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Caressa Cameron, who
lost uncle to AIDS,
recognized for HIV work
by Whitman-Walker.
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Armed intruders get The 14th annual
away with hundreds Youth Pride Day,
in cash from Nellie’s featuring music and
after daytime robbery. more, is Saturday.
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Slain D.C. middle school principal was gay
Brian Betts hailed as
innovative educator,
hero to students
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@dcagenda.com
Brian Betts, the highly acclaimed
D.C. middle school principal who was
found shot to death April 15 at his
home in Silver Spring, Md., was out
as a gay man to a circle of friends
and D.C. public school system col-
leagues, multiple sources have told
the DC Agenda.
Montgomery County police said
they discovered Betts’ fully clothed
body in a second floor bedroom in
his house along the 9300 block of
Columbia Boulevard in Silver Spring.
Police noted there were no signs of a
forced entry into the house, leading
them to believe that Betts, 42, invited
his killer or killers inside.
Police spokesperson Sgt. C.
Thomas Jordan said he could not
comment on whether Betts’ murder
was related to the slain principal’s
sexual orientation, saying only that
homicide detectives were investigat-
ing all possible angles of the case to
identify a suspect or suspects.
“I know our investigators are talking
to everyone they know of to get to the
bottom of the case,” he said. “We are
going to investigate every avenue. Our
role is to solve a homicide.”
Betts established a reputation as a
rising star in the Montgomery County
public school system as a teacher and
assistant principal before D.C. Public
Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee
recruited him to join her and Mayor
Adrian Fenty’s efforts to overhaul the
District’s long troubled school system.
In 2008, Rhee named Betts princi-
pal of Shaw Middle School at Garnet-
Patterson, a recently reorganized
school in the city’s historic Shaw
neighborhood. School officials said he
quickly emerged as one of the school
system’s most innovative principals.
The Washington Post reported
that students liked him so much that
they asked and Rhee agreed to allow
100 students to remain at the middle
school for their ninth grade instead of
the normal process of advancing to
another school for that grade.
“The unexpected death of Brian
Betts is unspeakably tragic for his
family, for the Shaw Middle School
community, and for all of D.C. Public
Schools,” Rhee said in a statement.
“Brian Betts had the courage to
take on the leadership of a strug-
gling, underperforming DCPS
school,” she said. “He was an inspira-
tional leader for the teachers and for
the students, and that leadership
was bringing results. He knew what
the children under his care were Photo by Bel Perez Gabilondo; courtesy of D.C. Public Schools
capable of, and he was determined
to show them how to get there.” Brian Betts, who was gay, was found shot to death April 15 at his home in
Silver Spring, Md.
Continues on page 6

Obama AWOL on ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal?

Activists turn up heat
on president to act
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@dcagenda.com

nationalagenda As activists and lobbyists contin-

Houston Mayor Annise Parker, a lesbian, reflects on ue to press for repeal of “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell,” some are losing patience
her first 100 days in office. Page 10 with President Obama and moderate
Democrats in Congress.
Obama was heckled at a fundrais-
er Monday (see related story on page
18) and a group of six LGBT veterans
chained themselves to the White
House fence this week to protest what
they view as slow progress in over-
turning the law.
Meanwhile, the Human Rights
Campaign and other advocates are
working to push six key senators to DC Agenda photo by Michael Key
nationalagenda support repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” this year. Army Lt. Dan Choi and five other LGBT veterans handcuffed themselves to the
Nancy Pelosi expects ENDA vote soon; some Democratic Moderate senators from six states White House fence Tuesday in protest of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ echoing a similar
senators remain on the fence. Pages 8 & 16 protest staged one month earlier.
Continues on page 18
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localagenda
‘Committed advocate’
Smallwood dies at 73
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@dcagenda.com
The local LGBT community is
mourning the death last week of an
activist who was known as a “com-
mitted advocate” for those in need.
Charlotte Smallwood, a 73-year-old
lesbian, died April 12 after a battle with
brain cancer. One of four founding
members of the D.C.-based
Transgender Health Empowerment in
1995, Smallwood also served as edi-
tor-in-chief of FEMAIL Monthly
Newsletter and later co-editor of
Community Life Newsletter.
Earline Budd, a treatment and heal-
ing specialist for Transgender Health
Empowerment, said Smallwood was a
steadfast ally to the transgender com-
munity and “just a pioneer in her own
way in terms of giving back.”
“She was just a committed advo-
cate, someone who gave herself to
not just LGBT community, but to other
communities,” she said. “I kind of
equate Charlotte to a Mother Teresa
in terms of how she extended herself.”
Budd said other duties to
which Smallwood devoted herself were
roles with the Mautner Project, a les-
bian health organization, and Women
in the Life, a local lesbian organization.
Budd noted that Smallwood was
a standing member of Transgender
Health Empowerment until her death.
Courtney Williams, a D.C. resi-
dent, said Smallwood was committed
to the concerns of women and LGBT
people as they aged.
“Basically, when people go out to
party and as they get older, people
GLAA honors local leaders
Eleven individuals and one organization were recognized Tuesday at the Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance Distinguished Service Awards. The recipients included DC Agenda senior news reporter Lou Chibbaro Jr. (right)
GLAA described Chibbaro as “the standard-bearer for gay-focused journalism” in D.C. who has spent more than 30 years “chasing down leads to get to the bottom of all manner of stories related to the LGBT community.”
Awards also went to Joan Biren, Sean Bugg, Michael Crawford, Rev. Monique Ellison, Brian Flowers, Mark Levine, David Mariner, Nick McCoy, Brian Moore and Sultan Shakir. D.C. Clergy United for Marriage Equality, co-
chaired by pastors Dennis Wiley, Christine Wiley and Rob Hardies, also won recognition.
Photo courtesy of Courtney Williams
tend to forget about them — [but]
Charlotte kept them out at the fore-
front,” Williams said. “She was
involved in her neighborhood as [far
as] senior citizens were concerned.
She really helped them out and tried
to find them resources.”
Williams said Smallwood was
also “very involved” in D.C. Black
Pride during the event’s first year,
1991, and beyond.
Smallwood also contributed to the
Human Rights Campaign. Donna
Payne, HRC’s associate director of
diversity, said Smallwood volun-
teered for the organization’s national
dinner for the past four years.
“Annually, she would help do work
no one wants to do — stuffing the gift
bags and setting up items for the auc-
tion,” Payne said. “She would stay in
the back so things would get done.”
Payne said she knew Smallwood
from community meetings with the D.C.
mayor’s office liaison and dances for the
black women’s circuit in the District.
“She was always fun to be with
because she didn’t mind being out,”
Payne said. “It’s hard to find black LGBT
seniors that are willing to be out.”
Payne said during her early years
at HRC, Smallwood would often take
her aside and encourage her “to stay
focused on our rights because it was
expected of her and the elder black
LGBT community.”
Vicki Harris, a lesbian D.C. resi-
dent, said Smallwood was “always
there for everybody,” especially peo-
ple in need of assistance.
“Whatever you needed, you could
call Charlotte,” she said. “She was
just that type of person. It was just
hilarious that whatever you needed,
she had it in her. She had our back
every last day of the month.”
Harris, who ran a lesbian women
strippers event for the Edge/Wet
Nightclub before it closed, recalled
with humor that Smallwood had a job
as a dressing room attendant to keep
an eye on the belongings of women
as they performed.
“When I first asked her if she would
do the job, she was like, ‘Ehhh,’” Harris
said. “So, we’re standing in the dress-
ing room — and one of the girls had
just come out of the shower and they
were naked — and she looked at me
and said, ‘I’ll take the job!’”
A funeral service for Smallwood
was held April 19 at the Mount
Pleasant Baptist Church in D.C.
Armed robbers steal
cash from Nellie’s bar
A gun wielding male suspect and a man accompanying him forced
the owner of Nellie’s Sports Bar at 900 U St., N.W., to turn over several
hundred dollars in cash Monday afternoon while the bar was closed to
the public, said owner Douglas Schantz.
He said the two suspects fled the premises after grabbing a contain-
er he was carrying that held the cash, which was to be used to make
change for customers’ purchases of drinks and food, and which he
believes contained less than $500. He said the suspects entered the bar
between noon and 1 p.m. through an unlocked rear door that construc-
tion workers used to enter the bar earlier to do renovation work.
According to Schantz, the incident was captured by the bar’s video surveil-
lance system and D.C. police have a “very good” image of the two suspects.
Police planned to release photos made from the video. Schantz said he would
send copies to the news media, including DC Agenda, for publication, with a
request that anyone recognizing the suspects contact police.
The D.C. police’s Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit was assisting in the inves-
tigation. Schantz said all officers responding to the scene were cooperative
and helpful, and did a “thorough job” of finding evidence, including a hat that
one of the suspects left behind as he fled the bar.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
GLLU probes domestic violence,
carjacking incidents in District
Officers assigned to the D.C. police’s Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit pro-
vided assistance to regular patrol officers in two incidents on April 16: a
reported carjacking at Third and K streets, N.W., and an alleged domes-
tic violence assault along the 2300 block of 24th Street, S.E.
According to GLLU supervisor Sgt. Carlos Mejia, both incidents involve
members of the transgender community. He said officers with the Seventh
Police District arrested a man identified as the boyfriend of a transgender
woman, who reported that the man punched and pushed her.
Mejia said the second incident involves a police investigation into an
alleged armed carjacking that took place in the early morning hours of April
16 in a location known as a place where transgender prostitutes congregate.
“The complainant reports that he was approached by four individuals
who assaulted him and took his vehicle,” Mejia said in a statement.
“GLLU officers and affiliate officers were called to the scene. The sus-
pects are possible members of the transgender community.”
Mejia’s statement, which he sent by e-mail to activists on the GLLU’s
e-mail list, did not provide additional details, and he could not immedi-
ately be reached for comment.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
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marylandagenda
No progress on key LGBT priorities during Md. session
Equality Maryland
director looks back as
legislature adjourns
By STEVE CHARING
Baltimore OUTLoud
The executive director of Equality
Maryland said although state lawmak-
ers didn’t act this year on two LGBT
priorities, progress was made in the
recently ended legislative session.
Morgan Meneses-Sheets talked
with DC Agenda about that progress,
this year’s biggest accomplishments
and disappointments and the work
that remains to be done.
DC Agenda: You just experi-
enced your first Maryland General
Assembly session as executive
director. What are your thoughts
regarding the process?
Morgan Meneses-Sheets: While
we are disappointed that our two key
priorities — marriage equality and gen-
der identity anti-discrimination — did
not move this year, we have made
progress. We knew going into the 2010
session that it was a building year. The
Religious Freedom & Civil Marriage
Protection Act gained four new co-
sponsors in the General Assembly,
including the chair of the Judicial
Proceedings Committee, where the bill
Slain gay principal hailed as courageous educator
Continued from page 1
Montgomery County police dis-
closed that they found Betts’ blue
Nissan Xterra SUV on April 16 along
the 3900 block of Fourth Street, S.E.,
in D.C., where it was believed to have
been abandoned by two suspects
between noon and 3 p.m. Police
sources said investigators learned
from a nearby resident that two
males were seen leaving the vehicle,
but as of Tuesday police declined to
release a description of them.
On Monday, a Montgomery
County police spokesperson issued
another statement saying investiga-
tors established that Betts was alive
at least until 11:30 p.m. April 14.
News media have reported neigh-
bors observing that Betts had hosted
a cookout for one or more people in
his backyard on the night of April 14.
Police would neither confirm nor
deny that report.
Police arrived at Betts’ house about
7:30 p.m. April 15 after a co-worker
called to report he had failed to show
up at work that morning and could not
be reached. The co-worker arrived at
the house to investigate his where-
abouts and entered the house after
discovering the front door was
unlocked, police said. Rather than
investigate further, the co-worker
called police, and police discovered
Betts’ body in an upper floor bedroom.
One gay man who knew Betts
from the time Betts lived in D.C.’s
Shaw neighborhood said Betts had a
Photo by Steve Charing
Equality Maryland Executive Director
Morgan Meneses-Sheets
is heard in the State Senate. …
The Gender Identity & Expression
Anti-Discrimination Act gained four
new co-sponsors from key geograph-
ic areas across the state. For the first
time, the Maryland AFL-CIO came out
in support of the gender identity bill
and testified at the hearings. This is a
big move forward in terms of our rela-
tionships with the labor community.
We also had a wide range of coalition
partners standing with us on these
bills and other proactive efforts.
We are also pleased that we were
successful in halting a large number
of bills aimed at rolling back our
Photo by Bel Perez Gabilondo; courtesy of D.C. Public Schools
The shooting death of popular principal Brian Betts generated national head-
lines this week.
circle of gay friends and was seen
patronizing the Dupont Circle gay
bars Omega and Fireplace.
Another gay man who knew him
said he assumed Betts was “out” as
gay because many people in the
community knew him in gay circles.
“He was definitely a member of
the GLBT community,” said the man,
who spoke to DC Agenda on condi-
tion that he was not identified.
Capt. Paul Starks, director of the
Montgomery County police’s public
affairs office, declined to comment
on Betts’ sexual orientation or
whether police were looking into
whether the case was a possible
hate crime or pick-up murder.
But on Tuesday, Starks confirmed
media reports that police evidence
experts were searching Betts’ tele-
rights, including bills to invalidate
out-of-state [marriage] licenses, bills
to halt state agencies from honoring
out-of-state licenses and constitu-
tional amendments that could have
not only eliminated future access to
civil marriage, but also prevented any
type of recognition, including the
many partnership protections that we
won in the past, including medical
decision making, the inheritance tax
exemption and hospital visitation.
DC Agenda: What do you see as
your major accomplishment and
what was your biggest disappoint-
ment during the session?
Meneses-Sheets: It was a busy
session. We worked hard to continue
to build momentum and prevent set-
backs. We organized successful
hearings, had a large lobby day
turnout, generated media attention,
engaged activists and lobbied legis-
lators, mobilized new activists, held
legislative briefings and identified
new coalition partners. We are in a
stronger position than at the start of
the session and that in itself is truly a
major accomplishment. …
For me, the biggest disappoint-
ment was the turn of events around
the de facto parent bill. This bill pro-
vides an individual who has served
in a parental role with a minor child
with the duties and obligations, as
well as the protections of being
phone records and personal comput-
er to determine whether he commu-
nicated with someone who could be
linked to the murder, possibly
through an online dating site.
Gay activists and LGBT anti-vio-
lence groups in D.C. and other cities
have expressed concern in the past
that police investigators sometimes
failed to seek help from the LGBT
community in cases where mostly
gay men were robbed or killed by
men they met in gay clubs or meeting
places and invited home.
In an investigative series of stories
in the 1980s and 1990s, the
Washington Blade reported more
than 20 murders of gay men in the
D.C. metropolitan area believed to be
pick-up murders remained unsolved.
Police confirmed that in each of the
viewed as a de facto parent by judi-
cial determination. An individual
must satisfy a set of standards to be
granted de facto parent status in
order to be granted the right to
request custody and visitation. …
Children deserve the continuity
and security of having lasting rela-
tionships with those who parent
them. Sadly, this bill never had a
chance because our opponents
[acted] to twist a procedural rule to
forward their anti-gay agenda on the
back of this bill. We were warned that
because marriage is under Family
Law and custody is under Family
Law that they would have the ability
to add an amendment to this bill that
would prevent the recognition of the
[state] attorney general’s opinion
[recognizing out-of-state same-sex
marriages]. We were concerned that
they might have the votes in commit-
tee to do so. We had also heard
threats that they would try to wage a
nasty battle on the floor to strip pro-
tections for same-sex couples. We
talked with our sponsors and in the
end had to agree to pull the bill.
This is a truly sad example of how
the political process can work at
times. It is also yet another example
of anti-gay extremists ignoring their
own pleas for family values when
they ignore the needs of our families
and our children in order to advance
their personal agendas.
cases, investigators found no signs of
a forced entry into the victims’ homes,
where their bodies were found.
Following the murder of D.C. gay
resident Anthony Perkins in
December, when police found him
shot to death inside his parked car in
Southeast D.C., the D.C. police’s Gay
& Lesbian Liaison Unit distributed
fliers with Perkins’ photo to local gay
clubs seeking information from mem-
bers of the LGBT community.
The GLLU issued a similar flier in
February following the murder of a
gay man from Maryland who also
was shot inside his car on a
Northeast Washington street.
D.C. police have arrested and
charged suspects with first-degree
murder while armed in both cases.
“Brian Betts was by all accounts an
amazingly dedicated teacher and
administrator,” said Peter Rosenstein,
a D.C. gay activist. “Nothing can ever
take that reputation from him. I never
knew Brian, but friends did and
according to them he was a brilliant,
charming, funny, committed-to-his-
family-and-students gay man.
“If this is true, my question to the
police is: If his murder could be relat-
ed to his being gay, are they using
the GLBT community to help find his
murderer?” Rosenstein said. “Are
notices being sent out through the
GLLU and other avenues to find this
murderer and bring him [or] them to
justice? Brian deserves no less from
society than that we find who is
responsible for this heinous crime.”
DC Agenda: By the end of 2010, we
will have completed four years with a
Democratic governor and a majority of
Democrats in the General Assembly. But
other than adding names as co-spon-
sors, the bills to provide transgender pro-
tections and marriage equality have not
advanced out of committee. Why should
the next four years be any different?
Meneses-Sheets: A great deal of
progress has been made in the past
four years. We expanded protections
available to LGBT couples, including
statutes to protect hospital visitation
and medical decision-making and a
repeal of the inheritance tax for
domestic partners. We beat back
efforts to repeal rights for transgender
residents of Montgomery County. We
also successfully fought back each
and every attempt to set us back.
There are many states where that is
not the case. This in itself is some-
thing to celebrate. We continue to
gain ground in Maryland in our efforts
to create true and lasting equality.
Adding new co-sponsors is an
important endeavor. These are peo-
ple signing their name on the dotted
line and committing to stand with us
when these important issues come
up for a vote. This is also proof of the
ever-increasing momentum behind
equality not only here in Maryland,
but throughout the country. … The
next four years can and should hold
much more for the LGBT community.
Sharon Stapel, executive director
of the New York City Anti-Violence
Project, which monitors violence
against LGBT people, said her group
defers to police, family members and
relatives of LGBT crime victims on
whether to disclose the sexual orien-
tation of such victims.
But she added, “Certainly the stig-
ma and fear about being outed is
something that can be an obstacle to
investigating cases where someone
may identify as LGBT.”
“We want people to feel free to
come forward if they think that they
have information that would be help-
ful,” Stapel said. “But all of those deci-
sions have to be made in the context
of what’s going on in their lives and in
the victims’ lives and in the lives of
other folks who care for the victim.
“And the reality is we still live in a
very violent and very dangerous
homophobic world.”
Eliza Byard, executive director of
the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education
Network, called Betts “a remarkable
example of many, many, many men
and women who are gay and lesbian
who dedicate their lives to education.”
Pointing to Betts’ work to help
transform D.C.’s public schools
through his job as a middle school
principal, Byard characterized him as
“a real example of the amazing work
that lesbians and gay men are doing
as leaders in schools every single
day, whether they are principals or
teachers, and the contributions they
are making to our schools.”
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the House floor as well as when she expects a vote, Pelosi said the House Education & Labor Committee
is working hard to “have the strongest possible bill” and she believes a floor vote “will be soon.”
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to the floor as soon as the House Education & Labor Committee is ready to report out the legislation.
The legislation, sponsored by gay Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), would bar discrimination in
the workplace for LGBT people. The bill is pending before the House Education & Labor
Committee and has 199 co-sponsors.
LGBT advocates have been pushing Pelosi to bring ENDA to a House floor vote. Longtime
activist Cleve Jones, in conjunction with the Courage Campaign and GetEqual.org, wrote an open
letter to the speaker last month calling on her to bring the measure to a vote immediately.
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Prosecutors say Scott and Phoenix hurled anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs during the 2008
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Texas says gays can’t get divorced

DALLAS — After the joy of a wedding and the adoption of a baby came arguments that could-
n’t be resolved, leading Angelique Naylor to file for divorce.
According to the Associated Press, that left her fighting both the woman she married in
Massachusetts and the state of Texas, which says a union granted in a state where same-sex
marriage is legal can’t be dissolved with a divorce in a state where it’s not.
The AP reported that a judge in Austin granted the divorce, but Texas Attorney General Greg
Abbott is appealing the decision. He also is appealing a divorce granted to a gay couple in Dallas,
saying protecting the “traditional definition of marriage” means doing the same for divorce.
A state appeals court was scheduled to hear arguments in the Dallas case on Wednesday,
after DC Agenda’s deadline.
The Dallas men, who declined to be interviewed for this story and are known only as J.B. and
H.B. in court filings, had an amicable separation, with no disputes on separation of property and no
children involved, said attorney Peter Schulte, who represents J.B. The couple, who married in 2006
in Massachusetts and separated two years later, simply want an official divorce, Schulte said.
The drawn-out process has been frustrating for Naylor, who says she didn’t file for divorce as
an equal rights statement — she just wants to get on with her life.
“We didn’t ask for a marriage; we simply asked for the courtesy of divorce,” said Naylor, 39, of
Austin, who married Sabina Daly in Massachusetts in 2004.
That year, Massachusetts became the first state to let same-sex couples tie the knot. Now,
Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont and the District of Columbia also allow them.
Gay and lesbian couples who turn to the courts when they break up are getting mixed results
across the nation. A Pennsylvania judge last month refused to divorce two women who married
in Massachusetts, while New York grants such divorces even though the state doesn’t allow
same-sex marriage.
“The bottom line is that same-sex couples have families and their families have the same
needs and problems, but often don’t have the same rights,” said Jennifer Pizer, a lawyer for
Lambda Legal, a national legal organization that promotes equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender people.
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nationalagenda
Annise Parker ‘comfortable’ as LGBT role model
Houston’s lesbian
mayor reflects on
her first 100 days
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@dcagenda.com
The lesbian mayor of the coun-
try’s fourth largest city says she’s
comfortable serving as a role model
for the LGBT community and
acknowledged being taken aback by
the extensive international media
coverage of her political victory.
In a nearly 30-minute interview,
Houston Mayor Annise Parker spoke
with DC Agenda before her appear-
ance at the Gay & Lesbian Victory
Fund’s 10th annual Champagne
Brunch in D.C. on Sunday to discuss
a range of issues and reflect on her
first 100 days in office.
Parker recalled how she issued
an executive order March 25 protect-
ing city employees against job bias
on the basis of sexual orientation,
gender identity and gender expres-
sion. She said she issued the direc-
tive because it was something she
was “aware needed to be done.”
The inclusiveness of the directive
makes it one of the most sweeping
citywide job discrimination protec-
tions in the country for LGBT people.
Parker also encouraged President
Obama to make good on his campaign
promises to the LGBT community, even
though she said she understands he’s
had “huge economic problems, finan-
cial problems he’s had to confront.” She
identified ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
as an issue on which she’d like to see
greater effort from Obama.
DC Agenda: You’ve been mayor
of the city of Houston for just over
100 days. How would you describe
your experience? Has anything sur-
prised you?
Annise Parker: I feel like I’m
doing what I’ve been meant to do. I’m
the right person at the right time, and
I’m thoroughly enjoying the experi-
ence. I trained for this job through my
years as a lesbian activist, communi-
ty activist, council member and con-
troller. I even have the small business
and the private sector experience.
They all are coming together and I’m
using every skills set I have.
… The one thing that I’ve had to
spend a lot of time and energy on
that I did not expect is that because
the president made an announce-
ment changing his funding for NASA,
and Houston is a big component of
NASA and it’s going to have a really
potentially devastating impact on the
jobs and the economy in my city. So
that’s the only thing that was not on
anybody’s radar, and that’s filled up a
lot of my time and energy.
And so, I’ve been part of pulling
together an interesting bipartisan
coalition of our local congressional
delegation in opposition to my presi-
dent on that particular issue.
DC Agenda: Have LGBT issues
come up during your tenure as mayor
in a way that you didn’t anticipate
when seeking office?
Houston Mayor Annise Parker addressed a crowd of more than 700 at Sunday’s 10th annual Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund
Champagne Brunch in D.C.
Parker: No, I’ve issued an execu-
tive order extending our non-discrimi-
nation protection exclusively to trans-
gender employees, but that’s the only
specific issue directed at my commu-
nity. And that’s something that I was
already aware needed to be done.
DC Agenda: Why did you see the
need to issue this executive order?
Parker: I was a member of city
council when our non-discrimination
ordinance passed, and the interpreta-
tion at the time was that it was inclu-
sive, but it was never as clear as I want-
ed it to be, nor the transgender com-
munity wanted to be, so that was just
an opportunity just to fix something that
had been bugging me for a while —
and we have more and more transgen-
der employees in city government.
DC Agenda: Were you surprised
that the Houston Area Pastor Council
spoke out against that executive order?
Parker: No, that’s a fringe group. It
received virtually no attention from the
rest of the city. Actually, I was surprised
that anybody even noticed, but not sur-
prised that no one beyond that really
small circle paid any attention to them.
DC Agenda: Do you feel like
you’ve been a role model or visible
advocate for the LGBT community?
Parker: I believe I’ve been a role
model for the LGBT community since
the ’70s. During the ’80s, I was — with
my colleague in government, Council
member [Sue] Lovell — we were the
two most visible lesbian activists in the
city of Houston for a very long time. So,
I’ve been a community role model.
And I am comfortable with that
role and comfortable speaking on
GLBT issues within some narrow
constraints in that my first priority is
to be mayor of the city of Houston —
for all the citizens of Houston. And I
was, as I prepared my campaign for
mayor, I had to decide what issues I
could advocate — like an executive
order that’s strictly my signature
going out that dealt with my 21,000
employees and the vendors that deal
with them — and what would have to
be something, in my opinion, that
needed to come from the community.
I know I disappointed some mem-
bers of the GLBT community in
Houston when I said I wasn’t going to
immediately advocate for an overturn
of our ban on domestic partner bene-
fits. But the reason for that was clear,
and I said, I worked through these
issues before I entered the race, and
how I felt philosophically and where I
was comfortable, and that is it was a
citizen initiative and referendum that
gave us the ban. It needs to be a citi-
zen referendum that undoes that ban.
If my community brings a petition to
undo our ban on domestic partner
benefits, I would wholeheartedly
embrace it and help them win it, but
it’ll take a vote of the citizens.
And so, the key for me is very
clear communication that I care pas-
sionately about GLBT issues. I will go
— here I am in Washington — to
raise money for GLBT candidates. I
will speak out when it does not inter-
fere with my duties as mayor.
But on the other hand, I’ve — with-
in the boundaries of the city of Houston
and sort of the greater Houston area
— I have a friendly incumbent role. I’m
not getting involved in any local races,
unless they’re actively anti-gay, and so
I know that I’m a Democrat, but some
of my Democratic colleagues are dis-
appointed that I won’t help organize
and take out incumbent Republicans. If
they’re working with me, it’s about my
city, not my community. So I have to
wear multiple hats.
DC Agenda: Going back to the
domestic partner benefits for city
employees, what will the LGBT commu-
nity need to put forward to undo that?
Parker: It’s a petition drive. It has
to go to a vote of the voters. I cannot
undo it as mayor. The mayor and
council together cannot undo it. It’s in
our charter through citizen initiative
and referendum. It would need to be
undone, and I could, yes, as mayor,
DC Agenda photo by Michael Key
with support of council, I could put
the issue on the ballot, but the com-
munity has to show a willingness to
get out and fight for this and that’s
why I suggested they do their own
petition drive and bring it forward
because it’s ultimately going to be a
political battle at the ballot box.
DC Agenda: Do you want to see
the referendum undone during your
tenure as mayor?
Parker: I would like to see the ban
on domestic partner benefits undone
during my tenure as mayor. I don’t
know that any sitting politician wants to
have a divisive vote during their tenure,
so it’s a little bit different answer.
[Laughs] But I’d also like to see a more
complete non-discrimination ordinance
that applies citywide. But that’s some-
thing that will have to be negotiated
with the 14 members of city council,
and that actually, too, could come — I
think a non-discrimination ordinance is
something that, since it already hasn’t
been pre-empted by a referendum
process, could be done on city council,
but the community needs to be
involved in that. It shouldn’t be some-
thing that’s all driven by city hall.
DC Agenda: Let’s move to federal
issues. There’s been a lot of criticism
that the Obama administration hasn’t
been making good on the promises
made to the LGBT community during
the 2008 campaign. How would you
evaluate how well the Obama admin-
istration has handled those issues?
Parker: We’re clearly not high on
the president’s agenda, but I don’t
know that we necessarily should be,
considering the huge economic prob-
lems, financial problems he’s had to
confront. But we deserve to be on the
agenda somewhere and he did make
promises to the community, and I think
we have been more than patient.
DC Agenda: If you had to give the
president a grade on how well he’s
done on these issues, what would it
be a why?
Parker: Oh, I hate giving letter
grades. Maybe a B minus.
DC Agenda: What makes you
choose a B minus?
Parker: It sounded a little bit bet-
ter than a C plus. I cut him some
slack because he came in and he
has tackled some really, really tough
battles, but he made commitments
during the campaign, and I think it is
always important to be very clear
what you intend to do and then do
what you said you were going to do.
DC Agenda: Is there any one
particular LGBT issue that you’d like
to see more initiative from President
Obama on?
Parker: Gays in the military. That
has just been festering out there for a
very, very long time.
DC Agenda: What do you want to
see specifically from President
Obama on this issue?
Parker: To press forward to a reso-
lution that allows our service members
to serve openly — easy for me to say,
since I don’t have to navigate the poli-
tics of Congress or the Joint Chiefs.
DC Agenda: How important do
you think President Obama’s memo-
randum offering hospital visitation
benefits to same-sex couples was
and do you think it’ll particularly help
LGBT Houston residents?
Parker: I think it’s an important
action. I think it’s a humane act while it
has been a problem for some members
of our community, that is something that
fortunately has gotten better over the
last few decades of working on that
issue. I appreciate him doing that, but it
is a problem that we have been making
progress on. More and more of us have
chosen to take the legal steps neces-
sary to allow us full access.
DC Agenda: This November, we
could see an unprecedented number
of LGBT candidates running for
office. What advice do you have for
those candidates?
Parker: Every race is different.
The dynamic of every race is differ-
ent. I’m asked since I’ve been in my
office — starting my 13th year now in
office in Houston. I’m asked regularly
about the candidates, what they
should do, what they should know.
I would say the most important
thing is run for the position that you
want, be passionate about the issues.
I see too many people who say, “Oh, I
want to be in office.” You have to love
what you do. Don’t run for local gov-
ernment office or city office if you don’t
care about trash pickup and potholes
and barking dogs — and I do. And
then decide what your positions are on
the range of gay issues that you [are]
going to be asked, understand what
your answers are, and go out and be
honest. Voters appreciate honestly.
DC Agenda: Is there any race
that you’re particularly paying atten-
tion to this November?
Parker: Not really. I am focused on
our races in Texas. We’re electing a gov-
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Supreme Court hears arguments in LGBT bias case
Religious student
group seeks to bar
gays as officers
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@dcagenda.com
The issue of whether a religious
student organization can deny full
participation to LGBT people and
maintain eligibility as an official group
at a public university came before the
U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.
The case of Christian Legal Society
v. Martinez came before the high court
after the University of California in
Hastings denied the Hastings Christian
Fellowship status as an official student
group on the grounds that it prohibits
LGBT people from taking positions
within group leadership.
In the 2004 academic year, the
school affiliated itself with the Christian
Legal Society, which has bylaws say-
ing that officers must abstain from “acts
of the sinful nature” that includes “unre-
pentant participation in or advocacy of
a sexually immoral lifestyle,” including
homosexual behavior.
Consequently, the group has no
right to meet on campus, can’t com-
municate through the law school’s
newsletter or weekly e-mail announce-
ment and can’t receive school funding.
The Hastings Christian Fellowship
contends the school’s decision violates
the group’s First Amendment rights of
association and free speech.
Arguing on behalf of the Christian
group before the Supreme Court was
Michael McConnell, a law professor at
Stanford Law School and former
judge for the U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He said
that the non-discrimination policy at
the law school infringes on the beliefs
of chapter members and is a “front
assault on freedom of association.”
“A public forum for speech must be
open and inclusive, but participants in
the argument must be entitled to their
own voice,” McConnell said.
Obama mandates hospital rights for LGBT couples
Photo courtesy of DNC
President Obama said that ‘too
often, people are made to suffer or
even to pass away alone, denied the
comfort of companionship in their final
moments while a loved one is left wor-
rying and pacing down the hall.’
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in the case of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, which involves LGBT
discrimination.
He said the policy at the law school
would mean that an NAACP chapter
would “have to allow a racist skinhead”
to participate in board meetings to main-
tain eligibility as an official school group.
On the other side of the argument
and representing the college was
Gregory Garre, a partner at the D.C.-
based office of Latham & Watkins
and a former solicitor general for
President George W. Bush.
Garre said the non-discrimination
policy the school has in place is neutral
and doesn’t target any particular view-
point or make a distinction between reli-
gious and non-religious speech.
“The whole purpose of the policy
is to stay out of the argument and
have an all-comers policy,” he said.
Garre said similar non-discrimina-
tion policies are “not uncommon and
reasonable policy” and in place at
many colleges, including Georgetown
University Law School.
Visitation, decision-making
privileges included
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@dcagenda.com
The White House last week unveiled
a memorandum requiring most hospi-
tals to offer hospital visitation rights for
same-sex couples.
The April 15 memo, signed by
President Obama and issued to the
Department of Health & Human
Services, mandates that all hospitals
receiving Medicare or Medicaid
funds allow LGBT people to desig-
nate their partner as visitors.
Additionally, the memo requires these
hospitals allow patients to designate a
same-sex partner as someone who
can make medical decisions for them in
the event of an emergency. The direc-
tive also requires HHS to provide rec-
ommendations, within 180 days, on
Indicating that LGBT people may
in fact be interested in the Hastings
Christian Fellowship, Garre noted the
record shows that an out lesbian took
part in the group’s activities before
the group affiliated itself with the
national organization.
“The record shows she participat-
ed in the discussions,” he said. “The
officer of the group said he enjoyed
having her there.”
During oral arguments before the
Supreme Court, justices volleyed ques-
tions at both attorneys on issues rang-
ing from whether the non-discrimination
was applied consistently to all college
groups to the tradition of giving schools
deference in non-discrimination policies.
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia
asked several questions about whether
the school had been consistently
applying its policy to all groups at the
college and whether the standards for
the non-discrimination policy had mor-
other actions the department can
take “or other health care issues that
affect LGBT patients and their families.”
In the memo, Obama says he’s
issuing the guidance because the fail-
ure to have same-sex couples’ wishes
respected “concerning who may visit
them or make medical decisions on
their behalf has real consequences.”
“And it means that all too often, peo-
ple are made to suffer or even to pass
away alone, denied the comfort of com-
panionship in their final moments while
a loved one is left worrying and pacing
down the hall,” says the memo.
But the memo also says it’s not
intended to create any right of bene-
fit “enforceable at law or in equity by
any party against the United States,
its departments, agencies, or enti-
ties, its officers, employees, or
agents, or any other person.”
In a statement, the Human Rights
Campaign praised Obama for issuing
the guidance and said it was inspired
DC Agenda file photo by Michael Key
phed since the lawsuit began.
He said the current policy would
allow Democrats to become leaders
in a Republican group or allow athe-
ists to conduct Bible classes in a
Christian group.
Also expressing concern was
Associate Justice Samuel Alito. He
questioned whether current policy
would enable vehemently anti-Muslim
people to take over the leadership of a
Muslim group at the school.
But Associate Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg dismissed the notion that the
policy could allow for takeover of some
groups, calling such ideas “hypotheticals
about sabotage takeover that haven’t
happened.” She noted that the law
school’s current policy enables diversity.
“Hastings takes the position that it
favors diversity not just among the groups,
but within the groups,” Ginsburg said.
Also demonstrating some apparent
sympathy for the school’s policy was
by a New York Times profile on Lisa
Pond and Janice Langbehn.
According to HRC, Langbehn and
her partner’s children were kept away
from Pond’s bedside as she lay dying,
even though Pond had a medical
directive. After Pond’s death, Lambda
Legal represented Langbehn in a later
lawsuit against Jackson Memorial
Hospital in Miami and worked with the
hospital to revise its policies.
The HRC statement says the organ-
ization worked with the White House and
HHS “in support of the memorandum.”
“No one should experience what
befell the Pond-Langbehn family, and
the president’s action today will help
ensure that the indignities Janice and
her children faced do not happen to
another family,” Joe Solmonese, HRC’s
president, said in a statement.
Also praising the president’s
move was Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-
Wis.), the only out lesbian in Congress,
who said the measure “follows the lead
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor,
who asked whether the policy actually
prohibited the group from fulfilling its mis-
sion or meant that the group was being
“ostracized or excluded from the school.”
Following the oral arguments,
Shannon Minter, legal director for the
National Center of Lesbian Rights,
told DC Agenda the proceedings
went “fantastically well” for the defen-
dants, although he said predicting
how justices will rule was difficult.
“They recognized that the policy
that’s in front of the court is an all-com-
ers policy,” Minter said. “It was just very
encouraging that a lot of justices under-
stand that that is, under their existing
doctrine, a viewpoint-neutral policy.”
A number of national organiza-
tions weighed in both sides of the
issue, filing friend-of-the-court briefs.
In a statement, Jon Davidson, legal
director of Lambda Legal, which filed a
brief in support of the law school, said
plaintiffs put forth arguments that are
substantively ludicrous.
“No one is telling CLS that they
can’t shut their doors to whomever
they want,” Davidson said. “But they
can’t do that if they expect university
funds. It’s wrong of them to expect
taxpayers and students to pick up the
tab for engaging in discrimination
against select Hastings students.”
Davidson called the lawsuit “anoth-
er case of an anti-gay group claiming it
deserves sympathy when its foot hurts
due to kicking gay people in the head.”
But Mat Staver, a prominent social
conservative and founder of the
Liberty Counsel, said in a statement
that the current policy jeopardizes First
Amendment rights for the Christian
group and potentially others.
“Of all places, one would think a
public law school would respect the
First Amendment,” he said. “The First
Amendment is strong medicine to polit-
ical correctness. If the government can
drive out Christian viewpoints today, it
can drive out any viewpoint tomorrow.”
A decision in the case is expected
before the end of the current term for
the Supreme Court in July.
of many states and makes a strong
statement about who we are as a
nation and what we value.”
“No one should face the distress of
lying ill or injured in a hospital bed with
the loved one you designate barred from
your bedside for any other than a com-
pelling medical reason,” she said. “For
too long, such access has been arbitrar-
ily denied many individuals, most espe-
cially to gay and lesbian Americans.”
Jennifer Chrisler, executive direc-
tor of the Family Equality Council,
also lauded the president’s move in a
statement. She noted that she was
with Langbehn and her family dur-
ing the death of her partner.
Chrisler said it’s past time for same-
sex couples to “have the very basic
and simple right to hold their partner’s
hand at the hospital bedside.”
“I am grateful the president recog-
nizes that this is a vital step in help-
ing protect LGBT families in a great
time of need,” she said.
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nationalagenda
ENDA votes needed from Reid, Baucus, Nelson
Senators, scarred
from health care battle,
uncommitted on bill
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@dcagenda.com
At least three highly influential
Democratic senators who became
embroiled in the contentious fight over
President Obama’s health care reform
bill have yet to co-sponsor for the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
But Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid (D-Nev.) and Sens. Max Baucus
(D-Mont.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.)
— each considered battled scarred
over the health care fight — have
expressed general support for legis-
lation to ban employment discrimina-
tion based on sexual orientation.
Reid and Baucus voted for an ear-
lier version of ENDA in 1996, when it
lost in a close Senate vote, prompt-
ing LGBT lobbyists to express opti-
mism over the two senators’ votes
should ENDA come before the
Senate this year.
Reid and Baucus have not taken a
public stand on the gender identity pro-
vision in the current version of the bill,
which would ban employment discrim-
ination against transgender people.
Reid, who received a perfect rat-
ing of 100 from the Human Rights
Campaign for the period of 2008-
2009, is facing a tough re-election
fight, with at least two possible
Republican challengers leading in
polls by double digits.
Last year, his spokesperson, Jim
Annise Parker reflects on first 100 days in office
Continued from page 10
ernor of Texas. And there are — as I said,
I’m staying out of my local races in Texas,
including the governor’s race, but I’m very
passionately interested in it because it
will have an impact on my constituents.
DC Agenda: Have LGBT issues
or anti-gay rhetoric been playing any
role in the gubernatorial election?
Parker: Not as far as I know so far.
DC Agenda: What do you think for-
mer Houston mayor and Democratic
candidate Bill White’s chances are for
election as Texas governor?
Parker: Difficult but not impossible.
He’s a very smart, hard campaigner.
He’ll have plenty of money to spend
and he’s running against a governor
who has the potential for fumbling the
ball, so I certainly think it’s a competi-
tive race, although it’s an uphill battle.
DC Agenda: How concerned do
you think LGBT Americans should be
about Democrats losing control of
either chamber of Congress this fall?
Parker: It’s not unusual to have a
midterm fallback for the party in power,
but because so many state Republican
parties have been hijacked by the
Tea Party movement, and many of
our Republican Congress members
have taken a turn to the right, we
U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson supports efforts to ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, but it’s unclear whether
he supports broadening such protections to include discrimination based on gender identity.
Manning, said Reid supports ENDA
and would take steps to bring it to the
Senate floor at the appropriate time.
Reid, Baucus and Nelson are
among 16 Senate Democrats who
haven’t co-sponsored ENDA and
whose support is considered crucial
to the bill’s passage.
Although HRC, which is leading the
Houston Mayor Annise Parker talked about her long road to high office at
Sunday's Victory Fund Champagne Brunch.
need to be very vigilant to make sure
that we don’t allow Congress to
backtrack on our issues and that we
do our best to keep out those who
have taken these hard right turns.
DC Agenda: Do you think your
position as mayor has influenced
formal lobbying effort for ENDA,
believes there are more than 50 sena-
tors poised to vote for the measure,
the group acknowledges it’s uncertain
whether supporters can garner the 60
votes needed to overcome an expect-
ed filibuster intended to kill the bill.
“I believe we have 53 or more votes
for the bill itself,” said David Stacy,
DC Agenda photo by Michael Key
how the people of Texas or the Texas
state government have looked at
LGBT issues?
Parker: I hope so. I have been
fielding media [interviews] from
around the world, actually. I think it’s
also affecting how people around the
world view Houston and view Texas.
Photo courtesy of Nelson’s office
HRC’s deputy legislative director.
Stacy noted that 63 senators
voted last year to break a filibuster for
a hate crimes bill that included pro-
tections for gay and transgender
people, enabling the bill to pass. The
bill was the first congressionally
passed civil rights legislation to pro-
tect gay and transgender people.
I’ve had dozens and dozens of nation-
al and international media interviews
since my election, and they fall into
two categories: one category is “Wow,
you’re a lesbian mayor,” and the other
category is, “How did this happen in
Houston or how did this happen in
Texas?” It gives me an opportunity to
talk a little bit about my hometown and
why it’s different in Texas.
DC Agenda: Same-sex marriage
is prohibited by the state constitution
in Texas. What do you think would
need to happen to reverse that?
Parker: A statewide referendum. I
mean, literally, it’s a very simple
answer. It would have to be declared
unconstitutional by our state
Supreme Court or we would have to
do a statewide vote to undo it.
DC Agenda: What kind of plan-
ning do you think we’d need to see
from the LGBT community for that to
happen?
Parker: … It’s not just about
putting more openly LGBT elected
officials or putting more into — we
have a statewide Equality Texas, a
statewide organizing and lobbying
effort. It’s going to take all of us
convincing our families and our
friends that recognition of intimate
relationships is an important issue
to them as well. We have to win the
Stacy said HRC was hopeful, but
uncertain whether 60 senators could
be lined up to break an ENDA filibuster.
Nelson, like Reid and Baucus, has
expressed general support for non-
discrimination legislation based on
sexual orientation. And he, too, voted
for the trans-inclusive hate crimes bill.
Unlike Reid, Baucus and Nelson
are not facing a re-election fight this
year, another factor that activists hope
will encourage them to support ENDA.
Baucus’ Montana colleague, Sen.
John Tester (D-Mont.) also has not yet
become an ENDA co-sponsor. His
office did not respond to calls by press
time seeking his position on the bill.
Similar to Baucus, Nelson and
Reid, Tester has a mixed record on
LGBT rights. He has expressed
opposition to gay marriage but has
said he opposes a U.S. constitutional
amendment to ban it. Tester voted for
the hate crimes bill last year.
Meanwhile, Sen. Kay Hagan (D-
N.C.), another lawmaker not currently
co-sponsoring ENDA, is among the
Democrats that LGBT activists are
hoping will come through with another
needed vote on ENDA. Like the other
senators, she has expressed general
support for LGBT equality but declined
to sign on as an ENDA co-sponsor.
“I think she would probably vote
for it,” said Hastings Wyman, editor of
Southern Political Report, an author-
itative newsletter about politics in the
South. “She voted for health care and
she has another four years before
she comes up for re-election.”
The offices of Baucus, Tester,
Nelson, and Hagan did not return calls
seeking their current positions on ENDA.
hearts and minds fight before we
go back to legislative fight, and
that’s a slow process.
DC Agenda: When, if ever, do
you see that happening?
Parker: Really within my lifetime,
but I don’t know how long that’s going
to be. I have been an activist for more
than 30 years, so, more like 35 years.
I’ve seen a lot of changes for our
community, and I can take the long
view. I think it would have been
unimaginable when I was out in col-
lege organizing on campus to have
three members of Congress — let
alone the mayor of Houston — who
are out and open. We are so far
beyond what I would have expected
to see back then.
DC Agenda: Would you be interest-
ed in pursuing other political office after
you’ve finished your tenure as mayor?
Parker: I haven’t even thought
about it. Hopefully, I will be able to
serve my full allotted terms under
term limits — a maximum of six
years. At that time, I will have been in
office 18 years in Houston, and I’ll
have to consider what I want to do
next. But I love local government. I
think it’s the most important level of
government, but it’s the most imme-
diate to the people.
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Key Democrats undecided on timing of ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal
Continued from page 1
— Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts,
Nebraska, Virginia and West Virginia
— are the targets of HRC’s grassroots
campaign. The renewed push to win
their support comes as the Senate
Armed Services Committee is poised
to tackle the issue May 26 when it
takes up the Defense authorization bill.
Allison Herwitt, HRC’s legislative
director, said the grassroots effort is
being coordinated by about two dozen
field workers and includes postcards,
phone calls, district office visits, op-ed
placements and other media coverage.
“We’re also, where we can, work-
ing with some grasstops folks to
weigh in with senators, and it’s an
ongoing process,” she said.
Marty Rouse, HRC’s national field
director, said the campaign builds on
the organization’s earlier efforts such as
the Voices of Honor tour and involves
“identifying and mobilizing veterans” to
contact senators and participate in the
joint Lobby Day between HRC and
Servicemembers United on May 11.
Servicemembers United Executive
Director Alex Nicholson said his
organization is identifying veterans
with HRC’s membership and bringing
in new veterans not connected to any
organization to advocate for repeal.
“We’re basically setting up a num-
ber of events in each of these states
with vets to talk about ‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell’ to get the issue to the local
media,” he said.
But even with this campaign
underway, senators from these six
states aren’t yet committed to voting
for repeal. Many are saying they want
to hear the results of the Pentagon
study on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which
is due Dec. 1, before taking action.
The mandate of the study, as estab-
lished by Defense Secretary Robert
Gates and Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, is to
examine how the U.S. armed services
would implement open service should
Congress repeal the ban.
One such senator waiting for the
study results is Jim Webb (D-Va.).
Asked by DC Agenda on Tuesday
whether he favors repeal, Webb
emphasized his support for the
review currently underway.
“I think what Secretary Gates and
Adm. Mullen proposed in terms of
the study is very important,” Webb
said. “We need to understand that. I
support the approach that they’re
taking. It’s responsible.”
Pressed on how he would vote on
an amendment during the defense
authorization markup, Webb reiterat-
ed his support for the working group
and replied, “I think we need to honor
the process that Secretary Gates
and Adm. Mullen have put in motion.”
Holding a similar position is Sen.
Bill Nelson (D-Fla.). In a statement,
Nelson spokesperson Grant Schnell
said the senator is interested in the
results of the study.
“Sen. Nelson’s inclined to support
repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” poli-
cy, but wants to see the study Secretary
Gates announced of how this would
impact the military,” Schnell said.
Also refraining from endorsing
During a press event Tuesday on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ featuring former service members who are gay, U.S. Sen. Mark Udall
said he wants the president to take a more active role in efforts to overturn the law.
repeal was Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.). In
a statement, Bayh said he’s “committed
to ensuring that our troops are treated
with the respect they have earned
through their selfless service” and that
his personal belief is “those who are
willing to take a bullet for their country
ought to be able to serve it openly.”
“However, President Obama is
absolutely right to solicit the input and
support of his top military commanders
about the effects of repealing the ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy,” Bayh said. “I will
make a final decision after receiving the
input of our top commanders.”
The offices of Sens. Robert Byrd
(D-W.V.), Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and
Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) didn’t respond to
DC Agenda’s request for comment.
Asked about the progress in mov-
‘Don’t Ask’ protesters interrupt Obama speech
Protesters angered with President
Obama’s progress on repealing
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” interrupted his
speech several times during a
fundraising event in Los Angeles on
Monday, leading him to reiterate his
support for overturning the law.
The activists were affiliated with
GetEqual.org, the same group
responsible for organizing a protest
last month during which gay Lt. Dan
Choi and Capt. James Pietrangelo
handcuffed themselves to the White
House fence.
According to White House pool
reports, demonstrators called out to
Obama several times to end “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” during a Democratic
National Committee fundraising
speech aimed to build support for
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).
“What about ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell?’” one protester shouted to the
president.
In response to the protesters’
outbursts, the crowd tried to hush
the activists. Obama yelled back,
“We are going to do that,” and kept
ing these senators to support repeal,
Herwitt said the campaign is “a work
in progress” and that many lawmak-
ers typically hold out on announcing
support for pro-LGBT legislation until
just before it comes to a vote.
“You always have that last handful
of House members or senators that
you’re really looking to secure support
from, and they’re typically the ones that
don’t declare early,” she said.
Rouse noted that there’s a “signif-
icant presence” of mobilized efforts
to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the
six states where HRC is working to
influence senators.
“If you talk [with] any leaders or politi-
cally engaged people in these six states,
I think they would acknowledge that there
has been significant movement across
talking, increasing his volume to
speak over the demonstrators. The
crowd then erupted into chants of
“Yes, we can!”
Obama later said, “We are going
to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’”
“It’s time for equality for all
Americans!” another protester
yelled, spurring Obama to reply,
“Can I just say again, Barbara and I
are supportive of repealing ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell.’”
But protesters kept yelling, bring-
ing Obama’s remarks to a halt. The
crowd responded again by shouting,
“Yes we can!” over the protesters.
Obama then left the microphone
briefly and spoke with Boxer. After
he returned to the podium, he
said, ”I just checked with Barbara,
so if anybody else is thinking about
starting a chant, Barbara didn’t
even vote for ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
in the first place, so you know she’s
going to be in favor of repealing
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’”
According to a statement from
GetEqual.org, security officers then
DC Agenda photo by Michael Key
the states in support of ending ‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell,’” Rouse said.
Nicholson also said “it’s really too
early” to tell whether the effort will be
successful in moving moderate sen-
ators to vote for repeal.
“With these swing vote senators,
they’re not going to make up their
minds until the last minute, and [then
only if they] absolutely have to,” he said.
“If they’re not forced to take the vote, I
don’t think they’re going to take the risk
of coming out one way or the other.”
Still, Nicholson said he’s seen evi-
dence of these senators noticing the
campaign’s efforts in their states, cit-
ing Nebraska as an example where
increased media coverage of “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” has come to the
attention of Ben Nelson’s staff.
escorted the demonstrators out of
the reception, and Obama resumed
his speech regarding the economy.
In a statement, Dan Fotou, a
Los Angeles resident and one of
the protesters, said Obama has
been “has been AWOL” on efforts to
repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“We had to remind him of the
promises he made to the LGBT
community during his campaign
and several times during his pres-
idency — that [‘Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell’] will be repealed because, as
he’s stated, ‘it’s the right thing to
do,’” Fotou said.
Kip Williams, co-founder of
GetEqual.org, commended the pro-
testers’ actions Monday.
“These empowering and brave
activists feel so strongly about our
rights they were willing to confront
the president of the United States on
his lack of leadership on [‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell’] and to hold him account-
able for the promises he has made to
our community,” Williams said.
CHRIS JOHNSON
Nicholson said he’s heard mem-
bers of Ben Nelson’s staff have taken
the initiative in conversations with other
staff members on Capitol Hill to men-
tion an uptick in newspaper stories
coming from Omaha, Neb., and
Lincoln, Neb., on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“What we do know right now, what we
are able to see, is that it’s being noticed
— that’s for sure,” Nicholson said.
‘Within a vote or two’
But with votes from these key
senators still in play, it remains to be
seen whether there will be sufficient
votes in the Senate Armed Services
Committee to advance repeal.
During a press event Tuesday, Sen.
Mark Udall (D-Colo.), a strong propo-
nent of repeal in the Senate, was opti-
mistic about having enough support,
noting that “we’re very close” and
“we’re within a vote or two.”
“There are certainly a number of
senators on [the Democratic] side
that are on record as wanting to over-
turn ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ and there
are some who have not made their
intentions clear,” Udall said.
Among Republicans, Udall said
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a mod-
erate who often supports LGBT civil
rights bills, has “expressed an interest
in overturning ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’”
Nicholson estimated that a vote
now in the Senate Armed Services
Committee to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” would have a 25 to 50 percent
chance of succeeding without further
intervention from the administration.
“I think that Bayh and Bill Nelson
are ‘lean yeses,’” Nicholson said.
“They’re undecideds, but they’re
undecideds leaning towards ‘yes.’”
One factor that would be seen as a
tremendous boon — and perhaps even
essential — to moving key senators to
support repeal is an explicit endorse-
ment from President Obama to attach
an end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to the
upcoming Defense authorization bill.
But the White House and the
Pentagon have not come forward with
an explicit endorsement of repeal this
year. In response to a query from DC
Agenda during a press briefing last
month, Gates said he doesn’t recom-
mend a change in the law until the
Defense Department completes its
study implementing open service and
that he thinks the president is comfort-
able with this process.
On Monday, Aubrey Sarvis, execu-
tive director of the Servicemembers
Legal Defense Network, wrote a letter
to Obama urging him to come out for
repeal. Sarvis said he’s concerned
about “multiple reports” that the presi-
dent’s congressional liaison team “is
urging some members of Congress to
avoid a vote on repeal this year.”
Among those noticing a lack of sup-
port from the Obama administration to
repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” at this time
is Senate Armed Services Committee
Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.). Asked
by DC Agenda on Tuesday what the
White House and the Pentagon are
saying they want from lawmakers on
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Levin replied,
“Let them complete the analysis.”
Continues on page 19
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Obama asked to
back immediate
‘Don’t Ask’ repeal
Continued from page 18

During his press event, Udall called for a

stronger voice from Obama. While acknowl-
edging the president made clear in January
during his State of the Union address that he
wants to work to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell,” Udall said he wants to see and hear more
from Obama on the issue.
“The White House has, in the State of the
Union address, made it clear they want to
repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” Udall said. “The
timing they continue to leave up to the
Congress. That’s why I think it will be very
useful if the president weighed in and said
that this year is the year to finish the job.”
Anger with Obama for failing to endorse
immediate repeal led protesters to interrupt
the president’s speech Monday at a Los
Angeles fundraising event for Sen. Barbara
Boxer (D-Calif.).
In another protest, six LGBT veterans hand-
cuffed themselves to the gates of the White
House on Tuesday in protest over “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” and were subsequently arrested.
Among the demonstrators were Lt. Dan Choi
and Capt. Jim Pietrangelo, who were arrested
last month after handcuffing themselves to the
White House fence in a similar protest.
In a statement, Choi said he and other LGBT
veterans participated in the action out of concern
that the president is wavering on his commitment
to push for ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“We are handcuffing ourselves to the White
House gates once again to demand that
President Obama show leadership on repealing
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” Choi said. “If the presi-
dent were serious about keeping his promise to
repeal this year, he would put the repeal lan-
guage in his Defense authorization budget.”
Following the protest in Los Angeles, White
House Deputy Press Secretary Dan Burton
wouldn’t say in response to a reporter’s question
aboard Air Force One whether Obama supports
repeal at this time. Instead, Burton emphasized
that “a tremendous amount of progress” has been
made on the issue.
“This is a policy that’s been in place for
quite a long time, and as we’ve seen on other
issues, change is hard,” he said. “But that said,
what we’ve seen is the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense
both come out in support of this change, and
we’re moving with as much speed as possible
to see that it’s done.”
Nicholson said he doesn’t think it’s possible
to move senators to vote for an immediate
repeal bill without more support from the pres-
ident. But he noted a bill with delayed imple-
mentation, as Servicemembers United previ-
ously recommended, is possible.
“I think that’s the best chance we have for
getting this because it’s the only thing consis-
tent with what the Pentagon wants and it’s the
only … middle ground between what the
Pentagon says they want and what we are
willing to give up and accept,” Nicholson said.
Nicholson said the repeal legislation current-
ly before the Senate isn’t a delayed implemen-
tation bill because it calls for an immediate ces-
sation of discharges while allowing the
Pentagon working group to complete its study.
Regardless of the positions of the White
House and Pentagon, Herwitt said HRC and
other advocates are working to make repeal
happen this year in the hopes of moving mod-
erate senators to vote for repeal.
“I think that we are going to continue to push
and advocate for these senators’ votes,” she
said. “The president said in the State of the
Union address that he will work with Congress
this year and we are continuing to push forward.”
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personalagenda
Mystery of Wone killing endures
Conspiracy trial of
three gay men to
begin next month
By DOUG JOHNSON
On May 10, D.C. Superior Court
Judge Lynn Leibovitz will gavel in the
conspiracy trial of three gay men
linked to the murder of D.C. attorney
Robert Wone. His stabbing in a
Dupont Circle-area townhome is near-
ly four years old, and still maddeningly
cloaked in mystery and speculation.
Four years is too long to wait for
some measure of justice; and while
the trial will, we hope, bring a verdict,
it’s doubtful to move the community
much closer to understanding what
happened that night of Aug. 2, 2006.
Short of actually solving the crime
of who murdered Robert Wone, his
killing offers important lessons moving
forward for all who live and socialize in
the District. They are lessons that
carry responsibilities not yet fully met.
No doubt many readers have at
least passing memory of the mur-
der. Certainly my longtime friends
Michael Kremin, David Greer, Craig
Brownstein and myself recall first
hearing of the strange Swann Street
stabbing of Wone in the home of
prominent gay couple Joe Price and
Victor Zaborsky. Then came the slow
trickle of fact and rumor.
Facts such as domestic partners
We have a major problem at DOJ
Holder and Obama are
not on the same page
By PETER ROSENSTEIN
Supporters of LGBT rights have a
major problem at the Department of
Justice — the same DOJ that screwed
us in a brief defending the Defense of
Marriage Act and that last week filed a
supplemental response to a brief in the
Log Cabin Republicans’ lawsuit against
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
It seems that the Justice
Department is once again working
against the wishes of the White
House and in this case actually say-
ing the president was wrong when he
said to our community at the LGBT
Pride month reception at the White
House last year that, “… I believe
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ doesn’t con-
tribute to our national security.”
The president is a constitutional
scholar so I believe those who write
his speeches would, or at least
should, check on the accuracy of
what he is saying. But in this case the
Justice Department filing “denied”
that was the case. So apparently
DOJ thinks that leaving “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” as law wouldn’t hurt our
national security.
I think it is time for our community
to ask whether the president is being
honest with us or whether Eric
Holder is the problem and not doing
‘’
Photo courtesy of Radio Free Asia
Nearly four years later, the murder of
Robert Wone remains a mystery.
Price and Zaborsky sharing their
home with Dylan Ward, and rumors
about the details of their private living
arrangements. Facts like the three
housemates’ claims of complete lack
of knowledge of what happened, and
rumors about the intruder theory. Facts
of the housemates’ very public work
on LGBT equality issues, and rumors
about Wone’s sexual orientation. (For
the record, we are convinced that
‘ ’
How long does this White House
expect our community to accept
its mixed messages?
his job to bring the Justice
Department at least politically in line
with what the president is saying.
Are we being undermined behind
closed doors by Jim Messina, the
White House deputy chief of staff, or
is he just following orders? I have
heard from friends in the White
House that Messina has actually
indicated that the president will not
push “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal
this year. I would like Messina to let
us know what he thinks the presi-
dent’s position is and what’s being
done to advance it. We need to
know whether President Obama will
do what he has promised us and
really ask Congress to repeal the
military’s gay ban this year. Or is
that line just for receptions and din-
ner speeches?
I am still a big supporter of the
president. I am also one of the people
in the LGBT community often
accused of having too much patience.
But patience is one thing, being lied
to, or seeing a politician trying to have
it both ways, is another.
I was at the Human Rights
Campaign dinner last year when the
Four years is too
long to wait for
some measure
of justice.
Robert Wone was straight.)
Years passed, and with it local
media and community attention
ebbed. But while the MPD, news
organizations and the gay community
appeared to lose interest, we did not.
We four took as our task doing what
we could to re-awaken awareness of
the case, and in so doing perhaps
assist in solving the mystery. The web
site whomurderedrobertwone.com
was born. (None of us personally
knew Robert or the three Swann
Street housemates and no one has
been charged with the murder itself.)
So what have we learned? First, a
police force is only as good as its com-
munity support and oversight. Crime
investigations are necessarily messy,
and as in this case, errors will be
made. It’s not enough for citizens to
merely complain after the fact; we
must make sure the MPD has the
resources it needs and demand the
organization make improvements
where it must. A good first step would
be un-freezing hires into the MPD’s
Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit.
Second, news organizations are
president spoke out clearly on “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell.” He also said, “Keep
my feet to the fire.” Well the time is now
for us in the LGBT community to do
just that. We need to keep his feet and
the feet of his staff to the fire and we
need honest answers to our ques-
tions. At a recent White House press
briefing, the Advocate’s Kerry Eleveld
asked Robert Gibbs a question about
the DOJ and its response to a recent
case. After much hemming and haw-
ing, Gibbs had to admit that what DOJ
did was not in concert with the White
House and he was surprised. It’s time
the White House stopped being sur-
prised by DOJ and that Eric Holder
take some leadership over there.
Many of the DOJ statements on
the Defense of Marriage Act and now
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” appear to not
be points of law but rather opinions
by staff at DOJ. Whether the gay ban
does or doesn’t contribute to our
national security is basically an opin-
ion without empirical proof. I believe
when the president spoke he did so
knowing that when you fire needed
linguists and keep highly qualified
members of the military from serving
responsible for keeping attention on
cases like this, but they cannot do it
alone. In these days of increasing pres-
sures on newsrooms and dwindling
revenue, it’s understandable how
important issues and developments
can be missed. We have learned that
ordinary residents have at hand the
tools necessary to help shoulder some
of that burden. All it takes is a key-
board, curiosity and commitment.
And lastly, all of us in the LGBT
community bear some responsibility
to help assist solving cases where we
are not just the victims, but perhaps
the perpetrators as well. Gays and
lesbians have admirably stepped up
to keep attention on the murder of
Tony Hunter, the assault of Mitch
Graffeo and his friend Jaime, and
other hate-related crimes. We must
do likewise especially in cases that
may be unsettling, and that don’t con-
form to the “gays as victims” meme.
Although we never knew Robert
during his lifetime, we know our city
is poorer for his absence, and the
absence of far too many others. But
we can make a difference, if we pay
attention to the lessons this tragedy
offers. Lessons that can make our
community safer for all who live here.
It’s a tribute we think Robert
Wone would have appreciated.
Doug Johnson is one of four edi-
tors of the web site whomurdere-
drobertwone.com. Reach them at
whomurdered@live.com.
it indeed hurts our national security. I
would like to know on what basis
DOJ contradicted his remarks.
How long does this White House
expect our community to accept its
mixed messages? How long do they
expect us to hold our fire?I know that
OPM Director John Berry, the highest-
ranking LGBT official in the adminis-
tration, is working hard to try to keep
the president’s promise. Secretary
Robert Gates and the Defense
Department counsel are trying to
apply the existing law more humanely.
Berry isn’t in the White House every
day at all the high-level meetings, but
it’s my hope that Messina is there.
Politics is a strange business as we
all well know. And in the scheme of
things I guess “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
doesn’t fall that high on the president’s
daily list of urgent problems to solve.
Health care, jobs and the economy, cli-
mate control, two wars, immigration and
sorting out the financial markets may be
further up on his list of to-do items.
But for us in the LGBT community
righting an old wrong, which “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” is, and one that
impacts our very basic civil and
human rights is high on our agenda
and I would hope that the president
and those political people around
him would understand that.
Peter Rosenstein is a D.C.-
based LGBT rights and Democratic
Party activist.
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friday, april 23
Burgundy Crescent volunteers
today for “GOING TO THE CHAPEL:
SINGING FOR JUSTICE AND JOY”
at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop.
To participate, visit burgundycrescent.org.
[GAY] COMEDY SHOW moves to
Town Danceboutique, 2009 8th St.,
N.W., this month. The show is from 8-
10 p.m. with your host Shawn
Hollenbach. Admission is $10.
EFN Lounge presents “RU WHO?”
featuring special guest Mystique from
season two of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
The show starts at 9 p.m. at EFN
Lounge, 1318 9th St. N.W., with DJ
Matt Bailer. Must be 21+ to enter; $5
cover benefits Miss Gay DC Pageants.
JOAN RIVERS performs at the
Avalon Theater, 42 E. Dover St.,
Easton, MD at 8 p.m. Call 410-822-
7299 for tickets, which range $50-100.
WICKED LIQUID, featuring Josh
Colon from “Real World DC,” per-
forms at Santa Fe Café, in College
Park, Md., at 11 p.m.
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6:30-11 p.m. Proceeds will benefit
HIV/AIDS services at Whitman-Walker.
For more information visit wwc.org.
See related story on page 24.
saturday, april 24
RAINBOW FAMILIES, DC, an organi-
zation for LGBT parents and prospec-
tive parents, holds its 2010 conference
at GDS High School, 4200 Davenport
St., N.W., from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Visit
rainbowfamiliesdc.org for information.
Burgundy Crescent volunteers
today for the annual ANACOSTIA
RIVER CLEAN-UP AND EARTH
DAY CELEBRATION. To participate,
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Fourth Saturdays at MOVA Lounge
are POZ SATURDAYS. POZ mixers
provide a supportive atmosphere for
those who are HIV positive and those
who want to help eradicate the stigma
surrounding HIV. Music will be provid-
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Yamasaki. POZ starts at 9 p.m. MOVA
Lounge is located at 1435 P St., N.W.
Fourth Saturday of each month The
Green Lantern, 1335 Green Ct.,
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your host Timur Tugberk. électrik fea-
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No cover from 10-11 p.m., $5 cover
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BLOWOFF at the 9:30 club, 815 V
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a mix of electro, indie rock, pop and new
wave. 10 p.m.-3 a.m., $5 cover, 21+ U.S. Rep. TAMMY BALDWIN is the featured speaker at an event on aging in
the LGBT community to be held April 28.
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DRAG BRUNCH at Nellie’s Sports 2008 Epidemiologic Report,” pre- er; WINNIE STACHELBERG moder-
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Health Association. The workshop Each Wednesday at the Green
monday, april 26 will take place from 1-3 p.m., in Lantern is POZ WEDNESDAY. POZ
BEARS DO YOGA. Classes will George Washington University’s mixers provide a supportive atmos-
begin at 6:15 p.m. in the DC Center Rose Hall, 2300 I St., N.W., room phere for those who are HIV positive
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and last for one hour. There is a sug- tration is required. For more informa- the stigma surrounding HIV. Music
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class e-mail yoga@thedccenter.org. WHITMAN-WALKER CLINIC’S HIV and DJ ELE. POZ starts at 8 p.m.
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clinic to honor miss america for HIV work
Cameron, who lost
uncle to AIDS, praised
for efforts in Va.
By TYRONE FORD
Special to DC Agenda
Caressa Cameron won the title of
Miss America 2010, beating 53 other
beautiful and talented contestants.
Cameron performed Beyonce’s tune
“Listen” during the talent contest and
took on youth obesity by encouraging
parents to “get our kids back outside”
by limiting their exposure to television
and video games. Also known for her
extensive HIV/AIDS awareness and
education platform, Cameron was rec-
ognized by Congress in 2007 for her
work in bringing instant-result HIV
testing to Virginia.
With the crown comes great respon-
sibility; Cameron will travel about 20,000
miles per month reaching all corners of
the country during her reign as Miss
America. She will further her personal
platform regarding AIDS in America by
headlining multiple speaking engage-
ments and she will act as the official
National Goodwill Ambassador for
Children’s Miracle Network.
Cameron will receive the Partner for
Life Award for her “contributions in the
fight against HIV/AIDS,” at Whitman-
Walker Clinic’s 17th annual spring
gala, “Masquerade on the Mall.” The
black tie event will be held on Friday,
April 23, at the Andrew W. Mellon
Auditorium, 1301 Constitution Ave.,
NW. All proceeds will benefit HIV/AIDS
services at Whitman-Walker.
DC Agenda spoke with Cameron
about her platform related to
HIV/AIDS and what she feels is the
best way to reach out to America’s
youth on prevention.
DC Agenda: What gave you your
start in raising awareness for HIV/AIDS?
Caressa Cameron: In 1995 my
uncle passed away of AIDS when I
was 8 years old. I didn’t understand
what AIDS was at the time, but my
family cared for him and all I knew is
that he was sick. About three weeks
before his death I was watching a
video of a vacation that he took us on
to Disney World, I wanted him to watch
the video with me so I called him into
the room, not knowing how hard it is for
someone that close to death to [get]
out of bed. Somehow he managed to
get out of bed and came into the room
and began to cry because he couldn’t
see the video because he’d started to
lose his vision. It was then that I under-
stood the devastation this disease
could [have on a person and a] family.
DC Agenda: You took a big part
in the HIV/AIDS awareness group in
Fredericksburg, Va., after your
uncle’s death. Can you talk about
your involvement?
Cameron: My mother founded the
FACES Project in 1999. She went
into schools and churches that would
let her teach HIV/AIDS education
and not only from an abstinence-
based standpoint but also the impor-
tance of protecting yourself and risk
reduction. I would go with my mother
and talk about my loss and how
HIV/AIDS had affected me.
When I was 16, I was able to do a
speech on my own for the first time.
After graduating high school I took over
my mom’s position and started doing
college tours and high school tours.
DC Agenda: As a young woman,
why do you feel those of your same
age group reached out to you with
their questions about HIV/AIDS?
Cameron: Because they were my
peers, people were willing to ask me the
questions they didn’t want to ask their
teachers or someone considerably older.
I think they were receptive to me because
I was closer to their age, and I still am.
DC Agenda: Did you find you ran
into obstacles when you were speak-
ing at various high schools?
Cameron: Definitely. There were
plenty of schools that would send me a
list of what I could and could not say. I
would have to then find the “correct
words” that would get the message of
what I had to say across without actual-
ly saying the words I wasn’t permitted to
use. I would rather not go to a place that
tells me I can’t talk about the things like
HIV and not to discuss condoms to
young people because they need to
know all the facts. It can be difficult to
please everyone but I do try to find a
way to say what I need to say because
it’s not fair to withhold any information. A
lot of the time young people will use the
information they’ve been given to make
the critical choices, because the issue is
so much bigger than just saying “No.”
Everything needs to be talked about.
DC Agenda: You are the first
Miss America that has had HIV/AIDS
as a platform since Kate Shindle in
1998. Why do you think that is?
Cameron: A lot of people within
the pageantry community and the
church community said my topic was
too heavy and that I would never win
as Miss America because people
were not ready to hear a message
about HIV/AIDS. I didn’t change what
I had to say because I knew it was
necessary and I wanted to continue to
provide my voice.
DC Agenda: What do you feel is the Photo courtesy of missamerica.org
best way to reach youth on the topic of
HIV/AIDS protection and awareness? Miss America 2010 CARESSA
Cameron: I would have to say CAMERON will be honored by
social media, like Twitter, Facebook, Whitman-Walker Clinic this weekend.
and MySpace.
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‘60 Miles’
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Special to DC Agenda
For most teenagers, a longish
drive alone in the car with mom or
dad is tantamount to torture. It’s no
less painful for some parents.
Playwright Dan LeFranc’s “60 Miles
to Silver Lake” (currently in produc-
tion at The Studio 2ndStage) draws
on this unpleasant vehicular phe-
nomenon to explore a particularly
prickly father/son relationship.
Every Saturday, divorced dad Ky
(Chris Mancusi) collects his teenage
son Denny (Andrew Sonntag) from
the soccer field near his ex-wife’s
house in Orange County and drives
the 60 miles to his new place in Los
Angeles for a joint-custody weekend.
Sadly, a potential bonding experi-
ence that usually kicks off with some
light banter typically devolves into an
interrogation session rife with accu-
sations, recriminations, and some
below the belt hits.
Set entirely in the front seat of
Ky’s Volvo, LeFranc’s quick-paced,
90-minute play spans Denny’s ado-
lescence, shuffling scenes from the
weekly commute that is an ongoing
‘60 Miles to Silver Lake’
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part of the characters’ lives. Literally
trapped together, the father and son
(who, incidentally, do love one anoth-
er) are forced to awkwardly confront,
if not work out, their mutual feelings
of abandonment and hurt.
Through innumerable, non-
chronological scenes, the broken
family’s sad, familiar story unfolds:
Infidelity, bitter divorce, and an only
child placed uncomfortably in the
middle of two feuding exes. During
these drives, Ky’s never-to-be-
resolved questions remain constant:
Has his ex-wife found a job yet? Is
Photo by Carol Pratt; courtesy of Studio Theatre
she seeing anybody? Who’s going to
pay for Denny’s pricey soccer club? Divorced dad Ky (Chris Mancusi) collects his teenage son Denny (Andrew Sonntag) each week for the 60-mile drive
Sonntag’s pubescent Denny is too home, leading to plenty of awkward moments.
wide-eyed and babyish. He fares bet-
ter as the older teen with his wonder- egregious offense is finding Jesus (compliments of designer Brandee toward the dreamy, Seiden’s strong
fully disaffected body language and and attempting to play Christian rock Mathies). Luciana Stecconi’s set is the yet graceful touch is evident, bringing
sidelong looks. As the boorish father, CDs on their 60-mile trips. interior of a car backed by a wall of six, the work’s poignancy to the fore.
Mancuso is appropriately embarrass- Staged by Studio’s gay associate real Volvo rear windows. A haze hangs Lefranc’s seemingly commonplace
ing — casually racist, sexist and for- producing artistic director Serge over the set, adding to the memory, dialogue is surprisingly compelling.
ever curious about his son’s incipient Seiden, the production’s design ele- time traveler qualities of the piece. And while the situation is stereotypical
sex life (“Got your fingers fishy yet, ments are simple but effective. Seiden succeeds in drawing some and could easily feel stale, it doesn’t.
son?”). Now and then, Ky mortifies his Throughout the show, Denny wears a incredibly authentic moments from his The joy and pain of the parent/child
son with bad animal impersonations. muddied soccer uniform while Ky is actors. And when the production experience is so basic — a skillful
For Denny however, his father’s most dressed in Dockers style office drag moves away from the naturalistic and retelling is always welcome.

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theateragenda
ellington’s spirit lives on
‘Sophisticated Ladies,’
featuring Maurice Hines,
is a musical triumph
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN
Special to DC Agenda
The musical language of body and
soul soars through the Lincoln
Theatre on U Street where D.C. native
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington has
come home again to where he began
musically at age 17, playing jazz clubs
on U Street including the Lincoln
Theatre’s own Colonnade, one of the
first desegregated clubs in the city.
The work of song and dance impres-
sario, star of the show and its choreog-
rapher, openly gay Maurice Hines, the
musical triumph of “Sophisticated
Ladies” has taken up short-term resi-
dence at the Arena Stage production at
the Lincoln Theatre through May 30.
Get thee to see this show — no
excuses are allowed.
With Hines as its artistic muse and
star, this magnificent recreation of the
musical career of Duke Ellington and
his big-band hits such as “It Don’t
Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That
Swing,” “Satin Doll” and “Mood Indigo”
lights up the Lincoln stage with high-
voltage hot notes and cool moves in a
multi-talented sensational ensemble
cast of 15 singers and dancers.
If you like your showgirls who can
dance as well as flaunt their sexuality,
strutting their stuff in a negligee, this is
the show for you. Same goes of course
for the chorus boys, all in tight pants and
smooth moves. So what’s not to like?
Flirtatious and toe-tapping, this show
does a tap dance all over the audience,
especially when dance veteran Hines
— born in 1943 and older brother to the
great dancer-actor Gregory, who died in
2003 after a long battle with liver cancer
— takes the stage.
And Hines wows the audience every
time his feet touch the ground, which is
often as tap dancer, especially in his
show-stopping tap-off with two brothers
he found in D.C. and encouraged to
audition for this show — teenagers John
and Leo Manzari, who attend The Field
School and who grew up on the city’s
waterfront next door to Arena Stage’s
permanent theater complex.
The brothers Manzari make their
professional regional theater debut in
this show, but when you see them
duel Hines to a draw in the tap-dance
department, you know you haven’t
seen the last of this dynamic frater-
nal duo. At the end, Hines stands
back with an infectious avuncular
grin at how every good they are.
This blend of vaudeville and bur-
lesque and the best of big band and
Broadway is all agog with non-stop
singing and dancing, as fingers snap,
bodies pop, and hips swivel while the
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Charleston, bunny hop and swing
are performed. Among the numbers
are show tunes and jazz hits such as
“Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,”
“I’m Beginning to See the Light,” “I’m
Just a Lucky So-and-So,” “I Got It
Bad and “That Ain’t Good.”
The show sparkles with enough bub-
bly entertainment that a full magnum of
every expression of Duke Ellington ele-
gance couldn’t contain these carbonat-
ed moments of pure delight. The Duke’s
own sophisticated musicianship lives
again on U Street now.
Finally, Hines reveals his partisan
colors by showing both Michelle and
Barack Obama some hot dance
moves. (They were not in attendance
the night I was there but the president
has seen this show.) Hines said the
special moves were designed for the
president, to “chase away those pesky
Republicans.” Another moment to
remember comes when Hines arrives
on stage literally riding a man-mobile,
moving parts of men forming the look
and feel of a sleek automobile.
Hines began his own acclaimed
career at age 5 and soon he and his
younger brother Gregory were appear-
ing on Broadway and touring as the
Photo by Scott Suchman; courtesy of Arena Stage
Maurice Hines stars in the toe-tapping ‘SOPHISTICATED LADIES.’
opening act for such legendary headlin-
ers as singer-stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.
Their father joined the act, and soon
Hines, Hines and dad were performing
to rave reviews in New York, Las Vegas
and Europe, and appeared 35 times on
“The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson.
Later, Hines was chosen to star as
Nathan Detroit in the national tour of
“Guys and Dolls,” which he recently
reprised in another national tour, and in
1978 he created a sensation on
Broadway in the hit show “Eubie!”
As for the legendary composer,
conductor and pianist Duke Ellington,
his spirit lives on in this show. Ellington
was a giant in the world of jazz and
brought its rowdy subversive soul into
concert halls and religious services.
His works spanned genres including
symphonic as well as film scores and
jazz classics. “Sophisticated Ladies”
first opened on Broadway in 1981 and
garnered eight Tony nominations,
including best musical.
Tickets for “Sophisticated Ladies”
range from $25 to $74, with discounts
available for students and groups, as
well as a limited number of $10 tickets
available weekly for patrons under 30
and half-price tickets also available
day of performance.
Shows run Tuesday, Wednesday
and Sunday at 7:30 p.m., with a 6
p.m. curtain on April 25; Thursday,
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m..
Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2
p.m. (1 p.m. curtain on April 25). Also,
weekday matinees at noon run on
April 21, 27 and May 5.
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socialagenda
pride for teens and tweens
14th annual Youth Pride
Day set for Saturday
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN
Special to DC Agenda
As many as 750 people are expect-
ed to join the 14th annual Youth Pride
Day on Saturday at Washington’s P
Street Beach, according to Gay Pride
Alliance Vice President Roscoe Boyd.
“GPA is the non-profit organization
sponsoring the event and is designed to
serve the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexu-
al, transgender, queer, questioning and
ally youth empowerment,” Boyd told DC
Agenda. “Our goal is simply to encour-
age positive self-development and
expression, as well as leadership, for
youth aged 12 to 18 and to celebrate the
dignity and courage of all young people.”
Youth Pride Day, which features
musical performances and other
entertainment, begins at noon and
lasts until 5 p.m. along the area at
23rd and P streets, N.W.
Boyd said his organization focus-
es on turning out the community to
support the “tweens and teens” who
are often not yet out to their own par-
ents or closest friends. He noted that
this work is especially important as
the youth struggle to come to terms
with their sexual orientation — all
while their hormones are in flux and
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they face new challenges at school.
“No wonder Youth Pride is so Youth Pride Day
urgently needed,” he said. “So we’re
committed to creating safe spaces for
Saturday, April 24
23rd & P streets, N.W.
these young people of diverse ethnic Noon-5 p.m.
and social and economic back- youthpridedc.org
grounds, so they can come together
safely. And this is hard, because dance club styled to appear like the
there’s not enough safe spaces for inside of an airplane. Fly Lounge is
LGBTQQ youth almost anywhere.” located south of Dupont Circle at 1802
Boyd said the Youth Pride Day line- Jefferson Place, N.W. The dance, which
up includes speakers as well as musi- begins at 5 p.m., goes until 9:30 p.m.
cians, comedians and other entertain-
ers, plus numerous vendors and For more general information about
booths from organizations such as the Youth Pride Day, visit youthpridedc.org.
Sexual Minority Youth Assistance
League distributing information during
the event. Other organizations sponsor-
ing the event include the Human Rights
Campaign and D.C. Black Pride.
Boyd, who also is managing direc-
tor of the Dance Institute of
Washington, a dance education organ-
ization based in Columbia Heights,
moved to D.C. last spring from New
York City, where he was deputy direc-
tor for a community-based college prep
program in Brooklyn.
A native of Detroit, Boyd holds a bach-
elor’s degree in music from Morehouse
College in Atlanta and a master’s in
teaching from Fordham University.
Boyd said that following Saturday’s
Photos courtesy of youthpridedc.org
outdoor events for Youth Pride Day,
young people are invited to the The 14th annual Youth Pride celebration will feature speakers, musicians and other live entertainment.
Infatuation dance at the Fly Lounge, a
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• Happy Hour All Night
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Fridays
• Alternating Weeks, 1st and 3rd DJ,
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• Karaoke
• Drag Bingo 3rd Sat. of Every Month
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washington, dc The popular Levi/leather bar’s origins date
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LARRY’S LOUNGE
1836 18th St., NW
30 DEGREES tournaments and other special events. Washington, DC 20009
1639 R St., NW Located near the convention center, two 202-483-1483
Washington, DC 20009 blocks north of Gallery Place Metro. Dupont Circle area bar and restaurant
202-462-6569 popular with both men and women.
cobaltdc.com DELTA ELITE
In Dupont Circle area; popular with men 3734 10th St. NE MIXTAPE
but check schedule for other events. Washington, DC 20017 Different locations
202-546-5979 mixtapedc.com
1409 PLAYBILL CAFÉ thedeltaelite.com twitter.com/MIXTAPEdc
1409 14th St., NW Longtime bar popular with African- Alternative dance party for queer men and
Washington, DC 20005 American men in Brookland women featuring electro, alt-pop, indie
202-265-3055 neighborhood; hosts regular ladies night. rock, house, disco and New Wave. Check
Logan Circle area restaurant and bar Check web site for special events. web site for 2010 schedule of events.
(Dupont Circle Metro) popular with the
theater crowd and featuring open-mike DIK BAR MOVA
nights, karaoke and other special events. 1637 17th St., NW 1435 P St., NW
Washington, DC 20009 Washington, DC 20005
ACADEMY OF WASHINGTON 202-328-0100 202-797-9730
thewashingtonacademy.com dupontitaliankitchen.com halodc.com
Longtime organizers of drag events in the In Dupont Circle area, above Trendy Logan Circle bar and lounge
city; most events held at Ziegfeld’s. See Dupont Italian Kitchen. popular with men features regular happy
web site for full list of upcoming events. hour and other specials. Formerly known
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Washington, DC 20009
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1609 17th St., NW 202-265-9599
Washington, DC 20009 duplexdiner.com NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR
202-232-0395 Popular restaurant and bar in the 900 U St., NW
In Dupont Circle area; popular longtime Adams Morgan area; happy hour Washington, DC 20001
restaurant and steakhouse with recently
renovated Upstairs Lounge.
specials and many other special events.
See web site for updated schedule.
202-332-6355
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baltimore LEON’S/
TYSON PLACE
Sports bar featuring poker events, drag 1722 870 Park Ave.
APEX EFN LOUNGE/MOTLEY BAR bingo, trivia contests and other specials. 1722 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201
1415 22nd St., NW 1318 9th St., NW Popular bar with massive outdoor deck Baltimore, MD 21201 410-539-4993
Washington, DC 20037 Washington, DC 20001 and plenty of TVs for watching sports. Multi-level after-hours dance club attracts leonsbaltimore.tripod.com
202-296-0505 202-341-8281 • 202-642-4537 a mixed crowd but remains gay-friendly. In business for more than 50 years,
apex-dc.com efnlounge.com • motleybar.com OMEGA Leon’s is the oldest gay bar in
In Dupont Circle area; popular with men, but twitter.com/EFN_Lounge 2122 P St., NW BALTIMORE EAGLE Baltimore and among the oldest in
check schedule regularly for other events. Funky, edgy neighborhood lounge in Washington, DC 20036 2002 N. Charles St. the country. Friendly bar with jukebox
Logan Circle with special events galore. 202-223-4917 Baltimore, MD 21218 gets especially busy on Sunday nights.
BACHELOR’S MILL Popular with men and women; features omegadc.com 410-82-EAGLE Tyson Place is a restaurant bar
1104 8th St., SE dancing, videos. Check web site for Dupont Circle area bar and club popular Longtime Levi/leather bar not far located behind Leon’s with a
Washington, DC 20003 event schedule. with men featuring dancing, drag and from Mount Vernon offers friendly bar, separate entrance.
202-544-1931 other special events. billiards, outdoor patio, videos and a
Longtime bar popular with African- FAB LOUNGE full store for your leather needs. PORT IN A STORM
American men in Capitol Hill area. 1805 Connecticut Ave., NW PHASE 1 Mostly men, but welcoming to women. 4330 E. Lombard St.
Washington, DC 20009 525 8th St., SE Baltimore, MD 21224
BANANA CAFÉ 202-797-1122 Washington, DC 20003 CLUB PHOENIX 410-534-0014
500 8th St., SE thefablounge.com phase1dc.com 1 W. Biddle St. Friendly neighborhood lesbian bar gets
Washington, DC 20003 In Dupont Circle area; popular with men twitter.com/phase1dc Baltimore, MD 21201 especially popular when the Ravens
202-543-5906 but hosts regular women’s events. The Phase opened in 1970 and remains 410-837-3906 play. Features billiards, music and more.
bananacafedc.com a popular lesbian bar and club. Features Mount Vernon-area downstairs bar
Popular Capitol Hill area restaurant and FIREPLACE regular special events, including Jell-O attracts men and women; friendly service. QUEST
bar (Eastern Market Metro) for both men 2161 P St., NW wrestling, 80s theme nights and more. 3607 Fleet St.
and women. Features Cuban, Mexican Washington, DC 20037 Check web site for details. DRINKERY Baltimore, MD 21224
and Puerto Rican cuisine. 202-293-1293 205 W. Read St. 410-563-2617
In Dupont Circle area; neighborhood bar REMINGTONS Baltimore, MD 21201 Neighborhood bar in Highlandtown
BLOWOFF popular with men. 639 Pennsylvania Ave., SE 410-225-3100 area is popular with men and women
815 V St., NW Washington, DC 20003 Another of Baltimore’s friendly neighbor- and offers billiards.
Washington, DC 20001 GREEN LANTERN 202-543-3113 hood bars in Mount Vernon featuring
blowoff.us 1335 Green Court, NW remingtonswdc.com billiards, jukebox and welcoming service. SAPPHOS
Created by musicians Bob Mould and Washington, DC 20005 twitter.com/remingtonsWDC 1001 N. Charles St.
Richard Morel, Blowoff is an occasional greenlanterndc.com Popular country/Western nightclub in Capitol GALLERY Baltimore, MD 21201
dance event popular with men. Events are twitter.com/greenlanterndc Hill neighborhood with more than 6,000 1735 Maryland Ave. 410-752-7133
held in clubs around the country; D.C.’s Friendly bar for men hosts regular happy square feet of space for dancing and billiards. Baltimore, MD 21201 centralstationpub.com
Blowoff parties are held at the 9:30 club hours and special events, including One half block west of Eastern Market Metro. 410-539-6965 Part of the Grand Central complex,
in the popular U Street corridor. karaoke and shirtless drink special Longtime bar and restaurant popular Sappho’s attracts a lesbian crowd
nights. Check web site for details. TOWN DANCEBOUTIQUE with African-American clientele. and offers comfy couches, outdoor
B.O.I. PRODUCTIONS McPherson Square Metro. 2009 8th St., NW patio and more in its second
boimarketing.com//community.html Washington, DC 20001 GRAND CENTRAL floor location.
Organizes regular women’s events around JACK’S 202-234-TOWN 1001 N. Charles St.
town. Check web site for updated information. 1527 17th St., NW towndc.com Baltimore, MD 21201
Washington, DC 20036 Dance club and bar popular with men 410-752-7133
COBALT
1639 R St., NW
202-332-6767
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and women, features regular drag per-
formances. U Street Metro.
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Large entertainment complex featuring
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Washington, DC 20009 Dupont Circle area restaurant popular friendly pub, lesbian bar Sappho’s upstairs FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR
202-462-6569 with men and women. ULTRABAR and a dance club on the first floor. 555 23rd St. South
cobaltdc.com 911 F St., NW Arlington, VA 22202
In Dupont Circle area; part of complex JR.’S Washington, DC 20004 HIPPO 703-685-0555
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