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Sen. Casey talks to and about voters at Toasted Walnut PAGE 2

“Hearts Beat Loud” is a heartwarming tale PAGE 36

HONESTY • INTEGRITY • PROFESSIONALISM

NJ trans man wins jury verdict PAGE 5

Disney’s “Aladdin” is out of his magical lamp

Pride events reflect growing inclusion

Museum CEO: ‘Overwhelmingly positive’ response to Drag Queen Storytime

By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com Amid fan-favorite traditions like the Gayborhood block party and the City Hall flag-raising, Philadelphia’s 30th annual Pride celebration featured even more diversive, diverse events than ever before. Pride weekend June 8-10 featured nearly 20 events by a variety of organizations spanning three days. The Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs jumpstarted Pride with the flag-raising ceremony, followed by the “Pride in the Plaza” kickoff party in the City Hall courtyard June 7, a new addition to the celebration. Dancers, musical artists and drag queens performed in the courtyard as an introduction to the weekend. The William Way homecoming and the block party followed June 8. The Dyke March celebrated 20 years June 9. The festivities wrapped up Sunday with a rainy Pride parade and festival headlined by Margaret Cho at Penn’s Landing. New additions to the lineup included more events for people of color, families, women and any combination thereof. JUICE, a summertime music, arts and film festival, invited LGBTQ women of color to celebrate Pride on June 9. Selina Carrera, a JUICE performer, saidthe event was a welcome addition to a Pride weekend that lacked celebratory spaces for people of color. “I need spaces like this to exist and to see reflections of myself,” Carrera said. I didn’t even know that there were this many black and brown LGBTQ women in this city until JUICE. That says a lot about who’s being represented during Pride. We’re a part of this community so there should be more representation of that.” Jenn Anderson, co-lead of this year’s Dyke March, said the inclusion of more diverse events mirrors why the march started 20 years ago. “We’ve been a part of Philly Pride for the last 20 years. So much has changed but so much more change is on the horizon. To see the self-identified dykes of all shapes and colors marching with us PAGE 16

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LET A SMILE BE YOUR UMBRELLA: Elizabeth Coffey Williams shows her pride through rain and rainbows June 10 at the Philadelphia Pride Festival. The overcast skies with occasional showers and downpours may have dampened wardrobes, but it didn’t wash away the spirit of the thousands of revelers who came out for the 30th annual event. More Pride events and photos inside. Photo: Scott A. Drake

D.A. withdraws felony charges in flag-burning By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office dropped two felony charges against a trans woman arrested on Sunday at a Pride event June 13, but will proceed to trial on two misde-

POLICE WITH THE CONFISCATED FLAG AT 12TH AND LOCUST STREETS Photo: Scott A. Drake

meanor charges. ReeAnna Segin, a trans woman from New Jersey, was arrested at the Pride parade on Sunday after she attempted to set fire to a flag in support of law enforcement during the celebration. The D.A.’s office dropped the attempted arson and causing/risking a catastrophe felony charges “after additional investigation into the incident,” spokesman Ben Waxman said in a statement. The misdemeanor charges include possession of an instrument of crime and recklessly endangering another person. Segin held up the blue-line “Blue Lives Matter” flag along with a can of VM&P Naphtha, a paint thinner, in the middle of a crowd on 12th and Locust before police officers arrested her. The D.A.’s office said her backpack also included two road flares and a blue lighter stick. Segin gave officers her dead name — her name that was assigned at birth — and was transferred to the CurranFromhold Correctional Facility, a men’s prison, after PAGE 21

Please Touch Museum CEO and president Patricia Wellenbach said she stands by her decision to hold the Drag Queen Storytime event at the museum’s inaugural Family Pride Festival June 9 and that membership numbers remain intact despite online backlash. “The responses were overwhelmingly positive both during the event and online. We are not backing away from providing children a space to learn, explore and discover diverse communities,” Wellenbach told PGN after the event. “The museum lost no revenue and no one has cancelled their membership.” The children’s museum celebrated Pride with the immersive and interactive day of play honoring LGBTQ families and communities around the world. Last week, the museum’s Facebook page was hit with negative comments from parents after the announcement of Drag Queen Storytime — a dress-up segment hosted by local drag queens. Brittany Lynn and Miss Aurora hosted the storytime event over three sessions during the day, the first of which was the biggest and filled to capacity, with more than 120 parents and children, the CEO said. On the museum’s Facebook page a debate emerged about what’s appropriate to introduce to young children. Comments from parents against the storytime included, “This is appalling! #SexualAbuse” and “Definitely very inappropriate to subject children of these ages to things like this.” Of the roughly 80 comments on the post, at least 70 were supportive. One supporter thanked the museum for showing inclusivity through diversity. Another wrote, “Thank you for leading the way and providing children with the space to learn and explore all expressions of the human experience.” Wellenbach said in the PAGE 16

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Resource listings Legal resources • ACLU of Pennsylvania: 215-592-1513; aclupa.org • AIDS Law Project of PA: 215-587-9377; aidslawpa.org • AIDS Law Project of South Jersey: 856-784-8532; aidslawsnj.org/ • Equality PA: equalitypa. org; 215-731-1447

• Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations — Rue Landau: 215-686-4670 • Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: 215-7603686; ppd.lgbt@gmail.com • SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: 717-920-9537

• Office of LGBT Affairs — Amber Hikes: 215-686-0330; amber.hikes@phila.gov

Community centers • The Attic Youth Center; 255 S. 16th St.; 215-545-4331, atticyouthcenter.org. For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. • LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania; 3907 Spruce

St.; 215-898-5044, center@dolphin.upenn.edu.

• Rainbow Room: Bucks County’s LGBTQ and Allies Youth Center

Salem UCC Education Building, 181 E. Court St., Doylestown; 215-957-7981 ext. 9065, rainbowroom@ppbucks.org.

• William Way LGBT Community Center 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220, www.waygay.org.

Health and HIV testing • Action Wellness: 1216 Arch St.; 215981-0088, actionwellness.org

• AIDS Library:

1233 Locust St.; aidslibrary.org/

• AIDS Treatment Fact line: 800-6626080

• Bebashi-Transition to Hope: 1235 Spring Garden St.; 215769-3561; bebashi.org

• COLOURS: coloursorganization.org, 215832-0100 • Congreso de Latinos Unidos;

216 W. Somerset St.; 215-763-8870

• GALAEI: 149 W. Susquehanna Ave.; 267-457-3912, galaei.org. Spanish/ English

• Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad

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• Mazzoni Center:

1348 Bainbridge St.; 215-563-0652, mazzonicenter.org

• Philadelphia FIGHT: 1233 Locust St.; 215-985-4448, fight.org

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• Transgender Health Action Coalition: 215-732-1207

Other • Independence Branch Library Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection: 215-685-1633 • Independence Business Alliance; 215-557-0190, IndependenceBusinessAlliance.com

• LGBT Peer Counseling Services: 215-732-TALK • PFLAG: Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): 215-572-1833 • Philly Pride Presents: 215-875-9288

Sen. Casey at meet-and-greet: Voters ‘fired up, want to do something’ By Gary L. Day PGN Contributor Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) mingled with local LGBTQ political activists and voters on June 7 at a meetand-greet hosted by Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club. The event was also attended by Malcolm Kenyatta, candidate for the 181st District state House seat; Katie Muth, candidate for the 44th district state Senate, and a number of local Democratic Party officials and committee people. The event, held at the Toasted Walnut Bar in the heart of the Gayborhood, was informally structured. One-onone conversations between the senator, the other candidates and the various activists and voters in attendance took up most of the hour. “It’s all about connecting with voters, or, honestly, connecting with people who Photo: Anne Wakabayashi could get the vote out,” said Kris Walski, a local Democratic Party committee person. generation. We’ve got a guy in the White Casey himself expressed pleasure at House now who does not believe in the attending an issues-oriented event as idea of America, who does not believe opposed to a fundraising event, the latter that our diversity is our strength. It’s of which tends to dominate this phase of important to push back against this very the campaign cycle. small-minded view that Trump and his “Unfortunately, a lot of the events we supporters have of the world.” have during this time period are fund- Women make up half, if not more, of raisers. It’s a necessary part of the pro- our society, Kenyatta said, “and they’re cess, of course, but it’s refreshing not not being represented. When I see all to have to ask people to pull out their these women running for office — this is checkbooks. It’s nice to be able to come what our country is. The real America is to an event where you can just talk about running for the first time. That’s importissues, meet people, shake hands and ant and powerful.” engage with people.” Kenyatta is the first openly gay When asked how this election cycle African-American to run for statewide was shaping up differently, the senator office in Pennsylvania, and said he is said, “I think we’re in a time period looking forward to working with openly where people are engaged in politics and gay Rep. Brian Sims to form would will debates more than they probably ever be the first such caucus in Harrisburg. expected to be. It certainly started before “Oh, we’re going to have a great time the 2016 election, but since then, people fighting for our community. And, — oh who are Democrats or independents — my God, I plan to challenge the homoand even some Republicans — are really phobes in Harrisburg every single day.” concerned about the direction the coun- Walski said he’s excited by all the new try is going in.” Democratic blood coming out to run — Casey said that Trump and the far-right and that would include himself. He had Republicans have energized progressives won his position on the local Democratic and liberals in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. committee only days before. “There’s no question about that. You’re “There’s a lot of newer voters getting also seeing, or at least I’m seeing, a involved,” he said. “A lot of women in level of engagement we haven’t seen in particular.” quite a long time, if ever. I’d like to say “This is the year we can begin to they’re engaged and enraged — people impose some accountability on the are really fired up and want to do some- Trump administration. We’ve had a thing. I think the intensity favors our pretty difficult 18 months or so, but as side, and this has not often been the case much as I know I will be under attack by in an off-year election. The president is outside groups who don’t believe what helping that a lot.” we believe, as much as I know there will Kenyatta echoed Casey’s sentiments. be tough days in this campaign, I have “What I want to say, and I say this at confidence we will get to Election Day every event I go to, is that this is the most and win.” n important election of our lifetime, of our

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N.J. trans man receives favorable jury verdict By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com A Hudson County jury last month ruled that trans man Shakeem M. Holmes was subjected to hostile treatment by Jersey City police while being detained in 2013. The eight-member jury didn’t award any damages to Holmes, but their verdict clears the way for the plaintiff to seek upwards of $80,000 from Jersey City for his attorney’s fees. “We’ve filed a motion for legal fees and costs,” said Kevin Costello, one of Holmes’ lawyers. “In any discrimination case, the defendant who discriminates must pay the bill of the person’s attorneys who challenge it.” Costello said he won’t know the total amount of legal fees and costs incurred by his law firm until Hudson County Superior Court Judge Martha D. Lynes rules on two additional motions he submitted. One of the motions seeks a court order that Jersey City implement trans-friendly procedures so that anti-trans abuse by police doesn’t occur in the future. Another motion seeks a damages trial for Holmes, so that a new jury can focus on the issue of whether Holmes should be compensated for the mistreatment he experienced. According to court records, Holmes

was arrested by Jersey City police in February 2013 for allegedly shoplifting. While detained at a processing center, a police sergeant allegedly told Holmes: “Next time you come in here and you want to be treated like a man, I’ll put my fist down your throat like a fucking man.” Other police officers referred to Holmes as “it,” called his situation “bullshit,” and remarked, “So that’s a fucking girl?” according to court records. Holmes filed suit in 2014, contending that a police station is a public accommodation where anti-trans abuse is prohibited under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. Additionally, the suit contended that police created a hostile environment at the processing center, which also violates the LAD. In 2015, Hudson County Superior Court Judge Joseph A. Turula dismissed Holmes’ suit as meritless. But last year, a three-judge panel of the New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division reinstated his suit. The appeals court said Holmes “was in a uniquely vulnerable position [and] the individuals making the hostile comments were police officers, who wielded tremendous power over arrestees.” A four-day jury trial on Holmes’ claims ended May 3 with a verdict favorable to

Holmes. After about three hours of deliberations, jurors determined that Holmes experienced “severe” mistreatment by Jersey City police due to his trans status, Costello said. On June 8, during a post-trial proceeding, Costello argued before Lynes that a “damages trial” should be held for Holmes to possibly recuperate monetary compensation for his losses. Costello didn’t specify the amount of damages that should be awarded. The attorney also argued for the implementation of trans-friendly procedures within the Jersey City Police Department in order to avoid similar occurrences against trans people in the future. As of press time, Lynes hadn’t issued a ruling on Costello’s requests. After the court proceeding, he told PGN that Holmes is doing well under the circumstances. “The abuse my client suffered was gratuitous and unnecessary,” Costello said. “The [Jersey City] police themselves promise on their website respect, fairness, equality and accountability. And that’s all we’re asking.” Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly had no comment for this story. City attorneys at the Jersey City Law Department who defended the city in the matter also had no comment. n

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Bring a friend: COLOURS event promotes HIV testing By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com COLOURS Organization celebrates Juneteenth with its first bring-a-friend-totesting event June 19 to encourage more people of color to learn their HIV status. Juneteenth is the oldest-known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. “COLOURS serves the community that’s most affected by HIV,” said executive director Damon Humes. “We want to honor the history of AfricanAmericans in this country while also preserving our futures with more people knowing their status.” COLOURS provides health and wellness services to the city’s black LGBTQ community, including HIV testing, support groups and navigation services for black men who have sex with men (MSM). Humes said the bring-a-friend event will help raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in minority communities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2016 that African-Americans are by far the most

affected racial group, with a lifetime HIV risk of one in 20 for men and 1 in 48 for women. One in two black MSMs in the United States will be diagnosed with HIV during their lifetime. Terrence Fleming, COLOURS prevention specialist and educator, said the Juneteenth event aims to help the organization test more people while building a support system. “A lot of people are scared of the thought of knowing their status. This event will alleviate that apprehension with participants bringing someone they know or trust,” Fleming said. COLOURS provides HIV tests and STI screenings to nearly 100 people a week, with almost all of those tested being people of color. Fleming said having staff members of color helps with feelings of vulnerability, but bringing a friend to a testing would make the experience even less isolating. “Getting tested is an experience that can very isolating and that’s why we want people to bring a friend or two with them to get tested. We want people to know they’re not alone in this process.” n

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GALAEI hosts condom-packing party By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com Condom usage, safe-sex practices and HIVprevention methods were the topics of conversation at Galaei’s condom-packing party June 9 — the first event featured in the organization’s month-long Pride celebration. The Latinx social-justice group invited the public the party to encourage ages 13-24 to talk about sex education and condom usage. Almost two-dozen participants packed more than 400 small bags with informational pamphlets about the organization, along with a variety of condoms and lubricants. The party partnered with Galaei’s youth group, SOY (Support Our Youth), to discuss sex education and HIV prevention in an approachable way, said Geraldo Oyola, the HIV testing coordinator at Galaei. Staff members explained appropriate condom usage, shared HIV statistics and explained prevention methods for HIV and STIs. The party also featured movie screenings and snacks while the condoms were being packed, aimed at making participants more comfortable talking about sex, he said. “When you have something fun, especially about something like condoms and sex education, it opens up conversations to the community about what we do and who we are,” he

said. “Some people are hesitant to get tested, but we’ll have these packed condoms on display and people feel more comfortable taking them. That’s the first step to bringing them back to Galaei for more of our services.” Jimmy Ortiz, a volunteer said the organization has helped him learn about safe sex, something he said he never openly talked about. “Galaei has taught me and my friends all about safe sex,” he said. “They even encouraged me to tell my family and friends about getting tested. Before volunteering here, safe sex wasn’t something I ever talked about. Coming here makes it easier, especially at condom-packing parties.” Jorian Rivera, an HIV tester at Galaei, said such events give the community a chance to know one another while introducing the organization to new faces. Galaei moved to its current office in North Philadelphia almost three years ago and is still creating a presence there. “We haven’t been in this community for very long, so having these events gives the neighborhood an opportunity to see what we’re about. Galaei is very sex-positive and body-positive, so we incorporate that message in everything that we do. While most people will initially come for condoms, they come back because they enjoy what we bring to the community,” Rivera said. n

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Bucks County officials settle LGBT-related lawsuit for $52K By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Bucks County officials recently authorized a $52,207.50 payment to settle a federal lawsuit arising from a high-profile Center City gay-bashing incident in 2014. Kathleen O’Donnell, 63, of Norristown, claimed she lost a job due to Bucks County officials violating her free-speech rights over a series of online comments about Kathryn Knott, who was convicted and served prison time for her role in assaulting a gay couple. O’Donnell sued the county in 2016 and the case was settled June 6. At their June 6 public meeting, Bucks County Commissioners Diane M. Marseglia and Charles H. Martin voted in favor of the payment, which will go to O’Donnell and her attorneys at the law firm of Kraemer, Manes & Associates in Pittsburgh. The third commissioner, Robert G. Loughery, was absent from the meeting and didn’t participate in the vote, Martin said. The settlement document won’t be released to the public until all three commissioners sign it, a county spokesperson told PGN. Thus, it remains unclear how much money will be paid to O’Donnell and how much will be paid to her attorneys. While Knott was awaiting trial, O’Donnell authored a series of posts on Disqus under the avatar “Knotty is a Tramp.” The posts referred to Knott in the first person, allegedly giving the impression that Knott wrote them. In her suit, O’Donnell accused Knott’s father, Karl E. Knott, of misusing his law-enforcement connections as police chief of Chalfont in 2015 when persuading Bucks County officials to investigate her posts. Two Bucks County detectives, Martin

McDonough and Mark Zielinski, visited O’Donnell’s workplace in Chester County and discussed the posts with her boss, causing O’Donnell to be terminated, she maintained. O’Donnell said her posts were a “parody,” not an attempt to impersonate Knott. The posts depicted Knott as a vain woman who believed she was “entitled” to brutalize gay men. For example, one post stated: “I’m an entitled princess who can beat up gay people if I want to.” Another posts stated: “Orange doesn’t suit my complexion,” referring to the color of prison garb. In October, U.S. District Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg denied Bucks County’s request to dismiss O’Donnell’s case as meritless. It was headed for a jury trial before a settlement reached June 6. Neither side had a comment for this story. The 2014 gay-bashing incident became a cause célèbre in Philadelphia. Knott participated in the attack with Philip R. Williams and Kevin J. Harrigan, who pleaded guilty to various assault-related charges and were ordered to perform 200 hours of community service. However, Knott’s case went to trial and, in December 2015 a jury found her guilty of three misdemeanors related to the incident. She was required to serve five months in county jail. In May 2016, Andrew Haught and Zachary Hesse, the two men who were assaulted, filed a civil suit against Knott, Williams and Harrigan in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. Haught was hospitalized for five days and suffered fractures to his jaw bone and around his eye. He had to have his jaw wired shut for eight weeks to repair his jaw bone. Hesse suffered cuts and bruises to his face and body. The suit was settled in November 2017 for an undisclosed amount of money. n

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PRIDE MONTH FLAG RAISING JUNE 7 AT CITY HALL Photo: Scott A. Drake

PHILLY DYKE MARCH Photo: Kelly Burkhardt

DJ AURA AT JUICE Photo: Davelle Barnes

HOMECOMING PARTY JUNE 8 AT WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER Photo: Scott A. Drake

PLEASE TOUCH DRAG QUEEN STORY TIME WITH MISS AURORA (LEFT) AND BRITTANY LYNN Photo: Adriana Fraser

MISS NEW HOPE GINGER ALLEY DURING THE PRIDE FASHION SHOW JUNE 8 AT LE MERIDIAN Photo: Scott A. Drake

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Room for everyone In the weeks ahead of Pride, organizers, participants and activists individually told PGN that this year, we would see more new and inclusive events. We did. The JUICE festival for women of color attracted more than 200 people in its second year, with organizer Daiyon Kpou not only surprised by the turnout but pledging an even bigger event next year. The Mayor’s Office for LGBT Affairs rolled out an entire month of events with a focus on those who might feel left out of the celebrations, such as people in recovery and the disabled. The Please Touch Museum held its first Family Pride Festival — by all accounts, a huge success — with participating parents expressing heartfelt gratitude to see and meet families that look like their own. The Dyke March attracts more people each year. “This means we’re heading in the right direction,” said one of the organizers. The more people feel included in Pride, the more powerful the community becomes as a whole. There is no downside to events and conversations geared toward specific parts of the community. Pride grows, adapts, expands and changes and is the better for it. For the 30th anniversary, this year’s Philadelphia Pride sent a resounding message that Pride is by all, for all. n

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Welp, gay people can’t have cake any one’s rights.” more — the Supreme Court said so. It But to hear ADF tell it, the Supreme is now the law of the land that cake is Court just ruled that anyone can discrimiintended only for one man and one woman nate against LGBTQ people for any reason to eat between just the two of them forever at any time, so help them God. and ever. Heterosexuals — and this is the That is, well, inaccurate. part not being reported by the media — “In no way did the Supreme Court grant are no longer permitted to eat any other a license to discriminate around the counfood. It’s cake only. The catch, however, is try,” said Sarah Warbelow, legal director that only married straights can have cake. for the Human Rights Campaign. Everyone else gets no cake. “Anti-LGBTQ extremists did not win Some are worrying that preventing single the sweeping ‘license to discriminate’ men and women, not to mention children, they have been hoping for,” Human Rights from eating cake will lead to fraudulent mar- Campaign President Chad Griffin told USA riages where people only say “I do” for the Today. “And the ruling does not change our cake, not for the Lord. It is also feared that nation’s longstanding civil rights laws.” gays and lesbians will pose as straight and In fact, HRC pointed out in a tweet marry under false pretenses to obtain cake. that in the Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling, Had I realized that I could never have “SCOTUS acknowledged that LGBTQ cake again, I would have eaten an entire people are equal and have a right to be cake all by myself the day before this rulfree from the indignity of discrimination.” ing came down. Which is good news. It is, to be sure, a caketastrophe. However, what will likely happen now is Or is it? Well, let’s be clear, it would have that other suits challenging the civil rights been nice to get a ruling from the Supreme of LGBTQ people will gain traction. Court that made clear that discrimination We’re in for an ugly ride and this against LGBTQ people is wrong, full stop, should worry you. Short of getting yourforever and ever, amen. self appointed to the Supreme Court, an important thing you can do is vote. But that’s not what happened. Instead, Donald Trump is reshaping the judiciary the court issued a narrow ruling in favor of Masterpiece Cake Shop owner Jack Phillips, by appointing judges completely hostile to LGBTQ people, not to mention to people who had been penalized for refusing to of color and women. So, basically, judges make a cake for a gay couple’s wedding. who are hostile It is important “The Court’s ruling is being to the majority of to remember that America. He must the Alliance for characterized as ‘narrow’ be stopped. The Defending Freedom only way to do is behind this whole because it applies to only that is to elect a thing to begin with. that one baker. It sets no Democratic majorADF may have an ity in Congress. innocuous-sounding precedents, changes no name, but they are Oh, and happy laws and basically has zero anything but. They Pride Month. It turns impact on anyone’s rights.” have been named a out that the pot at the hate group by the end of the rainbow Southern Poverty Law Center and have a is filled not with gold coins, but with cake. long history of trying to do really terrible And by “cake,” I mean civil rights, since this things to hurt LGBTQ people. whole thing is about much more than cake. The ruling was 7-2, which has led plenty It’s about whether LGBTQ people are equal of people to determine that calling the rulcitizens under the law. So vote for people ing “narrow” was part of a liberal conspirwho will make laws that protect us all. And, yeah, feel free to sneak in some acy to minimize the decision. bites of illicit cake. You deserve it. n But those people are dumb. As the New Civil Rights Movement puts it, “The D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian Court’s ruling is being characterized as ‘narrow’ because it applies to only that one living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow baker. It sets no precedents, changes no her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski. laws and basically has zero impact on any-

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Talk is not cheap Ah, summertime — the living is easy. ing election. Don’t be afraid to ask the peoWe toss our cares to the wind, head for a ple you come across, “Are you registered little R&R and, for many, that great sumto vote?” But even that is not enough. Ask mer vacation. So it should be a your friends to ask their friends time to relax, lay back and enjoy those questions. the sunshine. There’s a line you’ve heard But wait, we’re five months many times before, and as the from an election. Here’s where I Trump administration continues can envision you saying, “Mark, to chip away at not only LGBT why are you bringing this up rights but those of people of now?” color, immigrants and even Here’s the point: We can’t rest Canadians, one has to attempt until we do something to put to find humor in all this. Recall a check on the madness that is the slogan that should ring in Donald Trump, and the harm your ears: “They will never already done to this country in have the comfort of our silence just 18 months. At this point again.” you’re saying, “Mark can’t this Don’t be afraid to speak up. wait till September?” Resistance — and that word is The answer is no, but there is Mark Segal so appropriate — begins not in an out: talk. September, but now. n Some people think that talk is cheap, especially when you’re talking politics, but Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the nation’s mostin this case it is valuable, and you can even award-winning commentator in LGBT media. You can follow him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ do it on vacation. MarkSegalPGN or Twitter at https://twitter.com/ Don’t be afraid to talk about the upcomPhilaGayNews.

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Wedding-cake decision threatens all minorities Fifty-three years ago on July 4, 1965, I marched with Barbara Giddings and Frank Kameny in the first Reminder Day demonstration at Independence Hall to remind the country of freedom and rights for all people, including gay people. We were nervous because we didn’t know what would happen. No problems occurred, likely because troublemakers, employers and landlords had no way to learn we were actually there. Only a minority was prejudiced even in 1965, but almost everyone else was silent. Since then, the progress in public acceptance of LGBT people in the U.S. has been amazing, more than I ever imagined. Still, we are in danger. The Supreme Court wedding-cake decision is important not for a cake, but for everything else. A storm can be ominous even if it hasn’t rained much yet. This decision is the narrow edge of a wedge, establishing that

discrimination can be constitutionally protected along with freedom of speech and religion. If the wedge goes in all the way, discrimination will be a constitutional right, laws against it will be gone and hate will become a standard part of American public life, not just an accident or personal failure. The real problem is that a coalition that used to be called conservative has five of the nine votes on the Supreme Court. Hate groups are a minority of this coalition, but an important minority. They almost certainly provided a margin of victory for Trump, and likely for control of Congress as well. Now they want the spoils of the victories they made possible. Don’t be confused by the fake issue of forced speech. A baker can refuse to make any cake, for any reason, including a cake with a pro-gay or anti-gay message, or any other message the baker doesn’t like. Most

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Street Talk What does it mean to you that Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain recently died due to suicide? “I was shocked. I really admire Kate Spade. I have a few of her clothing items. My friend heard about it right after Isabella DeSandro some Kate sales associate Spade items Mayfair [that] she purchased arrived in the mail. Unfortunately, people feel such pressure to keep up their brand and image that sometimes it results in suicide.”

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“I don’t necessarily think suicide is a bad thing. It can be a valid option for some people. So I’m not making any Jimmy Kuang judgments field-operations about those associate two individu- New York City als. Obviously, I wish they were still alive. I enjoyed watching Anthony Bourdain. And my girlfriend adored Kate Spade. She’s very distraught over her death.”

“We need to stop acting like people can snap out of depression. It’s not that simple. We shame people into thinking they’re Nicole Wiegand weak when store manager really it’s an Queen Village illness. We shouldn’t stigmatize suicidal thoughts. We need to let people know we’re available to them, not make them feel like they’re a burden.”

wedding cakes have no messages on them. But does a business open to the public have a constitutional right to refuse the same business to LGBT people that it offers to everyone else? If so, what about racial, ethnic and religious minorities? Will equality in job, housing and public accommodations go out the window for them too? Will anti-Semitic discrimination be constitutionally protected if it is religious? Suppose the Supreme Court decides to pick and choose and recognize a constitutional right to discriminate against some groups but not others? That will institutionalize a new second-class citizenship, a 21st-century Jim Crow. What can you do? Most importantly, vote. The first and best protection for a community is to vote. If you are legally eligible, make sure you are registered in time for the very important November elections, and get

your friends out to vote too. Never miss an election. Aside from politics, we must repair what is wrong with today’s world, not just for LGBT Americans, but for everyone. Unhappy people blame scapegoats. We need nonpartisan social movements that work in daily life and help people and communities succeed and live better. Human relationships are universal, from casual business and personal friendships all the way to national and international affairs (and some would say even within ourselves, getting our own act together). n John S. James, a grand marshal in the 2018 LGBT Pride Day Parade and Festival, published AIDS Treatment News from 1986 to 2007. He was in the first Reminder Day demonstration in Philadelphia in 1965, and is still committed to building a better world. He recently launched the website www.affinity99.org.

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Taking on traditions Though millions of children are being raised by LGBT people, the process of bringing a child into the world is one that’s still laden with heteronormative traditions and expectations. As a same-sex couple, we have been faced with the friction that bucking that norm can cause, and have had to consider to what degree we wanted to embrace customs, ignore them or, in some cases, create our own.

From neighbors to the mailman to random passersby in a store, every single time Ashlee being pregnant has been addressed with new audiences, it’s another time we’ve had to come out. Even from those who have long been a part of our personal lives, we received some strange reactions. One friend thought we both were pregnant at the same time. Another friend of the family pointedly asked Ashlee, “Wait, how Bracing for impact are you pregnant?” On my first day Lots of folks hesat my new job, two itantly asked who weeks after we found the baby would look out Ashlee was preglike, to try to figure nant, I had to tell my out whose egg we boss that my wife was used. We were braced for the, “Who’s the expecting in order to father?” question, but figure out PTO allowfortunately that never ances. Inherent in that materialized. We statement was also my decided to try to be coming out to him, patient with any such a message that I had recognizing to keep sharing with Jen Colletta questions, that even Ashlee and other coworkers once I learned a lot about Ashlee hit the 12-week family-building through this promark (which most doctors advise cess, using it as an opportunity to waiting until before going pubeducate those unfamiliar with the lic, as most complications occur ins and outs of artificial reproducby that point). After 10 years at tion. PGN, I had little apprehension We chose to tell our close famabout coming out, but it was still ily members in person at about an interesting experience when each new person would come into 10 weeks (with individualized “aunt” and “grandparent” my office, see the framed ultragifts), followed by phone sound picture I had put up on a calls to other family memshelf and congratulate me and bers and close friends. As my husband. There was often a second of embarrassment on their many people do in this digital age, we opted for part, and thankfully little else; a social-media post to I tried to take it in stride and be realistic that, while LGBT parent- announce the pregnancy widely. We thought about ing is becoming more common, creating a post that played no one is immune from assumpoff our relationship (there tions. Ashlee has faced the same thing are some hilarious LGBTin her workplace, a healthcare set- centric images you can ting. While she is out to all of her find online that poke fun coworkers, she doesn’t necessarat the inevitable questions ily share her personal life with her same-sex parents face), but patients, some of whom can’t help decided not to highlight that but notice that she’s pregnant. aspect; we wanted everyone She’s casually told some that she to view us just as expectant and her wife are expecting, and parents, not expectant sameothers (largely the older, more sex parents. Ashlee hit 12 weeks conservative crowd) she’s just in mid-February, so we spelled allowed to congratulate her and out “August 2018” on the back her husband out of convenience. of a bunch of heart candies and

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took a photo with the ultrasound and a pair of baby shoes and then watched the love pour in. Social media can, in a way, keep us in a protected bubble of like-minded loved ones, so we’ve tried to remind ourselves that the rest of the world isn’t necessarily as accepting as our circles. We know that so many LGBT Americans face much more resistance when building families, and that unfortunate reality has helped us to really be grateful for the support we do have. An inclusive experience One of the most common questions we got after announcing the pregnancy was whether or not we wanted to know ahead of time if we were having a boy or girl. As LGBT people, we’re a lot less committed to the gender-binary expectations many have during pregnancy. We’re of the mindset that our future children can choose to express gender however they please as they grow up and plan to eschew the traditional dolls-and-trucks trope. However, in part for planning purposes (we intended to put the baby’s name on one of the nursery walls), we chose to go ahead and find out the sex. Most 20-week ultrasounds will be able to determine sex, but we actually found out a

few weeks earlier, as we opted for Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing, which screens for risk of genetic disorders (and also can tell the

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sex). We had our doctor write the sex on a slip of paper in a sealed envelope, which sat on our dresser for a long two weeks. Part of our motivation for doing a “gender reveal” event was being able to share that moment with our family and close friends, as so much of the fertility process was solely between Ashlee and me — our loved ones knew we were planning to start a family, but we kept the details private, as we rightfully predicted lots of ups and downs. We invited a few family and friends over and, in keeping with our “Harry Potter” theme for the baby’s nursery, a friend covertly read the slip of paper and put a pair of baby shoes (we had gotten both blue and pink, for convenience’s sake) under our “Sorting Hat.” With tons of smartphones at the ready, we lifted the hat to reveal … blue! While we went semi-traditional for the gender reveal, we’ve also invented a few of our own traditions throughout this process. As the baby will have a biological connection to Ashlee and not to me, we have tried to be intentional about making sure we all feel equally connected. We both try to

use language such as “our baby” and “we’re pregnant,” so no one (us included) gets the sense that we’re not being equally invested in becoming parents. Ashlee has been filling out a weekly “Baby Book” journal, while I’ve also been writing my own recollections of this experience for him to eventually read. Instead of the traditional “baby bump” selfies many women take, I’ve been taking a weekly picture of Ashlee that I intend to make into a slideshow for him. Ashlee has been experiencing all of the physical sensations of preparing for a baby, and I’ve been gearing up in my own way: painting the nursery (all the snow days this winter came in handy), organizing the house for the influx of baby belongings and reading up on the next symptoms Ashlee may experience. We’ve found that it’s important to make the experience inclusive; we started this journey together and want to experience as many steps as we can side by side. Being “nontraditional” expectant parents comes with its challenges, but it’s also an opportunity to define the experience for yourselves, an approach we anticipate to continuing once Jackson Anthony makes his entrance in a few short months. n

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Festival for LGBTQ women of color doubles attendance By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com This year’s JUICE event saw twice the number of participants than in its debut last year, with more than 200 guests at the June 9 event. JUICE provides a celebratory space for anyone of color, but more specifically for LGBTQ women of color. Daiyon Kpou, founder of Her Philly Moves, said she didn’t feel represented in other Pride events, so she created this one. “I’ve gone to many Pride festivals over the years, and there was never a space where I truly felt comfortable. I knew that it was important for me to create that more diverse space,” Kpou said. Hosted at Life Do Grown Farm in North Philadelphia, the festival featured music performances by LGBTQ artists, art exhibitions with interactive installments, food and clothing vendors, film screenings after sunset and a pop-up printmaking station sponsored by Philadelphia Printworks. JUICE is important for the visibility of people of color within the community, said first-time attendee Ashley Wekes. “I’ve never been to a Pride celebration that specifically catered towards my identity as a queer woman of color. It’s important to see ourselves — people of color —

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Philadelphia Inquirer that the museum wasn’t considering cancelling the Pride program. “We held fast in our commitment to create a day that children and families would experience with joy and openness. More than 1,600 visitors participated in Pride,” Wellenbach wrote. Danielle Defassio, the museum’s manager of studio and performing arts, organized most of the events for the festival and pushed for the inclusion of Drag Queen Storytime. Defassio said that the segment explored different faces of children’s creativity through dress-up. “Drag Queen Storytime is a beautiful piece of performance and a way for children to see a uniqueness in difference without it being confusing or awkward or scary,” Defassio said. “It takes away the veil of a segment of the population that is oftentimes misrepresented, underrepresented or hidden by society. It shows a different type of performance. It shows children that anyone can dress in fun ways and be silly or serious or find a character that suits who they are.” Adam Podowitz, a board member of Philadelphia Family Pride — an organization dedicated to building an inclu-

within the LGBTQ spectrum. It’s nice to know that there’s a space where I can be myself,” Wekes said. “I need this because I want to experience joy with people who look like me and love like me.” A new addition to this year’s festival was an informational table from the New Voices for Reproductive Justice Philadelphia, an organization dedicated to the health and well-being of black women, femmes and girls through body autonomy. Kris Keen, a community organizer for NVRJ, identifies as a gender-nonconforming queer person of color and said that JUICE celebrates her identity while providing an audience that’s more receptive to the organization’s work. “This space gives us an opportunity to talk about reproductive justice with LGTBQ women of color who may be unsure of how to articulate what’s going on with their bodies to medical professionals,” said Keen. “Black bodies are celebrated here, and that falls in line with what NVRJ wants to accomplish.” Kpou said that the success of this year’s event already has her thinking of how to make next year’s festival even bigger. “People are now catching on to what Her Philly Moves does, and next year I want to create an even bigger, more inclusive event.” n

sive community for LGBTQ+ families — said that the Please Touch Museum’s celebration of LGBTQ families helps interrupt the heteronormative family structure. “There are moments when we feel like we’re the only queer family around. It’s important for us to see people who look like us in these places so that we can feel comfortable,” he said. “So much of the world is heteronormative and that’s the model of family that is so frequent. Events like Drag Queen Storytime show a structure that’s not the norm and that’s is important for us to show our children.” Brittany Lynn and Miss Aurora host an ongoing Drag Queen Storytime with the Free Library of Philadelphia in branches across the city and at Lume Creative Learning Studios. Brittany Lynn said that the story times are integral to introducing children to a diversity of lifestyles. “Growing up, I wasn’t introduced to other walks of life. Any of those kids in the audience could be gay or questioning or could want another type of lifestyle that isn’t mainstream,” she said. “We want those children to know that there are other people like them so that they don’t feel alone.” n

Street Talk: Pride Edition What would you like to see included at next year’s Pride celebration? “The festival lacks diverse creative performances and events. I want to see an array of artists on the main Keyona Alivair stage and home health aide at the other Cherry Hill, N.J. events that take place throughout the weekend.”

“I want to be comfortable celebrating Pride with more people who look like me. It’s hard to find any events just for people of Selena Cabrera color. I hope Singer/Songwriter North Philadelphia next year’s celebration includes more spaces for queer women of color other than JUICE.”

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at the Dyke March reminded us of just how far we’ve come, not just as a community, but as a celebration in general,” she said. “We’ve always been a protest, and to see more people join us each year lets me know that we’re headed in the right direction.” LGBTQ families were also included in this year’s Pride, with Please Touch Museum’s inaugural Pride Family Festival on June 9. Adam Podowitz, board member of Philadelphia Family Pride, said it was reaffirming to see families that resemble his own being openly celebrated. “Please Touch took a major step towards showing a family structure that many people are still trying to ignore. We live, love and create families just like everyone else and we want to see that reflected regularly,” said Podowitz. “Pride should be celebrated past June, past celebrations where the LGBT community is at the center. It must be a conscious effort every single day

“I want to see a booth or an event that’s specifically for LGBTQ military men and women. With this current Kendrick Berks administration trying to Air Force Dover, Del. attack certain parts of the community, it would be nice to see the festival incorporate some of our voices and our stories.” “I want to see more diversity in the programming and more community events leading up to Pride. I Casey Sleighton student want to be able to par- West Philadelphia ticipate in more events other than just the festival.”

for every organization.” Controversy surrounded Please Touch’s Pride Family Festival with the announcement of a storytime segment hosted by drag queens. Parents who were against Drag Queen Storytime left negative comments on the museum’s Facebook page. Miss Aurora, one of the drag-queen readers, said the support outweighed the negativity. “Parents set aside time to thank us for being there and for sharing what we do with their children. Some parents have a lot of queer friends and are able to introduce their children into the community, but that’s not a reality for a lot of people,” she said. “A lot of parents are looking for ways to help their children see more of the diversity of human experience and the amazing things that the people in our community can do. We want to encourage them to have open imaginations, to be able to play openly and freely without any constraints or boundaries.” n

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The transition out of a nursing home Norma Tramel was confined to the isolation and stigmatization of life in a nursing home for four years after suffering a ruptured hernia that put her in a coma. Once she regained her health, she began to yearn for the freedom that was taken away from her. After four long years, Tramel was able to transition out of the nursing home and move back into the community. She is now happily living back in her home with her daughter as one of her careMary givers. She is now working toward becoming a drug and alcohol counselor. Tramel is one of the 50 people who transitioned out of nursing homes in 2017 through the support of Liberty Resources, Inc. (LRI). LRI advocates

for and with people with disabilities to ensure their civil rights. When given a choice, an overwhelming majority of people say they would prefer to age in their homes rather than in institutions. Nursing homes provide vital care for people needing a high level of medical support. Yet some residents also find life in a nursing home to be isolating and lacking in many of the joys they found when living independently. The challenges of life in Jo Rohrer a nursing home can be even more pronounced for LGBT people. In a 2011 national survey by the National Senior Citizens Law Center, only 22 percent of LGBT older adults in nursing homes reported feeling that they could be open about their identities

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being held at police headquarters. Her bail was set at $5,000, with 10 percent required for her release. Segin was released June 11 after several activist groups, including Philly Socialists and Philly for REAL Justice, raised more than $2,500 through Venmo and PayPal from online supporters. Amber Hikes, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs, joined Segin’s father and community organizers to help post bail. In response to a commenter on Facebook asking why Segin was housed the men’s prison, Hikes replied, “The policy of the Department of Corrections is to house individuals according to sex assigned at birth. Our office is currently working with the [department] to change the policy but it’s a long battle.” The Philly Socialists, a grassroots group, supported Segin after her arrest and provided updates on her status via social media. The group condemned the presence of police at Pride celebrations. In a statement following Segin’s release, Philly Socialists wrote: “As an institution, the police have no place at Pride. Police presence at Pride represents an affront to LGBTQ people and people of color, who daily face threats of unjustified, brutal violence and death at the hands of the police state. We must not forget the courageous work of trans women of color activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, whose actions at Stonewall against the dehumanizing systems of police oppression laid the groundwork for Pride and for the LGBT movement as a whole.” n

with facility staff. Forty-three percent reported witnessing instances of mistreatment. While transitioning out of a nursing home is not going to be an option for all residents, it is important that those who are able to do so are provided with the option to live independently and securely in their own homes in the community. LRI’s Nursing Home Transition (NHT) department focuses on the steps to independence for those who are returning to the community after a nursing-home stay. The NHT department is guided by Norma Robertson-Dabrowski, who herself transitioned out of a nursing home. The NHT team provides support for people as they transition back into the community, including assistance obtaining housing and coordinating services. A transition from a nursing home back into the community can cost upwards of

$6,000. The NHT department operates a Transition to Freedom Fund, which covers countless overhead costs associated with transitioning out of an institution. One main barrier impacting people trying to transition out of nursing homes is that there is not enough affordable and accessible housing in Philadelphia for people who are on Medicaid. An entity of LRI, Liberty Housing Development Corporation has worked to break down this barrier for people with disabilities by both advocating for and providing much-needed affordable, accessible and integrated housing throughout the city. There is nothing more empowering than having a place to call home. n Mary Jo Rohrer is the communications and development associate at Liberty Resources, Inc. To learn more about LRI’s services, visit their website www. libertyresources.org. Follow LRI on Facebook @ LibertyResourcesInc and on Instagram and Twitter: @ libertycil.

Amid greater demand, N.J. hospital expands LGBTQ health center By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset will expand its PROUD Family Health center this summer to serve more LGBTQ patients in New Jersey by moving into a bigger space, adding two new staff members and extending clinic hours. “We opened PROUD Family Health because we recognized that the healthcare needs of the community were not being met and, in many cases, LGBTQIA individuals were traveling outside New Jersey for their medical care,” said hospital president Tony Cava. The expansion, with a budget of $100,000, will include a new space for the center in a dedicated office suite across the hall from its current location on the hospital’s campus. The center is currently open Mondays 6-9 p.m. but will expand to offer appointments three full days a week. In addition,

the hospital is hiring an advanced-practice nurse for the center and a patient navigator who will set appointments, guide patients to the appropriate care and conduct community outreach and health education. An APN on staff allows more patients to be seen at the center, which Cava said was the primary reason behind the expansion. “We’ve grown quickly in terms of the number of patients we’re seeing and we currently can’t meet the needs of our community. We anticipated rapid growth but not at the level we’re seeing and, unfortunately, patients are being delayed with being seen and has resulted in those patients seeking treatment elsewhere,” he said. The hospital is the first in the state to offer specialized primary-healthhcare services for the LGBTQ community. PROUD Family Health, which opened in January 2017 in the hospital’s Somerset Family Practice, “provides services tailored to meet

the healthcare needs of LGBTQ patients in a safe, supportive environment,” Cava said. Services include primary medical care for children and adults, hormone therapy and monitoring, HIV care, health education, counseling, support groups and referrals for specialty services such as behavioral health. New Jersey Commissioner of Health Shereef Elnahal visited the center June 4, meeting with patients and care providers. “It was important to me to visit the hospital and learn about the importance of delivering unbiased, compassionate and clinically appropriate services to the LGBT community,” Elnahal said in a statement after the visit. “For far too long, LGBT health — especially the unique healthcare needs of our transgender residents — has been an afterthought in the healthcare community. The services provided at the PROUD Family Health are an example worthy of replicating.” n

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News Briefing Delaware LGBT group invites congresswoman, senator to summer fundraiser The Barbara Gittings Delaware Stonewall PAC, an advocacy group for the LGBT community of Delaware, will feature Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester and Senator Tom Carper at its annual summer fundraiser June, 16 1-4 p.m. in Rehoboth Beach at Rigby’s Bar and Grill. The Delaware Stonewall PAC, founded in 2003, is the country’s only grassroots Democratic LGBT organization. Peter Schott, the PAC’s founder and president, said the event’s proceeds will go towards the continuing fight for equality, as the political-action committee will educate the public and state legislators on important issues to the community. “The ability of our group to get national figures and state leaders to attend the event has made the group one

Activist groups lead protest in City Council chambers The HIV/AIDS activists of ACT UP and Disabled in Action of Pennsylvania led a “die-in” protest at last week’s City Council meeting. The activists occupied the Council Chamber for 30 minutes June 7 to protest provisions to an affordable-housing package proposed by Council President Darrell Clarke. A handful of protesters got out of their wheelchairs and lay on the floor, chanting, “Stop Clarke, stop greed, money for housing is what we need!” A 1-percent tax on new-construction developments was introduced to Council in April to fund affordable housing units in the city. Clarke’s proposed provisions included a new subfund that would be spent on housing for those who earn up to 120 percent of median income, or more than $100,000 for a family of four. The Housing Trust Fund, which currently gets $11 million a year, provides affordable housing throughout the city. Half the revenue in the trust fund must be spent on housing for those who make less than 30 percent of the area

median income — roughly $26,000 for a family of four. “[The] City Council president got our message that creating a fund twice the size of the Housing Trust Fund and not giving anything to people [in poverty] is an outrage,” said Nancy Salandra, a member of Disabled in Action.

LGBTQ sports team hosts Father’s Day block party The Philadelphia Falcons Soccer Club will host a block-party fundraiser on Father’s Day, June 17, 1-6 p.m. at UBar. The fundraiser will be in conjunction with UBar’s “Who’s U’r Daddy” party with drinks, music and a raffle fundraiser for the upcoming Gay Games — the world LGBT community’s largest sporting and cultural event — hosted in Paris. Special guest DJ Robert Drake of the Sex Dwarf Dance Party will spin. The event is free and participants are encouraged to buy a Falcons T-shirt. A total of $5 from every shirt sale will go to the team. “We represent a vast array of gender identities, sexual orientations, nationalities and backgrounds. This event is to celebrate who we are and what we do, but it’s also to raise money for this year’s Gay Games, where we hope to

represent the city proudly,” said Caitlin Daley, president of the Falcons.

Galaei hosts Alternative Prom Galaei will host its 23rd annual Alternative Prom June 22 from 6-9 p.m. at the William Way LGBT Community Center. The Alternative Prom is the longest-running event of its kind specifically for LGBTQ individuals ages 13-24. All participants are encouraged to buy a ticket for $10, but the fee is optional. The prom was created by humanitarian and activist David Acosta as a way to ensure that all LGBTQ youth who could not or did not attend their own proms would have an opportunity to do so “freely,” said Geraldo Oyola, HIV testing coordinator at Galaei. This year’s theme is Purple Rain, inspired by the late musician Prince. “Our youth board decided the theme this year and we couldn’t be more excited,” Oyola said. “This is our biggest event of the year. It showcases the spirit of the young people in our community. We’re encouraging all young people to come out, LGBTQ-identified or not.” n — compiled by Adriana Fraser

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Good Enough for Government Work, Part II City’s missing $33 million: What does it mean and where do we go from here Editor’s Note: Last week we addressed the case of the missing $33 million. This week we address its ramifications. A great deal of the spadework for this article was done by Larry Platt, Publisher of the Philadelphia Citizen, in his article “How Not To Watch Your Money” thephiladelphiacitizen. org.

hen a municipality fesses up to losing $33 million, the natural reaction from politicians is hyperbole. In Philadelphia, political hyperbole is an art form. It seems that such hyperbole may be inversely proportional to each one’s time in political office. Newly minted council member-at-large Alan Domb: “I’m flabbergasted. There could be a theft. I don’t really know what’s going on.” Then there’s the new city controller Rebecca Rhynart: “Not reconciling accounts is an inducement for wrongdoing. I think there is a culture change that needs to happen on the financial management of the city.” But those in the business of tracking municipal finances seem rather nonplussed by the missing millions. The Philadelphia Inquirer asked around and this is what they got: Joseph Krist, partner at Court Street Group Research in New York: “Cities have

historically been behind the times in terms of how they process and keep track of payments. I’d be surprised if you took the 10 largest cities in America and you didn’t see something like this somewhere in each.”

… maybe Mayor Kenney has it right when he treats the missing 33 million as more of an accounting error … Patricia M. Healy, investment portfolio manager at Cumberland Advisors in Vineland, N.J.: ‘“This type of thing does happen from time to time’ … cit[ing] a New York State auditing report finding that towns and agencies failed to balance accounts ‘due to lack of proper supervision, inexperienced employees and lack of internal controls’ — or the failure to use them. ‘In a city the size of Philadelphia, the amount is relatively small.’” Eric Kazatsky, analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence: “‘I do not think this alone would precipitate a downgrade. However, it should be noted that management [counts

for] about 20 percent’ of the grade, when agencies rate which cities will likely pay their bills. … The underfunded pensions and school needs are a bigger deal.” Matt Fabian, publisher of the Connecticut-based MMA Advisor newsletter: “If it were part of a larger, longer pattern of lack of financial controls, it would be a larger negative … I don’t think it’s a big deal.” So maybe Mayor Kenney has it right when he treats the missing 33 million as more of an accounting error and less of the potential white collar crime his counterparts on council and the controller’s office do.

Still we go back to Philadelphia Citizen publisher Larry Platt’s take on all of this: “I keep coming back to the issue of leadership and accountability. When Los Angeles discovered $42 million had been lost due to an accounting error, the city’s chief administrative officer Miguel Santana didn’t obfuscate or offer excuses. He owned it. ‘When all your focus is on providing resources and surviving another year, proactive review of our fiscal management can get lost in there,’ he explained, an instinct which — who knows? — may have been Continued on page 2

Whether accounting error or not, controls need to be put in place so taxpayers are not left guessing. Photo by Salvatore Patrone. June 10-17, 2018

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Good Enough for Government Work Continued from page 1 at play here. And last year, after the city of Spokane, Washington went through successive annual audits that found those dreaded material weaknesses in its accounting practices, Mayor David Condon sent a letter to his director of accounting: ‘I wish you the very best in your future professional endeavors,’ he wrote. You’d like to see the Mayor take ownership and impose accountability. After all, it’s the credibility of his administration that’s at stake when his underlings are scrambling to find millions of missing dollars—while he’s asking for more in taxes. Rob Dubow has been the Director of Finance for a decade and has served the

city honorably. … Sam Katz, the former head of fiscal oversight board PICA once said, ‘Maybe we should have term limits for all senior city officials.’” Maybe the lesson learned is somewhere between no-harmno-foul and the hyperbole of feigned outrage. This may not be a fireable offense but it should be treated with more of a sense of urgency than one who misplaced their set of keys. It behooves the finance and treasury departments to present to council a set of systemic changes before the next budget is approved. One that insures we don’t go through this missing money mania ever again.

Payne Looking For A Big Senior Year Continued from page 12 state championship, nothing less. I think the guys and me have definitely matured a lot over the course of these past three years. I’m looking to go forward to being a senior leader on this team and guiding some of the young guys throughout this journey. I’m really looking forward to it.” Payne’s ascent led him to a spot on the prestigious AAU squad where he has performed well offensively and defensively over the last several weeks. “It’s been quite an experience playing on the Adidas Gauntlet circuit,” he said. “The competition in this league is something most average basketball players would not expect. It’s a lot more physical and there are just more overall athletes on the circuit. It’s tough. The competition is top notch.

I’ve been competing just trying to show these Division I coaches that I can play at that level of basketball. And it’s been working out for me pretty good.” Outside of basketball, Payne is learning some life lessons and enjoying new experiences, too. “The experience is amazing,” he added. “Just from traveling all over the place and getting to learn about different cities and states is really cool. It’s a very humbling experience, not most kids can say they are going on a plane to Atlanta to play the sport they love against some of the top competition in the country in front of tons of college coaches. So, I feel very blessed that I can be part of this great organization.”

Artists to the Rescue Artists to perform for “4th Annual Mermaid Rescue Week” to benefit domestic violence survivors and advocacy By Sheila Simmons

roducer, arranger, instrumentalist and recording artist Jim Stephens believes deeply that “art saves.” That's why he, two dozen friends and others will divide up and perform at five venues across the city for the “4th Annual Mermaid Rescue Week” music and arts festival, taking place June 1824. The singer/songwriters, funk bands, jazz and blues acts, cabaret performers, stand-up comedians, punk and rock bands, DJs, and folk musicians will all perform for the benefit of domestic violence and rape survivor advocacy. “It’s been the same way for the last four years,” he says of the willingness of others to join in the effort. “They’re just happy to be a part.” Women Organized Against Rape will be present each night at each of the venues, performing outreach, collecting donations, enlisting volunteers, and speaking about the services that they provide, according to Stephens. “By bringing the shows to five different venues across the city, it allows more flexibility and opportunities for those in need to just go to a show,” he says, “to take that initial leap of contact for themselves or someone close to them by getting a card or literature and taking that first step.” Stephens founded the week as a way to use the arts as a vehicle for distributing resources to survivors in a more anonymous, comfortable setting. “I think everybody in their lives, at some point, they’ve had someone close to them go through abuse or rape, and some people get desensitized to it,” he added. “It needs to stay in the conversation [beyond April’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month], and people need the resources — at least, if not in the immediate aftermath of whatever happened, then to address the long-term psychological impact.” For Stephens, advocating for those in need is just one of the roles he fills in life. The others: producer, arranger, instrumentalist and recording artist, “just

Performers to include: (clockwise) Will Winborne, Jr., Ja-Tun Thomas, Boy Wonder and Barbara Duncan. Photos Courtesy of Tiffany Millner, Melay Klohoker, Sarah Herbert, Latriece V. Branson respectively.

sort of all flow together.” He commemorated the first Mermaid Rescue Week with an album he recorded with the eclectic Full Tilt Boogie Band. Soon after this year’s event, on July 27, under his own Rope-a-dope Records, Stephens will release a solo album, “Philasippiola,” which makes reference to Philadelphia, Mississippi and New Orleans, and contains a mix of soul, jazz, blues, gospel and funk songs. “I’ve been in New Orleans for more than 13 years, longer than anywhere else, by far,” he explained. “I spent a lot of time in Mississippi, and being from Philly and being back here again, there’s three cultures — three very different, very distinct, but soulful and downhome environments.” Performances for Mermaid Rescue Week all begin at 7 p.m.: Mon., June 18, Bob and Barbara’s Lounge, 1524 South Street; Tuesday June 19, the Tusk, 430 South Street (above Wooly Mammoth); Wednesday, June 20, The Fire. 412 W. Girard Avenue; Thur., June 21. Milkboy. 1100 Chestnut Street; Fri., June 22, the Boom Room, 1300 N. Front St.

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JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff on Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at First District Plaza, 3801 Market Street, at 9:00 AM. (EST) Conditions of Sheriff’s Sale for JUDICIAL/FORECLOSURE SALE

Ten percent of the highest bid for each property auctioned off shall be deposited in certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff by each bidder when his bid is registered, provided that in no case shall less than Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) be deposited, otherwise upon failure or refusal to make such deposit, the bidder shall lose all benefit of his bid and the property may be offered again and sold unless a second bid has been registered, then, the second highest bidder will take the property at the highest bid price. Additionally, where there is active bidding, the highest bidder, and the second highest bidder, if any must post the entire amount of the cost of the distribution policy for the property at the time of sale by certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff. The Sheriff reserves the right to reject any certified check, attorney’s check or money order that on its face has an expired use date and is presented for payment of the deposit. The balance of the purchase money must be deposited in certified check, attorney’s check or money order together with a Deed poll for execution by the highest bidder to the Sheriff at his office within 30 days from the time of the sale. An extension of time for an additional 30 days may be granted at the discretion of the Sheriff upon receipt of written request from the buyer requesting the same, except when a second bidder has been duly registered. Also, if the first bidder does not complete settlement with the Sheriff within the thirty (30) day time limit and a second bid was registered at the sale, the second bidder shall be granted the same thirty (30) day time limit to make settlement with the Sheriff on his second bid. Thereafter, the Sheriff shall be at liberty to return the writ to court. A second bid must be registered on any property immediately after it is sold. The second bidder must present the same amount of deposit that the highest bidder delivers to the Sheriff at the sale. An extension of time under no circumstances will be granted or honored by the Sheriff whenever a second bid is registered on a property at the sale. The first bid or opening bid on each property shall be set by the City of Philadelphia. In no event will the successful bidder be allowed to settle on the property unless all the Sheriff’s costs are paid notwithstanding the final bid. The deposit by any bidder who fails to comply with the above conditions of sale shall be forfeited

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and the funds will be applied to the Sheriff’s cost, then to any municipal claims that the City of Philadelphia has on the property. Finally, if a balance still remains, a Sheriff’s Distribution Policy will be ordered and the money will be distributed accordingly. No personal checks, drafts or promises to pay will be accepted in lieu of certified checks, attorney’s checks or money orders made payable to the Sheriff of Philadelphia County. The Sheriff reserves the right to grant further extensions of time to settle and further reserves the right to refuse bids from bidders who have failed to enter deposits on their bids, failed to make settlement, or make fraudulent bids, or any other behavior which causes disruption of the Sheriff Sale. Said bidders shall be so refused for the sale in which said behavior occurred and for said further period of time as the Sheriff in his discretion shall determine. The Sheriff will not acknowledge a deed poll to any individual or entity using an unregistered fictitious name and may, at his discretion, require proof of identity of the purchaser or the registration of fictitious names. The bid of an unregistered fictitious name shall be forfeited as if the bidder failed to meet the terms of sale. All bidders are advised to remain at the sale until after the last property is sold. The Sheriff reserves the right to re-sell any property at any time before the end of the sale, upon the successful bidders’ failure to tender the required deposit. The Sheriff reserves the right to postpone or stay the sale of any property in which the attorney on the writ has not appeared and is not present at the sale. Prospective purchasers are directed to the Web site of the Philadelphia Bureau of Revision of Taxes, (BRT) brtweb.phila. gov for a fuller description of the properties listed. Properties can be looked up by the BRT number – which should be cross checked with the address. Prospective purchasers are also directed to the Room 154 City Hall, 215-6861483 and to its website philadox. phila.gov and to its website at http://philadox.phila.gov where they can view the deed to each individual property and find the boundaries of the property. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE NATURE, LOCATION, CONDITION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPERTIES THEY SEEK TO PURCHASE. The BRT # refers to a unique number assigned by the City Bureau of Revision of Taxes to each property in the City for the purpose of assessing it for taxes. This number can be used to obtain descriptive information about the property from the BRT website. Effective Date: July 7, 2006 NOTICE OF SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION The Sheriff will file in his office, The Land Title Building, 100

South Broad Street, 5th Floor, a Schedule of Distribution Thirty (30) Days from the date of the sale of Real Estate. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within ten (10) days thereafter. The name first appearing in each notice is that of the defendant in the writ whose property is being sold. All Writs are Writs of Executions. The letters C.P., Court of Common Pleas; O.C., Orphans’ Court; Q.S., Court of Quarter Sessions; C.C., County Court - indicate the Court out of which the writ of execution issues under which the sale is made: S. 1941. 223. means September Term, 1941. 223, the term and number of the docket entry; the figures following show the amount of debt; and the name following is that of the attorney issuing the writ. Attention is called to the provisions of Act No.104, approved July 27, 1955, which requires owners of properties which are used, designed or intended to be used by three or more families, or of commercial establishments which contain one or more dwelling units, to deliver to the buyers of such properties a use registration permit at the time of settlement, under certain terms and conditions. Sheriff Sales are not subject to provisions of the said Act and the Sheriff will, therefore, not deliver use registration permits in connection with any sales conducted by him. Very truly yours, JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff City and County of Philadelphia

00284 $139,139.28 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-303 3326 N Sydenham St 19140 11th wd. 882 Sq. Ft. OPA#112188000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charmaine Goldsmith and Robert Goldsmith C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 00352 $61,854.50 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-304 7652 Gilbert St 19150 10th wd. 1,261 Sq. Ft. OPA#102483100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shannon M. Sibley C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01211 $175,566.85 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-305 2004 Widener Pl 19138 17th wd. 1,127 Sq. Ft. OPA#171187100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Walter C. Borum C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01933 $75,342.98 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-306 3132 Barnett St 19149 55th wd. 960 Sq. Ft. OPA#551009200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Roseann Brutosky C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 01947 $60,028.92 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-307 4202 Oakmont St 19136 65th wd. 1,404 Sq. Ft. OPA#651058200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jennifer L. Groves C.P. November Term, 2016 No. 02872 $60,581.17 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-308 4642 Reach St 19120 42nd wd. 1,212 Sq. Ft. OPA#421597000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stacee L. Sams C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 01340 $10,955.79 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-309 5702 Sprague St 19138 59th wd. 931 Sq. Ft. OPA#591210500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tina Marie HallJordan Administratrix C.T.A. of the Estate of Debbie A. Downing Deceased C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 01256 $26,513.94 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-310 6738 Paschall Ave 191421809 40th wd. 960 Sq. Ft. OPA#403173700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William Butler C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 01393 $74,714.43 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-311 1132 Rosalie St 19149 35th wd. 904 Sq. Ft. OPA#352034100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY P.A.C. Rentals, LLC and David Rodriguez C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 00962 $26,903.64 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-312 6518 Guyer Ave 19142 40th wd. 1,061 Sq. Ft. OPA#406320900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charlotte Clyde a/k/a Charlotte L. Clyde C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 03714

$91,263.88 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-313 638 Welsh Rd 19115-2821 63rd wd. 1,509 Sq. Ft. OPA#632034600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Francine H. Borck; Harold Borck a/k/a Harold R. Borck C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 02497 $619,797.60 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-314 142 Mayland St 19144 59th wd. Improvement Area: 1,584 Sq. Ft.; Land Area: 1,944 Sq. Ft. BRT#592124700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Regina Fagans a/k/a Regina Fegans C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 00517 $74,184.38 Brett L. Messinger, Ryan A. Gower, & Paul J. Fanelli 1807-315 309-11 Tyson Ave 19111 35th wd. Improvement Area: 1,470 Sq. Ft.; Land Area: 3,736 Sq. Ft. OPA#353167400 IMPROVEMENTS: DET W/D GAR 1.5 STY MASON Patricia Wirsz and James John Wirsz C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 01188 $222,904.68 Brett L. Messinger, Ryan A. Gower, & Paul J. Fanelli 1807-316 5041 Arch St 19139-2733 44th wd. 1,720 Sq. Ft. OPA#441018000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lorraine Smalley; Tyese Smalley C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 01793 $63,138.69 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-317 3324 Willits Rd Unit 9 19136 57th wd. 2,000 Sq. Ft. OPA#572064545 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Justin M. Adams C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 01553 $186,191.38 Cristina L. Connor, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1807-318 1825 W Ashdale St 19141-1006 17th wd. 1,060 Sq. Ft. OPA#171-0548-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Guy M. Schoolfield and Melissa V. Schoolfield C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 02611 $35,966.01 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-319 6723 N 18th St 19126-2603 10th wd. 1,336 Sq. Ft. OPA#101085200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rainford Thomas C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 00160 $141,981.43 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-320 11730 Denman Rd 191543616 66th wd. 1,288 Sq. Ft. OPA#662241700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Douglas J. Campbell and Linda M. Campbell C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01595 $92,957.18 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-321 225 Daly St 19148 39th wd. 871

Sq. Ft. OPA#391094400 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Angela Quinn C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 02511 $118,034.84 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1807-322 2330 78th Ave 19150 50th wd. 1,920 Sq. Ft. BRT#501434200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Mary Woods; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Queen Woods C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 01893 $109,740.80 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-323 2638 S 67th St 19142 40th wd. 1,107 Sq. Ft. OPA#406063500 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Felix Corona-Arias, a/k/a Felix A. Corona-Arias, a/k/a Felix Antonio CoronaArias, a/k/a Felix Corona C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 01112 $75,458.61 Cristina L. Connor, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1807-324 1425 N 18th St 19121 29th wd. 1,815 Sq. Ft. BRT#471290210 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Isa Hundley and Theresa Hammond C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 2894 $30,375.01 Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP; Sarah A. Elia, Esq. 1807-325 342 N 52nd St 19139 44th wd. 2,400 Sq. Ft. OPA#441355600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John Polosky C.P. May Term, 2009 No. 00306 $214,816.70 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1807-326 471 E Howell St 19120 35th wd. 2,813 Sq. Ft. OPA#352135100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Louis Gregoire, a/k/a Louis J. Gregoire C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 02893 $114,163.02 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1807-327 1412 Wharton St 191464824 36th wd. 1,740 Sq. Ft. OPA#365340100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thelma Wright C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 02236 $290,479.85 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-328 2731 Elbridge St 191492936 62nd wd. 1,200 Sq. Ft. OPA#621304600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gus Bogiatzis, in His Capacity as Heir of Angeliki Bogiatzis, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms,

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SPECIAL NOTE: All Sheriff’s Sales are conducted pursuant to the orders of the Courts and Judges of the First Judicial District. Only properties that are subject to judgments issued by the First Judicial District are listed for sale. By law, the Sheriff’s Office cannot decide if a property can be listed for sale; only the District Courts can order a property to be sold at auction.

SHERIFF’S SALE OF Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1807-301 5339 Pine St 19143 60th wd. 1,264 Sq. Ft. OPA#603085500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Venita Glover C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 00861 $143,707.02 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-302 1306 N 76th St a/k/a 1306 N Seventy-Sixth St 19151 34th wd. 1,602 Sq. Ft. OPA#343305100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jacqueline Bell C.P. July Term, 2017 No.

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or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Angeliki Bogiatzis, Deceased C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 01445 $139,005.58 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-329 2233 S Garnet St 19145 26th wd. 700 Sq. Ft. OPA#262131400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Catherine R. Cremona C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03985 $117,514.92 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-330 4737 Meridian St 19136 65th wd. 1,056 Sq. Ft. OPA#651163000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jerry Hodges C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 04502 $92,161.54 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-331 2129 Stenton Ave 19138 10th wd. 1,155 Sq. Ft. OPA#102338500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kori J. Womack C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01004 $99,632.69 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-332 4303 Fairhill St 19140 43rd wd. 720 Sq. Ft. OPA#433249100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Oscar Velez C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02165 $40,437.86 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-333 109 W Nedro Ave 19120 61st wd. 1,037 Sq. Ft. OPA#612107200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Roger Walker and Lisa R Walker C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 03503 $40,246.97 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-334 546 N 63rd St 19151 34th wd. 1,810 Sq. Ft. OPA#343051200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Paul Watkins C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 01955 $60,834.54 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-335 4640 Mulberry St 19124 23rd wd. 1,716 Sq. Ft. OPA#232309560 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Emanuel Daniels C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 01842 $54,205.78 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-336 2644 S 61st St 19142-3514 40th wd. 960 Sq. Ft. OPA#402068400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Samuel Edwards, in His Capacity as Heir of Jerona A. Edwards a/k/a Jerona Edwards, Deceased; Troy Edwards, in His Capacity as Heir of Jerona A. Edwards a/k/a Jerona Edwards, Deceased; Ricardo Edwards, in His Capacity as Heir of Jerona A. Edwards a/k/a Jerona Edwards, Deceased; Marva Edwards, in Her Capacity as Heir of Jerona A. Edwards a/k/a Jerona Edwards, Deceased; James Edwards, in His Capacity as Heir of Jerona A. Edwards a/k/a Jerona Edwards, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors,

assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Jerona A. Edwards, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 01107 $28,472.15 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-337 6115 Irving St 19139 3rd wd. 880 Sq. Ft. OPA#031104900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gwendolyn N. Peace C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 00257 $72,556.60 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-338 2156 Brighton St 19149 54th wd. 1,801 Sq. Ft. OPA#542094200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shamell Samuel-Bassett C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 03247 $47,895.40 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-339 7126 N Broad St 191261726 10th wd. 1,440 Sq. Ft. OPA#101006600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Arnold Wynn C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 01576 $95,002.48 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-340 382 Milne St a/k/a 382 W Milne St 19144-4206 13th wd. 960 Sq. Ft. OPA#133004400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kim Stewart C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 03609 $35,206.69 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-341 6239 Reedland St 191422909 40th wd. 1,200 Sq. Ft. OPA#402201300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kenneth M. Manning a/k/a Kenneth Manning; Olga E. Manning a/k/a Olga Manning C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 02768 $29,870.08 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-342 6636 N Bouvier St 19126 10th wd. 1,262 Sq. Ft. OPA#101075000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert W. Perkins, Jr a/k/a Robert Perkins, Jr C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 00832 $104,539.50 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-343 4753 Hartel Ave 191363306 65th wd. 1,088 Sq. Ft. OPA#651198800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph C. Grandinetti C.P. January Term, 2017 No. 03398 $104,539.50 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-344 2058 Albright St 19134 45th wd. 1,162 Sq. Ft. OPA#452184000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Pedro Correa C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 03190 $71,298.53 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1807-345 5440 Windsor Ave assessed as 5440 Windsor St 19143 51st wd. 1,200 Sq. Ft. OPA#514079100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sharon Carriker C.P. October Term, 2017

No. 00981 $69,564.23 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1807-346 726 Brighton St 191114028 53rd wd. 1,551 Sq. Ft. OPA#532243800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robia Slayton and Michael Slayton C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 03630 $98,495.58 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-347 6445 Torresdale Ave 191353320 41st wd. 1,260 Sq. Ft. OPA#411319400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Miguel Deyne, Jr a/k/a Miguel A. Deyne, Jr., Deceased C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 01233 $159,923.42 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-348 7027 Saybrook Ave a/k/a 7027 Saybrook 19142-1123 40th wd. 1,140 Sq. Ft. OPA#403299500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kenneth M. Manning and Olga E. Manning C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 04332 $21,677.75 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-349 3120 N Carlisle St 191322313 11th wd. 962 Sq. Ft. OPA#111151700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bernadette Stout C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 00718 $37,708.23 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-350 1616 W Diamond St a/k/a 1616 Diamond St 191212313 32nd wd. 1,647 Sq. Ft. OPA#321038010 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Danny C. Taylor C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 04217 $226,581.98 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-351 207 S 49th St 19139-4304 46th wd. 2,040 Sq. Ft. OPA#461223700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Paul Jefferson, in His Capacity as Heir of Clementine Jefferson, Deceased; Pearl Talley, in Her Capacity as Heir of Clementine Jefferson, Deceased; Matthew Jefferson, in His Capacity as Heir of Clementine Jefferson, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Clementine Jefferson, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2015 No. 01841 $126,947.09 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-352 2000 Laveer St 19138-3038 50th wd. 1,217 Sq. Ft. BRT#171297700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Robert Monroe Patterson, Known Heir of Clarence M. Monroe, Sr.; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations

claiming right, title, or interest from or under Clarence M. Monroe, Sr. C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 03383 $35,285.60 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-353 6612 Leeds St 19151 34th wd. 1,500 Sq. Ft. OPA#344030900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William B. Johnson and Melissa Rose C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01992 $63,919.34 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-354 7330 Drexel Rd 19151 34th wd. 1,485 Sq. Ft. BRT#344144200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Tamika Patton C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 01251 $146,325.08 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-355 902 Bridge St 35th wd. 930 Sq. Ft. BRT#351147200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stephanie Lundy C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 00232 $106,267.58 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1807-356 1111 S Randolph St 19147 2nd wd. 760 Sq. Ft. BRT#021433100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW CONV/APT 3 STY MASON Phin Do C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02596 $474,913.72 Amar A. Agrawal, Esquire 1807-357 3425 Old York Rd 19140 43rd wd. Land: 1,515 Sq. Ft.; Improvement: 1,736 Sq. Ft.; Total: 3,251 Sq. Ft. OPA#431138300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY David Patterson and Gloretta Patterson C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 00112 $26,961.98 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1807-358 7367 Rugby St 19138 10th wd. 1,323 Sq. Ft. BRT#10-24663-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Saunja Johnson a/k/a Saunja M. Johnson C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 00735 $69,764.91 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-359 5721 Pemberton St 19143 46th wd. 1,128 Sq. Ft. BRT#463062700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Gregory Joseph Gibson C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02089 $67,910.27 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-360 4217 N. 6th St 19140 43rd wd. Land: 1,035 Sq. Ft.; 1,138 Sq. Ft. BRT#433264800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Zenaida Merced C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 07630 $39,956.75 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-361 3025 Redner St 19121 29th wd. 843 Sq. Ft. OPA#292220600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charles Kane C.P. November Term, 2016 No. 02989 $155,393.82 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-362 3421 N 22nd St 19140 11th wd. 1,632 Sq. Ft. BRT#112306000

IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Eric Little and Tracey Horton C.P. March Term, 2016 No. 01707 $81,180.16 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-363 612 N 23rd St 19130 15th wd. 1,296 Sq. Ft. OPA#151169400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John M. Willis C.P. January Term, 2017 No. 01703 $65,310.11 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-364 99 W Sedgwick St 19119 22nd wd. 1,669 Sq. Ft. BRT#223143400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Allan J. Bradley a/k/a Allan Bradley and Juanita Bradley f/k/a Juanita Pfaff a/k/a Juanita J. Bradley C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 07371 $178,037.94 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-365 915 Pratt St 19124-0000 35th wd. 930 Sq. Ft. OPA#351118500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Edwin Pace C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 02263 $92,799.99 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-366 7634 Burholme Ave 19111 63rd wd. 2,775 Sq. Ft. OPA#631009300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sandra Riley and Sean Riley C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 02090 $197,069.99 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-367 5423 Upland Way 19131 52nd wd. 5,164 Sq. Ft. BRT#522000400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE All Known and Unknown Heirs to the Estate of Lucius McCrea C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 00973 $71,724.78 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-368 5417 N Fairhill St 19120 61st wd. 2,012 Sq. Ft. OPA#612302600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nicole L. Barbry-Gocking and Erskine Earl Gocking C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 07739 $92,946.88 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-369 2053 N Wanamaker St 191313020 52nd wd. 1,238 Sq. Ft. BRT#522228700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE All Known and Unknown Heirs to the Estate of Lucius McCrea C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 01000 $82,105.88 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-370 1508 W Seybert St 19121 47th wd. 729 Sq. Ft. OPA#471077000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lesley Nasir and Tarik Nasir C.P. August Term, 2008 No. 03061 $87,304.43 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-371 120 W Sharpnack St 19119 22nd wd. 1,997 Sq. Ft.

OPA#223037300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Colin Bollers, Johan Bollers and Shamane J. Cave a/k/a Shamane Cave C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 02887 $222,403.03 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-372 185 W Louden St 19120 42nd wd. 988 Sq. Ft. OPA#422092100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elsa Rodriguez C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 02109 $63,135.34 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-373 1912 Reilly Rd 19115 58th wd. 8,400 Sq. Ft. OPA#581091205 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lena Panich C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 05375 $450,693.82 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-374 5718 Pentridge St 19143 51st wd. Land: 900 Sq. Ft.; Improvement: 1,024 Sq. Ft.; Total: 1,924 Sq. Ft. OPA#513239000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Emmerson A. Alleyne and Joan J. Alleyne C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 04121 $40,055.76 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1807-375 9860 Verree Rd 19115 58th wd. 6,000 Sq. Ft. BRT#581249400 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael W. Furlow C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 01411 $9,798.46 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire 1807-376 30 N. Robinson St 19139 34th wd. 996 Sq. Ft. BRT#341179500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown heirs, successors, assigns and all persons, firms or associations claiming right, title or interest from or under Claude Anderson C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 01679 $37,737.10 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-377 3 N. Christopher Columbus Blvd, Unit 429 5th wd. 1,300 Sq. Ft. OPA#888061612 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM UNIT Swaminathan Rathriakumar C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 002966 $15,780.99 Elliot H. Berton, Esquire 1807-378 5612 Baynton St 19144 12th wd. 5,921 Sq. Ft. BRT#122148800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stephen W Gerrick C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 00053 $43,878.06 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-379 3521 Oakmont St 19136 64th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1,568 Sq. Ft. BRT#642195500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles M. Coyne a/k/a Charles P. Coyne, Coleen P. Coyne and United States of

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America, c/o United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 04127 $34,467.11 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1807-380 2220 Morris St 36th wd. 2,640 Sq. Ft. OPA#364084400 IMPROVEMENTS: 2 STORY MASON Rae Lambright, individually, as Administratrix for the Estate of Rachel Lambright, and as Trustee for Jamill’ah Lambright C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02614 $58,520.69 + $1,041.60 (interest from March 20, 2018, until sale, July 10, 2018 - $9.30 per diem) Jill M. Fein, Esquire; Hill Wallack LLP 1807-381 5046 Copley Rd 19144 13th wd. 1,791 Sq. Ft. OPA#133166400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Steven E. Sykes, a/k/a Steven Eric Sykes, a/k/a Steven S. Sykes; Red Door International LLC C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02500 $52,977.20 Cristina L. Connor, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1807-382 1717S 7th St 19148 1st wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1,216 Sq. Ft. BRT#012173700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Migdalia H. Hernandez, Known Surviving Heir of Juan Hernandez and Unknown Surviving Heirs of Juan Hernandez C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00543 $165,396.39 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1807-383 7240 Hegerman St 191351211 65th wd. 1,119 Sq. Ft. OPA#651280900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph Jackowski C.P. December Term, 2016 No. 00543 $78,631.84 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-384 5030 Chestnut St 46th wd. 2,217 Sq. Ft. BRT#602030200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Helen V. Hill a/k/a Helen P. Hill, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 03538 $145,211.71 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-385 5133 Oxford Ave 191242521 62nd wd. 1,516 Sq. Ft. OPA#621310900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eric Jones C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 01572 $132,570.15 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-386 2419 N 20th St 19132-3720 16th wd. 1,424 Sq. Ft. OPA#162135300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kemberley D. Camp C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 02876 $46,350.86 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-387 3215 N Newkirk St 19129 38th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1,192 Sq. Ft. BRT#381265300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Annie P.

Lemar, Known Surviving Heir of Beatrice Wyche, Michael D. Wyche, Known Surviving Heir of Beatric Wyche, Denise M. Wyche, Known Surviving Heir of Beatrice Wyche, Angela W. Thomas, Known Surviving Heir of Beatrice Wyche, Donna M. Wyche, Known Surviving Heir of Beatrice Wyche, Willie F. Wyche, Known Surviving Heir of Beatrice Wyche and Unknown Surviving Heirs of Beatrice Wyche C.P. November Term, 2016 No. 02979 $70,700.06 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1807-388 3246 W Huntingdon St 191322915 28th wd. 1,560 Sq. Ft. OPA#282364000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nathaniel E. Douglas, III, in His Capacity as Executor and Devisee of The Estate of Daryl Douglas C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 04333 $43,827.91 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-389 3519 Vinton Rd 66th wd. 2,000 Sq. Ft. BRT#663130000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Gerard F. Smith, Jr C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 00983 $219,457.19 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-390 1330 S. Lindenwood St 40th wd. 1,170 Sq. Ft. BRT#511221200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Thomas A. Jones a/k/a Thomas A. Jones, Jr C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 01618 $42,041.43 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-391 1137 Herbert St 191242932 23rd wd. 1,288 Sq. Ft. OPA#234088300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cierra Moon, in Her Capacity as Heir of Mosadi Hobson, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title or interest from or under Mosadi Hobson, Deceased C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 03594 $107,941.93 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-392 3033 Page St 32nd wd. 1,166 Sq. Ft. BRT#323096700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Donnie Grace C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 04198 $74,782.70 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-393 5419 Marvine St a/k/a 5419 N Marvin St 19141 49th wd. 1,230 Sq. Ft. OPA#493087400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sean Fisher, as Administrator to the Estate of Tressa Fisher C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 00391 $47,449.37 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1807-394 2285 Bryn Mawr Ave 52nd wd. (formerly part of 34th wd.) 37,500 Sq. Ft. BRT#521266700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Tarani A. Johnson C.P. April Term, 2010

No. 01188 $392,000.00 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-395 3049 N Sydenham St 191322330 11th wd. 1,134 Sq. Ft. OPA#111180000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gia N. Scott C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 02300 $34,315.29 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-396 2829 S Simpson St 40th wd. 1,520 Sq. Ft. BRT#406001245 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Madeline Haigh C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 00228 $65,451.00 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-397 1828 Bainbridge St 30th wd. 1,398 Sq. Ft. BRT#301060100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mitchell R. Epps, Jr. C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 02662 $900,743.28 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-398 446 Olive St 19123-2824 5th wd. 1,650 Sq. Ft. OPA#056150300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bennu Realty Group, LLC C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 00817 $476,776.59 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-399 2436 E Hazzard St 191253113 31st wd. 1,176 Sq. Ft. OPA#314114000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thomas Nolan C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 00953 $151,714.50 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-400 6260 Cottage St 55th wd. 1,440 Sq. Ft. BRT#552386800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING SALVATORE M DE PALMA A/K/A SALVATORE M DEPALMA C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 03317 $46,837.29 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-401 6013 Agusta St 19149-3229 53rd wd. 1,138 Sq. Ft. OPA#531258200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shantel Lomax a/k/a Shantel A. Lomax C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 03785 $165,568.58 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-402 1329 W Ruscomb St 19141 49th wd. 2,051 Sq. Ft. BRT#491140600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sonya F. Wood C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02583 $120,967.44 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire 1807-403 5431 Beaumont Ave 51st wd. 1,089 Sq. Ft. BRT#513277300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mary E. Carney, as Co-Administratrix of The Estate of Frances L. West, Deceased and Russell T. West, as Co-Administrator of The Estate of Frances L. West, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2017 No.

02227 $56,217.40 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-404 8049 Leon St 19136 64th wd. 1,144 Sq. Ft. OPA#642045700 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Albert Quaintance, Executor of the Estate of Theresa P. Quaintance, a/k/a Theresa Quaintance C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 01191 $53,122.82 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1807-405 5621 Whitby Ave 19143 51st wd. 1,280 Sq. Ft. BRT#513122200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Tina Jimperson C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02796 $66,453.17 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire 1807-406 7241 Vandike St 19135 65th wd. 3,300 Sq. Ft. BRT#65-12760-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles Danza, Personal Representative of The Estate of Robert Medoro a/k/a Robert P. Medoro a/k/a Robert Paul Medoro; Christopher Morgan, Known Heir of Robert Medoro a/k/a Robert P. Medoro a/k/a Robert Paul Medoro; Estate of Robert Medoro a/k/a Robert P. Medoro a/k/a Robert Paul Medoro; Frances Medoro, Known Heir of Robert Medoro a/k/a Robert P. Medoro a/k/a Robert Paul Medoro; Jamie Badagliacco, Known Heir of Robert Medoro a/k/a Robert P. Medoro a/k/a Robert Paul Medoro; Robert Medoro a/k/a Robert Adare Medoro Known Heir of Robert Medoro a/k/a Robert P. Medoro a/k/a Robert Paul Medoro; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Robert Medoro a/k/a Robert P. Medoro a/k/a Robert Paul Medoro C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 02965 $93,488.35 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-407 381 Livezey St 19128 21st wd. 5,300 Sq. Ft. OPA#212340400 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thomas A. DiGiacomo, III; Heather L. DiGiacomo C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 02879 $194,962.38 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1807-408 212 S 59th St 19139 3rd wd. 1,040 Sq. Ft. BRT#031129100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Karen M. McCrea a/k/a Karen M. Davis C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 01008 $56,801.01 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-409 2213 N Delhi St 19133 37th wd. 1,074 Sq. Ft. BRT#371137800 IMPROVE-

MENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Leon Pinkney C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 03675 $41,882.95 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-410 135 W Washington Ln 19144 22nd wd. 1,128 Sq. Ft. BRT#593089200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Ahmad Alamin a/k/a Ahmad Al-Amin C.P. October Term, 2012 No. 00317 $273,574.01 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-411 9849 Haldeman Ave 19115 58th wd. 2,936 Sq. Ft. BRT#58-1345800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Pola Michaels, Known Heir of Ria Dora Segalow a/k/a Dora Segalow; Ricky Segalow, known heir of Ria Dora Segalow a/k/a Dora Segalow; Ria Dora Segalow a/k/a Dora Segalow, Last Record Owner; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Ria Dora Segalow a/k/a Dora Segalow C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 03075 $207,518.31 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-412 1818 Pennington Rd 191512017 34th wd. 1,120 Sq. Ft. OPA#343332400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vincent Harcourt Rawlins C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 00571 $114,247.61 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-413 5655 Upland Way 19131 52nd wd. 1,434 Sq. Ft. BRT#522005200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE All Known and Unknown Heirs to the Estate of Lucius McCrea C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 00990 $66,470.19 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-414 605 Edison Ave B, a/k/a 605 Edison Ave #605B, a/k/a 605 Edison Ave Unit 605B 191161259 58th wd. 1,040 Sq. Ft. OPA#888581350 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY David Poli C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 00104 $138,123.00 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-415 4339 Bleigh Ave 19136 41st wd. 2,158 Sq. Ft. BRT#412156600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Deborah S. Pegg C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 02344 $171,706.50 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-416 7020 Gillespie St 191351804 55th wd. 1,440 Sq. Ft. OPA#552439300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elizabeth Buchter a/k/a Beth Lowry, in Her Capacity as heir of Robert L. Buchter, Deceased; Thomas Buchter a/k/a Tom Buchter, in His Capacity as Heir of Robert L. Buchter, Deceased; Richard

Buchter a/k/a Rich Lange, in His Capacity as Heir of Robert L. Buchter, Deceased; Claire Buchter a/k/a Claire Sweeney, in Her Capacity as Heir of Robert L. Buchter, Deceased; Robert Buchter, Jr a/k/a Bob Buchter, in His Capacity as Heir of Robert L. Buchter, Deceased; Minor Defendant 1, in their Capacity as Heir of Robert L. Buchter, Deceased; Minor Defendant 2, in their Capacity as Heir of Robert L. Buchter, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Robert L. Buchter, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 03550 $41,460.02 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-417 5937 Washington Ave 3rd wd. 2,700.63 Sq. Ft. BRT#03-31058-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Eric M. Norman C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 03904 $57,522.75 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-418 4652 Bergen St 19136 65th wd. 3,804 Sq. Ft. OPA#652086400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John Piskorski C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 03143 $141,098.86 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-419 7528 Fayette St 19150 50th wd. 1,600 Sq. Ft. OPA#501016900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Karen L. Lett a/k/a Karen Lett C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 00310 $119,212.99 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-420 210 Locust St Apt 9C 5th wd. OPA#888052115 IMPROVEMENTS: RES CONDO 5+STY MAS+OTH Maureen Flanigan C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 02745 $106,053.75 Patrick J. Wesner, Esquire 1807-421 7350 Woodcrest Ave 19151 34th wd. 1,491 Sq. Ft. OPA#344117000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sandra J. Jordan C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 02250 $67,941.26 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-422 6282 Large St 19149 54th wd. 1,789 Sq. Ft. OPA#541178900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rhonda A. Anthony and Graham J. Wilkins C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 00124 $134,175.05 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-423 852 Brill St 1,068 Sq. Ft. BRT#351174000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Joseph Kenneth Arnold C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 01870 $28,129.71 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1807-424 1533 W Butler St 19140 13th wd. 1,200 Sq. Ft. OPA#131084400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Keith A. King C.P.

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June Term, 2013 No. 01874 $23,304.41 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-425 8049 Leon St 19136 64th wd. 1,372 Sq. Ft. OPA#642045700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Albert Quaintance as Executor of the Estate of Theresa P. Quaintance Deceased C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 02145 $14,085.16 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-426 6337 Burbridge St 19144 59th wd. 3,625 Sq. Ft. OPA#593161800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Yvette De Carol Hamilton and Calvin Taylor Jr. C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 01970 $172,007.68 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-427 6128 Lensen St 19144 59th wd. 1,528 Sq. Ft. BRT#592276500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Shelly K. Chappell C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 00946 $184,151.05 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-428 6734 Ditman St 19135 41st wd. 1,530 Sq. Ft. OPA#412348000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eliu Nieves a/k/a Elui Nieves and Isabell Ortiz a/k/a Isabel Ortiz C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 01084 $130,252.97 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-429 1318-1320 W. Cumberland St 19132 37th wd. 2,135 (Land Area Sq. Ft.); 3,838 (Improvement Area Sq. Ft.) OPA#881426800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: HEALTH FAC PERS CARE MAS Shields Personal Care LLC C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 00810 $331,166.31 Scott M. Klein, Esq. 1807-430 4662 James St 19137 45th wd. 1,051 Sq. Ft. OPA#453409200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William A Graber and Donna M. Graber C.P. May Term, 2015 No. 02490 $55,545.81 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-431 6571 Windsor St 19142 40th wd. 1,600 Sq. Ft. OPA#403080600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gregorio Virola C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 00653 $106,882.30 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-432 6623 Edmund St 19135 41st wd. 1,364 Sq. Ft. OPA#411414700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Hettie Mansfield C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 03034 $84,646.41 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-433 3823 N Smedley St 19140 13th wd. 1,240 Sq. Ft. OPA#131188400 IMPROVE-

MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Elizabeth Singletary and Hilda Singletary C.P. November Term, 2003 No. 00209 $51,285.41 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-434 7960 Bayard St 19150 50th wd. 1,425 Sq. Ft. OPA#501202900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Camara J. Thorpe C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02059 $141,208.82 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-435 460 N Dearborn St a/k/a 460 Dearborn St 19139 44th wd. 788 Sq. Ft. OPA#441349500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Monica Shaw C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 01435 $43,594.73 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-436 2943 Lardner St 19149-3507 62nd wd. 1,136 Sq. Ft. OPA#621193700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kristen Rachel Nields, in Her Capacity as Administratrix CTA and Devisee of The Estate of William Cooney a/k/a William J. Cooney C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 01839 $118,086.18 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-437 822 Brighton St 191114127 53rd wd. 1,551 Sq. Ft. OPA#532245800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gina Frederique; Kevin Compton C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 04335 $157,839.77 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-438 4626 Reach St 19120 42nd wd. 1,206 Sq. Ft. OPA#421596200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ivelisse Lahoz C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 00058 $64,677.21 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-439 2029 Knorr St 19149 54th wd. 2,116 Sq. Ft. OPA#542008800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Fermin Latorre Jr. C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 01574 $57,673.61 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-440 1967 Beyer Ave 19115 56th wd. S/D W/B FAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1,400 Sq. Ft. BRT#562307100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Amanda L. Cooney and John F. Cooney a/k/a John S. Cooney C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 00388 $178,470.31 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1807-441 616 E Johnson St 19138 22nd wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1,260 Sq. Ft. BRT#221010900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Jerome T. Washington C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 00752 $81,150.00 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1807-442 4538 Hale St 19135 41st wd. 1,341 Sq. Ft. OPA#411162400

IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Therese Walls C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 02204 $97,107.61 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-443 6148 Erdrick St 19135 55th wd. 2,008 Sq. Ft. OPA#552258700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Christina M. Brown a/k/a Christina Brown C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 01437 $122,182.45 KML Law Group, P.C. 1807-444 1036 S 54th St 19143 51st wd. ROW B/GAR 2STY MASONRY; 1,344 Sq. Ft. BRT#513126200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Daniel S. Toe, Sr. and Lula M. WilsonToe C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 00852 $78,867.59 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1807-445 4729 Worth St 19134 23rd wd. 1,520 Sq. Ft. OPA#232406300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marta Rivera C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 03243 $78,905.42 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1807-446 615 Flamingo St 19128 21st wd. 1,307 Sq. Ft. BRT#214061400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Marvin E. Shefsky C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 01962 $176,810.27 Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP, Sarah A. Elia, Esq. 1807-447 3915 Lawndale St 19124 33rd wd. 1,142 Sq. Ft. OPA#332269400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jessica Torrales C.P. November Term, 2016 No. 00964 $112,462.07 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1807-448 3825 Arendell Ave 19114 57th wd. 3,796 Sq. Ft. OPA#57-2143700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sharon V. Woods C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 00597 $205,737.25 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1807-449 6307 Elmhurst St 19111 53rd wd. 1,460 Sq. Ft. OPA#531219900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lorriane A. Sproul C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 03768 $157,383.58 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1807-450 6210 Callowhill St 34th wd. 1,127 Sq. Ft. BRT#341046500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Janet S. Fountain C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02714 $116,016.68 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1807-451 5009 Ogden St 44th wd. 1,100 Sq. Ft. BRT#442023000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Thomas E. Murphy C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01022 $62,049.69 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC

1807-452 1641 N. 26th St 29th wd. 918 Sq. Ft. BRT#32-4-1027-00; PRCL# 13 N 11-319 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Macie Widamen, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 03511 $37,246.19 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-453 1239 N 54th St 44th wd. 1,536 Sq. Ft. BRT#73 N 12-120; BRT#44-2-3565-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lula P. Butler a/k/a Lulu P. Butler C.P. November Term, 2014 No. 02502 $59,020.16 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-454 56 N Farson St 19139 44th wd. 773 Sq. Ft. BRT#441075900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Tammi N. Washington-Hall, Known Heir of Lorriane A. Washington; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Lorriane A. Washington C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 02124 $56,045.97 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-455 7803 Fairfield St 19152 64th wd. 5,807 Sq. Ft. OPA#641020300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Terrence T. Lappe and Kimberly A. Lappe C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 01813 $64,207.48 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1807-456 111 S 15th St 308 a/k/a 111 S 15th St Unit P308 8th wd. 0 Sq. Ft. BRT#888087492 IMPROVEMENTS: RES CONDO 5+ STY MASONRY Kevin Jones a/k/a Kevin K. Jones C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 02570 $434,135.92 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1807-457 907 S 58th St 46th wd. 1,256 Sq. Ft. BRT#463286100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Jamar Hill and Raymond E. Hill, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00624 $48,712.60 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1807-458 4837 Fairmount Ave 44th wd. 1,305 Sq. Ft. BRT#441230100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Anthony Nix and Linda Nix C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 00093 $58,873.59 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1807-459 6259 Cottage St 19135 41st wd. 1,444 Sq. Ft. BRT#552406600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Heirs, Successors and Assigns, Representatives, Devisees and All Persons, Firms, and Associations claiming right, title or interest from or under Michael Caruso a/k/a Michael R. Caruso C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 04346 $83,305.18 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire

1807-460 6710 Anderson St 19119 22nd wd. 9,972 Sq. Ft. BRT#22-22530-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James White, III, Personal Representative of The Estate of Barbara Selby; Estate of Barbara Selby; Sicily Selby Smith, Known Heir of Barbara Selby; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns and all persons, firms or associations claiming right, title or interest from or under Barbara Selby C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 03160 $199,662.69 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-461 9029 Convent Ave 19136 10th wd. 1,955 Sq. Ft. BRT#572224900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Kevin K. Kealey and Michelle L. Kealey C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 01954 $193,856.10 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-462 643 N 57th St 19131-4805 4th wd. 1,350 Sq. Ft. OPA#043086300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jacqueline Fox a/k/a Jacqueline S. Fox C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 02029 $86,188.92 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-463 1943 Plymouth St 19138 10th wd. 1,200 Sq. Ft. OPA#101320400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shelley Dixon C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01963 $66,235.95 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1807-464 7601 Crittenden St #F9 19118 9th wd. 1,566 Sq. Ft. OPA#888200588 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rosilyn M. Thomas C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 00061 $101,372.03 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1807-465 183 W Roselyn St 19120 61st wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1,140 Sq. Ft. BRT#612188600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Carl Reginald Johnson, Administrator of the Estate of Irvin Govens C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 00537 $97,222.06 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1807-466 254 E. Comly St 19120 35th wd. Land: 2,057 Sq. Ft.; Improvement: 1,258 Sq. Ft.; Total: 3,315 Sq. Ft. OPA#352139500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rashida Thompson C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02932 $117,696.11 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1807-467 3152 Barnett St 19149 55th wd. Land: 1,519 Sq. Ft.; Improvement: 1,200 Sq. Ft.; Total: 2,719 Sq. Ft. OPA#551010300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

PROPERTY Janet Busch and William J. Busch C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 01987 $77,285.54 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1807-468 7032 Walker St 19135 41st wd. 2,250 Sq. Ft. OPA#552320000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI/DET 2 STY MASONRY Laniece Hale-Blackwell and Jeffrey Blackwell C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 550 $90,923.52, plus interest through the date of the sheriff ’s sale, plus costs William J. Levant, Esquire 1807-469 1721 Dallas Rd 19126 10th wd. 1,344 Sq. Ft. OPA#101289600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Amir Williams; Nafeesa Abdul Malik, a/k/a Nafeesa A. Malik, a/k/a Nafeesa Malik C.P. December Term, 2015 No. 01254 $156,750.54 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1807-470 1921 Tasker St 19145 1,180 Sq. Ft. OPA#363061900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Nicholla Anderson C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03511 $57,479.29 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-471 4607 Frankford Ave 19124 23rd wd. 2,140 Sq. Ft. OPA#871111800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: ROW W/OFFICE OR STORE 3 STORY MASON Kevin Phelan C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 04893 $138,144.60 Jennifer D. Gould, Esq.; Stark & Stark, PC 1807-472 2328 S 20th St 19145 26th wd. 1,364 Sq. Ft. OPA#262160000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William Schmidt, a/k/a William A. Schmidt; Kristin Schmidt, a/k/a Kristin A. Schmidt C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 04054 $179,383.49 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1807-473 1235 S 21st St 36th wd. 1,206 Sq. Ft. OPA#361209300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Gloria S. Trower C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 2482 $47,745.58 Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP, Sarah A. Elia, Esq. 1807-474 3471 Eden St 19114 57th wd. 3,373.5 Sq. Ft. BRT#572163143 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING William B. Jenkins a/k/a William Jenkins and June M. Jenkins C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03164 $55,880.38 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire

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1807-475 4120 N 6th St 19140-2510 43rd wd. 1,090 Sq. Ft. OPA#433271400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Beverly Thomison-Sadia a/k/a Beverly Thomison a/k/a Beverley Thomison Sadia C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 03375 $54,336.93 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-476 637 N Frazier St 191314810 4th wd. 1,434 Sq. Ft. OPA#043063300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kai Comer C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 02735 $87,426.68 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-477 1710 N Peach St 19131 52nd wd. 1,219 Sq. Ft. BRT#521342000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael C Nze C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 01129 $64,586.61 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-478 1837 Glenifer St 191411077 17th wd. 1,108 Sq. Ft. OPA#171018700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gina Ayers, in Her Capacity as Heir of Ronald Neal, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Ronald Neal, Deceased C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 03777 $74,362.37 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-479 3529 N 19th St 19140 11th wd. 1,874 Sq. Ft. BRT#112270300 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James Lewis C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 00095 $119,930.96 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-480 460 Van Kirk St 19120-1121 35th wd. Improvement Area: 1,376 Sq. Ft.; Land Area: 1,920 Sq. Ft. OPA#352094400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Olegario Azcona, deceased, Daisy Fontanez Azcona, in her capacity as known heir, devise and/or distribute of the Estate of Olegario Azcona, deceased, Alejandro Azcona, in his capacity as known heir, devise and/or distribute of the Estate of Olegario Azcona, deceased, and Miguel Azcona, in his capacity as known heir, devise and/or distribute of the Estate of Olegario Azcona, deceased C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 00582 $110,530.14 Brett L. Messinger, Ryan A. Gower, & Paul J. Fanelli 1807-481 11833 Brandon Rd 19154 66th wd. 4,275 Sq. Ft. BRT#66-2032200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Craig Woods a/k/a Craig S.

Woods; Linda Borden a/k/a Linda M. Woods C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 02761 $197,608.33 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-482 1054 Alcott St 19149 35th wd. Improvement Area: 1,192 Sq. Ft.; Land Area: 1,058 Sq. Ft. OPA#352061800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Traci Benn C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 03446 $119,523.84 Brett L. Messinger, Ryan A. Gower, & Paul J. Fanelli 1807-483 1256 Elbridge St 191115509 53rd wd. 1,116 Sq. Ft. OPA#531091000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Theresa M. Horner; Kenneth A. Horner C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 01930 $85,744.17 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-484 6211 Ogontz Ave 191411412 17th wd. 1,386 Sq. Ft. OPA#172242700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Viola Martin C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 03179 $36,947.97 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-485 8030 Rodney St 19150 50th wd. S/D W/B GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1,452 Sq. Ft. BRT#502039400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Herbert Mannings and Denise M. Scott a/k/a Denise M. Scott-Fisher C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02041 $300,449.21 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1807-486 5530 Catharine St 19143 46th wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1,486 Sq. Ft. BRT#463105200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sharon Kay Allston, Known Surviving Heir of Amy M. Allston and Unknown Surviving Heirs of Amy M. Allston C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 00635 $86,870.42 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1807-487 7172 Glenloch St 19135 41st wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1,350 Sq. Ft. BRT#412332400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lamin Bangura and Kadiatu Bangura C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03046 $180,196.23 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1807-488 1819 Nedro Ave a/k/a 1819 W. Nedro Ave 19141 17th wd. 1,446 Sq. Ft. BRT#171171500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Micha L. Wilson C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 02928 $123,880.72 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-489 2314 Emerald St 19125 31st wd. Land: 720 Sq. Ft.; Improvement: 1,380 Sq.

Ft.; Total: 2,100 Sq. Ft. OPA#311068000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Debra J. Gardner and Eliot B. Karol C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 00106 $129,561.24 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1807-490 6457 N. Smedley St 19126 RESIDENTIAL ROW 2 STY MASONRY BRT#172160300 IMPROVEMENTS: ERECTED THEREON Brenda M. Mitchell and Alvin J. Mitchell C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 03203 $51,998.63 Robert W. Williams, Esquire 1807-491 3453 Jasper St 19134-2001 45th wd. 1,145 Sq. Ft. OPA#452364800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cheryl Anne Heston, in Her Capacity as Heir of Joseph J. Heston Jr., a/k/a Joseph James Heston, Jr., Deceased; Joseph James Heston, III, in His Capacity as Heir of Joseph J. Heston, Jr. a/k/a Joseph James Heston, Jr., Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title or interest from or under Joseph J. Heston, Jr a/k/a Joseph James Heston, Jr. Deceased C.P. January Term, 2017 No. 03390 $21,343.98 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-492 6562 Limekiln Pike 191383103 10th wd. 1,196 Sq. Ft. OPA#102063600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Catherine Brown C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 02802 $99,539.78 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-493 6155 Wheeler St 19142 40th wd. 1,216 Sq. Ft. OPA#402171700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Frances Lyles C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 03775 $19,432.78 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1807-494 1243 S 24th St 19146 36th wd. 1,298 Sq. Ft. more or less BRT#361367400 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL HOME FOR RENT ATS Properties, LLC C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 00936 $75,621.64 Scott P. Shectman, Esquire; Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP 1807-495 1405 71st Ave f/k/a 1405 W 71st St 19126 10th wd. 2,500 Sq. Ft. OPA#101278800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tameka Marshall-Holmes a/k/a Tamika Holmes C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 00723 $122,113.61 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1807-496 325 Lodge Rd 19128 21st wd. 3,528 Sq. Ft.

OPA#212338775 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Kathleen A. Turner and Jamison P. Turner C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 03282 $260,196.57 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1807-497 9335 Campus Ln 19114 57th wd. 6,000 Sq. Ft. OPA#572289500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stacey Justine Strauss C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 02993 $104,430.82 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1807-498 14 E Sharpnack St 19119 22nd wd. Land: 1,315 Sq. Ft.; Improvement: 1,396 Sq. Ft.; Total: 2,711 Sq. Ft. OPA#221105100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY June Green a/k/a June Green, Trustee for Ramona Green, Latitia Green, Gretchen Green, Raymond Green and Lory Green C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 03202 $17,187.85 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1807-499 2053 Federal St 36th wd. 21 feet 7 inches by 64 feet 5 and 3/4 inches OPA#361035300 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: THREE STORY MASONRY BUILDING Christopher Kling C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 02883 $161,850.57 Jay E. Kivitz, Esq. 1807-500 901 N. Penn St, Unit F-201 5th wd. 0 Sq. Ft. BRT#888062310 IMPROVEMENTS: RES CONDO 5+ STY MASONRY Tobi Simone C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 02840 $248,783.34 plus $24.72 per day from 2/16/2018 Laurence A. Mester; Mester & Schwartz, P.C. 1807-501 6577 N Woodstock St 10th wd. Beginning Point: Intersection of the South side of 66th Avenue North and the East side of Woodstock Street OPA#102078800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Leslie Kimble C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 02583 $114,454.62 Patrick J. Wesner, Esquire 1807-502 8112 Thouron Ave 50th wd. Beginning Point: at a point on the Southwesterly side of Thouron Avenue (70 feet wide) at the distance of 245 feet 9 1/2 inches Southwestwardly measured along the said side of Thouron Avenue from the Southeasterly side of Mt. Pleasant Ave (60 feet wide) IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY HOME I.C. Hydrick, now deceased, Beverly McCalla, solely in her capacity as heir of I.C. Hydrick, deceased and Jalonda Sharp, as coadministrator of the Estate of Valarie Sharp, deceased and Lawrence Sharp, as

co-administrator of the Estate of Valarie Sharp, deceased and Kevin A. Walker, solely in his capacity as heir of I.C. Hydrick, deceased C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 04854 $111,055.02 Makenna E. Porch 1807-503 2433 S 74th St 40th wd. 1,159 Sq. Ft. BRT#404129800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Paul L. Jones C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02902 $88,880.56 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1807-504 5406 Saul St 19124 62nd wd. Land: 1,553 Sq. Ft.; 1,338 Sq. Ft. BRT#621453800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Robert J. Swanlund and Sharon Swanlund C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 002739 $62,623.67 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1807-505 4087 1/2 Lancaster Ave 19104 6th wd. BRT#871066300 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL & APARTMENT(S) C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 03972 $78,649.79 Brian H. Smith, Esquire 1807-506 515 E Cheltenham Ave 19120-1701 35th wd. 1,298 Sq. Ft. OPA#352005200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Patrick Fetus C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 01321 $93,390.88 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-507 501 E Haines St 191441214 59th wd. 2,223 Sq. Ft. OPA#592008000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sarah ReidWright; Oral Wright C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 00570 $89,798.73 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-508 9921 Bustleton Ave, Unit X3 19115 58th wd. 654 Sq. Ft. BRT#160N12-207; OPA#888580930 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Donald Olah C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 04105 $69,706.76 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1807-509 6614 N 17th St 19126-2733 10th wd. 1,352 Sq. Ft. OPA#101049800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vivenne Shackleford, in Her Capacity as Heir of Geraldine WrightHenry a/k/a Geraldine D. Wright a/k/a Geraldine D. Wright-Henry, Deceased; Arlick Wright, in His Capacity as Heir of Geraldine Wright-Henry a/k/a Geraldine D. Wright a/k/a Geraldine D. Wright-Henry, Deceased; Georgette Hughes, in Her Capacity as Heir of Geraldine Wright-Henry a/k/a Geraldine D. Wright a/k/a Geraldine D. Wright-Henry, Deceased; Junelle Wright, in Her

Capacity as Heir of Geraldine Wright-Henry a/k/a Geraldine D. Wright a/k/a Geraldine D. Wright-Henry, Deceased; Lorraine Mcleod, in Her Capacity as Heir of Geraldine Wright-Henry a/k/a Geraldine D. Wright a/k/a Geraldine D. Wright-Henry, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Geraldine Wright-Henry a/k/a Geraldine D. Wright a/k/a Geraldine D. Wright-Henry, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 03153 $112,697.87 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-510A 8036 Fairview St 191362202 64th wd. 1,850 Sq. Ft. OPA#642013400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael Farrell; Regina Ann Farrell a/k/a Regina Farrell; Loretta P. Farrell C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 04007 $229,288.32 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-510B 8040 Fairview St 191362202 64th wd. 1,850 Sq. Ft. OPA#642013500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael Farrell; Regina Ann Farrell a/k/a Regina Farrell; Loretta P. Farrell C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 04007 $229,288.32 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1807-511 1756 S 60th St 19142 3rd wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1,538 Sq. Ft. BRT#034139400 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James A. Ubotee C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 02561 $155,009.93 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1807-512 3750 Clarendon Ave, #214 10th wd. Condominium OPA#8886670 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM Anne Pannepresso a/k/a Anne Panepresso C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 05465 $9,117.21 Jay E. Kivitz, Esq. 1807-513 244-48 N. 3rd St, Units 2C and 2D 5th wd. Condominium Unit OPA#888053468 - Unit 2C; OPA#999053469 - Unit 2D Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM UNIT Carolyn C. Brandhorst C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 4249 $5,665.67 Jay E. Kivitz, Esq. 1807-514 51 E Durham St 22nd wd. 931 Sq. Ft. BRT#222161200 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Davina A. Gould C.P. January Term, 2017 No. 03468 $141,935.66 Milstead & Associates, LLC

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Arts Festival Opens With International Flair Black tie gala features a smattering of the wide range of PIFA events By HughE Dillon The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) kicked off 2018 programming with a black-tie gala at the Kimmel Center on May 31. The opening of the bi-annual event treated guests to pop-up performances by the West Philadelphia Orchestra, a Chinese dragon dance from the Kimmel Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ShowStoppers musical theater camp students and, after a lavish dinner, a performance in Verizon Hall by Toshi Reagon.

1. Toshi Reagon performs. 2. Frank and Dottie Giordano. 3. Fraser and Coralie Stirling. 4. Norman Cohn and Suzanne Cohn. 5. Judge Marjorie O. Rendell and Anne Ewers, Kimmel Center. 6. Mary Dougherty, Nicole Miller Philadelphia, Karen Dougherty Buchholz, Comcast, David Lipson, Philadelphia Magazine and Susan Lipson. Photos by HughE Dillon.

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Mann, Now Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Broadway Legend The Mann Music Center celebrates the 2018 Party in The Park Gala. By HughE Dillon The evening started off with a welcoming cocktail party before the guests were ushered into the dinner tent. Guests enjoyed their meal under the top-of-hill canopy, with picturesque views of the Philadelphia skyline. After dinner, guests enjoyed a private concert by Patti LuPone who performed with the gala guests seated on stage. Immediately following the concert, guests headed to the twinkle-lit Donor Terrace and Garden for a champagne toast with Ms. LuPone.

1. Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. and Cathy Cahill, Mann Center. 2. Kamil Yakubov and Alla Yakubov. 3. Guests enjoy their dinner. 4. Deidre Miller and David Verdon. 5. Francesco Cerrai, Amelia Schmertz, and Roger Carolin. 6. Christine Reimert and Bonnie Gillen. Photos by HughE Dillon.

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Philly Fights Cancer Welcomes Dr. Jill Biden Neiman Marcus hosts fashion luncheon and benefit By HughE Dillon On Monday, May 21, Neiman Marcus King of Prussia hosted its annual fashion luncheon benefiting Philly Fights Cancer. The event began with a champagne reception on the third floor of Neiman Marcus, featuring a string quartet, a blooming flower wall photo booth, and a raffle where guests could enter to win a pair of designer shoes from Neiman Marcus every month, for a year. Dr. Jill Biden addressed the crowd from beside the runway to discuss her personal experiences with those in her life affected by cancer, and the importance of the research and clinical trials being conducted at the Abramson Cancer Center.

1. Renee Sackey, Phyllis Finkelstein and Joanne Schell. 2. Rachel Wolfson, Kaela Griswold and Jenna Berman. 3. Ana Endrigian and Lisa Semerjian. 4. Dr. Jill Biden, Marcia Rubin, and Suzanne Cohn. 5. Dr. Robert Vonderheide, Renee Sackey and Joe Carver. 6. Joyce Latmier, Regina Avallone and Donna Berman. Photos by HughE Dillon.

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Please Touch Museum Gets New Branding Look Beloved learning museum gets an update By HughE Dillon The Please Touch Museum recently revealed their new brand identity at a press conference held at the Barnes Museum. The museum seeks to build on its legacy of more than 40 years of learning through play and understanding the critical importance of providing youngest learners a pathway for success in the classroom and in life. The new brand represents the Museum's simple, yet significant story, "We are for fun. We are for learning. And we are for all," Patricia Wellenbach, President & CEO of Please Touch Museum told the gathered guests.

1. Museum exterior features the new branding look. 2. Patricia Wellenbach, Please Touch Museum. 3. Hugh McStravick, PNC, Guillain Dileonardo and Al Dileonardo. 4. Victoria Lupica, American Airlines, Mary Stengel Austen, Tierney, Sally W. Stetson, Salveson Stetson Group, Patricia Wellenbach and Madeline Airey. 5. Jack O'Brien, Brulee and Kate Wilkin, Brulee. 6. Holly Kinser, The Kinser Group and Jeff Guaracino, Welcome America. Photos by HughE Dillon.

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Payne Looking For A Big Senior Year Lower Merion star determined to bring home championship By Jeremy Treatman

his past winter, Steve Payne was the first Lower Merion player since Kobe Bryant, in 1995 and 1996, to lead his team in scoring, rebounding and assists in a season. Payne and his teammates saw their 24-6 2018 season end in a thud. It was a one-point, two-overtime heartbreaker against Neshaminy in the second round of the PIAA Class 6A state playoffs.

Now, Payne is playing weekends for a K-Low Elite under-17 team sponsored by NBA All-star Kyle Lowry, while working to improve for a big senior year. “It’s crazy to think how long me and the guys came: from being freshmen and now we’re going to be seniors,” he said. “Time flies. Just going into senior year, my main goal is to bring a Continued on page 2

Steve Payne prepping for a great senior year. Photo courtesy of Jeff Richman.

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Marple Newtown And Lower Moreland Keep The Magic Alive Brock Landes has to pinch himself to believe what has happened this spring. A lightly-regarded hitting catcher entering the season, the Lower Moreland standout blossomed as a senior and was hitting .528 with 27 RBIs headed into the June 4 PIAA playoff game against West Perry. He fell one vote shy of winning MVP honors in his league. “I knew I was capable of hitting well, but I never devoted much time because I’ve always been defensively oriented,” Landes said. “But I worked a lot on the mechanics of swinging the bat this winter, and I’m humbled to have been able to contribute offensively for my team. They put me in great positions to drive in runs because they’re constantly getting on base. But, overall, I can’t really believe this has all happened for me or for the team.” Landes said that Lower Moreland winning its first ever District 1 Class 5A title on May 28 will be meaningful for him and his teammates for the rest of their lives. “It’s so special and incredible,” he said. “Everyone is extremely happy and very relieved. We worked our tails off all of the off season and no team at our school brought home a district title this year, so our entire school is thrilled. The kids I’ve played alongside all season deserve an immense amount of recognition, and we celebrated well after our last two wins. This has been a complete team effort; a fantastic group of kids who played to the best of their ability and kept a level

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Lower Moreland standout Brock Landes is batting .528. Photo courtesy of Jarred Grabois.

head at all points during our games.” Lower Moreland’s season ended in a loss to West Perry in a first round game June 4. Meanwhile, Marple Newtown is now 22-2 and is scheduled to play West Allegheny in the state semifinals June 11. It remains the top-ranked team in the area, despite two late season losses, and is hoping to capture the team’s first ever PIAA 6A baseball championship. Mark Jordan has received most of the accolades from the coaches who vote, but he hasn’t kept them solely. “I’m sharing everything with Jim Balk, my pitching coach [who is 75 years old and has come out of retirement and helped me immensely.] Without his magic working with the pitchers, we don’t have this success.” Balk amazed Jordan by sponsoring a Chester team in the Delco League and providing the players’ jerseys, which read “Stoneman Douglas” on the front of them. “He’s such an amazing guy,” said Jordan. “He is honoring those killed at that school in [Parkland] Florida. It’s pretty cool. We’re so happy to have him.”

Kai Champion was a key reserve as a freshman on last year’s starstudded Shipley team. The same team that featured its best player in school history, Sam Sessoms, a guard who averaged 26 points a game and landed a scholarship to Binghamton. Champion and center Ray Somerville will be among the new leaders for the Gators in 2018-2019. Champion has spent the last few weekends playing in events representing the AAU squad East Coast. “I think I have gotten stronger, bigger, and more confident. I think with the guys we have coming back it’ll be hard to fill Sam’s shoes, but I think we will have a chance at playing more as a team and having a team mentality. He was so good we sometimes just watched him. Overall, my goals in basketball is to land a Division I scholarship and just to keep getting better.”

Donte’s Coach Is Elated Hardly anybody thought that Donte DiVincenzo would be headed to the NBA after this college basketball season. Scoring 31 points in the NCAA title game win over Michigan combined with an excellent showing in the Pre-draft summit in Chicago helped catapult his name in the June 21 draft. His former coach at Salesianum High School in Delaware, Brendan Haley, is blown away by the ascent of the star who led the Sallies to backto-back state titles. “I’m very proud of course,” Haley said. “I can’t believe what he’s been able to accomplish over the past five years. His work ethic and his singular focus on reaching this goal have never wavered from the first day we talked. It’s an incredibly cool time for all of us at Salesianum.” There is one drawback for Haley, though, about the whole thing. “The bummer is I’ll actually be out of the country for the draft. But I’ll be proud from afar.”

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chance now in the country. A record number of gay Pride marches, 12, are taking place across Poland this season, including five in cities having them for the first time, some of them considered conservative strongholds.

EU court backs residency Pride parades and rainbow art rights for gay couple in defy conservative Polish times Romania Members of Poland’s LBGT community celebrated a rainbow made of water and light in a downtown Warsaw square overnight as they geared up for the country’s largest Pride parade. Light projected onto water created a “water hologram” rainbow for four hours starting late June 8, getting people in the spirit for the yearly “Equality Parade” in the Polish capital June 9. The Pride celebrations come as LGBT activists say a conservative turn in Poland is only motivating them to fight harder for their rights, even though their hopes of seeing same-sex marriage legalized has no

Media Trail Arizona court rules for city on same-sex wedding invitations Arizona Capitol Times reported that an Arizona court on June 7 upheld Phoenix’s antidiscrimination ordinance, denying a wedding-invitation merchant’s challenge that the local law violates freedom of religion by compelling to cater to same-sex couples. The state Court of Appeals’ ruling upholds a trial judge’s October denial of the business owner’s request for a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of the ordinance. The Phoenix antidiscrimination ordinance prohibits businesses from discriminating based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 4 for a Colorado baker who wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a samesex couple. That decision didn’t determine the larger issue of whether a business can invoke religious objections to refuse service to gay and lesbian people. The Arizona ruling can be appealed to the state Supreme Court.

same sex.” The ruling has implications for tens of thousands of same-sex couples in Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Latvia, which do not currently offer legal protection to same-sex couples.

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The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has ruled that a gay RomanianAmerican couple is entitled to the same residency rights as other married couples in the European Union. Romanian Adrian Coman and his American husband, Claibourn Robert Hamilton, have fought a six-year legal battle to get their marriage recognized in Romania. The court ruled that EU members “may not obstruct the freedom of residence” of EU citizens by refusing to grant residence for the same-sex spouse. However, members retain “the freedom whether or not to authorize marriage between persons of the

Gay Maryland candidate kisses spouse in ad aimed at Trump The Washington Post reported that an openly gay Maryland candidate for governor is airing what gay-rights activists say is the nation’s first-ever political ad showing a same-sex couple kissing, and it includes a jab at President Donald Trump. State Sen. Richard Madaleno aired the ad June 7 in the Washington area on the Fox News show “Fox & Friends.” It was also posted on his campaign website. The ad includes the Maryland Democrat talking about how he has stood up to Trump’s agenda by defending Planned Parenthood and supporting an assault-weapons ban. Madaleno caps the 30-second ad by asking viewers about his number-one way of angering Trump and Republicans, before kissing his husband, Mark Hodge, on the lips while sitting on their front lawn. He then says: “Take that, Trump!” Madaleno is running in a crowded primary to challenge Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.

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Ripped men in white underwear, pink bunny ears and black bow ties gyrated through the streets of Tel Aviv along with drag queens and others to loud trance music for the annual Gay Pride Parade on June 8, the biggest event of its kind in the region and drawing people from around the world to Israel. The Tel Aviv Municipality said 250,000 people celebrated on June 8. Cordelia Lange, from Germany, said Tel Aviv is “a very vibrant city, it’s a city that embraces everything connected to gays, lesbians and LGBT and I think it’s a combination of city at the beach and good vibes.” The good times in Tel Aviv contrasted sharply with events just 44 miles to the south, where Israeli soldiers braced for a of an 8-year-old boy, who prosecutors say was punished because the couple believed he was gay. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge George Lomeli sentenced the couple on June 7, calling the 2013 death of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez “beyond animalistic.” Gabriel’s mother, 34-year-old Pearl Fernandez, pleaded guilty to murder in February. A jury found her boyfriend, 37-year-old Isauro Aguirre, guilty of murder last year and found that he intentionally tortured the boy. Gabriel’s injuries included a fractured skull, broken ribs and burns across his body. Prosecutors also have filed charges of child abuse and falsifying records against four county social workers in Gabriel’s death.

New Hampshire’s transgender antidiscrimination bill signed U.S. News reported that New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu has signed a bill protecting transgender people from discrimination. The law bans discrimination based on gender identity in housing, employment and public accommodations, in addition to the protections that already exist based on race, sex, religion and sexual orientation. New Hampshire had been the only New England state without such protections.

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mass Palestinian rally along the Gaza border. The Islamic militant group that rules Gaza has been leading weekly demonstrations that have turned violent, with 115 Palestinians killed since late March. Israel says it’s defending its sovereign border, including nearby communities. Israel has emerged as one of the world’s most gay-friendly travel destinations in recent years, in sharp contrast to the rest of the Middle East where gay culture is often not tolerated. Across the rest of the Mideast, the pervasiveness of religion in daily life, along with strict cultural norms, is a major factor in making gay culture taboo. Same-sex relations are punishable by death or prison in Iran and elsewhere. In Israel, homosexuals serve openly in Israel’s military and parliament, and many popular artists and entertainers are homosexual. Among Palestinians, most homosexuals tend to be secretive about their social lives and some have crossed into Israel to live safely. n — Compiled by Larry Nichols

Sununu, a Republican, said June 8 that discrimination in any form is unacceptable and “runs contrary to New Hampshire’s ‘Live Free or Die’ spirit.”

Iowa judge rules transgender women deserve surgery coverage The Chicago Tribune reported that an Iowa judge has found that the state cannot deny two transgender women Medicaid coverage for sex-reassignment surgery, declaring that denying their care policy violates the state’s Constitution and civil-rights law. Carol Ann Beal of northwest Iowa and EerieAnna Good of the Quad Cities in eastern Iowa filed the lawsuit last year after the Iowa Department of Human Services denied surgery requests recommended by doctors. On June 7, Judge Arthur Gamble said the denial violated their rights, concluding Iowa “has not kept pace with law and medicine.” An Iowa attorney general’s office spokesperson said no decision has been made on an appeal. American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa attorney Rita Bettis said the women, born male but identified as female since childhood, may proceed with surgeries. n — Compiled by Larry Nichols

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By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Melissa Etheridge is set to rock her way through the summer when she hits the road in support of her latest release, “Memphis Rock and Soul,” an album featuring covers of classic songs by legendary and pioneering artists such as Otis Redding, Albert King and Sam and Dave. Even though Etheridge is a highly regarded musician and performer in her own right, she acknowledged that covering an album’s worth of classic songs is an intimidating prospect and a ballsy move for any artist. “Oh yeah. It’s like, OK, let’s take the most revered heart of rock ’n’ roll and soul music and try to make it my own,” she said. “That’s why the song choice was the thing I spent the most time on. That’s why I didn’t do ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.’ I wanted to find songs that I really felt close to and passionate about so I could put that into the songs.” At a time when most music is synthesized and created digitally, Etheridge said there is something special about digging into and exploring songs and recordings that were created organically with live instruments and flesh-and-blood musicians. “I learned so much by immersing myself in the Memphis scene and meeting the people who made the music back in the 1960s.” “By understanding where the music came from then, I understand the music more today.”

Memphis’ deep roots in rock ’n’ roll, blues and country music, as well as its reputation for live music, have been attracting the latest generation of aspiring musicians (who actually play instruments) to hone their craft. “Memphis loves its music and supports its music,” Etheridge said. “Nashville too. Tennessee in general is great. It’s the place where you can have a guitar and actually eat that night.” Summer is usually when artists team up with like-minded performers of similar stature for a package tour. Although Etheridge is opting for her own shows this

time, she said she enjoys sharing the stage with other artists. “Sheryl Crow and I toured down in Australia in April. I do love doing that. On my cruise I toured with Sarah McLachlan. So I think you’re going to see more of that in the future. We had a great time doing it.” This year also marks the 30th anniversary of Etheridge’s self-titled debut album. Could the Melissa from 1988 have envisioned everything that happened in her career and what her world would be like in 2018? “Oh no,” she said. “In 1988, all I wanted was to be rich and famous and have a house

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No matter how I put this, it feels like an understatement: We are living in increasingly frightening and dangerous times. This is especially true for those of us who are transgender. Sitting in a subcommittee right now in our House of Representatives is HR 2796, aka the Civil Rights Uniformity Act of 2017. I’ve written about this before. It would do nothing less than void protections for transgender people under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act and “any federal civil-rights law, and of any related ruling, regulation, guidance or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States.” Not apparently interested in waiting for HR 2796 to pass or fail, the Department of Justice — under “beleaguered” Attorney General Jeff Sessions — has filed a legal brief in Zarda v. Altitude Express claiming that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 doesn’t cover sexual orientation. While the brief doesn’t mention gender identity specifically, we can guess where Sessions’ DOJ might side. Oddly enough,

the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed its own brief, disagreeing with the DOJ. Meanwhile, a move by Congressmember Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) to ban health care for transgender military personnel and their families failed to pass in the House of Representatives, in spite of a pair of odd speeches in support by Congressmembers Steve King (R-Iowa) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas). King conflated transgender troops to slaves forcibly conscripted and castrated in the Ottoman Empire and suggested that trans folks would join to somehow “game the system” for surgical care. Gohmert tried to draw a comparison between money spent for transgender care and that used to defeat “radical Islam,” as if one would take away from the other. While the Hartzler amendment failed, it apparently was not unnoticed by President Donald Trump, who took to Twitter for one of his now-infamous tweetstorm-cum-policy statements. “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to

serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump wrote. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.” This is all nonsense. Military leaders responded with surprise, having apparently not been consulted on this policy. What’s more, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford has stood in opposition, stating in a memo that there are “no modifications to the current policy until the president’s direction has been received by the Secretary of Defense and the secretary has issued implementation guidelines.” To date, no such implementation guidelines have arrived. Trump seems somehow unaware that there are already transgender troops in our military. While reported numbers have varied from as little as 250 to as many as 50,000, a study by the Rand Corporation in June 2016 estimated somewhere between 1,320 to 6,630 active-duty trans service members out of a total pool of 1.3-million service members. What’s more, this same

study noted that trans-related health care for these troops would cost somewhere between $2.4-$8.4 million per year. This is a drop in the bucket compared to current military spending. It is also a fifth of spending that the military currently doles out for erectile dysfunction medications to all troops, trans or otherwise. So we have a scattershot policy, dictated via social media without adequate consultation and not tethered in fact. Transgender troops are in no way bankrupting our armed forces, nor is there any evidence of them disrupting the service. Now, plenty have said that Trump’s tweets were nothing more than a distraction, something to steal the spotlight from news of the health-care bill and its failure, the increasingly dysfunctional administration or the continuing Russia probe. Maybe there is some truth to that, but I find myself considering that a distraction ceases to be a distraction when it is harming people. Trump’s insistence on attacking transgender soldiers, while his Department of PAGE 15 Justice and others attack

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If you’re a school administrator, teacher was doing? Well, or even a whole school district and you under Obama, want to assert your right to discrimithe Education nate against some of your students FOR Department took REASONS, you’re in luck! The Education students’ comDepartment under Betsy DeVos ain’t plaints about gonna stop you. (Unless you’re against serious issues, white Christians probably.) well, seriously, This is especially true if you want to dis- and investigated criminate against transgender students. The whether such Education Department recently dropped complaints were cases in Ohio and elsewhere involving “symptomatic of transgender students being harassed and a broader problem, in part by examining at denied bathroom access, basically saying, least three years of past complaint data.” “This isn’t our problem.” In other words, if a student complains You’ll recall that under Obama, the that he or she was sexually assaulted at Education Department issued guidelines to school, the Education Department felt like schools about how to handle transgender they should probably find out if this was students so that their dignity is respected an isolated incident or a pattern of wider and their right to an education is not tramabuse. pled. But under Trump and DeVos, the Under DeVos’ leadership, however, Education Department ain’t care. they’re so busy trying to find ways to make Needless to say, those who support trans education into a for-profit enterprise that students are alarmed by the department’s they can’t be bothered with systemic civshrugging off the issue. Shannon Minter of il-rights abuses at school. Ugh. Civil rights the National Center for Lesbian Rights told don’t make anybody rich. the Washington Post, “They have just sent Of course, the department claims that a message to schools that it’s open season this whole “don’t-look-into-civil-rightson transgender students.” complaints-too-deeply” policy is to alleIn other words, it’s a pretty clear signal viate a troublesome backlog of cases. And that the Trump administration has zero while it’s true that a backlog of cases is a interest in hearing problem, their solusome transgender tion isn’t to hire the But it’s not just trans kid bitching about personnel needed having to pee in a to get these cases students DeVos wants bucket in the janiexamined. Their tor’s closet or some- to abandon. Civil rights solution is to simply thing. Suck it up, are such a drag, after all. stopIn looking. buttercup, as Trump a press release, supporters like to What do they do besides Sherrilyn Ifill, pressay right before they ident of the NAACP get in the way of privatiz- Legal Defense and head out to protest against Shakespeare. ing America’s education Educational Fund, But it’s not just said the Education trans students system so that rich ass- Department was DeVos wants to abdicating its holes can get richer? abandon. Civil “responsibility to rights are such a protect the rights drag, after all. What do they do besides get and dignity of our nation’s vulnerable chilin the way of privatizing America’s edudren during the most crucial years of their cation system so that rich assholes can get lives, threatening not only to stall progress richer? The Education Department’s Office on racial, gender and sexual-orientation of Civil Rights is so over crybaby civequality in schools, but to undo it altoil-rights wanters. gether.” According to the Washington Post, the As is the plan, of course. MAGA ’til you head of the civil-rights office “has directed puke. n lawyers to narrow the scope of investigations into sexual assault and discriminatory D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian school-discipline policies.” living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow What does this mean and how does it differ from what the Obama administration her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.

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Two LGBT organizations planning conventions in Philadelphia were represented at a local business luncheon Tuesday. PHL Diversity hosted its 11th-annual Business Opportunity Luncheon for professionals to network and learn about new business initiatives for the city. Kim Reed of Reed Development Group moderated a panel with representatives from Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality, formerly known as the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), and the True Colors Fund. GLMA Executive Director Hector Vargas and True Colors Fund Executive Director Gregory Lewis answered questions from Reed about their organizations. GLMA will bring its 35th Annual Conference on LGBT Health Sept. 13-16 to the Doubletree Philadelphia City Center, 237 S. Broad St. During this conference,

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To the entire LGBT community: psychiatry put its hand in with aversion Let’s begin as a community to state the therapy, which uses the Pavlovian dog-like truth without putting lipstick on a pig. training to force us to be heterosexual with Personally, it sickens me when I see somea handful of horrific tortures. There’s the one from GLAAD or HRC on television electric-shock system, some connected to calling conversion therapy genetics, water treatment — “praying the gay away.” That hey, they had it before President is downright as truthful as a Bush — and then there were Donald Trump tweet, and might drugs of various types, some show how we attempt to soften of which stopped people from our message for consumption breathing before an antidote by the mainstream. Or, it might was administered. They lost a hide something very sad: our few on that one, but hey, better own attempt to not accept what dead than a fag. has been done to us as a collecNow comes conversion tive community for years — and therapy. But this one targets that, my friends, is torture. mostly children whose parents We use terms like hate are now trying to “save” them. crimes, pray away the gay … Almost all the types of torture but much that has been done to I’ve listed above have been “cure” LGBT is sheer torture. used in some of these converMark Segal sion camps … and others. ABC And yes, I’m even talking about the water torture. So once again, News investigative reporter let’s go back in recent history to make the Brian Roberts did one of the best onepoints and hopefully get us back on the hour reports on this practice on “20/20.” right track, as we are literally fighting to It showed corporal punishment, imprisonsave children’s lives. ment and lots more. For years, going back even before there I think you get the idea. It’s time to were lobotomies — oh yes, many lobotspeak out strongly. Say it loud, say it omies were performed on LGBT peoclearly: Conversion therapy is child torture. ple — society attempted to try and find n a way to “change” us, making us holy Mark Segal is the nation’s most-award-winning comheterosexuals. When threat of religion mentator in LGBT media. His memoir, “And Then and criminal justice began to fail, medical I Danced,” is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & science showed up with lobotomies. Then, Noble or at your favorite bookseller.

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FINAL BOW: At the April 29 “Shut Up & Dance” performance, longtime producing director Ian Hussey announced he was passing the baton for next year’s show to Alexandra Hughes. The annual Pennsylvania Ballet production raised more than $161,000 for MANNA, which provides nutritional meals to the ill. Nearly 1,400 people packed Forrest Theatre for the 25th-anniversary performance. Photo: Scott A. Drake

D.A. candidates address crime, corruption, community By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com The race for Philadelphia’s next district attorney is wide open. Seven Democratic contenders will vie for the nomination May 16, with one Republican running unopposed. The primary comes just weeks after current District Attorney Seth Williams was federally indicted on corruption and bribery charges. PGN spoke with all of the candidates about their vision for the District Attorney’s Office, and how the local LGBT community can be incorporated into those plans.

Larry Krasner Throughout his candidacy for district attorney, Larry Krasner has spoken about resisting the Trump administration, ending mass incarceration and standing up for civil-rights. During his 30 years as an attorney, he stood up for organizations such as ACT UP, Black Lives Matter and other organizations relating to LGBT rights, disabled people and immigrants.

PGN: There have already been nine transgender women of color murdered across the nation this year. If elected, what will your office do to combat violence against transgender individuals in Philadelphia, specifically women of color? LK: If and when there are incidents, I will have my supervisors and my prosecutors take those charges incredibly seriously. When I see violence involving a trans victim, to me, a red flag goes up immediately to see if this is a hate crime. I have been there when this Philadelphia Police Department wouldn’t take hate crimes seriously and, to me, that’s unacceptable. You have to have a police department that treats everybody equally and cares about everybody’s issues and that doesn’t consider certain people to be less than human. I think by using the office as a bully pulpit, being as serious as possible about properly prosecuting these cases, working with the police commissioner to

According to documents PGN exclusively obtained, a state commission is investigating Rep. Brian Sims following scrutiny about his travel reimbursements and speaking fees. PGN obtained a copy of an Ethics Complaint Form from a source whose identity we are withholding. The individual filed the complaint with the State Ethics Commission, contending Sims, the first LGBT person elected to the state legislature, violated the state Ethics Act. According to the Ethics Act, “No public official or public employee shall accept an honorarium.” A March 31 letter from the Ethics Commission, signed by Executive Director Robert P. Caruso, that was given to PGN states: “The Investigative Division of the State Ethics Commission has initiated a full investigation in relation to the complaint” that the individual filed. Caruso told PGN he was not permitted to comment on the investigation or the complaint. PAGE 28

do police trainings around this issue or to make sure the trainings are adequate, I believe we could make a difference and make the situation better for trans people.

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PGN: If elected, will you assist PGN in our ongoing efforts to settle all open-records litigation for access to Nizah Morris records? LK: The short answer is yes. I am a great believer in providing information to the press. However, when you ask a candidate what will you do when you are in office and that candidate doesn’t have all of the information, you’re basically inviting a candidate to make promises that may or may not be appropriate. Every bit of my instincts favors transparency but if I were to find something in the file that the mother or the father of Nizah Morris didn’t want revealed, then that is something I would have to look at. Assuming that the family of Nizah Morris wanted the information revealed and assuming the law permitted it, I would like there to be the maximum amount of transparency and I would like to assist in getting all information out PAGE 19 about that incident.

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Exclusive: Brian Sims target of state ethics investigation By Jeremy Rodriguez jeremy@epgn.com

By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Under proposed guidance posted on its website April 28, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission will investigate LGBTQ-related antibias complaints, despite the lack of an LGBTQ-inclusive statewide antibias law. The guidance notes that Pennsylvania’s antibias law covers sex discrimination, and multiple courts have ruled that anti-LGBTQ discrimination is a form of sex discrimination. However, neither the U.S. Supreme Court nor the Pennsylvania Supreme PAGE 28

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Transition the battlefield No matter how I put this, it feels like an understatement: We are living in increasingly frightening and dangerous times. This is especially true for those of us who are transgender. Sitting in a subcommittee right now in our House of Representatives is HR 2796, aka the Civil Rights Uniformity Act of 2017. I’ve written about this before. It would do nothing less than void protections for transgender people under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act and “any federal civil-rights law, and of any related ruling, regulation, guidance or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States.” Not apparently interested in waiting for HR 2796 to pass or fail, the Department of Justice — under “beleaguered” Attorney General Jeff Sessions — has filed a legal brief in Zarda v. Altitude Express claiming that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 doesn’t cover sexual orientation. While the brief doesn’t mention gender identity specifically, we can guess where Sessions’ DOJ might side. Oddly enough,

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do police trainings around this issue or to make sure the trainings are adequate, I believe we could make a difference and make the situation better for trans people. PGN: If elected, will you assist PGN in our ongoing efforts to settle all open-records litigation for access to Nizah Morris records? LK: The short answer is yes. I am a great believer in providing information to the press. However, when you ask a candidate what will you do when you are in office and that candidate doesn’t have all of the information, you’re basically inviting a candidate to make promises that may or may not be appropriate. Every bit of my instincts favors transparency but if I were to find something in the file that the mother or the father of Nizah Morris didn’t want revealed, then that is something I would have to look at. Assuming that the family of Nizah Morris wanted the information revealed and assuming the law permitted it, I would like there to be the maximum amount of transparency and I would like to assist in getting all information out PAGE 19 about that incident.

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NOT THEIR PRESIDENT: Hundreds protested in Center City Monday against restrictive policies and positions coming from the new Trump administration. The “Not My Presidents’ Day” march and rally, planned to coincide with the annual federal holiday celebrating American presidents, included remarks from speakers about LGBT rights, health care, immigration, racial justice, women’s rights and more. Photo: Scott A. Drake

Philly Pride Presents confirmed to PGN the organization will reschedule its annual Pride Parade and Festival for the first time in its 29 years. Pride will now be held June 18 at Penn’s Landing so it does not conflict with the Washington D.C. National Pride March on June 11, the local event’s original date. “It’s a decision that had to be made because even some people who work with us are going to go to D.C.,” said the organization’s executive director, Franny Price. “It was a decision that we never wanted to make but it was a decision to save the Philadelphia Pride Parade and Festival and OutFest. We did not want to cause a conflict [with] the community [members] who would want to go to the march.” The National Pride March began as a Facebook event that grew to more than 31,000 confirmed guests and more than 109,000 guests designated as “interested.” Price said out of the previous 28 Philadelphia Pride PAGE 13 events, 25 have been held during

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Trial for alleged murderer of trans woman postponed until December A jury trial for the alleged murderer of trans woman Diamond Williams has been postponed until December. Charles N. Sargent stands accused of stabbing Williams to death with a screwdriver, then dismembering her with an ax, depositing her body parts in a vacant lot in Strawberry Mansion in July 2013. Sargent told police he acted in self-defense after Williams became violent during a sexual encounter. Advocates for Williams dispute that claim. Sargent’s trial was scheduled to begin Feb. 27, but his standby attorney, J. Michael Farrell, recently was convicted of multiPAGE 13 ple felonies in

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As Pride Month comes to a close and Independence Day approaches, freedom has been a hot topic. While the word itself often signifies a fundamental, innate tenet upon which this nation was born, recent times have shown just how fluid of a concept freedom is. Two years ago, the LGBT community was celebrating marriage equality becoming the law of the land. Freedom to many at that time meant the ability to finally wed their partners, to join their names on legal documents, to create a family with fewer burdens. But just one year later, 49 people were gunned down at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando. The LGBT community was forced to re-examine the basic freedoms the incident threatened: the ability to be oneself, and associate as a community, without fear of violence or death. Weddings and legal paperwork took an immediate backseat. That back-and-forth seems to have been a recurring theme throughout LGBT history; when one hard-fought victory is won, another can cripple the community. Harvey Milk was elected in a historic move for LGBT representation in government, only to be gunned down. AIDS funding would be boosted in one part of the country and lost in another. A trans woman of color would grace the cover of a national magazine

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Despina Kontos: Activist, scientist, mom As someone who grew up in a multiracial family with a lot of multiracial friends, the argument I heard the most from people who had nothing to do with it was: “What about the children?” Well, the kids are all right. One of us was recently president of the United States and one just became a British princess with an agenda, and one of us writes a weekly feature for PGN. The same argument was made about same-sex couples who wanted to start families: “What about the kids?” It seems to me those kids are all right too. Research shows no difference in the happiness quotient of children raised in LGBT households than in heteronormative homes. One of the organizations that has supported LGBT families since 1993 with programs, workshops, support and advocacy for LGBT families is Philadelphia Family Pride. We took a moment to speak to board member Despina Kontos about the organization and some of its upcoming events. In addition to her work with PFP, Kontos spends most of her days as a faculty member in a research department at the University of Pennsylvania working on a cure for cancer. Nothing big at all. PGN: So with a master’s and Ph.D. in computer and information science, can you tell me what to do when my computer starts showing the spinning wheel of death? DK: [Laughing] I’m not sure about that — I’ve been removed from that aspect at this point in my career. But if you can’t find anybody else, I’ll give it a try! PGN: Tell me a little about yourself. I detect a Greek accent. What part are you from? DK: I actually wasn’t born in Greece. I’m a little bit of a hybrid. I was born in the U.S. in New York City. My parents were here for their graduate and post-graduate educations and then my family moved back to Greece when I was 4. I lived in Greece until I came to the States for grad school myself, and I’ve been here ever since. PGN: What’s your favorite Greek dish? DK: Oh, so many yummy things. Definitely something that my mom would cook. I love lamb and meat in general. I’m very much a carnivore. Spanakopita is always good, and moussaka.

writes his response on the paper for her to reply for him. PGN: Nice. When did you come out? Was it in Greece or here? DK: That’s quite the story. It took a while. When I grew up in Greece, nobody was really out. There was no public figure, no politicians, no artists — no one. There weren’t discussions about LGBTQ issues in the media. None of my friends was out. Everything was under the radar. I didn’t officially come out to the family until after I came here and met my now-wife and knew that we were set on living our lives together. PGN: How do you think it affected you, not having any LGBTQ role models to emulate or to inspire you? DK: It made me clueless. I had no idea about my sexual orientation. I didn’t even realize it until late in the game. I was 21 when I first got a clue and it was very hard for me to deal with and digest the information for myself, let alone come out to friends or family. I also grew up in a very conservative, religious family, so my parents were not very open-minded about the subject. To this day, it’s a testy subject that they’re not fully comfortable with. We went to church every Sunday and the theme was often that if you were gay or lesbian, there was something wrong with you and that you had a very prominent place in hell waiting for you. So it was hard for me to come to terms with the fact that there was nothing wrong with me. It’s been a long process.

the information that we can extract from imaging with the use of computer applications that can help us characterize genetic properties of cancers. It will help us tailor treatment to the individual based on their unique molecular profile. I was always torn between going to medical school and engineering, and this is an amazing way to blend the two in a real-world application. PGN: Moving forward, how did you meet your partner? Or wife? DK: Wife. Her name is Jill and we’ve been married for about three years now and have two children. We met at a friend’s birthday party. PGN: Is she also in the sciences? DK: No, her background is in linguistics. She worked for many years as an editor but she’s taking a break to spend time at home with our two wonderful kids … which may be more challenging than it sounds. We have a boy named Eli who’s 3-and-a half and a girl named Mara who’s 3 months old.

(6945 Germantown Avenue). We’ll have family-friendly entertainment, fine art, food and resource tables from a variety of organizations that deal with LGBTQ parents and youth. PGN: Do you get concerned about the fact that though we have LGBT antidiscrimination protections in Philadelphia, we’re not protected in the rest of the state? If there’s a nonbiological parent, it has to be a little scary. DK: Yes, that’s why we do things like the second-parent adoptions, which are very advisable. We did it with our first child and we’re in the process of doing it with our second. We’re not going to rely solely on the birth certificate. I think it’s a major problem that needs to be dealt with on a national level and not just for same-sex couples. More and more people are using IVF methods of conception and it’s often done with an egg or sperm that’s donated by a third party. In Pennsylvania, parenting rights are established by either biological connection or adoption decree. It’s something that will have to be dealt with from a legal standpoint at some time considering that family planning has changed dramatically for all types of families. PGN: Good point. Since I have a scientist in the hot seat, I’m going to vent a little. Every other day, there seems to be a study telling you the complete opposite of what was said the day before, i.e., “You should drink a cup of coffee every day” or “Coffee gives you cancer.” As a researcher, does it drive you crazy too? DK: No. But there are things to pay attention to: not all studies are equal, often the smaller studies are the ones likely to have contrasting results. But even with that, there are some really exciting findings happening right now, especially for cancer therapies. The landscape as we know it is going to change dramatically in the next 10-20 years.

PGN: What was the first clue that you might be gay? DK: I fell in love with a woman! How about that? It was a big clue. PGN: [Laughing] Yeah, I guess that would do it. DK: I know. It took me a while to figure out what my feelings were and then a lot of things began to make sense in retrospect — feelings I’d had as a kid that I’d never cognitively interpreted as gay.

PGN: What do the folks do? DK: My mother is a doctor, she runs the NICU unit at a big private maternity clinic in Athens, Greece. She also has her own practice. My father is a computer scientist and mathematician who started his own software company.

PGN: What did you study in Greece? DK: Computer engineering informatics. I got my master’s and Ph.D. at Temple and then I came over to Penn and did a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in the radiology department. I then did two years as a research associate where I did some training in epidemiology and bio statistics and then stayed on as a faculty member. Now I run a research lab doing cancer research using computer-aided applications. It’s been 12 years and last year I got my tenure at Penn.

PGN: Ah ha! So he’s the one I should call if I get the spinning wheel! DK: [Laughing] He’s even worse than me! He doesn’t even know how retrieve to emails — he has his secretary print them out and

PGN: Without being too technical, what is an exciting breakthrough that you’ve been a part of? DK: Some of the most exciting stuff is happening right now. We’re starting to look at

PGN: A favorite quote or motto? DK: I don’t know if I have a favorite quote, but I’m generally a very positive person and very proactive, so I live by the thought that if there’s something that you don’t like, either do something about it or stop complaining about it.

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PGN: How did you first find Philly Family Pride? DK: They were putting on a conference and I went and found a lot of useful information. We started going and making friends and now I’m on the board. In celebration of Philadelphia’s 30th anniversary of Pride, the Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs, Philadelphia Family Pride and the Mt. Airy Art Garage are partnering on the Philly Family Pride Picnic & Arts Festival 11 a.m.-5 p.m. June 23 at Lovett Library Park

PGN: Hear, hear! n To suggest a community member for Family Portrait, email portraits05@aol.com.

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Heartwarming family drama Q&A with out actress Kiersey Clemons By Gary M. Kramer PGN Contributor

NICK OFFERMAN (LEFT) AND KIERSEY CLEMONS Photos: Gunpowder & Sky

By David-Elijah Nahmod PGN Contributor One of the most delightful aspects of “Hearts Beat Loud,” a sweet and heartwarming drama, is the casual nature with which the screenplay deals with the lesbianism of the story’s female lead. Sam (Kiersey Clemons) is a young woman who lives with Frank, her widowed father (Nick Offerman). The two share a beautiful, spacious loft in Red Hook, a trendy neighborhood in Brooklyn. Dad is a failed musician who runs a record store — he yearns to get back into playing, composing and recording. Sam is a musical prodigy who wants to become a doctor. On a lark, the two record a song in their apartment, which Frank then posts on Spotify. Much to his surprise, the song goes viral. Sam and Frank start getting offers to perform. Whether they will take to the stage together and whether Frank’s record store will survive the rising rents in their hipster hood become the story’s main focus. The fact that Sam is a lesbian who has a girlfriend is never talked about; it’s simply accepted as a normal fact of life. Nor is it discussed that Sam is mixed-race — her late mom was black, while Frank is white. Sam is an example of American society’s new normal. She never needs to “come out.” She simply meets another girl, they go out on a date and quickly fall in love. Neither Sam nor anyone else in her sphere gives it a second thought. “Do you have a girlfriend or a boyfriend?” Frank casually asks his daughter. The scenes between Sam and her girlfriend Rose (Sasha Lane) are a delight. It’s the first love for both, and they fall for each other hard, even as they realize their time may be limited: Sam will soon be moving across the country to go to medical school. In a particularly touching scene, Rose teaches Sam how to ride a bicycle, something Sam had always been afraid to do in the aftermath of her mom’s death in a biking accident. The film also focuses on the deep father-daughter love between Sam and Frank. Dad is now a middle-aged man, coming to grips with the fact that none of his dreams has come true. He sees the song he recorded with Sam as his last chance. He’s slowly forced to accept the reality that he and Sam want different things and that he must let her go. “Hearts Beat Loud” is not the kind of mega-blockbuster that moviegoers often flock to these days. It’s a quiet, reflective film, featuring characters who feel deeply and passionately. The film gets an added boost from its soft-rock score, performed by stars Offerman and Clemons. n

“Hearts Beat Loud,” opening June 15 at the Landmark Ritz Five, is a genial father-daughter film buoyed by out actor Kiersey Clemons’ ingratiating performance. While her father Frank (Nick Offerman) has decided to close down his record store in New York City’s Red Hook, Sam (Clemons) is studying pre-med before attending college in UCLA in the fall. Both are still grieving the death of Sam’s mother. When her father insists they have a jam session together, Sam is reluctant, but their efforts soon turn out the title track, which gets on a Spotify playlist. Sam is soon watching WXPN World Cafe videos for inspiration. She also finds inspiration — and love — with Rose (Sasha Lane), an artist. In a recent phone interview, Clemons told PGN about the message the film sends viewers and why it matters. PGN: What appealed to you about the character of Sam? Was it her being the responsible teen with the free-spirited parent? Or the fact that you could play a singing role? KC: I think it was all of those things and the point that she’s at a place in her life where she’s not a wild child. She has a good head on her shoulders. I like that the script was about her being responsible and not about

chasing guys or going to parties — though I like those kinds of films too. PGN: What observations do you have about Sam’s sexuality? It’s not an issue (which is refreshing), but why is her being a lesbian important? When Sam tells Frank she has a girlfriend, is that her coming out?

SASHA LANE (LEFT) AND CLEMONS KC: It’s just been Sam and Frank for the majority of Sam’s life. There’s a great deal of understanding between them. Her coming out was prior to her telling Frank about Rose. But she’s never put a stamp on her sexuality; she’s young and figuring things out and knows it. It’s important to show families are accepting and loving [of queer kids].

working with Sasha Lane and developing the chemistry between your characters? KC: Sasha was a friend before we filmed, which makes everything easier. We got past that initial meeting and discussed where Rose and Sam are, who they were and why they like each other. They help each other and grow up in this summer [romance].

PGN: Sam wants to go to UCLA because she wants something different; she wants to get away. Why do you think that is? KC: I think she’s seen everything in New York. She was born and raised there, and she wants to start anew and that’s something every young person can relate to. She can’t be independent if she’s close to home. She wants to get into a space where she does not have to carry the weight around.

PGN: Sam learns to ride a bike with Rose’s help. She had never learned because of her mother’s death. Why do you think she does this, given how it might trigger her father? KC: Sam and Frank are going through the same thing, but with different momentum and at a different pace. Family members go through things together, but sometimes, if you and a relative are dealing with the same trauma, it’s hard to help each other. Rose is the first person she’s felt comfortable with to share that experience and let go of things she’s holding on to.

PGN: Leslie (Toni Collette) says she believes in Frank; Frank says he believes in Sam. From where do you get your strength and confidence? KC: I think I have a great group of people around me. I filter out the people I don’t find to be sincere or honest, and that gives me confidence. I know that if I enter something or am doubting myself, I have people around me I can go to or look to for guidance and that makes me feel less alone. Confidence stems from a place of love. Confident people receive and return a lot of love. PGN: Speaking of love, what observations do you have about

PGN: One of the messages in the film is to slow down and enjoy things. What do you slow down for and enjoy? KC: My sisters and my partner — they always force me to slow down. I will cancel stuff to be with them. It’s therapeutic, and if I’m tired they give me energy. Food too. I relax by finding time to make big meals or having a nice dinner. PGN: You mentioned a partner. Can you talk about her? KC: My girlfriend Ebony is a stunt girl; she was my stunt double. But we look nothing alike — you have to write that! She’s Australian and funny and a goddess. She’s really chill. She’s more rational and realist. I’m so sensitive and let everything affect me. n

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By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Get your wishes ready, because “Disney’s Aladdin” is making its return to Philly June 13-July 1 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music. The smash musical production is based on the animated film and has circled the globe. Out actor and singer Michael James Scott plays the Genie — a daunting task, considering the bravura performance the late Robin Williams delivered in the animated version of the story. But Scott said he’s putting his own stamp on the role. “The foundation for the character is the genius that was Robin Williams,” he said. “It’s all there. They’ve trusted me to work in the parameters of the spirit of the genie. It’s such a throwback to old Broadway musical-theater comedy. You have to be on your game to drive a role like the genie in a musical comedy like ‘Aladdin.’” Technically, Aladdin himself is the

central character of the production, but Scott said the genie is usually the one that captures hearts and imaginations. “Everyone is excited to see the genie,” he said. “He’s maneuvering things around. The genie is the one who makes thing happen for Aladdin, who is at the heart of it. The genie opens that show and becomes the narrator of what is about to happen.” Scott added that while “Aladdin” may be a hit with younger audiences, he sees people of all ages from the stage enjoying the show. “It truly is a show that is for everybody. I see people there on dates, I see families, I see groups of friends and they are all having a really wonderful time, smiling and laughing and singing along to the music. I’m very proud that this show is for everybody.” n Broadway Philadelphia presents “Disney’s Aladdin” through July 1 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St. For more information or tickets, call 215-893-1999.

Theater & Arts Agnes Martin: The Untroubled Mind/Works from the Daniel W. Dietrich II Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art presents paintings and drawings exploring the ideas that shaped Martin’s minimalist art, through Oct. 14, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100. Biting Wit and Brazen Folly: British Satirical Prints, 1780s–1830s Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a display highlighting the appeal of caricature in Georgian England and the ways in which those images teased and provoked audiences, through Aug. 22, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100. Design in Revolution: A 1960s Odyssey Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition of pop art and psychedelia from the civil-rights and anti-war movements, through Sept. 9, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100. Experiments in Motion: Photographs from the Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a photographic exhibition where artists stop, extend and rearrange time for their own creative ends, through Aug. 19, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100.

GOLD, GIRL!: Out comedian, writer and actor Judy Gold lights up New Hope once again with her manic brand of humor 8 p.m. June 16 at The Rrazz Room at the Clarion Inn & Suites New Hope, 6426 Lower York Road. For more information or tickets, call 888-596-1027.

Jean Shin: Collections Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition by contemporary artist Shin (American, born in South Korea in 1971) in which she transforms everyday objects into dynamic works about connection and belonging, through July 15, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100. Keith Smith at Home Philadelphia Museum of Art presents five decades of the Rochesterbased artist’s mixed-media photographs, prints and books, through July 8, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100. Queer Discoveries at the Library: Ma Vie En Rose Free Library of Philadelphia and the Office of LGBT Affairs host a free screening of the French film about a transgender girl who can’t wait to grow up to be a

woman, 6 p.m. at Falls of Schuylkill Branch Library, 3501 Midvale Ave.; 215-685-2093. Rachel Rose: Wil-o-Wisp/The Future Fields Commission Philadelphia Museum of Art presents contemporary video installations that ruminate on our imagesaturated culture and histories of the past, through Aug. 19, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100. Ryan Hamilton The comedian seen on Comedy Central performs June 2123 at Punch Line Philly, 33 E. Laurel St.; 215-606-6555.

Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215222-1400. Dave Matthews Band The jam/rock band performs 8 p.m. June 15-16 at BB&T Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J.; 856-365-1300. Harry Styles The singersongwriter performs 8 p.m. June 15 at Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St.; 215336-3600. The Black Dahlia Murder The metal band performs 6 p.m. June 19 at The Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St. 215922-6888.

Spaceballs The sci-fi comedy spoof of “Star Wars” is screened 8 p.m. June 19 at The Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.;215922-6888.

Paul Simon: The Farewell Tour The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer performs 8 p.m. June 16 at Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St.; 215336-3600.

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amateur drag event in Philly kicks off 8 p.m. June 22 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215-964-9675.

Outta Town Leonard Martinez The out singer and actor performs 8 p.m. June 15 at The Rrazz Room at the Clarion Inn & Suites New Hope, 6426 Lower York Road; 888596-1027.

DISCO TECHS: Canadian electro-funk duo Chromeo is about to make Philly dance its ass off when the summer tour for the latest album, “Head of Heels,” brings a truckload of sexy grooves through town 8 p.m. June 19 at The Fillmore Philadelphia, 29 E. Allen St. For more information or tickets, call 215-309-0150.

BB&T Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J.; 856-365-1300. Reverend Horton Heat The rock-a-billy band performs 8 p.m. June 19 at Sellersville Theater, 24 W. Temple Ave., Sellersville; 215257-5808. Tracy Bonham and Blake Morgan The rock singersongwriters perform 8 p.m. June 20 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215222-1400. Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly The punk bands perform 7 p.m. June 21 at Festival Pier, 601 N. Columbus Blvd.; 215-922-1011. Matthew Sweet The singersongwriter and guitarist performs

8 p.m. June 21 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215-222-1400.

Nightlife Happy Bear The bear-themed happy hour runs 5-9 p.m. June 15 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215-964-9675. Haus The ’90s-themed dance party kicks off 9 p.m. June 15 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215964-9675. Mimi Imfurst Presents Drag Diva Brunch Mimi Imfurst, Bev, Vinchelle, Sutton Fearce and special guests perform 11 a.m.-2 p.m. June 16 at Punch Line Philly, 33 E. Laurel St.; 215-606-6555. Bradley’s Bucks & Archedream for Humankind The performance

artists liven things up 8 p.m. June 16 at Franky Bradley’s, 1320 Chancellor St.; 215-735-0735. Bearded Ladies Cabaret presents You Can Never Go Down The Drain The Wilma Theater presents John Jarboe as Mr. Rogers in a musical healing ritual for adults, using and abusing iconic songs from the program, 8 p.m. June 20, 265 S. Broad St.; 215546-7824. Miss Amateur Drag Attack Pageant The biggest

Go Ape with Dad! Planet of the Apes Marathon An afternoon of classic scifi featuring “Planet of the Apes,” “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” and “Escape From the Planet of the Apes” begins 1 p.m. June 17 at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-1228. Sebastian Maniscalco The comedian performs June 22-24 at Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Event Center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000. Blue Velvet The David Lynch-directed noir thriller is screened 9:45 p.m. June 22 at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-1228. n

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Student director screens trans youth documentary set in rural PA By Suzannah Cavanaugh PGN Contributor At 20 years old, queer filmmaker and activist Hansen Bursic will be one of the youngest directors in attendance this weekend when his award-winning documentary “The Toothmans” screens at the nation’s oldest and largest LGBT festival, held annually in San Francisco. A documentary short with an eight-minute runtime, “The Toothmans” chronicles the coming out of Cooper Toothman, a trans girl living in rural Pennsylvania, and the pushback she faces from her school’s administration. Bursic said it was the absence of stories like Cooper’s that compelled him to tell it. “A lot of times when you think of LGBTQ stories, you usually think of people in the cities and that’s the story you get,” he said. “Whenever you have the chance to break that down and show that these people are everywhere, that’s pretty awesome.” Bursic began filming “The Toothmans” in early 2017 as a freshman at Temple University. The project developed from his volunteer work for Pennsylvania Youth Congress, the state’s first advocacy organization for LGBT youth. As lead media coordinator for PYC, Bursic took on the production of a series of videos focusing on rural families with a trans child. At the start of what would be his second documentary, Bursic remembers having little to no expectations of how the film would be received. “I wasn’t expecting it to become a successful product, let alone something I would put my heart and soul into. At that point in my career, I didn’t have a lot of confidence in my work. ” His encounter with the Toothmans changed all of that. “I realized that the family was just so unique and special. That’s when it became a passion project for me,” said Bursic. “I think falling in love with the family made me fall in love with the film.” “The Toothmans” centers on a social issue, recently politicized: the right of trans people to use the bathroom of their

choice. In the film, Cooper’s school administrators fight against her right to use the girl’s restroom. Bursic said the newsworthiness of the conflict renders the film relevant, but it’s Cooper’s connections with her family that give the story a universal draw. Cooper’s father, a “traditionally masculine” figure, is often the subject of

post-screening audience discussions, the director said. “You look at him and listen to how he talks and he seems like he would stand for being anti-LGBT or anti-trans. He comes off that way at first,” said Bursic. “But, by the end of the documentary, he’s saying, ‘Listen, this is my daughter, and I will support her no matter what and that’s the way it should be.’” Bursic, who already premiered “The Toothmans” in multiple regional film festivals and won awards at several, including the Lancaster International Short Film Festival and Pittsburgh Underground Film Festival, said he hopes his first stint out of state for the Frameline42 festival builds more of the same audience connections. “After each screening I’ve gone to in the cities, people usually approach me afterwards and say, ‘This is my experience; this is like me. Thank you for doing a story on this, because this was my life.” Bursic will share his trip to San Francisco for Frameline42 with the stars of the film: Jim, Deb and Cooper Toothman. n For information about the screening of “The Toothmans,” email info@payouthcongress.com.

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