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Homeless gay teen survives streets, eyes college

Youth lived in D.C. abandoned buildings
while on honor roll at local high school
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com

Kadeem Swenson looks forward to graduating from D.C.’s Ballou

STAY High School in June and is applying for admission to college.
He gets good grades and his principal considers him a promising
student with a good future.
But the strapping, 6-foot-tall 18-year-old, who came out as gay at
age 16, says he spent most of the past year hiding a part of his life
that became far more difficult to deal with than his sexual orientation.
Forced by his parents to leave his home in Waldorf, Md., two
years ago after he told them he’s gay, Swenson stayed with friends
and relatives in D.C. and North Carolina for several months. He and
his grandmother then prevailed upon his mother to enroll him in Bal-
lou STAY, one of the D.C. public school system’s vocational and aca-
demic high schools that offer classes at night.
Continues on page 4

Washington Blade photo by Michael Key

Kadeem Swenson says his parents kicked him out of the house for being gay two years ago. He spent a year living in abandoned buildings in D.C. while attending Ballou STAY school.

Crunch time for ‘Don’t Ask’

Activists pressure senators to
end ban during lame duck session
By CHRIS JOHNSON
nationalnews cjohnson@washblade.com
Barney Frank says ‘zero chance’ of pro-LGBT bills in next Congress.
PAGE 10 Supporters of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal are
pushing the Senate to end the law in the lame
duck session of Congress amid questions about
whether sufficient support exists to complete the
task by year’s end.
One Democratic aide, who spoke on condition
of anonymity, told the Blade that Senate passage
of major defense budget legislation to which
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal is attached would
require “all the stars aligning” as well as active
support from President Obama and Defense
socialagenda Secretary Robert Gates.
Asked this week whether those elements were
Photos from Shi-Queeta-Lee’s birthday party this week at Nellie’s.
coming into alignment as the lame duck session
PAGE 38
approaches, the aide said, “Hell no. We ain’t any-
where near alignment.”
Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Carl
Levin (D-Mich.) told reporters on Tuesday that
passing the fiscal year 2011 defense authoriza-
tion bill with the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal lan-
guage presents challenges.
“We’re trying to get both things accomplished,
and we just don’t know if we can,” Levin said, ac-
cording to the Grand Rapids Press.
“Republicans have filibustered the whole de-
fense bill because of that [‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’]
provision. There’s some people who say that unless
the defense bill has that provision, that we shouldn’t
pass it,” he continued. “My position is, we should
try to get both things done some way or another.”
Media reports circulated this week that Levin was
engaged in talks with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to
advance the defense authorization bill after stripping
it of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal language.
But while some see challenges in moving for-
Continues on page 14
2 washingtonblade.com • november 12, 2010
LOCALNEWS
Teen pleads guilty to murder
of gay principal
A 19-year-old D.C. man pleaded guilty Monday to first-
degree felony murder in connection with the April 14 shooting
death of gay D.C. middle school principal Brian Betts.
Alante Saunders, one of four teenagers charged in Bet-
ts’ murder, agreed to a plea bargain agreement offered
by prosecutors that is expected to result in a sentence re-
duced from life in prison to 40 years. The plea took place
during a hearing before a Montgomery County Circuit
court judge in Rockville.
Betts was found shot to death April 15 in his Silver
Spring, Md. house.
Montgomery County Assistant State’s Attorney Sherri
Koch told Judge John Debelius in a hearing that evidence
shows that Saunders shot Betts to death in the second
floor bedroom of his house after meeting the popular mid-
dle school principal through an Internet chat line.
Sources familiar with the case have said the chat line
where the two met caters to gay men seeking to meet
other men for sex.
In details of the case that had not previously been dis-
closed, Koch told the court that Betts told Saunders that the
door to his house would be unlocked and instructed him
to enter and walk upstairs to his bedroom upon his arrival.
Police and prosecutors have said Saunders and three
other men, one 19 and two 18, hatched a plan to meet
someone on the chat line for the purpose of committing
a robbery. Saunders’ lawyer, David Felsen, and Koch
agreed that Saunders and the others charged in the case
did not intend to kill Betts.
“This was, for want of a better word, a robbery that went
bad,” said Montgomery County State’s Attorney John Mc-
Carthy at a news conference following the guilty plea.
“This case should serve as a reminder to all those in the
community who use chat lines that there are dangers,” he
said at the news conference.
Neither McCarthy nor Koch, in her courtroom remarks,
mentioned that Betts was gay or that the youths charged
with his murder met him through a gay sex chat line.
Court observers believe the State’s Attorney’s office is ne-
gotiating with attorneys representing the other defendants
over possible plea bargain agreements that would avoid
the need for a trial. The others charged in the case are Joel
Johnson, 19; Sharif Tau Lancaster and Deontra Gray, both
18. Each is charged with murder, even though authorities
believe they may not have been in Betts’ house at the time
of the shooting.
Police have said some or all of the other three men en-
tered the house at some point after the shooting to help
Saunders steal Betts’ belongings, including credit cards
and his car.
Saunders is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 23.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Md. attorney gen’l:
No marriage bill in 2011
Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler told a gay
business group this week that he doesn’t expect lawmak-
ers to pass a same-sex marriage bill next year.
“We won’t get marriage equality in the legislative ses-
sion this year,” Gansler told the Maryland Gay & Lesbi-
an Chamber of Commerce. “It will happen through the
courts.” He cited a coalition of Republicans, Catholics
and certain older black lawmakers who oppose same-sex
marriage as the reason for the lack of movement.
A marriage bill is among Equality Maryland’s top legisla-
tive priorities and hopes for progress were high after three
gay and lesbian candidates joined four openly gay incum-
bents in winning last week’s elections. Maryland now has
seven openly gay and lesbian state lawmakers.
“Attorney General Gansler stated that a marriage
equality bill is unlikely to advance in the General Assem-
bly due to lack of support from certain constituencies,”
said Charles Butler, Equality Maryland’s board chair, in a
statement to the Blade. “We appreciate the AG’s unequiv-
ocal support for marriage equality, but respectfully dis-
agree with him on his recent statement. Maryland voters
just embraced two important pro-marriage candidates in
re-electing Gov. O’Malley and the AG. … With this kind of
support for equality, we believe the Legislature will do the
right thing, honor the trust that the electorate has placed in
its members, and enact marriage equality legislation dur-
ing the upcoming session.”
KEVIN NAFF
Gay bar Mova files for
bankruptcy in Florida
The owner of the D.C. gay bar Mova filed for Chapter
11 bankruptcy protection on Oct. 20 in U.S. Bankruptcy
Court in Miami, Fla., according to court documents.
Mova owner Babak Movahedi filed the bankruptcy docu-
ments through Logan Circle Spectrum, LLC, the company
that owns Mova bars in both Washington and Miami Beach.
Movahedi is the sole shareholder of the company, according
to bankruptcy documents.
Chapter 11 bankruptcy allows companies unable to
pay creditors to reorganize and make arrangements to
pay off the debt over an extended time period without go-
ing out of business. Movahedi has said he intends to keep
his Mova bars open.
The bankruptcy filing shows that Logan Circle Spec-
trum, which is headquartered in South Miami Beach, has
liabilities totaling $874,817 and assets totaling $72,507.
The largest single creditor is PNC Bank, which is owed
more than $560,000, according to the filing.
Gay D.C. businessman and drag performer David Lett
and Lett’s company, Harlet Enterprises, Inc., holds the pri-
mary lease to the building in which Mova D.C. is located
at 1435 P St., N.W. The bankruptcy filing records show
that Mova owes Harlet, Mova’s landlord, $77,745.
It says the money owed to Lett and Harlet Enterprises is
for “leases, permits, agreements, personal property, furni-
ture, fixtures, equipment and all other assets located in or
upon the premise or used in connection with the business
conducted in the premises.”
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
LGBT program at
Univ. of Md. wins award
The University of Maryland’s One Project won the 2010
National Orientation Directors Association’s Innovative
Program Award.
The One Project is the First-Year Experience program
for LGBT and ally students at the university developed by
Dian Squire, assistant director of orientation. It is a joint
effort by the Office of LGBT Equity (lgbt.umd.edu) and the
Orientation Office (orientation.umd.edu).
“We’re just really looking to connect students to other
students … and the community at large,” Squire said.
The award gives the program a professional stamp of
approval because it comes from an association that spe-
cializes in these types of programs, he said.
“The criteria for the award is, one, it’s innovative, and
two, that the NODA board sees that the program can be
taken and used anywhere in the nation,” Squire said.
The program is meant to help students make a smooth
transition to college and “represents a hope that the LG-
BTQA community can come together in an intellectual,
social and civically minded way to support each other
through the first year of college.”
“I went to Luke Jensen [director of the Office of LGBT
Equity] and asked if there was something I could do,”
Squire said as to why he developed the One Project. “He
said ‘Why don’t we start a first year program?’ and I took
that small seed and ran with it.”
The award will be presented at the association’s annual
conference, Nov. 6-9 in St. Louis.
For more information on the One Project or NODA, visit
their respective websites, theoneprojectumd.com and
nodaweb.org.
JULIETTE M. EBNER
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
Former D.C. Attorney General Robert Spagnoletti
was named co-chair of Vincent Gray’s transition team’s
Committee on Legal Affairs and Public Safety.
Gray makes first
gay appointment
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Mayor-elect Vincent Gray last week named gay
former D.C. Attorney General Robert Spagnoletti
as co-chair of his transition team’s Committee on
Legal Affairs and Public Safety.
Spagnoletti, who served as attorney general
during the administration of former Mayor Anthony
Williams, is currently a partner in the D.C. law firm
Schertler & Onorato, which specializes in criminal
and civil litigation.
Earlier this year, Spagnoletti took part in a
widely reported trial as defense attorney for Dylan
Ward, one of three gay men charged with obstruc-
tion of justice, evidence tampering and conspira-
cy in connection with the 2006 murder of Washing-
ton attorney Robert Wone. A D.C. Superior Court
judge found Ward and fellow defendants Joseph
Price and Victor Zaborsky not guilty on all charges.
Prior to becoming attorney general, Spagnoletti
served as a prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s
office in D.C. He is credited with helping to cre-
ate programs to assist LGBT crime victims, includ-
ing victims of hate crimes and domestic violence.
His appointment by Gray to a mayoral transition
team panel that will make recommendations on
public safety issues comes at a time when LGBT
activists have raised concern that D.C. police
have not adequately addressed anti-LGBT hate
crimes in recent years.
“This committee will look at the agencies re-
sponsible for public safety and make recom-
mendations on how to best ensure safe neigh-
borhoods; and examine the government’s legal
service operations and make recommendations
for improvement,” an announcement by Gray of
his transition team says.
Gray named Karl Racine, a local attorney and
former Clinton administration White House legal
counsel, as co-chair of the transition team’s Legal
Affairs and Public Safety Committee.
Spagnoletti and Racine are two of 14 transi-
tion team appointments that Gray announced at a
news conference on Wednesday. Others include
former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, former Clin-
ton administration official Alice Rivlin, and former
George Washington University President Joel
Trachtenberg.
Mayoral transition team leaders usually don’t go
on to permanent appointments by D.C. mayors,
although some have served as informal advisers.
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LOCALNEWS
Gay honor student hid homeless status from school
Continued from page 1
He stayed at the D.C. home of
a student friend and her mother
until the family moved to Chicago
last year, leaving Swenson without
a place to live. Believing a return
to his mother and stepfather’s
home in Waldorf wasn’t an op-
tion, Swenson said he set up resi-
dence in abandoned apartment
buildings in the city’s Congress
Heights section near Ballou.
With some financial support
from his grandmother, he man-
aged to get through his junior
and part of his senior year at Bal-
lou while hiding the fact that he
lived a secret life as a homeless
person. He stayed most of the
time in a debris-strewn aban-
doned apartment building a few
blocks from his school with no
electricity or running water.
“I never really told anybody
because I didn’t want anybody
to have pity on me,” he said.
In what school officials and
LGBT homeless youth advocate
Earline Budd call an extraordinary
story, Swenson told the Blade how
he maintained a positive outlook
and an overarching desire to suc-
ceed at school under the most try-
ing circumstances.
“I want to go to college and
study business,” he said. “And I
don’t want to just run a business
I want to own it.”
Through the help of one of
Ballou’s guidance counsel-
ors and its principal, Swenson
hooked up last month with Budd
and Transgender Health Em-
powerment, a private, non-profit
group that operates the Wanda
Alston House for LGBT youth.
Last week, T.H.E. placed Sw-
enson in the Alston House, end-
ing a chapter in his life that he
says has made him a stronger
person but which also has cre-
ated “considerable stress.”
“His story is specifically why
we opened up the Alston House,
because kids are still being
put out of their house because
they’re gay,” said Brian Watson,
T.H.E.’s director of programs.
“And he’s a really good kid.
He was going to school despite
the fact that he was homeless,”
Watson said. “That says a lot
about him.”
With the help of one of his
Ballou teachers, Swenson says
he has applied for admission to
Colorado College, a liberal arts
school in Colorado Springs,
which offers the type of busi-
ness program he says he’d
like to enter. Earlier this year he
had an interview with one of the
college’s recruiters who came
to the D.C. area to talk to local
Kadeem Swenson now stays at the Alston House and hopes to attend college in Colorado to study business.
high school seniors.
He showed a Blade reporter
and photographer the aban-
doned building that became
his home, leading his guests
up a debris-covered stairway
to a third-floor, one bedroom
apartment with carpeted floors
that were well preserved, sug-
gesting the building had only
recently been abandoned.
He pointed to the area where
he placed a small mat that be-
came his bed. The kitchen and
bathroom plumbing fixtures had
been ripped out and lay on the
floor in the small apartment. The
unlocked apartment door was
still in place, enabling Swenson
to secure a small degree of pri-
vacy while staying there.
“I thought a lot about going
to college in Colorado and get-
ting away from D.C.,” he said
later, recounting his thoughts
while huddling at night in the
abandoned flat.
Swenson said he followed a
routine to get by in his unusual
living arrangement. He washed
at his school and used the bath-
rooms at nearby fast food res-
taurants. He cleaned his clothes
at a neighborhood laundry.
He tried to sneak in and
out of the abandoned build-
ing located on the 100 block of
Wayne Place, S.E., through an
unlocked outer door out of fear
that someone might follow him
inside and attack him if he were
to be seen entering and leaving.
He occasionally stayed at
the homes of men he met at gay
bars or clubs, he said, enabling
him to take a short leave from
the abandoned building. But his
visits to the homes of his new-
found acquaintances were usu-
ally short. And a few older men
he met at the clubs made it clear
they wanted sexual favors.
“I didn’t want to do that,” Sw-
enson said.
He managed to maintain a cell
phone through money he earned
in a part-time job as a busboy in
a restaurant. But an on-the-job
injury from a fall prevented him
from continuing to work, he said.
In early October, running low
on money and realizing he had
reached a point where he might
not be able to continue without
a safe and more stable place to
live, he approached a Ballou ad-
ministrator and asked for help.
“I just walked to her office and
didn’t tell her I’m homeless,” Sw-
enson said. “I told her that my
parents kicked me out and I just
need somewhere to stay for a
little while. I didn’t want to make
a big deal out of it.”
In what turned out to be a lucky
break, the administrator, Sharon
Edwards, knew Earline Budd, the
longtime transgender activist who
has met with Ballou faculty and
administrators on transgender
and homeless youth issues.
Budd serves as an outreach
official with Transgender Health
Empowerment., a D.C. trans-
gender advocacy group that,
among other things, provides
services to homeless youth who
are gay, lesbian and bisexual as
well as transgendered.
With the consent of Ballou
STAY School principal Wilbert
Miller and school guidance coun-
selor Helene Miller, Edwards sent
Swenson to T.H.E.’s North Capitol
Street offices to meet Budd.
“Miss Edwards gave me a
brochure and said I want you
to call these people. She said
I don’t want you to be offended
by the name, Transgender Em-
powerment, because you don’t
have to be transgendered to get
services,” Swenson said.
“So I was like, O.K., I’ll go
there, and I just went. And when
I got there I spoke to somebody
else and they introduced me to
Miss Budd,” he said. “They said
she’ll help you with anything you
need help with, and she has.”
Budd, upon meeting Swen-
son, immediately sprung into
action on his behalf, calling
city agencies and members of
the City Council to help find an
emergency youth facility to pro-
vide Swenson a place to stay.
“I have a youth in crisis and
is age 18, currently homeless
to the streets and is sleeping
in abandoned buildings,” Budd
said in an Oct. 7 e-mail to Coun-
cil members, city officials and
members of the news media.
“I have been working with
this youth since Oct. 5, 2010
and he is a very bright young
man who deserves more than
just talk,” she said in the e-mail.
“He is currently enrolled at Bal-
lou Stay, where he is on the hon-
or roll and is said to be in school
every day. When asked about
his living conditions, he states,
‘Well, I have got to get an educa-
tion and sleeping in abandoned
buildings is not going to kill me.’”
Through Budd’s calls and e-
mails, the Sasha Bruce House,
a youth shelter in Northeast
D.C. near Capitol Hill, arranged
to provide Swenson with a room
on a temporary basis.
Budd and Watson arranged
a short time later for Swen-
son to be admitted to T.H.E.’s
Alston House, which is located
in a renovated, multi-bedroom
house in Northeast D.C. Sw-
enson moved into the Alston
House last week.
Swenson said he hopes to re-
main in the Alston House until he
completes his course work at Bal-
lou in January and enters college
in September. He will participate
in Ballou’s graduation commence-
ment ceremony in June.
At a reporter’s request, Sw-
enson said he made an attempt
to reach his mother through a
family friend so the Blade could
offer her an opportunity to com-
ment on her son’s plight over
the past two years.
“I just talked to my godmoth-
er and my godmother got in
touch with my mom,” Swenson
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
said. “And she said she doesn’t
want any part of this,” he said.
Asked if it was his under-
standing that his mother did not
want to talk to a reporter, Swen-
son said, “Yeah, that’s right.”
Miller, the Ballou STAY School
principal, said he had no idea
Swenson was homeless during
most of his two-year tenure at
the school until Swenson told
Edwards about his situation in
early October.
“He’s one of our most cordial
and interactive students,” Miller
said. “He has a great rapport
with the staff and the students,
and he’s always been interested
in college.”
Miller said Ballou STAY High
School’s teachers and staff are
familiar with LGBT-related issues
as they relate to the school sys-
tem and would have taken imme-
diate steps to help Swenson find
a place to live had they known
about his homeless status.
“He always looked well
groomed,” said Miller. “He said,
‘I took care of my hygiene things
before I came to school.’ He
said ‘I couldn’t go around look-
ing like I was homeless.’”
Ballou STAY High School
shares the same campus but
is a separate entity from Bal-
lou Senior High School. Miller
said the school system created
STAY schools as an alterna-
tive educational environment
to meet the special needs of a
wide range of students at any
age who wish to complete high
school. The school offers both
vocational and academic, col-
lege preparatory courses.
He said about half of the
students, like Swenson, are be-
tween 16 and 18, with many in
their 20s and early 30s and oth-
ers as old as 60. The college-like
class system allows students to
take as few or as many classes
each semester to accommodate
their need to work or, in many
cases, to raise children, he said.
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NATIONALNEWS

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Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson said he will not retire from public life and will continue to visit
campuses and forums. He said he will devote his time to worldwide evangelism and LGBT advocacy.

Bishop Robinson to retire; cites strain of debate  Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
CONCORD, N.H. — The first openly gay bishop elected in the worldwide Angli- ‘After Tuesday’s election, in which gay marriage lost big, it’s pretty clear gay marriage advocates
can Communion — whose election caused a firestorm of debate about the scrip- have failed to win the majority of Americans and so are turning once again to courts,’ said Mag-
tures and homosexuality — announced Nov. 6 that he’s retiring in 2013 because gie Gallagher, chair of the National Organization for Marriage.
the controversies have “taken their toll” on him, his family and followers, the Guard-

Two new lawsuits target

ian and several news outlets reported.
Bishop Gene Robinson, who was consecrated in the diocese of New Hampshire
in 2003 and will turn 65 in 2013, said he will opt for an early retirement because “the

federal marriage ban

constant strain” has become too much to bear.
The controversy hasn’t calmed — last year traditionalists in North America broke
away from the U.S. Episcopal church to set up their own network. This year Epis-
copalians — the U.S. arm of the Anglican Church — consecrated a lesbian to the
post of assistant bishop in Los Angeles.
“Death threats, and the now-worldwide controversy surrounding your election of
Advocates claim The GLAD lawsuit, known as Peder-
sen v. Office of Personnel Management,
me as bishop, have been a constant strain, not just on me, but on my beloved hus- ‘no legitimate reason’ is pending before the U.S. District Court
band, Mark, who has faithfully stood with me every minute of the last seven years,
and in some ways, you,” Robinson said in a Guardian quote.
for statute of Connecticut and was filed on behalf
of five married same-sex couples and a
widower who reside in Connecticut, Ver-
Supreme Court refuses to step into custody dispute  By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
mont and New Hampshire.
Each of the plaintiffs was denied the
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has declined to step into a lesbian cus- federal benefits of marriage in one re-
tody dispute between a woman who has renounced her homosexuality and her LGBT rights groups are continuing ef- spect or another, such as Social Security
former partner, the Associated Press reported this week. forts to strike down the Defense of Marriage or the right to care for a spouse under the
The justices on Monday turned down an appeal from Lisa Miller, the biologi- Act with two new federal lawsuits challeng- Family Medical Leave Act.
cal mother of an 8-year-old girl. Miller wanted the court to undo a Virginia court ing the constitutionality of the statute. Joanne Pedersen, 57 and a Waterford,
decision allowing her ex, Janet Jenkins, visitation rights with the girl. Jenkins is On Tuesday, Gay & Lesbian Advo- Conn., resident, said she’s participating
from Vermont. Miller is from Virginia. They had a Vermont civil union in 2000. Their cates & Defenders and the American in the lawsuit because although she’s a
daughter has been the subject of a long-running legal fight. Civil Liberties Union filed two separate retiree of the Department of Naval Intelli-
Miller got involved with a conservative arm of Christianity and says she’s no lawsuits against Section 3 of DOMA, gence, DOMA prohibits her from insuring
longer a lesbian. She and her daughter did not appear for a court-ordered custody which prohibits the federal government her spouse and partner of 12 years, who
swap in January. Their whereabouts are unknown. from recognizing same-sex marriage. has a chronic lung condition.
Mary Bonauto, GLAD’s civil rights “The naval community treated Ann
Bullying claims the life of Pennsylvania teen  project director, said Tuesday in a con-
ference call with reporters that the fed-
just like other spouses, except when it
came to sharing my benefits,” Pedersen
MIDDLEBURG, Pa. — Students at Midd-West High School in Middleburg, Pa., eral government has no valid reason to said. “We both have some serious health
are mourning the suicide of a freshman who ran in front of a truck at 3 a.m. Satur- engage in the regulation of marriage. challenges, and Ann has chronic health
day morning, according to the Daily Item, a regional newspaper. “We think there’s no legitimate reason issues that make working stressful and
Brandon Bitner, 14, had been a victim of intense bullying students told the Item. whatsoever for the federal government to draining for her. But Ann can’t hope to
He walked about 13 miles from his home to a busy road where he met his death. take one group of people who are already retire because DOMA prevents us from
He’d left a suicide note at home. married and treat them differently from ev- sharing health benefits.”
“It was because of bullying,” Takara Jo Folk told the Item. “It was not about race ery other married couple,” she said. The ACLU lawsuit, known as Wind-
or gender but they bullied him for his sexual preferences and the way he dressed. Bonauto added that the authority to sor v. United States, is pending before
Which they wrongly accused him of.” determine who can marry in the United the U.S. District Court of Southern Dis-
His death came just days after an anti-bullying assembly was held at the school. Stu- States has traditionally been left to the trict of New York and was filed on behalf
dent Briana Boyer said the students didn’t take the assembly seriously and joked about it. states and said DOMA is the only federal of a New York resident who had to pay
law in U.S. history “that puts the federal $350,000 in federal estate taxes to re-
Mich. asst. attorney gen’l fired for harassing student  government in the marriage business.”
The cases contend that DOMA vio-
ceive her spouse’s inheritance.
Edith Windsor was partnered with
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan removed its assistant attorney general, Andrew lates the equal protection rights of same- Thea Spyer for 44 years before Spyer
Shirvell, on Monday for allegedly harassing a gay student leader, actions that had sex couples under the U.S. Constitution. died last year after a battle with multiple
prompted condemnation from local officials and the University of Michigan to ban James Esseks, director of the ACLU’s sclerosis. The two married in Canada in
the state official from campus, according to a report from All Headline News. lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and 2007 and their marriage was recognized
Shirvell, 30, was fired after a two-day disciplinary hearing on allegations he had AIDS project, said DOMA is unconstitu- by the state of New York.
harassed and stalked Chris Armstrong, the first openly gay president of the Univer- tional because the U.S. government “de- “After Thea died, the fact that the fed-
sity of Michigan’s student assembly, AHN reported. fers to state’s determination of whether a eral government refused to recognize
The former assistant attorney general had said he was exercising his First Amend- couple is married in every single context our marriage was devastating,” Wind-
ment rights during his personal time. But Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, who except when the couple is a same-sex sor said in a statement. “In the midst of
previously defended Shirvell’s free speech rights, said Shirvell was removed be- married couple.” my grief at the loss of the love of my life,
cause he harassed Armstrong and lied to investigators during the hearings. “In that case, the federal government I had to deal with my own government
Cox cited three visits Shirvell made to the student’s home, one at 1:30 a.m. pretends that the couple isn’t married, saying that we weren’t a family.”
Shirvell had also followed Armstrong while the student was out with friends in Ann but instead are strangers one to the oth- Now that the organizations have filed
Arbor, and made calls to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, where Arm- er,” Esseks said. “That’s discrimination, the suits, the U.S. government has 60
strong was an intern, in an attempt to have the student fired. and it violates the Constitution’s equal
protection guarantee.” Continues on page 13
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All four openly gay and lesbian members of Congress are supporting Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s bid
for minority leader in the next Congress.
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By CHRIS JOHNSON
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s
(D-Calif.) decision to pursue a bid as
minority leader in the upcoming Con-
gress is being met with unanimous sup-
port among the openly gay members
of Congress as some LGBT advocates
expressed regret that more pro-gay leg-
islation didn’t pass during her tenure as
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ment to the Blade that she’s among those
endorsing Pelosi in her decision to become
Democratic leader in the next Congress.
“I remain loyal to Nancy Pelosi,” Bald-
win said. “In the last two years, she ac-
complished things that we’ve been trying
to do for decades. Without her unique
leadership passing health care reform,
[the stimulus package], higher education
reform, Wall Street reform, the Matthew
Shepard Hate Crimes Act, and the House-
passed Energy and Climate Change bill
would never have happened.”
In an interview with the Washington
Blade on Monday, Rep. Barney Frank (D-
Mass.), the longest-serving openly gay
member of Congress, also said he backs
Pelosi’s decision to stay on as Democrat-
ic leader. He’s often spoken highly of her
commitment to LGBT issues.
“I’m supporting her; I think she’ll win,”
Frank told the Blade.
Also among those expressing support
for Pelosi’s continued leadership is Rep.
Jared Polis (D-Colo.), a gay lawmaker
who last week issued a statement prais-
ing Pelosi’s decision and her support for
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the LGBT community.
“I strongly support the speaker and
her decision to run for Democratic lead-
er,” Polis said. “She has been a long-
standing and ardent supporter of the
LGBT community and I will do anything
to help continue her leadership. The
speaker has led the Democrats out of
the wilderness before and I am confident
she can do it again.”
David Cicilline, the Rhode Island poli-
tician who last week was elected to be-
come the fourth openly gay member of
Congress, also endorses Pelosi’s move.
Richard Luchette, a spokesperson for
Cicilline, said the congressman-elect
“will be supporting Nancy Pelosi for mi-
nority leader.”
During the course of her tenure as
speaker since 2007, Pelosi has pushed
through a number of pro-LGBT bills
through the U.S. House. The chamber
passed hate crimes protections legisla-
tion in 2007 and again in 2009.
Pelosi also mustered enough votes in
2007 to pass through the House a ver-
sion of the Employment Non-Discrim-
ination Act that later died. This year, a
measure that would lead to “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal passed the House by a
40-vote majority.
The health care reform legislation that
Pelosi dragged to the finish line earlier
this year increases access to Medicaid
for people with HIV and improves Medi-
care Part D by closing the “donut-hole”
for people participating in AIDS Drug As-
sistance Programs. Additionally, the law
prohibits insurance companies from dis-
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tions, such as HIV status.
But despite Pelosi’s success in the
House with pro-LGBT legislation, only
hate crimes legislation also successfully
passed through the Senate during her
time as speaker. Additionally, Pelosi has
endured criticism for not moving forward
with a trans-inclusive ENDA during the
111th Congress.
Drew Hammill, who’s gay and a Pelosi
spokesperson, said the California law-
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Gay congressman
hopeful on ‘Don’t Ask’
repeal in lame duck
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
Gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank
(D-Mass.), who won re-election
last week in one of his toughest
challenges, said LGBT legislation
would have no chance of passing
in Congress under the Republi-
can-controlled House next year.
In an interview Tuesday with
Washington Blade, Frank also
said he was confident that the
Senate, of which Democrats re-
tained control, would join Presi-
dent Obama in blocking any
anti-gay bills that conservative
Republicans might introduce
over the next two years.
“Next year there’s no chance
of anything happening,” he
said of pro-LGBT legislation.
“There’s zero chance.”
He added, “It will be a status
quo. They don’t have the votes to
hurt us but we don’t have the votes
to advance anything in the cause.”
Frank also said he was cer-
tain that Republicans would fail
in an attempt to overturn D.C.’s
same-sex marriage law.
“Do you think Barack Obama
is going to sign a bill to repeal
the D.C. marriage law,” he said.
“It won’t go through the Senate.
There is no chance that could
happen. None — zero.”
Frank noted that only five
out of 179 House Republicans
voted earlier this year to repeal
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“The Republicans have be-
come much more anti-gay in their
voting patterns,” he said. “There
is zero chance of anything good
happening with Republicans in
control of the House.”
Frank said he was hope-
ful that the Senate would vote
to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” in the congressional lame
duck session over the next two
weeks. The House passed a
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal
measure earlier this year as part
of a defense authorization bill.
The Senate killed a similar
defense authorization bill con-
taining “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
repeal language in a filibuster
organized by Sen. John McCain
(R-Ariz.). Every Senate Republi-
can voted against a cloture mo-
tion to break the filibuster.
Frank noted that a number of
GOP senators cited the Senate
bill’s inclusion of a controversial
immigration provision known as
the DREAM Act as their reason for
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
Rep. Barney Frank lived up to his
name in a candid interview with
the Blade this week in which he
addressed a range of LGBT rights
initiatives and responded to GO-
Proud’s attack ad against him.
voting against the bill, saying they
otherwise would have supported
repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
He said Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told
him he won’t insert the DREAM
Act immigration language in the
defense authorization bill when
he brings it to the Senate floor in
the lame duck session.
With the immigration lan-
guage removed as an “excuse,”
Frank said he’s hopeful that Re-
publican senators who support
repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
will now join Democrats in sup-
porting the overall defense bill
to which repeal language will be
attached. Among the GOP sena-
tors that repeal advocates hope
will back the bill this time are
Sens. Susan Collins and Olym-
pia Snow, both from Maine.
In one of his first comments on
a campaign ad by the conserva-
tive gay Republican group GO-
Proud opposing him in his re-elec-
tion race, Frank said the ad had
little or no impact on the election.
He noted that his GOP oppo-
nent, Sean Bielat, opposes re-
pealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and
is against “every other gay issue.”
“So I have no idea who these
people are,” he said of the GO-
Proud group. “And they have
no influence whatsoever. The
LGBT community in my district
continues to be virtually unani-
mously supportive.”
The following is a transcript of
the Blade’s interview with Rep.
Frank, conducted on Tuesday.
Rep. Barney Frank: I’ve been
working today on “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell.” In fact, I think it’s time for
people to hold the Republicans’
feet to the fire because we didn’t
get any votes from them. Last time
around, they had the excuse —
some of them — that they didn’t
want to vote because [Senate
Majority Leader] Harry [Reid] was
going to put the DREAM Act in
there on immigration. He now says
he’s not going to put the DREAM
Act in there. He’s going to put that
in some other place. So now the
question is why do Republicans —
Sen. Snow, Sen. Collins and Sen.
Brown — what reason would they
have for voting against the whole
bill?
And I spoke today to Pete
Rouse [the acting White House
Chief of Staff] and to Sen. Reid
and Sen. [Richard] Durbin [D-
Ill.] and Sen. [Carl] Levin [D-
Mich.], and they all agree. They
want to pass the defense bill
with ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in it.
They have two weeks. The ques-
tion is whether Republicans fili-
buster it to death. But the Demo-
crats are going to try very hard
to do it. I think by the way, that’s
why [Secretary of Defense Rob-
ert] Gates spoke out. I am sure,
nobody’s told me this, but I’m
sure the president said to Harry
Reid, look, we’ve got to get this
done. And Reid said fine, would
it be helpful if I got some military
support? And eventually Gates
spoke out as he did.
Washington Blade: Your
press person sent us a copy of
your statement on that today.
Frank: I’ve spent — I made
a lot of phone calls today. Plus,
one fear was I saw, oh well,
they’ll take ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
back out of the defense bill. It
won’t pass in the House if they
do that. I believe the speaker
wouldn’t allow it to come up.
Blade: Do you mean next year?
Frank: No, [Rep. John]
Boehner [R-Ohio, who will be-
come Speaker of the House in
January] is not who I was talk-
ing about. The thought was that
the Republicans would say if
they took ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
out of the [defense] bill this
year in the lame duck session
they would get it passed. And
my answer is that’s not going to
get them anywhere because we
wouldn’t pass it in the House.
We will not accept — there’s
been some speculation about
that — and the answer is no, the
House — we’re going to tell the
Senate that’s not going to work.
And I don’t think the Senate is
planning to do that. Harry is not
planning to do that.
… ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal
is in the defense authorization bill.
What I just said was there was
some suggestion that [Sen. John]
McCain [R-Ariz.] would say strip
that out and I’ll let you pass the de-
fense bill. And the answer is that
won’t work because the House
won’t pass it. In other words, the
Democratic leadership is thor-
oughly committed to getting ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ repealed. The only
question is — you know, Log
Cabin says, oh, the Democrats
couldn’t do it. Well they got us five
Republican votes in the House
… And no Republican votes in
the Senate. The Democrats can’t
do that all by ourselves without a
single Republican supporter.
Blade: Did Harry Reid give
an indication of when he might
bring it up?
Frank: Right away — they only
have two weeks. He’s committed
to getting it done. He and I talked
to the three — the Democratic
leader, the Democratic whip, the
Democratic committee chairman
… They all agree they want to get
it done. Unfortunately, if we have
no Republican votes it can’t be
done. So the question is will any
Republicans and their support-
ers get us anything?
Blade: What’s the prospect
of advancing LGBT-related bills
next year, when the Republi-
cans take charge of the House?
Frank: Next year there’s no
chance of anything happen-
ing. There’s zero chance. We got
five Republican votes out of 179
to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’
The Republicans have become
much more anti-gay in their voting
patterns. There is zero chance of
anything good happening with Re-
publicans in control of the House.
Blade: Have you heard of
anything about a Log Cabin
supported gay-related tax re-
form bill? They won’t give us
any details but the head of Log
Cabin says that’s the first thing
they’re going to work on next
year and he thinks they might
get Republican support.
Frank: If they’re suggesting
that there will be Republican sup-
port for recognition of same-sex
marriage that’s a lie and they
know it. There’s no chance of that.
Blade: I asked them about
that and he wouldn’t give me
details but —
Frank: Yes, the Log Cabin club
would like to make it easier for tax-
ing — they would like to reduce
taxes for rich people. I understand
that. But there will be no help for
gay people. Now for some of them,
I think their income is skewed
pretty high anyway. So they’ll feel
good about it. But, no, there is zero
chance that the Republicans will
do anything that would recognize
same-sex couples.
Blade: What about ENDA?
He did say they would try to
move ENDA.
Frank: There is zero chance
of them doing anything on
ENDA — zero.
Blade: Then the next step is
whether the Republican major-
ity or some Republicans will try
to harm gay people such as at-
tempting to repeal D.C.’s same-
sex marriage law.
Frank: They can’t. That
would take the president and
the Senate … Do you think
Barack Obama is going to sign
a bill to repeal the D.C. mar-
riage law? It won’t go through
the Senate. There is no chance
that could happen. None, zero.
Blade: So essentially it’s go-
ing to be a standstill?
Frank: It will be a status quo.
The one thing we have a chance
for is ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal
in this lame duck session. And we
can get that if we get any Repub-
lican cooperation. … On the other
hand, they don’t have the votes to
hurt us but we don’t have the votes
to advance anything in the cause.
Blade: What’s your prediction
on Nancy Pelosi’s decision to run
for the Democratic leadership
post as House Minority Leader?
Frank: Oh, she’ll win.
Blade: Your press spokes-
person said you are supporting
her.
Frank: I’m supporting her. I
think she’ll win. … And from the
LGBT standpoint, nobody’s go-
ing to get elected to any Demo-
cratic [leadership] office who
isn’t 100 percent supportive.
Blade: In terms of your re-
election campaign, did the ad
attacking you from the conser-
vative gay Republican group
GOProud have any impact?
Frank: I don’t think anybody
knew about it. Can you answer
a question?
Blade: Yes.
Frank: What is it they are
proud of? Does anybody know?
Blade: I guess they say they’re
proud of being Republicans.
Frank: You guess? My [op-
ponent, Republican Sean Bielat]
was against repeal of ‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell.’ He did not take a sin-
gle pro-gay position.
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Among LGBT rights supporters, Pe-
losi’s decision to continue as Democratic
leader in the 112th Congress is inspiring
mixed reactions. Some commend her for
pushing through pro-gay bills while oth-
ers said she could have done more.
Fred Sainz, the Human Rights Cam-
paign’s vice president of communica-
tions, said the decision on whether Pe-
losi would be able to stay on as minority
leader is up to the Democratic caucus
and “not any one group.” Still, he praised
the Democratic lawmaker for her support
for the LGBT community.
“Speaker Pelosi has been a consistent
ally and advocate not just for LGBT people
but for all fair-minded Americans through-
out her congressional career,” Sainz said.
“She has vigorously supported full and
equal rights for LGBT people long before it
was politically acceptable to do so.”
But John Aravosis, the gay editor of
AMERICAblog, said Pelosi is responsible in
part for the lack of progress on pro-LGBT
legislation during the first two years of Presi-
dent Obama’s administration. Still, while he
said he’s not completely satisfied with Pe-
losi, Aravosis said other LGBT advocates in
power deserve worse job evaluations.
“All of our leaders let us down: HRC,
Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy
Pelosi,” Aravosis said. “Having said that,
Nancy Pelosi strikes me as the least cul-
pable of the four. I’m not happy that she
wasn’t able to even get ENDA through
committee, but I’m a lot less happy at
the moment with HRC, President Obama
and Harry Reid. Pelosi at least came
through for us part-way, the others have
been MIA the last two years.”
GetEQUAL, the LGBT organization
responsible for civil disobedience acts
across the country, is calling on Pelosi to
make public a plan for moving forward
with LGBT legislation to win the group’s
endorsement in her bid to become mi-
nority leader. The organization has pro-
tested the speaker both on Capitol Hill
and in her home district of San Francisco
for not moving forward with ENDA in the
111th Congress.
Heather Cronk, managing director for
GetEQUAL, maintained her organization is
“interested in full equality for all LGBT Amer-
icans” and “happy to endorse” any mem-
ber of Congress that can “commit to carry-
ing the mantle of full federal LGBT equality.”
“While GetEQUAL has protested Rep.
Pelosi throughout 2010 to hold her ac-
countable to her promises to the LGBT
community, we’d be happy to endorse
her if we see a concrete and realistic
plan for moving pro-equality legislation
through the House,” Cronk said. “We
would also be happy to endorse any
other representative who can offer such
a plan. We’re seeking bold action for
equality — and we’re far more interested
in that end than in the political horse race
that started the day after Election Day.”
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ACLU, GLAD file lawsuits against DOMA

Continued from page 6
days to respond. The Justice Department
didn’t immediately respond to the Blade’s
request for comment, but has previously
defended DOMA against other lawsuits.
Essex noted the Justice Department
has a few months to answer. With regard
to the ACLU lawsuit, he said “it’s too early
to talk in any meaningful way” about the
timeline for the case.
For the GLAD lawsuit, Bonauto said
she hopes the case would be resolved
at the district court level within 12 to 15
months. She said she doesn’t think the
abstract insult to the dignity of same-sex
couples and their families — although it
is indeed a deeply offensive law.”
“DOMA causes real harm to people like
Joanne Pedersen, Ann Meitzen and Edie
Windsor, denying them economic security,
health coverage and other critical federal
rights and benefits that other married cou-
ples take for granted,” Solmonese said.
One legal expert praised the GLAD
and ACLU lawsuits for their potential in
striking down DOMA. Nan Hunter, a les- were valid under state law,” she said.
bian and law professor at Georgetown Hunter said the litigation strategy is
University, said forecasting the outcome similar to what was presented in Romer
of any particular lawsuit is difficult, but v. Evans, a 1996 case before the U.S. Su-
said the way DOMA is challenged in preme Court that overturned a Colorado
these cases is “quite promising.” ban on making gays a protected class
“It allows the courts to rule on a law in the state. Hunter recalled that in the
that changed the status quo by singling Romer case, the high court “invalidated
out only gays and reversing — only for a state provision that singled out gays for
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Office of Personnel Management, which
was also filed by GLAD, and Common-
wealth of Massachusetts v. U.S. Depart-
ment of Health & Human Services.
Following the district court’s decision
to rule that part of DOMA is unconstitu-
tional, the U.S. government appealed the
cases to the U.S. First Circuit Court of
Appeals, where the litigation is pending.
Bonauto said the additional GLAD
lawsuit is necessary to continue to edu-
cate people about the “harms imposed
by DOMA.” Additionally, she noted many
of the plaintiffs in the Pedersen live in
Vermont and Connecticut, which is in the
Second Circuit, and wouldn’t be affected
by a ruling in the First Circuit as a result
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ples,” Bonauto said.
If both the Gill and the Commonwealth
cases reach the Supreme Court at the
same time as justices take up the Ped-
ersen case, Bonauto said she thinks the
newer lawsuits could be combined with
the older ones.
The filing of the lawsuits has inspired
different reactions among advocacy
groups that work on marriage. In a state-
ment to the Blade, Maggie Gallagher,
chair of the National Organization for
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Time running short for ending ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Continued from page 1
ward with legislative repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” others
see a path forward if certain
conditions are met.
Winnie Stachelberg, senior
vice president for external re-
lations at the Center for Ameri-
can Progress Action Fund, said
Tuesday in a conference call
with reporters that advocates
are in a “solid position” to see
legislative repeal of “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” before year’s end.
Stachelberg cited recent
public statements from the
White House, Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and
Gates to back that assertion.
“The administration’s really
strong statement [Monday], Sen.
Reid’s statement saying they are
not going to stand for a defense
authorization bill that strips out the
repeal measure are really strong
signals that people are moving to
a phase where it’s about proce-
dures, not about the will to get this
done,” Stachelberg said.
In the statement on Monday,
Pfeiffer said the White House
“opposes any effort to strip ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ from the National
Defense Authorization Act.”
On Sunday, Gates made
news when he told reporters that
he supports legislative repeal
of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but
isn’t sure of the likelihood of that
happening. Previously, he said
waiting for the Pentagon working
group report on the issue, due
Dec. 1, would be the best ap-
proach for congressional action.
“I would like to see the repeal
of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ but I’m
not sure what the prospects for
that are,” Gates said. “And we’ll
just have to see.”
Jim Manley, a Reid spokesper-
son, said the senator wants to see
passage of the defense authoriza-
tion in lame duck, but added an
agreement with Republicans is
necessary to move forward.
“Like Defense Secretary
Gates, Sen. Reid strongly sup-
ports the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell’ to help strengthen our
volunteer force and is continuing
to work toward passing the repeal
this year,” Manley said. “He, of
course, can’t do it alone. The sen-
ator needs Republicans to at least
agree to have a debate on this is-
sue — a debate he firmly believes
the Senate should have.”
In a joint statement on Tues-
day, senators known for support-
ing repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” called for legislative action
before the year’s end. Sens. Jo-
seph Lieberman (I-Conn.), Kirsten
Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Mark Udall
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs rankled LGBT advocates after he failed to mention ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell’ repeal when asked about legislative priorities in the lame duck session of Congress.
(D-Colo.) said the Senate “should
act immediately to debate and
pass” the defense authorization
bill along the with the repeal lan-
guage in the lame duck session.
“The Senate has passed a
defense bill for forty-eight con-
secutive years,” the senators
said. “We should not fail to meet
that responsibility now, especially
while our nation is at war. We
must also act to put an end to the
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy that
not only discriminates against but
also dishonors the service of gay
and lesbian service members.”
The senators said a failure to
act legislatively on “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal could mean “a
federal judge may do so unilater-
ally in a way that is disruptive to
our troops and ongoing military
efforts.” Last month, U.S. Dis-
trict Court Judge Virginia Phil-
lips issued an injunction against
enforcing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
that confirmed her earlier ruling
striking down the statute, but her
decision was stayed by a higher
court upon appeal.
“It is important that ‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’ be dealt with
this year, and it appears that
the only way that can happen
is if it’s on the defense bill,” the
senators concluded.
Influencing moderate sena-
tors who may have voted “no”
when the defense bill previously
came before the Senate in Sep-
tember to change their votes a
second time around is seen as
essential for moving forward.
On Tuesday, the Human
Rights Campaign announced
that it deployed field organiz-
ers to eight states — Alaska,
Arkansas, Indiana, Maine, Mas-
sachusetts, Ohio, Virginia and
West Virginia — to persuade
senators there to vote in favor
of the defense authorization
bill and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
repeal. According to HRC, the
efforts include mobilizing veter-
ans to speak out, holding public
events and blanketing local me-
dia with pro-repeal messages.
In a statement, Joe Solmo-
nese, HRC’s president, said
lawmakers have “one last
chance” in the 111th Congress
to “follow the advice of the pres-
ident and top military leaders by
sending ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ to
the dustbin of history.”
“It would be a travesty for a
small group of senators to con-
tinue to hold hostage a bill with
critical military equipment and
pay raises just because some
senators don’t want to even de-
bate repeal,” Solmonese said.
The time limit for acting on
legislative repeal of “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” in the lame duck ses-
sion is among the challenges
in getting it passed. Most re-
peal supporters say the Sen-
ate would need two weeks to
debate and vote on the defense
authorization bill, and more time
is needed to conference the
legislation with the U.S. House.
One Republican aide, who
spoke on condition of ano-
nymity, said the problem with
passing the defense authoriza-
tion bill isn’t having insufficient
votes; it’s having insufficient
time. The aide said waiting for
a vote on defense authorization
bill until December would mean
repeal won’t happen this year.
“If Reid is serious about bring-
ing this up, he needs to bring it
up next week, he needs to can-
cel Thanksgiving recess and he
needs to get it off the floor and
into conference that first week of
December,” the aide said.
But Stachelberg said she
thinks Congress would stay in
session for longer than what
many Capitol Hill observers
are expecting and would have
more time to act on the defense
authorization bill.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
“Congress has to pass a
[continuing resolution] and
deal with expiring tax cuts,”
Stachelberg said. “We antici-
pate that these issues will take
longer than most people antic-
ipate. A longer lame duck in-
creases the likelihood of pass-
ing the defense authorization
bill with ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
in it.”
Even with a longer lame duck
session, whether “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” is a priority for the ad-
ministration remains in question.
Last week, White House
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
didn’t mention repeal when
asked during a news confer-
ence about legislative priori-
ties in the lame duck session
of Congress. Instead, Gibbs
mentioned extending tax cuts
to middle-class Americans and
ratification of the START trea-
ty, a nuclear arms reduction
agreement with Russia.
Alex Nicholson, executive di-
rector of Servicemembers Unit-
ed, criticized the remarks and
said the administration needs
to make clear that it’ll push for
repeal during lame duck.
“These omissions stand in
stark contrast to what the presi-
dent and his staff are saying
elsewhere,” Nicholson said.
“Mr. President, either your ad-
ministration is with us or it’s
against us, and a mediocre
level of public advocacy from
your White House is not stand-
ing with us.”
Stachelberg said she thinks
Dan Pfeiffer’s statement on Mon-
day offers a better sense of what
the White House is thinking as
opposed to Gibbs’ comments.
“Rather than looking earlier in
the day from Gibbs’ comments
... I would look to the later com-
ments from Dan Pfeiffer show-
ing that the administration really
does care that this gets done
and that they’ll stand firm on the
defense authorization bill in en-
suring that it includes ‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell’ repeal,” she said.
Sarvis said he’s “very con-
cerned” Gibbs didn’t list the de-
fense authorization bill as a priority
for the lame duck session, but said
he doesn’t think in that instance the
White House press secretary “was
speaking for the president.”
“The president has made
it clear to some of us that he
wants to get this done in the
lame duck and I believe the
president will be good on his
word on this,” Sarvis said.
Another possible game chang-
er for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal
is the completion of the Pentagon
working group study on imple-
menting an end to the law. The
group has a deadline of Dec. 1
to deliver its report to the defense
secretary, but one source said a
draft copy is already circulating
within the Pentagon.
Aubrey Sarvis, executive
director of the Servicemem-
bers Legal Defense Network,
mentioned the circulation of
the draft copy and said his un-
derstanding is Levin has asked
the Pentagon for a report on the
status of the Pentagon working
group’s recommendations.
“It’s appropriate that he do
so when we know that a draft of
that report is being circulated
and that a draft of that report is
in the hands of each one of the
service chiefs,” Sarvis said.
Last weekend, Marine Corps
Commandant Gen. James Amos,
who assumed his position as ser-
vice chief last month, said now
isn’t the time for “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” repeal and that he’s trying to
determine how to “measure that
risk” of ending the law.
On Monday, the general’s
comments were rebuked by
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen,
who said he was “surprised” by
Amos’ remarks and surprised
he said them publicly.
Sarvis said he thinks what he
called Amos’ “tirade” is related to
“his being disappointed in what he
saw in that report.” Media reports
have stated the report will reveal
that a majority of U.S. troops don’t
care if gays are serving openly in
the U.S. armed forces.
Could the report bolster leg-
islative efforts to repeal “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell”? Stachelberg
said the Dec. 1 deadline for the
report gives senators ample
time to review the findings and
take action in lame duck.
STORY CONTINUES AT
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NEWS
Mary Washington says she expects Maryland to enact marriage equality within four years.
Maryland lawmaker
makes history with win
Mary Washington is
nation’s 2nd out black
lesbian in state office
By DAVID J. HOFFMAN
Mary Washington is not only a newly
elected Maryland state legislator, who won
her seat as a Democrat in the 141-member
House of Delegates on Nov. 2. She is also
only the second out black lesbian elected
to statewide office in the nation.
And she’s confident about the expan-
sion of LGBT rights in decidedly blue
Maryland. Does she see same-sex mar-
riage rights coming soon?
“Yes,” she says, “I’m very encouraged
that we will absolutely see recognition of
civil marriage in Maryland within the next
four years.”
Washington was endorsed by the Min-
isterial Alliance, the most prominent area
inter-denominational coalition. She adds
that “gays and lesbians have moved so
far in Maryland already, and I strongly
feel that we also now need to focus on
protections for transgendered people.”
She recognizes that Maryland bucked “a
red tide on Election Day,” when Democrats
lost more than 650 state legislative seats na-
tionwide. “Maryland now stands as a bea-
con of hope for progress and social justice,”
according to Washington. The reason the
Republican riptide faltered in Maryland is
that, “we have a tradition of moderation and
civility and we don’t typically have strong,
ultra-conservative voters,” and that “we also
know how to organize our candidates for
great campaigns.”
But even so, dirty tricks were em-
ployed late on Election Day, when robo-
calls — what Washington called “ugly
phone calls” to suppress minority turn-
out — went to more than 50,000 voters,
urging them to “relax” and stay home in-
stead of voting. According to stories in
the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun,
the automated calls were at the behest
of a political operative working for for-
mer Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich, the
Republican who lost the rematch race to
Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat.
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An inauguration speech for Vince Gray
Here’s what new D.C.
mayor should say
By PETER ROSENSTEIN
Today, as I take the oath of
office as Mayor of the Capital of
these great United States, let the
word go forth that the Mayor and
the people of the District of Co-
lumbia are committed to begin-
ning the hard work of becoming
“One City” with full democracy.
Our efforts will focus on be-
ing a city that meets the needs
of all its residents, from our chil-
dren to our seniors, rich and
poor and every range of the
economic spectrum. To those
east of the river and west of the
river, to those who were born
black, white, Latino, Asian, gay,
straight, bi or transgender, I
commit to you that I will do all
in my power to make the Dis-
trict of Columbia a place where
you and your families can live,
work and recreate in safety, with
hope for a better future.
It won’t be easy. We need to
take a step back and try to un-
derstand each other and learn
to respect each other. We need
to end the racism, sexism and
homophobia that still rear their
ugly heads in our city. We need
to educate our children to un-
derstand each other and re-
spect our differences and com-
mit to ending hate crimes and
make bullying unacceptable.
As we face economic hard-
ships and a recession in our na-
tion I commit to working with the
City Council and communities
to redouble our efforts to bring
our budget under control. We
will need to look deep into our
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the discussion.
Re: “Catania, Graham breeze
to victory; 7 gays win in Md.”
(news, Nov. 3)
I’m going to toss out an idea
to the gay community. If every
gay person in the USA – 20
million or more – could spare
$5 per month, we could build
a billion dollar war chest, and
elect probably another 200 gay
people to important offices.
And wouldn’t that make a differ-
ence? You bet.
I’m the guy who threw
$53,000 at the Maine Prop 1
souls and determine what peo-
ple’s basic needs are that gov-
ernment must provide. I believe
they include police protection to
ensure safety on the streets and
in our homes. A safety net for
those less fortunate including
a roof over their heads for the
homeless, healthcare, food for
families in need and continued
aggressive reform of our educa-
tion system so that we provide
the tools and opportunity for all
children to achieve their high-
est aspirations and graduate
to better lives able to support
themselves and their families.
With a budget of more than
$8 billion we can provide those
basics and more. We can make
all our neighborhoods places
where people want to live. We
can encourage the arts and
culture that make a society
great. We can protect our envi-
ronment. We can be the place
that welcomes millions of visi-
tors each year with a success-
ful hospitality industry and we
can be the place that provides
the type of workforce develop-
ment for our residents that will
prepare them for the jobs of the
future. All this must be done
openly and transparently.
We will have to tighten our
belts and cut budgets. If we
work together and share the
pain that will cause we will leave
no one behind. We must contin-
ue planning for better economic
times and be ready as budgets
allow to move forward aggres-
sively with rebuilding our city.
In the meantime we will restruc-
ture our regulatory system and
make D.C. the most business-
friendly city in the nation. We will
continue to improve our schools
and California Prop 8 fights. But
I don’t have that kind of money
to do it again.
The big question, and I in-
vite the Blade and Kevin Naff
to help, is how do we get the
gay community out of its closet
of assuming you can’t win and
just hiding, and coming up with
that billion dollars? That money
could probably be matched by
good straight people who are
wealthy — something I realized
by attending the HRC dinner
last month and seeing the ob-
vious older and obvious very
wealthy straight couples by the
thousand or so who attended.
That’s my next project. I hope
the community will support not
mayor-elect Vincent Gray should continue to include lGBt people in his
vision for a better city.
and keep current residents here
while also attracting new ones.
I stand here today as the
sixth mayor of the District of Co-
lumbia since we were granted
Home Rule. The time is long
overdue for Congress to com-
plete that promise by extending
full Democracy to the 600,000
people who call the District
of Columbia home. We send
our young men and women to
war to fight for Democracy in
faraway lands, but they have
none when they return home.
We have no vote in the House
of Representatives, no votes in
the Senate and don’t even con-
trol our own budget and legisla-
tive agenda. Congress and past
administrations have often used
the District of Columbia as a pe-
tri dish for their experiments.
Today I call on those in Con-
gress who were elected on a
promise to keep government out
of the business of the people to
join with me to keep Congress
me (your str8 friend) but your-
selves. Think about it.
—Stan JamesQ
Re: “Elections over, there’s
still time for change” (editorial
by Kevin Naff, Nov. 3)
Michael Bloomberg has little
chance of actually winning but
would be in a position to push
Obama further left on LGBT is-
sues during the mad scramble
for gay votes and cash. Also, if
a fiscal conservative like Bloomy
were to come out for gay mar-
riage, this would make the entire
issue slightly less politically ta-
boo. I still put my money on Hill-
ary in 2012 — just a gut feeling
Washington Blade file photo by michael Key
out of the business of the people
of the District of Columbia. This
is a prime conservative tenet and
while we may over time disagree
on many issues this is one area in
which I believe we share common
ground. I have also asked Presi-
dent Obama to join me in lobby-
ing Congress to extend the basic
respect we deserve and to speak
out for full Democracy for the peo-
ple of the District of Columbia.
The task of governing begins
now and by working together we
will succeed. Join me now as we
ask for God’s grace on all the peo-
ple of the District of Columbia.
Peter Rosenstein is a d.C.-based lGBt
rights and democratic Party activist. he
writes regularly for the Blade.
— but think she will need to play
it “safe” on most social issues
when the main issues will be
jobs, jobs and jobs. Obama is
a failure on just too many levels.
—Stephen Marcus
Everyone wrote off Ronald
Reagan, Bill Clinton and George
W. Bush after the midterms. It’s
an easy trap to fall into but it has
proven, at least recently, that the
opposition party tends to over-
reach and blow their chances in a
presidential election. Don’t count
Obama out. With the Tea Party
loonies in Congress for the next
two years, America will be waxing
nostalgic for sanity come 2012.
—Steve
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VIEWPOINT
Sondheim tributes highlight his gay sensibilities
Legendary composer
helps us survive
‘Being Alive’
By KATHI WOLFE
With my first love I listened to
Ethel Merman sing “Everything’s
Coming Up Roses” in “Gypsy.” I
learned there’s “Tragedy tomor-
row, Comedy Tonight” from see-
ing “A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum” and
discovered the irony of “Being
Alive” when I, then 20-some-
thing, heard the cast album of
“Company.”
I bet my old vinyl Judy Collins
album that you sing “Send in the
Clowns” in the shower. I’m not
alone. Stephen Sondheim’s lyr-
ics and music are etched onto
the DNA of many of our lives.
Even tone-deaf aficionados like
me. Especially, those of us who
are queer.
This year the gay Tony Award
and Pulitzer Prize winner turned
80 and everything’s coming up
Sondheim. “Finishing the Hat,”
a coffee table book of Sond-
heim’s collected lyrics from
1954 to 1981 (“with Attendant
Comments, Principles, Here-
sies, Grudges, Whines and An-
ecdotes”) is just out, his 1966
TV musical “Evening Primrose”
is now on DVD for the first time,
and his 1971 musical “Follies”
will be performed at the Ken-
nedy Center this spring.
Why does Sondheim matter?
Because his lyrics, his music,
have been instrumental (forgive
the pun) in shaping not only mu-
sical theater but the sensibility
of queers.
Before Sondheim began com-
posing, in most shows, including
his mentor Oscar Hammerstein
II’s musicals, “the characters are
not much more than collections
of characteristics — verbal tics
and quirks, like Southern ac-
cents or bad grammar, which
individualize a character only
the way a black hat signifies a
villain,” he writes in the introduc-
tion to “Finishing the Hat.”
Along with “Songwriters like
Kander and Ebb — we all ex-
plored the new territory with
playwrights who happily ac-
cepted the notion that musicals
could be more than constructs of
block comedy scenes and nov-
elty songs leavened by the occa-
sional ballad … Thus ‘West Side
Story,’ etc.,” Sondheim adds.
In addition to creating char-
acters with inner lives who
were more than mannerisms,
Sondheim injected irony into
musicals. “Company,” centered
around the birthday party for a
single 35-year-old man named
Bobby who ruminates on mar-
riage, is one of his most ironic
shows. “… Many plays from
Restoration comedy onward
have been purveyors of irony,”
Sondheim writes. “Brecht built a
body of work on it — and a num-
ber of musicals like ‘Cabaret’
contained ironic moments — but
‘Company’ was suffused with it.”
“Company” is the first Broad-
way musical to be defined not
by satire or sentiment, but by
irony, Sondheim, who calls him-
self “the romantic,” says. This
irony, underscored with the bit-
tersweet and romantic, takes
the form of characters’ obser-
vations — on themselves, other
characters — life’s ambiguities.
Recently, a gay friend told
november 12, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 17
me, “I can’t sit through many
musicals unless they’re [by]
Stephen Sondheim.”
I’d wager that my pal, like
many of us queer folk, is impa-
tient with the sentimentality and
lack of character development
in more traditional shows, but
in love with the sophisticated
intelligence and emotionally
satisfying irony of Sondheim’s
musicals. There’s nothing as
delicious as the “meat” pies in
“Sweeney Todd.”
Sondheim didn’t come out
as queer until he was 40 when
“Company” opened on Broad-
way and didn’t have a long-term
relationship until he was 61. Be-
fore starting work on “Compa-
ny,” he talked at length with his
friend Mary Rodgers, Richard
Rodgers’ daughter, about what
being married was like. Their
conversation “gave me the con-
fidence to go ahead and write
the score,” Sondheim writes.
“The outsider feeling —
somebody who people want to
both kiss and kill — occurred
quite early in my life,” Sondheim
told an interviewer.
I wouldn’t want to say that Sond-
heim’s feeling of being an “outsid-
er” is based solely on his sexual
orientation. Many creative artists
feel as if they’re outsiders in a cul-
ture that often devalues the arts.
Yet, Sondheim, born in 1930, came
of age at a time when queers had
to be closeted, and I can’t help but
think being gay played a key role in
forming his sensibility.
Sondheim’s irony has helped
us cope with homophobia in the
past and will toughen our hides
in future battles. “I’ll always be
there/As frightened as you,/To
help us survive/being Aalive,
being alive,” he wrote in “Being
Alive,” a song from “Company.”
Thank you Mr. Sondheim for
always being there and for help-
ing us survive “Being Alive.”
Kathi Wolfe is a writer, poet and regu-
lar contributor to the Blade. She can be
reached through this publication.
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To get it sold, get on board!

By DAVID BEDIZ, REALTOR
Coldwell Banker
Residential Brokerage
In my last column I discussed the
merits and the real data supporting
a pet friendly condominium policy
to increase or maintain property
values. The value of allowing dogs
actually can be measured as more
than 15% higher in terms of price
per square foot, averaged across
many popular DC zip codes. That
is an incredibly high increase in
value, which equates to $75,000 for
a $500,000 condo unit.
But there is an even better rea-
son to make sure you’re involved
in the rulemaking and general
management of your condomin-
ium, and perhaps even to join
your condo’s board. This condo-
minium rule can actually reduce
your home’s value far more than
a restrictive pet policy, and, inter-
estingly, it may seem like an ad-
vantage the whole time you own
your unit… but then bite you hard
when you want to sell: it’s your
condominium’s rental policy.
Most condominiums pride
themselves on the fact that the
owners have more autonomy than
their cooperative counterparts
(which in reality is not really true).
Condo owners really do “own” their
unit and then have a partial owner-
ship interest in the common areas,
whereas cooperative unit owners
have a percentage ownership in
the whole building and technically
lease their unit from the corporation
they are part of. In reality, this has
only a slight effect on the day-to-
day enjoyment of the spaces; in ei-
ther unit, in most buildings, condo
and coop owners have equally
liberal policies on renovations
and each owner generally has the
same responsibilities to maintain
and replace appliances and other
systems within their units without
the financial participation of the
corporation or condo board. The
one big difference between most
condos and coops is their rental
policies. Most condos have few
restrictions for leasing, whereas
most coops restrict the rental of
units by their term (usually 2 years
maximum, whereupon the owner
most reoccupy the unit or sell) and
even by their start time (most re-
quire the owners to occupy the unit
for at least one year before renting
it out). Some coops do not allow
rentals at all.
These rental restrictions are
one obvious reason that coops
generally sell for less than con-
dos, and they may seem unfair
or draconian especially when the
market is a little softer, and when
buyers are concerned about
what their options would be if
they lost their job or had to move
out of the city unexpectedly. But
the opposite—a completely re-
laxed rental policy with no real
restrictions—can be equally if not
more risky for condominium own-
ers, while during their ownership
they may feel it is an advantage.
The reason? Financing.
This real estate market has
benefited from low rates, rela-
tively easy lending procedures for
qualified buyers, and lots of lend-
ers to choose from. But when the
rental rate in a building gets too
high, say over 50%, the lending
pool doesn’t just shrink… it virtu-
ally disappears. There are excep-
tions, but basically any buyer who
wants to buy in a building that has
that high an investor ratio must ei-
ther buy it with all cash and cut the
lender out entirely, or put down at
least 20% and become an owner-
occupant with some lenders who
offer a “limited review” loan. While
this latter option seems to keep
the door open for buildings with
lots of renters, the requirement of
a 20% minimum downpayment,
plus owner occupancy, plus the
fear of changes in the future that
could even eliminate this option,
may scare off a large chunk of
potential buyers for your property.
Further, since most buyers
have less than 20% to put down
on a property, they will end up
with either FHA loans that allow
no more than 50% investors no
matter what, or a conventional
loan that will require PMI, or
Private Mortgage Insurance.
PMI guidelines for conventional
loans have changed somewhat
since the 2008 market melt-
down, and now no property will
qualify for PMI that has over
30% investors. Therefore any
condominium with between
30 and 50% tenants will either
require a 20% minimum down-
payment or an FHA loan (which
has a 1% Upfront Mortgage In-
surance Premium or UMIP).
All these numbers, limits and
exceptions may seem confusing,
but the bottom line is this: relaxed
rental policies add value to condos
because they give condo owners
options in uncertain times—but
there must be a limit. Condos that
are too lax with their policies will
end up becoming apartment build-
ings with a lot of individual owners.
And besides the inherent problems
with that scenario (decreased in-
vestment in building maintenance,
gridlock at board and annual meet-
ings and a general decay of the
property and unit values), there
then becomes an enormous prob-
lem that no buyers can purchase in
the building without a large down-
payment or all cash. That sharp de-
crease in the buyer pool has enor-
mous impact on property values as
per the age-old law of supply and
demand, and on top of that could
lengthen your unit’s time on market
to a frustratingly long period.
So what’s the answer? As al-
ways, get involved! Go to your
board meetings, speak up when
the issues come up and vote
members in who care about main-
taining the quality of the building
and the values of your unit. En-
courage the board members to
draft rules in writing about a 49%
limit to rented units, or perhaps
even fewer. Better yet, get on the
board itself and help shape the fu-
ture of your largest investment—
and draft reasonable guidelines to
prevent your condominium from
becoming an apartment building.
David Bediz is a Realtor at Coldwell
Banker Residential Brokerage and
part of the Dwight and David Real
Estate Group. He can be reached
at 202 352 8456 or through www.
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Local college basketball

player breaks sports barrier
By JuLIeTTe M. eBNeR

In a time when athletes, like many oth-

ers in the public eye, are still afraid to
come out as gay, it’s surprising to hear
of a college athlete coming out as trans-
gender.
But Kye Allums, a transgender male,
has done just that.
Allums, a junior interior design major,
is a shooting guard for the George Wash-
ington University’s women’s basketball
team, the Colonials.
He grew up in Hugo, Minn., and has
been playing basketball since seventh
grade. It wasn’t until his freshman year of
college that he came to realize who he
was.
“I finally got away from home, got away
from just everybody really, and I was on
my own,” he says. “I had a chance to
think about who I really was, what I ac-
tually liked, and I found out that I was a
transgender man.”
Allums cut his hair during his freshman
year as well, but says it had nothing to do
with how he felt. He didn’t like having to
fix his hair.
Allums is the first transgender male
student-athlete to play for the university’s
women’s basketball team and one of the
first in the NCAA.
“[Allums] is a role model for countless
other transgender young people both as
an athlete and a human being,” Shannon
Minter, legal director of National Center
for Lesbian Rights, says. “Because of his
courage, transgender youth know they
can follow in his footsteps and be suc-
Photos courtesy of George Washington University

Kye Allums, a junior interior design major, is a shooting guard for the George Washington University’s women’s basketball team, the Colonials. Continues on page 40
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QUEERY: 20 Questions for Philip Clark

By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO off, blandly mainstream gays and lesbians
How long have you been out and who
joeyd@washblade.com can rub elbows with politicians and celeb-
was the hardest person to tell?
I started letting people know when I rities who deign to pat their heads and tell
Philip Clark has a thing for books. The 30-year- them that LGBT people are tolerated. It
was 14. Parents are always the biggest
old high school librarian even says books played should be about ensuring that our elders
hurdle — even when, as mine did, they
a huge part in his coming-out story. are respected and loved, that our youth are
react in a reasonable way.
“It really does tie directly into my sexuality,” the taught their history and taken care of, that
Arlington, Va., resident says. “When you’re coming effeminate gay men and butch dykes and
Who’s your gay hero?
out as a teen and there’s not a lot of information drag queens are able to walk the streets
There are so many, past and present,
around, you quickly become a really good research- without fear of being bashed and go to
but I’ve admired the late gay drag singer
er. I wanted to find out more about what being gay work without fear of being fired and that
Sylvester since I was a teenager. His
was all about and what other gay people were about the love and the sex we share is shown to
courage and songs were a positive force.
so I found a bunch of novels with gay characters and be so powerful that even the most scared
More broadly, all the men and women
tried to read as much as I could about who I was.” and confused would rather risk blowing
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key whose energy and forthrightness and
Seeds were planted that are still bearing fruit. A open the doors of their closets than miss
guts have built our culture and brought
collection of gay literature on the SMYAL bookshelves instilled Clark with an appreciation out on it all. But it’s easier to get dressed
us what equality we have.
for contemporary gay authors. Over the years, though, he’s been saddened to find many up and go to a party or to stick an equality
of them have died of AIDS and their writings have gone out of print and are hard to find. bumper sticker on your car than to do the
What is Washington’s best nightspot,
During a Lambda Literary Foundation awards reception in New York in 2005, Clark grand imaginative work this would require,
past or present?
met David Groff who’d been friends with legendary gay author Paul Monette (who so I don’t expect it to happen.
Soho Tea and Coffee has always been
died of AIDS in the mid-’90s) and was managing his estate. The two bonded over their a hospitable place for me. I realize that’s
mutual love of poetry and spent years putting together “Persistent Voices: Poetry by not the usual image people have of a What would you walk across hot
Writers Lost to AIDS,” an anthology that finally made its way to print this year. nightspot, but, hey, they’re open late. coals for?
“I see it as a way of giving back and showing appreciation to these writers whose It’s clichéd, but anyone I love.
work meant a lot to me and was very sustaining to me when I was a teen,” Clark says. Describe your dream gay wedding.
A reading from the collection will be held on Nov. 30 for World AIDS Day at the I’m conflicted about the whole gay What gay stereotype annoys you most?
True Reformer Building in Washington. The book can be found on Amazon and I’m more annoyed by how gay people
marriage idea and the current obsession
other online outlets. sometimes treat each other than by what
with gay weddings does nothing for me.
His love of LGBT history also led him to the Rainbow History Project, the board of others think about us.
which he now chairs. That group’s 10th anniversary event is Tuesday in the Sumner What non-gay issue are you most
School’s Great Hall at 1201 17th St. at 6:30 p.m. What’s your favorite gay movie?
passionate about?
Clark grew up in Arlington and went to college in Williamsburg. He loves anything “The Crying Game.” There’s so much
Literacy in all its forms. If I see some-
book related — reading, writing, collecting, selling, promoting and “getting the best more going on there than the existence
one’s place and they don’t have books,
of them into other people’s hands.” He has an aversion to reading on screen and of Jaye Davidson’s appendage.
I really wonder what’s wrong with them.
admits he’s “very” old-fashioned despite being just 30.
What historical outcome would you What’s the most overrated social custom?
change? Alcohol consumption as a way to have
Any one of a number of genocides. fun. People tell me that I’d actually have
to drink in order to understand how great
What’s been the most memorable pop it is, but I’m not interested.
VOTED BEST LATE NIGHT DINING BY WASHINGTON BLADE READERS

culture moment of your lifetime?

I got to see Alison Moyet sing live, solo,
at the 9:30 club. It may not mean much to
anyone else, but she tore the roof off and
ruined me for all future concerts.
On what do you insist?
That Amazon is evil. Do not buy from
Amazon. Thank you.
What trophy or prize do you most covet?
I’m content, but it would be nice if the
Wizards could win a championship dur-
ing my lifetime. It would reward 25 years
and counting of rooting for them futilely.
What do you wish you’d known at 18?
Not to take everything in life so seriously.

What was your last Facebook post or Why Washington?

Tweet?
I posted Joan Armatrading’s video for
“Drop the Pilot.” I’m a big ’80s music fan,
and that’s one joyous, sexy song.
If your life were a book, what would
the title be?
“The Patron Saint of Lost Causes.”
I love the history, the architecture, the
museums — but the preoccupation with
politics, the glut of lawyers, the humid
weather? Keep ‘em! I’m thinking about
relocating to New England.

If science discovered a way to change

sexual orientation, what would you do?
Run in the opposite direction from the
scientists.

What do you believe in beyond the

physical world?
To quote Linus from Peanuts: “The
theological implications of that are way
beyond me.”

What’s your advice for LGBT move-

ment leaders?
OK, getting on my soapbox: each of
us individually should be a leader, so let’s
get our own house and thinking in order.
What’s the movement’s purpose? It’s not (or
shouldn’t be) about making sure that well-
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CALENDAR
Today
The Richard Montgomery High
School Black Maskers Drama Club
presents Moisés Kaufman’s “The Lara-
mie Project,” a play based on interviews
with residents of Laramie, Wyo., after the
1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay
college student, tonight at 7 p.m. in the
Richard Montgomery Auditorium (250
Richard Montgomery Drive) in Rockville.
Tickets may be purchased in advance at
richardmontgomerydrama.ticketleap.net
or at the door, and are $5 for students
and $13 for adults.
Bethesda’s monthly art walk is to-
night from 6 to 9 p.m. Ten local galler-
ies will be staying open. Attendees are
invited to view the artwork, enjoy free
refreshments and to shop. The partici-
pating galleries and studios are the Blue
House (7770 Woodmont Ave.), Fraser
Gallery (7700E. Wisconsin Ave.), Gallery
360 (4836 Rugby Ave.), Gallery Frame
Avenue (4919 Cordell Ave.), Gallery St.
Elmo (4938 St. Elmo Ave.), Orchard Gal-
lery (7917 Norfolk Ave.), St. Elmo’s Fire
Gallery (4828 St. Elmo Ave.), Upstairs Art
Studios (4948 St. Elmo Ave.), Washing-
ton School of Photography (4850 Rugby
Ave.) and Waverly Street Gallery (4600
East-West Highway.).
Towson University Dance Company
presents “Grace and Flow,” an evening
of dance tonight at 8 p.m. The program
includes the second act of “Swan Lake,”
the classical ballet restaged by Runqiao
Du, the work of Tim Veach and the cho-
reographed works of the Towson Univer-
sity dance faculty including Jaye Knut-
son, Nancy Romita, Nicole A. Martinell
and Sandra Perez. Tickets are $20 for
general admission, $15 for seniors and
$10 for students.
Bookmen D.C., an informal group of
men interested in gay literature, meets
tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Charles Sum-
ner School and Archives (1201 17th St.,
N.W.) to discuss selections from “Per-
sistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to
AIDS” edited by David Groff and Philip
Clark. All are welcome.
The Baltimore Museum of Art (10 Art
Museum Drive) is hosting “Warhol: the
Last Decade,” an exhibit featuring over
50 large-scale works that marked Andy
Warhol’s last decade. This is the last
stop of a national tour. Some of the works
shown include fright wig self-portraits
and three variations on Da Vinci’s “The
Last Supper.” The museum is open from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and admission ranges
from free for children 5 and younger to
$15 for adults. For more information, visit
warhol.artbma.org.
Saturday, Nov. 13
Shi-Queeta-Lee will be celebrating
her 46th birthday today with Cirque Du
Soleil’s “Red Party” at Town featuring the
release of her 2011 calendar from 6 to 10
p.m. There will be a $10 cover.
The Richard Montgomery High
School Black Maskers Drama Club
presents Moisés Kaufman’s “The Lara-
mie Project,” a play based on interviews
with residents of Laramie, Wyo., after the
1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay
college student, tonight at 7 p.m. in the
Richard Montgomery Auditorium (250
Richard Montgomery Drive) in Rockville.
Tickets may be purchased in advance at
richardmontgomerydrama.ticketleap.net
or at the door, and are $5 for students
and $13 for adults.
The Birchmere and AM Productions
present Straight No Chaser, a male a
cappella group, performing at the Meyer-
hoff Symphony Hall (1212 Cathedral St.)
in Baltimore tonight at 8 p.m. For more
information on the group, visit sncmusic.
com. To purchase tickets, visit ticketmas-
ter.com.
The D.C. Strokes Rowing Club will
celebrate 20 years of rowing tonight at
Casa Italiana Language School (595 1/2
3rd St., N.W.) from 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets
are $55 and can be purchased by regis-
tering at dcstrokes.org.
Folding/Unfolding: Collider, a 3D
modeling and interactive exhibit and
workshop opens tonight at Artispehere
(1101 Wilson Blvd.) in Arlington with an
opening reception at 8 p.m. featuring
burlesque figure drawing with Velvet
Kensington and Private Tails and an af-
ter party at 11 p.m. with queer band Rad
Pony, who has played at Phasefest the
past two years, and DJs Natty Boom and
Matt Bailer.
Blowoff, a dance party featuring gay
DJs, will be at 9:30 Club (815 V St., N.W.)
tonight. Doors opens at 11:30 p.m. At-
tendees must be 21 or older. Tickets are
$12 and can be purchased at 930.com.
Allie Wilson and Jacob Nathaniel Pring
present Cotton Candy at Green Lantern
(1335 Green Court, N.W.) tonight at 10 Image courtesy of Touchstone Gallery
p.m. upstairs featuring DJs David Merrill ‘Folks Like Us’ by Paula Lantz, is on display at Touchstone Gallery through Nov. 28.
and Bryan Yamasaki. Attendees must be
18 or older to attend. There’s a $5 cover.
at 7 p.m. Billie Jean King and Sir Elton Wednesday, Nov. 17
Sunday, Nov. 14 John will captain teams composed of Women’s Wednesday will be at Mixol-
Andre Agassi, James Blake, Stefanie ogy tonight from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mixology
D.C. native actress and playwright El- Graf, Anna Kournikova, Martina Navra- is D.C. premier matchmaking service for
len McLaughlin, who originated the role tilova and more. This event will raise gays and lesbians. Register at caglcc.org.
of the angel in gay playwright Tony Kush- money for the Elton John AIDS Foun- The Zenith Gallery (1111 Pennsylva-
ner’s “Angels in America” on Broadway dation and local D.C. area AIDS chari- nia Ave., N.W.) opens “Universe” featur-
in the early ‘90s, will perform her play ties. Tickets range from $40 to $120. For ing artwork by Anne Marchand and Craig
“Penelope” at the Writer’s Center (4508 more information and to purchase tick- Schaffer tonight. Both artists deal with
Walsh St.) in Bethesda, tonight at 7 p.m. ets, visit wtt.com. the abstract, Marchand through paint-
Tickets are $5 for members and $10 for The National Portrait Gallery is ings and Schaffer through sculpture. The
guests. For more information, call 301- showing an exhibit that focuses on sex- gallery is open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
654-8664 or visit writer.org. ual differences in the making of modern Food & Friends Slice of Life and Nel-
GayParazzi will tour the National Ar- American portraiture. “Hide/Seek: Differ- lie’s will be hosting a pie-eating contest
boretum (3501 New York Ave., N.E.) to- ence and Desire in American Portraiture” and bake sale tonight at 7 p.m. The con-
day meeting outside the visitor’s center is the first major museum exhibit of its test is limited to 16 participants and is first
at 10 a.m. There’s free admission and kind. The museum is open from 11:30 come, first entered. For more information,
parking. Sign up at GayParazzi.com. a.m. to 7 p.m. and admission is free. including the rules of the contest, and to
LAMBDA SCI-FI will have its monthly register for the event, visit nelliesdc.com.
meeting and social of LGBT science fic- Tuesday, Nov. 16
tion, fantasy and horror fans today at 1:30 Thursday, Nov. 18
p.m. at 1414 17th St., N.W. Call James at Rainbow History Project will cel-
202-232-3141 or e-mail to info@lambdas- ebrate its 10th anniversary tonight at The Kennedy Center (2700 F St., N.W.)
cifi.org to RSVP. For more information, the Charles Sumner School Museum & will be hosting a “theater look-in” for “Hair”
visit the group’s website lambdascifi.org. Archives (1201 17th St., N.W.) from 6:30 today from 5 to 6 p.m. Attendees will get an
The Pocket Gays will be hosting to 8:30 p.m. The reception will feature insider’s look at the production and have
“Spanksgiving” today on the enclosed a one-night-only exhibit of items from the opportunity to ask the artists questions.
and heated roof deck of Local 16 (1602 RHP’s archives including T-shirts from This event will be in the Terrace Gallery and
U St., N.W.) from 3 to 9 p.m. DJ vANNIEty the collection of the late lesbian archivist tickets are $12. For more information and to
KILLS will be providing the music. This is Cheryl Spector. This event is free and purchase tickets, visit kennedy-center.org.
a free event. open to the public. For more information, There will be a special happy hour at
visit rainbowhistory.org. Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.) to benefit the
Monday, Nov. 15 Burgundy Crescent Volunteers Trevor Project tonight from 5 to 9 p.m. A
needs help packing safer sex kits for $10 donation at the door will go directly
The 2010 WTT Smash Hits is tonight FUK!T from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight at Green to the Trevor Project and Cobalt will hon-
at Bender Arena at American University Lantern, 1335 Green Ct., N.W. or the donation with a free drink ticket.
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THEATERAGENDA
A group of celebrated actors praised gay director and D.C. theater icon Michael Kahn this
week, including Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Christine Baranski and Laura Linney.
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Most theater aficionados in Wash-
ington and around the nation know that
Kahn is one of the foremost directors of
Shakespeare in the nation today. What
many people don’t know is that he was
the head of the acting department at Jul-
liard for many years where he mentored
and taught hundreds of actors and direc-
tors working in theater today.
At Monday’s awards ceremony at the
Harman Theater, many of those actors
and directors either came in person to
Georgetown’s pay tribute or sent letters because they
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Macbeth, were all there to honor Kahn.
Then David Muse, the new artistic di-
rector of Studio Theatre, began the tributes
with a heartfelt thanks to Kahn, crediting
his mentoring and teaching as the reason
for his success. Some of the letters read to
Kahn — many brought tears and laughter
to both Kahn and the audience — came
from his friends. They included words from
Terrence McNally, who was a student with
Kahn at Columbia and who reminisced
about being directed by him in a play and
their set designer being Andy Warhol. Ad-
ditional funny and heartfelt tributes came
from Elizabeth Ashley, Patrick Stewart,
Judi Dench, Christine Baranski (who end-
ed hers with “call me”), Laura Linney and
Zelda Fichandler from Arena Stage.
Then a surprise guest, lesbian actress
Kelly McGillis, came to the podium. She
spoke of her first audition for Kahn when
she auditioned to enter Julliard more
than 30 years ago. She has since per-
formed in nine plays in Washington for
the Shakespeare Theatre. She has had
a successful stage career, though she
remains best known for her starring role
opposite Tom Cruise in “Top Gun.”
The evening came to an end with Halo
Wines presenting the Richard Bauer
Award. Kahn spoke, reminding the audi-
ence that he is not only a talented direc-
tor and teacher, but also a wonderfully
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THEATERAGENDA
Nicholas Rodriguez as Curly and Eleasha Gamble as Laurey in ‘Oklahoma!’ at Arena
Stage’s new Mead Center for American Theater. Rodriguez, who’s gay, is entirely convincing
as a straight character and generates genuine chemistry with Gamble.
Triangles and triumphs
Stage warhorse ‘Oklahoma’
proves solid choice for
new Arena space
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
When Arena Stage announced plans
to inaugurate its breathtakingly renovated
Southwest waterfront campus with “Okla-
homa!” months ago, there were a few
grumbles: Why mark the anticipated mo-
ment with an old, oft-produced musical?
As it turns out, director Molly Smith’s
rock-solid, rollicking production of Rod-
gers and Hammerstein’s groundbreak-
ing classic couldn’t be better suited for
the occasion. Current, diverse and alive,
Smith’s “Oklahoma!” is as fresh as the
company’s newly redesigned digs.
Set in turn-of-the-century Oklahoma
territory, the 1943 Broadway hit is cred-
ited with being the first modern musical
to integrate music and dance into its plot.
The story revolves around two love trian-
gles: Laurey, a headstrong farm girl, who
plays hard to get with handsome cowboy
Curly while stringing along another guy
— dangerous farmhand Jud Fry. Simulta-
neously, a more comic threesome — Ado
Annie, the girl who “cain’t say no,” and
her suitors: besotted cowboy Will Parker
and Ali Hakim, a traveling Persian ped-
dler – work out their romantic issues.
Smith (who is also Arena’s artistic direc-
tor) has cast Eleasha Gamble and Nicholas
Rodriquez, both actors of color, as Laurey
and Curly, leading parts traditionally played
by white actors. The result is fabulous — not
only are the players terrifically talented, but
the casting reflects actual life in the territory
and Arena’s multi-cultural mission.
Rodriguez, who played Tarzan on Broad-
way and gay rights activist Nick Chavez on
daytime soap “One Life to Live,” first ap-
peared at Arena last season in “Light in the
Piazza” as Fabrizio, a romantic young Italian
who falls for a slightly mentally challenged
American girl. With his gorgeous voice
and dark good looks, he was terrific in the
part. As Curly, Rodriguez again destroys
the fallacy that gay actors cannot credibly
play straight romantic leads. Not only is he
believable, but the chemistry between him
and the talented Gamble, who brings the
perfect balance of strength and vulnerabil-
november 12, 2010 • washingtonblade.com 29
Photo by Carol Rosegg; courtesy of Arena
ity to her role, is palpable.
The remainder of the diverse cast is
excellent as well.
Lead by musical director George
Fulginiti Shakar, the dozen-or-so-person
orchestra perched offstage in an under
construction frontier school house com-
pliments of set designer Eugene Lee, vi-
brantly interprets the show’s mythic score
including songs like “Oh, What a Beauti-
ful Mornin’,” “People Will Say We’re in
Love,” and, of course, “Oklahoma!”
“Oklahoma!” is Smith’s best musi-
cal endeavor since ably tackling one of
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s other hits,
“South Pacific” almost eight years ago.
Across the Potomac in Rosslyn, Wash-
ington Shakespeare Company (WSC) is
christening its new home – a black box
Washington Blade
space in Arlington County’s recently opened
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Fri, Nov.futuristically
Artisphere – with an enthralling, 12, 2010
stylish production of Shakespeare’s “Rich-
1/8H (4.75” x 2.6875”)
ard III.” Like Arena, WSC has also made
Non-SAU
Landmark
some smart casting choices Theatres/CO
— particularly
in giving Frank Britton the title role.
Revised
Britton, who’s black and bisexual,
gives a layered, nuanced performance
as “that foul bunch-backed toad” is a
pleasure to behold.
Co-directors (and newlyweds) Christopher
Henley and Jay Hardee have also cast women
as the king’s advisors (roles originally written
for men), adding an intriguing texture to the
production. Here Annie Houston as Stanley
expresses a mother’s love for her endangered
son; there are hints of a lingering romance
between Barbara Papendorp’s Catesby and
the doomed Hastings played by Joe Palka.
And in no other “Richard III,” as I recall, does
the scheming Buckingham (Adrienne Nelson) PRESENTS
rock big blonde hair a la Angie Dickinson circa
1964. It’s a great season opener for WSC.
“Don’t dream it, be it.” “And they call him …Sandy Clawsss!”
‘Oklahoma!’
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THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS OPENINGS
Sunday at Strathmore with Wed, Nov. 17
Stephen Sondheim The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, The Kennedy
Sun, Nov 14 Center. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org
Strathmore Thu, Nov. 18
National Symphony Orchestra: Su-
301-581-5100
sanna Mälkki, conductor / Garrick
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The afternoon celebrates great American song Ohlsson, piano, plays Beethoven. The
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. kenne-
with the man who penned some of the most
dy-center.org
memorable Broadway classics of the last 50
Jose Barrios and Company in Por si
years, from West Side Story to Sunday in the
Park with George, Sweeney Todd and more. acaso amanece/If it Should Dawn,
GALA Hispanic Theatre. 202-234-7174.
galatheatre.org
House of Gold
Through Nov 28
Woolly Mammoth
LAST CHANCE
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: Identity
202-393-3939 Writ Large, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gal-
woollymammoth.net lery at Smith Farm Center. smithfarm.com
Just after Halloween comes a darkly funny in-
quest on the fate of a certain six-year-old beauty LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
queen. This pitch-black funhouse ride into Ameri-
ca’s suburban psyche shows how our obsessions Nov. 12 - Nov. 13
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The
with youth, beauty, and race can conjure a bizarre
cultural phenomenon like JonBenet Ramsey. Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. kenne-
dy-center.org
ON THE FRINGE: Traverse Theatre
Arcimboldo, 1526-1593:
Company’s Midsummer (A play with
Nature and Fantasy
songs), The Kennedy Center. 202-467-
Through Jan 9 4600. kennedy-center.org
National Gallery of Art
nga.gov Nov. 12 - Nov. 14
Sixteen examples of the composite heads Strathmore Museum Shop Around,
painted by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, bizarre but Strathmore. strathmore.org
with scientifically accurate components, are On Display: Emancipation Proclama-
featured in their first appearance in the Unit- tion, National Archives. 202-357-5000.
ed States. The unusual heads are composed archives.gov
of plants, animals, and other objects that re- Nov. 13 - Nov. 14
late to the figure represented. Nejla Yatkin/NY2Dance, Dance Place.
202-269-1600. danceplace.org
Loïs Mailou Jones: Nov. 13 - Nov. 17
A Life in Vibrant Color The Capital City Showcase, DC Arts
Through Jan 9 Center. 202-462-7833. dcartscenter.org
Museum of Women in the Arts
nmwa.org ONE NIGHT ONLY
This retrospective features more than 70
paintings, textiles, and sketches from the
Fri, Nov. 12
The Punch Brothers featuring Chris
pioneering African American artist’s 75-year Thile, Strathmore. 301-581-5100. strath-
career. Jones was inspired by the social more.org
struggles that she witnessed in the U.S. as
well as by her travels, from Martha’s Vineyard Sat, Nov. 13
and France to Haiti. Sarah Vowell, Lisner Auditorium. lisner.org
Prouced by CultureCapital.com the arts & culture website. A program of the Cultural Alliance of Greater
Sun, Nov. 14
Washington. ARCIMBOLDO: Supplied by National Gallery of Art; LOÏS MAILOU JONES: Supplied by Mu- The Seasons Project, Strathmore. 301-
seum of Women in the Arts; HOUSE OF GOLD: Supplied by Woolly Mammoth; STEPHEN SONDHEIM: 581-5100. strathmore.org
Supplied by Strathmore. Tracie Morris in Concert, Joe’s Move-
ment Emporium/World Arts Focus. 301-
699-1819. joesmovement.org
Post Impressionism Lecture Se-
ries: The Landscapes of Pierre Bon-
nard, Kreeger Museum. 202-338-3552.
kreegermuseum.org
Wed, Nov. 17
Art After Hours: Iridescence Trio, Strath-
more. 301-581-5100. strathmore.org
Edwin McCain, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org
Orchestra of St. Luke’s Chamber Mu-
sic, The Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org
ONGOING STAGE
Hair, The Kennedy Center. 202-467-
4600. kennedy-center.org
Superior Donuts, The Studio Theatre.
202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org
The Odd Couple, Theater J. 800-494-
8497. washingtondcjcc.org
Washington Shakespeare Company:
Richard III and Mary Stuart. ARTI-
SPHERE. 703-418-4808. washington-
shakespeare.org
13th International Festival of Hispanic
Theater by Teatro de la Luna, Gun-
ston Theatre Two. 703-548-3092. teatro-
delaluna.org
The War of the Worlds, by Orson Welles &
Howard Koch by SCENA Theatre, H Street
Playhouse. 202-683-2824. scenatheater.org
Darwin in Malibu by Crispin Whittall
by Washington Stage Guild, Undercroft
Theatre. 240-582-0050. stageguild.org
One Night with Fanny Brice by Ameri-
can Century Theater, Rosslyn Spectrum.
703-998-4555. americancentury.org
ONGOING EXHIBITONS
National Gallery of Art. nga.gov. 1580-
1900. The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British
Photography and Painting, 1848-1875.
From Impressionism to Modernism: The
Chester Dale Collection. In the Tower:
Mark Rothko. American Modernism:
The Shein Collection. German Master
Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Col-
lection, 1580-1900. The Pre-Raphaelite
Lens: British Photography and Painting,
1848-1875, From Impressionism to Mod-
ernism: The Chester Dale Collection
National Geographic. 202-857-7700.
events.nationalgeographic.com. Great Mi-
grations: A Photography Exhibition. Wild
Music: Songs & Sounds of Life, Geckos:
From Tails to Toepads, Simply Beautiful.
Corcoran Gallery of Art. 202-639-1700.
corcoran.org. Spencer Finch: My Busi-
ness, with the Cloud
The Textile Museum. 202-667-0441.
textilemuseum.org. Colors of the Oasis:
Central Asian Ikats.
National Museum of Women in the
Arts. 202-783-5000. nmwa.org. Books
Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elis-
abetta Gut
National Archives. archives.gov. Dis-
covering the Civil War - Consequences,
ONGOING GALLERIES
Glimpse by Lee Newman, Washington
Printmakers Gallery. washingtonprint-
makers.com
New Paintings by Sheep Jones, Gallery
plan b. 202-234-2711. galleryplanb.com
The Sumi - e Society Exhibition, Work-
house Arts Center. 703-584-2900. Work-
houseArts.org
Mark(in)g Time: New Paintings by Ja-
nis Goodman by Reyes + Davis Inde-
pendent Exhibitions, Reyes + Davis In-
dependent Exhibitions. 202-255-5050.
Tang: Freedom & Its Owner, Transform-
er. transformergallery.org
Small Works by Arlington Artists Al-
liance, Arlington Art Gallery. arlington-
artistsalliance.org
All Mixed Up: A Juried Exhibition of
Mixed Media Work, Brentwood Arts Ex-
change. 301-277-2863.
Mind Sets: Andrew Carnie, Terry Gips,
and Meg Walker, Montpelier Arts Center.
301-377-7800. pgparks.com
Robert Keating’s The C&O Canal:
Places and Stories, The Art League.
703-683-1780. theartleague.org
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FOODISTCOLONY

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Cooking sensation Paula Deen will be in Washington this weekend for a show at the Convention Center.

Best of the bounty

Cooking show in D.C. this
weekend among local
foodie must-sees
By WILLIAM GEORGE
Rustico’s (4075 Wilson Blvd, Arlington)
new location gives chain-clogged Ballston a
big boost, offering seasonal, hearth-cooked
New American fare designed to comple-
ment its major forte, beer – expect 400 craft
and imported bottles, 40 drafts and three
casks (much of it available in 4 ounce tast-
ing pours); the handsome, earth-toned digs
are sexily lit and comfortably configured, with
a dining room overlooking a courtyard and
Tsunami hits DC • NOW OPEN! fountain, communal tables and a massive
bar with street-scene views, not to mention a
lovely, candlelit private-dining space.
There will be a new Barracks Row
eatery called DC-3, named after the pas-
senger plane that popularized “Discover
America” air travel. The latest project from
November. Later this year, he will debut a
small retail operation for takeaway break-
fast and market items. The intimate fine-
dining room in the original space will con-
tinue to serve prix fixe and tasting menus,
while the original bistro space will remain
dedicated to the newly expanded menu.
One restaurant named for a fruit leads
to another for Persimmon’s chef-own-
er Damian Salvatore, whose neighbor-
hood-oriented Wild Tomato will soon be
serving pizza, salads and moderately
priced American entrees to the Potomac
food crowd. Big front windows, buttery yel-
low walls, a sage-colored stone bar and
mahogany butcher-block tables, along
with food-focused artwork, will create an
attractive ambiance for casual dining and
informal get-togethers over cocktails, craft
beers and wines (7945 MacArthur Blvd.).
If you watch Food Network, chances
are you’ve seen a competition show about
restaurants on wheels. CapMac, a roving
pastaria, will be hitting D.C. streets in the
next few weeks, serving signature mac ‘n’

Tsunami
the Matchbox and Ted’s Bulletin crew, the pimento cheese, chicken Parmesan meat-
restaurant will feature a stainless-steel balls and ziti, and whole-wheat noodles
counter resembling an airplane wing, which with beans and seasonal vegetables,
will dispense regional, charcoal-grilled hot along with hearty soups and desserts. It’s
Sushi & Lounge dogs, while a huge wall map pinpoints the
origin of menu choices like Maine’s Red
the brainchild of chef Brian Arnoff, who
brings talents honed at Bourbon Steak and
Snapper, the Cincinnati Cheese Coney, Boston’s Sportello to the burgeoning local
the New Jersey deep-fried Ripper, the Tuc- food-truck scene. Arnoff says he was in-
son Sonoran Dog and, of course, the D.C. spired by the macaroni stands that once
We don’t make waves. MONDAY - THURSDAY Half-Smoke. Cotton candy will be spun on
the spot and soft-serve ice cream with old-
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payment and insertion schedule.
this decision,” said Mike Bozeman, the
school’s women’s basketball head coach.
Allums describes the team as a fam-
ily. He is the “big brother” and his team-
mates are his sisters.
Last month the National Center for
Lesbian Rights, with It Takes a Team, re-
leased “On the Team: Equal Opportuni-
ties for Transgender Student Athletes,”
a report that addresses integration of
transgender student athletes in both high
school and collegiate athletic programs.
on the fact that testosterone is a banned
substance within the NCAA because it
could give athletes an unfair advantage.
Allums is planning on pursuing hor-
mone therapy once his college basket-
ball career is over.
GWU will open its 2010-11 season on
Saturday against Green Bay in the Best
Buy Classics in Minneapolis and its first
home game will be Thursday against
Coppin State.
The Colonials finished last season
6-22. Allums started 20 of the 26 games
he played.
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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

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