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5 Facts About Same-Sex Marriage
Publisher/Executive Editor David Vandygriff dvandygriff@cityxtramagazine.com
By Drew Bishop
Breaking Through The HIV Vaccine ‘Logiam’ By Jake Daniels
Gay Parenting Set Backs & Successes By David Vandygriff
Anti-Gay Mike Huckabee Resigns From CMA By David Vandygriff
Retailers & Tweens Flock To RuPaul’s Drag Race By Jennifer David
America’s Future Is The LGBT Economy By Drew Williams
Belmond Maroma Resort & Spa By Vickey Newsome
Anti—Gay GOP Lawmakers Try To Redefine Marriage By Rebecca Jacobs
Golden Girls Taught Us Equality & Coming Out By Michelle Sampson
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same-sex marriage (50% oppose). And while just 35% of white evangelical Protestants 5 Facts About Same-sex Marriage By Drew Bishop favor same-sex marriage, this is Supreme Court issued a more than double the level of a landmark ruling that granted decade ago (14% in 2007). same-sex couples a Generational differences also constitutional right to marry. The remain wide, though support 5-4 decision in Obergefell v. among older generations also is Hodges legalized gay marriage on the rise: 74% of Millennials nationwide, including in the 14 (now ages 18 to 36) and 65% of states that did not previously Generation Xers (ages 37 to 52) allow gays and lesbians to wed. now support same-sex marriage, The decision rested in part on compared with 56% of Baby the court’s interpretation of the Boomers (ages 53 to 71) and 14th Amendment; the justices 41% of those in the Silent ruled that limiting marriage only Generation (ages 72 to 89). to heterosexual couples violates Same-sex marriages are on the the amendment’s guarantee of rise. Surveys conducted by equal protection under the law. Gallup over the past year find
cited love as a very important reason for getting married, and at least seven-in-ten in both groups cited companionship (71% and 76%, respectively). But there were some differences, too. LGBT Americans, for instance, were twice as likely as those in the general public to cite legal rights and benefits as a very important reason for getting married (46% versus 23%), while those in the general public were nearly twice as likely as LGBT Americans to cite having children (49% versus 28%).
The U.S. is among more than 20 countries or jurisdictions that allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. The first nation to legalize gay marriage was the Netherlands, which did so in 2000. Since then, several other European countries – including Spain, France, all of Scandinavia Here are five key facts about that about one-in-ten LGBT and, most recently, Ireland – same-sex marriage: Americans (10.2%) are married have begun to sanction gay to a same-sex partner, up from marriage. Outside of Europe, Public support for same-sex the months before the high court same-sex marriage is now legal marriage has grown rapidly over decision (7.9%). As a result, a in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, the past decade. In 2007, majority (61%) of same-sex Colombia, New Zealand, South Americans opposed legalizing cohabiting couples are now Africa and Uruguay, as well as in same-sex marriage by a margin married, up from 38% before the parts of Mexico. And following a of 54% to 37%. A new Pew ruling. recent court ruling, Taiwan Research Center survey finds appears to be on track to join the that by roughly two-to-one, more Just like the general public, list. Americans support (62%) than Americans who identify as oppose (32%) allowing gays and lesbian, gay, lesbians to marry legally. bisexual or Although support has increased transgender (LGBT) are most across the board, demographic divides over same-sex marriage likely to cite love as a very remain. Differences are important reason particularly pronounced among religious groups. Today, 85% of for getting married. In a Americans who are religiously 2013 Pew unaffiliated favor same-sex Research Center marriage, as do 68% of white mainline Protestants and 67% of survey, 84% of LGBT adults and Catholics. Among black 88% of the Protestants, 44% favor general public 06 www.cityxtramagazine.com
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improve the yield and lower the cost of vaccine developBreaking Through The HIV ‘Logiam’ By Jake Daniels ment. A process When biomolecular engineer that used to take two years now Phil Berman began his takes about two months, while postgraduate work in the 1980s, simultaneously producing yields he had no idea he would spend 100 or even 200 times higher. the rest of his career searching A potential vaccine needs for a way to stop a deadly virus specific proteins to trigger an that was then almost entirely immune system response, known. But around him, as if Berman said. The proteins are from nowhere, hundreds of produced by cell lines derived people began to die. He has from the ovaries of Chinese spent the past three decades hamsters, with many thousands looking for an effective vaccine of potential cell lines needing against the AIDS epidemic that screening to find those that with would claim more than 20,000 a high enough yield. lives in the coastal metropolis Screening the cell lines alone. manually in the lab used to take "It was a plague," Berman said months, Berman said, but the during a recent visit to his lab at team spent most of the past two the University of California, years customizing a Santa Cruz. "People were dying colony-selection robot to do the left and right." job in a matter of days. Berman and his team have The team is able to use those been searching for a way to protein-rich cell lines to produce make HIV vaccine production the vaccine in vats much faster and more affordable— smaller than the beer-vat-size and, he said, they've found it. fermenters they would
otherwise need. The advance means that the type of large-scale manufacturing facility that would have cost $500 million when Berman first began working on the problem could now be made for about $25 million. "You can make the drug much cheaper, and much more affordable by the people that need it," Berman said. "It's huge. It's a huge improvement." Along the way, Berman and graduate student Gabriel Byrne used the gene-editing technology CRISPR to create a cell line that mimics proteins found on the HIV virus, improving the potential protection of the only HIV vaccine to succeed in a human trial. These days, because of advancements in a regimen of treatments in the 1990s, infection with HIV for most people with access to health care does not mean death, but perpetual treatment. About 1.8 million people a year are infected with HIV, according to statistics compiled by the United Nations.
"There are dozens of good ideas for vaccines that are sitting on the shelf because there has been no way to produce them quickly and economically," he said. "We think the technology we developed will break that logjam and allow those brilliant ideas that have been mothballed, basically, because there hasn't been a way to produce them." The new production method takes advantage of technologies to reduce the time,
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that make it legal for businesses and organizations to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals and families based Gay Parenting Set Backs & Successes on a provider’s By David Vandygriff personal moral A scorecard of legal victories for or religious beliefs. aspiring LGBTQ parents will And many states have weak show mixed results from state to laws that may not protect state. But homes across the LGBTQ couples and others, like country, where children’s singles and interracial couples, laughter is becoming more who seek to start a family common every day, reflect a through surrogacy, adoption or positive trend foster care. Tatiana Quiroga, a regional manager for the Family Equality Council, a New York-based agency that advocates for LGBTQ parental civil rights, said that while the fight is ongoing, the latest generation of couples is taking advantage of advances.
“Despite some setbacks, we’re anticipating a baby boom,” Quiroga said. The Family Equality Council, or FEC, is one of several agencies that lobby lawmakers and provide information to advocates of LGBTQ couples who seek to have children through artificial reproductive technology, adoption or foster care. Amanda Hopping-Winn, the FEC chief program officer, said that in 2017, “license to discriminate” laws were defeated in seven states: Arkansas, Georgia, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Washington, Wyoming and Tennessee. At the same time, three states – Alabama, South Dakota and Texas – passed laws last year
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papers when traveling with their children between states or internationally. “You never know what might happen,” Hopping-Winn said. “The minute you cross that state line, things could change.” Family Equality Council will spend some of its efforts in 2018 advocating for laws that would ensure LGBTQ rights at the federal level, an effort that promises to be difficult as the Trump administration moves in the opposite direction.
Most recently, the Department of Health and Human Services said in January that it would create a Artificial reproductive technology new office to “more vigorously in those states is often more and effectively enforce existing difficult because the member of laws protecting the rights of a couple who contributes sperm conscience and religious or an egg to a pregnancy freedom.” Media reports said the probably will have stronger legal new rules would be aimed parental rights than the partner initially at limiting access to who has no biological abortion, but LGBTQ advocates connection to the child. That’s believe it will also allow providers why FEC urges LGBTQ couples to curtail medical access in a to make sure the non-bio partner range of situations. legally adopts the child. An FEC press release states: The names of both parents may “Anti-LGBTQ discrimination in be on the birth certificate, health and human services Hopping-Winn said, but that doesn’t just hurt LGBTQ people, “amounts to nothing but a it hurts our children and families state-issued birth too. Approximately 20% of announcement.” Couples in LGBTQ people are parents, and states that don’t recognize both Family Equality Council has partners as parents might face documented numerous problems, for example, when the Instances of harm to our children child is taken to a hospital when health providers are emergency room. allowed to deny critical services. For example, we have “We highly encourage all our families to cross their T’s and dot documented the case of a child of a lesbian couple in Texas who the I’s,” Quiroga said. “You’ve was refused emergency got to be able to protect your treatment by a pediatric dentist family the best you can.” who told the parent that ‘a child In addition to second-parent cannot have two mothers.’ ” adoption, FEC encourages LGBTQ parents to carry relevant
Hopping-Winn said the “next three years will be grueling. But we are optimistic about our partnerships and the work we’re doing for our families. We used to fight this battle ourselves, but with the current administration, we are hearing from unexpected allies to support the work we do with our families.” The Family Equity Council’s advocacy of family formation will center in 2018 on the Every Child Deserves a Family Campaign. With support from several additional national organizations, the campaign will “promote the best interests of all children in the foster care and adoption system by increasing their access to loving, stable, forever homes, and to ensure safe and supportive care for LGBTQ youth seeking family formation.” The coming months and years will see both setbacks and successes, Hopping-Winn predicted.
“We’re a community that has always fought,” she said. “This is not new to us. We’ve had numerous successes in the last few years and unfortunately, we’ve also had some setbacks. But we’re a community that has always had to fight for a seat at the table, and we don’t intend to stop now.”
group of people because of who they are or what they believe," he Anti-Gay Mike Huckabee Resigns added. From CMA In a By David Vandygriff Wednesday Just one day after he was press release announcing announced as a new member, Huckabee's election to the former Republican presidential board, CMA Foundation candidate Mike Huckabee Chairman Joe Galante praised resigned on Thursday from the the former Arkansas governor board of the Country Music for his "policy experience with Association Foundation, the education reform," but it wasn't charitable arm of the long before the criticism poured organization that runs the in. annual CMA Awards and the Jason Owen, the openly gay CMA Festival. His resignation head of Monument Records followed swift criticism from members of the country music and Sandbox Management, community who took issue with which represents artists like his anti-gay and pro-gun views. Little Big Town, Faith Hill and Kacey Musgraves, sent a letter In his resignation letter to the to CMA CEO Sarah Trahern CMA Foundation, which was and CMA Foundation Director obtained by several news of Community Outreach Tiffany outlets, Huckabee called his Kerns on Wednesday calling critics bullies and said he was Huckabee's appointment resigning to end "unnecessary "heartbreaking." Owen also distraction" to the foundation. said his clients would no longer "If the industry doesn't want support the foundation "in any people of faith or who hold way." conservative and traditional "This man has made it clear political views to buy tickets that my family is not welcome and music, they should be in his America. And the CMA forthcoming and say it. Surely has opened their arms to him, neither the artists or the making him feel welcome and business people of the industry relevant." Owens wrote in the want that," Huckabee wrote. letter, which was obtained by "I hope that the music and Music Row. entertainment industry will "Huckabee speaks of the sort become more tolerant and of things that would suggest my inclusive and recognize that a family is morally beneath his true love for kids having access and uses language that has a to the arts is more important profoundly negative impact than a dislike for someone or a upon young people all across this country. Not to mention 12 www.cityxtramagazine.com
how harmful and damaging his deep involvement with the NRA is. What a shameful choice," Owen added. Whitney Pastorek, an artist manager who represents Kristian Bush of Sugarland and who also criticized the board's election of Huckabee, said his resignation was the right move. "It shows that they listened to the overwhelming outcry within the country music community and realized that his presence as a member of the CMA Foundation Board would do more harm than good towards their mission of music education for everyone," Pastorek said in an emailed comment. "I am proud to be a CMA member and even prouder to see our industry stand up and say that hatred has no place in country music, or anywhere else for that matter." The Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBTQ advocacy group, praised the country music community for speaking up against Huckabee, who has called homosexuality a "sinful lifestyle" and has compared same-sex marriage to incest.
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gamut,” says Shangela, whose agency currently repreRetailers & Tweens Flock To sents seven RuPaul’s Drag Race By Jennifer Davis clients. “We want In the rush to meet market them to be very well rounded.” demand, few in the drag In 2014, the drag queen business seem to be kept up known as BibleGirl launched at night by philosophical Dragqueenmerch.com, an questions about what its mass online store whose mission, commercialization might mean she says, is “to not make it –for the LGBTQ community, difficult for anybody” to for kids and families, or for the monetize their craft, “because art form itself. we’re already fighting to have “The bigger the audience, the an established mainstream better,” says Shangela, a market as a queer community contestant on RuPaul’s Drag in general.” Last year Race All Stars 3, which is Dragqueenmerch.com airing now. “I don’t have any partnered with global retail problem with drag being more chain Hot Topic, a mainstay of mainstream . . . I enjoy the the tween market, to distribute fact that we’re moving toward exclusive merchandise a place where people are a lot through its 600 North more open.” American stores and online. In 2017, BibleGirl’s company Until recently, drag queens grew 30% and grossed over themselves were the main $1 million. beneficiaries (to varying extents) of the gold rush set “I really do feel like this is at off by Drag Race. Three years the tip of the iceberg,” after introducing herself to the BibleGirl says of the public in the second season of expanding merchandising the series, which aired in opportunities for drag 2009, Shangela founded Say performers. “I think it’s What Entertainment, a talent going to be a very fast agency specializing in drag domino effect . . . The performers. The firm began by market is only getting handling nightclub bookings wider.” but now brokers TV role deals, The influx of youngsters brand ambassador positions, and their parents is and university speaking assuredly good for engagements. “We encourage business. It isn’t for our clients to go for the full nothing that in 2016 16 www.cityxtramagazine.com
Covergirl announced its first male ambassador, and brands like Marc Jacobs and Diesel followed suit in booking androgynous talent. But I wonder–while the perusing leather body-harnesses, spike collars, and combat boots on offer–is how these commercial opportunities are impacting other facets of the culture. I ask Viktor Pelayo, founder of Huntees, who got his start making t-shirts for his dodgeball team before selling drag-themed swag, whether the expanding market influences his designs. Drag’s transformation into a consumer segment comes at a time when gay nightlife in major cities is in flux. High rents and the ease of apps like Grindr are putting the squeeze on the gay bars where drag has traditionally thrived, mostly outside of mainstream view. Now that RuPaul’s Drag Race is mediating conversations about gender identity and sexuality across hundreds of thousands of American living rooms, drag iconography is taking on a new meaning, too–as just another way for kids to signal tribal belonging.
table of economic opportunity. Two decades ago, slapping a rainbow on a liquor bottle America’s Future Is The LGBT Economy one month a By Drew Williams year was enough for a Money talks. And now, more brand to consider themselves than ever, the private sector is “gay-friendly.” Findings from listening to the collective voice LGBT economic experts, of the LGBT community. In however, have taught many ways, our dollar is as corporations the value of LGBT strong as our votes at the ballot brand loyalty. More than 75 box. We have fought hard to percent of LGBT adults and secure our rights in the name their friends, family, and of equality, but our true equity relatives say they would switch and ability to bring about to brands that are known to be change for our community lies LGBT friendly. In 2017 alone, with our economic power. Our the LGBT consumer buying buying power and impact on power was over $917 billion. the nation’s gross domestic This business case for LGBT product have given us economic inclusion has tremendous leverage to advance political advocacy and resulted in LGBT-inclusive global human rights. As is true advertising being visibly seen year-round — not just during with our social visibility, our economic visibility is essential Pride season. The companies who are scoring top marks on in building a diverse and the Human Rights Campaign’s inclusive society — and the Corporate Equality Index (an power of the LGBT dollar is annual report rating American becoming more and more businesses on their treatment visible every day. of LGBT employees and That was the impetus for the consumers) see us, hear us, formation of the National LGBT and have placed a premium on Chamber of Commerce 15 doing right years ago. In 2002, we realized by us. Yet, no one had truly considered the as Bob economic equality of LGBT Witeck people or the impact (head of economics could have on the Witeck equality movement. With over Comms, 1.4 million LGBT business which has owners (and growing) behind consulted us, we have seen the LGBT with brands community earn its place at the like Walmart on reaching 20 www.cityxtramagazine.com
LGBT consumers) said during the release of NGLCC’s groundbreaking report America’s LGBT Economy, “While LGBT spending power highlights our market clout, the jobs, tax revenues, and profits we create as employers and entrepreneurs define our full economic value to America. We are just beginning to scratch the surface of our potential.” If the total contributed value of the estimated 1.4 million American LGBT business owners is considered, our input to the economy is over $1.7 trillion. That would make LGBT Americans the 10th largest economy in the world. For a little perspective, that’s bigger than the economies of Australia, Canada, and South Korea combined — what a fabulous country! Furthermore, our community’s businesses grow larger and last longer than others in the United States. On average, American small businesses fail around the five-year mark, but NGLCC’s certified LGBTowned business enterprises average over twice that, with at least 12 years in business.
These LGBT-owned businesses are also powerful job creators: 900 LGBTowned companies we studied created an estimated 33,000 jobs. LGBT entrepreneurs are committed to hiring greater numbers of LGBT employees and ensuring their own supply chains are as diverse as possible. Business leaders in our community continually redefine industries and shatter stereotypes. From techonology firms to local restaurants and retail shops, we are proving every day that if you buy it, an LGBT-owned business can supply it. When you look at a price tag, look for an indication that the company is an LGBT-inclusive corporation or an NGLCC Certified Business Enterprise. It has never been easier to go online or check with your local LGBT chamber of commerce to make sure you support the brands that have our community’s back. If you are an LGBT business owner and not yet certified as one, you’re leaving opportunities on the table to help your business and be counted as part of our LGBT global economy. You could join our ranks as a role model, job creator, and future LGBT business success story. When it comes to diverse communities — LGBT people, women, people of color, people with disabilities, and more — we must stand in solidarity as a business force. We have never seen greater cooperation and solidarity than we have in recent months. And a great deal of that is due to the recognition that LGBT people are also part of every other community. Use the LGBT community’s trillion dollar clout to make a difference. Support your community when you shop, seek out LGBT-owned businesses when you invest, and stand by those who stand with us. The LGBT community is an economic force to be reckoned with — and every one of us plays a part in it.
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and its 5th avenue is a good place to walk around and so some shopping, and it is only 20 minutes away from the hotel. Where’s the best place to enjoy the outdoors? The snorkeling trip it is a very nice activity to enjoy during the day. The second largest coral barrier in the world sits right in front to the hotel, making this place perfect for a snorkel or even diving! Also, the complimentary guided bike tour within the jungle where you can enjoy daily. Best gay club/restaurant/ attraction? Most of the restaurants & bars in Playa del Carmen / Tulum are gay-friendly. In Playa del Carmen, you can find a gay bar named "69 night club". Best time of year to visit? Between November through April. Weather is perfect! Summer time, from June to August is also a good option, could be the second choice What’s something people would be surprised to learn about Riviera Maya?: The beach in general, from the talcum powder sand, warm waters to the turquoise colors of the Caribbean Sea.
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Secular Humanism – a philosophy that advances the belief humans do not need organized Anti-Gay GOP Lawmakers Try religion to act To Redefine Marriage morally and By Rebecca Jacobs with integrity – Nearly three years after the as opposed to Christianity, IsU.S. Supreme Court ruled lam, other fairhs, or no faith at same-sex couples have the all. same rights and responsibilities It claims that "all forms of to marriage as different-sex parody marriage and all selfcouples, Republican asserted sex-based identity lawmakers in two different narratives and sexual states are still battling equality. orientations that fail to check Six Republican state out the human design are part lawmakers in South Carolina, of the religion of Secular along with at least one Humanism." Republican lawmaker in The bill, once falsely making Wyoming, are pushing the case that, apparently, all legislation to permanently same-sex couples are Secular redefine marriage. In this case, Humanists, advances that they are trying to change the Secular Humanism is a legal definition of the marriages religion, and therefore sameof same-sex couples, from sex marriage, or marriage as it marriage, to "parody marriage." is known, of same-sex couples The bill's language, while apis unconstitutional. Their biases pearing itself to be a parody of for that claim? The First actual legislation, is not – but it Amendment bans the is clearly written with anti-gay government from favoring one animus, and an apparent lack religion over another. of understanding of the laws of the United States. For example, the bill includes this claim: "marriage between and man and a woman arose out of the nature of things and marriage between a man and a woman is natural, neutral, and noncontroversial, unlike parody forms of marriage." The bill also suggests same-sex couples only observe 28 www.cityxtramagazine.com
Their real argument, however, is clear: legal recognition of the marriages of same-sex couples, the bill claims, has "created an indefensible legal weapon against nonobservers," aka, Christians. The bill's main sponsor in South Carolina is Republican State Rep. Steven Long, who tells the Post and Courier his legislation is merely about upholding First Amendment separation of church and state. The Wyoming bill is sponsored by two Republican lawmakers, but is being pushed by a man known to many in the LGBT community. Chris Sevier has tried in several states to file lawsuits to allow him to marry his laptop. Last July he tried to sue several congressional Democrats for displaying the LGBT Pride flag in their offices. His complaint: being gay is a religion, and Pride flags are symbols of “homosexual denomination.” Sevier reportedly is trying to advance his "parody marriage" legislation in all 50 states.
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The second, “Sister of the Bride,” aired in 1991 just a few weeks after three couples in Hawaii began the process Gold Girls Taught Us Equality of suing for & Coming Out marriage By Michelle Sampson equality. And Take a moment to say a word on both occasions, the show of thanks to The Golden Girls isn’t just timely — it’s years for showing American how ahead of its time. queer love is a thing of beauty. You might’ve seen the famous Way back in the late 80s and moment when Sophia early 90s, a goofy sitcom about manages to overcome little old ladies was out in front resistance to gay marriage in of issues like coming out and just two lines of dialogue. It’s a marriage equality, helping to real thing of beauty (thanks in lay the groundwork for decades part of queer writer Marc of rapid progress of social acceptance and civil rights. In a brand new video series called Culture Cruise, queer entertainment connoiseur Matt Baume takes a deep dive on two of the gayest episodes of The Golden Girls. The episode “Scared Straight” aired in 1988, just a few weeks after the first National Coming Out Day, and features Blanche’s gay brother Clayton.
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Cherry). But what’s even more beautiful is how Blanche ends the episode by promising to work on accepting her gay brother. It won’t be easy, but she wants him to be happy. And by extension, the episode is telling viewers, we can all work on being better to the people we love. It is no wonder the Golden Girls have been a favorite of the gay community for decades and continue to be quoted daily by a gay man some where in every club across the World. Thank you girls for making this World a better place and giving us memories to share for generations.