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Alan Robinson to be Honored at 1st Annual Oracle Gala Nov. 14

by Rip & Marsha Naquin-Delain Email: marsha@ripandmarsha.com

Ambush Endorses John Bel Edwards for Governor, Kip Holden for Lt. Governor The race for Louisiana Governor and Lt. Governor are just two of the races headed to a runoff November 21st. After 8 horrible years under Gov. Bobby Jindal who practically destroyed the state, Ambush Magazine is proud to continue its endorsement of John Bel Edwards who received 40% of the vote in the primary election. Edwards is the only candidate we feel will put Louisiana first.

A vote for Republican David Vitter is a vote for 4 more years of Jindal, and his failed policies.

Democrat Kip Holden with 33% of the vote for Lt. Governor goes against Republican Billy Nungesser with 30% of the vote. Ambush endorses Kip Holden in view of his successes as Mayor of Baton Rouge.

We must get the LGBT+ vote out on November 21. Only you can make a difference, and save Louisiana and our way of life!

Café Lafitte’s Red Party: 23 Years of Giving On Saturday, November 21st Café Lafitte in Exile will host its 23rd Annual Red Party benefiting Food For Friends. The annual staff turnabout show features live drag performances, raffles, and an auction in order to raise money for a local charity. Veteran bartender Jeffrey Palmquist, in his ninth year hosting the event, says, “The Red Party is a great way for our community to give back to the less fortunate. It’s a lot of fun too.”

The Red Party was the brainchild of former Lafitte’s Manager Robin Malta. One afternoon in 1992, Malta was holding court in the bar and came up with the idea. The group of friends at the bar (which included Errol Rizzuto, Big Rick, Miss Fly and others) liked the idea and began brainstorming. That first year raised over $10,000. The annual party has raised a total of $98,664 over the past 22 years.

Charities that have benefitted from the Red Party include Belle Reve, Food for Friends, In This Together, W.E. Have a Heart MCs Rip Naquin & Fund, and others. Not all of the Jeffrey Palmquist designated charities have appreciated the Red Party’s donation. Rizzuto recalls, “One year Robin had dedicated the proceeds to be donated to babies with HIV and when he tried to give the money to the given charity they refused it because it was from gays.”

This year’s Red Party will be emceed by Krewe du Rue Royale Revelers' Grand Reveler I Jeffrey Palmquist and Southern Decadence Grand Marshal XLI Rip Naquin. The theme is "Cardinal Knowledge: Practice what you Preach."

Going with the theme, each member of the staff will decorate crosses which will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. There will also be a special guest appearance by Kim Davis along with the auction of two rosaries, a gift from the

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The late Alan Robinson, long-time New Orleans gay activist and former owner of the Faubourg Marigny Bookstore, will be honored by the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana at its first annual Oracle Gala, to be held Saturday, November 14, at the Healing Center in New Orleans.

The event will be MCd by Michael Sullivan and will feature live musical entertainment, dinner, a silent auction, and a tribute to Robinson. All proceeds benefit the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of local LGBT+ history.

Heritage $1,000 Sponsors are Charles Paul and Pietens.

Archive $500 Sponsors inculde: American Aquatic Gardens, Double Play, Mark M. Gonzalez, Louisiana Research Collection, Regina Matthews, Jeffrey Palmquist / Coca Mesa / Dr. Colby Dana / Jake Stout, Wood Enterprises Food Donors include:Bayona, The Bombay Club, Crepes a la Carte, The Cheezy Cajun, Killer Poboys, Little Vic’s, NOLA Poboys, Pizza Delicious Auction Donors include: Airboat Adventures, Ambush Magazine, Balance Yoga and Wellness, Barnes & Noble, Black Penny Bar, Bon Maison Guest House, Bourbon Pride, Café Degas, Café Lafitte in Exile, Clover Grill, The Corner Pocket, Crescent City Tour Booking Agency, CUIR, Earth Odyssey, Frank & Peter Abruscatto, Frank Perez, Gallery Burguieres, Good Friends Bar, Hemmerling Gallery of Southern Art, J. Mica Massage, Jaime Walker, La Mina Sterling, Larry Graham / Graham Studio One, Monica Williams, Oz New Orleans, Padmakshi Thai Yoga, Q T Pie Boutique, Rawhide Bar, Rebecca Bryant, Rip & Marsha Naquin-Delain, Save Our Cemeteries, Swan River Yoga, Teri Walker & Chad Ridgeway, Tim Kinzel, Tracey Duncan, and Wild Lotus Yoga.

More information is available on the Archive Project’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ lgbtarchivesla?fref=ts.

Tickets are $40 for Archive Project members and $50 for non-members and can be purchased at http:// oraclegala.eventzilla.net/web/ event?eventid=2139078775, Tickets will also be available at the door.

Krewe of Apollo Brings Well-Strung to Baton Rouge Nov. 20 Well-Strung have quickly gained national and international attention for their unique mash-up of string quartet

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and boy band. The Krewe of Apollo brings the quartet to Theatre Baton Rouge November 20 at 8pm. Located at 7155 Florida Blvd., tickets are available at www.theatrebr.org or 225.924.6496.

Visit www.apollobatonrouge.com for more information.

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Halloween New Orleans 32 Media Sponsor Ambush Magazine's Marsha Delain and Rip Naquin join Official Bar Sponsor Oz New Orleans own Cindy Lou Simpson and Madeline Swartz at for the fab Lazarus Ball hosted at Il Mercato.

Guests enjoyed wonderful music, food, champagne and libations while bidding on incredible works of art and a huge assortment of auction items, all benefiting Project Lazarus. According to event vice chair Tony Lala, this was the largest grossing auction to date! Over the past 31 years, Halloween has raised almost $4.5M for Project Lazarus. The organization is one of the only 100% donation/ volunteer event weekends left in the US. (www.HalloweenNewOrleans.com)

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the "official" dish ...from 4 Madonna and more. The production was directed by Donna Drake, is written by the quartet, and includes musical arrangements by Well-Strung, Dana Levinson and Bruce Carter. The four group members are Edmund Bagnell (first violin), Christopher Marchant (second violin), Daniel Shevlin (cello) and Trevor Wadleigh (viola). Well-Strung’s new CD entitled POPssical is scheduled for a fall release. Follow WellStrung at www.well-strung.com.

"A Well-Strung Christmas" Featuring Varla Jean Merman World Premiere In New Orleans Nov. 27-29 On the heels of their Billboard Top 10 Classical Crossover album, WellStrung returns to New Orleans with a world premiere holiday show featuring Varla Jean Merman. “A Well-Strung Christmas” will have its world premiere at Cafe Istanbul on November 27, 28, and 29. The new show has been devised by Well-Strung, Mark Cortale and director Richard Jay-Alexander, and features the group’s own unique pop-classical spin on some of the most beautiful and traditional holiday favorites. The new show hosted by Varla Jean Merman will feature holiday favorites like “Silent Night” and irreverent newly-observed versions of songs like “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” and “Sleighride,” all the way to George Michael’s “This Christmas” and everything in between. For tickets and information please visit www.broadwaynola.com.

The New York Times recently called Well-Strung “A talented quartet of men who sing and play instruments brilliantly fuses pop and classical music from Madonna to Beethoven.” WellStrung, featuring Edmund Bagnell (first violin), Christopher Marchant (second violin), Daniel Shevlin (cello) and Trevor Wadleigh (viola), is a string quartet with a modern twist. The group plays universally recognized classical pieces while singing pop music hits from the likes of Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, and other pop stars for a uniquely engaging experience. Conceived by Mark Cortale and Christopher Marchant, the foursome has quickly gained international attention.

Last month they were invited to perform at the Vatican in Rome and at a gala for President Obama. Their hit ‘viral’ music video “Chelsea’s Mom,” released this summer, led to a command performance for - and meeting with - 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton herself. The group has received critical acclaim at New York’s prestigious Feinstein’s/54 Below and well beyond, from the House of Blues in New Orleans to the Leicester Square Theatre in London. They have per-

formed recently at the NYC TrevorLIVE Gala, as well as appearances and performances on The Today Show and Watch What Happens Live. They have also performed with artists such as Kristin Chenoweth, Neil Patrick Harris, Audra McDonald and Deborah Voigt.

On October 2nd, Well-Strung released their second studio album titled POPssical, a celebratory blend of pop hits sung by the group accompanied by respected classical music. The album features ten tracks including renditions of “Blank Space (Feat. Bach)” and “Royals (Feat. Palladio)” as well as the infamous ode to Hillary Clinton, “Chelsea’s Mom” as a bonus track. To celebrate the release of POPssical, the group surprised their fans with a bonus music video for the track “The Devil Went Down To Georgia (Feat.

J.S. Bach).” In the new video, the group takes Bach’s Double Violin Concerto and adds the southern charm of Charlie Daniels Band to create a unique sound all on its own. Well-Strung’s new POPssical album is available now at iTunes or on CD at CDBaby.

Jeffery Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman starred in the musical “Lucky Guy “ opposite Leslie Jordan in NY at the Little Shubert in 2011 prompting The New York Times to rave, “If Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman had stood in front of the right pair of funhouse mirrors, they might have resembled Ms. Merman and Mr. Jordan in stature as well as comedic talent.” He played the role of Mary Sunshine in the revival of “Chicago “ on Broadway and also made his network television debut on All My Children. In 2010 Jeffery won an Elliot Norton Award for Best Musical Performance in “The Phantom of the OPRAH. “ He returned to Boston to star as Mother Superior in SpeakEasy Stage’s production of “The Divine Sister” by Charles Busch. He ‘s filmed three feature films, “Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads,” “Girls Will Be Girls 2012,” and most recently “Hush Up Sweet Charlotte” which will premiere at the Castro Theatre on October 28.

He guest starred as Varla Jean on “Ugly Betty “ in the final season of the show and was also featured on Bravo’s “Project Runway “ Season 5 as the winning model for the show’s drag challenge.

“Rockin’ out to the Sixties” Nov. 28 Come out to Mag’s on Saturday, November 28 for the Lords of Leather’s Annual “American Bandstand” turnabout production. Theme this year will be “Rockin’ out to the Sixties.” Watch these “manly” men do their best interpretation of some of the biggest female stars of the 60s as well as a holiday number or two. The only thing missing will be Dick Clark. The show begins at 7pm.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Please visit

www.lordsofleather.org or contact any Krewe member for more information.

29th Art Against AIDS Gala Dec. 4 The holiday season is already near and that means Art Against AIDS is right around the corner. Your support of the event is truly a gift that gives hope.

The 29th annual Art Against AIDS Gala will be held on Friday, December 4 at Club XLIV on Champion Square at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The NO/ AIDS Task Force is excited to announce that New Orleans’ “Dahling” of the city’s social scene, Ms. Margarita Bergen is the honorary chair.

Ms. Bergen, a longtime supporter of NO/AIDS Task Force and former owner of the internationally famous, Bergen Gallery, is currently the owner of Casell Bergen Gallery in the French Quarter which features original pastels

by Joaquin Casell, oils by Rene Ragi, Bedonna and others, as well as limited prints by Terrance Osborne and Michalopoulos. She is also a society columnist for New Orleans Living magazine.

The event helps raise much needed funds for the men, women and adolescents affected by HIV/AIDS in the community. Currently, New Orleans ranks in the top five cities in the country for new infection. While the Task Force has made great strides in treating this disease, there is still no cure.

Art Against AIDS has become New Orleans unofficial kickoff to the holiday season. The event began with local art students making holiday ornaments to sell and raise money. Today, the Gala hosts some of the finest of what New Orleans offers: great food from local restaurants, a holiday boutique, a juried auction of art, local merchandise and staycation packages.

Thousands of people with HIV/AIDS in the New Orleans community count on the NO/AIDS Task Force for primary health care, behavioral health services, medication disbursement, meal delivery and pantry services, housing and prevention education.

Mr. Randy Roberts, one of America’s top female impersonators and headliner at the Crystal Room Cabaret at Key West’s Le Te Da, will be a featured performer this year. You may remember him from America’s Got Talent.

Roberts has been performing for more than 30 years. Due to his spot-on impersonations of icons like Cher and Bette Midler, he has captivated audiences for decades. His impersonation roster of famous ladies includes Mae West, Joan Crawford, Joan Rivers, Carol Channing, Ann Miller, Phyllis Diller and more! He has performed in New York, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Atlanta and even internationally. He also joined the cast of the critically acclaimed independent film, Any Day Now, starring Alan Cumming. The film has captured

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Tickets for the gala begin at $75 which includes the show, food and drink and music. All proceeds benefit the programs and services of NO/AIDS Task Force. For tickets or more information, go to www.noaidstaskforce.org.

Ambush Magazine is a proud sponsor of Art Against AIDS.

LGBTQ Advocates Disappointed With Repeal of Houston’s Non-Discrimination Law HOUSTON, TX - Preliminary election results show that a majority of voters in Houston have repealed the city’s ordinance that extends non-discrimination protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people—among 13 other protected classes including race, religion, sex, color, age, ethnicity, disability, national origin, marital status, military status, genetic information, pregnancy, and family status. In May 2014, the city council approved Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), but enforcement of that law was placed on hold pending the outcome of the vote.

The National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund worked to prevent the ordinances from being repealed by joining the Houston Unites campaign and providing on the ground support as well as technical assistance.

“As a proud Texan, Reverend, and black gay man, I am deeply disappointed with the outcome of today’s election—yet we are not defeated.

Leading up to the election, we were joined by a strong and broad coalition of business owners, faith leaders, civil rights leaders, and elected officials, who worked hard to ensure that all Houstonians are protected against discrimination. We spoke with hundreds of voters who believe that everyone— regardless of their gender identify or sexual orientation—deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. While the road to justice is long, we will redouble our efforts to secure full freedom, justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people.”

The National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund works to secure full freedom, justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people. For over forty years, the task force has been at the forefront of the social justice movement by training thousands of organizers and advocating for change at the federal, state, and local level. www.thetaskforceactionfund.org.

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moments in gay new orleans history

by Professor Frank Perez E-mail: f.perez@sbcglobal.net Photo by: Larry Graham, GrahamStudioOne.COM

“Local LGBT+ History to be Celebrated at the First Annual Oracle Gala” New Orleans is a city in love with its history. With such a fascinating history, how could it not be? But until recent years, New Orleans LGBT+ history was not included in that love affair. For much of the city’s history, queer life was not something people wanted to document; to do so could land a person in jail or a mental asylum. Consequently, much local LGBT+ history remains in the closet.

The LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana is trying to change that.

the real cheese

by Felicia Phillips Email: fphillips1011@gmail.com Photo by Hubert S Monkeys

Adopted New Orleanian Anniversary Halloween has come and gone, fabulous costumes, parties and galas, fun a plenty! But Halloween holds a special meaning to me, as not only was I a costume rental and theatrical makeup shop owner for 20 plus years back in Texas, but it was also Oct. 31, 2010 that I finally made the move here to The Big Easy.

This year marked my fifth anniversary of becoming an adopted New Orleanian, not a transplant as that is a horse of a different color, so of course my best laid plans were to cut up! Bartending till 7 that evening and back for 10 in the morning to be ready for the crowd coming to watch the game meant I wouldn’t be able to pull out the stops or attend the annual HNO fundraiser. But being daylight savings time I surely would have time to throw something on and head out for a few hours of debauchery. Well New Orleans isn’t always the place for best laid plans as I end up with a sinus infection, managing to make it till the end of my shift, brave the weather on my scooter and get home to no celebration but instead some meds, my dog, my couch and a marathon of slasher flicks till I passed out. Happy anniversary to me!

The thing is I didn’t mind, as I knew the sinuses would pass and I’d still be living and loving New Orleans regardless of the date.

I thought back as to how I had spent the past 4 anniversaries.

2011, I was working a 13 hour day at the shop I had been running so no party time.

2012, I was still working at the shop which was now Bourbon Pride, owned by Joseph Hart and Josh Duffy, who graciously gave me off early to enjoy the night. I threw on a bit of makeup that I viewed as old school goth, only to be seen as Uncle Fester.

I guess it was my new bald head and maybe the fact that I wasn’t 22 anymore. I was in early. I had just started a second job at a hotel and my mind was more than scattered learning everything.

2013, now full time assistant manager at hotel, Jason LaBiche also let me off to enjoy my special day. Well I decide to wear heels with whatever I would throw together as I thought I was ready to start the process of coming out the drag grave again. Problem was I had cracked my ankle bone a couple of months earlier and the second my foot hit the sidewalk in heels I was

down for the count! Still no celebration for me.

2014, by now I had pulled off doing a couple of shows and made the Southern Decadence parade in drag, was making enough money to afford a great costume and headpiece, it fell on Friday that year so I would be off the next day, this was surely to be a success. It started out that way, makeup and costume on point, bought a corset a size too small because I couldn’t admit to myself the mid-life spread was real, but it did looking stunning and I had tits that would make any dancer on Bourbon Street proud. I make it to the Quarter, freezing weather and winds that were frightful didn’t help, but when I realized that the corset was so small that one cough and I felt as if I had blown a lung.

Luckily some drunken reveler at GrandPre’s was told of my dire need to get home and was convinced by Lee ‘Bunny’ Brasseaux to let him borrow his car to safely get me there.

So now as I’ve looked back at all my unsuccessful attempts at having a hell of a Halloween NOLA anniversary, I realize the one day, though always special to me isn’t what its about, as I learned quickly upon moving here, New Orleans is a city of extremes, the best

In June of 2013, a handful of people interested in local gay history began meeting to discuss the need to preserve our history and ways in which such an endeavor might be undertaken.

It was decided early on that an organization was needed to provide information and resources to those interested in local gay history. One of the first steps was to survey what LGBT holdings currently existed in local libraries and collections. Questionnaires were sent to archivists at several local institutions. In addition, on-site visits were made to several local repositories. In October of 2013, the Society of American Archivists held their national conference in New Orleans and several members of that group’s LGBT Roundtable met with members of the LGBT+ Archive Project of Louisiana. In November, a community meeting was held in order to gather input from the public.

After several months of information gathering, the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana adopted the following Mission Statement: “The mission of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana is to promote and encourage the protection and preservation of materials that chronicle the culture and history of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community in Louisiana.” In June of 2014, the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana was officially born at a public meeting where a set of Bylaws was adopted and officers were elected.

The Archives Project aims to educate the public about the importance of historical preservation and how individuals can safely entrust local archives with the care of the historical treasures they possess. The project also plans to help make these materials more accessible to researchers and the public at large by maintaining a catalog of LGBT+-related collections in archives around the state. It is important to note that this project does not contemplate setting up an archive of its own. Rather, it aims to educate the public about the resources and attributes of existing archives in Louisiana.

The late Alan Robinson, long-time New Orleans gay activist and former

owner of the Faubourg Marigny Bookstore, will be honored by the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana at its first annual Oracle Gala, to be held Saturday, November 14, at the Healing Center in New Orleans.

The Oracle Gala will be MCd by Michael Sullivan and will feature live musical entertainment, dinner, a silent auction, and a tribute to Robinson. All proceeds benefit the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of local LGBT+ history.

of the best and the worst of the worst.

A real life rollercoaster of human experiences that will have highs and lows, the key is to just enjoy the ride. And that I have and will continue to do.

I have always been drawn here, for years in fact. I know most people that come here for a visit say it every time, I want to live here, when in fact it is not for everyone. I was told by a wise man and more than colorful character of the Quarter than has since past, that if you make it here six months without running for the interstate you will likely be here for life. I’m now five years and counting!

I truly believe if you are meant to be here this city will take care of you, no

matter the struggles one might face, you just have to let it. I know its taken care of me. When I came here I figured I’d find some job to make enough to get by on, and hopefully enjoy a happy hour cocktail and good conversation until my twilight years, which I felt back in Texas were quickly approaching, but this city and the people having given me new life. I enjoyed nearly 3 decades of success on stage and have many bonds to people that will never be broken, but things had really stagnated there and it was literally killing me. By the mid nineties I had seen the passing of more than 100 friends over the years from

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The Late Alan Robinson The Oracle Gala will be an annual event and each year feature a different aspect of local LGBT+ history, typically a collection of papers and / or memorabilia from a person, organization or event. In addition to the Oracle Gala, the Archives Project hosts a number of events throughout the year to promote local LGBT+ history, including seminars, workshops, and public talks.

More information is available on the Archive Project’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ lgbtarchivesla?fref=ts.

Tickets are $40 for Archive Project members and $50 for non-members and can be purchased at http:// oraclegala.eventzilla.net/web/ event?eventid=2139078775. Tickets will also be available at the door. The dress code is business / cocktail attire.

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a community within communities

by The Rev. Bill Terry, Rector St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, New Orleans Email: fr.bill@stannanola.org

VIGNETTES: Part I Definition of VIGNETTE 1: a running ornament (as of vine leaves, tendrils, and grapes) put on or just before a title page or at the beginning or end of a chapter; also : a small decorative design or picture so placed.

What ornamentation might we imagine in our lives? If our lives are indeed the stuff of novels and stories then what are the ornaments of those stories? For this series of short stories our Vignette might be something dark – perhaps a gargoyle atop weathered stone backlit by a bolt of lightning. It creates a sense of foreboding. So here starts our prolog: Anna’s Place sits in a wonderful cross road of neighborhoods yet within some of these neighborhoods the darkness of violence and poverty seem to have arisen and taken over. Poverty here is not simplicity of life nor is it some sentimental vision like in “Oliver” – “Food glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard!” sing the cherubic children under the thumb of the evil Fagan. No, this poverty is dark and finds its manifestation in murders, anger just under the surface, and a sense of entitlement that both frustrates and enslaves. Here is the truth about where we live or close by; this is the truth of the 7th Ward and surrounding neighborhoods with names like St. Roch or Iberville or even Tremé: · Population about 30,000 · Those in poverty about 40% · Less than High School education 25% · Make less than $1,250/mo.

35% The last figure is for a head of household of four! It is also a fact that those living in zip code 70116 live about 20 YEARS LESS than any other part of the city. The darkness is poor health, poor living conditions, and toxic land and housing. This is a place where obesity and malnutrition look alike and is the same villain. Victimization of those outside as well as those inside of this dark place is common place and often for sport or “retribution” as much as for gain. Our vignette - the gargoyle backlit by lightening on a dark and stormy night.

This sort of place creates humans capable of bitter and dark deeds. We know the stories and we bear witness to the outcomes that this present darkness brings. A child is born and even before birth the child receives no prenatal care. There is little or no nutrition for this growing life at least not the best or even the minimum that might be required. Momma still drinks, still smokes, and takes no vitamins. Momma

still eats fat laden foods and almost no juices just sugared up excuses for refreshments. The placenta is a wonderful organ but it can only do so much to filter out commercial cheap food product and other growth inhibiting chemicals. Is she negligent; how can she be if she was never taught what pre-natal care means? Mothers are by nature caring but some of the “care” must be learned.

When the child is very young, say maybe two or so they play where?

They play in houses that are poor excuses for dwellings as so many should rightfully be called slums. Did you know that in our darkness rents have increased by 30% or more while wages for the lower tier of wage earners has only increased by 10%. What is a mother to do? So, this child plays on the porch or home or yard. Oh did you know that the land near I-10 along N. Claiborne is a toxic wasteland of heavy metals? Children with lead poisoning manifest symptoms like A.D.D./H.D. bouncing off of walls and unable to focus for long. This is most often untreated or miss diagnosed.

So you grow up without good nutrition (cheap food is laden with fats and sugars) and in an environment that is basically toxic. We haven’t even talked about single parent homes, pressures of income disparity, welfare demands, and street culture. You learn very early on to have that hard face even while you are still vulnerable and looking for affirmation in a world that seems to withhold that love or support. Now you are nine years old and someone asks you simply this, “Tell me one thing about your neighborhood?” Here are the real answers to that simple question from Anna’s Place kids age nine: “Someone was shooting outside and I was on the ground.”

“When my cousin Jimmy went to meet a girl but she set him up and he was fighting and then he got shot in the head 4 times.”

“When they were shooting I saw the people with a gun. And it was somebody I knew. And they shot a grown up. My Daddy’s friend.”

These sentences are not made up they are written by the children that many of you now support. A community within communities perhaps our vignette is shifting a bit. Perhaps our illustration is showing rays of light only slighting illuminating a spire and that gargoyle is moving into the shadows. A community that reaches out is that light.

When we, who work with these

kids, meet them for the first time they tend to be hardened at an early age.

Even the cutest little ones are high demand kids that push and prod and demand. Some, a bit older, are bold beyond their years because “authority” is suspect and not to be trusted they are taught. Hard very hard and to take responsibility for a mistake or for poor behavior is, they are taught, a sign of weakness. Or at least that is the way it seems or must be in order to make sense out of these hyper active children. (Remember the lead and heavy metals?) So these adornments that I want to share are now in a context.

We who work with these kids sometimes blow by the small victories. But they are big victories indeed and these stories will create a new vignette that is not only a spire of hope rising to heaven this vignette is illuminated with blues and gold and reminds us of greatness.

We are now finished with a prolog and can begin the chapters of our human story. In part II of Vignettes we will visit some of the children and those who work with them. A community within communities will adorn this text. After all it is one greater than we travelers who said, “Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden…”

book review Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building With Barbara Smith Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks, Eds., with Barbara Smith. 2014. SUNY Press. ISBN: 978-1-4384-5115-5. 324 pages. $29.95.

by Frank Perez, f.perez@sbcglobal.net Barbara Smith is not a house-hold name, but it should be—especially among LGBT+ folk, women, African-Americans, and anyone interested in social justice.

Long before there were Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, and Cultural Studies, there was Barbara Smith, who in 1974 founded the Combahee River Collective, a black Feminist, lesbian organization based in Boston. Smith had been a part of the National Black Feminist Organization but felt it was not responsive enough to the needs of black lesbians.

Smith’s group then adopted the evolution of the Intellectual Left.

Combahee River Collective Statement, Alethia Jones is Director of Educaa document that would soon become tion and Leadership Development at one the 20th Century’s most influential 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers ideological manifestos. In 1980, she East. Virginia Eubanks is an Associate founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Professor of Women’s Studies at the Press and, in 1982, she co-edited a University at Albany, State university of collection of essays called All the New York and author of Digital Dead Women Are White, All the Blacks Are End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Information Age. Barbara Smith is a Women’s Studies. This book, and Public Service Professor in the School Smith’s essay which appeared in it, of Social Welfare at the University at “Toward A Black Feminist Criticism,” Albany, State University of New York. have become classics.

She served two terms as a member of Smith’s 40 years of activism has the City of Albany’s Common Council, now been chronicled in Ain’t Gonna Let and is the author of The Truth That Nobody Turn Me Around, which was Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Genawarded the 2014 Lambda Literary der, and Freedom.

Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography.

The book is technically not a memoir or a biography but rather a collection of small way even if its just for an occainterviews and essays that trace Smith’s sional laugh, I can give back some of career as a leading voice of the radical the love and light I’ve gotten from you .

But not to forget my first Halloween left. here 2010, I arrived with just what I This book is must reading for anycould fit in the car, my Chihuahua, Chica one interested Women’s Studies, AfriMarie Antoinette Jones, just before can-American Studies, Lesbian Studmidnight.

Apartment is two doors beies, LGBT history, social justice, or the hind the Phoenix which was having a block party that year. Not a stick of the real cheese ...from 10 furniture I have a blow up mattress that AIDS and then both my parents, but I I settle down on after the long drive in, stayed and tried to pass on as much of music is blasting and people cutting up the good old days to the new genera- just a few feet away, I really needed to tion as I could. Until finally I listened to rest, but rather than be upset at the that instinct, call it what you will, sold noise (which would make me a transeverything I had left after two hurri- plant) I laid down as the DJ put on I canes, which meant not much and Love The Night Life, and I went to sleep headed here. to the disco beat knowing I was home!

I can say that each and every And that’s the Real Cheese ! person I have met here, even if just in Till next time dahlings, I’m Felicia casual passing has made an impact on Phillips the Cheese Queen of New Orme, and I thank you. I hope in some leans!

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by Brian Sands

Email: bsnola2@hotmail.com

New Orleans Ballet Association through May 7 The New Orleans Ballet Association opened its 2015-16 season with the Twyla Tharp 50th Anniversary Tour for which this acclaimed ballet and modern dance choreographer of stage (Tony Award-winner Movin’ Out), film (Hair, Amadeus, etc.) and television, rather than resting on her laurels, created two new works.

Adding to the special nature of the evening (NOLA is one of only 17 cities where this program will be presented) was that one of them, Yowzie, was set to a jazz score performed by New Orleans’ own Henry Butler.

Each ballet was preceded by a brief Fanfare set to music by John Zorn. The first, played by The Practical Trumpet Society, with its constant motion and Renaissance-y/Baroque-ish feel was a perfect lead-in to Preludes and Fugues with its music by Johann Sebastian Bach (though the pause between them was so short I wasn’t entirely sure at first where one ended and the other began).

Preludes and Fugues offered a brilliant melding of classical and modern choreography. Aided by James F. Ingalls’ luminous lighting and Santo Loquasto’s casually elegant costumes—the men in gold shirts and slacks, the women wearing short dresses in colors from some royal court palette—Tharp created gorgeous stage images.

Martha Graham and George Balanchine. This may be so, but if I caught a little Balanchine here, sensed some Graham there, Tharp blended parts of each of these iconic dancemakers into a style all her own.

If Tharp doesn’t take herself, or “Dahnce”, too seriously, leavening many sequences with humor, she can also be both serious and tender while exploring relationships in all their variations.

As Tharp and her superb dancers worked their way through about half of The Well-Tempered Clavier, I didn’t want it to end.

I can’t say I felt the same way, however, about Yowzie.

Yes, the music (including tunes by Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller) was wonderful; the spirited dancing, especially by the extraordinary Rika Okamoto, was great; and the exuberant choreography, on its own terms, was delightful.

But if Tharp captured the feel of Bourbon or Frenchmen Street, the overall effect was nothing but the most

Daniel Baker, Ramona Kelley, Nicholas Coppula, Eva Trapp-Coppula in Twyla Tharp's Prelude and Fugues Opening with a jazzy pas de deux, Tharp provided intricate footwork for duos, trios and ensemble passages as well as some occasionally herky-jerky moves that intriguingly contrasted with Bach’s music.

Tharp has said that Preludes and Fugues is her tribute to four choreographers who influenced her early on— Merce Cunningham, Jerome Robbins,

obvious of narratives and outdated cliches of touristic overindulgence, a superficial stylization of what we see here all the time. Loquasto’s costumes evoked Mardi Gras or the type of Jazzfest crowds you see when any member of the Grateful Dead is performing, but Yowzie might actually have been more interesting if Loquasto had dressed the dancers in day-to-day

clothes and Tharp had shown the fallout from all the excess in a more serious way.

(Let’s not even talk about the overture to a gay 3-way that was preposterous.)

That said, I seemed to be in the vast minority as Yowzie was an obvious crowd-pleaser.

NOBA’s season continues with the renowned Dance Theater of Harlem (Nov. 21, Mahalia Jackson Theater), Ailey II’s young dance talent (Feb. 27, Tulane’s Dixon Hall), Cuban contemporary artistry from Malpaso Dance Company (Mar. 11-13, NOCCA’s Lupin Hall), the exciting Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Apr. 2, Mahalia Jackson Theater), and Che Malambo (May 7, Mahalia Jackson Theater) whose all-male company of 14 gauchos from Argentina promises precision footwork, drumming, singing and whirling boleadoras (lassos with stones on the end)!

Broadway in New Orleans/Cinderella at The Saenger Theatre through June 19 So this gal meets a prince but there’s some problems but she helps him sort out some issues and then they get married and live happily ever after.

Wasn’t The Little Mermaid great?

Oops, that was September’s fairy tale at the Saenger. October ’s was Cinderella or, more properly, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella just to make sure you don’t get it confused with Rossini’s or Massenet’s or Disney’s.

Okay, enough snarkiness. Any opportunity that gives you the chance to hear seven classic R&H songs is not to be sneezed at. What with William Ivey Long’s sumptuous costumes that ingeniously transformed from rags to riches before our eyes, and grand staircases that magically appeared on Anna Luizos’ set, itself reminiscent of old-fashioned storybook illustrations, this touring production was certainly wondrous to look at.

But if I didn’t mind Douglas Carter Beane’s updating of Hammerstein’s original book, which added contemporary references, revamped one of the stepsisters into a dorky but nice gal, and made Cinderella a more conscious shaper of her own destiny, it lacked one crucial aspect—drama.

Whether it was how Cinderella would get to the ball or seeing whom the “shoe” would fit, things went by too quickly, like a parent speedily telling a child a bedtime story. And having set up a vote that would transform the kingdom into a democracy with the good Prince versus the evil Regent, Beane resolves things too easily and, presto!, everyone’s taking their bow.

Perhaps I’m asking too much, but I would’ve preferred an Into the Woods-

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like rendering that told the basic story in Act One and showed how a newly democratic land turned out in Act Two. Of course, that probably would’ve forced all the show’s wonderful original songs (Impossible, Ten Minutes Ago, A Lovely Night, etc.) into the first act leaving a musically wan second one. As it is, the score has been filled out with some numbers that had been dropped from other R&H productions (South Pacific, Me and Juliet, etc.), and understandably so as they’re not top tier.

Director Mark Brokaw, who’s better known for his work on edgy new plays regionally and off-Broadway, efficiently kept things moving along but tended to let the big production numbers go on just a bit too long.

As Cinderella, Kaitlyn Davidson did a nice job, singing prettily and acting convincingly, but perhaps constrained by the dutiful demands of princesshood, didn’t leave much of a lasting impression. Andy Huntington Jones was earnest and decent as Prince Topher but his youthful white-bread-y looks made him appear almost too young to be having the existential crisis that the script calls for; the swarthy handsomeness of Santino Fontana, who originated the role on Broadway, seemed more appropriate.

The rest of the cast were all fine with Blair Ross amusing as the imperious Stepmother and Aymee Garcia, the lone truly nasty stepsister, leading a rousing rendition of the Stepsister’s Lament.

Did I enjoy Cinderella? Despite my reservations, overall, yes. But I’m looking forward to having some real people inhabit the Saenger stage instead of fairy tale folks. Oops, Beauty and the Beast returns in December (Dec. 29-Jan. 3).

At least the turn-of-the-century newspaper boys of Newsies will offer some deliverance first (Dec. 1-6).

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Before all the Nutcrackers and Christmas Carols of the holiday season descend upon us, there’s still time for some serious dramas and some not-so-serious musicals; impressively, many of these are original works making their debut.

Southern Rep presents the world premiere of Song of a Man Coming Through, the true story of Earnest Knighton Jr., who turned his journey through death row at Angola into a transformative experience. Drawn from the firsthand accounts of Bishop Joe Morris Doss and the other members of Mr. Knighton’s legal team, Bishop Doss and his son Andrew Doss have written this play that fulfills Knighton’s request that his story be told.

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Bartender of the Month My bartender of the month for November is just someone I simply adore. He has a witty and sarcastic sense of humor, a larger than life personality and a heart of gold (lame!). I am talking about none other than Philip Anthony (or the ravishing Felicia Phillips) who works at GrandPre’s.

Originally from Beaumont, Philip moved to NOLA five years ago this Halloween night and the rest is history.

I was so excited when I heard he was going to be working at one of the newest watering holes in the city joining the already stellar group of people there.

In Texas, Philip owned a costume rental and theatrical makeup shop for many years which is probably the reason why his outfits and makeup always look so flawless. He also was the emcee and show director for over two decades at several clubs. He started at GrandPre’s three months ago and generally works the day shift 11am – 7pm Thursday through Monday. He

trodding the boards ...from 20 Harkins, John Neisler, Cecile Monteyne, and Lance E. Nichols, and runs Thursdays through Sundays until Nov. 21 at First Grace United Methodist Church (3401 Canal St.).

Rebecca Mwase wrote and stars in Looking at a Broad, a choreopoetic solo performance piece that examines one woman’s struggles to break free of multiple oppressions, expectations, and constructions of race, gender, and sexuality that bind a black woman’s body. It’s at The Theatre at St. Claude (2240 St Claude Ave.), Friday-Sunday evenings through Nov. 22.

Goat in the Road Productions’ Uncle Vanya: Quarter Life Crisis is an original work for the stage that smashes together one of Anton Chekhov’s most famous plays with the recession era 2009 and re-imagines Chekhov’s tragicomedy to be about young people living, working, and struggling in Louisiana today.

Adapted by director Chris Kaminstein and the cast, (Leslie Boles Kraus, Brian Fabry-Dorsam, Shannon Flaherty, Darci Fulcher, Mack Guillory III, Dylan Hunter, Tenaj Jackson, & Matthew Thompson), Uncle Vanya: Quarter Life Crisis continues at The Ether Dome (3625 St. Claude Ave.) until Nov. 22, playing Thursday–Sunday at 8pm.

On a lighter note, See ‘Em On

Bartender of the Month Philip Anthony aka Felicia Phillips GrandPre's, 834 N. Rampart has quickly become one of the favorites serving an array of delicious libations.

The age old saying that he has never met a stranger fits Philip to the tee.

Philip’s warmth and good-natured perStage: A Production Company presents Terminator: The Musical, Breanna Bietz and Christopher Larson’s parody of you-know-what. Terminator: The Musical promises “issues of a post-apocalyptic war against humanity and a head-scratching time travel conundrum that lead Sarah Connor, Kyle Reese, John Connor, and T (the Terminator) on a chase through the 80s and 90s, all the while running from cyborgs programmed to kill by Skynet, and cops programmed to screw up by the LAPD.” Directed by Cammie West and Christopher Bentivegna, this world premiere runs through Nov. 21 at The Old Marquer Theatre (2400 St. Claude Ave.), and promises to captivate fans of film and stage alike.

At the Anthony Bean Community Theater (1333 S. Carrollton Ave.), New Orleans Queen of Soul and Grammy Award-winner, Irma Thomas plays herself in Simply Irma, a new musical that charts the pitfalls and successes of her career.

Featuring many of Thomas’ hits, including It’s Raining, You Can Have My Husband, and Ruler of My Heart, Simply Irma has just three more performances Nov. 13 & 14 at 8pm, and Nov. 15 at 3pm. Talk about an only-inNew-Orleans experience!

Another world premiere can be found at Teatro Wego! (177 Sala Ave., Westwego) on the West Bank.

Jefferson Performing Art Society completes Butch Caire’s Blueberry Hill

sonality embrace you when you enter the bar immediately.

Adding to his skills is one of the most important facts; he is professional, hard-working and knows his cocktails. His favorite drink to make is a Rose Kennedy (very classical retro) and his favorite drink to consume is a White Russian. He also has a specialty shot called a Big Red. I challenge you to try this little elixir of excitement in a glass.

I asked Philip what he loves about his new job and his answer was divine, which makes him perfect behind the bar. “What I love about bartending in NOLA is the people; not just the tourists which I enjoy telling my take on things to do and places to go but more so the locals, never a dull moment with the many colorful characters who I now consider my family, it really makes work more like being out for a good time all the time!”

No truer words should ever be spoken in your job, or any job for that matter. So go and see Philip at GrandPre’s (834 N. Rampart St.) for a great time with a friend.

Hot Happenings Halloween has come and gone, now the rest of the holidays just fall in place. As we gear up for Thanksgiving, there is still plenty of excitement hapTrilogy with Hello Josephine which uses classic New Orleans R&B songs to tell the story of a small café and the people who live, work and love there.

Troi Bechet, Butch Caire, Robert Facio, Bethany Fagan, April Louise, and Nethaneel Williams appear in this musical dramedy which plays FridaySunday until Nov. 22.

Having always loved the TV show, I’m looking forward to The Addams Family at Rivertown Theater (325 Minor St., Kenner). Gary Rucker directs a large cast including Johnny Lee Missakian, Trina Beck, Alan Payne, Madison Kerth, and Tracey Collins as characters inspired by the singular Charles Addams’ cartoons. Catch this musical before it departs this world, or at least Jefferson Parish, on Nov. 22. I can already hear your fingers snapping.

And if you didn’t see local playwright (and host of WYLD-FM’s Sunday Journal with Hal Clark) Harold Ellis Clark’s award-winning play Fishers of Men when it debuted in 2012, don’t miss the revival of this provocative drama at the Ashé Power House Theater (1731 Baronne St.). A topnotch cast—Martin “BATS” Bradford, Oliver Thomas, Al Aubry and Damien Moses—reprise their original roles under John Grimsley’s astute direction.

Fishers of Men runs through Nov. 22 and has performances Friday (7pm), Saturday (2 and 7pm), and Sunday (4pm). Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7pm is “Pay what you can” night so you have

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pening in NOLA. Here are just some of the hot happenings.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 See the original Desperate Housewife when you catch the screening of John Waters’ Desperate Living at the CAC (900 Camp St.). The film is presented by the Contemporary Arts Center and the New Orleans Film Society (NOFS). This 1977 film, which was written and directed by John Waters, is about a murderous housewife and her maid who go on the lam, ending up in the city of Mortville, a shanty-town for fugitives.

Following the film, audience members will have an opportunity to meet with actress Mink Stole, who headlines the upcoming CAC performance of Tennessee Williams’ The Mutilated.

Tickets are $8 General Admission and free to CAC & NOFS Members. The film starts at 7pm.

Friday and Saturday, November 13 - 14, 2015 Calling all leather aficionados or those who just enjoy a great leather twist to a pageant to the Mr. Big Easy Leather 2016 Contest at the Rawhide 2010 (740 Burgundy). Come party with the judges, fellow contestants, and your many admirers for an evening of fun and interaction that begins on Friday for the Meat and Greet starting at 9pm. Then on Saturday, join them as they select this year’s representative for the Big Easy to IML in Chicago.

Friday, November 13, 2015 Everything is simply marvelous at the The Marvelous Show at GrandPre’s (834 N. Rampart St.) This unique show features talents of all sorts of magical proportions – drag, burlesque, boylesque and live music. The Marvelous Cast includes Eureeka Starfish, Liberaunchy, Stanley Fantasy, Elijah Valentine and May Hemmer. Come celebrate the premier of this first flamboyant, fabulous and flashy “The Marvelous Show.’’ Doors at 9pm show at 10pm with a $10 cover charge.

Friday, November 13, 2015 Join the Emeril Lagasse Foundation for Boudin, Bourbon & Beer featuring 50 of the nation’s best chefs! This year’s event will be held at Champion Square starting at 6pm. Entertainment includes Silverado Pickups – 6pm; Sweet Crude – 7pm; Elle King – 8pm and St. Paul and the Broken Bones – 9:30pm.

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With all these original works here, New Orleans is proving it’s as much a “Play [noun] city” as a “Play [verb] city”.

And that’s a good thing.

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under the gaydar ...from 22 around the country preparing their own style of Louisiana-inspired boudin dishes. Some of the country’s most renowned chefs, including Cory Bahr, Jeff Henderson, Justin Devillier, Kristen Essig, John Currence, Chris Shepherd, and more, will join Emeril Lagasse along with honorary co-chairs Donald Link, Stephen Stryjewski and Mario Batali. Boudin, Bourbon & Beer 2015 will also include open bars featuring a selection of craft beers, premium spirits, fine wines, as well as cigars, a silent auction and merchandise.

Tickets to Boudin, Bourbon & Beer 2015 are on sale for $99 and can be purchased on www.Ticketmaster.com.

Ticket price includes all food, beverage and live entertainment. Boudin, Bourbon & Beer benefits Emeril Lagasse Foundation, which seeks to inspire, mentor and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive and creative individuals.

Saturday, November 14, 2015 It’s time to celebrate one of the city’s premiere gay celebrities Solitaire for her birthday bash at The Four Seasons Bar (3229 N. Causeway Blvd.) starting at 8pm. It shall be a night of top notch entertainment by Queens, Kings, Burlesque and Live performances. The Burlesque beauty Christy LaRitz will be taking the stage to tantalize and tease you with her seductive style. Other entertainers include Derek PentonRobicheaux, Sir New Orleans Pride 2015 Jack Inman, Lana O’Day, Felicia Phillips, Summer Rayne, Mr. New Orleans Pride 2015 Johnny Fradella, Miss New Orleans Pride 2015 and GAA Entertainer of the Year Gia GiaVanni, Countess C. Alice and Gabi DiVine.

There will be food and birthday cake and hot bartenders serving up your favorite refreshing beverages. Solitaire is asking that you not bring her gifts but instead please bring unwrapped toys for the kids at Children’s Hospital.

The money raised will be divided equally between New Orleans Pride and purchasing more toys for the kids.

Saturday, November 14, 2015 commUNITY® Speak Out - Addiction and the LGBTQ+ delves into a huge problem within the gay community. Join Brandiilyne Magnum-Dear, from the documentary, Real L Word Mississippi, and pastor of Joshua Generation MCC in Hattiesburg, MS, as she talks about addiction and the associated issues that face the LGBTQ+ community. The discussion begins at 3pm. at the New Orleans Healing Center, second floor classroom 250 (2372 St. Claude Ave.). If you plan to attend, please R.S.V.P. at the ticket link site provided as space is limited. www.eventbrite.com/e/communityspeak-out-addiction-and-the-lgbtq-

community-tickets-18965181368.

Saturday, November 14, 2015 Buy your tickets for the Human Rights Campaign’s the Annual Mike Theis “His” HRC Fashion Show. Tickets are presale for $20 and $25 at the door. The event will be held at Publiq House (4528 Freret St.). Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 7:30 pm.

For tickets go to http://action.hrc.org/ s i t e / Calendar?view=Detail&id=127163&autologin=true Saturday, November 14, 2015 The LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana is pleased to announce its inaugural gala, scheduled to take place at the New Orleans Healing Center (2372 St. Claude Ave.). The Archives Project was founded a little over a year ago and the Oracle Gala will highlight their accomplishments over the last year and pay tribute to the late Alan Robinson, a long-time gay rights activist and former owner of the Faubourg Marigny Bookstore, whose extensive collection of personal papers has recently been located. In addition to honoring Alan Robinson, the Oracle Gala will also feature live entertainment, complimentary food, and a silent auction. The event will be hosted by Michael Sullivan. In order to attend this event, you will need to buy tickets from the event site: http:// oraclegala.eventzilla.net/ (see link above), or buy them in person from one of the hosts (call Rip @ 504.522.8049).

Tuesday – Sunday, November 17 – 22, 2015 BreakOUT!, along with partners in New Orleans and across the country, will take to the streets to celebrate the lives of 22 trans women murdered and countless other trans and gender nonconforming youth who lost to deportation, suicide, interpersonal, and state violence this year, most of whom were women of color. Building on the tradition of Trans Day of Remembrance, they will also take this time to celebrate the resilience and resistance shown by queer and trans youth of color every day.

The events include: November 17th, 7-8:30pm: Panel Discussion “My Existence is Political: Talking Trans” BreakOUT! is partnering on a panel with Women with a Vision, Inc., which is part of their discussion series, “My Existence is Political,” covering topics of importance to Black women. Panel will take place at the CANO’s Creative Space at the Myrtle Banks Building, 1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

November 20th, 11am-2pm: Transgender March of Resilience The Transgender March of Resilience (TMOR) will begin November 20th at Louis Armstrong Park at 11am.

They march to City Hall for a press conference & action at 1pm led by Queer and Trans youth of color!

November 21st, 7pm-11pm: Kiki For A Cause Then, on November 21st, the TMOR Kiki for a Cause will take place at The Pelican Bay Restaurant, 1701 Elysian Fields Ave. The event will feature amazingly talented Queer and Trans youth of New Orleans along with community allies eager to showcase their support and fundraise for BreakOUT!’s Building Our Power Institute. $12 Early Bird Tickets available online or $15 suggested donation at the door. (No one turned away due to lack of funds.) More information at: https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/tdor-kiki-for-acause-tickets-19155205736.

November 22nd, 3pm-5pm: Healing Drum Circle Lastly, join the close out weekend of events with a healing drum circle and African dance with the Congo Square Preservation Society at Congo Square, Armstrong Park.

For more information about any of these events visit www.youthbreakout.org.

Thursday – Sunday, November 19 – 22, 2015 I am thrilled to finally see this Tennessee Williams play. Written in 1966 and labeled as part of a double-bill of one-act plays entitled Slapstick Tragedy, this later play by Tennessee Williams takes place in the New Orleans French Quarter on Christmas Eve 1948.

On a night filled with carols, misfits, sailors, hookers, cops, quarter rats, grifters, secrets, betrayals, and wine, Trinket Dugan is a Texas oil heiress and cancer survivor hiding away at the Silver Dollar Hotel. Celeste Delacroix Griffin is a hustler in every sense of the word who—by discovering a deep, dark secret of the heiress Dugan— jumpstarts the two on a humorous journey that will, in all hopes, resuscitate their friendship in just enough time to share a mystical experience that will change their lives. In doing so, it demonstrates how thin the line is between the dreadful and the joyful in a clever character rendering of humanity’s penchant for finding a laugh in tragic circumstances Bringing to life the classic character Trinket Dugan is the legendary actress Mink Stole, who got her start in film working with John Waters, and who has since evolved to be one of his renowned Dreamlanders, having been featured in all of Waters’ films to date.

Tickets are $35 General Admission, $25 CAC Members in advance and 40 General Admission, $30 CAC Members at the door. Times are Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 7:30pm; Friday, November 20, 2015 - 7:30pm; Saturday, November 21, 2015 - 7:30pm and Sunday, November 22, 2015 - 2:30pm.

For tickets www.cacno.org.

Saturday, November 21, 2015 It’s Pride Pub Crawl time! Join New Orleans Pride for their Pub Crawl

of the year starting at 6pm. Registration is open to 150 participants only. Be sure to register now as it has sold out the past 2 years. The cost is $20. This is how it works: You will stop at 8-12 bars where the first 100 people to the bar will get a FREE shot. You stay at each bar for 15 minutes so you have time to purchase a drink and support the venues sponsoring the crawl. The list of bars will be announced closer to the event, but the route is a secret until the event starts.

All participants will receive the 2015 collector Pride Shirt. To buy tickets go t o www.NewOrleansPrideFestival.com.

Saturday, November 21, 2015 Peep. Show - Queer Art of New Orleans is a collection of erotic artwork curated by Jeremy Novy of four artists currently living and working in New Orleans. The exhibit will be at Hyph3nArt (1901 Royal St.) and brings together the works of Jeremy Novy, Skylar Fein, Paul Rizzo and James Concannon.

The exhibit focuses on artist interpolations of erotic art of the 70s and 80s often found in Pornography of the time, through stenciling, print making, painting, sculpture and installation. Though queer art is a strong movement in and of itself in many other cities, there have been very few gallery shows of this kind in New Orleans. New Orleans has long been a safe haven of free and open expression and it is important to include this community in the New Orleans art scene. The show is from 8pm to midnight. This show will be 18+ and will display both erotic and non-erotic works. Music will be provided by Uncle Jim. Sunday, November 22, 2015 The Mystic Krewe of Satyricon and Queen Satyricon XI host an afternoon of “Hanky Panky” fun at Grandpre’s (824 North Rampart St.) from 2 to 5pm to benefit the krewe’s bal Masque XIV. Come out in your best Bandana Inspired Attire and join the Krewe as they present an all you can eat buffet and Live Beef Cake Cake Auction just in time for your Thanksgiving guests. Please join them for a $10 donation to the Mystic Krewe of Satyricon. All you can eat buffet, Cake Auction, 50/50 raffle, Hanky Panky Fun and more.

Party Down Halloween and the week leading up to it were fabulously festive. Fun days filled with hot wicked boys and glamorous events. I began the first week with a little theatre, See Em On Stage’s A New Brain at Kajun’s Pub. The show was a fun musical with upbeat poppy tunes and a solid cast.

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matters of health Surviving HIV

by Eugene Collins, Prevention, HAART

Director of

I’ve worked in HIV Prevention for over a decade now and I remember some of the early days. I remember getting phone calls that family members and friends had passed away, the situation at a point seemed dyer as if we were seemingly fighting an unbeatable disease.

Years later, we have seen advances in medicine and treatment efforts, as well as advances around prevention efforts that focus on getting people in Care and keeping them there.

We’ve seen so many positive changes, but it saddens me that in 2015 HIV/ AIDS clients in the South still have lower survival rates.

Findings from Duke University shows people living with HIV/AIDS have a higher

under the gaydar ...from 25 made it enjoyable from start to finish. It is nice to know Kajun’s Pub can be used in a unique way.

On Friday, the costuming resumed with the Ghostly Galavant held at the Cabildo. My friends and I enjoyed an amazing night at this costume dance in this historic building. It was very surreal to be dancing in full Halloween regalia to great tunes while overlooking Jackson Square. As you entered the building which was illuminated in red, a ghostly figure played the harp. Models dressed as Day of the Dead mistresses showed you the path upstairs to the main party area with an open bar, restaurants serving lovely delicacies and a wonderful dance band. We met some great people and had fun dancing with all these straight couples. Afterwards we moved the party with our new friends to continue our dancing at Oz (the land of dance).

On Sunday, I went to a little Saints Game viewing soiree at the Ritz Carlton.

It was a lovely afternoon dining on gourmet football fare, like a hamburger and nacho bar while sipping champagne and bloody mary’s. Football is always so much more civilized with bubbly. And with the Saints win, it made for a great beginning of the afternoon. After we were off to the final Halloween Host Party held at Jim Mounger’s lovely Uptown home. Jim has one of the best modern art collections in the city and makes an ideal place for a party. Even the rain and a power outage could not put a damper on everyone’s spirits in anticipation for the nest weekend.

Halloween for me started on Wednesday with two events. The first was the reopening of the courtyard at the Maison Dupuy Hotel in the French Quarter. With the renovation of their

mortality rate. In addition, the South had the nation’s lowest five year survival rate for those diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. In the South, we’re showing 15 percent of people with HIV and 27 percent of people with AIDS are dying within the first five years of their diagnoses. This is troubling, especially when most of the medical community agrees that getting someone tested and into treatment early, means that that person can live in access of 50 years.

So when we see our situation in the South, we have to ask ourselves, “What’s wrong here?” The Song Writing Team of the Goodie Mob had a song titled “The Dirty South” with such lyrics as, “if you don’t like where I stay, fly away.” Well, this isn’t the Dirty South and we can survive the HIV epidemic by making barriers to entering care fly away.

Below, I’ve listed some barriers we

trademark fountain, the addition of some cabana beds and new landscaping, this premier property unveiled their new look to the hospitality community. This transformation brings a new spark to this already gorgeous hotel and is the perfect place for locals and tourists alike to have a few cocktails in their courtyard. When I left their, a stop at my vehicle for a quick change into a costume and I was ready to attend New Orleans Magazine October Hobknobber’s Networking event at the Hard Rock Café on Bourbon Street. I decided to go a little creative for this party and dressed as a nightstand with accoutrements such as condoms, money, beads, go-cups and a lampshade for my head making me a One Nightstand. The party was fun with lots of costumes and merriment.

My long weekend had just started.

Halloween New Orleans’ first event was on Thursday at the beautiful new Uptown venue Il Mercado. This restyled Hacienda building has become one of the hottest new spaces to have a wedding or special event. With a spacious courtyard with a brick fireplace to elegant indoor area, the guests enjoyed the evening. The food and flowing cocktails put everyone in a more relaxed mood to bid high on their silent auction. This is probably one of the best fundraising silent auctions in the city with lots of gift baskets, gift certificates and impressive art. With this party, Halloween New Orleans was off to a great start.

On Friday night, I took a break from the HNO four day weekend and went to two other Halloween events in the city. The first party was at The Chicory, the venue where Frankie Fierce and I held our Decadence Says I Do event. They invited their best clients and hospitality industry to their second Halloween extravaganza. The theme

as a community can make Fly Away: 1. Cultural Barriers 2. Behavioral Issues 3. Poverty 4. Stigma 5. Inadequate Care/Treatment We see these varying social stigmas and issues get in the way of care daily, putting up a fence between service and our community.

We hold our statutes high on being the buckle of the belt; we forget that some often remove those buckles in the company of others.

We need to become a community of understanding, acceptance, and education if we hope to change this stead. We have become so judgmental down South that we’re scaring our community from care and testing.

During a time when our nation is seeing some positive trends around HIV, we still see our situation in the South being gauged by society’s judgmental social standards.

So in order to Survive HIV, we must first survive ourselves.

this year was The Rocky Horror Picture Show and their entire staff dressed as characters from the movie, even doing a choreographed dance routine to the Time Warp. The food as expected was delicious and their dessert display of cupcakes in various flavors and their Rocky Horror Wedding Cake was simply marvelous. My friends and I danced, took fun photos and enjoyed all the costumes, like the Busted Up looking Spice Girls and the Kardashian clan with Caitlyn in tow. Caitlyn Jenner along with Donald Trump seems to have been the costume of choice this year. After closing this early party down, we then went to Studio 3’s warehouse Halloween Bash. Studio 3 is a prop and float building design house.

Imagine partying among all those spooky three dimensional figures. This event was electric with acrobats hanging from the ceiling above your head, go-go dancers dressed like Avatar blue creatures and an open bar. We danced the night away with an assortment of hotties, alas mostly straight but still half naked.

Saturday was the big day and it was an epic Halloween. My friends Beaux, Barrett and I started our night off tamely with our friend Cheryl Lemoine’s birthday party in Mid-City.

There was a three tier cake and lots of creative cuisine in the Halloween spirit like graveyard dip and eyeball deviled eggs. But my favorite was the congealed blood Jello shots. There is nothing like a house party and a little Jello to kick off your night. Then we were off to the main Halloween New Orleans event at the Contemporary Arts Center. I have to say they stepped it up this year from the Egyptian décor in line with the Fall of the Pharaohs theme. The night shined from the free flowing cocktails and the pumping music to the over the top costumes. I got

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to meet many old friends and make new acquaintances. I loved seeing so many men in town from out of the country; the Australian contingent was especially hot. Persana looked like the Queen of Sheba on stage emceeing the night. And I would like to thank Daryl Dunaway (aka Countess C Alice) for transforming me into Cleopatra Jones, Queen of the Disco. His makeup and costume design was ingenious.

And special shout out to he wonderful designer John Joseph Degadillo who made my stunning gold jumpsuit. Armed with a magnificent costume, I felt like the Queen of the 70’s Nile. It is funny how an outfit can morph your entire personality. Congrats to Halloween New Orleans on a memorable night.

Sunday was hardly a day of rest; I was off to the HNO Sunday Brunch at the House of Blues. Once again the House of Blues provided a down home feats of fried chicken, bacon, eggs, biscuits and gravy, bread budding and my favorite baked macaroni. HNO also took the entertainment to another level this year with the timeless talent of Thelma Houston, the disco queen herself. Her knock put performance of “Don’t Leave me This Way” brought the house down and was the perfect culmination to the party. Afterward we were escorted out to a private second line that had a high school band, a jazz band and the Carrie Bradshaws Dance Troupe. The second line attracted the attention of all the tourists as we made our way down Bourbon Street to Oz at St. Ann. Once the parade disbanded, I had a few fun cocktails at Oz, Pub and Good Friends before bringing myself home at a reasonable hour (something I had not done in days). It’s incredibly fun weekends like this that make me realize how lucky I am to live in this amazing city.

In Other Gay News: Food For Friends' Thanksgiving Pies for Sale Do not know what to bring to your friends or family’s holiday gatherings this Thanksgiving; well Food For Friends is here to your rescue. They are solving your dilemma while giving you a wonderful opportunity to help those in need.

The Food For Friends program’s kitchen (2903 Jefferson Ave.) is open and baking apple, pecan, cherry (I LOVE CHERRY!) and pumpkin pies for your Thanksgiving feast. Each standard 9" pie is only $15.

Pies will be available for pickup from 10am to 6pm on Tuesday, Nov. 24th and Wednesday, Nov. 25th at the Food For Friends Kitchen at 2903 Jefferson Avenue (corner of Jefferson Ave. & S. Claiborne). Order five or more pies and have them delivered for free. For more information or to buy your buys now, go to www.noaidstaskforce.org/pies/.

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HALLOWEEN IN NEW ORLEANS, INC., PO Box 52171, 70152-2171; halloween neworleans.com/ambush KREWE OF AMON-RA, PO Box 7033, Metairie, LA 70010, KreweOfAmonRa.COM KREWE OF ARMEINIUS, PO Box 56638, New Orleans, LA 70156-6638, kreweofarmeinius.org KREWE OF MWINDO, PO Box 51031, 70156; 913.5791, KreweOfMwindo.ORG, krewe@kreweofmwindo.org KREWE OF NARCISSUS, PO Box 3832, New Orleans, LA 70177. Contact: 504.228.9441 KREWE OF PETRONIUS, PO Box 1102, Kenner, LA. 70063-1102, www.kreweofpetroius.net KREWE OF QUEENATEENAS / KING CAKE QUEEN ROYALTY CLUB, 828-A Bourbon St., 70116-3137, 522.8049, GayMardiGras.COM/KCQ KREWE OF URSUS, kreweofursus@aol.com LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana, 1308 Esplanade Ave., New Orleans, LA 70116, 504.475.7911, www.lgbtarchivesla.org LORDS OF LEATHER, 1631 Elysian Fields, #161, 70117, www.lordsofleather.org Louisiana Equality Foundation, serving the Louisiana LGBT Community through education, activism, and awareness. www. l o u i s i a n a e q u a l i t y f o u n d a t i o n . o r g , info@louisianaequalityfoundation.org Metropolitan Community Church of New Orleans, services at 10am, 6200 St Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118; 504.270.1MCC www.mccneworleans.org MYSTIC KREWE OF SATYRICON, 2443 Halsey Ave., New Orleans, LA 70114, 504.906.7990 Todd J. Blauvelt / Secretary,

krewe.of.satyricon@gmail.com, MysticKreweOfSatyricon.COM NEW ORLEANS BEAR AND BEAR TRAPPER SOCIAL CLUB, P.O. Box 57756, New Orleans, LA 70157-7756, 504.298.0061, theneworleansbears.com NEW ORLEANS GAY MEN’S CHORUS, 322.7007, nogmc.com; nogmc@aol.com NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL, nojazzfest.com NO/AIDS TASK FORCE, 2601 Tulane Ave., Suite 500, 70119; 821.2601; NOAIDSTaskForce.COM PFLAG/NO [Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays/ New Orleans], PO Box 15515, 70175; 895.3936, 392.0001, pflagno.org, info@pflagno.org PRIDE, NOLAPride.ORG PROJECT LAZARUS, A Residence for PWAs, PO Box 3906, 70177-3906; 949.3609 REGIONALAIDS INTERFAITH NETWORK [RAIN], 523.3755 RENEGADE BEARS OF LOUISIANA, PO Box 3083, New Orleans, LA 70177; renegadebearsoflouisiana@gmail.com SOUTHERN DECADENCE, 828-A Bourbon St., 70116-3137, 504.522.8049, SouthernDecadence.COM ST. ANNA'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 1313 Esplanade Avenue New Orleans, LA 70116 947.2121, stannanola.org VOLLEYBALL NEW ORLEANS, PO Box 13306, 70185-3306; volleyballneworleans.com, postmaster@volleyballneworleans.com

pets New Orleans, LA [504] DR. MIKE'S ANIMAL HOUSE, 1120 N. Rampart, 523.4455

pharmacy Baton Rouge, LA [225] AVITA PHARMACY, offers personalized, convenient care to those affected by chronic illnesses. Avita offers free delivery, co-pay assistance, benefit coordination, and refill reminder calls as well as access to a pharmacist 24/7.

Every prescription filled today helps Avita give back to the community tomorrow. www.avitapharmacy.com New Orleans, LA [504] AVITA PHARMACY, offers personalized, convenient care to those affected by chronic illnesses. Avita offers free delivery, co-pay assistance, benefit coordination, and refill reminder calls as well as access to a pharmacist 24/7.

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Local pharmacy offering personalized family-like service, automatic refills & free metro wide confidential pickup & delivery. Also offering shipping for out-side our delivery area. When you call us you speak to a person, not a machine. See our ad.

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Royal House Oyster Bar, 441 Royal St., 528.2601, www.RoyalHouseRestaurant.com

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on all the issues but he would certainly be better than Vitter. He certainly has something Vitter doesn’t—integrity.

commentary

by Frank Perez E-mail: f.perez@sbcglobal.net Photo by: Larry Graham, GrahamStudioOne.COM

Like Jindal, Vitter’s positions on other issues from criminal justice reform to funding education to women’s

rights are backward and rooted in the Stone Age. Jindal and Vitter are both hypocritical assholes. In short, David Vitter’s positions are essentially the same of Jindal’s, which is to say they are dangerous and harmful. A vote for Vitter is a vote for a third Jindal term.

If Bobby Jindal Is a Piece of Shit, Then David Vitter is Shitty Diapers

Caitlin Jenner is Courageous. Great. Can We Now Talk About Serious Transgender Issues?

Louisiana will soon elect a new Governor and, for once, there are clear and real differences between the two candidates. A vote for extreme right-wing ultraconservative republican Diaper Dave Vitter is essentially a vote for a third Jindal term. Which is why you should vote for moderate democrat John Bel Edwards, a state legislator who has fought Jindal tooth and nail.

by Frank Perez, f.perez@sbcglobal.net When WWLTV’s “The 504” recently asked the members of BreakOUT! to appear on its talk show, all the producers wanted to discuss was Caitlin Jenner.

BreakOUT! would have preferred to talk about the 22 transgendered women (mostly of color) who have been murdered in the last ten months (including one in New Orleans).

LGBT+ voters, even the republican ones (gay republicans are a phenomenon I have never understood, but that’s the topic for another column), should not vote for Vitter because his record in the U.S. Senate is downright atrocious on civil rights. As a U.S. Senator, Vitter voted for a constitutional amendment banning marriage equality, for banning gay adoption.

Because of his multiple votes against LGBT+ equality, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has rated him 0%.

Zero. And the ACLU gives him a paltry 7%. Vitter’s bigotry extends to other minority groups as well.

Vitter claims his opposition to LGBT+ equality stems from his strong sense of morality and “family values.”

This claim is patently absurd, as evidenced by Vitter’s well publicized sex scandal with a D.C. madam. When the scandal broke in 2007, it was revealed that Vitter likes to wear diapers when he hires prostitutes. I don’t mind the fact that Vitter is kinky, or even that he likes to hire hookers. What I do have a problem with is his sanctimonious hypocrisy.

Vitter touts his faith incessantly but his voting record indicates he routinely ignores Biblical passages about social justice and especially Jesus’s message of helping the poor and healing the sick. Vitter has voted repeatedly against public assistance for the poor and disadvantaged and he has voted to repeal or weaken the Affordable Care Act. And Vitter completely ignores Jesus’ warning about the dangers of greed and concentrated wealth. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has given Vitter a score of 97%, indicating a strong pro-business slant. Well, big business, at least; Vitter voted against small business by making it more difficult for them to secure loans. He did, however, vote against a bill that would have closed off-shore tax-loopholes for corporations. Vitter has no problem with corporate welfare, but if you’re poor or hungry or sick, well, you just need to pray harder. Unless you’re gay, in which case you should be stoned to death according to the Bible.

And all that is fine if you truly believe government should not play a role in helping the sick and poor but

should do anything it can to maximize corporate profits at the expense of the poor and middle class. But then don’t say you want a government based on Christian principles, because you don’t.

If elected, Vitter has said he will follow Jindal’s lead in refusing to accept Federal monies to expand Medicaid. This policy has made people in Louisiana sicker and is estimated to have resulted in over 500 preventable deaths annually. And why doesn’t Jindal take the money? Because it’s part of “Obamacare,” and Jindal, as well as Vitter, hates the President. Both Jindal and Vitter are literally willing to let citizens die just to spite the President.

How Christ-like.

Vitter’s campaign commercials say nothing of the issues facing the state; rather, they attempt to link his opponent with President Obama. In fact, they give the impression that Obama is on the ballot in Louisiana. These ads are nothing more than race-baiting, the equivalent of calling John Bel Edwards a “n****r lover.” Vitter, it’s important to remember, was elected to the state legislature from the same district that elected former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke.

David Vitter is not only a hypocrite, he’s also a racist. But Vitter’s character flaws go far beyond the garden variety GOP sins of hypocrisy and racism. Once, while on the floor of Congress, Vitter received a phone call from the D.C. Madam, who would eventually expose him as one of her best (and kinkiest) clients. After hanging up, he immediately left the floor and missed a vote on extending veterans’ benefits.

Apparently, Vitter’s diaper-hooker fetish is more important to him than caring for military veterans.

And speaking of veterans, let’s not forget John Bel Edwards is a 1988 Dean’s List graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

While at West Point, he was chosen by his classmates as the Vice Chairman of the Honor Committee In Charge of Investigations. He also served eight years of active duty with the US Army as an Airborne Ranger, culminating with command of a rifle company in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

I don’t agree with John Bel Edwards

In an email exchange the day before the show was to be taped, BreakOUT! declined the invitation to appear on the show and informed “The 504” their questions were superficial, insensitive and offensive. Then the producer called BreakOUT! and invited them to appear on another show that would focus on more serious issues such as transphobic violence. But on second thought, the producer retracted his invitation.

The exchange is indicative of societal attitudes toward transgender people and how the media shapes those attitudes. Everyone agrees Caitlin Jenner is courageous, and she is, but as a privileged, white celebrity, she is most certainly not representative of most transgender women. To think that transphobia is over just because a transgender woman was on the cover of Vanity Fair is akin to saying racism is over because we elected a black man President.

And while the transgender awareness Jenner raised may be viewed as a positive, the media focus on her story may be viewed as narrow at best. It also reveals an inherent race and class bias in the media. As BreakOUT! correctly points out, the 22 trans-women murdered this year, most of whom were women of color, have failed to make national headlines.

One would hope the media attention on Jenner would move from the superficial to deeper issues like not only transphobic violence but also issues such as economic inequality and poverty, but that has not yet happened. One recent study, “Paying an Unfair Price: The Financial Penalty for Being Transgender in America” illustrates that unemployment and poverty rates are disproportionately high for transgender folk, especially those of color.

In addition to poverty, homelessness, employment discrimination, the constant threat of police harassment, lack of legal protections and economic injustice in general, transgender people also face higher rates of HIV and AIDS. Many are uninsured.

Yet the media is fixated on which bathroom Caitlin Jenner uses.

This is why advocacy groups such as BreakOUT! are so vitally important.

November 17—22 has been declared “TRANSGENDER MARCH OF RESILIENCE AND WEEK OF ACTION.” BreakOUT!, along with partners in New Orleans and across the country, will

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take to the streets to celebrate the lives of 22 trans women murdered and countless other trans and gender non-conforming youth who lost to deportation, suicide, interpersonal, and state violence this year, most of whom were women of color.

Building on the tradition of Trans Day of Remembrance, participants will also take this time to celebrate the resilience and resistance shown by queer and trans youth of color every day. These events also coincide with the #Not1More Deportation Week of Action.

Events for the week include: NOVEMBER 17th, 7-8:30pm. *PANEL DISCUSSION* “My Existence is Political: Talking Trans” BreakOUT! is partnering on a panel with Women with a Vision, Inc., which is part of their discussion series, “My Existence is Political,” covering topics of importance to Black women. Panel will take place at the CANO’s Creative Space at the Myrtle Banks Building,1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

NOVEMBER 20th, 11am-2pm. *TRANSGENDER MARCH OF RESILIENCE* The Transgender March of Resilience (TMOR), will begin November 20th at Louis Armstrong Park at 11 am.

There will then be a march to City Hall for a press conference & action at 1pm led

by Queer and Trans youth of color!

NOVEMBER 21st, 7pm-11pm. *KIKI FOR A CAUSE* TMOR Kiki for a Cause will take place at The Pelican Bay Restaurant, 1701 Elysian Fields Ave. The event will feature amazingly talented Queer and Trans youth of New Orleans along with community allies eager to showcase their support and fundraise for BreakOUT!’s Building Our Power Institute. $12 Early Bird Tickets available online or $15 suggested donation at the door. (No one turned away due to lack of funds.) More information at: https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/tdor-kiki-for-acause-tickets-19155205736.

NOVEMBER 22nd, 3pm-5pm. *HEALING DRUM CIRCLE* The weekend of events closes with a healing drum circle and African dance with the Congo Square Preservation Society at Congo Square, Armstrong Park.

For more information about any of these events or BreakOUT!, call @ (504) 252-9025, visit www.youthbreakout.org, or email at info@youthbreakout.org. #BlackTransLivesMatter #TMOR2K15 #MakePennyProud #SayHerName #Not1More

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Halloween @ Cafe Lafitte in Exile & Good Friends Bar ~ New Orleans ~ Photos by Hubert S Monkeys

ambush Thelma Houston live @ House of Blues

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Halloween 32: Glo Neon Party & Disco Brunch - 2nd Line benefiting Project Lazarus ~ New Orleans ~ Photos by Tony Leggio, Hubert S Monkeys

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Halloween Weekend: The Social Scene ~ New Orleans ~ Photos by Tony Leggio, Hubert S Monkeys, Rip Naquin, Jeremy Weinberg

Bourbon Pub & Parade

The Double Play Good Friends Bar

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Happy Birthday Delta

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Cocktailin’ @ Leather Bar of the Year, The Phoenix ~ New Orleans ~ Photos by Darwin Reed

Halloween on The Bay ~ Mobile, Alabama ~ Photos by Miss Cie

Spooky @ B-Bob’s

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