Letters from CAMP Rehoboth, Vol. 29, No. 3

Women’s FEST Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Telling Our Story

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THIS ISSUE

4 In Brief

22 President’s View

6 CAMP Matters

CHRIS BEAGLE

News & Notes Telling Our Story

MURRAY ARCHIBALD

28 CAMP News

FAY JACOBS

32 It’s My Life

Celebrating Fun! Entertainment! Spring!

Tradition!

Spring Cleaning DOUG YETTER

Happenings Around the Community

12 Women’s FEST

86 CAMP Arts

It Takes Dedicated Volunteers

8 CAMP Out Stuff Happens

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Dating Game

MICHAEL THOMAS FORD

36 CAMP Cheers!

90 Booked Solid

Rigby’s

When Brooklyn Was Queer TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER

38 The Real Dirt

96 CAMP Dates

Painting With Flowers

April 12 – May 5

ERIC W. WAHL

48 Intentionally Inclusive

What Money Could Buy

16 Straight Talk

WESLEY COMBS

No Evangelical Left Behind DAVID GARRETT

18 Health & Wellness Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

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50 Out & Proud

Boost the Ratings, Boost the Pay STEFANI DEOUL

54 Millennial Times

64 Our Supporters Make It Happen

Become a Member Today

72 We Remember

Give Them Shelter

Ruthie Foster to perform at Women’s Fest

58 CAMP Feature

Cat & Mouse

MICHAEL GILLES

Straight Acting

Unfinished Business

60 CAMP Shots

Women’s FEST

Sam Deetz

MARJ SHANNON

MICHAEL MARCIANO

ON THE COVER

78 Q Puzzle

Women’s FEST Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Telling Our Story

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84 Out & About ERIC C. PETERSON

Springtime in Rehoboth

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EDITOR IN CHIEF Murray Archibald INTERIM EDITOR Fay Jacobs DESIGN AND LAYOUT Mary Beth Ramsey EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE Marj Shannon ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Tricia Massella ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT Monica Parr, Barb Ralph DISTRIBUTION Tom Craft, Corky Fitzpatrick CONTRIBUTORS Ann Aptaker, Murray Archibald, Sondra N. Arkin, Chris Beagle, Tony Burns, Wesley Combs, Stefani Deoul, Michael Thomas Ford, David Garrett, Michael Gilles, Fay Jacobs, Lee Lynch, Tricia Massella, Michael Marciano, Monica Parr, Eric C. Peterson, Mary Beth Ramsey, Terri Schlichenmeyer, Eric W. Wahl, Doug Yetter

Letters from CAMP Rehoboth is published 15 times per year, between February and Thanksgiving, as a program of CAMP Rehoboth Inc., a non-profit community service organization.

CAMP Rehoboth seeks to create a more positive environment of cooperation and understanding among all people. Revenue generated by advertisements supports CAMP Rehoboth’s purpose as outlined in our mission statement.

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CAMP REHOBOTH

MISSION STATEMENT AND PURPOSE CAMP Rehoboth is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community service organization dedicated to creating a positive environment inclusive of all sexual orientations and gender identities in Rehoboth Beach and its related communities. We seek to promote cooperation and understanding among all people as we work to build a safer community with room for all.

We seek to promote community well-being on all levels; to foster the development of community groups; to develop community space; to promote human and civil rights; to work against prejudice and discrimination; to lessen tensions among the community at large; and to help foster the economic growth of the area. We work toward these ends through activities such as the following:

Fundraising for other organizations,

such as AIDS service organizations, gay and lesbian community organizations, recycling programs, environmental projects, literacy training, and other ventures for the general betterment of the community.

Networking resources and information

by publishing a newsletter, and functioning as an alternative tourist bureau and information center.

Promoting artistic expressions and creative thinking,

and giving aid to artists and craftspeople with an emphasis on the works of lesbians and gay men.

Education and outreach to the larger community,

including sensitivity training seminars, and printed materials to promote positive images of gay and lesbian people and others.

Promoting political awareness to build safe and inclusive community

through voter information, education, and registration; and analysis of issues and candidates.

PRESIDENT Chris Beagle VICE PRESIDENT Leslie Sinclair SECRETARY Glen Pruitt TREASURER Natalie Moss, CPA AT-LARGE DIRECTORS Jane Blue, Mike DeFlavia, Max Dick, Jack Morrison, Mark Purpura, Tara Sheldon, Kathy Wiz INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Murray Archibald HEALTH & WELLNESS PROGRAM DIRECTOR Salvatore Seeley

CAMP REHOBOTH 37 Baltimore Avenue, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 tel 302-227-5620 | fax 302-227-5604 email editor@camprehoboth.com | www.camprehoboth.com CAMP Rehoboth, Inc. is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to CAMP Rehoboth are considered charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes and may be deducted to the fullest extent of the law.

A copy of our exemption document is available for public inspection.

The Way I See It

by Murray Archibald

THIS IS ISSUE THREE OF THE 2019 VOLUME OF LETTERS FROM CAMP REHOBOTH AND CELEBRATES CAMP Rehoboth Women’s FEST—now in its 19th season. The first Women’s FEST grew out of the CAMP Rehoboth Women’s Project begun about the same time as plans got off the ground to expand CAMP Rehoboth to a full-service community center in the late 1990s. The first Women’s FEST (though it wasn’t called that at the time) was a modest affair, but it set the stage for what was to become an annual, highly anticipated event. Women’s FEST 2019 features two dance events (a welcome party and a tea-dance from our sisters at Ladies 2000), sporting events, concerts and comics, speakers, an art exhibit, readings, and much more. Check out this issue and the CAMP Rehoboth website for details.▽ AT SOME POINT IN THE MANY YEARS OF WOMEN’S FEST, STEVE AND I ACQUIRED THE TITLE OF “honorary lesbians” for our continuing work with women’s activities in our community. We both were, and I still am, grateful for the gifts, talents, support, leadership, and friendship that comes to me and to CAMP Rehoboth from the women in our community. I am awed by the hours of hard work and the dedication that goes into making Women’s FEST a success. I am especially thankful for the CAMP Rehoboth Women’s FEST Committee and its tireless co-chairs, Dottie Cirelli, Nancy Hewish, and Fay Jacobs.▽ SHORTLY BEFORE THIS ISSUE OF LETTERS WENT INTO FINAL PRODUCTION, 41 CAMP REHOBOTH travelers returned from the CAMP Out in Africa trip, tired but oh so happy from two weeks of “camping” our way through South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The trip included two safaris (one in South Africa, one in Botswana), time at Victoria Falls, and several days in Cape Town. It was an extraordinary adventure, and I have great hope of returning at a future date for more exploration of that continent. We had an abundance of photographers on the trip, so watch for continuing photographs from that trip on Facebook, in these pages, and in the CAMP Rehoboth gallery. I alone have close to 2,000 photos, so it is taking some time to process and select the best to share. Upcoming CAMP Rehoboth trips include a 2020 riverboat cruise in Portugal and an amazing Australia/New Zealand adventure in 2021. Our continued thanks to CAMP Rehoboth Premier Sponsor Accent on Travel for making this trip possible and for their support of CAMP Rehoboth.▽ MARCH 15 WAS THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF STEVE’S DEATH. THE DAY WAS MARKED AT CAMP Rehoboth with a time of remembrance. I was not present, but I thank CAMP Rehoboth Board President Chris Beagle for organizing it. As the day dawned, I was somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean on my way to Africa—a trip that Steve and I planned together. Sometime in the wee hours on that morning, I awoke in the quiet of the sleeping plane and felt his presence and the memory of that day etched forever in my heart. There was also recollection of the year that followed, and the amazing amount of work put into assuring that the work and mission of CAMP Rehoboth will continue in other hands long after both of its founders are gone. Sondra Arkin and I had just completed a report on the past year’s work before departure. That report assures me that we are taking all the right steps to secure the future for CAMP Rehoboth. We have accomplished so much.▽ IN RECENT MONTHS, THE CAMP REHOBOTH MONDAY MORNING EMAIL HAS BECOME A POPULAR way to keep up with the many activities and events going on at CAMP Rehoboth. Last week’s email included almost 25 ways to participate, and included support and discussion groups, entertainment, trips, activities, and more. Details about these activities and groups are also available in each issue of Letters. To receive the weekly email blast, sign up on our website.▽

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InBrief REHOBOTH HONORS STEVE ELKINS

Walkway Dedication May 4 A dedication ceremony will take place on May 4 at 1:30 p.m. for the newly named Steve Elkins Way between the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center and Baltimore Avenue. Following TO BALTIMORE AVENUE the on-site dedication, there will be a reception at the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center. More information on page 28.▼

STEVE ELKINS WAY

Eat Your Gift Dine at Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant on Monday, April 15 and 20% of your food bill total (excluding alcoholic beverages, gratuity) will go to CAMP Rehoboth. Reservations strongly suggested. You MUST bring in a coupon for CAMP Rehoboth to get their donation, so pick one up at the CAMP Rehoboth office in advance! ▼

Future Forward On March 11, as a result of the strategic planning exercises and community input from the past six months, the CAMP Rehoboth Board of Directors adopted revisions to the CAMP Rehoboth Mission and Vision. These changes strengthen core philosophies, reflect a broadening of the underlying vision of the organization, honor the past, and advance the future.

These statements are updating across the CAMP Rehoboth communications. Thank you for your input!

CAMP REHOBOTH MISSION

CAMP Rehoboth is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community service organization dedicated to creating a positive environment inclusive of all sexual orientations and gender identities in Rehoboth Beach and its related communities. We seek to promote cooperation and understanding among all people as we work to build a safer community with room for all.

CAMP REHOBOTH VISION

We create proud and safe communities where gender identity and sexual orientation are respected. ▼

SAVE THE DATE

CAMP Families Pride Weekend: June 27-30 HOST HOTEL: ATLANTIC SANDS

Join other LGBTQ families for a weekend of beach fun, creating community, and lasting connections!. ▼ Letters 4 APRIL 12, 2019

Founders’ Circle Brunch Calling all CAMP Rehoboth Founders Circle participants!

It’s been too long since all of the folks who helped make the community center a reality got together. Please come on Sunday, May 19, at 11:30 a.m. for a Founder’s Brunch to celebrate and catch up. More information to follow. RSVP by May 12 to membership@camprehoboth.com.▼

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The Sharing Garden Join us April 25 at 6:30 p.m. when The Real Dirt columnist Eric Wahl demonstrates his passion for creating special, outdoor spaces, and combines that with his love of being in the kitchen, sharing with friends and family along the way. Pre-registration required.

Find the link on the CAMP Calendar on camprehoboth.com.▼

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SAVE THE DATE

Volunteer Appreciation Party May 5 Have you volunteered at CAMP Rehoboth in the past year? Then we want to fiesta with YOU! Come May 5 for a special Cinco de Mayo Volunteer Appreciation Party to celebrate the volunteers who make all of the CAMP Rehoboth activities happen. From 2-5 p.m. at the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, we will toast to you and shake our maracas. RSVP to volunteer@ camprehoboth.com. ▼

FRANK HORNSTEIN AND MARK HENCKEL WERE MARRIED ON OCTOBER 13, 2018 ON THE REHOBOTH BEACH BOARDWALK

Beebe Honors Natalie Moss Beebe Healthcare observed International Women’s Day by honoring five individuals and four organizations. CAMP Rehoboth’s Natalie Moss was among the individuals honored at the Girls Night Out event at Atlantic Sands, for making a difference in the local community.

Congratulations Natalie!▼

To submit wedding photos, email info and high-resolution photo to communications@camprehoboth.com

CAMPing Out in Africa All CAMP Rehoboth travelers returned safely from a spectacular two weeks in Africa, and are shown here with their guides and trackers at the Sabi Sabi Bush Lodge in South Africa.▼

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CAMP Matters

TELLING

Our Story

by Murray Archibald

I DON’T REMEMBER THE EXACT DATE, but the first time I was invited to speak about CAMP Rehoboth likely occurred sometime in the summer of 1992. While I may be fuzzy on the timing of that event, the memory of it is clear as glass.

The event was an outside summer beach house cocktail party of the kind so popular back at that time in Rehoboth Beach. CAMP Rehoboth was very young and still establishing itself as a viable organization, and most people had very little understanding of what we were attempting to do. The hosts of the party invited me to help us get our message out into the community.

Many in the crowd were people we were more used to partying with than getting serious about issues and donations—and at that time of day on a beautiful summer weekend, the partying was far more enticing than anything I had to say.

Most at least pretended to listen for a while. I was passionate but rendered a bit useless by the situation and the cute, young boys of summer waiting nearby for another cocktail.

I don’t have a copy of that speech, but I know it was more about what we were planning to do than what we had accomplished—because we hadn’t had time to accomplish very much yet.

There were skeptics to be sure.

Fast forward to February 22, 2019. The Coastal-Georgetown American Association of University Women (AAUW) invited me to speak at a luncheon. This time I had more to say than my allotted time would allow.

The following is an excerpt from that speech, and I am including it here as a part of my efforts to document the history, vision, and philosophy of CAMP Rehoboth.

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nyone familiar with CAMP Rehoboth will have heard our story. By the end of the 1980s, the LGBT population of Rehoboth Beach and its surrounding communities was on the rise. With that rising population, there was also a rise in tension with other parts of the community—and a push back was organized that culminated in a bumper sticker that read: Keep Rehoboth a Family Town.

My husband, Steve Elkins, and I began conversations about the need for CAMP Rehoboth in late 1990, and in early 1991, the organization officially got off the ground.

Throughout its history Steve—who served as Executive Director for almost all of that time—told the story of the bumper sticker—to visitors, to press, in interviews, articles, workshops, and seminars—and to anyone who would listen.

He always concluded with the line: “We want to keep Rehoboth a family town too, but families come in all sizes, shapes, and orientations.”

I used to tease him about repeating himself, but he insisted that we have to keep telling our story over and over again—and he was right!

This past August we would have celebrated our 40th anniversary together, but he passed away last March after a painful battle with lymphoma.

He would be pleased to know that CAMP Rehoboth has become a part of the permanent collection of the Rehoboth Beach museum—and that the Keep Rehoboth a Family Town Bumper Sticker is not only included in the story but they have that bumper sticker on display, as well.

From the very beginning of CAMP Rehoboth our mission has guided us forward: “CAMP Rehoboth is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community service organization dedicated to creating a more positive environment in Rehoboth Beach and its related communities. We seek to promote cooperation and understanding among all people, as we work to build a safer and more inclusive community with room for all.”

The key words in that for us have always been: creating a more positive environment, cooperation, understanding, safe and inclusive, and room for all.

Our goal of creating positive change is bedrock to us—embedded in our name. The word CAMP in CAMP Rehoboth is an acronym for “Create A More Positive,” which is why it is always capitalized.

I believe our positive approach to making connections, confronting issues important to us, and building strong communities is the reason for our success.

Working side by side—neighbor-to-neighbor—with people in our community on issues important to us all, changed hearts and minds about what it meant to be LGBT. Out of recent strategic planning sessions, a modern vision for CAMP Rehoboth is emerging: “We create proud and safe communities where gender identity and sexual orientation are respected.”

Imagine that!

Back in 1990, we used “gay and lesbian” to describe who we are. In following years, we moved to LGBT and nowadays there

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are a number of other letters attached to that in efforts to be more inclusive. The trouble is we can never add enough letters to that alphabet soup of a name to include everyone.

That’s what I like about “gender identity and sexual orientation.” Everyone falls somewhere along that spectrum. It’s not perfect, but it at least acknowledges that there is a spectrum— and that differences exist.

That’s also why I love the symbol of the rainbow.

I frequently write about the rainbow. This is from my CAMPmatters column in June of 2016.

“As a young artist, I often used the rainbow in my work to represent diversity and equality. When most of us speak of the rainbow, we are talking about the simplified version used in the modern rainbow flag. Amazingly, the human eye can distinguish 10 million different shades of color. That, to me, made it a perfect symbol for diversity and equality. Every single one of those colors fills in a part of the spectrum, every single one of those colors is unique, and every single one of those colors is of equal importance. Take away one single color in it, and there is a hole—a missing piece.”

No one wants to be “a missing piece.”

As human beings, each one of us wants to know that it is okay to be who we are. Without that, we cannot reach our full potential.

Cliché as it might sound, loving ourselves really does make it possible for us to love others.

At the heart of CAMP Rehoboth there has always been an effort to simply say to everyone who comes to us for whatever reason: You’re okay, and we welcome you for who you are.

I went on to share the work that CAMP Rehoboth does with the AAUW, but in the end I stayed true to Steve’s storytelling and closed with his simple reminder that “families come in all sizes, shapes, and orientations,” and the promise that CAMP Rehoboth will continue to celebrate diversity, inclusion, and room for all.▼ Murray Archibald is an artist, CAMP Rehoboth Co-Founder, and longtime President of the CAMP Rehoboth Board of Directors. He is currently serving as CAMP Rehoboth Interim Executive Director and Editor in Chief of Letters from CAMP Rehoboth. Email Murray at murray@camprehoboth.com

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CAMP Out Fay’s Rehoboth Journal

by Fay Jacobs

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ver the past few years, as many of you may know, I’ve become known as a sit-down comic. A few weeks ago, though, I feared my career might be over.

I couldn’t sit down. Or if I did, I couldn’t stand back up. I was stuck at half mast, bent in half, screaming if I moved a muscle. It was a world class lower back spasm.

Yes, here it comes. The Organ Recital, where we all talk about our medical problems.

I’m pretty sure I made the morning for the folks at the ER when the doc asked me how I hurt myself.

“I bent over to pick up dog poop.”

Clearly a first for them, given their snorts and giggles.

When you’re old, shit happens. Then you injure yourself picking it up.

And unlike my peers, this was not a pickleball injury with bragging rights, nor a softball hamstring pull with sympathy credit. No, I’d have to admit that this painful insult came from the grand sport of pooper scooping.

So on the way home from the ER, prescriptions for extra-strength muscle relaxers and steroids in hand, we stopped at a Dunkin’ Donuts, where my debit card was declined. Ah, shit continues to happen.

As Bonnie forked over six dollars in cash, my phone pinged. It was M&T Bank alerting me that they had just stopped a suspicious purchase at Dunkin’ Donuts. Seriously? Grand theft coffee and crullers? Did they think I was violating my diet?

Why weren’t they suspicious the day before when I put wood screws and spackle on my credit card? For me, that was truly suspicious. But coffee and Bavarian Creme?

We did a drive-by at the pharmacy and I came home, popped pills, and made unattractive noises attempting to stand or sit down at regular intervals.

I prepped for the evening ahead

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when, jacked up on steroids instead of sleeping, I’d have time to read the complete Tolstoy. Or write my next eleven columns for this magazine.

As the steroid mania kicked in, my speeding brain thought it was a good idea to call the bank and ask why they saved me from doughnuts.

I was so wound up I started with the pooper scooper story and by the time I got to Dunkin’ Donuts the clerk and I were too giddy to worry about my being frosted over a suspicious frosted doughnut purchase. I’m sure there is now a notation on my account that all my purchases should be viewed as suspicious.

It was when I read the story about the moose who broke into a house in Wisconsin during a snow storm and took refuge on the living room sofa, that the idea of my own living room sofa loomed large.

While I was not suffering classic ‘roid rage, it was surely a ‘roid rush, with my mind spinning from column topics, to whether we’d take I-95 or the Bay Bridge Tunnel coming home for Women’s FEST, to wondering if I needed a 2 a.m. peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Yes. Yes, I did.

Onward my brain hurried, as I inhaled both the PB&J and the latest news.

Yee-Haw, a goat was elected mayor of a small Vermont town (seriously). Captain Marvel made box office billions and the

superhero was a woman—Woo-Hoo! A spurt of Trump’s tweets had me verging on real ‘roid rage, so I quickly turned to the New York Times crossword.

What’s a five letter word for ‘rise?’

S-T-A-N-D. Right! Remember to stand up for a while, then sit down, then stand up. With my head humming “Bohemian Rhapsody,” I felt like a contestant playing musical chairs. Or “Pop Goes the Weasel,” or….

Time to take another muscle relaxer.

It was when I read the story about the moose who broke into a house in Wisconsin during a snow storm and took refuge on the living room sofa, that the idea of my own living room sofa loomed large.

Mercifully, a short time later, as I began, for no reason, singing “Wells Fargo Wagon” from The Music Man, the muscle relaxant outperformed the steroids and I came crashing down into a long winter’s nap. By morning, my back was still really, really sore but unspasmed. Relief washed over me.

“Want me to get you a Dunkin’ Donuts coffee?” Bonnie asked.

“Yes, please. Better use cash.”

I know shit will still happen. But from now on I’m asking somebody else to pick it up. ▼ Fay Jacobs is an author of five published memoirs. Her newest is Fried & Convicted: Rehoboth Beach Uncorked. She can now sit and stand at will, and will be performing her show, Aging Gracelessly: 50 Shades of Fay, on April 14 at 3 p.m. at the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center. Tickets at camprehoboth.com

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Celebrating Women’s FEST in Rehoboth

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Women’s FEST?

IT STARTED AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM, as CAMP Rehoboth eyed expansion of its community center and programs.

A small group of women, the CAMP Rehoboth Women’s Project, put together a half-day event in April 2001. This Women’s Conference hosted speakers addressing topics such as health, financial planning, and legal protection for lesbian couples banned from legal marriages. The morning conference, upstairs at the Rehoboth Library, was a sell-out at 75 women.

Now, 19 years later, sold-out means over 2,000 women, a four-day party in downtown Rehoboth, celebrity comics and musicians, a welcome dance party, a giant tea dance, a golf outing, pickleball and cornhole tourneys, book signings by well-known authors, an art show, and well-known guest speakers.

The more things change, the more they stay the same!

Only bigger and better.

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What Is Lesbian Literature?

SEE QUIZ ON PAGE 44

by Lee Lynch

IN HONOR OF WOMEN’S FEST

Some Folks Have Weighed in on the Status of Women Today. Cheers!

“We need a cabinet like Clair Underwood in House of Cards. Women need more roles in leadership.”

DEB QUALEY

ANESTHESIOLOGIST • CAMP REHOBOTH MEMBER

“Younger women today are potentially looking at a promising future. There were a few generations between theirs and ours that didn’t recognize or embrace feminism and the history from whence they’ve come. But young women today are feeling empowered and are ready to take on the world. Solidarity for women!”

TRET FURE

SINGER/MUSICIAN

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t’s nice that some non-gay writers include us in their stories. I’m thinking of Lawrence Block’s Matt Scudder detective novels in which he has an amusing lesbian friend who is a dog groomer.

Very respectful and matter-of-fact that she’s a dyke. But that doesn’t make the novels lesbian any more than the presence of Robert B. Parker’s gay male bartender and strongman in his Spenser series makes the books gay male.

How about Sylvia Plath’s much revered novel The Bell Jar? The writer implies that a secondary character, who typically for that era commits suicide, is gay. Or Mary McCarthy’s The Group, in which one of eight old college friends has a woman lover. Should we consider these lesbian books?

And Mary Oliver, a lesbian, but the reader must hunt for allusions to her affectional orientation, and then be uncertain. Her beloved books are probably included in every lesbian library and the poems express the experience of one lesbian. Can they be claimed as our literature? Hardly.

Leonardo Padura Fuentes, novelist, critic, and essayist, wrote, “I bury myself in Cuba deeply so that I can express what Cuba is, and have not left Cuba because I am a Cuban writer and I can’t be anything else.”

Padura Fuentes creates Cuban literature. Substitute the word “lesbian” for “Cuba” and his sentence describes an author of lesbian literature. Genre doesn’t matter, nor era, fiction or non-fiction.

Truly lesbian writing delves deep into the lesbian psyche, not to the exclusion of the rest of human experience, but through the unique perspective of gay women.

Jeannette Foster’s renowned and lengthy history and analysis of writings which hint of, refer to, or portray lesbians, is titled Sex Variant Women in Literature.

Itself decidedly a prime example of what I call lesbian literature, the book does not pretend to examine that subject, but only to identify dykes in writings since the Bible. That is lesbians in literature, not lesbian literature.

And now the label is being slapped on all sorts of books, and categorized that

way by LGBTQ people themselves. This trend is not encouraging queer women to tenaciously explore and document our lesbian experiences. It only encourages the assimilation that manifests in crossover books, books written to appeal to all readers. It only discourages most publishers from accepting submissions whose focus is fully and earnestly lesbian. It only denies lesbian readers works that reflect the reality of our lives.

While it’s true that we can only write that which inspires us, when teachers, editors, agents, and awards administrators, among others, hold mainstream writing as the standard, and all but ignore books with an exclusively lesbian focus, they lead us away from serious, in-depth examination of our lesbian selves. No matter how popular or literary, including a gay female character, or a dalliance between women or a minor character

who is questioning—none of those are legitimately part of lesbian literature.

This may smack of separatism and early gay liberation, but we have a right to our own cultures, whatever kind of queer we are. As we focus our words on ourselves, we build a legacy for the future-dykes of two or two hundred years, whether next door to us or in a place where queericide is the norm.

When I see today’s writers of unabashed lesbian stories who show the same spirit as Jane Rule, Isabel Miller, and Radclyffe Hall not getting their due, I wonder how far have we really come? These are the women who are struggling to communicate the essence of who we are by writing from their very lesbian hearts. ▼

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A Creative Life

by Ann Aptaker

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f you ask me, living a lesbian, gay, or trans life is a creative act. Now, being lesbian, gay, or trans isn’t by definition creative (as Lady Gaga so powerfully stated in her refrain “Born This Way”), but to my mind, living a lesbian, gay, or trans life is a daily act of creative expression.

And perhaps never more so as when living such a life was illegal, and therefore posed a danger to one’s freedom.

Creative living required creative survival strategies.

So what happens when the creative act of living a lesbian, gay, or trans life meets the innate creativity of being an artist? Especially back in the good ol’ dangerous days? Oscar Wilde, as we know, went to jail for it. But there were some who actually thrived. Say hello to Rosa Bonheur.

Bonheur, born in 1822 in Bordeaux, France, was quite likely not the first lesbian artist. The centuries previous must have had their share. But she was among the first to live openly as a lesbian, often wearing male clothing and living in domestic relationships: first with Nathalie Micas for nearly fifty years, and briefly with American portraitist Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, late in life, until Bonheur’s death in 1899.

Okay, lucky Rosa. Lucky to be born into a family of artists who moved to Paris when she was six and where her father encouraged her artistic abilities.

Lucky to possess an artistic talent so potent it could not be denied—and was even lauded and rewarded—no matter what her contemporary society thought of her sexuality and her decision to live it. Lucky in her romantic partners, especially Nathalie, who took on the role of a traditional wife, taking care of the domestic needs of house and home in order to give Rosa the freedom to paint. And lucky, most of all, to have a personality which didn’t cower, not as a lesbian, not as an artist.

Unlike so many women painters in art history, lesbian or otherwise, who by frame of mind or social pressure (even

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Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, oil on canvas, 1852-1855 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

from other artists) confined themselves to domestic scenes or small, precious images, Bonheur was among the very few who thought big, dared big. Painted big. As an animalière—a painter of animals—Bonheur strode confidently into the sometimes brutish, sometimes graceful drama of animal life. She made it her business to uncover the anatomical secrets and energies of that life by entering realms not traditionally open to women: getting her hands into the blood and guts of dead animals at the Paris abattoirs and dissecting animals at the Paris Veterinary Institute. The result of this boldness of mind and action—and deliciously creative arrogance—were paintings of monumental scale and power. The most famous, “The Horse Fair” (Le Marché aux Chevaux), painted between 1852 and 1855, and which hangs in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is enormous, standing eight feet high by sixteen and a half feet wide. The horses, their riders, and handlers, are all in a swirl of muscular activity. Painted at such a large scale, Bonheur does not let us escape the wildness, the danger.

Active muscles and bodies. The primitive instincts of the natural world.

I think it’s not too far a stretch to say that the creative boldness of Bonheur’s lesbian life mirrors the creative boldness

of her artistic oeuvre. A woman brave enough to live openly as a lesbian in a viciously disapproving world is brave enough to get into the middle of the raw world of animals and their human adversaries or masters.

It’s always iffy to suggest that artists’ private lives are a primary influence on their creative ones. There are, after all, any number of factors influencing artists’ choice of subject matter; their religion, perhaps, their politics, or most often the intellectual trends of their time. But when it comes to the study of art history, where so much was and is seen, discussed, and yes, painted and sculpted through the male gaze, whether it’s looking at human or animal bodies, at buildings, landscapes, or flowers, decoding art through a female prism is long overdue.

And decoding art through a lesbian prism is thus way, way overdue.

So say hello to Rosa Bonheur, creative lesbian. ▼ Ann Aptaker’s series featuring dapper Lesbian art thief and smuggler Cantor Gold has won Lambda Literary and Goldie Awards. In addition to writing crime fiction, Ann is an adjunct Professor of art and art history at New York Institute of Technology.

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Straight Talk

by David Garrett

No Evangelical “Left” Behind

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ifferences between right and left have been distinct since ancient days. Early tools and musical instruments were designed for those whose dominant hand was their right. Anyone born left-handed was often regarded as being demonic. Even language reflects preference to a right-handed. The French word gauche means “left,” as well as “awkward” or “clumsy.” Droit(e), on the other hand (sorry, pun intended) means “right,” “straight” and “law.”

Over the past several years, there have been attempts to analyze the Evangelical Right. A strong emphasis on personal salvation and piety were hallmarks of being on the right side of the faith spectrum. In the mid-19th century, a split of sorts took place among evangelicals over the issue of social engagement and ecumenical outreach. Fundamental evangelicals rejected a social focus and working with those of other faiths. Their message preached the gospel of Jesus Christ, and conversion to Christian faith.

Such prominent religious figures as Pat Robertson (Christian Broadcasting Network), Jerry Falwell, Jr. (President, Liberty University), James Dobson (Focus on the Family), and Franklin Graham (Billy Graham Evangelistic Association) are all identified as Evangelical Right. They and their adherents have pledged their allegiance with the Trump presidency, in spite of Trump’s moral shortcomings, ethical transgressions, and verbal assaults.

It has been amazing to hear the basis of their support. During Trump’s presidential campaign, Falwell Jr. cast his blessing, calling him “a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father, and a man I believe can lead our country to greatness again.” Later, Falwell Jr. remarked, “In my opinion, Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment.”

Others say Trump was sent by God to save our country.

As expected, their stances have come under criticism. Michael Gerson, a Washington Post columnist, writes, “The proper role of Christians in politics is not to

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Christianize America; it is to demonstrate Christian values in the public realm. This was the spirit of the abolitionist movement, of the charitable and legal response to the human costs of the Industrial Revolution, and of the civil rights movement.

This commitment does not lead toward a single party or ideology, but it does trace the outlines of an agenda: defending the rule of law, protecting minorities from discrimination and harm, fighting against trafficking and preventable suffering abroad, standing up for the rights of the disabled and vulnerable, shielding children from exploitation and abuse.”

There is another perspective on the effort to “Christianize America.” Those who consider themselves evangelical, yet reject the political right agenda, work to bring about justice for the outcast, and

The Evangelical Left has been known not only for its work for social justice, but also for its opposition to forces that undermine those principles. peace in any form it may be achieved. Often, it results in radically different solutions than those from the right. The Evangelical Left has been known for its work for social justice, and its opposition to forces that undermine those principles. It likely got its start from Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the 1940’s. This German pastor actively opposed the rising power of the Nazi party and was ultimately martyred for it.

In the 1960s and 1970s, two brothers, Daniel and Phillip Berrigan, both Catholic priests, were very active in the civil rights movement, along with protesting against the Vietnam War. Both were arrested for various protests over the years. The Evangelical Left also put forth two pastors who

spoke truth to power—the Rev. Dr. William Sloane Coffin and the Rev. Dr. James Forbes. They served as Senior Pastor at Riverside Church in New York City, Coffin from 1977 to 1987 and Forbes from 1989 to 2007. These prophetic voices rallied against nuclear weapons and worldwide torture, and in favor of prison reform and better immigration policies. Riverside Church was also known for its LGBTQ advocacy dating back to 1978.

So, who do we look to as the Evangelical Left leaders of today? Two come to mind—Jim Wallis and Adam Hamilton. The founder of Sojourners magazine, and the worship community of the same name, Wallis has always worked for a better world through radical action. He advocates for LGBTQ equality and broader social justice. Hamilton is senior pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the United States. He has built this 22,000-member church upon the planks of LGBTQ inclusion and Biblical adherence. He is outspoken in his support for all people.

Evangelical Right or Left? Many (not all) on the Right have sacrificed their faith for political expediency. Those on the Left have taken up the cause of equality and acceptance of those from all walks of life.

While there are some exceptions, we may confidently look to our Left for direction and inspiration. The Evangelical Left will not be left behind.

Pete Buttigieg, Democratic presidential candidate, said recently on Morning Joe, “I think the time has come for more of a religious left to emerge in our country, that lets people know that they aren’t alone when they look at faith and think that teaches us to reach out to others, to humble ourselves, to take care of the immigrant, the prisoner, and frankly the sex worker.” ▼ David Garrett is a straight advocate for equality and inclusion. He is also the proud father of an adult transdaughter. Email David Garrrett at dlgarrett4rb@gmail.com

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health+wellness Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

by Marj Shannon

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f that line from Robert Hazard’s song (made famous by Cyndi Lauper) is true, then the girls—and women—who are in Rehoboth Beach the weekend of April 11-14 came to the right place. Because that’s Women’s FEST—CAMP Rehoboth’s annual celebration of all-things-woman, featuring concerts, dances, sports, humor, books, art exhibits, lectures, and more!

There are pickleball and cornhole tournaments, a golf outing, and lots of other opportunities to enjoy the great outdoors—yoga on the beach, anyone? Or maybe a bike ride, or a walking tour of Rehoboth Beach? And who could ever forget the wonderful Broadwalk on the Boardwalk, which commemorates those lost to cancer, celebrates cancer survivors, and educates others?

Some—or all!—of those athletic endeavors will likely appeal to the 87 percent of women responding to CAMP Rehoboth’s October 2017 health-related survey—Assessing Our Community’s Needs—who reported having engaged in some recreational physical activity during the preceding 30 days. Nearly three-quarters of those 187 women (72 percent) reported being physically active three or more days per week—sounds like we’ve got some local contenders for those tournaments!

Other results from that survey helped bring something entirely new to this year’s Women’s FEST: A free Health Fair. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, April 12, at the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, staff from Beebe Healthcare will answer questions and administer tests such as blood sugar and cholesterol checks, blood pressure readings, calculation of body mass index (BMI), and more.

It’s not a coincidence that some of the conditions which turned up most often on the survey are among those for which testing is available at the

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health fair. For example, we asked if our respondents had been diagnosed with certain common medical conditions, such as heart disease, skin—or other—cancers, and diabetes.

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We learned that nine percent of women responding had been diagnosed with a heart attack, angina, or coronary artery disease. Many more—19 percent—had been diagnosed with skin cancer; 13 percent with a cancer other than skin cancer; and 10 percent with diabetes.

Invited to list any other chronic conditions with which they had been diagnosed, among the conditions women listed most often were hypertension (high blood pressure) and high cholesterol. Clearly, testing for blood sugar, hypertension, and high cholesterol are good places to start, as CAMP Rehoboth continues to promote—and works to sustain—our community’s health and wellness.

Of course—since this issue is just hitting the streets on April 12—the inaugural Health Fair might already be history by the time you read this. If so— pencil it in for next year!

Tai Chi: All ages and fitness levels welcome at these sessions devoted to the practice of the ancient Chinese system of mind-body-spirit health.

Classes taught by certified Tai Chi teachers and free of charge; free will giving is encouraged.

Meets Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m. Call Salvatore (320-2275620) for more information.

Salvatore Seeley, Health & Wellness Program Director

Women’s Coffee Talk: Looking for a positive, non-judgmental (and free!) place to share thoughts and perspectives on a topic? Come to Coffee Talk—first and third Saturdays of each month, starting at 10:00 a.m.

Next meet-up: April 20; topic: Hat Trick.

Come and be part of the community!

Smoking Cessation: This series of four free, weekly classes offers support and skills aimed at enabling your success.

Next series starts Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. Registration required; call Salvatore (302-227-5620) to register.

Recovery Groups at CAMP Rehoboth: Meeting space is provided for a variety of recovery groups: Alcoholics Anonymous—Sundays at 9 a.m. and Thursdays at noon; Young People’s Alcoholics Anonymous—Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m.

HEALTH & WELLNESS-RELATED GROUPS Grief Group: Looking for a safe and welcoming space as you confront grief and loss—no matter where you are on your grief journey? This supportive group is lead by Kevin Bliss, a certified End-of-Life and Grief Coach, and meets monthly. Next meets: April 18; 3:00 p.m. For more information, email Kevin@kevinblisscoaching.com or call 302-754-1954.

Free HIV Testing Whenever you need it! Testing is available at multiple sites—and at convenient hours—in Sussex County. Contact Salvatore at CAMP Rehoboth (salvatore@ camprehoboth.com) to make an appointment.

Alzheimer’s (or Other Dementia) Caregivers Support Group: Caring for someone with a cognitive disorder?

This group offers a safe place to discuss challenges, share information, and support one another. Professionally moderated. Next meets: April 17; 6:30 p.m. For more information, contact Ruth Pryor at RFCPryor@gmail.com.

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President’s View

by Chris Beagle

It Takes Dedicated Volunteers

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omen’s FEST and succession plans come together through teamwork.

Spring is in the air and at CAMP Rehoboth that means Women’s FEST is in bloom! Created in 2001 as a half-day conference, the now four-day festival has established itself as CAMP Rehoboth’s premiere springtime event.

Much of the success of FEST (Fun Entertainment Spring Tradition) can be attributed to the dedicated group of women who’ve made the event happen smoothly year after year. From its pioneering planners (Fay Jacobs, Ellen Feinberg, Joan Glass, Lesley Rogan, Maggie Shaw, Andrea Andrus, Maggie Ottato, Libby Stiff, and Bea Wagner), some of whom remain active with FEST today, to the current co-chairs, Nancy Hewish, Dottie Cirelli and Fay Jacobs, strong leadership has remained constant and is a testament to its 19-year longevity.

Along with a large supporting cast of volunteers, and Broadwalk on the Boardwalk chair (and fellow Board member) Kathy Wiz, we know this year’s FEST will reach even greater heights.

On behalf of a grateful CAMP Rehoboth family, our heartfelt thanks to all of you!

It truly takes a village.

Speaking of a village, the efforts by the Succession Committee to commence the search for a new Executive Director (ED) continue. I expect to have more to report after our next meeting, as we judiciously chart our path.

In his progress report to the Board of Directors in March, Interim Executive Director Murray Archibald stated, “Our shared goal is to see CAMP Rehoboth move successfully through its transition from a founder-led to a professionallyguided nonprofit organization.”

To that end, and in our efforts to keep you informed throughout the process, the community members recently named to the Search and Transition Committees will be highlighted in this and upcoming

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issues. This column features two of the women serving in this capacity: Joyce Felton and Linda Gregory.

As a founding member of the Sussex County AIDS Committee in the early 1980s, Joyce Felton has devoted her life to service. She has been part of CAMP Rehoboth from the beginning, with support and advice, and was an essential

“Our shared goal is to see CAMP Rehoboth move successfully through its transition from a founder-led to professionally-guided nonprofit organization.”

INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MURRAY ARCHIBALD member of the Sundance production team from the outset. In addition to establishing several prominent restaurants, perhaps her best-known contribution to Rehoboth Beach history was the creation of the Blue Moon (1981) and working to see it become a quintessential part of the community.

According to Joyce, “I agreed to serve on this committee because it was the next right action for me to be a part of the ongoing transformation of this organization I love.”

Linda Gregory is a retired educator of 30 years, having worked in various roles both at the K-12 and college levels.

Upon retiring, she took a newly-formed position as a case manager for LGBTQ youth within Big Brothers Big Sisters DE, where she vetted potential youth

mentors for the organization, as well as for school GSAs (Gay Straight Alliances).

“As the parent of a lesbian daughter, I’ve learned so much through her process of coming out. As a result of our experience, eight years ago we launched PFLAG (Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays) Rehoboth Beach, with strong support from CAMP Rehoboth and Epworth United Methodist Church.”

Linda has served as its President since then. “In the years ahead, I hope CAMP Rehoboth will continue its outreach, continue teaching, and continue building the bridges that bring people together.”

Linda, we couldn’t agree with you more!

We are proud and thankful to have Linda and Joyce representing the voices of our community as we proceed together through this critical executive leadership transition. ▼ Chris Beagle is President of the CAMP Rehoboth Board of Directors and is a realtor at Berkshire-Hathaway-Gallo Realty in Rehoboth Beach. christopherbeagle1@gmail.com

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CAMPNews We Will Rock You: “Mercury: A Tribute to Freddie Mercury”

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he Milton Theatre, a thriving Sussex County entertainment venue, is inaugurating Milton Theatre@The Beach with a debut event, the national touring show “Mercury: A Tribute to Freddie Mercury.” The show stars an international opera singer, the Grammy-nominated Terry Barber, as the legendary frontman.

The May 2 production at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center is also a debut for a partnership between the Milton Theatre and CAMP Rehoboth, with a portion of the proceeds from the show going to the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center.

The “Mercury” concert tour features the songs that made the band Queen’s frontman Freddie Mercury famous and offers fascinating insights into the

man himself. Terry Barber leads a cast of vocalists and musicians who have performed with Barry Manilow and the Oak Ridge Boys: Don Carr, Grace Field, Jonathan Cummings, and “Bones” Moltedo. The show will celebrate Queen’s hits like “We Will Rock You,” “We Are the Champions,” “Love of My Life,” and many more.

Tickets, $37-$45, at https:// mercuryatthebeach.eventbrite.com, by phone at 302-684-3038, or at the Milton Theatre box office. VIP tickets include access to a VIP experience before the show and during intermission. The lounge will include a private bartender and delicious sweets.

Catch “Mercury: A Tribute To Freddie Mercury” on May 2 and help contribute to CAMP Rehoboth at the same time. ▼

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ith the IRS tax deadline on April 15, it’s great to know that AARP just helped 57 people get their taxes done at the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center. Volunteers from AARP were on hand to work with the tax filers and, according to Salvatore Seeley, “it was a hugely successful program.”

The partnership continues with a Fraud Workshop on April 24, followed by an AARP Smart Driving Course on May 7.

For more information on any of these, check out the calendar at camprehoboth.com or contact salvatore@ camprehoboth.com. ▼

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or over two decades, Steve Elkins traversed the territory between the office on Baltimore Avenue and the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center. Most notably, there were many “Steve sightings” on Labor Day weekend as he brought donations to and from the Convention Center for the annual Sundance Auction.

The route Steve took was always complex, up Baltimore Avenue, through the Breakers Hotel parking lot, and across to the Convention Center.

When the Convention Center received a facelift last year, a path was constructed directly from the Center parking lot to Baltimore Avenue.

Shortly following Steve’s passing last year, after hearing about Elkins’s storied travels between the two sites, Rehoboth Beach Commissioners Dick Byrne and Lisa Schlosser proposed naming the walkway in honor of Elkins.

They brought the proposal to the city of Rehoboth commissioners last

November, and in a unanimous vote, the city chose to honor Elkins by naming the path Steve Elkins Way. Part of the proposal, as read and recorded into the record by Commissioner Byrnes, said “Steve left a legacy in our town because he shattered stereotypes and opened hearts with his example, his humor, his attention to detail, and his sheer will.

Steve worked closely with the city on many initiatives, to include increasing awareness among law enforcement and using the Convention Center for hallmark CAMP Rehoboth activities…. Consequently, to honor the memory of Stephen Elkins and his contributions to the Rehoboth Beach community, the proposal is to name this path between Second Street and the Municipal Complex-Convention Center, “Steve Elkins Way.” A dedication ceremony and reception will take place on May 4 at 1:30 p.m. along the new walkway, with a reception following at CAMP Rehoboth on Baltimore Avenue. ▼

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It’s My Life

by Michael Thomas Ford

The Dating Game I had a first date last week.

The last time I had a first date was in February of 2001. We went to see the Steven Soderbergh movie Traffic.

That date eventually became a 10-year relationship involving buying a house together. Since that ended in 2011, there have been no first dates, so I’d more or less forgotten what one does on them.

Actually, I wasn’t sure I wanted to go on any more first dates. I’d become accustomed to being alone, and from what I could remember of dating, it all seemed like a lot of fuss and bother.

But I decided recently that I’m going to say yes to things that might be good for me, and so despite the voices in my head telling me to forget it, I asked out someone I had no reason to believe would say yes.

But he did. And so on Monday evening I found myself seated across from him at a Mexican restaurant, trying to pass myself off as a normal human being who knows how to do things like go on dates. Really, though, I was mentally compiling a list of all the reasons why it would never work out.

I am very good at this, and even though I have not had to do it in almost two decades (at least where romantic escapades are concerned), it all came back to me with shocking ease. By the time enchiladas and tacos had been consumed and we’d assured one another that a delightful evening had been had all around, I’d examined the evidence and come to the conclusion that pursuing things would likely go nowhere.

And then he texted and suggested that he would like to do it again.

This was a problem. First dates can be written off as momentary lapses in judgment, impulsive decisions easily forgotten. But agreeing to a second date, well, that means you’ve thought it over and decided to move forward.

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stand of first date dinners. But now we were considering sushi, and that’s an entirely different matter. Sushi is serious food. It requires thought, and care, and suggests that everyone involved has committed to something. I wasn’t sure I was ready for that.

Also, to be honest, I wasn’t sure that these were actually date-dates.

In our texts, he talked about “hanging out” and “making a new friend,” and that can mean so many things, none of them leading to kissing. Or it can mean absolutely nothing except that you’re just, well, hanging out with a friend. It’s one of those phrases that those of us who prefer clarity find unsettling.

Mexican was one thing. Tacos are casual, the one-night stand of first date dinners. But now we were considering sushi, and that’s an entirely different matter.

Again, though, I am attempting to be more open to new experiences, and so I decided to venture once more into the breach. Like the first time, conversation flowed easily. More importantly, I did not spill soy sauce all over myself or inhale enough wasabi to make my eyes water.

But we ordered separately and neither of us stole pieces from the other’s plate, and so I decided that we were probably just going to be friends after all.

Later that night, I got a text. “Hey,” it said. “This may sound weird, but I’m wondering where you think this might be heading.”

At first, I checked to make sure I hadn’t somehow sent a text to myself.

But no, it had most definitely come from the other guy. That part was good. The bad part was, he was waiting for an answer. Once again, I ran over the list of all the reasons I feared making this more than a friendship wouldn’t ultimately work.

Then I stopped myself. Yes, there are reasons it might not become something more. But letting those things get in the way so early on is simply a way of preventing the possibility of disappointment at the expense of the possibility of getting something wonderful. And so I texted back “I don’t know, but I’d like to find out.”

In the thirty seconds it took for him to respond, I prepared myself for a “I don’t think we’re on the same page” reply. It’s okay, I told myself. The point is, you took a chance. And he really would be a great new friend.

My phone dinged. “So…these were dates then, right? I mean, no pressure or anything.”

“Yeah,” I texted back. “I think they were dates.”

“Okay,” he wrote. “I hoped that’s what it was, but I wasn’t sure. When’s the next one?”

I’ll let you know how it goes. ▼ Michael Thomas Ford is a much-published Lambda Literary award-winning author. Visit Michael at michaelthomasford.com

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THE REAL DIRT

by Eric W. Wahl

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fondly remember a presentation a few years ago given at a conference that I attended at my alma mater. The speaker described our profession as such: artists create in 2-D, by drawing and painting; architects create in 3-D, by going vertical with their designs; but we create in 4-D with time being our 4th dimension. As gardeners and landscape designers we must wait to realize our vision.

One of the greats was Beatrix Farrand. Her creations touched many, and offered stunning views throughout the growing season, like a painting that changed its hues over time. She once said, “Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?”

Beatrix Farrand was also a charter member and the only woman of the American Society of Landscape Architects in its founding. She is probably best known for her work at Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown, Washington, DC. But her designs can be found up and down the East Coast, from private residential gardens to numerous public spaces and botanical gardens, as well as those on university campuses.

Her college garden designs were known for providing interest throughout the academic year (so that students could readily enjoy them), for their practicality, and for helping to make small spaces appear less overwhelming. This last was accomplished by using vines and other plantings that grow in a more vertical manner, thereby helping to reduce the impact of the buildings.

An image of her work is shown here. I encourage you to go and visit this and other places that feel like a painting come to life. It is within these spaces that we find nature, contemplation, inspiration, and a renewed spirit.

Help celebrate women in leadership and pass it on. ▼

Eric W. Wahl, RLA is a landscape architect at Element Design Group and president of the Delaware Native Plant Society

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Community News Rehoboth Beach Main Street Requests Nominees for 2019 Cottage & Town Awards

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ave you renovated the outside of your home? Built a new house? Redone your landscaping? Put a new façade on your business? It’s time to be recognized! Nominations are due by Sunday, April 15.

Rehoboth Beach Main Street’s Design Committee announces the return of the Cottage & Town Awards to recognize residential and commercial property owners who contribute to the charm, beauty, and history of Rehoboth Beach through Architectural and Landscape Renovation-Restoration-Preservation.

Nomination form, guidelines, and eligibility to participate can be found on the Rehoboth Beach Main Street website, www.downtownrb.com. All nominations must be received by 5:00 p.m., April 15, 2019 to MSTCAward@gmail.com, or mailed to Rehoboth Beach Main Street— Cottage & Town Awards, P.O. Box 50, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware 19971.

Categories include: (1) Residential Renovation-Restoration Preservation, (2) Commercial Renovation-Restoration Preservation, and (3) Landscape Architectural-Renovation-Restoration Preservation. ▼

Join the Fun Club; Add to 19 Years of History

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he Women’s FEST organizing committee is looking for some new helpers.

Spring of 2020 will be the CAMP Rehoboth Women’s FEST 20th anniversary. In these two decades, a small committee of women has met each year to plan and produce the annual FEST—having huge laughs along the way, making friends, and coming up with events, entertainment, speakers, and surprises to ensure a bigger and better FEST each time.

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The current committee is seeking additional members to bring fresh ideas, smarts, energy, and enthusiasm to the project. The success of FEST is teamwork; nobody has to do it all; nobody goes it alone. The committee works and plays together, dividing the tasks, and coming up with a program that hosts over a thousand women (and some men!) for concerts, sports, tea dances, visiting speakers, and more. See page 80 for more information. ▼

Get Jazzed for Jazz

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n celebratation of Jazz Appreciation Month (April) and International Jazz Day, True Blue Jazz presents Chuck Redd & The Monday Jazz Cats on Saturday April 27 from 7:309:30 p.m. at the Rehoboth Beach Firehouse. Doors open 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $25 and available at truebluejazz.org.

Mark your calendar now for the 7th Annual True Blue Jazz Festival October 16-20. This independent Jazz Festival brings the very best artists to the region each year.

This year’s festival will feature Grammy award-winning pianist, Bill Charlap, and his trio on Saturday, October 19. Vibrant and intoxicating newcomer, vocalist Kat Edmonson, will be featured with her quartet on Friday, October 18. An array of the finest regional and Delaware musicians round out the weekend in various performances. A sixhour jazz marathon will be held at the Rehoboth Beach fire house to benefit Rehoboth’s all volunteer fire department on Saturday, October 19. For more information about tickets or the Festival and its programs, please visit truebluejazz.org. ▼

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MIX & MATCH: How well do you know your athletes?

Match her name to her game….

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BONUS! Did You Know About “Joe” Carstairs??

When reviewing the book, The Queen of Whale Cay, the New York Times called Carstairs “…a cross-dressing lesbian who had tattoos on her arms, smoked expensive cigars, called herself Joe and was a world champion speedboat racer.” Yep. Carstairs won the Duke of York’s Trophy, the Royal Motor Yacht Club’s international race, and the Lucina Cup. Then…she bought her own island where she kept photographs of the 120 girlfriends who visited her there.

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Who you gonna trust? Before you hand over your most valuable asset—yourself—it makes sense to know your partners. Now is the time to strengthen your bonds and do a little more analysis before you jump into bed with any Tom, Dick, or Bernie. You don’t want to be on a first name basis with HIV. Have fun. Play smart.

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Intentionally Inclusive

by Wes Combs

Who Knew What Money Could Buy

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don’t know about you, but I had a mixed reaction to the recent college application scam uncovered by the Justice Department. On the one hand, I could not seem to understand how it was possible that there were no checks and balances when it came to the taking of standardized tests or validating whether or not an athletic recruit not only played the sport...but was exceptional at it.

Sure, I knew those with family members who were alumni of a specific school got preferential treatment in the admissions process. But I had no idea what extraordinary, unethical, and illegal lengths parents with wealth would go to in order to ensure their children could become members of one of the most exclusive “clubs” in the world—a college graduate from an elite institution.

The parents caught up in this messy situation took it to a new height, giving new meaning to an old adage, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”

What this controversy has reinforced is that there are a whole host of reasons why the deck is stacked against students who lack the know-how and resources to secure a coveted spot at a good school. Not unlike the networking that happens on the golf course or in private clubs, having the right connections makes a difference when looking to stand out from the rest of the crowd.

Even though I was raised in a middleclass household, I was one of the lucky ones because my parents place a high value on education. I also happened to live in an area with a nationallyrecognized school system. As a result, I was surrounded by classmates whose parents were doctors, lawyers, and business executives. They taught me valuable lessons like the importance of finding an internship while in high school, or how taking the SAT prep course could help boost my score.

In some ways, getting into college was like training to be a star athlete.

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with others who not only got into, but graduated from a top school, had a leg up because they learned what it took to qualify and succeed. While money may not buy you happiness, it can buy you access to the coaches, mentors, and tutors that strengthen a student’s ability to compete. However, crossing the finish line still means having an ability to pay the $40-$60,000 a year to attend these elite institutions.

Known as “imposter syndrome,” a student who does not feel like they belong can begin to doubt their capabilities.

Don’t get me wrong, much of this is old news. If you speak with any guidance counselor, they will tell you that the odds of securing a prized slot at a good school increases when a student graduates at the top of the class, has good ACT and SAT scores, and is a wellrounded student because they were involved in extracurricular activities.

Now imagine if you are a firstgeneration college student or live in the inner city where under-resourced schools are unable to offer the breadth and quality of education students like me had access to. They often begin the race with a distinct disadvantage and are left feeling like they do not deserve the chance to attend college, even if they have the necessary credentials. Known as “imposter syndrome,” a student who does not feel like they belong can begin to doubt their capabilities, which increases the likelihood of dropping out of college.

Fortunately, there are non-profit

organizations working hard to level the playing field and bridge these gaps.

One of them is the Posse Foundation, a college access and leadership program providing merit-based fulltuition scholarships to students typically overlooked in the application process for many of the reasons above. Posse was founded in 1989 because of one student who said, “I never would’ve dropped out of college if I’d had my posse with me.”

The model is simple: find highly qualified students and provide them with pre-collegiate training to strengthen their communications, writing, and coping skills so they are better prepared to enter an environment likely much different from the one where they grew up. Working in groups of ten, a posse, the students enter college with a closeknit group that can “back each other up.”

I am proud to serve on the DC Advisory Board of Posse.

Many of us take for granted what knowledge we acquire in life just because of where we live and who we know. I do not say this to make you feel guilty but to help shine a light on what happens when you aren’t a member of a club or network. Knowledge is power— but if you do not know how to join a club or where it is, how could you possibly know the secret handshake to get in?▼ Wesley Combs is a diversity and inclusion expert and a passionate social justice advocate. He is the founding Principal of Combs Advisory Services where he works with clients who share his values of enabling equity, equality, and opportunity in the workplace and the community.

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few weeks ago, as we celebrated International Women’s Day, the US women of soccer reminded us both how far we have come, and yet how far we still have to go. In honor of women athletes everywhere, and particularly in their sport, the entire US Women’s National Team sued the US Soccer Federation, claiming they are not paid the same as their counterparts on the Men’s National Team—despite performing the same duties, and arguably—if we want to be real about it—even performing them better.

For example, even though it is not determined by US Soccer, but rather FIFA, let’s look at World Cup bonuses—where 32 men’s teams compete for a pool of $400 million, and 24 women’s teams play for $30 million.

But, in 2014, per the filed lawsuit, the US men’s team was awarded about $5.4 million by US Soccer after losing in the sixteenth round of the World Cup. In 2015, the women were given around $1.7 million for winning!

Remember the 1999 Women’s World Cup soccer tournament? It’s the only event to make the covers of Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and People magazine the same week. Players featured were Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, Briana Scurry, Kristine Lilly, and Christie Rampone. Their legacy lives on with the likes of Alex Morgan, Abby Wambach, Megan Rapinoe, and Carli Lloyd, just to name a few.

For an extra oomph of perspective, the US women’s team has won three FIFA World Cup titles and four Olympic gold medals. The men’s team has not made it past the World Cup quarterfinals IN NEARLY 90 YEARS! And we, you and I, can be part of the solution for equality these women are seeking through the courts.

These women begin their World Cup quest in June. Tune in and amplify their voices. Make sure the men understand we are not only watching the women, we know they are a sports powerhouse worth paying—equally.

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And maybe it’s kismet, or maybe just irony, this kickoff is happening in June.

June—the anniversary of the passage and enactment into law of Title IX. The following is the original text as written and signed into law by none other than President Richard Nixon in 1972: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

— Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute (20 U.S. Code § 1681—Sex) It was co-authored and introduced by Senator Birch Bayh and Congresswoman Patsy Mink, and later, following Mink’s death in 2002, renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act. The funny part about this simple piece of legislation is it doesn’t actually mention the word “sports.” It’s a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in any educational program or activity that’s receiving any type of federal financial aid.

Zero female athletes appear in the list of the 100 highestearning athletes.

Thus, while Title IX is often referenced in discourse about sexual assault on college campuses or funding for college athletics, promoting equity in sports wasn’t the amendment’s intention. In fact, Bernice “Bunny” Sandler, who helped draft the law and is considered the “Godmother of Title IX,” told ESPN in 2012 that she had “no idea” that the legislation would impact athletics. “The only thought I gave to sports when the bill was passed was, ‘Oh, maybe now when a school holds its field day, there will be more activities for the girls.’”

And you know, Bernice Sandler was absolutely right.

A little empowerment, a taste of equality, goes a long way. An Ernst & Young and espnW survey found that among businesswomen now in the C-suite (CEOs, CFOs, etc.), a stunning 94 percent played sports, and 52 percent played college sports.

And yet, in a 2018 Forbes article we learn zero female athletes appear in the list of the 100 highest-earning athletes.

That’s right, the top 100 highest-earning athletes are all men. Serena Williams, who tops the list of highest-earning female athletes, returned from maternity leave this year, most likely impacting her income. Still, no female athlete earned more than Serena at $18 million. The 100th-highest-paid male athlete, Nicolas Batum, a French basketball player, earned $22.9 million!

As for the LPGA? Stats show its ranks earn $274 per shot, while it’s $1,141 for males—approximately four times more per shot. Indeed, J.P. Fitzgerald and Austin Johnson out-earn all but the top four earners in the LPGA—and they’re caddies!

But bleak as all that sounds, there is tangible progress on our horizon.

In 2007 Wimbledon became the fourth of the Tennis Grand Slam hosts to offer equal prize money, closing all gender pay gaps.

And of the eight winter sports that reported their prize money in a 2017 study, seven offered equal purses to both genders, from snowboarders to skiers.

Exactly half of the top-paid alpine skiers, including the top overall earner, are currently women.

So, this year let’s tune in and turn up!

Let’s drive the all-important television ratings and remind the assorted governing bodies—we are a force, and we are watching! ▼ Stefani Deoul is a television producer and author of the award-winning YA mystery series Sid Rubin Silicon Alley Adventures, with On a LARP and Zero Sum Game.

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CAMP REHOBOTH BEACH GUIDE

WHERE TO GO WHAT TO DO Visit the Business Partner Directory on the CAMP Rehoboth website to find links to these area businesses in BOLD. The Guide includes: Food and Wine, Shopping, Lodging, and Services—all at camprehoboth.com.

REHOBOTH RETAIL SHOPS Atlantic Jewelry, 313 S. Boardwalk...............................................302-226-0675 Browseabout Books, 133 Rehoboth Ave.......................................302-226-2665 Gallery 50, 50 Wilmington Ave......................................................302-227-2050 New Wave Spas, 20660 Coastal Hwy............................................302-227-8484 One Day At A Time Gifts, 46-B Baltimore Ave................................302-212-5632 Shademakers, 33 Baltimore Ave....................................................302-226-2222 The Linen Outlet, 19269 Coastal Hwy...........................................302-727-5362 Unfinished Business, Rt. 1 behind Panera Bread..........................302-645-8700 Ward Ellinger Gallery, 39 Baltimore Ave........................................302-227-2710

BEACH AREA LODGING At Melissa’s B&B, 36 Delaware Ave...............................................302-227-7504 Atlantic Sands Hotel, Boardwalk & Baltimore Ave.........................302-227-2511 Atlantis Inn, 154 Rehoboth Ave.....................................................302-227-9446 Breakers Hotel, 105 2nd St & Baltimore Ave.................................302-227-6688 Canalside Inn, 34 6th St.................................................................866-412-2625 Rehoboth Guest House, 40 Maryland Ave.....................................302-227-4117 Sea ‘n Stars Guest Suites, 44 Delaware Ave.................................302-226-2742 Summer Place Hotel, 1st St & Olive Ave........................................302-226-0766 The Shore Inn, 37239 Rehoboth Ave Ext.......................................302-227-8487

LEWES FOOD & DRINK Go Brit, 18388 Coastal Hwy...........................................................302-644-2250 Matt’s Fish Camp, 34401 Tenley Ct...............................................302-644-2267

OTHER AREA FOOD & DRINK Bluecoast Seafood, 1111 Hwy One, Bethany................................302-539-7111 Catch 54, 54 Madison Ave, Fenwick..............................................302-436-8600 Matt’s Fish Camp, 28635 Coastal Hwy, Bethany...........................302-539-2267

SERVICES AT THE BEACH BUILDING/CLEANING/REMODELING/LANDSCAPING

A.G. Renovations ...........................................................................302-947-4096 Randall-Douglas.............................................................................302-245-1439

CHURCHES/SYNAGOGUES

All Saints’ Episcopal, 18 Olive Ave.................................................302-227-7202 Epworth UMC, 19285 Holland Glade Rd.......................................302-227-7743 Grace of God Lutheran, ELCA, 20689 Shoppes at Long Neck.......302-947-1044 M.C.C. of Rehoboth, 19369 Plantation Rd.....................................302-645-4945 Seaside Jewish Community, 18970 Holland Glade Rd..................302-226-8977 St. Peter’s Episcopal, 2nd & Market Sts, Lewes.............................302-645-8479

REHOBOTH FOOD & DRINK

Unitarian Universalist, 30486 Lewes-G’Town Hwy........................302-313-5838

1776 Steakhouse, Midway Shopping Center................................302-645-9355

Westminster Presbyterian, 301 King Charles Ave.........................302-227-2109

Aqua, 57 Baltimore Ave.................................................................302-226-9001 Back Porch Café, 59 Rehoboth Ave...............................................302-227-3674 Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave........................................................302-227-6515 Café Azafran, 18 Baltimore Ave.....................................................302-227-8100 Café Papillon, Penny Lane Mall......................................................302-227-7568 Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave......................................302-227-0818 Dos Locos, 208 Rehoboth Ave............................................. 302-227-3353 Go Fish, 24 Rehoboth Ave..............................................................302-226-1044 Iguana Grill, 52 Baltimore Ave.......................................................302-727-5273 Just In Thyme, 38163 Robinsons Dr..............................................302-227-3100 Lori’s Café, 39 Baltimore Ave.........................................................302-226-3066 Lupo Italian Kitchen, 247 Rehoboth Ave.......................................302-226-2240 Palate Bistro, 19266 Coastal Hwy.................................................302-249-8489 Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave...........................................302-226-1139 Rigby’s, 404 Rehoboth Ave............................................................302-227-6080 Shorebreak Lodge, 10 Wilmington Ave.........................................302-227-1007 The Pond, First & Rehoboth Ave....................................................302-227-2234

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Unity of Rehoboth, 98 Rudder Rd, Millsboro.................................717-579-2612

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

AARP of Delaware (age 50+)..........................................................866-227-7441 ACLU of DE—Lesbian & Gay Civil Rights Project............................302-654-3966 CAMP Chorus—Program of CAMP Rehoboth.................................302-227-5620 CAMP Rehoboth—LGBTQ Community Service Org........................302-227-5620 CAMP Rehoboth Families—LGBTQ parents connect......................302-227-5620 CAMP Rehoboth Parents of Transgender & Gender Non-conforming Children............................................302-227-5620 Cape Henlopen Senior Center—Rehoboth (age 50+)....................302-227-2055 CHEER Centers of Sussex County (age 50+)..................................302-515-3040 Delaware Aging & Disability Resource Center...............................800-223-9074 Delaware Human Relations Commission Housing & public accommodation............................................877-544-8626 Delaware Information Line............................................................................2-1-1 Delaware Pride—Community events, annual Pride Festival..........302-265-3020

Delaware Transgender Resources—transdelaware.net, delawarelgbtq@gmail.com

Delaware Hospice..........................................................................800-838-9800

Delaware Transgender Support.....................................................302-402-3033

Rehoboth Beach Dental, 19643 Blue Bird Ln....................... 302-226-0300

Gay/Lesbian Alcoholics Anonymous—add’l schedules..................302-856-6452

Saturdays 6 pm: Epworth UMC, 19285 Holland Glade Rd (step meeting)

Saturdays 7:30 pm: All Saints’ Church, 18 Olive Ave (step meeting)

Tuesdays noon: St. Peter’s Church, 211 Mulberry St, Lewes (step meeting)

Thursdays noon: CAMP Rehoboth, 37 Baltimore Ave (open discussion)

Sundays 9am: CAMP Rehoboth, 37 Baltimore Ave (open discussion)

Tuesdays 8pm: CAMP Rehoboth, 37 Baltimore Ave (Young Persons)

Gay Men’s Support Group—Program of CAMP Rehoboth.............302-227-5620 LGBTQ Student Union—University of DE, Newark.........................302-831-8066 Lesbian Support Group—Program of CAMP Rehoboth..................302-227-5620 Lewes Senior Activity Center (age 50+).........................................302-645-9293

National Alliance on Mental Illness of DE (NAMI)...........................302-427-0787 Steven B. Wright, D.M.D., 18912 J.J. Williams Hwy............. 302-645-6671

INSURANCE

Eric Blondin, State Farm...................................................... 302-644-3276 George Bunting, State Farm................................................ 302-227-3891 Jeanine O’Donnell, State Farm............................................ 302-645-7283

LEGAL/ACCOUNTING/TRUST SERVICES

Lawson Firm, 402 Rehoboth Ave...................................................302-226-3700

LOCKSMITHS

Meals on Wheels Lewes-Rehoboth................................................302-645-7449

Rock Lock/Robin Rohr/Your Community Locksmith.......................302-386-9166

PFLAG-Rehoboth—2nd Tuesdays, Public Library, 111 Adams Ave, Lewes............................................................302-841-1339

MASSAGE THERAPY/FITNESS

SLAA and SAA—Thursdays, 7:30 pm, All Saints’ Church 18 Olive Ave ............................................................................302-745-7929 Social Security Administration—Lewes office................................800-772-1213 TransLiance of DE—Rehoboth—4th Tuesdays at 7 pm, MCC of Rehoboth; contact: TransLiance@gmail.com

COUNSELING/THERAPY/LIFE COACH

Kevin J. Bliss, Personal/Professional Coaching.............................302-754-1954

EVENT PLANNING/CATERING

Big Fish Catering................................................................. 302-226-5500 Flair................................................................................................302-930-0709 Palate Bistro & Catering.................................................................302-249-8489 Plate Catering.................................................................................302-644-1200

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Bell Rock Capital, 19606 Coastal Hwy..........................................302-227-7608 Community Pride Financial............................................................302-227-2939 County Bank, 19927 Shuttle Rd.......................................... 302-226-9800 Jenn Harpel, Morgan Stanley.........................................................302-644-6620

FLORISTS

Windsor’s Florist, 20326 Coastal Hwy...........................................302-227-9481

FUNERAL SERVICES

Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium................................ 302-645-9520

HAIR SALONS/TATTOO & PIERCING

Beach Cuts, 214 Rehoboth Ave.................................................... 302-226-ROBB Gregory Meyers Hair Studio, 20245 Bay Vista Rd & Rt 1..............302-727-5331 Stephan & Co Salon & Spa, 19266 Coastal Hwy................... 302-260-9478

Midway Fitness & Racquetball, Midway Center.............................302-645-0407 One Spirit Massage, 169 Rehoboth Ave........................................302-226-3552 Rehoboth Massage/Alignment.......................................................302-727-8428

PET RETAIL

All Dried Out, 149 Rehoboth Ave......................................... 484-667-7122 Critter Beach, 156 Rehoboth Ave..................................................302-226-2690 Pet Portraits by Monique................................................................717-650-4626 Salty Paws, 149 Rehoboth Ave............................................ 484-667-7122

PET SERVICES

Brandywine Valley SPCA, 22918 Dupont Blvd, G’twn...................302-856-6361 Parsell Pet Crematorium................................................................302-645-7445

REAL ESTATE

Allen Jarmon, RE/MAX, 317 Rehoboth Ave...................................302-227-4800 Bill Peiffer, Patterson Schwartz, 18958 Coastal Hwy....................302-703-6987 Chris Beagle, Berkshire Hathaway, 37230 Rehoboth Ave............302-227-6101 Debbie Reed Team, 319 Rehoboth Ave.........................................800-263-5648 Eric Atkins, Patterson-Schwartz, 18958 Coastal Hwy...................302-727-1456 John Black, Patterson Schwartz, 18958 Coastal Hwy...................302-703-6987 Lana Warfield, Berkshire Hathaway, 37230 Rehoboth Ave...........302-227-6101 Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, 16698 Kings Hwy....................... 302-645-6664 Lingo Realty, 246 Rehoboth Ave....................................................302-227-3883 McGuiness Group, 246 Rehoboth Ave...........................................302-227-3883 Randy Mason/Shirley Kalvinsky, Lingo Realty................................302-227-3883 Sea Bova Associates, 20250 Coastal Hwy........................... 302-227-1222 Troy Roberts, Mann & Sons, 414 Rehoboth Ave............................302-228-7422

TRAVEL & TRANSPORTATION

Accent On Travel, 37156 Rehoboth Ave.............................. 302-278-6100

HEALTH-RELATED

CHEER Transportation (age 50+)....................................................302-856-4909

AIDS Delaware – New Castle County............................................302-652-6776

Jolly Trolley Shuttle from Rehoboth Ave & Boardwalk...................302-644-0400

AIDS Delaware – Kent & Sussex Counties.....................................302-226-3519 AIDS Hotline – Delaware statewide...............................................800-422-0429 Beebe Healthcare, 26744 J.J. Williams Hwy.................................302-645-3300 CAMPsafe AIDS education & prevention program of CAMP Rehoboth........................................................................302-227-5620 Christiana Care HIV Wellness Clinic ..............................................302-933-3420

ITN Southern Delaware—services (age 60+ or disabled)..............302-448-8486

POPULAR LGBTQ BEACHES

Poodle Beach, South end of the Rehoboth Boardwalk Cape Henlopen State Park, Ocean Dr north to Cape Henlopen State Park. Daily parking rate in effect March-November

Christiana Care LGBTQ Health Initiatives.......................................302-733-1227 Delaware HIV Consortium - Statewide..........................................302-654-5471

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Millennial Times

by Michael Marciano

Give Them Shelter

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veryone falls upon hard times during this journey we call life.

Some are more fortunate than others, having loved ones and friends capable of lending assistance. Others, those who aren’t so lucky, have only the community and the resources it provides.

To say our area is bereft of resources for those in need would be inaccurate.

However, a community containing such wealth can certainly do more.

The Immanuel Shelter in Rehoboth Beach has been battling with the Sussex County Council to convert the former John Wesley United Methodist Church in Belltown—just outside Lewes on Rt. 9— into a 24/7 shelter for the homeless.

The county’s position on the matter has flip-flopped, thanks to the court of public opinion. Over the last year, Immanuel Shelter has been granted conditional permits to open the new shelter—only to lose that permission.

One court rules and another overturns, keeping our homeless population in limbo—most of that population being Baby Boomers with some serious health issues.

Despite many promises from the Immanuel Shelter staff to carefully vet and monitor those using the shelter, people living nearby the proposed shelter site are still very concerned.

Many of the local residents claim the area is pleasant and safe, and feel that inviting the homeless would compromise the area.

My question to those opposing is: “What would you have these homeless members of our community do?” The former church is an unused space in a great location—on important public transportation routes—for those in need of such services. Does a person without a home become an automatic threat to the community? I certainly think not.

In many cases, much like with any other stigma, it’s a very small percentage of a group that gives the rest a bad reputation. Have those afflicted with homelessness committed

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crimes? Certainly. On the flip side, plenty of comfortably-housed community members have also committed crimes.

Is it fair to judge someone solely on their abundance, or lack thereof, of material possessions? Leaving others out in the cold with nothing is the type of thing that drives certain persons to drastic and unsavory measures.

An argument of “they can simply put it elsewhere” is entirely selfish and, in my opinion, moot. I say this because there is a space available, now. A space which can house more than 20 people per night. Should those people be left to sleep in the woods because of the flawed logic of others?

On the flip side, plenty of comfortably-housed community members have also committed crimes. Is it fair to judge someone solely on their abundance, or lack thereof, of material possessions?

My house is less than a half mile from the Rehoboth Beach shelter and I’ve yet to hear my neighbors speak out with concern for the neighborhood. Nor have I heard mention of increased crime due to the shelter. Personally, I have walked by the shelter at nearly every hour of the day and have not once been accosted by anyone staying there. In fact, it comforts me to know there are community resources so nearby. If I were to lose absolutely everything, I have a place to go.

Many of us are so far removed from the prospect of homelessness

that the sheer notion is inconceivable.

Something tells me that many of those suffering with homelessness never imagined they would be in such a situation, either.

Homelessness should be a plight to which we all should be sympathetic.

Shelter is considered as much a need as food and water. I don’t know how many of you have been stuck outside, cold and wet, but take it from me that it is a miserable experience. Granted, my experience was a product of my own doing, but that didn’t make it any easier.

Many say homelessness is a choice.

For some, this is true. But certainly not for all. Even if someone has made some poor choices in life, much like I’ve made an egregious abundance in mine, I wholeheartedly believe they should have a warm and dry place to lay their head at night.

One cliché that has always spoken volumes of truth to me is: “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.” This idiom certainly represents community.

Communal wealth is not determined by how great the wealthy live but how well the community treats those in need of help.

If the time comes for further public forum regarding this matter, be present and speak your piece. Your words, your voice, they can save lives. Simply, be loud enough to be heard. ▼ Michael Marciano is a local freelance writer with a deep-rooted passion for the area. After a decade of grant writing, Michael is finally making a move into the literary world.

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Giving and Receiving: Forever Unfinished Business

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customer walks in the front door and is immediately met with a hearty how-do-you-do from the helpful host or perhaps a seasoned volunteer sorting goods or ringing up sales. Then they spy the shorts yearning for a springtime walk on the beach, or a beautiful blue-print dress beckoning a young woman to dance the night away, aisles of gently used clothes, and books for a summer’s read. All items looking for a new owner; all items with…unfinished business.

Hence the name of this lovely Rehoboth thrift store, Unfinished Business: A community thrift shop, located behind Panera Bread on Route One. But the real business of this community store goes much deeper than selling items donated by families and organizations.

According to the shop’s owners, the unfinished business of the 21st century is ensuring equality for all regardless of race, gender, education, or sexual orientation. Their fundamental belief is that unless all community members have equal opportunities and an equal playing field, none in that community will prosper or grow. This, too, is unfinished business.

Finally, they see as unfinished business the 21st century’s effort to rescue this planet from the tragic consequences of environmental neglect and abuse. A thrift shop establishes new uses and new owners for objects that are casually discarded or unwanted.

What better way of recycling?

Unfinished Business is the brainchild of local community activist Lynne Maloy. She has worked in government and the non-profit world for over 30 years, perfecting her managerial skills, her supervisory experience, and her financial acumen. She has created nonprofits, managed them, and operated her own non-profit consulting business.

Lynne started the store in June, 2013,

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with husband Patrick and daughter Allie.

A family business, Allie is now CEO, and Lynne and Patrick help out as needed.

A graduate of Delaware Technical Community College where she studied Entrepreneurship, Allie says the store thrives with its sense of community. She says she grew up in a tight knit family, where they shared the love, and the store is very much like that.

Unfinished Business donates an extraordinary 85 percent of its profits to local non-profit organizations in Sussex County that help benefit the local/ global community. CAMP Rehoboth is one of the beneficiaries. This makes the business a catalyst for positive change in the social backdrop of the county, while providing services to all members of the community. It filters much needed operating funds to organizations struggling to meet the needs of our community.

Unfinished Business donates an extraordinary 85% of its profits to local non-profit organizations in Sussex County that help benefit the local/ global community. CAMP Rehoboth is one of the beneficiaries.

People love this thrift store, which operates much like a boutique with its high-end donations. Unsolicited comments overheard during several

visits include “we love this place!” “thoughtfully set up,” and “easy to navigate.” One customer even noted that the store was “deliberately decorated,” a nice touch above and beyond many stores of its type.

Unfinished Business has a long and gratifying relationship with CAMP Rehoboth. The thrift store profits are donated to pre-determined organizations called associates and in return, these associates reach out to their membership for volunteers and donations. CAMP Rehoboth was Unfinished Business’s first associate.

Thanks in large part to the efforts of CAMP Rehoboth coordinator Kathy Wiz, and the late Steve Elkins, 50 percent of Unfinished Business’s donations come from CAMP Rehoboth members. It is a relationship that closely mirrors the missions of these two partners.

Using the concept of reduce, reuse, and recycle, and merging it with community activism, Unfinished Business creates a winning combination for local non-profits looking for operating funds; local shoppers looking for a way to beat the high cost of living; and concerned citizens looking for environmentally sensitive ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Unfinished Business accepts new, gently used, or vintage donations of almost all kinds. Before bringing donations to the store, please consult their website at ubthrifting.org for types of donations accepted, condition requirements, ways to donate, and other useful information. The website also lists their hours of operation.

Drop in, say hi, and walk through the aisles. Remember, each dress, each book, each vintage trinket, can be your contribution toward wrapping up that unfinished business. ▼

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SCENES FROM REHOBOTH BEACH CAMP Out in Africa, Rainbow Bowling, Gumbo Crawl, Chocolate Fest, and More Signs of Springtime in Rehoboth Beach!

THIS PAGE 1) Deb Chase, Terry Barrera, Dana Luigard, Angie Strano, Cindy Gruman, Arlyce Dubbin, Katie Heintz, Phil Vehslage, Jim Mease, Mark Eubanks, Doug Sellers, Susan Griesemer, Charlotte Reid, Polly Smale, Richard Coss, Michael Hull, Susan Siemionko, Arlyce Dubbin, Phil Vehslage, Roger Siemionko, Allen Jarmon, Debbie Woods, Sue Goudy, Leslie Sinclair, and Claire Ippoliti on the CAMP Rehoboth “CAMPout in Africa” Trip.

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OPPOSITE PAGE 2) Annette Stellhorn, Rick Stellhorn, Murray Archibald, Jean Chlastawa, Cindy Gruman, Mary Beth Ramsey, Sondra Arkin, Ward Ellinger, Deb Qualey, Lee Ann Nelson, Karen Gustafson, Marcia McLaurin, Nina Dawson, Michele Nagle, Kim Dare, Monica Parr, David Nelson, Emilie Paternoster, and Bill McManus on the “CAMPout in Africa” Trip. 3) David Streit, Scott Button, Tony Burns, Noah Cohen, Lynden Armstrong, Don Corin, and Tim Dillingham at the PGMC Performance of Risque at CAMP Rehoboth. 4) John Black, John Glenstrup, Kent Swartz, Chris Hughes, Richard DiMenico, Gregory Regna, Michael Zachere, Kirk Michael, Richard Hughes, and Tom Ryan at Rigby’s.

5) Ruth Dickerson and Kathy Davison at Rehoboth Concert Band Benefit.

6) Judy King, Nancy Alexander, and Marge LaFond at the Rosie the Riveter Night at the Museum. 7) Charlie Turner, Jack Suwanlert, Charlie Howell, Paddy Shevlin, George Shevlin, and Sandra Skidmore at George and Jack’s St. Patricks Day Party.

Photos by Murray Archibald, Tony Burns, Donna Dolce, and Tricia Massella.

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OPPOSITE PAGE 1) Channing Daniel, Bill Gloth, Robert Hill, Harold Marmon, Karl Zoric, and Mark Pipken at Channing’s Birthday Party at The Pines.

2) Evelyn Maurmeyer, Natalie Moss, Emilie Paternoster, Dr. Xiaoli Chen, Pat Pardum, and Annette Stellhorn at Beebe Healthcare Girls Night Out. 3) Rut Paal, Rob Jasinski, Cliff Lassahn, Steven Haber, Eric Korpon, Ryan Shea, Patrick Sommer, and Dan Truitt at The Pond. 4) Bobby Kilpatrick, Jacob Anthony, Tony Zacchei, Sam Sassano, and Tom Mosher at Drag Brunch at Goolee’s Grill. 5) Cody Garland, Alyssa Grenyer, Crystal Lankford, Bobby Burns, George Stakias, Nick Leffler, Rich Norcross, and Michael Taggert at Purple Parrot. 6) Bobby Burns, Cody Garland, Kenny Brooks, Bill Gluth, Michael O’Connell, Joe Zuber, and Darryl Ciarlante at Diego’s Hideaway. 7) Chuck Ward, Michael Alushin, Barbara Alushin, Tom Carlson, Robert Patlan, Sue Potts, Ray Michener, Gordon Tanner, and Karen Kohn at Robert and Gordon’s Dinner Party.

THIS PAGE 8) Michelle Lee, Sharon Lawrence, Diane Braver, Rina Pellegrini, Theresa Walters, Jeanette Laszcynski, Nancy Commisso, Phyllis McCourt, Kathy Carrel, Sue Ahern, Maxine Ansbach, Anna Fuggit, Michelle Adkins, Linda Twenty, Cindy Roher, Jodi Foster, Lisa Rabigi, Kathy Martin, Heidi Egbert, Martha Ortiz, Patty Lake, Laurie Bronstein, and Deb Duran at Rainbow Bowling League. 9) Meghan Gardner, Lion Gardner, Kim Martin, Zane Kesler, Jeff Raver, Mat Gulick, Carol Bresler, Joel Robbins, Carolyn Billinghurst, Michael Linder, Jennelle Collins, Cody Garrett, Cody White, and Randy Haney at Blue Moon.

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OUR SUPPORTERS MAKE IT HAPPEN PURPLE LEVEL Sondra N. Arkin X Aaron, Heather, Gia & Joe Book* Karen Brause & Kim Sheaffer Carol Bresler & Carolyn Billinghurst X Tony Burns X Edward Joseph Chrzanowski & Talmage Wesley Sykes Skip Dye & Steven King* Randy Gross Window Treatments* Diane Huber Allen Jarmon & Ward Ellinger X James W. Johnson & Matthew H. Shepard* Christine Lay X Diane & Chris Martin* Richard Morgante & Edward McHale* Beth Pile & S.A. White X Mark Purpura & Matthew Adams* Jennifer Rubenstein & Diane Scobey X Evie Simmons & Barb Thompson X Leonard Smith X The Robert V. Hauff & John F. Dreeland Foundation X Jennifer Walker & Mary Ann Veitch X Renee & Steven Wright DMD PA*

INDIGO LEVEL Murray Archibald & In Memory of Steve Elkins X David Binder Wesley Blickenstaff* Jane Blue & Louisa Watrel X Joe Brannen & John Klomp X Mark Bromley & David Salie* Tom Brown X Elizabeth Carl & Tori Hill* Pat Catanzariti & Carole Ramos* Richard Coss & Mike Hull Donna Davis & Gail Jackson X Lou Fiore & Jim Burke* Jim & Tom Flower* Gary Gajewski David & Marti Garrett Holly Horn & Kathleen Garrity X Claire Ippoliti X Maureen Keenan & Teri Dunbar X John Kelly & Dan Chappell Jerry Kennedy & Robert Quinones X Russell Koerwer & Stephen Schreiber X Laurie Kuebler Curtis J. Leciejewski, DDS, PA X Stephen Manos X Edward Miller & Edwin Hotaling* Thom Morris & Jim Slusher Natalie Moss & Evelyn Maurmeyer X Rick Mowery & Joe Conn X Tom Negran & Marc Anthony Worosilo X David Nelson & William McManus X John Newton & Mowry Spencer X Mark Niehaus & Brooks Honeycutt X Jeanine O’Donnell - State Farm*

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Gwen Osborne & Katie Handy Signarama X Richard Perry Deborah Qualey & Karen Gustafson X Keith & John Riley-Spillane X Chris Rinaldi & Brian Powers X Mark Roush & Dave Banick* Gary Seiden & Ah Bashir X Leslie Sinclair & Debbie Woods X Diane Sweeney & Kelly Ballentine* Susan Tobin & Cathy Martinson Frank Vitrano X Karen West & Melissa Clement* Ronald Wetzel & Nathan Hench Brian Yanofchick Chris Yochim Karl Zoric & Mark Pipkin X

BLUE LEVEL Linda Balatti & Shirley Gilmer X Ronald Bass & George Robbins X Beau Bogan Foundation Rocky Bible & Kevin Bosley - In Memory of Jackie Morris Andrew Byrd Paul Cline Coleen Collins & Berdi Price X Richard Gamble & Paul Lindsey* Gail Gormley* Wendy Grooms & Barbara Fishel X Ernie Johnson Irene & Lou Katz* Melissa & Amanda Kaufman X Nancy Kennedy & Tora Washington* Paul & Anne Michele Kuhns* Jason LeBrun & Jason Dixon Rebecca Moscoso & Maggie Kilroy* Kathleen Nilles & Camille Nichols* Porter-Gordon Family Chris Rouchard X Carl Schloegel Michael Shaffer & Benjamin Wilson X Mark Stewart

GREEN LEVEL Brenda Abell & Nancy Kettell X Sharon Bembry & Lois Powell Alex Benjamin & Pete Grover* Chris Berg & Terry Kistler David Bower* Chris Bowers* David W. Briggs & John F. Benton X Charlie Browne & Rod Cook X Cheryl Buxton Stephen & Charles Campbell-King Jay Chalmers & John Potthast X Paul Christensen & Dennis Morgan* Beth Cohen & Fran Sneider X Don Corin & Tim Dillingham* Stephen Corona Drexel Davison - Bad Hair Day?* Mike DeFlavia & Tony Sowers* Max Dick* Joe DiSalvo Maureen Dolan & Karen McGavin* Ann Evans* Kathy & Corky Fitzpatrick X Cynthia Flynn & Deirdre Boyle X

Perry Gottlieb & Tim White Richard Green & Asi Ohana X Wesley Hacker & David Block* John Hackett & Tom Newton David Hagelin & Andy Brangenberg Harris Holden X Terry Hollinger Steve Hoult & Rick Bane X Jocelyn Kaplan & Idalie Adams X Amylynn Karnbach - One Day At A Time Gifts, LLC Linda Kemp* Deborah Kennedy & Beth Yocum* Alice & Robert Mazur Courtney & Katie McGregor Garrett McKee Susan Morrison* Fred Munzert & J.P. Larap Dennis Neason & Steve Bendyna Kim Nelson & Lori Simmons X Don Peterson & Jeff Richman X Keith Petrack & Michael Fetchko* Anne Pikolas & Jean Charles X Stephen Pleskach X Gail Purcell & Sandy Kraft Bill Rayman & Frank King* Sandy Roberts X Carolyn Robinson Scott Shaughnessy & John Hassell* William Snow & Richard Pagnotta X Dee Speck & Linda Kauffman X Joseph Steele & Chris Leady Angie Strano & Cindy Gruman David Streit & Scott Button David Theil & Ken Lanza* Lauren Thomas & Shelley Couch Terry Vick & Billy Pat Clamp Brian Ward & Michael Smith Lana Warfield & Pamela Notarangelo X Margaret Wilkins* Kathy Wiz & Muriel Hogan X Jon Worthington & Bryan Houlette X Doug Yetter & Mark Horne Lisa Zimmerman X

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Dale Aultman & Paul Gibbs X Mike Ballenger & Martin Thomas Miriam Barton* Chris Beagle & Eric Engelhart* Gerry Beaulieu & Bill Fuchs Bud Beehler & Robert Schuster Abby Bernstein & Karen Frank X Kathleen Biggs & Maria Campos Boland Family - In Memory of Michael J. Kelly* Teresa Bolduc & Kim McGeown Nancy Bouse & Norma Morrison X Michael Boyle & Greg Murphy X John Brady X Russ Capps & Ken Yazge* David Carder Kathy Casey & Jean Burgess X Kate Cauley & Pat Newcomb Bob Chambers* Jim Chupella & Jim Wigand Dottie Cirelli & Myrna Kelley X Betsy Cohen Gary Colangelo & Gerald Duvall X

CAMP REHOBOTH MEMBERSHIP 2019 Thomas Conway & Thoth Weeda* Kay Creech & Sharon Still* Lewis & Greg Dawley-Becker* Viki Dee & Aileen D In Memory of Frank Dell’Aquila X Marianne DeLorenzo & Linda Van de Wiele* Fred DiBartolo & Steve Wood X Donna Dolce* Frank Dorn & Edward Schumacher* Ken Drerup & Jeff Eiselman* Albert Drulis & Scott Silber* Sandy Duncan & Maddy Ewald Susan Eig & Ellen Schiff X Karen & Lisa Faber Alice Fagans & Ruth Ann Mattingly* Dee Farris Ellen Feinberg & Lesley Rogan X Monica Fleischmann & Lona Crist X Connie Fox Fulton National Bank* John Furbush & Tom Feng Jerry Gallucci & Conrad Welch Jill Gaumer LCSW* Susan Goudy* Bill Graff & Jeff Schuck* Ken Green & Joe Kearney* Michael Green & Robert Schwerdtfeger* Frederick Harke X Pete & Joanne Harrigan* David Herring & Karl Hornberger Carol Holland - Holland Jewelers X John Holohan & William Ensminger* Larry Hooker X Caroline Huff & Brenda Robertson* Pete Jakubowski* Robert Jennings Philip Johnson* Greg Kubiak* Susan Kutliroff & Barbara Snyder Carol Lazzara & Sheila Maden* Leslie Ledogar & Marilyn Hewitt* Monica Lewis & Ann Zimmerman* Frank Liptak & Joe Schnetzka* James Lonsdale & Bryan Hoffman John Mackerey & Donald Filicetti Patricia Magee & Anita Pettitt X Guy, Sorin, and Summer Martin* Jill Masterman & Tammy Jackson Tony Mazzarella Kathleen McCormick & Elizabeth Fish X Kevin McGovern & Dan Schoch Mickie McManamon* James Mease & Philip Vehslage* Howard Menaker & Patrick Gossett X Floyd Merchant Ray Michener & Tom Carlson* Linda Miniscalco & Jeanne Drake* Sherril Moon & Louise Montgomery Gaylon Morris & Rick Kinsey* Jack Morrison & Bob Dobbs* Robert Nowak & David Bergman X Fran O’Brien & David Gifford Judy Olsen & Joanne Kempton X Maggie Ottato X Marilyn Pate & Dorothy Smith* Peninsula Gallery - Tony & Carol Boyd-Heron* John Piccirillo & Jonathan Rose

Joanne Picone & Kathy Bostedo Denny Pintello & Coke Farmer* Tom Poor & Tom Bachmann Bin 66 Fine Wine* Jim Pressler X Sam Profeta X Lisa Rabigi & Bea Vuocolo Joie Rake & Nan Flesher X Jay Raksin Barb Ralph X Nancy Ramundo & Jane Soreth Marty Rendon & John Cianciosi* Gene Roe X Thomas Rose & Thomas Sechowicz X Lucien Rossignol & Tom Harris Kim Rutherford & Dalit Eyal Mark Saunders & Bob Thoman* Betsy Schmidt & Beth Greenapple X Sheryl Schulte & Jeanne LaVigne* Douglas Sellers & Mark Eubanks Marc Silverman & John Campbell Mary Ann Slinkman & Sharyn Santel Susan Soderberg & Terri King X John Michael Sophos & Miss Dot Sophos* Diane Sozio & Patricia Hutchinson* Mary Spencer & Kathy Lingo* Russell & Patricia Stiles Caroline Stites & Elizabeth Coit X Lenny Stumpf & John B. Pitchford Brett Svensson & Bill Quinn Dust Doctors LLC* Gordon Tanner & Robert Patlan Mark Weaver Cal Weible & Daniel Halvorsen X Michael Weinert* Douglas Werner & JD Pryor John Wood & Mike Roob Tony Wright & Mary Jo Bennett X Jean Young* Joanne Yurik Larry Zeigler X John Zingo & Rick Johnson*

ORANGE LEVEL Donna Adair Marge Amodei* Gwen Atwell & Marla Hoon Shannon & Sarah Avery John D. Baker Pamela Baker & Diane Dixson* Romulus Barba & Dean Yanchulis* Jeri Berc X Joel Berelson & Charles Maples* Sherry Berman & Deb Hamilton X Deborah Bosick Linda Bova & Bridget Bauer The Sea Bova Associates* Anita Broccolino - In Memory of Cathy Fisher Wendy Bromfeld* Barry Bugg Ronald Butt & Steve Cannon* Sara Cavendish & Wendy Bunce X Jean Chlastawa & Susan Griesemer Michael Clement & Mac Gardner* Charlie Codacovi* Community Bank Delaware* Mark Conheady* Lois Cortese & Jill Stokes X

Kenneth Currier & Mike Tyler X John D’Amico* Scott Davis & Chris Shaheen* Scott & Donna de Kuyper Hotel Blue John & Richard Decore Robert Defendis & Ronald O. Dempsey Linda DeFeo X J. Lynne Dement & Lisa J. Snyder Tony DiMichele & Jeff Smith Kevin Doss & Arie Venema Brenda Dunn & Karen Anderson Martin Durkin & Chetan Patel* Jeanne Embich* Fred Episcopo & Jim DiLalla* Gary Espinas & Daniel Sherlock Maureen Ewadinger* Jerry Filbin Keven Fitzsimmons & Jeff Stroud X Sara Ford & Anne Donick* Chris Galanty & Jim Apistolas Anne Geary Stephen Georgalas & Angelo Andreatos William Gluth & Channing Daniel Ed Gmoch* Mike Gordy & Ed Brubaker Joe Gottschall & Scott Woody Deborah Grant & Carol Loewen Michele Grant & Michelle Meyers* Richard & Frances Grote Bill Hillegeist X Vance Hudgins & Denny Marcotte John Hulse X Mary Huntt & Angela Creager Janet Idema & Patricia Higgins* Valerie Johns Jana Kamminga & Niki Nicholson Sharon Kanter & Cyndy Bennett* Marilyn Kates & Laura Glenn* Anne Kazak & Chris Coburn X Mark Kehoe X Maryl Kerley & Pat Sagat X Bonnie Kirkland & Wanda Bair X Judy Kolb & Martha Hanlon Jay Kottoff & Mark Matey* Roger Kramer Rob & Jean Krapf X Barbara Lang & Diane Grillo Jim Lesko Jonathan & Karlyn Lokken* Dale & Sue Lomas* Michael Marion & DiMitri Guy* Marsha Mark & Judy Raynor Vicki Martina & Nancy Hewish* Marie Martinucci & Pam Kozey* Michael & Stephan Maybroda Tom McCafferty - In Memory of John Sousa Kevin McDonald & Sean McClafferty Kathy & Steve McGuiness Kate McQueen Marvin Miller & Dan Kyle X Julia Monaghan & Carissa Meiklejohn Margaret Moore & Sheree Mixell X Thomas Moore & Richard Bost Marie Murray & Deb Ward X Debbie & Frank Navecky Robert Neighbour & Andrew Dan Pat Nickols Dan O’Flaherty & Mario Flores* Donna Ohle & Susan Gaggiotti X Sandra Oropel & Linda Frese* Carolyn Ortwein & Ann Barry* Dotti Outland & Diane Mead X Rutland Paal & Robert Mittleman*

Sandra Pace & Barbara Passikoff X Stephen Pape & Jerry Clark Steve Parker Ellen Passman X Emilie Paternoster & Monica Parr X Colleen Perry & Jane Kuhfuss* Marianne Perry & Jeanette Laszczynski Deena Pers X Grace Pesikey & Janet Urdahl* Russ Phipps & Stephen Jacobs* Peter Pizzolongo & Carlos Prugue* Lee Ann Porter Roni Posner X Pat Powell Renata Price & Yona Zucker* Pierce Quinlan & Ginny Daly Thomas Ramsey & Chris Murray Charlotte Reid & Polly Smale* Susan Reinagel Pat Renninger & Tammy Plumley X Judy Rosenstein & Elva Weininger X Katherine Sams* Richard Sargent* Gary Schell & Jim DiRago Rosemarie Schmidt & Carolyn Horn X Laurie Schneider & Margie Ripalda* Frank Schockley & Arthur Henry Teri Seaton & Rena Frampton-Seaton Michael Seifert & Harvey Holthaus* Craig Sencindiver & Gary Alexander* Christine Stanley & Joyce Rocko* Matthew Stensrud & Michael Cohen Libby Stiff & Bea Wagner X Robert Stoltzfus & Gerald Warhola* Brian Straka* Sandra Sullivan & Lorie Seaman* Thrasher’s French Fries Jeffrey Trunzo & Herman Goodyear* James Tucker & In Memory of Dennis Murphy* Tama Viola Don Wainwright & Tom Jamison* Elizabeth Way & Dorothy Dougherty Donald Wessel William Wheatley Ralph Wiest & Anthony Peraine* Terry Wise & Beth Shank* Sherri Wright & Dick Byrne* Niki Zaldivar MD X Helaine Zinaman & Roselyn Abitbol X

RED LEVEL Adrienne & Kim Jim Affonco X Mark Aguirre & Wayne Gleason X Greg Albright & Wes Combs X Bill Alldredge X Stephani Allison & Judith Gorra X Alan Anderson X Lois Andreasen & Jean McCullough Andrea Andrus & Maggie Shaw X Peter Antolini X Patricia Antonisse X Wanda Armwood & Illona Williams Jan Atwell Jack Ay & James Krebsbach Gale & Jim Ayres Kathleen Bailey X David & Sandra Baker John Baker & Richard Latham X June Baker* Ruth Ball & Mary Ellen Jankowski* Susie Ball & Susan Delaney X

Michael Barnes & Scott O’Neill Johnny Barrett-Bland & Dennis Bland Curtiss Barrows X Brian Bartels Eric Barton & Greg Nagel John Batchelor X Karen Beck Beebe Medical Foundation Mike Behringer & Nelson Correa Lara & Joe Bellistri Sheryl Bender & Doreen DiLorenzo George Benes & Michael Mallee X Suzanne Bennethum & Deborah Smith Norman Bennett & Marco Morales Stephen & Michael Bennett Lisa Beske Peter Bezrucik* Christine Bielenda & Karen Feuchtenberger* Thomas Biesiadny X Deb Bievenour & Susan Shollenberger Lorraine Biros Cathin Bishop & Laura Simon X Jason Blachek Ann Black & Kaye Wachsmuth X Carol Blair* Eric Blondin - State Farm Insurance Rehoboth Beach* Rev. Dr. Tom Bohache & Tom Laughingwolf Simmons X Annabelle Boire Robin Bond & Leanna Johannes* Bob Bonitati X Joy Boone & Marina Simmers X Randall Borgerson X Sheri & Carl Borrin Pete Borsari X Laura Borsdorf X Darice Bowles & Gerry Sue Davis* David & Donna Bowman X Deni Boyer & Loretta Imbrogono Beth Bozman Jim Brady & Mike Hays X Brandywine Valley SPCA Kelly Brennan & Susan McVey William Briganti & Gary Moore John & Bud Broda-Knudsen Debora Brooke * Cathy Brown Kevin Brown X Lyn Brown Diane Bruce & Annie Sorvillo P. Alan Bulliner X Belinda Buras & Linda Simeone Geoffrey Burkhart & Bruce Williams* Lyn Burleson & Sharon Werner* Carol L. Burnett X Mary Jean Burns & Novalyn Winfield Rob Burns & Cris Hamer* Timothy B. Bush X Randy Butt & Emerson Bramble* Barbara Butta James Byrnes X Chris Cahill X Debbie Cali & Maddie Cunningham Ingrid Callmann & Karen Askins* Leslie Calman & Jane Gruenebaum* Michele Campisi & Julie A. Slick X Matt Carey X Jim Carlo X Justine Carpenter X Shirley Carpenter & Mary Coldren X U.S. Senator Thomas R. Carper John Carr & Billy Cox* Lisa Carrol & Deb Dubois X

Teresa Cason & Lynda Schepler X Joseph Catrambone & Dennis Otten Suzette Chagnon Linda Chaney & Irene Lawlor* Helen Chang & Pat Avery Sherry & Bruce Chappelle Dr. Harvey J. Chasser X Mike Chateauneuf X Anthony Chiffolo & Rusty Hesse* Dan Childers & Ted Hernandez* Tom Childers & John Hall X Sandra Chinchilla X Curt Christensen & Ellen Heald* Billy J. Christian X Dennis Chupella & Rob White X Norma K. Clark X Terry Clark Amy Clouse & Betty Long X Norman Cohen & Mark Polo Carolyn Cole & Sandy McDevitt X Nancy Commisso* Stuart Comstock-Gay X Inez Conover X Ronnie Contreras & Brian Casey Bill Cooley & Ken Watkins DVM X Richard Cooper & Vincent Saporito Jeffery A. Coover X Michael Cornell X Mary Costa & Kris Nygaard Martha & Richard Coyle Becky & Tom Craft X Wendy Cramer & Carolyn Baranowski* Peter Crawford Theresa-Ann Crivelli & Angela Murray Robert Crocetti X Bill Cross & David McCall X Lauren Cross Donald Crowl* Richard Culver Mark Cunningham & Ken Tattersall X Howard Cyr & Lynn Ashley* William T. Darley X Marsha Davis & Bev Lesher X Kathy Davison & Ruth Dickerson X Frederick Dean & Steven Swierzy X Linda Dean & Donna Whiteside* Penny Lee Dean Scott Dechen & James Maino Michael Decker X Julie DelGiorno & Margie Griffith Bernie Delia X Claire Dente & Leslie Campo Karen DeSantis & Carol Brice Nancy DeToma & Meg Smith David DeVargas & Steven Champion X Dawn Devries Henry & Marcia DeWitt X Geri Dibiase Photography* Julie Dickson X Richard Dietz Mary Dipietro & Wendy Schadt* Lin Dixon Romana Dobbs Deb Dobransky & Ketty Bennett* Arthur Dochterman X David & Lizann Dockety X Peg Dolan & Mary McDevitt X Debra Doricchi Andy Dorosky & Greg Oliver* Debbie & Karen Dorris* Frances Doyle X Paul Dradransky X Michael Driscoll & Ben McOmber X Arlyce Dubbin & Kathleen Heintz*

Susan Dube & Diana Patterson* Deanna Duby & Carol Bruce Barry Dunkin Gene Dvornick X Sue Early X Eden Restaurant X Gail Elliott & Bea Hickey Pamela Elliott W. Kay Ellis Eddie Engles Dent Farr & Erick Lowe Susan Farr & Joanne Pozzo Rene Fechter & Cynthia Smith Larry & Ro Fedorka Karen Ferguson Virginia Fessler & Chris Patton Jayne & Ro Fetterman Irene & Edward Fick* Allen Fred Fielding X Joe Filipek & Larry Richardson X Mark Finkelstein & Michael Zeik X Paul Finn & Joseph Porporino Rick Fischer X Gary Fisher & Josh Bushey* Chuck Flanagan & George Whitehouse X David Flohr & Steven Kuschuck* Paul Florentino & Chris Pedersen X Mary Ford & Judy Hedrick X Anthony Forrest & Glyn Edwards Roland Forster & David McDonald Daniel Foskey John J. Foster Jr. Paul Foster & Ioannis Sporidis-Foster Phil & Marylea Franz* Beebe Frazer X Phil Fretz X Billiemichelle & Evelyn Friel* Neil Frock & Bob Harrison* Marilyn Fuller & Teresa Marigliano Robert Furman & Paul Grecay Lorraine Gaasche & Jill Mayer* Frank Gainer & Ramon Santos* Lynn Gaites & Faye Koslow X Nina Galerstein Karen Gantz & Jeanie Geist Don Gardiner X Mindy Gasthalter* Wilson Gates X Lisa Gaunt & Deborah Harrell* Nora & Marie Gentile Charles George & Dennis Rivard X Gary Gillard X Jordan Gipple & Paul Weppner* Joan Glass X Ron Glick & Tien Pham* Jamie Glidewell & Shelby Sears Karen Glooch X Jane Godfrey* Randall Godwin X Jackie Goff & Mary Vogt X Dave Gold X Robert Gold X Mel Goldberg Suzanne Goldstein & Dana Greenwald X Milton Gordon & Bill Hromnak X Teresa Gordy & Barb Ford X Dan Goren & Peter Robinson X Anita Gossett & Ronnie Smith Amy Grace & Karen Blood Lisa Graff* Charles Graham Paul R. Grant & Marc Watrel Linda Gregory Kenneth Grier Richard Grifasi X APRIL 12, 2019

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John Grillone & Paul Schlear Jr. X Joseph Gritz X Carol Gross X James Gross X Arnold H. Grossman* Paula Grubbs X Mark & Sheldon Gruber-Lebowitz Michael Guerriere Bill Gunning & Joe Greoski X Mary Gunning Marie & Ken Haag* Todd Hacker Jay Haddock & Hector Torres* Gerard M. Haley & George D. Zahner X Cynthia Hall X Siobhan Halmos & Beth McLean* Rodney Hamer & Jay Farrelly Sharon Hansen X Diane Hanson Mark Hare & Mike Newman X Kelley Harp X David Harrer & Floyd Kanagy* Pat Harte & Nancy Sigman Jeff Haslow X Pat Hauptman Janece Hausch* John & Mary Havrilla* John Hawkins & Silvia Ritchie Daniel F.C. Hayes Ceil Hearn & Liv Ault Gail Hecky* Brook Hedge & Bonnie Osler Leslie Hegamaster & Jerry Stansberry* Linda Heisner X Tracey Hellman & Erica Hill Mary Helms & George Beckerman* Matthew Hennesey* David Herchik & Richard Looman X Fred Hertrich X Howard Hicks & Stephen Carey X Barbara Hines & Nancy Froome X Howard C. Hines, MD X Janel Hino & Patricia Ann Scully X Connie Holdridge* Robert Holloran & Ed Davis Brad Holsinger & Ed Moore Mod Cottage* Chris Holt & Emory Bevill X Mollyne Honor & Shelley Garfield Mary Anne Hoopes & Dianna Johnston Penni Hope James T. Hopkins X Elaine Horan & Debbie Sciallo X Kenneth Horn Frank Hornstein & Mark Henckel X Tom Horvath & Pete Drake James Hospital & Jack Faker Robert Hotes X Donald Howat Ron Hughes & Ben Cross Karen Hugues & Cathy McCallister X Batya Hyman & Belinda Cross* Thomas Ingold X Sue Isaacs* Chris Israel & John Stassi X Debbie Isser & Fran Leibowitz Geoffrey Jackson & Will Delany X Fay Jacobs & Bonnie Quesenberry X Sharon Janis X Steve Janosik & Rich Snell X Robert Jasinski* Andrea & Steven Jaskulsky Sue Jernberg & Chris Hunt Susan Jimenez & Cathy Benson X

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Celebrating our

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SEASONS OF LOVE Feb 15-16, 2019 • 7pm Feb 17, 2019 • 3pm Epworth United Methodist Church Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

LAST E! CHANC

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OPPOSITE PAGE 1) Brian Comroe, Paulette Lanza, Roger Binner, Scott Comroe, Mit Patel, and Alex Mia at Dos Locos. 2) Michael Reamey, Becky Casey, Andres Tremois, Bob Suppies, John Kiester, Tyler Townsend, Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon, David Gonce, Dean Van Chulis, Ed Gmoch, Dodge Barba, Michael Cohen, Tony Burns, Matthew Stensrud, Jeffrey Davis, Peter Schott, Kim Strick, Tom Johnson, Kimberly Grimm, Kelly Phillips, Patty Quercetti, Kathy Connelly, and Nan Altman at The Pines. 3) Kim Mery, Natalie Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, Lisa Balestrini Faber, Karen Faber, Tama Viola, Sally Marchegiano, Maria Marchegiano, Holly Johnston, Patty Rickman, Nan Martino, Tammy LaDuca, Rina Pellegrini, Lisa DeStefano, Nancy Commisso, Lori Kline, Monica Chmielewski, Lonnie Brown, Michelle Buchanan, and Darcey Buchanan at Rusty Rudder.

THIS PAGE 4) Christine Cox, Anne Jacobi, Annie Fredrickson, Pam Herr, Harry Keswani, at Rehoboth Beach Chocolate Festival. 5) Donna Depiano, Terry McNamara, Cheryl Antoniou, and Leslie Sinclair at Coastal Camera Club Reception at CAMP Rehoboth. 6) Barb Ralph, Natalie Moss, Sandra Skidmore, Max Dick, Chris Beagle, Bishop Susan Morrison, Steve Hoult, Sharyn Warwick, Glen Pruitt, J.R. Futcher, and Ken Mahan at Steve Elkins Remembrance Day at CAMP Rehoboth. 7) Kathy Christine, Julia Sugarbaker, Megan Kee, Kevin Daughaday, Brian Shook, Derek Thomas, Joey Frontino, Lowell Scott, Matt Carr, Daphne Kaplan, Rehoboth Beach Commissioner Steve Scheffer, Sherri Brown, Rehoboth Beach Commissioner Lisa Schlosser, Darren Gray, Davey Keitch, Pete Borsari, and Bryan Derrickson at Gumbo Crawl.

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WE REMEMBER

Samuel John “Equality” Deetz April 21, 1951 – March 27, 2019

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am was born in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, into a fundamental religious family with seven children. Sam’s father served as a preacher in the God’s Missionary Synod; his preaching took the family from state to state, and Sam attended 11 different schools.

With four of his siblings becoming preachers, Sam’s early rebellion and his coming out as gay were not received well by the family.

As a result, Sam chose “Equality” as his middle name. He became a gay activist, and in 1976 he met his partner of 42 years, Jim Zeigler.

Sam worked with many gay activists in the 70s, then served on the Pennsylvania Council on Sexual Minorities. He founded the Susquehanna Valley Gays United in Sunbury and led a number of Pennsylvania’s rural gay organizations.

Sam was an historian and saved as many gay-related papers and articles as he could gather. His papers were donated to the Central Pennsylvania LGBT History Project in 2017. Sam was honored at Dickenson College, Pennsylvania, where the papers are archived and also are exhibited, for the History Comes Out project. The exhibit includes a collection video of recorded LGBT stories, which currently is being viewed throughout Pennsylvania in a traveling exhibit, The Long Road to LGBTQ+ Equality in Pennsylvania.

After more than 35 years in Pennsylvania, Sam and Jim moved to Delaware. Sam joined the Progressive Democrats of Sussex County, protesting in the circle of Georgetown at the “We Will Not Be Silent” rally supporting Coretta Scott King, Elizabeth Warren, and all women. He registered voters, got signatures for petitions, and marched in Delmar to promote the right to unionize nursing home staff, leading to the unionization.

Sam was on a first-name basis with Delaware state legislators, championing progressive issues, and last July Fourth stood along Route One demonstrating against the separation of families at the US border.

He worked with a coalition for the dreamers at Delaware State, and arranged a “Dine-In for Dreamers” benefit at Epworth United Methodist Church which raised over $5,000 to help the dreamers with textbooks and other costs associated with their education.

Sam’s last effort, the African Freedom Project, raised funds to remove gay refugees from Gambia and Nigeria, where gays could be beheaded. His efforts, along with others in the group, raised enough money to free several refugees.

We remember Sam “Equality” Deetz for a life well lived and activism that mattered. ▼

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Did you know that CAMP Rehoboth Outreach Program, which started as Volunteers on Vacation, is celebrating 10 years in 2019? Watch for the announcement of a May Planning Meeting to learn how you can be part of the momentum of this amazing program. Then on June 1, from 9 to noon, CROP will participate in National Trails Day at Cape Henlopen State Park. Children accompanied by a parent or guardian are welcome to join us at this rewarding event! Email crop@ camprehoboth.com. ▼

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Q Puzzle Cat and Mouse Game ACROSS 1 Fashion designer Oldham 5 Erotic artist Tom, et al.

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Out & About

by Eric C. Peterson

Straight Acting

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es, it’s called acting—but why are so few of us telling our own stories?

Another Oscar season has come and gone, and while it will take many of us a few more months to fully recover from Glenn Close’s seventh Oscar loss, for the most part, the Academy Awards have faded from memory.

However, there’s one remnant from the Oscar season I find myself thinking about a lot—and it’s an article recently published by the Advocate with a surprising statistic: of the 20 actors nominated in the Oscars’ four acting categories, seven of them were playing LGBTQ characters.

That’s a whopping 35%, which seems great. Three of those performances (Olivia Colman in The Favourite, Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody, and Mahershala Ali in Green Book) would go on to win. That’s 75%, of the four acting categories, for the math-challenged.

The disappointing part is that of the 20 nominated actors, only one of them identifies as LGBTQ (Lady Gaga came out as bisexual in 2009).

And while many, if not most, Advocate readers (including myself) objected to their description of the phenomenon as “gayface,” I was struck by the fact that America seems increasingly willing to hear and celebrate our stories, so long as straight people are the ones who get to tell them.

And it’s not just the actors who are cast to play us. To the best of my knowledge, the screenwriters and directors who put these performances on paper and then on film were straight, with two exceptions: Jeff Whitty, who shares writing credits for Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and Bryan Singer, who was fired from directing Bohemian Rhapsody for “absence and clashing with the cast and crew,” although a lawsuit alleging the rape of a 17-year old boy in 2003 might have also had something to do with that (and we will discuss Mr. Singer no further; he can please go away now).

This is not a new conversation for

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our community. In the 80s and 90s, playing an LGBT character became almost synonymous with Oscar bait.

The only performance that resulted in a more predictable nomination was playing someone with a disability—but that’s probably because a lot of people back then believed being gay was a disability. At the very least, those who played gay were consistently praised for their “bravery”—playing gay wasn’t hazardous to actors’ health, but there remained a persistent belief that taking a queer role could be very hazardous to their careers.

One might very well wonder how those views would impact her ability to play an explicitly lesbian character, but we won’t need to wonder any longer.

Using the Oscars as an imperfect measuring stick, it’s entirely depressing that only two openly queer actors were nominated for playing queer roles: Ian McKellen gave a heartbreaking performance as James Whale in 1988’s Gods & Monsters (he was robbed, by the way), and the Academy spoiled the big reveal in The Crying Game (1992) for anyone who hadn’t yet seen it when they nominated Jaye Davidson in the Best Supporting Actor category.

So, a lot of straight people are playing queer—so what? That’s why they call it acting, I can hear you say, and you make an excellent point. In truth, I’m more concerned with the

folks who are writing and directing these movies, plays, and television shows. I’m concerned with who gets to tell our stories. Despite the incredible gains that our community has made in the mere five decades since the Stonewall riots, the world is hardly safe for LGBTQ people. We are still widely misunderstood. And who gets to tell our stories is important.

And actors, like writers and directors, are storytellers. We don’t expect them to play themselves all the time, and we wouldn’t respect them if they did. And sometimes, it’s complicated. Recently, a UK revival of The Color Purple announced that the lead role of Celie would be played by Oluwaseyi Omooba, the daughter of an infamous British pastor who advocates for conversion therapy and other horrors.

Almost immediately, Hamilton actor Aaron Lee Lambert unearthed a Facebook post by Omooba in which she stated clearly that no one is born gay and that homosexuality is “wrong.” The post quickly went viral, and Omooba did not respond.

One might very well wonder how those views would impact her ability to play an explicitly lesbian character, but we won’t need to wonder any longer: one week after her casting was announced, the producers announced that Omooba would be replaced.

And yet, straight actors will continue to play gay roles; that won’t change anytime soon. I only hope that when they do, they understand that our stories are in their hands, and they appreciate what a responsibility that is. And if more out actors got work, that would be okay, too. ▼ Eric Peterson is a diversity and inclusion educator living in Washington DC and co-host of a weekly podcast about pop culture. Visit him at rewindpod.com.

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arts+entertainment CAMPArts Spring Cleaning

by Doug Yetter

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’m completely obsessed with Marie Kondo and her Konmari organizing method, and have likely crossed that fine, fine line into total lunacy. For the two of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, Kondo is the Japanese Martha Stewart—only better. Saturday was miserable (as most of our weekends have been), so I decided it was “nostalgia is not your friend” day.

I tore into the closet in the spare room and was soon ankle deep in my 50-year-old elementary school art projects. No, I am not a hoarder, but my mother was, and when she passed in 2002 it was all shipped to my lessthan-spacious Manhattan apartment, then moved (without review) to my less-space-than-I-had-in-Manhattan beach cottage.

Four boxes later I found a weathered newspaper clipping that first made me smile, then shed a few tears.

“Photo credit by Emil Miller”—my great-grandfather, a staff photographer for the Daily Plainsman in Huron, South Dakota. Winters there are brutal, but that feisty old Swede faced them with an indomitable sense of humor.

Sometime close to the first day of spring, Grandpa would trek down those steep basement stairs to his darkroom, pull his box of seasonal props from the top shelf, and dust off his stuffed robin. He’d plow his way through snowdrifts, wire that damned bird to a fencepost, and take his annual “First Robin of Spring!” photo to buoy the spirits of the “old folks” and pray they’d all make it to Easter.

Winters are a lot easier here, but everyone can use a little hope, and I sure hope you find a few things to do in this column that will make you smile or bring a tear to your eye. All locations are in Rehoboth Beach unless otherwise noted. ▼

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SPOTLIGHT ON THE

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AT CAMP REHOBOTH

CAMP Rehoboth Puts Art at The Heart of Our Community

(left to right) Pineapple Papaya by Rita Poore, Pink Nude by Jane Knaus, at the 2019 Women’s FEST Art Show.

2019 Women’s FEST Art Show April showers CAMP Rehoboth with this juried community art show featuring the work of 25 artists in a variety of mediums and styles.

The juror—Liz Bradbury—holds an MFA in Fine Arts and Design from Indiana State University and is celebrating 50 years of exhibiting her art work in juried art shows and galleries. Join us for the Artists’ Reception to meet the artists on April 12 (3-5 p.m.). The exhibition may be viewed through April 28.

HeART & Soul CAMP Rehoboth is thrilled to announce their 2019 art auction fundraiser—HeART & Soul. CAMP Rehoboth is the heart of the community, and the artists who share their amazing talents are all part of its soul. Get ready to support the arts by making your bids and building a stronger, healthier, and more vibrant community through the arts. On display May 4-June 1, with a Closing Bid Reception on June 1 (4-7 p.m.). ▼ CAMP REHOBOTH GALLERY HOURS:

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday.-Friday 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m-4 p.m. Sunday

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If April showers bring May flowers, and May flowers bring pilgrims, then it’s high time to plan a few pilgrimages this summer. For those of you who know where you’re going to, and like the things that life’s been showing you, then you can just skip the rest of this section, but for those of you who don’t—let me make a few suggestions: Let’s start in town: The Clear Space Theatre Company will dive into their Summer Repertoire with Hello, Dolly!, The Wedding Singer, and Mamma Mia!—the festivities begin June 25 and run through August 31, with each of the

three shows playing two nights every week.

The Rehoboth Beach Bandstand hasn’t announced its 2019 season as of this writing but based on past history it will be chockful of wonderful family entertainment. It’s always a great mix of the specialty groups from our armed forces, tribute bands, and local entertainers—and it’s FREE! Fourteen years ago, Josh Freeman shared with me his vision of creating a performing arts space in the image of Vienna, Virginia’s Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. Even

though we lost Josh in a tragic accident a few years later, his dream continues to grow and flourish in Selbyville.

The Freeman Stage 2019 season has local bands and entertainers, the First State Ballet, the Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Beatles and Led Zeppelin tribute bands, Boz Scaggs, Lyle Lovett, and the “supreme” Diana Ross! Now that’s a season! So if you want to hear a symphony, then don’t stop in the name of love—check the full schedule at freemanstage.org, and see if you like the things they’re showing you. ▼

PERFORMING ARTS

Lewes Chamber Players (St. Peter’s Episcopal; 211 Mulberry St. in Lewes; 302-645-8479) concludes their season with guest flautist, Susanna Loewy in works by Ibert, Bach, Bozza, and a world premiere by Giovanni Piacentini.

Possum Point Players (441 Old Laurel Road in Georgetown; 302-856-4560; possumpointplayers.org) has one more weekend of Frank Loesser’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway comedy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying—through April 14.

CAMP Rehoboth Chorus (37 Baltimore Avenue; 302-227-5620; chorus@ camprehoboth.com) celebrates their first decade of music with “Seasons of Love” at Sussex Academy (21150 Airport Road in Georgetown)—Sunday, April 28. This retrospective concert features the 90-voice chorus—accompanied by the David Zipse Orchestra—performing medleys of Broadway hits, spirituals, rock, disco, love songs, a patriotic salute, and dueling Elvises!

Capital Ringers (capitalringers.org) presents “Oh, the Places You’ll Go”—a journey round the world, here and there!

Concerts run through Sunday, May 5.

See website for locations.

Clear Space Theatre Company (20 Baltimore Avenue; 302-227-2270; ClearSpaceTheatre.org) presents their Spotlight on Young Performers as they bring the creepy and kooky Addams Family to life April 12-14, followed by Sondheim’s Into the Woods May 3-17.

Coastal Concerts (in residence at Bethel UMC Hall; Fourth and Market Streets in Lewes; 888-212-6458; coastalconcerts. org) has but one concert remaining in their season—”Time for Three” with violinists Nick Kendall and Charles Yang, and Ranaan Meyer on the double bass (April 13; 8 p.m.).

Mid-Atlantic Symphony (P. O. Box 3381; Easton, MD. 21601; 888-846-8600; midatlanticsymphony.org) brings their season to a close with “Ode to Humankind, to Country, and to Joy!” featuring Irish pianist Michael McHale playing Ravel, and the Southern Delaware Chorale and Carter Legacy Singers singing Beethoven’s 9th—April 28 at the Roland Powell Convention Center in Ocean City.

The Milton Theatre (110 Union St. in Milton; 302-684-3038; miltontheatre. com) “keeps Milton weird”! APRIL events: 12: Delaware Comedy Theatre; 13: The Rockstar and the Stand-Up Comic: Paul Cullen & Laurie Forster; 19-21: Jesus Christ Superstar (A Milton Theatre Production); 25: Breakfast at Tiffany’s; 26/27: Assisted Living the Musical; 28: Frozen Dress-Up and Sing-Along. MAY events: 2: The Matrix; 4: Joey and Gina’s Italian Comedy Wedding; 5: Sirens of Spring Tour; 9: Tea with the Dames; 10: He Said…She Said Stand-Up Comedy; 11: Rosemary Loar tours Broadway; 12: The Amazing Bird Show. Check their website for details.

Rehoboth Beach Film Society (17701 Dartmouth Drive in Lewes; 302-3134032; rehobothfilm.com) screens the best new independent films at their Cinema Art Theatre. Met Live in HD: John Dexter’s production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom, Dialogues des Carmélites—May 18 & 20. Journeys in Art History: Rembrandt—April 30.

Check their website for updates and show times.

Rehoboth Concert Band (rehobothconcertband.org) will be the grand finale of Delaware Goes to War—April 27 (5 p.m.). This is an all-day living history commemoration of the efforts and sacrifices made during WWII at Ft. Miles. (10 a.m.–6:15 p.m.)

Southern Delaware Chorale (P.O. Box 444; 302-260-7022; southerndelawarechorale.org) presents “For the Beauty of the Earth”—May 5 (3 p.m.) at Epworth United Methodist (19285 Holland Glade Road).

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arts+entertainment Cape Artists Gallery (110 W. 3rd Street, Lewes; 302-6447733; capeartists.org) is a half block from the Zwaanendael Museum and represents two dozen artists, with much of their work focusing on beach scenes.

Delaware Art Gallery (239 Rehoboth Avenue; 302-853-5099; kevinfleming.com) offers new and classic Delaware photographs by Kevin Fleming.

Surf on the Jetty, Mick Williams, Rehoboth Art League.

VISUAL ARTS Abraxas Studio of Art (515 Federal Street, Lewes; 302-645-9119; abraxasart. com) features the oil portraits and landscape paintings of Abraxas, as he seeks to honor the beauty of this world through his own style of illuminated reality.

Anna Hazzard Museum (17 Christian Street, 302-2261119) is a captivating look at the early history of Rehoboth Beach as a religious retreat.

The museum is housed in one of the original “tent” houses from Rehoboth’s 1870s camp-meeting era.

The Brush Factory on Kings (830 Kings Highway, Lewes; 302-745-2229; Facebook@ brushlewes) houses a co-op for 50 local artisans and merchants.

CAMP Rehoboth Gallery (37 Baltimore Avenue; 302-227-5620; camprehoboth.com) features the 2019 Women’s FEST Art Show— through April 28. (See listing elsewhere in this column).

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Heidi Lowe Gallery (328 Rehoboth Avenue; 302-2279203; heidilowejewelry.com) has beautiful and unique hand-made pieces (including wedding rings!) and offers classes in jewelry making.

Check out the “Jewelry for a Cause” link on her website— fantastic pieces with a substantial percentage going to charities.

Peninsula Gallery (520 E. Savannah Road, Lewes; 302-645-0551; peninsulagallery.com) is one of the largest fine art galleries in the state, with over 3000 square feet of display and custom framing space. Spring Mix— an exhibition by the Wash-

ington Society of Landscape Artists—through April 30.

Rehoboth Art League (12 Dodds Lane, Henlopen Acres; 302-227-8408; rehobothartleague.org) has a fantastic schedule of classes—pottery to pen and ink technique to jewelry making…something for everyone. Current exhibitions: Recent Acquisitions: The Permanent Collection— through June 9; Contemporary Miniatures, Dissolution (works by Bill Wolff), Pours (works by Kim Klabe)— through May 5; Coastal Living (Juried Members’ Showcase Exhibition)— through July 14.

Rehoboth Beach Museum (511 Rehoboth Avenue at the Canal, 302-227-7310; rehobothbeachmuseum.org) has new exhibits on their newly-renovated second floor for you to enjoy, as well as lots of Rehoboth Beach history on the first floor.

Tideline Gallery (111 Rehoboth Avenue; 302-227-4444; tidelinegallery.com) offers unique gifts, Judaica, jewelry, pottery, lamps, and art glass.

Early Spring-Hellebore by Lani Browning, Peninsula Gallery.

They’re not Cages by Kim Klabe, Rehoboth Art League.

Ward Ellinger Gallery (CAMP Rehoboth Courtyard, 39 Baltimore Avenue; 302-227-2710) features art in different mediums by abstract expressionist Ward Ellinger and Sondra N. Arkin.

Zwaanendael Museum (102 Kings Highway, Lewes; 302-645-1148) commemorates Delaware’s first European colony, established by the Dutch in 1631, and serves as a showcase for the Lewes area’s maritime, military, and social history.▼ Doug is the Artistic and Musical Director for CAMP Rehoboth Chorus, Director of Music Ministries at Epworth UMC, and co-founder and Artistic Director emeritus of the Clear Space Theater Company. Contact Doug at dougyetter@gmail.com if you want to add your events to the calendar. Check out CAMP Arts on our website at camprehoboth. com for links to all the listed theatres, galleries and museums

This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.

SAVE THE DATE! The Kinsey Sicks July 20, 2019 Rehoboth Beach Convention Center Tickets starting at $35 For more information and tickets visit camprehoboth.com

37 Baltimore Avenue Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 302-227-5620 camprehoboth.com

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by Terri Schlichenmeyer

BOOKED SOLID â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Brooklyn Was Queerâ&#x20AC;?

by Hugh Ryan c.2019, St. Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Press $29.99/$38.99 Canada 308 pages

Your city sure has changed.

Landmarks were destroyed, the skyline is different, and streets are shifted in a way that feels same-not-same. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like having dinner with a relative you met once, when you were nine: as in When Brooklyn Was Queer,

by Hugh Ryan, everything and nothing is familiar.

Once upon a time, Brooklyn was little more than farms and fields. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the vista Walt Whitman saw when he stepped beyond the boundaries of the city where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been creating his Leaves of Grass. He loved the area, a love he shared with laborers, prostitutes, and the rest of the crime-ridden, mostlywhite population of Brooklyn in the mid-1800s.

As a gay man, Whitman would have noted upcoming changes. In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge opened, making it easy for residents to reach New York City. There, male and female impersonators found work at live entertainment venues where race mattered little; and sexes and social classes mixed freely at saloons, concert halls, dancehalls, and theatres. For African American actors, that relative permissiveness led to more acceptance and sometimes, fame.

By the time Brooklyn merged with the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, and Staten Island in January 1898, a new word had emerged. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Homosexualsâ&#x20AC;? had been targeted by obscenity charges for quite some time by then but, though laws were created against them, they had a solid presence

in mainstream society. Even so, says Ryan, most people didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t learn much about homosexuals until World War I. And yetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;people couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get enough of â&#x20AC;&#x153;queerâ&#x20AC;? folk, especially with cabaret shows, vaudeville, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;freak showsâ&#x20AC;? so wildly popular and a subway ride to Coney Island costing just a nickel. New Yorkers flocked to the boardwalk, perhaps titillated by the idea that the performers were â&#x20AC;&#x153;gay.â&#x20AC;?

But things started to go off the rails for the LGBT community at the end of World War II. Being gay was perceptually equal to a crime. Starting then, says Ryan, â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Śthe vibrant queer histories of places outside Manhattan would soon be forgotten.â&#x20AC;?

Reading When Brooklyn Was Queer is something like frosting a cake. From the starting point of a poet and a wharf full of sailors, readers glide smoothly to wood-floor dancehalls, sweeping near audacious lesbian actors, scandal rags, legal fights, burly-Q stages, then to the Jazz Age and beyond. Each spot is covered, sprinkled with asides, personal anecdotes from author Hugh Ryan, and modern references to create connections, then gently folded into the next subject.

What may delight readers the most, though, is in the details. While this is a history of Brooklyn, specifically, and New York, in general, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taken to other cities and cultures to see how worldwide changes impacted Brooklynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents. Like the inner workings of a clock, tiny facts turn larger events that become part of a big picture for readers to see.

Unlike many books, this one doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ignore anyone in the LGBT initialism; all are mentioned here and given due diligence.

For readers searching for a fun, fascinating, all-encompassing history, When Brooklyn Was Queer is a nice find.â&#x2013;ź Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading since she was three years old and never goes anywhere without a book. Always Overbooked, she lives on a hill in Wisconsin with two dogs and 15,000 books.

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STILL AGING GRACELESSLY: 50 Shades of Fay “Laugh out-loud funny, brilliant and moving, too.”

–Delaware Beach Life Magazine

Sit-down comic Fay Jacobs is back from an East Coast tour for one-show only at CAMP Rehoboth, with her tales of LGBT history and some new and hilarious material.

Sunday April 14, 3 pm

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CAMPDates SUNDAYS • Alcoholics Anon. Open Discussion.

CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 9 am • 3rd Sunday. Drag Brunch.

Goolee’s Grille, 11 S. 1st St. 1-3 pm.

302-227-7653 • T-Dance. Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 3 pm • 4th Sunday. Healing Circle. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 5 pm • Ed Mills. Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 5 pm. 302-227-6080

• 2nd Wednesday. Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 6:30 pm.

302-227-5620 • Karaoke. Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 8 pm. 302-227-6080 • Alt. Wednesdays. Men’s Discussion Group. Epworth United Methodist Church, 19285 Holland Glade Rd. 7 pm. 302-227-5620

THURSDAYS • Alcoholics Anon. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 12 noon. 302-856-6452

• Last Sunday of each month.

TransSocial of Delaware. Metropolitan • Cathy Gorman. Diego’s Hideaway, Community Church, 19369 Plantations 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 5-8 pm.

Rd., Lewes. 7 pm. Visit meetup.com/ 302-227-1023 Rehoboth-TransLiance • Holly Lane w/John Flynn. Café • Karaoke. Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Azafran, 18 Baltimore Ave. 7 pm.

Rehoboth Ave. 8 pm. 302-227-1023 302-227-8100 • The Birdcage Bad Girls Drag Show.

• SLAA/SAA Meeting. All Saints Church Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave. Hall, Lower Level, 18 Olive Ave. 7:30 10 pm. 302-226-1139 pm. 302-745-7929

MONDAYS • Matthew Kenworthy. Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 5 pm.

302-227-6080 • Bandeoke! Karaoke with a Live Band.

Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. 7 pm. 302-212-5355

TUESDAYS • 2nd Tuesday. PFLAG. Lewes Library, 111 Adams St. 6 pm. pflagrehobothbeach@gmail.com • 3rd Tuesday. Kent County LGBT Dover Support and Social Group. Christ Episcopal Church, 523 South State St., Dover. 7 pm. lgbtdover_kent@ yahoo.com • Young People’s AA. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 8 pm

WEDNESDAYS • Tai Chi. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 1 pm.

302-227-5620 • John Flynn. Shorebreak Lodge, A Restaurant. 10 Wilmington Ave. 5 pm.

302-227-1007

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• Lower Case Blues. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave Ext. 7:30 pm. 302-212-5355 • Karaoke. Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 8 pm. 302-227-6080 • Karaoke. Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-226-1139

FRIDAYS • Ladies Happy Hour w/DJ Sandra.

Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 4-8 pm. 302-227-1023 • 1st Friday. FURst Friday Bear Happy Hour. The Pond, 3 S. First St. 302-227-2234 • John Flynn. Shorebreak Lodge, A Restaurant. 10 Wilmington Ave. 5 pm. 302-227-1007 • Rock n’ Roll w/The Girlfriends.

Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave Ext. 5 pm. 302-212-5355 • Karaoke. Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 8 pm. 302-227-6080

Talk. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 10 am.

302-227-5620 • 1st Saturday w/John Flynn. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. Ext. 7 pm. 302-212-5355 • Karaoke. Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-6080 • Karaoke. Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-226-1139 • Release Dance Party. Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-1023

APRIL 11 – 14 • CAMP Rehoboth Women’s FEST. camprehoboth.com

APRIL 12 • Women’s FEST Book Fair, author signings and readings. Atlantic Sands Hotel. 9 am. FREE

• Women’s FEST presents Ruthie Foster and the band BETTY. Rehoboth Beach Convention Center, 229 Rehoboth Ave. 7 pm. $40 pp. Advance purchase recommended • Darkes. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. Ext. 8-11 pm.

302-212-5355

APRIL 12 – 14 • The Addams Family. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. Tickets: clearspacetheatre.org

APRIL 13 • Women’s FEST Yoga on the Beach.

On the beach in front of Atlantic Sands Hotel, (weather permitting).

9 am. FREE

• Women’s FEST EXPO. Atlantic Sands Hotel. 9 am. FREE and open to all • Women’s FEST Yoga on the Beach.

On the beach in front of Atlantic Sands FEST attendees and the public Hotel, (weather permitting).

• Women’s FEST Cornhole Doubles 9 am. FREE Tournament. Atlantic Sands Hotel.

10:30 am. $10 per person (must • Women’s FEST Health Fair. CAMP register in advance as team of two Rehoboth Community Center, named players) 37 Baltimore Ave. 9 am. FREE • Women’s FEST Lewes-Rehoboth Casual Bike Ride. Cape Henlopen State Park Trail. 10 am. FREE • Women’s FEST Walking Tour of Rehoboth. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 10 am. FREE

• Women’s FEST presents Blanche Wiesen Cook (biographer for Eleanor Roosevelt) interviewed by Marcia Gallo. 10:30 am. Atlantic Sands Hotel.

FREE • Women’s FEST keynote address by Pamela Stewart (VP Sales Coca-Cola).

Atlantic Sands Hotel. 12:30 pm. FREE

• Women’s FEST Pickleball Tournament.

• Women’s FEST presents Mouths of Dave Marshall Tennis Club, 1600 Babes in concert. Atlantic Sands Pennsylvania Ave., Lewes. 10 am Hotel. 4 pm. Included with FEST • Women’s FEST Bingo. Atlantic Sands Pass. $25 individual ticket. Advance Hotel. 11 am. $15 at the door purchase recommended • Women’s FEST presents 10 Queer Women Artists Who Changed the World. Atlantic Sands Hotel. 1 pm.

FREE

• Ladies 2000 Dance Party. Rehoboth Beach Convention Center, 229 Rehoboth Ave. 5 pm. $15 at the door, cash only

• Women’s FEST Photography and Art Show. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 3 pm. FREE

• Women’s FEST presents Mouths of Babes in concert. Atlantic Sands Hotel. 7:30 pm. Included with FEST Pass. $25 individual ticket. Advance purchase recommended

• Karaoke. Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-226-1139

• Women’s FEST Special Event with Mei-Ling Ho-Shing. Atlantic Sands Hotel. 3:30 pm. FREE.

SATURDAYS

• Women’s FEST Singles Mixer w/DJ Nan. G Restaurant, 234 Rehoboth Ave. 4 pm. FREE

• 1st & 3rd Saturdays. Women’s Coffee

• Crossfire. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. Ext. 5-8 pm.

302-212-5355

• The Girlfriends. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. Ext. 7:30-10:30 pm. 302-212-5355

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• Women’s FEST presents comic Karen Williams (ONE SHOW ONLY). Atlantic Sands Hotel. 9 pm. $25

APRIL 14 • Broadwalk on the Boardwalk.

CAMP Rehoboth Community Center Courtyard, 37 Baltimore Ave. 9 am

MAY 1 – 31 • CAMP Rehoboth HeART & Soul Fundraiser. CAMP Rehoboth Gallery, 37 Baltimore Ave. Closing Bid Reception June 1, 2019 from 4-7 pm

Shirley Kalvinsky

MAY 2

shirley@jacklingo.com

• Women’s FEST presents STILL Aging Gracelessly: 50 Shades of Fay. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 3 pm. $20

• “Mercury, a story celebrating Freddie Mercury.” Rehoboth Beach Convention Center. 7:30 pm.

Information: 302-684-3038. Tickets: mercuryatthebeach.eventbrite.com

• Tea Dance w/Jamie Fox. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. Ext. 3-6 pm. 302-212-5355

MAY 3 – 19

APRIL 19 – 21 • Jesus Christ Superstar. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. Tickets: miltontheatre.com

APRIL 21 • Easter Dance w/DJ Biff. Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm

APRIL 27 • Pups Patrol for Heroes Walk. A benefit for veterans presented by Fairway Mortgage. Rehoboth Beach Bandstand. 8 am. $25 per family + 1 dog, each additional dog $5.

Information: FairwayDE.com/servicedog-initiative • Capital Ringers. Long Neck Methodist Church. 7 pm.

Information: 302-632-1043.

Tickets: capitalringers.org • Chuck Redd & The Monday Jazz Cats presented by True Blue Jazz.

Rehoboth Beach Firehouse. 7:30 pm.

Tickets: truebluejazz.org

APRIL 28 • CAMP Rehoboth Chorus presents “Seasons of Love.” Sussex Academy, 21150 Airport Rd., Georgetown, DE. 3 pm. $25. Tickets: camprehoboth.com • Capital Ringers. Zion Methodist Church, Cambridge, MD. 4 pm.

Information: 302-632-1043. Tickets: capitalringers.org

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• Into The Woods. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. Tickets: clearspacetheatre.org

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MAY 4 • Steve Elkins Way Dedication.

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• Capital Ringers. Centenary Methodist Church, Laurel, DE. 3 pm.

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE SOLUTION

• Cinco de Mayo Fiesta w/DJ Steve Sidewalk. Diego’s Hideaway, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 4 pm • Capital Ringers. Reformation Lutheran Church, Milford, DE. 7 pm.

Information: 302-632-1043.

Tickets: capitalringers.org

(puzzle on page 78)

MAY 5 • Southern Delaware Chorale’s “For the Beauty of the Earth” spring concert. Epworth United Methodist Church. 3 pm. Tickets: southerndelawarechorale.org • CAMP Rehoboth Volunteer Appreciation Party. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 2 pm • Capital Ringers. Conley’s Methodist Church, Lewes. 4 pm.

Information: 302-632-1043.

Tickets: capitalringers.org • Christine Havrilla, MBS, & Naked Blue perform a special IN THE ROUND show! Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8pm Reserved seating $20, General admission $15

QUEER FUN SOLUTION (puzzle on page 44)

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Did you know that CAMP Rehoboth provides • Community Space, Meeting Rooms, Public Courtyard • Diversity Training for City & Park Police •Advocacy for LGBTQ & Other Human Rights Issues • Sexual Health Counseling (Couples & Individuals) • Health Testing (partnership/Beebe Medical Center) • HIV Prevention, Education & Testing • CAMP Rehoboth Chorus • Support Groups • Safe Haven for Youth • Grief Counseling • Public WiFi • Information Resources on Area Services • Tourist Information Services • Gallery & Performance Space for Artists • Fundraising Assistance for Other Area Non-Profits • Ticket Sales for Other Organizations • Women’s FEST Weekend • Promotion for Local Non-profit Events

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Our Exclusive CAMP Cruise includes: • 7 nights on the luxurious NEW S.S. Sao Gabrie—just 50 staterooms • 24/7 beverages including cocktails, local wine & beer, soft drinks, specialty coffees, tea room refreshments, and bottled water • All tips & gratuities to onboard staff • Unlimited ‘FREE Wi-Fi’ onboard • Award winning ‘Open Seating’ dining • Transfers on embark/disembarkation dates • Unlimited daily shore excursions in each port • Tips to local guides on excursions • Complimentary use of gym & pool • Pretravel get-together with your host & fellow CAMP travelers • Port charges & taxes • Cruise reservation management service (custom pre/post stays & flight research will have added service fees) • $100 per person onboard spending money

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AD INDEX Accent On Travel................................................35 AG Renovations...................................................31 Allen Jarmon, Realtor......................................... 37 Alternative Lifestyle Services LLC...................... 73 Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group...............94 Artisan’s Bank......................................................51 Atlantic Jewelry..................................................23 Back Porch Café..................................................10 Beach Cuts Hair Salon........................................ 34 Beagle Real Estate Group..................................56 Beebe Healthcare..............................................25 Beebe Healthcare Career Opportunities........... 79 Big Fish Event......................................................19 Biggs Museum.................................................... 74 Brandywine Valley SPCA.....................................81 Bras For A Cause................................................ 77 Breakthru Beverage...........................................85 Browseabout Books ..........................................90 Café Azafran........................................................31 CAMP Rehoboth 39 Baltimore Rental.................21 CAMP Rehoboth Community Center..................99 CAMP Rehoboth Chorus.....................................68 CAMP Rehoboth Cruise Presentation............... 101 CAMP Rehoboth Families................................... 34 CAMP Rehoboth Letters Subscription................ 44 CAMP Rehoboth Mental Health..........................94 CAMP Rehoboth Presents The Kinsey Sicks......89 CAMP Rehoboth Sponsors................................... 7 CAMP Rehoboth Volunteer Opportunities..........51 CAMP Rehoboth Women’s Golf League.............94

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CAMPSafe...........................................................46 Caroline Huff, Artist.............................................41 Childrens Beach House Golf Outing..................83 Christine Havrilla Music.......................................51 Clear Space - The Addams Family.................... 78 Community Pride Financial Advisors..................26 County Bank.......................................................46 Delaware Dept of Public Health Tobacco...........17 Delaware Hospice.............................................. 43 Delaware Humane Association..........................30 Delaware Pride...................................................45 Diego’s Hideaway..............................10, 41, 56, 91 Donna Whiteside, Ellie Maher, Realtors.............13 Dos Locos...........................................................29 Eric Atkins, Realtor..............................................10 Fay Jacobs: STILL Aging Gracelessly..................91 Gay Men’s Group................................................94 Gay Women of Rehoboth Meet-Up....................20 General Dentistry...............................................80 Go Fish/Go Brit...................................................20 Gods Greyts Senior Greyhounds.........................31 Gregory Meyers Hair Studio...............................80 HIV Testing.........................................................40 Hugh Fuller, Realtor............................................ 34 Iguana Grill.........................................................40 Immanuel Shelter...............................................26 Jack Lingo, Real Estate......................................49 Jenn Harpel, Morgan Stanley............................. 47 John Black/Bill Peiffer, Realtors ........................24 Jolly Trolley........................................................98

Just In Thyme Restaurant................................... 34 Lana Warfield, Realtor........................................ 73 Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Realtors.................... 78 Lori’s Café.......................................................... 76 McGuiness Group, Realtors................................20 Mercury.............................................................. 73 MERR Institute.....................................................31 Midway Fitness & Racquetball......................... 103 Milton Theatre.....................................................91 Mirabelle.......................................................... 100 Murph’s Beef & Ale.............................................20 Nancy Sakaduski................................................82 New Wave Spas..................................................24 Olivia Travel......................................................... 11 One Day At A Time Gifts..................................... 34 Paint & Patches Handyman Service.....................9 Palate.................................................................30 Pet Portraits by Monique.................................. 100 PFLAG.................................................................98 Photo Restoration..............................................98 Pup Patrol for Heroes Walk................................26 Purple Parrot......................................................39 PWW Law, llc .....................................................56 Randall-Douglas.................................................55 Randy Mason/Shirley Kalvinsky, Realtors.......... 97 Rehoboth Art League.........................................92 Rehoboth Beach Dental.....................................92 Rehoboth Beach Museum..................................92 Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Co.................... 76 Rehoboth Guest House...................................... 44

Rehoboth Massage & Alignment........................92 Ron’s Repairs .....................................................98 Salty Paws ..........................................................41 Saved Souls Animal Rescue...............................80 Sea Bova Associates, Realtors......................... 104 Shademakers......................................................15 So Del Concepts ................................................ 27 Southern Delaware Chorale...............................93 State Farm - Eric Blondin & Jeanine O’Donnell....36 State Farm - George Bunting..............................15 Sussex Family YMCA..........................................82 The Aesthetic Center..........................................33 The Lawson Firm................................................46 The Linen Outlet............................................... 102 The Salt Pond.....................................................55 Troy Roberts, Realtor..........................................82 True Blue Jazz Festival.......................................69 Unfinished Business...........................................55 Veg Fest.............................................................38 Village Volunteers..............................................42 Volunteer Thank You.......................................... 43 Ward Ellinger Gallery........................................ 100 Windsor’s Flowers.............................................. 34 Women’s Coffee Talk.......................................... 44 Women’s FEST....................................................95 Women’s FEST Join the Team............................80 Women’s FEST Broadwalk on the Boardwalk....59 Women’s FEST Ladies 2000 Dance................... 57

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