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Chris Christies Gay-Rights Gamble
GOP conventional wisdom gets a re-think as marriage equality moves to the mainstream
Gov. Chris Christie
by Justin Snow
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HERE ARE MULTIPLE REA-
sons why social conservatives
have never quite warmed to
Chris Christie. On Monday, he
gave them another.
After vowing to challenge the Sep-
tember ruling by a New Jersey judge
legalizing same-sex marriage in the Gar-
den State, a spokesman for the Republi-
can governor announced Monday morn-
ing, Oct. 21, that Christie had asked the
states attorney general to abandon that
ght, effectively making New Jersey the
14th state, plus D.C., to embrace mar-
riage equality.
The announcement came hours after
same-sex nuptials began in city halls
across the state following a unanimous
decision by the New Jersey Supreme
Court on Friday, Oct. 18, denying a stay
requested by the Christie administration
to put on hold the lower courts ruling
while the case was appealed. Although
not a nal ruling in the case, which was
expected to hear oral arguments early
next year, many looked to the 7-0 deci-
sion denying the stay as a preview of
how the New Jersey Supreme Court
could rule when it reached the merits
of the case. The Christie administration
appeared to agree, stating, in essence,
that they believed the battle had already
been lost.
Chief Justice Stuart Rabner left no
ambiguity about the unanimous courts
view on the ultimate decision in this
matter when he wrote, Same-sex cou-
ples who cannot marry are not treated
equally under the law today, a Christie
spokesman said.
Christie has long been outspoken
about his personal opposition to same-
sex marriage. At a gubernatorial debate
this month, Christie said if one of his
four children came out as gay he would
grab them and hug them and tell them
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I love them, but also reiterate his belief
marriage is between a man and a woman.
Six years after New Jersey began per-
mitting civil unions for same-sex couples,
the state Legislature approved marriage-
equality in February 2012, only for Chris-
tie to veto the bill under the argument
that the issue should be left to voters at
the ballot box. In the statement released
Monday, Christies spokesman painted
his decision as a pragmatic one.
Although the Governor strongly dis-
agrees with the Court substituting its
judgment for the constitutional process
of the elected branches or a vote of the
people, the Court has now spoken clearly
as to their view of the New Jersey Consti-
tution and, therefore, same-sex marriage
is the law, he said. The Governor will
do his constitutional duty and ensure his
Administration enforces the law as dic-
tated by the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Its that kind of pragmatism that has
made Christie an incredibly popular
Republican governor in a blue state, and
that will undoubtedly come to dene his
national identity when he likely runs for
president in 2016. But while advocates
hailed Christies decision, with Log Cabin
Republicans stating he did the right
thing, those on the far right of his own
party saw their worst suspicions of the
Northeastern governor realized.
Accusing Christie of throwing in the
towel on marriage, National Organiza-
tion for Marriage President Brian Brown
said Christie had failed the test of a true
leader to walk a principled walk no mat-
ter the difculty of the path.
Regrettably, Governor Christies
decision to surrender on marriage reveals
him to be a man who lacks the courage of
his supposed convictions, Brown said in
a statement. As far as we are concerned,
its a disqualifying failure. His surrender
on marriage effectively surrenders any
chance he might have had to secure the
GOP nomination for president.
Family Research Council President
Tony Perkins said his organization was
still analyzing Christies decision to drop
the appeal, but added, On its face, it
seems Christie not only yielded to judicial
activism but aided it by capitulating.
Apparently, the Governor is giving up all
hopes of identifying as a conservative in
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the 14 states, along with D.C., that per-
mits same-sex marriage. With movement
in the courts and legislatures of Hawaii,
Illinois and New Mexico, the number of
states could soon increase to 17 before the
end of this month. As BuzzFeeds Chris
Geidner notes, should marriage equality
win in those three states, more than 200
electoral votes would rest in marriage-
equality states.
Christie will continue to be criticized
for his decision, and while it seems likely
he wont change his personal position
on same-sex marriage anytime soon, the
2012 presidential election showed what
little play LGBT issues got in both the
primaries and general election.
The most mainstream Republican
possibility in 2016 will come from a mar-
riage equality state just as the Pope is
the rst to have come from a country that
already has marriage equality, wrote
Andrew Sullivan. This matters. Leaders
who come from places where equality is
working are much less hostile to gay dig-
nity than in those places where it remains
a frightening abstraction.
What criticism Chrisitie does receive
he will likely try to deect by blaming
activist judges, but he was never going
any future political aspirations.
Christie has invoked the ire of these
critics before. It was just two months
ago that Christie, who has publicly said
he does not think being gay is a choice,
signed legislation prohibiting licensed
therapists from practicing sexual orien-
tation change therapy on minors. The
move made New Jersey the second state
in the nation after California to enact
such a ban. At the time, FRC said Chris-
ties decision undermines freedom.
Perkins later declined to invite Christie
to the organizations annual Values Voter
Summit earlier this month a frequent
pit stop for presidential hopefuls seeking
to court social conservatives.
It would be foolish to believe Chris-
ties decision was not politically calcu-
lated. Despite cries to the contrary from
organizations like NOM and FRC, the
country is changing, as every poll shows.
A growing majority of Americans support
marriage equality. Whats more, so do
an overwhelming number of Americans
under the age of 30, including those who
identify as conservative.
Following the ushering in of marriage
equality in New Jersey, more than a third
of the U.S. population now lives in one of
to be the candidate for social conserva-
tives anyway.
In contrast, a few state lines away in
Virginia, the right wing of the Republican
Party might nd a man who personies
its ideal presidential contender in Attor-
ney General Ken Cuccinelli, who hopes
to become the commonwealths gover-
nor. This social warrior went so far as to
try to take his ght defending Virginias
anti-sodomy law to the Supreme Court
which declared such laws unconstitu-
tional in 2003 and rejected Cuccinellis
appeal earlier this month. Hes running
against a vulnerable Democratic oppo-
nent, Terry McAuliffe, in what is gener-
ally considered a red state.
And hes losing.
With two weeks before Election Day,
Cuccinelli is trailing McAuliffe by eight
points. When voters in both Virginia and
New Jersey go the polls on Nov. 5, it will
be a referendum of sorts on two very
different types of Republican candidates
in states that mirror the complexity of
a national election. And, barring a dra-
matic upset in either race, Cuccinelli will
likely lose, while Christie, who is leading
his Democratic opponent by nearly 30
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Marylands 2014 Contest
Taking Shape

Heather Mizeur grabs new endorsements, while Doug Gansler names
popular Jolene Ivey as running mate
Mizeur
by John Riley
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HE THREE-WAY RACE FOR
the Democratic nod to become
Marylands next governor con-
tinues to build steam, with Del.
Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery Co.)
and Attorney General Doug Gansler seek-
ing to establish themselves as legitimate
contenders for their partys nomination
against presumed frontrunner Lt. Gov.
Anthony Brown, who has been endorsed
by sitting Gov. Martin OMalley (D).
On Oct. 15, Mizeurs campaign
announced it had received the endorse-
ment of former U.S. Rep. Wayne Gilchrest
(R-Kennedyville), an Eastern Shore legis-
lator who established a reputation during
his nine terms in Congress from 1991
to 2009 as a moderate Republican who
sought bipartisan compromises and held
more liberal views on issues like the envi-
ronment, abortion and marriage equality.
Notably, this is not Gilchrests rst
time issuing a cross-party endorsement.
He also endorsed former U.S. Rep. Frank
Kratovil, a Democrat, for his seat in Con-
gress after being defeated by current U.S.
Rep. Andy Harris in the 2008 Republican
primary. Kratovil went on to win the seat,
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ments come less than a week after earn-
ing the endorsement of 10 municipal
leaders from Prince Georges County.
She earned endorsements in Septem-
ber from 12 municipal leaders from her
home base of Montgomery County, as
well as Baltimore City Councilmember
Mary Pat Clarke, Baltimores ReWired
for Change CEO Sonja Sohn and the Rev.
Delman Coates of the Mt. Ennon Bap-
tist Church in Clinton, Md., who helped
advocate for the passage of marriage
equality in the state. Mizeurs endorse-
ments from local ofcials have been in
keeping with her lower-key style of cam-
paigning, seeking to build momentum
across different regions of the Free State,
trying to challenge Gansler in vote-rich
Montgomery County and Brown in his
home base of Prince Georges, the states
second-most populous county, while
establishing herself as an alternative to
both men in the Baltimore, Western and
Eastern Shore regions, where neither
her opponents nor their running mates
have a strong foothold.
In contrast to Mizeurs y-beneath-the-
serving from 2009 to 2011. Gilchrest also
spoke favorably of the Democratic ticket
of Barack Obama and Joe Biden while
criticizing the campaign of Republican
U.S. Sen. John McCain during the 2008
presidential campaign. He told Balti-
mores WBAL-TV in a 2009 interview
that he had voted for Obama.
Im proud to endorse Heather
Mizeur for Governor, Gilchrest said in
a statement. Shes the best choice for
the Eastern Shore, and for all of Mary-
land. No one will ght harder to protect
the Chesapeake Bay than Heather. No
on else will bring Maryland together,
regardless of what differences we may
face, to take on our toughest challenges.
Mizeur was also endorsed by a mix
of ve current and former Eastern Shore
ofcials: Chestertown Mayor Margo
Bailey, Salisbury City Councilmember
Laura Mitchell, Chesapeake City Coun-
cilmember Harry Sampson, Easton Town
Councilmember Megan Cook, and for-
mer Queen Annes County Commissioner
Carol Fordonski.
Mizeurs Eastern Shore endorse-
radar approach, Gansler announced at a
public rally Oct. 14 in Beltsville, Md., that
he had selected Del. Jolene Ivey (D-Prince
Georges Co.), a legislative ally of the LGBT
community and one of the few African-
American women legislators from Prince
Georges to vote in favor of marriage-equal-
ity legislation, as his choice for lieutenant
governor. Ivey, a mother of ve boys and the
wife of Glenn Ivey, a past states attorney for
Prince Georges County, is a former journal-
ist and press secretary for U.S. Rep. (now
current U.S. Senator) Ben Cardin (D-Md.),
and a co-founder of Mocha Moms Inc., a
support group for stay-at-home mothers of
color. She was rst elected to the House of
Delegates in 2006.
In his speech introducing Ivey as his
running mate, Gansler said, This lieu-
tenant governor understands in her heart
and in her soul what it means to stand
for human dignity and fairness, and she
will take on discrimination and bias and
hate and sexism and homophobia in all
its forms.
Maryland voters will choose the
states next governor Nov. 4, 2014. l
Whitman-Walker
Honors Sean Sasser
Courage Award to be presented to
late activists partner at
AIDS Walk Washington
by John Riley
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HE 27TH AIDS WALK Wash-
ington, the annual fundraising
event for Whitman-Walker
Health community health
center and its partner organizations, has
announced that it will honor the late Sean
Sasser, an HIV activist and educator, at the
walk, set for Saturday, Oct. 26, at Freedom
Plaza in downtown Washington. Orga-
nizers will present the award to Michael
Kaplan, Sassers surviving partner and the
president of AIDS United, at the walk.
Sasser, who died of mesothelioma in
August at age 44, gained notoriety when
his then-partner, HIV activist Pedro
Zamora, appeared on MTVs The Real
World: San Francisco, and the two had a
much-publicized commitment ceremony
prior to Zamoras death in 1994. Following
Zamoras death, Sasser continued his work
as an HIV/AIDS educator. Sasser served
as a member of President Bill Clintons
Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS and
worked with various organizations such
as Health Initiatives for Youth (HIFY), the
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defama-
tion (GLAAD), the Human Rights Cam-
paign (HRC), and the AIDS Alliance for
Children Youth & Families.
Sean made a difference in the world
not for what he said but how he lived
how he shared his life, himself and his
love, Kaplan said in a statement. Letting
his love and passion drive in relation-
ships, in mentoring kids, in his cooking or
in speaking out on HIV he was power-
ful by simply being. I know he would be
proud to receive this honor and I thank
Whitman-Walker for acknowledging his
life and work.
Don Blanchon, Whitman-Walkers
executive director, added, There is no
denying that Sean played a pivotal role in
public perception of HIV. Sean showed
the world a face of HIV it had never seen
before: a happy, healthy young man liv-
ing his life, falling in love, and working to
make a difference in the lives of others.
His story was an inspiration to millions
of people whether they had been touched
by HIV or not. Whitman-Walker Health
is profoundly honored to recognize the
life and work of Sean Sasser with the
annual Courage Award.
AIDS Walk Washington events, Satur-
day, Oct. 26, begin at 8:15 a.m. at Free-
dom Plaza, Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th
Street NW. The run begins at 9:15 a.m.,
followed by the walk at 9:20. Both begin
and end at Freedom Plaza. For more infor-
mation, visit aidswalkwashington.org. l
CORRECTION: In the Oct. 17 Opinion
column, Phallocentric Fallacy, Matt
Philbins afliation was incorrectly listed
as Media Matters, rather than the Media
Research Center.
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were faggots down the street.
There is reason for optimism, how-
ever, as Meinke points to a pioneering
National Park Service webinar scheduled
for Oct. 30. The rst of its kind, this
offering is designed to educate people
at a grassroots level about how to secure
ofcial historic designations for LGBT
sites, while at the same time offering the
NPS greater insight into what sites the
community holds dear.
I have been invited to be on hand,
says Meinke, explaining that he met with
NPS staff in September to gure out ways
to advance this effort. We were looking
at how to reach out the gay community
on preservation issues. We had talked
previously about having a webinar, and
this sort of came out of it. Theyre also
planning a follow-up webinar that is
more of a strategizing session. This rst
one is more of, Lets get acquainted and
review the issues. The second one, in
by Will OBryan
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HILE THE FEDERAL
government might stop,
time marches on. In
October, that truth may
be particularly poignant for LGBT folks
marking LGBT History Month. The rel-
evance certainly isnt lost on Mark Mein-
ke, a founder of D.C.s Rainbow History
Project historic-preservation group.
We are always losing sites, Meinke
says of that ongoing march, referring to
places that hold LGBT historic signi-
cance. One of the problems is that a lot
of our historic sites are uniquely com-
mercial, because for decades the only
place you could go was a bar. And most
of the bars, historically, were in sort of
borderline economic areas because it was
cheaper and they didnt mind if there
late November, is more for archivists,
historians, more sort of Rainbow History
Project type organizations to sit down
and say, Okay, we need to decide what is
most pressing. Which places we need to
give attention to most urgently.
As it stands, there are only three
LGBT-related sites that have secured
national recognition of some sort. The
rst was the Stonewall Inn, made a
National Historic Landmark in 2000;
followed by the late Frank Kamenys
home in D.C., which was added to NPSs
National Register of Historic Places in
2011; and Fire Islands Cherry Grove
Community House and Theater, added
to the register earlier this year.
There are about 80,000 sites on
the National Register and about 3,000
National Historic Landmarks, Meinke
explains. The standards for National
Historic Landmark are higher. The land-
marks have to be signed-off-on by the sec-
retary of the interior, whereas the Nation-
al Register ones are more grassroots.
Regardless of the designation, its still
no guarantee that a site wont disappear or
be properly maintained, says Meinke, add-
ing that homes such as Kamenys might be
easier to hold on to than commercial spots,
such as D.C.s gay nightlife district razed to
make way for Nationals Park.
Still, Meinke says, The point of hav-
ing the National Park Service recognize
an historic site is it puts it in a national
context. When I was growing up, I loved
going to historic sites. If youre queer,
there are no historic sites for you to con-
nect with.
On his own wish list of sites to be
recognized, Meinke points to the homes
of author James Baldwin and civil rights
icon Bayard Rustin, and to D.C.s LGBT
community space at 1724 20th St. NW,
once home to Lambda Rising bookstore
and various other efforts over the years,
as a few examples. He seems fully con-
dent that the NPS is a good partner in
seeing at least a few of his wishes real-
ized.
They are gung-ho, he says of his
NPS partners. They are very, very inter-
ested in adding to the very, very tiny
number of LGBT sites. But they need
people to identify them. There are only
three people in the Park Service who do
this, and its a big country.
To register for the Oct. 30 NPS LGBTQ
Heritage Project webinar, visit doilearn.
webex.com and click the monthly tab to
locate this event. l
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Building Wealth with Rentals
Holding on to that property could provide a retirement windfall
by Scott Bloom
M
ANY POTENTIAL SELL-
ers in the last few years
have had to face the ques-
tion of whether to sell or
rent out their house or condo. This has
been a particularly difcult situation
coming on the heels of record
property values of the late
2000s. The prospect of selling
the property for less than it
was purchased is forcing many
potential sellers to opt for rent-
ing their properties. This is
what I call becoming a landlord
by chance, not by choice.
The good news is that hold-
ing real property for rental can
be a lucrative investment strat-
egy. There are multiple advan-
tages to the owner of a rental
including additional tax deduc-
tions, long-term appreciation
and supplemental income in
retirement. This approach does
require patience, as the value
of your asset will grow over
time. And, if the nances work
out in your particular case, you
can grow your wealth without
contributing any more money
out of pocket.
Did you know that all expenses
related to the property are considered
deductible from the rental income col-
lected? These include repairs, mainte-
nance, HOA fees, redecorating expenses,
management fees, mortgage interest and
bills from legal and tax professionals. At
the end of the month (or year) will your
income exceed your expenses?
Per current IRS guidelines, owners of
rental real estate are permitted to deduct
depreciation expense as part of the cal-
culation to determine the taxable income
earned on the rental. While it is true
this expense will need to be recaptured
upon selling the asset, the impact on your
overall taxable income can be signi-
cant. For instance, the annual deprecia-
tion expense on a $350,000 property can
yield a reduction in your taxable income
of over $12,000.
There are few nancial opportuni-
ties available to the average American
that permit a modest investment of the
owners capital in a relatively low-risk
environment in return for owning an
asset worth tens of times the initial
investment. Of course you dont really
own the property until the mortgage is
paid off and therein is the opportunity.
A tenant or multiple tenants over time
can bring your cost of ownership to zero
while you continue to pay your mort-
gage. There will be repairs and replace-
ments of equipment, but your proper-
ty and rents will appreciate over time.
Eventually you will be the owner of an
asset that is worth much more than your
initial cash contribution.
How does this make you rich? Imag-
ine if your mortgage is projected to be
paid off when you turn 55, 60 or 65
years old. Will you sell the property at
that time or continue to be a landlord?
Suddenly, you will be collecting and
keeping the majority of the monthly
rent income at the same period in your
life you want to have additional
income. Will you continue to
work full time at that age, or
will you be able to live off of the
income generated from your
investments? What if you had
purchased multiple properties
over time? How much income
would they collectively gener-
ate each month for you?
In 2033, when the rents col-
lected from your rental proper-
ties are helping you to enjoy a
standard of living above your
peers, having decided to hold
onto that condo or house 20
years prior will look in hind-
sight to have been a good idea.
For more information about real
estate investment presented by
the author of this article, regis-
ter for CAGLCCs annual g.life:
One Day in DC, All Things
LGBT on Saturday, Nov. 9, and attend
g.life U, the events speaker series. Visit
caglcc.org/g-life/home.
Scott Bloom is the owner and property
manager of D.C.-based Columbia Prop-
erty Management. He has been a CAGLCC
member since 2010 and is certied as an
LGBT Business Enterprise by the National
Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
(NGLCC).
The Chamber Means Business. For more
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BRAZILIAN GLBT GROUP, including others
interested in Brazilian culture, meets. For location/
time, email braziliangaygroup@yahoo.com.
DC AQUATICS CLUB (DCAC) practice session at
Marie Reed Aquatic Center, 2200 Champlain St.
NW. 8-9:30 a.m. swimdcac.org.
DC FRONT RUNNERS running/walking/social
club welcomes all levels for exercise in a fun and
supportive environment, socializing afterward.
Meet 9:30 a.m., 23rd & P Streets NW, for a walk; or
10 a.m. for fun run. dcfrontrunners.org.
DIGNITY NORTHERN VIRGINIA sponsors Mass
for LGBT community, family and friends. 6:30 p.m.,
Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill, 3606 Seminary
Road, Alexandria. All welcome. dignitynova.org.
DC SENTINELS basketball team meets at Turkey
Thicket Recreation Center, 1100 Michigan Ave. NE,
2-4 p.m. For players of all levels, gay or straight.
teamdcbasketball.org.
GAY LANGUAGE CLUB discusses critical
languages and foreign languages. 7 p.m. Nellies,
900 U St. NW. RVSP preferred. brendandarcy@
gmail.com.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27
WEEKLY EVENTS
LGBT-inclusive ALL SOULS MEMORIAL
EPISCOPAL CHURCH celebrates Low Mass at 8:30
a.m., High Mass at 11 a.m. 2300 Cathedral Ave. NW.
202-232-4244, allsoulsdc.org.
DIGNITY WASHINGTON offers Roman Catholic
Mass for the LGBT community. 6 p.m., St.
Margarets Church, 1820 Connecticut Ave. NW. All
welcome. Sign interpreted. dignitynova.org.
FRIENDS MEETING OF WASHINGTON meets for
worship, 10:30 a.m., 2111 Florida Ave. NW, Quaker
House Living Room (next to Meeting House on
Decatur Place), 2nd oor. Special welcome to
lesbians and gays. Handicapped accessible from
Phelps Place gate. Hearing assistance. quakersdc.org.
INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT,
God-centered new age church & learning center.
Sunday Services and Workshops event. 5419 Sherier
Place NW. isd-dc.org.
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH OF
WASHINGTON, D.C. services at 9 a.m. (ASL
interpreted) and 11 a.m. Childrens Sunday School at
11 a.m. 474 Ridge St. NW. 202-638-7373, mccdc.com.
RIVERSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH, a Christ-centered,
interracial, welcoming-and-afrming church, offers
service at 10 a.m. 680 I St. SW. 202-554-4330,
riverside-dc.org.
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF
SILVER SPRING invites LGBTQ families and
individuals of all creeds and cultures to join the
church. Services 9:15 and 11:15 a.m. 10309 New
Hampshire Ave. uucss.org.
GAY MARRIED MENS ASSOCIATION (GAMMA)
is a peer-support group that meets in Dupont Circle
every second and fourth Friday at 7:30 p.m. gay-
married.com or GAMMAinDC1@yahoo.com.
HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker Health,
Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center, 1701 14th St. NW,
9 a.m.-5 p.m. 202-745-7000, whitman-walker.org.
PROJECT STRIPES hosts LGBT-afrming social
group for ages 11-24. 4-6 p.m. 1419 Columbia Road
NW. Tamara, 202-319-0422, layc-dc.org.
SMYALS REC NIGHT provides a social
atmosphere for GLBT and questioning youth,
featuring dance parties, vogue nights, movies and
games. catherine.chu@smyal.org.
TRANSGENDER HEALTH EMPOWERMENT
Diva Chat support group. 6-8 p.m., 1414 North
Capitol St. NE. Snacks provided. 202-636-1646.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
27TH ANNUAL AIDS WALK WASHINGTON
events begin at 8:15 a.m., with run beginning at
9:15, walk at 9:20. Start and nish at Freedom
Plaza, Pennsylvania Avenue & 14th Street NW.
Registration varies. aidswalkwashington.org.
BURGUNDY CRESCENT gay-volunteer
organization assists Food & Friends.
burgundycrescent.org.
ADVENTURING outdoors group hikes 13 very
strenuous miles, 2,300 feet elevation gain, on Great
North Mountain. Bring beverages, lunch, bug spray,
sturdy boots, about $22/fees. No dogs. Dinner
follows. Carpool at 8:30 a.m., East Falls Church
Metro Kiss & Ride lot. Devon, 202-368-3379.
adventuring.org.
WEEKLY EVENTS
ANDROMEDA TRANSCULTURAL HEALTH
offers free HIV testing, 9-5 p.m., and HIV
services (by appointment). 202-291-4707 or
andromedatransculturalhealth.org.
BET MISHPACHAH, founded by members of the
LGBT community, holds Saturday morning Shabbat
services, 10 a.m., followed by kiddush luncheon.
Services in DCJCC Community Room, 1529 16th St.
NW. betmish.org.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24
WEEKLY EVENTS
METROHEALTH CENTER offers free, rapid HIV
testing. Appointment needed. 1012 14th St. NW,
Suite 700. 202-638-0750.
The DULLES TRIANGLES Northern Virginia social
group meets for happy hour at Sheraton in Reston,
11810 Sunrise Valley Drive, second-oor bar, 7-9
p.m. All welcome. dullestriangles.com.
HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker Health. The
9 a.m.-5 p.m. At the Max Robinson Center, 2301
MLK Jr. Ave. SE, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Call 202-745-
7000. Visit whitman-walker.org.
IDENTITY offers free and condential HIV testing
in Gaithersburg, 414 East Diamond Ave., and in
Takoma Park, 7676 New Hampshire Ave., Suite 411.
Walk-ins 2-6 p.m. For appointments other hours,
call Gaithersburg, 301-300-9978, or Takoma Park,
301-422-2398.
SMYAL offers free HIV Testing, 3-5 p.m., by
appointment and walk-in, for youth 21 and younger.
202-567-3155 or testing@smyal.org.
WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE for young
LBTQ women, 13-21, interested in leadership
development. 5-6:30 p.m. SMYAL Youth Center, 410
7th St. SE. 202-567-3163, catherine.chu@smyal.org.
US HELPING US hosts a Narcotics Anonymous
Meeting, 6:30-7:30 p.m., 3636 Georgia Ave. NW.
The group is independent of UHU. 202-446-1100.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
WEEKLY EVENTS
BET MISHPACHAH, founded by members of the
GLBT community, holds Friday night Shabbat
services followed by oneg social hour. 8-9:30 p.m.
Services in DCJCC Community Room, 1529 16th St.
NW. betmish.org.
GAY DISTRICT holds facilitated discussion for
GBTQ men, 18-35, rst and third Fridays. 8:30 p.m.
The DC Center, 1318 U St. NW. 202-682-2245,
gaydistrict.org.
Metro Weeklys Community Calendar highlights important events in
the D.C.-area LGBT community, from alternative social events to
volunteer opportunities. Event information should be sent by email to
calendar@MetroWeekly.com. Deadline for inclusion is noon
of the Friday before Thursdays publication. Questions about
the calendar may be directed to the Metro Weekly ofce at
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
WEEKLY EVENTS
The DC Center hosts COFFEE DROP-IN FOR THE
SENIOR LGBT COMMUNITY. 10 a.m.-noon. 1318 U
St. NW. 202-682-2245, thedccenter.org.
Michael Brazell teaches BEARS DO YOGA, a
program of The DC Center. 6:30 p.m., Green
Lantern, 1335 Green Court NW. No cost, newcomers
welcome. 202-682-2245, thedccenter.org.
KARING WITH INDIVIDUALITY (K.I.) SERVICES,
3333 Duke St., Alexandria, offers free rapid HIV
testing and counseling, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 703-823-4401.
US HELPING US hosts a black gay mens evening
afnity group. 3636 Georgia Ave. NW.
202-446-1100.
WASHINGTON WETSKINS Water Polo Team
practices 7-9 p.m. Takoma Aquatic Center, 300
Van Buren St. NW. Newcomers with at least basic
swimming ability always welcome. Tom, 703-299-
0504, secretary@wetskins.org, wetskins.org.
Whitman-Walker Health HIV/AIDS SUPPORT
GROUP for newly diagnosed individuals, meets
7 p.m. Registration required. 202-939-7671,
hivsupport@whitman-walker.org.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29
27TH ANNUAL 17TH STREET HIGH HEEL
RACE from Cobalt to JR.s at 9 p.m. Parade begins
7 p.m. Register with drag name at tinyurl.com/
highheelrace13.
WEEKLY EVENTS
A COMPANY OF STRANGERS, a theater chorus,
meets 7:30-9:30 p.m. A GLBTA and SATB looking
for actors, singers, crew. Open Hearth Foundation,
1502 Massachusetts Ave. SE. Charles, 240-764-
5748. ecumenicon.org.
ASIANS AND FRIENDS weekly dinner in Dupont/
Logan Circle area, 6:30 p.m. afwash@aol.com,
afwashington.net.
THE GAY MENS HEALTH COLLABORATIVE
offers free HIV/STI screening every 2nd and 4th
Tuesday. 5-6:30 p.m. Rainbow Tuesday LGBT
Clinic, Alexandria Health Department, 4480 King
St. 703-321-2511, james.leslie@inova.org.
Whitman-Walker Healths GAY MENS HEALTH
AND WELLNESS/STD CLINIC opens at 6 p.m.,
1701 14th St. NW. Patients are seen on walk-in basis.
No-cost screening for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea and
chlamydia. Hepatitis and herpes testing available
for fee. whitman-walker.org.
THE HIV WORKING GROUP of THE DC CENTER
hosts Packing Party, where volunteers assemble
safe-sex kits of condoms and lube. 7 p.m., Green
Lantern, 1335 Green Court NW. thedccenter.org.
SMYAL offers free HIV Testing, 3-5 p.m., by
appointment and walk-in, for youth 21 and younger.
Youth Center, 410 7th St. SE. 202-567-3155,
testing@smyal.org.
SUPPORT GROUP FOR LGBTQ YOUTH ages 13-21
meets at SMYAL, 410 7th St. SE, 5-6:30 p.m. Cathy
Chu, 202-567-3163, catherine.chu@smyal.org.
testing. Appointment needed. 1012 14th St. NW,
Suite 700. 202-638-0750.
US HELPING US hosts a support group for black
gay men 40 and older. 7-9 p.m., 3636 Georgia Ave.
NW. 202-446-1100.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30
THE LAMBDA BRIDGE CLUB meets for Duplicate
Bridge. 7:30 p.m. Dignity Center, 721 8th St. SE. No
reservations, all welcome. For partners, call 703-
407-6540.
HRC holds CHEFS FOR EQUALITY fundraiser.
6:30-9:30 p.m. Ritz-Carlton, 1150 22nd St. NW.
$150. chefsforequality.org.
WEEKLY EVENTS
testing. No appointment needed. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. 1012
14th St. NW, Suite 700. 202-638-0750.
ANDROMEDA TRANSCULTURAL HEALTH
offers free HIV testing, 9-5 p.m., and HIV
services (by appointment). 202-291-4707,
andromedatransculturalhealth.org.
AD LIB, a group for freestyle conversation, meets
about 7:45 p.m., covered-patio area of Cosi, 1647
20th St. NW. All welcome. Jamie, 703-892-8567.
DC AQUATICS CLUB (DCAC) practice session at
Marie Reed Aquatic Center, 2200 Champlain St.
NW. 8-9:30 p.m. swimdcac.org.
HISTORIC CHRIST CHURCH offers Wednesday
worship 7:15 a.m. and 12:05 p.m. All welcome.
118 N. Washington St., Alexandria. 703-549-1450,
historicchristchurch.org.
IDENTITY offers free and condential HIV testing
in Gaithersburg, 414 East Diamond Ave. Walk-
ins 2-7 p.m. For appointments other hours, call
Gaithersburg at 301-300-9978.
HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker Health. D.C.:
9 a.m.-6 p.m. At the Max Robinson Center, 2301
MLK Jr. Ave. SE, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 202-745-7000,
whitman-walker.org.
PRIME TIMERS OF DC, social club for mature gay
men, hosts weekly happy hour/dinner. 6:30 p.m.,
Windows Bar above Dupont Italian Kitchen, 1637
17th St. NW. Carl, 703-573-8316; or Bill,
703-671-2454. l
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LGBTOpinion
I CONSIDER MY-
self fortunate that
I took off last week
to work on anoth-
er project because
about the last
thing in the world
I wanted to write
about was the
Republican shut-
down of the government over Obam-
acare and anger-management issues.
While Im condent no one in the world
hyperbolizes as hyperbolizingly as I
hyperbolize, I rest easy knowing that
the nation had plenty of overwrought,
dramatic commentary in my absence.
Theres little remaining that has not
been said.
I will not, however, allow that to
stop me from writing about Republican
Sen. Ted Cruz.
It is entertaining to watch some of
D.C.s biggest congressional assholes
lining up to lay into Cruz, a Texas sena-
tor who is such a pure distillation of
the attitude that he could be the Higgs
boson particle of assholishness. Ways
Ted Cruz is an ass would be the largest
Jeopardy category ever. If we were to
build an equal-but-opposite memorial
from Mount Rushmore perhaps, say,
Mount Tush-more Cruzs posterior
would be chiseled rst.
Naturally, something set me off on
this rant, a tweet sent out by Cruz upon
his return to Texas: Its great to be
back home Ive spent the past month
in Washington, D.C., and it is great to be
back in America!
Ive rewritten this sentence youre
reading right now because Ive pledged
to be a little nicer in my attitude and
language, so just assume the high level
of profane argle bargle I rst spewed.
Ive written plenty of times about the
ways in which the real America
canard offends me as an American who
was raised rural and went on to live
urban. The idea that true Americans
only come from certain portions of the
country basically places with short
buildings, large elds and a smaller
population than contained in one D.C.
zip code is just the juvenile raging of
white people who cant abide the idea
that they are no longer automatically at
the top of the heap.
I should note that I think those
aggrieved white people are just as
American as my own white, subur-
ban, interracially gay-married self
because thats the whole point of being
an American. Perhaps one day theyll
return the favor.
Though thats not likely anytime
soon given that they are the only demo-
graphic remaining in America that
thinks Ted Cruz is pretty neat.
Whats amazing to me about Cruz
is that he can simultaneously push my
buttons on two completely contradic-
tory tendencies in my thinking. First,
theres my egalitarian belief in a mer-
itocratic and pluralist society, which
is angered by Cruzs appeal to know-
nothing, America-rst jingoism. Sec-
ond, theres my reactionary antipathy to
the American elites of inherited wealth
and Ivy League societies, of which Cruz
is one of the most spectacularly extant
examples.
Given that I went to a private col-
lege (that I put myself and family into
debt for), I realize that my second ten-
dency toward class warfare is not one
of my better angels and I generally
attempt to compensate for it. But some-
one like Cruz whose history of snotty
assholism to anyone he perceives as
lesser, which is apparently everyone, is
well-documented I cant compensate
for. Its like waking up and nding the
country is being run by some of the most
awful people I remember from college.
The fact that I graduated college with
the Kentucky Senate candidate whos
running against Mitch McConnell from
the right only makes the situation more
surreal and maddening.
I always knew the day would come
when people my own age would begin
taking on the higher levers of govern-
ment and power. With the emergence
of Ted Cruz, I hope Generation X can
do better. And soon. l
The Ruling Classless
The more one looks at the asshole antics of Ted Cruz,
the more appalled one gets
by Sean Bugg
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LGBTOpinion
IF A FULL MOON
makes people crazy,
whats their excuse
the rest of the month?
This haunting
question arose on
Oct. 18 as I sat on
my roof staring at
the Hunters Moon,
which was in penumbral eclipse. Two
nights earlier, a stenographer in the U.S.
House of Representatives was forcibly
removed after she interrupted the vote
on the government-funding and debt-
ceiling deal with a rant about God not
being mocked and the Founding Fathers
being Freemasons.
You might think this is a hoax, but the
meltdown really occurred. The stenogra-
pher, Dianne Reidy, later said the Holy
Spirit had inspired her. The lunacy t
the occasion as 144 House Republicans
and no Democrats voted against funding
the government and honoring Americas
debts. I wondered briey whether for-
mer Saturday Night Live actress Victoria
Jackson had become a stenographer.
A former House stenographer tells me,
There wasnt a transcriber in my ofce
who wasnt either on antidepressants or
anti-anxiety drugs. As an NBC Politics
blog reader commented, Michele Bach-
mann and her ilk have been uttering the
same delusional drivel into microphones
for years and yet theyre still allowed to
freely roam the halls of Congress.
The oorshow aside, recriminations
ew about like autumn leaves after Con-
gress pulled back from the brink. Sen-
ate Majority Leader Harry Reid said,
David Vitter is not playing with a full
deck. Would-be Obama impeachers
resumed hunting for a pretext. Republi-
cans blamed their own for a self-inicted
wound, while tea-party zealots made
clear they would learn no lessons. The
insurrectionists have not ended their
siege of Washington.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) continued
his mischief making by placing a hold on
the nomination of Tom Wheeler to chair
the Federal Communications Commis-
stituents they are harming will wake up
and run them out of ofce instead of
being forever frightened by the goblins of
abortion, immigrants, Muslims, gays and
people of color.
A petition has been circulating to
arrest Cruz and other neo-Confederates
for sedition. This could actually happen if
they were anti-Federalist newspaper edi-
tors during the rst Adams administra-
tion. As it is, the petitions main value is
to supply ammo to the media for the false
equivalence with which they blame both
parties for the government shutdown.
Note to smirking conservatives: Yes,
there are left-wing wackos, but they lack
inuence. The Republican pretense that
mainstream liberalism equals the far-
left fringe should be a source of dark
amusement as the Rovians spend the
midterm primaries defending the GOPs
own mainstream stalwarts against their
partys much more potent fringe.
I once heard a man wonder aloud,
How often does Halloween fall on Friday
the 13th? That would be really spooky!
Indeed. He might be the dyslexic genius
behind Paul Ryans budget numbers.
Anything can happen. Last Friday I
watched a dragon eat the moon. l
sion. His concern is that Wheeler may try
to make election spending more trans-
parent. And Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
and John Cornyn (R-Texas) attacked Jeh
Johnson, nominee for secretary of home-
land security, over his past fundraising
for the president though they never
complained about the rst DHS secretary,
Tom Ridge, having raised over $250,000
for George W. Bushs 2000 campaign.
The continued obstruction distracts
from the fact that the budget battles are
on the Republicans own turf. If the latest
budget negotiation super-committee pro-
ceeds on the basis that no new revenues
can be considered while social programs
are on the chopping block, the extortion-
ists will have won before theyve started.
The irony is that most red states receive
more from the federal treasury than they
put in. Of the giver states, only Texas is
red. Conservatives are leading the class
warfare to which they so vehemently
object. The question is whether the con-
A Moon for Misrule
Legislative lunacy leaves Capitol Hill a surreal mess
by Richard J. Rosendall
The Ruling Classless
KEEP
CALM
AND
Carrie
ON
Dave Perruzza photographed on Friday, Oct. 18,
at JR.s by Todd Franson
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HAT BETTER AN OCCASION
than Halloween to don our best silk
prom dresses and highest of heels,
douse ourselves in a liberal splash of pigs
blood, and spread a little terror?
Yeah, we thought so, too, which is why we
asked JR.s Vice President Dave Perruzza to
pose as the iconic Carrie White for our special
Halloween issue.
It was a little disconcerting reading the
warning on the fake blood, Keep away from
your eyes and your mouth, just before it was
put on me, laughs Perruzza, but it all turned
out okay. Right afterwards I went to meet my
boyfriend Richard for lunch at Commissary
with the blood still staining my hands and face.
I said, Dont ask, I just did something with
blood.
Perruzza is the connector between two of
our pieces in our cover story a pictorial romp
through the 17th Street High Heel Race, fea-
turing photographs that ran in Metro Weekly
as far back as 1999, and an interview with
Kimberly Peirce, who directed the new adap-
tation of Carrie, which opened nationwide last
weekend. We wrap things up with Doug Rules
extensive look at the citys Halloween offerings
at the gay clubs and beyond.
Whether you mark the holiday season hunt-
ing for tricks or treats, or merely hoping for
a little thrill from things that go bump in the
night, youll certainly nd something to get you
in a merrily macabre mood. l
Heel Thyself
The 27th High Heel Race continues a
triumphant tradition
By Will OBryan
Photographs from the High Heel Races, 1999-2013,
by Todd Franson, Ward Morrison and Michael Wichita
E
DGING UP ON THREE DECADES, PREPARATIONS ARE
underway for the 27th High Heel Race, the Districts annual bit
of unofcial anarchy. With no ofcial organizer, the spectacle
of drag queens and other costumed revelers running in heels
along 17th Street NW remains one of the few D.C. events untamed by
bureaucracy.
Which is completely tting, considering the races origins.
Ronald Reagan lived in the White House, something called the Soviet
Union had a space station and the AIDS epidemic was exploding. Its no
wonder a few frocked fellows needed to let off some steam, which they
did by challenging one another to an impromptu roundtrip race from JR.s,
where they were drinking, to Annies Paramount Steakhouse for a shot
and back.
In the years since, the race has grown beyond anyones expectations,
recurring the Tuesday before Halloween whether or not it had received
the blessings of the powers that be.
As Dave Perruzza of JR.s Bar, a primary organizer though no owner
of the event, explained it in 2009, Its been so many years, people just
know. Its impossible to stop. Its tradition now. Its one of the biggest
events of the city. .... Thats why the mayor is always grand marshal. We
just make sure its a safe event.
The biggest hiccup in High Heel Race history didnt even happen till
2012, when Hurricane Sandy forced a postponement. What that illus-
trated, however, was that the forces
behind the race were at least on par
with forces of nature. On the eve
of the planned race, word went out
that the threat of bad weather made
the situation too dangerous. From
there, Perruzza, city ofcials, the
Metropolitan Police Department and
others stepped up and got every-
thing in place to move the Oct. 30,
2012, event to Nov. 1, when it went
off without a hitch.
It will likely go off without a
hitch next Tuesday, Oct. 29, as well.
There will be one addition, however,
reecting technical advances since
the era of the Commodore 64.
This year we have Pacers on
board, so well have a time-clock,
says Perruzza, explaining that the
running-shoe retailers involvement
actually goes well beyond providing
racers with their run times. Pacers
will also offer a live feed on its web-
site, which has the added benet of
photo nishes, available online after
the race.
If you cant make it, you can
watch it online, Perruzza promises.
Its a one-time thing for now, but if
it works out, great. Its a little high-
tech thing. Its kind of cool.
Watch Metro Weeklys video cover-
age of past High Heel Races at
youtube.com/metroweekly l
W
HEN KIMBERLY PEIRCE, DIRECTOR OF
the 1999 Oscar-winning drama Boys Dont Cry,
was offered the chance to helm a remake of the
1976 horror classic, Carrie, she felt compelled to
take on the project.
It was really about digging into this phenomenal novel, says
Peirce by phone from Los Angeles. I was a kid who read a lot of
books, so I knew the book very well. Upon revisiting it, it became
very, very clear to me that we needed to modernize the story.
What Stephen King wrote is classic, its timeless, but its more
relevant today than it was then.
Our world has revolutionized, the 46-year-old director
says. We carry cellphones that we take pictures with, that we
take recordings with. As we are experiencing something, we feel
we need to record it. And then even upload it on the spot right to
Facebook, to Twitter, to Instagram. We are obsessed with social
media and with capturing our experiences and sharing them.
In the new adaptation, a socially shared video plays a central
role in the ultimate humiliation of Carrie White by her classmate
Chris. Its a clever touch that adds depth to the famous scene in
which a pig-blood-soaked Carrie unleashes her telekinetic wrath
on her classmates at the school prom. It worked dramatically to
amplify everything that was already in the story, says Peirce.
There are other modern enhancements to the screenplay,
authored by gay scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, but overall the
narrative remains faithful to the King source material. And M
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Palmas original in places, Peirce
takes less of an over-the-top hor-
ror lm approach and focuses
more on the psychology behind
the lms central relationships.
Its a more natural-feeling lm,
as evidenced by the strong, deeply
felt performances of Chlo Grace
Moretz as Carrie White and Juli-
anne Moore as her sociopathically
religious mother, Margaret.
Heres a mother who doesnt
know what her daughter is, thinks
her daughter is evil, says Peirce.
Her daughter is a reection of
the sin that the mother thinks that
she committed, and the mother
feels that she needs to neutralize
that daughter. And yet she loves
her. Theres something phenome-
nal about the relationship. Its the
spine of my movie, and in the cli-
mactic scene I try to amplify the
love affair and the feud between
them. Carrie wants her mothers
love, shes willing to surrender
[to her].
Peirce, who has been out since
the start of her career, sees the
lm as something todays LGBT
audiences can relate to.
Heres a mist, a social out-
cast who wants nothing more
than love and acceptance and
faces extraordinary obstacles to
get it, she says. Theres a rea-
son why queer audiences identify with the mist and the social
outcast because queer people have been social outcasts for
so many years. You look at Carrie White and you think, you
should have the right to be accepted it should be up to you
whether youre going to be part of the mainstream or not. You
should not just be outcast.
Peirce also sees the story as a superhero origin story, which
she also relates to a gay sensibility.
I think another queer part of the narrative is that Carrie gets
super powers, and those super powers are like a queer person
understanding they have a talent, or a queer person nally com-
ing to terms with their gender identity or sexual preference
and saying even if this is not the mainstream, its okay. Because
thats literally what Carrie says. She says to her mom, There are
other people out there like me. I am normal, I am okay, even if
you dont think so. Ive talked to lots of [gay] people about this
movie and they loved the revenge tale, loved that Carrie gets
even. They loved that she goes after the people that did this to
her. Its an echo of what a queer person could write as a kind of
corrective narrative.
When its noted that her lm, Boys Dont Cry is on the list of
Metro Weeklys Gay Films Everyone Should See, Peirce doesnt
miss a beat.
I hope Carrie becomes a gay lm that everyone should see.
Carrie is now playing at area theaters. Visit Fandango.com. l
Peirce (R) and Moretz
QUEER AS CARRIE
Openly lesbian director Kimberly Peirce brings a classic
horror flm up-to-date by infusing it with a modern and
queer sensibility
BY RANDY SHULMAN
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ALLOWEEN ISNT UNTIL
next Thursday, Oct. 31, but
around these parts this will
be a Halloweek with a full
weeks worth of entertainment, from
dress-up contests and parties to a great
variety of spooky shows and stories.
JR.S kicks it all off with the areas rst
costume contest tonight, Oct. 24, at 11
p.m., with the winner earning the $300 in
cash. The weekend then screams into gear
Friday, Oct. 25, at MARRAKESH, the swanky
restaurant that in a previous incarnation
was the sleazy gay bar Mr. Ps and now
plays host to Skankoween, part of a new
monthly gay party in the venue presented
by The Local Skanks. The HAMILTON LIVE
offers a Halloween Howl, a costume con-
test and fun-lled show featuring per-
formers rifng on the greatest Halloween
hits of the past 40 years, everything from
Werewolves of London to Psycho Killer
to Thriller. And the ATHENAEUM presents
Ghosts and Folklore of Alexandria, an
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Halloween becomes Halloweek, with plenty of spooky
entertainment on tap
BY DOUG RULE
event at which Betty Ward and Michael
Lee Pope will tell haunted tales about, and
even lead a short ghost walk around,
Alexandria, said to be one of the most
haunted cities in the country.
Saturday, Oct. 26, is shaping up to be
this years biggest Halloween night. It
certainly offers the biggest ghoul haul,
with three area venues offering a top
prize of $1,000 for best costume: TOWN
DANCEBOUTIQUE offers what it bills as
D.C.s largest Halloween party and cos-
tume contest downstairs at midnight with
$1,000 in cash for 1st place and $250 for
2nd place, along with music by Wess
and performances by BaNaka, Tatianna,
Epiphany, Shi-quee-ta Lee, Lena Lett and
Tha Dance Camp. COBALTs monthly party
CTRL presents Carn-Evil, featuring music
from its regular DJs Jeff Prior, Adam
Koussari-Amin and Pocket Gays, go-go
dancers, a photo booth and a costume
contest hosted by Jezzibell JaxKnife with
a $1,000 prize. And NUMBER NINE, is offer-
ing $500 in cash and a $500 bar tab to the
winner of its competition, and features
music by the DJ duo BacK2bACk.
Also Saturday is FREDDIES BEACH BARs
Nightmare on 23rd Street Drag Show at 11
p.m., including a costume contest offering
$100 in cash for 1st place, a $50 Fred-
dies gift card for 2nd place and a Sunday
brunch gift certicate for two for 3rd
place. And the DC EAGLE hosts its annual
Leather Sabbat with a costume contest
at midnight. Other options that evening
include: Ravens Night at the BIRCHMERE,
a Dark and Decadent Belly Dance Show
hosted by Belladonna and Ken Vegas
with women in various attire, including
male drag; more burlesque and sideshow
acts from TILTED TORCH, offering its 5th
annual Spook-o-rama variety show at
the Anacostia Arts Center; a Halloween
GAY/BASH! at the Black Cat featuring drag
performances from Summer Camp and
resident dreamghouls Dax Exclama-
tionPoint, Rumor Millz and Heidi Glum,
plus music spun by DJs Joshua Vogel-
song and Dean Sullivan; and a benet
for Virginias Boulder Crest Retreat for
Wounded Warriors at the 9:30 CLUB fea-
turing Camp Freddy, an L.A.-based super-
group that includes Dave Navarro and
Chris Chaney of Janes Addiction, Matt
Sorum and Billy Morrison of The Cult,
and Donovan Leitch.
But this particular Saturday night
doesnt have to end when the bars close.
Organizers of D.C.s long-running CHERRY
benet party have secured the subter-
ranean U Street spot Tropicalia start-
ing at 3 a.m. for a breaking-dawn party
called Attack of the Afterhours, featuring
a crazy costume contest, mayhem mon-
ster light show, go-go dancers, drum per-
formance, special spooky surprises and
music by DJs David Merrill and Sequoia.
A couple nights later comes the pen-
ultimate Halloweek peak, the JR.s-spon-
sored 2013 HIGH HEEL RACE, set for Tues-
day, Oct. 29, at 9 p.m., though the parade
starts at 7 p.m. The next night, LAND-
MARKS E STREET CINEMA offers the chance
to see the ultimate scream queen Jamie
Lee Curtis in her debut lm, 1978s genre-
dening horror classic Halloween. And
then all spooks break loose for All Hal-
lows Eve Thursday, Oct. 31. That night
Cobalt offers another costume contest,
this one hosted by Sasha and BaNaka
with a top prize of $750, plus $350 split
between the two runners-up, plus music
by DJs Sean Morris and MadScience. Also
that night the Washington Scandals rugby
team teams up with the DC Eagle for a
Rugby Slaughter costume contest with
prizes including a $50 bar tab, plus vari-
ous drink specials like $2 off everything.
Over at the ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS complex
theres a double-trouble Nightmare on
Half Street downstairs, an Its Your
Show amateur event hosted by Ella
Fitzgerald and including resident drag
doyennes Billie Ross, Tatiyanna Voche
and Kristina Kelly plus music by DJ Joey-
O; and upstairs a Haunted Men of Secrets
event hosted by LaTroya Nicole with
music by DJ Tim . All told, the complex
will award $500 in cash prizes.
Other options on Halloween night:
NELLIES offers a cash-awarding costume
contest emceed by Denny Lyon with
music by DJ Lemz; U Hell: Ghouls
Night Out at U STREET MUSIC HALL, which
features local Moombahton/trap DJ duo
Gent & Jawns, a new exclusive seasonal
brew from DC Brau and a costume con-
test judged by DC Braus Brandon Skall
and Jeff Hancock; and a Halloween Cir-
cus at the Black Cat features a slew of live
bands, including Sean K. Preston & the
Loaded Pistols and Miss Shevaughn &
Yuma Wray, burlesque and sideshow acts
hosted by Brendan Wetherbee.
But as they say, its not over until
the fat drag queen sings or at least
when bartenders and other employees
at the GREEN LANTERN give you a sight
and a fright donning drag as part of the
9th Annual Employee Benet Drag Show.
Starting at 10 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1, the
evening includes a live auction and a
Halloween or technically, a Day of the
Dead costume contest throughout the
night, with top three winners splitting
$175 in cash and a $175 bar tab.
But if you still dont want it to end, it
doesnt have to. In fact, you could cel-
ebrate Halloween for weeks, especially
if your preferred spooky treat is of the
lm variety. The AFI SILVER THEATRE in
Silver Spring offers the series Halloween
on Screen until Nov. 4, and next week-
end offers screenings with live musical
accompaniment of both Nosferatu and
the nearly century old The Phantom of
the Opera not to mention a little funny
ick called Ghostbusters, which sure
sounds like a perfect way to wind-down
the week. To quote the 1984 movies hit
theme song performed by Ray Parker Jr.:
I aint scared of no ghost!
For more info on these and other events,
be sure to consult Metro Weeklys Out On
The Town calendar as well as the Nightlife
listings. l
BOO BINGE
Halloween becomes Halloweek, with plenty of spooky
entertainment on tap
BY DOUG RULE
OCTOBER 24 - 31, 2013
SPOTLIGHT
BITCH
The lesbian electric violinist Karen Mould rst came
to attention as part of the folk duo Bitch and Animal,
but in 2010 released her solo album Blasted, which
Metro Weeklys Doug Rule included in his Top
10 albums of that year. This year Mould returned
with an artist project shes calling Beach, offering
yet another great album, the electronica-informed
protest rock set In Us We Trust. Tuesday, Oct. 29,
at 8 p.m. Jammin Java, 227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna.
Tickets are $15 to $17. Call 703-255-3747 or visit
jamminjava.com.
GOD LOVES UGANDA
First screened locally earlier this year during the
DC Black Pride Film Festival, Oscar-winning direc-
tor Roger Ross Williamss documentary God Loves
Uganda is about the role of the American evangeli-
cal movement in the African countrys anti-LGBT
mores, including the proposed Kill The Gays bill.
A reviewer for the Hufngton Post called it the
most terrifying lm of the year. Opens Friday, Oct.
25. West End Cinema, 2301 M St. NW. Call 202-419-
FILM or visit westendcinema.com.
HOPE OPERAS
A pun on the term soap operas, Chris G rifns
charity-beneting Hope Operas features ve theatri-
cal mini-shows, running over ve weeks, with each
show presenting a new 10- to 15-minute episode each
week, launching with a recap of the previous weeks
episodes. This years theme is Cartoons for Adults,
with shows about lesbian ponies, gay superheroes,
amorous luchadores, crime-ghting chupacabras and
the nastiest kids show host ever. Last show is Mon-
day, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m. Comedy Spot, the Ballston
Mall, 4238 Wilson Blvd., 3rd Fl., Arlington. Tickets
are $15. Visit hopeoperas.com.
JANEANE GAROFALO
The liberal rebrand actress and comedian is cel-
ebrating 21 years in the business, having done every-
thing from serve as a liberal radio-show host, to
guest star on The West Wing, to lend her voice to the
Disney/Pixar lm Ratatouille to say nothing of star
in comedy shows such as Saturday Night Live and
the Ben Stiller Show. Saturday, Oct. 26, at 8:30 p.m.
The Hamilton, 600 14th St. NW. Tickets are $22.50.
Call 202-787-1000 or visit thehamiltondc.com.
JESSIE WARE, MIKKY EKKO
Another British soul singer, though unlike Emeli
Sande or Paloma Faith, Jessie Ware seems more
inspired by the subtle stylings of fellow Brits Sade
or Tracey Thorn than Aretha Franklin and her
American ilk. The Washington Posts Chris Richards
included her album Devotion on his Best of 2012 list
even though technically it wasnt released in the
U.S. until this past spring calling it a voluptuous
debut, both classy and condent. After a January
stop at the 9:30 Club Ware returns to the area for a
concert featuring opening act Mikky Ekko, the man
who sings with Rihanna on her great recent single
Stay. Thursday, Oct. 31, at 8 p.m. Fillmore Silver
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Punk band Louna protests its countrys anti-gay policies
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ITHOUT YOUR FEAR, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, RUSSIAN SINGER
Louisine Gevorkian shouts on her rock band Lounas blistering punk jam Fight
Club. Gevorkian also urges listeners to embrace the pain and join the ght.
The ght, of course, is against Russian President Vladimir Putin and his undemo-
cratic policies, including his blanket crackdown on LGBT citizens. In our country it
looks like were getting back to the Middle Ages, Gevorkian says, when somebody
is going to burn people who maybe dont believe in God, or are just different.
It was last years convictions of the members of the anti-Putin feminist punk act
Pussy Riot that rst sparked national and international outrage at regressive Russian
politics. It was a shock to our society too, Gevorkian says. Until this situation,
everybody was sleeping.
Well, not everybody: The ve-piece hard rock band Louna, named after its female
lead singer, has been agitating against the government for a few years now. Louna
never performed with Pussy Riot, whom Gevorkian distinguishes as not musicians
[but] performance artists. But the band did headline a concert in the summer of
2012 in protest of Pussy Riots convictions that drew roughly 100,000 demonstra-
tors. The government is starting to see that in Russia there are a lot of people who
are ready to ght for their rights, says Gevorkian. Gevorkian, who was weaned on
American rock bands Linkin Park and Evanescence, says the band is touring its rst
in the U.S. just to show that in Russia we have rock bands too.
Gevorkian doesnt offer specic advice for how Americans can join the ght
against Putins policies, and doesnt answer questions about the value of Americans
boycotting Russian products. Ultimately, the ght needs to be homegrown to effect
any real and lasting change. For our government [its about] quantity of people, of
ordinary Russian people, she says. The most useful way is when in every state and
in every district of Russia they will come to the squares and they will show the gov-
ernment that they are not happy. Doug Rule
Louna opens for The Pretty Reckless Sunday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m., at the Fillmore Silver
Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. Tickets are $24.50. Call 301-960-9999 or
visit llmoresilverspring.com. l
Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. Tickets
are $30.50. Call 301-960-9999 or visit llmoresil-
verspring.com.
NOT SO SILENT CINEMAS NOSFERATU
As part of a Halloween Special Program, Artisphere
presents Not So Silent Cinemas live Klezmer quintet
accompanying a screening of Max Shrecks legend-
ary 1922 silent-lm Nosferatu, which apparently
featured the worlds rst cinematic vampire, Count
Orlok. With haunting music composed by Brendan
Cooney that blends Gypsy grooves, Balkan beats,
jazz and classical, the result is billed as a night of
classic horror, both suspenseful and campy. Satur-
day, Oct. 26, at 8 p.m. The Dome Theatre at Arti-
sphere, 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. Tickets are $15.
Call 703-875-1100 or visit artisphere.com.
OVERDRIVE:
L.A. CONSTRUCTS THE FUTURE, 1940-1990
Organized by L.A.s J. Paul Getty Museum, this
exhibition traces the citys transformation into an
internationally recognized destination with its own
design vocabulary, canonized landmarks and cov-
eted way of life. Now to March 10. National Building
Museum, 401 F St. NW. Tickets are $8. Call 202-272-
2448 or visit nbm.org.
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Happenstance Theater has devised a spooky hit with
Cabaret Macabre
B
EFORE THEATER I SPENT A LOT OF TIME WORKING
on tall ships and traveling, Sabrina Mandell says.
No, Mandell, founder of Happenstance Theater Company,
isnt acting, weaving a tall tale about tall ships. I grew up
around the ocean in Nova Scotia, Canada, and had a real pas-
sion for sailing and things that are historical. So becoming a
deckhand, even a rst mate on traditionally rigged schooners,
while living in Charleston, S.C., came rather naturally. It was
theater that was a stretch.
I grew up doing theater, Mandell says, but I didnt really
like conventional theater. So I was lost for a long time about
what kind of theater I wanted to do. Drawn to D.C. by a teach-
er of the Lecoq Method of devised theater named after the
pioneering French actor and mime Jacques Lecog Mandell
eventually decided to start Happenstance in 2006, enlisting her
husband Mark Jaster as artistic co-director. What we actually
do, she says, nobody is doing and its hard to describe.
Each devised theater show is built from scratch by the entire
ensemble, working as a collective from script start to nished
performance.
Its not like we start with an existing text, and then just
need two weeks to mount the text, says Mandell, who describes the popular annual show Cabaret Macabre as a perfect example
of the companys work. Reached one day last week, Mandell, who acts in every show, noted, Ive been spending today sewing
the costumes, and I do all the marketing. Mandell describes the show as a series of dark comic vignettes inspired by the works
of Edward Gorey. Its basically an hour-long foray into the dark Victorian underbelly.
The premise and most of the content of each years Cabaret Macabre is different, though theres always an overture, a closing
dance macabre, absurd scenarios featuring an actor mannequin and a dangerous croquet battle.
Explains Mandell: Its always this kind of high Victorian croquet which devolves into slow-motion croquet mayhem.
Doug Rule
Cabaret Macabre opens Friday, Oct. 25, at 8 p.m., and runs to Nov. 10, at Round House Theatre, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver
Spring. Tickets are $20. Call 240-644-1100 or visit roundhousetheatre.org or happenstancetheater.com.
SARAH LEE GUTHRIE AND JOHNNY IRION
The daughter of Arlo and granddaughter of Woody
is married to the grandnephew of author John Stein-
beck and together Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny
Irion make beautiful Southern rock music together,
in life and in concert. During a local performance
at the Mansion on O Street, guests can explore the
venues O Street Museum of art and memorabilia,
including 60 signed guitars. Thursday, Oct. 31. Doors
at 5:30 p.m. The O Street Museum, the Mansion on O
Street. 2020 O St. NW. Tickets are $10, online reser-
vations required. Visit omuseum.org.
SHAKESPEARES KING JOHN
Currently a roaming Arlington-based theater compa-
ny after losing its residency at Artisphere, WSC Avant
Bard returns for its 24th season, kicking off with one
of the few plays by the bard that the company has
never produced. Ian Armstrong plays the title role
in King John, a real-world Game of Thrones that goes
beyond the villain of the Robin Hood legend and the
Magna Carta to reveal a struggling, enigmatic mon-
arch. Opens in Pay-What-You-Can previews Sunday,
Oct. 27, at 2 p.m. To Nov. 27. Theatre on the Run,
3700 South Four Mile Run Drive, Arlington. Tickets
are $45. Call 703-418-4808 or visit wscavantbard.org.
SHUNGABOY:
DC PAINTINGS AND OTHER WORKS
A New York artist of Japanese ancestry, Shungaboy
coined his name in homage to the centuries-old Japa-
nese erotic-art genre known as shunga. Shungaboy
presents a collection of his male gurative drawings
done as part of the Make Sketch Sessions at D.C.s
gay-owned, male-nude-focused Vitruvian Gallery, as
well as others from similar drawing groups in New
York and Colorado. Opening reception Saturday, Oct.
26, from 6 to 9 p.m. Through Nov. 16. Vitruvian Fine
Arts Gallery, 734 7th St. SE, 2nd Floor. Suggested
donation of $5. Visit vitruviangallery.com.
THE LARAMIE PROJECT
Particularly now that its back home, after the gov-
ernment shutdown and with additional funds from a
private donor, Fords Theatres The Laramie Project
has become a must-see show before it closes. Shock-
ingly the rst professional production in D.C. of Moi-
ses Kaufmans powerful play, rst staged in Denver
in 2000, Fords production is an incredibly enriching
experience, especially in the hands of 10 ne actors,
many of them Washingtons most celebrated from
Mitchell Hebert to Holly Twyford to Kimberly Gil-
bert. Based on real-life interviews with dozens of res-
idents in Laramie, Wyo., conducted by Kaufman and
full-scale production outside of Fringe, courtesy of
CulturalDC. Local playwright Stephen Spotswoods
stunning new thriller In The Forest, She Grew
Fangs is an adaptation of the Little Red Riding Hood
story, born out of a Twitter conversation between
Spotswood and the Rogues Artistic Director Ryan
S. Taylor and inspired by recent tragedies and bul-
lying in American public schools. Megan Graves and
Jenny Donovan play troubled high school students
in this otherwise adult-themed play that is not rec-
ommended for children. To Nov. 3. Mead Theatre
Lab at Flashpoint, 916 G St. NW. Tickets are $15.
Call 202-315-1310 or visit ashpointdc.org or wash-
ingtonrogues.org.
LOVE IN AFGHANISTAN
Arena Stage presents this world premiere drama
from Charles Randolph-Wright about an Afghan
interpreter and a hip-hop artist who nd improbably
nd love amidst war. Lucie Tiberghien directs. To
Nov. 17. Kogod Cradle at the Mead Center for Ameri-
can Theater, 1101 6th St. SW. Tickets are $40 to $105.
Call 202-488-3300 or visit arenastage.org.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
The Shakespeare Theatre Company offers a produc-
tion of Shakespeares dark comedy that poses con-
troversial ideas and explores the corrupting nature
of power. Jonathan Munby directs the show with
enough of an edge, theyve added a warning that its
intended for ages 18 and older. Theres also a 20-min-
ute pre-show cabaret leading into it each night, get-
ting people in the mood for whats to come. Closes this
Sunday, Oct. 27. Lansburgh Theatre, 450 7th St. NW.
Call 202-547-1122 or visit shakespearetheatre.org.
SAINT JOAN AND HAMLET
Olney Theatre Center presents two classics, stripped
down and performed in rotating repertory, and both
members of the Tectonic Theater Project, The Lara-
mie Project smoothly weaves together their stories
and reections on the tragedy that came to dene
the town. Its not all sad or mad: As is their Western
wont, these folk are often funny, or at least amusing.
But it takes a talented crew of actors to make even
the most poetic of texts sing, and director Matthew
Gardiner, a veteran of musicals (most recently with
Signature Theatres Dreamgirls), proves here he can
even turn a straight-play ensemble into a chorus, in
a manner of speaking. Closes this Sunday, Oct. 27.
Fords Theatre, 511 10th St. NW. Tickets are $33.65
with fees. Call 800-982-2787 or visit fordstheatre.
org. (Doug Rule)
TILTED TORCHS SPOOK-O-RAMA BURLESQUE
Tilted Torch, the local burlesque and sideshow troupe,
offers what the Washington Post said is everything
you never knew you wanted, from boylesque to
belly-dancing to contortion to poi-spinning. Led
by Talia Miss Joule Mercer and Christie Malibu
Otvos, Tilted Torch offers its 5th annual Halloween
variety show called Spook-o-rama. Friday, Oct. 25,
at 9 p.m. Anacostia Arts District at the Anacostia Arts
Center, 1231 Good Hope Road SE. Tickets are $10 in
advance or $15 day of. Visit facebook.com/tiltedtorch
for more information.
FILM
THE COUNSELOR
Cormac McCarthy, one of the greatest living American
novelists, wrote the screenplay for this Ridley Scott
lm. Do you need any other reason to see it? Well, here
are ve more: Michael Fassbender is the star, a lawyer
dabbling in drug trafcking; and Javier Bardem, Penel-
ope Cruz, Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz co-star. Opens
Friday, Oct. 25. Area theaters. Visit fandango.com.
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
In the week leading up to Halloween, Landmarks E
Street Cinema offers multiple screenings of Richard
OBriens camp classic, billed as the longest-running
midnight movie in history. Landmarks showings all
come with a live cast, meaning its even more interac-
tive than usual. Friday, Oct. 25, Saturday, Oct. 26, and
Thursday, Oct. 31, at midnight. Landmarks E Street
Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. Call 202-452-7672 or visit
landmarktheatres.com.
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Constellation Theatre Company offers this intricate,
intelligent drama about the impossible search for
the truth by Naomi Iizuka that involves a Japanese
pillow book that may or may not be ancient, and
the search for authenticity provokes an erotic game
of hide-and-seek among six ambitious individuals.
Allison Arkell Stockman directs the show. Opens in
a Pay-What-You-Can preview Thursday, Oct. 24, at
8:30 p.m. To Nov. 24. Source, 1835 14th St. NW.
Tickets are $45. Call 202-204-7760 or visit con-
stellationtheatre.org.
DANCE OF THE HOLY GHOSTS
Baltimores Center Stage offers a production of Mar-
cus Gardleys acclaimed play, a poetic family drama
set in the key of the blues and focused on a reunion
between a blues man grandfather and his estranged
grandson. To Nov. 17. Center Stage, 700 North Cal-
vert St., Baltimore. Call 410-986-4000 or visit cen-
terstage.org.
IN THE FOREST, SHE GREW FANGS
Daring theater company the Washington Rogues,
a Capital Fringe Festival favorite, offers its rst
produced by New Yorks well-regarded innovative
theater company Bedlam and directed by its artistic
director Eric Tucker. Theres Saint Joan, George
Bernard Shaws story of Joan of Arc, who is pre-
sented here not as a saint or a witch but as a simple
farm girl who stumbled into greatness. Saint Joan is
considered by many to be Shaws greatest play and a
pivotal reason he won the Nobel Prize in 1925. The
second play is Hamlet, the tragedy of a mad Danish
prince, considered Shakespeares greatest play and
even the greatest play in the English language. Clos-
es this Sunday, Oct. 27. Theatre Lab at Olney Theatre
Center, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, Md.
Call 301-924-3400 or visit olneytheatre.org.
SISTER ACT
The Kennedy Center offers a run during the national
tour of this crowd-pleasing musical based on the hit
lm and featuring original music by Alan Menken
(Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors). TaRea
Campbell takes on the Whoopi Goldberg-popular-
ized lead role, while the role of uptight Mother Supe-
rior goes to Hollis Resnik, who you may remember
from her Helen Hayes Award-winning tour-de-force
turn as the Old Lady in Shakespeare Theatre Com-
panys Candide a few seasons back. Opens Tuesday,
Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. To Nov. 10. Kennedy Center
Opera House. Tickets are $39 to $125. Call 202-467-
4600 or visit kennedy-center.org.
THE ARGUMENT
Theater J offers a production of Alexandra Gersten-
Vassilaross play about a 40-something couple whose
relationship is rocked by pregnancy and its corol-
lary, abortion. Susan Rome, James Whalen and Jef-
ferson A. Russell star in a production led by Shirley
Serotsky. Pay-What-You-Can preview Thursday,
Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. To Nov. 24. The Aaron & Cecile
Goldman Theater, Washington, D.C.s Jewish Com-
munity Center, 1529 16th St. NW. Tickets are $30 to
$55. Call 202-518-9400 or visit washingtondcjcc.org.
THE NIGHT WATCHER
Two-time Obie Award winner and Tony Award
nominee Charlayne Woodard performs her rich and
powerful one-woman show on motherhood some-
thing that has technically escaped the actress. This
Studio Theatre production is directed by Bart DeLo-
renzo. Now to Nov. 17. Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St.
NW. Tickets are $39 to $59. Call 202-332-3300 or
visit studiotheatre.org.
THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY
Spooky Action Theater offers a production of Ten-
nessee Williamss play based on his own life in the
theater and encounters with madness, focused on
siblings performing a play within the play. Richard
Henrich directs actors Lee Mikeska Gardner and
David Bryan Jackson. Closes this Sunday, Oct. 27.
Universalist National Memorial Church, 1810 16th
St. NW. Tickets are $25 to $35. Call 202-248-0301 or
visit spookyaction.org.
TORCH SONG TRILOGY
The play that put Harvey Fierstein on the map,
garnering the 1983 Tony Award for Best Play and
Best Actor in a Play, is arguably his greatest work,
drawing from the same drag-queens-deserve-respect
well as his books for La Cage Aux Folles and Kinky
Boots. Even after signicant advances in civil rights
and technology in the past 30 years, gay men and
drag queens anyone who feels like an outsider,
really can still relate to the storys struggles for love
and acceptance and its emphasis on the need for self-
afrmation. The Shakespeare Theatre Companys
Michael Kahn, making his Studio Theatre directorial
NSO must have reasoned, Well. And so we have
a program led by Steven Reineke of The Songs of
Elton John, featuring tunes including Rocket Man,
Candle in the Wind, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
and many more. Saturday, Oct. 25, and Sunday, Oct.
26, at 8 p.m. Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Tickets
are $20 to $85. Call 202-467-4600 or visit kennedy-
center.org.
OF MONTREAL
Despite his bands name, Kevin Barnes is based in
that indie-rock hotbed of Athens, Ga. He simply
named his band after a woman he once dated, who
was you guessed it from, or of, Montreal. Yes,
really thats the best he could come up with for a
band name. But, hey, it hasnt stopped the band from
gaining a devoted following. And with music this
harmoniously good, why should it? Thursday, Oct.
24, at 6 p.m. U Street Music Hall, 1115A U St. NW.
Tickets are $25. Call 202-588-1880 or visit ustreet-
musichall.com.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS
Pharrell Williams was a late addition to the lineup,
but hes the chief, if not only, draw to the last event
of the 2013 season at Merriweather Post Pavilion:
The Aokify America Tour. Headlined by DJ/pro-
ducer Steve Aoki, this dance/hip-hop mashup also
features Waka Flaka Flame, Borgore and Garmiani.
Friday, Oct. 25. Doors at 4 p.m. Merriweather Post
Pavilion, 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia,
Md. Tickets are $18 to $125. Call 800-551-SEAT or
visit merriweathermusic.com. l
her native French. Saturday, Oct. 26, at 8 p.m. Sixth
& I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. Tickets are
$25. Call 202-408-3100 or visit sixthandi.org.
GAY/BASH!
HALLOWEEN PARTY WITH SUMMER CAMP
Shea Van Horn as Summer Camp joins for a Hallow-
een edition of this queer punk/electro-inspired party
alongside Gay/Bashs resident dreamghouls Dax
ExclamationPoint, Rumor Millz and Heidi Glum.
DJs Joshua Vogelsong and Dean Sullivan will spin
tunes in between performances at this Black Cat
Backstage extravaganza. Saturday, Oct. 26, starting
at 10 p.m. Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. Tickets are $5.
Call 202-667-4490 or visit blackcatdc.com.
LINER NOTES
Music from the OJays, Dizzy Gillepsie, Outkast, the
Bee Gees, Salt-n-Pepa and more factor into Its a
Family Affair, the second of three performances at
the Atlas this season of Liner Notes, focused on the
back stories behind songs and albums a la the liner
notes that you used to peruse while playing a record
or CD and before mp3s made that a harder proposi-
tion. Friday, Oct. 25, and Saturday, Oct. 26, at 8 p.m.
Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. Tickets
are $25. Call 202-399-7993 or visit atlasarts.org.
MICHAEL CAVANAUGH WITH THE NSO POPS
A few years ago Michael Cavanaugh, star of the
Billy Joel-focused Broadway musical Movin Out,
performed a Joel-inspired concert with the NSO
Pops. Two years ago, the man Billboard magazine
has annoined as the new voice of the American rock
and roll songbook joined the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra SuperPops to play a concert inspired by
the other famous rock piano man, the gay great Elton
John. And if thats good enough for Baltimore, the
debut, has assembled a ne cast and creative team
led by set designer James Noone who succeed in
proving that this play has not only stood the test of
time, but also that its something of a travesty that
its rarely been staged. Brandon Uranowitz leads
the cast as Arnold, making the character, which
Fierstein largely based on himself, his own. Must
close this Sunday, Oct. 27. Studio Theatre, 1501 14th
St. NW. Tickets are $39 to $85. Call 202-332-3300 or
visit studiotheatre.org. (Doug Rule)
COMMUNITY STAGE
SORDID LIVES
The LGBT-popular community theater company
Dominion Stage offers a production of Del Shoress
campy comedy, dubbed a black comedy about white
trash, about a colorful small-town Texas family who
must deal with the accidental death of a matriarch.
Closes this Saturday, Oct. 26. Gunston Arts Center,
2700 South Lang St., Arlington. Tickets are $20. Call
571-DS-SHOWS or visit dominionstage.org.
MUSIC
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT
The Washington Performing Arts Society presents
a concert by Cecile McLorin Salvant, the 2010 The-
lonius Monk International Jazz competition winner
whom The New York Times has credited as the best
chance for extending the lineage of the Big Three:
Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald.
Salvant performs unique interpretations of obscure
jazz and blues compositions in English, Spanish and
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HEN YOU SIT IN
a movie theater,
you sit inside
a contradic-
tion. The theater creates a wall
between your mind and body
the lights dim, the projector ick-
ers on, and youre expected to sit
quietly and watch a story. I can
think of no other place in the
world that makes a person feel so
lonely and such a part of a whole
at the same time.
All Is Lost amplies this effect
in a way few movies ever even
attempt. A spiritual follow-up to
J.C. Chandors Wall Street drama
Margin Call, All Is Lost is a bold,
ambitious examination of mortal-
ity and the self. It opens with a
nameless man (Robert Redford),
oating adrift in the open sea.
He writes a message and slips it
into a bottle: I think you would
all agree that I tried. I will miss
you. Im sorry. And then, silence.
Redford is the only actor cast in
All Is Lost, and after that veri-
table deluge of words, he rarely
says another through the course
of the lm. Not that we need any
monologues You can read the
mans story on Redfords weath-
ered face.
All Is Lost then jumps back-
ward in time, explaining the cir-
cumstances that forced this man
to abandon ship. Eight days ear-
lier, a loose shipping container
lled with childrens athletic
shoes punched a hole in the side
of his sailboat. This sly detail is
one of many that suggests Chan-
dors survival story also doubles
as allegory about America and
the global economy. After all, it
doesnt get much more American
than Robert Redford.
CHRIS HELLER
In fact, its difcult to exagger-
ate Redfords outstanding work in
this movie. The 77-year-old actor
turns in one of the most physi-
cally exhausting performance of
the year, all within the limited
range of a character who doesnt
speak. That hes able to tell this
story through facial expressions
alone condence, sorrow, anger
and depression, all with a per-
vasive, masculine warmth is
reason enough to just give him the
Oscar now.
Chandor explored questions
about the morality of survival
in Margin Call, and now seems
interested in an even more funda-
mental question: How does a per-
son mourn his own death? Its the
type of question that isnt often
asked in contemporary lm, so to
see an actor of Redfords caliber
dig into such meaty philosophy is
nothing short of a delight. Chan-
dors fondness for ambiguity con-
tinues in All Is Lost, too, so expect
lots of critical debate about the
nal scene.
Thats the beauty of movies,
isnt it? A group of strangers can
sit in a room, watch a lm, and
see dozens of different stories at
the same time. Despite the archi-
tecture of a theater, the audience
is not a passive actor. All Is Lost
presents theme, character, and
direction. Its up to us to nd the
purpose and meaning lingering
inside each frame.
ANOTHER SURE OSCAR CON-
tender is also steeped in meaning
and purpose.
The history of slavery and
the Civil War, as told by popular
American cinema, is fraught with
lost cause fantasies and ahis-
torical dishonesty. Director Steve
McQueen has no interest in those
lies for good reason and if
only for that, 12 Years A Slave
is the most challenging, honest
movie ever made about slavery. It
simply stands alone.
McQueen based 12 Years A
Slave on the memoirs of Solomon
Northup, a free black man who
was kidnapped in 1841 and forced
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S
URELY NO ONE NEEDS
a spoiler alert about
Romeo and Juliet. After
all, what is probably Wil-
liam Shakespeares most popular
and most accessible play is also, to
quote Folger Theatre, the worlds
most celebrated love story. But
just in case, here goes: The name-
sake lovers in Romeo and Juliet
die. And theres no happy end-
ing in sight. If youre looking for
romantic comedy, keep looking.
That is certainly the case in
Folgers new production. Director
Aaron Posner puts the love at the
plays heart in stark contrast to all
the hatred and violence that sur-
rounds, and eventually subsumes,
it. Posner focuses especially on the
animosity of the lovers feuding
families, the Montagues and the
Capulets, which ultimately drives
the plays action, both the good
and the very, very bad. In fact,
the families generations-standing
hatred and propensity to violence
completely overpowers expres-
sions of love and harmony here. In
Posners hands, to cite his words
from his directors notes, the deni-
zens of the plays dark, starkly
sobering world dont seem to
see the light even after the many
senseless deaths. Other produc-
tions of Romeo and Juliet end with
the sense that the warring families
reconcile after all the tragedy, but
thats not so true with Posners,
which seems as quick to end after
the two lovers suicides as Romeo
was to start the whole ill-fated
affair in the rst place. Though
again, the blame isnt placed on
Romeo (or Juliet) but squarely on
the violent, hidebound society that
nurtured them.
And so Folgers Romeo
and Juliet is a dark, despairing
descent into fair Verona, featur-
ing a workmanlike set by Meghan
Raham that doesnt even allow
for a true, grand Juliet balcony in
the Capulet household. Instead,
theres only a slight railing on
the structures upper level and a
second-oor hole through which
Romeo climbs up to be with his
Juliet. Laree Lentz also designs
mostly drab costumes for the
characters to wear, certainly for
the plays two leads. Juliet, in par-
ticular, comes across like a grun-
gy, couldnt-care-less Generation
X-er, with blond hair but deep
dark roots and a muted wardrobe
whose only sense of pizzazz is
what looks like a black sports bra
often worn as an outer garment.
Seriously, theres not much to
look at here. In fact, the produc-
tions most visually striking ele-
ments revolve around weapons,
both literally and guratively: the
medicine cabinets with elixirs
and poisons all aglow in Jennifer
Schrievers lights, and the gleam-
ing swords in Casey Dean Kale-
bas ght scenes, in which antago-
nists bear two swords apiece to
up the ante.
There is, however, nothing
drab in the acting on display
to say nothing of Shakespeares
patently great way with words
and wordplay. Both Michael
Goldsmith as a hyper-charged
Romeo and Erin Weaver as a
determined Juliet win you over
as the tragedys star-crossed lov-
ers, while Signature Theatre star
Sherri L. Edelen steals the show
as the sweet, sassy, say-it-like-it-
is Nurse. Brian Dykstra as mean
dad Lord Capulet, Eric Hissom as
sincere Friar Lawrence and the
great comedic sensibilities of both
Aaron Bliden (Benvolio) and Mat-
thew McGee (Friar John plus two
servant roles) all provide ickers
of excitement.
THEN WE HAVE AN UNRO-
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term Ive seen bandied about to
describe the play This, though
the current production at Round
Houses Bethesda theater space
is a lot better and certainly more
Folger provides the tragedy, while Round House lightens the mood
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appealing than that coinage or its non-
descriptive title would suggest.
Describing in any detail the plot of
Melissa James Gibsons This runs the risk
of giving too much away. At its heart is a
focus on two college friends played by
Lise Bruneau and Felicia Curry whove
stayed besties in the decades since, but
whose relationship is becoming increas-
ingly tested by the demands and dis-
tractions of parenthood, as well as the
recent loss of one of the womens hus-
band. (Todd Scoeld plays the surviving
husband.) A third college pal is the gay
best friend, who naturally provides comic
relief and good counsel and at least
in the hands of Michael Glenn, youre
actually charmed, not annoyed, at a stock
supporting character that has otherwise
become a tiring trope.
The specic incident that drives the
play and serves as the basis for its generic
title is a case of adultery that threatens
to break the womens bond. Naturally,
the gay best friend does what he can to
prevent that from happening. And then
theres the bisexual Frenchman, played
with haughty charm by Will Gartshore,
who offers characteristically French
advice.
Gibson has a dazzling way with lan-
guage and wordplay, and as directed by
Round Houses Ryan Rilette her play is
further peppered with light jazz music
written by Eric Shimelonis and performed
by Curry, who both sings and plays piano.
At times both the words and music border
on becoming indulgent exercises, but the
show always remains entertaining. That
is particularly the case as performed on
James Kronzers signature carousel set,
spinning us from one scene to the next
with its many moving parts as if This is a
kind of theatrical amusement-park ride.
And, ultimately, at Round House it is. l
into slavery. Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor,
in an exquisite performance) is sold from
one plantation owner to another, endur-
ing scars from both the overseers whip
and the psychological torture of freedom
lost. I dont want to survive, he says to
another man in an early scene before an
auctioneer appraises his body. I want to
live.
12 Years A Slave is a remarkable, nec-
essary lm for any number of reasons:
its willingness to engage complex opin-
ions about slavery and survival; the rm
rebukes it offers to historical misconcep-
tions; how cinematographer Sean Bobbitt
contrasts nature with the sins of slave
owners; McQueens unblinking, absolute
focus on unbearable cruelty.
The most important reason, however,
is also the most unsettling to consider.
Although both the director behind the
camera and the actor in front of it are
British, this is a uniquely American tale.
It stains American soil.
Northup was stolen from his home,
his life, his family. He lost everything
that made him free, eventually surrender-
ing even his psyche to the menace that
enslaved him. When he is nally freed
after 12 years, as the title suggests he
isnt anything but a shell of a person. He is
a husk. And yet, he lives.
That is why a movie like 12 Years A
Slave matters. It reminds us of our coun-
trys terrible iniquity. The lm reminds us
that we must study it and face it and call
it what it was: genocide. Our American
antecedents ripped families apart, slaugh-
tered men, women and children, and built
an economy on the backs of enslaved
laborers. Solomon Northup lived a trag-
edy and survived. Millions of others did
not. That is our history. That is our mem-
ory. That is part of America, forever. l
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to say about Grand
Theft Auto V that
hasnt already
been said? Rockstars magnum
opus has crushed every competi-
tor, dominated every sales chart,
consumed every gaming forum
and proliferated itself across the
Internet to near-saturation point.
Racking up $2.5 billion in sales,
with that number still rising, gar-
nering seven Guinness world re-
cords and outselling its predeces-
sors by a signicant margin, itd be
crude to consider GTA V as any-
thing other than a roaring success.
In gaming terms, and in entertain-
ment as a whole, its the new gold
standard for a successful release.
However, is it deserving of its
success? How much of its sales
energy is driven by hype and ex-
pectations, carried across its pre-
vious iterations as gamers seek the
perfect Grand Theft Auto experi-
ence? GTA IV promised so much
and was beloved by many review-
ers. It was an incredible game, but
it was far from perfect. GTA V
corrects all of that. Bringing the
setting back to Los Santos and
the ctional state of San Andreas,
Rockstar has turned everything up
to 11, and then broken the dial by
turning it even more. Gone is the
American Dream idealism of GTA
IV, with its focus on a decaying so-
ciety clashing with the wide-eyed
optimism of those immigrating to
America seeking a better life. In
its place is post-nancial-crisis re-
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alism, mixed with the insular, va-
pid nature of a celebrity-focused,
sun-drenched culture. Here, su-
percial is the norm, with a glis-
tening, sprawling, incredibly well-
realized recreation of the City of
Angels covering up a world that is
as corrupt, seedy and crime-lled
as any GTA title.
The state of San Andreas is vast
bigger than any previous entry
to the series and mixes the ur-
ban grandeur of Los Santos with
open countryside, beaches, air-
ports, deserts, mountains, lakes,
vast highways, dusty back roads,
military bases, pockets of grossly
exaggerated but also somehow
realistic redneck civilization
and a myriad more biomes and
areas to explore. You start in the
beautiful West Vinewood, but as
you explore the map, every inch of
which is open from the start, you
unpeel the numerous layers of San
Andreas, visiting life away from
the vapidity and gang culture and
urban rush of the city.
Los Santoss natives range from
rich socialites and movie execu-
tives to working class immigrants
and gang members. Glistening
glass towers mix with low-income
housing, mansions and apart-
ments blend into industrial zones
and beaches. Its a heady mix of
every socioeconomic group, dis-
tilled into one grand city. Leave
Los Santos and drive through one
of the towns in the games north-
ern regions and the locals will be
sitting on their porches smoking,
going about their small-town lives
or stumbling out of bars. Youll see
trucker caps and plaid shirts, ATVs
driving around and more pick-
ups than you can shake a stick at.
San Andreas is a living, breathing
world, with nuances that change
from setting to setting.
Obsessive attention to detail
seems to have been Rockstars
focus and the number of features
and additions are breathtaking.
But if you slow down and really
admire the world that Rockstar
has made for you, its the small-
est details that begin to stand out,
and subsequently blow you away.
Fail a mission and have to re-
peat? Youll nd the dialogue has
slightly changed to help avoid rep-
etition. Wade through water and
your clothes will get wet, but only
as far as you waded. Block trafc
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for too long and sweat will seep through
your clothes. Open a car, and the interior
dome light activates. Pedestrians duck
and cover their heads when it starts to
rain, seeking shelter. The GPS that guides
you loses its signal when you enter a tun-
nel. In a police shootout, if you injure an
ofcer another will drag him out of the
way. Drive too far from the city and cer-
tain radio stations stop working. When it
rains, puddles and small rivers form over
time. Drive at night with your lights off,
and other drivers will ash at you. Pick up
a prostitute, and theyll occasionally get a
phone call revealing they need to pay off
a student loan or are trying to afford their
rent. These and hundreds of other small
touches help elevate GTA V above every
other open-world game.
GTA V is without doubt the best look-
ing game I have ever played. It doesnt
have the greatest graphics youll ever
encounter, and certainly its hampered
by the 7-year-old hardware inside the
PS3 and Xbox 360, but what Rockstar
has achieved is jaw-dropping. Lens are,
a dynamic-lighting engine, some of the
most beautiful water youll ever see in a
game, stunning scenery, detailed realistic
buildings, character models and cars, life-
like movements every aspect of GTAs
visuals will leave you breathless. Cars
leave visible tracks in mud and sand. Fire
burns and crackles, casting shadows. Bul-
lets pierce surfaces, their impact changing
depending on the material. Cars reect
buildings and lights, and gradually build
up a layer of mud or sand if you take them
off-road. Even after clocking up days of
in-game time, GTA V still nds ways to
surprise with its beauty, made more re-
markable by an almost total lack of load-
ing screens as you navigate its world.
That same effect carries over to sound.
GTA Vs soundtrack will not go down as
the series best that title still belongs to
Vice City but its passable, with a good
mix of genres, and the always entertain-
ing DJs, advertisements and updates from
Weasel News (a parody of Fox News),
which reports on missions and actions
youve taken in game. For the rst time in
the series, though, there is a soundtrack
for when you have no music playing. Turn
the radio off and youll be greeted with a
myriad of background songs to accompa-
ny what youre currently engaged in on-
screen. Its a nice touch.
It helps that, among all of this visual
and aural beauty, Grand Theft Auto also
plays beautifully. Gone is much of the
awkward balance between oatiness and
realism that dogged driving and navigat-
ing in GTA IV, and in comes the arcade
car handling and tight gun-ght mechan-
ics weve been clamoring for. For the rst
time, GTA V focuses on not one, but three
protagonists Michael, Franklin and
Trevor. Michael is a retired criminal, liv-
ing in West Vinewood in a mansion with
his wife and children. Franklin is a young
pseudo-gangster hes uninterested in a
life of crime, but struggles with being good
at it. Trevor is a psychopath, a completely
insane, unrealistic character he feels like
Rockstar letting its id go free who re-
sides in a remote desert town, controlling
a meth lab and battling rednecks. Ill avoid
spoilers, but Michael and Trevor share a
history that is explained at the beginning
of the game, and Franklin meets Michael
early on and is taken under his wing, help-
ing pull Michael from retirement.
The worry with three characters is that
emotional investment would be split be-
tween them, with no clear focus or invest-
ment occurring. You can jump between
all three as you play, with each having
separate missions to do, as well as group
missions that any character can activate.
Mercifully, Rockstars tight scripting ne-
gates any issuese, though I certainly had
a favorite character. Michael is my chosen
standard, the one I always found myself
defaulting to. His plight a family man
hated by his family, bored and disenfran-
chised with a wealthy early retirement,
stuck drinking and smoking his days away
leads to a character that comes out of
his emotional shell, letting his past catch
up with him as he reopens his criminal
side, the effects on his family and self
making for some emotional cutscenes and
incredible snippets of dialogue. He is a
deep, interesting, smart, funny character.
His missions are calculated, aggressive,
but always tempered by his sanity and the
hope for success.
Franklin is the least developed of
the three. Hes living in the hood, stuck
stealing cars for a living, when he meets
Michael and begins to explore a criminal
life thats innitely more dangerous and
protable than the one he was leading.
But Franklin has one of the best relation-
ships in the game that with his dog,
Chop, who gives Franklin his most hu-
man moments. All too often Id nd my-
self taking Chop for a walk, throwing a
ball around, driving him to the beach and
letting him run amok, as Franklin looks
on and shouts encouragement. Theyre
touching, genuine moments that pull you
out of the violence and crime and let you
breathe for a moment.
Trevor was undeniably my least fa-
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insanely aggressive, and every mission
invariably delves into the most ridicu-
lous of circumstances. But he also serves
a purpose. He gives Rockstar the room it
needs to include every crazy, hilarious,
stop-and-stare mission you could think of.
Want to ride a bike along the top of a mov-
ing train? Trevor. Want to crash a small
plane into the cargo hold of another plane
before hijacking it? Trevor. Want to kill a
family of rednecks and burn their house/
meth lab down so you can become the big-
gest meth producer in the state? Trevor.
Hes a joyous release, and his missions
are some of the most adrenaline-pumping
and most rewarding to play.
Its in the gameplay that GTA V sells
itself. Its just so good to play. Take a car
and drive around the map or grab a bike
and ride to the top of Mt. Chiliad to watch
the sunrise. Play a round of golf or a game
of tennis, or do yoga. Race cars, boats and
planes. Search the map for the various
special missions, which arent mandato-
ry but add additional layers to the game.
Go to one of the in-game movie theaters
and watch one of several short lms. Sit
in your house and watch TV. Take part
in a triathlon, go base-jumping, or take
an SUV and see how it performs off-
road. Head to the pier and take a ride on
a Ferris wheel or a roller coaster, or visit
the games version of Venice Beach and
ogle the muscle men working out. Take a
submarine and explore the depths of the
ocean. Find a shark and try to kill it or
outswim it before it eats you. Pick a point
on the map and drive to it at a leisurely
place, soaking in the scenery. Hit a cop car
and take part in a high-speed chase across
the state. GTA V lets you do whatever you
want, wherever you want, in exactly the
manner you want to do it.
I stole a car, slammed into the side of
a police car and embarked on a pursuit.
As I dodged the numerous squad cars
trying to ram and block me, I headed for
the military base. Dodging tank re and
soldiers as the police chased, I stopped
my car riddled with bullet holes, bro-
ken windows and burst tires and stole a
ghter jet. Taking off, I engaged in a mid-
air dogght with other military jets before
parachuting out and landing on the top of
Mt. Chiliad. I stood, watching the sunrise,
as police and military tried to reach me,
before stealing a dirt bike and jumping it
from the top of the mountain, landing and
watching as the bike exploded from the
impact and I died. That was just 15 min-
utes of the game.
And thats before youve even touched
GTA Online.
Online is where GTA V will really nd
its legs. Dogged by stability issues, its not
as playable or reliable as it should be, but
what Rockstar is trying to do is nothing
short of astonishing. Giving you the en-
tirety of San Andreas, GTA Online opens it
up into a quasi-MMO, complete with oth-
er players driving around and engaging
in missions, known as jobs. Race other
players in cars, boats and planes; com-
plete online-specic missions; take part in
player-versus-player deathmatches; earn
money and become a property mogul;
grow your own collection of exotic sports
cars; rob gas stations and shops or simply
grab some friends and explore the map.
GTA Online allows all of this and more.
Want to rob a store? Have one of your
group hold up the clerk as the others steal
all the money. If you have a headset, you
can scream at the clerk and hell pack
money from his register into a bag more
quickly. Cant be bothered going on mis-
sions? Sit and watch TV in your apart-
ment. If your friends are involved in a
high-speed chase somewhere on the map,
Weasel News will ash up and youll be
able to watch a helicopter-view of their
escape. See another player winning big
and you fancy taking a cut of their money?
Kill them before they reach an ATM and
deposit it, and youll get some of whatever
they drop. Customize a particular car and
want to keep it? Fit a tracker and purchase
insurance and itll be marked on your map
and replaced if someone steals or destroys
it. Its a constantly evolving world, and
once Rockstar irons out the numerous
connectivity bugs plaguing it, it promises
to be the real meat of GTA V.
Grand Theft Auto V offers is something
more than just a game. Its a lifestyle, an
entertainment product, a distraction, a
relaxation technique, a social tool, a dark
comedy, a source of adrenaline and an ex-
ercise in obsessive attention to detail. Its
an art form spread across an entire digital
state, a breathtaking, jaw-dropping, mind-
melting experience that absorbs you. It
blends between fast-paced and a dead
stop, but only as the player wishes. I spent
as many hours delving through the mis-
sions as I did simply driving around the
map, attempting to win a game of tennis,
or trying my luck at earning money on the
in-game stock market.
Grand Theft Auto V is a violent, satirical,
bloody, hedonistic, self-indulgent, utterly
brilliant behemoth. Its a world within our
world, a source of escapism that eschews
realism, but also invokes it in the tiniest of
details. From the magnicent to the mi-
croscopic, every detailed inch of GTA V is
there to drag you into a world that you are
simultaneously shocked by and utterly en-
raptured with. This is gaming in its purest
and grandest form, a perfect fantasy that
thrives on the imperfections of reality. It
is and for the near future will remain
the greatest game ever made.
To read a longer version of this review, visit
MetroWeekly.com/games. l
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THURSDAY, 10.24.13
9 1/2
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 5-9pm Multiple
TVs showing movies,
shows, games, football on
Sundays Expanded craft
beer selection No cover
ANNIES/ANNIES
UPSTAIRS
4@4 Happy Hour,
4pm-7pm $4 Small
Plates, $4 Stella Artois,
$4 House Wines, $4
Stolichnaya Cocktails, $4
Manhattans and Vodka
Martinis
DC EAGLE
3-Way Thursdays Bring
Your Buddies when two
friends buy drinks, yours
are free, rail or domestic
Club Bar: Onyx
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-8pm
Karaoke, 9pm
GREEN LANTERN
Shirtless Men Drink Free,
10-11pm
JR.S
Costume Contest 11pm
$300 Cash Prize DJ
Andy $3 Rail Vodka
Highballs, $2 JR.s drafts,
8pm to close Top Pop
Night
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Beat The Clock Happy
Hour $2 (5-6pm), $3
(6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
Drag Bingo
NUMBER NINE
drink, 5-9pm No Cover
LISTINGS
Destinations on page 56
50
Born and raised in Baltimore, 27-year-old Bilal doesnt take himself too seriously.
Highly social, frequently cracking jokes, and a master of sarcasm, Bilal says his
Muslim father had a hard time accepting his oldest son as gay, but has gotten used
to the idea. Currently working at a communication consulting rm as an LGBT
event coordinator, Bilal plans to host a monthly party at Marrakesh DC. When hes
not organizing parties, hes likely attending them, itting from Cobalt to Number
Nine to Town on any given night. In his free time, he loves dining out, doing yoga,
and recently got into rock climbing, telling Metro Weekly, Its really intense, and
I hate working out, but I need someone to motivate me, to yell at me and get me
going, in or out of the bedroom.
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Photography by
Julian Vankim
For addresses, phone numbers and locations of individual clubs, bars, parties,
and special events, please refer to our Destinations on page 56.
DC BEAR CRUE
@Town Bear Happy
Hour, 6-11pm $3 Rail,
$3 Draft, $3 Bud Bottles
Free Pizza, 7pm Hosted
by Charger Stone No
cover before 9:30pm 21+
DC EAGLE
New Happy Hour Specials,
$2 off regular prices,
4-9pm Club Bar: DC
Eagle Poster Preservation
Project
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-8pm
Karaoke, 9pm
JR.S
Buy 1, Get 1,
11pm-midnight Happy
Hour: 2-for-1, 4-9pm $5
Coronas, $8 Vodka Red
Bulls, 9pm-close
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
All male, nude dancers
Shirtless Thursday DJ
Tim E in Secrets 9pm
Cover 21+
FRIDAY, 10.25.13
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink,
5-9pm Friday Night
Videos with resident
DJ Shea Van Horn VJ
Expanded craft beer
selection No cover
ANNIES
4@4 Happy Hour, 4-7pm
$4 Small Plates, $4 Stella
Artois, $4 House Wines,
$4 Stolichnaya Cocktails,
$4 Manhattans and Vodka
Martinis Upstairs open
5-11pm
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
DJ Matt Bailer Videos,
Dancing Beat The Clock
Happy Hour $2 (5-6pm),
$3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
NUMBER NINE
Open 5pm Happy Hour:
2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm
No Cover
PHASE 1
DJ Styalo Dancing
$5 cover
PHASE 1 OF DUPONT
1415 22nd St. NW
For the Ladies DJ Rosie
Doors at 9pm 21+
PWS SPORTS BAR
9855 Washington Blvd. N
Laurel, Md.
301-498-4840
Drag Show in lounge
Half-price burgers and
fries
TOWN
Scream! Costume
Contest Halloween Drag
Show starts at 10:30pm
Hosted by Lena Lett
and featuring Tatianna,
Shi-Queeta-Lee, Jessica
Spaulding Deverreoux and
BaNaka Doors open at
10pm For those 21 and
over, $5 from 10-11pm
and $10 after 11pm For
those 18-20, $10 all night
18+
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Ladies of Illusion with
host Kristina Kelly, 9pm
Cover 21+
SATURDAY, 10.26.13
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
5-9pm Expanded craft
CTRL@COBALT
Carn-Evil $1,000
Costume Contest with
Jezzibell JaxKnife DJs
Jeff Prior, Adam Koussari-
Amin, Pocket Gays
Go-Go Boys $5 Cover
DC EAGLE
Leather Sabbat Contest
at Midnight - Cash and
Prizes $2 Off for Men
with Club Mugs, Leather
Vests, Harnesses or Chaps
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Nightmare on 23rd St.
Drag Show Costume
Contest 11pm 1st
$100, 2nd $50 Gift Card,
3rd Brunch for 2 Diner
Brunch, 10am-3pm Crazy
Hour, 4-8pm Karaoke
and/or live entertainment,
9pm
JR.S
$4 Coors, $5 Vodka
highballs, $7 Vodka Red
Bulls
NELLIES
Guest DJs Zing Zang
Bloody Marys, Nellie Beer,
House Rail Drinks and
Mimosas, $4, 11am-5pm
Buckets of Beer, $15
M
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NUMBER NINE
Costume Contest - Enter
by 10pm Grand Prize
$500 Cash + $500 Bar Tab
DJs BacK2bACk No
Cover
PHASE 1
Dancing, 9pm-close
PHASE 1 OF DUPONT
Doors at 9pm 21+

PWS SPORTS BAR
Laurel, Md.
301-498-4840
Karaoke in the lounge
Charity Bingo with Cash
Prizes 3rd Sat. of Every
Month
TOWN
Ghost Town DCs
Largest Halloween Party
Doors open 10pm
DJ Ed Bailey Upstairs, DJ
Wess Downstairs Drag
Show starts at 10:30pm
Hosted by Lena Lett
and featuring Tatianna,
Shi-Queeta-Lee, BaNaka,
Epiphany & Tha Dance
Camp Midnight Costume
Contest - $1,000 Cash
Prize, $250 for 2nd For
those 21 and over, $8 from
10-11pm and $12 after
11pm
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
All nude male dancers,
9pm Ladies of Illusion
with host Ella Fitzgerald,
9pm DJ Steve
Henderson in Secrets
DJ Spyke in Ziegfelds
Cover 21+
SUNDAY, 10.27.13
9 1/2
Open at Noon for NFL
Football Happy Hour: 2
for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm
Multiple TVs showing
movies, shows, games,
Whats on your nightstand?
Condoms, lube and a Fleshlight.
Whats in your nightstand drawer?
Handcuffs, heating massage oil and
nipple clamps.
What are your television favorites?
American Horror Story: Coven, Greys
Anatomy, The Wendy Williams Show
and any BRAVO reality TV show.
What was your favorite cartoon
when you were a kid?
Sailor Moon. Its still my favorite.
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football on Sundays
Expanded craft beer
selection No cover
DC EAGLE
New Happy Hours
Specials: $2 off rail and
domestic, 4-9pm DC
Eagle Buffet - Chicken,
Meat Balls, Veggies and
Dessert
FIREPLACE
Skyy Vodka, $3 $5 cover
with $1 off coupons
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Champagne Brunch
Buffet, 10am-3pm
Crazy Hour, 4-8pm
Drag Show hosted by
Destiny B. Childs featuring
performances by a rotating
cast, 9pm No cover
Karaoke follows show
JR.S
Sunday Funday Liquid
Brunch Doors open at
1pm $2 Coors Lights &
$3 Skyy (all favors), all
day and night
NELLIES
Drag Brunch, hosted by
Shi-Queeta-Lee, 11am-3pm
$20 Brunch Buffet
House Rail Drinks, Zing
Zang Bloody Marys, Nellie
Beer and Mimosas, $4,
11am-close Buckets of
Beer, $15
NUMBER NINE
No Cover
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Decades of Dance DJ
Tim-e in Secrets 9pm
Cover 21+
MONDAY, 10.28.13
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
Hour: 2 for 1 on any
TVs showing movies,
ANNIES
Martinis
DC EAGLE
Open 4pm Monday
Night Football $1 Drafts
- Bud and Bud Light
FREDDIES
Crazy Hour, 4-8pm
Karaoke, 9pm
JR.S
Happy Hour: 2-for-1, 4-9pm
Showtunes Songs &
Singalongs, 9pm-close
DJ Jamez $3 Drafts
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Hour $2 (5-6pm), $3
(6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
Poker Texas Holdem, 8pm
NUMBER NINE
No Cover
PWS SPORTS BAR
Laurel, Md.
301-498-4840
Buzztime Trivia
competition 75 cents off
bottles and drafts
TUESDAY, 10.29.13
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
TVs showing movies,
ANNIES
Happy Hour, 4-7pm $4
Stella Artois, $4 House
Wines, $4 Stolichnaya
Cocktails, $4 Manhattans
and Vodka Martinis
DC EAGLE
Open 4pm $2 Rail and
Domestic, All Day Free
Pool till 9pm
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-8pm
Karaoke, 9pm
JR.S
Underground (Indie Pop/
Alt/Brit Rock), 9pm-close
DJ Wes Della Volla
Special Guest DJ Matt
Bailer 2-for-1, all day
and night
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Hour $2 (5-6pm), $3
(6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
Karaoke
NUMBER NINE
No Cover
PWS SPORTS BAR
Laurel, Md.
301-498-4840
75 cents off bottles and
drafts Movie Night
What would you serve?
Cocaine with tea and coke.
How would you describe your
dream guy?
Tall, slightly muscular but not a
juicehead, circumcised with a bubble
butt, a big jaw and a nice condo. A city
boy, no one from down South.
Dene good in bed.
A fun, hot workout that burns a lot of
calories.
Who should star in a movie
about your life?
Vin Diesel.
Who was your rst celebrity crush?
Carson Daly.
Who gets on your nerves?
A know-it-all. Someone who
doesnt drink.
If your home was burning, whats
the rst thing youd grab while
leaving?
My boots.
Whats your biggest turn-on?
Perky nipples.
Whats your biggest turn-off?
Foreskin.
Whos your greatest inuence?
Chelsea Handler, Nicole Richie and
Angeline Jolie.
Whats your greatest fear?
I have a fear of heights, but my
greatest fear would be to die alone. Or
be attacked by a Chucky doll
like in Childs Play.
Pick three people, living or dead,
who you think would make
the most fascinating dinner
guests imaginable.
Andy Warhol, Anna Nicole Smith and
Wendy Williams.
54
COBALT
Midnight Costume Contest
with Sasha and BaNaka
1st $750, 2nd $150 +
$50 Gift Card, 3rd $100 +
$50 Gift Card DJ Sean
Morris, DJ MadScience
$5 Cover
DC EAGLE
Slaughter Night
3-Way Thursdays
Bring Your Buddies
when two friends buy
drinks, yours are free,
rail or domestic Jell-O
Shots and BOGO Draughts
at Club Bar Club Bar:
Scandals Rugby Team
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-8pm
Karaoke, 9pm
GREEN LANTERN
Shirtless Men Drink Free,
10-11pm
WED., 10.30.13
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
TVs showing movies,
ANNIES
Happy Hour, 4-7pm $4
Stella Artois, $4 House
Wines, $4 Stolichnaya
Cocktails, $4 Manhattans
and Vodka Martinis
DC EAGLE
Open 4pm Wooden
Nickels Redeemable
2 Nickels get Rail or
Domestic

FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-8pm Drag
Bingo, 8pm Karaoke,
10pm
GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour Prices,
4pm-Close
JR.S
Trivia with MC Jay
Ray, 8pm The Queen,
10-11pm $2 JRs Drafts
& $4 Vodka ($2 with
College I.D./JRs Team
Shirt)
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Hour $2 (5-6pm), $3
(6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Half-Price Burger Night
Buckets of Beer $15
SmartAss Trivia, 8pm
NUMBER NINE
No Cover
PWS SPORTS BAR
Laurel, Md.
301-498-4840
Free Pool 75 cents off
Bottles and Drafts
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
New Meat Wednesday DJ
Don T 9pm Cover 21+
THURSDAY, 10.31.13
9 1/2
TVs showing movies,
ANNIES/ANNIES
UPSTAIRS
4@4 Happy Hour,
4pm-7pm $4 Small
Plates, $4 Stella Artois,
$4 House Wines, $4
Stolichnaya Cocktails, $4
Manhattans and Vodka
Martinis
JR.S
$3 Rail Vodka Highballs,
$2 JR.s drafts, 8pm to
close Top Pop Night
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
Costume Contest 10pm
Prizes TBA DJ Lemz
Hour $2 (5-6pm), $3
(6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
Drag Bingo
NUMBER NINE
drink, 5-9pm No Cover
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Shirtless Thursday
DJ Tim E in Secrets DJ
Joey O in Ziegfelds
$500 Prize Doors 9pm
Cover 21+
FRIDAY, 11.01.13
9 1/2
Open at 5pm Happy
5-9pm Friday Night
Videos with resident
DJ Shea Van Horn VJ
Expanded craft beer
selection No cover
ANNIES
Martinis Upstairs open
5-11pm
DC BEAR CRUE
@Town Bear Happy
Hour, 6-11pm $3 Rail,
$3 Draft, $3 Bud Bottles
Free Pizza, 7pm Hosted
by Charger Stone No
cover before 9:30pm 21+
DC EAGLE
DC Eagle Welcomes Otter
Crossing New Happy
Hour Specials, $2 off
regular prices, 4-9pm
Whats something youve always
wanted to do but havent yet tried?
Double penetration.
Whats something youve tried that
you never want to do again?
An orgy.
Boxers, briefs or other?
Jockstraps. Its my little fetish.
Whats the most unusual place
youve had sex?
In a taxicab in New York.
Whos your favorite musical artist?
Duh. Britney Spears.
Whats your favorite website?
Myvidster.com
Whats your favorite retail store?
Zara and Urban Outtters.
Whats the most youll spend on
a haircut?
$45.
What about on shoes?
$150.
Whats your favorite food to
splurge with?
Seafood. Crab cakes, crab legs.
Whats your favorite season?
Fall and spring. Hoodie weather.
Do you wear a hoodie often?
A cardigan hoodie I wear underneath
my leather jacket.
55
FREDDIES BEACH BAR
Crazy Hour, 4-8pm
Karaoke, 9pm
GREEN LANTERN
Costume Contest at
Midnight 1st $100
Cash + $100 Bar Tab, 2nd
$50 Cash + $50 Bar Tab,
3rd $25 + $25 Bar Tab
Employee Beneft Drag
Show 10pm
JR.S
Buy 1, Get 1,
11pm-midnight Happy
Hour: 2-for-1, 4-9pm $5
Coronas, $8 Vodka Red
Bulls, 9pm-close
NELLIES SPORTS BAR
DJ Matt Bailer Videos,
Dancing Beat The Clock
Happy Hour $2 (5-6pm),
$3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm)
Buckets of Beer $15
NUMBER NINE
No Cover
PHASE 1
DJ Styalo Dancing
$5 cover
PHASE 1 OF DUPONT
1415 22nd St. NW
Doors at 9pm 21+
PWS SPORTS BAR
Laurel, Md.
301-498-4840
Drag Show in lounge
Half-price burgers and
fries
TOWN
Drag Show starts at
10:30pm Hosted by
Lena Lett and featuring
Tatianna, Shi-Queeta-
Lee, Jessica Spaulding
Deverreoux and BaNaka
Doors open at 10pm For
those 21 and over, $5 from
10-11pm and $10 after
11pm For those 18-20,
$10 all night 18+
ZIEGFELDS/SECRETS
Ladies of Illusion with
host Kristina Kelly, 9pm
Cover 21+ l
What are you most grateful for?
My eyebrows.
Whats something you
want more of?
More inches to my penis.
State your life philosophy in 10
words or less.
Twerk hard. l
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DESTINATIONS
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d dancing v video t drag cw country western gg go-go dancers o open 24 hours s sauna
BARS & CLUBS
MARYLAND
CLUB HIPPO
1 West Eager Street
Baltimore, MD
(410) 547-0069
THE LODGE
21614 National Pike
Boonsboro, MD
(301) 591-4434
PWS SPORTS BAR
9855-N Washington, Blvd.
Laurel, MD
(301) 498-4840
VIRGINIA
FREDDIES
BEACH BAR
555 South 23rd Street
Crystal City, VA
(703) 685-0555
Crystal City Metro
m&w r
V3 LOUNGE
6763 Wilson Blvd.
Falls Church, Va.
301-802-8878

HRC
ACTION CENTER
& STORE
1633 Connecticut Ave. NW
(202) 232-8621
Dupont Circle Metro
THE FIREPLACE
22nd & P Streets NW
(202) 293-1293
Dupont Circle Metro
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FUEGO
Aqua
1818 New York Ave. NE
m&w d t
GLORIOUS
HEALTH CLUB
2120 W. VA Ave. NE 20002
(202) 269-0226
m o s
GREEN LANTERN
1335 Green Court NW
(behind 1335 L St.)
(202) 347-4534
McPherson Square Metro
m l
JR.S
1519 17th Street NW
(202) 328-0090
Dupont Circle Metro
m v
LACE
2214 Rhode Island Ave. NE
(202) 832-3888
w r d

MOVA
2204 14th Street NW
(202) 629-3958
U Street / Cardozo Metro
NELLIES
SPORTS BAR
900 U Street NW
(202) 332-6355
m&w r
D.C.
18th & U
DUPLEX DINER
2004 18th Street NW
(202) 265-7828
Dupont Circle Metro
r
9:30 CLUB
815 V Street NW
(202) 265-0930
BACHELORS MILL
1104 8th Street SE
(202) 546-5979
Eastern Market /
Navy Yard Metro
m d
COBALT/30 DEGREES
17th & R Street NW
(202) 462-6569
Dupont Circle Metro
m d t
CREW CLUB
1321 14th Street NW
(202) 319-1333
McPherson Square Metro
m o s
DC EAGLE
639 New York Ave. NW
(202) 347-6025
Convention Center /
Gallery Place /
Chinatown Metro
m l
DELTA ELITE
3734 10th Street NE
(202) 529-0626
Brookland Metro
m d
NUMBER NINE
1435 P Street NW
Dupont Circle Metro
PHASE 1
525 8th Street SE
(202) 544-6831
Eastern Market Metro
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PHASE 1 of DUPONT
1415 22nd Street NW
(Formerly Apex)
Dupont Circle Metro
w m d
REMINGTONS
639 Pennsylvania Ave. SE
(202) 543-3113
Eastern Market Metro
m cw d v
TOWN
2009 8th Street NW
(202) 234-TOWN
U Street/Cardozo Metro
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ZIEGFELDS /
SECRETS
1824 Half Street SW
(202) 863-0670
Navy Yard Metro
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RETAIL
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I realized at that moment, okay, so,

I am standing on a crossroads here in my childs life and this is the moment when people either
turn their children into bigots
and narrow-minded individuals or they have an opportunity to open their eyes to tolerance.
REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D-Fla.), in an interview with SiriusXM Radio, explaining how she handled her
son asking what it means to be gay.
(Hufngton Post)
I was really expecting a big no. But I called the tribe and they said,
Yeah come on down, its twenty bucks.
JASON PICKEL, who, along with his partner Darren Black Bear, circumvented Oklahomas ban on same-sex marriage by using
their Native-American heritage to take advantage of an Oklahoma tribes courthouse, which
allows marriage without specifying a gender.
(KOCO.com)
They are inciting enmity between people,

its a genuine witch hunt.
They are setting people against each other like dogs.
SASHA, a lesbian living in Russia with her partner and 3-year-old son who declined to provide her full name, speaking with
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty about the impact that Russias law banning LGBT-afrming propaganda has had on
their lives. The women tell neighbors they are sisters in order to escape abuse.
(RFE/RL)
I have no reason to follow the crowd; I trust what I see.

When he calls me from Moscow at three in the morning his time to wish me a happy birthday,
I nd that nice.
JEAN-CLAUDE KILLY, head of the International Olympic Committee, defending Russian President Vladimir Putin against the
criticism the Russian leader has received in the wake of a perceived crackdown on LGBT people in the run-up to
the Sochi Winter Olympics.
(Gay Star News)
Harvey Milk was demonstrably, categorically an evil man
based on his rape of teenage boys. And the fact that our US government would be commemorating and
recognizing him as some kind of hero really just boggles the mind.
MATT BARBER, attorney for right-wing, Christian law rm Liberty Counsel, in a tirade to OneNewsNow that condemned the
U.S. Postal Service for commissioning a stamp commemorating Harvey Milk, the rst out gay man elected to U.S. ofce.
(Right Wing Watch)

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They are inciting enmity between people,

I have no reason to follow the crowd; I trust what I see.

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