Volume 42, Issue 42 - October 21, 2011

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A reporters 35-year
journey chronicling the
nations preeminent gay activist

By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
lchibbaro@washblade.com
I met Frank Kameny for the rst time in the summer
of 1974 at a meeting in Washington of the Gay Activists
Alliance, now the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance.
At 24 years old, I had just landed my rst job as a
reporter covering the energy and environment beat for
a company that published newsletters specializing in
reporting on government regulations.
With an undergraduate degree in political science
and a years worth of graduate studies in journalism
under my belt, I walked into that GAA meeting at D.C.s
Quaker Meeting House near Dupont Circle knowing
next to nothing about gay rights, gay politics or the
gay community.
In the process we know as coming out, I had come
to terms with myself as a gay man just months earlier.
So with that as a backdrop, I listened intently to the
main topic of the meeting reports of arrests of gay
men at cruising areas by undercover ofcers assigned
to the D.C. police vice squad.
Most of the arrests were not linked to sex in public
places, one of the members reported. The men, whom
the GAA member described as consenting adults,
were merely seeking to meet one another for a sexual
tryst or perhaps a lasting friendship that was to take
place in the privacy of their homes, not in the public
areas where they met.
But in an action I learned later was a routine practice
throughout the country at that time, the undercover
ofcers reportedly posed as willing participants and
enticed the gay men into soliciting them to engage
in sodomy, which was a criminal offense that led to
an arrest. In some cases the undercover ofcers used
body language suggesting they were inviting the men
to touch them in a sexually suggestive way.
If the men took the bait and touched the ofcers,
they were charged with committing a lewd act, a
development that could ruin their careers, especially if
they worked for the government.
After listening to these reports, a man appearing
in his late 40s or early 50s with a booming voice and
an obvious thorough knowledge of the issue at
hand mapped out a strategy for GAAs and the gay
communitys response: The entrapment arrests of
gay men would be portrayed as an utter waste of
taxpayers money and police resources at a time when
Rising Cain
New GOP frontrunner attacked
from left and right over marriage
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
The new GOP presidential frontrunner continues
to make headlines on LGBT issues as both pro-LGBT
advocates and anti-gay forces express concerns about
his candidacy.
Hermain Cain, former CEO of Godfathers Pizza, said
Sunday in an interview on NBCs Meet the Press that
he wouldnt push for a U.S. constitutional amendment
banning same-sex marriage if he were elected
president.
I wouldnt seek a constitutional ban for same sex
marriage, but I am pro-traditional marriage, Cain said.
Pressed by host David Gregory on whether states
CONTI NUES ON PAGE 12
Covering Frank Kameny
KAMENY FUNERAL PLANS COMING TOGETHER.
PAGE 6
OPMS JOHN BERRY ON KAMENYS LEGACY.
PAGE 18
CHARLES FRANCIS ON KAMENYS STORYBOOK ENDING.
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KAMENY IN CONTEXT: HOW WILL HE BE REMEMBERED?
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FRANK KAMENY served as a colorful, reliable source for the
Blade and other news outlets during his decades of activism.
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Gay-Baiting?
Republican accuses
Democratic incumbent
of anti-gay campaign
tactics in ugly Va. race.
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I wouldnt seek a constitutional ban for same sex marriage,
but I am pro-traditional marriage, HERMAN CAIN told NBCs
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02 OCTOBER 21, 2011 WASHI NGTONBLADE. COM
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DNC investigating
allegation against
contractor

By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
A guard working for a company
that provides security services for
the Democratic National Committee
headquarters on Capitol Hill says the
company suspended him after another
guard learned that hes gay and expressed
reluctance to work with him.
Robert Miller, 32, a D.C. resident, says
hes ling a discrimination complaint
with the D.C. Ofce of Human Rights
against CSI Corporation of D.C., a private
contracting rm that provides security
guards for many prominent buildings in
the city, including the DNC headquarters
and the Washington Convention Center.
Im a gay man and he says hes
uncomfortable working with me, Miller
said of fellow security guard Julius Crumlin.
Crumlin declined to comment when
contacted by the Blade. Ofcials with the
Silver Spring, Md., based CSI Corporation
did not return repeated calls.
City records show that CSI Corporation
of D.C. listed a D.C. address to obtain
certication in 2009 as a small, local
business enterprise eligible for special
preference for D.C. government contracts.
But the management company for
the ofce building that CSI listed for its
address at 7600 Georgia Ave., N.W., told
the Blade CSI moved out of the rst oor
ofce it rented in that building last month.
A spokesperson for the D.C.
Department of Small and Local Business
Development couldnt be immediately
reached to determine whether CSI was in
violation of its contract preference status
by moving out of the city. The DSLBD
regulates the citys small and minority
business contracting preference program,
which is restricted to companies whose
principal location is in D.C.
Miller said he and Crumlin had a cordial
working relationship for nearly a year and
sometimes had dinner together while
on break at the DNC building. He said
Crumlin became hostile after discovering
in a desk drawer at the DNC building a
personal letter that Miller said he wrote
to his cousin about his romantic feelings
toward another man.
Miller says he thinks Crumlin thought the
owery language he used to describe his
feelings in the letter were directed at Crumlin.
He had no business going through my
personal things in that desk drawer, said
Miller. That letter had nothing to do with
him, but he took it the wrong way.
Crumlin responded by writing his own
letter to a CSI Corporation supervisor
accusing Miller of sexually harassing him
on the job, Miller told the Blade. On
Aug. 30, the supervisor called Miller to a
meeting at CSIs ofce in Silver Spring and
confronted him with Crumlins complaint.
Miller said he tried his best to explain
that Crumlin was not the subject of
the letter in question. But he said the
supervisor and at least one other CSI
ofcial told him the company wanted
to investigate the matter. Miller said the
supervisor, whom he knows only as Mr.
Covington, told him to go home that day
and to not return to work until contacted
by the company.
They never called, Miller said. I kept
calling them but they didnt answer. They
didnt return my calls.
After three weeks of not knowing his job
status and not being paid, Miller said a
company ofcial called him and informed
him that he was being transferred to
another building on an interim basis while
the company continued its investigation
into the matter.
Millers reinstatement came a short time
after the Blade began making calls to the
company and to the DNC to inquire about
Millers status and the circumstances that
led to his suspension.
DNC spokesperson Melanie Roussell
said the DNC didnt learn about Millers
suspension until contacted by the Blade.
The DNC does not exercise authority
over or make hiring, ring or suspension
decisions regarding any of the security
guards working at DNC facilities, as
they are employed by an independent
contractor, Roussell said in a statement.
Nevertheless, we are taking these
allegations very seriously and will do
everything within our power to investigate
this matter to the fullest extent possible,
and resolve it accordingly, she said. The
DNC has an absolutely resolute policy of
commitment to diversity among its staff,
and recognizes that our continued success
requires the highest commitment to
obtaining and retaining a diverse staff that
provides the best services to supporters
and constituents.
Roussell added that the DNC is an
equal opportunity employer that hires
a diverse staff without regard to a wide
range factors such as race, religion, sexual
orientation and gender identity.
Miller said he quickly learned that
the pay scale at the building to which
he was transferred is lower than what it
was at the DNC building. According to
Miller, hes now being paid $11 per hour
at the Fairchild Building located across
South Capitol Street from the DNC
headquarters. He had been paid $16 per
hour at the DNC building.
Miller gave the Blade a copy of his
hand-written responses on an intake
questionnaire he obtained from the D.C.
Ofce of Human Rights, which serves as
the rst step for ling a discrimination
complaint against an employer.
A spokesperson for the OHR said the
ofce uses the questionnaire responses
along with an interview with the person
making the complaint as the basis for
determining whether grounds exist for a
formal complaint, which the ofce would
then investigate.
The spokesperson, Tonya Gonzalez,
said the OHR doesnt publicly disclose or
comment on a complaint unless and until the
investigation results in a nding of probable
cause that discrimination occurred. She said
it could take several months before such a
determination is made.
Gonzalez said anyone ling a
discrimination complaint is free to publicly
disclose the fact that they have led such
a complaint, even though the OHR cannot
comment on it or acknowledge that it has
been led.
CSI describes itself on its website as a
minority owned rm, certied as a Local
Small Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
(LSDBE) with a pending certication from
the U.S. Small Business Administration.
CONTINUES AT WASHINGTONBLADE.COM
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04 OCTOBER 21, 2011 LOCAL NEWS
Security guard says company suspended him for being gay
ROBERT MILLER claims that CSI Corporation
discriminated against him because hes gay
while working as a security guard at the DNC
headquarters.
Police Log
The following incidents were investigated by the D.C. Metropolitan Police Departments Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit.
On Oct. 17 at 17th and Monroe streets, N.W., a woman reported that she was
walking down the street when she was threatened by a suspect. She then ed the
area to avoid a confrontation. She reported that she heard the suspect possibly
make some homophobic comments toward her. A threat report was taken.

On Oct. 14 in the 1800 block of West Virginia Avenue, N.E., a man reported that
he was asked for money by an unknown subject. The man gave the subject some
cash. The subject was unhappy with the quantity and began using homophobic
slurs against him. The police arrived on the scene but the man did not want police
service.

On Oct. 15 at Cloud Place and Division Avenue, N.E., a woman reported that she
was at a party when she was attacked by an unknown male suspect, who began
hitting her with a closed st. The suspect hit her multiple times with a closed st
about the face and body causing a large laceration to the victims face. The victim
was transported to a local hospital for treatment. The suspect ed the scene.
On Oct. 14 at East Capitol Street and Benning Road., S.E., a woman reported
that she and a suspect were involved in a verbal argument that became violent
when the suspect struck the victim in the face with a closed st. The suspect ed
the scene. The two are involved in a romantic relationship. An assault report
(domestic violence) was taken.
On Oct. 14, members of GLUU responded to the 1300 block of 4th Street, N.E.,
to assist with a robbery investigation. The investigation revealed that no robbery
occurred.
On Oct. 13, in the 2500 block of Naylor Road., N.W., two complainants reported
that they were involved in a verbal argument. One complainant wanted the other
removed from the house. Both were advised of the domestic violence laws and
were provided resource agency information. An incident report was completed.

On Oct.13, in the 1300 block of Belmont St., N.W., a man reported that he got
into a verbal altercation with his intoxicated neighbor. No crime was committed
but the neighbor used homophobic language toward the complainant. An
incident report was completed.
Friends, activists
developing plans for
public ceremony

By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
Friends who worked closely with veteran
gay activist Frank Kameny are asking the
community to contribute to a local LGBT-
oriented charitable group to help it meet the
cost of Kamenys funeral, which they say is
expected to be held within the next two weeks.
The group, Helping Our Brothers and
Sisters (HOBS), has assisted Kameny
for the past year or two, helping him
meet basic household needs such as the
delivery of groceries, assistance in paying
utility and property tax bills, and providing
transportation to and from community
events, according to HOBS co-founder
and President Marvin Carter.
Kameny, one of the nations most
prominent gay rights advocates, died in
his home in Washington on Oct. 11 at the
age of 86.
Messages of condolence over his
passing continue to pour in from across
the country. Nearly all major news
media outlets have published obituaries
recognizing Kameny as a leading gure in
the LGBT rights movement over the past
50 years.
Longtime Kameny friend and gay rights
advocate Bob Witeck, CEO of Witeck-
Combs Communications, said friends
and activists who have known Kameny
for many years are developing plans for
a Kameny funeral that they hope will be
held in a public building in Washington.
He said Kamenys friends and associates
working on funeral plans are asking
members of the LGBT community and
supporters from the community at-large
to make a tax deductable contribution to
HOBS, which has established a Kameny
funeral fund.
Contributions can be made at
helpingourbrothersandsisters.com or
sent by mail to HOBS, P.O. Box 53477,
Washington, D.C. 20009.
HOBS is an all-volunteer micro-charity
that helps marginalized GLBT individuals
in the Washington, D.C. area meet short-
term needs, the group states on its
website. HOBSs focus is on those who
do not t the criteria for help from other
organizations and agencies.
Witeck said Kamenys friends and
associates also are planning a separate
memorial service in a larger space with a
target date of Nov. 15, which will mark the
50th anniversary of the Mattachine Society
of Washington, the citys rst gay rights
group that Kameny co-founded.
Funeral arrangements could not be
made immediately, Witeck said, because
Kamenys Washington friends had to reach
out to his surviving sister, 83-year-old Edna
Lavey, who lives in Riverhead, N.Y. Under
D.C. law, Lavey, as the next of kin, has sole
legal authority to decide on what to do
with Kamenys remains.
Shes been very gracious and very
supportive of our efforts to plan the
funeral, said Witeck.
He said that under advice from
lawyers, Lavey has agreed to sign a legal
document giving Witeck and other friends
in Washington authority to move ahead
with funeral plans, including the release
of Kamenys body from the D.C. Medical
Examiners ofce to a D.C. funeral home.
According to Witeck, friends will fulll
Kamenys long-stated wish to be cremated
and to have a non-religious funeral or
memorial service.
One option under consideration is an
offer to accept a donated cemetery plot
to have Kamenys ashes interred at D.C.s
historic Congressional Cemetery near
the gravesite of the late gay Air Force
veteran Leonard Matlovich. Matlovich, a
decorated combat veteran in the Vietnam
War, approached Kameny for assistance in
his decision to become the rst active duty
member of the military to publicly declare
that he was gay in 1975 in an effort to
challenge the ban on gay service members.
The widespread media coverage of
Matlovichs declaration, which included
the now famous cover story in Time
magazine with the headline I am a
homosexual, has been credited with
kicking off the campaign that led to the
repeal this year of Dont Ask, Dont Tell.
The Blade will report all details
surrounding Kamenys funeral and memorial
service as soon as they become available.
washingtonblade.com
Donations sought for Kameny funeral
Friends of FRANK KAMENY, who died last week, expect a funeral to be held within the next two weeks.
WASHINGTON BLADE ARCHIVE PHOTO
Actors, Supreme Court
justices on hand for gala
By PETER ROSENSTEIN
The Shakespeare Theatre Gala honoring
Michael Kahns 25 years as artistic director
drew Hollywood celebrities and D.C.
luminaries alike on Tuesday.
Kahn was hired when the theater was
struggling to stay alive at the Folger
Library and later moved the company to
the Lansburgh Theatre before anyone else
saw the potential of that area and today its
home includes the glittering Harman Hall.
Tributes from Edward Albee to Terrance
McNally told of Kahns contributions to
the arts and to their careers. McNally told
stories about his and Michaels time at
Columbia University including the plays
they did there and Michael nding this
young rst time set designer to work with
by the name of Andy Warhol..
Kahn has directed productions around
the world, including Elizabeth Ashley on
Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and a
recent Dallas Opera Company production
of Romeo and Juliet.
Harman Hall was aglow with the stars who
saluted Kahn. They included Stacy Keach,
Pat Carroll, Nancy Robinette, Denyse
Graves, Harry Hamlin, Patrick Stewart,
Kelly McGillis, Floyd King, Richard Thomas,
Bradley Whitford, and Jeffrey Carlson,
who played Hamlet at the Shakespeare in
2007. There were a host of other celebrities
including Chelsea Clinton who spoke of
what Kahn and the Shakespeare Theatre
meant to her during her high school years
in D.C. Donald Graham, chair and CEO of
the Washington Post Company spoke and
then read a proclamation from the mayor
declaring October 17th Michael Kahn
Day in the District of Columbia. Former
Congresswoman Jane Harman spoke of
what the theater meant to her late husband
Sidney, and how he loved Harman Hall.
The actors performed in a 90-minute
production that included Joffrey Ballet
leading dancers Fabrice Calmals and
April Daly who did a piece from Othello,
A Dance in Three Acts. The entire
performance was directed by Alan Paul.
Seen at the reception prior to the
show, and at the dinner and dance
afterwards held at the Building Museum
were: Supreme Court Justices, Samuel
Alito, Antonin Scalia, Elena Kagan and
former Justice Sandra Day OConnor.
Also there were former Congressman Phil
Sharp (D-Ind.), the Hon. Carol Browner
(former Clinton EPA administrator and
environmental czar for President Obama),
Williams and Connolly senior partner Dan
Katz, Shakespeare Theatre board member
Pauline Schneider, former Mayor Anthony
Williams, former Mass. Gov. William Weld,
and D.C. City Council members Jack
Evans and Tommy Wells. Being thanked
from the stage by Kahn were his friend
and former assistant of 10 years Steven
Mazzola who was there with his partner
Dr. Jeffrey Akman, and Kahns best friend
John Hill.
The GALA is the theatres biggest
benet of the year and supports its
educational programs. It was chaired by
Miguel and Patricia Estrada and Anita
Antenucci.
Stars turn out for Kahn celebration
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Why would you want to
vote for someone whos
a homosexual?
By CHRIS JOHNSON
cjohnson@washblade.com
A gay Republican running for state
Senate in Virginia is accusing his
Democratic incumbent opponent
of engaging in gay-baiting tactics,
an assertion supported by an audio
recording obtained by the Washington
Blade of inammatory remarks made by a
Democratic volunteer.
On the recording, the intoxicated
Democratic volunteer can be heard saying,
Why would you want to vote for someone
whos a homosexual and is going to push
his agenda in your schools?
Patrick Forrest, the gay Republican
running for state Senate in Reston, Va.,
said hes heard that Democratic volunteers
for State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Reston)
have been reaching out to conservative
voters in her district to inform them of his
sexual orientation in an effort to dissuade
them from supporting him.
Forrest said he heard this information
from Republicans in Virginias 32nd district
while knocking on doors and campaigning.
Ive been approached by several
people ... very, very conservative and
had basically said to me, You know, we
heard youre a homosexual, Forrest said.
I said, Yeah, Im gay. Ive always been
openly gay. Well, we were actually told
by ... volunteers from the Democrats that
you would be promoting the homosexual
agenda in our schools.
Howell, a 19-year incumbent with a
strong pro-gay record, said the claim
that her campaign has been highlighting
Forrests sexual orientation is absolutely
not true.
Were not mentioning his orientation at
all, Howell told the Blade. Its simply not
an issue. The only one who seems to be
making it an issue is Mr. Forrest himself.
Forrests assertion is supported by a
recording of a conversation between
Eric Newland, Forrests eld director,
and Kavita Imarti, a Democratic precinct
captain in Reston. Newland said the
recording took place on Oct. 5 outside of
Imartis home during a party.
On the recording, Newland asks Imarti
about rumors that the Howell campaign
is approaching Republican voters and
highlighting Forrests sexual orientation in
order to dissuade them from supporting
him. Imarti says that her side is employing
this tactic. She attempts to justify the
tactic throughout the recording by
alleging that Republican voters are racist
and homophobic and would want to know
Forrest is gay.
Newland asks whether Imarti thinks the
campaign should be telling people about
Forrests sexual orientation. She replies,
Yes, because you guys are racist bastards.
Later, when asked what exactly the
campaign is saying, Imarti says, Hes gay!
You guys say youre anti-gay, but you have a
gay candidate. What you gonna do now?
Asked on the recording to clarify
whether this tactic is coming from the
Howell campaign, Imarti says, Yes!
You guys are openly prejudiced against
someone due to orientation. I think thats
wrong. Thats wrong.
Later, Imarti says, What my campaign is
saying is heres your Republican candidate.
Hes a homosexual. Why would you want to
vote for someone whos a homosexual and is
going to push his agenda in your schools?
Imarti isnt a member of the Howell
campaign. At one point in the conversation,
she says, Im not working with Janet.
In the recording, she says she makes
phone calls and participates in canvassing
efforts. But in the recording another voice
says, You guys work together, which
means youre working for Janet.
In a statement to the Blade, Newland
said he recorded the conversation with
Imarti because he heard she had been
discussing this campaign strategy openly
and he wanted to hear it for himself.
Frankly, we had heard from several
of our volunteers that gay-baiting was
being utilized against Patrick, Newland
said. When hearing one of their own
grassroots political organizers talking
openly about this strategy to tell people
that Patrick was gay, as a way to help re-
elect Sen. Howell, I was deeply offended.
Nick Kowalski, Howells campaign
manager, said Imarti is a Democratic
volunteer for a county-coordinated
campaign and doesnt speak for Howell or
her campaign.
We did not recruit her, Kowalski said.
We have not solicited her efforts to
volunteer for Janet Howell directly, and
she has no direct association with this
campaign. Clearly, in this recording, shes
highly intoxicated and speaking about
something she knows nothing about.
Kowalski said the campaign has sent a
message to the coordinated campaign of
Fairfax County that Imarti has no further
association volunteer or otherwise
with our campaign.
Additionally, Kowalski acknowledged
he had two ve-minute talks with Imarti
prior to the recording. But he maintained
that he did not discuss campaign specics
with her in those conversations.
Kowalski denied the assertion that
the Howell campaign is telling potential
Republican voters about Forrests sexual
orientation.
We 100 percent categorically deny we
are sending any messages to Republican
voters on Patricks sexuality or otherwise,
Kowalski said. We are not reaching out to
Republican voters at all in the campaign.
This campaign is about getting a message
out about the issues that concern voters,
and Patricks sexuality is not an issue for us,
and its not an issue for voters in the district.
Speaking with the Blade, Imarti
disavowed any involvement with the Howell
campaign and denied any knowledge
about the campaign engaging Republican
voters. She said the recording was made
without her knowledge and has been a
real inconvenience for her and her family.
I was obviously intoxicated in the
recording, Imarti said. I was not speaking
clearly. I was speaking out of anger. I said
some things I did not mean, and, in fact,
were not true.
Imarti said she cant speak for the
Howell campaign and she hasnt heard
anything about the Howell campaign
reaching out to Republican voters and
informing them that Forrest is gay.
I do not have any knowledge of
anything either campaign is doing, any
strategy or anything like that, Imarti said.
I was speaking for myself as a Democrat,
as a person. I was being instigated and
I was apparently very upset, and visibly
intoxicated.
But accusations about gay-baiting in
the race go beyond this incident.
Forrest also said he spoke to two
members of the Virginia Legislature
State Sen. Mark Obenshain and Del.
Barbara Comstock who asserted Howell
informed them of his sexual orientation.
Forrest said the lawmakers told him
Howell said this guy is a homosexual
and you should not be supporting him.
Shes going about this two ways: one,
by approaching ... Republican legislators in
Virginia [and saying] hes gay and not a true
conservative and then also by approaching
conservative voters, Forrest said.
Speaking with the Blade, Obenshain
said Howell had asked him about Forrest
during a brief 45-second conversation
and said Republicans were running a
RINO in the district based on several
factors, including the fact that Forrest has
a same-sex partner. RINO, or Republican-
In-Name-Only, is a pejorative term for a
member of the GOP who doesnt adhere
to party dogma.
She ticked off three of four things
that would, I guess, indicate he was not
conservative: something about taxes, maybe
that he may have voted in a Democratic
primary, that he has a partner and just
went tick, tick, tick, Obenshain said. I think
my response was, Gee, Janet, it sounds
like youre asking me for my endorsement,
which was tongue-in-cheek.
Obenshain said Howell didnt explicitly
say anything about him not wanting to
support Forrest because he allegedly is a
RINO or because of his sexual orientation,
but added such a message may have
been a fair implication.
She listed off three or four things,
including that he had a partner,
Obenshain said. She didnt place any
more or less emphasis on that than the
other things that she listed.
Obenshain added he absolutely
supports Forrests candidacy based on the
candidates credentials.
I attended and participated in
fundraisers for him, Obenshain said. I
think hes a strong candidate who has a
strong command of the issues and would
do a very good job representing that
district in the Senate.
Comstock didnt respond to the
Blades request for comment on Forrests
allegation. They both have anti-gay voting
records and have voted against legislation
that would bar state government
employers from discriminating against
gays in the workplace.
Forrest said hes very sad about
reports that his sexual orientation has
become an issue because he wants the
campaign to be about other things, such
as the fact that Northern Virginia sends
signicant tax dollars down state.
I was frankly shocked that a liberal
member of the Virginia State Senate
who is so powerful and on the Budget
Committee would resort to these types of
tactics, but she has, and thats what shes
chosen to do, Forrest said. I have fought
this kind of gay-baiting when its been on
the political right, I will continue to ght
it when its on the political left, and Im
going to go out there and just talk about
transportation, jobs, economy, my vision
of the type of independent voice we need
for Northern Virginia.
Forrest said he hopes Howell apologizes
so that those involved can put this behind
us and we can move on and have a real
campaign talking about real issues.
Howell denied the accusation that she
has spoken to Republican lawmakers
about Forrests sexual orientation and
accused the candidate of lying.
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Gay Republican accuses Dem of gay-baiting in Va.
PATRICK FORREST, a gay Republican, is
challenging a 19-year Democratic incumbent in
Northern Virginia.
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Chicago mayor cuts longtime LGBT liaison post
CHICAGO Despite strong
primary election promises to the LGBT
community, Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel has eliminated the position of
director of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgender Issues, which has existed
since 1984, according to the Windy City
Times.
The position was established by
Mayor Harold Washington when he
appointed straight ally Kit Duffy to
direct the gay and lesbian advisory
council as a volunteer. The position later
became funded and is currently lled
by Bill Greaves, whose employment will
be terminated. Several other Advisory
Councils and directors were eliminated
or replaced as well in the mayors new
budget.
Speaking with the Windy City Times,
chair of the LGBT Advisory Council,
Beth Kelly called the move an affront
to LGBT communities in Chicago and
a symbolic erasure.
Equality California chief resigns after 3 months
SAN FRANCISCO Equality California is coming under scrutiny after failing to
deliver on a transition plan since newly minted executive director Roland Palencia
suddenly stepped down after only three months on the job.
According to the Bay Area Reporter, the departure came a mere week after
the organizations board of directors announced the decision to not return to
the ballot in 2012 to repeal Proposition 8, which bars same-sex marriage in the
Golden State.
In addition to Palencia, nance director Steve Mele, government affairs
director Mario Guerrero, and marriage and coalitions director Andrea Shorter
will also leave. Spokesperson Rebekah Orr told the Bay Area Reporter that the
organization would soon release a transition plan, however as of press time, no
plan has surfaced.
Gay service members running for ofce post-DADT
DENVER Less than a month after gay and lesbian service members were
allowed to serve openly, several are jumping into elections around the nation as
openly gay members of the military.
Brian Carroll who has served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and one in Iraq
with the Colorado National Guard will face off against current state House 28th
district Rep. Andy Kerr (D) in the primary race for the suburban Denver district
election next year, according to the Hufngton Post. Before Sept. 20, openly gay
military personnel like Carroll would have been discharged for coming out on the
campaign trail, as he has. Today, service members on the trail are coming out and
speaking up.
Ultimately, what this comes down to, I believe, is standing up and providing an
opportunity for leadership, Carroll told the Hufngton Post.
Carroll is not alone in 2012. The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund has endorsed
Stephen Keblish, the gay captain of the Military Police Battalion in Auburn, N.Y.,
who is seeking re-election for Herkimer County legislator as a Republican. Keblish
has served in the Army National Guard since 2005, and has been deployed to
Afghanistan, and came out in the wake of Dont Ask repeal.
Ex-gay leader Smid comes out, apologizes
MEMPHIS The former director of Americas largest ex-gay ministry, came
out as gay in a blog post last week, and said he does not believe sexual orientation
can be changed.
John Smid, who worked with Love in Action for 22 years before resigning in 2008,
apologized in 2010 saying his program further wounded teens that were already
in a very delicate place in life. The former director of the reparative therapy camp
now says, while he loves his wife, his sexual orientation is unchanged. He has
invited former Love in Action clients that he has wounded to contact him so he
can personally apologize.
washingtonblade.com
10 OCTOBER 21, 2011 NATIONAL NEWS
Judge rules against Choi in
vindictive prosecution claim
Mayor RAHM EMANUEL is being
accused of betrayal by LGBT leaders in
Chicago.
Gay activist on trial
for arrest over
White House protest

By LOU CHIBBARO JR.

A federal judge ruled on Oct. 11 that gay
former Army Lt. Dan Choi cannot argue in
his ongoing trial that he was targeted for
selective or vindictive prosecution
following his arrest last year for chaining
himself to the White House fence in a
protest against Dont Ask, Dont Tell.
In a 17-page decision, Chief Judge
Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court
for the District of Columbia overturned
an earlier ruling by Magistrate Judge
John Facciola that allowed Chois lawyers
to pursue allegations of selective or
vindictive prosecution in the trial, which
began Aug. 29.
Lamberths decision, among other
things, granted a petition by prosecutors
for a Writ of Mandamus, a formal and
unusual request challenging a ruling of a
trial judge by appealing to a higher court
or to another judge with greater authority.
Under Lamberths decision, Facciola is
prohibited from considering selective
or vindictive prosecution as a defense to
the merits of the prosecution, prohibited
from allowing evidence as to either claim
and barred from entertaining any motion
led by Choi to dismiss the case based on
selective or vindictive prosecution.
Facciola is presiding over a non-jury trial
in which Choi is being prosecuted for a
misdemeanor charge of disobeying a lawful
police order to disperse from the White
House fence. Although the prohibition
against Chois use of a defense based
on selective or vindictive prosecution is a
blow to the defense, one of his attorneys,
Norman Kent, said Sunday that the defense
will move forward on other grounds and that
Chois defense team remains condent that
Choi will be found not guilty.
Choi was the only one of a group of
protesters arrested during the November
2010 protest that did not agree to plead
guilty to the charge in exchange for having
the case dismissed if they werent arrested
again at the White House within a four-
month period.
Through his attorneys, Choi has
argued that he had a constitutional right
to handcuff himself to the White House
fence. The attorneys also have contested
the governments case on a technicality,
saying police ordered Choi to disperse
from the sidewalk. They note that Choi
was standing on an elevated ledge on
which the White House fence is attached,
not the sidewalk itself and thus Choi was
not legally bound to obey the police order.
Lamberth said in his decision that
prosecutors were correct in arguing that
under longstanding court rules of evidence,
a case alleging selective or vindictive
prosecution must be initiated in a pre-trial
motion, not during the trial itself.
Chois attorneys Kent of Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., and Robert Feldman
of New York have argued that they
lacked sufcient evidence of selective or
vindictive prosecution prior to the start of
the trial. The two said persuasive evidence
of a selective-vindictive prosecution only
emerged during their cross-examination of
government witnesses during the trial itself.
Following strong opposition by the
prosecutor in the case, Facciola ruled
on Aug. 31 that preliminary evidence
existed to show a selective or vindictive
prosecution could have occurred against
Choi. Facciola ruled that Chois lawyers
could go forward with using selective-
vindictive enforcement as a defense.
Feldman and Kent argued that Chois
decision to handcuff himself to the White
House fence in November 2010 was identical
to two prior White House protests in which
he and others handcuffed themselves to the
fence. They noted that while prosecutors
charged Choi in the earlier protests under
a local municipal statute that carried no jail
time, in the November 2010 protests, they
charged Choi under a more stringent federal
statute that includes a possible sentence of
six months in jail.
Feldman and Kent alleged that
prosecutors chose the more stringent
statute in the November case because
Chois protests were embarrassing the
Obama administration over the gays in
the military issue. They said the harsher
prosecution was in retaliation for Chois
political message that the White House
wasnt moving fast enough to repeal
Dont Ask, Dont Tell.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela George,
the lead prosecutor in the case, disputed
that assertion, saying the government
prosecuted Choi for refusing to obey a
lawful order by police to move away from
the White House fence. She said Chois
political message was irrelevant to the
governments case and had no role in the
decision to prosecute him.
In court briefs, George said prosecutors
charged Choi under a more stringent law
in the November case because it was the
third time in less than a year that he had
been arrested for the same illegal conduct
and the government has legal discretion to
select different statutes or regulations under
which to make an arrest in such a case.
Facciola put the trial on hold on Aug. 31
after George said the government would
take the unusual step of challenging his ruling
through a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus.
Under U.S. District Court rules, the courts
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should decide the issue for themselves,
Cain replied, They would make up their
own minds, yes.
Cains remarks on Meet the Press
echo comments he made in June during
a New Hampshire presidential debate in
which he said the issue of marriage should
be a states decision.
The candidates lack of support
for a Federal Marriage Amendment
differentiates him from other Republican
candidates including former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Texas
Gov. Rick Perry, Rep. Michele Bachmann
and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum
whove called for a Federal Marriage
Amendment banning same-sex marriage
throughout the country.
The former pizza magnate has come
under re from social conservatives
for not endorsing a U.S. constitutional
amendment banning same-sex marriage
as other GOP candidates have done.
In an interview Sunday with Radio Iowa,
Santorum said Cain wouldnt defend
the family as president and compared
his position on marriage to President
Obamas.
The idea that this issue should be left
to the states is the position Barack Obama
takes and its not the right position,
Santorum said. There needs to be a
uniform denition of marriage in this
country.
The National Organization for Marriage
has also targeted Cain for not signing the
organizations pledge to oppose marriage
equality as president by backing a Federal
Marriage Amendment and defending the
Defense of Marriage Act in court.
Brian Brown, president of the National
Organization for Marriage, said in an
e-mail to supporters earlier this month
that he hopes Cain will come around to
endorse a U.S. constitutional amendment
banning same-sex marriage.
Cains comments on a federal marriage
amendment have not always been crystal
clear and consistent, Brown said. I
personally hope that means he is in the
process of evolving on the issue, as the
campaign moves forward.
Despite his position on the amendment,
Cains lack of support for a Federal
Marriage Amendment isnt winning him
any support from LGBT advocates.
Dan Pinello, a gay government professor
at the City University of New York, said the
LGBT community shouldnt look to Cain
as being more sympathetic than the other
Republican candidates.
The difference among those right-wing
Republican candidates on LGBT issues
is the difference between Tweedledum
and Tweedledee, Pinello said, Its
just as simple as that. There isnt any
consequential difference. They hate us,
generally, period.
Michael Cole-Schwartz, spokesperson
for the Human Rights Campaign,
questioned the authenticity of Cains
remarks on Sunday and said the candidate
has been all over the map on a
constitutional amendment on same-sex
marriage.
Its not entirely clear where he stands
on this, Cole-Schwartz said. Certainly
his positions have not been consistent.
In 2004, while running as a U.S. Senate
candidate in Georgia, Cain issued a
statement against the Masssachusetts
court decision that brought marriage
equality to the Bay State and called for a
U.S. constitutional amendment to rescind
the ruling.
The courts have failed the American
people, Cain said at the time. Congress
needs to enact a constitutional
amendment to protect the sacred
institution of marriage.
Cain continued, Liberal-minded
judges have opened a oodgate of judicial
tyranny that will chip away at the core
values of this country until nothing sacred
is left! It started with not allowing prayer in
schools, not being able to display the Ten
Commandments, attempting to take God
out of the Pledge of Allegiance and now
making same-sex marriages legal.
The assertion that Cains position on
marriage is the same as Obamas doesnt
hold up.
For starters, in addition to opposing a
Federal Marriage Amendment, Obama
voted against the measure as a U.S.
senator. Cain has also pledged to defend
DOMA in court and has criticized Obama
for dropping his defense of the 1996 anti-
gay statute in court cases.
Cain also came under re from LGBT
advocates earlier this month for saying
that he believes homosexuality is a choice
and science hasnt proven otherwise.
Additionally, Cain said in a January
radio interview with anti-gay conservative
Bryan Fischer that he would veto the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act if
it reached his desk. Said Cain, I would
veto that relative to special rights to
homosexuals.
Cole-Schwartz said a Cain presidency
would be a tremendous problem for
the LGBT community based on the
candidates positions and history.
Just recently, his comments that being
gay is a choice and suggesting that the
science proves his point just shows that
these are not issues that he has spent time
thinking about in a positive way, Cole-
Schwartz said.
Even so, Cains positions on some
LGBT issues continue to differentiate him
among the other Republican candidates.
Earlier this month, Cain told the
Hufngton Posts Sam Stein he has no
problems with openly gay people serving in
the military and wouldnt seek to reinstate
Dont Ask, Dont Tell if elected president.
I will not seek it, but I think it is a
distraction at this point, Cain said.
Wherever the military is, the day that
I take ofce, Im not going to stir that
pot because I think its an unnecessary
distraction at this point.
Other Republican presidential
candidates including Santorum and
Bachmann have said they would
reinstate the gay ban.
However, Cain added he will listen
if military leaders want something
different on Dont Ask, Dont Tell and
said if it were never repealed, he would
have been ne with it.
R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of
the Log Cabin Republicans, said Cain has
often been inconsistent on LGBT issues
over the course of his campaign.
I do think on a macro hes much more
approachable, but there has been some
back and forth, Cooper said. Hes in a
sense demurring in larger public fora on
these issues, but when you put him before
a more conservative audience, he seems
to obviously lean a bit more right.
Cains positions on LGBT issues
could become of greater interest if hes
nominated to carry the Republican banner
in the general election.
Several polls published over the
weekend have Cain leading the
Republican candidates or at least have
him tied with Romney.
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal
Survey conducted earlier this month found
Cain leading the pack with support from
27 percent of respondents. Romney came
in second with 23 percent of support.
A Public Policy Poll published last week
gives him even greater national standing
with support of 30 percent of responders
while Romney comes in second at 22
percent.
Cain has become known for proposing
a 9-9-9 plan for tax reform, which would
replace the current tax code with a 9
percent personal income tax, a 9 percent
business transactions tax, and a 9 percent
federal sales tax.
Whether Cain will remain at the top
of the pack remains to be seen. Other
Republican candidates such as
Bachmann and Perry have shown
similar strength in the polls, but later
faltered. Romney has consistently been in
rst or second place in polls as the primary
season has geared up.
Pinello said the reason for Cains current
standing in the polls as well as the
rise and fall of other candidates is
because the religious right and the Tea
Party factions of the Republican Party
are desperate to nd an alternative to
Romney.
A year or so ago, Sarah Palin had a
irtation with the Tea Party and the religious
right, and then four months ago, the
fascination was with Michele Bachmann,
Pinello said. Then it was Rick Perry, then
it was Chris Christie, and now its Herman
Cain. Its a series of infatuations with each of
these candidates, which, for a host reasons
tend quickly to crash and burn.
Cooper said Cain has started a debate
on tax reform with his 9-9-9 plan, but
doesnt think his candidacy will have much
traction.
I suspect that hes enjoying what hes
doing, but I dont think he really intends
to go all way, Cooper said. Maybe this is
his way of setting himself up for a potential
cabinet appointment.
Pinello predicted Cains standing would
fade because of the candidates lack of
money and organization. According to the
most recent Federal Election Commission
reports, Cain has raised $5.3 million thus
far in the election cycle, while Romney has
raised $32.2 million and Perry has raised
$17.1 million.
He just relied entirely upon these
debates for promoting himself, and thats
not adequate in a rigorous primary, let
alone a general election, Pinello said.
So, I think hes a ash in the pan just
like the others were. Next month, itll be
someone else.
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Cain criticized from left, right over marriage
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Departure comes
as group faces
nancial woes
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
The National Stonewall Democrats
announced Tuesday that its executive
director, Michael Mitchell, will leave the
organization at the end of this month
when his two-year contract expires.
Mitchells departure comes at a time when
nancial problems forced the organization
earlier this year to lay off at least one staff
member, leaving the group with just one
part-time and two full-time employees as it
gears up for the 2012 elections.
The announcement that Mitchell will be
stepping down also comes amid reports
by knowledgeable sources that at least
three of the groups board members
resigned in March over a heated dispute
over whether the board should retain
Mitchell as director. At the time, a majority
of the board backed Mitchell, according
to sources familiar with the group.
Mitchell told the Blade his decision to
step down was due to his own assessment
of what is best for NSD and himself at this
time and it had nothing to do with the
boards deliberations earlier this year.
That was months ago, he said in
referring to the board resignations.
Those board members left actually for
a variety of reasons. I dont think they all
left because of my leadership, he said.
Thats not what I got from several of the
board members who left.
Two board members who resigned,
Melissa Sklarz of New York and Chris
Massicotte of D.C., declined to comment
on their reason for resigning when
contacted by the Blade.
Mitchell discussed further his decision
to step down in an NSD statement
released Tuesday.
The decision to leave NSD was a
difcult one for me, especially with a
critical election coming up next year that
will dene us as a nation, but it was made
easier knowing that our afliates, staff and
board are fully engaged in fullling the
mission of National Stonewall Democrats,
Mitchell said in the statement.
Its been my privilege to work for NSD
the past two years and a distinct honor to
have been able to work with our afliates
around the country who are doing the
on-the-ground, necessary work of getting
pro-equality Democrats elected, he said
in his statement. It has been a particular
point of privilege to work with such a
dedicated and hard-working staff.
In mentioning NSDs afliates Mitchell
was referring to the more than 80 LGBT
Democratic Party clubs from across the
country, including D.C.s Gertrude Stein
Democratic Club, that are members of
NSDs grassroots network.
Michael has accomplished many great
things while serving as our executive
director, said Craig Roberts, NSDs board
chair. During his tenure, he has represented
the organization incredibly well and built
and solidied relationships that are integral
to the work of NSD, he said.
To know Michael is to know that he is
incredibly committed to our organization
and to electing pro-equality Democrats.
Ill miss working with him, but I know that
he will continue to do good work in the
next phase of his life, Roberts said.
In its announcement on Tuesday, NSD
said the board has named Jerame Davis,
the organizations current Afliate Services
Director, as interim executive director
while the board conducts a search for a
permanent director.
Roberts said he didnt know whether
Davis would apply for the permanent
directors position but he would welcome
him, as he would other applicants, as a
candidate to be considered for the post.
Sources familiar with NSD said board
members who called for replacing Mitchell
earlier this year praised his overall work but
believed he lacked fundraising skills needed
to sustain the organization at a time when a
sagging U.S. economy made it more difcult
for all non-prot groups to raise money.
When asked this week why NSD was
encountering nancial problems, both
Roberts and Mitchell cited a decline in
contributions from donors based largely
on the economy.
In addition, the two said the widely
reported support by the national Democratic
Party for LGBT equality has played some
role in prompting NSD donors of the past
to give money directly to the Democratic
National Committee or LGBT supportive
Democratic candidates rather than to NSD.
This is partially due to our success
in helping to build a strong, pro-LGBT
equality Democratic Party, Roberts said.
Roberts said NSD continues to fulll its
role since its founding in 1993 by gay U.S.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) as an advocate
for pushing the Democratic Party to go
further in its support for LGBT rights. He
disputed claims by some critics that NSD
has become a puppet of the DNC.
He and Mitchell said a decrease in the
number of board members from eleven
to six this year also made it more difcult
for NSD to raise money. Roberts said rules
established for board members require
that they contribute or raise at least
$10,000 a year as a condition for serving
on the board. He said the groups bylaws
allow the board to expand to 15 members.
Were looking for new board members at
this time, Roberts said. We invite anyone
interested in serving at this very important time
leading up to the elections to contact us.
Roberts said the groups small staff
and shortage of resources, along with an
oversight, were responsible for NSDs
not ling its 990 IRS nancial statements for
the 2009 and 2010, which all non-prot, tax-
exempt organizations are required to le.
Well be doing that in the next few
weeks, Roberts said. Mitchell said he
expected to have the two forms led with
the IRS, at which time they become public
documents, by the end of this month.
Roberts declined to disclose what
NSDs current operating budget is,
saying jokingly, Its somewhere between
$100,000 and $1 million.
The NSD 990 reporting statement for
2008, the last one the group led as of
this week, shows it raised $465,391 in
revenue and had $435,946 in expenses.
The 2008 revenue gure represented just
over $101,000 more than the $363,947 in
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real crime was running rampant in the
city.
This self-assured man, who I quickly
learned was gay rights pioneer Frank
Kameny, raised his voice to emphasize
each of his points, attracting the attention
of a maintenance worker in the hallway
outside the room. He said police ofcials
were unresponsive to earlier requests to
stop the entrapment arrests and it was
time to take another course of action.
Kameny said GAA should enlist
community allies to help it lobby the
City Council to eliminate city funding for
the vice squad, which was known at the
time as the Prostitution, Perversion, and
Obscenity (PPO) Branch.
Its an outrage and an injustice, I recall
him saying. Were citizens of this city.
The police, like all government ofcials,
are public servants. And public servants
answer to us.
Much to my amazement, within a year or
two, the City Council, voted to eliminate
from the police budget funding for the
PPO Branch. Although some of its work
in the area of prostitution continued, the
police practice of entrapment of gay men
soon came to an end.
I was nave and uninformed on the
nuances of the gay rights movement when
I attended that meeting in 1974. But I
knew a good news source when I saw one.
Frank Kameny over the next 25 years
or more was to become my preeminent
news source in my coverage of the
LGBT community as a reporter for the
Washington Blade.
From the start, I had the good fortune
of getting to know Frank Kameny and
getting a crash course from him on the
history of the gay movement and its
current struggles and aspirations.
Since Kamenys death last week,
much has been written about his vast
contribution to the LGBT movement over
a 50-year period, especially in the decade
before the Stonewall rebellion of 1969,
which is viewed as the starting point of the
modern gay movement.
What hasnt been reported as widely is
Kamenys impact on the lives of individual
lesbians, gay men, and transgender
people whom he helped and with whom
he interacted. His self-condent and
assertive demeanor on behalf of the rights
of all LGBT people and his unyielding
spirit for ghting injustice no matter how
great the odds appeared to be came
across to those around him.
Ill never forget the story told to me by a
gay man I met at a GAA meeting about six
months after that rst meeting I attended in
the summer of 1974. Appearing in his 40s,
the man told me he was born and raised
in a conservative, fundamentalist Christian
household in southern Virginia and had
struggled to accept his homosexuality.
He said ve years of psychotherapy upon
moving to the D.C. area had little effect in
helping shake his inner struggles over his
sexual orientation.
He said his meeting Kameny and other
activists at GAA meetings, and subsequent
weekly phone conversations with Kameny
on a wide range of issues over a period of
months, boosted his self-condence to a
degree that he could never attain in years
of therapy.
I red my therapist, he told me while
smiling broadly Frank and the other folks
here gave me the insight to understand
that the external forces of discrimination
and oppression and homophobia are
what got me down, I recall him saying.
Kamenys assistance to individual
LGBT people blossomed in his role as
a paralegal counsel representing gays
encountering problems with security
clearances in the late 1960s through the
1980s. When his clients were comfortable
going public with their case, Kameny
provided me with copies of his legal
briefs challenging actions by various U.S.
government agencies, often the Defense
Department, seeking to deny or revoke a
gay persons security clearance.
Those targeted for loss of a clearance
usually worked for the government or for
a private company doing contract work
for the government. The main argument
used for revoking a clearance was that gay
people were susceptible to blackmail and
were thus a threat to the safeguarding of
government secrets.
Kameny often argued that the
government had yet to disclose a single
case where a gay person breached
government secrets due to blackmail
or coercion related to his or her sexual
orientation.
He noted that government security
ofcials appeared to be obsessed with the
private sex lives of gays holding security
clearances. In the course of investigating
a gay person over a clearance, security
ofcials demanded to know the identities
of all of their sex partners over a period of
years and insisted they reveal the specic
types of sexual acts the gay person
performed with his or her partners.
Kamenys characteristic response to
these inquires surfaced in a 1969 case
in which he represented a New York gay
man named Benning Wentworth, whose
application for a clearance was opposed
by the government solely on grounds of his
status as a sexually active homosexual.
We state to the world, as we have
stated for the public, we state for the
record and, if the [Defense] Department
forces us to carry the case that far, we
state for the courts that Mr. Wentworth,
being a healthy, unmarried, homosexual
male, 35 years old, has lived, and does live
a suitable homosexual life, in parallel with
the suitable active heterosexual sexual
life lived by 75 percent of our healthy,
unmarried, heterosexual males holding
security clearances, Kameny stated
in a government hearing to adjudicate
Wentworths clearance application.
Added Kameny, Mr. Wentworth will
get his clearance as the sexually active
homosexual that he is and that he will
continue to bejust as heterosexuals
get their clearances as sexually active
heterosexuals.
He won many of his cases when, at his
suggestion, his clients submitted letters
disclosing their sexual orientation to co-
workers and family members, eliminating,
in Kamenys assessment, any chance of
blackmail threats to reveal the clients
homosexuality.
Some of his clients and fellow activists
urged Kameny to get his law degree and
become a lawyer, noting that he already
knew more about the eld of security
clearance law than most lawyers. He told
me his becoming a lawyer would tie his
hands, saying the sometimes outlandish
tactics he used would get him disbarred.
They cant disbar me if Im not a
member of the bar, he often said.
In cases where he represented members
of the military under investigation for
being gay in the years prior to Dont Ask,
Dont Tell, Kameny was blunt about the
only means of preventing a discharge: Lie
through your teeth, he told his clients, or
refuse to answer any questions about your
sexual orientation.
In one of his military cases in the
1980s, Kameny was scheduled to attend
a hearing to discuss planned action by
the Army to discharge a service member
who was identied as being gay by an
acquaintance who was pressured into
snitching on his fellow service member,
as Kameny put it.
For some reason, Army ofcials insisted on
meeting with the service member in private,
saying Kameny couldnt attend that particular
session, in which the service member was to
be interviewed, Kameny said.
As a gesture of protest, Kameny placed
his foot in the doorway of the meeting
room, preventing one of the ofcials from
closing the door. He backed down after
being threatened with arrest, saying the
gesture was intended to emphasize his
strong opposition to the closed meeting.
His use of ery language as well as humor
often surfaced in his testimony before
public hearings held by governmental
bodies, including the D.C. City Council.
In the early 1990s, Kameny testied
before a D.C. Council committee
deliberating over a proposed alley closing
sought by Georgetown University to
clear the way for construction of a new
law school building located near the U.S.
Capitol.
Gay activists, led by Kameny and GAA,
called on the Council to withhold approval
of the alley closing and thus prevent
construction of the building until the
university ended its policy of refusing to
recognize gay student groups on campus.
Shortly after beginning his testimony,
Kameny opened his briefcase and pulled
out a spray can that he identied as a
room deodorizer. He pressed down on
the nozzle, spraying a mist in the direction
of the Council members seated about 10
feet in front of him.
The stench of discrimination being
carried out by Georgetown University
against gay student groups cannot
continue, he said, drawing laughter from
the Council members and the audience in
the hearing room.
Kameny also directed his sense of
humor toward anti-gay organizations,
which he closely monitored. On several
occasions during the 1980s and 1990s he
rushed to the citys ofce of corporations
and created his own corporation under
the exact name of an anti-gay group,
preventing the group from setting up its
own corporation to do business in D.C.
Although hes known mostly for his work
in the LGBT rights movement, Kameny
contributed his talents to other progressive
causes. He became the rst open gay to be
appointed to a prominent city post in the
1970s, when Walter Washington, the citys
rst mayor under D.C.s newly acquired
home rule government, named Kameny
to the D.C. Commission on Human Rights.
In the early 1980s, Kameny won election
to the D.C. Statehood Constitutional
Convention and played a lead role in
drafting a constitution for the proposed
State of New Columbia.
During all of his years as an activist
and movement leader in which I had the
privilege to cover him, Kameny excelled
as a news source in more stories than I
can count. Thank you, Frank. Youll be
sorely missed.
FRANK KAMENY became known for his sense
of humor during his long activist career and
feared his tactics would get him disbarred if he
had decided to pursue a law degree.
Covering Kameny revealed activists intensity, humor
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Pioneering activist made my
security clearance possible
By JOHN BERRY
We lost a great American hero last
Tuesday: Dr. Frank Kameny.
Fired for being gay in 1957, the man
whose ght breathed life into the nascent
LGBT rights movement lived just long
enough to see the U.S. Armed Forces
end its own discriminatory practice. His
path through life was marked by his cour-
age, intelligence, leadership and sheer
determination; he made it possible for
countless patriotic Americans to hold se-
curity clearances and high government
positions, including me. And in so doing,
he showed everyone what was possible
for every employer in our country.
He set down his uniform after serv-
ing in the Army in World War II and took
a civilian position as an astronomer in
the Army Map Service in Washington,
D.C. When he was red from that job
because of his homosexuality, Dr. Kame-
ny fought back with the fervent passion of
a true patriot. He vigorously protested his
dismissal and argued his case all the way
to the Supreme Court, where he wrote his
own brief to the Court, describing a per-
secution and discrimination not one whit
more warranted or justied than those
against ... other minority groups.
Losing his case only strengthened
his resolve to win for his community the
birthright of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. He set out to ght a second
war for his country, this one a Herculean
struggle on the home front. No one at
the time would have predicted that his
lonely struggle would transform into the
national human rights movement we rec-
ognize today.
Frank Kameny has been described as
the perfect gay storm, a Harvard-trained
scientist with a sharp, critical eye. The
wall of resistance he encountered when
he challenged his dismissal back in 1957
would have been insurmountable to
most people. With no more support than
his brilliant mind and powerful lungs, he
faced down the United States govern-
ment, and made possible my career and
many others.
Kameny co-founded the Matta-
chine Society of Washington, and pressed
for fair and equal treatment of gay em-
ployees in the federal government by
ghting security clearance denials, em-
ployment restrictions and dismissals. He
declared his homosexuality a God-given
blessing and coined the phrase Gay
is Good. He fought tirelessly against po-
lice entrapment, and provided legal as-
sistance to gay servicemen and women.
I know that Dr. Kameny never viewed
his lifelong ght as nished with DOMA
still on the books, bullying epidemic in
schools and challenges to many state
laws and amendments still underway,
there is more yet to do. His eagerness
to always tackle the unnished business
brought us far. Through his courage, in-
telligence, resourcefulness and tenacity,
he brought others into the ght and over
time, the seeds he planted bore fruit. Ho-
mosexuality is no longer regarded as a
pathology. Civil servants cannot be red
for being gay. Security clearances cannot
be denied merely on the basis of sexual
orientation. Invasive laws against consen-
sual sex acts have been ruled unconsti-
tutional. Our best and bravest can serve
their country openly and with honor.
He honored me personally by attend-
ing my swearing-in as head of the Ofce
of Personnel Management, and showed
his ability to forgive by accepting my of-
cial apology on behalf of the government
for the sad and discredited termination
of his federal employment by the U.S.
Civil Service Commission. We presented
and he accepted OPMs highest honor,
the Theodore Roosevelt Award, given
to those who are courageous in defense
of our nations Merit Principles. Dr. Ka-
meny also made clear how tickled he was
that John Macy, the anti-gay head of the
Civil Service Commission who red him,
was eventually succeeded by a gay man.
He knew, as I know, how direct the line
is between his battles and my opportuni-
ties. Frank Kameny opened the door
I and countless others are honored and
humbled to pass through.
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Kameny made clear how tickled he was that John Macy,
the anti-gay head of the Civil Service Commission who
red him, was eventually succeeded by a gay man.
OPM director John Berry (left) apologized to FRANK KAMENY on behalf of the U.S.
government for his 1957 dismissal from the Army Map Service.
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The following was submitted as a letter to the editor.
Visit washingtonblade.com to join the discussion.
Your front page salute (Oct. 14) to the
passing of gay rights advocate Frank Ka-
meny brought tears to my eyes and I plan
to frame it and place it in a prominent
place in my home.
I wonder how Kameny would have re-
acted to the news that Ann Coulter, the
darling of the conservative right wing of the
Republican Party, is going to appear in an
upcoming episode of Logos A-List: Dal-
las. She will be joining GOProud execu-
tive director Jimmy LaSalvia in the episode.
Ive never heard of GOProud but am
guessing that it is similar to the Log Cabin
group, which is comprised of conservative
Republican gay men. Speaking only for
myself (although I would like to think that
Kameny would side with me), I have noth-
ing but disdain for gay men and women
who vote for Republican candidates in
state and national elections but profess to
be strong advocates of equal rights for all
minority groups in this country.
They couldnt care less about issues
that impact on the clear majority of people
who are just getting by nancially, most
likely living from paycheck to paycheck if
indeed they are fortunate to have jobs.
I am not suggesting blind allegiance
to one political party, although I am ready
to commit to the 99 percent/anti-Wall
Street movement and offer my services
to advance its cause in any way I can. Not
one of the Republican candidates for
president has articulated any stance or be-
lief that I would subscribe to and support.
I must admit to an aversion to Lo-
gos A-List series. I have tried to get
through an entire 30-minute episode
in the current New York series but
havent been able to do so because I nd
the gay men on the show to be unbe-
lievably narcissistic and self-absorbed,
not to mention inarticulate and shallow
twits. Come to think of it, Coulter and
the A-List: Dallas queers probably de-
serve each other.
Bob Litman, Washington
Vindication after
decades of struggle
By CHARLES FRANCIS

The freight elevator opened with a shud-
der. It sounded like a death rattle. Gloved
attendants pushed the sheet-covered gur-
ney down a long corridor, stopping at the
doors to a vault. The doors opened onto a
room of drawers and lockers surrounding a
platform like a morgue.
We gathered and held our breath as
the attendants rolled back the shroud.
Where one might expect a pair of legs
were wooden sticks. Nicked and num-
bered, the sticks were not attached to a
corpse but a neat pile of well-aged picket
signs, hand-lettered, First Class Citizen-
ship for Homosexuals. Frank Kameny
stood silent, at near attention. And this
man was rarely silent. The pickets, carried
in 1965, were delivered at that moment in
2006 from his attic to the nations the
vault of the National Museum of Ameri-
can History of the Smithsonian Institution.
The pickets were placed on the plat-
form. The Smithsonian curator laid them
alongside the writing table where Jeffer-
son wrote the Declaration of Indepen-
dence; the inkwell used by Lincoln when
signing the Emancipation Proclamation;
and the pin worn by Alice Paul who went
to jail picketing the White House for
womens suffrage. Frank, this is where
the pickets t into American history, the
Smithsonian curator said.
Last week, Washingtons gay commu-
nity lost a warrior-general and a good
friend, Franklin E. Kameny. Even more,
America lost a man who helped create
the United States. Yes, create the United
States. For the past six months, Kamenys
1961 petition to the Supreme Court has
been on display at the Library of Con-
gress in its exhibition: Creating the Unit-
ed States, chronicling how citizens have
steadily expanded American liberty un-
der the Declaration of Independence, the
Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Like
the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress
placed Kamenys papers among the great
stories of abolition, womens suffrage and
civil rights. He was the rst to consistently
anchor the gay and lesbian ght for civil
equality not in angst, alienation or rad-
ical ideology, but in the words of Thomas
Jefferson and the Constitution, itself.
Kamenys petition to overturn his r-
ing by the federal government in 1957 for
being homosexual, was denied, but it be-
gan a revolution in culture and law. After
Kameny, no longer would gay and lesbian
Americans, in isolation, supinely accept
second-class status. We are throwing
down the gauntlet! he declared.
Kamenys petition to the Supreme Court
became a faintly remembered footnote un-
til rediscovered and re-interpreted for our
time. Kameny wrote: In World War II, peti-
tioner did not hesitate to ght the Germans,
with bullets, in order to help preserve his
rights and freedoms and liberties, and those
of others. In 1960, it is ironically necessary
that he ght the Americans, with words, in
order to preserve, against a tyrannical gov-
ernment, some of those same rights, free-
doms and liberties, for himself and others.
Today, Paul Smith, the Supreme Court
attorney in Washington, D.C., who repre-
sented Lawrence, in the case Lawrence v.
Texas, 2003 (and won) wrote, It is astound-
ing to see Kameny, in 1960, making the
same arguments that have now caused the
invalidation of sodomy laws, the protection
of LGBT civil servants from discrimination,
and the repeal of Dont Ask, Dont Tell.
Kameny yells up the attic ladder: Hey,
Im coming up now. Im coming up! Well
into his 80s, he climbed into the attic to join
me in a dusty netherworld of political pa-
pers. Boxes by the score overow with sin-
gle-spaced, multi-page typewritten letters
and carbons, newsletters, transcripts, ump-
teen boxes of Washington Blades, every
gay publication from Drum to One and
two black typewriters that looked like an-
vils. News Release: Homosexuals to Picket
White House, Homosexuals to Picket
Pentagon, Homosexuals to Picket State
Department. In a far corner, lay the pickets,
one proclaiming Homosexuals Ask for the
Right to the Pursuit of Happiness. The man
saved everything. He never moved. He nev-
er discarded. He never denied gay history.
Today, some 70,000 items gleaned from this
attic are organized for appreciation and re-
search at The Library of Congress. Go there.
Kameny hated how LGBT history was
so often deleted. Tom Brokaw felt the
force of Kamenys ire with the publica-
tion of his pop-history, Boom! Voices of
the Sixties (Random House, 2007). Bro-
kaw somehow neglected to mention the
Stonewall riots or any reference whatever
to gay and lesbian Americans and the
impact they, too, had on the decade. Ka-
meny wrote, Mr. Brokaw, you have de-
gayed the entire decade!
Speaking for his comrades, Kameny
wrote, Mr. Brokaw, [in your book] you deal
with the histories of countless individu-
als. Where are the gays of that era: Barbara
Gittings; Jack Nichols; Harry Hay; Del Mar-
tin and Phyllis Lyon; Randolfe Wicker; Har-
vey Milk; and numerous others? Kameny
continued, Mr. Brokaw, the whole thing
is deeply insulting. You have de-gayed an
entire generation. Gay is Good. You are
not. Sincerely, Frank Kameny.
Unpack Franks trademark blast, and
you can hear the voice of a leader ercely
committed to those who came before
him like Harry Hay, colleagues and friends
like Nichols, Martin, Wicker and Gittings;
an LGBT community that had suffered so;
and his place in history, too.
Everywhere Frank appeared in the last
months of his life, he happily reminded
people whether at the Library or his
last HRC dinner or as an honoree at the
D.C. Center for the LGBT Community
his life did have a storybook ending.
They mulled over my appeal for 52
years! Ofce of Personnel Management
Director John Berry issued a formal apol-
ogy on behalf of the government. Things
have come full circle.
Oh, if only John Macy (Berrys prede-
cessor and Franks arch foe so many years
ago) were alive to see this, he cackled.

Kamenys storybook ending
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FRANK KAMENY (center) at the Library of Congress Creating the United States exhibit looking at
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Decision to prosecute
state dispensaries could
threaten D.C. program
Bill Clinton said he didnt inhale.
Barack Obama now says he doesnt want
anyone else to do so either including
HIV/AIDS patients, cancer sufferers and
those with chronic disease and illness.
The presidents startling moves in re-
cent weeks despite his 2008 campaign
promises and subsequent assurances
that state medical marijuana laws would
be respected threaten the survival of
programs and laws in the 16 states that
have approved them and may derail or
further delay the long-awaited and pend-
ing implementation of a voter-approved
program in D.C.
Hes serious about it. This is not the
usual wink of the eye position the pub-
lic has grown accustomed to hearing
from politicians on the issue. The Obama
administration has announced that the
federal government will utilize a full com-
plement of its powers to prosecute and
shut down state-sanctioned cultivation
and distribution centers.
The presidents hands-off approach
has swiftly vaporized.
During the last campaign, Obama
pledged that he was not going to be
using Justice Department resources to
try to circumvent state [medical mari-
juana] laws.
All that changed with a recent U.S. De-
partment of Justice memo proffering a
dire warning: We maintain the authority
to enforce [federal law] vigorously against
individuals and organizations that partici-
pate in unlawful manufacturing and distri-
bution activity involving marijuana, even
if such activities are permitted under
state law.
The effect of these federal directives
threatening harsh criminal sanctions is al-
ready being felt around the country.
Arizona, where a 2010 voter referen-
dum approving a program was in the pro-
cess of being set up, has put implemen-
tation on hold. Washington State Gov.
Chris Gregoire vetoed a statewide pro-
posal that would have created licensed
dispensaries on the day after federal
raids on two businesses in Spokane and
both of the states U.S. Attorneys warned
her that even state employees could be
prosecuted for their role in marijuana reg-
ulation. Gov. Chris Christie wants to de-
lay New Jerseys implementation of the
states new medical marijuana law until
there is some clarity about the legal jeop-
ardy for workers and operators. Warning
letters have been sent to government
ofcials in Colorado, Hawaii, New Hamp-
shire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
On Oct. 7, all four California federal
prosecutors announced a coordinated
plan to shut down state dispensaries,
setting a 45-day deadline for compli-
ance. They warned operators and their
landlords that failure will result in crimi-
nal charges, with seven civil forfeiture
complaints already led against property
owners. At least one landlord is facing up
to 40 years in federal prison, property sei-
zure and forfeiture of all rental proceeds
for the last 15 years since voter approval
of the program in 1996.
Even the IRS and the Treasury Depart-
ment are now in on the game.
Two weeks ago, the IRS sent a $2.4 mil-
lion tax bill to Oaklands largest medical
marijuana dispensary and has begun au-
dits on at least 12 others in the state and
has sent letters to landlords warning that
the feds could seize their property at any
time, citing a portion of U.S. tax code that
prohibits illegal drug-trafcking organiza-
tions from deducting business expenses.
Colorados gay Rep. Jared Polis has in-
troduced legislation requiring the IRS to
allow all businesses including marijua-
na dispensaries to deduct expenses.
There are more pressing issues facing
federal law enforcement, so it makes no
sense for them to waste time and tax-
payer money interfering with state-legal
businesses that voters have approved,
that are well regulated and that generate
jobs and economic activity, he has said.
The California marijuana industry
is not about providing medicine to the
sick, proclaimed U.S. Attorney Laura E.
Duffy. Its a pervasive for-prot industry
that violates federal law.
Like a memorably harsh bong hit,
this kind of talk signals a clear and
shocking policy shift on the part of the
White House.
Among more cynical health advocates
and caregivers, the Obama administra-
tion is motivated by a desire to eliminate
less expensive market competition for
pharmaceutical manufacturers preparing
to introduce new products like Sativex, a
proprietary liquid extract of cannabis.
Ethan Nadelmann, executive direc-
tor of the Drug Policy Alliance, says that
Barack Obama . . . seems determined
to recriminalize as much as possible. It all
adds up to bad policy, bad politics and
bad faith.
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20 OCTOBER 21, 2011 OUR BUSI NESS MATTERS
New policy makes
honor available to
living stars, activists
Ellen has guts, my brother David
told me when Ellen DeGeneres came out
and most of us werent thinking that snail
mail would one day be nearly as out-of-
date as the rotary phone. She should be
on a stamp!
Thanks to the United States Postal
Service, David, might get his wish. Many
(closeted and open) dead queer folk and
LGBT icons, including Langton Hughes,
Cary Grant, Tennessee Williams, Judy
Garland, Bette Davis and Katharine Hep-
burn, have been commemorated on
postage stamps.
Now LGBT people from gay rights
activists to movie stars who are still with
us have a shot at being celebrated on a
stamp. Last month, the U.S. Postal Ser-
vice said that it had changed its policy of
honoring only dead people on stamps.
To create excitement around snail mail,
the Post Ofce wants us to Facebook and
Twitter who we want to be honored.
Sure, even our grandmothers, bypass-
ing the post ofce, text their pals and pay
their bills online. When we do get a let-
ter (how retro!), how often do we notice
the stamp? What difference does it make
whos on a stamp?
Yet, even in this age of tweets, some
correspondence from passionate love
letters to payments to the IRS to thank
you notes to fave aunts is still sent by
snail mail. As clichd as it sounds, on a
gloomy day, seeing Judy Garland on a
stamp, still makes me see a rainbow. See-
ing James Baldwin on a stamp, inspired
me, a lesbian poet, to write.
The trope is true: a picture is worth a
thousand words. Though a stamps a small
thing, people notice whos on it, a mail
clerk in my local post ofce told me re-
cently. Youd be surprised, she said, as
she handed me a book of stamps, even if
you work in a mail room for the IRS, youll
perk up if theres someone pretty like
Audrey Hepburn on a stamp.
Wouldnt it be great if some of our liv-
ing LGBT heroes and stars could be com-
memorated on postage stamps? Wouldnt
it be fab for them to be honored while
theyre alive and could savor the honor?
Wow! Im glad Im not on the Citizens
Stamp Advisory Committee, the group
that advises the postmaster general,
who signs off on who appears on stamps.
Even before encouraging us to tweet
who we feel should be commemorated
on stamps, the Postal Service received
some 40,000 recommendations yearly.
Despite the high volume of suggestions,
even when everyone loves Lady Gaga, the
LGBT perspective is likely to be left out of
the picture. So lets start tweeting.
Here are some of the LGBT people
and queer icons who Id love to see on
a stamp:
Dorothy Louise Taliaferro Del Mar-
tin, who with her partner, the late Phyllis
Ann Lyon, co-founded the Daughters of
Bilitis, the rst United States social and
political lesbian organization.
Soldier Randy Philips, using the han-
dle AreYouSurprised, who at the end of
Dont Ask, Dont Tell came out to his fa-
ther on You Tube. Philips would represent
all the LGBT people who have honorably
served our country.
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner for their
awesome partnership and artistic collab-
oration.
Gay activist and playwright Larry
Kramer, author of the Tony Award-win-
ning play The Normal Heart.
Where would we be without our het-
ero icons? Postal Service, please dont
forget Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, Barbra
Streisand and Kim Novak.
Take a nano-second to keep LGBT
people in the mix. Let the Postal Service
know who youd like to see on a stamp.
Dear Postal Service, please put Ellen on a stamp
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News outlets over the past week both LGBT and
mainstream have reported the death of Frank Kameny, the
legendary Washington-based activist universally regarded as
one of the most inuential pre-Stonewall homophile movement
leaders.
Kameny died Oct. 11 at age 86 at his home in Northwest
Washington and the news accounts have relayed oft-noted
biographical facts that have taken on increasingly mythic
proportions over the years: his ring from the Army Map
Service in 1957 for being gay, the 1961 founding of the D.C.
Mattachine Society, the gay is good slogan he coined, his
role in convincing the American Psychiatric Association in
1973 to stop classifying homosexuality as a mental disorder,
the Clinton-signed presidential executive order that permitted
gay people to be given security clearances, the repeal of
D.C.s anti-sodomy law, his decades of work with the local Gay
Activists Alliance (GAA; later GLAA) and more.
But once the dust settles memorial services are planned
for Washington and San Francisco on Nov. 15, the 50
th
anniversary of the founding of the D.C. Mattachine chapter
what will Kamenys legacy be? Might his bluster and longevity
have created a sense of myth about him? And where does
Kameny t in among other pioneering activists, particularly on
the West Coast? The Blade spoke to several gay historians,
Kameny peers both here and around the country and
friends to nd out.
Kamenys World War II-era generation is, of course, reaching
its later years and many of the pre-Stonewall homophile
activists legendary gures such as Barbara Gittings, Harry
ART S AND E NT E RTAI NME NT WAS HI NGT ONB L ADE . COM V OL UME 4 2 I S S UE 4 2 OCT OB E R 2 1 2 0 1 1 PAGE 2 3
How will the trailblazer be
remembered? And what is his
rightful place in the pantheon
of gay rights legends?
Frank Kameny among his colleagues in Los Angeles in 1998 to honor the late Jim Kepner and the 50
th

anniversary of the gay rights movement. First row from left are Lisa Ben, the late Harry Hay, the late John
Burnside, Jose Sarria, the late Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon; (second row) Fred Frisbie, the late Bob Basker, Kameny,
Florence Fleischman, the late Hal Call, Robin Tyler; (third row) the late Philip Johnson, Eddie Sandifer, the
late Vern Bullough, Malcolm Boyd; (fourth row) the late Barbara Gittings, Kay Tobin Lahusen, the late Jack
Nichols, Mark Segal, unidentied; (fth row) the late Cliff Anchor, Leo Laurence, Eldon Murray, John OBrien
and Jerome Stevens. (Photo by Fred Camerer; reprinted with permission)
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
When Jonathan Blumenthal nds a hobby or passion, he likes exploring it with
other gay people. Hes started two groups to do just that.
Back in 2001, the gay singles volunteer group he used to work with had
disbanded and his relationship with Eric Cohen, whom hed met volunteering,
had rendered him ineligible for it anyway. So he started Burgundy Crescent
Volunteers, a booming group that has about 5,000 on its e-mail list and never
has trouble nding people to staff its efforts.
Its a nice way to give back to the community and to get involved, he says.
Its also a nice way to meet people and create a social life and also a way to feel
like youre giving something back.
And last year he became interested in photography and started GayParazzi,
a group for photographers such as himself.
I just enjoy being around other gay people, he says. Gays are more fun
than straight people.
By day, the 42-year-old Long Island native is a research psychologist with the
National Institutes of Health. He came to Washington in 1997 after going to
school in Pittsburgh and Montreal.
He and Cohen, whom he met in 1999, got married in September. He enjoys
photography in his free time and relaxes by spending time with his partner and
their dog, Jasper. They live in Silver Spring.
For more information on Burgundy Crescent and a complete schedule of
social and volunteer opportunities with the group, visit burgundycrescent.org.
For more on GayParazzi, visit meetup.com/gayparazzi.
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN OUT
AND WHO WAS THE HARDEST
PERSON TO TELL?
Twenty years and my parents because
I wasnt sure how theyd react.
However, had I known mom would
soon thereafter become president of
PFLAG Long Island and then later star
in a TV commercial to support
marriage equality in New York, it
probably would have been a little easier.
WHOS YOUR LGBT HERO?
Frank Kameny. We have all beneted
from all the work he has done
in his lifetime to further equal rights.
BCV had the privilege a few
years back of helping to get the
outside of his home ready to be
designated as a D.C. Historic
Landmark. We were also able to provide
volunteers for many events over the
years that honored his work and
protected his signs and papers. With
so much accomplished, may he now
rest in peace.
WHATS WASHINGTONS BEST
NIGHTSPOT, PAST OR PRESENT?
To be honest, Eric and I live in the
suburbs and are not ones to stay
out late. However, one of our favorite
things to do is grab ice cream
from Larrys and people watch in
Dupont Circle.
DESCRIBE YOUR DREAM WEDDING.
Personal, and intimate. As you can
imagine, since being involved with
GayParazzi, photography has become
a real interest of mine, so a good
photographer is a must. Eric is
learning to play guitar, so a good
classical guitarist is essential also.
Luckily, we had all of this
(plus an amazing cake) in September
when we got married in New York
with our immediate families.
WHAT NON-LGBT ISSUE ARE YOU
MOST PASSIONATE ABOUT?
Pet adoption. Our basset hound
Jasper was adopted from Basset Rescue
Of Old Dominion (BROOD). I regularly
volunteer with other BCV
members at Lost Dog and Cat Rescue.
Unfortunately, Eric forbids me
from adopting a dog unless it is a
basset hound. His whole family has
them.
WHAT HISTORICAL OUTCOME
WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Proposition 8. Once you ght for, and
get the right to marry, I
think you feel even more sympathetic
for those who do not have the
right.
WHATS BEEN THE MOST
MEMORABLE POP CULTURE
MOMENT OF YOUR LIFETIME?
Neil Patrick Harris singing Its not just
for gays anymore at the Tonys.
ON WHAT DO YOU INSIST?
Dark chocolate.
WHAT WAS YOUR LAST FACEBOOK
POST OR TWEET?
And that concludes the litany of
wedding-related status updates (until
9/25/12). The comments were mostly
of disbelief.
IF YOUR LIFE WERE A BOOK, WHAT
WOULD THE TITLE BE?
What to expect when youre not
expecting
IF SCIENCE DISCOVERED A WAY TO
CHANGE SEXUAL ORIENTATION,
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Wonder how soon it will be before
straight people gure out we had
the better deal all along.
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN BEYOND
THE PHYSICAL WORLD?
Not much. I usually nd myself
focused on the here and now.
WHATS YOUR ADVICE FOR LGBT
MOVEMENT LEADERS?
If you need volunteers, give me a ring.
WHAT WOULD YOU WALK ACROSS
HOT COALS FOR?
Again, dark chocolate.
WHAT LGBT STEREOTYPE ANNOYS
YOU MOST?
Gay men are drama queens and love
to dance. I cant dance.
WHATS YOUR FAVORITE LGBT
MOVIE?
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of
the Desert. Nick Adams made
the Broadway show even better.
WHATS THE MOST OVERRATED
SOCIAL CUSTOM?
Wrapping gifts in pretty paper. Eric
gets his gifts in a brown paper bag.
WHAT TROPHY OR PRIZE DO YOU
MOST COVET?
Any prize that comes with dark
chocolate.
WHAT DO YOU WISH YOUD KNOWN
AT 18?
What a great experience it is to be gay
and be part of the LGBT community.
WHY WASHINGTON?
There is so much to do in and around
the city, the LGBT community is
large, diverse, and friendly, and
because it has so many non-prots,
it is a great place to run an
organization that supplies volunteers.
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By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO
joeyd@washblade.com
Cobalt is celebrating its 10th anniversary
this weekend or at least the birthday of
the business in its present incarnation.
In the late 90s, it opened as Cobalt with
the Town/Tracks/original Halo team (John
Guggenmos/Ed Bailey) owning it. After
a re current manager Mark Rutstein
thinks it was in about 1999 it was closed
for two years before Eric Little bought
it and reopened it. Its a big season for
Littles businesses JR.s just turned 25.
A Saturday party is planned from 10 p.m.
to 3 a.m. Trans legend Amanda LePore will
perform at 11:30 with her rst performance
in the area since she was at BeBar about
three years ago. Oren Mizri, a Miami DJ,
will spin and local DJ Tom from Prague will
also spin. Vodka-based drinks are free from
10:30-11:30 p.m. A laser light show will be
presented at midnight and the outside of
the building will be illuminated.
Cobalt, which contains the second oor
30 Degrees area and the restaurant Level
One in its lower level, is seeing an era
of resurgence over the last three years,
Rutstein says.
Eric was trying to sell it a few years ago
but it didnt sell right away and he was like,
You know what, Im gonna hang onto this a
little while. [JR.s manager] Dave Perruzza
was trying to run this and JR.s and you just
cant do that and be effective.
Rutstein says he turned things around
by listening to what people want.
Weekly events like martini Sundays and
Mondays, Tuesday Flashback, Wednesday
karaoke, Thursday best package
contests with BaNaka and weekly happy
hour specials are staples of the bar/club.
And long gone is the no-heels rule. Was
that really to protect the oor or was it meant
as a deterrent to women and drag queens?
I cant answer that, but that rule is
long gone, Rutstein says. Everybody is
welcome here.
Cobalt has about 70-80 people on
staff for the entire building with about
11 different DJs on average spinning
throughout the week. Visit cobaltdc.com
for details.
Cobalt celebrating 10 years
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Blade-sponsored food
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years attractions
By JULIETTE EBNER
On the Tuesday before Halloween, Dupont
Circle is overrun with drag queens and Oct.
25 will be no different as the 25th annual Drag
Queen High Heel Race takes place.
The rst race happened in 1986.
The rst race was guys running
from JR.s to Annies, doing a shot, and
running back to JR.s, says Paul Williams,
executive director of Historic Dupont
Circle Main Streets. Its grown from a few
dozen watchers to an expected 100,000
people this year.
Now contestants race in elaborate
costumes and high heels down 17th Street
from Church Street to Q Street. There
were about 60 to 70 runners last year and
the same is expected this time around.
Registration for the race begins at 6
p.m. in front of Cobalt (1639 R St., N.W.)
and runners must wear a minimum two-
inch heel to qualify for this years special
trophy, a hand-blown glass slipper full of
brandy and a bar tab at JR.s.
Some of last years costumes included
Bridal Barbie, the cast of The Facts of
Life and more.
The actual race doesnt start until 9 p.m.,
but everyone starts gathering early and
participants parade around, showing off
their costumes. This year, the Washington
Blade Food Truck Rally will be there from
6 to 10 p.m. on a parking lot at 17th and
O streets so attendees can get something
to eat too.
We introduced the ... rally ... to have
the trucks assemble in one place so
Race goers could see all their options for
dining, as the restaurants ... along the race
route are often so packed they have to
turn away diners, Williams says.
Eight food trucks have conrmed
including D.C. Slices, Stix, Dangerously
Delicious, Porc, Sinplicity, Rolling Ficelle
and Mojo Truck.
All the trucks can be followed on Twitter.
Theres also a $20 commemorative
T-shirt available for sale online at
highheelracedc.com.
Also available on the races website are
VIP tickets for $40, which grant access to
the VIP tent by the nish line and include
a bar fast pass to skip the lines at JR.s,
Cobalt and 30 Degrees.
All funds raised will go toward costs
for the event and to the event organizer,
Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets.
Its fun to think that a race that lasts
about 30 seconds can attract 100,000
straight and gay people all in one place,
Williams says.
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turns 25
A shot from last years High Heel Race.
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parents, while developing a passion for pop
music. Unexpectedly she enters a Dominican
convent, while continuing to develop her
musical talent. Church authorities discover
her talent and arrange to make a recording of
her song, Dominique which becomes a smash
hit around the world. Reception immediately
following the screening.
Eating Out 5:
The Open Weekend
9:30 pm FRI OCT 21 @ Lisner Auditorium
Eating Out is back: Benji has been push-
ing Zack for a more open relationship and
he reluctantly agrees to a weekend trip to a
swinging singles resort.
Morgan
5 pm FRI OCT 21 @ Lisner Auditorium
Morgan is a young, handsome, athletic,
gay New Yorker who also happens to be
wheelchair-bound. Long after losing his
bartending job he continues to ignore that
hes living beyond his means.
Madame X
9:45 pm FRI OCT 21 @ GWU Marvin
Center Amphitheater
Madame X has it all: An action-loaded
superhero movie, a never-ending-laughter
trashiness of queer comedy, and the social
consciousness of political flm.
Harvest
6 pm FRI OCT 21 @ Lisner Auditorium
Marco, an apprentice at an agriculture
program outside Berlin is content to keep
to himself until Jakob begins working at the
farm. They embark on a quiet friendship and
the sexual tension that builds between the
two is palpable until exploding in their frst
furtive kisses.
Longhorns
7:15 pm FRI OCT 21 @ Lisner
Auditorium
1982. TEXAS. Big hair, synth-pop and cowboy
boots. Kevin, a straight frat-boy, enjoys a
little physical bonding with his buddies; but
hes just helping a friend out, right? Enter
openly gay Cesar, and immediately Kevin is
attracted. He quickly dismisses his feelings
as just being excited about getting to know
someone in a special, secret way.
Pulupot
8 pm FRI OCT 21 @ GWU Marvin Center
Amphitheater
Pulupot pulses to the throbbing beat of
nightlife in Manila and is a multi-character
story set in a world of prostitution and
pan-sexuality.
www.reelaffrmations.org
TICKETS + PASSES AVAILABLE NOW AT
festival sponsors:
AuthentiCity H The George Washington University
Glazer Law Firm, PC H Design Nut H HOB NOB Wine
Yellow Tail Wine H Yellow Tail Bubbles
Villa Pozzi Wine H West End Cinema H Metro Weekly
Washington Blade H Hillwood Estate and Gardens
Pizzeria Paradiso H Ackerman Legal PLLC
I. Gorman Jewelers H Royce Flowers H Whole Foods Market
TLA Releasing H Continental Properties
LOGOmotion, Inc. H Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
The Printer H AIDS Walk 2011 H Maid To Clean
The Documentary Center at GWU H Universal Gear
TOWN H Baltimore Gay Life H LezGetTogether
Java Shack H Duplex Diner H L2 Lounge H Nellies
Omega DC H Pet Peeps H Green Lantern
Renaissance Dupont Circle H Room & Board H ZipCar
LATE NIGHT AT LISNER:
Suicide Room
11:30 pm FRI OCT 21 @ Lisner
Auditorium $5 for students with ID
Dominick is 100 days from graduation, but
life can be a struggle when youre expected
to function while submitting to the pecking
order and social demands at an elite school.
A series of humiliating experiences with a
fellow-student nudge his world dangerously
off kilter. When he discovers comments posted
on a social network website it ends his self-
confdence, motivation and concentration.
Wish Me Away
11:00 am SAT OCT 21 @ Lisner
Auditorium
Country music star Chely Wrights coming out
story. Through sometimes-tearful interviews
and conversations, video diary entries, music
videos, and several of her songs, this touching
portrait follows Wright up to her full-court
media press, from Oprah to People magazine
as she discovers the transformational power
of living an authentic life.
Jitters
3 pm SAT OCT 22 @ Lisner Auditorium
Gabriel attends an English language
program in the UK where he develops a bond
with his roommate, Markus. After making
out on their fnal night, he must fgure out
what this really means about himself, while
dealing with friends & family who have no
idea he may be gay.
H 20TH ANNIVERSARY CLOSING NIGHT H
Loose Cannons
7:15 pm SAT OCT 22 @ Lisner Auditorium
From famed director Ferzan Oztapek (Steam,
His Secret Life, Saturn in Opposition) Loose
Cannons is an Italian serio-comedy (with
more comedy than serio) about Tomasso and
Antonio Cantone who are the next generation
set to take over their conservative familys
pasta-making company in Southern Italy. But
Tomasso knows that his secret life will not go
over well with his father and mother.
Pariah
5 pm SAT OCT 22 @ Lisner Auditorium
A spectacular hit at the 2011 Sundance Film
Festival and one of the most anticipated
major releases of the year, Pariah is the
NOT-TO-BE MISSED flm of the festival.
With a spectacular sense of atmosphere
and authenticity, Pariah takes us deep and
strong into the world of an intelligent butch
teenager trying to fnd her way into her own.
Debut director Dee Rees leads a splendid
cast and crafts a pitch-perfect portrait that
stands unparalleled in American cinema.
20TH ANNIVERSARY
CLOSING NIGHT & AUDIENCE
AWARDS RECEPTION
Join us for our 20th Anniversary Closing
Night as we end this years festival at Lisner
Auditorium and present this years Audience
Awards. Well celebrate with our friends from
TLA Releasing and reminisce about flms
from this year and past festivals.
washingtonblade.com
30 OCTOBER 21, 2011 ART
Legendary lesbian artist
the subject of Portrait
Gallery exhibit
By JULIETTE EBNER
The National Portrait Gallerys (8th and F
streets) newest exhibit, Seeing Gertrude
Stein: Five Stories uses paintings, photos,
videos and more to visually tell Steins life story.
The exhibit, curated by Wanda M.
Corn and Tirza True Latimer, begins in the
hallway on the second oor with the rst
story, Picture Gertrude.
This part includes several images of Stein
and her family, beginning when she was just
a little girl, the youngest of ve children.
The oddest piece in this area is Portrait
of Gertrude Stein by Francis Picabia,
done in 1933. Around this time, Stein has
gotten a very short haircut, sometimes
referred to as a Caesar cut, and Picabia
portrayed her as imperial.
Unlike like other photos and paintings,
Picabia ctionalized the background and
Steins clothing, painting her in a toga like
dress, leaving her arms bare. No other
images in the collection picture Stein in
even short sleeves.
The second story, Domestic Stein
really explores the relationship between
Stein and partner Alice B. Toklas, specially
their life at home.
This part of the exhibit includes many
photos of the couples home and some
of their belongings, including two vests,
or waistcoats, worn by Stein and a few
pieces of jewelry. A section of the room
is wallpapered with a pattern the couple
used in their bedroom.
The third story, Art of Friendship,
looks at the wide circle of artists Stein
befriend throughout her life, including
a group of lesser known younger male
artists, writers and composers.
A quotation by Stein, painted above a
grid of some of these younger artists, reads
We are surrounded by homosexuals,
they do all the good things in all the arts.
One of these younger artists was Sir Francis
Cyril Rose, whom Stein thought would be the
next Picasso. After her death, Rose created a
silk scarf, featuring a neoclassical bust of Stein
surrounded by an inaccurate version of her
most famous maxim, rose is a rose is a rose
is a rose, and each corner of the scarf had a
different focus.
The fourth story, Celebrity Stein, focuses
on a six-month tour Stein went on in the U.S.
and her activities during the world wars.
In the middle of a room between the fourth
and fth story, theres a single, Buddha-
like sculpture of Stein by Jo Davidson. A
recording of Stein reading two of her word
portraits, If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait
of Picasso and An Early Portrait of Henri
Matisse, echoes through the room.
This part of the exhibit serves as a
transition from Steins life to works inspired
by her after her death.
One of the most interesting pieces in the
exhibit is part of the fth story, Legacies,
which explores the inuence Stein had
on American artists such as Andy Warhol,
Deborah Kass and more.
After Picasso by Devorah Sperber is
an interesting take on what is probably
the most classic image of Stein. Sperber
strung 5,024 spools of thread on chains
to create what at rst appears to be an
abstract image, but when viewed through
a clear acrylic sphere, the image is inverted
and the pixels comes together.
A book by Corn and Latimer, also titled
Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
accompanies the exhibit and is available
for purchase in the museums gift shop.
The gallery has also organized special
programs and events in conjunction with
the exhibit.
Proof Restaurant (775 G St., N.W.) will
have a special, four-course menu inspired
by Toklas for $59 while the exhibit is open.
There will also be two portrait story days with
a focus on Stein on Saturday at 4 p.m. and
Sunday at 5 p.m. Younger visitors will have
the opportunity to listen to a story about
Stein as well as create their own piece of art.
On Nov. 4, the Art History Program of
American university is holding a lunch, tour
and program as part of the second annual
Feminist Art History Conference. For more
information on this event, visit american.
edu/cas/art-history/femconf/index.cfm.
The exhibit opened Oct. 14 and will run
through Nov. 3.
Seeing Stein
Portrait of Gertrude Stein by Francis Picabia, a 1933 piece included in the Potrait Gallery exhibit.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
TODAY
LezGetTogether presents Lesbian
Attack at Sollys Tavern (1942 11th St.,
N.W.) tonight at 6 p.m. LezGetTogether is
an online community for LGBT women in
the D.C. metro area.
The Creative Alliance presents Hedwig
and the Angry Inch, staring Adam
Cooley, tonight at 8 p.m. at the Patterson
(3134 Eastern Ave.) in Baltimore. There
will be another performance Saturday at 8
p.m. Tickets for the general public are $20
and members tickets are $15. For more
information, visit creativealliance.org.
Green Lanterns (1335 Green Court, N.W.)
Fahrenheit presents Leche tonight from 9
p.m to 3 a.m. featuring DJ Michael Brandon.
Theres a $7 cover after 10 p.m. and free rail
vodka upstairs from 10 to 11 p.m.
Gay/Bash!, a queer night of rock and
pop gems with DJ Joshua is tonight at
the Black Cat (1811 14th St., N.W.). This is
a free event and doors open at 9:30 p.m.
The Belly Horror Show will be at
Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave.) in
Alexandria tonight at 7:30 p.m. Tickets
are $29.50 and can be purchased online
at ticketmaster.com. Belly Horror is a
Halloween-themed, fusion belly dance
show with lesbian organizers. For more
information, visit bellyhorror.com.
Local gay singers Tom Goss and
Jeffrey Johnson are doing a covers show
tonight and Saturday at Black Fox Lounge
(1723 Connecticut Ave., N.W.) at 8 p.m.
Goss new music video for his song Its All
Over will debut. Tickets are $15 and can
be purchased online at tomgossmusic.
net.
Lambda Divers has its monthly happy
hour tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. at Nellies
(900 U St., N.W.). For more information on
the group, visit lambdadivers.org.
SATURDAY, OCT. 22
D.C. Doulas for Choice Collective is
hosting a benet tonight at 5525 Illinois
Ave., N.W., tonight from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
The event will feature DJ AlexDB and
sweet, vegan-friendly treats. There is a $6
to $8 suggested donation. D.C. Doulas
is a group that believes women seeking
abortions deserve the same support
a doula would provide during labor
and birth. For more information, visit
dcdoulasforchoice.wordpress.com.
Mixtape is taking over the Rock &
Roll Hotel (1353 H St., N.E.) tonight for
the ofcial Metronomy/Class Actress
afterparty starting at 10 p.m. The event is
free with a ticket stub and $7 without one.
Attendees must be 21 or older.
Drawing on the Andy Warhol exhibit
Headlines at the National Gallery of
Art, Busboys & Poets presents a modern
take on Warhols Electric Newspaper
tonight at 7 p.m. at its 5th and K streets
location (1025 5th St., N.W.). Tickets
are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.
The movie I Shot Andy Warhol will be
screened on Sunday at 8 p.m.
Team D.C.s 2011 Champions Awards
is tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. at the HRC
Building (1640 Rhode Island, Ave., N.W.)
with special guest Hudson Taylor. This
years honorees are Town, Martin Espinoza
of Stonewall Kickball, Chris Cormier and
Brandon Waggoner of the D.C. Gay Flag
Football League and Phil Piga and Tony
Watkins of Anywhere Goes. The 2011 Team
D.C. College Scholarship recipients are
Jorge Acevedo, Nate Eckland and Justin
Kanga. Tickets are $40 and are available
for purchase online at teamdc.org. Tickets
include buffet, dessert bar and an open bar.
Will Eastmans dance party Bliss
returns to U Street Music Hall (1115 U St.,
N.W.) tonight with Chris Nitti. There is a
$10 cover and attendees who are 18 to
20 must purchase tickets in advance. A
portion of door proceeds will go to the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. For
more information and to purchase tickets,
visit ustreetmusichall.com.

SUNDAY, OCT. 23
Busboys & Poets presents Borderlines:
A Bilingual Spanish-English Open Mic
tonight at 5 p.m. in the Zinn room of its
Hyattsville location (5331 Baltimore Ave.,
Suite 104) hosted by Henry Mills. This is
the pilot run of the event. The sign-up
sheet opens at 4 p.m.
Artist Julie Borden and musician
Sydney Arzt are featured in an exhibit at
Prudential Gallo (37230 Rehoboth Ave.)
in Rehoboth Beach. The works will be
on view through the month. The gallery
is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more
information on Borden and Arzt, visit their
websites, juleez.com and demusic.org.
MONDAY, OCT. 24
Spoken word artists Andrea Gibson
will be performing poems from her latest
book, The Madness Vase with Natalie E.
Illum tonight at The Fridge (516 1/2 8th St.,
S.E.) at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 and can be
purchased online at brownpapertickets.
com/event/205541.
D.C. Strokes is hosting a novice
fundraiser, bachelor auction and raffle
tonight at Nellies (900 U St., N.W.) From
6 to 10 p.m., a $1 from every Nellies
beer sold will go to D.C. Strokes and
the novices will be racing each other
on the erg machines on the deck. At
7:30 p.m. at the auction begins and
each bachelor or bachelorette comes
with a dinner or activity package.
Raffle tickets are $ and prizes include
an iPad2. For more information, visit
nelliesdc.com.
TUESDAY, OCT. 25
The Jewish Foundation for Group Homes
presents An Evening of Dancing with
the Stars tonight at the Music Center at
Strathmore at 7 p.m. featuring Academy
Award-winning actor Marlee Matlin, actor
Gilles Marini with professional dancers
Jonathan Roberts and Edyta Sliwinska.
Tickets to this event are available through
JFGH. For ticket information, call 240-283-
6027 or email support@JFGH.org.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26
Metropolitan Community Church of D.C.
(474 Ridge St., N.W.) is hosting Goblin
Night, an event for youth from teens to
twenties tonight. There will be a Trick or
Treat delivery from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and
then a costume party from 8:30 to 11 p.m.
For more information, visit mccdc.com.
Green Lantern (1331 Green Court, N.W.)
will host the weekly Poz D.C. happy hour
upstairs from 8 p.m. to midnight.
THURSDAY, OCT. 27
Gays & Lesbians Opposing Violence
(GLOV) is having its monthly meeting
tonight in the main room at the D.C. Center
(1318 U St., N.W.) from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
D.C. Lambda Squares has its club night
for plus and advanced dancers tonight
from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the National
City Christian Church (5 Thomas Circle,
N.W.) with caller Bill Harrison. For more
information, visit dclambdasquares.org.
Human Rights Campaign has its
monthly community night tonight at
Nellies (900 U St., N.W.) from 5 to 8 p.m.
E-mail calendar items to calendars@washblade.com
two weeks prior to your event. Space is limited so
priority is given to LGBT-specic events or those
with LGBT participants. Recurring events must be
re-submitted each time.
Music Madness, a painting by Julie Borden, is on display at Prudential Gallo in Rehoboth
Beach, Del.
IMAGE COURTESY OF PRUDENTIAL
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CALENDAR OCTOBER 21, 2011 31
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for my kids future.
Suede at the Birchmere
Out singer Suede will be performing at the Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave.) in
Alexandria on Saturday with Vickie Shaw at 7:30 p.m.
Suede, who plays the piano, guitar and trumpet, started her career in the Baltimore/
D.C. area playing local clubs seven nights a week and traveling in her Toyota.
Shaw is a stand-up comic who addresses the triumphs and trials of being a woman, a
mother and gay in America in her routine. Shes been featured in Curve and on the Logo
series Wisecrack.
Tickets are $29.50 and can be purchased online at ticketmaster.com. For more information
on both performers, visit their websites, suedewave.com and vickieshaw.com.
Black panel discussion set for MCC
Beautiful U Yes U presents Young, Black, and LGBTQ Who is Protecting Me, a
town hall to discuss youth issues at Metropolitan Community Church of D.C. (474 Ridge
St., N.W.) Monday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Some of the issues covered will be homelessness, bullying and resources.
Guests to the town hall will include Jeffrey Richardson from the Mayor Ofce of LGBT
Affairs, Sharon Lettman-Hick of the National Black Justice Coalition, Amena Johnson of
the SMYAL, Samantha Masters of Rainbowsoul Moran Universitys Gay Straight Alliance
and Earline Budd of Transgender Health Empowerment.
For more information, e-mail treona.kelty@gmail.com of Beautiful U.
Gay artist at Mountain Maryland festival
The Mountain Maryland 2011 Art Sale and Tour begins Saturday and features 57 artists
from the western Maryland and northern West Virginia region.
One of the featured artists is Salvador whose work reects his personal healing process and
expresses the pain and solitude from a medical death sentence.
Salvadore, who is gay, works in Georgetown and has a studio home in Cumberland (115
Hanover St.). He started out in the fashion industry, designing custom garments, but they did
not always translate to the masses.
For more information on Salvadore as well as the sale and tour, including maps to all the
artists locations, visit artsaleandtour.com.
Gay author Michaelson to speak
The Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival starts Sunday
beginning with a discussion with author Jay Michaelson at 11 a.m. at 1529 16th
St., N.W.
Michaelson is a gay rights activist, religion scholar and the author of God
vs. Gay? in which he argues that religious communities should favor gay rights
because of religion, not in spite of it. Hes written two other books and 200 articles
about the intersections of religion, sexuality and law.
The festival continues through Nov. 2. For more information, visit
washingtondcjcc.org.
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32 OCTOBER 21, 2011 OUT & ABOUT
JAY MICHAELSON, author of God vs. Gay? will be at the Jewish Literary Festival on Sunday.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHAELSON
PHOTO COURTESY OF SUEDE
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OPENINGS
SAT, OCT 22
The Crucible, Keegan Theatre,
Church Street Theater. 703-892-0202.
keegantheatre.com.
WED, OCT 26
After the Fall, Theater J. 800-494-8497.
washingtondcjcc.org.
THU, OCT 27
Medea Calls Collect / Medea Llama
por Cobrar, Teatro de la Luna,
Gunston Theatre Two. 703-548-3092.
teatrodelaluna.org.
NSO, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
kennedy-center.org.
Sonny Landreth, Wolf Trap.
1-877-WOLFTRAP. wolftrap.org.
LAST CHANCE
SAT, OCT 22
Mabou Mines: DollHouse, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
transformers: the next generation,
Transformer. 202-483-1102.
transformergallery.org.
SUN, OCT 23
Chris Martin: Painting Big, Corcoran
Gallery of Art. 202-639-1700. corcoran.org.
Latinas, Teatro de la Luna, Gunston
Theatre Two. 703-548-3092.
teatrodelaluna.org.
Lungs, Studio Theatre. 202-332-3300.
studiotheatre.org.
Witness for the Prosecution, Olney
Theatre Center. 301-924-3400.
olneytheatre.org.
WED, OCT 26
Artist in Residence: Yoko K., electronica,
Strathmore. 301-581-5100.
strathmore.org.
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
OCT 22 - OCT 23
Pralor, A Thai Dance Story, Joes
Movement Emporium. 301-699-1819.
joesmovement.org.
OCT 25 - OCT 26
Specialty Tea: Haunted Tea Party,
Strathmore. 301-581-5100.
strathmore.org.
OCT 26 - OCT 27
Beijing Dance Theater, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
FRI, OCT 21
Battleeld Band, Wolf Trap.
Blind Boys of Alabama, Jim Lauderdale
opens, Strathmore. 301-581-5100.
strathmore.org.
Chamber Music Concert, Friday Morning
Music Club, Calvary Baptist Church.
202-347-8355. fmmc.org.
residentassociates.org.
The Embassy Series: Josef paek,
Violin, The Embassy Series, Embassy
of the Czech Republic. 202-625-2361.
embassyseries.org.
Trio Caliente, Montpelier Arts Center. 301-
377-7800. mncppcapps.org.
SAT, OCT 22
New York Festival of Song: Steven Blier
& Michael Barrett, Vocal Arts DC, Marvin
Center, George Washington University.
202-669-1463. vocalartsdc.org.
SUN, OCT 23
Hanson-Kong Piano Duo, National Gallery
of Art. 202-737-4215.
DC Record Fair, Artisphere. 703-875-1100.
artisphere.com.
TUE, OCT 25
Into the Silence, National Geographic.
202-857-7700. nglive.org/dc.
WED, OCT 26
A Salute to Judith Terra, Arts Club
of Washington. 202-331-7282.
artsclubofwashington.org.
Foster & Lloyd, Wolf Trap.
Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food - The
Omnivores Solution, Strathmore.
301-581-5100. strathmore.org.
Tokyo String Quartet, Kennedy Center.
THU, OCT 27
2011 NEA Opera Honors, Sidney Harman
Hall. 202-547-3230. arts.gov.
Music on...Stage: Sussan Deyhim, National
Geographic. 202-857-7700. nglive.org/dc.
Orlok The Vampire (in 3d), Artisphere. 703-
875-1100. artisphere.com.
Trio con Brio Copenhagen Master
Class, Kreeger Museum. 202-338-3552.
kreegermuseum.org.
ONGOING STAGE
Othello, Synetic Theater, Crystal City
Theatre. 800-494-8497. synetictheater.org.
Parade, Fords Theatre. 202-347-4833.
fords.org.
Les Misrables, Kennedy Center.
A Bright New Boise, Woolly Mammoth.
202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net.
Love Potion #1 (LElisir DAmore), In Series,
GALA Hispanic Theatre. 202-204-7763.
inseries.org.
Greek, SCENA Theatre at H Street
Playhouse, H Street Playhouse.
703-683-2824. scenatheater.org.
WIT Harold Night, Source Theatre.
202-204-7770.
washingtonimprovtheater.com.
ONGOING EXHIBITONS
Corcoran Gallery of Art. 30 Americans.
202-639-1700. corcoran.org.
National Gallery of Art. Warhol: Headlines,
The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the
Pastrana Tapestries, Harry Callahan at 100,
A New Look: Samuel F.B. Morses Gallery
of the Louvre. 202-737-4215. nga.gov.
National Geographic. Animal Grossology,
Ocean Soul Exhibit: Photographs by
Brian Skerry, Big Cats. 202-857-7588.
nglive.org/dc.
HOT HITS AND HIDDEN JEWELS
ART ON THE ROCKS
WED, OCT 26
THE ART LEAGUE. 703- 683- 1780. THEARTLEAGUE. ORG.
The Art League has challenged six local mixologists from Austin Grill, Chadwicks,
Columbia Firehouse, Hanks Oyster Bar, The Light Horse Restaurant, and RedRocks
Pizza Napoletana to each select a juried piece from our October exhibit as
inspiration to create the most artistic cocktail and then compete at Art on the Rocks.
Ticket holders may sample the cocktails and vote for their favorite at the event.
Appetizers from the restaurants and drawings for prizes will complete the evening.
SMI THSONI AN CRAFT2WEAR
FRI , OCT 21 & SAT, OCT 22
NATI ONAL BUI LDI NG MUSEUM. SMI THSONI AN
RESI DENT ASSOCI ATE PROGRAM. 202- 633- 3030.
RESI DENTASSOCI ATES. ORG
A Show and Sale featuring 40 exhibitors of jewelry and wearable art-all previously
juried into the Smithsonian Craft Show. 20 percent of Craft2Wear exhibitor sales
will go to support the Smithsonian Institution. Exhibitors will offer items for men
and women in all price ranges, from one-of-a-kind jewelry and shearling coats to
many items priced under $100.
CI NEMATI C TI TANI C
THU, OCT 27
LI SNER AUDI TORI UM. 202- 397- SEAT. LI SNER. ORG.
Can a chauvinist herpetologist and feminist photographer solve a mutant killer
rattlesnake epidemic? Maybe! Can the Cinematic Titanic crew turn this terrible
lm into the most hilarious Halloween party youve ever attended? Most denitely!
Continuing the tradition of rifng on the unfathomable, the horribly great, and
the just plain cheesy movies from the past, Cinematic Titanic Live brings the
original creator and cast of the Peabody award winning cult-classic television
series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) to a live theatrical setting, with Joel
Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff, and Mary Jo Pehl.
REENTRY
THRU SUN, OCT 30
ROUND HOUSE THEATRE BETHESDA. 240- 644- 1100.
ROUNDHOUSETHEATRE. ORG.
Honest, poignant, inspirational, and surprisingly funny, ReEntry is an uninching
look at the lives of Marines returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Guide to Arts & Culture is provided by CultureCapital.com - a program of the Cultural Alliance of
Greater Washington. Image provided by The Art League.
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Hay, Del Martin, Jim Foster, Jim Kepner,
Jack Nichols and Hal Call have died.
San Franciscos Phyllis Lyon, who
married her late partner Del Martin in
2008 after more than 50 years of joint
activism, says shes doing well, still drives
and has no intention of leaving her
home, though life, obviously, has been a
lot different since Martins 2008 death, just
two months after they got married. She
speaks highly of Kameny but admits to
being fuzzy on specics.
Well, I think he did a lot of very
good things, denitely, she says. I do
remember Frank and I was very sorry to
hear that he had died but it was different
in those early days. I guess you could say
the lesbians and gay men werent always
buddy buddy buddy buddy back then. We
worked together some, but in essence we
also worked mostly with our own sexes.
Things were somewhat different in
Washington. Though she eventually
moved on and did other things with
her life, Lilli Vincenz, 73, was an early
Washington-based activist who was in
the Mattachine Society here and joined
Kameny in his legendary White House
protest in April 1965. She also knew as
did Lyon the late Harry Hay, who started
the rst Mattachine Society in Los Angeles
in 1950, which Kameny regarded as the
start of the modern gay rights movement
in the U.S. (a 1920s Chicago-based group
was quickly shut down by police though a
gay emancipation group started in 1897
in Berlin and lasted decades before being
shut down by Hitlers Nazi regime).
Well, they had a slightly different
approach, Vincenz says of Hay and
Kameny. Frank was here taking advantage
of Washington and being close to all the
big government agencies, so that was his
focus.
Paul Kunstler, who was just 20 when he
met Kameny at the Chicken Hut in early
1962, was always the kid of the group.
He says, as was Kamenys contention,
that the D.C. Mattachine Society was
accomplishing things gays in other U.S.
cities chapters also existed in New
York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los
Angeles at the time werent doing.
A lot of them were just content to do
more research and education, Kunstler
says. Originally I thought Harry Hay
was very brave and I think originally they
were very active, but they kind of got
disinvolved.
Kunstler says it started with Hays
group in 1950, the second wave was
in Washington in the early 60s, then
Stonewall, the 1969 New York riots that
catapulted gay rights issues into the
mainstream consciousness.
In Kunstlers estimation, Kameny is
the most inuential and most important
person in the history of the gay rights
movement. The only other person Id put
in that league would be Barbara Gittings
who died in February 2007. She was an
intellectual heavyweight, but not quite
up there with Frank. But she was very
powerful and inuential.
San Francisco-based activist Michael
Petrelis, who this summer launched
an effort to have Kameny awarded a
Congressional Medal of Honor, agrees.
He lived from 1990-1995 in Washington
and, though they sometimes clashed on
issues of AIDS activism, saw Kameny as a
grandfather of sorts.
Some of my pushy personality, my
pushy activism, comes from Frank,
Petrelis says.
But how does Kamenys legacy sit with
gay historians? Depends whom one asks.
Gay scholar John Lauritsen, who wrote
two essays for the 2002 anthology Before
Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian
Rights in a Historical Context, says
Kameny should certainly be admired for
his contributions but that he was only one
type of activist whose efforts should be
put in context. Lauritsen, during a phone
chat from his Boston home, says he was
active in the homophile movement since
1960 and knew Kameny and Gittings in
the 70s when they would meet at various
conferences.
Our politics were much different,
Lauritsen says. I was much more radical.
But Frank was always friendly to me I
would say I admired Kameny. He was a
very good public speaker but I think
one has to give credit to the scholars and
Kameny was not a scholar I think he was
more a good publicist perhaps. Im not
sure he really did invent the saying gay is
good, thats been debated, but at least it
was a catchy slogan and it played a role in
the movement at the time.
Kameny could be a polarizing gure.
Though even his detractors in the
gay world eventually came to mostly
acknowledge his accomplishments, in the
early years there was much debate about
the appropriate plan to gain traction with
the movement.
In those days, people felt he was rather
reckless and far too militant, says writer
David Carter who interviewed Kameny
about 45 times over the last several years
for a biography he hopes to publish. Its
funny though, after Stonewall, he was
held up as a symbol of not being militant
enough but that was more of a caricature
of Frank.
Michael Bronski, whose book A Queer
History of the United States came out in
May, teaches women, gender and LGBT
studies at Dartmouth. He praises Kamenys
work but agrees, Kameny wasnt working
alone and its important to remember
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By KEVIN MAJOROS
On Saturday, Team D.C. will host the
2011 Champions Awards which honors
members of the LGBT sports community.
The event will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at
the HRC building at 1640 Rhode Island
Ave. Tickets are $40 and the event is open
to the public. Ticket price includes an
open bar, buffet and dessert bar.
Special guest speaker will be three time
all-American wrestler and straight ally,
Hudson Taylor who is the founder of the
anti-homophobia campaign, Athlete Ally.
The 2011 honorees are Martin Espinoza
of Stonewall Kickball (MVP Award), Chris
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Award), Phil Piga and Tony Watkins of
Anywhere Goes (Trailblazer Award), Brandon
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After the awards are presented, Team D.C.
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and involvement, have enhanced the
perception of the LGBT community.
The scholarship provides up to
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college students from the Washington
metropolitan area. Scholarship money is
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donations from local LGBT sports teams.
The Team D.C. Student-Athlete
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board member Greg Campbell and was
one of the rst of its kind in the United
States when it was created in 2008. This
year will be the fourth consecutive year
that scholarships have been awarded. The
2011 recipients are:
Nate Eckland of Bethesda, Md., who
graduated from Walt Whitman High
School and captained the varsity coed
volleyball team. He is attends Washington
University in St Louis.
Justin Kanga of Silver Spring, Md., who
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School and participated in varsity track
and eld and varsity diving. He attends
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Jorge Acevedo of Arlington, Va., who
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Back in April, Eckland told one of his
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Networks (GLSEN) annual Day of Silence
to protest bullying and harassment of LGBT
students and their supporters. His teacher
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psychology and the arts.
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incredible group of friends who see him
as a person and not just a gay man. He
learned of the scholarship opportunity
through his high school swim coach. He is
also undecided as to a college major, but
is interested in theater and psychology.
For more information on the Champions
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Accolades and honors
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others.
Its vitally important to remember
Frank and to give him credit for all this,
but the 50s were really an incredible time
Its unfair, I agree, to try to rank people
mostly, unless the ranking happens by
simply looking at the facts, but does the
average gay person reading the Advocate
really know who Harry Hay was or who
Harvey Milk was? They think of Sean Penn
or they might say, Harvey Milk, wasnt
he married to Madonna in the 80s? Not
knowing about Frank is a huge loss and
its a loss that needs to be corrected. But I
dont think this is just an LGBT problem, its
an American problem in general.
Bronski is quick to point out, though,
that Kameny is part of a small list of pre-
Stonewall iconoclasts.
Harry Hay, Del and Phyllis, Barbara
Gittings there arent many whose
names come to the forefront because a
lot of the work (others) did was very quiet,
so somebody like, say, Randy Wicker, who
founded the Oscar Wilde bookstore and
the Mattachine Society in New York before
Stonewall, that was a different kind of a
thing.
Paul Boneberg, executive director of
the San Francisco-based GLBT Historical
Society, is more unequivocal.
There is no greater gay activist than
Frank Kameny, Boneberg says. He is one
of the heroic founders of the modern era.
Boneberg agrees with Bronski the
pre-Stonewall movers and shakers list is
quite small.
Hes part of a very small group,
Boneberg says. He and a few of the
early activists really founded the GLBT
movement and the community is what it
is because of people like Frank and whats
extraordinary is that his work in the 50s
and 60s continued right up until this year.
It was really a lifetime of service to the
queer community. What were seeing
is the passing of the queer communitys
greatest generation. That World War II
generation that he was part of. He was just
an extraordinary individual and its a great
loss to the community.
And where might LGBT rights be today
if Kameny hadnt done what he did?
I think on one level, what Frank did
moved us ahead incredibly far, Bronski
says. But if Frank didnt exist, would
somebody else have done it? Possibly. You
know Frank wasnt the only person to get
arrested and lose his job. Its conceivable
and actually likely that somebody else
would have had the courage to do that,
but in no way do I say that to diminish what
he did, but did the movement depend on
Frank? I dont think so. Did Frank move the
movement forward? Sure.
And what did Kameny himself think of
his place in the history books? Outtakes
from an Aug. 16 Blade interview pertaining
to the push for a presidential Medal of
Freedom for him, found him waxing
nostalgic for several of his peers.
Just about all these people are gone,
Kameny said. One of the rst I would
name would be Barbara Gittings, whom
I miss very, very much. Another would be
Jack Nichols. One by one they have all
gone.
Kameny also mentioned several activists
whose work has been more D.C.-centric.
On much less a level, but still someone
who goes all the way back would be Craig
Howell and coming much later onto the
scene and I rst got to know him in college
in the 70s and 80s, but I would also say
Rick Rosendall. Thats just off the top of my
head. Many of them have just all died off
one after another and Im very, very sorry to
see some of them go, but that happens.
Kameny phoned the next morning to
say he was embarrassed I overlooked
Paul Kunstler. He goes back to the very
beginning of my involvement in 1961 right
after we formed the Mattachine Society
he was perhaps the last one going back to
the 60s whos still around.
Comparing Kamenys life and work to
Harvey Milks the rst openly gay man
to be elected to public ofce when he
won a seat on the San Francisco Board
of Supervisors is apples and oranges,
many say. If Milks story is more widely
known, its undoubtedly because its been
told several times, most memorably,
perhaps, in a 2008 Academy Award-
winning lm. That he died young (he was
murdered at age 48) perhaps gave him a
JFK-like stature among gays that captured
their consciousness.
They were just from very different
times, Boneberg says. Harvey is
separated almost a whole generation and
he would have acknowledged that. Its
hard for people today to imagine how
difcult it was to stand up and be out back
then. Time is such a huge factor. That rst
generation stood alone and said, I will not
take this. Frank did that. [Drag legend]
Jose [Sarria] did that. Its just something
later people have not had to do because
there were already other people standing.
Its very hard for people to grasp. There
were profound legal consequences
and people who were gay were literally
destroyed.
Even Cleve Jones, a friend and
contemporary of Milk and an activist in his
own right, says their lives are too different
to warrant much comparison.
Harvey and all of us who came after
the Stonewall rebellion, all of us were
marching down a road that had already
been paved by people like Frank, Barbara
[Gittings], Phyllis and Del the Stonewall
generation was still in the closet when
Frank was doing his work, so you cant
really compare them.
Milk, of course, suffered for his cause.
But those close to him say Kameny
suffered in other ways less dramatic, but
also difcult.
He lived in poverty, Kunstler says.
He got some inheritance money from
his mother and he eventually bought [his]
house, but it was a struggle. I gave him
money for his fax machine. People helped
him out, but he lived basically in poverty,
theres no question about it.
Marvin Carter, a local gay volunteer with
Helping Our Brothers and Sisters whod
known Kameny for years, started helping
him the winter before last during several
extreme blizzards the region suffered.
Thered been a few calls here and
there before, but thats when we really
started to see the extent of the situation,
Carter says. He was snowed in and had no
groceries. It was really a bad situation.
But was some of that by choice?
Obviously in recent years Kameny was
elderly, but why didnt he work much at
least for income in the 70s and 80s?
Kunstler says Kameny was very
stubborn and single minded in his
activist philosophies and wouldnt have
been happy working for Human Rights
Campaign or the Task Force.
He was very independent, very much
his own person. It would have been very
hard for him to acquiesce to someone
elses vision, Kunstler says. He absolutely
sacriced.
Bronski agrees, but with a caveat.
Yes, he made that sacrice, but its
important to remember that he made
it on his own. There wasnt a vote on it.
We should all be thankful and we cant
expect other people to do the same. Its
a matter of self sacrice, but yes, from
what Ive heard he did actually live in fairly
impoverished conditions.
Time, of course, has a way of putting
individuals contributions into perspective.
In the meantime, Kamenys colleagues are
remembering him fondly.
In my opinion, his legacy is already
established, Vincenz says. He was a
tutor to me and I was very thrilled to work
with him. I saw him as a zealot, very
effective. He also had such a kind heart. I
was reading not long ago his lovely eulogy
to Barbara and it was just beautiful.
Kunstler remembers a rabble-rouser
who delighted in antagonizing.
He was never violent, it was all
intellectual, he says. And he was very
self assured. He didnt question it at all. He
truly felt that he was right and they were
all wrong.
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The decision to rent or buy a home is a
highly personal one. It includes many fac-
tors such as the status of your savings (or
access to gift funds from a family member
or friend), preference for housing loca-
tion, job stability or expected length of
residency in your geographic location as
well as many others.
Here in the Washington area, we are
blessed with a relatively stable economy
and housing market. While we see shifts and
changes in the market at times, the market
has been mostly consistent compared to
other cities around the country and it has
progressed without major declines.
This can be attributed to a wealth of
federal jobs, which provide steady in-
comes and strong job security, as well
as an extremely high percentage of resi-
dents with college degrees, which in most
cases translates to higher incomes. Ac-
cording to CNN Money, D.C. workers
enjoyed the highest salaries of any major
U.S. city in 2010 with a median household
income of $85,198. Additionally, there is
a constant transition in Washington with
many people moving in and out of the
area each year from other towns and cit-
ies. All these factors combine to sustain
a healthy housing market, even in the
midst of national economic problems.
Generally speaking, if you are plan-
ning to live in a certain location for
around fve years or more and you have a
stable income, you should consider mak-
ing a home purchase. Right now interest
rates are at a historic low making money
cheap and allowing for lower monthly
payments than in recent years. Also, be-
ing a homeowner saves you money in
taxes, which can be enjoyed on your total
tax bill or can be adjusted for each pay-
check based on your deductions. If you
live within the District of Columbia, frst
time buyers also qualify for a $5,000 tax
credit which comes off your total tax bill,
allowing for an additional savings to the
general homeowner savings.
Rents are also on the rise in our area,
making buying a home an even more at-
tractive prospect. Since more would-be
frst time homebuyers are waiting out
the economy and housing market prob-
lems, the rental market has become satu-
rated, making it more expensive and more
diffcult to fnd a rental. As a test case, I
looked at one-bedroom rentals in Du-
pont Circle that have rented in the past
90 days. In that time, nine properties have
rented each of them in 15 days or less
for an average of six days on market. Four
of the nine even rented within the frst day.
The prices for these properties ranged
from $1,800 to $3,050, with an average
rent of $2,450. All of them except for the
most expensive of the bunch rented for
full list price. In previous years when the
rental market was not as strong, renters
had more fexibility in negotiating for a
lower price and often were not compet-
ing with multiple applications. Today,
most properties see multiple rental ap-
plications, allowing landlord to be more
selective and causing more diffculty for
renters, especially those who have pets
or do not have perfect credit.
Conversely, purchasers are still getting
great deals on home purchases and as
mentioned previously, have the opportu-
nity to buy with the lowest interest rates
in history. While we are starting to see
some multiple contract situations and
even some escalation clauses for home
purchasers, these are still not the norm
and buyers can still fnd good properties
at good prices.
For example, a recent client pur-
chased a one bedroom/one-and-a-half
bath condo in excellent condition in the
Kalorama Triangle neighborhood of D.C.
for $399,900. Using an FHA loan, they
were able to put down 3.5 percent and
now have a monthly payment (including
the condo fee) of roughly $2,350 $100
less than the average rental in that area.
The monthly savings would be even more
signifcant if they were to do a conven-
tional loan with 20 percent down. When
you add in the $5,000 frst time homebuy-
er credit plus about a $350 per month in
tax savings just for owning a home, this is
a great investment.
If you are debating whether to rent
a home or to purchase one, it is always
a good idea to talk to both a real estate
agent and a lender to review all the op-
tions and see what makes the most sense
for your personal and fnancial situations
at the given time. If you have any ques-
tions about the article or the housing mar-
ket in general, please dont hesitate to
contact me I am always happy to help.
To buy or not?
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Associates in Alexandria and is licensed in D.C., Mary-
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For gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-
gender couples, reaching fnancial goals
frequently presents unique challenges.
You may be aware of some of the issues
that can affect you and your loved ones f-
nancial well being others may come as a
surprise. One thing is clear: when it comes
to managing your wealth, it is critical that
you understand your options and oppor-
tunities as well as potential obstacles.
If you are in a relationship, the frst step
is to include your partner. Because many
domestic partners maintain separate bank
accounts, they feel as though they should
plan for the future as individuals. I ask my
clients: Do you own your home together?
Would you like to pass on a portion of your
estate to your partner? If your partner be-
came disabled, would you provide fnancial
support? If the answer to any of these ques-
tions is yes, then you may want to evaluate
your fnancial future as a couple.
Disparities in age present another
hurdle for domestic partners. Frequently,
partners may have a difference of 5, 10, 15
or more years between them. Age affects
the way we perceive risk with our invest-
ments and how we prepare for retirement.
Younger investors are more likely to accept
ups and downs in the market as they have
a longer time horizon. Additionally, they
have more time to accumulate funds for
their retirement years. For those who fnd
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or who have already retired, the focus shifts
from building for retirement to protecting
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ancing the need to grow with the need to
protect can be a daunting task.
Other areas of concern include insur-
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pension benefts? How can I best protect
my partner and myself while I am alive and
after I have passed away? As we know,
family members do not always look favor-
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Believe it or not, the tax code has pro-
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Work with your fnancial planner and your
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These issues apply even if you are mar-
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11628 White Hall Road
Smithsburg, Maryland
CHARM and
CHARACTER
ROGER FAIRBOURN REAL ESTATE
277 Eastern Blvd. N., Suite 2 - Hagerstown, MD 21740 - 301-733-4183
White Hall Manor is a wonderful country stone and brick home sited on a great 1.67 acre lot with
views of surrounding farms and mountains. While the original stone house remains its original
character, the brick addition brings a large country kitchen and family spaces along with all current
utilities! Just a great place! Call Roger for more details. $342,900.
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Uptown DC Offce 202.362.3400
Valerie M. Blake
Associate Broker, GRI
202.246.8602
Valerie@DCHomeQuest.com
www.DCHomeQuest.com
Valerrealestate.blogspot.com
Disclaimer: Homes pictured here are representative of DC architecture and are not offered for sale. Contact Valerie to obtain information on her current listings.
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Coming Out
Concerns About Intimacy, Partner Choice,
Family, Relationship Stress,
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Chronic Illness
Douglas L. Romberg, Ph.D.
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(703) 790-0038
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Licensed Psychologist
Interactive Counseling,
Psychotherapy and
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202.332.8477
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Individual & Couples Therapy
for the LGBTQ Community
20 years experience!
3000 Connecticut Avenue NW
202.255.5187 SidBinks@aol.com
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Adorable & updated! 2 bedroom plus den circa 1920
bungalow in Brandon Village with big detached 2 car
garage. Enjoy the welcoming covered front porch,
charming period details, hardwood floors, nooks
and crannies galore, a cheerful sun room off of the
kitchen opening onto decking, an upper level loft/
den, and full basement with loads of storage &
options. Ballston & the vibrant Orange line Metro corridor just a few blocks away.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE
DIVISION LEONARD M. SIZER,
NAME OF DECEDENT NOTICE
OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Jeffrey Alan
Sizer whose address is 146 Frank Burchinal
Road, Morgantown, WV 26508 was
appointed personal representative of the
estate of Leonard M. Sizer, deceased, by
the clerk of the County Commission for
Monongalia County, State of West Virginia,
on April 20th, 2009. Service of process
may be made upon J. Max Barger, 1250
Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 200,
Washington, DC 20036 whose designation
as District of Columbia agent has been
fled with the Register of Wills, D.C. The
decedent owned District of Columbia
personal property. Claims against the
decedent may be presented to the
undersigned and fled with the Register
of Wills for the District of Columbia, 515
5th Street, NW, 3rd Floor, Washington,
DC 20001 within 6 months from the date
of frst publication of this notice. Date of
frst publication October 7, 2011. True Test
Copy, Anne Meister, Register of Wills.
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA WASHINGTON, DC
20001 CIVIL DIVISION IN RE: THOMAS
DICkERSON COATES JR. NO:
0008029-11 Order of Publication
Pursuant to SCR-205 and DC Code 16-
2501, 2502 and 2503 Thomas Dickerson
Coates Jr. having fled a complaint for
judgment changing her name to Susanne
Danielle Coates and having applied to the
court for an Order of Publication of the
notice required by law in such cases; and
it is by the Court this 7th day of October
2011, hereby ORDERED, that all persons
concerned show cause, if any there be,
on or before the 14th day of November
2011, why the prayers of said complaint
should not be granted; provided that a
copy of this Order be published once
a week for three (3) consecutive weeks
before said day in the Washington Blade
newspaper. PROVIDED FURTHER: that
pursuant to SCR-205(b) notice be sent to
the applicants creditors by registered or
certifed mail and that proof of service of
mailing be made in the manner provided
in SCR Probate Rule 19(b).
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA WASHINGTON, DC
20001 CIVIL DIVISION IN RE: ROBERT
WILLIAM STRANG CASE NO: 0008156-
11 Order of Publication Pursuant to
SCR-205 and DC Code 16-2501, 2502 and
2503 Robert William Strang having fled a
complaint for judgment changing Robert
William Strang name to Bobbi Elaine Strang
and having applied to the court for an
Order of Publication of the notice required
by law in such cases; and it is by the Court
this 13th day of October 2011, hereby
ORDERED, that all persons concerned
show cause, if any there be, on or before
the 18th day of November 2011, why the
prayers of said complaint should not be
granted; provided that a copy of this Order
be published once a week for three (3)
consecutive weeks before said day in The
Washington Blade newspaper. PROVIDED
FURTHER: that pursuant to SCR-205(b)
notice be sent to the applicants creditors by
registered or certifed mail and that proof of
service of mailing be made in the manner
provided in SCR Probate Rule 19(b).
EMPLOYMENT
LOCkER ROOM ATTENDANTS
NEEDED! The Crew Club, a gay mens
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Locker Room Attendants. We all scrub
toilets & do heavy cleaning. You must
be physically able to handle the work
& have a great attitude doing it. No
drunks/druggies need apply. Please call
Richard at (202) 319-1333 from 9-5pm,
to schedule an interview.
INTERIM MINISTER OF MUSIC.
Metropolitan Community Church
of Washington (MCCDC) seeks
worship leader & choral director with
strong production, administrative,
communication & team building
skills. Email resume & letter of
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P&C licensed Required. Please email
resume to cropped@nationwide.com
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through November 6th. Please email
paulathalis@gmail.com or stop in to fll
out an application.
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jockguy. Located downtown, parking
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ENJOY WONDERFUL MASSAGE!
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COUNSELING
COUNSELING FOR GAY MEN.
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donation requested.
A MINDFULNESS-BASED MENTAL
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careers, && relationships. 20 years
experience helping people identify &
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relationships. Jonathan Kirkendall MA
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Swedish - Deep Tissue - Thai Massage
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1804 Vernon St. NW, Suite 300
Open 7 Days a Week Near 18th & U Sts, NW
Fall Special 90min. for $90 with this ad. New clients only.
FULL SERVICE LAW FIRM Representing
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Family adoptions, estate planning,
immigration, employment. (301) 891-
2200. Silber, Perlman, Sigman & Tilev,
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INSURANCE
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ROOFING
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