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congress
A look at plight of
gay candidates, as
David Cicilline is poised
to join out gays in House.
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day looms
Next week’s results
will likely bring a
GOP-led House. How
did Dems bungle it?
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local races
Gray, Catania, Graham
favored in D.C.; Maryland
could see 7 openly gay
lawmakers in Annapolis.
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LOCALNEWS
Gay candidates poised for victory in local races
Catania, Graham
favored in D.C.;
Md. could see 7
out lawmakers
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
D.C.’s two gay Council
members — David Catania
(I-At-Large) and Jim Graham
(D-Ward 1) — are consid-
ered strong favorites to win
re-election, and the number of
out gay or lesbian members of
the Maryland Legislature is ex-
pected to increase from four to
seven in Tuesday’s election.
In Virginia, most political ob-
servers expect Arlington’s lesbi-
an school board member, Sally
Baird, to win a second term on
Tuesday in her role as the only
out gay or lesbian candidate on
the Virginia ballot this year.
“We feel really excited about
increasing our numbers in the
legislature, not only lesbian and
gay members but other mem-
bers who are supportive on
our issues, including marriage
equality,” said Morgan Mene-
ses-Sheets, executive director
of Equality Maryland, a state-
wide LGBT group.
Meneses-Sheets noted that
the four lesbian or gay incum-
bent legislators and three chal-
lengers who won nomination
in the Democratic primary on
Sept. 14 are running in strong
Democratic districts and are
expected to win in the general
election Tuesday.
One of the challengers, Mary
Washington, is poised to be-
come Maryland’s first out black
lesbian to win election to the
state legislature and just the sec-
ond black lesbian to win a state
legislature seat nationwide.
Lesbian Democrat Simone Bell
became the first to capture that
distinction last year when she won
a seat in the Georgia House of
Representatives from Atlanta.
The incumbent gay or les-
bian lawmakers expected to
win re-election to the Maryland
Legislature on Tuesday include
Sen. Richard Madaleno (District
18 in Montgomery County); Del.
Maggie McIntosh (District 43 in
Baltimore); Del. Heather Mizeur
(District 20 in parts of Silver
Spring and Takoma Park); and
Del. Anne Kaiser (District 14
in parts of Silver Spring, Olney
and Damascus). All four are
Democrats.
The three Democratic chal-
lengers include Washington,
Del. Heather Mizeur is expected to win re-election to the Maryland Legislature next
week.
Gay D.C. Council member David Catania is running in a four-candidate race and
favored to win another term.
who is running in the same
House of Delegates District as
McIntosh. Most districts in the
Maryland Legislature include
one senator and three delegate
seats, with voters authorized to
cast one vote for a senator and
three votes for House of Del-
egates members.
The other challengers in-
clude gay Anne Arundel County
Assistant State’s Attorney Luke
Clippinger, who is running for
a House of Delegates seat
in District 46, which includes
south and southeast Baltimore,
including parts of Federal Hill,
Fell’s Point and Patterson Park.
Lesbian teacher and National
Education Association Foun-
dation official Bonnie Cullison
is running for a House of Del-
egates seat in District 19, which
includes the Montgomery Coun-
ty jurisdictions of Gaithersburg,
Aspen Hill, Wheaton and Olney.
Another gay challenger in
Maryland, consultant Byron
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
Macfarlane, is running for the
state post of Register of Wills in
Howard County. Macfarlane is a
member of the Howard County
Democratic Committee and is
running against a Republican
incumbent, Kay Hartleb. His
prospects of winning are less
certain, according to Howard
County political observers.
In D.C., Catania and Graham
have longstanding community
ties to a broad constituency
and are expected to beat their
lesser-known incumbents. They
also have strong records on
LGBT rights, with Catania writ-
ing and Graham co-introducing
the same-sex marriage law that
the Council passed last De-
cember. The two have been en-
dorsed by the Washington Post.
Both received +10 ratings
from the Gay & Lesbian Activists
Alliance, the group’s top rating on
a scale ranging from -10 to +10.
Graham is being challenged
by gay Republican activist Marc
Morgan, who has expressed
strong support for LGBT issues,
including the city’s same-sex
marriage equality law. Morgan re-
ceived a +6.5 rating from GLAA.
Catania is running in a four-
candidate race where two at-
large seats are lumped together
in the same contest under the
city’s election law. Also running
for re-election to one of the two
seats is Council member Phil
Mendelson (D-At-Large), who
has a strong record in support
of LGBT rights. Mendelson
played a lead role in advanc-
ing the same-sex marriage law
in his position as chair of the
Council’s Committee on Public
Safety and the Judiciary.
The two are being chal-
lenged in the race by Statehood
Green Party candidate David
Schwartzman, who received a
+6 GLAA rating, and indepen-
dent candidate Richard Urban,
who received a -3.5 GLAA rat-
ing score. Urban is a vocal op-
ponent of same-sex marriage
equality and is aligned with Bish-
op Harry Jackson and other gay
rights opponents who favor a
ballot measure calling for repeal
of the same-sex marriage law.
City election rules allow vot-
ers to cast ballots for two candi-
dates in the four-candidate race.
The candidates with the highest
two vote counts win the race.
The fourth out gay candidate
running in D.C.’s general elec-
tion this year is Republican Tim
Day, an accountant who is chal-
lenging Council member Harry
Thomas (D-Ward 5).
Day created a stir two weeks
ago when he released records
from the IRS and D.C.’s office of
corporations showing that a con-
stituent services group for which
Thomas has raised money as a
non-profit organization did not
have an IRS tax exemption. Day
also produced city records show-
ing the group has lost its status
as a D.C. corporation, prompting
Day to accuse Thomas of oper-
ating a “fake organization” and a
political “slush fund.”
Thomas denied the allega-
tions, saying Day was seeking
to turn the matter into a publicity
stunt to help his flagging elec-
tion campaign, where Thomas
is considered the odds-on
favorite to win. According to
Thomas, he never promoted
his Team Thomas/SwingAway
charitable group as having an
IRS non-profit status.
But the Washington Post,
which has disagreed with
Thomas’ positions on other is-
sues, cited questions about the
group as being among its rea-
sons for endorsing Day for the
Council seat.
“Mr. Day, an accountant with
a record of community service,
impresses us with his devotion
to the ward and his pragmatic
ideas about how to solve some
of its more persistent prob-
lems,” the Post wrote in its en-
dorsement. The Post endorse-
ment didn’t identify Day as a
gay candidate.
GLAA gave Day a +1.5 rat-
ing, saying he did not clearly
show evidence of involvement in
LGBT-related issues. The group
noted it docked points from
him after he stated on a GLAA
candidate questionnaire that
he supported an amendment
by Council member Yvette Al-
exander (D-Ward 7) seeking to
weaken the same-sex marriage
law by allowing businesses and
non-religious organizations to
refuse to provide services re-
lated to same-sex weddings if
the businesses or groups had
objections to gay unions.
Day told the Blade this week
that he misinterpreted GLAA’s
question about Alexander’s
amendment, which lost in a com-
mittee vote. He said he would
never support an effort to deny
services to same-sex couples
and should have stated in the
questionnaire that he strongly
opposed such an amendment.
Thomas voted for the same-
sex marriage law and stated
on his GLAA questionnaire re-
sponse that he also opposed
the Alexander amendment.
In other D.C. races, all of the
remaining Democratic nomi-
nees, including mayoral candi-
date Vincent Gray, City Council
Chair candidate Kwame Brown,
and D.C. Congressional Del.
Eleanor Homes Norton are con-
sidered strong favorites to win
their respective races. All are
supporters of LGBT rights and
same-sex marriage equality.
In addition, the Gertrude
Stein Democratic Club has
identified at least 27 gay or
lesbian candidates running for
Advisory Neighborhood Com-
mission seats. About half are
running unopposed.
Those facing opponents in-
clude Ramon Estrada of ANC Dis-
trict 2B09 in Dupont Circle, who is
being challenged by attorney and
community activist Sunit Talapatra;
and Bob Siegel of 6DO7 (Wash-
ington Nationals Stadium area),
who faces a challenge by neigh-
borhood newcomer and urban de-
sign specialist David Garber.
A list of the gay ANC candi-
dates can be found on the Blade’s
website, washingtonblade.com.
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MARYLANDNEWS

O’Malley reiterates
marriage pledge
Equality Maryland endorses
incumbent governor
By JULIETTE M. EBNER

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Equality

Maryland officially gave its endorsement
to Gov. Martin O’Malley at its ninth annual
signature gala Sunday night.
“The governor has a strong record from
his days on the City Council, as mayor and
Go to www.logan14salonspa.net as governor,” Morgan Meneses-Sheets,
to print or bring this ad. executive director of Equality Maryland,
said in endorsing O’Malley in next Tues-
day’s election. “The choice is clear – the
former governor who did not even believe
that same-sex couples should be able to
visit each other in the hospital or our cur-
rent governor who has pledged to sign
both of our key initiatives?”
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running against the alternative.”
Each time O’Malley mentioned his op-
ponent’s name, attendees showed their
displeasure by hissing in response. He
urged everyone to vote and to make sure
their friends and family vote as well.
“Do not believe these polls,” O’Malley
said, adding they were only accurate if
everyone actually went out and voted.
The governor addressed same-sex
marriage during a debate last week with
Ehrlich sponsored by the Washington Post.
“I stood with [Attorney General] Doug
Gansler on recognizing out-of-state mar-
riages,” O’Malley said. “When the Gen-
eral Assembly passes an equality bill,
a bill regardless of labels, that protects
equal rights, I will sign it so long as it has
religious protections.”
O’Malley has a complicated history on
marriage rights. After initially supporting
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“I was pleased. He specifically men-
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the state’s anti-bullying law is fully en-
forced, which in light of the tragic deaths
of so many young, LGBT people in re-
Gov. Martin O’Malley told Equality Maryland sup-
porters this week that he would sign a marriage
equality bill if re-elected and the legislature passes it.
cent months is more important than
ever,” Meneses-Sheets said. “ But most
important, he talked about equal treat-
ment under the law for all Marylanders
and all families.”
O’Malley mentioned Tyler Clementi in
his speech before reminding attendees
that he signed a bill creating an anti-bul-
lying policy in 2008, which set standards
for all public school systems in the state.
O’Malley did not take questions from
the media after his speech.
Gansler followed O’Malley and gave a
short speech, saying the governor and
his wife are 100 percent behind the is-
sues Equality Maryland is fighting for.
Gansler received a standing ovation
when after saying it was great that out-of-
state marriages were recognized, add-
ed, “It is absurd people can’t get married
here in Maryland.”
Lea Gilmore and Scott Davenport
were both honored at the gala as part of
the program. Gilmore was awarded Ally
of the Year and her husband accepted
the award, reading an e-mail she sent
from Germany.
Davenport, president of Equality
Maryland, received the Legacy Award
for his work with the organization and
outside of it.
“Trust me, everything can be fixed, I
know that, I have kids,” Davenport joked
when he dropped his award and it broke.
Davenport also donated $20,000 to
hire a lobbyist for the upcoming legislative
session, on the condition that the organi-
zation raise funds to match his donation.
Immediately after this announcement,
andtoclap-
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amounts, including Meneses-Sheets.
They raised at least $20,500 from
those donations. Equality Maryland is still
working on figuring out how much was
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silent auction.
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LOCALNEWS
Men stopped, detained in P St. Beach raid
About a half dozen D.C. and U.S. Park Police officers swooped into the woods in
P Street Beach about 3:20 a.m. on Oct. 10, and stopped but did not arrest several
men they observed loitering in the well-known gay male cruising spot, according
to a police official and an eyewitness.
The witness, a gay man who spoke on condition that he remain anonymous, said
he and between a half dozen to a dozen men were cruising in a wooded area of P
Street Beach park along a slope hidden from the street and sidewalk next to tennis
courts along 23rd St., N.W., near P Street.
“One or two D.C. police cars came down the gully, blocked off one side and left
their spotlight on” pointing into the woods, the witness said. The witness said he
saw a Park Police car pull up along the tennis courts, with officers emerging and
running down the slope shouting for the men to “stop.”
“I started running and so did the guy I was with,” said the witness. But the wit-
ness said more officers arrived from the other side of the park, heading toward
where he was running. In what he described as a surreal scene out of a movie, he
said he managed to escape after lying motionless behind a log in the underbrush
in the park for nearly an hour.
“I lay there with my head down and just waited,” he said. “I assumed most of the
other guys got caught, but I don’t know for sure … And they kept coming back,”
he said of the police officers. “They were shining their lights and I heard them say,
‘Come out wherever you are.’”
Assistant D.C. Police Chief Diane Groomes said a Park Police contact and the
watch commander of the D.C. police department’s Second District told her the of-
ficers participating in the police action did not make any arrests. Instead, Grooms
said, they “stopped some subjects.” She said she was awaiting further details from
both D.C. and Park Police.
Park Police officials have said in the past that they routinely take the names and other
information from people they stop in P Street Beach at night, when the park is closed to
the public and people entering are considered trespassers. According to Park Police of-
ficials, the officers issue warnings to the people they stop in the park at night, telling them
they could be subject to arrest for trespassing if they are caught there a second time.
Grooms said D.C. police have recently received several complaints from par-
ents of students attending Frances Junior High School, which is located next to P
Street Beach, and from school officials about “illegal activity” in the park. She said
the people making the complaints pointed to disposed condoms and trash in the
area where people were said to be loitering in and around the park.
P Street Beach is a section of Rock Creek Park near Dupont Circle that runs
along the banks of Rock Creek. Like all of Rock Creek Park, it is maintained by the
U.S. Park Service and patrolled mostly by U.S. Park Police.
– LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Fla. sheriff seeks help from gays
in murder of Va. businessman
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The Broward County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office last week asked a gay newspaper in
Fort Lauderdale to publish information about the Sept. 11 murder of an Alexandria
business executive, who was found dead in his vacation home in Pompano Beach.
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Norman Kent, editor and publisher of South Florida Gay News, said sheriff’s of-
ficers hand-delivered to his office a flier about DelBrocco’s murder, which includes
DelBrocco’s photo, and urged him to publish the information.
Sheriff’s Office Det. Efrain Torres told the Blade that investigators don’t know
whether DelBrocco had ties to the gay community.
“We want as much exposure as possible,” he said. “We’re reaching out to all media.”
Anyone with information about the murder should contact the Broward Sheriff’s homi-
cide squad at 954-765-4321 or the Broward Crime stoppers hotline at 954-493-8477.
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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs this week emphasized the need to change votes in the Senate if
Congress is to overcome a filibuster threat from John McCain over ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal.
White House looks
to lame duck session
But Gibbs unaware of
efforts to lobby Senate
on ‘Don’t Ask’
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
White House Press Secretary Robert
Gibbs said this week that he’s not aware
of any outreach the president has done
in the Senate to advance “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal. But he touted a meet-
ing held this week with LGBT advocates
as evidence of the president’s desire to
end the military’s gay ban.
Asked by the Washington Blade
whether the president has made any
outreach attempts to encourage sena-
tors who voted “no” on moving forward
with repeal to vote “yes” a second time
around, Gibbs replied that no such out-
reach has taken place to his knowledge.
Still, Gibbs acknowledged that the
only way the Senate could move forward
with the fiscal year 2011 defense authori-
zation bill — to which repeal language is
attached — is to change some of those
votes.
“To my knowledge, it hasn’t taken
place yet, but, look, the only way we’re
going to get something through the Sen-
ate is to change the vote count,” Gibbs
said.
The White House spokesperson noted
there is “a promised filibuster” in moving
forward with “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal
in the lame duck session. Sen. John Mc-
Cain (R-Ariz.) has pledged to renew his
objection to moving forward with the bill
should it come up again this year.
“You’re going to have to get past a
promised filibuster in moving to the bill,”
Gibbs said. “And certainly, the only way
we can move to that bill is to change
some of those votes.”
A meeting was held Tuesday be-
tween White House officials and repeal
advocates. President Obama reportedly
Photo courtesy of the White House
stopped by the meeting to address at-
tendees in person.
“The president wants the defense au-
thorization act and that repeal passed,”
Gibbs said. “That is the basis for the
meeting today and I think the president
and the administration have committed
to working to see that through.”
Gibbs also addressed a leaked e-mail
about the Tuesday meeting stating that
any discussion of pending litigation on
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” would prompt ad-
ministration officials to abruptly terminate
the meeting. Gibbs noted some partici-
pants in the lawsuit are plaintiffs in Log
Cabin v. United States.
“I don’t think either side believes that
those type of conversations about the liti-
gation between two parties represented
in a lawsuit is appropriate,” Gibbs said.
Asked about any contingency plan for
ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the event
the Senate is unable to pass repeal, such
as issuing a stop-loss order, Gibbs re-
plied that the White House is “focused
on an endurable repeal of a law that the
president thinks is unjust.”
Gibbs also said he couldn’t immedi-
ately say whether the White House or re-
peal advocates initiated the meeting.
Gibbs added it is the “hope” of the
White House that Congress can still pass
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal regardless
of what happens on Election Day. Pun-
dits expect Democrats to sustain heavy
losses and lose control of the House.
“We’re approaching the beginning of
December, which is when the Pentagon’s
study of implementation and of the at-
titudes of the military will be complete,”
Gibbs said. “The president believes —
continues to believe that this is a law that
— the end of this law — the time for the
end of this law has come.”
Both the Blade and The Advocate
questioned Gibbs on “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” during the Tuesday news confer-
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INDICATIONS
ISENTRESS is an anti-HIV medicine used for the treatment of HIV. ISENTRESS must be used with other
anti-HIV medicines, which may increase the likelihood of response to treatment.
The safety and effectiveness of ISENTRESS in children has not been studied.
It is important that you remain under your doctor’s care.
ISENTRESS will NOT cure HIV infection or reduce your chance of passing HIV to others through sexual
contact, sharing needles, or being exposed to your blood.

IMPORTANT RISK INFORMATION

A condition called Immune Reconstitution Syndrome can happen in some patients with advanced HIV
infection (AIDS) when anti-HIV treatment is started. Signs and symptoms of inflammation from opportunistic
infections may occur as the medicines work to treat the HIV infection and strengthen the immune system.
Call your doctor right away if you notice any signs or symptoms of an infection after starting ISENTRESS.
Contact your doctor immediately if you experience unexplained muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness while
taking ISENTRESS. This is because on rare occasions muscle problems can be serious and can lead to
kidney damage.
When ISENTRESS has been given with other anti-HIV drugs, side effects included nausea, headache,
tiredness, weakness, trouble sleeping, stomach pain, dizziness, depression, and suicidal thoughts and actions.
Rash occurred more often in patients taking ISENTRESS and darunavir together than with either drug separately,
but was generally mild.
 T:9.75 in october 29, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 13

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I am on the go.
I am a newlywed.
I am HIV positive.
You are special, unique, and different from anyone else.
And so is your path to managing HIV. When you’re ready
to start HIV therapy, talk to your doctor about a medication
that may fit your needs and lifestyle.
In clinical studies lasting 96 weeks, patients being treated with HIV medication for the
first time who took ISENTRESS plus Truvada:
Had a low rate of side effects
— The most common side effect of moderate to severe intensity (that interfered
with or kept patients from performing daily activities) was trouble sleeping
— This side effect occurred more often in patients taking ISENTRESS plus Truvada
(4%) versus Sustiva plus Truvada (3%)

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Experienced less effect on LDL cholesterol (“bad” cholesterol)
— Cholesterol increased an average of 7 mg/dL with ISENTRESS plus Truvada
versus 21 mg/dL with Sustiva plus Truvada

Ask your doctor about ISeNTReSS.

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People taking ISENTRESS may still develop infections, including opportunistic infections or other conditions that
occur with HIV infection.
Tell your doctor about all of your medical conditions, including if you have any allergies, are pregnant or plan to
become pregnant, or are breast-feeding or plan to breast-feed. ISENTRESS is not recommended for use during
pregnancy. Women with HIV should not breast-feed because their babies could be infected with HIV through their
breast milk.
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription medicines like rifampin (a medicine used
to treat infections such as tuberculosis), non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA.
Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Patient Information
ISENTRESS ® (eye sen tris)
(raltegravir) Tablets

Read the patient information that comes with ISENTRESS1 before you start taking If you fail to take ISENTRESS the way you should, here’s what to do:
it and each time you get a refill. There may be new information. This leaflet is a • If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you remember. If you do not
summary of the information for patients. Your doctor or pharmacist can give you remember until it is time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go
additional information. This leaflet does not take the place of talking with your back to your regular schedule. Do NOT take two tablets of ISENTRESS at the
doctor about your medical condition or your treatment. same time. In other words, do NOT take a double dose.
What is ISENTRESS? • If you take too much ISENTRESS, call your doctor or local Poison Control
• ISENTRESS is an anti-HIV (antiretroviral) medicine used for the treatment Center.
of HIV. The term HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. It is the Be sure to keep a supply of your anti-HIV medicines.
virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). ISENTRESS • When your ISENTRESS supply starts to run low, get more from your doctor
is used along with other anti-HIV medicines. ISENTRESS will NOT cure HIV or pharmacy.
infection. • Do not wait until your medicine runs out to get more.
• People taking ISENTRESS may still develop infections, including What are the possible side effects of ISENTRESS?
opportunistic infections or other conditions that happen with HIV infection.
• Stay under the care of your doctor during treatment with ISENTRESS. When ISENTRESS has been given with other anti-HIV drugs, side effects
• The safety and effectiveness of ISENTRESS in children has not been studied. included:
• nausea
ISENTRESS must be used with other anti-HIV medicines. • headache
How does ISENTRESS work? • tiredness
• ISENTRESS blocks an enzyme which the virus (HIV) needs in order to make • weakness
more virus. The enzyme that ISENTRESS blocks is called HIV integrase. • trouble sleeping
• When used with other anti-HIV medicines, ISENTRESS may do two things: • stomach pain
1. Reduce the amount of HIV in your blood. This is called your “viral load”. • dizziness
2. Increase the number of white blood cells called CD4 (T) cells. • depression
• ISENTRESS may not have these effects in all patients. • suicidal thoughts and actions
Does ISENTRESS lower the chance of passing HIV to other people? Other side effects include rash, severe skin reactions, feeling anxious, paranoia,
No. ISENTRESS does not reduce the chance of passing HIV to others through sexual low blood platelet count.
contact, sharing needles, or being exposed to your blood. A condition called Immune Reconstitution Syndrome can happen in some
• Continue to practice safer sex. patients with advanced HIV infection (AIDS) when combination antiretroviral
• Use latex or polyurethane condoms or other barrier methods to lower the treatment is started. Signs and symptoms of inflammation from opportunistic
chance of sexual contact with any body fluids. This includes semen from a infections that a person has or had may occur as the medicines work to treat
man, vaginal secretions from a woman, or blood. the HIV infection and help to strengthen the immune system. Call your doctor
• Never re-use or share needles. right away if you notice any signs or symptoms of an infection after starting
Ask your doctor if you have any questions about safer sex or how to prevent ISENTRESS with other anti-HIV medicines.
passing HIV to other people.
Contact your doctor promptly if you experience unexplained muscle pain,
What should I tell my doctor before and during treatment with ISENTRESS? tenderness, or weakness while taking ISENTRESS. This is because on rare
Tell your doctor about all of your medical conditions. Include any of the following occasions, muscle problems can be serious and can lead to kidney damage.
that applies to you:
Rash occurred more often in patients taking ISENTRESS and darunavir together

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• You have any allergies.
• You are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. than with either drug separately, but was generally mild.
- ISENTRESS is not recommended for use during pregnancy. Tell your doctor if you have any side effects that bother you.
ISENTRESS has not been studied in pregnant women. If you take
ISENTRESS while you are pregnant, talk to your doctor about how These are not all the side effects of ISENTRESS. For more information, ask
you can be included in the Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry. your doctor or pharmacist.
• You are breast-feeding or plan to breast-feed. How should I store ISENTRESS?
- It is recommended that HIV-infected women should not breast-feed • Store ISENTRESS at room temperature (68 to 77°F).
their infants. This is because their babies could be infected with HIV • Keep ISENTRESS and all medicines out of the reach of children.
through their breast milk.
- Talk with your doctor about the best way to feed your baby. General information about the use of ISENTRESS
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take. Include the following: Medicines are sometimes prescribed for conditions that are not mentioned in
• prescription medicines, including rifampin (a medicine used to treat some patient information leaflets.
infections such as tuberculosis) • Do not use ISENTRESS for a condition for which it was not prescribed.
• non-prescription medicines • Do not give ISENTRESS to other people, even if they have the same
• vitamins symptoms you have. It may harm them.
• herbal supplements This leaflet gives you the most important information about ISENTRESS.
Know the medicines you take. • If you would like to know more, talk with your doctor.
• Keep a list of your medicines. Show the list to your doctor and pharmacist • You can ask your doctor or pharmacist for additional information about
when you get a new medicine. ISENTRESS that is written for health professionals.
• For more information go to www.ISENTRESS.com or call 1-800-622-4477.
How should I take ISENTRESS?
What are the ingredients in ISENTRESS?
Take ISENTRESS exactly as your doctor has prescribed. The recommended Active ingredient: Each film-coated tablet contains 400 mg of raltegravir.
dose is as follows:
• Take only one 400-mg tablet at a time. Inactive ingredients: Microcrystalline cellulose, lactose monohydrate, calcium
• Take it twice a day. phosphate dibasic anhydrous, hypromellose 2208, poloxamer 407 (contains 0.01%
• Take it by mouth. butylated hydroxytoluene as antioxidant), sodium stearyl fumarate, magnesium
• Take it with or without food. stearate. In addition, the film coating contains the following inactive ingredients:
polyvinyl alcohol, titanium dioxide, polyethylene glycol 3350, talc, red iron oxide
Do not change your dose or stop taking ISENTRESS or your other anti-HIV and black iron oxide.
medicines without first talking with your doctor.

IMPORTANT: Take ISENTRESS exactly as your doctor prescribed and at the

right times of day because if you don’t:
• The amount of virus (HIV) in your blood may increase if the medicine is
stopped for even a short period of time.
• The virus may develop resistance to ISENTRESS and become harder to treat. Distributed by:
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Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said he won’t appeal a court ruling that overturned the state’s gay
adoption ban.
Gay adoption ban
ends in Florida
But final outcome of issue
remains open question
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
Florida Attorney General Bill McCol-
lum announced last week that he won’t
appeal a September court ruling over-
turning Florida’s law banning gay people
from adopting children, putting a “final
end” to the 33-year-old prohibition, ac-
cording to gay rights attorneys.
The decision by a state appellate
court striking down the adoption ban law
arose from an emotional case in which
Martin Gill, a gay man, sought to adopt
two children that he and his domestic
partner have been raising for almost six
years as foster parents.
“This law, by baselessly branding gay
people unfit parents, was one of the most
notoriously anti-gay laws in the country, and
we are delighted that it has been ended
once and for all,” said Leslie Cooper, senior
staff attorney with the ACLU’s LGBT Project.
Cooper argued the case on behalf of
the ACLU before Florida’s Third District
Court of Appeals, which handed down the
decision overturning the law in September.
“This victory means that the thousands
of children in Florida who are waiting to
be adopted will no longer be needlessly
deprived of willing and able parents who
can give them the love and support of a
family,” Cooper said in a statement.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running
in a hotly contested race for the U.S. Senate
as an independent, and the Florida Depart-
ment of Children and Families, announced
shortly after the appellate court ruling that
they would not appeal the decision.
Crist changed his party affiliation from
Republican to independent earlier this
year after conservative Republican Mar-
co Rubio defeated him in the Republican
primary. Rubio’s position on the decision
not to appeal the adoption ban decision
could not be immediately determined.
The action by the appellate court up-
holds a November 2008 decision by a
Miami-Dade County Circuit Court judge,
who ruled that the law barring adoption
by gay people is unconstitutional. Judge
Photo courtesy of McCollum’s office
Cindy Lederman granted Gill’s petition to
adopt his two foster sons, who are now
six and 10 years old.
The decision followed a four-day trial
in which experts testifying on Gill’s behalf
cited research showing that no difference
can be found in the wellbeing of children
raised by either gay or straight parents.
In its ruling last month, the Third Dis-
trict Court of Appeals agreed with that
view, stating, “The issue is so far beyond
dispute that it would be irrational to hold
otherwise; the best interests of children
are not preserved by prohibiting homo-
sexual adoption.”
In his statement announcing he would
not appeal the case, McCollum suggest-
ed the final outcome on the issue may
not have been reached.
“The constitutionality of the Florida law
banning adoption by homosexuals is a divi-
sive matter of great public interest,” he said.
“As such, the final determination should rest
with the Florida Supreme Court, not a lower
appellate court. But after reviewing the mer-
its of independently seeking Supreme Court
review, following the decision of our client
the Department of Children and Families
not to appeal the decision of the Third Dis-
trict Court of Appeal, it is clear that this is not
the right case to take to the Supreme Court
for determination,” he said.
But he added, “No doubt someday a
more suitable case will give the Supreme
Court the opportunity to uphold the con-
stitutionality of this law.”
ACLU staff attorney Shelbi Day, who
also represented Gill in the case, said
it would be highly unlikely that another
case would arise to change the ruling of
the appellate court, which is binding on
all lower courts throughout the state and
effectively kills the adoption ban law.
Gill said through a statement that he
and his partner are relieved that their
long ordeal to secure the adoption of two
children they have raised for more than
six years has finally come to a close.
“Our boys have overcome difficult be-
ginnings to become happy, healthy kids,”
he said. “All children deserve a chance
at finding a stable, loving and permanent
home. Over the 33 years of the ban, this
archaic law has harmed countless foster
children by denying them a forever family.”
october 29, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 15
School district ordered to pay legal fees
NEW YORK — A federal judge has or-
dered a Mississippi school district to pay
about $81,000 in legal fees and expens-
es in a lawsuit filed by a lesbian student
who was told she would be ejected from
a prom if she brought her girlfriend, CNN
reported this week.
The decision Tuesday by a federal judge
may be the final chapter in the well-publi-
cized legal battle between a lesbian teen-
ager and the Mississippi school district.
The lawsuit against the school district
in Fulton, Miss., was filed by the ACLU on
behalf of Constance McMillen. The lawsuit
was settled in July, and the school district
agreed to pay McMillen $35,000 in damag-
es and adopt a policy prohibiting discrimi-
nation based on sexual orientation. The
July settlement was not part of the $81,000
payment ordered by the judge Tuesday.
The issue made national news after
McMillen, the lesbian teen, was told by
Itawamba Agricultural High School officials
she and her girlfriend would be barred from
Photo courtesy of Constance McMillen
attending the school-sponsored prom. Constance McMillen never made it to the prom
The prom was eventually canceled by but won a nice settlement instead.
school board officials.
At the time, support poured in for the teen. She served as the grand marshal for
New York’s Gay Pride Parade, got a $30,000 college scholarship from an anony-
mous donor and a Facebook page called “Let Constance Take Her Girlfriend to
Prom!” attracted more than 400,000 fans.
Ark. school board member incites Facebook furor 
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A school board member on the board of Midland School
District in an area about 85 miles northeast of Little Rock, Ark., shared on his Face-
book page that he would only honor spirit day — an event held last week in which
LGBT people and their allies wore purple in memory of the recent gay teens who’ve
committed suicide — if “they all commit suicide,” according to a Towleroad report.
“Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers committed sui-
cide,” wrote board member Clint McCance. “The only way I’m wearing it for them
is if they all commit suicide. I can’t believe the people of this world have gotten
this stupid. We are honoring the fact that they sinned and killed thereselves (sic)
because of their sin. REALLY PEOPLE.”
In response to comments on his status update, McCance wrote, “It pisses me off
though that we make a special purple fag day for them. I like that fags can’t procre-
ate. I also enjoy the fact that they often give each other AIDS and die. If you aren’t
against it, you might as well be for it … I would disown my kids if they were gay.
They will not be welcome at my home or in my vicinity. I will absolutely run them off.
Of course my kids will know better. My kids will have solid Christian beliefs. See it
infects everyone.”
The Midland superintendent of schools and the principal of Midland High School
did not return calls seeking comment. A Facebook page has been set up calling
for McCance’s removal.
D.C. groups promote 2012 global AIDS conference
WASHINGTON — The leader of a Geneva, Switzerland-based organization
sponsoring the 2012 International AIDS Conference, which is scheduled to take
place in Washington, D.C., joined local AIDS activists at a D.C. reception Tuesday
to promote grassroots participation in the conference.
The reception, held at the John Wilson D.C. City Hall Building, was organized
by the AIDS 2012 D.C. Community Coalition, which formed recently to encourage
local participation in the AIDS conference.
The biennial conference is expected to attract more than 25,000 delegates from
as many as 200 countries, including scientists, policy makers, and AIDS activists.
More than 2,500 journalists also are expected to attend the event, according to the
International AIDS Society, which sponsors the conference.
Elly Katabira of Uganda, chair of the Conference Coordinating Committee and
president-elect of the International AIDS Society, welcomed D.C. government of-
ficials and AIDS activists attending the Tuesday’s reception. He encouraged the
local D.C. area community to take part in what he called one of the most important
conferences aimed at developing a solution to the international AIDS crisis.
Also speaking at the reception was Dr. Pierre Vigilance, director of the D.C.
Department of Health, and Dr. Nnemdi Kamanu Elias, acting senior director of the
D.C. HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, and TB Administration.
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11th hour anti-gay attacks
against Cicilline?
R.I. GOP opponent
stresses family, support
for ‘Don’t Ask’
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
A gay politician seeking to represent
Rhode Island in Congress is enduring what
could be thinly veiled attacks on his sexual
orientation as Election Day approaches.
David Cicilline, the gay mayor of
Providence, R.I., is vying to represent the
state’s 1st congressional district in the
U.S. House. The seat is being vacated
by retiring Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.).
Cicilline, a Democrat, is running
against Republican John Loughlin, a
member of the Rhode Island State House
and an Army veteran.
With Rhode Island’s unemployment
rate currently at 11.5 percent — fifth
highest in the nation — both candidates
have been emphasizing job creation dur-
ing the campaign.
But in the final weeks of the campaign,
Loughlin has made several statements
that could be considered digs at Cicilline
based on his sexual orientation.
In a “Voice of the Candidate” clip that
aired on a local NBC affiliate in Rhode Island,
Loughlin repeatedly mentions that he is a fa-
ther and a husband — possibly a reference
to the fact that Cicilline is gay and single.
“I’ve been married for 23 years to my
wife, Susan, and we have two daugh-
ters,” Loughlin says. “I know about the
struggles of working families in Rhode
Island because I’m part of one. I’ve had
to worry about how to pay for dance les-
sons, summer camp and all the extras
that come from raising children.’
Similar language about Loughlin’s
family is included in one of the cam-
paign’s recent radio ads promoting the
candidate.
“John Loughlin is a husband, a father,
a small businessman,” says a voiceover
in the ad as somber trumpets play in the
background.
Additionally, in a debate last week
with Cicilline, Loughlin notably empha-
sized his support for “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell.” The Republican candidate said the
law “has served the military well” and he
would “like to see it continue.”
Loughlin continued that the U.S.
armed forces shouldn’t be a place to
“celebrate” anyone’s sexual orientation
and that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” simply
means “you cannot celebrate your sexu-
ality while you are on active duty.”
“Mayor, I was there, I know, I served
and I have seen it — you have not,”
Loughlin said. “We are not interested in
celebrating anyone’s sexuality; we are
about doing the job.”
Eric Hyers, campaign manager for
the Cicilline campaign, declined to com-
ment on whether Loughlin’s statements
Washington Blade file photo
David Cicilline is the strongest openly gay, non-
incumbent candidate for Congress this year, but
his challenger has engaged in what some con-
sider gay-baiting in recent weeks.
amounted to anti-gay attacks and em-
phasized the Cicilline campaign is fo-
cused on bread-and-butter issues.
“David and his campaign are 100
percent focused on how to get Rhode Is-
landers back to work, how to make sure
that we don’t privatize Social Security,”
Hyers said. “We’re making sure that we
fight to end tax breaks for companies
that ship our jobs overseas.”
Loughlin’s campaign didn’t respond
to the Blade’s request for comment on
whether the Republican candidate’s
statements were intended as anti-gay at-
tacks against Cicilline.
One political observer, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity, said “grasp-
ing at something” like a candidate’s sex-
ual orientation is not uncommon in races
where an opponent is behind.
“They think that if they grasp at David’s
sexual orientation, that they might catch
fire,” the observer said. “Could you try to
interpret what Loughlin is doing as baiting?
Probably. But I don’t think anybody’s really
sensing that given how out David is.”
Last week, Politico included the race
to represent Rhode Island’s 1st con-
gressional district in the U.S. House as
among its “99 Seats in Play” for the elec-
tion. Cook Political Report last month
changed the status of the race from “like-
ly Democrat” to “leans Democrat.”
David Wasserman, House editor of the
Cook Political Report, said Cicilline is wag-
ing “as good a race as he can” against
Loughlin, but said socially conservative
Democrats outside of Providence could
side with the GOP candidates in the wake
of the campaign attacks launched against
the Providence mayor.
“Loughlin is gaining traction by pointing
to Cicilline’s mayoral record,” Wasserman
said. “Big city mayors often have a hard
time turning an election into a referendum
on their opponents when they have such
a lengthy record to defend themselves.”
Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the
University of Virginia, identified the Provi-
Continues on page 25
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NATIONALNEWS

‘Don’t Ask’ repeal must overcome McCain filibuster

Continued from page 10
Washington Blade: Robert, on “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell,” I understand a meeting
is taking place today with — between
the White House and repeal advocates.
What commitments is the White House
going to be offering during this meeting
in the effort to repeal the law?
Robert Gibbs: Well, the same — likely
the same commitments that I have enu-
merated in here, and that is our desire to
see the defense authorization bill pend-
ing before the Senate taken up. That in-
law that — the end of this law – the time
for the end of this law has come.
The courts are signaling that, and cer-
tainly it’s been his political belief going
back when I met him in 2004 — that was
his position.
Advocate: Any sense of what that re-
port looks like? Has anyone in the White
House had a chance to see some of the
[pre-runs] of that — the DOD report?
Gibbs: Not to my knowledge. The last
time I was — I heard about this and no-
body in his building had seen that.
Advocate: In terms of contingency
planning, I know this is your favorite sub-
ject, but, look, there’s a very real possi-
bility this doesn’t go through. I know you
guys want it to. I know that’s the meet-
ing today, but if it doesn’t go through, is
something like stop-loss on the table?
[It’s] perfectly within the president’s au-
thority, by the way, in a time of war.
Gibbs: I think that, look, you’ve seen
steps that have been taken over the past
several days at the Pentagon involving
service secretaries, you have a sitting
chair of the Joint Chiefs who believes it’s
time for this law to end [and] the presi-
dent working closely with the secretary
to make that happen. Our efforts in the
short term will be focused on an endur-
able repeal of a law that the president
thinks is unjust — and that’s where our
focus will be.

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cludes a repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
as the House has already voted on. The
president wants the defense authoriza-
tion act and that repeal passed. That
is the basis for the meeting today and I
think the president and the administra-
tion have committed to working to see

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Blade: I want to follow up on that. Is

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to have to get past a promised filibuster
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only way we can move to that bill is to
change some of those votes.

Blade: It’s been reported that any dis-

cussion of litigation on “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” during this meeting would terminate
the discussion. Why is that?
Gibbs: …Again, understand that
some of the participants in the meeting
are with groups that are in litigation as a
plaintiff where the United States govern-
ment is the defendant. I don’t think either
side believes that those type of conver-
sations about the litigation between two
parties represented in a lawsuit is appro-
priate.

Blade: Who initiated the meeting? You

or them?
Gibbs: I don’t know the answer to that
at this point.

Blade: Just one last question: is the

president … expecting repeal legisla-
tion on his desk by the end of this year
regardless of what happens at the polls
next week?
Gibbs: That’s our hope. Again, our
desire and our hope and the president’s
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Key Senate races a focus for LGBT community
Pro-gay Dems face
tough fights in
Nevada, Wisc., Colo.
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
On Election Day, many eyes will
be focused on several key Sen-
ate races where lawmakers with
a history of support for the LGBT
community are facing tough chal-
lenges on the road to re-election.
By far the most high profile
race in this group is taking place
in Nevada, where Senate Major-
ity Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is
fighting for his political life against
Republican Sharron Angle, a Tea
Party candidate and former Ne-
vada State Assembly member.
Several polls have Angle
ahead of Reid by a few points.
On Tuesday, Rasmussen Reports
made public a poll that found An-
gle leading Reid by four percent-
age points among likely voters.
As majority leader, Reid is
responsible for moving forward
with pro-LGBT legislation in the
Senate and would continue to
decide the agenda if he wins on
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
Sen. Harry Reid, the majority leader,
is trailing Tea Party-backed opponent
Sharron Angle in the latest polls.
Election Day.
Reid has expressed sup-
port for the Employment Non-
Discrimination Act and repeal
of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” A Mor-
mon, Reid has also been critical
of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints’ lead role in
backing Proposition 8 in Cali-
fornia, which ended same-sex
marriage in the state in 2008.
Michael Mitchell, executive
director of the National Stone-
wall Democrats, said a win for
Reid is important to the LGBT
community because some
would likely blame his loss on
his leadership on LGBT issues.
“I have a feeling that’s where
the Republicans will go with this,
and it will be over ‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell,’ or it will be that he
was too liberal,” Mitchell said.
“And, of course, our issues in
that moniker of ‘too liberal.’”
In contrast to Reid, Angle
has said “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
shouldn’t be repealed until the
Pentagon has a chance to finish
its review of the policy.
Angle has also said in a
questionnaire that she’d refuse
campaign contributions from
businesses that have pro-gay
policies in place. She has,
however, reportedly taken con-
tributions from political action
committees to which such busi-
nesses have donated.
The Republican candidate
is also known for having ties to
an anti-gay party in Nevada in
october 29, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 19
which she once held member-
ship, the American Indepen-
dent Party.
In 1994, when Angle was in-
volved in the group, the American
Independent Party published a
16-page newspaper ad insert
calling for a state constitutional
amendment permitting discrimi-
nation against LGBT people. The
insert refers to LGBT people as
“sodomites” and portrays them
as “child-molesting, HIV-carry-
ing, Hell-bound freaks.”
Despite Angle’s positions,
one Republican LGBT group is
looking forward to seeing Reid
go because of the economic
conditions facing Nevada.
Christian Berle, deputy exec-
utive director of the Log Cabin
Republicans, said the race in
Nevada is “as much about voter
distaste with Reid’s record as it
is about the positions presented
by Angle and her campaign.”
“Nevadans want a senator
who will stand for their values
and deliver for a state that has a
15 percent unemployment rate,
not a legislator who is jockeying
for legislation to favor the White
House agenda first and fore-
most,” Berle said.
While enjoying general sup-
port among LGBT people, Reid
has been criticized for not mov-
ing fast enough on pro-LGBT
legislation.
Some supporters of “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal said he
politicized a repeal measure in
September by limiting the num-
ber of amendments that could
have been offered on the bill
once it reached the floor.
The Senate was unable to
move forward with the legisla-
tion, and many senators said
the amendment issue prevented
them from voting in the affirmative.
But Mitchell said he’s “tired of
hearing Republicans and other
folks” blame Reid for the failure
of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal
in the Senate because he said
the majority leader was doing
his job by limiting the number of
amendments on the bill.
“With the incredible obstruc-
tionism from the Republicans that
were blocking every single bill al-
most,” Mitchell said. “There are like
420 bills that the Senate needed
to pick up that the House passed.
As majority leader, he needs to
Continues on page 23
20 washingtonblade.com • october 29, 2010
NATIONALNEWS
Rejected gay judicial nominee speaks out
Alter denies holding
anti-Christian views
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
A gay New York attorney
whose nomination to the fed-
eral bench was rejected by the
White House over anti-Christian
comments he allegedly made
claims that media outlets mis-
characterized his views.
In an Oct. 21 letter to the Wash-
ington Blade, Daniel Alter said
media outlets misrepresented his
views on inclusion of the phrase
“under God” in the Pledge of
Allegiance and the practice of
wishing shoppers “Merry Christ-
mas” during the holidays.
The Blade last week pub-
lished those reported state-
ments as they were presented
in a 2005 article from Cybercast
News Online and a 2004 article
in The New Republic.
“Having read the [Blade] ar-
ticle, I am concerned that other
readers might come away believ-
ing that I am hostile to the sea-
sonal greetings ‘Merry Christmas’
Daniel Alter
and that I personally object to
the Pledge of Allegiance,” Alter
writes. “Neither is true.”
In February, Sen. Chuck
Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced
his recommended nomination
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But informed sources told the
Blade the White House rejected
the nomination over the state-
ments perceived as anti-Christian.
Alter was previously an as-
sistant U.S. attorney for the
Southern District of New York
and specialized in First Amend-
ment and terrorism issues. He
also served as national direc-
tor of the civil rights division of
the Anti-Defamation League, an
organization that works to fight
anti-Semitism.
Had the Senate confirmed Al-
ter to the position, he would have
become the first openly gay male
to serve on the federal bench.
In his letter to the Blade, Alter
says the CNS article that quotes his
views on “Merry Christmas” took his
“words entirely out of context.”
“As National Civil Rights Di-
rector for the Anti-Defamation
League, it was my job to express
ADL’s view that — especially at
holiday time — people should
appreciate that different faith
traditions celebrate differently,
and children’s schools and oth-
er public institutions should try
to acknowledge these diverse
customs when they sponsor
ately respond to the Blade’s
request for comment on the ac-
holiday events,” Alter said. “In curacy of the Alter quote.
short, the message was that Based on the reported state-
holiday time should be a time ments, the White House and
for warmth and inclusion, not Schumer reportedly determined
division and exclusion.” that Alter wouldn’t be able to
The quote from the 2005 CNS reach the 60-vote threshold need-
article reads: “Our diversity has ed in the Senate to overcome a
made us great and will continue filibuster of his nomination.
to make us great and [‘Merry Shin Inouye, a White House
Christmas’] undermines both the spokesperson, addressed the
holiday spirit as well as the mes- rejection of Alter’s nomination in
sage I think Americans should a statement to the Blade.
be sending to each other.” “The White House does not
Alter attached to his letter to comment on Presidential ap-
the Blade a 2005 e-mail he sent pointments that have not been
to the communications staff at announced,” Inouye said. “But all
the Anti-Defamation League potential nominees are considered
saying CNS News “falsely re- on the basis of their qualifications.”
ported” his remarks. Inouye said the president is
“I feel strongly that we should committed to appointing “highly
send a correction for the record,” qualified individuals” for each
Alter said at the time. “I do not post and “is proud that his ap-
want to go down as someone who pointments reflect the diversity
is hostile to ‘Merry Christmas.’” of the American public.”
Deborah Lauter, current “We have already made a
director of civil rights for the record number of openly LGBT
Anti-Defamation League, has appointments — including
told the Blade her organization appointments to the judicial
“should have insisted” the re- branch — and we are confident
cord be corrected at the time. that this number will only con-
CNS News didn’t immedi- tinue to grow,” Inouye said.
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NATIONALNEWS
President Obama decried the bullying of students and said, ‘we’ve got to dispel the myth’ that bullying is
‘just a normal rite of passage.’
Education Dept. ramps
up anti-bullying efforts
White House to host 2011
conference on harassment
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The Education Department has is-
sued new guidance to schools and col-
leges throughout the country in an effort
to combat the bullying of LGBT students.
On Tuesday, Russlynn Ali, assistant
secretary of education for civil rights,
sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to educa-
tors clarifying when student bullying vio-
lates federal anti-discrimination laws.
The letter states that while a feder-
al statute provides no specific protection
against bullying on the basis of sexual
orientation or gender identity, LGBT stu-
dents are protected on the basis of gen-
der under federal law.
Additionally, Ali states that although feder-
al laws don’t provide explicit protection from
bullying on the basis of religion, they do of-
fer protection against the harassment of
members of religious groups based on their
shared ethnic characteristics.
Federal laws that offer those protections
to students include Title IX of the Educa-
tion Amendment of 1972, which prohibits
discrimination on the basis of gender.
“School personnel who understand their
legal obligations to address harassment
under these laws are in the best position
to prevent it from occurring and to respond
appropriately when it does,” Ali writes.
Also on Tuesday, the Obama adminis-
tration announced a new planned initia-
tive to help combat bullying in schools.
Early next year, the White House plans
to host a conference to raise awareness
and equip young people and community
leaders with tools to address bullying
and harassment.
The letter and announcement come
on the heels of numerous reported sui-
cides of young gay men who reportedly
took their own lives because they had
been bullied at school.
In a statement accompanying the let-
ter, President Obama decried the bully-
ing of students and said, “we’ve got to
october 29, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 21
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Fall
dispel the myth” that bullying is “just a
normal rite of passage.”
“It’s not,” Obama said. ”We have an
obligation to ensure that our schools
are safe for all of our kids. Every single
young person deserves the opportunity
to learn and grow and achieve their po-
tential, without having to worry about the
constant threat of harassment.”
is the ideal time to plant a tree.
In the letter, Ali cites several examples
of bullying and recommends the appropri-
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ate response from school administrators.
In one example, a gay male student
was harassed — both in person and on
social networking websites – prompt-
ing him to drop out of his school’s dra-
ma club. While the school reprimand-
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others continued to harass the student,
according to the letter. trainings and workshops
“As noted in the example, the school
failed to recognize the pattern of miscon-
duct as a form of sex discrimination under
year-round classes
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In a conference call Monday, the Edu- do-it-yourself planting and care instruction
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new guidance with reporters.
Ali said the U.S. government could
and more.
respond to schools that allow bullying
against LGBT students in a variety of ways,
including the restriction of federal funds.
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termination or conditioning of all federal
funds received from the Department of
Education,” she said.
Still, officials maintained that cutting
off funds for a school would be an un-
usual occurrence. Ali said the Educa-
tion Department hasn’t withheld funds
from schools at least in the decade from
schools because they “usually come into
compliance during negotiations.”
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Pro-gay Democrats in trouble as Election Day nears
Continued from page 19
start to pull things together to try
and get things through.”
Mitchell said faulting Reid for
the failure of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” in the Senate is “placing
the blame in wrong place” and
said “the blame is solely on the
Republicans there.”
Another race of interest is
taking place in Wisconsin,
where U.S. Sen. Russ Fein-
gold (D-Wis.) is running against
Republican Ron Johnson, a
wealthy plastics manufacturer.
Many polls have Feingold
trailing Johnson. On Tuesday,
Rasmussen published a poll that
found Feingold behind Johnson
by seven percentage points
among Wisconsin likely voters.
Cook Political Report identifies
the race as “leans Republican.”
Feingold is known for hav-
ing long been a friend to the
LGBT community. In 1996, he
was among 14 senators to vote
against passage of the Defense
of Marriage Act.
In the current Congress, Fe-
ingold has co-sponsored ENDA
and legislation that would end
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sible for an amendment to State
Department budget legislation
that would require the U.S. gov-
ernment to take more active role
in LGBT issues overseas.
Michael Cole, a Human
Rights Campaign spokesper-
son, said Feingold deserves
support from the LGBT com-
munity because he has long
been a “progressive champion,
broadly, and particularly for the
LGBT community for years.
“I think that are so many is-
sues in play out in the field that
it is hard, I think, for LGBT peo-
ple to see such a champion in a
tough race,” Cole said. “It speaks
to the difficult political environ-
ment that’s out there right now.”
Mitchell praised Feingold for
sometimes being a maverick and
said his loss would be “heart-
breaking” because his voice is
distinct among the Senate Dem-
ocratic caucus. Earlier this year,
the senator joined with most Re-
publicans to vote against finan-
cial reform legislation.
“He doesn’t always vote lock
step,” Mitchell said. “He’s very
much a
freethinker,
2:02:39 PM and I think
we’re seeing less and less of
that in both houses actually.”
Still, an anti-gay label doesn’t
fit Johnson. The Republican can-
didate said he would support re-
peal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” on
the condition that the Pentagon
backs an end to the law.
Last month, Johnson told
reporters that he favors nondis-
crimination, but wants to see
the Pentagon’s report on how
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal
would affect operations. He
said if the report were convinc-
ing, he would vote to remove
the statute from the books.
Berle said the Wisconsin
race represents “a remarkable
contrast” between a long-serv-
ing politician and “a business-
man who knows what it takes
to sign the front of a paycheck.
Berle also commended John-
son for being willing to vote for
repeal of the military’s gay ban.
“Johnson’s support for end-
ing the failed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell’ policy is representative of
a broad swath of Republicans
throughout the country who fa-
vor open service,” Berle said.
In the center of the coun-
try, another race is playing out
where the candidates have di-
october 29, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 23
vergent views on gay issues.
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-
Colo.) is vying to retain his seat
against Republican Ken Buck,
a Tea Party candidate and dis-
trict attorney in the state.
The race between Buck and
Bennet is seen as among the
closest in the country. On Monday,
Public Policy Polling published
numbers finding that, among
likely Colorado voters, 47 percent
support Buck and while another
47 percent support Bennet.
Buck has made several anti-
gay comments throughout the
course of his campaign. In a
September debate, Buck said
he opposes “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” repeal because he said the
U.S. military should be as “ho-
mogeneous as possible.”
In another recent debate on
NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Buck
said being gay is a choice and
compared it to alcoholism.
“I think that birth has an in-
fluence over it, like alcoholism
and some other things, but I
think that, basically, you have a
choice,” he said.
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Cole said the choice for
LGBT people in the Colorado
race is distinct based on the
positions of the candidates.
“You have Michael Bennet,
who has been a strong voice for
the community running against
Buck, who just on ‘Meet the
Press’ last weekend made his
dangerous comments about
LGBT people,” Cole said.
Mitchell also said a win for
Bennet is important in Colorado
because of statements Buck
has made against gays as well
as recent remarks against the
separation of church and state.
“Ken Buck is little crazy,
right?” Mitchell said. “His state-
ment of separation of church
and state ... I think when you
start to peel the layers down
from that, I think that’s a pretty
extreme view.”
But Berle characterized the
Colorado race as “a referendum
on the failed Democratic lead-
ership” in the Senate.
– Story continues at
washingtonblade.com
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dence mayor as the “favorite” in the Rhode
Island race and said the outcome of the
contest would be “likely” Democratic. Even
so, Sabato acknowledged that, “Republi-
cans claim that the race has closed fast.”
But Hyers dismissed talk that Cicilline
is in danger of losing the election, even as
he acknowledged that the 2010 elections
are “a tough environment for Democrats.”
“Fortunately for us, we’ve been running
this campaign like we’re tied ever since it
began,” Hyers said. “We’re taking noth-
ing for granted we’ve seen what happens
when Democrats take their foot off the gas.
We’re not going to let that happen; we’re
going that voters know everything there is
to know about these two candidates.”
Cicilline is running in a Democratic
stronghold and is credited for being a
powerhouse fundraiser. He has raised
nearly $1.7 million so far in his cam-
paign while, in comparison, Loughlin has
raised $618,000.
A poll made public earlier this month
by NBC 10-Quest Research in Rhode Is-
land also indicates that Cicilline is head-
ing to victory. The poll found that Cicilline
is leading Loughlin by 47 percent to 36
percent among likely voters.
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double digits.”
“We have a phenomenal grassroots
operation, a great ground game that’s
started to turn out the voters ... and the
response at the doors is overwhelming,”
Hyers said.
Compared to other non-incumbent
openly gay congressional candidates,
Cicilline is widely seen as having the
best chance of winning on Election Day.
Steve Pougnet, the mayor of Palm
Springs, Calif., is running in California’s
45th congressional district to unseat
Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.).
At the other end of the country, Ed
Potosnak, a former staffer for Rep. Mike
Honda (D-Calif.) and a public school
teacher, is running in New Jersey’s 7th
congressional against Rep. Leonard
Lance (R-N.J.).
Both gay candidates are running un-
der the Democratic banner in tradition-
ally “red” districts against GOP incum-
bents at a time when major Republican
gains are expected in Congress.
Sabato said Bono Mack is the “clear
favorite” in the race against Pougnet, al-
though he acknowledged California’s
45th congressional district is “in one of the
weaker districts for a Republican this year.”
“Steve Pougnet would need a strong
top-of-the-ticket coattail from [Demo-
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Brown and [U.S. Sen.] Barbara Boxer to
win, and that is unlikely in this district,”
Sabato added.
Despite these challenges, the political
observer speaking on condition of ano-
nymity said Pougnet has run an “equally
good race” as Cicilline and has likewise
been a fundraising powerhouse.
According to Federal Election Re-
ports, Pougnet has been keeping up with
Bono Mack, which is unusual because
she’s an incumbent. Pougnet has raised
nearly $1.7 million in the campaign while
Bono Mack has raised $2.2 million.
“If you look at the last financial filings,
you’ll be shocked at how similar they are
in how much money they’ve raised,” the
observer said.
Still, Pougnet has a tougher race than
Cicilline because the Palm Springs may-
or is challenging an incumbent.
“As time has shown, over and over
again, running against an incumbent is
that much more challenging, especially
someone who’s been there as long as
she has,” the observer said.
Potosnak’s race is seen as the tough-
est for an out gay candidate this year.
Sabato said he has “no indication” he
could put the Republican incumbent in
“any electoral trouble.” Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
“We list that one as safe [Republican],” Steve Pougnet faces a tough fight in unseating
Sabato said. “This is not the year to upset Rep. Mary Bono-Mack in a year that is likely to
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VIEWPOINT
Democrats earned their drubbing
Two years of
squandered
opportunities for
change
By KEVIN NAFF
Two years after Barack Obama
won the White House and Demo-
crats took commanding majorities
in Congress, it’s back-to-Earth
time for LGBT Democrats.
It’s hard to keep track of all the
promises Democrats made to
LGBT voters just two years ago,
but they included quite a laundry
list of legislative priorities, ad-
ministrative policy changes and
gay-friendly appointments.
To be sure, Obama’s admin-
istration has made progress on
LGBT issues, from expanding
the federal hate crimes law to
appointing a record number of
openly LGBT officials. The Asso-
ciated Press — in a story picked
up around the country this week
— reported that Obama has
made more than 150 LGBT
appointments. But even that
achievement falls short of expec-
tations set back in 2008.
Chuck Wolfe, president of the
Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, was
part of a group of LGBT leaders
that met with the Obama transi-
tion team in December 2008. He
told the Blade at the time that
Obama’s team said gay activists
“would be very happy with the re-
sults of the appointments.”
“Our point is we will be happy
FEEDBACK
The following comments were
posted to our website. Visit
washingtonblade.com to join
the discussion.
Re: “White House rejects gay
judicial nominee” (news, Oct. 20)
Was it HRC that told us that
this administration was the most
gay-friendly of any in history?
With friends like this… —Keppler
If this attorney said anything
regarding “Under God” or the
“Pledge of Allegiance,” so
what? Doesn’t everyone have
freedom of speech? Or maybe
he was not hired because he’s
a non-believer, in addition to
being gay. Obama has con-
tinuously ignored “separation
of church and state” and I wish
someone would run against him
in 2012. —Beverly J. Guardino
if there is a cabinet-level ap-
pointment,” Wolfe said. “Any-
thing less than a cabinet-level
appointment would demonstrate
that they did not hear us.”
Despite the many LGBT ap-
pointees, including John Berry
at OPM, Obama has not named
an openly LGBT person to a
cabinet-level position.
The problem with campaign-
ing on big change is that when
you fail to deliver, as Obama
has on multiple fronts, voters
aren’t going to show up next
time. Next week’s elections will
bring the country a new House
of Representatives headed not
by a San Francisco Democrat,
but by Ohio Republican Rep.
John Boehner, who last week
received a zero percent pro-
LGBT rating from the Human
Rights Campaign. Boehner
has consistently voted against
LGBT interests and refused to
co-sponsor any legislation to
benefit gay Americans.
If the Democrats manage to
hold the Senate — not a fore-
gone conclusion according to
the latest polls — it will likely
include more lawmakers hostile
to gay rights, including at least
a couple of Tea Party-backed
candidates. Make no mistake
that the Tea Party’s reluctance
to talk social issues is not an
indication of moderation. It just
means they know that anti-gay
attacks turn off independent vot-
ers during campaign season.
But as soon as they’re elected,
you can bet on the return of a
federal marriage amendment
A judge not only has to be
nominated, he must be con-
firmed. In this case, the fact
that Alter appears to have pre-
decided possible future cases
is an important factor. This is
enough to disqualify anyone
— remember Kagan’s confirma-
tion hearing? Many people will
attribute his apparent bias to
his gayness and if that is true,
they would be convinced that
any gay nominee has already
pre-decided cases involving
religion. That would tarnish all
future gay nominees. Never-
theless, even if the allegations
against Alter are eventually
proven false, the controversy
means that there won’t be much
confidence in his decisions, and
that impairs his effectiveness.
Maybe it’s best to drop this one
and move on to the next. —Ken
and the inevitable attacks on
D.C.’s same-sex marriage law.
Given the history of midterm
elections being hostile to the
party in power, we knew Obama
and the Democrats had just two
years to deliver on some key
LGBT initiatives, most notably
repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t’ Tell”
and passage of the Employ-
ment Non-Discrimination Act. But
hopes were far higher than just
those two issues. In September
2009, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-
N.Y.) introduced the Respect for
Marriage Act, which would over-
turn the Defense of Marriage Act.
Just one year ago, Nadler boldly
declared, “… we can and we will
dump DOMA once and for all.”
Obama campaigned on support-
ing a full repeal of DOMA, which
bars the federal government
from recognizing same-sex mar-
riages. One year later, the bill is
nowhere and repealing DOMA
has vanished from the radar.
As gay Rep. Barney Frank said
in an interview with the Blade last
year, “I think getting ENDA, a re-
peal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and
full domestic partner benefits for
federal employees will take up all
of what we can do and maybe
more in this Congress.” Boy was
he right. This Congress has so far
failed to deliver on any of those
promises.
Even if this lame Congress
manages to repeal “Don’t Ask”
in the lame duck session —
again, not a foregone conclu-
sion given Sen. John McCain’s
promise to filibuster it — the
damage to this administration’s
He said, she said. A Chris-
tian organization whines about
a gay man becoming a federal
judge and our fierce, spineless
advocate once more kisses
bigot asses. Anyone remember
Shirley Sherrod? —Jerry
It’s too bad Alter’s nomination
got short circuited. But what’s
even worse is the childish reac-
tion of most gay commenters.
There’s no indication he was
dropped by Obama because
Obama didn’t want him – it was
because Alter’s nomination could
not get through the obstructionist
Republican gantlet in the Senate,
and Schumer agreed about that.
Somebody ridiculed the idea
that Obama is the most gay
friendly president in U.S. his-
tory – of course he is, and that’s
just a fact dictated by the rate of
relationship with LGBT voters is
done. In typically sloppy Demo-
cratic fashion, the party has
managed to alienate its most
ardent supporters — gays —
by half-stepping on repeal and
appealing a federal judge’s rul-
ing that the military’s gay ban
is unconstitutional. Leave it to
the Democrats to piss off a con-
stituency that has nowhere else
to go. As bad as the Democrats
have been in overpromising and
under-delivering, the Republi-
cans are far worse. After next
week, LGBT rights advocates
return to playing defense on the
Hill after failing to capitalize on
the incredible and short-lived
opportunities of 2009 and 2010.
The Democrats have earned
the drubbing they are about to
receive next week. Maybe losing
the House will teach the party to
stay loyal to its base and to fulfill
promises made during a cam-
paign. If not, there will likely be
a viable alternative for LGBT vot-
ers in 2012, as New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg flirts with the
idea of running an independent
campaign for the White House.
Kevin Naff is editor of the Washing-
ton Blade and can be reached at
knaff@washblade.com.
social progress – 50 years ago
was still the dark ages, when
gays were criminals in every
state in the nation.
Don’t go trashing your allies
just because they aren’t with
you 100 percent. Work against
your enemies (i.e. against all Re-
publicans), not against the best
political friends we have, even
if they’re lukewarm. Lack of soli-
darity by Democrats is exactly
the reason Republicans control
Congress even while Democrats
have large majorities. —Pogovio
Re: “Rejected gay judicial
nominee speaks out” (news,
Oct. 22)
The “Pledge” is more than
a pledge of allegiance; it is
a statement of beliefs, and
these are beliefs I do not
share. —Meredith2kp4
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INSIDELGBTWASHINGTON
Time has come to bring our city together
Vote Gray, Catania
and the Dem slate
By PETER ROSENSTEIN
On Tuesday, Nov. 2, we
have the opportunity to begin
to bring our city together. I
urge everyone to vote for Vin-
cent Gray for mayor, Kwame
Brown for Council Chair, El-
eanor Holmes Norton for del-
egate and the entire Democrat-
ic slate. Then cast a vote for
David Catania for Council-at-
Large for the non-Democratic
seat on the Council.
There has been much talk
about the write-in campaign
for Adrian Fenty. He personally
has said he will vote for Vincent
Gray but there are die-hard
Fenty supporters who think
they are making a statement by
writing in his name. They actu-
ally may be hurting him. They
are turning him into a two-time
loser and that can’t be good for
his future.
Whether Fenty gets 1,000,
2,000 or 20,000 votes as a write-
in candidate is irrelevant since he
VIEWPOINT
Winning in politics is a two-party fight
Republicans are
advancing the
argument for
equal rights
By ROBERT TURNER
The witching hour is upon us.
I’m not talking about Halloween,
but the event that occurs just 48
hours later — Election Day. With
mere days to go, the political
map has nearly 100 Democratic
seats in play, with the Republi-
can Party poised to retake the
House of Representatives, ac-
cording to most pundits and
prognosticators.
To my LGBT family, sorry to
say this, but “I told you so!” While
some groups have said that we
need to be patient with this White
House and this Congress, time is
quickly running out.
To my Republican brothers
and sisters, it is time to start
talking about what we stand
for. It is no longer OK to only be
against everything.
october 29, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 27
The nastiness of some of the backers of the
agencies, budgets and the his-
tory of our city. He successfully
phase in building our city. Peo-
ple like Michelle Rhee can be
write-in campaign has been sad to see. Yes, chaired the Council that passed seen as change agents and
everyone is entitled to vote for whomever they education reform, civil marriage they often don’t stay around.
equality and universal early It was Rhee herself who made
choose but attacking Gray with make-believe childhood education. He sup- it impossible for her to con-
scenarios of returning us to the past is just silliness. ports and recently cut the rib- tinue here, she realized that
bon for the new Community Col- and resigned. Fenty may one
lege of the District of Columbia, day be looked at as a change
won’t beat Vincent Gray who only the community. Gray is committed which already has nearly 3,000 agent as well. History will look
needs to win by one vote to be to reducing the number of boards students enrolled. He continues at what he accomplished and
the next mayor. There is talk that and commissions and appoint- to speak out against violence how he did it and answer such
the write-in will keep Gray from ing only highly qualified people to and hate and is committed to questions as whether he over-
getting a mandate. Well, man- serve on those that remain. working with public schools to spent the budget and took
dates don’t mean much. Fenty The nastiness of some of the end the bullying of LGBT youth. credit for too much of what An-
had one in 2006 and look where backers of the write-in cam- He has secured the assistance thony Williams began.
it got him. Gray has good rela- paign has been sad to see. Yes, of Alice Rivlin and Anthony Wil- On Nov. 2, cast a vote for
tionships with the Council and a everyone is entitled to vote for liams to work with him on bud- Vince Gray for the future of the
thorough knowledge of our city, whomever they choose but at- get issues. District, for “One City.” Only by
so a mandate won’t make a differ- tacking Gray with make-believe Gray doesn’t need a man- working together will we succeed
ence in how he moves us forward. scenarios of returning us to the date to govern but our votes in making a better life for us all.
And move us forward he will! He past is just silliness. And some should go to the person who
has already secured the appoint- columnists like Jonetta Rose will be the next mayor to sym-
ment of Kaya Henderson, deputy Barras must have felt slighted bolize our support for his vision
chancellor under Michelle Rhee, somewhere in the past to ac- of “One City.” We are all a big
as the interim chancellor of public count for some of the over-the- part of that “One City” and we
schools. Both Gray and Hender- top vitriol that has appeared in will see the benefit of having a
son are committed to continuing their columns. mayor who is comfortable fac-
aggressive education reform. It’s Gray has been impressive ing head-on, talking about, and
likely he will keep Cathy Lanier as in the town hall meetings he working to end the racism, ho-
chief of police and both she and has hosted across the District. mophobia and sexism that still Peter Rosenstein is a D.C.-based
LGBT rights and Democratic Party activ-
the union have already said they He has amazing amounts of permeate our city. ist. He writes regularly for the Blade.
will work together for the good of information at his fingertips on It is time to move to the next
the National Republican Congres-
sional Committee and the Nation-
Log Cabin Republicans. Local-
ly, all four Republican D.C. City
And while it is true that the GOP has a al Republican Senatorial Commit- Council candidates are gay-
dismal record on LGBT issues, Republican leaders
are engaging gays and lesbians on issues
tee spoke at the National Dinner
for the Log Cabin Republicans.
friendly. And two of them, Marc
Morgan (Ward 1) and Tim Day
where we at least have common ground. They did so despite the protests (Ward 5) are gay Republicans.
of several conservative groups Even before the holy war at-
that asked them to withdraw. tacks on marriage equality during
No, their records on tradi- the Bush years, there weren’t many
Weeks ago, Larry Sabato of ing political thought. tional LGBT issues aren’t stellar groups willing to work with the GOP
the University of Virginia’s Cen- This diversity in thought led in the least. However, they are on our issues. I hope the last two
ter for Politics, forecasted that conservative icon Ted Olsen engaging us on issues where years of total Democratic control will
the House would flip to the GOP to craft a conservative consti- we can come together. While show these groups that they cannot
after Nov. 2. He went further by tutional argument in the Prop the Defense of Marriage Act, afford to make that same mistake
saying that the Senate could 8 case in California. And most the Employment Non-Discrimi- again. We need to engage both
see a 50-50 split. recently, it is the Log Cabin Re- nation Act and “Don’t Ask” are parties, and change hearts and
Back in January on these publicans, who six years ago at the forefront of our move- minds one person at a time. If we
pages, I asked, “What is there during the Bush administration ment, there are other issues that don’t, we’ll get another Democratic
to show for the progress of the brought a suit against the mili- we can and should talk about, speaker under a Democratic presi-
LGBT movement under Demo- tary that two weeks ago halted such as immigration reform and dent telling us “not now!”
cratic control?” I fear the an- all discharges worldwide under taxes, just to name two.
swer to this question today is “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” It is Re- The outcome of this mid-
the same as it was nine months publicans who are winning the term election will produce many
ago: not much. argument for equal rights for things. It will produce heart-
While many within our com- gays and lesbians. ache, malaise and distrust. But
munity continue to blindly mock And while it is true that the I also hope it will produce a
and ridicule gay Republicans as GOP has a dismal record on sense of working with both po-
being self-loathing, among other LGBT issues, Republican lead- litical parties. This can be done
hollow insults, they simultane- ers are engaging gays and les- by helping to elect more gay Robert Turner is president of the D.C.
ously refuse to see that strength bians on issues where we at and gay-friendly Republican chapter of Log Cabin Republicans and
through diversity means just that least have common ground. candidates. There are more can be reached at robert.turner@
– diversity in everything, includ- Last month, the chairmen of than a dozen endorsed by the dclogcabin.org.
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D.C. a ‘top 10’ staple among lists of U.S. cities

Washington, D.C. is no
stranger to Top 10-style “Best
Of” lists that sing its praises.
In 2010 alone, the district has
appeared in countless stories
like this. Why do we like lists so
much? Perhaps it’s the drama
of a countdown, or perhaps Da-
vid Letterman has just had that
tremendous of an impact on our
culture. In any case, here are
some of the recent feathers in
D.C.’s very heavy cap.
To start with, let’s recap some
of the lists that proclaim what
those of us who reside here al-
ready know - D.C. is the great-
est place to live. I know I’m bi-
ased, but it looks like the media
backs me up on this.
Thanks to our city being the
country’s governmental and de-
fensive hub, jobs are relatively
plentiful and we’ve been spared
the worst of economic times.
Hence the Greater Washington
Metro has been named as the
#1 City Where the Recession
is Easing (Forbes), America’s
Highest Earning City (The Daily
Beast), the Best Place for Find-
ing a Job (Stateline) and #3
on Kiplinger’s Best Cities for
the Next Decade list. D.C. cer-
tainly appeals to the young and
trendy, and that’s no surprise.
Forbes ranks the district as #2
on it list of America’s Best Cities
for Young Professionals, and it
is #9 on Gradspot’s list of Top 10
Cities for Recent Grads. In D.C.,
there are many opportunities to
work (and play) hard!
One of the major strengths of
our city is its diversity. Reflect-
ing that, it was recognized by
The Daily Beast as the #15 Gay-
est City in the nation because of
its “smart, wealthy, and power-
ful queer community.” Compli-
ments, I’ll take them. There are
more than five same-sex cou-
ples per every thousand house-
holds, according to the list. D.C.
was also named as the #10 Top
City for African-Americans to
Live by Black Enterprise Maga-
zine. The city ranked as both
the #2 Top City for Single Wom-
en (Single Minded Women)
and the #2 Top City for Working
Moms (ForbesWomen).
What did I say earlier about
playing hard? Washington,
D.C. was named by CNBC
and GoTime.com as the sec-
ond best city for Happy Hour in
the country, due to there being
about 13 Happy Hour locations
per square mile and a large
crowd of young professionals,
working professionals and col-
lege students. Now, there’s a
downside to this; last year, D.C.
ranked highest in the country
for alcohol and cocaine abuse
(Washington Examiner). While
we’re at, let’s get out of the way
some of the more ignominious
lists the district appeared on
in 2010: #4 in America’s Worst
traffic congestion (Forbes),
Worst summer experienced by
an American city, for 2010 (The
Weather Channel), and #9 on
the list of cities most infested
by bed bugs (Terminix)! I don’t
know about you, but I suddenly
itch all over.
But of course, the positives
outweigh the negatives. Among
the district’s other various hon-
ors were: Healthiest U.S. City
(American College of Sports
Medicine), the #8 Happiest
City in America (The Huffington
Post), and America’s Smartest
City (CNNMoney). D.C. was
named as the #3 Top College
City (The American Institute for
Economic Research), as the #7
Top City for Creatives (Cooltown
Studios), and the #6 Best spot
for family vacations in the Unit-
ed States (U.S. News & World
Report). Also, we Washingto-
nians apparently eat more salad
than anyone else in the country
and are the most willing to try
new salad combinations (Dole
Food Company, Inc.). Finally,
Business Insider ranked Wash-
ington, D.C. as #12 on its list of
The 40 Best Cities on EARTH! I
don’t know how you can top that
unless someone takes it a step
further and ranks the best cities
in the universe.
And what’s the huge benefit of
all these lists proclaiming D.C.’s
well-deserved greatness, aside
from bolstering our egos? Well, it
certainly can’t hurt property val-
ues. If you read all these great
thing about the district, wouldn’t
you want to live here, too?
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WaShiNgtoN, DC 20037
$245,000
Great 2br/2ba unit
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1115 CaMeroN Street #308
AlexAndriA, VA 22314 • $475,000
Carefully designed to blend with
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$899,900
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Seconds from Harris Teeter, Shops, Restaurants and Night Life. One of
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3014 DeNt plaCe, NW
WaShiNgtoN, DC 20007
$369,900
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Towers with Urban views. Great
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Historic exterior &
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112 gibboN Street
alexaNDria, Va 22314
$1,090,000
Excellent 2BR/2BA condo
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stainless steel appliances,
granite countertops, and
large breakfast bar. As
expected, the bathrooms
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tiled. Great Courtyard views from the balcony. 2 garage parking
spaces, community clubhouse with pool and fitness center, shops
in community. Close to shopping, restaurants, public transportation,
the beltway, and a short drive to Old Town. Shuttle to close by Van
Dorn Metro with EZ commute to DC and beyond. You will love it!
400 CaMeroN Street StatioN blVD. uNit 427
alexaNDria, Va 22304
$355,000
Sunny, well-located 1 BR condo
in mid-rise bldg one block from
Braddock Rd metro in Old Town.
HDWD floors in LR; marble foyer;
all new lighting fixtures throughout.
Custom drapery in LR. Full-size
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Under cabinet lighting and new
paint in kitchen. New brushed steel
fixtures in bathroom w/ jack and jill
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four closets, including walk-in, fully
outfitted with custom Elfa shelving
for maximum storage. Sliding glass doors to private balcony (grilling
allowed). New carpet in bedroom. Pool; hot-tub; sauna and exercise
room. Underground corner parking space. Low utilities.
1200 braDDoCk plaCe, uNit 606
alexaNDria, Va 22314
$299,000
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Our annual Best Of Gay D.C. issue is back with the usual accolades for your favorites in
dining, nightlife, community and more. There are a few new categories this year, like Best Gay
TV Personality — the only category that brought a tie vote.
There’s a lot of work involved in putting this special issue to bed each year but it’s a labor of
love for the sense of community it engenders. Thanks to all who voted and enjoy looking over this
year’s winners.
The all-time champ, JR.’s, is back again this year adding a 17th prize to its bounty. Other
long-time favorites like Phase 1, Freddie’s, Town and MCC-DC are also back but there are
many newcomers to the list as well.
The winners were selected by Blade readers in an online vote. The profiles were written by
Joey DiGuglielmo, David J. Hoffman, Juliette Ebner, Patrick Folliard and Henry Morillo. Mi-
chael Key shot the photos.

DINING NIGHTLIFE COMMUNITY PEOPLE

Best Vegetarian
The Reef   Town  MCC-DC  Lynda Carter
The approach to food at the Reef,
an Adams Morgan bar and restau-
rant at 2446 18th St., N.W., is simple
— “dining with a conscience.” But not
just as in good for your principles, but
good for your appetite too.
Kitchen manager Connor Ireland
promises “you’ll taste the differ-
ence” with a vegetarian menu that is
mouth watering even for confirmed
carnivores.
For starters, sample the hummus
made from organic chickpeas and olive
oil drizzled with hemp seed oil, or the
warm dip of wild mushrooms flavored
with herbs and red wine, and move on
to something tasty like the mushroom
and barley stew with carrots, potato,
Best Dance Club
Town Danceboutique continues
to cement its reputation as a top
dance club in Washington. But with
weekly drag shows, theme parties
like the “red party” and “super hero
night” and even the somewhat un-
expected home of the Friday bear
happy hour that needed a new spot
when EFN closed, Town is much
more than a twink-filled dance club.
Town has won this award every
year since it opened three years
ago. Counting Ba’Naka’s win this
year for best drag queen, Town and
its staff now have 11 Blade “Best
Of” awards.
“I am amazed at the continued
response to what we do at Town,”
Best House of Worship
Metropolitan Community Church
of Washington — or MCC-DC —
has stabilized substantially now that
Rev. Dwayne Johnson, who’s gay,
has been on staff nearly a year end-
ing a two-year search following the
departure of long-time lesbian min-
ister Candace Shultis.
The church is also seeing a boom
in interest since same-sex marriage
became legal in Washington. John-
son has already performed 29 gay
unions. Two more are planned for
next week and he expects to reach
40 by year’s end.
For MCC, the largest mostly
LGBT church in the region, this is
its seventh win in this category.
Local Hero, Female
Obviously this isn’t Lynda Carter’s
first time being dubbed a heroine.
She became famous playing Wonder
Woman on the hit ‘70s series. But as
she’s quick to point out when she
appears at a charity benefit — and
she’s done plenty of them — those
volunteering their time for great
causes are the “real heroes.”
Her appearance as grand mar-
shal of this year’s AIDS Walk Wash-
ington, an annual benefit for Whit-
man-Walker Clinic, was no different.
Carter, who’s not above spinning
around and talking at length about
the role that made her a household
name, marched gamely with Whit-
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onion and celery, or the roasted veggie and
black-bean quesadilla.
Meat eaters can also feel less con-
science-stricken for the Reef also serves
only free-range meats and poultry - no
beef or pork from livestock stuffed with
growth steroids and hormones and
penned in feedlots. A vegan burger is
also served. As for seafood, only fish and
shellfish from sustainable aquaculture is
on the menu. And no endangered species
like Atlantic cod or swordfish.
The setting for the Reef is noteworthy
— from its jungle-theme lower-level bar
to its main floor with 14-foot high win-
dows overlooking the street and large
salt-water fish-tanks with colorful clown-
fish and creatures of the coral reef.
There’s also a bustling rooftop bar, cov-
ered and heated for the creature com-
fort of denizens of the urban reef. This is
the Reef’s first Blade award. (DH)
THE REEF
2446 18th Street, N.W.
WaShiNgtoN
202-518-3800
thereefdc.com
Best Ethnic Restaurant
Rice  Best Dessert
If you like fine Thai food, served here
at Rice in Logan Circle since 2003 un-
der the supervision of owner Sak Pol-
lert who grew up on a rice farm in rural
HELLO CUPCAKE
northern Thailand, then this is for you.
He says he can still recall the sweet
fragrance of jasmine in the sticky rice
steaming in his family kitchen at 4 a.m.
Despite more than 170 Thai-serving res-
taurants in the metro area, this place stands
out. From the burnished nickel nameplate
out front to the low-lit calming green palette
inside, RICE will put you quickly at ease in
its minimalist-chic setting with dark tables
topped with flickering candles.
This is Rice’s third Blade “Best Of”
prize and first since 2005.
Rice offers authentic Thai dishes and
a “healthy greens” vegetarian selection
– one-third of the menu is meatless. The
Thai standbys — spicy drunken noodles
and pad thai — are tasty and the curries
are all they should be.
The bar is full service, with martinis
and specialty drinks that feature a flair
for the fruity, like a cucumber-melon mo-
jito. No reservations are taken and the
word is to arrive between 5 and 8 p.m. to
avoid waiting for a table. (DH)
RICE
1608 14th St., N.W.
WaShiNgtoN
202-234-2400
ricereStauraNt.com
Hello Cupcake  POV at the W Hotel is a bar unlike
Hello Cupcake was created out of
owner Penny Karas’ passion for pastry.
Karas would make home-baked treats
POV
LEVEL ONE
for her family, friends and gatherings.
“We’re thrilled to have been chosen
Best Dessert,” Karas says. “It’s always
great to get positive feedback and af-
firmation from our customers, especially
Blade readers, who we believe to be
tastemakers in D.C.”
Hello Cupcake has a clean, modern
design with a few old-fashioned ele-
ments. The pink crystal chandelier adds
a fancy touch.
Cupcakes are $3 each and can be
bought single, in a box of four, six or 12.
The boxes are wrapped with biodegrad-
able twine and customers are provided
with a re-useable handle. (JE)
HELLO CUPCAKE
1361 coNNecticut ave., N.W.
202-861-2253
hellocupcakeoNliNe.com
Best Hotel Bar
POV at the W Hotel  Level One
most others.
Each beverage has a customized “ice
program.” Some cocktails call for chips
from a 100-pound ice block, some hand-
sculpted spears, spheres or pellets and
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some require simple shaved ice.
Mixers are made fresh at a juicing
station with locally grown produce.
Black- and red-lacquered walls show
off the bar’s array of colorful, indepen-
dent labels, spirit bottles and glasses.
Customers at the bar sit on zebra-
striped cowhide stools to watch the bar-
tenders as mix drinks.
You can also sit on custom couches
that stand out against the black walls.
The walls are a great outline to 12-foot-
tall windows showing a view of the White
House and the Washington Monument.
This is POV’s second Blade “Best Of”
prize. It also won this category last year. (JE)
POINT OF VIEW
515 15th St., N.W.
202-661-2478
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Best Brunch
 
Level One, voted best new restaurant
last year, has its “disco brunch” each Sat-
urday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“Two years ago we were begging
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people to come in to the restaurant,”
Mark Rutstein, general manager of Lev-
el One, says. “The first order of business
was to get rid of the $30 brunch and de-
sign it with options so that if people want
a $14 breakfast they can have it.”
All items on the menu, including the
unlimited Bloody Mary bar or bottom-
less mimosas, have disco-themed titles
such as “Mamma Mia Steak and Eggs,”
“54 Eggs” and “Saturday Night Hang-
over Biscuits and Gravy.”
“The community couldn’t resist pa-
tronizing us,” Rutstein says about the
humorously named brunch dishes. “We
are pleased that [they have] recognized
our efforts and made it one of their fa-
vorite places to brunch.” (JE)
LEVEL ONE
1639 R St., N.W.
202-745-0025
leveloNedc.com
Best Wine Bar
Cork  Pastas are all made in house and you
A gathering place for U Street and Lo-
gan Circle residents, Cork has a fine se-
lection of wines and tasty plates to snack
on. Owners Diane Gross and Khalid
Pitts, Logan Circle residents themselves,
took over the location in late 2007.
“Our dream in creating Cork was to
open a welcoming space in our neighbor-
hood for people to come with their friends
and family,” the restaurant’s website says.
At any given time, Cork offers at least
50 wines by the glass and 160 bottles
from small producers from around the
world. Customers can take “flights of wine”
to explore different regions. The staff of
Cork will also offer suggestions for pairing
wines with the different dishes they offer.
The bar offers wine tastings twice
a month, with not only wines from the
wine list, but also a few surprises.
This is Cork’s third Blade prize. It won
this category last year and was voted
“best new restaurant” in 2008. (JE)
CORK
1720 14th St., N.W.
202-265-coRK
coRKdc.com
Best Place for Food & WiFi
Busboys & Poets  Javery isn’t gay, but his love of the
Busboys & Poets is a restaurant,
bookstore, fair trade market and gath-
ering place established by Anas “Andy”
Shallal in 2005 with the flagship location
at 14th and V streets, N.W. There are
two other locations, all of which strive to
enhance the community.
The name refers to American poet
Langston Hughes, who worked as a
busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel in
the 1930s before gaining recognition as
a poet. Some rejected ideas for the res-
taurant’s name included Writers Block
Cafe, Broken Bread Cafe and White
Rabbit Cafe, inspired by “The Matrix.”
The store often hosts events for ac-
tivists, artists, writers and more, includ-
ing readings, viewings, discussions and
open mic nights.
This is Busboys & Poets’ first Blade
prize since 2006 when it won “best new
restaurant.” (JE)
BUSBOYS & POETS
2021 14th St., N.W.
202-387-7638
buSboySaNdpoetS.com
Best Chef
Allan Javery of Level One  dishes. The place serves a famous lasa-
Although he’s only been executive
chef of Level One restaurant for less
than a year, Allan Javery has already
made enough of an impact to be voted
“Best Chef.” Since he was appointed,
Javery says profits at the restaurant
have gone up, a testament to his skills
in this troubled economy where many
people are dining out less frequently.
Originally from lower Connecticut, Ja-
very’s history in cooking started at home
and continued through his high school
culinary classes. He’s been working in a
kitchen since he was 16.
Now, as head chef for Level One, Javery
must oversee all functions of the kitchen,
including creating the schedule, oversee-
ing staff, purchasing equipment and most
importantly, deciding on the menu.
He chooses seasonal menus that
reflect the restaurant’s “New American” FLORIANA
style, taking classic American dishes and
adding a new twist on them. For the fall
menu, he’s included innovative choices ravioli sprinkled with parmesan. Also be
such as braised short rib and “truffle mac sure to try the garlicky parsley-almond
& cheese.” He hopes soon the restaurant pesto spread for breadsticks or the man-
will be able to provide all natural or or-
ganic meat options for specialties.
go and goat cheese salad.
This is Floriana’s first Blade award. (DH)
craft has made an impact on the gay FLORIANA
community, probably because, as he 1602 17th St. N.W.
puts it, “I don’t know if other people put 202-667-5937
as much heart in their food as I do.” (HM) floRiaNaReStauRaNt.com
LEVEL ONE
1639 R St., N.W. Best Late Night
202-745-0025
leveloNedc.com
Annie’s Paramount
Steakhouse
Best Date Restaurant There are many places in D.C. for late
Floriana  night, but Annie’s seems the place to go,
and it isn’t your average steak house.
Annie’s is making a triumphant return
American and Italian cuisine define to our awards this year. This is Annie’s
the Floriana menu and romantic atmo- 16th Blade prize. It’s second only to
sphere abounds. At 1602 17th St., N.W. JR.’s for most Blade “Best Of” awards.
in Dupont Circle, Floriana is decidedly “We’ve been doing the late night for
cozy and upscale. quite a while,” Raul Deguzman, general
It’s housed in a converted brick Victo- manager of Annie’s, says. “It’s good to
rian row house, with the kitchen and an be recognized.”
intimate bar in the basement and the din- The atmosphere is fun and en-
ing rooms upstairs. Dine in the richly red- ergetic, a great place to meet up with
hued front room, with its more formal feel friends before and after hitting the local
suggested by its ornate fireplace. The clubs and bars, since It’s open 24 hours
patio, however, offers an informal choice on weekends.
and is perfect for watching the ceaseless
parade of life and people on 17th street.
Friday nights there is even a mid-
night brunch that goes until 4 p.m. the
next day where customers can enjoy
can taste the difference. Monday and
Tuesday night try the half-price pasta
French toast, eggs benedict and, of
course, steak and eggs. (JE)
gna, a 30-year-old recipe with layer upon ANNIE’S PARAMOUNT
layer of al dente pasta with seasoned STEAKHOUSE
hamburger and melted mozzarella. Other 1609 17th St., N.W.
good choices include butternut squash 202-232-0395
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loween extravaganza, a Halloween-night
owner Ed Bailey says. “We try very hard drag show Lutz says will be “extra special,”
to provide consistent quality entertain- a Thanksgiving buffet and, in March, the
ment and value and it’s so flattering that bar’s 10th anniversary celebration.
people have responded so positively for “Thanks to all who voted for us,” Lutz
so many years in a row. Thank you D.C.” says. “We appreciate all our loyal cus-
Weekly drag shows are every Friday tomers.” (JD)
and Saturday from 10 to 11:30 p.m. Its
owners previously ran other local dance FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR &
clubs including Tracks, Velvet Nation, Co- RESTAURANT
balt and Ozone. (JD) 555 SOuth 23rd St.
cryStal city, Va
TOWN 703-685-0555
2009 8th St., N.W. freddieSbeachbar.cOm
202-234-tOWN
tOWNdc.cOm
Best Happy Hour
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Best Out-of-D.C. Bar
Freddie’s Beach Bar  You’d think with as many Blade “Best
Freddie’s Beach Bar is once again a
shoo-in favorite for this prize — this is
the Crystal City, Va., bar’s ninth consec-
utive win in this category and counting
bartender Kymmr Barker’s win, the bar’s
14th prize overall.
Owner Freddie Lutz, who’s gay, says
it’s still fun to win after all these years.
“That’s fantastic to hear,” Lutz says.
“We always try to keep things fun and
exciting at Freddie’s Beach Bar.”
Recent highlights have been guest
visits from several contestants of “Ru-
Paul’s Drag Race.”
And many of the traditions will continue
Thursdays at JR.’s  pretty sure our prices are cheaper than
Of” awards as JR.’s has won — it holds
the all-time record of most wins with 17
— there’d be a wall of fame of Blade
plaques hanging there. Perhaps around
the moose head. I mean, who are we kid-
ding, this isn’t the Academy Awards, but
it’s still a fun shout out from the locals.
Manager Dave Perruzza says most
of their plaques haven’t survived.
“They just started giving good ones a
couple years ago so most of them have
fallen apart,” he says.
Perruzza says JR.’s deserves the
award.
“It is truly one of the best happy hour
specials for gay bars,” he says. “I’m
anyone else’s. We have great specials.”
This is JR.’s sixth win in the “happy
hour” category.
The bar, owned by Eric Little, has
been a 17th Street staple since it
opened in 1986. (JD)
JR.’S
1519 17th St. N.W.
202-328-0090
jrSWdc.cOm
Best Place to Meet Men
Cobalt/30 Degrees  says. “We literally picked ourselves off
Cobalt’s cachet has picked up
considerably since Mark Rutstein —
look for him in the “Best Realtor” cat-
egory — came on board in late 2008.
Blade readers noticed giving the
17th Street staple bar/dance club its
first prize since 2005 (its only blip in
the meantime was a mini shout-out
last year for hosting Bare which won
in the “best lesbian nightlife event”
category).
Rutstein, who manages the bar for
gay businessmen Eric Little and Dave
Perruzza, is thrilled.
“I am ecstatic about where we have
come as an entertainment venue,” he
the ground and started paying attention
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to what the scene wants to hear and see
as far as entertainment goes.”
He also gets a kick out of the category.
“We certainly are a great place to
meet men,” Rutstein says with a laugh.
“I see the boys showing up with their
friends and leaving with others. But
that’s top-secret information.”
Cobalt is a four-story entertainment
juggernaut that, with the success of Lev-
el One — another winner this year — is
finally seeing its full potential emerge.
This is Cobalt’s third win in this cat-
egory and its fifth “Best Of” award over-
all. (JD)
COBALT/30 DEGREES
1639 R St., N.W.
202-232-4416
cobaltdc.com
ZIEGFELD’S
Best Drag Show
Ziegfeld’s  tors’ pick that year).
Ziegfeld’s/Secrets is back into a good
groove now that it’s been open again
since February 2009.
Most Blade readers know the story
— the construction of the Washington
Nationals Stadium wiped it off the local
gay nightlife landscape for nearly three
years. Despite its off-the-beaten-path lo-
cation — it’s one of the few beacons of
gay life in Southwest — it continues to
draw big crowds each weekend with lo-
cal legends Ella Fitzgerald and Kristina
Kelly hostessing.
“It’s always an honor to win,” says
general manager Jon Parks. “It’s always
greatly appreciated to know that we’re
respected in that way.”
This is Ziegfeld’s sixth win in this
category. It’s won it every year it’s been
open except 2002 when Ester Gold-
berg’s Big Show won (it was still the edi-
“I think it’s due to the quality of the
show,” Parks says of the wins. “We’re
always looking for ways to improve but
we really consider it a show club in drag,
not just a drag show.” (JD)
ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS
ENtERtaiNmENt complEx
1824 Half St., S.W.
202-863-0670
SEcREtSdc.com
Best Place to Meet Women
Phase 1  at Mova Lounge
Phase 1 is a D.C. institution that cel-
ebrated its 40th anniversary in February
but has seen a rebirth in the last five
years since manager Angela Lombardi
came on board.
She’s delightfully unpretentious
about what the Phase offers.
“At the end of the day we’re kind of a
dive bar,” she says. “If you want to go out
and have your fancy drink, if you want a
capriana or whatever people drink now-
adays, you want to go to a fancy bar and
pay $14 a drink, that’s not us. Here you
get a $3 PBR pounder.”
Due to Lombardi’s vision, Phase has
made a name for itself beyond D.C.’s les-
bian scene. Its annual Phasefest queer in-
die music festival has become a Septem-
ber tradition attracting LGBT acts from all
over the East Coast. Locals have come to
love it for its Jell-O wrestling nights.
Gay owner Allen Carroll, who started
the bar with his former partner, the late
Chris Jansen, credits Lombardi with
raising Phase’s hip quotient.
“She’s really breathed a lot of new life
into it,” Carroll told the Blade in February
PHASE 1
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for the 40th anniversary story.
This is the Phase’s 11th Blade “Best Of”
prize since the awards began in 2001. It
won “best lesbian bar” consecutively from
2001 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2008. It
won “best place to meet women” in 2004,
2008, 2009 and again this year. (JD)
PHASE 1
525 8tH St., S.E.
202-544-6831
pHaSE1dc.com
Best Cocktail
Cucumber Ginger Martini
 
Picking this one as the tastiest cock-
tail makes sense as the green sheen of
cucumber is all over the interior of the
Mova gay lounge. With its clean modern
design and the tranquil glow from re-
cessed lighting, sleek and swanky Mova
is chill without being chilly.
Across from Whole Foods on P
Street, Mova (launched in 2004 as Halo)
is named for its owner, Miami-based Ba-
bak Movahedi, who intends to position
it both for community philanthropy and
“green” sustainability. It may yet be mov-
ing, the result of a lingering dispute with
its landlord, but its tag-line these days –
“Mova ain’t Ovah” - promises a future for
the club (sister to one in Miami’s South
Beach, and a third is planned for Ft.
Lauderdale next year).
Apparently the name change hasn’t
hurt the bar’s popularity. This is Mova/
Halo’s 13th Blade prize and it wasn’t
even open the first three years we gave
these out. Last year Blade readers gave
it a general cocktail award. The year be-
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ThankYou for Once Again Voting MCC-DC

Best House of Worship!

The Metropolitan
Community Church
of Washington

Come Home To Worship

9:00 am: Traditional Worship Celebration | ASL Interpreted
11:00 am: Gospel Worship Explosion | Children’s Sunday School
Upcoming Schedule of Events
Every Monday: HIV Support Group – 7pm
Every Tuesday: Bible Study – 7pm
December 3 (7:30pm) and December 4 (7:00pm):
Annual Christmas Concert

The Metropolitan Community Church of Washington

Rev. J. Dwayne Johnson - Senior Pastor
474 Ridge Street NW | Washington, DC 20001 | 202-638-7373
churchoffice@mccdc.com | www.mccdc.com
Metro: Mt. Vernon Square/Convention Center (Yellow and Green Lines)
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CAFE ST-EX
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fore its mojito won this same category.
So, sample the cucumber ginger
martini, dry but with a veggie and pi-
quant bite and other cocktails when the
prices come down during the daily two-
for-one happy hour and on Wednesdays
until closing. (DH)
MOVA
1435 P St., N.W.
movalouNge.com
Best Gay-Friendly Straight
Bar: Cafe St-Ex  mix artist Richard Morel. When not
Opened in 2003, this is a genuine,
friendly neighborhood bar. Located at 1847
14th St., N.W., near T, it boasts food service
that is also sophisticated where it counts
— in the menu. It’s “locavore,” meaning it
enthusiastically uses local foods with the
freshest ingredients from farmers’ markets
like the one at 14th and U streets.
The theme is aviation since it’s
named for pilot and author — of “The
Little Prince” — Antoine de Saint-Exu-
pery. The interior look is all masculine
dark wood with reddish-hued wallpa-
per, and in the lower level is Gate 54,
a lounge with dance-floor (a DJ is there
Tuesday through Saturday). Outdoors
are patio-style tables for warmer weath-
er to enjoy such gustatory treats as a
dreamy chilled asparagus soup with
lemon creme fraiche, or a tuna steak
seared translucent pink so tender it cuts
like butter, served with a basil and pine-
nut risotto with wild mushrooms.
The cocktails can be fruity — try the
Point of No Return margarita and there’s
a wide range of beers at the bar — like
Schafly Dry Hopped and Kasteel Rouge.
While the principal owner Mike Benson
and staff are all straight, the ambience is
totally relaxed and gay-friendly. (DH)
CAFE ST-EX
1847 14th St.
SaiNt-ex.com
Best Live Music
9:30 Club 
The 9:30 club — technically Night-
club 9:30 though nobody calls it that —
is one of D.C.’s most popular live-music
venues. Plus it features the renowned
9:30 cupcakes, touted as “the best thing
you could possibly put in your mouth.” A
menu of sandwiches, paninis and wraps
— including vegetarian and vegan fare
— and sweets is also available. Four full
bars serve beer and cocktails plus there’s
a coffee bar for caffeine-fueled fun.
It’s mostly standing room only - cheek
against jowl - though for those wanting
“first come, first seated” there are a few
bar stools on the balcony. Virtually every
night some solo act or band is rocking
or wailing, for example this weekend
it’s Robert Randolph and the Family
Band — a blend of roots rock, blues
and gospel and a strongly social mes-
sage with songs of black American hope
and uplift. Every musical taste finds its
NELLIE’S
flavor in the nightly offerings, and most
new shows are announced and updated
each Thursday evening online. In per-
son you can also try the box office noon
to 7 p.m. weekdays, and open nights
and weekends for shows.
It’s hugely popular with Blade read-
ers. This is its fifth consecutive win in
this category.
Music lovers who want to unleash
their dance moves on an unsuspect-
ing world should pay special attention
to regular, tightly packed Blowoffs-
featuring the DJ sounds of singer-
songwriter Bob Mould, an indie rocker
and onetime member of seminal punk
band Husker Du, and renowned re-
spinning, they also hang out on the
dance floor. These nights are guaran-
teed gay-dance destination-events,
high-octane musical smack-downs
drawing all sorts, from beer-chugging
men’s men and leather daddies to
circuit boys and hipster glitterati. The
next Blowoff is Nov. 13. (DH)
9:30 CLUB
815 v St., N.W.
930.com
bloWoff.uS
Best Neighborhood Bar
Nellie’s Sports Bar  evening out and its open-air balcony, with
What sounds like a gay slur isn’t. In
fact, there’s no jock irony whatsoever in
naming this great gay sports hangout
Nellie’s. It’s co-owner Douglas Schantz,
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and great-great grandmothers, both
named Nellie.
Schantz opened Nellie’s with native
Venezuelan Rocio Anzola-Mendez, af-
ter becoming friends when they used to
work together at the same ad agency.
Rocio and her husband, Adolfo Men-
dez, also run Cubano’s restaurant in
Silver Spring.
There are two floors, each with a
bar, and fun also spills over onto the
rooftop deck. The spirit is infectious
gaiety — “Eat, Drink and be Nellie!” is
the slogan, so almost anything goes,
especially at the great Sunday brunch,
non-stop fun hosted by drag queen
Shi-Queeta Lee (a former Blade “Best
Of” winner, by the way). Watch her
“work it” while you graze at the sump-
tuous sampler of tasty buffet brunch
fare, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The kitchen is also said to be a drag
queen’s domain, with a bent for Latino fa-
vorites like quesadillas and nachos. Be sure
to try Maria’s Empanadas, a Nellie’s best-
seller, either with beef, chicken or cheese.
Or Nellie’s Arepa, a saucer-shaped corn
muffin served with sour cream and sweet
plantain, a Venezuelan specialty.
Nellie’s was new to our awards last
year when it also won this category and
“best place to meet men.” Its proximity to
Town makes it a great starting spot for an
the Coney Island-esque colored lights, is
D.C.’s best gay balcony by oceans. (DH)
NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR
900 u St., N.W.
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“I am humbled that MCC-DC has again
been voted best house of worship,” John-
son says. “2011 will be our 40th anniversary
year and we will continue to offer exciting,
joyful worship services in a friendly, non-
judgmental atmosphere. We will also con-
tinue our work for equality. We are passion-
ate about serving the spiritual and physical
needs or our community including ministry
around HIV/AIDS, youth and emergent is-
sues impacting LGBTQ seniors.”
The church has a bounty of upcoming
activities. The annual Christmas concert
is the weekend of Dec. 3-4, a new pas-
toral care ministry was begun this year,
it now collects food for Food & Friends,
a children’s worship time will soon be of-
fered weekly and Friday night bingo will
be offered most weeks. Visit the church
online for more information. (JD)
MCC-DC
474 Ridge St., N.W.
mccdc.com
Best Movie Theater
Landmark E Street Cinema  Best Bookstore
Think foreign flicks, indie releases
and documentaries. This is not your
standardized multiplex for mass-market,
mega-movie blockbusters. Instead, look
for the likes of “Run Lola Run” and “La
Femme Nikita” and niche-market film
festival fare and midnight cult classics
ROOM & BOARD
like “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
E Street Cinema, collecting its sev-
enth Blade “Best Of” award this year, is
a cinematic catacomb, cavernous at the
bottom of stairs and escalator, drawing
film fans into celluloid reveries cut off
from the everyday world. And framed
classic-movie posters adorn the walls to
give you a trip down movie memory lane.
Gay-themed films like “Milk” also regu-
larly play here. Opening today is an award-
winning Spanish film “Cell 211,” about a
young newly recruited prison guard who
during a riot ends up the captive pawn of a
ruthless con who seems to like him.
With its excellent projection booth
picture and sound quality, and extra-
comfy seating, also expect espresso
and cappuccino at the concession stand
as well as wine and beer. (DH)
LANDMARK E STREET CINEMA
555 11th St., N.W.
202-452-7672
laNdmaRkciNemaS.com
Best Home Furnishings
Room and Board  that cost more than $52 million, The
If you have a yen — and the dollars -—
for pricey but handcrafted, mostly Ameri-
can-made furniture and accessories with
a classic-yet-contemporary look, this is a
great new place to shop - with sofas and
much more for indoors and outdoors,
distinctly displayed in more than 30,000
square feet of showrooms on four spa-
cious floors at 1840 14th St. N.W.
This Minneapolis-based, privately held
retailer, established in 1980, mostly lives
up to its slogan — “We believe furniture
should be beautiful, affordable and long-
lasting,” though maybe just a little weak
when it comes to affordable, since a sofa
with chaise can run you $2,400. But the
timeless design and superb customer ser-
vice presents a great alternative to rival
stores. The furniture is “artisan-made, by
families, not factories,” says store founder
John Gabbert, in styles such as Arts and
Crafts and Mid-Century Modern — includ-
ing the timeless Eames Chair.
And you can rely on the store’s de-
sign associates - they are not salesmen,
since they’re not on commission, stresses
Louine Wailes, who’s gay and has worked
there since the store opened in June.
“We’re here to be a partner,” he says,
“to help people solve their design prob-
lems.” The store boasts a rooftop deck
with great views of the city. (DH)
ROOM AND BOARD
1840 14th St., N.W.
800-486-6554
RoomaNdboaRd.com
Kramerbooks & Afterwords  most happening cities of the world.
This Dupont Circle institution has
been open since 1976 and is widely
considered the first bookstore/cafe
in the country to feature cappuccino,
espresso, a full bar and food. It’s also a
staple of our annual readers’ survey —
KRAMERBOOKS & AFTERWORDS CAFE
DUPONT HOTEL
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this is its seventh Blade prize.
The bookstore has a terrific selec-
tion of new releases, older classics and
children’s books. Staff is always friendly
and knowledgeable.
On the cafe side, Afterwords serves
breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with
brunch and appetizers or “sharezies” that
make a great late night snack. Its des-
serts are notable and there’s also a bar.
Kramer’s is a multi-purpose venue
and often features live entertainment.
Since it’s open 24 hours on the weekend,
it can even serve as a great date spot
when everything else is closed. (JE)
KRAMER BOOKS
& AFTERWORDS CAFE
1517 coNNecticut ave., N.W.
202-387-1400
kRameRS.com
Best Hotel
The Dupont Hotel 
Recently undergoing a renovation
Dupont Hotel is energetic and vibrant,
helping D.C. claim its place among the
Overlooking Dupont Circle, the hotel is
within walking distance of embassies, ca-
fes and bookshops creating a great base
from which to explore D.C. The hotel itself
features a bar with an outdoor terrace, a
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cafe and a restaurant with rooftop seating.
The regular rooms are large with
modern furnishings, but customers
also have the option of staying in the
Level Nine, a hotel within a hotel, deluxe
rooms. Level Nine offers a penthouse
studio with a balcony overlooking the
city. Adding a whole new floor to the ho-
tel, the Dupont Hotel created a space for
personalized service. (JE)
THE DUPONT HOTEL
1500 New HampsHire ave., N.w.
202-483-6000
doylecollectioN.com
Best Art Gallery
Gallery planb  to numbers gathered for 2009, there
Plan b presents an eclectic mix of art-
work from both established and emerg-
ing artists in its space on 14th Street.
It caters to a diverse and growing au-
dience of art buyers with a casual and
comfortable gallery space.
The gallery is on the first floor of a
three-story building, right across the
street from Studio Theatre, within walk-
ing distance from two Metro stops.
The gallery is currently showing
works by Sheep Jones and its year-end
group show opens on Nov. 26, with a re-
ception with the artists on Dec. 4.
Some other artists who’ve been
featured include Kevin H. Adams, Carl
Amt, Keith Clark, Glenn Fry and Jason
Wright. Plan b celebrated its five year
anniversary in April. (JE)
PLAN B
1530 14tH st., N.w.
202-234-2711
galleryplaNb.com
Best Non-Profit
Food & Friends  with two manicure and two pedicure sta-
Food & Friends has been helping
people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and
other life-challenging illnesses since
1988. It provides nutrition counseling
as well as meals and groceries to more
than 1,400 people through Washington,
D.C., seven counties in Maryland and
seven counties and six independent cit-
ies in Virginia.
Things have changed quite a bit for
the organization since it started. In 1988
it had only 20 volunteers, but according
FOOD & FRIENDS
were 6,500 volunteers. About 3,000
meals go out a day now compared to 15
in ‘88. Food & Friends will deliver nearly
one million meals to more than 2,600 in-
dividuals as opposed to its first year of
1,800 meals to 60 individuals.
This is Food & Friends’ fourth win in
this category. It previously won in 2003,
2007 and 2008. (JE)
FOOD & FRIENDS
219 riggs rd., N.e.
202-269-2277
foodaNdfrieNds.org
Best Local Blog
DCist  The gardens are full of plants that of-
DCist, part of the Gothamist family
of local blogs, is a great place for local
news and art happenings in the District.
Visitors can find art exhibit previews,
daily news rundowns, concert recaps
and ticket giveaways. There’s never a
UNIVERSAL GEAR
lack of content to scroll through, includ-
ing highlights from other news sources.
Readers can count on “Monday Round-
up” and “Go Home Quickly” posts, which
offer quick, one-sentence briefs of the
days’ events. “Popcorn & Candy” offers a
guide to what the editors believe are the
most interesting movies playing around
town. Readers with a love for photography
can enjoy DCist’s “photo of the day.”
Dcist has more than 30 editors and
contributors adding posts to the site.
And it’s a huge hit with Blade read-
ers — this is its fourth consecutive win
in this category. (JE)
DCIST
dcist.com
Best Spa
Bliss  Hillwood. The plants in the spring were
Founded in 1996 in New York City’s
SoHo, Bliss Spa started a new way to
enjoy a day at the spa.
The D.C. location at the W hotel is
one of Bliss’s newest spas.
The spa takes up 3,000 square feet
with a retail beauty boutique, a nail lounge
tions, four treatment rooms and men’s
and women’s locker rooms and lounges.
Along with the spa staple of a care-
fully compiled menu of services, Bliss
customers can enjoy R&B music and
the “legendary” brownie buffet, just to
mention a few of the ways Bliss differs
from the traditional spa. (JE)
BLISS SPA
at tHe w Hotel
515 15tH st., N.w.
877-862-5477
blissworld.com
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Best Place to Get Married
Hillwood Estate,
Museum and Gardens 
Founded by American collector and
heiress to the Post cereal empire Marjo-
rie Merriweather Post, in 1955 Hillwood
is surrounded by woodlands, but the 25-
acre estate provides visitors an opportu-
nity to experience formal gardens.
The gardens were created for Post’s
leisure and to entertain her guests. The
mansion was renovated to allow access
to the outdoors with the addition of ter-
races and porches on all sides.
fer the greatest impact during the spring
and fall, which is when Post was living at
the newest and most unusual plants
during the ‘50s and ‘60s.
D.C. gays are still getting the hang of
this marriage thing. Despite giving Hill-
wood, which has gay days each year,
this award, marriages aren’t conducted
there. (JE)
HILLWOOD ESTATE,
MUSEUM AND GARDENS
4155 liNNeaN ave., N.w.
202-686-5807
Hillwoodmuseum.org
Best Wedding Registry
Crate & Barrel 
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1962 by Gordon and Carole Segal with
one employee and no cash register. It
now has 7,500 employees in 160 stores,
including a location in D.C. and others in
Maryland and Virginia.
It has cultivated a gay-friendly repu-
tation over the years. A local same-sex
couple was a finalist this year in a wed-
ding giveaway contest the chain held.
CRATE & BARREL
4820 Massachusetts ave., N.W.
202-364-6100
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Best Clothing Store
Universal Gear
Since its inception, Universal Gear
has been a clothing store with extremely
strong ties to the gay community. When
architect Keith Cole and the president of
the company, David Franco, collaborated
to open the store in 1992, they wanted to
place it in what would be a center for the
gay community and culture.
Apparently they succeeded — Uni-
versal Gear never lost this category until
last year when it lost to H&M. It’s back
this year with its ninth “Best Of” win.
Universal Gear opened on 17th street
in 1993 but has since moved to 14th and
been a large contributor to what Franco
calls “an unbelievable renaissance” for
the gay community occurring in that
area. The store has also branched out
to Chicago and New York and although
the recession forced the company to shut
down two other branches, it’s clear that
Mengistu, who is likely to “greet you like a
long-lost family member” upon your arrival.
Franco credits their “hip, contempo-
rary fashion” as a draw for customers as
well. He says the store caters to “young
professional males,” and with more than
80 brands and in-store shops like Die-
sel, fashion-conscious men have a wide
variety to choose from. (HM)
UNIVERSAL GEAR
1529b 14th st., N.W.
202-319-0136
uNiversalgear.coM
Best Gym
Vida Fitness  often includes plays that speak directly
This three-year-old, gay-owned chain
of three upscale, downtown-D.C. gyms is
far more than the basic fitness ABCs of
aerobics, barbells and classes. Yes, the
equipment is state of the art. The classes
are cutting edge. And the look is stylish
and both gay- and straight-friendly. But the
pulse goes beyond mere fitness into over-
all wellness, from the passion for same of
gay owner David von Storch.
Vida won this award last year after
Results took eight consecutive wins.
And yes, there are plenty of ways to
sweat and stretch: treadmill and Stair-
master cardio equipment, muscle and
spine-strengthening Pilates equipment,
spin classes, therapeutic massage
services, Aural Spa body treatments
(including anti-aging, antioxidant body
wraps), aroma therapy, steam room and
several pools.
Three locations: Verizon Center at 6th
and F St., N.W.; the Renaissance Hotel
Best Theater
The Studio Theatre 
“Honored and thrilled” is how the
Studio Theatre’s new artistic director
David Muse describes the company’s
reaction to being selected “best theater”
by Blade readers for the sixth time.
Studio’s main outreach tool is the
plays they select, Muse says. He be-
lieves LGBT theatergoers relate to Stu-
dio for a variety of reasons including the
quality of their work, their history as an
artistic beacon in this diverse downtown
neighborhood and the boldness and
eclecticism of their programming, which
to the gay experience.
Next up at Studio, Serge Seiden (the
company’s gay associate producing ar-
tistic director) stages “Superior Donuts,”
a new comedy from Tracy Letts, the Pu-
litzer Prize-winning playwright of “August:
Osage County,” about a grouchy white
shop owner and an ambitious black teen-
ager with something to hide.
And in January, Studio mounts tal-
ented gay playwright Tarell Alvin Mc-
Craney’s “Marcus; Or the Secret of
Sweet,” the coming-of-age story of a
young, gay African-American man in
contemporary Louisiana. (PF)
THE STUDIO THEATRE
1501 14th st., N.W.
202-332-3300
studiotheatre.org
Best Weekend Getaway
Rehoboth Beach  STUDIO THEATRE

our readers still consider the store their
No. 1 choice for fashion.
Franco believes the key to its popu-
larity is the “superior, incredibly friendly
customer service” they pride themselves
VIDA FITNESS
at 999 9th St., N.W.; and the Metropole
at 1517 15th St., N.W. (DH) Yes, it’s a dandy beach but it’s much
more than just boardwalks and beach
VIDA balls. Last year, USA Today called Re-
vidafitNess.coM hoboth Beach one of America’s best gay
beach destinations - with its 40-plus hotels
and B&B’s and more than 100 choices for
dining, from gourmet elegance to low-cost
casual eateries. There are also more than
200 boutique designer and high-end retail
outlet stores on Route 1.
So it’s always a seaside lure when
D.C. swelters, but when this town siz-
zles, it’s in a good way.
Local lore has it that DuPont fam-
ily oceanfront property was where this
town’s gay nightlife began, in the 1940s
when bi actress Tallulah Bankhead and
her Hollywood cronies frolicked here. The
local art league also nurtured a cadre of
women painters famous equally for paint
on canvas and close-knit camaraderie.
Later, two gay dance clubs - the Boat-
house and the Renegade - flourished dur-
ing the disco era. In 1980, the gay-owned
Blue Moon opened for 5-star dining.
Today, in gay-gracious Rehoboth, you
can shop the signature stores on Rehoboth
Avenue or sip coffee along Baltimore Av-
enue, self-styled as one of the nation’s gay-
est streets. In warm weather, check out the
outrageous fun and eye candy on Poodle
Beach (mostly men) or quieter times Cape
Henlopen (mostly women). Annual highlights
include Labor Day’s notorious drag volleyball
and independent film and jazz festivals in the
autumn and Halloween parties for treats and
tricks. Winter offers romantic getaways and
restaurant and lodging discounts along with
theater, art and concerts. (DH)
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U.S. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton this
month carrying the Clinic’s banner.
During a pre-event Blade interview,
Carter said she’s passionate about
LGBT issues because of her overarch-
ing belief in civil rights.
“I’m just astounded that [being gay]
matters to anybody,” she says. “It’s such
a non-issue in my own heart and mind.
That’s part of who you are and it’s such a
small part of your life.”
Carter also says she’s touched by
how many gays and lesbians are “Won-
der Woman” fans.
“I totally get why they feel so strongly
about the character. It’s the secret self. The
part of them that no one understands.”
This is Lynda Carter’s first Blade
award.
“I’m thrilled to be one of the favorites,”
she says. “The Blade and its readers are
uber-cool.” (JD)
Local Hero, Male
David Catania  membered her. Bell/E-Cleff also won
Gay D.C. Councilmember David Cat-
ania has long been a friend to the LGBT
community.
Catania is competing in a four-person
race for two at-large Council seats where
the highest two vote getters win under the
city’s election rules. The Gay & Lesbian
Activists Alliance, a local LGBT group that
gives scores to candidates running for local
office, just gave Catania a perfect score.
“Catania’s breadth of knowledge of
the issues and support of LGBT people
are second to none on the Council,”
GLAA leaders Rick Rosendall and Bob
Summersgill wrote in their assessment.
They also praised him for pushing for
universal health care in D.C. resolving
issues the organization had dealt with
for decades, and, perhaps most notably,
Catania wrote the Religious Freedom and
Marriage Equality Amendment Act which,
when passed in December, brought
same-sex marriage rights to the District.
This is Catania’s third win in this
category. Blade readers also gave this
award in 2002 and 2004. He was also
named “best gay politician” in the 2007
awards. (JD)
Best Drag King
E-Cleff
Ebone Bell isn’t as active with her
drag king persona E-Cleff as she used
to be but obviously she’s out there
enough for Blade readers to have re-
this award in 2007.
“I was quite surprised to hear that
people voted for me,” Bell says. “It’s pret-
ty cool to know that I still have fans out
there who appreciate the art of my per-
formances. And clearly some Michael
Jackson fans out there.”
Bell says E-Cleff gives her a chance
to explore other facets of her personality.
“I love the illusion,” she says. “I like it be-
cause first of all it’s fun. But I also like the
idea of being very fluid about gender. I’m
E-CLEFF
very comfortable as Ebone, but I also like
another persona so instead of being nerdy,
straight-laced Ebone, I can be E-Cleff,
who’s a womanizer and very smooth. It’s
really cool to be something you’re not.”
E-Cleff has been on the back burner
for a while as Bell focuses on her com-
pany, B.O.I. Marketing & Promotions.
But she still brings him out several times
each year — at Capital Pride, PW’s
Sports Bar once a month, George Ma-
son University’s annual drag show and
a few times a year each with the D.C.
Kings at Phase 1 and Apex.
“I still have a passion for it,” Bell says. “That’s
why a lot of my routines I do now are more
big production-type performances or more
thought provoking. I don’t want to just put any-
thing on stage. Anyone can get up on stage
and stand there and lip sync, but I think we as
performers owe it to our audience to put more
time and effort into our routines.” (JD)
Best Realtor
Mark Rutstein  Ba’Naka (aka Dustin Michael
Mark Rutstein is another surprised
winner.
“I actually laughed and screamed at
Cobalt when I got the e-mail,” he says.
“My employees looked at me like I was
crazy. It’s funny how a few years ago I
and my team were leading our office
when I was with Coldwell Banker on
several occasions and I never won. I
sold at the top of my office for several
years before the market tanked.”
It tanked so hard that Rutstein joined up
with his old pals Eric Little and Dave Perruzza
and came in to breathe some new life into Co-
balt. It was successful — business is up drasti-
cally and Cobalt has returned to the Blade’s
“Best Of” awards for the first time since 2005.
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Rutstein still dabbles in real estate, though.
He keeps his license current, filters
business through his old contacts and
re-launched iknowdc.com, ramping
things up as the market has improved.
In a roundabout way, Rutstein says
being at Cobalt may have helped.
“I constantly have people texting me
late at night saying, ‘I just left the club, do
I have to look at you on my TV too?’” (JD)
Best DJ
Chord Bezerra 
See this week’s Queery column for a
profile of winner Chord Bezerra.
Best Drag Queen
Ba’Naka
Schaad) is thrilled about winning her
first Blade “Best Of” award in the drag
queen category, one of the most com-
petitive awards previously won by Blair
Michaels, Queen Bambi, Ella Fitzgerald,
Shi-Queeta-Lee and more.
“I was really surprised,” she says.
“I’m one of the youngest queens in D.C.
I’ve only performed here for the past five
years so I’m very grateful and it’s an ex-
treme honor.”
Ba’Naka is at Cobalt every Thursday
with Lena Lett for the “Best Package Con-
test” and at Town every Friday and Sat-
urday for the Ladies of Town Drag show
— which starts both nights at 10:30 p.m.
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Schaad, who works by day at Univer-
sal Gear, says it takes discipline to be a
good drag queen.
“It’s not only someone who has talent
and can paint, but someone who can
truly adapt and evolve with the times,”
he says. “Our world is constantly chang-
ing and to survive in the drag world, you
should as well.” (JD)
Best Businessperson
David Franco  finally decided not to pursue that and
He was not out at the time, when Da-
vid Franco in 1989 at age 24 helped to
launch Tracks to become the focal point
of gay dance-floor nightlife back in that
day. But he was already an entrepreneur
with solid retail experience gleaned from
co-owning his family’s four discount de-
partment stores.
In 1983, he joined D.C. architect Keith
Clark to create a clothing store for lifestyle
“metrosexuals,” gay or straight. Universal
Gear started with a small boutique in Du-
pont Circle but today occupies more than
3,500 square feet at 1529 14th St., N.W.,
and has grown into a mini-empire with lo-
cations also in Atlanta, Chicago and New
York City. Since 1999, there are also ro-
bust sales online at universalgear.com.
In addition to its own line ranging
from T-shirts to cashmere sweaters,
stores offer top designer brands such
as Diesel, with its signature briefs and
swim-trunks and belts and blazers, and
also briefs by 2(x)ist and Biskit, with the
sly declaration that they are “cut to ac-
centuate a man’s body.”
DAVID FRANCO
But it’s more than body-hugging gar-
ments. The chain also gives back to the
community, says Franco, with special focus
on AIDS and breast cancer and LGBT pri-
orities. Franco, meanwhile, has branched
out with a recent accent on real estate.
Last year, he developed and opened the
nine-story, luxury apartment building “View
14” - a striking revamp of an old auto-repair
site now a soaring steel and stone structure
with angular cantilevered glass wedge and
panoramic views of the city. A place with the
“cool” feel of a boutique hotel, Franco lives
there himself. (DH)
Best Personal Trainer
Tyler Sullivan
Tyler, who’s straight but used to work
at BeBar and is gay friendly, is 24, and
until June he was in training for the U.S.
Army Special Forces. But he says he
turned instead to get others in shape,
joining the Vida Fitness Metropole loca-
tion this summer and already he’s hit the
heights as a personal fitness fave.
Vida offers a range of personal fit-
ness options, he says, from one-on-one,
to two-person, to small group, priced
at $85 for one 55-minute, one-on-one
TYLER SULLIVAN
session (or $50 for 30 minutes) and
three solo sessions for $180 or 12 for
$900. Tyler follows the Vida three-step
calibrated approach, with focus on cor-
rect bio-mechanic technique, consisten-
cy, and intensity.
“I want to push you to the next level,
but safer is always better,” he says. “We
listen to your body, and if you’re feel-
ing any stress, better safe than sorry.
What’s key is getting to energy and en-
durance.” (DH)
Best Gay TV Personality
Roby Chavez (tie)
Roby Chavez, this year’s co-winner
for “Best Local Gay TV Personality,” is
not just interested in reporting the news;
he focuses on representing people with
a story to tell who might never have
had the chance. Chavez says that he
is “touched by people who don’t have a
voice” and uses his status as a reporter
for FOX 5 to help get their stories to the
public’s attention.
His career spans more than 20 years
and several states, including his home
state of Louisiana, where his journalistic
interest started. Growing up, Chavez says
he could always be found with a hairbrush
microphone in his hand, either singing Cher
songs or pretending to interview people.
“There were always two things I
knew I was: gay and a journalist,” the
veteran broadcaster says.
Since moving to D.C., Chavez has
found a “great, supportive gay communi-
ty” and recently made headlines when he
and his partner, Chris Roe, were married
ROBY CHAVEZ
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in what he calls “a fabulous wedding.”
As someone who has overcome
many obstacles to achieve prominence
in his field, Chavez feels that he has a
responsibility to speak up and support
the gay community.
“There is nothing that will interfere
with my ability to communicate that I am
a strong and proud gay man.” (HM)
Best Gay TV Personality
Paul Wharton (tie)
Television personality, modeling coach
and fashion expert Paul Wharton says he
feels “honored” to be voted “Best Gay TV
Personality” by Blade readers. Wharton,
who grew up in the Washington area, has
been reading the Blade since he was a
teen and remembers “feeling a sense of
exhilaration and relief seeing that there
were other people like me.”
It is that same sense of community
that Wharton hopes to pass along to gay
youth. Having been bullied, he has long
been upset by the troubling rates of gay
teen suicide and is working to be part of
the solution by participating in a Face-
book campaign in addition to the work
he does as a mentor for local foster chil-
dren, many of whom are gay.
Aside from his volunteer work, Whar-
ton has plenty of projects keeping him
busy. He can be seen on BET critiquing
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celebrity fashion on “Who Wore What”
and has just finished writing three books
that will be released soon. Additionally, he
has begun a series of workshops teach-
ing people to be TV personalities and
models and giving makeovers. And who
could forget his birthday party on “The
Real Housewives of D.C.?”
Wharton began his modeling career at
age 12 and his love for the District made
him opt to commute to New York instead
of moving there because, as he puts it,
“It’s a wonderful place to live.” (HM)
Best Actor
Jeffrey Johnson  good — a man visiting from Texas re-
Jeffrey Johnson has loved acting ever
since he was a little boy. There’s nothing
he’d rather do: “I have tried other jobs
to sustain myself and I suck in the real
world. I am very much fueled by my ar-
tistic passions.”
As artistic director of Ganymede Arts,
Johnson stages and is featured in most of
the company’s efforts including a recent
well-reviewed production of “Falsettos,” a
gay-themed musical by James Lapine and
William Finn. Currently Johnson is busy
prepping “Edie Beale LIVE at Reno Swee-
ney” (his hit solo show in which he recreates
an evening with Jackie Onasis’ fabulously
eccentric cousin) for a mini tour to New York
City, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
This is Johnson’s second win in this
category. He also won in 2008 when
Ganymede also took the theater com-
pany award.
Wherever his work leads him, Johnson
doesn’t take Ganymede Arts’ commit-
ment to the local LGBT community lightly.
“Either I am giving them a piece of the-
ater that they are proud of and have brag-
ging rights to call their own,” he says. “Or
I’m taking this work to other cities and say-
ing ‘Look at what the Washington LGBT
community can produce.’” (PF)
PHIL HICKS
Best Straight Ally
Phil Hicks
“As a father of two gay sons ... one of the
things I’ve kept in mind is that [they] are the
biggest source of pride for me,” says Phil
Hicks. “I just feel like at this point in time, it is
important for me to do things to make them
as proud of me, as I am of them.”
Hicks, whose sons are now 35 and
26 and live in D.C., is one of the vice
presidents of Metro DC PFLAG, which
he’s been working with for about a
year after being a liaison for Suntrust
Bank, his day job, through its GLBT
Affinity Team.
“I’ve spent a lot of time with my sons,
sometimes in bars like JR.’s, or some-
thing like that, and various times what
I’ve found is people seem surprised or
shocked that I had the relationship I had
with my kids,” Hick says.
Hicks noticed how many of his sons’
friends did not have the same relation-
ship with their parents and saw how
important PFLAG was to many people,
finding a voice he hadn’t been able to
find elsewhere.
Hicks’s work with PFLAG mainly fo-
cuses on helping figure out how the
budget is spent and fundraising for the
organization.
He also has a column, “The Straight
and (Not So) Narrow” on swishedition.
com. (JE)
CHRISTIAN
KYMMR BARKER
Best Secrets Dancer
Christian  has a nice stash of tips by the end of
Another newcomer to this year’s
awards is Christian, a Secrets nude
dancer who won in this new category.
He’s skittish on personal details — he
won’t give his last name or his age. He
even hedges on the sexual orientation
question but when pressed acknowl-
edges he’s straight. He acknowledges a
bi gene or two and sometimes tells Se-
crets patrons he’s bi, but in his personal
life he dates women.
Christian, who lives in Vienna, Va.,
has been in the U.S. for about four
years. He started at Secrets about eight
months ago but was off for two months
when he pulled a muscle — hold the
jokes — working out. He’s a personal
fitness trainer by day and loves danc-
ing. He previously danced in a Hispanic
straight club but says he’s fine dancing
for gays.
“It’s no bother for me at all,” he says.
“My brother is gay back in Venezuela.
The people are very nice and I like to
make them happy.”
Christian says he gets along fine with
the other dancers, most of whom are
gay. It took him awhile to get comfort-
able dancing sans clothes but once he
did, he came to enjoy it.
And the money, he says, is good, if
hard to predict. He works four nights a
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days through Sundays — and always
the weekend. It can sometimes be quite
cently gave him $700.
“I feel awesome,” he says. “I think it’s
so nice that people voted for me. It’s
very positive for me.” (JD)
Best Bartender
Kymmr Barker
Veteran bartender Kymmr Barker
had met her friend, Freddie Lutz, at Re-
hoboth Beach and agreed to help him
for a few days get his new bar up and
running in Crystal City, Va. That was
seven years ago. She never left.
“Freddie’s like family to me,” Barker, a
lesbian, says. “And it’s a very family-ori-
ented bar. It’s not pretentious. It’s like a
big melting pot. Gay people, gay-friendly
straight people — my motto is the only
labels I like are on my clothes.”
Barker’s service at Freddie’s has won
her this award for the second time. She
also took the prize in 2008.
Barker, who also manages at Fred-
die’s, says a successful bartender does
more than pour.
“Anybody can make a drink,” she
says. “It’s about relating to people, mak-
ing them feel comfortable and showing
some compassion.” (JD)
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QUEERY: 20 Questions for Chord Bezerra

By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO If science discovered a way to change
How long have you been out and who
joeyd@washblade.com sexual orientation, what would you
was the hardest person to tell?
I came out when I was 18. I think it do?
Chord Bezerra started DJing at Duplex Nothing. I’m completely happy with who
was probably hardest to tell myself. I was
Diner where he used to wait tables. He’s I am. Now if science could do something
raised Mormon, which doesn’t have the
made a few “mix tape” CDs for friends about hangovers, I’d be all about that.
best support structure for such issues. I
and realized he enjoyed it as much as the really had to do my own soul searching
customers. in order to find out who I was. Thankfully What do you believe in beyond the
“I decided to try it on more of a live I had the opportunity to that. Once I had physical world?
scale and I found out pretty quickly I just There better be something better than
a better understanding of who I was I
loved every second of it,” the 30-year-old this!
felt more confident in talking with other
Wilmington, Del., native says. people about.
Bezerra won the “Best DJ” prize in this What’s your advice for LGBT move-
year’s “Best of Gay D.C.” Blade readers’ ment leaders?
Who’s your gay hero?
poll. He spins at Cobalt on Thursdays For the sake of brevity I will simply
Tom Cruise.
and Fridays and says he’s “surprised, Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
say this: the fight for equality should
humbled and thankful” for the nod. be fought more with the hearts of those
What’s Washington’s best nightspot,
“There’s a lot of amazing, amazing talent here so I’m thankful more or less just who it is for than the minds of those
past or present?
for having a stage at Cobalt to deliver,” he says. leading it.
Cobalt and Duplex Diner.
His spinning style is eclectic. He likes to dabble in lots of different genres and
“keep people on their toes.” Bezerra tries to take a day each week and spend What would you walk across hot
What’s your dream gay wedding?
hours darting around the Internet listening to what’s out there. The ultimate goal, he One in which my man shows up. coals for?
says, is connecting with people. Good taste.
“I just remember dancing for hours at a time when I was 18,” he says. “I remem- What historical outcome would you
ber the DJs from that time and the music was always engaging. There wasn’t one What gay stereotype annoys you
change?
song that made you want to leave the dance floor. I always want to leave people The existence of Sarah Palin. Serious- most?
sweaty and tired.” The one that says because I’m gay I
ly, was that necessary?
Bezerra grew up using his first name, Jonathan, but got tired of the endless want to be every straight girls BFF.
variations, so he switched to his middle name — Chord — in college. His parents What non-gay issue are you most
wanted something musical but he didn’t tap into his musical inclinations until he What’s your favorite gay movie?
passionate about?
started DJing. What was the last Tom Cruise movie?
Refer to the above.
He’s a buyer and marketer for Universal Gear by day. He and his boyfriend,
James, met at Results and have been together four years — including a mutual What’s the most overrated social
What’s been the most memorable pop
three-year stint in Los Angeles, a city Bezerra says never felt quite right for him. custom?
culture moment of your lifetime?
They live together on the U Street corridor. Immediately Facebook friend request-
Dancing with Rose McGowan in the
DJ booth at Cobalt. ing a person you just met.

On what do you insist? What trophy or prize do you most

Belts. If you have belt loops then you
should be wearing a belt, period.
In connection with the MCA Fall Open Studio Tour
DC ART GLASS OPEN STUDIO What was your last Facebook post or
Tweet?
Spinning this Thursday at Cobalt!
If your life were a book, what would
the title be?
“Did you wash your hands before
reading this book?”
covet?
Do I get bonus points if I say the
Blades Best of DC DJ award?
What do you wish you’d known at 18?
I wish I was more comfortable with
myself but I suppose that is just meant
to come with age and life experiences.
Why Washington?
‘Cause there is no place like home.

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each day of the tour.

in memory of jewelry artist Susan Yuriditsky, 50% of the proceeds

from jewelry sales will be donated to the Susan g. Komen
for the Cure to help battle breast cancer.

For more information on Robert’s art glass visit www.dcartglass.com.

For a map of the entire MCA Studio Tour visit www.midcityartists.com.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
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CALENDAR
One of the selections from ‘The Very Queer Portraits of Heyd Fontenot,’ an exhibit on display at the art gallery
at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Today
Margaret Cho will be at the Warner
Theatre (513 13th St., N.W.) tonight at
7:30 p.m. with her show, “Cho Depen-
dent.” Tickets are $40.50 or $57.60 and
can be purchased at livenation.com. An
after party will be held at Ziegfeld’s/Se-
crets (1824 Half St., S.W.).
Zoom Urban Lesbian Excursions
hosts “Night at the Museum” tonight at
8:30 p.m. at the Museum of Crime and
Punishment (575 7th St., N.W.) as it turns
into a haunted torture chamber. Attendees
are welcome to wear costumes, but masks
are prohibited. Tickets are $23 and can be
purchased at zoomexcursions.com.
Caron is holding its annual Metro
D.C. community awards breakfast to-
day at 8 a.m. at Maggiano’s (5333 Wis-
consin Ave., N.W.) featuring Tara Conner,
former Miss USA as the keynote speaker.
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington
Photo courtesy of UMD
will receive the Educational Excellence
Award for their performance of “Through
a Glass Darkly.” Daniel O’Neill, chair of
the D.C. Center HIV Working Group will
receive the Unsung Hero award.
Ganymede Arts presents Gerald Du-
val’s “Edie Beale Live at Reno Swee-
ney” starring gay actor Jeffrey Johnson,
is tonight at Noi’s Nook at go mama go!
(1809 14th St., N.W.) at 8 p.m. For more
information and to purchase tickets, visit
ganymedearts.org.
Saturday, Oct. 30
Women in their 30s will be having
its monthly outing today to the Rally
to Restore Sanity on the National Mall
in D.C. from noon to 3 p.m. The group
is meeting up at the Archives Metro Rail
stop around 11:45 a.m.
Tom Paxton and Janis Ian, “To-
gether at Last,” will be at the Birchmere
(3701 Mt. Vernon Ave.) in Alexandia, to-
night at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $45 and
can be purchased at ticketmaster.com.
Sunday, Oct. 31
Hard Times Require Furious Danc-
ing: the Art Exhibit, inspired by Alice
Walker’s new book of the same name,
is showing at Busboys & Poets at the
5th and K streets location (1025 5th St.,
N.W.) featuring work by artists such as
Liana Cohen-Matteini, Charles Jean-
Pierre, Innocent Buregeya and JJ Tiziou.
Blonde Redhead will be performing
at 9:30 Club tonight at 10 p.m. Tickets are
$25 and can be purchased at 930.com.
“Hair,” 2009 Tony award winner for
Best Musical Revival will be at the Ken-
nedy Center (2700 F St., N.W.) today at 1
p.m. Tickets range from $25 to $115 and
can be purchased at kennedy-center.org.
Monday, Nov. 1
Hope Operas, whose founder is open-
ly gay, has its fourth week of five new
shows tonight to raise money for charity.
The shows are at 8 p.m. at the Comedy
Spot, in Ballston Mall (4238 Wilson, Blvd.),
in Arlington. Each show benefits a differ-
ent charity. Tickets are $12 per show. For
more information call 323-788-8970 or e-
mail lucrezia.blozia@gmail.com.
Cloud Cult, a band established as a
non-profit, will be performing at Black
Cat (1811 14th St., N.W.) tonight with Fort
Wilson Riot on the mainstage at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $16 and can be purchased at
blackcatdc.com.
Tuesday, Nov. 2
Election Day
The D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.)
will be having a discussion about crystal
meth use in the LGBT community tonight
from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The meeting will be
facilitated by Michael Giordano and Da-
vid Schwartz.
DC Cowboys Dance Company will
be holding auditions from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
tonight in Dupont Circle. The group is
looking for dancers of all levels interest-
ed in performing with an exciting, high-
profile dance group. Broadway-style or
jazz training or experience preferred but
not required. E-mail to dccowboys@hot-
mail.com for audition information.
Wednesday, Nov. 3
The Tom Davaron Social Bridge Club
will be meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight at
the Dignity Center (721 8th St., S.E. across
from Marine Barracks) for social bridge.
No partner is needed. Visit lambdabridge.
com and click “Social Bridge in Washing-
ton, D.C.” for more information.
Busboy & Poets will be holding an
organic beer happy hour today at 4
p.m. at its Shirlington location (4251 S.
Campbell Ave.) featuring Peak, a nut
brown ale, Wolavers, a brown ale, and
Bison, a chocolate stout.
Thursday, Nov. 4
The gay-helmed Dakshina/Daniel
Phoenix Singh Dance Company will be
performing works by Anna Sokolow in the
Ina and Jack Kay Theatre in the Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center at the Uni-
versity of Maryland, College Park. Tickets
are $30 or $24 for subscribers, and can
be purchased online at claricesmithcenter.
umd.edu.
In conjunction with the exhibit, “The
Very Queer Portraits of Heyd Fon-
tenot,” a discussion “The Queerest
of Discussions: A Curator’s Talk with
Heyd Fontenot and Anne Goodyear”
will be held at the Art Gallery at the Uni-
versity of Maryland tonight from 6:30 to
7:30 p.m. This is a free event. For more
information, visit, artgallery.umd.edu.

Halloween Calendar Saturday, Oct. 30 more information and tickets.

Today
Gloss presents Hallow-
een Bash 2010 dance party,
contest and show tonight at
Apex (1415 22nd St., N.W.). DJ
Rosie will be providing music in
the main room. Best costume
contest will be at midnight and
the winner gets $200. The D.C.
Kings and D.C. Gurly Show will
perform. There’s a $10 cover.
Must be 18 or older to enter.
Doors open at 9 p.m.
Remington’s will be hav-
ing a costume contest tonight
at midnight. All participants
must sign up by 11:45 p.m. The
winner will go home with $150.
Lace Lounge (2210 Rhode
Island Ave., N.E.) presents “Fe-
tish and Fantasy” tonight. Cos-
tumes are highly recommended
and best costume will received a
prize. Text LACE to 313131 to be
added to the VIP list. Visit lacedc.
com for more information.
Magician Brian Curry will
be performing at BlackRock
Center for the Arts (12901
Town Commons Drive) in Ger-
mantown at 2 p.m. An hour
before the show children will
make their own magic wand
that Curry will ask them to use
during the show. Curry will also
lead the children in a costume
parade at the end of the show.
Level One will have a dog-
gie Halloween costume con-
test today at 2 p.m. on the patio.
Jimmy Valentine’s Lonely
Hearts Club (1103 Bladens-
burg Rd., N.E.) is hosting its
Halloween Homecoming to-
night from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. fea-
turing DJs Junebullet of She.
Rex, Natty Boom of Anthology of
Booty, and vANNIEty Kills of An-
niething Goes. Costumes are re-
quired for entry. Tickets are $15
and must be purchased online.
Visit jimmyvalentineslhc.com for
Phase 1 (525 8th St., S.E.)
is having its annual Halloween
costume contest tonight. Best
costume will win $100 and there
will be other prizes for sexiest
and most hilarious. Doors open
at 7 p.m. and attendees must be
21 or older to enter.
“Nightmare on P Street” is
tonight at Apex (1415 22nd St.,
N.W.). DJ Gigi will be in the main
arean with DJ Michael Brandon’s
Caliente in the East Wing Video
Lounge. The Best Halloween Cos-
tume contest will be hosted by
Kristina Kelly and starts at midnight.
There’s a $10 cover. Must be 18 or
older to enter. Doors open at 9 p.m.
Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.)
will be holding a special Hal-
loween Shift tonight with a
$1000 prize costume contest
at 10 p.m. There’s a $6 cover.
Must be 21 or older to enter.
Remington’s will be hav-
ing a costume contest tonight
at midnight. All participants
must sign up by 11:45 p.m. The
winner will go home with $150.
Town will be hosting “Ghos-
town” tonight with music by Ed
Bailey and DJ Wess. There will
be a costume contest with the
winner getting $1,000 and sec-
ond place getting $250. Doors
open at 10 p.m. with an $8 cover
before 11 and $12 afterward.
Drag show starts at 10:30. Must
be 21 or older to attend.
Sunday, Oct. 31
Halloween
Nellie’s (900 U St., N.W.) is
having a Halloween costume
party tonight from 8 p.m. to
midnight. First place wins $250
cash, second place wins a $100
Nellie’s tab and third place wins
a $50 Cubano’s dinner. There’s
no cover for this event.
Prime Timers of D.C. pres-
ent their annual halloween
party and dinner tonight at the
Carlyle Suites Hotel (1731 New
Hampshire Ave). A cash bar
opens at 5 p.m. and the buffet
dinner starts at 6. Tickets are $35
for member and $40 for guests.
They must be purchased in ad-
vance by calling 703-671-2454
or by e-mailing BLathamNoVA@
aol.com. Or visit their website
at primetimersdc.org.
Ziegfeld’s/Secrets (1824
Half St., S.W.) will be host-
ing a “Halloqueen” contest
tonight. Anyone can perform
and acts can be groups or solo
artists. Prizes will be given out
for best act and best costume.
X:Blackout Halloween Edi-
tion will be at Cobalt (1639 R
St., N.W.) tonight from 10 p.m. to
2 a.m. Trick-or-treat surprises and
freebies will be offered through-
out the night. There will be a
costume contest with the best
costume winning $400. DJ Pete
Glow will be providing the music
after an opening set by DJ Sean
G. Free glow sticks will be provid-
ed. Must be 21 or older to enter.
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THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS OPENINGS
Mary Wilson of the Supremes Fri, Oct. 29
Mon, Nov 1 Cabaret Macabre, Round House The-
Washington DCJCC Goldman Theater atre Silver Spring. 240-644-1100. round-
202-777-3262 housetheatre.org
washingtondcjcc.org Sat, Oct. 30
Benefit concert featuring Mary Wilson of the Supremes
Darwin in Malibu by Crispin Whittall,
and her 4 piece group. Dessert reception with the art-
Washington Stage Guild, Undercroft
ist follows the performance. Patron tickets include a Theatre. 240-582-0050. stageguild.org
private dinner before the concert and priority seating. Tang: Freedom & Its Owner, Transform-
er. transformergallery.org
The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
with Johnathan Biss, director & piano Sun, Oct. 31
Wed, Nov 3 The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Pho-
Strathmore tography and Painting, 1848ñ1875, Na-
301-581-5100 tional Gallery of Art. nga.gov
strathmore.org Mon, Nov. 1
The legendary ensemble known for its ìclarity and House of Gold, Woolly Mammoth The-
rhythmic precision, the vivacious brightness of its
instrumental colorsî (San Francisco Chronicle),
atre Company. 202-393-3939. woolly-
mammoth.net
returns to Strathmore with an all-Mozart program All Mixed Up: A Juried Exhibition of Mixed
featuring the gifted pianist Jonathan Biss. ìI don’t Media Work, Brentwood Arts Exchange.
remember a more inspirational performance of Mo-
zart...this civilized and aristocratic playing sounded Thu, Nov. 4
National Symphony Orchestra: Xian
almost like the music making of the golden age...
[Biss] is a huge talent (The Baltimore Sun).” Zhang, conductor/Gil Shaham, violin,
plays Prokofiev. The Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org
Romeo + Juliet
Nov 3 - Nov 7 Help! I’m Getting Married/Socorro! Me
Caso by Teatro de la Luna,Gunston Theatre
The Washington Ballet
The Kennedy Center Two. 703-548-3092. teatrodelaluna.org
800-444-1324
washingtonballet.org
The artists of The Washington Ballet explore the LAST CHANCE
power of love and fate in the romantic and tragic Sat, Oct. 30
Shakespearian classic, Romeo and Juliet. Septime NSO Pops: An Evening with Idina Men-
Webre’s adaptation of the star-crossed lovers’ tale zel - Marvin Hamlisch, conductor. The
bursts with unbridled passion and virtuosic danc- Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. kenne-
ing. Set to Sergei Prokofiev’s stunning score, this dy-center.org
gripping production is not to be missed. ON THE FRINGE: A Life in Three Acts,
The Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
Ameriville
Through Nov 7
kennedy-center.org
The Happiest Day of Our Lives / El Dia
Round House Theatre Bethesda Mas Feliz de Nuestra Vida, Teatro de la
240-644-1100
Luna, Gunston Theatre Two. 703-548-
roundhousetheatre.org 3092. teatrodelaluna.org
An explosive fusion of storytelling and the infectious
Companhia de Dana Deborah Colker,
rhythms of jazz, Gospel, and hip-hop, Ameriville The Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
puts the state of the Union under a microscope -
kennedy-center.org
politics, history, race, poverty, and government - ex-
amining our country through the lens of Hurricane Sun, Oct. 31
Katrina and its aftermath.” King Arthur, Synetic Theater, Crystal City
Theatre. 800-494-8497. synetictheater.org
The Guide to Arts & Culture is supplied by CulturalCapital.com, a program of the Cultural Alliance of Edvard Munch: Master Prints, National
Greater Washington. AMERIVILLE: Supplied by Round House Theatre; MARY WILSON: Supplied by Gallery of Art. nga.gov
Theatre J; ST. MARTIN: Supplied by Strathmore; ROMEO + JULIET: Supplied by The Washington Ballet.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Fri, Oct. 29
Friday Night Eclectic: Middle Distance
Runner & Kelly Towles, Strathmore.
301-581-5100. strathmore.org
Thriller on H Street, Joy of Motion
Dance Center - Atlas. 202-399-6763.
joyofmotion.org
The Embassy Series Presents: Gra-
ham Ashton, trumpet; Donna Bolson,
soprano Embassy of Australia. 202-625-
2361. embassyseries.org
Sat, Oct. 30
Chuck Brown with opener Christylez
Bacon, Strathmore. 301-581-5100.
strathmore.org
KC Jazz Club: Kevin Mahogany in Old,
New, Borrowed, and the Blues, The
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. kenne-
dy-center.org
Tue, Nov. 2
Journey Through Vietnam: A Tale of
Two Kingdoms by Smithsonian Resi-
dent Associate Program. 202-633-3030.
residentassociates.org
Wed, Nov. 3
Art After Hours: Paul Carr Quartet,
Strathmore. 301-581-5100. strathmore.org
Thu, Nov. 4
Friday Morning Music Club: Chamber
Music Concert by Friday Morning Mu-
sic Club, Strathmore.
The Ambassadors: New Diplomacy in
a New World by Smithsonian Resident
Associate Program. 202-633-3030. resi-
dentassociates.org
ONGOING-STAGE
Hair, The Kennedy Center. 202-467-
4600. kennedy-center.org
Fool For Love, Keegan Theatre, Church
Street Theater. 703-892-0202. keegan-
theatre.com
Mary Stuart, Washington Shakespeare
Company, Artishepre. 703-418-4808.
washingtonshakespeare.org
Richard III, Washington Shakespeare
Company. Artishpere. 703-418-4808.
washingtonshakespeare.org
The Odd Couple, Theater J. 800-494-
8497. washingtondcjcc.org
The War of the Worlds, by Orson Welles
& Howard Koch, SCENA Theatre, H
Street Playhouse. 202-683-2824. scena-
theater.org
Wonderful Town, Reston Community
Players, CenterStage. 703-476-4500. re-
stonplayers.org
ONGOING-EXHIBITONS
National Gallery of Art. nga.gov. Amer-
ican Painting 1959-2009. In the Tower:
Mark Rothko. American Modernism: The
Shein Collection. German Master Draw-
ings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection,
1580-1900. Arcimboldo, 1526ñ1593: Na-
ture and Fantasy. The Body Inside and
Out: Anatomical Literature and Art The-
ory Selections From Impressionism to
Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection.
National Geographic. 202-857-7588.
events.nationalgeographic.com. Geck-
os: From Tails to Toepads. Simply Beauti-
ful. Wild Music: Songs & Sounds of Life.
The Textile Museum. 202-667-0441.
textilemuseum.org. The Colors of the Oa-
sis: Central Asian Ikats.
Museum of Women in the Arts. Los
Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color.
Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry
of Elisabetta Gut.
Corcoran Gallery of Art. 202-639-1700.
corcoran.org. Spencer Finch: My Busi-
ness, with the Cloud.
Workhouse Arts Center. 703-584-2900.
WorkhouseArts.org. The Sumi - e Soci-
ety Exhibition.
ONGOING-GALLERIES
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: Iden-
tity Writ Large, Joan Hisaoka Healing
Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center. smith-
farm.com
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17th Annual Art for Life Auction

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Carnegie Institution of Washington
1530 P Street, NW Washington, DC

Art for Life is a benefit cocktail reception and art auction

spotlighting artists from around the world. Proceeds from
this event go to support Whitman-Walker Clinic’s HIV/AIDS
prevention services in communities of color.

Additional information, online ticket sales & artwork previews

at www.wwc.org/artforlife or call 202.797.3543.

6:00 pm VIP Reception & Auction

Pre-Bidding
6:30 pm General Reception & Silent
Auction
8:00 pm Live Auction

A reception to benefit communities of color

66 washingtonblade.com • october 29, 2010

SOCIALAGENDA HIGH HEEL RACE OCT.26 Washington Blade photos by Michael Key

D.C.’S DIFFERENT DRUMMERS

30th Anniversary
Gala Concert:

Triumphs
& Reflections

with DCDD’s Marching Band,

The Capitol Pride Symphonic Band,
and Capitol Pride Winds
Joseph Bello, Conductor
Beth Smith, Assistant Conductor

A musical journey through 30 years

of providing music to the community,
including music for marching band,
swing band, and small ensembles.

Performing works by Mackey, Young,

Hanssen, Lauridsen, and Nelson,
a medley from Kander & Ebb’s Chicago,
and more!

Saturday
November 6, 2010
at 7:30 PM

The Cafritz Theatre at

Columbia Heights
Educational Campus
at 16th & Irving Streets, NW
in Washington, DC
Garage Parking available nearby.

Tickets:
$20 General Admission
$10 Seniors/Students
Group Rates
are also available.

For more information,

or to order tickets,
visit us at:

WWW.DCDD.ORG
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The Bourne supremacy
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By PATRICK FOLLIARD
Bette Bourne has no delusions of
grandeur.
“I’m an old whore. I go where I’m
paid,” the celebrated British actor and
gay rights activist says.
Recently, he took his solo show “A
Life in Three Acts” to Turin, Italy where
he received standing ovations. Now the
London-based performer has come to
Washington to share his story at the Ken-
nedy Center through Saturday.
Adapted from private conversations
between Bourne and hot playwright
Mark Ravenhill (“Shopping and Fuck-
ing”), the award-winning work hits all the
bases in Bourne’s never-a-dull-moment
life: post-war childhood in Britain, life in
a Notting Hill drag commune during the
1970s, time spent with his world-famous
BLOOLIPS gay theater troupe, etc.
“In one evening with an intermission, we
move from when I’m very young to now that
I’m very old,” says Bourne, 71. “I sing a few
songs, do some little dances, tell a couple
filthy stories and generally misbehave, all in
fabulous drag. But this show is not about fe-
male impersonation. It’s my life.”
Bourne is known as both a performer
(from Edinburgh Fringe to Royal Shake-
speare Company) and a key figure in
Britain’s gay liberation movement. But his
introduction to activism almost never hap-
pened. As a working actor in the ‘60s and
early ‘70s, he had to think of his career.
Being political wasn’t an option. Then one
evening, his then-boyfriend (“a gorgeous
Australian”) returned home from a meet-
ing where gays and lesbians had gath-
ered to discuss fighting for their rights.
“I thought he was mad. I wanted nothing
to do with it,” Bourne says. “But then he told
me he’d seen a lot of gorgeous guys at the
meeting. Well, I was there the next week.”
“Prior to the ‘70s, things had been re-
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Eventually, Bourne began to express
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the mainstream movement and instead
joined a group of friends in forming a
drag commune in London.
“We lived in our fabulous frocks 24-7.
It was gorgeous,” he says. “The police,
of course, hated us. I was dragged to
Ballston Metro
court on several occasions. The judge
would ask me to remove my hat. I’d say I
can’t. It goes with the shoes.”
During this same time, Bourne
changed his name from Peter to Bette.
In the past, Bourne has won over New Entrance on
York audiences with his campy, gender-
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N. Stuart St.
Space,” and playing Quentin Crisp in
Free Parking!
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New docudrama ‘Howl’
explores Ginsberg
obscenity trial
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN
It’s San Francisco in 1957. An Ameri-
can masterpiece is on trial. And a world
not busy being born is busy dying.
Smack dab in the middle of a decade
known for conformity and complacency
came a howl of pain and rage, and also
a cry of ecstasy. On Oct. 7, 1955, the
young poet Allen Ginsberg finally sum-
moned the nerve to go public with the
poem he had been writing - graphic and
subversive in its openness about same-
sex desire - known as “Howl,” a story dra-
matized in the new film of the same name.
“Howl” is about the young Ginsberg,
before he had become the bearded Pied
Piper of the counter-culture and gay ac-
tivism, famous not only as a poet but also
“ an for his lifestyle (gay) and his politics (an-
exhilarating ti-capitalist and anti-war). The film dra-
matizes in semi-documentary style how
tribute. Ginsberg, portrayed brilliantly by James
rhapsoDically Franco as a middle-class intellectual still
beautiful.” uncertain of his gayness, struggled with
whether to publish the poem and the ob-
-new york magazine
scenity trial that followed.
Ginsberg later said he nearly refused
to see the poem printed for fear of what
his father would think of its honesty about
gay sex: “I assumed it wouldn’t be pub-
lished so I could write what I wanted to.”
“Really, I wrote ‘Howl’ for Jack,” said
Ginsberg, referring to the novelist, the very
straight Jack Kerouac, author of the novel
“On The Road,” and with whom Ginsberg
had a sexually unrequited romance. Ker-
ouac was, according to Ginsberg, “the first
person I really ever opened up to that I was a
homosexual.” For a time, Ginsberg had sex
with women, and when committed for eight
months to what he called “the looney bin”
(Rockland State Hospital), he managed to
avoid electro-shock treatment because, he
WEST END says, “I promised the doctor I would be het-
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The film is a genre-bending hybrid, shot
in just 14 days, mixing archival footage and
re-enactments, framed by a reading of the
poem and a recreation of the trial. Written
and co-directed by Rob Epstein and Jef-
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of three interwoven threads — the life of
the young Ginsberg, seeking and finding
his true voice as a poet and also coming
to terms with being gay; society’s reaction
to the poem (the obscenity trial); and se-
quences of psychedelic animation riffing
on the startling originality of the poem itself,
which was published by fellow beat poet
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who was actually
the defendant on trial, not Ginsberg.
Ginsberg admittedly pulled no punch-
es in describing gay sex, writing in
“Howl” of unnamed protagonists who “let
themselves be fucked in the ass by saint-
ly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy,”
though no gay sex is depicted in the film.
The co-directors know gay issues
- witness their earlier documentaries:
the Academy-Award-winning “Common
Threads: Stories from the Quilt” (1989)
and “The Trial of Harvey Milk” (1984), in
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to use actors to portray all the charac-
ters, first signing Franco (known to most
audiences for his role in the three “Spi-
derman” movies as Harry Osborne), who
also played Milk’s lover Scott Smith in the
Van Sant film. They met Franco at a din-
ner party at Van Sant’s house.
The directors picked actors to play all the
roles, including two (mostly) straight men
Ginsberg fell for - Kerouac, Neal Cassady
(inspiration for the Dean Moriarity character
in “On The Road”) and the younger man,
Peter Orlovsky, who became Ginsberg’s
partner.
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