Volume 47, Issue 25, June 17, 2016

JUNE 17, 2016 VOLUME 47 ISSUE 25 AMERICAS LGBT NEWS SOURCE WASHINGTONBLADE.
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Faces of Orlando
Remembering 49 lives lost at Pulse nightclub
As many LGBT Americans were celebrating Pride on June 12, a lone gunman opened re inside the crowded gay nightclub Pulse on
Latin Night in Orlando, Fla., killing 49 people in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. These are their names and faces.
EDDIE JAMOLDROY JUSTICE,

a 30-year-old accountant.
KIMBERLY MORRIS,
a 37-year-old Pulse bouncer whod
recently moved to Florida.
ENRIQUE L. RIOS, JR.,

a 25-year-old New York resident and
social worker who was in Orlando
for a friends birthday, the
Orlando Sentinel reports.
ANGEL L. CANDELARIO-PADRO,
the 28-year-old Puerto Rico native had just
moved to Orlando to work at the Florida
Retina Institute, the Sentinel reports.
ANTHONY LUIS LAUREANO DISLA,

a 25-year-old dancer/choreographer
with friends at Pulse (theyre in stable
condition) whod been in Orlando three
years, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
JUAN RAMON GUERRERO,

the 22-year-old boyfriend of fellow victim
Christopher Leinonon, the Orlando
Sentinel reports.
SIMON ADRIAN CARRILLO FERNNDEZ,

31-year-old boyfriend of fellow victim
Oscar Aracena-Montero. He was a
McDonalds employee who was known
for attention to detail and never
forgetting birthdays, the Sentinel reports.
CORY JAMES CONNELL,

a 21-year-old Valencia College student
who worked at Publix, according to the
Sentinel.
JOEL RAYON PANIAGUA,

a 32-year-old construction
worker who loved to dance,
the Sentinel reports.
AMANDA ALVEAR,
a 25-year-old pharmacy technician who
loved going to gay clubs according to the
Orlando Sentinel.
JEAN CARLOS MENDEZ PEREZ,

the 35-year-old partner of fellow victim Luis
Daniel Wilson-Leon (together eight years).
Mendez Perez worked at Perfumania at
the Orlando Vineland Premium Outlets, the
FRANKIE HERNANDEZ,
the 27-year-old Louisiana native worked
at Calvin Klein and loved Beyonce, the
Sentinel reports.
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MARTIN BENITEZ TORRES,

a 33-year-old San Juan, Puerto Rico
resident who was in Orlando visiting
family according to the Orlando Sentinel.
ERIC IVAN ORTIZ-RIVERA,

a 36-year-old employee of Ross
department store.
CHRISTOPHER ANDREW LEINONEN,

the 32-year-old was boyfriend of fellow
victim Juan Ramon Guerrero, the
Sentinel reports.
MIGUEL ANGEL HONORATO,

a 30-year-old sports fan who worked at
FajitaMex Mexican Catering, the Orlando
Sentinel reports.
LUIS DANIEL WILSON-LEON,

partner of fellow victim Jean Carlos Mendez
Perez, Wilson-Leon, 37, was a Puerto Rico
native, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
AKYRA MONET MURRAY,

an 18-year-old basketball player from
Philadelphia who was celebrating her
high school graduation with a trip to
Orlando, the Sentinel reports.
MERCEDES MARISOL FLORES,

a 26-year-old music lover from Queens,
N.Y., who was with her friend Amanda
Alvear (another victim) at Pulse, the
GILBERTO RAMON SILVA MENENDEZ

The 25-year-old was studying health
care management at Ana G. Mendez
University, the Sentinel reports.
BRENDA LEE MARQUEZ MCCOOL,

the 49-year-old two-time cancer survivor
was out dancing with her son when
fatally shot, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
JUAN CHAVEZ-MARTINEZ,
the 25-year-old Reunion Resorts
employee remembered as a kind and
loving supervisor, the Sentinel reports.
U.S. Army Reserves Captain

ANTONIO DAVON BROWN,
29
STANLEY ALMODOVAR III,

a 23-year-old pharmacy technician.
JASON BENJAMIN JOSAPHAT,

a 19-year-old student at Valencia College
studying computer science, the Orlando
Sentinel reports.
JAVIER JORGE-REYES,
a 40-year-old Gucci sales clerk, the
OSCAR A. ARACENA-MONTERO,
a 26-year-old who lived with fellow victim
Simon Fernandez, according to the
Orlando Sentinel. Theyd just returned
from a Canadian vacation.
LEROY VALENTIN FERNANDEZ,

a 25-year-old leasing agent at Anvers
Village Apartments who loved to dance
to Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez hits,
according to the Orlando Sentinel.
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RODOLFO AYALA-AYALA,
the 33-year-old homeowner worked
at OneBlood Donation, the Sentinel
reports.
CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH SANFELIZ,

the 24-year old Tampa bank employee
remembered for positive outlook, the
Sentinel reports.
SHANE EVAN TOMLINSON,

a 33-year-old lead singer of cover band
Frequency, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
JEAN C. NIEVES RODRIGUEZ,

a 27-year-old Puerto Rico native who
was general manager of a check-cashing
store, the Sentinel reports.
DEONKA DEIDRA DRAYTON,

a 32-year-old lesbian who friends say
was turning her life around, the Sentinel
reports.
LUIS OMAR OCASIO-CAPO,

a 20-year-old Nashville native whod
moved to Orlando to pursue acting
and dancing, according to the Orlando
Sentinel.
LUIS S. VIELMA,
a 22-year-old employee of Universal
Orlando.
DARRYL ROMAN BURT II,

a 29-year-old Jaycees volunteer and
nancial aid ocer at Keiser University
according to the Orlando Sentinel.
TEVIN EUGENE CROSBY,

a 25-year-old Michigan native who
owned his own marketing rm called
Total Entrepreneurs Concepts according
to the Orlando Sentinel.
JERALD ARTHUR WRIGHT,

a 31-year-old who worked in Disney
Worlds Magic Kingdom, the Orlando
Sentinel reports.
PETER O. GONZALEZ-CRUZ,
a 22-year-old UPS employee.
JONATHAN ANTONIO CAMUY VEGA,

a 24-year-old Puerto Rico native known
for his work on the TV show La Voz
Kids, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
ALEJANDRO BARRIOS MARTINEZ,

a 21-year-old Cuba native who was
studying English and was a Pulse regular,
the Sentinel reports.
FRANKY JIMMY DE JESUS VELASQUEZ,

a 50-year-old Puerto Rico native who
worked at Forever 21, the Orlando
Sentinel reports.
GERALDO A. ORTIZ JIMINEZ,

a 25-year-old Puerto Rico resident who
was visiting Orlando to see a concert, the
Sentinel reports.
LUIS DANIEL CONDE,

the 39-year-old partner of Juan Pablo
Rivera Velasquez (another Pulse victim)
who ran a salon with him, the Sentinel
reports.
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MASSACRE:
49 KILLED IN ORLANDO HATE ATTACK

Shooter targeted LGBT
nightclub, pledged
allegiance to ISIS
By MICHAEL K. LAVERS
mlavers@washblade.com
Lone gunman Omar Mateen, an
American citizen who pledged allegiance
to ISIS, shot and killed 49 people and
wounded 53 others before being killed
by police early Sunday morning at the gay
nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Fla.
Orlando Police Department Chief
John Mina told reporters during a press
conference that the gunman entered the
Pulse nightclub shortly after 2 a.m. and
opened re during the clubs Latin night.
Most of the victims were young LGBT people
of color. (See pages 6-10 for proles of the
victims.) Some of the injured remained in
critical condition on Wednesday.
Mina said the gunman had an assault
rie, handgun and a device on him.
Mina told reporters that the gunman also
took hostages.
A SWAT team entered the club shortly
after 5 a.m. to rescue up to 30 people who
were inside. Ocers killed the suspect
after they exchanged gunre with him.
Police described the shooting as a
domestic act of terrorism. Later reports
said he found inspiration in online
recruitment eorts by ISIS and other
terrorist groups.
Tonight our community witnessed...a
horrible crime, Orlando Mayor Buddy
Dyer told reporters. Many lives were lost.
We are [a] strong, resilient community,
he said. Tonight we had a crime that will
have a lasting eect on our community.
We need to remain strong.
Mateen was a patron of Pulse and was
recognized after the attack as someone
who had proles on several gay hookup
apps, according to media reports.
The Los Angeles Times and the Orlando
Sentinel quoted multiple sources as saying
Mateen had been spotted drinking at the
Pulse nightclub at various times prior to
the shooting. According to media outlets,
Mateen also interacted online using
proles on Grindr, Adam4Adam and Jackd.
Kevin West, who frequently visits Pulse,
reportedly said Mateen messaged him
on and o for a year on Jackd before the
shooting. The two never met until early
Sunday just prior to the attack when West
was dropping o a friend at the club.
He walked directly past me. I said,
Hey, and he turned and said, Hey, and
nodded his head, West was quoted as
OMAR MATEEN killed 49 people at gay

nightclub Pulse on Sunday morning.
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saying. I could tell by the eyes.

Ty Smith, another patron at the club, is
quoted as saying he saw Mateen there at
least a dozen times prior to the shooting.
Sometimes he would go over in the
corner and sit and drink by himself, and
other times he would get so drunk he was
loud and belligerent, Smith, who also
uses the name Aries, is quoted as saying.
On MSNBCs All In with Chris Hayes,
Cord Cedeno, who frequents Pulse and
lost friends there, recognized Mateen
from his photos as someone who had
messaged him on Grindr.
I recognize him from one of the apps,
but I instantly blocked him because he
was like very creepy in his messages and
I blocked him immediately, Cedeno said.
Cedeno said Mateen was also on
Jackd and came into the Pulse nightclub
several times. Further, Cedeno said he
has a friend who recognizes Mateen from
2007 on the Adam4Adam website.
I think one of them he didnt have his
pictures up, but he would send them to
guys, Cedeno said. I know theres plenty
of other guys that hes tried to contact and
hook up from. A lot of them are scared to
come out and tell the FBI.
Mateen, 29, was divorced from his rst
wife, who reportedly said he was quick
to anger and would beat her during their
relationship. With her, Mateen has a
three-year old son. Prior to the shooting,
Mateen reportedly called 911 and
pledged allegiance to ISIS, which is known
for its execution of gay people.
The FBI, which is leading the investigation
of the shooting in conjunction with local
law enforcement, had no comment in
response to a Washington Blade inquiry
on whether the agency could corroborate

Mateen was a patron at the nightclub or
on gay hookup apps.
Reports also circulated that Mateens
current wife knew of the plot and even
drove him to Pulse on another occasion to
case the club. It was unclear at press time if
authorities would press charges against her.
The gunman was born in New York to
Afghan parents and was raised Muslim.
Mateen most recently lived in Fort Pierce,
Fla., which is about 120 miles southeast
of Orlando.
The gunmans father told NBC News that
his son recently became very angry when
he saw two men kissing in Miami. Media
reports indicate the gunman also pledged
his allegiance to the masterminds of the
2013 Boston Marathon bombing in another
911 call he made after the shooting began.
A cowardly hater
Dyer said all of the bodies were
removed from the nightclub by 11 p.m.
on Sunday and identication of the nal
body came late Monday.
We will not be dened by the act of a
cowardly hater, Dyer told reporters. We
will be dened by how we respond, how
we treat each other. This community has
already done that.
The gunmans father told NBC News
that his son recently became very angry
when he saw two men kissing in Miami.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott did not
specically mention Orlandos LGBT
community when he spoke at Mondays
press conference.
This is a wonderful community we live
in, said Scott. This is a wonderful state.
We are the best melting pot in the world.

Right now its time to grieve for each
family member that either lost a loved
one or still has someone in hospital whos
injured, added the Republican.
Orlando City Commissioner Patty
Sheehan, a lesbian who represents the
area in which the nightclub is located,
described the massacre as heartbreaking
during a telephone interview with the
Washington Blade on Monday.
She applauded Dyer and her colleagues
for their response to the shooting.
Sheehan did not specically reference
Scott, but she told the Blade she was very
distressed by some of the folks outside of
our city who tried to say this is not about
the LGBT community.
How dare they, Sheehan told the Blade.
A GoFundMe page has raised more
than $4 million for the families of the
massacre victims.
A man who was inside the nightclub
when the gunman opened re was
among those who spoke at a vigil that
the Joy Metropolitan Community Church
in Orlando held on Sunday. Hundreds of
people gathered at Lake Eola Park near the
citys downtown a couple of hours later.
Were really going to band together,
Williams told the Blade.
Many of those who spoke at the press
conference at the GLBT Community
Center of Central Florida were deant.
I stand here today with our LGBTQ
sisters and brothers, said Anna Eskamani
of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and
Central Florida, who noted she is an Iranian
American woman from Orlando. We know
what terror is designed to do and we will
not let it happen to this community.
Nadine Smith said her organization,
Equality Florida, along with Orlando
residents and its LGBT community stand
in solidarity with all people, including
the Muslim and Islamic community,
and in opposition to the intolerance,
discrimination and hate that both of our
communities experience.
Smith also spoke out against gun
violence in the U.S.
Were heartbroken that senseless gun
violence has once again destroyed the
lives of people in Florida and around the
country, said Smith.
Reports indicate the gunman was
licensed to carry a rearm in Florida. He was
also able to legally purchase the weapons
he used to open re inside the nightclub.
It was hatred that pulled the trigger in
those early morning hours and that we
wont give into that, said Smith.
Chris Johnson and Kevin Na
contributed to this report.
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Scores of Baltimore residents turned out for a vigil Monday night.

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Hundreds attend a candlelight vigil at Dupont Circle on June 13 for the victims of the Orlando
mass shooting.
WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY
Hundreds mourn
Orlando victims
at Dupont vigil
More than 600 people turned out in Dupont Circle Monday night for a
candlelight vigil honoring the 49 people who lost their lives and the 53 who were
wounded in Sundays shooting rampage at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando,
Fla.
The vigil was organized by D.C.-area members of the Muslim American
Womens Policy Forum, which identies itself as a collective of Muslim women
of color and allies.
With individual placards bearing the name and age of most of the Pulse
nightclub victims placed on the pavement next to the Dupont Circle fountain,
about 20 speakers gave messages of condolence for the families, friends and
loved ones of the victims.
Several identied themselves as LGBT Muslims and straight allies, saying
their aim was to ght for an end to Islamophobia as well as homophobia and
transphobia. Others identifying as gay, lesbian and transgender pledged to
continue the ght against anti-LGBT violence and the ght against those who
would portray Muslims as scapegoats.
We have to change the hearts and minds of those who hate us, said Patrick
Farley. Go to the clubs and dance without fear. Hold your partners hand and
kiss, he said, calling on LGBT people not to retreat tothe closet.
Abiha Bilgrami, the lead organizer of the vigil and an ocial with the Muslim
American Womens Policy Forum, said she was among the groups straight allies
and advocates for building bridges between the LGBT and Muslim communities.
She said her deep sorrow and horror over the mass shooting in Orlando
and the initial media reports that the shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, was
Muslim, prompted her to organize a vigil that would bring together in unity the
LGBT and Muslim communities.
Literally in the last 24 hours we pulled this together, Bilgrami told the
Washington Blade after the vigil. And I am so amazed at this turnout, because
everyone here is coming out to take a stand against homophobia, transphobia,
and Islamophobia. So were all allies here today and that makes me very happy.
Among those attending the vigil was Sheila Alexander Reid, director of Mayor
Muriel Bowsers Oce of LGBTQ Aairs, and Sgt. Jessica Hawkins, supervisor of
the D.C. Metropolitan Police Departments LGBT Liaison Unit.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
1,000 turn out

for memorial
in Baltimore
Like many cities and towns across the nation, Baltimore reacted with sadness,
anger and resolve to the massacre at Pulse in Orlando on June 12.
Its another sad day in America, Don Davis, the owner of Grand Central, a bar
in Mount Vernon, told the Blade. I cannot imagine what the club owner and the
families of all the victims are going through.
Asked if he plans to increase security because of this horric attack in a gay
club, Davis said he employs four security sta on weekends for Grand Central
who are watchful of suspicious activity.
Vigils were quickly organized and well attended to mourn for the casualties
from the horric shooting spree carried out by Omar Mateen. Two vigils were
held Sunday night and others were scheduled during the week in Baltimore,
Columbia, Westminster and Frederick as well as other parts of Maryland.
One took place Sunday at Memorial Episcopal Church in Bolton Hill. At another
vigil at the Washington Monument organized by Matt Thorn, executive director of
OutServe, about 150 attended and heard a number of speakers including Police
Commissioner Kevin Davis, who discussed safety for the LGBTQ community.
On Monday, more than 1,000 people attended a spirited and moving
candlelight vigil on the Ynot Lot in Station North. The event was organized by
the GLBT Community Center of Baltimore, the LGBT Health Resource Center of
Chase Brexton Health Care, and Free State Legal and Equality Maryland.
Jabari Lyles, president of the GLCCB emceed the proceedings and set the
theme at the outset. What happened in Orlando was a legacy of hate, he said.
More than a dozen speakers and performers took the stage, including
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, State Sen. Catherine E. Pugh, police
Commissioner Kevin Davis, Del. Mary Washington as well as other community
leaders.
I stand with you and Baltimore stands with you, said Rawlings-Blake, a
sentiment that was echoed by Davis.
Alfredo Santiago, who represents IRIS, a Baltimore Latino LGBT group and
was one of the speakers, told the Blade, We send out our condolences to the
victims that were killed and the over 50 wounded victims. We unite ourselves in
solidarity with Orlandos LGBT community in this time of communal pain and
suering. We hope to see the day when people will not violently be targeted
because of his or her LGBTQ identity.
Mayor Rawlings-Blake, who had City Hall lit up in rainbow colors, tweeted: My
thoughts & prayers are w @orlandomayor & all Orlando on this very sad day.
#Orlando has already demonstrated its unity in this tragedy.
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D.C. gay clubs say security measures in place

Representatives of D.C.s LGBT nightclubs and bars and an ocial with an organization
representing them said this week they have been preparing for incidents like the Orlando
gay nightclub shooting that claimed the lives of 49 people.
Longtime gay nightlife advocate Mark Lee, who serves as executive director of the D.C.
Nightlife Hospitality Association, said his organization provides regularly scheduled training
sessions in the eld of security to most of the citys popular nightlife establishments,
including those catering to the LGBT community.
According to Lee, his association co-hosted a brieng for club owners and their security
personnel in January in which D.C. police and the citys Homeland Security Bureau joined the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI in presenting updated recommendations
on measures to prevent and respond to situations similar to the Orlando shooting incident.
Lee said the DCNHA also arranges for a security training consulting rm to provide
ongoing training sessions for security personnel and other employees of D.C. bar and
nightclub establishments. He said the next session is scheduled for July 25-26.
Its an intensive, two-day, 12-hour program, Lee said. Its very hands on, practical and
interactive, he said. And it provides certication in the training program for managers,
owners, operations sta, and door and security personnel who are sometimes known as
bouncers.
In the aftermath of the Orlando tragedy, several D.C. gay clubs issued statements, some
on Facebook, expressing solidarity with the customers, sta, and owners of Pulse nightclub,
the Orlando gay establishment where the shooting rampage took place.
Ocials with the gay clubs Town Danceboutique, Cobalt, JR.s, and Green Lantern said
they have stepped up existing security procedures following the Orlando incident. David
Perruzza, general manager of JR.s, joined ocials at Cobalt and Green Lantern in not
allowing customers to bring bags into their clubs.
Already people trying to bring bags in, Perruzza said in a Facebook posting on June 12.
Seriously people dont put me in the awkward position today to tell you no if youre a
regular customer, he said. Cause I am not bending the rules.
Town issued a statement on Monday outlining its longstanding security measure that
includes multiple video cameras and the presence of uniformed D.C. police ocers outside
the clubs main entrance. The statement says the club also has a number of policies
and procedures in place that we do not discuss publicly as divulging those details would
undermine their eectiveness.
Capt. Cheryl Crawley who oversees the D.C. police LGBT Liaison Unit, stated in an email
to LGBT activists earlier this week that ocers with the LGBT unit have been assigned to
monitor LGBT clubs on a more frequent basis since the Orlando attack.
Channing Phillips, the United States Attorney for D.C., issued a statement on Tuesday
expressing condolences over the Orlando shooting and pointing to his oces ongoing
eorts to work with the local LGBT community to combat anti-LGBT violence, including hate
crimes.
Together with our law enforcement partners, we will do all that we can to assist the LGBT
community during this troubling time and to strengthen safety and security, Phillips said.
Lee said the nations capital is lled with places that are potential targets for attacks,
including the Metro system and other public spaces such as parks and plazas.
I would suggest that because of the attentiveness, training, and security awareness and
just practical control over their environment that, in fact, the citys restaurants, bars and
nightclubs are among the safest public spaces in the city, Lee said.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Rainbow ag burned outside Adams Morgan restaurant

The owner of the Adams Morgan restaurant D.C. Bourbon said a large rainbow ag he
hung from a pole attached to his restaurants outside wall was set on re and destroyed
sometime during the early morning hours of Sunday, June 12.
James Patrick Woods said he displayed the ag in support of D.C.s LGBT Pride weekend
and hes troubled that someone would go so far as to set it on re.
It is appalling to us, he told the Washington Blade. I dont think it was targeting my
restaurant. But to me it is a hate crime.
Woods said the D.C. hate crimes hotline didnt immediately respond to his call for an
investigation into the incident. He said he planned to call the police LGBT Liaison Unit to
report the incident.
I will replace it and hang it again, he said.
The ag burning incident at D.C. Bourbon at 3221 18th St., N.W. took place the same day
an unknown suspect spray painted the words Down with the gay agenda on the sidewalk
outside the Thaiphoon restaurant at 2011 S St., N.W., near Dupont Circle.
It couldnt immediately be determined whether the suspects responsible for the rainbow
ag burning and the grati outside Thaiphoon restaurant were prompted to take their
action by the news of the shooting deaths of 49 patrons of the Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub
Pulse.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Capital Pride Festival attendees observe a moment of silence on Sunday.

WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY HUGH CLARKE
D.C. Pride subdued but

undeterred by shooting
Attendees observe
moment of silence
for Orlando victims
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
Although the atmosphere at D.C.s
Capital Pride Festival on Sunday was
subdued following the shooting rampage
at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., earlier
in the day that claimed the lives of 49
people, the overall attendance at the
annual festival was greater than in past
years, according to Capital Pride ocials.
Despite hot and humid weather, the
section of Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
between 3rd and 7th Street reserved
for the festival was packed with people
who circulated around the more than
200 booths set up by LGBT organizations
and LGBT-friendly businesses and
government agencies.
Our attendance did not decline. If
anything, it increased, said Bernie Delia,
Capital Prides president. I believe that
the tragedy in Orlando strengthened
the resolve of the members of the
LGBT community to come together to
show support and unity in the face of
unspeakable tragedy and horror, he said.
We have usually estimated the number
to be about 250,000, said Delia. We
likely went to 275,000 over the course of
the nine hours we were there.
As if the shooting by lone gunman
Omar Mateen in Orlando were not
enough, news media outlets on Sunday
morning reported that police in Los
Angeles arrested a man whose car was
packed with rearms and a container
of explosive chemicals and who said he
planned to attend the L.A. Pride parade in
West Hollywood.
Authorities have since said the arrested
man, 20-year-old James Wesley Howell,

had no connection to the Orlando
incident. But law enforcement ocials say
they have yet to determine what Howell
planned to do with the weapons and the
container of an explosive chemical found
in his car.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and District
Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced that
the city had stepped up security at the
D.C. festival and at local LGBT clubs as an
extra precaution, even though no credible
threat existed to indicate the festival or
other LGBT venues were in danger.
Today, as always, we will not be
deterred by hate as we gather to celebrate
love, Bowser said on Sunday.
As the Capital Pride Festivals main
stage near the U.S. Capitol was opened
for a full day of entertainment, Delia
asked the crowd to observe a moment
of silence to commemorate those who
lost their lives in the Orlando shooting
incident.
The Gay Mens Chorus of Washington
then sang the National Anthem and
dedicated its performance of subsequent
songs to the Orlando shooting victims.
Similar to past years, dozens of LGBT
community groups and supportive
businesses, large and small, marched or
rode in oats in the Capital Pride Parade
on Saturday, June 11, and set up booths
to promote their message or products at
the festival on Sunday.
Participating in the parade this year
were contingents from eight foreign
embassies, including those from Canada,
United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden,
Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland.
Among the sports-related parade
contingents was the Washington Capitals
National Hockey League team led by their
star goal tender Braden Holtby.
Gay Emmy Award-winning actor and
comedian Leslie Jordan served as the
parades grand marshal.
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Fla. guv belatedly sees shooting as attack on the gays

Scott sheds tears, lays
owers at memorial site
By KEVIN NAFF
kna@washblade.com
ORLANDO, Fla. Gov. Rick Scott (R)
paidtribute Tuesday to the Pulse nightclub
victims and laid owers at a makeshift
memorial in downtown Orlando. In an
exclusive statement to the Blade after
making brief remarks to a handful of
reporters, he said, ghting tears, This
was an attack againstthe gays, an attack
against Hispanics, an attack against our
country, our nation and its disgusting.
Scott appeared unannounced at the
Dr. Phillips Center in downtown Orlando.
He emerged from a black SUV carrying
a bouquet of owers, then proceeded
slowly along the perimeter of a growing
array of owers and placards bearing the
names of victims. He took his time reading
the messages, then crouched down to lay
his owers without speaking. At the end
of the memorial site, he spoke briey to
a man who was there paying his respects.
He then took just a few questions from
a small group of reporters who happened
to be there. After, a press handler agreed
to allow the Blade access for one private
question from the LGBT media. When
asked for his message to Floridas LGBT
community, Scott replied:
Gov. RICK SCOTT(R-Fla.) visited a memorial

site in Orlando on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY KEVIN NAFF
This was an attack, what else can you

say? This was an attack against the gays,
an attack against Hispanics, an attack
against our country, our nation and its
disgusting. The biggest thing we do now
is ask how to make sure this doesnt
happen again.
He declined a follow up question before
getting back into his SUV. Scott has been
criticized by some in the LGBT community
here for appearing to minimize the fact that
the attack targeted gays. Scott appeared
shaken, broke into tears at one point and
fought tears as he spoke to the Blade.
We all have families, he said. I have
daughters that are the same age as many
of those who died. Its important we

look at this event and say, What do we
change? How do we destroy ISIS and
stop radical Islam and stop the evil in the
world that can impact any family member
around the world?
He decried the alleged actions of
Noor Mateen, wife of the shooter Omar
Mateen, who reportedly tried to talk him
out of carrying out the attack.
Its horrible [she] didnt say something,
Scott said. You wouldnt want this happening
to your family. Theres a lot more
information coming out. If any of us sees
something, call law enforcement. Sometimes
we worry about doing that but the truth is we
dont want another act like this.

Scott also said he hasnt heard from
President Obama since the shooting, but
did receive a call from former President
George W. Bush and his wife Laura.
He praised the airline JetBlue for
oering free ights to family members
of the victims heading to Orlando for
funerals, and said hes spent time visiting
survivors in area hospitals.
I think the most important thing to do is
rst take care of all individuals impacted,
he said. As a community, weve got to get
back to work. As a country, how do we
make sure this doesnt happen? What do
we do to stop that?
Clinton, Trump offer anti-terrorism plans

Republican candidate
invokes LGBT acronym
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
proposed contrasting anti-terrorism
plans in the wake of the Orlando shooting
over the weekend at a gay nightclub,
although both recognized the focus of the
attacks were LGBT people.
Both presidential candidates called for
the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq &
Syria, a terrorist group to which the shooter
pledged allegiance. But the candidates
diverged on restrictions to gun access,
which Clinton supports and Trump rejects,
and anti-Muslim sentiment, which Trump
embraces but Clinton opposes.
In a speech in Cleveland, Clinton said,
all Americans need to stand together
amid the continued threat of terrorism
within the United States and overseas.
The Orlando terrorist may be dead, but
the virus that poisoned his mind remains

very much alive, Clinton said. We must
attack it with clear eyes, steady hands,
unwavering determination and pride in
our country and our values. I have no
doubt we can meet this challenge if we
meet it together.
Clinton
enumerated
executing
LGBT people as among the atrocities
committed by ISIS as well as genocide
of religious and ethnic minorities, killing
Muslims who oppose them, murdering
Americans and Europeans and enslaving,
torturing and raping women and girls.
The terrorist in Orlando targeted LGBT
Americans out of hatred and bigotry,
Clinton said. And an attack on any American
is an attack on all Americans. I want to say
this to all the LGBT people grieving today in
Florida and across our country: You have
millions of allies who will always have your
back, and I am one of them.
Trump delivered his speech in New
Hampshire, saying he intended to speak
on how bad a president Clinton would
be, but changed his mind after the
Orlando attacks.
The attack on the Pulse Nightclub in
Orlando, Florida, was the worst terrorist
strike on our soil since September 11th,
and the worst mass shooting in our
countrys history, Trump said. So many
people dead, so many people gravely
injured, so much carnage, such a disgrace.
The horror is beyond description.
In an unusual move for any Republican
politician and likely a rst for a
Republican presidential nominee, Trump
recognizedthe LGBT victims of the attack
and said the nation stands together in
solidarity with the members of Orlandos
LGBT community.
A radical Islamic terrorist targeted the
nightclub not only because he wanted to
kill Americans, but in order to execute
gay and lesbian citizens because of their
sexual orientation, Trump said. It is a
strike at the heart and soul of who we are
as a nation. It is an assault on the ability
of free people to live their lives, love who
they want and express their identity.
Trumps speech stands in contrast to
remarks he delivered Friday to an antiLGBT audience at the Faith & Freedom

Coalition conference, where he used
coded language to indicate support for
anti-LGBT discrimination. Trump said he
supports religious freedom, considered
code for anti-LGBT bias among
conservatives, and restoring faith to its
proper mantle in society.
Clinton laid out a three-pronged plan to
confront ISIS: 1) identifying and stopping
lone wolves by dismantling networks that
move money and propaganda around the
world; 2) hardening defenses at home by
ensuring local ocials have access to federal
intelligence and training on ways to protect
soft targets like nightclubs; 3) and preventing
radicalization, which she said includes
stopping Middle East countries and others
from funding extremist organizations.
Trumps plan in the wake of
the attacks includes addressing a
dysfunctional
immigration
system,
and banning Muslims from entering
the United States, noting the shooters
parents were born in Afghanistan.
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XAVIER EMMANUEL SERRANO ROSADO,

a 35-year-old father and dancer who
worked for the Aldo shoe store chain, the
Sentinel reports.
YILMARY RODRIGUEZ SOLIVAN,

a 24-year-old mother of two who was
out dancing with her husband who was
injured but lived, the Sentinel reports.
JUAN P. RIVERA VELAZQUEZ,

a 37-year-old hair salon owner whose
partner, Luis Daniel Conde, was also
killed at Pulse, the Orlando Sentinel
reports.
PAUL TERRELL HENRY,

a 41-year-old father of two who played
piano and organ and encouraged his
boyfriend to excel in life, the Sentinel
reports.
Cuban victim of massacre

remembered as cheerful
Mother receives visa from
U.S. to travel to Orlando
EDWARD SOTOMAYOR JR.,

a 34-year-old travel agent with Al and
Chuck Travel. Dustin Schaad, who
performs as BaNaka in Washington, was
a friend. Schaad, a Florida native, worked
with Sotomayor several years ago in
Florida. He was like a big brother to me,
Schaad told the Blade. He was only a
few years older but he seemed to have
all the answers. I often would seek his
advice. He was kind and funny, enjoyed
life and knew how to have a good time.
Schaad said Sotomayor texted him from
Pulse Saturday night to say hed changed
his plans and wouldnt be visiting D.C.
soon as planned. He was a great friend
and a wonderful human being, Schaad
said. He will be greatly missed.
ORLANDO, Fla. The cousin of one of the
Cuban victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre
told the Washington Blade on Wednesday
that his relative was fun and happy.
Alejandro since childhood was a very
restless and cheerful boy, lvaro lvarez
told the Washington Blade from the
Chilean capital of Santiago where he is a
journalist.
His cousin, Alejandro Barrios Martnez,
was among the 49 people who were killed
on Sunday when a gunman opened re
inside Orlandos Pulse nightclub.
Martnez, 21, grew up west of Havana
in the province of Pinar del Ro.
lvarez told the Blade that Martnez
lived with his father and paternal
grandmother in Cuba who adored him.
Martnezs father left the Communist
island and resettled in Orlando. lvarez
told the Blade that his cousin moved to
the U.S. in 2014 in order to live with him.
Martnezs mother, Orquidea Martnez,
lives in Cuba and has not seen her son,
who was her only child, since he moved
to Florida.
Florida Congresswoman Ileana RosLehtinen (R-Fla.) on Tuesday said in a
letter to U.S. Chief of Mission to Cuba
Jerey DeLaurentis that Orquidea
Martnezs cousin contacted her oce
and requested help in securing a visa for
her to travel to Orlando.
A spokesperson for the Cuban-born
Republicans oce conrmed to the
Blade on Wednesday that Orquidea
Martnez has received a visa.
Im proud to have helped Orquidea
ALEJANDRO BARRIOS MARTNEZ is among the 49 people who died inside the Pulse nightclub
in Orlando, Fla., on June 12.
PHOTO COURTESY OF LVARO LVAREZ
Martinez, the mother of Orlando shooting

victim Alejandro Barrios Martinez, whose
visa was approved, Ros-Lehtinen told the
Blade in a statement. Now, Ms. Martinez
will be coming to the United States to
pay her nal respects to her son. Under
these tragic circumstances, I sent a letter
to the U.S. Embassy in Havana asking for
expedited consideration of Ms. Martinezs
case and I am pleased that this heartbroken
mother will be able to make the nal
arrangements to bring her family comfort.
Florida Congressman Alan Grayson
also asked the U.S. government to grant
Orquidea Martnez the visa.
Martnez is one of two Cuban nationals
who lost their lives at the Pulse nightclub
on Sunday.
Christopher Sanfeliz, 24, was born in
Havana. He lived in Tampa, Fla.
Cuban President Ral Castro on
Tuesday expressed his condolences

to the American people in a letter to
President Obama.
I reiterate to you that Cuba
unequivocally rejects and condemns all
acts of terrorism or hatred anywhere,
under any circumstance and whatever
the motivations may have been for them,
wrote Castro in his letter that appeared in
the Cuban media.
Castros daughter, Mariela Castro, who
directs Cubas National Center for Sexual
Education and spearheads LGBT-specic
issues on the Communist island, posted
a lengthy statement onto Facebook in
which she expresses her solidarity with
the American LGBT community.
I do not lose hope that the American
people, from their pain, will succeed in
achieving a society without violence,
wrote Mariela Castro.
Neither Mariela Castro nor her father

specically mentioned Barrios or Sanfeliz
in their public comments.
lvarez told the Blade that Martnez was
not very interested in political issues.
He did say, however, that he was aware
of the ght for the (LGBT) community and
did defend his personal rights.
What happened in Orlando is a painful
tragedy, but it is not surprising, lvarez
told the Blade. The relationships that
we have built has humanity and as social
groups give us these types of problems all
the time.
We are born, we live, we immediately
express ourselves through values
of exclusion, of hate, of questioning
the other, of dierence, he added.
Regardless of race, religion, socioeconomic power, social origin (or) sex,
we are a humanity that has everything
except for values of respect for the other
and integration with the other.
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LGBT Youth Leadership Award will be presented with their awards.
Complimentary drinks and snacks will be provided.
As the DC areas premier organization dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of LGBTQ
youth, SMYAL empowers the next generation of leaders. This celebration will recognize our
communitys work on behalf of the regions youth and connect you to SMYAL in new ways
through opportunities to engage and support its programs and initiatives.
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This act of hatred will not dene us

The woman said Camuys boyfriend
survived and is in Miami.
He was a great friend, the woman told
the Blade, referring to Camuy. He loved
to dance.
HRC President Chad Grin, Equality
Florida CEO Nadine Smith, GLBT
Community Center of Central Florida
Executive Director Terry DeCarlo and
other activists who spoke at the memorial
service did not mention Donald Trump by
name, who came under re for remarks
and tweets viewed as self-serving after
the attack. They also did not specically
reference Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who
has been criticized for not mentioning
the LGBT community in his early public
Two women hold candles outside the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center in Orlando, Fla., on
June 13.
comments about the massacre.

We can recognize that when we say
we are the targets of a culture war, those
words are no longer metaphorical, said
Smith. We have to uproot the hatred at
the core of what happened.
Rev. Gabriel Salguero, founder of the
National Latino Evangelical Coalition,
said it is not lost on us that the gunman
targeted minority communities.
Imam Muhammad Musri, president of
the Islamic Society of Central Florida, said
his organization is united as Americans
when it comes to standing with the LGBT
community and their rights to live freely
and to practice their lives here.
We want peace, he added.
Faces in a diverse crowd
WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY MICHAEL K. LAVERS
Thousands crowd
downtown Orlando
to mourn
ORLANDO, Fla. Thousands of people
on Monday paid tribute to the victims of
the Pulse Nightclub massacre during a
memorial service in downtown Orlando.
Our city and our very way of life was
attacked, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer
told those who gathered outside the
Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center near
Orlando City Hall. Someone purposely
sought out men and women of our LGBT
community and took the lives of 49 of our
neighbors and loved ones and injured
dozens more.
An emotional Orange County Mayor
Teresa Jacobs echoed Dyer.
This act of hatred, of violence will not
dene us, said Jacobs.
The crowd cheered enthusiastically
when Ron Legler and Barbara Poma, the
co-owners of Pulse Nightclub, and several
members of their sta took the stage.
We love Orlando, said Legler. We
opened Pulse...to be a place of pride,
a place where you could feel that you
belong, a place where you feel safe.
Were going to rebuild that Pulse, he
added.
Many of those who attended the
memorial service sobbed as the names of
the 49 victims were read aloud.
The bell of the nearby First United
Methodist Church rang 49 times in honor
of each of those who died inside the
nightclub. The memorial service ended
with a candlelight vigil.

We grieve with other places, but now
its my place, Lisa Cherrie of Casselberry,
Fla., told the Washington Blade before
the names of the victims were read aloud.
And Im mad.
Axel Rodrguez, an Orlando resident
who was born in Puerto Rico, held a
large Puerto Rican ag in rainbow colors
throughout the memorial service.
Xavier Serrano Rosado, a 35-year-old
gay man who Rodrguez described to
the Blade as one of his dearest friends
during an emotional interview, was
dancing at the nightclub when Omar
Mateen of Fort Pierce, Fla., opened re
shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday.
Rodrguez said he found out at 4 a.m.
on Monday that Serrano had died.
We thought he was one of the
survivors, but he wasnt, he told the
Blade.
Rodrguez said he does not know
whether Serranos boyfriend, who was
also at the nightclub when the gunman
opened re, survived the massacre.
He told the Blade that his friend leaves
behind a 6-year-old son.
He was loved by a lot of people, said
Rodrguez, referring to Serrano.
A woman who declined to give the
Blade her name was holding a poster that
had several pictures of Jonathan Camuy,
her friend who worked on La Voz Kids,
a Telemundo program that is similar to
NBCs The Voice.
A picture of Camuy, his boyfriend and
a female friend that was on the womans
poster was taken inside the nightclub less
than an hour before the gunman opened
re. The woman told the Blade that the
friend did not survive, even though
Camuys body fell on top of her.
ORLANDO, Fla. A straight mom showing support for her gay son. Two
lesbians, afraid for their personal safety, yet determined to show up and be
counted. A gay man simply oering hugs to passersby.
These were just a few of the Orlando-area residents who turned up along with
8,000 of their neighbors Monday night at a candlelight vigil downtown.
Many of those in the crowd had personal connections to the Pulse gay
nightclub where 49 people were killed on Sunday.
Taylor Homann, 27, moved to Orlando after serving in the U.S. Navy. She
knows the general manager, a security guard and bartender at Pulse, which she
said she visits three times a month.
I was terried to come out here tonight, but Im not going to let them win and
not going to stand down when my community is grieving, Homann told the
Blade at the vigil. I have a lot of mutual friends of some of the victims.
She described the Orlando LGBT community as tight knit even though its a
large city. Everyone knows everyone and people are proud, she said. There
are families. We do volunteer work, we dont just do the party scene.
Her friend, Tristan Wilendez, 29, said she simply had to come to be part of her
community.
This hits way too close to home, she said. We just need to love now and
know that were all one no matter your race, religion, gender, were all one.
Amid the throngs standing in the early evening heat, one woman sat alone
on a folding chair. Cheryl Anderson, a mother from Orlando, wanted to come to
show solidarity with her gay son.
Theres so much hatred and bigotry in the world, its sad, she said. I wish
everyone would grow up and accept things the way they are. My son is the same
kid that I gave birth to and I wish more mothers and parents would think of that.
They dont change just because. All we can do now, she said, is to pray.
Another gure stood out for a dierent reason: He was carrying a large sign
that read, #FREEHUGS #HUGSQUAD.
Giovanni Ramirez, an Orlando resident, stood at the back of the vigil oering a
hug to anyone needing one. He had no shortage of customers.
Im just here showing support, its a small act of kindness, something as
small as a hug can really uplift somebodys spirits, he said. Its a time when the
community needs it strangers uniting because of this tragic event.
Ramirez said he lives a mile from Pulse so the tragedy there has literally hit
close to home.
Its been so hectic with everything going on and the road closures.
He has friends of friends who were directly aected by the tragedy but
emphasized that whether you know someone injured or killed misses the point.
Its the loss of human life, its tragic, he said. We need to bounce back, dont
let a senseless act strike terror into everyones hearts because thats what they
want. Were stronger than that.
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At Orlandos LGBT center, tears give way to work

Citys activists focused on
helping victims, giving back
By KEVIN NAFF
kna@washblade.com
ORLANDO, Fla. Walking into the LGBT
Center of Central Florida reveals a chaotic
scene of activity. Reporters and TV crews
are greeted at the door, then hustled into
position to interview ocials. Farther
back, a room labeled simply FOOD is
the gathering place for volunteers to
exchange hugs and reassuring words
over coee and assorted treats. In the
back room, a sweaty assembly line of
workers lls a truck with donated water to
be delivered to area blood drive centers
and crisis centers.
One thing you may not see, however,
is tears. The volunteers here cried those
out on Sunday.
[Sunday] was non-stop tears and hugs
and nding out the status of friends, said
Nicole Elino, a six-year veteran staer of
the Center. Today were in crisis mode,
business mode, getting things done and
taking action. The feelings are there but
covered in tasks that need to be done. Its
been a whirlwind.
She and others are busy gathering
donations of water and other items to
distribute. They have established a Go Fund
Me page to raise money for victims families
who are suddenly faced with bills for
funerals, health care and travel costs. They
are coordinating with airlines to get ights
for families from out of town. The Center is
also facilitating crisis counseling o site.
As someone whos been in this
community for a long time, Im mind
blown that Orlando is the site of the
largest mass shooting in U.S. history,
Elino said. The community is so strong.
We are heartbroken but we are going to
get through this together.
Despite the heartbreak, Elino stressed
the importance of responding to hate
with love.
The message we want to send is to love
each other, she said. Give friends hugs,
support each other, because at the end
of the day you dont know whats going to
happen tomorrow. Love conquers hate and
that is what we are demonstrating here.
Despite talk in recent years that the gay
community is now safely integrated into
the American mainstream and no longer in
need of LGBT-specic bars/centers/clubs/
bookstores, the attack on Pulse nightclub
highlights the importance of physical places
where people can be themselves.
Community centers are still important
for LGBT people, Elino said. We need
to have a place where they can feel safe.
Theres no place like home.
Not everyone in the Center on Monday
was a veteran staer. Kris Talbot, a law
Workers at the Center form an assembly line to load pallets of donated water into a truck for delivery to blood donation centers.
student, said Monday was her rst-ever

visit to the Center. She came to volunteer
her time. Why did she show up?
My city just got a black eye, Talbot said.
This is our home, a real community, its
not just Disney. Its like seeing someone
you love getting punched in the face and
you want to do something to help.
Shes still tracking down classmates
who might have been at the club Sunday
night and she has been to Pulse a few
times herself.
What happened is not typical of
Orlando. I came here for college from
Virginia and stayed here because it felt
like a safe place for people outside the
norm. Please dont let this deter you from
coming down, visiting, working, getting
educated here.
Her message to angry loners
susceptible to online recruiting by ISIS
and other anti-LGBT groups?
Get out of the rage bubble, this was
aimed at our community but could
have been aimed at anyone. We isolate
ourselves and learn to hate people who
arent like us. I dont think this was about
religion. I think this shooter got stuck in
a rage bubble. And this is what happens
when you dont touch people who are
dierent from yourself.
Another face at the Center on Monday
advocating love over hate in response
to the attack was Rev. Debreita Taylor
of Oasis Fellowship Ministries, an
LGBT-arming ministry where all are
welcome. She leaned against a wall in
the Center, surveying the unthinkable
scene, then said shed had something of
an epiphany last night.
My message is love. Period. Love.
Period. Theres nothing in the word of God
that faith leaders can go to that teaches
KRIS TALBOT, a volunteer, had never visited the LGBT Center until this week.
hate, she said. Its the simple scripture

we learned as kids, John 3:16, everyone
knows it, for God so loved the world. We
need to learn to love. Love one another.
Everyone who loves is born of God. It has
no place for judgment, criticism, hate, no
place for rejection or prejudice or biases.
Taylor said that one of the victims
who has been publicly identied, Eddie
Sotomayor Jr., 34, had been to her ministry.
Have faith and believe that evil and
hate can be eradicated one person at a
time, she counsels. How do you treat
someone? How do you embrace someone
who treats you wrong? We all bleed, laugh,
hope and have great victories and major
defeats. And so, you know me, even if you
dont know my name Im you.
Taylor or Pastor Brei as shes

aectionately known here has operated
her ministry in Orlando since 2005,
catering to a largely LGBT congregation.
She sees much work ahead in light of the
Pulse massacre.
The work isnt over, she said. The
work happens in the grassroots, not in the
legislative oor. It happens one person at a
time. Im you and youre me. You cant say
someone of a certain demographic doesnt
belong. God loved, period. And he acted in
love and thats what we need to do.
Oasis, 3404 N. Orange Blossom Trail in
Orlando, will open its doors 6-8 p.m. all
week she said, because people need a
place to go. I care about you and we can be
here together. No one needs to be alone.
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Orlandos other gay club feels impact of tragedy

Parliament House
performers died inside
Pulse nightclub
ORLANDO, Fla. Parliament House
Entertainment Manager Tim Evanicki
was at a local supermarket on Sunday
shortly after news of the Pulse Nightclub
massacre broke.
Evanicki and another employee of
Parliament House a gay hotel and
entertainment complex that is located
near downtown Orlando were at
the supermarket to purchase water for
community organizations and other
groups that were beginning to respond to
the shooting.
We went into the aisle for the drinks
and there were several people all there
doing the same thing we were doing:
Strangers, straight couples, families all
doing whatever they could do to help,
Evanicki told the Washington Blade
The marquee of Parliament House, a gay hotel and entertainment complex, in Orlando, Fla., pays tribute to the victims of the Pulse Nightclub massacre.
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Parliament House, which opened more
than four decades ago, is roughly three
miles away from the Pulse nightclub
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Sunday.
Evanicki told the Blade that some of
those who performed at both Parliament
House and Pulse are unfortunately no
longer with us.
With the number of people on the list
who are deceased or injured, we all know
more than one, he said.
More than 1,000 people attended a
vigil that took place at Parliament House
on Sunday night.
It sort of just brought the community
back together and gave them a place to
be, Evanicki told the Blade. I dont think
any of them, any of us, knew at the time
how to react.
Parliament House is waiving entrance
fees this week and accepting donations
to help raise money for employees of the
Pulse Nightclub and their families.
A benet that Evanicki said will raise as
much money as we can is scheduled to take
place on Thursday, which is the complexs
weekly Latino night. A concert with some
very big names is slated for June 25.
Parliament House has also begun to
oer counseling services.
With so many LGBT organizations
in Orlando, weve all sort of found
our niches to what groups within the
community were helping, Evanicki told
the Blade.
Media reports indicate that the
gunman, Omar Mateen of Fort Pierce,
Fla., had previously visited the Pulse
Nightclub. They also note that he used
Grindr and other gay hookup apps.
Evanicki told the Blade that he has no
idea at all if the gunman ever visited
Parliament House.
Thousands
of
people
attended
outdoor concerts at the complex earlier
this month that coincided with Gay Days
2016. The Pulse Nightclub massacre
occurred a week after the annual event

that takes place at Walt Disney World
and other locations throughout Central
Florida.
We all thought, Parliament House is
much bigger than Pulse, Evanicki told
the Blade, noting the reports that the
gunman previously visited the Pulse
Nightclub are particularly disturbing to
him. Why wasnt it here? Thankfully it
wasnt, but it could have been here.
Weve all said it, It could have been
any of us, he added.
Evanicki was quick to praise Orlando Mayor
Buddy Dyer, lesbian City Commissioner
Patty Sheehan and other local ocials for
their response to the massacre.
Locally we have an incredible
government that is very supportive,
Evanicki told the Blade. Buddy Dyer is
incredibly supportive.
Evanicki described the fact that Florida
Gov. Rick Scott had not specically
mentioned the LGBT community in his
public comments about the massacre
as incredibly oensive. Evanicki also
applauded CNNs Anderson Cooper for
challenging state Attorney General Pam
Bondi over her opposition to marriage
rights for same-sex couples and other
LGBT-specic issues during his interview
with her on Tuesday.
It was incredible, Evanicki told the
Blade. They (Bondi and Scott) have not
been very supportive of the community
now and the fact that they cant even
say...LGBT is incredibly oensive.
Scott described the Pulse nightclub
massacre as an attack against the gays,
an attack against Hispanics, an attack
against our country, our nation during
an exclusive interview with the Blade
on Tuesday afternoon that took place
after he placed owers at a makeshift
memorial in downtown Orlando.
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After Orlando, will the LGBT movement nd a new direction?

Gun reform efforts, defeat of
ISIS could become new priorities
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Nearly 40 years ago, the assassination
of gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk at the
hands of a lone gunman galvanized a
movement that would later confront the
HIV/AIDS epidemic and win nationwide
marriage equality.
Over the weekend, the national LGBT
community faced another harrowing
moment when a lone gunman at a gay
nightclub in Orlando killed 49 people
and wounded 53 others. The LGBT
community was the target of a terrorist
attack resulting in the greatest number
of American casualties since Sept. 11,
2001.
At a time when the direction of the
LGBT movement seems less precise, the
attacks have traumatized LGBT people,
but also rallied them in a way unseen for
some time. Its hard to believe that energy
wont inspire the movement to take on
new tasks, such as backing eorts to
support gun control or defeat ISIS.
Already, more than 50 LGBT
organizations and funders issued a
joint statement on Monday calling for
unity in the aftermath of an attack at
a gay nightclub on a night dedicated
to Latino patrons at the hands of a
Muslim who pledged loyalty to the
terrorist group known as the Islamic
State of Iraq & Syria.
Unity and an organized response in
the face of hatred is what we owe the
fallen and the grieving, the statement
says. Collective resolve across national,
racial and political lines will be required
to turn the tide against anti-LGBTQ
violence. Our response to this horric act,
committed by one individual, will have a
deep impact on Muslim communities in
this country and around the world. We
as an intersectional movement cannot
allow anti-Muslim sentiment to be the
focal point as it distracts from the larger
issue, which is the epidemic of violence
that LGBTQ people, including those in
the Muslim community, are facing in this
country.
Signers of the statement, organized by
the Arcus Foundation, include the Human
Rights Campaign, the Gill Foundation,
GLAAD, the LGBT military group SPARTA
and the newly formed Trans United Fund.
The statement stands in contrast to
new eorts from presumptive Republican
presidential nominee Donald Trump to
win favor with LGBT people. In a recent
speech in New Hampshire, Trump
Many are wondering how the Orlando massacre will impact the direction of the LGBT
movement going forward.
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enumerated LGBT people as victims

in the Orlando shooting something
many Republicans wouldnt say and
encouraged them to support his call for
a ban on Muslims entering the United
States. On Twitter, Trump said hed ght
for LGBT people while Hillary brings
in more people that will threaten your
freedoms and beliefs.
Given the shooter murdered LGBT
people with an AR-15 assault rie, an
instrument the progressive movement
and President Obama has sought to ban
for civilian use, one possible course of
action for the LGBT movement is greater
involvement in gun control eorts
Mark Glaze, a gay D.C.-based gun safety
advocate who has worked in the LGBT
movement, said initial conversations
aboutLGBT rights groups working on gun
reform issues are happening.
Theres a lot of conversation going on
about can we work together, Glaze said.
The rst few days after the shooting
everybodys still shocked and trying to
deal with their feelings about it, but I think
youre going to see more collaboration.
And the reason is this was clearly a hate
crime, but the easy availability of guns
turns hate crimes deadly. And you see it
again and again and again with African
Americans, women and gay people. Thats
the thread that binds a lot of gun violence
in this country, and I think we have to take
it on together.
One item on the agenda for
collaboration, Glaze said, would be
working to pass a new hate crimes
bill that would change federal law
to bar people who have committed
misdemeanor hate crimes from buying
guns. Currently, convicted felons and
those with a misdemeanor domestic
violence conviction are prohibited from
owning guns under federal law.

Chad Grin, president of the Human
Rights Campaign, alluded to support for
gun safety measures in a news conference
at his organizations headquarters on
Sunday.
Lets not forget that what made this
hate so deadly is that its still far too easy
for dangerous people to get their hands
on guns in this country, Grin said.
The Human Rights Campaign didnt
respond on Wednesday to the Blades
request for comment on whether the
organization will begin encouraging
members and lawmakers to support gun
safety legislation as it does with pro-LGBT
measures.
Americans for Responsible Solutions,
a gun safety group co-founded by
gun violence victim and former
congresswoman
Gabrielle
Giords,
posted an open letter on Monday signed
by LGBT leaders calling for unity as well as
action on gun safety measures.
It is not written in our Constitution that
we must live in fear of each other and of
troubled individuals with guns, the letter
says. We can do better. Some states
have already made progress they show
us that when we put aside our incidental
or momentary dierences and stand
shoulder to shoulder, we have enormous
power.
Signers in addition to civil rights leaders
are LGBT leaders like Grin; Rea Carey,
executive director of the National LGBTQ
Task Force; Mara Keisling, executive
director of the National Center for
Transgender Equality; Sharon LettmanHicks, CEO of the National Black Justice
Coalition; Aisha Moodie-Mills, CEO of the
Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund; and Laura
Ricketts, chair of the board for LPAC.
But if stepping up eorts on gun
control is the progressive response from

the LGBT movement after the Orlando
shooting, the more conservative answer
could be encouraging eorts to defeat
ISIS.
Chris Barron, a gay D.C.-based political
consultant and former board chair of
the now defunct gay conservative group
GOProud, predicted the LGBT community
would come together to oppose
terrorismmore strongly.
I think that for average gay and lesbian,
bisexual and transgender people across
the country, they understand that this is
really a question of life ordeath, Barron
said. We have a global ideology in radical
Islam that is committed to the barbaric
treatment of LGBT people worldwide, and
I think that average LGBT folks are going
to step up and recognize that we dont
have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines
anymore.
But Barron said hes unaware of
any conversations along these lines
happening with LGBT organizations and
doesnt expect it out of the HRCs of the
world, referencing Grins criticism of
Trumps speech in which the candidate
invoked LGBT victims to call for a Muslim
ban.
Unfortunately, for too many of the
national organizations this is all about
playing politics, and theyre really doing it
playing with the lives of LGBT folks, and
this is too serious to be playing political
games with, Barron said.
Gregory Angelo, president of Log Cabin
Republicans, said he doesnt think the
LGBT movement will be able to focus on
either gun safety or anti-terrorism eorts
in the aftermath of the Orlando shooting.
I dont see the LGBT movement
unifying around a single issue one way
or the other, Angelo said. Like so many
other LGBT issues in our post-marriage
equality country, I think youll see LGBT
opinion split along partisan ideology
the LGBT left will likely go full-force
to support restrictions on the Second
Amendment, and the LGBT right will
focus on national security issues.
Instead, Angelo said the change will
come from the opponents to LGBT rights,
who will no longer be able to demonize
LGBT people as has occurred in the past.
If there is any momentum the
greater LGBT movement has, it is a
decided change in the tenor and tone
of the way politicians especially
Republicans discuss LGBT issues
and the rhetoric that surrounds them,
Angelo said. After June 12, 2016, the far
right cannot demonize LGBT people in
the fashion they have before. If they do,
they dont just look out of touch; they
look heartless.
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Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton beat rival Democrat Sen.
Bernie Sanders of Vermont in D.C.s
presidential primary on Tuesday by a
margin of 77.8 percent to 20.9 percent.
With Clinton securing enough delegates
to capture the Democratic nomination
more than a week earlier, the Districts
presidential primary the last one in
the 2016 presidential election year
appeared to draw less attention than D.C.
Council races.
On that front, former D.C. Mayor
Vincent Gray, a longtime supporter of the
LGBT community, defeated incumbent
Council member Yvette Alexander for the
Democratic nomination to the Ward 7
Council seat by a margin of 59.9 percent
to 33.1 percent in a four-candidate race.
In the hotly contested at-large Council
race, Robert White, a former aide to
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, beat
incumbent Council member Vincent
Orange in what most political observers
consider an upset victory. White captured
39.7 percent of the vote compared to
Oranges 37.4 percent.
Gay former Advisory Neighborhood
Commissioner David Garber came in
third place in the at-large race with 14.6
percent of the vote.
Most of the citys well-known LGBT
activists supported White, who had
working relationships with many of the
activists through his former job as an aide
to D.C. Congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes
Norton prior to his position with Racine.
In a development that surprised some
activists, White aggressively courted
the LGBT vote by reaching out to many
prominent activists and their friends
while Garber didnt appear to do that.
In another development that raised
eyebrows among the citys political

establishment, challenger Trayon White
beat incumbent Council member LaRuby
May by a margin of 50.9 percent to 42.5
percent in a ve candidate race for the
nomination to the Ward 8 seat.
Orange, Alexander and May had been
endorsed by Mayor Muriel Bowser. Their
defeat on Tuesday is being viewed by
political observers as a rebuke to Bowser,
who relied on the three as allies on the
City Council.
Just one of Bowsers endorsed
candidates seeking re-election to the
Council won in Tuesdays primary Ward
4 Council member Brandon Todd. Todd,
who received 49 percent of the vote,
beat challengers Leon T. Andrews Jr. (41
percent), Ron Austin (3.5 percent) and
Calvin H. Gurley (3.1 percent).
In other local races on Tuesday,
Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward
2), Congressional Del. Norton, and D.C.
Shadow House member Franklin Garcia
won their partys nomination unopposed
in the Democratic primary.
In a city in which the overwhelming
majority of voters are registered
Democrats, the winners of Tuesdays
Democratic primary are considered the
odds-on favorites to win the general
election in November for the D.C. oces.
Republican Carolina Celnik won her
partys nomination unopposed in the
citys GOP primary for the at-large Council
seat. Statehood-Green Party candidate G.
Lee Aikin also won her partys primary for
the at-large Council seat unopposed.
White, Celnik, and Aikin will compete in
the November general election for both
the at-large seat currently held by Orange
and a second at-large Council seat held
by David Grosso, an independent. Under
the citys election law, the highest two
vote getters will be declared the winners.
The citys election law, put in place
by Congress as part of the City Charter,
prohibits a Democrat from holding more
than one of the two at-large seats.
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The Pride proclamation ceremony at Frederick City Hall.

PHOTO BY ALDERMAN KELLY RUSSELL
Mayoral proclamation for Frederick Center

More than 40 people attended a ceremony at City Hall on June 2 during the
Mayor and Board of Alderman hearing, during which Mayor Randy McClement
proclaimed June as LGBTQ Pride Month in the City of Frederick. Kristopher Fair,
board president of The Frederick Center, spoke and Rev. Barbara KershnerDaniel, a board member, delivered a message of equality.
The proclamation was presented to Fair on behalf of The Frederick Center.
The signicance of this proclamation cannot be overstated, Fair told the
Blade. Across our country municipalities are recognizing the need for LGBTQ
equality. We are very proud of our city and thank the mayor and board for taking
a stance for equality. Our community in Frederick County is strong, and we look
forward to moving together toward a more inclusive society.
For more information about The Frederick Center, visit frederickcenter.org.
Pride Parade to have a new look

Donald Young has returned to helm the 2016 Baltimore Pride parade that takes
place on July 23. Except for last year, he had been the parade chair since 2010 and
is proud to be back. This years parade, Young says, will be one of the best if not
the best in Baltimores history. He promises some changes from past parades.
I have worked very hard to put together a parade to be proud of, Young tells
the Blade. He says there will be close to 100 entries.
The traditional High Heel Race that precedes the parade kicks o at 1:30 p.m.
with contestants running from Cathedral and Read streets toward Charles Street
and winding up at Charles and Eager streets. The winner will receive close to
$1,000 in prizes from local businesses.
The parade route, after a shift last year, will begin at 2 p.m. at the Washington
Monument, proceed up Charles Street and end on Chase Street.
It will be dierent this year, Young explains. It will start with a high school
marching band and will be followed by a National Color Guard.
Young is proud of the parade judges selected: Justin Johnson (head judge),
Marica Muy Shropshire, Krystal Nova, Joel Marcum-Knutelsky and David King.
For more information about the parade, visit baltimorepride.org/prideparade-2015.
Chase Brexton to commemorate Stonewall

A Stonewall Reunion Dance will take place on Sunday from 1-5 p.m. at Flavor
to commemorate the beginnings of LGBTQ Pride. The event will be a fundraiser
to support the victims and families of the attack in Orlando. Flavor is located at
15 E. Centre St. in Baltimore.
There will be a buet of family reunion/picnic-themed food, as created by
executive chef of Flavor, Julia Belton, as well as a signature cocktail. To celebrate
the rst decade after the Stonewall uprising, music from 1969-1979 will be
played. It will be an all ages dance so that fathers can take their kids for Fathers
Day. There will also be games and prizes.
It shouldnt be that we only run into friends once a year at Pride, Bethany
Henderson, SAGECAP Program Manager, told the Blade. The Stonewall Family
Reunion is a celebration halfway in between Honor Our LGBT Elder Day and
Baltimore Pride, and it brings us together around an important time in our history.
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door and can be purchased at
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A tribute to gay bars

We need our sacred spaces
because post-gay is a myth
KEVIN NAFF is editor of the Washington Blade

and can be reached at kna@washblade.com.
ORLANDO, Fla. The world watched in

horror this week as the proudly resilient
LGBT community here coped with unthinkable tragedy.
Sadly, our community has a lot of experience with such things.
From the AIDS crisis in which we fought
an indierent government and hostile
neighbors. To an untold number of previous attacks on our bars and clubs, including the 1973 rebombing of the UpStairs
Lounge in New Orleans that killed 32 gay
men. To enduring the playground taunts
and everyday slurs that go along with being dierent in this country.
We were horried, too, about what happened at Pulse, though not as shocked as
our straight counterparts. They will never
know what its like to walk through life with
a permanent target on your back. To pause

before each touch; to hesitate before exchanging a hug or kiss with a partner or
spouse. To calculate before coming out
at work. To endure the judgmental stares
when checking in at a hotel or booking a
restaurant reservation on Valentines Day.
To walk around the block, scanning the
scene before mustering the nerve to walk
into a gay bar. To be insulted, mocked,
beaten up just for loving someone of the
same sex. Weve all been there.
So much has been written in recent
years about this post-gay world we supposedly live in. A world in which theres no
need for LGBT-identied spaces like bars,
clubs, coee shops, bookstores and, yes,
newspapers, because were integrated
and accepted now. What happened
in Orlando is a heartbreaking reminder
that theres no such thing as post-gay,
and that our spaces are sacred. Where
outsiders see only a bar or club, we see
a community center or the place where
we formed our closest friendships or met
our signicant others. Our bars and clubs
have played a heroic role in supporting the
community, serving as gathering places in
times of triumph and tragedy and helping to raise countless dollars to fund our
causes, to ght HIV, to aid our own. When
the government turned its back, the rst
dollars raised to ght AIDS came from the
E DIT OR IA L C A R T OON
bar and club scene.

The attack in Orlando was an attack on
all of us because theres a Pulse in every
city in this country. A place where we can
let our guard down, be ourselves, embrace
our friends and kiss our partners openly.
We need those places because regardless
of whether you live in Dupont Circle or rural Alabama, there is a risk in engaging in
public displays of aection if youre LGBT.
A look at the public response to the Orlando massacre reveals just how much
work lies ahead. The Florida governor has
tried to erase LGBT identity from the attack. We cant even get validation in death
in some quarters. The lieutenant governor
of Texas tweeted homophobic Bible verses on the morning of the attack yet somehow still has a job. Last week, before the
attack, Rep. Rick Allen (R-Ga.) read a Bible
verse on the U.S. House oor that calls for
the death of gay people. Shortly after, the
House voted overwhelmingly to reject a
spending bill that included discrimination
protections for LGBT workers.
Even those Republicans who have issued milquetoast statements oering
thoughts and prayers are left to reconcile those sentiments with their own voting records hostile to LGBT causes. The
presumptive GOP nominee for president,
whose name I cant bear to include in a
tribute to Orlando, claims to care about
what happened, yet has pledged to nominate Supreme Court justices committed to
overturning the marriage equality ruling.
Hillary Clinton is right this isnt the
time for politics. As we struggle with how
to respond to the massacre and to those
who would demonize and discriminate
against us and cast us back into the closet,
we should resist the urge to lash out and
respond simply with love.
Its been humbling to be here in Orlando
this week, watching members of our community cope with such grace, dignity and
determination. They didnt shut down the
community center in fear, instead they
opened the doors wide to all while working tirelessly to raise money for the victims, collect donations of water and supplies for blood centers overwhelmed by
volunteers, negotiate deals with airlines
to y loved ones to town for unexpected
funerals and more.
One of the remarkable people Ive met
here this week, Pastor Brei, said it best:
Have faith and believe that evil and
hate can be eradicated one person at a
time. How do you treat someone? How
do you embrace someone who treats you
wrong? We all bleed, laugh, hope and have
great victories and major defeats. And so,
you know me, even if you dont know my
name Im you.
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In hope and deance, we dance

Demonizing minorities is no
response to Orlando tragedy
RICHARD J. ROSENDALL is a writer and activist.

Reach him at rrosendall@starpower.net.
The Capital Pride festival proceeded

Sunday on Pennsylvania Avenue near the
U.S. Capitol in the shadow of hate-fueled
violence. Pride weekend was underway
when the awful news from Orlando hit.
We reeled from the greatest mass shooting in American history while stang
Pride booths, hosting out-of-town guests,
expressing our freedom. The backlash
has always been with us. We mourn. We
remember. We ght on. We celebrate our
resilient capacity for joy.
Broadways big night went on amid the
specter of death. America is what we
the people make of it, said First Lady Michelle Obama via tape at the Tony Awards
as she and the president described

the musical Hamilton, which won 11
awards including three for black actors
playing white gures from the American
Revolution. In a performance from the
show, Daveed Diggs as Lafayette said to
Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hamilton, Immigrants: we get the job done!
The cheers for that line contrasted starkly
with eorts by conservatives, who made a renewed attack on immigrants, unfazed by the
fact that the Orlando shooter was born and
raised in America. Killers who are white and
Christian are portrayed as mentally ill. Those
from racial or religious minorities are treated
as emblematic of a threat to the homeland
posed by the Other. The political arsonist
who is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee poses as a reghter coming to
the rescue, echoing 1933 Germany.
Attempts at gay erasure by the media were quickly evident following the
massacre. The original New York Times
report failed to mention that Pulse is a
gay venue. British columnist Owen Jones
walked out of a Sky News interview when
the host refused to acknowledge that the
deadly attack was against gay people.
LGBT groups denounced hatred and
organized vigils. Media outlets began
posting the stories of the victims. Presi-
dent Obama, who ordered ags own at

half-sta, once again found words for the
unspeakable. In New York, people gathered outside the Stonewall Inn.
The Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity stated, This tragedy cannot
be neatly categorized as a ght between
the LGBTQ community and the Muslim
community. Gay Muslims cannot separate their gay selves from their Muslim
selves. Those who dismiss intersectionality as liberal thought policing ignore the
intersections we inhabit: Not only gay
Muslims, black lesbians, and transgender
women of color, but gay, white, and privileged. America is a nation of intersections.
The promotion of hate, and the use of
religion as a cover for it, is not led in this
country by Muslims. We must ensure that
those who promote hate and thrive on it
pay a price in political defeat for the great
social harm they are doing.
Muslims are my neighbors and colleagues and friends. I have loved a Muslim. Muslims have died serving our country and rescuing people on 9/11. As you
would treat them, treat me.
LGBT folk have been on the receiving
end of group blame ourselves. As a community we cross all demographic lines.
We must tell the scapegoaters: you will
not do this in our name. All in our nation

must confront hate-driven violence together. This cannot be used as the latest
pretext by one intolerant segment of the
population to push for supremacy.
When gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny
used to talk about the American Taliban,
he was not talking about Muslims. He was
talking about what he called nuttyfundamentalist Christians. And let us be clear:
we are not talking about Christians in
general, any more than Islamist terrorists
represent Muslims in general. A few decades back, when serial killer Ted Bundy
was brought to justice for his murders
of women, no one blamed white heterosexual men generally. Such slanders are
reserved for minorities. It is up to us to
combat hatred and ignorance in our daily
lives, after the media spotlight moves on.
We grieve in many ways. I listen to Samuel Barbers Adagio for Strings, which
author Thomas Larson calls The Saddest
Music Ever Written, and try to imagine
what the club goers faced that night. One
ne response to an unfathomable loss is
suggested by the desecrated venue beyond the police tape in Orlando. In hope
and deance, we dance.
Copyright 2016 by Richard J. Rosendall.
All rights reserved.
V I E W PO I NT
Orlando bursts our bubble of complacency

We must love one another or die
KATHI WOLFE, a writer and poet, is a regular

contributor to the Blade.
On June 9, as I pondered what I wanted to

have for dinner, my brother called me. We
should talk whenever we can, he said, you
never know. You could go out and a terrorist
could shoot you. For no reason, out of hate.
I didnt know how true his words were until I looked at my iPad at 2:25 a.m. on June
12. When I learned of the massacre of LGBT
people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando,
Fla., during LGBT Pride month by Omar
Mateen, a hate-lled, self-radicalized gunman. (ISIS, the radical Islamic state, oered
praise for the shooting.)
Im a wordsmith. But, as is the case for
everyone Ive spoken to, queer or hetero,
since this horric event, words fail. What can
The Orlando massacre is a wake-up call.

Something as lovely as a kiss could make
a crazed shooter kill us.
be said in the face of unimaginable hatred
and horror? Mere language isnt enough to
convey such sorrow. Forty-nine LGBT people (some only in their 20s) were killed and
53 others injured (some critically) in an act
of terrorism, a hate crime or in an unfathomable, twisted combo of terror and hate.
What were they doing? Nothing that straight
folks havent done for eons dancing, having drinks, cutting loose on a Saturday night.
They were openly being themselves at the
Pulse, a safe space in the LGBT community,
until the shooting (the worst mass shooting
in United States history) began.
Like many of us who are queer, Ive become too optimistic, even a bit complacent,
since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor
of marriage equality on June 26, 2015. I spend
my life in the D.C. area, or when I travel, in
New York City, New Haven, Conn. or Northeast corridor cities. Ive attended my queer
friends weddings, daydreamed about magi-
cally nding Ms. Right, cheered rainbow ags

ying at the White House, and marveled at
my 20-something friends who think that our
country having an openly gay Secretary of the
Army for the rst time is no big deal.
The Orlando massacre burst my bubble
of complacency. The unspeakably horrifying event reconnected me with my LGBT
roots and queer history. I remember June
28, 1969, the beginning of the modern gay
rights movement, when brave LGBT patrons
fought back against police raiding the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. As
a teenager in Southern New Jersey at that
time, I knew (at some level) that I liked girls,
but kept my sexuality hidden from my family, friends and even myself. Because to be
openly queer back then meant risking being beaten up or (as happened to a family
friends son) arrested.
During the height of the AIDS epidemic,
many of my gay friends were often scorned.
One friend was spat on as he stood on the

subway. Another was roughed up on his
way home from a bar for looking too much
like a faggot.
Today, transgender people often face bigotry and violence as they, like the rest of us
too frequently take for granted, go to work,
to school or simply dare to go to the bathroom.
This isnt to say that during this Pride season, there isnt much to rejoice in. There
are openly queer elected ocials, clergy,
athletes and TV news anchors. LGBT parents are having and adopting kids; straight
moms and dads love their queer kids; and
grandparents are coming out to supportive
families. Most people, hetero or queer, are
appalled by violence against LGBT people. I
cant imagine us going back in the closet. To
do that would be to opt for a spiritual and
emotional death.
Still, the Orlando massacre is a wake-up
call. Something as lovely as a kiss could
make a crazed shooter kill us.
Yet, we mustnt give in to hatred or Islamophobia. If we, hetero and queer are to survive, love must carry the day. As gay poet W.
H. Auden wrote, we must love one another
or die.
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Through tears, the ght for equality goes on

We must channel our anger
into gun control advocacy
PETER ROSENSTEIN is a D.C.-based LGBT rights

and Democratic Party activist. He writes regularly
for the Blade.
Saturday night in Washington, D.C., we

celebrated with 100,000 members of the
LGBT community and our allies mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers; children
and adults of every gender, race, religion
and creed cheering as we marched down
the street. We partied late into the night
and then awoke Sunday morning to the
horror of another massacre.
At 2 a.m. on Latin night in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., 49 of our fellow human beings were slaughtered in the worst
mass shooting in American history. Fiftythree more were injured in what can only
be described as senseless violence no
matter what the cause. Terror is senseless and hate is senseless and this crime
was both. It was an attack on LGBT Americans but also an attack on all Americans.
It seems to have been carried out by one
self-proclaimed radical jihadist supporting
ISIS who hated the LGBT community and
had easy access to an assault weapon.
Americans will again debate who is to
blame and how we stop the violence. One
thing every rational human being must
accept is whatever the cause of the gunmans hatred, whatever motivated him
to this horric act, he was born here and
bought his guns and ammunition here
in the United States. He used an assault
weapon that should never be allowed in
the hands of any civilian.
The nation is mourning with the families and friends of those who died and
praying for a speedy and full recovery for
those who were injured. Their personal
stories will be as diverse as our nation
and the LGBT community itself. We are
Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and atheist;
white, black, Asian, Latino and have one
thing in common: We are part of the LGBT
family, my family.
As we mourn we must also act. This
dastardly act comes in the middle of a
presidential election. We cannot accept
those who would continue to try to divide

us and campaign against the very essence of our Democracy. We could stop
every Muslim from entering our country
as Trump has suggested and this American terrorist would still have gunned
down these innocent people because he
was here and he hated them. In his own
way he was deranged as were the perpetrators of Columbine, Aurora, Charleston
and Newtown.
The one thing all these mass murderers have in common is the ease with
which they purchased a gun to commit
their crimes.
It is my hope that my family, the LGBT
family, will nd a way to mourn and remember our brothers and sisters who
were taken from us at Pulse nightclub
that will make a lasting dierence in the
world. The innocent souls of all those
mass shooting victims who are now together in heaven need to know they gave
their lives for something.
No one is asking to repeal the Second
Amendment, but we need to stop the sale
of assault weapons and make it more difcult to buy a handgun in our nation. At
least 33,000 men and women die each
year from guns and we could do something about this tomorrow if Congress
had the will to act.

Sunday after we witnessed another
mass shooting and just like after every one
of these massacres, rational people asked,
How many more must die before we act?
We cannot change the world overnight, we
cant defeat ISIS overnight, we cant end
mental illness overnight and we cant end
hate overnight. Yet overnight we do have
the power to make it safer for our fellow
Americans. For those enjoying a night at
a gay nightclub; teaching in or attending
school; going to a movie or Bible study; or
just walking the streets in their neighborhoods. We can pass sane gun control laws.
As we work to make the deaths of
those who have died from guns mean
something we must not become haters or
condemn every one of the same religion
as a jihadist or terrorist. Let us not follow
the people who want us to hate anyone
who doesnt look like, sound like, or have
the same religion or sexuality as we do.
Let us reject totally the presidential candidate asking us to do that.
Instead we should pass the Equality
Act; reform our criminal justice system;
give women equal pay for equal work;
and pass meaningful immigration reform. With those actions we will show the
world that love conquers hate.
VIEWPOINT
If we do nothing we die
Why do we accept weapons of
mass destruction on our streets?
By ALEX MORASH
Without change what happened in Orlando, Fla., will happen again. Is this the
America we want?
The events of June 12 are now scarred
into the collective mind of all of us in the
LGBT/queer community. A gunman entered the Pulse nightclub in Orlando during its Latin night and murdered 49 of our
brothers and sisters, injuring 53 more.
The gunman was able to accomplish his
terror in short order with just two legally
purchased weapons: a handgun and an
assault rie.
Many will denounce this as terrorism,
and there is strong evidence to support
this claim; the gunman did pledge allegiance to a radical terrorist organization,
the Islamic State. Nevertheless, America
should remember that up to the point
he entered the crowded nightclub and
pulled the trigger he had not committed a crime. We must accept that as our
laws currently stand in many parts of the

country almost anyone can purchase an
assault rie and high capacity magazines
and become a walking weapon of mass
destruction.
If we refuse to change, then we must
accept that mass shootings are not terrorist attacks but just part of the American experience. Guns are now powerful
enough to murder dozens of people in
short time. The assault rie used in Orlando was so power and eective in its
mission to kill and maim queer people of
color that of the roughly 300 people at the
club more than 100 had been murdered
or sent to the hospital: possibly one-third
of all those present had been shot. To do
nothing about the proliferation of these
weapons is to allow violence to continue.
If we do nothing its going to kill us as
one friend of Edward Sotomayor Jr., a
victim of the gunmans rampage, told MSNBC June 13.
Assault ries are eective at killing. Gun
makers do not try to hide the weapons
purpose, Sig Sauer (the brand the gunman is alleged to have used) is so brazen
its promotional video shows a shooter in
a smoked-lled range ring bullet after

bullet quickly and accurately while an announcer calls the new gun the start of a
new era. These kinds of weapons seem
designed for a new era and thats the
problem.
Assault ries have been used by shooters in San Bernardino, Aurora, Newtown and now in Orlando. Assault ries
have been used in so many recent mass
murders and are so easy to get that The
Washington Post reports that a lawyer for
the families of the victims in Newtown described the assault rie as the gold standard for mass murder, and the Islamic
State promotes that America is awash
with easily obtainable rearms, highlighting that you can get a rie and may
not even have to show ID. This is all part
of the new era America has entered.
As it stands now, almost anyone can
purchase these brutal weapons with ease
in America. If we do not wish to change
then we should accept that attacks can
happen at anytime and anywhere. With
America awash with these guns we
should all prepare for a mass shooting to
happen to us. Indeed many already do,
schools have been preparing for these

events for years, and if we do not change
then its time for the rest of America to accept that they must prepare for it too.
If we do not demand change then we
cannot ban high-capacity magazines and
semi-automatic guns, if we do not demand change we are agreeing with the
idea that the right to own weapons of terror supersedes our right to life. We must
ask ourselves if protecting the rights of
mostly white men to keep these destructive weapons is more important than the
lives of schoolchildren in Newtown and
ask why the right to own these guns is
more important than preventing LGBT
people mostly LGBT people of color
in Orlando from being massacred.
As it stands today, the right to own a
gun that can murder 49 people the
very denition of a weapon of mass destruction is something almost any of us
can do. Maybe we should ask: Why?
ALEX MORASH is the economic researcher

at Media Matters for America. His opinions
expressed here are his own.
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F A T H E RS D A Y
FERD VAN GAMEREN, left, and partner BRIAN ROSENBERG with their children LEVI, ELLA and SADIE.
PHOTO BY ROBERT FIGUEROA
GaysWithKids
connects dads online
SUGGESTIONS, FEATURES, PHOTOS AND MORE COLLECTED AT PARENTING HUB
By SELENE SANFELICE
In the 80s and 90s, Brian Rosenberg
couldnt picture a future with children or
any future further than a few months away.
Rosenberg, who is HIV-positive, focused
solely on enjoying life in the moment with
his husband, Ferd Van Gameren. But the
advent of anti-retroviral therapy gave him a
new lease on life and suddenly fatherhood
didnt seem so out of the question.
Brian would really miss his calling if he
didnt become a dad, Van Gameren says.
Thats what he was put on this earth for.
To be a fantastic dad.
In 2008, with only two days notice
that their adoption had gone through
on a baby boy, the couple rushed to
department stores.
Mommy tested! Mommy approved!
By moms, for moms!
The labels all seemed to shout one
thing at them.
Are we not supposed to buy this
stu?, Rosenberg remembers thinking.
In every community theyd been a part
of, from New York to Toronto, Rosenberg
and Van Gameren were always the only
dads, and almost always the only gay dads.
We have to come out constantly, Van
Gameren says. People are always asking
us in the streets, How much did you pay
for this baby? If a child wanders o in the
grocery store, people will ask, Wheres
your mommy? Constantly we come out
to doctors, their classmates, to everyone.
This
heteronormative
exclusion
sparked the creation of their website,
gayswithkids.com.
Since its start in 2014, GaysWithKids has
grown into the worlds largest collection
of gay dad content. Gay dads from all over
the country and the world are featured
in in-depth stories, family proles, news
stories and advice articles not covered
by mainstream media. Topics discussed
include experiences with foster care and
adoption, how to navigate domestic and
international surrogacy, single parenting

and co-parenting, raising children with
disabilities and illnesses, divorce, coming
out, monogamy and HIV.
Gay dads from rural villages, suburbs, big
cities and even the Bible Belt ll the site with
comments, stories and family portraits.
Gay dads are everywhere, Van
Gameren says. We found out clearly
what people want. They want to read
about people like them, but they also
want to see them. They want positive but
accurate depictions of their community.
Van Gameren and Rosenberg adopted
their 7-year-old son Levi and had their 5-yearold twins Ella and Sadie through surrogacy.
The site is just as much for dads as it is for
their kids, and even their grandparents.
Were showing parents of gay men what
their lives could look like, Rosenberg says.
Its so important for our children to see
other families like ours. I want to be able
to show our son other families photos with
kids just like him who are adopted and live
in mixed-race families. I want my daughters
to be able to see other kids who were born
through surrogacy.
As gay dads around the world are able
to come out into their own community,
GaysWithKids is eager to expand. Most
recently they launched the Gay Dad Store,
where families can nd products that
reect whom they are. Dads can now sport
T-shirts and tanks with phrases like Im
Papa, Hes Daddy. Children can sip from
My Single Gay Dad, My Superhero mugs.
Rosenberg and Van Gameren have also
partnered with Gaingels Syndicate, the
worlds rst investors exclusively in LGBT
entrepreneurial startups. In the next year
GaysWithDads team is hoping to release an
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I think weve done a great job in building
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MTC director and gay dad
answers 20 gay questions
By JOEY DiGULIELMO
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Michael J. Bobbitt already got his Fathers Day gift this year and hes excited
about it a Groupon for kayaking.
He and his husband of nearly 20 years, Craig Hanna, are raising their
15-year-old son Sang Christopher Bobbitt Hanna.
Bobbitt says Fathers Day is great but says they dont necessarily note it
any dierently than any other dads.
Since we have two dads, weve been pretty lax about celebrating it at
times, Bobbitt says. Maybe because our family has so many other holidays
to celebrate like Adoption Day, various Vietnamese holidays and so on. Im not
sure its any dierent than how straight dads celebrate. We have sometimes
celebrated Mothers Day too.
Bobbitt and his family live in Glen Echo, Md. He works as the artistic
director of Adventure Theatre Musical Theater Center that works to cultivate
new generations of artists and life-long audiences by creating memorable
theatrical productions and experiences and by providing young people
the highest quality training in musical theater and theater. Its current
production Jumanji opens this weekend and runs through Aug. 28. Details
at adventuretheatre-mtc.org.
Bobbitt is a 43-year-old Washington native who returned to the area in 1996
after a stint in New York City. He enjoys TV, mini-vacations and family time.
How long have you been out and who was

the hardest person to tell?
If memory serves, I came out when I was
19. It wasnt too hard, mostly because my
cousin, who was one day younger than me,
is a lesbian, so she paved the way. Oddly, the
hardest person to tell was my grandmother.
Im not sure why. She reacted ne, but
suggested that I should just be a hermit.
season.
If your life were a book, what would the

title be?
How Much Can One Person Do?
If science discovered a way to change

sexual orientation, what would you do?
Be gayer!
Whos your LGBT hero?

I am mostly impressed by pioneers. People
who have a vision for changing the world,
making it better and who are willing to be
persecuted to carry that vision out. I am really
impressed by Dr. Derionne Pollard, president
of Montgomery College, and Jerey Slavin,
mayor of Somerset, Md.
Whats Washingtons best nightspot, past

or present?
I was only a clubber for a very brief period,
but I miss Tracks so much!
Describe your dream wedding.

It probably involves a large musical number
with a chorus of dancers, me entering from
the oor through a cloud of fog (but, rst
you only see my legs), and real babies with
surgically implanted wings.I will not spare
any expense to get cherubs! Seriously,
I would love a small house party with
close friends and family, good food and
expressions of love.
What non-LGBT issue are you most

passionate about?
Children and the arts.
What historical outcome would you

change?
Slavery! I think the precedent set by slavery
gave Americans permission to just be awful
to each other for years and we are still
feeling the impact. I hope that someday,
well become obsessed with each others
culture and race and want to participate in
the customs and traditions and make race
something to revere and behold.
What do you believe in beyond the

physical world?
Im not sure. I am newly learning that
your own health and happiness is crucial
to everything else in the world. Not
narcissistically, but crucial. So, enjoy the
physical world to its fullest!
Whats your advice for LGBT movement

leaders?
This may sound strange, but empathy for
those who have trouble understanding us.
Sometimes their hatred comes from an
ignorance, discomfort and things that they
have been taught.
What would you walk across hot coals

for?
My son.
Whats been the most memorable pop

culture moment of your lifetime?
Michael Jackson singing Billie Jean at
the Motown 25 show. Im sure everyone
answered this question the same.
On what do you insist?

Excellence, honesty, creativity, collaboration
and nurturing.
What was your last Facebook post or

Tweet?
I just posted my 10th anniversary season at
Adventure Theatre MTC, Adventures 65th
What LGBT stereotype annoys you most?

I enjoy people too much to be annoyed by
stereotypes. Perhaps the only stereotype
that annoys me is the LGBT person who gets
annoyed by stereotypes.
Whats your favorite LGBT movie?

Every lm musical ever made.
Whats the most overrated social custom?

Perhaps weddings. If people put as much
work into their marriages as they do their
weddings, I wonder how many happier
families we would have.
What trophy or prize do you most covet?
County Executive Ike Leggett gave me an
Emerging Leader Award.It was the rst
big award I got at Adventure and for some
reason it validated me profoundly.
What do you wish youd known at 18?
How hard and fun life would be. And, that I
would be an artistic director. I think I would
have charted my training dierently. I
always feel like Im playing catching up to my
colleagues.
Why Washington?
Why not? Its perfectly situated urban,
suburban, nearby beaches and mountains,
white water, trees, beautiful monuments,
substantial arts and culture. Its a perfect
place to live.
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The late Joan Rivers, left, and daughter Melissa, who will honor her mother on June 22 at the Kennedy Center.
PHOTO COURTESY FIFTEEN MINUTES PUBLIC RELATIONS
Daughter Melissa plans

tribute at District of
Comedy Festival
By MARIAH COOPER
mcooper@washblade.com
Joan Rivers legacy lives on through her
daughter Melissa, 48, who has devoted
much of her time to making sure Joans
talent for comedy is always present in the
hearts and minds of fans everywhere.
The New York Times bestselling author
will host Celebrating Joan: a Tribute to
Joan Rivers, at the Kennedy Center on
Wednesday, June 22 at 7 p.m. Presenters
and performers scheduled to appear
include Louie Anderson, Dick Cavett, Rachel
Bloom, Kelly Osbourne, Aubrey Plaza, Bob
Saget, Jordin Sparks and Jessica Williams.
There will also be special video messages
from Andy Cohen, Barry Manilow, Lily
Tomlin andJohn Waters. The tribute is part
of the Kennedy Centers District of Comedy
Festival, which runs June 22-25.
Melissa spoke with the Blade about the
backstage operations of Fashion Police,
the best piece of advice her mother gave
her and her plans for Joans ling cabinet
joke catalogue.
WASHINGTON BLADE: Youre doing
a tribute to your mother at the Kennedy
Center. Why did you decide to have the
event in D.C. instead of somewhere like

New York or Los Angeles?
MELISSA RIVERS: Well its part of the
Kennedy Center Comedy Festival. And they
came to me and asked if Id be interested
and I said yes. Everyones waiting for there
to be some great story and unfortunately
its pretty basic.
BLADE: Your mother really paved the
way for female comedians. When youre
hosting, do you ever feel any pressure to
bring the laughs like she did or do you try
to let your performance style have its own
niche?
RIVERS: Oh, I absolutely try to have my
own style. My mother was a once-in-alifetime performer. No one could ever do
what she did. You gotta be yourself and
true to yourself. Anyone who would try,
that would be a foolish endeavor.
RIVERS: The only update is that the

whole thing gives me a whole lot of anxiety.
I still keep having a vision of that last scene
in Raiders of the Lost Ark where they do
the long tracking pullback and the ark is
being put into a warehouse with a lot of
other important cabinets and crates. That
anxiety of, Thats where its going to end
up. Im still trying to gure that one out.
That one is all on me.
BLADE: Joan was obviously considered
a gay icon and supporter of the LGBT
community. What are your thoughts on the
recent tragedy in Orlando?
RIVERS: Just awful. Heartbreaking.
Horrendous. There arent enough words
to describe the hideousness of the tragedy.
BLADE: Presenters and performers

at the tribute include people like Kelly
Osbourne, Bob Saget and Jordin Sparks.
How was the group curated?
RIVERS: A lot by availability. And also by
people that she knew and touched and
inspired and that could bring a dierent
part of her life and work to the table.
BLADE: During Fashion Police, where

would you and your mother watch the
Golden Globes or the Oscars following the
red carpet?
RIVERS: We would usually run right back
up to whatever hotel suite we got ready
in. Because remember we had to turn the
show to tape the next morning to be on
air the next night, because Fashion Police
would air the next evening. So it was really
a marathon day for us.
BLADE: A while ago you were in talks

with some institutions like the Smithsonian
to donate Joans ling cabinet catalogue of
jokes. Are there any updates on that?
BLADE: Since your mothers passing, has

there been any dress or outt a celebrity
has worn that you think she would have
loved?
RIVERS: Oh God, there have been so

many. Love being a very subjective word.
BLADE: What was the best piece of
advice that your mother gave you that
youve passed along to your son?
RIVERS: The same advice really works
for both good and bad and I really do try
to keep it in mind all the time, which is, this
too shall pass. Meaning in bad times just
remember this too shall pass but in good
times remember that, unfortunately, this
too shall pass and be appreciative of the
good times.
BLADE: Shortly before her death, Joan
walked out of a CNN interview. Had she
gotten less willing to suer fools overall
as she got older?
RIVERS: That interview was like three
years ago. I can barely remember what I
did yesterday.
BLADE: What do you want people to take
away from this tribute?
RIVERS: I just want them to come and
celebrate, have fun and laugh. You know
we all have to remember its OK to laugh.
CELEBRATING JOAN:
A TRIBUTE TO JOAN RIVERS
Wednesday, June 22
7 p.m.
Kennedy Center
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Tickets $59-125
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BOBBY SMITH shines as Albin in Signature Theatres production of La Cage Aux Folles.
Camp musical revival shines

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Elizabeth Stanley and Andrew Samonsky, photo by Matthew Murphy
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Signature Theatres production of La

Cage Aux Folles, so condently staged by
out director Matthew Gardiner, falls right
in line with composer Jerry Hermans
(Hello, Dolly!, Mame) cheery career
intent of making people happy.
From the leads palpable chemistry to a
caf tables yellow umbrella trimmed with
magical fairy lights, it elicits bubbly bursts
of joy. The top-notch cast elevates Harvey
Fiersteins campy but sincere libretto, and
accompanied by an energetic orchestra
led by Darius Smith reinvigorates
Hermans familiar score (I Am What I
Am, The Best of Times).
La Cage opened on Broadway in 1983
and won six Tony Awards including Best
Musical, Best Score and Best Book. Its
based on the 1973 French play by Jean
Poiret, which in turn was inspired the
popular French lm and a successful
American version, The Birdcage.
The story centers on suave Georges
(the perfectly cast Brent Barrett), a San
Tropez nightclub owner and his longtime
lover, Albin (Bobby Smith), who as Zsa Zsa
headlines the boites drag show. Together
Georges, Albin and Jean Michel (Paul
Scanlan), Georges son from a long-ago
one-night stand, have lived happily on the
Riviera as a family unit. But things take a
turn when the young man announces his
engagement to Anne (Jessica Lauren Ball),
the sweet and open-minded daughter of
an abrasive right-wing politician. He then
asks his parents to play it straight for the
in-laws. Mayhem and hilarity ensue.
In addition to directing, Gardiner is also
choreographer. Numbers performed by
the nightclubs drag chorus, Les Cagelles,
are a sensational nod to yesteryear with
tap combinations, kick lines and high ying
jumps that land in full splits. Occasionally a
drag queens headdress slips or shoe ies,
but these girls all fabulously costumed
in retro-showgirl mode by Frank Labovitz
always nish in style. Famous for singing
We are what we are, and what we are is an

illusion, Les Cagelles are typically depicted
in varying degrees of realness depending on
the production. Here, of the six chorines, all
are passable from Row D center, except the
purposely and amusingly butch Phaedra
(Phil Young).
Because La Cage is in many ways a
backstage story, set designer Lee Savage
smartly takes us into the performers
world. On each side of the ligree
framed proscenium stage with Austrianscalloped curtain and shell-covered
footlights, the audience gets a glimpse
ostage where the boy dancers are
transforming themselves into fabulous
showgirls. Upstairs Georges and Albins
more-gaudy-than-grand at features
chandeliers, busy wallpaper, a bright blue
chaise and a 10-foot stature of David.
As Albin, out actor Bobby Smith does
some of his nest work ever. The part
allows him to tap all of his talents
comedy, agility, acting and singing. His
Albin is dramatic and sometimes petty,
but always human and caring. His drag
is old school glamour think mature
Arlene Dahl at a world premiere in Monte
Carlo. But when things get rough, he dos
his wig and sings the anthem I Am What
I Am. Its a standalone song stirringly
delivered with a real core of strength and
courage in place of Zsa Zsas artice.
The supporting cast includes DJ Petrosino
as Jacob, the lisping, scantily clad, high heelwearing butler who longs to get in the drag
show. A very dignied and Gallic-looking
Mitchell Hbert plays Annes overbearing
father Edouard Dindon, and Sherri L.
Edelen as his fun-starved wife, Marie. Nova
Y. Payton plays Jacqueline, the diva owner
of a nearby restaurant.
You wont nd the complexity of
Sondheim here. La Cage is an old
fashioned, feel-good show. And in light of
Orlando, this LGBT life- and love-arming
musical is a timely thing.
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
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tight, hook-heavy eort
By CHRIS GERARD
Acclaimed Canadian indie-pop sibling
duo and LGBT activists Tegan and Sara
are back with their eighth album, Love
You to Death, and its another superb
release by the sisters Quin.
The album is released on Neil Youngs
Vapor Records label and was produced
by Greg Kurstin, most recently known
as the co-writer, producer and primary
instrumentalist behind Adeles charttopping anthem Hello.
Love You to Death is a continuation
of the duos embrace of upbeat electronic
pop elements. They go for massive hooks,
big synths and uber-polished production.
Fortunately the 10 tracks are ear candy
of the highest order and the duo quite
capably pulls o a style you might expect
from some hot new European import
rather than the veteran indie-pop duo
from Canada that was also known for
guitar-based work.
Tegan and Saras version of commercial
pop is smart and immediately engaging.
Opening track That Girl, with its
anthemic hook and ultra-modern vibe,
sounds like something that may have
been considered for a Kelly Clarkson
project. Faint of Heart is an even more
commercial track with a chorus perfectly
designed for heavy summertime radio
play. Its upbeat, singalong nature
practically begs for a bevy of remixes for
dance-oor consumption.
Its dicult to believe that the gleaming
commercial
gem
Boyfriend
isnt
Meghan Trainor or Carly Rae Jepsen. Give
it to Tegan and Sara for being willing to
go on a limb and try something dierent
in this case it can only be described as
Top 40 pop that might be aimed at your

average 13 year old. Its strange to hear
the duo in this context, but its so catchy
and well executed that it just works. Its
fun, peppy and irresistibly catchy.
The big electro-beats, processed vocals
and giant melodic hooks continue on
Dying to Know, a heavily rhythmic track
that again practically demands radio
play. There isnt a song on this collection
that wouldnt sound great on the FM dial
blasted on a road trip with the sunroof
open and the beach on the horizon.
Stop Desire is pure Euro-pop, right out
of Kylie, Robyn or Goldfrapps arsenal of
tricks. Its another danceoor raver thats
going to sound great on club speakers.
White Knuckles is a more mid-tempo
jam with lots of vocal eects and treated
piano over a heavy backbeat. Like all the
songs on Love You To Death, the vocals
are heavily layered and everything is
completely digital, pro-tooled and autotuned. So while it does have that articial
modern pop sound, what makes it work
is the strength of the songwriting and the
charm of the ladies vocal performances.
Other standouts include glossy power
ballad 100x, the Pet Shop Boys-esque
BWU and album closer Hang On to the
Night, which begins with an orchestral
ourish that gives way to a big retrosynth ri and an atmospheric vibe that
owes more to bands like O.M.D. and New
Order than modern pop.
Love You to Death is electronic pop
thats smart, catchy and compact. At only
31 minutes, the album is a quick listen,
but it doesnt feel like were shortchanged.
Each of the self-penned song is a
potential single. Some artists have tried
to make the leap from more alternativeedged indie-pop to mainstream pop
with decidedly mixed results (Liz Phair
comes to mind), but Tegan and Sara
makes it work.
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JCC presents Those People screening

The Washington D.C. Jewish Community Center (1529 16th St., N.W.) will
screen the lm Those People as part of the Washington Jewish Film Festival on
Tuesday, June 21 at 7:30 p.m.
The 89-minute narrative is a coming-of-age story about Charlie, a Jewish
painter in New York, caught up in a gay love triangle. Viewers are invited for a
pre-screening happy hour with GLOE and a free drink in the lobby at 7 p.m.
For tickets and more information, visit wj.org.
By SELENE SAN FELICE
Source Fest oers

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Ballast by Georgette Kelly, one of
three plays at this years Source Festival,
explores the spiritual impact of gender.
Directed by Margot Manburg with
dramaturgy by Aria Velz, the play stars
seven actors as people in transgender/
cisgender relationships. Zoe (Dallas
Milholland) is a cisgender woman married
to Grace (Jen Rabbitt Ring), a transgender
woman who seeks religious acceptance.
Teenager Savannah (Chelsea Thaler) is
infatuated with Xavier (Tyasia Velines),
who is coping with becoming a man.
The Source festival runs through July 3.
Performances are at Source (1835 14th
St., N.W.). Tickets are $10-32. For more
information, visit sourcefestival.org.
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Actress, singer and comedian Jane Lynch will bring her national musicalcomedy show See Jane Sing to the Kennedy Centers Eisenhower Theater (2700
F St. N.W.) on Friday, June 24 at 7 p.m.
The Glee star and Hollywood Game Night host will add her humor to
performances of Broadway songs with the help of Kate Flannery (The Oce),
Tim Davis (former musical arranger for Glee) and a live band. Tickets range
from $70-125.
The show is part of the Kennedy Centers District of Comedy Festival, which
runs through July 31. Other performances in the festival include a tribute to Joan
Rivers, a roast of James Carville and a comedy show for kids.
For more tickets and information, visit kennedy-center.org.
The Kennedy Center (2700 F St.

N.W.) will honor the music of legendary
composer George Gershwin in the
concert hall at 8 p.m. on Friday, June 17
and Saturday, June 18.
Jason Moran, Kennedy Center artistic
director for jazz, will put his spin on some
of Gershwins songs on piano with guest
vocalist Jos James. Tony-nominated
baritone Norm Lewis and soprano Alicia
Hall Moran will reprise their lead roles
from the recent revival of Porgy and
Bess.
They will be joined by the Heritage
Signature Chorale to perform selections
from Gershwins prized compositions.
Tickets range from $20-88. For more
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Hampton Roads Pride Love Unites
kicks o Saturday, June 17 with the
Block Party at 7 p.m. at Norfolk Scope
Arena (201 E. Brambleton Ave., Norfolk,
Va.) with DJ Tezrah. Sunday brings
Pridefest 2016 from noon-6 p.m. at Town
Point Park. For more information, visit
hamptonroadspride.org.
The week-long New York City Pride
celebration starts Sunday, June 19 kicking
o with a Pride Luminaries brunch,
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Judith M. Kasen and the Honorable
Thomas Duane at David Burke Kitchen
(23 Grand St., New York).
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The March begins at 36th St. and 5th Ave.,
and ends at Christopher and Greenwich
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which will feature 50 oats and more than
300 organizations, began as a 500-person
gay power demonstration in June 1969
after the Stonewall Riot.
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Another Vision of You, a look back at
the long career of the television producer
and political activist.
Lumpkin, who is openly gay, is proud
that AFI Docs includes cutting-edge LGBT
documentaries from around the world.
For example, the Spotlight Screening on
Saturday, June 25 turns its gaze on the
Check It, a street gang formed by LGBT
youth in the Trinidad neighborhood in
northeast Washington. In Check It,
local lmmaker Dana Flor and New Yorkbased co-director Toby Oppenheimer
prole the ve founding members of
the gang, who initially banded together
to protect each other, and who are now
trying to market their own clothing line as
a pathway out of poverty.
Southwest of Salem: the Story of the
San Antonio Four tells the horric story
of four Latino lesbians who were falsely
convicted in 1994 of child abuse. While
they have nally been released from
prison, they have still not been acquitted.
Lumpkin, who grew up in Texas, says the
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The story of these courageous
women, he says, reminds us that being
queer in this world is still dangerous. The
work is certainly not done.
In her rst full-length documentary,
lesbian Southwest director Deborah
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spreading the word about an important
gay rights case, she wanted to play with
the expectations of the true crime genre
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that permeate the American criminal
justice system. Building on the scholarship
of Deb Nathan (Satans Silence and
Sybil Exposed), Esquenazi reveals how
prosecutors and reporters have demonized
LGBT people as evil predators and notes
that similar hate speech runs from the
Salem Witch Trials through todays debates
about bathroom bills.
Haveababy proles the contestants
in a controversial video contest. Every year,
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video challenge for aspiring parents. The
winner, selected by online viewers and a
panel of medical professionals, receives
a free round of fertility treatments. Given
the high cost of fertility treatments and the
frequent lack of insurance coverage, the
competition is erce.
Director Amanda Micheli came across
the contest when she was researching
her own treatment options. Sharing
her personal experience with infertility
helped her build a strong bond of trust
with her subjects, including Athena, a
single Manhattan lesbian. An actress/
performer who frequently works as a
Lady Gaga impersonator, Athena was
shocked to nd that it was easier to come
out to her family as a lesbian than it was
to come out as being infertile.
Openly gay New Zealand journalist David
Farrier got much more than he expected
when he began to investigate a mysterious
American website for tickling fetishists. In
the entertaining documentary Tickled,
Farrier and co-director Dylan Reeve try
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across the United States.
Whos Gonna Love Me Now is a
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soundtrack features performances by
Maoz and his friends in the London Gay
Mens Chorus. And Chicken People
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In a nod to what can happen when
communities band together, the Blade
shines a light on the LGBT-inclusive
Washington Renegades RFC in the ongoing
series on the rookies and veterans who
make up local LGBT sports teams.
Though they are composed of
roughly 70 percent straight players, the
Renegades are known to be one of the
rst mens rugby clubs in the United
States to actively recruit gay players.
Its members compete within the Capital
Rugby Union and USA Rugby and eld
two teams in the Mid-Atlantic Conference
league. They also travel to tournaments
including gay run tournaments such
as the Dallas Diablos Hellfest and the
Bingham Cup.
At the Bingham Cup in Nashville last
month, the Renegades elded three
teams in three separate divisions. The
Renegades A team made it to the nal
four and the Renegades C team played
its way to the nal of its division. The
Renegades B team won its division to take
the Mark Bingham Shield.
With diversity playing a big part of their
make-up, we take a look at a straight
rookie and a gay veteran who both
competed at the recent Bingham Cup.
Lucian Dieterman grew up in Lake
City, Minn., and played all kinds of sports
including soccer, baseball, track & eld,
pick-up ice hockey and snowboarding.
While he was earning his degree in
international relations at the University of
Minnesota, he played club soccer.
His rugby career started last year when he
was abroad in Amman, Jordan and a friend
invited him to play in a sevens tournament.
He joined the Renegades in February and
moved up from its B team to A team before
separating his shoulder in late April.
At 23 years old, I am one of the
youngest players on the team and the

veterans have been very helpful with
working on my basics and fundamentals,
Dieterman says. They take their rugby
seriously and are the rst ones to tell me
to pick my head up.
As for playing with gay teammates,
Dieterman says he enjoys being a part of
a diverse community.
One of our gay veterans is really high
energy, Dieterman says, and the rst
time he screamed Yes, girl, on the eld
to me during practice, I immediately fell
in love with the team.
Competing at his rst Bingham
Cup last month, Dieterman enjoyed
meeting players from all over the world.
It reminded him a lot of the soccer
tournaments he used to play in except for
one big dierence.
There is a kind of spirit behind playing
in a diverse community. Most of my
past team experiences were lled with
misogyny, Dieterman says. In this
situation, no one really cares where you
come from because they are there to play
rugby. Its refreshing.
Born in the Philippines and raised in
Northvale, N.J., Von Allena didnt play
any sports except for being an unwilling
participant in his brothers martial arts
training. While he was attending American
University, his extracurricular focus was
on the arts and his a cappella group.
After graduating college, Allena found
he was missing something in terms of his
circle of friends.
I wanted to do something on my own
and nd a new community, Allena says.
I looked up sports and picked the most
uncomfortable sport I saw, which was rugby.
Allena joined the Renegades in 2012
and plays in both its spring and fall
leagues. At rst he wasnt sure if rugby
was for him, but he wasnt going to quit.
It wasnt an instant connection for
me, Allena says. Four years later I have
denitely fallen in love with the sport.
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Thank you To all of our

sponsors and parTners
for making our 2016
CapiTal pride a suCCess!
Dont let Orlando massacre
keep you from savoring life
MICHAEL RADKOWSKY, Psy.D. is a licensed

psychologist who works with gay individuals
and couples in D.C. He can be found online
at personalgrowthzone.com. All identifying
information has been changed for reasons
of condentiality. Have a question? Send it to
Michael@personalgrowthzone.com.
MICHAEL,
Im so angry and sad about the shooting
in Orlando.
It seems to me like we can do our best
in life, be kind and caring, push for gay
equality, and some moron can still come
along and kill us. What kind of crazy world
is this?
I was so happy last June with the gay
marriage decision and felt like everything
was looking up. Now I dont even feel
safe going out and think I should just stay
home.
Everything seems to be going downhill
and Im starting to believe that theres
really no point to life. How do we go
forward when everything seems so
hopeless?
MICHAEL REPLIES:
Yes, the news is beyond awful and life
seems increasingly unsafe.
But to put things in perspective, this
isnt really new. Were seeing the latest
round of an old, old story. Again and
again throughout history, hatred and
violence build up and explode. Then
people struggle to patch things up until
the next time.
We humans often seem to have a hard
time learning that we have to nd a way
to get along. Were all on this small planet
together and have no place else to go.

While weve made some progress
over the last few thousand years, that
progress has gone hand in hand with
the development of increased means of
causing mass suering, destruction and
death. Thats a sad realization, but its the
truth.
You might say that the choice you and
all of us are facing is to either give up or
do our best to keep pushing for our world
to go in a more positive direction. Do we
have any certainty that well succeed? No.
But if we dont make an eort, how can
we have any hope that the situation will
not continue to get worse?
If we want to have a more peaceful and
just world, we must keep working for one.
Apathy or hopelessness will not get us
anywhere good.
I get it that youre scared to go out. A lot
of us are. But what is our alternative? Give
up on living our lives?
Helen Keller once wrote that, life is
either a daring adventure or nothing.
Of course, she wasnt saying that youre
not really living unless you sky dive or
BASE jump. She was saying that risk is an
essential part of being alive. Now none
of us can ignore the stark truth of her
statement.
We each have to decide for ourselves
how we want to go forward. You may
choose to shut down and give up, but
what sort of life would that be? My hope
is that all of us who have hope for a better
world, will choose to make the most of
our lives eeting as our lives inevitably
are.
But what does this mean for each
individual? Doing your best to be
compassionate to all sentient beings?
Fighting for justice? Enjoying the moment?
Walking the path that has integrity for
you, even if it is a dangerous one?
However any of us decide to go forward,
we should remember that making this
choice how we want to lead our life
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The D.C. Jazz Festival continues today
through Sunday. Emerging and renowned
artists all perform at various locations
throughout the District. For a complete
list of events, visit dcjazzfest.org.
Fasten your seatbelts Outdoor
Cinematery screens the gay classic All
About Eve at Congressional Cemetery
(1801 E St., S.E.) tonight at 7 p.m. The
1950 classic tells the story of Broadway
actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis)
and Eve (Anne Baxter) and the variety of
moves they each make to advance their
careers. There is a suggested donation of
$10 at the main gate.
Reel
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Wilheminas War at Human Rights
Campaign (1640 Rhode Island Ave.,
N.W.) tonight at 8 p.m. as part of the
HRCs lm series American Vagabond.
Wilheminas War is a lm that
tackles the growing epidemic of HIV/
AIDS among black women in the rural
South. There will be a panel discussion
and a cocktail reception after the
screening. Tickets are $20 and include
the lm, Q&A/panel discussion, and
one complimentary beverage. For
ticketing and more information visit
reelarmations.org.
District of Cumbia & Zakke will
perform a live concert, hosted by VIBRA
DC, tonight at 9 p.m. the Salty Dog
Tavern (1723 Connecticut Ave., N.W.). The
concert is advertised for dancers and fans
of Cumbia. Search for District of Cumbia
on Facebook for more information.
D.C. Queerdo Show presents An
LGBT Comedy + Circus Arts Benet
tonight at the Bier Baron Tavern (1523
22nd St., N.W.) from 9-11 p.m. The
annual sideshow, comedy, circus and
variety arts show will benet the Trans
Women of Color Collective, an organizing
collective led by trans women of color
that uplifts the narratives, leadership
and lived experiences of trans and
gender-nonconforming people of color.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20
at the door. Doors open at 8 p.m. For
more information and ticketing visit,
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Town (2009 8th St., N.W.) hosts its
weekly drag show tonight and Saturday
night at 10:30 p.m. The doors open at
10 and there is a $12 cover charge for
guests 21 and over. Guests 18-20 pay a
$15 cover charge. GoGo boys go on after
11 p.m. and there will be music upstairs
by Wess and by Back2bACk downstairs.
Seating is on a rst-come-rst-serve
basis, but to make a reservation to
ensure a front row seat visit, towndc.
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ANNE BAXTER, left, and BETTE DAVIS lock horns in the classic All About Eve, which will be screened this weekend at Congressional Cemetery.
SATURDAY, JUNE 18
Rainbow Theatre Project presents
Get Used to It! A Musical Review at
FlashPoint (916 G St., N.W.) tonight at
8 p.m. The musical review, written and
composed by Tom Wilson Weinberg, charts
the struggles of the LGBT community.
Tickets are $35 each. For ticketing, visit
rainbowtheatreproject.org/tickets.
Bare-Pride Month continues tonight
at Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) tonight
starting at 7 p.m. features DJs Rosie &
Keenan and DystRucXion Dancers. There
will be drink specials all night long. Its $7
to enter before midnight and $10 after.
For more information visit, cobaltdc.com/
our-events.
World-famous musician/DJ/producer
Diplo with Team EZY performs tonight
at Echostage (2135 Queens Chapel Rd.,
N.E.) at 9 p.m. The concert is 18-and-up
and tickets start at $70. For ticketing visit
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A Royal Candidate Show is being
oered as a fundraiser for the Orlando
LGBT community tonight at 8 p.m.
(cocktails at 7) at Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.).
This event from members of the Imperial
Court of Washington will generate
funds for the LGBT Center of Orlando
earmarked for its Pulse Tragedy Fund.
Search for the event on Facebook for
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SiP and DiP at Liason Hotel (415
New Jersey Ave., N.W.) hosts a pool

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listen to local DJs today from 1-7 p.m.
The event will feature DJ Deemo and
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Award-winning
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Stage at the Kennedy Center (2700 F
St., N.W.) for a free concert at 6 p.m.
as part of World Refugee Day. Moreno
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that shows the situation of Central
American Refugees.
The D.C. Center (2000 14th St., N.W..)
hosts coee drop-in hours this morning
from 10 a.m.-noon for the senior LGBT
community. Older LGBT adults can
come and enjoy complimentary coee
and conversation with other community
members. For more information, visit
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TUESDAY, JUNE 21
Center Bi Round Table Discussion
hosted by the D.C. Center for the LGBT
Community (2000 14th St., N.W.) is tonight
from 7-8 p.m. The monthly roundtable
discussion is an opportunity for people
to gather to discuss issues related to
bisexuality or as bisexual individuals in a
private setting. For more information visit,
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District is tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Woolly
Mammoth Theatre Company (641 D St.,
N.W.). This event from A Wider Bridge
promises a festive evening hosted by
out local actor/artist John Moletress with
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8th St., S.E.) for Duplicate Bridge. No
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THURSDAY, JUNE 22
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the Renwick Gallery (1661 Pennsylvania
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Andrews Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice,
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I would like to take a moment to grieve with you, although in times like these, no words
seem to be enough.
No one deserves to suffer the fate that befell so many in Orlando last weekend. We remember not only those victims, their family, and their friends, but we also take a moment
to mourn those in the LGBT community who have lost their lives or sense of self worth
because of how hate has impacted them.
The lives of too many were lost last weekend. We honor their lives and their deaths with
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Sellers market continued in May

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By TED SMITH
Based on my experience as a Realtor,
the real estate market for the D.C. region
has showed some slight signs of slowing
down this spring residential properties on the market for longer, fewer multiple offers being submitted for desirable
properties, some residential properties
actually selling for less than their list
priceso I decided to do a more systematic study of the May figures in the whole
DC region using current market data and
going back five Mays to May 2011.
Why May? Because May is typically the
busiest month of real estate sales (and
spring is typically the busiest season), so
I wanted to look at the market peak for
each year in order to get the greatest possible differentiation between Mays.
What I found surprised me, and it may
surprise you, but the market is still definitely a sellers market and some measures actually point to an increase in the
conditions that characterize a sellers
market. Lets look at those conditions as
grouped in different colors in the accompanying table.
The first group is related to the availability of residential properties. Months
Supply is a figure that measures how
long it would take to sell off the inventory of currently available properties if no
more were to be added to the market. The
greater the months supply, the greater
the buying opportunities for buyers; the
lower the supply, the more competition

among buyers (and the higher the price
paid for properties). Days on Market is
part of the calculation of months supply,
being the number of days a property is
on the market before it comes under contract. The lower the days on market, the
faster that properties are placed under
contract. In this situation, buyers have
to be prepared to jump quickly to snag a
property. Looking at the availability measures in the table, we can see the months
supply has steadily decreased over the
preceding five Mays to currently being
the lowest of any May. The days on market measure declined in 2011 and 2012,
but has been at its current value (more or
less) for the four most recent Mays. Both
measures in this group point to a continuing sellers market.
The next group of measures relate to
market activity. Pendings are the number of residential properties currently under contract, but not yet settled (i.e. sold).
Actives are the number of properties listed on our regional multi-list service (MRIS)
that are available for purchase. From the
table, you can see a general increase in
properties under contract (i.e. pending)
and a general decline in the number of
available properties (i.e. active). The important relationship between these measures
creates the Contract Ratio, the number
of pendings divided by the number of actives. The lower this ratio, the more favorable the market for buyers; the higher this
ratio, the more favorable the market for
sellers. Looking at the table, you can see
that the contract ratio has been steadily
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moving higher since May 2011. In fact, for

the past four Mays, it has actually been
higher than 1.0. That means that there
have been more residential properties in
the D.C. region under contract than there
have been available properties. This ratio definitely points in the direction of a
strong sellers market.
The final group of measures is about
price and price ratios. You can see that
Median Prices (the middle value) for
residential properties in the D.C. region
has risen year by year over the last six
Mays. While this past May has seen the
lowest Increase/Decrease from the Previous May (1.88 percent), it still posted
the highest median price of the preceding five Mays. Further, the Average
Sold Price to List Price ratio has been
the highest this last May, though it has
been above 100 percent for the last four
Mays. This means that the average residential property in the D.C. region has
sold above its asking price for the past

four Mays.
So, what do we learn from this investigation? Clearly, we are still in a sellers
market. Sellers, theres still time to put
your property on the market to take advantage of the latter part of the spring
market or the fall market starting in September. Buyers, if you can wait, look for
places during the summer season or late
fall when there is less competition (but
also less inventory) and prices are not as
high.
Happy sales to you.
Ted Smith is a licensed Realtor with Real Living
| at Home specializing in mid-city D.C. Reach
him at TedSmithSellsDC@rlathome.com and
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