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■ MILITARY
T
he December 6 announcement
that President Barack Obama
and congressional Republicans
have reached a deal on extending the
Bush-era tax cuts –– even for the wealth-
iest Americans –– could remove a major
obstacle in the way of the Senate taking
up Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal in its cur-
rent lame duck session.
If sufficient Democratic votes can be
found for the tax agreement –– and that
remains an open question as of press
time, given progressive unhappiness
with the president’s compromise –– sev-
DADT P. 38 FIERCE’S RIKKE MANANZALA & JOHN BLASCO HOIST MAYORAL LGBTQ YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROCLAMATION IN OCTOBER
Advocates Decry
Homeless Youth Cuts
BY PAUL SCHINDLER that will reduce funding for drop-in cen- away and Homeless Youth established
ters by one-third to one-half and, within in October 2009, charged the cuts “will
A
coalition of advocacy groups that two years, eliminate dollars for street disproportionately harm LGBTQ youth.”
work with homeless youth in outreach to that population completely. In a city budget of more than $60 bil-
New York City is expressing its In a December 6 letter to Mayor lion, the funds at issue are miniscule.
“concern and alarm” over mid-year bud- Michael Bloomberg and DYCD Commis- The cuts announced total $969,407 in
get cuts, announced over the past two sioner Jeanne Mullgrav, the organiza- fiscal year 2011 and $700,000 in the
HOLLY HUGHES weeks by the city’s Department of Youth
and Community Development (DYCD),
tions, all of whom are members of the
Mayor’s Commission on LGBTQ Run- YOUTH CUTS P. 18
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■ INTERNATIONAL
I
n an historic first for the leave, and there began a siege of
Cheering Up Winter country considered the most the club in order to close it that
Joshua Conkel and Megan Hill’s Catholic in Europe, Krystian became a milestone in the his-
“Lonesome Winter,” directed by Meg Lezierski became Poland’s first tory of the gay rights struggle
Sturiano, is a melancholy Christmas com- openly gay elected official when in Poland (see this reporter’s
edy about Winter, a lonely hoarder who he was elected to Warsaw’s City April 6, 2006 article, “A Polish
lives alone with her mean-spirited cat, Council in country-wide munic- Stonewall,” which is linked in
Sparkles. Just when Winter is about to ipal elections on November 21. the online version of this story
throw in the towel, a mysterious stranger Not only is Lezierski, a at gaycitynews.com).
in an adorable skirt suit shows up just in 32-year old lawyer, entrepre- Warsaw began an annual tra-
time to teach Winter how to shine. The neur, gay activist, and Green dition of Gay Pride marches in
show is a hilarious send-up of Cathy Party leader, a well-known fig- 2001, but in 2005, Lech Kac-
comics, Lifetime movies, and Christmas ure in the Warsaw gay commu- zynski, then the city’s mayor,
clichés. Under St. Marks, 94 St. Marks nity, he is also black. banned the event. Two years
Pl., btwn. First Ave. & Ave. A. Thu.- “My father was from Mauri- later, in a landmark ruling,
Sat. 8 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m. through Dec. tania,” Lezierski told Gay City the European Court of Human
19. Tickets are $18, $15 for students & News by telephone from War- Rights in Strasbourg held
seniors at smarttix.com. saw, “and came to Poland in the that the ban was illegal under
✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ early ’70s to attend a maritime international treaties to which
academy for training to join Poland is a signatory.
TOMASZ RYKACZEWSKI
Ebenezer en the merchant marine, which is This April, when the annual
Español when he met my mother.” Europride march was held in
Charles Rice-González’s “Los Nutcrack- But the biracial marriage Warsaw, it attracted less than
ers: A Christmas Carajo,” directed by Jorge didn’t last long, and his father 15,000 participants — a sharp
Merced, interweaves two holiday classics, split and returned to Mauritania contrast to the half-million who
“The Nutcracker” and “A Christmas Carol,” (officially, the Islamic Repub- Longtime gay activist and cultural impresario Krystian Lezierski is now Catholic Poland’s first out joined the 2007 event in Madrid,
and creates a queer Latino play about a lic of Mauritania, a country in elected official. the 45,000 who participated in
gay couple who go on a psychedelic trip western North Africa bordered the 2008 Europride in Stock-
through their lives one Christmas Eve. The by Algeria, Senegal, and Mali.) until April of this year, when he alist Law and Justice Party holm, or the 50,000 at 2009
Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance “I haven’t had any contact died in a plane crash, and Jaro- — founded by the Kaczynski Europride in Zurich (which has
(BAAD!), 841 Barretto St., btwn. Gar- with my father since he left slav, who was prime minister in brothers — will have 17 seats, a lesbian mayor).
rison & Lafayette Aves., Hunts Point. Poland,” said Lezierski, who 2006 and 2007. and the left opposition, of which “This year’s Europride here in
Dec. 9-11, 8 p.m. Tickets are $20-$25 at uses his mother’s maiden Lezierski was elected under Lezierski is a part, will have ten Warsaw had only about 13,000
BronxAcademyOfArtsAndDance.org or name. proportional representation as seats. marchers,” Lezierski told Gay
718-842-5223. Lezierski’s victory was all the a Green candidate on a coali- It was only four years ago City News, “and they were all
✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ more remarkable because, just tion ticket led by Poland’s Social that the City Council, then led mostly activists. The other Euro-
three years ago, the European Democratic Party from a War- by the Kaczynskis, ordered the prides had lots of people who
The Worst of Times, Parliament in Strasbourg over- saw district he describes as closing of Lezierski’s celebrated came just for fun, but Poland’s
The Best of Times whelmingly passed a resolu- “rather upscale and conserva- nightclub, Le Madame, which reputation for homophobia
Pamela Murphy’s “The C Word” is the tion condemning “the emerging tive.” In the new 60-member began as a gay venue but grew didn’t make it that attractive for
playwright’s journey through breast cancer, climate of racist, xenophobic, City Council, the conservative into a vibrant rainbow gath- just fun-seekers.”
during which she capitalizes on the worst and homophobic intolerance in Civic Platform party of Prime ering place for every sort of Warsaw Europride was pro-
thing that’s ever happened to her. Murphy Poland” under the gay-baiting Minister Donald Tusk will sexual, political, and cultural tected by 2,000 police, who kept
Kaczynski twins — Lech, that have 33 seats, the intensely ferment emerging in Warsaw.
䉴 DEC 9, continued on p.8 nation’s president from 2005 homophobic and ultra-nation- When police raided the club in 䉴 WARSAW, continued on p.36
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8/ Legal
Appeals Panel Hears Prop 8 14 DAYS
Issues of standing and merit weighed in strong pro-equality showing 14 NIGHTS
BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD 䉴 DEC 9, from p.3
A
three-judge panel of the creates a series of characters, includ-
US Court of Appeals for ing several versions of herself. Rebecca
the 9th Circuit, in San Drysdale directs. Upright Citizens Bri-
Francisco, heard oral argu- gade Theatre, 307 W. 26th St. Dec. 9
ments on December 6 on an & 27, 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 at 212-366-
attempt by the Proponents of 9176 or newyork.ucbtheatre.com.
why the County Clerk was not appear- ment — that heterosexuals need mar-
ing on the appeal, and whether the riage to steer unexpected children into
Deputy Clerk was an appropriate party stable homes — which, despite its illogic,
to represent the county, much less the has appealed to several state high courts
state, in defending a state constitutional around the nation, including New York’s,
amendment. All three judges appeared that have rejected same-sex marriage
very skeptical about the Deputy Clerk’s claims.
standing, noting that her function was In their questions and facial expres-
merely to issue licenses created by the sions, Reinhardt and Hawkins appeared
state government. unpersuaded by Cooper. Judges occa-
Once the standing arguments were sionally play devil’s advocate during oral
completed, the panel turned to the mer- arguments, but the two judges’ skep-
its of the case, which was what most ticism was at times striking, as was on
viewers of the proceedings’ webcast were occasion even Smith’s.
no doubt waiting for. Ted Olson argued on behalf of the
Cooper led off again. The appellants’ plaintiffs, and did a very effective job
case rests heavily on the Supreme of demolishing Cooper’s arguments.
Court’s 1972 action in dismissing an He maintained that California voters
appeal from a Minnesota court ruling in engraved discrimination on the basis
Baker v. Nelson. There, a gay male cou- of sex and sexual orientation into their
ple had sued the state over denial of a fundamental governmental charter by
marriage license, and the State Supreme passing Proposition 8, in violation of two
Court ruled there was no constitutional key US Supreme Court rulings, Reitman
violation. When the couple turned to the v. Mulkey and Romer v. Evans — both
US Supreme Court, the appeal was dis- cases involving state initiatives that took
missed “for want of substantial federal away rights previously conferred through
question.” state law and replaced them with dis-
Technically, this was a ruling on the criminatory constitutional amendments.
merits. The plaintiffs had argued the The high court struck down the amend-
right to marry was fundamental and that ments as violations of the 14th Amend-
its denial on grounds of sex and sexual ment in both cases.
orientation violated both the Due Pro- In Reitman, California voters dis-
cess and Equal Protection Clauses of the satisfied with state laws banning racial
14th Amendment. The couple relied on discrimination in housing placed an
the high court’s 1967 ruling in Loving v. amendment in the State Constitution
Virginia that a state ban on interracial
marriage was unconstitutional. 䉴 PROP 8, continued on p.23
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■ POLITICS
F
ive weeks after the conclusion
of an unusually spirited election
contest for control of the New York
State Senate, it is now a virtual certain-
ty that Republicans will enjoy a 32-30
majority in that chamber, regaining con-
trol of a body they led for more than 40
years until the 2008 elections.
Three contests that had remained
undecided have now largely been settled.
In Westchester County, veteran Demo-
cratic lawmaker Suzi Oppenheimer held
on to her seat, while in Buffalo, Demo-
SCREEN GEMS PRESENTS A DE LINE PICTURES PRODUCTION A FILM BY STEVEN ANTIN successful on only one of the three prior- “We need to do what we’ve always
CHER CHRISTINA AGUILERA “BURLESQUE” ERIC DANE CAM GIGANDET JULIMUSICANNE HOUGH
ities — passage of the Dignity for All Stu- needed to do — to reach out to Repub-
dents Act, which beginning in 2012 will licans,” said Jeffrey Friedman, a Long
ALAN CUMMING PETER GALLAGHER WITH KRISTEN BELL AND STANLEY TUCCI SUPERVISOR BUCK DAMON
provide protections from school bullying Islander who directs the political action
and violence motivated by a number of committee established this year by the
BY CHRISTOPHE BECK PRODUCERS STACY KOLKER CRAMER RISA SHAPIRO BY DONALD DE LINE
MUSIC EXECUTIVE PRODUCED specific categories, including sexual ori- grassroots group Marriage Equality New
entation and gender identity. The mea- York. “We need to work hand in hand
䉴 GOP, from p.10 Five senators first elected this year — José Peralta, must be allowed to vote their conscience, as opposed
Michael Gianaris, and Tony Avella in Queens, David to taking orders from the leadership or a majority of the
push by the Washington-based Human Rights Cam- Carlucci in Rockland County, and Tim Kennedy in conference. A conscience vote is something Skelos said
paign (HRC), also voiced confidence in Skelos’ sincer- Buffalo — will hold seats that delivered “no” votes he supported in his October remarks.
ity in the commitment he made, saying he “absolutely” when marriage equality was taken up last December. Angelo’s handicapping assumes there are five or six
accepts the incoming majority leader at his word. In two cases — Avella’s victory over Republican Frank Republicans that can be brought around on marriage
“No matter what the political makeup of the Senate, Padavan and Kennedy’s primary defeat of Democratic equality in time for a vote he expects to happen in the
we will work with everybody to do what’s right so that all incumbent William Stachowski — the winners took out 2011-2012 Senate session. As the issue raced toward
New Yorkers can be equal,” Ellner said. “Both Republi- long-standing senators who repeatedly voted against its first vote last year, advocates knew Republican votes
cans and Democrats can and should be for equality.” the LGBT community. would be needed, and the shutout on that side of the
Ross Levi, the executive director of the Empire State “They have to be thinking. ‘Do they want to be the aisle was widely understood to be a function of the
Pride Agenda (ESPA), the state’s leading LGBT rights next one?’,” Levi said of Republicans not currently sup- Democrats’ inability to provide more than 24 from their
lobbying group, also took note of Skelos’ comments in porting LGBT issues but faced with the question of caucus — an analysis consistent with Angelo’s insis-
October, and said, “The first thing to remember is that whether the new majority should change its feathers. tence that the lion’s share of the votes must come from
our community and the Empire State Pride Agenda Of the four Democrats who lost their bids for reelec- that side of the aisle.
have achieved victories under both political parties. tion, three were marriage equality supporters, but in
The Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act and none of those three races was their support for the bill a 䉴 GOP, continued on p.12
the hate crimes law were achieved under a Republican discernible political factor.
Senate and a Republican governor, so we proved that
we can achieve victories.”
In the wake of the election, then, the number of pub-
licly committed marriage equality supporters in the
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Levi also pointed to Attorney General Andrew Cuo- Senate is 26, up from 24 a year ago, but still six shy of for homeless LGBT Youth
mo’s election as a “new governor who supports our a majority.
goals.” He noted that Cuomo’s Republican opponent, Not surprisingly, the advocate most upbeat about How it works:
Carl Paladino, found himself in political hot water over the community’s prospects under GOP Senate leader- 1. Sign up to receive a letter
a wide array of intemperate remarks, but none more ship was the chair of the Log Cabin Republicans of New written by a homeless
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reputation. ing the majority leader at his word. And when it does,
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That reality, Levi argued, will factor into the Sen- we are confident that it will pass.” receive the gift at the New
ate Republicans’ thinking about their posture toward Angelo did offer two qualifications regarding his con- Alternatives Christmas
LGBT issues. He also took comfort from the results of fident outlook. First, he said, “Democrats must provide Party on Dec.23, 2010
the Senate battle itself, despite the setbacks suffered by their votes” — a figure he put at 26 or 27 at a minimum,
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12/ Community
PUBLISHER & CO-FOUNDER
JOHN W. SUTTER
NEWS BRIEFS By PAUL SCHINDLER
JWSutter@communitymediallc.com Liu Press Five reputations and the invest- protections based on sexual ori- curator David C. Ward and Jona- if they had ants crawling all over
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER & CO-FOUNDER Companies ments of the New York City Pen- entation and gender identity. than D. Katz, a SUNY Buffalo art the body of Mohammed, except
TROY MASTERS
troy@gaycitynews.com
on Anti- sion Funds at risk,” Liu said in a Five of those eight companies historian, gay activist, and long- that they wouldn’t do it, of course,
Discrimination written release announcing his — Manitowoc Company, NACCO time associate of Larry Kramer, for obvious reasons,” the news-
EDITOR IN-CHIEF & CO-FOUNDER
PAUL SCHINDLER
New York City Comptroller efforts. “All employees should Industries, Inc., Old Republic that created the first exhibition paper quoted Donohue saying.
editor@gaycitynews.com John Liu is calling on five com- feel safe, respected, and accept- International, Steel Dynamics, by a major art museum focused “I’m not going to buy the argu-
ASSOCIATE EDITOR panies in which city pension ed in the workplace. This is part Inc., and Torchmark Corporation on LGBT themes. ment that this is some statement
Duncan Osborne funds have investments total- of a continuing effort that is — for the first time began offer- That good will started leak- about some poor guy dying of
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS ing nearly $150 million to adopt good for business, the long-term ing protections of any kind to the ing out of the balloon big time AIDS. Was this supposed to be a
Christopher Byrne (Theater), Susie Day, employment practices protecting interests of shareholders and the LGBT community, adding both last week with the decision by Christmas present to Catholics?”
Doug Ireland (International), Brian McCormick their workers from discrimina- struggle for equality.” sexual orientation and gender the gallery to remove a video cre- Donohue told the Times that
(Dance), Dean P. Wrzeszcz
tion based on sexual orientation The release noted that three identity to their nondiscrimina- ated by the late David Wojnaro- the Smithsonian’s public funding
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Betsy Andrews, Seth J. Bookey,
and gender identity. The targets of the companies — KBR, Leggett tion policies. The other three wicz entitled “A Fire in My Belly.” should be cut if such art is part of
Anthony M.Brown, Kelly Jean Cogswell, of Liu’s efforts, all of them For- & Platt, and Anadarko — have — Bon-Ton Stores, Flowserve Wojnarowicz used an image of its programming.
Dean Daderko, Tate Dougherty, Andres Duque, tune 1000 companies, are KBR, failed to act despite shareholder Corporation, and Nalco Company ants crawling all over a crucifix to “If the government cannot
Michael Ehrhardt, Steve Erickson, Nick Feitel,
Jim Fouratt, Joe Fyfe, Deborah Garwood, Inc., one of the largest Pentagon resolutions that have, in each — already offered protections to convey the suffering of somebody take the public’s money and pick
Erasmo Guerra, Emily Harney, Andrey Henkin, contractors; Leggett & Platt, a case, won the support of more gay and lesbian employees and dying of AIDS, which claimed his its pocket to promote religion,
Frank Holiday, Andy Humm, James Jorden, Brendan diversified manufacturer of engi- than 39 percent of those voting. prospects, and will now do the life in 1992. The gallery acted why is it okay to pick its pocket
Keane, David Kennerley, Gary M. Kramer, Arthur S.
Leonard, Rachael Liberman, neered product components; According to the comptroller’s same for transgender workers. after complaints surfaced from and assault religion?,” he said.
Michael T. Luongo, Lawrence D. Mass, Anadarko Petroleum, which office, more than 88 percent of members of Congress as well Speaking to Fox News, Eric
Winnie McCroy, Eileen McDermott,
Gregory Montreuil, Ioannis Mookas, Carrie Moyer,
works in the oil and gas sectors; Fortune 500 companies have the First Glee, as the Catholic League, a right- Cantor, the number two Repub-
Stephen Mueller, Christopher Murray, TECO Energy, which operates sexual orientation and gender Then Outrage wing group based in New York lican in the US House of Repre-
David Noh, Wayne Northcross, Lori Ortiz,
Pauline Park, Sheila Pepe, John Reed,
energy utilities and extraction identity policies Liu is calling for. at National that often agitates against gay sentatives, called the display of
Nathan Riley, Andrew Robinson, Gerard Robinson, facilities in Florida, Kentucky, Vir- In April, Liu announced that Portrait Gallery rights and expressions of LGBT Wojnarowicz’s video “an outra-
Chris Schmidt, Sarah D. Schulman, ginia, and Guatemala; and Cross- shareholder resolution efforts Earlier this fall, the Smithso- visibility. geous use of taxpayer money
Jason Victor Serinus, Linda Shapiro, tex Energy, a natural gas services undertaken by the comptroller’s nian Institution’s National Portrait In an interview with the and an obvious attempt to offend
David Shengold, Gus Solomons Jr., David Spiher,
Drew B. Straub, Stefen Styrsky, Jerry Tallmer, company. office during the most recent Gallery in Washington earned New York Times, Bill Donohue, Christians during the Christmas
Stefanos Tsigrimanis, Kathleen Warnock, “Their refusal to guarantee proxy season resulted in eight big queer cred with the opening the Catholic League’s president, season.”
Benjamin Weinthal, Lee Ann Westover,
James Withers, Kai Wright, Susan Yung
equal opportunities for all hurts Fortune 1000 companies agreeing of “Hide/ Seek: Difference and equated the video with hate The Portrait Gallery’s director,
business by excluding talented to amend their employment non- Desire in American Portraiture,” speech.
ART DIRECTOR
Mark Hasselberger
women and men, and puts their discrimination policies to include a collaboration between senior “It would jump out at people 䉴 BRIEFS, continued on p.36
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Jamie Paakkonen
SENIOR VP OF ADVERTISING/MARKETING 䉴 GOP, from p.11 in support of marriage equality Democrats from similar districts going forward as marriage,
FRANCESCO REGINI in New York and New England, won’t do the same,” Angelo said, Melissa Sklarz, a leading trans-
francesco@gaycitynews.com Counting on GOP supporters noting that not a single one has underscoring his emphasis on gender rights advocate, was far
of marriage equality who have to lost in a reelection bid. He spe- the importance of the other par- less sanguine. Throughout the
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COLIN GREGORY
colin@gaycitynews.com raises the question of when they ple of Assemblywoman Janet Angelo said the specific route edly noted that public commit-
would be prepared to step for- Duprey, a Republican who rep- that marriage equality would ments of support for GENDA
ALLISON GREAKER
allison@gaycitynews.com ward publicly, since it is hard to resents New York’s far northeast take from the GOP majority significantly outstripped those
JASON SHERWOOD
imagine a caucus uniformly on corner, who voted against mar- conference to the Senate floor for gay marriage.
jsherwood@gaycitynews.com record against the issue moving riage equality in 2007 but came was not yet clear, but added, “It “I think GENDA would be
JULIO TUMBACO to bring it to the Senate floor. around on the issue in 2009. In would not surprise me if there much easier to get done in the
julio@gaycitynews.com Marriage Equality’s Fried- her reelection bid this year, she is a Republican that comes Senate, but there is no return
MICHAEL SLAGLE man, who estimated that as won 62 percent in a three-way out publicly” for the issue in for it,” she said, noting the con-
michael@gaycitynews.com many as seven or eight Republi- race against Democratic and advance of his or her colleagues siderable effort that ESPA, HRC,
Please call (212) 229-1890 for cans may be inclined to vote for Conservative Party opponents discussing it internally. Marriage Equality, and the
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■ IN NOVEMBER’S WAKE
Perspective/13
A Progressive Call to Ardor
BY NATHAN RILEY
I
n the wake of their Novem- must present an alternative. on the 2010 census is about to years by Democratic mistakes. a threat to America’s children.
ber defeat, Democrats The pushback within the party be undertaken, the GOP — be The era of George W. Bush, it This organization has close ties
should start kicking up against this moderation must warned — has the opportunity turns out, wasn’t just a dream to the Republicans and to right-
some major dust and stop ced- grow and actually engage the to write rules that could give it or a nightmare —it is a reality wing churches, yet we fail to
ing the stage to Republicans people in a tea party not of reac- a huge leg up in controlling the that we will have to oppose one hold such people accountable
and their theatrical politics. tionaries, but of progressives. federal and state governments more time. for the bedfellows they choose.
Democratic insurgents, to be The health care law wasn’t Progressives need to become
sure, will not be demonstrating in and of itself a program that proactive across on the board.
outside presidential appearanc- members of Congress ran away On health care, activists
es armed with assault weapons, from; the debate was trans-
Obama’s obsessive quest for should organize every time
but it is time for them to dem- formed by Republican activ- bipartisan consensus has left the consumers are squeezed on
onstrate a zeal for democracy, ism. Aggressive appearances cost and quality of service. The
decency, and fairness in their by right-wing rabble-rousers
public confused and mistrustful. health care law remains largely
politics. disrupted the customary low- a blank slate, and we should act
So-called “moderate” Dem- key town hall format where from the conviction that health
ocrats, including President the Democrats had planned through the remainder of the It is time for Democrats to costs and the delivery of care
Barack Obama, can no longer to explain the bill’s provisions. decade. get angry and get dramatic. are the responsibility of the gov-
pursue an economic program Obama and his allies had no Passage of the federal The LGBT community, with a ernment — and not the profit-
based on cultivating Wall Street response. The public’s doubts Employment Non-Discrimina- rich tradition of speaking up hungry insurance industry.
without alienating rank and increased, and by the time tion Act under Speaker John and acting up, should greet We must challenge the notion
file voters still waiting on that angry, if absurd, accusations Boehner seems out of the ques- this challenge with enthusiasm. that the deficit is caused by
“change we can believe in.” The about “death panels” seized tion. The fate of the LGBT com- The activists who realized that efforts to improve social sup-
reformers are the realists. The attention, the death knell for the munity is tied to the fortunes of a quilt is a meaningful way for ports for our citizens. We know
middle-of-the-roaders who tip Democrats’ real achievements Democrats and our allies among people to show their solidarity where we want government to
ever rightward in their utopian had been sounded. reformers. The restoration of a with the sick and dying should cut — from expensive programs
quest for bipartisan consensus With the Democrats out of Democratic Party committed to be able to contribute something to build new atom bombs, pris-
are the dreamers. Democrats power in the House, the LGBT progressive activism helps all of to the discussion of how we on complexes that are filled by a
are living in a make-believe community is clearly, once us. shape effective messages. failed drug policy, and military
world if they think they can con- again, on the defensive. If the Obama’s obsessive quest For our own good, the LGBT bases the world over. The finan-
tinue appeasing existing power- effort to end Don’t Ask, Don’t for bipartisan consensus has community must find more cial crisis demonstrates that the
ful interests without people con- Tell doesn’t succeed in the lame blurred the lines between Dem- ways to go on the offensive. The US must chose between guns
cluding that theirs is a politics duck session of the Senate, ocrats and Republicans and left Southern Poverty Law Cen- and butter, and it is butter we
without commitment or prin- repeal will not happen over the the public confused and mis- ter recently labeled the Fam- need.
ciple. next two years — and possibly trustful. It is not only queers ily Research Council an active A change in priorities is
Even after so many vot- the next decade. With Repub- who worry. Labor unions, immi- hate organization for repeat- essential. The tax breaks that
ers deserted the president, he lican having made big gains in grants, environmentalists, civil edly spreading false information American corporations receive
stubbornly insists on trying to state legislatures around the rights groups, and good govern- about the LGBT community are proof that the sick, the
win over the Republican Party country, just as local and fed- ment activists have all been held — especially in demonizing us
that despises him. Democrats eral reapportionment based hostage during the past two with the falsehood that we are 䉴 CALL TO ARDOR, continued on p.18
■ A DYKE ABROAD
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ou’d think the Tea Par- Assange, our own Long Island That Iran’s Arab neighbors don’t security, not just embarrass work of citizen bloggers and out-
tiers would be acclaim- Congressman Peter King, the like the Persian country loaded the country. He even offered the siders somehow truer and more
ing WikiLeaks founder incoming chair of the House up with nuclear warheads, dip- US government a chance to see authentic?
Julian Assange as their newest Homeland Security Commit- lomats lie a lot, and the US has them prior to publication, which We could ask the same ques-
hero. What is he but the ultimate tee, told MyFox New York that little leverage in the Middle East the administration turned down tions about most of our major
Buffy, single-handedly taking WikiLeaks should be declared a and Asia because, as Thomas — until the same offer came LGBT organizations, which
on the global vampiric network “foreign terrorist organization,” Friedman put it in the New York from the New York Times. have grown further and further
of the US government and the and Assange prosecuted under Times, we’re addicted to oil and So what’s the hoo-hah about? away from their outsider, activist
international banking industry, the Espionage Act. Sarah Palin Chinese credit? The Internet is full of articles roots. Though to be fair, if there’s
not to mention the autocrats of likewise called for Julian Assange The only real surprise was claiming the real story in Cable- anything we’ve learned from the
Africa and Eastern Europe? to be pursued with “the same the occasional proof of the com- gate is not the cables, but the likes of Sarah Palin and the Tea
By exposing how they operate urgency we pursue al Qaeda and petence of our foreign service, response to WikiLeaks itself and Partiers, it’s that outsider status
and sharing their inner workings Taliban leaders.” Mike Huckabee like the carefully crafted profile the seismic shift in the role of alone guarantees nothing. The
with ordinary people, he may not called for Assange’s execution as of Spanish Prime Minister José traditional media outlets like The left has as many wing-nuts as
be putting a stake in their dark a traitor, and Bill O’Reilly wished Luis Zapatero. New York Times. Does all their the right. Activists immersed in
pulsing hearts, but he’s defi- a drone down on his head. Oth- Throughout Cablegate, insider trading leave them com- a single issue in a single place
nitely inserting a splinter or two ers are calling for the murder of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange promised, or does it give them may lose sight of the big pic-
in their butts. All hail, Assange, his children and his lawyers. have behaved like responsible special insight? Is that a fine ture.
defender of liberty and slayer of All for what? Lifting the veil journalists, identifying and with- line they can walk without fall- More to the point is the ques-
censorship! on diplomacy and confirming holding documents that might ing off like a bunch of drunken
But instead of congratulating what we already largely knew? truly compromise US national slobs? Are they useless? Is the 䉴 WIKILEAKS, continued on p.14
8 - 21 DEC 2010
14/ Perspective
■ SNIDE LINES
D
ear Mr. Stewart, know-what. We just can’t say that if we want allowed to be funny, and maybe change
Remember your “Rally to Restore
Sanity” in DC in October? I’m sorry,
but my sanity remains unrestored. In fact,
to be part of the conversation? I can only
assume this “conversation” of which you
speak is sanity itself. Fit only for the sane.
things… just a little.
Inside the conversation, you get to laugh
and feel regret, but not much grief. And it’s POLITICS
FRI.DEC.10
I’ve been feeling increasingly deranged. It’s Bear with me. I’m trying to enter the the grief that makes you crazy, grief at the The Yule Log
like I’m speeding down Life’s superhighway million-moderate chat room here. So sane irrevocable loss of thousands of soldiers, (Cabins)
at 666 miles per hour, headed for Nut City, people agree that Pol Pot and Hitler were Iraqi, Afghani, Pakistani civilians, grief at The Log Cabin Republicans of New
where I am due to give my inaugural speech war criminals? I’m down with that. I feel the way their survivors are forced to live. York hold their annual Holiday Party, hon-
as mayor. cozy screaming, “Hitler was a war criminal!” Hell, even when the conversation turns to oring Marty Meekins, the White & Case
At first, I thought Code Pink was the sanity Suddenly, I fit in. US job loss and foreclosure, sane conversa- attorney who litigated the group’s (so far!)
problem. Those wacky, pinkly attired women So I hate Hitler, too! Booooooo, rot in hell, tionalists aren’t able to put their grief about successful challenge to the Don’t Ask,
are notorious for screaming “war criminal” mean war criminal Hitler! You Norma Des- their own lives into words. Don’t Tell policy in a California federal
at Senate hearings and decrying atrocities mond has-been of the Master-Race Theater! It’s lonely here, outside the conversa- court; Brian Ellner, who heads up the New
inflicted by the US military in the name of Where’s your Teutonic god now, Aryan-boy? tion. Plus, most of my fellow activists totally York State marriage equality efforts for the
fighting terror. In fact, they use the term “war I only wish I’d been there then. I’d march work my nerves. Including Code Pink. So Human Rights Campaign; and Ron Zacchi,
criminal” so much, they even have a War right up to the Reichstag and scream — maybe if I objectify my feelings to begin an a longtime grassroots activist with Mar-
Criminal Watch Calendar. I refer to it often. Wait. If I’d been there then and was able to anti-war argument with actual facts, I’d be riage Equality New York. Metropolitan
I knew “The Daily Show” had targeted march into the Reichstag, that would mean allowed in. Here goes: the Iraqi Body Count Republican Club, 122 E. 83rd St., 8-11
Code Pink as the paradigm of leftist “insan- I had somehow not been sent to a camp. estimates that there have been, to date, up p.m. Admission is $35; $25 with the dona-
ity.” But I assumed that was because of Which would, in turn, indicate that I was to 108,094 Iraqi civilian deaths, while Just tion of a gift for a child in need. You must
Code Pink’s puerile fashion sense. I, in con- probably not one of an “inferior” out-group, Foreign Policy says total Iraqi deaths due RSVP to nyc@logcabin.org.
trast, believe that if one is serious about but a simple person, trying to pass for a good to the US invasion number 1,421,933. The ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯
peace activism, one must deploy dignified person — a good German, if you will. I’d, of number of US military personnel…
garmentation, such as the blue denim over- course, be thoroughly steeped in the conver- Wait. In using these numbers to make ACTIVISM
alls festooned with STOP THE WAR buttons sation of the time. But one day, maybe I’d a political point, I’ve suddenly lost my Framing AIDS 2010
that I wear when I scream “war criminal” at just get tired of seeing the cattle cars roll by, unhinged awareness that every one of these For the sixth consecutive year, QMAD,
elected officials. But it turns out you meant and decide to start a new conversation. Tak- dead was a unique and memorable human Queens Media Arts Development, pres-
Code Pink to be the paradigm for anybody, ing my life into my own hands… being. I mean, it’s not like they’re Jon Stew- ents “Framing AIDS,” the borough’s annual
regardless of dress code, who speaks of But we are now and here. Instead of some art, whose passing someday from natural Observance of World AIDS Day Through The
elected officials — particularly US presi- White Rose crackpot in 1942 Germany causes will elicit in Americans a true sad- Arts. The art exhibition, titled “Absence” —
dents — as “war criminals.” screaming “war criminal” and being decapi- ness, because “The Daily Show” he hosted curated by media artist Hector Canonge,
I know this because I heard you on tated, Code Pink in today’s US of A gets to once helped to shape the conversation. The who also helms the monthly Cinemarosa
MSNBC when Rachel Maddow interviewed scream “war criminal” and is met only with statistical dead disappear from the yak-yak. queer film series in Queens — features
you just after the rally. You criticized Ms. minor derision and contempt. Anyone would Try, for instance, to find Wikileaks. the work of local artists exploring how soci-
Maddow for the same thing: agree that derision and contempt are kinder But ye shall know the truth and the ety has distanced itself from the concerns,
STEWART: You’ve said, “Bush is a war and gentler than physical liquidation — and truth shall make ye nuts — dead or alive, fears, and active awareness regarding
criminal.” Now, that may be technically true. way more effective in keeping the conversa- every soul weighs the same. Another truth: AIDS. (Queens Museum of Art, Flush-
In my world, “war criminal” is Pol Pot or the tion sane. Who wants to get laughed at for there’s way more war criminals around here ing Meadows Corona Park, Dec. 1-19;
Nuremberg trials.… I think that’s such an being sincere? As we activists chant, “This than mental health. So maybe the Rally to closing event and artists’ talk, Dec. 19,
incendiary charge that, when you put it into Is What Democracy Looks Like.” Restore Sanity is a misnomer; maybe there 5-7 p.m.). The online media projects are at
conversation — well, technically he is, that The conversation is THE happening thing. wasn’t much sanity to begin with. There- framingaids.us. For complete information
may be right. But it feels like a conversation You understand, Jon Stewart, that because fore, as mayor, I would like to present you on QMAD’s programs, visit qmad.org.
stopper, not a conversation starter. the conversation is the one thing everybody with the key to Nut City. ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯
So. “Technically” Bush probably is a you- takes seriously, it’s the place where you’re Use it.
READING
Heartbreak & Other
䉴 WIKILEAKS, from p.13 Remember all the votes they of secrecy? real power comes through mov- Homo Driftwood
thought they had for same-sex I’m not saying national LGBT ing from saying the emperor has Longtime New York activist Jay Blotch-
tion of transparency and access. marriage in New York? Remem- organizations should be ditched no clothes to actually posting his er, who now lives further up the Hudson,
What sets Julian Assange apart ber the 2008 election campaign, entirely. Assange handed over his photo on Facebook, so we can reads from his essay of homo heartbreak,
is not his neutrality, but his when Obama didn’t throw us treasure trove to the newspapers see the sagging naked flesh in “When Calvin Met Hobbes,” which appears
openness. “This is what I think. any crumbs in his platform, but of record in the US, Britain, and its repulsive decadence, with the in a new anthology of first-person gay
Here are all my sources. Make up our organizations still endorsed Germany because they had the mole on the left shoulder blade writing, “I’m from Driftwood.” The anthol-
your own mind.” He insists on the him after closed-door meetings, vast and knowledgeable person- and the flaccid belly — all of it ogy emerged out of a website launched
responsibility of the reader, of the saying, “Trust us. He’s in our nel to sift through it. The differ- crowned by jaundiced eyes. last year by Nathan Manske of Driftwood,
individual citizen, and by offer- corner.” Are we partners in social ence is that he made sure we all Texas. Manske will also read from his writ-
ing them his evidence, empowers change or not? Or have we just had the same access. For baby dykes, activists, and ing tonight. The reading is part of a 50-state
them to participate. This is the established one more ruling elite, The real challenge of WikiLeaks anybody who’s ever wanted to tour of the anthology’s contributors. LGBT
foundation of democracy, and actively working to disenfranchise isn’t to traditional media at all, save the world, visit the Lesbian Community Center, 208 W. 13th St.,
something we could use more of. ordinary queers? Will our bigwigs but to ideas of power and control Avenger Documentary Project at Dec. 10, 6:30-9:30 p.m. This event is free
Compare him to our unelected continue getting screwed— and that even the Tea Partiers want lesbianavengers.com. Check out and refreshments will be served.
LGBT representatives who make getting us screwed — until they to preserve in case they can one Kelly Sans Culotte at http://kel-
backroom deals with politicians. abandon the pleasant little thrill day seize them. And grabbing lyatlarge.blogspot.com/. 䉴 DEC 10, continued on p.18
8 - 21 DEC 2010
Crime /15
An Emotional Disturbance Claim?
John Katehis, alleged George Weber killer, may argue gay sex led to panic
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE Those 50 wounds are what in exchange for money. He and hands were bound. Nicolazzi
suggested the defense to Cohen. Weber carried on a negotiation called Katehis a “cold-blooded
T
he attorney represent- “Any time somebody inflicts via email, with the two agreeing killer” during her summation in
ing John Katehis, the that number of wounds... it that Katehis would tie up and October.
accused killer of gay jour- indicates to me that he lost it,” smother Weber. Jeffery T. Schwartz, Katehis’
nalist George Weber, may offer Cohen told reporters following Katehis said the older man attorney at his first trial, argued
an extreme emotional distur- the hearing. gave him cocaine and alcohol that his client was the victim of
bance defense at the 18-year- An extreme emotional dis- when he arrived at Weber’s Car- a sexual predator and he was
old’s second trial. turbance defense –– considered roll Gardens, Brooklyn apart- defending himself from a sexual
“I’m considering proposing an to be an affirmative defense –– ment, though he did not test assault when he killed Weber.
extreme emotional disturbance would require Cohen to prove positive for either substance Clearly, 11 jurors rejected that
defense in this case,” Jay Cohen by a preponderance of the evi- nor did police find cocaine in defense.
told Judge Neil J. Firetog at a dence, as opposed to the high- Weber’s home. The defendant Cohen said he has made only
December 3 hearing. er legal standard of beyond a said he bound Weber’s feet with a “cursory review of the case”
Katehis, 18, is charged with reasonable doubt required of tape and panicked when Weber and could not say what may
one count of second-degree prosecutors, that Katehis acted showed him a small knife. Kate- have caused the extreme emo-
murder in the 2009 killing and John Katehis in one of two photos from his under its influence. There must his admitted to accidentally tional disturbance.
could face as much as 25-years- MySpace page introduced at his first murder be an explanation for that state stabbing Weber once during a Katehis will have to be inter-
to-life if convicted. trial, which ended in a hung jury in October. of mind that is reasonable. struggle over the knife. viewed by an expert, a psychia-
If a jury decides that he killed Attorneys sometimes argue While the prosecution never trist or a psychologist, to deter-
the 47-year -old Weber but time before being eligible for that a gay sex act was the cause, said so explicitly, it is possi- mine if the evidence sustains
acted under the influence of an release. and that would be an obvious ble that a jury could conclude that defense.
extreme emotional disturbance, Katehis’ first trial ended in a choice in this case. that Katehis planned on killing The pr osecution will be
he would be guilty of man- mistrial after one juror was not The evidence at the first trial Weber from the start. Anna- allowed to have its own expert
slaughter and could receive up convinced that Katehis intended showed that Katehis, who was Sigga Nicolazzi, the prosecutor interview Katehis should he
to 25 years in prison. He would to kill Weber when he stabbed 16 at the time, placed an ad on in the case, introduced evidence proceed with an extreme emo-
then serve six-sevenths of that the journalist 50 times. Craigslist offering sex with men that suggested that Weber’s tional disturbance defense.
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The “bagel” protesters called for a “schmear” lion residents of the borough.
campaign against the mayor, highlighting — among In the evening, amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS
other issues Housing Works faults him for — Research, hosted a “Light For Rights” event at
For more information, call Bloomberg’s successful lobbying to convince Gov- Washington Square Park. On hand to help illuminate
ernor David Paterson to veto a measure that would the arch in honor of World AIDS Day were Liza Min-
1-800-382-HOME (4663) have limited rents of people with AIDS receiving nelli, amfAR chair Kenneth Cole, Carson Kressley, Taye
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WWW.GAYCITYNEWS.COM 8 – 21 DEC 2010 17
A
n openly gay detective who was
the liaison between the New
York City police department
and the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender community passed
away on December 5 from a lung ail-
ment related to his work at the World
Trade Center site. KEEP IT CLEAN. NATURALLY.
“The New York City Anti-Violence
Project (AVP) mourns the passing of
Detective Kevin Czartoryski,” the group
said in a statement. “AVP worked with
Detective Czartoryski in his role as the
Police Commissioner’s Liaison to the
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgen-
der communities. Detective Czartorys-
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crimination and violence against LGBT tion for the gay press.
people.”
Czartoryski, 46, joined the police could not be reached, he would admit
department in 1988 and served in the
department’s narcotics and hate crime
with some humor to having snuck
off to smoke a cigarette in the police This is your chance to make
an impact!
Czartoryski was well over six feet tall with Over 33 million people worldwide are living with
gray hair and was an unmistakable HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
presence at gay events.
If you are:
between 18 - 60 years old
units, the Daily News reported. His department headquarters. in good health
last years until his 2009 retirement Raymond Kelly, the police commis- HIV negative
were spent in the department’s press sioner, issued a December 5 statement
office, where his assistance to the gay that saluted Czartoryski’s work.
press proved invaluable. He was fre- “On behalf of the entir e Police
You may qualify to participate in a 17 month
quently quoted in the gay and main- Department, I convey my condolences study at The Rockefeller University to test a
stream media on high profile cases, to family and friends of retired Detec- potential vaccine against HIV.
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Czartoryski was well over six feet great distinction in the Office of Dep-
tall with gray hair and was an unmis- uty Commissioner Public Information The study will include:
takable presence at gay events such as and as my liaison to the LGBT Com- receiving the study vaccination
the city annual Pride March.
Czartoryski learned through his pre-
munity,” Kelly said in the statement.
“He was a consummate professional
outpatient clinic visits over a 17 month period
retirement medical exam that he had and a cheerful bridge for understand-
pulmonary fibrosis and would likely ing who will be missed terribly.”
require a lung transplant. In addition The Daily News reported that Czar- Participants will be compensated.
to being exposed to toxins at the World toryski was “the youngest of six chil-
Trade Center site, Czartoryski was a dren” and grew up in Queens.
smoker. Czartoryski had a single lung trans-
Czartoryski typically worked a four- plant in May, the Daily News report- For more information please call
Sarah Pollak, RN at 212-327-7394
to-midnight shift in the press office, ed, but his condition deteriorated in
and reporters seeking his help learned August with the discovery that his
to call late in the evening. When he cancer had spread.
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become pregnant, or are breast-feeding or plan to breast-feed. ISENTRESS is not recommended for use during
pregnancy. Women with HIV should not breast-feed because their babies could be infected with HIV through their
breast milk.
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(raltegravir) Tablets
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s The safety and effectiveness of ISENTRESS in children has not been studied. included:
s NAUSEA
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do so is in violation. Supreme Court for review. Even the
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that federal courts use the narrowest could provide a relatively strong basis
possible grounds for ruling in order to for Supreme Court review.
avoid unnecessarily taking on broader My own impression of the argument
constitutional questions, Reinhardt was that the court could well decide
asked whether the 9th Circuit need- the matter based on Article III stand-
ed to take on the broader question in ing grounds, which would dismiss the
order to rule. Olson responded that appeal, void the stay, and allow Walk-
the court could rule for the plaintiffs er’s order to go into effect.
and strike down Prop 8 without reach- If the court decides to recognize
ing the broader question, relying on the Proponents’ standing — or, more
the Romer precedent. But, he con- improbably, the standing of the Depu-
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reach the broader issue, it was clear proceeds to the merits, my impression
that the state constitutional amend- is it is likely to affirm Walker by at least
ment enacted by Proposition 8 was a 2-1 vote, but most probably on the
unconstitutional. narrower of the two potential grounds.
Therese Stewart then provided a Such a narrow decision would be less
brief follow-up to Olson’s argument, likely to interest the Supreme Court.
concentrating on the sheer irrational- A unanimous decision holding Prop-
ity of Prop 8 in light of California law. osition 8 unconstitutional would, of
The state, she argued, has, as a mat- course, be stunning. More dramatic
ter of policy, effectively disavowed the still would be a ruling finding that as a
grounds on which the Proponents argue matter of constitutional law, same-sex
the exclusion of same-sex couples from couples have the same right to marry
marriage is rationally based. as different-sex couples.
Lifting language from the Romer deci- For now, we wait.
8 - 21 DEC 2010
24/ Performance
I Do, I Don’t
Holly Hughes explores just how fractious marriage equality can be even among us
BY COURT STROUD HOLLY HUGHES: This issue is
HOLLY HUGHES
“Let Them Eat Cake” framed as black or white — you’re
P
erformance artist Holly Hughes With Megan Carney & Maureen Angelos either pro-gay marriage or anti-gay
and her longtime partner want Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St., marriage. A lot of gay people have more
to marry each other but may btwn. Rivington & Delancey Sts. complicated feelings, but it seems like
need to hold competing ceremonies. Through Dec. 18 there’s no place to have that conversa-
Hughes, who has spent more than 20 Thu.-Sat. at 7:30 p.m. tion. We give voice. There are charac-
years on the frontlines in America’s Dec. 4 & 11 at 2 p.m. ters in the show and probably people
culture wars, wants to dress up, have $10-$15; dixonplace.org in the audience who say we shouldn’t
“Mr. Showbiz” Murray Hill officiate, Or 212-219-0736 be doing this, that it’s a distraction
and make the event a bitingly funny $20, $18 for students, seniors at the door and inherently conservative.
political statement. Matinees are $15 at the doo
Her girlfriend, anthropologist Esther CS: What’s your personal opinion?
Newton, would prefer to wear slip-on Horniness” and “Clit Notes: A Sapphic HH: My point of view is that the
shoes, and keep the nuptials serious Sampler,” gained national attention right to marry is a basic right of citi-
and the whole affair private. in the early ’90s as one of the NEA 4, zenship. Everyone should have that
It’s just this kind of conflict that’s when she and fellow performance art- right, regardless of sexual orientation
led Hughes to collaborate with Chica- ists Tim Miller, Karen Finley, and John or gender presentation, with full ben-
go-based director Megan Carney and Fleck were stripped of their National efits. At the same time, I share many
WOW Café founder Maureen Angelos Endowment for the Arts grants due to of the same concerns that queer femi-
on a new performance piece called “Let the “indecent” content of their work. nists have raised about marriage.
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8 - 21 DEC 2010
26/ Performance
Offbeat and Jolly
Holiday shows for that queer Yuletide yen
BY WINNIE MCCROY Covelli), the Brian Newman As is his tradition, Hill will
Trio, the Lesbian Overtones, sing his rendition of “Have Your-
I
n the upcoming month, for and many more. self a Murray Little Christmas,”
every precious staging of “I’m very excited to bring as well as debuting an original
“The Nutcracker” and each the show to the main room at song –– this year, “Love You,
perfect kick of a Rockette’s heel, Le Poisson Rouge,” said Hill. Kids,” accompanied by pianist
there is an offbeat, wacky holi- “Booze will be flowing all night! Paul Leschen.
day show made with the cheeky, I’m debuting a brand new open- And of course, Santa Claus
campy feel the gay community ing number, ‘Back Door Santa,’ will make an appearance.
has come to love –– probably with the Brian Newman Trio. “A Murray Little Christmas”
because it largely created it. Me and my showbiz pals are is presented on December 18
From the tradition of down- going to do everything we can to at 7 and 9:15 p.m. at Le Pois-
town emcee Murray Hill’s “A get folks into the holiday spirit. son Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street
Murray Little Christmas” to a Rudolph is also making a sur- at Thompson Street. Tickets are
naked “Nutcracker” benefit for prise appearance to teach the $25 at mistershowbiz.com
COREY TATARCZUK
homeless LGBT youth servic- kids an important lesson about
H
es, New York performers come being different!” ill also lends his con-
together this holiday season to The famed reindeer’s perfor- siderable talent as nar-
stuff our stockings and jingle our Laura Careless in Company XIV’s world premiere of “Nutcracker Rouge” in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, mance is made in tandem with rator in “Moisty the
bells in a way only they can do. beginning December 10. Hill’s creation of an “It Gets Bet- Snowman Saves Christmas,” a
ter” video, to communicate to holiday extravaganza at Dixon
F
ans of the bizarre and the charm of the Borsch Belt to girls, and hi-balls for which LGBT youth thinking of taking Place, whose renovation last
burlesque shouldn’t Le Poisson Rouge on December Gotham is renowned, includ- their own lives that it’s worth year will dazzle anyone who
miss the annual holiday 18 for his annual Yuletide cel- ing performances by Dirty Mar- hanging in there for the oppor- hasn’t been back since.
extravaganza that is “A Murray ebration. tini, Bridget Everett, Moisty the tunities to see their prospects In this original musical, which
Little Christmas.” Downtown This year’s event features all Snowman (Bradford Scobie), and the support they enjoy
nightlife impresario Hill brings of the nuts, fruitcakes, show- Sebastian the Elf (Carmine improve. 䉴 HOLIDAY, continued on p.31
Film /27
Sex’s Degrading Release
Darren Aronofsky belches out a sorry story about a ballet dancer’s growth
BY STEVE ERICKSON a performance of “Swan Lake,”
BLACK SWAN
even though her director, Thom- Directed by Darren Aronofsky
D
arren Aronofsky is not as (Vincent Cassel), has doubts Fox Searchlight
gifted with a light touch. about her maturity and ability Opens Dec. 3 citywide
With “Black Swan,” to pull off the dual nature of the
which tells the story of a balle- character. He encourages her to
rina going insane, he’s found an experiment sexually as prepara- able to bring their own experi-
outlet for all his worst impulses tion for the role, but Nina, who ence of aging to their parts; the
–– over-the-top combinations of lives with her overbearing moth- narrative paralleled Rourke’s
bombastic music, shakycam, er (Barbara Hershey), remains own decline and search for a
and quick editing. girlish well into her 20s, her comeback. There’s a real pathos
At its best, Aronofsky’s direc- bedroom filled with stuffed ani- etched into the lines of Rourke’s
tion captures the energy and mals and decorated in shades of face.
excitement of dance. He might white and pink. By contrast, Portman is far
make a compelling musical Her understudy and rival, more removed from her role,
someday. Lily (Mila Kunis), is far world- and “Black Swan” is mostly
He shoots most of the film lier, offering Nina cigarettes and grounded in fantasy and other
with a handheld camera, even Ecstasy. As the debut of “Swan films. While it’s not as irritating
during largely static scenes in Lake” comes closer, Nina begins as “Requiem for a Dream,” a film
which most directors would having hallucinations, most of so ludicrously excessive that I’ve
place it on a tripod. As in his them gory. never been able to watch it all
previous film, “The Wrestler,” he It remains a mystery how a the way through, “Black Swan”
NIKO TAVERNISE
draws on the Dardenne broth- director as talented as Aronof- comes close.
ers’ style, often following char- sky has so much trouble mak- The film has all the soul of a
acters from behind in close-up. ing a satisfying film. “The Wres- Skinemax exercise, but it takes
Nina (Natalie Portman) gets tler” succeeded because Mickey
the role of the Swan Queen in Rourke and Marisa Tomei were 䉴 BLACK SWAN, continued on p.29 Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky’s unfortunate “Black Swan.”
■ FILM
“A
ren’t perversions Roadside Attractions by Catherine. Their other erotic
so dull?” asks one Opens Dec. 10 encounter similarly happens
character in “Hem- Quad Cinema out of view. Instead of depicting
ingway’s Garden of Eden,” a 34 W. 13th St. the women exploring their sexu-
soporific adaptation of the great quadcinema.com ality with each other, Irvin pres-
writer’s semi-autobiographical, ents the story David is writing
posthumously published novel. on a typewriter that keen-eyed
Set in 1920s Europe, this more or uncertain how to film an erot- viewers will notice has the Y and
dull than perverse drama fea- ic tryst. The naked couplings in Z keys reversed. A flashback
tures a love triangle among “Hemingway’s Garden of Eden” shows David’s father (Matthew
David (Jack Huston), an Ameri- are about as titillating as a visit Modine), a big game hunter in
can writer, his rich wife, Cath- to the doctor. Kenya, tracking an elephant for
erine (Mena Suvari), and Marita Wearing the same black-and- slaughter. The story is dear to
(Caterina Murino), a beautiful white striped shirts, Catherine David, and it becomes the dra-
bisexual Italian heiress. and David talk about being matic focus of the film’s second
Aiming for “Masterpiece The- Jack Huston and Mena Suvari in John Irvin’s “Hemingway’s Garden of Eden.” “brothers.” They eventually get half. Marita enjoys the story —
atre” and ending up like an unflattering matching peroxide along with a liaison with David
ersatz entry from the steamy ilish Catherine and the blandly she messes around further with blonde haircuts. David, with — and Catherine, whose money
cable series “Red Shoe Diaries,” handsome David on their hon- gender roles, taking his genitals a thick, dark mustache, looks helps her husband write, shows
this 2008 misfire is now getting eymoon. For a moment, it seems in her hands and the active role especially silly. It seems mostly she is not above petty jealousy.
a theatrical release. It would that things might be interesting in lovemaking. just odd that they manage to The conceit of “Heming-
have played better on cable, — Catherine deliberately gets But audiences should not get catch the eye of Marita, who way’s Garden of Eden” is that
where the slow motion softcore a haircut that makes her look too excited. Director John Irvin desires them both. the three lovers’ behavior is
sex, set to syrupy music, would like a young boy, and she uses cuts away in many of the pro- It is not long before Marita unorthodox, but it hardly feels
be more at home. her makeover to enjoy male vocative sex scenes. It is unclear moves in with them and seduc-
The film depicts the rich, dev- privilege. In bed with David, if he’s afraid to offend audiences tions occur. When the two 䉴 GARDEN OF EDEN, continued on p.28
8 - 21 DEC 2010
28/ Theater
Plays and Players
“Lombardi” scores on many levels while “Merchant” shines on all
BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE Look magazine, a pictorial maga-
zine that competed with Life for
D
aniel Sullivan’s wonder- many years. McCormick wants
ful production of “The to get the “real” story behind the
Merchant of Venice” has mercurial coach, and so he sets
moved indoors from Central Park, out to shadow Lombardi and
and in the process acquired new interview the people in his life.
levels of depth and richness. Despite this literary device,
In his staging, Sullivan has the play remains almost entirely
taken a problematic play and expository, the only dramatic ten-
made it a cohesive whole, blend- sion arising from whether McCor-
ing several concurrent plots, com- mick will write the piece he wants
JOAN MARCUS
edy, romance, and politics into a or if his editor, a friend of Lom-
JOAN MARCUS
fluid and enthralling production. bardi’s, will coerce him to write a
As he usually does, Sullivan puff piece. (It’s established early
directs his cast to find the essen- Lily Rabe and Al Pacino in “The Merchant of Venice,” at the Broadhurst Theatre through January 9. on that Lombardi is prickly about
tial truths of the characters, critical pieces.) Dan Lauria and Judith Light in Eric Simonson’s
knowing that in doing this, the THE MERCHANT OF VENICE of the 20th century. The result is a slight but enter- “Lombardi.”
play’s many inconsistencies won’t Broadhurst Theatre Tickets are scarce, and the taining evening, thanks to the fine
matter. We simply don’t question 235 W. 44th St. limited run is scheduled only performances by the three lead- bardi and the effect he has on the
why the wealthy Portia, having Through Jan. 9 through January 9. This is a ing actors. players around him.
found a husband through a byz- Tue.-Thu. at 7 p.m. production that should not be Judith Light plays Marie Lom- Dan Lauria is wonderful as
antine puzzle created by her late Fri.-Sat. 8 at p.m.; missed. bardi, a housewife from New Jer- the sometimes-volcanic Lom-
father, should suddenly dress Sat.-Sun. at 2 p.m. sey at a time when being a wife bardi who loves his players and
$66.50-$141.50; telecharge.com
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as a lawyer and go save Antonio, ootball is not the main meant yoking herself to her hus- his wife with all of his being. Over
her husband’s benefactor, from a Or 212-239-6200 event in the new biograph- band’s career and dreams. While the course of the 90-minute play,
claim by Shylock that would end ical play “Lombardi,” now she may have followed him to the Lauria gives us a full portrait of a
Antonio’s life. We don’t even fully LOMBARDI at Circle in the Square. Rather, hinterlands, Marie is no push- man in all his colors, never over-
Circle in the Square
know why Shylock hates Anto- it is the story of a marriage and over. She sees him as he is and playing.
1633 Broadway at 50th St.
nio so much he would enter into Tue. at 7 p.m.; Wed.-Sat. at 8 p.m. a relationship and particularly of loves him for it all, regarding her We also see some of Lombardi’s
such a bargain in the first place. Wed., Sat. at 2 p.m.; Sun. at 3 p.m. the woman who loved her man life with open eyes, an open heart, Green Bay Packers, but those
Yet because Sullivan has fully $115.00; telecharge.com so much she gave up her life in and plenty of perspective, even if scenes are the least successful
realized each character, these Or 212-239-6200 sophisticated New York to move sometimes fueled — and made and most labored of the piece,
questions don’t arise. to a comparative backwater in palatable –– by copious cocktails. though the actors are fine in the
Since the summer, Al Pacino’s support of her husband’s dream. Light’s performance is a mar- roles.
Shylock has been burnished and contemporary leading ladies. Think of the classic TV series vel, filled with humor and nuance. The exceptional costume
refined to be more contained and The supporting cast remains “Green Acres,” except with many In the cavernous space of Circle design is by David Tazewell, who
even more powerful. Yes, Shy- equally outstanding, notably more freezing cold days and not in the Square, she manages a makes Light look fabulous in
lock is vengeful, but we also feel Jesse L. Martin as Gratiano and so many idiosyncratic supporting level of intimacy and presence the period ’60s clothes, and the
for him both as a man and in the Christopher Fitzgerald as the characters. that is remarkable. Her Marie is spare but effective set is by David
context of his world. Lily Rabe as clown Launcelot Gobo. Mark Eric Simonson’s play is based fast with a wisecrack but fierce in Korins.
Portia is magnificent, fully mas- Wendland’s set adapted from the on the biography of the famous defense of her husband, and it is Going in, I had assumed the
tering the many colors of a char- Delacorte Theater version won- coach, “When Pride Still Mattered: through her that we see her hus- subject matter would make an
acter who ranges from girlish glee derfully accommodates the light- A Biography of Vince Lombardi.” band humanized. evening at the theater attractive
to mature reasoning. She bal- er and darker aspects of the play, To make it theatrical, Simonson Keith Knobbs does a fine job as to husbands otherwise not inter-
ances the lyricism of the language as does Kenneth Posner’s excel- has concocted a story about a McCormick. A passionate football ested, but the surprise is that this
with spellbinding humanity; Rabe lent lighting. Jess Goldstein’s cos- young reporter, Michael McCor- fan, his hero worship gives way to play is very much a chick flick in
is one of our most accomplished tumes set the play near the turn mick, sent to profile Lombardi for a deeper understanding of Lom- football drag.
䉴 GARDEN OF EDEN, from p.27 really saying anything of consequence. not hard not to laugh watching her do ing an eye. He seems to have simply
Hemingway touchstones are shoe- so. Perhaps Suvari could have camped shown up, read the lines, took off his
that way. Catherine insists they “don’t horned into the film. David is living in it up or gone for broke, but she plays natty clothes, and collected his money.
have to live life like normal people,” but Paris in the 1920s, and he catches a Catherine so stiffly, it becomes a paro- As Marita, Murino is very beauti-
their ménage à trois does not seem to large sea bass — a sign of his virility, dy of a performance. ful; her nude scenes are particularly
scandalize — or even interest — anyone perhaps? There is mention of El Gre- Huston, a scion of the great acting striking. Matthew Modine, as David’s
but themselves. Had the film shown the cos and Spain, but no bullfighting. dynasty, makes almost no impression father, however, looks ridiculous;
lovers as transgressive in some way that These elements add no true coloring in the film. He sleepwalks through his viewers may root for the elephant he is
really mattered, there might be some — they serve more as a paint-by-num- role, pounding his typewriter keys with hunting to squash him.
drama here. bers evocation of the author. more passion than he musters in mak- Perhaps “Hemingway’s Garden of
Instead, much of the action consists The actors deserve much of the ing love to either woman. Though it is Eden” demonstrates just how difficult
of the characters wearing fine vintage blame. Suvari is horribly miscast in clear that Catherine is David’s muse, it is to bring the celebrated author’s
clothes while sitting in scenic cafés order- the pivotal role of Catherine. She spits Huston is still unconvincing in show- work to the screen. That’s not much
ing absinthe. They discuss their love for out her preposterous, pretentious dia- ing why his character accepts his wife’s consolation to anyone sitting through
each other and David’s writing without logue with utter seriousness, yet it’s outlandish suggestions without blink- this ludicrous adaptation.
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14 DAYS Soul Survivor
14 NIGHTS LaBute treads the rocky terrain between evangelism and opportunism
䉴 DEC 10, from p.18 BY DAVID KENNERLEY THE BREAK OF NOON dubious lines like “God stepped
Lucille Lortel Theatre in to save me” and “Goodness is
“A
Music Ensemble and the Brooklyn Youth mazing Grace,” the 121 Christopher St. near Bedford St. all that matters” without blink-
Chorus. Brooklyn Academy of Music, salvation anthem Through Dec. 22 ing an eye.
Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette that’s offered spiri- Tue.-Wed. at 7 p.m. With his personal life mir -
Ave. at Hanson Pl. Dec 10, 11, 15–18, tual uplift for more than two Thu.-Sat. at 8 p.m. roring his depraved behavior
7:30 p.m.; Dec 12 & 19, 3 p.m. Tickets centuries, is the number-one Sat. at 2 p.m.; Sun. at 3 p.m. in “Californication” (in 2008 he
are $25-$70 at bam.org or 718-636-4100. song of all time, with more than $69; ticketcentral.com did a stint in rehab for sexual
The performance is unforgettable, and 6,600 known recordings. Or 212-279-4200 addiction), the rough-hewn,
appropriate for ages 4 and up. And it’s fitting that the hymn 50-year-old actor is quintessen-
✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ has found its way into Neil from their disastrous 12-year tial LaBute material.
LaBute’s play about redemp- marriage, rejects his overtures The most audacious roles —
tion, “The Break of Noon,” pre- for reconciliation. A former the acerbic talk show host and
HOLIDAYS
SAT.DEC.11 sented by MCC Theater.
The polarizing LaBute, whose
specialty is men behaving despi-
dalliance, Jesse (also played
by Peet), throws a conniption
when he suggests they come
the agonized escort — belong
to Chimo, and she nails them
both, attacking the over-the-
Gifts with that cably (“reasons to be pretty,” clean about their affair. Jenny top scenes (in one, she wields a
Dyke Attitude “Fat Pig”), has created another (Tracee Chimo), an unctuous rubber dildo that morphs into a
The Lesbian Herstory Archives holds contemptible male, generically talk show host, chides him so feather duster) with unbridled
JOAN MARCUS
its annual lesbian holiday book sale, named John Smith. viciously that he walks off the ferocity. As part of the award-
which offers a great variety of gifts –– all But now, LaBute may have set. winning ensemble of last year’s
of them 50 cents to $1! –– including les- developed a conscience. His The most disturbing scene “Circle Mirror T ransfor ma-
bian non-fiction, fiction, pulp, poetry, mys- miserable wretch of a man, David Duchovny, TV’s California bad boy the finds Smith engaging the ser- tion,” Chimo threatened to
teries, and sci-fi plus vintage Tees, music, amidst a horrific office shoot- past few seasons, plays a wretch who’s saved vices of Gigi (also played by steal the show. She repeats
and buttons that recall decades of the ing, hears the voice of God and — or so he says. Chimo), a curvaceous escort in that threat here.
struggle. The afternoon includes raffles becomes the only employee a French Maid costume, sup- Under the steadfast direc-
and refreshments. 484 14th St., btwn. saved. Not only from the lethal never waivers, but our faith, posedly to test his resolve. In a tion of Jo Bonney, “The Break
Prospect Park W. & Eighth Ave., Park machine gun, but also from his well, that’s a different matter. seriously sick twist only LaBute of Noon,” which refers to the
Slope. Dec. 11, noon-5 p.m. For more own errant ways. It’s the creeping mistrust — the could pull off, Gigi, whose real moment the gunman raid-
information visit lesbianherstoryarchives. Nothing short of a miracle, nagging rift between intent and name is Jill, turns out to be ed the office, exudes a sur -
org or call 718-768-DYKE. right? reality — that lies at the heart connected to the massacre, and real, comic air with menac-
✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ The transfixing opening of this alternately engaging and has an epiphany of her own. ing undercurrents that, in
monologue, delivered by the exasperating play. Duchovny, Golden Globe sporadic flashes, prove oddly
CABARET anguished John (David Ducho- In his efforts to spread his winner for his work in Show- unsettling.
Wrapped Up in vny) in a bloodied shirt and with newfound faith, John runs up time’s “Californication” and, of If you haven’t noticed, all
Rhapsody a bandage on his ankle, detail- against a series of roadblocks. course, in “The X-Files,” is well the characters’ names begin
In “Crazy for Gershwin,” Tony Award- ing the horrors of the massacre His lawyer (John Earl Jelks) cast. He persuasively conveys with the letter J or soft G.
winner Sutton Foster directs NYU Tisch where 37 co-workers were cut sees his sole-survivor status as the brooding conviction of a Even the unseen killer’s name
Drama students in an evening exploring down in cold blood, sounds con- a chance to make some bucks man born again, bent on doing is Juan. Does this have some
the enduring resonance of this musical vincing enough. (a photo that Smith snapped good works, while also offering deep significance or is LaBute
master. Joe’s Pub, inside the Public But in the scenes that fol- during the carnage fetches a glimmers of a possible charla- just being self-consciously
Theater, 425 Lafayette St., btwn. E. low, doubters begin to poke cool million). His ex-wife, Gin- tan lurking within. Still, Duch- cute? A similar question hangs
Fourth St. & Astor Pl. Dec. 11, mid- holes in John’s story. His faith ger (Amanda Peet), still reeling novy is saddled with delivering above the entire play.
night. Tickets are $10, $7 for students at
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212-539-8778. Table service includes a was all a roofie-induced hal- female sexuality, but at least courage of its convictions. Nina
two-drink or $12 food minimum. itself far more seriously. Even lucination, though Nina is so it portrays women having sex- sheds enough blood to satisfy
✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ as it points out Thomas’ sleazi- far gone by this point that she ual pleasure without punish- torture-porn fans, but there’s
ness, it seems to share the same doesn’t need drugs to see imag- ing them or implying that their very little actual violence in
NIGHTLIFE sensibility. For Nina, maturity inary visions. same-sex experiences were all “Black Swan” — almost all
Art Fags in 3-D is seen exclusively in sexual The film throws out the pos- a fantasy. the carnage turns out to exist
Celebrating its third anniversary with terms; it is sexual repression sibility that she is a lesbian, It would be easy to list the only in Nina’s imagination. I
the release of a special 3-D issue, the that is holding her back as an only to leave it hanging, like films “Black Swan” evokes, can only imagine what Ver -
quarterly publication Spank Zine, around artist. But when she obeys the none-too-subtle sugges- from Michael Powell and hoeven could have done with
which orbits the liveliest nocturnal Thomas’ orders and mastur- tion that Lily symbolizes the Emeric Pressburger’s “The Red the “Black Swan” screenplay.
Downtown/ BK/ art/ fag/ party scene bates, her pleasure is inter - aspects of her personality that Shoes” to Paul Verhoeven’s Even “The Red Shoe Diaries”
the city has witnessed since the early rupted by visions of self-muti- she’s repressed. (While Nina “Showgirls,” by way of Joseph schlockmeister Zalman King
‘90s, holds a big bash that gets started lation and of her disapproving dresses in white, Lily’s usually L. Mankiwiecz’s “All About Eve” would probably have achieved
with a free Proseco anniversary toast and mother. clad in black.) The sex scene and Roman Polanski’s “Repul- a better result.
readings by Mike Albo and Heather Lit- After a drug-fueled night on seems like a bone thrown to the sion.” Unfortunately, Aronof- “Black Swan” is a ridiculous
teer at 10:30 p.m. and continues until the town, Lily and Nina wind heterosexual men in the audi- sky has no gift for eroticism or film with no self-awareness of
4 p.m. Music will be courtesy of DJ Will up sleeping together, but “Black ence at best and a pit stop on camp. He seems to see sex as a its flaws. It’s probably bound to
Swan” can’t bring itself to really Nina’s decline at worst. Softcore necessary but degrading part of become a camp classic, but it’s
䉴 DEC 11, continued on p.30 take Nina’s desires seriously. It porn may express exploitative human experience. not very enjoyable to watch.
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Offerings from City Opera, Opera Manhattan more affecting than Met’s 14 NIGHTS
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dry voice. voice, though he’ll never own
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ity Opera wisely revived the Verdi rep. In this show Yong- Automagic and DJ Sean B, and there
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its very pleasing produc- nlike Boston and San houn Lee, a tall, willowy Korean will be performances by Big Art Group,
tion of Richard Strauss’ Francisco, New York tenor who can act, made a very Juanita MORE, Rainblo & Machine Daz-
odd but endearing “Intermezzo.” has never heard a major impressive debut as Carlo, sur- zle, House of Khan, Fura Fura, and Xavier
In 1999, this Glimmerglass-de- production of Verdi’s magnifi- passing Alagna in many ways, & Jemma. The party takes place at a
rived Leon Major staging provid- cent “Don Carlo” in its origi- among them pitch and ringing Classon Ave. loft in Brooklyn (visit
ed wonderful roles for Lauren nal French. It would have been ease at the top. spankzine.wordpress.com for an
Flanigan and John Hancock as wise to build such an endeavor update on the exact location). Dec.
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the flamboyantly fighting Chris- around Roberto Alagna, but new, self- described 11, 10 p.m.-4 am. Tickets are $15 at the
tine and Robert Storch (read instead we heard the Parisian “scrappy young com- door; $10 before 11:30 or at spankzine.
“Pauline and Richard Strauss”). tenor’s first traversal of the role pany” called Opera Man- wordpress.com.
Seen November 9, Mary Dun- in Italian –– by and large a suc- hattan put on a triple-cast “La ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯
KARL GIANT
Along the way, he meets a mess of admitted.
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including Brooklyn teenage homeboy inally, for musical thrills with-
Yoyo the Elf (Dorian Shorts), toxic lesbi- The inimitable Murray Hill returns with his annual Christimas show on December 18. out the frills, join in a commu-
an rag-doll Jaggedy Ann (Deanna Glov- nity concert at Phil Kline’s “Unsi-
er), and the Baby Jesus himself (a prop). imagining of the beloved “Nutcracker” ret, theater, and dance” by the New York lent Night.” At 7 p.m. on December 18,
When the gang finally finds Santa Claus, tale. Choreographed and conceived by Times, McCormick’s work garners wide- beginning in Washington Square Park,
they discover he has gone through a dra- artistic director Austin McCormick, spread critical acclaim. a procession of boom box-wielding par-
matic change. Trannie Claus? with a script adapted and written by From their home in a converted tow ticipants will wend their way through
“Everyone should experience ‘Moisty Jeff Takacs, the show contains partial truck warehouse at 303 Bond Street in Greenwich Village to Tompkins Square
The Snowman,’” Hill said. “Moisty’s a nudity and fully opulent flair. Boerum Hill, the Company XIV ensemble Park, playing cassettes and CDs of holi-
wonderful, twisted, and whacked out “I conceptualized the show with a of Marisol Cabrera, Laura Careless, Sean day songs provided by Kline. Think of it
holiday character who is played master- respectful nod to the ‘Nutcracker’ bal- Gannon, Yeva Glover, Michael Hodge, as caroling for the modern set. For infor-
fully by Bradford Scobie.” let while infusing it with a style I am call- Mina Lawton, David Martinez, Delphina mation, visit unsilentnight.com.
The show runs December 3-4 and ing Baroque Burlesque, a synthesis of
10-11 at 9:30 p.m. at Dixon Place, 161A iconic striptease and the 17th century
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Delancey Streets. Tickets are $20 at dix- her godfather, Heir Drosselmeyer, Marie-
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with Susie.’ I went ballistic. First you’re in it.’ Once I wanted to the kitchen taking off my make- inally, is there a more with the graffiti tag SAMO. In 1981, he
of all, this is my girlfriend, and sing ‘In Buddy’s Eyes,’ but with a up when Zeta Jones walked in glamorous lesbian pres- put paint on canvas for the first time,
he wants me to allow him to lyric change which I knew would to have a cigarette and said, ‘You ence in all film than the and by 1983 he had emerged as an
violate her, take her virginity, have to be approved, so I called are unbelievable! I want to bring sumptuous Dominique Sanda artist with “rock star status,” becom-
to prove his power over these him and asked, and he said, you to Wales to sing for my par- in Bernardo Bertolucci’s trium- ing a close friend and collaborator of
two little gay girls? I was sexu- ‘Just write down the words and ents!’ I asked to take a picture phantly Deco masterpiece “The Warhol’s. He died of a heroin overdose
ally harassed constantly, but send them to me.’ The lyric was with her and that’s when she Conformist,” which is being in 1988 at the age of only 27. Today his
this hurt more, him expecting ‘I’m still the princess, Princess of had this lawsuit with ‘Hello!’ screened both at Film Forum paintings sell for more than $1 million
me to say, ‘I want to be a star, Tides,’ but he said, ‘“I’m still the magazine, and she said, ‘I can’t (209 W. Houston St., Dec. each. Tamra Davis investigates this
go ahead, have my girlfriend.’ I princess, to the Prince of Tides” take a picture, but here...’ And 17-23; filmforum.org) and at charismatic man who rode the roller-
grabbed her and walked out, would be funnier and make she opened her purse and gave MOMA (11 W. 53rd St., Dec. 15, coaster of downtown arts scene fame
and I supposed at that moment more sense lyrically. But try it me her bottle of Salvador Dali 8 p.m.; moma.org), in its Berto- –– but for less than seven years –– in
my career was over, no matter out.’ I did it both ways, and told perfume, without the cap, but lucci tribute? Her seduction of “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant
what I did. him mine got a bigger laugh, so still. Very Joan Crawford because Stefania Sandrelli, while prone Child.” Film Forum, 209 W. Hous-
“So I really love these young he said, ‘That’s fine.’” she knew how meaningful that in bed and during an unforget- ton St. Dec. 15-21, 1:15, 3:15, 6, 8 &
gay girls being able to walk Brinberg has never actually would be for me.” table same-sex tango, repre- 10 p.m. Information at filmforum.org.
down the street, holding hands, met Streisand, “but nearly every- sents cinema at its most deliri- ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯
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these gay guys of color, so out body else — her sister, Donna his winter you’ll find me at ously erotic.
there and so beautiful, this Karan for whom I performed, as MOMA for “Weimar Cin- Bertolucci’s oeuvre has also CABARET
whole new gay young culture.” I have with Marvin Hamlisch, ema, 1919–1933: Day- always evinced a most pal- And the Number
who tried to get me hired for her dreams and Nightmares” (11 W. pable, often full-frontally nude One Song This
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omeone who just went concert. She definitely knows 53rd St., through Mar. 7; moma. male homoeroticism: “The
ahead and became Stre- who I am now, and I’m not really org), a jaw-dropping assemblage Conformist”’s ambivalent pro- “Our Hit Parade” is a live top-ten
isand, without a record afraid of meeting her and being of German film rarities, from tagonist, Jean-Louis Trintig- countdown show created by Tony nomi-
contract, is Steven Brinberg, disappointed. If she ever came my favorite, artistically oh-so nant, and his childhood inter- nee and Obie-winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki
who has been performing as to see me, I’d either freeze, which fecund period. I once spent an play with Pierre Clementi’s gay & Herb), carnal chanteuse Bridget Everett
this most exalted of divas all over I don’t think so, or give the per- entire day reveling in the Berlin chauffeur; “1900” and its scene (“At Least It’s Pink”), pop song opera
the world since the early 1990s, formance of my life. Liza Minnelli Filmmuseum, and will delight in of the lucky whore simultane- impresario Neal Medlyn (“Neal Medlyn’s
and will be at Don’t Tell Mama was sitting right next to me once discovering the histrionic riches ously masturbating hunky Unpronounceable Symbol”), producer and
on December 18 (343 W. 46th and loved it. If I had the chance, on display here. young Robert DeNiro and MTV cameraman Brendan Kennedy, and
St., 8:30 p.m.; dontellmamanyc. I wouldn’t ask her about her The sprightly, doll-like Lilian Gerard Depardieu; “La Luna”’s writers Ada Calhoun and Peter Schjel-
com) and Metropolitan Room on career but about Chinese food. Harvey enchanted the world in Oedipal shock; the relentless dahl. The show is inspired by the legend-
January 8 (34 W. 22nd St., 9:30 She worked as a cashier in a res- her international musical suc- testosterone of “Last Tango in ary 1950s musical sketch radio and then
p.m.; metropolitanroom.com). taurant as a teenager and would cess “Congress Dances” before Paris”; his adaptation of Paul TV series “Your Hit Parade.” Joe’s Pub,
Brinberg’s voice, uncannily know exactly what I was talking, being brought to Hollywood for Bowles’ “The Sheltering Sky”; inside the Public Theater, 425 Lafay-
similar to Streisand’s, has been this chow men, chicken broccoli, four abysmal Fox features. She the casual nakedness of “Steal- ette St. , btwn. E. Fourth St. & Astor
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䉴 WARSAW, from p.3 Kaczynskis’ reign. commented on Smiszek’s sexu- “I felt that something was
䉴 HUGHES, from p.24 HH: I don’t think having my civil the nearest hospital immediately. It’s want a ceremony — or how much of a
rights would make me any less radi- a life-threatening condition and you ceremony. I’m like, “Let’s get Carmeli-
HH: What is interesting to me is the cal in my thinking, but I wouldn’t could die at any minute.” The whole ta Tropicana or Marga Gomez or Mur-
vehemence that gay people who are have to worry when I’m traveling with way there, we’re driving in the dark, ray Hill.” She’s like, “Don’t turn it into
not down with the gay marriage issue Esther if there was a medical emer - trying to find the hospital with this a performance and a bunch of gags.”
display. That’s the kind of question I gency whether they’d accept our med- death sentence hanging over us — Esther is butch, but she’s really
want to address in the show. Why are ical power of attorney. but we were worried about our story. devoted to dressing in casual clothes.
they so threatened? In the commu- She won’t wear anything that’s
nity, there’ve always been people that uncomfortable. But I’m like, “You
have been coupled. should be uncomfortable. It’s your
There are other things that people wedding!” [Pause.] We might have to
are doing in greater numbers that do it separately. [Laughs.]
do change what it means to be gay. I I would argue that having kids changes the
would argue that having kids changes CS: Would you share a line from
the community more than if you can
community more than if you can get your “Let Them Eat Cake” that gives read-
get your partner’s Social Security partner’s Social Security benefits. ers a hint about the show?
benefits or if you can both see each HH: One of the characters says, “I
other in the hospital. don’t want to do this. I never wanted
to do this. I think the problem with
CS: Some LGBTQ folk believe that gay marriage is gay marriage. And I’m
with marriage equality, we’ll lose our CS: Have you had this problem hap- CS: What story did you tell? glad I’m not the only one.”
outsider status, that we’ll no longer pen? HH: That I was her sister. The minute That opens up the opportunity for
be sexual outlaws. HH: We were in Rutherfordton, North we went inside, they asked, “Who are the audience to weigh in. If you’re
HH: That’s definitely an anxiety, Carolina, in the foothills of the Smokey you?” There was sort of a moment and against gay marriage, this is the play
but it’s very regional. I divide my time Mountains. We have an RV because then they said, “O-kay.” Thankfully, it to come to!
between New York and Ann Arbor. Cer- we’re crazy dog people, and we were at turned out to be nothing. Apart from gay
tainly in the Midwest, I would argue, this campground devoted to people and marriage, who the fuck should care? I’m The December 9, 7:30 p.m. perfor-
it’s a lot harder just to be a garden- their dogs. One morning Esther says to the person with this person. I’m com- mance is a benefit for Dixon Place.
variety gay person than to be “queer- me, “I have a chest pain that I’ve had mitted to her. I’m her next of kin. Evan Wolfson, Freedom to Marry’s
er-than-thou” in the East Village. It’s for a couple of weeks.” We went to an executive director, presents a post-
kind of impossible to be queer in a urgent care guy who said everything is CS: Will you or won’t you eventu- show talk, and the evening will
rural place, except in theory. [Laughs.] okay but there’s one blood test. ally tie the knot? include special performances by Erin
Unless you want to be hated. In the middle of the night, he calls HH: Esther and I have talked a lot Markey and Joseph Keckler. T ickets
us and says to Esther, “You have a about getting married, and we haven’t are $15-$25 at dixonplace.org or 212-
CS: If you and Esther decide to pulmonary embolism. You can’t wait been able to bring ourselves to do it. 219-0736; $10-$35, $18 for students
marry, how would it change your lives? until the morning; you have to go to We haven’t reconciled whether we and seniors at the door.
www.nycvaccine.org
(part of the national campaign www.HopeTakesAction.org)
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䉴 DADT, from p.38 lowed by a 60-day congressional pose a problem for most service certification to implement repeal
14 NIGHTS
䉴 DEC 17, from p.38
have “predicted,” Gates offered
a canny rebuttal to repeal crit-
ics’ charge that the process is
moving too quickly for careful
Legal Defense Network (SLDN),
a leading repeal advocacy group,
said he “did pause” on the dis-
cussion of implementation
overseas preclude repeal at this
time, pointing out that President
Harry Truman’s racial desegre-
gation of the services was car-
lutely goes toward easing some
of the pressures” that would
face the Marines, he said.
General George Casey, the
consideration. offered by Gates and Mullen and ried out during the Korean War. Army chief of staff, also outspo-
West, but it’s her vocal chops that have Pointing to a recent federal in a subsequent Pentagon brief- Other Republicans on the ken in arguing that the “addi-
garnered recent attention — in her col- district court ruling against ing by the co-chairs of the spe- Armed Services Committee, tional stresses” on an already
laborations with Yo-Yo Ma and with DADT that for a matter of days cial Pentagon Working Group meanwhile, doubled down stretched military made repeal
Moby on albums this year. Joe’s Pub, earlier this fall –– until it was that issued the report –– Gen- in their opposition to repeal. at this time inadvisable, testi-
inside the Public Theater, 425 Lafay- stayed pending appeal –– forced eral Carter Ham, commanding McCain charged that in failing fied the “underpinnings” of the
ette St., btwn. E. Fourth St. & Astor the military worldwide to sus- general of the US Army Europe, to query service members on policy, as enacted in 1993, were
Pl., 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 at joespub. pend enforcement of the policy, and Jeh Johnson, the Defense whether the policy should be clearly shown to be invalid by
com or 212-967-7555; $20 at the door. For he said action this year is “a Department’s general counsel. changed, Gates and Mullen had the Working Group report. “It
table reservations, guaranteeing a seat, matter of urgency given stepped- “I think we should be talk- failed to live up to the standard is no longer true that the pres-
call 212-539-8778. Table service includes up court action that created ing a few months,” Sarvis said of “every great leader I have ence of a gay solider in a unit
a two-drink or $10 food minimum. abrupt, disruptive changes.” He on the evening of November known.” causes a risk to good order and
✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ added, “Those that choose not 30. “And if they are not talking Saxby Chambliss of Geor - discipline,” Casey told the com-
to act legislatively are rolling the about that, they are opening gia pressed Gates and Mul- mittee.
NIGHTLIFE dice that it will not happen judi- up a whole lot of problems for len, “What are you going to do In fact, though Casey, Amos,
Bad Santa Bear cially.” themselves.” Sarvis noted that about” what he warned was the and General Norton Schwartz,
“Rockbear Friday: Underbear” is an Despite the remarkably posi- by late next spring, Congress prospect of roughly a quarter the Air Force chief of staff,
evening of boxers, briefs, and Speedos in tive tone of the Gates-Mullen will once again begin looking at million service members leaving showed resistance to moving
a clothes-check dance party that is hard- presentation, several cautionary the annual Pentagon budget, a the military in reaction against forward immediately on repeal,
er, cockier, darker, and furrier. Rockbear, notes did emerge. First, the two process that could provide anti- repeal. each of them conceded that the
185 Christopher St. at Weehawken officials specifically flagged that repeal die-hards at least some And Lindsay Graham of policy’s days are numbered and
St. Dec. 17, 9 p.m. At midnight, there 30 percent of service members chance for mischief, if not out- South Carolina praised the even undercut key elements of
is a Bad Santa Bear contest. $5 Svedka’s who responded saw problems right sabotage. manner in which DADT is the critique offered by McCain
and $4 Domestic Beers all night long. with repeal, with those num- Morale would also likely suf- enforced, saying, “It’s not a situ- and other Republican commit-
✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ bers rising to 40 percent, and in fer from an extended period of ation where people are hounded tee members.
some cases approaching 60 per- ambiguity about what direction day to day.” That statement flies All six witnesses the sec-
cent, in certain ground forces the services are taking on inte- in the face of testimony both ond day of the hearings said
COMEDY
SUN.DEC.19 units, especially in the Marine
Corps.
The report Gates and Mullen
grating openly gay and lesbian
members, he suggested.
But, as the Armed Services
heard early this year from for-
mer Air Force Major Mike Almy,
discharged in 2006 based on
the study had been carried out
well, each specifically rejecting
the notion that service mem-
Very Naughty released, however, noted that hearings unfolded at the end evidence obtained without his bers should have been invited
Nativity “while a higher percentage of of the week, it was clear that consent from his private emails to give their opinion on whether
Host Brad Loekle welcomes his buddy Service members in warfight- the Pentagon’s assurances of a while he was serving in Iraq. ending the policy is the right
Adam Sank (TruTV; NBC’s “Last Comic ing units predict negative effects deliberate roll-out of the certi- Last week, Almy told report- course, something Gates said
Standing”), Jessimae (from the Home- of repeal, the percentage dis- fication process was a political ers that he undertook repeated would amount to an inappropri-
town Comedy Tour), and “Star Search” tinctions between warfighting plus among senators. Signal- efforts to set up a meeting with ate referendum. “We got what
finalist Brian Barry to “The Electro Shock units and the entire military are ing the stance he would adopt McCain after the Arizona sena- we needed,” Amos said of the
Therapy Comedy Hour.” Therapy Bar, 348 almost non-existent when asked explicitly in his press statement tor belligerently made the same report’s data on attitudes within
W. 52nd St., Dec. 19, 10 p.m. No cover about the actual experience of on December 3, Brown, ques- argument as Graham in response each of the services.
charge, and $7 cosmos all night long. serving in a unit with someone tioning Gates the day before, to questions from the Advocate The witnesses also unani-
✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ believed to be gay.” elicited a commitment from the and Washington’s Metro Weekly mously agreed that statistics
“With thorough preparation, defense secretary that “every- in September. Almy’s efforts were showing that as many as ten
there is a low risk to repeal,” he thing must be done” to prepare rebuffed, as were, Sarvis said, percent of service members
PERFORMANCE
MON.DEC.20 said.
That point, however, relates
to the second issue that could,
troops and procedures for the
change to come before he would
sign off on the certification
similar attempts by two former
flag officers who are McCain con-
stituents.
might shorten the time they
planned to spend in the mili-
tary, cited by Senator Chamb-
Take on a Chance over time, become a concern required. The day after Gates and Mul- liss, were likely “overstated.”
on Mummenschanz for repeal advocates. Noting “That’s why I have been very lens testified last week, three out And none of the chiefs said
The internationally renowned Swiss that “an abundance of care and careful not to say how long this of the six top military witnesses it was necessary for them to be
performance troupe Mummenschanz, preparation is needed,” Gates process will take,” Gates told who appeared before the com- given authority –– along with
which for four decades has captivated explicitly stated, “I believe it Brown. mittee voiced significant con- the president, Gates, and Mul-
audiences worldwide with its ground- would be unwise to push ahead Jim Webb, a Virginia Demo- cerns about the wisdom of mov- len –– to certify that the military
breaking visuals and transformative, non- with full repeal without further crat who was Ronald Rea- ing ahead now on repeal. Still, was ready before repeal could
verbal theater that makes inventive use planning among combat units.” gan’s Navy secretary and voted even as the Army and Air Force take effect.
of forms, shadow and light, and creative The phrase “full repeal,” in against the repeal language in chiefs of staff and the Marine “Believe me, I will make sure
manipulation of sculptural, expressive this formulation, does not relate May, praised the Working Group Corps commandant offered my views are heard,” Casey
masks, appears in a limited engage- to Senate action this month, but report as “an incredible piece of damaging arguments, the most said.
ment at NYU’s Skirball Center for rather to certification that Presi- work,” and drew out from Admi- resistant of the three, General The December 3 hearing also
the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia dent Obama, Gates, and Mul- ral Mullen a commitment that James Amos of the Marines — featured three firm support-
Pl. at Washington Sq. S. Dec. 20-22, len must make that the policies, he would also not give his certi- who testified, “I cannot turn my ers of repeal –– General James
26, 31 & Jan. 2, 7-8, 7 p.m.; Dec. 23, regulations, and training put fication until all significant risks back on the views of the troops” Cartwright, a marine who is vice
28-30 & Jan. 4-6, 8 p.m.; Dec. 22, 24, in place will ensure that mili- had been “mitigated.” — acknowledged that a change chair of the Joint Chiefs, Admi-
26 & Jan. 2, 8, 2 p.m.; Dec. 31, 4 p.m.; tary readiness, unit cohesion, Senator Collins said that in policy could be handled. ral Gary Roughead, the Navy
Jan. 7, 10 p.m. Tickets are $45-$75 at morale, and retention will not be even though the report was not And, Amos agreed that Gates chief of staff, and Admiral Rob-
skirballcenter.nyu.edu. compromised. Only when that a troop referendum, she was and Mullen’s assurance they ert Papp, the Coast Guard com-
✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯
certification has been made, fol- reassured that repeal did not would not provide the required mandant.
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