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ml b s gay nigh t o u t
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An embrace of LGBT fans or
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D.C.s Nats Night Out is MLBs most successful and popular LGBT event.
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sluggers journey
to coming out
TYLER TOWNSEND played in the minor league system after being drafted by the Baltimore Orioles
in 2010.
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Sgt. SHANE ORTEGA has served for more than 10 years in the military and is now an accomplished
bodybuilder.
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The
weight
training
continued
throughout his military career and escalated
to a point where people were asking him
if he was competing. After contacting the
event organizers of National Physique
Competition, Ikaika and the governing
body to receive permission to enter the
event, Ortega began serious training to
compete in the mens physique Class A.
Each morning started with physical
training with his Army unit, the Hill
Climbers, and included calisthenics and
15-25 miles of running per week. After
work there were three to four sessions per
week of weightlifting, two with a trainer.
He says the hardest part of the preparation
was starting the diet two months out from
the competition and jumping to 300 grams
of protein per day.
I was really anxious the week before
my competition. As the time came for
me to compete, I realized how important
it was for me as a trans man to compete
at that level, Ortega says. Everyone was
really nice and respectful at the event
and I couldnt have asked for a better
experience for my rst competition. It was
a huge self-condence boost.
Ortegas overall goal for the competition
was to nish in the top three and qualify for
nationals. He will attempt to accomplish
that in his second competition at the
Paradise Cup in September. I believe
that you can be anything you want to be
in this country, says Ortega. If you want
to become an elite athlete, nd your
opportunity and pursue it.
As the day of sightseeing in D.C. winds
down, Ortega begins to explain some of
the tattoos on his body. He says they all
have meaning to him. There is a woman
wearing a gas mask, a grenade, nautical
stars, Hindu goddesses and an Army tank.
When asked why the tank, he gets a huge
grin on his face and exclaims, Dude, there is
an Army tank on my arm. How cool is that?
Just like Sgt. Shane Ortega, that is in
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The Washington Renegades president
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By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
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Founded in 1998, the Washington Renegades was the rst rugby club in
the United States to actively recruit gay players. Its a founding member of
International Gay Rugby, which today is comprised of nearly 60 gay and gaysupportive rugby clubs worldwide.
Members train at Cardozo Education Campus in Columbia Heights and
represent the Washington area in Division III and Division IV rugby. The team is
a member of USA Rugby, the sports national governing body, as well as of the
Capital Rugby Unions Mid-Atlantic Conference.
In 2009, the Renegades completed its rst undefeated spring season with
a record of 11-0, which included wins over Washington, D.C.s Division I and
Division II rugby football clubs. The Renegades have traveled extensively, both
here and abroad. In 2006, the club placed third in international competition
at the Mark Bingham Cup tournament, the championship of International Gay
Rugby. The club was named Best Sports Team for two consecutive years (20072008) by Washington Blade readers, and has been recognized for its community
service and athletic prowess by the D.C. City Council.
Ned Kieloch is the team president and says they have a strong tradition of
giving back to Food and Friends, holiday toy drives, youth mentoring and more.
Kieloch came to Washington in the 1970s when his father took a federal
government job. Hes single and lives in Capitol Hill. He enjoys singing with the
Congressional Chorus, theater, movies, college football and, of course, rugby in
his free time. Find out more about the Renegades at dcrugby.com.
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Advocates skeptical after
Kazakhstan, Beijing
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By MICHAEL K. LAVERS
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Advocates remain largely skeptical of
the International Olympic Committees
efforts to strengthen its anti-discrimination
provisions in the wake of the controversial
2014 Winter Olympics that took place
in Russia against the backdrop of the
countrys anti-LGBT rights record.
The IOC in December 2014 amended
the Olympic Charters anti-discrimination
clause known as Principle 6 to include sexual
orientation. The organization, which is based
in the Swiss city of Lausanne, a couple of
months earlier added an anti-discrimination
clause to its host city contract.
Human rights advocates sharply criticized
the IOCs decision late last month to award
the 2022 Winter Olympics to Beijing. The
Kazakh city of Almaty was a nalist to host the
games, despite the fact that lawmakers in the
former Soviet republic in February approved
a bill that would ban the promotion of socalled gay propaganda.
Beijing won the games by a 44-40 vote
margin.
These policies are a bunch of uff,
said Cyd Zeigler, Jr., co-founder of
Outsports.com, an LGBT sports website,
as he discussed the IOCs expanded antidiscrimination provisions. What matters is
the cities they choose to be the hosts and
the discriminatory countries that are allowed
to participate. The Olympics just selected a
country not just with huge LGBT issues, but
human rights violations that are massive.
They almost picked a country thats
even worse, he added.
A Russian-style bill that sought to ban
the promotion of so-called propaganda to
minors received nal approval in the Kazakh
Parliament shortly after IOC members
visited the country in February. The
Kazakhstan Constitutional Council in May
struck down the measure, but a lawmaker
has said he plans to reintroduce it.
A report that Human Rights Watch
released a week before the IOC awarded
the 2022 Winter Olympic games to Beijing
notes the Kazakh propaganda bill would
have directly contravened Principle 6 of
the Olympic Charter.
The IOC shouldnt take its eye off the
ball on ugly discrimination and human
Authorities in Moscow and St. Petersburg arrested more than a dozen people who protested the
Kremlins LGBT rights record on the same day the Winter Olympics opened in Sochi.
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Principle 6 to be
applied in Beijing
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gay at hl et es t a l k
rel igio n an d f a i t h
Church teachings complicate
coming out process for many
By KEVIN MAJOROS
There have been a vast number of
coming out stories told recently that
share a common thread that it isnt easy to
accept your sexual identity when it is not
considered normal.
The self-acceptance process is generally
lled with shame, insecurities, fear and
often depression. Homophobia is exactly
what you dont want to experience when
you are dealing with nding your true self.
There are other identities that you are not
born with, those that are chosen, that also
come with homophobia. Religion and sports
can be extremely homophobic environments
that can add even more emotion to the inner
struggle of growing up gay.
It seems like an impossible bridge to
gap. Why not just walk away from the two
you can choose to walk away from, religion
and sports?
Meet three men who are gay, played
sports and grew up with religion. All three
of them say it is not religion that bridged
the three struggles, but rather their
individual faith.
When you speak to Josh Sanders, there
is a sense of calm that emanates from him.
He describes his relationship with religion
as being vertical and horizontal and more
of a personal journey.
The vertical is the relationship between
me and God and the horizontal is me and
the eyes of other people, says Sanders. I
should never look at myself through the
eyes of others.
Sanders grew up playing basketball and
intended to walk onto the team at Virginia
Wesleyan but ended up dropping out to
address his inner struggles. He began
coaching a local high school team and
enrolled at James Madison University.
His path led to him to work with various
Christian sports ministries and he became
the athletic director at a Christian sports
camp. After surviving six months of
conversion therapy, he came out to his
employer only to be told he couldnt return
to the sports camp position that he had
held for six years because of his sexuality.
There is an exclusive tone to the
intersection between religion and sexuality.
It is the church versus the gay community,
Sanders says. I dont separate those two
parts of myself. I can be both and there is
nothing exclusive about that. If you cant
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Some have questioned whether SHANNON MILLERs outspokenness as a lesbian factored into the
University of Minnesota Duluth not renewing her contract as ice hockey coach.
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t hrivi ng in n o rt h ca r ol i n a
Stonewall Sports
expands, nds eager
players in unlikely places
By KEVIN MAJOROS
With an estimated metropolitan area
population of six million, D.C. is home to a
large and thriving LGBT sports community.
There are roughly 35 teams and clubs
competing, playing and socializing
together, usually outside of the traditional
bar scene. It seems that every time a new
league is formed, it is immediately lled to
capacity. In 2015, Capital Pride Volleyball
and Stonewall Billiards completed their
rst seasons and will have to consider
expanding for their second seasons.
The success in D.C. of these leagues can
be attributed in part to the sheer number
of people here, the transient nature of
the area and the progressive thinking of
many residents. Many of the LGBT players
are having their own sports renaissance,
nding their way back to the sports they
were bullied out of playing in their youth
and trying new sports.
But what about the rural areas around
the country where homophobia remains
prevalent and where there are still no
safe spaces for members of the LGBT
community to play sports?
Is it possible for LGBT sports leagues to
be formed that offer that safe space when
the numbers arent there and the local
community may not be ready for it?
In the smaller communities, it all begins
at the grassroots level.
D.C.-based Stonewall Sports has created
a prototype for LGBT sports leagues that
has worked well for the ve sports that it
offers locally. The structure that Stonewall
mandates includes organizational guidelines
for the proposed sport, nancial support to
local charities and community outreach.
North Carolina became the target of
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Former Ravens player BRENDON AYANBADEJO is among high-prole pro athletes whove endorsed
LGBT rights in recent years. He served as guest editor of the Blade Sports Issue two years ago.
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gay g am es- o u t g a me s
plan t o m er g e
Its going to take a great deal of compromise, said BRENT MINOR of Team D.C. regarding the
potential merger of Gay Games and OutGames.
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International competitions such as Gay Games have helped raise the visibility of LGBT issues in
sport, leading some colleges and universities to address related issues in curricula.
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international competitions.
Rayter says the course came about partly
as a way of building on the expertise at the
university in the areas of sexuality, gender
and sport, and to reect what is a growing
body of research and eld of study, plus
an increasing interest and demand from
students to study this area.
Sport is an interesting place to study
issues of sex, gender and the body, since
bodies in sport are ideal or non-normative
in the sense they do not reect what most
bodies look like or are capable of, and yet
sport is also a space that demonstrates an
extremely rigid split between male and
female bodies, Rayter says. There is also
a growing body of research about sexual
and gender violence (and hazing) in sport;
it seems every day we hear about some
new sex scandal in professional sports.
At some higher learning institutions,
there may not be a specic course, but
inclusion of the LGBT community and
sports is embedded in the curriculum itself.
Laura Burton, associate professor of
sport management at the University of
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loc k er ro o ms ?
I felt isolated before my transition I missed the social part of being with my teammates, said BENT
WILLIGER.
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c a it l y n j en n e r :
am eric an h ero or
arrog ant dil ett a n t e ?
Former Olympians
prominence a mixed bag
for trans community
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Few would argue that Caitlyn Jenner is
the most prominent transgender person in
the country right now.
The Olympic champion, who found a
second wind of fame as patriarch on reality
show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, is
now in the national spotlight after coming
out in a Diane Sawyer interview on ABCs
20/20 that aired in April, a Vanity Fair
cover story and huge fashion spread in its
July edition and a new reality show. Shes
halfway through the eight-episode initial
run of her own show I Am Cait, which airs
Sunday nights at 8 p.m. on E!
For Jenner, who has publicly admitted to
shortcomings as a parent to the four children
she had with her rst two wives Burt,
Cassandra, Brandon and Brody, all of whom
have declined to participate on I Am Cait
there is early evidence that she hopes to
be a worthy unofcial spokesperson for the
transgender community. On the two-part
Aug. 2 and Aug. 9 episode, Jenner takes
a road trip with newfound LGBT allies and
discusses whether shes a suitable person
for the cause considering her new fame as
a transgender icon.
Some transgender activists have
approached the situation with a raised
eyebrow. Posing in high-end fashion
gowns and corsets in Vanity Fair, for
some, highlights the huge gulf that
exists between Jenner and the kinds of
homeless transgender women of color
Washington-based activists such as
Earline Budd at HIPS (a resource agency
for sex workers) and Ruby Corado (of Casa
Rudy, a local LGBT resource center) have
worked with for years, as well as everyday
transgender people who struggle with
health disparities, income inequality,
access to health care for various genderrelated procedures and a wide spate
of other well-documented issues. Many
agree Jenners prominence is a good
thing but could it send the message to the
straight, middle-America heartland that
Jenner is anything close to representative
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new surv ey m ea s u r e s
lg b t f riendl in e s s
of c ol l ege at hl e t i cs
From left are PRIN (no last name given), SHANE WINDMEYER and ALLISON TURNER at the
Campus Pride home base in Charlotte, N.C.
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c hangin g m in d s by
engaging k ids e a r l y
KYRA MCCLARY and SAM SONG have reaped the rewards of LGBT sensibility training in sports.
These Team D.C. scholarship winners say coming out to their teammates was not a problem.
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my stic s do l so n e mbr a ce s
str aight al l y r ol e
Lending support to
break down stereotypes
By KEVIN MAJOROS
The Washington Blade caught up with
Stefanie Dolson who is playing in her second
season with the Washington Mystics in the
Womens National Basketball Association
(WNBA). The 65 Dolson played center
at UConn and the team won back-to-back
national championships in 2013 and 2014.
She was the sixth overall pick in the 2014
WNBA draft and began playing for the
Mystics shortly after graduation.
During her college years, Dolson
stepped forward as a straight sports ally,
lending public support to help break
down stereotypes, stop discrimination in
recruiting and create positive role models
for all people, not just the LGBT community.
Washington Blade: You didnt
have a lot of transition time when you
went from college ball to the WNBA.
What was the biggest surprise you
encountered when you started playing
pro ball with the Mystics?
Stefanie Dolson:
Probably the
physicality. In college, I was denitely the
bigger of the girls. You know, stronger.
So to come into the league and play with
these girls like Kia [Vaughn] and Sylvia
Fowles, Erlana Larkinstheyre just big,
strong women. It was denitely a shock
and it is a lot harder than college was. Im
still transitioning to that part. Sometimes
Im not as strong and as big as them but
Im getting there.
Blade: In your second season with the
Mystics you are getting a lot more playing
time, roughly 10 minutes more per game,
and your numbers are looking great. What
is keeping you sharp?
Dolson: I would say, coming into this
season, I was a little more comfortable with
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The pace at which LGBT equality is being achieved in society and under the law
has been remarkably accelerated in recent
years. Today, the average age of a person
coming out is 16, the majority of states have
marriage equality, hate crime legislation
has been passed, and Dont Ask Dont Tell
and DOMA have been repealed. These advances are the direct result of an organized
strategy across the LGBT civil rights movement, advances that would not be possible
without the sacrice and unwavering determination of those who have made LGBT
equality their lifes work.
Despite the staggering progress made in
recent years, on the road to LGBT equality
we are still forging new paths, and not yet
arrived at our ultimate destination. Across
the United States, LGBT individuals are not
afforded workplace protections and can still
be denied housing. Anti-LGBT language
is still a common occurrence throughout
K-12 education; LGBT youth suffer disproportionately from homelessness; and the
majority of LGBT young people still report
experiencing anti-LGBT bias and bullying.
Unfortunately, as we begin to assess
where our sports culture falls on the continuum of respect, inclusion and equality,
it is clear that athletics continues to be one
of the last bastions of homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism.
Below are what I believe to have been
successful tactics and philosophies employed by past social justice movements
and how they can be applied to sports. I
will highlight the particular challenges still
facing our work within sports and conclude
by positing some of the ways in which individuals and organizations can better
work together to maximize the impact and
progress of the LGBT sports movement.
Step One: Diversity of Approach
The LGBT civil rights movement has benetted from a diversity of approaches from
the organizations and individuals involved.
For sports culture to share similar advancements, we must have equally diverse tactics for our work. Across the movement,
The success of the LGBT sports movement is contingent upon, in part, nding and
elevating diverse voices. While there has
never been a successful social justice movement for a minority group without the support of the majority, we must not forget that
without the visible testimony of the LGBT
community, all our work remains theoretical.
The advancement of LGBT equality in
sports is predicated upon reconciling the
perception of sports culture, with the reality of sports culture. That is, if the perception is that homophobia, transphobia or
heterosexism in sports exists, then LGBT
individuals will not be encouraged to
share their true selves with their sports
community.
To change this, we must nd and elevate
as many LGBT voices within sports as possible, as well as nd and elevate the voices
of supportive allies. Because the perception of sports culture is dened by what
one sees, hears and experiences, the telling of positive stories will be the connective tissue between each organization and
individuals advocacy approach.
Step Three: Framing the Message
In addition to a diversity of messengers,
how the LGBT sports movement collectively frames its messaging is directly proportional to its ability to affect change. Historically, large-scale social change happens in
a very particular way. Research suggests
that the way a culture changes is not by engaging in conversations of right vs. wrong,
but instead by redening and appealing to
the dominant identity of a target audience.
Over the last 10 years, we have seen signicant changes to the culture and policies
of the majority of Fortune 500 companies.
These changes have been made possible
by clear and concise messaging articulating the business case for LGBT equality.
If we suppose that the dominant identity
of a company is to make more money, retain and recruit better talent and appeal to
more customers, then the most effective
messaging to appeal to corporate culture
is that which connects LGBT equality to
those business objectives.
Similarly, if we suppose that the dominant identity of athletics is to win more
games, recruit better athletes, appeal to
more fans and be the best possible teammate, then our most effective messaging
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within sports will be that which clearly connects LGBT equality in sports with those
same athletic objectives. In this way, the
efcacy of the LGBT sports movement is
contingent upon our ability to make LGBT
equality synonymous with athletic success.
Step Four: Understanding Our Obstacles
The continued presence of anti-LGBT
bias, bullying and discrimination in sports
is not by accident; its by design. The institution of sport suffers from three systemic
issues. First, it is one of the few environments that is segregated by gender. Second, it is a competitive reward structure
designed to rank one athlete over another,
due not to the content of their character,
but because of physical characteristics.
Third, ones ability to participate in sports
is ultimately determined by a third party.
Together, these factors create a unique
environment within sports in which conforming to a narrowly dened standard of
masculinity, femininity, sexual orientation,
gender identity and expression is not only
strongly encouraged, but often required.
In practice, and because of these factors,
male athletes who more readily conform to
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Am history, an openly gay runner participated in the torch relay, arising from the
close partnership of PrideHouseTO with
the TORONTO 2015 Organizing Committee. Its the rst to ever receive government
funding, which in this case came from the
government of Ontario and City of Toronto. And PrideHouse TO lead partner CIBC
is the rst major corporate sponsor in the
history of the Pride House movement.
Located in the heart of Toronto, PrideHouse offered daily live feed games viewing at its licensed indoor lounge. Each
weekend of the games, PrideHouse Celebrates! offered outdoor licensed games
viewing, parties and entertainment. It took
over an adjacent street where sports organizations offered sports demonstrations
and recreational activities for families and
people of all ages.
The Pavilion also hosted a number of visits by
LGBT athletes and allies. The Canadian Olympic Committee and PrideHouseTO hosted a
reception during Pride Toronto in late June with
athletes and members of amateur and professional sports organizations including representatives from the Canadian Football League, the
Toronto Maple Leafs and Right to Play, who all
marched in the parade under the banner #oneteam. The event sent a powerful message that
the movement to welcome and embrace LGBT
athletes is growing at both amateur and professional levels of sport.
If you are going to be visiting Toronto,
you should denitely add visiting the PrideHouse Pavilion located at 519 Church Street
to your list of must do activities this summer.
LES JOHNSON is vice president of external
affairs for the Federation of Gay Games,
gaygames.org. Learn more about Pride House
International at pridehouseinternational.org.
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glass, he told us. Of course you were welcomed. Its not a surprise in the least.
And improbable as it rst seemed, maybe thats why PuckBuddys and all LGBT
NHL fans have been welcomed with nearuniversal embrace. Player or fan, straight
or gay, were just another member of the
bigger hockey family, each of us wounded
in some way, knowing that the best way
through is together.
Well, that and the sass.
Go Johnny go!
We like skater Weir
because his character is true
By TRUETT LEE VAIGNUER, JR.
The presence of Johnny Weir, that fur
clad two-time Olympic gure skater, has
always been intriguing. He is one of the
most recognizable athletes in modern
times, and yet he can wear an evening
dress to any gala and get away with it.
Johnny Weir is a pop culture icon: the
documentaries Pop Star on Ice and From
Russia with Love, his reality show Be Good
Johnny Weir, and tabloid controversies
keep the public interested. With all this
publicity its hard to believe Johnny Weir,
the gay celebrity athlete known throughout
planet earth, is an excellent reference to
defend those young athletes that disclose
their sexuality without much ado, only to
continue on with their day-to-day routine.
The idea for this article started a little over
true character, then chances are the coming out process might not be very positive.
I realized that we like Johnny Weir because his character is true. Its odd, Weir has
been out for a few years now, way before
Michael Sam or Robbie Rogers; however,
death threats over wearing fox fur get him
on the front page, not his sexuality. Over
the past few years I have moderated and/or
been a guest on numerous panels discussing identity issues within the eld of sports,
and other than Weirs appearance he is usually not an athlete mentioned. No one seems
to think Weir, an openly gay, highly celebrated athlete, will help the younger generation
come out. Honestly, Ive never heard anyone
say or never seen it written that Johnny Weir
is an out professional athlete and he will inspire other athletes to come out.
So lets face it: Even with his obvious
good looks and killer body, Weir is not traditionally masculine, nor is he the boy next
door. Its the boy next door that shies away
from the ashbulbs, but the boy next door
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which I cycled, the activists were undercover. In Ethiopia, for instance, I connected
with a group that is attempting to offer
anonymous public health services to the
LGBT community of Addis Ababa. These
activists were understandably concerned
about revealing their identity to any outsiders, especially to a random white American.
But even if they could not see into my heart,
they could see my sweat; they could see the
scars and bruises I had accumulated on the
dirt roads of Sudan. The physical challenge
of the journey allowed me to meet people
in a more intimate and emotional way than
would have been possible otherwise.
I also learned two important lessons.
The rst was a personal journey of self-discovery. During an interview before the trip
began, a reporter asked me: For how long
have you been an athlete? My response
was knee-jerk and instinctual: Oh, Im not
really an athlete. This answer was ridiculousI dance ballet and do triathlons; I
ran my rst marathon last year in Soweto.
Nevertheless, I grew up in a football-crazy
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tance may slow the future pace of prominent athletes coming out. Changing public
attitudes and normalization of living privately authentic LGBT lives may decrease
the impetus and importance of publicly
coming out. The sports world, as well as
American culture as a whole, may produce
fewer high-prole sexual orientation announcements in coming years.
Athletes who have come out, however,
have discovered and demonstrated that it
is both possible, even preferable, to do so.
The businesses that are sports leagues and
team franchises, like most corporate settings, have adopted employment protections and general practices, and created
work environments, that reect the overwhelmingly dominant enterprise viewpoint allowing the freedom to come out.
As Denson told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in making his announcement, I wasnt
able to give fully of myself because I was living in fear. What if this person nds out? What
if somebody else nds out? Instead of going
out and just playing, I was trying to hide myself. Its a release for me to nally be able to
give all of myself to the game, without having
to be afraid or hide or worry about the next
person who might nd out.
Thats a lesson for those toiling in all endeavors and seeking to excel, whether on
a playing eld or elsewhere.
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Silence! The Musical. Thru Aug 23. Studio
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Hoodlarious starring Cocoa Brown.
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Gallery Neptune & Brown. Summer
Splash on 14th Street. Thru Sep 5. 202986-1200. neptuneneart.com.
Goethe-Institut. Justine Otto: hyder ares.
Thru Sep 4. 202-289-1200. goethe.de.
Washington Project for the Arts
(WPA). Lobby Project: Tang. Thru Aug 28.
202-234-7103. wpadc.org.
Zenith Gallery. Stars & Stripes: Zenith
Salutes the Flag! at Zenith Gallery and DC
Chamber of Commerce. Thru Sep 5. 202783-2963. zenithgallery.com.
Zenith Sculpture Space. Earth, Fire,
Stone - The Works of Hadrian Mendoza.
Thru Aug 23. zenithgallery.com.
DCAC. 1460 Wallmountables. Thru Aug
30. 202-462-7833. dcartscenter.org.
Flashpoint Gallery: CulturalDC.
Anthony Cervino: Ejecta. Thru Sep 12.
202-315-1305. culturaldc.org.
Gallery Underground. Hidden in
Plain Sight Show. Thru Aug 28. August
Members Show. Thru Aug 28. 571-4830652. arlingtonartistsalliance.org.
Publick Playhouse. Lynda Payton. Thru
Oct 13. 301-277-1710. arts.pgparks.com.
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Surrealist and gay magician David
London performs his Magic Outside
the Box Show at Trinidad Theatre (1358
Florida Ave., N.E.) in the Logan Fringe
Arts Space today and Saturday at 8 p.m.
The show is a mix of comedy and magic.
Tickets at $20. For more details, visit
capitalfringe.org.
D.C. Bear Crue hosts Stu the Horny
Pig, a charity dance party, at Town (2009
8th St., N.W.) tonight starting at 6 p.m. The
Beltway Bears will be collecting donations
for Brother Help Thyself. Drink specials
are $4 Bud Light and Bud Light Platinum
bottles, $4 draft pints and $8 draft
pitchers. There will also be free pizza at
7 p.m. Entry ends at 9 p.m. Drink specials
run until 11 p.m. For more information,
visit facebook.com/bearhappyhour.
Gay District meets at the D.C. Center
(2000 14th St., N.W.) tonight from 8:309:30 p.m. The facilitated group discussion
covers building understanding of gay
culture and personal identity and
awareness of community events for LGBT
men between the ages of 18-35 in the D.C.
area. For more details, visit thedccenter.
org or gaydistrict.org.
A LGB support group meets today
from 10-11:30 a.m. at 16220 S. Frederick
Rd., Gaithersburg, Md., for individuals
in Montgomery County. The group
will discuss coming out of marriage,
homophobia, parenting issues, nding
intimate relationships, LGB resources
in the suburbs and more. For more
information, visit thedccenter.org.
SATURDAY, AUG. 22
The D.C. Rawhides and the D.C. Front
Runners host a fundraiser during Town
and Country at Town (2009 8th St., N.W.)
tonight at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $5 with
$4 of the admission price donated to the
D.C sports team of the guests choice and
$1 donated to the Team D.C. StudentAthlete Scholarship. The dance lesson
for the night is the intermediate two-step
from 7-8 p.m. There will be open dance
from 8-10:30 p.m. For more details, visit
towndc.com.
Adventuring, an LGBT outdoors club,
hosts a 5-mile hike for beginners today in
Harpers Ferry, W.Va. The hike will begin
downtown and proceed briey along
the Appalachian Trail before walking
upstream along the Potomac River. The
hike will end back in downtown where
hikers can explore the city. Hikers can
carpool with the group from GrosvenorStrathmore
Metro
Station
(10300
Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md.) at 9 a.m.
or meet at the Harpers Ferry Visitor
B. STEADY performs with Tom Goss at Busboys and Poets on Thursday, Aug. 27.
SUNDAY, AUG. 23
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-can-eat buet. For more
details, visit perrysadamsmorgan.com.
The D.C. Kings host their End-ofSummer Show today at Bier Baron
Tavern (1523 22nd St., N.W.) at 6 p.m.
(doors open at 5). Visit dckings.com for
more information.
MONDAY, AUG. 24
Where the Bears Are, a web series,
premieres its fourth season online at
wherethebearsare.tv today. The series
explores the adventures of four gay bear
roommates living in Los Angeles who are
TUESDAY, AUG. 25
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.
Bachelors Mill has half-price drinks all
night long from 5 p.m.-2 a.m.tonight. They
also have pool, video gaming systems and
cards. Admission is free. For more details,
visit bachelorsmill.com.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26
The Lambda Bridge Club meets tonight
THURSDAY, AUG. 27
Gay singer Tom Goss hosts a 25th
anniversary concert to benefit Charlies
Place with queer singer/songwriter B.
Steady at Busboys and Poets (2021
14th St., N.W.) today with shows at
6:30 and 9 p.m. Charlies Place works
to provide emergency services to the
homeless and poor as well as provide
employment and housing services.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25
at the door. For more details, visit
tomgossmusic.net/full-store/cp25th.
Nellies Sports Bar (900 U St., N.W.)
hosts its weekly Beat the Clock Happy
Hour tonight from 5-8 p.m. Drink specials
start at $2 and increase by a dollar
each hour. For more information, visit
nelliessportsbar.com.
SMYAL (410 7th St., S.E.) hosts Womens
Leadership Institute, a group for LBT
women and their straight allies ages 13-21
to discuss female sexuality, relationships
and womens rights today from 5-7 p.m.
For more information, visit smyal.org.
Bachelors Mill (1104 8th St., S.E.)
holds a happy hour today from 5-7:30
p.m. All drinks are half price. There will
be pool, video gaming systems and cards.
Admission is $5 after 9 p.m. DJ Bling, DJ
Freaky and DJ Tim-Nice will play music
for the night. For more information, visit
bachelorsmill.com.
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