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Black Pride
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Jeffrey Richardson
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schedule of events.
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Mission accomplished or another setback?
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
compromise draws
mixed reactions  on Monday, Choi said the pro-
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Editor’s note: House and
Senate votes on repeal of ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ were expected after
the Blade’s print deadline. Visit
washingtonblade.com for updates.
The legislative compromise
that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal
supporters in Congress unveiled
this week has inspired mixed
reactions and led LGBT leaders
to advocate for its passage even
as some expressed disappoint-
ment over its shortcomings.
Among those expressing dis-
pleasure was Lt. Dan Choi, a gay
U.S. Army infantry soldier who was
socialagenda
Black Pride’s Earl Fowlkes answers 20 questions. Page 28
localnews
Newly out singer Chely Wright joins Capital Pride lineup. Page 6
local national
news news
Trial of 3 gay men Gov. Martin O'Malley
continues in Wone offends audience of
case, as interrogation wealthy gay donors while
video is played in court. seeking their support.
PAGE 8 PAGE 12
arrested twice for chaining himself
to the White House fence in
protest of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
In an interview with the Blade
posal requires LGBT people to
compromise themselves without
getting much in return.
“In a compromise, it’s insinuated
that both sides have given some-
thing, and I don’t see that,” he said.
“So it’s too generous to call it that.
It’s a delay and it’s asking us to fur-
ther put our political agenda before
the needs of the soldiers, and that’s
who’s getting compromised.”
Despite his disappointment in
the compromise language, Choi
said he didn’t want the measure to
fail this week when it came before
Congress. He noted that “it’s only
Photo by Pete Souza; courtesy of White House
one step” in the path for non-dis-
crimination in the U.S. military and President Barack Obama’s administration endorsed Monday a path to repeal the law that prohibits gays,
people should keep fighting. lesbians and bisexuals from serving openly in the U.S. armed forces. But some criticized the compromise
because it lacks a non-discrimination provision.
Continues on page 14
Looking back on the hoopla
Black couples took
pride in being first
to wed in D.C.
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
jdiguglielmo@washblade.com
On the eve of this weekend’s
Black Pride festivities, the Blade
checked in with two of the first
same-sex couples who wed here
in March to find out how they’re
doing now that the hoopla has
subsided, how they’ve fared as
gay or lesbian couples among
their black friends and families,
and get their thoughts on the
importance of Black Pride.
Photo by Joe Tresh
Three of the first couples to wed
in Washington on March 9, the first Revs. Darlene Garner (left) and Candy Holmes were married March 9
at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters.
Continues on page 18
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LOCALNEWS
Stonewall Democrats name Capital Champions
National Stonewall Democrats honored U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
and Frank Kameny, a longtime gay civil rights activist, May 20 during an event in the AFL-CIO headquarters in D.C.
OBITUARY
Jack Keegel, 68
John Jack Keegel, a longtime
D.C. resident and professor of
mathematics at the University of
the District of Columbia for near-
ly 35 years, died of cancer May
11 at his home in Boynton
Beach, Fla. He was 68.
With a specialty in statistics
and statistical analysis, Keegel
played a lead role for more than
20 years in designing and direct-
ing an annual, federally mandated
study of seatbelt usage by drivers
in the District of Columbia.
The D.C. Department of
Transportation retained Keegel
to organize the study with the
help of student interns at UDC
and others, who methodically
observed whether drivers travel-
ing along various D.C. streets
wore their seatbelts. Although he
retired as a professor in 2004, he
continued to conduct the seat-
belt study through 2009, when
his findings showed a 93 percent
seatbelt usage by D.C. drivers,
according to UDC Professor
Eugene Shiro, who assisted
Keegel in the study.
Keegel’s friends said they and
his UDC colleagues became
inspired and moved in 1995 over
Keegel’s devotion to his domes-
tic partner of 24 years, Edward
Levine, who was hospitalized in
critical condition while awaiting a
heart transplant. They said
Keegel juggled his teaching
Photo courtesy of Brian Lee
schedule to make time each day
to drive from the District to
Fairfax Hospital, where he spent
part of the day with Levine for
nearly two months before Levine
died while waiting for a replace-
ment heart that never arrived.
During Levine’s hospital stay,
he and Keegel agreed to
become the subject of a feature
story in the Washington Blade,
becoming the first known same-
sex couple to publicly share their
experiences in grappling with the
uncertainty of a hoped for heart
transplant.
Keegel was born in Jersey City,
N.J. and was raised in Rahway,
N.J. He received a bachelor’s
degree in 1963 from Rutgers
University and his master’s degree
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
in 1966 from the University of
Delaware, both in mathematics.
He received a doctorate degree in
statistics in 1975 from George
Washington University.
Keegel served as a statisti-
cian with the National Institutes
of Health from 1966 to 1969 and
worked as a statistical consultant
to a contracting company provid-
ing services to the U.S. Postal
Service from 1968 to 1969. He
began his tenure as a mathemat-
ics professor at UDC in 1969.
While at UDC, he worked as a
statistical consultant during the
summer months for a number of
outside consulting firms. In the
summer of 1979 he served as a
lecturer at the NATO Advanced
Statistics Institute in Urbino, Italy.
Keegel also is the author or co-
author of at least nine books or
book chapters on statistics and
statistical analysis.
Upon his retirement, he
retained his home in D.C. while
spending winters in Boynton
Beach, Fla.
Keegel was preceeded in death
by Levine, his domestic partner of
24 years. Survivors include a for-
mer domestic partner, Brian Lee;
his father, John Keegel; a step-
mother, Margo Keegel; several
cousins; and many longtime
friends in Florida and D.C.
Plans to celebrate Keegel’s life
in Florida and D.C. are pending.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Lesbian named president
of Montgomery College
DeRionne Pollard, a lesbian
who has served as California
Community College’s president
since 2008, has been named
president of Montgomery
College, a community college
in Montgomery County, Md.
The college’s board of trustees
announced her appointment May
18, saying Pollard, 39, was cho-
sen following a nationwide search
and a review of more than 50
applicants. She holds a doctorate
Photo courtesy of Montgomery College
degree in educational leadership
and policy studies. DeRionne Pollard is the new
“Throughout the search president of Montgomery
process, Dr. Pollard impressed College in Maryland.
both the board and the search
advisory committee by her passion and devotion to the advance-
ment of the community college mission and the students we
serve,” the board said in a statement.
In its announcement of her appointment, the board noted that
Pollard and her domestic partner of more than 20 years, Robyn Jones,
“are the proud parents of a 3-year-old son, Myles Julian Pollard-Jones.”
Pollard is the first known black lesbian to be named president
of a U.S. college. Earlier this year, Grinnell College of Iowa
named National Institutes of Health deputy director and physi-
cian Raynard Kington as its president, making him the nation’s
first known black openly gay college president.
“I am thankful and truly honored that the board of trustees
selected me as the next president of Montgomery College,”
Pollard said. “I am impressed with the caliber of the faculty, staff,
administrators and students at Montgomery College.”
The Washington Post reported that Pollard’s predecessor,
Brian Johnson, was removed as president following allegations
of overspending and “lapses in management.” The Post said fac-
ulty and staff at the college were looking forward to Pollard’s
leadership after a tumultuous nine months of tension leading up
to Johnson’s forced resignation.
Faculty and staff rose to their feet and greeted her with pro-
longed applause when she was introduced to them at an audito-
rium last week at the college’s Rockville, Md., campus.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Realtors approve LGBT
non-discrimination policy
The Professional Standards Committee of the National
Association of Realtors voted unanimously May 13 in Washington,
D.C., to approve a policy prohibiting the denial of real estate-relat-
ed services to someone based on his or her sexual orientation.
The action was proposed last year by the National Association
of Gay & Lesbian Real Estate Professionals, which works closely
with NAR, according to a statement by the gay group.
It calls for amending NAR’s code of ethics to add the term
sexual orientation to a litany of other protected classes.
The amended policy, if ratified as expected by the NAR’s del-
egate body in November, would say, “Realtors shall not deny
equal professional services to any person for reasons of race,
color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin or
sexual orientation.”
The proposal would also change the code of ethics to say,
“Realtors shall not be parties to any plan or agreement to dis-
criminate against a person or persons on the basis of race, color,
religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin or sexual
orientation.” It additionally says that Realtors or real estate firms
shall not engage in discrimination based on the same litany of
categories in employment practices for their offices.
If the delegate body gives final approval to the policy change,
the change would take effect Jan. 1.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
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LOCALNEWS
GLAAD launches D.C. council
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation launched its D.C. leadership council with an event May 25 at
the Mitchell Gold & Bob Williams store on 14th Street. Speakers included Jarrod Chalpowski of the Human Rights
Campaign, Alex Nicholson of Servicemembers United, and Tony Varona and Jessica Katz of GLAAD.
Stein Club endorses challenger
in ‘shadow’ U.S. House race
The Gertrude Stein Democratic
Club on Monday passed over the
incumbent D.C. “shadow” member
of the U.S. House of
Representatives, whom it backed
in the last two elections, and
instead endorsed a little-known
challenger for the ceremonial post.
In receiving 60.8 percent of the
vote, challenger Nate Bennett-
Fleming barely surpassed the
required 60 percent threshold for
obtaining the club’s endorsement,
becoming the first non-incumbent
to win the Stein backing this year.
He beat incumbent Mike Pannetta,
who the club endorsed in his 2006
and 2008 bids for the shadow seat.
“Tonight’s vote reflects a shift
that I believe is happening within
Fourth suspect arrested for gay principal’s slaying
Police in Montgomery County,
Md., announced the arrest last
week of a fourth suspect charged
in the murder of gay D.C. middle
school principal Brian Betts.
Joel Johnson, 19, whose
address could not be confirmed,
was apprehended by D.C. police
at 5:30 p.m. May 18 along the 100
block of Ivanhoe Street, S.W.,
according to a police statement.
The statement from Montgomery
County police says he was charged
with one count of first-degree mur-
der, one count of armed robbery and
three counts of conspiracy to com-
mit first-degree murder. He was
the District of Columbia, where we
have younger voices standing up
to take leadership,” said Jeffrey
Richardson, the Stein Club’s pres-
ident. “Nate Bennett-Fleming
clearly has the support of his
peers and a strong bloc of LGBT
activists from across the city.”
D.C. voters approved the cre-
ation of one “shadow” U.S. House
seat and two “shadow” U.S.
Senate seats in a ballot initiative
in the 1980s as part of their sup-
port for a D.C. statehood constitu-
tion. The positions have no pow-
ers or authority in Congress and
don’t come with a salary.
Backers of D.C. statehood
said they modeled the positions
after other U.S. territories that
being held at the D.C. jail pending
extradition proceedings that would
move him to Montgomery County.
Betts, 42, was found shot to
death April 15 in an upper floor bed-
room in his house in Silver Spring,
Md. Earlier this month, police arrest-
ed Sharif Lancaster, Alante
Saunders, and Deontra Gray —
each 18 years old — on first-degree
murder and armed robbery charges
in connection with the Betts murder.
Police also charged Artura Otey
Williams, 46, the mother of Lancaster,
with receiving and using a credit card
stolen from Betts by the three men
charged in the murder.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
created shadow congressional
positions when they applied for
statehood in the 1800s. People
in the positions generally lobby
Congress to approve D.C. as the
nation’s 51st state and give the
city budgetary autonomy and full
voting rights in Congress.
Bennet-Fleming and Pannetta
each expressed support for LGBT
rights, including support for the
city’s same-sex marriage law.
In a separate development, the
club voted Monday to endorse the
re-election bids of D.C. City Council
members Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3)
and Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6). The
two are running unopposed in the
September primary.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Police said Betts met one or
more of the three teens charged
with his murder through a tele-
phone sex chat line. Betts
became the second D.C. area
gay man to be murdered and at
least the third to be attacked and
robbed by someone they met
through an Internet or phone
chat line since last December.
Gays & Lesbians Opposing
Violence recently issued alerts
urging people to use caution when
meeting strangers through social
networking venues such as the
Internet or phone chat lines.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Lead entertainers cancel
Pride appearances
The lead entertainers scheduled to perform at D.C.’s Capital
Pride and Black Pride festivals abruptly cancelled their appear-
ances last week, prompting organizers to scramble to rearrange
their programs.
D.C. born and nation-
ally recognized rapper
Wale informed Black
Pride organizers by e-
mail last week that he
backed out of his May 30
appearance at the D.C.
Convention Center for the
Black Pride annual festi-
val because he was
uncomfortable perform-
ing at a gay event.
Shortly thereafter,
Photo courtesy of Interscope Records
singer and actress Mya,
who was scheduled to Wale, a rapper and D.C. native,
perform June 13 at the backed out of performing at this year’s
Capital Pride festival, dis- Black Pride. Organizers said homo-
closed that complications phobia is to blame.
associated with recent
foot surgery would prevent her from appearing at that event.
“While we are sad to learn that Mya will be unable to entertain
at Capital Pride due to medical reasons, we wish her a speedy
recovery,” said Dyana Mason, Capital Pride’s executive director.
Replacing Mya is country singer Chely Wright, who recently
came out as lesbian. Wright, who’s best known for her songs
“Jezabel” and “Single White Female,” is scheduled to perform at
Capital Pride on June 13.
Earl Fowlkes, a board member and spokesperson for Black Pride,
said organizers were able to book nationally known rhythm and blues
singer J. Holiday as a replacement for Wale. Holiday, 25 and a D.C.
native, is best known for his 2007 hit song “Bed,” which rose to the No.
1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, according to Billboard Magazine.
Wale, 25, became a nationally recognized rapper in 2006,
when his song “Dig Dug (Shake It)” caught the eye of a record
company producer who arranged for a wider distribution of his
music. Among other things, he has performed on MTV and
appeared recently on the David Letterman Show.
Fowlkes said Black Pride organizers were startled last week when
they received two e-mails from Wale’s agent, one saying the rapper had
to cancel due to “family obligations,” and the second saying he didn’t
know Black Pride was a gay-related event when he agreed to appear.
“We were clear about what kind of event this is,” Fowlkes told
the Blade. “After doing this for 20 years, we certainly don’t want
to put ourselves and the artist in an uncomfortable situation by
not telling them what we are.
“We’re Black Gay Pride, and the people coming out there are
members of our community,” he said. “We made that very clear.”
Fowlkes said Black Pride officials believe homophobia was the
underlying reason that Wale cancelled his appearance. He noted
that Wale’s agent has refunded an advance fee that Black Pride
made to book the rapper, but the group is considering taking legal
action for what Fowlkes described as a breach of contract.
“What was important to us on our 20th year is we really wanted to
break some new ground,” Fowlkes said. “And one of the things we
wanted was a male black artist. We always had female artists and
we’ve never really had a male black heterosexual identified artist.”
He said organizers carefully vetted Wale, whose music is pop-
ular within the black LGBT community, for any signs of anti-gay
themes in his lyrics and statements, and none were found.
Jeffrey Richardson, president of the Gertrude Stein
Democratic Club and one of the local black LGBT leaders sched-
uled to be honored at this year’s Black Pride events, called
Wale’s cancellation a sign that the LGBT community still has a
long way to go to overcome prejudice.
“This is pure homophobia on his part,” Richardson said. “This
reflects the feelings of the broader community. For a lot of folks,
the biggest fear is of being labeled as gay. It’s a stigma we still
have a lot of work to do to overcome.”
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
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LOCALNEWS
Wedding DIRECTORY Wone trial video shows
interrogation of Price, Ward
Gay defendants insist
intruder is to blame
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
As the conspiracy trial continued this
week for three gay men implicated in the
2006 murder of Washington lawyer Robert
Wone, it remained unclear whether the men
would take the witness stand to testify.
But defendants Joseph Price and
Dylan Ward effectively appeared as virtu-
al witnesses Monday and Tuesday as
prosecutors showed in the courtroom a
police video of homicide detectives ques-
tioning the men about the murder.
The interrogations took place in the
early morning hours of Aug. 3, 2006, a
few hours after Wone was found stabbed
to death in a second-floor guest room at
Price, Ward and Victor Zaborsky’s
The Palisades upscale townhouse on Swann Street,
Community Church N.W., near Dupont Circle.
Celebrating “At no time did Price appear very emo-
86 Years of Diversity tional or upset,” reported Craig Brownstein,
a writer with the Who Murdered Robert
BriAN MerriTT Pastor Wone blog, which described Price’s
5200 Cathedral Ave., N.W. | Washington, D.C. 20016 responses to questions by two detectives
202-966-7929 sitting beside him in the interrogation room.
brianmerritt@mac.com | thepalisadeschurch.com Brownstein reported that Ward
watched the video intently while sitting
behind the defense table, but Price
looked straight ahead at the lawyers and
never looked at the video.
The men have been charged with
obstruction of justice, conspiracy to
obstruct justice and evidence tampering.
If convicted on all three counts, they face
a possible maximum sentence of 38
years in prison. No one has been charged
with Wone’s murder.
Transcripts of the videotaped interro-
gations of Price and Ward show that
detectives repeatedly challenged their
claim that an unidentified intruder killed
Wone after entering their house from a
rear door while they were asleep in their
respective bedrooms.
Wone’s wife testified last week that her
husband, a longtime friend of Price from
their days as students at the College of
William & Mary, spent the night at the men’s
house after working late at his nearby office.
The detectives noted that they found no
evidence of a forced entry into the house.
They said nothing was taken or disturbed,
including valuable items in clear view on
the first floor, including a flat screen televi-
sion. Why would an intruder presumably
arriving to burglarize the house bypass
expensive items, go upstairs, walk past
Ward’s bedroom and enter the room
where Wone was sleeping and stab him,
the detectives wanted to know.
“I understand it doesn’t make sense,”
Ward told them.
Defense attorneys, including gay for-
mer D.C. Attorney General Robert
Spagnoletti, asked the detectives during
their cross examination whether investi-
gators and prosecutors “jumped to con-
clusions” that the three men were impli-
cated in the murder because of their sex-
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
Defense attorney Bernard Grimm, who
represents Joseph Price, asked a detective
in court whether his approach to the mur-
der investigation was shaped by his ‘atti-
tudes’ toward homosexuals.
ual orientation and their three-way
romantic relationship.
The defense has repeatedly referred to
Det. Sgt. Daniel Wager’s questioning of Price
about why Wone, whose family says he was
straight, wanted to stay at their house.
“I got three homosexuals in a house
and one straight guy,” he told Price in the
interrogation room. “What is he doing
there?” Wagner added, “I think you were
all drinking wine and you know what’s
going to happen tonight.”
Price responded by calling what he con-
sidered Wagner’s suggestion that the gay
housemates were interested in a sexual
encounter with Wone as being “insulting.”
Spagnoletti and defense attorneys
David Schertler and Bernard Grimm each
pressed the detectives in cross examina-
tion about whether they pursued other sce-
narios in the investigation, including Price’s
claim that other people such as contractors
had keys to the men’s house. Grimm
repeatedly asked Wagner whether his
approach to the investigation was shaped
by his “attitudes” toward homosexuals.
The detectives replied that, after what
they called a thorough assessment of the
evidence, they concluded that no intruder
entered the house on the night of the murder.
Police and prosecutors say they have
evidence showing the three men delayed
calling 911 to report the stabbing and
appeared to have tampered with the
crime scene and covered up evidence to
protect the killer. Prosecutors say they
believe one or all three of the men know
the killer’s identity.
Defense attorneys say they will show
that police botched the investigation by fail-
ing to pursue and identify the intruder that
the defense says murdered Robert Wone.
The trial is expected to continue for at
least another three weeks. Judge Lynn
Leibovitz, who is presiding over the trial,
will decide the defendants’ guilt or inno-
cence following their decision to give up
their right to a jury trial.
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NATIONALNEWS
Protesters again demand ENDA passage
Job bias bill remains
pending in committee
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Local activists seeking an end
to job discrimination against LGBT
people protested last week outside
the U.S. Capitol, urging Congress
to take action on the issue.
Holding signs reading, “I can
still be fired for being me” and “1
in 7 LGBTQ face job discrimina-
tion,” about one dozen protesters
marched along Independence
Avenue on May 20 to demand
passage of the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act.
The bill, pending in committee
in both chambers of Congress,
would bar job bias based on sex-
ual orientation and gender iden-
tity in most private and public
workforce settings.
Supporters have said for
months they’re expecting immi-
nent action on the bill, but it has
yet to move out of committee in
either the House or Senate.
Jay Carmona, a D.C. lesbian,
led much of the protest by shout-
ing chants into a bullhorn. She said
the protest was held because law-
makers made several promises on
ENDA and now Democrats are
“silent” on those promises.
“This is something that is real-
ly, really important, especially in
these tough economic times,”
Carmona said. “We can’t afford
longer unemployment lines
FDA to review gay blood donor ban policy
June committee
meeting to consider
policy change
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The Food & Drug Administration is
starting a review process that
could end the longstanding policy
prohibiting gay and bisexual men
from donating blood, according to
the Federal Register.
A notice published earlier this
month says the Department of
Health & Human Services has
scheduled a meeting next month
of the Advisory Committee on
Blood Safety & Availability to dis-
cuss the issue. The committee is
charged with providing recom-
mendations to HHS on blood
supply and blood products.
The meeting, which is open to
because people are being fired
just because of their gender
expression or their sexuality.”
Brad Catoe, a gay D.C. resi-
dent, said he wants to see ENDA
pass because it’s “important for
everybody to be treated equally
under the law.”
Catoe, whose partner, Brian
Fricke, is a gay former Marine
and board member of the
Servicemembers Legal Defense
Network, said passage of ENDA
and repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” are particularly important
issues for him.
“Obviously, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
is important to me firstly because
my partner was in the Marines, but I
think that the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act is also very
important to our entire community,”
Catoe said. “They’re sort of con-
nected in a lot of ways.”
Last week’s protest got the
attention of some people work-
ing on Capitol Hill. A Democratic
aide told the Blade the action
alerted several officials in the
Cannon House Building, includ-
ing Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.).
Still, it was unclear when the
House might take action. Federal
lawmakers are taking a week off fol-
lowing the Memorial Day holiday.
Organizing the event was
GetEqual, the group responsible
for several recent protests and
rallies in D.C. and elsewhere that
have drawn attention to LGBT
issues. Although previous
GetEqual events have included
arrests, nobody was detained
the public, is set to take place at the
Universities of Shady Grove in
Rockville, Md. Discussion is sched-
uled over the course of two days,
June 10-11. The meetings on both
days are set for 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fred Sainz, a Human Rights
Campaign vice president and
spokesperson, said the meeting “will
determine whether or not the blood
ban is repealed and what conditions,
if any, would apply going forward.”
The FDA instituted the blood
donor ban in 1983 in response to the
AIDS crisis. The policy prohibits any
man who’s had sex even once with
another man since 1977 from donat-
ing blood. At the time, the policy
was deemed necessary because
gay and bisexual men have a higher
rate of HIV/AIDS infection.
LGBT rights supporters have
been seeking to overturn the ban
on the grounds that it unfairly tar-
gets gay and bisexual men —
and that testing procedures for
Protesters on Capitol Hill last week called on Congress to pass the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
during the May 20 protest.
Heather Cronk, managing direc-
tor for GetEqual, said last week’s
protest was intended to “give visibil-
ity” to LGBT people and their need
HIV/AIDS have improved signifi-
cantly since 1983.
According to the Federal
Register notice, the committee will
consider “the most important fac-
tors … to consider in making a
policy change” as well as whether
current scientific information is
sufficient to support ending the
policy, and what studies and safe-
ty measures are needed before a
change takes place.
In a statement last week,
HRC President Joe Solmonese
called on the FDA to end
the blood donor ban, noting that
the policy “cannot be justified by
today’s science.”
“In 2010, we cannot continue to
turn away healthy donors based
on outdated stereotypes and a
decades-old understanding of HIV
and AIDS,” Solmonese said.
The HRC statement says that
the organization plans to testify
at the hearing and send a letter
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
for workplace protections.
“While other groups are lobby-
ing and doing phone calls and
doing e-mails, we also make
sure that we’re feeling visible in
with an allied organization to
urge a revision to FDA policy.
In a statement, Laurie Young,
interim director of public policy and
government affairs for the National
Gay & Lesbian Task Force, said
the re-examination of the gay
blood donor ban is “long overdue.”
“The lifetime ban was initiated in
1983, at the beginning of the AIDS
crisis,” she said. “Nearly 30 years
later, the science has changed but
the outdated policy remains.”
Young said the re-examination
of the policy should “take into
account” new disease screening
techniques for blood donations,
and “distinguish between high-risk
and low-risk behavior in donors.”
In recent months, efforts to lift
the ban have become more visi-
ble as many lawmakers have
publicly urged the FDA to
change its policy. In March, Sen.
John Kerry (D-Mass.) and 17
other senators wrote a letter to
that process,” she said.
Cronk, a lesbian who lives in
Riverdale, Md., said passing ENDA
is important because LGBT people
“are one of the few groups left that
are not protected by federal law.”
“We can continue working on a
local and a statewide level, but folks
in middle states who can be fired for
who they are need protection at the
federal level, so we’re standing up
for those folks today,” Cronk said.
Much of the protest was
directed at U.S. House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). At one
point, protesters gathered just
outside Pelosi’s office in the
Cannon House Office Building
and shouted, “Nancy Pelosi! We
want ENDA!”
In an interview with The Hill
newspaper last week, Pelosi said
she’s supported passage of ENDA
for decades and feels the pending
bill is strongly positioned, but
expressed some uncertainty about
moving forward.
“When the opportunity is
there, we want to bring that up,
and I hope that will be soon,” she
said. “We’ll see what people
want to do. It’s not my own per-
sonal decision. We’ll just see
where we go from here.”
Supporters of ENDA have
expressed concern that oppo-
nents could use a legislative
maneuver known as the motion
to recommit to scuttle the bill
when it comes to the floor. The
maneuver could force a vote on
stripping the gender identity pro-
visions from the legislation.
the FDA asking for an end to the
ban, calling it “outdated, medical-
ly and scientifically unsound
deferral criteria for prospective
blood donors.”
In a statement to the Blade
this week, Kerry said the admin-
istration “is doing the right
thing” by re-examining the ban.
“I believe the ban strikes
everyone as outdated based on
the science,” he said. “It’s a relic
and it doesn’t make sense, espe-
cially compared to other policies
we have in place.”
Kerry noted that under current
regulations, a man who’s had
sex with a prostitute is able to
donate blood, but a gay man in a
committed monogamous rela-
tionship is prohibited.
“That just doesn’t make sense
to me on its face,” he said. “I look
forward to hearing the results of
this meeting as well as the FDA’s
recommendations.”
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NATIONALNEWS
Rare peek behind closed doors of secret gay donor confab
Maryland governor,
looking for donations,
offends high-profile
contributors
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
A controversial appearance by
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley
prompted participants in a closed-
door conference of wealthy LGBT
political donors, held May 15-16 in
Chicago, to breach a strict a confi-
dentiality policy after he told the
gathering he favors civil unions
over same-sex marriage.
O’Malley was one of at least
four U.S. governors invited to
address the annual Political
OutGiving conference, a highly
confidential event for a network of
more than 200 big-stakes LGBT
contributors to political campaigns.
The network is operated by
the Denver-based Gill Action
Fund, which was founded in
2006 by gay entrepreneur and
multimillionaire Tim Gill.
Members of the network are
warned that violating the confi-
dentiality policy could result in
their expulsion.
But several participants, speak-
ing on condition that they not be
identified, ignored the warnings
and informed the Blade about an
exchange between O’Malley and
Julie Goodridge, the lesbian plain-
tiff in the Massachusetts lawsuit
that led to the legalization of same-
sex marriage in that state.
Goodridge reportedly interrupt-
ed O’Malley and told him that he
appeared to be talking about civil
unions the way people did in the
early 2000s, according to multiple
sources that attended the event.
“It’s 2010,” the sources quoted
Goodridge as saying. It’s totally
unacceptable to be pushing civil
unions in a state like Maryland at
this time when full marriage
equality is gaining momentum
among voters, sources para-
phrased Goodridge as saying.
Three people present during
the exchange said the audience
applauded Goodridge for her
comments.
They said O’Malley, who
expressed support for LGBT rights,
replied that voters in his state aren’t
ready for gay marriage. But a
recent Washington Post poll found
for the first time that more
Marylanders now support same-
sex marriage than oppose it.
Joanne Kron, a spokesperson
for Gill Action Fund, said in an e-
mail that the group would not com-
ment on the Goodridge-O’Malley
exchange because “we don’t dis-
Photo courtesy of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s oofice
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley told a group of 200 LGBT donors that he
supports civil unions over marriage rights for same-sex couples.
cuss the Political OutGiving confer-
ence, which is a private event.”
“Political OutGiving is a focused,
bipartisan state-based strategy
that concentrates on delivering
resources from dedicated and gen-
erous donors to select campaigns
in a limited number of states,” Kron
said in her e-mail.
“Political OutGiving started in
2006 when hundreds of donors
contributed around $3 million to
targeted campaigns aimed at pro-
tecting or increasing the number of
pro-LGBT supporters in state leg-
islatures,” she said. “Political
OutGiving similarly engaged in
elections in 2008 and will be
involved in campaigns in 2010.”
Goodridge did not return calls
Tuesday seeking comment on
her interaction with O’Malley.
Rick Abbruzzese, a spokesper-
son for O’Malley’s re-election cam-
paign, said O’Malley flew to Chicago
to attend the OutGiving conference
May 15, after presenting the winning
trophy at Baltimore’s annual
Preakness horse racing event.
“The governor’s position has
been clear on this issue and con-
sistent — that he does support
civil unions and that he felt we
could have reached a consensus
within the Maryland General
Assembly to move the issue of
civil unions forward,” Abbruzzese
said. “He has not supported gay
marriage in the past.”
But O’Malley once favored
same-sex marriage. He privately
told LGBT supporters in 2006
and 2007 in e-mails and during
meetings that he supported civil
marriage rights for gay couples,
before the state’s high court
ruled against such rights. And he
once told a Baltimore television
station that he backed civil mar-
riage rights for gays.
Sources familiar with the
OutGiving conference, which was
held in Chicago’s upscale
Peninsula Hotel, said O’Malley was
joined at the event by Democratic
Govs. Chet Culver of Iowa, John
Lynch of New Hampshire, and
Edward Rendell of Pennsylvania.
Also attending were Democratic
Lt. Gov. Diane Denish of New
Mexico, who is running for governor,
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, and
U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.).
Attendees said a session in
which O’Malley, Denish and other
panelists participated was moder-
ated by gay journalist Jonathan
Capehart, an editorial writer for the
Washington Post. Capehart could
not immediately be reached for
comment. Sources familiar with
the event said Capehart, like most
other participants in the event,
agreed to keep his role and the
meeting itself off the record.
Due to OutGiving’s confidentiali-
ty policy, it could not be determined
whether the Gill Action Fund, which
operates the donor network, would
give support to O’Malley, who is
being challenged this year by
Republican former Gov. Robert
Ehrlich. O’Malley defeated Ehrlich
in 2006, and political insiders are
predicting a close race between the
two rivals this year.
Morgan Meneses-Sheets, exec-
utive director of Equality Maryland,
a non-partisan statewide LGBT
group, said that while the group is
disappointed in O’Malley’s support
for civil unions over same-sex mar-
riage, he has repeatedly pledged to
sign a same-sex marriage bill
should it reach his desk.
By contrast, Meneses-Sheets
pointed to Ehrlich’s decision to veto
during his tenure as Maryland gov-
ernor a limited domestic partner-
ship bill that called for giving hospi-
tal visitation rights to same-sex
partners and medical decision-
making authority for an incapacitat-
ed partner. She said Ehrlich has
expressed opposition to same-sex
marriage and, unlike O’Malley,
could be expected to veto a mar-
riage bill passed by the legislature.
Meneses-Sheets said that
although pushing a same-sex mar-
riage bill through the legislature next
year would be a “challenge,” she and
her Equality Maryland colleagues
are hopeful that members of the
State Senate who have blocked
advancement of the bill will be
defeated in the November election.
“We have a plan in place and
we’re working on all of the pieces
it will take to get a win,” she said.
“This is not a pie in the sky.”
Other LGBT activists in the state
have expressed concern that
O’Malley’s pledge to sign a marriage
bill rings hollow because he refuses
to use his political influence to push
wavering lawmakers to back a mar-
riage measure. Some activists said
they doubt the November election,
in which all members of the legisla-
ture come up before the voters, will
result in enough new supporters to
pass a marriage bill.
‘Moneyed gay people
making things happen’
Although Gill Action’s Political
OutGiving has been the subject
of media coverage, including
coverage in the LGBT press, the
exchange between Goodridge
and O’Malley appears to have
triggered for the first time discus-
sion and questions among mem-
bers of the donor network about
the need for the secrecy
imposed by Gill Action’s leaders.
In response to the Blade’s
inquiries about the Chicago con-
ference, Gill Action Fund’s execu-
tive director, Patrick Guerriero, and
its deputy executive director, Bill
Smith, sent a joint e-mail to net-
work donors Tuesday urging them
not to speak with the media.
“Doing really important work
often attracts the media and we’ve
been informed that a reporter is
buzzing about the 2010 Political
OutGiving conference,” the two
said in their e-mail. “As you know,
the event is private and participant
attendance is confidential.”
Smith, who heads the Gill Action
Fund’s Washington office, is a for-
mer aide to Bush administration
official Karl Rove. Smith told the
Advocate in a 2008 interview that
pragmatic and sometimes hard-hit-
ting tactics employed by Rove can
be used by Gill Action for the
advancement of LGBT equality.
“We’re not afraid to learn from
anyone across the political spec-
trum who’s doing really smart
work, be it EMILY’s List or
GOPAC,” Smith told the Advocate.
EMILY’s List is a Democratic, liber-
al leaning group pushing for women’s
rights that’s credited with helping elect
Democrats to Congress. GOPAC is a
Republican political action commit-
tee said to be responsible for help-
ing Republicans win control of
Congress during the 1990s.
Guerriero is a former Republican
state legislator from Massachusetts
and former president of the national
gay partisan group Log Cabin
Republicans.
Guerriero and Smith have said
in the past that Gill Action Fund
assesses candidates running for
public office to determine whether
they should be supported or
opposed. It then sends its recom-
mendations to its “top secret”
donor list, according to one source
familiar with the group.
The donors make individual con-
tributions to the recommended can-
didates. The system makes it diffi-
cult to measure which candidates
are benefiting from the gay network.
Although the names of con-
tributors must be reported to the
Federal Election Commission,
which makes its reports available
for public inspection, reviewing
FEC records would be useless
for identifying OutGiving donors
because Gill Action Fund never
releases their names.
“The fact that it’s being kept out
of the public eye — that’s bad
news,” said Bill Dobbs, a New York
gay rights attorney and activist.
“It’s too much wheeling and deal-
ing behind closed doors.”
One of the OutGiving donors
who spoke to the Blade on condi-
tion of anonymity disagreed with
the strict confidentiality policy.
“I think part of it is they don’t want to
run the risk that there would be stories
that these rich gay people get together
and push their agenda and it’s the
moneyed gay people that are making
things happen,” the donor said.
But the donor said the donations
were helping the LGBT civil rights
movement in the long run by send-
ing more supportive lawmakers to
Congress and the state legislatures.
Sources who attended the
Political OutGiving conference said
that in addition to the donors, a num-
ber of prominent officials with other
LGBT rights groups attended the
event. Among them were Evan
Wolfson, executive director of the
same-sex marriage advocacy group
Freedom to Marry; Steve Elmendorf,
a gay former congressional staffer
and Washington political consultant;
Mary Breslauer, a Boston-based
consultant for the Human Rights
Campaign; Chuck Wolfe and Robin
Brand, director and deputy director
of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund;
and Matt Foreman, former National
Gay & Lesbian Task Force director
and a current official with the
Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund,
which awards grants to LGBT
organizations and causes.
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‘Don’t Ask’ deal lacks non-discrimination language
Continued from page 1
The measure in the Senate
was made public Monday by
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-
Conn.), the sponsor of stand-
alone legislation for repeal in the
Senate. On Tuesday, Rep. Patrick
Murphy (D-Pa.), champion of
standalone repeal legislation in
the House, unveiled an identical-
ly worded companion bill.
The Senate Armed Services
Committee and the full House
were expected to vote on the
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” measures
this week during consideration of
Pentagon budget legislation
known as the fiscal year 2011
defense authorization bill. Neither
vote occurred before Blade dead-
line. Check washingtonblade.com
for the latest information.
The measures presented by
Lieberman and Murphy would
repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
statute mandating that openly
gay, lesbian and bisexual people
be discharged from the U.S.
armed forces.
However, the law would only
be repealed after the Pentagon
completes its study — due Dec.
1 — on how to implement repeal
in the U.S. military.
Further, President Barack
Obama, Defense Secretary
Robert Gates and Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm.
Michael Mullen would have to
certify that the U.S. military is
ready for the transition and that
the change “is consistent with the
standards of military readiness,
military effectiveness, unit cohe-
sion and recruiting and retention.”
The legislation doesn’t give a
timeline when the president, the
defense secretary and the chair-
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
would have to issue the certifica-
tion. On Monday, the Associated
Press reported that meeting
those conditions for repeal would
allow the Pentagon “perhaps
even years” to prepare for repeal.
Notably, the legislation also
lacks non-discrimination lan-
guage and would return authori-
ty on discharging LGBT service
members to the Pentagon.
Choi said the provisions in the
legislation are “essentially com-
promising the integrity of the sol-
diers until a time to be deter-
mined” and compared the lack of
a deadline for certification to a
military commander issuing an
order without a timeline.
“It’s devastating to the soldiers
who don’t know and it leaves a lot
of questions out there,” Choi said.
“My question back to the presi-
dent is how long are we going to
force our soldiers to lie? Nobody
can answer the question when.”
Following weeks of protests on its doorstep, the White House has backed a path to overturning ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ But some activists, including U.S.
Army Lt. Dan Choi, were critical of the compromise.
But Choi said “what bothers”
him the most is the absence of
the non-discrimination language
that was contained in the stand-
alone version of the bill.
“I thought the most heinous
part of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was
that it enforced discrimination,
and now it just says that’s alto-
gether not as important,” Choi
said. “I think it’s within every-
body’s mandate to get rid of dis-
crimination where it exists.”
Choi said as a result of the
compromise, LGBT soldiers
could be subject to a policy
that’s “turbulent and precarious.”
Also expressing disappoint-
ment about the lack of non-dis-
crimination language was Alex
Nicholson, executive director of
Servicemembers United, who said
removal of the non-discrimination
language was “unnecessary” to
get more support for repeal.
“I think we would have been in
the same position had we not
made three concessions and only
made two,” he said. “Other minor-
ity groups have not received
statutory non-discrimination pro-
tection in the military — this
would have been something extra
— but it was something we were
on track to secure.”
Aubrey Sarvis, executive
director of the Servicemembers
Legal Defense Network, said
he’s not sure who initiated the
idea of omitting non-discrimina-
tion language, but said those
supporting repeal thought such a
move would improve its chances
of passage.
“It’s not anything that SLDN
volunteered to give up,” Sarvis
said. “I think at the end of the day,
we all realized that we would have
to live with this new compromise.”
The idea of removing non-dis-
crimination language and return-
ing authority on discharges to
the Pentagon was advanced pre-
viously by the Palm Center, a
think tank on gays in the military.
Earlier this month, the Blade
reported that the Palm Center
had been asking other LGBT
groups to support such a move.
But Aaron Belkin, director of
the Palm Center, said he didn’t
know why the non-discrimination
language was removed and
noted that Palm wasn’t active in
pushing for such a move as part
of the compromise measure.
“This was news to me when I
was told,” he said. “I was actually in
bed when I was told and I promise
you we had nothing to do with it.”
Still, Belkin said passing legis-
lation with non-discrimination
language is “not politically realis-
tic” and the compromise meas-
ure advanced earlier this week is
“what we can get.”
But Nicholson said the Palm
Center pushed hard to have the
non-discrimination language
removed from the legislation,
noting recent reports in which
Belkin advocated the proposal.
Nicholson said Belkin was
responsible for Saturday’s opinion
piece in the Washington Post in
which former Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John
Shalikashvili advocated for a
return of authority to the Pentagon.
“There’s been no secret about
that fact that the Palm Center has
lobbied hard to take out the non-dis-
crimination language, including the
[Shalikashvili] op-ed and several
other pieces of media that the Palm
Center has done,” Nicholson said.
Compromise brought
White House support
While the compromise fell
short of what repeal supporters
initially sought, the conditions set
forth in the proposal brought
support from the White House,
which opponents of “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” had long sought.
In a letter published Monday,
Peter Orzag, director of the Office
of Management & Budget, writes
the repeal measure adheres to
the Pentagon’s request to finish its
study on the issue at the end of
the year and therefore is support-
ed by the Obama administration.
Orzag says that the Pentagon
review would be “ideally” completed
before Congress takes action on
the issue, but notes the administra-
tion “understands that Congress
has chosen to move forward with
the legislation now and seeks the
administration’s views on the pro-
posed amendment.”
In the letter, Orzag says he
understands the amendment would
ensure implementation of repeal is
consistent with “standards of mili-
tary readiness, effectiveness, unit
cohesion, recruiting and retention.”
“The administration therefore
supports the proposed amend-
ment,” Orzag writes.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
Geoff Morrell, a Pentagon
spokesperson, issued a statement
Tuesday saying Gates supports
the measure, although he still
believes Congress should hold off
on tackling the issue until after the
Pentagon completes its study.
“Secretary Gates continues to
believe that ideally the [Defense
Department] review should be com-
pleted before there is any legislation
to repeal the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
law,” he said. “With Congress having
indicated that is not possible, the
secretary can accept the language
in the proposed amendment.”
Having earned support from the
administration, Sarvis said the
amendment is “a path to repeal”
and predicted that its passage
could lead to open service “by the
end of the first quarter of next year.”
After the review is complete
and certification happens, Sarvis
said the Pentagon “would then be
free” to implement regulations for
open service and Obama could
issue an executive order for non-
discrimination in the U.S. military.
“In fact, all of the federal poli-
cies of non-discrimination have
been issued by executive order
since 1948,” Sarvis said, refer-
ring to the order that President
Truman issued to end racial seg-
regation in the armed forces.
Sarvis said he didn’t think a
future administration would
tamper with such an executive
order or “try to tinker with this
and make it a political football.”
“For instance, the four execu-
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Introduced on May 20, the Student Non-Discrimination Act would bar schools from
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LGBT students “can learn without the fear of being discriminated against simply for
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LOCALNEWS

Black couples reflect on marriage hoopla

Continued from page 1

day it was legally possible, were

Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla
Townsend, Reggie Stanley and
Rocky Galloway and Revs. Darlene
Garner and Candy Holmes. All three
couples exchanged vows and rings
at a carefully orchestrated event at
Human Rights Campaign head-
quarters. All three couples are black.
“We were all asked to identify
couples we knew locally who were
planning to seize the opportunity
immediately and we all put feelers
out,” said Ellen Kahn, HRC’s fami-
ly project director.
Garner said she thinks it was
a coincidence that all three cou-
ples are black, but says it was
still significant.
“Washington, D.C., is known
by some as a chocolate city, so it
was great that the first couples to
be married were African-
American couples,” she said.
Stanley and Galloway, a couple
for six years, said no one would have
noticed if all the couples had been
white and that although they
planned to wed regardless, contro-
versial remarks made by City
Council member Marion Barry,
who’s black and represents D.C.’s
predominantly black Ward 8,
inspired them to get married as soon
as the law would allow. Barry, who’d
previously been supportive of gay
rights, said last year after voting
against a bill to recognize same-sex
Photo by Joe Tresh
marriages performed elsewhere in
D.C., that his ward “don’t have but a Rocky Galloway (left) and his partner, Reggie Stanley, on their wedding day in March at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters.
handful of openly gay residents” and
that the majority of his constituents job. She said that was also a factor in away somewhere and get mar- “We all cried and applauded and been wonderful.”
are opposed to same-sex marriage. their decision to wed at HRC. ried,” Garner said. “But when it supported one another,” Holmes And both couples say Black
“He was basically saying that “None of it was lost on us,” became clear that we could get said. “Then when one came back, Pride remains important. Some of
black gay folks don’t exist in his ward Holmes said. “Being a couple and married here, they asked if we’d the next couple marched in so we the reasons why, they said, popped
so we thought it was important to be being African American and being like to do it with them. It became were all there together, then we had up during the marriage wars, with
visible and present,” Stanley said. lesbian, and with me being a feder- kind of a collaboration.” a joint reception.” the Barry incident and elsewhere.
Though he and Galloway live in al government worker and also cler- Was there any concern their spe- “It was lovely,” Garner said. “We were more active with it in
Ward 4, they said they felt it impor- gy, that’s a lot and so there are a lot cial day would become a circus? “HRC converted one of their big our single days than in later years,”
tant to show Barry there are many of voices and things we represent, Both couples said HRC handled the meeting rooms into a wedding Galloway said. “But it’s still impor-
black gay D.C. residents. so it’s something we took very seri- day so well, it didn’t feel that way. chapel and we were able to create tant to show diversity among the
Garner and Holmes, who had ously and I think that’s significant.” “There really was no media the ceremony we wanted to have gay community. It’s a wonderful
dated off and on for 14 years, said Stanley knew some HRC barrage at all,” Galloway said. from processional to recessional, weekend and continues to be a
they decided to wed immediately for leaders through his own LGBT The women agree. with music and presiders and very important event.”
several reasons, some practical, activism work. “We were able to experience everything just as we wanted.” Garner and Holmes will be out of
others symbolic. As ordained minis- “HRC was very forward looking the typical giddiness of any The couples — Young and town this weekend but said they
ters in the Fellowship of and they were really interested in engaged couple looking forward to Townsend did not respond to fully support Black Pride. Garner,
Metropolitan Community Churches, showing all aspects of what mar- their wedding,” Garner said. “HRC interview requests — said life one of the founders of the National
a liberal, mostly gay Christian riage can look like both here and did a phenomenal job and our pri- has returned to normal after the Coalition of Black Lesbians & Gays,
denomination, they felt it was impor- across the country,” he said. “They mary focus stayed on the fact that barrage of media attention. said misperceptions about black
tant to make a public stand. realized there would be national cov- we were getting married. We did “Things are great,” Galloway said. gays persist.
“We recognized in many ways erage so I think they realized it was not take into consideration at all “Just like with any wedding, there’s a “There’s still this perception that
our place as role models as both important for this visual to be seen.” that the world might be watching.” lot of activity leading up to it, but all gay people are white and that
representative of the black commu- Garner and Holmes initially Garner and Holmes plan a we’re back to a normal life now.” all black people are straight and
nity and the LGBT community planned to make themselves avail- religious ceremony during their Both couples said they encoun- many people really cling to that
locally,” Garner said. “So we were able on HRC’s behalf to help field denomination’s annual confer- tered zero negative feedback but myth,” she said. “So it’s especially
happy to take our stand as a legal- press inquiries and counter the ence in Acapulco in June. were greeted with many cheers, important for black LGBT people
ly married couple standing side by anti-gay marriage stances several The couples met standing in applause and congratulations, both to come out, be visible and speak
side through the struggles.” local black clergy, such as Bishop line that morning to get their on the day itself and after. out so we continue to break down
Garner works full-time in ministry Harry Jackson of Hope Christian licenses. They had their cere- “People have recognized me the barriers that other people have
but Holmes ministers part-time while Church, had taken. monies at HRC in the order they and stop me in the hall to con- constructed to keep us all segre-
also holding a full-time government “We were initially going to fly got their licenses. gratulate me,” Holmes said. “It’s gated from each other.”
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NATIONALNEWS

Not everyone happy with ‘Don’t Ask’ compromise

Continued from page 14 tration was “taking a step” to address the legal statement on the compromise measure. In response to Choi’s criticism of the
discrimination of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” “The amendment and compromise fall statements of support for reaching an agree-
tive orders that I’ve referred to since 1948 “This presents a path that could end in short of an outright repeal, which was ment with the White House, Sarvis said he
have not been undone by new administra- men and women being able to serve open- what we had all been hoping for,” she said. respects Choi’s service and commitment to
tions,” Sarvis said. “I think that if the presi- ly, honestly and to great benefit of our coun- “While we are cautiously optimistic that overturning “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
dent issues an executive order after ‘Don’t try, but it falls short of providing clear assur- this agreement will lead to a full repeal, it “His view of the legislative process and
Ask, Don’t Tell’ is eliminated — I don’t see a ances of protection and a specific timeline is not yet time to celebrate the end of this the strategy is not a view that I
new Congress or a new administration try- for implementation,” she said. “The impor- appalling and shameful law.” share,” Sarvis said. “On this one, in terms of
ing to undo an executive order.” tant action this week is to ensure passage Among the organizations to strongly legislative strategy and timing, I have a dif-
But Choi said he doesn’t want support- of this step toward full repeal.” support the White House’s endorsement ferent view and my view is I want to get
ers of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal mis- In another statement, Kate Kendell, of the compromise was SLDN. In a state- what’s realistic and I want to get something
taking the Orzag letter in support of the executive director of the National Center for ment, Sarvis called the agreement a “dra- that will ensure that service members can
proposal as Obama taking action on the Lesbian Rights, offered a similarly lukewarm matic breakthrough.” serve openly as soon as possible.”
issue. He noted the president could have
transmitted repeal language to Congress
for the defense budget legislation.
“Obviously, if he would have put the
defense authorization bill language through
to include the repeal legislation, then we
wouldn’t be in this situation where he’s try-
ing to get us to celebrate a win,” Choi said.
To follow-up on his earlier arrests at the
White House and put more pressure on the
president, Choi said he plans to take part in
new acts of civil disobedience to draw
attention to the issue of LGBT service
members serving openly in the U.S. military.
“I not only plan to, but I encourage every-
body else to,” Choi said. “The fact of the mat-
ter is so long as telling the truth is consid-
ered civil disobedience, we need to be com-
mitting civil disobedience every single day.”

Mission accomplished?
Several major LGBT organizations
issued statements this week praising the
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” compromise shortly
after it was announced.
In a statement, Human Rights Campaign
President Joe Solmonese said Monday the
new support from the administration means
people rallying against “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” are “on the brink of historic action to
both strengthen our military and respect the
service of lesbian and gay troops.”
“Today’s announcement paves the path
to fulfill the president’s call to end ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ this year and puts us one
step closer to removing this stain from the
laws of our nation,” Solmonese said.
Nicholson of Servicemembers United
said in a statement that Monday’s letter
was “long awaited, much needed, and
immensely helpful.”
Choi said the organizations apparently had
their statements “all set up” to celebrate the
compromise regardless of the deal’s content.
“Just from my military perspective, it
seems very much like they’re putting a
‘mission accomplished’ banner on top of a
carrier, and saying our part is done and
we have fulfilled our mission,” Choi said.
“For people to revel in this kind of cele-
bration instead of encouraging people to
demand the fullness of repeal of ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ is certainly a misstep.”
Other LGBT groups that advocate for
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal as one issue
in their portfolios indicated support for the
compromise measure, although they
acknowledged some shortcomings.
In a statement to the Blade, Rea Carey,
executive director of the National Gay &
Lesbian Task Force, said her organization was
“encouraged” that Congress and the adminis-
20 washingtonblade.com • may 28, 2010
VIEWPOINT
Holding wealthy gay donors accountable
A window on facet
of the movement
most of us don’t see
By KEVIN NAFF
When the LGBT rights move-
ment encounters setbacks —
something that happens regular-
ly — fingers inevitably point at
the Human Rights Campaign.
As the most prominent and visi-
ble organization working for LGBT
equality, that’s to be expected. But
there’s another group that doesn’t
get nearly the amount of media
attention as HRC that also deserves
scrutiny: Gill Action Fund and its
separate entity, Political OutGiving.
Gill Action Fund, founded by
wealthy gay entrepreneur Tim Gill
in Colorado, “provides resources
to individuals and organizations
working to advance equality,”
according to its web site. Gill him-
self is notoriously press shy and
the organization works behind the
scenes to elect pro-LGBT political
candidates across the country
and defeat anti-gay figures.
It’s important, effective work for
the movement but sometimes a
little sunshine can be a good
thing. For that, read Lou
Chibbaro’s story in this week’s
issue about a recent meeting of
Political OutGiving, Gill’s 527
group that works to elect politi-
cians committed to LGBT equali-
ty. The story offers a peek at a
facet of the national movement
that most of us never see: the
D.C.’s condom conundrum
City must replenish
supplies in time
for Pride
By DANIEL O’NEILL
In recent years, the D.C.
Department of Health has been
tremendously supportive of our
community’s fight against HIV,
especially through its condom
distribution program. Yet, a series
of unfortunate oversights has
resulted in the DOH running out
of condoms for the entire months
of March and May.
In the recently released Men-
who-have Sex-with-Men HIV
Surveillance Report, 15 percent
of those sampled tested HIV
positive — a “staggering” yet
likely deflated representation of
the disease’s impact on our com-
munity. One of the most telling
figures from this report indicated
that only 57.4 percent of MSM
world of prominent LGBT donors.
About 200 such donors met at
the Peninsula Hotel in Chicago
earlier this month to hear a sales
pitch from a few politicians who
desperately want their money.
The donors assembled at the
hotel for a small panel discussion
with the politicians, moderated by
the Washington Post’s Jonathan
Capehart, who, like all others in
the room, agreed to keep the
meeting off the record. Among
those hoping to impress the
wealthy gays was Maryland Gov.
Martin O’Malley, who flew halfway
across the country for the secret
weekend confab. Of course, keep-
ing a meeting of 200 people off the
record in this era is next to impos-
sible and so the Blade began get-
ting reports of what happened
behind those gilded closed doors.
O’Malley spoke to the donors
and, during his remarks, advocated
for civil unions over marriage for
same-sex couples because he
thinks voters aren’t ready for it. It’s a
cowardly and ill-informed viewpoint,
considering the Washington Post just
released a poll showing that more
Marylanders now support marriage
equality than oppose it. If O’Malley
had done his homework he would
have known that key, relevant fact.
According to multiple sources
who were in the room, Julie
Goodridge, a plaintiff in the
Massachusetts case that legalized
same-sex marriage there, was in the
audience and vocally objected to
O’Malley’s position, informing him
that his view of civil unions sounds
used a condom during their last
anal intercourse. Considering
our sky-high HIV prevalence, this
number simply is not good
enough. We need to be using
more condoms, more frequently.
Despite this urgent need,
local organizations like the DC
FUK!T and TOOLK!T safer sex
kit campaign, which currently
distribute as many as 5,000 con-
doms at local gay venues each
week, are left scrambling to pre-
vent stock-outs that will happen
just before Capital Pride. Why
the shortfall? Our government
has had a billing issue with
Durex, which contracts with
DOH to supply the bulk of the
city’s condoms.
As Terry Gerace, co-founder of
DC FUK!T and TOOLK!T states,
“This is very unfortunate tim-
ing. When the campaign
launched last year, we distributed
more than 30,000 kits at D.C.
Capital Pride events. It takes a
month of volunteer packing to get
more 2001 than 2010. Indeed,
O’Malley isn’t just on the wrong side
of history, he’s on the wrong side of
the present and his dim view of mar-
riage doesn’t jibe with his own state’s
blue demographics and voters’ grow-
ing support for marriage rights.
When Goodridge criticized
O’Malley, the audience reported-
ly broke into applause. Let’s
hope this means they will resist
supporting O’Malley in his re-
election bid this year.
And here’s where OutGiving’s
secrecy does a disservice to the
movement at large: Real progress
won’t come as long as politicians,
particularly Democrats, can rely on
big gay money even after doing
nothing to earn it. O’Malley has
been criticized in Maryland for his
failures on our issues. He did not
spend an ounce of political capital
to help boost the marriage or trans
bias bills this year, both of which
died in committee. Again. What’s
worse: In 2007, after privately telling
the plaintiffs in Maryland’s marriage
lawsuit that he backed them,
O’Malley expressed support for the
high court ruling against marriage
rights and invoked the Catholic
sacraments to explain his position.
Worse still is that O’Malley has a
gay brother, Paul O’Malley, a D.C.-
area attorney. D.C. has legalized
marriage and so Martin O’Malley is
advocating against a right for his
own brother that neighboring D.C.
says he is entitled to.
Why would any gay donor give
this man a cent? He betrayed the
plaintiffs in the marriage case and all
that number ready, and this year
we’ll have about a week to do
that, which will be impossible.”
Gerace continues, “Missing
shipments in both March and May
depleted our reserves and squan-
dered hours of volunteer time. We
had dozens of volunteers that we
had to turn away from kit packing
because there were no condoms
and lube. It’s rather embarrassing
that we are running out just in time
for Pride, and it undermines our
credibility as a reliable distributor
of condoms in D.C.”
A recent report in the
Washington Post lauds the DOH
for its distribution of more than 3
million free condoms over the
past year and highlights its
recent decision to switch to
Trojan brand condoms exclusive-
ly for D.C. youth. Meanwhile, the
more important issue of whether
we are actually getting condoms
into people’s hands and onto
their penises has been ignored.
Rather than caving to popular
the LGBT voters who helped elect
him. He’s even willing to throw his
brother under the bus out of cynical
political expediency. O’Malley does
not deserve Political OutGiving’s
support. But if a handful of sources
hadn’t told the Blade about the
meeting, he might have benefitted
from a flood of gay money and no
one would know about it or be able
to hold O’Malley accountable for
receiving such support.
Gill Action Fund has done
tremendous work on behalf of LGBT
rights, most of which goes deliber-
ately unrecognized. But sometimes
Tim Gill’s quest for secrecy threat-
ens to undermine his cause.
The LGBT movement needs
more transparency, especially now
that Democrats are facing re-elec-
tion after two years of wide majori-
ties in both houses that yielded
decidedly mixed results for our
community. Showering traitorous
Democrats like O’Malley with more
gay money won’t advance mar-
riage or trans rights in Maryland.
Gill and his Political OutGiving
group should reject O’Malley as a
recipient of national gay money —
and they should tell him why.
Maybe when politicians pay a
financial price for their
inaction and duplici-
ty, they will change
their behavior.
Kevin Naff is editor of
the Washington Blade.
Reach him at
knaff@washblade.com.
opinion over which brand is best,
wouldn’t it serve us better to
focus on educating people about
the proper use of condoms and
lube? I think so. But that can’t be
done if we have no supplies.
Next month more than 200,000
gay men will descend upon
Washington to celebrate Pride
and there will be insufficient con-
doms to go around. I hope those
who were relying on DC FUK!T for
their condoms understand that
they will need to find some other
means of protecting themselves.
Otherwise, we may have a notice-
able spike in new HIV transmis-
sions this June.
Now is the time for the
D.C. government to
ensure our community
is protected. We need
condoms!
Daniel O’Neill is chair of
the DC Center’s HIV
Prevention Working
Group. Reach him at
danielfoneill@gmail.com.
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INSIDELGBTWASHINGTON
Still waiting for ‘hope’ and ‘change’
Obama must keep
his promises or risk
alienating Dem base
By PETER ROSENSTEIN
I read with interest John
Aravosis’ recent column dissecting
President Obama’s 30 biggest gay
accomplishments during the first
18 months of his presidency.
I agree with Aravosis that the
time has come to get real about
what it is that we as a communi-
ty are being asked to say thank
you for. It appears that all of the
accomplishments that the
Obama administration is claim-
ing credit for are those that were
politically safe to do. I thank the
president for doing them and
appreciate his efforts on the
many small issues that benefit
our community. But it appears
that the issues that require
heavy lifting and courage — and
the use of his political capital —
haven’t been tackled yet.
It’s fair to ask what this means for
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Re: “White House endorses
delayed ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal”
(news article by Chris Johnson,
May 24)
The legislation to repeal the
law would not become effective
EVEN after the Pentagon com-
pletes its study on the issue. It
could NEVER become effective. It
requires a host of people to say if
and when it will become effective.
This is the non-repeal repeal.
Some “fierce advocate”! Obama is
NOT a friend and never was.
— JC
So the Pentagon will still be
able to discriminate against gay
soldiers at will and for any rea-
son; they just won’t have a law
that orders them to do so,
instead the law will empower
them to do so at their leisure.
Some compromise. Where’s
the nondiscrimination policy?
— Daniel
This is a misguided waste of
priorities. Why does a compro-
mise plan on DADT take center
stage over a vote on ENDA?
Lifting DADT only protects a frac-
tion of us. Most of us don’t work
us as a community and in turn for
the Democratic Party if, after two
years with huge majorities in the
Congress and a president who
claims he is our friend, we don’t get
Employment Non-Discrimination
Act passed or “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
repealed. I think the Democratic
Party needs to take stock of what
it needs to do if we are to keep the
House of Representatives and not
lose more than five or six seats in
the Senate.
We have to motivate the peo-
ple that elected Barack Obama
to come back out in large num-
bers for the midterm elections
when his name isn’t on the bal-
lot. I question how we do that if
the Democratic base is unhappy
with the administration.
As Aravosis says in his piece,
we voted for capital letter
“CHANGE” and we seem to have
gotten small letter “change.” I
would add that we voted for
“HOPE” but many constituencies
in the Democratic Party are
quickly losing it.
The president came into office
facing the worst economy since
in the military yet this gets more
attention, press and action than
ENDA. It’s obnoxious and unac-
ceptable! Wake up before it’s too
late that is if it isn’t too late
already! ENDA needs to get
through while the Congress still
has enough people likely to vote
for it and Obama is President. By
the Fall elections it may already
be too late!
It’s obvious that the Pentagon
study is simply a delaying tactic.
They hope to drag this on indefi-
nitely believing that if they can
delay it long enough, Obama will
be out of office and a right-wing
President will reserve course.
— EL Dorado
Re: “Lead entertainers cancel
appearances at Capital Pride,
Black Pride” (news article by
Lou Chibbaro, Jr., May 21)
At least he was honest. I don’t
understand what changed. Oh,
thats right, he sold enough music
for the year. He doesn’t need the
gay/lesbian sales. C’YA!
— Whatever
Well, they do call it “Black Pride.”
Organizers need to do a better job.
So I don’t see why they hide the
word “gay” in “Black Pride.” Look at
your advertisement. It’s “Black
Pride” not Gay Black Pride, so Black
Pride just might not have a leg to
the Great Depression, skyrocket-
ing unemployment and two wars.
Not easy tasks to deal with. But
the problem he now faces is that
he got elected promising many
things to many people, not the
least of which was to change the
way we operate in Washington.
People really believed that.
They translated that into believing
that he would have the courage to
fight for social change and stand
up for the various constituencies
that elected him, among them the
LGBT community.
One way for the president to
motivate the LGBT community is
to actually enter the fray on “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” and the ENDA. He
needs to make the phone calls,
call the meetings and use his bully
pulpit. True courage would have
been to call for the repeal of “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” during his speech
at the West Point graduation. It did-
n’t take courage to call for it at the
Human Rights Campaign dinner.
When it comes to the military’s
gay ban, the majority of the coun-
ty is on the side of repeal. Polls
show more than 70 percent of the
stand on. If you’re clear about it,
then call yourself Gay Black Pride.
— John
Re: “Can you be a good gay
and conservative?” (op-ed by
Jessica Lee, May 21)
The gay community supports
diversity as long as you hold the
exact same views as liberal democ-
rats. Dissent will not be tolerated.
— Rik
It’s not a matter of “gay: liberal” or
“straight: conservative.” It’s selecting
items from a palate of issues. I find
that most of the gay issues tend to be
in the liberal column, because of the
conservatives’ propensity not to
respect individual rights and values.
However, there are many other con-
servative issues that I agree with. If I
were in charge of things, instead of a
system where you elect one repre-
sentative and expect that person to
decide all things for you according to
your own belief, my system would
present the electorate with a list of
individual issues and let voters
decide each issue, and then let a
representative cast a vote based on
the voters’ individual pollings. This
should reduce the voters’ anger at
their elected representatives.
— Robert McJunkin
I’d like just one of the haters
here to explain to me why the
may 28, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 21
electorate and 60 percent of
Republicans support repeal. Sen.
Barbara Boxer asked recently,
“How can this president justify
having his Secretary of Defense
send a letter to the Congress
telling them he needs to first poll
the troops before anything is
done? Can you imagine if we
polled the troops before opening
the military to African Americans
and women? It is possible that if
that occurred the military would
still be segregated and women
prohibited from serving.”
As I write this late on Monday
evening, Sens. Joseph Lieberman
and Carl Levin and Rep. Patrick
Murphy have asked the White
House to act to get Secretary
Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chair Mike Mullen to support
repeal efforts now. Budget director
Peter Orzag is acting as an inter-
mediary between Congress and
the White House. I am hopeful that
by the time anyone reads this col-
umn that these last minute efforts
will have proven successful. The
signing of the Matthew Shepard &
James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes
Republicans’ refusal to repeal
DOMA is somehow worse than
the Democrats WRITING IT AND
SIGNING IT INTO LAW.
It was the Democrats who
wrote laws such as DOMA and
DADT. I feel absolutely no com-
pulsion whatsoever to show any
fealty to the Democrats or any
liberal ideal when, in reality,
they’re just as bad as you say
conservatives are.
I just love all the tolerance
going on here. Superb!
— MelMaguire
I find it amusing that so many
GayLeftBorg types are so certain
that Republicans hate gays and
oppose gay rights (whatever that
is), but never seem capable of
naming any. Be it here or on
GayPatriot or elsewhere. I should
think it would be easy and would
come with all the talking points
pap regurgitated everywhere.
Nor does there seem to be any
interest in any reasoning behind
such opposition. One could be
opposed to special rights for cer-
tain victim groups, but instead
they’re castigated as evil racist,
sexist, bigot homophobes.
Nevermind, of course, the
homophobes their elected pres-
ident hangs with. Nevermind, of
course, their elected president
is defending DADT in court.
Prevention Act, giving Medals of
Freedom to Billie Jean King and
Harvey Milk, lifting the ban on
entry for those with HIV, and sign-
ing the U.N. Declaration on Sexual
Orientation & Gender Identity
while all great, aren’t enough.
Those actions alone won’t
bring out the troops and money in
November. The Democratic Party
will need both to hold on to mean-
ingful majorities in Congress.
Mr. President, I trust that you
will stand up and display the
courage I know you have. Be
counted now and use all the
power of your office to keep your
commitments. The LGBT commu-
nity put their trust in you and in the
Democratic Party. We are asking
that you don’t betray that trust for
our future and for
the future of the
Democratic Party.
Peter Rosenstein is
a D.C.-based LGBT
rights and Democratic
Party activist. His column
appears twice monthly
in the Blade.
Nevermind, of course, their elect-
ed president doesn’t worship their
golden calf of gay marriage.
If Obama didn’t have that pro-
tective “D” after his name, the
GayLeftBorg would be wiping the
blogs with him.
— Rob
Re: “Wone’s widow takes the
stand” (news article by Lou
Chibbaro, Jr., May 21)
There is no justice for Katherine
or Robert Wone as long as the
killer is not convicted of the murder.
Where I have a problem with the
3 defendants is their actions on the
night of the killing. If I had a friend
staying with me and found him in
the condition described, my first act
would be to call for emergency
help, not try to clean the mess up in
the room. I have heard statements
that Mr. Wone was still barely alive
when the EMS people arrived. An
earlier call to them might have
made the difference in his survival.
— Jerry
Not sure if the troubling thing
about this case is there are still so
many questions or that with so
many of the answers, still nothing
happens. Maybe Robert will get
justice. Still i wonder why he was
there. I think it matters there are 3
defendants and 3 wounds.
— CD in DC
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Condo financing under the microscope!!!
By GREGG BUSCH
Government run agencies
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA
have all tightened their guidelines on
condominium buildings around the
country after the fallout from the
housing boom. Not only do lenders
need to look at the borrowers'
strength in getting a loan, but they
are now being required to evaluate
the condo association and its opera-
tions. These changes are having a
significant impact on buyers and cur-
rent owners looking to refinance in a
particular condominium. You may
ask “why would it matter if the gov-
ernment agencies want to buy loans
in my condominium or the condo-
minium I am thinking about buy-
ing”??? Because loans that don't
meet Fannie, Freddie are both hard-
er to finance and more expensive in
interest rate and could require a
point (a fee of 1% on the balance of
the loan). This could affect the mar-
ketability of the unit when you go to
sell (which means you may have to
sell for less) or if you are refinancing,
a higher monthly payment. Not a
good thing I must say. The govern-
ment agencies have implemented
requirements with respect to condo
master insurance policies, financial
statements, percent of delinquent
dues each month, ownership break-
down of the units in the condo asso-
ciation, and any litigation issues
within the building.
Here is a checklist to review
and see if your building meets the
litmus test:
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1) Condominium buildings can
not have 15% or more of the units
delinquent in their condo fees
beyond 30 days.
2) No more than 49% of the units
can be of second home nature (not
as much of an issue in our area, but
think about a unit you own or are
buying in Rehoboth or Florida.
3) No pending litigation allowed
(ie: a lawsuit against the condo
association from a previous owner
that got bit by his neighbor’s dog).
4) The condo can not have week-
ly rentals offered (ie: condo hotel) nor
can the condo be part of, or market-
ed with an attached hotel. These are
strictly viewed as condo hotels even
if they have separate entities.
5) HO-6 insurance (walls-in cov-
erage) must be on every unit. Walls-
in coverage goes beyond the mas-
ter policy that is paid for in your
condo fee. Walls-in coverage
insures everything that is attached
to the drywall or plaster like your
kitchen cabinets and wood floors.
Your master policy on the building
usually does not cover these items.
6) No one person or entity can
own more than 10% of the total
units in the building. No one owner
can own 11 units in a 100 unit con-
dominium for example.
7) No more that 40% of the total
units in the condominium can be
rented (FHA loans will allow up to
49%). This is called the “investor
ratio,” which is just the number of
rented units in the building divided
by the total units in the building.
8) No more than 25% of the
building can be of commercial use.
9) 10% of the total budget must be
in cash reserves (for capital expendi-
tures and deferred maintenance).
Fannie Mae will allow exceptions
to some or one of these rules if you
submit for an exception to Fannie
Mae, Your lender can further explain
how this process works.
In addition to meeting the Fannie
Mae/Freddie Mac guidelines you
may also have to look at other obsta-
cles as well. If there is less than 20%
equity in the condominium unit you
must also adhere to mortgage insur-
ance guidelines (we in the lending
business call these “overlays” to the
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac guidelines).
With less than 20% equity, a unit
needs to have mortgage insurance to
guarantee the lender payment if a
borrower goes into foreclosure.
Mortgage insurance companies
require not more than 30% of the
units in the condominium be rented
(investor ratio) and have their different
guidelines on exposure in any one
building (usually no more than 25%).
In addition to meeting the mortgage
insurance guidelines, several of the
big banks have their own set of
guidelines that they have to follow
which are even more inflexible.
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own name and does not broker
loans) like First Savings Mortgage
before taking a bank rejection on a
particular condominium.
An alternative to Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac for first time homebuy-
ers is FHA financing. This program
allows first time homebuyers who
might not qualify for Fannie Mae or
Freddie Mac guidelines with looser
guidelines when it pertains to
income thresholds, down payment
requirements and credit scores. With
FHA financing the risk of the loan is
removed from the lender and private
mortgage insurance company and
placed on FHA, the governments
loan insurance program adminis-
tered under HUD. FHA has also
recently tightened its condo financ-
ing guidelines to mirror more closely
to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
However, FHA has more lenient
guidelines on investor concentration.
There is some good news for new
construction condominium buildings
that are currently selling: Fannie,
Freddie, and FHA have all dropped
their pre-sale requirements (meaning
how many units must go under con-
tract before a lender can start allowing
buyers to take title and close the loan).
Fannie Mae now allows as little as
50% presale from the previous 70%.
If all else fails there is non-war-
rantable financing (meaning loans
that are originated with the intention
of not meeting Fannie, Freddie, or
FHA), which can be offered through
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Through discussions with some fel-
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lenders, the impact here in the D.C.
market is not as bad as some of the
harder hit states, but it’s proving to be a
major thorn in many transactions. Real
estate agents, condo board members
and unit owners on are all working
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new regulations. As this occurs more
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 Black Pride’s Earl Fowlkes
answers 20 questions.
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washingtonblade.com
Jeffrey Richardson recently posted to Facebook: ‘Thought: Are you living your life or the life you have been told you should live?’
The art of
building relationships
Black Pride honors Jeffrey
Richardson, who wins
over one ally at a time  introvert was one of the pivotal figures
By SARAH McKIBBEN
Special to Washington Blade
Jeffrey Richardson, 31, is the type of
guy who you’d want to sit down and have
a beer with, to talk about everything from
politics to the best local hiking spots. His
magnetic personality and genuine out-
look on life are admirable, but it’s his abil-
ity to find common ground with almost
everyone he encounters that has earned
him respect around the District.
Yet from his humble demeanor, few
would guess that this self-proclaimed
fighting on the front lines of D.C.’s battle
for same-sex marriage. An influential
leader in the Democratic Party and
staunch advocate for the LGBT com-
munity, Richardson has accomplished
more by age 30 than most people hope
to accomplish in a lifetime.
On May 28, during the 2010 D.C. Black
Pride Opening Reception, Richardson will
be honored with the Welmore Cook
Award, along with the late Charlotte
arts & entertainment
vol. 41, issue 22 • may 28, 2010 • Page 27
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
Smallwood. The award is given annually to
two members of the local black LGBT
community for outstanding leadership. Earl
Fowlkes, board member and spokesper-
son for Black Pride, believes that recogniz-
ing Richardson’s efforts is long overdue.
“He’s a young man who has accomplished
quite a bit, and he hasn’t received the cred-
it he deserves,” Fowlkes says.
Ironically, Richardson never intended
to get tied up in politics, but his work
with local youth laid the groundwork for
his political involvement. After a short
stint with AmeriCorps, the North
Continues on page 34
Black Pride events
D.C. plays host to a wide array of Black
Pride events this weekend, from poetry
slams and fashion shows to workshops and
musical performances. For more informa-
tion, visit dcblackpride.org.
The host hotel for this year’s DC Black
Pride is Hamilton Crown Plaza, 1001 14th St.,
N.W. (14th & K streets), Washington, D.C.
FRIDAY, MAY 28
DC Black Pride opening reception (Free)
Hamilton Ballroom
7-10 p.m.
Reception honoring the District of Columbia
City Council, Charlotte Smallwood & Jeffrey
Richardson. Refreshments and cash bar.
SATURDAY, MAY 29
DC Black Pride workshops (free), 10:30
a.m.-3 p.m. at Hamilton Crown Plaza Hotel
10:30 AM – Noon, “Do You See What I See?
Personal Vision Development,” with Angela
Harvey of Let’s T.A.L.K. Participants will learn
how to create a vision board and ways to “see”
their way to greatness. Hamilton Ballroom
11 AM – Noon, Somewhere Over The
Rainbow-The Joy of Lesbian and Gay Travel, pre-
sented by Donna Shands-Island. There will be a
chance to win a trip for two. Lafayette Park Room
11 AM–Noon, Operation: REBIRTH –
Overcoming Homophobia in the Black
Church, presenter: Tuan N’Gai. Franklin
Square Room
Noon–1 PM, “Yes We Can!” How do we cre-
ate and sustain healthy, positive, empowering,
monogamous relationships? Presented by Dr.
Christopher A. Lester. Lafayette Park Room
Noon–1 PM, “Out on Campus” moderated
by Samantha Master. Franklin Park Room
1 PM – 2 PM, “The Generation Gap,” mod-
erated by Sterling Washington, featuring Sheila
Alexander-Reid, Genesis Nunlee, Andre
Rosario, Courtney Williams. Panel will discuss
ageism. Lafayette Park Room
1 PM – 2 PM, Health Care Reform –
What’s in it for me? Franklin Square Room
2 PM – 3 PM, “The Thickness: A Discussion
About Healthy Bodies.” Lafayette Park Room
2 PM – 3 PM, “Imagine,” moderated by
Katrina Kirchoff, Microsoft Staffing & HR.
Franklin Square Room
Continues on page 34
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QUEERY: 20 Questions for Earl Fowlkes
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
Earl Fowlkes never thought his career
would end up focusing on HIV and LGBT
work, but that’s the way it’s unfolded.
Growing up just outside of Philadelphia in
Willingboro, N.J., Fowlkes spent most of
his adult life in Manhattan and spent many
years streamlining companies for maxi-
mum effectiveness. He gradually became
impacted by the toll AIDS was taking on
his friends and started volunteering, which
eventually led to a low-paying position.
“I kind of got sucked in at a very low rate
of pay but it’s something that I saw happen-
ing to so many of my friends,” he says.
“Fortunately I have a loving and caring fam-
ily so I can’t imagine what happened to
some of my friends where they were basi-
cally dumped completely. This was before
Ryan White and all those other programs
and a time when you really did, as they say,
have to rely on the kindness of strangers.”
Fowlkes relocated to Washington 14
years ago to take a job with D.C.’s AIDS
program Damien Ministries where he
worked for eight years before joining the
D.C. Care Consortium, another AIDS
charity. He’ll be phasing out of that this
summer to manage the International
Federation of Black Prides, which he
founded 11 years ago. D.C.’s Black Pride,
now in its 20th year, predates the
Federation. Fowlkes was D.C. Black
Pride president for seven years and has
continued volunteering ever since.
How long have you been out and What’s your advice for
who was the hardest person to tell? LGBT movement leaders?
All my adult life and telling a childhood Don’t take yourself too seriously. Learn
friend was the hardest person to tell. to laugh and find ways of bringing joy to
your life beyond your work.
Who’s your gay hero?
Billy Strayhorn What would you walk
across hot coals for?
What’s Washington’s best nightspot, An invitation from President Obama to
past or present? attend a State Dinner at the White
The Circle Bar, a really laid back bar House.
where the HRC shop is now on
Connecticut. It was just one of those What gay stereotype
great city spaces. A nice, clean bar. annoys you most?
Gay men can’t play sports.
What’s your dream gay wedding?
Having a wedding at the Hillwood What’s your favorite
Estate Gardens. gay movie?
“Boys in the Band”
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
What non-gay issue are you most
“I believe it’s very important for people passionate about? What’s the most overrated
who are black and LGBT to have a space Women’s reproductive rights social custom?
that’s culturally sensitive,” he says. Exchanging business cards with people
“Ultimately you want everybody to be com- What historical outcome whom you will never contact.
fortable in the larger LGBT world but Black would you change?
Pride is the gate a lot of our people come The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther What trophy or prize
through because homophobia is still so King, Jr. do you most covet?
insidious and entrenched in our community.” Major League Baseball’s World Series
Fowlkes is officially single but has What’s been the most memorable MVP.
been seeing someone lately. He’s a pop culture moment of your lifetime?
baseball fanatic and has a special cable The Jackson Five on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” What do you wish
subscription that lets him see all the you’d known at 18?
Phillies games. He lives in Mt. Vernon On what do you insist? How to tie my own bowtie.
Square and likes reading about history, I am in my seat at a baseball game
shopping and sipping apple martinis in before the National Anthem. Why Washington?
his free time. It’s a wonderful place to live and has
What was your last great opportunities particularly if you’re
Facebook post or Tweet? black and LGBT.
May 13 was my mother’s birthday and I
wrote on Facebook that I missed her.
If your life were a book,
what would the title be?
“A Successful Failure”
If science discovered a way to
change sexual orientation,
what would you do?
Stay the way God made me.
What do you believe in
beyond the physical world?
I believe there is a higher power beyond
this world that I live in and for me this
power is called God. God created me
exactly the way I am supposed to be
and loves me for who I am. Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
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SOCIALAGENDA
Friday, May 28
Premiere of the newest LGBT Latin dance
party: S-KANDALO at Remington’s, 639
Pennsylvania Avenue S.E., from 10 p.m.-
2 a.m. Music by DJ Fantasy, visit latin-
souldc.com for more information.
GIRL PARTY every Friday night at the
Black Squirrel, 2427 18th St., N.W.,
21+/no cover, starts at 9:30 p.m.
GAY DISTRICT, from 8:30-10:30 p.m. at
St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, a
weekly, non-church affiliated discussion
and social group for GBTQ men between
18 and 35. The group meets at St.
Margaret’s Episcopal Church, 1820
Connecticut Ave., N.W. For more information,
e-mail gd@gaydistrict.org.
FRIDAY NIGHT EREV SHABBAT SERVICES
8:30-10 p.m., Washington, D.C. Jewish
Community Center, 1529 16th St. Friday
Night Services are followed by an Oneg
Social. Please use the Q Street entrance.
SUNSET CELEBRATION AT MOUNT
VERNON, 6-9 p.m. Enjoy evening tours of Photo by Omar Miguel, courtesy of African-American Collective Theater
the mansion, 18th century music, danc-
ing, games and wagon rides. Stroll the The African-American Collective Theater debuts its new production, ‘SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE’ at
lantern-lit grounds and visit with Lady Warehouse Theater on Sunday.
Washington and her granddaughter Nelly.
Adults, $18; children 6-11, $12; and chil- 5 p.m. PBS sponsors a free concert on the the commemoration is “HONORING OUR
dren under 5 are admitted free. Sunday, May 30 West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. The con- FALLEN WARRIORS.” Many surviving
DRAG BRUNCH at Nellie’s Sports Bar, cert features actors Joe Mantegna and WWII veterans will be in attendance.
Saturday, May 29 900 U St., N.W., hosted by Shi-Queeta Gary Sinise and other guest artists along COUNTRY WESTERN DANCE LESSONS
SHIFT takes over Cobalt, 1639 R St., Lee. Every Sunday from 11-4 p.m. $20 with the National Symphony Orchestra. at Remington’s, 639 Pennsylvania Avenue,
N.W., from 10 p.m.-3 a.m. with music by brunch buffet and your first mimosa is free. Wolf Trap Farm Park’s Summer Blast S.E. (½ block West of Eastern Market Metro)
guest DJs Zack Rosen and Wesley D. X: BLACKOUT at Cobalt, 1639 R St. Off, “THE PRESIDENT’S OWN,” at 8 from 8:30-9:30 p.m., $5 per person, per les-
DJ BILLY STEELE at Town Danceboutique, N.W., with music by DJ Pete Glow. Cobalt p.m. The park for performing arts kicks off son (dance class participants should wear
2009 8th St. N.W. A former Elite fashion model, will blanket the dance floor with low light- the summer season with a free perform- boots or shoes with leather soles).
Steele began his DJ career two months after ing, black lights — and at times complete ance by the U.S. Marine Band followed by
purchasing his first set of turntables with a darkness. Doors open at 10 p.m., 21+, $5 fireworks. The Filene Center gates open Tuesday, June 1
Saturday night residency at Manhattan’s before 11 p.m., $7 after. at 6:30 p.m. Arrive early because the park DRAG BINGO at Nellie’s Sports Bar, 900
Limelight at age 22. $2 drinks from 10-11 p.m. African-American Collective Theater debuts closes once capacity is reached. U St., N.W., hosted by Shi-Queeta Lee,
Drag show starts at 10:30 p.m. Music and new play “SOMETHING BORROWED, every Tuesday starting at 8 p.m. Free to play.
videos downstairs by Wess. $8 from 10-11 p.m. SOMETHING BLUE” at Warehouse Monday, May 31
and $12 after 11 p.m. 21 and over. Theater, 645 New York Ave., N.W., one block NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY PARADE, Wednesday, June 2
DELAPLANE STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL, away from the D.C. Convention Center where beginning at 2 p.m. The parade of marching THE TOM DAVARON SOCIAL BRIDGE
Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at D.C. Black Pride’s “Legacy Festival and bands and veterans units from all 50 states CLUB meets at 7:30 p.m., at the Dignity
Sky Meadows State Park, Delaplane, Va. Wellness Expo” is being held earlier that after- steps off at the corner of Constitution Center, 721 8th St., S.E. (across from
The annual festival includes live entertain- noon. A limited number of tickets are available Avenue and 7th Street, N.W., and pro- Marine Barracks) for Social Bridge. No
ment, children’s games, pony rides, hayrides, at $15. For additional ticket, performance time ceeds along Constitution Avenue, past the partner needed. Visit lambdabridge.com.
a petting zoo, a 5K fun run, a raptor exhibit, and venue information, e-mail asharpe- White House, ending at 17th Street. Each Wednesday at the Green Lantern is
antique cars, food, crafts and strawberries. bgm@msn.com or call 202-745-3662. The National Park Service and the POZ WEDNESDAY. Starting at 8 p.m.,
MANdance at Rehoboth’s Double L Bar, A very special WTF at Town Friends of the National World War II POZ mixers provide a supportive atmos-
622 Rehoboth Ave., with DJ Stephen Danceboutique, 2009 8th St. N.W. WTF Memorial will sponsor a wreath-laying cer- phere for those who are HIV positive and
Durkin, drink specials, go-go dancers. PRESENTS: PROM NIGHT. 18+, $5. emony in honor of U.S. veterans at the those who want to help eradicate the stig-
And if you’re not danced out, come back PBS’ NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY World War II Memorial at 9 a.m. Guest ma surrounding HIV. The Green Lantern is
for COCKdance on Sunday. CONCERT starts at 8 p.m.; gates open at speakers will give remarks. The theme for located at 1335 Green Ct., N.W.

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FITNESSAGENDA
You are what you eat
A look at the top
10 super foods
By KEVIN M. NORRIS
In deciding on this list of super
foods, I turned to sources such as
Dr. Nicholas Perricone who has
written several books on weight
loss and aging and the role nutrition
and super foods play in maintaining
excellent health. I also referred
to articles in the Environmental
Nutrition Newsletter, the Center for
Science in the Public Interest
Nutrition Action Newsletter and
online sources.
The 10 foods I have chosen are
from those lists but also based on
some of my favorites and on the
totality of their beneficial vitamins
and nutrients and in their disease-
fighting qualities. I chose foods that
are rich in antioxidants, possess
multiple disease-fighting qualities,
contain fiber or essential fatty acids,
regulate blood sugar and choles-
terol, help prevent obesity, slow the
aging process and boost mood.
Use this list as a guideline and
regularly seek out other nutrient-
rich foods.
ACAI BERRIES
Acai berries are indigenous and
imported from South and Central
America. These berries are only
available frozen or processed in
drinks. They are loaded with age-
and disease-fighting antioxidants
and contain 10 times more antioxi-
dants than red grapes. Acai berries
are also loaded with fiber that aids in
digestion and cardiovascular health.
ALLIUM FAMILY
(garlic, scallions, leeks and onions)
Alliums lower cholesterol and
high blood pressure, helping to pre-
vent atherosclerosis and diabetic
heart disease, and reduce the risk of
heart attack and stroke. They also
contain multiple cancer-fighting fla-
vanoids, support gastrointestinal
health and increase bone density.
BEANS AND LEGUMES
Loaded with protein and potas-
sium, beans are a good substitute
for vegetarians and are low in fat.
Beans help reduce the risk of
stroke and high blood pressure
and heart disease and are filling,
assisting in weight control. Choose
dried or fresh beans over canned
to avoid the excess sodium.
CHILI PEPPERS
From obesity to diabetes and
beyond, chilies are a super food
because they provide numerous
health benefits. Chilies are a natural
decongestant and are a powerful can-
cer-fighting compound. Aside from
being tasty flavor enhancers, chili con-
sumption increases circulation, pro-
vides pain relief and aids in digestion.
EGGS
There are many health benefits
to eggs. One egg contains six grams
of high-quality protein and all nine
essential amino acids. Eggs also
help prevent blood clots, stroke and
heart attack and stimulate brain
function. Eggs are beneficial to the
eyes, and the only food that contains
naturally occurring vitamin D and
may help prevent breast cancer.
GREENS
Go green whenever possible.
Green vegetables are the most
nutritious of all vegetables.
Greens are loaded with disease
fighting nutrients that help with
cholesterol, blood pressure and
cancer prevention. Greens are
high in fiber, low fat and reduce the
risk of heart disease and stroke.
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Super foods can help prevent obesi-
ty and even slow the aging process.
GREEN TEA
The health benefits of green
tea are vast and have been stud-
ied extensively. Green tea has
been purported to stave off heart
disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes
and obesity. Green tea is also
known to lower cholesterol, blood
pressure and dementia and is
packed with antioxidants.
NUTS
Nuts pack a powerful nutri-
tional punch high in fiber and
protein and include monounsatu-
rated and polyunsaturated fats.
Nuts lower bad cholesterol and
reduce the risk of coronary heart
disease and type II diabetes.
SALMON
Salmon is high in essential
omega-3 fatty acids. Consuming
salmon regularly helps lower the
risk of heart disease and helps
lower triglycerides, which are linked
to cardiac diseases while boosting
HDL cholesterol, the good choles-
terol. Eating omega-3 rich foods
such as salmon also helps to pre-
vent high blood pressure, aids in
the prevention of strokes and
increases cognitive brain function.
YOGURT
The combination of regular
yogurt and Greek yogurt is the best
case scenario. Each type of yogurt
contains the healthy “probiotic” bac-
teria, beneficial to digestion. Greek
yogurt contains twice the amount of
protein of regular yogurt and fewer
carbohydrates. By contrast, regular
yogurt has fewer calories and more
vitamin C, generally because of the
fruit content. Both forms of yogurt
are great sources of calcium and
help with bone density.
Incorporate these foods into your
eating plan along with regular exer-
cise, and enough sleep and you
will look, feel and per-
form better than ever.
Eat well and be well!
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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DCAGENDA
Black Pride events
Continued from page 27

DC Black Pride Writer’s Forum (free)

Black Pride honors Hosted by Fire & Ink, noon – 2 PM, Hamilton Crown Plaza Hotel
“Why Do You Write? Why Do You Read? How Do You
Succeed?” Moderated by Reginald Harris.

Stein Club president DC Black Pride Film Festival ($10)

Continued from page 27
Carolina native relocated to the
nation’s capital to run civic edu-
cation seminars for students.
Eventually, he took a position at
Howard University where he
spread awareness of adolescent
sexuality and pregnancy preven-
tion. It was during that time that he
formed solid partnerships with DC
public schools and local families,
fostering bonds that would soon
prove indispensable to the District’s
fight for same-sex marriage.
With encouragement from local
parents, Richardson volunteered for
the state Democratic Party, and his
involvement at the local level snow-
balled into a ready-made national
political career. Within two years, he
became the vice chair for the State
Democratic Party and before his
30th birthday, Richardson was in
the midst of serving a second term
as the Gertrude Stein Democratic
Club president.
He also held the distinction of
being the only openly gay black
superdelegate to the 2008
Democratic National Convention.
“I’m still in awe of having been so
blessed that folks thought enough
of me for whatever reason to be
put in a leadership role of that
magnitude,” Richardson says.
As a tireless activist for the
LGBT community, Richardson
makes a point to be present at
meetings, hearings and other
events. Fowlkes praises
Richardson for his efforts to pass
same-sex marriage and for the
“courageous conversations” he
had with community and Council
members almost nightly. During
those “stressful and difficult
times,” Fowlkes says, “Jeff was
having quiet one-on-one discus-
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
Jeffrey Richardson will be hon-
ored by Black Pride for his
contributions to the local LGBT
community.
sions with people in the African-
American community who are not
LGBT. He is one of those rare
people with connections on both
sides of the fence, and he quieted
down some of the opposition.”
Through all of his political and
community experience, Richardson
learned that building relationships is
the key to advancing equality. “You
have to find common ground with
others — and that common ground
is humanity. And while there are
people who we can’t bring closer to
the middle on some issues, we
don’t stop trying,” he says.
For Richardson, the fight for
equality hit home on a very person-
al level. His partner of four years
died of cancer in 2005 and it was
after he fell ill that the gravity of the
situation came to light. “Marriage,
healthcare, power of attorney —
those issues suddenly became real
to me. In the middle of the night,
when we needed to go to the hos-
pital, we’d have to make sure that
we had our papers with us. You
never think people have that much
power over you until something like
that happens,” Richardson says. “I
never got the opportunity to marry
my partner, my best friend, so when
the issue of marriage came around,
it was something that I was person-
ally connected with. That became
my drive to do my part.”
With his involvement in the
Gertrude Stein Democratic Club,
Richardson has expanded LGBT
rights on many fronts. The group,
which has been in existence for
more than 30 years, has been
instrumental in advancing legis-
lation to increase partner bene-
fits in the District and in electing
more pro-equality, pro-LGBT
members to City Council.
The future looks bright for
Richardson, both politically and
professionally. Currently working
with the D.C. Children’s & Youth
Investment Trust Corporation,
he’s set to switch gears on June
14 when he will join the Center
for Progressive Leadership as
the group’s national program
director. There he will help create
opportunities for minorities to
enter the pipeline of organiza-
tional leadership.
As he finishes out his second
term as Gertrude Stein presi-
dent, Richardson is unsure of
where his path will lead. All he
knows is that he will try to live
authentically and seize “every
opportunity to do something
new, something that will affect
change.” A recent post on his
Facebook page neatly sums up
his outlook: “Thought: Are you
living your life or the life you have
been told you should live?”
Hamilton Ballroom, co-hosted by Glo–TV, 2-6 PM,
Hamilton Crown Plaza Hotel
Films: “Happy Birthday” – Abigail wants a dildo. Hannah
wants a baby. Jack and Madeleine are happy with things just the
way they are. Written and directed by Roberta Munroe (15 min)
“Finding Juliet” – Heartbroken and struggling to forget the
image of her girlfriend cheating on her with an ex, Meeko
Brown attempts to put the past behind her by setting out to find
her one true love, her Juliet. (28 mins)
“Spoiled” – Tuffy Alexander is successful, smart, and has a
demanding relationship. How far will she allow herself to be stretched
to keep it? Written and directed by Michelle Sewell. (11 min)
“Dani and Alice” – After an evening out Dani and Alice must
come to terms with the end of their violent relationship. Written
and directed by Roberta Munroe (12 min)
“Flipping the Script” – excerpts of sit down interviews of
forthcoming documentary feature. Written and directed by
Demetrius Bady. Produced by Maurice Jamal (30 mins)
“Friends and Lover” – a spinoff from the hit “The Ski Trip.” The story
follows Corey and Omar as they relocate to Los Angeles and contemplate
getting married. Written and directed by Maurice Jamal (90 mins). Special
appearances by directors Michelle Sewell and Maurice Jamal.
DC Black Pride Poetry Slam ($5)
Hamilton Ballroom, 6-9 PM, Hamilton Crown Plaza Hotel,
hosted by ButterFlySoul
DC Black Pride Fashion & Entertainment ($20)
EXTRAVAGANZA!
The Sphinx, 1315 K Street, N.W., 9:30 PM – 12 AM. Hosted by
Rayceen Pendarvis.
SUNDAY MAY 30
Church service, Hamilton Ballroom, Hamilton Crown Plaza
Hotel, 10 AM-Noon.
Rev. Eric P. Lee is president/CEO of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference-Los Angeles.
Health and Wellness Expo Entertainment ($15)
J Holiday headlines, Washington Convention Center, 1-7 PM
Segment 1: 2–3 PM, hosted by Rayceen Pendarvis and fea-
turing Running Water, Romance, Sabrina Blue, Yarde, Monet
Dupree, Tina Tuna Adams, Telle Thomas, Eric Rainbow,
Shadina/Topaz, Yahzarah and Beat Ya Feet Kings.
Segment 2, 4:15-4:45 PM, hosted by Shi-Queeta Lee with
Epiphany Bloomingdale, Tyria Iman, Raquel Savage,
Lacountress Farrington and Brandi Courvisler.
Segment 3, 6:15-7 PM, hosted by ButtaFlySoul and featuring
DJ Flexx and J Holiday.

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dc-opera.org COMMON BOND EXHIBITION. Strathmore.
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dramatically virtuosic adaptation of FINE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE EXHIBITION.
the classic story follows Hamlet in his Strathmore. strathmore.org.
pursuit to avenge his father's murder. Known for Ophelia's hauntingly beautiful mad
scene, 'Et maintenant ecoutez ma chanson,' this dazzling production brings tuesday, june 1
Shakespeare's famous play to life. THURGOOD. The John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts. 202-467-4600.
JAZZ IN THE GARDEN: LESLIE SUMMEY kennedy-center.org.
Friday, May 28
National Gallery of Art wednesday, june 2
nga.gov RIVERDANCE. The Filene Center at Wolf
The Jazz in the Garden concert series, the Trap National Park for the Performing
National Gallery of Art's beloved summer Arts. 703-255-1868. wolftrap.org.
tradition, begins its 10th season featuring
bebop music with female jazz vocalist thursday, june 3
Leslie Summey. The improvisational IVAN FISCHER, CONDUCTOR / STRAVIN-
nature of jazz and the bebop style that was SKY & RIMSKY-KORSAKOV. National
popular in the 1950s complements the Symphony Orchestra at The John F.
current Beat Memories exhibition. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
SWINGTIME! THE FABULOUS FORTIES THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER. Strathmore.
May 29 - June 12 301-581-5100. strathmore.org.
The In Series
Atlas Performing Arts Center
202-204-7763
inseries.org LAST CHANCE
As the 1940s twirl and explode around them, six diverse through may 29
characters united by music and friendship swing into RIFAR EL CORAZÓN / HEARTSTRINGS.
new identities. Evolving together or growing apart, they Teatro de la Luna at Gunston Arts Center.
watch and sing as the world swings from depression to 703-548-3092. teatrodelaluna.org.
the brink of destruction and back again into a strange STEVE SZABO: THE EASTERN SHORE
new prosperity. AND OTHER IMAGES. Arts/Harmony Hall
Regional Center. 301-203-6070. pgparks.com.
JOHN WATERS: AN UNCONVENTIONAL THE BEST OF FRIENDS. Washington
SELF-PORTRAIT Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre.
Wednesday, June 2 240-582-0050. stageguild.org.
Smithsonian Resident Associate Program
Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley Center through may 30
202-633-3030 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS.
residentassociates.org Round House Theatre Bethesda. 240-
John Waters, American filmmaker, actor, and artist, takes 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org.
an irreverent and intimate look at the influences on his life JERAMIE BELLMAY: PERCEPTION ALTAR.
and work in a conversation with Washington Post Style The Fridge DC. 202-664-4151. thefridgedc.com.
editor, Ned Martel.
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ONE NIGHT ONLY
friday, may 28
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Center. 301-377-7800. pgparks.com.
wednesday, june 2
MENDELSSOHN'S ELIJAH. St. Paul's
Lutheran Church. 703-237-2499. choralis.org.
thursday, june 3
BEATLES, WINGS, AND SIX-STRING:
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at Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian National
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residentassociates.org.
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washingtondcjcc.org.
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202-488-3300. arenastage.org.
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DC Jewish Community Center. 800-494-
8497. washingtondcjcc.org.
AMERICAN BUFFALO. The Studio
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GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES.
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393-3939. woollymammoth.net.
SACRED WATERS: PHOTOGRAPHY BY
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TREADWELL: BRIGHT AND DARK. The
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Run. 703-998-4555. americancentury.org.
MIXED MEDIA PAINTINGS BY KAREN
HUBACHER AND BY TORY COWLES.
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STEVENS JAY CARTER: COLLECT-
ING COLORS AND TEXTURES. Caos
on F. caosonf.com.
FROM IMPRESSIONISM TO MODERNISM:
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HENDRICK AVERCAMP: THE LITTLE
ICE AGE. National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
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BEAT MEMORIES: THE PHOTO-
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RARE: PORTRAITS OF AMERICA'S
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GERMAN MASTER DRAWINGS FROM
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1580-1900. National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
IN THE TOWER: MARK ROTHKO.
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COLLECTION. National Gallery of Art.
nga.gov.
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NISHINGS FROM THE PERMANENT
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HISTORY ON FOOT: DETECTIVE MCDE-
VITT. Ford's Theatre. 202-347-4833. fords.org.
FREE
may 29 - may 30
GALLERY TALK: IN MEMORY OF SAN-
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THEATERAGENDA
Gay composer’s love letter to family
‘Sycamore Trees’ is
candid, compassionate
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Four years ago on his 50th birth-
day, gay composer Ricky Ian Gordon
won an Obie Award for his song
cycle, “Orpheus and Euridice.” On
that very same day, he also learned
that he’d received a $100,000 com-
mission from Signature Theatre to
compose a new musical as part of
the Arlington company’s “American
Musical Voices Project.” The result of
Gordon being selected by Signature
is “Sycamore Trees,” an almost
entirely autobiographical piece
chronicling his family’s story from the
mid-1940s through the 1990s.
Initially, Gordon thought he’d sat-
isfy his sizable commission by col-
laborating with an established lyri-
cist and a playwright on a new musi-
cal work. When that didn’t pan out,
Gordon sensed the universe was
telling him something: “Do the fami-
ly piece!” Certainly the material was
there: His mother was a Borsht Belt
singer and his father a macho World
War II veteran. He and his three
older sisters, Gordon attests, were
the result of their parents’ outsized
passion. And while the postwar
Jewish family’s climb from the Bronx
to suburban Long Island wasn’t
unusual, their rancorous battles and
hardcore addiction issues were.
Gordon first began work on the
libretto and score that would
become “Sycamore Trees” in the
1980s. “When I started, I had a
story about my family but not self,”
he explains. “I first had to live, bot-
tom out, lose a lover to AIDS, and
get clean. Only after putting my
world back together did telling my
story make sense to me. ”
In a Signature press release,
“Sycamore Trees’” director Tina
Landau says, “The whole piece feels
like a poem — some haunting com-
bination of memory, music, and
dream.” But it’s also sharp, biting and
very funny with an eclectic, melodic
score. This world premiere produc-
tion features a talented cast of
Broadway vets including Judy Kuhn,
Mac Kudisch, Matthew Risch, and
Diane Sutherland. Tony Yazbeck
plays Andrew, the Gordon character.
About midpoint in the musical’s
development, Andrew had a poem,
essentially a paean to his father’s
laud worthy penis. Ultimately, the
Gay composer RICKY IAN GORDON created an honest portrait of his
unique family.
passage was cut. (“There’s only so
much you can ask from an audi-
ence,” Gordon notes wryly,
“Especially when you tell them that
they’re seeing a musical.”)
But another scene recounting
young Andrew’s disastrous sexual
experimentation with another boy
remains intact. Many changes and
edits were made throughout the evo-
may 28, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 37
Photo courtesy of Gordon
lution of “Sycamore Trees,” and none
of them came easily, says Gordon.
When it’s your own story, it’s espe-
cially difficult to leave something out.
At just 16, Gordon entered
Carnegie Mellon University. In his
freshman year, he realized he was
meant to be a composer. For him, it
was “like walking into the light.” Today,
Gordon’s advice to aspiring com-
‘Sycamore Trees’
Through June 13
Signature Theatre
4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington
703-573-SEAT
signature-theatre.org
posers is to listen to all the music they
possibly can. Writing for theater
demands that they call upon all that
they know to make every moment as
authentic as possible. To do that, it’s
necessary to have a broad musical
vocabulary at your fingertips. Most
young composers have yet to
acquire that. With him it was different.
“I feel compelled to write musicals
that are both emotionally and psy-
chologically like the foreign films that
I grew up loving. That’s my aesthet-
ic,” adds Gordon whose other works
include the opera “The Grapes of
Wrath” and the musicals “Dream
True” and “My Life with Albertine.”
“I like to bring the close-up to
the stage. There’s intimacy even
in my more epic work.”
“Sycamore Trees” is a love let-
ter to Gordon’s family. And while
he exposes himself and his kin,
warts and all, his candid obser-
vations are exceedingly compas-
sionate and beautifully rendered.
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SOCIALAGENDA
New HIV/AIDS clinic planned for D.C.
Alpha Drugs poised
to sponsor venture
By DAVID HOFFMAN
Special to Washington Blade
A primary care medical clinic
specializing in serving HIV/AIDS
patients will soon open its doors,
according to its medical director.
Dr. Milton Mills, an HIV/AIDS
doctor currently practicing outpa-
tient clinic-based medicine in
Northern Virginia, said the new
clinic might be based in the relo-
cated D.C. Center for the LGBT
Community.
The Center, which is seeking a
new home before its displacement
next month from 1840 14th St.,
N.W., due to a redevelopment
project, has appealed for city
assistance. It’s unclear where the
Center will relocate.
Mills said the new clinic, spon-
sored by Alpha Drugs & Medical
Supplies, is looking for space
now so it can open to the public
as soon as possible.
Plans for the new clinic were
revealed last week during an
Alpha Drugs HIV/AIDS patient
“survival forum” at the Hotel
Palomar in D.C. No additional
information regarding the clinic,
such as its staff size or whether it
was intended to compete with the
specialty HIV/AIDS care that
Whitman-Walker Clinic offers,
was offered during the event.
Mills, a Stanford University
School of Medicine graduate who
works as a critical care physician
at Fairfax Hospital, made an off-
hand reference to the new clinic
while speaking on the role of
nutrition in the treatment of HIV.
During his presentation, Mills
emphasized the link between
nutrition and health. He also
stressed the importance of
“dietary intervention” to treat and
cure seriously ill patients.
“Medical research shows con-
clusively that a plant-based diet
reduces chronic disease risk,”
Mills said. “I find that when peo-
ple are ill, they are very open to
adopting such practices as a
vegetarian diet when that will
improve their health.”
Mills told a group of about 40
people that he’s “very in your
face about what’s good for you,”
but his “goal is not to make you
all vegetarians.”
“In fact,” he said, “I used to be
the biggest meat-eater in my
family, and I thought I couldn’t
live without it.”
Mills said he changed his eat-
ing habits more than 20 years
ago, moving from a vegetarian
diet to being “95 percent vegan,
only occasionally eating some-
thing with egg whites in it.” He
noted that his dietary changes,
despite some initial difficulties,
yielded better health.
“Like alcohol or cocaine, meat
Photo courtesy of pcrm.org
eating is an addiction,” he said.
“And if you don’t believe me, just Dr. Milton Mills said a new primary care medical clinic specializing in
try taking a piece of chicken out of HIV/AIDS care will soon open its doors.
someone’s hand. They will hurt
you worse than a crack addict.” during his presentation, which changes are helpful.
To successfully adopt a vege- noted the costs associated with “AIDS has gone from being
tarian diet, Mills said it’s impor- HIV patients who choose to con- inexorably fatal so that now HIV
tant to “divest food of its emo- tinue eating meat. on therapy taken as prescribed
tional meanings.” “Many antiretroviral drugs has become basically a chronic
“We often think of food in emo- used to treat HIV stress the disease with a normal lifespan,”
tional terms,” he said. “For exam- body,” he said. “For example, Mills said.
ple, food reminds us of [there is] liver stress and some He noted this means that an
Thanksgiving at grandmother’s raise your cholesterol levels and HIV/AIDS patient’s major health
house. But we need to divest food contribute to heart disease.” risks now often come from other
of these feelings, and not see food He said to offset that stress — causes, such as Hepatitis B and
in its romantic terms, because food “and so that these medications C, diabetes, heart and kidney
is just chemicals in our body.” don’t have a negative as well as diseases, and diet is key to fight-
Mills shared reams of data positive effect” — dietary ing these potential problems.
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LGBTNIGHTLIFEGUIDE
washington, dc DC EAGLE
639 New York Ave., NW
LARRY’S LOUNGE
1836 18th St., NW
30 DEGREES Washington, DC 20001 Washington, DC 20009
1639 R St., NW 202-347-6025 202-483-1483
Washington, DC 20009 dceagle.com Dupont Circle area bar and restaurant
202-462-6569 The popular Levi/leather bar’s origins popular with both men and women.
cobaltdc.com date to the 1960s. Features billiards,
In Dupont Circle area; popular with men regular tournaments and other special MIXTAPE
but check schedule for other events. events. Located near the convention Different locations
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1409 PLAYBILL CAFÉ Place Metro. twitter.com/MIXTAPEdc
1409 14th St., NW Alternative dance party for queer men and
Washington, DC 20005 DELTA ELITE women featuring electro, alt-pop, indie
202-265-3055 3734 10th St. NE rock, house, disco and New Wave. Check
Logan Circle area restaurant and bar Washington, DC 20017 web site for 2010 schedule of events.
(Dupont Circle Metro) popular with the 202-546-5979
theater crowd and featuring open-mike thedeltaelite.com MOVA
nights, karaoke and other special events. Longtime bar popular with African- 1435 P St., NW
American men in Brookland Washington, DC 20005
ACADEMY neighborhood; hosts regular ladies night. 202-797-9730
OF WASHINGTON Check web site for special events. halodc.com
thewashingtonacademy.com Trendy Logan Circle bar and lounge
Longtime organizers of drag events in the DIK BAR popular with men features regular happy
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STEAK HOUSE In Dupont Circle area, above
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Washington, DC 20009 900 U St., NW
202-232-0395
In Dupont Circle area; popular longtime
DUPLEX DINER
2004 18th St., NW
Washington, DC 20001
202-332-6355 baltimore LEON’S/
TYSON PLACE
restaurant and steakhouse with recently Washington, DC 20009 nelliessportsbar.com 1722 870 Park Ave.
renovated Upstairs Lounge. 202-265-9599 Sports bar featuring poker events, drag 1722 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201
duplexdiner.com bingo, trivia contests and other specials. Baltimore, MD 21201 410-539-4993
APEX Popular restaurant and bar in the Popular bar with massive outdoor deck Multi-level after-hours dance club attracts leonsbaltimore.tripod.com
1415 22nd St., NW Adams Morgan area; happy hour and plenty of TVs for watching sports. a mixed crowd but remains gay-friendly. In business for more than 50 years,
Washington, DC 20037 specials and many other special events. Leon’s is the oldest gay bar in
202-296-0505 See web site for updated schedule. OMEGA BALTIMORE EAGLE Baltimore and among the oldest in
apex-dc.com 2122 P St., NW 2002 N. Charles St. the country. Friendly bar with jukebox
In Dupont Circle area; popular with EFN LOUNGE/ Washington, DC 20036 Baltimore, MD 21218 gets especially busy on Sunday nights.
men, but check schedule regularly for MOTLEY BAR 202-223-4917 410-82-EAGLE Tyson Place is a restaurant bar
other events. 1318 9th St., NW omegadc.com Longtime Levi/leather bar not far located behind Leon’s with a
Washington, DC 20001 Dupont Circle area bar and club popular from Mount Vernon offers friendly bar, separate entrance.
BACHELOR’S MILL 202-341-8281 • 202-642-4537 with men featuring dancing, drag and billiards, outdoor patio, videos and a
1104 8th St., SE efnlounge.com • motleybar.com other special events. full store for your leather needs. PORT IN A STORM
Washington, DC 20003 twitter.com/EFN_Lounge Mostly men, but welcoming to women. 4330 E. Lombard St.
202-544-1931 Funky, edgy neighborhood lounge in PHASE 1 Baltimore, MD 21224
Longtime bar popular with African- Logan Circle with special events galore. 525 8th St., SE CLUB PHOENIX 410-534-0014
American men in Capitol Hill area. Popular with men and women; features Washington, DC 20003 1 W. Biddle St. Friendly neighborhood lesbian bar gets
dancing, videos. Check web site for phase1dc.com Baltimore, MD 21201 especially popular when the Ravens
BANANA CAFÉ event schedule. twitter.com/phase1dc 410-837-3906 play. Features billiards, music and more.
500 8th St., SE The Phase opened in 1970 and remains Mount Vernon-area downstairs bar
Washington, DC 20003 FAB LOUNGE a popular lesbian bar and club. Features attracts men and women; friendly service. QUEST
202-543-5906 1805 Connecticut Ave., NW regular special events, including Jell-O 3607 Fleet St.
bananacafedc.com Washington, DC 20009 wrestling, 80s theme nights and more. DRINKERY Baltimore, MD 21224
Popular Capitol Hill area restaurant and 202-797-1122 Check web site for details. 205 W. Read St. 410-563-2617
bar (Eastern Market Metro) for both men thefablounge.com Baltimore, MD 21201 Neighborhood bar in Highlandtown
and women. Features Cuban, Mexican In Dupont Circle area; popular with men REMINGTONS 410-225-3100 area is popular with men and women
and Puerto Rican cuisine. but hosts regular women’s events. 639 Pennsylvania Ave., SE Another of Baltimore’s friendly neighbor- and offers billiards.
Washington, DC 20003 hood bars in Mount Vernon featuring
BLOWOFF FIREPLACE 202-543-3113 billiards, jukebox and welcoming service. SAPPHOS
815 V St., NW 2161 P St., NW remingtonswdc.com 1001 N. Charles St.
Washington, DC 20001 Washington, DC 20037 twitter.com/remingtonsWDC GALLERY Baltimore, MD 21201
blowoff.us 202-293-1293 Popular country/Western nightclub in Capitol 1735 Maryland Ave. 410-752-7133
Created by musicians Bob Mould and In Dupont Circle area; neighborhood bar Hill neighborhood with more than 6,000 Baltimore, MD 21201 centralstationpub.com
Richard Morel, Blowoff is an occasional popular with men. square feet of space for dancing and billiards. 410-539-6965 Part of the Grand Central complex,
dance event popular with men. Events are One half block west of Eastern Market Metro. Longtime bar and restaurant popular Sappho’s attracts a lesbian crowd
held in clubs around the country; D.C.’s GREEN LANTERN with African-American clientele. and offers comfy couches, outdoor
Blowoff parties are held at the 9:30 club 1335 Green Court, NW TOWN DANCEBOUTIQUE patio and more in its second
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B.O.I. twitter.com/greenlanterndc 202-234-TOWN Baltimore, MD 21201
PRODUCTIONS Friendly bar for men hosts regular happy towndc.com 410-752-7133
boimarketing.com//community.html
Organizes regular women’s events
hours and special events, including
karaoke and shirtless drink special
Dance club and bar popular with men
and women, features regular drag per-
centralstationpub.com
Large entertainment complex featuring
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ULTRABAR Arlington, VA 22202
COBALT JR.’S 911 F St., NW HIPPO 703-685-0555
1639 R St., NW 1519 17th St., NW Washington, DC 20004 1 W. Eager St. Freddie Lutz’s Virginia establishment
Washington, DC 20009 Washington, DC 20036 ultrabardc.com Baltimore, MD 21201 includes a restaurant and friendly bar,
202-462-6569 202-328-0090 twitter.com/UltraBar 410-547-0069 regular specials and is popular with
cobaltdc.com jrswdc.com Large dance club with gay-friendly clubhippo.com men and women. Crystal City Metro.
In Dupont Circle area; part of complex Longtime friendly Dupont Circle area events and vibe located downtown near Large club popular with men and
of LGBT businesses at this address, bar popular with men; videos, regular Metro Center. women featuring billiards, top
including Level One restaurant on special events. DJs/dancing, karaoke, videos and
street level and 30 Degrees bar.
LACE
ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS
1824 Half St., SW
more. Opened in 1972, Hippo’s motto
is “where everyone is welcome.”
laurel, md
CREW CLUB 2214 Rhode Island Ave., NE Washington, DC 20024 PW’S
1321 14th St., NW Washington, DC 20018 202-863-0670 JAY’S ON READ 9855 N. Washington Blvd.
Washington, DC 20005 202-832-3888 secretsdc.com 225 W. Read St. Laurel, MD 20723
202-319-1333 lacedc.com Featuring all-nude male dancers Wednesdays- Baltimore, MD 21201 301-498-8202
crewclub.net Every night is ladies night at Lace; Sundays, drag performances, large dance floor 410-225-0188 pwssportsbar.com
Men’s 24-hour gym in Logan Circle area, features regular special events for women and many regular special events, contests and Piano bar attracts a mostly male Restaurant and bar is popular with gay
featuring steam rooms, lounges, in Brookland neighborhood. Check web more. Large parking lot available; located in crowd, though welcoming to women and lesbian sports fans and is known
private dressing rooms and more. site for details on happy hour specials. Buzzard’s Point warehouse district. and straight patrons. for its superb burgers.
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SOCIALAGENDA
Remembering the fallen
Memorial Day isn’t just
for beach and picnics
By TYRONE FORD
Special to Washington Blade
With the effort to repeal “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” dominating head-
lines this week, it’s important to
remember that Memorial Day
Weekend isn’t just for beach trips
and barbeques — it’s a time to
mer season with a free perform-
ance by the U.S. Marine Band fol-
lowed by fireworks. The Filene
Center gates open at 6:30 p.m.
Arrive early because the park clos-
es once capacity is reached.
National Memorial Day
Parade: Monday, May 31, begin-
ning at 2 p.m. The parade of march-
ing bands and veterans units from
all 50 states steps off at the corner
of Constitution Avenue and 7th
Street, N.W., and proceeds along
the People” standard exhibit,
visitors can enjoy “Memorials:
How a Nation Remembers.”
This interactive program lasts 20
minutes and presents informa-
tion on monuments and memori-
als throughout the nation.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday at
10 a.m., 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.
Other activities include the cele-
bration of the Pennsylvania
Liberty Tree dedication, marking
a one-year anniversary. Photo courtesy of National Park Service

honor those who have died serving
our country. There are events all
over the area that honor our veter-
ans, from here in D.C., to other near-
by destinations for those escaping
the District for the long weekend.
Here are a few suggestions.
Washington, D.C.
Sunset Celebration at Mount
Vernon: May 28-30, 6-9 p.m.
Enjoy evening tours of the man-
sion, 18th century music, dancing,
games and wagon rides. Adults,
$18; children 6-11, $12; and chil-
dren under 5 are admitted free.
Wolf Trap Farm Park: Sunday,
May 30, 8 p.m., Summer Blast Off!
“The President’s Own.” The park for
performing arts kicks off the sum-
Constitution Avenue, past the White
House, ending at 17th Street.
World War II Memorial:
Monday, May 31, 9 a.m. The
National Park Service and the
Friends of the National World War II
Memorial will sponsor a wreath-lay-
ing ceremony in honor of our veter-
ans. The theme for the commemo-
ration is “Honoring our Fallen
Warriors.” Many surviving WWII vet-
erans will be in attendance.
Philadelphia
Throughout Memorial Day
weekend, Old City’s National
Constitution Center, 325 Arch
St., will offer multiple family-
friendly activities. In addition to
the center’s “The Story of We
Monday, May 31, 9:45 a.m. is
the Port Richmond Memorial
Day Parade. Port Richmond is the
only Philadelphia community still
able to sponsor and support a
Memorial Day parade to honor
those who gave their lives in serv-
ice. The parade is funded with
donations raised from community
members and business leaders.
Monday, May 31, 3 p.m.
Memorial Day Commemoration
at the Valley Forge National
Historical Park Visitor Center,
1400 North Outerline Dr., King of
Prussia. Valley Forge is best known
as George Washington’s winter
campsite. On Memorial Day, the
park’s staff honors America’s fallen
heroes in a commemoration ceremo-
Commemorate Memorial Day on Monday with a wreath laying ceremony
at the National World War II Memorial in D.C.
ny. Participate in a national moment of featuring a performance of “Taps”
silence with others at the park’s visitor and a military aircraft fly over in
center and view a military salute. You honor of those who lost their lives
can also picnic at the park and learn in service to the United States.
about the area’s place in history dur- All events are free, unless
ing the Revolutionary War. they are held at the USS
Intrepid Sea, Air and Space
New York City Museum, Pier 86 at 12th
Since 1984, New York City has Avenue and 46th Street, which
held Fleet Week to honor the U.S. means you’ll need to buy tickets
Navy and Marine Corps. The to enter the museum (though
week features extensive military admission to the Intrepid is free
demonstrations, as well as the for active and retired military). All
opportunity for the public to tour events are held in Manhattan,
some of the visiting ships. The unless otherwise indicated. Visit
Memorial Day commemoration is www.intrepidmuseum.org for the
a highlight of the week’s festivities, full list of Memorial Day activities.

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you have the ambition and are looking to launch your
new career, call (202)315-5309 for more information.
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offering Swedish/deep tissue and sports massage
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sports, deep tissue massage on a table, including
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BEN 202.277.7097
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TIME TO RELAX, TAME YOUR TENSION &
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body/mind time to escape from all of life's stresses.
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WEDDINGS & SERVICES
RC priest, American Catholic affiliation, licensed DC
marriage officiant. Many years experience working
with gay & straight couples in secular & religious
services. No venue too small. Let me help you make
your special day simple, elegant, memorable. Call Ed
(202) 445-0366, ed.ingebretsen@gmail.com.
MUSICAL
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or call 301-564-9482.
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STEVE O’TOOLE PHOTOGRAPHY Fine Art
Photographer for portraits, weddings & dating
photos for the internet. Call (703) 532-3031.
www.steveotoolephotography.com
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Luxury Sedan or Stretch Limousine 24 HR Reservations
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Individuals, couples, families, adolescents. Over 15
years serving the community. Mike Giordano, LICSW.
202/460-6384, mike.giordano.msw@gmail.com,
www.WhatIHearYouSaying.com
COUNSELING FOR GAY MEN. Individual/couple
counseling with volunteer peer counselor. Gay
Men's Counseling Community. 202-265-6495. gay-
menscounseling.org. No fees, donation requested.
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY FOR the gay & lesbian com-
munity. Relationships, grief, anxiety, transitions, careers.
Jonathan Kirkendal (202) 550-3589. www.dclpc.com.
LEGAL SERVICES
FULL SERVICE LAW FIRM Representing the
GLBT community for over 25 years. Family adop-
tions, estate planning, real estate, immigration,
employment. (301) 891-2200. Silber, Perlman,
Sigman & Tilev, P.A. & Kirstin Gulling, Of Counsel.
www.SP-Law.com
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Discharge, Sexual Harrassment, Contract Review,
Whitleblowers. The Law Office of Carl Roller
(202) 531-2777, www.carlroller.com
AUTOS
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vehicle. Call Marty Salins, at Auto Plaza, in
Rockville, (301) 340-1390.
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10pm. P.S. our lubes, DVDs & gear cheaper than online.
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ADOPT AN ADORABLE PUPPY OR DOG All-breed,
non-profit rescue. 100% volunteer run. Donations
welcome & needed. www.aforeverhome.org.
MOVING
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favorite gay owned crew. Expert packing, pianos.
Experienced, equipped & punctual as hell.
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tance 202-483-9579 www.gulliversmovers.com
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TOO NEAT GUYS INC. Residential & commercial
cleaning in DC & Northern VA. Over 12 years
experience, gay owned, licensed, bonded &
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A CLEANING SERVICE invites you to relax
while our team of experienced, dependable &
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www.acleaningserviceinc.com
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POWER CLEANERS, LLC. Experienced, depend-
able service seven days a week. Gay owned and oper-
ated. Call Matt for free estimates at 202-352-0739 or
visit www.powercleaningdc.com
FERNANDO’S CLEANING: Residential &
Commercial Cleaning, Reasonable Rates, Free
Estimates, Routine, 1-Time, Move-In/Move-Out.
(202) 234-7050, 202-486-6183.
MAID TO CLEAN. Rated #1 in Metro DC. Gay owned.
Serving DC/VA/MD. DC (202) 297-2967, VA (703) 299-0101.
MD (301) 656-7171. Visit www.maidtoclean.com
WINDOW TREATMENTS
FREE NO OBLIGATION HOME SHOPPING for
custom blinds, shades, shutters, draperies, and
more! Serving the GLBT community since 1986.
Environmental Concepts Design (202) 397-7909.
TREE CARE
BRANCHES TREE EXPERTS has certified arborists
with experience in Spraying, Fertilizing, Tree Pruning,
Root Pruning, Construction Damage, Storm Damage,
Stump Grinding, Tree Protection Plans, Planting and
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REAL ESTATE
RENT / DC
GEORGETOWN PALISADES-Foxhall Mews
5 minutes to Georgetown University Campus!
2 Lovely Levels! Sparkling Hardwood Floors!
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**1 Bedroom Deluxe! Fireplace! Washer/Dryer!
Modern Kitchen!
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**2 Lovely Levels! Sparkling Hardwood Floors!
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Parking! Incredible Location! 2 Bedrooms,
1 1/2 Bathrooms! $2500 + Utilities
ONE MONTH FREE RENT !
LAWRENCEMANAGEMENT@gmail.com
301.983.3275
CHARMING SUNNY 1 BR. 1 BA w eat-in kit. w/d in
unit d/w hwf fireplace 3 blocks from Metro (Stadium
Armory) Off-street parking avail. Available August 1.
$1190 + gas and elect. gregcaphill@gmail.com
ROOFING CONTRACTOR
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301-476-8551
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roof decks in Washington with unobstructed views FJSINGER@verizon.net.
of the National Cathedral to the Washington
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ately. $2,450 + utilities. 202 547-3511 ext 25.
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