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Council candidates compete for LGBT vote
Sekou Biddle, Patrick Mara and Vincent Orange are seen as the frontrunners in next week’s special election to fill a vacant seat on D.C. City Council.
Wooing crowds at Town,
Nellie’s and Ziegfeld’s as low
turnout expected next week
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
At least four of the nine candidates running in the
April 26 special election for an at-large D.C. City Coun-
cil seat are aggressively courting LGBT voters in a race
that political observers say is highly unpredictable.
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Delaware extends all Terry Miller and husband
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new civil unions law. into moving, if profane, book.
PAGE 4 PAGE 45
Washington Blade file photos
With special elections known for yielding a low voter
turnout, LGBT voters could be the deciding force in the
waging active campaigns targeting the LGBT community.
In the Ward 8 race for a vacant seat on the city’s
election if they coalesce behind one candidate, accord- Board of Education, veteran gay Democratic and Ward
ing to activists following the race.
Many of the city’s LGBT activists are supporting
8 civic activist Phil Pannell is leading a field of nine can-
didates in money raised and spent, according to a cam-
Democrat Sekou Biddle, a former Ward 4 school board paign finance report he filed on April 18, the last report
member who won an interim appointment to the at-large to be filed before the April 26 election.
Council seat in January. Biddle has expressed strong Pannell has been an outspoken advocate for LGBT
support for LGBT rights. rights, including same-sex marriage, in a ward where
But Democrat Vincent Orange, a former Ward 5 Coun- the majority black population is known to be more con-
cil member, and Republican Patrick Mara, a Ward 1 servative on social issues. The Ward 8 Council member,
school board member, have surprised some LGBT ac-
tivists by recruiting prominent LGBT supporters and by Continues on page 16
$520/hour to defend DOMA
Boehner hires pricey attorney in
fight to preserve marriage ban
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The U.S. House has hired a private attorney
to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court
at a cost that could reach $500,000 and at a
blended rate of $520 an hour, according to a
copy of the contract obtained by the Washing-
ton Blade and other media outlets.
The contract was executed by House gen- Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
eral counsel Kerry Kircher, whom U.S. House House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is asking the Obama
administration to help pay for costs associated with defending
Continues on page 18 DOMA in court.
2 washingtonblade.com • april 22, 2011
LOCALNEWS
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier and officials with the United
States Attorney’s Office vowed to redouble their efforts after
a sharp increase in anti-LGBT hate crimes in the city.
Police, prosecutors pledge
fight against hate crimes
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier and officials with the
United States Attorney’s Office and the Office of the
D.C. Attorney General called for improvements in the
city’s juvenile justice system as a means of address-
ing a sharp increase in hate crimes targeting the LGBT
community.
Lanier and the other officials answered questions
and pledged to redouble efforts to combat anti-LGBT
hate crimes at an April 14 Town Hall meeting spon-
sored jointly by the D.C. group Gays and Lesbians
Opposing Violence, the Mayor’s Office of GLBT Affairs,
the Office of the D.C. Attorney General and the D.C.
Police Department’s Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit.
GLOV Chair A.J. Singletary opened the meeting,
held at the city’s Reeves Center municipal building at
14th and U Streets, N.W., by reviewing recent D.C. po-
lice crime statistics showing that hate crimes in the city
targeting LGBT people increased by 40 percent over
the past year.
“This troubling increase in hate crimes against the
LGBT community must be stopped,” he said. “GLOV
is committed to ensuring the District government is do-
ing all that it should to protect our community, and we
must ensure that the community is doing what it can to
protect itself.”
Singletary and GLOV Vice Chair Hassan Naveed
told of GLOV’s programs aimed at educating LGBT
people on steps they can take to avoid being targeted
for a hate crime and how best to respond when threat-
ened with anti-LGBT violence. Details of the group’s
anti-violence programs can be accessed at glovdc.
org.
Lanier and Robert Hildum, deputy D.C. Attorney
General for public safety, said a large number of hate
crimes targeting the LGBT community are committed
by juveniles, who, upon arrest, must be processed
through a juvenile justice system they described as
flawed. The strict privacy rules required under D.C.’s
juvenile justice laws often prevent D.C. police from
properly investigating crimes of violence by some-
times barring them from questioning youth charged in
crimes.
In addition to Singletary and Naveed, others speak-
ing at the town hall were Andrew Barnett, executive di-
rector of the LGBT organization Sexual Minority Youth
Assistance League (SMYAL); Chris Farris, former
GLOV co-chair; and Wendy Pohlhaus, Executive As-
sistant U.S. Attorney for External Affairs.
Pohlhaus said the U.S. Attorney’s office, which pros-
ecutes criminal cases in D.C., must carefully decide
which cases should be prosecuted as hate crimes
based on the language in the city’s hate crimes statute.
“It’s sometimes hard for the community to under-
stand that the government must prove that a crime was
committed because of hatred or prejudice” in order to
successfully prosecute a case as a hate crime, she
said.
Singletary said it was significant that much of the top
brass of the police department attended the town hall
meeting, including Deputy Chief Diane Groomes and
the heads of the police units that oversee the GLLU.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Free State Legal Project
to open in Maryland
The Free State Legal Project, a pro bono and re-
duced-fee legal service for low-income LGBT people,
will open May 23 in Maryland, according to an an-
nouncement from the group.
The organization has hired its first full-time execu-
tive director, Lee Ann Hopkins, a longtime LGBT ad-
vocate. The group estimates there are about 25,000
low-income LGBT people in need of its services in the
Baltimore Metropolitan Area.
Initially, Free State will accept cases limited to hous-
ing discrimination, landlord and tenant concerns, di-
vorce and dissolution, employment discrimination,
name changes and sex change corrections for birth
certificates and other forms of identification and, finally,
basic estate planning, which will include wills, power of
attorney documents and advance directives, the group
said.
Client intake hours will be by phone from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, and from 5 p.m. to 7
p.m. on Wednesdays. The phone number is 410-625-
5428. Information can be found online at freestatele-
gal.org.
Area residents who are members of the bar and
would like to be placed on the pro bono and reduced-
fee volunteer panels are asked to contact Lee Ann
Hopkins, at lhopkins@freestatelegal.org or 410-625-
5428.
STAFF REPORTS
Arrest of gay bar owners
prompts action in Rehoboth
In a continuing effort to correct what Commissioner
Dennis Barbour called a “sting” and an “unjust action,”
the Rehoboth Board of Commissioners voted on Apr.
14 to begin the process of expunging the criminal re-
cords of those business owners who were arrested in
September for violating the city’s little-used noise ordi-
nance.
Owners of two of the most popular gay establish-
ments in Rehoboth, John Berdini of Cloud Nine and Bill
Shields of Aqua were arrested in the raid. Even though
the city did not pursue the cases, the owners now have
arrest records, which can prevent them from pursuing
other business interests or licenses.
The Board of Commissioners voted 6-0 to assist any
of the arrested parties who sought to expunge their
criminal records if asked. They also indicated they
would pay costs associated with the resolution. Com-
missioner Stan Mills, who initiated the raid, recused
himself, based on a suggestion from the state’s Pub-
lic Integrity Commission. The commission found that
Mills, who owns property behind several gay establish-
ments, “is using public office to secure unwarranted
privileges, private advantage or gain.”
For several months the commission discussed the
issues related to late night noise from patios and at
their March meeting decided to allow establishments
to keep their patios open until 1 a.m. until at least the
end of 2011.
PETER SCHOTT
D.C. police move to block
testimony in Wone civil trial
The ongoing criminal investigation into the 2006
murder of attorney Robert Wone inside the Dupont
Circle area home of three gay men could be harmed if
attorneys for the men are allowed to force homicide de-
tectives to testify for the defense at an upcoming civil
trial on the Wone case.
That was the argument made by Assistant D.C. At-
torney General Patricia Bonkor on Tuesday on behalf of
police officials at a D.C. Superior Court status hearing
in the $20 million wrongful death lawsuit that Wone’s
wife, Kathy Wone, has brought against the gay men.
Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky and Dylan Ward were
found not guilty in a criminal trial in 2009, in which they
faced charges of obstruction of justice, conspiracy to
obstruct justice and evidence tampering in connection
with Wone’s murder. Authorities did not charge the men
or anyone else with the murder, and D.C. police say
they are continuing their investigation.
Many court observers believe police and prosecu-
tors hope to charge one or all of the three gay defen-
dants with the murder if new evidence surfaces in their
investigation. With that specter hanging over their
heads, the three defendants have invoked their Fifth
Amendment right to refuse to testify in the civil case on
grounds that such testimony could violate their consti-
tutional protection against self-incrimination.
In Tuesday’s status hearing, Donkor said attorneys
representing the men filed a subpoena calling for the
court to force at least four homicide detectives to tes-
tify, first through pre-trial depositions and possibly at
the trial itself, without specifying what questions they
plan to ask the detectives.
She told Judge Michael Rankin, who is currently
presiding over the civil case, that disclosure of any in-
formation that had not be disclosed in the criminal trial
would be highly damaging to the ongoing police probe
into Wone’s murder.
Benjamin Razi, the lead attorney representing Kathy
Wone in the civil case, told Rankin his client isn’t taking
sides in the dispute over the police testimony, saying,
“We don’t have a dog in this fight.”
But Razi reiterated his longstanding concern that
the defendants’ refusal to testify or submit to deposi-
tions on all questions posed by the plaintiff oversteps
the bounds of the Fifth Amendment protection against
self-incrimination and amounted to an obstruction of
Mrs. Wone’s ability to shed light on what happened on
the night her husband was found stabbed to death in
the guest bedroom at the defendants’ townhouse on
Swann Street, N.W.
Rankin cut Razi off, saying those issues would be
decided later. He directed defense attorneys to coop-
erate with Donkor and D.C. police officials in seeking
to reach an agreement over what the detectives would
be asked if he eventually allows the defense to ques-
tion them in depositions or at the trial. He scheduled a
follow-up hearing on the matter for May 5.
The Wone civil trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 7.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
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LOCALNEWS
Bracing for possible Hill attack on D.C. marriage
Riders on abortion,
vouchers renew fears
over GOP intervention
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
An agreement by President Obama and
Senate Democratic leaders to Republican
demands for imposing two D.C.-related
riders on a federal budget bill has renewed
fears among LGBT activists that the city’s
same-sex marriage law could be the next
target of Republicans in Congress.
The president and Senate Minority
Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said they re-
luctantly agreed to demands from conser-
vative members of the House to budget
amendments barring the city from fund-
ing abortions for low-income women and
imposing a school voucher program that
city officials oppose as a condition for
averting a federal government shutdown.
“The president continues to oppose
riders in this bill that undermine the Dis-
trict’s ability for home rule,” said White
House spokesperson Shin Inouye in a
statement released last week. “However,
as he has said repeatedly, the ability to
reach an agreement to keep the govern-
ment open meant that all parties had to
make some compromises,” Inouye said.
Asked this week if the president would
oppose future attempts by gay rights
opponents in Congress to repeal D.C.’s
same-sex marriage law through amend-
ments to legislation deemed important to
the White House, including D.C.’s fiscal
year 2012 budget bill, Inouye told the
Blade it’s too soon for the White House to
comment on such a possibility.
“I think you’re bringing the cart before
Delaware approves civil unions bill
Extends marriage rights
to same-sex couples;
guv to sign
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
The Delaware House of Representa-
tives gave final approval late last week to
a civil unions bill that will provide same-
sex couples with all of the rights and
benefits of marriage under state law.
The House voted 26-15 in favor of the
measure. The Delaware Senate voted
13-6 to approve the bill on April 7, and
the state’s governor, Democrat Jack A.
Markell, has said he plans to sign it
“Today, we celebrate a victory for all
Delaware families who will have the tools
to protect themselves in good times and
in bad,” said HRC President Joe Solmo-
nese. “We look forward to Gov. Markell
signing this bill into law and thank Sen.
Sokola and Rep. George for their leader-
the horse,” he said. “The appropriations
bill for D.C. for next year hasn’t even
been introduced at this point. When we
actually have a bill moving, then that’s
something we can talk about. But at this
point it would be premature to speculate
as to what may or may not be in that bill.”
In response to questions from the media,
Obama has stated in the past that he believes
marriage-related issues should be addressed
by the states. But he has not weighed in on
same-sex marriage proposals that have sur-
faced in specific states or in D.C.
Congressional Del. Eleanor Homes
Norton (D-D.C.) told the Gertrude Stein
Democratic Club last week that she fears
the Tea Party faction of the Republican
Party in the House has become embold-
ened and will likely push more social rid-
ers on the 2012 D.C. appropriations bill.
Some congressional insiders are
speculating that same-sex marriage op-
ponents on the Hill may attempt to attach
a rider calling for repeal of the D.C. mar-
riage law to legislation next month need-
ed to raise the federal debt ceiling. Such
legislation is deemed crucial by most
lawmakers and the White House.
Traditionally, federal debt ceiling bills
have not been used as a vehicle for so-
cial riders, but some Hill observers have
speculated that conservative GOP law-
makers may make an exception to that
practice this year.
Congress must approve D.C.’s bud-
get bill each year, even though nearly
all of the money for the city’s budget is
generated by the city through local tax
dollars. Over the past 20 years, Republi-
cans and some conservative Democrats
have pushed through numerous riders
on the D.C. budget bill, including one
that barred the city from implementing
its domestic partners law for nearly nine
ship on this bill, and Equality Delaware
for their tireless dedication.”
Markell did not announce when he
planned to sign the bill but released a
statement reiterating his strong support
for the measure.
“When it came to this legislation, it was
clear that it was about rights, it was about
opportunity and it was about time,” he
said. “I congratulate everyone who worked
so hard to make these rights real and look
forward to signing this bill into law.”
The bill, SB 30, cleared a key hurdle
when the House Administration Commit-
tee voted 4-1 to approve it and send it to
the House floor, with House Republican
leader Gregory Lavelle voting for it.
A House debate and vote on the bill
followed a discussion and separate votes
on multiple amendments that opponents
introduced. One of the amendments an-
nounced earlier in the day called for put-
ting the bill on hold until voters decide
whether to approve or reject it in a refer-
endum. The amendments failed.
Approval of any of the amendments in
years before that rider was lifted in 2001.
“I have not heard specific news on the
anti-marriage front beyond what has been
reported, but prudence requires us to as-
sume that the anti-gay fanatics will come
after us,” said Rick Rosendall, vice presi-
dent of the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alli-
ance, a non-partisan political group.
Rosendall said GLAA plans to work
with its LGBT and straight allies to lobby
against efforts by Congress to interfere
in D.C. affairs on a wide variety of issues,
including marriage.
Peter Rosenstein, president of the Cam-
paign for All D.C. Families, another non-
partisan group that coordinated efforts
to secure passage of the city’s same-sex
marriage law, said the group is preparing
for possible attempts by members of Con-
gress to either overturn the law or force the
city to hold a voter initiative on the issue.
Rosenstein said officials with the
group have met with congressional staff-
ers, including the staff of Reid and Sen.
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). He said Cam-
paign for All D.C. Families has retained
the pro bono services of the LGBT sup-
portive lobbying firm Raben Group to
help lobby against congressional efforts
to kill the marriage law.
He said the campaign also continues
to use the pro bono services of the prom-
inent D.C. law firm Covington and Burling
to help it contend with a possible voter
initiative on the marriage question.
R. Clarke Cooper, executive director
of the Log Cabin Republicans, said his
group has already begun urging mod-
erate and conservative Republicans in
Congress to oppose any effort to repeal
D.C.’s same-sex marriage law.
Cooper said he has learned from con-
versations with congressional GOP staff-
ers as well as members that most Re-
the House would have required the bill to
go back to the Senate, which approved it
without amendment.
“The hurdles in the way of victory, if
any, are the amendments,” said Mitch
Crane, president of the Barbara Git-
tings Delaware Stonewall Democrats, an
LGBT advocacy group.
The bill creates “the recognized legal
relationship of civil unions” for same-sex
couples and provides them with “all of
the same rights, benefits, protections
and responsibilities as married persons
under Delaware law.”
The bill states that it is not the intention
of the legislature “to revise the definition
or eligibility requirements of marriage
under Delaware law or to require any
religious institution to perform solemniza-
tions of civil unions.”
Similar to civil unions bills approved
in other states, the Delaware bill would
not provide same-sex couples with any
federal rights or benefits associated with
marriage. The Defense of Marriage Act,
which Congress passed and President
publicans don’t favor a messy fight over
D.C.’s gay marriage law.
“To some conservatives, this would
be anti-states’ rights, and they would
not support it,” Cooper said. “This whole
thing is limited so far to a handful of
House members,” Cooper said, in dis-
cussing supporters of overturning D.C.’s
marriage law.
Among them is Rep. Jim Jordan (D-
Ohio), who announced in January that he
and other conservative GOP House mem-
bers “definitely” planned to introduce leg-
islation to overturn the D.C. marriage law.
“The Republican leadership has
made it clear that social issues are not a
high priority,” said Cooper.
But he acknowledges that GOP lead-
ers, including Speaker of the House John
Boehner (R-Ohio) are coming under
great pressure from the social conserva-
tive faction of the party to take up social
issues, including the marriage issue.
Fred Sainz, spokesperson for the Hu-
man Rights Campaign, said HRC could not
obtain “solid intelligence” to confirm any at-
tempt to link repeal of D.C.’s marriage law to
the debt ceiling bill. But he said the group
is “definitely concerned” that Republicans
will attempt to add marriage-related riders
to D.C.’s FY 2012 appropriations bill.
“HRC opposes any attempt to use
LGBT citizens of the District as pawns to
make a political statement,” Sainz said.
“As we have done in the past, we would
work with House and Senate allies, in-
cluding Delegate Norton, to develop the
best strategy to successfully block such
riders,” he said.
“The Tea Party fanatics in Congress
smell blood and will be pushing a lot of
social riders on D.C.’s 2012 appropria-
tions bill if we do not fight back,” said
GLAA’s Rosendall.
Bill Clinton signed in 1996, bars same-
sex couples from receiving federal mar-
riage-related rights or benefits.
Lisa Goodman, president of the board
of Equality Delaware, a state LGBT group
coordinating lobbying efforts for the bill,
said the group and other LGBT organi-
zations and advocates determined they
didn’t have the political support in the
state to pass a same-sex marriage bill.
Goodman, an attorney in private prac-
tice, said the civil unions law would pro-
vide same-sex couples and their fami-
lies, including children, with crucial legal
protections that they don’t currently have.
The vote by the House committee to
approve the bill on Wednesday followed
a public hearing the same day that
lasted nearly three hours and included
testimony from the bill’s supporters and
opponents. Among those testifying were
representatives of churches and religious
organizations on both sides of the issue.
“Opposing testimony was as hateful, in
many cases, as we have seen,” accord-
ing to Crane of the Stonewall Democrats.
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NATIONALNEWS
Shirley Tan (right) and Jay Mercado (left) with their two children and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (center)
Another shot for
UAFA in Congress
A call for ‘equality in our
immigration laws’
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Lawmakers last week initiated a two-
pronged approach to stop the separation of
bi-national same-sex couples in the United
States by introducing legislation and send-
ing a letter to the Obama administration urg-
ing executive action.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) reintroduced
in the House the Uniting American Families
Act, which would enable gay Americans to
sponsor their foreign partners for residency
in the United States, while Sen. Patrick Lea-
hy (D-Vt.) reintroduced companion legisla-
tion in the Senate.
Meanwhile, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.),
ranking Democrat of the House Judiciary
subcommittee on immigration, sent a letter
to the Justice Department and the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security — along with
47 other U.S. House members — urging
administration officials to stop the depor-
tations of foreigners in legally recognized
same-sex marriages in the United States.
During a news conference Thursday,
Nadler touted his newly reintroduced legisla-
tion, which has been languishing in Congress
in various versions for more than a decade, as
a means to “remove a wantonly discriminatory
policy” in U.S. immigration code.
“Today, thousands of committed same-
sex couples are needlessly suffering be-
cause of unequal treatment under our immi-
gration laws, and this is an outrage,” Nadler
said. “The Constitution guarantees that no
class of people will be singled out for differ-
ential and invidious treatment — and LGBT
Americans should not, and must not, be ex-
cluded from that guarantee.”
In a statement, Leahy said UAFA is nec-
essary because a key tenet of U.S. immi-
gration policy is maintaining “family unity”
— even for LGBT people — whom he said
are often forced to choose between the
country they love and the person they love.
“I hear from Vermont couples who face
this difficult decision every year,” Leahy
said. “No American should face such a
choice. I hope that my colleagues who sup-
ported this important civil rights reform will
join me in calling for fairness and equality in
our immigration laws.”
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
Under current immigration code, straight
Americans can sponsor their spouses for
residency in the United States through
the green card application process if their
spouses are foreign nationals. The same
rights aren’t available to gay Americans be-
cause they cannot marry in many places in
the United States. Even where gay nuptials
are recognized, Americans can’t sponsor
their same-sex spouses for citizenship be-
cause the Defense of Marriage Act prohibits
federal recognition of marriage equality.
Consequently, foreign nationals who are in
committed relationships with gay Americans
may have to leave the country upon expiration
of their temporary visas or face deportation.
“It’s not only the partners in committed
relationships that suffer, it’s their children,
their extended families,” Nadler said. “Their
communities and employers are all hurt
when families are broken up.”
Shirley Tan, a Philippines native and lesbian
Pacifica, Calif., resident, put a face to the need
for passing UAFA during the news conference
when she recounted her arrest in January 2009
by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement of-
ficers. She was threatened with deportation,
which would have separated her from her part-
ner of nearly 25 years, Jay Mercado, and their
two children, Jashley and Joriene.
“When I think of UAFA, I am reminded
of what that ICE officer told me when I
was picked up — that if Jay is a man, this
wouldn’t have happened,” Tan said. “Same-
sex couples should be given the right to
petition for their partners. It is just plain dis-
crimination that until now, this great country
cannot have equality among their citizens.”
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has since
introduced private legislation to keep Tan
and Mercado together in the United States
with their children temporarily, and is ex-
pected to do so again during the 112th Con-
gress. The bill must be reintroduced every
two years. If not, or if Feinstein leaves the
Senate, Tan would again face deportation.
UAFA includes provisions that would im-
pose penalties on those who would seek to
exploit the opportunities provided under the
legislation should it become law. Any per-
son found to have entered into a fraudulent,
permanent partnership for the purposes of
obtaining a visa for another individual could
be subject to five-year imprisonment or a
$250,000 fine, or both. UAFA also requires
bi-national couples to provide proof that they
are partners as defined in the legislation.
april 22, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 7
Cuomo to help with
marriage campaign
NEW YORK — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pledged support for a
same-sex marriage bill in his state that gay activists hope will help overcome
Republican resistance, the New York Times reported this week.
Under the supervision of the governor’s staff, the groups intend to raise
more than $1 million for a media blitz, hire a powerful political consultant
close to the Cuomo administration and deploy field organizers to the districts
of more than a dozen key lawmakers to drum up support, the Times reported
citing interviews with those involved in the effort.
In contrast to their failed drive for a marriage bill two years ago, the advo-
cates envision a short, disciplined and intense run-up to a vote in the legis-
lature, raising the prospect that gay couples may be allowed to wed in New
York by early summer. The hope to avoid the mistakes and miscommunica-
tions of 2009, when those lobbying for same-sex marriage sent conflicting
messages, misjudged the opposition and won far fewer votes than they had
predicted, the Times story said.
After passing in the Assembly, the bill was defeated in the Senate, 38 to
24. Four gay rights groups — Empire State Pride Agenda, HRC, Freedom to
Marry and Marriage Equality will form a single organization called New York-
ers United for Marriage. Two Democratic senators who voted against the bill
in 2009 have since departed, replaced by supporters of the bill. Advocates
now need to attract six more senators to ensure its passage. So far, they are
focusing on about 15 lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans, whose votes
could prove pivotal, the New York Times said.
Marriage foes intervene in
Prop 8 trial controversy
SAN FRANCISCO — The federal judge who presided over the Proposition
8 trial is under fire from Christian conservatives for showing a three-minute
videotape of the trial on the lecture circuit, the Los Angeles Times reported
this week.
The sponsors of the 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage
have asked a federal appeals court to order retired Judge Vaughn Walker,
who ruled against Proposition 8, to return the videotape so it can be put
under lock and key. The Associated Press reported that several media or-
ganizations are joining lawyers for two gay couples in urging a federal ap-
peals court to release the tapes. The 13 organizations, which include the AP,
argued in a motion filed Monday with the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals that the
videos are court records and the First Amendment requires them to be open
to the public.
Lawyers for ProtectMarriage, the Proposition 8 campaign, have told the
9th Circuit that Walker’s use of the video recording “defied” the U.S. Supreme
Court, violated his own court order sealing the video, flouted various court
policies and amounted to judicial misconduct, the Times reported.
Walker, who presided over the 12-day trial in San Francisco last year, ini-
tially planned to videotape the proceedings for public viewing. But Protect-
Marriage objected and took its case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled
5-4 along ideological grounds against cameras in the courtroom. The high
court’s conservatives said the Proposition 8 trial was unsuitable for broadcast
because witnesses might be intimidated or suffer retaliation. Walker relented
but permitted videotaping for the court’s use and for viewing by an overflow
crowd in another courtroom.
Gay students warned to
‘act straight’ after attack
ROCK HILL, S.C. — The attack of a gay teenager by a group of men at
a Rock Hill, S.C., gas station has some Winthrop University leaders warn-
ing gay students to “act straight,” according to a report from WBTV, a news
agency in the region.
The warning comes after 19-year-old Joshua Esskew was beaten by a
group of at least eight men at the Spot Convenience Store on 990 South
Cherry Road on April 9. Esskew believes the attack happened because he is
gay. The attack has sparked an investigation by the FBI and the York County
Sheriff’s Office, who are hoping to identify the men who attacked Esskew.
Images of the attack, which was caught on surveillance video, have been
released to the public, in hopes of identifying the men, WBTV said. Esskew
said he was walking to the gas station when someone yelled a derogatory
anti-gay comment at him. Words were exchanged and when he turned back
around, someone hit him in the head with a 40-ounce malt liquor bottle. He
was then beaten by at least eight men for nearly 15 seconds, being kicked
and punched by the group.
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ATRIPLA Important Safety Information and Indication

INDICATION • Have ever had seizures: Seizures have occurred in patients taking a
ATRIPLA® (efavirenz 600 mg/emtricitabine 200 mg/tenofovir disoproxil component of ATRIPLA, usually in those with a history of seizures. If you
fumarate [DF] 300 mg) is a prescription medication used alone as a have ever had seizures, or take medicine for seizures, your healthcare
complete regimen or with other medicines to treat HIV-1 infection in adults. provider may want to switch you to another medicine or monitor you.
ATRIPLA does not cure HIV-1 and has not been shown to prevent • Have ever had mental illness or use drugs or alcohol.
passing HIV-1 to others. The long-term effects of ATRIPLA are not known Contact your healthcare provider right away if you experience any
at this time. People taking ATRIPLA may still get infections that develop of the following serious or common side effects:
because the immune system is weak or other conditions that happen with
HIV-1 infection. Serious side effects associated with ATRIPLA:
Do not stop taking ATRIPLA unless directed by your healthcare • Severe depression, strange thoughts, or angry behavior have been
provider. See your healthcare provider regularly. reported by a small number of patients. Some patients have had thoughts
of suicide, and a few have actually committed suicide. These problems
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION may occur more often in patients who have had mental illness.
Contact your healthcare provider right away if you get the following Kidney problems (including decline or failure of kidney function).
•
side effects or conditions associated with ATRIPLA: If you have had kidney problems, or take other medicines that may
• Nausea, vomiting, unusual muscle pain, and/or weakness. These cause kidney problems, your healthcare provider should do regular
may be signs of a buildup of acid in the blood (lactic acidosis), blood tests. Symptoms that may be related to kidney problems include
which is a serious medical condition. a high volume of urine, thirst, muscle pain, and muscle weakness.
• Light-colored stools, dark-colored urine, and/or if your skin or the • Other serious liver problems. Some patients have experienced
whites of your eyes turn yellow. These may be signs of serious serious liver problems, including liver failure resulting in transplantation
liver problems. or death. Most of these serious side effects occurred in patients with a
• If you have HIV-1 and hepatitis B virus (HBV), your liver disease chronic liver disease such as hepatitis infection, but there have also
may suddenly get worse if you stop taking ATRIPLA. been a few reports in patients without any existing liver disease.
Do not take ATRIPLA if you are taking the following medicines • Bone changes. Lab tests show changes in the bones of patients treated
because serious and life-threatening side effects may occur when with tenofovir DF, a component of ATRIPLA. Some HIV patients treated
taken together: Vascor® (bepridil), Propulsid® (cisapride), with tenofovir DF developed thinning of the bones (osteopenia), which
® ® ®
Versed (midazolam), Orap (pimozide), Halcion (triazolam), could lead to fractures. Also, bone pain and softening of the bone
or ergot medications (for example, Wigraine® and Cafergot®). (which may lead to fractures) may occur as a consequence of kidney
problems. If you have had bone problems in the past, your healthcare
In addition, ATRIPLA should not be taken with: provider may want to check your bones.
Combivir (lamivudine/zidovudine), EMTRIVA (emtricitabine), Epivir
® ® ®

or Epivir-HBV® (lamivudine), Epzicom® (abacavir sulfate/lamivudine), Common side effects:

SUSTIVA® (efavirenz), Trizivir® (abacavir sulfate/lamivudine/zidovudine), • Dizziness, headache, trouble sleeping, drowsiness, trouble
TRUVADA® (emtricitabine/tenofovir DF), or VIREAD® (tenofovir DF), concentrating, and/or unusual dreams. These side effects tend to
because they contain the same or similar active ingredients as ATRIPLA. go away after taking ATRIPLA for a few weeks. These symptoms may
ATRIPLA should not be used with HEPSERA® (adefovir dipivoxil). be more severe with the use of alcohol and/or mood-altering (street)
Vfend® (voriconazole) or REYATAZ® (atazanavir sulfate) with or without drugs. If you are dizzy, have trouble concentrating, and/or are drowsy,
Norvir® (ritonavir) should not be taken with ATRIPLA since they may avoid activities that may be dangerous, such as driving or operating
lose their effect and may also increase the chance of having side effects machinery.
from ATRIPLA. Fortovase® or Invirase® (saquinavir) should not be used • Rash is a common side effect that usually goes away without any
as the only protease inhibitor in combination with ATRIPLA. change in treatment, but may be serious in a small number of patients.
Taking ATRIPLA with St. John’s wort or products containing St. John’s wort • Other common side effects include: tiredness, upset stomach, vomiting,
is not recommended as it may cause decreased levels of ATRIPLA, gas, and diarrhea.
increased viral load, and possible resistance to ATRIPLA or
cross-resistance to other anti-HIV drugs. Other possible side effects:
This list of medicines is not complete. Discuss with your healthcare • Changes in body fat have been seen in some people taking anti-HIV-1
provider all prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, medicines. The cause and long-term health effects are not known.
or herbal supplements you are taking or plan to take. • Skin discoloration (small spots or freckles) may also happen.
Tell your healthcare provider if you: • If you notice any symptoms of infection, contact your healthcare
• Are pregnant: Women should not become pregnant while taking provider right away.
ATRIPLA and for 12 weeks after stopping ATRIPLA. Serious birth defects • Additional side effects are inflammation of the pancreas, allergic
have been seen in children of women treated during pregnancy with reaction (including swelling of the face, lips, tongue, or throat),
one of the medicines in ATRIPLA. Women must use a reliable form of shortness of breath, pain, stomach pain, weakness, and indigestion.
barrier contraception, such as a condom or diaphragm, even if they also
You should take ATRIPLA once daily on an empty stomach. Taking
use other methods of birth control, while on ATRIPLA and for 12 weeks
ATRIPLA at bedtime may make some side effects less bothersome.
after stopping ATRIPLA.
• Are breastfeeding: Women with HIV should not breastfeed ATRIPLA is one of several treatment options your doctor may consider.
because they can pass HIV through their milk to the baby. Also,
ATRIPLA may pass through breast milk and cause serious harm You are encouraged to report negative side effects
to the baby. of prescription drugs to the FDA.
• Have liver problems, including hepatitis B or C virus infection. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

Please see Patient Information on the following pages.

© 2010 Bristol-Myers Squibb & Gilead Sciences, LLC. All rights reserved. ATRIPLA is a
trademark of Bristol-Myers Squibb & Gilead Sciences, LLC. EMTRIVA, VIREAD, and
TRUVADA are trademarks of Gilead Sciences, Inc. SUSTIVA and REYATAZ are registered
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in one pill daily.
For me, that’s great.”
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on ATRIPLA for 2 years

ATRIPLA is the #1 prescribed HIV regimen.*

About ATRIPLA:
•Only ATRIPLA combines 3 HIV medications in 1 pill daily.
†
• Proven to lower viral load to undetectable in approximately
7 out of 10 patients new to therapy, and also raise T-cell‡ (CD4+)
count to help control HIV through 3 years of a clinical study.§
•ATRIPLA does not cure HIV-1 and has not been shown to prevent
passing HIV-1 to others.

Selected Important Safety Information:

Some people who have taken medicine like ATRIPLA have developed
the following: a serious condition of acid buildup in the blood (lactic
acidosis), and serious liver problems (hepatotoxicity). For patients
with both HIV-1 and hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis may suddenly
worsen if ATRIPLA is discontinued.
Please see detailed and additional Important Safety Information,
including the bolded information to the left.

†
Defined as a viral load of less than 400 copies/mL.
‡
Average increase of 312 cells/mm3.
§
In this study, 227 patients took the meds in ATRIPLA.

Patient model. Individual results may vary.

Your doctor may prescribe ATRIPLA alone

or with other HIV medications.
Talk to your doctor to see if ATRIPLA is right for you.

To learn more, visit

* Synovate Healthcare Data; US HIV Monitor, Q1 2010. www.ATRIPLA.com

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Patient Information
ATRIPLA® (uh TRIP luh) Tablets
ALERT: Find out about medicines that should NOT be taken with ATRIPLA.
Please also read the section “MEDICINES YOU SHOULD NOT TAKE WITH ATRIPLA.”
Generic name: efavirenz, emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (eh FAH vih renz, em tri SIT
uh bean and te NOE’ fo veer dye soe PROX il FYOU mar ate)
Read the Patient Information that comes with ATRIPLA® (efavirenz/emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil
fumarate) before you start taking it and each time you get a refill since there may be new
information. This information does not take the place of talking to your healthcare provider about
your medical condition or treatment. You should stay under a healthcare provider’s care when taking
ATRIPLA. Do not change or stop your medicine without first talking with your healthcare
provider. Talk to your healthcare provider or pharmacist if you have any questions about ATRIPLA.
What is the most important information I should know about ATRIPLA?
• Some people who have taken medicine like ATRIPLA (which contains nucleoside
analogs) have developed a serious condition called lactic acidosis (buildup of an acid
in the blood). Lactic acidosis can be a medical emergency and may need to be treated in the
hospital. Call your healthcare provider right away if you get the following signs or
symptoms of lactic acidosis:
• You feel very weak or tired.
• You have unusual (not normal) muscle pain.
• You have trouble breathing.
• You have stomach pain with nausea and vomiting.
• You feel cold, especially in your arms and legs.
• You feel dizzy or lightheaded.
• You have a fast or irregular heartbeat.
• Some people who have taken medicines like ATRIPLA have developed serious liver
problems called hepatotoxicity, with liver enlargement (hepatomegaly) and fat in the liver
(steatosis). Call your healthcare provider right away if you get the following signs or
symptoms of liver problems:
• Your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice).
• Your urine turns dark.
• Your bowel movements (stools) turn light in color.
• You don’t feel like eating food for several days or longer.
• You feel sick to your stomach (nausea).
• You have lower stomach area (abdominal) pain.
• You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or liver problems if you are female, very
overweight (obese), or have been taking nucleoside analog-containing medicines, like
ATRIPLA, for a long time.
• If you also have hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and you stop taking ATRIPLA, you
may get a “flare-up” of your hepatitis. A “flare-up” is when the disease suddenly
returns in a worse way than before. Patients with HBV who stop taking ATRIPLA need close
medical follow-up for several months, including medical exams and blood tests to check for
hepatitis that could be getting worse. ATRIPLA is not approved for the treatment of HBV, so
you must discuss your HBV therapy with your healthcare provider.
What is ATRIPLA?
ATRIPLA contains 3 medicines, SUSTIVA® (efavirenz), EMTRIVA® (emtricitabine) and VIREAD®
(tenofovir disoproxil fumarate also called tenofovir DF) combined in one pill. EMTRIVA and VIREAD
are HIV-1 (human immunodeficiency virus) nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors
(NRTIs) and SUSTIVA is an HIV-1 non-nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI).
VIREAD and EMTRIVA are the components of TRUVADA®. ATRIPLA can be used alone as a complete
regimen, or in combination with other anti-HIV-1 medicines to treat people with HIV-1 infection.
ATRIPLA is for adults age 18 and over. ATRIPLA has not been studied in children under age 18 or
adults over age 65.
HIV infection destroys CD4+ T cells, which are important to the immune system. The immune system
helps fight infection. After a large number of T cells are destroyed, acquired immune deficiency
syndrome (AIDS) develops.
ATRIPLA helps block HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, a viral chemical in your body (enzyme) that is
needed for HIV-1 to multiply. ATRIPLA lowers the amount of HIV-1 in the blood (viral load). ATRIPLA
may also help to increase the number of T cells (CD4+ cells), allowing your immune system to
improve. Lowering the amount of HIV-1 in the blood lowers the chance of death or infections that
happen when your immune system is weak (opportunistic infections).
Does ATRIPLA cure HIV-1 or AIDS?
ATRIPLA does not cure HIV-1 infection or AIDS. The long-term effects of ATRIPLA are not known
at this time. People taking ATRIPLA may still get opportunistic infections or other conditions that
happen with HIV-1 infection. Opportunistic infections are infections that develop because the
immune system is weak. Some of these conditions are pneumonia, herpes virus infections, and
Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection. It is very important that you see your healthcare
provider regularly while taking ATRIPLA.
Does ATRIPLA reduce the risk of passing HIV-1 to others?
ATRIPLA has not been shown to lower your chance of passing HIV-1 to other people through
sexual contact, sharing needles, or being exposed to your blood.
• Do not share needles or other injection equipment.
• Do not share personal items that can have blood or body fluids on them, like
toothbrushes or razor blades.
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• Do not have any kind of sex without protection. Always practice safer sex by using a latex
or polyurethane condom or other barrier to reduce the chance of sexual contact with semen,
vaginal secretions, or blood.
Who should not take ATRIPLA?
Together with your healthcare provider, you need to decide whether ATRIPLA is right for you.
Do not take ATRIPLA if you are allergic to ATRIPLA or any of its ingredients. The active ingredients
of ATRIPLA are efavirenz, emtricitabine, and tenofovir DF. See the end of this leaflet for a complete
list of ingredients.
What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking ATRIPLA? Tell your healthcare
provider if you:
• Are pregnant or planning to become pregnant (see “What should I avoid while taking
ATRIPLA?”).
• Are breast-feeding (see “What should I avoid while taking ATRIPLA?”).
• Have kidney problems or are undergoing kidney dialysis treatment.
• Have bone problems.
• Have liver problems, including hepatitis B virus infection. Your healthcare provider may
want to do tests to check your liver while you take ATRIPLA.
• Have ever had mental illness or are using drugs or alcohol.
• Have ever had seizures or are taking medicine for seizures.
What important information should I know about taking other medicines with ATRIPLA?
ATRIPLA may change the effect of other medicines, including the ones for HIV-1, and may
cause serious side effects. Your healthcare provider may change your other medicines or change
their doses. Other medicines, including herbal products, may affect ATRIPLA. For this reason, it is
very important to let all your healthcare providers and pharmacists know what medications, herbal
supplements, or vitamins you are taking.
MEDICINES YOU SHOULD NOT TAKE WITH ATRIPLA
• The following medicines may cause serious and life-threatening side effects when taken
with ATRIPLA. You should not take any of these medicines while taking ATRIPLA: Vascor
(bepridil), Propulsid (cisapride), Versed (midazolam), Orap (pimozide), Halcion (triazolam),
ergot medications (for example, Wigraine and Cafergot).
• ATRIPLA also should not be used with Combivir (lamivudine/zidovudine), EMTRIVA, Epivir,
Epivir-HBV (lamivudine), Epzicom (abacavir sulfate/lamivudine), Trizivir (abacavir
sulfate/lamivudine/zidovudine), SUSTIVA, TRUVADA, or VIREAD.
• Vfend (voriconazole) should not be taken with ATRIPLA since it may lose its effect or may
increase the chance of having side effects from ATRIPLA.
• Do not take St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum), or products containing St. John’s
wort with ATRIPLA. St. John’s wort is an herbal product sold as a dietary supplement. Talk
with your healthcare provider if you are taking or are planning to take St. John’s wort. Taking
St. John’s wort may decrease ATRIPLA levels and lead to increased viral load and possible
resistance to ATRIPLA or cross-resistance to other anti-HIV-1 drugs.
• ATRIPLA should not be used with HEPSERA® (adefovir dipivoxil).
It is also important to tell your healthcare provider if you are taking any of the following:
• Fortovase, Invirase (saquinavir), Biaxin (clarithromycin), Noxafil (posaconazole), or
Sporanox (itraconazole); these medicines may need to be replaced with another
medicine when taken with ATRIPLA.
• Calcium channel blockers such as Cardizem or Tiazac (diltiazem), Covera HS or Isoptin
(verapamil) and others; Crixivan (indinavir), Selzentry (maraviroc); the immunosuppressant
medicines cyclosporine (Gengraf, Neoral, Sandimmune, and others), Prograf (tacrolimus), or
Rapamune (sirolimus); Methadone; Mycobutin (rifabutin); Rifampin; cholesterol-lowering
medicines such as Lipitor (atorvastatin), Pravachol (pravastatin sodium), and Zocor
(simvastatin); or Zoloft (sertraline); these medicines may need to have their dose
changed when taken with ATRIPLA.
• Videx, Videx EC (didanosine); tenofovir DF (a component of ATRIPLA) may increase the
amount of didanosine in your blood, which could result in more side effects. You may need
to be monitored more carefully if you are taking ATRIPLA and didanosine together. Also, the
dose of didanosine may need to be changed.
• Reyataz (atazanavir sulfate) or Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir); these medicines may increase the
amount of tenofovir DF (a component of ATRIPLA) in your blood, which could result in more
side effects. Reyataz is not recommended with ATRIPLA. You may need to be monitored
more carefully if you are taking ATRIPLA and Kaletra together. Also, the dose of Kaletra may
need to be changed.
• Medicine for seizures [for example, Dilantin (phenytoin), Tegretol (carbamazepine), or
phenobarbital]; your healthcare provider may want to switch you to another medicine or
check drug levels in your blood from time to time.
These are not all the medicines that may cause problems if you take ATRIPLA. Be sure to tell
your healthcare provider about all medicines that you take.
Keep a complete list of all the prescription and nonprescription medicines as well as any herbal
remedies that you are taking, how much you take, and how often you take them. Make a new list
when medicines or herbal remedies are added or stopped, or if the dose changes. Give copies of
this list to all of your healthcare providers and pharmacists every time you visit your healthcare
provider or fill a prescription. This will give your healthcare provider a complete picture of the
medicines you use. Then he or she can decide the best approach for your situation.

ATRIPLA® (efavirenz/emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate)
How should I take ATRIPLA?
• Take the exact amount of ATRIPLA your healthcare provider prescribes. Never change the
dose on your own. Do not stop this medicine unless your healthcare provider tells you to stop.
• You should take ATRIPLA on an empty stomach.
• Swallow ATRIPLA with water.
• Taking ATRIPLA at bedtime may make some side effects less bothersome.
• Do not miss a dose of ATRIPLA. If you forget to take ATRIPLA, take the missed dose right
away, unless it is almost time for your next dose. Do not double the next dose. Carry on with
your regular dosing schedule. If you need help in planning the best times to take your
medicine, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist.
• If you believe you took more than the prescribed amount of ATRIPLA, contact your local
poison control center or emergency room right away.
• Tell your healthcare provider if you start any new medicine or change how you take old ones.
Your doses may need adjustment.
• When your ATRIPLA supply starts to run low, get more from your healthcare provider or
pharmacy. This is very important because the amount of virus in your blood may increase if
the medicine is stopped for even a short time. The virus may develop resistance to ATRIPLA
and become harder to treat.
• Your healthcare provider may want to do blood tests to check for certain side effects while
you take ATRIPLA.
What should I avoid while taking ATRIPLA?
• Women should not become pregnant while taking ATRIPLA and for 12 weeks after
stopping it. Serious birth defects have been seen in the babies of animals and women
treated with efavirenz (a component of ATRIPLA) during pregnancy. It is not known whether
efavirenz caused these defects. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you are
pregnant. Also talk with your healthcare provider if you want to become pregnant.
• Women should not rely only on hormone-based birth control, such as pills, injections, or
implants, because ATRIPLA may make these contraceptives ineffective. Women must use a
reliable form of barrier contraception, such as a condom or diaphragm, even if they also use
other methods of birth control. Efavirenz, a component of ATRIPLA, may remain in your blood
for a time after therapy is stopped. Therefore, you should continue to use contraceptive
measures for 12 weeks after you stop taking ATRIPLA.
• Do not breast-feed if you are taking ATRIPLA. The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention recommend that mothers with HIV not breast-feed because they can pass the HIV
through their milk to the baby. Also, ATRIPLA may pass through breast milk and cause serious
harm to the baby. Talk with your healthcare provider if you are breast-feeding. You should
stop breast-feeding or may need to use a different medicine.
• Taking ATRIPLA with alcohol or other medicines causing similar side effects as ATRIPLA, such
as drowsiness, may increase those side effects.
• Do not take any other medicines, including prescription and nonprescription medicines and
herbal products, without checking with your healthcare provider.
• Avoid doing things that can spread HIV-1 infection since ATRIPLA does not stop you from
passing the HIV-1 infection to others.
What are the possible side effects of ATRIPLA?
ATRIPLA may cause the following serious side effects:
• Lactic acidosis (buildup of an acid in the blood). Lactic acidosis can be a medical emergency
and may need to be treated in the hospital. Call your healthcare provider right away if you
get signs of lactic acidosis. (See “What is the most important information I should know
about ATRIPLA?”)
• Serious liver problems (hepatotoxicity), with liver enlargement (hepatomegaly) and fat in
the liver (steatosis). Call your healthcare provider right away if you get any signs of liver
problems. (See “What is the most important information I should know about ATRIPLA?”)
• “Flare-ups” of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, in which the disease suddenly returns in
a worse way than before, can occur if you have HBV and you stop taking ATRIPLA. Your
healthcare provider will monitor your condition for several months after stopping ATRIPLA if
you have both HIV-1 and HBV infection and may recommend treatment for your HBV. ATRIPLA
is not approved for the treatment of hepatitis B virus infection. If you have advanced liver
disease and stop treatment with ATRIPLA, the “flare-up” of hepatitis B may cause your liver
function to decline.
• Serious psychiatric problems. A small number of patients may experience severe
depression, strange thoughts, or angry behavior while taking ATRIPLA. Some patients have
thoughts of suicide and a few have actually committed suicide. These problems may occur
more often in patients who have had mental illness. Contact your healthcare provider right
away if you think you are having these psychiatric symptoms, so your healthcare provider
can decide if you should continue to take ATRIPLA.
• Kidney problems (including decline or failure of kidney function). If you have had kidney
problems in the past or take other medicines that can cause kidney problems, your
healthcare provider should do regular blood tests to check your kidneys. Symptoms that may
be related to kidney problems include a high volume of urine, thirst, muscle pain, and muscle
weakness.
• Other serious liver problems. Some patients have experienced serious liver problems
including liver failure resulting in transplantation or death. Most of these serious side effects
occurred in patients with a chronic liver disease such as hepatitis infection, but there have
also been a few reports in patients without any existing liver disease.
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• Changes in bone mineral density (thinning bones). Laboratory tests show changes in the
bones of patients treated with tenofovir DF, a component of ATRIPLA. Some HIV patients
treated with tenofovir DF developed thinning of the bones (osteopenia) which could lead to
fractures. If you have had bone problems in the past, your healthcare provider may need to
do tests to check your bone mineral density or may prescribe medicines to help your bone
mineral density. Additionally, bone pain and softening of the bone (which may contribute to
fractures) may occur as a consequence of kidney problems.
Common side effects:
Patients may have dizziness, headache, trouble sleeping, drowsiness, trouble concentrating, and/or
unusual dreams during treatment with ATRIPLA. These side effects may be reduced if you take
ATRIPLA at bedtime on an empty stomach. They also tend to go away after you have taken the
medicine for a few weeks. If you have these common side effects, such as dizziness, it does not
mean that you will also have serious psychiatric problems, such as severe depression, strange
thoughts, or angry behavior. Tell your healthcare provider right away if any of these side effects
continue or if they bother you. It is possible that these symptoms may be more severe if ATRIPLA is
used with alcohol or mood altering (street) drugs.
If you are dizzy, have trouble concentrating, or are drowsy, avoid activities that may be dangerous,
such as driving or operating machinery.
Rash may be common. Rashes usually go away without any change in treatment. In a small number
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12 washingtonblade.com • april 22, 2011
NATIONALNEWS
Senators introduce ENDA despite uphill battle
House passage seen as
unlikely under GOP control
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The junior senator from Oregon intro-
duced the Employment Non-Discrimina-
tion Act in the U.S. Senate last week as
he voiced support for an executive order
that would bar the federal government
from contracting with companies that
don’t have their own workplace protec-
tions for LGBT people.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) endorsed
the idea of an executive order an as in-
terim alternative to passing ENDA during
a news conference on Capitol Hill in re-
sponse to a question from the Washing-
ton Blade after he announced the Senate
introduction of the legislation.
“Certainly, I share the perspective that
it would be tremendous to accomplish this
by legislation,” Merkley said. “But I also
feel that this is a conversation that is going
to reverberate at a number of levels. You
have counties, you have state action and
certainly, I feel, it’s a legitimate possibility,
and I would support the president saying
that contractors who are beneficiaries of
federal funds should in fact practice non-
discrimination, so I would support that.”
The executive order endorsed by Merk-
ley has been seen as an interim alternative
to ENDA passage while Republicans are
McKeon backs effort to disrupt ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal
Wants service chiefs to
certify they are ready for
open service
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The leading House Republican on de-
fense issues last week announced support
for legislation that would expand the cer-
tification requirement for “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” repeal and potentially disrupt the pro-
cess for ending the military’s gay ban.
During a taped interview on C-SPAN’s
“Newsmakers,” House Armed Services
Committee Chair Buck McKeon (R-Calif.)
backed a bill that would require the mili-
tary service chiefs to certify that the U.S.
military is ready for open service before
bringing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to an end.
“I think it makes it a better process,”
McKeon said. “I think the way this pro-
cess was rammed through, it was done
politically.”
In December, President Obama
signed legislation allowing for “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal 60 days after he,
the defense secretary and the chair of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff certify the U.S.
military is ready for open service. The
legislation backed by McKeon, spon-
Jeff Merkley (left) and Mark Kirk introduced ENDA in the Senate last week.
in control of the House and progress on
the measure in the lower chamber of Con-
gress is unlikely. The White House hasn’t
said whether Obama would be open to
issuing such a directive. Last month, gay
Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) also expressed
support for the executive order.
However, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), an
original co-sponsor of ENDA who was
present at the conference, didn’t offer the
same support for an executive order that
was voiced by Merkley.
“I would just say when you have execu-
tive action without the statute, then quickly
that would be wiped out by the next ad-
ministration,” Kirk said. “The best way to
go is a statute where you have a stable
decision that can only be overturned by a
sored Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.),
would expand this certification require-
ment to include the service chiefs of the
Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.
In his “Newsmakers” appearance,
McKeon reiterated that he believes legis-
lative repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was
hastily moved through the Democratic
Congress last year.
“I’m not in the military,” McKeon add-
ed. “My job is to help protect the military
and to see that they have what they need
to carry out their missions and to return
home safely. If there is something that is
going to be a distraction to that, that might
put them in a difficult situation, I don’t think
we should be doing that. And I’m not sure
we fully answered this question.”
With McKeon’s support, the legisla-
tion could be made part of the fiscal
year 2012 defense authorization bill as
part of the chairman’s mark for the leg-
islation or a panel vote when the House
Armed Services Committee considers
the larger measure. Earlier this month,
Hunter told the Washington Blade he’s
spoken to McKeon’s staff about having
a vote on his bill in committee and is ex-
pecting a vote during the markup for the
FY2012 budget.
Asked during his “Newsmakers” ap-
pearance if he would consider inserting
the measure into defense authorization
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
subsequent act of Congress.”
Kirk also advised against an execu-
tive order because of what he said was a
“tremendous amount of uncertainty right
now” in the U.S. economy, which is still
climbing its way out of recession.
“If we load executive order upon ex-
ecutive order, all of which would be
wiped out the day after the president of
the other party takes power, you really
haven’t advanced the ball much,” Kirk
said. “That’s why the legislation is abso-
lutely necessary.”
Merkley endorsed the executive order
on the same day he introduced ENDA in
the Senate, which as of the end of last
week had 38 co-sponsors. The legisla-
tion would bar job discrimination against
legislation, McKeon reiterated he sup-
ported the measure.
But when pressed on whether he
would be upset if certification happened
before Hunter’s measure could pass the
House, McKeon replied, “It’s not going
to bother me at all. What I’m concerned
about is the troops it may bother. I don’t
have a problem with it, other than what it
does to our readiness, what it does to our
recruitment, what it does to our retention.
I don’t think we have really answered
those questions.”
Joe Kasper, a Hunter spokesperson,
expressed confidence about having
support in the House Armed Services
Committee for certification expansion,
but said questions remain over whether
to have a panel vote on the measure or a
vote on the House floor.
“There is definitely support within the
committee for ensuring the service chiefs
are a bigger part of the process, exact-
ly what the congressman’s bill does,”
Kasper said. “The next few months are
important to determining the best way to
offer the measure, whether it’s through
the committee or an open floor process.”
Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of
the Servicemembers Legal Defense Net-
work, lambasted McKeon for throwing
his support behind a measure that could
disrupt “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal.
LGBT people in most situations in the
public and private workforce.
Job discrimination on the basis of sex-
ual orientation is legal in 29 states and
legal in 38 states on the basis of gender
identity. More than 85 percent of Fortune
500 companies already have their own
workplace protections based on sexual
orientation and more than one-third on
the basis of gender identity.
Merkley said passage of ENDA is nec-
essary because the “right to work and earn
a living” for all Americans — including
LGBT people — is a “fundamental right.”
“It is essential to the success of an in-
dividual, it is essential to the success of
a family,” Merkley said. “It’s certainly es-
sential to the pursuit of happiness — that
value that we place right up front in our
Declaration of Independence — and it’s
part and parcel of equality under the law.”
Kirk said his support for ENDA, which
puts him in the minority among Republi-
cans, fits his model of public service in the
image of the late U.S. Senator from Illinois
Everett Dirksen, whom Kirk described as a
“strong national security conservative, fis-
cal conservative and social moderate.”
“It was Sen. Dirksen that clinched the
deal on the [1964] Civil Rights Act,” Kirk
said. “I see this legislation as in that tradi-
tion to make sure that our country is a coun-
try not of equal outcomes, which would be
a Communist state, but of equal opportuni-
ties, and to make sure that everyone has
that opportunity regardless of orientation.”
“In supporting this turn-the-clock-
back move, Congressman McKeon
fundamentally disrespects the service
chiefs,” Sarvis said. “The chiefs have re-
peatedly proven themselves to be strong
and effective leaders. Indeed, because
of their leadership, our military remains
the strongest in the world. To assert
that the chiefs can’t or won’t stand up
for themselves if they have concerns —
and to continue to go against their best
professional advice to Congress — is a
transparent political game.”
Some military service chiefs have said
they oppose expanding the certification
requirement to include their input and
said they feel they have sufficient oppor-
tunity to express concerns on the transi-
tion to open service with Defense Secre-
tary Robert Gates and Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen.
In congressional testimony earlier this
month, Chief of Naval Operations Adm.
Gary Roughead said the Navy opposes
expanding the certification requirement
beyond what was put in place by the leg-
islation Obama signed last year.
“I am confident my assessment of Na-
vy’s readiness for repeal will be carefully
considered during the certification pro-
cess, and do not believe it is necessary
to provide additional or separate input
outside of this process,” Roughead said.
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NATIONALNEWS
Democrats grill Gallagher at House marriage hearing
NOM leader asserts
procreation is reason
for institution
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Democratic lawmakers last week ham-
mered anti-gay activist Maggie Gallagh-
er during a congressional hearing with
questions about why same-sex couples
should be excluded from marriage and
the extent to which the National Organi-
zation for Marriage participated in cam-
paigns to rescind state marriage laws.
In testimony before the House Judicia-
ry Subcommittee on the Constitution, Gal-
lagher, NOM’s chair and co-founder, said
marriage should be restricted to one man
and one woman because such unions are
the only kind that can produce children
and because state voters by referenda
have affirmed 31 times that marriage
shouldn’t be extended to gay couples.
“Marriage is the union of husband and
wife for a reason: these are the only unions
that create new life and connect those
children in love to their mother and father,”
Gallagher said. “This is not necessarily the
reason why individuals marry; this is the
great reason, the public reason why gov-
ernment gets involved in the first place.”
The hearing, which was titled “Defend-
ing Marriage,” took place on the heels
of President Obama’s announcement on
Feb. 23 that the Defense of Marriage Act
is unconstitutional and that his administra-
tion would no longer defend the anti-gay
law in court. Following a 3-2 party-line
vote in March by the Bipartisan Legal Ad-
visory Council, U.S. House Speaker John
Boehner (R-Ohio) directed the House
general counsel to take up defense of
DOMA in place of the administration.
Gallagher said the need to raise chil-
dren by married parents of opposite
genders affirms the rationale for having
in place DOMA, the 1996 law that pro-
hibits recognition of same-sex marriage,
and criticized the Justice Department for
dropping defense of the law.
“This is the rationale for the national defi-
nition of marriage proposed by Congress in
passing DOMA: ‘civil society has an interest
in maintaining and protecting the institution
of heterosexual marriage because it has a
deep and abiding interest in encouraging
responsible procreation and child-rearing,’”
Gallagher said. “If we accept, as DOMA
explicitly does, that this is a core public pur-
pose of marriage, then treating same-sex
unions as marriage makes little sense.”
Following her opening statement, Gal-
lagher bore the brunt of tough question-
ing from Democratic lawmakers during the
question-and-answer session of the hearing.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), ranking
Democrat on the subcommittee, asked
Gallagher if the children of Jen and Dawn
BarbouRouske, a married same-sex couple
from Iowa who were present during the
hearing, should have parents who can re-
ceive the full protections of marriage or if
‘Marriage is the union of husband and wife for a reason: these are the only unions that create new life and connect those children in love to their
mother and father,’ said NOM’s Maggie Gallagher.
she considers these children “expendable.”
“I think no children are expendable,”
Gallagher replied. “Gay people have fami-
lies that are not marital families, but they are
families. I myself was an unwed mother, so
I have firsthand experience with being in a
family that’s not a marital family. I don’t think
you need to have a message of stigmatiza-
tion and exclusion to protect an ideal.”
Nadler, sponsor of DOMA repeal leg-
islation in the House, interrupted Galla-
gher, saying “the whole point” of DOMA
is stigmatization and exclusion, and
pressed Gallagher further on how the in-
stitution of marriage benefits when same-
sex couples are excluded.
“Because including same-sex unions
as marriages denies at a public level that
marriage is about an important way for
getting together mothers and fathers and
children,” Gallagher said.
Nadler continued to question Galla-
gher on NOM’s involvement in 2010 Iowa
campaign that successfully ousted three
justices from the state Supreme Court
who ruled in favor of same-sex mar-
riage. The lawmaker asked Gallagher,
who estimated that NOM contributed
between $600,000 and $650,000 to the
campaign, why she would criticize the
Justice Department for allegedly making
a political decision while her organization
politicized the judicial process.
“The National Organization for Mar-
riage is a political advocacy organization,
and so I think it’s appropriate for us to be
politically involved in ways that Depart-
ment of Justice is not,” Gallagher replied.
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), a co-
sponsor of the DOMA repeal bill, asked
Gallagher whether reports were true that
her organization contributed $1.9 million to
the 2009 campaign in Maine to abrogate
the state’s same-sex marriage law. Oppo-
nents of same-sex marriage succeeded in
nullifying the marriage law in the state be-
fore gay couples could marry there.
“I don’t have those figures in front of
me, but we were involved in the [effort],”
Gallagher said. “But that’s probably on
the order [of our contributions].”
NOM has repeatedly come under fire
for failing to disclose its donors during the
campaign against the Maine marriage law.
State courts have ordered the organization
to reveal their donors in accordance with
the law, but NOM has yet to do so.
Following the hearing, Dan Fotou,
eastern regional field director for GetE-
qual, praised Democratic lawmakers for
hammering Gallagher with tough ques-
tions after her testimony.
“I think it was good to hear the Demo-
crats standing up and challenging Mag-
gie Gallagher’s position,” Fotou said.
“Fifty-two percent of Americans think that
marriage equality is OK, so I think today
was good in terms of putting a face on
hate once again, and Maggie does a re-
ally great job of that.”
Democratic lawmakers’ criticisms dur-
ing the hearing weren’t limited to Gallagh-
er. Conyers questioned Rep. Trent Franks
(R-Ariz.), chair of the subcommittee, about
why no witnesses from the Justice Depart-
ment were present to defend Obama’s de-
cision to drop defense of DOMA.
“What bothers me about this hearing
at this subcommittee is that the Depart-
ment of Justice is not present,” Conyers
said. “I was informed that they were not
invited. … We have one of the leaders of
the country, Ms. Gallagher, who’s raised
hundreds of thousands of dollars against
judges … but there’s nobody here from
the Justice Department.”
In response, Franks said the Justice De-
partment would be invited to come during
an upcoming hearing in May before the
House Oversight & Government Reform
Committee on the DOMA decision. Upon
further questioning, Franks maintained the
panel was fair because its makeup includ-
ed witnesses on both sides of the issue.
But Franks’ response apparently didn’t
allay the concerns of Conyers, who said he
hopes Congress can hear the Justice De-
partment respond to Gallagher’s criticisms.
“There’s a political tone in this hearing
that I want to diminish as much as possi-
ble,” Conyers said. “The fact of the mat-
ter is this is not in regular order and I do
not approve of the way that we’re starting
out this subcommittee [hearing].”
Despite the general tone in favor of
DOMA during the hearing, several panel
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
members known for having anti-gay views
— including Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa),
who’s railed against same-sex marriage
in his home state, and Rep. Jim Jordan
(R-Ohio), who’s leading the effort to elimi-
nate gay nuptials in D.C. — didn’t make
an appearance. Neither the office for King
nor Jordan responded to the Washington
Blade’s request for comment on why the
lawmakers didn’t attend the hearing.
Ian Thompson, who’s gay and legisla-
tive representative for the American Civil
Liberties Union, said the absence of anti-
gay lawmakers was telling.
“The thing that was particularly strik-
ing to me was the fact that so few DOMA
supporters on the committee actually
were in attendance,” Thompson said.
“So, from my perspective, if the hearing
was intended to demonstrate the sup-
port of the House of Representatives for
DOMA, from the attendance alone, it was
a complete and total flop.”
But a few anti-gay Republicans did
make an appearance to rebuke the no-
tion of extending marriage rights to gay
couples and to criticize the Justice De-
partment for dropping defense of DOMA.
Franks called Obama’s decision to
discontinue defense of the anti-gay law
an “edict” that “failed to show the caution
and respect for Congress and the courts.”
“When the president unilaterally declares
a duly enacted law unconstitutional, he cuts
Congress and the American people out
of the lawmaking process,” Franks said.
“Such heavy-handed presidential action
undermines the separation of powers and
the principle that America is a constitutional
republic predicated on the rule of law.”
Franks continued that the arguments in
favor of DOMA are “reasonable and right” be-
cause marriage between one man and one
woman is the best union for raising children.
“Traditional marriage has proven to be
the most successful institution in humanity’s
history for the propagation and preparation
of the next generation,” Franks said. “The
traditional family has proven to be the best
department of welfare, the best department
of education, the best department of crime
prevention, and the best department of eco-
nomic security that there has ever been.”
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LOCALNEWS
LGBT vote seen as key to Council election
Continued from page 1
former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, was one
of just two of the city’s 13 Council mem-
bers who voted against the same-sex
marriage bill that the Council approved
in December 2009.
“I’m running on a platform that sup-
ports the very best in public educa-
tion for all of our youth, including LGBT
youth,” Pannell said last month after re-
ceiving the endorsement of the Gertrude
Stein Democratic Club, the city’s largest
LGBT political organization.
He is the only gay candidate running
in the April 26 election, which was called
to fill two school board seats – one in
Ward 8 and another in Ward 4 – in addi-
tion to the at-large Council seat.
His campaign finance report shows
he has raised $21,307 as of April 18, with
$17,225 coming from a personal loan he
made to his campaign. The report shows
Pannell spent $10,672 on campaign-re-
lated activities as of April 18.
Pannell’s closet rival in the money de-
partment is LGBT supportive D.C. home
rule advocate Eugene Dewitt Kinlow,
who raised $11,133 and spent $33,000
as of April 18. Pannell had $9,471 in
cash on hand for the remaining week of
the campaign, his finance report shows,
compared to Kinlow, who had $7,633 in
cash on hand.
The at-large Council seat became va-
cant after Democrat Kwame Brown, who
held the seat, won election last year as
D.C. Council Chair. The city’s Democratic
State Committee appointed Biddle to fill
the seat on an interim basis in January
until a “permanent” Council member was
chosen in the April special election.
Since the at-large Council seat held
by Brown was scheduled to come up for
election in 2012, the winner of the special
election on April 26 must also stand for
re-election in 2012.
Orange has raised more than
$261,000 in campaign funds as of April
18, the last required campaign finance
reporting period before the election.
Biddle’s April 18 finance report shows
he has raised just over $175,000 for his
campaign, putting him in second place
in money raised. Mara’s report shows
him in third place in the money depart-
ment, with $60,559 raised.
Many of the city’s political pundits be-
lieve Orange and Biddle are the frontrun-
ners in the race, with Orange having the
advantage in funds raised as well as an
endorsement by the city’s influential munic-
ipal employees union. Biddle has been en-
dorsed by Mayor Vincent Gray, City Coun-
cil Chair Kwame Brown, and several other
Council members, including gay Council
member David Catania (I-At-Large).
Mara received the endorsement of
the Washington Post, which billed him
as a needed independent voice in a city
government dominated by Democrats.
The Post backing is expected to give his
campaign a boost in Wards 2, 3 and 6,
where voter turnout is often higher than
in the other wards.
Longtime gay activist Phil Pannell outspent his rivals in the race for Ward 8 school board.
Orange came out against same-sex
marriage when he ran unsuccessfully for
mayor in 2006. Earlier this year, he an-
nounced he had changed his position
on the issue and now fully supports the
right of gays and lesbians to marry under
the city’s same-sex marriage law. He also
pointed to what he called his long record
of support on other LGBT issues during
his tenure as a Ward 5 Council member.
Mara emerged as an early supporter
of same-sex marriage when he ran un-
successfully for a City Council seat in
2006. He has billed himself as a “fiscally
responsible and socially progressive”
Republican who strongly supports LGBT
equality. He notes in his campaign litera-
ture that he was the only one of the nine
candidates now running for the at-large
seat who testified in favor of same-sex
marriage when the same-sex marriage
bill came up for a hearing before the City
Council in 2009.
Biddle has said he spoke out in sup-
port of the same-sex marriage law when
it was pending before the Council. He
notes that he was an advocate for LGBT
youth related issues during his tenure as
a school board member.
Ward 1 Advisory Neighborhood Com-
missioner Bryan Weaver, a Democrat,
has also spoken out in support of LGBT
issues at candidate forums across the
city. He, too, spoke out in support of the
same-sex marriage law and backed an
ANC resolution endorsing the proposed
law as it was pending before the Council.
Biddle’s gay supporters, including
leaders of the Gertrude Stein Demo-
cratic Club, the city’s largest LGBT politi-
cal group that has endorsed Biddle, say
they believe Biddle will capture the lion’s
share of the LGBT vote. They acknowl-
edge, though, that other candidates are
challenging Biddle for the gay vote and
could capture some of that vote.
Rick Rosendall, vice president of
the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance,
said that similar to nearly all D.C. elec-
tions since the early1980s, virtually all
candidates running for public office in
the District express support for LGBT
equality. According to Rosendall, D.C.’s
LGBT community – unlike other cities
and states – has the luxury of setting a
higher standard for selecting candidates
based on their knowledge, understand-
ing and sophistication on specific LGBT
and AIDS-related issues.
“It’s not a matter of just saying I sup-
port you,” he said. “It’s a matter of dem-
onstrating an understanding of the is-
sues and showing what they will do to
address them.”
GLAA, a nonpartisan organization,
has rated candidates on LGBT and
AIDS-related issues, along with some
broader issues, since the group was
founded in 1971. Based on candidate
responses to a questionnaire and their
record on LGBT-related issues, the group
assigns them a score ranging from +10,
the highest possible rating, and -10, the
lowest rating.
In the at-large Council race set to be
decided on April 26, GLAA gave Biddle
and Weaver a +5.5, the highest rating
among the nine candidates in the race.
Mara and Statehood Green Party can-
didate Alan Page received a +4. Orange
received a +3.5 and Joshua Lopez, a
Ward 1 Democrat and aide to former
Mayor Adrian Fenty, received a +2.5.
Each of the candidates expressed sup-
port for all of the LGBT issues and posi-
tions raised by GLAA on the group’s ques-
tionnaire, including strong support for the
city law that legalized same-sex marriage.
The remaining three candidates in the
at-large race – Democrats Tom Brown
and Dorothy Douglas and independent
Arkan Haile – did not return the GLAA
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
questionnaire and had no record on
LGBT issues known to GLAA, prompting
the group to give the three a “0” rating.
In addition to Kinlow, four other can-
didates running against Pannell in the
Ward 8 school board race expressed
general support for LGBT rights and
pledged to back policies supportive of
LGBT youth attending the city’s public
school system during a candidate forum
sponsored by the Stein Club. The five are
Sandra Williams, Tijwanna Phillips, Larry
Pretlow II, and Cardell Shelton.
The other three candidates in the
Ward 8 race – Trayon White, R. Joyce
Scott and Anthony Muhammad – did not
attend the Stein Club forum and have
not publicly disclosed their positions on
LGBT issues.
Biddle, Mara and Orange have been
the most visible of the nine candidates
running for the at-large seat in the LGBT
community during the past two weeks.
Biddle, among other things, hosted a
“meet and greet” reception for the LGBT
community at the gay nightclub Town
last week.
With the assistance of Pannell, who is
supporting him, Orange spent Saturday
night, April 23, campaigning in several
D.C. gay bars, including the Southwest
D.C. nightclub Ziegfeld’s, where he
spoke to the crowd. Another two Orange
supporters, gay Democratic activists
Barrie Daneker and Lee Brian Reba, or-
ganized an LGBT fundraiser for Orange
scheduled for Thursday night at Nellie’s
Sports Bar, a gay venue on U Street, N.W.
The Mara campaign, meanwhile,
placed full-page ads promoting his cam-
paign and outlining his support for LGBT
issues in the Washington Blade during
the past two weeks.
The April 26 special election is open to
all registered D.C. voters of all party af-
filiations as well as to independent votes.
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Boehner wants Obama to pay cost of DOMA defense

Continued from page 1
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) charged
with defending DOMA in court. Kircher re-
tained the law firm King & Spalding for the
purposes of hiring Paul Clement, a former
U.S. solicitor general under former Presi-
dent George W. Bush.
According to the contract, the House
has agreed to pay King & Spalding a sum
not to exceed $500,000 for all services ren-
dered in defending DOMA, the 1996 law
that prohibits federal recognition of same-
sex marriage.
“It is further agreed that payment for
such contractual services may be paid
on a partial basis from time to time and
in such amounts as the General Counsel
may approve,” the contract states.
It should be noted the $500,000 cap
could be raised upon written agreement
by both parties in the contract as well as
the House Committee on Administration.
Additionally, Clement will be paid at a
blended rate of $520 an hour for time ex-
pended in litigation of defense of DOMA
in court and at 75 percent of this usual
rate for all reasonable non-attorney time
in connection with the litigation.
Notably, the House contract stipulates
that King & Spalding not engage in the
course of contracted activity in discrimi-
nation on the basis of race, color, religion,
sex, national origin, age, disability or any
other prohibited basis — leaving out sex-
ual orientation and gender identity.
On Feb. 23, U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder notified Congress that President
Obama determined DOMA was unconsti-
tutional and that the Justice Department
would no longer defend the anti-gay law
in court. Following a 3-2 party-line vote
in March by the Bipartisan Legal Advi-
sory Council, Boehner directed the House
general counsel to take up defense of
DOMA in place of the administration.
King & Spalding didn’t immediately re-
spond to the Washington Blade’s request
for comment on the contract or the firm’s
decision to permit Clement to defend the
anti-gay law in court.
Michael Steel, a Boehner spokesper-
son, blamed the Obama administration
for what he said was leaving Congress
with the responsibility of defending
DOMA and requiring the House to hire a
private attorney.
“Obviously, this whole thing would be
unnecessary if the White House and the
Justice Department would do their job
and defend a law that was passed by
both Houses of Congress and signed
by the president of the United States – a
Democratic president, at that,” Steel said.
But the revelation of the cost for hiring
a private attorney to defend DOMA was
met with criticism from the Human Rights
Campaign and the office of House Minor-
ity Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
HRC President Joe Solmonese noted
that defense of DOMA places a burden
both on gay couples and the coffers of
the U.S. government.
“DOMA inflicts a great cost on same-
sex couples but now its defense is bur-
dening taxpayers to the tune of $520 per
hour,” Solmonese said. “The firm of King
& Spalding and their attorney Paul Clem-
ent should be ashamed at every penny
earned in trying to justify discrimination
against American families.”
Drew Hammill, a Pelosi spokesper-
son, lambasted Boehner for permitting
this expense in defending DOMA.
“The hypocrisy of this legal boon-
doggle is mind-blowing,” Hammill said.
“Speaker Boehner is spending half a
million dollars of taxpayer money to de-
fend discrimination. If Republicans were
really interested in cutting spending, this
should be at the top of the list.”
The degree to which the contract re-
veals the total cost of House defense of
DOMA remains in question. The docu-
ment only reveals the initial cost of hiring
Clement and not expenses of the House
general counsel.
Lane Hudson, a gay Democratic ac-
tivist, said he thinks the contract hides
other costs to the U.S. government in de-
fense of DOMA.
“At a contract rate of $520 an hour, it will
fund one full-time lawyer for less than six
months,” Hudson said. “Anyone who can
count can see this is hogwash. Speaker
Boehner should come clean on how much
taxpayer money he will waste defending
discrimination, especially given his rhetoric
on reining in federal spending.”
Boehner on Monday called for redirec-
tion of funds from the Justice Department
to Congress to pay for defense of DOMA.
In a letter dated April 18 to Pelosi,
Boehner calls for cutting funds from the
Justice Department to provide money
to the House general counsel to pay for
congressional costs to defend DOMA.
Boehner made the announcements on
the deadline day for the House to decide
whether or not to intervene in one case chal-
lenging DOMA, Windsor v. United States,
which was filed by the American Civil Liber-
ties Union and is pending before the U.S.
District Court of Southern District of New
York. The House general counsel filed a no-
tice of its intent to intervene on Monday.
In his letter to Pelosi, Boehner writes
that funds should be redirected from the
Obama administration to Congress to
pay for expenses that the speaker says
would have been more rightfully incurred
by the Justice Department.
“Obviously, DOJ’s decision results
in DOJ no longer needing the funds it
would have otherwise expended de-
fending the constitutionality of DOMA,”
Boehner writes. “It is my intent that those
funds be diverted to the House for reim-
bursement of any costs incurred by and
associated with the House, and not DOJ,
defending DOMA.”
In his letter, Boehner writes that the
Justice Department would be in a better
position to defend DOMA — both in terms
of resource allocation and in expertise of
personnel — but adds the administration’s
decision to drop defense of the anti-gay
law leaves Congress no other option but
to face “that additional burden and cost.“
“I would also point out that the cost as-
sociated with DOJ’s decision is exacerbat-
ed by the timing of this decision,” Boehner
writes. “Most of these cases are in the mid-
dle of lower court litigation and not ripe for
Supreme Court review. Had the attorney
general waited until the cases were ripe for
certiorari to the Supreme Court, the costs
associated with the House defense would
have been exponentially lower.”
Obama dropped defense of DOMA
in court after litigation against the stat-
ute was filed in the U.S. Second Circuit.
Since no legal precedent for laws related
to sexual orientation exists within this cir-
cuit, Obama had the opportunity to ex-
amine DOMA with heightened scrutiny,
which led to his determination that the
anti-gay law was unconstitutional.
Boehner’s letter was in response to
a March 11 letter that Pelosi sent to the
speaker asking him if he had an esti-
mate for the cost of House defense of
DOMA and a plan to provide congressio-
nal oversight of those expenses. Earlier
this month during a news conference,
Boehner told the Washington Blade he
doesn’t have an estimate on the total
cost for House defense of DOMA.
In his letter, Boehner asks Pelosi, a
sponsor of legislation to repeal DOMA, to
join him in backing the redirection of funds
from the Justice Department to Congress
to defend the anti-gay statute in court.
“I would welcome your joining me in
support of redirecting those resources
from the DOJ to the House that would
otherwise have been necessary expens-
es on the Attorney General to defend this
federal statute,” Boehner writes.

Hawaii passes trans rights bill

The Hawaii state House of Representatives this
week passed a bill that would bar employment
discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
The Senate had previously approved the legis-
lation. The governor has indicated he will sign it.
HB 546 Sd1 passed in the House 45-4 with two
absences.
“Today is a great day for all residents of Hawaii,”
said Alan Spector, co-chair of Equality Hawaii in a
statement. “Providing employment protections to
transgender people in Hawaii is a victory for civil
rights. The people of this state should be judged
on the quality of work they do and not on who they
are — that’s what this legislation guarantees.”
Hawaii law already codified protections for
transgender people in housing and public accom-
modations and prohibited discrimination on the
basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing
and public accommodations.
Photo courtesy of Abercrombie’s Office
STAFF REPORTS
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie has said he plans to sign a bill into law that bars employment discrimination against transgender residents.
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Gender identity bill

orientation, probably would not
have passed had then-Gov.
advocates wage Parris Glendening, whose gay
vored that historic victory, Miller
shunted the bill into the Rules
Committee graveyard. The Sen-
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impressive campaign,
vow to return
By DANA BEYER
The transgender commu-
nity may have lost a battle for
civil rights when the Maryland
Senate adjourned for 2011,
but we gained something
much more important in the
long run — respect.
On Monday morning, as the
Senate went into session, I no-
ticed a difference in Annapo-
lis. People paid attention to us.
Normally the legislators and
lobbyists work in silos, attentive
to their pet projects among the
2,200 bills the General Assem-
bly considers each year. Only
a few bills provide high drama,
though, and this year the gen-
der identity bill, quite unexpect-
edly, became one of the ses-
sion’s most dramatic bills.
People working other issues
rooted for us, kept up-to-date
on the latest gossip and provid-
ed moral support. This was both
surprising and exhilarating.
We quickly forget the diffi-
culty Maryland has had in pro-
viding equal rights to the LGBT
community. The 2001 Anti-Dis-
crimination Act, which banned
discrimination based on sexual
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ried it himself.
From 2007-2010 a bill to ban
discrimination based on gender
identity in employment, housing
and public accommodations
was introduced and then killed in
Sen. Brian Frosh’s Judicial Pro-
ceedings Committee. To use a
boxing analogy, Frosh knocked
out the bill in the first round. This
year Senate President Mike Mill-
er stopped the fight when he ran
out the clock by recommitting
the bill to that committee.
This time, however, we went
a full 15 rounds. We resuscitated
this bill when first introduced in
the House. Democrats, fearful
of the bathroom predator meme
thrown around by religious funda-
mentalists, demanded that public
accommodations be removed. So
Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk, who
passionately championed the
comprehensive bill in 2009, reluc-
tantly decided to proceed, less
being better than nothing. Some
trans activists — dismayed at the
removal of public accommoda-
tions — attacked Equality Mary-
land, then testified against the bill.
The bill passed out of the
House, where Del. Maggie
McIntosh, an out lesbian, ex-
pressed regret that gender
identity had not been included
in the 2001 bill. Then, as we sa-
during his run for the Oval Office
cannot go unpunished.
What can we do? Let me pro-
pose several possible retributions.
• The Democratic D.C. presi-
ate president pronounced the
bill dead, and conventional An-
napolis wisdom dictates that
such bills never revive.
But revive it we did in a show
of strength that caught every-
one’s attention. Word got to the
Washington Blade that Frosh
requested the move to Rules.
Our team resuscitated this flat-
lined bill, canvassing in Frosh’s
neighborhood. The Jewish
women’s community flooded
him with calls. Sen. Rich Ma-
daleno spoke out in caucus and
wielded influence behind the
scenes. McIntosh retaliated in
the House by holding Senate
bills. The gay House caucus
broke protocol and sent Miller
an open letter asking for him to
“play by the rules.” U.S. House
of Representatives Democratic
Whip, Congressman Steny Hoy-
er, a former Senate president
himself, urged fair play as well.
Now back in JPR, a chas-
tened Frosh, with a friendly
amendment clarifying the defi-
nition of gender identity, moved
the bill to the floor. The Senate
president publicly promised an
expedited floor vote if shown
the votes. We did, and Miller —
in a brute show of force on the
final day — demanded that se-
nior leadership vote to recommit
the bill. To their discredit, those
their frustrations with Obama.
The silence from Anita Bonds
and the others of the Demo-
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VIEWPOINT
Sen. Frosh is no transgender rights supporter
Maryland Democrat
already trying to kill
bill in 2012
By DAN FURMANSKY
I recently read an article in the
Blade (“Maryland Senate Kills
Trans Bill”) about the failure of
Maryland’s Gender Identity Anti-
Discrimination bill that quotes
Sen. Brian Frosh, chair of the Ju-
dicial Proceedings Committee.
“I’m sorry that it lost,” Frosh told
the Blade about the bill. He then
claimed Equality Maryland was
wrong, and that there were not suf-
ficient votes for the bill on the floor.
As icing on the cake, the Bethesda
senator said he is “doubtful that
supporters would be able to line
up the four votes they need to pass
the bill next year.”
As the former executive di-
rector of Equality Maryland, I
have lobbied for many years
in Annapolis on LGBT issues,
which included many meetings
with Sen. Frosh that left me pro-
foundly frustrated at his inability
to fundamentally understand the
hardships facing transgender
Marylanders. Lest there be a
lack of clarity on the matter, let
VIEWPOINT
Why you should vote for Patrick Mara
A vow to cut waste
while fully funding
education
By ROBERT TURNER
On Tuesday, many of us in
the District will go to the polls
to vote for a candidate in the
At-Large race for City Council.
There are nine candidates vying
for this seat. Several are actu-
ally decent candidates.
However, I would like to
point out a few reason why you
should vote for Patrick Mara on
Tuesday, fiscal responsibility
being at the top of that list. Mara
would seek a top-to-bottom re-
view of all city contracts and
spending. Mara will scrub con-
tracts for fraud and abuse, and
demand performance. In doing
so, he would cut waste, while
fully funding education, law en-
forcement and public safety.
me state my opinion regarding
Sen. Frosh’s comments, and the
Blade’s characterization of Frosh
as a “supporter of the bill.” I do so
at risk to my own future access to
his office when I have the occa-
sion to lobby in Annapolis again.
Were Sen. Frosh truly sorry
about the failure of this legislation,
he would not be nailing its coffin
shut for the 2012 legislative ses-
sion when we haven’t even given
it a proper burial in 2011. Every-
one with an inside track to An-
napolis knows that arms were
twisted to recommit the bill back
to committee — and that many of
those votes to recommit the bill
were from senators who would
have voted to pass the measure
if it had been given an honest up
or down vote.
Since I began lobbying on
gender identity issues nine
years ago in Annapolis, Sen.
Frosh has been an obstacle to
legally enacting anti-violence
and anti-discrimination protec-
tions for transgender Maryland-
ers, but an obstacle that always
assigns the blame for inaction
elsewhere. This began with his
repeated opposition to adding
“gender identity” to the state’s
hate crimes law. Sen. Frosh dis-
liked the very concept of hate
D.C. has a $320 million bud-
get deficit for the coming fiscal
year. There have been talks of
tax increases, additional user
fees and other revenue raisers.
Sekou Biddle, the current in-
terim Council member has flip-
flopped on the issue of raising
taxes. Mara wants to trim gov-
ernment spending by reforming
many of the District agencies
that are bloated and inefficient.
Recent events have shown
that the Council needs a watch-
dog looking out for taxpayers.
Patrick Mara will provide that
oversight. Between fully loaded
taxpayer-leased vehicles, un-
accountable non-profits run by
Council members, and question-
able hiring practices, it is clear
that the one-party rule over at
the Wilson Building is not good
for the citizens of the District.
Mara would be a fresh and in-
dependent voice on the Council.
He would help set an example by
behaving responsibly and ethi-
crimes laws, but particularly
disliked the idea of moving the
measure with gender identity in-
cluded alongside sexual orienta-
tion. Equality Maryland refused
to move a sexual orientation-only
hate crimes measure, and the bill
finally passed in 2005 after years
of painstaking effort.
Sen. Frosh was even less en-
thusiastic about having the Gen-
der Identity Anti-Discrimination
bill in his committee, and he has
come up with more reasons for
disliking the bill than I could possi-
bly recount here. For years, Equal-
ity Maryland brought transgender
people, their friends and family in
to his office to tell their stories. We
facilitated meetings with the best
transgender legal experts in the
country to educate him. Clergy
and constituents were dispatched
to communicate with him.
In 2009, Equality Maryland
also put tremendous pressure on
Sen. Frosh not to bottle the bill up
in committee without a vote. Take
the vote, we told him, and if it
fails, it fails. Sen. Frosh allowed a
voice vote that year in committee
on “unfavorably” reporting the
bill. An unfavorable report would
have meant the bill died. The
voice vote on the unfavorable re-
port failed — in other words, there
cally. With these strings of ethi-
cally challenged issues plaguing
various members of the Council
and the mayor’s office, now is the
time for a fresh approach; some-
one who is not beholden to the
current crop of city leaders. Bid-
dle has been endorsed by half
of the Council – including May-
or Gray and Chairman Brown,
which would undoubtedly lead to
his continuing the status quo.
As a moderate Republican
who is fiscally conservative and
socially progressive, Patrick
would bring common sense to
city hall.
Last week, when the Wash-
ington Post endorsed Mara, it
said in part, “Mara would use his
standing as a Republican to lob-
by for congressional represen-
tation and budget autonomy for
Washington.” It went on to say
that he doesn’t change his posi-
tions to “please the interests of
the audience he’s addressing.”
In addition to the Post, not
april 22, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 21
were not enough votes to kill the
bill in committee. But Sen. Frosh
refused to allow the measure to
come for a “favorable” report,
which could have moved the bill
out of committee if the votes were
there. Did we have the votes that
year? We will never know for
sure, just like we’ll never know
what would have happened had
the bill had an honest up or down
vote on the floor this year.
Sen. Frosh is from liberal
Bethesda, where the vast ma-
jority of voters would support
a basic anti-discrimination bill
that would help people keep
their jobs and housing. After all,
Montgomery County has a trans-
gender anti-discrimination law
in place, and it even includes
public accommodation protec-
tions that legislators like him so
fear addressing. I know Equal-
ity Maryland kept up the same
pressure this year on Sen. Frosh
— pressure that helped move
the bill out of the Rules Commit-
tee and out of the Senate Judi-
cial Proceedings Committee.
And Sen. Frosh again this year
used backroom maneuvering to
thwart this anti-discrimination bill
while casting his vote the right
way, rather than simply com-
ing out of his closet against the
only has Mara been endorsed
by the D.C. chapter of Log
Cabin Republicans, but also by
the local Fraternal Order of Po-
lice who say that he would be
a “voice on the Council that is
committed to public safety.”
With the current makeup of
Congress being split, we will
need someone on the Coun-
cil who is willing to meet with
the Republican leadership
and show them why it is best
to leave D.C. alone. Getting
oneself arrested in support
of D.C. rights and local au-
tonomy may show passion
and conviction, but it does not
show effectiveness.
It will be useful in engag-
ing with a GOP-led House to
have a vocal GOP advocate on
the Council. And after the last
minute budget shenanigans
on the Hill, it is more important
now than ever. Last year, Mara,
along with D.C. GOP Chairman
Bob Kabel went up to the Hill
measure and using his skills as
a lawyer to argue to his constitu-
ents about why he so vocifer-
ously opposes this law.
Sen. Frosh is entrenched in
his district, and political insid-
ers often say he would like to
be Senate president when that
fabled time arrives that Sen-
ate President Mike Miller steps
down. His comments in the
Blade indicate that he is unwill-
ing to use the considerable influ-
ence he possesses to end dis-
crimination against transgender
people. His failure to do so is in-
explicable, given the pragmatic,
progressive legislation that he
has championed on other is-
sues. I fear where this leaves the
LGBT community in our quest to
enact this legislation into law.
Dan Furmansky is former executive
director of Equality Maryland and lobbied for
the organization from 2003-2009. He serves
as director of the Unitarian Universalist
Association’s Standing on the Side of Love.
to lobby against overturning
D.C.’s marriage law.
Speaking of marriage, Mara is
a proven friend to the LGBT com-
munity. Not only has he marched in
several Capital Pride parades, but
he is the ONLY candidate on the
ballot Tuesday who actually testi-
fied before the Council in support
of bringing marriage equality to the
District. While others have talked
about their commitment to our com-
munity, and some have “evolved on
our issues,” he has shown it. Patrick
Mara has been there for us. Now
let’s be there for him.
Robert Turner is president of the D.C.
chapter of Log Cabin Republicans and
can be reached at robert.turner@
dclogcabin.org.
22 washingtonblade.com • april 22, 2011
VIEWPOINT
Two recent deaths remind us of what’s important
Loss of Coudriet,
Crowe brings
teachable moment
for community
By ANTHONY GREEN
The LGBT community re-
cently lost two leaders we will
all miss, whether you knew
them or not. I knew both of them
because of my work on the Hill
and specifically the congres-
sional staff association for the
LGBT community in the House
of Representatives.
One was in the last few
weeks, Chris Crowe, president
of the recently reinvigorated
and renamed LGBT Congres-
sional Staff Association. A few
months ago, Jeff Coudriet died
after a long illness. Jeff was in-
volved with the organization in
its bronze age.
Both were wonderful friends
to have and bigger-than-life in-
dividuals who touched so many
people with charisma that set
rooms on fire with their humor
and their energy. They also had
intense commitment to making
people’s lives better. Beyond
his work on the staff associa-
VIEWPOINT
HHS addresses anti-LGBT domestic violence
A welcome
commitment to
helping survivors,
victims
By SHARON STAPEL
The New York City Anti-Vi-
olence Project (AVP) was en-
couraged by an announcement
by U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services on April
1, highlighting new recommen-
dations to improve the lives
and health of LGBT people,
including addressing domestic
violence as it distinctly impacts
survivors.
HHS stated, “The recom-
mendations were developed
in response to the Presidential
Memorandum on Hospital Visi-
tation, which, in addition to ad-
dressing the rights of patients
to designate visitors regardless
of sexual orientation or gender
identity, directed the Secretary
We should enjoy our family and friends
each day in some way and always have
them in our minds and hearts.
tion, Chris devoted energy to
the driving LGBT issues of the
day such as “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” repeal. Once Jeff left the
Hill, he went to work for our city,
dedicated to making this place
safer, healthier and more eco-
nomically sound.
We all have lost something
special with the passing of Jeff
and Chris. And special people
leave legacies of teachable mo-
ments. What can we take from
their lives to improve our own
and help others? I have been
thinking a lot about this, and
have learned several lessons
from their lives.
We should love each other
today — don’t wait until tomor-
row. Life is fleeting. Jeff’s illness
took time to take him. Many of
us knew Chris had a medical is-
sue, and that it had reemerged.
But we knew he was a fighter
and his passing seemed to hap-
pen in the blink of an eye, with
his red eyelashes closed before
to explore additional steps HHS
could take to improve the lives
of LGBT people.”
HHS’s 2011 and 2012 Fund-
ing Opportunity Announce-
ments under the Family Vio-
lence Prevention and Services
Program was posted on April 1
during LGBT health awareness
week. HHS articulated a new
and increased commitment to
recognize LGBT populations as
under-served communities and
to identify LGBT populations
as target populations for other
population-specific grants. This
commitment advances the im-
portant work that the National
Coalition of Anti-Violence Pro-
grams (NCAVP), a program of
AVP, has done to expand ac-
cess to funding for local anti-
violence programs throughout
the United States. Funding for
LGBT-specific AVPs will allow
LGBT survivors to access com-
petent services that recognize,
respect and respond to the spe-
cific needs and obstacles that
we knew it. We should enjoy
our family and friends each day
in some way and always have
them in our minds and hearts.
Don’t let differences simmer,
make amends now.
People in my Hill life young
and old experienced Chris’s
death with pain and sadness. It
was our wonderful friend Diego
Sanchez who embraced the
younger ones and urged them
to hold onto someone close. He
observed that it probably would
have been the first time most of
them lost a close, contemporary
friend. Always the wise man in
our posse — our Yoda — Di-
ego’s advice was so right.
But it brings up a sad time for
many of us who live in the LGBT
community and are older. In the
scheme of history’s arc, it wasn’t
too long ago but for many of us
losing contemporary friends was
not at all unique. Because of
AIDS, losing friends became a
cruel routine. Funeral after funer-
LGBT people face.
We commend HHS’s work to
address the reality that LGBT
survivors of violence, including
domestic violence, face many
obstacles when seeking help
from first responders. HHS’s
recommendations will go a long
way to ensuring that LGBT sur-
vivors will have access to com-
petent, unbiased emergency
services that are critical to en-
suring safety.
A 2010 study coauthored by
the National Center for Victims
of Crime and NCAVP demon-
strates significant barriers that
LGBT people face in accessing
necessary support and services
in mainstream agencies, which
may primarily or exclusively
serve heterosexual, non-trans-
gender women. Few victim-
serving agencies are trained to
work with LGBT victims and sur-
vivors of crime. This focus often
translates into hetero-sexist ser-
vice provision and may exclude
or discriminate against LGBT
al after funeral, one by one they
left us. The Blade was full of obit-
uaries of men we lost, leaders,
friends, lovers. For me the first to
go was the assistant art director
at the magazine I worked for in
Philadelphia. Some years later, it
was my best friend Van Sheets
who had held my hand as I es-
caped the closet.
I referred to the AIDS-driven
parade of death as ubiquitous
and routine — so much so that
we became somewhat immune
to its sting. But when it was a
best friend, a brother or a lover,
it never felt that way. The pain
was stabbing.
AIDS is still here, of course,
but because of the battery of
drugs that have been devel-
oped, people with HIV are living
whole and long lives. But AIDS
is now in the closet.
It is significant that people in
their 20s and teens did not live
through the relentless tragedy of
AIDS. Dangerous, unsafe sex is
back with a vengeance and it is
not confined to the darkness of a
closet. Men are unashamed and
undaunted about unsafe sex. The
potential of a rerun of this tragedy
is all too scary and we cannot
allow a routine of sickness and
death to plague our community
survivors. Studies have shown
that only one in five survivors
of same-gender sexual assault
and intimate partner violence
received victim services.
These findings highlight
the critical need for culturally
competent support for LGBT
survivors of domestic/intimate
partner violence. For too long,
local AVPs have largely been
denied access to the critical
federal dollars that fund the
vast majority of the government-
funded anti-violence work done
throughout the country. In 2009,
NCAVP member programs, al-
ready small and under-funded,
experienced an unprecedented
degree of financial instabil-
ity due to the fiscal crisis with
many programs facing severe
funding cuts. As 75 percent of
NCAVP member programs have
five or fewer staff, and 44 per-
cent of member programs have
fewer than three people on staff,
such cuts are devastating.
In 2010, half of the NCAVP
again. Just before Chris passed
away, I posted to my Facebook
page a list of 11 movies I thought
every gay man should see. One
of them was “Longtime Compan-
ion,” the first feature length film to
put a human face on AIDS. One
of the enduring images in the
movie was the beaming face of
a young Dermot Mulroney that
his dwindling circle of friends
constantly saw as a ghost after
he died, the first to go. With the
movie in mind, after Chris died, I
fixed in my head a joyful image of
him on a tubing adventure, which
I wanted to remember when I
thought about him.
Neither Chris nor Jeff had
AIDS and I don’t want to marry
the different kinds of pain we
suffered. These thoughts have
come from discussions with
friends and stirrings in my own
mind following Chris’s passing.
A death can never be mini-
mized. If, from loss, our lives
and those of others can be
more enriched, more loving,
more informed and safer, then
the legacies of the ones we lose
are much more meaningful.
Anthony Green works with the LGBT
Congressional Staff Association.
programs reported losing, on
average, half their staff posi-
tions due to funding cuts be-
tween 2007 and 2009. Other
organizations could not expand
staff or program capacity to
meet a demonstrated need for
such growth. NCAVP member
programs had less capacity to
respond to and meet the needs
of survivors because of the
drastic reductions in direct ser-
vices, outreach, and community
organizing despite the dem-
onstrated increase in demand
from LGBT survivors for sup-
portive, culturally-competent
programming. The recommen-
dations of HHS are, we hope, a
harbinger of things to come in
equitably addressing the treat-
ment of LGBT victims and survi-
vors of violence.
Sharon Stapel is executive director of
the New York City Anti-Violence Project
and coordinator of the National Coali-
tion of Anti-Violence Programs. Reach
her via avp.org.
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The metaphysics of marriage
Lesbian interfaith
minister finds joy in
uniting same-sex couples
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Some people think there’s more than
one path to God.
Takoma Park resident Rev. Bonnie J.
Berger — she insists on using her middle
initial because she says her name sounds
like a sandwich special otherwise —
found herself at a crossroads in the mid-
’00s. The lesbian and longtime gay and
women’s activist was burned out from her
work and had never found the Jewish faith
of her roots, quite the right fit.
She’d joined Bet Mishpachah, the lo-
cal gay synagogue, upon moving to the
D.C. area in 1984, but “mostly just went
twice a year,” she says.
After her mother died, she went to a
metaphysics-based interfaith seminary
in New York, got ordained and has be-
come in demand as officiating clergy
for same-sex couples since marriage
went into effect here in March 2010. Last
year, she married 111 gay and lesbian
couples and six straight ones. Her all-
embracing language has hit a chord with
gays — both in the D.C. area and those
who come here to wed from other states.
When gay D.C. couple Derick Sim-
mons and Mike Miller got married last
October, they met with several potential
ministers before determining Berger was
the right fit for them. Though neither is
especially religious, Simmons was raised
Christian and Miller Jewish and they
wanted clergy who would be sensitive to
their different faith backgrounds.
“She was very personable and really
took the time to get to know us,” Simmons
says. “It was awesome. She did a really
good job. She basically used God as op-
posed to any religious or denomination-
specific references. It was just sort of an
all-encompassing God or higher being.
We incorporated one Jewish tradition
with the breaking of the glass, but other
than that it was pretty cross-religion.”
Berger says it’s important that what-
ever traditions the couple wants to incor-
porate are used. She studied many faith
backgrounds in seminary but sometimes
has to study up a bit for some of the less-
common faiths.
Handfasting, a marriage custom of-
ten performed in pagan and Celtic cer-
emonies, involves draping cords over the
hands of a couple as they answer ques-
tions like “Will you hurt Suzy?,” to which
the response is usually, “I might.” “Is that
your intention?” “No,” after which a cord
is laid over the hands. The couple states
their intention is “only good and only love.”
Berger has also had couples “jump
the broom,” an African tradition that has
its roots in slave times.
“I think ritual is important because it con-
nects us to a sense of spirit,” Berger says.
She guesses about 60 percent of her
couples have been lesbian, the rest gay
men. She married three couples on the
sidewalk in front of the Supreme Court.
One elaborate ceremony involved mar-
rying 11 couples at once. Her couples
have been together anywhere from three
months to more than 50 years. And
though HRC got most of the credit for its
elaborate triple ceremony the first day
same-sex marriage was legal last year,
Berger claims she actually conducted the
first public wedding. One of her couples
was second in line and she married them
on the D.C. Courthouse steps just after
the first couple got married by a judge.
Berger advertises on a handful of D.C.-
specific websites that cater to same-sex
couples. Others find her through her
website, ringinlove.com. Only one of her
couples has broken up that she knows of.
Another contacted her for marital coun-
seling, which she says she’s happy to
provide. One couple came from Australia
but many are from other states and find
significance marrying in the U.S. capital.
She won’t quote her rates — she says it Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
depends on how elaborate a ceremony is
planned. For out-of-towners, she’ll even Rev. Bonnie J. Berger conducting a same-sex marriage last weekend at Metropolitan Com-
munity Church of Washington.
help secure the license. One pre-ceremo-
ny meeting is required — even if it has to
be done via Skype. proach to faith. to Judaism and I found the god of the
So what about the common dogma “We can choose what works the best Old Testament, who was always smiting
that many faiths use claiming their faith for us,” she says. people, that was a god of rules and fear
is the only true path to salvation? Berger She is celebrating Passover now but and not what I wanted my god to be.”
says that’s a man-made construct. also enjoys the Eastern practice of medi- She emerged from a two-year pro-
“That’s really where it becomes based tation and listens to gospel music be- gram from a metaphysical institute based
on fear,” she says. “The opposite of love cause, “that brings God front and center.” in Silver Spring with “a sense of spirit in
is not hate, it’s fear in metaphysical phi- Berger believes each individual pos- my life and a sense of joy and lightness
losophy. It’s a climate of fear because sesses divinity and that love is “the high- that I had never known before.”
people who believe that way feel they est vibration,” a notion she explains as Berger plans to wed her partner of five
have to be right. They’re banking their an invisible, but real energy force based years, Romie Palladino, next year when Pal-
whole life and their afterlife on it.” in the laws of the universe which, in ladino relocates to D.C. from Connecticut.
But ultimately isn’t there one thing that metaphysics, are attraction, love and She says non-religious ceremonies are
either happens or doesn’t happen to hu- other notions. just as valid, but feels spirituality can add
mans when they die? Berger says the con- Ultimately Berger’s own faith experi- an important dimension to a marriage.
cept that “only certain people go to heaven ence informs the ceremonies she con- “It eases pain in times of stress, it’s
doesn’t resonate with me at all.” She feels ducts for others. a reminder to always choose love, a re-
her job is to “lift an individual’s path and help “After my mom died, I just thought, minder to seek forgiveness and to hold
them find peace, not to impose my path.” ‘There’s got to be something more to this. the other person as sacred in your life in
Her path is indicative of what she calls I was not feeling full, not feeling whole a way that truly honors them and allows
the “spirituality-as-smorgasbord” ap- and I thought, ‘What’s going on?’ I looked for perfection without judgment.”
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Good Friday (today)
Foundry United Methodist Church
(1500 16th St., N.W.) will have Good
Friday worship services at noon and
7 p.m.
The United Church (1920 G Street,
Gay organist Charles Miller plays a Good Friday-themed recital today at 12:15 p.m. at National City Christian Church. The church, in Thomas
Circle, has the third largest pipe organ in Washington.
N.W.) will be holding midday Lenten
services today at noon as well as
Good Friday services in English and
German. English services will be at
12:45 p.m. and German services will
be at noon.
All Souls Memorial Episcopal
Church (2300 Cathedral Ave., N.W.)
is having Good Friday matins at 7:15
a.m., the Good Friday Liturgy at noon
and Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m.
National City Christian Church (5
Thomas Circle, N.W.) has a Good
Friday-themed organ recital today
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planned for 12:15 p.m. with the
church’s gay organist and music di-
rector Charles Miller playing. At 7:30
p.m., the church’s choir will perform
Faure’s “Requiem.”
Metropolitan Community Church of
Washington (474 Ridge St., N.W.) will
be holding Good Friday service at 7
p.m.
Washington National Cathedral
(3101 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) will be
holding communion with reserved
sacrament at 7:30 a.m. Good Friday
service will be held from noon to 3
p.m. The service will be webcast.
Christ Church on Capitol Hill (620
G St., S.E.) will hold its Good Friday
service at noon and 7:30 p.m.
Dignity Washington will have its
Good Friday service at 7:30 p.m. at
St. Margaret’s Church (1820 Con-
necticut Ave., N.W.)
Institute for Spiritual Development
(5419 Sherier Place, N.W.) is holding
Good Friday Service of the Shadows
meditation at 7:30 p.m.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (3rd
and A streets S.E.) is holding a Good
Friday Liturgy from noon to 1:30 p.m.
in the nave.
Wesley United Methodist Church
(5312 Connecticut Ave., N.W.) will be
holding its Good Friday service at 7
p.m.
Mount Vernon Place United Method-
ist Church (900 Massachusetts Ave.,
N.W.) will be holding its Good Friday
service at 7 p.m.
Metropolitan Memorial United Meth-
odist Church (3401 Nebraska Ave.,
N.W.) will be holding its Good Friday
service at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 23
Foundry United Methodist Church
will have an Easter egg hunt at Stead
Park (1625 P St., N.W.) from 10:30
to 11:30 a.m. For more information,
contact Theresa Thames-Lynch at
thames@foundryumc.org.
All Souls Memorial Episcopal
Church (2300 Cathedral Ave., N.W.)
is having the “Great Vigil of Easter”
at 8 p.m.
Washington National Cathedral
(3101 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.) will have
the Great Vigil of Easter starting at 8
p.m. The service will be webcast.
Dignity Washington will have an
Easter vigil mass at 8:30 p.m. at Clar-
endon Presbyterian (1305 N. Jack-
son St.) in Arlington.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (3rd
and A streets S.E.) is holding a Holy
Saturday Liturgy from noon to 1 p.m.
in the nave.
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Easter
Foundry United Methodist Church
(1500 16th St., N.W.) will be holding
Easter Sunday worship services at 9:30
and 11 a.m. and again at 5:30 p.m.
River Road Unitarian Universal-
ist Congregation (6301 River Rd.) in
Bethesda will be holding a multi-
generational Easter Sunday service
at 9:15 and 11:15 a.m. led by Rev.
Ginger Luke, Beth Irikura, director God, our Creator, invites
of youth ministry, Rev. Maureen Kil-
loran, Clif Hardin, director of music,
and Greg Boyd. to the table of grace
United Church (1920 G Street,
N.W.) will be holding Easter services all who love God and
in German and English today. English
services will be held at 11 a.m. and
German services will be at 9:30 a.m. seek to live in peace with
National City Christian Church (5
Thomas Circle, N.W.) has a sunrise one another . . .
service on its front steps today at
7:30 a.m. The Church’s gospel choir
will perform. And at 11 a.m., a ser-
vice will be held in the sanctuary with
organ, choir, brass and percussion.
All Souls Memorial Episcopal
Come Worship with Us!
Church (2300 Cathedral Ave., N.W.)
is hosting low Mass with Easter hymn Capitol Hill United Methodist Church
at 8:30 a.m. with a children’s Easter 421 Seward Square, SE ~ Wash., DC 20003
egg hunt on the lawn at 10 and pro-
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cession and high mass at 11 a.m.
Metropolitan Community Church of Sunday Worship at 11:00 a.m.
Washington (474 Ridge St., N.W.) will
be holding two Easter Sunday servic- We are Methodists, “of all sexual Dumbarton United Methodist Church
es. The first, at 9 a.m., will have ASL orientations and gender identities 3133 Dumbarton St., NW ~ Wash., DC 20007
interpreters and the second service www.dumbartonumc.org
will be held at 11 a.m. that work to transform our church Sunday Worship at 11:00 a.m.
Christ Church on Capitol Hill (620 and world into the full expression of
G St., S.E.) will have multiple servic-
es and events today. There will be a Christ’s inclusive love.” Foundry United Methodist Church
sunrise service at the Congressional 1500 16th St., NW ~ Wash., DC 20036
Cemetery (time to be announced). www.foundryumc.org
The Holy Eucharist with Brass of Washington’s Reconciling United Sunday Worship at 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.
Peace will be at 9 and 11 a.m. There
will be an Easter egg hunt and fes-
Methodist Churches welcome YOU
Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church
tive coffee hour at 10 a.m. and noon. to come celebrate Easter and every 3401 Nebraska Ave., NW ~ Wash., DC 20016
Dignity Washington will have its
Easter Mass at 6 p.m. at St. Marga- Sunday with us! Come be a part of a www.nationalchurch.org
ret’s Church (1820 Connecticut Ave., diverse community of believers who Sunday Worship at 9:00 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.
N.W.).
Institute for Spiritual Development seek to be in relationship with God Mt. Vernon Place United Methodist Church
(5419 Sherier Place, N.W.) is holding and with one another. 900 Massachusetts Ave., NW ~ Wash., DC 20001
Easter Celebration Service at 11 a.m.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (3rd www.mvpumc.org
and A streets S.E.) is holding Holy Come explore the depth Sunday Worship at 11:00 a.m.
Eucharist from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. in the nave of God’s love for you! Wesley United Methodist Church
Wesley United Methodist Church 5312 Connecticut Ave., NW ~ Wash., DC 20015
(5312 Connecticut Ave., N.W.) will be
holding its worship service from 11 www.BWARM.org www.wesleydc.org
Sunday Worship at 11:00 a.m.
a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Mount Vernon Place United Method-
ist Church (900 Massachusetts Ave., Baltimore Washington Area Reconciling Methodists
N.W.) will be holding its Easter Sun-
day service at 11 a.m.
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These days, it seems as if Santa Claus
has nothing on the Easter Bunny when it
comes to imagination. The floppy-eared
bearer of goodies has in recent years upped
the ante, and everyone from Martha Stewart
to the average first grader has weighed in
on what makes the perfect basket.
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et of marshmallow chicks – all nestled
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– enough.
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vessel, a liner, and, of course, stuff to fill
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catering company.
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“Easter is the craftiest of holidays,” ob-
serves Jeanne Benedict, a party planner
and former host of “Weekend Entertain-
ing” on the DIY Network.
The options are endless, and enter-
prising basketeers have learned to put
many a spin on the tried-and-true. Lately,
that’s meant a predilection for curled rib-
bon or shredded newspaper to replace
less eco-friendly choices like the very ar-
tificial turf of our own youth.
And, it’s certainly meant that the pink
plastic dollar store basket of yore is a
bore. Centner suggests substituting gal-
vanized metal pails or jewel-toned stack-
ing Japanese-style lunch boxes.
Or, he recommends, buy a real wicker
or rattan basket and have kids paint it in
their hue of choice. “Not only does this
add variety to the same old, same old,”
he says, “but it makes the whole thing
more special. It encourages kids to actu-
ally keep it and use it all year round for
storing art supplies or trinkets.”
However, one tradition must stay, in-
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sists Benedict. “You have to keep the
candy and the treats!” she says.
The fabled lapin may have a distinct
fondness for carrots, but kids want good-
ies and lots of them, Benedict points out.
Frazzled parents can look beyond gum-
my jelly beans and gooey Peeps, though.
“I like the idea of an Easter basket
overflowing with cupcakes instead,”
Benedict says. Tossing a recipe book
and a few cake-decorating nozzles into
the mix can turn the holiday into a baking
adventure for the whole family, she adds.
If your kids insist on staples like foil-
wrapped Easter eggs, jazz up your pre-
sentations. One year, Benedict decoup-
aged a tubular oatmeal container and
stuffed it with candy, while Centner has
filled cellophane piping bags with the
pastel-hued sweet stuff, then tied them
with contrasting ribbon.
Centner also believes that the best
baskets contain a craft-making gift.
“Have kids form Play Doh eggs,
and include decorations such as silver
beads, mini jewels, and pastel-colored
paints,” he suggests.
As for real eggs, Centner recom-
mends dyeing them beforehand to save
time and mess, and then encouraging
kids to make the eggs their own by using
washable markers instead.
Plastic eggs that unhinge to reveal
tiny treasures are a great finishing touch,
adds Benedict, who says they serve
as ideal receptacles for anything from
Matchbox cars to gross-out candy (ba-
nana-flavored jelly beans that resemble
earwax, anyone?).
Many parents also use the surprise of
the Easter basket to take care of spring
“I want this, I need that” whines. The
modern bunny trail is littered with items
– from rolled-up T-shirts to coveted DVDs
– once more commonly found under the
Christmas tree.
“I’m a firm believer that anything you
can put into a gift basket, you can put
into an Easter basket,” says Benedict.
Just don’t forget that candy.
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Laughs and librettos
Librettist Mark Campbell says even without ostensible gay themes, gay sensibilities inform his writing because he’s gay and his sexual orientation is a factor in one’s sense of humor
New Wolf Trap-commissioned opera
‘The Inspector’ debuts next week
By DAVID HOFFMAN
Comedy is a different animal when it comes to opera.
That’s the experience of Mark Campbell, author of
a new comic opera, “The Inspector,” that features his
laugh-out-loud, incisive libretto matched perfectly to the
expressive melodies in composer John Musto’s sophis-
ticated-yet-fun style. It comes to the stage in its world
premiere at The Barns at Wolf Trap on three nights be-
ginning Wednesday.
Based on all advance indications, it will be another
triumph for the veteran collaborators, Campbell and
Musto, whose comic operas “Volpone” won major plau-
dits at Wolf Trap in 2004 and returned there for a suc-
cessful reprise in 2007.
“We were their matchmakers,” Kim Witman, Wolf Trap
Opera’s director, rightly boasts, about bringing the two
together for “Volpone,” and she admits that “anytime
you do that, you just don’t know at the beginning what’s
going to work or not.”
This combo worked so well, says Witman, “that we’ll take
the credit” for making it happen. About “The Inspector,” she
says, “They both have an approach to this work that is mod-
ern in feeling, not as in avant-garde” — which in opera can
be cold and remote — “but that hits the sweet spot.”
“The Inspector,” an update of the 1836 classic
tongue-in-cheek satirical play by Russian writer Nikolai
Gogol, “intersects as music and words,” she says, “with
arts & entertainment
its own spin on our contemporary world, because this is
not about high art, but they each set out to entertain.”
What’s great about the two, she adds, is that “they
use actual English words and the same syntax you
would use if you spoke to someone on the street, so it
doesn’t feel theatrical, it just sounds familiar,” in Camp-
bell’s way with words and Musto’s melodic punctuation.
Witman, an old hand at making opera come alive for new
audiences, admits that “We’re hampered by the fact that we
are called opera,” but she stresses, “in many ways ‘The In-
spector’ is really musical theater. It’s simply that it’s sung by
people with operatically trained and expressive voices, with-
out microphones.” She points out that on Broadway, singers’
voices are amplified, but not in opera. “That’s what makes
it opera,” but with “The Inspector,” she says, “in everything
else it could just as easily be musical theater.”
Opera is alienating to some, she says.
“Many people won’t come out to anything called
opera, because they think they’ll feel stupid or that it’s
stupid because they can’t understand it. It’s because of
the trappings of opera, the exaggerated posturing, that
people stay away, and because it’s in another language,
so people think ‘I won’t understand it,’ and because they
think it’s going to be five hours long.”
But “The Inspector” is sung in English, with constant
wisecracks, and she says, “is very fast,” clocking in at
just two hours long.
Campbell — who is gay, and openly declares, “I’m
single and available for marriage, unfortunately not yet in
New York (he lives in New York City), but in D.C.” — says
that he and Musto “were told to write a comedy because
they (Wolf Trap) loved ‘Volpone,’” which was based on
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the English play of that name (in Italian it means “sly
fox”) written by Ben Jonson and first produced in 1606.
Musto is Italian — half Sicilian and half Neapolitan —
so Campbell says that when they put their heads together
they soon decided to revamp and relocate the classic Go-
gol comedy, set in Tsarist Russia, to Mussolini-era Italy, and
instead of Russian-flavored music, Campbell says it is very
Italian in flavor, with tarantellas, those Italian folk dances
with fast upbeat tempos, not cossack-style dances.
“The composer must help make the opera funny,”
and all of Musto’s music, says Campbell, is created to
make sure that the comedy of the libretto — the words
— lands with flair and funny impact.
This is their fourth opera together. Three are com-
edies, and the fourth, says Campbell, has comic ele-
ments — “Later The Same Evening,” based on the paint-
ings of American artist Edward Hopper.
“When it comes to comedy, we know how to do this,”
he says.
That doesn’t mean it’s easy.
“It’s harder to do than drama, because it must do the
same thing that drama does, create clear characters
who want something, the same thing as when you tell
any story, but it must also be funny.”
Campbell says that “you’d have to ask my friends if
I’m funny” but that he thinks that he’s “actually a pretty
miserable person, as are most people who have a com-
ic bent, because at the core of their heart is something
that’s pretty dark.”
Soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird, who sings the role of the
Continues on page 47
34 washingtonblade.com • april 22, 2011

QUEERY: 20 questions for Brock Thompson

By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com

Brock Thompson is the kind of person who can take a germ of an idea and run with it.
Upon coming out to his father at age 18, the 34-year-old Toad Suck, Ark., (it’s
about 30 miles from Little Rock) native was told there were probably other gays in
the family, it just wasn’t discussed in those terms.
His father told him his “Great Aunt Opal” was mostly likely a lesbian and had lived
with a woman most of her life.
“I barely knew her as a child, but it was a different time in Arkansas and women
could get away with living together as old maids or spinsters, and two men could be
bachelors sharing a place,” Thompson says. “It was a different time and people had
different ways of categorizing these relationships, but it encouraged me to look into
Arkansas’s past and I found there was a very rich gay history there.”
Thompson, a historian and Ph.D. who works in the Library of Congress’s Ameri-
can Folk Life division, thus began an eight-year odyssey that came to fruition when
the University of Arkansas Press published his 260-page book “The Un-Natural
State: Arkansas and the Queer South.”
He found a surprising amount of drag, especially in hetero-normative gatherings,
in Arkansas in the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s. “Womanless weddings,” would have men
play all the roles in mock wedding ceremonies that were held as fundraisers for
regional charities and guards in Japanese-American prison camps would conduct
drag shows for the inmates. A lesbian commune flourished and still exists.
“So often with gay and lesbian history, we tend to focus on the cities and tend to
not think much about these flyover states, but they have a rich and unique gay and
lesbian history that you can’t discard,” Thompson says.
He did years of research and says a lot of his most interesting finds came about by
knowing where to look — some of the gayest tidbits were filed under non-LGBT tags. He
also conducted about 50 interviews with older residents of the state who remembered
the era. Thompson also intentionally tried to make it a reader-friendly, accessible volume.
“If it’s too starchy and impenetrable for a general audience, then what’s the point,” he says.
Thompson still has family in Arkansas but has been in Washington for about five
years. He previously lived in London for four years for a doctoral program at King’s Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
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What trophy or prize do you most
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The publication of my book.
What do you wish you’d known at 18?
That the liberal arts often equal poverty.
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THEATERAGENDA
Stephen Schmidt, Lisa Hodsoll as shock artist Lizzie B. and, on display, James Majewski in
Factory 449’s ‘Magnificent Waste.’
World-weary wares
Bored and jaded New
Yorkers inhabit ‘Waste’
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
For its third fully staged offering, Fac-
tory 449: a theatre collective is taking on
the art world with a production of “Mag-
nificent Waste,” playwright Caridad Sv-
ich’s polemic on excess and superficial-
ity in our celebrity-driven culture.
Shock artist Lizzie B is very aggres-
sive, professionally and personally. At
her New York opening, she boldly propo-
sitions a well-heeled patron named Ar-
den. While not interested in her, he does
like the art she’s selling: an installation
featuring a slim male in pink briefs and
feather boa reclining on a floor of Good
and Plenty candy boxes inside a bright-
ly-lit cube. And that’s just fine with Lizzie
— she’s happy so long as she’s closing a
deal one way or another.
When not hawking her work, Lizzie
(played as an anger-fueled survivor by
Lisa Hodsoll) spends her off time down-
ing vodka and pills with TV chat show host
Bret (likable actor Tony Villa) and Mindy,
an aging It girl (Sarah Strasser making her
Factory 449 debut). A self-described but
ill-defined ménage a trios, the symbiotic
trio mostly uses one another to advance
careers, score drugs and pass the time,
all the while spewing endless babble
punctuated by brief flashes of profundity.
On the sly, Lizzie begins a relation-
ship with Arden (played appropriately
weird by Stephen F. Schmidt) who col-
lects beautiful-but-disposable things like
cheap black lighters and unsettled young
men. Initially the pair meets exclusively at
a trendy oxygen bar until Arden eventually
invites Lizzie to see her installation now
in his Park Avenue apartment and have
sex. Afterward, zombie-like Arden informs
Lizzie that since he doesn’t like women,
he entered her as if she were a man. She
shoots him a slightly dirty look, but isn’t
terribly fazed … most likely it’s nothing the
jaded artist hasn’t heard before.
april 22, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 37
Photo by Stan Barouh; courtesy of Factory 449
Peopled by unlikable, one-dimension-
al characters (whom the five-person cast
mine with varying degrees of success),
Svich’s mercenary New York scene feels
familiar. Yes, the selling of an installation
featuring a real live boy sparks debate,
but the play otherwise retreads frequent-
ly travelled territory — soulless New York
artists, the cult of celebrity and all that.
Slated to receive the John Aniello
Award for outstanding emerging theatre
company (along with co-recipient No
Rules Theatre Company) at the Helen
have you
Hayes Award on Monday, Factory 449’s
plays are interestingly staged and “Mag-
nificent Waste” is no exception. Director
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works, video design — compliments of
Jesse Achtenberg — plays an integral
part in this production as well.
As the young man, James T. Majew-
ski eventually climbs out of his box and
vividly relays his story. It seems he was
in search of a place to crash when he
met Lizzie at an art party. His need to
be looked at and desired made him an
ideal fit for her latest installation, and, of
course, cunning Lizzie was more than
happy to encourage her new find in his
longing to be a part of something bigger
than himself by connecting with the gods
through art. On their first meeting, Lizzie
marked him with her Sharpie, rendering
the young man — like everything else in
the world Svich depicts — saleable.
‘MAgnIFICenT WASTe’
Through May 8
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CALENDAR the Birchmere Dec. 17. (Photo courtesy of the Roches)
‘Wide Grass’ by Mary D. Ott is part of her ‘Grasses’ exhibit at Touchstone Gallery on display through May 1.
Today
April is country month and
The Lodge (21614 National Pike)
in Boonsboro, is celebrating with
line dancing along with its usual
karaoke with DJ Christy from
Brown Entertainment Group
tonight from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
There’s a $5 cover after 10 p.m.
Baltimore’s Gilded Lily bur-
lesque will be performing “I
dream of Bettie: A Burlesque
Tribute to the Queen of Pinup”
at The Birchmere (3701 Mount
Vernon Ave.) in Alexandria to-
night at 7:30 p.m.
DJ Lil’ E is hosting a Lady
Gaga vs. Madonna vs. Rihanna
dance party at Rams Head Live
(20 Market Place) in Baltimore.
Doors open at 8:30 p.m. Tickets
are $12 and can be purchased
online at ramsheadlive.com.
Caliente Grande is tonight
at Apex (1415 22nd St., N.W.)
starting at 9 p.m. DJ Michael
Brandon will be spinning the
Latin dance party in the main
hall. There is a $10 cover
charge. Attendees must be 18
to enter, 21 to drink.
The New Gay presents Homo/
Sonic with DJ Natty Boom
Boom at Black Cat (1811 14th
St., N.W.) from 9:30 p.m. to 2:30
a.m. This is an all ages party
and there is a $10 cover.
Tonight is the last night to
see Gross National Product’s
“State of DisUnion” at the Atlas
Performing Arts Center (1333
H St., N.E.) at 8 p.m. The show
features a condensed version
of the group’s last show, “The
Sound of Palin.”
Saturday, April 23
The Lodge (21614 National
Pike) in Boonsboro, presents
”Fever: the underwear party”
tonight at 9 p.m. with an open
refresher bar at for those in un-
dies from 9 to 10 p.m. There’s
a $5 cover before 11 p.m. and
$8 afterward. Visit thelodgemd.
com for more information and
dress code.
Pocket Gays presents DJ
Lemz from Baltimore, Menya
from New York City and Sherell
Rowe at Velvet Lounge (915 U
St., N.W.) tonight from 10 p.m. to
3 a.m. There will be a $5 cover.
Apex presents Easter with a
Twist tonight. There will be an
Easter bunny walking around
the club passing out candy and
Easter eggs hidden with sur-
prises in each one. DJ Melissa
from Philly will be spinning in
the main room at midnight and
Kristina Kelly and The Girls of
Glamour will be performing at 11
p.m. There is a $10 cover and all
attendees must e 18 or older.
Every fourth Saturday of the
month, Green Lantern (1335
Green Court, N.W.) is hosting
Jocks vs. Jocks from 10 p.m.
to 2 a.m. Cover is $5 if wearing
sports attire, $7 if not. There’s a
trophy and cash prizes for the
winning team.
Today is the last day to see
the exhibit “Image/Fame/Mem-
ory” an exhibit featuring pho-
tographs of well known musi-
cians, artists, writers and actors
by Curtis Knapp, Gerard Malan-
ga, Billy Name, Kate Simon and
Shepard Fairey’s collaborations
with Name and Simon at Irvine
Contemporary (1412 14th St.,
N.W.). The gallery is open from
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and the exhibit
will be on display through Satur-
day. For more information, visit
irvinecontemporary.com.
Sunday, April 24
Gallery plan b has three ex-
hibits featuring with paintings
by Greg Minah, works on pa-
per by Mars Tokyo and works in
gold leaf by Andrew Wapinski.
The gallery is open from 1 to 5
p.m. and the works will be on
display through May 15.
“Shear Madness,” a comedy
whodunit, will be performed
twice tonight at the Kennedy
Center Theater Lab (2700 F St.,
N.W.) at 3 and 7 p.m. “Mad-
ness” takes place in present-
day Georgetown, in the Shear
Madness Hair Styling Salon.
Tickets are $42. Visit kennedy-
center.org for more information
and to purchase tickets.
Monday, April 25
SAGE Metro D.C. is holding
its monthly meeting tonight from
6:30 to 8 p.m. at the D.C. Center
(1318 U St., N.W.).
Bears do Yoga at Green Lan-
tern (1335 Green Court N.W.)
tonight at 6:30 p.m. Class lasts
for an hour and serves as an
introduction to yoga for people
of all different body types and
physical abilities. It’s taught by
Michael Brazell. For more infor-
mation, visit dccenter.org.
Tuesday, April 26
The Gay and Lesbian Activists
Alliance will hold a membership
meeting tonight from 7 to 8 p.m.
at the Charles Sumner School
Museum and Archive (1201
17th St., N.W.).
Nellie’s (900 U St., N.W.)
hosts its weekly “Glee” watch
party tonight at 8 p.m. on the
deck in the pub room.
Wednesday, April 27
Touchstone Gallery (901 New
York Ave., N.W.) has two exhib-
Image courtesy of Touchstone Gallery
its on display, Janet Wheeler’s
“Nest with a Twist” and Mary D.
Ott’s “Grasses” which will be up
through May 1. The gallery is
open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday, April 28
The OutWrite Author Series
presents Brock Thompson read-
ing from his book, “The Un-Natu-
ral State: Arkansas and the Queer
South” at the D.C. Center (1318 U
St., N.W.) from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Caregivers Connect, a
support group for those car-
ing for someone with HIV/
AIDS is meeting today at the
Elizabeth Taylor Medical Cen-
ter (1701 14th St., N.W.) from
7 to 8:30 p.m. This is a confi-
dential group and will run for
10 sessions. For more infor-
mation, call Jessica Moss at
202-797-3580.
National Youth Advocacy Co-
alition is hosting a happy hour at
Nellie’s (900 U St., N.W.) to sup-
port LGBT youth, tonight from
5 to 8 p.m. A dollar from every
Nellie’s beer will go toward the
cause. People can also donate
$10 by texting ACTIVIST to
85944.
Gays & Lesbians Opposing
Violence (GLOV) is having its
monthly meeting tonight in the
main room at the D.C. Center
from 7 to 8 p.m.
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Getting ‘Results’
Local fitness guru
turns attention to
philanthropic ventures
By KEVIN NORRIS
Mission: Results may sound like just
another PR slogan to get Washingtonians
to buy gym memberships but for Doug
Jefferies, it has a deeper meaning.
It’s the name of a new non-profit organi-
zation he hopes will be part of his legacy.
For almost 20 years, Jefferies has had
an influential impact on the local health
club industry and in whipping people into
shape in one of his many fitness endeav-
ors. From his small Training for Results stu-
dios and award-winning Results Gym loca-
tions to the newly established strength and
Yoga studio, Stroga, Jefferies has provided
cutting edge exercise outlets and social
environments for the exercise induced.
Jefferies began his fitness career in the
early ‘90s. He offered personal training to
a few close friends who liked the “Results”
they were seeing in Jefferies. After build-
ing a client base at Washington Sports
Club, he rented a 1,000-square foot ga-
rage and purchased his own equipment.
For almost two years Jefferies typi-
cally trained about 60 sessions a week
in this space. In September 2005, Jeffer-
ies moved his operation to a commercial
space at 1704 R Street N.W., the space
next to Swift cleaners and across from
Cobalt. The business needed a name so
Training for Results was born.
Jefferies would go on to employ just
about every up-and-coming personal
trainer in Washington, many of whom grad-
uated from the “Jefferies Personal Training
School” to open up their own spaces and
to continue on to their own successes.
“I’m happy to be a part of anyone’s
success,” he says. “It’s a feather in my
cap and I have always encouraged per-
sonal growth.”
Training for Results outgrew the new per-
sonal training space within six months and
he started dreaming on a bigger scale. An
opportunity presented itself at the EB Ad-
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always about inclusion and acceptance for
every walk of life (Results won “best gym”
in the Blade’s Best of Gay D.C. readers’
choice awards every year from 2001-2007).
Results, The Gym quickly became the
best gym in the area. People magazine
called it “the place to be seen.” Everyone
from JFK Jr. to Anderson Cooper worked
out at Results. W Magazine names it one
of the greatest gyms on the planet. Results
set a higher standard for health clubs in
design, style and customer service.
Jefferies would go on to open up three
other Results Gyms in the city.
Ironically, March 1 marked the clos-
ing of his first Results Gym and the one
year anniversary of the opening of Jeffer-
ies newest fitness endeavor. Stroga is a
blend of strength training and yoga that
was fueled from his own yoga practice,
which began shortly after 9-11.
But beyond Jefferies’ commercial suc-
cesses, he has always been involved in phil-
anthropic endeavors and giving back to the
community long before he started organizing
relief trips. Jefferies has donated $100,000 a
year in memberships to local charitable or-
ganizations, sponsoring the Capital Hill Clus-
ter school 10k races, building an award win-
ning parade float 10 years in a row for Capital
Pride, to the famous Results cheerleaders
who every year would get the crowd going
at the High Heel Race that attracts nearly
10,000 people each year.
Jefferies’ relief work began after the dev-
astating 2005 tsunami hit. He hung posters
in the gyms asking if anyone else wanted to
volunteer to go to Sri Lanka to help the peo-
ple affected. Twenty people signed up and
traveled to Sri Lanka to help. Shortly thereaf-
ter, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and
instinctively, people approached Jefferies
requesting that he arrange relief trips to the
Gulf. Jefferies personally escorted nearly a
dozen relief trips for hundreds of Washing-
tonian volunteers.
Then Haiti hit Jefferies’ radar when an
earthquake ravished the small helpless
country. Since then Jefferies has lead 10
of the 11 trips he has arranged.
“It is remarkable how much Doug and
Mission: Results has accomplished so
quickly” Astrid Fitzgerald of Kids Con-
nection Haiti, says. “I’ve been working in
Haiti for years and have seen organiza-
tions get less done in twice the time than
they have accomplished.”
Jefferies is building orphanages, financ-
ing small business growth, creating ways
Haitian’s can obtain the resources available
to them through the larger organizations
that require paperwork and procedures that
make it difficult to obtain the food, shelter,
clothes and school supplies already in Haiti
being held up by the process.
After being encouraged by friends for
years, Jefferies established a tax exempt
non-profit organization called Mission:
Results. Its goal is to become an army
of volunteers and resources prepared
when help is needed.
“Lots of people get the urge to vol-
unteer when they see something on the
news that moves them, but are unsure
how to go about it. We want to be the or-
ganization people think of. We want to
be the conduit for those people” he says.
Visit missionresults.org for details.
Kevin M. Norris is a
health and fitness
columnist for the Blade
and owner of Mind
our Own Body, LLC.
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Work on your problems
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Are you stuck in an unhealthy relation-
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is, can you walk away from your relation-
ship knowing you put 110 percent in? Is
the guilt you have from cheating keep-
ing you partnered? Do you think it may
be too hard to find another partner or are
you just plain lazy? Does your partner put
you on a pedestal, where you’ll sacrifice
what you really want just because he’s
spoiling you? If the answer is yes to any
of these questions, then you are in an un-
healthy relationship.
So what do we mean by “unhealthy?” We
don’t mean 40 pounds overweight with
a serious nicotine addition kind of un-
healthy. We mean having trust issues, ar-
guing more days than you are having sex,
doubts in sincerity and verbal or emotional
abuse. If you are experiencing these prob-
lems, you’re not the only one. The good
news is there’s a cure for the unhealthy re-
lationship. Work on it or get out!
Sorry, we can’t cure you until we do
a little reflection first. (Lesbians love to
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describe your relationship and you’ll
know how severely “unhealthy” yours is.
Do you feel like you are stuck in a rou-
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easy. Routine loves you back. However,
this is a very common factor as to why
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THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS OPENINGS
Sat, Apr. 23
NEXT at the Corcoran: BFA Class of 2011,
Corcoran Gallery of Art. corcoran.org.
Wed, Apr. 27
Influence, 25 Years of Glass Art,
Workhouse Arts Center.
703-584-2900. workhousearts.org.
Jenny Freestone: New Prints, Washington
Printmakers Gallery. 301-273-3660.
washingtonprintmakers.com.
John Musto’s The Inspector, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
LAST CHANCE
Sun, Apr. 24
King Lear, Synetic Theater,
One Night of Queen with Gary Mullen and The Works Lansburgh Theatre. 202-547-1122.
Wed, April 27 synetictheater.org.
Strathmore. 301-581-5100. strathmore.org Photograph 51, Theater J. 800-494-8497.
Freddie Mercury and Queen reinvented rock and the entire concert experience, washingtondcjcc.org.
creating blazing anthems, including “We Will Rock You,” “Somebody to Love” and The Weir, SCENA Theatre,
“Bohemian Rhapsody.” Aided by a custom-built lighting rig and detailed costumes, H Street Playhouse. 703-683-2824.
frontman Mullen and his band mount a rocking--tribute to the British legends and ScenaTheater.org.
the late Freddie Mercury. China: The Whole Enchilada,
DC Arts Center (DCAC). 202-462-7833.
National Symphony Orchestra: dcartscenter.org.
Kurt Masur, conductor / Sarah Chang, violin, plays Bruch, Wed, Apr. 27
Thu, Apr 28 thru Sat April 30 Artist in Residence: The Sweater Set, pop-
The Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. folk duo, Strathmore. strathmore.org.
The Times of London says conductor “Kurt Masur has extraordinary joie de vivre.”
Violinist Sarah Chang plays Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Also on the program are LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
Mendelssohn’s Overture to Ruy Blas and Brahms’s Symphony No. 1.
Apr. 22 - Apr. 23
The Disorder of Things, Round House
Divorciadas, Evangélicas y Vegetarianas/Divorcees, Theatre Silver Spring. 240-644-1100.
Evangelists and Vegetarians
roundhousetheatre.org.
Through Sun, May 1
Gala Hispanic Theatre. 202-234-7174. galatheatre.org Apr. 23 - Apr. 24
Three women on the verge: A divorcee is on the brink of suicide as she realizes her
Human, Joe’s Movement Emporium.
joesmovement.org.
unfulfilled life has passed her by; a faux vegetarian is a high-octane diva who feels
jilted and taken for granted by her married boyfriend; and an evangelist constantly
struggles with her inner passions. Ultimately, the women find comfort, and salvation, ONE NIGHT ONLY
in each other. In Spanish with English subtitles. Fri, Apr. 22
Nancy Wilson, Strathmore.
Second Lives: The Age-Old Art of Recycling Textiles, 301-581-5100. strathmore.org.
Green: the Color and the Cause. Through September 11 Sat, Apr. 23
The Textile Museum. 202-667-0441. textilemuseum.org. Step Afrika! National Geographic.
The exhibition highlights the ways people in various cultures ingeniously have re- 202-857-7700. nglive.org/dc.
purposed worn but precious fabrics to create beautiful new textile forms. Includes a Symposium on New Irish Arts,
pictorial kantha from India embroidered with threads recycled from old saris, a coat The Studio Theatre. 202-332-3300.
from 19th-century Japan painstakenly woven from rags, and other recycled textiles. studiotheatre.org.
Wally Cardona, Dance Place.
The Guide to Arts & Culture is provided by CultureCapital.com Your Link to Arts in Metro DC, A program of
the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington. Photo courtesy Strathmore.
202-269-1600. danceplace.org.
The Empresarios with Fort Knox Five
DJ Set, ARTISPHERE. 703-875-1100.
artisphere.com.
ONGOING STAGE
Liberty Smith, Ford’s Theatre.
202-397-7328. fords.org.
The Walworth Farce & The New Electric
Ballroom, The Studio Theatre.
202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
Stage Door, American Century Theater,
Gunston Theatre Two. 703-998-4555.
americancentury.org.
Wroteo Open Mic Night, ARTISPHERE.
703-875-1100. artisphere.com.
National Pastime, Keegan Theatre,
Church Street Theater. 703-892-0202.
keegantheatre.com.
In Your Ear: Avant Garde & The Capital
City Showcase, DCAC. 202-462-7833.
dcartscenter.org.
Pagliacci and Maria La O - Winter Pocket
Opera Double Bill, In Series, Source
Theatre. 202-204-7763. inseries.org.
The Walworth Farce, The Studio Theatre.
202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
The New Electric Ballroom, The Studio
Theatre. 202-332-3300.
studiotheatre.org.
ONGOING EXHIBITONS
Dumbarton House. From House to Home:
Reinterpreting Dumbarton House. 2
02-337-2288. dumbartonhouse.org.
Kreeger Museum. Tom Wesselmann
DRAWS. 202-338-3552.
kreegermuseum.org.
National Gallery of Art. Venice: Canaletto
and His Rivals, Gauguin: Maker of Myth,
Gabriel Metsu, 1629–1667, Lewis Baltz:
Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit, In the Tower:
Nam June Paik, From Impressionism
to Modernism: The Chester Dale
Collection. 202-737-4215. nga.gov.
National Geographic. America I AM,
Beyond the Story: National Geographic
Unpublished. 202-857-7700.
nglive.org/dc.
Museum of Women in the Arts. Eye
Wonder: Photography from the Bank
of America Collection. 202-783-5000.
nmwa.org.
ONGOING GALLERIES
Put a CORC in It!, Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Renaissance Dupont Circle Hotel.
202-775-0800.
getinvolved.corcoran.org.
C2YN (Countdown to Yuri’s Night) &
Hamtdaa: Together, ARTISPHERE. 703-
875-1100. artisphere.com.
Dimensional Landscapes: New
Perspectives of our Natural World, Fisher
Art Gallery, Schlesinger Concert Hall &
Arts Center. nvcc.edu.
Works by Greg Minah, Mars Tokyo, and
Andrew Wapinski, Gallery plan b.
202-234-2711. galleryplanb.com.
Artomatic Takes Flight: Special Exhibit
at National Airport, Artomatic, Reagan
National Airport. 703-417-8600.
artomatic.org.
The World in Abstract, Arlington Artists
Alliance, Arlington YMCA. 703-525-
5420. arlingtonartistsalliance.org.
IN-FLUX: Judy Byron presents ‘’What
Matters’’, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts
Gallery at Smith Farm Center.
smithfarm.com.
Cindy Packard Richmond’s “Food,
Glorious Food”, The Art League.
703-683-1780. theartleague.org.
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GARDENAGENDA
Spring planning,
summer rewards
While Tips for pruning
your hydrangeas
they last
By KYLE THURMAN
We all know that Washington is known
for its spring blooming trees and shrubs.
As the spring blooms fade, now is the
time to consider what will be blooming in
your summer landscape.
Everyone loves hydrangeas, and I be-
lieve there is a reason, whether they are
reminiscent of your grandmother’s garden
or you enjoy their midsummer bold punch
of color after your spring display has faded.
Hydrangeas are a very popular landscape
plant and are prized for their abundant
blooms and easy care. But often the ques-
tion is “When do I prune my hydrangea?”
How you care for and prune the hydran-
geas will depend on what type you have.
There are four categories of common
hydrangeas: Hydrangea macrophylla,
commonly called Big Leaf; Mophead or
Lacecap hydrangeas; hydrangea arbo-
rescence, which includes “Annabelle”
and its relatives, also known as Smooth
hydrangeas; hydrangea quercifolia, also
known as Oakleaf hydrangeas; and hy-
drangea paniculata, which are common-
ly called PeeGee hydrangeas.
Big Leaf hydrangeas are some of the
most popular hydrangeas in landscapes.
Most of these bloom in July to August in
either blue or pink, although a few variet-
ies are white. Except for the white variet-
ies, any of these can be grown as either
blue or pink, depending on the acidity of
the soil they’re grown in.
If your Big Leaf hydrangea needs to
be pruned, this should be done in ear-
ly summer, before the flower buds are
formed for the next season. These hy-
drangeas bloom on old wood, which is
wood that was formed during the previ-
ous growing season. The flower buds
are formed in August through October,
so do any necessary pruning in the sum-
mer, prior to August. Prune out any dead
wood each year, and after the plant has
reached five years old about a third of the
stems can be pruned back to the ground
each summer to help revitalize the plant.
Annabelle hydrangeas are a popu-
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lar landscape shrub because they will
bloom reliably even after heavy pruning
or a severe winter. In some harsh win-
ters, the plant will die back to the ground,
send up new growth in the spring and
still bloom profusely. The blooms tend to
be quite heavy, sometimes bending the
stems to the ground. The stems may be
staked to prevent this, or pruned to about
24 inches to help the stems become
stronger and better able to support the
heavy blooms. They can be pruned any
other time of year, but it isn’t necessary
to prune Annabelle each year except for
removing dead wood or branches that
don’t contribute to a nicely shaped plant.
Oak leaf hydrangeas are native to the
U.S., and as their name suggests, they
have large, deeply lobed leaves. The white
blooms of oak leaf hydrangeas are beautiful
in early to mid summer, tending to turn pink
as they age. Oak leaf hydrangeas should
be pruned at the same time and in the same
manner as the Big Leaf hydrangeas.
Like the oak leaf hydrangeas, PeeGee’s
white blooms tend to turn pink as they age.
PeeGees often grow very large, up to 8-10
feet tall and just as wide, and should be
planted where they’ll have ample room.
They do like some shade in hotter climates,
and are tolerant of sun if they receive
enough moisture. PeeGee may be pruned
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they are preparing to bloom, and they can
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BOOKAGENDA
Revisiting a phenomenon
‘It Gets Better’ morphs into
moving, if profane, book
By TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER
High school, it seems, was built for
drama.
Maybe it’s because of hormones or
because everybody’s searching for who
they are or the person they’ll become, but
one thing’s certain: Mean Girls, jocks and
cheerleaders, nerdy kids, geeks, and bul-
lies generally cannot co-exist in peace.
And therein lies a problem, particu-
larly if you’re on the receiving end of
brutality, teasing or ostracism. Not only
does that stuff hurt, but it makes life so
unpleasant that you can sometimes see
only one way to stop it.
Columnist Dan Savage, with his hus-
band Terry Miller and a friend, decided
to do something about that. In “It Gets
Better,” they explain what happened and
how their un-splashy video became a
tidal wave of support.
Just a hundred videos.
That’s the response that Savage and
Miller hoped they’d get from a YouTube
post they made in the aftermath of sever-
al suicides by LGBT teens. In an “a-ha!”
moment, Savage realized that those kids
had no vision of a future and no idea that
things get better — hence, the video.
But one video begat two, then a hun-
dred, then a computer crash, a presi-
dential message and a movement. In this
book, they gather notable messages to
LGBTQ teens; some poignant, and some
surprising.
Like teens who see only “one way out”
of the torment, many It Gets Better post-
ers tell of trying to take their own lives at
15, 12, even 10 years old. But, as one
pointed out, there are many things she
would have missed, were she success-
ful. Another poster begs teens not to
make him miss the chance to know them.
april 22, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 45
Photo by Kelly O; courtesy of the author
The responses came from around the
world: the U.S. and Canada, England,
Australia, Iraq. Politicians weighed in, as
did ministers, doctors, dancers, soldiers
and teachers. The posters were gay and
straight, parents and friends. One of-
fered to send readers a letter of support.
One gave the website for an alternative
school. Some saw being gay as a gift.
One man said he was his own bully.
The responses are varied, but the
message is the same: find your people.
Hang in there —it will be over soon. Don’t
suffer in silence. We need you to live.
“It Gets Better” is one of those books
that slams you from emotion to emotion in
six pages or less. Readers will get teary,
they’ll laugh, nod their heads, gasp, and
want to scream. And this book isn’t just
for teens: adults who need it and read it
will find comfort here, too.
The only caveat is that this book is
(somewhat) targeted to middle-school-
ers, but it may be too much for them to
handle. What’s written here is often pro-
fane, in-your-face, and generally pretty
grown-up, so caution should be used
before giving this to a kid who isn’t ready
for it yet.
Still, if you know someone that needs
this book, you’ll feel compelled to act.
After you’ve read it yourself, you’ll know
that “It Gets Better” gives him or her a
better chance of surviving.
“IT GETS BETTER”
Edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller
$21.95 / 339 pages
Terri Schlichenmeyer
has been reading since
she was 3 years old.
She lives in Wisconsin
with two dogs and
12,000 books. Reach
her at bookwormsez@yahoo.com.
46 washingtonblade.com • april 22, 2011
CONCERTAGENDA
Michael Feinstein, shown here in a recent publicity shot, shared anecdotes and standards last
weekend at the Kennedy Center.
Feinstein a delight
Kennedy Center Sinatra
tribute concert gives
standards singer room
to shine
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
Standards crooner Michael Feinstein
was a crowd pleaser Sunday night at his
Kennedy Center concert, which proved
— as billed — largely a tribute to Frank
Sinatra, though composers, perhaps
Cole Porter most dominantly, were also
generously given their props.
So what sets Feinstein (who’s gay)
apart from any cheesy covers-depen-
dent tribute act? Two main things. First,
he’s a keyboard wiz. His skills at the ivo-
ries were ably demonstrated on several
numbers, from bang-it-out barn burners
like an instrumental take on the standard
“Brazil,” to oceans of cascading arpeg-
gios with which he embellished ballads
like “Time After Time.” Also he’s got a
pretty decent voice. Feinstein’s got lim-
ited range but he really shines with the
oomph. There’s major power in those
pipes and he really cut loose vocally on
numbers like “What Kind of Fool Am I,”
“So in Love” and “For Once in My Life.”
There were a couple moments where
the money notes were excessively os-
tentatious — he held the final notes on
Photo courtesy of WPAS
“Someone Who Needs Me” so long it
started to feel like a lung capacity test,
but this was the exception. More often,
he showed skill and grace with his vocal
choices. Especially on the quieter mo-
ments when he was accompanying him-
self with solo piano and the band took a
breather. They were steller — don’t get
me wrong — but it made for great sonic
contrast.
His interpretive abilities are quite good
— he may not have quite the finesse
of Harry Connick Jr., but almost. An
18-piece band, powered by a bombastic
(but never overpowering) horn section,
added great punch to the tight, 18-song,
108-minute set (not counting intermis-
sion). A nice touch were the generous
anecdotes and asides about many of
these great artists of yesteryear — Fein-
stein knows his stuff and he was a stellar
tour guide and raconteur throughout the
evening.
The set list was:
1. Luck Be a Lady 2. I Thought About
You 3. Exactly Like You 4. Time After
Time 5. Brazil (instrumental) 6. Fools
Rush In 7. What Kind of Fool Am I 8. Just
One of Those Things * intermission 9. At
Long Last Love 10. How Do You Keep
the Music Playing 11. It’s Alright With
Me 12. I’ve Got a Crush On You 13. So in
Love 14. Medley — All My Tomorrows/All
the Way 15. Begin the Beguine 16. For
Once in My Life * encore 17. The Lady is
a Tramp 18. New York, New York

DCAGENDA
Humor and poignancy
mix in new opera
continued from page 33
mayor’s daughter, Beatrice, in “The Inspec-
tor,” agrees. She has worked with Camp-
bell before, in the 2007 revival of “Volpone,”
when she also sang on the cast recording
of it which was nominated for a Grammy.
“He’s very friendly,” she says, “but at
the same time he’s very private, and a lot
of artists are like that.”
“We know how to bond with people,
but we save ourselves for a few people
and put the rest into our art,” so she says
that “you get to know more about Mark
by reading his work than by spending
time with him in a casual setting.”
And “The Inspector” is funny, albeit set
in a dark time, in late 1920s Sicily, when
the new Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini,
the fascist leader, or “Il Duce,” decided
to try to clean up the inbred corruption on
the island with its Mafia-style gangs that
ruled in politics and society with a heavy
hand of thuggery and thievery.
“His ego had been hurt,” says Camp-
bell, who spent a long time researching
the history of the period, “so he sent in
his own inspectors — called “prefetti,” or
prefects — to clean up the corruption in
local power centers on the island. So the
scene is set for the village (imaginary but
based on his research) of Santa Schifez-
za, whose local mayor’s rule is both crim-
inal and unchallenged, until someone the
mayor (Fazzobaldi) believes to be Mus-
solini’s inspector arrives.
Tancredi, this mysterious stranger,
traveling with his manservant Cosimo —
exceedingly smart, acerbic even, and
definitely more pragmatic than his “mas-
ter” — arrive just as the citizens of Santa
Schifezza have gathered to rehearse the
town’s new anthem — which is so bad it’s
utterly funny — for the next day, Munici-
pal Mayor Day, a day Mayor Fazzobaldi
has instituted in honor of himself.
But the mayor has been informed that
an inspector from Rome will soon ar-
rive, incognito, and put at risk the entire
way of life, based on corruption, he has
worked so hard to keep going. When the
goofy twins, Bobachina and Bobachino,
who run the post office, stumble in with
the news that they have spotted a new
arrival at the inn, and that he is tall, elo-
quent, elegant — and blond — the mayor
immediately jumps to the conclusion that
he must be the anticipated inspector.
“Comedy as a form of theater is differ-
ent from humor,” says Campbell, born in
D.C. and a Maryland resident until age
12. “In opera it’s usually found,” he says,
“when characters are so obsessed with
something — with greed or in the case
also with abuse of power — that audi-
ences don’t find it sad but funny.”
But he says his own favorite moments
in comic operas are the sad or tragic
moments, such as in the character of Fi-
garo from the Beaumarchais play which
formed the basis for Mozart’s opera “The
Marriage of Figaro” and Rossini’s opera
april 22, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 47
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
Mark campbell, co-author of the new Wolf
Trap-commissioned work ‘The Inspector,’ says
comedy and tragedy are heavily linked in opera.
“The Barber of Seville.”
“I have done my job,” Campbell says,
“if I have first seduced people with the
jokes and then pull a 180-degree turn
and stop them dead in their tracks, sur-
prising them with an incredibly sad mo-
ment. Opera allows you to do that, and
in many other art forms you just can’t do
this so efficiently, because it has music
which allows you to cut to the chase fast-
er than with mere language.”
Campbell, who wrote the funny lyrics to
the musical “And The Curtain Rises,” which
just closed its world-premiere run at the
Signature Theatre in Arlington, has also just
come from Norfolk, Va., where the Virginia
Opera premiered this month his musical
theater piece based on a Civil War theme,
“Rappahanock County,” in collaboration with
the composer Ricky Ian Gordon, who is also
gay and whose own musical “Sycamores”
premiered last year at Signature Theatre.
Campbell is philosophical about be-
ing single, having been, he says, “in sev-
eral long-term relationships, which were
fairly happy ones, but I am not someone
who believes in love forever, because
people change and can evolve into a re-
lationship and then evolve out of it.”
Three of his former partners “are now
among my best friends,” he says. “If
you love someone, you want them to be
happy, and if you’re truly invested with
someone it’s just a matter of reformatting
the relationship.” But he’s also realistic
— because first “you must get past the
awkwardness of the first couple of years
and the first new boyfriends.”
Could a comic opera on the subject
be far behind?
‘The InspecTor’
A world-premiere opera based on Gogol’s
play ‘The Inspector General.’ Music by John
Musto, book and libretto by Mark Campbell.
April 29 at 8 p.m. and May 1at 3 p.m.
Free one-hour talk at the Center for Educa-
tion, next door to The Barns, an hour prior to
each two-hour show.
The Barns at Wolf Trap
1645 Trap Rd., Vienna, VA
Tickets: $32-$72
877-965-3872/wolftrap.org
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The market is blooming

D.C. trends differ Inventory has declined significantly from
this point last year, so the good proper-
from sluggish ties are selling and they’re selling fast.
national market When there is a price adjustment on
a home, other buyers who have been
circling may also decide to throw their
By SUE GOODHART hat in the ring. The result is often a mul-
tiple-offer situation even if the house has
The Spring market in D.C. bloomed been on the market for several weeks
with the Cherry Blossoms. or months. When you are in competition
In the last month, we’ve seen almost with another purchaser, you are compet-
every competitively priced listing go un- ing with the other purchaser by upping
der contract within the first few days on your price, instead of negotiating with the
the market, often with interest from multi- seller for a lower price.
ple parties and sometimes multiple offers. Despite the competitive market, it is
Unfortunately, the national news still still a great time for buyers. Thirty-year We are seeing a healthy market re- see what’s out there so you can make an
reports of a down market and sluggish fixed interest rates are averaging 4.86 develop in our area. If you are thinking educated decision when you are ready
sales. But this is not the reality of the D.C. percent, still hovering at a historical low about buying a new home, talk with a Re- to buy.
area market. This disparity causes many though they have been slowly rising altor early in the process to see how the
buyers to think they can “play the market” since last fall. Another buying incentive, market is moving in your price point and
or sit and wait for a price reduction. While if you are a resident of D.C., you can still desired location. Many Realtors will set Sue Goodhart is a local Realtor with
it is good to do your due diligence before qualify for the D.C. First Time Homeown- you up on a search and will e-mail you McEnearney Associates. She can be
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Alexandra Chandler,
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Mark Young
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