a manic menagerie as a cast of itinerant
actors rehearsing a flop called NOTHING'S ON. wednesday, july 28
Doors slamming, on- and backstage intrigue, and PARTY AT THE PLAZA. Arlington Cultural
an errant herring all figure in the plot of this hilari- Affairs. 703-2-ROSSLYN. rosslynva.org.
ous and classically comic play.
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
ARLINGTON ARTISTS ALLIANCE: LA FEMME through,sunday, july 25
Through August 27 AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL.
Arlington Artists Alliance National Geographic. 202-857-7700.
Arlington County Board Offices events.nationalgeographic.com.
arlingtonartistsalliance.org
Part the statewide observance called 'Minds Wide july 24-july 25
Open: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts, the NEXT REFLEX DANCE COLLECTIVE.
exhibit features the feminine in American culture. Dance Place. 202-269-1600. danceplace.org.
Juror Kathrin Halpern, an art historian and fine
arts consultant who has worked for the Hirshhorn Museum and The Smithsonian july 28-july 29
Art Collectors Program, noted that the accepted works 'show a broad range of CHINESE ACROBATS OF HEBEI. Prince
emotions, from jubilant, to dark and pensive.' George's Publick Playhouse for the
Performing Arts. 301-277-1710. pgparks.com.
The Guide to Arts & Culture is supplied by CulturalCapital.com, a program of the Cultural Alliance of
Greater Washington. JAZZ IN THE GARDEN: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; CARRIE
POTTER AT THE NEW MOON PROM: Supplied by The Fringe Festival; NOISES OFF: Supplied by The
Keegan Theatre; LA FEMME: ìHelenî by Dana Saxrud, Supplied by Arlington Artists Alliance. ONE NIGHT ONLY
friday, july 23
GAGA 4 GAGA WORKSHOP. Joy of
Motion Dance Center - Atlas. 202-399-
6763. clients.mindbodyonline.com.
NSO: A RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN
CELEBRATION. The Filene Center at Wolf
Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.
877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
saturday, july 24
EDDIE FROM OHIO. The Filene Center at
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing
Arts. 877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
KYP MALONE. National Gallery of Art at
Busboys & Poets. busboysandpoets.com.
MASTERING TRIVIA GAMESóA DAY OF
CHALLENGE, CAMARADERIE, AND FUN.
Smithsonian Resident Associate Program at
Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley Center. 202-633-
3030. residentassociates.org.
PINHOLE CAMERA WORKSHOP. Brentwood
Arts Exchange. 301-277-2863. pgparks.com.
sunday, july 25
BEACH BOYS. The Filene Center at Wolf
Trap National Park for the Performing
Arts. 703-255-1868. wolftrap.org.
BROADWAY HIP HOP DANCE WORK-
SHOP WITH NAMAAD JACKSON. Joy
of Motion Dance Center - Bethesda. 301-
986-0016. clients.mindbodyonline.com.
monday, july 26
CROWDED HOUSE. The Filene Center at
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing
Arts. 877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
tuesday, july 27
STEVE MILLER BAND. The Filene Center
at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing
Arts. 877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
wednesday, july 28
BACHMAN & TURNER. The Filene Center
at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing
Arts. 877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
thursday, july 29
ARETHA FRANKLIN. The Filene Center at
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing
Arts. 877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
ONGOING
PASSING STRANGE. The Studio
Theatre. 202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
SKETCHING IN THE ATRIUM. Corcoran
Gallery of Art and College of Art +
Design. 202-639-1700. corcoran.org.
DESIGN FOR THE OTHER 90%.
National Geographic. 202-857-7588.
events.nationalgeographic.com.
BEAT MEMORIES: THE PHOTO-
GRAPHS OF ALLEN GINSBERG.
National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
DA VINCI - THE GENIUS. National
Geographic. 202-857-7588. events.nation-
algeographic.com.
ART BY THE YARD: WOMEN DESIGN
MID-CENTURY BRITAIN. The Textile
Museum. 202 667 0441. textilemuseum.org.
CHUCK CLOSE PRINTS: PROCESS
AND COLLABORATION. Corcoran
Gallery of Art and College of Art +
Design. 202-397-7328. corcoran.org.
RARE: PORTRAITS OF AMERICA'S
ENDANGERED SPECIES. National
Geographic. events.nationalgeographic.com.
SHEAR MADNESS. The John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
FREE
saturday, july 24
LANHAM ARTS INFUSION. Prince George's
Arts Council at Lanham Sports Park.
301-227-1402. princegeorg sartscouncil.org.
COMMUNITY ART PROJECT. Corcoran
Gallery of Art and College of Art +
Design. 202-639-1700. corcoran.org.
sunday, july 25
LECTURE: IN CHURCH, IN HOME: THE
INTERSECTION OF CHURCH INTERI-
ORS WITH DOMESTIC SPACES IN SEV-
ENTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH PAINT-
ING. National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
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FITNESSAGENDA
Fitness and exercise: myths vs. facts
If you’re in pain at
the gym, then you’re
doing it wrong
By KEVIN M. NORRIS
There are more exercise
myths than there are exercises
and as a personal trainer I have
heard my share.
There’s the classic case of see-
ing someone in the gym who
looks fit. There is a natural ten-
dency to emulate that individual
and adopt some of his or her rou-
tine without knowing whether the
exercises or techniques are safe
and effective. There is a mislead-
ing assumption that because
someone looks good, they must
be doing something right. This
assumption can often be far from
the truth and even dangerous.
Myth #1: No Pain No Gain
Exercise should never hurt
and if you are in pain during or
following an exercise routine, you
have pushed yourself too hard.
Although it is important to push
yourself, there is a fine line
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The person sweating the most at the
gym isn’t necessarily the most fit.
between working hard and push-
ing yourself too hard.
Myth #2: Lower Abs
There is no such thing. The
abdominals are comprised of
several muscles that run the
entire length of the abdominal
wall vertically, horizontally and
diagonally. It is impossible to iso-
late the “lower” portion of the abs
over the upper. It’s simply not a
different muscle group. Create a
program that targets all areas of
the abdominals and remember
to allow one day in between for
rest and recovery. Abdominals,
like all muscles, need a minimum
of 48 hours rest and should not
be worked every day.
Myth #3: Weight Lifting
and Women
One of the most misleading
misconceptions is that if women
weight train, they will gain big
muscles. Women have trace
amounts of testosterone, neces-
sary for muscle building, so they
simply cannot pack on pounds of
muscle overnight without supple-
mentation and aggressive train-
ing. Building muscle will not hap-
pen overnight.
Myth #4: Spot Reduction
We all have “problem areas”
that we want to focus on and rid
that area of fat and flabbiness.
However, spot reduction is
impossible. It is unattainable to
burn off fat in a selected area. Fat
is burned off from the entire body
at the same rate. Nonetheless,
the area that holds the most fat
will lose the most fat in the end.
Myth #5: More Sweat
Equals More Fat Loss
Most of the weight you lose
through sweat is water weight and
is not an accurate measure of
permanent fat loss. Save weigh-
ing yourself for the morning
before you exercise for a more
accurate measure and remember
to stay hydrated throughout the
day, not just during exercise. Eight
8 oz. glasses of water should be
your minimum.
Myth #6: Lose Weight
Before Weight Training
Muscles are far more metabolic
active and burn more calories as
compared to fat, which more or
less just sits there and is not meta-
bolically active. Therefore it is
essential to include weight training
in any weight loss program.
Muscles are also denser than fat
and will give you a leaner more
defined and less-flabby physique.
Myth #7: Supplementation
is a Must
The best way to receive all the
vitamins, minerals and nutrients
that the human body needs is
through a knowledgeable and
well-rounded eating strategy, not
through excessive supplementa-
tion. The body is always better off
eating well and receiving all it
needs through food. Granted there
are some vitamins, minerals and
nutrients that may prove challeng-
ing to take in through food and
some supplementation may be
necessary, but you should not
become a walking pill box.
Myth #8: Stretching
is Not Necessary
Stretching is a crucial compo-
nent of a well-rounded exercise
program. Exercise can often
shorten muscles, which can
make them more prone to injury.
The more you exercise the more
stretching should be part of your
routine. It is always best to
stretch muscles when they are
warmest, generally at
the end of an exer-
cise routine.
Kevin M. Norris is a
health and fitness columnist
for DC Agenda and owner
of Mind Your Own Body,
LLC. Personal Training.
Reach him at
kevinmnorris@aol.com.

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