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washingtonblade.com • vol. 41, issue 51 • december 17, 2010 • Still sharp after 40 years

House votes again to repeal ‘Don’t Ask’

Time is the enemy, as momentum
builds to ditch gay ban
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com

The U.S. House on Wednesday approved by a

75-vote margin a measure that would repeal “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” as attention shifts once again to the
Senate to see if the chamber will act to lift the mili-
tary’s gay ban.
The measure to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
passed by a vote of 250-175 after more than an
hour of floor debate in which lawmakers engaged
in often passionate discourse both in favor and in
opposition to the 1993 law.
After lawmakers cast their votes, Rep. Barney
Frank (D-Mass.), the longest-serving openly gay
lawmaker, banged the gavel at the podium and
declared the final vote tally for the bill.
During debate, those who spoke in favor of re-
peal said lifting “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” would end
a discriminatory policy, while opponents of repeal
said open service would jeopardize military effec-
tiveness. Washington Blade photo by Michael Key

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking at a news conference following a House vote to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ called the law ‘a funda-
mental unfairness in our nation.’
Continues on page 8

Marriage in Maryland?
Supporters optimistic, but 2012 referendum expected
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
internationalnews lchibbaro@washblade.com
U.S. ambassador creates stir in Italy with his ‘It Gets Better’ video.
PAGE 10 Advocates for same-sex mar-
riage in Maryland, including the
seven gay and lesbian members
of the state legislature, are op-
timistic that the legislature will
pass a marriage equality bill in Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
2011 but they are less certain Del. Heather Mizeur said she is ‘cautiously optimistic’ that the state legis-
about the prospects for a trans- lature will approve a marriage equality bill early next year.
gender rights bill.
The gains in the number of supporters of a same-sex marriage bill in the November election and
commitments by top leaders of the legislature to name marriage equality supporters to the commit-
artsinbrief tees that must clear them appear to have tipped the balance in favor of the bill passing, according to
Last chance to catch two shows, ‘Wife Swappers’ and ‘Golden Boy.’ advocates and lawmakers.
PAGE 29
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2 washingtonblade.com • december 17, 2010
LOCALNEWS
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
Christopher Dyer has served as director of the city’s Office
of GLBT Affairs since 2007.
Dyer out as head of
GLBT Affairs Office
Christopher Dyer, who has served as director of the
city’s Office of GLBT Affairs since 2007 under Mayor
Adrian Fenty, was notified last week that Mayor-elect
Vincent Gray will not be retaining him for the post when
Gray takes office in January.
Dyer was among more than a dozen high-level Fenty
appointees to receive a notice from the Gray transition
team accepting the written resignations they submitted
after Gray won election as mayor in November.
Under longstanding city protocol, all political ap-
pointees of an outgoing mayoral administration sub-
mit letters of resignation to the incoming mayor. The
incoming mayor usually accepts the resignations of
most of the officials but often chooses to retain some
of them—either as interim or permanent appointees in
the new administration.
Like other Fenty appointees to be replaced, Dyer is
expected to remain in office until Dec. 30. Gray is to be
sworn in as mayor Jan. 2.
“Its been an honor to serve the mayor and LGBT resi-
dents of the District of Columbia,” Dyer said this week.
“This has been an amazing experience for me and I
am very fortunate to be given the opportunity to work
a dream job. I look forward to providing whatever help
appropriate to the incoming administration.”
Gray said last week that he expects to name a new head
of the GLBT Affairs Office within the next week or two.
Sources familiar with the Gray transition team say
Jeffrey Richardson, president of the Gertrude Stein
Democratic Club, which endorsed Gray for mayor, and
Christopher Fitzgerald, head of Gray Pride, an LGBT
arm of the Gray election campaign, are among those
Gray is considering for the LGBT Affairs post.
LGBT and AIDS activists were also waiting to see
who Gray names as head of the city’s Human Rights Of-
fice and AIDS office and whether he retains or replaces
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Family of slain gay principal
pushes hate crime prosecution
Lawyers representing the family of murdered D.C.
middle school principal Brian Betts, who was gay, met
with officials at the U.S. Department of Justice on Dec.
7 to reiterate an earlier request that the department in-
vestigate whether the murder should be declared a fed-
eral hate crime.
Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred, who has repre-
sented celebrities in high-profile cases, said after the
D.C. middle school principal Brian Betts was murdered in April.
meeting that she and co-counsel Rene Sandler asked
members of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to determine
whether at least one of the four teenagers charged in
the murder violated the Matthew Shepard and James
Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.
Allred noted that defendant Alante Saunders, 19,
pled guilty to first-degree felony murder for shooting
Betts to death and has been sentenced to 40 years in
jail. But she said his use of a gay sex chat line to meet
Betts and target him for a robbery could be grounds for
initiating a hate crime prosecution.
“It is clear to us that a person who participates in a
male-to-male sex-chat line would be perceived as gay
and may be thought to be an especially vulnerable tar-
get for a criminal,” Allred said.
Sandler said the Justice Department officials prom-
ised to review the case and make a determination in
the near future on whether to open a hate crime inves-
tigation in the Betts murder case. She said the meeting
lasted more than an hour.
Betts was found murdered in his Silver Spring, Md.,
house in April. In addition to Saunders, two other youths
implicated in Betts’ murder pled guilty to lesser charg-
es. A fourth youth is scheduled to stand trial but is said
to be considering accepting a plea bargain offer from
prosecutors.
The chief prosecutor in the case has said the evi-
dence doesn’t support a hate crime prosecution.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Gag order request
denied in Wone case
The judge presiding over a $20 million wrongful
death lawsuit filed against three gay men for the 2006
murder of local attorney Robert Wone denied the men’s
request that all lawyers in the case be barred from
speaking to the media.
Lawyers representing Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky
and Dylan Ward argued that remarks made to the press
by at least one of the attorneys representing Kathy
Wone, wife of the slain attorney, were highly prejudicial
and would make it difficult to obtain an impartial jury in
the case.
They were referring to a comment by attorney Patrick
Regan outside the courtroom earlier this year related to
the defendants’ stated plan to invoke the Fifth Amend-
ment to allow them to refuse to answer nearly all ques-
tions at their trial next spring.
Regan told members of the media that, “defendants
don’t assert their fifth amendment rights if they are not
guilty of something.”
Washington Blade file photo
The defendants are expected to argue that answer-
ing questions in the civil trial or during pre-trial deposi-
tions could incriminate them in a possible future crimi-
nal prosecution.
The three were found not guilty on charges of con-
spiracy and evidence tampering in connection with the
Wone murder in a criminal trial earlier this year. No one
has been charged with the murder.
In addition to denying the defendants’ gag order re-
quest, Judge Brook Hedge also denied a defense mo-
tion to dismiss the entire case.
Hedge denied a third motion by the defense request-
ing that the defendants’ lawyers rather than the defen-
dants themselves be allowed to recite the Fifth Amend-
ment as grounds for not answering a question each time
the plaintiff’s lawyers fire questions at the defendants.
Under this ruling, Price, Zaborsky and Ward must
state for themselves—while on the witness stand or in
pre-trial depositions—that they are invoking their Fifth
Amendment right not to answer a question.
Robert Wone was found stabbed to death in a guest
bedroom in the Dupont Circle area home of the three
men in August 2006. The men have said an unidentified
intruder killed Wone after entering the house through a
rear door. Police and prosecutors disputed this claim,
saying evidence showed that no one entered the home
at the time of the murder and that the three men know
who the murderer is but are covering up for that person.
A D.C. Superior Court judge, who presided over the
non-jury criminal trial, ruled that the government did not
provide sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reason-
able doubt that the three men committed the offenses
with which they were charged—obstruction of justice,
conspiracy to obstruct justice and evidence tampering.
Legal experts have said civil cases require a lower
threshold of proof, making it possible that the three
gay defendants could be found responsible for Robert
Wone’s death from a civil standpoint. A jury must de-
cide the amount of monetary damages the men would
be responsible for if found guilty.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
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NATIONALNEWS

Photo courtesy of Mark Leno

California state Sen. Mark Leno, who’s gay, thinks LGBT history should be taught in public schools.

Gay history lessons in state schools debated

SAN FRANCISCO — While the courts continue to debate the legality of same-
sex marriage, the battle over gay civil rights is moving into another arena in Cali-
fornia: the classroom.
State Sen. Mark Leno, a San Francisco Democrat, introduced legislation this
week that would amend the state education code, mandating that LGBT history be
included in the curriculum of public schools, the San Francisco Examiner reported.
The bill — dubbed the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful Education Act —
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
calls for accurate and fair portrayal of LGBT historical figures who have contributed
to shaping social and political issues across the nation. Leno said a shift in educa- Mike Almy, a former Air Force officer, is among the plaintiffs seeking reinstatement in the mili-
tary through a new lawsuit.
tion policy would have a ripple effect by curbing widespread bullying of gay teens,
the Examiner reported. Most textbooks do not include any historical information

Gay troops demand

about the LGBT movement, Leno said. The proposal has already started to incite
opposition from groups who say this is another attempt by liberal educators to
drive a pro-gay agenda into the classroom.

reinstatement in lawsuit
Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, a conservative legal defense
group that supported Proposition 8, the state’s same-sex marriage ban, told the Exam-
iner someone’s sexual orientation is not relevant to their contributions in history.
“This bill is no doubt an attempt to convert history into an opportunity for teach-
ers and liberal educators to promote acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle,” Discharged service sis for reinstating the three discharged
service members.
Dacus said. “I think the majority of Californians think that’s not optimal usage of
educational time.” members say they The Witt standard came into being in
‘love’ military 2008 after the Ninth Circuit ruled in the
case of Witt v. Air Force that the U.S. gov-
Gay rights activist Adele Starr dies at 90 ernment must show the presence of a
LOS ANGELES — Adele Starr, a Brentwood, Calif., mother of five who overcame By CHRIS JOHNSON gay service member in the armed forces
dismay at her son’s homosexuality to become a leading voice for gay rights and cjohnson@washblade.com is detrimental to unit cohesion before dis-
marriage equality, has died, according to the Los Angeles Times. She was 90. Starr charging him or her.
died in her sleep Dec. 10 at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, where she Three service members who are seek- Additionally, the lawsuit asks the
had been convalescing after surgery, her son Philip Starr, told the Times. ing a return to the U.S. armed forces af- California federal court to strike down
Starr met PFLAG (Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays) founders Jules and Jeanne ter being discharged under “Don’t Ask, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” on the grounds
Manford in 1974 when her son came out, and within a year hosted Los Angeles’s first Don’t Tell” are the focus of a new lawsuit that the 1993 law violates gay service
chapter meeting with 35 parents in attendance in her home. Eventually she hosted filed in a California federal court chal- members’ freedom of speech and due
gatherings of other chapter leaders, which led to the creation of a national group. Starr lenging the constitutionality of the mili- process rights under the First and Fifth
was then elected as the first president of the national PFLAG organization. tary’s gay ban. Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
The lawsuit was filed Monday at the In this respect, the litigation is similar to
U.S. District Court for the Northern Dis- another lawsuit currently pending before
Lambert Tweets support for gay group FCKH8 trict of California by Servicemembers Le- the Ninth Circuit challenging “Don’t Ask,
CLEVELAND — “American Idol” season eight runner up Adam Lambert, who’s gal Defense Network, among the groups Don’t Tell”: Log Cabin Republicans v.
gay, Tweeted support this week for FCKH8, a controversial gay rights group, On leading the fight to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t United States.
Top Magazine, a gay online news agency, reported. Tell,” and Morrison & Foerster LLP, a le- Now that the litigation has been filed,
“@FCKH8 hell yeah,” he messaged his nearly 800,000 followers with a link to gal firm based in San Diego, Calif. the U.S. Justice Department has 60 days
the group’s latest video, FCK BULLIES by FCKH8.com: DON’T B H8N ON THE The three plaintiffs are gay former ser- to respond to the complaint. The Obama
HOMOS! vice members who were expelled from administration has previously defended
FCKH8’s frequent — some would say excessive — use of the word fuck has the U.S. armed forces under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the courts and is
divided gay rights advocates. Critics say such tactics provoke social conservative gay ban: Mike Almy, an Air Force com- expected to continue defending the stat-
groups opposed to gay rights and can be offensive. munications officer who was discharged ute against this lawsuit.
in 2006; Anthony Loverde, an Air Force M. Andrew Woodmansee, a partner at
technician who was discharged in 2008; Morrison & Foerster, said a case manage-
First out gay Colo. Supreme Court Justice sworn in and Jason Knight, a Navy translator who ment conference for the litigation before a
DENVER — A Latina lesbian has become both the first Latino and first openly was discharged in 2007. district court judge should take place in
gay judge on the Colorado state Supreme Court, according to AP reports. In a Blade interview, Almy said he’s seek- March. He said he’s not expecting a trial
But she was quick to tell her colleagues that her allegiance is to the law, not any ing reinstatement into the Air Force because for this lawsuit, but instead, a ruling by
special interest group when she was sworn in Dec. 10. he loves the armed forces and “spent his summary judgment in summer 2011.
“On the bench, of course, my allegiance is to the law, not to any particular con- whole career serving the military” before be- Woodmansee said it’s “virtually impossi-
stituency,” she said after she was sworn in by her father, retired Judge Jose D.L. ing discharged after 13 years. ble” to predict whether the legislation would
Marquez, who was the first Latino appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals. “I obviously don’t miss ‘Don’t Ask, succeed at the district court level — or even
Marquez, 41, is a Grand Junction native who attended Stanford and Yale universities. Don’t Tell,’ but that aspect aside, I greatly the appellate court or U.S. Supreme Court
Heather Draper, spokeswoman for the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Com- love and miss the military and just can’t level — but said he believes the lawsuit
munity Center, said Colorado lawmakers have passed five laws in recent years wait to go back in as an officer and a has a “very strong” chance of succeeding
improving gay rights, including laws that allow same-sex couples to designate leader,” he said. based on the strong military records of the
beneficiaries, adopt children and bar discrimination in housing, but none of those The litigation asks the court to employ plaintiffs seeking reinstatement.
issues are involved in pending litigation. the Witt standard established by the U.S.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as the ba- Continues on page 6
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NATIONALNEWS
Lexington’s gay mayor prepares to take office
Gray focusing on jobs,
urban development
By DAVID PLACHER
On Nov. 2, a political earth-
quake rumbled the heart of
Kentucky, when pro-business
candidate Jim Gray, who is gay,
won the race for mayor of Lex-
ington, a city of about 300,000.
Since his victory, Mayor-elect
Gray has been preparing to hit
the ground running when he
is inaugurated on Jan. 2. His
jam-packed pre-inauguration
schedule included an interview
with the New York Times and
a meeting with New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“I am impressed with Mayor
Bloomberg’s philosophy — ba-
sically, get it together, work to-
gether,” Gray said during an
interview with the Blade.
Gray said he shares several
political convictions with Bloom-
berg and cites, “creating jobs,
managing efficiently and build-
ing great cities.”
“Whether it is New York City,
Lexington or Boise, all have
the same economic concerns,”
Gray said. “What I also share
with Mayor Bloomberg is a be-
lief that private sector experi-
ence translates into the role of
being mayor. Management skill
sets acquired in the private sec-
tor can be applied to the public
sector.”
Lexington residents voted
out incumbent Jim Newberry for
Gray, a 57-year-old millionaire
who made his fortune with Gray
Construction, a family-owned
business he and his broth-
ers inherited from their father
and built into a behemoth that
Gay troops seek reinstatement through lawsuit
Continued from page 4
“There are a lot of factors to
consider, but I think this case
is very strong because it’s also
very simple in that sense we are
looking at three individual ser-
vice members who want noth-
ing more than to go back and
serve their country,” he said.
Repeal advocates have filed
the lawsuit as legislation re-
mains pending before the U.S.
Senate that would lead to repeal
of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The
legislation, sponsored by Sen.
Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), as
of Monday had 40 co-sponsors,
according to the Human Rights
Campaign, and is expected to
Photo courtesy of Gray
Jim Gray, mayor-elect of Lex-
ington, Ky., will be inaugurated in
January. He’s gay but gay issues
didn’t factor much into the cam-
paign.
builds large industrial facilities
for manufacturers. Newberry, a
54-year-old lawyer, cited Gray’s
resources as a factor in the
election.
“I don’t mind telling you that
this has been a very difficult
election season, and it has sad-
dened me to be accused of
so many things that were very
much out of touch with real-
ity,” Newberry told the Lexing-
ton Herald-Leader, a Kentucky
newspaper, shortly after his de-
feat. “But at the end of the day
we just did not have the neces-
sary funding to compete with
the overwhelming resources of
the opposing side. That having
been said, I have no regrets.”
The paper said the race was
the most expensive race in the
come up for a vote during the
lame duck session of Congress.
In a statement, Aubrey Sarvis,
SLDN’s executive director, said
the lawsuit is part of “an aggres-
sive, far-reaching litigation strat-
egy” that his organization is plan-
ning if Congress fails to repeal
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” this month.
“This dispute can be re-
solved by Congress or by the
courts.” Sarvis said. “With this
filing we put Congress on no-
tice that a cadre of service
members and our national legal
team stand ready to litigate stra-
tegically around the country.”
If Congress doesn’t repeal
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Sarvis
said SLDN plans to file another
city’s history with more than $2
million raised and spent. Gray
lent $480,000 to his campaign,
which the Herald-Leader re-
ported stood at about $1.2 mil-
lion citing campaign finance
reports. Newberry reported
$1,050,000 for the same period
the paper said. Gray plans to
leave the company’s leadership
to one of his brothers as he did
during the campaign.
Gray is the first business-
man elected to the city’s top
post since the city and county
merged governments in 1974.
Gray is one of only a handful
of openly gay big-city mayors
in the country. He’ll be mayor
of the third-largest gay-helmed
city after Houston (Mayor An-
nise Parker) and Portland (May-
or Sam Adams). Gray came out
in 2005 but has said little about
his personal life since then pre-
ferring to focus on political is-
sues. Newberry did not bring
up Gray’s sexual orientation
during the race, unlike Parker’s
campaign, which found anti-
gay fliers being circulated in
Houston. Gray wasn’t out when
he launched an unsuccess-
ful run for the mayoral job in
2002. Gray, wanting to focus
on jobs, realizes that downtown
Lexington can play a major role
in helping boost economic de-
velopment.
“Young people and others
alike want to be in a dynamic ur-
ban environment where there’s a
lot of kinetic energy and vitality,”
he said. “It provides the frame-
work for better jobs. Downtowns
and suburban centers can both
provide that dynamic.
“We can attract great busi-
nesses here. With the Univer-
sity of Kentucky, Transylvania
lawsuit early next year on be-
half of young people who want
to enter military service, but
can’t because of the military’s
gay ban, and a lawsuit for dis-
charged service members who
want to serve in the National
Guard or the reserves.
While repeal advocates pur-
sue both litigation and legisla-
tion as avenues to end “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell,” the Obama
administration has emphasized
that congressional action and
not action from the courts is the
preferred way to the end the
law. Defense Secretary Robert
Gates has said a legislative end
to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” would
provide adequate training time
University, and our community
colleges, all these educational
institutions attract employers
because we have a skilled and
educated work force. Great
quality of life here.” The contin-
ued development of downtown,
however, is not without prob-
lems. Transportation issues are
an ongoing challenge.
“I know we have traffic jams,
it’s a way of life, but we avoided
an interstate that clear cut our
downtown and wonderful 19th
century neighborhoods,” Gray
said. “That’s a bonus to our
quality of life.”
Gray is a staunch advocate
for preserving the historic feel
of the city, while balancing new
development.
“It’s all about authenticity,
uniqueness, brand differentia-
tion. We got it all here,” he said.
When asked what changes he
will implement upon taking of-
fice, Gray seemed to have the
answers stamped in his mind.
“Encourage transparency,
which translates into good man-
agement and problem solving.
Embrace the spirit of open and
honest communication. I share
Jack Welch’s [former C.E.O. of
General Electric] philosophy,
that good business practices in-
clude transparency and brand
differentiation.” The odds of a
gay candidate winning a high-
profile race in a state that over-
whelmingly elects conservative
Republicans might appear slim.
But Gray believes that “elec-
tions are about competency
and experience, and not about
other factors.”
When asked if being gay hin-
dered his ability to reach out to
certain voters, Gray, the city’s
current vice-mayor, firmly said,
to implement open service in
the U.S. armed forces.
On Monday, White House
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
reiterated the point that the leg-
islative route is the preferred
way to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” in response to a question
from the Washington Blade on
the new lawsuit.
“One of the two entities — ei-
ther Congress or the courts —
is going to repeal or do away
with ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’”
Gibbs said. “The best way to do
it would be to do it through Con-
gress. The House has passed
that legislation, and it is clear
that well more than a majority of
U.S. senators believe that that’s
“No. I was elected because of
my experience.”
”I had hundreds of dedi-
cated volunteers, going door to
door, a great campaign manag-
er, Jamie Emmons, who will now
be my chief of staff, and many
supporters writing checks,”
Gray said. “As with most cam-
paigns, stressful days and wor-
risome nights seem to eventu-
ally wear on all candidates, no
matter how thick their skin. Poli-
tics is war without weapons, but
democracy is an extraordinary
system, and I was fortunate to
participate in it. I kept remind-
ing myself of that.”
Gray’s timing for running for
mayor in Lexington coincided
with the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
repeal debate but Gray said
he’s focusing on local issues
instead of lobbying his state’s
two conservative senators, both
of whom oppose repeal of the
anti-gay policy.
“I haven’t thought about lob-
bying them,” he said. “Certainly
repeal has positive momentum
going forward. But I try to focus
on local issues and avoid going
outside the limits of my authority
and jurisdiction.”
There was no congratulatory
call from Sen. Mitch McCon-
nell (R-Ky.), the Senate minority
leader, but someone from his
staff called Gray on McCon-
nell’s behalf. There was no call
from Senator-elect Rand Paul,
either, but Gray said he doesn’t
feel slighted.
“He’s a busy guy today,”
Gray said.
As for other gay and lesbian
political aspirants, Gray says
take the plunge.
“If your heart is in it, go for it,”
he said.
the case as well.”
Woodmansee said he thinks
legislative action should be tak-
en on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but
added litigation remains an op-
tion should Congress be unable
to finish the job.
“Throughout this country’s
history, the courts stand ready
to act when Congress doesn’t,
and that’s what we’ve done
here,” Woodmansee said.
“We’ve been trying to effect a
deal through the legislature,
and if they won’t act, then we
have no choice … but to go
the courts and ask them to do
their job, and that is provide a
check as the third branch of
government.”
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NATIONALNEWS

Washington Blade photo by Michael Key

‘Our troops are the best of the best, and they deserve a Congress that puts their safety — and our collective national security — over rigid partisan interests and a close-minded ideology,’ said
outgoing Rep. Patrick Murphy, lead sponsor of repeal in the House.

Senate will try again to repeal ‘Don’t Ask’

Continued from page 1
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) said the vote to repeal
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repre-
sented an opportunity to “close
the door on a fundamental un-
fairness in our nation.”
“Repealing the discrimina-
tory ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy
will honor the service and sac-
rifice of all who dedicated their
lives to protecting the American
people,” she said.
Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.),
the sponsor of repeal legislation in
the House, said the vote for repeal
was necessary to protect U.S. ser-
vice members in the battlefield.
“Our troops are the best of
the best, and they deserve a
Congress that puts their safety
— and our collective national
security — over rigid partisan
interests and a close-minded
ideology,” Murphy said.
The Pennsylvania lawmaker
noted the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen
has said open service should
be implemented to protect the
integrity of the U.S. military.
“Well, this is also about the
integrity of this institution — of
this Congress,” Murphy said.
“This vote is about whether
we’re going to continue tell-
ing people willing to die for our
freedoms that they need to lie in
order to do so.”
The vote marks the second
time this year that the House
has approved a “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal bill. In May,
the chamber passed a repeal
measure on the floor as an
amendment to the fiscal year
2011 defense authorization bill
by a vote of 234-194. The “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell”-inclusive de-
fense legislation failed to pass
in the Senate.
Opposition this time around
came from many Republicans,
including Rep. W. Todd Akin
(R-Mo.), who said the vote on
repeal represented an attempt
to impose a “social agenda” on
the U.S. military during wartime
as operations continue in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
Akin blamed House lead-
ership for failing to pass a
defense authorization bill —
which he called an “eclipse of
reason” because it has consis-
tently passed in Congress for
the past 48 years — and said
Congress should pass funds
for troops through the defense
legislation before moving to
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.),
ranking member of the House
Armed Services Committee, was
also critical of Pelosi for bringing
the repeal measure to the floor
at this time and said the timing
wasn’t right for Congress to act
on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“The speaker has decided
once more to subvert regular
order … and bring to the floor [a
measure] to repeal ‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell,” McKeon said.
Among other things, McKeon
was unhappy that the House
was holding a vote on “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” before House
committees had heard testi-
mony on the Pentagon report
on lifting the gay ban. Two days
of hearings have already taken
place earlier this month in the
Senate on the report.
In response to Republicans’
assertions, Frank disputed the no-
tion that proper procedure hasn’t
been followed on moving to “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” and noted that Re-
publicans were responsible for
filibustering the defense authori-
zation bill in the Senate.
Frank noted the repeal mea-
sure had already passed the
House in May and also passed
in the Senate Armed Services
Committee and said the notion
that the committees of jurisdic-
tion have been deprived on the
issue was “delusional.”
“We’ve gone through triple
regular order,” he said.
Among the 175 who voted
against the repeal measure were
15 members of the Democratic
caucus. They include House
Armed Services Committee
Chair Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), as
well as Reps. Solomon Ortiz (D-
Texas) and Dan Boren (D-Okla.).
Republicans who voted in
favor of passing the legislation
tallied out at 15 — which was 10
more Republicans than voted in
May in favor of the “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” amendment.
Among the Republicans vot-
ing for repeal for the first time
were Reps. Mary Bono Mack
(D-Calif.), David Dreier (R-
Calif.) and Dave Reichert (R-
Wash.). Dreier has long been
the subject of gay rumors.
Passage of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” repeal in the House first
enables the chamber to send
the legislation to the Senate as
“privileged” legislation.
The maneuver means the
Senate won’t need 60 votes
for the motion to proceed on
the legislation, taking off the 30
hours of waiting time that would
have been necessary were clo-
ture filed on the measure. That’s
significant as time is running out
in the lame duck session.
Still, even though the first
round of 60 votes for the motion
to proceed won’t be necessary,
60 votes would still be needed
in the Senate to move to final
passage of the bill. Sens. Joe Li-
eberman (I-Conn.), Susan Col-
lins (R-Maine) and Mark Udall
(D-Colo.) this week pledged
commitment to a stand-alone
Senate repeal bill.
In a statement, President
Obama praised the House for
approving — with what he called
“bipartisan support” —the “Don’t
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INTERNATIONALNEWS

U.S. takes anti-bullying message to Italy

Ambassador appears
in video promoting
gay helpline
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The Obama administration’s
participation in the ‘It Gets
Better’ campaign to stop anti-
LGBT bullying and teen suicide
moved to Europe last week
when the U.S. ambassador to
Italy appeared in a video pro-
moting an Italian helpline.
Speaking in Italian and ad-
dressing viewers of Italy’s ver-
sion of MTV and YouTube, Am-
bassador David Thorne said the
American Embassy was “focus-
ing on the rights of gays” this
year to commemorate Human
Rights Day on Dec. 10.
“If you are a victim of discrim-
ination or acts of bullying, talk to
someone who is ready to listen,”
he said. “Call the helpline num-
ber listed on the screen. Your
life is important. You are not
alone. Things will get better.”
Thorne’s video recording fol-
lows similar videos on the sub-
ject of bullying and LGBT teen
suicides related to bullying that
have been recorded by Presi-
dent Barack Obama, Vice Presi-
dent Joe Biden and four cabinet
members, including Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton. John Berry,
the gay director of the U.S. Office
of Personnel Management, also
recorded such a video.
Each of the videos, including
the one recorded by Obama,
Ambassador David Thorne said the American Embassy in Italy was ‘focusing on the rights of gays’ this year to commemo-
rate Human Rights Day on Dec. 10.
calls on LGBT youth subjected
to bullying or harassment to
remember that things get bet-
ter once they finish school and
enter a career and that they
should seek help and support.
The videos are modeled after
the first such video made by
gay columnist and author Dan
Savage, who founded the “It
Gets Better Project” to address
LGBT teen suicides triggered
by harassment and bullying.
Paula Thiede, a spokesper-
son for the U.S. Embassy in It-
aly, said Thorne made his video
through recording facilities at
the embassy in Rome after see-
ing an ‘It Gets Better’ message
directed to LGBT young people
delivered by Secretary Clinton in
a video released earlier this year.
Thiede said Thorne’s video
message appeared on Italy’s
MTV channel Dec. 8-10.
A press release issued by
the embassy directed to the
Italian media also announced
that the embassy organized a
free concert Sunday [Dec. 12]
called “Broadway Night” at a
Rome theater that was “dedi-
cated to the lesbian, gay and
trans community.”
The news release says the
concert, which was open to ev-
eryone, was sponsored by the
City of Rome and the surround-
ing provincial and regional gov-
ernments together with the Ital-
ian Gay Help Line.
“The concert last night was a
huge success, the theater was
standing room only, with a lively
crowd who really enjoyed the
music, calling for encores and
requesting their favorite Ameri-
can songs,” said Fleur Cowan,
deputy cultural attaché for the
U.S. Embassy in Rome, in an e-
mail on Monday.
“Guests came from as far
away as Naples, and we were
approached by many people
thanking us for the event and
underscoring how important the
U.S. example of tolerance and
social inclusion was for the LGBT
community here,” Cowan said.
Thorne’s video attracted con-
siderable coverage in the Italian
news media, including stories in
two of Italy’s leading mainstream
newspapers — La Repubblica
and Corriere della Sera.
“This year, both President
Obama and Secretary of State
Clinton wanted to underscore
respect for gay rights,” Thorne
said in a statement. “On the oc-
casion of World Human Rights
Day, my embassy in Rome de-
cided to collaborate with the
associations supporting the
Gay Help Line to sensitize pub-
lic opinion on a very important
theme, and to help homosexual
young people who are victims
of discrimination and bullying.”
Thorne’s video aired at a time
when the Italian public and media
have been closely following the
release by the controversial group
WikiLeaks of confidential cables
from the U.S. Embassy in Rome
that were highly critical of Italian
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The embassy cables were
among thousands of classified
and confidential U.S. documents
WikiLeaks obtained from unidenti-
fied U.S. sources. The Justice De-
partment is investigating the matter.
Although Thorne’s video
steered clear of internal Italian
politics, it also followed a Nov.
2 comment by Berlusconi about
gays that offended Italian gay
activists and drew criticism from
opposition party leaders.
In responding to allegations
that he hosted parties in his pri-
vate villas in which young women
provided sexual favors to guests
— an allegation that Berlusconi
strongly denies — the prime
minister told reporters at a pub-
lic gathering, “It is better to like
beautiful girls than to be gay.”
His office said the remark
was a joke and not intended to
offend anyone.
Berlusconi’s government
barely survived a vote on a mo-
tion of “no confidence” by op-
position forces that sought his
ouster from office and a call for
a national election.

LOCALNEWS

Kameny honored on Capitol Hill

Longtime activist Frank Kameny was presented with
the 2010 Cornelius R. “Neil” Alexander Humanitarian
Award at last week’s 2010 Human Rights Luncheon.
The lunch, which took place in the Caucus room of
the Cannon House Office Building, is sponsored by
the United Nations Association of the Capital Area in
cooperation with the District of Columbia Commis-
sion on Human Rights and the District’s Office of Hu-
man Rights (OHR).
The award is among many that Kameny has re-
ceived in the past year for his work as a pioneer in
the LGBT rights movement. In presenting the award,
Gustavo Velasquez, director of OHR, recounted Ka-
meny’s work from the time in 1959 — when he testi-
fied in opposition to an increase in the District’s police
force as long as cops were harassing gays — to his
receiving an apology last year from the Office of Per-
sonnel Management 52 years after being fired from
the civil service.
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key When Kameny spoke he joked that he is still wait-
ing for his back pay. He spoke proudly of his work as
the first openly gay member of the D.C. Human Rights
Commission; his efforts to fight the federal government’s
ban on letting gays serve in civil service jobs, his work
fighting sodomy laws and his work supporting mar-
riage equality in the District of Columbia. Kameny said
he is also proud of coining the phrase “Gay is Good”
and suggested that if he is remembered for anything he
wants it to be that.
He received two standing ovations from the group.
Also attending the lunch were Christopher Dyer,
Mayor Fenty’s director of the Office of GLBT Affairs;
Jeffrey Richardson, president of the Stein Club, Rick
Rosendall of GLAA and Eugene Dewitt Kinlow, direc-
tor of Public Affairs for DC Vote. Other awards given
at the lunch included the Louis B. Sohn Human Rights
Award to Daniel B. Magraw, Jr. and a UNA-NCA Com-
munity Human Rights Award to Daniel Solomon for his
work with DC Vote.
PETER ROSENSTEIN
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‘Don’t Ask’ repeal finds new GOP support
Continued from page 8
Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal legislation.
“Moving forward with the re-
peal is not only the right thing to
do, it will also give our military
the clarity and certainty it de-
serves,” Obama said. “We must
ensure that Americans who are
willing to risk their lives for their
country are treated fairly and
equally by their country.”
Geoff Morrell, a Pentagon
spokesperson, also said De-
fense Secretary Robert Gates
is “pleased” the House has
approved a standalone “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal measure.
“He encourages the Senate to
pass the legislation this session,
enabling the Department of De-
fense to carefully and responsi-
bly manage a change in this pol-
icy instead of risking an abrupt
change resulting from a decision
in the courts,” Morrell said.
LGBT rights groups herald-
ed the House passage of the
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal
and encouraged the Senate to
follow suit to pass the legislation
and send it to Obama’s desk.
Joe Solmonese, president of
the Human Rights Campaign,
commended the House for ap-
proving the measure to repeal
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“Today the U.S. House of Rep-
resentatives said, for the second
time, what military leaders, the
majority of our troops and 80
percent of the American public
have been saying all along —
the only thing that matters on the
battlefield is the ability to do the
job.” Solmonese said.
Amos: Gays in military could ‘cost Marines’ lives’
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Gay rights groups are fum-
ing over remarks that the Marine
Corps’ top general made on
Tuesday suggesting that open
service in the military would lead
to lost lives on the battlefield.
On Tuesday, Marine Corps
Commandant Gen. James
Amos reiterated his opposition
to ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
and suggested the presence of
openly gay people in the U.S.
military could be a distraction
that would result in fatalities.
“When your life hangs on the
line, you don’t want anything
distracting … Mistakes and in-
attention or distractions cost
Marines’ lives,” Amos said, ac-
Solmonese was referring to
a Washington Post/ABC News
poll published Wednesday,
which found that 77 percent
of Americans support allowing
openly gay people to serve in
the armed forces.
The director of OutServe, a
group for gay active duty ser-
vice members, also praised the
House vote and called on the
Senate to act.
“Our ability to live and work
with integrity and honesty is on
the line,” said the director, who
goes by the acronym J.D. Smith.
“It now falls to the Senate to fol-
low the House’s example and
the Pentagon report’s recom-
mendations, and right the wrong
that is being done to thousands
of us currently serving.”
Will the Senate act in time?
Now that the House has
passed the measure, eyes will
turn again to the Senate to see
if Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid (D-Nev.) will schedule a
vote on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
repeal and if 60 votes are pres-
ent in the chamber for passage.
Anxiety over whether the
Senate will address “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” as the limited
time remaining in the legisla-
tive session dwindles contin-
ues to be a concern for those
who are working to end the
military’s gay ban.
In a statement to the Blade,
Regan Lachapelle, a Reid
spokesperson, said the majority
leader intends to introduce the
legislation sometime before the
end of the year, but didn’t offer
cording to the Washington Post.
The general cited the recent-
ly released Pentagon study on
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which
found that discontent over open
service is higher in the Marine
Corps than in other services.
According to the report, while
only 30 percent of service mem-
bers generally thought serving
alongside openly gay people
would have a negative impact
on performance, the percent-
age jumped to 43 percent for
responders in the Marine Corps
and 58 percent for responders in
the Marine combat arms units.
Amos reportedly continued
that Marines don’t want a “dis-
traction” that “may have an ef-
fect on cohesion” and said he
doesn’t want to “permit that op-
further details on when the Sen-
ate would take up the legislation.
Moving on “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” repeal seemed unlikely this
week. After finishing work on ex-
tension of the Bush-era tax cuts,
the Senate proceeded to debate
on the START Treaty, a nuclear
arms reduction agreement.
The Senate, for the remainder
of the week, was expected to tag
between debate on the treaty
and a continuing resolution for
funding the U.S. government.
One LGBT rights advocate,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity, said opposition to
these measures from Republi-
cans could sap time that would
be needed to address “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“Both bills have hit pro-
cedural/political/substantive
snags with Republican sena-
tors threatening to have them
read out loud,” the activist said.
“Whether or not this is a ploy to
run out the clock is not known.”
After the START treaty and the
continuing resolution, “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal would remain
on the legislative calendar as
well as passage of the DREAM
Act, an immigration-related bill,
and legislation to provide ben-
efits to workers who helped at
Ground Zero during the Sept.
11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“There is no word on when or
in what order those bills would
be considered,” the activist
said. “There is no commitment
from Sen. Reid to bring [‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’] to the floor but
the privileged message from
the House creates momentum
portunity to happen.”
“I’ll tell you why,” Amos
was quoted as saying. ”If you
go up to Bethesda [Naval] hos-
pital . . . Marines are up there
with no legs, none. We’ve got
Marines at Walter Reed [Army
Medical Center] with no limbs.”
Amos reportedly contin-
ued: ”I don’t need a staff study.
I don’t need to hire three PhDs
to tell me what to interpret it. I’ve
got Marines that came back to
me as their commandant and
said, we have concerns. So if
they have concerns, I do, too.
It’s as simple as that.”
In Senate testimony ear-
lier this month, Amos recom-
mended that Congress not act
to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,”
although he said at the time the
and pressure for its consider-
ation prior to adjournment.”
In a news conference on
Tuesday, Reid threatened to
keep the Senate in session un-
til Jan. 4 to take up measures
such as the DREAM Act and
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“Christmas is a week from
Saturday,” Reid said. “I under-
stand that. But I hope the Re-
publicans understand it also,
because we are going to com-
plete our work, no matter how
long it takes, in this Congress.
We have to do the work of the
American people.”
But the advocate said this
pledge from Reid “is largely
useless” because senators
whose votes would be needed
for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” would still leave before the
session is over.
“He would likely lose sena-
tors like [Blanche] Lincoln and
[Evan] Bayh who are not return-
ing,” the advocate said. “If the
Senate does not work this week-
end, they will largely be done.”
Following the House vote,
House Majority Leader Steny
Hoyer (D-MD.) said during a
news conference he doesn’t
know when Reid will sched-
ule the vote — even as he ac-
knowledged that talks between
House and Senate leadership
have taken place.
“I have had conversations
with Sen. Reid which indicated
that we were going to take this
action, and so he anticipated
this action,” Hoyer said.
Despite those anxieties,
other signs show that sufficient
Marine Corps could implement
a change in law if so ordered.
In a statement, Aubrey Sar-
vis, executive director of the
Servicemembers Legal De-
fense Network, criticized Amos
for his remarks and said he
needs to “fall in line and salute
or resign now.”
“Those fear tactics are not in
the interest of any service mem-
ber,” Sarvis said. “The general’s
goal is to kill repeal no matter the
consequences, perhaps at the
dereliction of his other duties.”
Sarvis said Amos needs to
stop lobbying against the presi-
dent, the defense secretary and
the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
— who have called on Congress
to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
If not, Sarvis said the president
support exists to repeal “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” if the legislation
moves to the Senate floor.
Multiple sources have told
the Blade that 60 votes are
present in the Senate to repeal
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” now that
other legislative items such tax
cuts have cleared the table.
At the news conference,
Hoyer said he’s spoken to many
senators about “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell,” which has led him to
believe that sufficient support
exists for repeal.
“I’ve also had conversations
with a number of members of
the United States Senate —
Republican members,” Hoyer
said. “My belief is that there are
the requisite number of votes in
the United States Senate both
to effect cloture and passage of
the legislation.”
Several Republican sena-
tors — such as Scott Brown (R-
Mass.), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.)
and Lisa Murkowki (R-Alaska)
— have come out in favor of re-
peal following the release of the
Pentagon report.
On Wednesday, Sen. Olym-
pia Snowe (R-Maine) added her
name to the list of senators who
have come out in favor of “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal.
“After careful analysis of the
comprehensive report compiled
by the Department of Defense
and thorough consideration of
the testimony provided by the
secretary of defense, the chair-
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and the service chiefs, I support
repeal of the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
law,” Snowe said in a statement.
should “ask for his resignation.”
Fred Sainz, the Human
Rights Campaign’s vice presi-
dent of communications, also
blasted Amos for his remarks
and said he should fall in line
with Defense Secretary Rob-
ert Gates and Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike
Mullen, who favor repeal.
“General Amos should be
listening to his two bosses,
the defense secretary and the
joint chiefs chairman,” Sainz
said. ”Both have made it clear
that a gradual and orderly
process carried about by the
Pentagon as a result of leg-
islative repeal is a far better
alternative than a judge’s de-
cision that could bring about
repeal overnight.”
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LOCALNEWS
Md. lawmakers to take up marriage, trans bias
Continued from page 1
“We remain cautiously opti-
mistic that we’ve got the votes
to push this bill through in this
session, and that’s what we in-
tend to do,” said Del. Heather
Mizeur (D-Montgomery Coun-
ty), a lesbian.
News surfaced last week that
the main bottleneck in prevent-
ing the bill’s passage during the
past few years – its blockage in
the state Senate’s Judicial Pro-
ceedings Committee – would
be lifted when the legislature
convenes in January. Changes
in the committee’s makeup due
to the election and a decision by
one marriage equality opponent
to move to another committee
make it nearly certain that the
committee will vote to send the
bill to the Senate floor.
Meanwhile, the Judiciary
Committee in the House of Del-
egates, which has been sup-
portive of a marriage equality
bill in the past, is also undergo-
ing a major change in member-
ship, and its composition won’t
be disclosed until January.
But Mizeur told the Blade
this week that Del. Mike Busch
(D-Annapolis), who serves as
Speaker of the House, has indi-
cated to her and other gay and
lesbian caucus members that
he will make sure the commit-
tee’s pro-gay marriage majority
is maintained.
“We didn’t meet with him as
a full caucus,” Mizeur said. “But
many of us individually have
reached out to him. We kind of
said it’s important that the Ju-
diciary Committee’s open po-
sitions get assigned to people
who are pro-marriage equality.
And it’s been a very positive
conversation.”
Morgan Meneses-Sheets,
executive director of the state-
wide LGBT advocacy group
Equality Maryland, said the now
expanded LGBT caucus in the
legislature, which climbed from
four to seven following the No-
vember election, will also play
a key role in helping to pass a
marriage bill in 2011.
“They will do much of the
heavy lifting,” she said.
Meneses-Sheets noted that
everything must come togeth-
er in just 90 days, beginning
in January, during the three-
month-long 2011 session of the
Maryland General Assembly.
“I do think we can make this
happen,” she said.
With head counts showing that
the bill should clear the House of
Delegates, both in committee
and on the floor, and general con-
sensus that it will clear the Senate
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley first said he would sign a marriage equality bill in 2007. He may get the chance in 2011.
committee, Meneses-Sheets said
the next hurdle would be to over-
come a filibuster on the floor of
the Senate.
She said Equality Maryland
and other advocates for the bill
believe they have the 29 votes
needed to stop a filibuster in the
47-member Senate. Once that
hurdle is cleared, just 24 votes
are needed to pass the bill in a
direct floor vote.
Gov. Martin O’Malley told
the Blade in an exclusive 2007
interview that he would sign a
marriage equality bill; he reit-
erated that pledge during his
successful campaign for re-
election last month.
Meneses-Sheets said advo-
cates for a pending transgen-
der rights bill believe they have
the votes to pass that measure
in the House of Delegate if not
the Senate, too. But similar to
the gay marriage bill in past
years, the main hurdle for the
transgender measure is getting
it out of committee in both the
House and Senate, she said.
The bill would add the terms
gender identity and expression
to the categories included in an
existing state civil rights law.
The General Assembly add-
ed sexual orientation protection
to the state’s civil rights statute in
2001 under the administration of
former Gov. Parris Glendenning.
“[The transgender bill] is
where the committee assign-
ments are even more important
because it goes to the [House]
Committee on Health and Gov-
ernment Operations,” she said.
“It’s typically been a tough com-
mittee for us. They don’t deal
with a lot of social policy bills
like this one. So in the past,
we’ve been short a good num-
ber of votes in order to get it
out.”
Montgomery County trans-
gender advocate Dana Beyer,
who ran unsuccessfully in No-
vember for a seat in the House
of Delegates, said she is more
optimistic over the transgender
bill, saying she believes LGBT
allies in the General Assembly’s
two bodies will help move the
bill out of the two committees.
“I feel whatever has hap-
pened with the marriage bill
should happen with the gender
identity and expression bill,”
Beyer said. “Mike Miller [presi-
dent of the Senate] said he
wants a floor vote on marriage.
I feel that will apply to gender
identity, too.”
Beyer said she’s confident
that both the marriage and
transgender bills will pass
in the General Assembly in
2011, leading to yet another
big hurdle for both measures:
She’s certain that opponents
will gather the required num-
ber of signatures to bring both
Photo courtesy of the Md. Governor’s Office
bills before the voters in 2012 in
separate referendums.
“I think we’re going to find
ourselves with two Proposition
8s,” she said, referring to the
California ballot measure that
overturned that state’s same-
sex marriage law.
Under Maryland law, bills
passed by the General Assem-
bly and signed by the governor
are placed on hold if sufficient
signatures are obtained to call a
referendum on a measure.
A recent Washington Post
poll showed that 46 percent
of Maryland residents favor le-
galizing same-sex marriage,
44 percent oppose it and 10
percent had no opinion. Op-
ponents of same-sex marriage,
led by the anti-gay National Or-
ganization for Marriage, point
out that voters have banned or
overturned same-sex marriage
laws in every state that such
laws have come up on the bal-
lot, even in cases where public
opinion polls showed support
for gay marriage.
Mizeur and Meneses-Sheets
said the four out gay or lesbian
incumbents in the General As-
sembly have lobbied their fellow
lawmakers for the marriage bill
in a low-key way in colleague-
to-colleague discussions.
Two sources familiar with the
caucus, who spoke on condi-
tion that they not be identi-
fied, said some LGBT activists
have expressed concern that
the caucus has not been ag-
gressive enough in lining up
more co-sponsors for the mar-
riage bill. In particular, they ex-
pressed concern that Del. Mag-
gie McIntosh (D-Baltimore City),
the most senior LGBT caucus
member and one of three dele-
gates representing District 43 in
Baltimore, has shied away from
LGBT issues in her public state-
ments and constituent mailings,
including the same-sex mar-
riage debate.
Noting that McIntosh is
widely recognized as vying for
the position of Speaker of the
House when the post becomes
vacant, one of the sources won-
dered whether she was back-
ing away from speaking out
publicly on the marriage bill to
avoid generating opponents in
a future quest for the speaker’s
position.
“I absolutely disagree with
that,” said Mizeur. “Maggie is as
visible and vocal and support-
ive on our issues as any other
member of the caucus.”
Mizeur added, “I do think
that Maggie will make a great
Speaker of the House and I
would put money on the fact
that she will be the next Speaker
of the House. And she doesn’t
play politics with the gay and
lesbian community on changing
who she is or how visible she
would be on an issue in order to
attain that goal.”
Voters in District 43, while re-
electing McIntosh in November,
also elected Mary Washington,
the nation’s second black les-
bian to win election to a state
legislature and, like McIntosh,
a supporter of the marriage
equality bill.
But the district’s voters also
have continued to elect same-
sex marriage opponent Joan
Carter Conway, also a Democrat,
as their state senator. McIntosh
has not stated publicly whether
she has approached Conway to
change her mind on the bill.
McIntosh and two other in-
cumbent LGBT caucus mem-
bers – Sen. Richard Madeleno
and Del. Anne Kaiser, both
Democrats from Montgomery
County – did not return calls by
press time.
The newly elected LGBT
caucus members – Washing-
ton, and delegates-elect Luke
Clippinger (D-Baltimore) and
Bonnie Cullison (D-Montgom-
ery County) – have each said
they would work hard to secure
the votes needed to pass the
marriage bill.
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VIEWPOINT
Who’s to blame for ‘Don’t Ask’ debacle?
Obama, Reid and the
Republican Party
By KEVIN NAFF
Editor’s note: The House was
preparing to vote on ‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell’ repeal as this issue
of the Blade went to press. Visit
washingtonblade.com for updat-
ed news and commentary.
As word spread last week
that the Senate failed to ad-
vance a bill that contained re-
peal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t,” the
blame game began in earnest,
with angry press releases land-
ing at a rapid clip.
The Log Cabin Republicans’
version blared: “Senator Reid
fails to negotiate in good faith,
kills ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal.”
A few seconds later came
a release from People for the
American Way that read: “Sen-
ate Republicans block ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal.”
Who’s right? Both of them.
Despite intense negotiations
with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
that appeared close to a deal
that involved allowing 10 GOP
VIEWPOINT
D.C. not enforcing bathroom law
Businesses should
comply with gender-
neutral mandate
By RENEE REOPELL
Two transgender women
were assaulted in the Petworth
area in March after trying to use
the women’s room at a local res-
taurant. Unfortunately, incidents
like this are all too common,
even in the District of Columbia.
Often the presence of a trans-
gender or gender non-conform-
ing individual in the bathroom
results in assault, insults and
police intervention.
Everyone should have equal
access to restrooms, but unfor-
tunately, that is not always the
case. In one of the largest stud-
ies done of the transgender com-
munity, 22 percent reported that
they were denied access to ap-
propriate bathrooms just in the
workplace and 21 percent were
not able to work out a suitable
bathroom situation while at work.
amendments to the Defense au-
thorization bill to secure her sup-
port for repeal, Reid introduced
the measure knowing it would
fail. Why not finalize the deal and
proceed to a vote knowing a fa-
vorable outcome awaited?
Meanwhile, the Republicans
have turned into spoiled chil-
dren, taking their ball and going
home when they don’t get their
way. Collins was the only Re-
publican senator to vote for ad-
vancing the debate on repeal,
which means Republican sena-
tors cast their lot with the bigots
who seek to perpetuate this law,
no matter what the polls say
and despite the Pentagon study
and support for repeal from the
Defense secretary, commander
in chief and chair of the Joint
Chiefs. They cannot pin this on
Reid alone. Their efforts to un-
dermine President Obama at
every turn will lead to more ser-
vice member expulsions, more
careers destroyed and a less
effective military.
But the Democratic leader-
ship has to take the lion’s share
of the blame. Why are we scram-
bling at the 11th hour to get this
done when the Democrats have
District law attempts to rectify
this problem. Washington, D.C.
is one of 13 states and districts
recognizing gender identity and
expression in its area-wide non-
discrimination policy. Part of our
local law includes requiring sin-
gle stall bathrooms to be gender
neutral or unisex. According to
chapter 8 of Title 4 of the District
of Columbia Municipal Regula-
tions, “All entities covered under
the Act with single-occupancy
restroom facilities shall use gen-
der-neutral signage for those fa-
cilities.” Yet, if you’ve ever need-
ed to relieve yourself in the D.C.
area you know that this is often
not the case.
Unfortunately, little has been
done by the District of Colum-
bia to implement this law. The
DC Transgender Coalition has
been noticing this incongruence
since 2006 when they thought
this most celebrated victory fi-
nally meant peeing in peace.
When weeks turned to months,
and months turned to years,
and restrooms remained gender
specific, the DC Trans Coalition
held overwhelming majorities
in both houses for two years?
They waited too long to address
what too many wrongly assumed
would be a slam dunk. The White
House, enabled by the Human
Rights Campaign, assumed
they could satisfy the gays for
four years by delivering the hate
crimes bill. They were all wrong.
To make matters worse, Pe-
losi’s stubborn and nonsensical
insistence that lawmakers fin-
ish with “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
before even scheduling a hear-
ing on the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act has ensured
that that critical piece of legisla-
tion won’t pass.
Meanwhile, President Obama
issued his own press release. “A
minority of Senators were willing
to block this important legisla-
tion largely because they oppose
the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell.’ As Commander in Chief, I
have pledged to repeal this dis-
criminatory law…”
He’s been making that
pledge since the 2008 cam-
paign. What Obama should
have said in that release: “Given
the Senate’s inability to get this
done, I am issuing a stop-loss
got active and reported these
non-compliant bathrooms to the
DC Office of Human Rights. One
hundred and fifty-six restrooms
were brought to the attention of
the Office of Human Rights, but
they followed up by sending let-
ters to just 31 of those establish-
ments and followed up in person
with only 11. That’s a less than
10 percent follow-up rate. OHR
reports that only one of the es-
tablishments originally reported
by DCTC actually changed its
bathroom signs.
Our government is not mak-
ing this issue a priority. Since I
have been at the DC Center I
have visited 99 local business-
es in the past three months.
Seventy-one were found to be
non-compliant. And of the 71
managers, general managers,
owners and district managers I
have spoken to, 70 of them had
no idea about this D.C. regula-
tion and believed they were, in
fact, in compliance.
Further, new businesses that
are opening are not being noti-
fied of the change in law. Build-
order halting discharges under
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ until all le-
gal challenges to the law have
worked their way through the
courts. In addition, my Justice
Department will no longer de-
fend this unconstitutional law.”
But Obama won’t go that far.
And Reid and the Democrats
will only toss the gays enough
crumbs to ensure we stay firmly
in their back pocket. And the
Republicans will continue kow-
towing to the most base, preju-
diced elements of their party. In
the meantime, what we too of-
ten forget, is that the livelihoods
and careers of brave American
service members will continue
to be destroyed simply because
they are gay or lesbian. That is
the cold reality of 2010 America.
Kevin Naff is editor of Washington
Blade and can be reached at knaff@
washblade.com.
ing inspectors are giving out
inaccurate information about
restrooms, and the D.C. Depart-
ment of Consumer and Regula-
tory Affairs has taken no interest
in enforcing this law.
We all can play a role in ad-
dressing this issue. If you find a
single stall restroom in the District
of Columbia that is not gender-
neutral, let us know. If you have a
cell phone you can take a picture
of the bathroom and e-mail it to
bathroomaccess@thedccenter.
org. Find the manager, general
manager or owner and explain
that law. Tell them this is a D.C.
regulation and tell them why it’s
important for the community.
Still, addressing this issue
on a larger scale will require a
greater commitment from the Of-
fice of Human Rights and D.C.
Consumer Regulatory Affairs.
We have passed a great law, but
it is up to all of us to ensure that
the District abides by it.
Renee Reopell is a program associate
at the dC Center and can be reached
at renee@thedccenter.org.
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VIEWPOINT
How engaged is HRC in ‘Don’t Ask’ fight?
Questions about
Solmonese’s
lobbying role
By LANE HUDSON
Each Friday, the Human Rights
Campaign sends an e-mail to its
membership with a weekly update
listing all the ways it has made
our gay lives better. Last week’s
e-mail update expressed disap-
pointment at the failure of the U.S.
Senate to advance the defense
authorization bill, which contains
repeal of the discriminatory “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on open ser-
vice by gays in the military.
No one doubts that HRC is
committed to repeal of the ban.
Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call
reported on Nov. 25 that HRC has
committed $2.8 million to the lat-
est push for repeal. That included
online ads and sending field staff
to eight states to organize mem-
bers to pressure targeted sena-
tors to support repeal.
In the same article, Fred Sainz,
HRC’s vice president of commu-
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is a very important moment for
our community, and we should
not leave any opportunity on the
table.” Recent conversations,
however, have given me reason
to believe that opportunities may
have been left on the table.
According to a senior source
involved in lobbying for repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” HRC Presi-
dent Joe Solmonese was not ac-
tive in lobbying senators to support
repeal, opting to leave that work
to staff. He did, however, attend
meetings with congressional lead-
ership and White House officials,
the source said, adding that Sol-
monese views his role at the orga-
nization as chiefly a fundraiser.
I asked Sainz whether there
was any truth to the allegation
that Solmonese was not actively
involved in lobbying members
of Congress. His response:
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board member, I was also told it
was “bullshit.” However, when
pressed for any level of information,
on the record or on background,
that would show that Solmonese
had been active in meeting with
members of Congress, other than
leadership, to lobby for repeal,
none was offered.
This is in contrast to other orga-
nizations, which are forthcoming
about their lobbying activities. In the
same Roll Call article referenced
above, the executive director of the
Log Cabin Republicans, R. Clarke
Cooper, disclosed that he lobbied
13 Republican senators in the prior
two weeks. Alex Nicholson, of Ser-
vicemembers United, said he had
met with the office of every first,
second and third-tier Senate target
as well as attended events in each
of their states.
The defensive reaction from
HRC to questions about Solmo-
nese’s role is troubling. (In the inter-
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est of disclosure, I worked for HRC
for two months in 2006.) Over the
and passage of the Employ-
ment Non-Discrimination Act
years, HRC has been very effec- and the Domestic Partnership
tive at positioning itself as the voice
of the LGBT movement on Capitol
Benefits & Obligations Act.
After his initial offensive (and
Hill. That means that a certain level defensive) response to my ques-
of access is afforded to HRC that tion, Sainz, offered a more profes-
others don’t have. Even so, the sional response to characterize
protocol of Capitol Hill means that Solmonese’s lobbying work: “Joe
organizational staff usually meet has met with Republicans and
with a member’s staff. Democrats that are key to a suc-
Securing a meeting with a sena- cessful outcome.” Not very specif-
tor usually requires the participation ic, but it’s better than curse words.
of an organization head, such as We are only going to win
Solmonese. That’s why it is impor- equality when everyone is willing
tant to know if he has been on the to roll up his or her sleeves and
Hill meeting with staff and mem- do what is necessary. That in-
bers. Someone of Solmonese’s cludes having the leader of HRC
stature is perceived differently on actively engaged in everything
the Hill and is able to be more effec- necessary to win equality — and
tive at lobbying than others. being transparent about it.
That’s why it is important to
know if Solmonese has been
working to lobby members of
Congress. It is fair to expect
HRC to be transparent about
the work of its chief executive.
However, if Solmonese has not
been an active and effective
lobbyist, it could help to explain
the lack of progress on passing Lane Hudson is D.C.-based LGBT rights
our legislative priorities such as activist and occasional Blade contributor.
Reach him at lane@lanehudson.com.
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Weathering Winter Power Outages
By Cindy Beline
The winter months always bring
chances of storms and incremental
weather. At times, winter weath-
er can lead to power outages.
Whether an outage is extended or
short-lived, I know that you want to
be ready in the case an outage oc-
curs this season. So, how can you
lessen the impact of a winter power
failure? Here are a few helpful tips:
• Build/buy an emergency kit.
Be prepared with a 3-day sup-
ply of water and nonperish-
able food. Plus, have items
like these on hand: flashlights,
lighters, extra blankets, manual
can opener, battery-powered or
hand-crank radio or TV, fresh
batteries, and a first aid kit.
• Have a “blackout” plan. Map
out how you will cope during
outages, including steps related
to special needs. For example,
how will you care for pets? Do
you have a plan for your fam-
ily’s health needs (prescrip-
tions, power-dependent medi-
cal equipment)? Do you have
a place to go if you must leave
home? And if staying home, do
you have a backup heat supply?
• Warm your home safely. If you
plan to use a fireplace or fuel-
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• Keep refrigerated food safe.
Stay out of your fridge and
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• Protect your electronic devices.
Consider temporarily unplugging
computers and other sensitive
electronics to further guard against
“spikes” when the power returns.
• Generate your own power. If
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terrupted supply for computers.
Anything else you can do?
Have games, puzzles, and
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final installment of a five-part
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on entertainment options
(books, movies and CDs),
techie gifts, gifts for kids and
home decor.

The recession may be easing but some of us are still

feeling the pinch. Here are some gift-giving ideas
for those trying to keep costs down this year.
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN
Tightwad Ebenezer Scrooge — before his conversion to generosity — never be-
lieved in holiday gifts at any price, high or low. So you’re no skinflint Scrooge, just thrifty
and shrewd if you simply want to buy low but also give high satisfaction.
And since it’s also good to buy things local whenever possible, focus your stocking-
filling spree on neighborhood low-price goodies like these found in shops on Capitol
Hill — near Eastern Market and on Barracks Row, or with your own nearby merchants.
Our price goal during an excursion last weekend was no more than $25 per item.
Here’s a selection from five fun shops that caught our eye:
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SUNGLASSES have been “dramatique” at least since Gloria Swanson descended the
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up with one styled for Lady Gaga at $14.95 or for that neon look of the ‘80s at $9.95.

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A glass “STUFF”” tray they call “unisex” just big enough for keys, cell phone and and green stems, in holiday colors but designed for year round when things heat up
maybe a wallet — a place to put them so you can always find them later. $24.50 in the kitchen, at $18.95

“HOT MAN” holder, high-design in red metal, to cradle your hot pot — hang it on the CANDYCANE PEPPERMINT COCOA lets you sweeten Santa’s surprise when you
wall as decor, then use it when the heat of the moment calls. $22.95 leave it in this matching Candycane Mug. $9.95

“WINESTEIN” — have it both ways, with this double-walled glass, on the inside an SLATE COASTERS — a set of four, crafted from slate quarried in Vermont’s Green
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“STARSTRUCK” celebrity picture frame, a 4x6 in black, lets your fans bow down PETITE CHEESE KNIVES, a set of four. Just say “cheese,” but be ready for any kind,
before your awe-inspiring image. $20.75 with a knife for soft and crumbly, also knives for un-ripened and hard cheeses. $24.95

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buff. More political types can pick “SARAH PALIN” — just go rogue cutting the half-gov-
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arts & entertainment
washingtonblade.com • vol. 41, issue 51 • december 17, 2010 • Page 27

‘NUTCRACKER’
WITH A TWIST
Gay Men’s Chorus revives
holiday classic for festive fun 
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com

Arlington resident Josh Bennett was a late bloomer — at

least at dancing.
The 35-year-old Montana native who ended a six-year stint
in New York when he moved to the D.C. area in January, didn’t
start dancing until he was 22. But years of training, a dance
degree, experience dancing in a company and parts in the na-
tional touring companies of “The Producers” and “Oklahoma”
have strengthened his abilities.
He’ll put those skills to good use this weekend as Clarence,
the romantic lead in the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s
“Men in Tights: a Pink Nutcracker,” a gay version of the holiday
ballet classic the Chorus is reviving after a popular run in 2004.
The show runs through Sunday at the Lisner Auditorium on the
George Washington University campus in D.C.
Chorus choreographer/director Craig Cipollini says Bennett
was a natural for the part.
“For one, he’s a really, really good dancer,” Cipollini says.
“And having watched him perform, he’s got a certain naive-
té and innocence but at the same time he can be masculine
and sexy. He can be fun. I thought he could carry it. I needed
someone who could be young and innocent to an extent but
who could also play the comedy but also dance and have sex
appeal. He had all the right qualities.”
Bennett, who sings tenor one — the highest male range —
was drawn to the Chorus more for the chance to sing. Though
he has an Actors’ Equity card, he’s working at a concierge at
Archstone in Crystal City. Burned out on New York, D.C. and
the Chorus are giving him a chance to figure out what’s next.
“I’d never hung out with so many gay men at once so hav-
ing that support, I was actually really surprised,” he says. “I
didn’t know what to expect. I knew there would be some sort
of group dynamic but I never expected the level of encourage-
ment and acceptance. It’s really blown my mind how wonderful
this group of men is.”
This weekend’s show, which opens tonight at 8, is half con-
cert, half ballet, much like last year’s “Snow White” production
which, ironically, got delayed for snow.
Chorus Artistic Director Jeff Buhrman, a member since 1986
who’s in his 11th season at the helm, will lead the 30-year-old
Chorus through a nine-song set list that includes Christmas stan-
dards like “O Come All Ye Faithful” and “O Holy Night” along with

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28 washingtonblade.com • december 17, 2010

QUEERY: 20 Questions for Erik Lars Evans

By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO How long have you been out and who If science discovered a way to change
joeyd@washblade.com was the hardest person to tell? sexual orientation, what would you do?
I’ve been out since 2002. I think my I’d tell them to shove their cure up
Local gay DJ Erik Lars Evans is rela- friends of the time were the hardest to tell. their ass
tively new to the D.C. spinning scene. He I never grew the courage to do it. I ended
started spinning at POZ socials at Green up getting outed by a friend of a friend What do you believe in beyond the
Lantern just this year after friends told him who was aware of my correspondence physical world?
he should expand his musical offerings. with their gay brother. Within six months, I believe that it’s possible there is
“I’d been doing it for myself as far back the word had spread through small town something after the death of the physical
as 2003 and as time went on I started Delaware and made it to my mother. There form. But I think it’s unlikely.
throwing house parties which started to was no hiding anymore and I was forced
get larger and more involved,” he says. to face the reality of my life. What’s your advice for LGBT move-
“So I would start making these mixes for ment leaders?
these parties and people would be like, Who’s your gay hero? Keep fighting! We definitely need you!
‘Oh, this is great music,’ so I thought Freddie Mercury
maybe I should try doing this live and see What would you walk across hot
what happens.” Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
What’s Washington’s best nightspot, coals for?
The 29-year-old Gumboro, Del., native, who’s been in the D.C. area since 2004, past or present? $10 million
also spins for the monthly Code parties his friend Jacob Pring hosts at the Crucible Nation!
and he was doing Homolicious events at MOVA but that’s ending as the bar closes What gay stereotype annoys you most?
its P Street location this weekend. What’s your dream gay wedding? “Circuit Queen” also known as “party
“They’ve supposedly acquired a new location at 12th and U but there has been The idea of getting married is something obi.” Just because you like clubs, huge
no official announcement,” Evans says. “So all we know now is that this is the last that I’m only just beginning to think about. parties and are a fan of house music (I
weekend at its current location.” I haven’t thought of a dream wedding yet. mean, one of my hobbies is DJing) doesn’t
Evans, who works with catering services company Flik International by day, says make you some crack head. It annoys me
the kind of music he plays varies based on the event. It’s usually house, but could What non-gay issue are you most every time. Assumptions based on wacky
range from dark and tribal instrumental beats for Code parties do “dancey, poppy” passionate about? perceptions are detrimental to anyone. I
stuff at POZ parties. Health care just like to enjoy life. You only get one.
“It’s fun,” he says. “There are times you want to be part of the party instead of the
one working the party, but other times you don’t. You enjoy being the one to make What historical outcome would you What’s your favorite gay movie?
everybody shake their rump and clap their hands.” change? “Girls Will Be Girls”
Evans started using his middle name when he moved to Washington and found I wouldn’t change history at all. Hu-
several other Erics among his friends’ friendship circles. He wants to go back to col- mankind has to make mistakes and en- What’s the most overrated social
lege and eventually get into information technologies work. dure tragedy to make the future better custom?
Evans is single and lives in Bloomingdale. and brighter for the next generation. I have an evolved sensibility when it
comes to social customs. If it’s pointless,
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ARTSINBRIEF
Make your yuletide gay.

Photo by Jim Coates; courtesy of Church Street Theater

John Robert Keena (left) and Chuck Young in ‘Golden Boy,’ which ends its local run Sunday.

Last chance for ‘Wife Swappers,’ ‘Golden Boy’

Cherry Red’s production of Justin Tanner’s play “Wife Swappers” brings the
horny, homophobic world of middle-aged swinger-sex in the land of Orange County
church-going Republicans under the revealing microscope — an eyeful of full-fron-
tal nudity and wide-open frankness, with sometimes way “too much information” as
the characters let it all hang out at the D.C. Arts Center in Adams Morgan, but only
through Saturday.
The setting is Christmas-time under a holiday party banner reading “Deck The
Halls With Your Balls.” But the play ends on a more serious note, hinting more at
Edward Albee and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff?” than carefree suburban poly-
amorous humping. See it tonight at 7:30 or Saturday when it closes, at 7:30 and 10
p.m. The D.C. Arts Center is at 2438 18th St. N.W. Tickets are $25. 202-462-7833.
“Golden Boy” is another very different play, but it’s also see-it-now-before it closes.
Clifford Odets’ classic kitchen-sink drama of 1937, “Golden Boy” (William Holden made
his film star debut in the 1939 film adaptation), on stage at the Keegan Theatre in the
Church Street Theater in Dupont Circle. It closes there Sunday. Odets, a leading Hol-
lywood screenwriter (for example, “The Sweet Smell of Success” in 1957), shows a man
torn between the lure of big money in the ring as a prize-fighter and the risk of ending his
dream of a career as a violinist by using his hands to slug instead of bow.
The drama is often melo- and the tragic ending is fore-shadowed. But even so
it’s worth seeing, tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. The Church
Street Theater is at 1742 Church St., N.W. Tickets are $30 to $35. 703-892-0202 or
keegantheatre.com.

Webre does ‘Nutcracker’; high-def Hamlet

“The Nutcracker” ballet by gay composer Tchaikovsky has been revamped by
Septime Webre (also gay) and the Washington Ballet, with distinctive twists includ-
ing setting it during the American Revolution, with a heroic George Washington as
the Nutcracker and King George III as the King of the Mice, and a Potomac River
setting for a dance of the cherry blossoms. Through Dec. 26 at the Warner Theatre,
13th and E streets, N.W. Tickets from $31 at 202-397-7328 or washingtonballet.org.
“Hamlet,” is it the greatest play by the greatest ever playwright? And was he in
fact bisexual? Well, to both questions, maybe. At least you can perhaps answer the
first question at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 27, when the play is performed live from London’s
National Theatre on the giant high def screen at the Shakespeare Theatre Compa-
ny’s Harman Hall, 610 F St., N.W. The classic portrait of uncertainty, which of course
ultimately appears to answer the question “to be or not to be” by mostly choosing
the latter, is directed by Nicholas Hynter and features Rory Kinnear in the title role.
Tickets are $20 from 202-547-1122 or ShakespeareTheatre.org/NTLive.

Art galleries offer year-end collections 

Two very different group shows of artists are now in progress at Gallery planb,
DECEMBER 17 - 19 Lisner Auditorium
in Logan Circle at 1530 14th St., N.W., open Wednesday through Saturday from For tickets, call 202.293.1548 or visit gmcw.org
noon to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m., gay gallery director David Kalamar has
pulled together a remarkable year-end group show running through Dec. 24, fea-
turing about 25 artists showing works in painting, photography, jewelry, prints and
much more. Any purchase enters you in a raffle to win a limited edition print, “Smith
Island,” by gay artist Keith H. Adams, a former U.S. Marine Corps combat artist who
later worked as a set painter at the Washington Opera and just recently opened
with his partner a B&B in Washington, Va., in the bucolic foothills of the Blue Ridge
Mountains. Also, be sure to admire Adams’ oil paintings “Cedar II” and “Muir Beach.”
“Focus Group: Four Walls, Five Women,” at the D.C. Arts Center in Adams Mor-

this wEEkEnD!
gan, 2438 18th St., N.W., is open 2 to 7 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday through
Jan 9. This show is a collaboration between the Center and Black Artists of D.C.
(BADC), emerging from discussion among five black women about how their race
and gender expresses itself through the materials they choose to use.
The sixth annual “Downtown Holiday Market” is open daily from noon to 8 p.m.
Season Sponsors Media Sponsor Proud Sponsor Presenting Sponsor
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tive tents on F Street between 7th and 9th streets, N.W., in front of the National
Portrait Gallery. There’s also live music (free) and refreshments (for sale). John DiBenedetto
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CALENDARCUTLINE: The Roches, a sister act from New Jersey, play the Birchmere Dec. 17. (Photo courtesy of the Roches)
TODAY
The Gay Men’s Chorus
production “Men in Tights: A
Pink Nutcracker” opens to-
night at 8 p.m. at Lisner Audi-
torium at George Washington
University. See page 27 for
ticket prices and times.
The Roches will be per-
forming at the Birchmere
(3701 Mount Vernon Ave.)
in Alexandria tonight at 7:30
p.m. Lucy Wainwright Roche
will be opening. Tickets are
$35 and can be purchased at
birchmere.com.
Brightest Young Gays
will have a happy hour at
the U St. Music Hall (1115
U St., N.W.) tonight from 5 to
10 p.m. DJs Shea Van Horn,
vAnniety Kills and Brad-
ley will be providing music.
For more information, visit
brightestyoungthings.com.
Lianna Carrera will be
performing a stand up com-
edy routine at Phase 1 (525
8th St., S.E.) tonight from 8:30
to 10 p.m. Carrera is the gay
daughter of a Southern Bap-
tist minister and deaf mother.
Cover is $5. For more informa-
tion visit phase1dc.com or li-
annacarrera.com.
Apex presents “A Very
Merry Caliente Grande” with
DJ Michael Brandon in the
main hall and special perfor-
mances by Jamaica Rouge
and friends. Attendees can
get their photo taken with a
shirtless Santa. Drink specials
include $4 margaritas. There’s
a $10 cover charge.
Liz Phair will be perform-
ing at 9:30 Club (815 V St.,
N.W.) tonight. Doors open at 8
p.m. Tickets are $25 and can
be purchased at 930.com.
Team D.C. and 28 other
gay sports groups will be
hosting the third annual Holi-
day Extravaganza for D.C.
Gay Sports tonight at Cobalt
(1639 R St., N.W.) from 6:30
to 9 p.m. There will be free
holiday appetizers, drink spe-
cials, raffle prizes and sur-
prises.
Saturday, Dec. 18
MIXTAPE D.C. is tonight
at the old Rock & Roll Hotel
(1353 H St., N.E.) from 10
p.m. to 3:00 a.m. MIXTAPE is
a dance party for queer music
lovers and their pals that fea-
tures DJs Shea Van Horn and
Matt Bailer playing an eclectic
mix of electro, alt-pop, indie
rock, house, disco, new wave
and anything else danceable.
$5 cover for 21 and over.
The D.C. DemonCats will
take on Scare Force One in
a “Happy Brawlidays Bout”
today at 4 p.m. at the D.C.
Armory (2001 E. Capitol St.,
N.E.). Tickets are $12 for ages
12 and up, $10 with a valid
military I.D., $6 for children 6
to 11 and free for kids 5 and
under. Doors open at 3 p.m.
Dan Noel will be celebrat-
ing his 5oth birthday and
has chosen Mautner Project
as a beneficiary for his birth-
day benefit at Cloud 9 (234
Rehoboth Ave.) in Rehoboth
tonight at 9 p.m. There is a
suggested donation of $10
and the proceeds will go to
Mautner Project and AIDS
Delaware.
The Fez and Moustache
Party returns to DC9 (1940 9th
St., N.W.) tonight from 9 p.m. to
3 a.m. featuring Romani rock,
Klezmer, Slavic soul and Bal-
kan beats. For more informa-
tion, visit dcnine.com.
DJ Smudge presents
Rock and Rule dance party
featuring DJ vAnniety Kills to-
night at the Rock and Roll Ho-
tel (1353 H St., N.E.) from 9:30
p.m. to 2:30 a.m. The night will
feature rock jams, guilty plea-
sures, indie, hiphop, R&B,
disco, house and dance hits.
This is a free event. Attendees
must be 21 or older.
Ziegfeld’s presents its an-
nual Christmas show hosted
by Ella Fitzgerald tonight at
11:15 p.m.
Apex (1415 22nd St., N.W.)
presents “The Showdown:
House vs. Hip Hop” with DJ
Melissa spinning the house
musch and DJ Gigi spinning
the hip hop beats. Kristina
Kelly and her Girls of Glam-
our will perform at 11 p.m. DJ
Michael Brandon will be spin-
ning Latin sounds in the east
wing dance lounge.
The Ladies of LURe pres-
ent Bare featuring DJ Rosie
tonight at 10 p.m. at Cobalt
(1639 R St., N.W.). Cover is $5
before midnight and $8 after.
Have the Grindr app?
Show the box office and get
into Town (2009 8th St., N.W.)
for free for the Grindr party to-
night at 10 p.m. featuring DJ
Billy Carroll from New York as
part of his farewell tour. Drag
show starts at 10:30 p.m.
Cover is $8 before 11 p.m.
and $12 after.
Sunday, Dec. 19
Eatonville Restaurant
(2121 14th St., N.W.) will be
holding another installation of
its monthly series, Food and
Folklore, which intertwines
storytelling and food, tonight
at 6:30 p.m. This month is
Gullah with Charlotte Jenkins,
author of “Gullah Cuisine.” To
purchase tickets, visit eaton-
Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ the Frank Capra
Christmas classic that will be screened at the American City Diner Thursday.
villerestaurant.com
Lambda Divers will be
having its monthly happy hour
at Nellie’s (900 U St., N.W.) to-
night from 5 to 7 p.m. $1 from
every Nellie beer sold goes to
Lambda Divers.
The Community Triangle
LGBTQ Book Club will meet
today at 3 p.m. at Cage Izmir
(44 Frederick Rd.) in Funk-
stown. The book will be “The
Story of Edgar Sawfelle” by
David Wroblewski and will be
available instore for members
for $15.99.
Monday, Dec. 20
The American City Diner
(5532 Connecticut Ave., N.W.)
will be showing the film “The
Bridge Over the River Kwai”
tonight. The movie starts at
8 p.m. The full menu will be
available. Admission is free.
For more information, visit
americancitydiner.com.
Tuesday, Dec. 21
The Choral Arts Soci-
ety of Washington presents
“Christmas Music: the Trea-
sured Holiday Tradition” at the
Kennedy Center concert hall
(2700 F St., N.W.) tonight at 7
p.m. Tickets range from $15
to $65 and can be purchased
at kennedy-center.org.
River Road Unitarian
Universalist Congregation
(6301 River Rd.) in Bethesda,
will hold a Multigenerational
Winter Solstice Celebration
beginning at 7 p.m. All ages
Photo by Joseph Walker; courtesy of RKO Studios
are invited.
The D.C. Metro Area Gay
Male Witches Coven will hold
a yule ritual and social tonight
at 7 p.m. For more information
call 240-314-9020 or visit the
group’s Facebook page.
Wednesday, Dec. 22
Secrets (1824 Half St.,
S.W.) is holdings it monthly
amateur dance contest to-
night beginning at 11 p.m.
Contests must sign up at the
main bar between 10 and
10:45 p.m.
The Lincoln Center The-
ater presents Rodgers and
Hammerstein’s South Pacific
today at the Kennedy Cen-
ter opera house (2700 F St.,
N.W.) with two showings at
1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets
range from $39 to $150 and
can be purchased at kenne-
dy-center.org.
Thursday, Dec. 23
The Washington Cho-
rus presents “A Candlelight
Christmas” at the Kennedy
Center concert hall (2700 F
St., N.W.) tonight at 7 p.m.
Tickets range from $15 to $65
and can be purchased at ken-
nedy-center.org.
The American City Diner
(5532 Connecticut Ave., N.W.)
will be showing the film “It’s a
Wonderful Life” tonight. The
movie starts at 8 p.m. The full
menu will be available. Admis-
sion is free. For more informa-
tion, visit americancitydiner.
Gay Friendly
Church Services
Friday, Dec. 24
The Metropolitan Community
Church, Washington, D.C., (474
Ridge St., N.W.) will be holding Christ-
mas Eve worship tonight at 8 p.m.
The Washington National Cathe-
dral (3101 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) will
have its Christmas Eve Festival Holy
Eucharist at 6 and 10 p.m.
The Covenant Baptist Church
(3845 S. Capitol St.) will be holding its
Christmas Eve Service at 7 p.m. tonight.
The National City Christian Church
(5 Thomas Circle, N.W.) will be holding
its Christmas Eve service today at 7
p.m., starting with a festive prelude fol-
lowed by a candlelight communion.
The Christ Church on Capitol Hill
(620 G St., S.E.) will be holding a Christ-
mas Pageant and Holy Eucharist at 5:30
p.m. It will also have a choral prelude at
10 p.m., the Holy Eucharist at 10:30 fol-
lowed by a Festive Coffee Hour.
Saint John’s Episcopal Church
(3240 O St., N.W.) will be holding its
Holy Eucharist along with a Christmas
Pageant at 4 p.m. A Feast of Carols
and Noels will begin at 8:30, followed
by the Festival Holy Eucharist at 9 p.m.
Seekers Church (276 Carroll St.,
N.W.) will be holding its Christmas
Eve worship tonight at 7 p.m.
The First Trinity Lutheran
Church (309 E St., N.W.) will have its
Christmas Eve service at 7:30 p.m.
following a pre-service of Christmas
music that starts at 7 p.m.
The Church of the Pilgrims (2201
P St., N.W.) will have its Christmas
Eve service tonight at 7 p.m.
Cathedral of St. Matthew the
Apostle (1725 Rhode Island Ave.,
N.W.) will be holding a vigil at 4:30
p.m. following a prelude at 4, Vigilia
at 6:30 p.m. following a concierto at
6, and the main service at 10 p.m.
with Cardinal Wuerl presiding.
Saturday, Dec. 25
The Washington National Cathe-
dral (3101 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) will
have its Christmas Day Festival Holy
Eucharist at 9 a.m. today. It’s Christ-
mas Day Holy Eucharist, Rite II will start
at noon. There will also be a Christmas
Day organ recital at 5:15 p.m.
The Christ Church on Capitol
Hill (620 G St., S.E.) will be holding
its Holy Eucharist today at 10 a.m.
Saint John’s Episcopal Church
(3240 O St., N.W.) will be holding its
Holy Eucharist with traditional carols
today at 10 a.m.
Dignity Washington will hold its
Christmas mass tonight at 6 p.m. at
St. Margaret’s Church (1820 Con-
necticut Ave., N.W.)
Cathedral of St. Matthew the
Apostle (1725 Rhode Island Ave.,
N.W.) will have multiple services to-
day starting at 8:30 a.m. The other
services are at 10 and 11:30 a.m. and
a service in Spanish at 1 p.m.
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4600. kennedy-center.org.
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Tue, Dec. 21
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studiotheatre.org 4600. kennedy-center.org.
Underground rock-and-roll meets the London
underworld in this fierce, hip comedy by Jez But- Sat, Dec. 18
terworth. Buzzing with music and the raucous An Evening with O | A | R, Strathmore.
energy of the 1950s, Mojo won the Olivier Award 301-581-5100. strathmore.org.
for Best New Comedy after its original run at the Late-Night Expressions, Mason/Rhynes
Royal Court Theatre in London. Productions, Joe’s Movement Emporium.
301-699-1819.
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific Montpelier Film Series -The Art of
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Kennedy Center 7800.
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Lincoln Center Theater brings their reinvention In Your Ear: Avant Garde Poetry, DC Arts
of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical Center. 202-462-7833. dcartscenter.org.
South Pacific for an enchanting holiday engage-
ment in the Opera House. Wed, Dec. 22
Art After Hours: St. Petersburg Trio,
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202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
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A Christmas Carol, Ford’s Theatre. 202-
397-7328. fords.org.
Superior Donuts, The Studio Theatre.
202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
The Washington Ballet: The Nutcracker,
The Washington Ballet, Warner Theatre.
202-397-7328. washingtonballet.org.
A Girl’s Guide to Washington Politics,
Woolly Mammoth. 202-393-3939. woolly-
mammoth.net.
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Corcoran Gallery of Art. 202-639-1700.
corcoran.org. Spencer Finch: My Busi-
ness, with the Cloud, Washington Color
and Light .
Montpelier Arts Center. 301-377-7800.
pgparks.com. George Smyth, The Extras,
David Brosch, Resident Artist Gallery, 20th
Annual Open Juried Patuxent Art League
Exhibition, Resident Artists Exhibition.
National Gallery of Art. nga.gov.
American Modernism: The Shein Collec-
tion, German Master Drawings from the
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580-1900,
Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fan-
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Ice Rink, From Impressionism to Modern-
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Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elis-
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202-633-3030. residentassociates.org.
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Asian Ikats.
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New Sculpture by Michael Enn Sirvet,
Reyes + Davis Independent Exhibitions.
202-255-5050.
Holiday Ornament Collection, The Art
League. 703-683-1780. theartleague.org
Impressed: New Visions in Printmaking.
An Exhibition of Work by University of
Smack Down: Representational vs Ab-
stract, Arlington Artists Alliance, Lenox
Club. arlingtonartistsalliance.org.
Amalgamate: Paintings by Cindy
Neuschwander & Figuration Today: The
Surrealist Influence, McLean Project for
the Arts. 703-790-1953. mpaart.org.
National Christmas Tree, The Ellipse.
thenationaltree.org.
U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, US Capitol
West Lawn. aoc.gov.
MAD for Color, 2010 MAD Artist! Collec-
tive Exhibition & Workhouse Works: The
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house Arts Center. workhousearts.org.
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Ben Schatz, second from left, as Rachel in the Kinsey Sicks.
Sicks in the city
Drag troupe brings
outrageous holiday
show to JCC
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Looking for a holiday show devoid of
dancing toy soldiers and that miserly old
Englishman? You’re in luck. The Kinsey
Sicks have brought “Oy Vey in a Manger”
to Theatre J.
Known for their irreverent wit, over-the-
top drag and outrageous musical parodies
(beautifully sung “dragapella,” and not lip-
synched), the ladies have set their sites on
the season with devilish takes on old fa-
vorites like “Oh Hoey Night,” “Jingle Bells,
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” “The Twelve Steps of
Christmas” and “Crystal Time in the City.”
Ben Schatz, who performs with the
group as Rachel and writes the lion’s
share of the Sicks’ songs, explains that
while the show, whose plot turns on the
plight of four drag queens facing fore-
closure on their manger/home, has been
around for a few years, “this time it’s dif-
ferent – this time, it’s good.” He jests, but
in truth the group has reworked some
dialogue and added to the sometimes
politically charged score.
As a Harvard undergrad in the late
‘70s, Boston-born Schatz was heavily
involved in both theater and gay activ-
ism (“And now and again could even be
found in class.”). He went on to Harvard
Law School and after graduating, started
the first national AIDS legal program. Lat-
er he served as executive director of the
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
(GLMA) and was appointed to President
Clinton’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.
In many ways, Schatz’s drag persona
is a reaction to his prior work experience:
“She’s bad, bad, bad, but if you asked
her she’d say ‘I’m gorgeous and taste-
ful and if you disagree then kiss my ass.’
There’s always been a little Rachel in me,
but when I was employed as a respect-
able homo, I had to keep my mouth shut.”
During those buttoned down years,
Shatz occasionally donned drag with
friends and sallied forth into the night to
blow off a little steam and remember who
he was. One such outing marks the group’s
genesis. Rather famously Schatz and pals
attended a Bette Midler concert in drag.
“We were the only drag queens there
besides Bette,” he says. “We got a lot of
attention and were even approached by
a promoter who wanted us to sing at a
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party. Inspired by the show, we stayed
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possibilities of forming a group.” KEEP IT CLEAN. NATURALLY.
Soon after, the newly formed Kinsey
Sicks (a play of words on “Kinsey 6,” the
end of the Kinsey Sexuality Rating Scale
defined as exclusively homosexual)
made their debut on a street corner in
the Castro, San Francisco’s gayborhood.
“We were shocked to make $37. Over
15 years later we’re still working and we
ask for at least twice that,” Schatz says.
Comprised of four stock drag char-
acters — raunchy Rachel, controlling INTRODUCING FLEET® NATURALS CLEANSING ENEMAS.
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with the group since its inception in 1993
while an infrequently changing roster of
actors have taken on the other roles.
“When a new performer takes over
a part, we encourage them to find their
own version,” he says. “We like everyone
to put his own print on the character.”
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formed at one of the association’s events.
“I was terrified,” he says. “Our show
is really quite naughty — particularly my
character — and I had no idea what the re-
sponse from my colleagues would be. Well,
they loved it and for me that was very liber-
ating. I suddenly realized that my work as a
performer was just as important as anything
else I’d ever done. It struck me that I could
reach more people using humor and music
than I ever could through a speech.”
“If you’d told me when I graduated
from Harvard that I’d be singing profes-
sionally in drag and living in Mexico I
would have thought you were complete-
ly out of your mind,” Schatz says. “I’ve
managed to surprise myself and that’s a
great accomplishment in life.”
Ben Schatz
“Oy Vey in a Manger”
Through Jan. 2
Theatre J
1529 16th Street, NW
$15-$60
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showgirls and so on.’ We gave the lyrics a
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