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Attorneysays beating deaths examiner, former roommates, and relatives and then attacked Neal with a knife, according to an
friends of the victims in an eort to support their account by the Washington Post.
linked to love triangle gone bad contention that Jerey Bernard Neal killed one of his McCants told the jury that Neal fought back in
male roommates in a dispute over money and killed self-defense and struck 22-year-old Leon Young in
By LOU CHIBBARO JR. the other male roommate because he witnessed the the head twice with a hammer as Young continued
lchibbaro@washblade.com rst murder. to lunge at him while wielding the knife, the Post
Police have said the murders occurred in June of reported.
The trial of a 24-year-old D.C. man charged with 2014 inside a house at 1846 8th St., N.W. that was Its a relationship where these young guys, very
two counts of rst-degree murder for allegedly owned by Neals family and in which Neal resided and young guys, were gay and, basically, lived together
bludgeoning to death two roommates with whom charged the roommates rent. and frequently had sex, the Post quoted McCants as
he had sexual relations entered its third week on The defense, led by attorney Kevin J. McCants, told telling the jury.
Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court. the jury in opening arguments that the three men Assistant U.S. Attorneys Veronica Sanchez and
Prosecutors have so far presented to the jury close were involved in a gay love triangle and one of the
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Mistrial in stabbing
death of lesbian caterer
TODD J. MCKEES body was recovered last week. Attorneys argued 19-year-old park
PHOTO COURTESY OF REHOBOTH BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT employee acted in self-defense
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Missing man found dead on
A Fairfax County Circuit Court judge on July 14 declared a mistrial for a former county parks
beach near Rehoboth employee charged with second-degree murder in the August 2016 stabbing death of lesbian
chef and caterer Tyonne Johns during an altercation at an outdoor wedding reception.
Judge Daniel E. Ortiz declared the mistrial when a jury announced it was deadlocked and
could not reach a verdict after deliberating for more than six and a half hours. Prosecutors
Police say foul play not suspected with the Fairfax Commonwealths Attorneys Oce said they plan bring the case to trial again.
The announcement by the jurors followed a six-day trial in which the defense argued
By LOU CHIBBARO JR. that former Fairfax parks department worker Kempton A. Bonds, who was 19 at the
lchibbaro@washblade.com time of the incident, stabbed Johns in self defense.
In dramatic testimony on the witness stand, Bonds reiterated what he told police and
A gay man who had been reported missing since July 8 from his home near the prosecutors at the time of his arrest that Johns allegedly placed him in a choke hold,
boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach was found dead early on the morning of July 14 on preventing him from breathing, after the two argued over the ownership of folding chairs
the beach in an area just north of Rehoboth, according to a statement released by used at an Aug. 6, 2016 wedding that Johns catered at a county park in Chantilly, Va.
Rehoboth Beach police. According to media reports, the lead prosecutor in the case, Assistant Commonwealths
The statement, which was posted on the police website, says at around 5:45 Attorney Brandon Shapiro, argued that witnesses associated with the wedding party testied
a.m. July 14 members of the Rehoboth Beach Police, the Delaware State Police, that Bonds acted in a rude manner toward the wedding guests since the start of the outdoor
and the Rehoboth Beach re Department responded to a report of a body in reception. He also noted that witnesses claimed not to have seen Johns touch Bonds in any way.
the surf. It was by far not an accident, the Washington Post quoted Shapiro saying in his closing
Along with police and re personnel, Sussex County Paramedics arrived on the scene arguments at the trial. He antagonized, he baitedhe took that knife and he stuck it three
and found the body of Todd J. McKee deceased on the beach, the statement says. inches into her, and that Bonds was going for death, the Post quoted Shapiro as saying.
A forensic investigator from the Division of Forensic Science responded to the Defense attorney Peter Greenspun told the jury that Bonds was merely trying to carry
scene and the body was removed, the statement says. A death investigation out his duties as a park employee when he followed the terms of an agreement that loud
is being conducted by the Delaware State Police and the Division of Forensic music played at the wedding had to end by 9 p.m., according to an account of the trial by
Science, it says, adding, At this time no foul play is suspected. Channel 7 News. When bonds pulled the plug for the sound system, Johns and some of
The discovery of McKees body came six days after Rehoboth police issued a the wedding guests became foul, vile and disrespectful toward Bonds, the Post reported.
Gold Alert missing person announcement for McKee, saying he had last been Greenspun argued that Bonds, feeling threatened, called his boss and Fairfax police
seen about 10:15 p.m. Saturday, July 8, leaving his home in the 300 block of at least two times to say he worried about his safety.
South Boardwalk in Rehoboth. At the time of Bonds arrest last August Fairfax police said witnesses reported that
Rehoboth Police Lt. Jaime Riddle told the Washington Blade that under a an argument between Johns and Bonds over the ownership of folding chairs used at
Delaware policy for responding to a report of a missing person, a Gold Alert the wedding led to the altercation that prompted Bonds to stab Johns. Bonds insisted
pertains to missing persons who may fall into three categories a senior citizen, the chairs belonged to the Fairfax parks department when he saw Johns taking steps
a person with a disability, and a person who may be suicidal. to remove them, police said. Witnesses told police that Johns claimed the chairs were
Rehoboth Police said Todd McKees family requested that this separate owned by a company with which she was associated and she was responsible for
statement be released: returning them to that company.
We are devastated by the news that our beloved partner, son, and brother Greenspun argued that shortly before the stabbing Bonds was cornered, outnumbered
Todds body was found on a beach this morning. As we mourn the loss of this and verbally assaulted by members of the wedding party, the Post reported. The Post
beautiful and kind man, we want to thank the Rehoboth Beach police, city and quoted Bonds saying during his testimony at the trial, I was trying to get her o of me
state ocials and the community he so loved and adopted as his home, for so that I could breatheI was afraid for my life.
helping to bring Todd back to us. We would also like to thank everyone who has Friends and family members said Johns, a native of Hopewell, Va., was a highly
reached out to support us during this dicult week. We ask for your continued acclaimed chef and operated her own catering business in the D.C. area for several
prayers to give us strength as we grieve. years. Readers of the Washington Blade last fall voted to posthumously award Johns the
honor of Best Chef in the Blades 2016 Best of Gay D.C. competition.
Prosecutors and Bonds defense team were expected to confer with the judge early
next month set a date for a second trial.
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Rebecca Isaacs, Equality Federations say anti-LGBT groups have joined state
executive director, called this years legislators in pushing for single-issue
conference especially important. license to discriminate bills that would neighborhoods; how state LGBT groups Ralph Northam; Virginia Attorney General
As our movement resists an exempt individual state agencies or can best prepare for a rapid response to Mark Herring, Virginia U.S. Sens. Mark
extraordinarily hostile administration organizations such as child welfare breaking new developments; and Racial Warner and Tim Kaine; and two of three
and continued attacks on our freedoms agencies from complying with non- Equality and the LGBTQ Movement. openly gay members of the Virginia
at the state level it is crucial that we come discrimination laws. Doing so could allow Several prominent public ocials in Legislature, State Sen. Adam Ebbin and
together to strategize and reinvigorate them to refuse to provide child adoption Virginia submitted written messages State House of Delegates member Mark
our movement for equality, Isaacs said. services to same-sex couples. published in the conferences ocial Sickles. All of the ocials are Democrats.
Weve come so far, she said in a Other workshops cover such topics as program booklet welcoming the LGBT Mark Snyder, the Equality Federations
statement. A solid majority of Americans ghting anti-transgender ballot measures advocates to Virginia and highlighting communications director, said at this
now support the fairness for LGBTQ people in states; eorts to repeal laws that LGBT supportive policies they have time there is no member organization
and our families, and the visibility of our criminalize HIV transmission; the impact of pushed for. They include Virginia Lt. representing D.C. among the Equality
community is unprecedented, she said. redistricting of electoral districts on LGBT Governor and gubernatorial candidate Federations 42 member groups.
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one of the commissions investigators targeted Dr. Earnest A. Smith, president of the
historically black Rust College in the small town of Holly Springs, Miss., for allegedly
being sympathetic to homos.
The investigator claimed to have found evidence from a network of informants that
Smith allowed civil rights workers to use the college campus as their base of operations
for a voter registration drive for African-American residents of the state.
Most of the civil rights workers were black college students along with white student
supporters who were members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee,
known as SNCC. SNCC was among several civil rights groups that took part in a series
of protests and voter registration drives in deance of state authorities that became
known as Freedom Summer of 1964.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
CAITLYN JENNER met with Nikki Haley to discuss international LGBT rights issues.
WASHINGTON BLADE PHOTO BY MICHAEL KEY Rep. King compares trans troops
to castrated slaves
Caitlyn Jenner, Nikki Haley In the aftermath of the failed amendment on the U.S. House oor that would
talk LGBT issues have barred transition-related care for transgender troops, Rep. Steve King
(R-Iowa) delivered a speech Friday railing against their service and comparing
them to castrated slaves in the now defunct Ottoman Empire.
Caitlyn Jenner on July 13 met with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley to discuss King said on the House oor transgender military service isnt a civilization
global LGBT issues. killer, but it is an indication of a civilization killer.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the U.N. told the Washington Blade the I think of the circumstances in a little bit older history, back in the 16th
meeting took place in Haleys oce in New York. century and the 17th century when the Ottoman Empire and the Muslim armies
The spokesperson noted Jenner and Haley discussed LGBTI rights, especially their were sweeping across the
concerns about violence and discrimination against LGBTI persons. The spokesperson countryside, and whoever
told the Blade it was the rst time they had met. they captured, they pressed
It remains unclear what Jenner and Haley specically discussed, but Log Cabin into slavery. King said. And
Republicans on Monday tweeted a picture of them together. when they pressed them
I have a meeting with her about LGBT issues worldwide, said Jenner on July 13 into slavery, they wanted to
during an appearance on The View. have their crack troops
We have our problems here and our issues here, she added. But if you look on an they were called Janissaries,
international basis . . . theyd chop my head o in some countries. and there were other troops
Haley in January said during her conrmation hearing that American values do not allow too, as well. But what they
for discrimination of any kind to anyone, without specically mentioning LGBT people. did in order to keep them
The former governor of South Carolina in April issued a statement in which she said from reproducing was that
the U.S. remains disturbed by the arrests of more than 100 gay men in Chechnya. they did reassignment
Neither President Trump nor Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have publicly condemned surgery on those slaves
the ongoing crackdown in the semi-autonomous Russian republic that is located in the that they captured, that
North Caucuses. they had put into their
Jenner, a Republican, told The View co-hosts that she spoke with Trump about Janissary troops, and that
LGBT-specic issues during the campaign and has met with ocials at the Department reassignment surgery was Rep. STEVE KING (R-Iowa) compared trans service
of Education and other federal government agencies. they took them from being members to castrated slaves on the House oor.
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The Republicans need help and Im there to help, said Jenner on July 13. a virile, reproductive male into
MICHAEL K. LAVERS being a eunuch.
In the end, King said, the
Ottoman Empire determined eunuchs werent eective troops and decided that
Civil rights workers labeled homos in 1964 report they were going to keep anatomically complete men, men that were producing
testosterone, in their crack Janissary troops, where they fought well.
A recently discovered document showing that a Mississippi State commission sought That is a lesson of the military, the Ottoman military from 200, 300, 400 years
to discredit black civil rights workers in 1964 by labeling them homos and oddballs ago, King said. And today we are here thinking somehow we are going to make
was the subject of a D.C. panel discussion on Monday. the military better by letting people line up at the recruitment center who have
The panel, which convened at the citys African American Civil War Museum, was one planned that they want to do sexual reassignment surgery.
of a series of events associated with the March on Washington Film Festival, an annual Kings remarks were a double-whammy of denigration directed at both
event that chronicles the impact of the 1964 civil rights March on Washington organized transgender people and Muslims but entirely consistent with Kings long record
by Martin Luther King Jr. of hateful comments against members of the Islamic faith and LGBT people.
The document discussed by the panel was a ve-page condential report prepared The Iowa Republican also suggested transgender people enter military service
by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, an ocial state entity created in 1956 solely to submit to sexual reassignment surgery and go from a man to a woman.
to preserve racial segregation and help resist eorts by the black civil rights movement This policy clearly enacted, clearly advertised, is a neon sign for people who want
to end racial discrimination. to have sexual reassignment surgery, King said. They will line up at their recruiters
The report says it was written by a commission investigator in July 1964. It was oce and they will go into the military, and the military will be saying: You know, we
discovered by the Mattachine Society of Washington, an LGBT rights group that had to turn this person away because they were too heavy, and this one had at
specializes in searching for documents showing how government agencies and ocials feet, and this one had a bad eye, and this one had a congenital defect of one kind
in the U.S. persecuted LGBT people in past years. or another, but if they dont have those and they want sexual reassignment surgery,
Charles Francis, the groups president who played a lead role in unearthing the we will cut them up and remake them into something dierent.
commission report, served as moderator of the July 17 panel session called Civil Rights CHRIS JOHNSON
and College Activism.
Francis opened the session by explaining that the report in question outlined how
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We came to a point where we said we have to do something, said Tanya
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Gonorrhea cases have risen nationwide as well, but Oregons rate has spikedin
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The bacteria are spread through sexual intercourse or anal or oral sex. Symptoms
are often undetected in women while men can experience painful urination or a
penile discharge. Untreated, gonorrhea can cause infertility, the Oregonian reports.
In 2010, the state had 28 cases per 100,000 residents. That compared with 101
per 100,000 people nationwide. In 2016, Oregons rate rose to 107 infections per
100,000 residents, an increase that puts it on par with the U.S. rate.
Gonorrhea no longer responds to the antibiotic ciprooxacin that had been
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It tends to be a bacterium that becomes resistant much more easily than
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disease program in Multnomah County.
Providers switched to other antibiotics, including ceftriaxone and cexime.
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BARRY MANILOW says he didnt hear a single negative reaction to coming out two years ago.
PHOTO COURTESY MGM NATIONAL HARBOR
By KEITH LORIA
In 2015, news that Barry Manilow was come out? Was there a sense of relief At a time when many couples dont
married to Garry Kief, his manager and once you saw how your fans reacted? last, especially those in the public eye, BLADE: Last year you announced
partner of now 40 years, broke in several BARRY MANILOW: Over the years, they whats the secret to your long-lasting your One Last Time tour, retiring
publications, and any fears the singer have told me and showed me how much relationship? from touring but promising not to
had about what it would mean to his they care about me, not just the music. Ive MANILOW: Respect and privacy. Weve give up on performing. Youre sticking
career and how his fans would react were felt that from the very beginning. I have been together going on 40 years and its a to your word by playing gigs here and
quickly put to rest. been in a loving relationship for 40 years great relationship, just like any marriage. there, including your shows next week
With performances scheduled at the and I would have been very surprised if I grew up around people who were not at National Harbor.
Theater at MGM National Harbor, July they didnt cheer and werent happy for really in love, with lots of arguing and MANILOW: I always said I would do
24-25, Manilow took some time out of his me, and of course they did. They reacted screaming and I never really saw people one-nighters. I have no plans to retire.
busy schedule to talk about his shows, just as I had hoped they would. I never respect and love people. Surprisingly Im doing weekends now and then. I had
his storied career and the headlines saw one negative response. Everyone enough, this worked out. Garry manages to get o the road. It keeps me away
asserting that he was gay. was very happy for me. me and I do my work, he does his work, from home for weeks and sometimes
and were in great shape. Weve both months at a time and Ill never do that
WASHINGTON BLADE: What were the BLADE: You and Garry have been handled ourselves as gentlemen and
emotions you felt once you decided to together for almost four decades now. were very proud of each other. CONTINUES ON PAGE 32
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2 4 J ULY 2 1 , 2 0 1 7 Q U E E RY : 2 0 Q U E ST I O N S F O R KE V I N J O N E S
K E VI N JO NE S
How long have you been out and who Pass out pamphlets on making the
was the hardest person to tell? switch to my straight friends.
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Ive been out since college. Around
1997/1998. Probably my twin brother, What do you believe in beyond the
Kenneth Jones, was the hardest to come physical world?
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO out to. He was very out and unapologetic My faith in God is strong, though I dont
joeyd@washblade.com and I wasnt quite there yet. go to church.
Although Kevin Jones loved going to church as a kid, the anti-gay rhetoric Whos your LGBT hero? Whats your advice for LGBT
bothered him, especially in the 80s at the height of the AIDS crisis. My twin brother. Hes the oldest by 12 movement leaders?
I still remember feeling disturbed, bothered and even guilty when my minutes.He helps me to be bolder. We must keep a focus on class issues
pastor preached hateful words about gays, especially that HIV was Gods gift within our community and movement.
to the gays, he says. These memories and all the people who were ever Whats Washingtons best nightspot, Class privilege will continue to divide us.
harmed by those words fuel my passion for the work. past or present?
In June, Jones became executive director of the Urban Coalition for HIV/ Delta Elite, Wet/the Edge What would you walk across hot coals
AIDS Prevention Services in Washington. He was formerly chief of programs for?
at the D.C. Promise Neighborhood Initiative and says his skills in the areas of Describe your dream wedding. Popeyes chicken and/or a hurt child.
public health, social justice and data research made it the right t. Walking through a forest for a very
The Coalition is a national collaboration of community partners and health private ceremony between me and my What LGBT stereotype annoys you
departments dedicated to preventing new HIV infections and reducing health life partner. We emerge from the woods most?
disparities, morbidity and mortality. Find out more at uchaps.org. to our friends and families. Recently, that all gays want to get
Weve come a long way in this work but theres more work to be done, Jones married.
says. The meaningful participation of communities and health departments What non-LGBT issue are you most
is vital to winning this ght. passionate about? Whats your favorite LGBT movie?
Jones, 40, was born in Saginaw, Mich., but spent his teen years in Detroit. He Im really concerned about police Hedwig and the Angry Inch,
came to Washington in 2012 to work at Metro TeenAIDS. Hes single and lives violence, though this is an LGBT issue. Moonlight
in Northeast Washington. Arent all issues LGBT issues?
Jones enjoys gardening, working with children and young families and Whats the most overrated social
traveling in his free time. What historical outcome would you custom?
change? Brunch (please dont take my gay card).
Slavery
What trophy or prize do you most
Whats been the most memorable pop covet?
culture moment of your lifetime? I think I still hold the third grade record
The death of Whitney Houston. for a rst place prize in ancient history in
Carrollton Elementary Schools academic
On what do you insist? track competition.
Popeyes over KFC
What do you wish youd known at 18?
What was your last Facebook post or That my fascination with Internet Relay
Tweet? Chat and Gay.com (between 1994-98)
Jesus be a two piece and a picture of could lead to a career in social media.
Popeyes Chicken I could have created Facebook well,
maybe.
If your life were a book, what would
the title be? Why Washington?
Keeping up with the Joneses I fell in love with D.C. when I rst lived
here in 1998. The city was vibrant and
202.747.2077 If science discovered a way to change
sexual orientation, what would you do?
had a rich culture. I knew I wanted to be
back in D.C. at some point.
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Revisiting Cabaret
Touring rigors dont deter But now with my big white mustache Im
nally the right age for the part, he says.
veteran stage actor Others currently featured include
By PATRICK FOLLIARD Broadway and West End veteran Jon
Peters as the Emcee. Leigh Ann Larkin
Veteran actor Scott Robertson leapt at the plays Sally Bowles and Benjamin Eakeley
chance to play Herr Shultz in the national is Cliord Bradshaw. Mary Gordon plays
tour of Roundabout Theatres Cabaret. Frulein Schneider. Some of the cast
At 63, not a lot of great parts come double as band members.
your way, he says. A Stamford, Conn., native and longtime
Cabaret is set in decadent 1930 New Yorker, Robertson has penned and
Berlin. The Weimar Republic is breathing performed two autobiographical pieces
its last gasps and fascism is on the rise, titled Buck Naked and Noises On. In
but singer Sally Bowles remains blissfully the monologues with music he reects
unaware working at the louche Kit Kat on the men who made the biggest impact
Klub under the leering watch of its Emcee. on his life his musically talented father
During o hours at Frulein Schneider who died when he was just 15 and his late
no-frills boarding house, Sally develops a husband of 35 years Peter Flint, drama
complicated relationship with fellow tenant coach and director felled by prostate
Cliord Bradford, a bisexual aspiring writer. cancer four years ago.
The secondary plot follows the sweet but ill- In these monologues, Robertson talks
fated romance between the landlady and about briey coming out at 15 and then
Jewish shopkeeper Herr Shultz. coming out again for good in his early 20s.
Herr Shultz is an optimist, Robertson My mother said shed rather I was a drug
says. He seems to think bad times will addict than gay, but she got over that. My
blow over. But of course thats not how husband became very close with my family.
things worked out. This Roundabout And very interestingly, he discusses being
production is entertaining but dark diagnosed with Tourette syndrome in his 30s.
and it resonates. Throughout the tour Mostly its some throat stu and tics.
theres been a lot of nervous laughter But onstage theres a state of ow that
in the audience. Some people think its happens which allows me to act and sing.
a musical written to reect Americas Im more symptomatic ostage.
current political climate. Robertsons professional theater career
Of course thats not the case. Cabarets began at 19 with a part in Grease. He
source is Christopher Isherwoods 1939 has worked consistently in doing cabaret,
novella Goodbye to Berlin based on stage and screen ever since.
the gay writers experience as an expat Its been a combination of luck, hard
in Berlin in the early 1930s where he was work and talent. I have extremely talented
free to explore his sexuality far from his friends who never nd work. I had
familys disapproving eye. John Kander, incredible desire and worked incredibly
Fred Ebb and Joe Masteros Tony-winning hard always doing six, seven shows a year.
musical premiered in 1966 introducing an And when the big opportunities came up
iconic score including familiar tunes like like Damn Yankees with Jerry Lewis Id
Cabaret and Willkommen. The show bring all of myself to that moment.
was a huge success. When the tour ends in August,
The deglamorized production now Robertson will return to his home in
moored at the Eisenhower Theater Manhattans Hells Kitchen and his new
through early August is Sam Mendes and boyfriend, also a widower.
Rob Marshalls 2014 Broadway revival, Touring is tough, he says. I wouldnt do it
a re-creation of their 1998 Broadway for just any part. But Herr Shultz is worth it.
revival, which was based on Mendes 1993
London production. And there have been
CABARET
innumerable productions before, after Through Aug. 6
and in between including Bob Fosses The Kennedy Center
screen adaptation with Liza Minelli. So Eisenhower Theater
$59-149
the play has been around. And Robertson Kennedy-center.org
has played Herr Shultz before.
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Songwriter and guitarist Robbie
Schaefer performs tonight at the
Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave.,
Arlington, Va.) as part of the Sizzlin
Summer series.
Schaefer, known for his humor will
perform selections inspired by his travels
around the globe. The show begins at
7 p.m. and tickets are $35. For more
information, visit sigtheatre.org.
The Bethesda Urban Partnership will
presents the 11th-annual Bethesda
Outdoor Movies: Stars on the Avenue
tonight at 9 p.m. Tonights oering is La
La Land, an Oscar-award winning lm
released last year.
The movie will be screened at the
corner of Norfolk and Auburn avenues
in Bethesdas Woodmont Triangle.
Admission is free, visitors are encouraged
to bring lawn chairs. For more
information, visit bethesda.org.
SATURDAY, JULY 22
The Little Theatre of Alexandria (600
Wolfe St., Alexandria, Va.) is running a
production of Legally Blonde starting
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tonight through Saturday, August 12.
The show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh will perform two Sokolow dances July 29-30 at Dance Place. Details at danceplace.org.
are $32. For more information, visit
thelittletheatre.com.
Two friends Sam Ludwig and David The event begins at 7 p.m. Supplies more information, visit wolftrap.org.
Landstrom team up to deliver a SUNDAY, JULY 23 will be provided and there will be a Genderqueer D.C. meets tonight at
performance surrounding their love of professional artist as well as a party host 7 p.m. at the D.C. Center (2000 14th
singing tonight at 7 p.m. Grey Owl, Mr. DC Eagle 2017 has at the event. Tickets are $45. For more St., N.W. #105) The group meets once a
Their performance is part of the Sizzlin teamed up with The DC Eagle (3701 information, visit paintnite.com. month and oers support to those who
Summer series at the Signature Theatre Benning Rd., N.E.) and The National Barry Manilow performs tonight and identify outside the gender binary. For
(4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington, Va.) Coalition for Sexual Freedom to host Tuesday at the Theatre at MGM National more information, visit thedccenter.org.
and will feature performance as well as Kink Fest this afternoon at 4 p.m. Harbor (101 MGM National Ave., Oxon
discussion. Tickets are $35. For more The evening begins with educational Hill, Md.) at 9:30 p.m. Tickets start at $45. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26
information, visit sigtheatre.org. demos and discussion sessions and Manilow has been in the music industry
Art Soirees summer art fusion series continues into the night with a blacklight for over 50 years, and is known for his hits The fth-annual SMYAL for Summer
continues tonight at 8 p.m. with the dance party. like Copacabana. For more information, will be tonight at 6 p.m. at Hogan Lovells
Midsummer Nights Dream body art There will be a donation of $10 taken visit mgm.theaternationalharbor.com. (555 13th St., N.W.) Tickets start at $10
show at the Liason Capitol Hill (415 New at the door with all proceeds going to Billy Bragg and SONiA perform tonight and will go toward LGBT youth in the
Jersey Ave., N.W.) There will be a variety of the Coalition. For more information, visit at the Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., community.
live performances and costumes. Tickets facebook.com/events. Alexandria, Va.) at 7:30 p.m. SMYAL was founded in 1984 and since
start at $15. For more information, visit A-Town and Don Tito host the third Bragg is an English artist who blends has become the premier organization
artsoiree.com. annual pop up party at Sip and Dip. The folk elements with punk rock, and SONiA serving LGBT youth in D.C. For more
There is a blacklight dance party event serves as a launch party for their is part of the band Disappear Fear. She information, visit smyal.org.
tonight at Town danceboutique (2009 upcoming venue the G.O.A.T opening up is openly lesbian and has been honored
8th St N.W.). Attendees should wear at the end of the summer. by GLAAD. Tickets are $59.50. For more THURSDAY, JULY 27
neon. Doors open at 10 p.m. Cover is $15 The pool party begins at 1 p.m. at the information, visit ticketmaster.com.
before midnight, and $12 after. For more Liason Capitol Hill (415 New Jersey Ave., Tonight, Ivy will host Culture Night at
information, visit towndc.com/events. N.W.) Tickets start at $30. For more TUESDAY, JULY 25 Studio Theatre (1501 14th St., N.W.) with
There is a crab feast tonight at Martins information, visit sipanddipdc.com. a showing of Wig Out! The evening will
West (6817 Dogwood Rd., Baltimore, Md.) Diana Ross will perform at Wolf Traps begin at 6:30 p.m. with a complimentary
at 8 p.m. The event features a live dj as MONDAY, JULY 24 Filene Center (1551 Trap Rd., Vienna, Va.) pre-show drink
well as an all you can eat buet. tonight at 8 p.m. The play was written by Academy-
For those who dont eat crabs, there Paint Nite D.C. will be held tonight Ross is known for her participation in award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney who
will be beef and chicken as well. Tickets at Nellies Sports Bar (900 U St., N.W.) the girl group the Supremes throughout was honored for his work on Moonlight.
are $49. For more information, visit Attendees may engage their creative side the 60s as well as her solo hits like Im For membership information and details,
martinscaterers.com. as they paint over cocktails and food. Coming Out. Tickets start at $35. For visit ivy.com.
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