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The Gift you are here

I don’t know how happy Christmas will be this year for some of my best friends.

One, formerly married to a woman and the father of two just-about-perfect kids, is about to come out to his dad, who figured out that something must going between his son and that guy he has been spending so much time with the last few years.

And he has made it clear that if there is, they won’t be welcome in his home.

He also made it clear he’s perfectly fine not seeing his grandchildren, either.

season that while a majority of the US Supreme Court believes in marriage equality, our families might be more Antonin Scalia than Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

My mother, as she does every Christmas for the last couple decades, will hand a stack of envelopes to me, one of my brothers or sisters, or one of my nieces or nephews and ask us to give them out to everyone for her.

Another friend of mine also should have a lot to celebrate. He also has a justabout-perfect kid, and he’s engaged to his boyfriend, who’s such a good match.

There will a $50 check in each. A few of us will thank her for the $100 check, pretending she favors one over the other. We’ll laugh because we all know how scrupulously fair she and my late father always were to us over the years - no small feat in a family of five kids, 10 grandkids and four (and, I hope, counting) great-grandkids.

But his mother says she won’t attend their wedding. She doesn’t think it’s right.

And we’ll all know that the real gift from our parents has been something far more valuable.

I know my four friends will enjoy the holidays. They’re great couples. They’re great individuals. They make each other laugh. They make me laugh. They have siblings who support them, and despite current tension, they have loving, close families.

I never got to come out to my dad; he died two days after Christmas and 6½ years before I was ready to tell my family and friends that I’m gay. But I know he would have been fine, just as my mom has been since she instantly switched her dream of me finding a nice Italian girl to me finding a nice Italian boy. (Now she just hopes for nice, and I just hope.)

But they shouldn’t be going through this.

Their parents should be nothing but proud of the smart, successful, happy men they raised. They should be full of joy that their sons have found love.

They should be among those of us who, six months later, still smile when it hits us that our country now views people in same-sex relationships the same way it has viewed opposite-sex couples for 239½ years.

If, like me, you’ve been blessed with unconditional love, take a moment this holiday season to thank those who’ve given it to you.

In the legal sense, anyway.

And Happy Holidays to all.

A lot of LGBT people, not just my friends, will be reminded this holiday

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Looking forward to 2016!

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Network Columbus 11/11/15 @ The Kitchen

Planned Parenthood Rally 10/22/15 @ Ohio Statehouse

Ohio LGBT Elected Officials 11/15/15 @ Columbus

Authors! Authors! Gloria Steinem 11/18/15 @ Toledo

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qmunity Cleveland VA Clinic Is First for Trans Vets group for LGBT veterans.

Even before Nov. 12, the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center in Cleveland had earned a reputation as a welcoming place for LGBT military veterans.

Before marriage equality became the law of the land, the center’s policies on visitation and advanced directives recognized same-sex partners as family members. It allowed transgender patients to update their names and gender in medical records. It hosted a weekly support

Although the Pentagon’s ban on openly transgender AmeriThe Cleveland VA center was cans serving in the nation’s named a leader in the military isn’t set to end until Human Rights Campaign’s sometime in 2016, a study in 2014 LGBT Healthcare 2012 found that veterans Equality Index. were twice as likely as civilians to identify as trans Last month, the federally run women. facility went a step further, McNamara told The Plain opening the Department of Dealer that the Cleveland Veterans Affairs’ first medcenter already has 20 paical clinic for transgender tients who range in age from patients.

21 to 75.

“I think the VA is really comThe Louis Stokes Cleveland mitted to doing this,” Dr. VA Medical Center is located Megan McNamara, the clinic’s leader, told The Plain at 1701 East Blvd, CleveDealer of Cleveland. “It may land, 44106. Call be out of step with their his- 877.838.8262 or torical approach, but I don’t 216.791.3800. think it’s half-hearted at all.”

We are Pleased to Announce Weintraub-Lazarus

Phil Weintraub and Bruce Lazarus are proud to announce that they were married on August 20, 2015, at the magnificent Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati.

Bruce and Phil were married on the 20th anniversary of the day they met in 1995, and their wedding was significant in that it marked the first legal same-sex marriage ever celebrated in the 150year-old temple’s history.

Rabbi Lewis Kamrass officiA reception was held at the ated the service, held in the Aronoff Center for the Arts. presence of friends and family.

Around Ohio

Athens: Ohio University’s LGBT Center will host a discussion about coming out during the holidays on Wednesday, Dec. 2, from noon-1:30p in the Baker University Center Room 239. (Visit outlookohio.com to read our December 2014 story on the topic.)

Columbus: GLSEN of Greater Dayton announced on Nov. 6 that it has been invited to become a community partner with Columbus City Schools. “We are ready to take Safe Spaces and GSAs to whole new level!,” the group said via Facebook.

Cincinnati: The Queen City Queer Theatre Collective, which produces staged readings on the second Monday of every month at Below Zero, is accepting script submissions from playwrights and directors for 2016. Visit the group’s Facebook page or email lindseyamercer@gmail.com for details.

Dayton: MJ’s and the Trolley Stop are helping the Greater Dayton LGBT Center raise some money. They’re saving Stoli bottle caps, and the center will get $2 for each. You can help out, too, by taking your own bottle caps to the LGBT Center or either bar.

Cleveland: A group of medical students at Case Western Reserve University has started a new blog called The People’s Voice, which they say will address “outdated practices” concerning health professionals and LGBTQ patients. It’s at peopleinmedicine.wordpress.com.

Non-Discrimination Bill Back Before Legislature

Is the sixth time a charm?

State Rep. Nickie Antonio says she will reintroduce legislation that would ban discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations in Ohio based on a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

What used to be called the Equal Housing and Employment Act has been renamed the Fairness Act. “While our country has taken an historic step toward equality with the recent Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, an Ohioan can still get married in the morning and get fired from their job in the afternoon just because of who they are or whom they love,” said Antonio (DLakewood), one of two openly gay Ohio legislators. “That is not acceptable.”

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Toledo: Gloria Steinem spoke in her hometown on Nov. 18. She gave a shoutout to People Called Women bookstore, owner Gina Mercurio and the Steinem’s Sisters feminist archives housed there.

(There are photos from the event on Page 8.)

ing to The Columbus Dispatch, this is at least the fifth time that legislators have proposed adding sexual orientation and gender identity to state laws that cover age, gender, race, religion, disability, national origin and military status.

Ohio is one of 28 states that doesn’t prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and one of 31 states that doesn’t include gender identity.

Fourteen cities in Ohio Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati, among them - have inclusive local nondiscrimination laws, but Equality Ohio says those protections cover just 18 percent of the state’s population.

“Nobody should have to endure discrimination. The vast majority of Ohioans agree. ... In fact, they’re shocked to learn that we don’t have a law like this protecting LGBT Ohioans in the first place,” said Alana Jochum, managing director of Equality Ohio.

The transgender clinic at the Cleveland VA is open to all veterans, not just those in Northeast Ohio.

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Scholarships, Internships Aim of Cincinnati Group A new organization in Cincinnati hopes to create scholarships, coordinate internships, offer mentoring and provide job-placement help for GLBT students in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.

Founded by Noah Kling, who has 13 years experience with nonprofit groups, Proud Scholars has been reaching out to LGBT youth groups and gay-straight alliances in Greater Cincinnati as it begins its work.

LGBT Candidates Win Across the State

represent the city’s 6th Ward.

In Maple Heights, Richard Trojanski was elected as City Council president after six years as a council member. He’s the first openly gay head of a city council in the state.

Voters elected Ohio’s first openly gay mayor in November.

Ron Hirth, who since 2013 has served as a village council member in the Cincinnati suburb of Golf Manor, will become mayor of the village in January.

Golf Manor, population 3,600, is an independent community surrounded by the Cincinnati neighborhoods of Pleasant Ridge and Roselawn. Hirth has lived in the village for more than a decade.

There were other firsts as well for LGBT candidates in the November elections.

In Youngstown, voters elected their first openly gay City Council member.

Retired Police Sgt. Anita Davis, who spent 36 years on the force in Youngstown, helped start Youngstown’s annual Pride festival and hosted an LGBT radio show called Speak Out Youngstown.

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Gus Kenworthy won a silver medal in freeskiing at the 2014 Olympics but made bigger headlines by adopting five stray dogs from the streets of

film series - in December at Below Zero.

(See our calendar of Cincinnati events on Page 46 for details.)

Proud Scholars hosted its kickoff in November and plans its first fundraiser - a Star Wars-themed costume party to coincide with the latest installment of the Visit proudscholars.org for more.

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Give Them a Toaster

In 2014, Trojanski was honored by Stonewall Democrats with the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Freedom Award, given to those who champion social justice.

Elsewhere in Ohio: • First-time candidate John McManus won a seat on the Dayton Board of Education.

• Columbus City Council member Shannon Hardin, who was appointed to his seat in 2014, was retained by voters.

• Columbus Board of Education member Mary Jo Hudson, also appointed last year, was retained by voters.

• Deb Steele, fiscal officer in Franklin County’s Clinton Township, was re-elected.

One race was undecided more than two weeks after Election Day. In Franklin County’s Prairie Township, David Donofrio trailed by 27 votes in a race for township trustee. The Franklin County Board of Elections had yet to recount the ballots.

Sochi, Russia.

Save the Date LGBT Pride Night: Ohio State MenÊs Hockey Columbus Saturday, January 23 columbusgayhockey.org HRC Cincinnati Gala Cincinnati Saturday, March 15 hrccincygala.com

He made the cover of ESPN magazine’s November Queer Studies issue with his coming-out story.

Conference Ohio University, Athens He said his dream coming-out would have been March 31-April 1 after a gold-medal victory, kissing his thenohio.edu/lgbt boyfriend before the world and anti-gay Russian officials. But said he wasn’t ready back then, LGBT Pride Night: and he didn’t win the gold.

Columbus Blue Jackets Saturday, April 9 “I never got to be proud of what I did in Sochi be- columbusgayhockey.org cause I felt so horrible about what I didn’t do,” he told ESPN. CLAW 2016 Leather Weekend Michael Angelakos Cleveland and his wife of twoApril 28-May 1 plus years divorced in clawinfo.org August.

Pride Prom In November, the PasAkron sion Pit lead singer June 4 told Bret Easton Ellis canapi.org/teen-pride-network during an interview that he’s gay.

Columbus Pride June 17-19 “Specifically with my sexuality, it was just ..., columbuspride.org ‘Don’t get help. Don’t talk to anyone,’” he said. “I lived in such a straight group of people. Not like Cincinnati Pride anyone wasn’t going to be understanding, it was June 25 not the time.” cincinnatipride.org

RubiGirls 2016 Calendar

Hot off the presses is the 2016 Rubi Girls calendar, available for purchase at The Neon movie theater in Downtown Dayton.

These timeless beauties have raised more than $1 million for HIV/AIDS agencies and LGBT charities in their 30 years of performing. The calendar costs $25 each or two for $40.

We can’t believe Pride planning is about to start.

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Meet Al Gerhardstein, the Man Behind the Ohio Cases that Toppled America’s Marriage Bans

by Bob Vitale

couple who had flown to Maryland a few days earlier to marry.

America’s bans on same-sex marriage began unraveling at a backyard cookout in Cincinnati.

It was July 13, 2013, and Al Gerhardstein was chatting with longtime friend Barb Cook at a Saturday get-together. That week, he had been reading the US Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor. Seventeen days earlier, that ruling struck down key portions of the Defense of Marriage Act, a law that denied federal recognition to same-sex marriages even in states where they were legal.

The court’s decision, Gerhardstein told Cook, really seemed to open the door to challenges to state marriage bans like Ohio’s and a nationwide ruling for marriage equality. After all, how could states like Ohio not recognize same-sex marriages if the highest court in the land said federal denial was unconstitutional?

Jim Obergefell and John Arthur had been together 20 years, and Arthur was nearing the end of his battle with ALS. His hospice paid for part of the trip, and friends and family helped pay for a medical transport flight to Baltimore. They got married in the plane, parked on an airport tarmac, before flying home.

“That’s all well and good,” he told his friend.

“But do they know their marriage won’t be recognized in Ohio?” Cook, who also knew Obergefell and Arthur, put the men in touch.

“That’s the only thing the only thing “That’s I took to their apartAn online video that ment,” GerhardI took to their accompanied the stein said. “A apartment,” report moved viewblank death cerers to tears. The joy tificate.”

Gerhardstein said. of a loving couple exchanging marriage “A blank death Obergefell and vows was tinged with Arthur weren’t accertificate.” tivists. They weren’t the sadness of knowing their marriage would be short-lived. Arthur would die just three months later.

“Wait until you see tomorrow’s Enquirer,” Cook told him.

As idealistic as Gerhardstein is, son Adam said his father is also pragmatic. He’s a lawyer after all, and lawyers deal in facts.

The Cincinnati Enquirer’s story, published on Sunday, July 14, 2013, was about a local

When Cook told Al Gerhardstein about Obergefell and Arthur, he already had been

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thinking about the aftermath of Windsor and the opening it created to argue for state recognition of legal, same-sex marriages that took place outside Ohio.

spoiling for a fight. They hadn’t married yet because they wanted it to mean something, and after Windsor, it would.

But a 2004 amendment to the Ohio Constitution not only banned same-sex couples from marrying in the state, it also withheld state recognition of marriages performed in equality-minded states such as Maryland.

That meant the Ohio Department of Health would issue a death certificate for Arthur that listed him as an unmarried man, even though court cases dating back to the 1700s affirmed the portability of marriage from state to state.

Don’t mistake the death certificate prop as coldness, though. Adam Gerhardstein describes his father, above all else, as “a great citizen,” a man who says yes when people seek his help, whether they’re refugees from war-torn countries or parents coaching a little-league sports team.

Obergefell remembers meeting “the perfect attorney for us” and says he’s not sure they would have gone forward with their fight with anyone else.

“John and I were impressed with Al’s kindness, intelligence and dedication to civil rights,” he said. “He made us feel comfortable considering an act we had never before considered or dreamed of doing - filing suit against the state of Ohio.”

When Gerhardstein filed a federal lawsuit on July 19, 2013, on behalf of Obergefell and Arthur, it was the first challenge filed after the precedents set by Windsor. But they

Kelly McCracken, a plaintiff in Ohio’s marriage equality cases, took the photo of Al and Adam.

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didn’t seek full marriage equality. The lawsuit only sought Ohio’s official recognition of the men’s marriage.

“We thought we were doing an incremental step,” said Gerhardstein, who also was preparing a second case for same-sex couples whom the state wouldn’t list as married on their children’s birth certificates.

“We’re from the Midwest. We know the best thing to do is take baby steps.”

But Gerhardstein knew rulings would come fast. And they did: • July 19, 2013: A temporary restraining order stopped the state from issuing any death certificate for Arthur that didn’t list him as married and survived by Obergefell.

marriage governors and attorneys general would put some on hold.

On Oct. 6, 2014, the US Supreme Court said it wouldn’t revisit appeals court rulings that upheld same-sex couples’ right to marry. On one day, people in 11 more states won the right to marry, bringing the total number of marriage-equality states to 30.

But a month later, a Cincinnati-based federal appeals court covering Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee ruled that the four states’ bans were constitutional. It was the one ruling out of sync with all the others from coast to coast. It seemed out of sync, even, with the US Supreme Court.

• Dec. 23, 2013: US District Judge Timothy Black ruled that Ohio must recognize all legal same-sex marriages on death certificates.

• April 14, 2014: Black ordered Ohio to recognize same-sex marriages on birth certificates.

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Suddenly, Gerhardstein thought, “Whoa, we might be the one.” He and other lawyers asked the Supreme Court to review the decision against marriage equality, and the court decided in January 2015 that it would consolidate Obergefell, Henry and four other cases into one.

Years ago, Gerhardstein wasn’t sure marriage was the fight to wage on behalf of LGBT people.

married one day and lose their jobs or apartments the next.

“I think we’re going to back in to a broader nondiscrimination argument,” he said.

As a civil-rights lawyer of nearly 40 years, Gerhardstein has spent much of his career trying to preserve people’s rights, keeping “a thumb in the dike,” as he puts it, against eroding liberties.

He has fought state legislators who’ve taken away reproductive freedom, police who’ve targeted people based on their race, a school board that wouldn’t let a girl play football.

“I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,” Gerhardstein recalled. “’I can’t even get these folks a job.’”

• Feb. 20, 2014: Henry v. Hodges sought to stop Ohio’s practice of listing only one parent on a child’s birth certificate if the baby’s parents were in a same-sex marriage.

“The Obergefell case and the Henry case were truly written in all respects to be walking in the steps of Windsor,” Gerhardstein said. “But all around the country, decisions were coming out very rapidly. I had not anticipated that.”

When attorney and gay-rights advocate Evan Wolfson created Freedom to Marry in 2001, Gerhardstein said, “I thought he was nuts.”

Four years before that, Gerhardstein unsuccessfully fought to overturn an infamous Cincinnati charter amendment that forbade any form of LGBT civil-rights laws in the city.

He had argued cases for a transgender Cincinnati police officer who had been demoted from the rank of sergeant and a gay Clermont County school teacher who had been fired.

Now, while acknowledging there’s still plenty of work to do on LGBT civil rights, he also sees what has come with marriage equality. The 2013 Windsor decision settled issues such as immigration rights and federal taxes for married same-sex couples, and Obergefell has settled issues such as family health covrage, hospital visitation and others.

Gerhardstein said he thinks it will help, as well, when it comes to issues such as expanding anti-discrimination laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity. The way things stand now, LGBT Ohioans can get

He’s now on a team of lawyers representing the family of Samuel Dubose, an unarmed black man who was killed this past July by a University of Cincinnati police officer who had stopped him for not having a front license plate on his car.

“It comes very rarely,” he says of cases such as Obergefell v. Hodges, which brought nationwide marriage equality to the United States. “In this case, we saw an opportunity to expand rights.”

No joy will come from his current case, just the potential satisfaction of holding someone accountable for a heinous act. Dubose’s family still will grieve, as are other families he has represented in cases involving misconduct by police or prison officials.

Outcomes like the US Supreme Court decision on June 26, 2015, come very rarely, too, in Gerhardstein’s line of work.

“Here the case ends and there’s a parade afterward,” he said. “All that came from this was more joy.”

Bob Vitale is Editor-in-Chief of Outlook.

In the photo on the top right, Al is with Jim Obergefell and marriage equality plaintiff Nicole Yorksmith.

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by Bob Vitale Michael Coleman and Shannon Hardin were flying back to Columbus from a conference four years ago when the mayor told his young aide he should consider seeking office one day.

Hardin tried to avoid telling the mayor why he thought it wasn’t a good idea.

“I think I’m too liberal,” he said, to the confusion of his longtime friend and mentor. Hardin has known the mayor since he was 12 years old; his mother had worked in Coleman’s office since he was the president of City Council in the 1990s.

“I’m a little more liberal than you,” Hardin said, hoping Coleman would get the hint.

Finally, he said it: “I’m gay.”

“He said, ‘That’s only a problem if you think it’s a problem,’” recalled Hardin, now 28 and the winner of a November City Council race to keep the seat to which he was appointed in 2014.

“He always supported me, and he continued to support me after I was out,” he said.

Goodbye, Friend Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman Retires With Pro-LGBT Legacy

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Coleman, who leaves office Jan. 1 as the longest-serving mayor in Columbus history, supported the entire LGBT community during his 16 years in office, leaders say.

One of his legacies is a city viewed nationwide among America’s most LGBT-friendly: • Columbus has scored 100 points - the highest total possible - on the last two editions of the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index, which measures cities’ policies toward LGBT people.

• Columbus was No. 7 on The Advocate’s 2007 “Gayest Cities in America” list.

• Columbus added gender identity to its anti-discrimination laws, domestic partner and transgender medical coverage to its employee benefits, and LGBT liaisons in the Police Division and Columbus Public Health under Coleman’s watch.

The city had a reputation as an LGBTfriendly place - in a 1990s kind of way, at least - before Coleman took office. But having a vocal friend and ally in the mayor’s office helped push Columbus

Thanks Mayor Coleman for making Columbus the best place to live, work and raise a family.

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faster and further than it otherwise might have gone on LGBT issues.

“Things could have changed if we had a different kind of mayor,” said José Rodriguez, spokesman for Columbus Public Health. “But we might not have flourished like we have as a community.”

Coleman said he’s proud of Columbus’ progress.

“It was keeping it at the forefront,” the mayor said. “It was having many conversations.”

As City Council president in 1998, one of Coleman’s first battles for the community ended in retreat. After he pushed through a plan to offer domestic partner benefits to city employees, opponents began organizing an effort to put the issue before voters. Defeat would have outlawed benefits in the city charter and made the issue much more difficult to revisit.

some LGBT issues, although he doesn’t like that word. Equality is a deep-seated belief, he said. “It’s in my DNA.” Hardin said that Coleman, as a black man, understands the value of diversity and inclusion. He calls it a “connection point” to LGBT people.

One of the few moments of tension between the mayor and the LGBT community came in 2011, when Coleman took his name off a list of officials who supported marriage equality. He said it had been added without his permission by a member of his staff. At the time, Coleman supported civil unions.

„ThereÊs been a very definite culture shift.

The mayorÊs leadership has made that a part of city government culture.‰

He announced a change of heart after sitting down with Steven Snyder-Hill, a gay, married city employee who had recently returned from military service in Iraq. SnyderHill told Coleman that he was fighting for rights he didn’t have personally. The mayor was convinced.

Once he supported marriage equality, Coleman went all in. He didn’t get to realize his wish of Coleman, council being the first members and mayor in Ohio to ofChris Cozad LGBT leaders ficiate a same-sex Columbus LGBT Liaison agreed to rescind wedding, but he did the measure marry 13 couples rather than take outside City Hall that risk. two weeks after the US Supreme Court’s ruling “It was a battlefield citywide,” for nationwide marriage rights.

Coleman said.

Years earlier, opponents of one of the first The city has come far, and so has City Hall, pro-LGBT ordinances in Columbus brought according to Chris Cozad, Coleman’s liaipeople by the busload to City Hall to fill son to the LGBT community. council chambers. When he married the couples on July 11, more than 200 of the “We kind of moved from what we as the couples’ friends and family filled the lawn.

LGBT community had done for ourselves to what the city could do with and for us,” she “I’m very proud of how far we’ve come,” said. “There’s been a very definite culture Coleman said. shift. The mayor’s leadership has made Before joining Outlook, Editor-in-Chief Bob Vitale covthat a part of city government culture.”

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People across the country show their support for

Marriage Equality.

Obergefell v. Hodges on social media.

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Caitlyn Jenner affirms her identity as a trans woman to the public.

Columbus 1st-grader Zea Bowling stands up to a hater at Comfest.

Abby Wambach kisses her wife

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PrEP’d

and Ready

HIV-Prevention Pill Has Made Me Feel Safer, Act Safely

by Chris Hayes When I came out in 1996, I was well past the AIDS crisis of the ’80s but still deep into the mindset that HIV/AIDS was a terminal disease.

Fear is what kept me and my friends from becoming positive. Fear of dying. Fear of how our families would react. Fear of how other gays would treat us. Fear of losing our jobs.

And, mostly, fear of the unknown.

We can disagree on fear as prevention, but for me and my circle it worked. Twenty years later, we’re still HIV-negative.

But a strict adherence to safe-sex protocols isn’t the only thing that’s kept us from converting. Luck has definitely played a part.

None of us are angels. We’ve all been lax on wearing a condom or asking our partners to wrap theirs now and again. We’re human, it happens. Sometimes accidently, sometimes purposefully, and sometimes subconsciously.

But no matter what the reason, the next day has always been the same: a bunch of guilt and a bunch of regret until you get tested. In the ’90s that stress lasted at least two weeks while you waited for your results to come back. It was horrible. By the end of week one, you were just going to be celibate, and by end of week two, you had decided you were probably going to kill yourself if you were positive.

I didn’t think I’d ever go that far, but the thought had crossed my mind. I had watched It’s My Party and Jeffery enough to know love was still possible if you were positive and you never off yourself until it gets bad ... and then you do it respectfully at a party.

Luckily for me, I also had a real-life role model. My friend, Don, was the first person I met who was actually living with the virus and had been for 10 years prior to when we met. He was - and still is - my touchstone that if ever I do get it, it’ll be all right.

But I still don’t want to contract HIV. None of us does. So when I heard about a miracle pill called Truvada that would keep me from get20

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ting HIV, I was like, “Sign me up!” Of course, I was a bit skeptical. We were supposed to have a vaccine like a decade ago. And we still can’t stop the common cold, so really: A pill is going to ward off the disease once known as the gay cancer?

jection-drug users, all produced results showing that HIV infection was 92 percent lower for those who took the medication consistently. That, my friends, is a gamechanger and is the main reason I decided to get on PrEP.

has HIV and the other does not, PrEP is one of several options to protect the uninfected partner during conception and pregnancy.

I had my doubts. I knew AIDS Resource Center Ohio was an early adopter of Truvada as a pre-exposure prophylaxis - PrEP, as it’s called - and had started PrEP clinics in Columbus and Dayton for those who wanted to get on the prevention regimen. I called them and set up an appointment. I also did my own research, and between the two, here is what I can tell you about PrEP and how it has been going with me since I started.

If I do nothing else but take this pill, it will be virtually impossible for me to contract HIV. Why wouldn’t I take it? And the US Public Health Service agrees, which is why in 2014 the agency released the first comprehensive clinical practice guidelines for PrEP.

Is it the Cure-All? No it’s not. Like condoms, PrEP is not 100 percent effective. But really, it’s pretty damn close. It’s recommended as an additional tool in your safe-sex war chest. The CDC recommends that PrEP be used along with condoms to give you the most protection possible. It will be up to you to decide, like you do with oral sex, if the risk factor is high enough to use condoms.

Should You Be on PrEP? The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that PrEP be considered for people who are HIV-negative and at substantial risk for HIV:

The Research I love me some facts, so I immediately dove into reading all • For sexual transmission, I could about the this includes anyone wonder pill. Truwho is in an on“I wondered if I vada has been going relationwould go all willy-nilly an HIV treatship with an ment medHIV-posiwhen I got on it, but, in fact, icine tive partit made me more aware of my since ner, 2004. anyone safety level. Part of me realized It’s acwho is that if I was putting this much tually not in a effort and money into my sexual two antimutually viral monogahealth, I should do everything drugs in mous relathey recommend, one pill tionship with (tenofovir disoa partner who including condoms.” proxil fumarate recently tested and tenofovir). In HIVHIV-negative, any gay positive people, it is used to or bisexual men who have stop the virus from growing. had anal sex without a condom or been diagnosed with an STD in the past six, In 2012, the FDA approved the drug as a months, or any heterosexual man or woman PrEP measure for those who do not have HIV. who does not regularly use condoms during (Pre-exposure prophylaxis is a generic medsex with partners of unknown HIV status who ical term, actually, for any prevention measare at substantial risk of HIV infection. ure. Sunscreen is also considered a form of PrEP.) In HIV-negative people, Truvada works • For people who inject drugs, this includes to prevent HIV infection from ever taking hold those who have injected illicit drugs in the if you are exposed to it. past six months and who have shared injection equipment or been in drug treatment for Several large national and international clini- injection drug use in the past six months. cal trials, which included gay and bisexual men, heterosexual men and women, and in• For heterosexual couples where one partner You can also talk to your own doctor about PrEP.

To break it down for you, if you are an HIVnegative, sexually active gay man, YES YOU SHOULD BE ON IT!

But remember, there are other things out there besides HIV. Syphilis, for example, keeps rearing its ugly head in our community, and condoms are the best defense against STIs like gonorrhea and chlamydia. Nothing really helps prevent crabs, just saying.

What’s the Regimen?

Of course we all don’t want to take a million pills a day. If you’re like me, you hear HIV meds and you think alarm watches and AZT breaks. Being on that kind of schedule would not have been worth it for me. At 42, I’m already taking more pills than I ever wanted.

Luckily, this is just one pill a day. That’s it.

But in order to be fully effective, you must take the drug every day around the same time. You also must return to your healthcare provider every three months for a repeat HIV test, prescription refills, kidney and liver checks, and basic follow-up.

If you get on the program through ARC Ohio, like I did, they follow CDC guidelines, which means you have to adhere to the protocols in order to get your prescription. All you have do is go in every three months and get lab work done, meet with Rachel and Lisa and Tara to go over your progress and results, and take your pills every day.

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Side Effects?

Some reported effects are upset stomach and exhaustion. There is also concern with kidney and liver damage, but that’s what the lab work is for. I never got any upset stomach.

I will say that for whatever reason, I seem to get drunker faster. As for exhaustion, it’s hard to tell. I work long, crazy hours, which often makes me tired. So I can’t say if the meds have made that worse or not.

I’d say I’ve had no problems. And my last two lab reports have come back perfect.

Has PrEP Made Me a Complete Whore?

You all know I was a whore way before this. (I kid, mom, I kid!) But one of the arguments from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s executive director about not prescribing PrEP was the notion that it would be used as a party drug and everyone would be barebacking 24/7.

For some people I’m sure that’s true. But whether or not people stop using condoms when they get on PrEP is the last reason an AIDS service organization should oppose using it to stop the spread of the disease. I wondered if I would go all willy-nilly when I got on it, but, in fact, it made me more aware of my safety level.

Part of me realized that if I was putting this

much effort and money into my sexual health, I should do everything they recommend, including condoms.

Look at the Possibilities Another revelation I had after getting on PrEP was that my dating options completely opened up. I would like to say I have always been super-comfortable dating positive guys.

At times I couldn’t care less and was proud that I was educated enough that it wasn’t an issue.

At other times, it was one thing I just didn’t want to deal with. I worried that eventually we wouldn’t be safe, and I worried that if I did get it, even though I knew the risks, would I blame him? Completely unfair, for sure, but a real concern. And the older I got, the less likely I became to even entertain the idea of a mixed relationship.

Now, however, it’s like that whole struggle is gone, and the world is full of possibilities.

One of the great gay struggles, in my opinion, has been lifted. Poz or neg, I encourage everyone to finally let all the HIV stigma go.

One thing I did right away was put on my profiles that I was Neg and on PrEP. But I also realized something else. This medication for gay men is much like birth control in the hetero world. Now, I’m not comparing babies to a chronic disease (although some would say there kids are), but I am compar-

WORLD AIDS DAY

Events

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1

Akron: Highland Theatre, 826 W Market St, Akron, 44303; 6p-9p: The Northeast Ohio Regional Advisory Group will host an evening that features a showing of Positive Youth, a documentary exploring HIV from a young adult perspective. A section of the Names Project AIDS Quilt will be displayed.

Athens: Ohio University LGBT Center, 354 Baker University Center, Athens, 45701; 7p: Screening and outlookohio.com

ing the situation. There is a double standard between our communities that people need to consider.

Growing up, the worst thing that could happen to straight kids was to get pregnant unexpectedly. Progressive parents got their daughters on birth control to thwart such situations, knowing that in the hetero world dudes don’t wear condoms. Tell me one guy you know whose girlfriend is on the pill who wears a condom. Does anyone give either person shit for it? Nope.

With gay men, the worst thing that can come out of sex is HIV. Now with our “pill,” will we get the same pass to go condomless or will we be considered irresponsible and slutty? I think we should be celebrating those on PrEP for taking charge of their sexual health and helping to end the spread of the disease that is again growing rapidly in our community.

Costs It’s true that this isn’t cheap, but your costs depend on your insurance and income level.

I’m not paying any out-of-pocket for mine.

What my insurance isn’t covering, ARC got me on a plan that covers the rest. ARC wants to make sure that everyone who wants to get on PrEP can, and will work with you to make that happen.

How Do You Sign Up? It’s easy, just call ARC Ohio at 614.340.6777 in Columbus or 937.853.3650 in Dayton to

ber those who have died of AIDS. There’s also on-site testing from 5:30p-6:45p and from 8p-9p.

discussion of the 2005 movie, Rent.

Bowling Green: BGSU Math Science Building Room 201, Bowling Green, 43403; 7:30p-8:30p: A panel discussion will cover HIV/AIDS issues and how BGSU students can help end AIDS. Cincinnati: Trinity Episcopal Church, 326 Madison Ave, Covington, Ky., 41011; 7p: Getting to Zero: Focus, Partner, Achieve: An AIDS-Free Generation includes worship, music, speakers and a candlelight ceremony to remem-

Cincinnati: Tangeman University Center, University of Cincinnati, 45220; 10a-5p: Free HIV testing for UC students and staff.

Cleveland: State Theater, Playhouse Square, 1501 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 44115: A portion of ticket sales to the opening night of The Wizard of Oz will go to the AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland. Follow the link from aidstaskforce.org to buy your tickets.

7:30p.

Columbus: Columbus Public Health Auditorium, 240 Parsons Ave, Columbus, 43215; 6:30p-9p: Commemoration ceremony in-

schedule an appointment and say you want to come in for the PrEP Clinic. If you live in other cities, go to ohioprep.org to find out where you can go for PrEP. Now don’t make the same mistake and think that the clinic is an open forum to learn about PrEP. It’s actually sitting down with a counselor and doctor to get you on PrEP. During that first appointment, they go through your sexual history, sexual practices, medical history, take blood for lab work and do STD screenings.

You won’t walk out with Truvada that day.

You have to wait until your labs come back to make sure you can be on it. That takes a couple of weeks at most. If you have questions about PrEP before you sign up, talk to Lisa.

She can answer any of your questions.

Interested in PrEP?

Visit ohioprep.org to learn more about PrEP, the HIV-prevention regimen, and to get contact information for PrEP-prescribing medical providers in Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Findlay, Lancaster, Portsmouth, Toledo and Youngstown.

Chris Hayes is the publisher of Outlook.

You can reach him at chris@outlookmedia.com.

cludes reading of the names and guest speakers.

Dayton: Harmony Creek Church, 5280 Bigger Rd, Dayton, 45440; 6:30p-8:30p: Showing of How to Survive a Plague, a documentary about how the LGBT community and its allies rallied to force a once-indifferent US government to act against HIV/AIDS. Oxford: Miami University McGuffey Hall Room 322, Spring Street and Campus Avenue, Oxford, 45056; 7p-8:30p: A panel discussion about AIDS in the world today.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2

Youngstown, 44555; 10a-3p: World AIDS Day Organization Fair, featuring groups that raise awareness of HIV and safer sex.

HIV testing also will be available.

There’s a candlelight vigil from 4p-5p at Campus Rock and a safe-sex discussion from 5p-7p at the Kilcawley Center Jones Room.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3

Columbus: Columbus State Community College Center for Workforce Development Room 404, 315 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, 43215; 7p-9p: Bridging the Generational Gap, a discussion of how we can truly achieve and AIDSfree generation.

Youngstown: YSU Kilcawley Center, 1 University Plaza,

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complete the circuit

The End of AIDS?

We’re Getting Closer, but Prevention and Testing Remain the Key

by Mickey Weems Happy World AIDS Day. And we do mean happy.

So much good news about HIV/AIDS research is out there nowadays. A recent study by Kaiser Permanente indicates that proper use of Truvada as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) virtually eliminates the chance of becoming HIV-positive. In addition, there is a oncea-month injection in the works among several other promising treatments.

“HIV medical care is so advanced [that] we know that if an HIVpositive person is diagnosed early, placed into anti-retroviral drug treatment and stays adherent to their drug regimen, they are 96 percent less likely to transmit the virus,” said Joel Diaz of AIDS Resource Center Ohio. “HIV is no longer the death sentence it once was.”

Just as our treatments evolve, so does the virus.

I spoke with Diaz further about what’s happening and what we need to do about it.

Mickey Weems: We already discussed the good news. What’s the bad news?

Joel Diaz: The bad news is that 40 percent of new HIV infections are occurring in youth ages 13 to 24. It’s as if we are seeing a second wave of the HIV epidemic in young men who have sex with men. A lack of information, resources and stigma continue to prevent those at most risk [of contracting HIV] from getting tested and into care.

40% MW: What has your organization done about the of new HIV problem?

JD: ARC Ohio infections are has created a patient-cenoccurring in youth tered medical home model for ages 13 to 24 those living

As good as this news might be, though, the end of AIDS is not yet in sight.

The figures concerning zero percent of PrEP participants getting HIV from the Kaiser Permanente study are based on people who scrupulously took the medication once a day. Not everyone will do so; people forget or might be guilted into believing that going on PrEP is a sign of promiscuity. There might be medical reasons why some people can’t take the drug, and there certainly are financial reasons.

There’s also the chance that a Truvadaresistant strain of HIV might show up. outlookohio.com

with HIV through our medical centers and pharmacies in Columbus and Dayton.

We have created a comprehensive care facility that is demonstrating incredible results. Ninety-one percent of ARC Ohio patients have been prescribed antiretroviral medications, compared to 37 percent nationally, and 80 percent of ARC Ohio patients are virally suppressed, more than twice the national average of 30 percent.

MW: With all the advances, people might think that AIDS is no longer an issue.

JD: This is not true. HIV remains the sin-

gle largest health disparity affecting LGBT Americans. We need to refocus our energy to ensuring that conversations around HIV are happening and what that means for the health and wellbeing of our community as a whole. One in seven people who are HIV-positive are unaware that they have it, so HIV testing remains critical. ... We have a large population of HIV-positive people who are diagnosed but not in care.

MW: What about PrEP? JD: Pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP is a groundbreaking HIV-prevention method that is used to help HIV-negative individuals reduce their risk of becoming infected with the virus by taking a once-daily pill. When used with other prevention methods (such as condoms) and when taken daily as prescribed, PrEP has been shown to be 92 [percent] to 100 percent effective in preventing HIV infection.

Multiple scientific studies have clearly shown that PrEP works. When used in conjunction with other safer sex practices, PrEP can and will prevent nearly all new HIV infections. Its use has gained support from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and AIDS United, which includes the nation’s leading HIV service organizations.

MW: What can we do to help?

JD: Get up to speed on PrEP and help spread the word. Encourage your friends to get tested and to learn more about PrEP. Consider making a gift to your local AIDS service organization.

Mickey Weems is a writer, educator and creator of The Qualia Encyclopedia of Gay Folklife. You can follow him at mickeyweems.com or qualiafolk.com, or email him at mickeyweems@yahoo.com.

Be sure to visit Page 24 for a list of free testing sites.

HIV/AIDS

Resources AIDS Resource Center Ohio

(Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Akron, Athens, Jackson, Lima, Mansfield and Newark) arcohio.org

AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland (Cleveland) aidstaskforce.org

Caracole Inc. (Cincinnati) caracole.org

The federal government maintains a website, AIDS.gov, where you can enter your zip code into a service locator that pinpoints the closest testing sites, health centers, service agencies and other HIV/AIDS resources. See Page 24 or visit outlookohio.com for a list of free HIV testing sites in Ohio. december 2015

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Free

HIV Testing

by Outlook Ohio

From gay bars and LGBT centers to college campuses and local health departments, there are dozens of places across Ohio where an HIV test costs just a few minutes of your time.

We found exactly 100 in the state that offer free, regular HIV testing, often the rapid kind that takes just about 20 minutes.

A few things to keep in mind: • Anonymous testing means you don’t have to give your name or other personal info. You’ll get a number or other alternative identifier to track your test.

• Confidential testing requires your name and other personal info and doesn’t sound very confidential. The federal website, aids.gov, says your test results can be shared with your healthcare providers and insurance company, as well as your local and state health departments for statistical purposes. Other than that, results are protected by state and federal privacy laws.

• Many university health centers offer free testing.

Check with yours.

• For more sites, visit cdc.gov/hiv, the website for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where you can enter your zip code and find places that test for HIV and other STIs.

CANAPI: 895 N Main St, Akron, 44310; 330.252.1559; canapi.org: Mondays-Thursdays by appointment, 9:30a-4:30p.

First Grace United Church of Christ: 350 S Portage Path, Akron, 44320; 330.829.3355; by appointment.

Interbelt: 70 N Howard St, Akron, 44310; 330.253.5700; interbelt.com: Thursdays, walk-in, 9:30p-11p.

Summit County Public Health: 1867 W Market St, Akron, 44313; 330.375.2772; scphoh.org: by appointment. (STI testing also is available but might include a fee.)

University of Akron: Student Recreation and Wellness Center, Suite 260, 382 Carroll St, Akron, 44325; 330.972.7390; uakron.edu/healthservices: by appointment.

BUCYRUS

Crawford County General Health District: 1520 Isaac Beal Rd, Bucyrus, 44820; 419.562.5871; crawfordhealth.com: first and third Tuesdays of every month, by appointment, 4p-6p.

CANTON

Alliance City Health Department: 537 E Market St, Alliance, 44601; 330.821.7373; cityofalliance.com: Thursdays, walk-in, 9a-11a (other times available by appointment).

Canton City Health Department: 420 Market Ave, Canton, 44702; 330.489.3322; cantonhealth.org: Tuesdays and Fridays, walk-in, 7:30a10:30a.

CARROLLTON

ATHENS

Carroll County Health Department: 301 Moody Ave SW, Carrollton, 44615; 330.627.4866; carrolllhd.org: call for details.

BATAVIA

Cincinnati Health Department: Ambrose H. Clement Health Center, 3101 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, 45229; 513.357.7300; cincinnati-oh.gov/health: call for details.

Ohio University Campus Care: 2 Health Center Dr, Athens, 45701; 740.593.1660; oucom.ohiou.edu/campuscare: by appointment.

Clermont County Public Health: 2275 Bauer Rd, Suite 300, Batavia, 45103; 513. 735.8400; clermonthealthdistrict.org: first Tuesday of each month, by appointment.

BELLEFONTAINE

Logan County Health District: 310 S Main St, Bellefontaine, 43311; 937.592.9040; loganhealth.org: third Monday of each month, by appointment, 1p-3p.

BOWLING GREEN

BGSU Perry Field House: 801 N Mercer Rd, Bowling Green, 43403; 419.383.6843; uthealth.utoledo.edu/ryanAKRON whiteprogram: first WednesAdams Street Bar: 77 N day of every month, walk-in, Adams St, Akron, 44305; 9a-noon; third Wednesday 330.434.9794; of every month, walk-in, adamsstreetbar.com: Thurs- 11a-2p. days, walk-in, 5:30p-7p.

BGSU Student Recreation ARC Ohio: 1815 W Market Center: Room 214, 1411 St., Suite 204, Akron, 44313; Ridge Rd, Bowling Green, 330.794.5289; arcohio.org: 43403; 419.372.9355; wellMondays, walk-in, 9a-1p.

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CINCINNATI

Cincinnati Health Department: Elm Street Health Center, 1525 Elm St, Cincinnati, 45202; 513357-7350; cincinnatioh.gov/health: call for details.

Cincinnati Health Department: Millvale at Hopple Street Health Center, 2750 Beekman St, Cincinnati, 45225; 513.352.3192; cincinnati-oh.gov/health: call for details.

Cincinnati Health Department: Northside Health Center, 3917 Spring Grove Ave, Cincinnati, 45223; 513.357.7350; cincinnati-oh.gov/health: call for details.

IV-CHARIS: 821 Bank St, Cincinnati, 45214; 513.542.9730; 4charis.org: by appointment.

Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio: 4138 Hamilton Ave, Cincinnati, 45223; 513.679.4453; ppswohiv.org: Wednesdays, walk-in, 5p-8p. (Visit the website for locations of mobile testing sites.)

Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland: 12201 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 44106; 216.721.4010; thefreeclinic.org: MondaysThursdays, walk-in, 1p-7p.

LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland: 6600 University of Cincinnati Detroit Ave, Cleveland, Medical Center: Medical 44102; Sciences Building Room 216.651.5428; lgbtcleve1513, 231 Albert Sabin Way, land.org: first and third Cincinnati, 45267; Mondays, walk-in, 5p513.584.0720; 7:30p; second and fourth med.uc.edu/emergenMondays, walk-in, 4pcymedicine/divisions/pub7:30p; Tuesdays and lichealth: daily, walk-in or by Wednesdays, walk-in, 4pappointment, call first to 7:30p; Thursdays, walk-in, ensure availability.

3:30p-5:30p.

CLEVELAND

AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland: 3210 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 44115; 216.621.0766; aidstaskforce.org: Wednesdays, by appointment, 9a-4p.

Cleveland AIDS Clinical Trials Unit: Case Western Reserve University Foley Medical Building, 2061 Cornell Rd, Cleveland, 44106; 216.844.7892; clevelandhiv.org: MondaysThursdays, walk-in, 8a-4p (Thursdays until 7p).

Cleveland Public Health J. Glen Smith Health Center: 11100 St. Clair Ave, Cleveland, 44108; 216.249.4100; clevelandhealth.org: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, walk-in, 8a-4:30p; Tuesdays, walkin, noon-8p.

Cleveland Public Health McCafferty Health Center: 4242 Lorain Ave, Cleveland, 44113; 216.651.5005; clevelandhealth.org: Mondays, walk-in, 12:30p-5p; Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, walk-in, 8a-4:30p; Thursdays, walk-in, noon8p.

Cleveland Treatment Center-Project SAFE: 6001 Woodland Ave, Suite 2121, Cleveland, 44104; 216.991.7233; clevelandtreatmentcenter.org: call for details.

FlexSpas-Cleveland: 2600 Hamilton Ave, Cleveland, 44114; 216.812.3304; flexspas.com/cleveland: Mondays-Thursdays, walkin, 4p-8p.

COLUMBUS

AHF Wellness Center: Out of the Closet, 1230 N High St, 43201; 614.291.2680; freestdcheck.org: MondaysSaturdays, walk-in, 10a-7p; Sundays, walk-in, 10a-6p.

(Free walk-in STI testing is available Mondays-Thursdays, 3p-7p.)

1739 N High St, Columbus, 43210; 614.688.8449; mcc.osu.edu: Tuesdays, walk-in, 5p-9p.

alwayschoosehealth.com: Wednesdays-Fridays, by appointment.

Stonewall Columbus: 1160 N High St, Columbus, 43201; 614.299.7764; stonewallcolumbus.org: Mondays, walk-in, 1p-6p.

(Free walk-in testing for syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea also available.)

Brown County Health Department: 826 Mt Orab Pike, Georgetown, 45121; 866.867.6892 or 937.378.6892; browncountyhealth.org: by appointment.

DAYTON

ARC Ohio: 15 W 4th St, Suite 200, Dayton, 45402, 937.461.2437; arcohio.org: Mondays, walk-in, noon5:30p; Tuesdays, walk-in, 10a-5:30p; or by appointment Mondays-Fridays.

ARC Ohio Medical Center: 1222 S Patterson Blvd, Dayton, 45402; 937.853.3650; arcohio.org: Thursdays, walk-in, 9a-4:30p.

Public Health-Dayton and Montgomery County: Reibold Building, 117 S Main St, Dayton, 45402; 937.225.4550; phdmc.org: Mondays-Fridays, by appointment, 8a-4:30p.

ARC Ohio: 4400 N High St, Columbus, 43203; 614.340.6731; arcohio.org: Tuesdays, walk-in, 9a-8p (free walk-in syphilis testing DEFIANCE available 4p-8p); WednesDefiance County Health days, walk-in, 9a-5p.

Department: 1300 E 2nd St, ARC Ohio Medical Center: Suite 100, Defiance, 43512; 1033 N High St, Columbus, 419.784.3818; defianceco43201; 614.340.6731; arco- health.org: Wednesdays, hio.org: Fridays, walk-in, 9a- walk-in, 10:45a-noon.

5p.

DELAWARE

Columbus Public Health: 240 Parsons Ave, Columbus, 43215; 614.645.6732; columbus.gov/publichealth: Mondays and Thursdays, walk-in, 5p-8p; Wednesdays, walk-in, 1p-5p. (Free walk-in testing for syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea also available.)

Greater Columbus Mpowerment Center: 1780 E Broad St, Columbus, 43203; 614.359.9826; columbusmpowerment.org: Mondays, walk-in, 9a-8p; Thursdays, walk-in, 9a-5p.

(Free walk-in syphilis testing available 1p-4p.)

Kaleidoscope Youth Center: 1904 N High St, Columbus, 43201; 614.294.5437; kycohio.org: first Friday of every month, walk-in, 4p-8p.

OSU Multicultural Center: Ohio Union Suite 1000,

Know your status. Get tested.

Delaware County Health Department: 3 W Winter St, Delaware, 43015; 740.368.1700; delawarehealth.org: third Tuesdays, walk-in, 2p-4p; last Tuesdays, walk-in, 2p-6p; Thursdays, walk-in, 7:30a-9a.

ELYRIA

Family Planning Services of Lorain County: 602 Leona St, Elyria, 44035; 440.322.7526; familyplanningservices.org: by appointment.

GEORGETOWN

Route 45, Lisbon, 44432; 330.424.0272; columbianahealth.org: by appointment.

LOGAN

HAMILTON

Hocking County Health Department: 350 State Route 664N, Logan, 43138; 740.385.3030; hockingcountyhealthdepartment. com: by appointment. (Free testing also available by appointment for Hepatitis C, chlamydia and gonorrhea.)

HILLSBORO

Madison County Health Department: 306 Lafayette St, Suite B, London, 43140; 937.642.2053; uchd.net: second and fourth Wednesday of every month, by appointment,

KENT

Family Planning Services of Lorain County: 1144 W Erie Ave, Lorain, 44052; 440.322.7526; familyplanningservices.org: by appointment.

Butler County Health Department: 301 S 3rd St, Hamilton, 45011; 513.863.1770; butlercountyohio.org: check website for monthly walk-in testing days.

Highland County Health Department: 1487 N High St, Suite 400, Hillsboro, 45133; 937.393.1941; highlandcountyhealth.org: by appointment.

Kent State University Health Services: 1500 Eastway Dr, Kent, 44242; 330.672.2320; kent.edu/UHS: by appointment.

KENTON

Kenton-Hardin Health Department: 175 W Franklin St, Courthouse Annex, Suite 120, Kenton, 43326; 419.673.6230; kentonhardinhealth.com: by appointment.

LEBANON

Warren County Combined Health District: 416 S East St, Lebanon, 45036; 513.695.1263; wcchd.com: Thursdays, by appointment, 8a-11a. (Free STI testing also available.)

LIMA

Allen County Public Health: 219 E Market St, Lima, 45801; 419.228.4457; allencountypublichealth.org: by appointment. (Free testing also offered to residents of Auglaize, Hancock, FINDLAY Findlay Health Department: Hardin, Logan, Mercer, Putnam, Seneca and Union 1644 Tiffin Ave, Suite A, counties.)

Findlay, 45840; 419.424.7105; AIDS Resource Center findlayohio.com: by Ohio: 658 W Market St, appointment.

Suite 200, Lima, 45801; 419.222.0827; arcohio.org: FREMONT by appointment.

Sandusky County Health Department: 2000 CountryLISBON side Dr, Fremont, 43420; Columbiana County Health 419.334.6355; Department: 7360 State

LONDON

LORAIN

Lorain County AIDS Task Force: 1800 Livingston Ave, Building A, Suite 301, Lorain, 44052; 440.233.1089; lcaidstaskforce.org: call for details.

MANSFIELD

ARC Ohio: 410 Park Ave W, Suite 1, Mansfield, 44906; 419.525.2437; arcohio.org: by appointment.

Richland Public Health: 555 Lexington Ave, Mansfield, 44907; 419.774.4500; richlandhealth.org: by appointment.

MARION

Marion Public Health: 181 S Main St, Marion, 43302; 740.692.9124; marionpublichealth.org: by appointment.

MARIETTA

Marietta City Health Department: 304 Putnam St, Marietta, 45750; 740.373.0611, x2312; mariettaoh.net: by appointment.

Washington County Health Department: 342 Muskingum Dr, Marietta, 45750; 740.374.2782; washingtongov.org: first Thursday of every month, by appointment, 8a-4:30p.

MARYSVILLE

Union County Health Department: 940 London Ave, Ste 1100, Marysville,

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43040; 937.642.2053; uchd.net: Tuesdays, by appointment, 8a-4p.

MEDINA

Medina County Health Department: 4800 Ledgewood Dr, Medina, 44256; 330.723.9688, option 1; medinahealth.org: by appointment.

Clark State Community College: Health Clinic, Rhodes Hall, 570 E Leffel Lane, Springfield, 45506; 937.390.5600; ccchd.com: first and second Mondays of each month from October to May, walk-in, noon-3p.

Wittenberg University: Health Clinic, Shouvlin Center Room 003 (baseNAPOLEON ment), 200 W Ward St, Henry County Health Springfield, 45501; Department: 1843 Oak937.327.7811; ccchd.com: wood Ave, Napoleon, first and second Tuesdays 43545; 419.599.5545; hen- of each month from October rycohd.org: by appointment. to May, walk-in, noon-2p.

NEW LEXINGTON

Perry County Health Department: 212 S Main St, New Lexington, 43764; 740.342.5179; perrycountyhealth.info: by appointment.

NEWARK

Licking County Health Department: 675 Price Rd, Newark, 43055; 740.349.6535; lickingcohealth.org: Tuesdays, by appointment, 3p-6:15p.

NORWALK

Huron County Public Health: 180 Milan Ave, Suite 8, Norwalk, 44857; 419.668.1652, x241; huroncohealth.com: by appointment.

TROY

Miami County Public Health: 510 W Water St, Suite 130, Troy, 45373; 937.573.3520; miamicountyhealth.net: by appointment.

URBANA

TIFFIN

Seneca County Health Department: 71 S Washington St, Suite 1102, Tiffin, 44883; 419.447.3691; senecahealthdept.org: by appointment.

TOLEDO

ARC Ohio: 3450 W Central Ave, Suite 200, Toledo, 43606; 419.241.9444; arcohio.org: Thursdays, walk-in, 11a-6:30p (and by appointment Mondays-Fridays).

CommunityCare Free Medical Clinic/HIV Clinic: 2150 S Byrne Rd, Toledo, 43614; 419.482.8127; utcommunitycare.org: select Thursdays (see website or call for dates), walk-in, PARMA Cuyahoga County Board of 5:30p-10:30p.

Health Family Planning Lucas County Department Clinic: 5550 Venture Dr, of Job and Family Parma, 44130; Services: 3210 Monroe St, 216.201.2001; ccbh.net: Tuesdays, walk-in or by ap- Toledo, 43606; 419.383.6843; pointment, 12:30p-5:30p; Wednesdays, walk-in or by uthealth.utoledo.edu/ryanwhiteprogram: Tuesdays appointment, 1p-6p. and Thursdays, walk-in, ST. CLAIRSVILLE 1p-3:30p.

Belmont County Health Department: 68501 BanToledo-Lucas County nock Rd, St. Clairsville, Health Department Sexual 43950; 740.695.1202; Health Clinic: 635 N Erie St, belmontcountyhealth.org: Toledo, 43604; by appointment.

419.213.4176 or 419.213.4159; lucascounSIDNEY tyhealth.com: Mondays-FriSidney-Shelby County days, walk-in; 8a-noon and Health Department: 202 W 1p-4p.

Poplar St, Sidney, 45365; 937.390.5600; shelbycounUniversity of Toledo Main tyhealthdept.org: third and Campus Medical Center: fourth Wednesdays of each 1735 W Rocket Dr, Toledo, month, walk-in, 1p-4p.

43606; 419.530.3451; utoledo.edu/healthserSPRINGFIELD vices/student: by appointClark County Combined ment. (You don’t need to be Health District: 529 East a registered student to use Home Rd, Springfield, this service.)

45503; 937.390.5600; ccchd.com: Mondays, walkin, 5p-7p. outlookohio.com

University of Toledo Medical Center: Ruppert Health Center, 3000 Arlington Ave, Toledo, 43614; 419.383.4368 or 419.383.6057; uthealth.utoledo.edu/clinics/familymed/ruppert: first Monday of every month, walk-in, 6p-8p.

937.544.3035; call for details.

WILBERFORCE

Central State University Student Health Center: 1400 Brush Row Rd, Wilberforce, 45384; 937.376.6076; centralstate.edu: by appointment.

WILMINGTON

Clinton County Health Department: 111 S Nelson St, Suite 1, Wilmington, 45117; 937.775.2552; co.clinton.oh.us/healthservices: by appointment.

WOOSTER

Champaign Health District: Champaign Health District, 1512 S US 68, Suite Q100, Urbana, 43078; 937.484.1671; champaignhd.com: third Tuesday of each month, call for times.

College of Wooster: Longbrake Student Wellness Center, 570 E Wayne Ave, Wooster, 44691; 330.263.2319; wooster.edu/students/ health: Wednesdays, walkin, 1:30p-2:30p.

Urbana University: Student Center, 579 College Way, Urbana, 43078; 937.484.1671; champaignhd.com: walkin, second Wednesday of each month from September to May, call for times.

Greene County Combined Health District: 360 Wilson Dr, Xenia, 45385; 937.374.5600; gcph.info: first and third Thursday of each month, walk-in, 1p-3p (or by appointment).

VAN WERT

Van Wert County Health Department: 1179 Westwood Dr, Suite 300, Van Wert, 45891; 419.238.0808, x101; vanwertcountyhealth.org: Mondays, walk-in, 12:30p3:30p.

WAPAKONETA

Auglaize County Health Department: 214 S Wagner St, Wapakoneta, 45895; 419.228.4457; auglaizehealth.org: by appointment.

WARREN

City of Warren Public Health Clinic: 258 E Market St, Warren, 44481; 330.841.2596; warren.org/city_departments/health: call for details.

WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE

Fayette County Health District: 317 S Fayette St, Washington CH, 43160; 740.335.5910; faycohd.org: Tuesdays, by appointment, 8a-5p.

WEST UNION

Adams County Health Department: 923 Sunrise Ave, West Union, 45693;

XENIA

TCN Behavioral Health Services: 452 W Market St, Xenia, 45385; 937.376.8700; tcn-bhs.org: by appointment.

YOUNGSTOWN

Comprehensive Care Center: Oak Hill Renaissance Place, 345 Oak Hill Ave, Entrance F, Youngstown, 44502; help4aids.org: MondaysFridays, walk-in, 9a-3p.

Youngstown City Health District: Oak Hill Renaissance Place, 345 Oak Hill Ave, Entrance B, Youngstown, 44502; 330.743.3333, x251; ychd.com: Tuesdays and Fridays, walk-in, noon-4p (you must sign in by 2p).

ZANESVILLE

Zanesville-Muskingum County Health Department: 205 N 7th St, Zanesville, 43701; 740.454.9741, x247; zmchd.org: by appointment.

Sources: Ohio HIV/STD Hotline (preventhivstdohio.net) and federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov/hiv).

Please email Bob at bvitale@outlookmedia.com if your testing site is not on the list.

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TASTEFUL TRADITIONS Columbus’ Gay Bakers Share Their Favorite Holiday Recipes

Aren’t we all looking for something new to add to our holiday tables?

We asked the owners of three Columbus bakeries - all gayowned, all full of delicious treats - to share their own favorite family recipes with us.

And we’re sharing them with you.

Thank you to Mollie and Kelly Fankhauser of Kittie’s Cakes, Jonas Laughlin of Laughlin’s Bakery, and Wendy Miller-Pugh and Letha Pugh of Bake Me Happy.

Grandma’s Cookies

Mollie Fankhauser, Kelly Fankhauser • Kittie’s Cakes 2¼ cups sifted flour ½ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon baking soda 8 ounces butter ½ cup sugar ½ cup packed brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla

Cream the butter and sugars until they are light and fluffy.

Add the egg and mix until completely incorporated. Add the vanilla and mix.

Heat your oven to 350 degrees.

Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda. Set aside.

Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes, depending on how chewy or crunchy you like your cookies.

Kittie’s Cakes (kittiescakes.com) is open Wednesdays-Saturdays, Gradually add the dry ingredi8a-6p, and Sundays from 8aents to the butter mixture.

2:30p. They’re at 495 S 3rd St, in Columbus’ German Village Scoop out using an ice cream neighborhood. They make cupscooper, keeping the cookies uni- cakes, scones, whoopie pies, form in size. cakes and more.

Orange Meltaways

Jonas Laughlin • Laughlin’s Bakery “These Orange Meltaways are proof that a few ingredients that you likely already have on hand can yield something spectacular,” Jonas told us. “Perfumed with orange and vanilla, these little gems literally melt in your mouth thanks to the cornstarch and confectioners’ sugar in the dough. Just be sure to use a good quality butter and real vanilla extract for a cookie with deep, round flavors.”

the paddle attachment), cream together the butter and confectioners sugar until light and fluffy.

Stir in the flour/cornstarch mixture by hand with a rubber spatula. Stir in the orange zest and vanilla extract by hand.

Chill the dough, covered, for an hour, or until firm enough to shape. Then roll the chilled dough into a 10-inch log on a doubled sheet of wax or parch1 cup all-purpose flour ment paper and freeze for two ½ cup cornstarch 12 tablespoons butter, softened hours. ½ cup confectioners sugar Line two baking sheets with 4 teaspoons orange zest, parchment paper and preheat finely grated (you can the oven to 375 degrees. substitute lemon, lime or grapefruit zest, too) 1 teaspoon vanilla Slice the frozen dough into quarter-inch slices with a sharp knife, placing them 2 inches ½ cup confectioners sugar apart on the prepared sheets. for dredging Rotate the log a quarter-turn Sift the flour and cornstarch to- after each cut to preserve the round shape. gether into a medium bowl.

In a large bowl with a hand mixer (or stand mixer fitted with outlookohio.com

Bake for 10 minutes, rotating sheets front to back and top to

bottom at the halfway point.

When properly baked, the cookies’ edges should just be golden.

Allow cookies to cool until only slightly warm. Place the dredging confectioners’ sugar into a bowl or small bag and thickly but gently coat each cookie.

Place on cooling rack to completely cool.

(This dough freezes very well, so I often double the recipe to have some ready for last-minute desserts or gifts. Just overwrap the logs in plastic film, and they should keep in the freezer for at least three months.)

Laughlin’s Bakery (laughlinsbakery.com) is open TuesdaysFridays, 7a-5p; Saturdays, 8a-5p; and Sundays, 9a-4p.

They’re at 15 E 2nd Ave, just east of High Street in Columbus’ Short North/Italian Village neighborhood. They make cakes, pastries, bread, tea breads, scones, muffins and more.

Pumpkin Cheesecake

Wendy Miller-Pugh, Letha Pugh • Bake Me Happy “Here is one of our personal holiday favorites, Pumpkin Cheesecake,” Wendy writes. It’s adapted into a gluten-free version from epicurious.com.

Crust 12 ounces crushed gluten-free gingersnaps 6 tablespoons melted butter Filling 4 8-ounce packages cream cheese, room temperature 1½ cups sugar 3 large eggs 1 15-ounce can pure pumpkin ½ cup whipping cream 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground ginger ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg ½ teaspoon ground allspice ¼ teaspoon ground cloves For crust: Position rack in center of oven

and preheat to 350 degrees.

Wrap double layer of heavy-duty foil around outside of 10-inch springform pan.

Place springform pan in large roasting pan. Add enough water to come halfway up sides of springform pan.

Whiz gingersnaps into crumbs in the food processor. Drizzle in the melted butter and pulse until crumbs begin to stick together.

Bake the cheesecake until slightly puffed and softly set and top is golden, about 1½ hours.

Transfer springform pan to a rack and cool. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

Press crumbs onto bottom (not sides) of the springform pan.

Bake until crust is slightly golden, about 10 minutes.

Transfer to rack and cool while preparing filling. Maintain oven temperature.

For filling: Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and sugar in large bowl until smooth and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add pumpkin and remaining seven ingredients. Beat just until blended.

Pour filling onto prepared crust.

Mollie says her cookies pair nicely “with a side of snuggles and a fireplace.”

Using knife, cut around sides of the pan to loosen cake. Release pan sides. Cut cheesecake into wedges and serve.

Bake Me Happy (bakemehappygf.com) is open Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8a-1p; Fridays, 8a-3p; and Saturdays, 9a-3p.

They’re at 116 E Moler St, south of Downtown in Columbus’ Merion Village neighborhood.

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Sounds of the Season

by Gregg Shapiro

Holiday Music Brings Back Christmas Past & Presents

The latest version of James Taylor at Christmas, first released in 2006, expands on the original with the addition of two tracks.

fort to remain relevant through the 1980s.

But as you can hear, the 1980s, represented on The Classic Christmas ’80s Album, were something else entirely.

naked Ladies on “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings,” and the originals “Find Your Voice” and “Space on the Couch for Two.”

The first is Taylor’s radiant take on The Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun,” which features Yo-Yo Ma on cello. The combination of these two talented artists is indeed a gift. “Mon Beau Sapin,” essentially the French version of the traditional “O Tannenbaum”/“O Christmas Tree,” is a lovely addition to the collection.

New wave, hip-hop, ska, boy bands and divas were the order of the day. New wave acts such as The Waitresses (the ’80s classic “Christmas Wrapping,” later covered by Spice Girls), The Bangles (Simon & Garfunkel’s “Hazy Shade of Winter”), The Hooters (“Silent Night”) and gay music legend George Michael’s launching pad Wham! (“Last Christmas”) stand under the new wave banner.

A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas! is a very accurate title for the new holiday recording by the Count Basie Orchestra, under the direction of Scotty Barnhart. Swing it does!

The album, which also features songs that previously appeared on Taylor’s 2004 A Christmas Album, pleasantly strikes a balance between seasonally serious songs such as “Some Children See Him,” “Who Comes This Night” and “In the Bleak Midwinter” and lighter holiday fare including “Winter Wonderland,” “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” “Jingle Bells” and the Natalie Cole duet on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”

Taylor also does a reverent version of his dear old friend Joni Mitchell’s tune, “River.”

Rod Stewart doesn’t mess around on the expanded deluxe edition CD reissue of his 2013 album, Merry Christmas, Baby.

Sung in the crooner style he has adopted on most of his 21st century releases, Stewart teams up with some interesting duet partners.

Modern-day crooning dude Michael Bublé holds his own with Stewart on “Winter Wonderland.” Cee Lo Green inspires Stewart to dig deep and unleash his most soulful self on the title cut, while Mary J. Blige brings out Stewart’s more serious side on “We Three Kings.”

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For sheer ’80s hose-head novelty, there’s Bob & Doug McKenzie’s rendition of “Twelve Days of Christmas.”

Sarah McLachlan released her debut album at the tail end of the 1980s and then went on the become one of the female singer/songwriters most closely associated with the 1990s, due in part to her series of Lilith Fair music festivals.

A bonus DVD features six intimate live performances, including “Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!”

MacLachlan’s The Classic Christmas Album includes all 12 tracks from her 2006 Wintersong disc and adds five more songs to the mix. Merry and memorable selections from the recording include her original title tune, covers of songs by fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell (“River”) and Gordon Lightfoot (“Song for a Winter’s Night,” which also appeared on the 1994 Miracle on 34th Street soundtrack), “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” on which she is joined by the Sarah McLachlan Music Outreach Children’s Choir and Youth Choir) and “Christmas Time Is Here,” featuring Diana Krall.

Taylor and Stewart were at their creative peaks during the 1970s and made an ef-

Holiday highlights of the additional material include her medley/duet with Bare-

Stewart even tries his hand at an original yuletide tune with “Red-Suited Superman,” co-written with David Foster and Foster’s daughter, Amy. “When You Wish Upon a Star,” the least holiday-oriented selection, is a pleasant surprise. Of the three bonus tracks, “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” glows the brightest.

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The late Whitney Houston (“Do You Hear What I Hear?”) and ’70s-survivors-turned’80s-superstars The Pointer Sisters (“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”) have diva territory covered. Hip-hop forefathers Run-DMC (“Christmas in Hollis”) fly the rap flag, while the usually high-energy ska act Fishbone (“Slick Nick, You Devil You”) gets serious.

Released to coincide with the orchestra’s 80th (!) anniversary, A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas! is the first Christmas recording in its history. Gay pop music legend Johnny Mathis, a man with his own lengthy history of Christmas music, can be heard lending his vocals to Kay Thompson’s “It’s the Holiday Season.”

Fittingly retitled, “Good ‘Swing’ Wenceslas” lives up to its name. Carmen Bradford, who has sung with the orchestra for more than 30 years, takes the lead on “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” while 21st century soul goddess Ledisi belts it out on “The Christmas Song.”

“Jingle Bells” jingles and “Winter Wonderland” is wonderful. The encore selection, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” wraps things up with Ellis Marsalis on piano and Plas Johnson on sax.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis presents the live album, Big Band Holidays, featuring vocal soloists including Cécile McLorin Salvant, Gregory Porter and René Marie.

One of the strongest recommendations for this holiday recording is the interesting selection of seasonal tunes, including “A Cradle in Bethlehem,” “It’s Easy to Blame the Weather” and “’Zat You, Santa Claus?,” as well as “Good Morning Blues.”

Living up to the jazz in its name, a number of the songs clock in over the five-minute mark, and the improvisational rendition of “We Three Kings” is pure jazz.

Gregg Shapiro also wrote a review of winter books for gift-giving or your own reading list, which appears on Page 40.

We’re a little disappointed that “Hot Legs” isn’t on Rod Stewart’s Christmas album.

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside BUT HERE’S EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO WARM UP ON THE INSIDE

by Mikey Rox

Make a tinseled toast to the holidays with these boozy books, mixers, recipes, accessories and more.

SHOTTASoCo & Egg Nog 1 ounce Southern Comfort 3 ounces egg nog

Combine chilled ingredients and pour into a glass. Dust with nutmeg.

The Barking Irons Lower Manhattan

2 ounces Barking Irons Applejack ½ ounce sweet vermouth 2 dashes of bitters

Came From Church 2 ounces SIA Scotch Whiskey ½ ounce Cointreau Orange Liqueur ½ ounce simple syrup 1 ounce lemon juice Sugar for garnish

Fill cocktail shaker with ice. Add ingredients and stir. Garnish rim of glass with sugar and strain cocktail into glass.

Botran Holi-daze

1½ ounces Botran Reserva Rum ¾ ounce rosemary syrup ¾ ounce lemon juice 2 dashes Angostura bitters Shake all ingredients together and strain over ice into a rocks glass. Top with Botran Reserva “floater” and garnish with lemon wheel and sprig of rosemary. For even more holiday feel, add pinecone or cinnamon garnish.

Blueberry Gin Fizz 2 ounces Apiary Gin Pear soda Fresh blueberries

Muddle blueberries with gin in a cocktail shaker. Add ice, shake vigorously and strain into a glass over ice. Top with pear soda, stir and garnish with more blueberries. outlookohio.com

Apothecary Cocktails: Restorative Drinks From Yesterday and Today

The doctor is in with this comprehensive recipe guide to 75 medicinally themed cocktails sourced from turn-of-the-century pharmacies and contemporary urban bars like Apothke in New York and Apo Bar & Lounge in Philadelphia. Written by “Cocktail Whisperer” Warren Bobrow. $17.95, quartoknows.com

Pink Glacier

2 ounces LEAF Vodka 1 ounce lime juice ¾ ounce simple syrup ¾ ounce pink grapefruit juice ½ ounce cranberry juice 1 lime wedge for garnish In a cocktail shaker, combine grapefruit juice, lime juice, simple syrup, vodka and ice.

Shake and strain into a martini glass. Add cranberry juice for color. Garnish with a lime.

Seasonal Smash

2½ ounces Putnam Rye ½ ounce honey, maple or dark sugar simple syrup ½ lemon, wedged Sprig of fresh mint, thyme or rosemary Fruit of choice (berries, peaches, plums) Muddle fruit and herbs in bottom of shaker tin. Add fresh pepper.

Spiced Apple Bulldog 1½ ounces Bulldog Gin 2 ounces boiling water 1 ounce apple cider ½ ounce maple syrup 1 bar spoon cinnamon sugar 2 orange wedges

Add all ingredients to a warm goblet, stir until sugar dissolves, squeeze orange wedges and garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Purity Winter Sparkle

2 ounces Purity Vodka 3 ounces Champagne Handful of pomegranate seeds for garnish Add vodka and ice to a mixing glass and stir until ice cold. Strain into a chilled Champagne flute and top with Champagne.

Garnish with pomegranate seeds.

Usquaebach Ginger Sour 1½ ounces Usquaebach Reserve Blended Scotch ½ ounce fresh lemon juice ½ ounce fresh lime juice 1 ounce ginger syrup 1 egg white Aromatic bitters Candied ginger and lemon peel for garnish

Add all ingredients to a shaker with no ice.

Shake vigorously for one minute and strain in to a rocks glass filled with ice. Top with two to three dashes of bitters. Garnish with can-

Cocktail Caviar

Plop a pop of fun into your favorite drinks and desserts with these caviar-like balls of vodka and natural flavors, including blueberry, peach, lychee, green apple and raspberry.

RSVP Cocktail Skinnies These zero-calorie, zerosugar, all-natural cocktail mixers come in three flavors: Baja Margarita, NY Cosmo and Miami Breeze. Add 1 ounce of your favorite liquor and 6 ounces of water to get your guiltfree sip on. rsvpskinnies.com

Vena’s Infusion Kits

Create your own at-home artisan (and vegan) cocktails, like Cherry Mojito, Maple-Pear Old Fashioned, Harvest Margarita, Winter Dreams, and more. Add alcohol, let it steep for five days and serve. $14.45, undiscoveredkitchen.com

Ludlows Jelly Shots

When you don’t have time to handcraft batches of gelatinous shots (most of which will probably end up on the bottom of your fridge anyway), reach for these convenient prepared versions from Ludlows Cocktail Co., available in Fresh Lime Margarita, Meyer Lemon Drop, Old Fashioned, Planter’s Punch and Moscow Mule. ludlowscocktails.com

2013 Head High Red Blend

This versatile red blend from winemaker/surfer Sam Spencer pairs well with holiday meals (like your delicious roast beast) to please diverse palates. For every two bottles sold, $1 is donated to the Sustainable Surf & Sonoma Valley Education Foundation. $30, headhighwines.com

Chad Frye, Outlook’s sales director, shall have one of each!

Mocktails Cocktail Mixers

Even teetotalers can get in the holiday spirit without partaking in the spirits - with Mocktails’ non-alcoholic line of beverage mixers.

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Hark! The Gay Men Sing Ohio Choruses Ready for Their Annual Holiday Concerts

by Alisa Caton Ohio is home to four phenomenal men’s choruses that perform some of the top holiday concerts. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus each will host a holiday performance this month.

Methodist Church, 299 King Ave, 43201: Friday, Dec. 11 at 8p; Saturday, Dec. 12, at 2p and 8p. $25.

Joy! Deck the Halls @ Lord of Life Lutheran Church, 2480 W Dublin Granville Rd, Columbus, 43229: Sunday, Dec. 13, at 6p. $25.

Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus

he said. “We are now viewed as one of Dayton’s top arts organizations.”

son, plus some rather unique and original surprises that can only be sung by a chorus of gay, bisexual, transgender men and their Chapter 1: Home @ Westminister Presbyterian straight allies,” Hayes said.

Church, 125 N Wilkinson St, Dayton, 45402: Saturday, Dec. 5 at 6p. Price TBA. Our Christmas Wish @ Christ Church Cathedral, 318 E 4th St, Cincinnati, 45202: Saturday, Dec. 12 at 8p and Sunday, Dec. 13 at 2p. $23.

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The Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus will kick off its season with its annual Joy! concert, “Deck the Halls.” It highlights a mixture of traditional holiday songs and originals.

“The program features a singalong of wellknown carols and songs, music from the Carpenters’ Christmas Portrait album, local composer Craig Courtney’s beautiful setting of “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks” and a hilarious song about the marvelous holiday sweaters we love to wear,” said Artistic Director Tim Sarsany.

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North Coast Men’s Chorus

In its 25th anniversary season, the chorus is celebrating its heritage and a new home as residential choral group at Christ Church Cathedral.

The North Coast Men’s Chorus is back at the Hanna Theatre at Playhouse Square with a multifaceted holiday concert called, “Unwrapped.”

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This season’s theme for the Dayton chorus is “Pride: Tell Our Story,” which was chosen to acknowledge the achievements of the LGBT community and to have the members tell their “It’s a huge thing for a church to make that story. kind of step, and we are honored to be here.

Their reverend is one of our biggest support“I am the Autumnal Sun,” an original song by The holiday show, “Chapter 1: Home,” will kick ers,” said Casey Hayes, artistic director of the Michael Rene Torres, also will be performed. off the season and focuses on the idea of chorus.

Torres is this year’s recipient of the Choral being home being with loved ones.

The choir Composition Fellowship sponsored by the Greater Columbus Arts Council in conjunction will sing with a five-piece band and perform The annual holiday show, “Our Christmas Wish,” will fill the cathedral, but there are two with the Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus, Sarsany traditional and original songs. additional performances. The chorus also will said. His was chosen from a pool of composistage a benefit performance for the Sisters of Board President David Moyer said the holiday tions that were submitted for the program. concert is now a tradition for many families in Charity at their Motherhouse on Friday, Dec. 4, and it will perform at Cincinnati’s Christmas The chorus’ select ensembles, Vox and Illumi- Dayton.

Saengerfest later that day, nati, also will perform.

“It’s become kind of a staple in the Dayton community and one of the top holiday shows,” “The music is primarily music anyone would Joy! Deck the Halls @ King Avenue United associate with Christmas and the holiday sea-

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“We will leave the stage and your hearts filled with ribbon, tinsel and holiday cheer with songs of the season, outrageous dances, costumes and a warm glow that will keep you smiling all through the New Year,” the chorus promises.

Unwrapped @ Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square, 2067 E 14th St, Cleveland, 44115: Saturday, Dec. 5, at 3p and 8p; Sunday, Dec. 6, at 3p. $20-$40.

Alisa Caton graduated from Ohio University with a degree in journalism. She’s a freelance writer who lives in Columbus.

Please, please, please can one of you choruses perform the “Jingle Bell Rock” scene from Mean Girls?

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Charity

at the Checkout

Click: AmazonSmile

Who’s there? Dozens of LGBT groups in It’s the same Amazon selection and prices, but when you do your shopping via smile.amazon.com or the AmazonSmile app, you can direct 0.5 percent of your purchases (10 cents from a $20 book) to any of nearly a million charitable organizations.

Who’s there? We found lots of Ohio LGBT groups, including AIDS Resource Center Ohio, TransOhio, Equality Ohio and the Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization; Caracole Inc., the Imperial Sovereign Court and Heartland Trans* Wellness in Cincinnati; the North Coast Men’s Chorus and the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland; Stonewall Columbus, Kaleidoscope Youth Center and more. It’s easily searchable.

Five Everyday Ways You Can Help Ohio’s LGBT Groups

by Bob Vitale

Click: Goodsearch/ Goodshop

When you register and search the web through the Yahoo-powered Goodsearch engine, about a penny per search goes to your chosen charity.

You don’t have to do much to do some good. Helping others sometimes requires nothing more than a click or a swipe.

As you’re shopping during the holidays - as you’re shopping at any time of year, actually - the money you spend can be leveraged into pennies and dimes and dollars for charity.

Kroger and Amazon operate two of the highest-profile rewards programs, and they’re linked to often from the websites of Ohio’s LGBT groups. Customers can register their already existing accounts or loyalty cards with the charity programs, and most every purchase counts toward a contribution to the group of their choice.

“AmazonSmile and Kroger Rewards can really add up during the holidays and are a great boost to our budget,” said Siobhan Boyd-Nelson, development and marketing associate for the Kaleidoscope Youth Center in Columbus.

Aaron Eckhardt, training and technical assistance director for the Buckeye Region Anti-Violence Organization, said the statewide group that helps victims of anti-LGBT acts has raised thousands over the years through online rewards programs.

Goodshop is an online mall and app in which more than 3,000 retailers donate a portion of your purchase to charity. The amounts range from 1.5 percent at Amazon to 5 percent at Expedia. The sites say they’ve donated more than $11 million.

Who’s there? We had little luck finding Ohio organizations, but there are national LGBT groups such as the Trevor Project, GLSEN, PFLAG, the National LGBTQ Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality.

Swipe: Kroger Community Rewards

BRAVO also collects old cell phones, which are recycled and provided as a lifeline to survivors of domestic violence.

You need to enroll online and choose the group you want to benefit from your purchases.

Kroger divvies up as much as $1.25 million per quarter based on the share of spending by each group’s supporters.

Here are five everyday ways you can help LGBT groups in Ohio and beyond.

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taxes and a few other things counts toward your totals, and the Community Rewards program doesn’t affect users’ fuel rewards.

Of course, our community groups are happy to accept donations as well.

Columbus, Cincinnati, Toledo, Dayton and other communities with Kroger stores participate.

They include the Capital Pride Band, Evolution Theatre and Huckleberry House in Columbus; Cincinnati Men’s Chorus; Equality Toledo; and Have a Gay Day in Dayton.

Swipe: Toiletries From Your Hotel

This is a different kind of swipe. But there are people who need those little soaps and shampoos and lotions more than you do.

Groups that help LGBT people in crisis - particularly LGBT youth - are always in need of items such as shampoo and soap. They also need deodorant, toothbrushes and toothpaste (a good reason to accept the freebies from your dentist), brushes and combs, and feminine hygiene products.

When you stay at a hotel, grab the freebies for Huckleberry House or Kaleidoscope Youth Center in Columbus, Caracole in Cincinnati, or other groups that help people find shelter.

Click: Share, Retweet, Respond

“I’m always asking people to engage with us on social media,” Boyd-Nelson said. “It’s quick and easy but can make a huge difference for a young person/parent/teacher who didn’t know about us previously.”

So like and share posts from LGBT groups (shameless plug: and Outlook!) so a community center or PFLAG chapter will come to someone’s mind when a child or parent or friend might need it.

You’ll find a complete statewide directory of LGBT groups, organized by city or campus and by focus at outlookohio.com.

Bob Vitale’s new year’s resolution is to help LGBT groups as much as he can by shopping as much as he can. Keep in touch with him by email at bvitale@outlookmedia.com.

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O Come, All Ye Singles

Survival Tips for Those Flying Solo This Holiday Season

by Brooke Cartus

Gay, straight, queer, cis, trans, pan, poly: However you identify, there’s one thing that can bring us ALL together this holiday season.

Being single.

If you were smart enough to dodge a summer flingturnt-into-a-long-term-thing, then good for you! If not, you probably just went through an overly serious autumnal breakup where you listened to Death Cab lyrics and thought about how poignantly they applied to your own life.

Going home as a single lady or gentleman can make family gatherings even more painful than usual, but don’t worry. I have some pro tips for how to make the most out of your holiday season no matter where you end up.

1: Stick Close to the Kids Legos anyone? Kids are the BEST. You know where there’s unlimited buttered rolls and no judgment? You guessed it: the kids table. And your nieces and nephews won’t even notice that you’re flying solo. Hey, when the 4-year-old next to you says that boys stink, you can agree without feeling like you’re lying one bit.

If they ask about your ex, make a fart noise. It’s actually the only time that answer is acceptable.

2: Be As Honest... As You Can If you had a recent ex who knew everyone in your family, the classic redirect with a fart noise (see above) might not always be appropriate. If anyone asks about them, you can be curt but polite. Try responses like, “Oh, Tom is doing great. Would you pass the champagne?” or “I’m sure she’s doing well, we haven’t talked. How’s your IBS?” Subtle conversation changes can really go a long way. Just steer clear of, “Well, actually, we haven’t talked since I walked in on her three fingers deep in my pilates instructor. Happy New Year!”

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3: Marriage Is Going to Come Up. Welcome to the Party You now have to deal with the conversation that all of your straight friends have been dealing with for decades. You are sitting on your aunt’s couch, a glass overly white zin in your hand that is already giving you a headache just looking at it. Your second cousin leans over and says, “So now that it’s legal and all... when are you getting married?” december 2015

The proper response to this, of course, is to say, “Whenever I find someone who can handle me at my worst, Sean.” Even if his name isn’t Sean. Pro tip: This is more effective if you shout whisper with gritted teeth.

4: Be Open and Honest About Your Plus-One to the Next Family Event ’Tis the season... for marriage proposals and baby announcements. If you get a Save the Date in the mail or an invite to a family event in the spring, remind your family that your dog/cat/ferret is willing and capable of being your plus-one. Not a pet-friendly environment?

You can still get all the benefits of having a significant other at a wedding.

I just sent in my place card and included a checkmark for the chicken cutlet AND the pasta primavera. IT’S MY RIGHT AS A SINGLE LADY. 5: Have Fun You know how many people would love to be in your shoes? It’s better to be single than to be in an unhealthy and unhappy relationship. Do what you want.

Get champagne drunk at 10a, take a nap, then come down for dinner at 3. Stay sober and run one of those goddamn holiday 5Ks that everyone does and then posts pictures of on social media. You do you, boo.

Because let’s face it: Whether the family you spend the holidays with is the family you were born into or the family you have created throughout the years, this time of year allows everyone to reflect on all the positivity in their lives.

Being your own boss of your personal life can teach you so much about who you are and what you want. You want froyo at 10a? Get you some. You want to go out on a Tuesday? Well, that is generally ill-advised, but you have fun. Being single has taught me a ton about not just myself, but also what I’m looking for in a partner.

I want someone who can hang out with me at the kids table and who will share their buttered roll with me.

Because mama loves her some carbs.

And fart noises.

Brooke Cartus is a Chapstick lesbian who just passed the bar! (Insert your own joke here.

Hasn’t she made you laugh enough?) The Ohio State University law graduate has her own blog, Size L for Lady, at brookecartus.com. She writes Dyke Like Me every other month for Outlook.

Brooke, we need your advice about being single on New Year’s Eve.

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The Greatest Gift

Loving, Accepting Families Make Holidays Special

by James Blackmon

Ahhh, the holidays. My favorite time of year. As a child, Thanksgiving and Christmas were great. No drama. No fighting. No embarrassing drunk uncle. Just a festive occasion with lots of out-of-town family you hadn’t seen in about a year.

My Aunt Evelyn could cook, and Thanksgiving dinner was at her house. The food was so good you’d wanna smack somebody. And there was enough laughter and memories to last a lifetime.

Christmas was a family thing, and we always celebrated that holiday together. Just the five of us. Even if it was Christmasin-the-motor-home at some Christmas Day bowl game Alabama was in that year, we were together. Mom and Dad worked hard to make sure even those Christmases were special. We’d have a tree, the Winnebago would be decorated with lights, and Santa Claus always managed to find us no matter where we were.

Being such a fan of the holidays, it’s a good thing my husband also shares my love of the season. And, he loves Christmas. Maybe even more than I. Our annual tradition for the last 21 years has been that Duane’s in charge of all the decorating. I’m in charge of saying, “Honey, the lights look amazing!”

And I do that quite well. And it’s no lie because the house, inside and out, always looks so Christmasy and festive. I love it.

My time to shine during the holidays is mealtime. I love to cook, and holiday meals are my favorite meals to prepare.

Our annual Thanksgiving tradition for the last 21 years has been Duane on the couch watching the Macy’s parade, while I slave away making magic in the kitchen.

I’m in charge of tantalizing the taste buds. He’s in charge of saying, “Honey, this is the best Thanksgiving meal ever!” He also doesn’t have to lie, because I cook like an old Southern church lady. He loves it.

For the first 10 years of our marriage, we spent the holidays together. Just us. We weren’t exactly welcome in each other’s parents’ homes back then.

But change was just a holiday meal away. Back in 2003, when we were living in New Orleans, we were invited to my parents’ home for Thanksgiving. I was in shock. Duane was all excited. outlookohio.com

I never thought my husband would be invited to my parents’ house nor be allowed to sleep in that house with me in the same bed. Their discomfort with me and my “husband” was made loud and clear over the first few years of our relationship, so I knew it took a lot for my mom to extend that invitation to us.

She really was trying. And that was all I ever asked from her.

So we went.

Everything was fine, of course. A little awkward, maybe, in the beginning, but it was all very cordial. Polite. Southern.

But then Duane did something that won my mom’s heart and endeared him to her to this day. After dinner, he started cleaning the kitchen. No one asked him to. He just did it. A simple thing, indeed, but that unsolicited act made my Southern mother see my “gay lover” as a quality man and truly her son-in-law.

Family.

Duane’s parents also see me as family. In fact, after we moved back to Ohio, I was so accepted into the family that we were expected to attend all family holiday meals at their house. And bring a dish.

At first I didn’t like it. I liked our tradition. The idea of not doing that anymore really bummed me out. Over the years, though, I grew to enjoy it. Taking my sweet potato soufflé or baked mac and cheese to my husband’s parents’ home for holiday dinner was something I never thought I’d do.

I began to realize how fortunate I am that my parents accept my husband and his parents accept me. We both love it.

Duane and I are back to our old tradition now. His father passed in February 2014, and everything sort of changed after that. Everyone still gets together for the holidays, just not on the actual holi-day. And without his dad... it’s not the same, anyway.

But I am forever thankful that we both have enjoyed relationships with our in-laws that many straight couples don’t even get. And I am especially grateful for the best Christmas gift Mom ever gave me: accepting my husband into my family.

Thanks, Mom. James Blackmon is a musician, actor, director and former owner of James Club 88 in Columbus. You can follow him on Twitter at @MrJamesBlackmon. The Other Side runs every other month in Outlook.

James, can we get that baked mac and cheese recipe?

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2015 holiday hoopla

Don We Now Our Gay Apparel, Accessories, Kitchenware and More!

Guide to Gay Gift Giving 2015 What do you get the Gay who has everything? Take your pick from these holiday gift ideas, perfect for LGBT foodies, techies, adventurers and more.

EROVER

Somabar Robotic Bartender

Mellow

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Mahabis Slippers

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Ridge Merino

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Great Scott! It’s not the Hoverboard that Zemeckis and Mattel promised us back in 1989, but EROVER isn’t a bad compromise. This hands-free, Segwaylike self-balancing scooter boasts speeds up to 9 mph and a distance of nine to 12 miles on a single charge. From $250, amazon.com.

Restaurant-quality dining sets up shop in your home kitchen with Mellow, a WiFi-connected, sousvide-style food-preparation device that cooks food with such precision they’ll think you hid Wolfgang Puck in the pantry. $399, cookmellow.com.

Available in classic and summer styles, Mahabis has reinvented the traditional slipper. They have detachable and customizable soles, collapsible heels, and an impossibly soft sheep’s wool lining for a sleek, Instagramready footwear experience designed with your fashionable little piggies in mind. $89, mahabis.com

Whether you’re bombing down a dusty slope or just binge-watching Netflix, Ridge Merino has you covered - literally - with its line of moisture-wicking, UV-protecting, cold-weather undergarments that keep your body covered and comfortable.

From $25, ridgemerino.com

Your pride speaks for itself with the handmade #LoveWins watercolor tapestry that looks just as great hanging on your wall as it does worn as a shawl. $79, society6.com

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This app-controlled robotic bartender takes up about as much counter space as your standard KitchenAid mixer while letting you create cocktails and infuse bitters with the ease and effortlessness of a bottle-tossing Brian Flanagan. $429, somebarkickstarter.com

Style is of the essence in this customizable collection of watches from across the pond. UK-based Shore Projects lets timepiecetoting dandies choose from 14 different faces that are interchangeable with a selection of 24 straps available in a spectrum of colors and patterns, like leather, pastel and polka dots. $260, usa.shoreprojects.com

A high-performance blender, outdoor Bluetooth speaker with Party Pairing, USB charger, LED lid light, bottle opener, accessory deck, and other awesome integrated essentials will make you the token LGBT P-I-M-P of your next weekend tailgate party. $485, coolest.com

In a sea of wearable fitness devices that make claims they don’t live up to, Fitbit stands out for its streamlined design and forward-thinking functionality. Its latest incarnation, Charge HR, multitasks as a heart rate monitor, daily activity and exercise tracker, sleep monitor, and watch with caller ID. $150, fitbit.com

Star Wars fever got the jump-off earlier this year when video of BB8, Sphero’s app-enabled droid, starting rolling around on YouTube, and social media blew up with anticipation for the most adorable robot since Wall-E. Features include voice recognition, the ability to record and play holographic videos, autonomous behavior, and an adaptive personality that’ll make you hope the Force is with you. $150, apple.com

That cooler is more equipped than my first apartment.

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Scent up your hotel room, office or - because this is the place where its application is most appreciated - the bathroom like a Southern whiskey distillery with this tin travel candle that features base notes of vetiver and cedar blended with bourbon, cognac, palmarosa and rose. $12.50, ajmurrays.com

STUFFERS

AlignMed Posture Shirt

Start the new year with better posture with the help of Good Housekeeping-approved AlignMed garments.

The Posture Shirt, engineered with patented NeuroBand technology, provides postural control and muscle activation to relieve pain, improve balance and increase range of motion. $95, alignmed.com

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Nerdwax

Shades stay put with a couple nose-dabs of this balmy blend of beeswax and other all-natural and certified organic ingredients designed to keep sunglasses and eyeglasses firmly in place. $10, nerdwax.com

Zipper Earbuds

Why it’s taken so long to find a solution for the ball of wires that is your headphones every time you take them out is up for debate, but these never-tangle Zipper Earbuds are your saving grace. $25, cocalilyboutique.com

Loopy Cases

Save your phone from those dreaded drops and cracked screens with this case that features a patented loop to make one-handed use secure and stress-free. $29, loopycases.com

RingSafe

Harry’s Shave Products

Quality products at fair prices offer a better way to shave with Harry’s grooming supplies available as onetime gift items (great for Dopp kits or gym bags) or as a subscription that sends replacement products on a pre-selected schedule. From $5/month, harrys.com

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Save yourself the heart attack of losing your engagement or wedding ring by securely fastening it to a set of keys, necklace, or other hard-to-misplace accessory. $39.99, ringsafe.com.

Mikey Rox is an award-winning journalist and LGBT lifestyle expert whose work has been published in more than 100 outlets across the world, including Outlook, CNN.com, The Huffington Post, The Advocate, Instinct and Out.com. Connect with him on Twitter @mikeyrox.

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Eating and Drinking

Gone With the Gin: Cocktails With a Hollywood Twist: Gay writer Federle’s follow-up to his 2013 book, Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails With a Literary Twist, includes 50 luscious libations such as A Clockwork Orange Julius, Indiana Jones and the Shirley Temple of Doom, The Rocky Horror Pisco Show, Bloody Mary Poppins, The Wizard of Shiraz and Tequila Sunrise Boulevard, all ready for their close-ups.

(Running Press) The Modern Family Cookbook: A tasty (and very funny) companion to the ABC sitcom features 100 easy-to-make recipes credited to the show’s wacky and loveable characters (such as Gloria, Mitch, Cam, Phil and Luke), as well as supporting players such as Andy and Pepper. It’s full of color photos, scenes from the series and much more. (Melcher Media/Oxmoor House)

Fiction Festival

Did You Ever Have A Family: Gay literary agent and author Bill Clegg (Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir) makes his fiction debut with the novel about the aftermath of a devastating tragedy.

(Scout Press)

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Depraved Heart: Lesbian mystery writer Patricia Cornwell’s 22nd novel in the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series features the medical examiner extraordinaire dealing with a horrifying family crisis involving her niece, Lucy. (Morrow)

oirs by prolific gay writer Jameson Currier, several of which debuted during the peak of the AIDS epidemic, spans a 30-year period.

(Chelsea Station Editions) The Mystics of Mile End: Playwright/journalist/essayist Sigal Samuel’s debut novel takes us deep into the heart of the Mile End neighborhood in Montreal, “a mash-up of hipsters and Hasidic Jews.” (William Morrow, 2015)

In Their Own Words

I’ll Never Write My Memoirs: She might once have said (and sung) that she wouldn’t Bats of the Republic: It’s safe to say that do it, but you’ll be Zachary Thomas Dodson’s expansive dystopian glad she did when debut novel - complete with the author’s own you read Grace graphics and an attached ribbon book mark Jones’ memoir as doesn’t look or read like anything you’ve ever told to Paul Morley. seen before. It traverses a 300-year time period The grand dame of from 1843 to 2143 and features a gay dad as disco, fashion and experimental expression a major character. (Doubleday) shares her love for the gays, her Jamaican homeland, theater and film, music, art, and Still Life Las Vegas: Renowned gay voiceover a great deal more, all told in her open and actor and playwright James Sie lets the page do the talking in his debut novel. The coming- distinctive style. (Gallery) of-age story in which Walter discovers the truth And Then I Danced: One of the most well-reabout his family history includes illustrations spected voices in LGBT journalism and acby Sungyoon Choi. (St. Martin’s Press) tivism, Philadelphia Gay News’ Mark Segal tells the story of his journey, subtitled TravelHotel Living: Combining issues of identity - soing the Road to LGBT Equality. (Open Lens) cial, queer and immigrant - on a global scale, Ioannis Pappos’ sexy debut novel succeeds in making the world of the pre-2008 financial crisis Shock Treatment: A compilation of “performance texts” from renowned and provocative an erotically charged place. (Harper Perennial) performance artist Karen Finley (one of the notorious NEA Four), contains her legendary Lost Canyon: Award-winning lesbian writer writings on homophobia and AIDS (including Nina Revoyr returns with her fifth novel, de“The Black Sheep”), as well as feminism and scribed as a “wilderness thriller.” It’s about more. (City Lights) four people from Los Angeles - two men and two women - who embark on a backpacking excursion through the Sierra Nevadas and en- I Hope My Mother Doesn’t Read This: Musician and comedic artist Greg Scarnici ascounter more than they had bargained for. sembles his humorous writings in an essay (Akashic) collection covering topics such as Liza MinParade: Colorful and comical, Michael Graves’ nelli, acting classes, music, oral sex, new novel follows two teen cousins - gay Reg- Madonna, International Male, coffee and gie and straight Elmer - on their odyssey from travel. (Thought Catalog) dull suburbia to sunny Florida. In a stolen limo in the company of a retired televangelist, they That’s What Fashion Is: Lessons and Stories From My Nonstop, Mostly Glamorous meet an assortment of unusual characters.

Life in Style: Joe Zee, the gay, former Elle cre(Chelsea Station Editions) ative director and current editor-in-chief at Yahoo Style, tells his trés chic story in words The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: Tuesdays with Morrie author Mitch Albom has made and pictures. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s) a career of tugging at our heartstrings, and his Until My Heart Stops: Intimate Writings: An latest, musically oriented novel, does the anthology of more than 50 essays and memsame. (Harper) Outlook’s wishlist: I’ll Never Write My Memoirs by Grace Jones.

Worlds Apart: A Memoir: Gay writer David Plante follows up his 2013 book, Becoming a Londoner: A Diary, with a tale about his life with lover Nikos Stangos during the 1980s in a variety of locales, including Jerusalem, rural Ireland and Tulsa, Okla. (Bloomsbury) Becoming Westerly: Australian surfer Peter Drouyn made his name in “power surfing” while also trying his hand at various other occupations. But the most significant event in his life occurred in 2012 when he underwent gender confirmation surgery and emerged as Westerly Windina. Her story is written with sensitivity and insight by Jamie Brisick. (Outpost) White Dresses: Good Morning America producer Mary Pflum Peterson’s memoir tells the story of her mother, Anne, through the titular garments that figured into Anne’s time as a nun and later her failed marriage to Mary’s father, a closeted gay man, as well as others who appeared throughout her life.

(Morrow)

Poetic License

Caprice: This collection from Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, subtitled Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected and New, does a brilliant job of compiling the multi-award-winning poets’ collaborative work, including 1997’s Exquisite Politics, chapbooks Oyl (2000) and Little Novels (2002), assorted uncollected poems, interviews and remarkable new collaborations such as 2015’s Gender’s Tidy Little Stories About Itself and more. (Sibling Rivalry) Boy With Thorn: Chosen by Terrance Hayes for the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, this is the debut collection by gay, African-American poet Rickey Laurentiis. It features ekphrastic poetry, a ghazal, and stunning poems about race and sexuality that stay with the reader long after the book is closed.

(University of Pittsburgh Press)

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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology: The 60th anniversary edition edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti includes queer poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, Robert Duncan, Peter Orlovsky, Antler and Harold Norse, as well as beat poetry legends Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Anne Waldman, Bob Kaufman and others. (City Lights) Rebels: Featuring illustrations by Ashley Holt, Laura Hallett, Erin Maala, Ben Baldwin, Rob Appleby and others, acclaimed Southern gay poet/writer and educator Jeff Mann put together a collection in which the poet “queers” the Civil War. (Lethe Press)

The Whole Truth

The Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Inspired by the Tumblr of the same name, Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik celebrate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “in all her glory,” through words and pictures. (Dey Street)

deep Gay Romance, Espionage Joined in BBC Miniseries London Spy, airing soon in the UK on BBC, sounds like just the ticket for all the Sherlock fans out there.

Bond film regular Ben Whishaw plays a young gay man deeply involved in London nightlife, who then finds himself in an unlikely romantic relationship with a man from the British Secret Intelligence Service (Edward Holcroft, from Kingsman: The Secret Service). When that man dies, Whishaw’s character is whisked into the world of espionage to uncover the truth.

The five-part miniseries was written by gay writer Tom Rob Smith and is directed by Jakob Verbruggen (The Fall). Right now the show is mentioned on BBC America’s website, but no dates are set.

That means it’s time to begin politely pestering them. outlookohio.com

Words and Music

Encyclopedia Madonnica 20: the updated 20th anniversary edition of the “Madonna bible”

by Madonna-obsessed writer Matthew Rettenmund is loaded with previously unseen pictures, original illustrations and more. It includes celeb interviews, “one-word descriptions” and more between front and back covers by Richard Corman and Kiri Teshigahara, respectively. (Boy Culture) Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed: The latest children’s book by Heather Has Two Mommies author Lesléa Newman, with illustrations by Amy June Bates, is the story of composer/pianist Moshe Cotel and the kitten with whom he made beautiful music. (Candlewick Press)

groundbreaking gay jazz legend Billy Strayhorn, the book edited by A. Alyce Claerbaut and David Schlesinger, with a foreword by Ramsey Lewis, does a fantastic job of telling Strayhorn’s melodious story through words and images. (Bolden/Agate)

Alex Gino tells the story of Melissa, born George. She wants the lead in the school production of Charlotte’s Web, and she and best friend Kelly devise a plan to get the part while settling the gender-identity issue once and for all. (Scholastic)

Hippie Chick: A Tale of Love, Devotion & Surrender: With a foreword by Grace Slick and an afterword by Grace Potter, the graceful coffee table book contains almost 450 images by renowned rock photographer Jay Blakesburg. It pays homage to the “earth mamas, fairy princesses, hula-hoopers, whirling dervishes, front-row regulars and flower-crown makers,” barefoot or booted, in bikini tops and long skirts, on whom Blakesburg has focused his lens at music festivals and concerts for 35 years. (Rock Out Books)

What Is Punk?: Described as a music primer for children, Eric Morse’s book, with illustrations by Anny Yi, is written in rhyme with photos of colorful clay characters and settings to recreate the history of the “deafening roar/that awakened the people/like never before.” It also includes figurines representing New York Doll David Johansen, icons Debbie Harry, Lou Reed, Henry Rollins and all-female band The Slits. (Akashic Books)

YA, for All Ages

George: The trans narrative in this youngadult novel by gender-queer writer/activist

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Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life: Published in time to honor the centennial of the late,

inside Surprise: James Franco in Another Gay Project James Franco, in his seemingly neverending quest to confer gayness upon himself via association, is producing what is sure to be a shocker of a movie called King Cobra.

The film, directed by Justin Kelly, who also worked with Franco on the upcoming I Am Michael, will tell the ugly story of the 2007 murder of gay adult film producer Bryan Kocis, who had worked with gay porn star Brent Corrigan. Franco will act in the film alongside Christian Slater (who’ll play Kocis), Pretty Little Liars’ Keegan Allen, Molly Ringwald and Disney Channel’s Teen Beach and Teen Beach 2 alum Garrett Clayton as Corrigan.

That last bit of casting makes perfect sense in a Vanessa-Hudgins-and-Selena-Gomez-starring-in-Spring Breakers way. Can’t wait for this one to make us all feel creepy and upset.

Gregg Shapiro is a freelance entertainment journalist based in Florida. His work appears regularly in Outlook, and his fiction writing has appeared in Blithe House Quarterly, an anthology of queer short stories.

Cheyenne Jackson Seems More of an Otter, Anyway

Perhaps shockingly, the upcoming film Bear With Us, starring Cheyenne Jackson, has absolutely nothing to do with bears as they are commonly understood in the complex taxonomy of gay subcultures.

No, this horror comedy is about an actual bear.

An actual angry, murderous and hungry bear that happens upon a charming cabin in the woods where a couple is getting engaged. The official word is “think Jaws, with a bear,” but knowledgeable fans of killer animal movies know better: think Grizzly, that 1976 ripoff of Jaws about a giant ursine killer, or in the words of that cheap B-movie’s lurid ad campaign, “18 feet of gut-crunching, man-eating terror.”

Come to think of it, Grizzly was kind of a horror comedy, too.

Anyway, Bear With Us, from indie filmmaker William J. Stribling, is currently in production and also will feature - although we don’t know exactly what this means at the moment - “the voice of” Orange Is the New Black star Lea Delaria.

Mysterious.

Why won’t James Franco just come out already?

by Romeo San Vicente Hannah Hart Making Leap From YouTube to Movies We don’t know if you’re allowed to be a YouTube sensation after 30, but if all goes as planned, the trio of Hannah Hart, Mamrie Hart and Grace Helbig will have moved on to bigger things when their next film, Dirty Thirty, is digitally released by Lionsgate.

The YouTube stars - lesbian comic Hannah Hart’s My Drunk Kitchen is a favorite there - already have had a streaming hit with Camp Takota, so Lionsgate decided to snap them up for this next project about a birthday party gone wild.

There’s no other information available yet, but the pattern of millennial female comics using the Internet to launch themselves is set thanks to breakout hits like Broad City, and this feels like the beginning of big things for these young women.

The countdown to more famous funny people jumping on their bandwagon begins now.

Romeo San Vicente’s kitchen features what might be considered a surprising number of carb-rich treats for someone with such perfect abdominal muscles. You mad? He can be reached at DeepInsideHollywood@qsyndicate.com. december 2015

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Wanda Sykes Gets Serious She Once Said It’s Harder to Be Gay Than Black. Now? ‘I’d Take That Back’

by Orie Givens

that’s awesome. In a previous show you talked about navigating being gay and She’s the comedian who tells it like it is, keep- black, and it was a hilarious take on someing you laughing whether she’s on stage or thing we all deal with, and you said it’s screen. harder to be gay. Tell me about how you think things have changed for us black Wanda Sykes, one of our biggest, fiercest queer people of color. Is anything different?

LGBTQ stars and advocates, is bringing her WS: Well, yes, I think we’ve (seen) a lot of possharp, funny wit and real-life humor to audi- itive things happen for the LGBT community. ences in Cincinnati and Columbus this month. Marriage is legal in all 50 states, which is Here’s what what she thinks of the current great. Our president came out in support of candidates for president and why she thinks equality for LGBT people. So, legally, we’ve differently about previous comments she made a lot of advances; we still need employmade about being black and gay. ment protection.

Orie Givens: So we’ve seen you everywhere TV, movies - but you say standup is what pays the bills. Tell us what this tour is going to be like. What should we expect?

Wanda Sykes: Yeah, well, I look at myself as a standup comic. That’s my day job, but I do enjoy TV and doing movies and all. But, you know, it just all started with standup, and I still love it. So I’ve never really like stopped doing standup.

This show ... it’s like an update basically of what’s going on with me now. That’s where my comedy comes from, you know, that’s my life. This is just like a snapshot of what’s going on with me and in the world and how I feel about things.

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Actually, you look at what’s happening now, like racially ... we have Black Lives Matter and all, I think we’ve kind of taken a step back when it comes to racial equality ... income and, you know, also with the general safety with the police brutality and the murders that being gay than black right now. have happened.

“We gotta get that black guy outta there and never do this again.”

OG: Since you mentioned the increase of isIt’s like one step ahead in this direction and sues around race, what do think about the then you go backwards on the other side. I don’t know. I’d take that back about it’s harder discourse around race?

WS: It’s happening, so you have to acknowledge it and talk about it. I think that’s the problem, that we’re not having real conversation.

“If the Democratic ticket was Pat Sajak and somebody, I still wouldn’t vote for any of the people on the Republican side. I’d go for Pat Sajak.”

OG: There have definitely been a lot more vitriolic attacks against the president. But we’re very critical of blackness, too, and of black people in positions of high authority.

Do you think it’s unfair to do? Should we be critical of President Obama for not allegedly being for black rights as much as he should In Charleston, at the memorial service for the be? [church] victims, President Obama opened up WS: He’s president, supposed to be president the door for us to have that conversation and for all Americans, but to me, it’s like, he is very face it head on. It’s like something else comes much aware of who he is and he’s brought up that conversation on many occasions. Even up and we’re not having real conversations now, what he’s doing with about it. It totally exists. We elected a black the incarceration problem. president and a lot of white guys went nuts, just like, “Oh my God, we’re losing everything.

I don’t know as far as like, when he was Oh Jesus, we lost everything, we gotta get elected, I don’t think as a black person I back on top.” thought, “Aw yeah, he going to be doing a lot So all those code words they say, about “take of good stuff for black people.” I just looked at it as he’s going to be doing a lot of good stuff back our country,” they’re basically saying,

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OG: [laughs] So on to another issue important locally: marijuana legalization. We had an Ohio ballot measure last month that failed, but do you think we will see national legalization?

WS: I think it’s definitely going to be one of those state-by-state cases. I don’t see it going to the federal level, but I think state-byI guess it’s fair for the criticism, but overall I state. Yeah, it will be, because one, the revthink he’s been doing a great job. A lot of enue. And, also, it’s really hypocritical that things he wants to get done get shot down marijuana is illegal, but alcohol isn’t. I mean because of Congress. A lot of the things he it’s drugs. Like in California, we haven’t seen wants to do he can’t just do it by the stroke of an increase in crime or fatalities, cars and a pen. The things he has wanted to do and stuff. I mean, there’s no reason why it shouldcan do by the stroke of a pen, he’s done that. n’t be legal.

But, he’s gonna be just more aware of problems that do pertain to people of color, and when you have such a large segment that’s been disenfranchised and fallen so low below the poverty level, to me that’s doing something good for the country.

OG: Do you have any insight on where you’re leaning as far as who will replace President Obama?

WS: It’s definitely either Hillary [Clinton] or Bernie [Sanders]. I love a lot of what Bernie is saying, but I think Hillary will get more done.

And, also, we definitely need a woman in the office right now. Pretty much Hillary.

OG: Is there someone on the Republican side that could actually challenge Hillary Clinton?

WS: If the Democratic ticket was Pat Sajak and somebody, I still wouldn’t vote for any of the people on the Republican side. I’d go for Pat Sajak.

OG: I asked because it reminded me of one of your old standup routines talking about not smoking weed anymore because you won’t get anything done during the day.

WS: Yeah, definitely not going to increase productivity.

OG: Last question, for those thinking about buying a ticket to see you, tell them why they should definitely come out.

WS: Come on, you know me, I’m hilarious! I’ve been doing this 20-somethin’ years. I think I have a body of work out there that’s proven I’m going to make you pee on yourself laughing. So treat yourself.

Sykes will be in Cincinnati on Friday, Dec. 11, at the Aronoff Center for the Arts and at the Palace Theatre in Columbus on Saturday, Dec. 12. Visit cincinnatiarts.org or capa.com (Columbus) for ticket information, or look in our December events calendar starting on Page 44.

Orie Givens (@oracle83) is a multimedia journalist, communications professional and head of the Queer Minded Media a people of color focused LGBTQ media outlet. Listen locally on The Brown Table live Thursdays at 8p on TalktainmentRadio.com or Wednesdays on Columbus Community Radio 102.1/98.3. Learn more about Queer Minded Media at radioqueerminded.com.

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Nina West • Panic! At the Disco • Wanda Sykes • Network

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 A Reason to Dine @ various Columbus restaurants; 614.340.6777; arcohio.org: Participating local restaurants - we’ll run the final list at outlookohio.com - will donate a percentage of the day’s proceeds to AIDS Resource Center Ohio.

Charles Atlas: The Waning of Justice @ Columbus College of Art & Design’s Contemporary Art Space, 60 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, 43215; 614.224.9101; ccad.edu: This solo exhibit of allnew work by the pioneering American film/video artist Charles Atlas includes a piece of synchronized video/imagery of drag legend Lady Bunny. It runs through Friday, Dec. 11.

LGBT Book Club @ Club Diversity, 863 S High St, Columbus, 43206; 614.292.6084; scarletandgay.alumni.osu.edu: The book club is organized by Scarlet & Gay, Ohio State University’s LGBT alumni society. December’s book is Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott. 7p-9p.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 Peter and the Starcatcher @ Studio One, Riffe Center, 77 S High St, Columbus, 43215; 614.469.0939; catco.org: A prequel to the story of Peter Pan and Wendy stars Andrew Levitt, or Nina West for all you drag fans. The show runs Wednesdays-Sundays through Dec. 20. See website for varying show times. $30.

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800.745.3000; capa.com: The Columbus Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform their annual holiday show. 8p; $25-$68. There are more performances scheduled for 3p and 8p on Saturday, Dec. 5; and at 3p on Sunday, Dec. 6.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 Gay for Good: Wagons Ho Ho @ Mid-Ohio Foodbank, 3960 Brookham Dr, Grove City, 43123; FB: Gay for Good - Columbus, OH: The LGBT community-service group will help build 800 red wagons that will be filled with food for area families. 8anoon.

Sleater-Kinney @ LC Pavilion, 405 Neil Ave, Columbus, 43215; 614.461.5483; promowestlive.com: The riot grrrl godmothers, which include bisexual guitarist/vocalist - not to mention Portlandia star Carrie Brownstein, are on tour promoting their latest album, No Cities to Love. 7p; $25-$30.

World AIDS Day: Artistic Expression @ Wall Street Night Club, 144 N Wall St, Columbus, 43215; 614.464.2800; FB: Prodigal Productions Ent.: An evening of Columbus painters, singers, poets and dancers. 7p-10p; $5.

Virginia and Nina’s Christmas Special @ Axis, 775 N High St, Columbus, 43215; 614.291.4008; axisonhigh.com: The cast of this year’s holiday show includes Freesia Balls, Krystal Something Something, Bianca Debonia, Amanda Sue, Plenty O’Smiles, Candi Panties, Indica, Anita Snatch and Friends of Goodale Park Holiday Gala @ the the West Family Caroling Dancers. 8p; $12-$15 home of Richard Bauer, 841 Dennison Ave, Colum- (tables $60-$75). There are seven shows schedbus, 43215; goodalepark.org: Support the park at uled through Tuesday, Dec. 15, although Nina will its biggest fundraiser of the year. Tickets include perform only on Dec. 6, 13 and 15. dinner and drinks from Short North establishments. A silent auction will feature donated artSUNDAY, DECEMBER 6 work and goods from Columbus artists and Village Lights @ German Village, Columbus, merchants. 6p-9p; $40 in advance, $50 at door.

43215; germanvillage.com: The shops are open late, luminaries line the streets, and Panic! At the Disco @ @ LC Pavilcarolers wanted the neighborhood. ion, 405 Neil Ave, Columbus, The Capital Pride band also will 43215; 614.461.5483; promowperform at the annual German estlive.com: Lead singer BrenVillage holiday celebration. 6pdon Urie has celebrated sexual 10p. fluidity with songs like “Girls/Girls/Boys.” Bands GrizWEDNESDAY, folk and Hippo Campus will open.

DECEMBER 9 7p; $40.

Lecture: Andy Warhol and the Fame Factory @ Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E Broad St, Columbus, 43215; FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 Holiday Pops @ Ohio Theatre, 39 E State St, 614.629.0359; columbusmuseum.org: Columbus Columbus, 43215; 614.469.0939 or Museum of Art Chief Curator David Stark will sur-

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Columbus • Dave Koz vey the life and career of Warhol, whose works are included in a modern-art exhibit that’s at the museum through Jan. 17. Call to register. 2p; $20 ($5 for museum members).

Queer Ghosthunters @ Old Licking County Jail, 46 S 3rd St, Newark, 43055; 614.299.7764; FB: Stonewall Columbus Queer Ghosthunters: We wrote about Stonewall Columbus’ LGBT ghosthunting group in our October issue, and this is Network Columbus @ Level Dining Lounge, 700 N group’s first official hunt. Signup for this outing High St, Columbus, 43215; 614.268.8525, x1, closed in November, but visit the Facebook page to networkcolumbus.com: Join Outlook Media at its find out about future hunts. 7:30p-4a; $35. monthly gathering at the Short North LGBT bar and lounge for its annual holiday networking event.

Wanda Sykes @ Palace Theatre, 34 W Broad St, 6p-8p.

Columbus, 43215; 614.469.0939 or 800.745.3000; capa.com: The openly gay comeDave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour @ Palace dian is about to join the cast of ABC’s Black-ish.

Theatre, 34 W Broad St, Columbus, 43215; 8p; $39.50-$65.

614.469.0939 or 800.745.3000; capa.com: The Grammy nominated, openly gay saxophonist has Mary Ann Brandt Christmas Show @ Wall Street, been performing his holiday tour for 17 years now. 144 N Wall St, Columbus, 43215l 614.464.2800; 8p; $28-$65.50.

FB: Wall Street Night Club: She’s a holiday classic, back for her 20th year. Mary Ann welcomes Andrea Benahoe, Blanche, Betty Cracker, DeMonica FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus: Joy! @ King Avenue Hunter, Ashley O’Shea, Flaggots Ohio, Aaron and United Methodist Church, 299 King Ave, ColumJoe. Come for cocktails with the cast an hour bebus, 43201; 614.469.0939; columbusgaymenfore showtime. 9p; ticket info TBA. There are shows schorus.com: A Central Ohio holiday tradition on Saturday, Dec. 19 at 9p, and on Sunday, Dec. continues as the chorus puts its own stamp on 20, at 8p. your favorite holiday songs. Bring an ornament to help decorate the tree. 8p; $25 ($20 in adFRIDAY, vance by phone or online). There are three DECEMBER 18 more performances: 2p and 8p on SatHo, Ho, Ho for BRAVO urday, Dec. 12, at King Avenue church; @ Wall Street Nightand 6p on Sunday, Dec. 13, at Lord of club, Wall Street Night Life Lutheran Church, 2480 W Dublin Club, 144 N Wall St, Granville Rd, Columbus, 43229.

Columbus, 43215; 614.464.2800; bravoGoddess: Worship at the Altar @ Wall ohio.org: A variety show, Street Nightclub, 144 N Wall St, Columbus, live music and entertain43215; FB: Wall Street Night Club: Viva Valezz! ment with a silent auction to benand the Velvet Hearts welcome Pittsburgh dancers efit BRAVO. 7p-10p. Ticket info TBA. and special guest Amber Ray for a night of burlesque. A toga party will follow. 8p; $6 for general SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27 admission, $40 for tables of four and $60 for taDirty Santa Gift Exchange @ Battelle Darby Creek bles of six.

Cedar Ridge Lodge, 1775 Darby Creek Dr, Galloway, 43119; 614.404.7521; nlacolumbus.com: The Bedd Family Holiday Extravaganza @ AWOL, The National Leather Association of Columbus 49 Parsons Ave, Columbus, 43215; 614.621.8779; hosts a $25 kinky gift exchange. Bring a snack to FB: AWOL Bar: Hellin’s holiday show features Alli share. Noon-4:30p; $5 donation suggested.

Katt, Blahze Brown, Summer Day-Bedd and Jacquelyn Hyde. 9p.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31 New Year’s Eve Leather Ball @ Exile, 893 N 4th St, Columbus, 43201; 614.299.0069; exilebar.com: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 Indoor Tennis Social @ The Players Club, 3333 Have a harnessed 2016! 9p.

Mill Meadow Dr, Hilliard, 43026; cmto1.org: The LGBT Columbus Metropolitan Tennis Organization NYE: Salvation @ Axis, 775 N High St, Columbus, moves indoors. Play is typically in doubles format; 43215; 614.291.4008; axisonhigh.com: The New the rotation changes every 45-60 minutes so you Year’s Eve party features Britney Spears impersoncan play with and against different players of your ator Derrick Barry, Lawanda Jackson, Nina West, skill level. 6:30p-10p; $25.

Virginia West, Freesia Balls and a Torso underwear fashion show. 9p-4a; $10 through Christmas. outlookohio.com

Wanda Sykes did always love a jazz hand.

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Southwest Ohio Wanda Sykes • UC Drag Show • Rent • HRC Party

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 After the Moment: Reflections on Robert Mapplethorpe @ Contemporary Arts Center, 44 E 6th St, Cincinnati, 45202; 513.345.8400; contemporaryartscenter.org: It’s been 25 years since an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe photos in Cincinnati led to obscenity charges against the museum director and ignited the culture wars of the 1990s. Now through March 13, the Contemporary Arts Center looks at that controversy’s impact on artists in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. Open daily except Tuesdays; $7.50, but free on Wednesdays from 5p-9p.

Rent @ Warsaw Federal Incline Theater, 801 Matson Pl, Cincinnati, 45204; 513.241.6550; cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com: The Tony-winning musical about friends struggling with addiction, poverty, AIDS and, most of all, love, is based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme. 7:30p; $26. There are 15 shows scheduled Wednesdays-Sundays through Dec. 20.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 HRC Gala Kickoff Party @ Tillies Lounge, 4042 Hamilton Ave, Cincinnati, 45223; hrccincygala.com: The Human Rights Campaign will host its seventh annual gala dinner in Cincinnati on Saturday, March 5. You can sign up to help plan the party. 7p.

Wanda Sykes @ Aronoff Center, Procter & Gamble Hall, 650 Walnut St, Cincinnati, 45202; 513.621.ARTS; cincinnatiarts.org: The lesbian comic, whose career has taken her from stand-up to TV and movies, has been named one of the funniest people in America by Entertainment Weekly.

8p; $40-$65. She’s also at the Palace Theatre in Columbus on Saturday, Dec. 12, at the State Theatre in Cleveland on Saturday, March 19, and in this month’s Outlook, for an interview on Page 42.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 Cincinnati Men’s Chorus: Our Christmas Wish @ Christ Church Cathedral, 318 E 4th St, Cincinnati, 45202; 513.542.2626; cincinnatimenschorus.org: A collection of holiday songs performed over the FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 University of Cincinnati Fall Drag Show @ Tange- past 25 years includes poignant and lighthearted man University Center Great Hall, Cincinnati, numbers. 8p; $23. There’s another performance on 45220; 513.556.4329; FB: University of Cincinnati Sunday, Dec. 13 at 2p.

LGBTQ Center: Don’t forget your singles. 8p.

Fourth Annual Red Ribbon Hafla @ Southgate House SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 Caracole Christmas Tree Sale @ Revival, 111 E 6th St, NewFindlay Market, 1801 Race St, port, Ky., 41071; Cincinnati, 45202; 513.619.1483; 859.431.2201; southgatecaracole.org: Southwest Ohio’s house.com: Pirates and HIV/AIDS service organization raises belly dancers on stage tomoney every year through sales of gether? How can it not detrees and wreaths. The group also liver on the promise of “glittery needs help on the sales side. 8a-6p. Sales mayhem”? It’s a fundraiser for also will take place on Saturday, Dec. 12 and 19 Caracole, the HIV/AIDS service agency. 9p; from 8a-6p, and on Sunday, Dec. 6, 13 and 20 $15 ($10 in advance). from 10a-4p.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 Cin City Burlesque: Season’s Teasings @ 2621 Proud Scholars Fundraiser @ Below Zero, 1120 Vine St, Cincinnati, 45219; 513.872.8801; cincity- Walnut St, Cincinnati, 45202; proudscholars.org: burlesque.com: The women voted Ohio’s Best Bur- The new group that wants to build a scholarship, lesque Troupe present what they’re calling the mentoring and internship program for LGBT youth most irreverent holiday show around, “with all the hosts a Star Wars-themed costume party to raise bells, whistles ... and little else.” 7:30p; $15-$32. money. 6p-9p.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 Safe & Supported Movie Night @ Clifton Cultural Arts Center, 3711 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220; FB: Safe and Supported: An Initiative to Prevent LGBTQ Youth Homelessness: The new initiative hosts a fundraiser showing of Unconditional, a film that explores the impact of religion on LGBTQ youth. 7p.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 Crossport Holiday Social @ Gangsters Piano Bar, Newport Syndicate, 18 E 5th St, Newport, Ky., 41071; 513.344.0116; crossport.org: The social and support group for transgender folks and their friends hosts a holiday party that includes a fashion show. 7p-11p; $35.

We wanted to see how many times we could fit Wanda Sykes in the magazine.

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Western Ohio Rubi Girls • Celtic Woman • Straight No Chaser

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 A Reason to Dine @ various Dayton restaurants, 614.340.6777; 6p-9p: arcohio.org: Participating local restaurants will donate a percentage of the day’s proceeds to AIDS Resource Center Ohio. We’ll post them all at outlookohio.com when the list is finalized.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 Urbana Area PFLAG Meet n Eat @ Hafle Winery, 2369 Upper Valley Pike, Springfield, 45502; 937.653.4960; FB: UrbanaAreaPflag: A monthly informal gathering. 6p.

PFLAG Dayton Holiday Party @ Harmony Creek Church, 5280 Bigger Rd, Kettering, 45440; 937.640.3333; pflagdayton.org: Bring a dish to share. 6:30p.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 Chosen Family Feast @ Wright State University Student Union Rathskeller, DayFRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 Fetish/Leather Night @ MJ’s Café, 20 N ton, 45435; 937.775.5533; Jefferson St, Dayton, 45402; 937.223.3259; wright.edu/glbtqa: The celebration for mjsonjefferson.com: Wear your friends will feature plenty of food and an fetish/leather attire. Mr. International awkward family photo booth. Noon-2p.

Leather Patrick Smith is the night’s special guest. 11p.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 Lesbian Dayton Happy Hour @ Red Carpet Tavern, 3301 Wayne Ave, Dayton, 45420; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 Dayton Gay Men’s Chorus: Home Is Where lesbiandayton.com: Monthly happy hour. the Story Begins @ Westminster Presbyte- 7p-9:30p. rian Church, 125 N Wilkinson St, Dayton, 45402; 937.530.0642; daytongaymenscho- SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 rus.org: You’ll hear old favorites and some Celtic Woman: Home For Christmas Symthat are bound to be your new favorites. 6p; phony Tour @ Clark State Performing Arts $20.

Center, 300 S Fountain Ave, Springfield, 45506; 937.328.3874; pac.clarkstate.edu/events: A Christmas SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6 Dayton Gay Men’s Chorus: Home Is Where concert from the Celtic songbirds. 8p; $40the Story Begins @ Christ Episcopal $75.

Church, 409 E High St, Springfield, 45505; 937.530.0642; daytongaymenschorus.org: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 This is a free concert, but doMiami Valley Bears and Leather Men nations are encouraged.

Potluck @ Argos Bar, 301 Mabel 4p.

Ave, Dayton, 45403; FB: Miami Valley Bears & Leather Men: Dress as your favorite ChristMONDAY, mas character (one suggesDECEMBER 7 Drink With the tion is Sexy Santa, so you Rubi Girls @ Fifth get the idea...) and bring Street Brewpub, your favorite dish to share.

1600 E 5th St, Dayton, After dinner, the Christmas 45403; 937.443.0919; party begins. 6:30p-1:30a. rubigirls.com: Technically, they’re pouring beer and raising money for WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23 AIDS Resource Center Ohio. But if we know Straight No Chaser: The New Old-Fashthe Rubi Girls, they won’t refuse a cocktail ioned Tour @ Schuster Performing Arts or two. 6p-9p.

Center, 1 W 2nd St, Dayton, 45402; 937.228.3630; schustercenter.org: The 10man a cappella group is a mix of old and new songs and styles. 8p; $35-$72. outlookohio.com

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Northwest Ohio Dirty Dancing • Dave Koz • Paula Poundstone

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 A Reason to Dine @ various Toledo restaurants, 614.340.6777; arcohio.org: Participating local restaurants will donate a percentage of the day’s proceeds to AIDS Resource Center Ohio. We’ll post the final list of dining options at outlookohio.com.

Dirty Dancing @ Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd, Toledo, 43614; 419.381.8851; stranahantheater.com: A tale of love from opposite sides of the tracks made famous on film by Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey has been adapted to a stage musical where Baby still probably gets put in a corner.

Show runs through Sunday, Dec. 6, with two performances on both Saturday and Sunday. 7:30p; $28-$50.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 The Rise of Sneaker Culture @ Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St, Toledo, 43620; 419.255.8000; toledomuseum.org: The traveling exhibition explores the athletic shoe from its origins in the mid-1800s to its current place in high fashion. Exhibit on display until Feb. 28. Visit the website for museum hours.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 The Laramie Project @ University of Toledo Center for Performing Arts, 1910 W Rocket Dr, Toledo, 43606; 419.530.ARTS (2787); utoledo.edu/comm-arts: UT’s theater department presents the 2000 play that draws on hundreds of interviews conducted with residents of Laramie, Wyo., after the brutal 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student. 7:30p; $15 ($8 for students, $10 for seniors and staff). There are more performances scheduled for 7:30p on Saturday, Dec. 5, and 2p on Sunday, Dec. 6.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 Christmas at the Peristyle @ The Peristyle, Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St, Toledo, 43620; 419.246.8000; toledosymphony.com: The matinee will feature singalongs with the Toledo Opera Chorus, Children’s Choir of Northwest Ohio and a visit from Santa. 3p-4:30p; $20.

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Dave Koz sure gets around.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6 Handel’s Messiah @ The Peristyle, Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St, Toledo, 43620; 419.246.8000; toledosymphony.com: We’ll spare you our renditions of the “Hallelujah Chorus” and refer you to the professionals of the Toledo Choral Society and Bowling Green State University choruses. 2p-4:30p; $35.

Holiday With Heart Gayla @ The Toledo Club, 235 14th St, Toledo, 43604; Rick Cornett: 419.470.3937, Ed Hoffman: 419.241.9684; hwhcharitygayla.org: The annual “gayla” benefits the LGBT community of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. The ticket includes a dinner, dancing and entertainment.

Drink and raffle tickets will be available for purchase, as well as formal portraits.

Semi-formal dress required. 4p-11p; $75.

Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour @ Niswonger Performing Arts Center, 10700 State Route 118 S, Van Wert, 45891; 419.238.6722; npacvw.org: The Grammy-nominated, openly gay saxophonist has been performing his holiday tour for 17 years now. 7:30p; $30-$50.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 Paula Poundstone @ Valentine Theatre, 410 Adams St, Toledo, 43604 www.paulapoundstone.com: One of Poundstone’s recent Tweets: “I’m in an outdoor store [in] Virginia. I keep going up to the guys in camouflage section yelling, “I see you.” $28-$50.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 The Nutcracker @ Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd, Toledo, 43614; 419.381.8851; toledoballet.net: It’s the 75th anniversary of the Toledo Ballet performing the Christmas tale - the longest running annual Nutcracker in the country. There are two performances on Saturday at 2p and 7p and one on Sunday, Dec. 13, at 2p; $25-$55.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18 It’s a Wonderful Life @ Valentine Theatre, 410 Adams St, Toledo, 43604; 419.242.2787; valentinetheatre.com: Buffalo gals, won’t you come out tonight? 7:30p; $5. outlookohio.com

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Northeast Ohio The Wizard of Oz • Adam Lambert • Dave Koz

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 The Wizard of Oz @ State Theatre, Playhouse Square, 1519 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 44115; 216.241.6000; clevelandplayhouse.com: The film classic is adapted for the stage in a production that includes all the favorite songs and characters, plus a few new tunes from Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. 7:30p; $10-$80.

Trough Sunday, Dec. 6.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 Feefer Rising @ Parish Hall, Cleveland Public Theatre, 6415 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, 44102; 216.631.2727; cptonline.org: Sexuality and selfhood intertwine as a girl navigates the journey from pre-puberty through late adolescence. The play challenges a culture that alternately shames and sexualizes young women. 7p; $12-$25. Through Saturday, Dec. 19.

The Santaland Diaries @ Outcalt Theater, Playhouse Square, 1407 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 44115; 216.241.6000; clevelandplayhouse.com: Cleveland Public Theatre will produce David Sedaris’ semi-autobiographical tale of a 33-year-old outof-work actor who takes a job as a Macy’s Christmas elf. 8:30p; $30. There are 15 performances scheduled through Sunday, Dec. 20.

land, 44115; 216.241.6000; clevelandplayhouse.com: The Grammy-nominated, openly gay saxophonist has been performing his holiday tour for 17 years now. 7:30p; $10-$69.50.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 Media Matters Founder David Brock @ City Club of Cleveland, 850 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 44114; 216.621.0082; cityclub.org: The gay former conservative journalist-turned-liberal activist will speak about the 2016 presidential race. Noon; $35 ($20 for members).

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 Blazing River Freedom Band: Tis the Season: Holiday Traditions & Memories @ Archwood United Church of Christ, 2800 Archwood Ave, Cleveland, 44109: New director Jeff Bodkin takes the baton to lead Cleveland’s LGBT concert band. 7p; $5.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 Iron Eagles Christmas Benefit Bar Night @ Leather Stallion, 2205 St. Clair Ave, Cleveland, 44114; 216.589.8588; ironeagles.com: The Northeast Ohio leather/Levis club is busy during the holidays. The group also will host a toy drive at Crew (304 Cherry Ave E, Canton, 44702) on Dec. 5. 5p.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 Miss All American Goddess Dena Cass @ Interbelt, 70 N Howard St, Akron, 44310; 330.253.5700; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 North Coast Men’s Chorus: Unwrapped @ Hanna interbelt.com: The nationally known drag queen Theatre, 2067 E 14th St, Cleveland, 44115; performs. Hosted by Ashley Adams Andrews. Time 216.241.6000; clevelandplayhouse.com: The gay and ticket info not yet available. men’s chorus kicks off the holiday season with its annual performance. 3p and 8p; $10-$45. There’s THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 another performance at 3p on Sunday, Dec. 6.

Allies for Equality Holiday Party @ Music Box Supper Club, 1148 Main Ave, Cleveland, 44113; Arktos Bears Toy Drive @ Cocktails-Akron, 33 W 614.224.0400; FB: Equality Ohio: The statewide Mapledale Ave, Akron, 44325; arktosbears.org: LGBT group hosts its biggest Cleveland fundraiser Bring a new, unwrapped gift. of the year and will honor Cleveland Public The9p-midnight. atre’s Raymond Bobgan as the 2015 Cleveland Ally of the Year.5:30p-7:30p; $100.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 Q104 Holiday Show Naughty Ball IV: Star Wars Edition @ Aura With Adam Lambert Ultra Lounge, 1313 E 26th St, Cleveland, and Echosmith @ Con44114; 216.812.3330; FB: AURA Ultra Lounge: nor Palace, Playhouse An intergalactic dance party with DJ Kidd Madonny Square, 1615 Euclid Ave, Cleveand special guest Erika Norell. 9p; $10-$15. land, 44115; 216.241.6000; clevelandplayhouse.com: The openly gay American SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27 Idol finalist takes the stage with the four-sibling TaDa Series: Don We Now Our Gay Apparel! @ adindie pop band. 8p; $39.50-$69.50. dress given to those who attend, 216.651.5428; lgbtcleveland.org: The LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland hosts another in its TaDa! series of THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour @ Connor fundraisers at the decked-out home of Cleveland Palace, Playhouse Square, 1615 Euclid Ave, Cleve- supporters. The night also includes a buffet. 6p; $60. outlookohio.com

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BARS & CLUBS Akron

Ohio Lgbt Nightlife Roundup

Adams Street 77 N Adams St Akron, 44305 330.434.9794 adamsstreetbar.com FB: Adams Street Bar Cocktails 2.0 33 W Mapledale Ave Akron, 44301 330.376.2625 FB: Cocktails Akron Interbelt 70 N Howard St Akron, 44310 330.253.5700 interbelt.com FB: Interbelt Nite Club Square 820 W Market St Akron, 44310 330.374.9661 squarenightclub.com FB: Square Nightclub Tear-Ez 360 S Main St Akron, 44311 330.376.0011 tear-ez.com Canton

Crew 304 Cherry Ave NE Canton, 44702 330.575.5748 FB: Crew Canton Studio 704 704 4th St SW Canton, 44702 330.453.1220 Cincinnati

Bar 32 701 Bakewell St Covington, Ky 41011 859.431.7011 bar32covky.com FB: Bar 32 Cov KY

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Below Zero 1120 Walnut St Cincinnati, 45202 513.421.9376 belowzerolounge.com FB: Below Zero Lounge The Cabaret 1122 Walnut St Cincinnati, 45202 513.202.4052 cabaretcincinnati.com FB: The Cabaret

Simon Says 428 Walnut St Cincinnati, 45202 513.381.7577 Cleveland

Bonkers 36091 Vine St, Eastlake, 44095 440.942.1959 FB: Bonkers

The Dock 603 Pete Rose Way Cincinnati, 45202 513.241.5623 FB: The Dock Complex

Bounce 2814 Detroit Ave Cleveland, 44113 216.357.2997 bouncecleveland.com

Home Base Tavern 2401 Vine St Cincinnati, 45219 513.721.1212 FB: HBT Pride

Cocktails 9208 Detroit Ave Cleveland, 44102 216.961.3115 FB: Cocktails Cleveland

Main Event 835 Main St Cincinnati, 45202 513.421.1294 FB: Main Event

The Hawk 11217 Detroit Ave Cleveland, 44102 216.521.5443 thehawkbar.com FB: The Hawk

Old Street Saloon 13 Old St Monroe, 45050 513.539.9183 oldstreetbar.com FB: Old Street Saloon On Broadway 817 Broadway St Cincinnati, 45202 513.421.2555 FB: On Broadway Bar Rosie’s Tavern 643 Bakewell St Covington, Ky 41011 859.291.9707 rosiestavernnky.com FB: Rosie’s Tavern Shooters 927 Race St Cincinnati, 45202 513.381.9900 FB: Shooters Bar

Leather Stallion 2205 St Clair Ave NE Cleveland, 44114 216.589.8588 leatherstallion.com FB: The Stallion Leather Stallion Saloon

Cleveland, 44102 216.221.2333 FB: Twist Sc

Vibe 11633 Lorain Ave Cleveland, 44111 216.476.1970 vibecleveland.com FB: Vibe Bar + Patio Columbus

AWOL 49 Parsons Ave Columbus, 43215 614.621.8779 awolbar.com FB: Awol Bar Axis 775 N High St Columbus, 43215 614.291.4008 axisonhigh.com FB: Axis The Back Door 1662 W Mound St Columbus, 43223 614.817.1444 FB: The Back Door Cavan Irish Pub 1409 S High St Columbus, 43207 614.725.5502 cavanirishpub.com FB: Cavan Irish Pub Club 20 20 E Duncan St Columbus, 43202 614.261.9111 FB: Club 20

Mean Bull / Aura 1313 E 26th St Cleveland, 44114 216.812.3330 meanbull.com Club Diversity FB: AURA Ultra Lounge 863 S High St Columbus, 43206 614.224.4050 Paradise Inn 4488 State Rd clubdiversity.biz Cleveland, 44109 FB: Club Diversity 216.741.9819 FB: Paradise Inn Exile 893 N 4th St Columbus, 43201 Twist 11633 Clifton Blvd 614.299.0069

exilebar.com FB: Exile

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

Leather Bar

Masque 20 N Jefferson St Dayton, 45402 937.228.2582 clubmasque.com FB: Masque

419.522.1500 FB: Sami’s Bar Sandusky

Warren

Club 441 441 E Market St Warren, 44481 330.394.9483 FB: Club 441

Crowbar 206 W Market St Sandusky, 44870 419.624.0109 sanduskycrowbar.com Funky Skunk MJ’s on Jefferson FB: Sandusky Crowbar 143 E Market St 20 N Jefferson St Warren, 44481 Dayton, 45402 FB: Funky Skunk NiteSlammers Springfield 202 E Long St 937.223.3259 Club Columbus, 43215 mjsonjefferson.com Diesel 614.221.8880 FB: MJ’s on Jefferson 1914 Edwards Ave Youngstown FB: Slammers Springfield, 45503 Mineshaft 937.324.0383 Right Corner 1105 Poland Ave 105 E 3rd St FB: Diesel Bar & Southbend Youngstown, 44502 126 E Moler St Dayton, 45402 Nightclub 330.207.6437 Columbus, 43207 937.228.2033 youngstownmine614.444.3386 FB: Right Corner Why Not III shaft.com FB: Southbend Tavern 5 N Murray St FB: Youngstown Sparky’s Lounge Springfield, 45503 Mineshaft 822 Watertower Lane 937.450.6428 The Toolbox 744 Frebis Ave West Carrollton, FB: Why-Not-III Utopia Columbus, 43206 45449 876 E Midlothian Blvd 614.670.8113 937.859.1062 Toledo Youngstown, 44502 FB: The Toolbox Saloon FB: Sparky’s Lounge 330.781.9000 Bretz FB: Utopia 2012 Adams St Tremont Lounge Stage Door Youngstown 708 S High St 44 N Jefferson St Toledo, 43604 Columbus, 43206 Dayton, 45402 419.243.1900 BATHS 614.444.2041 937.223.7418 FB: Bretz Nightclub FB: Tremont Lounge FB: The Stage Door ! g soon Akron Steam penin oGeorgiz and Sauna 1205 Adams St, Union Café Lima 41 S Case Ave 782 N High St Toledo, 43604 Akron, Ohio 44305 Columbus, 43215 Somewhere 330.252.2791 614.421.2233 804 W North St Legends akronsteamandunioncafe.com Lima, 45801 117 N Erie St sauna.com FB: Union Cafe 419.227.7288 Toledo, 43604 somewherelima.com 567.315.8333 FB: Somewhere legendsbartoledo.com Club Columbus Wall Street 144 N Wall St FB: Legends Showclub 795 W 5th Ave Columbus, Ohio Columbus, 43215 Toledo Lorain 43212 614.464.2800 614.291.0049 wallstreetnightTim’s Place Mojo the-clubs.com clubandshowbar.com 2223 Broadway 115 N Erie St FB: Wall Street Lorain, 44052 Toledo, 43604 Flex Night Club 440.218.2223 567.315.8333 2600 Hamilton Ave, timsinlorain.webs.com mojobartoledo.com Cleveland, Ohio 44114 FB: Tim’s Place FB: Mojo’s Dayton 216.812.3304 flexspas.com Argos Mansfield R-House 301 Mabel St 5534 Secor Rd GET LISTED! Dayton, 45403 Toledo, 43623 Sami’s 937.252.2976 178 Wayne St 419.474.2929 Update/add listing: FB: Argos Levi & Mansfield, 44902 FB: Rhouse Bar erin@outlookmedia.com

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savage love

by Dan Savage

COLD CUCKED

I’ve always been a big believer in the common-sense obviousness that monogamy is hard. Additionally, I like the idea of my wife getting fucked. I don’t have any desire to be denigrated or emasculated; I just get off on the idea of her being satisfied and a little transgressive.

Early in our relationship, we talked about monogomish guidelines: I’d like to be informed and consulted, and she would rather I kept mine to myself.

Last weekend we were having sex, and she asked me if I “want to hear a story,” code for treating me to a tale of a sexual contact. She’d been out of town for work most of the summer, and she told me that one of her roommates had gotten in the shower with her and fingered her until she came.

thing your wife has to do, CUCKS, and one thing you have to do.

Your wife has to express remorse for this affair - and it was an affair, not an adventure - and take responsibility for the anger, the hurt, and um, all the great sex you two have been having since the big reveal.

You don’t give her version of events - why she kept this from you - but you were depressed and lonely while she was away, and she may have concluded that informing and consulting you about this guy (first when she wanted to fuck him, and then when she was actually fucking him) would’ve made you feel worse.

This conclusion is a massive self-serving rationalization, of course, because she knew you would veto the affair if she informed and consulted you. Figuring it would be easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, she went ahead and fucked the guy all summer long and then disclosed when your dick was hard.

I asked her if she’d fucked him, and she said yes. It was all hot and awesome. But a few hours later, I was experiencing pangs: Why hadn’t she told me or asked me at the time?

Also, I felt very alone and depressed that summer, and when I’d gone to visit her, my wife and this roommate acted very strangely.

I told her that I thought it was hot and cool, but that I didn’t think it was cool that she’d kept this from me for so long.

Things got worse from there: Over the last week, we’ve had some great sex and open conversations but also a lot of anger and hurt. The truth is that she carried on with this guy all summer.

It’s not the sex that bothers me so much as the breadth of the deception, the disregard for my feelings, and the violation of our agreement. And, yes, I’m feeling a little emasculated.

How does a loving husband who intellectually believes that fooling around is OK - and who finds it hot sexually - get over this kind of hurt and anger? Help me get right with GGGesus.

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Your wife needs to own up to the deception, the dishonesty and the manipulation, and then take responsibility for the hurt she caused.

That requires a sincere expression of remorse and promise it won’t happen again.

She shouldn’t promise not to fuck around on you again.

You don’t want that, right? What she’s promising is not to deceive you again, not to go in for self-serving rationalizations again and not to avoid informing and consulting you again.

And one more thing that won’t do: She won’t humiliate you again. You feel emasculated in the wake of this affair because her summer fuck buddy knew what was up when you two met and you didn’t. He knew who you were (the husband), but you didn’t know who he was (the fuck buddy).

Now here’s the thing you have to do, CUCKS: You have to forgive your wife. Mistakes were made, feelings were hurt, massive loads were blown. The fact that there was an upside for you even in this messy affair (see: massive loads, blown) should make forgiving your wife a little easier.

You can email Dan Savage at mail@savagelove.net, follow him on Twitter at @fakedansavage or listen to his weekly podcast, Savage Lovecast, every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. Savage Love appears every month in Outlook and every week at outlookohio.com.

Santa baby, you can slip your sable under my tree.

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the divine life

by Debé

Sagittarius (November 22 December 21) You’re feeling verklempt this month.

Instead of hiding from uncomfortable emotions, embrace them like a birthday or holiday gift. It’s more valuable than baubles or gizmos, or even designer threads. It can also bring you closer to a certain someone.

Trailblazing Sagittarians: Miley Cyrus, Margaret Cho, Billy Strayhorn, Robin Roberts Capricorn (December 22 - January 19) Are you grumpy about the commercialization of the season and the social expectations? Get over it, Grinch. Go out there and force yourself to have fun. You might end up enjoying yourself and your heart might grow three sizes bigger.

a little distraction now and again. Shiny!

Cancer (June 21 July 22) You feel everything so strongly, especially this month.

The full moon in your sign on the 25th gives you the mojo to make your dreams come true. Be careful what you wish for, though.

Don’t be too greedy.

Leo (July 23 - August 22) You are a Rockette this month - all confidence and high kicks! Your strength and charisma are in full force. Perhaps you should wrap yourself in garland and hang out under the mistletoe. Pucker up and enjoy all the attention.

Aquarius (January 20 - February 18) Oh my. All the holiday hoopla is right up your alley this month, but pace yourself. Everyone wants to play with you, but stuff your stocking too much and you’ll have a winter blowout. Holiday hangovers are not pretty, darling.

Virgo (August 23 - September 22) Remember Hermie, the elf who wanted to be a dentist? It’s time to shake off unwanted expectations and march to your own drummer, boy. You are well on your way to making your own dreams come true, and not someone else’s. Happy holidays!

Pisces (February 19 - March 20) It’s all silver bells and rainbows this month. You are feeling festive and fun and ready for just about anything. Go ahead and indulge, just don’t have so much fun that you end up on Santa’s naughty list - unless that’s what you’re into.

Libra (September 23 - October 22) Sometimes conflict gives you a needed push. It’s time to open your eyes and sharpen your claws.

There are battles worth fighting, and confronting your fears brings an epiphany. What a great present!

Aries (March 21 - April 19) You have to walk a slippery and potentially icy line between what you want and what others want or need from you. Argh! This will test your limits, but rise to the challenge. Otherwise, relationships could get frosty.

Scorpio (October 23 - November 21) Mellow and domestic feelings dominate through year’s end. Whether baking, cooking or trimming the tree, it’s a break from your normal intensity and a gift to those around you. You can be such a cuddly bear when you want to be.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Do you feel like you’re caught in a snow globe that someone’s shaking? That can make you shorttempered, but think before you speak. Suck on a candy cane - or something - until the urge to lash out passes.

Handy Tip: The Apollo line is a vertical line under the ring finger. This line - or lines - demonstrates creative talent. Several lines can indicate so much creativity it’s hard to focus on one thing. Squirrel!

Gemini (May 21 - June 20) Take a tip from Rudolph and shed some light on problems you can tackle. As for the things outside your control? Bah-humbug, forget them and kick up your hooves a little. There’s nothing wrong with outlookohio.com

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 thepassionatepalmist.com. Look for her horoscopes every month in Outlook.

Looking forward to the Year of the Monkey!

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1 Petty of A League of Their Own 5 Be reminded of S&M, e.g.

9 Arc on Bernstein’s music score 13 Nuts 14 Hunted animal 15 Rubber on a rim 16 Start of a hopeful saying by 53Across 18 Cole Porter’s “___ Love Again” 19 “Get your ass moving!”

20 Toklas of 20th century Paris 21 More of the saying 24 West Side Story gang 27 Emissionswatching org.

28 Insurance giant 29 Like “kweer,” to spellers 34 Strip a fruit 35 More of the saying 36 “You’ve Made ___ Very Happy” 37 Part of Adam that was used to make Steve?

39 Sport of Pam Parsons, for short 40 Stepchild of Caitlyn 41 Shook up

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42 End of the saying 47 Circles over Mary and Peter 48 Blow away 52 Norse port 53 ‘50s Hollywood heartthrob who lives on a horse ranch 55 Pansy supporter 56 Sometime defender of gay rights 57 Isherwood’s ___ Camera 58 Seemingly forever 59 Shout to Nellie 60 Stuff for oral gratification

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1 Unit of flagellation 2 Melville novel about a mutiny 3 Gambol 4 Tina dumped him 5 Insects that really suck 6 El Greco’s homeland 7 Ship, to seamen 8 Ball in the skull 9 Liquor source in Gomer’s Mayberry 10 Casino ceiling

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11 Robert of Spenser: For Hire 12 Transsexual Richards 17 Dahl’s Willy 20 Ruck of Spin City 22 Place where you go straight 23 Per bottle of soda?

24 Suckers 25 Load 26 Gillette brand 29 ___ donna 30 In an early stage 31 Drop from a duct 32 Lesbos, for one 33 Opening for cock 35 Singer Williamson 38 Barely earns,

with “out” 39 Language group including Zulu 41 Lover of Abraham 42 “___ were the days ...”

43 Can’t help but 44 First name in talk 45 Inn array 46 Gertrude painter 49 Colorado neighbor 50 Sea bottom captain 51 Pull out your shooter 53 “I taught I ___ a puddy tat!”

54 Interjection for Magnus Hirschfeld

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

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