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Lesbian couple Mayor Nickels holds roundtable attacked in South Park with Seattle LGBT community

by Shaun Knittel SGN Staff Writer Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels met with Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities and executives from a number of LGBT organizations to discuss issues of importance for the Gay community on July 22.

The afternoon meeting at City Hall included representatives from PFLAG, Lambert House, LLAA, Gay City, and GSBA, to name a few. Major discussion took place in a roundtable format relating to the establishment of an LGBT Action Agenda, ensuring LGBT presence in the Chief of Police selection process, human services budget priorities, travel and tourism, and the mayor’s influence in the U.S. Conference of Mayors, which Nickels chairs.

“This is a good opportunity to learn what’s going on in the LGBT community,” Nickels said at the beginning of the meeting.

The mayor plays a vital role in the everyday lives of LGBT Seattleites. The executive office decides, among other things, budgets for vital human services funding, selects a police chief, and can assist with preserving nonprofits and neighborhoods. A close working

Hate crimes bill makes for strange bedfellows official photos

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-SC) (l) and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)

by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, now an amendment to the 2010 Defense Department authorization bill, continued to advance toward passage this week, although it is taking an increasingly odd and roundabout route.

Also known as the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act (LLEHCPA), the bill

would add crimes motivated by real or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability to the list of hate crimes already under federal jurisdiction.

The new hate crimes legislation was attached to the defense bill last week by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), in a bid to give an expected Republican filibuster the runaround. Amendments must be voted on before the main bill they amend can come

to a vote. Reid hoped that attaching the hate crimes bill to the main defense funding bill – a must-pass bill – would discourage other Senators from trying to delay passage.

Reid was proved right late last week, when the Senate voted 6328 to end debate on the hate crimes bill, and then added it to the defense bill by unanimous consent.

REPUBLICAN CONSENT CAME AT A PRICE The consent of Republican Senators came at a price, however. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-SC), who spoke against the hate crimes bill during debate, was allowed to add three amendments to the legislation before Republicans would agree to let it proceed toward final passage.

Sessions’ amendment, which adds assaults on military personnel to the list of hate crimes covered by the bill, passed 92-0. Two other Sessions amendments – one adding the death penalty for certain hate crimes, and another requiring the US Attorney General to issue “neutral and objective” guidelines on what constitutes a hate crime – were added by unanimous consee hate crimes page 19

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and prompted a 26year Seattle Police Department veteran to say, “It’s one of those things, unfortunately, that I know I will remember for the rest of my life.”

The man, who had sneaked into the women’s home in the 700 block of South Rose Street around 3 a.m. while they slept, stabbed the two women repeatedly in the neck and arms. One woman, 37, died in the street from her wounds shortly after the attack, and the second women, 40, was treated at Seattle Police have released this sketch of the Harborview Medisuspect wanted in the June 19 attack cal Center and reby Shaun Knittel leased July 20.

Police would not say whether SGN Staff Writer or not the women were sexually Police are looking for a man who assaulted, but would say the fatal savagely attacked two Lesbian stabbing was random. They firmly women in their South Park neigh- believe the women did not know borhood home in the early hours of their attacker.

Seattle Assistant Police Chief July 19. The attack, which left one of the women dead, was so brutal it left neighbors feeling terrorized see attack page 17

David Beard (l) and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels

relationship with the mayor’s office is critical to ensure that LGBT citizens are served in the best possible manner.

Although anyone can contact the mayor and City Council members regarding issues affecting the LGBT community, meetings such as the July 22 one foster a focused effort.

A proposed community Action Agenda is a process where the city

will bring stakeholders together to work on specific issues affecting the community. Some examples of issues might be infrastructure needs of LGBT service organizations – such as a new LGBT Community Center, a topic brought up time and again during the meeting – community safety plans, and see mayor page 16

Referendum 71 deadline Saturday

by Shaun Knittel SGN Staff Writer

Vote yes on Ref. 71

The deadline for Protect Washington Families and Faith and Freedom Network to file their signatures with the Washington Secretary of State is quickly approaching. The coalition of conservative organizations seeking to place Referendum 71 to repeal domestic partnerships on the November ballot claim they will have all 120,577 signatures on Saturday, July 25.

However, as of July 23, they would not publicly declare the exact number of signatures they have gathered.

The Washington Secretary of State office will remain open on Saturday to receive the signatures.

If the coalition files the correct number of signatures required – an estimated 150,000, including a cushion – the secretary’s office

will then go to work verifying them. If 120,577 are valid, the fate of same-sex domestic partners will lay in the hands of Washington voters this November.

Stephen Pidgeon, an Everett, Washington lawyer who represents the anti-Gay petition sponsors, said the coalition’s gathering efforts have gone well. During a July 22 interview, he said there has see ref. 71 page 16

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eight years too late for him to make any changes of major importance? Can we have such short memories as to forget that he is the one who signed (unapologetically still) the DOMA law into effect?

I sincerely thank you very much for your support Mr. Clinton, as it is an important bally. Where was this support when he was factor. And with this information, I promise CLINTON’S president? His political opinions couldn’t to vote for you in the presidential election.

COURAGEOUS COWARDICE have changed that drastically in these years Oops! Too late.

I think it’s great that Bill Clinton has and while we are thankful as a community, Eric Andrews-Katz come out to support Gay marriage – ver- for his support why does it come more then

GLSEN fundraiser a success

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Attendees at GLSEN fundraiser

by Shaun Knittel SGN Staff Writer

The Washington State Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) held their second annual “School’s Out For The Summer” fundraiser at C.C. Attle’s Bar and Restaurant July 18.

The fundraiser, which consisted of raffle and Jell-O shot purchases, supports the local Gay-Straight Student Alliance (GSA) networks in Washington State. The goal of the GSA networks is to work to end harassment and bullying incidents of LGBT youth in Washington State. GLSEN board members and local teachers staffed the fundraiser, which raised over $1,000.

The GLSEN Washington State chapter is based in Seattle, with a support staff covering the entire state. GLSEN is an organization dedicated to creating safe schools for all LGBT people. As of July 19, 2006, the organization manages the state’s GSA networks, which are youth-led organizations created to help connect public and private GSA-based clubs and other community groups throughout Washington State.

GLSEN officials said the successful fundraising event would not have been possible without the assistance from C.C. Attle’s management and staff.

For more information about GLSEN Washington State, visit www.chapters.glsen. org/cgi-bin/iowa/Washington/home.html.

CARA barbeque for a good cause

by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid SGN A&E Writer Enjoy good food? Enjoy karaoke with fun people and lots of laughter along with knowing you’re supporting a very good community group? Then you should put on your summer best and get yourself to the CARA (Communities Against Rape and Abuse) offices this Friday, July 24 at 5 p.m. for their annual summer barbecue/fundraiser. The emphasis is more on the fun of the barbecue and yummy things are provided – the mac and cheese someone made and brought last time remains on my mind in a special place reserved for food that tastes like it was made by angels.

The group has been standing fast against these tough times, still putting on their monthly hip hop/poetry/music evening, Ladies First, and the occasional CD release party for the talented women in this primarily women of color group.

Also, the group is a good role model for every other group who hopes to make real progress in continuing to battle right-wing efforts to defeat GLBT victories, and to put a halt to youth violence in a more positive, life-affirming way than is being offered by the standard political avenues. The group welcomes donations at any time and has a number of items for sale now, like the radi-

the number 7 bus is probably a better bet, to save on gas and go greener.

The play is part of a program called SEEDArts, is part of the SummerSTAGE project that enables youth from the Rainier Valley to produce a play they work on for six weeks before presenting it to the public and is produced by local playwright Maria Glanz, cal purple T-shirt with CARA’s logo and who has had many hits on Seattle stages in mission statement printed on it, for a mere the past. For more information, call (206) 775-7169, or go to www.seedseattle.org/ handful of shekels – 20, to be exact.

The offices are located at 801 23rd Avenue seedarts.

S., 23rd and Dearborn, and the group has a MySpace page (www.myspace.com/seattleladiesfirst) if you need further information.

Another worthy event undoubtedly offering much in the way of both entertainment and an alternative political view is the new play, Pieces of Us: How the Lost Find Home, premiering at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center July 23 through 31 at 7:30 p.m. RVCC is located at 3515 S. Alaska St., in Columbia City. I suppose you could use the new train to get there, but be prepared to walk a bit, as the word from at least one bus driver I rode with last week is the stops are about seven or more miles apart. Taking

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Bill Clinton now supports same-sex marriage Bill Clinton, who as president signed the anti-Gay Defense of Marriage Act into law, now supports same-sex marriage, thenation. com reported July 14.

“I’m basically in support,” Clinton reportedly said July 8 after speaking at the Campus Progress National Conference in Washington, D.C. “I think all these states that do it should do it,” he said. “I personally support people doing what they want to do. I think it’s wrong for someone to stop someone else from doing that.”

DOMA prevents the federal government from recognizing married Gay couples as married and allows states to refuse to recognize other states’ same-sex marriages.

President Barack Obama repeatedly has vowed to see that DOMA is repealed, but has taken no steps to launch the process.

Six states – Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine – have legalized same-sex marriage, while 30 states have amended their constitutions to ban it. In addition, New York and Washington, D.C., recognize the marriages of Gay couples who have married elsewhere.

The new same-sex marriage laws in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine have not yet come into force.

Same-sex marriage also is legal in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain and Sweden.

Episcopal Church OKs Gay clergy, bishops The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops and House of Deputies declared in midJuly that open Gays and Lesbians – celibate or not – can serve as priests and bishops in the church.

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At the church’s triennial general convention, held in Anaheim, Calif., July 8-17, bishops voted for the policy 99-45 and deputies voted for it 155-40. Deputies who are clergy voted 77-19 and lay deputies voted 78-21.

The move may well lead to a full rupture between the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion, which has been deeply mired in gay angst since the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire consecrated openly gay and partnered V. Gene Robinson as its bishop in 2003. The Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch of Anglicanism.

The Anaheim move was seen as, in essence, a flip-off by the Americans of the Anglican hierarchy and Anglican provinces in Africa and South America that strongly opposed Robinson’s consecration.

De facto international Anglican leader Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, England, had urged delegates to the U.S. convention not to make any “decisions in the coming days that could push us further apart.” He later said he regretted that the convention had done just that with its Gay-clergy decision.

Delegates also voted to allow local dioceses to bless same-sex marriages and civil Bishop Gene Robinson unions if they want to, and launched a project to create official liturgies for the bless- bill. A move to remove it from that bill The violent raid put patron Chad Gibson ings. failed 63-28. A final vote on the new catego- in a hospital intensive-care unit with bleedries was expected to occur July 20. ing on his brain. Two other patrons sustained Senate approves The House of Representatives already has lesser injuries and several patrons were arhate-crimes measure passed a similar bill. rested for the crime of having drunk too The U.S. Senate approved a bill July 16 “More than 60 senators support the Mat- much. to add sexual orientation, gender identity thew Shepard Act, legislation that will pro“I don’t think you have to dig very deep to and other categories to federal hate-crimes vide police and sheriffs’ departments with figure out that TABC has violated some of protections. the tools and resources they need to ensure their policies,” Alan Steen said. “We know The measure, which passed on a voice that entire communities are not terrorized that and I apologize for that. ... It’s real clear vote, was attached to a defense-spending by hate violence,” said Human Rights Cam- that however it is that we were doing busipaign President Joe Solmonese. ness that night is not the typical TABC.” “You can read [our] policy and you can TABC says Texas bar raid figure out really quickly, TABC shouldn’t was a big mistake have even been there,” he said. “If our guys The head of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage would have followed the damn policy, we Commission told the Gay newspaper Dallas wouldn’t even have been there. ... We don’t Voice on July 16 that his officers committed participate in those kinds of inspections multiple “clear violations” of agency policy when there’s not probable cause or reasonwhen they and local police raided the Gay able suspicion or some public safety matter bar Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth on June to be inspected.”

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Ukraine bans Brüno Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Gay flick Brüno has been banned in Ukraine for alleged immorality, obscenity and impropriety.

The Culture Ministry said it was displeased with the movie’s “artistically unjustified” Gay-sex scenes, obscene language, nudity, graphic homosexuality, sadism and anti-social behavior.

In the U.S., the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation also has dissed the film.

“The filmmakers wanted to use satire to highlight and challenge homophobia,” said GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios. “But their film also reinforces troubling attitudes about Gay people in ways that run counter to the intentions of the filmmakers.

“The movie repeatedly builds entire scenes around stock stereotypes and situations that make Gay people and families the butt of crude jokes. I can’t help but think of all the teenage kids already getting bullied, beat up and ridiculed for being – or for being thought to be – Gay. For these kids, this movie will give their tormentors one more word in the anti-Gay lexicon of slurs: Brüno.”

Some Gay bloggers and Facebook users who have seen the film say GLAAD is humorless and needs to find its funnybone – a charge the group occasionally has encountered before.

Group says GLBT activists targeted after Honduran coup The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission on July 17 condemned “the recent murder and arbitrary arrests of ...

LGBT activists in Honduras.”

“IGLHRC has learned that these human rights abuses have occurred as a direct result of the military coup on June 28 ... which ousted that country’s democratically elected government,” the group said.

A transgender activist was shot dead June 29 a block from the Gay community center in the city of San Pedro Sula, IGLHRC said.

“Local activists in Honduras claim she was killed by military police patrolling the streets,” the organization reported.

Five other GLBT activists – Héctor Licona, Donny Reyes, Patrick Pavón, Claudia Cervantes and Lizeth Ávila – were arrested, detained and beaten June 29 in Tegucigalpa, the capital, IGLHRC said.

“The arrests occurred while the activists were participating in a demonstration in support of the democratically elected government,” the group said.

The five activists are well-known GLBT leaders.

“The recent coup in Honduras is an illegal assault on democracy that violates the rights of all Honduran citizens, including those who identify as LGBT,” said IGLHRC Executive Director Cary Alan Johnson. “We especially deplore the vicious murder and arbitrary arrests of LGBT people in the wake of this crisis.”

Russian human rights ombudsman meets with Gay group Russia’s human rights ombudsman, V.P. Lukin, met with members of the Russian LGBT Network on July 15 and received a “discrimination monitoring report” prepared by the network and the Moscow Helsinki Group.

Lukin reportedly said that GLBT people are entitled to the same rights as anyone else and “if rights of specific people are violated due to their orientation, we are ready to protect their rights.”

LGBT Network Chairman Igor Kochetkov said he was very pleased with how the meeting went.

“This is the first time a representative of the Russian government officially met with ... Russian LGBT activists,” Kochetkov said. “We can safely say that the results exceeded our expectations. We very much count on further collaboration with the ombudsman.”

Numerous cases are pending at the European Court of Human Rights over Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov’s repeated bans of Gay pride and other Gay events. There also are cases against other Russian cities that have blocked Gay events.

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IGLHRC Executive Director Cary Alan Johnson

Lithuanian Parliament overrides veto of “no promo homo” law The Lithuanian Parliament on July 14 overrode a presidential veto of a bill that bans from schools and public places any information that “agitate[s] for homosexual, Bisexual and polygamous relations.” The vote was 87-6.

The Parliament, or Seimas, previously had passed the measure 67-3, with 67 MPs not voting. Seventy-one votes were needed for an override.

The new statute is called the “Law on the Protection of Minors Against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information.”

An explanatory note attached to it says: “The propagation of a nontraditional sexual orientation and exposure to information containing positive coverage of homosexual relations may cause negative consequences for the physical, mental and, first and foremost, moral development of minors.”

The law specifically states that it is meant to cover movies and websites, so domestic and foreign Gay websites might now be banned in Lithuania, along with hundreds of films such as Milk and La Cage aux Folles.

The law also bans information that promotes hypnosis, “bad eating,” paranormal phenomena, gambling, lotteries, physical passivity and other things legislators consider “detrimental” to minors’ bodies or thought processes.

The measure’s sponsor said it protects Lithuanian youth from “the rotten culture that is now overwhelming them.”

The European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (aka ILGA-Europe) said the law “seriously undermines the right to education and can have detrimental effects to young people who are Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual as they are now officially banned from receiving any information and support.”

Amnesty International said the law “denies the right to freedom of expression and deprives students’ access to the support and protection they may need.”

Poles hate same-sex marriage Seventy-five percent of Poles oppose legalization of same-sex marriage and 87 percent say Gay couples shouldn’t be allowed to adopt children, a GfK Polonia poll has found.

The poll is the latest example of the wide gulf on Gay acceptance that separates Western Europe from the European nations that used to be part of the Communist bloc.

Same-sex marriage is legal in Europe in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden – and most other Western European nations have civil-union laws for Gay couples.

Portugal sees biggest Prides yet About 3,000 people marched in Lisbon’s Gay pride parade June 20, making it Portugal’s largest pride parade to date.

But Portuguese Gays may like to party more than they like to march, as the Arraial Pride party a week later attracted 4,000 people.

Mayor António Costa joined the outdoor booze, food and music event near the Torre de Belém, the city’s most prominent landmark.

“One novelty was the ‘Queer Games’ activity with high-heels run, and other funny sport-like activities; another first was a kindergarten area,” said correspondent João Paulo of the web portal PortugalGay.PT. On July 11, about 1,000 people took part in the fourth Gay pride parade in Porto, the nation’s second-largest city.

After dark, some 2,000 people showed up for the ninth Porto Pride party, which lasted until 8 a.m.

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MEDIA EXPOSES OFFICER’S VIOLENT PAST Both the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that one of the Fort Worth police officers involved in the raid had previously been charged with assault and suspended from duty on at least two occasions. However, according to the police report from the Rainbow Lounge incident, that officer – Jason Ricks – remained outside the bar guarding other suspects in one of the police paddy wagons.

Chief Halstead has refused any further comment on the raid, on the grounds that he might compromise his department’s internal investigation. He had initially insisted his officers acted “with restraint” after being sexually harassed by bar patrons.

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portedly remains divided on whether Queer LiberAction’s disruption of last week’s City Council meeting was an effective tactic. A poll conducted by the Dallas Voice showed 49% supported the QL action, while 51% criticized it. In addition to the City Council protest, QL has been organizing weekly protest rallies at the Tarrant County Court House.

Halstead has appointed an openly Lesbian 17-year veteran police officer to act as a liaison with Fort Worth’s LGBT community.

Steen has indicated he lacks the budget to create such a position, but promised, “I may have to be creative, but we’ll figure it out.”

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The administrator of the Texas Alcoholic Beverages Commission (TABC) admitted his agents committed “clear violations of policy” in their June 28 raid on the Rainbow Lounge, a Gay bar in Fort Worth.

TABC Administrator Alan Steen told the Dallas Voice LGBT newspaper last Friday that two of his agents have been placed on administrative leave, and their direct supervisor has decided to retire.

“I don’t think you have to dig very deep to figure out that TABC has violated some of their policies,” Steen said. “We know that, and I apologize for that. Like I said in my original press release, we have in the past and we will in the future act very swiftly in making sure that those issues are corrected.”

While Steen insisted that the July 28 raid

Jacobs Jr, a 24-year-old African American man who died after being tasered in the front yard of his parents’ home in April. Jacobs was reportedly disabled by mental illness and became agitated when confronted by police, who then use a taser to subdue him.

Meanwhile the Fort Worth City Council passed a resolution on Tuesday calling for a federal Justice Department investigation of the Rainbow Lounge raid. Mayor Mike Moncrief had previously asked the US Attorney for north Texas to review police and “is not the typical TABC,” the Austin Amer- TABC internal investigations of the inciican-Statesman newspaper reported that dent.

The Fort Worth LGBT community reTABC agents had been accused of using excessive force in bar raids on at least three previous occasions – in February and July 2003, and again on New Year’s Eve 2005.

The 2005 raid cost the state of Texas $135,000 in a settlement with the bar owner. In a related case, the owner’s wife was awarded $35,000 when a federal jury found that Wood County Sheriff Dwayne Daugherty violated her rights by strip-searching her after the raid.

Since January 2008, TABC has conducted 180 reviews and investigations of its agents’ actions, including inquiries initiated by TABC administrators as well as by complaints from the public.

TABC had previously admitted that Rainbow Lounge patron Chad Gibson had sustained serious brain injuries while in its agents’ custody. Gibson was hospitalized for more than a week. He is reportedly recovering, but his long-term prognosis still remains unclear, according to his doctors.

TABC’s admission was prompted by a July 3 media release from Fort Worth Police Chief Jeffrey Halstead, who was eager to absolve his own officers of blame for Gibson’s injuries.

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sents 60 percent of the program revenue.

Sen. Murray led the effort to ensure BBH’s outpatient programs continued to receive the funding necessary to serve those with HIV/AIDS. “Because of Sen. Murray’s support and leadership, Bailey-Boushay continues to be here for our neighbors and friends who need us the most,” said Brian Knowles, executive director of Bailey-Boushay House. “I am deeply thankful for Sen. Murray’s work in keeping our outpatient program viable and able to continue as a vital healthcare provider in our community.”

Murray has been a member of the Washington State Legislature for 14 years, representing the 43rd District, which includes the Seattle neighborhoods of Capitol Hill, First Hill, Freemont, and the University District, to name a few. He is currently caucus chair for the Senate Democrats. Murray also serves on the Ways and Means, Health Care and Rules committees.

Bailey-Boushay House, opened in 1992, is America’s first skilled nursing facility planned, funded, built and staffed to meet the needs of people living with HIV/ AIDS. The nationally recognized facility provides care for people living with HIV/ AIDS and other complex, life-threatening diseases, promoting their health, wellbeing and functional independence. Bailey-Boushay House is operated by Virginia Mason Medical Center. For more information, visit www.Bailey-Boushay.org.

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CAMP TEN TREES STILL HAS OPENINGS FOR BOTH CAMPERS & VOLUNTEER STAFFERS THIS SUMMER Camp Ten Trees offers a loving and engaging residential summer camp program for LGBTQA youth (ages 13-17) and for children/youth of LGBT and/or non-traditional families (ages 8-17). Camper spots are still available, and volunteer staffers are still needed, for this summer’s camp sessions. Visit www.camptentrees.org today to register for camp, apply to volunteer, or learn more about Camp Ten Trees.

2009 Camp Ten Trees Sessions: August 16-22 – LGBTQA Youth (ages 13-17); August 23-29 – Children and Youth (ages 8-17) from LGBT and/or non-traditional families.

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MEN OF ALL COLORS & CULTURES TOGETHER TO HOST JULY POTLUCK BBQ On Saturday, July 25, Men of All Colors & Cultures Together (MACCT) will be hosting their July Potluck BBQ at Lincoln Park, 8011 Fauntleroy Way SW starting at 1 p.m. For additional location information and directions and suggestions on what to bring to the potluck, call 206-923-8313 or email macctseattle@yahoo.com.

Q-SQUARED MONTHLY BOOK GROUP FOR GAY, BI & TRANSGENDER MEN Come spend an hour with a group of men who love Gay literature. On Saturday, July 25, the group will meet at the Seattle Public Library, Capitol Hill Branch, Harvard Ave. E., & E. Republican St., at 1 p.m., to discuss The Scarecrow’s Bible by Martin Hyatt. For more information, visit www.qsquared.org and click on “On-going Programs.”

2009 SEATTLE PRIDE ART AUCTION On Saturday, July 25, from 6-9 p.m., join Seattle Out and Proud, sponsors of Seattle’s annual Pride Parade, for their first annual Seattle Pride Official Art Show and Silent Auction. The evening will feature elegant entertainment, memorable artwork and a world-class setting with spectacular views at The Olivian, 809 Olive Way. The show and auction will showcase work by Seattle Out and Proud’s Official Artists for 2009 Pride: Lance Carleton, sculptor; Michele Salazar, painter; Juli Sipe, glass artist. To learn more about the artists and their artwork, visit www.seattlepride.org.

In addition to the three pieces to be auctioned off, each artist will show 10 other pieces of their work. These additional pieces will be available for sale, not auction. A percentage of any sales of these pieces goes to SOaP. Of the auction pieces, 100% of the proceeds goes to SOaP. As a special bonus, everyone over 18 will be eligible to enter a free drawing to win a vacation getaway for two to New York City. Admission to the show and valet parking are FREE. IMPERIAL COURT OF SEATTLE PRESENTS KING & QUEEN OF THE SEAS PAGEANT On Saturday, July 25, the Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle and the Olympic & Rainier Empire presents “Ride the Showboat” – the 34th annual King & Queen of the Seas Pageant – at Neighbours Nightclub, 1509 Broadway (entrance in alley between Broadway & Harvard), doors at 7 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m. $7 donation at the door. www.imperialcourtofseattle.com.

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS On Sunday, July 26 at 2 p.m., Seattle Shakespeare Company presents their outdoor production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Seattle Center. Later at 6 p.m. that day

they present their outdoor production of Richard III also at the Seattle Center. Shakespeare in the Parks will be presented at locations in Seattle, Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Lynnwood, Edmonds, Redmond, Mercer Island, Sammamish, SeaTac, Federal Way, and Bonney Lake from July 9 through August 2. FREE. For complete information, visit www.seattleshakespeare.org and select “Wooden O” from the menu at the top of the home page.

Also this summer GreenStage will present King John and Comedy of Errors at 11 outdoor locations. FREE. www.greenstage.org.

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RADICAL WOMEN PRESENTS THE EDUCATION OF SHELBY KNOX On Friday, July 31, at 7:30 p.m., Radical Women presents The Education of Shelby Knox, a documentary that looks at the life of 15-year-old Shelby Knox as she begins organizing for sex education as the answer to soaring teen pregnancy at her high school in Lubbock, Texas. Her Southern Baptist assumptions are challenged as she meets resistance from her family, friends and pastor and forges alliances with Queer students.

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PRESENTS “UNDER THE STARS, THE EIGHTIES STRIKE BACK!” OUT FOR SUSTAINABILITY OUTDOOR CINEMA LOOKS AT HEALTHY HOMES IN CAL ANDERSON PARK On Sunday, July 26, from 5-7 p.m., at The This summer Three Dollar Bill Outdoor Sylvie, 311 14th Ave. E., join DB2, OUT for Sustainability, and healthy home ex- Cinema presents a slate of three fun and perts from the American Lung Association campy films from 1980, the premiere year and Master Builders for healthy home tips, of the decade that made sexual power plays, plus tours of a LEED-Platinum home, re- alien encounters and shameless success all freshments and socializing. Please RSVP to the rage. The films are Friday, July 17 – Little Darlings; Friday, July 31 – Flash Gorevent@DB2seattle.com. don; Friday, August 21 – 9 to 5. The FREE screenings will be shown at sunset (around SEATTLE GAY & LESBIAN 8:30-9 p.m.) at the southeast corner of Cal BOOK CLUB ANNOUNCES Anderson Park, near the park’s shelter NEXT READING SERIES house off 11th Ave. & E. Olive St. Snacks AT DUNSHEE HOUSE The Seattle Gay & Lesbian Book Club and beverages available for purchase on-site meets every Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Dun- will benefit Three Dollar Bill Cinema’s nonshee House, 303 17th Ave. E. at E. Thomas profit efforts to produce and promote QueerSt. The club is pleased to announce the fol- friendly film events in the Pacific Northlowing titles to be discussed in their ongoing west. Three Dollar Bill Cinema produces reading and discussion series: July – Queer the annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Fesby William S. Burroughs; August – A Fairly tival. www.threedollarbillcinema.org.

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by Thomas Mann. All GLBTQ folks in the Free music festival follows at Grandview community are welcome to participate in Park, 1657 Charles St. at Commercial Dr. this free book club. The reading list is cho- www.vancouverdykemarch.com. sen and the discussion facilitated by Nick Vancouver, BC Pride Parade & Sunset DiMartino, published novelist and playwright, currently a book reviewer for Shelf- Beach Festival – Sunday, August 2. Pride Awareness.com, and a 30-year employee of Parade begins at noon from Robson and University Book Store. For more informa- Thurlow and heads west down the hill to tion, email nickdimartin@earthlink.net or Denman, then follows Denman to Pacific and Beach, ending at the Sunset Beach Fescontact Dunshee House at 206-322-2437. tival which begins at 11 a.m. www.vancouverpride.ca.

COUNTRY DOCTOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC EMERALD CITY SOFTBALL OFFERS HEALTH CARE NIGHT ASSOCIATION FOR LGBTQ COMMUNITY FALL BALL LEAGUE Spectrum Natural Health at Country DocEmerald City Softball Association is tor Community Health Clinic, 500 19th Ave. E., offers primary and naturopathic care for sponsoring Fallball ’09, an ECSA Open Dithe LGBTQ community every Thursday, vision softball league for men and women from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Providers have of all skill levels. Play dates will be August been serving the LGBTQ community for 9 and 23, September 13, 20 and 27, and Ocmany years. Cost is sliding scale – no one tober 4. For complete details, visit www. turned away for lack of funds. For informa- emeraldcitysoftball.org. tion and to make an appointment, call 206NORTHWEST NETWORK 299-1600.

HOSTS FIRST ANNUAL SUMMER SPECTACULAR THE MARYS PROJECT… The Northwest Network is excited to STRANGE, SENSUAL, SUBLIME On Friday, July 31, at 7:30 p.m., Seattle host their first annual Summer SpectacuButoh artist Joan Laage presents The Marys lar on Sunday, August 9, from 2-6 p.m., at Project…strange, sensual, sublime at the Seward Park, 5902 Lake Washington Blvd.

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SEATTLE HOSTS NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF LGBTQ ASIAN AMERICANS, SOUTH ASIANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS Seattle will be host to a national conference for LGBTQ Asian American, South Asians and Pacific Islander on the weekend of August 14-16 at the University of Washington. Titled “Transgress, Transform, Transcend,” the conference will showcase the diversity of the LGBTQ Asian Pacific Islander experience and will expand the capacity and ability of LGBT Asian Pacific Islander activists and communities to organize. Conference organizers have lined up four keynote speakers and over 50 workshops, panel discussions, caucuses, and cultural performances, which will address a wide array of topics and issues. The event’s many programs will provide attendees opportunities to network and to expand their knowledge and skills in advocacy and community building. Registration fee is $100, with a reduced rate of $75 for presenters and people with limited income. Some scholarships are available to assist attendees pay for the cost of conference registration. Registration is available online at www.nqapia. org/nc-2009.html.

Q-SQUARED HOSTS LABOR DAY WEEKEND CAMP (COME AND MEET PEOPLE) FOR GAY, BI & TRANS MEN This coming Labor Day Weekend (Sept.

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Celebrating its 14th year, CAMP provides camp-goers a unique opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors and connect with fellow GBT men in a healthy, fun-filled environment. Like traditional summer camps, the weekend event will offer a wide variety of fun-filled activities, including campfire sing-alongs, hiking trips, a talent show, a dance, and a variety of workshops and outdoor games. CAMPers will have the choice of staying in a modern cabin or roughing it in their own tent. Early registration is available until June 28. After June 28 the cost for the weekend will be $175. Scholarships are available. For more information and to register, visit www.qcamp.org.

PRISM COMICS SEEKING SUBMISSIONS FOR FIFTH ANNUAL QUEER PRESS GRANT Prism Comics is seeking submissions for its fifth annual Queer Press Grant, established to support and encourage new LGBT comics creators. Application guidelines are available at www.prismcomics.org/grant.

Deadline for application is October 1, 2009.

“COMMUNITY STORIES” DOCUMENTS THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES & HEALTH CARE STRUGGLE AROUND THE AIDS CRISIS IN SEATTLE IN THE 1980S The onset of AIDS “was a health crisis, but it was also a civil rights crisis,” recalls Carol Sterling, former director of the Chicken Soup Brigade. Debuting recently on the Seattle Channel (Cable Channel 21), “Community Stories” looks back to the 1980s and the start of the AIDS epidemic in Seattle. This history is told through the words of people – including Sterling, City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen, Seattle Gay News editor George Bakan and King County AIDS Program Director Bob Wood – who lived and worked on the front lines in the community. Learn about this important history by following this link now: http:// www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video. asp?ID=3170902.

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continued from cover specific mechanisms to support LGBT business.

“The concept works well and brings the community together,” Nickels said. “We need to define goals and get people together to begin work.”

According to Nickels, a similar effort is being done in South Park with the Latino community, and seems to be working well.

The mayor spoke at length to each organization about City of Seattle funding. He said funding would not be cut in regards to public safety and in most human services, such as HIV/AIDS funding for nutrition programs.

In particular, he seemed concerned about the absence of city funding for Lambert House, saying, “We aren’t serving the youth as well as we should.”

In 2008, the Seattle LGBT community lost three major organizations: the LGBT Community Center, Verbena and Seattle Black Pride. The commission said there is a need to increase the infrastructure of the organizations to ensure the community has the services it needs to stay strong and vital.

GSBA Executive Director Louise Chernin called for the need of city money to build a new LGBT Community Center that would serve the community with the typical services offered at traditional centers. She mentioned flourishing centers in a list of cities, but not in Seattle. Chernin also advocated an increase in efforts to bring LGBT tourists to Seattle.

The commission also asked the mayor to use his national platform as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors to speak on Seattle’s leadership on LGBT issues – a request Nickels seemed ready to grant.

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continued from cover been a lot of momentum and they expect to reach their goal.

“I wish we could give you the number, but we don’t know it yet,” Pidgeon told SGN. “The volunteers [Protect Washington Families] are in the process of gathering while we speak.”

Faith and Freedom Network declined interview requests by SGN. Equal Rights Washington (ERW) said in a July 22 press release that they’ve received reports of paid signature gathering starting about three weeks ago, as well as reports that people are being misled into signing the petition by being told it “supports LGBT civil rights.”

Josh Friedes, campaign manager for Washington Families Standing Together (WAFST), said that Wal-Mart stores were allowing the opposition’s paid signature gatherers to canvas customers for signatures, while declining to allow Decline to Sign activity at their stores. He said their actions are not shocking, considering “Wal-

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels (third from left) and members of the Seattle LGBT community

and City Council to serve in an advisory capacity. The mayor appoints seven commissioners, and seven appointments are made by the City Council. The commission appoints the 15th member. Commissioners are appointed to a two-year term of office and

Mart has a very low score from Human Rights Campaign on equality.”

Eight weeks ago, ERW and WAFST put together a strong and multi-level Decline to Sign campaign in hopes of thwarting the opposition’s attempts to roll back the domestic partnership law Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law in May, 2009. The two organizations began working side by side to ensure the LGBT community and their supporters were not tricked into signing a Referendum 71 petition.

“People from all parts of our state want to support their friends and neighbors. They are very worried that families in their communities will lose important legal and financial protections if the law is repealed,” said Freides. “We have had over 40,000 Washingtonians, from every county in the state, pledge their support of the domestic partnership law.”

In only eight weeks, Freides said, over 110 organizations – faith-based groups, labor unions, seniors, and communities of color, children’s organizations, and statewide and local groups – joined together to form the WAFST coalition.

“It’s quite powerful to see that groups who

represent such a broad cross section of the to make that clear,” Pidgeon said. “We are state are united in the common goal of sav- hopeful that, ultimately, things will work ing the domestic partnership law,” he said. out for the better for the people in that [LGBT] lifestyle. I don’t believe this parOPPOSITION STANDS AGAINST ticular endeavor is the best thing for that DECLINE TO SIGN EFFORTS community.”

The opposition told SGN they understand “But,” he adds, “ultimately, it is not up for the hard work WAFST has done to keep Ref- me to decide. This is an issue the people of erendum 71 off the November ballot.

Washington State should be able to decide “We don’t want to underestimate their with a vote.”

[WAFST] efforts. It was like pushing a large Kathy Reim, a retired public school rock up a tall hill, we know that,” said Pid- teacher and Bellingham PFLAG member, geon. “But on the other hand, because it disagrees.

[Domestic Partnership Law] is making such “No parent wants to leave this world a large shift in the social fabric of Washing- knowing that their children have fewer ton State, we know that the voters should rights then they had,” Reim said. “Taking have the right to vote on that sort of change away rights wouldn’t just hurt Gay and Les– it should not be done just by the Legisla- bian people – it would hurt us all.” ture.”

She said as a mother of a daughter who is He said the statute will not stand because Lesbian, she cannot imagine a parent ever its nature is not a behavioral issue, “it is a feeling secure knowing that his or her child policy issue.” is not provided the same protections and “This was a broad overreach by the State opportunities as others. government where it really has no jurisdicNumerous organizations representing tion,” Pidgeon told SGN. “What the State communities of color also are showing suptouches, it poisons – and this would be no port for Washington families. “The Seattle exception.”

Chapter of the Japanese American Citizen In 2007, the Legislature established the League is proud to support all Washington domestic partnership registry, granting reg- state families,” said the League’s president, istered same-sex couples the rights to make Dawn Rego. “Our community suffered health care decisions for a sick partner, visit greatly when Japanese Americans were dea partner in the hospital, to consent to an nied civil rights during WWII, so we must autopsy and manage some property issues. work to ensure that there is justice and In 2008, the Legislature extended the rights equality for all.” to include community property rights, proJosh Friedes says everyone recognizes bate rights, joint responsibility for debts that it is far easier to qualify a referendum and other protections. The 2009 Domestic for the ballot than an initiative, because Partnership Expansion Bill ensures that all only half the number of signatures must be Washington families are treated equally gathered. He said that given the important by providing the same rights and respon- rights and protections that are at stake for sibilities to same-sex domestic partners as Washington families, hundreds of orgastraight marriages. Additionally, the 2009 nizations came together believing it was law allows for death benefits for the partners necessary – even before the signatures are of police and firefighters killed in the line of submitted – to start educating the public duty, pension benefits for partners of teach- about the important protections provided ers and other public employees, the right to by the domestic partnership law, and the adopt a partner’s child without paying for an families who will be harmed if the law were expensive home study, the right to use sick repealed. leave to care for a domestic partner and an “If this ends on Saturday, then what we easier process for drawing up a health care have done is provided the opportunity to proxy or durable power of attorney. build a broad coalition to support LGBT rights, a successful broad-based effort that REMOVING RIGHTS we haven’t seen in a number of years,” said “WOULD HURT US ALL” Friedes. “We’ve proven at this early stage “The people involved do not want to ex- that if there is the need to organize and wage press ill will to the Gay community – I want a successful ballot campaign, we can.”

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Members of the Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities were present at Wednesday’s meeting along with representatives from other LGBT organizations.

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The attacker is still at large, and Metz said the police are worried they may be dealing with a serial predator who could strike again, perhaps in the same neighborhood or surrounding area.

That sort of fear prompted a community meeting with over 300 residents and the police July 20 with the community being told that detectives are continuing to gather evidence and residents should take precautions because the attacker has not yet been caught.

On July 20, police deployed a mobile precinct to help coordinate the South Park manhunt that officials say will remain there “indefinitely, until we catch this guy.”

According to police reports, the suspect is described as a black male, 20s to early 30s, 5 feet 11 inches to 6 feet tall, with a thin, muscular build and a thin mustache.

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crime is urged to call the SPD tip line at (206) 233-5000 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800222-TIPS, or text TIP486 with a message to CRIMES (274637).

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Gay activists in front of the Mormon Temple in San Diego

A Seattleite on New York’s Williamsburg Bridge

by Don Paulson SGN Contributing Writer

ing to work for two weeks. I had moved to New York to pursue a pop art career that did not happen because I was too late on the In 1966, New York City had a massive scene, so I decided to return to my roots in transportation strike that left millions walk- Seattle, Washington. I gave it my best effort

Thirty Gays, Lesbians and friends staged a kiss-in at the San Diego Mormon temple July 22 in solidarity with a Gay couple who were arrested in Salt Lake City July 9 for kissing on Main Street Plaza.

Salt Lake City sold the plaza to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 10 years ago, in a move that still irks some Salt Lakers. The precise location of the kiss was a former public easement that the city gave to the church in a controversial landswap deal in 2003.

After gaining control of the former public property, the church prohibited pedestrians from smoking, protesting and sunbathing, and banned “offensive, indecent, obscene, lewd or disorderly speech, dress or conduct.”

The Utah couple – Matt Aune, 28, and Derek Jones, 25 – were charged with trespassing by Salt Lake City police officers after LDS security guards called the cops.

The guards handcuffed both men, after forcing Jones to the ground. Aune said he suffered a bruised and swollen wrist.

“They targeted us,” Aune told The Salt Lake Tribune. “We weren’t doing anything inappropriate or illegal, or anything most people would consider inappropriate for any other couple.”

The LDS church claims the couple didn’t just kiss, but “engaged in passionate kiss-

ing, groping, profane and lewd language, and had obviously been using alcohol.”

Aune acknowledge to the Tribune that he was “very pissed” after being handcuffed and “unleashed a flurry of profanities.”

More than 200 people have gathered for two kiss-ins on Main Street Plaza since the incident. There have been no further arrests.

The protesters in Salt Lake City and San Diego also spoke out against the Mormons’ strong financial support for California’s Proposition 8, via which voters amended the state constitution to re-ban same-sex marriage. The Yes on 8 campaign has said that as much as half of the $40 million it raised came from Mormons.

The protest in San Diego started more than half an hour late, leaving some 25 media people wondering if they’d been duped by the Empowering Spirits Foundation that called the action.

But the protesters eventually trickled in and the kissing began.

“We’re standing up in support of the two individuals arrested [but] our main purpose is to be out here to try to garner some type of dialogue with the Mormon church,” said foundation Executive Director A. Latham Staples.

“The kiss-in is to establish that what these two individuals were doing up in Salt Lake City – Matt Aune and Derek Jones – kissing in public – should be tolerated,” Staples said.

so I was not depressed, I had a great time around the art circles and Andy Warhol’s Factory, so I had no complaints except the three miles I had to walk to work during the strike in freezing weather, over the Williamsburg Bridge. Thousands did the same night and day, so it was safe from crazies (no one walked the bridges of New York at night except Gays on the prowl, robbers, and those who want to hurt others).

The cold spell and the strike ended and I was in such a good mood that I decided to walk the bridge and leave for Seattle the next day. It was a big mistake; there was no one on the bridge and all the walkway lights had been busted out years before. Suddenly, a 20-something man appeared out of nowhere and put his arm around my shoulder. “How you doing tonight?” he asked. I thought he was a hustler but an alarm went off in my head. “You want to blow me?”

I told him I was not looking for a date, but he said, “That’s what you think.” In a breath, his manner changed from friendly to

threatening. “You’re going to suck my dick, motherfucker!” he said, and pulled out a knife. I was in deep trouble. I tried to reason with him but it only made him angry, especially when I foolishly tried to take the knife away from him. That resulted in a deep cut in my left hand. “You son of a bitch, suck my dick or maybe I’ll just kill you,” he said as he pressed the knife to my throat.

I was in a state of panic. What could I do to escape this crazy man? I could bite his dick off, but then I would surely get killed.

I could grab his legs, lift him up and over the side of the bridge and to his death 200 feet below in the East River. I was not like a fatally injured soldier calling out for his mother, but I did think about the grief of my mother at my death. I was desperate and saw no way out, but then a strange thing happened that I can only describe as catching the breath of God. I said in an alarming way, “Someone’s coming!” At that moment, he withdrew the knife and I fled. He chased after me for a long time, but I was faster.

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The death penalty amendment was viewed as an attempt to erode support for the legislation, and it was immediately denounced

by NGLTF Executive Director Rea Carey.

“The purpose of hate crimes legislation is to protect everyone from hate-based violence – not to bolster the death penalty,” she said.

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), one of the original Senate sponsors of the Matthew Shepard Act, offered his own amendment limiting the application of the death penalty in hate crimes cases, and that also was added by unanimous consent. The Kennedy amendment was introduced on his behalf, since he remains at home battling brain cancer.

The major remaining obstacle to final enactment of hate crimes legislation was overcome on Tuesday when the Senate approved an amendment by Carl Levin (D-MI) to strike funding for the F-22 fighter from the defense bill. President Obama had threatened to veto the defense bill – which now includes the hate crimes amendment – if it contained funding for the F-22.

The vote in favor of the Levin amendment was 58-40, with 15 Republicans joining 43 Democrats to kill the F-22, and 15 Democrats voting to keep the program.

Washington Democrats Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell voted to keep funding for the F-22 in the defense bill, although both are considered allies of the Obama administration and both are strong supporters of the hate crimes bill. The Boeing machinists’ union – IAM 751 – which represents 35,000 workers in this state, lobbied intensely to keep the F-22 funded.

Strangely enough, several pro-military Republicans including John McCain (RAZ), John Ensign (R-NV), Jim DeMint (RSC), and John Kyl (R-AZ), voted to kill the F-22 program because it was opposed by

Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

nate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism to one sponsored by Joe Lieberman BIZARRE TWIST (D-CN) to increase the number of active-duIN AMENDMENT SAGA ty Army personnel. Three amendments have In another twist, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) been agreed to (including Lieberman’s) and introduced an amendment to allow citizens four rejected (including Brownback’s). to carry concealed weapons across state When the defense bill finally passes the lines if they are legally entitled to do so in their home states. Fifty-eight Senators voted in favor, including Democratic Majority Leader Reid, but that fell short of the 60 votes required for passage.

Debate on the Thune amendment produced a bizarre moment, when Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), who supports the hate crimes bill, spoke against the concealed carry amendment on the grounds that “this is a foot in the door that would require, for example, the laws in Vermont on Gay marriage to be enforced in Missouri.”

McCaskill was immediately denounced as “homophobic” by the Gay Republican organization GOProud, which supported the amendment as a self-defense measure for LGBT people. GOProud describes itself as “committed to a traditional conservative agenda that emphasizes limited government, individual liberty, free markets and a confident foreign policy.”

As SGN goes to press, the DOD authorization bill continues to be debated. So far this week, seven amendments have been considered by the Senate, ranging from one offered

by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) to desig-

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by Dan Woog SGN Contributing Writer It’s mid-summer, so the 2010 Winter Olympics are just a few months away. Already in the host city of Vancouver, the Gay community is making sure that GLBT athletes – and their families, friends and supporters – won’t be left out in the cold.

Gay Whistler – a group that works yearround promoting the Whistler ski resort (where skiing, bobsled and luge events will be held) to the LGBT community – is doing more than just welcoming Gay competitors and fans. They’re opening Pride House, a meeting place in Pan Pacific Whistler Centre – located right in the thick of the Olympic hubbub.

Pride House will feature a lounge with TV screens. Information about upcoming Gay Games, Outgames and the Gay and Lesbian International Sports Association will be available. Athletes, coaches, families and friends who live in Gay-intolerant coun-

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tries can also obtain legal information about seeking refugee status in Canada.

But the main effort of Pride House will be social. Amid the pressures of an Olympics – athletic, media, emotional – there will be one place Gay people and their allies can go to escape.

“The last thing athletes need is to have more pressure put on them because of sexuality,” says Dean Nelson, CEO of Alpenglow Productions, which produces Gay Whistler Winter Pride. “We just want them to have a place where they can be their complete, authentic selves.

Retired Olympians have told Nelson how hard it is to come out while competing. Pride House will not be a place for Gay athletes to come out; rather, it’s somewhere they Dean Nelson can relax, in whatever level of outness feels most comfortable. At Pride House, they’ll ries, trade pins and have fun,” Nelson says. exists and will start online marketing soon. be surrounded by other Gay people, allies The Whistler area is traditionally friendly Nelson says the reaction has been “very and fans. territory for LGBT folks. Gay Whistler trac- positive. We’ve had some comments about “It’s a spot to come, hang out, share sto- es its roots to 1992. A Gay ski week sprang why something like this is relevant. We’re up then in reaction to a boycott of Aspen’s letting them know that we’ve got guests ski week, after Colorado passed anti-Gay coming from places where being Gay is a legislation. Nearly two decades later, the huge issue. This is a place for them to find event – now called Winter Pride – draws information and comfort. hundreds of visitors.

“But everyone here in Vancouver thinks Winter Pride features ski and snowboard it’s a wonderful idea. Some people wonder guiding, canopy tours (flying through snow- why this hasn’t been done before. We think covered trees on zip lines), dog sled and the timing is perfect. California just oversnowmobile tours, Nordic and cross country turned Prop 8; Milk came out, so people are skiing, snowshoeing, even river float trips to thinking and understanding more about Gay see bald eagles. issues and homophobia.”

Non-ski events include wine tastings, The Winter Olympics is not the only mamixology programs, health and wellness jor event in British Columbia this winter. seminars, comedy shows, dances and plenty Following tradition, a month after the flame of parties. is doused, the Paralympic Games move in.

Whistler has dreamed of hosting the This multi-sport festival for athletes with Olympics since the 1960s. “We’ve always physical and visual disabilities comes a few embraced the core Olympic values of inclu- days after Gay Whistler’s Winter Pride fessiveness and diversity,” Nelson says. “Once tival, set for March 1-8.

Vancouver was given the games, we worked Nelson is working hard to promote Gay to secure a venue for Pride House. It ties in Whistler’s many upcoming activities. “Winwith the Olympic Festival. But it’s also a ter Pride has been named the No. 1 Gay Ski way to promote queer culture, and let people Week by the editors of Planet Out/Gay.com, have fun and be themselves.” as well as the No. 1 Lesbian Welcoming Ski Pride House does not have official Olym- Weeks by Out Traveler,” he says. “Both pic backing. “The International Olympic designations are very important. And both Committee is a big political machine,” have given Pride House the opportunity to Nelson notes. “We didn’t want to get too in- welcome the world immediately preceding volved in that.” the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, and the Gay Whistler has met with the Vancouver Paralympics that follow.”

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“They can’t get involved officially,” Nelson gaywhistler.com. says. “Their mandate is sport and culture, and we have a political undertone. But they Dan Woog is a journalist, educator, socthink this is a great idea, and they’ve given cer coach, Gay activist, and author of the us lots of moral support.”

“Jocks” series of books on Gay male athPride House costs money. Gay Whistler is letes. Visit his website at www.danwoog. in the midst of fundraising and looking for com. He can be reached care of this publisponsors. They’re letting the media know it cation or at OutField@qsyndicate.com.

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Seattle Frontrunners set to compete in 2009 World Outgames

by Shaun Knittel SGN Staff Writer Thirty-seven athletes from the Seattle Frontrunners, Seattle’s running and walking club for Gay men, Lesbians and friends, left for Copenhagen, Denmark this week to compete in the 2009 World Outgames.

Seattle Frontrunners track coach Len Tritsch says the team is ready to represent Seattle while in Europe.

“We compete as a team, as the Seattle Frontrunners,” said Tritsch, who has coached the team since 1993. “We’ve really built up a team attitude because we do a lot of relays.”

This year’s World Outgames will be held from July 25-August 9 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Outgames is an international event for the body, mind, and the spirit that celebrates the talents and contributions of GLBT men and women from every corner of the globe.

Getting 37 athletes from Washington State to Denmark wasn’t easy, says Tritsch.

He said room and airfare was around $2,000 for each team member. The Frontrunners had to do a lot of fundraising to make the trip possible.

“This is my fifth trip [to Copenhagen], but for over half the team this will be there first time there,” Tritsch told SGN. “They’re excited and you just have to feel good about it.”

He said the athletes have been practicing as a group every Sunday since January of this year as well as training on their own whenever they could fit it in. He said they are a highly competitive group and train very hard. With over 300 members, Seattle Frontrunners is one of the largest running and walking clubs in the Pacific Northwest.

The track coach maintains the Seattle Frontrunners have a long, proud history and represent a broad spectrum of the LGBT community.

“In the past we have faired very, very well,” he said. “We had 60 competitors in 2002 at Sydney, Australia. We came home with over 130 medals.”

Tritsch is no stranger to the Outgames or the Gay Games. He took the first team of athletes from the Seattle Frontrunners to the 1994 Gay Games in New York. Since then, he’s seen his runners compete in Amsterdam, Sydney, and Montreal.

The youngest competitor with the Frontrunners is 28 years old, while Tritsch is the oldest at 84.

“I’m a real health nut, and I just love running and I like the competition of track,” he said. “In the past, we dominate the 60- to 65-years-old age range on up.”

The team arrived in Denmark July 25 and will stay until August 3. The track competition will take place over the course of three days, July 28-30. “[Outgames officials] have done a super job of planning,” said Tritsch. “They’ve invited five cities from around the world to have a ‘city square.’ So throughout Copenhagen, you will be able to walk from one city to another, and that will be especially important on opening night.”

He said the city squares are important because of what they represent.

“Tel Aviv is coming,” he adds. “The attitude towards the Gay community as a whole in that part of the world is pretty restrictive.

It is symbolic and impressive to have them represented at the Outgames.”

While participating in this year’s World Outgames, the coach and team will also be a part of a documentary called The Boys of Summer, Tritsch said.

“They chose six different people from around the world to be in the documentary. I was lucky enough to be one of them,” Tritsch told SGN. “But I would not do it unless the whole team was involved. The filmmakers agreed, and so the whole team will be featured in the documentary.”

If you are interested in how well the Seattle Frontrunners are doing at the Outgames, Tritsch said the results will be posted on their website (www.seattlefrontrunners.org) daily once the competition starts.

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Seattle Stonewall soccer team to represent America in 2009 Outgames

by Shaun Knittel SGN Staff Writer Over the past couple of years, Stonewall F.C., Seattle’s premier Gay men’s soccer team, has refocused its energy as a highly competitive team with a dream to win gold on the world stage. This week, 18 Seattle Stonewall athletes embarked for the 2009 Outgames in Copenhagen, Denmark to make that dream a reality.

“We are going to compete against European teams with a lot of history,” said eightyear Stonewall athlete Stephen Nick. “We are the only soccer team from America to compete in the 2009 Outgames.”

Throughout the year, the team hosted a number of fundraising events to offset the cost of expenses for the Copenhagen stay.

The Elite bar and Poco Wine Room helped sponsor the team.

“The Elite has been an amazing supporter for us,” said Nick. “They’ve really helped out so more people on the team will get the opportunity to experience the Outgames.”

Men’s soccer is a highly competitive sport. Team Captain Jared Auckland said if he has his way, Stonewall “will come home with the gold.”

“I can’t wait to compete. There’s no doubt

we are going to have a good time,” Auckland told SGN. According to team officials, Stonewall has a history of representing Seattle and the U.S. by sending players to the Gay Games and Outgames. This will be Nick’s first time in Copenhagen, but not his first time competing at the world level.

“This will be my second Outgames. The first was in Montreal,” he said. “I also participated in the Gay Games in Sydney.”

He told SGN that this year’s team is the “youngest team we’ve ever gone over with,” and is expecting the team to do well.

“I’ve played [soccer] since I was 10 years old,” he said. “Soccer has basically been my life since that age. I play at least 11 months out of the year.”

Other than just a competitive sport, Nick says joining up with the Stonewall soccer team was a great way to meet people when he moved to Seattle from New York. He said it is a great way to get people out of the bar, and acts as a catapult to meet like-minded people.

The team is scheduled to play July 27, 28, 30, and 31, and will get Sunday, Wednesday, and Saturday to enjoy Copenhagen and check out the city’s sights.

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