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As the new decade begins, the local LGBT population is continuing the goals of a leader who spent the better part of the last decade building “community” here. After six years as executive director of the William Way LGBT C o m m u n i t y C e n t e r, ’Dolph Ward Goldenburg ended his tenure and moved to Atlanta to be with his partner. Goldenburg was credited with heightening the center’s visibility in both the LGBT and mainstream communities and enhancing the organization’s ability to provide outreach and opportunities. During his tenure, the
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number of annual visitors to the center more than doubled, from 24,000 to 50,000 and the staff size expanded e x p o n e n t i a l l y. T h e increased staff capacity and improvement of the center’s finances that occurred under Goldenburg’s direction allowed the center’s programming to flourish, including the launch of the vastly popular Way Gay U program, which, in the past year, offered more classes than ever. “He was invaluable in bringing the center to an entirely different level,” said the Hon. Ann Butchart, treasurer of the center’s board. “He not only stabilized the center but really advanced it as an institution in the
community, and helped make it become the real focal point for activities and for momentum.” Jane Shull, executive director of Philadelphia FIGHT and former center board member, agreed that Goldenburg was the driving force behind the center’s development and successes. “I think ’Dolph did a stellar job at the center. His professionalGOLDENBURG (THIRD FROM RIGHT) PGN Archive Photo ism and his treating the center in a professional manner and recruiting people who’d also behave in that way was just absolutely key to the center’s transformation and its increased stability and increased programming,” Shull said. MURPHY (FROM LEFT), SESTAK AND SPECTER “And ’Dolph was very much responsible for a
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We hear it all the time: “You’re everywhere.” Well, we’re really not, but we do try to cover as many events as we can. We usually get to several places in a week and sometimes several in a day when things are hopping. There are occasionally overlapping events on our Wednesday deadline that prevent us from getting photo coverage and, at other times, we don’t have enough advance notice for an event, but we try to include as many as we can. Photos are a big part of the stories we tell at PGN and, this year, we brought our readers more photos of events from our area than ever before. We occasionally include pictures to add context to a story, but more frequently we print
photos from the special events that happen each week. We also feature annual photo spreads of OutFest and Philly Pride, some photomontages of QFest, Liberty Stampede and Philly Black Gay Pride and a special Sports in Philly version of Scene in Philly. Here are our favorite photos for 2009, representing organized events, awards, Pride, rallies, fundraisers, protests, sports and other events, and why we chose them. The Kiss A great photo doesn’t need the support of words. One of our favorite pictures was of David Jones and Chris Oronzi, and Jim and Richie Madden, during the kissin protest in Love Park last summer. Organizers held the protest in response to incidents in which police detained same-sex couples in Texas and Utah for public dis-
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lot of the physical transformation of the actual building that meant that a wider group of people in the community saw this as a place to be and a place that is welcoming to everyone.” Throughout his years at the center, Goldenburg led the effort to install an elevator, which was unveiled this past summer during the agency’s Building Bash celebration and fundraiser. Also in the last year, the center hosted 70 executive directors of LGBT community centers from throughout the country for a weekend conference, enhancing the agency’s networking abilities and its prominence in the
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plays of affection. We spent two hours in the park, through the protest set-up and speakers, to have about 20 seconds to get the picture (1). We covered many rallies and protests in 2009, including those organized by ACT-UP, Calcutta See FAVORITE PHOTOS, Page 2
A bill moving through the Pennsylvania House that purports to expand options for victims of sex crimes has faced staunch opposition from HIV/AIDS advocates. House Bill 265, sponsored by Rep. Mark Mustio (R-44th Dist.), was the subject of a public hearing in the House Judiciary Committee Dec. 21. The legislation, introduced in February as the HIVRelated Testing for Sex Offenders Act, seeks to institute a process by which a district attorney can request a court order to test a suspect for HIV within 48 hours of him or her being held for court. Currently, victims may request an HIV test for an individual with whom they have had contact — either in a criminal context or not
— although no formal process is in place. Ronda Goldfein, executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, testified against the bill during the hearing, enumerating several objections she has to its provisions, mainly that it lacks an emphasis on the dispersion of accurate HIV information to victims. “When a victim is in the emergency room after an assault, she needs to first be given information on whether there was a risk for transmission,” Goldfein said. “Rape counselors have to ask different questions about what the exposure was, if there was penetration and then, if there was, if the victim knew the assailant and knew about a possible HIV infecSee HIV TESTING, Page 15
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FAVORITE PHOTOS From Page 1 House and others to raise awareness of the state-budget impasse and the proposed arts tax. But this picture captured our hearts along with our passion to protest. Equality Forum held the first national rally outside D.C. since 2000 in front of Independence Hall on a rainy Sunday afternoon in May. We were there and have included in our picks a photo of supporters with a rainbow of umbrellas and raincoats who came out to hear Nathaniel Frank, Frank Kameny, Dan Miller and Nurit Shein speak (2).
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invited to join Obama on the train was openly gay Ohio history professor Lisa Hazirjian and her partner Michelle (3). Other politicians we photographed last year included San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Pennsylvania U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-8th Dist.), state Sens. Daylin Leach (D-17th Dist.) and Larry Farnese (D-1st Dist.), Mayor Nutter, Gov. Rendell and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (D), who attended the Pride Festival at Penn’s Landing for the first time. The Running of the Steps Sometimes we like a picture because of its fun value — both shooting it and the final product. North East Regional Pride, an association of pride organizations in the Northeastern United States, held a weekend conference in our city in March, with 100 or so participants sharing ideas about pride events. And, at the behest of Philly Pride Presents executive director
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Franny Price and senior advisor Chuck Volz, they ran the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (4). Philadelphia and the William Way LGBT Community Center also hosted the Centerlink conference in the fall, the largest-to-date gathering of community-center executive directors in the world. The group spent time in workshops, dinners and social events talking about how to improve LGBT centers around the world. As often as we take group photos, this one impressed us because of the number of people on the grand center stairs (and we had to go back the next day and retake the shot to get it right) (5). We covered quite a number of events at the center in 2009,
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Memorial Scholarship and Greater Philadelphia Professional Network awards, and did a spread for our Pink Penny Awards. We like the photo of Chad Allen receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award during last year ’s renamed Philly QFest — not so much because it’s colorful, bold or funny, but because it is a singularly nice moment (6). Besides Allen, we got celebrity pictures of Johnny Weir, Jack Mackenroth, Sharon Gless, Miss Philadelphia 2008 Brintha Vasagar and too many of our local LGBT entertainers to mention, as well as a fun photo of George Takei on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise at the Franklin Institute with chief astronomer Derrick Pitts (7). Festive Fests We know everyone loves Philly’s festivals and the photo spreads that result. We chose the poodle picture because it’s just plain fun and captures the spirit of the events (8). Tens of thousands participate in Philly Pride and OutFest, and the staff of PGN joins in for our own enjoyment just as much as for the
6 coverage. We also covered Black Gay Pride, Latino Pride and the Dyke March last year, as well as CineFest, QFest and Equality Forum. By Land and By Sea The Penn Pride Games last year gave us another great photo. Not only is the image visually stimulating, but it also represents the future LGBT leaders, organizers and advocates. This event, organized by Penn’s Athletes and Advocates Tackling Homophobia, was the culmination of QPenn Week at the university (9). Many other sports clubs also got exposure through our lens. We covered the opening pitch of the City of Brotherly Love Softball League, lifetime achievement See FAVORITE PHOTOS, Page 8
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PERSON From Page 1 national LGBT spectrum. Ted Greenberg, who has served on the center’s board for three years, said Goldenburg’s direction was an invaluable asset to the organization’s future. “He is a dynamic and talented individual with endless energy,” Greenberg said. “Through ’Dolph’s leadership and vision, the William Way Community Center has become a world-class community center.” More than 100 people attended a farewell reception Nov. 17 for Goldenburg, during which state Sen. Larry Farnese (D-1st Dist.) presented the outgoing director with a citation from the Senate, marking the first time the term “LGBT” was used in an official Senate commendation. The board appointed Laurie Ward as interim executive director during its search for a permanent leader, though Butchart noted it will be a challenge to find someone to fill Goldenburg’s shoes. She joked that Goldenburg’s diminutive stature belied his personality, which she said guided his many contributions to the center and the local LGBT community. “For being so short, he was really big in his heart. Unlike a lot of administrators, ’Dolph really took the mission of the organization as his own mission and made personal sacrifices, which I think is very unusual to see people make these days. He has a massive heart and cast an incredibly long shadow.” ALLIES OF THE YEAR U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy The first Iraq War veteran in Congress took over the legislative effort to repeal the military’s ban on openly gay servicemembers in 2009, lending visibility to the damaging effects of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” on residents in the Delaware Valley, as well as throughout the country. Pennsylvania U.S. Rep Patrick Murphy (D-8th Dist.) became the lead sponsor on the Military Readiness Enhancement Act in July and, since then, has boosted the number of cosponsors from 140 to 186, the highest level of support the bill’s ever seen by far: Last session, the legislation acquired 149 cosponsors before it died in committee. Murphy, along with a coalition of LGBT and ally servicemembers, kicked off a national campaign in Philadelphia this past summer, sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign and Servicemembers United, that took them on a tour of the country for roundtable discussions and public forums on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Murphy also toured the cable talk-show circuit, appearing on such programs as “The Rachel Maddow Show” and on CNN to discuss his plans for overturning the law. In October, Murphy spearheaded a one-hour discussion on the policy on the House floor and launched a Web site, www.LetThemServe.org, which provides resources and encourages visitors to sign a petition to end the ban. U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak
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U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak (D-7th Dist.) has come out swinging on LGBT issues in the past year. Sestak, who’s looking to unseat longtime U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (D) in the upcoming spring primary, has taken his efforts to advance LGBT rights to the media, the military and Congress. Sestak, who as a former Navy admiral is the highest-ranking former military officer ever elected to Congress, issued letters of support to the military’s discharge board this past summer on behalf of Lt. Dan Choi, who is being discharged under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Sestak and Choi have teamed up to raise awareness about the policy, participating in live blogs with LGBT and mainstream Web sites and appearing together on such programs as “The Rachel Maddow Show.” Sestak also appealed to top military officials on behalf of openly gay discharged Navy sailor Joseph Rocha, who alleged that years of abuse by his fellow sailors was motivated by homophobia. Following Sestak’s continued correspondence and meetings with Navy officials, the Navy relaunched an investigation into the allegations and eventually censured the individual accused of tormenting Rocha. Sestak has also been a strong proponent of the Respect for Marriage Act, which seeks to repeal the federal ban on same-sex marriage, and this past fall wrote a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (DCalif.) urging her to bring the bill up for a vote. The Congressman also addressed the Defense of Marriage Act and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in a fall press conference, during which Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) gave him his endorsement, and he also spoke directly to the LGBT community during appearances at last summer’s Pride and this fall’s OutFest. U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (D) from Pennsylvania made headlines in the spring when he announced he was leaving the Republican Party to become a Democrat. The longtime senator has followed that transition with increased outreach to the LGBT community. Specter, who’s represented Pennsylvania in the Senate for nearly 30 years, has voted with the LGBT community numerous times during his tenure — including a vote against the original enactment of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and longtime support for an LGBTinclusive hate-crimes bill — and announced in the fall that he was changing his position on the federal ban on same-sex marriage. Specter voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, but announced on the Senate floor and in an opinion piece published in the Huffington Post in October that he believes the law should be repealed. In a recent interview with PGN, Specter said his mindset, as well as the general mood of the country, has progressed since the enactment of DOMA, and that he would cosponsor a version of the Respect for Marriage Act, which would lift the ban, if and when it’s introduced in the Senate. This past summer, Specter made his first-
ever appearance at Philadelphia’s Pride festival at Penn’s Landing. RUNNERS UP Soda Nobuhle Soda Nobuhle continued to emerge in the past year as a leader in the local LGBT community. Nobuhle was appointed late last year to the mayor’s Advisory Board on LGBT Issues and juggled that role with other leadership positions, including as a board member of the Liberty City Democratic Club and the People of Color Coalition. The National Association of Black and White Men Together last year elected Nobuhle as the first-ever female to serve on its board of directors. Men of All Colors Together, the local chapter of NABWMT, held its annual conference in Philadelphia in the summer and presented its Gerald L. Mallon Resisting Racism Award to Nobuhle. Nobuhle was also an organizer for the LGBTQ Womyn of Color Conference held in Philadelphia last March and spurred the continued growth and expansion of The Womyn’s Village, an organization for sexual-minority women of color that she founded. Dawn Segal Out attorney Dawn Segal launched a successful campaign last year to become a Municipal Court judge, gaining confidence from both the LGBT and mainstream communities. Segal, an attorney for 25 years, was endorsed by Liberty City and the National Organization for Women, among other organizations, and was recommended by the Philadelphia Bar Association. Segal was the third-highest vote-getter of eight judicial candidates in the Municipal Primary last spring, and sailed through the General Election in November as one of two gay judges elected in the state for this year — alongside Court of Common Pleas Judge Dan Anders. Ron Sy Like many other nonprofit heads, Ron Sy, longtime executive director of AIDS Services in Asian Communities, steered his agency successfully through the state-budget crisis, while continuing to expand the organization’s reach and influence. Sy, a board member of Men of All Colors Together, focused last year on diversifying the health messages the agency disperses, broadening the scope beyond HIV/AIDS to include other diseases affecting the community, such as hepatitis. He has also worked to ensure health information is available to people of all backgrounds, designing materials in languages such as Chinese, Indonesian and Korean. Sy brought his experiences and the concerns of the local LGBT and HIV/AIDS communities to the national level during his participation in a discussion with representatives of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy in the fall, alongside other leaders of Asian HIV/AIDS service organizations from around the country. ■
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News Briefing Drag show raises funds for the sick Congregation Beth Ahavah will welcome “Joey & His Girls” to Rodeph Shalom, 615 N. Broad St., at 8 p.m. Jan. 16 for a night of song and laughs to benefit local residents struggling with illnesses. The drag show will raise funds for the LGBT-inclusive congregation’s Bikur Holim Committee, which provides outreach to the sick. Tickets to the show are $20, and refreshments will be served. For more information or to make reservations, call (215) 923-2003 or e-mail bethahavah@rodephshalom.org.
Gay BINGO returns The first Gay BINGO of the new year will kick off at 7 p.m. Jan. 23 at the Gershman Y, 401 S. Broad St. Last month’s event was canceled due to the city’s record snowstorm, but the fundraising tradition will return in style this month with a “Golden Globes AfterParty” theme, complete with a red carpet and paparazzi. Floor seats are $25 and balcony tickets are $20, with all proceeds going to benefit AIDS Fund, which distributes funding to HIV/AIDS service organizations throughout the area. For more information, visit www.aidsfundphilly.org.
Mazzoni to launch legal services Beginning Jan. 4, LGBT health organization Mazzoni Center will officially launch its legal department, a transition that will be celebrated Jan. 21 with a public reception from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Philadelphia Bar Association, 1101 Market St., 11th floor. The reception will be sponsored by Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia, Lambda Legal and the LGBT Affairs Committee of the PBA, as well as Mazzoni and Equality Advocates Pennsylvania. Equality Advocates announced last year that it was discontinuing its legal services to focus more on advocacy and education, but that Mazzoni Center had agreed to absorb the legal department into its own programming. Legal director Amara Chaudhry, as well as student interns working in the department, will now be headquartered at Mazzoni Center. For more information, call (215) 5630652. ■ — Jen Colletta
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The Liberty City Democratic Club, a local LGBT political organization, recently chose two new leaders in an election that saw an important first for the group. The club voted in Gregory Walker and Adah Bush as its new co-chairs at a Nov. 4 meeting, marking the first time people of color are leading the organization. Ray Murphy, who co-chaired the agency since the summer of 2007, alongside Casey Cook, who has been at the helm since May 2008, hailed the pair as an asset to the club. “They’re both really smart, ambitious and excited, and I think they can help take us to the next level,” Murphy said. Walker, 46, is a Connecticut native who spent years working in the nonprofit sector in New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., devoting much of his efforts to the HIV/AIDS field. His posts have included clinic director of the AIDS program at Bellevue Hospital in New York, as well as involvement in the National Task Force for AIDS Prevention. He arrived in Philadelphia about four years ago and has been working as a nonprofit consultant, lending his skills to local orga-
nizations the Black Gay Men’s Leadership Council and Tenant Union Representative Network, a housing-advocacy agency where Walker focused on discrimination and homelessness facing the LGBT population. Last year, Walker founded The Brothers Network, which he described as “a cultural organization that brings together gay and straight men around art, music, theater and culture.” Walker serves as a Democratic executive committeeperson in the 5th Ward, 9th Division, an area that encompasses the Gayborhood and a position he said encouraged him to become a member of Liberty City in 2007. “We ensure that the get-out-thevote [effort] is heavy and that voters actually know the issues. So I’ve spent a fair amount of time talking and listening to candidates up for public office every election cycle and then rolling out an endorsement letter about the candidates who know the issues and who are really interested in our constituencies here,” he said. “I came in as a member of Liberty City because I was interested in the overlap between my constituency and the LGBT community. Liberty City generally meets at the William Way Center, which is right in my division, so I wanted to have my finger on the pulse of
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the issues affecting our community.” Walker said that, as co-chair, he’s initially looking to heighten membership and involvement from the LGBT community, with a special focus on the Mt. Airy section of the city. He noted that the increased legislative focus on LGBT issues at all levels of government will allow Liberty City to take an even more active role in the political community. “This is a really interesting and amazing time to be involved with this. There’s so much legislation and so many positions being addressed nationally, regionally and locally around the rights of LGBT people. It’s a really important, critical time to be involved in this leadership role.” Walker noted that being onehalf of the first people-of-color leadership team of the organization is a daunting, but welcome, title. “It means that there’s lots of pressure, but I’m prepared for that. My nearly 20-year history of activism, political involvement and my relationship with the LGBT community has really given me an indepth understanding of the issues, and I’m excited to bring the combination of experience and talent to this role.” ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn.com.
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Media Trail Iowa marriage opponents push for vote Fox News reports opponents of Iowa’s gay-marriage law are promising to push hard during the 2010 legislative session for a vote on a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex unions. Bryan English of Iowa Family Policy Council ACTION says pro-marriage supporters plan to be at the state Capitol on Jan. 12 when Gov. Chet Culver delivers his Condition of the State address. He said the occasion will mark the first time that all three branches of state government are together since a unanimous Supreme Court ruled April 3 that a state law defining marriage as between one man and one woman was unconstitutional, clearing the way for same-sex marriage in Iowa.
RI lawmakers undecided on gay-rights bill JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Gay-rights activists Ruben Duran (left), 23, and Saul Aparicio, 27, kiss as they celebrate the legalization of same-sex marriage in front of Mexico City’s local assembly Dec. 21. Mexico’s capital is the first city in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give gay and lesbian couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children. AP Photo: Alexandre Meneghini
LGBT provisions in question for healthcare bill By Jen Colletta PGN Staff Writer Early Christmas Eve morning, the U.S. Senate approved the much-anticipated healthcare-reform bill — but it’s still unclear whether the LGBT community will be included in the final version of the legislation. The Senate version, which passed strictly along party lines with all Democrats and two independents voting for it and all Republicans against, is considered the more conservative version of the legislation, dropping the House’s “public option” and numerous provisos that would have benefited the LGBT community. Among the House’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s most conspicuous LGBT stipulations is the elimination of the tax that same-sex domestic partners pay on shared health insurance, a penalty married couples don’t incur. The legislation would also allow for those with HIV/AIDS to be eligible for federal programs like Medicaid earlier in their illnesses. The bill additionally takes steps to break down barriers LGBTs face in healthcare access, prohibiting providers from discriminating against patients based on their “personal characteristics” and urging the
Department of Health and Human Services to take steps to examine health disparities faced by certain populations, including the LGBT community. Ron Powers, director of programs at LGBT health facility Mazzoni Center, said the House version made important strides toward heightening the level of care available to LGBT individuals. “Any time a bill specifically names sexual orientation or gender identity, it’s a recognition that we’re a population that’s here and that needs to be dealt with,” Powers said. “In identifying that health disparities face the LGBT community, it recognizes that certain conditions and diseases do disproportionately affect our community, and what follows from that is research and funding.” Powers noted that Mazzoni Center has encountered difficulties pursuing funding options because of a lack of reliable research on the health issues facing LGBT people, an issue he believes could be remedied by the HHS action recommended in the House bill. “The biggest problem facing Mazzoni Center when we go out to get funding is that there’s really no good data out there to say why this funding is important or why specific services or care for the LGBT community is needed,” Powers said. “By
identifying LGBT as a health-disparity population, people start asking the right questions. In general with healthcare, one of the biggest problems is that care providers don’t ask the right questions. They don’t ask people their sexual orientation or what their sex practices are, and it then follows that the patients may not be getting the most complete care.” Powers expressed frustration at the sweeping changes instituted by the Senate bill. “I’m somewhat disappointed by the Senate bill because I think it watered everything down to the point of, ‘Why bother?’” Leaders from both houses are expected to convene a conference committee in the coming weeks to iron out the differences between the two bills. Two of the pro-LGBT House amendments were spearheaded by openly gay U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), whose spokesperson Jerilyn Goodman told the Dallas Voice last week that the representative is “fully committed to a thorough conference of the healthcare-reform legislation in which she can advocate for the LGBT provisions included in the House bill.” ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn. com.
The Boston Globe reports Rhode Island lawmakers have not decided whether they will try to overturn the governor’s veto of legislation that would allow same-sex couples to plan the funerals of their late partners. House Majority Leader Gordon Fox, a Democrat, said on Dec. 23 that he personally supports the bill. He said he still needs to meet with Senate leaders before deciding whether to override a veto from Republican Gov. Don Carcieri when lawmakers return Jan. 5. Members of Queer Action Rhode Island gave the lawmakers petitions, signed by 425 people, in support of the legislation.
Gay-marriage foes buy bus ads Advocate.com reports a group opposed to Washington, D.C.’s marriage-equality law has purchased ads on the city’s Metrobus system that demand, “Let the People Vote on Marriage.” The ads are sponsored by Stand for Marriage DC, a group closely affiliated with the National Organization for Marriage. The D.C. council and the district’s election board have denied repeated attempts by SFMDC to put marriage up to a popular vote. The gay group Full Equality Now DC has opposed the ad campaign. Another group, led by the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance’s president Mitch Woods, has come out in favor of SFMDC’s freedom of speech. ■ — Larry Nichols
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FAVORITE PHOTOS From Page 3 awards presented to two members of the Spartans wrestling team, the Gay Games Cologne promotions at Tavern on Camac and the Fins Swim Team postal swim fundraiser (10). (Of course we like the Fins picture. Who doesn’t?) Fun in Fundraising There is never a shortage of fundraisers in our area. From the recent Delaware Valley Legacy Fund toy drive to concerts, raffles and readings benefiting Giovanni’s Room, organizations are holding events 12 out of 12 months. The photo we like that represents these events is from Sapphire Fund’s casino night in May (11). We also liked that we could win prizes! In addition, we snapped some nice photos at events for the AIDS Fund, The Attic Youth Center, the AIDS Law Project, Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia FIGHT, Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutritional Alliance, the William Way LGBT Community Center, Greater Philadelphia Professional Network, Independence Business Alliance and the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association. We’ll keep the pictures coming in 2010. If there’s an event that you’d like to see in PGN, e-mail us at editor@epgn.com and copy our staff photographer at scott@epgn. com. ■
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Editorial New Year’s resolutions Carol: To do more volunteering with animal shelters and adoption agencies. Dave: To focus on old friends and spend more time with them rather than going out all the time and meeting new people. Greg: To stop sending e-mails, instant messages and talking on the phone at the same time with the same person. Jen: My goal for this year is to finish grad school without completely losing my mind. Kelly: To convince my landlord to let me get another dog. Larry: To keep the creativity flowing on all fronts. Morgan: Eat more locally grown fruits and vegetables. Sarah: To eat more raw, to hit the gym more often and to make sure I pay attention to my own happiness. Scott: Remember to tell people how much I appreciate them and be thankful for what I have. Sean: To work on focus and prioritizing more in the New Year. Tim: Universal healthcare for everyone. But also to remember that we must take care of our own health, and help others do the same. ■
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Rick Scarbrough Remember how, when Barack Obama was elected, all racism suddenly ended and was gone forever? You’d be driving along and black people and white people would be out in the street hugging all over the place and you’d be all, “Hey, Yes We Can and all, but I’ve got to get to work!” But then you’d remember that your true job was to love, and you’d just put the car in park and jump out and join them. Unfortunately, the election of a lesbian mayor in Houston hasn’t quite had that same effect. Some people aren’t very happy right now. One of those some people is surely Rick Scarbrough, president of Vision America. No, he isn’t an optometrist. The Vision America board includes such right-wing, antigay notaries as Don Wildmon and Tim LaHaye. Scarbrough sent an e-mail before the election warning Houstonians that if Annise Parker became mayor, “Houston will become ... the San Francisco of the South.” That’s right: Windy. Cold — even though it’s California, for crying out loud. Not to mention all of those damn hills. Or maybe he’s talking about the gay thing. “If people who hold to traditional values neglect to vote in this election, the results will be far reaching,”
Scarbrough pleads in his e-mail. “This election illustrates like few others why good men and women must stay engaged as concerned citizens.” According to Scarbrough, Parker’s election will bring on the Eight Gay Commandments of the Homosexual Agenda, if you will. First, everyone in Houston will have to get gay married. Second, gay-on-gay action in public will be the law. Third, “homosexuality [will be taught] to school children, starting in kindergarten, as an acceptable, alternative lifestyle. This is known as multisexualism. This enables homosexuals to recruit children to their lifestyle.” Ah, yes. The old “gays are after your kids” line. I have yet to meet a single gay person who was “recruited” into being gay. I think someone needs to tell the antigay Christians that homosexuality doesn’t have anything to do with missionary work. In order to drive home the lockup-your-kids, the-gays-are-coming point, Scarbrough cites NAMBLA in order to “prove” that Parker and her gay mafia will, in their fourth measure, “lower or remove age-ofconsent laws leading to relaxation of laws prohibiting pedophilia.” That’s right. Gays won’t be happy until
60-year-olds can marry 12-yearolds. You know, like the old-timey Mormon Church. No. 5: Gay people are going to take your job after Parker makes gays “a minority class, leading to affirmative action for homosexuals in the workplace.” Silly Houstonians. They thought it was illegal immigrants they had to watch out for. Destroying freedom of speech is sixth on the list, as a lesbian mayor would surely “prohibit any speech which opposes homosexual activity. This would be considered ‘hate speech’ and have criminal sanctions. This would destroy First Amendment free-speech rights for those who oppose homosexual conduct and the homosexual political movement.” Seven and eight on the list are employee benefits for homos and the election of more gay candidates who will implement these same eight steps, thus creating a never-ending gay cycle. And all of this is going to happen in, um, Houston? Whatever you say, Scarbrough. You’re the one with a divinity degree, not me. ■ D’Anne Witkowski, a freelance writer and poet (believe it!), teaches writing at the University of Michigan.
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Mark Segal
Finding the good in 2009 Welcome 2010, and good riddance 2009. I believe most of us feel that way. Traveling back from the Pennsylvania Society on the train a couple weekends ago, I started to ponder just how bad 2009 had been. Then the optimist in me kicked in and found some bright spots. Here are a few of them, and I hope you can add to this small offering. We ushered in a new president. After the last one, even Bozo the Clown would have been an improvement, but instead our new president not only broke the mold, he is also inspiring. While he didn’t live up to some people’s expectations — you can’t rebuild Rome in a day — he certainly changed the scope of the political landscape for the LGBT community. We’re not going to reprint the list of his LGBT accomplishments here, as we did that a few weeks ago, but they far outnumber the achievements of every president to date combined — and that includes President Clinton. A note: I’ve given this president the benefit of the doubt that he’ll live up to his promises to the LGBT community. But even that, with my pragmatic view, has its limits. The sixth-largest city in the nation now has a proud lesbian as mayor. And it’s in Houston, Texas. In California, the first openly gay man was elected
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speaker of the house of the state legislature. And it might be hard for many to appreciate, but we won far more political battles in 2009 than we lost. Our losses come in one major area: marriage equality. On the city level, we saw the election of not one but three out judges to the bench. We have candidates running for almost every position imaginable. And statewide, there are now 16 municipalities with nondiscrimination laws. Even in the state legislature — the bastion of Neanderthals — we saw a hatecrimes bill finally pass, while a brave two — count them, two — senators actually introduced a marriage-equality bill. May it rest in peace. This, for me, was a rather challenging year. I fell off a ladder and shattered my heel and was out of service for half the year. My dog Moishe saw his last day, and I dealt with the loss of some good friends. But, during those times of challenge, I learned the meaning of friends, who used every trick in the book to keep me on track. That track means they were able to point me in the right direction, the mountain. They opened the door to new projects that inspire and challenge my abilities. For me, that expectation alone excites me for 2010. Like my heel, we’re up and walking. Now, 2010, let’s run. Happy New Year to all of you, and here’s wishing you and our community an exciting and successful 2010. ■
What event most impacted the LGBT community in 2009?
Lenny Adler student South Philadelphia
Michela Chiarello limousine-reservation agent Brooklyn, N.Y.
“Lady Gaga thanking gay people and acknowledging them whenever she got an opportunity throughout the year, like at the 'MTV Video Music Awards' and the National Equality March.”
“Sean Penn accepting the Oscar for ‘Milk.’ He spoke movingly about gay visibility. It was a great speech that elevated the image of gays across the country. And it was nice coming from a straight ally. I hope states will be inspired to approve gay marriage.”
Colleen Hackett bartender Northern Liberties
Priscilla Rainey business owner Tampa, Fla.
“Annise Parker getting elected mayor of Houston. I think it was a wonderful achievement by a lesbian. Very groundbreaking. And I was impressed that it happened in Texas. For her to become the mayor of such a large city will help create opportunity for others.”
“President Obama signing the hatecrimes law [extending coverage for sexual orientation]. I agree with that wholeheartedly. People should be able to feel safe in this country, no matter what choices they make. Safety is of the utmost importance. It’s a fundamental necessity.”
Mark Segal is PGN publisher. He can be reached at mark@epgn.com.
Letters and Feedback In response to “Pomp and pageantry return to Atlantic City,” Dec. 25-31: This is great news! I remember the days of the Miss’d America Pageant, always held the day after Miss America in Atlantic City! Always a great time for everyone, gay or straight! So glad she’s returning to her “hometown.” — beachbabe-mee In response to “Scouts urge judge to keep injunction,” Dec. 25-31: Toss them out on the street. The Scouts are headquartered in Texas. Home of the Bushes. Home of the dragging death of James Byrd a few years ago.
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And, of course, Texas is one of those right-to-life, anti-abortion states. Really, it is the state of hypocrisy. Still praying for the good old days of segregation, slavery and, yes, even Nazism, along with a large part of the Republican Party. — Anonymous In response to “Local pols tied to group associated with antigay Uganda efforts,” Dec. 18-24: This is the monstrosity in Uganda, formerly the home of Idi Amin — remember him? If this is the cultural belief of the Ugandans, as per Anonymous wrote, then we need to change the Ugandan culture — a culture of
pure hatred and murder of those who are different than themselves. One would think that after what Africa has been through, they would change. But what we are really seeing is the total, total corruption of the meaning of God by Christians in America — the same people whose forebears were the slavers. And note how religion has again been twisted inside out and upside down by the so-called lovers of Jesus. Hell will not be hot enough for them. But God will find a way to judge and punish these madmen — American and people like [Ugandan MP David] Bahati and Anonymous. — Steve in MD
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HIV TESTING From Page 1 tion. That’s how you have to do the initial assessment, which is different than freaking out the victim and saying that unless you just find out the person’s status, you’re going to get HIV.” Goldfein said the assessment helps counselors determine if the victim should be placed on a Nonoccupational Postexposure Prophylaxis, which can decrease risk of HIV transmission, and which is most effective if administered within 72 hours after exposure. The time constraints set up in HB 265, Goldfein noted, could inhibit an accurate risk-assessment process by focusing on the assailant’s status rather than precautions the victim should take. “This bill says that a victim may request that the DA request that the suspect be tested within 48 hours of being held in court. So that means that this guy has to be arrested, taken into custody and held for court, and in Philadelphia that can often take anywhere from seven to 10 days for the first opportunity for him to be held for court. So he would then be tested after that and the results given back to the victim, so that goes far, far beyond the 72-hour window when the victim could be started on NPEP.” Andy Hoover, legislative director for the Pennsylvania American Civil Liberties Union, also testified against the measure at the hearing, stating his agency opposes the bill not only because it’s considered a violation of the suspects’ rights, but also because it would inhibit proper education about HIV transmission. “HIV diagnosis is such a perPHILADELPHIA GAY NEWS sonal experience that no one should ever to take an HIV test,” builtbea forced cult following in Russia despite gaining just 1.9 of Hoover said. “And whatpercent they’re the audience in February. trying to getshare at with this doesn’t MTV in also help the victim of Russia a sexual assault. Park,” but yet Itshows sends“South this message to has survivors to receive anycomes criticism from the that if the test back positive, Protestant group. they’re going to get HIV, or if it comes back negative, they’re not going to get HIV. It’s entirely posTrans meeting sible that the defendant could be in the initial period and set for infection Berlin could have a false negative and the victim could then think they’re in It was announced March 14 that the theyofshould actuthe clear secondwhen meeting the European ally be continuing their care. Transgender Council will be And held it’s possible that the police this also year in Germany. arrested wrong person, which The thecouncil, comprised of happened Transgender Europe, the has many, many times.” Transgender Networkthat Berlin and Goldfein agreed the bill TransInterQueer Berlin, will conmeet runs the risk of popularizing May 2-4 in Berlin. Their last event tinued misconceptions about HIV was held in Vienna in 2005. transmission. Representatives from international “Not all encounters are expo-
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sures, and not all exposures lead to infection,” she said. “According to the CDC, the real risk of infection from consensual sex is one in 100,000, so even if we adjust that for trauma-related sex, you’re still looking at low odds. This law would focus on the wrong place and would be misused to institutionalize an inaccurate assessment of HIV risk, which makes every guy with HIV the boogie man.” The only witness to testify for the bill was Dauphin County Deputy District Attorney Sean McCormack. Goldfein said she fears the bill could lay the groundwork for the future criminalization of HIV transmission. “District attorneys are in favor of this because, although the bill specifically says that the information about HIV status can’t be used as an element of guilt in a crime, I believe that they want to collect this information with an eye toward criminalization,” she said. HB 265 also has a financial component. The bill was proposed as a way for the state to be in compliance with the Violence Against Women Act, which stipulates that states receiving VAWA funding must have a statute in place that allows
victims to determine the HIV status of their offenders and, without such a law, are subject to a 5-percent penalty on the money filtered into the region. Goldfein noted that victimsrights groups she’s spoken with, such as the Pennsylvania Coalition against Domestic Violence — representatives of which testified against the bill during the hearing — have expressed a willingness to “absorb that 5-percent hit because, from their perspective, when you start talking about mandatory testing, you actually put the victims at risk.” “No amount of money is worth putting a bad policy into place, and HB 265 is a bad policy,” Hoover said. “It’s just not worth the tens of thousands that’s lost — and that’s not much in the grand scheme of things. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is spearheading a bill in Congress that would eliminate the VAWA penalty, but Goldfein said the committee was still “pretty concerned” about the money component. A vote on the legislation in the Judiciary Committee has not yet been scheduled. ■ Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn.com.
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Out singer Tony Enos releases debut album By Larry Nichols PGN Staff Writer After two singles and promotional tours to promote them, out Philadelphiabased singer Tony Enos has finally completed work on his debut album, “Did It Rite.” “There was a lot of stop-and-start involved,” he said about the delay. “I’m glad it’s finally out. It took three years to complete this album, so hopefully in the future it’ll be much quicker.” The majority of the songs on the album, which features both of his 2008 singles, “Work It Out” and “Good Love (Grilled Ham & Cheese),” were written before recording commenced. “There was maybe one or two that I swapped out,” he said. “There’s a track on there called ‘Living for the Weekend’ that I had swapped out because I really loved the song and wanted it on the album. The entire album is written from
a really sexually confident place in my life. That’s kind of the overall undertone for the album.” His album also reflects some influences from Philadelphia’s rich musical history. “I love where I’m from. I love my city. No matter where I go, when I come over that bridge or that highway and see the Philly skyline, I know that my heart is here. Philly has influenced me a great deal, from the Philly Sound to all of the fantastic music that came from Gamble & Huff and Patti LaBelle. You can definitely hear those influences in my music.” Besides being a singer-songwriter, Enos is also a choreographer, dancer, producer and the head of his own indie label, Lil’ T Fashion & Entertainment. We’re guessing all of those titles had a little something to do with why the album took so long to complete. “Being in a startup company, your attention is always in a million different TONY STRUTS HIS STUFF directions,” Enos said. “So, between my
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ADD and my producer’s schedule, which is insane as well, that’s why there was so much stop-and-start. Finally in the past year, that is when I buckled down and I was like, ‘We have to finish it this year. I can’t wait any longer.’ There was just a lot on the table: touring and promoting the two first singles from the album. That’s what took up most of my attention.” The 25-year-old may have taken a while to deliver the goods, but you can’t knock his hustle. He got his start in the entertainment business at an age when most only dream about life in the spotlight. A little more than a decade later, he’s calling his own shots and has established himself as a significant player in the Philadelphia music scene. “I started out as a professional dancer when I was 14,” he said. “I started Lil’ T Entertainment in 2006 and just kind of buckled down and honed my own craft. In the future, I’m looking forward to signing new artists and writing and producing for them, especially in Philly because there are so many talented people. The ratio of talented people to opportunities is something that really needs work in Philly. Hopefully I’ll get to do great things with the talent in Philly.” Enos has also used his talents to take on more charitable endeavors, such as initiating Our Lady of Fatima and Our Lord Foundation for HIV and AIDS. He said his desire to start these charities stemmed from his family and upbringing. “When I was a kid, the three things that I remember the most was hearing about HIV/AIDS, we lost almost everybody in my family to cancer, and a lot of women in my family dealt with some sort of domestic abuse. I always promised myself that if I had the opportunity, those are three things that I want to make a charitable contribution to. That’s why I started the foundation.” When it comes to seeking out local talent for his label, Enos said he’s on the lookout for artists “with a strong head on their shoulders.” “This is a business where, if you don’t have a strong sense of self, it becomes a house of cards. You have to know what you want as an artist. I don’t
want somebody who’s a pushover. I want somebody who is going to be strong, have a strong sense of self and, at the same time, a strong sense of their artistry. I can promote, I can back you, but I can’t tell you who you are as an artist.” Enos added that he learned what he preached about the music business through trial and error, which is why he felt it necessary to start his own label. “One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was to not be afraid to target a particular audience,” he said. “Don’t be afraid to not be for everybody. When you have a niche market like that, there are not many opportunities. You have to make your own to get people to pay attention and notice. Aside from that, the industry is about the bottom line. The record companies are no longer run by artists like they were back in the day. The artist kind of suffers in that process. If you’re not going to start your own label, I think it’s important to do your homework and know what you’re getting into. I had the polar opposite. I had signed with a record company at 16 and I didn’t do the homework and I paid a heavy price for it.” Enos said he maintains his commitment to his niche audience when it comes to touring and promotional appearances. “I always make it a point that if we book a more mainstream venue, I’m like, ‘Well, let’s hit the biggest two gay clubs the second night.’ That’s my market and that was my first audience. The gay audience embraced me
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and embraced my music first. Those are my people.” He added that the performances more-than make up for all the delays and hard work he put into running his label and recording his album. “That’s it for me. The biggest high for me is to be out there with the people, to be able to
see their faces and interact with them. A lot of times, in producing an album, you have to sing a song over the phone for this person or that person to start working on it. I get so nervous singing for one person over the phone, probably because I can’t see their face. I can perform on a stage in front of thousands
but performing for one person is unnerving. To be out there and look in people’s eyes, that’s super-important for me.” Tony Enos’ debut album is out now. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/tonyenos. ■ Larry Nichols can be reached at larry@epgn.com.
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Family Portraits “I’m not the spitfire activist I once was, but I still get out there.” That’s what you’d call an understatement. If this is her slow mode, I can see why Dionne Stallworth has been hailed as a pioneer in the LGBT movement. As one of the founding members of GenderPAC, the first transgender political action committee, a founding member and original co-chair of the Transgender Health Action Coalition and a former officer and board member of the Pennsylvania Mental Health Consumers’ Association, Stallworth has been on the frontlines. Currently, she is the resident activities coordinator for Project H.O.M.E.’s In Community, a housing program. Her responsibilities include developing educational and entertainment activities for program residents. She is also a part-time hostess at Project H.O.M.E.’s Home Page Café and a public grant reviewer for the National Institute of Mental Health and the Centers for Disease Control. She recently has designed and is working on funding a transgender-specific shelter project. She’s definitely still out there. PGN: Where are you originally from? DS: I was born in Dumfries, Va., in what you’d call a “blink town,” the kind of place that you drive through at about 10-15 miles an hour and if you blink, you miss it. PGN: Were you an only child? DS: I grew up with my father and my kid brother. My father had a child with another woman before he married my mother. He later married again and my stepmother already had three kids, plus they had a child together. We lived a stone’s throw away from Jerry Falwell’s stomping grounds, so it was a very conservative area and it was just after we’d come out of segregation in the South. If fact, I’m the first in my family to go to a desegregated school. I remember being the only black person in my class. One day the principal came by and asked if there were any colored children in the room. I raised my hand and they escorted me out of the class that I was originally assigned to and put me in a room with another black girl who lived down the street from me. I’ll be 51 in February, so I’ve seen a lot of change over the years.
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Suzi Nash PGN: What did your father do? DS: His last job, he was a prison guard at Lorton Reformatory prison. Before that, he was a police officer and the first black police chief for the town of Quantico, Va. Quantico is famous for the FBI training academy, the DEA [Drug Enforcement Adminstration] training academy and the largest Marine Corps base in the U.S. PGN: Your father must be a tough guy: What traits do you think you inherited from him? DS: One of the biggest things I credit him for is my intellectual development. He firmly believed, as did most black families, that education was the key to everything. So he used to tell us, “You may miss the bus, but you may not miss school.” So if we woke up late, we would find ourselves walking, riding our bikes or hitchhiking, but we would have to find a way to make it there. Now that he’s gone, I think about a lesson he taught, which was never to take the easy answer. As kids writing a paper, we would have to look everything up, which at the time I thought was unfair, but now I appreciate the thoroughness and I’m an information junkie. It was a great gift. PGN: So what were you like as a kid? DS: Unmistakably a nerd. I didn’t wear glasses until much later but I was a band geek — marching band, stage band, brass ensemble, drama club, chess club, science club, Future Homemakers of America, you name it. PGN: What instruments did you play? DS: If it was brass, I played it at one time or another, but my favorites were the trumpet and the baritone horn. Occasionally I played the Miraphone, sometimes known as a tenor tuba. It’s a very mellow instrument. PGN: My last boyfriend — years ago — played the tuba. He was an oversized band geek who loved to dance and wear shiny shirts. DS: That’s funny. Well, as you know, I spent most of my time growing up as a boy. Thinking I was a boy until my body changed. During puberty, my hips became curvy and my boobs started to grow. I had a
lot of questions and nobody had answers, so I spent a lot of time in the library studying sex and sexuality. My standard joke when I do “Trans 101” training is that I learned enough about sex to Master the Johnson and Johnson the Master. At about 48 or 49, I thought I’d finally gotten a handle on things and was comfortable within my skin as a trans woman when my paternal halfsister dropped a bomb. It turns out that I was born with both sets of genitalia and that my father chose for me to be a boy. She and my father had heated debates about when he was going to tell me. To have a hypothesis that one is intersexed and then to have the reality and the implications of it is another thing. Especially when my dad was no longer around to answer questions. We were very close, but that was one subject that he didn’t speak to me about. It’s been very difficult to process. PGN: When did you transition? DS: As I mentioned, my body didn’t mature as an adolescent boy’s normally would have. In 1987, I had my doctor run some blood tests on me. I was in the office wearing jeans and sweats and had a Jheri curl like Michael Jackson, as was the style then. I had a very androgynous appearance and his assistant came in and asked if I had children. She thought I was a girl until I said that, yes, I’d fathered two children. Then she asked who Aubrey Dionne Stallworth was. I told her it was me. My parents named me Aubrey after my mother, which is funny since I was supposed to be the first-born male. The doctor looked at the blood-work results and said, “I don’t believe it!” It’s never fun when a doctor says that. He looked up and said, “Did you really father two kids? Because your testosterone levels are so low, I would have sworn in court that it would be impossible. Your estrogen is slightly high too, but your testosterone is so low, it’s amazing you have functioning genitalia. I don’t know what that means.” I said, “I do: It means it’s time to start the transition to the Dianna Prince stage of my life.” PGN: Are you still close to your kids? DS: Unfortunately my transition has cost me my relationship with them and their mother. It’s been difficult. We don’t talk much but I’m very proud of them. Their
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mother and I were both dealing with something over our heads when we were together. She knew I had gender issues, but we did not know that it would lead to transitioning and certainly didn’t know that it had roots in biology. I only have had contact with them through their digital presence online, which is hard for me. PGN: So when you went to the doctor, how were you living? DS: I thought I was supposed to be a straight man and so I was living as one, but after receiving hormone therapy, I found myself being attracted to men as well as women, which is something that I find queer people have problems with. Bisexuality is one of those things that no one wants to talk about and, if someone is bisexual and gender variant, it really is perceived as wrong. PGN: You’ve been part of the trans-activist movement for a while now. DS: I never wished it, I really would have preferred just to be, but I found it was like that poem by Martin Niemöller, “Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak out for me.” Most of us didn’t have Internet access yet so we didn’t have the resources that are out there now. I didn’t see people of color who were gender variant other than what you saw on Jerry Springer or in drag shows or portrayed as drug users and hookers on police dramas. You never saw
everyday people like me trying to lead normal lives. It’s changing, but there’s still reluctance in the LGB community to recognize us. We’re not where we need to be, but thank God, we’re not where we were. PGN: It seems like a movement that’s starting to come into its own. DS: Yes, but I think part of the problem that we have with the gender movement is that we have never established our own identity. There are gender-variant people who are rich, there are gender-variant people who are poor, there are gender-variant people who are liberal, there are gender-variant people who are bigoted assholes and there are those who are just trying to live their lives with no fanfare or runway walking. It’s what makes us great and what makes it so difficult to come together. If you don’t know who you are, someone else will dictate a label for you. I define myself with the term gender variant as opposed to transgender because that’s what I embrace. But we are a huge microcosm of people. PGN: You mentioned poems; what is a favorite? DS: The first thing that comes to mind is Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee?” It’s corny, but it’s so romantic. PGN: Something you would like to learn to do? DS: Speak a different language.
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My top two would be Spanish and Japanese, because I would love to visit Japan. PGN: What did you get into trouble for the most when you were young? DS: Speaking the truth. I had a teacher for my first-grade reading circle who commented on how fast I was growing and said that I was getting fat. She was a substantially sized woman herslf, so I called her a fat piggie in return. She threw a reading primer at me. Do you know how thick those things were? I cried and she failed me at reading. I’m still getting in trouble for it. Like the movie line, people want the truth, but they can’t handle the truth. PGN: What would the theme song to your life be? DS: “Turn the Page” by Bob Seger. PGN: What historical figure do you most identify with? DS: Maya Angelou. Through her writing and her interviews and the way she conducts herself, she sets the definition of what it means to be a black woman. She has really influenced my pursuit of femininity. PGN: A happy thought? DS: I recently joined the Philadelphia Community Fellowship church and it has become a bright spot in my life. I spent a good deal of time trying to find a church, even before transition, and this is a place that espouses the best of what Christianity or any religious dogma represents: tolerance and acceptance for everyone and everybody’s path. They meet at William Way on Sundays at noon, but the most important part is the potluck fellowship dinners that follow. We eat and talk, we have a youth group. It’s really amazing. PGN: What’s your best dish? DS: Honey, I make cheesecake that makes pastors fight. I also do a mean Southern fried catfish. PGN: The best thing you ever won? DS: A compliment from Mark Segal. When they were deciding what to call the community center, there was a lot of debate about including bisexual and transgender into the name. They thought it would be too unwieldy to say and too costly to print the whole thing on stationary, yada, yada, yada. I was among a group of bi and trans activists who were
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opposed to the name having gay and lesbian only. Some members were very animated and angry, and because they were upset they weren’t very constructive in the process. I wrote a statement that was read into the record about what the inclusive nature of the community center represented. I simply said that if we’re to leave a legacy for our kids and our kids’ kids, we want to leave a message of inclusiveness and tolerance, especially if that’s what we’re asking of other people. Mark told me that it was that statement that persuaded most of the board to include bisexual and transgender in the official title. It showed me the power of words. I think it’s the biggest thing I’ve ever done or won. PGN: For people who want to be trans-inclusive, what advice do you give? DS: No. 1, use common sense. If someone is presenting clearly in a traditional male or female gender identity, respect that as such. If you’re unclear, address them by name; if that fails, just ask. I would rather have someone ask me how I would like to be addressed than have them make clumsy assumptions. PGN: What’s the worst thing people do? DS: The worst thing — and it never fails — is asking someone what bathroom they use. People will assume that we’re sexual predators trying to get in the women’s room. But if I’m wearing a dress and have my hair done, I’m not going to go into a men’s room, and if I do, I probably won’t come out of it unharmed. It’s a stupid and obnoxious question, but it seems to be a big issue.
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Q Puzzle Washington Woman Across 1. Have sex with 5. Golfer’s transport 9. Groups that sound like intercourse? 14. Look at a hottie in a bar 15. Dairy case buy 16. “Maurice” director James 17. Fairy-tale monster 18. Kind of marketing 19. Pins down 20. With 22-Across, album by Carlile 22. See 20-Across 24. Motion detector 26. “Proud Mary” singer Turner 27. Studio accessory 29. Like a Mapplethorpe photo 34. Feel sorrow about 37. Playwright Jean 39. NASA cancellation 40. Song on 20-/22-Across 44. She found success with Caesar 45. ___ Coyote 46. Gas additive 47. Disney lyricist Howard 50. Like a metrosexual 52. Capt. of industry 54. Nicks on a CD 57. Song that Carlile sang on “Grey’s Anatomy” 62. Singer/songwriter Carlile of Washington state 64. Spokes of Dykes on Bikes, e.g. 65. Weighty volume 67. First light 68. Brief opening? 69. By word of mouth 70. Arthurian lady 71. Master 72. Shout at an open call 73. Withhold
PGN: Your most unusual job? Down DS: I worked in a bowling-ball 1. Surfer’s reading pro shop drilling holes in the balls 2. Protection and sold bowling shoes. 3. Balls
4. Gay novelist Harlan 5. Benjamin Britten, for one 6. Home of T. Bankhead 7. Knock off 8. Reagon of the Big Lovely band 9. Rufus Wainwright, for one 10. Cole Porter’s “Well, Did You ___” 11. “More” singer Perry 12. Very, to Verlaine 13. Part of CBS (abbr.) 21. The way we word 23. Barely make, with “out” 25. Continue to get “On Our Backs” 28. Olympics athlete Carl 30. “Double Fantasy” artist 31. Santa’s sackful 32. “___ Rhythm” 33. Finishing stroke 34. Costa ___ 35. Sources of anal probes? 36. Emulate Paul Cadmus 38. Bone just over a foot 41. Grandstander 42. Strap for B&D in a car? 43. “You’ll ___ Walk Alone” 48. What a cruiser is looking for
49. Prefix with natal 51. Gave the slip to 53. Halliwell’s partner 55. Cockamamie 56. The “E” of E.A. Robinson 57. Minimal haircut 58. Mandlikova of tennis 59. Ron Howard film with Ellen DeGeneres 60. k.d. lang record label 61. Time of “Camelot” 63. Memorial Day race, briefly 6 6 . N a t h a n ’s r o l e i n “ T h e Producers”
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PGN: A beautiful childhood memory? DS: There weren’t too many of those. We had a dysfunctional family like everybody else, but when the theme song to Perry Mason came on, all was right with the world. We would all sit and watch and try to figure out the mystery. It was a great time. ■ To suggest a community member for “Family Portraits,” write to: Family Portraits, 505 S. Fourth St., Philadelphia, PA 19147 or portraits05@aol.com.
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Bisexual cast member talks ‘Real World: D.C.’ By Larry Nichols PGN Staff Writer
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Gay is our middle name.
MTV’s “Real World” invades the nation’s capital for its 23rd season. The formula hasn’t changed much since the show jump-started the reality-TV movement back in 1992. A group of 20-somethings live in a house. There’s always at least one person of color and one LGBT member. Usually there’s a lot of drinking, hookups, arguments and controversy. This year’s cast features Mike Manning, 22, who is bisexual and hails from Thornton, Colo. He said at first he had no intention of trying out for the show. “It was just random. My buddy and I went and auditioned and he wanted me to go with him. I was like, ‘No. I don’t want to. I have better things to do.’ He said, ‘I’ll buy you lunch.’ I was like, ‘Cool, fine, whatever.’ We showed up at a random audition at a university about an hour away from us and the rest is history.” Manning also said he never watched the show until he agreed to audition. “Actually, my first time ever watching it was a week before I left for D.C. I You-Tubed a few episodes just to get an idea of what I was getting into. Previous to that, I had never seen the show.” It may seem odd to accept a role on a reality-TV show you never watched, but Manning said he was looking for any opportunity to get out of Colorado. “I have a habit of not staying in Colorado for too long. Once I found out it was in D.C., I got even more excited. I love the idea of being in our nation’s capital, especially with [President] Obama in office and the political climate geared toward youth and younger people. I just got even more excited to do the show.” As with other seasons of “Real World,” some people weren’t too happy to see MTV and its cameras taking up temporary residence in their neighborhood — this time, in Washington’s Dupont Circle gayborhood. “Some people were ecstatic and they loved us,” Manning said. “Other people were more pretentious and like, ‘Get out of our city.’ It was really hot and cold. There was no middle ground with that.”
Manning isn’t the only LGBT member of the cast this season; he describes fellow cast member Emily Schromm as “toying with the idea” of being a lesbian. “She’s right on the fence.” And it wouldn’t be reality television withMIKE MANNING Photos: Courtesy of MTV out some kind of drama. Manning said he someCampaign, an organization he times locked horns with cast mem- knew nothing about before going ber Ashley Lindley on the show. to Washington. “I love her to death, but she and “It’s something I found by I have very different personalities myself. Prior to the show, I had when it comes to certain things,” never even heard of HRC. It’s not he said. “We’re both Christians really big in Colorado. I’m trying and we both are very similar in to put things in place to make it a lot of ways, so it makes it hard easier for me to move here after I when we fight because we’re both graduate.” stubborn. She calls me out in the It’s no big secret that MTV, like first week because I wasn’t com- many other reality-show producfortable with my sexuality when ers, uses creative editing in porI arrived in D.C. She called me traying cast members. Manning out on it, and it made it difficult said he has no concerns about to be in front of a camera and in how he will come across on the the spotlight. But at the same time, show. I appreciate it now, looking back, “I think that I’m portrayed as because she forced me to make up a normal 22-year-old who likes my mind, stand up for myself and sports and things that are against say, ‘This is me. This is who I am. gay stereotypes,” he said. “I hate Take it or leave it.’” to use the word ‘normal,’ but it’s Manning, who is a personal going to be a normal light. I like trainer, said he might return to sports, I went to my job and I parD.C., but wants to finish his last tied just as much as anybody else. semester of college instead of I just happened to take boys to my cashing in on the show’s notoriety bedroom.” ■ with lucrative public appearances. “The Real World: D.C.” pre“I think in the long run I’ll miered at 10 p.m. Dec. 30 on regret it if I don’t finish college MTV. right away.” He added that he might return Larry Nichols can be reached at to work for the Human Rights larry@epgn.com.
MANNING (THIRD FROM LEFT) AND THE REST OF THE CAST OF “REAL WORLD: DC”
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worth watching: FRIDAY New Year’s Slay Premieres This is an all-day “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” marathon. 6 a.m. on Logo. Kathy Griffin: Straight to Hell The gay-friendly comedian performs. 8 p.m. on Bravo. Kathy Griffin: She’ll Cut a Bitch The celebrity-dishing comedian performs. 9 p.m. on Bravo. SATURDAY Desperate Housewives Repeats of the comedy/ drama. 8 and 9 p.m. on ABC. Suze Orman Show The out money expert gives advice. 9 p.m. on CNBC. Graham Norton Show The out personality hosts his own talk show. 10:30 p.m. on BBC America. The Wanda Sykes Show The out comedian stars in
this repeat of the show’s premiere. 11 p.m. on Fox.
dication premiere. Look for Lt. Dangle. 9 p.m. on Logo.
Saturday Night Live Also a repeat. 11:30 p.m. on NBC.
WEDNESDAY Bad Girls Season eight of the women’s prison drama begins. 8 p.m. on Logo.
SUNDAY Desperate Housewives The aftermath of the plane crash in this new episode. 9 p.m. on ABC. Brothers & Sisters Matthew Rhys plays gay character Kevin Walker. 10 p.m. on ABC. MONDAY How I Met Your Mother Openly gay Neil Patrick Harris stars as skirt-chaser Barney in this repeat. 8 p.m. on CBS. The Decorating Adventures of Ambrose Price The out design guru’s reality show spruces things up. 10:30 p.m. on Logo. TUESDAY Jessica Kirson: My Cookie’s Gone The out comedian performs. 8:30 p.m. on Logo. Reno 911! The comedy makes it syn-
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The New Adventures of Old Christine Look for out comedian Wanda Sykes in this sitcom repeat. 8 p.m. on CBS. Glee Two repeats of the musical comedy. 8 and 9 p.m. on Fox. Modern Family Watch for gay couple Mitchell and Cameron in this repeat. 9 p.m. on ABC. Ugly Betty The fashion-industry comedy moves to its new night. 10 p.m. on ABC. THURSDAY Mulligans In this movie, college buddies Tyler and Chase plan to spend the summer together with Tyler’s family. Golf and relaxation are the only things on the agenda until Chase decides to come out to his best friend. 8 p.m. on Logo.
THINGS GET ‘UGLY’ ON A NEW NIGHT: “Ugly Betty” gets a reprieve from its certain-death slot on Friday nights and moves to Wednesdays. This week, gay character Marc (Michael Urie, left) is horrified that his one-night stand, Troy (Matt Newton), is falling for him, since Marc was Troy’s “first.” Watch the comedic drama unfold at 10 p.m. Jan. 6 on ABC. Photo: ABC/Patrick Harbron
Queer TV you can always see: One Life to Live
Look for Kyle and Fish. Monday-Friday, 2 p.m. on ABC. Ellen
Monday-Friday, 3 p.m. on NBC. The Rachel Maddow Show
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Diversions
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Your guide to arts and entertainment
Theater
of Oz” returns Jan. 2-24 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St.; (215) 790-5847.
The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon The classic children’s book comes to life through Jan. 3 at the Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St.; (215) 893-1999.
Music
classical
Crawling Fish Mummer Play Walking Fish Theatre presents a moveable play based on the Wantage Mummer Plays dating to Medieval times, through Jan. 2, 2509 Frankford Ave.; (215) 427-9255.
Music other
Oliver! Walnut Street Theatre presents one of the world’s most-beloved musicals, through Jan. 10, 825 Walnut St.; (215) 5743550.
Peter Pan The timeless story of Peter, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook and the Lost Boys hits the stage through Jan. 24 at Arden Theatre Company’s F. Otto Haas Stage, 40 N. Second St.; (215) 9221122. Red, White & Tuna Walnut Street Theatre presents two comic masters bringing to life 24 characters from Tuna,
Salute to Vienna Attila Glatz Concerts presents a new program featuring operetta excerpts, popular waltzes, polkas and marches, at 2:30 p.m. Jan. 3 at Kimmel’s Verizon Agulhas Gallery 339 presents an Hall, 240 S. Broad St.; (215) 790-5847. exhibition of works by Edward Dimsdale through Morales plays Mozart Jan. 23, 339 S. 21st St.; The Philadelphia (215) 731-1530. Orchestra and principal clarinet Ricardo Morales Body Worlds 2 & The perform one of Mozart’s Brain most popular works, 8 The Franklin Institute p.m. Jan. 7-9 and 2 p.m. presents an eye-opening Jan. 10 at Kimmel’s journey through the inner Verizon Hall, 240 S. Broad workings of the human St.; (215) 790-5847. body through a broad collection of authentic human specimens, through Steve Pullara and his Feb. 20, 222 N. 20th St.; Cool Beans Band (215) 448-1200. The family-friendly act performs at noon Jan. 1 at Common Ground: Kimmel’s Commonwealth Eight Philadelphia Plaza, 240 S. Broad St.; Photographers in the (215) 790-5847. 1960s and 1970s The Philadelphia Museum John Legend of Art presents an The R&B singer performs exhibition examining a at 8 p.m. Jan. 1 at the critical period for the art Borgata Hotel Casino of photography and for and Spa Event Center, the Philadelphia art scene, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic through Jan. 31, 2600 City, N.J.; (609) 317-1000. Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.; (215) 763-8100. Mariah Carey The R&B superstar diva 8x10 and Under: Small performs at 8 p.m. Jan. Landscapes 2 at the Borgata Hotel Gallery 339 presents a new Casino and Spa Event photography exhibition Center, 1 Borgata Way, through Jan. 23, 339 S. 21st Atlantic City, N.J.; (609) St.; (215) 731-1530. 317-1000.
Exhibits
First Impressions Act II Playhouse presents Tony Braithwaite’s hilarious new political humor romp, Jan. 6-17, 56 E. Butler Ave., Ambler; (215) 654-0200.
The Moon is a Mirror Within Me Firebird-Light Productions presents a series of dramatic readings both ancient and contemporary, through Jan. 10 at Walnut Street Theatre’s Studio V, 825 Walnut St.; (215) 5743550.
Erik Deustch The pianist, known for playing with such artists as Norah Jones, the Charlie Hunter Trio, Erin McKeown and Scott Amendola, performs at 9 p.m. Jan. 7 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; (215) 222-1400.
WITCH, PLEASE!: For the record, we recommend reading the book over seeing the stage-adapted musical, “Wicked,” which is based on “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” by out author Gregory Maguire. Nothing against the musical, but it lacks many of the dark and twisted elements that make the book such a satisfying read. Still, “Wicked,” starring Helene Yorke (left) and Marcie Dodd, is doing blockbuster business at box offices around the country. Hurry up and get your ticket for one of the area performances, Jan. 2-24 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St. For more information, call (215) 790-5847. Photo: Joan Marcus
Texas, through Jan. 3 at Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St.; (215) 5743550. Scapin Lantern Theater Company presents Molière’s classic farce, through Jan. 3 at St. Stephen’s Theater, 923 Ludlow St.; (215) 8290395.
This Is the Week That Is 1812 Productions presents its signature take on political satire, through Jan. 3 at Plays & Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey St.; (215) 592-9560. When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? New City Stage Company
presents the revival of Mark Medoff’s dark drama-comedy, through Jan. 10 at the Adrienne Theater, 2030 Sansom St.; (215) 563-7500. Wicked The musical based on the untold story of the Wicked Witch of the West from “The Wizard
Marc Silver & The Stonethrowers The out singer-songwriter and his band open for Bearfoot at 8 p.m. Jan. 7 at Sellersville Theater 1984, 24 W. Temple Ave.; (215) 257-5808.
Lace in Translation The Design Center at Philadelphia University presents a new exhibition of contemporary work inspired by historic lace, through April 3, 4200 Henry Ave.; (215) 951-2860.
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Ragas and Rajas: Musical Imagery of Courtly India The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a diverse selection of paintings and sculptures from across the subcontinent, through Feb. 28, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.; (215) 763-8100. Rockwell’s America The largest 3-D Norman Rockwell exhibit in the world takes visitors on a unique journey that includes segments from the Academy Award-winning film “Norman Rockwell’s World,” 20 theatrical environments, 35 threedimensional life-sized depictions of Rockwell’s characters and dozens of interactive educational experiences, through March 14 at King of Prussia Mall’s Lower Level Plaza, 256 Mall Blvd.; (610) 768-0710.
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Film
Camac” is discussed at 7 p.m. Jan. 6 at Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St.; (215) 923-2960.
Paranormal Activity The horror film is screened at 8 p.m. Jan. 4 at Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; Women’s Book Group (215) 922-5483. The book “Second Person Queer: Who You Are (So Animal House Far)” is discussed at 7 Bryn Mawr Film Institute p.m. Jan. 7 at Giovanni’s presents the classic comedy Room, 345 S. 12th St.; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 5, 824 W. (215) 923-2960. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr; (610) 527-9898.
Books
The Diaspora Book Group The novel “Murder on
Auditions
Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus The chorus will hold auditions for the 2009-10 concert season, looking
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for singers of all skill levels and voice parts by appointment only, from 6-9 p.m. Jan. 4 at Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, 2111 Sansom St., (215) 7319230 or auditions@pgmc. org. Philadelphia Voices of Pride The city’s premiere LGBT mixedvoice chorus will hold open auditions
for new members 7:309:30 p.m. Jan. 5 at the William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St. E-mail pvopmembership@gmail. com to schedule an audition.
Etc.
A Longwood Gardens Christmas Visitors can enjoy elegantly decorated trees, waves of poinsettias and an outdoor light display through Jan. 10 at Longwood Gardens, 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square; (610) 388-1000. ■
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Dance
Shen Yun The Kimmel Center presents the classical Chinese dance and orchestral group, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 2 and 2 p.m. Jan. 3 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St.; (215) 790-5847.
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Out actor Frank X, who has appeared in pretty much every major stage production in Philadelphia, is surely turning in show-stopping performances as Capt. Hook in Arden Theatre Company’s production of “Peter Pan,” through Jan. 24 at Arden Theatre Company’s F. Otto Haas Stage, 40 N. Second St. For more information, call (215) 922-1122. Photo: Mark Garvin
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Meeting Place A community bulletin board of activities, facilities and organizations
Community centers ■ The Attic Youth Center: For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. Groups meet and activities are held from 4-8 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays; case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available Monday through Friday. See the Youth section for more events. 255 S. 16th St.; (215) 545-4331 ■ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania 3907 Spruce St.; (215) 898-5044; center@dolphin.upenn.edu, Summer hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. ■ Rainbow Room — Bucks County’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Allies Youth Center: 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays: Doylestown Planned Parenthood, The Atrium, Suite 2E, 301 S. Main St., Doylestown; (215) 348-0558 ext. 65; rainbowroom@ppbucks.org. ■ William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center: 1315 Spruce St.; (215) 732-2220; www.waygay.org. Peer counseling: Monday through Friday, 6-9 p.m. Library hours: Mondays 3-9 p.m., Tuesdays 3-6 p.m., Wednesdays 3-9 p.m., Thursdays 3-9 p.m., Fridays 3-9 p.m., Saturdays noon-6 p.m., Sundays noon-6 p.m. Volunteers: New Orientation: First Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.; Volunteer Velada, third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m.
Health Anonymous, free, confidential HIV testing Spanish/English counselors offer testing 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 166 W. Lehigh Ave.; (215) 763-8870 ext. 6000. AIDS Services In Asian Communities Provides HIV-related services to Asians and Pacific Islanders at 340 N. 12th St., suite 205; (2215) 536-2424. Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9:30 a.m.4:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursdays at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; (215) 851-1822 or (866) 222-3871. Spanish/English. HIV testing Free, anonymous testing and counseling is offered from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and by appointment at AIDS Resource, 520 W. Fourth St., suite 2A, Williamsport; (570) 322-8448.
Key numbers
HIV treatment Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents are available from 9 a.m.noon Mondays and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; (215) 685-1803. HIV health insurance help Access to free medications, confidential HIV testing available at 17 MacDade Blvd., suite 108, Collingdale; Medical Office Building, 722 Church Lane, Yeadon; and 630 S. 60th St.; (610) 586-9077. Mazzoni Center Free, anonymous HIV testing; HIV/AIDS care and treatment, case management and support groups; 1201 Chestnut St.; (215) 563-0652. www. mazzonicenter.org. Washington West Project Free, anonymous HIV testing. Walk-ins welcome 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday; 1201 Locust St.; (215) 985-9206.
Professional groups ■ Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia GALLOP holds board meetings at 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at 100 S. Broad St., Suite 1810; GALLOP also provides a free referral service; (215) 627-9090; www.galloplaw.org. ■ Greater Philadelphia Professional Network Networking group for area business professionals, self-employed and business owners meets monthly in a different location throughout the city, invites speakers on various topics, partners with other nonprofits and maintains a Web site where everyone is invited to sign up for e-mail notices for activities and events.; www.gppn.org. ■ Independence Business Alliance Greater Philadelphia’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, providing networking, business development, marketing, educational and advocacy opportunities for LGBT and LGBT-friendly businesses and professionals. Visit www. IndependenceBusinessAlliance.com for information about events, programs and membership; (215) 557-0190; 1717 Arch St., Suite 3370. ■ National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association The Philadelphia chapter of NLGJA, open to professionals and students, meets for social and networking events; www.nlgjaphiladephia.org.
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12-step programs and support groups Adult Children of Alcoholics
Meets at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at the William Way Center. ■ Rainbow Adult Children of Alcoholics and Alcoholics Anonymous meet at 7 p.m. Saturdays at Limestone Presbyterian Church, 3201 Limestone Road, Wilmington, Del.; (302) 456-9129. ■
Al-Anon
Gay Al-Anon meets at 8 p.m. Fridays at St. Andrew’s Church, 50 York St., Lambertville, N.J.; (215) 986-1029. ■
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Acceptance meets at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays at Episcopal Church, 22nd and Spruce streets. ■ Beginnings meets at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at 1201 Locust St.; (215) 563-0663 ext. 282. ■ Community meets at 8 p.m. on Thursdays at Holy Communion Church, 2111 Sansom St. Gay and lesbian but all are welcome. ■ GLBT Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 7 p.m. on Sundays and 8 p.m. on Wednesdays at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 100 W. Windsor St., Reading; (484) 529-9504. ■ Living In Sobriety meets at 10 a.m. Mondays through Fridays and 11 a.m. Sundays at the William Way Center. ■ Night Owl meets at 11:30 p.m. Sunday through Saturday at the William Way Center. ■ Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Beginners meets at 7:30 p.m. Mondays at Trinity Episcopal Church, 2212 Spruce St. ■ Sober and Gay meets at 8:30 p.m. Sunday through Friday at the William Way Center. ■ Stepping Stone meets at 2:30 p.m. Mondays at the Mazzoni Center. ■ Ties That Bind Us is a12-step Alcoholics Anonymous meeting for the BDSM, leather and alternative sexuality community. Meetings are held from 7:30-9 p.m. in South Philadelphia. For location, call (800) 581-7883. ■ Way Gay Young Peoples meets at 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday at the William Way Center. ■
Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA)
Meets at 7 p.m. on Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the William Way Center.
■ Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus A regional organization dedicated to promoting gay and lesbian tourism to the Greater Philadelphia Region, holds meetings every other month on the fourth Thursday (January, March, May, July, September and the third Thursday in November), open to the public; P.O. Box 58143, Philadelphia, PA 19102; www.philadelphiagaytourism.com. ■ Philly OutGoing Professionals Social group for gay, lesbian and bisexual professionals meets for social and cultural activities; (856) 857-9283; popnews19@yahoo.com.
Emotional Support
Healing After Loss has monthly activities in South Jersey and surrounding area; www.lsn. southjersey.com. ■ Pink and Blues is a free depression and bipolar support group for sexual minorities and meets at 7 p.m. Wednesdays at St. Luke and The Epiphany Church, 330 S. 13th St.; (215) 627-0424. ■ Pink and Blues Main Line, a peer-run mental health support group, meets 6 p.m. Thursdays at Bryn Mawr Consumer Center, 1001 W. Lancaster Ave.; (610) 527-1511. ■ Survivors of Suicide Inc. meets at 7:30 p.m. on first Tuesday of the month at 3535 Market St., Room 2037; (215) 545-2242; www.phillysos. tripod.com. ■ Survivors of Suicide Inc., Chester County meets at 7:30 p.m. on second Wednesday of the month at Paoli Memorial Hospital, Willistown Room, Medical Office Building; (215) 545-2242; www. phillysos.tripod.com. ■
HIV/AIDS
Strength In Numbers Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ SINPhiladelphia. ■
■ Mazzoni Center: (215) 563-0652; www. mazzonicenter.org
■ AIDS Law Project of Southern New Jersey: (856) 933-9500 ext. 221
■ Mazzoni Center Family and Community Medicine: (215) 563-0658
■ AIDS Library: (215) 985-4851 ■ ACLU of Pennsylvania: (215) 592-1513
■ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): (215) 572-1833
■ AIDS Treatment hot line: (215) 5452212
■ Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations: (215) 686-4670
■ Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection at the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library: (215) 685-1633
■ Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force: (215) 772-2000
■ The COLOURS Organization Inc. 112 N. Broad St., 11th floor; (215) 4960330. ■ Equality Advocates Pennsylvania: (215) 731-1447; (866) LGBTLAW ■ Equality Forum: (215) 732-3378 ■ Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Peer Counseling Services: (215) 732-TALK ■ Mayor’s liaison to LGBT communities: Gloria Casarez, (215) 686-2194; Gloria.
■ Philadelphia Police Department liaison — Chief Inspector James Tiano: (215) 685-3655 ■ Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: (215) 600-0627; ppd.lgbt@gmail.com
Wednesdays:
A support group for HIV-positive women will meet from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Arch Street United Methodist Church, 55 N. Broad St.; (215) 387-6055. ■ AIDS Services in Asian Communities’ weekly volunteer work group will meet from 6-8 p.m. at 340 N. 12th St., Suite 205; (215) 563-2424. ■ Project Teach, a peer-education and empowerment program for people living with HIV/ AIDS, will meet from 3-5 p.m. at Philadelphia Fight, 1233 Locust St. ■ Positive Effect, for HIV-positive people 18 and over, meets from 5-7 p.m. at Camden AHEC, 514 Cooper St., Camden, N.J.; (856) 963-2432. ■
Thursdays:
A support group for HIV-positive men and women will meet from 6-8 p.m. at BEBASHI — Transition to Hope, 1217 Spring Garden St.; (215) 769-3561. ■ Diversity, an HIV/AIDS support group for all infected or affected, meets from 7-9 p.m. at Arch Street United Methodist Church, 55. N. Broad St.; call Zak, (215) 848-4380, or Paul, (215) 307-0347. ■
Saturdays:
AIDS Delaware’s You’re Not Alone youth support group meets at 11 a.m. at AIDS Delaware, 100 W. 10th St., Suite 315, Wilmington; a social session will follow at 12:30 p.m.; (302) 652-6776. ■
Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
Meetings are at 2 p.m. Sunday through Saturday and at 5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the William Way Center. ■
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Casarez@phila.gov; Fax: (215) 686-2555
■ AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania: (215) 587-9377
A support group for HIV-positive men and women meets from 1:30-3 p.m. at BEBASHI — Transition to Hope, 1217 Spring Garden St., first floor; (215) 769-3561. ■ Encuentros Positivos, a group for HIV-positive Latino men who have sex with men, meets on first and third Tuesday of the month at 1205 Chestnut St.; (215) 985-3382. ■ “Feast Incarnate,” a weekly ministry for people affected by HIV/AIDS, begins at 5 p.m. at University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St. Bible study follows at 6 p.m.; (215) 387-2885. ■ A support group for people recently diagnosed with HIV/AIDS will meet from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Mazzoni Center. ■ Youth Outreach Adolescent Community Awareness Program’s Voice It Sistah, a support group for HIV-positive women, meets at 11 a.m. every first and third Tuesday at YOACAP, 1207 Chestnut St., Suite 315; (215) 851-1898. ■
Meeting Place rotates listings on a four week schedule.
Mondays:
Positive Brothers, a support group for men of color living with HIV/AIDS, meets from 6-8 p.m. at 112 N. Broad St., 11th floor; (215) 496-0330. ■
Tuesdays:
AIDS Services in Asian Community offers safer-sex and HIV/AIDS information at 10 a.m. on second Tuesday of the month at the Independence Branch of the the Free Library, 18 S. Seventh St.; (215) 685-1633. ■
Overeaters Anonymous (OA)
Open meeting, Tuesdays, beginners meet at 5:30 p.m., regular meeting at 6 p.m. at Hahnemann University Hospital, 245 N. 15th St., third floor, room 3208; call Troy, (215) 514-3065. ■
S.A.R.A.
Substance Abuse – Risk Assessment; day and evening hours; (215) 563-0663 ext. 282. ■
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
Mondays, 7 p.m. at the William Way Center. ■ Mondays, 7:30 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 20 N. Route 9, Marmora, N.J.; (609) 675-1998. ■ Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. at All Saints Church, 18 Olive Ave., Rehoboth Beach, Del.; (302) 542-3279. ■ Fridays, 7:30 p.m. at the Ocean View Lodge, Metropolitan Community Church, 521 Glade Road, Rehoboth Beach, Del.; (302) 945-5982. ■ Saturdays, 8:30 p.m. at the William Way Center. ■
SEPCADD
Safe space to meet and discuss substance abuse problems with office in William Way Center; (215) 340-9995. ■
Smoking Cessation
FreshOUT!, Mazzoni Center’s free quitsmoking program, hosts individual sessions, classes and support groups and offers Nicotine Replacement Therapy (patches, gum and lozenges); (215) 563-0652 ext. 228 or e-mail quitsmoking@mazzonienter.org. ■
Send submissions to pgn@epgn.com or fax (215) 925-6437 PGN Meeting Place, 505 S. Fourth St., Philadelphia, PA 19147 Meeting Place is a public service. Submissions must include a phone number for publication.
■ Philly Pride Presents: (215) 875-9288 ■ SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: (717) 920-9537 ■ Transgender Health Action Coalition: (215) 732-1207 (staffed 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays, and 6-9 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays)
Complete Meeting Place listings of all Parent/Family, Professional, Recovery, Recreation, Religion, Sports, Men, Women, Trans, Youth groups can be found online @ www.phliagaynews.com and www.epgn.com
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Offline Bruce Yelk Mark your new calendar: 2010 blockbusters This is an exciting column for me because it’s the first time Offline is running on New Year’s Day. As we all begin the transition from the frenetic social pace of the past few weeks to a more relaxed scene in January and February, this is the perfect opportunity to begin planning for the special events that will make 2010 memorable and meaningful. To help populate your calendar, I’ve assembled my top recommendations for the upcoming year. These are the events that will have LGBT Philadelphians buzzing in 2010, and that will help make the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection one of the best places to live, visit and socialize. I guarantee that if you engage in the diversions listed
below, you’ll look back a year from now with no doubt that 2010 was one of the best years ever! Starting on Feb. 24, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, will debut its new exhibit, “Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris.” Always brilliant but occasionally misunderstood by critics and fellow creators, Picasso is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Featuring a wide collection of his greatest works, this promises to be one of the hottest tickets in Philadelphia. The exhibit runs through April 25, but you should plan far in advance to secure your tickets. For more information on the exhibit and ticketing details, visit philamuseum.org. On April 17, Nightlifegay.com will present the fourth annual Mr. Gay Philadelphia competition at Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 St. James St. This live contest to crown
Philly’s Mr. Gay titleholder has grown more popular each year, but the 2010 competition will bring even more excitement, as Philadelphia is in the running to host the national Mr. Gay U.S.A. competition next fall. In addition to the main event on April 17, many local businesses and organizations will conduct preliminary contests to select their representative for Mr. Gay Philadelphia, including Q Lounge on Feb. 11, Voyeur on Feb. 19, Woody’s on Feb. 21, Stir Lounge on March 19 and Shampoo Nightclub on March 26. Visit Nightlifegay. com for more information on the citywide contest and a complete schedule of preliminary events. Equality Forum is arguably one of Philadelphia’s best-known annual LGBT events. Featuring a week of programs, panel discussions and parties from April 26May 2, Equality Forum is a truly unique combination of political action, community building, net-
working and social extravagance. Each year, Equality Forum culminates with an amazing block party, Sunday OUT. In a bold move by event organizers, the 2010 edition of Sunday OUT will take place at The Piazza in Northern Liberties. Visit equalityforum.org for more information. Beginning on June 5, the Franklin Institute, 22 N. 20th St., will premiere “Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt.” Presented by National Geographic and Arts and Exhibitions International, with cooperation from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology, the Cleopatra exhibition will feature over 250 artifacts from sand and sea. The show is scheduled to run through the end of 2010. For more information, visit www. fi.edu/cleo. In addition to these events,
make sure to keep an eye out for Festivus, the Traverse Arts Project’s LGBT arts festival. This was one of the “sleeper” events last year, which got rave reviews from critics, patrons and fans alike. The second annual arts festival will take place at venues throughout the city later this year. Check out www.traversetheater. org for new information on this year’s event. As you begin building your social calendar for 2010, don’t forget about Gay Pride in June (phillypride.org), OutFest in October, the Pink Pub Crawl on March 20 and Thanksgiving Eve in November and the Liberty Bell Classic Softball Tournament on Memorial Day weekend. If I missed an event that you’re looking forward to in 2010, please e-mail Bruce@nightlifegay.com and share your recommendation. ’Til next time, get offline and see what your community has to offer! ■
LESBIAN 1. “L Word 6, Final Season,” directed by Angela Robinson (2008, 438 min., $49.95 DVD). It’s the final season of the show that won our hearts and got us talking for its unwavering dedication to portraying sexy lesbian characters in a steady stream of increasingly hot storylines. 2. “Girl Seeks Girl” (“Chica Busca Chica”), directed by Sonia Sebastian (2007, 153 min., $24.95 DVD). This hot and hilarious lesbian soap opera takes you on a wild ride through the mixed-up love lives of a group of sexy Madrid lesbians. English subtitles. 3. “Kate Clinton: 25th Anniversary Tour,” directed by Andrea Meyerson (2007, 65 min., $19.95 DVD). Making us laugh, encouraging us to think and inspiring us to be out and proud, Clinton isn’t slowing down, she’s revving up. 4. “Lesbian Sex & Sexuality,” directed by Katherine Linton (2007, 158 min., $29.95 DVD). Takes viewers on an uncharted and provocative journey where the subject of lesbian sexuality and desire isn’t whispered, but celebrated.
BOOKS
LESBIAN 1. “Returning Tides,” by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes, 252 pp., $16.95 pb). From the Lambda Literary Award-winning author comes book six in her Provincetown series. 2. “Push: A Novel,” by Sapphire (Vintage, 192 pp., $13 pb). Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption. The book is the basis of the current movie, “Precious.” 3. “The Legacy,” by Susan X. Meagher (Brisk, 277 pp., $16 pb). The latest installment of this popular series of romances. 4. “The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art,” by Eileen Myles (Semiotext(e), 216 pp., $17.95 pb). Myles travels New York City, seeing it with a poet’s eye for detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always been a social gesture.
street, author Helmut Brandt’s life ebbs away, putting a chain of events in motion that places P.I. Marco Fontana on a collision course with the church and local community. 2. “Single Man,” by Christopher Isherwood (U of Minnesota Press, 186 pp., $15.95 pb). George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner. 3. “Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom,” by Aiden Shaw (Alyson, 275 pp, $15.95 pb). Chronicles the author’s ascent from being just another broke college boy who dabbled with the idea that he could sell his young body for hard cash to becoming the internationally renowned adult-film superstar. 4. “Love Means No Shame,” by Andrew Grey (Dreamspinner Press, 234 pp., $14.99 pb). Geoff is in the city, living the gay life to the hilt, when his father’s death convinces him to return to the family farm. Discovering a young Amish man asleep in his barn, Geoff learns that Eli is spending a year away from the community before accepting baptism into the church. ■
Best Sellers Information is courtesy of Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St.; (215) 923-2960; www.giovannisroom.com. Ten-percent off most hardcover in-store sales. DVDs GAY 1. “Make the Yuletide Gay,” directed by Rob Williams (2009, 89 min., $19.99 DVD). Follows a young gay couple — Nathan and Gunn — as they face their first Christmas apart. 2. “Shank,” directed by Simon Pearce (2009, 89 min., $19.99 DVD). Handsome young men are growing up. 3. “Eating Out: All You Can Eat,” directed by Glen Gaylord (2009, 81 min., $24.95 DVD). Casey is new to the gay scene, refreshingly cute, geeky and extremely shy. When bombastic Tiffani befriends Casey and takes him under her wing, his adventures have only just begun! 4. “Hollywood, Je t’aime,” directed by Jason Bushman (2008, 97 min., $24.95 DVD). After a breakup, gay Parisian Jerome impulsively books a solo Christmas vacation to Los Angeles.
LGBT 1. “Second Person Queer: Who You Are (So Far),” edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp, 223 pp., $18.95 pb). An anthology of essays on LGBT life written in the second person. The essays take the form of letters to family and friends, missives to homophobes, confessions to lovers and words of advice for the next generation — and much more. 2. “Out in the Country: Youth, Media and Queer Visibility in Rural America,” by Mary L. Gray (NYU, 279 pp., $22 pb). Gray maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders, providing a fascinating and often surprising look at the contours of gay life beyond the big city. 3. “Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read,” edited by Richard Canning (Alyson, 342 pp., $16.95 pb). Fifty essays by critics, public figures and authors on 50 books that reflect the best of lesbian and gay literature.
GAY 1. “Murder On Camac,” by Joseph DeMarco (Lethe, 396 pp., $18 pb). Gunned down in the
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November new-home sales sink 11 percent By Alan Zibel The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sales of new homes plunged unexpectedly last month to the lowest level since April, a sign the U.S. housing-market recovery will be rocky. The 11-percent slump from October’s pace shows that consumers are taking their time following an extension of a deadline for first-time buyers to qualify for a tax credit. The incentive was set to expire at the end of November, but Congress pushed back the date to April 30 and expanded the program to include current homeowners who relocate.
“They don’t have to act today,” said David Crowe, chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders, who called the results “pretty awful.” New-home sales data, released last Wednesday, are a better indicator of future real-estate activity than sales of previously occupied homes, but capture a smaller slice of the market. The new-home figures tally sales agreements signed in November, while home-resale numbers reflect contracts signed over the summer that were completed in November. So while home resales rose 7 percent last month, the National Association of Realtors reported last Tuesday, most economists
expect completed sales to decline during the winter months. “Buyer traffic is likely to be flat until spring,” predicted Mark Vitner, senior economist with Wells Fargo Securities. Despite the poor showing from new homebuyers, the housing market has been recovering from the worst downturn in decades, largely due to a massive infusion of federal assistance. New-home sales are up 8 percent from the bottom in January but 74 percent below the peak in July 2005. Compared with November last year, sales were off 9 percent. The Commerce Department said sales hit a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 355,000 last month, off from a downwardly
revised 400,000 pace in October. Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected 440,000. The median sales price of $217,400 was down nearly 2 percent from $221,600 a year earlier, but up about 4 percent from October’s level of $209,400. Builders clearly saw the drop coming: the National Association of Home Builders said last week its index of industry confidence fell to the lowest level since June. The trade group blamed high unemployment and a slow economic recovery for stifling demand. The only strong region was the Midwest, where sales rose 21 percent. Sales fell by 21 percent in the South, 9 percent in the West
and 3 percent in the Northeast. Builders had 235,000 new homes for sale nationwide at the end of November. That was down 2 percent from October and the lowest inventory level since April 1971. At the current weak sales pace, that still represents nearly eight months of supply. Robert Toll, CEO of luxury builder Toll Brothers Inc., said earlier this month that demand has been “choppy” after several strong months in the spring and summer. “You just have to bite the finger, be patient and wait until you see what comes out in the latter part of January, all of February and in the early part of March,” he said. ■
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