2014-09-01 Outlook Ohio Magazine

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The Voice of Ohio’s GLBT and Ally Community

The Arts & Fashion Issue

• LGBT Must-Sees • Youngstown Queer Youth Theater • CMH Fashion Week • Lesbian Style • Luxe for Less • Comedian Brooke Cartus • News: Anti-Trans Violence • Business: The Pork Chop Shop • Books: Mistress Ginger Cooks • Snapshot: Toledo Pride • Interview: Sinéad O’Connor

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The world as we know it is definitely in flux with our hearts on the line. The country as a whole hasn’t had a hyper-focus on marriage like this since the ’60s when interracial marriage was the hot-button issue.

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Now, 50 years later, with same-gender marriage in the spotlight, we’ve had to explore further, past the concept of with what kind of man and with what kind of woman we allow people to be with. We are no longer tied to the deep-rooted expectation that we must grow up, settle down and have kids. Instead, the country has had to think deeper into the meaning of relationships and challenge the preconceived notions of traditional marriage.

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The world is now our proverbial love oyster, and with that, we all individually have had to ask ourselves “With whom, if anyone, do I really want to be?,” “Is this the relationship I want to be in?” and “How do I want being a couple to look and feel for me?”

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Tough questions to ask yourself. Tougher still to answer. And too many choices can make anyone abscond from making a decision, whether that is ice cream or mates.

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And on that note, for those of us celebrating love, Outlook is throwing our second Love Big LGBT Wedding and Ceremony Expo, this time in Dayton at the Hilton Garden Inn Beavercreek/Dayton on Sunday, Oct 5. Come meet LGBT-friendly vendors for your big day. Head to LoveBigWeddingExpo.com to sign up to be a vendor or for more info. We hope to see you there!

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Christopher Hayes, Publisher

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Even though we are trying hard now to define marriage in the US, I believe, in the end, it will be the self-defining of marriage with personal agreements by each individual couple that will strengthen the state of marriage here and around the world.

And lastly, a shout out to Toledo Pride, which we attended this past weekend. As Bob and I are both Northwest Ohio boys, we were so proud to be a part of the celebration.

This year was bigger and better than ever. I encourage everyone to go next year and see how rocking the Glass City is. Great job, Toledo Pride!

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PUBLISHER Christopher Hayes

It’s been a crazy summer for love. As I have witnessed more marriage cases falling in our favor than ever before, I’ve also seen more breakups and divorces for both longterm and married couples than I have in a number of years. Coincidence?

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Samantha Rickman captures Anitra Weathers, as part of a collaborative lesbian fashion photo shoot with Emma Parker. Check it out on Pages 28-31.

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Why Marriage Matters Rally 8/5/14 @ Lytle Park, Cincinnati

FreedomOhio Rally 8/6/14 @ Fountain Square, Cincinnati

Gay Games 9 8/9/14 - 8/16/14 @ Cleveland and Akron

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Toledo Pride 8/22/14 - 8/24/14 @ Promenade Park, Toledo

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Pair of 50 Years Stars in Pro-Equality TV Ad

Will They? Or Won’t They?

Equality in Judges’ Hands

Daughtrey The right to marry in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee is now in the hands of three federal appeals court judges who are reviewing pro-equality rulings in all four states.

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit heard arguments for and against marriage equality on Aug 6 in Cincinnati. Outside the courtroom, hundreds of LGBT civil rights activists marched while a handful of opponents prayed.

But we’ve all heard their arguments. Here’s what the judges had to say: Martha Craig Daughtrey, 72, a former Tennessee Supreme Court justice who was appointed to the federal appeals court by President Clinton in 1993: Applying the logic of claims that same-sex marriage bans are the will of the people to the interracial marriage bans struck down by the US Supreme Court in 1967: “It was, was it not, a law across a huge swath of Southern states? That was a vote by the people of many states against the possibility of interracial marriage, and the language in Loving [v. Virginia] says the right to choose whom to marry is a fundamental right.”

On claims that marriage is limited to opposite-sex couples because

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Sutton states want to encourage people to have children: “What is it about same-sex marriage that will stop procreation in the state of Kentucky?”

After one anti-equality lawyer said there’s no deeply rooted tradition for same-sex marriage: “You cant say, ‘Well, it’s not deeply rooted that they have a right to marry,’ because aside from the right to marry they might have the sheriff in the hall outside their bedroom trying to find out what they were doing in privacy in their own homes. ... The conduct at the basis of same-sex marriage was until 2003 [when the US Supreme Court struck down anti-sodomy laws] potentially criminal.”

Jeffrey Sutton, 53, a former Ohio state solicitor from Columbus whose appeals court appointment

by President Bush was confirmed in 2003: On the marriage-for-procreation claims as the basis of state restrictions: “Modern conceptions about marriage are more about love, affection and commitment. When you think of it that way, it does seem a little harder to justify.”

Pondering whether the ballot box or the courtroom is the best way to achieve marriage equality: “Changing hearts and minds happens through democracy much more effectively than happens

Cook through court decisions.”

Questioning a pro-equality lawyer’s argument that voters enacted same-sex marriage bans out of anti-gay bias: “You’re talking about people, for better or worse, deciding to preserve an institution the way it was for centuries. That’s just hard to think of [in] an animus way. I tend to think of people who want to do that as risk-averse. ...

They want their change a little more slowly.”

Deborah Cook, 62, a former Ohio Supreme Court justice from Akron who was appointed by President Bush in 2003:

A couple of 50 years from Chagrin Falls are the new poster boys for marriage equality in Ohio.

Henry Hawley and George Vassos were featured in a 30-second TV ad aired in August by Why Marriage Matters Ohio, the statewide group formed to build support for marriage equality in the state.

Hawley is a retired Cleveland Museum of Art curator, and Vassos is a retired Cleveland Institute of Music instructor. They met in 1963 and married last Oct 25 in New York.

Here’s the text of the ad: Vassos: I can’t imagine my life without Henry.

Hawley: There aren’t too many who have 50 years together, and I think we’re very fortunate to have had that.

Vassos: We got married Oct 25.

Today we’re really fortunate that the country is turning around.

Nineteen states so far, and hopefully Ohio will be next.

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Stepping in during a back-andforth between Daughtrey and a ban-defending lawyer over the idea that states regulate marriage to encourage procreation: “There are important benefits to the state beyond procreation, I should think.”

Lauren and Kristina (Bradley) Aaron Keegstra of Westerville, Ohio, Fisher were married August 6, 2014, and Brian Cook of Ridgefield, Connecticut, will be married on October On whether courts should overrule in Cincinnati’s Fountain Square.

4, 2014, at the Center of Science marriage bans enacted by popular vote: “Isn’t the bigger point that it’s Their daughter, Brynn, stood by their and Industry in Columbus, Ohio. disparaging the votes of citizens of side as they recited vows and exchanged rings. Close friends Lauri, The couple resides in New York, New Michigan?”

Katie and Emily served as their York, and can’t wait to celebrate with friends and family as they tie After a pro-equality lawyer brought maids of honor. the knot in Aaron’s hometown. up the issue of discrimination: The happy couple is planning a re“When we speak about the retenception to celebrate with friends and Aaron is a senior compliance officer tion of the traditional and you say family. Lauren and Kristina reside in at JP Morgan Chase, and Brian is there’s an intention to create two the director of media relations at the classes ... that’s a result, I suppose, Clintonville, Ohio.

Clinton Foundation. more than an intention, wouldn’t you agree?”

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Oberlin, Ohio State Listed Among Most LGBT-Friendly

Princeton Review’s 10 most LGBT-friendly colleges for 2014-15: • Stanford University, California • Oberlin College, Ohio • Emerson College, Massachusetts • Smith College, Massachusetts • Warren Wilson College, North Carolina • Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania • University of WisconsinMadison • Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Massachusetts • New College of Florida • Pitzer College, California

Campus Pride, a nationwide network of college LGBT groups, listed its 50 most LGBT-friendly schools without ranking them. Two are in Ohio, and four are in neighboring states: • Indiana University • Oberlin College • Ohio State University • Penn State University • University of Michigan • University of Pennsylvania

Delfin Bautista, director of the center, said people have canvassed the community before, but organizers wanted to focus their efforts this time on

The LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland announced $2.3 million in gifts in August that will go toward four-year-old plans to find a bigger home and expand programming.

The money has two sources: a $1.8 million donation from an anonymous supporter that will help buy and renovate a new home for the center, as well as $500,000 from Cleveland’s Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation to help with upkeep.

advocating for trans-inclusive spaces.

Volunteers planned to talk to businesses about the importance of nondiscrimination laws and policies, encourage inclusive signage on single-occupancy restrooms, and offer “SafeZone” window stickers to supportive businesses.

“The cool thing is that students do look for the SafeZone stickers,” Bautista said.

Center leaders haven’t settled on a new location yet, Harris said. She said the center serves 500 people monthly and doesn’t want to expand beyond a size that’s sustainable.

There’s 4,000 square feet of usable space in the current center at 6600 Detroit Avenue in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood, and it’s looking for about 5,000 square feet. From five days and 46 hours of programming, the center hopes to grow to six days and 52 hours.

“We’re not looking to get too big,” Harris said.

“We don’t want to become landlords. We want to do this right.”

The center now offers everything from homework help for teens to exercise classes for seniors. It hosts support groups, training sessions, health programs and community meetings.

Harris said expanded programming will be geared toward people in the middle.

The Maltz foundation grant will match community donations up to $500,000. The Community Center has opened a link on its website (lgbtcleveland.org) for people to contribute. The fundraising campaign will continue through June 30, 2016.

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Around Ohio

Richard Trojanski

“We are overjoyed!” said Executive Director Phyllis Harris.

Groups Canvass Athens for Trans-Friendly Spaces

Volunteers from TransOhio and the Ohio University LGBT Center planned to canvass Athens in August for trans-friendly businesses.

$2.3 Million in Gifts Means Growth for Cleveland Center

Go Yeomen and Yeowomen! Go Bucks!

Akron: The Gay Community Endowment Fund of the Akron Community Foundation is accepting applications for grants that support LGBT community programs. The deadline is Sept 15. Call 330.436.5624 for more information, or get an application at akroncf.org/applyGCEF.

Cincinnati: The Heartland Trans* Wellness Group was named as one of 67 grant recipients from the Trans Justice Funding Project.

The money will support Heartland’s Cincinnati Trans* Community Group and TeenSpace programs.

Cleveland: An exhibit on Northeast Ohio’s LGBT history is at the Western Reserve Historical Society through the end of the year. Among the items on display: an art deco mural from the old Cadillac Lounge. Visit wrhs.org for museum hours.

Columbus: The deadline is Sept 19 for the next round of Howard T Short and Burdette Augsburger Scholarships, awarded by the Legacy Fund of the Columbus Foundation. The scholarships are for students attending college in Franklin or surrounding counties. Visit thelegacyfund.org to find out who’s eligible and how to apply.

Maple Heights: Openly gay City Councilman Richard Trojanski (pictured above) will receive the 2014 Stephanie Tubbs Jones Freedom Award from the Cleveland Stonewall Democrats at a Sept 7 event. Trojanski championed legislation this year that added sexual orientation and gender identity to the city’s fair-housing law.

Toledo: Steinem’s Sisters, a feminist lending library and archive, opened in August at People Called Women, Ohio’s only feminist bookstore. It’s a project of the bookstore, the Toledo chapters of the National Organization for Women and the American Association of University Women, Nirvana Now, and the University of Toledo Women’s and Gender Studies Department. september 2014

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The Month in Marriage

Arizona: A 45-year couple from Green Valley that’s part of a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s marriage ban asked a judge to order recognition of their marriage immediately. One of the men has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Arkansas: Officials defending Arkansas’s marriage ban asked the state Supreme Court on Aug 6 to delay its review of a county judge’s pro-equality ruling until the US Supreme Court takes up the issue.

Florida: Broward County commissioners voted Aug 12 to look into the possibility of withholding tax payments to the state because the money will help Attorney General Pam Bondi fight to uphold Florida’s marriage ban.

North Carolina: After a federal appeals court ruling striking down Virginia’s marriage ban, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said his office would stop defending his own state’s ban.

Oklahoma: State officials defending Utah’s marriage ban asked the US Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling in favor of marriage equality.

Tennessee: A county judge upheld the state’s marriage ban in a case brought by two men who were seeking a divorce.

Texas: 63 state lawmakers signed a legal brief that equates same-sex marriage rights with incest, pedophilia and polygamy, according to Lone Star Q.

Indiana: A federal judge already has struck down the state’s marriage ban, but another ruled Aug 19 that Indiana must recognize out-of-state marriages. Both rulings are on hold pending an appeals court review.

Utah: Even though a federal appeals court sided with them in June, couples challenging the state’s marriage ban want the US Supreme Court to review their case and issue a nationwide ruling on marriage equality.

Mississippi: Couples in seven counties filed out-of-state marriage license with a state court that oversees land records. It’s a symbolic move but does offer some official record, one couple said.

Virginia: The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court ruling July 28 that struck down the state’s 2006 marriage ban.

The US Supreme Court, however, decided Aug 20 that marriages should be put on hold.

Missouri: A trial is scheduled later this month in state court on a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s 2004 marriage ban.

Worldwide: Israeli Interior Minister Gideon Saar told immigration officials Aug 12 that laws allowing Jews to immigrate to the country with non-Jewish spouses will include same-sex couples as well.

The Silent ‘B’: Bi Group Plans September Celebration in Columbus

by Noah Alexander

Merisa Bowers, co-founder of Bi Local, nationally recognized every Sept 23 a Columbus group dedicated to advo- since 1999, will include events in cating and raising visibility for the bi- Columbus this year.

The acronym LGBT is an umbrella term meant to embrace all those who sexual population of Central Ohio, reminds people that bi people identify with a queer sexuality. The term has become so ubiquitous that it have played an equally pivotal almost lends itself to a monolithic rep- role in the historical struggle for LGBT rights in America. resentation of queerness today.

When you see individual people described as LGBT, it’s easy to forget that each letter points to a specific type of queerness. And over the course of queer history, it seems that something has led to the complete glossing-over of bisexual-identified people in media and political discourse.

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So what accounts for the bi community’s lack of visibility and representation?

“First, there is the stigma,” Bowers said. “There is this old attitude that bisexuality isn’t real.”

That stigma is often perpetuated within gay and lesbian circles, she points out. It makes it difficult for bi people to come out, according to On Sept 24, Bi Local will host an open Bowers, because they’re often labeled mic night at 7p at Bossy Grrrl’s Pin Up as “wishy-washy or immature.”

There’s a growing national effort Joint, 2598 N High Street in Columbus. aimed specifically at tackling stigmas Burlesque, comedy, spoken word and Bowers describes bisexuality today as “constantly coming out,” because and prejudices about bisexuality. Cel- musical performers are welcome. families and friends might not be senebrate Bisexuality Day, an occasion “In the initial Stonewall movement there were a lot of bisexual-identified people involved,” she said.

sitive to the reasons why the gender of one’s dating partners changes.

In August, Larry King asked True Blood star Anna Pacquin in an interview if she was a “non-practicing bisexual” and then asked, “But you were bisexual?,” when she told him she was “happily, monogamously married” to costar Stephen Moyer.

“I don’t think it’s a past-tense thing,” she said. “Are you still straight if you are with somebody? ... If you were to break up with them or if they were to die, it doesn’t prevent your sexuality from existing. It doesn’t really work like that.”

Bye, Bye Birdie the musical is not about bisexuality. Bi Bi Birdie the adult film isn’t really, either.

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An Epidemic of Violence

by Brynn Tannehill

Trans* activists, protesting violence against the LGBTQ community, via glittergnat

transgender women are not seen as real people, and assailants are far more likely to conThe police blamed it on a robbery, even though tinue their attack all the way through to In the late fall of 2001, I got back from my second deployment and was feeling more con- nothing was taken. They refused to investigate murder. flicted than ever about my gender. I found out it as a hate crime, because gender identity the leader of transgender support group was a wasn’t included in hate-crimes laws. No sus- “Our fight is not for equality, it’s for liberation and survival,” said Cherno Biko of Columbus, pects were ever named, no arrests ever retired Navy officer, like me. She was also a very out and prominent local activist in Jack- made. As a result, I stayed in the closet for al- a transgender woman of color who was named to this year’s Trans 100. most another decade. sonville, Fla. Her name was Terrianne Summers.

Violence against transgender women, and Equality Ohio spokesman Grant Stancliff said I e-mailed Terrianne quite a bit and spoke with particularly transgender women of color, is an violence against transgender women of color is situated firmly at the intersection of racism, her three or four times on the phone. She was epidemic. sexism, heterosexism and classism. Jacob soft-spoken, kind, empathetic to my plight The National Coalition of Anti-Violence ProNash of Akron, the founder of Margie’s Hope, a and had a wry sense of humor. We decided nonprofit organization that helps trans people that we would meet sometime around the hol- grams’ 2014 report shows that last year, 72 in need, said gender norms are the root of the idays, when we both had a little time off. I was percent of all LGBT Americans murdered in terrified, but she was my only lifeline to figur- hate crimes were transgender women and 67 problem. percent were transgender women of color. To ing out why I felt the way I did. put this in perspective, a transgender woman “Violence against transgender women, and is over nine times more likely to be murdered trans women of color in particular, is so pervaThe meeting never happened, though. in a hate crime than a gay man. A transgen- sive because we are still living in a society der woman of color is over 52 times more likely where the idea of a ‘man’ wanting to be a On December 12, 2001, Terrianne Summers woman seems to de-masculinize men,” he was found shot to death in her driveway. Who- to be murdered in a hate crime than a gay said. “When it comes to trans women of color, ever did it ignored the purse she had left in the man.

I feel that often the violence happens due to car, along with the keys and the car itself. She Only 13 percent of survivors of hate crime vio- family and faith issues, as well as the strugwas shot in the back of the head at point lence were transgender. That disparity is both gles that men of color have had to endure.” blank range just 22 days after she particisignificant and disturbing. It indicates that pated in the Transgender Day of Remem16

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In Ohio, and Around the Nation, Transgender Women Are Murdered at Alarming Rates

brance in Florida.

Don’t take it, report it to BRAVO: 1.866.86.BRAVO (7286).

Ohio has been one of the worst places in the nation when it comes to hate crimes against transgender women of color. Four transgender women have been killed in Ohio since January 2013, and three of the victims were transgender women of color. It’s a murder rate - 0.6 percent of annual homicides in the state that’s about double transgender people’s percentage of the US population and triple the percentage of transgender women.

And the brutality of the crimes is just as startling: • When 20-year-old Cemia “CeCe” Dove was killed in January 2013, she was stabbed more than 40 times, strapped to a cinder block and dumped in a retention pond in Olmstead Township outside of Cleveland.

• Betty Skinner, a wheelchair-bound 52-year-old living in an assisted care facility in Cleveland, was found bludgeoned to death in December 2013. She died of blunt-force trauma to the head. outlookohio.com

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• Nicole Kidd-Sturgis, 22, was found dead a day later inside a parked car in Cleveland. She was shot in the head.

volvement of transgender leaders, are foundational to LGBT and queer history, but you’d never know it if you only heard news from mainstream sources.”

“With the lack of understanding, and in some cases education about the transgender community, people don’t realize how bad it is for many transwoman, especially trans women of color,” he said. “People are so caught up in the fight for marriage equality and employment that they forget that there is a bigger need out there, the need to physically survive.”

• In June, 28-year-old Tiffany Edwards was shot to death in Cincinnati, and her body discovered in the middle of a city street the next morning by a sanitation worker.

None of the murders has been classified as a hate crime, leaving Nash perplexed and frustrated.

Violence against transgender people, and particularly transgender women of color, has garnered some national attention. Kylar Broadus is the executive director of the Transgender Persons of “I wish I knew why these murders are not being Color Coalition and a transgender man. He was treated as hate crimes. We also need to insist also the first openly transgender person to testify that prosecutors properly charge individuals with before the US Senate. He sees the epidemic vioa hate crime if, in fact, that’s what the evidence lence as a call to action for the entire LGBT comshows,” he said. The lack of labeling of these munity. murders as hate crimes makes these killings seem like just another murder, when in fact they “We must do better as a local and global comare not and they need to be treated differently.” munity in protecting our sisters. People are people. We cannot stand by idly and let our sisters Even in death, the memories of the victims are die,” he said. “Human beings are not disposable. often dishonored by the media and the victims’ Every human has value. Because a person hapown families. Ohio newspapers and TV stations pens to be born a transgender woman of color consistently misgender, use the wrong names or should not sentence her to death at the hands of bring up irrelevant details that cast blame on the the weak-minded.” victims.

Work can be done locally and at a state level to And within the broader LGBT community, the help reduce anti-transgender violence, activists crimes mobilize fewer activists than other issues. say.

When she attended August rallies in Cincinnati before federal appeals court hearings on two “It takes community, facing uncomfortable Ohio marriage-equality cases, Biko also visited truths, and lots and lots of hard work - including the site of Tiffany Edwards’ murder. listening to and supporting the trans* people and transgender people of color who are already She said was saddened that none of the speak- doing that work,” Stancliff said. “Equality Ohio’s ers at either rally mentioned the four murders, let primary work at the moment is a comprehensive alone called for action to address the violence statewide nondiscrimination policy that covers against transgender women in Ohio. employment, access to housing and access to public accommodations. Transgender people are “It is crucial that we channel our energy and re- disproportionately underemployed and undersources to our communities’ most vulnerable,” housed. Combating discrimination is one way to Biko said. build community strength and resilience.”

When asked why anti-transgender violence hasn’t had nearly the focus of other LGBT issues, Stancliff observed: “The voices of transgender people are often silenced - and this isn’t a recent phenomenon. They rarely talk about the transgender activists who were central to the uprising at Stonewall Inn. Likewise, we rarely hear about pre-Stonewall protests like the one at Compton’s Café, which was primarily driven by transgender activists. These stories, including the central inoutlookohio.com

Jacob Nash sees the solution as one of education.

“We need the LGB community to educate each other. When we have our allies stating that violence toward the transgender community is a concern for the whole LGBT community, it gives it more substance because the transgender community is not the only one stating what needs to happen.”

Transgender Day of Remembrance events will take place around Ohio in November.

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Lesbian Butchers Carve Out a Niche in Cleveland

by Noah Alexander

In Cleveland’s bustling West Side Market, the stands are draped with rainbow flags in a show of celebration for Gay Games 9.

For Alexia Rodriguez and Emma Beno, co-owners of the Pork Chop Shop, the mass display signals something of a milestone.

“It wasn’t always like this,” Rodriguez says, motioning toward the flags overhead. “We like to think we were a part of that.” photo: Bob Perkowski

In fact, when the lesbian business partners bought the Pork Chop Shop in 2012 to become the market’s first and only LGBT owners, the rainbow flag they hung above their stand was also a first for West Side Market. The initial response was not positive; they said other vendors complained, and some even demanded that it be taken down.

But the challenges didn’t stop there. Butchery being a traditionally male-dominated profession, their status as young women - lesbian or not - caused real setbacks in the beginning.

“At first, when people saw us running the stand, they wouldn’t want us to cut their meat,” Rodriguez says. “There’s been a lot of adversity since we started. But we’ve come a long way.”

Beno and Rodriguez and their Pork Chop Shop now are fixtures at the West Side Market, and they’ve opened up their business to others who’ve not often been offered opportunities in their field. They’ve

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taken transgender and AfricanAmerican employees under their wings.

And the same holds true for those on the other side of the counter.

“We bring a lot of LGBT customers,” Rodriguez says. “And a lot of straight allies, too.”

Beno then recalls how an LGBT-allied regular of theirs once brought her a T-shirt with a picture of two PEZ dispensers on it, captioned “PEZbians.”

But their magnetic personalities would be nothing without both the skill they bring to their craft and the integrity of their product. The duo deals exclusively with pork, and they remain the only vendor licensed to do so in the entire marketplace. It’s a niche that gives them a serious advantage over their competitors.

a bakery. While spending so much time in the market, she became the protégé of many of the market’s butchers and eventually settled on pork after purchasing the shop.

Rodriguez also started work at age 14, at a diner in Lorain County. She moved up and eventually landed a corporate chef position at age 23.

As natives of Northeast Ohio, Beno and Rodriguez are attuned to the LGBT movement in Cleveland.

“It seems like gay men usually get most of the attention,” Beno says of lesbian visibility and representation in region. “There’s not really any lesbian spots.”

When asked if they thought the Gay Games-inspired rainbow flags are at West Side Market to stay, Rodriguez says she hopes so but suspects they might only be temporary.

At least one will remain, though.

Their pigs are raised on Ohio farms based mainly out of Sandusky, meaning they require no preservatives and result in a healthier, higher-quality product. The meats are flavored in-house, using recipes with which Beno and Rodriguez are constantly experimenting.

Beno also has aspirations of eventually getting whole pigs, uncut, sent to the Pork Chop Shop so as to draw in more customers by giving the butchery process more transparency.

The two have been honing their craft for the entirety of their working lives. Beno started working at age 14 at a cheese stand in the West Side Market and then moved on to

“Ours is always here,” she says.

The Pork Chop Shop theporkchopshopwsm.com West Side Market Stand E4 1979 W 25th St Cleveland, 44113 216.394.0382 Open Mondays and Wednesdays, 7a-4p; and Fridays and Saturdays, 7a-6p The Pork Chop Shop sells more than chops. It also sells pork roasts, ribs, hams, Italian sausage, bratwurst, kielbasa and bacon.

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Youngstown’s LGBTQ Youth Theater Is Unique in Ohio

by Matthew Ryan

Since the boom times left along with steel-industry jobs in the 1970s, many people living around the Mahoning Valley have struggled.

They struggle to make ends meet, struggle to put food on the table, and struggle to find an identity.

Breena Keever was the first teen asked to join the group. At the time, she was leading the gay-straight alliance at Boardman High School outside of Youngstown and was asked to check out the theater group and hear what its organizers had to say.

The majority of the young people in YOUnify But Kris North and the Oakattend Boardman High or other subland Center for the Arts urban schools, as well as “It’s 50% in Youngstown have Catholic high schools in and educating, helped struggling around Youngstown. Even LGBTQ youth find 50% empowering though the group is still their voice. young, Keever said it’s althe youth.” ready making a difference - Kris North North is the director in the LGBT community.

YOUnify Theatre of LGBTQ outreach at Company the arts center and was “They are kids who were once asked to take charge of a new afraid of who the world thought they youth theater group two years ago. The were,” said the Boardman alumna who now first young people joined the YOUnify Theatre attends Kent State. “And now, the kids that Company in 2013. were once afraid are up on stage. They get to drop their guard and actually be who they Queer kids and theater might be linked in are.” many minds, but queer youth theater groups are not common across North America.

YOUnify is in the process of expanding and YOUnify is one of just 22 troupes in the United reaching more LGBTQ youth across the MaStates and Canada, and it’s the only one in honing Valley. It currently has 15 members Ohio. ranging from 14 to 19 years old. The group welcomed its first transgender member this “It’s 50 percent educating, 50 percent empow- year. ering the youth,” North said. outlookohio.com

This past season’s show was an original piece The group uses its members’ struggles and called Closet Space. stories as creative fodder.

“People don’t know what to make of it at first because it’s a very different thing to see right now in this area. There is no, I guess, unifying youth voice right now in the area for youth LGBTs,” North said.

The group meets regularly at the Oakland Center for the Arts in Downtown Youngstown.

Half of the time is spent working on upcoming productions. The other half spent talking about the highs and lows of being an LGBT teenager.

“We take those experiences and devise a scripted story. We don’t use any names; we don’t want to invade anyone’s privacy or anything like that - and we present it,” North said.

“These kids got it, they know what they have to do. They are some of the smartest kids I’ve ever met in my life.

The group originally was called the Mahoning Valley Pride Youth Theatre but was quickly renamed YOUnify. A $2,500 grant from the Mukti Fund in 2012 helped get the effort off the ground.

When the group meets, members are required

by North to say at least one good thing that The Mukti Fund has helped start LGBTQ youth happened to them since the last time everyone theaters across the country. got together.

“Years ago these three gay millionaires de“You’d expect to hear horror stories about bul- cided they wanted to do something good for lying ... but we don’t get very many stories like LGBT youth within the arts. So they founded that,” he said. “Most of the things we hear two or three small organizations around the about are struggles at home and coming out.” country,” North said.

“Since working with the youth I found myself instantly remembering how intense and important everything felt when you’re going through adolescence. Every negative experience feels like it could be the end.”

Jump! For my love. Jump in!

Members will start on their next performance in the coming weeks.

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by Erin McCalla, Bob Vitale, Noah Alexander and Sam Little The gays have a reputation for being tuned in to the arts scene. While yes, it’s a stereotype, it just means LGBT people tend to be more sophisticated, cultured and worldly, right? We suppose it’s one of the better assumptions out there...

Outlook has compiled arts schedules from Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Toledo and has gleaned the gayest of the gay, lesbianest of the lesbian, bi-est of the bi and transest of the trans for our readers. From art installations to musicals to film festivals and symphonies, there is something for every letter in the LGBTQIA acronym.

And, of course, an LGBT arts roundup wouldn’t be complete without a showing of The Wizard of Oz (thank you, Toledo Symphony!).

Check outlookohio.com for full arts schedules in case you want some straighter fare.

Rent Dare to Defy Productions Sept 5-6 @ Victoria Theatre, 138 N Main St, Dayton, 45402; daretodefyllc.com. Tickets: $27-$52.

This is the quintessential ’90s gay musical, based on Puccini’s opera La Boheme, which deals with sexuality, drug addiction, creativity, wealth disparity, AIDS and death in a rock ’n’ roll-type of way.

Mark, a filmmaker, used to date Maureen, but she left him for a lawyer named Joanne. Mark lives with Roger, a musician, who falls in

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love with Mimi, a heroin-addicted gogo dancer. They both have HIV. Tom, who’s Mark and Roger’s old roommate, meets and falls in love with a cross-dressing bucket drummer named Angel. They also have HIV.

mother transitions to a man.

The full festival schedule, with times and venues, has yet to be released.

Check cincinnatifilmfestival.com for more.

Final schedules will be announced soon at daytonlgbt.com

Milk Puffin Collaborative Film Festival Sept 25 @ Gateway Film Center, 1550 N High St, Columbus 43201; puffinwest.org/puffin-collaborativefilm-festival. Tickets: $7.

No one can pay their rent for their apartments or performance space to Benny, an old roommate and friendturned-landlord by the way of marrying into money.

Songs from the show include “Out Tonight,” “I’ll Cover You” and every show choir and graduation ceremony’s favorite, “Seasons of Love.”

Sean Penn won an Oscar for his portrayal of Harvey Milk, the slain gay civil rights hero who was the first openly gay elected official in the country when he was sworn in as a San Francisco city supervisor in 1978. Dustin Lance Black won for his original screenplay.

bare: A Pop Opera Evolution Theatre Company Sept 11-20 @ Shedd Theatre, Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave, Columbus, 43215; evolutiontheatre.org. Tickets: $10$25.

The showing in Columbus is a chance to see the moving film again on the big screen, and take someone with you who hasn’t seen it before, because apparently they’ve been in a coma for the last six years.

A contemporary rock musical that focuses on two gay teen boys wrestling with issues of identity, sexuality and religion at a co-ed Catholic boarding school. bare debuted in Los Angeles in 2000 and has been performed across the country since.

Bullied to Silence Cincinnati Film Festival Sept 18-21, 2014 @ the Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St, Cincinnati, 45202; cincinnatifilmfestival.com. Ticket prices unavailable.

This feature-length documentary focuses on the positive change to stop verbal and cyber bullying. The film hopes to inspire bystanders to unite in an effort to end bullying, and it wants victims to see they’re not alone. “If bullying is learned, that means you can turn it around,” one

of the film’s experts says.

Dayton LGBT Film Festival Oct 10-12 @ The Neon, 130 E 5 th St, Dayton, 45402; daytonlgbt.com.

Tickets: Festival passes are $50, and single tickets are $8.

This ninth annual film fest will highlight both feature-length and short films that are LGBT-themed, including The Foxy Merkins, a riff on those iconic male hustler films that’s about two lesbian hookers double-dealing conservative women; Queens and Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo, a documentary following the contestants of the International Gay Rodeo Association; and 52 Tuesdays, a film about 16-year-old Billie dealing with her own sexuality as her

Imagine: Jim Arter, A Life Within Art Columbus Cultural Arts Center Oct 11-Nov 8 @ Main Hall Gallery, 139 W Main St, Columbus, 43215; culturalartscenteronline.org. Tickets: free.

This gay artist has “art” in his name, so you know this exhibit has to be good.

But really, Arter has been immersed in the Central Ohio arts scene for decades. He was one of the original designers for Art for Life, the art auction that benefits the AIDS Resource Center of Ohio. His fall show will display installations, multi-media and video.

SculptureX 2014: The Social-Political Object Oct 11 @ CCAD Canzani Center Auditorium, 60 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, 43215; ccad.edu. Tickets: free with reservation.

The answer? No. No, it can’t get any better than this pairing of a gay chorus and an LGBT concert band.

The chorus and the band will play separately and together to celebrate the chorus’s 25th season. The groups will collaborate and close the show with the song, “It Gets Better,” written by Columbus singer/songwriter Adrian Helser.

Could It Get Any Better? is an add-on to the chorus season that includes shows Joy! Welcome Home (Dec 5-7, 10), Vox on the Rocks with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra (Feb. 2021), Our Story Our Song (March 2022), Illuminati: Songs of the Spirit (May 3, 2015) and Divas: Dead or Alive (June 26-28, 2015).

(Gay men’s choruses in Cincinnati, Cleveland and Dayton hadn’t released their 2014-15 schedules in time for this month’s issue. Look for them at outlookohio.com.)

Mame The Human Race Theatre Company Oct 30-Nov 23 @ The Loft, 126 N Main St, Dayton, 45402; humanracetheatre.org. Tickets: $40-$45.

Keynoter Sharon Hayes’ cross-disciplinary artwork and research mine the intersections of history, politics and speech, eliciting a response between public and private historical realities and raising questions about the complexity of today’s collective affiliations around gender.

Every drag queen we know has taken a page out of Auntie Mame’s playbook. She’s a brassy and bawdy eccentric who teaches her young nephew that “life is a banquet and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death.”

Could It Get Any Better?

Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus with Capital Pride Band of Columbus Oct 18-19 @ Capitol Theatre, 77 S High St, Columbus, 43215; columbusgaymenschorus.com. Tickets: $30.

The Tony Award-winning musical is about Mame Dennis and her nephew, Patrick, who she must take care of now that her brother has died. It includes the songs “Bosom Buddies,” “We Need a Little Christmas” and, of course, “Mame.”

Who didn’t want to be Patrick in Mame?

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Transylvania Time Warp: The Music of Rocky Horror Dayton Philharmonic Oct 31 @ Schuster Center, 1 W 2nd St, Dayton, 45402; daytonperformingarts.org. Tickets: $15-$35.

It’s just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right, a whole lot of pelvic thrusting and you’ve basically danced the Time Warp. The Dayton Philharmonic teams up with the rock ensemble Jeans n Classics to perform 14 songs from your favorite cult classic about a Transylvanian transvestite.

It’s not the movie or the stage show, so you will miss the campy dialogue, but the songs are probably better by themselves. The philharmonic encourages audience members to come dressed as their favorite characters, but they ask that fans leave props like water guns, lighters and candles at home.

Legally Blonde UC College Conservatory of Music Oct 23-Nov 2, 2014 @ Corbett Auditorium, 51 W Corry Blvd (parking garage for CCM), Cincinnati, 45219; cc.uc.edu. Tickets: $18-$35.

The premise of the musical is the same as the rom-com we watch every time it’s on TBS: Elle is a sorority girl who wants to marry her boyfriend, Warner, but before graduation he breaks up with her because he’s headed to Harvard Law school and she doesn’t fit the mold of the girl he thinks he should marry meaning, less blonde, more brains.

Elle enrolls at Harvard as well to win Warner back and realizes that she can do better. outlookohio.com

Ever since Elle introduced us to the bend-and-snap in 2001, gay men have been quoting the movie - and now the musical - ever since.

Disney’s Newsies Broadway Series - Cleveland Nov 4-16 @ Connor Palace Theatre, 1615 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 44115; playhousesquare.org. Tickets: $10$80.

Inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City and based on the 1992 film with Christian Bale and Ann-Margret, Newsies is a 2½-hour show of young men leaping, spinning and singing in knickers and suspenders.

There are no gay plotlines or themes, but if you don’t think David, deep down, has the hots for Jack, you haven’t been paying attention. Fine, don’t believe us, but the book is by Harvey Fierstein so that should be gay enough to get you there.

And “King of New York,” “The World Will Know” and “Seize the Day” will have you hitch-kicking and barrelturning out of the theatre.

The newsies will also dance their way to Columbus’s Ohio Theatre on Jan 13-18.

A Chorus Line Nov 15 @ Kleist Center for Art & Drama, Baldwin Wallace University, 95 E Bagley Rd, Berea, 44017; lgbtcleveland.org/tada-2014events.html. Tickets: $40.

There’s a couple of gay characters in this dance-heavy Marvin Hamlish musical, but that’s not the only reason we’re including it in our mustsee list. For the Nov 15 performance,

the cost of 40 tickets will directly benefit the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland as a part of their Ta-Da! Series of fund-raising events.

Available Light recommends this play if you like the comic Skyscrapers of the Midwest, the play God’s Ear or the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.

Purchase tickets through the center’s website at lgbtcleveland.org.

As with all Available Light productions, there are a limited number of pay-what-you-want tickets for each show. This is exactly how it sounds; the company believes in “removing the barriers between you and great art.”

If you can’t make it on Nov 15, visit bw.edu/academics/theatre to buy tickets for shows Nov 13-23.

Anything Goes Valentine Theatre Broadway Series Nov 16 @ Valentine Theatre, 410 Adams St, Toledo, 43604; valentinetheatre.com. Tickets: $48-$68.

Well hello, sailor! This madcap Cole Porter musical has been a staple since its Broadway debut in 1934.

With songs like “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “Anything Goes” and the getyour-mind-out-of-the-gutter “You’re the Top,” you’ll be transported back to the age when saying “I’m gay” also meant that you were just happy.

Anything Goes also plays at the Ohio Theatre in Columbus on Feb 3-8, 2015, and at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati on Feb 17-22, 2015.

She Kills Monsters Available Light Theatre Dec 4-20 @ Riffe Center Studio Two, 77 S High St, Columbus, 43215; avltheatre.com. Tickets: Up to $30.

After her sister Tilly’s death, Agnes Evans stumbles upon Tilly’s notebook and unlocks a world of fairies, ogres and 1990s pop culture. Agnes learns how her lonely and lesbian sister took refuge in the world of fantasy roleplaying games in this dramatic comedy.

You pressed the doorbell, didn’t you?

The Book of Mormon Broadway Toledo Dec 16-21 @ Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd, Toledo, 43614; stranahantheater.org. Tickets: $38-$128.

Created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker (South Park), this religious satire/musical has earned a bevvy of Tonys and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album.

It focuses on straight-laced Elder Price and the lovably goof Elder Cunningham, who are paired and sent on a mission to Uganda to spread the word and convert people to Mormonism.

This musical has a solid PG-13 rating due to characters with names like General Butt-Fucking Naked and songs like “Hasa Dig Eebowai (Fuck You, God),” so maybe leave your born-again grandma at home.

The Book of Mormon also will spread the good word at the Schuster Center in Dayton, Aug 18-23, 2015.

Gone With the Wind Silver Screen Classic & Art House Film Series Jan 9, 2015 @ Valentine Theatre,

410 Adams St, Toledo, 43604; valentinetheatre.com. Tickets: $5.

Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable heat up the screen while Atlanta burns to the ground.

Luckily there is an intermission during this iconic four-hour film (with a 7:30p start time) set in the South during the Civil War. No one knows drama like Scarlett O’Hara; if you disagree, well frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.

The Music of Elton John Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, DPO Rockin’ Orchestra Jan 31, 2015 @ Schuster Center, 1 W 2nd St, Dayton, 45402; daytonperformingarts.org. Tickets: $29-$81.

The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, with the help of rock ensemble Jeans n Classics and a high school honor choir pay proper tribute to the man who donned Liberace and Donald Duck costumes and wrote hits “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” “Levon” and the karaoke standard, “Tiny Dancer.”

Here’s hoping they’ll pass out a lyric sheet for “Bennie and the Jets.”

Master Class CATCO Feb 11-March 1, 2015 @ Riffe Center Studio One, 77 S High St, Columbus, 43215; catco.org. Tickets: $11.50-$45.

Maria Callas was apparently quite the diva in the opera world. She had a good old-fashioned rivalry with another opera singer, a relationship with Aristotle Onassis, supposedly, and an affair with him after the shipping magnate married Jacqueline september 2014

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This play is the imagining of Callas giving a master class to three neophyte singers and a peek into the singer’s genius.

ABBA the Concert Columbus Symphony Orchestra Feb 14, 2015 @ Ohio Theatre, 39 E State St, Columbus, 43215; columbussymphony.com. Tickets: $25-$68.

The top ABBA tribute group in the world will join the orchestra to perform hits like “Mamma Mia,” “SOS” and, of course, “Dancing Queen.”

Agnetha, Frida, Bjorn and Benn would be proud - and the girls aboard Priscilla: Queen of the Desert would be jealous.

For more ABBA music, Broadway’s Mamma Mia! will stop at the Palace Theatre in Columbus, March 3-8.

Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches Cleveland State University Department of Theatre and Dance Feb 26-March 8, 2015 @ Outcalt Theatre, 1407 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 44115; playhousesquare.org. Tickets: $10.

At its core, this Pulitzer-wininng play is a fantastical story about a gay man named Prior Walter who’s dying of AIDS. He’s abandoned by his partner for a closeted, married Mormon and visited by an angel who tells him he’s a prophet.

The play explores the AIDS epidemic and Reagan-era politics, as well as a changing social climate.

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Cleveland Public Theatre March 5-21, 2015 @ Cleveland Public Theatre, 6415 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, 44102; cptonline.org. Tickets: $28.

Is an explanation really necessary as to why this made the list? OK, fine.

Standing on Ceremony is a series of short plays that promotes marriage equality and “the power of love to overcome.” It seems especially topical in Ohio as we wait on a ruling from the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals. The comedy relies on emotion rather than propaganda to deliver its message.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Premier Health Broadway Series March 10-22, 2015 @ Victoria Theatre, 138 N Main St, Dayton, 45402; victoriatheatre.com. Tickets: $25$87.

Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia live together and are supported by their movie star sister, Masha, in this Chekov-inspired, Tony Awardwinning comedy.

Vanya, who is gay, and Sonia spend their days lamenting over lost opportunities and debating on whether nine cherry trees constitute an orchard. Masha comes home with Spike, her young dim-witted boy-toy, and turns their lives upside down.

Masha and Sonia are at each other’s throats, while Vanya tries to keep the peace, only to be distracted by a constantly half-naked Spike.

David Hyde Pierce, who played Vanya on Broadway, said this of the play: “Underneath all the funniness there’s something else going on that

teaches you something or reminds you of something about life and the passing of time.”

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park also will perform Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, April 25-May 23, 2015, at the Marx Theatre.

Wizard of Oz in Film and Orchestra Toledo Symphony Pops Series March 21, 2015 @ Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd, Toledo, 43614; stranahantheater.org.

Tickets: $25-66.

Are you a friend of Dorothy? Follow the yellow brick road to the Stranahan Theater to watch The Wizard of Oz with a live orchestral score. By law, anything that has to do with Judy needs to be included on this list.

Kinky Boots Cleveland Broadway Series April 7-19 @ Connor Palace Theatre, 1615 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 44115; playhousesquare.org. Tickets: $10$80.

Tickets: $38-$88.

So here’s another musical inspired by a movie. A movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, no less.

In this musical, nightclub singer Deloris Van Cartier sees her gangster boyfriend and his thugs shoot and kill a man they think ratted to the police. So the only thing for Deloris to do is enter the witness protection program under the alias Sister Mary Clarence at a convent.

Predictably, Deloris is a terrible nun (she might have fit in better with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence), but soon she finds that she can lend her talents to the choir. All the music you know and love from the 1992 movie isn’t used in the musical, but since Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Newsies) wrote the Broadway score, it’s sure to make the audience testify.

Sister Act will be in Columbus from April 28-May 3, 2015, at the Palace Theatre.

harmonic on June 20, 2015, if your Pride month isn’t already filled with enough lesbian acoustic rock.

Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Stories Oberlin College and Conservatory April 23, 2015 @ Warner Center Main Space, 30 N Professor St, Oberlin, 44074; oberlin.edu. Tickets: Free.

Based on the book, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South - An Oral History, by E Patrick Johnson, this show is a collection of oral histories from black gay men, ages 19 to 93, who were born, raised and live in the South. This performance touches on religion, sex, transgender issues, love stories and coming out.

Usually, the performance is a spoken one-man show, but visiting assistant professor of dance Victoria Fortuna has adapted it into a dance performance. There will be a Q&A with her following the show.

Indigo Girls Cincinnati Pops Orchestra April 19, 2015 @ Music Hall, 1241 Elm St, Cincinnati, 45202; cincinnatisymphony.org. Tickets: $25-$103.

I Love Lucy: Live on Stage Star Performance Series May 15-17, 2015 @ Connor Palace Theatre, 1615 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 44115; playhousesquare.org. Tickets: $10-$60.

But in case you don’t know, this musical is inspired by the true story of a struggling British shoe factory owner who forms a partnership with a drag queen named Lola to save the business by making custom footwear for drag queens and kings.

No performance list would be complete without the Indigo Girls, everyone’s favorite lesbian folk-rock duo.

They have been on a steady tour playing with orchestras and made a stop in Columbus earlier this year.

The comedian’s most famous work has been adapted to be performed live. Ricky will undoubtedly sing “Babalu,” and Lucy and Ethel will get into their usual hijinks while Fred shakes his head.

Sister Act Broadway in Toledo April 8-12, 2015 @ Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd, Toledo, 43614; stranahantheater.org.

You haven’t heard “Galileo” until you’ve heard it with a symphonic accompaniment.

I Love Lucy Live on Stage also will play at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati, June 2-14, 2015.

Music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper.

Book by Harvey Fierstein. This Tony Award-winning show is basically required viewing to get your Gay Card.

The Indigo Girls will perform at the Schuster Center with the Dayton Phil-

They really are the most beautiful shoes in the world.

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Museum Quality Fall Exhibits Span a World of Art

by Andrew Keller

What do Man Ray, Grant Wood, van Gogh, Belgian artist Paul-Henri Bourguignon and the Japanese modern girl have in common?

The punch line, as it turns out, is Ohio.

This fall, Ohio’s largest art museums will showcase some of the most famous and finest works of 20th century art, adding just a little more “Met” to the state’s metropolitan centers.

Toledo Museum of Art Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites Oct 24-Feb 8 A showcase of 100 of the Toledo museum’s best prints, drawings, watercolors, pastels, books and photographs includes works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco Goya, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Jackson Pollack.

Dayton Art Institute Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture Nov 15-Jan 25

Cleveland Museum of Art Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography Oct 19-Jan 11

Cincinnati Art Museum Conversations Around American Gothic Through Nov 16

Columbus Museum of Art Paul Bourguignon 50th Anniversary Exhibition Oct 17-Jan 18

It’s the first exhibit outside Tokyo dedicated to Japanese Art Deco, popular at a time of social and cultural tensions in Japan before and during the World War II era.

Tracing surrealist photography from the 1920s through the 1940s, the exhibit features 170 photos that epitomize what surrealist Andre Bretton called “the eye in its natural state,” or a pictorial reflection of the human subconscious.

The crown jewel of this exhibit hardly needs introduction. Through November, Cincinnati is hosting Grant Wood’s classic depiction of rural American life, American Gothic.

The Belgian master painter was also a Columbus resident, and the exhibit marks the anniversary of a 1964 Columbus museum show of his work.

The Japanese modernism of the time signaled the nation’s history and its cosmopolitanism. The vitality of the 1920s and ’30s was expressed in part through the theme of the “modern girl” - known in Japan as the modaan gaaru or moga.

The 200 works featured include metalwork, ceramics, lacquer, glass, wood furniture, jewelry, textiles, graphic design on paper, painting and woodblock prints.

They range from fine art objects mass-produced home goods.

There’s also a first-edition King James Bible and pages from the Gutenberg Bible, as well as photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Ansel Adams.

Henri Matisse (French, 18691954); Pasiphaé, chant du Minos (Les Crétois), 1944; Toledo Museum of Art Kobayakawa Kiyoshi, Tipsy (Horoyoi), 1930, woodblock print, courtesy of the Levenson Collection.

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“The title of the exhibit itself comes from a willingness to experiment and dig back into different levels of consciousness,” said Barbara Tannenbaum, the Cleveland museum’s curator of photography. “The time period was a really turbulent time in the history of photography. ...

Photography, what we think of as a medium of reality, was used to show the dream world.”

To this effect, the exhibit will feature photos by famous surrealists such as Man Ray, Brassai, Maurice Tabard and more, to truly capture the essence of the movement.

“It’s really a wonderful mélange of styles,” Tannenbaum said, “It is all based on the idea that ... photography can see beyond the visible.”

Photo Eye (Foto-Auge),1927, printed 1938–40. Anton Stankowski (German, 1906–1998).

Gelatin silver print, montage, from negatives with handwork; 10.9 x 14.5 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.122. © Stankowski-Stiftung.

Grant Wood (American 18911942); American Gothic, 1930; Oil on Beaver Board; The Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection; 1930.934

Paul Courguignon, Columbus Museum of Art

“We’re immensely excited to be bringing this painting to the museum,” said Julie Aronson, curator of American paintings, sculptures and drawings. “It’s a destination piece ... not exactly something you get to see every day, as it’s just so iconic.”

The work, from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, is known for what Aronson described as its subjects’ “arresting” yet enigmatic gaze. By making it the signature piece of a feature exhibition, Aronson said she hopes to start a dialogue on what truly makes this painting great.

The museum also has arranged to showcase Wood’s other great work, Daughters of Revolution, marking the first time the two paintings have ever been shown together in Ohio. The exhibit will include other American paintings as well, including important mannerist pieces such as John Steuart Curry’s Baptism in Kansas.

Toledo is known as the Glass City, and its museum is known for its glass collection.

Many of the works were discovered

by Dominique Vasseur, the museum’s chief curator, in the house of Bourguignon’s widow, Erika, a noted anthropologist who taught at OSU. “I got a call from Erika to stop by and look at the collection,” Vasseur said. “I found the house was completely filled with her husband’s works.”

The resulting show forms a full retrospective of Bourguignon’s work, emphasizing themes that remained constant throughout his career. That includes what Vasseur describes as “a religious connection with people.”

“He painted the people he met. He really cared about people, and he expressed this in his art.”

Pieces such as Italian Peasant, which focus heavily on the emotion of its subject, best exemplify this trend, according to Vasseur. outlookohio.com

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Summon Your your d D Photos by Emma Parker &

by Rachel Middleman

Not everyone has an inner goddess. Maybe it’s a luscious fox, a striking charmer or a bootylicious babe. Whoever lies inside, fashion plays an important role in summoning our dazzling divas.

The women in this photo shoot represent the eclectic styles of women in the LGBTQ community.

Brands such as Wildfang, PacSun and Madewell inspired the real feel and vibe of the photographs.

Thrift stores and Ohio brands like Depthattire and Robert Mason helped our models express themselves naturally and let out their inner babe.

Miah Harper: Madewell shirt (madewell.com), TigerTree tie, thrift store shorts, Jeffrey Cambell boots, Arbor Skateboard (arborcollective.com).

Audrey Oddballs: American Apparel black leotard, Forever 21 shorts, Doc Martens boots, Royal Factory sunglasses, ’80s vintage coat and socks.

Olivia James: Wet Seal suspenders, American Apparel shorts, Skreened “On Fridays We Wear Pink” T-shirt, Doc Martens boots, H&M hat.

Cali Harper: Depthattire Ikat Blue Ohio tank top, $38 (depthattire.com), thrift store shorts and shirt, Doc Martens boots.

Cori Hickman: Mossimo pants and shirt, Merona shoes, thirft store hat.

Akilah West: Depthattire Ikat Ohio racerback tank top $38, Robert Mason backpack (robertmasoncompany.com).

Anitra Weathers: Love Culture jeans, hand-made black ruffled crop top from an Old Navy shirt.

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A RUNWAY SUCCESS

CMH Fashion Week, Akili Cooper Both Have Grown in 5 Years

by Alisa Caton

Five years ago, 300 people packed into the Athletic Club of Columbus to see the debut runway show of CMH Fashion Week. Among the designers was the quiet, 16-year-old Akili Cooper.

watching my older cousins get dressed and put on makeup and pumps. I loved that.”

After his runway debut in 2010, Cooper has gone on to do 38 more fashion shows and create his own line, Jahi, which is his middle name.

Once he learned that it meant “digAlthough the show was one of the nity” in Swahili, he found it even first for Cooper, his youth and inexpe- more fitting for the “Jahi woman.” rience didn’t show.

Cooper said he pictures powerful “I felt like the audience was just in women wearing his designs. awe of this 16-year-old who created these gowns. I think it gave him the “When I think of a Jahi woman, she’s confidence to go forward and do always sexy. I like striking textures. I other shows,” said Thomas McClure, think you have to be pretty confident the founder and executive director of to wear sheer, and the Jahi woman is CMH Fashion Week, which returns very confident.”

Oct 12-18 in Columbus.

He enjoys women’s high fashion the In 6th grade, Cooper had a history most, and his goal is to make Jahi project in which he had to draw out- into a lifestyle luxury brand, similar fits from the medieval period. After to his inspirations, Christian Dior he turned in the assignment, he and Versace. said, his teacher realized his gift and brought in fashion magazines for “It’s a great source of expression. I him to study. get to see something that I don’t see everyday. It’s fun to make that imagiCooper couldn’t stop drawing intrinary world. When these models come cate gowns, and once he filled a over and they are putting on a gown notebook with sketches he was ready that has 32 yards of ostrich feathers, to learn to sew. He took lessons from it’s dreamy,” Cooper said. his aunts and enrolled in classes at craft stores. He spent all of his extra The designer, now 21, said he’s most time practicing his skills. excited for the CMH Fashion Week audience to see his growth. In 2010, “I didn’t play football; this was my his pieces were mostly black, befootball. When I went to the store and cause that was his comfort zone. In bought fabric and thread, that was this October’s show, he’ll highlight my helmet and pads,” Cooper said. textures and bright colors.

“I remember going over to my cousin’s house when I was a kid and “It’s me trying to push myself and

grow as a designer.”

CMH Fashion Week will be his final show for a while. He begins classes this winter at Kent State University as a fashion design major. While he’s excited to be in a classroom, closely studying his passion, he said he wouldn’t trade these early experiences in his career.

“Someone once told me, ‘It’s not what you want to do when you grow up, it’s what you are doing now.’

What’s the definition of an adult anyway? Why should I wait?” Cooper said. “I’m grateful doors haven’t been closed because I am young.”

McClure said creating opportunity for Central Ohio fashion designers is important for the non-profit organization that stages CMH Fashion Week.

It’s not just a platform for showing their designs, but through education as well. Each year, a junior fashion design major at Columbus College of Art and Design is awarded the CMH Fashion Week Scholarship.

The Philanthropy Meets Fashion event raises money for the scholarship and will put fashion students face-to-face with this year’s headline designer: Project Runway Season 6 runner-up Althea Harper, a Dayton native and University of Cincinnati graduate.

“I always say, we may not be saving lives, but we are changing them,” McClure said.

CMH Fashion Week • cmhfashionweek.com Sunday, Oct 12 High Fashion Tea @ The Westin Columbus, 310 S High St, Columbus, 43215; 12p-2p; price TBD.

Monday, Oct 13 HRC Federal Club Drag Fashion Show. The place and time have not been finalized yet. outlookohio.com

Tuesday, Oct 14 Philanthropy Meets Fashion: Meet Althea Harper @ CCAD, 60 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, 43215; 5p-7p; $35.

Saturday, Oct 18 5th Annual Finale Runway Show @ Columbus Athenaeum, 32 N 4th St, Columbus, 43215; 8p; $25 for standing room, $65 for general admission, $125 for VIP and $1,000Thursday, Oct 16 A Bridal Affair @ Hollywood Casino, $1,500 for box seats.

200 Georgesville Rd, Columbus, 43228; 7p-9p; $25.

Between CMH Fashion Week and Highball Halloween, October is fashion month in Columbus.

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the other side

Fashion Industry Has a Heart in the Heartland

by Debra Shade

Crys Darling stencil on canvas by Coreroc

fashion found at DRAUMA, it’s an edgy display Her one piece of advice to us buyers is, “Conof greatness. sumers need to be more educated on where The Midwest is a melting pot of talent, espethe small stores get their clothes or materials cially in the areas of art and fashion. I love Lindsay Hearts (lindsayhearts.com or @lind- and how many people are employed in that seeing the creativity of fashion at events like sayhearts), Columbus’s own designer and one object that is being created; from designer High Ball and DRAUMA in Columbus, but all wardrobe stylist of all things rad, is one of the to illustrator to cutter and so on. The fashion over Ohio, fashion statements and trends are creators of DRAUMA, which had its third run industry is complex and cutthroat and expenbeing initiated. on April 19. The casting is a representation of sive.”

Columbus’s eccentric designers who brought I was sad to hear that just as fast as I discov- the best in makeup, hair and fashion to the She wants to be able to price her stuff so anyered Junctionview Art Studios, it closed. Junc- runway. one can buy it. “If I can’t afford it, then my tionview was located in the Central Ohio buyers can’t, and I don’t want that.” community of Grandview Heights; it was a Lindsay recently relocated to California, where warehouse divided into studios for local fashion is not an understatement. There’s a That’s something that was echoed in my interartists. story behind every piece she has created, and view with Label Yourself owner Crys Darling, her belief that “your brain is the most creative who’s located in Columbus. She takes vintage The talent of its artists was phenomenal. tool you have” is evident in her work. and used clothing and alters it to make modThere were awesome showings; I was blown ern fashion. away at the talent of many of the artists at a “Everyone needs the perfect leather jacket; I show I attended a few years back. There was am on a mission to get everybody in the perThe added artwork makes it one-of-a-kind for live music, food and wine - my kind of night. fect piece of leather,” she said. Lindsay’s consumers.

Lethal Cocktail Collection is in the developIt was short-lived enjoyment. I know there are ment stage in Cali and will be available at her “It’s an expression of self through art and to places like Junctionview all over Ohio, but e-commerce store and retail stores by Christ- have something that no one else will have.” there was something about Junctionview that mas.

I’ll never forget.

Label Yourself came from a creative idea of alHaving a magazine call you and ask to use your tering the clothes she wore as a child by Columbus is not short on art or fashion shows. merchandise is a huge score that she was finally painting and drawing on them. People made able to achieve, but it’s hard to make the confun of her for wearing hand-me-downs, and Think neon feathers sewn on 3 feet of cotton nections to do so. Lindsay said she’s “a small she was able to deter them by creating fashvoile as a skirt. Huge headpieces and peek-a- fish in a major pond, whereas in Columbus we ion. boo cutouts to reveal body parts normally cov- all worked together and wanted everyone to sucered. From makeup and hair to the eccentric ceed. It is nothing like that in Cali.”

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If you’re not in Columbus, make plans to visit on Oct 24-25 for Highball.

advises young people to express themselves and their inner beauty via their clothes. She started a fashion club at Berwick Academy in Columbus.

You can get your one-of-a-kind piece from Label Yourself at festivals, fashion shows, open markets and on Facebook (facebook.com/crysdarling). Her work is so good that she gets most of her requests via word-of-mouth, and it keeps her quite busy.

Crys feels the same way as Lindsay about fashion design in Columbus: “Columbus has so many opportunities to collaborate with other designers, and it’s not negative or cutthroat.”

Crys Darling and Lindsay Hearts are examples of living your passion daily. There’s no way I can complain about the creative scene in Ohio. It’s one of the reasons I don’t relocate.

Columbus is a great city for a taste of all things art.

Debra Shade is an author and owner of Shade Media. You can find her on Facebook at Shadyontop or follow her on Twitter @shadeyontop, and you can find her books at Amazon.com or a Lion’s Den near you.

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Thanks, Skylight, for sponsoring the Gay Games in Cleveland and Pride Night at the Crew in Columbus.

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insightout

Love is a Verb Equality Is in the Courts’ Hands, But Marriage Quality Is in Yours

by Regina Sewell While the Courts contemplate the fate of same-sex marriage, it’s time to get beyond the politics of marriage and focus on how to make our marriages last. The myth that saying “I do” equals living happily ever after is no more true for same-sex couples than it is for our opposite-sex counterparts.

Love is a verb. Successful marriages take work, commitment and a lot of compromise.

When it comes to love, what you do is more important than what you say. It’s pretty easy to say, “I love you,” but taking your wife to the SPCA to adopt cats with her because you know she wants cats puts, “I love you,” into action - especially if you’re not a cat person.

When it comes to showing love, the little dayto-day things matter.

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them on the floor speaks volumes as well, but it might not be the message you want to send.

And keep up all those things you did to win your honey’s heart. The love notes, the flowers, the special meals, the sensual massages, the passionate sex and the weekend getaways make her or him feel important.

It’s also helpful to just spend time together.

Turn off the TV, put down your smart phones and just hang out. Laugh. Talk about your day. Cook together.

Even though actions speak louder, words still matter. Words can tear love down, but they can also rebuild it.

It’s easy to point out what spouses do wrong and take the small things they do for granted. If you want to foster love, show your appreciation for the positive or helpful things your spouse does. Thank her when she mows the lawn. Notice when he dusts the mantle.

And if you do have a complaint, do your best not to overgeneralize or criticize. Phrases like,

“You never do anything around the house,” are likely to start a fight.

But if you focus on the specific issue and acknowledge your feelings, you’re likely to get somewhere: “I feel frustrated. You promised you’d wash the dishes and they’re still in the sink. Would you please wash them soon?” As long as you don’t have an angry or whiney tone, your spouse is likely to at least listen to what you have to say.

On the other hand, when you do or say something that upsets your partner, own it and apologize, sincerely. Keep it simple, without excuses: “I was wrong. I shouldn’t have said that. I apologize.”

If your reaction was a lot louder than the incident called for, consider what that’s about.

Charged reactions often stem from a past experience getting triggered, and it’s important to work through them.

If your husband forgot to pick up milk and you went ballistic, or if your wife forgot to tell you she was going to the gym on the way home from work and you spent two hours ob-

So, wait. Love does mean having to say you’re sorry?

sessing that she was having an affair, explore the possibility that you are reacting to something from the past.

Ask yourself who this incident reminds you of.

Maybe your mother never remembered the things you needed but always seemed to remember what your sister asked for. Maybe your ex cheated on you. List three ways your husband or wife is not like that other person.

You don’t have to wait on the courts to decide the fate of marriage to infuse your relationship with love. Next time you tell your sweetheart, “I love you,” go the extra step and commit to doing something.

Express more gratitude and appreciation.

Work on changing the habits that are annoying. Take responsibility for the things you do that have been hurtful and apologize sincerely. And work on your emotional baggage that gets in the way.

Insight Out runs every other month in Outlook. To ask Regina Sewell a question, propose a column topic, read about her approach to counseling, or check out her books and other writing, visit reginasewell.com. outlookohio.com

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Mario Snug, black velvet pants that were embellished with tiny mirrored tiles - my disco pants. I thought I looked hot in them, but I looked like a 6-foot-2 disco ball with a moose knuckle. And these pants never came off in someone else’s bedroom because they scared off all of the men I wanted to shag.

I love so many designers for different reasons, but I will say Salvatore Ferragamo. I own a lot Ferragamo shoes and accessories; the shoes are soft and fit me so well. They are not modestly priced, but they are worth it.

High heels, honey! I love being 6-foot-2, and I love wearing shoes that make me taller. I have a pair of red “Kinky Boots” that have a 3½-inch heel. I adore my boots! I wish I could wear them to my office so I can scare some people. I can truly sissy my walk in heels! <snap, snap>

Snack crackers, peanut butter, bananas, bagels, water, sex toys, lube and my laptop. Yes, even though zombies are all over the place, I will still remain a horny homo, and I’ve got to have my goods. Don’t judge me; we all have needs.

Liza. I truly enjoy watching Liza perform. She is entertaining, talented and very engaging. Judy always looks high in movies, except in The Wizard of Oz. Liza has had her messes, too, like marrying a creepy gay man and a pain-killer addiction, but Liza can bring it on stage.

Well, since I am a morbid asshole, probably Helena. Flamboyant fashionistas, like Andre, annoy me. They body-shame those like me who are not model perfect. Helena’s look is a little crazy and a little neurotic, but I love her bravado because the fashion critics hate her look most of the time.

Plus, she is a proper British gal, and I love an accent.

Lesbian butchers, and I am a vegetarian. There are not many vegans I can tolerate, because most are “serial activists” who love to harass you for eating meat or dairy. I think lesbian butchers would be kind of rough and sexy. I love anything rough and sexy.

Big kitties and song Tribal dances, wild makeup Hakuna, my butt. outlookohio.com

vs Debbie Weirdest thing you have ever worn?

Who is your favorite designer?

High heels or flats?

Oh please, sister! I lived through the ’70s and ’80s and everything we wore was weird. I was in a runway fashion show once in my 20s, and a designer created this poofy pant with narrow ankles and a ginormous shoulder-pad onepiece ensemble that was pink with orange trim with a huge cowl collar. Yeah, major Pepto Bismol designing fail!

“Guess.”

“OK, umm, Oshkosh B’gosh?”

I was channeling Marcia Brady from The Brady Bunch Movie when she and Jan wanted to become models, and they asked a girl what designer she worked with.

My favorite designer is Levi Strauss & Co.

Converse. Enough said.

September is National Preparedness Month. What is in your “go bag” for the zombie apocalypse?

Liza or Judy?

Who would you rather have as your personal stylist: Andre Leon Talley or Helena Bonham Carter?

Lesbian butchers or vegan drag queen?

(See Pages 19 and 48) Haiku!

Broadway musical, The Lion King

Deodorant, cigarettes, underwear, tequila, Hattori Hanzo sword, protein bars, underwear, canteen, flashlight, batteries, soap, lighters, underwear, ax, Twizzlers and Febreeze.

Last one is exclusively for the zombies.

This is a totally unfair question as both are superbly tantamount with their talent. Their artistic and iconic contribution to the arts will live on for generations to come. So, as I love them both and cannot choose, I must throw down the Barbra card. Streisand.

Definitely Helena Bonham Carter as I love her vampirish, steampunk, gothic, royal and renaissance style within all of her films. Also, I don’t know the other person.

Not all lesbians are vegetarian. Hundreds of us can attest to craving the after-bar Taco Bell splurge or the Barnyard Buster at Tee Jaye’s. Many of us love our meat. (Be quiet, Mario.) As for a vegan drag queen? Good luck with holding your bowels and gas during a performance. I tried this once, and my stomach was out of control!

The circle of life Losses restored, beginnings Govern with fairness

Sadly, this is Debbie’s last column; she will be missed. Thanks for all the laughs!

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creative class

A Lawyer, a Comedian & a Lesbian Walk Into a Bar…

by Erin McCalla Knock, knock.

Who’s there?

Brooke.

Brooke who?

Brooke Cartus, and she’s recording a comedy CD. (True, that wasn’t funny, but we’re not the ones with a CD coming out.)

On Sept 13 at 7p, Brooke Cartus will record her comedy album, Size L for Lady at Bossy Grrl Pinup Joint, 2598 N High St in Columbus.

“I work out six days a week, and I’m still a size large. ... I’m really passionate about women lifting up other women, and I feel like the best way to do that is talk about the ridiculousness of how your pants don’t fit after you put them in the wash.”

But that doesn’t mean Cartus’s humor is exclusively for women, and she admits she was nervous about choosing the name of her CD. She didn’t want to pigeonhole herself. In her performance, she tells stories about dating, body image, her friends and sometimes her “idiot ex-girlfriends.”

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that men don’t enjoy my jokes. I think my jokes are relatable to everyone. But I do think women identify with what I’m talking about,” Cartus said. “Like, some men don’t even know what Spanx are, and they ruin our lives everyday. I dread weddings because I have to put on a scuba suit under my dress.”

Cartus got her comedy start after coming to Columbus from New York for law school.

She’s starting her third and final year at OSU and doesn’t know what she’ll do after graduation.

Photo: Jen Has a Camera

an opportunity to grow and take risks.”

As a kid of the ’90s, Cartus is influenced by comedians like Chris Farley and David Spade. She claims Farley is her “spirit animal.” She learned how to be comfortable on stage because of her undergrad degree in opera performance, but she says she doesn’t share the same improv skills as the late Saturday Night Live actor.

I went for the easy crap - dick jokes.

“I keep resisting growing up, but I guess I’m going to have to. Comedy has helped law school, and law school has helped comedy,” Cartus said.

“The only way I’m getting through law school is comedy, because you have to laugh at the ridiculousness of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a degree and you might not get a job.”

And because of that, it’s the perfect time to record a CD. “I have a lot of solid jokes, so I kind of want to capture this moment so I can kind of move on and work on new material,” she said. “It’s

Just after moving to Columbus, Cartus joined a local improv group. The only reason she got in was because she lied and said she had experience.

“I went for the easy crap dick jokes. You wanna see something sad? Watch a closeted lesbian joke around about blowjobs,” she said. “It was a disaster! I didn’t even know what I was saying.”

Shortly after, her improv coach saw her perform standup at an open mic night.

“He told me, ‘You are so funny; never do improv again.’ So I quit the group and focused on standup.”

I’m going to suck your ketchup! Muuahahahaha!

Since then she has honed her craft at open mic nights, performed at festivals and comedy clubs, and has opened for other lesbian comedians such as Erin Foley and Fortune Feimster. After recording her album, she plans to send it to clubs and booking agents to book more shows across Ohio.

While Cartus is aware and appreciative of LGBT fans, she said she doesn’t want to perform exclusively in gay bars and even claims her best crowds tend to be straight.

“Breaking those gay stereotypes about gay people is what makes it fun,” she said.

“When you meet someone after a show, I’ve had people say, ‘I’ve never met a lesbian like you before.’ And I I’m like, ‘I don’t even know what that means!’ But maybe they will go to their job and say, ‘I saw this gay comedian and she was so cool.’ So there’s just one less person out there who thinks that gay people are having circuit parties and drinking white zinfandel at 10 am on Tuesdays. I don’t know where they get these stereotypes.”

Tickets for Cartus’s Sept 13 show are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. You can purchase VIP tickets for $20, and you’ll get a free coozie, a meet-and-greet, assigned seat and appetizers. For more information and to purchase tickets on Event Brite, visit BrookeCartus.com.

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Firth, Colfer Land Leads for Noel Coward Biopics

Offensive? Heavens No! Straight ‘Men’ to Marry

Perhaps you’ve already heard about the in-development Mad Dogs and Englishmen, which is reported to be starring Colin Firth as witty gay playwright Noel Coward during his two-week 1955 cabaret stint in Las Vegas.

Jon Cryer and Ashton Kutcher are getting married. Or, rather, their alter-egos on the long-running CBS sitcom, Two and a Half Men, are getting married.

By all accounts it’s still in the works, and what we learned from two Truman Capote movies is that there’s always room for competition, so wrap your head around Chris Colfer taking on the same role. Currently untitled, the project is from up-and-coming filmmaker Joe A Stephenson, who already served as a producer on a TV special, In Love With Coward.

It’s obviously devoted to the writer’s younger years, and Colfer’s reported co-stars will be none other than Sir Ian McKellen and Vanessa Redgrave. It all sounds fairly promising.

Next up: Seth Rogen in old-age makeup and a weird accent to play Coward during his time on the set of the Richard Burton/Elizabeth Taylor art-film fiasco, Boom!

Why not?

Portia, Wentworth, Neil Get New TV Series Gigs

A top-secret arc for Portia de Rossi is coming to Scandal, and, really, it’s about time.

The wild tone of the show is perfect for de Rossi’s selfaware and self-obsessed brand of comic treachery, a quality honed to a razor point on Arrested Development.

The new season premieres Sept 25, so if you’re behind on your binge-watching, pick up the pace before spoilers ruin everything.

In other queer casting news, Wentworth Miller has landed the role of Captain Cold for the CW’s comic book-based series, The Flash, which debuts Oct 7. Captain Cold is a key player in the universe of The Flash, so just add another log to the fire that burns down the old ideas about actors coming out of the closet and ruining their careers.

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Apparently, it’s really difficult for fictional heterosexual men to adopt children, so they need all the equally fictional magical properties that trendy gay marrieds possess. So now the two non-gay characters are going to get married so they can please the adoption agency. Or something like that.

We’re assured this upcoming storyline won’t be offensive or tone deaf - at all. We’re assured that everyone involved understands that most same-sex couples in the United States still don’t enjoy marriage equality, much less the breeziest of adoption processes.

Oh, yes - there’ll be a wedding scene, too. What’s the over/under on these characters visibly freaking out over the prospect of kissing? We have enormous confidence in you, broadly written family sitcom! Proceed with abandon!

Two Movies in Spotlight at Toronto Film Festival

If you happen to be lucky enough to attend this month’s Toronto Film Festival, be sure to check out the gay-themed film from straight director Barry Levinson and the straight-themed film from the gay directing team of Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer.

Levinson’s film, The Humbling, is not a horror show in spite of its spooky sounding name. It is, however, a tragic comedy about a legendary stage actor who finds himself in an affair with a younger lesbian. It stars Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Dianne Wiest and Mandy Patinkin.

And, finally, what would happen if Neil Patrick Harris got a job because of Twitter? It seems appropriate. The man never stops working. Why shouldn’t he get hired via all manner of communication platforms for all the stage musicals, TV shows, films and musical web series?

And Still Alice, from Glatzer and Westmoreland, tells the story of a linguistics professor, married with three grown children, who begins to forget words and discovers she has a degenerative condition. The serious-minded family drama - a sure sign that autumn and pre-Oscar season has arrived - is from writer Lisa Genova and based on novel.

Anyway, that’s what just happened. The actor reached out to American Horror Story’s Ryan Murphy, expressing interest in working on the series, and Murphy, in turn, tweeted his agreement.

It stars Kristen Stewart, Julianne Moore, Kate Bosworth and Alec Baldwin.

We’ll keep you posted on what evil lurks down the road.

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No, they aren’t in love, and they’re not gay. But according to creator Chuck Lorre, they’re getting married anyway during the show’s 12th and final season, which premieres Oct 30.

Romeo San Vicente wears the revealing white swim trunks well after Labor Day. He can be reached at DeepInsideHollywood@qsyndicate.com.

A fake gay wedding just seems like the perfect ending to a horrible show. They better kiss.

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by Chris Azzopardi In 1992, Sinéad O’Connor was at the height of her career when she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II to protest sexual abuse in the Catholic Church during an appearance on Saturday Night Live. That act of defiance would come to define the Irish singer’s life and career.

She lets it all hang out on her 10th studio album, I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss, candidly revealing that, “Everybody wants something from me / They rarely ever wanna just know me.”

The exception: this chat, during which Sinéad recalled her introduction to the LGBT community, and how the community gave her the courage to be herself, speak out and “take shit.”

Chris Azzopardi: With regard to this album and your last, you’ve been on a mission to find yourself. What kind of sacrifices and choices did you have to make on that journey to selfactualization?

Sinéad O’Connor: It’s a life’s work for all of us, isn’t it? It doesn’t finish until you get to the other side. I think, actually, the things that help you self-actualize are the mistakes - so-called “mistakes.” I don’t like that word. But the things that you get wrong is how you learn to get things right.

CA: The LGBT community can certainly empathize with the struggle to be comfortable with who you are. When was the first time you felt a connection to gay people in your life?

SO: I grew up in Ireland and there was no such thing as “gay” in the ’70s. I had never even heard of “gay” except for there was a female impersonator who had a big TV show in the ’70s, a guy called Danny La Rue. I used to love his show, but I never knew there was any such thing as gay until I was 17.

I moved to London, and I had a totally straight but cross-dressing cousin who brought me to all these clubs in London. Hippodrome Nightclub &

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How Sinéad OÊConnor Found Herself - And How LGBT People Helped

Is that Sinéad O’Connor or Helena Troy?

Disco was the first I went to, and it was full of guys dressed up as the most beautiful looking women - way more beautiful than any other woman was ever gonna hope to look! ...

In the country that I came from, you couldn’t be you in any way at all. ... You’d have the shit kicked out of you, and not just for that, but a girl like me would have the shit kicked out of her if she walked around with a short skirt, if you expressed anything different at all.

So it was real inspiring to me to see those guys able to walk around and be who they were. I actually find the whole gay community an enormous inspiration to me because, Jesus, I’ve never taken the kind of shit gay people take.

CA: But you’ve taken a fair amount of shit.

SO: No, I know, but I suppose in a way what I’m trying to say is that it’s easier to take shit when you are inspired by people such as those in the gay community.

Because if a guy is brave enough to walk around dressed up as a woman, if a man is prepared to do that, as far as I’m concerned, any of us can fucking do anything. I just admire that so fucking much.

CA: When you initially shaved your head, you were protesting the objectification of women. What does that symbol of identity and empowerment mean to you now?

SO: I guess it just means “me.” You know, [for the cover of I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss] I ventured into the latex and wig territory there for the laugh, and there’s been quite a desire on the part of some people that I might continue down that line, but I’m quite pleased that I look the way that I look and I guess I associate the hairdo with me.

I don’t feel like me if I don’t have my head shaved.

And yeah, it does mean, too, I can put on a dress and I’m still not selling what everyone else wants me to sell.

Chris Azzopardi is the editor of Q Syndicate, the international LGBT wire service. Reach him via his website at www.chrisazzopardi.com. Photo: Donal Moloney. outlookohio.com

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GLAM WhatÊs Mistress GingerÊs Secret Ingredient? Fabulousness.

by Bob Vitale All those ideas you’ve had in your head about vegans and vegan food?

Mistress Ginger is leaving them in her pink-bobbed, sequin-gowned, highheeled wake.

The Minneapolis drag queen, a vegan since 2002 and a “divalicious showgirl” since 2006, has put all her favorite recipes together in her first cookbook, Mistress Ginger Cooks! ($24.95, available on amazon.com and bookpubco.com.)

The 92-recipe volume includes veggiepacked options such as In the Buff Beans and Greens, but it doesn’t skip dessert with treats such as Pound Me Cake and Gingersnatch Cookies.

Bob Vitale: My pastor says vegans recruit people into their lifestyle. Is that true?

Mistress Ginger: If you mean that vegans are enticing you with a smorgasbord of delectable, cruelty-free cuisine and that you, a naturally compassionate person with an appetite for good food, feel compelled to succumb to the temptation, then hell yes, we are recruiting.

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As you know, vegans and the like have a reputation for being “crunchy,” a reference to the crunchy granola we are reputed to consume by the fistful. Me, I’m turning those stereotypes on their heads. I love my granola just as much as I love my rhinestones.

I believe we can have it all. Just take a gander at my recipe for Glamola Granola, which goes to prove that you, too, can have it all.

BV: If you were on a deserted island and had to choose between your Pop My Cherry Scones and your Stud Muffins, which would it be?

MG: You mean that I’m alone? Oh, geez Louise! I’d surely be in a state of withdrawal without any nookie. So, if I can’t have some real stud muffins there, I’ll take the next best thing: my Blueberry Stud Muffins.

BV: Seriously, why should people consider eating vegan?

MG: You want me to get serious? What a drag! But I will comply.

Listen to your mistress: Frolic in the direction of a plant-based diet. It’s good for the animals, our health and the planet.

BV: You are a cookbook author and a showgirl, the first, I think, since Paula Deen. Do you consider yourself a pioneer?

MG: Oh, don’t get me started on Paula Deen! My high kicks are higher than hers, I assure you.

Plant-based food options are ever-increasing in their availability. You can eat out or eat in; you can shop at the natural food store or find vegan stuff in the crappy supermarkets; you can eat beans and rice if you’re broke or nibble on gourmet goodies if you’re flush.

Now, am I a pioneer? Well, I don’t wear a bonnet, and I never dallied in one of those covered wagons, but I do feel as though I’m venturing into new territory, merging my plant-based cuisine with a world of sequins and sass.

The word “vegan” is becoming more and more mainstream and, dare I say, even cool. And if others scoff, remember that it’s a hero of this world who swims against the current of the stream.

Our office can vouch for Mistress Ginger’s Chakra Chip Cookies. Delish!

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Mistress Ginger has allowed us to share her recipe for Chakra Chip Cookies, which she says will satisfy your sweet tooth and possibly inspire world peace.

Chakra Chip Cookies Yields 12 cookies

1 cup whole-wheat pastry flour 1¼ teaspoons baking powder ¼ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ cup coconut oil ¼ cup light brown sugar, firmly packed ¼ cup maple syrup 1¼ teaspoons vanilla extract ¼ cup nondairy semisweet chocolate chips (heaping!)

Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture. Mix until just combined to make a dough. Fold in the chocolate chips.

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even get them into the oven.)

Roll the dough into 12 balls, each about 1½ inches in diameter and put on the prepared baking sheet.

Bake for 11 minutes. Let rest on the baking sheet If you’re a cookie monster like me, preheat the for two minutes before transferring to a cooling oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly oil a baking sheet or rack, cool for at least five minutes before eating. line it with parchment paper.

I read somewhere, probably in some ancient Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda and scripture, that one Chakra Chip Cookie eaten salt in a large bowl. while still warm from the oven is capable of inducing enlightenment, or was it spontaneous orIf the coconut oil has solidified, warm it in a small gasm? Wait, maybe I read that in Cosmo. Either saucepan over low heat. Once the oil has liqueway, I’m going to have to test this theory about a fied, remove it from the heat. Add the brown dozen times. sugar, maple syrup and vanilla extract and whisk until well combined. (If the oil is still warm and Per cookie: 158 calories, 1g protein, 7g fat (5g has made the wet mixture warm, let cool to room saturated fat), 24g carbohydrates, 111mg sodium, 53mg calcium, 1g fiber. temperature before adding to the dry mixture so you don’t melt your chocolate chips before you

Those of us who fought our way out of the closet understand how that works, what it means to live the life of your dreams despite what the naysayers say. This isn’t any different. It’s about following your heart. Your mistress has spoken.

BV: What do you tell people who say they could never give up cheese?

MG: I might say something cheeky like, “I, too, was once in a committed, codependent relationship with cheese. We parted ways amicably, around the same time I met cashews. Oh, cashews just swept me off my feet. Now we’re inseparable, and I don’t even think about cheese.”

Then, I would point them in the direction of my recipe for Cheeky Spread, a cashew-based “cheese” sauce that’ll satisfy all their cheesy urges.

BV: What are some of the staple items that people should know about if they want to go vegan?

MG: I have an introductory chapter in the book that describes exactly what’s in my panties - I mean, pantry! This list of my pantry staples is just a template and can be altered to suit anyone’s individual tastes. outlookohio.com

For plant-based diets, there really isn’t a one size fits all (unlike my blue jean stretch pants).

Here are some of the basics: gorgeous grains, beautiful beans, lovely legumes, fabulous fruits, vibrant vegetables, magnificent nuts and stupendous seeds.

And let’s not forget chocolate! (I think that once we get this gay marriage thing licked, the next frontier will be the right to marry chocolate.)

BV: What’s your go-to dinner? And what’s your favorite cook-for-a-date meal?

MG: As I’m living a fast-paced (aka, snazzlefrazzle) life, I often make the In the Buff Beans and Greens. It’s so versatile and easy (just like me!). I can just use what I have on hand and throw it together in a flash.

And depending on my dinner date, I adjust the recipe accordingly: Asian Aduki Beans and Cabbage for Junichi, French Lentils and Spinach for Fabrice, or Indian Chickpeas and Chard for Indrajit.

You should stop by my place sometime. It’s like the “It’s a Small World” ride at Disneyland - except that it’s not appropriate for children. But it sure is fun!

Can’t live without bacon in your life? Check out Cleveland’s lesbian butchers on Page 19.

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OHIO LGBT NIGHTLIFE ROUNDUP BARS & CLUBS Akron Adams Street 77 N Adams St Akron, Ohio 44305 330.434.9794 adamsstreetbar.com Cocktails 1009 S Main St Akron, Ohio 44311 330.376.2625 FB: Cocktails Akron Interbelt 70 N Howard St Akron, Ohio 44310 330.253.5700 interbelt.com Square Nightclub 820 W Market St Akron, Ohio 44310 330.374.9661 squarenightclub.com Tear-Ez 360 S Main St Akron, Ohio 44311 330.376.0011 tear-ez.com Cincinnati Below Zero 1120 Walnut St Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513.421.9376 belowzerolounge.com The Dock 603 Pete Rose Way Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513.241.5623 FB: The Dock Complex Home Base Tavern 2401 Vine St Cincinnati, Ohio 45219 513.721.1212 hbtpride.com Old Street Saloon 13 Old St Monroe, Ohio 45050 513.539.9183 oldstreetbar.com

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On Broadway 817 Broadway St Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513.421.2555 FB: On Broadway Bar

Vibe 11633 Lorain Ave Cleveland, Ohio 44111 216.476.1970

Southbend Tavern 126 E Moler St Columbus, Ohio 43207 614.444.3386 FB: SouthBendTavern

Columbus Serpent 4042 Hamilton Ave Cincinnati, Ohio 45223 513.681.6969 serpentbar.com Shooters 927 Race St Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513.381.9900 FB: Shooters Bar Simon Says 428 Walnut St Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513.381.7577 Cleveland Bounce 2814 Detroit Ave Cleveland, Ohio 44113 216.357.2997 bouncecleveland.com Cocktails 9208 Detroit Ave Cleveland, Ohio 44102 216.961.3115 FB: Cocktails Cleveland The Hawk 11217 Detroit Ave Cleveland, Ohio 44102 216.521.5443 thehawkbar.com Leather Stallion 2205 St Clair Ave NE Cleveland, Ohio 44114 216.589.8588 leatherstallion.com

AWOL 49 Parsons Ave Columbus, Ohio 43215 614.621.8779 FB: AWOL Bar Axis 775 N High St Columbus, Ohio 43215 614.291.4008 axisonhigh.com Cavan Irish Pub 1409 S High St Columbus, Ohio 43207 614.725.5502 FB: Cavan Irish Pub Circus 1227 N High St Columbus, Ohio 43201 FB: CircusShortNorth Club 20 20 E Duncan St Columbus, Ohio 43202 614.261.9111 FB: Club 20 Club Diversity 863 S High St Columbus, Ohio 43206 614.224.4050 clubdiversity.biz Exile 893 N 4th St Columbus, Ohio 43201 614.299.0069 exilebar.com

The Toolbox Saloon 744 Frebis Ave Columbus, Ohio 43206 614.670.8113 FB: TheToolbox Saloon Tremont Lounge 708 S High St Columbus, Ohio 43206 614.445.9365 FB: Tremont Lounge

Lima

Warren

Somewhere 804 W North St Lima, Ohio 45801 419.227.7288 somewherelima.com

Funky Skunk NiteClub 143 E Market St Warren, Ohio 44481 FB: Funky Skunk NiteClub

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Youngstown

Sami’s 178 Wayne St Mansfield, Ohio 44902 419.522.1500 FB: Sami’s Bar

Utopia Video Night Club 876 E Midlothian Blvd Youngstown, Ohio 44502 330.781.9000 FB: Utopia Youngstown

Sandusky

Union Café 782 N High St Columbus, Ohio 43215 614.421.2233 columbusnightlife.com

Crowbar 206 W Market St Sandusky, Ohio 44870 419.624.0109 sanduskycrowbar.com

Wall Street Night Club 144 N Wall St Columbus, Ohio 43215 614.464.2800 wallstreetnightclub.com

Springfield

Dayton Argos 301 Mabel St Dayton, Ohio 45403 937.252.2976 Masque 34 N Jefferson St Dayton, Ohio 45402 937.228.2582 clubmasque.com MJ’s Cafe 119 E 3rd St Dayton, Ohio 45402 937.223.3259 mjscafedayton.com

Mean Bull / Aura 1313 E 26th St Cleveland, Ohio 44114 216.812.3330 meanbull.com

Level Dining Lounge 700 N High St Columbus, Ohio 43215 614.754.7111 levelcolumbus.com

Right Corner 105 E 3rd St Dayton, Ohio 45402 937.223.7418 FB: rightcornerbar

Twist 11633 Clifton Blvd Cleveland, Ohio 44102 216.221.2333 FB: Twist Sc

Slammers 202 E Long St Columbus, Ohio 43215 614.221.8880 FB: Slammers

Stage Door 44 N Jefferson St Dayton, Ohio 45402 937.223.7418 FB: The Stage Door

Out & About

BATHS Club Columbus 795 W 5th Ave Columbus, Ohio 43212 614.291.0049 the-clubs.com

Diesel Bar & Nightclub 1914 Edwards Ave Springfield, Ohio 45503 937.324.0383 FB: Diesel Bar & Nightclub

Flex 2600 Hamilton Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44114 216.812.3304 flexspas.com

Toledo

GET LISTED!

Bretz 2012 Adams St Toledo, Ohio 43604 419.243.1900 FB: Bretz Nightclub

We want to make sure all Ohio LGBT bars and clubs are included in our roundup. To update or add your listing, contact Erin at 614.268.8525 or erin@outlookmedia.com.

Listings are free.

Legends Showclub 117 N Erie St Toledo, Ohio 43604 567.315.8333 legendsbartoledo.com Mojo 115 N Erie St Toledo, Ohio 43604 567.315.8333 mojobartoledo.com R-House 5534 Secor Rd Toledo, Ohio 43623 419.474.2929

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TOLEDO/NORTHWEST THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 Big Gay Welcome @ BGSU Student Union Grand Ballroom, Bowling Green, 43403; 419.372.2642; bgsu.edu/multicultural-affairs/lgbt-resource-center.html: Drag and other performances kick off the academic year and introduce people to the LGBT community. 5p.

DAYTON/WEST MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Dayton Gay Volleyball Picnic @ Taylorsville Reserve, Red Fox Run Shelter, 8400 S Brown School Rd, Vandalia, 45277; daytongayvolleyballclub.com: Bring food to share and be ready to play some volleyball. Noon-6p. outlookohio.com

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Rent @ Victoria Theatre, 138 N Main St, Dayton, 45402; daretodefyllc.com: Dare to Defy Productions presents the ’90s classic musical about sexuality, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. 8p on Friday, 2p and 8p on Saturday; $27-$52.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Ohio Lesbian Festival @ Frontier Ranch, 8836 York Rd SW, Pataskala, 43062; ohiolba.org: The 25th annual Ohio Lesbian Festival offers three days of music, workshops and more. Performers this year include Melissa Ferrick, Cris Williamson, Beverly McClellen, Melanie DeMore, Big Bad Gina, Alix Olson, Elvira Kurt, Reina Williams, Tracy Walker, Crys Matthews, Taryn & Linda, Kelly Zullo, Wahru, and Viva! and the Velvet Hearts. Gates open at 3p, and it’s $20 for a campsite for the entire weekend.

Tickets are $95 for the weekend, $70 for Saturday and $40 for Sunday (and $5 less if you order online in advance).

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Town Hall of Cleveland: Gloria Steinem @ Severence Hall, 11001 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 44106: Case Western Reserve University kicks off its annual lecture series with Ms. magazine founder, feminist icon and Toledo native Gloria Steinem, whose talk is entitled, “The Longest Revolution.” It’s also a fundraiser for the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women.

5:30p; $65

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Cincinnati Film Festival/Bullied to Silence @ Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St, Cincinnati, 45202; cincinnatifilmfestival.com: This documentary, part of the Cincinnati Film Independents Day @ Town and Lucas streets, Festival, hopes to inspire bystanders and reColumbus, 43215; thisisindependent.com: The assure victims. Check the website for times festival to celebrate Columbus’s indie culture and ticket prices.

COLUMBUS/CENTRAL and creativity moves this year from Downtown WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 to Franklinton. There are five stages, and the FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Gay Pioneers of German Village Tour @ Ger- entertainment lineup includes feminist cheer- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 man Village Society Meeting Haus, 588 S 3rd leaders and drag queens. 11a-11p.

Cincinnati Comic Expo @ Duke Energy ConSt, Columbus, 43215; 614.299.7764; vention Center, 525 Elm St, Cincinnati, 45202; stonewallcolumbus.org/trailblazers: The Ger- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 cincinnaticomicexpo.com: Not sure if she’ll inman Village Society is offering a preview Selfies for Social Justice @ Ohio Union Great spire a cross-country road trip by a diverse through Stonewall’s Trailblazers group of its Hall, 1739 N High St, Columbus, 43210; group of drag queens, but Julie Newmar new walking tour highlighting gay history of 614.688.8449; mcc.osu.edu: As part of Ally statuesque and the only Catwoman - is the neighborhood. It’s a free tour, but you need Week, a series of events designed to encouramong celebrity guests booked for the weekto register online because there are only 20 age people to work together regardless of race, end comic show. 3p-8p on Friday, 10a-7p on spots available. 1p-3p. ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or Saturday and 10a-5p on Sunday; $20 for day other differences, people will gather to take pass, $55 for weekend pass.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 photos and explain why they stand as an ally Nina West’s So You Think You Can Drag @ for others.

CLEVELAND-AKRON/NORTHEAST Axis, 775 N High St, Columbus, 43215; 614.291.4008; axisonhigh.com: More than $1,000 in cash and prizes will go to the top contestants in Nina’s amateur drag competition. 8p-11:30p; $6, or $30 a table.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Jeff Rockcub LIVE! @ Leather Stallion, 2205 St Clair Ave NE, Cleveland, 44114; 216.589.8588; arktosbears.org: The singing bear brings a mix of rock, country and, according to Arktos Bears, which is hosting his Cleveland show, “maybe even a showtune or two.” 9p-11p.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Book Signing: Sean Strub @ Miller Gallery, 2715 Erie Ave, Cincinnati, 45208; 513.761.1480; caracole.org: Strub is the author of Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS and Survival. He’ll take questions and read from his book about his experiences in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. The event is sponsored by Caracole, which provides services to people with HIV/AIDS. 6:30p-8:30p.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 bare: A Pop Opera @ Shedd Theatre, Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave, Columbus, 43215; evolutiontheatre.org: Evolution Theatre Company presents the story of two gay teens wrestling with issues of identity, CINCINNATI/SOUTHWEST sexuality and religion at a co-ed Catholic boarding school. 8p (Sunday show is at 2p); FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 $10-$25.

Pride Night 2014 @ Kings Island, 6300 Kings Island Dr, Mason, 45040; cincyglbt.com: Let’s SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 play a game real quick: Roller coaster or gay Art for Life 2014 @ the Ohio History Center, club? The Beast, the Firehawk, Delirium, Vor800 E 17th Ave, Columbus, 43211; tex. On Pride Night, they’re both. The 614.340.6715; artforlifecolumbus.org: Central fundraiser for the GLBTQ Center of Greater Ohio’s largest charity art auction, held since Cincinnati attracts people from more than 30 1989, supports the AIDS Resource Center states. 6p-midnight (the parking lot opens at Ohio’s programs and services. It raised 5p); $43 ($39 in advance or $36 if you buy at $440,000 in 2012. 6p-11:30p; $150-$250. least seven). outlookohio.com

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Ta Da!: The Piano and the Violin @ the home of Gary Burlin and Harold Bemis, Cleveland Heights; 216.651.5428; gbtcleveland.org/tada-2014-events.html: Russian pianist Halida Dinova and American violinist Andrew Sords perform concerts to benefit the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland.

Appetizers and desserts will be provided by Bob Sferra of the Better Occasions Shop. 7p; $75.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 An Intimate Evening with Miss Coco Peru @ Music Box Supper Club, 1148 Main Ave, Cleveland, 44113; 216.374.6007; dare2careusa.org: The queen who stole the show in the 1999 movie Trick hosts a benefit for Dare2Care, a Northeast Ohio anti-bullying organization. 4p (dinner at 3:30p); $75-$100.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Community Conversation: Harnessing the Energy of GG9 Into Political Change @ Trinity Commons, 2230 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 44115; clevelandstonewalldems.org: The Gay Games are gone; now what? Panelists include Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman; Cleveland Heights Councilwoman Melissa Yasinow; Lakewood Councilwoman Cindy Marx; Phyllis Harris, executive director of LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland; and moderator Rob Rivera of Cleveland Stonewall Democrats. 7p.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 21st Annual HRC Cleveland Gala & Auction @ Cleveland Public Auditorium & Conference Center, 500 Lakeside Ave E, Cleveland, 44114; 412-589-2952; FB: HRC Cleveland: The Human Rights Campaign celebrates its work around the country at its annual fundraising dinner. 6p; $225-$275 (students can get in for $100). september 2014

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by Dan Savage

genetic male. I thought for a while q I’mthataI 20-something might be trans, but I ended up deciding that while I hate my masculine features and like girl clothes and want to be “cute,” I have no desire to be female and don’t want to have breasts or a vagina.

I also don’t identify with a particular sexual orientation, as I don’t find the concept useful. I’ve been with both boys and girls, and currently I’m with a trans girl.

I’ve never been a fan of pornography, but recently I’ve found myself indulging in trans-girl porn.

Is it insensitive to have a predilection for trans girls?

My girlfriend wants to get sex-reassignment surgery in the future, and while I support her wholeheartedly and have never said anything to indicate otherwise, I think she knows that I’m happy with her current set of equipment and I don’t have any desire for her to go through with SRS. I believe she resents me for this. But this isn’t a relationship question. My question is more of a catchall: Is it insensitive, as a rule, to be attracted to trans (or intersex) girls? I like to think of myself as sexually progressive, and I don’t want to objectify or disrespect anybody. I just think trans girls are real cuties.

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“Having a sexual preference - whether it’s liking guys with red hair, tall women, sports fans, blue-eyed agender individuals, men with vaginas, or women with penises is fine,” said Parker Marie Molloy, a freelance writer and trans media activist whose work has appeared in The New York Times and The Advocate and on Slate.

Building on Molloy’s point: If the only thing you like about your current girlfriend is the fact that she’s trans, you’re september 2014

“As is the case with any sort of physical, emotional or sexual attraction, a preference crosses over into the realm of objectification only when the person’s potential love interest is reduced to a single aspect of their life,” Molloy said. “So UGH’s preference for trans women is only insensitive and objectifying if UGH makes it insensitive and objectifying.”

No one wants to be reduced to a single aspect of his or her life by a romantic partner or anyone else. But being objectified in short, concentrated bursts by a lover isn’t a problem for most people - quite the opposite, in fact.

Being objectified by someone who doesn’t care about the rest of you? Most people don’t find that sexy. Being briefly objectified by someone who loves the particular thing/things you bring to the table/mattress/sling and the rest of you too? Most people find that sexy.

Finally, UGH, while I had Molloy on the line, I asked her to quickly address the issues of trans porn and SRS.

- Unavoidable Gender Hullabaloo

“So long as the preference is not the sole reason for the attraction, so long as UGH remembers that trans people are actually human beings with a diverse range of emotions, interests and experiences, and aren’t solely defined by their transness, UGH should be able to avoid coming off as creepy.”

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probably guilty of objectifying her. But if her trans-girl cuteness is one of the things you find attractive about her - even if it’s the thing that initially drew you to her, even if it’s something you focus on during sex - you’re not objectifying.

“It’s no more wrong to indulge in trans porn than it is to indulge in porn starring or created by cis people,” Molloy said. “Whether UGH’s favorite trans-porn outlets are stories, pictures or drawings - or if they’re videos of mainstream trans porn stars like Bailey Jay or independent queer-feminist performers like Chelsea Poe - UGH shouldn’t feel ashamed.”

“As to whether his girlfriend gets SRS, that’s something that has to be up to her. Quiet resentment, guilt and pressure to have or not have surgery should serve as signs that maybe this relationship doesn’t have much of a future. I suggest that the two of them sit down and have a long talk about genitals, preferences and deal breakers.”

Follow Parker Marie Molloy on Twitter @ParkerMolloy.

Want some beefy trans man porn? Check out Buck Angel.

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the divine life by Debé Virgo (August 23 September 22) It’s your month and time to ride a wave of opportunity that comes your way. Be bold, and new partnerships could be exciting. Be flexible, and your family life can be better than ever. Be touchy and temperamental, and it can all go to hell in a handbasket. Personally, I’d go with bold and flexible. A little hot yoga, maybe?

Libra (September 23 - October 22) The spotlight is on you, and your talents are getting you noticed. Work it, girl. At the same time, your lover may be more demanding than usual, so time behind the scenes (and between the sheets) may be needed too.

Scorpio (October 23 - November 21) Seduction is the buzzword of the month, so you are in your wheelhouse. You’re invited to join in all the reindeer games. Spontaneity is fun, but use a little common sense, too. Remember the Boy Scouts motto: Be prepared.

Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21) Mars moving through your sign leaves you restless. Feelings heat up and then cool down faster than you can keep up with, so be careful you don’t hurt yourself chasing one shiny thing after another.

Capricorn (December 22 - January 19) This is a great month for work, but your love life can be rocky. There’s a struggle between your independence and his/her possessiveness. Look out for someone sticking his or her nose in your business. Damn, people can be nosy!

Aquarius (January 20 - February 18) This should be an interesting month for you - full of new encounters that stimulate your open mind.

You are into so many new things, it’s like you’re your own Discovery Channel this month. Enjoy!

Pisces (February 19 - March 20) This month is a balancing act for you. You’ll need to be realistic about weighing your needs against the needs of others. Try not to be too defensive. It’s a little like juggling eggs: Be careful, or the yoke’s on you.

Aries (March 21 - April 19) Lady Luck smiles on you again after slapping you last month. She’s fickle, but to make it up to you she offers you an exciting, torrid month. Enjoy your play dates, as they might come to an end in late September.

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Taurus (April 20 - May 20) The key to success this month is how well you play it cool. You excel in many areas of your life, but don’t blow your own horn. Better to let someone else blow it, if you catch my drift, and it’ll feel a lot better, too.

Gemini (May 21 - June 20) The sun is squaring off in your sign, which brings some hot, intense moments. You’ll want to harness that energy, listen up and think before you speak. If you do you can be a real charmer, in and out of the bedroom.

Cancer (June 21 - July 22) Your powers of observation are keen, and you can resolve a lot of difficult situations if you keep your cool and compromise. You can bend a little, right?

If not, get to a chiropractor to fix that mess and get moving.

Leo (July 23 - August 22) You are inspired in work and love, and you are more goal-oriented than usual. You’re not just playing around this time. You are serious about your career and looking for stability at home. You are roaring for real, and it gets you what you want.

Funny Virgos: Lily Tomlin, Adam Sandler, Jack Black, Amy Poehler Handy Tip - Mount of Saturn This mount sits at the base of the middle finger. If it is full, the person is responsible with strong sense of morality.

Debé is a palmist, intuitive adviser and metaphysical teacher in Columbus. She is available for personal readings, parties, events and workshops. For more information, go to www.thepastionatepalmist.com. Look for her horoscopes every month in Outlook.

Deep tissue, deep reading or deep flavor, this page is totes deep.

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Across 1 Nuts and bolts 5 Cleis ___ 10 Sex and the City creator Darren 14 Mel’s role with Jodie in Maverick 15 Young girl of old comics 16 La ___ aux Folles 17 Oahu dance 18 It’s always on top 19 Type of seaman 20 With 36-Across, what God gave to men, along with a penis and a brain 23 Alarm cock?

24 Audrey of That Touch of Mink 25 Lots of mins.

26 It swallows plastic and spits cash 27 Extremist 31 West African republic 36 See 20-Across 42 For-skin cream ingredient 43 Ars ___, vita brevis 44 It makes gelatin get hard 45 Broadway scenery chewer 46 Barber’s partner 48 Med. care group 49 Lorca’s mouth 51 Pinball Wizard foul 53 Source of this puzzle’s quip 58 Chinese (prefix) 59 Gift recipient 60 Russian singing duo 62 Fox comedy with Jane Lynch 63 Billy Bean boo-boo 64 The Gay ‘90s, and more 65 Della’s angel 66 Straps at Rita’s stable 67 Warrior Princess

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1 Can’t bear 2 Bruce Willis, to pals 3 It goes between the knees 4 Chooses not to come 5 Smoothing tool 6 Helicopter features 7 Caesar’s last question 8 Homosexuality, in many societies 9 Scented sack 10 Burn with hot liquid 11 Homophobia, in enlightened societies 12 Like a visibly happy face 13 Actor Robert and family 21 Hawke of Hamlet 22 Ritchie Valens hit, with “La” 27 Place for Young men?

28 Marlene’s Blue Angel role 29 76 in a Broadway musical 30 Golden Girl McClanahan 32 JFK info 33 Bad experience in bed 34 Mosque leader 35 DVD software 37 Poisonous bush 38 No to Rimbaud 39 Brian who collaborated with Bowie 40 Guy under J. Edgar, for short?

41 Snitches 46 Long distance letters 47 Threesome for Caligula 50 You can blow them in the orchestra pit 52 Condom material 53 Rub the wrong way 54 Tested, to Marc Jacobs 55 Letters over Mary’s son 56 Clinton aide Panetta 57 Gay-dog owner of South Park 58 Army NCO 61 Home o’ the brave

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