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Pa. Senate to consider LGBT candidates see victories at polls another marriage ban By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer
WINNER!: Common Pleas Court Judge Dan Anders (center, with microphone) delivers his victory speech at Woody’s after the May 19 Municipal Primary. Anders, surrounded by his partner Anh Dang (left) and family members, was the fifth-highest vote-getter out of the more-than 20 contenders seeking the seven open seats. Gov. Rendell appointed Anders to the bench in 2007, making him the first openly gay male judge in the state. Photo: Scott A. Drake
By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer This week’s Municipal Primary Election saw victories for the two openly LGBT candidates vying for judgeships. Common Pleas Court Judge Dan Anders, who became the first openly gay male on the bench in Pennsylvania when Gov. Rendell appointed him to fill a vacancy in 2007, captured about 7 percent of the vote — the fifth-highest among the nearly twodozen candidates who were vying for one of the seven 10-year terms. Open lesbian Dawn Segal also came out on top in the Municipal Court race, receiving the third-highest number of votes out of the 10 contenders seeking one of the four open seats, with about 14 percent of the vote. Anders, who said Wednesday that he was “tired, relieved and exhausted but thrilled,” noted that his and Segal’s nominations prove that the city is “moving forward.” “All of our hard work paid off,” Anders said. “I credit my victory to all of my volunteers, supporters and contributors. People really believed it was important to come out and vote for someone they thought was first going to be a good judge and second could add diversity on the bench.” In Harrisburg, openly gay City Councilman Dan Miller was nominated for City Controller. Miller ran unopposed
after incumbent James McCarthy was disqualified for missing a filing deadline. In other local races, former City Inspector General Seth Williams won the Democratic nomination for District Attorney, defeating four other contenders. Williams will face Republican candidate Michael Untermeyer in November’s election. Incumbent City Controller Alan Butkovitz (D) was also victorious by a wide margin and will face Republican Al Schmidt in the general election. Both PGN and Liberty City Democratic Club endorsed Williams and Butkovitz. In judicial races, Democrat Jack Panella, who was running unopposed, was nominated for the state Supreme Court, while Robert Colville, Kevin McCarthy and Anne Lazarus were nominated for State Superior Court on the Democratic ticket. Barbara Ernsberger and Linda Judson were the top Democratic vote-getters in the Commonwealth Court race. The other nominated Democratic Common Pleas Court judges are Robert Coleman, Angeles Roca, Donna Woelpper, Diane Thompson, Adam Beloff and Roxanne Covington. Municipal Court nominees include Charles Hayden, Joseph Waters and Pat Dugan. ■
A local lawmaker said this week that he plans to introduce legislation to ban same-sex marriage in the Pennsylvania Constitution. During a May 19 press conference, Pennsylvania Sen. John Eichelberger (R30th Dist.) announced he would spearhead an effort to amend the constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. A similar bill was introduced in the last legislative session in the Senate and died in committee last May after several senators introduced a series of amendments to derail the bill, and House leadership pledged to defeat it if it proceeded to that chamber. Eichelberger, who represents parts of Blair, Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon and Mifflin counties in central Pennsylvania, was also a cosponsor of that bill. Jason High, Eichelberger’s chief of staff, said the senator has not decided yet when he will actually introduce the legislation.
“We haven’t talked timing yet,” High said. “The Senate is not scheduled to be back in session until the first week of June, so sometime after that.” A 2006 Pennsylvania law already defines marriage as being between one man and one woman, but in a statement this week, Eichelberger said he believes this law needs to be reinforced in the constitution to protect against possible judicial action. “As more and more states begin to redefine marriage, it’s only a matter of time until a court decision usurps the citizens’ right to decide this for themselves,” Eichelberger said. “The executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, in an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, admitted what many of us have known for a long time: that proponents of gay marriage are counting on a court decision to give them what they can’t win through the legislature or at the ballot box. Because this is a constitutional amendment, it would be put to the people for a vote, which is the proper way to decide See AMENDMENT, Page 6
Local groups launch joint summer-internship project By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer
Several local organizations will join forces this summer to provide employment opportunities and training for local LGBT youth. About 40 area youth will have the chance to participate in a six-week internship program, organized by The Attic Youth Center, The Youth Health Empowerment Project at Philadelphia FIGHT, The COLOURS Organization Inc., the Mazzoni Center, Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative and Foyer of Philadelphia. The venture is possible through a grant from the Philadelphia Youth Network, which receives funding from the Workforce Investment Act for such projects. Within the next two months, each of the six organizations will recruit a handful of youth participants — who will have to meet certain WIA eligibility requirements Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn. — and, based on their career goals and the requirements of the positions, match com.
them with the more-than 40 area employers who’ve expressed interest in the program. Each job site will provide a mentor for the youth, who will work for 16 hours a week over four days, making $7.25 per hour. The program will run July 6-Aug. 14. Carrie Jacobs, executive director of The Attic, said the program will enable the youth to gain hands-on experience in fields that interest them and further develop not only their skills, but also their career objectives. “We have lots and lots of sites, and it’s a very diverse group, so this will give our youth plenty of opportunity to be matched with their interests so they can start working toward their goals,” she said. The sites represent an array of industries, but Jacobs said the organizers ensured that all youth would be placed in positions at LGBT-friendly organizations, with potential employers like the Society Hill Veterinarian Hospital, Drexel School of Public Health, the Mural Arts Program, the National Constitution Center, Philly Car See INTERNSHIPS, Page 6
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Center board talks up elevator By Larry Nichols PGN Staff Writer The William Way LGBT Community Center’s board discussed the soon-to-becompleted elevator at its public meeting May 19. Board members who attended the meeting, held at 1315 Spruce St., included secretary Eric Ashton, treasurer Judge Ann Butchart, Al Besse, Deb Francesco, Leon King, Moira Mulroney and co-chairs David Michelson and Emilie Carr. Board members Stephanie Gross and Liz Reasey did not attend. Executive director ’Dolph Ward Goldenburg reported that construction on the elevator is on schedule, and that the shaft and the engine room for the project are done. He added that the elevator is expected to be finished in time for the center’s Building Bash on June 6. Goldenburg and Michelson introduced the center’s elevatoruse policy, which the board voted to accept as written. The policy states the elevator is for those who cannot easily use stairs and for those moving heavy items vertically. Goldenburg also introduced Deb Hinchey as the center’s new volunteer coordinator and said he’s still looking to fill the positions of senior programs coordinator and oral history project coordinator. It was also announced that Jon Wexler, director of facilities, is leaving the center after the Building Bash. Goldenburg reported the Indigo Ball is now 90-percent sold out. He also announced that the center received $1,200 in memoriam donations on behalf of former PGN advertising director Joel Weiner, who died last month, and one of the new doors in the center’s corridor will be named for him. Francesco was honored for her work and fundraising efforts for the center, and awarded with a lifetime membership there. Chris Kraus, a project consultant for Campbell Soup Company, was on hand to receive a certificate of recognition from the center on behalf of Our Pride Employee Network, serving the company’s LGBT employees. OPEN received the award for funding the painting of the center’s archive exhibition area. Upon accepting the certificate, Kraus surprised the board by presenting the center with a $1,000
check from Campbell’s Nourishing Our Neighbors program. Goldenburg reported that the center’s membership is up by 1 percent, from 1,015 households last year to 1,026 this year, and that Cornerstone memberships decreased 5 percent, from 83 last year to 79 this year. Center tenant occupancy was at 71 percent for the month of April, the same figure as in the prior month. Furthermore, the center received $3,464.98 less than expected in rental revenue for the month of April, largely due to office vacancies and fewer-than-expected room rentals, said Butchart, who delivered the center’s financial report. Grants were significantly more than expected due to elevator funding, and program revenue was slightly higher than expected.
Total income for the month was $126,737.61; the projected income was $53,757. Total income year-to-date is $590,704, which is $269,379 more than expected. Expenses for April totaled $40,843.56, which was $3,727.44 less than anticipated. This was primarily due to reduced personnel expenses because of staff vacancies. For the year to date, expenses totaled $303,393.24, which was $20,524.76 less than expected. After the adjustment for the elevator construction costs, $88,815, the net income for the month was a shortfall of $2,920.95. For more information, visit www.waygay.org. ■ Larry Nichols can be reached at larry@epgn.com.
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BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT: AIDS Fund executive director Robb Reichard (right) and Carlota Ttendant kick off the “Diva-licious!” GayBINGO May 16. Ttendant (ActionAIDS director of business development and communications Michael Byrne) served as the original host of the event from its 1996 inception until 2002 and is back to lend her emceeing talents to the monthly fundraiser after the departure of host Shady Pines. “AIDS Fund works hard to raise funds to make a difference in our community, and we are pleased that Carlota is returning to join us in our efforts,” Reichard said. “We know our supporters will be delighted to see her again.” Photo: Scott A. Drake
LGBT art and culture abound at new festival By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer Vocalists, musicians, actors and dancers will come together next weekend for the first event in the city to highlight a crosssection of LGBT artists. The first annual GLBT Arts Festival will run May 28-June 1 at various locations throughout the city and will feature more than 20 LGBT performers from the United States and Canada. T. Desiree Hines, project coordinator for the Traverse Arts Project, which is staging the event, said planning for the festival began in December 2007. Hines, a classical organist and transgender woman, said she was interested in creating an outlet for LGBT artists in a variety of fields. She looked into what type of arts festivals the city offered — including the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (now known as QFest), the Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival and the non-LGBT-specific Fringe Festival — and said she saw a real need for another platform for LGBT artists. “We wanted to produce a festival where the performers themselves were actually out and openly GLBT,” Hines said. “The works they are performing are not necessarily GLBT-themed, it’s just that the artists are GLBT individuals coming together to celebrate their artistry and also to engage the community at large in social-change issues affecting the GLBT community through artistic expression.” The festival will kick off with an opening celebration featuring performances by
mezzo-soprano Elspeth Kincaid, pianist Laurent Phillipe and Hines at 8 p.m. May 28 at First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, 2125 Chestnut St. Music lovers can also enjoy performances by Matthew Cimino and Andrew Sheranian as they explore songs by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, at 7 p.m. May 29 at Arch Street United Methodist Church, 55 N. Broad St., and baritone Vaughn Lindquist, who will perform compositions by LGBT artists, at 5 p.m. May 30 at Arch Street UMC. Hines noted that the festival will offer options for fans of all musical genres, such as “Bending the Pitch,” a jazz concert with Paul Clark, at 1 p.m. May 30 at Arch Street UMC, which is followed by LGBT Christian contemporary trio Three Twelve at 3 p.m. Theater will also play an integral role in the festival, with all performances at the new 119 Arts Center, 119 South St. Gail Schwartz’s “Crazy: One Woman’s Search for Sanity,” with three performances May 29 and 30, is a comedic, yet poignant, one-woman show about depression that seeks to engage the community in discussions about mental health. One-man play “Obscene,” starring Ian Mozden in four performances from May 29-31, is, according to Hines, the most “avant garde” of the festival — featuring frequent frontal nudity and depicting self-castration — centering on a professor who is struggling to understand his gender identity. “Three Mothers for Zachary,” which tells of a gay teen’s complicated homelife, was written by Shareef Hadid Jenkins, who was inspired to pen the play based on the time
he spent at The Attic Youth Center as a teen. The play will be staged at 8 p.m. May 29 and 2 p.m. May 30. “Starlight Supply,” by local out playwright Shawn O’Shea, will run in three performances May 30 and 31. Although the show is not LGBT-themed, it is centered on the idea of acceptance. The Theater Showcase, at 5 p.m. May 30 and 7:30 p.m. May 31, will feature excerpts from Robert Woods’ “Welcome to the Freak Show,” as well as clown burlesque act “Pina’s Playhouse” and spoken-word performance “Pussies, Pens and Politics” by Ms. Wise and Ms. Misconception. The festival will also feature performances by the Philly Contact Collective and Marcel Williams Foster at 1 p.m. May 30 and 6 p.m. May 31 at 119, where dancers will explore improvisational dance and other forms. The map dance collective will take the 119 stage at 8:30 p.m. May 30 and 2 p.m. May 31. Hines said she was impressed by the high caliber and experiences of the performers who wanted to be involved in the festival. The artists — who represent a wide range of ages, races and sexual orientations — received training at such institutions as the Yale School of Music, Simon Fraser University and Tufts University. For more information or to purchase tickets for the GLBT Arts Festival, visit www.traversetheater.org or call (215) 5954849. ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn. com.
At their May 13 public meeting, members of the city’s Police Advisory Commission accepted questions from the public concerning the 2002 death of transgender woman Nizah Morris. Morris, 47, was found with a head wound shortly after receiving a courtesy ride from Philadelphia police. She died two days later, on Dec. 22, 2002, from complications due to a fractured skull. The PAC is planning to issue a supplemental report about the incident, which is expected sometime next month, members said. Last month, the PAC reviewed records on the case at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, assenting to a non-disclosure agreement. Due to the agreement, PAC members said they’re limited in their ability to speak about the case. The homicide remains unsolved. Questions posed to the PAC on May 13 included: discrepancies between incident accounts; computerized dispatch records, which conflict with the officers’ version of events; patrol-log gaps; and the inability of the officers to answer key questions when testifying to the PAC in 2006. Several of Morris’ relatives attended the May 13 meeting, and thanked the PAC for their efforts. The relatives also said they want the DA’s investigative file opened to the public. — Timothy Cwiek
Doing its part to ‘Knock’ out AIDS In preparation for AIDS Education Month in June, local LGBT hot-spot Knock will do its part to raise funds for a local HIV/AIDS organization. The bar/restaurant will host “Knock Out AIDS” May 27 and donate a portion of the dinner proceeds to Philadelphia FIGHT, which has been organizing AIDS Education Month activities since 1994. This year’s AIDS Education Month, which will be co-chaired by Congreso de Latino Unidos, ActionAIDS and John Cella, outgoing director of the city’s AIDS Activities Coordinating Office, will feature conferences for youth, prison workers, ex-offenders and the general public, as well as other outreach activities that will target more than 10,000 people. To make dinner reservations for the event, call (215) 925-1166. ■ — Jen Colletta
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AMENDMENT From Page 1 what marriage is going to mean in this commonwealth.” Steve Glassman, chair of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, said this legislation has another motive: halting the progression of House Bill 300, the nondiscrimination legislation currently in committee that seeks to prohibit discrimination against LGBT individuals in employment, housing and public accommodations. “The intention of our opponents is to distract representatives from the important issue of ending discrimination and bias against LGBT people and instead focus on an issue that has received wide attention nationally and is more controversial in nature in the state of Pennsylvania,” Glassman said. Jake Kaskey, policy and outreach director at Equality Advocates Pennsylvania, concurred, calling the impending legislation a “craven attempt” to distract the lawmakers from HB 300, as well as from other issues affecting Pennsylvanians. “I’m really hoping that the legislature will choose to focus on what’s important, and what’s important is keeping Pennsylvania an economically viable state, and this only happens when we can protect all citizens in the workplace,” he said. “I believe that senators will understand that
INTERNSHIPS From Page 1 Share, Spruce Street Video and PGN. The youth will also attend weekly four-hour career-readiness training at the organization that enrolled them in the program. Jacobs said the six agencies are currently creating a curriculum that all organizations will implement, which will address such topics as interviewing skills, workplace etiquette and being openly gay in the workplace. Nurit Shein, executive director of the Mazzoni Center, said the organizers as well as the mentors at the work sites will be committed to providing valuable guidance to the youth participants. “This will give them some role models within our own community to show them what the business community looks like and provide support and mentorship for them,” Shein said. “This is truly very, very encouraging.” While Jacobs noted that the program is geared toward providing
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this is a distraction and decide to focus on issues Pennsylvanians care about, such as healthcare, education and protecting people from discrimination.” Glassman said it’s still “very possible” that the legislation could see approval in the Senate, but he was dubious if it could progress further. “I think it’s highly unlikely that it will pass in the House, where we’ve been assured by the leadership that such anti-LGBT amendments will not be wellreceived,” Glassman said. In the last legislative session, Rep. Babette Josephs (D-182nd Dist.) vowed to kill the bill if it were to be sent to the House State Government Committee, which she chairs. This week, Josephs again expressed her strong opposition to the legislation. “With all the problems that people in this state have, I’m very, very disappointed that someone in the Senate thinks that it’s appropriate to try to suppress people’s rights. [The bill’s supporters] are so out of touch, completely wandering in the wilderness. I don’t know what’s wrong with them. I’m very disappointed in the Senate and in Eichelberger.” Josephs said that, if the legislation were to come before her committee, while she gives every bill “the attention it deserves,” she’d be “hesitant to
do anything with a bill that is so destructive, divisive, useless and counterproductive.” In order for the constitution to be amended, the bill would need to pass in the same form in both the Senate and House in two consecutive sessions and then would be put to a public vote. Andy Hoover, legislative director of the Pennsylvania American Civil Liberties Union, said LGBT and ally individuals should contact their representatives to ensure their voices are heard. “People should still be active, they shouldn’t sit back and figure this is not going to pass. People in the state legislature need to know that there are people out there who care about this issue,” Hoover said. Stacey Sobel, former executive director of Equality Advocates Pennsylvania, agreed that grassroots efforts could be the most effective in defeating this legislation. “It’s important for legislators from around the state to hear from their constituents that fair-minded Pennsylvanians oppose this type of constitutional amendment,” she said. “Pennsylvanians want to get down to the real issues at hand, like economy and healthcare for families. This type of constitutional amendment at this time is a waste of taxpayers’ money and a waste of legislators’ time.”■
resources for the youth, it also has been a good opportunity for the six organizers to come together as they never have before. “This is a tremendous collaboration among these providers,” Jacobs said. “It’s a great thing that this is happening and that it’s being done through these partnerships.” Michael Hinson, COLOURS executive director, said he brought the idea of the internship program to other community leaders and knew it would need cooperation from a collection of organizations. “I had reached out to the other youth-service providers to say that this is something the young people need and the community needs,” Hinson said. “This was not something one of our organizations could have done alone because the level of involvement needed requires a number of us to make it successful.” Louis Bonilla, executive director of GALAEI, said the initiative could lead to stronger, more effective working relationships
among these organizations. “We all know each other, but that spirit of working together and that spirit of friendship and bonds of solidarity can become strengthened as we do more work together,” Bonilla said. Hinson added that while the program will require a good deal of work from the organizing agencies and the interns, the effort will help ensure future success among the younger LGBT generations. “This is a huge opportunity to fill a gap in the community that has been here for a long time,” he said. “We need business and employment mentorships for our young people. Not many other places would take this initiative to make this happen specifically for the youth in our community, so it has to come from within our own community.” Youth interested in the program should contact one of the six participating agencies. ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn.com.
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Media Trail Cynthia Nixon to wed Fox News reports “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon is engaged to her long-term girlfriend Christine Marinoni. The actor, known for her role as Miranda Hobbs in the hit series and film, made the announcement at a gay-marriage rally May 17 in New York City. The 43-year-old was pictured wearing an engagement ring at the event, which she attended alongside her “Sex” co-star Kristin Davis. She began dating Marinoni, an education activist, in 2003. Last year, Nixon said she and Marinoni would only get married if it became legal in New York.
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FROM NEW YORK TO NEW HOPE: New York City’s Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps performs May 16 during the sixth-annual New Hope Celebrates Pride. The organization is celebrating its 30th anniversary this season and New Hope was its first stop on its “Season Of Rewind.” Members performed to popular songs from the past three decades, such as “Material Girl” and “If My Friends Could See Me Now.” Photo: Scott A. Drake
Lawmakers call for LGBT inclusion in census By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer A group of bipartisan legislators is calling on a federal agency to count samesex married couples in the upcoming U.S. Census. More than 50 U.S. representatives, led by openly gay legislators Tammy Baldwin (DWisc.), Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Jared Polis (D-Colo.), as well as Steven Israel (DN.Y.), issued a letter last week to the Office of Management and Budget, pressing for the inclusion of legally married gay couples in the 2010 Census. U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-2nd Dist.) was the only representative from Pennsylvania to sign the letter. Last year, then-President Bush issued a statement that same-sex couples who responded that they were married on their census forms would have their status changed to “unmarried.” “We are deeply concerned about the implications of this policy for same-sex couples and for the integrity of the census as a whole and firmly believe the [Census] Bureau’s primary objective should be to collect data and report it, not collect data and alter it,” stated the letter, sent May 14
to OMB director Peter Orszag. Bush said at the time that he made the decision to exclude same-sex married couples based on the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law that bans the legalization of same-sex marriage at the federal level. The representatives’ letter stated that including same-sex couples in the analysis is not antithetical to DOMA. “We firmly believe that publicly reporting data collected on the status of same-sex couples in the United States is not tantamount to federal recognition of samesex marriage. Instead, public reporting simply provides basic information about how Americans respond to the Census Bureau’s questions,” the legislators wrote. The last time the U.S. Census was employed, in 2000, same-sex marriage was not legal anywhere in the country. Massachusetts legalized such unions in 2004, Connecticut achieved marriage equality last year, and this year Iowa, Vermont and Maine all approved samesex marriage. Vermont and Maine’s new marriage laws will go into effect in September. A marriage-equality bill in New Hampshire is currently awaiting the governor’s approval, and a similar bill
in New York, which already recognizes same-sex marriages performed out of state, received Assembly approval last week and is awaiting consideration in the Senate. The California Supreme Court will rule in the next two weeks on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, which overturned the court’s previous ruling legalizing gay marriage. Some 18,000 same-sex couples were married in California when it was legal. Frank noted that, in light of the evolving marriage laws in several states, same-sex couples should logically be included in the data. “We are simply asking the Census Bureau to report the facts as they exist,” he said. “This should not be controversial.” Kenneth Barr, OMB communications director, said the agency will consider the lawmakers’ arguments. “We are aware of the letter that has been sent by a number of members of Congress, and we will work with [Commerce] Secretary [Gary] Locke and the Census Bureau to look into their concern,” Barr said. ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn.com.
365gay.com reports South Carolina lawmakers won’t allow a new school program aimed at curbing relationship abuse to mention gay and lesbian partnerships. State representatives voted overwhelmingly on May 14 to bar any mention of homosexual relationships in the new program for middle- and highschool students. Bill sponsor Rep. Joan Brady said excluding gay relationships is fine because “traditional domestic violence occurs in a man-woman, boy-girl situation.”
Tenn. won’t recognize trans marriage ABC News reports Tennessee authorities have invalidated the 18-month marriage of a transgender woman and a man, claiming the state considers them both men. Jo T. Rittenberry, 46, was born a man and had sex-reassignment surgery in Canada. She had officials legally change the gender on her Kentucky birth certificate and Tennessee driver’s license. Rittenberry married Jeffery Scott Phillips, 36, in November 2007. Tennessee does not permit same-sex marriage and does not recognize gender change even after sex-reassignment surgery. Authorities began raising questions of gender after Rittenberry was booked into jail in March, charged with domestic assault against a relative and criminal impersonation stemming from allegations of credit-card fraud. ■ — Larry Nichols
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DHS to hold forum for LGBT youth By Timothy Cwiek PGN Writer-at-Large
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The city’s Department of Human Services is sponsoring a town-hall meeting May 28 for LGBTQ youth who wish to give feedback about the quality of services funded by DHS. Organizers said it’s the first event of its kind in the department’s 89year history. “We’re reaching out to everyone possible to get youths to attend,” said Joseph N. Verdecchio, DHS’ liaison to the LGBT community. “We’re hoping for a substantial turnout. We know we’re not perfect, and that we’re open to improvement. Perhaps the youths will identify areas where we can improve.” Verdecchio estimated that 700 LGBT youth receive supportive services through DHS, though far fewer have identified themselves as such to DHS officials. “We don’t keep those type of statistics because it’s intrusive,” he said. DHS offers services to LGBT youth by contracting with providers who run group homes and institutions. It also helps place LGBT children in foster and adoptive homes. DHS funds Bethel House, the only group home in Philadelphia that caters specifically to LGBT youth, located in Queen Village.
“There will be young people from Bethel House at the town-hall meeting,” Verdecchio said. DHS also provides preventive services to LGBT children who continue living with their families of origin. Additionally, it runs the Youth Study Center, a 130-bed facility in North Philadelphia for delinquent youth. Verdecchio said LGBT-related disputes between DHS-served youth and parents or guardians run the gamut. “Failing to use the correct pronouns for transgender youths is a biggie,” he said. “There’s also the issue of not letting gay youths attend LGBT functions. If an LGBT youth is doing something that’s a legitimate expression of their identity, we will advocate for them. If there’s a question, we tend to err on the side of the child.” He said a DHS policy explaining the rights and responsibilities of LGBT youth will be released soon, and that he hopes the information would be included in an updated handbook given to all DHS youth. He didn’t know when a new handbook might be published. Verdecchio said the May 28 meeting will focus on the needs of LGBT individuals between ages 14-23. “Several DHS people will be there to hear both individual and group concerns. They’ll be available
to speak personally to youths, if the youths want to speak privately to someone regarding their concerns.” The expectation is that the young participants will not discuss details about their individual cases during the public portion of the meeting, Verdecchio added. He said the agency has conducted street outreach, passed out fliers and contacted service providers to help increase the turnout. Additionally, youth may email concerns and input to dhscommunications@phila.gov or call (888) 808-0066. Verdecchio said every e-mail will receive a response and that youth should rest assured DHS officials are listening to their concerns and poised to take action. “We have a number of working groups who are meeting on a regular basis, presently examining how to improve services for LGBTQ youths,” he added. The meeting will be held 68 p.m. May 28 at the Achieving Independence Center, 1118 Market St., second floor. Pizza and refreshments will be provided. Additionally, Verdecchio said tokens will be dispensed to those who need them to get home. ■ Timothy Cwiek can be reached at (215) 625-8501 ext. 208.
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Local wrestlers make hall of merit By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer Two local LGBT wrestlers will go down in history, thanks to recognition from a national organization. Dennis Spillman and Michael LoFurno will be inducted into the Wrestlers Without Borders 2009 Don Jung Hall of Merit. WWB created the Hall of Merit two years ago in memory of Jung, founder of San Francisco’s LGBT wrestling organization, to honor those who display “extraordinary commitment and selflessness” to the sport, said WWB chair Roger Brigham. Spillman and LoFurno were influential in the founding and continued success of the Philadelphia Spartans wrestling club, earning the WWB members’ nomination to the Hall of Merit. A committee narrowed the field down to 10 finalists, then selected Spilllman and LoFurno as two of this year’s six inductees. Brigham said both men exemplify “Endurance and Excellence,” the theme of the 2009 Hall of Merit, and have displayed a “sustained commitment that inspired others.” “They were there to create Philadelphia Spartans and they have been there through the years to lead the coaching efforts, to lead the membership and fundraising drives and to shape the culture of the club,” Brigham said. Spillman, 58, helped found the Spartans in 1991, alongside John Necci and 2008 Hall of Merit inductee Rick Van Tassel. “I did judo in high school and afterward, so this was something I had kind of always wanted to get involved with,” Spillman said. “At the time there was a new club in New York, and I knew one of the guys that started it, John Necci, and he came down here so he, Ricky and I decided to start our own in Philadelphia.” Spillman spent about four years with the Spartans, competing as well as coaching, before moving to Arizona, where he founded an LGBT wrestling club in Phoenix. He returned to the area six years later to care for his ailing parents and, this time, focused more on assisting with the development of the social and fundraising components of the team instead of competing. After his return, Spillman also got involved with Team Philadelphia, the umbrella organization that represents all local LGBT sports
clubs, and became a delegate to the Federation of Gay Games. Spillman said he was honored, yet taken aback, when WWB notified him that he was nominated for the Hall of Merit. “I was shocked,” he said. “It was never something that I saw happening.” LoFurno, 51, has also been involved with the Spartans since the club’s inception. Now the Spartans’ treasurer, he was the club’s first member and is the longest continuous member. He said that while he had no previous wrestling experience, he was initially drawn to the organization for the physical outlet it provides. “I was the first person that showed up, and I decided to go pretty much to just be able to get more physical exercise outside of the gym; the gym’s a static situation, while wrestling is more hands-on,” he said. “The guys that started the club all seemed like good guys, and I was really interested in sharing in the enthusiasm that they all had about the club.” LoFurno has medaled in numerous local competitions and received his first Gay Games medal — silver — in 2006 after competing in all four of the national quadrennial tournaments since the Spartans’ founding. LoFurno said that in his 18 years with the Spartans, the goals of the organization have not changed much. “We’ve tried hard to maintain the spirit of the club from the
beginning, which was all about competition but also fun and education,” he said. “It’s a place people can go to without any sort of anxiety. We try to make new people, of all skill levels, welcome. Sports in general can be a scary thing for a lot of guys, so we’ve always tried to make this very accessible.” LoFurno said he appreciates that WWB recognized and is honoring his longstanding commitment to the Spartans and LGBT wrestling. “I was excited and kind of glad, because I’ve been doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work for a long time, so having the national organization notice that you’ve been involved and been around, still plowing forward is extremely gratifying,” he said. Van Tassel said both inductees were perfect for the honor. “They’ve both been recognized for their contribution to wrestling and it’s certainly deserved. They have long, active and really illustrious careers in our local wrestling community.” ■
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Editorial Two steps forward, one step back Progress is a slow event. This week, two openly gay judicial candidates won the Democratic nomination in Philadelphia, virtually assuring they will be elected in November. And state Sen. John Eichelberger (R-30th Dist.) announced he would introduce a bill to amend the Pennsylvania constitution to limit marriage to one man and one woman. He’s presently seeking co-sponsors and might move on the bill in June, when the legislature is back in session. Two steps forward, one step back. The judges’ nomination is significant because, if elected, it would mark the election of two more openly gay judges to the bench. Dan Anders, who was appointed by Gov. Rendell in 2007 to fill a vacancy in the Court of Common Pleas, and Dawn Segal, who was running for Municipal Court, would be elected to 10-year terms. Like the possibility that President Obama may nominate a lesbian to replace Associate Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court — Kathleen Sullivan and Pam Karlan are under consideration — having more openly gay judges increases the diversity on the bench, bringing new perspectives and experiences to the law and thereby increasing fairness and justice. On the other hand, Eichelberger’s effort to amend the state constitution is frustrating. At present, Pennsylvania already bans same-sex marriage, has no statewide law to protect sexual minorities in employment, housing and accommodations and doesn’t include sexual-orientation or gender-identity in hate-crimes protections. At best, his efforts are a distraction from pending legislation that would extend civil-rights and hate-crimes protections based on sexual minority and gender identity status. At worst, Eichelberger is attacking the LGBT community in an effort to reignite the culture wars in Pennsylvania. This legislation has had mixed success in the past — passing in both Houses two sessions ago, and in the Senate last session. With the Democratic gains in the last election, it’s probable the bill would progress even less this session. But it’s not something the LGBT community can take for granted. The community must make its voice heard — constituents must contact their legislators and tell their stories, talk about how this bill will affect them and how it isn’t needed. Rather than introduce discrimination into the constitution, the legislature should be working to increase equality for all. ■
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Jennifer Vanasco
Civil rights: still a long way off There are five states in the U.S. without a hate-crime law. One of them is Wyoming. Wyoming, where 10 years ago, Matthew Shepard was robbed, pistolwhipped, tortured, tied to a fence and left to die. Wyoming. Though it’s not like the other 45 states with hate-crime laws are perfect. Only 32 of them cover sexual orientation. Only 11 cover gender identity. Last month, the House passed a hate-crimes bill by a wide margin — a bill that would protect gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders in all states, including ones like Wyoming that have no hate-crime bills of their own. But the Senate is more complicated. Currently, the sponsors of the bill are searching for an innocuous bill, sure to pass, to attach it to, because it is not strong enough to survive on its own. Hopefully, the president’s support — he said it would “enhance civil-rights protections, while also protecting our freedom of speech and association” — will help facilitate this process. But I’m not holding my breath. Earlier this month, at a discussion hosted by a media company’s LGBT employee group, Matthew’s mother Judy Shepard expressed dismay and frustration that 10 years after her son’s
death, little progress had been made. “I never thought I’d still be doing this 10 years later,” she said, her voice quiet but firm. But she said that even if we get this bill, it is not enough. Prosecution is one piece of the puzzle, she said — but we also need to focus on prevention. Prevention of violence means education. It means school antibullying laws. It means explaining to kids that saying “that’s so gay” is not a neutral term but a loaded one, inspiring anxiety in gay and lesbian classmates. It means trying to eliminate the culture of hate where it grows — in families, in churches, in schools. It is exactly this education piece that our opponents are worried about. Antigay legislators — people like Rep. Virginia Foxx, who called Matthew Shepard’s death a “hoax” in front of his mother, before apologizing — are worried that we will educate people into understanding that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are perfectly normal. They worry that their children and grandchildren will grow up in a world where no one shudders at the sight of two men holding hands, or two women pledging commitment to each other in white gowns. They worry that it will be so
normal, that perhaps one of their daughters will kiss another girl and think nothing of it; perhaps one of their sons will fall in love with another man. They worry that their values will no longer be the country’s values. And they are right to worry, of course. The acceptance of gay rights is generational. The younger you are, the more likely you are to be growing up with the idea that gay is A-OK. Even so, we are far from a world — or a country — that practices nonviolence toward our community. In the past month, four different people were attacked in Manhattan, in what seem to be antigay crimes. Attacked in Chelsea, the center of the gay community, in one of the most liberal cities in the world. We are not yet safe, no matter where we live. Sharon Staple, executive director of New York’s Gay & Lesbian AntiViolence Project, said we will know we have our full civil rights when we can walk down any street in this country, in any city, holding our partner’s hand and not being afraid. In New York or in Wyoming, that day still seems very far away. ■ Jennifer Vanasco is an award-winning syndicated columnist. E-mail her at Jennifer.Vanasco@gmail.com.
MAY 22 - 28, 2009
Mark My Words
PHILADELPHIA GAY NEWS
Mark Segal
Are we losing hope, faith in Obama? There have never been higher hopes for our community as a president took the oath of office as in January. We were promised an end to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the Defense of Marriage Act. And as a Senate candidate, he supported gay marriage; as a presidential candidate, he was opposed, but spoke out against antigay-marriage legislation in Pennsylvania and Proposition 8 in California, also stating that he supported federal civil unions that would give samesex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples. While the administration states it still supports those issues and is working on a strategy to achieve at least some of them in Obama’s first term, something happened last week that was unsettling. National Guard First Lt. Dan Choi, an infantry patrol leader who has seen combat and speaks Arabic, along with a group of 38 West Point graduates, came out in March with the offer to serve as a sort of support group for other LGBT cadets, and more importantly offered to serve as a liaison with the Army administration as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is repealed. Choi appeared on “The Rachel Maddow Show” and publicly came out in violation of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and returned to the show last week. This came to the attention of the White House press correspondents and the following
exchange took place between reporters and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. GIBBS: The president, as you know, supports changing that because he strongly believes that it does not serve our national interest. He agrees with former members of the Joint Chiefs in that determination. Unlike photos, the durable solution to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is through the legislative process, and the president is working with Congress and members of the Joint Chiefs to ensure that that happens. REPORTER: But couldn’t he in the meantime put a moratorium on these discharges until that can be accomplished? GIBBS: The president has determined that’s not the way to seek any sort of lasting or durable solution to the public-policy problem that we have. REPORTER: How would you respond to the criticism that dismissing qualifying linguists endangers the troops? GIBBS: I would respond by saying the president has long believed the policy doesn’t serve our national interests. To put this into perspective, you have to notice two other items the administration turned around on: continuing the military tribunals in Guantanamo, which he said he would end during the campaign; and he would not release the infamous Abu Ghraib torture pictures. So where’s the common link? The military. In that regard, even before taking office Obama and
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Street Talk What’s a more appropriate term — gay or homosexual?
Jessica Bertino hostess Hammonton, N.J.
Sarah Bowker check-cashing teller Hammonton, N.J.
“Gay. It has a friendlier tone to it. My brother is gay. We use the word all the time. Homosexual is so harsh. And it limits a person to their sexuality, as if they didn’t have a personality.”
“Homosexual. All I ever heard in high school was, ‘That’s so gay’ or ‘He’s so gay.’ It doesn’t have the connotation that’s appropriate for the LGBT community. Homosexual is less offensive.”
My Phakeuth housekeeper Olney
Jeffrey Thompson college student Sicklerville, N.J.
“Homosexual is more polite. The definition of gay isn’t the same anymore. Gay people should be proud, but that word has become totally negative. It’s not that bad, but it’s pretty negative. Faggot would be worse, of course.”
“Homosexual. It’s more factual, more mellow. Gay sounds too inflammatory. Depending on how it’s used, it can be misleading. Homosexual gets right to the point. In my opinion, it’s the more appropriate word.”
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Letters and Feedback Defending the democratic process Editor: I’d like to provide some context about the Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club’s endorsement process as described by Jay McCalla in his letter to PGN (May 15-21). Liberty City is a 15-year-old, all-volunteer, member-driven organization. Each and every endorsement vote the club makes is decided by a vote of our members. Membership is defined by attending two events per year and paying annual dues. Membership is open to all. There is simply no way — short of ballot-box stuffing — for our board or endorsement committee to fix a vote. This is partially because we revamped our bylaws in 2006 to close any loopholes that would allow a stacked vote. But mostly our process is fair because our club is set up so that all members are equal, rather than allowing decisions about
endorsements to rest in the hands of an elite group. Members come from all walks of life and membership is open to the community. All decisions about endorsements are made by club members. To criticize the decisions of Liberty City without acknowledging the role of various and diverse individuals from the community is a folly. I invite everyone to visit www.libertycity. org to read the explanation there about why club members endorsed each candidate included in this year’s slate, as well as the candidates’ original answers to our questionnaire. Mr. McCalla is right that many of the candidates we endorse for office make contributions to our get-out-the-vote effort. We are an all-volunteer group and, although we rely as much as we can on our members to fund our work, to cover 100 divisions on E-day, as is our plan, and to print literature
and place ads requires extra funds. We have asked candidates to contribute toward our GOTV program every year that I have been involved in the organization: Some do and some don’t. And that has had nothing to do with who has been endorsed or supported on Election Day. We have a solid track record among candidates for office and political insiders as having a fair endorsement process and a transparent get-out-the-vote operation. That perception is reality. Mr. McCalla also makes the claim in his letter that the club endorses candidates who do not support “full equality.” To some, equality only means marriage. To me, full human rights must also include the freedom not to be beaten when walking down See LETTERS, Page 14
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Film festival organizers split up ... again By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer The organizers of the city’s mainstream and LGBT film festivals announced this week that they will officially separate — this time for real. TLA Entertainment Group and the Philadelphia Film Society had been in an ongoing dispute over management issues and, although the two collaborated on this spring’s mainstream festival, they will now be headed in different directions. TLA will produce QFest, the LGBT festival, this summer, as well as CineFest next spring, while PFS will launch its Philadelphia Film Festival in fall 2010. TLA originally took over production of the Philadelphia
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Festival of World Cinema, founded in 1992, in 2001 and renamed it the Philadelphia Film Festival two years later. The agency also founded the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in 1995, and created the Philadelphia Film Society in 2002 to oversee production of both festivals. A statement from TLA in January announced that “recent disagreements between PFS board leadership and TLA over the management and artistic vision of the festivals has necessitated a breakup of the business relationship.” The following month, however, the two agencies said they had resolved their differences and would collaborate on the newly named Philadelphia Film Festival/
CineFest. That partnership is now over. TLA, under the name The Philadelphia Cinema Alliance, will run QFest, formerly PIGLFF, July 9-20, and CineFest, April 819, 2010, while PFS will stage the Philadelphia Film Festival in October 2010. Matthew Ray, director of media relations for The Philadelphia Cinema Alliance, said that while his agency could work on collaborative efforts with PFS in the future, the film festivals will be independent productions. “There is no cooperative involvement on the table at this point,” Ray said. “I don’t think that should ever be completely ruled out, as we’ve done joint programming and co-promotional things with a lot of different
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organizations, so we’re always looking to work with other partners. But right now, we’re no longer working on these festivals with PFS; we’re both moving in separate directions.” Ray noted that audiences will see virtually no differences between this year’s LGBT festival and last year’s, except for the name. “All of the programmers, logistical people and support staff that put on PIGLFF last year will be involved in QFest,” Ray said. “Any changes that happen will just be changes in people’s tastes, changes in Hollywood or trends in the industry.”
J. Andrew Greenblatt, PFS executive director, said the agency will not pursue its own LGBT festival. “TLA is well-experienced and fantastic at running PIGLFF, now retitled QFest, and we plan on supporting their efforts with that,” Greenblatt said. For more information about QFest and CineFest, visit www. qfest.com. For more information about the Philadelphia Film Festival, visit www.phillyfests. com. ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn.com.
MAY 22 - 28, 2009
PHILADELPHIA GAY NEWS
International News
Larry Nichols
Police attack Moscow Pride
Peruvian police to Cubans conga ban gays against homophobia
Police thwarted a gay-pride march in Moscow on May 16, arresting 40 activists in reportedly violent attacks. Gay-rights activists planned the march, which city officials had banned, to coincide with the finals of the popular Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Russian capital May 12-16, to draw attention to homophobia in the country. When would-be marchers gathered at around noon to demonstrate, police reportedly dove into their ranks after just minutes, grabbing and dragging activists to waiting patrol vans. Some 40 activists reportedly were arrested, including Andy Thayer of the United States, Peter Tatchell of Britain and Russian gay-rights leader Nikolai Alexeyev. Despite calls for artists to boycott Eurovision in support of gay rights, the contest continued without interruption.
Peru is planning to ban gays from joining the police. Interior Minister Mercedes Cabanillas proposed new measures to raise public confidence in the police. Along with permanent suspension of any officer found to have sexual relations with someone of the same gender, adulterers would also be barred from the force. The measures will also censure those who “organize, promote, participate or incite strikes, stoppages or marches.” Critics have attacked the proposals as unconstitutional. Last May, human-rights groups expressed concern after the alleged rape of a gay man by the Peruvian police. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission asked its supporters to write to the authorities in Peru about the handling of the alleged case. Luis Alberto Rojas Marín, 26, claimed he was repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted by three police officers in February 2008. Supporters of the police launched a campaign of protests, criticizing the alleged victim’s sexuality and blaming him for the rape.
Irish health service to recognize gay relationships The Irish Health Service Executive plans to draw up new guidelines for hospitals to recognize partners of LGBT people and address health concerns specific to the LGBT community. The guidelines are included in a number of recommendations made by a new report on LGBT health, released May 13. The report also found particular health problems in the LGBT community, such as higher levels of drinking and smoking than in the general population. The report noted prejudice and discrimination as health issues, and suggested they could lead to increased risk of depression, substance misuse, self-harm and suicidal behavior, particularly among younger, more vulnerable LGBT people. Odhrán Allen, director of mental-health strategy at the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network, welcomed the report, saying: “For the first time in Ireland we have a coherent and comprehensive report on the particular health needs of LGBT people as well as clear recommendations on how the HSE can address these needs.”
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Cuban President Raul Castro’s daughter led hundreds of gays in a street dance May 16 in Havana to draw attention to gay rights on the island. Participants formed a conga line around two city blocks to the beat of drums and accompanied by costumed stilt-walkers. Events also included educational panels and presentations about gay rights and sexual diversity. “We’re calling on the Cuban people to participate so that the revolution can be deeper and include all the needs of the human being,” said Mariela Castro, an outspoken gay-rights advocate who directs Cuba’s officially sanctioned Sex Education Center. At the program’s opening, Parliament speaker president Ricardo Alarcon said Cuba has advanced in recent years in the area of gay rights. The communist government discriminated against homosexuals in the years after the 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro, Mariela’s uncle. But tolerance of homosexuality on the island has grown in recent years. ■ Larry Nichols can be reached at larry@epgn.com.
*CHANGE OF DATE* Friday, May 15: BA Shabbat service, 8:00 PM. Please join us for a traditional rabbi-led BA service, followed by the oneg. *CHANGE OF PLAY/THEATRE* Saturday, May 16 : BA Theatre Party, 8:00 PM, “The Little Dog Laughed,” Adrienne Theatre, 20th and Sansom. Dinner prior to the show at a nearby restaurant. Tickets: $18/person. If interested in attending, please contact BA at 215-923-2003 with your name, phone number, e-mail address, and the number of tickets you’re interested in reserving. *NEW DATE* Sunday, June 14: The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene presents, “Mama’s Lokshn Kugel,” a traveling Yiddish revue featuring classic songs and sketches, 3:00 PM; $10/person, payable at the door, Teller Auditorium at Rodeph Shalom. Supertitles will be projected during the performance--no knowledge of Yiddish required. Please reserve by calling BA at 215-923-2003 and leaving your name and phone number on our voicemail. Beth Ahavah and Rodeph Shalom are affiliated in spirit and share a sacred home. In July 2007 Beth Ahavah affiliated with Rodeph Shalom. Beth Ahavah retains its congregational status within the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) and proudly offers its congregation dual membership at both synagogues.
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his staff were well aware of how entrenched our military system was and how difficult it would be to win their trust. Their homework was “The Clinton Curse.” One of President Bill Clinton’s first efforts was to resolve the gays in the military issue. This led to the creation of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” a political disaster. Like then, the military doesn’t trust the new president. Should this be a surprise? No. During the campaign, Obama
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said in the Philadelphia Gay News exclusive interview last September that he would work to change the military ban by working with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We further asked him if he’d do it by executive order or a signing statement. Again he stood his position. The president wants to change the ban by legislation in harmony with the Joint Chiefs. But there is opportunity in what happened this week. The president could create a presidential commission to look into “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” That commission would have members of Congress and the
military — on both sides of the issue — as well as members of the military who have been personally affected by the policy. Choi would be a prime candidate. While it doesn’t help those who are being dismissed currently, it does accomplish the president’s promise to work jointly with the military and Congress to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” It moves the issue forward and produces the dialogue this president appreciates. ■
long-term interests of the LGBT community, and the larger city in which it exists, especially when the offices in question each have a different impact on the issues important to us. Despite that, I think our members do a pretty good job of figuring it all out, especially considering that none
of us are policy experts. That doesn’t mean that we all like the outcome of our group’s endorsements — I have certainly not been crazy about some of them over the years — but those are the breaks when a majority is allowed to rule. We utilize a truly democratic process to make decisions and the simple fact is that if all agreed about who to vote for in the first place, there would not be a need for a group like Liberty City to exist. Last, I’d like to point out that Liberty City’s board has spent the last year diversifying our leadership to be as inclusive of the entire LGBT community as possible. We think that our diversity helps us to make the best possible political endorsements for the LGBT community by representing the opinions of as many different parts of the community as we can. That is why our board has a majority of women and people of color — something not too many other progressive or LGBT groups in Philadelphia can claim. And we’re working hard to make sure that our membership is equally representative of the community and that our entire organization is more welcoming to transgender folks. So Mr. McCalla is right on target when he suggests that Liberty City examine its internal process to better itself. Luckily, this is something we already and always will do. If he — or other members of the community — wish to share their ideas or suggestions, I encourage them to get more involved in our group and be a part of a community of decision-makers next time around.
Mark Segal is PGN publisher. He can be reached at mark@epgn. com.
Ray Murphy Co-chair, Liberty City Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club
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Wanda Sykes conquers all with her hilarious style By Larry Nichols PGN Staff Writer Anyone who thinks Wanda Sykes didn’t tear the roof off the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on May 9 can suck it. You know you are on fire — and doing your job as a comedian — when you get invited to do your thing at the most exclusive political event of the year, only to find out someone behind the scenes regretted the invitation afterward. The comedian and TV star — who recently welcomed twins with her wife Alex — spoke truth to power and had President Obama cracking smiles (and some of the more tight-assed members of the audience groaning) as she aimed a sanitized version of her sassy, razor-sharp wit at Rush Limbaugh, whom she skewered for saying he hopes the Obama administration fails. “He’s not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying,” she said, addressing the president. “You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight.” She didn’t stop there. “Rush Limbaugh, ‘I hope the country fails’ — I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a good waterboarding, that’s what he needs.”
Barb (Wanda Sykes) and Christine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) use their expertise as gym owners to help Christine’s brother Matthew (Hamish Linklater) lose weight on “The New Adventures of Old Christine.” Photo: CBS
She also joked about everyone else, from the Obamas to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Depending on what news Web site you peruse, her performance was either a triumph or inappropriate, but by May 11, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was in a huff and criticizing her choice of topics. This leads us to believe Sykes more-than lived up to her reputation that night as one of the smartest and funniest comedians in the land. In the weeks leading up to the dinner, Sykes — who probably isn’t used to biting her tongue — was still contemplating how far she could push the envelope with
such a prestige audience when she spoke to PGN. At the time, she wasn’t nervous about how she would go over. “It’s more of just finding that line of being funny but not disrespectful,” she said. “You do have to respect the office. It’s more, ‘Where is the line and how close can I get to it without crossing it?’” The White House Correspondents’ Dinner found Sykes coming full circle, as she got her start in the then-fertile comedy scene of Washington, D.C., a city known for spawning comedic talents like Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K. and Martin Lawrence. “D.C. was a great place to start,” she said. “We were in the middle of it: Politics and government was basically your audience. Everyone who worked in D.C. or lived in that area either worked for the government or they worked for a private company that had a contract with the government. We had a more-informed audience if you wanted to do political material. Also, you had a mayor that smoked crack. You had a full range of whatever you wanted to do. You had it there in D.C. That era was a great time to be doing comedy. We had a good group of guys back then who would help us younger comics out. Back then it was a great place to start.” It wasn’t long before Sykes had graduated to performing in the comedy-club mecca that is New York City. There, she had the opportunity to open for Chris
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Rock, who quickly drafted her as a writer and performer on “The Chris Rock Show,” which was nominated for four Emmys. Rock’s, and later Sykes’, ascension in the ranks of comedy from mid-level player to superstar signaled a sea change in the direction of urban comedy. It became increasingly hip to be more politically aware. “Chris was definitely at the forefront, especially for black comics, because ‘Def Jam’ was in its heyday back then,” Sykes said. “It did bring it back to, ‘OK look, there’s more things to talk about and be socially responsible.’ ‘Bring the Pain’ saved comedy for me. So I definitely put Chris out there. But there has always been comics out there who have been doing it. [George] Carlin always had something to say.” Soon Sykes had all the perks of being a high-profile comedic talent: the CDs, the book deal, sold-out performances and highprofile roles on television shows and movies. She even landed her own sitcom, Fox’s “Wanda At Large,” in 2003. That show was cancelled in its second season — something that still gnaws at Sykes because Fox pretty much doomed the show by moving it to Friday nights, a death knell for most TV programming. “All that work you put into doing a show and making it great, you realize you have no control after that,” she said. “The only thing you can do is make the product. How someone else sells the product, markets it or what shelf they decide to put it on is totally out of your hands. So you
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both of us getting on the same page as far as ideas. Also, there was a regime change over there too. I’m going to give them another shot. We’ll see. What was attractive to me about it is it’s a Saturday night so I’m not in that same world with Jay [Leno] and Dave [Letterman] and all those guys. I definitely would not go after that. It’s one night a week. That’s the vibe I wanted to have: a Saturdaynight party. We’re Sykes performs standup at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association going to have dinner, with President Obama as the guest of honor, in Washington, D.C., on May 9. everything. We’re White House correspondent for The Associated Press Jennifer Loven is at center. AP going to have a Photo: J. Scott Applewhite round table. It’s career and said there was — and and lesbian people coming out to going to be a little of ‘Politically still is — significant homophobia my shows, which is great,” she Incorrect’ meets ‘The View’ in urban comedy. said. “But they’ve always been meets ‘The Chris Rock Show’ “It’s always there. I’ve always had a nice, meets ‘The Midnight Special.’ It the stereotype of the gay black diverse audience, but maybe will be irreverent and funny. I’m guy and it’s usually in a negative they’re a little more vocal when excited about it. I’m not worried way,” she said. “I think we need to they come to the show, which is about ‘Saturday Night Live.’ It’s be a little more aware and not be great. That’s the only thing that an institution. They have their doing the gay-bashing in comedy I’ve noticed so far.” audience. I’m going after that and address it and talk about Sykes’ audience isn’t expected Arsenio [Hall] audience — that where the homophobia is coming to dwindle any time soon. And, no audience that isn’t watching from.” matter how successful the other anything on Saturday nights.” While still in the closet, Sykes’ parts of her career, she said she What has set Sykes apart from LGBT street cred got a boost last will always be ready to bring her her urban-comedy peers is her year when she participated in the considerable skills to the stage. willingness to address gay issues 2008 “True Colors Tour,” the “Standup is where it all started in her act, and in a positive and traveling LGBT-friendly music for me and that has always been intelligent fashion. event, which found Sykes joking my goal. When I got into the Sykes was with the crowd between sets by business, I said, ‘OK, I want to be not out through much of her Cyndi Lauper, The B-52s and good at standup. I want to be a very many others. funny comic.’ That’s what I’m “They approached me and asked always working on. Everything me if I would do a few cities,” she else has been branches that have said about how she ended up on grown from having my one focus the tour. “Those were the cities of being a standup. So when I get that were all outdoor events in a sitcom or another show, that’s Texas and Phoenix, where it was great and I enjoy it. But when it 130 degrees. It was all really hot goes, I’m still passionate about cities. I think they asked me to do what I’m doing. It’s not like, ‘Oh all the ones that Rosie O’Donnell God, now I have to go back and do didn’t want to do. I did five or six standup.” It’s, ‘Oooh, great, now I shows on the tour. I love Cyndi can go back and do standup!’ It’s Lauper and Joan Jett. I thought it always been my first love and my would be fun. Who doesn’t want passion. I didn’t get into standup to to travel around with The B-52s? get a sitcom or a movie. I just got It was fun. I look forward to doing these offers from doing standup. more of them.” To me, it’s the most rewarding.” Sykes didn’t address her Wanda Sykes performs 8 p.m. own sexuality publicly until and 11 p.m. May 30 at the Borgata late last year, when she came Hotel Casino and Spa Music Box, out in response to the passing 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J. of Proposition 8, California’s For more information, visit www. statewide ban on gay marriage. wandasykes.com or call (609) Sykes said that coming out has 317-1000. ■ only slightly changed her audience as a comic. Larry Nichols can be reached at Sykes speaks at a Love and Marriage Rally for Equality at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 16. “I’m sure I’m getting more gay larry@epgn.com. AP Photo: Rich Pedroncelli feel like, why bother? It was so much work we put into that show. I’m still happy with the show but the way it was scheduled, it was just too much work to do.” Even after the sting of “Wanda At Large,” Sykes still threw her hat into the ring for sitcom roles on shows like the highly acclaimed “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and her current gig on “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” where she plays the best friend, Barb, to the title character. The show has staked out some offbeat territory. Since debuting on the show, Barb has slept with Christine’s brother Matthew, with whom Christine has an almosticky codependent relationship. On another episode, Barb and Christine entered a same-sex marriage of convenience so Barb wouldn’t get deported. Sykes said she is often surprised by what the writers draft. “The stuff that they come up with, I’m like, ‘We need to go sit on a couch somewhere and talk to somebody,’” she said. “The stuff that they come up with is great. All I have to do is show up and get the script. I’m loving it over there.” Hopefully “Old Christine” will be back next season. The cast is still waiting to hear if CBS will renew the show, and ABC has expressed interest in picking it up if CBS drops it. In the meantime, Sykes will be busy with her own Saturday-night talk show, which is expected to premier on Fox this fall — and which means she has gotten over her differences with the network. “It took a lot of talking and
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Jason Villemez
The ’Net’s OK with gray and gay As Joan Rivers proves, no matter how hard one tries or how lucky one’s gene pool may be, getting old is an inevitability. Ready or not, sooner or later the things valued in youth — whether physical, cultural or emotional — are going to fade, with new aspects taking their place. It’s a transition everyone will endure and, while the picturesque couple aging gracefully together may exist in sitcoms, it can be much harder in the real world, especially for LGBT seniors. Fortunately, even in the short span of a couple years, things
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are much better than they used to be. Marriage and civil unions in several states make it easier for couples to save money and inherit. Families are becoming more common with options like surrogacy and insemination gaining popularity. And, as the baby-boomer generation reaches the big 60, so does the first wave of Stonewall-era activists, who, along with the rest of the gay senior population, will likely make an equally loud shout about aging in the LGBT community in the coming years. Nonetheless, lesbian and gay elderly are more likely to live alone, without children or caretakers, and without resources common in non-gay communities. In most states, long-term couples still cannot inherit or share health benefits
and are less likely to have caretakers. Assisted-living homes, long a standard for all other communities, are just now becoming a reality for LGBT people, and only in a few major cities. And medical and psychological resources are often ill-prepared to deal with issues like losing many friends to AIDS or staying active in a community often enamored with youth. Nowadays, as our civil rights progress along with technology, the issue is starting to gain attention and change for the better. There’s a growing number of resources available to LGBT seniors, made available by an infant, so to speak. Though it is less than a third the age of the target audience, the Internet has some pretty good sites for those needing information or advice on
the gay golden years. The American Society on Aging has put together an LGBT resource site (www.asaging. org/larc), which contains various materials on every aspect of the aging process. One can find lists on LGBT housing and health programs as well as articles and policy statements. Caregivers and professionals can find education and support information. There are lists of Web sites, DVDs and books, reports and even photographs, including a great pride parade shot of “Les Gais Retraites,” a gay elderly group in Paris. In addition to the ASA, there are also groups like Services and Advocacy for Gay Elders (www. sageusa.org), whose Web site contains resources on all types of issues. The AARP also has many
LGBT groups, including its Prism Network (found on www.aarp. org), an online community with a message forum, photos and videos. You might have read Victoria A. Brownworth’s article last week in this publication, “LGBT Seniors: Out of the closet and nowhere to go,” which discussed the varying difficulties sexual-minority elderly couples and singles face. The next installment will cover how LGBT organizations are addressing aging issues. Hopefully, as the issue grows and organizations utilize resources like the Web, it won’t be as tough for the gays to go gray. ■ Contact Jason with feedback at outonline@gmail.com.
Bruce Yelk
2009 LGBT summer fun guide Happy Memorial Day weekend! It might just be me, but it seems like spring gets shorter and shorter each year. As we approach summer with a full head of steam, there are two important considerations for all the beach-hopping weekend warriors among us: 1. Whether your waistline is ready or not, you’re only a few precious hours away from debuting this season’s swimwear; 2. It’s time to finalize your summer social schedule. While I can’t help you with the first point, I have a lengthy list of recommendations to fill your summer schedule. Regardless of your interests and the size of your social budget, my list has something for everyone. So without further ado, I respectfully submit Offline’s 2009 LGBT Summer Fun Guide. — Memorial Day Celebration
at 101: After chatting with friends and colleagues alike, it seems like lots of Philly’s finest are staying in town this weekend. If you’ll be here over the weekend, don’t forget to stop by O.N.E. at Rittenhouse Square, 19th and Sansom streets, for 101, the region’s premier weekly gathering. This week’s event features discount cocktails from 7-9 p.m. and a “Wet Underwear” contest open to all. The winner will receive a free round-trip airline ticket to the destination of his/her choice. Visit www. nightlifegay.com for all the details. — Philly Pride Presents: At various times throughout the summer, every major city in the U.S. holds its annual Gay Pride celebration. Our local pride festivities, featuring the parade and festival at Penn’s Landing, will take place June 14. Visit www.phillypride.org for more information. — The Jewel of the Jersey Shore: Asbury Park, N.J., has been the punch line of more than a few jokes over the years. But despite its detractors, Asbury continues to redevelop and
revitalize. With an influx of residential and rental properties, as well as new cultural and retail attractions opening every few months, Asbury has become an amazing shore spot. Even better is the ease with which you can travel there from Center City. In a little over an hour, you can be sipping cocktails at the Empress, 101 Asbury Ave. When planning your trip, consider Gay Pride on June 6 and Roadtrip Weekend on July 17-19. Visit www. gayasburypark.com to get your itinerary together. — The Perfect Town: Provincetown, Mass., is quite possibly the most popular LGBT destination in the country. With a picturesque harbor, amazing architecture and some of the best local art in the world, P-Town is ground zero for throngs of LGBT vacationers. I’ll be on vacation there with my closest friends during Carnival Week, Aug. 1622. To find everything you need to plan your trip, visit www. ptown.org/carnival. — “Key West” of the MidAtlantic: Rehoboth Beach, Del., is arguably the most popular weekend getaway for
gay and lesbian Philadelphians. Though we share this amazing destination with hoards of D.C. boys and girls, I’ve always felt there is something unique and Philadelphia-esque about Rehoboth. If you’re planning a summer trip, LOVE Weekend during July 4 is the perfect time to visit. For information on this incredible event, visit www.loveweekend.org. — The Best of the Midwest: If you’ve got a hankering for some strapping corn-fed men, you must visit Saugatuck, Mich. Located on Michigan’s west coast, Saugatuck is widely recognized as the premier summer fun destination among gays in the flyover states. To plan your trip, visit www. gaysaugatuckdouglas.com. — “The Isle of Fire”: OK, I fudged the title slightly, but Fire Island will forever be known as one of the country’s most beloved gay destinations. Whether you prefer The Grove or The Pines, there’s no shortage of hot men and lovely ladies to ogle at the beaches and bars. I suggest planning your trip in coordination with the Heritage of Pride festivities in Manhattan on
June 28. There’s no better way to cool down from a hot weekend in the city than with a trip to the beach afterward. Visit www. gayfireisland.com and www. nycpride.org for all the details. — Go “West” Young Man: Since I’ve covered many diversions east of the Rockies, it seems fitting to make at least one West Coast recommendation. Russian River is the hottest summer destination for California’s LGBT weekenders. Situated in Guerneville (just outside of San Francisco), Russian River is a fabulously scenic destination with special events throughout the summer. Check out the Russian River Rodeo in June and the Lazy Bear Weekend in July at www. russianrivertravel.com/gay/ events.htm. So there you have it — my picks for summer events and travel in 2009. ’Til next time, get offline and see what your community has to offer! ■ If you have comments or information on upcoming events, e-mail Bruce@nightlifegay.com, reference Offline.
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Out fashionista’s childhood hits the small screen By Larry Nichols PGN Staff Writer “Isn’t that groovy? I’m so thrilled.” Simon Doonan, openly gay author, style critic, TV personality and creative director at Barneys New York, is talking rather excitedly about the American debut of “Beautiful People,” and with good reason. The brilliantly funny series debuting on Logo is based on his best-selling memoir, “Beautiful People: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints.” Doonan said the show was so well-received in the U.K. that a second season is already in production.
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“Beautiful People” features Simon’s perspective as a window dresser at Barneys as he takes viewers back to his unconventional childhood in suburban, workingclass Reading, England. Simon, at 13, along with his friend Kyle (who prefers to be called Kylie), both want nothing more than to leave their drab, boring little town and off-kilter home lives for the perceived excitement and glitz of the big city. It must be noted that the show isn’t 100-pecent true to Doonan’s actual childhood, as it depicts modern-day Simon as a 20something window dresser for Barneys and sets teenage Simon’s misadventures in the 1990s instead of his real teenage years, which were in the 1960s. “It was updated dramatically,” he said. “The BBC wanted to make the cultural references more relevant to people. My
teenage years were more about Dusty Springfield and The Kinks. They wanted to make the show relevant for young kids today who are coming to terms with their sexuality, their orientation and their gay sensibility. The effective way to do that was to update it so that you can crossreference Kylie Minogue and the Spice Girls — the cheesiest, most fun things from the 1990s. It was a pop-culturally driven decision.” Doonan said that another difference between the show and real life is the way Simon’s parents are portrayed. In “Beautiful People,” Simon’s parents, especially his mother Debbie (played by Olivia Colman), are more supportive of young Simon’s eccentricities than they were in real life. “My parents weren’t as accepting as the parents on the show because they lived in an era where people didn’t express themselves,” Doonan said. “The mother in the show is very affirming. The one thing my parents did, though, was being gay was small potatoes compared to the other stuff that was going on. My grandmother was schizophrenic. There was my blind aunt Phyllis living upstairs. There was layer upon layer of strangeness. So my being gay in that context was like, ‘Oh well, I guess you’re a poof. But it could be worse. You could be mentally ill.’ I had an easier coming-out because being gay in that context was more readily accepted than it might have been.” Simon’s friend Kyle/Kylie has an opposite home life. His mother is constantly berating him for his effeminate ways. But Doonan said there is a lesson to be learned from her intolerance. “His mother is homophobic because her attitude represents prevalent attitudes,” he said. “They had to have someone on the show that was actually juxtaposed to the parents, who were accepting and loving of Simon. It was smart to show a parent who was not that way, who is resistant and homophobic. She gets punished on many levels because Kylie is so resilient and fabulous that he keeps rising above it all the time. He’s irrepressible.” Doonan said despite the liberties taken with the details of his life, the show still conveys what it’s like for someone trying to figure out where they fit and where they want to go in life.
“As a kid growing up in a crap town with a house full of lunatics, I couldn’t wait to get out and get to London,” he said. “That impulse to escape, especially for a gay kid, is very important. It’s a survival thing. For gay people, being able to get out of dodge
and reinvent yourself is hugely important, especially if you live in an oppressive environment. In the series, you know that Kylie and Simon are eventually going to get away, even though they have an abortive attempt at the beginning.”
“Beautiful People” premieres at 10:30 p.m. May 26 on Logo. For more information, visit www.simondoonan.net or www. LOGOonline.com. ■ Larry Nichols can be reached at larry@epgn.com.
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Family Portraits
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Suzi Nash
It’s been a long time since I had the need for a fake boyfriend. The ’80s, in fact. But if I did, I would want it to be Russell Barefoot. The handsome, huggable trainer met me recently near the 12th Street Gym, where he trains and inspires his clients on a daily basis. As we walked toward a coffee shop where we sat to talk, I was struck by how many people not only stopped him to say hi, but threw their arms around him for a warm bear hug.
the simplest bachelor’s degree I could get so that I could graduate and start on my master’s. I got a job at a fraternity (which was trial by fire), decided that I liked it and went to Bowling Green State University in Ohio and got my master’s. I worked in the field for 12 years as director of student activities, director of leadership development, director of student involvement, up to working as the assistant dean of students.
PGN: Tell me about yourself. RB: I grew up outside of Pittsburgh in a little town called Duquesne. My dad was a steelworker, my grandfather was a steel-worker, my great grandfather was a steel-worker. I remember when I was about 12 years old, I was helping them build a deck onto my grandfather’s house and my uncle was watching me hammer. He shook his head and said, “You’re going to college.” And I was the first person in my family to go to college. I went to Slippery Rock University, about an hour and a half north of Pittsburgh, and spent four years there changing majors. I switched about eight or nine times! I’d always been involved in a lot of school activities, including working as a resident assistant and, during my senior year, I realized that the people who I reported to at the school were getting paid! I just thought they were older students working that had real jobs and just did this on the side. I had no idea that there was a degree for working with collegestudent personnel. So I dropped my second major and looked for
PGN: Are you an only child? RB: I have a little sister who is four years younger than me. It’s weird to say little sister: She has an 11-year-old daughter. She just went through a yearlong chemotherapy battle with lymphoma. She’s doing well and they think it’s gone. PGN: So did you go bald in solidarity? RB: [Laughs.] No; my dad, my grandfather and even my grandmother were all pretty follicly challenged. When I was 27, my hair had been thinning ridiculously for a few years. I ran into an old friend who’d shaved his hair and it looked good, so that night while taking a shower, I took the plunge and shaved it. PGN: What was it like growing up in a steel family? RB: It was tough: When I was about 8, the mills closed and my dad got laid off. When I go home, there’s nothing left. My dad bought his house for about $30,000 in 1973. He’s had it on the market for five years and he can’t get $8,000 for it. It’s a big three-bedroom house with a huge
kitchen, dining room, porch and backyard and he’s renting it for $300 a month. PGN: Tell me about the family. RB: As I said, the men all worked at the steel factory. My grandfather said he’d go to work in a white shirt and he’d come home and it was brown every day. So you can imagine what it did for their lungs. I worried, but they were all smokers anyway. For living so close to the city, they were really country folk. A wild night was watching backto-back episodes of “Dukes of Hazzard” or “Hee Haw.” My mother was a stay-at-home mom. She’s in her mid-50s now and she thinks she will be forever. A few years ago, she fell down and they didn’t know why. Her knee just collapsed on her. So they gave her a battery of tests and it turned out she has MS. As a result, she’s gained about 100 pounds and has to use a walker. But things are turning around. She used to bowl, so for her birthday I got her the Wii bowling. At first she was fussing that I’d spent too much money, but I got her to try a game from her chair. After a minute of playing seated, she stood up and started really getting into it. It was the most exercise she’d had in ages. Now she calls and brags about her scores. PGN: What was your favorite toy as a kid? RB: I had a “Six Million Dollar Man” action figure, the kind where you could look through his bionic eye. But mainly I was into comic books: I still am. I have about 3,000 comic books
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packed away and about a dozen Superman T-shirts. PGN: Play any instruments? RB: I was always in band. I went to an inner-city school and didn’t really fit in on the sports teams, but I loved music. I played the trumpet in our marching band, jazz band and concert band, and then when I got in college I also learned how to play the French horn so I could be in the orchestra with all my friends. Then I took voice lessons so that I could join the choir and travel with my friends as well. PGN: Crazy band story? RB: I went to a pretty rough school and when we traveled to play our chief-rival high school, we would have to hang our uniforms in the window. The reason was so that if anyone threw bricks at the bus, we would be shielded from any glass debris or rocks. PGN: So what brought you to Philadelphia? RB: My ex and I were both in the educational field and feeling kind of stagnant. He got a job here, so we both came to Philly. We got a house and then things didn’t work out. It had been 11 years, but things happen. I liked Philly, though, so I got another place and looked for new work.
I’d always paid attention to my health and had taken numerous classes in things like yoga and judo and nutrition and psychology during my days of mobile majors. So going into training was an easy transition. My last job in Ohio had been as director of student life and athletics. I’d never played organized sports before, but I looked the part and so I was a supervisor for the team coaches. PGN: You seem to be a good cheerleader. RB: I think everybody should make time to help uplift everybody else. I probably got that from my grandmother. Oh, now I’m going to cry. As I said, I’m the only one in my family who was academically inclined: I was on the honor rolls and involved in student government. President of the band, head of the newspaper, all of those things — and she would tell me that if I kept at it, I could be president of the United States. She was always a constant support, encouraging me and telling me I could be whatever I wanted to. It wasn’t until I got older that I realized how much that encouragement helped me. PGN: How did you come out? RB: Well, in college I was the perfect asexual being. I lived in
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Patterson dorm and they called me “The Pope of Patterson Hall” because I didn’t drink or smoke, I didn’t swear and I didn’t appear to have sex. I’d had some experience, but it wasn’t until I was in grad school studying identity development that I ever spoke about it publicly. I started integrating “me” statements into my oral presentation on identity when I was on the part about gay identity theory. That Christmas when I went home, my mom started asking me about my friends — like Nick, the dancer, and Tim, the theater major. The funny thing was Tim wasn’t even gay! She finally just asked me outright if I was gay. I took a sip of my cocoa and said yes. She said, “OK, but don’t tell your dad just yet; men don’t understand these kind of things.” What’s amazing is that she’d been preparing for two years. Her best friend’s son was gay, so on spring break, she went to South Beach, Fla. As her homework, she went out clubbing. She then told my aunt who told my grandmother; they all agreed the men shouldn’t know. It wasn’t until my partner (who’d come home with me for six years) and I decided to have a ceremony that I officially told my dad. I invited him to come and he sent me an e-mail declining. My father, my grandfather and his father all have the same name. Part of his response was, “You want me to celebrate the fact that our family name isn’t going to be passed on?” We’ve become closer now but it’s not something on the forefront. PGN: Any hobbies? RB: Well, I discovered volleyball several years ago and I love it. I played in tournaments back in Ohio and am now connected with a New York team. We’ve won five or six tournaments, including the nationals one year in Atlanta. PGN: What do you love about training? RB: Well, it’s a lot like when I was working in higher education inspiring students and helping them become better people. It’s just in a different setting. You really build up a relationship with your clients because you see them at such vulnerable moments. It feels good to help people feel good about themselves. PGN: Life lesson? RB: I used to mow my grandfather’s lawn each week. One year I got a job at a pizza shop,
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but I would still cut his lawn on weekends. One day he picked me up and, by the time we got to his house, it was raining. I stayed and had dinner, hoping it would clear. It didn’t, so he drove me home. When we pulled up he paid me as usual. I protested, “But I didn’t mow the lawn!” He looked at me and said, “You have a job now and your time is worth something.” It gave me goosebumps and I’ve always remembered that it’s important to value people and their time.
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Across 1. Peggy of Split Bitches 5. Opposite of loads 9. NG: Weight-room exercise 14. NG: Mata ___ 15. HRC’s equal sign, e.g. 16. NG: Palmer of “The Boys From Brazil” 17. NG: Persian Gulf land 18. Start of a quip PGN: What kind of reader are 20. More of the quip you? RB: [Laughs.] Well, I like to read 22. NG: Mammy Yokum’s creator all sorts of books, but right now 23. NG: Beethoven’s “Für ___” I’m on a run of “young women’s” books! I’m on the last book 24. Hot-tub buildup 26. Top record of the “Twilight” series. I’ve been reading along with some of 28. NG: Vitamin bottle abbr. 29. One that ought to be my clients, so we gossip about paddled what part of the book we’re on. 31. Hilary of “Boys Don’t Cry” 33. “Lesbians ignite!” e.g. PGN: Stupid human trick? 34. “I’m ___ your tricks!” RB: I’m good with a yo-yo. I 35. More of the quip have 39 of them. 40. They’re not homo sapiens 41. Hauls ass PGN: So where does the name 42. NG: Shankar’s instrument Barefoot come from? 44. Like an gray-haired RB: They say that it’s Welsh in origin and that somewhere along prostitute? the way the spelling changed, but 45. NG: Deposit slip abbr. 48. Tongue ending that doesn’t make sense to me. 49. It arouses you in bed It sounds more like it was from 51. Francis Bacon work an intermarriage with someone from a different culture, perhaps 53. “I felt the earth move” experience Native American. In those days, 55. Actress Bea and source of a lot of people would marry the quip and then pass for white so that they could get into good schools 56. End of the quip 59. NG: Food on the floor, and vote and do a lot of things maybe they were denied as Native 60. Gay men’s lifestyle Americans. I look at my uncle magazine and he has black hair and high 61. NG: Cube designer Rubik cheekbones and looks the part. 62. NG: Steed stopper Who knows the truth, but that’s 63. Nice buns, for example my theory. ■ 64. Word to a dominatrix To suggest a community member 65. Daly of “Judging Amy” for “Family Portraits,” write to: Family Portraits, 505 S. Fourth St., Philadelphia, PA 19147 or portraits05@aol.com.
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Down 1. NG: Black eye 2. “The Wizard of Oz” scorer Arlen 3. Land of Lawrence 4. NG: Bowery bums 5. Bedfellow 6. Foot fetish digit 7. NG: Star’s rep 8. Morsel of AZT, e.g. 9. Positions 10. NG: Costa ___ 11. Symbol for Log Cabin Republicans 12. Don, as a nightie 13. Pose for Bruce Weber 19. NG: St. Pete’s state 21. NG: Interior design 24. Queen’s “subjects” 25. NG: Seek 27. NG: WBA decision 30. NG: Two-time link 32. Feelings of hitting rock bottom 33. High place with a flat top 35. First and Second Peter
36. NG: Old hands 37. NG: Cowboy actor Jack 38. NG: Essen article 39. Hatcher on “Desperate Housewives” 40. Wall St. bears watch it 43. NG: Type of aircraft engine 44. James Baldwin’s birthplace 45. “Jeffrey” director Christopher 46. “Tales of the City” author Armistead 47. NG: Power of films 50. NG: Reed of rock 52. Get the ball rolling 54. “Jane ___ “ (Moorehead flick of 1944) 55. “Exotica” director Egoyan 56. Org. that uses ballwashers 57. “I Got Rhythm” writer Gershwin 58. NG: Aunt in “Bambi” See SOLUTION, Page 27
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Pico de Gallo: Tex-Mex for less By Suzi Nash PGN Contributor
(215) 625-8501 Greg, ext. 201 Kelly, ext. 207 Morgan, ext. 212 David, ext. 219
I’d driven past it a thousand times and always made note to visit. Quaint and colorful, it always caught my eye as I headed down South Street on my way to some other destination. Finally, I made Pico de Gallo, a Mexican eatery on the corner of 15th and South, my destination. Owner Michael Ortega lives above the place and takes a handson approach to its operation. Each morning, he goes to the market and buys the goods for that day’s meals: Nothing is kept overnight. A San Antonian, Ortega brings a combination of Southwestern TexMex and the authentic foods of his Mexican ancestors. It was a lovely May day, so I sat outside where I, as a leftie, had more elbow room. The inside of Pico de Gallo is an explosion of colors, kind of like a toy vending machine blew up inside the room. If you like to be visually stimulated — and who doesn’t — this is the place for you. There’s something in every nook and cranny, and most things have a story to go with them. As I was perusing the room, one of the servers pointed out the large golden sun hanging on the north wall. “Michael had that shipped here and, during the voyage, it broke into a thousand pieces,”
he said. “I put it back together for him myself, piece by piece like a giant puzzle.” Now that’s a dedicated employee! To get the ball rolling, we ordered an Arnold Palmer ($3.25), a combination of fresh-brewed iced tea and lemonade. It came in a pitcher large enough to water plants with. The server explained the size of the drink was the reason for the “high price tag.” Jeez, I must be getting jaded by Center City prices, because I hadn’t even blinked at the $3-plus for tea. For an appetizer, we ordered the crispy taquitos ($3.95), a cute little platter consisting of three flat, round taquitos topped with turkey, shredded lettuce, salsa and a dollop of guacamole. My dining companion ordered the Baja fish taco ($7.30) — and it was hard to believe this was an appetizer. It was a huge portion of fish — tender, flaky and perfectly done — on an open-faced soft taco topped with mango and dressed with lemon twists. And it came with a side salad. For the main meal, he ordered the roasted pork, plantain and black bean burrito ($9.65). (Did I mention quaint? Where else do you see $9.65 or $7.30 on a menu anymore?) The burrito was large enough to feed a small family. We’re talking bargain eating here, folks. My companion loved the combination of the
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salty pulled pork tempered by the sweet plantain. I ordered the Mexican dinner ($10.95), a combo platter consisting of two cheese enchiladas in a mole poblano sauce (a recipe from Ortega’s mother), a chalupa (a corn tortilla topped with melted cheese, pinto beans and lettuce), red rice, pinto beans and a beef taco. It was tasty and enough for me to enjoy again as I write this. The day was so leisurely that we decided to indulge in the signature sangria ($13 for a half-pitcher), made with fresh-squeezed juices on the premises. Though it came with a trio of citrus fruits on the side of each glass instead of the more traditional cut fruit in the wine, which I prefer, it was very good — a nice balance of sweet and tart. We followed with dessert, including the tres leches layer cake ($6). This was probably the best three-milk cake I’ve had. It was rich without being dense, a light and not-too-sweet treat layered with sponge cake, caramel, chocolate and cookies soaked in coffee and topped with a dusting of cinnamon. We also tried the sopapillas ($6), fried tortillas covered in honey. This, too, was delicate and flavorful without being overly sweet, and came in a fancy star configuration of tortillas, topped with homemade whipped cream. A note for you plastic people: Pico only accepts cash, so make sure to bring the green or be ready to run to the closest ATM. ■
If you go Pico de Gallo 534 S. 15th St. (215) 545-2710 Open daily for lunch and dinner
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worth watching: FRIDAY Frida Selma Hayek brings Frida Kahlo to vivid life in Julie Taymor’s exquisite film of the bisexual Mexican painter. 7 p.m. on IFC. SATURDAY Groomer Has It The new gayest show on TV has 12 doggy stylists competing. Tonight, contestants must do hairstyles — perm, straighten — not on dogs but on potbellied pigs! 9 p.m. on Animal Planet. Harper’s Island After the deadly events at the rehearsal and with the wedding so close, Abby, Henry and J.D. try to solve the murder by themselves. They just don’t know there’s more than one murder to solve. 10 p.m. on CBS.
Queer TV you can always see: As the World Turns Luke and Noah maintain front-burner status. Van Hansis (Luke) was nominated last week for his second Emmy. Monday-Friday, 2 p.m. on CBS. Guiding Light Natalia and Olivia are still trying to figure out how to be lesbians together. Olivia is obviously waiting to take things to the next level, but she’s being patient with Natalia’s not-quite-ready-forthe-big-bedroom. MondayFriday, 10 a.m. on CBS.
SUNDAY Mystery! The latest PBS series stars Kenneth Branagh in “Wallander,” based on Swedish writer Henning Mankell’s novels. Tonight, three teens are shot dead during a picnic. One parent reports that Wallander’s troubled colleague, Svedberg, had earlier expressed an interest in the kids’ movements, and then Svedberg is also found shot. A friend of the victims is also slain, having told Wallander that his workmate was gay. 9 p.m. on PBS.
Q on the tube: Series premiere. Annabella Sciorra and Chris Vance star in this medical drama set in L.A. Vance portrays Dr. Jack Gallagher, the psychiatrist version of House. With Marisa Ramirez as Dr. Chloe Artis, a young lesbian doctor. 9 p.m. on Fox. WEDNESDAY The New Adventures of Old Christine With lesbian comedian Wanda Sykes. 8 p.m. on CBS.
The Goode Family Series premiere. This animated series features a politically correct The Tudors The third season ends tonight with family of ultra-green-conscious vegans. The father is regularly Henry moving swiftly to annul being mistaken for a lesbian. 9 his loveless marriage to Anne of p.m. on ABC. Cleves. He beds a new mistress, 17-year-old Katherine Howard. Meanwhile, Princess Mary falls in THURSDAY love with Duke Philip of Bavaria So You Think You Can and Cromwell’s fall from favor is Dance? Series premiere. Hotties and sudden and dramatic. 9 p.m. on notties, queers and non-queers Showtime. compete to see who is the best dancer. 8 p.m. on Fox. MONDAY In Treatment The Fashion Show Season finale. Gina, Walter and Designer Isaac Mizrahi hosts. Oliver set the stage for Dr. Paul Weston’s exit from season two. 10 Tonight, George Malkemus, president of Manolo Blahnik, is p.m. on HBO. the guest judge in the heel-alicous challenge. 10 p.m. on Bravo. Medium With Patricia Arquette as the Last Holiday pseudo detective who dreams Queen Latifah stars in this dead people. 10 p.m. on NBC. dramedy about a dying woman and her final wishes. 10 p.m. on TUESDAY TBS. ■ Mental
Ellen Friday: Expect exclusive footage from the red carpet at the “American Idol” finale and Queen Latifah. MondayFriday, 3 p.m. on NBC. The Rachel Maddow Show The only pundit taking on Obama and torture nightly, as well as queer issues. Monday-Friday, 9 p.m. on MSNBC.
WHO WANTS TO BE A FASHIONISTA?: Catch Bravo’s newest creative-competition series, “The Fashion Show,” hosted by out fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi (pictured) and Kelly Rowland (who really needs a better agent at this stage in her career) as they follow professional designers doing the reality-show thing to “make it” in the cutthroat fashion industry, at 10 p.m. May 29 on Bravo. Photo: Mitchell Haaseth
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No we can’t By Victoria A. Brownworth PGN Contributor As the debate about torture continues and the Obama administration flip-flops on the myriad issues related to it, it’s instructive to have a visual of how torture techniques do and do not work. Fox’s hit show “24,” which had its season finale May 18, has featured torture in nearly every episode of its seven-season run. In fact, some have argued that the show made torture palatable to America by portraying it as an essential element of counterterrorism. Star and executive producer Keifer Sutherland denies the show is pro-torture but acknowledges he is glad the show has spurred discourse on the issue. But the national debate on torture has been relegated to a very narrow sphere with little real discussion of it on TV. Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann have been valiant in their efforts to maintain focus on the torture issue and on the Obama administration’s efforts to sidestep campaign promises to end it. So has comedian Jon Stewart. But why shunt the conversation about national security and how it is derived to prime-time dramas and late-night talk shows? Last week, Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs lost his cool — or at least his facility with English — when he was asked what was happening with “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” during a press conference. One of the many campaign promises Obama made to voters was to overturn the ban on queers in the military. So why did Gibbs have such a problem answering the question? And why does the president now insist he can’t do anything about it without Congress? He can overturn it tomorrow if he wants to by issuing a stop-loss executive order. Stewart has made similar arguments on “The Daily Show.” Stewart has had a lot to say about national security — like how torture doesn’t ensure it and how dismissing Arabic translators from the military puts the nation in real danger. And it’s hard to argue with his reasoning. Stewart has taken up the case of Lt. Dan Choi, an Arabic translator who was dismissed from the military because he is gay. Choi appeared on Maddow’s show in March and said, “I am gay.” As a result of the public declaration, the West Point graduate, Iraq veteran and Arabic linguist received a letter on April 23 telling him he would be dismissed from the military. Choi has since written to Obama “begging” the president, “Please don’t fire me.” As Stewart noted with some venom on his May 15 show, the rule of law has been abridged for the war with warrantless wiretapping, rendition and torture. So why not reverse the military ban on gays? Stewart argued, “So it was OK to water-board a guy 80 times, but God forbid the guy who could understand what that prick was saying has a boyfriend? Water-boarding may make a prisoner talk, but it ain’t gonna make him talk English.” Stewart was clear: The U.S. government, under both Bush/ Cheney and the current administration, has employed many means to maintain national security. But shouldn’t we have all the tools at our disposal — including translators? Isn’t Stewart utterly correct — sarcastic humor aside — when he says if we are torturing suspects and have no one to translate what they say, that’s counterintuitive? TV shows have prompted debate on torture and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Now it’s up to Washington to fix what’s broken. ■
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Diversions
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Your guide to arts and entertainment
Theater
Camelot Plays & Players Theater presents the classic musical through June 6, 1714 Delancey Place; (215) 7350630. Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits The Walnut Street Theatre presents a tribute to the big shows and bigger legends in this hilarious, loving
and endlessly entertaining revue, through June 28 at Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St.; (215) 5743550. Intimate Chaos Society Hill Playhouse presents a drama exploring a lesbian relationship with love, desire, abandonment and betrayal, through May 31, 507 S. Eighth St.; (215) 923-0210.
Let’s Pretend We’re Married 1812 Productions presents a new cabaret about bliss of the wedded sort featuring original material and classic cuts from Burns and Allen to The Bickersons, May 26-June 14 at The Independence Foundation Black Box at The Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St.; (215) 5929560.
The Little Dog Laughed The Tony-nominated satire about a gay actor and his agent’s efforts to keep him closeted makes its Philadelphia premiere, through May 30 at Second Stage at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St.; (215) 6659720. Little Lamb InterAct Theatre Company presents the story of a
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gay couple who adopts a baby, only to have the birth mother visit with strong opinions about the placement of her daughter, May 28-June 28 at The Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St.; (215) 568-8079. Little Mary Sunshine Barley Sheaf Players presents the silly and wonderful musical with a little bit of everything:
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Colorado Rangers, a stalwart captain, a chorus of simpering schoolgirls and a villainous Indian, through June 20, 810 N. Whitford Road, Lionville; (610) 3637075. Macbeth The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre presents the classic Shakespeare tragedy, through May 24, 2111 Sansom St.; (215) 4969722. The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 Hedgerow Theatre presents the popular murder farce, through June 7, 64 Rose Valley Road, Media; (610) 565-4211. The Producers The Walnut Street Theatre presents an all-new production of Mel Brooks’ Tony Award-winning musical, through July 19, 825 Walnut St.; (215) 5743550. Respect: A Musical Journey of Women Act II Playhouse presents a high-energy celebration of just how much women have changed, using the best songs of the past 100 years, through May 31, 56 E. Butler Ave., Ambler; (215) 654-0200.
Catch “Grey Gardens” through June 28 at Suzanne Roberts Theater, 480 S. Broad St. The Philadelphia Theatre Company presents the Tony Award-winning story blending humor, heartache and humanity as it follows the eccentric lives of the reclusive Little Edie Beale (Hollis Resnik) and her mother Edith Bouvier Beale (Joy Franz), the cousin and aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, respectively, as they slip from their status as wealthy socialites to penniless hermits in their dilapidated home. For more information, visit www.philadelphiatheatrecompany.org or call (215) 985-0420. Photo: Mark Garvin
The Seafarer Arden Theatre Company presents Broadway’s Tony Award-nominated hit about a collection of misfits on Christmas Eve in Ireland, through June 14 on the F. Otto Haas Stage, 40 N. Second St.; (215) 922-1122. Something Intangible Arden Theatre Company presents the world premiere by celebrated Philadelphia playwright Bruce Graham, set in Hollywood circa
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1941, through June 7, 40 N. Second St.; (215) 922-1122.
Verizon Hall, 260 S. Broad St.; (215) 790-5847.
A Stone Carver New City Stage presents a newly revised version of William Mastrosimone’s first play, about a 1970s Italian-American patriarch who must move out of the Trenton home he built with his own hands to make room for a new highway, through May 24 at Walnut Street Theatre’s Studio 5, 825 Walnut St.; (215) 5743550.
Music other
Carl Cox The acclaimed DJ performs at 10 p.m. May 22 at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa’s Mixx Nightclub, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; (609) 317-1000.
transparent acrylic veils over collage on canvas, through June 5 in the Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St., Suite 102; (215) 684-1946.
Kevin Murphy BOI’s of New Hope Art Gallery presents an exhibition from the internationally recognized, award-winning portrait Bell Biv DeVoe painter and illustrator, The R&B group performs at through June 7, 9 W. 8 p.m. May 23 at Keswick Mechanic St., New Hope; Theatre, 291 N. Keswick (215) 862-8292. Ave., Glenside; (215) 5727650. Thoroughly Modern Peter Alele: Millie Entanglements and Ephemeras The Media Theater presents Bob Dylan Birthday Tribute NEXUS presents an the Tony Award-winning The Philadelphia All1920s musical romp, exhibition using images through June 7, 104 E. State Stars perform songs from from the world of medicine St.; (610) 891-0100. and the uses of the body/ the acclaimed singerfigure as a vehicle for songwriter, 7:30 p.m. May expression, through June 5 24 at Tin Angel, 20 N. Second St.; (215) 928-0770. in the Crane Arts Building, Robertson Conducts 1400 N. American St., Suite The Philadelphia Orchestra Buckcherry 102; (215) 684-1946. presents St. Louis The rock group performs at Symphony music director 8 p.m. May 23 at the House Photo Society’s Last David Robertson spinning Picture Show of Blues, 801 Boardwalk, a program of fantasy, The pictures come off the Atlantic City, N.J.; (609) romance and musical walls and the photographers 236-2583. passion, 8 p.m. May 22-23 chat up their work for the at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, business’ last hurrah, from Coldplay 260 S. Broad St.; (215) 6-8 p.m. May 26 at Joe The alt-rock superstars 790-5847. perform at 8 p.m. May 26 at Coffee, 1100 Walnut St.; (215) 592-7384. Susquehanna Bank Center, Orchestra 2001 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, Performs Rudin, Finko, N.J.; (856) 365-1300. Pulp Function Corigliano Fred Beans Gallery at O2K1 presents the world Michener Art Museum Coheed and Cambria premiere of a work by The progressive rock group presents a wide variety of Andrew Rudin, featuring artistic expressions using performs at 8 p.m. May 28 violist Brett Deubner, at 8 handmade paper pulp, at the House of Blues, 801 p.m. May 22 at Kimmel’s recycled paper, paper cuts, Boardwalk, Atlantic City, Perelman Theater, 260 S. cardboard, papier-mâché N.J.; (609) 236-2583. Broad St.; (215) 790-5847. and folded paper, through June 28, 138 S. Pine St., Dutoit Conducts Doylestown; (215) 340Brahms Benjamin Long 9800. The Philadelphia Orchestra Proximity Gallery presents a trio of European presents the artist’s current Quiescent works from two centuries, exhibition of paintings and The Clay Studio presents 8 p.m. May 28-30 and 2 photography, through May the latest works from p.m. May 31 at Kimmel’s 31, 2434 E. Dauphin St.; utilitarian potter Julia (267) 825-2949. Galloway, through May 31, 137 N. Second St.; (215) SOLUTION A Closer Look 925-3453. Allens Lane Art Center From Page 23 presents new paintings Show Some Love and sculptures by artists AxD Gallery presents an Henrietta and Reinhold exhibition of the winners Edelschein, through June of the American Institute of 12, 601 W. Allens Lane; Graphic Artists Philadelphia (215) 248-0546. Design Awards, through May 30, 265 S. 10th St.; Libbie Soffer: Of time (215) 627-6250. and place NEXUS presents an Small Favors IV: exhibition of abstract Benefit Exhibition and paintings using layers of Sale
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The Clay Studio presents an original ceramic-arts exhibition, showcasing the latest in miniature, wallmounted artworks, through May 31, 137 N. Second St.; (215) 925-3453. Two Women: Two Visions Edge Gallery presents an exhibition featuring the work of Monika Dalkin and Noelle Stoffel, through May 31, 72 N. Second St.; (215) 413-7072. What Were They Thinking: 160 Years of Bad Taste Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts presents an exhibition of styles that were the height of fashion at some point in recent history, through Nov. 8 at The Carriage House Gallery at the Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Washington St., Cape May, N.J.; (609) 884-5404.
Dance
Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Co. Painted Bride Art Center presents the company’s 2009 season concert featuring Carmella VassorJohnson’s video art and an eclectic score ranging from pop to new age, opera to electronica to 20th-century new music, 8 p.m. May 23 and 3 p.m. May 24, 230 Vine St.; (215) 925-9914.
Film
Pride The inspirational story of Philadelphia local Jim Ellis, who singlehandedly saved the city’s Department of Recreation from imminent closure by enlisting the inner-city youth of the neighborhood in the formation of a predominately AfricanAmerican swim team, is screened at 7:30 p.m. May 27 at Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr; (610) 527-9898.
Books
Lisa See The bestselling author of “Shanghai Girls” and “On Gold Mountain: The OneHundred-Year Odyssey
HELLO CLEVELAND!: With so many classic acts from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s on the road this summer, one group’s lampooning nature might come across as more real than intended. Comedic talents Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer slip back into their musical alter egos for “Unwigged and Unplugged,” a concert featuring songs from the heavy-metal skewering “This is Spinal Tap” and the send-up of the folk scene, “A Mighty Wind,” at 8 p.m. May 24 at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa Music Box, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J. For more information or tickets, visit www.theborgata.com or call (609) 317-1000.
of My Chinese-American Family” hosts a reading at 7:30 p.m. May 26 at Central Library, 1901 Vine St.; (215) 686-5322. Luis Alberto Urrea The author of “Into the Beautiful North” hosts a reading at 7:30 p.m. May 28 at Central Library, 1901 Vine St.; (215) 686-5322.
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Penn and Teller The comedic magic duo and hosts of Showtime’s “Bullshit” perform at 9 p.m. May 22-24 at Harrah’s Resort, 777 Harrah’s Blvd., Atlantic City, N.J.; (609) 441-5000. Gayety fundraiser for Joe Coffee Gayety hosts an event with all proceeds to benefit Joe as he closes Joe Coffee, to help him pay down his debt, with a flea market from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. and performances by out comedian Kelli Dunham and spoken-word artist Cheryl B from 7-9 p.m. May 23 at Joe Coffee, 1100 Walnut St.; (215) 592-7384. Kevin James The comedian and star of “King of Queens” performs at 8 p.m. May 23-24 at the Borgata Hotel Casino
and Spa Event Center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; (609) 317-1000. JOCK The official closing party for the Fins swim team and Falcons’ soccer team’s regional tournaments features a live performance from dance artist Oh My Josh, from 9 p.m.-3:30 a.m. May 23 at Pure, 1221 St. James St.; (215) 735-5772. Three Dollar Bill Dance Party The dance party for everyone kicks off at 9 p.m. May 24 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; (215) 2221400. ■
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Meeting Place A community bulletin board of activities, facilities and organizations
Community centers ■ The Attic Youth Center: For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. Groups meet and activities are held from 4-8 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays; case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available Monday through Friday. See the Youth section for more events. 255 S. 16th St.; (215) 545-4331 ■ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania 3907 Spruce St.; (215) 898-5044; center@dolphin.upenn.edu, Summer hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. ■ Rainbow Room — Bucks County’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Allies Youth Center: 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays: Doylestown Planned Parenthood, The Atrium, Suite 2E, 301 S. Main St., Doylestown; (215) 348-0558 ext. 65; rainbowroom@ppbucks.org. ■ William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center: 1315 Spruce St.; (215) 732-2220; www.waygay.org. Peer counseling: Monday through Friday, 6-9 p.m. Library hours: Mondays 3-6 p.m., Tuesdays 3-6 p.m., Wednesdays 3-9 p.m., Thursdays 3-9 p.m., Fridays 3-6 p.m., Saturdays noon-6 p.m. Volunteers: New Orientation: First Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.; Volunteer Velada, third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m.
Health Anonymous, free, confidential HIV testing Spanish/English counselors offer testing 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 166 W. Lehigh Ave.; (215) 763-8870 ext. 6000. AIDS Services In Asian Communities Provides HIV-related services to Asians and Pacific Islanders at 340 N. 12th St., suite 205; (2215) 536-2424. Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9:30 a.m.4:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursdays at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; (215) 851-1822 or (866) 2223871. Spanish/English. HIV testing Free, anonymous testing and counseling is offered from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and by appointment at AIDS Resource, 520 W. Fourth St., suite 2A, Williamsport;
Key numbers ■ AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania: (215) 587-9377 ■ AIDS Law Project of Southern New Jersey: (856) 933-9500 ext. 221 ■ AIDS Library: (215) 985-4851
(570) 322-8448. HIV treatment Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents are available from 9 a.m.-noon Mondays and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; (215) 685-1803. HIV health insurance help Access to free medications, confidential HIV testing available at 17 MacDade Blvd., suite 108, Collingdale; Medical Office Building, 722 Church Lane, Yeadon; and 630 S. 60th St.; (610) 586-9077. Mazzoni Center Free, anonymous HIV testing; HIV/AIDS care and treatment, case management and support groups; 1201 Chestnut St.; (215) 563-0652. www.mazzonicenter.org. Washington West Project Free, anonymous HIV testing. Walk-ins welcome 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday; 1201 Locust St.; (215) 985-9206. Gloria Casarez, (215) 686-2194; Gloria. Casarez@phila.gov; Fax: (215) 686-2555 ■ Mazzoni Center: (215) 563-0652; www.mazzonicenter.org ■ Mazzoni Center Family and Community Medicine: (215) 563-0658
■ ACLU of Pennsylvania: (215) 5921513
■ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): (215) 572-1833
■ AIDS Treatment hot line: (215) 5452212
■ Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations: (215) 686-4670
■ Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection at the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library: (215) 685-1633
■ Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force: (215) 772-2000
■ The COLOURS Organization Inc. 112 N. Broad St., 11th floor; (215) 4960330. ■ Equality Advocates Pennsylvania: (215) 731-1447; (866) LGBTLAW ■ Equality Forum: (215) 732-3378 ■ Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Peer Counseling Services: (215) 732-TALK ■ Mayor’s liaison to LGBT communities:
■ Philadelphia Police Department liaison — Chief Inspector James Tiano: (215) 685-3655 ■ Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: (215) 494-LGBT; ppd.lgbt@gmail.com ■ Philly Pride Presents: (215) 875-9288 ■ SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: (717) 920-9537 ■ Transgender Health Action Coalition: (215) 732-1207 (staffed 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays, and 6-9 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays)
Men
Boys Night Out A social gathering for gay men, meets at 7 p.m. every second and fourth Tuesday at Iron Hill Brewery, 30 E. State St., Media; BurbBoysNiteOut@aol.com. Delaware Valley 40-plus Club for Men Social group meets every other month; (215) 587-9933. Gay Married Men’s Association Meets at 8 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesdays at the William Way Center; (215) 483-1032. Men of All Colors Together Meets at 7:30 p.m. third Friday of the month September through June at the William Way Center; (610) 277-6595; www.MACTPhila.org. Men’s Coming Out Group, N.J. Meets at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays at The Pride Center of New Jersey. Men’s Coming Out Group Meets at 7 p.m. Thursdays at Washington West Project, 1201 Locust St.; (215) 563-0652 ext. 219. Men of Color United A discussion/support group for gay and bisexual men of color meets from 6:30-8:30 p.m. every Wednesday at 1201 Chestnut St., 15th floor; (215) 496-0330. Men of Standard Provides a place for men of color 21 and older to share issues of concern. Meets 7-9 p.m. every Thursday at Camden AHEC, 514 Cooper St., Camden, N.J.; (856) 963-2432 ext. 206; johnson_ t@camden_ahec.org. Philly DADS An association of gay and bisexual fathers supporting each other meets at 7:30 p.m. fourth Friday of the month at the William Way Center; (215) 668-5239.
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MAY 22 - 28, 2009 Interweave New Jersey An organization of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Unitarian and their allies meets every third Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 401 N. Kings Highway, Cherry Hill, N.J.; (856) 667-3618. Oasis Meets 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays at 1201 Chestnut St.; (215) 563-0652 ext. 509. Mazzoni Center Family and Community Medicine Primary healthcare and specialized transgender services in a safe, professional, non-judgemental environment, 809 Locust St.; (215) 563-0658. Renaissance Transgender Assoc. Meets at 8 p.m. third Saturday of the month at Into the Woods office complex in King of Prussia; (610) 975-9119 box 5; and 7:30 p.m. first Thursday of the month at the William Way Center; www.ren.org. T-MAN People of color support group for transmen, FTMs, butches, studs, agressives, bois, genderqueer and all female-born individuals with gender questions meets 7:30-9:30 p.m. Mondays, second floor, 1201 Locust St.; (215) 834-9063; tman215@aol.com. Transhealth Programming Committee Meetings are at 5 p.m. second and last Sundays of the month at the William Way Center. Transhealth Information Project Sponsors a weekly drop-in center from 7-11 p.m. Tuesdays at 1201 Locust St.; (267) 549-6497. Transgender Health Action Coalition Peer trans health-advocacy organization meets at 5 p.m. second and last Sundays of the month at the William Way Center; (215) 732-1207; www. critpath.org/thac. WeXist FTM support group meets from 6-8 p.m. second Friday of the month at the William Way Center; first hour is open; second hour is for people assigned female at birth who have gender issues; (267) 250-1548; www.wexist.org.
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays/Bucks County Meets at 7:30 p.m. third Thursday of the month at Penns Park United Methodist Church, 2394 Second Street Pike, Penns Park; (215) 598-8005.
Young, Trans, and Unified! Support group for transgender and questioning individuals ages 13-23 meets from 7-8:30 p.m. every Thursday at The Attic Youth Center; (215) 545-4331 ext. 24.
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays/Cape May, N.J. Meets at 2 p.m. third Sunday of the month in the Maruchi Room of Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital, 2 Stone Harbor Blvd.; (609) 861-1848. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays/Chester County Meets at 7 p.m. first Tuesday of the month at the Unitarian Fellowship of West Chester, 501 S. High St., West Chester; (484) 354-2448.
African Asian Latina Lesbians United Social-issues discussion group meets fourth Thursday of the month at The Pride Center of New Jersey.
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays/Philadelphia Meets from 2-5 p.m. third Sunday of the month at the LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania, 3907 Spruce St.; (215) 572-1833.
Expressions Women’s Space Lesbian singles, family and coming-out groups meet at 1538 Church St.; (215) 535-3600.
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays/Princeton, N.J. Meets at 7:30 p.m. second Monday of the month in the George Thomas Room at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer St.; (609) 683-5155. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays/Wilmington, Del. Meets at 7 p.m. second Thursday of the month at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 13th and Rodney streets; (302) 654-2995. Philadelphia Family Pride Advocacy, support and social network for LGBT families offers play groups, monthly kids and teen talk groups, activities and outings. Planning meetings are held monthly; (215) 844-3360; www. phillyfamilypride.org.
Trans
Gender Rights Advocacy Association of New Jersey A transgender civil-rights group meets first Sunday of the month at 1 p.m. at The Pride Center of New Jersey.
Women
Bucks County Lesbian Alliance Meets monthly for social events; http://buckscountylesbianalliance.org.
Lesbians and BiWomen in Heterosexual Marriages A support group meets at 7:30 p.m. on third Wednesday of the month at The Pride Center of New Jersey. Lesbian Community of Delaware Valley Social group holds monthly meetings and activities for gay women of all ages in Delaware, Chester and Montgomery counties; P.O. Box 962, Phoenixville, PA 19460; http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/LCDV/; marichikogirl@yahoo.com. Lesbian Couples Dining Group of Montgomery County Meets monthly; (215) 542-2899. Lesbian Social Network of South Jersey 500-member social group for lesbians holds monthly activities in South Jersey and surrounding area; www.lsn.southjersey.com. Lesbians with Breast Cancer A support group meets from 6:30-8:30 on second Wednesday of the month at Gilda Club Delaware Valley, 200 Kirk Road, Warminster; (215) 4413290. Queer Connections
Social group for women in their 20s meets weekly; (215) 468-1352; queerconnect@yahoo. com. Republican Lesbians Meetings held at 7:30 p.m. on first Monday of the month at The Pride Center of New Jersey. South Jersey Lesbians of Color Meetings are the first and third Fridays at 7:30 p.m. at The Starting Point, 215 Highland Ave., Suite C, Westmont, N.J.; (856) 824-0881; e-mail: SJLOC-owner@yahoogroups.com. Women’s Coffee House for Lesbians A group for lesbian and bisexual women meets on first Saturday of the month at 7 p.m. at The Pride Center of New Jersey. The Womyn’s Village The first womyn-owned and operated thinktank targeting black African, Asian, Latina and Native American LBT and two-spirited womyn. Meets at 5 p.m. on third Thursday of the month at COLOURS Organization, 112 N. Broad St., 11th floor; (215) 765-0121; the_womyns. village@yahoo.com.
Youth
40 Acres of Change Discussion group for teen and young adults meets Thursdays at The COLOURS Organization Inc., 112 N. Broad St., 11th floor; (215) 496-0330. Drop-in Group For gay, lesbian and bisexual youth; meets at 11 a.m. Saturdays at AIDS Delaware, 100 W. 10th St., Suite 315, Wilmington, Del.; (302) 652-6776. HAVEN For GLBT, intersex, questioning, queer and allied youth ages 14-20; meets from 7-9 p.m. Wednesdays at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Lehigh Valley, 424 Center St., Bethlehem; (610) 868-2153. HiTOPS A safe-space support program for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth, will meet from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at 21 Wiggins St., Princeton, N.J.; (609) 683-5155. Main Line Youth Alliance Meets from 7-9:30 p.m. Fridays at 109 Lancaster Ave., Wayne; (610) 688-1861; info@myaonline. org. Mountain Meadow For youth with GLBTQ parents. Monthly programs for ages 8-16, family programs and parent coffee groups. Residential program offered in August; 1315 Spruce St.; (215) 772-1107; inquiries@mountainmeadow.org. Rainbow Room — Bucks County’s LGBTQ and Allies Youth Center For ages 14-21; meets 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays at Doylestown Planned Parenthood, The Atrium, Suite 2E, 301 S. Main St., Doylestown; (215) 3480558 ext. 65; rainbowroom@ppbucks.org. Space to be Proud, Open, and Together Open to all LGBTQ queer youth and allies, ages 14-21, the SPOT meets Thursdays from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Planned Parenthood of Chester County’s West Chester office, 8 S. Wayne St., West Chester; (610) 692-1770 ext. 108 or thespot@ppccpa.org. Teen Support Group Drop-in group for teens and adolescents meets Thursdays from 4:30-6 p.m. at 1201 Chestnut St.; (215) 563-0658 ext. 319. Under the Rainbow Discussion and social group for 18-25-year-old gays and lesbians meets at 7:30 p.m. at The Pride Center of New Jersey. Youth in Transition A support group for transgender and questioning youth ages 12-23 meets from 7:30-9 p.m. Tuesdays at the The Attic Youth Center. Youth Making a Difference For GLBTQ African-American and Latino youth ages 14-24. Meets from 5-7 p.m. every Tuesday at Camden AHEC, 514 Cooper St., Camden, N.J.; (856) 963-2432 ext. 234; gray_w@camden-ahec. org.
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