Letters from CAMP Rehoboth, Vol. 29, No. 12

All About Sundance Drag Volleyball Disco Lottery

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August 23, 2019 Volume 29, Number 12 camprehoboth.com

inside 4 In Brief

News & Notes

6 CAMP Matters

Time Enough to Dance MURRAY ARCHIBALD

10 CAMP Out

Days of Wine and Roses FAY JACOBS

12 CAMP Stories Never Say Never RICH BARNETT

14 The Real Dirt

THIS ISSUE

26 CAMP News

FAY JACOBS

24 President’s View

“Ask Me Anything!”

CHRIS BEAGLE

See page 18

DOUG YETTER

We Walk for the Future JULIEANNE CROSS

104 Booked Solid

34 It’s My Life

TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER

The Great Unexpected

The Good Fight

108 Screen Queen

MICHAEL THOMAS FORD

CHRIS AZZOPARDI

38 CAMP Critters Luke & Rudy

August 23-October 13

The Doctor Is In

74 Our Supporters Make It Happen

56 Eating Out

78 Out & Proud

FAY JACOBS

STEFANI DEOUL

DAVID GARRETT

Eden Restaurant

40 Historical Headliners

62 Disco Lottery

Oscar Wilde

ANN APTAKER

Yup, We Are Doing It Again SONDRA N. ARKIN

44 Good Queer Fun

66 Q Puzzle

Restaurant Lotto

Notes from the Underground

STEFANI DEOUL

48 Sporty Gals

Bowling Legend Leads a League

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112 CAMP Dates

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52 Straight Talk

ANITA PETTITT

Letters 2 AUGUST 23, 2019

100 CAMP Arts

High School Musicals

16 Community News

Squads Are in the Wings!

Aqua Grill

30 AIDS Walk Delaware

ERIC W. WAHL

22 Drag Volleyball

96 CAMP Cheers!

Happenings Around the CAMPus

Summer Collapsed into Fall

18 All About Sundance

VOLUME 29, NUMBER 12 • AUGUST 23, 2019

Become a Member Today

ROMEO SAN VICENTE

See You in September

80 CAMP Shots

Bachelors on Parade

ON THE COVER Sundance 2019

86 Sundance Elves

Behind the Scenes at the Auction MARY JENKINS

72 Health & Wellness

92 Out & About

MARJ SHANNON

ERIC C. PETERSON

Be PrEPared!

116 Deep Inside Hollywood

They Work Hard for the Money

PUBLISHER Murray Archibald EDITOR Fay Jacobs MANAGING EDITOR Mary Shockley DESIGN AND LAYOUT Mary Beth Ramsey EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE Marj Shannon ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Tricia Massella ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT Monica Parr, Barb Ralph DISTRIBUTION Corky Fitzpatrick, Mark Wolf CONTRIBUTORS Ann Aptaker, Murray Archibald, Sondra N. Arkin, Chris Azzopardi, Chris Beagle, Tony Burns, Wesley Combs, JulieAnne Cross, Stefani Deoul, Michael Thomas Ford, David Garrett, Michael Gilles, Fay Jacobs, Mary Jenkins, Tricia Massella, Monica Parr, Eric C. Peterson, Anita Pettitt, Romeo San Vicente, Terri Schlichenmeyer, Marj Shannon, Mary Shockley, 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, Wesley Combs, Mike DeFlavia, Max Dick, Linda Gregory 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

SO THIS IS IT. THE LAST SUMMER ISSUE OF LETTERS FROM CAMP REHOBOTH FOR 2019. STARTING in September we return to our monthly publishing schedule. Next season, this magazine and its parent organization CAMP Rehoboth turns 30. I don’t know details yet, but there will be a party—a big one! Speaking of big parties, this is the Sundance issue of Letters, and it celebrates the biggest party of the summer season, Sundance 2019: Rainbow XXXII—Ultraviolet Disco Day-Glo Sunrise. Tickets are going fast so don’t wait—especially for the Sundance Auction night.

Please note that we are cutting back on the number of auction night tickets sold this year so that the event is not as crowded as it was in 2018.▽ SUNDANCE DEPENDS ON SPONSORS, SUPPORTERS, HOSTS, AUCTION DONORS, AND VOLUNTEERS to make it happen. As chair of the event, I depend heavily on an extraordinary group of volunteers known as the Sundance Team Captains. For Sundance Team Captains, the work is a year-round job, and I can’t imagine producing the event without them. Most of them will be onsite at the Convention Center for an entire week, and will have walked miles by the time load-out is complete on Labor Day Monday.▽ SUNDANCE IS NOT THE ONLY MILESTONE TRADITION OBSERVED IN REHOBOTH BEACH EVERY Labor Day weekend. Drag Volleyball on Poodle Beach has been around for an equal number of years. There was just something about 1988! Fay Jacobs writes about that venerable (and outrageous!) tradition in this issue. Ann Aptaker’s Historical Headlines column features Oscar Wilde. My favorite quote: “I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

Michael Thomas Ford worries about how to inspire a young generation when the problems of the world seem insurmountable. “…if I were a young person right now,” he writes, “I’d be both very worried and very pissed off.”▽ CONGRATULATIONS TO NEW CITY COMMISSIONERS EDWARD CHRZANOWSKI AND SUSAN GAY, and to all the candidates who stepped up to make themselves available as community leaders. We thank all the candidates for participating in our recent Letters from CAMP Rehoboth Candidate Forum and the Rehoboth Beach Homeowners/CAMP Rehoboth Forum on July 26. Abundantly clear from all the candidates was their love for Rehoboth Beach and their desire to be a part of the future vision of the city. A word of thanks, as well, to Charlie Browne, President of the RB Homeowners’ Association, for his work organizing and moderating the Forum at CAMP Rehoboth.▽ CAMP REHOBOTH WELCOMES ALL PEOPLE; MEMBERSHIP IS NOT REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY of our events, activities, or programs. The CAMP Rehoboth Membership program is a sustaining financial campaign. It supports everything from maintaining and operating the community center to training and supporting staff. By making an annual pledge to CAMP Rehoboth, members provide the financial foundation the organization needs to serve the community. Please consider becoming a member today, or if already a member, upgrade to a higher level.▽ THE FALL SEASON IN REHOBOTH IS SPECTACULAR! MY FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR—MARRED ONLY by the occasional hurricane the Atlantic Ocean tries to toss our way. (I’m knocking on wood as I write those words, but also remembering that though hurricanes have come close enough to cause great damage in the past, one has never made direct landfall on Rehoboth Beach.) I digress. Fall is beautiful in Rehoboth Beach—filled with festivals, shows, and events. Looking past Sundance, we’ve got the Delaware AIDS Walk on September 21. September 27 and 28 the CAMP Rehoboth Chorus Ensemble performs “Bad Boys/Bad Girls,” their first full-scale concert. The Sweet Baby J’ai concert is October 11, and the CAMP Rehoboth Block Party is October 20. Catch It’s Complicated 3.0, a series of one-act plays, at CAMP Rehoboth, November 1-3. And don’t forget about Sea Witch, Halloween, Jazz Fest, the 2019 Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival, and World AIDS Day. Whew! Maybe the off-season is not so off after all!▽ MY THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO PITCHED IN TO MAKE OUR SUMMER “CAMPING” SEASON A GOOD one. Happy Labor Day—and happy Sundancing!▽ AUGUST 23, 2019

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Welcome, Chrzanowski and Gay, Our New City Commissioners!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS CAMP REHOBOTH EVENTS

Congratulations to Susan Gay and Edward Chrzanowski, winners of the 2019 Rehoboth Beach City Commissioner election. Susan was the high vote getter with 607 votes.

Edward was the next highest with 345 votes. The new commissioners will be sworn into office at the regular commissioners’ meeting on Friday, September 20. The length of the term is three years. ▼

SUNDANCE RACING FESTIVAL August 25

SUNDANCE AUCTION/DANCE August 31 & September 1 “BAD BOYS/BAD GIRLS” CAMP REHOBOTH CHORUS ENSEMBLE CONCERT September 27/28 FLU SHOT CLINIC October 9 DINNER WITH THE DOCTOR October 10 SWEET BABY J’AI CONCERT October 11 CAMP REHOBOTH BLOCK PARTY October 20 IT’S COMPLICATED 3.0 November 1-2, 7:30 p.m November 3, 2 p.m.

WORLD AIDS DAY December 1

Letters 4 AUGUST 23, 2019

Sold to the Bidder Across the Street Bidding at this year’s CAMP Rehoboth Bachelor Auction at Aqua was so exciting it had bidders from the balcony of The Pines on the other side of Baltimore Avenue. CAMP Rehoboth (and Sundance) auctioneer Lorne Crawford, with help from Fancie P. Charmington and Bachelor Auction boss Chris Beagle, kept the crowd under control— for the most part—and a good time was had by all. CAMP Rehoboth says thank you to all the bachelors and to the restaurants who contributed gift certificates. Photo by Tony Burns. From left: Justin Smarte, Jake Brown, Katie Lyell, Terrell Jones, A.J. Hemphill, Paulette Lanza, Alex Souders, Wesley Ogden, Josh Pocock, Sean Sheehan, Nick Leffler, and Zack Ellis. ▼ ⊳

TRAVELS WITH LETTERS ⊲

OLIVIA RIVERBOAT CRUISE FROM PARIS TO NORMANDY Rehoboth’s Margie Ripalda, Laurie Schneider, Fay Jacobs, Linda Kemp, Bonnie Quesenberry, and Kate McQueen.

Susan Gay and Edward Chrzanowski.

Photo by Tony Burns.

Day-Glo Outfits?

Check; Dance Moves?

Check; Sundance Tickets?

Sundance is the event everyone will be talking about during Labor Day weekend. Don’t be left out of the biggest party of the year! Tickets are selling fast, and there will be fewer Auction night tickets available this year, so do not wait. See page 19 for more information on purchasing tickets. ▼

SPEAKOut Sign Up For Fun Fall Events CAMP Rehoboth’s Health & Wellness Program Director, Sal Seeley, has been working hard to create a wide variety of trips, health programs, and personal enrichment classes for the fall and winter season at CAMP Rehoboth. How do you stay up to date with all the wonderful things happening at CAMP Rehoboth? Visit the CAMP Rehoboth website, camprehoboth.com, scroll to the very bottom, and enter an email address. It’s that easy!

Watch for an exciting email preview of all the fun fall events soon! Stay connected—there’s a lot to do at CAMP Rehoboth this fall. ▼

Dear Editor:

DDOA 2019 Winners Program at CAMP Rehoboth On August 3, CAMP Rehoboth hosted an exhibition, performance, and reception for the winners of the Delaware Division of the Arts (DDOA) 2019 Fellowship Awards. CAMP Rehoboth Arts Team Director Leslie Sinclair was instrumental in putting together the event, and she was joined by Paul Weagraff and Roxanne Stanulis from DDOA, and Ryan Gover from the Biggs Museum, where the exhibition originated. Photo: Shawn Faust, Shelley Kelley, G.W. Thompson, Billie Travalini, Paul Weagraff, Ryan Grover, Roxanne Stanulis, Geraldo Gonzalez, Leslie Sinclair. ▼

In a recent Wesley Combs article, he said that Sarah McBride would be the first openly transgender person to win a state senator position in America if she wins. Maybe he’s just talking about state senators vs. state delegates?

Perhaps something could be said that there are state delegates in other states, because I got the impression that Sarah was the only state legislator from his statement. And I think we want to make people aware of all the good changes that are coming about, right?

Since I live in Virginia, I know that Danica Roem was elected in 2017 as a Virginia State Delegate. I don’t know if other states also have transgender delegates, but Virginia certainly does, and we’re very proud of her.

I’ve never written a letter to the editor before, so thanks for listening.

– Holly Schneider Send letters to the editor to editor@camprehoboth.com

Got an Itch to Travel?

Volunteers and Donations Needed for AIDS Walk 2019 On September 21, the CAMP Rehoboth Rainbow Walkers Team will again participate in AIDS Walk Delaware. Produced

by AIDS Delaware in partnership with other HIV service organizations, AIDS Walk Delaware is held in both Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, and benefits Delawareans affected by HIV/AIDS. There are three ways to help. Sign up

to be a volunteer for the event, be a walker, and/or support one of the teams by making a donation. Please join the CAMP Rehoboth Rainbow Walkers team, volunteer, or make a donation to help the team reach its fundraising goal. Go to camprehoboth.com/volunteers to sign up as a volunteer or to participate in the walk. ▼

With summer coming to a close, perhaps now is the time to make travel plans?

Don’t miss the spectacular CAMP Rehoboth 2020 Portugal Riverboat Cruise designed by CAMP Rehoboth Annual Premier Sponsor Accent on Travel, and hosted by CAMP Rehoboth co-founder Murray Archibald. Like previous CAMP Rehoboth travel experiences, the trip is sure to be fun, exciting, and inspirational. It’s also a great way to make new friends. The trip is almost sold out, so don’t delay—sign up today by calling 302278-6100 or 800-848-3272. ▼ AUGUST 23, 2019

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CAMP Matters

TIME ENOUGH TO DANCE

Letters 6 AUGUST 23, 2019

by Murray Archibald

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arlier in the summer, I posted a photo on Facebook of Steve and me at the first Sundance back in 1988. The two of us were in the DJ booth at The Strand. My arm is around his neck and I’m kissing him on the cheek. He has a sweet and happy look on his face.

That photo was well liked by my Facebook friends.

That first Sundance was our tenth anniversary party. We made it a benefit in an effort to make us feel less impotent in the face of the AIDS epidemic raging around us at the time. That was 32 years ago.

I have been producing Sundance for half of my life.

Hold that thought. I’ll get back to Sundance in a moment.

Three small events caught my attention last week.

First, I watched Boy Erased, the 2018 film based on Garrard Conley’s memoir of his time in a gay conversion program.

Lucas Hedges plays Jared Eamons (the Conley character in the film). Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe portray the parents. Joel Edgerton is the chief therapist at Love in Action, the gay conversion therapy assessment program.

Next, I watched the Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace. The film was shot back in 1972 during the two-night live recording of Aretha’s beloved gospel album by the same name.

Due to syncing and other issues, the film was not seen until its premier in 2018. It was released worldwide in April of 2019. Sydney Pollack directed. On the second night of filming, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts are briefly shown sitting in the back of the room.

Finally, I listened to a TED talk by Dr. James O’Keefe (and posted it on my FB page). While I had read much of what he had to say before, O’Keefe’s insight about why homosexuality is a necessary part of life, is riveting and personal. “It’s about survival, not sex.” He says.

Okay, that’s the background. Now back to Sundance.

Sundance is a fundraising event. It always has been. But it’s more than that.

Sundance is also a community-raising event—a community celebration. Sundance supports the programs of CAMP Rehoboth; it also supports the mission and vision of CAMP Rehoboth.

Boy Erased is the far-right end of the anti-LGBTQ movement nurtured in large part by conservative religious organizations.

The film illustrates the extreme wounding of LGBTQ people in conversion therapy facilities. But make no mistake; queer people are wounded every day by the words and actions of less controversial religious bodies. Look no further than the global Methodist church for proof of that.

The mission of CAMP Rehoboth calls for the organization to create a positive environment for all sexual orientations and gender identities. CAMP Rehoboth is in the business of healing. Yes, there are health related programs that deal with physical wellbeing, but the heart of CAMP Rehoboth is about creating an environment that celebrates each of us for exactly who we are.

“I came to therapy thinking that my sexuality didn’t matter, but it turned out that every part of my personality was intimately connected,” Garrard Conley writes. “Cutting one piece damaged the rest.”

On a larger scale, that is exactly the point of Dr. O’Keefe’s TED Talk. When the individuals tasked by nature to help make life better for their families and communities are damaged, the whole community suffers.

O’Keefe makes it clear that LGBTQ people have an important role to play in the world.

Not better, different.

Sometime in the year or so before Steve and I moved from New York City to Rehoboth Beach fulltime—I believe it was 1989—Steve walked through the door of our Union Square apartment with a tiny toy mouse in his hand. “Here,” he said, “I thought you would like this. I got it from a man on the corner.”

Turns out, the tiny toy mouse was not the important part of what he picked up from that mysterious “man on the corner.”

There was also a book. A tiny book, hand drawn front and back. Measuring only a

little bigger than two by three inches. The inside pages were full size typed sheets, photocopied and reduced.

The mouse broke or I lost it a long time ago. The book I still have. It fascinates me. I have to read it with a magnifying glass— even more so now than I did 30 years ago! Titled The Mouse Book by Bill Ragael, there is a simplistic line drawing of a mouse on the cover. “FREE Mouse!” it reads, “With Each Book $1.00.

The book was the important part all along.

Inside there is a fully developed Mousism Theory I don’t have time to discuss, but the last pages of the book contain the 10 commandments of Mousism. Number six has bounced around in my head for 30 years. “Remember that your enemy does not know who he is. It is your duty to let him know who he is before he harms himself by harming you.”

Deep in the heart of the CAMP Rehoboth philosophy, that concept has always been present. Creating a positive environment for LGBTQ people creates a healthier community for all of us.

The language of hate we hear in the world today goes far beyond LGBTQ issues. Hate is evil. It corrupts. It wounds people—physically, spiritually, and mentally. It wounds us as a society. It hurts us all, whether it is directed at us or not.

The Aretha Franklin Amazing Grace documentary works so beautifully because there are three main components. Aretha herself, and that soul stirring, gut wrenching voice; the Southern California Community Choir directed by Alexander Hamilton and featuring singer and piano accompanist James Cleveland; and the congregation who participate fully in the recording.

No wonder Mick Jagger simply wanted to sit in the back and absorb the sound.

In a room full of people who over the decades have suffered more hate and hurt than any white person could ever understand, the love, the grace, and the pure soul in that room is breathtaking. It is the sound of healing. The sound of community.

A boy almost erased. Amazing Grace. A TED Talk. Life bombards us with disparate information and inspiration, with pain, with family and friends, with love and hate, joy and despair, with grief and with laughter.

Sundance has been a success for 32 years because it provides an opportunity for us to celebrate and support the work of CAMP Rehoboth. More importantly, Sundance unites us as a community. For a brief moment at the end of every summer, we make time to let go of stress and worry, we make time to hug one another, we make time to laugh and to love.

We make time enough to dance. ▼ 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

Days of Wine and Roses

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his was supposed to be a fun column for the Labor Day edition, the deadline to occur during my 10-day vacation.

Not knowing if I’d have wi-fi aboard ship, I left behind a perfectly adequate column about the joys of dining with dogs on Rehoboth restaurant patios.

A writer plans and the Delaware Division of Public Health laughs.

While I was trotting around France, a little-known state regulation banning dogs on restaurant patios reared its head.

Seriously? And I’m about to publish a puff piece hawking the joys of brunching in public with our best friends?

Hold the presses. I texted home to pull the column, and instead I am in Normandy, France, thumbing a replacement column on my phone.

We’ve sailed the Seine from Paris to the beaches of Normandy, seeing Van Gogh’s wheat fields and Monet’s water lilies. In Rouen we photographed 16th century buildings and sampled the apple “cider” of the region.

It’s an Olivia Riverboat cruise, so my wife and I have been with 125 other lesbians, enjoying a fabulous week of wine, women, and song. And croissants.

Escargot. Champagne.

Comic musician Lisa Koch is onboard.

She spontaneously came up with a song about the lone female crew member athletically handling the lines on the ship’s bow as a hundred queer girls ogled her from the cocktail lounge. I’m sure Lisa has apologies for Sondheim for the new lyrics to “Maria,” which had us, including crew member Maria, howling with laughter.

As we drove by bus to one of the picturesque towns, our local guide told us all about the history of the area and pointed out marvelous sights— including the church where she was recently married. Then, she added “to a woman!” And the passengers erupted in congratulatory cheers.

Today, we lunched at a French farmhouse liberated in 1944, and wound up at Omaha Beach and the American cemetery there, still decorated for last June’s 75th anniversary of D-Day. There are over 9,000 U.S soldiers buried there. We placed roses on the monuments.

I gazed out on the beach where so many Americans fell or risked their lives, and tears rolled down my face—not just for those brave soldiers, but for my country, which in many ways is behaving

increasingly as our sworn enemies did in the 1940s.

What have we become? How do we fight for our democracy? How do we quell the hate and reclaim our national reputation for having room for all?

As I write this, we’ve got two more days of strong coffee, baguettes, art, sightseeing, and fine red wines. My veins are full of pure lard by now.

But when we get home, first, I’m hoping the canine patio issue gets resolved so I can run my column celebrating (a dietetic) brunch with Fido.

But more importantly, I hope the lesson I took from the D-Day landing sites propels me to work like crazy to fight and help win the 2020 battle of the ballot box.

I hope you’ll join me. For the memory of those more than 9,000 Americans buried in Normandy and many more all over the world, we can do nothing less. ▼ Fay Jacobs is an author of five published memoirs. Her newest is Fried & Convicted: Rehoboth Beach Uncorked. As a humorist, she’s touring with her show Aging Gracelessly: 50 Shades of Fay. See www.fayjacobs.com.

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by Rich Barnett

Never Say Never

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s a writer, I’m much more comfortable expressing floor at Badlands and the Lost and Found gay bars, under the myself through words than by throwing my hands up lights and fake smoke. Some of you were there on the dance in the air and gyrating my hips around to the rhythm floor, I know, inebriated and sweaty and grinding to the songs of a disco beat. of Madonna, Rick Astley, and the Pet Shop Boys in some sort This hasn’t always been the case. At one time I enjoyed of group lust for vodka and sex. It was a renegade and magical dancing. And I was good at it. So good, in fact, I even taught world and I couldn’t get enough. dance lessons. It’s true.… Quit laughing.

So when and why did I stop dancing? Lord Back in the early 1980s, the students who knows it wasn’t out of embarrassment. put together the University Union social proI suppose at some point in the 90s grams at the University of Virginia recruitit just lost its appeal. You know; been ed yours truly to instruct the unversed there, done that. Going out dancing in how to dance the Carolina shag, a late at night was great when my job slower, less bouncy, Southern version was perfunctory, and I could go into of the jitterbug, Lindy hop, and swing the office reeking of booze and too dances all of which emerged out of hung over to think because nobody Harlem in the 1930s. Shagging is an gave a damn. Once my work eight-step dance where partners required focus and accountability mirror each other’s movements in and I had to manage and mentor sync. It was born in juke joints and others, it brought a fast stop to beach bars along the Carolina coast those sloppy boozy disco nights. during the 1940s along with the rise of If I remember correctly, the 90s R&B music. Myrtle Beach was its Mecca was when the gourmet kitchen and and the place I learned to shag in dive cooking movement kicked off. Dinner bars like Crazy Zaks and The Pad. parties were the rage and Martha Stewart My class met on a weeknight in had replaced Madonna in the hearts Halsey Hall, a few steps off of Thomas of many homo hearts. Instead of going Jefferson’s original academic village. out dancing after work, I was staying Dancing became a way to The fellas came in madras shorts and in to make dinner, sip white wine, and white Lacoste shirts—collars popped in witty repartee. get close to boys. Oh, the late engage up—and loafers with no socks. The I have to believe that new girls were dolled up in their Lilly Puentertainment technologies and nights on the dance floor litzer skirts, bubble gum pink Lacoste options, especially cable TV, personal at Badlands and the Lost and computers, and the internet, played shirts, and gold add-a-bead necklaces. Of course there was beer, lots of it. a role as well. TV programming got Found gay bars, under the The University Union provided a keg much more interesting and there’s for each class. no way I was gonna miss my weekly lights and fake smoke.

Just writing this makes me chuckle must-see shows like Twin Peaks, Will because it does sound rather comical, & Grace, and Late Night with David doesn’t it? You have to remember, Letterman. Then there was the porn though, this was the era of the Preppy Handbook and the revolution, which could be its own column…. movie Animal House, both of which helped trigger a resurNowadays, the prospect of me going out dancing seems gence of interest in preppy fashion and culture. Shagging was about as likely as me hand-making squid ink pasta. Why would the rage among fraternity boys and sorority girls throughout I go through all that when I can order in and then curl up with Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. a book and a sleeping pill? That said, the other day I found Shagging for me was a way to mask my same sex desire. an old white Lacoste shirt shoved in the back of a chest of This might sound counterintuitive, but it was much easier to drawers. I tried it on and I couldn’t help but pop the collar. I got twirl a girl than date one. There was way less temptation on the to say, it looked pretty good....▼ Theta Chi dance floor than in a dorm room shot gunning a joint with a boy I had a crush on.

Rich Barnett is the author of The Discreet Charms of a Bourgeois Beach Ironically, all that changed for me after I moved to Town, and Fun with Dick and James.

Washington, DC, and came out of the closet. Dancing became a way to get close to boys. Oh, the late nights on the dance

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THE REAL DIRT

by Eric W. Wahl

And All at Once, Summer Collapsed into Fall

— OSCAR WILDE

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t seems like it was just last week we were celebrating the first weekend of the season with flags waving high, grilled food shared among family and friends, sun shining onto colorful umbrellas, and sand between our toes.

The heatwave this summer proved to be record breaking, and our gardens probably paid a price. Fortunately, like clockwork, the season soon will be changing, temperatures falling, with cider flowing.

Fall is not only about mild days and cool nights; it’s also a great time for planting and preparing the garden for next year. Our landscapes are winding down but that doesn’t mean they’re not productive and just as beautiful. Many perennials are still going strong and the autumn perennials will soon take the baton. Black-eyed Susans, beebalm, and phlox are fading into goldenrod, asters, and sedums.

If you planned your garden with a master plan (like I know all my followers did...) you can start dividing your perennials, planting bulbs, and adding shrubs and trees to your landscape, in accordance with your design. Planting now, before the soil gets too cold, will help establish a good root system. This, in turn, will help next spring when the plants push forth new leaves and stems.

Adding compost to the planting beds isn’t a bad idea either.

Many of you will cut back perennials to the ground, rake out fallen leaves, and add a new layer of mulch to make everything look nice. Maybe this year, try something different, especially if you’re of the ecological persuasion.

Leaving fallen leaves in your beds (especially under trees) provides spaces for caterpillars and other beneficial insects to over-winter. In addition, perennials with hollow stems are perfect places for some of our native bees to over-winter. If you do cut them back, leaving about two to three feet of the stems is adequate.

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This re-thinking of your garden as an ecological retreat or sanctuary may be visually less appealing than the typical manicured landscape, but, in my opinion, the benefits to our native pollinators outweigh the desire for the perfect yard.

If you have a vegetable garden, begin placing cool season vegetables within it, such as arugula, spinach, kale, turnips, cabbage, carrots, broccoli, and green onions, among others. Some of these plants can even survive an early frost if given some minimal protection.

Some of them may have to be harvested when they are smaller than usual, but they will be just as delicious.

Leaving fallen leaves in your beds (especially under trees) provides spaces for caterpillars and other beneficial insects to over-winter.

I recently started a small vegetable garden in the yard. It’s been ages since I had one and I was feeling quite nostalgic. Only four feet by eight feet, it’s the perfect starter garden. I planted cucumbers, peppers, and tomatoes all at ground level with marigolds dotting the corners.

This fall, I’m thinking of turning it into a raised bed with sidewalls four to six inches in height. If I feel motivated, I’ll plant some cool season vegetables like radish, cabbage, and some leafy greens—but I’m not promising anything.

As the seasons plow ahead, I foresee the bed being raised more and more and maybe new beds added to it.

I’m looking forward to the garden’s evolution.

Of course, planting spring-flowering bulbs is done this time of year as well. If you like a good show in spring, plant as many as you can in mass (like daffodils, tulips, or snowdrops). I like to see them almost like a groundcover under trees.

Let’s say you have a planting bed with river birch or redbud, and liriope as a year-round groundcover underneath.

Plant bulbs in and around the liriope as much as possible. In spring, when the liriope is not looking its best and may even be trimmed back a bit, the bulbs will take over for a few weeks and provide an amazing display of color— just in time to welcome the new season.

Fall is also a good time to take an inventory of the garden and see what has done well and what could be improved upon. Maybe there’s a spot near some shade trees that would do better with a little more sun. Consider selective pruning of the tree limbs to help more sunlight reach the ground underneath. Alternatively, replant the area with more shade tolerant plants such as hosta, astilbe, foamflower, coral bells, wild ginger, and ferns.

As summer collapses into fall, I’ll be joyfully anticipating the changing colors of the leaves, cooler evenings to sit by the fire, and gracefully shoving apple cider doughnuts in my face.

Autumn is a favorite season of mine and perfect for working in the garden and planning its future. So, grab a pencil, or a shovel, and let’s garden together! ▼ Eric W. Wahl, RLA is a landscape architect at Element Design Group and president of the Delaware Native Plant Society.

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Simply Streisand Featuring Carla Del Villaggio Returns to the Milton Theatre August 23 & 24

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he show that has been dubbed “the next-best-thing to seeing Streisand herself” by the New York Post is returning to the Milton Theatre for three backto-back performances this August. From the hair down to the trademark nails, and wearing meticulously detailed replicas of iconic concert gowns, Carla Del Villaggio is Simply Streisand in every way! She will be performing this multiaward-winning show on the historic Milton Theatre stage on Friday, August 23, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, August 24, at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Del Villaggio traveled the country performing her jaw-dropping recreations of Barbra Streisand’s most memorable songs. From Miami to Las Vegas to New York City, her stunning performances include the exciting and high energy

vocals of Streisand’s most powerful numbers. Her keen sense of comedic timing and ability to ad-lib add to the overall illusion of portraying the original Funny Girl.

Del Villagio has entertained several times on the Legends Stage, and at the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas as the number one Barbra Streisand tribute artist. Don’t miss this show!

Tickets are $20-$25, and may be purchased online at MiltonTheatre.com, via phone by calling 302.684.3038, or at the box office. This event is for audiences of all ages.

The Milton Theatre is located at 110 Union Street, Milton, Delaware; follow the theatre online: Facebook @ miltontheatreshows, or Instagram @ miltontheatre. ▼

Please Join Rehoboth TransLiance in Welcoming Hannah Simpson

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annah Simpson is a transgender activist, writer, educator, and comedian, based in New York, whose gender pronouns are “she” in English, in Hebrew. She and speaks at schools, businesses, synagogues, churches, and even military bases about embracing trans and non-binary identities.

Simpson’s Judaism and queerness intersect many forums, including mentoring trans teens and adults, leading three LGBTQ Birthright Israel delegations, and visiting Israel with The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and A Wider Bridge leadership missions. Her writing and videos can be found on Refinery29, the Guardian, HuffPost, and elsewhere.

She has been a guest commentator on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show, and Fox’s Good Day New York; for more information, go to hannahsimpson.com.

The event will be held at 7 pm on Tuesday, August 27, at MCC Church, 19369 Plantations Road, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971. The event is free and open to the public. ▼ Letters 16 AUGUST 23, 2019

Off to the Opera

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he Rehoboth Beach Film Society (RBFS), at their Cinema Art Theatre, offers the Metropolitan Opera on HD Live.

This 10-performance season of live opera performances, transmitted in high-definition video via satellite from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, goes to select venues in the US and other parts of the world.

The presentations include multiple viewing angles which change throughout the performance, interviews with performers before the performance and/or during intermission, and behind the scene set changes.

This is an affordable opportunity to see world-class opera here in the Rehoboth-Lewes area. While the operas are presented live from the Met, the 2019-20 presentations at the Cinema Art Theater will be taped and presented about one week after the live performance until the Film Society is able to get the necessary satellite equipment installed The 2019-20 Met Opera Live in HD season kicks off with Puccini’s Turandot with screenings on Saturday, October 12, Monday, October 14, and Tuesday, October 15.

Advance ticket sales for the entire season are now open, allowing you to purchase advance tickets for the entire season.

Tickets are $22 per performance for RBFS members, and $25 for adult non-members. There are lower price tickets available for students and seniors. Information about the entire season and ticket purchases are available at rehobothfilm.com/event. ▼

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SUNDANCE 2019

More Than a Dance!

Sundance Auction is Labor Day Highlight

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hile some people only think of Sundance as a chance to experience New York City club atmosphere, lights, and sounds in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, that’s only half of the legendary two-day event. The first night (August 31, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.) is the Sundance Auction. On that night, participants will enjoy a silent auction, live auction with auctioneer Lorne Crawford, and an all-evening cocktail buffet and open bar. Up for bid will be a dazzling array of enticing items, including art, trips, gifts, sports memorabilia, and one-of-a-kind opportunities.

Sundance 2019—Rainbow XXXII: Ultraviolet Disco Day-Glo Sunrise promises to be the biggest and best Sundance ever. The funds raised support the health of the local community and the fair and equitable treatment of everyone, no matter what their sexual orientation or gender identity. In 2018 alone, CAMP Rehoboth outreach programs served over 6,500 individuals and its health and wellness programs served nearly 10,000.

“If you are looking for a gift for a special someone, or a simple way to pamper yourself, chances are you will find it at the Sundance Auction,” says Tara

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Sheldon, president of VegRehoboth and a CAMP Rehoboth board member.

“It truly has something for everyone.”

Each year, auction attendees are astonished by the quality and selection of items up for bid. It’s certainly not the typical array of gift certificates and baskets. For example, this year, some lucky bidder will win a five-piece fire pit chat set with Sunbrella fabric, a perfect setting for summer entertaining.

The Sundance Auction typically has 450 or more items. “You never know what the next item will be,” says Glen Pruitt, one of the volunteers who puts together the descriptions of the auction items. “It might be a Barbra Streisand Collector Barbie Doll (which was the subject of a bidding war one year between two determined bidders), a hand-painted shirt, a piece of gorgeous jewelry, or a selection of artisan chocolates. I can hardly wait to see what wild and wonderful items we have this year!”

The Sundance Auction is also known for its unique offerings. “I will never forget when we auctioned off a quilt that someone made from Sundance T-shirts,” says Mark Purpura, president of Equality Delaware

Foundation and a CAMP Rehoboth board member. “It exemplified not only the dedication of our volunteers in terms of the sheer number of hours it must have taken to make the quilt, but also the value bidders placed on the historical memories of Sundance within that quilt.”

A highlight of the auction each year is the exciting travel opportunities. This year, Accent on Travel and Uniworld Boutique River Cruises are donating a seven-night cruise worth up to $5,600, depending on the departure date and itinerary the winning bidder selects. The winner can choose from seven European itineraries and travel any time through December 2020. The package includes accommodations, meals, and daily excursions. The best part is that 100 percent of the bid will be donated to CAMP Rehoboth. Also up for bid is a trip for two in the Vista suite on Olivia’s Pacific Coastal Cruise, April 2329, 2020 (a value of nearly $6,000). The trip includes stops in San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Astoria, Seattle, and Vancouver.

Sundance offers two nights of fun.

The second night (September 1) is the two-for-one Sundance, which includes the Sundance Disco Twilight Tea (7 p.m. to 10 p.m.) featuring DJ legend Robbie Leslie, and the traditional Sundance (10 p.m. to 2 a.m.) with music by DJ/Remixer Joe Gauthreaux and lights by Paul Turner.

Participants can attend either or both nights of the event (tickets are $50 for one night, $90 for both). ▼

Joe Gauthreaux

SUMMER 2019 PLAYLIST “Dance Like Nobody’s Watching” (Joe Gauthreaux & Leanh Remix) SAARA AALTO

“Nails, Hair, Hips Heels” (Sagi Kariv Remix) TODRICK HALL

“Thirsty”

JOE GAUTHREAUX & JAMES HURR, FEATURING MITCH AMTR@K

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INAYA DAY, BRUNO KNAUER, & JOE GAUTHREAUX

“Proud” (Joe Gauthreaux & Leanh Freedom Remix) HEATHER SMALL

All About the Dance!

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he second night of Sundance (Sunday, September 1) is all about the dance. The night kicks off with the Sundance Disco Twilight Tea, featuring DJ legend Robbie Leslie. “We added this Disco Twilight Tea last year,” says Sundance Founder and Chair Murray Archibald. “It was a huge success! Thirty minutes after the doors opened at 7 p.m., the dancefloor was packed—and it stayed that way all night long. Come early! Stay late!,” he advises, “That’s the best way to enjoy the night.”

DJ Robbie Leslie is best known for his work at Studio 54 and The Saint in NYC (and famous for his Saint White Parties) but has also had a long career beginning on Fire Island and including 12 West and Palladium. A true legend in the music industry, Leslie has been in the nightclub business for 40 years and is considered the prototype of the modern circuit party DJ. He is currently a Studio 54 radio DJ on Sirius XM radio, and continues to play parties all over the world.

Doors will open at 7 p.m. for the Sundance Disco Twilight Tea, which will last until 10 p.m., when international DJ/ Remixer Joe Gauthreaux takes over the booth to lift the room right into his signature club sound.

DJ Robbie Leslie

Joe has been the Sundance Main DJ since 2015. He is one of the most soughtafter DJs and producers in the industry, and has a resume full of club appearances and main events that spans the last 15 years. He has played almost every major circuit event in the world, including Winter Party Festival, Black Party, White Party Miami, Song Kran Bangkok, New Year’s Rio at The Week, and Atlantis Cruises, among others. A staple at major clubs across North America, Brazil, and Asia, Joe packs dancefloors around the world. ▼

BUYING TICKETS FOR SUNDANCE

Go to camprehoboth.com | Call 302-227-5620 | At the door, each night (if not sold out) Also available at certain times on Poodle Beach and in the CAMP Rehoboth Courtyard:

Poodle Beach Ticket Sales Under the Big Tent

Evening Ticket Sales, Box Office Pick-up, CAMP Courtyard

Saturday Aug. 24, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Saturday/Sunday Aug. 31-Sept. 1 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Thursday/Friday Aug. 29-30, 5-7 p.m.

CAMP Courtyard, Saturday, Aug. 31 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Afterparty with lots of food, Bloody Marys, craft beer, and more, at the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Avenue in Rehoboth Beach.

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Sleepwalkers are invited to come by to cheer on the runners and join us for a great afterparty! (Includes beach towel) $5 GUESTS if you bring a guest who will enjoy the food and festivities, include $5 per guest (please provide the name of your guest, and arrive early to receive a stamp).

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EVENTS

by Fay Jacobs

Drag Volleyball Squads are in the Wings!

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abor Day Weekend, the stunning Sundance auction and twin dances are not the only hot tickets in town.

On Sunday, down at Poodle Beach, the Drag Volleyball extravaganza takes place and while it will certainly be hot, no tickets are required.

Two killer volleyball teams, mostly— but not exclusively—men, are now practicing their game and thinking about high heels, high hair, and the continuation of their 30-year history of serving, sashaying, and spiking (in spike heels).

While they play killer volleyball, they also entertain, sing, and present outrageous skits.

Back in 1988, it all started as a pick-up volleyball game on the sand at the south end of the boardwalk. According to Brent Minor, (drag name Barbara Ann), who was on that original team, the late Forrest Park (affectionately called Flo) originated Rehoboth’s drag volleyball game as a way to close out the summer.

Flo provided nine women’s swimsuits, almost as a lark. “We couldn’t even coax a ninth player to put on a suit. A group of lesbians saw us and came and played against us.” Brent says.

The following year, a second team of drag queen athletes joined the event, led

by Rich Fennell (aka When’ D).

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Brent’s team is called the Delmarva Divas and Brent has played in every single game since Drag Volleyball became a Rehoboth thing. Many players have suffered broken high heels, but Brent, to keep his record going, once played with a broken elbow. He’s known for his dedication to this event and for helping to keep it going strong for so many years.

“We’ve been offered sponsorships for the game and some players wanted to make this a fundraiser, but we have always turned that down,” he says, “we just want people to come and have a fun time and not feel obligated to pay anything.”

This free, fabulous event is one of Rehoboth’s signature Labor Day traditions, and has become a major friend, if not fund-raiser. Even USA Today once mentioned Rehoboth’s famous Drag Volleyball in a column naming Rehoboth one of the great gay beach towns.

Like Brent, there are other long-time drag athletes who have played the serious volleyball games and performed in the not-so-serious skits and entertainments. Mark Kimble (aka Myrna) is the only other player who has been in every game over the years.

The second team is often called The Other Girls, and they, too, have a tradition of longevity and athletics. When both

teams hit the sand, anything can—and often does—happen.

So now drag volleyball is a big deal Labor Day weekend tradition, with thousands of fans, the press, and lots of drag celebrities making up the estimated crowd of over 2,000 onlookers.

People have been known to line the boardwalk to get a view of the flamboyant entrances made by the teams and then follow them down to the sand, cheering all the way.

And it’s always anybody’s guess what the costumes and team themes will be.

Previous memorable themes have been “the many stages of Madonna,” where the players were clad in Madonna’s well-known costume choices; “The Wedding Party,” an outrageous and naughty wedding skit; and “Gaga Galaxy,” where one player arrived in a giant egg hoisted overhead by a bevy of well-muscled boys.

Folks have been known to take the game and entertainment so seriously they really throw themselves into the theme.

One year, when a whole team came dressed as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, several friends of Dorothy rented a small airplane to fly overhead with a banner proclaiming “Surrender Dorothy.”

The annual sport and silliness will take place on Sunday, September 1, at give-ortake 1 p.m. in the area in front of Queen Street (how appropriate) off the boardwalk. It’s something to see. And cheer.

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President’s View

by Chris Beagle

“Ask Me Anything!”

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ince making the full-time move to Rehoboth in 2006, several themes seem to recur every year. Great excitement and anticipation fill the air as Memorial Day weekend nears and along with it, the start of another summer.

Then, in the blink of an eye, the end of August hits us and a melancholy feeling takes over. I realize I’ve only been to the beach twice, have played the jockey game at Funland just once (but I did win!), and the sun will soon set on another summer season.

Yet, at the same time, a yearning prevails for less traffic, easier parking, and...I can hear the locals’ collective cheers…NO METERS! It’s always a bittersweet time.

For now, with Labor Day just around the corner, the CAMP Rehoboth family sets its sights on Sundance! After months of preparation, our summerending extravaganza truly takes a village. In its 32nd year, and under the visionary direction of co-founder and Interim Executive Director, Murray Archibald, over 200 volunteers will touch a part of what becomes our largest fundraiser of the year.

And those volunteers include the Board of Directors who, at this time last

year, were in the midst of its latest strategic planning initiative, and gearing up for a Community Discussion to gain valuable insight from members, stakeholders, and the community at large.

Toward those efforts to collect as much input as possible, at Sundance 2018, board members sported large, yellow pins saying “Ask Me Anything!”

In so doing, our intent was to make ourselves available to answer questions, field concerns, and to address whatever was on someone’s mind—related to CAMP Rehoboth, of course. Fortunately, many of you did. So much so that we will be doing the same thing again this year.

Look for us because we want to hear from you, especially now as we start to shift our attention to the executive leadership transition in the weeks and months ahead. Fellow board member, Jack Morrison, said recently, “Following the refinement of CAMP Rehoboth’s vision, mission, and values, and listening carefully to feedback from membership and the community, we engaged in a thoughtful and professional process of updating CAMP Rehoboth’s strategic direction, policies, and procedures, all of which are related to the successful transition of CAMP Rehoboth’s leadership.” We always want to know

what’s on your mind, so don’t be shy!

Plus, it’s a great way to meet our newly elected board members, Wes Combs and Linda Gregory.

Wes, a founding member of CAMP Rehoboth, is the owner of Combs Advisory Services, and is a nationally recognized diversity and inclusion expert specializing in communications and organizational development. Wes and his husband, Greg, reside in DC and Rehoboth.

Linda, recently featured in Letters as a “Local Hero,” founded the Rehoboth chapter of PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) in 2011, and has served on the Council of Advocates (formerly Elders) in conjunction with CAMP Rehoboth since its inception in 2017. She and her husband, Howard, live in Milton.

Welcome, Wes and Linda. I look forward to working with you, and all of the board, as we chart this next chapter for CAMP Rehoboth together.

Happy Sundance! ▼ 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

CAMP REHOBOTH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SEARCH TIMELINE

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Qualified candidates are screened

→ Top candidates identified, using rubric developed by Search Committee → Phone screening of top tier candidates conducted by Consultant → Search Committee conducts face-to-face preliminary interviews with subset of top tier candidates

MAY 2019 L E. D. Position is posted

→ Job announcement released to the public through multiple media → Thirty days allowed for submittal of resumes from interested persons → Forty-one resumes received by the closing of the job posting → Transition Committee begins organizing orientation materials for incoming E.D.

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Sweet Baby J’ai is heading to Rehoboth

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riday, October 11, finds popular jazz singer/songwriter/storyteller Sweet Baby J'ai in concert at Epworth United Methodist Church.

Audiences will journey through time from the beginning of recorded music to the present day, in this pre-Jazz Fest performance. They could not have a better guide than Sweet Baby J'ai!

Her show, “The History of Women in Blues,” combines music, drama, and visual arts, including historic videos and inspiring anecdotes, told as only J’ai can. From Da’ Blues and the rise of the Harlem Renaissance to

the turbulence of the sixties and beyond, this tribute to some of the most iconic singers in jazz and blues builds understanding and appreciation for the history and culture of the female experience in American music.

The show is at 8 p.m. with doors opening at 7:15, and tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door. Tickets on sale now at camprehoboth.com. So get your tickets and plan a date, Friday night, October 11, for jazz and drama and history and Sweet Baby J’ai. ▼

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he Delaware Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) wants beneficiaries to review each and every Medicare Summary Notice they receive in the mail to ensure they are not being billed for services or items they do not need or their doctor did not request.

To assist, the SMP will hold two informational sessions to help people avoid fraud. The first session will be August 28 at 7 p.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church on Holland Glade Road for the CAMP Rehoboth Men’s Group.

The second presentation will be on October 29 at 11 a.m. for the CAMP Rehoboth Silver Pride Lunch ‘n Learn, at the CAMP Rehoboth Community Center.

For more information contact the Delaware SMP at 1-800-223-9074 or visit its website at delaware.gov/dhss/dss/ smp.html. ▼

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AIDS WALK DELAWARE

We Walk for the Future

by JulieAnne Cross

2019

’s headlines would lead one to believe that it’s been a revolutionary year for people who are passionate about AIDS and HIV prevention and care.

In July, CBS News reported that “HIV/AIDS deaths fell by one-third since 2010,” adding, “but experts say more could be done.” UNAIDS data shows that the number of people worldwide living with HIV has risen, but the number of new HIV infections have fallen, as have those dying from the illness.

This is attributed mainly to pre-exposure prophylaxis, known as PrEP, which can drastically reduce the risk of contracting the virus if one has access to it.

In February, DelawareOnline reported that “Delaware saw [the] lowest number of new HIV infections in two decades in 2018.” A reported 92 new HIV infections means 2018 is the first time the count has fallen below 100 since the state began keeping such records in 2001.

In July, researchers (from right up the road at Temple University, in fact!) revealed how a sequence of two treatments could completely remove the HIV virus in mice by editing the mice’s genomes. A specific antiretroviral therapy is followed by the removal of viral DNA using a gene editing tool. About a third of the animals were found to have no trace of the virus remaining. Treating mice with either the antiretroviral therapy or gene editing—but not both—”resulted in viral rebound in 100% of treated infected animals.”

Good news continues to come…but cuttingedge treatments aren’t typically available to the people most vulnerable to infection, nor even immediately available to those with means.

Even PrEP, which is taken by 300,000 people worldwide, 130,000 of whom are in the US, isn’t universally accessible.

And simple UNAIDS numerical data doesn’t tell the whole picture. HIV can hide in a dormant state, giving a false impression that a person is not at risk for succumbing to illness. A vaccine that targets the latent virus may be on the horizon, but we aren’t there yet.

And antiretroviral therapy halts, rather than kills,

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Cutting-edge treatments aren’t typically available to the people most vulnerable to infection, nor even immediately available to those with means. .........●.........

the virus, so risk of illness is always present.

An estimated 37.9 million people globally still live with HIV, although 23.3 million have access to some antiretroviral therapy.

Every piece of good news is balanced with sobering news. Every piece of bad news is balanced with a glimmer of new scientific and cultural hope.

The temptation when faced with good news is to Take. A. Breath.

We can’t. We won’t.

While the work of AIDS Walk Delaware supports prevention and awareness, it also supports the needs of people living with compromised health. People who have been living with a disease for a long time. People who have just learned they’ve been infected. People who love someone who is infected. People whom the best and broadest prevention work may have eluded.

We walk in solidarity with Delawareans living with HIV and AIDS. Still today, HIV-positive individuals are afraid to reveal their status for fear of being shunned by family and society.

We walk for an end to HIV and stigma.

We walk to end violence. (AIDS Walk Delaware 2019 falls on International Peace Day, and this year’s branding and t-shirts reflect symbols of peace and love.)

We walk for a healthy, HIV-informed community.

We walk in memoriam for those who simply wanted to live in peace and good health.

We walk to advance HIV awareness, reduce stigma, and endorse HIV-informed community health for all Delawareans. ▼

JOIN US. Walk to end HIV and AIDS on September 21.

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It’s My Life

by Michael Thomas Ford

The Good Fight

“H

ey there. Just checking in to see how the new novel is coming.”

It’s not as if the email from my editor was a surprise. After all, the book is due in January.

And I’d known that for, well, a really long time. Still, seeing the question in print made the fact that I had almost nothing to show her seem like it might now be an issue.

Rather than ignore the question, which is what I wanted to do, I decided to be honest. The problem, I wrote back, is that I want to write something that shows readers—in this case young adults—how they can begin to fix what’s wrong with the world.

And the problem with that is that I have absolutely no idea what to tell them.

I assume that you’ve been paying attention to the news. If you have, you’ll know that things And I’ll try to patch are just the tiniest bit horrible together the little bits at the moment. Environmental disasters. Political sideshows. of hope that still remain That Game of Thrones ending.

There’s just not a lot of good inside me to create a happening right now.

“Look on the bright side,” a light bright enough friend said to me the other day. to shine through the “We’ll be dead soon and won’t have to worry about it.” darkness.

While this may be ever-soslightly reassuring, the fact is, someone will have to worry about it. Specifically, young people. And if I were a young person right now, I’d be both very worried and very pissed off.

Not that it’s just young people, of course.

Most people I know, of all ages, wish there was something we could do to fix what’s happening around us. And most of us don’t know where to begin.

More and more, we’re exhausted just trying to keep up. We have bills to pay, relationships to maintain, parents and/or children to take care of, pets to feed. Then there are all those episodes of Killing Eve on the DVR, waiting to be watched. How are we supposed to find time to halt the juggernaut that is carrying us all closer and closer to the edge?

The other morning Cubby, along with our housemate, and I went out for breakfast. As I sat staring at the menu, trying to decide between hash browns and grits, eggs over easy or scrambled, bacon or sausage, all I could think about was kids in cages, Russian meddling in our presidential Letters 34 AUGUST 23, 2019

elections, and soaring global temperatures. There was an endless list of things way more important than what I was going to consume next, and yet none of it was manageable. And I was hungry.

I sat there trying to think of one thing that I thought would make a difference. Just one. But why write or call my representatives demanding they do something when most of them are part of the problem? Why throw money at the organizations fighting the good fight when the decks are stacked against them? Why do anything when the supposed leader of my country tweets a stream of lies day in and day out and calling him out on it only makes him more popular amongst his fanbase?

This is the problem with evil—it becomes so pervasive, so overwhelming, that it convinces you that it can’t be defeated. One of my favorite books when I was growing up was Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. The antagonist is the Dark Thing, a monstrous blackness that envelops planets and destroys individual thought and personal freedom.

Seeing it, the children who are the protagonists of the story sink into despair, thinking that there’s no way to stop it. But the magical beings aiding them in their journey tell them that there is hope, that there are lights that fight the darkness, artists and scientists and truthtellers who punch holes in the dark one at a time, until the small patches of light join together to obliterate it.

A Wrinkle in Time was written in 1962, six years before my birth. Reading it as an adolescent, it did give me hope. But now, almost 60 years after that book’s publication, I find it harder to believe. I also find myself wanting to give a new generation the same message and don’t know how to do it convincingly. In some ways, it feels like almost nothing has changed, that despite the advances we’ve made, the Dark Thing is now gaining strength and size.

I’ll write my book, because it’s all I know how to do. I don’t know quite what it will be about yet, but I’ll write it. And I’ll try to patch together the little bits of hope that still remain inside me to create a light bright enough to shine through the darkness.

Whether it will be enough, I don’t know. But some days all we can do is try. ▼ Michael Thomas Ford is a much-published Lambda Literary award-winning author. Visit Michael at michaelthomasford.com

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by Ann Aptaker

Oscar Wilde: Life and Death for Art’s Sake “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that’s not being talked about.”

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o let’s talk about Oscar Wilde, the gentleman who wrote that line in his 1890 novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

If we’re going to celebrate people who gave so much so that we could live openly, then we have to talk about Oscar. He gave his life. He gave his death. He also gave us a lotta laughs. Try these: “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

“I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

We all know about Wilde’s magnificent literary legacy. But we also need to remember his socio-political legacy; his courage to challenge the law and live life as he saw fit, and the brutal punishments the law inflicted on him.

Victorian London was originally kind to Wilde, an Irishman who found his voice in England’s Aesthetic movement filtered through his romantic Irish soul and scathing personal wit.

His plays—The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windemere’s Fan, among others—were huge hits of the London theater. His stories were snapped up, and his novel of the dissolute Dorian Gray was a bestseller. Wilde was the toast of London.

It all crashed in 1895. On February 18, John Douglass, the Marquess of Queensberry, left a publicly visible calling card at the Albemarle Club, where Wilde was a member. On the card, Douglass scribbled: “For Oscar Wilde, posing sodomite.” The Marquess had outed the author.

It was an act of vengeance. Douglass was enraged over Wilde’s affair with the Marquess’s son, Lord Alfred Douglass. Alfred, known as Bosie, was a beautiful and raffish young man. Wilde, though married, fell madly in love with him. This arrangement wasn’t uncommon among London’s bohemians; according to Fanny Moyle’s biography of Wilde’s wife, Constance Wilde, she granted tacit acceptance.

Angered by what Wilde considered an insult to the beauty of his and Bosie’s passions, he sued the Marquess for libel. It was a disaster. The Marquess’s private investigators revealed Wilde’s previous lovers and his patronage of homosexual brothels. Wilde was forced to drop his libel claim.

But with his homosexual life exposed in a court of law, Wilde left himself open to arrest under England’s “gross indecency”

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statute. A subsequent trial, where Wilde movingly and often humorously defended the beauty of his life and what he considered the art of his passions, ended in conviction.

He was given the maximum sentence the law allowed, two years of hard labor. Judge Alfred Willis, in pronouncing the sentence, sneered that two years was “insufficient for a case such as this” and called it “the worst case I have ever tried.” The judge evidently deemed murder a less criminally offensive act than consensual homosexual sex.

Wilde began his prison ordeal in London’s Newgate Prison, but was soon moved to the harsher Pentonville Prison. At Pentonville, inmates were subjected to long days on a treadmill without letup and the grinding work of pulling apart discarded maritime ropes.

Conditions were even worse at Wilde’s next stop, Wandsworth Prison, where harsh labor and meagre food eventually led to Wilde’s disintegrating health. He finally collapsed in his cell from sickness and malnutrition.

Conditions were somewhat better in Reading Gaol, where a sympathetic politician arranged Wilde’s remaining months of imprisonment. It was here that Wilde, looking back on his experiences, wrote his famous 50,000-word letter to Bosie, a letter partially published in 1905 by Wilde’s devoted friend and earlier lover, Robbie Ross.

He titled the letter De Profundis (“from the depths”). In it, Wilde takes himself and Bosie to task for their dissolute life and the abuse of their love. Later in the letter, he reveals a spiritual side of himself, which he credits with helping him survive prison. Wilde does not, however, reject his passions, nor his belief that his life and loves were expressions of art.

Physically broken but still defiant in spirit, Wilde left for France after his release from prison. He remained in Paris until his death, his health deteriorating, his drinking increasing, his finances impoverished, but still daring to live life on his own terms in the taverns and brothels.

When he became too weak and sick to leave his shabby hotel room, he said to visiting friends, “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.” Oscar Wilde went on November 30, 1900. He was 46 years old. The wallpaper was older. ▼ 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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FIND

YOUR PLACE IN

HISTORY

SEPTEMBER 27, 28, & 29, 2019 LEWES, DELAWARE

REGISTER SOON! Tickets are limited

FRIDAY | 7 PM Ticketed Keynote Address with Rick Atkinson, author of The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

SATURDAY | 8:30 AM – 5 PM 20 Free Author Presentations in four Lewes venues, book sales, signings, and Spirited Discussion

SUNDAY | 2 PM Ticketed Closing Address with Alice Hoffman, author of The World That We Knew

To purchase tickets for the Keynote or Closing Address and learn more about the Festival visit: HistoryBookFestival.org PRESENTED BY DELAWARE HUMANITIES AND iHEART MEDIA @historybookfest

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GOOD QUEER FUN by Stefani Deoul

Restaurant Lotto That was then, this is now, or at least later…. Can you match a previous tenant to a more recent tenant? THIS PUZZLE HAS A SPECIAL TWIST—there are multiple correct answers. Good luck!

(Solution on page 113)

1. The Renegade 2. Dos Locos on Baltimore 3. Mano’s 4. Dream Café 5. Sydney’s Blues and Jazz 6. Cloud Nine 7. Chez La Mer 8. Square One 9. SOB Sandwich Shop 10. Double L

A. The Pig + Fish B. Shore Break C. Hobos D. SOB’s Sandwiches E. La Fable F. Diego’s G. Lula Brazil H. Papa Grande I. Shag (now gone) J. Townhouses on Route 1 K. G Rehoboth L. The Pines M. Seafood Shack N. Cuvée Ray O. Mixx P. Café Zeus Q. Dos Locos on Wilmington R. Azzuro S. Yum Yum

BONUS QUESTIONS:

A If The Renegade belonged to Rehoboth, what gay bar belonged to Dewey?

B What gay bar belonged to Bethany Beach?

C If The Renegade was the Route 1 bar, name the Rehoboth Avenue bar.

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REALTY GROUP Allen Jarmon

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Open floor plan for modern living, fenced yard, nicely landscaped.

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WHISPERING PINES

Well maintained 2 BR 1 BA mobile home close to downtown Lewes.

Home features spacious living area and large Master BR, plus an almost full length screened side porch! New kitchen flooring. Low cost plus low lot rent equals great value! Living here is less expensive than renting! Best of all, home has scenic view of farm fields! Close to community pool. ONLY $31,500!!

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SPORTY GALS

by Anita Pettitt

Bowling Legend Rina Pellegrini Leads a League

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ave you ever wondered what happens with local sports opportunities for women once cooler weather moves into our area?

Sure, some women are lucky enough to head someplace warm for the winter, but what about athletes who stay in Rehoboth Beach? Do the softball players stay home and watch football? Do the pickleball players find indoor courts to keep them moving? Maybe the golfers find apps on their phones to play virtual golf in the winter?

Well, all that is true, but also, starting in October, many of these athletes head out to Millsboro Lanes to play in the Wednesday night Rainbow Ladies Bowling League.

The Rainbow Ladies league was started by a local bowling legend, Rina Pellegrini. Rina grew up bowling in North Jersey, winning a mother/daughter tournament at the age of 10 (one of her favorite memories!) and junior tournaments at the age of 16.

Then she started bowling in five adult leagues and worked at the Paramus Bowling Alley while attending college. She graduated from Montclair State College with a degree in mathematics and computer science, bowling all the while.

She turned professional at the age of 23 and traveled the country to compete in Michigan, California, and of course, Ohio.

I say “of course” because I was born and raised in Akron, Ohio—known as the bowling capital of the world.

I know this because I spent my own teenage years in smoky bowling alleys all over the Akron area. My brother is in the Tri-County Bowler’s Hall of Fame, with three 300 games. Bowling is simply part of growing up in Akron. But believe me, I’m no Rina Pellegrini.

She continued to bowl part-time as a professional, but also joined the Women’s All-Star Association (WASA). WASA is an Eastern regional semi-professional association that hosts tournaments on weekends. Rina was named WASA Bowler of the Year in 1981 and won several tournaments. She has two 300 games and her Letters 48 AUGUST 23, 2019

highest series was a 796. Rina’s highest average was 223 and she averaged over 200 for 20 years.

Rina moved from North Jersey to the Philadelphia area and worked for SmithKline Beecham, continuing to bowl in three leagues. She competed in local, regional, and state tournaments, winning many Camden County awards. In 1996 Rina was inducted into the Camden Suburban Bowling Hall of Fame.

Rina has been a Rehoboth weekender for over 20 years, but six years ago, when she moved here full-time, she started the Rainbow Ladies Bowling League. She had six teams participating and they bowled at Millsboro Lanes. They now have 16 teams of four women each and a list of over 50 temporary substitutes available to play each week. Despite some serious back and neck issues, Rina is still bowling today. She had to move to a much lighter ball, but still manages to carry a 188 average, for the highest average in the league.

According to Rina, the league is designed to be a friendly, social gathering with some bowling going on during the socializing. Rina notes it’s not as serious as local softball or golf leagues.

The league season is split into two parts. The first runs October through early January and the second half is January through April. This allows snowbirds who leave in January to participate in the league. At the end of each session, team members are awarded trophies and prize money.

You can tell by the team names exactly how serious this league really is: They include the Striking Mummers, 3 Beers & A Water, Wrecking Balls, and Girls Rule, just to name a few. But the league does keep statistics on each team and Rina tracks the high scores of teams and individuals.

Some of the highlights of last year include season high games of 254 for Rina and 221 for Diane Braver. The Striking Mummers had a combined team high score of 721 and the Single to Spare team combined for a season high 674. The individual averages range from about 80

to 190, with room for all to participate and have fun.

Are you interested in bowling this fall? If so, please contact Rina Pellegrini at rpelle6469@gmail.com The Rainbow Ladies League bowls three games on Wednesdays starting at 6:45 p.m. The cost for league play is $16 and shoe rental is $2.

You can sign up for either or both halves of the season and you don’t have to know anything about bowling. The league is just looking for folks interested in having a good time. Contact Rina and come out to Millsboro Lanes and watch our local bowling legend, Rina, try to roll her next 300 game. ▼ Anita Pettitt is a former marketing executive and current small business owner in Rehoboth and NJ. She’s played multiple sports all her life, but now concentrates primarily on her golf game.

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www.meetup.com/Gay-Women-Rehoboth Learn about women’s activities, dances, discussion groups and singles events in the area.

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Straight Talk

by David Garrett

The Doctor is IN the House!

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n the greater Rehoboth area, there are wellestablished and well-respected systems of doctors and medical services. These groups care for hundreds of patients each day. Other physicians in the area operate more independently.

Behind the scenes, there is a movement afoot in the medical world to establish practices that reduce or eliminate the need for, and dependence upon, insurance coverage. Known as Direct Primary Care (DPC), there is one practitioner who has introduced this model to the greater Rehoboth Beach area.

Christine Degnon, MD, MPH—Dr. Chris to many of her patients—has recently opened a new office, Coastal DPC, at 1409 Savannah Road, Lewes, after a year and a half in a nearby location. At Coastal DPC, her patients know the care and skill she brings to the various medical challenges she encounters each day. People who enroll in DPC with Dr. Chris no longer have to be concerned about restricting their phone calls to the hours the office is open.

“I want to let people know my While not quite 24/7, Dr. Chris does make herself available office is a judgment-free zone to patients outside of regular and a safe place to receive office time.

For example, a patient quality primary care, delivered suffered a serious wasp sting with compassion.” on a Saturday. He called the practice and Dr. Chris met him at the office to treat the allergic reaction he was having. This helped him avoid a trip to the emergency room, and there was no extra charge, as he is an enrolled patient in Coastal DPC. While many may hesitate to consider direct primary care for their medical treatment, the model can work remarkably well.

According to Dr. Richard Samuel, an experienced DPC physician, DPC is a medical model in which “the physician provides the patient with medical care without any insurance....The physician sets a fixed fee for medical care and the patient pays this charge to the physician. In exchange, the physician provides medical care whenever the need arises, including on the weekend and after hours for urgent matters. In most direct primary care practices there are no co-pays or additional charges, and the set fee Letters 52 AUGUST 23, 2019

covers all medical services and procedures provided by the physician.”

Dr. Chris came to the Lower Slower region from McAllen, Texas. Her former practice in Texas was a primary care practice for transgender patients. Of transgender people, Dr. Chris stated, “When you’ve met one, you’ve met one.” This speaks to the diverse medical and emotional needs that trans patients face, each unique to themselves.

She has been reaching out to the LGBTQ community in her practice. In the Lewes/Rehoboth area, Dr. Chris has become active with PFLAG, as she seeks to know the particular concerns that queer residents here face. “I want to let people know my office is a judgment-free zone and a safe place to receive quality primary care, delivered with compassion. I want my patients, and potential patients, to know I am an ally and an advocate.”

In addition to meeting patients in off-hours, Dr. Chris also goes to bat for her patients in negotiating lower lab prices and prescription costs. And when Dr. Chris welcomes a new patient to her practice, the initial visit is two hours long.

Monthly fees for Dr. Chris’s patients are based on age and range from $25 to $100 per month. The monthly charge for patients 100 years of age or older is even lower.

A final—personal—note about Dr. Chris Degnon: she has two dogs, Trudy and Daisy. Trudy is a Malinois and Daisy is a boxer/black lab mix, both rescues. Dr. Chris is a caring provider to these two canines, and she is a caring medical provider to both queer and straight people in Southern Delaware. ▼ Disclaimers: Everyone should consider all factors before choosing to change family physicians. This article is written as an introduction to Dr. Chris as an advocate for healthy living by all LGBTQ persons and their families, and is not intended to endorse her services over those of other health care providers practicing in the region. The author is not a patient of Dr. Chris.

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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10 am – 2 pm Rehoboth’s best brunch with our signature Bloody Mary’s & Mimosas.

WHITE PARTY Sunday Sept. 1

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9:45 pm No CoveR The fun Join Magnolia begins with Applebottom for a cabaret talk show with T-Dance and Pamala an ever changing line Stanley from up of special guests.

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Since leaving Agrabah, Telly has been on a “magic carpet ride,” traveling around the world for concerts. -Broadway tunes, Disney favorites, and songs from the world or pop / rock / jazz / R&B done with a new and inventive twist. $27.50 per person

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9:30 pm The Blue Moon Divas show you their balls with old fashion Bingo.

WEDNESDAYS GAMES WITH MAGNOLIA 9:30 pm No Cover. A weekly game show hosted by the crazy Magnolia Applebottom.

THURSDAYS KARAOKE WITH THE BLUE MOON DIVAS

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Check out our website to see a complete listing of entertainment!

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Eating Out

by FayJacobs

Eden: Romantic and Remarkable

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EDEN RESTAURANT

23 Baltimore Ave, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 Menu: edenrestaurant.com Reservations: opentable.com Phone: (302) 227-3330

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recently visited Eden Restaurant, located on the ocean block of Baltimore Avenue and situated right next door to its partner restaurant, Jam Bistro.

I mention Jam only because I adore its logo, which is Jam—East of Eden. Cleverest line in town. It also is a comfortable spot for casual dining.

But it was the lovely Eden we visited, and there’s no doubt it is one of the finest restaurants in town, known for its more than ample wine list, curtained booths, and innovative kitchen.

Here in town for almost 20 years, Eden offers a softly-lit romantic atmosphere, superb service, and decadent dining. From our generous pre-dinner cocktails to the signature key lime pie dessert, this Eating Out was a treat from start to finish.

The Local Crab and Maine Lobster Tower is their most requested appetizer, served with mango salsa and avocado crema. Our handsome and very attentive waiter, Kevin, suggested it and it arrived pretty to look at and bursting with fresh shellfish flavors. The portion could easily suffice for an entrée, with Eden’s fresh bread served with a wickedly good honey butter. Add a glass of wine, and it would be a perfect combination.

We also sampled an appetizer special, suggested by Chef Clay Nelson. It was an Heirloom Tomato Tartare, with house-made mozzarella, house-grown basil, onions, and a pesto vinaigrette.

Remember how real local tomatoes used to taste? Bingo. It’s from the garden of Eden indeed.

For my entrée, I was in the mood for beef, so I ordered something I rarely choose—the Center-Cut Filet Mignon served simply with roasted garlic whipped potatoes, and haricots verts with a demi-glace. It was a medium-rare treasure. And the garlic mashed potatoes deserve a trophy.

Bonnie, who loves venison, ordered the Grilled New Zealand Red Deer Chop, served with red and white fingerling potatoes, peas, and onions, and a berry/ red wine demi. She absolutely adored the tender chop, which she reported was flawlessly seasoned. She shared a bit with me and although I am often hesitant to try wild game, I found it to be especially flavorful, ultra-lean, and tasting quite different than beef but in no way too “earthy,” or overpowering. I’d be tempted to order it on my next visit.

We paired the entrees with what Eden calls one of their “cute but powerful half bottles” of red wine—a delicious Bordeaux—Chateau Larose-Trintaudon 2015. At a very reasonable price, it went perfectly with our hearty entrees.

The wine list is impressive, and Eden also offers Artisanal Cheese Boards, with a selection from France, Italy, Vermont, Holland, and California. Between the list and the selection of cheeses, it brings to mind an evening at the bar, sampling the cheese, adding charcuterie, and choosing wines by the glass.

We shared the Key Lime Pie for dessert, which was artfully plated, and included a unique and delicious graham cracker and sunflower seed crust, along with blackberries and whipped cream.

It’s marvelous to find a key lime slice that’s deliciously tart and sweet, walking that fine line exquisitely.

Their menu is on the Eden website (edenrestaurant.com), with a variety of choices, many fish dishes, and some unusual appetizers like pork belly quesadilla. I’m hoping to go back soon to try the Pan Seared Day Boat Scallops, the Chef’s Daily Ceviche, and the Rock Shrimp Flatbread with shallots and avocado/lemon aioli—just to name a few.

On Wednesday evenings Eden offers a three-course prix fixe dinner for $45.

Happy Hour happens daily at the bar, 5-7 p.m., with $2 off wines by the glass, $6 cocktails, and $9 martinis.

This Eden, here in our hometown, really is a foodie paradise. ▼

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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 Atlantique, 39 Baltimore Ave.........................................................302-727-5575 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 Ocean Boulevard Furniture, 19803 Hebron Rd.............................302-645-2626 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

REHOBOTH FOOD & DRINK 1776 Steakhouse, Midway Shopping Center................................302-645-9355 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 Cuvée Ray Wine Bar & Restaurant, 236 Rehoboth Ave.................302-567-2942 Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave................................302-227-0818 Dos Locos, 208 Rehoboth Ave............................................. 302-227-3353 Go Fish, 24 Rehoboth Ave..............................................................302-226-1044 Goolee’s Grille, 11 South 1st St.....................................................302-227-7653 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 Loves Liquors, LLC, 305c Rehoboth Ave........................................302-227-6966 Lupo Italian Kitchen, 247 Rehoboth Ave.......................................302-226-2240 Palate Bistro, 19266 Coastal Hwy.................................................302-249-8489 Penny Lane Liquors, 42 Rehoboth Ave..........................................302-567-5245 Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave...........................................302-226-1139 Rigby’s, 404 Rehoboth Ave............................................................302-227-6080

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Shorebreak Lodge, 10 Wilmington Ave.........................................302-227-1007 The Pines, 56 Baltimore Avenue....................................................302-567-2726 The Pond, First & Rehoboth Ave....................................................302-227-2234

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 Country Life Homes, 34882 Picnic Basket Ct................................302-231-5001 Paint & Patches................................................................... 302-827-7393 Randall-Douglas.............................................................................302-245-1439 Ron’s Repairs..................................................................................302-727-3591

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 Unitarian Universalist, 30486 Lewes-G’Town Hwy........................302-313-5838 Unity of Rehoboth, 98 Rudder Rd, Millsboro.................................717-579-2612 Westminster Presbyterian, 301 King Charles Ave.........................302-227-2109

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 Transgender Support.....................................................302-402-3033 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 Discussion Group—Program of CAMP Rehoboth.........302-227-5620 Lesbian Support Group—Program of CAMP Rehoboth..................302-227-5620 Lewes Senior Activity Center (age 50+).........................................302-645-9293 LGBTQ Student Union—University of DE, Newark.........................302-831-8066 Meals on Wheels Lewes-Rehoboth................................................302-645-7449 PFLAG-Rehoboth—2nd Tuesdays, Public Library, 111 Adams Ave, Lewes............................................................302-841-1339 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

ERRANDS/PERSONAL NEEDS

Alternative Lifestyle Services.........................................................302-727-2050

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

HEALTH-RELATED

AIDS Delaware – Kent & Sussex Counties.....................................302-226-3519 AIDS Delaware – New Castle County............................................302-652-6776 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 Christiana Care LGBTQ Health Initiatives.......................................302-733-1227 Delaware HIV Consortium - Statewide..........................................302-654-5471 Delaware Hospice..........................................................................800-838-9800

National Alliance on Mental Illness of DE (NAMI)...........................302-427-0787 Rehoboth Beach Dental, 19643 Blue Bird Ln....................... 302-226-0300 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

Steven Falcone CPA, Taxes & Planning..........................................302-644-8634 Lawson Firm, 402 Rehoboth Ave...................................................302-226-3700

LOCKSMITHS

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

MASSAGE THERAPY/FITNESS

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 Delaware Humane Association, 18675 Coastal Hwy........... 302-200-7159 Parsell Pet Crematorium, 16961 Kings Hwy, Lewes............ 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 Donna Whiteside, Berkshire Hathaway, 16712 Kings Hwy...........302-381-4871 Ellie Maher, Berkshire Hathaway, 16712 Kings Hwy.....................302-448-1927 Eric Atkins, Patterson-Schwartz, 18958 Coastal Hwy...................302-727-1456 Hugh Fuller, Realtor........................................................................302-745-1866 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 CHEER Transportation (age 50+)....................................................302-856-4909 ITN Southern Delaware (age 60+ or disabled)...............................302-448-8486 Jolly Trolley Shuttle from Rehoboth Ave & Boardwalk...................302-644-0400

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

AUGUST 23, 2019

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SUNDANCE 2019

by Sondra N. Arkin

Disco Lottery: Yup, We Are Doing It Again

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ast year we came out of the closet with a parlor game we’ve been playing for many a Sundance: Disco Lottery. As a reminder, and giving credit where credit is due, our friend Mark Carr gets props for teaching and getting us hooked on playing.

What is Disco Lottery? Before a night out on the dancefloor, each person selects two songs: one they “hope” the DJ will play and the other one they “think” the DJ will play. Sometimes there is a bonus selection, like “last song” or “best remix.” Any association with the DJ excludes a player from participating.

Longtime Sundance DJ Mark Thomas always greeted me with an eyeroll and growl as part of his greeting, “y’all playing that silly game of yours again this year?” and then he’d chuckle.

For a first year out in public, we were happy to have 19 people submit songs they hoped or thought the DJs would play. There were several winners. Even me! We published the whole submission list in issue 28-13, and you could crib from that or use the DJ’s online playlists as resource material for this year. Robbie Leslie even has all of his set from last year’s Sundance on Mixcloud for your listening pleasure.

I love what is familiar at Sundance, but I love even more what I hear for the first time. One year, even though nobody selected it, we first heard a tune from

Jerry Springer, the Opera that made my jaw drop open on the dancefloor. It has become a kind of anthem for me, and I just might pick it as a Hope this year because I just wanna dance.

What do you Hope to hear? Where do you Think the DJ might go?

Both Robbie Leslie and Joe Gauthreaux have lots of sets available to listen to online through their own

One year, even though nobody selected it, we first heard a tune from Jerry Springer, the Opera that made my jaw drop open on the dancefloor. websites, radio stations, even YouTube.

Take some time and study up. Plot your wishlist. Or just pick what you Hope and Think the DJ will play. It’s simple.

Pick your songs, and join our game.

Since the dance is sort of a two-for-one night, pick FOUR songs if you’d like.

Bonus Round this year: last song from

Robbie; last song from Joe. Send your email selection (maximum: two HOPES, two THINKS, one bonus for each DJ) no later than 7 p.m. on Sunday, September 1, to discolottery@camprehoboth.com.

You must be present to win. You have to declare yourself a winner. We don’t keep track, but feel free to sidle over on the dancefloor and let us gloat along with you. We’ll all point at you and shout: “You’re a winner, you’re a winner!”

Remember, this is a self-monitoring game. We use the submissions mostly as evidence that a song was selected in advance as we’ve had some dodgy players over the years.

Anyone can be a winner. And multiple people can be winners. The more the merrier.

And what do you get if you are a winner? Gloating Rights. Yes, only Gloating Rights. For some of us, that is a big deal. As a matter of fact, our gloating abilities vary so much that we’ve designated three levels for Gloaters: beginners are Gloaticians, moderately advanced are Gloatologists, and the most advanced gets a Ph.G.— the Doctor of Gloatology. You get to point your fingers at yourself, gather congratulations, sing as loud as possible, dance with great élan, and leap with delight.

We will assemble the submissions for a follow up in the next issue of Letters.▼

STUDY UP. YOU TOO CAN BE A WINNER!

ENTER TO BE A WINNER!

djjoegnyc.com

Send your email selection (maximum: two HOPES, two THINKS, one bonus for each DJ) no later than 7 p.m., Sunday, September 1, to: discolottery@camprehoboth.com

joegauthreaux.podomatic.com siriusxm.com/studio54radio mixcloud.com/djrobbieleslie/

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Q Puzzle You Need to Calm Down ACROSS 1 1985 play about AIDS 5 Pricks 10 Score in Jill Ellis’s sport 14 Gay cable network 15 Want in the worst way 16 Village Voice award 17 Walk like you’re fagged out 18 Playground retort 19 Gimlet garnish 20 Singer in the “You Need to Calm Down” video 23 Buddy’s hillbilly role 24 Madonna’s pair 2 Wedding seater 28 Mouth-open-wide sound 31 Sevigny of Boys Don’t Cry 35 Hairy fairy?

36 Came to a halt 38 Stallion’s supper 39 Word from a pen 40 City of The Bird Cage 41 Forbidden fruit eater, et al.

42 Beebo Brinker creator Bannon 43 Heather Has Two ___ 45 Before, in verse 46 Where to find nipples 48 Pirate interjections 49 Spacey in Beyond the Sea 51 Fathers and sons 52 Labium

Solution on Page 113 53 IRS info 54 Waters of Hairspray 56 Male type 58 The Connecticut Sun, for one 61 Meir contemporary 62 Spoke (up) 63 NCAA home of the Bruins 64 Spelling of Trick 65 Previously, previously 66 Tugboat sound 67 Gets hard 68 Trans-sexual Richards 69 Renate and Elton DOWN 1 One of Maria’s mountains 2 Our sun 3 “___ Rhythm” 4 He serves drinks with foamy heads 5 Burn with water 6 That’s bull, to Frida 7 State emphatically 8 Porgy’s lady 9 Uncle Tom’s Cabin writer 10 Sheehan footwear item 11 Parting words 12 Prepare to shoot off 13 Liberace’s nickname 21 Suffix with law 22 Corp. name tag

25 Sub, to Rohm 26 Left Bank river 27 My Drunk Kitchen star in the video 28 Lions and tigers and bears, e.g.

29 Championship figure skater in the video 30 1/4 of a pair of balls 32 Orange Is the New Black star in the video 33 Funny Cheri 34 To eat, to Ulrichs 36 Alt-rock genre 37 To ___ For (1994 gay British flick) 43 Submissions to eds.

44 ‘60s radical org.

47 Mauresmo’s game 50 Keenly perceptive 54 West Side Story gang 55 Penetrating reed 56 On ___ with 57 Chick’s suffix 59 Soothing agent for skin 60 Where to pin sweaty guys

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We offer an excellent patient-focused environment, exciting career opportunities, and leading-edge technology with supportive, progressive leadership.

Joining Beebe Healthcare means joining an exciting healthcare team that is deeply committed to the community. Our customer-service focus is recognized on a daily basis through our patient satisfaction surveys. Our clinical expertise strives to surpass patient expectations.

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health+wellness Be PrEPared!

by Marj Shannon

T

here’s good news on the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) front! Not that PrEP alone isn’t great news. After all, what’s not to love about a daily medicine (Truvada®) that reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by more than 90 percent? (Among people who inject drugs, it reduces risk by more than 70 percent.) Combined with condoms (“PrEP + 1”), your risk of getting HIV from sex can be lowered even further.

So—the current good news: soon, more people may be able to afford the drug—which is important, given it has an annual price tag (before discounts provided to insurers) of about $21,000.

Although many insurers cover the drug, it may carry a high enough copay that potential users cannot access it. What happened to improve that situation?

In June 2019, the US Preventive Services Task Force recommended that physicians offer PrEP to people at high risk of contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Recommendations made by the task force have implications for health insurers: As a result of this recommendation, starting in 2021, most health plans will be required to cover drugs recommended to prevent HIV, and patients cannot be charged anything out-of-pocket for the medication.

This could result in a real uptick in the number of people taking the drug. And that would be a very good thing: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that 1.1 million people in the US could benefit from taking Truvada. Gilead, the biotechnology company which developed and holds the patent on Truvada, reported that during the second quarter of 2019 about 213,000 people were taking the drug for HIV prevention. That means that just under 20 percent of those people who could benefit are actually taking the drug.

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Is PrEP right for you?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says it might be, if you fit into any of the below categories:

You are HIV negative AND you are a gay or bisexual man who: Has an HIV-positive partner or Has multiple partners, a partner with multiple partners, or a partner whose HIV status is unknown—and you also: Have anal sex without a condom, or Recently had a sexually transmitted infection (STI).

You are HIV negative AND a heterosexual (man or woman) who: Has an HIV-positive partner; or Has multiple partners, a partner with multiple partners, or a partner whose HIV status is unknown—and you also: Don’t always use a condom for sex with people who inject drugs or Don’t always use a condom for sex with bisexual men.

You are HIV negative AND you inject drugs AND you: Share needles or equipment to inject drugs; Recently went to a drug treatment program; or Are at risk for getting HIV from sex.

Clearly, there’s room for improvement.

There’s more good news, too: A generic version of Truvada is scheduled to be available in the US in September 2020, with more generic versions expected in 2021. Often, the availability of generic versions of drugs drives prices down.

Of course, some barriers to access remain: Truvada is available only by prescription, and requires both pre-prescribing laboratory testing and quarterly laboratory monitoring.

Typically, obtaining orders for that testing—as well as prescriptions for Truvada—require physician (or clinic) office visits. The costs of both office visits and laboratory testing may—or may not—be covered by insurance.

In related news: Gilead hopes soon to be marketing a newer drug, Descovy, for HIV prevention. (The drug was approved in 2016 for treating people who already have HIV.) In early August, a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel recommended the agency approve the drug for prevention purposes. Descovy has been shown in clinical trials to be less toxic to the bones and kidneys than Truvada. At least for patients whose bones or kidneys are deemed to be at risk from Truvada, Descovy may provide an alternative.

Interested in learning more or in talking with a health care provider about PrEP? CAMP Rehoboth can help!

Contact Health & Wellness Director Salvatore Seeley (salvatore@ camprehoboth.com, or 302-227-5620) to talk about what’s available and how to connect with resources. We offer HIV (and other STI) testing, and referrals to LGBTQ-friendly health care navigators who are familiar with PrEP. These individuals can prescribe PrEP and the periodic lab testing its use requires, and can even help you find resources to pay for the drug if your insurer does not cover it.

Salvatore Seeley, Health & Wellness Program Director

More News on the Prevention Front

On June 26 of this year, a CDC advisory committee recommended that adults age 27 to 45 who have not been vaccinated against human papilloma virus (HPV) should receive the vaccine. Why is that important? Because infection from HPV, which is a group of more than 100 related viruses, is a major risk factor for six types of cancer.

HPV causes cancer in both women and men, with about 60 percent of these cancers occurring among women. The six cancers are: cervical, vaginal, and vulvar cancers; penile cancer; and anal and back-of-the-throat cancers.

Cancer of the cervix is the most common HPV-related cancer among women, accounting for just over half (53 percent) of the 20,300 HPV-related cancer cases reported among women as of August 2018. Vulvar and vaginal cancers accounted for 16 percent; anal cancer for 20 percent; and back-of-the-throat cancer for 11 percent.

Back-of-the-throat cancer is the most common HPV-related cancer among men, accounting for 80 percent of the 13,400 HPV-related cancer cases report-

ed among men as of August 2018. Anal cancer accounted for 14 percent, and penile cancer for 6 percent.

So—where’s the good news in all that?! Right here: These HPV-related cancers are largely preventable! And not by something really unappealing like, say, abstinence.

They are prevented by that aforementioned vaccination. There is a twodose series for children who are 11 or 12 years of age (or younger) when they receive the first dose; the second dose is given six to 12 months later. For people who start the series at age 15 or older, there is a three-dose series given over a period of six months.

Vaccination is recommended for: → Girls and boys 11 or 12 years of age (or as young as nine). → Females age 13-26 years of age and males 13-21 years of age who have not started the vaccines or who started—but did not complete—the series.

Males age 22-26 years can also be vaccinated. → Men who have sex with men (through 26 years of age).

→ People with weakened immune sys-

tems, including those with HIV, if they have not previously been vaccinated. → Young adults who are transgender. → And now, also for people 27 to 45 years of age who have not previously been vaccinated.

Since their introduction, the vaccines have proven their effectiveness. For example, among teen girls, infections with HPV types that cause most HPV cancers have dropped 71 percent; among young adult women, these rates of infection have dropped 61 percent.

Fall into one of the groups recommended for vaccination? Talk to your health care provider! And if you don’t— maybe you have a child or grandchild or other family member or friend who does.

Talk to them. Make sure they’re aware the vaccine is readily available—and can be a real life-saver. ▼ Marj is an epidemiologist and wordsmith who has devoted her life to minutiae. She reports that yes, the devils are in the details. Aren’t they always?

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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 Tim & Meredith Birrittella Paul Cline Coleen Collins & Berdi Price X Richard Gamble & Paul Lindsey* Gail Gormley* Wendy Grooms & Barbara Fishel X Harry Hallock Harbor Health Care 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 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 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* Maureen Dolan & Karen McGavin* Ann Evans* Kathy & Corky Fitzpatrick X Cynthia Flynn & Deirdre Boyle X Perry Gottlieb & Tim White Richard Green & Asi Ohana X John Hackett & Tom Newton

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CAMP REHOBOTH MEMBERSHIP 2019 Marianne DeLorenzo & Linda Van de Wiele* Fred DiBartolo & Steve Wood X Frank Dorn & Edward Schumacher* Albert Drulis & Scott Silber* Arlyce Dubbin & Kathleen Heintz* Sandy Duncan & Maddy Ewald Susan Eig & Ellen Schiff X Karen & Lisa Faber* Alice Fagans & Ruth Ann Mattingly* John Farley & Dennis Wilson X Dee Farris Ellen Feinberg & Lesley Rogan X Diane Fisher & Kharma Amos Metropolitan Community Church of Rehoboth* Monica Fleischmann & Lona Crist X John Flournoy & Jim Chrobot 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* Pete & Joanne Harrigan* David Herring & Karl Hornberger Carol Holland - Holland Jewelers X 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 Patricia Magee & Anita Pettitt X Guy, Sorin, and Summer Martin* Jill Masterman & Tammy Jackson Tony Mazzarella Kathleen McCormick & Elizabeth Fish X 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 Stephen Pape & Jerry Clark 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*

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Peg Dolan & Mary McDevitt X Debra Doricchi Andy Dorosky & Greg Oliver* Debbie & Karen Dorris* Frances Doyle X Diane Drabositz Paul Dradransky X Michael Driscoll & Ben McOmber X Susan Dube & Diana Patterson* Deanna Duby & Carol Bruce Barry Dunkin Gene Dvornick X Sue Early X Frank Echols & Robert Robinson 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* Barbara Fitzpatrick & Denise Centinaro 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 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* Charles Gable Frank Gainer & Ramon Santos* Lynn Gaites & Faye Koslow X Nina Galerstein Marcia Gallo & Ann Cammett Karen Gantz & Jeanie Geist Don Gardiner X Cheri Garnet & Cynthia Arno Mindy Gasthalter* Wilson Gates X Lisa Gaunt & Deborah Harrell* Nora & Marie Gentile Charles George & Dennis Rivard X Gary Gillard X Jordan Gipple & Paul Weppner* Angela & Cheryl Gladowska Joan Glass X Ron Glick & Tien Pham* Karen Glooch X Jane Godfrey* Randall Godwin X Jackie Goff & Mary Vogt X Robert Gold X Mel Goldberg Suzanne Goldstein & Dana Greenwald X AUGUST 23, 2019

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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 Harvey Grider Kenneth Grier Richard Grifasi X John Grillone & Paul Schlear Jr. X Joseph Gritz X Carol Gross X James Gross X Arnold H. Grossman* Richard & Frances Grote Paula Grubbs X Mark & Sheldon Gruber-Lebowitz Michael Guerriere Helene Guilfoy X 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* Sharon Hansen X Mark Hare & Mike Newman X Frederick Harke 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* 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 James Hospital & Jack Faker Robert Hotes X Donald Howat Carol Huckabee Karen Hugues & Cathy McCallister X Batya Hyman & Belinda Cross* Thomas Ingold X Sue Isaacs* Chris Israel & John Stassi X

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Debbie Isser & Fran Leibowitz Geoffrey Jackson & Will Delany X Fay Jacobs & Bonnie Quesenberry X Sharon Janis X Steve Janosik & Rich Snell X Robert Jasinski* Mary Jenkins & Laura Reitman Sue Jernberg & Chris Hunt Susan Jimenez & Cathy Benson X Donna A. Johnson* Dorsey Johnson & Kay Jernigan* Ken Johnson X Cynthia Johnston & George Meili Richard Jolly & Charles Ingersoll X D. J. Jones Gay Jones & Barb Bartels Glenn Jones X Rob Jones Sparky Jones & Lee Chrostowski Sue Jones & Dottie Stackhouse Tom Jones X Nola Joyce & Brenda Eich Frank Jump & Vincenzo Aiosa Wayne Juneau X Mick Kaczorowski X Darleen Kahl & Susan Poteet Bob Kaplan & Jeff Davis X Daphne Kaplan & Steve Scheffer Sharon Kaplan & Pamela Everett* Kevin P. Kaporch X Denise Karas & Katherine Bishop Peter Karsner X Peter Keeble & Tom Best Margaret Keefe & Dianne Conine* Alan Keffer* Donald Kelly* John Kelly & Randy Sutphin X Michael J. Kelly X Karin Kemper & Isabel Lavadenz John Kennedy Hunter Kesmodel X Ned Kesmodel & Matt Gaffney X Marge Keyes & Julie Arenstein X C. David Kimmel Spencer Kingswell X Robyn Kirby Ilene Klein & Eli Scearce Ruth Kloetzli & Lisa Scholl Jane Knaus & Cindy Myers Stephen Kopp John Kort & Hung Lai Robert Kovalcik & Bob Howard X Myra Kramer & John Hammett* Marcia Kratz Karen Kreiser & Beth Nevill Kevin W. LaBarge X Adam Lamb & Eli Martinez Peter Lanzaro & Frank Bodsford X Dr. Mathilda Laschenski & Dr.Kathleen Heacock X Ruth Lauver & Judy Wetzel* Kate Lavelle X Patricia Layton Charlie Lee X Jon Leeking & Dieulifete Jean Edmund LeFevre & Keith Wiggs X Sherry Leichman & Keith Snyder Mary Lenney* Jen Leonard & Claire McCracken Marsha Levine & Susan Hamadock X Barbara Lilien* Bill Lipsett Duwayne Litz & Steve Triglia X Eleanor Lloyd & Celeste Beaupre George Long & Brian Johnson* Robert E. Long X Cynthia Lowe & Rae von Doehren

James Lucas & Karen Davis* Debbie Lupton Diane Lusk X P. Michael Lutz* Maggie Lyon Becky Lyons & Ebie Hamrick X Wendy Maclay & Sheree Davis* Duncan MacLellan & Glenn Reighart* Christopher Magaha* Joe Maggio X Loretta Mahan* Bernadette Maher & Cheryl Tarlecky Jack Maher X Nancy Maihoff X Eddie Major X Bruce Majors X Harvey Manchester X Domenic Mannello X Stephanie Manos & Reber Whitner X Robb Mapou & Mike Zufall Anyda Marchant X Charles Marino & Alan Berman* Diane Markey & Randi Snader* Harold Marmon & Robert Hill* Bill Martin & Scott Freber* Norma Martin X Linda Martinak James Mastoris & Edward Chamberlain X Joe Matassino & Tim Murray Nancy Mathis John Matthews & Nick Polcini* Eric Matuszak X Lewis Maurer Donna McCabe & Mac Ignacio X Clifton McCracken & Wolfgang Sander Sean McDonald Mary McElhone & Nancy Kaiser X Elizabeth McGee Thomas McGlone X Jeffrey McGuire Ellen McKeon & Kay Cummings Joe McMahon X Jeanne Ann McManus & Robin Robertson Joseph McNally & Terry Jones X Karen McNamara & Rebecca Della-Rodolfa* Chuck McSweeney & Michael Clay X Jim & Bruce McVey-Back* Mary Medlock & Susan Russell Buck Melton X John Messick X Marc Messner Alicia Mickenberg & Kathleen Fitzgerald Jamie Middelton* Dr. Phyllis J. Mihalas X Melissa Milar Alicia Miller & Shawn Noel* Bruce R. Miller & Dean D. LaVigne X Frank Miller & Al Naylor X Marilyn K. Miller & Candice Zientek Todd A. Miller & Michele Frame X Doreen Millon Stan Mills & Marcia Maldeis X Rosemary Mirocco & Debbie Magliette Joan Misencik* Andrea Monetti & Karen Petermann* Sue Monismith X Jamie Moore Teri Moore & Barb Kulbaba* Beverly Morgan Mary Morgan & Beth Fitton X

Meg Morgan & Susan Lynham X Pearl Morris & Cindy Lins Joan Moses & Janine Davidson Andrew K. Moss & Richard Blevins X Donna Mulder & Denise Delesio* Brent Mundt X Robbin Murray & De Raynes Cynthia Myers Kathleen Nagle & Susan Blazey Kathy Nagle Marc Nasberg & Howard R. Nelson X Keith Neale X Cindy Necaise & Debbie Cole X Cindy Neff Lee Ann Nelson X Aina Nergaard-Nammack* Darrell Netherton & Robert Wheeler X Sandy Neverett & Pam Cranston X James Newkirk & Leon Wilkowsky Janet Newkirk X J. E. Newton, Jr. Charitable Trust X Arletta Nicholl & Mary Anderson Konrad Noebel, MCAT, LMT* Rich Norcross Chuck Oakes & Robert Dellanoce* Susan O’Brien James O’Dell X James O’Malley X Richard O’Malley X Lisa Orem & Debby Armstrong* Missy Orlando & Patty Violini X Jeffrey & Lisa Osias X Kathy Osterholm Randy Overbaugh X Sharon Owens & Doreen Halbruner Sally Packard & Dinah Reath X Denise Page Bud Palmer X Carol Patterson & Carol Hughes* Tim Patterson & Harvey Sharpe X Peggy Paul X Wesley & Connie Paulson* Patricia Pawling & Jennifer Butz* Lucille & Dan Payne Michelle Peeling & Wendy Adams* Beverly Peltz Thom Pemberton & Dean Donovan* Roy Perdue X Al Perez & Gary Kraft Eric Peterson X Bruce Pfeufer X PFLAG-Rehoboth Beach Peggy Phillips & Norma McGrady* Frank Pileggi & Jon Blackman X Arleen Pinkos Terry Plowman X Jo Pokorny* Claire Pompei & Dolores Yurkovic* Mary Lu Pool Sue Potts & Karen Kohn X Denise Poulin Timothy Price & Gerard Sealy X Glen C. Pruitt* Sarajane Quinn* Vince Quintero Elaine Raksis & Maxine Klane* Rob Ramoy X Bob & Mary Beth Ramsey X Linda Rancourt & M. Sue Sandmeyer* Lewis Rathbone* Thomas Rebuck Carole Redman Janet Redman X Carolyn Redmon & Nancy Allen* Randy Reed X Paul Rehak

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Out & Proud

by Stefani Deoul

See You in September

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here’s something incredibly bittersweet about Sundance.

On one hand, it’s all parties, all weekend long, which really shouldn’t provoke bittersweet. Add to that, nothing says bittersweet less than a drag queen volleyball game. And yet…

Perhaps the bittersweet comes from knowing we are marking another summer’s end. And that is something the partying doesn’t quite mask completely.

We’re creatures of habit and we’ve been trained to know this from a young age: Summer is when bedtimes were relaxed. Some of us go away to summer camps; some of us play tag on front lawns and run bases in the streets.

Red light, green light…one, two, three!

Everything about summer is outdoors, even our food. Barbecues, crab feasts, even luaus all take place outside in yards and parks. Picnic baskets get filled with food to be spread on blankets strewn across sandy beaches. There’s nothing quite like that crunch of grit in your sammie.

It’s all musical ice cream trucks with their cones with sprinkles or jimmies guaranteed to melt before you can lick it all. It’s Italian ices in paper cups, leaving remnants on your face, your hands, and your shirt.

And the smells! It’s burgers grilling and that orange-scented island gel guaranteed to give you a St. Tropez tan.

It’s the summer breeze mixing it all with the salty smell of the beach.

Marco! Polo!

There’s so much magic in the time we spent building tree houses, roller skating or roller blading, and, for some lucky people, packing up the car and journeying to the closest shore.

And I think summers in Rehoboth keep that childhood wonder alive. For some of us, it’s bringing our children to the beach; for some of us it’s extra Fridays off; but for all of us who journey into town, it’s the sights and smells and pizza and fries and ice cream cones on Letters 78 AUGUST 23, 2019

the boardwalk.

It’s both hopscotch and scotch-hops, a frenzy of festivity mixed with beach reads, summer tunes, and fruity drinks.

And then, almost unexpectedly, comes that weekend when someone goes out and physically draws a line in the sand. Suddenly Sundance is here, a volleyball is spiked, and we become Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon river, knowing we have just entered the rapids on our way to another summer ending.

For this isn’t a bunch of queers watching a bunch of drag queens play in some shuttered off, ghettoized portion of the beach. Nope.

You get to be the monkey in the middle!

I still remember the first time I saw our drag volleyball game. I can’t tell you all the details of the amazing song and dance numbers, but I can safely say the appearance of Maria, coming over the dunes, guitar suitcase in hand, tumbling her way into the loving arms of the Von Tramp family made quite the impression.

But you know what else made as much of an impression? The thousands of people ringing the drag queen volleyball tournament, laughing, and cheering them on, celebrating everything about Rehoboth Beach that makes it special and wonderous.

For this isn’t a bunch of queers watching a bunch of drag queens play in some shuttered off, ghettoized portion of the beach. Nope. This is front and center, a Poodle Beach extravaganza

for everyone. And by everyone, I mean everyone. The crowd includes families and friends and foes, old and young, all hooting and hollering, sharing their end of summer in an unbridled display of joy for the spectacle of it all.

Marking the end of a season together, in the best way possible, laughing out loud in the sunshine, is just right.

Tag! You’re it!

And maybe that’s also why we, the LGBTQ community and our allies, embrace Sundance so mightily, so fervently. Maybe it’s because we need Sundance. We need to celebrate who we are, where we are, and oh, what a summer we’ve had.

Just maybe, way back when, over 30 years ago, when Steve Elkins and Murray Archibald decided to celebrate 10 years together by having a party to raise money to fight AIDS, they found us an answer we all didn’t even know we needed.

We mark our end of summer with the Sundance Auction and Two-for-One Dance, by giving back to the place, the people, and the passion that is our town of Rehoboth Beach. And we know that by celebrating this season’s end, we help ensure that next year, when summer rolls around, CAMP Rehoboth will be here, working hard, to welcome us all back.

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THIS PAGE 1) Fancie P. Charmington, Lorne Crawford, Chris Beagle, RB Commissioner Edward Chrzanowski, RB Commissioner, Lisa Schlosser, Bill Shields, Sean Sheehan, AJ Hemphill, Paulette Lanza, Josh Pocock, Wesley Ogden, Nick Leffler, Terrell Jones, Alex Souders, Jake Brown, Zack Ellis, Katie Lyell, and Justin Smarte at the CAMP Rehoboth Bachelor Auction at Aqua.

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OPPOSITE PAGE 1) Rod Cook, Sherri Wright, RB Commissioner Dick Byrne, Murray Archibald, RB Commissioner Pat Coluzzi, Charlie Browne, Nancy Alexander, RB Mayor Paul Kuhns, Anne Michele Kuhns, Trish Vernon, Doug Wingate, Robert Thompson, John Newton, Mowry Spencer, Tony Burns, Butch Emmert, Carol Emmert, Marsha Crouch, Marty Caulk, and Doris Wingate at RB Museum Beach Ball. 2) Michael Cohen, Nicholas Rohaidy, Ryan Fortnbery, Joey DeSanto Jones, Jonathan Mattner, Joe Freeman, and Scott Teribury at Poodle Beach. 3) Robert Shue, Mary Shue, Dave Desch, Lisa Desch, Shelly Miller, John Miller, Donna Carr, Carlin McLaughlin, Doug Hilton, Febe, Tricia Massella, Mark Briedenstein, Nick Scott, David Calhoun, Mike Mallee, Dianne Shawley, George Benes, Wendy Eaby, and Cliff Lassahn at Carlin & Doug’s August Soirée.

THIS PAGE 4) Paul Weagraff and U.S. Sen. ator Tom Carper at the DDOA Exhibit at CAMP Rehoboth. 5) Lynn Scherer, Christine Havrilla, Natalie Ireland, Alisha Hudson, Jill Armstrong, Abbie Mead, Carly Knapp, Teresa Flury, Beth Barba, Carla Knapp, Anita Broccolino, Debbie Wilkins, Kim Witmer, Georgia Shalhoup, Jamie Sheaffer, and Kathy Callahan at Big Chill Cantina. 6) Chip DiPaula, Ingrid DiPaula, David Jasinski, Travis Patton, Jeff Seese, Kelli Carpenter, Anne Steele, Stephen Facenda, and Eileen O’Neill at Blue Moon. 7) Rodney Kennedy and Mario Valez at Dos Locos. 8) Richard Cahill, Mike Aquino, Marc Charon, John Dauphine, Joe Coates, Andrew Jardine, Payam Hariri, Chris Cahill, Reiss Livaudais, Brian Helsden, Sam Gerbino, Brooks Woodard, and Rodrigo Zaragza at Payam’s Party.

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SUNDANCE 2019

by Mary Jenkins

Behind the Scenes at the Sundance Auction

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es, elves live among us, and we have proof.

Traditionally, they are the backbone of Santa’s Workshop at the North Pole, but they work closer to home as well. These local elves and dedicated doers of good deeds behind the scenes are rarely seen up close, but their work is vital, unpaid, selfless, and remarkable.

Sundance elves are the committed volunteers who make the yearly Sundance Auction run like a well-oiled tuna. They are the collectors and labelers, the counters and markers, giving due credit to the auction item contributors and then, when the dust clears, settling up with the winning bidders.

This elf team manages and organizes all the merchandise, housewares, gift certificates, and art along with unique, one-of-a-kind items, and the occasional really obscene bargains.

The wildly diverse auction items come from all over, helping to bolster the much-needed and welldeserved Sundance revenues for CAMP Rehoboth’s annual programs, events, and outreach.

The items are as diverse as the people who donate them and can run the gamut from modest gift certificates to local eateries, all the way up to expensive jewelry or an actual Rolls Royce. Yes, that did happen one year.

The Sundance elves put in long hours soliciting and cataloguing to get items ready for their closeups. It can be exhausting work and with a looming deadline, the scurry and focus of the elves is both awe-inspiring and dizzying.

Natalie Moss, Sandra Skidmore, Mary Beth Ramsey, and Ward Ellinger make the magic happen with their teams while Glen Pruitt, Sondra Arkin, and Marj Shannon have primary auction description duties. Volunteers including Joan Glass, Loree Arnold, Debbie Sockel, Fay Jacobs, Eric Peterson, and Ann Mundel, among others, coordinate donations, catalog items, make signage, and organize bid sheets.

Fay Jacobs, who has been helping to write item descriptions for years, says, “With over 500 items, sometimes hours in, Eric and I get giddy and start writing pretty outrageous stuff. But it’s all about giving the donors some thanks and letting folks know details about the objects. The variety of stuff is jaw-dropping.”

For attendees, Sundance is great fun. But for the elves working the back room it’s not all sunshine and chicken salad.

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favorite auction item: a piece of childhood movie memorabilia in the form of a life-size, genuine, certified Umpa Lumpa from the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie set.

One volunteer laments that he never truly enjoys the event itself, because he knows the task coming at the end of the night. While it took months to acquire, catalog, label, and present all the items, on the night of the auction they have to be ready for winning bidders within about 30 minutes.

Lines form as many of the guests are eager to take home their hard-fought booty that same night. The process typically runs smoothly, but occasionally there is unhappiness when a bidder recorded the wrong number or got outbid at the eleventh hour by another attendee.

Sal says, “The runners have to be fast when the auction closes so that we can get all the tickets, auction sheets, and merchandise into the small back room and start the process of sorting and distributing it. It is organized chaos—or maybe, just chaos.” Satisfied Sundance bidders strolling away with treasures in hand must surely be the payoff.

The staff notes that winners have the option to pick up their items on Sunday instead of that same night. They also clarify that if the winning bidder does not show up to pay for and pickup the winning items, then the item goes to the second highest bidder at 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Then at 4 p.m., all unclaimed items appear at a hilarious second auction emceed by Bob “not a professional auctioneer” Ramsey, often fetching a higher price.

There is no question these Sundance elves deserve to be admired for their commitment and tenacity. Most of the members of the core team have been doing this for a decade or more, and they take pride in their contribution to CAMP Rehoboth’s biggest fundraiser of the year.

As Natalie says, “The volunteers are passionate about CAMP Rehoboth’s mission and want to contribute time. Most of them are members and donors who also contribute dollars.”

Along with the back room elves, other teams are hard at work: Decor Team, Auction Floor Pick-up Team, Food Team, Bar Team, Tally Team, and never forget the Fluffing Team who make everything look beautiful on the auction floor.

Sundance can always use a few more elves— and it doesn’t require an elf’s hat or ears, just the willingness to be part of the Sundance workshop. ▼

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THIS PAGE 7) Joe Vescio, Michael Boling, Barry Moshinski, Rob Ponsini, Sid Stolz, John Daly, Richard Baylor, Mark Hunker, Paul Hurdle, Elizabeth Westfall, Catie Hackett, John Hackett, and Lindsay Vrehyk at Aqua. 8) Terrell Jones, Brian Baker, Katie Lyell, Ed Gmoch, Nick Leffler, and Jacob Brown at the Meet the Bachelors Party at Beach Essentials. 9) Sharon Covington, Sherri Brown, RB Commissioner Lisa Schlosser, Emilie Paternoster, Monica Parr, Steve Wunder, RB Commissioner Elect Edward Chrzanowski, Rod Hastie, Bill Mann, Betty Mann-Beebe, and Hugh Fuller at the Party for Edward at The Pines. 10) Josh Bushey, and Gary Fisher at their Garden Party. 11) Joe Holt, Libby York, and Mike McShane at Cuvée Ray. 12) Bob Kaplan, Jeff Davis, Scott Button, and David Streit at Jeff and Bob’s Punchbowl Party.

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Out & About

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They Work Hard for the Money

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s a kid, Labor Day meant one thing: school would start on Tuesday, and this was summer’s last hurrah. Days of frolicking by the pool, ice cream in the middle of the day, and waking without the help of an alarm clock were over.

Back to pencils, back to books, back to teachers’ dirty looks.

These days, I’m no longer blessed with summer vacations, and Labor Day represents not much more than a threeday weekend (with Sundance, of course) and the promise of autumn breezes and cooler temperatures ahead.

And yet, I think it’s important to remind ourselves what the day is, and why it’s important. Labor Day is a day off, to be sure—but its intended audience is those who not only work, but those who toil.

Labor Day was created to provide a day of physical rest for those who generally work while standing up, who labor with their bodies as opposed to those who sit behind desks and laptops.

For those of us who do occupy the owning classes, it’s a day to honor those who labor—not just work, but those who truly labor.

Given that a presidential election is on the way, we hear a lot about the working class these days, as a slew of candidates sell themselves as the best president for this particular group. Sadly, in most of the news analyses I read, the word “white” is usually inserted into the equation. The “white working class” has become a sought-after demographic that is much debated, much examined, but not very well understood.

Of course, the working classes of America are not solely white—but the non-white working class isn’t talked about nearly as much, because they form a rather reliable base for one of our political parties. They’re a group that prizes civil engagement, and aren’t likely to be swayed, and so our attention often turns to the blue-collar workers with white skin.

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One of the reasons why this group is so vexing to many Americans is that they seem to many of us (including myself, in full transparency) to vote, typically, against their own economic interests. They vote for candidates who give lip service to the working class, while giving tax cuts to corporations and the richest among us. To those who impose tariffs that hurt the nation’s farmers and auto workers, while ignoring the roads, bridges, and highways that working-class voters depend on to maintain a livelihood.

And it does this by appealing to America’s original sin—bigotry.

The reasons for this are varied and complex, but they do have a common root cause. Those who live a life outside of comfort and luxury need dignity.

They live in a world which worships Kardashians and unreal Housewives of…”; a world in which it can be difficult to think well of oneself.

Sadly, there’s a political party which does everything possible to make the poor even poorer, but still manages to win the votes of many in the “white working class.” And it does this by appealing to America’s original sin— bigotry. Quite simply, it’s not so bad worrying about how you’ll pay the rent, afford your medications, or put food on the table if you can be sure—absolutely certain—that you are vastly superior to someone else.

That particular “someone else” can be a person of color, an immigrant seeking asylum, or a member of the LGBTQ community. Anyone who is generally unknown to the voter, but

whom the voter can blame for all their troubles. So focused on those they deem “below” them, that they don’t notice those above them robbing them blind.

It’s not a new tactic; it’s likely as old as the nation itself. But those who practice it today have new tools: data mining, social media, and blatantly false news stories from completely unreliable sources that make their way onto people’s screens. These reports tell them that a former first lady is running a child sex ring out of the basement of a pizza parlor, among other nonsense.

And the stories are often believed— not because those in the white working classes are evil, or stupid—but because those in the ruling classes have sown such distrust in the “other” that they honestly believe they’re saving themselves by voting for those who only seek to oppress them.

I wish I had a solution to offer.

I don’t, really—other than to stay informed, check your sources, get involved, speak to your neighbors, and most importantly—vote. Vote for your own future, and for the good of your community, and when you see members of America’s working class chanting on your television at a demagogue’s hate rally—vote for those people, too. Happy Labor Day. ▼ Eric Peterson is a diversity & inclusion educator and pop culture enthusiast living in Washington DC. He is the co-host of a weekly podcast about old movies; visit his website at www.rewindpod.com.

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arts+entertainment CAMPArts High School Musical(s)

by Doug Yetter

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n the same day we lost Hal Prince—a colossus of the theater world—NPR released a database of the plays and musicals most frequently produced in high schools over the past 60 years. Quite a few of the shows Prince produced or directed were on the list, which imbued the information with a dash of poignancy.

I graduated in the 70s, when the six most popular high school musicals of the decade were Oklahoma!, The Music Man, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Bye Bye Birdie, Fiddler on the Roof, and Guys and Dolls.

The class of 2020 will experience a very different set of musicals. The shows in my school were about humans with real-life problems. Schroeder was close to my heart, so despite being a cartoon character, he at least seemed real.

The six top shows of the decade now? Beauty and the Beast, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, The Addams Family, The Wizard of Oz, and Seussical. Notice a trend? The humans in 75 percent of these shows are easily outnumbered by dancing clocks and candelabra, man-eating plants from outer space, Munchkins, witches…even Yertle the Turtle.

I’m not questioning the validity of these shows, but I do find the ascendance of anthropomorphism disturbing. It’s much the same feeling I had when I first saw Phantom of the Opera.

Sir Lloyd Webber and Mr. Prince had created a musical which relied as heavily on spectacle as it did on singing talent—but how would the show fare minus the smoke and mirrors?

I took my mother to the Kennedy Center in the early 80s to see the show and the production was a technical disaster. The chandelier was stuck and refused to crash to the stage, leaving two dozen actors gasping in horror for what felt like hours.

Two stagehands were caught when the lights came up early in the manager’s office, and they simply took refuge under the desk. The final effect of the show—the Phantom disappearing—also failed. The bewildered ballet dancer ripped the cloth from the elaborate golden chair only to find the Phantom was still there trying desperately to make himself invisible.

Without the magic, the audience was denied the opportunity to have any emotional investment in the plot.

The recent revival of Oklahoma! strips the production down to the bones. A small band of instruments indigenous to the territory, a few minor set pieces and props…the basic universality of the show allows us to be a part of the story.

While I don’t mind a little fantasy, I’ll admit I’m partial to relatable story lines. Give me more real people having reallife problems and less smoke and mirrors and actors with a meerkat on their head. Please….

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CAMP Rehoboth Puts Art at The Heart of Our Community Award-Winners Showcasing DE Talent

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he Gallery at CAMP Rehoboth is hosting the Award Winners XIX Exhibition—a group show featuring the work of the 2019 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellows in collaboration with the Biggs Museum.

The Artist Fellows are represented by work from a very diverse group, all winning grants from the state to pursue their art, and include: environmental activist G. W. Thompson, artists Susan Benarcik, Shawn Faust, and Matthew Glick, photographer Shannon Woodloe, writer Billie Travalini, musician Shelley Kelley, and jeweler and crafter Kaitlyn Evans. The show remains on exhibit through September 1.

Number of the Beast, Matthew Glick at the CAMP Rehoboth Gallery

arts+entertainment Honeypot! The Sweet and Sticky Lives of Bears

(the cast looks incredible!); 20: Kathie Martin and the Hotrods; 21: Separate Ways—the Ultimate Tribute to Journey; 22: Delmarva Big Band. See website for details and to register your young ‘uns for their Triple Threat program.

Held in conjunction with Rehoboth Beach Bears Weekend, this art show will feature the work of artists depicting the bear/cub community and will be on display September 2-30, with an Artist’s Reception on Saturday, September 21 (4-7 p.m.).

Rehoboth Beach Bandstand (Rehoboth Avenue at the Boardwalk; rehobothbandstand.com) hosts these remaining August concerts: 23: Earth, Wind, and Fire Tribute Band; 24: North of MasonDixon; 25: Big House Band; 30: The Fabulous Hubcaps; 31: Still Surfin’— Beach Boys Tribute. All concerts begin at 8 p.m.

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PERFORMING ARTS CAMP Rehoboth Chorus (37 Baltimore Avenue; 302-227-5620; camprehoboth. com) features their 24-voice ensemble in “Bad Boys/Bad Girls”—an evening of greed, lust, murder, treachery, corruption, and adultery—all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts.

September 27 and 28 at the Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware (30486 Lewes-Georgetown Highway).

Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at camprehoboth.com.

Cinema Art Theater (17701 Dartmouth Drive, Lewes; 302-313-4032; rehobothfilm.com) screens new independent films through the Rehoboth Beach Film Society. Try “Food & Film Wednesdays”—attend the 4 p.m. screening for $8, and have dinner at Lefty’s Alley & Eats for $10. The 2019-2020 Met season starts in October with Turandot. Check their website for films and show times.

Clear Space Theatre Company (20 Baltimore Avenue; 302-227-2270; ClearSpaceTheatre.org) has Mamma Mia!, Hello, Dolly!, and The Wedding Singer— running Monday-Saturday through Labor Day weekend. Children’s Theatre every Saturday morning (11 a.m.), and The LateR Night Show select Saturday nights after the mainstage show. Their annual Bow Tie & Barefoot fundraiser will be held September 14 at Kings Creek Country Club. Opening September 20: Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women

If I Only Knew, Shawn Faust at CAMP Rehoboth Gallery

Dickens Parlour Theatre (35715 Atlantic Avenue, Millville; 302-8291071; dptmagic.com) offers magic and comedy in an intimate setting. Randy Forester—through August 29; Andrew Goldenhersh—through August 27; John George—August 28-September 3; Chris Capehart—September 5-7; Francis Menotti—September 19-21; and running six nights a week through September 1— The Comedy Show Tonight.

Freeman Stage (31750 Lake View Drive, Selbyville; 800-840-9227; freemanstage. org) offers these August events: 23: Jim Gaffigan—the Secrets and Pies Tour; 24: The Beach Boys Now & Then; 28: First State Ballet; 29: Brown Box Theatre’s Measure for Measure; 30: Masters of Soul; 31: Mid-Atlantic Symphony— Season Finale and fireworks. September 6: Bruce in the USA—Springsteen tribute. September 14: Arts & Jazz Festival. Check their website for details.

Second Street Players (2 South Walnut Street, Milford; 302-422-0220/800-8383006; secondstreetplayers.com) offers an old favorite—Run For Your Wife— September 13-22.

Stango Park Concerts (corner of Kings Highway & Adams Street, Lewes; leweschamber.com) presented for two more Tuesdays at 7 p.m. August 20: The Gibbonses; August 27: 5th Avenue Jazz featuring Vincent Varrassi. Bring a blanket or a beach chair! Rain location: Cape Henlopen High.

Painting by Scott Brooks in Honeypot! The Sweet and Sticky Lives of Bears, CAMP Rehoboth Gallery

The Milton Theatre (110 Union Street, Milton; 302-684-3038; miltontheatre. com) “keeps Milton weird”! August events: 23/24: Simply Streisand; 30: Lawless & Mae; 31: The Rock Orchestra— an evening of The Who. September events: 6: It Was a Very Good Year— Tribute to Frank Sinatra; 7: The Over-theHill Gang Comedy Show; 13-15: Next to Normal—a Milton Theatre production AUGUST 23, 2019

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arts+entertainment GALLERIES & MUSEUMS Abraxas Studio of Art (515 Federal Street, Lewes; 302-645-9119; abraxasart. com) features the oil portraits and landscape paintings of Abraxas.

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

CAMP Rehoboth Gallery (37 Baltimore Avenue; 302-2275620; camprehoboth.com) features Award Winners XIX (through September 1) and Honeypot! The Sweet and Sticky Life of Bears (September 2-30). (See listing elsewhere in this column.)

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

Delaware Art Gallery (239 Rehoboth Avenue; 302-853Someone Will Pick that Up, G.W. Thompson, at CAMP Rehoboth Gallery

5099; kevinfleming.com) offers new and classic Delaware photographs by Kevin Fleming.

Gallery 37 (8 South Walnut Street, Milford; 302-2652318; marciareedpainting. com) represents over 45 artists and artisans from around the country with fine art, wood-turned vessels, fibers, glass art, and more.

Gallery 50 (50 Wilmington Avenue; 302-227-2050; gallery50art.com) in addition to original paintings, there’s jewelry, glass, sculpture, ceramics, and mixed media.

Currently showing works by Rae Hamilton—seascape, landscape, farm life oils— through August 29. Opening August 30: Terry Isner is back with his comic book series— through September 19. Meet the artist August 30 (5:30-8 p.m.). Opening September 20—Michael Fitts presents photo realistic images in oil, painted on various metals.

Through October 10.

Heidi Lowe Gallery (328 Rehoboth Avenue; 302-2279203; heidilowejewelry. com) has unique hand-made pieces and classes in jewelry making. Currently showing: Ways of Untangling—works

by Kaitlyn Evans—and Earrings Galore (through December 31).

Peninsula Gallery (520 E. Savannah Road, Lewes; 302-645-0551; peninsula-gallery.com) offers over 3,000 square feet of display and custom framing. Through August 31: Coastal Camera Club Juried Exhibition.

Opening September 7: Water, Water…a multiple artist exhibition with water as a theme. Opening reception:

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Stairway Triangles, by Jennie Keith at Peninsula Gallery

September 7 (5-7 p.m.).

Through September 28.

Rehoboth Art League (12 Dodds Lane, Henlopen Acres; 302-227-8408; rehobothartleague.org) opens three new exhibitions: 81st Annual Members’ Fine Art Exhibition (through September 1); Ethereal Ireland—works by Beth Trepper (through September 1); and Rehoboth Dreaming— Juried Members’ Showcase (through October 20). Check their website for fall class offerings.

Rehoboth Beach Museum (511 Rehoboth Avenue at the Canal, 302-227-7310; rehobothbeachmuseum. org) opens their Annual Needlework Exhibition on September 14 and a judge from the National Academy of Needlearts will award Best in Show in 10 categories.

You’re invited to attend the show and cast your vote for the People’ Choice award.

Check the calendar on their website for walking tours and special events.

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

Ward Ellinger Gallery (CAMP Rehoboth Courtyard, 39 Baltimore Avenue; 302-2272710) features art in different mediums by abstract expressionist Ward Ellinger and Sondra N. Arkin. ▼ 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.

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by Terri Schlichenmeyer

BOOKED SOLID The Great Unexpected: A Novel

by Dan Mooney

c.2019, Park Row Books, $15.99/$19.99 Canada, 358 pages

You had your reasons.

That’s what you tell people after you’ve made a decision. Things were left up to you, you looked at the possibilities, and there was no need for discussion.

You had your reasons, and “because” is a good enough one. But, as in the new book, The Great Unexpected by Dan Mooney, you can be reasoned with.

Mr. Miller could always keep a secret.

That was because he was in a coma, which was just fine with his roommate, Joel Monroe. Miller didn’t fill the time with inane chit-chat and Joel didn’t have to be concerned with niceties. Miller kept to himself. After Joel’s wife, Lucey, died, Joel wished everybody at Hilltop Nursing Home was more like Miller.

Given that, it seems odd to say that Joel was lonesome, but he was. Miserable and grumpy, too. Then Miller died, and it reminded Joel of Lucey’s death, which made him feel worse, even though Nurse Liam and Nurse Angelica were nice; even though Joel had a daughter who dutifully spent a half-hour a week visiting; even though she brought her adult children, who obviously weren’t interested in their grandfather.

Joel knew it was time to investigate suicide options, “before something else killed him.”

And then a new resident moved into the empty bed next to Joel’s.

Frank de Selby was a noisy “popinjay” with a fake accent and a fake name. de Selby (real name: Frank Adams) wore scarves with affectation, kissed ladies’ hands, was oh-sowitty, spoke like a Shakespearean, and told everyone that he

was a former actor.

Joel hated him.

He hated Frank—at first, anyhow, but then Joel realized that Frank wasn’t such a bad guy after all. Without being asked, Frank helped Joel out of a couple of tight spots with the home staff, and he didn’t make Joel watch those insufferable soap operas.

He even helped take notes when Joel told Frank about his plan to die.

Joel was intent on suicide. He wanted to kill himself with meaning, though, and he was ready to go—but was he ready to leave so much behind?

Of course, you’ve already figured out that this book is a charmer. You might clearly see that it’s got humorous elements, too, but you really can expect so much more in The Great Unexpected.

Yes, Frank and Joel are pretty well predictable as characters in a novel set in a nursing home. But here, author Dan Mooney gives them sass, peppery language, and fits-with-today backgrounds that allow richer dimension to explain them better.

Their miles-apart personalities enhance the story: Frank has justification for playing the dandy, Joel ruminates about a life spent as a laborer, and readers learn about them as they learn about each other.

Happily, this unfolds between lines of text that match the title: unexpected, and uproariously, spit-your-coffee hilarious.

So. The Great Unexpected is differently predictable but its sauciness may give some readers pause. Just keep that in mind, flow with it, and you might love this novel beyond all reason.▼ 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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Aloft by Erica Loustau

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SCREEN QUEEN

by Chris Azzopardi

Three Not-to-Miss Movies on Blu-Ray Can’t Stop the Music Imagine: Three Men and a Baby actor Steve Guttenberg on roller skates, and that’s just the beginning of Can’t Stop the Music, the 1980 quasiautobiographical film about the Village People.

The film, recently re-issued on Bluray, is a gay wonderland from another time, another place, another gay galaxy: when guys used to rock crop tops (oh wait…); when full-frontal male nudity could apparently be seen in a PG-rated film (for some swinging softies, watch those guys in the locker room during the extravagantly gay “YMCA” number); when Caitlyn Jenner, playing a Daisy Dukes-clad lawyer named Ron White, was an actor.

It’s the movie Olivia Newton-John turned down. The one Cher passed on too. They were wise to do so, of course; it certainly wouldn’t have done their careers any favors.

It’s a bad movie that became a cult film because it’s a joke, but you wish that everyone involved in this crazy disco musical knew that it was too. Except its schlock isn’t quite schlocky enough; its kitsch isn’t quite kitschy enough. But I’ll tell you this much: You don’t watch it for the drawn-out dialogue scenes. You

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watch Shout! Factory’s Blu-ray remaster of Can’t Stop the Music for its commitment in trying to be the gayest thing ever committed to celluloid, producing musical numbers that entail a Folsom daddy singing “Oh Danny Boy” on a piano and, during what you might call a very avantgarde interpretation of “YMCA,” men in thongs, in wrestling singlets, in jocks, in nothing. Plus, massages and ping-pong!

The gym of your dreams!

Among the new extras are an audio commentary with comedy writer Bruce Vilanch and Jeffrey Schwarz, who produced and directed The Fabulous Allan Carr, a documentary about the producer-writer of Can’t Stop the Music.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch Nearly 20 years after its initial theatrical release in 2001, Hedwig and the Angry Inch looks ageless thanks to Criterion’s vibrant restoration of John Cameron Mitchell’s queer takedown of cultural homogenization.

Mitchell wrote, directed, and starred in the cult musical dramedy, portraying the lead, Hedwig Robinson, a punk-rocker and a self-proclaimed “girly-boy” who undergoes a forced sex-change, leaving him to grapple with his identity.

A personal statement for its genderqueer protagonist (Cameron recently said the character is not transgender given his involuntary surgical procedure), Hedwig and the Angry Inch is timeless even beyond its flawless 4K revamp—the enduring cult film’s themes of self-discovery and self-invention still resonant today, in part explaining its recent success on Broadway.

Composer-lyricist Stephen Trask breaks down the details of producing the soundtrack, one of several new supplements in this Blu-Ray package.

Additionally, cast and crew sit down for a reunion discussion about the making of the film, and over 50 pages of illustrations, Hedwig portraits, an essay, and more are featured in the book insert.

Holdovers from its DVD release include

a 2003 documentary about the film’s development.

Gloria Bell When we meet Gloria Bell, she’s rocking side to side, half committed to Donna Summer’s cover of “Never Could Say Goodbye,” which booms overheard in a nightclub she frequents. She’s sipping a martini, but that’s not why she eventually cuts loose: Music frees her, or as much as it can free a 50-something divorcee on a quest to reclaim lost joy.

Outside the club, Gloria’s life is even lonelier, full of the drab realities of motherhood, of being female, of being… human. At the club one night, she meets Arnold (John Turturro); things evolve, get sweet, get complicated (he’s an NRA supporter). She keeps dancing.

Originally a 2013 Chilean-Spanish film called Gloria, the film’s writer-director, Chile's Sebastián Lelio (known for his queer works A Fantastic Woman and Disobedience), reshot the film in English for American audiences.

Little has changed: Gloria is still the best version of herself when she lets Donna Summer lead her to the pulsating lights. “When the world blows up, I hope I go down dancing,” she giddily says, followed by a glass clink so you never forget it.

It’s hard to think you could, not with Julianne Moore, divine as ever as Gloria, delivering the line with a spontaneous burst of impulsiveness; all of her lived-in moments radiate with a natural ease that is quietly devastating, but never hopeless.

Throughout, Moore captivates as she carries Lelio’s character study of a woman unseen through to the woozy reverie of its final frames. Find this now online or Blu-Ray. ▼ As editor of Q Syndicate, the international LGBT wire service, Chris Azzopardi has interviewed a multitude of superstars, including Cher, Meryl Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé.

Reach him at chris@pridesource.com.

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CAMPDates SUNDAYS

• Alcoholics Anon. Open Discussion. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 9 am.

• 2nd Sunday. Conversations with Caffeine hosted by Delaware Pride. Panera Bread, 3650 Kirkwood Hwy., Wilmington. 1-3 pm. delawarepride.org • T-Dance. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 3 pm. 302-227-1023 • Last Sunday of each month. Healing Circle.

CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 5 pm. nate@natemetz.com • Ed Mills. Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 5 pm. 302-227-6080 • Pamala Stanley. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 6 pm. 302-227-6515 • Last Sunday of each month. TransSocial of Delaware. Metropolitan Community Church, 19369 Plantations Rd., Lewes. 7 pm. meetup. com/Rehoboth-TransLiance • Karaoke. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 8 pm. 302-227-1023 • Climax! w/Magnolia. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm. 302-227-6515 • The Birdcage Bad Girls Drag Show. Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 10 pm. 302-226-1139

MONDAYS

• HIV Testing. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 12:30–4:30 pm. 302-2275620 • Yappy Hour. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 3-8 pm. 302-227-1023 • Matthew Kenworthy. Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 5 pm. 302-227-6080 • Pamala Stanley. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 6 pm. 302-227-6515 • Bandeoke! Karaoke with a live band. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. 7 pm. 302212-5355 • Mingo (Music Bingo). Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 8 pm. 302-227-1023

TUESDAYS

• Rehoboth Beach Farmers Market. Grove Park.

11 am-2 pm • Yappy Hour. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 3–8 pm. 302-227-1023 • Matt Lafferty. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 5 pm. 302-227-1023 • Pamala Stanley. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 6 pm. 302-227-6515 • 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.

• International Dance Party. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-1023 • Bingo w/The Ladies of the Blue Moon.

Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm.

302-227-6515

WEDNESDAYS

• Historic Lewes Farmers Market at Crooked Hammock. Kings Hwy. 8-11 am. (June-August) • Yappy Hour. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 3-8 pm. 302-227-1023

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• Pamala Stanley. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 6 pm. 302-227-6515 • Reggae Nite. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. 6 pm. 302-212-5355 • 2nd Wednesday. Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 6:30 pm. 302-227-5620 • 2nd & 4th Wednesdays. Men’s Discussion Group. Epworth United Methodist Church, 19285 Holland Glade Rd. 7 pm. 302-227-5620 • Open Mic w/John Flynn. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 7 pm. 302-227-1023 • Karaoke w/Rick. Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 8 pm. 302-227-6080 • Games w/Magnolia. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm. 302-227-6515

THURSDAYS

• Alcoholics Anon. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 12 noon.

302-856-6452 • Yappy Hour. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 3–8 pm. 302-227-1023 • CAMP Rehoboth Women’s Golf League.

American Classic Golf Course. 5 pm. See Ad • Cathy Gorman. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 5 pm. 302-227-1023 • Pamala Stanley. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 6 pm. 302-227-6515 • Holly Lane w/John Flynn. Café Azafran, 18 Baltimore Ave. 7 pm. 302-227-8100 • SLAA/SAA Meeting. All Saints Church Hall, Lower Level, 18 Olive Ave. 7:30 pm. 302-745-7929 • 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 • Flashback Thursdays w/Music from the 80s & 90s. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-1023 • Karaoke w/The Ladies of the Blue Moon.

Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm.

302-227-6515

FRIDAYS

• Yappy Hour. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 3–8 pm. 302-227-1023 • Ladies Happy Hour w/DJ Sandra and Steph Dalee. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 4-8 pm. 302-227-1023 • FURst Friday Bear Happy Hour. The Pond, 3 S. First St. 302-227-2234 • Rock n’ Roll w/The Girlfriends. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave Ext. 5 pm. 302-2125355 • Drag Show. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 7 pm. 302-227-1023 • Karaoke w/Mike & Scott. Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 8 pm. 302-227-6080 • Karaoke. Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-226-1139 • Fantasy Friday. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-1023 • Spotlight Show. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm. 302-227-6515

SATURDAYS

• Yappy Hour. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 3-8 pm. 302-227-1023

• Historic Lewes Farmers Market. George H.P. Smith Park. 8 am-noon. (May-September) • Historic Lewes Farmers Market. Shields Elementary School. 9 am-noon (October-November) • 1st & 3rd Saturdays. Coffee Talk. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 10 am.

• 1st Saturday w/John Flynn. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. Ext. 7 pm. 302-212-5355 • Karaoke w/Mike & Scott. Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-6080 • Karaoke. Purple Parrot Grill, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-226-1139 • Legends. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm. 302-227-6515

AUGUST 24

JUNE 25-AUGUST 31

AUGUST 25

• Mamma Mia! Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. clearspacetheatre.org

• 10th Annual Sundance Racing Festival. seashorestriders.com • 2nd Annual Rainbow Raft-Up. Rehoboth Bay. 10 am-6 pm.

• 5th Ave. Trio. Cuvée Ray Wine Bar, 236 Rehoboth Ave. 6:30-9:30 pm. Reservations suggested 302-567-2942 • Meredith Rounsley. Cuvée Ray Wine Bar, 236 Rehoboth Ave. 10:30 pm. Reservations suggested. 302-567-2942

JUNE 28-AUGUST 29 • Hello, Dolly! Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. clearspacetheatre.org

JULY 3-AUGUST 27 • The Wedding Singer. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. clearspacetheatre.org

JULY 26-SEPTEMBER 1 • 81st Annual Members’ Fine Art Exhibition. Rehoboth Art League, 12 Dodds Lane. 302-227-8408

AUGUST 3-SEPTEMBER 1 • Delaware Division of the Arts Award Winners XIX. CAMP Rehoboth, 37 Baltimore Ave.

AUGUST 17 • Marco Bicego Trunk Show. Elegant Slumming Fine Jewelry, 33 Baltimore Ave, 12-8 pm. 302227-5551 • Happy Hour w/Your Dog to benefit Delaware Humane Association. Rigby’s Bar & Grill, 404 Rehoboth Ave. 4-7 pm. delawarehumane.org • Taking a Stand (lecture series) w/Paul Smith.

Lewes Library, 111 Adams Ave. FREE. 6 pm. lewes.lib.de.us • DJ Isis Muretech. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-1023

AUGUST 18 • Drag Brunch. Goolee’s Grille, 11 S 1st St. 1 pm.

Reservations suggested. 302-227-7653.

• DJ Isis Muretech. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-1023

AUGUST 19 • Branden & James. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm. $27.50 pp. 302-227-6515. bluemoonrehoboth.com

AUGUST 21 • Tasting Tour of Delaware hosted by Delaware Pride. Morelia Mexican Restaurant and Bar, 4617 Ogletown Stanton Rd., Newark. 6:30 pm. delawarepride.org

AUGUST 23 • Simply Streisand featuring Carla Del Villaggio.

The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com • DJ Steve Strasser. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-1023

• 5th Annual Crab & Shrimp Feast. MCC of Rehoboth, 19369 Plantations Rd. 3-7 pm. $50 pp. mccrehoboth.org or 302-645-4945.

• Simply Streisand featuring Carla Del Villaggio.

The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. Two shows: 3 pm and 8 pm. miltontheatre.com • Jam Session and Fundraiser of Love for Kelly of One Love. The Pond, 3 S. First St. 5 pm.

302-227-2234 • Meredith Rounsley. Cuvée Ray Wine Bar, 236 Rehoboth Ave. 8 pm. Reservations suggested. 302-567-2942 • DJ Steve Strasser. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-1023

AUGUST 26 • Telly Leung. Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Ave. 9:30 pm. $30 pp. 302-227-6515. bluemoonrehoboth.com

AUGUST 28 • 5B film screening in cooperation with AIDS Delaware. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 7 pm. miltontheatre.com

AUGUST 30 • Networking Happy Hour hosted by Delaware Pride. Fire & Ice at Dover Downs. 5-7 pm. delawarepride.org • Natalie Darkes Band. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. Ext. 7:30 pm. 302-212-5355 • Lawless and Mae. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com • Trio Banditos. Cuvée Ray Wine Bar, 236 Rehoboth Ave. 8 pm. Reservations suggested.

302-567-2942 • DJ Steve Sidewalk. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-1023

AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 1 • CAMP Rehoboth Sundance XXXII: Ultraviolet Disco Day-Glo Sunrise Auction and Dance. camprehoboth.com

AUGUST 31 • 32nd Annual CAMP Rehoboth Sundance Auction. Rehoboth Beach Convention Center, 229 Rehoboth Ave. 6 -9 pm. camprehoboth.com • The Girlfriends. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. Ext. 7:30 pm. 302-212-5355 • The Rock Orchestra: An Evening of The Who. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com • Taylor Knox. Cuvée Ray Wine Bar, 236 Rehoboth Ave. 8-10:30 pm. Reservations suggested.

302-567-2942 • DJ Kitty Glitter. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-1023

AUGUST 17 – OCTOBER 13

• Trio Banditos. Cuvée Ray Wine Bar, 236 Rehoboth Ave. 10:30 pm. Reservations suggested.

302-567-2942

SEPTEMBER 21

• It Was A Very Good Year: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com

• AIDS Walk Delaware. Grove Park, Rehoboth Beach. 9 am. aidswalkdelaware.org • Bear Weekend Team volunteers at AIDS Walk Delaware. Grove Park, Rehoboth Beach 9 am. rehobothbeachbears.com • Honey Pot, Sweet and Sticky Lives of Bears Artist Reception. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center. 3-6 pm. 302-227-5620 • Bear Happy Hour. Aqua, 57 Baltimore Ave. 3-6 pm. rehobothbeachbears.com • Comedian Daniel Franzese. Atlantic Sands, Baltimore Ave and The Boardwalk. 7 pm. rehobothbeachbears.com • Separate Ways: The Ultimate Tribute to Journey.

The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com • Comedian Daniel Franzese. Atlantic Sands, Baltimore Ave and The Boardwalk. 9 pm. rehobothbeachbears.com

SEPTEMBER 7

SEPTEMBER 22

• Happy Hour w/Your Dog to benefit Delaware Humane Association. Purple Parrot Bier Garten, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 4-7 pm. delawarehumane.org • The Over The Hill Gang Stand Up Comedy Show. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com • DJ Steve Sidewalk. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-1023

• Bear Brunch w/VIP Mimosa Bar. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 10 am. rehobothbeachbears.com • Bear Closing Party. Biergarten at the Purple Parrot, 134 Rehoboth Ave. 1 pm. rehobothbeachbears.com • Delmarva Big Band. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 7:30 pm. miltontheatre.com

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SEPTEMBER 23

• Reggae Rocks Autism to benefit Autism Delaware. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. Ext. 302-212-5355. eventbrite.com

• 20th Annual Jean and Joan Golf Tournament to benefit Beebe Medical Center. Kings Creek Country Club. beebemedicalfoundation.org

SEPTEMBER 13

SEPTEMBER 25

• Next to Normal. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com

• Rigged film screening. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 7 pm. miltontheatre.com

SEPTEMBER 14

SEPTEMBER 26

• Next to Normal. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. Two Shows: 2 pm & 8 pm. miltontheatre.com

• Completely Unchained Van Halen Tribute.

The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com

SEPTEMBER 1 • 32nd Annual CAMP Rehoboth Sundance Dance.

Rehoboth Beach Convention Center, 229 Rehoboth Ave. 7 pm-2 am. camprehoboth.com • Bettenroo. Murph’s Beef & Ale, 37169 Rehoboth Ave. Ext. 7:30 pm. 302-212-5355 • DJ Kitty Glitter. Diego’s Bar Nightclub, 37298 Rehoboth Ave. 9 pm. 302-227-1023

SEPTEMBER 4 • Singing in the Rain film screening. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 7 pm. miltontheatre.com

SEPTEMBER 6

SEPTEMBER 15 • Lewes Artists Studio Tour. 10 am-4 pm. lewesartistsstudiotour.com • Next to Normal. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 2 pm. miltontheatre.com

SEPTEMBER 18-22 • 5th Annual Rehoboth Beach Bear Weekend. rehobothbeachbears.com

SEPTEMBER 18 • The Crow film screening. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 7 pm. miltontheatre.com

SEPTEMBER 19

SEPTEMBER 27-29 • History Book Festival. historybookfestival.org.

SEPTEMBER 27 • CAMP Rehoboth Chorus Ensemble performs “Bad Boys/Bad Girls.” Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware, 30486 Lewes Georgetown Hwy. 7 pm. chorusbadboysbadgirls2019. eventbrite.com • David Hayes is Sammy Davis, Jr. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com

SEPTEMBER 28

• Three Tall Women. Clear Space Theatre, 20 Baltimore Ave. clearspacetheatre.org

• Southern Delaware Wine, Food, Music Festival.

Independence Clubhouse, 23767 Samuel Adams Circle, Millsboro. 12-4 pm. sodelfest.com • Queens of Pure Country featuring Josie Waverly.

The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. Two shows 3 pm & 8 pm. miltontheatre.com • CAMP Rehoboth Chorus Ensemble performs “Bad Boys/Bad Girls.” Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware, 30486 Lewes Georgetown Hwy. 7 pm. chorusbadboysbadgirls2019. eventbrite.com

SEPTEMBER 20

SEPTEMBER 29

• Kathie Martin and The Hot Rods. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com

• 101 Dalmatians film screening. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 2 pm.

• Grief Group. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. kevin@kevinblisscoaching. com or 302-754-1954.

• Bear Cocktail Reception. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 7 pm. rehobothbeachbears.com

SEPTEMBER 20-OCTOBER 6

• Christine Havrilla and Gypsy Fuzz + Andrea Nardello. The Milton Theatre, 11 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com

OCTOBER 3

• Flu Clinic. CAMP Rehoboth Community Center, 37 Baltimore Ave. 1:30 – 6 pm. 302-227-5620 • Trainspotting film screening. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 7 pm. miltontheatre.com

• Three Tall Women. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 7:30 pm. miltontheatre.com

OCTOBER 10-13

OCTOBER 4-6

OCTOBER 11

• Fall Sidewalk Sale Weekend. beach-fun/ sidewalk-sale

• Sweet Baby J’ai in Concert. Epworth United Methodist Church, 19285 Holland Glade Rd. 8 pm. camprehoboth.com • Delaware Comedy Theatre. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com

OCTOBER 4 • Stand-up Comedy Magic Show. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com

OCTOBER 5 • Peek-a-boo Revue. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 8 pm. miltontheatre.com

OCTOBER 6 • Chef’s Celebrity Brunch to benefit Meals on Wheels. The Rusty Rudder, Dewey Beach.

11 am. mealsonwheelsde.org

OCTOBER 9

• Greyhound Weekend

OCTOBER 12 • Think Pink Floyd. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. Two shows 3 pm & 8 pm. miltontheatre.com

OCTOBER 13 • Hocus Pocus film screening. The Milton Theatre, 110 Union St. 2 pm. miltontheatre.com • Be sure to call establishments to confirm if dogs are allowed on restaurant patios.

• New York City in the Fall Bus Trip. CAMP Rehoboth. 302-227-5620. nycfall2019.eventbrite.com

GOOD QUEER FUN QUIZ SOLUTION (quiz on page 44)

1. The Renegade 2. Dos Locos on Baltimore 3. Mano’s 4. Dream Café 5. Sydney’s Blues and Jazz 6. Cloud Nine 7. Chez La Mer 8. Square One 9. SOB Sandwich Shop 10. Double L

J. Townhouses on Route 1 M. Seafood Shack Q. Dos Locos on Wilmington, and B. Shore Break O. Mixx, and E. La Fable A. The Pig + Fish, and N. Cuvée Ray G. Lula Brazil, and K. G Rehoboth H. Papa Grande, and R. Azzuro S. Yum Yum, P. Café Zeus, and I. Shag (now gone) D. SOB’s Sandwiches, C. Hobos, and L. The Pines F. Diego’s

ANSWERS TO BONUS QUESTIONS: If The Renegade belonged to Rehoboth, what gay bar belonged to Dewey?

Answer: Boathouse What gay bar belonged to Bethany Beach? Answer: Nomad Village If The Renegade was the Route 1 bar, name the Rehoboth Avenue bar.

Answer: The Strand

CROSSWORD PUZZLE SOLUTION (puzzle on page 66)

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Deep Inside Hollywood

by Romeo San Vicente

Angelica Ross: From Pose to American Horror Story

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s Pose devotees, we have always been about Candy Abundance Ferocity, played by the dangerously cool Angelica Ross. While everyone else was hugging each other and being supportive and building house families, Candy was scratching and clawing to keep herself in business, demanding to be treated with respect, and getting very little of it in return.

Then Candy died, and we cried and sang along to the lip-sync number she performed at her own funeral (it’s complicated; you just have to watch the

show). But Ross built Candy on a Ryan Murphy show, and now that she’s a free agent, her next step is—that’s right—to another Ryan Murphy show.

Ross will co-star on the upcoming American Horror Story: 1984, about which little is known outside of a teaser trailer that resembles an 80s slasher film.

But we do know it also features Emma Roberts and Gus Kenworthy, that it premieres on FX September 18, and that wherever Ross leads, we will follow. And we hope she gets to play the murderer because those are the best parts. ▼

Chloe Sevigny Joins Luca Guadagnino HBO Series

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Tessa Thompson Will Find Her Queen in Thor: Love and Thunder

uca Guadagnino, the gay Italian filmmaker who caused a splash with Call Me

by Your Name and then the Suspiria remake, is developing a new series for HBO/Sky called We Are Who We Are, to star Chloe Sevigny.

It’s a coming-of-age story about two American teenagers living on a military base in Italy. They experience all the typical teenage firsts there, as outsiders in their own little cultural pocket of another country. Sevigny—who we assume plays one of the parents—will be joined by Alice Braga (City of God) and a host of young newcomers like Ben Taylor and Francesca Scorsese (daughter of Martin), as well as pop star Jordan Kristin Seamon and rapper Kid Cudi.

It shoots later this month in Italy and we’ll probably get to see it pop up on HBO sometime in early 2020. It’ll be a nice way to enjoy this director’s work while we wait patiently for the Call Me by Your Name sequel. Because we are waiting. And waiting. ▼

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his entire bit of news is a spoiler, we guess. But it’s the good kind. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) will finally get an LGBTQ superhero: Valkyrie, played by out star Tessa Thompson. She’s a character we’ve all been hoping would be fleshed out as fully queer, and she will be getting herself a queen in one of the story lines of the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder.

We’ve been waiting for this to happen and, while we appreciated the blip of queerness that took place in the grief support group scene of Avengers: Endgame, we’re glad nobody stole Valkyrie’s spotlight until now.

The best part of this is that the big news for this film was supposed to be that Natalie Portman will return as a female version of Thor, but the moment we heard about bi-Val, we forgot everything else. Anyway, Thor: Love and Thunder, directed by Thor: Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi—whose injection of absurdist comedy into the MCU has been a breath of fresh air—will hit theaters in November 2021. This means you have a minute to get your cosplay together. ▼

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Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts Is Moving Closer to You

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t’s a safe bet that you like Trixie Mattel.

If you don’t, then it’s almost certainly because you haven’t yet been properly introduced. She’s charming, talented, funny, musically gifted, and has taken her RuPaul’s Drag Race momentum and started a marathon career. From web series UNHhhh to The Trixie and Katya Show on Viceland to releasing albums and selling out venues across the country that are much larger than gay bars, she’s on a roll.

And now there’s a documentary about the rising star called Trixie Mattel:

Moving Parts. The feature-length exploration of exactly how much work goes into a career in giant wigs, directed

by Nicholas Zeig-Owens, also boasts a cast of Drag Race alums like Katya, Willem, Peppermint, Bob The Drag Queen, and Ru himself, veterans of the grind who know that stardom isn’t guaranteed.

Currently the documentary is hitting queer film fests, but it’s likely you’ll be seeing this one get a theatrical release, and it’s a lock that you’ll be able to stream it sooner rather than later. ▼

Romeo San Vicente works overtime in heels but can’t get a Drag Race audition.

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Bring your boat. Just 13 miles to the Rehoboth boardwalk. $165,000 (145916)

PINEY GLADE - Rehoboth.

1976 3BR/2BA. LV & family room. Screen porch. Outdoor shower. Fenced, corner lot is 0.28 acres. 4 miles to beach & near State Park trail. $259,000 (145412)

KINGS CREEK CC - Rehoboth.

4BR/3.5BA courtyard-style house w/in-ground pool & guest suite.

Outdoor kitchen. EP Henry paver drive & pool deck. Gorgeous interior finishes. Located on 14th green. $999,900 (1001573482)

SANDBAR VILLAGE - Lewes.

2007-built 3BR/2BA 2nd-floor condo in an elevator building.

Sunroom & balcony w/pond view. Community pool & just 4 miles to the Lewes beach. $214,900 (133968)

FIELDWOOD - Rehoboth.

1977 3BR/2BA home. Sun room & family room w/elec FP. Newer HVAC. 1/3 acre. Shed + oversized 1-car garage. East of Hwy 1 & 4 miles to beach. $189,900 (1001569000)

HEARTHSTONE MANOR Milford. All 1st-floor living in this 2004-built 2BR/2BA Villa.

1-car garage. Enclosed porch.

HOA $1,488/yr. Community pool & 20 miles to Lewes beach. $187,400 (131330)

ASPEN MEADOWS Rehoboth. 1986 2BR/2BA w/ sunroom addition. Gorgeous remodel! Laminate & tile floors. Fencing. Pool & 4 miles to bch. $122,500

CAMELOT MEADOWS Rehoboth. 1992 3BR/2BA. LV & family room. Large master suite. Screened porch & 2 decks. 3.5 miles to beach.

Community pool. $88,900

(141648) Lot Rent $740/mt

(140668) Lot Rent $704/mt

SILVER VIEW FARM Rehoboth. 1981 2BR/1BA has a nicely updated interior, including kitchen & bath remodel. Shed. Pool & 3 miles to beach. $125,000

CAMELOT MEADOWS Rehoboth. 1979 2BR/2BA is fully furnished. Spacious LV. Split BR layout. Screen porch & shed. 3.5 miles to beach.

Community pool. $39,000

SILVER VIEW FARM Rehoboth. 2009 3BR/2BA doublewide. Big eat-in kitchen.

LV w/elec FP. Vaulted ceilings.

Porch, patio & shed. Pool & 3 miles to beach. $116,900

WHITE HOUSE BEACH Long Neck. 1986 3BR/2BA doublewide waterfront home.

Fully furn. & TURN KEY. Slip rentals or community boat ramp.

Golf cart included. $59,900

COLONIAL EAST - Rehoboth.

1980 2BR/2BA home has been nicely remodeled. Laminate flooring, new carpet, fresh paint. Olympic-size pool. 4 miles to beach. $74,900

SILVER VIEW FARM Rehoboth. 2007 3BR/2BA doublewide w/large VinylTech 3-season porch. Fenced yard.

Lots of upgrades! Pool & 3 miles to beach. $125,000

(132716) Lot Rent $571/mt

(138940) Lot Rent $1053/mt

OFFICE - 302.227.1222

(145566) Lot Rent $571/mt

(144240) Lot Rent $515/mt

(145720) Lot Rent $704/mt

(NEW) Lot Rent $571/mt

20250 Coastal Highway - Suite 3, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971

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