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Gray shakes up D.C. mayoral race

LGBT activists begin to take sides in hotly contested primary
By LOU CHIBBARO JR. lchibbaro@washblade.com The manager of D.C. Mayor Vincent Grays just-announced re-election campaign called Grays record on LGBT issues rock solid and said the campaign will be open to an ongoing, two-way dialogue with LGBT people throughout the city. Chuck Thies, a longtime D.C. political consultant who Gray picked to lead his 2014 campaign, told the Blade he believes LGBT people understand that Grays longtime support for their rights and dignity is based on the mayors deeply held beliefs that are not motivated by politics. So will there be a focused outreach to the LGBT community? Absolutely, Thies said. And I think it will not just be outreach. Im expecting a two-way dialogue. Grays announcement on Monday that he plans to run for a second term came in the form of an open letter to D.C. voters, which he released as he and Thies visited the ofces of the Board of Elections and Ethics to register Gray as a candidate. The two also picked up petitions to obtain the 2,000 signatures from registered Democrats needed for Gray to run in the April 1, 2014 Democratic primary. The deadline for ling the petitions is Jan. 2. Gray became the 11th candidate to enter the Democratic primary contest at a time when four members of the
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Obama redirects $100 million to new push for HIV cure
By CHRIS JOHNSON cjohnson@washblade.com President Obama announced this week hes redirecting $100 million at the National Institutes of Health for a new initiative to develop a cure for HIV as part of his vision for an AIDSfree generation. Obama made the announcement before a group of HIV/AIDS advocates at a White House event observing World AIDS Day in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Ofce Building. The United States should be at the forefront of new discoveries in how to put HIV into long-term remission without requiring live-long therapies, or better yet, eliminate it completely, Obama said. In a fact sheet published after the event, the White House claried the $100 million would be distributed over the course of three years and would catalyze further research for new therapies to improve outcomes for people with HIV. Rowena Johnston, amfARs vice president and director of research, said in a statement after the event the administrations efforts to nd a cure for HIV would build off previous successes in the past year. This year, we saw a series of breakthroughs in HIV cure research that have brought us more clarity than weve ever had on the precise steps and tools needed to nally end AIDS, Johnston said. We cannot achieve the Presidents goal of an AIDS-free generation without continued investment in the research necessary to ultimately help us nd a cure for this disease. The event was part of the rollout for a new White House report on confronting HIV/AIDS, titled Improving Outcomes: Accelerating
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Diver Tom Daley comes out, triggering rumors about his love life.
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Ex-Marine guilty of manslaughter while armed

D.C. jury acquits on second-degree murder in case involving anti-gay slur
By LOU CHIBBARO JR. lchibbaro@washblade.com A D.C. Superior Court jury this week found a 22-year-old former U.S. Marine guilty of manslaughter while armed for the April 2012 stabbing death of a fellow Marine following an altercation in which he allegedly shouted an anti-gay slur. After four days of deliberations that began prior to the Thanksgiving holiday weekend the jury found then Pfc. Michael Poth not guilty of a more serious charge of second-degree murder while armed. Judge Russell Canan, who presided over the trial that lasted nearly 10 days, scheduled a sentencing hearing for Poth on Feb. 7. A conviction on manslaughter while armed carries a maximum penalty of 60 years in prison, although voluntary sentencing guidelines allow judges to hand down a signicantly lower sentence. A second-degree murder while armed conviction could have resulted in a 70-year prison sentence. Poth has been held in jail since the time D.C. police arrested him on April 21, 2012, minutes after witnesses said he stabbed Lance Corp. Phillip Bushong, 23, in the upper chest with a pocketknife on 8th Street, S.E., across the street from the Marine Barracks. Today a District of Columbia jury held Michael Poth accountable for stabbing a fellow Marine to death on a public street near their barracks, said U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen under whose ofce the case was prosecuted. Their guilty verdict makes clear that our community will not tolerate the deadly violence that so often arises from petty disputes. The lead prosecutor in the case stated at a pre-trial hearing last year that the stabbing appeared to be a hate crime. But the government never formally classied the case as a hate crime, a designation that could have resulted in a more severe sentence. Marine Corps ofcials discharged Poth from active-duty service on less than honorable circumstance shortly after his arrest. Poth had been stationed at the 8th and I Streets, S.E. barracks at the time of the incident. Bushong, who was stationed in North Carolina, was visiting friends in D.C. at the time of the altercation that led to his death just days before he was scheduled to be honorably discharged from the Marines. Poths defense attorney argued that Poth, who admitted he stabbed Bushong, did so in self-defense following a verbal altercation that turned violent. The attorney, Bernard Grimm, told the jury that Bushong was the aggressor and that he followed Poth after the two got into a verbal exchange. One witness, a friend of Bushongs who testied that hes gay, told the jury Poth called him and Bushong a faggot. The witness, congressional staffer Nishith Pandya, said Bushong was straight and the two were platonic friends. Pandya testied that he did not know how Poth could have known hes gay, although at least one witness said Poth may have seen Bushong and Pandya hugging each other on the sidewalk as they left a bar. Grim argued that Poth was smaller than Bushong. He cited testimony by a Marine guard who witnessed part of the altercation and who said he saw Bushong put one hand on Poths shoulder and pulled back his other hand as if he were about to throw a punch. It was at that point that Poth stabbed Bushong, according to witnesses. Grimm also argued that at least one witness testied that Bushong was ordered to leave one of the bars along the street where the incident took place because he was intoxicated and was acting in a boisterous manor. Poth was also believed to have been intoxicated, witnesses said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Liebman, the lead prosecutor in the case, said Poth hurled the anti-gay slur with the intent of provoking Bushong into a confrontation to give Poth an excuse to stab Bushong. Liebman cited testimony by witnesses that Poth became angry over a remark that Bushong made to Poth when the two Marines rst crossed paths on 8th Street sometime earlier in the evening. He noted that a witness testied that she heard Poth say to himself that he planned to stab someone as he walked along 8th Street after the earlier exchange of words between Poth and Bushong. A D.C. police detective testied that Poth said shortly after his arrest that he hoped Bushong would die when he overheard someone say over a police radio that Bushong was being taken by ambulance to a hospital. Prosecutors said Bushong was pronounced dead at the hospital about two hours after the stabbing. An autopsy showed he died of a single knife wound that punctured his heart. He announced his intention, Liebman told the jury in disputing Poths claim of self-defense. He is looking for Lance Corp. Bushong. He wants to do what he said he would do. He wants to stab him. In concluding his closing arguments, Liebman said, You dont get to proclaim self-defense when you proclaim intent to stab someone before you come into contact with them. The law doesnt allow you to use deadly force before you have contact. Local attorney Dale Edwin Sanders, who practices criminal law in D.C. and Virginia, said the verdict appears fair in a case where the victim was shown through witness testimony to have decided to engage in an altercation rather than walk away from it, even though the stabbing was unjustied. Im sure the prosecutors think this is a major victory, Sanders said. They didnt get their second-degree murder conviction but in D.C. the penalty for manslaughter is nearly as great as it is for Murder II, he said. This sounds like a well-reasoned verdict, a compromise verdict, said Sanders. The jury didnt buy the selfdefense claim because they would have acquitted him on both charges if they accepted self-defense. Sanders added, This is not like the jury gave him a passHes convicted of a deliberate homicide. Theyre just saying it wasnt pre-meditated. Manslaughter is a form of murder without pre-meditation.

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Hyattsville passes trans bias ordinance

The Hyattsville City Council on Monday unanimously approved an ordinance that bans anti-LGBT discrimination in the Prince Georges County municipality. City Council member Patrick Paschall, who is policy counsel for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, introduced the proposal that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and other factors. His colleagues approved it by a 9-0 margin. Hyattsville is the rst jurisdiction in Prince Georges County to ban antitrans discrimination. Im incredibly proud of the city of Hyattsville, Paschall told the Washington Blade. Equality Maryland Executive Director Carrie Evans also testied in support of the ordinance. Passing this ordinance in Hyattsville will make a measureable difference in peoples lives, she said. Baltimore City and Baltimore, Howard and Montgomery Counties have also banned discrimination based on gender identity and expression. A Maryland Senate committee in March struck down a bill that would have prohibited anti-trans discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodation statewide. The Human Rights Campaign in October announced it would match up to $25,000 in donations to Equality Maryland in support of efforts to pass a statewide anti-trans discrimination bill. The Hyattsville ordinance will take effect on Dec. 22. MICHAEL K. LAVERS

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Mayor, Council members honor World AIDS Day

Promise continued ght against pandemic
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By LOU CHIBBARO JR. lchibbaro@washblade.com About 75 people, including D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and three members of the City Council, raised candles outside a former Whitman-Walker Clinic building at 14th and S streets, N.W., on Sunday night as part of the citys 26th Annual World AIDS Day commemoration. This day has been a day to remember all those who have been affected by the epidemic and to rededicate ourselves not only to continue the ght against HIV but actually nding a cure, said Whitman-Walker Health Executive Director Don Blanchon, who served as host of the event. On this World AIDS Day we have great hope and optimism that we may see the end of this epidemic in the not too distant future, Blanchon said. In this year we have seen tremendous advances in the ght. Weve seen dramatic improved statistics on HIV/ AIDS in our city. Gray, who pointed to a signicant drop in the HIV infection rate in D.C. over the past several years, said he too is optimistic that a cure for AIDS could come sooner rather than later. Its hard to believe that it wasnt many years ago that we talked about AIDS being a death sentence, Gray said. It is not a death sentence anymore. With the advancement of pharmacology, even those who have full-blown AIDS can live a rich life. As long as the people take their medicine and stay on their regimen they can live a full and rich life, he said. Blanchon said Whitman-Walker chose to hold this years World AIDS Day vigil at the 14th and S Street site because the building at 1407 S St., N.W., was the home of the then Whitman-Walker Clinic during the peak of the AIDS epidemic during the 1980s and early 1990s. He noted that Whitman-Walker Clinic, which has since been renamed Whitman-Walker Health, moved most of its patient care programs out of the 1407 S St. building in 1993, when it opened its Elizabeth Taylor Building one block away at 14th and U streets, N.W. Whitman-Walker continued to operate other programs in the S Street building until 2007, according to WhitmanWalker spokesperson Chip Lewis. The JBC Companies real estate development rm, which purchased the 1407 S St. building along with adjacent properties, last month, installed a

Lesbian White House adviser steps down

A lesbian adviser to President Obama on environmental policy has announced shell depart the White House in February, ending the tenure of one the longest-serving openly LGBT members of the Obama administration. The National Journal rst reported on Tuesday that White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley will step down in February. A White House ofcial conrmed her departure to the Washington Blade. As head of Council for Environmental Quality, Sutley played a major role coordinating environmental policy among federal agencies. Sutley was one of the very rst people LGBT or otherwise to serve in the Obama administration. She was nominated to the position on Jan. 20, 2009, and conrmed by the Senate two days later on Jan. 22, 2009. CHRIS JOHNSON

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and three members of the City Council participated in a candlelight vigil to honor World AIDS Day on Sunday.
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Gay ofcial runs in new Ward 6 Dems election

Gay activist and D.C. government ofcial Jeffrey Richardson is running for president of the Ward 6 Democratic Committee for the second time in a new election scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, at the Hill Center located in the Old Naval Hospital building on Capitol Hill at 921 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E. Richardson is director of the Mayors Ofce of Volunteerism and is former director of the Mayors Ofce of GLBT Affairs. Hes also a former president of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the citys largest LGBT political group. Richardson initially won his race for president of the Ward 6 Democrats in an Oct. 1 election. But the D.C. Democratic State Committee voided the election 11 days later on grounds that eligible voters were denied the right to vote. An eight-page ruling signed by D.C. Council member Anita Bonds (D-AtLarge), who serves as chair of the State Committee, says Ward 6 Democratic ofcials announced that the Oct. 1 election for the committees ofcers would take place at a meeting scheduled to take place from 6:30-8 p.m. But according to the ruling, committee members attending the meeting approved Rules of the Day at the start of the meeting that restricted the voting to a 10-minute period rather than allow it to continue through the entire 90-minute meeting. Those arriving to vote after the 10-minute voting period ended but before the end of the meeting were disenfranchised by not being allowed to vote, according to the State Committee ruling In an announcement made last month, Ward 6 Democrats said the voting at the Dec. 7 meeting would take place between 10:20-11:20 a.m. The meeting itself was scheduled to take place from 10 a.m. to noon. Similar to the election on Oct. 1, Richardson is being opposed by Democratic activist DeLeon Ware, who lost to Richardson on Oct. 1. The only other challenged position is for third vice chairperson, in which local Realtor and Democratic activist Chuck Burger, who won on Oct. 1, is being challenged again by Joseph Slovinec. Under D.C. Democratic Party rules, any voter registered as a Democrat and who lives in Ward 6 is eligible to vote in the Ward 6 Dems election. Although its too late for additional candidates to be placed on the ballot, registered Democrats residing in the ward can run as write-in candidates. LOU CHIBBARO JR.

sculptured vertical column called the Pillar of Fire on the sidewalk outside the building. A plaque at the base of the sculpture says its dedicated to the Whitman-Walker Clinic and the many health care workers who served the LGBT community in this building from 1987 to 2008, the early years of the pandemic. D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), who served as executive director of Whitman-Walker during its years at the 1407 S St. building, called on those attending the World AIDS Day gathering to remember the dedicated people who worked on AIDS-related causes in the early years of the epidemic. Like everybody else who is here, I want to remember. I dont want to forget. I want to really remember what happened, Graham said. And when I was committing to think of the people that I wanted to mention, there became too many names. People who ought to have been with us today are not. Among the names Graham mentioned were Gene Frey, a Whitman-Walker ofcial who died in the mid-1980s of AIDS and for whom Whitman-Walkers Gene Frey Award has been named. Others named were longtime Whitman-Walker supporters and local AIDS advocates Hank Card and Dusty Cunningham, both of whom also died of AIDS. Others attending the vigil were D.C. Council members David Grosso (I-AtLarge) and Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6). Also attending the event was Dr. Joxel Garcia, director of the D.C. Department of Health; and Michael Kharfen, acting director of the DOHs HIV/ AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Administration (HAHSTA). Rev. Courtenay Miller, pastor of Norbeck Community Church of Silver Spring, Md.; and Rabbi Laurie Green of Bet Mishpachah, the D.C.-based synagogue that caters to the LGBT community, led prayers at the vigil.

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Hawaii marriage law takes effect

HONOLULU Dozens of gays and lesbians have tied the knot in Hawaii since the states same-sex marriage law took effect on Dec. 2. Six same-sex couples exchanged vows at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel shortly after the law took effect at midnight. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported 46 same-sex couples tied the knot on the rst day gays and lesbians could legally marry in Hawaii. Its about making that commitment to the person that I want to spend the rest of my life with, Saralyn Morales told the Associated Press after she and Isajah Morales exchanged vows at the Sheraton Waikiki. Gov. Neil Abercrombie on Nov. 13 signed his states same-sex marriage bill into law after lawmakers approved it during a special legislative session. His signature caps off a two-decade long effort to secure nuptials for gays and lesbians in Hawaii that began when then-state Supreme Court Justice Steven Levinson in 1993 ruled the denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples is unconstitutional.

Indiana professor les bias complaint

GARY, Ind. An Indiana University Northwest professor alleges in a complaint she led with the U.S. Department of Education on Dec. 1 that administrators denied her tenure because of her gender and her sexual orientation. The Windy City Times reported Anne Balay, who is an assistant professor in the universitys English department, also led a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Council. Balay told the newspaper she learned in April that her tenure had been denied. She said a group of students described her as angry and hostile because Im a lesbian and a feminist and also because I dont pass people who arent passing. When youre in a targeted minority and people are angry, thats where they go, so students will say all she does is talk about sexuality, Balay told the Windy City Times. Thats not true. I talk about sexuality as much as anybody else. The IUN Faculty Board of Review was scheduled to consider a complaint she led with the universitys Ofce of Afrmative Action on Wednesday. An IUN spokesperson declined to comment on Balays allegations to the Windy City Times.

TOM DALEY says hes in a relationship with a man. Several media reports claim the man in question is Oscar-winner Dustin Lance Black.
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Olympic diver Tom Daley comes out, sparking rumors

Bronze medalist said to be dating Dustin Lance Black
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS mlavers@washblade.com British Olympic diver Tom Daley on Monday acknowledged in a video he posted to YouTube that he is in a relationship with a man. Come spring this year my life changed massively when I met someone and it made me feel so happy, so safe and everything just feels great, he said. That someone is a guy. Daley, who won a bronze medal during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, said it was always in the back of my head that something like that could happen. He did not use the words bisexual or gay in the nearly ve-and-a-half-minute video. It wasnt until spring this year that something just clicked, felt right, he said. Of course I still fancy girls, but right now Im dating a guy and I couldnt be happier. I just feel safe. It just really does feel right. E! News and other media outlets on Tuesday cited sources who said Daley is dating Dustin Lance Black, the Oscarwinning screenwriter of Milk. The BBC reported Edward Lord, chair of the Amateur Swimming Association in the U.K., said Daleys decision to come out is very brave. Former Washington Wizards center Jason Collins, who came out as gay earlier this year, is among those who congratulated Daley. Congrats to @TomDaley1994 for sharing his private life with the world, Collins tweeted earlier on Monday. Brave decision. Much support and love from all of us. Daley said he had previously discussed his relationship with his mother and a handful of others. He added some family members whom he told before posting his video had mixed opinions. Others questioned Daleys decision to publicly discuss his boyfriend. This is just attention seeking, wrote one person on Daleys YouTube page. I mean your sexuality is your choice and everything but to reveal it like this is just begging it. Cyd Zeigler, Jr., co-founder of Outsports.com, an LGBT sports website, on Monday wrote that some observers will conclude this is just another step toward Daley being gay. Maybe it is. But who cares, wrote Zeigler. He still fancies girls and is now dating a guy. Wherever his journey takes him, we wish him nothing but the best and all the happiness in the world.

Arizona trade group backs LGBT rights

PHOENIX Arizonas largest association of science and technology companies on Dec. 3 announced it would add LGBT-specic issues to its lobbying agenda. Innovation is more important now than ever before, and Arizonas businesses should not be limited in their quest for the best and brightest employees because of the states discriminatory laws, said Arizona Technology Council President Steven Zylstra. Arizona voters in 2008 approved a state constitutional amendment that denes marriage as between a man and a woman.

Weir calls Russia protesters idiots

NEW YORK Retired gure skater Johnny Weir on Dec. 2 described a group of gay protesters who took issue with his previous comments in support of Russia as idiots. They say all these stupid things, Weir told an audience at Barnard College in reference to Queer Nation members who protested outside, according to Gay City News. I never supported the [Russian] government. I supported the people. NBC in October announced Weir, whose husband is of Russian descent, would provide gure skating commentary for the network during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. A Queer Nation press release said NBC has embarked on a disinformation campaign to minimize the plight of LGBT Russians in order to justify its involvement in the games.

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Obama renews PR push for health care law

Gay couple claims $5,200 in savings under Obamacare
By CHRIS JOHNSON cjohnson@washblade.com For Michael Lappin and his spouse John West, the Affordable Care Act offered critical savings more than $5,200 a year thanks to the individual insurance policies they purchased on the Obamacare website. Amid widespread media attention to the technical difculties with the Healthcare.gov site, cancelled policies and loss of registration information for enrollment, the Atlanta couple represents one positive experience in accessing health care reform. In a phone interview with the Washington Blade, Lappin said the couple, who co-founded their own business, STELLAR Mortgage Corp., was previously covered by plans that offered decent but expensive coverage. Under the Affordable Care Act, were getting new plans, Lappin said. Were switching providers, keeping our same doctor, though, as our primary care physician, and between the two of us, were going to save over $5,200 a year on our health insurance. Even with the lower cost of the insurance, Lappin said the couple will enjoy lower co-pays, lower deductibles and lower out-of-pocket costs all without help of any subsidies offered by the federal government under Obamacare. Lappin, 49, and West, 44, married in D.C. in 2012, but applied for individual plans because they have yet to le a joint tax return. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision on the Defense of Marriage Act in June, Lappin said the couple intends to le jointly next year and may revisit the idea of family coverage. I believe the rates are the same if we buy individually or together, so its just sending two checks versus one check, Lappin said. But I will denitely revisit that once we have joint tax returns and make sure. The couple enjoys a positive outcome under health care reform as President Obama makes a renewed push for the law, saying problems with the enrollment website are xed and healthcare.gov is now working for the vast majority of people. During an event at the Eisenhower Executive Ofce Building on Tuesday, Obama touted his signature legislation in front of 19 people who also had positive experiences under health care reform. Now that we are getting the technology xed we need you to go back, take a look at whats actually going on, because it can make a difference in your lives and the lives of your families, Obama said. And maybe it wont make a difference right now if youre feeling healthy, but I promise you, if somebody in your family heaven forbid gets sick, youll see the difference. As a result of the law, Obama projected that half a million people are poised to gain health care coverage through the health insurance exchanges and the Medicaid expansion beginning on Jan. 1 some for the very rst time. Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, expressed solidarity with Obama in a statement the next day, saying his law is a giant step toward delivering health care to all Americans. We stand with the president in his unshakable commitment to this fundamental component of a transformed society, Carey said. We also encourage everyone to fully educate themselves on how to access the benets of the Affordable Care Act. Upon the initial rollout of healthcare. gov, users reportedly faced numerous problems, including loading difculties and error messages. Lappin said he and his partner initially had difculties enrolling via the website, but eventually were able to apply. When I would get in, it was glitchy, but over the next probably two weeks or so, I continued to get better and I was able to get in, and get it gured out, Lappin said. As hes gone back to healthcare. gov to make payments and obtain conrmation from HUMANA, his new insurance company, Lappin noticed an increase in the websites functionality. I log back in now and the site seems to work, Lappin said. Its much faster, much quicker, the buttons actually work and do things now. As somebody whos started Oct. 1 through now, I can tell you, huge improvements to the site. Lappin said he and his spouse opted to apply for health insurance through healthcare.gov, the website for the federal exchange, because Georgia doesnt offer its own state insurance exchange and has no website for enrollment. LGBT advocates and the Obama administration have touted that health care reform provides non-discrimination protections for LGBT people in the health care system. Through regulation, the Obama administration has interpreted the gender protections under the law to apply to sexual orientation and gender identity. Although hes claiming signicant savings under Obamacare, Lappin said he doesnt think thats because of discrimination faced under the previous system.
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Higher AIDS drug costs under Obamacare?

Sebelius urged to allow drug company subsidies in exchanges
By LOU CHIBBARO JR. lchibbaro@washblade.com AIDS advocacy organizations say people with HIV could be forced to pay hundreds of dollars more each month for life-saving prescription drugs through health insurance plans required under the soon-to-be implemented Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare. Leaders of more than 160 national and local organizations advocating for people with AIDS and other diseases sent a joint letter on Monday to Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, urging her to allow drug company discount programs to operate under Obamacare. We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are writing to urge that the HHS issue clear guidance on the allowance of drug industry-provided copayments, co-insurance, or other out-ofare not federal health care programs HHS, among other things, made the exchanges and the insurance plans sold under them exempt from a provision of the Social Security Act that bans pharmaceutical companies from providing insurance co-payment discounts or subsidies to patients for the purchase of prescription drugs. Although this initial action by HHS drew strong support from AIDS organizations it surprised and angered many private health insurance companies and federal and state consumer protection regulators, who argued that the exemption would take away an important tool for preventing and prosecuting health care fraud. Critics, including U.S. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), noted that the Social Security Act prohibits pharmaceutical companies from providing co-payment assistance to patients under Medicare and Medicaid and that the Affordable Care Act should be considered as a similar federal health program.
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AIDS groups sent a letter to HHS Secretary KATHLEEN SEBELIUS urging her to allow drug company discount programs to operate under Obamacare.
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pocket discount cards and coupons in the Affordable Care Acts Health Insurance Marketplaces, the letter to Sebelius says. As people living with, and organizations serving people with HIV, HCV [Hepatitis C Virus], and other life-threatening and chronic health conditions, we are alarmed by the possibility of the prohibition of these critical nancial lifelines, the letter says.

The signers of the letter were referring to a controversy that erupted last month when Sebelius released a letter she sent to U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) saying HHS determined that the Obamacare health insurance exchanges were not federal health care programs as dened by a separate federal law aimed at curtailing health care fraud. By declaring that the exchanges

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worth it to focus on such issues. ILGA-Europe, which held its annual conference in Zagreb in late October, criticized Croatian parliamentarians who allowed the same-sex marriage referendum to take place. We believe human rights and issues concerning minority groups cannot and should not be subjected to the popular vote in the rst place, said Gabi Calleja, co-chair of the ILGA-Europe Executive Board. In a democracy, elected ofcials have a clear responsibility to safeguard human rights of everyone and not to allow democratic tools to be abused to restrict the rights of minority groups. Croatia, which ofcially joined the European Union in July, bans anti-LGBT discrimination. The countrys hate crimes law also includes sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. The AP quoted Josipovi as saying his government will seek to extend legal benets to same-sex couples that live together. He said in a video message to those who attended the ILGA-Europe conference in Zagreb that human rights imply the right of every human being to achieve his or her potential in that which he or she is.

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have our colleague, Mendelson said. Kochetkov is among the nine Russian human rights advocates with whom President Obama met in September during the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg. Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen a few weeks later also met with Kochetkov and two other LGBT rights advocates from the Ukraine and Georgia on Capitol Hill. The Russian LGBT Network is among the groups that continue to criticize the Kremlin over its gay rights record that includes a broadly worded ban on gay propaganda to minors. A 2012 law requires organizations that receive funding from outside Russia to register as a foreign agent. Human Rights First is expected to release a formal statement from Kochetkov later on Wednesday about his decision not to travel to D.C. In a related development, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach on Nov. 30 met Russian LGBT athletes and advocates amid continued criticism over the Kremlins gay rights record ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Elvina Yuvakaeva and Konstantin Yablotskiy of the Russian LGBT Sports

We cannot take away someones rights because they are different, said Israeli President SHIMON PERES.
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Israeli president backs marriage equality

Israeli President Shimon Peres on Sunday publicly backed marriage rights for same-sex couples. Even a person who is a homosexual is a human being, and he has rights, he told the news website Ynetnews during an interview while he was in Mexico on a state visit. We cannot take away someones rights because they are different. We cannot take away their right to breathe, right to eat or right to start a family. We must allow everyone to live as is natural to them. Ynetnews reported Peres comments came in response to questions about a bill in the Israeli parliament that seeks to extend civil partnerships to same-sex couples. Israel recognizes legally performed same-sex marriages in other countries. A preliminary vote on a measure that would extend tax breaks to same-sex couples with children is expected to take place later this week in the Israeli parliament. A measure that would have extended marriage rights to gays and lesbians in the country recently died in committee. Same-sex couples are currently able to legally marry in Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Iceland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, South Africa and New Zealand. Sixteen U.S. states and D.C. and Mexico City have also extended marriage rights to gays and lesbians. Same-sex couples will begin to exchange vows in England and Wales next year. A bill that seeks to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples in Scotland cleared its rst hurdle on Nov. 20. The Irish government also announced last month it will hold a referendum on the issue in 2015.

Croatian voters approve gay marriage ban

Croatian voters on Sunday approved a constitutional amendment that denes marriage as between a man and a woman. The Associated Press reported the referendum passed by a 65-34 percent margin. Marriage is the only union enabling procreation, said Croatian Cardinal Josip Bozani, according to the news agency. This is the key difference between a marriage and other unions. Other European opponents of marriage rights for same-sex couples also applauded the vote. This is very good news, said Ludovine de la Rochre, president of La Manif Pour Tous, a group that led efforts against Frances same-sex marriage law that took effect in May. We are very happy for Croatians who are going to set in stone man-woman marriage. The National Organization for Marriage praised the referendums outcome on its blog. Despite the usual cries from the left that this vote evinces an animus against gay and lesbian persons, the reasoning for those supporting the initiative is the same common-sense value system that has led to marriage victories in so many states here in America, the organization wrote. The AP reported several hundred LGBT rights supporters marched in the Croatian capital of Zagreb on Nov. 30 against the proposed constitutional amendment. President Ivo Josipovi also voted against the proposal. The referendum result must not be the reason for new divisions, he said as the AP reported. We have serious economic and social problems. Its not

Florida Congresswoman ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (left) meets with Igor Kochetkov of the Russian LGBT Network and other advocates from Ukraine and Georgia in D.C. on Sept. 18.
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Russian activist cancels U.S. visit amid threats

A Russian LGBT rights activist said threats to his organization forced him to cancel his scheduled appearance at a D.C. human rights summit. Russian LGBT Network Chair Igor Kochetkov had been scheduled to take part in Human Rights Firsts annual Human Rights Summit that began at the Newseum on Wednesday. Sarah Mendelson of USAIDs Bureau for Democracy, Conict and Human Assistance said at the start of one of the two panels in which Kochetkov was to have participated that he cancelled his appearance because he felt the threats to his organization are too acute right now. It is with deep regret that we dont

Federation and Anastasia Smirnova of the Russian LGBT Network met with Bach in Paris where he was attending the 100th anniversary of the International Fencing Federation. Emy Ritt and Marc Naimark of the Federation of Gay Games; IOC Director of Communications Mark Adams and Bachs incoming chief-of-staff, Jochen Faerber, also attended the meeting that lasted more than an hour. Yuvakaeva, Yablotskiy and Smirnova discussed their desire to have a Pride House for LGBT athletes and their supporters during the games that are scheduled to begin in Sochi on Feb. 7. They also raised concerns over the implementation of a vaguely worded law that bans gay propaganda to minors during the Olympics. The IOC ew the three to Paris for the meeting. MICHAEL K. LAVERS

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Obama announces initiative to cure HIV

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Progress Along the HIV Care Continuum. The report describes the state of the epidemic, makes recommendations going forward and highlights local successes as well as public-private partnerships. In his remarks, Obama said signicant progress has been made in confronting HIV/AIDS since Congress rst allocated funds to ght the disease in 1983, but certain communities continue to be affected more than others, including LGBT people and those in the D.C. area. Here in the United States, we need to keep focusing on investments to communities that are still being hit hardest, including gay and bisexual men, African Americans and Latinos, Obama said. We need to keep up the ght in our cities including Washington, D.C., which in recent years has reduced diagnosed infections by nearly half. As Assistant to the President on Domestic Policy Cecilia Munoz pointed out at the start of the event, the Centers for Disease Control has reported gay and bisexual men account for two-thirds of all new HIV infections in the United States. Obama said after his remarks that he would sign into law the PEPFAR Stewardship and Oversight Act of

PRESIDENT OBAMA marked World AIDS Day with remarks at the White House and expressed condence in winning the war against HIV.
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2013, which reauthorizes and extends funds under the Bush-era Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to confront HIV/AIDS overseas. The PEPFAR program, Obama said, has exceeded goals set two years ago to help 6 million people across the globe receive treatment for HIV/AIDS by the end of 2013. As it stands, Obama said the program has helped 6.7 million people receive treatment. As part of the related effort to

maintain the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria, Obama said the United States will contribute $1 for every $2 pledged by other donors over the next three years, up to $5 billion total. Dont leave our money on the table, Obama said. Its been inspiring to see the countries most affected by this disease vastly increase their own contributions to this ght in some cases, providing more than donor countries do. And that ought to inspire all of us to give more, to do more, so we can save more lives. Other accomplishments Obama touted included an end to waiting lists for drugs under the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. Two years after the Department of Health & Human Services announced that Obama directed $35 million to end the waitlists for federal drugs for HIV/AIDS, Obama said waitlists have since been eliminated. At one time, the need was so great that over 9,000 people were on the waitlist, Obama said. We vowed to get those numbers down, and Im proud to announce that, as of last week, we have cleared that waitlist. We are down to zero. Other initiatives Obama mentioned included old accomplishments, such as the lifting of the HIV travel ban, and new

efforts, including the signing of the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act, or HOPE Act, which enables HIV-positive people to donate organs to others with the disease. Additionally, Obama said early next year the United States would host a meeting with worldwide partners including governments, the Global Fund, U.N.-AIDS, and civil society to sit around one table and develop joint HIV prevention and treatment goals for the countries where we and the Global Fund do business. Well hold each other accountable, and well continue to work to turn the tide of this epidemic together, Obama said. Carl Schmid, deputy director of the AIDS Institute and an attendee at the event, praised Obama for the new initiatives, but said more work is necessary, particularly to address the HIV/AIDS infection rate among gay men. We are not making progress when it comes to gay men and more must be done, Schmid said. We hope that the administration along with the states and community-based organizations follow the strategy and, as was discussed at the White House today, follow the science and the epidemic, and for the U.S., that means a greater focus needs to be on gay men.
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AIDS groups fear Obamacare will cut drug discounts

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Possibly due to the criticism of Sebeliuss initial determination on the issue, a short time later the HHS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, which oversees insurancerelated matters, issued a memo that appeared to contradict Sebeliuss interpretation of the Social Security Act. The latter development prompted the AIDS organizations and allied groups to send their Dec. 2 letter to Sebelius urging her to hold rm on her initial determination that the insurance exchanges are exempt from the Social Security Acts ban on drug company subsidies for prescription drug coverage. The D.C.-based national group Health HIV participated in efforts to recruit groups to sign the letter. According to the Wall Street Journal, drug companies spent about $4 billion on copayment assistance programs for patients with HIV and other illnesses in 2011. The paper cited experts in the pharmaceutical industry that said the assistance programs often lowered a patients co-payment from

$250 or more per month to just $5 per month for a prescription drug. Critics of the program say the subsidies often are given for brandname drugs and encourage patients not to request cheaper generic drugs. This forces insurance companies to pay more for the name-brand drugs, resulting in higher premiums for everyone in the long run, critics have said. But in their letter to Sebelius, the AIDS organization ofcials said most AIDSrelated drugs needed by people with HIV are not available in generic forms. [W]e urge you to consider the unintended consequences of suddenly removing industry-provided out-ofpocket assistance for brand-name drugs without generic equivalents from the patchwork of programs that so many people with serious and chronic conditions rely on, the joint letter says. It could potentially threaten access to lifesaving medications for thousands of people living with HIV; bar millions of people with hepatitis C from beneting from the new short-course curative treatment combinations; and keep

countless people with cancer and other debilitating and life-threatening illnesses from the treatment they need to stay alive, the letter says. We fear this will be a major setback to the goals of the Affordable Care Act, it says. HHS spokesperson Mike Robinson said he would make inquiries in response to a request by the Blade for Sebeliuss response to the joint letter by the AIDS organizations, but he did not immediately respond. Were still waiting for a clear determination from HHS, said Carl Schmid, deputy director of the AIDS Institute, one of the groups that signed on to the letter to Sebelius. There have been some mixed signals from the department. Schmid said the drug company assistance programs seek to help people with HIV who are not eligible for the federal-state AIDS Drug Assistance Program known as ADAP, which provides AIDS drugs to low-income people who dont have insurance. Although people being helped by the pharmaceutical company assistance

programs often are employed and have moderate incomes, the high cost of prescription drug co-payments could be devastating to them, Schmid and others familiar with the programs said. Some people with HIV need more than one drug for their treatment regimen, and co-payments under their insurance plans often result in co-payments of more than $200 per drug per month. Dan Mendelson, president of the heath care consulting rm Avalere Health LLC told the Wall Street Journal that the average silver health insurance plan under the Obamacare exchanges has a required annual deductible of $2,500. He told the WSJ that the average deductible for the bronze plans under the exchanges, which are said to be the cheapest plans, is $5,000. Schmid said these costs are often prohibitive for patients with modest incomes. The elimination of the drug company assistance programs under the Affordable Care Acts exchanges would create a serious burden on HIV patients and others who now rely on the assistance programs.

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Gray to embrace two-way dialogue with LGBT community

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D.C. City Council, a restaurant ownerpolitical activist and ve lesser-known candidates have vowed to challenge his record, among other things, on grounds of ethics and political corruption. Similar to political activists across the city, several LGBT activists told the Blade that despite Grays solid record on LGBT issues they are reluctant to support the mayors re-election bid out of concern that he might be implicated in a two-and-a-half year ongoing investigation by the U.S. Attorneys ofce into Grays 2010 election campaign. Four people associated with the 2010 Gray campaign have pleaded guilty to felony charges stemming from allegations that they helped operate a secret shadow campaign that raised $655,000 without reporting the existence of those funds in violation of campaign reporting laws. Gray has said he knew nothing about the shadow campaign or alleged illegal activity by some of his campaign aides. Among those considered his main rivals are D.C. Council members Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) and Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6). Also entering the race last month was Council member Vincent Orange (D-At-Large), who ran and lost his bid for mayor in 2006 to former Mayor Adrian Fenty. Political observers say Wells and Andy Shallal, owner of the local restaurant chain Busboys and Poets who has been a longtime advocate for progressive causes, could attract support from progressive voters because of their outspoken calls for campaign nance reform and stronger ethics-in-government laws. Veteran D.C. gay activist Bob Summersgill, a Ward 3 ANC commissioner and former president of the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, is among the LGBT activists that supported Gray in 2010 but arent supporting him now. Summersgill said hes backing Wells for mayor. All of the major candidates have excellent records on LGBT issues, Summersgill said in response to a Blade survey of the citys LGBT activist leaders. I have largely looked at other issues in deciding who to support. Summersgill and Deacon Maccubbin, owner of the now closed Lambda Rising bookstore and a longtime Democratic

Among those considered Mayor Grays main rivals are D.C. Council members JACK EVANS (D-Ward 2), MURIEL BOWSER (D-Ward 4) and TOMMY WELLS (D-Ward 6).
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Party supporter, said they are backing Wells, among other things, because he has taken the lead in speaking out against political corruption and pushing for campaign nance and ethics reforms. Other prominent LGBT activists who backed Gray in 2010 said they remain strong supporters of Gray and plan to work to help the mayor win election to a second term. Ive been waiting to see what the mayor was going to do, said gay Democratic activist Lane Hudson. Now that hes announced he will seek re-election I am 110 percent in support of that. Hudson added, I think hes probably the most competent mayor we have ever had. He understands the D.C. government better than anyone that I know. He has been accessible and hes a hard worker. On LGBT issues, Hudson said of Gray, Theres never been anyone whos had

a better record on LGBT issues in D.C. politics. Others backing Gray are D.C. transgender activists Jeri Hughes and Alexandra Beninda, who called Gray the nations most supportive mayor on transgender issues. Hudson, Hughes and Beninda each said the fact that Gray has not been implicated in wrongdoing related to his 2010 mayoral campaign leads them to believe Grays long-stated assertion that the wrongdoing took place without his knowledge or approval. Barrie Daneker, treasurer of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the citys largest LGBT political group, and John Fanning, a Ward 2 gay civic activist, are among a sizable number of LGBT activists backing Evans. The two note that Evans strong support for LGBT rights dates back to the beginning of his tenure as a Council member 20 years ago. Christopher Dyer, the gay

Democratic activist who served as director of the citys Ofce of GLBT Affairs under Mayor Fenty, is among the LGBT advocates backing Bowsers mayoral bid. Veteran gay activist A. Billy S. JonesHennin is among those who remain undecided in the mayoral race. I believe Gray has done a credible job as mayor, Jones-Hennin told the Blade, however, the cloud of his 2010 election woes is still lingering. Im impressed by the campaign of Bowser. One of the lesser-known mayoral candidates, Reta Jo Lewis, a former State Department ofcial, has said she is a strong supporter of LGBT rights. The positions on LGBT-related issues among the remaining candidates that took out petitions to get on the Democratic primary ballot for mayor couldnt immediately be obtained. They include Christian Carter, Michael Green, Frank Sewell and Octavia Wells.

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the maturity in this record not only sonically, but lyrically as well. There is a denite edge to some of these songs, an edge that comes with experience and commitment, not disillusionment. Im very excited for folks to hear whats to come. Goss outspoken stance and his personal life (he married his husband Mike in 2010) have earned him a considerable following in the LGBT community, but his music appeals to anyone with a taste for power-pop and

Goss to perform in holiday cabaret

acoustic-pop peers such as Jason Mraz and Jack Johnson, but his lyrics have propelled him to serious singer/ songwriter status. Goss is working on a new album, Popular gay artist Tom Goss will appear which he promises will be the best at the Spotlighters Theatre, 817 St. Paul record hes made. St., on Dec. 28 for what is being billed as Were in the early stages of making an intimate evening with the singer/ the record so all the songs have not been songwriter. The one-night only cabaret, chosen yet, Goss told the Blade. That which begins at 8 p.m., is a benet for said, as songs get selected and worked out the Spotlighters. Tickets are $25. weekends_blade.pdf 1 11/8/13 to 1:56 with PM my band Im beginning to appreciate Goss music is often compared

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an appreciation for meaningful lyrics in the singer/songwriter tradition. He also takes pride in giving back to the community. When hes not touring the U.S., Goss is the development director for a small non-prot called Charlies Place (charliesplace.org), which provides meals, nursing services and case management services (housing and job placement) for the homeless and poor in the neighborhoods of Dupont Circle, Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights in Washington. Of his involvement in this important cause, Goss explains, Its great to be able to stay grounded in social justice. Goss says hes looking forward to his appearance at the Spotlighters and once again entertaining the Baltimore audience. You can expect a night of storytelling and song, he says of the cabaret, with a lot of laughing, smiling and even sometimes crying. For the crying part, he apologizes. My favorite part of performing is connecting with an audience, he explains. Im excited to be back up in Baltimore connecting with you all! For tickets, visit spotlighters.org.

New Wave Singers holiday concert

Celebrating their 28th year of making music that matters, the New Wave Singers of Baltimore Marylands only LGBT and straight community chorus announced its holiday concert, Warm Light on a Winters Night. The group continues its tradition of singing inclusive music in multiple languages, sharing the joy and warmth found throughout the winter holidays. Songs with bright candles, swirling snowakes, and beautiful harmonies are presented. There are two upcoming holiday performances: Saturday at 8 p.m., Govans Presbyterian Church, 5828 York Road, Baltimore and Sunday at 4 p.m., Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, 10 E. Mt Vernon Place in Baltimore. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. For more information about the New Wave Singers, visit newwavesingers.org or contact President@newwavesingers.org. STEVE CHARING

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Neb. county considers extending health benets

OMAHA, Neb. Nebraskas Douglas County, the most populous county in the state, plans to consider extending health benets to same-sex spouses of county employees who legally wed in other states, the Omaha World Herald reports. A measure that was slated to go before the County Board this week would change the denition of an eligible spouse from legally married spouse to The person to whom the employee is legally married regardless of whether that person is of the same gender or opposite gender of the employee, the article notes.

Calif. studies effects of drugs in spread of HIV

More men are reportedly serosorting that is, those who are uninfected have sex only with other men who are uninfected.

Spike in unprotected sex among gays

NEW YORK Federal health ofcials are reporting a sharp increase in unprotected sex among gay U.S. men over the past decade, a development that makes it harder to ght the AIDS epidemic, the New York Times reports in a piece widely syndicated by other media outlets such as the Boston Globe. The same trend recently has been documented among gay men in Canada, Britain, the Netherlands, France and Australia, heightening concerns among public health ofcials worldwide, the article said. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of men who told federal health investigators that they had had unprotected anal sex in the last year rose nearly 20 percent from 2005 to 2011. In the 2011 survey, unprotected sex was more than twice as common among men who said they did not know whether they were infected with HIV, the Times reports. Being tested even once for HIV is associated with men taking fewer risks, whether the test is positive or negative, health experts say. But the most recent survey found that a third of the men interviewed had not been tested in the past year. The ndings are worrying because unprotected anal intercourse is in a league of its own as far as risk is concerned, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the CDC, said on Nov. 27 according to the New York Times as the gures were released. The data, published in the agencys Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, do not explain why unprotected sex has risen so rapidly, but a leading hypothesis, Frieden said, is that more men are serosorting that is, those who are uninfected (HIV seronegative on lab reports) try to have sex only with other men who are uninfected.

LONG BEACH, Calif. A new program called the ADAM Project (Alcohol and Drug Advocacy for Men) offers substance abuse counseling and HIV prevention outreach to Latino and black gay and bi men ages 18-29, the Long Beach Press Telegram reports. Its based at the citys Gay and Lesbian Center and is one of several nonprot resources there that assist people who are HIV positive and work to prevent future infections. In Long Beach, about 90 percent of HIV and AIDS cases are in men who have had sex with other men, 67 percent are people under the age of 30 and 73 percent are Latino or black, according to 2011 Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services data, the most recent year for which numbers are available, the article noted. In a survey of 400 gay Latino and black men in Long Beach, ADAM Project workers found about 70 percent of the men said they had used illegal drugs in the past 30 days and more than 60 percent said they had unprotected sex with a man, John Kirby, director of development at Behavior Health Services (which partners with the Center in the effort), told the Telegram. He wrote the proposal that led to a ve-year, $2.5 million federal grant that funds the project. For 2011, 157 new HIV infections and 46 AIDS diagnoses were reported in Long Beach, compared with 127 new HIV infections and 46 AIDS diagnoses in 2010, the Telegram reports.

New president of psychiatric association is gay

LONDON The new head of the World Psychiatric Association has come out and says homosexuality should not be treated as an illness according to the Guardian, a British newspaper. In a wide-ranging interview, one of the things Professor Dinesh Bhugra touched on was being gay himself and his concern for the mental well being of LGBT people. Being gay is an important part of me, but a private part, he was quoted as having said by the Guardian. Bhugra will next year become the rst gay president of the World Psychiatric Association, which represents and supports 200,000 psychiatrists worldwide, which some are saying is a huge step considering the way the eld has traditionally dealt with homosexuality. For decades, in an attempt to cure homosexuality, electro-convulsive therapy and chemical castration were administered. There are still countries where its seen as an illness, he told the Guardian. We need to make a stand.

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Dearth of black LGBT characters in holiday lms

Time for Hollywood to depict reality of our families
iday season because it comes with the backhanded whammy that Hollywood may be consciously or unconsciously sending a message about its beliefs of black LGBT individuals. During the year, when the occasional black LGBT character makes his or her appearance in a mainstream lm, that character is often the butt of jokes or depicted in a comedic role. It is rare to see loving black LGBT families depicted in mainstream movies. Thus, when holiday season rolls around and family-oriented movies dominate the box office, its hard not to notice the glaring omission of black LGBT characters as a message that such characters are either deemed to be inappropriate in family-friendly films or that Hollywood is completely out of touch and doesnt realize that it has erased black LGBT individuals from black families in holiday movies, despite the fact that most black families I know have a gay relative in their extended or immediate families. I started thinking about this topic after discussing The Best Man Holiday with a friend who is also an African-American lesbian. While I dont necessarily rush to see every romantic comedy that straight black folks rave about, my friend openly avoids such films, taking a hardline stance about not seeing herself or families like hers depicted in these black films. I did choose to see The Best Man Holiday and I thoroughly enjoyed it. As an upwardly mobile black professional, I saw aspects of myself depicted in several of the characters, both male and female. While there was not a gay or lesbian couple in the lm, I still saw dynamics of relationships that I have been in. Unfortunately, there is also still a lack of quality black lms, so its hard to not be supportive when one comes out. That said, the lack of black LGBT characters in roles similar to the characters in The Best Man Holiday is troubling. It would be great to see a movie in which a loving black gay or lesbian couple and their children are spending time with other couples, gay or straight, and their children, while enjoying the holiday season and reminiscing about old times. A quick search of black LGBT characters in mainstream holiday lms with predominately black casts came back with one result: Holiday Heart, which features an openly gay drag performer in an uplifting role. Thats it. Thats the list, and you can certainly argue about whether or not Holiday Heart is mainstream or independent. While there arent many holiday movies with predominately white casts that depict loving LGBT couples and their families during the holidays, there are some. OK, maybe theres one lm that meets all of the ideal criteria. Too Cool for Christmas features a gay male couple and their two daughters during the holiday season. It is a family-friendly movie that depicts a loving family headed by a gay couple. We continue to make progress in LGBT rights. Through exposure and dialogue, the black communitys views have shifted markedly on marriage equality and LGBT rights. Lets hope Hollywood will realize this and catch up.

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Its holiday season that time of year when people from all walks of life spread holiday cheer and warm and fuzzy Christmas-themed movies ll the big screen. If you are black and LGBT, you are probably already accustomed to not seeing yourself or your family depicted in lms. While there is a dearth of black LGBT characters in movies yearlong, the absence is particularly notable during the holiday season. It may also sting more during the hol-

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By EMILY McGRANACHAN There is something electric about being in an LGBTQ space. The spark, the sizzle of energy, compassion, and willingness to both question and listen ll the air. Though I grew up in a lesbian-headed household my whole life it was not until I was 13 that I was in a consciously LGBTQ space. I had joyfully joined the Boston Pride Parade a few years earlier, tossing candy to kids on the parade route with at times a little too much enthusiasm. Though this was a fun memory, it was not until I joined COLAGE programming at Family Week in Provincetown, Mass., that for the rst time, I was in a room lled with youth who also had LGBTQ parent(s). I felt safe, I felt understood, and I felt home. That feeling has inuenced my activism and personal choices ever since. Knowing the deep impact LGBTQ advocacy and LGBTQ-inclusive spaces have had on my life, it deeply saddens me to know that my experience is somewhat unique. There are people throughout the United States who have not yet felt that current of acceptance and there are people around the world who are legally and socially barred from ever cre-

In Belarus, where NGOs are required to register with authorities, LGBT activists face discrimination, threats and other abuse at the hands of the police.
ating that space. In a country like Belarus, where nongovernmental organizations are required to register with authorities, LGBT activists face discrimination, threats and other abuse at the hands of the police. Just this year, Ihar Tsikhanyuk, an openly gay man and LGBT rights activist, was physically and verbally abused by police after he tried to register the Human Rights Center Lambda, an NGO that supports the rights of LGBT people in Belarus. Not long after rst registering the NGO, Ihar was taken from the hospital where he was being treated for a stomach ulcer to the police station. There police ofcers repeatedly punched and taunted him, demeaning him for being gay and threatening him with more violence. When police ofcers returned Ihar to the hospital, he asked for his injuries to be documented but the hospital staff refused. Those responsible for beating and threatening Ihar Tsikhanyuk have yet to be held accountable. Other activists connected to the Human Rights Center Lambda also remain at risk of further threats and abuse due to their sexual orientation or gender identity and continued LGBT activism. When silence accompanies abuse, it both condones and perpetuates the violence. Other human rights activists in Belarus face similar harassment and intimidation from authorities. While it is important to recognize that LGBT activists are not alone in the crackdown on freedom of expression and freedom of assembly in Belarus, the unique reality faced by LGBT activists targeted for their identities matters. Most people have, at some point in their lives, felt isolated or alone. For some, this alienation is brief and a community or individual embraces that person and changes their life. But imagine that you are isolated from other individuals or communities who share your

identity. LGBT people in countries like Belarus are trying to create that space to demonstrate to themselves and others that they are not alone. Every person has the human right to a life of dignity free from discrimination, but this is a distant reality for many who face grave personal risk just for expressing their identity. This year, Amnesty Internationals Wright for Rights campaign is standing with Ihar Tsikhanyuk and the members of the Human Rights Center Lambda. In December we will come together to send messages of solidarity by urging the government of Belarus to initiate a thorough, independent, and impartial investigation into the ill-treatment and threats that Ihar suffered at the hands of police ofcers. Activists like Ihar must be protected from further violence and humiliation. By joining us in writing to the Belarusian government, you can join millions of activists from around the world calling for change, so they too can create welcoming spaces without risk and advocate for their rights. This is our moment to echo around the world that LGBT activists and individuals are not alone.
EMILY MCGRANACHAN is the Social Media Lead for Amnesty Internationals LGBT Rights Coordination Group. This spring she will complete a masters degree in Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs at American University.

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Still seeking an AIDS-free generation

Obama must keep his promise, boost ght against disease
By PHILIP HOROWITZ On Sunday, the world paused to honor the millions of lives that have been lost since 1981 due to the AIDS pandemic. Each year on Dec. 1, events are held around the world by those living with AIDS and their advocates, along with politicians, celebrities, and health care providers, to celebrate the achievements made in the ght against AIDS and to remember those we have lost. Dec. 1 is also the day the American government uses to reafrm its position on the ght against AIDS. In years past, President Obama has committed to achieving an AIDS-free generation, but this year his words must be backed up with a promise with numbers. He follow through on this commitment in his 2015 scal year budget. When former President George W. Bush was in ofce, he created the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which acted as a bilateral funding program from the United States. This emergency plan, along with the multi-lateral Global Fund to end AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, have helped change the landscape of AIDS globally, especially in developing nations. PEPFAR has been the most successful program, both within its framework and implementation, to address a single disease. Combined, these two programs have been able to put millions of infected individuals on effective treatments, and they have provided prevention and care for many more. It is clear that these programs are effective, and with an increase in funding they can be the mode by which we can end this terrible pandemic. By putting more people on treatments globally, we can reduce the infection rate and end AIDS. If we scale up these programs, there could be zero new infections, globally, within the next 30 years. Let me make sure that registers, if we act now, the AIDS pandemic could be over before we die. PEPFAR has put about 6 million people on HIV treatment drugs. In order to see the end of this pandemic, President Obama should commit to increasing treatment levels by putting 12 million people on treatment by 2016. If he makes this commitment, we could see the end of AIDS in fewer than 30 years, and truly have an AIDS-free generation.
PHILIP HOROWITZ is president of the George Washington Universitys chapter of the Student Global AIDS Campaign.

Each year on Dec. 1, politicians, celebrities and caregivers hold vigils to remember those who succumbed to AIDS. But with more government help, we could eradicate AIDS in our lifetime.
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And the money keeps rolling in

In 50 years since JFK, cash became king
Today we would hear someone like Wolf Blitzer asking some inane question of some irrelevant commentator telling us what they thought of what we were seeing. I reected on how different politics is today. We no longer debate freely new and potentially soaring ideas. Politicians are primarily focused on how much money they need to raise for their next campaign. They watch every word they utter knowing that with social media and cable news it will be broadcast over and over and either raise money or cost them support. Each day as the 20-30 email requests for money from candidates, political action committees and political parties arrive in my inbox, I am reminded of the song from the show Evita, And the money keeps rolling in. And the money kept rolling in from every side. Evas pretty hands reached out and they reached wide. Now you may feel it should have been a voluntary cause but thats not the point my friends. When the money keeps rolling in you dont ask how. Think of all the people guaranteed a good time now Evas called the hungry to her, Open up the doors, never been a fund like the Foundation Eva Peron. The second verse of the song tells a very different story. I cant help but compare where that money went to where the money I am asked to contribute today goes. And the money kept rolling out in all directions, to the poor, to the weak, to the destitute of all complexions. Now cynics claim a little of the cash has gone astray but thats not the point my friends when the money keeps rolling out. You dont keep books. You can tell youve done well by the happy grateful looks, accountants only slow things down, gures get in the way, never been a lady loved as much as Eva Peron. Today we do keep books and the money gets accounted for, except maybe for the 501(c) 4s, but it doesnt go to the poor, the weak or destitute. Today it tends to make the rich richer. It pays for attack ads on TV, political consultants, and in the end even when it convinces people to vote usually they dont love anyone. Yearning for the good old times of Camelot isnt reality. While Jackie Kennedy wanted us to think of Jacks time in the White House as Camelot, reality was we still hadnt passed a civil rights bill, we were going into Vietnam, backroom abortions were still the norm and there was no equality for the LGBT community. But politics was different. The quest for more and more money hadnt gotten so out of hand and serious issues could be debated. Politicians could speak their mind for better or worse without having every word get back to their constituents, translated and dissected by some TV commentator or blogger, who often has no idea what he/she is talking about. Ronald Reagan would ask if we are better off than we were in 1963. The answer in some ways is yes. We are a more just society but we are still a society of haves and havenots. The rich get richer and the poor dont seem to get anywhere. Congress wont raise the minimum wage yet the stock market has gone from 7,000 to 16,000 in ve years. Mitt Romney lost an election because he called 47 percent of the population takers, but then we really havent given them all that much to take and the middle class is struggling just to break even. The world is a more complex place than it was in 1963 and it seems the more money that ows into politics the worse things become. There is still a ght against universal healthcare and the rabid right wing would rather see 40 million people do without health insurance than have those who can afford it pay slightly more. Yet no one bats an eye when presidential candidates need to raise a billion dollars to run their campaigns. And the money keeps rolling in.

PETER ROSENSTEIN is a D.C.-based LGBT rights and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly for the Blade.

Watching the 50-year-old CBS black and white broadcast from 1963, the weekend when Kennedy was assassinated, made me realize how different those times were. I remember vividly the nation and much of the world standing still for those four days. I watched as leaders of 80 nations including General Charles De Gaulle and Emperor Haile Selassie walked behind the caisson carrying President Kennedys body from the White House to St. Matthews Cathedral. I was struck by how the event was reported. We were able to actually watch much of what was happening without the constant chatter of an annoying anchorperson. Pictures were allowed to speak for themselves.

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Local business groups, owners of both small and sizable businesses, and District residents have indicated support for an increased D.C. minimum wage. A hike in the current $8.25 per hour, one dollar higher than the federal minimum and already among one of the higher rates in the country, is not in question. What is at stake is whether an increase will be reasonable and responsible. On that score, the rst of two required D.C. Council votes on Tuesday afternoon unanimously approving a super-minimum wage hike fails. The legislation, advanced by lead sponsor Vincent Orange, provides for a threeyear phase-in beginning with a hike to $9.50

in July of next year, adding one dollar in two subsequent annual increases to reach $11.50 per hour on July 1, 2016. The rate would then stabilize, increasing commensurate to the consumer price index. To the overwhelming relief of tipped workers, the Council preserved the current applicable wage system specifying an employer-paid $2.77 per hour base pay and requirement that any differential in baseplus-tips and the minimum be guaranteed by employers in the rare instances that combined wages do not exceed it. Employees earning tips had worried that an increased base pay would reduce customer tipping and cause significant reductions in income. Tipped workers were also concerned that bars and restaurants would be forced to reduce both staffing and hours to accommodate the extraordinary costs of a higher base pay. Surprising to most, only approximately 4,000 of 745,000 employees at District businesses are paid the minimum wage. This modest 0.05 percent increases by an estimated 3,000 paid below the proposed rate when implemented, according to Council Chair Phil Mendelson. Contrary to public perception, few of these are bar and restaurant workers, where wages above the proposed level are com-

monplace. Fast food outlets, some national retail corporations and local community small businesses are thought to employ most of the small number earning less than $11.50 per hour. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray reafrmed his support for a minimum wage increase in a letter to the Council immediately prior to the vote, smartly supporting a staged increase to a sensible $10 rate with no automatic trigger in subsequent years. Gray had also previously requested the Council support his plan for an immediate three-month study of the scope and impact of an increase to best determine a rational amount without deleterious effects. Council members, however, werent interested in facts or gures despite Grays pledge to provide them with data as acquired. Understanding implications would not require implementation delay. Instead, Council members are intent on forging ahead in an all-too-familiar acthastily worry-about-it-later manner, offering mutual self-congratulation for preliminarily approving the nations highest rate. Absent negatives at specic wage levels, mandating a much higher so-called living wage would be possible. Undisputed, however, are counterproductive rates caus-

ing economic harm. The math is no mystery. If a small business employs 10 full-time workers, the annual payroll increase from the current rate to $11.50 an hour is $71,500 in annual base costs alone. For many owners, that exceeds protability and their salary. Available solutions are reducing the number of employees or, to maintain stafng exibility, reducing hours or both. For some retailers and fast food franchisees, customer service automation is increasingly attractive. Ask CVS about selfscanned checkout, or the 7,000 McDonalds locations in Europe already utilizing ordering and payment kiosks. Blithely increasing the minimum wage too high and too fast causes low-skill employment to stagnate or suffer reductions in a city graduating only 59 percent of high school students and with high adult unemployment. No one should be surprised that a Council comprised of those with no practical private sector experience, real-world business operation or responsibility for meeting payrolls would place smug satisfaction ahead of those in need. The working poor and unemployed lowskill workers who desperately need smart leadership from elected ofcials will pay the price for this foolishly cavalier behavior.

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By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO joeyd@washblade.com Its been a good year for Antigone Rising. The country/rock band got strong video play on CMT with current single That Was the Whiskey and founding member Kristen Ellis-Henderson made the April 8 cover of Time magazine for the lesbian version of its controversial Gay Marriage Already Won issue with her wife, Sarah Kate Ellis-Henderson. The band all lesbians in the current lineup plays Viennas Jammin Java Saturday night. We spoke with EllisHenderson by phone two weeks ago from her home in Sea Cliff, N.Y. Her comments have been slightly edited for length. WASHINGTON BLADE: The band has such great vocal harmony. How integral is working out the harmony parts when constructing the song as a whole? KRISTEN ELLIS-HENDERSON: It depends. Weve been doing it so long now that a lot of times we just kind of fall into a certain role. But very often when were writing melodically, were also thinking about the harmonies too.

We often say if we have to work too hard or think too hard about it, we must be going about it the wrong way. Often well just go with what ows the most naturally. This has been a philosophy that has held true in other areas of our career as well. Certain songs will just click faster and every once in awhile we have to really push for something but often theyre the ones that arent really well received. Weve just found that to be a kind of rule almost. BLADE: Do you all write? ELLIS-HENDERSON: (Lead singer) Nini (Camps) and I are the primary songwriters but were a band so we all have a part in it. Again, weve been together so long now, I almost know instinctually what Cathy (Henderson, Ellis-Hendersons sister) and (drummer) Dena (Tauriello) will bring to it. But yes, technically Nini and I hole up in a room, then we bring it to the band and the band takes it to the next level. BLADE: By now weve seen out singers be out in every way possible from coming out late in their careers, being out right from the start and every step in between. How calculated was the handling of that early on in the band? ELLIS-HENDERSON: In the earlier part of our career, we were often methodical

about trying to keep it on the inside. I never was comfortable with trying to keep it quiet because wed always played gay bars and anybody who paid attention knew it. But there were some in the band at the time who felt in the 90s, that it would be pigeonholing ourselves to be more out. We had some straight people in the band at the time and some members who felt pretty strong about that. I never really felt that way and I always knew our strongest support came from the lesbian and gay community. Then over time, the band has shifted members. I started a family and have a wife and kids so I cant really live my life in the closet. We say now the music and the band are pretty much an open book. Were here, were gay and were proud and we feel that goes hand in hand with being in a band. I know there are some artists who feel differently and thats ne. Everybody has their own approach. Some feel its not their place to try to change hearts and minds but I feel we have a bigger role and thats something we can all contribute to. BLADE: So it just kind of worked out that all the current members are lesbians? ELLIS-HENDERSON: Nini has been with us since 2008 but Cathy and Dena and I have been together almost 20 years. Cathy and I started the band and maybe ve years after that, Dena joined

us and has been with us about 15 years. Nini and I were always writing together and she toured with us some and was like an honorary member in some ways for a long time, back when we did some shows with the Bangles. But shes been ofcially with us about ve years. BLADE: That Was the Whiskey got some strong attention this year. Was that from an album or is it slated to be on one? ELLIS-HENDERSON: It wasnt and heres the thing and we are literally still in talks about this but we are discussing whether we want to ever release another album. Were seriously thinking about just offering a different download every other month and kind of making that our business model. Even with big acts like Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry who are on these huge major labels, they have these huge hits that everybody downloads and its like nobody even cares anymore about the rest of the album. I mean thats what the numbers are really showing. The whole industry is in disarray so were thinking of changing our business model and thinking this could be something we could be really successful at just going one song at a time and make each one an event.

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How long have you been out and who was the hardest person to tell? Ive been out since 2009. I came out to my friends and my older sister rst. The hardest people to tell were my parents. I knew they would love me no matter what but I was scared that I would be disappointing them. Whos your LGBT hero? Audre Lorde Facebook post or Tweet? A picture of me at one of my oldest friends wedding. If your life were a book, what would the title be? Trying Not to Trip and Fall If science discovered a way to change sexual orientation, what would you do? I would be outraged that research dollars were being spent on such a ridiculous project and probably organize a campaign targeting the homophobic group or individuals funding the effort. What do you believe in beyond the physical world? I believe in a loving, gracious and just God. Whats your advice for LGBT movement leaders? I dont presume that Im in a place to give anyone advice. I would thank them for their commitment to our community and to progress. I would ask that we continue to be bold and challenge ourselves to make our movement more inclusive and safe for all people particularly trans people and LGBT people of color. What would you walk across hot coals for? Hot coals? Wow, sounds fun. What LGBT stereotype annoys you most? I am generally annoyed by gender binary stereotypes period, that goes for gay and straight folks. I think we put too much emphasis on what it means to be a man or a woman. Whats your favorite LGBT movie? Saving Face Whats the most overrated social custom? Greeting cards. I prefer a nice note. What trophy or prize do you most covet? Ive recently gotten more into running. In 2014 Id like to run in more races and collect a medal for a half marathon. What do you wish youd known at 18? That I was gay. Why Washington? I came to Washington because I wanted to effect policy change and be among people who share my passion for politics and progress.

Whats Washingtons best nightspot, past or present? Im more of a lounge or karaoke kind of girl but my fave party spots are MOVA ladies night on Wednesday and Peach Pit 90s dance party. Describe your dream wedding. Normally I would say on a beach with a small group of friends and family but sand and I dont get along that well. So, lets say a small ceremony with friends and family overlooking a beach. What non-LGBT issue are you most passionate about? Education, particularly higher education. I believe that education can be a great equalizer in a world where so many outside factors can pre-determine a persons access to opportunity. I am committed to creating sustainable models for quality and affordable education for all. What historical outcome would you change? I dont think I would change anything. Even though there have been a number of tragedies throughout history, you never know how one event might impact another in the future. Whats been the most memorable pop culture moment of your lifetime? I cant speak for an entire lifetime but the life and death of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston are very memorable for me. Whitney and Michael were a huge part of my life growing up and I think they really helped to shape what it means to be an artist and a pop culture icon. On what do you insist? Authenticity and love. If nothing else we must be real with others but more importantly with ourselves. Its certainly not always easy but if we can all come from a place of authenticity and love then we can get through even the toughest challenges. What was your last

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The cast of The Lyons. From left are NAOMI JACOBSON as Rita, JOHN LESCAULT as Ben, MARCUS KYD as gay son Curtis and KIMBERLY GILBERT as Lisa.

Sparring Lyons shows some humanity beneath the barbs and jabs
By PATRICK FOLLIARD Ah, the Lyons family. For a second they seem a not-unusual American middle class family: long-married parents, a partnered gay son and a divorced daughter with two young children. But then quickly you realize the subjects of playwright Nicky Silvers black comedy (straightforwardly titled The Lyons), are far from average in fact, they rank rather high on the familial dysfunction scale. Not as bad as the Manson family, but up there. Making its D.C.-area premiere at Round House Theatre, Silvers Broadway hit is in keeping with the gay playwrights tried and true M.O.: gay son protagonist navigating relationships with an unstable sister and selfinvolved mother. This particular incarnation kicks off in a hospital room where father Ben (a terric John Lescault) is dying from cancer while his unconcerned wife Rita (the reliably funny Naomi Jacobson) thumbs through decorating magazines. Eager to redo the living room despite her husbands objections, Rita chirpily reminds him that he wont be around to see the results anyway. Shortly the couple is joined by their adult daughter Lisa (Kimberly Gilbert), an insecure recovering alcoholic, followed by their seemingly composed gay son Curtiss (Marcus Kyd) who comes bearing an enormous peace lily. A visit that should be all about the dying father turns into anything but, soon erupting into an explosion of accusations, revelations and admissions. Throughout it all, Lescaults Ben who never speaks but yells, makes his distaste for Rita and disappointment in Curtis very clear by dropping a barrage of loud and well-aimed F-bombs. Silver jumps to and fro from biting dialogue to poignantly revealing monologues. His fabulously insensitive characters leave a trail of barbs, sarcasm and hurt feelings, but they also show ashes of insight, vulnerability and humanity. While each of the Lyons is

ferocious in their own way, beneath the contempt that holds them together lies some caring. As the good Jewish mother, Rita worries incessantly about her children nding reasonable mates. She also defends her young ercely. When her husband rst guessed that Curtis was gay, he tossed out his young sons Judy at Carnegie Hall album. That move resulted in Rita purchasing a handgun. Skilled director John Vreeke has assembled an exceedingly agile group of actors. As Curtis, Kyd gives a nuanced performance. When with the family, he comes off comparatively restrained. Gilberts wonderfully messy Lisa, lonely but hopeful, is the familys most sympathetic member. But its far from their parents that the siblings reveal the most Lisa more appropriately at an AA meeting. But Curtis lets his guard down looking at apartments with a disarming real estate agent played most affectively Brandon McCoy. The results are disastrous. Silvers characters act out in over-the-top ways (the productions program credits Joe Isenberg with the excellent ght choreography), but in terms of feelings theyre not so out there. Rounding out the talented cast is versatile actor Gabriela FernandezCoffey as a likable hospital nurse who changes from placid to hardboiled depending on the needs of each patient. The production looks just right. Misha Kachmans realistic revolving set doubles as a perfectly nice, standard issue hospital room and a vacant, no-frills New York studio apartment. Rosemary Pardees costumes are spot on the Lyons taste level is a little off. They dress sort of suburban hip. Despite his visceral dissection of the family, Silver is hopeful. When Curtis is at his most alienated and broken down, theres a pervasive sense that things will improve. We seem to know it gets better.
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JUDI DENCH and STEVE COOGAN in Philomena.

Feel-good Philomena
Strong Dench performance anchors gay-themed dramedy
By BRIAN T. CARNEY With its winning combination of comedy, moral uplift and righteous indignation, and the surprisingly effective pairing of Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, Philomena is an excellent addition to your holiday festivities. The lm is based on the true story of Philomena Lee (Dench), an unwed mother in Ireland who was forced to give her son up for adoption and to work in a convent laundry to atone for her sins and to reimburse the nuns for their obstetrical care. (The outrageous treatment of women like Philomena is explored in the award-winning 2002 documentary The Magdalena Sisters.) With the help of former journalist and disgraced politician Martin Sixsmith (Coogan), she decides to track down her son. After being stonewalled by the nuns at the convent in Roscrea where Philomena was conned, the unlikely duo travel to Washington to follow up some promising leads. Sixsmith discovers that Michael was adopted by wealthy American parents and ended up as a closeted advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Philomena is devastated to learn that her son died of AIDS, but the unlikely duo decide to track down Michaels friends and family to nd out more about the young man. Their road trip is both sad and funny, bringing together Philomenas amusing observations of American life (she cant wait to watch Big Mommas House on the hotel TV) and the moving memories of Michaels sister (who has been adopted from the same convent), female friend (and beard) and widower. The screenplay by Coogan and Jeff Pope (based on Sixsmiths memoir) deftly weaves together Philomenas sexual indiscretion with her sons repressive politics and closeted life, her unshaken faith in the Catholic Church against Sixsmiths world-weary cynicism and atheism, and her belief in forgiveness versus the unyielding and unchanging judgments of the nuns. It leavens these serious themes with some delicious comic moments Sixsmiths interactions with his editor and former colleagues, Philomenas delights at the perks of traveling on an expense account, and especially Philomena regaling the exasperated Sixsmith with the convoluted plot of one of her beloved romance novels. But despite its many strengths, the screenplay does not fully manage to make the real-life story believable as a free-standing movie. For example, although we learn that Philomena has married and had children and moved to London, we never nd out any details about her adult life. Likewise, we never learn in any detail about the scandal that has derailed Sixsmiths high-ying career. These details could have amplied the powerful themes of redemption, betrayal and secrecy in powerful ways. More seriously, though, the actions of the supporting characters are unmotivated. Michaels widower, for example, goes to great lengths to avoid Martin and Philomena, but we never know why, and Michael himself remains a closeted but pleasant cipher. Despite these aws, the center of this thoroughly enjoyable movie is the stellar performance of Dame Judi Dench. She creates a richly multi-faceted character with great sensitivity and restraint. Her performance is ably echoed by the talented Sophie Kennedy Clark as the young Philomena in well-written ashback sequences. Both actresses bring to vivid life Philomenas sensual delight in the ing that resulted in her pregnancy and the psychic and physical horrors of her cruel treatment by the avaricious nuns, as well the deep belief in the possibilities of human nature that brings about the powerful acts of forgiveness that cap the movie. Dench is also well-supported by Coogan, who is best known for his comic turns in such movie as Hamlet 2, but shines in the more dramatic role of the disgraced politician Martin Sixsmith. As both writer and director, Coogan avoids the sentimental clichs that could have bogged the movie down and fully embraces the less savory aspects of Sixsmiths character to make him a more effective foil to Philomena. Both funny and inspirational, Philomena is satisfying holidayseason cinematic fare. Its playing at Landmark E Street, Bethesda Row Cinemas and other area theaters.

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By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO Mia Ryan is one of the main characters on Houston Beauty, a reality show on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). Its set in the Houston-based Franklin Beauty School where owner Glenda Ms. J Jemison runs a tight ship. Mia, a native Texan whos transgender and left a life of escorting, is one of the students working on a cosmetology license. The show debuted in late October and runs through Dec. 14. It airs on Saturday nights at 8 and 10 p.m. We caught up with Mia by phone a few weeks ago to talk about her experience on the show, which lmed in 2012. Shes still in Houston but is taking a break from Franklin to care for an elderly relative. She says shes about halfway through the process of earning her certication, which takes about nine months if one goes full time. Shes 18 now and started transitioning when she was 15. Billed in her media kit as only the third trans woman to have a recurring storyline on a major network TV show, Mia says she didnt seek out the opportunity. She simply learned a reality show was planned at the school at the time she happened to be enrolled there. I went to Franklin in an attempt to better my life and career and the show was just there, she says. I was kind of standofsh at rst. I didnt feel my life was something to be proud of with the things I was doing so it took me awhile to open up. She says the feedback so far has been highly positive. I opened up and allowed my life to be an open book to America, she says. Everyone has been really proud of me and I hope I can possibly inspire someone else. Anybody whos seen the show knows the exchanges have wrought plenty of drama, necessary to sustain any reality show. Her exchanges with Ms. J who has insisted on referring to her at times by the boy name she grew up with have fueled some of the more heated moments. She is a good person but she has some growing up to do, Mia says of the instructor. Shes from the older generation and is just not too fond of alternative lifestyles. Mia says Ms. J did come around to some degree during the shooting, but says there were still tough moments. She had never experienced a Mia Ryan before, she says. I dont know if it was because I was transgender or what. I couldnt quite put my nger on why she treated me differently. Maybe she sensed more expectation in me and so she felt she needed to be harder on me, I dont know. Mia says contrary to assumptions about reality TV, the situations and tensions seen on the show were not rigged. I think any viewer who watches these shows knows these things cant really be faked, she says. Those were actual things that were occurring at the time. It was real and in some ways, it was a lot worse than what you actually see on the show. They had to do a lot of cutting and editing to get it down to an episode, so there was a lot more than what they used. Mia says the outspoken Queensley is the only person on the show shes still in touch with regularly. She plans to continue at Franklin when she is able. Of course I never thought something like this would happen, she says. Id seen transgender people like Laverne Cox (of Orange is the New Black) and Isis King (of Americas Next Top Model) and Ive been truly inspired by those women as well. I always wanted to do something inspiring to help people. I just didnt think it would unfold like this.

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By KEVIN MAJOROS Registration for the winter season of Stonewall Darts opens Monday and runs through Thursday (Dec. 12). League fees are $35 for returning players and $40 for new players. The League was launched in January when some space in a back room opened up at MOVA Lounge D.C. I was bartending at MOVA when my bosses indicated that something needed to be created for the back room, says Austin Henderson, commissioner and founder. Henderson, who also plays Stonewall Kickball and Stonewall Bocce, went on a road trip to Harrisburg, Pa., and stumbled upon an LGBT darts league. I came back and told my bosses about it, Henderson says. Next thing you know, we launched a league with 72 players. The second season of the League grew to 94 players and the coming season, its third, is expected to cap out at 108 players with six players per team. The players consist of male and female members of the LGBT community and their allies and the League will play on Thursday nights from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at MOVA starting on Jan. 9. Players can join as a six-member team

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Logan Circle neighborhood opens homes

The 35th annual Logan Circle Holiday House Tour, hosted by the Logan Circle Community Association, is open Sunday from 1-5 p.m. The self-guided tour showcases nine properties with contemporary designs, including a Victorian property with a combined living, dining and kitchen area in a large, open space. The Association has sponsored these holiday house tours since 1978. Tickets are $30. For more details and to purchase tickets, visit logancircle.org.

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BB&T Classic at Verizon Center

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BB&T Classic Sunday, a college basketball double header game to benet the Childrens Charities Foundation, will be played at the Verizon Center (601 F St., N.W.) Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. The double header features University of Maryland versus George Washington University and George Mason University versus University of Oklahoma. This D.C.-based basketball tournament has been held annually since 1995. Tickets are $30 and available via teamdc.org.
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Gospel singers Jennifer Knapp and Margaret Becker perform a Christmas show Hymns of Christmas at Jammin Java (227 Maple Ave. E Vienna, Va.) on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Knapp, a lesbian, and Becker met in 1998 and formed a connection that would lead to a Christmas collaboration. The show features classic Christmas carols in the form of duets. The two singers also perform a handful of their solo hits as well. Tickets are $18. The Lobby Bar opens at 6 p.m. and remains open after the show. Doors open at 7 p.m. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit jamminjava.com.

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Crack, a local LGBT theater troupe, performs at Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) Saturday night at 10 p.m. Crack was created in 2005 by Shea Van Horn, Chris Farris and Karl Jones for local LGBT artists, performers and designers who have fallen through the cracks of traditional theater and gives them a space to perform. The shows are a mixture of live performance, video and audience participation. The show is hosted by drag queen Summer Camp. Cover for the show is $10 from 10-11 p.m. and $12 after 11 p.m. Doors open at 9 p.m. Admission is limited to guests 21 and over. For details, visit towndc.com.

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washingtonblade.com 48 DECEMBER 06, 2013 THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE

HOT HITS & HIDDEN JEWELS

F R O M C U LT U RE C AP I TAL .C OM Y O U R L IN K T O THE ARTS I N ME TR O D.C.

THEATRE
Virginia Opera: The Magic Flute. Dec 6-Dec 7. GMU Center for the Arts. 888945-2468. cfa.gmu.edu. Shear Madness. Thru Jan 31. Kennedy Center. 800-444-1324. kennedy-center.org. A Christmas Carol. Thru Jan 1. Fords Theatre. 800-982-2787. fords.org. Edgar and Annabel. Dec 11-Jan 5. The Apple Family Plays. Thru Dec 29. Studio Theatre. 202-232-3300. studiotheatre.org. Woody Sez: The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie. Thru Dec 14. Theater J. 800-494-8497. theaterj.org. The Lyons. Thru Dec 22. Round House Bethesda. 240-644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. The King and I. Thru Dec 29. A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A Ghost Story of Christmas. Thru Dec 29. Olney Theatre. 301-924-3400. olneytheatre.org. Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill. Thru Dec 8. Signature Theatre. 703-820-9771. signature-theatre.org. Puccinis Le Villi and Heart of Madrid. Thru Dec 7. A Family Reunion. Thru Dec 8. In Series. GALA Hispanic Theatre. 202-204-7763. inseries.org. Protest. Thru Dec 15. Ambassador Theater. Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint. 703-475-4036. aticc.org.

MUSEUMS
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Question Bridge: Black Males. Dec 7-Feb 16. NOW at the Corcoran Mia Feuer: An Unkindness. Thru Feb 23. Alex Prager: Face in the Crowd. Thru Mar 9. American Journeys - Visions of Place. Thru Sep 21. 202-639-1700. corcoran.org. Folger Shakespeare Library. Here Is A Play Fitted. Thru Jan 12. folger.edu. Fords Theatre. Not Alone: The Power of Response. Thru Dec 8. 202-347-4833. fords.org. Kreeger Museum. Mindy Weisel: Not Neutral. Thru Dec 28. John L. Dreyfuss Inventions. Thru Apr 1. 202-337-3050. kreegermuseum.org. National Archives. Discovery and Recovery: Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage. Thru Jan 5. 202-357-5000. archives.gov. National Gallery of Art. Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection. Thru Jan 5. Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press. Thru Jan 5. Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris. Thru Jan 5. 202-737-4215. nga.gov. National Geographic. Women of Vision. Thru Mar 9. One Cubic Foot. Thru Mar 31.. 202-857-7000. nglive.org. Museum of Women in the Arts. Wanderer: Travel Prints by Ellen Day Hale. Thru Jan 15. Equal Exposure: Anita Steckels Fight Against Censorship. Thru May 9. 202-783-5000. nmwa.org. The Phillips Collection. Van Gogh Repetitions. Thru Jan 26. Duncan Phillips and New York Collections. Thru Feb 28. 202-387-2151. phillipscollection.org.

YES, NO, MAYBE: ARTISTS WORKING AT CROWN POINT PRESS THRU JAN 5. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. 202-737-4215. NGA.GOV. Featuring 125 working proofs and edition prints produced between 1972 and 2010 at Crown Point Press in San Francisco. Artists represented include John Cage, Chuck Close, Richard Diebenkorn, Sol LeWitt, and Wayne Thiebaud, as well as Mamma Andersson, Julie Mehretu, Jockum Nordstrm, Laura Owens, and Amy Sillman. JA C KIE HO F FM ANS A C HANUK AH CH A ROL DEC 7 -D EC 8 . JC C NV. 7 0 3 -5 3 7 -3 0 0 0 . JCCNV.ORG. In this production, created and performed by Broadway and television star and comedienne Jackie Hoffman (Hairspray, Xanadu, The Addams Family, The New Normal), Jackie is forced to examine her life when she is visited by the Ghosts of Chanukah Past, Present and Future, and even Molly Picon! T HE PA J A M A M E N: JUST THE TWO OF EA CH OF U S . DEC 1 2 -J A N 5 . WOOL LY MAMM OTH. 202-393-3939. W O O L LY M A M M OTH.NE T. Blending their trademark wit, characters, improv, and fast-paced physical comedy with plenty of new surprises, comedy duo The Pajama Men return to Woolly this holiday season with their newest show: a thrilling, time-warped, joke-ridden tale, whose seemingly unrelated storylines come crashing seamlessly together in breathless Pajama Men fashion! N S O PO PS : HAP P Y HOL I D AYS! WI TH BRIA N S T OKES MIT C H EL L / S TE VE N R E I NE K E , C ONDU CT OR DEC 1 2 -D EC 1 4 . NSO. K E NNE D Y C E N T ER. 202-467-4600. K EN N ED Y-CE NTE R.ORG . With his singularly thunderous baritone (New York Times), Tony winner and Kennedy Center favorite Brian Stokes Mitchell (Sweeney Todd) returns for the holidays. Look out for Santa Claus and even snow in the Concert Hall!
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DANCE
Ballet Hispanico. Thru Dec 6. Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. Magical Musical Holiday Step Show. Dec 11-Dec 22. Step Afrika!. Atlas. 202.399.7993. stepafrika.org. The Nutcracker. Thru Dec 29. The Washington Ballet. Warner Theatre. 202-397-7238. washingtonballet.org.

GALLERIES
Artisphere. Westen Muntain: Lovesong. Thru Jan 4. The Imaginary App. Thru Jan 5. Dave Beck: Logjam. Thru Jan 5. Emily Francisco: May I Have The Piano Delivered To You?. Thru Jan 12. 703-875-1100. artisphere.com. DCAC. Emancipation: Meditations on Freedom. Thru Jan 5. 202-462-7833. dcartscenter.org. Fisher Art Gallery. Robert Gilbert: Manhattan Overwhelms the Night. Thru Dec 15. 703-534-5726. nvcc.edu. Goethe-Institut. Linger On! Photography from Saxony-Anhalt. Thru Jan 31. 202-289-1200. goethe.de. Joan Hisaoka Gallery. Against the Bias. Thru Dec 21. 202-483-8600. smithcenter.org. Neptune Fine Art. Wolf Kahn: Printmaking with Line and Color. Thru Jan 11. 202 338-0353. neptuneneart.com. Target Gallery. Small Worlds. Dec 7-Jan 12. 703.838.4565. torpedofactory.org. The Art League Gallery. The Street Sense Project: Portraits by Thien-Kim Pham. Thru Jan 6. 703-683-1780. theartleague.org.

MUSIC
Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra. Dec 8. Zemer Chai. Dec 11. Strathmore. 301-581-5100. strathmore.org. NSO: Brahmss Symphony No. 1, plus two by Mozart. Dec 6-Dec 7. Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. An Irish Christmas. Dec 7. National Geographic. 202-857-7700. nglive.org. Wolf Trap Holiday Sing-A-Long. Dec 7. Bill Frisells Big Sur Quintet. Dec 6. The Barns. 703-255-1900. wolftrap.org. Soa Rei. Dec 7. Artisphere. 888-8412787. artisphere.com. Emerson String Quartet. Dec 8. Baird Auditorium. 202-633-3030. residentassociates.org. Call Me Madam - Embassy of Luxembourg. Thru Dec 7. miXtSpanish Ambassadors Residence. Dec 12. The Embassy Series. Spanish Ambassadors Residence. 202-625-2361. embassyseries.org. National Chamber Ensemble. Dec 8. Spectrum Theatre at Artisphere. 888-8412787. nationalchamberensemble.org.

Count Down to the New Year with CultureCapitals Holiday Cheer!

From the traditional to the offbeat, from family to adults onlyweve gathered all the events here, under Holiday Cheer. The Countdown begins now & continues thru New Years Day. Go to CultureCapital.com.

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REEL Women: She Doesnt Want to Sleep Alone / No quiero dormir sola. Dec 11. GALA Hispanic Theatre. 202234-7174. galatheatre.org.

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Team DC is proud to present the FIRST Night OUT at the BB&T Classic on Sunday, December 8th featuring the University of Maryland vs. The George Washington University and University of Oklahoma vs. George Mason University.

Tickets are only $30 for TWO great college games.

As a special bonus to all Night OUT attendees, the Washington Blade and Ciroc will sponsor a Private Party between the games in the Acela Lounge at Verizon Center.

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TODAY The D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.) hosts a trans support group, a peerfacilitated discussion group, tonight at 7 p.m. The group is open to all members of the transgender community as well as partners, friends and allies. For more details, visit thedccenter.org. Gay District, a facilitated group discussion focused on building understanding of gay culture and personal identity for men ages 18 through 35, at the D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W.) tonight from 8:30-9:30 p.m. For details, visit thedccenter.org. Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) hosts Bear Happy Hour tonight from 6-11 p.m. There is no cover charge and admission is limited to guests 21 and over. For more information, visit towndc.com. Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) hosts free vodka Friday tonight from 9 p.m.-3 a.m. Free rail vodka 11 p.m.-midnight. Two DJs on two oors. Cover is $10. Admission is limited to guests 21 and over. For more information, visit cobaltdc.com. Bachelors Mill (1104 8th St., S.E.) holds a happy hour from 5-7:30 p.m. tonight with all drinks half price. Music begins at 11 p.m. Enjoy pool, video games and cards. Admission is $5 after 9 p.m. Must be 21 and over. For more details, visit bachelorsmill.com. Best of Burlesqueer: The Queerlesque Revue is tonight at 8:45 and 11 p.m. at the Black Cat (1811 14th Street, N.W.) with a show called Down and Dirty Holigay Blues. Performers Cherie Nuit, Glam Gamz, DoctorGinger Snapz, Velvet Kensington and Dutch Oven will perform. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Ages 21 and up. Visit blackcatdc.com for details. SATURDAY, DEC. 7 Burgundy Crescent, a gay volunteer organization, volunteers for Food and Friends (219 Riggs Rd., N.E.) tonight from 8-10 a.m. Volunteers will chop vegetables and pack groceries. To volunteer, email jonathan@ burgundycrescent.org. For more details, visit burgundycrescent.org. SMYAL (410 7th St., S.E.) provides free and condential HIV testing drop-in hours today from 1-3 p.m. For more information, visit smyal.org. SMYAL (410 7th St., S.E.) hosts World AIDS Day Drag Show from 1-4 p.m. This annual drag show for youth welcomes beginner and veteran drag performers for a make over and

chance to perform on stage. For details, visit smyal.org. Wolf Trap has its annual Holiday SingA-Long today at 4 p.m. at the Filene Center (1551 Trap Road, Vienna, Va.) featuring the U.S. Marine Band along with several choral groups from the region. Guests are encouraged to bring a candle, a bell and a Toys for Tots gift. This is a free event. Visit wolftrap. org for details. Broadway performer Jackie Hoffman brings her one-woman show Jackie Hoffmans A Chanukah Charol to the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia (8900 Little River Turnpike, Fairfax) tonight at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $34. Visit jccnv.org for details. SUNDAY, DEC. 8 JD Samson & MEN perform at Comet Ping Pong (5037 Connecticut Ave., N.W.) tonight at 9 p.m. Tickets are $15. For details, go to cometpingpong.com. The D.C. Center hosts A Question of Marriage: Financial, Legal and Practical, a discussion that looks at marriages federal and state implications for people in the DMV, at 6901 Rockledge Dr., Bethesda, Md. today from 1-3 p.m. Refreshments and child care will be provided. There is free parking. For details, visit thedccenter.org. KhushDC and The D.C. Center present a lm screening of My BrotherNikhil in honor of World AIDS Day at The Dunes (1402 Meridian Pl., N.W.) today from 1-3 p.m. Donations accepted at the door. For details, visit thedccenter.org. Perrys (1811 Columbia Rd., N.W.) hosts its weekly Sunday Drag Brunch today from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The cost is $24.95 for an all-you-caneat buffet. For more details, visit perrysadamsmorgan.com. MONDAY, DEC.9 The D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.) hosts coffee drop-in hours this morning from 10 a.m.-noon for the senior LGBT community. Older LGBT adults can come and enjoy complimentary coffee and conversation with other community members. For more information, visit thedccenter.org Us Helping Us (3636 Georgia Ave., N.W.) holds a support group for gay black men to discuss topics that affect them today, share perspectives and have meaningful conversations. For details, visit uhupil.org. Brave Soul Collective (BSC) performs Passages at the Warehouse Theater (645 New York Ave., N.W.) tonight from 8-10 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. For details and to purchase tickets, visit thedccenter.org.

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TUESDAY, DEC. 10 A Transgender Community Celebration is at MOVA Lounge (2204 14th St., N.W.) with a happy hour reception from 5:30-8 p.m. Enjoy free champagne from 5-6 p.m. and happy hour prices until 8 p.m. Proceeds go to support Maryland Trans Unity. For more information visit movalounge.com. D.C. Bi Women hosts its monthly meeting in the upstairs room of Dupont Italian Kitchen (1637 17th St., N.W.) from 7-9 p.m. tonight. For more details, visit thedccenter.org. SMYAL (410 7th St., S.E.) hosts a Rap Group today from 5-6:30 p.m. Discuss stressful issues like school, bullying, getting into college or nding a job in this support group. For more details, visit smyal.org. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11 Big Gay Book Group meets tonight at 1155 F St., N.W. Suite 200 at 7 p.m. to discuss Gypsy Boy: My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies by Mike Walsh, a story about a boy growing up in a Roman Gypsy family and deciding whether to stay in that secluded community or venture elsewhere. For details, email biggaybookgroup@ hotmail.com. SMYAL (410 7th St., S.E.) provides free

and condential HIV testing drop-in hours today from 3-5 p.m. For more information, visit smyal.org. Rainbow Response, an LGBT intimate partner violence prevention group, meets in the third oor conference room at 5 Thomas Circle N.W. today from 6-7 p.m. For details, visit thedccenter.org. Lambda Bridge Club meets tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Dignity Center (721 8th Street, S.E., across from the Marine Barracks) for duplicate bridge. No reservations needed and newcomers welcome. Call 703-407-6540 if a partner is needed. THURSDAY, DEC. 12 Ama tu Salud, a Latino-focused health fair, is at Casa Ruby (2822 Georgia Ave., N.W.) today from 5:308 p.m. The community health fair will have panel discussions, STD testing, health screenings and LGBT and Latino focused health resources. There will be food and giveaways. For details, visit thedccenter.org. Rude Boi Entertainment hosts Tempted 2 Touch, a ladies dance party, tonight at Fab Lounge (2022 Florida Ave., N.W.). Doors open at 10 p.m. Drink specials $5 and vodka shots $3 all night. No cover charge. Admission limited to guests 21 and over. For more details, visit rudeboientertainment.wordpress.com.

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Mom always said you were two of a kind. You and your favorite sibling: yin and yang, two halves of a whole. A lot of lm was spent documenting your lives. A lot of memories are shared when you get together. Once upon a time, you knew exactly what your sib was thinking or did you? Read the new book My Brother My Sister by Molly Haskell, and you might wonder. Growing up in Richmond , Va., in the post-WWII years, Molly Haskell, her brother Chevey and their friends enjoyed the same clubs, schools, cotillions and churches. She remembers a childhood of privilege and happiness. Her brother remembers sneaking up to Haskells closet to try on her clothes. Of course, that was unknown to Haskell until years later, when Chevey came to her in New York and told her that hed decided to act on something that had vexed him for decades: nervously, he explained that he had gender dysphoria. Hed been on hormones for months. Years ago, hed thought of himself as Ellen, the woman he knew he was inside. It was something that Haskell never saw coming. Chevey had been married twice. His rst wife knew of his feelings, as did his second wife, but the latter was struggling with acceptance. So, in

fact, was Haskell, though she was also curious to know the particulars. When did Chevey know? (At age 7). How did he decide to do this? (The urge was so strong that he could do nothing else). Why did he wait 50-some years to transition? (Many reasons, including family). He likened his gender to a birth defect. It was time to make things right. As Chevey became Ellen, Haskell mourned the loss of her brother. When Ellen informed the rest of the family of her news, Haskell kept waiting for the sky to fall but nothing happened. Yes, there were slips, gaffes, hurts and a few surprising ATTORNEY AT LAW revelations, but the world didnt end. Lucky for me, says Haskell, my SERVING OUR COMMUNITY FOR 32 YEARS newly minted sister is still the magnicent human being my brother was. Theres an awful lot of poor-me-ing in PERSONAL INJURY PROBATE the beginning of My Brother My Sister; a lot of hand-wringing from author Molly WILLS/ POAs CIVIL LITIGATION Haskell, and too much fretting about how her CONSERVATORSHIPS GUARDIANSHIPS brothers transformation would affect her. 2141 P STREET NW SUITE 103 While some readers might imagine how WASHINGTON DC 20037 theyd feel in the same situation, its pretty E-MAIL steveweinbergdc@aol.com tedious, angst-ridden reading. LICENSED IN DC, MD AND VA Thankfully, the book gets better. Once Haskells story gets around to ADVERTISING acceptance, readers are treated to a more relaxing read, one of discovery PROOF #1 ISSUE DATE: 10.26.12 SALES REPRESENTATIVE: BRIAN PITTS (bpitts@washblade.com) SSISTING YOU WITH THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF (both on Haskells part, and that of her THE AGE OLD QUESTION SHOULD GET MARRIED REVIEW AD FOR COPY AND DESIGN ACCURACY. Revisions must be submitted withinWE 24 hours of the date of proof. Proof will be considered nal and will be submitted for publication if revision is not submitted within 24 hours of sister), devotion, and of delight. Thats the date of proof. Revisions will not be accepted after 12:01 pm wednesday, the week of publication.Brown naff pitts REVISIONS omnimedia llc (dba the washington blade) is not responsible for the content and/or design of your ad. Advertiser is the raison detre of this REDESIGN book. What responsible for any legal liability arising out of or relating to the advertisement, and/or any material to which users can link through the advertisement. Advertiser represents that its advertisement will not violate any criminal laws or TEXT REVISIONS youll nd from there to the end is why any rgihts of third parties, including, but not limited to, such violations as infringement or misapporpriation of any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, music, image, or other proprietary or propety right, false advertising, unfair IMAGE/LOGO REVISIONS competition, defamation, invasion of privacy or rights of celebrity, violation of anti-discrimination law or regulation, youd want to read thisNO book in the or any other right of any person or entity. Advertiser agrees to idemnify brown naff pitts omnimedia llc (dba the ADVERTISER SIGNATURE REVISIONS washington blade) and to hold brown naff pitts omnimedia llc (dba the washington blade) harmless from any and all By signing this proof you are agreeing to your contr rst place. liability, loss, damages, claims, or causes of action, including reasonable legal fees and expenses that may be incurred washington blade newspaper. This includes but is n by brown naff pitts omnimedia llc, arising out of or related to advertisers breach of any of the foregoing representations payment and insertion schedule. Aside from a bumpy beginning and some and warranties. surgery descriptions that are TMI-overload, My Brother My Sister is ultimately satisfying, especially for those who may be going through these same issues. A DV I C E M E D I AT I O N L I T I G AT I O N A P P E A L S C O L L A B O R AT I O N

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BLADE: But isnt there something creatively satisfying with a longer-form artistic statement, both for yourselves and for the hardcore fans who do want something to sink their teeth into? ELLIS-HENDERSON: I understand what youre saying, but its just an art form thats practically non-existent anymore. I can feel that way as an artist but I have to be realistic too and thats just the way music is being consumed. I am one of those people who likes to ooh and aah over a tangible product so were thinking about the end of the year, maybe putting out an EP of that years songs. Weve always had a slightly different business model, though. We record our shows and sell them and its just different from the Katy Perrys of the world and these huge artists. Yes, I could sit here and lament the death of the record album and CD and I do, but at the same time I mean even with me, there are only a handful of artists, Shawn Colvin for one, who I want to hear start to nish. I dont really care about Katy Perrys full album. I want her singles though. I think this could be a more interesting way to go than disappearing off the face of the earth for two years. BLADE: How rigid have you found the lines to be in various markets? It strikes me as pretty cool that CMT would play your video. ELLIS-HENDERSON: Yeah, I nd it kind of shocking. Nashville as a rule is still pretty closeted. There are certain artists there whom I know are gay who will intentionally not join us for dinner out there or they just never seem to be able to make it to our show when were in town. There are others who support us wholeheartedly but Nashville is denitely about 25 years behind New York and L.A. and even D.C., you know the more forward markets. Even Atlanta is more progressive than Nashville. I kinda love the contradiction. Heres this really rowdy band and a song about whiskey but in the video, she leaves with a guy and a girl. I love pushing that boundary. I think its changing too. We have people like Kacey Musgraves singing her song about make lots of noise/kiss lots of boys/ or kiss lots of girls if thats something youre into. GLAAD Tweeted about it. It literally gave me chills to see her on the CMAs singing that to the whole country community. I think the fact that shes not gay actually helps. Its one inch closer. BLADE: Is your show at Jammin Java part of a larger tour or do you just go out here and there? ELLIS-HENDERSON: Were kind of on perpetual tour. It goes in spurts. Were raising families, which is really

contradictory to the rock and roll lifestyle, so were always going out in little ts and spurts. Well do some holiday-themed shows since its December. BLADE: Is this show part of that? ELLIS-HENDERSON: Yeah. We have a new Christmas single and well denitely two or three other Christmas songs too. Well give the show a little Christmas twist. BLADE: How long is your show on average? ELLIS-HENDERSON: We do about 80 minutes and play maybe 18-20 songs. Were a live band so were always a little spontaneous. Its always a slightly different show. BLADE: Does Cathy braid her own hair? ELLIS-HENDERSON: She doesnt. Shes got this woman, Nancy, whos been doing it forever. If were going out, she needs like eight hours the day before to get her hair braided. In a pinch or like on really long tours, Ive done it and oh my God, it is a process. Im always thinking, Just get dreads already. If I have to do it, she just gets six or seven big rows. Thats all I have the brainpower to be able to handle. BLADE: If you had to guess, what percentage of the people who come to your shows are LGBT? ELLIS-HENDERSON: Its so hard to say. I kind of always assume theyre gay. Im like, Oh my God, you look gay to me. I would guess about 60 percent are LGBT. In some ways it seems more mixed than ever. But we have a large gay following and I love it. Weve always had that support. Even when we were just a tiny little indie band wed be out in these random markets, these little college towns, and wed have clubs willing to book us on a Tuesday night because there was never a room that there werent 10 or 15 young lesbians who traveled to see us. Thats the great thing about the gay community, we support each other. Then wed have people say, Wow, you got a little crowd even on a weeknight, well have you back and the next time those 10 or 15 would bring a few more so thered be 15 or 20 more and wed have 50. Were so grateful for that support. BLADE: But do you ever fear that that ends up becoming the bands whole shtick, or at least that some will have the perception that thats all youre about? ELLIS-HENDERSON: Not for me. I nd it a blessing and an honor to talk about it and maybe be a role model or an advocate. I love talking about activism, thats why I blog. Its a passion.

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Although the winter months are slow, they actually offer advantages for sellers and buyers. For sellers, the relatively low number of active listings means that there is less competition from other listings in the market. Plus, a smaller sales inventory may make their properties more desirable because there are fewer options for those buyers who must nd something quickly. For buyers, the slow winter market means there are also fewer buyers competing with them for desirable properties. Any buyer who has participated in the frenzied feeding of this past spring market, with escalation clauses in contracts and sold prices higher than asking prices, knows that can be a welcome relief. And there may actually be some relative bargains out there from sellers who need to sell right away. Weve already seen some softening of sold prices and some decrease in the speed of rising prices in the DC market. In addition, this years winter market offers a special advantage for buyers. For the rst time in the last ve years, the inventory of active listings has actually risen in November, so theres more selection. Of course, this statistic has to be balanced against the fact that active listings have been at their veyear low, so this rise in November inventory merely brings the inventory level back the November 2012 level. Nevertheless, it still increases the selections for buyers. Happy hunting!
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music, enlivening the nightclub ambience. The mid-30s siblings have long been a well-known D.C. duo serving as both business operation and beverage program managers and consultants at a number of restaurant and bar hotspots, in addition to bartending gigs. Divergent in appearance and personality, Ari and Micah are similar in their professional commitment to an industry that has been their focus since college. The well-traveled bi-coastal boys grew up spending serial segments of their youth shuttling between parents living in the San Francisco and Washington areas. Outgoing personalities enjoying center-stage soon sparked bartending stints. While studying in southern California, Ari would drive to San Francisco to visit Micah, then at the Academy of Art University and bartending on weekends. Micah would pull me behind the bar, review basic bartending details, and then disappear on a break, Ari recounts, and Id get slammed. But I loved it. Today Ari manages operations and balances the books, while Micah tends to food and beverage menus along with creative details. What motivates these dynamic entrepreneurs is being among highly regarded culinary and entertainment operators in the area. They interrupt each other describing their excitement at being part of a movement to bring Adams Morgan back to life with innovative new venues that residents desire. Theyre on track to soon open a separate third-oor multi-level live music and DJ venue rock-and-sports pub inspired by their German-Austrian heritage, including a replace-enhanced outdoor deck. We saw this location as an opportunity to contribute our passion and commitment to quality craftsmanship in all that we do, joining other businesses in re-dening an area in need of new and appealing concepts, Ari says. Adams Morgan has suffered through hard times, adds Micah, but now is when it can ourish again. The Wilder brothers are proud to be a community asset in that process.
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