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Local men talk Whitman-Walker Anti-LGBT conservatives
about their new rebounding after turned out for last week’s
campaign to fight economy took toll CPAC gathering to talk
HIV in Washington. on donors, grants. marriage and ‘Don’t Ask.’
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Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key

The last national LGBT march on Washington was held in October of 2009 with attendance estimated between 30,000 and 100,000.

Another LGBT march on Washington?

Longtime organizer seeks
support for 2012 event
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
Veteran lesbian activist Robin Tyler of Los Angeles
says she’s talking to LGBT leaders and organizations
across the country about the possibility of a national
march on Washington for equality in May 2012.
In a statement released to the Blade last week, Tyler
said she first proposed the idea of a 2012 LGBT march
in the weeks following the election of Barack Obama as
president in 2008. Tyler has helped to organize LGBT
Washington marches in 1979, 1987, 1993 and 2000.
She said an LGBT march on Washington held in Oc-
tober 2009 and a series of street protests during the
past year by the direct action group GetEqual played
a key role in what she called the few LGBT advances
under the Obama administration, including the repeal of
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” She was not involved in organiz-
ing the 2009 march.
“The fact is, without continuous protests that GetE-
qual, Dan Choi, Robin McGehee and others did, I be-
lieve, as so many others do, that DADT would not have
been struck down,” Tyler said.
She said the main objection by some activists to
holding another national march is it would take away
resources and divert attention from needed LGBT activ-
ism in the states. At the time the 2009 LGBT march was
being planned, skeptics said it would have little impact
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Md. senator key to marriage vote

‘Yes’ from Conway puts measure over the top
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
washingtonblade.com
Former Army Lt. Dan Choi speaks out at CPAC. At least 23 members of Maryland’s 47-member State Senate have publicly
VIDEO@ WASHINGTONBLADE.COM disclosed they will vote for a same-sex marriage bill next week, drawing at-
tention to a senator from Baltimore who promised she would cast the decid-
ing vote in favor of the bill if supporters were just one vote short.
Twenty-four votes are needed to pass legislation in the State Senate, and
LGBT advocates monitoring the marriage bill say they are reasonably certain Maryland Sen. Joan
that Sen. Joan Carter Conway (D-Baltimore City) will fulfill her private commit- Carter Conway
ment to vote “yes” if 23 of her colleagues also vote for the measure.
The Senate’s Judicial Proceedings Committee was expected to vote on Hundreds rally
Thursday to approve the bill and send it to the full Senate for debate and a for marriage in
floor vote next week. Annapolis, Page 18
Earlier this week, Conway told the Baltimore Sun she was still struggling Result of Thursday’s
socialagenda over which way to vote on the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Pro-
tection Act, which calls for allowing lesbian and gay couples to marry in
committee vote,
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LOCALNEWS
D.C. Council hopefuls and several LGBT activists, including Earline Budd, turned out for a benefit for the Wanda Alston House on Feb. 13.
Alston House theater
benefit called a success
A Black History Month outing at D.C.’s Studio The-
ater and a post-theater reception at the nearby Playbill
Café on Feb. 13 served as a “successful” benefit for
the Wanda Alston House for LGBT homeless youth, ac-
cording to Alston House official Brian Watson.
The Alston House, named after the late D.C. lesbian
activist and city official Wanda Alston, provides hous-
ing and supportive services to homeless LGBT youth,
“most of whom have been abandoned or kicked out of
their homes because of their identity,” according to an
announcement promoting the benefit.
The D.C. non-profit organization Transgender Health
Empowerment created the Alston House and operates
it through funding provided, in part, by the city and
through private contributions.
Among those attending the benefit were D.C. Coun-
cil member Sekou Biddle (D-At-Large), who is running
to retain his seat in an upcoming special election; and
three candidates competing against Biddle for the seat
— former Ward 5 Council member Vincent Orange and
candidates Jacque Patterson and Joshua Lopez.
Jeffrey Richardson, who was named earlier this
month by Mayor Vincent Gray as director of the city’s
Office of GLBT Affairs, also attended.
Others attending included gay activists Phil Pan-
nell, Rick Rosendall, and Kurt Vorndran, who served
as hosts of the event.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
GLOV elects
new leaders
Members of Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence
(GLOV), a D.C. group that monitors anti-LGBT hate
crimes, elected A.J. Singletary as the group’s chair
and Hassan Naveed as vice chair during GLOV’s an-
nual meeting on Feb. 10.
Singletary and Naveed, who ran unopposed and
were elected by acclamation, succeed Kelly Pickard
and Joe Montoni, who served as the organization’s co-
chairs during the past year.
At Singletary’s recommendation and with Naveed
in agreement, members voted earlier in the meeting to
change the leadership structure from two co-chairs with
equal responsibilities to a chair and vice chair system.
Singletary, an Arkansas native, says he’s been a
D.C. resident since 2008 and has been active with
GLOV for the past three years. Naveed said he moved
to D.C. last year from Santa Barbara, Calif., where he
worked with an anti-LGBT violence group at the Uni-
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
versity of California at Santa Barbara.
GLOV is a project of the D.C. Center for the LGBT
Community, which has offices and meeting space
at 1318 U St., N.W. GLOV’s mission, according to a
statement on its website, is to work to reduce violence
against LGBT people through community outreach,
education and monitoring of incidents of anti-LGBT
hate crimes. The group also assists victims of anti-
LGBT violence and participates in the training of D.C.
police officers on LGBT-related issues.
Singletary said his objectives for GLOV in 2011 in-
clude expanding its outreach to lesbians and minori-
ties within the LGBT community and continuing to work
with the police department, the mayor’s office and the
City Council to improve reporting of anti-LGBT violence
and developing strategies to reduce hate violence
against LGBT people. He said GLOV would continue
to participate in police training on anti-LGBT violence.
He also called for GLOV to develop its own report on
hate crimes targeting LGBT people in the District. The
police department’s annual report on hate crimes has
shown that the highest number of such crimes target
LGBT people. But activists have long complained that
the police report does not reflect the true number of
anti-LGBT hate crimes, which they believe is far higher
than the officially reported figure.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Restructuring credited with
Whitman-Walker revenue gains
The Whitman-Walker Clinic’s ability to operate with
a positive cash flow last year for the first time in nearly
10 years – and its expectation of remaining in good
financial shape for the foreseeable future – is due to
its transformation from a volunteer-based AIDS service
group to a full-service community health center, ac-
cording to executive director Don Blanchon.
In a briefing for the Washington Blade, Blanchon
displayed charts and graphs showing what he called
a dramatic change in the Clinic’s sources of revenue.
At a time when other community clinics providing
services to the LGBT community and other communi-
ties are facing financial hardship due to diminishing
government funding and a drop in private donations,
Whitman-Walker has become far less reliant on both
government funds and revenue from private donors,
Blanchon said.
He noted that in 2005, Whitman-Walker received
51.5 percent of its total revenue from government
grants. That same year, the Clinic received 38.4 per-
cent of its revenue from fundraising efforts seeking
contributions from the public or businesses. Just 8.7
percent of its revenue came from third-party entities
such as patient health insurance carriers or patients
covered by Medicaid, Blanchon said.
In 2010, after the Clinic completed its transforma-
tion into a health center, 21.1 percent of its revenue
came from third-party entities, with many more clients
covered by private health insurance or Medicaid. He
noted that 31.5 percent of the Clinic’s revenue in 2010
came from its operation of a pharmacy on its premises.
At the same time, its revenue from government
grants dropped to 15.8 percent of total revenue, and
revenue from private fundraising dropped to 15.8 per-
cent of total revenue.
According to Blanchon, Whitman-Walker continues
to rely on private donors and looks forward to its an-
nual D.C. AIDS Walk fundraiser in October. But he said
the new structure decreases the Clinic’s reliance on
government and private donor revenue at a time when
the national recession has forced government agen-
cies and many donors to drastically cut back on giving
money to charitable groups like Whitman-Walker.
As a financially stable institution, compared to its
near financial collapse five years ago, the Clinic is now
taking on more patients in need, especially low-income
patients with HIV, Blanchon said. At the same time, it is
seeing a growing number of LGBT patients who don’t
have HIV but prefer to use Whitman-Walker as their pri-
mary care provider, he said.
Data that Blanchon pointed to for 2010 show that the
Clinic saw about 13,000 patients that year, 22 percent
of whom were HIV positive. Although the total number
of HIV patients appears to be dropping, he noted that
60 percent of all medical visits to the Clinic in 2010
were HIV-related, showing that HIV remains the main
area of service for the Clinic.
The 2010 data show that 49 percent of all patients self-
identify as being LGBT; 69 percent were male, 29 percent
female, and 3 percent transgender. In terms of ethnicity,
47 percent were black, 35 percent white, 15 percent La-
tino, and 3 percent falling into another category.
“We began this journey a little more than five years
ago and it has not been without its hardship, sacrifice or
public debate,” Blanchon said. “Through it all our board
of directors, employees, volunteers, donors and public
and private funders remained steadfast to our mission of
caring, especially our longstanding commitment to the
LGBT community and persons living with HIV/AIDS.”
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Police seek help
identifying body
U.S. Park Police are asking the public for help in
identifying the body of a man found in a wooded area
off of Branch Avenue and the Suitland Parkway who
was wearing four rings on his left hand and multiple
necklaces.
Park Police spokesperson Sgt. David Schlosser
said investigators have no specific information to indi-
cate the man was gay or transgendered, but they have
yet to confirm what his sexual orientation was.
The man’s body was found Feb. 6 near where Branch
Avenue and the Suitland Parkway intersect in Oxon Hill,
Md., just over the D.C.-Prince George’s County line,
according to a police statement. He is described as a
black male over the age of 45, with a light complexion.
The Maryland State Medical Examiner’s office said an
autopsy found no evidence of foul play and said the
death appears to have been due to natural causes.
“He was wearing four rings on his left hand and mul-
tiple necklaces around his neck,” a Park Police state-
ment says. “He may have been homeless and may
have walked with a limp,” the statement says.
Photos of his jewelry are available on the Park Police
website at uspppressroom.blogspot.com. Anyone with
information that might help authorities identify the man
should contact Park Police Det. Freeman at 202-610-8760.
LOU CHIBBARO JR.
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NATIONALNEWS
Calif. man busted for drugs on gay cruise
ORLANDO, Fla. — A gay California man was arrested in the U.S. Virgin Islands on sus-
picion of selling drugs to fellow passengers on a Caribbean cruise, officials said last week
according to a report in Watermark, a Florida-based gay news outlet. Steven Barry Krumholz,
51, of West Hollywood, was arrested on board the Allure of the Seas in St. Thomas, said Jef-
frey Quinones, a spokesman in Puerto Rico for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The ship had just come from the Bahamas on a charter billed as the “world’s larg-
est gay cruise.” Customs and Border Protection agents boarded the ship Wednes-
day and found drugs on another passenger, who said he had placed an order with
Krumholz before the trip and picked them up while on board, according to an af-
fidavit submitted by one of the investigating agents. Agents searched Krumholz’s
cabin and allegedly found more than 142 ecstasy pills, nearly 3 grams of metham-
phetamine, a small quantity of ketamine and about $51,000 in cash, the agent said.

Gay porn studio plans crackdown on theft

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gay porn studio and distributor Corbin Fisher is ready
to crack down on possibly tens of thousands of gay porn thieves, according to a
report from South Florida Gay News. Marc Randazza, counsel for the company,
said it’s taking a huge hit from online content theft.
Corbin has 40,000 IP addresses of users who have illegally downloaded the studio’s
material. Recently the company offered an amnesty deal for users that would exempt them
from any lawsuits brought forth by the company. The deal consisted of a one-time fee of
$1,000 and as a bonus they received a one-year subscription to their website. Only 20
people came forward to accept. That amnesty deal has ended. Now Randazza says he is
willing to offer a second amnesty deal to SFGN readers for a one-time payment of $1,900.
Those that come forward this time though will not receive a one-year subscription to their
website. Randazza said the company recently won a lawsuit against an illegal downloader
that resulted in a $250,000 judgment in their favor, the Gay News reported.
Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key

New York man sentenced in anti-gay crime Congress is expected to vote on a final version of President Obama’s FY 2011 budget within
MANHATTAN — A Queens man pleaded guilty this week to punching the bartender the next few weeks. The 2012 budget was released this week to threats of cuts from House
at a gay bar in the West Village while spouting an anti-gay and racist rant. He is ex- Republicans
pected to serve prison time, according to DNA Info, a New York-based news service.
Frederic Guinta, 25, was charged with attacking bartender Greg Davis, 38, at
Julius Bar on West 10th Street on Oct. 11. Earlier that day, Guinta also tried to steal
a patron’s wallet at Ty’s bar at 114 Christopher St., he admitted Tuesday.
Obama budget includes modest
increase in AIDS funds
Ind. House votes to ban same-sex marriage
INDIANAPOLIS — A constitutional ban on same-sex unions passed the Indi-
ana House, 70-26, this week in a major step toward writing the ban into the state’s
Spending plan calls for appreciates the budget requests and
now urges the Congress to show a simi-
founding document, the Indianapolis Star and many other media outlets reported $105 million boost in lar level of support.”
Tuesday. The measure has passed the Senate several times in recent years but has
died repeatedly in the House, which until this year was controlled by Democrats.
drug program Schmid and Frank Oldham, president
and CEO of the National Association of
A constitutional amendment must be approved by two separately elected legisla- People With AIDS, expressed concern
tures in succession and then by voters, so it would take at least three years for the mea- By LOU CHIBBARO JR. that Republican leaders of the House of
sure to be included in the constitution. The Senate approved a constitutional same-sex lchibbaro@washblade.com Representatives are proposing cuts of
marriage ban in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2010. The entire legislature approved a con- close to 20 percent in federal AIDS pro-
stitutional amendment once, in 2005, when Republicans also controlled the House. President Obama’s proposed budget grams for the fiscal year 2011 budget,
for fiscal year 2012 drew praise from which Congress has yet to finalize.
AIDS advocacy groups for its inclusion “The reality of the proposed cuts is
Washington State introduces marriage bill of small to modest funding increases in that lower-income Americans living with
NEW YORK — Washington State Sen. Ed Murray and Rep. Jim Moeller introduced leg- federal AIDS programs at a time when HIV will not have access to the antiviral
islation Monday that would grant same-sex couples there the right to marry, several other the White House and Congress are un- drugs that keep them healthy – and also
media outlets reported this week. The bill is seen as having a good chance of passing but it’s der great pressure to cut spending. make them less likely to pass the virus
likely Washington residents will also get to weigh in. Washington is the only state that won an The proposed budget calls for a $105 along to others,” Oldham said. “More
expansion of gay rights at the ballot box when Referendum 71 passed by 53 percent in 2009. million increase in the AIDS Drug Assis- people will get sick and die, and a dis-
tance Program, or ADAP, over the fiscal proportionate number of them will be
year 2010 spending level. poor and of color.”
Hawaii House approves couples bill AIDS and LGBT advocacy groups Congress was expected to vote on a
HONOLULU — The Hawaii State House passed a bill last week 31-19 that pro- have pushed hard for funding increases final version of the FY 2011 budget within
vides equal rights and responsibilities of married couples there to non-married for the federal-state ADAP program as the next few weeks. Last year, after Re-
couples, including same-sex partners. After minor changes were made in the state contributions to the program have publicans and Democrats were unable to
House, the bill now heads to back to the Senate for agreement on the amendments dried up due to the national recession, reach an agreement on the FY 2011 bud-
before heading to Gov. Neil Abercrombie for his signature. The bill is nearly identi- resulting in waiting lists for people who get for most federal agencies, Congress
cal to a civil unions bill passed last year but was vetoed by the former governor. rely on the program for life-saving AIDS approved a measure known as a continu-
medication. ing resolution, which keeps the govern-
Pro-gay minister acquitted by church court “We realize the resources of the feder-
al government are severely constrained,”
ment funded at fiscal year 2010 levels.
In a telephone news briefing on Tues-
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The highest court in the Presbyterian Church (USA) last week acquit-
said Carl Schmid, deputy executive di- day, White House Domestic Policy Coun-
ted a minister who officiated for the wedding of a same-sex couple. The General Assembly
rector of the AIDS Institute. “While the cil Director Melody Barnes said the ad-
Permanent Judicial Commission said Rev. Jean Southard did not violate the denomination’s
proposed funding levels are far from ministration was involved in discussions
“Book of Order” but also said the church still interprets its policies to mean a “same-sex cer- what is needed to provide the necessary with members of Congress to address
emony can never be a marriage.” She was found innocent by a lower court, a ruling that was care and treatment for people with HIV/ the 2011 budget at the same time that the
reversed on the Synod level, before last week’s acquittal. Southard, who’s straight, married a AIDS or to significantly reduce the num-
lesbian couple in Massachusetts in 2008. ber of new infections, the AIDS Institute Continues on page 7
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Pentagon reveals ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal plan

Military leaders must deliver
progress report by March 1
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The Pentagon last week officially un-
veiled an implementation plan for “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” that focuses on policy,
education and training and communica-
tion as the way forward in lifting the mili-
tary’s gay ban.
In a redacted memorandum dated Feb.
10, Undersecretary of Defense for Person-
nel & Readiness Clifford Stanley provides
the military service secretaries with the re-
peal plan and pledges to work with them to
“solidify the format of progress updates as
well as the frequency of leadership meets.”
The four-page memo states that the
secretaries have until March 1 to provide
their first progress update to Stanley.
Last month, Defense Secretary Rob-
ert Gates tasked Stanley with devising a
plan by Feb. 4 to “facilitate the timely and
orderly realization” of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” repeal.
The plan breaks down the path for
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal into four
stages: pre-repeal, certification, imple-
mentation and sustainment.
In the pre-repeal phase, activities in-
clude Tier 1 and Tier 2 level training of mil-
itary leadership and reporting to Obama
administration officials on the progress of
implementation. For example, the under-
secretary of defense for personnel and
readiness must have a monthly meeting
and report to the defense secretary and
the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the
status of repeal.
To reach the certification phase, the
Repeal Implementation Team must pro-
vide appropriate documentation to the
defense secretary and chair of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and provide their recom-
mendation to the president.
President Obama signed legislation
allowing for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal
on Dec. 22, but the new law won’t take
effect until the president, the defense
secretary and the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff certify the military is ready.
Additionally, after certification takes
place, a 60-day waiting period must
pass before the ban is formally lifted.
Notably, the plan states the previously
mentioned idea that Tier 3 training, edu-
cation of the total force, can be completed
after the certification for repeal is issued.
For the implementation phase, Tier
3 training will be completed and the
Repeal Implementation Team will pro-
vide progress reports every two months
to Pentagon leaders.
The sustainment phase involves mak-
ing policy changes as needed and refin-
ing the education and training process.
Eileen Lainez, a Pentagon spokes-
person, said the Defense Department
intends to issue commanders in the field
with the education and training tools on
the post-repeal environment.
“The training materials were devel-
oped based upon the [Pentagon working
group’s] Support Plan for Implementation
(SIP), and packaged in such a way to fa-
cilitate low bandwidth and non-traditional
training settings and include power point
slides with narration, scripts, FAQs, vi-
gnettes, policy documents, etc.,” she said.
Alex Nicholson, executive director of
Servicemembers United, said the repeal
implementation plan “lays out a com-
prehensive and deliberate path forward
for implementing this policy change
throughout the force.”
“In typical military fashion, the plan
is quite thorough and some steps may
seem unnecessary or redundant, but
overall we believe this plan continues to
show a good faith effort on the part of the
Department of Defense to swiftly move
forward with training, certification, and
repeal,” Nicholson said.

Budget calls for modest boost in AIDS funds

Continued from page 4
White House promotes its 2012 budget.
“With the budget that he put out yes-
terday…he has articulated the values
that he has around this set of issues,”
Barnes said of Obama’s intentions for the
AIDS budget. “So I think his budget re-
ally stands as the backdrop and as the
platform from which we will be operating
as we move forward.”
Barnes added, “Obviously, there will
be many conversations going forward
about the budget and how we bring the
current year to closure. But this [FY 2012]
budget really articulates the framework
that he believes should be the guiding
set of principles.”
During the phone briefing, Jeff Crow-
ley, director of the White House Office of
National AIDS Policy, said the 2012 bud-
get also reflects the president’s recently
released National HIV/AIDS Strategy
document. Crowley noted that strategy
document, among other things, calls for
targeting federal AIDS funds to popula-
tion groups that are affected most by the
disease, especially gay and bisexual
men and people of color.
“People living with HIV should not
have to live in fear that their life-saving
medications could be taken away from
them,” Crowley said.
“By increasing the annual fund by
$105 million from early fiscal year 2010,
when waiting lists in ADAPs first ap-
peared, the president is demonstrating
a strong commitment to standing with
people living with HIV and working with
states and others to bridge the gap in ac-
cess to HIV medications until insurance
coverage is expanded in 2014 through
the Affordable Care Act.”
Crowley was referring to the sweep-
ing health care reform bill initiated by
Obama and passed by the Democratic-
controlled House and Senate in 2009.
With Republicans gaining control of the
House this year, the House passed leg-
islation calling for the repeal of the Af-
fordable Care Act. The Senate, which
remains under Democratic Party control,
defeated the repeal legislation.
AIDS activists have said they remain
hopeful that the Affordable Care Act’s
provisions expanding health insurance
coverage for low-income people will
greatly reduce the need for people with
HIV to rely on ADAP for their medication.
The president’s fiscal year 2012 bud-
get includes these additional proposals
for federal AIDS spending:
• An increase of $5 million over FY
2010 levels for early intervention and pri-
mary care service for people with HIV/
AIDS under the Ryan White CARE Act.
• An increase of $58 million over FY
2010 for the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) as a
means of helping reach the goals of the
National HIV/AIDS Strategy document’s
call to reduce the number of new HIV in-
fections in the U.S.
• An increase of $750 million above
FY 2010 levels for medical research at
the National Institutes of Health. Of this
amount, $74 million would be allocated
for AIDS and HIV prevention research.
Crowley said the research would focus
on developing an AIDS vaccine and new
microbicides to prevent the AIDS virus
from infecting people and on the discov-
ery of improved drug therapies to pro-
long the lives of people with HIV.
• A $325 million funding allocation for
the Housing Opportunities for People
With AIDS, or HOPWA, at the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment — the same amount approved for
the FY 2010 budget. HOPWA provides
rent subsidies and other assistance to this year’s deficit,” Oldham said in a
low-income people with HIV/AIDS. statement.
Republican leaders said the Obama “But the proposed cuts will contribute
budget for FY 2012, which calls for $3.7 to deficits in years to come, as Ameri-
trillion in spending, is far too large and cans whose new infections this year
vowed to make sharp cuts when the bud- could have been prevented for a few dol-
get undergoes the review and approval lars come back next year, needing drugs
process on Capitol Hill in the coming and support services that will cost far
weeks. more, for years to come,” he said.
GOP leaders didn’t initially discuss During the White House phone news
the 2012 budget’s spending proposals briefing, Barnes said the Obama budget
on AIDS programs, but Capitol Hill ob- for FY 2012 also calls for small increases
servers expect House Republicans to in funding at the Justice Department’s
make the same proposed cuts as those civil rights division, which enforces the
made for the fiscal year 2011 budget. Mathew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.
“HIV programs are so small a part of Hate Crime Prevention Act. The act au-
the federal budget — less than one tenth thorizes the federal government to pros-
of one percent — that even eliminating ecute hate crimes targeting the LGBT
them entirely will not materially reduce community.
Calif. court to weigh in on Prop 8
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday was expected to issue a decision
on a critical element of the Proposition 8 case. The court’s action occurred after
Blade print deadline; visit washingtonblade.com for updated news and full cover-
age.
It was anticipated that the court would weigh in on whether the proponents of
California’s same-sex marriage ban had legal standing to defend the law in federal
court. Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, then-Attorney General Jerry Brown,
who recently took over as governor, along with two county clerks, declined to carry
on the legal fight in district court after a judge ruled Prop 8 is unconstitutional.
In the absence of an official government-led fight to retain the law, a group
called Protect Marriage sought to continue the case. But the Ninth Circuit judges
requested an opinion from the state Supreme Court on whether the independent
group has standing to continue the case.
Attorneys for two same-sex couples in the case argue that Protect Marriage
lacks such standing because it does not represent the government, which was the
target of the initial lawsuit.
A favorable opinion from the state Supreme Court could push the Ninth Circuit to
uphold a ruling by Judge Vaughn Walker that Prop 8 is unconstitutional.
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and others), Propulsid® (cisapride), or Orap® (pimozide).
Do not take REYATAZ with the following medicines due to potential for serious
side effects: Camptosar® (irinotecan), Crixivan® (indinavir), Mevacor® (lovastatin), ay
Zocor® (simvastatin), Uroxatral® (alfuzosin), or Revatio® (sildenafil).
Do not take REYATAZ with the following medicines as they may lower the amount of pa rty
REYATAZ in your blood, which may lead to increased HIV viral load and resistance to
REYATAZ or other anti-HIV medicines: rifampin (also known as Rimactane®, Rifadin®,
Rifater®, or Rifamate®), St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum)-containing products, or
Viramune® (nevirapine).
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with REYATAZ.
Do not take Vfend® (voriconazole) if you are taking REYATAZ and Norvir® (ritonavir).
The above lists of medicines are not complete. Taking REYATAZ with some other medicines
may require your therapy to be monitored more closely or may require a change in dose
or dose schedule of REYATAZ or the other medicine. Discuss with your healthcare provider all 5:30
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prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamin and herbal supplements, or other health
preparations you are taking or plan to take.

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Tell your healthcare provider if you are pregnant, breast-feeding, planning to become
pregnant or breast-feed, or if you have end-stage kidney disease managed with hemodialysis
or severe liver dysfunction.
Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any side effects, symptoms, or conditions,
including the following:
• Mild rash (redness and itching) without other symptoms sometimes occurs in patients taking
REYATAZ, most often in the first few weeks after the medicine is started, and usually goes away
within 2 weeks with no change in treatment.
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associated with other symptoms that could be serious and potentially cause death. If you
develop a rash with any of the following symptoms, stop using REYATAZ and call
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your healthcare provider right away: for Latish
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– Conjunctivitis (red or inflamed eyes,
like “pink-eye”)
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– Muscle or joint aches – Swelling of your face
• Yellowing of the skin and/or eyes may occur due to increases in bilirubin levels
in the blood (bilirubin is made by the liver).
• A change in the way your heart beats may occur. You may feel
dizzy or lightheaded. These could be symptoms of a heart problem.
• Diabetes and high blood sugar may occur in patients taking
protease inhibitor medicines like REYATAZ. Some patients
may need changes in their diabetes medicine.
• If you have liver disease, including hepatitis B or C, it may
get worse when you take anti-HIV medicines like REYATAZ.
• Kidney stones have been reported in patients taking REYATAZ.
Signs or symptoms of kidney stones include pain in your side,
blood in your urine, and pain when you urinate.
• Some patients with hemophilia have increased bleeding problems
with protease inhibitor medicines like REYATAZ.
• Changes in body fat have been seen in some patients taking anti-HIV medicines.
Fight HIV your way.
The cause and long-term effects are not known at this time.
• Gallbladder disorders (including gallstones and gallbladder inflammation) have been
reported in patients taking REYATAZ.
Other common side effects of REYATAZ taken with other anti-HIV medicines include: nausea;
headache; stomach pain; vomiting; diarrhea; depression; fever; dizziness; trouble sleeping;
numbness, tingling, or burning of hands or feet; and muscle pain.
You should take REYATAZ once daily with food (a meal or snack). Swallow the capsules whole; do
not open the capsules. You should take REYATAZ and your other anti-HIV medicines exactly as
instructed by your healthcare provider. Please see Important Patient Information
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. about REYATAZ on the adjacent pages.
Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

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REYATAZ, a protease inhibitor (PI), in HIV combination therapy:
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Subject to terms and conditions. Restrictions apply.
REYATAZ is one of several treatment options your doctor may consider.
Do not take REYATAZ if you are allergic to REYATAZ or to any of its ingredients.
Ask your healthcare team about REYATAZ www.REYATAZ.com
REYATAZ does not cure HIV and has not been shown to reduce the risk of passing HIV to others.

REYATAZ is a registered trademark of Bristol-Myers Squibb.

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Patient Information
REYATAZ® (RAY-ah-taz)
(generic name = atazanavir sulfate)
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ALERT: Find out about medicines that should NOT be taken with REYATAZ.
Read the section “What important information should I know about taking REYATAZ
with other medicines?”
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and each time you get a refill. There may be new information. This leaflet provides

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a summary about REYATAZ and does not include everything there is to know
about your medicine. This information does not take the place of talking with your
healthcare provider about your medical condition or treatment.
What is REYATAZ?
REYATAZ is a prescription medicine used with other anti-HIV medicines to treat
people who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is the
virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). REYATAZ is a
type of anti-HIV medicine called a protease inhibitor. HIV infection destroys CD4+
(T) cells, which are important to the immune system. The immune system helps
fight infection. After a large number of (T) cells are destroyed, AIDS develops.
REYATAZ helps to block HIV protease, an enzyme that is needed for the HIV
virus to multiply. REYATAZ may lower the amount of HIV in your blood, help your
body keep its supply of CD4+ (T) cells, and reduce the risk of death and illness
associated with HIV.
Does REYATAZ cure HIV or AIDS?
REYATAZ does not cure HIV infection or AIDS. At present there is no cure for
HIV infection. People taking REYATAZ may still get opportunistic infections or other
conditions that happen with HIV infection. Opportunistic infections are infections
that develop because the immune system is weak. Some of these conditions are
pneumonia, herpes virus infections, and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC)
infections. It is very important that you see your healthcare provider regularly
while taking REYATAZ.
REYATAZ does not lower your chance of passing HIV to other people through
sexual contact, sharing needles, or being exposed to your blood. For your
health and the health of others, it is important to always practice safer sex by
using a latex or polyurethane condom or other barrier to lower the chance of sexual
contact with semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. Never use or share dirty needles.
Who should not take REYATAZ?
Do not take REYATAZ if you:
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are taking certain medicines. (See “What important information should I
know about taking REYATAZ with other medicines?”) Serious life-threatening
side effects or death may happen. Before you take REYATAZ, tell your
healthcare provider about all medicines you are taking or planning to take.
These include other prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins,
and herbal supplements.
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are allergic to REYATAZ or to any of its ingredients. The active ingredient
is atazanavir sulfate. See the end of this leaflet for a complete list of
ingredients in REYATAZ. Tell your healthcare provider if you think you have
had an allergic reaction to any of these ingredients.
What should I tell my healthcare provider before I take REYATAZ?
Tell your healthcare provider:
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If you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. It is not known if
REYATAZ can harm your unborn baby. Pregnant women have experienced
serious side effects when taking REYATAZ with other HIV medicines called
nucleoside analogues. You and your healthcare provider will need to decide
if REYATAZ is right for you. If you use REYATAZ while you are pregnant, talk
to your healthcare provider about the Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry.
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If you are breast-feeding. You should not breast-feed if you are HIV-positive
because of the chance of passing HIV to your baby. Also, it is not known if
REYATAZ can pass into your breast milk and if it can harm your baby. If you
are a woman who has or will have a baby, talk with your healthcare provider
about the best way to feed your baby.
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with you to show your healthcare provider. For more information, see “What
important information should I know about taking REYATAZ with other
medicines?” and “Who should not take REYATAZ?” Some medicines can
cause serious side effects if taken with REYATAZ.
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your next scheduled dose at its regular time. If, however, it is within 6 hours
of your next dose, do not take the missed dose. Wait and take the next dose
at the regular time. Do not double the next dose. It is important that you
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3 months to less than 6 years of age. REYATAZ should not be used in babies under
the age of 3 months.
What are the possible side effects of REYATAZ?
The following list of side effects is not complete. Report any new or continuing
symptoms to your healthcare provider. If you have questions about side effects,
ask your healthcare provider. Your healthcare provider may be able to help you
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NATIONALNEWS
Jackson wants GOP to focus on marriage
CPAC panel emphasizes
opposition to
same-sex unions
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
Two black conservatives are urg-
ing the Republican Party to emphasize
social issues — such as opposition to
same-sex marriage — to build appeal for
the GOP among racial minority groups.
Bishop Harry Jackson of the Hope
Christian Church, known for leading ef-
forts against legalizing same-sex mar-
riage in D.C., and Rev. Michael Faulkner,
author of “Restoring the American
Dream,” called for greater attention to
social issues at the 2011 Conservative
Political Action Conference in D.C.
During a panel titled “Traditional
Marriage and Society,” Jackson said
the conservative movement has “an op-
portunity to engage a multi-racial, multi-
cultural group of people,” but only if the
Republican Party doesn’t throw social is-
sues “under the bus.”
“Whether I like the GOP or not, wheth-
er I like Republicans or not, there is no
other party now that really is advocating
any of the social issues that are consis-
tent with my faith,” Jackson said.
Faulkner, who campaigned against
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), said con-
servatives need to develop their message
to racial minorities because they are ready
to support the conservative movement.
“As I campaigned, especially in La-
tino churches, I was required before the
pastor would allow me to speak to give
my position on same-sex marriage and
on abortion,” Faulkner said. “So they are
staunch conservatives, probably more
conservative than we are.”
Jackson spoke out against the ad-
vancement of marriage rights for gay
Donnelly continues crusade against ‘Don’t Ask’
CPAC speaker wants more
hearings before ban is lifted
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
A leading opponent of “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” repeal is continuing her ef-
fort to prevent gays from serving openly
in the U.S. military and is calling for ex-
tended discussion before the military’s
gay ban is lifted.
Elaine Donnelly, president of the Cen-
ter for Military Readiness, on Thursday
called for more congressional hearings
on allowing gays to serve openly in the
military and time to question Pentagon
officials before repeal of “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” takes effect.
“Our position is Congress should tell
the Pentagon, ‘Not so fast!’” she said.
Harry Jackson of the Hope Christian Church, who led efforts against marriage equality in D.C.,
called for greater focus on social issues at the annual CPAC convention last week.
couples and said it would interfere with
parents’ rights in children’s education.
“If you change marriage, you redefine
the family; if you redefine the family, you re-
define parenting; if you redefine parenting,
you must of necessity, redefine education,
and in that redefinition, that’s where we get
‘Heather Has Two Mommies’ and a gen-
eration of kids as young as five-years-old
are told that they are to be gay allies in the
State of California,” Jackson said.
Faulker also railed against the ad-
vancement of gay nuptials and said
pressure to be politically correct can’t
change marriage.
“We need to stand for traditional mar-
riage,” Faulkner said. “Not just stand
against anyone else, but to stand for our
society, stand for our culture, stand for
our nation, stand for the children and the
families in our nation. If we do not, we will
indeed destroy ourselves.”
One LGBT rights group, on the other
hand, says that Republicans must con-
tinue emphasizing fiscal issues as op-
posed to social issues to win support
among the American public.
R. Clarke Cooper, executive director
of the Log Cabin Republicans, said the
“They need to ask questions, they need
to have hearings. We need to keep in
mind what is the most important thing. …
Certainly, the military is too important to
be used for social engineering, political
payoffs. Diversity is important, yes, but
not as a primary goal.”
Donnelly urged for greater delibera-
tion before enacting “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” repeal during a panel titled “How
Political Correctness Is Harming Amer-
ica’s Military” at the 2011 Conservative
Political Action Conference in D.C.
In 2008, Donnelly gained notoriety as
an opponent of gays in the military when
she testified during a House hearing on
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” After her testimo-
ny, when she decried the possible spread
of “HIV positivity” in the military and the
“forced intimacy” of straight troops serv-
ing with gays, Donnelly was widely criti-
cized and lampooned by the media.
Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
focus of most conservatives is the econ-
omy as some within the movement con-
tinue to rail against same-sex marriage.
“There are going to be members of the
conservative movement who are still going
to hold social issues as their No. 1 focus, but
what we saw at CPAC this last year was that
was not the primary focus,” Cooper said.
Cooper pointed to the results of CPAC
straw poll, which showed that same-sex
marriage wasn’t a major concern among
attendees.
Support for “protecting tradional mar-
riage” was a priority for 3 percent of
straw poll responders. Meanwhile, 53
percent of attendees said reducing the
size of the federal government was a pri-
ority and 38 percent said reducing gov-
ernment spending was a priority.
Also during the panel discussion, Tom
Minnery, senior president of government and
public policy for CitizenLink, offered statis-
tics that he said demonstrate countries with
same-sex marriage are worse off than plac-
es that deny marriage rights to gay couples.
LGBT advocates have long disputed the sta-
tistical accuracy of Minnery’s work.
Minnery said responders to a survey were
asked whether married people were happier
During her CPAC panel appearance,
Donnelly denounced the law allowing
for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” that
President Obama signed in December,
which she said was “rushed through
recklessly” in the lame-duck session of
the 111th Congress.
“It’s supposed to be a non-discrimina-
tion policy,” she said. “But instead of call-
ing it ‘Not “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,”‘ … let’s
give it a name. We call it the ‘Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Law for the
Military’ – ’LGBT Law’ for short. We have
to start thinking about it in terms of what
it would do.”
The repeal provides for an end to
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” only after the
president, the defense secretary and the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff cer-
tify the U.S. military is ready for repeal.
But Donnelly said this language was a
“meaningless” provision in the law.
in countries with varying levels of relationship
recognition for same-sex couples.
According to Minnery, in countries with
same-sex marriage, 21 percent of respond-
ers said married people were happier; in
countries with civil unions; 36 percent say
married people are happier; in countries
with only regional recognition, 42 percent of
people said married people were happier;
and in countries with no same-sex mar-
riage, the respect for marriage “goes high.”
For another question on whether chil-
dren need both a mother and a father to be
happy, Minnery said 76 percent of respond-
ers said “yes” in countries with same-sex
marriage; 80 percent of responders said
“yes” in nations with regional recognition;
and 93.8 percent of responders said “yes”
in countries with no same-sex marriage.
“As the marriage culture in a country
declines, the respect for marriage and the
belief in its power also declines,” Minnery
said. “That’s why our organization continues
to believe if this country loses our marriage
culture, we’re headed for a lot of trouble.”
In response, Gary Gates, a scholar
at the Williams Institute, a think tank on
sexual orientation law at the University of
California, Los Angeles, said that in the
United States, divorce rates are lower in
places where same-sex marriage is legal.
“That doesn’t directly say people are
quote, happier, but heterosexual relation-
ships are more stable in places where same-
sex couples can get married,” Gates said.
According to data last year from U.S.
Census Bureau, in Massachusetts, where
same-sex marriage has been legal since
2003, the divorce rate is 1.8 percent —
the lowest in the nation.
With regard to statistics on having a
mother and father being important for
children, Gates said just because people
have that belief doesn’t make it true.
“I just saw a report today: 50 percent
of Republicans believe that Obama isn’t a
natural-born citizen,” Gates said. ”Because
people believe it, doesn’t make it true.”
“There’s going to be a lot of prob-
lems,” she said. ”The Congress has yet
to have hearings on the House side on
this, so our position is this: don’t you think
we should ask some questions first?”
Fred Sainz, vice president of com-
munications for the Human Rights Cam-
paign, said the debate over ending
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has gone on for 17
years and noted House and Senate com-
mittees had several hearings in the last
Congress.
“No more discussion is needed on this
issue,” Sainz said. “And I think Repub-
licans and Democrats, not just Demo-
crats, but Republicans and Democrats,
concluded that that was the case when
they voted to go ahead and pass this
legislation last year. At some point, you
just have to call the question, and that’s
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Anti-LGBT activists have their say at CPAC
Continued from page 12
exactly what happened.”
During the panel, Donnelly said she
and other opponents of “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” repeal assembled a 25-page list of
questions that “not should be asked, but
must be asked” to evaluate the mesaure
passed last year.
Among the questions, Donnelly said,
is which of the findings in the 1993 law
are not valid — how will the armed forces
“train people to be less senstive to sexu-
al privacy and modesty.”
Donnelly also raised concerns about
“zero tolerance” for service members
who object to serving alongside openly
gay people.
“What about when you have a prob-
lem and say, “This needs to changed,’”
Donnelly said. ”And someone says,
‘What’s the matter with you? Is there
something wrong with your attitude? Are
you prejudiced? We’ll get you more train-
ing — more LGBT training.’”
Alex Nicholson, executive director of
Servicemembers United, said what Don-
nelly referred to as “zero tolerance” is
actually unprofessional behavior in the
U.S. military.
“You see a lot, in my experience, from
people who oppose this policy change
and others, the desire to express their
beliefs in an inappropriate and unprofes-
sional manner, and then they get upset
when they’re not permitted to engage in
that type of behavior,” Nicholson said.
Donnelly also said the controver-
sies found in teaching about same-sex
couples in civilian schools would mean
the military would likewise have similar
problems and would need to implement
a “school of choice” system.
“We know how controversial it is to
have LGBT training in civilian schools,”
Donnelly said. “Just imagine what that’s
going to be in the Department of Defense
schools where there really is no choice.
Will we not need ‘school of choice’ in the
Department of Defense? Yes, we will.”
Nicholson said Donnelly’s assertion is
a example of someone “talking about the
military who has never spent one single
day in uniform.”
“There aren’t multiple ideologically
based training schools for anything in the
military, whether that be for occupations
or the leadership academies and things
like that,” he said.
Also, Donnelly said military chaplains
would have to “endorse homosexuality”
if they had to be ministers for openly gay
people in the military.
“It was said during hearings in the
Senate, ‘Well, we’re going to lose a lot
of chaplains,’ so one of the questions is
‘How many chaplains are we going to
lose?’” she said.
Sainz identified Donnelly’s asser-
tion about chaplains as among “the
half-truths or complete falsehoods” that
she’s been repeating in her opposition to
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal.
“No one’s being asked to endorse
homosexuality,” Sainz said. “It’s kind of
a bizarro statement. They are not being
asked to put their religious beliefs aside.”
In addition to denouncing the repeal
law, Donnelly also took issue with the
Pentagon’s report on “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell.” Taking a line from Sen. John Mc-
Cain (R-Ariz.), an opponent of repeal in
the Senate, Donnelly said the survey that
went out to service members as part of
the report didn’t ask the right question.
“The survey that was done, the
RAND Corp. had a lot to do with it, and
a company called Westat or something,”
Donnelly said. ”They had all these ques-
tions and they never once asked the
question: ’Do you favor retention or re-
peal of the law?’”
One of the questions on the survey
asks service members if “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” is repealed and they are
working with someone who says he or
she is gay, how would it affect their unit’s
ability to work together to get the job
done. About 70 percent of responders
said it would have a positive, mixed or
no effect.
Nicholson said Donnelly didn’t like the
questions that were part of the survey
because they didn’t result in responses Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
that would have worked in her favor. ‘Our position is Congress should tell the Pentagon, ‘Not so fast,’ said Elaine Donnelly, a long-
“I think she’s just upset that the pur- time opponent of repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ Donnelly addressed last week’s CPAC confer-
pose was not to conduct a referendum ence in Washington.
on military policy among members of
the force because she thinks she would
have won that referendum,” he said.
Joining Donnelly during the panel
discussion was Ilario Pantano, a Ma-
rine sniper who served in the Iraq war,
who used his discussion time to argue
that the United States is a Christian na-
tion and that China is building up its de-
fenses “because they fear Jesus Christ.”
Pantano also said he concurred with
Donnelly’s sentiments and noted that for-
mer Rep. Patrick Murphy, who champi-
oned “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal in the
U.S. House, received what he said was
$90,000 from the liberal MoveOn.org and
$40,000 from the Human Rights Cam-
paign in the 2010 election.
“If people talk ultimately about issues
of fairness, why are they needing to
spend tens of millions of dollars to lobby
the Democratic Party if it’s truly about ef-
ficacy and the good of the people who’ve
been in the armed forces,” Pantano said.
In response, Sainz said HRC’s contri- Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
butions to Murphy’s campaign are “hard- Conservative activists and politicians, such as Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery, above,
ly remarkable” because the Pennsylva- descended on Washington last week for the CPAC conference.
nia lawmaker was a friend and deserved
re-election. Sainz added right-wing military. Currently, transgender people efforts to try to stop “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
groups are donating money to anti-gay aren’t allowed to serve in the armed forc- repeal,” but added she’s right that trans
lawmakers who oppose “Don’t Ask, Don’t es because of regulations. people shouldn’t be excluded.
Tell” repeal. “Right now, they’re saying no trans- “There is no more reason to exclude
Sainz also said Pantano was being genders,” Donnelly said. “They’ve thrown trans people from service than there is
“wildly inaccurate” on the money he says the ‘T’s’ under the bus. But the president to exclude women, or anybody, African
HRC spent on the Murphy campaign. Ac- has celebrated ‘LGBT Equality Month’ Americans or gay people,” Keisling said.
cording to the Federal Election Commis- twice in the month of June. So why not? “It’s just all based on old stereotypes that
sion website, HRC contributed slightly Why not? What is the rationale for exclud- people like Elaine Donnelly use to ad-
more than $9,000 to Murphy’s campaign ing them?” vance their own causes.”
in the 2010 election. Mara Keisling, executive director for Keisling noted that the national study
Donnelly also attempted to raise fears the National Transgender Center for on trans people made public last week
about the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal Equality, said Donnelly was raising the found that 20 percent of them were vet-
law by saying it could open the door to issue of transgender people in the U.S. erans, which she said was double the
allow openly transgender people in the military to draw attention to ”her last shrill national average.
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Mixed reaction to 2012 march on Washington

Continued from page 1

on members of Congress who don’t sup-

port LGBT rights.
A more effective way to prompt action
by Congress would be visible activity and
lobbying by constituents from lawmakers’
homes states rather than a march or rally
in Washington, the critics said.
Tyler said the process of organizing
a national march would trigger more ac-
tivity in the states than what is currently
taking place under the leadership of both
state and national LGBT groups.
“[L]arge national marches on Wash-
ington, which take over a year to do on
that scale, produce activists and activity
from every state,” she said.
Rea Carey, executive director of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
and Fred Sainz, spokesperson for the
Human Rights Campaign, said their re-
spective groups had yet to take a posi-
tion on whether another LGBT march on
Washington should take place in 2012.
Carey said Tyler would have an oppor-
tunity this spring to discuss her idea for a
march at a meeting of the National Policy
Roundtable, an informal group of ex-
ecutive directors of many of the national
LGBT organizations. Carey said the date
of the meeting has yet to be scheduled.
“We have met with Robin Tyler and
have listened to her ideas about a
march,” Sainz said. “Beyond that, we
haven’t formulated an opinion one way or
the other.”
Veteran LGBT and AIDS activist Cleve
Jones, the lead organizer and spokes-
person for the 2009 march, could not
be reached for comment on Tyler’s pro-
posed 2012 march. Veteran gay Demo-
cratic activist David Mixner did not return
calls seeking comment on a 2012 march.
McGehee, the GetEqual leader who
worked with Jones to organize the 2009
march, said she would release a state-
ment later this week.
LGBT activists had mixed views on
the impact of the 2009 march, which took
place Oct. 11, 2009. It included a march
from the White House to the Capitol and
a rally on the Capitol’s west lawn. Many Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key

of the nation’s most prominent LGBT
leaders and activists spoke. Recording
star Lady Gaga also spoke at the event.
Some supporters and organizers
said the march drew more than 100,000
people. But others put the total at about
30,000. U.S. Park Police, who in the past
gave an official estimate of crowds at-
tending marches and rallies at the Capi-
tol or on the National Mall, stopped giv-
ing such estimates years ago.
In association with the 2009 march,
Jones, McGehee and other activists
formed an organization called Equality
Across America, which served as an um-
brella group to help organize and raise
money for the march.
At the time of the march, Jones said
Equality Across America would continue
after the march to organize an LGBT ac-
tivist presence in all 435 U.S. congressio-
Activists differ sharply over the effectiveness of national marches, such as this one from 2009. Critics prefer to focus resources on state initiatives.
nal districts, as a spin-off of the activism
generated by the march.
But according to Tod Hill, an official
with the Tides Center, a San Francisco-
based consulting group for progres-
sive, non-profit organizations, Equality
Across America ceased operating and
dissolved sometime in 2010. He said the
Tides Center managed the finances of
Equality Across America.
No information could be found to show
whether Equality Across America carried
out activity in congressional districts be-
fore the group disbanded last year.
“I’m not aware of anything that came
out of that,” said D.C. gay Democratic
activist Peter Rosenstein. “The fact that
we took such a beating in the House and
Senate elections last year indicates they
weren’t very effective if they did, in fact,
do something.”
Rick Rosendall, vice president of the
Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of
D.C., said another national march would
be a “complete waste of time, money
and effort.” He said national marches in
the nation’s capital organized by a wide
range of groups and causes are so com-
mon that they have become “a dime a
dozen” and Congress and the public
pays little attention to them.
“What we really should to be do-
ing is the hard work our movement so
badly needs throughout the country and
not engaging in another self-indulgent
march in Washington,” he said.
Gay activist Dan Choi, the former
U.S. Army lieutenant who made nation-
al headlines by chaining himself to the
White House fence to protest the “Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell” law, said he supports the
idea of another march.
“I do think a march would be very
strategically important, especially be-
fore the conventions of both parties,” he
said. “And I think we’re ready to do it. The
young people and the grassroots activ-
ists who were so empowered in 2009 –
they’re ready to do it.”
Tyler said “massive street actions” his-
torically have made a difference in the
U.S. and elsewhere in prodding political
leaders and governments to take action
they would otherwise be unwilling to take.
“If you think mass actions do not work,
look at what is happening in Egypt right
now,” she said.
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Maryland.
“She made a statement earlier saying
that she would cast the deciding vote
if the votes were there,” Josh Hastings,
Conway’s legislative assistant, told the
Blade on Feb. 11. “But she didn’t think
the votes were there. That was like two
weeks ago.”
As of Monday, the number of senators
who publicly disclosed they would vote
for the bill reached 23.
Sens. Katherine Klausmeier and Ed-
ward Kasemeyer, both Democrats from
Baltimore County, were the latest to an-
nounce their decision to vote ‘yes’ on the
measure in statements to the media on
Monday.
On the previous Friday, Sen. Jim Bro-
chin, also a Democrat from Baltimore
County, disclosed that he would vote for
the marriage bill. He said his decision to
support the bill was driven, in part, by the
harsh and intolerant-sounding testimony
against the bill by some of its opponents
at a public hearing in Annapolis on Feb. 8.
Brochin is a member of the Senate Ju-
dicial Proceedings Committee and was
present for nearly seven hours of testi-
mony by more than 100 witnesses.
Conway shares the same legislative
district as lesbian House of Delegates
members Maggie McIntosh and Mary
Washington, both Democrats from Balti-
more City.
Sources familiar with the Maryland
Legislature say Conway has made it
clear to her Senate colleagues that she
would vote “yes” if at least 23 other sena-
tors vote for the bill.
Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery
County), a co-sponsor of the marriage bill,
told the Blade Friday that he heard Con-
way say she would vote for the bill if her
vote was needed to secure its passage.
Twenty senators have said they would
vote against the bill and three have said
they are undecided.
Raskin said the Senate Judicial Pro-
ceedings Committee, which held an all-
day hearing on the bill on Tuesday, was
scheduled to vote on the bill Feb. 17. He
said the committee could also vote on
amendments to the bill on the same day
if committee members decide to intro-
duce one or more amendments.
He said the full Senate was expected
to begin debating the bill on Feb. 22, with
a vote likely to take place the next day
following two full days of debate.
According to Raskin, it has been more
difficult for the bill’s supporters to line up
the 24 votes needed to pass the bill than
it has for obtaining the 29 votes needed
to stop an expected filibuster.
“What’s interesting is it’s really been
easier for us to get to 29 than to get to
24,” he said. “There are a number of
senators who on principle feel that leg-
islation should not be blocked by filibus-
ter. There are also a number of moderate
Democrats who, for whatever reason,
cannot bring themselves to vote for mar-
riage but are able to tell pro-marriage
constituents that they will not stand in the
way of a vote.”
Senate President Thomas V. “Mike”
Miller (D-Prince Georges and Calvert
Counties) has taken such a position, say-
ing he will vote against the marriage bill
while voting for cloture to end a filibuster.
“I think he will bring a number of other
senators with him in his wake,” Raskin
said.
Political observers in the state capital
in Annapolis have said support for the
marriage bill is stronger in the House of
Delegates, which is expected to pass
the bill by a wider margin in March. Gov.
Martin O’Malley has said he would sign
the measure.
In a related development, the Judicial
Proceedings Committee on Feb. 11 re-
leased a list of witnesses who signed up
to testify for or against the marriage bill
at a packed public hearing in Annapolis.
The list shows that a total of 124 peo-
ple signed up to testify on the morning
of the Feb. 8 hearing, with 67 indicating
they oppose the marriage bill and 57
checking a box saying they support the
measure.
A committee aide said the committee
did not keep track of the number of peo-
ple who signed up but did not appear
when called to testify during the hearing,
which lasted nearly seven hours.

Annapolis rally draws

500 marriage supporters
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Buoyed by the real prospects
of achieving marriage equality in Maryland in 2011,
an enthusiastic crowd estimated to be at least 500
jammed Lawyer’s Mall for the annual Equality Mary-
land-organized Lobby Day rally on Monday.
Two signature bills — the Religious Freedom and
Civil Marriage Protection Act (SB 116) and the Gender
Identity Anti-Discrimination Act (HB 235) — are mak-
ing their way through the legislative process during the
current General Assembly.
The news that Sens. Ed Kasemeyer (Howard, Bal-
timore County) and Kathy Klausmeier (Baltimore City, Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key
Baltimore County) announced their support for the
Former
marriage bill earlier in the day was met with a loudArmy Lt. Dan Choi told President Obama in a letter that he refuses to repay an unearned $2,500 from his Army contract.
cheer. (See full story on page 1.)
Groups opposing marriage rights for same-sex cou-
ples, such as the National Organization for Marriage
are expected to hold their own rally next week.
After brief introductory remarks by Equality Mary-
land’s executive director Morgan Meneses-Sheets,
Senate Majority Leader Rob Garagiola (Montgomery
County), lead sponsor of SB 116 told the crowd, “As
we celebrate Valentine’s Day, no one can argue that
the capacity and bond of love is any different between
heterosexual and same-sex couples.”
House Majority Leader Kumar Barve (Montgomery
County), lead sponsor of the House version of the mar-
riage equality bill (HB 175), followed.
“I am very proud to be a sponsor of this legislation
and SB 116/HB 175 is a testament to what it means Photo by Steve Charing Photo by Steve Charing

to be an American and what it means to be free and
equal in our society,” he told the crowd.
Other speakers included Del. Ariana Kelly (Mont-
gomery County), lead sponsor of the gender iden-
tity non-discrimination bill; Attorney General Douglas
Gansler; and Sandy Rawls, founder of Trans-United, a
transgender advocacy group.
The final speaker was former Equality Maryland di-
rector Dan Furmansky. “Right now we can literally feel
Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler, a marriage
equality supporter, addressed the Lobby Day crowd in An-
napolis on Monday.
the winds of change upon us,” he said. “Today we are
part of a much broader movement ...we now are the
leaders in this movement and we will be next state for
marriage equality.”
The Lobby Day event was bolstered by unusually
A crowd of about 500 enjoyed temperatures in the 60s and
a jovial atmosphere as marriage equality comes closer to
reality in Maryland.
mild weather. Following the rally, participants broke off
according to their own legislative districts to visit with
senators and delegates to press the two bills in pre-
scheduled meetings.
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VIEWPOINT
A tipping point on marriage
The once hot-button
issue cools considerably
By KEVIN NAFF
Earlier this week, I debated
marriage equality on a radio
show in Baltimore. The other
guests on the show were Mary El-
len Russell, head of the Maryland
Catholic Conference, Derek Mc-
Coy, president of the Maryland
Family Alliance and the former
GOP Senate leader in the state.
It seemed I would be out-
gunned and outnumbered — a
Catholic, a pro-family blowhard
and a Republican politician versus
the lone gay journalist. But my trep-
idation about the interview quickly
melted away when the Republican
turned out to be Sen. Allan Kittle-
man, who broke with his party and
endorsed marriage equality. And
when Russell and McCoy spoke,
their arguments were so hollow
and specious that batting them
away was effortless. To make mat-
ters even easier, the host and all of
the callers had my back.
Russell focused on procreation
and the importance of child rear-
ing to the institution of marriage.
McCoy adamantly opposes same-
sex marriage because it would ne-
cessitate teaching schoolchildren
about gay relationships.
When I asked Russell if the
Catholic Conference advocates
for rescinding marriage rights for
infertile couples, she fell silent. And
I reminded McCoy that same-sex
marriage is already being taught
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Re: “Ugly testimony at Md.
marriage hearing” (Feb. 8)
So who invited that witch Mag-
gie Gallagher to fly in on her
broomstick? And why does the
rotten National Organization for
Marriage (straight people only) al-
ways feel the need to butt into gay
& lesbian people’s lives? –Tim
So, um, let me get this
“straight.” Maggie actually be-
lieves that “if Maryland adopts
this radical new view of mar-
riage, it will have consequenc-
es.” What sort of consequenc-
es? Will heterosexual couples
no longer be able to marry? Will
their rights to life, love and the
pursuit of happiness be infringed
in schools because it’s legal in five
states and D.C., along with a grow-
ing list of foreign countries.
There was no shouting or name
calling; no one got emotional. The
debate, if you can call it that, was
a real let down and a microcosm
of what’s happening in communi-
ties across the country over the is-
sue of relationship recognition for
same-sex couples.
From Maryland, which appears
poised to legalize full marriage
rights in the coming months, to Ha-
waii, where the House overwhelm-
ingly approved a civil union bill, the
debates are less rancorous, the
polls less lopsided and the politi-
cians less fearful of standing up
for equality. This week, lawmakers
in Washington State introduced a
marriage equality bill; Freedom to
Marry launched a major national
advertising campaign promoting
marriage rights; and a new poll in
New Hampshire found that 63 per-
cent of voters have no appetite for
repealing marriage equality there.
When Kittleman realized his
own civil union bill stood no chance
of passing, he ditched it and sim-
ply endorsed marriage. He said
this week that the reaction from
Republican friends and constitu-
ents was surprisingly low-key, even
supportive. And Kittleman isn’t
alone among state Republicans.
Chrysovalantis P. Kefalas, deputy
legal counsel to former Maryland
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R), said
he considers marriage equality to
be consistent with the Republican
principle of limited government.
Make no mistake that oppo-
upon because two men or two
women simply want to share in
that long-held American dream?
This woman, like most bigots
on the wrong side of this issue,
has absolutely no credibility and
should have nothing whatsoever
to say about other people’s lives.
—Brian Summers
Following Maggie Gallagh-
er’s logic, if the only people who
should marry are those who can
procreate, then those past child
bearing age and those unable
to bear children should also be
banned from marrying. I don’t see
her advocating for that. Could she
just be a homophobe in sheep’s
clothes? —Henri Lemonnier
Their testimony has prompted
one state senator to go from “no”
to undecided. Keep up the good
work, ‘phobes. —Doctor Whom
nents of marriage rights remain
active and vocal, but they are in-
creasingly shrill and seen as be-
ing on the wrong side of history.
At a Senate committee hearing in
Maryland last week, opponents
showed up in significant numbers
to testify against marriage rights.
One witness made national
headlines when he warned that
extending marriage rights to gay
and lesbian couples would open
the door to human-robot wed-
dings. Robert Broadus, from Pro-
tect Maryland Marriage, said, “If
you pass this bill, you will set the
groundwork, that one day when
artificial intelligence is that ad-
vanced, we will be considering
whether or not people can marry
their androids. ... If you say that
any two people who love each
other can get married, then you
set that precedent.” He wasn’t
joking. Broadus referenced “Stark
Trek’s” Lieutenant Commander
Data’s ability to shed tears and
added, “You laugh, but it’s true.”
Other witnesses compared
same-sex relationships to pe-
dophilia and incest. “Where do
we draw the lines? What comes
next? If a man loses his wife to a
premature death, shouldn’t he be
allowed to marry his daughter, or
son, or both,” said Gerard Selby.
In response to that ugly, homo-
phobic testimony, Sen. Edward
Kasemeyer, who represents a
conservative district and had pre-
viously declined to reveal his posi-
tion on the issue, announced he
would vote for the marriage bill.
As the Senate inches closer to a
Re: “Another march in 2012?”
(Feb. 13)
In 2012 we need desperately
to concentrate on the state and lo-
cal level to take back the House as
there is a high chance we lose the
Senate. Any marches should be
to state capitals and city halls. We
cannot take it for granted President
Obama will win reelection. We can-
not afford to have all branches of
government in the hands of a politi-
cal party that sees the GLBT com-
munity merely as a group to attack
in an effort to gains votes. —James
Note to Rea Carey at National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force and
Fred Sainz at the Human Rights
Campaign: We don’t need your
permission. If the will is there to
do it, it will be done with or without
your organizations’ approval or
participation. You do not own the
Movement. —David John Fleck
vote, the concerns about a protract-
ed, pitched battle have given way
to a sense of inevitability. Maryland’s
lieutenant governor, attorney gener-
al and former Senate minority leader
have all spoken publicly about their
support for marriage equality. Gov.
Martin O’Malley remains a holdout,
but pledged in a 2007 interview with
the Blade to sign a marriage bill if
lawmakers send it to his desk. A
public endorsement from O’Malley
would be welcome and history’s
judgment would be more favor-
able to him if he spoke out now.
But enough elected officials have
found the courage to speak out and
stand up for justice that O’Malley
finds himself on the sidelines in this
debate, which is where he is most
comfortable. A profile in courage,
O’Malley ain’t.
With more and more Ameri-
cans accepting our relation-
ships, opponents of equality
will continue to find themselves
outnumbered and relegated to
the sidelines. It’s inspiring and
surreal to watch. As Maryland
Attorney General Doug Gansler
has repeatedly said, in another
20 years, all 50 states will have
marriage equality. It’s inevitable.
Kevin Naff is editor of Washington
Blade and can be reached at knaff@
washblade.com.
Note to David John Fleck:
Neither Rea Carey nor Fred
Sainz said that anybody needs
their permission, or that they
“own the Movement.” Where in
the world are you getting that
from? They said simply that they
had not yet taken a position,
and that Robin Tyler will be pre-
senting the idea to the National
Policy Roundtable. Period.
—David da Silva Cornell
Another march? Why? The
first one didn’t accomplish any-
thing. We don’t need to protest or
irritate or embarrass our way to
equality, we need to educate, en-
lighten and enroll people to sup-
port us. Another march doesn’t
encourage anyone to support
us. It’s a waste of time and mon-
ey. GetEqual has shown us how
to waste money, not achieve re-
sults. —Andrew W.
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INSIDELGBTWASHINGTON

Shared responsibility and a tax increase

After spending
sprees, chickens
are home to roost
By PETER ROSENSTEIN
D.C. is facing a budget crisis.
Unlike the federal government,
we must balance our budget.
Cutbacks in government re-
sources at every level will force
us to unite as a community to
deal with this crisis. Whether it’s
cleaning sidewalks after snow-
storms, preventing more cases
of HIV/AIDS and caring for those
already sick or improving our
children’s education, we must
assume more responsibility for
helping ourselves and each
other. The LGBT community has
a history of doing just that. That
may be the best explanation for
what Mayor Vince Gray means
when he talks about “One City.”
The District of Columbia is
no better or worse than other
big city governments when it
comes to waste and fraud. But
where we are different is that
Congress still controls our des-
tiny in too many ways. We aren’t
allowed to charge a commuter
tax, meaning about 35 percent
of the income earned here isn’t
taxed here.
Fifty percent of our land is
federal with no property taxes
paid. Congress insists we have
offices like the State Education
Office because that is the only
way to get our fair share of fed-
eral funds. There is no longer a
general federal payment to the
District but rather specific pay-
ments such as support for our
court system, Metro, schools
and prison system and now
Congress is threatening to cut
those funds.
Budget cuts will impact ev-
ery area of our lives and fall
most heavily on those who need
government the most. Whether
it’s shortened library and rec-
reation center hours, cuts in
programs for seniors, needle
exchange, HIV/AIDS services
or TANF payments, it is the poor
with few options that will be im-
pacted the most.
Taking care of ourselves and
donating more time and money
to the organizations we care
about will be crucial. Our gov-
ernment continued to spend
above its means long after it
should have. We increased
program funds and built librar-
ies and recreation centers, dog
parks and bike lanes knowing
all along we may not be able to
keep them up or staff them at
current levels. Now the chick-
ens have come home to roost.
The mayor and Council need
to make the budget transparent
and be willing to cut waste and
cut spending to the bone. But
after they do that we as a com-
munity will realize we need to
find additional funds because
the impact of the cuts even with
added private support will leave
our most vulnerable residents
without the services they need
to keep them healthy and alive.
I would then support a tax in-
crease knowing that some pro-
grams like education and work-
force development can’t be cut
but will need to be enhanced if
we are to train people for jobs
that enable them to become
contributing taxpaying mem-
bers of society.
The tax increase should be
broad and progressive so ev-
eryone shares in the burden.
It should also have a sunset
clause. As the economy recov-
ers and revenues increase the
tax rates must return to current
levels. The last thing we want is
for our politicians to think they
will have more money to spend
in perpetuity.
And even with a tax increase
government services will be
heavily reduced and we will
need to step up to the plate
and do for ourselves. The re-
sponsibility for making sure our
children are prepared for school
becomes ours as a community.
We need to take responsibil-
ity for things like cleaning our
walkways and alleys and keep-
ing them free of ice and snow
in storms. Take some personal
responsibility for things like the
horrendous traffic jams in the
last storm. If a storm is predict-
ed for the afternoon rush hour,
then leave the car at home and
take Metro. Don’t blame gov-
ernment for two-hour trips home
from downtown to Georgetown
when you could have left your
car where it was.
Step up giving to organi-
zations like Whitman-Walker
Clinic, Us Helping Us, SMYAL,
Metro TeenAIDS and faith orga-
nizations like Foundry Methodist
Church that feed the homeless.
In good times government
can and should help. In times
of crisis individuals need to step
up to the plate. We are fighting
two wars that weren’t paid for
with the only people paying the
price for Afghanistan and Iraq
being the military and their fami-
lies. The least we can do is take
over some responsibilities on the
home front and contribute some-
thing to ensure everyone contin-
ues to receive basic services.
John Donne said, “No man is
an island.” That statement was
never truer than it is today.
Peter Rosenstein is a D.C.-based LGBT
rights and Democratic Party activist. He
writes regularly for the Blade.

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Learning the hard way
By DAVID HOFFMAN
The statistics are grim. The task is daunting.
In the D.C. area, of the estimated 16,500 people liv-
ing with HIV/AIDS, 40 percent — or more than 6,700
people — who were infected with the virus were men
having sex with men. The majority of these men — 60
percent, or nearly 4,100 — are black. Data, from 2010
suggests that of those, 40 percent were unaware of their
HIV status before being tested.
Those scary statistics are constantly on the mind of
Venton Jones, 27, who recently came to the nation’s
capital from Texas where he was born and educated,
earning a degree in community health and a master’s in
health care administration.
But Jones’ real credentials about AIDS are differ-
ent, giving him the “street cred” about HIV, credibility
he wishes he never earned. In June 2007, Jones was
diagnosed as HIV positive when he was going through
a standard set of medical tests as he was seeking enlist-
ment in the U.S. Army.
“It happened with someone I was sleeping with” that
spring, says Jones, “at a time in my youth when I was
wild, to say the least.”
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Seated from left are Venton Jones and Tori Smith. In back from left are Paul Gordon, Rodney McCoy and Samuel Hairston. Washington Blade photo by Michael Key
He thought, “How could this happen to me?” He re-
viewed all he had going in his life: “I am educated; I
have a degree in health; I should have known better.”
But Jones says, “there was a lot going on” in his life
then, adding that he was dealing with “issues like com-
ing out, and also what to do next” with his life, with what
he calls “finding a purpose.” He says he “wasn’t neces-
sarily on the ‘down-low,’” a term often used among black
men to describe themselves as living life on the surface
as “straight” but actually secretly having sex with men.
He says a few of his friends already knew he was gay.
“If you asked me, I would tell you, but not too many
people asked.”
In the spring of 2007 he came out to his parents.
Jones says he had regularly been tested and had al-
ways seen the results come back as negative for the vi-
rus. So he got cocky about it, basically feeling so-far-so-
good. So he had unprotected sex. Now he knows better.
As a result, filling the giant vacuum of the “absence of
strategies to reach young people, specially young black
gay men, like the people I grew up with,” Jones says is
his top priority today, as he gets ready to hit the streets to
spread the message that testing for HIV is a crucial step to
checkmate the renewed AIDS epidemic in the D.C. area.
Local out black poz men band
together to spread testing message
On antiretroviral medication today, the virus in his
body is, Jones says, “now undetectable,” and he says
proudly that “now I am in the best physical and mental
health I have been in my entire life.” But of course he
knows the virus still lurks, waiting to pounce and begin
to spread again, high-jacking other cells, especially
white blood cells, eventually dooming his body’s im-
mune system, if given the chance.
However Jones is doing more than fight HIV in his
own body. He is now one of eight gay black men, all
diagnosed as HIV positive, who are “HIV testing advo-
cates” now finishing training under the auspices of the
Bayard Rustin Mobilization Project, an outreach program
aimed at raising HIV awareness among gay black males
in D.C., funded by a grant from the federal government
and directed by the national nonprofit advocacy group,
the National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA),
in partnership with local groups like The D.C. Center for
the LGBT Community.
Jones, who also works as a senior program associate
in communications for the D.C.-based National Black Gay
Men’s Advocacy Coalition, will tackle the role of being an
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24 washingtonblade.com • february 18, 2011

QUEERY: 20 questions for Julie Hawkins

By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com

Julie Hawkins is board president for D.C. Metro PFLAG (Parents, Families and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and as a Northern Virginia resident, she’s excited
about Loudoun Out Loud, a new PFLAG-helmed support group for gay teens and
their parents.
The group will meet on the fourth Sunday of every month from 4 to 6 p.m. at the
Unitarian Universalist Church (22135 Davis Drive) in Sterling. After a kick-off party
in January, the first session is Feb. 27. Anyone can attend. It’s one of 10 support
groups for gay and trans teens PFLAG hosts throughout the D.C. area.
Hawkins says the group was planned before the reports of teen bullying and sui-
cides in the last few months but those reports gave it an urgency.
“There was a real cry for this type of group in Loudoun County for a long time,”
Hawkins says. “Most of the high schools there don’t have GSAs (gay/straight alli-
ances) and even one of our board member’s daughter, who’s a straight ally, has How long have you been out and who sexual orientation, what would you do?
experienced bullying there just for supporting LGBT kids.” was the hardest person to tell? I would want to make all those that
Parents can attend and sit in on the discussion or have their own discussion with I have been out since I was 18, so al- want to “change” us LGBT.
a PFLAG facilitator in another room at the church. Teens — middle or high school most 20 years now! Telling my immediate
— can attend with or without their parents. For more information, visit pflagdc.org. family was the hardest for me because I What do you believe in beyond the
Hawkins, a 37-year-old Arlington resident, grew up in Mankato, Minn. Her Navy feared the possibility of being rejected. physical world?
career was cut short just before she planned to reenlist in 1998 when she was I feared they would see this as a disap- I believe there is a higher power, high-
kicked out under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Stationed in Hawaii at the time, she did odd pointment or a negative, something that er than us. I do believe you go beyond
jobs there for a year and a half, then moved back to the D.C. area where she’d been needed to be hidden. I feared not being yourself when you die where everyone
from 1993 to 1995. loved and accepted for who I was. there is equal no matter who you were in
She now works for an online K-12 education company in Herndon where she your life.
hires teachers. She got involved with PFLAG and has been on its board for the past Who’s your LGBT hero?
three years because she wishes something like it had been available when she Portia de Rossi What’s your advice for LGBT move-
came out at 18. ment leaders?
Hawkins met her girlfriend, Barb Brueggemann, at work. They’ve been dating What’s Washington’s best nightspot, Be the change you want to see by
about six months and are planning to move in together soon. Hawkins enjoys nature past or present? getting active in your local communities
photography in her spare time and, until she broke her ankle three months ago, she Tracks! and schools to help educate and create
was an avid runner, a hobby she is slowly returning to now. a safe environment for our youth.
Describe your dream wedding.
Being married in a church, because of What would you walk across hot
what it symbolizes, and having a small coals for?
gathering of my and my partner’s family Not having been discharged from the
and our closest and dear friends to wit- Navy on DADT.
ness this grand event.
What LGBT stereotype annoys you
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What was your last Facebook post or
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If your life were a book, what would
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If science discovered a way to change
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The dog tags from when my father
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tag from serving in the Navy and my own
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What do you wish you’d known at 18?
I honestly can’t think of anything.
I feel pretty blessed with how things
have turned out and how I’ve navigated
through life so far, especially in what I
have been able to learn through family,
friends, colleagues and even strangers.
Why Washington?
This is the heart of it all! This is where
change can be heard and changed at
the highest of levels. This is where I can
do my best work and advocacy for Metro
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ARTSINBRIEF

Photo courtesy of Olney Theatre Center

Alan Wiggins as Joseph and Eleasha Gamble as the Narrator in ‘Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat’ directed by David Hidler.
HIV TREATMENT
You may be eligible to participate in a
‘Joseph’ production slated for Olney CLINICAL RESEARCH STUDY looking at
David Hidler’s take on “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” opens ways to simplify your HIV treatment. This
Wednesday at 8 p.m. on the mainstage Olney Theatre Center (2001 Olney-Sandy study will see if a simplified investigational
Spring Rd). HIV treatment regimen is safe and
Joseph will be played by Alan Wiggins, a first time performer at Olney. His father
is played by R. Scott Williams (who also plays Potiphar). Another performer return- effective. Qualified study participants will
ing to the center is Eleasha Gamble as the Narrator, a role in which she made her receive all study medication and study
professional debut at Olney in 1999. related care at no cost for up to 48 weeks
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This Wednesday, Human Rights Campaign (1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W.) is
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said. These older children will age out of the system if they do not find a family, she
said. That’s why she is organizing this forum.
“The long term goal, of course, is to find families for some of these young people Today
who might not otherwise have these connections,” Kahn said.
There will be a number of speakers from different organizations at the forum,
such as Adoptions Together and D.C. Child and Family Services. These represen-
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“If anybody has even the slightest instinct to be a resource, we want them to
come through the door,” Kahn said.
PRESENTS

Rooms explored in new Pepco exhibit 3-D glasses provided!

f11 Women’s Photography Collective presents “A Room of Our Own” which
opens March 1 at Pepco Edison Place Gallery (702 8th St., N.W.).
Sponsored by The Art League in Alexandria, “Room” features more than 50 im-
ages created by the 18 members of f11.
Some of the photographs on display include Sandy LeBrun-Evans images of the NO ONE
Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania and Sheila Galagan’s series of images UNDER 18
from Rock Creek Cemetery in Petworth. ADMITTED!
Pamela Viola’s “interpretive” Egyptian landscapes will also be on display.
The exhibit will run from March 1 to Apr. 1. There will be an opening reception
on March 10.
The gallery is open from Tuesday through Friday from noon to 4 p.m. It will also
be open March 12 and 26 from noon to 4 p.m. This exhibit is free.
For more information about f11 and to find links to some of the individual artists’ Fri & Sat, February 18 & 19 at Midnight!
websites, visit facebook.com/f11group. Buy Advance Tickets Online tickets.landmarktheatres.com
26 washingtonblade.com • february 18, 2011

CALENDAR the Birchmere Dec. 17. (Photo courtesy of the Roches)

Today
Apex (1415 22nd St., N.W.)
presents Caliente Grande with
DJ Michael Brandon in the main
hall. Jamaica and Friends will
perform a drag show at mid-
night. Drink specials include $4
margaritas. Attendees must be
18 to enter and there is a $10
cover. For more information, visit
apex-dc.com or calientedc.com.
The D.C. Queer Writers Col-
lective is holding its monthly
writing circle tonight from 7 to 9
p.m. at the D.C. Center (1318 U
St., N.W.).
Trade and Ivan’s Holiday
Weekend Party is tonight
from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. at Layla
Lounge (501 Mores St., N.E.).
There is a $5 cover before mid-
night at $10 after. All attendees
must be 21 or older. For more
information, visit trade202.com.
DJ Wesley D will be providing
music and videos tonight in Nel-
lie’s (900 U St., N.W.) new dining
room bar starting at 7 p.m.
Enigma, a monthly sub-
stance-free, no-alcohol party, is
tonight at Green Lantern (1335
Green Court, N.W.) from 10 p.m.
can get a free shot at the bar at
midnight when the song “Shots”
by LMFAO is played. There will
also be an open bar on the main
floor from 9 to 10 p.m.
Mixtape D.C. is tonight Black
Cat (1811 14th St., N.W.) from
9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Mixtape is a
dance party for queer music lov-
ers and their pals that features
DJs Shea Van Horn and Matt
Bailer playing an eclectic mix
of electro, alt-pop, indie rock,
house, disco, new wave and any-
thing else danceable. There is a
$7 cover for this all ages event.
Team D.C. is hosting its first
casino night tonight from 9 p.m.
to midnight at Buffalo Billards
(1330 19th St., N.W.). Games
will include blackjack, poker,
billiards and more. The event
will also be co-hosted by D.C.
Ice Breakers, Federal Triangles
Soccer Club, the D.C. Gay Flag
Football League, the Wetskins,
the D.C. Strokes, the CARA
bowling league and the D.C.
Aquatics Club. Prizes, includ-
ing a two-night stay at Inter-
continental Barclay NYC dur-
ing Pride weekend with theater
tickets to “Priscilla Queen of the
mance and $57 to $65 for the
7 p.m. performance. For more
information and to purchase
tickets, studiotheatre.org.
Monday, Feb. 21
The Kennedy Center (2700
F St., N.W.) presents National
Presidents Day Choral Festival
today in the Concert Hall at 2
p.m. The program will feature
Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,”
a series of Aaron Copland’s
work and “Memorial,” written by
Rene Clausen in remembrance
of the 9-11 attacks. Tickets are
$10 and can be purchased on-
line at kennedy-center.org.
Zenith Gallery presents “Lis-
ten to Me,” sculpture and paint-
ings by Joel D’Orazio, a former
architect. D’Orazio uses found
objects and industrial materials
to create his art. The show is at
The Gallery (1111 Pennsylvania
Ave., N.W.), which is open from
8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The exhibit will
be on display through May 13.
Tuesday, Feb. 22
Women over Forty will meet Photo courtesy of Zenith Gallery

to 3 a.m. on the second floor
with a separate entrance and a
security guard working the door
to make sure no one with drinks
from downstairs comes up. Cov-
er is $5 and all are welcomed.
D.C. Women in Their Thirties
will meet tonight at 8 p.m. at the
D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.).
Saturday, Feb. 19
DJ Chris Cox will be provid-
ing the music tonight at Town
(2009 8th St., N.W.) for its annu-
al Mardi Gras Party. Doors open
at 10 p.m. with music and video
downstairs by Wess. Drag show
starts at 10:30 p.m. Cover is $8
before 11 p.m. and $12 after.
Attendees must be 21 or older.
Ultrabar (911 F St., N.W.)
hosts Ladies Night: Glow in the
Dark Edition tonight from 9 p.m.
to 3 a.m. Ladies 21 and over
Desert,” will be awarded.
Sunday, Feb. 20
Town (2009 8th St., N.W.)
introduces its new “Make Out
Room” tonight as part of WTF
with music by Ryan Duncan
from Pink Sock and Bill Todd
from Raw. Doors open at 10
p.m. Cover is $5 and all attend-
ees must be 18 or older.
The D.C. Jazz Jam, a weekly
jam free for both musicians and
jazz lovers, is tonight from 6:30
to 9:30 p.m. at Dahlak (1771 U
St., N.W.).
Studio Theatre (1501 14th
St., N.W.) brings “The Brother/
Sister” trilogy to a close with
“Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet”
by Tarell Alvin McCraney in two
final performances today at 2
and 7 p.m. Tickets range from
$46 to $57 for the 2 p.m. perfor-
tonight from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the
D.C. Center (1318 U St., N.W.).
The Gay and Lesbian Activ-
ists Alliance is having its mem-
bership meeting tonight from
7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Charles
Sumner School Museum and
Archive (1201 17th St., N.W.).
Wednesday, Feb. 23
Secrets (1824 Half St., S.W.)
is holdings its monthly amateur
dance contest tonight begin-
ning at 11 p.m. Contests must
sign up at the main bar between
10 and 10:45 p.m.
Higher Achievement D.C.
Metro presents its sixth annual
Literary Love Poetry Perfor-
mance tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the
Kennedy Center’s Family The-
ater (2700 F St., N.W.). This is a
free event. For more information,
visit kennedy-center.org.
‘Green Bridesmaid Chair’ by John D’Orazio is part of a series of works
featuring found or donated chairs wrapped with colored industrial wire. It
is part of the exhibit, ‘Listen to Me’ exhibit on display now at Zenith Gallery.
The Cultural Competency
Action Team will be holding Thursday, Feb. 24
a conference call today with
youth speakers Carlos and An- “The Monster Ball Tour”
tonio sharing their experiences starring Lady Gaga returns to
about coming out as youth of the Verizon Center (601 F St.,
color from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. N.W.) tonight featuring Semi Pre-
To participate, call 1-800-503- cious Weapons. Doors open at 7
2899 and use I.D. 1599272#. p.m. Tickets range from $52.50
The D.C. Log Cabin Repub- to $178 and can be purchased
licans will hosting its first Feb- online at ticketmaster.com.
ruary general meeting tonight The Duke Ellington School
from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Cam- of the Arts presents Earth,
den Roosevelt (2101 16th St., Wind & Fire in a gala benefit
N.W.) with a viewing of a film on concert celebrating the school’s
the Log Cabin v. U.S. lawsuit on 40th anniversary at 7:30 p.m. in
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” featuring the Kennedy Center’s Concert
a representative from the law Hall (2700 F St., N.W.). Tickets
firm representing Log Cabin in range from $50 to $175 and can
the suit. For more information, be purchased online at kenne-
visit dclogcabin.org. dy-center.org.

GAYNERD BY THOMAS GONYEA


THEATERAGENDA
A scene from ‘Oedipus el Rey,’ on the boards now at Woolly Mammoth.
A real mama’s boy?
Gritty new Woolly
production gives inner-city
spin on Greek classic
By PATRICK FOLLIARD
There’s a moment in Woolly Mam-
moth’s never-boring production of “Oedi-
pus el Rey” when the recently widowed
Jocasta and the younger title character
are heatedly – and nakedly — going at
it on the floor of the company’s brightly
lit stage and the audience wants to yell
“Stop!” Not because we’re prudes or be-
cause the pair is bad to look at (they’re
not). It’s because we already know some-
thing that the characters have yet to dis-
cover – they’re mother and son.
Gay playwright Luis Alfaro’s modern
take on Sophocles’ classic tragedy puts
the focus on the intense romantic rela-
tionship between lonely Jocasta (Romi
Dias) and her long lost only child Oedi-
pus (Andres Munar). The ill-fated cou-
ple’s lengthy, nude sex scene – boldly
staged by director Michael John Garcés
– is especially intense given that their im-
mediate love and openly displayed pas-
sion will ultimately result in further pain
for the already damaged pair.
Equally effective, Alfaro sets his ver-
sion in California’s North Kern State
Prison and Pico Union, a rough district in
downtown Los Angeles. Surrounded by
an informal chorus of hardcore Chicano
inmates and (later) gangbangers clad in
wife beaters and sagging pants, Oedi-
pus struggles to defy prophesy, but de-
spite all attempts to rise about the gods,
he succumbs to his destiny. With its en-
during themes of fate, pride and free will,
Sophocles’ Greek tragedy works well in
the confines of a contemporary prison
and the mean streets of the barrio.
Even with the new L.A. setting, all the
ancient plot points are there: After learning
from local seers that his newborn is des-
tined to be his rival, Laius (David Anzuelo),
king of the barrio, instructs crony Tiresias
(Gerard Ender) to kill baby Oedipus. Crony
spares the child. Years later (after spend-
ing many years in reform school and a stint
in big house in Alfaro’s account), Oedipus
kills his father and marries his mother.
february 18, 2011 • washingtonblade.com 27
Photo by Stan Barouh; courtesy of Wooly Mammoth
Though unaware of his bloodlines,
Oedipus feels entitled to rule. Like other
tragic heroes, his hubris is his downfall.
When Jocasta queen of the barrio first
meets the appealing young man who
is in fact her son, she’s impressed and
rapidly raises her new lover to royal sta-
tus. Her brother Creon (a convincing and
very fit Jose Joaquin Perez) urges his
sister to reconsider, but it’s too late.
Unlike Sophocles’ more honorable
Oedipus, Alfaro’s young tragic hero is a
straight-up thug operating outside of the
law, but at the same time he reeks of in-
nocence like a sort of convict fledgling
recently bumped from the prison nest.
Munar superbly captures the duality of
the role. The remainder of the seven-per-
son cast is similarly committed.
Designer Misha Kachman’s set is ap-
propriately raw, doubling as a prison
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ended by two iron ladders. Kachman Text revisions presumed
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potentially create problems for the actors
with real gangs outside of the theater.
Alfaro knows from what he writes. Ac-
cording to program notes, the playwright
is Chicano (or a U.S. citizen of Mexican
descent) and was born and raised in
downtown L.A. Over the years he’s worked
in California’s Juvenile Detention System
as a poet and a writer. He adeptly infuses
his work with barrio culture like its blend of
Catholic and indigenous religious beliefs,
and peppers his already authentic, often
humorous dialogue with a little Spanglish.
While a lot of Alfaro’s prior plays have
dealt with lesbian and gay themes, “Oe-
dipus el Rey” does not, but Woolly’s
production nonetheless remains a great
opportunity to get (or become further)
acquainted with the celebrated play-
wright’s work.
‘OeDIPus eL Rey’
Through March 6
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
641 D Street, NW
$30-$65
202-393-3939
woollymammoth.net
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THE GUIDE TO ARTS & CULTURE
OPENINGS
Fri, Feb. 18
Eye Wonder: Photography from the
Bank of America Collection, Museum
of Women in the Arts. nmwa.org.
Sun, Feb. 20
Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals,
National Gallery of Art. 202-737-4215.
nga.gov.
Thu, Feb. 24
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Com-
pany, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
Nora Chipaumire: lions will roar,
swans will fly, angels will wrestle
heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi,
Clarice Smith. 301-405-ARTS.
claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.
LAST CHANCE
Sat, Feb. 19
Tales of the Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre.
202-397-7328. fords.org.
Sun, Feb. 20
Charming Billy, Round House Theatre
Bethesda. 240-644-1100.
roundhousetheatre.org.
Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet, The
Studio Theatre. 202-332-3300.
studiotheatre.org.
In Unison: 20 Washington, DC Artists LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
Through Sat, Feb 26 Feb. 18 - Feb. 19
Kreeger Museum 11 1/2 Pieces on Death, Dying, Life
202-338-3552. kreegermuseum.org. & Living (A Comedy), The Fridge DC.
Initiated by renowned artist Sam Gilliam, the exhibition presents 20 established art- 202-664-4151. thefridgedc.com.
ists from the DC community, working in different styles and mediums. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Ameri-
can University Rude Mechanicals,
Barrage American University Kreeger Recital
Hall. 202-286-5965.
Feb 23- Feb 24
Lula Washington Dance Theatre,
The Barns at Wolf Trap.
Publick Playhouse. 301-277-1710.
703-255-1900. www.wolftrap.org.
With a diverse fusion of musical styles, this multitalented cast mixes fast-paced fid- arts.pgparks.com.
dling with lively dance and song for an action-packed evening. Feb. 18 - Feb. 20
The Washington Ballet: Rock & Roll,
Oedipus El Rey The Washington Ballet, Harman Center
for the Arts. 202-547-1122.
Through Sun, Marc 6
washingtonballet.org.
Woolly Mammoth Theatre
EDGEWORKS Dance Theater, Dance
202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net.
Place. 202-269-1600. danceplace.org.
An Oedipus rewired for today, but which still explores the complex rhythms between
maternal and sexual love.
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Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: Alexander
Gemignani, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
Friday Night Eclectic: Incwell,
Strathmore. strathmore.org.
Jonathan Edwards, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
Sat, Feb. 19
WPAS: Simon Trpceski, piano,
Kennedy Center. wpas.org.
Young Dubliners, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
Cuarteto Casals in Concert
202-338-3552. kreegermuseum.org.
The Smithsonian Chamber Music
Society: Johann Sebastian Bach
Chamber Works, Smithsonian Resi-
dent Associate Program, The Castle.
202-633-3030. residentassociates.org.
Sun, Feb. 20
Sunday Circus - Fresh Produce Festi-
val of Live Art, The Fridge DC.
202-644-4151. thefridgedc.com.
Preparing for the Ball: 19th-Century
Skills and Etiquette - Gaming,
Dumbarton House. 202-337-2288.
dumbartonhouse.org.
Thu, Feb. 24
Color Painting’s Pedigree, Corcoran
Gallery of Art. programs.corcoran.org.
ONGOING STAGE
The Weir, Keegan Theatre, Church
Street Theater. 703-892-0202.
keegantheatre.com.
La cándida Eréndira/ Innocent Eré-
ndira and her Heartless Grandmother,
GALA Hispanic Theatre. 202-234-7174.
galatheatre.org.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, Olney Theatre Center.
301-924-4485. olneytheatre.org.
ONGOING EXHIBITONS
Corcoran Gallery of Art. 202-639-1700.
corcoran.org. Washington Color and Light.
National Archives. 202-357-5000.
archives.gov. Discovering the Civil War -
Consequences.
National Gallery of Art. 202-737-4215.
nga.gov. From Impressionism to Mod-
ernism: The Chester Dale Collection.
National Geographic. 202-857-7700.
events.nationalgeographic.com. Amer-
ica I AM, Beyond the Story: National
Geographic Unpublished, Great Migra-
tions: A Photography Exhibition.
Museum of Women in the Arts. 202-783-
5000. nmwa.org. P(art)ners: Gifts from the
Heather and Tony Podesta Collection.
The Textile Museum. 202-667-0441.
textilemuseum.org. Colors of the Oasis:
Central Asian Ikats, Second Lives: The
Age-Old Art of Recycling Textiles.
ONGOING GALLERIES
Sweet-Meat Cherry-Whip Flip: Victoria
Gaitn, Arlington Cultural Affairs, ARTI-
SPHERE. 703-875-1100. arlingtonarts.org.
Still Life in Oil, The Art League. 703-
683-2323. school.theartleague.org.
Resonant Forms: An Exhibition Fea-
turing the Artworks of Alonzo Davis,
Martha Jackson Jarvis and Fran,
Brentwood Arts Exchange. 301-277-
2863. pgparks.com
Paint Mix Five Dc/va Painters, DC
Arts Center (DCAC). 202-462-7833.
dcartscenter.org
Paintings by Paula Amt / Sculptures
by Rod Glover, Gallery plan b. 202-
237-2711. galleryplanb.com
Lauren Rice: Heirlooms, Transformer.
202-483-1102. transformergallery.org
Excellence in Printmaking Exhibition,
Washington Printmakers Gallery. 301-
273-3660. washingtonprintmakers.com
Ultraviolet to Infrared: Paul Reed 50
Years, Workhouse Arts Center. 703-584-
2900. workhousearts.org
Treasures from the Heart, Arlington Art-
ists Alliance, Arlington Art Gallery. 703-
532-4350. arlingtonartistsalliance.org
Chul Beom Park, Caos on F. 202-215-
6993. caosonf.com

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Matthew Morris in ‘My Body Travels,’ which he’ll perform this weekend in Washington at Flash-
point Gallery.
Gender-bending dance
Gay choreographer
brings performance art
to D.C. this weekend
By DAVID HOFFMAN
How do you know the dancer from the
dance?
That conundrum — almost a Zen Bud-
dhist “koan,” that kernel of intuitive wis-
dom famously depicted in the “sound of
one hand clapping” — is at the heart of
the life and work of gay dancer-choreog-
rapher Matthew Morris who performs in
D.C. with Project New Thing from Ireland
on Saturday at the Flashpoint Gallery.
Morris, at 42 an “Aussie” who lives
a gypsy lifestyle as itinerant performer
worldwide, studied Buddhist medita-
tion in Nepal. He creates dances today
like “My Body Travels,” danced with one
foot in a high high heel and the other in
a sneaker to express, he says, with his
body the fluid “trans-ness” of all strict
and fixed gender.
“O body swayed to music, O brighten-
ing glance,” wrote the Irish poet William
Butler Yeats in “Among School Children”
a poem that ends, “how can we know the
dancer from the dance?”
That question dogged him as a boy,
mostly growing up in western Australia in
the 1970s, where he was shunned and ridi-
culed at his school — “incredibly bullied,”
he says — for wanting to dance and “being
seen as not quite one of the guys” because
of what he calls his “artistic inclinations.”
Fast forward to today, and Morris
looks back on what he calls “10 years
based mostly in London, and three years
in Switzerland, and now living in Berlin,
but also always traveling.” After being
what he calls “10 years single,” he relo-
cated to Berlin, following a man there for
a relationship that lasted about a year.
“I’m happily single now” Morris says. “I
think I function better as a single man,
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CARA, the local organization for gay
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The League is always looking for
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Trust, naivete factors in HIV
Continued from page 23
advocate on his own time, away from his
day job. And for that task, he says, “a big
focus has been on reaching youth.
Jones has a lot in common with his fel-
low advocates. Like Samuel Hairston, a
44-year-old preacher with a passion for
spreading the “good news,” ordained in
1996 as a full-time Pentecostal minister,
currently living in D.C. but pastoring on
weekends in Baltimore at the Church of
the Everlasting Kingdom, with a con-
gregation of about 50, he says, most of
whom are not LGBT, and who all know
that he is both gay and HIV positive.
Then a full-time Montgomery County
firefighter, in 2005 Hairston learned he
was positive when, he says, after years
living life on the “down-low,” a “routine
medical exam in his blood work prompt-
ed an HIV test, and I came up positive.”
He was “devastated,” he admits, not only
for himself, but also because he had to go
home and tell his “faithful and loving” wife that
he had contracted HIV “and that I could pos-
sibly have infected her.” He says that “thank-
fully, that was not the case,” and she remains
negative today. “The marriage was already on
the rocks,” he says, and it did not survive. His
children, then a 9-year-old son and a 6-year-
old daughter, took their parents’ divorce hard,
though they survived it, and they did not learn
until later that their father was infected.
“As I child,” he says, “I always felt an
attraction to men and other boys, but
there was no one I could trust to talk
to.” His introduction to sex came when
he was molested at age 5. He learned
“at an early age,” he confides, “to keep
secrets and hide my feelings.”
Later he convinced himself that through his
early ordination in the ministry, at first when he
was 14, he “would change my homosexual-
ity,” but by age 15, he says he was “jumping
in and out of cars and finding ways to feed my
sexual appetite,” which felt “insatiable” to him.
He calls himself a recovering sex addict. And
though he preached a Christian message, he
says, “I never believed (God) really loved me
because I was gay.”
As the marriage was cracking apart
and with the diagnosis of AIDS, his world
was falling in on him. “I went into a spiral
of serious depression” and he says he
wound up meeting a man, “the first man
to give me some attention” of the type he
sought. They had sex and did cocaine.
“Drugs became my outlet,” Hairston
says, as he sought “some release from
the guilt and shame of living in the closet
and the ‘down-low’ lifestyle, and the pain
it caused my family.”
“Today I live life out in the open,” he
says. “I’ve left the ‘down-low’ behind, be-
cause it’s so dishonest. The truth is liber-
ating, and even as Jesus said, ‘The truth
shall set you free.’” Today, Hairston says,
thanks to regular devotion to a 12-step
program, he’s “clean” of drugs and “cel-
ebrating two-and-a-half years of sobriety.”
One of his biggest life missions now
“is to reach out to African-American men,
who are on the down low, and to say that
there’s a better life, to help them to em-
brace honesty,” the same transparency
he has come to himself. As for himself,
he says he has “reconciled” his sexuality
with his spirituality. His target audience
will be among those attending the black
church, which traditionally has fostered
homophobia rather than acceptance.
Meanwhile, another advocate, Tyran-
ny “Tori” Smith, 30, will focus his outreach
efforts differently — to those who inhabit
what he calls the “vogue-fem” subculture:
gay and transgender men and women
who stylize their lives with makeup, hair-
dos, costumes and dancing. This is the
“sweet” world of “ballroom” culture, and
the “houses of families formed by choice,
not birth that grow up within the world of
urban, predominantly black “ballroom,”
or fashion runway, competitions.
Raised in Oxon Hill, Md., Smith came
out at age 14 and soon was a regular at
the clubs like Tracks.
“I told my mother,” he says, that he was
gay, “and once I told her, there was no one
else to hide it from.” Now a resident of NE
D.C., Smith is a member of the “House of
Herrera,” named for famed Venezuelan-
born American fashion designer Caro-
lina Herrera. It’s his second “house.” He
joined his first when 16 but five years ago
switched to Herrera, which currently has
about six members in D.C. and around
300 nationwide, five years ago. “In my
house,” he says, “they’re my family.”
Smith discovered he was positive in
June 2010, when he came down with
summer pneumonia and was tested pos-
itive when given an HIV exam.
“I was surprised,” he says, “because I
had been with someone for three years,
and we had both tested negative at the
beginning.” But with the benefit of hind-
sight, it was his partner (who later died,
though not of AIDS) who infected him.
Now as an advocate for regular test-
ing, Smith says that “my whole purpose
is to reach people, like in the ‘ballroom’
culture, that the Health Department is not
reaching — that’s my audience. Basi-
cally, we’re trying to put a face to HIV, our
face, that’s our whole mission. And when
I talk to people, my motto is this: ‘know-
ing is to live, not knowing is to die.’ So
basically I tell them, ‘get tested.’”
Two other Rustin Mobilization Project
testing advocates are Paul Gordon, 40,
born in Portsmouth, Va., and Rodney Mc-
Coy, Jr., 43, born in Brooklyn, N.Y. Both
men now live in the D.C. area.
Gordon, who felt he was gay from age
5 on, was molested at age 14, raped at
gunpoint and “with a knife at my neck” by
someone he calls his father’s “best friend.”
The assailant was eventually arrested and
convicted and served eight years of a 20
year prison sentence. Gordon, who then
began to have sex with boys his own age,
came out when he was about 18. His HIV
status was diagnosed positive in 1989,
contracted from a partner, a decade older,
with whom he moved to Atlanta at age 20
after graduating from Hampton University
in coastal Virginia. Gordon never knew
his partner, who eventually died after their
three-eyar relationship, was positive.
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