Monarchs Reign By Bill Redmond-Palmer Everyone loves a pageant! Do you want to be the starring King or Queen? For the royalty of Pride 2018, the positions are open. The pageant to select the new King and Queen of Pride for 2018 is set for Saturday, August 5th at 3 pm (doors open at 2:30 pm) at the Nest Nightclub (2022 North Charles Street, Baltimore). The event, which ends at 7 pm, also celebrates the reign of Queen of Pride 2017 Dee Diamond and King of Pride 2017 Titan Legacy. Emcees will be “Queen of Comedy” Shawnna Alexander and David Allen. ASL interpretation is by Debbie Jones (Facebook.com/debbiejterp). You want to
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Dust off your tiara! 2018 Pride King & Queen pageant coming, August 5th
prepare for the challenge, so know that pageant categories are “pride wear,” “interview,” and “solo talent.” Applications for contestants will be limited to the first five for King and Queen, respectively. Be 21 or older. For applications, or to donate to the prize packages, contact Ganivah Cache at (Facebook.com/ganivah.cache) or Rik Newton Treadway (Facebook.com/rik. newtontreadway). Admission is a $10. Former Kings and Queens get in free – royalty does have its privileges! All proceeds benefit 2018 Baltimore Pride and the GLCCB. For more info, visit Bit. ly/2vr2Xh4. t
By Mark S. King Anne-christine d’Adesky got arrested, accidentally, long before it happened on purpose during AIDS protests. The Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist was covering civil disobedience at a nuclear facility in 1982 when she was approached by a suspicious policeman. Despite assuring him that she was covering the demonstration for Ms. magazine, the officer arrested her anyway. “I was very, very upset,” d’Adesky explains, “because I was on deadline and couldn’t file my story. I had to spend a week in jail.” The arrest proved romantically serendipitous, however, when d’Adesky was placed in a cell with a woman with whom she
ALL HAIL! – Outgoing Queen of Pride 2017 Dee Diamond and King of Pride 2017 Titan Legacy
Frontline Warrior From fighting AIDS with ACT UP in New York and helping found Lesbian Avengers – Anne-christine d’Adesky’s new memoir casts fresh light on epic battles
had recently begun an affair. “We were locked up together and it was the most amazing time,” she says now. “I had hot jail sex. It was sexy and hilarious and challenging. That’s also when I learned to love grits, which we ate morning and night.” And that story may very well sum up d’Adesky’s experience with activism: it can be tough, unjust, and sometimes perilous, but is comes with enormous benefits. D’Adesky’s new book, The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris, chronicles years of social activism while serving as a deeply personal diary.
d’Adesky’s lush writing is immersive and entertaining, but it is her point of view as a lesbian in the gay male-dominated AIDS activism arena that is such a welcome (and underwritten) contribution to AIDS history. The author will appear at Red Emma’s on Tuesday, July 25th at 7:30 pm for a special event, “The Personal is Political: In Conversation with Mark S. King,” in which the two of us will discuss activism during the AIDS years and in the age of Trump, and invite attendees to share their own experiences. d’Adesky has deliberately fash—continued on page 15
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Hysteria Erupts Over Maryland’s Newest Brewing Company By Frankie Kujawa By its definition, the word hysteria evokes images of madcap behaviors. That style of unhinged passion and raw temperament is exactly the type of energy that goes into the creation of beer at the newly opened Hysteria Brewing Company. Celebrating its grand opening on July 1st, Hysteria stands out as a new crown jewel in Maryland’s expanding beer-brewing market. Owner Richard Gue nurtured the idea of creating a brewery long before Hysteria opened its doors. “All of us have home-brew backgrounds, but Rich started this idea,” explained Zachary Michel, assistant brewer and marketing manager. “He had this seed from home-brewing. Once Rich had the means to do it, along with his partners, he created Hysteria.” The name grew out of the format of throwing wild ideas around which culminated in the creation of different kinds of beers. “ W e ’ r e mad about beers,” Michel laughed. “And we have this crazy, mad science approach to home brewing.” Michel described that the company has a dedicated pursuit to make wild and fun beers, aiming to be different from their competitors. “It’s a little bit of steam punk and a little Victorian.” “We’re really excited to be putting together a barrel program, and want to develop a range of styles, featuring both clean and sour beers aged in a variety of barrels, from wine to gin to bourbon and rye,” says Michel. “There’s a ton of fun to be had, and our head brewer, Jordan McGraw, got his first taste of barrel aging at DuClaw, where he also helped start their sour program.” Beer-making and brewing is not uncommon in the Maryland marketplace, but
recently the state has emerged as the market to watch on the national stage. “Maryland has a ton of great beer, and I think it’s going to be one of the more exciting scenes to watch,” Michel added. “We want to be on the forefront making some styles of beer we’d love to see more of in the state. We want to treat the brewery like a playground.” Michel added, “I think you’re going to see a tap room that’s really unique from other experiences. We’re drawing from the true English Pub-style, the German beer halls, and your local cafe. We’re bringing in local musicians. We have a library that we’re building out with a pretty sizable collection of books. It’s a place for community gatherings, not just a place
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to buy beer.” Head brewer, Jordan McGraw, added, “We’ve got eight experimental taps to play around with, and we’re going to have the freshest, newest, beers we can make. Because we’ve got this 1.5 barrel pilot system, we’re not bound to doing anything any one way. We’ve got complete creative freedom.” t For more info, including Hysteria’s “Christmas in July” celebration, visit Hysteriabrewing.com or look on Facebook.
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Living with HIV: Quality of Life Retreat – August 17th Since 1988, Quality of Life Retreats (QLR) have offered education and support to people living with HIV. The four-day retreats offer participants important wisdom for living and coping with their illness and
related challenges, as well as opportunities to connect socially and emotionally with others in similar situations. The next retreat is set for August 17th through 20th. The retreat is ecumenical and interfaith, and open to individuals of all faiths, religions, and beliefs and was established by members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church. The August retreat will be at the Manidokan Retreat Center in Knoxville, Maryland. Round-trip bus transportation is provided from Baltimore. The cost for the retreat is $20 (non-refundable), payable by money-order only. Applications and money orders must be in the mail by July 26th. Applications are available online at Bwcumc. org/ministries/quality-of-life-retreats. For questions email qualityofliferetreatshiv@ yahoo.com, or call the retreat registrar at 443-440-2312. t – Bill Redmond-Palmer
Fifth Annual Pride Splash
by Baltimore Pride, Norther Virginia Pride, and Capitol Pride, who share in proceeds. Tickets include all day admission to Six Flags America, Hurricane Harbor, and the after-hours Pride Pool Party. Enjoy a day of fun and excitement with thrilling coasters, rides, shows, attractions, and special Pride programming. Then, head to Hurricane Harbor to party at the exclusive Pride Pool Party from 8 pm until midnight, with water slides, cocktails, and dancing. Tickets are $42 until July 28th and then they are $54 at the gate on the day of the event. Tickets are non-refundable. Purchase at Pridesplash.org. Tickets for season pass holders are $20, and they must purchase a Pride Party wristband to attend the after-hours event; wristbands will be available at the Main Street Service Center, located in front of the entrance to the water park. If you’re having any trouble figuring it out, go to the entrance of the pride cabana area and they will show you where to go. Purchase season pass tickets at Bit.ly/2tvY4Cw. You can enhance your experience with Splash Zone Tickets, by upgrading your ticket for $30. It provides you with a premium experience in the Splash Zone, with celebrity treatment all day and night. Upon checking in you will gain access to the private poolside lounge seats (all day), enjoy personal poolside service, and receive a swag bag filled with special goodies to make your day more enjoyable, including a branded tumbler redeemable for free non-alcoholic beverages anywhere in the park, all day long. You can also rent premium and luxury cabanas for the day. Purchase your Splash Zone Tickets and rent cabanas at Bit.ly/2tvY4Cw. You can enter the parks at 10 am until they close at midnight. Six Flags America is located at 13710 Central Avenue, Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The rain date is August 12th. Visit the Facebook event page at Bit. ly/2urRfWu. t
Your summer fun won’t be complete without spending the day at the 5th Annual Pride Splash & Ride at Six Flags America on Saturday, July 29th. The event is co-sponsored
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the publishers, “In an account that is by turns searing, hectic, and funny, Anne-christine d’Adesky remembers ‘the poxed generation’ of AIDS – their lives, battles, and their determination to find love and make art in the heartbreaking years before lifesaving protease drugs arrived. “D’Adesky takes us through a fast-changing East Village: squatter protests and civil disobedience lead to all-night drag and art-dance parties, the fun-loving Lesbian Avengers organize dyke marches, and the protest group ACT UP stages public funerals. Traveling as a journalist to Paris, an insomniac d’Adesky trolls the Seine, encountering waves of exiles fleeing violence in the Balkans, Haiti, and Rwanda. As the last of the French Nazis stand
“The Political is Personal: In Conversation with Mark S. King” is set for Tuesday, July 25th, 7:30 to 9:30 pm at Red Emma’s Bookstore and Coffeehouse (30 West North Avenue, Baltimore). Veteran writer-activists Mark S. King and Anne-christine d’Adesky will talk and take questions. The event is co-sponsored by Red Emma’s and the University of Wisconsin Press. Mark S. King is an award-winning blogger, author, and HIV/AIDS advocate who has been involved in HIV causes since testing positive in 1985. His writing appears in Baltimore OUTloud and at Mark S. King (left) talks with Anne-christine d’Adesky (right) about her new book (center) MyFabulousDisease.com. Anne-christine d’Adesky is an award-winning investigative journal- trial and the new National Front rises in the ist and documentary filmmaker and author polls, d’Adesky digs into her aristocratic of The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade family’s roots in Vichy France and colonial in New York and Paris. She was an early Haiti. This is a testament with a message member of ACT UP and cofounder of the for every generation: grab at life and love, Lesbian Avengers. Learn more about her connect with others, fight for justice, keep despair at bay, and remember.” at Thepoxlover.com. For more info on the event visit Bit. “The event will be a dynamic public – Bill Redmond-Palmer conversation exploring the history and ly/2tu89j1. t Be sure to read King’s Interview with the current state of the AIDS and LGBTQ movements in the US and globally, includ- d’Aesky on page one of this issue of B altiing the role and voices of lesbians in the more OUTloud. history of AIDS,” say organizers. “The conversation will offer reflection on the resurgence of far-right fascism and challenges for US LGBTQ activists and progressives in this era of Trump, and the role and impact of media and literature as creative resistance.” “I cannot wait to have this conversation with Anne-christine about her personal, fascinating history, and the largely ignored role of lesbians on the front lines of the AIDS crisis,” said King. The fact that her book, The Pox Lover, is gorgeous and illuminating is all the better. Come join us!” The Pox Lover is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and daughter of French-Haitian elites. Say
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Free Elders Bus July GLCCB to BMA’s ‘Queer Board Meeting Interiors,’ Notes July 27th Up in years and care to see the exhibit “Queer Interiors” at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) on Thursday, July 27th, from 11 am to 1 pm? You’re in luck. The LGBT Health Resource Center of Chase Brexton Health Care has partnered with Action In Maturity (AIM) to provide transportation for LGBT elders to the exhibit. “Queer Interiors” is part of the BMA’s Commons Collaboration initiative, which commissions an artist and non-profit to work together on an installation and offer a series of public programs related to “Imagining Home.” The project, conceived and produced by Rahne Alexander and Jaimes Mayhew,
A color scheme that screams ‘homosexual’ – curators of queer design Jaimes Mayhew and Rahne Alexander credit: Jill Fannon
is comprised of larger-than-life bed, shelving, and other furnishings, along with personal artifacts, and a multimedia wall quilt – homage to the AIDS Quilt. The exhibit ends August 31st, so time is of the essence! AIM will provide a free round-trip shuttle that leaves from Chase Brexton’s Mount Vernon location (Chase Street entrance) and drops off at the BMA before returning to Chase Brexton later in the day. The cost is free and space is limited, so register for your seat now, at Conta. cc/2unFSiq. For more info visit Bit.ly/2tu89j1. t
July 11th’s monthly meeting of the GLCCB board (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland) saw continued efforts to find new board members with significant management or non-profit experience. The board has received 16 applications to date and will interview each. Several new board members will be introduced at the August board meeting. The center’s case management program – identified as a core function – also was discussed. The program provides “family members” (or clients) with information on just about anything they might need, ranging from housing services to advice on dating. It was noted that the center’s case management capacity is 70 people, but only 59 are currently served, so there’s still room for growth and the word has been put out that these services are on offer. The board noted that the center takes privacy extremely seriously, with names of clients kept private, even from center staff not directly involved in giving assistance. A large part of the agenda covered the recent Baltimore Pride week. The number of attendees is still being figured out. This year’s Pride overall was larger than last year and had the largest footprint ever for Saturday’s Block Party. This year included a highly successful and the first-ever official “Lez Lot” that the board aims to repeat next year. The Youth Pride section was felt to be a mixed bag in terms of success: the spot chosen was a separate area, felt necessary for security, but due to its isolation and poor signage, many youths could not find it. A long time GLCCB and Pride volunteer expressed concern that volunteers do not feel respected or appreciated, especially those involved in logistics, like those who are there early Saturday morning to set up for the block party, and stay until 4 am on Sunday, then turn around and start setup for the festival on Sunday at 6 am. This person expressed a feeling of being undermined by the Pride chair, and noted that several vendors have complained about working with the GLCCB, and stated that some have said they will not return next year. City officials, it was said, sometimes had a difficult time reaching GLCCB.
Another speaker also expressed frustration about being able to reach GLCCB staff during the busy Pride period. A number of speakers expressed general satisfaction with the parade and its route and length, however some had complaints about the way the lineup was organized and handled. In particular, the protracted wait time for parade lineup exhausted some elders so they were unable to complete the parade. Board president Jabari Lyles said that the center appreciates its volunteers and their contributions, and that the GLCCB needed to improve on how it makes volunteers feel whole and respected. He noted the importance of the community holding the GLCCB accountable. In addition, a community satisfaction survey about Pride will be disseminated to the community to solicit feedback. The next board meeting is scheduled for 6:30 pm on August 8th at the GLCCB (2530 North Charles Street, third floor, Baltimore). t
Trans Sex Work on the Street: Community Mediation “Community Healing and Police Accountability” is a facilitated dialogue sponsored by FreeState Justice bringing together the LGBTQ community and Baltimore Police officers to discuss animosity faced by transgender and gender non-conforming people engaged in sex work in North Baltimore. FreeState encourages participation to ensure that the LGBTQ community is seen and heard, most especially the voices and experiences of trans people. As an LGBTQ rights organization, FreeState Justice brings to the table its concerns for fairness and equality. Community Mediation, a Baltimore-based group, will facilitate these conversations and provide a space for all to be seen and heard. Interested? Call Community Mediation at 410-467-9165 or email adelpiano@communitymediation.org to begin the mandatory intake process. t – Bill Redmond-Palmer
Sixth Annual People’s BBQ for the Homeless Bring your appetite and charitable feelings to the sixth annual People’s Barbecue for the Homeless, set for Saturday, August 5th from 11 am to 3 pm. Over 26 organizations and counting will partner to host the barbecue, at St. Vincent de Paul Church (120 North Front Street, Baltimore). Based on past years, expect over 1,000 guests. The event is the brainchild of Bonnie Lane, who came up with idea for the BBQ while working for Word on the Street, a newspaper created by and for Baltimore’s homeless people. At the time Lane was homeless herself. “It occurred to me while being homeless that homeless people don’t get to have fun,” said Lane. “You spend almost your entire time in line waiting for food, clothing, trying to get housing. You don’t get to celebrate much at all. I thought the barbecue, while providing food, would be something fun that the homeless people could enjoy.” Grillmaster Shorty is back again for this year’s event as he has been since its inception, along with WLOY Loyola Radio, in charge of music. Learn more at Bit.ly/2vqDcxA, and to see organizers’ wish lists of food and serving items, as well as clothing and person care items, to be distributed to those visiting the event. If you can’t bring items to the event, contact Alisia Moore, event co-coordinator, at 443-543-6891 or amooredst@ gmail.com to arrange a drop off. Be sure to fill out a donor form there to let them know what you plan to bring. You can also sign up to volunteer to help at the barbecue. t
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“Gonorrhea is a very smart bug,” said reportedly provided the newspaper with the names of the victims but Novaya Gaze- Teodora Wi, a human reproduction specialta reporters were unable to locate any of ist at the Geneva-based UN health agenthem. “All attempts to learn anything about cy. “Every time you introduce a new type these people were met with incredible fear of antibiotic to treat it, this bug develops from everyone we questioned,” the news- resistance to it.” WHO estimates 78 million paper wrote. Security forces controlled by people a year get gonorrhea, an STD that Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov have can infect the genitals, rectum, and throat. been accused of gross human-rights viola- The infection, which in many cases has no tions for many years, including abductions, symptoms on its own, can lead to pelvic torture, and killings. Kadyrov was installed inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, as president of Chechnya in 2011, after and infertility, as well as increasing the Grozny, Chechnya – The Russian op- Putin crushed the Chechen independence risk of getting HIV. The said there is wideposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta has movement. Kadyrov promised in a June spread resistance to the first-line medicine reported that Chechen security forces ex- statement that he would clear Chechnya of ciprofloxacin, increasing resistance to ecuted 27 people on the night of January gays by the end of Ramadan 2017, which another antibiotic drugs called azithromy26th. Radio Free Europe (RFE) published ironically occurred on Pride Day, June cin, and the emergence of resistance to an English-language summary of the story 25th. (Seattle Gay News – Mike Andrew last-resort treatments known as extended-spectrum cephalosporins (ESCs). at Sgn.org) Protesting Wi, who gave details in a telephone executions briefing of two studies on gonorrhea published in the journal PLoS Medicine, said one had documented three specific cases – one each in Japan, France, and Spain – of patients with strains of gonorrhea against which no known antibiotic is effective. “These are cases that can infect others. It can be transmitted,” she told reporters. “And these cases may just be the tip of the iceberg, since systems to diagLondon, England – Reuters reports nose and report untreatable infections are on July 9th. While RFE did not explicitly that at least three people worldwide (one lacking in lower-income countries where identify the executed individuals as gay, it each in Japan, France, and Spain) are gonorrhea is actually more common.” (Relinked the killings to the ongoing pogrom infected with totally untreatable “super- uters – by Kate Kelland, at Reuters.com/ against gay men in the Caucasian repub- bug” strains of gonorrhea which they are article/us-mexico-colombia-dairy-idUSKBlic, which is part of the Russian Federation likely to be spreading to others through N19Z23O) and is ruled by an ally of Russian president sex, the World Health Organization (WHO) Vladimir Putin. The Russian LGBT Net- said on July 7th. Giving details of studies work corroborated the reports, noting that showing a “very serious situation” with resome of the names published by Novaya Gazeta were known to be members of the LGBT community. Novaya Gazeta broke the story of the anti-gay campaign in Chechnya in April, and their reporting was confirmed by the international watchdog group Human Rights Watch in May. In April, Novaya Gazeta reported that dozens of gay Chechen men had been arrested, imprisoned in special detention camps, and tortured. This is the first report of deliberate executions of Allentown, Pennsylvania – The Algay people carried out by Chechen govlentown City Council’s Committee of the ernment forces. At least three deaths had Whole unanimously approved legislation been reported previously, but all were said to ban conversion therapy for minors this to have occurred as a result of beatings week. The bill passed out of committee in detention camps where gay men were July 12th and is slated for final adoption at being held. council’s July 19th meeting. According to Novaya Gazeta, the 27 “Conversion therapy is a harmful, undetainees were never formally arrested gard to highly drug-resistant forms of the and no paperwork was filled out on them sexually-transmitted disease (STD), WHO scientific practice promoted only by those before they were summarily executed. A experts said it was “only a matter of time” who seek to do harm to LGBT people,” source within the Russian Interior Ministry, before last-resort gonorrhea antibiotics Adrian Shanker, executive director of the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Cenwhich has jurisdiction over police forces, would be of no use.
Report that Chechnya executed 27 including gay men
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ter, said in a statement after the committee vote. “LGBT youth deserve high-quality health care, not junk science. I’m proud of City Council for moving this critical ordinance forward.” The center worked with National Center for Lesbian Rights and Jerner & Palmer on crafting the legislation. “Protecting our LGBTQ youth is not a partisan issue,” said NCLR Youth Policy Counsel and Born Perfect Campaign Coordinator Carolyn Reyes in a statement. “All of our youth are born perfect and deserve to be protected from the harmful, discredited practice of conversion therapy.” Philadelphia last month adopted similar legislation, which is awaiting signature by Mayor Jim Kenney. Pittsburgh became the first city in the state to ban conversion therapy last year. (Philadelphia Gay News – Jen Colletta at Epgn. com)
US House narrowly rejects ban on trans medical care Washington, DC – The US House of Representatives voted down an amendment that would have taken away medically necessary health care for transgender service members and military dependents. Proposed by Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), the amendment would have barred access to transition-related health care – including critically important care such as hormone therapy – for service members and military family members. The amendment was defeated by a vote of 214 to 209. Reaction from organizations supporting military families was swift. “Congresswoman Hartzler’s attempt to strip healthcare from service members and their —continued on page 11
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beyond the beltway —continued from page 7 families in a time of war was unpatriotic, unconstitutional, and just plain vile, we are pleased to see that the House of Representatives voted down this amendment” said OutServe-SLDN’s director Matt Thorn. “This was a horrifying, vicious attack on service members and military family members, and our families were beside themselves in fear,” said American Military Partner Association president Ashley Broadway-Mack. “It would have been beyond unconscionable to rip away the critically important health care of transgender military family members and service members – care that their doctors believe is medically necessary – and would have severely harmed thousands of military families and undermine military readiness. We are incredibly grateful to the members of Congress who stood up and stopped this assault on our military families.” (Dallas Voice – David Taffet at Dallasvoice.com) l
Philly’s new rainbow flag adds black and brown stripes Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Amber Hikes, the city’s director of LGBT Affairs, said she teared up the first time she saw the new rainbow flag, which was presented at City Hall last month. The new flag will expand on creator Gilbert Baker’s original design by including black and brown stripes to symbolize the LGBT community’s racial diversity. “Seeing an image like this flag instills so much pride in me as a queer black woman,” Hikes said. “When I see the flag, I feel like I see myself.” Tierney, a Philadelphia-based advertising agency, approached Hikes and the Office of LGBT Affairs with the new design. Hikes said the extra stripes are “simple,
Now, more colorful!
Abbott, whom he characterizes as a “dibut remarkable.” saster for Texans” and a governor who “of“The new design is a symbolic reprefers nothing in the way of new ideas.” sentation of Philadelphia’s commitment to “Texas needs a governor who believes centering the experiences, contributions, in real Texas values, like integrity, honesty, activism, and dedication of black and freedom and independence,” Payne said brown members of our community,” Hikes in a statement announcing his candidacy. said. “To me, this flag says: ‘We see you. Payne pointed to his history of sucWe honor you. We celebrate you. You’re cess as a businessman – from his court not just a part of us. You are us.’” For the reporting firm, to his real estate dealings flag-raising ceremony, Hikes said the ofand his thriving nightclub, the Dallas Eagle. fice chose people of color as presenters What sinks down must rise up The candidate said he makes no secret of and performers. “I feel that when we celehis active involvement in the Dallas LGBT brate Pride Month and the LGBT community at large, we focus heavily on the same ple in states and communities across the community or his history as a former Intervoices, identities, and experiences,” Hikes country. That’s why we’re going on offense national Mr. Leather, a title that gave him said. “This year, I want to celebrate people with the largest grassroots expansion in a platform to promote many charity events. who are too often left out of our narratives.” HRC’s history,” said HRC president Chad He also said that his philanthropic work reHikes said she believes this flag is “his- Griffin. “Our grassroots army of over three flects his commitment to helping others not toric on so many levels” and will expand million has proven that, even in the face of just in the LGBT community, but the greatbeyond the city. “This is not going to just unprecedented challenges, we can make er Texas community, as well. He founded be in Philadelphia,” Hikes said. “This is go- incredible progress and defeat the hate- the Sharon St. Cyr Fund, an organization ing to take the nation by storm. I believe ful politicians who’ve been emboldened that assists people in obtaining hearing that very deeply. This is an opportunity for by Donald Trump when we organize and aids and provides grants for sign language interpreters at public events. the community to come together and cele- mobilize.” Payne, born in Maine, lost his mother HRC has a track record of mobilizing brate not just Pride but also the community members whose voices and experiences supporters to defeat anti-LGBTQ legis- when he was three, and he spent much of his childhood in that so often get overlooked. To me, this lation and candidates, and to turn out on an orphanage is a chance to stop saying ‘We’re inclusive’ Election Day. HRC will now expand on Jeffery before entering and to actually begin showing it.” (Phila- these efforts and has begun recruiting at Payne foster care at delphia Gay News – Jeremy Rodriguez at least 20 additional full-time staff, including age 15. From dedicated political, field, grassroots orgaEpgn.com) that point on, nizing, volunteer engagement, communihe said, he cations, and digital staff, who will join more was driven to than two dozen existing staff working on succeed no the initiative. HRC is allocating $26 milmatter what the lion to resource this nationwide grassroots circumstances. push. The launch of HRC Rising comes By age 23 he after a year in which HRC significantly owned Payne’s expanded its grassroots engagement and Fine Jewelry, proved that the ten million LGBTQ voters which marked in America – five percent of all voters – are one of the most important and effective the beginning of a series of successful Washington, DC – The Human Rights voting blocs in the nation. The launch of ventures – ventures that were interrupted Campaign (HRC) has announced what it HRC Rising represents the opening of suddenly when Hurricane Katrina whipped calls “a bold, proactive grassroots expan- another front in HRC’s fight against the out everything he had built up in New Orsion” with the launch of HRC Rising, a Trump-Pence agenda. (The Human Rights leans, where he lived. Undeterred, Payne campaign to accelerate progress in states Campaign Press Release at Hrc.im/Rising) relocated to Dallas and started over again. t (Dallas Voice – Tammye Nash at Dalfrom coast-to-coast, resist the politics of lasvoice.com) hate, fight anti-LGBTQ legislation, and fuel pro-equality candidates and initiatives. In June, HRC partnered on dozens of nationwide marches – from the Los Angeles These news notes have been compiled, #ResistMarch to the National Equality with permission, from the online version March in Washington, DC, and cities in beof various newspapers and other web tween. HRC is harnessing that momentum sites. We thank these publications for to begin organizing for the 2018 elections allowing us to bring you their news stoearlier than ever before, with its biggest ries. Usually the reports have been sigstrategic investment in the organization’s nificantly edited and you can read the 37-year history. full story by going to the web site men“It’s not enough to resist the hateful poltioned following the item. Comments are strictly the opinions of Jim Becker Dallas, Texas – Dallas businessman icies and attacks coming from the Trumpand not of Baltimore OUTloud or Pride Pence regime – we’ve got to accelerate Jeffery Payne on July 14th, announced Media. the pace of progress toward full equality that he is running for governor of Texas, and secure protections for LGBTQ peo- challenging Republican incumbent Greg
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Community Impact Internships and the GLCCB “The Community Impact Internships Program is a competitive, paid summer internship, that pairs JHU undergraduate students with nonprofit organizations and government agencies to work on community-identified projects in Baltimore.” The program’s goals are it to: “to give undergraduate students an opportunity to gain real-world experience while being directly involved in the Baltimore City Community” and “to support local nonprofits, community groups, and government agencies in achieving their missions” This year the GLCCB was on the radar of one of their undergraduates. The Center was able to enjoy the services of Osiris Mancera, a CIIP intern, that spent her summer internship with the GLCCB. We had a chance to catch up with her and ask her the following: What made you choose the GLCCB? I’ve worked at the LGBTQ Life Office on campus for over a year and a half now. Working there has been so incredible because I’ve been able to meet such passionate and eccentric people, people who inspire me, people who make a difference. I then fell in love with the work involved in the LGBTQ community- it’s becoming pretty inclusive and extensive. Last summer I interned as the Marketing and Communications intern at FreeState Justice where I learned a lot about laws that protect (and don’t protect) LGBTQ rights in Maryland. My supervisor Abby then noticed a pattern and wanted to ensure I continued on
this path to learning how to become a better asset for the LGBTQ community in Baltimore and elsewhere. When she suggested working with the GLCCB I was immediately taken aback. I thought it an incredible opportunity to work with such a well-known organization that creates a myriad of programming and events and offers diverse services to any and all. I suppose it felt right, and that is why I chose to work with the GLCCB. I’m just glad I was chosen by the organization as well. What are some the things that you like most about working at the GLCCB? The people. I definitely lacked the interaction with staff members and community members last summer and although I meet new people at the LGBTQ Life Office, it tends to be exclusive to students, faculty, and staff at the Homewood campus and to a lesser extent from our other Hopkins campuses. Here, we have family members that visit everyday, others that I see during certain programming, but nevertheless, people are always coming and going. I think that has become my favorite part. Workwise, I love having the freedom to design and create projects that pop into my head and having them acknowledged and used. I feel worthy here. I feel accepted. I cannot express how much appreciation I have for the GLCCB and the community as a whole for being able to express myself this way and also for giving me a better sense of what it
means to work at a non-profit. Everybody gets a say, and everybody’s job is to do a little of everything. What can GLCCB offer interns? This is an unbelievable space for everyone! But for interns, I think that this organization is unique in that it offers creative freedom and the ability to choose what you want your internship to look like. If you like planning events, they have you covered. Administrative work and space management? Done. Management or communications and marketing? It’s here. What is offered in this is the ability to grow in certain areas, experiment in others, and be useful in any way possible. What do you plan to do with the rest of your summer? As the internship runs for 8 weeks, I will be finishing up in the first week of August. The rest of my summer will be spent preparing and training as a co-leader for a pre-orientation cohort called HopkinsCORPS; training will include a weekend of camping, climbing, and hiking at Seneca Falls in West Virginia with the other leaders. This pre-orientation will be in its 3rd year (and it will be my second year as a co-leader and 3rd year working with the program) and it focuses on civic engagement, service, and leadership education which includes volunteering at organizations like Second Chance, Monument Quilt, and Paul’s Place as well as workshops on inclusive language and service. This year we’re expanding the program to 40 incoming freshman so I am exceptionally excited to meet them all and spend another summer working on personal development with other like-minded (and contrarian-minded) students. Immediately thereafter I will commence my semester studying film and literature in Cuba at the University of Havana followed by working on a film project in Salvador and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Will your internship at the Center help you with your future goals? What are some things you would like to do after you graduate? This summer has been monumental in augmenting my professional confidence, skillsets, and humility. In being acknowledged as an asset to the organization, asked about my opinions, and having my work appreciated, I have absolutely felt better prepared to work efficiently. After one particular internship, I began working with caution which was probably the most detrimental thing I could have
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done. Change does not happen from being too careful. Thus, being here has vastly altered my perception of myself for the better. Moreover, I have been challenged to learn various skills and how to operate different software like InVision and Photoshop. Lastly, while I believe I am a rather humble person, this internship has changed the way I understand humility because now I help out where I can and when I can. I realized that in non-profit organizations sacrifice and perseverance are a must. Otherwise, we don’t survive. After I graduate I have two main goals: travel and education. I’m applying for a research grant to study Indigenous Art and Education in Mozambique where I hope to video archive the country’s history of protest for access to education and hopefully learn Swahili and practice my Portuguese. I have also been looking into various programs to expose me to teaching and education, namely Teach for America and City Year. After this I would like to experience graduate school to get a Masters or PhD in Higher Education in Leadership and Multicultural Approaches to work in Student Affairs. One of my dreams is to work as a University President but until then I want to get as much exposure to as many careers as possible.
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We know that there are more resources available than one person Since we opened the doors of our could possibly access on their own. brand new Charles Village location in We also recognize that reaching out August of 2016, the GLCCB has been updating our program schedule to include new programs to engage the local SGL/LGBTQ community. From dance classes to discussion groups, we’re consistently striving to make sure there’s something for everybody in our line-up of programs. While game nights and support groups may serve some community members’ needs, others may benefit from one-on-one support from one of our peer navigators. Peer navigators are individuals who have been trained to help people access the city-wide and state-wide network of resources. Many think that the case management services that our peer navigators provide are limited to HIV care and PrEP linkage. Our peer navigators are equipped, however, to help folks in need of anything from job placement to conflict mediation to housing.
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for help isn’t always easy. Our peer navigators are here for you five days a week. Your information stays confidential as we connect you with our partner organizations to receive the services you need. The GLCCB is truly here for you,
our community. Every program, event, and initiative is designed with you at the center. If you’d like to meet with a peer navigator, call the GLCCB at 410-777-8145 or come visit us anytime.
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Pointing it Out
By Sage Piper
Liberal Justice Health Watch is On Seventy-eight. 80. 84. These are the ages of three of the liberal Supreme Court justices about whom speculation on possible retirement dates swarm daily – Justices Breyer, Kennedy, and Ginsburg. As the age scale tips against them (and Kennedy drops loaded retirement hints) all we can do is watch and anguish over when and how the major advancements and institutional progress that have been won for our community will be overturned and erased, one by one. Yes, the spector of another three-and-a-half years with Trump and/or Pence in the Oval Office looms larger and more threatening by the hour.
Meanwhile, at age 49, new Trump appointee Justice Neil Gorsuch is revved up and ready to adjudicate. Before his confirmation, LGBT advocates had little concrete information to go on with regard to Gorsuch’s actual opinions on LGBT issues, notwithstanding an op-ed he penned in the National 12 years ago which accused liberals of us- ing the courts “as the primary means of effecting their What’s social agenda on at stake everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide.” But Gorsuch is begininning to show his true colors, and they aren’t rainbowific. Last month the Supreme Court ruled the Constitution requires states to list same-sex parents on their child’s birth certificates. Gorsuch, along with Thomas and Alito, dissented – and Gorsuch argued that exclusion from a birth certificate
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is not a violation of one’s constitutional rights. “Nothing in Overgefell (Supreme Court case which legalized gay marriage) indicates that a birth registration regime based on biology ... offends the Constitution,” he wrote. Could Gorsuch be trying here to give conservative and hostile state courts a strategy, attempting to revive the biological rationale for treating same-sex couples differently? If so, we need to prepare ourselves. “I think he’s trying to provide a road map for hostile state courts by suggesting that they should go back to these biological justifications. He wants to recast family law in this narrowly biologistic way that’s reverse engineered to exclude gay people,” says Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which represented the Arkansas plaintiffs in this case. Other threats to established protections are underway as well across the country. Appeals are back in place to block HB 1523, a Mississippi law which allows magistrates to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and business to deny them their service. “HB 1523 is offensive to the rights of LGBT and other dissenting Mississippians and to the Supreme Court’s command of this burning civil rights issue,” wrote the attorneys asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to block the law. The Supreme Court recently announced it will hear the case of a baker who refused to create a cake to celebrate the marriage of a Colorado gay couple, citing his religious objections to same-sex unions. The case is one of several which has been filed on behalf of businesses such as other bakeries, florists, and photography studios across the country which
claim that forcing them to serve gay couples violates their constitutional rights. These are businesses which choose to serve the general public, and yet they are trying to force their own bigoted definition of just who the “general” public is and what actions of said “general” public are acceptable to serve. Are we not entitled to equal treatment, and access to equal goods and services, as our fellow Americans? Would there be such an issue if a restaurant refused to serve to Asian-American customers? If a sports arena refused to let African-Americans drink from the water fountain? Or if a florist refused to make arrangements for customers who were police officers? If a business depends on serving the public to make its livelihood, does it not deserve to lose its livelihood if it does not treat each and every customer the same? In what kind of a country do we all live in, circa 2017? When David Mullins and Charlie Craig originally filed discrimination charges against the baker who refused to make their wedding cake, they won both in the courts and before a civil rights commission. Some might ask why it is so important to keep fighting this battle – why not just go to the baker down the street, and let it be? Because if the door opens to a religious exemption to public accommodations in this case, it would swing wide for exemptions to every other civil rights law – including employment, education, housing, credit, athletics, public services, and beyond. We cannot allow this opening. “This has always been about more than a cake,” David Mullins has stated publicly. “Businesses should not be allowed to violate the law and discriminate against us because of who we are and who we love.” Sounds simple, doesn’t it? t
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quality of life
Frontline Warrior My Fabulous
Disease By Mark S. King
—continued from page 1 ioned her book tour to learn from, and educate, LGBT people in every city on the schedule. The Pox Lover grew out of diaries d’Adesky wrote diligently throughout the 80s and 90s. “I chose to focus on my diaries from 1992 to 1999 because I was embarked on a specific journey,” d’Adesky explains. Exhausted from years of activism with ACT UP and the Lesbian Avengers, an organization she co-founded, d’Adesky took a break in Paris to reflect on her life while becoming entranced with long walks along the Seine. The book is often dreamlike, with memories washing over d’Adesky in nonlinear fashion, but it does not skimp on the realities of being a woman, much less a lesbian, in a largely male movement. “In my own circle in New York City, lesbians were very involved in AIDS activism and ACT UP,” d’Adesky says. “That was also true wherever I travelled.” Just don’t try to relegate their involvement to the friendly lesbian nurse stationed in the intensive care unit. “We were not simply caretakers. That’s a complete erasure of our contributions. We were equal with the gay men who were moderating the conversation.” In fact, lesbians brought thoughtful layers to activism that might have otherwise been overlooked. “Lesbians and feminists brought real strategy to the table,” d’Adesky insists, born of their experience with the peace movement and reproductive health. “We addressed insti-
boldened by her fellow activists, however, that she joined them in loud chants that effectively shut down the mass. “I just couldn’t do it,” she says. “I couldn’t sit it out.” As she was taken from the church in handcuffs, she remembers checking with other reporters to be sure they were writing
of former ACT UP cohorts joining the fray again. “Even with Trump, I feel exhilarated,” she says. “It does manage to mitigate the suffering and fear.” Anne-christine d’Adesky is a woman with very few regrets. “For anyone in the movement,” she says with assurance, “it is an incredibly exciting life.” t Join Anne-christine d’Adesky and Mark S. King at Red Emma’s (30 West North Ave in Baltimore) on Tuesday, July 25th at 7:30 pm.
tutional sexism when women could not get into clinical trials for AIDS medications because the FDA was afraid they might become pregnant.” Speaking up sometimes meant putting the women in the movement at odds with the gay men at the table. “Gay men were narrowly focused,” d’Adesky contends, “and there were tensions, between privileged white gay men and people of color, or women, or people living in poverty. If you get a treatment that has only been tested on gay white men in a certain income bracket, it may not work. Especially globally. The ACT UP work of women about it. • Family Law • Estate Planning and the people of color caucuses was Nothing in de• Real Estate absolutely prescient and critical, even cades of activism has Anne-christine Stephanie Cañas Hunnell, Esq. life-saving. But it was very much a batdispirited d’Adesky. d’Adesky tle because of institutional sexism and “People have this Sylvia L. Breitowich, Esq. the invisibility of women idea of activism as negative 408 7th Ave. in national health agendas. and thankless,” she says, while nothing Asbury Park, NJ 07712 Feminists changed that, could be farther from the truth. “You meet 732-749-3500 and that includes a lot of incredible people who want to change the fax 732-749-3503 men who were very effec- world. I have had so much fun.” Monmouth-Divorce.com tive feminists.” With the resistance against the Trump D’Adesky walked a fine administration, d’Adesky is seeing a lot line between being a journalist – she was writing about AIDS activism for The Nation, Village Voice, Out magazine, and others – and responding to the urge to put down her notepad and join the protest events, which she often did. She would decide what role she would play, journalist or activist, on any given day (she now refers to her work as “advocacy journalism.”) “I thought if I joined an ACT UP committee, I would compromise my ethics,” she says, “so I didn’t. I wasn’t neutral about it, though, because it was impacting my close friends.” So, d’Adesky focused on writing stories about what she witnessed that would reach the largest national audience possible. During one of ACT UP’s most infamous actions in 1989, known as “Stop the Church,” hundreds of AIDS protestors gathered for Contact AIDS Action Baltimore 410-837-2437 or mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New PrEPUPmsm2gmail.com York City. D’Adesky went inside, telling herself she would simply be reporting the Supported by funding from Baltimore City Health Department incident. She became so inspired and em-
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We Need to Talk If you hear that statement, does it make you anxious? Do you get a knot in your stomach? Why? Why is talking a dreaded behavior? Or is it the unknown about what the talk might involve? Now if you hear that in a work context, is it different than when it is in a personal situation? I think the answer to these questions is not a simple one. Our upbringing definitely has a bearing on how and how much we talk. There are families where silence is seen as golden and conversations are not extended. The child then gets the message that the less you say, the better you are. Then there are families where talking, and expression of emotions, are the norm.
Saying what you are thinking, possibly in a loud manner, is encouraged. I remember a friend told me that when he and his father used to go on long road trips, neither one of them would say much. As a result, he had learned that any time something needed to be said, it was out of necessity or something that involved correction: Meaning the child had done something wrong. The message from that kind of an atmosphere is clear: Keeping quiet is safe. Then, as an adult, whenever he heard this statement in the title, his anxiety went up until he found out what the matter on hand was. In a relationship, put two people together where one person likes to talk about everything and the other is like my friend and bingo! there’s immediate conflict and misunderstandings afoot. Our brains are wired to use past learning to guide and to sort through what is necessary and what is superfluous. All of the direct and indirect messages we have received as we grow up set the foundation for this process. Even the volume of the speech affects us. If you are used to people who speak softly, then a louder person will seem to be yelling at you. For the latter, it is just the normal tone and volume, but discrepant expectations
can bring on disagreements. So what is the solution? First of all, it’s healthy to discuss issues between partners or family members. How else can we resolve any matter? We have to communicate to set up household chores, or how we meet for dinner, or what to cook, and so on. Where discomfort for some seems to reside is in sharing feelings because now, we are making ourselves vulnerable. The difficulty may be in sharing negative feelings, and for others, even positive ones. Saying I love you is indeed hard for some. Yet it is sad for any of us to keep feelings bottled up inside. Not only is it detrimental to our physical health, but also it poisons our mental well-being. So if you find yourself hard-pressed to express what is in your heart and mind, ask yourself: Why is this hard? What is it that gets in my way to say what I think or feel? What is it I am afraid of? Then, confront your fear. A revealing question is: What is the worst thing that can happen if I verbalize my feelings? The answer to that question will open the way for you to use your insight and go on a healthy and productive path. t
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Lunch & Learn: Money Management Tips for Elders By Monte Ephraim LGBT Health Resource Center of Chase Brexton Health Care Elders in need of a financial makeover will find some change at the LGBT Health Resource Center’s next “Lunch & Learn” workshop. Karen Sadler of PNC Bank will present money management strategies on Thursday, August 10th from noon to 1:30 pm in the community rooms at Chase Brexton’s Mount Vernon Center (1111 North Charles Street, Baltimore). We asked Franklin McNeil, Jr., vice president and community consultant with PNC and a former Chase Brexton board member for a few financial tips. What money management difficulties do LGBT elders in particular face? Believe it or not, most mainstream financial institutions recognize that the definition of a “traditional” household has changed, so don’t be afraid to speak with your banker about adding your same-sex spouse to your account or having both of your names added to the top of your checks. If your financial institution makes you feel uncomfortable, look for another one that doesn’t! Make sure you have all of the documentation that you need to verify who your
spouse is, so that the bank knows that you are now “Mr. and Mr.” and “Ms. and Ms.” etc. The bank isn’t being nosy – they need to know who should have access to your account should you become incapacitated and your spouse needs to handle your affairs. After that, LGBTQ elders face the same issues as other elders. You should have powers of attorney, wills, and other legal documentation completed in case you are unable to address your financial affairs; you should recognize the warning signs of potential financial abuse; learn how to avoid being tricked and suffering a financial loss; and know where to get help should you be targeted. What are some common money management issues among elder clients? They may take many different forms, but the most common ones are someone:
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• Selling you something you don’t need • Selling you something that doesn’t work, is delivered poorly, or not at all • Stealing valuable possessions while in your home • Forging signatures to cash your checks • Using your credit card, bank accounts, money or property without permission • Getting you to sign a deed, will, or power of attorney through deception or intimidation • Taking advantage of you while having a live-in caregiver There are also several forms of scams, such as telephone scams, internet scams, investment scams, and mail scams like “sweepstakes” and other giveaways. How difficult is it for an older individual to get on the right financial track? It’s not difficult at all for an elder to get back on track. We all have to manage our finances, especially if we are on a fixed income. Your bank should have some classes and helpful tricks for savings and budgeting. PNC Bank has a Virtual Wallet Account, comprised of three distinct accounts working together as one seamless online money management tool designed to help you spend, save, and grow. It’s important to gain control of your finances, so they don’t control you. Just as we plan time to exercise and if you are trying to lose weight, we plan our menus and watch our calorie intake, it is important to plan your budgeting by identifying all of your sources of income and tracking your expenses. Do this at the same time each month, so that you are keenly aware of what you have to spend and if there is any disposable income left for extra or unexpected purchases. What is one easy financial management tip you can offer? Take the time to track your expenses! Keep a log for at least a month of your typical bills, and remember to account for periodic expenses like car/home insurance or, if you’re a homeowner, any taxes or special maintenance, to see exactly where your money is going. PNC Bank has a pocket-sized Expense Tracker that you
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Speaks
By Rabbi Jan Dodi
May I Be Happy May I Be Well This morning we studied a Bible story about Pinchas. He used violence to stop a plague that God brought upon the Israelites because of their behaviors with the local people. In response to his violent act, God gave him the blessing of eternal shalom, peace. Such a strange reward for a very violent act. What does this story teach? That if you act violently, with God in mind, that you are doing the correct thing? I sure do hope not. We see too much of this in the news everyday. We have so many killing in the name of their gods. Wars are started with this
“We need to find a way to diffuse the anger within ourselves and the anger in others.” notion. Families are divided over this zealousness. People take to the streets proclaiming that they know what their gods are telling them to do. How can we argue this? How do you tell someone that what they think is the word of their god is just a voice in their head? And yet, we do. So, today, at our prayer service we looked at the reward for zealousness (and use of extreme anger) and how we need
can use to capture any time that you put money in the parking meter or go out to eat. You will be astounded by how much money you are spending at your favorite coffee shop or convenience store, especially when you are trying to find money to save, go on vacation or buy a home, etc. t For information and to register for the upcoming Lunch & Learn program, contact lgbt@chasebrexton.org or call 410837-2050 x1107.
to make a change. We need to find a way to diffuse the anger within ourselves and the anger in others. It was thought that the anger Pinchas had towards the “others” and their actions are what brought about his violent behavior. If he was not so angry, he might have confronted the situation differently. But the Bible story is there for a reason. It was written down for us to try to struggle with the juxtaposition of reward and violent behavior. So we went around the room talking about the things that make us angry. The things we encounter each day. Whether it is the political news, the health care mess, the killings on our streets in Baltimore (and other cities), the inequality of riches, the daily struggle of making a living, and on and on. The list got longer and longer as we went around our circle. And then we stopped and looked at ourselves. What anger do we carry with ourselves when we leave our homes each day? How does this anger manifest itself out in the community, our work, and even our shopping experiences that we encounter. But the biggest question was, how do we face our internal anger and change it for ourselves and for those we meet so that we do not carrying it around in ourselves. We spent some time looking inward. What can we do differently to change our lives? We were lead in a “metta” meditation. We started with repeating the phrases: May May May May
I I I I
be be be be
happy. well. safe. peaceful and at ease.
After taking this in and meditating on this for a few minutes, we moved on to: May May May May
you you you you
be be be be
happy. well. safe. peaceful and at ease.
When we think about our behaviors, we have to begin deep inside. When we asked “May you …” we started thinking about someone we truly love and wished them happiness, well-being, safety, and peace. We then opened our circle to someone who may have hurt us a little, someone we are a little bit distant from emotionally. We went from this to someone who hurt us a lot. Each time trying to allow ourselves to heal from the experiences of hurt and anger. Does it happen immediately? Of course not. Will it happen over time? I am sure it will. So I leave you with may you be peaceful and at ease. t
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Wishing for a More Frightening Movie by Chuck Duncan In the horror movies heyday of the 1980s, every movie had to be bigger and bloodier than the next, pushing the limits of the R-rating as far as the MPAA would allow. A lot of times directors would shoot extremely gorier scenes deliberately, knowing they would have to be trimmed down to something closer to what they intended to get the R-rating, playing psychological games with the ratings board to trick them into giving the directors what they wanted. These films were usually made on the cheap but found box office success for the most part, unhampered by that “Restricted” rating. But somewhere along the way, these films which usually came from smaller, independent studios suddenly were being made by the big Hollywood studios, and they had but one edict – it has to make money. And the only way to make money is to make sure it has the widest audience
Wish Upon may leave you wishing
possible so they started insisting that these traditionally bloody films now came with a maximum PG-13 rating (and that rating was born partly out of the controversy of the PG rated Poltergeist and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom), which pretty much put the kibosh on what the directors could show as far as blood and gore. For some movies that involve more supernatural and ghostly happenings, a PG-13 was not that harsh of a punishment. For the ones that really rely on most of the cast being killed in creative ways, a PG-13 can be a real buzz kill. And that brings us to Wish Upon, a film that deals with supernatural forces and creative deaths ... and a PG-13 rating. The story focuses on Clare Shannon
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(Joey King), a high schooler who witnessed her mother’s suicide by hanging at a very young age. Prior to her death, mom placed an object in the trash can outside the house. Years later, her father Jonathan (Ryan Phillippe) has become an obsessive dumpster diver much to Clare’s embarrassment but one day he finds an interesting box with Chinese writing on it and gives it to Clare as a gift. In a movie full of one too many plot devices ... er, coincidences, Clare is actually studying Chinese in school so she knows enough to read the words “seven wishes” inscribed on the box. Bullied at school, Clare decides to wish that her main bully would just rot. And she does. But soon after, Clare’s beloved dog dies. Tired of being the “poor kid” at school, Clare then wishes her uncle would leave her everything in his will (and her father says that will never happen). He does after he dies a mysterious death, but Clare still hasn’t put two and two together yet. It takes her five wishes and five deaths, including another neighbor and one of her best friends before she finally realizes that the box – and she – just might be responsible. But can she stop wishing? Even if after the seventh wish the box claims her soul? Or is there a loophole because your lead character certainly cannot die a horrible death ... or can she? Wish Upon is ... fun. Not a term you really want to use for a movie which depicts people dying in gruesome ways, but that’s part of the problem. Saddled with the PG13 rating, the film never shows any of the gruesome deaths, always cutting away just before things get really gnarly (like a decapitation with a chain saw). The movie goes out of its way to set up these Final Destination-style deaths, but the audience is left feeling cheated by never seeing anyone actually die. It really becomes frustrating and is very detrimental to the film as a whole. Perhaps the studio will release an R or “Unrated” version when the film comes to home video. On the plus side, the movie is very well made and has a good cast, with one exception. Joey King is fine as the teen, and she really shows how Clare’s attitude changes once her wishes start coming true. Coming
from nothing to suddenly having an endless supply of money and the hottest boy at school crushing on her, she’s very reluctant to give it all up even when she realizes she’s responsible for all of those deaths. Everyone else in the cast plays to their types, but the standouts are Clare’s friends, played by Sydney Park and Shannon Purser, but for different reasons. Park is terrific as sassy friend Meredith, who is What’s lurking beneath?
also the v o i c e of reason, and she’s not shy about calling out Clare’s behavior once she becomes the popular girl at school. On the other hand, it was really shocking to see Stranger Things’ Barb, Shannon Purser, as Clare’s other friend June turn in one of the worst performances in the film, if not the worst. Purser is fine in her little time on Stranger Things (for which she was nominated for an Emmy!), and she’s also okay as Ethel on Riverdale. Here it seems like she never saw the script until the day of shooting, almost always with a slight but bland smile on her face and very little emotion in any of her line deliveries. Perhaps she did snag the role at the last minute, but many people at the screening commented afterwards just how bad she was. With two films in the can for 2018, I’m hoping that this performance was just a fluke for her. And while the focus of the movie is on the teens, it would have been nice to give Phillippe and Twin Peaks fave Sherilyn Fenn just a little more to do. Wish Upon had enough production value and decent performances to keep me entertained even though it was frustrating at times. I can say I enjoyed it a bit more than most of the people I talked to after the screening. Your enjoyment will vary, that is certain. Not great, not terrible and certainly not scary (although I was very, very tense during a scene with a garbage disposal), Wish Upon may play well with a younger crowd, but older horror fans may want to wait to see if the video release restores some of the film’s blood and guts. t
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Baltimore Shakespeare Factory’s Love’s Labor’s Lost
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The Bard’s most underappciated classic?
By Frankie Kujawa The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory (BSF) brings the Bard’s comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost to audiences in Baltimore this month. Running from July 28th to August 20th, the story is set in the Kingdom of Navarre, where the current King Ferdinand has just duction will mark her debut performing decided to turn his court into “a little ac- at BSF. “This is actually my first Shakeademe” and swear off all plea- speare production in general, not just with sures of the flesh this company,” Hanratty explained. “The to study for three most intimidating thing was the text years. However, work. I wanted to make a snag arrives sure I was getin the form of ting it all the Princess of right and France, who u n d e r is travelling standing to Navarre everything. to convince A big part the king to of what BSF return the does is they region of do a lot of text Aquitaine homework beto her fafore you even ther, the show up for the king of France. What first rehearsal.” ensues thereafter Hanratty went on is a tour-de-force Cast of characters – Utkarsh to explain the disRajawat (Berowne), Flynne Harne that will leave ausection of Shake(Longueville), Nicholas Fruit s p e a r e ’ s language was very diences’ minds (King of Navarre), Michael Blaine “labour”- intensive, but the result spinning. (Dumaine) yielded deeper meaning of her “Love’s Lacredit: Will Kirk bour’s Lost character. “It was extremely helpstands out from ful to have my character fleshedShakespeare’s out. So, once we came to rehearsal, we canon as startlingly modern,” explained felt that the hard work was already done director Chris Cotterman. “Like an amphet- and we felt we could work on the moveamine-fueled Bob Dylan 370 years before ment and the character interaction of the the fact, Shakespeare delights in his com- piece.” mand of the language and spins some of In contrast, BSF alumnus Utkarsh Rahis most dizzyingly intricate and beautiful jawat has found that the performance asverse. Like an alchemist, he takes the pect was something that he intentionally leaden conventions of the era’s common developed for this piece. “I play one of the comic form and transmutes it into some- king’s ‘posse’ members – one of the lords. thing altogether different and precious.” He’s a very ‘wordy’ and not necessarily the “It’s probably not appropriate to project funniest character, even though this is a modern philosophies onto a man who’s comedy. For me, I’ve worked on trying to been dead for 400 years, but Shakespeare keep the character engaging and being was clearly playing with ideas that were open to finding humor in stuff that isn’t ahead of the times,” Cotterman adds. “I necessarily inherently laugh-out-loud.” find it delightful, and I marvel that this play Both performers thoroughly enjoy doesn’t get the same attention as some of working with the talented staff and cast his lesser works. In the princess, Shake- at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory. As speare gives us a woman who is at least Rajawat explained, “It’s very inspiring beas capable as her male counterparts, and cause BSF tends to get a lot of very cool, who is continually objectified by those men dedicated talented actors and it’s very inaround her.” spiring.” t For actress Erin Haratty, who plays For more info it’s Baltimoreshakethe role of princess of France, this pro- spearefactory.org
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By Gregg Shapiro Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, now in their mid-to-late 70s respectively, remain productive and continue to tour and perform on a regular basis. In their youth, the surviving half of The Beatles, along with the late John Lennon and George Harrison, made an immeasurable impact on contemporary music and culture. Out of all of the Beatles’ albums, 1967’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Apple / Capitol / UMe), now available in a new two-CD 50th anniversary edition stereo mix (by Giles Martin, son of George Martin) 50th anniversary edition, is probably the Fab Four’s most influential and eternal recording. Whether you last listened to Sgt. Pepper a year ago or 20 years ago, you’re sure to be thrilled by the new sounds you’ll discover in this version, especially on songs such as “She’s Leaving Home,” “With a Little Help from My Friends,” “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite,” “Getting Better,” “When I’m 64,” and “A Day in the Life.” The second disc features numerous takes of the songs on the album, as well as 2017 stereo mixes of the singles “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane,” which though recorded at the same time as Sgt. Pepper, would later find their way onto Magical Mystery Tour, released later in 1967. The psychedelic sounds explored to great affect by the Beatles are also an essential component of Pink Floyd’s 1967 debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Pink Floyd outlasted the Beatles by a few years, although they would eventually be undone by a similar kind of in-fighting. Additionally, the solo output by Pink Floyd’s members was nowhere near as substantial as that of the Beatles’. Is This the Life We Really Want? (Columbia) is only the fourth solo album by Roger Waters, but is unmistakably the work of a former member of Pink Floyd. Produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Beck and others), Is This the Life We Really Want? succeeds by bringing prog-rock into the 21st century. As politically oriented as the best of Waters’ (and by extension Pink Floyd’s later) work, Waters gorgeous rage equals that of similarly-minded Depeche Mode’s Spirit. Midwestern prog rock superstars Styx, featuring openly gay founding member Chuck Panozzo, returns with The Mission (UMe), the band’s first new studio album in more than a dozen years. A concept album chronicling the first manned mission to Mars in 2033, The Mission opens with “Overture,” an instrumental boasting
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the kind of keyboards we’ve come to expect from Styx, while “Gone Gone Gone” delivers the band’s trademark guitars and harmonies. ”Hundred Million Miles From Home” slips in a funky bass line, “The Greater Good” delivers the drama and “The Outpost” has potential as a single. The aptly titled Adiós (UMe) is being touted as the final studio album Glen Campbell, the music legend who has been battling Alzheimer’s disease for several years. Produced by Carl Jackson, a longtime musical collaborator of Campbell’s, the album features four songs – including the title cut and “Just Like Always” – by Jimmy Webb, the songwriter responsible for some of the singer’s most popular tunes, including “Wichita Lineman” and “Galveston.” The disc also features Campbell’s singular interpretations of “Funny How Time Slips Away” by Willie Nelson (who can also be heard on the track), Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” and Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin’,” among others. Glen Campbell performed a cover of Paul Simon’s “Homeward Bound” on his 1967 By The Time I Get To Phoenix album. That song isn’t included among the Simon & Garfunkel selections on Simon’s two-CD / one DVD set The Concert in Hyde Park (Legacy), although he does do “The Boxer” and “The Sounds of Silence.” Recorded in 2012 during the Hard Rock Calling Festival in London, the live recording features many songs from Simon’s lengthy solo period, from early (“Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard” and “Mother and Child Reunion”) to mid-career (several songs from Graceland) and later (“Dazzling Blue”). Credited to Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, but also featuring Mick Fleetwood and John McVie (as well as Mitchell Froom), Lindsey Buckingham / Christine McVie (Atlantic) is essentially a Fleetwood Mac album, minus Stevie Nicks, of course. Already the subject of an extensive reissue campaign, involving beautifully packaged sets devoted to 1982’s Mirage and 1987’s Tango in the Night (as well as Nicks’s Bella Donna and The Wild Heart), Fleetwood Mac is never far from our consciousness. The truth is, Lindsey Buckingham / Christine McVie is the best Fleetwood Mac album in eons, with or without Nicks (but please don’t tell her we said that!). The songs, written by Buckingham and McVie, alone and in collaboration, are splendid, and fit well into the Mac’s oeuvre. “In My World,” “Feel About You,” “Red Sun,” “Sleeping Around the Corner,” “On
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By Gregg Shapiro Don’t be put off by the Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner meets The Stepford Wives / Rosemary’s Baby vibe of Get Out (Universal), because Jordan Peele’s mind-blowing debut as writer and director, is so much more. It’s a smart comedy, a reverent and referential horror flick, and it’s a meaningful statement about race in the age of Trump. It’s also the first step to forgiving Peele for 2016’s abysmal Keanu. Promising photographer Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and Rose (Allison Williams), his girlfriend of five months, are leaving the city for a weekend trip at her parents’ house in lily-white suburbia. Chris experiences some trepidation, joking with Rose about whether or not her parents know that he’s African-American, but she puts his mind at ease. However, Chris’s cautious TSA agent best friend Rod (LilRel Howery) is more concerned about the potential for trouble than Chris is. Initially, it seems that Rose’s neurosurgeon father Dean (Bradley Whitford) and psychiatrist mother Missy (Catherine Keener) couldn’t be nicer. As Rose predicted he’d do, Dean tells Chris he would have voted for Obama for a third term if he could. And Missy appears genuinely concerned about Chris’s cigarette habit, even using hypnosis as a means of cessation. But soon Chris begins to detect that things are amiss, beginning with the family’s black staff; cook Georgina (Betty Gabriel) and gardener Walter (Marcus Henderson). The arrival of Rose’s unstable brother Jeremy (Caleb Landry Jones) only increases Chris’s sense of unease. When word of a long-planned annual party, to take place while he and Rose are there, is announced, Chris (and the audience) are right to think that not everything is as it seems. Included among the almost exclusively white partygoers is African-American guest Logan (Lakeith Stanfield), whom Chris attempts to relate to as a “brother,” only to find
with the Show,” “Love is Here to Stay,” and the ballad “Game of Pretend,” in particular, are fabulous. No one could ever accuse Willie Nelson of being idle. His 21st century output alone amounts to an album a year, sometimes two or more. Additionally, he still finds time to be an activist for causes that many of us can get behind. A marvelous mix of originals and covers, God’s Problem Child (Legacy) is a welcome addition to Nelson’s considerable and impressive catalog. t
out that he acts as suspiciously as Georgina and Walter. When the flash from Chris’s camera phone momentarily breaks Logan’s spell, he urges Chris to “get out,” a familiar horror-film refrain. Unfortunately, already hypnotized by Missy without fully realizing it, it’s already too late for Chris. That’s basically all that can be said without revealing each brilliantly conceived twist, turn, and homage to contemporary horror and suspense cinema. Gory and giddy, terrifying and totally hilarious, Get Out is already an early wild-card contender for one of the best films of 2017, and Peele probably has a Best Director Oscar nod in his future. Blu-ray+DVD+Digital bonus features include alternate ending and deleted scenes with commentary by Peele, feature commentary, a featurette and a Q&A with Peele and the cast. Life (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Columbia), originally released in theaters a couple of months before Alien: Covenant, has a lot in common with the Alien series. The main similarities involve a crew of astronauts on a mission who wind up returning to earth with an insidious alien life form, whether or not they want to do so. Life’s crew includes David (Jake Gyllenhaal), who has spent 473 consecutive days in space, and Rory (Ryan Reynolds), a kind of space cowboy. Other crew members include the CDC’s quarantine officer Miranda (Rebecca Ferguson), Hugh (Ariyon Bakare), Sho (Hiroyuki Sanada), and Kat (Olga Dihovichnaya). Hugh is the one who works closest with the large inert single cell samples from Mars, attempting to “reanimate” them. By the 12th day, Hugh is successful. The specimen cells begin moving together and growing, interacting with their environment. This newly created species is named “Calvin.” Hugh’s happiness doesn’t last, however. Following a problem in the lab, Calvin becomes inactive. Eventually, Hugh tries stimulating Calvin with a low voltage charge. Calvin wakes from its deep sleep and grips Hugh’s hand in an effort to escape the lab. Almost killing Hugh, Calvin attacks a lab rat and – spoiler alert – kills Rory who enters the chamber to help Hugh. That’s right, Ryan Reynolds’ character is dead 40 minutes into the movie. Rapidly growing, Calvin escapes into the space station’s ventilation system. As communication with earth is lost, the body count mounts, with Calvin drowning Kat in her space suit, and eviscerating Hugh and Sho. Rapidly moving into earth’s atmosphere, David and Miranda hatch a plan to ensure that Calvin never reaches our world. But Calvin is smarter than it looks, as the surprise ending reveals. DVD special features include deleted scenes, astronaut diaries, and three featurettes. t
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the road to matrimony. There were the family members who struggled with what to tell their kids, for example. There were others This summer has been a season of change who weren’t sure about attending the wedand growth for my kids. The baby is talking ding at all. up a storm, making two- and three-word senI find this attitude overwhelmingly frustences. One of my older kids has graduated trating. What do you tell children about any and is now working as a licensed cosmetolo- wedding? Two people fell in love and decidgist. Another of my unofficial kids (those who ed to spend their lives together. End of exdidn’t actually grow up in my house) is head- planation. What more needs to be said? ing off to graduate school at an Ivy League These parents don’t feel like university. they have to offer more explaAnd then there’s Todd. nations with straight couples. Todd is one of my kids So why do they think children from way back. I met Todd need more information if the when he and one of my oldcouple is gay? er girls attended the same Too often, we make bigprivate school. Then, when ger deals about situations that school closed, I started than we need to do. The my own private school. Todd people in our lives are difbecame one of the students ferent and that’s a good there. thing. If we are tolerant Our school operates a litand accepting than our tle differently than most. We children will learn tolerhave a very small student popance. It doesn’t matter if ulation, so each student’s family people are LGBTQ, differentTodd and becomes part of our family. Many Jeffrey ly abled, from a different culture or of the families become friends and we socio-economic reality. People are continue that friendship long after the people and all people deserve to be child leaves our school to move on with oth- respected and appreciated for their differer life adventures. ences and gifts. Todd’s family is one of those families. Help your kids learn to appreciate peoWhen my mother passed away, Todd’s ple for what they add to life. There is beauty family came in and did all of the floral ar- and love all around us. Help them celebrate rangements for the memorial service. When that. Todd’s mother passed away, I officiated her So, here’s to two young men who fell in memorial service. I baptized Todd’s niece love. Here’s to those men who decided to and nephews. They know our kids and their make a life together, sharing in life’s joys histories. I was the first person Todd told and sorrows. Here’s wishing them a lifetime when he decided to come out. And, when his of love and happiness. I hope all of my kids parents struggled with that announcement, are as happy in life as Todd and Jeffrey are Todd came to live with my family for a few today. True love is a beautiful thing. t months while his parents adjusted. Rev. Kelly Crenshaw is the mom of 16 And now, he’s getting married. Today! adopted kids, two biological kids, guardian I am, of course, officiating. I can’t imag- of one baby girl and foster mom of dozens. ine it any other way. I have watched this Some are lesbian, some gay, some straight, young man grow from an awkward teen into and some bisexual. Kelly founded a K-12 day a strong adult. I have seen the changes with school where kids could have a safe, bully-free the arrival of his fiancé and I am anxious to environment for learning. She is co-owner of a see the life ahead of this young couple. counselling agency that works with children But, like many LGBT couples, Todd and and their families. Send your parenting quesJeffrey experienced a few rocky spots on tions to her at pastor.kelly@comcast.net
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Keystone State Gay Rodeo Round-Up Wrap-Up By Frankie Kujawa After a fantastic weekend of rough stock, roping, speed, and camp events, the Keystone State Gay Rodeo Association (KSGRA) celebrated its inaugural rodeo as a “yee-haw” success! The rodeo, which celebrated with charity partners Alder Health Services and the LGBT Center of Central Pennsylvania, was a weekend full of friendships, rodeo-family love, and all about living the Western lifestyle. How the “Many things come to West was mind as I reflect on the inauwon gural Keystone State Gay Rodeo,” began KSGRA president Adam Romanik. “Some of those include the great fun we had rodeoing, the awesome facility that we were able to hold the event in and mostly what comes to mind is the relationships that were formed and renewed during that event. Our event, like many others, is where folks can come as they are, whoever they are and enjoy the fun.” The relationships and bond that these men and women have at the rodeo stretch beyond state borders. “The support received by our rodeo family was amazing,” Romanik went on. “Even though we often only physically see our rodeo family about three to five times a year, we travel thousands of miles each year to support each other and do what we love – rodeo!” Throughout the weekend of festivities, which included a country ho-down and a “royal wedding,” fans of the rodeo
had opportunities to see both women and men compete in all events. “I would invite anyone that has any interest in the country lifestyle, rodeo, dancing or support for charity to become part of our family. International Gay Rodeo Association-based rodeos are open to everyone with a policy of total non-discrimination.” As the weekend progressed, the bond in which fans and rodeo participants formed was solid. Fans, many of which considered this rodeo to be their first, found themselves rooting and enjoying the festivities. With the outpouring of support and love, Romanik and the KSGRA is al-
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Brian George Hose
The Big Move This week I’m writing to you from the edge of sanity and reason. You see, I’m moving and now understand that moving is one of the most stressful life events that a person can face. Everything about moving is stressful – finding the appropriate number of boxes, figuring out what will go into said boxes, and then actually moving those boxes from your old life to your new life. The things that don’t make the cut, the stuff that won’t be joining you in your new life, still need to be moved and dealt with. Factor in the July heat and humidity and you have a recipe for an experience that will make you hate everything. Moving isn’t the only big task on my plate, though. As I shared a few weeks ago, I was accepted into a really good graduate program and have been waiting for all the necessary details to fall into place. It was a “hurry up and wait” situation, meaning I had done my part and just had to trust that things would come together. So I gave my landlord notice and made arrangements to move in with family for ten days before I left for school. So, I started packing up my old life. It took longer than expected because I’m easily distracted and occasionally overwhelmed. When that happened I reminded myself that this was necessary for me to get to the next step, to be closer to the person I want to be, and to just keep packing. Everything I packed had a story and I was surprised by how clearly these memories came flooding
back to me. The tie I wore to that really important interview, the souvenirs and mementos from countless events, the books my friends insisted I just had to read, they all took me back to a time and place in my life when everything was different. Then I got the news from the school. I hadn’t been selected to receive a housing allocation, a big problem for an out-of-stater less than three weeks before the start of classes. Housing was the cornerstone of my academic house of cards, and soon the whole thing began to crumble. The dream that was so close to becoming reality seemed to die in front of me. I’m still reeling from the news. But I had given notice to my landlord and had to keep working. Everyone wanted to know what I was going to do about school and I couldn’t provide an answer because my brain had turned into tapioca. Then, as I dug through layers of the archeology that was my life in this apartment, I realized something: Going to a fancy school isn’t going to make me the person I want to be. Sure, it’ll help, but ultimately it’s up to me and the decisions I make that determine what and who I’ll become. The evidence was all around me. Over the years I’ve been a roller derby referee, a church pianist, and a hundred other things that don’t seem to be related but are all part of who I am today. It seems appropriate that all this is happening during Pride season, and not just because I’m cleaning out my closets. I think it’s always good to stroll down Memory Lane and remember the things that made us happy and proud in the past because sometimes those things help us realize what will make us happy and proud in the future. And, if you stumble across something that isn’t serving you anymore, just get rid of it and make room for something better in your future. As for me, I don’t know where I’ll be in a month but I’m proud that I know I’ll find a way to be okay because I get to decide what my next big move will be. t
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ness. While our conversation didn’t take us deep into his professional competence, I’d be really surprised if he failed on that point. You’re getting by now that I liked Ralph, and would have confidence working with him on buying a new car. David Egan The best wedding professionals are just like Ralph. They’ll listen to you, understand what you do and don’t want, and give you good, informed guidance. How they dress for meeting with you and for working at your wedding is important. Your wedding calls for looking neat and professional and generally blending into the background. We tend to favor black. The meeting is about making you comfortable while conveying that they respect the cliA confession: I‘m crazy about getting good ent-professional relationship. To paraphrase customer service. It always has a strong in- Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, I can’t describe it, but I know when I see it. fluence on my buying decisions. All of the enthusiasm and listening and I stopped by a Mazda dealership yesterday while I was out and about, ’cause sartorial splendor doesn’t mean a thing if they don’t have the technical skills to I’m a Miata guy and the new one do the job. I like to see their is outstanding. I made a point of tools of the trade, either in checking the time when I started person or in photographs of looking at the cars out on the lot, them in action. How does their taking bets with myself on how equipment look? Clean and long it would take a salesperson well-kept? Professional? While to come out and talk with me. the “stuff” doesn’t tell the whole You know what? Nobody ever story, it tells a lot. came out. That impressed me I like to know how many – in a good way – so I decidyears the company and the indied to go inside and see the vidual has been in the business. top-down Miata in the showHow well are they grounded in room. The closest salesperthe business? Do they have exson, Ralph, and I started a perience and relationships that will conversation after a couple serve you? of minutes. He was easy, Almost every provider in the helpful, and enthusiastic. wedding industry – venues, caWhile it was clearly Ralph’s terers, DJs, bands, photographers, business to sell cars, there Serviceman and cake bakers, to name a few – was absolutely no pressure, should have liability insurance. That’s the and no BS. kind of insurance that protects you and That’s exactly the kind of customer service I like. If I buy a new Miata, your guests should someone be injured or if you can be sure that I’m going back to see something is broken or damaged. Coverage is easy to verify: ask them to have their inRalph. The wedding world has lots of people surance agent send you a certificate of liain it who are just like Ralph, and lots who bility insurance. You can get it on paper or via email. It costs them nothing to send it, aren’t. Ralph listened to me. He heard what was and gives you peace of mind, now and latimportant to me. We communicated well, er. Consider the lack of liability insurance to and easily. He told me about his son’s Miata, be a deal killer. If they’re not serious about a year older than mine, and pulled out his protecting you, their guests, and themselves, phone to show me pictures of the car when I walk away. t Next time: friends and family and wedexpressed interest in the source and quality ding planning of the car’s new paint job. David Egan is the proprietor and steward If you asked me how Ralph was dressed, I couldn’t tell you, but I remember that it was of Chase Court, a historic Baltimore wedding appropriate to the situation. He was clean, and event venue. Visit Chasecourt.com, and neat, and presented well. I felt comfortable follow ChaseCourtWeddingVenue on Instagram and Facebook. Send your comments in his presence. I had the sense that Ralph knew his busi- and questions to david@chasecourt.com.
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carapace, stalked eyes, and five pairs of legs, the first pair of which are modified as pincers. They may be abundant on many shores especially in the tropics where some have become adapted to life on land. There is nothing better than fresh Maryland crabmeat. It’s the premier crabmeat in the world – it’s a great product. The problem is, there’s just not enough of it anymore.” Those of us who grew up in the metropolitan area are accustomed to the culinary tiresome complaints of the transients. So accustomed that most of the time we don’t even bother coming up with a proper refutation. We lack good pizza. The bagels are subpar. There’s no distinctive sandwich to call our own – no cheesesteak, no hoagie, no Chicago hot dog. (The half-smoke? Please.) But with regards to Maryland crab, we locals have always been proprietary. It’s one of the few things in this fractured metropolis that binds us together, gives us pride in ourselves. Crabs don’t look anything alike. For example, Asian crabs are not blue and gray and smooth but white and spiny and spotted with thicker claws and a noticeably fuller body. According to the Encyclopedia Americana (1995 edition) there are approximately 4,500 different species of crabs living on Earth. It is probably impossible to tell for sure who (much less where!) ate the first crabs. Food historians tell us crabs were known to the ancient Greeks and Romans and were not eaten enthusiastically by these Mediterranean people as food. Because of the labor-intensive effort of harvesting crabs in colonial times the meat was used in small amounts (as was most shellfish) in soups, stews, sauces, and like other flaked fish, in small fried cakes. Some recipes suggested that other shellfish could be substituted for crab. Blue Crabs ranges from Delaware to Florida but those that come from Chesapeake Bay are the most famous Snow Crabs, sometimes called Queen Crab from the colder waters of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans, appeared on the market in the 1960s Alaska King Crabs are highly prized for their large meaty claws and legs Dungeness Crabs are found on the Pacific coast, from Mexico to Alaska. Rock Crabs range from Labrador, Can-
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ada, to Florida. Other crabs include Hermit Crabs, King Crabs, Porcelain Crabs, and Horseshoe Crabs. No two crabs taste alike. The flavor of the meat from the Asian Swimming Crab doesn’t begin to approach the distinctiveness of the meat from the Chesapeake Bay’s Blue Crab, lacking the latter’s sweet, musky succulence. Antebellum cooks would stew them in white wine lace with vinegar with a seasoning of nutmeg and anchovy. Cooks would heat the crab with a good deal of butter and egg yolks, serving it on a large crab shell as a second course. Whatever way it came from the kitchen, crab meat moves inventive cooks to improvise and sometimes to include extenders among the ingredients for a crab dish. The phrase “crab cake” appears to be a 20th century appellation. The term dates in print to 1939 to Crosby Gaige’s New York World’s Fair Cook Book, where they are called “Baltimore Crab Cakes,” suggesting they have long been known in the South. They are basically a fried lump of crabmeat, held together with a minimum of filler. Delicious! Fillers such Crabs are the apple of as bread and spices came Baltimore’s about for two reasons: taste culinary eye and economy. A traditional Baltimore crab cake generally consists of steamed Blue Crab backfin meat, egg, mayonnaise, Baltimore’s popular Old Bay seafood seasoning, cracker crumbs, and mustard. It’s prepared by either broiling or frying. I highly recommend sautéing with just butter. You won’t get any hard crust on the surface of the crab cake from broiling and no grease from frying. Baltimoreans typically do not use tartar sauce on their crab cakes; most either eat them plain, or with a dash of Worcestershire sauce and often on saltine crackers. As for me, I like a few squirts from a lemon slice on top savoring the true taste from the meat. Crab cakes, as we Americans know them today, are considered a popular traditional specialty. Crab feasts are common enough from Maryland’s Eastern Shore to Baltimore. Live hard shell crabs are being forced into a makeshift container, steamed in hot spiced vinegar vapor, beer with Old Bay seasoning. Have you ever noticed how restaurants claim they are number one for the best crab cakes around? Not everyone can be number one. At Grill Art Cafe we took every recipe
and tossed it around until it was the best including our own crab cakes. We kept it simple with very few fillers so you’ll still taste the sweet meat. We added some finely chopped curly parsley just for color which did not affect the taste. As far as number one best crab cake, we claimed we were number two and our customers were never discouraged. GRILL ART CAFE CRAB CAKES • Preparation time: three hours and 30 minutes • Cooks in six minutes • Makes nine • Lasts seven days in the refrigerator INGREDIENTS 3 pounds super-lump crabmeat 3 whole eggs 1-1/2 cups Panko bread crumbs 1/4 cup mayonnaise 3 tablespoon Dijon mustard 6 tablespoon curly parsley, finely minced 3 teaspoons Worcestershire Sauce 2 teaspoons Old Bay seasoning DIRECTIONS • Remove any shells from crabmeat (if any) and be careful not to break up the lumps. Place on a tray. • Sprinkle bread crumbs on top of crabmeat. • Carefully fold in the bread crumbs. Set aside. • In another bowl beat eggs Add mayonnaise and beat well. • Add parsley, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire, and Old Bay. Mix well. • Pour egg mixture on top of the crab meat. Gently and carefully mix together. Keep lumps whole. • Weigh crab cakes (six ounces each) and lightly press into round patties. Do not squeeze. • Cover cakes in foil and refrigerate for three hours. How can you know anymore if you’re getting local crabmeat when you go out to a restaurant? Famous Phillips crab restaurant may be offering “Martyland-style” crabmeat recipes, but it is no longer selling Maryland crabmeat. Answer: You can’t. Your chances of getting regional crabmeat? Depends on where you’re eating out. These days, all you can be sure of is that it’s still going to cost you. When you order them ask which waters the crabs came from. t
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Removal Proceedings in the US Removal proceedings (also called “hearings”) in the US are conducted by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (“EOIR”), Office of Immigration Court (“IC”). An immigration judge is an employee of EOIR and, generally, is a lawyer who has experience in immigration law prior to becoming a judge. Immigration Courts preside over cases within their geographical jurisdiction, i.e., the Baltimore IC handles all cases for persons who live within the State of Maryland; the Newark IC handles all cases for persons who live within the State of New Jersey, etc. If a person decides to move to a location outside of the geographical jurisdiction of the IC handling their case, the case is sent to the IC which does have jurisdiction. This is called a “change of venue” and can be done by a motion to the IC asking for the change from either the person in removal proceedings or by the Office of Chief Counsel. Removal proceedings are started by the issuance of a Notice to Appear (“NTA”) by either Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) or Citizenship and Immigration Services (“CIS”). The NTA is the document which states the basis for the illegal status of the person being charged, as well as the section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) that the person has violated. These are not criminal violations; all removal proceedings are considered to be civil in nature and there are no sentences to serve time in jail or prison. There are three results of removal proceedings: 1) the person is ordered to be removed from the US 2) the person is granted voluntary departure to leave at their own expense within a set time frame from the US, and 3) an application for relief from removal filed by the person is granted and the person
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is considered to be lawfully residing in the US. The initial hearings in a removal proceeding are called a master calendar and it is held with many other cases on the same day. In the Baltimore IC, a judge will handle as many as 70 cases on a master calendar within four hours. Persons who have an attorney go first because those cases go faster and the judge does not have to explain the law to the person in proceedings. A person who does not have an attorney at their first master calendar hearing usually asks for a continuance to retain an attorney. While there is a right to have an attorney represent a person in removal proceedings, the person must pay for that attorney themselves and there is no right to an attorney paid for by the government. The statistics show that a person with an attorney usually has a better result than someone who tries to handle his or her own case by themselves. Because of the huge overload of cases before the ICs, the time between hearings can be very long. If the person in removal proceedings is eligible to apply for relief from removal, they must file the application, with supporting doc- uments, with the IC. A copy of the application package is given to the Office of Chief Counsel, which is the office that represents the Government’s interests before the IC. The judge will set an individual hearing, which can be as long as four years from the date of the master calendar when the application is filed with the IC. At the individual hearing, the judge will listen to testimony from the person in proceedings, any witnesses from either side, and any legal arguments from the attorneys. An interpreter is provided by EOIR, if needed. Generally, an individual hearing is given a slot of two to four hours. Unless there are a lot of documents to be reviewed, a decision is handed down that day. If the judge does not feel ready to give an oral decision that day, he or she will schedule a master calendar hearing to hand out a written decision. The judge’s decision will be either a grant of the application for relief or, if the judge finds the person is not eligible as a matter of law or as a matter of discretion, the decision is an order of removal or for voluntary departure from the US. In either situation, both the Government and the person in removal proceedings have the right to file an appeal within 30 days of the date of the decision. t
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Organizing Your Electronic Documents Remember the days when everything was paper and you had file cabinets to organize all that paper, or it was in boxes with no organization? Today we likely have those same disorganized drives on our electronic devices. With all these electronic documents, I find having a good organizational system for them is essential. Not only does it make it easier to find things, but it helps reduce recreating things because you cannot find them. My full-time job is as a school librarian, some of the most organized places in society. Don’t Whether the liget all brary uses the excited, now Dewey Decimal Classification System or the Library of Congress system, they all start off with a big subject area, and then drill down, allowing anyone familiar with the system to find the books they want. Similarly, your electronic file structures need to start off with general categories, using folders within them to organize even further. The first thing to do is map out your basic file structures. This needs to happen before you start, or you will end up doing a lot of extra work, when you find you need to make a change. The key to success is not to overthink the system, and to keep it simple. Some sample categories could be home, photos, personal, financial, taxes, and groups you belong to. In a functional system, your main “documents” folder has folders, each with either other folders or files in them. Let’s say you have a resume to file. To file it, you may want to go to the main documents folder and create within it a folder called “Personal.” Within that folder, create another fold-
er called “Job_Search.” Within the “Job_ Search” folder, you create two final folders: “Resume” and “Cover_Letters.” Now you can easily find the resume by going Personal > Job_Search > Resume. An important thing to remember when creating folders or file names is to avoid using spaces between words or digits, and use an underscore “_” instead. While many newer versions of programs like Microsoft Office have been allowing you to use spaces, many programs do not, and will have problems handling those files and folders. I recently discovered a new program called FileCenter, that one of my clients uses. Their home version helps you to create a file structure and organize your files. The home version costs less than $30 per machine. One of the great features of FileCenter, is the ability to scan documents directly into a folder as a PDF. While paper will never completely go away, this can reduce your paper clutter substantially. Let’s say you are at a conference, and they give you a Powerpoint packet and you have written notes all over it. You can scan the packet with your notes directly into a folder you created with other materials from the conference, such as the actual power point. This groups things together appropriately, and those pieces of paper can be recycled. FileCenter also works with cloud storage. The best tip for success is to p r e plan your file structure before setting up FileCenter. To organize your photos, whenever possible, I recommend creating a folder within the “Photos” folder for each event the photos relate to. This won’t work for everything, like portraits, logos, etc, but you get the gist. It’s best to always rename photos from your camera or phone to something that tells what the picture is about, as their original file name will be something like photo0001.jpg. When other people see them, they will have more meaning. For example, my grandfather loved slides and one thing that was very important to him was organizing his slides and writing on each slide exactly what it was about. This has been a tremendous help for my mother today as she digitizes them If you are not sure how to go about organizing your electronic files, contact me at john@redpalmcomputing.com and I can consult with you. t
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Another Moment in Leather History skaters, she adopted the moniker of “Midlife By Glenda Rider On Thursday, July 13th Megan (DeJarlais) Crashes” and spent eight years dodging hits, Martin, International Ms Leather 1998 and Ms. scoring points, and coaching new recruits. She Baltimore Eagle 1993, donated her IMsL title embraced her return to an athlete’s life fully, bevest to the Carter Johnson Leather Library and coming a certified personal trainer in late 2013. Collection (Mid-Atlantic Annex) for long-term In 2014 Megan hung up her skates and beloan to the Baltimore Eagle’s trophy case. gan strength training full-time, as well as training More than 60 leatherfolk from FIST, COM- others. She currently holds the Nebraska state MAND, Mid-Atlantic girls of Leather, Onyx, records in her age and weight group within USA and many other local groups “showed up and Powerlifting. showed out” to welcome her back to Megan has worked for Oriental Baltimore and celebrate all of the conTrading Company for 18 years, and tributions she has made to our comhas been married to husband Chris for munity through the years. Two of Meseven years. She occasionally finds gan’s IMsL sisters, Jessi Ahart (IMsL time between work, training, and a new 2005 / Ms Baltimore Eagle 2005) and passion for gardening and cooking to Lascivious Jane (IMsL 2016) – were attend leather functions. She was dealso in attendance, along with her Ms. lighted to have the opportunity to visit Baltimore Eagle predecessor, Glenda the gorgeous new Baltimore Eagle and Rider – Ms. Baltimore Eagle 1992. Display to reconnect with old friends. Although leading a less-public life worthy In addition to Megan’s IMsL vest, now, Megan has been far from “retired.” the new display case at the Baltimore She stepped aside after her year as IMsL and promptly headed backstage, where she be- Eagle holds many treasures from area titleholders, clubs and special occasions – make sure came part of the production team until 2006. In 2006, Megan traded heels & leather for you check it out the next time you stop by for skates and kneepads, joining Omaha’s brand- a drink or a bite to eat from their restaurant. t new roller derby team. As one of the oldest
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Hanging Up My Leather in Your Closet
There have always been protest at pride parades. In fact the first “pride parade” was a protest. We can usually count on one or more members of the religious right to hold up a sign that reads: “Homosexuality is a Sin!” Or “God Created Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve!” (Frankly for over 16 years I’ve been happy that he created Steve.) Pride parades have always been a celebration of diversity and acceptance.
We celebrate all the colors of the rainbow. This year, at a time of great turmoil in our nation, I am seeing a turmoil in our own LGBT community. We are even questioning the colors of the rainbow! At the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, DC, in June there were protesters. This year, however, they were members of the LGBT community protesting large corporations appearing in the parade. I grew up at a time when I was taught that it was wrong to be gay. It makes me feel good when I see Hilton Hotels, Southwest Airlines, McDonald’s, and others supporting the LGBT community. I also grew up knowing that I like leather and kink. That has also always been a part of who I am. Recently an article written by Heidi French started showing up on my Facebook feed. It is called “Keep Your Kink Out of My Pride Parade.” I cannot keep my comments to myself after that one. Complaints about the leather community being visible are not something new. Since 1984, the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco has been a celebration of leather pride. Filling several city blocks with all kinds of vendors and demos, this celebration of
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Do it for the children
the BDSM / kink community attracts thousands. It also donates all money from the gates to charity groups. I saw an article last year about the Folsom Street Fair not being “family friendly” and not being welcoming to families with small children in strollers. What? Does it have to be? The leather community does not have to be for everyone nor does it have to be politically correct. I wouldn’t bring a small child to a heavy metal rock concert or many recent movies or Broadway shows. It doesn’t mean that they should be sanitized to be more family friendly. Not everything has to be Disneyfied. (Las Vegas tried that years ago. It didn’t work. Adults didn’t want another Disneyland. They wanted Las Vegas!) Ms. French complained that “kink is not a sexual orientation” and that having the leather community in the pride parade makes the parade “inappropriate for minors.” Being Christian is not a sexual orientation either, but many religious groups are in the parades. “Inappropriate for minors” reminds me of Anita Bryant and her 1977 Save Our Children campaign. Anita Bryant fought to repeal a local ordinance in Dade County, Florida that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation. After all we can’t have homosexuals working in our schools with children. Just when you thought that we have advanced from those days. What happened to teaching our children that the world is a big place and is made up of all kinds of people and that sex between consenting adults is not dirty or shameful? There is nothing wrong with being socially conservative. Just don’t expect me to conform to your expectations of morality. Some LGBT young people dream of having the perfect mate, buying a house in the suburbs, having or adopting chil-
dren, and being accepted by their straight neighbors June and Ward Cleaver. I didn’t have that dream when I was a teen. I dreamt of meeting a big, burly, mustachioed leather daddy who would make me his boy. Isn’t it great that dreams can come true? Oh and Heidi while we are on the subject, relationships in the leather community do not have to mirror vanilla straight couples. The relationship can even involve more than one person. I guess that the idea of polyamorous relationships also goes against your idea of family friendly. You might want to save the children from that idea. For years folks have complained that when covering a pride parade the mainstream media will always focus on the drag queens and the leather folks. That picture in the morning newspaper will show some outrageously dressed drag queen or some large hairy man in chaps and a harness. “These folks are ruining the image of the LGBT community,” Well guess what? These folks are a big part of the LGBT community. When it came time to raise money for AIDS research and help our brothers and sisters in need the drag queens and the leather clubs were the first ones to step up. They are still the hardest working members of the LGBT community. The drag queens and leather folks are not the fringe of the LGBT community. They are the fabric. Take my kink out of your pride parade? It’s never going to happen. When I attended the first Pride Festival of Central Pennsylvania Unity Parade in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 2006 I noticed an absence of leather folks. The following year I made sure there were lots of representatives from the area’s leather clubs and several local leather titleholders including my other half Sir Steve who just happened to be Mr. Maryland Leather 2007. My favorite memory of the festival that year was a little bright-eyed boy who asked his mother to take his picture with Mr. Maryland Leather. Many years ago I would have been that little boy. The LGBT community is a diverse and dynamic family. We are here, we are queer, and some of us are kinky. Get used to it. I’m not hanging up my leather in your closet. t
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