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PRIDE 2017 ENTERTAINMENT LINEUP AND PREVIEW

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NASHVILLE TEENS SHARE THEIR PERSONAL STORIES OF PRIDE

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TREVOR MIKULA PAINTS THE PERFECT PICTURE FOR PRIDE

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LETTER FROM THE

MAYOR June 2017 Greetings Nashville Pride Festival Attendees, As Mayor, it is my pleasure to welcome the tens of thousands of residents and visitors to the steps of the Metro Courthouse for the 2017 Nashville Pride Festival. This annual march and gathering at Public Square Park is a joyous time for the LGBTQ community and your allies to come together with laughter and love.

Pride offers us all an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of our LGBTQ community to our society, as well as the many positive steps towards equality. In Tennessee and across America, we still have a lot of work to do in helping our fellow citizens and some political leaders understand that our economy and our society thrives when we embrace the concepts of equality and inclusion. That inclusive, warm and welcoming environment has made Nashville such a great place for all of our residents no matter where they came from, how they got here, or whom they love.

If you are a Nashville resident, I hope you enjoy the Pride festivities and see that the Metro government which serves you is proud to be home to such a thriving LGBTQ community. If you are a visitor, I hope you’ll enjoy your stay and have a chance to experience all of the great amenities, restaurants, and cultural scene that our city has to offer.

Happy Pride Nashville!

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OUTCENTRAL ORGANIZES MARCH AGAINST ‘ERASURE BILL’ LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS PROTEST CONTROVERSIAL LEGISLATION BRETT PERKINS

In the aftermath of the passage of the “Erasure Bill” by the General Assembly and its signing by the governor, OutCentral organized a demonstration to allow community members and leaders to express shock and outrage at the controversial and insidious measure, which succeeded despite the best efforts of the Tennessee Equality Project, the local chapter of the Human Rights Commission, and countless other organizations and individuals.

In response, OutCentral, Nashville’s LGBT Center, held the “We Will Not Be Erased” rally and march on Saturday, May 13.

Chris Sanders of the Tennessee Equality Project (TEP), Marisa Richmond of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition (TTPC), Mary Mancini of the Tennessee Democratic Party and Brett Perkins with OutCentral addressed the participants at the rally.

Their remarks were followed by an emotional speech delivered by Dakkeri Barber-Rhone.

Dakkeri expressed concern as a mother and wife in a same-sex relationship where interpretations of this bill can open the door to consequences to her family.

Upon the conclusion of the rally at OutCentral, the rally-goers symbolically marched to Tennessee Capitol Hill carrying signs made by the community a few days prior.

The rally and march were held without incident and received support from the Metro Nashville Police Department to ensure the safety of the marchers.

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NASHVILLE PRIDE 2017 ENTERTAINMENT PREVIEW WIDE VARIETY OF MUSICIANS OFFER SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE Nashville Pride’s two-day 2017 lineup includes music from every genre, from country to hip-hop, and features both established artists like Ty Herndon and CeCe Peniston and emerging talents like Ezra Furman and Julien Baker. Here’s a quick look at many of the artists performing on the main stage this year!

SATURDAY TREVOR JAMES TILLERY Trevor James Tillery’s “esoteric, ghost-pop music” blends organic and electronic instrumentation that is “at once stripped down and lavishly embellished, showcasing timeless craftsmanship dressed with shimmering pop sensibility.” Currently working in Nashville, Tillery has lived all over the country, from early years in Indiana to teens and early twenties in Phoenix, Seattle, and Los Angeles.

His currently unfolding project, Together.Alone, following up 2016’s In Moonlight, is an ablum being released single by single online. Tillery’s work has drawn critical praise in the media, with The Advocate writing, “Trevor James Tillery delivers a delicious dream-pop delicacy with his latest music video, ‘Sleeptalking.’”

VYRGO A native of Barbados, Vyrgo’s music falls into a genre all its own. She’s been singing and performing since the age of 14, and an amazing presence on stage that cannot be matched! As a singer-songwriter, actress, and all-around entertainer, Vyrgo has worked extremely hard “to build a phenomenal brand and stay in [her] own lane!”

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She has opened multiple awards shows and major events such as the Atlanta Hip Hop Awards, the Nashville Soundtrack Beat Battle, and the 2016 Southern Entertainment Awards, where she won the Performance of the Year Award!

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Vyrgo has also starred as Effie White in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, and will be featured in the new film, A Mother’s Love, starring Marc Jeffries. It’s safe to say that there is much more to come from Vyrgo, and trust she won’t stop until she reaches the stars.

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BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT

BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT Rod Thomas, born in Wales and based in both London and New York, formed Bright Light Bright Light in 2010 and has since released LPs, 2012’s Make Me Believe In Hope and 2014’s Life is Easy, followed most recently by Choreography, which debuted at #39 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and continues to garner critical acclaim. Rolling Stone praises its “throwback electro-pop style” while The Huffington Post declares it’s “Just the thing to get you moving.”

ALANNA ROYALE Alanna Royale, a six-piece powerhouse soul and R&B band with a larger than life presence, is a can’t miss spectacle. “Lead by vocalist Alanna Quinn-Broadus, the neo-soul group reignites the fire under the ass of soul that once burned bright with stars like Etta James, Isaac Hayes, and Bobby Womack” (Pancakes and Whiskey).

About the name, the lead says, “I love the name Alanna Royale because it sounds cheap and luxurious all at once. It conjures up images of a classic car or a Tarantino reference. It doesn’t sound like just one thing.” That perfectly describes a band dabbling in various sounds to create something unique, stretching the limitations of Nashville.

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LA BOUCHE Lane McCray burst onto the international music scene in the mid and late 1990s with the late diva Melanie Thornton. Having met in Frankfurt, Germany by a chance encounter, this powerhouse duo became known as La Bouche (French for “the mouth”) and conquered the dance music scene with landmark success, producing chart toping singles, peaking at number one in seven countries. In 2001, Melanie Thornton passed in plane crash while promoting her solo career, but McCray continues to perform as La Bouche along with Zsofia Farkas.

BIG FREEDIA Big Freedia, known as the Queen of Bounce, is a New Orleans-based rapper and ambassador of Bounce music.

A vibrant twist on hip-hop, Bounce is characterized by calland-response lyrics over rapid-fire beats and accelerated booty-shaking. Big Freedia’s debut LP, Just Be Free was named one of the ‘best electronic releases of 2014’ by Rolling Stone. Big Freedia’s second full-length album will be released in 2017.

After running the New Orleans club scene for over two decades, Big Freedia is now bringing the Bounce movement world-wide with her hit reality show, Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce on FuseTV. Currently in filming its sixth season, the weekly docuseries remains the highest rated original series on the network. More, the show was honored with a GLAAD Media Award in 2013 and was nominated for the award in 2014.

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JULIEN BAKER For years, Memphis native Julien Baker and a group of close friends have performed as the band Forrister (formerly The Star Killers), but when college took her four hours away, she continued her creative journey as a solo artist. As she began to work on telling her own stories, genuinely deep, surprisingly dark stories emerged from her thus far short life. Tales of her experiences are staggering, and when set to her haunting guitar playing, the results are gut wrenching and heartfelt, relatable yet very personal. That early work has now culminated in her debut full-length record, Sprained Ankle.

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EZRA FURMAN Ezra Furman’s recent album, Perpetual Motion People, illustrates timeless influences, delivered with a restless urgency and combative spirit that shines through his vocals and lyrics. The album’s title, Perpetual Motion People, is programmatic: “That’s who it was made by and that’s who it’s for. People who feel they can never settle. I’m restless in most aspects I am always changing the way I present my gender. My religious life is intensely up and down in terms of observance and personal convictions. I’ve always viewed the idea of truth itself as something wobbly, always slipping out of our grasp. That’s what the songs are about: a head that is haunted, a society I cannot join, a lover who is perpetually in the act of leaving. A central idea is the fugitive or runaway, in a hideout built in the midst of an unfriendly or alienated world.

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TY HERNDON Ty Herndon is one of the most recognizable names in country music to LGBT fans, giving his recent coming out and active presence in the local LGBT community ever since.

Herndon has an impressive string of hits that includes three chart-toppers (“What Mattered Most,” “Living in a Moment,” and “It Must Be Love”), as well as numerous top 10 hits, such as “I Want My Goodbye Back,” “Loved Too Much,” “A Man Holding On (To a Woman Letting Go),” and “Hands of a Working Man.” Herndon recently released a new studio album, House On Fire, which represents some of the most meaningful and fulfilling music of his career. The album conveys many different messages that have recently take center stage for Herndon, delivered his trademark style.

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CECE PENISTON CeCe Peniston is an international icon. As an artist, performer and songwriter, she is one of the most successful dance/club artists in the history of the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play Charts. Early in her career, Peniston scored five #1 hits within just three years.

Her signature Dance hit “Finally,” which inaugurated her recording career, was #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart and #2 on the UK Top 75. “Finally” remains one of the biggest dance records in history, having sold over 3 million copies worldwide.

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CONRAD SEWELL “Finding a sound is everything,” says Conrad Sewell, “and it was a real struggle to hone in on one thing. So since this is the first thing people are going to hear from me, I wanted to focus on the songwriting—write songs that I felt were timeless or represented what I really wanted to say.”

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Conrad had some pretty significant accomplishments even before his debut recordings. He has written songs for other artists in his native Australia, had a European hit with his previous band, and, most recently, wrote and sings the hook on Kygo’s global smash “Firestone,” which already has over 100 million streams on Spotify.

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More Than Parades and Festivals Tennessee Teens Share What Pride Means to Them

Allie Faxon, Senior at Franklin County High School: For me, pride is being able to hold my girlfriend’s hand in public and feel fairly safe about it. Pride is also having the ability to stand up for what I believe in. Lastly, pride is the overwhelming feeling that comes over me when I am surrounded by my friends, family, and allies.

Lane Scoggins, Senior at St. Andrew’s Sewanee School: Pride is an opportunity to celebrate my identity with other people who support me. It’s a chance to meet other people like me, and feel like I’m a part of something bigger than myself. Living in rural Tennessee, sometimes it’s good to have a reminder that I’m not in this alone, and that there really is a supportive community out there.

I went my first pride last year with my GSA, and we had a blast! I’ve never seen LGBT+ people so happy and open, especially around here. I’m happy to get to work at the GLSEN table this year and be a part of that happiness. It makes me feel like what I’m doing with my life really matters.

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Pride is becoming comfortable as myself. Pride doesn’t always mean that I wear rainbows and glitter; rather, my short hair, my chest binder, and my weekly testosterone injections help me to feel more like the person I am meant to be. I care about myself enough to break assumptions of gender and sexuality. I express my pride every time I am myself and participate in my community, because I can help show that LGBT individuals are fully capable of becoming informed, involved members of society. We can be leaders, not in spite of our LGBT identity, but because of how our pride in ourselves has encouraged us to keep moving forward.

Sam Passman, Junior at Independence High School: Going to my first Pride was my best experience. I met with my best friend, who had guided me through my freshman year of high school, and showed me that I could be loved and cared for. I remember being so happy, just to see that there were other people like me. I wanted to cry, I was so happy, and I remember asking my mom if she was okay with me having a “gay room.” She didn’t care, of course, because she knew, but it really solidified that my mom loved me for who I am. My first pride is my favorite memory to look back on: it was my gay Christmas morning cliché.

Sydney Peay, Senior at Summit High School: Pride is looking around the room and thinking that, even though I just met these people today, I feel like they know me. It’s about community. I never feel more safe and at peace with myself than when I’m with other LGBT people. I like knowing that, even when I feel sad and alone, there is a massive community who gets it. I like that there’s a history, a culture to queerness that I’m a part of, no matter where I go. Pride is more than just loving myself. It’s loving the community that I’m a part of.

Jade Carroll: Pride is much more then parades and festivals. Pride is knowing you are who you are and no one can change that. Pride is finding your place in the world no matter what hate is to come. Pride is walking down the hallway and knowing that, no matter what anyone says, you are vaild. Pride isn’t something that you can see but something that makes you feel powerful in day-to-day life. Pride is something I hope everyone no matter the situation can feel for themselves.

Austin Belcher: I think pride is wearing what you want, no matter who sees you, like me and my make-up at work! [lawd the sass]

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PEACE LOVE AND PAWS TAKES PRIDE IN CARING FOR YOUR PETS LONGTIME PET SITTERS OPEN ELABORATE NEW FACILITY JAMES GRADY

No community is more attached to its animal companions than the LGBT community—the unconditional love and companionship our pets give us in a world so full of rejection have left many of us fonder of them than of our fellow humans.

Have you ever worried so much about who was going to take care of your pets that you couldn’t really enjoy your vacation, or focus on work? Enter Ann and Darlene Jacobs-Anderson, who are opening a pet boarding service called Peace Love and Paws—complete with a “brand-new, 8,500-square-foot facility offering a loving home-away-fromhome for your beloved fur babies.”

Ann and Darlene have been pet sitting—in their home and in the homes of their clients—for over five years.

“We kind of started out by going into homes,” Ann said. “And we still do—we get that a lot with elderly dogs. People don’t want to put them somewhere, so we go however many times a day they want us to.”

Their move to East Nashville accelerated their turn toward opening their own pet care facility. “That’s when our dream really started to become more,” Darlene said. “We started doing it more and more. I started our Facebook page and tried to reach more people through social media.”

open soon. “We don’t have an official opening date—it’s still being built and rain has put us behind,” Darlene said.

“Reasonably we hope to be open by the end of June. And of course we’re still taking dogs in our home, including some extended stays.”

“We designed this place with how we’d want our animals treated in mind. I don’t want to take my dog to a kennel where they’re going to be alone for twelve hours! So we’ve taken our experience— and I’m a nut about my animals and who takes care of them,” Ann admitted, “and turned it into, ‘Well what can we do to make it better?’”

The facility will have regular employees in the building 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. This was important to them because, as Ann said.

“We’ve done our research and so many of the places keep them in for twelve or so hours.” In addition the facility will have a live-in, onsite manager.

added. “We aren’t gonna turn anyone away or discriminate against breeds.”

“Like I said,” Ann said, “we are just making it how we would want it for our animals. We did a lot of research and found a lot of places left the animals for a long time overnight, and with no one on site… I mean what if a fire breaks out?

They have an alarm to call someone but we have someone there to evacuate the animals. We have a whole evacuation plan. Again, this is just what we’d want for our animals.”

So if you’re still looking for that perfect place to take care of your precious pets, have a chat with Ann, Darlene or the staff of Peace Love and Paws—no doubt your animals will love them.

For more information visit peacelovepawsnashville. com or facebook.com/ peaceloveandpawstennessee.

The size of the facility allows them to accommodate many different sizes, ages, and breeds safely. ”We have our indoor playroom and three separate play areas outside, so we can keep large dogs and smaller dogs apart—they’ll never overlap… We also have indoor-outdoor kennels for the ‘misunderstoods’,” Ann

“So my cousin and his husband are builders here in Nashville, and they just kind of came to us one day and said, ‘We have a piece of property: what do you think about us building y’all a kennel?’ That was truly a lifelong dream for both of us,” Darlene said.

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PAPACITO PUTS THE PRIDE IN LATIN CUISINE LGBT OWNED AND OPERATED RESTAURANT SHINES

The restaurant is now owned by Benjamin Camarena Garcia and Jerry Jones, publisher of Out & About Nashville.

The restaurant’s new name “Papacito” roughly translates into “hot man” and the unique new logo, designed by Donna Huff, is a sugar skull modeled on Benjamin’s facial structure and hair style.

Before purchasing his own restaurant, Benjamin worked for four years at Las Agavas Mexican Restaurant in White House, Tennessee where he honed his skills as a server. Benjamin, who has long dreamed of opening his own restaurant, is now working full-time at the restaurant as its owner/manager.

“It has been a dream of mine to own and operate my own restaurant,” he said. “I am so happy to have this great opportunity.

Jerry and I want our restaurant to be a great place for food and customer service.”

Entrepreneurship runs in the Camarena Garcia family. Benjamin grew up in a restaurant family. Benjamin’s parents own a taqueria in his home town, the small Mexican town of Jesus Maria in Jalisco.

Benjamin is one of five children, and all but his sister has gone into the restaurant service industry. Two of his brothers have also owned their own restaurant, while his sister owns her own beauty shop.

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Camarena Garcia said. “Inglewood and East Nashville have been very supportive.

Our customers have also been so understanding with some glitches that we’ve had during the transition.”

The LGBT community has also been supportive. “We’ve received great support from the LGBT community,” Camarena Garcia said. “We are especially grateful to our councilwoman, Nancy VanReece, for her support and guidance. Really the entire community has been great, supportive and helpful.”

Since purchasing the restaurant, its new owners have made dramatic changes in the décor, removing the harsh florescent strip lighting, painting the interior exterior and having a lovely mural painted on the exterior, removing the bars from the windows and doors, and adding a small amount of bar seating.

They have also dramatically reduced the size of the menu to focus on the unique and popular items offered. While the new menu offers traditional Mexican fare, like burritos, tacos, and fajitas, the restaurant’s signature dish and its most popular item, is the pupusa. Pupusas, which originated in El Salvador but are also popular in neighboring countries, are similar to corn tortillas, only thicker and stuffed with cheese, beans or meat.

time cooks and kitchen help.

“We’ve had to rely on the great assistance of many of our friends who have come in to help wash dishes, bus and wait tables, paint the building and well, virtually everything we’ve done,” Camarena Garcia said. “We couldn’t have done any of this without their help, and we are very grateful.”

Despite the difficulties, Camarena Garcia said business has been steady and growing. “We’ve seen a dramatic increase since we took over the former El Folklor,” he said. “Business has more than doubled.”

We are sure that trend will continue as word spreads, and as people become addicted to pupusas! For more information, visit them at facebook.com/PapacitoNashville or papacitonashville.com.

Another exciting change for the restaurant is that it has now received its liquor license and is offering a limited bar and drink menu that includes margaritas, red and white sangria, and four vodka mixed drinks.

Since the restaurant changed hands, hiring staff has been the biggest challenge its new owners faced. There is a restaurant worker shortage in Nashville due to all of the new restaurants that have opened. The restaurant is actively hiring servers, part-time bartenders, part-

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LAMBDA CAR CLUB’S CUMBERLAND REGION CELEBRATES TEN YEARS LOCAL CHAPTER TO HOST NATIONAL CAR SHOW IN 2018 DAVID CHONTOFALSKY

Do you like cars? So do we! Lambda Car Club International (LCCI) was formed specifically to cater to the LGBT community. The organizers felt that there was a need for the club because historically, mainstream car clubs were either not welcoming to our community, or it was not comfortable for our families and friends to participate.

Founded in 1981, the LCCI has grown to include 32 regional chapters, with a membership of approximately 2,200, throughout the United States and Canada. All regions of LCCI are very inclusive and support members from different races, religions, genders and socioeconomic levels. Straight men and women are certainly welcome to join the club as well.

The LCCI’s Cumberland Region, the Middle/East Tennessee and Kentucky chapter, turns 10 years old this year.

Our region is 55 members strong and is actively recruiting, especially among women and young men who may fear that they or their automotive interest do not have much in common with our current members. That is not the case with us! We love to have folks visit and join us, especially if you love automobiles.

Members drive everything from vintage domestic to sporty imports. Some members don’t own vintage or specialty vehicles at all, but the one thing that we have in common is our appreciation for them.

location of our monthly cruise from Spring through Fall is the Sonic in the Melrose area of Franklin Road beginning at 5:00 pm.

You will also find us participating in the Pride events in Nashville, Murfreesboro and Knoxville. Please check out the cars at our booths!

Every year, one of the LCCI regions hosts the annual national meet, which is called the “Grand Invitational,” where club members from across the nation travel to the host city for the event. In 2018, from May 23-27, 2018, the Cumberland Region will be hosting the Grand Invitational, affectionately renamed the Grand ‘Ole’ Invitational, where we will show what Music City and the area have to offer, such as Country Music Hall of Fame, Jack Daniel’s Distillery, and National Corvette Museum.

The event will culminate with the car show and awards banquet on Sunday, May 27th at the host hotel Franklin Marriott Cool Springs. We encourage everyone to come view the cars, trucks and specialty vehicles on display!

We have decided to donate a portion of the proceeds of the event to charity and have chosen Nashville CARES, a charity that is near and dear to our community, as the beneficiary for the event.

Explore the local chapter website to find out more about the club and our calendar of events at lcccumberland.com and to join our Facebook group at facebook. com/groups/LCCICumberland.

Our email is lccicumberland@gmail.com.

To join Lambda Car Club International, please visit lccimembers.

We hope to see you OUT on the road!

We kick off the year with our annual holiday party in early January. Throughout the remainder of the year, our members enjoy club events, including car shows, swap meets, movie nights, scenic driving tours, museum displays, and cook-outs.

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Trevor Mikula Paints A Rainbow With Pride

Artist Produces First Painted O&AN Cover JAMES GRADY

This year, the cover of Out & About Nashville’s special Pride edition was painted by local artist Trevor Mikula in his increasingly well-known style, featuring a rainbow of pets (his own included) in every shape and size, representing the diversity of the community that Pride brings together. The vibrancy and bright colors you see in our cover reflect Trevor’s outlook and his hope for our community’s gathering.

“I was trying to think of something fun,” Trevor explained. “Obviously Pride started in a not-fun way, but given the political environment right now, people need a little more excitement, fun, and support in their lives. I think it kind of speaks to the idea that we can all be together as a community, as different as everybody is, and be proud of each other and have a good time.”

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Trevor’s artistic vision has been developing since his childhood in rural Tennessee. “I’ve always painted,” Trevor said “I grew up in this strange house where we never had a TV. We were forced to be creative, we were always outside, always making things.”

While he did study art in college, he did not focus on painting.

“I studied graphic design at Nashville Tech,” Trevor explained, “but I’m a self-taught painter.”

After spending most of his life in rural the Spring Hill area and Nashville, Trevor expanded his reach by making a bold relocation. “I moved to Provincetown for three-and-a-half years and opened a little gallery and studio space there,” Trevor said, adding, “It was a cool time and I picked up clients I never would have met here. It’s just a whole different demographic, a lot of the gay clientele where it’s double income, people are there on vacation buying art from all over the world.”

Economics, however, brought Trevor home to Nashville. “I just moved back here a little over a year-and-a-half ago… Cape Cod is not cheap! It was great—but it’s a really short season there so you have to make a lot of money during that time…”

When asked about why he thought his paintings have become so popular, Trevor laughed. “Because of my dog! He’s in most of them,” he joked. “I’ve just always worked super hard to get stuff out and available, and obviously now with social media it’s a lot easier. I’ve been painting full-time for fifteen years so … it’s still selling for nothing but…”

“It’s funny seeing my stuff in offices and in children’s hospitals,” he said. “I know there are some in Sloan Kettering in New York, the Phoenix Children’s Hospital has five or six pieces. It’s just been an interesting ride, with that and collectors—seeing where things end up.”

Some collectors have amassed quite the collection of Trevor’s works. “I recently had a show in Scottsdale, and one lady came in and she had a list. She’s bought forty-six pieces. And she’s like, ‘My husband’s over there, because he doesn’t want to see what I’m buying next!’ So yeah there are a lot of people who are pretty excited by it.”

Between shows and selling in familiar galleries, Trevor keeps busy. “I just finished three shows, one in Scottsdale, one in

Chattanooga, and then a show here in Belle Meade,” he explained. “In Chattanooga it was an outdoor festival called Four Bridges, a yearly festival that features like 160 artists. It’s a juried show, so you have a booth. Here it was the Harding Academy show, a benefit for the art program at the school. Right now I’m just chilling, but the season is starting in P-town for the summer so I’ll be shipping stuff back up there.”

The original painting featured on our cover will be sold, the proceeds going to support a local charity near and dear to Trevor’s heart. “As an artist it’s difficult to know where you stand and to put things into perspective. Orlando profoundly affected my life and made me realize that everything might just be here for a second. This is something I can do—I don’t have a ton of money to give back to the community but this is a way I can give back and hopefully raise money. I’m donating the proceeds of this painting to the Just Us program at the Oasis Center.”

While Trevor has never been in the position of the kids in he wants to help, he has had issues with his religious family, particularly in the aftermath of the last year’s political upheaval. “I have an identical twin—he and his wife are awesome—but the rest of my family is pretty crazy right now,” he explained. “I came out in my early twenties. But this whole year has been really weird because some political talk has led to us not being able to speak about [LGBT issues] which is a ridiculous thing to me. I understand disagreeing with people but not about who they are so to me this year it’s especially important and it’s sad… I don’t know how people can look at someone and not love and appreciate them for who they are.”

“I’ve been talking with Pam Sheffer there,” he added, “and she took me on a tour of the center, and it’s an amazing thing. I can’t imagine not having any support system as a child and being thrown out of the house, so to me it’s extremely important to help those people. I feel sorry for the staff sometimes, the people in the trenches who have to fight these battles 24/7 without any reprieve. I think it’s a really important charity we should all get behind.”

So this year at Pride, come by and check out Trevor’s painting, and maybe take it home with you. Help the kids and show your pride.

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COMES TO EAST IVY MANSION

PRIDE’S BIGGEST FUNDRAISER CONTINUES TO THRIVE Nashville Pride welcomes close to 20,000 people to its events in June, and it takes an incredible amount of money to create this event. As a result, Pride hosts a variety of fundraising activities throughout the year, including their Martinis & Jazz event, which was held on Wednesday, May 17, at East Ivy Mansion.

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This event is the largest fundraiser of the year for the Pride organization and features an extensive Silent Auction. This year’s event had over 300 in attendance and and top Silent Auction items were presented over social media reaching many thousands more.

In case you weren’t able to make it, we sent a photographer to capture this beautiful event!

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Grizzlies To Bring Home the Franklin Cup from Philadelphia LOCAL TEAM MAKES STRONG SHOWING IN MAJOR TOURNAMENT CODY TRACEY

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Throughout this past season the Grizzlies have been constantly been working hard and better themselves, to prepare themselves for the Colonial Cup tournament in Philadelphia, and it seems that all their hard work has paid off! The tournament started off on a good note with the team beating the Madison Minotaurs by 10 points despite the 90 degree heat, but then it took a slight downhill turn with two hard fought losses to the Philadelphia Griffins (A) and the Washington D.C. Renegades.

But the team was not discouraged and came back on day two fighting hard as ever, and crushing the Balitmore Flamingos with a final score of 57-0. The Grizzlies then rounded out the tournament in a close game with the Madison Minotaur, beating them again and taking the Franklin Cup!

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AWARD-WINNING GAY PHOTOGRAPHER RELEASES LATEST WORK NASHVILLE REALTOR HARLEN CROSSEN A FEATURED MODEL JAMES GRADY

Los Angeles-based photographer Blake Little is “one of the most sought-after photographers in the world for his great editorial and celebrity images” according to a recent article in The Advocate. Little has photographed every celebrity and athlete imaginable, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Tom Cruise, Kevin Spacey, The Rock, and Jane Lynch.

The list goes on and on. His work has been featured in Time, People, ESPN, and projects for HBO. Little has just released his newest photography book entitled WORK, which profiles the “gay masculine archetype” established in his previous coffee table books (Preservation, The Company of Men, and Manifest).

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According to Crossen, his inclusion in the work began when he and his husband Jack visited friends, who mentioned that he resembled a man in one of Little’s previous books. After the friends showed them the book, Jack submitted photos of Crossen without letting him know first, and within two hours he received a call from Little, asking, “How soon can you here?”

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What makes WORK particularly noteworthy to Nashville-area readers is that, for the first time in this series of work, Little features someone from here in Middle Tennessee. Harlen Crossen (aka “Papabear”) is a retired fireman and is featured on the back cover of WORK and in two double page spreads.

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Harlen, a licensed realtor with The Wilson Group in Green Hills, lives an otherwise quiet life with his husband Jack (also a real estate broker) and his family here in the Nashville area. When asked if he’s ever done professional modeling previously, Crossen grinned and said, “No. But I was ‘Mr. July’ in the fireman calendar a long time ago. Does that count?”

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Proceeds will benefit The Nashville Grizzlies.

When Little released the first image of Crossen on his personal Facebook page (see “bridge” photo), the response was overwhelming: Harlen received over 9,000 “friend” requests from gay men around the world over the following eight weeks. Since Facebook caps users at 5,000 friends, and Crossen continues to receive over a hundred requests a day, his husband created a private group on Facebook called “Harlen-Papabear” where Harlen can interact with this unexpected fan base from around the globe.

For more information on the book visit WorkTheBook.com, and for more of the author’s work, check out BlakeLittle.com.

Little previously donated a signed copy of the book, presented by Crossen, to the Grizzlies’ silent auction portion of their annual Bachelor Auction event, to raise money for the club’s general fund.

Little and Crossen will be signing copies of WORK in the newly renovated outdoor lounge area of Stirrup on Saturday June 3, beginning at 9:30 p.m. The event is sponsored by The Nashville Grizzlies, the local inclusive rugby team, who are hosting their popular Beer Bust in conjunction with the book signing. Local distributor Lipman Brothers will also have a signature whiskey and cigar that will be available for

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Let’s go positive for a few minutes. It’s Pride month, and we have had enough bad news.

I know that the under-35’s reading this column do not recall what the “bad old days” really looked like. I barely remember the just post-Stonewall days myself, but the 1980’s and the AIDS epidemic have been seared into my brain never to be forgotten.

Gay ghettos and designated districts were real. People got arrested, beaten and murdered for being LGBTQI in the wrong place and time. They still do, but trust me...it’s a helluva lot better these days. It was almost impossible to get a professional job in this part of the country without living a lie everyday. Women and men kept photos of fake opposite-sex spouses and non-existent children on their desks to draw suspicion away from who their real soulmates were. Lesbigay life was much harder for our sisters and brothers on the far side of the Kinsey scale. Bisexuals and transpeople endured suspicion and animosity from both straight and gay alike.

Something happened not too long ago though. The kids got bold in the schools and stopped hiding their true sexuality.

Girls who were born boys and boys who were born girls began to seriously question why they had to keep that damn costume on. Younger bisexuals began to understand that their dual-nature was really a blessing.

Older bisexuals began coming to terms with the fact that they could never run away from it, no matter how hard they tried.

Most importantly: educated heterosexual folks of both genders began to figure out that we were not evil or something to be scared of—we were just us—and they were welcome to be our friends and help celebrate our culture and our lives.

Walls came down. People on both sides of the line stopped being afraid. The bisexuals began coming back and those of us who stuck it out from the beginning got the

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last laugh. Many of us finally got married, but we always knew we were married in our own way. We didn’t need a court or government to tell us that. Quite frankly, we had won.

And then the bigots declared war. They threw everything into the defeat of our political allies, and they now take aim at our freedoms and our souls. We and everything we stand for are just that scary and threatening to them. We must be defeated and scattered. For we are the main enemy...and our community must no longer be allowed to exist.

The victory they are looking for is not going to happen. We are now far too strong for anyone to crush, no matter who is in government or how many bigots pray for our demise. If we were all to succumb to a mysterious drug in the water supply that makes us want to go straight and be upwardly mobile in Williamson County, our culture still lives, awaiting the next generation of kids who seem strangely attracted drag, disco and their best friends.

The “gay cooties” are real, highly infectious, and without cure.

We now embark upon a “post-mainstream” culture that is just getting started.

Our recent victories shine a light upon courageous heterosexual and cisgender allies who have always had our backs. It also gave others the courage to become family, many who never in their wildest dreams thought they would actually be here. But love won...and they are willing to take a chance on happiness. The Tribe will be even stronger by their willingness to identify with our community, openly accepting the blessings, burdens and battles of our mutual inheritance with new determination and conviction.

The political obituaries being written by our adversaries are wishful thinking at best, even at the state and local level. We are no longer the cowed and easily abused minority of earlier generations.

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Our friends in the African-American community have taught us more than a few lessons on how to stand up to the same breed of bully that continues to spread hate in new and equally dangerous ways.

We now do the same for ourselves...and for others. For we are progressives by nature and necessity. We know what it is like to be just a tad different and the stranger amongst us will always find protection in our community. We do not care who you love or where you came from; if you are a kind soul who would do the same for anyone else, then you are one of us.

We all know now what is on the line and are no longer afraid. There is no going back for any of us. Our current struggle is a reminder of how far we have come, so please take courage in your heritage and do your bit, even if that just means being yourself.

For we are The Tribe...a loving people who share a special blessing. It’s our time now.

Julie Chase is the pen name for a local 40-something trans woman. A graduate of The University of the South at Sewanee, she loves butterflies, strong women and the Austrian School of Economics.

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