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Welcome to outlook’s May edition: Green Eggs and Composting Ham. Just when you thought you made it through Earth Day and Arbor Day without having to dispose of your hazard waste responsibly, outlook comes out with our green issue to keep you in line. Inside this grassroots magazine made out of recycled paper and bio ink, you’ll find some great stories on how you can go green right here in town. We talk about SWACO’s new free recycling program, Clean Fuels Ohio, composting, Eartha Ltd, Yay Bikes! rides and green business. There are even more features online at www.outlookcolumbus.com.
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else. My phone has been going crazy for weeks. Suffice it to say, there is a bit of a disagreement on how the fight for marriage equality should be managed and approached. There are questions on motives and transparencies, funding, national buy in, leaders resigning, leaders coming on, timing and how we are all going to play nice in the sandbox. It’s a clusterf#c!. And because things seem to be changing day by day, we can’t write much about it with any accuracy. In fact, I write this in the wake of a meeting that is supposed to bring together all disputing parties. Hopefully, by the time you read this, the campaign for marriage has a collective solution, structure and path forward. Keep your fingers crossed. And last but not least, we need to make a correction. In last month’s story “On the Right Traxx” it was reported that Traxx Columbus will be leaving their location at Outland on Liberty, 95 Liberty Street, and moving to The Garage Bar, 147 Vine Street. The club will not be leaving Outland. They will remain at Outland on Friday nights and will also be expanding to include more nights at The Garage Bar in the late the spring or early summer. We are sorry for any confusion.
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Equality FEdEration SupportS ohio’S puSh For Gay MarriaGE Open Statement to the Community: The Equality Federation, a national alliance of state-based LGBT advocacy organizations, strongly supports the decision of Equality Ohio to focus on building support for the long-term success of marriage equality in Ohio. Rather than moving forward with a ballot initiative now, the Equality Federation believes a longer period of planning will strengthen the movement.
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like a speed dating of subjects for journalists. With Bil Browning of The Bilerico Project and Matt Forman, former head of The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, at the helm this conference has become a way for those in LGBT media to not only meet the newsmakers and explore complex issues, it’s also a space to share our commonality of experiences and wonder, are we the LGBT elite media?
Rebecca Isaacs, Executive Director of the national alliance of the 48 state-based LGBT advocacy organizations, said, “By working together with local, state, and national organizations to build a solid foundation based on quantifiable data before attempting to pass a ballot initiative, Equality Ohio helps ensure the success of the struggle for marriage equality in Ohio.”
Dear Freedom to Marry Ohio and Equality Ohio, Opposition to marriage equality in Ohio is winning; and they did nothing. The civil rights of the LGBT community are threatened not from outside but from within the community. Our community is being divided and called to take sides.
This year we met in Houston, Texas. The night before the conference, Haas hosted a dinner with openly lesbian Houston Mayor Anisse Parker. She was not only candid, but you could tell she was delighted to have LGBT media meeting in her city. One of the first questions she was asked was, “Do you intend to marry your partner?” followed by, “Will Texas ever pass marriage equality”? At one point she joked that she’d rather talk about the city’s new sewage system. This became a recurring theme at this year’s gathering: No matter what the subject of the panel was, the questions always turned to marriage equality. It was the issue du jour.
Ms. Isaacs noted Equality Ohio’s plan to move forward on marriage equality by promoting nondiscrimination and safe schools legislation as the first step in a long process towards achieving their goals. “Past experience has taught us that with nondiscrimination laws in place, the chances of success in achieving marriage equality are vastly improved. We applaud Equality Ohio for making the tough, but right, decision.”
There exist reasons to oppose Equality Ohio and Freedom to Marry Ohio. Truths can prove the value of existence for both Equality Ohio and Freedom to Marry Ohio. Both are good leaders and both are showing poor leadership in not figuring out how to cooperate with each other. Please, don’t divide our community. Maybe you can go into a closed room, figure out how to cooperate, play well with each other and coexist. Stop airing your dirty laundry on the front porch. We need you both and asking us to choose between you is a disservice to us and this civil rights movement. You both have a responsibility to our community, your community, to be a part of the solutions and not a part of the problem.
Like the recent successful battle to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” it is almost impossible to get some journalists to notice that there are other issues as important - if not more important - for the LGBT community. As one trans activist posed: “Has marriage equality kidnapped the movement?” Are important funds which could be used for LGBT homelessness, health and nondiscrimination going to a cause that, while important, is not as crucial as an 18-year-old living on the streets, a teacher being fired, a couple being tossed out of their rental apartment, a battered child, a clinic that won’t understand that lesbians have a higher rate of breast cancer or the abuse of our elders in senior housing?
Please choose to be an example of compromise. Please choose to lead this community in solidarity. You, and we are part of something so much bigger than ourselves. In the end, no one has ownership but we all experience the benefits of positive outcomes.
While it is easy to say that hundreds of thousands of people would benefit from marriage equality, it is also true that many of those people already live in places where most of the heavy lifting has been done and they have secured nondiscrimination laws, have working LGBT health clinics, a community center and a safe place for LGBT youth? But what about the vast majority of LGBT people in this nation who don’t have any protections from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations? Don’t we owe it to them to fight for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act?
The Equality Federation, of which Equality Ohio is a member, is the leader in supporting LGBT equality groups working to change hearts, minds and laws at the state level. The Federation works to achieve equality for LGBT people in every state and territory by building strong and sustainable statewide organizations in a state-based movement. For more information on the Federation, visit their website at http://www.equalityfederation.org.
there is a reason that the ohio Gay Community leadership is not on Board with Freedom to Marry ohio What a great concept we all want for our community. But it takes planning, strategy and money - tons of money. In 2004 when we lost Amendment 2, I stepped in as treasure for Ohioans Protecting the Constitution, (OPC) so I know first hand how much money is needed to run and win a campaign of this size. I am pleased that Equality Ohio is taking the necessary steps toward looking at a repeal of Amendment 2. But for Ian James to announce that this is the direction our community’s resources need to go is completely reckless. In my 20 plus years of community leadership, I never once took a penny for the work I did. The same cannot be said for Mr. James. During the 2004 campaign, his firm took more than a third of the million dollars we raised. And the same will be true if he moves forward with this attempt. He will pay himself for collecting the signatures to get onto the ballot and then his strategy firm will be paid to run the campaign. To me it is just self-serving. At no point do I see him looking at what is best for the Ohio LGBT community. There is a reason that the Ohio gay community leadership is not on board with this effort, nor are any of the national organizations. At this point in our struggle for marriage equality, it is best left up to the courts to settle. The California case is already in the appellate courts and Lambda Legal has just filled another case in federal court regarding the rights of those under the Domestic Partner law in Nevada. If we, the members of the Ohio gay and allied communities,
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Other leadership organizations and individuals should reconsider their part of fueling the fire of discord and in-fighting. Why allow yourselves to get sucked into emotional scaring when you can choose to rise above the strife. Be an example of the solidarity that is needed and not a part of the divisiveness that is killing the movement. I can’t speak for others, but I can speak for myself. I don’t want; safe schools, or marriage equality, or employment or housing equality. What I want is; safe schools and marriage equality, and employment and housing equality. If you would work as hard at cooperating and bringing the community as you are now at dividing it; I think we could get a lot more accomplished. Sincerely, Lloyd Newman
Marriage vs. Full lGBt Equality at Media Summit To the Editor: Each year for the last three years, The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund of San Francisco has held an LGBT blogger and newspaper summit to increase awareness on issues that need focus. The first year, held at the Desmond Tutu Conference Center in New York City, dealt with immigration; the second, in San Francisco, discussed LGBT youth issues such as bullying and homelessness. This year, the subject was the 2012 election. Haas does an outstanding job selecting speakers and presenters for the panel workshops, which are all held in one day. It’s sort of
Personally, I don’t care about the evolution that President Obama is undergoing on marriage equality: He’ll get there and, being politically pragmatic, I hope it’s after the November election. (Think swing states Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.) As to the Democratic Party having a marriage-equality plank - how many people read a party’s platform? Better yet, how many elected officials actually govern from their party’s platform? It’s a great step forward and something that the party should do. It will advance the issue in places that are already predisposed to do so, and may alienate those areas that are not yet educated on the issue. Our main focus now should be to get the tools needed to re-elect Obama. The question for us is, can we trust his evolution on the subject so that after election he becomes the advocate we need? His record already gives us that answer. In each state where there are ballot initiatives regarding the subject, he’s stated very soundly that he does not believe you take away rights or put them on the ballot. And this is not a recent evolution. In 2008, in the Pennsylvania Primary, legislation was pending in the state Senate to change the constitution to declare that marriage is between a man and a woman. At the time, he urged Pennsylvania lawmakers not to pass that legislation. And recently he did the same with similar legislation in North Carolina. Case closed. Let’s move on. Mark Segal PGN publisher mark@epgn.com
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MAN KILLS LONG TERM INTIMATE PARTNER IN REPORTED SELF-DEFENSE IN SHORT NORTH AREA OF COLUMBUS Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization (BRAVO) responds to the recent arrest of John Reed, 54 for the murder of his Long Term Partner Jeffrey E. Caldwell, 56 on April 6, 2012. Jeffrey Caldwell was reportedly shot by longtime intimate partner, John Reed, 54, in Columbus, Ohio on April 6. According to reports, Reed called 911 to report the incident and told a dispatcher that Caldwell “was killing me, he was trying to kill me.” Franklin County Municipal Court has charged Reed with murder; police are continuing the investigation. This is a domestic violence related crime. “BRAVO is saddened to learn of the most recent case involving domestic violence,” said Gloria McCauley, Executive Director of BRAVO. “We at BRAVO believe that it can also be a catalyst for renewed discussion and action on domestic violence in LGBT communities. Sadly, we know that domestic violence/intimate partner violence in its many forms of physical, sexual, financial, emotional, cultural, and/or spiritual abuse happens within all cultures and communities. We urge our community to continue the difficult yet potentially life-saving work of prevention and system reform. We must ask the important questions about victim support and offender accountability within the community and with regard to our systems of support and prevention.” LGBTQ people experience partner abuse in their lifetime at the same alarming rates as heterosexual people. Physical violence is not the only indicator of domestic violence. Domestic violence is about an abuser using a pattern of behaviors to control their partner. Advocates continue to point out that understanding the history of abuse to accurately identify who was the abuser and who was the survivor in the relationship is essential in determining whether a homicide was the ultimate act of domestic violence by the abuser or an act of self-defense by the survivor. BRAVO encourages anyone who has experioutlookcolumbus.com
enced violence or is concerned about their relationship or the relationship of a friend or family member in Ohio to contact us, 866.86.BRAVO, 614,294,7867, or http://www.bravo-ohio.org. If you live outside of Ohio we encourage you to contact your local anti-violence program for support and to document this violence. For help locating an anti-violence program in your area, please visit www.ncavp.org. “This is another reminder that domestic violence is a community issue that affects everyone,” said Gary Heath, BRAVO Domestic Violence Program Coordinator. “It needs to be transformed, not silenced by shame, blame, guilt or fear.”
COLUMBUS OPENS STATE’S LARGEST COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS FUEL STATION Mayor Michael Coleman last month marked the opening of Ohio’s largest compressed natural gas fuel station. City Council member Priscilla Tyson, along with representatives from Clean Fuels Ohio and the US Department of Energy, joined Coleman for the April 12 event at 4211 Groves Road. Columbus is increasing its use of CNG fuel to save taxpayer resources, to reduce the dependency on foreign oil and to protect the environment.
OHIO MOM LEADS CHARGE AGAINST BOY SCOUT DISCRIMINATION Bridgeport, Ohio mother Jennifer Tyrrell was recently told she is no longer able to be den leader for her son’s Cub Scout Chapter of the Boy Scouts of America; this decision was made because Tyrrell is a lesbian. She has already served for over a year as den leader. Tyrrell said of this decision, “Boy Scouts is about teaching kids to be better adults. We’re not doing that by teaching them to hate or discriminate. They know that I care about them, that I lead them and that they can trust me. This is about parents being able to bond with their children. The Boy Scouts of America have denied me the abil-
ity to bond with my son and are teaching children to treat others unfairly.” Since her dismissal, she has launched a petition on Change.org to ask the Boy Scouts to repeal its discriminatory laws against the LGBT community. GLAAD has endorsed her petition, as have the parents and scouts from her former troop. Tyrrell said, “There was an outcry of support for me by the parents of my Tiger Scouts, many of whom waited for hours to voice their concerns to members of the council and the pack’s charter organization, but were turned away without the opportunity to do so.” “The Boy Scouts of America is one of the only cultural institutions to categorically discriminate against LGBT Americans,” said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick. “Sending the message to America’s youth that they or their parents are somehow less than everyone else is dangerous, inaccurate and should be changed immediately.” The Boy Scouts have traditionally discriminated against LGBT youth and families; in 2004 they adopted a new Youth Leadership policy that strips Boy Scout leaders of their positions due to sexual orientation. Bob Drury, a scout executive for the Ohio River Valley, attempted to defend the decision, saying, “We do not grant membership to individuals who are open or avow homosexuals.” “Lesbian and gay parents have proven themselves time and time again to be dedicated, caring, and trustworthy Scout leaders and volunteers, as evidenced by Jennifer and many others who have served in welcoming local Scout groups,” said Dana Rudolph, founder and publisher of popular LGBT parenting blog Mombian. “It is shameful that the Boy Scouts have chosen to stigmatize Jennifer’s son by not letting his parents participate in the same way as those of his peers.” Tyrrell, her partner Alicia Burns and their four children will speak at the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles. GLAAD President Graddick will introduce Tyrrell and her family at the event, with
So much for that “Scout’s honor” they are always talking about.
special guests including Ellen DeGeneres, Josh Hutcherson, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Perez Hilton, Betty White and the cast of Hot in Cleveland, among others. To learn more about the petition visit GLAAD’s website at www.glaad.org/equalityscouts
NONPROFIT DEBUTS ONGOING TELEVISION SERIES ON LGBT EQUALITY Starting in April, public television stations nationwide began broadcasting Remaining Vigilant, an episode from the award-winning newsmagazine In the Life. In The Life Media is an organization dedicated to achieving equality and social justice for LGBT people through dynamic, responsive and compelling use of both traditional and new media, including social networks, video sharing, online community organizing and blogs. The debut episode features two installments of In The States, an ongoing series covering local LGBT activists campaigning for equal rights and protections at the state level. In The States: Iowa brings In the Life to the American heartland where, in an attempt to repeal marriage equality, social conservatives have used unprecedented tactics in a campaign with national implications. The second episode heads to Ohio; our state having few legal protections for LGBT people. Ohio legislators have not only banned same-sex marriage, but they have barred unmarried state employees from receiving benefits for domestic partners; it is legal to fire LGBT people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity; and transgender Ohioans lack the most basic civil rights. On May 1st, Remaining Vigilant begins airing on public television stations across the country and will be available for free video streaming from the In The Life Media website. To find out more, go to ITLMedia.org.
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Queer Places, Practices, and Lives: a Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward by: Tay Glover
Tim Dean of the University of Buffalo.
Chains of hateful criminal activities have marred the constituents of the Ohio State University and the Columbus community lately. The serial swastika spray-paintings in the city, the arson against a Muslim Middle-Eastern student’s house, the vandalism on buildings with hatespeech against African-Americans, have all sent a message against identity inclusion and diversity.
Moddelmog is proud that graduate students and faculty from the English, Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies, Art Education, Geography, History, Comparative Studies and Asian American Studies departments all had a part in organizing the event. Sponsors range from the Multicultural Center, Evolved Body Art, OSU’s GLBT Alumni society, and Outlook Media among others. The Samuel Steward/Eric Walborn Endowment Fund, the College of Arts and Sciences, and a Research and Creative Activities Grant awarded by the Division of Arts and Humanities provided the primary funding for the conference.
In stark contrast, offering hope and rejuvenation for the futures of the glitter-starved queers, the scholarly rainbow flag-waivers unite at the Ohio State University to present Queer Places, Practices, and Lives: a Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward. This monumental event will be held May 18-19, 2012. This two-day conference will celebrate the expansion of scholarship in queer studies by honoring Ohio State University alumni, Samuel Steward. The setting will provide the coolest, most inspiring forum for creative writers, scholars, archivists, artists, students and community members to interact, present and converse about their works relating to queer issues. The conference will feature a multitude of topics ranging from “Regionalism, Radicalism, Terrorism,” to “Poetry, Pederasty, Retrosexuality.” The keynote speaker is New York-based writer Justin Spring who wrote the award-winning book on the honoree called, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade. Debra Moddelmog, Professor in Ohio State University’s English Department, Co-Director of Sexuality Studies and the Co-Organizer and Director of Diversity and Identity Studies Collective (DISCO), says that the conference will welcome scholars from all around the country. The event is free and open to all who may be interested. Some of the speakers scheduled include renowned transgender studies pioneer Susan Stryker of University of Arizona; Brian Glavey, an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of South Carolina (I’m from South Carolina, and I’m amazed that anything “queer” is allowed to be taught in my home state); Professor Kale B. Fajardo of University of Minnesota; and Professor
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So who was this strapping stud that led a life worth commemorating? Simply put, Samuel Steward was everything. His legacy encompasses influence and valor in a plethora of areas - writing, teaching, academia, erotica, art and tattooing - that allow for a beautiful and unique story about history, homosexuality and scandal. Steward was a gay man living in the 1920s, decades before homosexual identities were politicized or embraced confidently as a norm. However, his works were bold and he intentionally did not live a closeted life. If anything, it appears that Samuel was living, in all of his endeavors and expressions, to create a capsule of exposed gay life for later discovery. Author Justin Spring would put the pieces together to enable his story to come full circle. In the Life media composed a wonderful short video featuring Justin Spring’s discoveries, giving one an illustration of who Steward was: Samuel Steward was born in 1909 in Woodsfield, Ohio. Sex and sexuality were central to his life early on and he had lots of it in his life. He was 17 when he had a sexual encounter with actor Rudolph Valentino, after seeking an autograph, of which he chronicled with kept remains of Valentino’s pubic hair. He was a literary all of his life, always chronicling events and escapades through art or writing. His writing and sexual nature garnered him initial attention in academia. His entrance essay for admissions to the Ohio State University openly alluded to homosexuality, and his is dissertation
for graduation in the English Department also had a gay theme. Both bold statements at the time. The Sexuality Studies Department cites, “His Ohio State connections reveals that his experiences here as an undergraduate and graduate student from 1927-34 shaped his life in important ways, helping him to make contact with major writers of his day, such as Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice Toklas; generating interest in an academic life which he later eschewed; and providing the setting for one of his major novels.” He was trained as a librarian when he attended the Ohio State University, and he left us “The Stud File” - a carefully cross-referenced, cataloged record of all of the people he had sex with in his life to show us his acquired skills. The cards feature coded names, dates, penile dimensions, and descriptions of the sexual encounters. There are almost 900 cards. He also had a typewritten diary of his sexual escapades. Steward was a sexual renegade - he collected leather and disciplinary devices, and was interested in how pleasure and pain could be combined for a heightened sexual experience, what we call S&M. He was kinky and humorous and wrote homosexual erotica under the name Phil Andros. This guy was the ultimate sex symbol, if you ask me. And did you know that Steward was Alfred Kinsey’s theoretical muse? Steward met Kinsey in 1949 and became an unofficial collaborator in his research. Spring cites, “Steward’s highly detailed documentation of his sexual experiences underscored and supported Kinsey’s controversial work about male homosexuality.” In the 1950s Steward began his career as a tattoo artist when tattooing was still an underground artform. With what we know about his daring, gritty, sexually artistic personality, it is only divine destiny that he would end up in this field. Steward was a sly guy, building a clientele exclusively of sailors, bikers, hustlers and street thugs to be his sexual prospects. No longer Phil Andros, he became Phil Sparrow. Owning a tattoo parlor in Oakland, California in the 1960s, he came across the now famous Ed Hardy, and it was under Steward’s mentorship that Hardy would begin his tattoo career. Steward died at age 84. We are now able to con-
Who DOESN’T keep a lock of their paramour’s pubic hair?
struct a very iconic piece of sexual history from the 1920-50s, and to build on queer academia with the instructions left by him and his estate. What will the event held in Steward’s honor mean for GLBTQ awareness on campus and in Columbus, and support for queer studies and our departments on campus that promote diversity? Moddelmog replied, “The symposium will draw attention to OSU for being GLBTQ friendly. It will raise political awareness and awareness for teaching and research work in the field for students.” “For me, as a WGSST instructor and grad student, and a queer woman myself, it’s exciting to be able to offer several speakers that can touch upon the history of Queer Life in Columbus and Chicago, an important step in helping our queer and GLBT students feel connected to their history and inspired toward more activism,” said Moddelmog. Professor Shannon Winnubst proudly affirmed, “We have worked hard to give this conference high visibility, so I hope the campus and city do feel the impact of the two days. Work in queer studies brings an unusually critical eye to all kinds of normativity, whether sexual, racial, class-based, gender, nationalist, religious, ability-centered, or however. To have hundreds of people coming together for two days of intensive academic and activist conversations about this should be invigorating for everyone on campus interested in such dynamics.” This symposium is historical in that it is the first in hopes of becoming an annual event. In honoring Steward, it validates queer identity and practices. He was a pioneer in presenting queer scholarship to OSU. Education pertaining to difference in people, practices, and places will always be integral in creating an environment that is founded upon diversity and inclusion. I am proud to be able to claim Samuel Steward as a part of the Buckeye Nation, and more importantly the QUEERS! The event is free of charge and open to the public. May 1819, 2012. For info on the conference: https://sexualitystudies.osu.edu/samuelstewardsymposium and to give to the Samuel Steward/Eric Walborn Endowment Fund: https://www.giveto.osu.edu/igive/onlinegiving/search_results.aspx?fundnum=607512.
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Our Diversity and Differences Can Be Our Greatest Asset in the Fight for of Marriage Equality by Ed Mullen I know you all missed hearing from me last month (right?), but I had writer’s block. I wrote a long, boring article about communications we do around the state outside of the LGBT community and deleted it because I felt like it was dishonest. Not because anything in the article itself was dishonest, but because it didn’t say anything about what I was really thinking and feeling at the time. This has been a tough few months for me in my role as Executive Director of Equality Ohio. As many of you know, I wrote an article earlier this year that was both supportive of the efforts by Freedom to Marry Ohio to have elected officials sign a pledge to support our communities freedom to marry, while also raising questions about the language, timing and process of the petition drive they proposed. After doing a lot of research on the issues raised, including talking to local, state and national groups and surveying community leaders and grassroots activists around the state, I posted on the Equality Ohio website (www.equalityohio.org) in the News section my conclusions, which has caused a stir. I also spoke with outlook’s Chris Hayes on the Radio Outlook show about this issue at length. Since the stir, I have gone back to what I wrote, and I wouldn’t change a thing. It is solidly reasoned based on the facts and analysis as I understand them. I think it is the kind of honest and professional analysis our community deserves, and its content was supported by our diverse Board, local activists throughout the state, and national groups. Moreover, the process Equality Ohio intends to engage in to get a broader spectrum of the community on board with a marriage equality strategic plan, which we hope will be implemented by a coalition steering committee - not Equality Ohio itself, has been praised by grassroots activists and community leaders across the country. However, the personal attacks against Equality Ohio and me as the spokesperson have been painful to read. I certainly don’t expect everyone to like me (hell, I was a lawyer for 13 years), and I know everyone won’t agree with every decision/statement I make, nor all of the work Equality Ohio does. But I at least hope that people understand we truly have the best interest of the community at heart as we seek to fulfill our mission of making Ohio a place where everyone feels at home. We face an uphill battle in all we do given the demographics of our legislature, population in Ohio and our limited resources. But know, that though the work is often slow, we are making progress.
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Just as the comments directed at me and Equality Ohio were hard to read (especially those made from people whom I considered friends), I am sure that folks involved with Freedom to Marry Ohio felt the that the comments made by me, our Board members or just supporters, were harsh as well. I have truly tried to make my public comments professional and not personal, but when your work is as personal as marriage equality, it is very hard to separate the two. I am sorry to those who have been hurt by my words or the words of those I was unable to control.
best place to make derogatory comments about people and organizations. Think about how those comments will make the targets feel and what damage they could do to their reputation and credibility. Is it worth it? Why are you making those comments? Is that something you would say if the person was standing in front of you? Conversely, think about whom you may be empowering with such comments. Are you giving ammunition to our haters?
In our work on safe schools, we see that words hurt. And having those words travel through shared social networks over the Internet increases the pain exponentially. Let’s try to be better to each other. I think Facebook has been an excellent tool for advocacy and com- Let’s try to care for each other’s feelings and hopes and dreams. munications. I worry however that people - on all sides - sitting be- Let’s understand that while we will have fundamental differences hind the computer writing on Facebook forget the impact of their about the world, strategy, priorities and how we communicate, we words, and the same is true with online newspaper comments sec- can debate those differences civilly. tions. I have asked many people over the last few weeks to delete comments I thought were out of bounds. I worry that communica- As I said, debate is healthy and we must continue to debate how tion through the news media is also problematic because the our community moves forward on marriage equality because there media love to create conflict, and they have to shorten interviews is vast difference of opinion. From where I sit, that division became into short quotes or sound bites that often don’t reflect the context apparent as soon as Freedom to Marry Ohio began their efforts. or true meaning. Since the beginning, I have gotten emails and phone calls from many, many people saying that FTMO efforts are dangerous and So, that is preface for what I want to ask in this column. First, I could set our community back years; that they are concerned about want to ask all of are community members and allies to stop and the transparency, inclusiveness and financial controls of the ortake a breath before reacting to something you read or hear. Put ganization. Then I get other emails and calls saying Equality Ohio yourself in the shoes of the person talking and ask yourself if the should support them fully. We obviously can’t do both, and whatwords reflect the person as you know them. Ask yourself if there is ever we do will upset someone. But what we can try to do is get a reason for those comments other than the first - possibly mali- representatives from both opinions in the same room and create a cious - reason that jumped into your head. If you thought, “That strategic plan with buy-in from as many people as possible. Hopeperson is trying to hurt me by those words,” think about why they fully, by the time you read this, there will be an agreement on a might have thought those words were important to say. structure and process for moving forward, and we can focus on what we agree on - full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and The LGBT community is very diverse. We encapsulate every gender, transgender people in Ohio. race, faith belief, economic class and geographic location. Because of this, we often see the same thing through very different I take my role at Equality Ohio very seriously, and I try to make deciprisms of experience. Healthy debate and dialogue are good sions, not as a representative of just the organization, but as a things. The various perspectives different people bring to the table representative of the community, respectful of our history and are valuable and make the work that we do that much stronger. founding as a community-based organization. Our strategic plan But when the debate becomes personal and slighted, no one wins. is informed by the community, and we try hard to respond to the If we are to come together as a community and achieve the civil needs and wants of the community within the structure and rerights we all want and deserve, we need to stay cognizant of our sources available. I see the excitement and enthusiasm for mardiversity, respect that we see things differently and find a way to riage equality in Ohio, and we are definitely going to incorporate work together. that into our work more explicitly. I do hope that we can move forward with mutual respect for each other and each person’s point of The second thing I ask is that people take to heart the power of the view. Internet and anonymity. Before you post something, think about who might read that post and be personally affected. Think about Ed Mullen is the Executive Director of Equality Ohio. For more info on EO: equalityohio.org or 614.224-0400. whether the comments section of a widely read newspaper is the Apparently, cyber bullying doesn’t stop after grade school.
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Wall Street Nightclub: 25 Years of Community and Change by Christa Sidman
the next level. And that meant some changes.
Around the corner from the downtown Y sits an important part of Columbus GLBT history: Wall Street Nightclub. For the past 25 years, it’s been bringing people together to dance their butts off - and to explore, express and celebrate who they are.
“Our biggest physical upgrade was to transition Wall Street into a video dance club,” he explained. “That meant replacing LP turntables with DVD players and a state-of-the-art Pioneer video mixing board. Our DJs are now talented VJs who can mix music videos just as their predecessors mixed vinyl.”
Owner Scot Hafler knows this better than anyone. He’s been around almost from the beginning. A 1987 graduate of Pickerington High School, Hafler came out at 18 to a supportive group of friends and family. Then, he set out to discover his new community. Back then, Columbus’ gay nightlife flew under the radar. “Most social spots were unmarked by signs; people learned about them though word of mouth,” Hafler explained. And there were far fewer options, especially for lesbians and transgender people. Wall Street Nightclub had opened in 1987. And when Hafler needed a job, it seemed like a natural fit. “I began as a barback in 1989,” he recalled. “I worked my way up through the ranks as bartender, assistant manager, and manager. Then I became operations manager, overseeing both Wall Street and her sister club, Aqua Key West.” It was hard work, but it wasn’t all work and no play. In 1992, Hafler met his longtime partner, Blane Coldiron, on the job. (Blane was working as a DJ.) In 2007, the original owner, Jill McDonald, offered to sell Wall Street Nightclub to Scot so she could focus her energies on Aqua Key West. Knowing the business so well, and loving the club’s energy and people, Hafler didn’t hesitate. He was ready to take Wall Street Nightclub to
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The club also replaced its old monitors with LCD/HD flat screens and installed DLP/HD projection screens on the balcony facades. Now, club goers can enjoy a mixed audio/visual experience as they dance or socialize. Most recently, Wall Street has installed a multi-level dance floor and performance space. “As the club evolves with the community, we’ve introduced more entertainment options into our lineup,” said Hafler. “The new space supports a unique dance experience while providing a large space for production shows, drag performances and burlesque.” There were some things Hafler didn’t plan to change, like the club’s strong ties to LBGT and other charitable causes. “Jill [McDonald] spent more than 20 years developing a strong reputation, and it was my responsibility to make it even stronger,” he said. He has maintained commitments to Stonewall’s annual Pride weekend, Kaleidoscope, the Buckeye Regional Anti-Violence Organization (BRAVO), Camp Sunrise, and the annual Transgender Symposium … to name just a few. Over the past 25 years, Columbus has become a much more accepting place. And Hafler believes his club has been a catalyst for those changes.
“We’ve had a lot of firsts,” he said proudly. “We were the first club in town to hold weekly Alternative Music Nights. They pulled in a lot of OSU students, blurring the line between gay and straight and giving them a social outlet to get to know each other.” And Wall Street’s Sizzling Sundays were the first female illusion shows to be mentioned in a mainstream Columbus paper (Columbus Alive!). The club’s commitment to outreach continues today. Its newest partnership is with Imagine Productions of Columbus, an LGBT community theater troupe that stages productions at Wall Street. Troupe membership and performances are open to everyone. We can trace our history through the words we use to describe ourselves. Hafler explained it like this: There used to be only two official camps, lesbian or gay. Then, the term LGBT brought bisexual and transgender people into focus. Now, some use the term LGBTQA, which includes those who are questioning their identities and the allies (friends and family) of people all along the spectrum. “My clientele today has a much greater sense of inclusion,” Hafler said. And the club supports that. “At our core, we’re a lesbian dance club. But we welcome everyone who comes with an attitude of respect.” Unlike many clubs, Wall Street attracts quite a wide age range. “In any given month, we’ll have 18-year-olds and we’ll have 60-yearolds,” Hafler explained. And he makes sure there’s something for everyone. Friday nights are for college students. The monthly Illusions Cabaret Brunch draws a more mature crowd. On First Fridays, starting at 8p, the music evolves hourly by decade, from the ‘70s to the present. And the VJs love to play requests.
25 years is the silver anniversary.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the readers of Columbus Alive! have just voted Wall Street the best dance club in Columbus. According to Hafler, one of the reasons is variety. “We do a lot of themed dance parties as well as theater productions and burlesque shows. We also feature Hot Spots, where a local entertainer comes to perform a high-energy dance number.” People also rave about Wall Street’s staff. “We look for people who are extroverted, friendly and talkative yet focused on the task at hand,” said Hafler. “People come here to dance or socialize, so fast, friendly service is our goal.” Hafler’s enthusiasm is the lifeblood of his club. He loves the creativity of relationship building and the diversity of the people he meets. “I see Wall Street Nightclub as a community center,” he said. “My staff and I are grateful to the community that supports us. You’re the reason we’re here. And we’re committed to staying relevant for you far into the future.” May 2012 is Wall Street Nightclub’s 25th anniversary month. And you’re invited to the celebration! Special events include: May 26: Wall Street’s 25th Anniversary Variety Show and Dance Party, hosted by Mary Ann Brandt May 27: Illusions Cabaret Brunch featuring Jimmy James & Sizzling Sundays Reunion Show featuring 14 popular former cast members Intrigued? For more information and updates about these events, visit Wall Street’s Facebook page or its new website www.wallstreetnightclub.com.
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In a gala-xy far far away, gay people have equal rights, but are horribly unfashionable.
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Yay for Bikes! Yay for Ray! by Michael Daniels Ray George is no stranger to urban readers. An avid urban and rural recreational cyclist who goes on the occasional adventure cycling trip, Ray rides to experience the sense of freedom that cycling provides him. His day job is the Marketing Manager at Homeport (aka Columbus Housing Partnership). Since his 2007 arrival in Columbus, Ray has organized rides for thousands of cyclists, including Bike the C-Bus, Tuesday Night Ride, Circleville Pumpkin Show Ride and Night of a Thousand Tacos, among many others. He maintains the blog Columbus Rides Bikes about these cycling adventures and other bicycle-related news. I caught up with him recently to discuss his latest project, Yay Bikes!
We were sitting around a table at Local Bar brainstorming and I blurted out “Year of Yay” which, while off the cuff at the time, became the name of the ride series. The themes are a result of our love of partnering with small businesses - we pride ourselves on being a good partner as well. We threw out ideas and over time they attached themselves to events or holidays and we go with it. Then we approach businesses to complement the theme and we build a route that is fun and educational.
MD: A lot of people ride for pleasure, but fewer ride to work - some cite not wanting to be sweaty when they arrive, others cite weather concerns, and others clothing and shoe changes once they arrive. How can bike riding be done to be a true practical way to get to and from the Michael Daniels: What is Yay Bikes!, and job? how does it integrate with other biking RG: Live closer to your job. Ha, I said it. I initiatives, and how is it different? am in the same boat as many others beRay George: Yay Bikes! is a grassroots cause I live farther out and I don’t ride to member organization that promotes bicy- work because our office doesn’t have cling as an alternative to driving in Cen- showers. But, the reality is that tens of tral Ohio. Our tagline is “Let’s Ride!” and thousands of cyclists ride to work every that says it all. We like to get people out day across the country. Stepping outside on their bikes and that is completely dif- your comfort zone is the hurdle that I ferent than what other advocacy groups haven’t yet reached, but when I do I will are doing. We want people to feel comfort- check back with outlook readers. For those able jumping on a bike and riding around that want to bike to work here are some town confidently, which will translate into great tips that I gathered from our board: a vibrant cycling community. • Take a weekend practice ride to see On a side note, I personally have a prob- what it will take to get there. lem with the idea that bike lanes will • Ride slower in the warmer weather so solve all of our problems. If a person is you don’t sweat. afraid to ride on the street in front of their • Carry a change of clothes on your bike own house, how does a bike lane on High with a rack and some bags, or on your Street alleviate the situation? It doesn’t! back with a book bag. • Ride in your work clothes. MD: What types of educational compo• Roll up your pant legs and ride. nents do you do? • Taking the first journey is often the RG: Everything we do is educational. We most anticipated, so take it easy and get leverage the largest group of League Cy- into the groove. cling Instructors for private or group les- • Use baby wipes to freshen up if you sons. We are reaching OSU students with don’t have access to a shower. “How We Roll” (www.howwerollosu.com) and residents of Franklin and surrounding MD: How do we learn more about Yay counties with Year of Yay! We provide eco- Bikes! and get involved? nomic development with our rides and ed- RG: Yay Bikes! has a recently redesigned ucate businesses on why cycling is good website at http://yaybikes.com, which our for the community. team put together and it is a great resources for cyclists. Our forums have been online for MD: You have monthly themed rides years and provide an outlet for cyclists to how did you come up with this idea, and communicate and develop ideas for the comwith the themes themselves? munity. We are on twitter (@yaybikes) and RG: We love to get people on bikes, and a facebook (yaybikes614) as well. series of rides is a great way to do that.
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“Get on your bikes and ride!” - Freddie Mercury, apparently an avid cyclist
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Erin just spent 3 nights down in Key West - she suggests you visit the boys at Bourbon Street bar.
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I’ll bat his balls. Wait, what does that mean?
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A Note from Mother by Regina Sewell (If Mother Earth could speak, this is what she might say:) I know that you’re worried about me. I’m old – really old – as in around 4.54 billion years old. Your activities have taken a toll on my health. You have probably read that the polar bears are drowning because the ice caps are melting. You might remember seeing pictures of the pelicans covered in oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP spill. You might be worried about the risk of nuclear annihilation either because of last year’s disaster in Japan or because Iran seems to be gearing up to participate in the nuclear arms race. You might have even seen footage showing patches of the rain forest in flames as greedy businesses clear out the forest for the wood and/or to use the land for business. And you’ve probably noticed that the old gray mare ain’t what she used to be. In fact, she’s not even a horse, she’s a car/truck/SUV/van and she’s thirsty. She works for gas, and without it she won’t take you anywhere. When her tank is sufficiently full, she’s pretty fast – at least faster than walking – but her speed comes with a price. The carbon emissions she sputters out are polluting the air and helping to turn the North and South Poles into next year’s sauna of choice. And I know that some of you have been taking me for granted. Perhaps it hurts too much to think about your mother dying. Denial doesn’t make the problem go away. You’ve got to know about my health if you want to survive. Here are a few of my new favorite documentaries about my health. You can watch Mike Markham ignite his tap water in Gasland (the flammable water is a “bonus” the gas companies don’t tell you about when they advocate fracking). You might cheer on community members in Appalachia as they fight the power of Big Coal in The Last Mountain. Of course, it’s hard not to lament for all the other mountaintops Big Coal has already bulldozed away. Tapped points out that only 20% of water bottles are recycled and that most of the rest end up in landfills or worse, are swirling around in that Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (Look this up – it’s not pretty, but even though it’s a long way away, it still affects you. You know what they say, “If Mama ain’t healthy, ain’t nobody healthy.) Unless you are trying to transition from male to female, you might be concerned about the fact that the BPA in those plastic bottles acts like estrogen and in large doses actually blocks male sex hormones. It’s pretty scary seeing all those fish with gonads that contain both ovarian and testicular tissue. Of course it probably won’t help your mood to learn that 40% of bottled water is actually just dressed up tap water.
of pollution, but I am still vibrant and alive. Connecting with me will not only help you get present, it will also give you the strength you need to wage the battle you are about to take. Go outside. Ride your bike. Take a hike. Swim in a lake. Work in your garden. Sit beside the ocean and watch the waves crash on the shore. Hug a tree. Really feel me. Feel my majesty. Feel my strength. Imagine letting your roots sink down into my soil and breathe my vibrancy up through the souls of your feet. The next thing I want you to do, just in case it didn’t occur to you to do this when you were connecting with me, is breathe. You have to breathe. There’s simply no way around this. If you want to save me, you have to be present and in order to be present you have to get out of your heads and come back into your bodies. The easiest way to do that is to consciously breathe. There are lots of ways to use your breath to ground you, but one of the easiest is to simply breathe in and feel your breath as it comes in your nostrils, notice what it’s like as it passes near your sinus cavities, down your pharynx (throat), down your trachea (windpipe), and into your lungs and then notice the return trip of the used up air as it leaves your body. Or, you can focus on what it feels like as you breathe into your lungs, noticing how your belly expands as your lungs push your diaphragm down and how your chest rises as you breathe into the top corners of your lungs. Give yourself time to do this every day – at least five minutes (half an hour or an hour a day would be ideal but it’s better to start small and work up). If you need help, there are lots of books and CDs and videos on meditation that can. One of my favorite easy guides can be found on Chopra.com, where you can sign up for a 21 Day Meditation Challenge or for single standing meditations, surf over to the Chopra Center University page and click on Guided Meditations (in the “About Us” frame).
Now that I’ve pulled your heads out of the sand and shaken up your denial, stop with the spinning. This mess you’ve made is what it is. Accept it. Stop dreaming about the good old days when there weren’t problems. That’s just magical thinking. The generations before you may not have had the same ability to destroy me, but there were always people who raped my lands and poisoned my water. Besides, longing for yesterday doesn’t do much to solve today’s problems. Likewise, making yourselves sick with worry about what might happen in the future isn’t slowing the destruction either. The same with your guilt. Stop it.
Once you get yourself a bit more present, you can start doing something. Start small. Maybe you ride your bike or take the bus to work a few days a week. Maybe you replace your toxic cleaning products with “green cleaners.” Maybe you start composting. Maybe you unplug your appliances when you aren’t using them. Maybe when you trade your next car in, you replace it with a hybrid. Maybe you stop buying bottled water. Maybe you stop buying products from corporations that pollute or make weapons. Maybe you donate money to an environmental group like the Natural Resources Defense Council or join a local group like C-bus’s own Simply Living. Maybe you send e-mails to your state and federal representatives encouraging them to pass laws that will help the environment. Maybe you take up organic gardening and lawn care. Maybe you read up on sustainable lifestyles so you can live simply so that others can simply live. Choose something doable and do it. I want to be able to see your children’s children thriving.
Some of the damage may be irrevocable, but there are lots of things you can do to take care of me and make sure that I survive. The first thing I want you to do is reach out and touch me. I’m serious, I may be old and have a lot of scabs and scars and oozing pockets
To ask Regina a question, propose a column topic, read about her approach to counseling, or check out her books and other writing, go to: www.ReginaSewell.com . Her most recent publication, “Sliding Away” can be found in Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and Work in Our 40s, edited by Molly Rosen.
I hate to scare you, but some of you just need to wake up and smell the sewage. I’m not trying to be overly dramatic, but you’ve got to take care of me because you can’t live without me. There aren’t any other planets out there that can love and support you like I can. I hear you complaining about the weather – it’s always too hot or too cold or too cloudy or too dry or too something – but where are you going to find a planet that sports the oxygen and water you need to survive? Awareness is the first step. You have to know what’s going on to be able to take care of me.
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Do you think Taye Diggs will join her in Columbus?
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Green Movement: Eco-Friendly Transportation for the Fashionista by Mickey Weems
Para-Para-Paradise Garage
In an ecosystem that is moving towards a major breakdown, we should all be as green as Kermit the Frog.
We moved on to other stores. Paradise Garage on High Street (921 N High, paradisegarage.com) was another place with great service and a beautiful layout. The name of the store is a nod to a legendary bar in Manhattan, one of the places where the Gay community was shaping electronic dance music and DJ culture in the 1980s. Nice touch for the Short North, the Castro District of the Buckeye state.
But it’s not easy being green. Be that as it may, I want to do my part in reducing pollutants and lessen the need for fossil fuels. I also want to be lean, to get in better shape while going from Point A to Point B, and I want look good while I’m doing it. Yes, I want it all. You Can Do It – It’s Electric Initially, I considered a moped. I discovered a better option during a trip to Miami in March when I saw tourists using electric bikes. No need for gasoline, no direct pollution. And the riders looked totally hip. They also looked like they were having fun. I returned to Columbus and began researching electric bikes. Not only are they available on the market just about everywhere, there are also collapsible or folding bikes that, in a few seconds, can be stored just about anywhere. A folding bike can easily fit in a car trunk or back seat. One model in particular, the EcoBike Vatavio, caught my interest. There are 3 modes for riding the Vatavio: pedal power, electric motor or a combination of both. Problem is, the best place to get a Vatavio is New York City, not C-bus. According to Google authorities, there were none in Cow Town. But there are other brands that make a folding electric bike. I decided to go on a pilgrimage to bike shops around town - there might be an electric folding bike tucked away somewhere. Not everything for sale is revealed on the ‘net. Let’s Roll The quest began in Upper Arlington at a trendylooking place called Roll (1510 W Lane Ave, rollonline.com). The store has an attractive exterior and engaging staff, although they could have used more workers when we visited the shop that evening. Point man Nick Carey was juggling multiple tasks while fielding my questions. A recent conversation with Roll manager Chris Sharp confirmed my first impression: Roll is a great place to bike-shop. Chris told me about something I didn’t even know existed anywhere: an infrared body-scanning device that helps buyers determine what kind of bike they need for their physique. The prices at Roll are reasonable. The store has a collapsible bike - Strida brand, made in America, very cool, with a carbon fiber-reinforced belt instead of bicycle chain, available in silver and black, and fashion-forward in design. Roll also has an electric bike with a more traditional look. But it did not have an electric folding bike.
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I spoke with Emily Burnett about Dahon bikes, a major brand carried by Paradise Garage, and learned that Dahon makes a folding electric bike. But there was none at Paradise. Burnett’s business partner, Dan Monnig, said there was not enough demand. “We always keep a couple of collapsible bikes during warm weather,” he said, “but there isn’t a big enough client base yet for electric and collapsible.” Dan assured me they could get one in five business days. I was downhearted. Five business days is forever in the hyper-fast days of Facebook. That’s the problem with wanting it all: you can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you just might find that you get what you need. You Say You Want a Revolution There was another place on High Street for me to try: Revolution Cycles (1189 N High, revolcycles.com), and a quick phone call gave me optimism. There was one issue, however: they were in the middle of moving to a new shop a couple doors down. The manager, Jared Cavalier, agreed to let me take a look as long as I didn’t mind the chaos. He and his associate Brandon Warndcke were cheerful when we got there, despite the challenge of negotiating what seemed to be hundreds of bicycles that were awaiting a new home once the new space was ready. Lo and behold, they had what may be the only EcoBike Vatavio in all of the USA! Kevin fell in love with a Strida collapsible complete with two satchels, so we made a dual purchase. “We were in the process of moving to a new space two doors north that offered us four times the space and architectural advantage,” Cavalier said. “It has hardwood floors and a tin ceiling, reminiscent of an old-style shop where you receive personal attention.” Interesting comment, I thought, about an old-fashioned shop with recent-tech innovations like LED bicycle lights and carbon frames. What’s in a Name? Although we made our purchases at Revolution, I would have been just as happily bought our bikes at Paradise Garage or Roll. All three have great names (I love a clever moniker) and staff. I found that all three were customer-friendly, Gay-friendly and provided me with great shopping experiences. Check them out - they’ll get you going green without taking you for a ride. Q: What did the bicycle call its dad? A: Pop-cycle.
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“No One Likes A Clogged Pipe” by Mario Pinardi Isn’t swallowing considered recycling? I mean, you are saving tissues and a cum rag if you swallow, and if you add some berries – you have a protein smoothie! How hip is that? While I feel that we must do as much as possible to sustain our environment, I can’t help but think most people see being environmentally friendly as a trend, or as a justification to overindulge in “green” products. Is being environmentally conscious a daily activity, or is it only relevant when you are at the mall seeking a trendy “green” item? When is being “green” truly going to be a part of daily living? Being a part-time mall bitch, I see the homos with their plethora of bags that may contain one to two items each; and this is OK because those homos just bought a shirt made out of recycled cotton? If you truly cared about being green, you would have had your own reusable tote or you would have used one bag all day, instead of having five to six bags from different stores. Unfortunately, this is a typical occurrence. Being green, in this case, is truly not being green because you needed to have that sack to show what store you just patronized. This makes no sense, silly label queen. BYOBDB - bring you own bag, dung breath, or do not claim to be “green.” And let’s talk about the gunk we use on our hair and body. Now, I will admit that I love bath and body products, and 95% of the time we buy products that are environmentally friendly and are non-comedogenic, which means that when we wash the substance off our skin or hair, it will not clog our drains, our pores or
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taint the water. Buying the hippest hair balm or the latest shower gel will not be green and will not improve environment, even if you recycle the bottle. Plus, you will eventually have plumbing issues due to the residue getting stuck on your pipes - and no one likes a clogged pipe. Read the label to make sure that what you use on your body is good for the earth, and most of the time, it will be good for your body. Now, for sake of boredom and for me rambling on, most of us who are not vapid cave dwellers know that companies have been creating green products for years. From detergents and fabric softeners to shampoos and hair gel, it is now possible to be green in every aspect, including your sex life. I found an online ad on a porn site that I was watching (don’t judge, asswipe) that was for green marital aids. Let’s start with the basic personal lubricant. Most lube contains chemicals found in oven cleaner, brake fluid and antifreeze. One brand of lube that is green and free of these chemicals is Naked. Now, for our fetish homos, there are lines of whips and harnesses made out of recycled tires. What is more butch than knowing your cock harness was made out of old Goodyears from a Dodge Ram? Contraceptives are not green, but prevent unwanted pregnancy. Man-made hormones that exist in contraceptives are polluting water supplies all over the world. Environmentalists are touting the chemical-free Fertility Awareness Method, which tracks a woman’s temperature and cervical mucus to determine when she is ovulating – this is very green and requires a lot of organization and flexibility. Lambskin condoms are making a comeback because latex
I hope that plunger has been properly sanitized.
condoms do not break down quickly, plus they can harm aquatic plants and animals in the interim. Polyurethane condoms don’t break down at all. The downside about lambskin condoms is that they don’t protect against sexually transmitted diseases. Now, my favorite sexy green item is the vegan condom, which is basically a condom without the dairy protein in the latex; cocoa powder is used instead. And no, these condoms don’t make your willy taste like a Hershey bar. How about sex toys? We love to shove things in our organic holes. Companies like Lelo and CoCo de Mer make all their sex toys with glass, jade or medical-grade silicone, making stimulation toxin-free. Many larger sex toy retailers are removing non-green toys from their shelves. Our bodies are our temples (or bordellos, in my case) and why would we want to pollute our poop chutes and pussies with toxic toys? My personal favorite is the Pyrex butt plug – it is a piece of art for your pooper! However you choose to preserve our earth is up to you. With the varieties of options out there, it is possible to make it a part of your daily living. Reuse and recycle as much as you can, refuse excessive packaging at the mall, make sure you treat your body with healthy and organic products and keep your bedroom behavior earth-friendly. And, if you are a truly “green” person, don’t waste bytes by sending me a smug note about your hybrid car and that you like to sniff your methane-infused farts. Remember to never be a victim and to always be a survivor. Speaking of methane, who wants to help me invent a fart powered car? Gas is expensive and who doesn’t love a little butt action for the greater good?
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SASHAY DOWN THAT RUNWAY The Annual CCAD Senior Fashion Show Event @ Columbus College of Art & Design, 60 Cleveland Ave, 614.224.9101, ccad.edu: This year’s show will feature 15 designers each with a unique vision and inspiration. Dress to impress on the red carpet, but make sure those shoes will get you through the ApresRunway Dance party after. 7:30p-11p; $125-$350.
SATURDAY, MAY 12 ARE YOU A PITCHER OR A CATCHER? Pepsi Max Field of Dreams: Fan Fest and Game @ Huntington Park; 6p; $10.
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TUESDAY, MAY 1 JUST ONE MORE GLASS AND I’LL BE THE NEXT PICASSO Colors and Bottles @ Camelot Cellars, 958 North High St, 614.441.8860, www.colorsandbottles.com: With your glass full and your mind open see what you can create at this painting class. Can you color inside the lines, as the bottles get emptier? I don’t know about you but I’m better at everything when I’ve been drinking. BYO beret. 6:30p-9:30p; $35.
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SUNDAY, MAY 13 IT’LL MAKE YOU SAY “WOOF!” PAWS Yappy Hour @ Gooseneck Tavern, 9721 Sawmill Rd, 614.284.5622, powellpaws.org: Are you an animal lover? Learn how you can get involved with the Powell Animal Welfare So-
THURSDAY, MAY 10 IT’S A BIRD! IT’S A PLANE! IT’S A MAN! Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey: Fully Charged @ Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Dr, 614.688.3939, www.ticketmaster.com: Celebrate Mothers Day with the whole family. Through May 12. 7p; $13-78.
THURSDAY, MAY 3 THERE’S MORE TO THE INTERNET THAN PORN? Let’s Get Digital Opening Reception @ Riffe Gallery, 77 S High St 31st Fl, 614.728.2239, www.oac.state.oh.us: See how the digital age contributes more to art than just Falcon Entertainment. Fifteen Ohio artists use digital technology to express themselves; each artist was selected by their innovative use of digital media. Runs through July 8. 5p-7p; free.
MONDAY, MAY 14 Take it to the Face Community Celebration Week @ Dinin’ Hall, 400
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 Reading is Sexy Christopher Buckley @ Columbus Museum of Art,
TUESDAY, MAY 8 You’re Old, Now What? LGBT Financial Literacy Seminar Series @ Stonewall Columbus, 1160 N High St, 614.299.7764, www.stonewallcolumbus .org/seminars: LGBT adults over 50 are invited to “The Challenges of LGBT Retirement: How to Legally Title Assets Correctly and Protect Those You Love,” for real information from local experts. Don’t leave your loved ones with nothing but the lint in their pockets. 6p-8p; free.
SUNDAY, MAY 6 I’M AN OLD FASHIONED KIND OF GAL BURLESQUE-A-PADES @ Skully’s Music Diner, 1151 N High St, 614. 291.8856, www.skullys .org: “The Reigning Queen of Burlesque” will tantalize and entertain with the Pontani sisters in a contemporary Burlesque show. 7:30p; $10-$12 18+.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 DID SOMEONE SAY “MEET”? Network Columbus @ Lifecare Alliance, 670 Harmon Ave, 614.278.3130, www.networkcolumbus.com: If you’re looking for a job or a sense of community, you’ve got to make connections. We’re talking face-to-face connections - not like the guys you’ve been chatting with on Bear 411. You’ll be able to meet new people and learn about Project Open Hand from speaker Karen Cookston. If that wasn’t enough, there also will be free appetizers and drinks. 6p; free.
SATURDAY, MAY 5 Girls Gone Wild On Wheels Ohio Roller Girls Roller Derby @ Expo Center, 717 E 17th Ave, 614.291.8856, www.ohiorollergirls.com:It’s a lesbian’s wet dream come to life. 3:30p; $10-$17.
FRIDAY, MAY 4 YOU HAVE A TATTOO WHERE? The Hell City Tattoo Festival @ Hyatt Regency Columbus, 350 N High St, 614.463.1234, www.hellcity.com: Sport some ink or like those who do? Meet and greet some of the best-known tattoo artists and afficionados this side of Hell. Also featuring entertainment and vendors and the hopefully well-named Rubberboy. No, not the one locked in your basement. 12p; $25-$65.
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THURSDAY, MAY 24 Ya Mo Be There Michael McDonald @ Columbus Commons, 160 S High St, 614.545.3942, columbuscommons.org: The Columbus Bicentennial Pavilion will make its grand debut in honor of the city’s 200th birthday. 7p, free.
SUNDAY, MAY 20 ARRGGHH BLOW THE MAN DOWN! Santa Maria Pirate Weekend @ Battelle Riverfront Park, 25 Marconi Blvd, 614.645.8760, www.santamaria.org: Maybe you’ve already mastered the art of pillaging booty, but it doesn’t hurt to watch a pro in action. For two days more than 30 historical reenactors will recreate the Golden Age of Piracy. Decked out in true plunderer apparel, reenactors will put on a show for the entire family with cooking demonstrations, games and a how-to on loading and firing a cannon. 11a-5p Sat&Sun days; $2.50-$4.
FRIDAY, MAY 18 If She’s a Brick, What’s That Make Him? Ben Folds @ The LC, Lifestyle Communities Pavilion, 405 Neil Ave, 800.745.3000, www.promowestlive.com: You know him from Ben Folds Five. You know him from “The Sing-Off.” You know him from “You Don’t Know Me.” Get to know pianist and songwriter Ben Folds up close as he brings his act to town for this outdoor show. 7p; $28.
IT’LL MAKE YOU SAY “WOOF!” PAWS Yappy Hour @ Gooseneck Tavern, 9721 Sawmill Rd, 614.284.5622, powellpaws.org: Are you an animal lover? Learn how you can get involved with the Powell Animal Welfare Society’s cause: rescuing, fostering and finding new homes for dogs in need. You’ll get a free “Yappetizer” & “Pup-Tail” just for showing up, so what’s not to love? 7p; free.
SUNDAY, MAY 27 And You Thought Pride was Colorful Asian Festival @ Franklin Park, 1755 E Broad St, 614.451.3550, www.asianfestival.org: Spend Memorial Day Weekend learning about 15 different cultures and wishing you could pull off some of those outfits and performances. All day; free.
SATURDAY, MAY 19 EVERYONE’S SEXY ON THE RADIO A Garden Variety Show - Anything But Common @ The Garden Theater, 1187 N High St, 866.967.8167, www.shortnorthstage.org: Sometimes the freshest shows are old-school shows. Get inside the wayback machine and imagine a pre-TV radio variety show broadcasting from Columbus. The show will feature comedians Dan Montour and Josh Gandee, poet Nick McRae, dancers Coco Loupe and Noah Demland, and the band The Flotation Walls. 8p; $10 online/$12 at door.
SATURDAY, MAY 19 KING FOR A DAY King Arts Complex Silver Anniversary Gala @ King Arts Complex, 867 Mt Vernon Ave, 614.645.5464, www.kingartscomplex.org: I had no idea parties were for more than drinking. Attend this gala to support the ongoing educational and performance activities. Listen to great music, bust a move on the dance floor, and explore multiple entertainment venues, worldly cuisines and specialty themed drinks 8p-1a; $65-100.
SATURDAY, MAY 12 ARE YOU A PITCHER OR A CATCHER? Pepsi Max Field of Dreams: Fan Fest and Game @ Huntington Park; 6p; $10. WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 Reading is Sexy Christopher Buckley @ Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E Broad St, 614.464 .1032, thurberhouse.org: The author of They Eat Puppies, Don’t They? will mingle with his Columbus fans at this THurber House event. Buckley is one of the most beloved political satirists writing today. 5:30p;$25$45 both.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 Here for “Here” Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros @ LC Pavilion, 405 Neil Ave, 614.461.5483, www.promowestlive.com: You like ‘em hairy. You love ‘em sweaty. But are you ready for this? 7p; $25-$30. Through June 3. 8a; $10.
SUNDAY, MAY 20 LIFE’S CANDY & THE SUN’S A BALL OF BUTTER “Simply Streisand…Then and Now” @ Congregation Tifereth Israel, 1354 E Broad St, 614.253.8523, www.tiferethisrael.org: Carla DelVillaggio is a master impersonator, so it’s almost like listening to Babs herself. She’ll bring out the diva in us all with music and memories based on the life and career of the legendary songstress. 7p; $18-$25.
THURSDAY, MAY 31 U INTO ROLE PLAYING? Origins Game Fair @ Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N High St, 614.255.4500, originsgamefair.com: Play games. Watch games. Learn games. Buy games. Any questions?
TUESDAY, MAY 22 I’m in Columbus, Trick LMFAO @ Nationwide Arena, 200 W Nationwide Blvd, 614.246. 2000, nationwidearena.com: The “Sorry for Party Rocking Tour” starts right here in Columbus. If you’re sexy and you know it, like shots and party rock like the Kia hamsters, shuffle your way to this one. 7p; $35$99.50.
THURSDAY, MAY 17 Get Ready to Bust a Gut Joey Diaz & Redban Comedy Tour @ Woodlands Tavern, 1200 W Third Ave, 614.886.6550, brownpapertickets.com: He lit a hooker’s hair on fire. He attacked a nun in the fourth grade. If there are naked men dancing in the window at a club, that’s where he’ll party. He’s Joey Diaz, and he’s taking the comedy stage by storm with Columbus native Brian Redban. 8p; $20.
MONDAY, MAY 14 Take it to the Face Community Celebration Week @ Dinin’ Hall, 400 W Rich St, 614.427.3560, www.dininhall.com: Curious about food trucks? Wrap your lips around this new concept: You pick a food truck, place your order, get a pay slip and go inside to pay. Then your food is brought to you inside. A rotation of trucks, three a day, will be at Dinin’ Hall each day this week, with proceeds going to charity. 11a-2p; free.
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Don’t Be Shy, Give Recycling A Try by Anthony Castro
whom you were making out all night.
Come on, everyone does it. Haven’t you ever wanted to, just to see how it feels? I promise it won’t hurt.
Steel cans: You know it’s feeding time for the cat when she takes a break from completely ignoring you to remind you how much she cares for you. (Cares for you, controls you – same thing.) After you pop open a can of Fancy Feast for the prissy little pussy and plop it ever-so-appetizingly into her bowl, rinse out the can and throw it in the bin. You don’t even need to remove the label. Steel lids for glass containers, like jelly or spaghetti sauce, go in the recycle bin, as well as empty aerosol cans.
I’m talking about recycling - what did you think I meant? And in Columbus, it’s getting easier than ever for even first-timers to get into the habit. The city has a new program this year that provides 64-gallon, blue recycling carts to residents of single homes and apartment buildings (but not apartment/condo complexes) that have fewer than four units. When you think of recycling, one of the first images in your mind might be tossing your soda can into a blue bin or piling a neat bundle of newspaper on your curb. Get with the program! There’s a lot more you can recycle - and when you get the cart, you won’t even need to bother with sorting. Beside aluminum cans and paper, here are some common things you can recycle: Paperboard and corrugated cardboard: Lots of food packaging is made of paperboard. Think cereal boxes, your late-night five-buck box from Taco Bell or that case of Yuengling in your fridge. In Columbus, even paperboard lined with wax or a film - like milk, ice cream and juice cartons - is recyclable. For corrugated cardboard, think of the package your UPS guy delivers to your door. Not that package, the cardboard box! You can identify corrugated by its two thin layers joined by a squiggly layer in the middle. Keep in mind for both paperboard and corrugated that if it contains food residue, like that greasy pizza box or paper plate, it doesn’t go in your recycling bin. Make sure you flatten your boxes before recycling. Plastic and glass bottles: You wake up Sunday afternoon after a party that lasted God-knows-how-long at your apartment the night before. You look around and there are beer bottles everywhere, half-empty two-liters of Coke and Sprite, bottles of rum and vodka lying on their side, and apparently some jokers decided to have a shampoo fight – in the kitchen. When you recover enough to start cleaning up, remember to drain and rinse all those containers. It doesn’t matter what number is in the recycling symbol on the bottle. As long as a plastic bottle has a neck and is clean, throw it in the bin. Then you can crawl back into bed and try to recall with
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If you’re new to the recycling game, you’re going to make mistakes. To help guide you, here are some things you should NOT put in the cart: Plastic-lined foil: Juice pouches, yogurt lids and condom wrappers go in the trash, but clean aluminum foil goes in the bin. The key to remember is that the plastic lining means it’s not recycle-friendly. Eat yogurt and care about breast cancer? You can send specially marked pink foil lids back to Yoplait for their Save Lids to Save Lives campaign. Certain Papers: Paper towels, cups, tissues and textbooks are examples of paper items that don’t go in the bin. Most other types, including glossy magazine pages, are accepted, as long as they are clean and grease-free. If you can’t sell your textbooks back and don’t want to keep them, ask your bookstore about recycling or consider donating them to a non-profit. Certain Plastics: Yogurt cups, plastic silverware, butter tubs. A general rule of thumb is if a container doesn’t have a bottleneck, it’s not recyclable. Plastic bags are a no-no, but you can recycle those at the grocery store or drop them off at your nearest dog park. Certain Glasses: Mirrors, windows and dishes. If it’s reusable, give it to Goodwill or Salvation Army. Other: Hazardous material containers, light bulbs, yard waste, batteries, Styrofoam. The easy thing to do is just throw all of these in the trash. But that’s not the responsible thing, and you know it. The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio has a list of places on its website that offer safe disposal and recycling. Go to www.swaco.org. Yard waste is still collected, but it does not
go in the blue bin. It must be set out separately in biodegradable bags or a rigid container. The city started delivering carts to eligible residents in April. Southwest Columbus residents should get their carts in May, with Monday collection beginning June 4. Carts will begin arriving in southeast Columbus in June and July, with Tuesday collection starting July 31. If you’re north of Route 161, you should see your cart in August or September, and your collection will be Wednesdays starting Sept. 26. Residents north of Interstate 670 in the central part of the city will get their carts in October and November; their collection will be Thursdays starting Dec. 6. Northeast Columbus will get carts in December and January, with Friday collection starting Feb. 1. To find out if you’re eligible for a blue cart, call 614.645.3111. After your materials are picked up each week, they have to make a stop before they can be turned into the recycled products on store shelves. Columbus’s recycling provider, Rumpke, has a material recovery facility on Fields Avenue near the Ohio State Fairgrounds where the items in your bin are delivered and sorted. If you accidentally put something in your bin that you shouldn’t have, this is where it gets weeded out. Sorting is done both by large machinery and by hand at the facility. Items such as plastic bottles are baled together and shipped to manufacturers who transform the old products into new ones. You might know that by recycling, you’re saving the earth by helping to conserve energy and natural resources, reducing pollution and cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions. But you’re also helping the city save money. That’s why the recycling program won’t cost Columbus residents extra. The program is completely voluntary, but the more people participate, the more the city potentially saves. The city says that for every ton of trash recycled instead of buried at the dump, Columbus saves more than $55 in landfill fees. For more information about the city’s recycling program, you can visit the new recycling site, www.recycolumbus.com. You can even contact Rumpke at 800.828.8171 for tours of its material recovery facility.
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Get Down and Dirty: Composting and Gardening 101 by Lauren Rose Strand Loving the environment is all the rage lately, and we can all do our part to minimize our carbon footprint and promote ecological biodiversity. Two simple activities that we can integrate into our daily routines are composting and gardening. Even if you’re already involved with one or both of these activities, there’s a lot of innovation going on surrounding these topics, so you might think about adopting a new approach or exercising your green thumb in a new and exciting way. Think composting is complicated, smelly and wormy? Think again. The art of modern composting is easy, odor-free and Earth-friendly. Compost piles have gained so much popularity lately that even celebrities such as Julia Roberts and Pierce Brosnan have talked about theirs. We all have the materials that are necessary to compost; we just might not know it yet. For the novices out there like me, I’ll start at the beginning and add in some more advanced techniques for those of you who already have the basics down. First, you’ll need to designate a space for your compost pile. You can buy a variety of compost bins that you can keep virtually anywhere depending on the size of the area you’d like to devote to composting and the amount of organic waste you generate. Or, you can create your own custom bin for your space. To start your pile, collect organic waste in your kitchen in a small vessel (many people swear by using a dishwashersafe ceramic pot). Just about any type of organic waste can go into it, excluding meat, diary products, oils and fats. You can even add in other biodegradable elements that you generate around your house, including paper towels and paper scraps. A crucial aspect to creating a stable compost pile is finding a balance between nitrogen-rich “greens” (vegetable/fruit scraps, coffee grounds, plant trimmings, etc.) and carbon-rich “browns” (dead flowers, leaves, twigs, etc.). Spring is a perfect time of year to start composting because you can clean up those yard scraps (or if you don’t have any personally, go to nearby “green space” and collect some) to get it going. Add in those old leaves lying around from autumn, fresh grass clippings, the weeds you pull from your garden, and the scraps from all those fruits and veggies we eat so much more of during the warm weather and you’re well on your way to getting started! Once you have your pile going, be sure to keep it moist (but not soggy) by either adding materials before they dry out or by
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sprinkling a bit of water on the pile and then evenly mixing it. The moisture helps to keep the material warm and steamy perfect for that decomposition that you’re so looking forward to. Also, you’ll want to be sure to “turn” your pile often (at least once a week) to allow it to get plenty of fresh air and evenly distribute the moisture and nutrients. Once you’ve gotten the hang of composting, another trick of the trade that you may want to incorporate is worms. Vermicomposting is when worms are introduced to the compost to speed up the process and facilitate the production of rich topsoil. You can buy worms online from a variety of sellers or try your hand at collecting them yourself (especially at night when the soil is moist). Red wigglers are the most common worms chosen for composting because they can live comfortably in relatively small composting bins (even the ones indoors!). The only caution to introducing worms to your bin is that they thrive in cool, dark places, so temperatures need to be kept between 40 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. So, if you know your bin runs on the hot side and you sometimes forget to keep the matter moist, forgo the worms and let your matter decompose itself at its own rate. Now that you have all of this fabulous composted material, why not start a garden to use it in? If you’re introducing your composted matter to a garden space, it is usually a good idea to add it to the existing soil, mix it in a bit, and let it sit for about a week before planting anything, to allow for an even distribution of nutrients. Don’t think you have a green enough thumb to start your own garden? You might be surprised. There are a variety of ways and places to garden, even if you have limited experience and space. As with composting, the first thing you should consider is where you’d like to locate your garden. For a lot of people in Columbus, outdoor space is severely limited, so we need to get creative. There are numerous resources online where people share their inventive gardening solutions. Some popular ones worth considering include: Window boxes – These can be made from a variety of materials and are typically hung outside of your window. Flowers are a popular choice to grow in them because they can remain small, you can see the beautiful blooms whenever you look out your window and you can catch their sweet aroma when the wind blows. If flowers aren’t your cup of tea, you can also grow herbs or other decorative plants… just nothing that will grow too large (like a shrub or fruit tree) because these boxes typically aren’t very spacious.
Raised garden beds – The basic premise is similar to window boxes, but with raised gardens you can place them outdoors in roomier areas that just don’t accommodate sprawling traditional gardens. They are ideal for patios or balconies where the space is available, but the soil is lacking. Here, the container is raised above the ground on some type of stand or pedestal. It’s up to you what you grow in them – let your imagination run wild! Vertical Gardens – For the extremely spatially constricted, vertical gardens could be a great option. The only requirement for these visual marvels is an available vertical space; after that, the sky’s the limit – literally. Get creative with how you fashion your garden “beds.” One style that I’m planning to try this year is mounting planters of all shapes and sizes to my patio fence (think kitschy chic) and planting a variety of ferns, flowers, and herbs in them. Another innovative design is to use a vertical hanging pocket shoe organizer as your planter and cover a wall with flora and fauna. However you choose to fashion these striking beds, they’re sure to be a conversation starter. Terrariums – A terrarium is a contained ecosystem or miniature landscape with living plants, usually housed in unique glass containers. You can purchase premade ones online or from one of the many shops around Columbus (including the ones from Mister Moss at Suite Q), or try your hand at making your own. Again, there are resources online providing “how to” instructions for beginners. Once you understand the basics, terrariums can really provide you with a great creative outlet and perhaps a way to make a little extra money. While there are no real “requirements” for terrariums, they are usually relatively small and use plants that are fairly self-sustaining, so there’s little maintenance work required after the initial placement. Still don’t think you have a green enough thumb to tackle creating and maintaining your own garden? There are actually quite a few community gardens in Columbus that you can become involved with. Check out theese resources for more information on composting and community gardening options in Columbus: www.howtocompost.org; www.compostinstructions.com; www.local-matters.org; www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/rrr/composting/by_compost.htm; www.columbuscommunitygardening.blogspot.com; www.fpconservatory.org/g2gabout.htm; www.communitygarden.org; www.columbus.gov/getgreen.
Throwing garbage in your backyard alone does not constitute a compost heap.
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Good News for the Green Queens of Columbus by Tom Muzyka We all know going green is the new pink is the new black. Recycled bags at the grocery store, biking to work, flushing every other time: these are all ways that trendsetters are going green. These are all great small scope eco-friendly activities. But thinking long term (and big investment) offers another way to be green: electric cars. Electric cars have been around for a while, but are often not an easy option for drivers; refueling an electric is not as convenient as pulling up to the nearest gas station and filling the tank. But good news for the environmentally hip is here. Columbus is bringing in new initiatives to support electrics and make them more accessible and affordable. This is not to say you have to be cuttingedge to appreciate this news. Being green isn’t just trendy; it can save jobs and bring money back into the local community. Much of our petroleum is imported; when that money flows out of the country, jobs go with it. The National Defense Council Foundation estimated our oil import dependence has cost the U.S. an estimated 2,241,000 jobs. Green initiatives support the local community and bring attention to small independent businesses that have joined the movement. Plus, since Columbus is home to the award-winning Ohio State University’s Center for Automotive Research, green initiatives just make sense to expand here. Another benefit to this trend is the improvement to the environment. Of course walking is better than driving if you really care about the planet, but we all know that you’re not going to be walking to Taco Bell at 1a to get the new Doritos-shell taco. If you’re not going to watch your waistline, you might as well watch your emissions... from your car. Diesel exhaust is a leading source of particle pollution in our air and the leading source of airborne cancer risks. According to the Clean Air Task Force, 21,000 people die prematurely each year due to particle pollution from diesel vehicles. Diesel exhaust poses a cancer risk that is 7.5 times higher than the combined total cancer risk from all other air toxins. Green initiatives reduce exhaust emissions and use of petroleum, providing alternate fuel sources. “Electric vehicles result in less pollution and more job potential for our residents,” Mayor Michael B. Coleman said. “We can help support the market and our residents, making the choice to switch to an electric vehicle that much easier.” So how do we make all of this information relevant to our busy lives? One way is to follow the local programming springing up in the city. Clean Fuels Ohio (CFO) is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the use of cleaner, domestic
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fuels and efficient vehicles to the transportation industry, government officials and the general public. CFO uses car-charging stations and an initiative called Ohio Green Fleets to provide technical support for transportation professionals. They also advocate for sustainable transportation energy policies and serve as a resource clearinghouse for fleets, policy makers and the public. The fact that they are headquartered here in Columbus makes it harder for you to keep coming up with excuses for that Hummer. You may have noticed the new car-charging stations popping up around town; those are thanks in part to CFO. With the City of Columbus, they have installed 22 stations around the city, with more installations on the way. The newest stations have just been completed on the north side of Goodale Street between Dennison and Park Street and in front of the city’s Beacon Building at 50 West Gay Street. The stations can fully charge most electric vehicles in 4 to 6 hours. The only cost is for metered parking. “We’re excited to partner with the city of Columbus to install electric vehicle charging stations in our city,” CFO Executive Director Sam Spofforth said. “As we begin to see electric vehicles purchased in Ohio, consumers will have the benefit of having great locations to charge their vehicles.” This is just the beginning. “A lot more stations will be popping up in the next few months,” CFO policy director Katherine Stewart said. The organization’s current development plans focus on implementing stations in businesses; if your neighborhood is interested in petitioning a new charging station be built in its area, it’s best to contact a local business that would be willing to host a charging station in their parking lot; they can apply for a station with enough general interest. The State of Ohio still has new grants to provide, so it’s worth checking with your neighbors if you think there might be enough interest to petition for a station. It’s time to join the neighborhood big leagues. “These public charging stations are an important addition to our city as we continue to move toward a more green infrastructure and become a regional destination for travel and business,” said Councilmember Eileen Paley. “We are excited to offer area residents and visitors this amenity to charge their electric vehicles while they enjoy our downtown and the Short North.” CFO does more than just build charging stations, though. Ohio Green Fleets is a CFO program aimed to improve the environmental performance of business and government vehicle fleets across Ohio through diesel cleanup and other strategies. They’re the ones responsible for developing strategies to improve environmental performance
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through education, funding, collaboration and public-private partnerships. Currently, there are 32 designated Ohio Green Fleets across the state, which contains more than 200 public and private organizations. They have already eliminated tons of exhaust and displaced 4.8 million gallons of petroleum. Locals can take pride that many Columbus businesses have already contributed: Frito Lays’ delivery trucks are all green, airport shuttles from the parking garage to the airport are propane-fueled. Select taxis are propane-fueled - you’ll recognize them from the large triangle sticker on their windshield and a CFO sticker on the side. I asked Stewart if neighborhoods or communities could enroll in the Green Fleets initiative, similar to petitioning for charging stations. Unfortunately, for now she says that, “Green Fleets is mainly geared towards businesses. But [community fleets] is something that we can look into.” Keep your eyes peeled for updates, as we might be able to join this movement soon. Currently, there are “no specific initiatives for the LGBT community…We know that the community is progressive,” Stewart acknowledges, and advises that the best way to continue to be green is staying informed and involved with Clean Fuels: be connected to social media for updates, sign up for volunteer opportunities, stay an informed queer. “The volunteer and events pages will have listings of upcoming educational events.” You can even be green on the go! There are a lot of apps for your mobile devices to show nearby charging stations. Want to stay informed without having an electric car? CFO also spends a lot of time on community education and outreach. “We do a lot of work to educate the general public,” Stewart said. “We will have educational events for different types of vehicles.” Keeping the community educated hastens the process of implementing new projects citywide and gathering support for more funding. It’s a lot of information to digest at once, I know. Luckily, CFO has put all of this information into one spot for your inquisitive little minds. Their website has tons of free information on alternative energy, including details on the health and economic benefits to alternative fuels, as well as, links to other resources. Also available is a Vehicle Buyer’s Guide free download that provides advice when shopping for a new car. The website also gives you information on how to volunteer and the range of opportunities available. For general questions about Clean Fuels Ohio, you can visit them at www.cleanfuelsohio.org or contact them at info@cleanfuelsohio.org.
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SUSTAINABLE POWERHOUSE by Mackenzie Worrall When asked what he’s most proud of accomplishing with Eartha Limited, Mike Minnix proudly responds, “Changing the law.” That’s big for a 28 year-old, and technically, since he managed this almost two years ago, that’s huge for 26-year-old-OSU-dropout-parent’s-couch-living Mike. Who needs a degree, when you got passion, right? And passion is in no short supply at Eartha. With love of the Earth and its sustainability, Mike created a new business venture out of only a few past sustainable side jobs - a venture that couldn’t even begin until he changed the law. At the time, Franklin County was one of the last counties in the nation that classified restaurant food scrap as ‘hazardous waste.’ Absurd to all of us with a lick of common sense, the designation could only hold true if restaurants hung onto those scraps for a few weeks before trying to toss it. Being that one of the big components of Eartha’s business is food scrap hauling, it was imperative to overturn designation. To get an archaic law off the books, Mike teamed up with local restaurateur Liz Lessner and the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO). After relentlessly and persistently educating and advocating boards across the city Mike and his cohorts were able get the law changed. Thanks to him, we joined the rest of the US in sensible scrap laws. Now, we can do cool things with that Thurminator you failed to finish. Anaerobic Digesters - these giant pods are larger-scale versions of the compost bins from your backyard. They turn food scrap into renewable biogas. A single ton of waste yields about 18 gallons of the gas. Thanks to the
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process of anaerobic digestion, the landfills have less stinky food waste. And it’s a growing renewable resource, one that can and often will generate new income for restaurants by paying for bulk food scrap. Maybe you’ve seen the anaerobic digester off 71 South; there are only three digesters in Ohio, and we’ve got one within spitting distance. Mike is pretty confident that Eartha can eventually make this a new source of income for all restaurants, by basically turning what was once wasted money, into enough cash to at least break even on the raw ingredients. He’s turning heads with the water-into-wine approach. Founded in 2009, Eartha Limited exists to do a few humble things in this city. Aside from hauling food scraps, they educate and empower businesses to go green with serviceware that’s not harmful to the environment - serviceware that they also distribute in the Central Ohio area. Styrofoam is a sin, ladies, and seeing as how cities are starting to ban the use of it, Mike doesn’t think that Columbus will be too far behind. When businesses are at the point of having to re-evaluate how they do their disposable serviceware, I bet Eartha will be in a good spot with their affordable green options. Growing up, I remember hearing about the mythical bread bowls and bread plates that would become a staple in my future; that soon, we’d all be eating off of edible and biodegradable dinnerware. The technology has only recently caught up with the idea. We’ve all had that terrible experience where a green disposable fork snaps in two while trying to eat. That’s why we haven’t seen more of them. “Compostable serviceware was too costly and not very high quality before. They were crap,” Mike says.
“Your spoon would melt in the soup. That’s why slow progress has been made.” I take a sip out of my Cup O Joe coffee while he’s talking. “Look right here,” he says and spins my cup around. There’s a symbol for how biodegradable the cup is. “When you don’t notice the difference, the quality is there.” For the Average Joe, you can find Eartha around town at the city’s festivals, donating energy and resources into smaller fests like Independent’s Day and partnering with the mainstays. Columbus loves a good outdoor party. Like any soirée, there’s a lot of trash left behind. That’s where Eartha comes in. “I don’t mind staying up late and hauling trash,” Mike says. For many festivals, the waste is a huge part of the preliminary budget. “To do good is to get good,” Mike believes. And he’s getting a lot of good by helping out so many of our city’s summer traditions. Eartha is just getting started. While he’s already made a huge impact, Mike is still working to make his primary mission a reality. “I want to make this successful for everyone. Saving money while becoming sustainable everyone wins.” I think that Eartha’s model will become the mandatory way we handle all our food waste in the future. Evidence of that? Remember those anaerobic digesters? Ohio may only have three right now, but expect up to 12 more in the near future, which is great news for Eartha and our City. As Mike says, “It’s a very exciting time to be a garbage man.” Mackenzie Worrall already lived on his parents’ couch for a year, but doesn’t have nearly as much to show for it.
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Painting the Town Green by Alisa Caton In today’s society it has become normal to have our Starbuck’s coffee put in a recycled cup and grocery shop with reusable bags. A former vice president has even addressed the country on the need to be environmentally friendly and recognize the mark we leave. “Going green” has become the trend of our generation, and the business world is jumping on the bandwagon. In 2008, Ohio Senate passed a bill stating that by 2025, 25% of Ohio’s energy must come from alternative energy sources. In order to reach this goal, it is important now, more than ever, that Ohio companies begin to focus on alternative energies that are environmentally minded. “There is lots of capability and expertise in Ohio from a variety of different types of organizations with different perspectives,” said Kimberly Gibson, executive director of the Ohio chapter of Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) and EWI Energy Center director. Nationally, AEE represents the industry of advanced energy and provides a voice in public policy and acts as a support for energy companies. There are currently 10 chapters in states across the country, and 12 in development. AEE Ohio collaborates with companies from around the state; these include Tech Columbus, Cincy Tech, Rocket Ventures, Dayton Development Coalition, Tech GROWTH, and Nor Tech. EWI Energy Center handles the research and analysis for AEE Ohio and Ohio Business Council for Clean Economy deals with the advocacy and action side of the organization. The organization is reaching all corners of the state to ensure its goal of promoting new energy is reached. “AEE Ohio is committed to fact-based analysis on issues that are important to advanced energy businesses. This analysis combined with the experience of member companies provide the best real world information that can be shared with policymakers,” said Gibson. “Energy is a complex subject and investments and policies require long-term thinking. Our organization structure will facilitate this approach of research combined with real-world experience to
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provide the best information possible into the conversation about energy in Ohio.” Gibson said the organization’s vision is to create a unified voice for energy companies, along with creating a competitive landscape of approaches to energy, looking at long-term global energy choices and the cost and risks of choices transparent. “AEE Ohio’s unique niche is coordinating and synthesizing those voices to present a broad view of the energy situation. We want to be an honest broker for business interests in the energy space,” said Gibson. Companies around the state are stepping up to the plate to find new approaches to energy that are environmentally friendly. EcoChem Alternative Fuels, here in Columbus, is one of those companies. The company produces High Performance Clean Diesel (HPCD), a cleaner burning fuel than Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD), which is more commonly used. Josh Koch, president of EcoChem, said he saw the need for a better diesel fuel in 2006 when ULSD was mandated by the United States. “By addressing the inadequacies of standard ULSD, improving the purity and the molecular makeup, HPCD is a superior fuel in many respects,” said Koch. “Since the 2006, mandate for low sulfur diesel fuel, multiple studies performed by organizations such as John Deere, Cummins and Dow Industries have found #2 ULSD to be of poorer quality than its predecessors. More troubling was the discovery in these studies that #2 ULSD potentially increases the chances for fuel tank corrosion and filter clogging.” Last March, the city of Dublin decided to test run the HPCD fuel for one year in all of their city vehicles, including vehicles for Dublin City Schools and Washington Township Fire Department. Koch said the results from the testing coop showed a 16.1 percent reduction in miles per gallon and 12 percent reduction in emissions. He said once these results were made public, other schools and cities have decided to upgrade to HPCD. “The Dublin validation platform was very important to the development of the
brand. The partnership was and is a benchmark for other communities and businesses to corroborate in the campaign for a clean, efficient and sustainable future,” said Koch. This discovery of changing fuel could mean big changes for the pollution and emission levels in Columbus. The car has always been blamed for its contribution to the carbon print, but reality is vehicles are never go to be non-existent. EcoChem’s work allows us to not feel guilty every time we’re on the road. Another company in Columbus is also looking at things in a new, creative way to produce energy and other products in a cleaner way. AlgaeVenture Systems (AVS) received the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E), award Ross Youngs, CEO, and the company $6 million for their research on Algae. “We have been supporting the message while finding ways to create a sustainable private company with opportunities to make great products and profits. Support in the form of a loan and grant from Ohio has really helped, Federal Government financial support for advancing technology has been critical,” said Youngs. “We are very persistent people, we will find a way to make a profit and grow the company, so this is one of those overnight successes in the making, check back in 10 years.” David Coho, vice president of business development for AVS, said that they understand that algae is a very dynamic plant and has a lot of potential in the amount of products it can help produce and its ability to clean up water. “We see it as an opportunity for foods, feeds, pharmaceuticals, energy and fuel,” said Coho. Aside from the products it will produce, algae has the potential to clean up bodies of water. Ross said that algae is at the base of aquatic food chain and is critical to the recycling of CO2 and Oxygen. “We are firm believers that the massive productivity of the small water plant known as algae is important to human civilization. Starting to learn how to use algae commer-
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cially will lead to a more sustainable future, along with cleaner waterways,” said Youngs. “400 years from now it may be possible for our ancestors to be looking at the clear rivers and lakes of Ohio again. Algae could be recycling wastes into products and energy. AVS is one of the first in a field that will continue to grow for decades, or maybe 100 years or more.” In March, Gov. Kaisch signed in to law House Bill 276, defining production of algae as agriculture in the Ohio Revised Code. Rep. Jim Buchy and Sen. Lou Gentile sponsored the bill, which creates Algaculture. AVS said in a press release, “Researchers and technologists worldwide are investigating and exploring algae for recovering nutrients from agricultural wastes and turning them into products. With the considerable support from Representative Hall, Chairman of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee and Senator Hite, Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Environment & Natural Resources Committee, Representative Buchy, Senator Gentile and Governor Kasich, Ohio is positioned to innovate and continue its strong tradition of leadership in agriculture into the future, and give farmers another crop to grow and generate income for their families.” Coho said this (bill) is Ohio saying they are open for business and AVS applauds the state leadership for this. “We are really seeing the merit’s of algae for the state of Ohio,” he said. AVS is not the only environmentally minded company that Youngs has founded. Univentures, which produces soy-based packaging for compact discs, and Alter-E, which commercialized products produced by AVS, are two of his other companies in Columbus. “It is rewarding to continue to create products and technologies that in anyway can be an improvement or benefit for someone,” said Youngs. It is an exciting time in Ohio, especially in Columbus, to “go green,” with local companies and government taking a serious look at the things that need to be done to ensure our state is at the forefront of new energy technologies.
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GLEE AND TWILIGHT STARS LEAP TO WHITE FROG Somebody must have once given indie filmmaker Quentin Lee good business advice about keeping his overhead low and never giving up. Because while most of the world wasn’t looking, the gay director has racked up five well-regarded indie features, including The People I’ve Slept With, Drift and Shopping For Fangs, a couple of documentaries and several short films. Are they busting down box offices? No, but they get made and they get seen on screens at film fests and art house theaters. Ask anybody in the film business and they’ll tell you that equals success. And for Lee’s next project, the high profile stars are coming out to play. The film is called White Frog and it stars Booboo Stewart (part of the Twilight wolf pack) as a young man with Asperger’s syndrome who brings about change in his family. It features Glee’s Harry Shum Jr. in a pivotal role, Teen Wolf’s Tyler Posey, Law and Order SVU star BD Wong and Twin Peaks alum Joan Chen. Be on the lookout for it to start making the film festival rounds this summer. Then buy a ticket and support small films. It’s the least you can do after paying money to see Battleship.
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OSCAR-WINNING LESBIANS MAKE A BREAK It’s not a sequel or a reboot, but FOR CANADA IN CLOUDit is a marketing decision, make no mistake. That’s the only way BURST to describe the next project from the Paranormal Activity production team of Jason Blum, Oren Peli and gay writer-director Christopher Landon (son of Michael). They’re hard at work developing a Paranormal Activity-style film with a Latino cast and a plot involving Catholic concepts of evil and the paranormal. Landon will write and direct this one (he’s already written PA2 and PA3, so he’s ready) and production on the English-language film starts soon. And why? Well, with the United States Latino population growing faster than any other ethnic group, it stands to reason that there’ll be more Latinothemed cultural product coming along, and what better, more opportunistic plan is there than a tiny-budgeted horror film that grabs all its cash back and more on opening weekend? Meanwhile, as long as it doesn’t turn into a tacky Virgin Mary vs. La Llorona cage match, who’s to say there’s anything wrong with that?
Olympia Dukakis won hers for Moonstruck, while U.K. actress Brenda Fricker won hers for My Left Foot. Those wins would be Academy Awards, by the way, and the lauded ladies are now going to star side-by-side in the latest film from gay Canadian director Thom Fitzgerald (Beefcake, Three Needles). Dukakis and Fricker will star as an older lesbian couple, with Fricker finding herself placed in a nursing home by her adult children. But when those same family members decide to shut out Dukakis from the home the women have built together, the pair decides to break out and run off to be married in Canada. No one seems to bother telling them that Canadian laws don’t hold in the U.S., but that doesn’t stop them from taking one last stab at freedom. Think Thelma and Louise only with two women who have kissed more than once, and then catch it when it comes to a local film festival or independent cinema near you.
CORPUS CHRISTI: THE DOCUMENTARY Corpus Christi, the play by Terrence McNally that retells the New Testament gospels from the perspective of Jesus and his disciples as a group of gay men living in modern-day Texas, is probably the most argued-over American play to come along in the past 15 years. From its 1998 Broadway debut to regional productions, the play is frequently the target of protests, attempts to ban or cancel it, death threats and bomb scares. So you know it’s got to be good. And now the story of the play’s reception is a big screen documentary, Corpus Christi: Playing With Redemption, from filmmakers Nic Arnzen and James Brandon. The film follows the play as it cuts its controversial path across the country, including a production in Corpus Christi, Texas. Premiering at San Francisco’s Castro Theater on April 29 before its eventual cable/DVD/download future, it’s an important contribution to the dialogue over artistic freedom, the First Amendment and United States citizens who don’t really like either one.
Romeo San Vicente doesn’t walk on water, it just seems that way. He can be reached care of this publication or at DeepInsideHollywood@qsyndicate.com.
Santa Maria Pirate Weekend by Mark Gist On May 19 and 20, the Columbus Santa Maria replica will change from a 1490s ship to one from the 1690s, as pirates commandeer the vessel. More than 30 historical reenactors are expected to come for the event providing demonstrations of how pirates really lived. There will be a battle both days at 2p when pirates attack the ship from open boats. Who were the real pirates and how do they relate to Christopher Columbus?
times of war, beginning with Queen Elizabeth I, English sailors were given charters allowing them to raid Spanish shipping. Francis Drake and Henry Morgan were both privateers and were knighted for their efforts. By the 1690s, England and Spain were at peace with each other so privateer raids were outlawed. That left outright piracy. The period being recreated is known as the Golden Age of Piracy, which ran from about 1690 to 1720. During this period, English and French colonial governors unofficially encouraged piracy because of the wealth it brought to the colonies. These colonies were often poorly defended and the pirates gave the colonies extra defenders.
Piracy in the Caribbean was a direct result of Columbus’s voyage. For the first hundred years after Columbus, the Spanish dominated colonization in the Americas. During the 17th century, other European countries established colonies but Spain was For the Santa Maria event, reenacstill exporting vast wealth. During tors are serious amateur historians outlookcolumbus.com
coming from six different states, and will represent what pirates actually looked like, instead of what we usually see during Halloween. Therefore, these scalawags will be outfitted in clothing and weapons from the Golden Age of Piracy. There will be demonstrations of cooking, weapons, games and medicine. At this family-friendly event, kids will be able to join the crew and learn how to load and fire a cannon. The Santa Maria Ship Museum is a full-size replica of Christopher Columbus’s flagship. It serves as a history museum and flagship for the city. Columbus, Ohio is the largest city in the world named for the famous explorer. The ship is open from 11a-5p both days on Pirate Weekend. Adult admission is $4, youth 5-17 is $2.50, seniors 60 years and older are $3.50. Purchase tickets in the
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Santa Maria Visitor Education Center. Limited concessions will be available. The ship is located in Battelle Riverfront Park, 25 Marconi Blvd in downtown Columbus. Parking is located nearby on N Front St For additional information on the event, call Linda Ketcham at office at 614.645.8760 or contact the ship through its website at www.santamaria.org. In case of rain, the battle will consist of pirates on the ship fighting off an unseen enemy. Linda Ketchum is the Executive Director of The Santa Maria, a member organization of the Columbus Arts Marketing Association. CAMA’s mission is to promote awareness of and participation in the arts and cultural opportunities in Greater Columbus through collaborative marketing and public relations projects, and to provide professional development opportunities for members. For information visit www.columbusartsmarketing.org. Read weekly columns by CAMA members online at outlookcolumbus.com.
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Idina Menzel Defies… Everything Theater icon talks queer crushes, hubby’s gay tendency and her ‘Wicked’ nightmares Idina Menzel Defies… Everything Theater icon talks queer crushes, hubby’s gay tendency and her ‘Wicked’ nightmares by Chris Azzopardi
working out and stuff – my heels are always dry. But the toes are nice!
Idina Menzel doesn’t do anything halfway – even when she’s deciding on her gay faves. “It’s so silly,” says the homo-hearted theater queen, surfing Google for “hot gay male celebrities.” Her assistant even gets involved. “This is very important stuff,” Menzel giggles, fully immersed in her search to name her current gay crush. Neil Patrick Harris? Too typical. George Michael? Maybe 20 years ago. “Oh, I could do a woman” she realizes, before catching the unintentional humor in that: “I mean, not do a woman.” And on she goes, scouring the Web relentlessly. Again, she laughs. “(My assistant) just went onto a gay porn site. That’s helpful!” Ten minutes later, she’s got it: Jane Lynch, Wanda Sykes and Anderson Cooper, because “that makes me sound really smart.” Not that she has to sound anything but beautiful, and that she already does – as demonstrated in her 20 years on stage, from Rent to Wicked (originating the roles of Maureen and Elphaba, respectively), and as a cradle-robbing club leader on Glee. Now the ever-sweet Broadway diva has a new live album, Idina Menzel Live: Barefoot at the Symphony, and plans to hit the road this summer for a series of tour dates. Menzel caught up with us recently to talk toes, hubby Taye Diggs’ gay tendency and learning the real definition of “white party.” CA: Barefoot at the Symphony is the name of the new album – do you have nice feet? IM: They’re all right. My toes are pretty in proportion to each other. No weird toes. CA: Is the second toe longer than the big toe? IM: No, they’re actually nice like that. It’s just that – from
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CA: Will your tour be a lot like this album? IM: The album is a culmination of a year and a half of touring and playing with these amazing symphonies. So, this summer when I go on tour, I obviously need to retain some of the songs that I know people would shoot me for if I didn’t sing them, but I am going to clean the slate and freshen up the show and explore some brand-new material. CA: Do people expect you to fly when you do “Defying Gravity”? IM: No, I don’t think they do. (Laughs) But I’m sure they expect me to hit very high notes, which isn’t always an easy thing to do. CA: How did it go over when you covered “Poker Face” with the symphony? IM: It’s funny: The audience was everyone from theater people to symphony people to just your regular audience coming to see some entertainment for the evening. But “Poker Face” was great. I did it because I knew people would like to see something from Glee and I thought the juxtaposition of the song with the orchestra could be really cool, but I didn’t realize it would become a comic piece for me. The first couple of times I did it, I realized these stories and I stopped the full-on symphony in the middle of the song, which you never do, to tell people the story behind it. Then it just started becoming this little creature that I used every night as a way of singing that song but also having fun with the audience and being really spontaneous. CA: On the album you recall a crush you had on a gay professor during your freshman year in college. What was it about him that you were so into? IM: Well, first, I didn’t realize he was gay until later in life, but he was just so intense and he was the kind of teacher that you know you trusted and respected so much that also could make you cry in a second, because he saw right through you and challenged you and expected the most of you. For me, when I got in front of class and felt like I was
disappointing a teacher, I would just get so demoralized. That feeling never goes away. Whether you’re standing up in front of 10 people in a class or 5,000 people in an audience, the idea of opening your soul and making yourself really vulnerable is quite terrifying and sometimes, if you’re not prepared, you get really thrown. CA: Since you have a history of falling for gay men, did Taye have to pass some kind of test? IM: No. Please. He went to the School of the Arts in Rochester and majored in theater in Syracuse, and so many of his friends were gay before we even met. CA: Oh, Idina, these are all red flags. IM: (Laughs) Yeah, he’ll even engage in “runway” at parties at the house if we pull out the carpet and it’s late at night, he has a couple of drinks and Taye will even do runway… if you give him enough alcohol. CA: Who has the bigger gay following? IM: I think I do! (Laughs) CA: You know, you take everything from the gays: Taye Diggs, kissing Puck on Glee, waking up with Patrick Dempsey in Enchanted. What do you have to say for yourself? IM: That’s some good stuff, huh? In my defense, I’m a mom of a 2-year-old and – like, right now I’m in the ugliest outfit, practically PJs, and my hair hasn’t been washed in two days – and if I didn’t have those opportunities, I’d never feel like a woman again. CA: What was your recent gay cruise experience on Atlantis’ Allure of the Seas like? IM: I learned the white party doesn’t necessarily mean you wear white suits; it means you wear as little as possible and maybe some white Hanes underwear and angel wings. (Laughs) I learned that I will never go on a cruise ship again unless it’s a gay cruise because I am now ruined forever. The creativity and the passion and the fun will be unmatched. The best audiences of my life. It was just a blast. There are a bunch of sides to yourself, but it’s nice to just let ’er rip. And sing some duets with some drag queens!
“The only thing to do is jump over the moon!” Talk about “Defying Gravity.”
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CA: What would you tell your son, Walker, if he came out to you? IM: Hopefully I wouldn’t have to say much by then. Hopefully he’ll grow up in an environment where he won’t think much of it and it will be very commonplace and yet, if for some reason that discussion did arise, Taye and I would say, if we were to have a son or daughter who were gay, they wouldn’t meet any resistance with us. We always take five steps forward and two steps back, but in our house, in our family and with our friends, he already is in the company of – and loved by – all sorts of people. (Taye and I) have very supportive parents, and so it’s more the outside world that tends to put some stigma on it, even in this day and age. I’d probably say Taye has more responsibility to African-American people, not feeling like he’s let them down in some way. I think it’s just about raising a son that’s going to be mixed race and how to tackle that and what that means – even religiously and spirituality, we have a lot of stuff ahead of us. I want to be really clear and defined so that it’s not confusing. CA: Is your character on Glee, Shelby, done for? IM: You know, I don’t know. They’re saying I’m coming back, but you never know. Maybe they’ll go with another storyline. But I love being there. I love the energy on set, and I certainly did enjoy being hot for teacher and having the 17-year-old man with the Mohawk to kiss on. But they keep things really close to the vest, so it’s hard to tell. CA: Are you looking at being a part of a musical again? IM: Yeah, but nothing that I really can speak of yet. I’m trying to give people their space to create and do their thing, but that’s my goal. I’m putting my energy toward trying to get back to New York City in an original piece, just because that’s where I’ve had the most success and where I feel the most fulfilled. That process of standing at
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the piano with a composer and a writer as they’re creating from scratch and using you as inspiration – there’s nothing like that. CA: Any word on a Wicked movie? IM: No. I just always hear that if it came about Kristin (Chenoweth) and I would probably be too old, which is really annoying considering all the CGI you can do these days. I called them and told them, “What about Avatar?!” You never know, but I kind of don’t hold my breath on that one. And I feel lucky enough that I got to do the Rent movie 10 years after I actually originated the role. So we’ll see about Wicked. CA: So much has happened in your career since playing Maureen in Rent. Is that still a part of you? IM: Yes, because I put it in my show all the time in some capacity, so it actually forces me to get back in touch with that time in my life and what it represented and how I’ve grown since then. CA: What about Wicked? Do you have nightmares about going green? IM: Yes! I actually have those recurring theater nightmares. It’s not always just Wicked; it could be Rent, and they just desperately need me. The girl playing the role at the time can’t get in and there’s no one around. They call me and I’m like, “Of course I remember how to do it!” and I get on a dark and dreary stage that looks nothing like any set I’ve ever been on before and I can’t remember a single line and I don’t know how to put the green makeup on and I start having a meltdown. You know what’s “wickedly” awesome? Idina Menzel will be performing at the Columbus Commons with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s Picnic with the Pops at 8p on June 23. And who knows, you might be able to “rent” a moment of her time at a special meet and greet brought to you by your pals at outlook. Details to come.
Who wears short shorts? The Jackaroos wear short shorts! (And we thank them for that.)
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by Orie Givens
The “Royale” Interview:
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LR: I think it’s very important, because I think that has been something that has She’s large and in charge, she’s chunky been lacking in our drag community. Not yet funky. RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4 only our drag community, in the whole contestant Latrice Royale is everything GLBT community. We lost touch of the you see on TV and more. In a recent stop family values that we used to have back on her tour, Miss Latrice visited Columbus in the day. I am from the old school; when and performed for packed-to-the-wall a girl needed help you were there, it was crowds at Union and Axis. She worked it not something to think about or consider. out so much on performance night that It was just done. We get so caught up in we decided to push the interview to the the cattiness and the bitchiness side of next day, so we could both recuperate. We drag, and we’ve been entertained by sat down on Saturday morning at Union, that! But it’s time to show some heart slightly partied out from the night before too. and ready to talk all things drag. OG: Now let’s talk a little about the comOrie Givens: How did you get started petition. In TV-land we see that every doing drag? What made you start per- week there is a different competition, forming? different challenge. What is the pace of Latrice Royale: Actually it was a dare. the show? How long are you actually Back in the day, my friends dared filming and recording? me to like, dress up like Wanda LR: The entire filming is like, five weeks. from In Living Color. And I was a So, in our time we see these bitches going hot mess, and I did that for fun, every other day. So it’s really fast. When and then I did my first drag we walked into the workroom and like, show at the Copa back in “Oh my God there is nobody here,” it was 1990…(laughs). It was like 20 really nobody here; it’s really crazy, beyears ago, but it really started cause just last week there were 13 off as a dare. And I couldn’t bitches. You see what I’m saying? get enough after I won my first little drag show. OG: Ohh, yeah, I see. LR: Yeah, so in TV world, in your world OG: Now how did you when you are watching it, it looks effortget to RPDR? less. It looks like we have all the time in LR: Now that, you the world. No. (laughs) know, I was like at a crossroads with OG: I’ve seen some of the things that my career. I was you do, like designing costumes; I know debating on that takes time! So you guys are turning whether I was these things out in a day? Oh wow! going to conLR: [RuPaul’s Drag Race] is like, if you tinue with the combine Project Runway, with America’s pageantry sysNext Top Model, and they had a tem, or if I needed baby…THAT’S drag race. It’s so intense, a change. I just and it’s so involved. Like, you don’t have simply started off time to second guess yourself, because if with an email, and you start second guessing yourself you’re sent them an email. gonna lose yourself and you’re gonna lose Two days later, I got a out. phone call…made my video…and…started OG: We saw a little bit of tension bejumping through hoops tween you and Santino; is that still (laughs). there? Have you guys kissed and made up yet? OG: What were your first thoughts when LR: I haven’t seen Santino since the you walked into the workroom? show. So maybe on the reunion we can do LR: Oh my word, it was so surreal. And a little kissy-huggy-grabby-feely and you are like, you are looking around and make up. But, I have no ill will for him. I it’s enormous. It’s enormous…and over- just want to make sure he understands whelming. And I’m just like, “Wow, I’m re- the error of his ways and that he has to ally here.” And it took a little bit for me to address people in a certain kind of way. realize I was here actually, it took me until I’m not your average bitch, so I won’t tolAlisa [Summers] was eliminated , then I erate it or take it. realized, “Yeah, it just got real.” (laughs). OG: In other drama, Willam seemed to OG: We saw a lot in the Untucked have a lot of drama with the other charepisodes that you took on a kind of acters, but at some points people were motherly role with the girls, and helped warming up to him. What was your exthem with not just drag but real life as perience with him? You guys did seem well. How important is being a role to see eye-to-eye eventually. model? LR: I gave Willam the benefit of the
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doubt. I wanted to just sit back and watch and see how she would play out, see what kind of person she was. Willam is just such a warm person and she really does have a good heart, and she’s smart and funny and witty, and I love her. But, the reason that she came across the way she did, is because she didn’t come up in the drag circuit. So she had no clue how to be a drag queen and what drag etiquette was. So…she got her schooling. She definitely got schooled because these bitches not having it bitch! I don’t care if you are wearing designer shoes…you don’t know how to put on makeup! (laughs) OG: There’s shadow, going on! Ok, so you were sent home in the show a couple of weeks ago (in TV time). Why do you think you were sent home at that point? LR: You know everything happens in time for a reason, and you know, really I knew it was my time. I could feel it in my heart. You could see in Untucked that I was really doing my swan song then and trying to bring the girls back together ‘cause they were a hot giggly mess. But, you know I felt like, that they felt like that I was going to be OK either way, which is true; I am doing amazingly. I wasn’t sad that I left; I was more overwhelmed at the overall experience and what I got out of it. And I was just so gracious and thankful that RuPaul saw something in me. So you know, I was not mad, it was not my time. And if it came down to it, of course, they are gonna keep Phi Phi. Because, you know, she is good TV and good drama. (laughs) OG: Now that the show is almost wrapped and you’re touring all over the country, what’s next for Miss Latrice? LR: I’m working on several projects, and I couldn’t be busier and I couldn’t be happier with all of the things going on. I just recorded my new single, so I’m gonna be coming out with something for the kids… OG: Oooh! LR: Yes! A little circuit club track…a little cunt track called, “Excuse my Beauty.” OG: Is there anything you would like to say to your outlook fans? LR: Just that this has been the most amazing city, I can’t even tell you. Because, like, I didn’t expect it number one…you know, you live and learn. But, Columbus has turned my party, and I just couldn’t be happier. And I love all of you, and I will definitely be back. Definitely! We thank Latrice, Jason from LOGOtv and Sam from Roy G. Biv for their help with this interview. Read the full interview online at outlookcolumbus.com.
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The lady loves a microphone.
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Can-do Attitude by Erin McCalla “We have become a disposable society,” Chuck West Carnahan says as he starts to explain his newest endeavor, Canned. Carnahan, an outlook design intern and community ally, has decided to embark on a two-part project that combines film, recycling and philanthropy. First, he plans on collecting 1 million aluminum cans, which will weigh a little over 16.5 tons. Lowe’s Home Improvement has generously donated 15 collection bins to be placed all around the Capital City for citizens to donate their can collections. A bin is even conveniently stationed at the Greystone Building where the outlook office is located. So drink up, and show us your cans! (Bet you didn’t think you’d hear that saying outside of Mardi Gras…) Over the next year, he will continually round up his bins, individually clean and crush each can and store them in a facility in West Jefferson. When Carnahan has collected the accumulation of aluminum, he plans to use the mass as a visual aid for the second part of his project: a feature length documentary. The documentary will “explore the immense waste produced around the world every day” and the life cycle of an aluminum can. Aluminum is the most abundant metal on Earth, and he will examine how it is “birthed” through strip mining, its life on the shelf, the death of a can by throwing it in the trash without thinking, and its rebirth through recycling. “This isn’t a story about global warming, greenhouse gases, carbon footprints or anything else that partisan politics has monopolized for its own ends,” states Carnahan. “You always hear about living sustainably in a political way. I’m going to try to stay politically neutral – if that’s even possible. Real change doesn’t come from government mandates; real change comes from individuals trying to do their best to make changes in their own lives.” And the change Carnahan wants to see is for recycling to become second nature, but knows that it isn’t a quick fix, and might take several generations. In the documentary, Carnahan’s journey will take him beyond aluminum. He wants to travel to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Midway Island, where albatrosses’ bellies are so full of plastic waste from the ocean that they bring ashore tons of plastic each year. Since 90% of food packaging goes to a landfill and most of the US’s landfill material is sent overseas, Carnahan wants to visit the landfills of India and the Philippines. He also wants to explore the Bauxite mines in Brazil, where most the US gets most of its aluminum. Carnahan wants to interview ecologists and scientists and spend some time with the people who live off the grid who get all they need from a self-sustaining source. He also might live with
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some “freegans” in New York City or Los Angeles, who only use and eat items that come out of the trash. But how will he pay for this potentially expensive project? All the money that he earns from the aluminum cans will be donated to the Friends of the Scioto River, not to fund the filming of his documentary. The organization promotes the protection and public enjoyment of the Scioto River watershed. “I wanted to give to a charity based on local ecology. They clean and educate – they aren’t constantly protesting something, and they do really good work,” explains Carnahan. “The Scioto is the heart of Columbus and affects every surrounding community in some way.” So I ask again… how will he fund this project? For that, he is turning to Kickstarter, the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. Here’s how it works: You set a goal, and the clock starts running for you to reach the set dollar amount. If you earn enough donations, you will receive the money; if you don’t reach your goal, you don’t get a penny. To play it safe, Carnahan is asking for $20,000 but hopes to receive $50,000 to make the documentary he is envisioning. He doesn’t plan on making any money from this venture, but he hopes that he doesn’t have to spend thousands out of pocket. “If I don’t raise enough money, I’ll still be able to film it, but it won’t be as grand; it won’t be everything it could be.” Realistically, the project will take 18 months after he receives the money from Kickstarter. He will then shoot it, narrate it and do all the motion graphics himself. After its completion, Carnahan plans to submit the documentary to Central Ohio, national and international film festivals including the famous Sundance and Cannes. This will be Carnahan’s first feature length documentary, and he hopes to use it as a launching pad to make bigger and better films. He already has ideas for future documentaries. “I’m an unknown so I will send it everywhere and see what I can get,” chuckles Carnahan. “I never intended to but if I can make a career out of this, then I might as well do what I love.” Carnahan is hoping his message will inspire huge changes in the way we live our lives, so as a community, let’s try to change his life by allowing him to make the documentary on his terms. If all of outlook readers donate a dollar, he can easily make his vision a reality. There are incentives to donating larger sums – production credits, the Canned logo on a t-shirt, and even sand from Midway Island. For more information on his plight, how to donate and the map of all the Lowe’s bins’ locations, visit www.cannedproject.com.
Come on now, I know you have a dollar to donate!
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That dog’s name is “Cher,” you can just tell.
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Blossom Acres is a part of our family. We are an Amish family from Holmes county, and we specialize in providing fresh produce grown the old-fashioned, natural way. We want everyone to be able to enjoy quality food, as though you'd grown it yourself. We love spending time together in the produce fields, and still use traditional, time-proven techniques including horse-drawn equipment. We are committed to remain all natural and chemical-free, and are happy to provide you with an assortment of fruits, vegetables, eggs, syrup and flowers. Blossom Acres is pleased to offer 88 varieties of vegetables and fruits, including tomatoes (heirloom), corn, strawberries, brussel sprouts, lettuce, kale, collards, broccoli, cauliflower, melons, beets, beans, zucchini, squash, potatoes, garlic, onions, peppers, and so much more! Standard Vegetable Share - Most members receive a standard share, which averages $25/week and totals $525/year. As the season progresses and crops mature, the amount and variety of produce increases. This share includes one pint of syrup, one loaf of bread, and one bag of whole-wheat flower at the beginning of the season. Double Vegetable Share - This share is enough to feed a family of four or a couple on a vegetarian diet, and averages $41.43/week, and totals $870/year. Some members freeze portions of this large share. This share includes two pints of syrup, 2 loafs of bread, and one bag of whole-wheat flower at the beginning of the season!
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Fruits and Pride. He hee hee.
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Asbury Park, NJ: The Other Jersey Shore by Regina Sewell Forget about Snooki, The Situation and the other guidos and guidettes on MTV’s Jersey Shore. About 30 miles up the coast from Seaside Heights, Asbury Park is one of the best-kept secret gay Meccas on the East Coast. Asbury Park began its journey from a city in decline to a gay hot spot after race riots burned down much of the downtown area in 1970. Gays from New York City bought Victorian homes at bargain basement prices and spruced them up, gentrifying parts of the city and planting seeds for a vibrant gay community on New Jersey’s northern shore. In 1998, Shep Pettibone, the DJ famous for his writing and production collaborations with Madonna, converted an abandoned hotel across the street from the ocean into the Paradise Nightclub. He later renovated the rest of the building and opened the Empress Hotel, New Jersey’s first gay-oriented hotel. What to do Weekends in Asbury Park rival those on Fire Island. The Paradise Nightclub is the premier hotspot. Though women are welcome, the Paradise draws a young, mostly male crowd. Boys swarm the Paradise’s two dance floors (each with its own DJ), heated pool, sundeck, tiki bar and balconied rooms. In addition, the Paradise hosts a drag show every Friday night and karaoke every Sunday. Across the street but a world away, the Watermark is a swanky cocktail lounge. Popular among gays and lesbians, it creates the perfect ambient setting to chat with lovers and friends. The Watermark’s second floor offers stunning views of both the boardwalk and the ocean through floor-to-ceiling windows. In summer months, the bar expands to an outdoor deck that affords a view of the ocean under the stars. A few blocks north, the Dauphin Grille & Berkeley Bar at the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel offers a less frenzied, more mature scene with a tiki bar and poolside dining. Though the clientele is mixed, the Berkeley is a big draw in the gay community. A mile away, Georgie’s offers a relaxed neighborhood bar setting. They also host nightly events, including karaoke and drag shows, to keep things happening. Though Georgie’s crowd is mostly male, girls come out on the weekends. Also in town, La Sierra hosts drag wars every Monday night. And back to the boardwalk, McLoone’s Supper Club has live music every weekend, and hosts bi-monthly “Cabaret For Life” fundraisers which raise money for people living with AIDS and other diseases. McLoone’s also hosts monthly Sound of Music singa-longs. Asbury Park also is home to many special events. For the last few seasons, The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus has its Big Gay Sing Concert in an
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open rehearsal at the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel’s Crystal Ballroom in March. April brings an LGBT Film Festival to town. Jersey Pride revs up the town every June. Last year’s Pride Festival and Rally boasted more than 20,000 people. And Sandblast Weekend is the must-attend event on the Shore in late July for both men and women. Sandblast Weekend is three days of fun including volleyball and dodgeball tournaments, swim parties, dance parties, cocktail parties, T-dances, brunches, an art crawl and a bike ride. Beyond the bars, Asbury Park offers wonderful, well-manicured beaches patrolled by beefy lifeguards. The waves vary but tend to be gentle enough to swim but wild enough for bodysurfing, Boogieboarding or surfing. In the summer months, get a beach pass to walk on the beach from 10a– 6p. In the off-season, the beach is free. Boardwalks edge the beach from the north side of Asbury Park all the way down to the southern end of Avon-By-The-Sea, making the boardwalk a great place to walk or run. You can also bike there in the off-season or before 10a in the summer. If you haven’t ridden a surrey bike (a 4-wheel bike that looks like a golf cart) with your honey on the boardwalk, you haven’t lived. You can rent them and standard fat-tire bikes from Brielle Cyclery on the boardwalk. Shops, restaurants, bars, a miniature golf course, a water park for kids, a psychic stand and an old-fashioned arcade line the inland side of the boardwalk between the old Casino and the Paradise Theatre, making the boardwalk a happening place even in the off-season. If you get tired of the frenetic energy of Asbury Park, head a few moments south to Ocean Grove. It’s a little more laid-back and more family oriented. The beach in Ocean Grove tends to be less crowded and the parking is free. The tree-lined streets of this quirky one-square-mile town boast the highest concentration of authentic Victorian architecture in the country. Ocean Grove was founded as a Methodist Camp Meeting site and the religious roots remain. During summer months, they sponsor beach games, hold services and live music in both the Pavilion on the boardwalk and in the Great Auditorium. (If your experience being around religious folks has been painful, fear not. The mantra of the Methodists is “all are welcome” and the vibe in Ocean Grove is one of acceptance.) Ocean Grove’s Main Avenue has a number of quaint shops and reasonably priced places to eat. Cheese On Main and Yvonne’s Devil’s Food are mandatory destinations for foodies. If you are looking for artwork or handmade jewelry, Main Avenue Galleria is the place to go. They display works made by a variety of local artists and even offer art classes and workshops. Where to stay While the general vibe in Asbury Park is pretty gay-friendly, several hotels specifically welcome GLBT guests. The Empress caters to a young
You know that Asbury Park HAS to be a great place - Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about it!
crowd that wants to dance all night. The Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel is a bit more upscale. Another notch up the scale, the Hotel Tides pampers its guests. It has an on-site spa and art gallery. Guests sleep on imported Italian Anichini sheets and shower on floors made from river rocks. If you’re more the bed-and-breakfast type, check out The Inns of Ocean Grove. The rooms are tastefully decorated, the beds are comfortable and staff members are warm and gracious. One block from the beach, a number of rooms provide ocean views. In the off-season, The Inns offer a wonderful Winter Getaway deal that includes a gourmet cheese plate and bottle of wine or sparking water and gift certificates to select area restaurants for lunch and dinner. More B&B listings can be found at www.purpleroofs.com. Where to eat Restaurants abound in Asbury Park and Ocean Grove. Moonstruck is the place to go if you want to dine in a gay-owned establishment. They offer American and Italian food and their cocktail bar is a popular gathering place. If trendy is what you’re after, try the Langosta Lounge on the boardwalk. Langosta offers fusion cuisine and a fun atmosphere. Craving Italian and are willing to dress up for dinner? Set your sights on the Stella Marina, which is known for its extensive wine menu. For fabulous ocean views, make your way to McLoones Asbury Grill, whose menu options include edamame, fried green beans, oysters on the half shell, ribs and burgers. McLoones offers a nice beer selection and a respectable wine list, and the service and food are excellent. McLoones hosts live music in the supper club upstairs. Finally, if healthy is your thing, drop by on the Basin Bar. Located in Yoga Basin, a yoga studio, the Basin Bar offers fresh-pressed juices, smoothies and healthy, organic snacks. Getting there Asbury Park may be the easiest beach to get to on the East Coast. If you fly in, you can get to Asbury Park by bus or train and take a short (five minutes or less) cab ride to the beach. If you don’t have the time or energy to get to Fire Island and long for more of a beach scene than you can find in Provincetown, Asbury Park may well be your destination of choice. For more information: New Jersey Pride: http://www.jerseypride.org; LGBT film festival: http://www.asburyparkevents.com/Asbury_Park_Events/NewFest.html; Sandblast weekend: http://sandblastweekend.com/Home.html; Georgie’s: http://georgiesbar.com/GeorgiesBar/Home.html; Paradise Nightclub and the Empress Hotel: http://www.paradisenj.com and http://www.asburyempress.com; Berkeley’s Oceanfront Hotel and the Dauphen Grill and Berkeley Bar: www.berkeleyhotelnj.com; Hotel Tides: http://www.hoteltides.com; Main Avenue Galleria: http://www.mainavegalleria.com.
To ask Regina a question, check out upcoming workshops, or check out her books and other writing, go to: www.ReginaSewell.com.
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Michael Jackson’s Immortal show will be a “Thriller” - you just can’t “Beat It.”
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By Dan Savage I’m gay and a junior in high school, and I’ve had a boyfriend for a year. (He’s one year older than me, Dan, so relax!) We are out to our parents and everyone is supportive. We are not bullied or suicidal or using drugs. But we are frustrated! We had sex education in our schools, but they didn’t cover gay sex. (Big surprise!) I tried to talk to my mom about gay sex, and all she said was “please use condoms.” We tried and we used condoms, but I think we must be doing something wrong because we can’t do it. We are ready to start having real gay sex - with me on the bottom, at least for now! - and we are frustrated and feel like failures as gay men. Any advice? Tell Us Something Helpful P.S. Do we really need to use condoms? We are both virgins and each other’s first boyfriend. You and your boyfriend aren’t failing gayness, TUSH. Gay men and boys can be successes in life, in love and in the sack without acing - or even enjoying - anal intercourse. Anal doesn’t define you as gay men and it certainly isn’t all there is to gay sex. There are so many ways that you and your boyfriend can get off together - mutual masturbation, oral sex, frottage (aka “wet humping”) - that are just as pleasurable, just as “real,” and just as gay as anal intercourse. But if you and your boyfriend want to give anal another go, here’s a crash course in anal sex: First, experiment on your own. Use fingers and toys and lots of lube. I recommend that you get your hands on a butt plug, get your ass on that butt plug, and get yourself off with that butt plug in your ass. Exploring anal penetration
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solo will allow you to experience anal pleasure without any pressure or expectations. You can really take your time and you won’t feel like you’re disappointing your boyfriend if you have to bail. Your boyfriend should do the same. I don’t care if your boyfriend is a top - or thinks he is, or is topping because you want to bottom - your boyfriend will be a better top if he knows what it feels like to be penetrated and enjoys penetration himself. Okay! So you’ve both done some exploring on your own - jacked off with fingers and toys and there you are, just you and your boyfriend, hanging out. Your butts are squeaky clean and, hey, you’ve got the house all to yourselves. Is it time to fuck? Not yet. Now you’re gonna spend some time sticking fingers and toys in your butts and jerking off together. For extra credit, you can experiment with rimming, if you haven’t already, as nothing relaxes anal sphincters quite so effectively. (Once more with feeling: squeaky-clean butts!) The point is for you to do anal a few times with the boyfriend and for both of you to get off - you and the boyfriend - without his dick going anywhere near your ass.
into you. Once he’s all the way inside, your boyfriend may be tempted to start banging away, porn-star style, but that would be a huge mistake. Your boyfriend should instead stay perfectly still for the first minute or two while you breathe and relax. Kiss your boyfriend and stroke yourself during the brief lull before the fucking starts. Then he starts moving inside you - very slowly. He pulls out an inch or two and slides back in, you keep breathing and stroking, he pulls back an inch or two more and slides in. With each successive thrust, your boyfriend will be able to pull out a little farther, and before you know it, he’ll be fucking the hell out of you. The whole process (the hole process?) - from patient foreplay to full-on ass fucking - takes 30 minutes at least. P.S. You don’t have to use condoms, but you should. Using condoms is a good habit to get into, and if you have any concerns about cleanliness, well, a condom is your best friend. There are lots of gay guys out there - including guys as young as you - who got infected with HIV by boyfriends, including first boyfriends, who lied or didn’t know or fucked up. So listen to your mother and use condoms, along with a waterbased lubricant.
Now you’re ready to get fucked. You’re going to need lots of lube and lots of patience. Have your boyfriend apply lube directly to your hole. He should gently rub your hole for a bit, to help it relax, before using a finger or two to push some lube just inside you. You can apply the lube to his dick. Move into whatever position feels most comfortable for you - him on top, you on top, face-to-face, doggy-style - and point the tip of his hard cock directly at your hole. He should apply some pressure: uniform, constant, gentle pressure. You’ll feel your asshole begin to open as the head of his cock enters you. Keep breathing as the rest of his dick slowly - a fraction of an inch at a time - slides
I am an intern at the health and wellness center at my university. This is safe-sexawareness month on campus. We got donations from some sex toy companies. Among the products we received is something marketed as “Desensitizing Anal Wipes” by a company called California Exotic Novelties. We gave away these samples at our recent expo. After the fair, a student came up to my boss and me. As a young gay man, he expressed concern that desensitizing anal wipes were not safe to use, as masking pain could in fact lead to engaging in activities that you may not otherwise. I am assuming
If you still haven’t figured it out: use lube!
that what he meant here is that if you are experiencing pain during anal sex, you probably shouldn’t proceed. I know with anal you need to take things slow, use lots of lube, and work your way up to it, but that’s about the extent of my knowledge in this area. But I’d like to know what the Dan Savage take is on anal desensitizing wipes. Yay or nay? A Sensitive Subject Googling “desensitizing anal wipes” got me this: “…perfect for using before anal sex to reduce friction pains and ease entry.” Anyone who’s too stupid to use lube for anal sex - or anyone who is using lube but somehow doesn’t realize that reducing friction and easing entry is what lube is down there to do probably won’t be harmed by a “desensitizing” moist towelette that retails for $3.99. I don’t know what the active ingredient is, but I can’t imagine it’s a pharmaceutical-grade topical anesthetic. So I doubt that anyone who uses a DAW is going to wind up with an ass so benumbed that he won’t realize he’s being torn to shreds until after he sees blood and Santorum all over his sheets, pillows, walls, floor, boyfriend, ceiling, Xbox 360, cats, etc. That said, desensitizing anal wipes play on common fears and misconceptions about anal sex - namely, that anal sex is supposed to hurt. Anal done right isn’t painful, of course, even if it takes time, practice, and some patience to get used to. Some people do experience discomfort when they first attempt anal, but discomfort isn’t pain. It’s important for people to understand that if anal sex hurts, they’re doing it wrong - not enough lube, not enough foreplay, not enough practice - and they need to stop. Desensitizing wipes send the opposite message. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net. @fakedansavage on Twitter
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HARD. If you’re looking to take this gal (can we call her a gal?) on a date, we’d advise you to reconsider. If You don’t know her, you don’t love you’re still dead-set, ask her over to her, and frankly you have no Godwatch a little television and smoke a damned clue who she is. But you’re little peyote. Her favorite TV program about to, because we’re giving her a is “Keeping up with the Kardashians,” regular column! She’s Furby Lohan, because she “likes to see how fat Koand she was a bad idea at inception. We don’t get it either, so let’s just go She took to Columbus like June Bugg rtney gets when she’s pregnant, and to a Mich Ultra, and within hours had hear all the stupid shit Kim says every with it. time she opens up her little boozepositioned herself as the worst free, lip-glossed, cum-drenched stuffed-toy socialite in a tri-state Furbs, as she prefers to be known, mouth.” But she insists, “They are my area. Sometimes it’s good to be the was born in some shitbox factory in Keelung, China. Her father was an ex- big fish in the small pond. Sometimes dearest friends.” Yeah, we’re really giving a stuffed animal a column. tremely wealthy and influential corn- it’s good just to fish. But I digress. husker, and her mother, quite simply, When asked about people’s misconwas an ignorant slut. When her par- Things really turned ugly when she ceptions about Furbies, she remet Mark Kotowski, former outlook ents weren’t playing grab-ass in a sponded, “My vag is totally real. I lost intern-turned Furby Lohan handler rice patty (there were like 3 million a lime wedge in it last week. The four Furbies in the US alone, so you know and sole entourage member. When Furbs isn’t knee-deep in a mound of AA batteries that I use? They’re totally those devils were making a lot of blow, performing karaoke at Club 20 not for me. They’re for my vibrator, bang-bang), they were sleeping on Herbie Fully Loaded.” or working the local soup kitchen, their sides in an opium den. Furbs was effectively raised by magazines, she can be found poolside at the This is not a drill. This is really hapwhich accounts for her strong work- men-only Club Columbus, (which ethic, and well-tuned moral compass. strangely admits female animatron- pening. She spent her early days pick-pock- ics) googling herself and doing popLook for the adventures of our own pers. eting, and dreaming of being more inanimate celebutante stuffed animal than a Chinese-made toy filled with If you see her out, order her an Ever- every month, where she’ll talk about toxic rare earth minerals. Being an eternal problem child, her mostly er- clear and Coke or a Red-Headed Slut, the social scene in Cbus, and regale rant parents sent Furbs off to Phillps and she’ll slur unintelligibly at you for us with stories of stripper dick, day 10 to 45 minutes, until she sobers up drinking and Judy Garland. Just what Exeter, where she excelled at prewe needed! and start talking supply-side cisely nothing but eating, smoking, economics drinking and fornicating. When she grew tired of high school, and finally “graduated,” she headed to Stanford on a full ride, where she majored in Economics with a minor in International Bus-nasty. I bet you didn’t see that coming. It was all downhill from there.
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her sites on Los Angeles, but her megabus was inexplicably sidetracked here in Columbus. Though she tried to re-book for a full seven minutes, she gave up when a bum drinking a 40 out of a paper bag caught her eye.
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Furby, you miserable cunt.
Get wild and crazy, Capricorn!
partnership includes hard work and hard conversations. Mercury conjoining Eris trig- If your mate is coming off as gers battles of wits and verbal too competitive, ask yourself one-upmanship. That can eas- what you’re doing to provoke ily lead to silly arguments. that. Fortunately, Venus is in Gemini sextile to both, bringing charm SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): and affection to help keep it Those problems you see at to playful banter. work probably don’t need your solutions. Discuss them gently, TAURUS (April 20 - May 20): inquiringly with others conYes, darling, you are truly fab- cerned. Don’t insist. If your ulous, but true fabulosity baby’s best attribute is sexispeaks for itself. Pushing it ness, you need to grow up and too hard is easy to do and only move on, but not necessarily reveals your own doubts. That today. nagging voice inside your head may be pointing you to SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. something you need to check 20): Collaborative efforts will out. shine, but they do require effort. Share your best ideas GEMINI (May 21- June 20): Try- gently and credit enthusiastiing to be the shining light cally. Promoting your own among your friends may gen- creative efforts is OK, too, but erate more heat than light. better if your partner does Give it a rest and just be your that for you. own sweet self. Your partner’s criticism is worth listening to. CAPRICORN (Dec. 21 - Jan. If you must argue, at least lis- 19): Get wild and crazy. You ten! need a release. Focusing that energy into a creative project CANCER (June 21- July 22): is best, but don’t let that hang Sharp awareness of the finan- you up. Not a good time to cial future can too easily de- take up an extreme sport, but generate into useless worries. that leaves a lot of room. Real as your problems may be, it’s too easy to imagine AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): them as worse than they are. Your wicked mouth is like a If you can’t take positive super-power. Will you use it steps, at least focus on confor self-indulgent entertainstructive ideas. ment or for the public good? Bitchy acerbic wit needs a LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): Norvictim, but that’s the one thing mally you love attention, but that politicians are always now you are feeling conspicu- good for. ous and a bit disconnected. Feeling unsettled can make PISCES (Feb. 19 - March 19): you argumentative. Relax. Do Don’t let financial news throw what you do best and let your you into a tizzy. Calm, disciwork speak for itself. pline and cooperation will help you find solutions. Know who’s VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): on your side and who you can Talking filth with your sweetie confide in. Sudden inspiracould get you slapped, but is it tions aren’t reliable, but can a good slap or a bad one? Get- point you to ideas that are. ting kinky can invigorate a relationship, but be very clear ARIES (March 20 - April 19): on limits, safety and clear Mercury in your sign may have communications. Harder and you convinced that you’re a heavier does not always equal silver-tongued wit, but he’s better. likelier making you a motormouthed annoyance. Write LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): If down what you have to say you’re wondering if a doctor and think about it carefully should look at that, the anbefore you say it. swer is yes. Building a real Jack Fertig, a professional astrologer since 1977, is available for personal and business consultations in person in San Francisco, or online everywhere. He can be reached at 415-8648302, through his website at www.starjack.com, and by email at QScopes@qsyndicate.com.
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