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Philly Pride to introduce new winter event By Angela Thomas angela@epgn.com

UNITING IDENTITIES: Dozens of queer Jewish community members gathered at a home at 8th and Lombard streets Jan. 13 to discuss issues arising from the intersection of identities. The Queer Jewish Forum event, co-promoted by Spectrum Philly and Moishe House, featured a workshop led by ScrewSmart on LGBT Jewish history followed by a presentation by Rabbi Rebecca Katherine Hirsch that explored contemporary approaches to Judaism. Photo: Scott A. Drake

Israeli LGBT officials bring work to Philly By Angela Thomas angela@epgn.com The Consulate General of Israel to the Mid-Atlantic Region hosted Israel’s leading LGBT-equality organization in Philadelphia last week. Two representatives of The Aguda, the Israeli National LGBT Taskforce, discussed their work in Israel and abroad Jan. 11 with a host of local LGBT leaders, including Rep. Brian Sims (D-182nd Dist.), Mazzoni Center executive director Nurit Shein, businessman Mel Heifetz, Equality Forum executive director Malcolm Lazin, William Way LGBT Community Center executive director Chris Bartlett and attorney Abbe Fletman. The Aguda was founded in 1975 by six individuals who were at the frontier of LGBT rights in Israel. According to chairperson Shai Doitsh, Israeli law has come a long way since that time in terms of LGBT rights. “In 1975, the law in Israel was to criminalize gay sex. Although no one was ever

arrested because of it, it was still illegal, which made it a very tough social problem,” Doitsh said. Since its founding, the focus of The Aguda has changed tremendously, he added. “The organization started as ‘GL’ to now ‘LGBTQ. We started as a human-rights and advocacy organization and realized that we needed to work in other fields to create a community like social services and legal aid.” Doitsh considers The Aguda a “one-stop shop” for the LGBT community. “Every need that the community has, the organization is there to give it, “ he said. While Israel has evolved on LGBT-rights issues, Doitsh said his agency is committed to ensuring that the legal landscape remains steady. “Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world with LGBT rights, so our attention is basically on the parliament to make sure that we will remain equal,” he said. Doitsh said both PAGE 8

Be prepared to lace up those boots and bundle up with coats, scarves and hats, as the organizers of the usually sweltering summer Pride are ready to bring a new coldweather event to the Philadelphia LGBT community. Philly Pride Presents will host the inaugural Winter Pride from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 22 at Blue Cross RiverRink at Penn’s Landing. Executive director Franny Price said the decision to have a winter event grew from the lack of LGBT-focused events during the chillier months. “I think it will be nice to have something in the winter,” she said. “Ice skating is one

thing that if you turn it into an event, people will come out, and we are hoping people do. Some people only come out for events and some people who have been inside all winter might have cabin fever.” After seeing fireworks at the rink, Price decided the area would be the perfect place for a winter LGBT event. “The skating rink is beautiful and it’s huge. It can hold up to 600 people at one time,” she said. According to Price, individuals will be provided a safe environment to ice skate with their partners, families and friends. “You can be yourself and not worry about others making negative remarks. Partners can hold hands while ice skating. PAGE 16 Our LGBT families will

Appeal in Milano case spotlights victim’s intoxication By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Legal pleadings that seek a new trial for one of the killers of gay artist Anthony Milano argue that jurors should have been informed of Milano’s intoxication at the time of his death. Frank R. Chester and Richard R. Laird killed Milano in December 1987, after luring him from a Bristol Township tavern into a secluded wooded area. Several hours later, police found Milano’s body, his throat hacked out with a box cutter. Chester and Laird were eventually arrested, each blaming the other for the murder. Prosecutors called it an antigay hate crime, partly because both men indicated antigay animus while inside the tavern. In May 1988, a Bucks County jury convicted both men of murder in the first, second and third degrees and sentenced them to death. Chester and Laird also were convicted of kidnapping and related misdemeanors. But jurors never heard about a toxicology report stating that Milano had between nine and 13 drinks shortly

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before his death, and attorneys for Chester are making an issue of that alleged omission. Knowing the extent of Milano’s intoxication might have persuaded jurors that he wasn’t kidnapped, thus avoiding a second-degree murder conviction for Chester, according to the pleadings. In Pennsylvania, a criminal homicide constitutes murder of the second degree if committed during the course of a felony, such as kidnapping. PAGE 12

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Police group looks at crimes, unsolved murders By Angela Thomas angela@epgn.com The first Philadelphia Police LGBT Liaison Committee meeting of the year came with a word of caution to the community: Be aware of your surroundings. On Jan. 10, the committee convened at the William Way LGBT Community Center to discuss updates on several unsolved murders in the LGBT community, recent crime statistics in the Gayborhood and a possible antigay hate crime that occurred New Year’s Eve. Deputy Commissioner Kevin Bethel, the department’s LGBT liaison, provided a report on the investigation into the murders of Kyra Cordova, Stacey Blahnik and Michael J. Fox, although there was little new information. He said investigators continue to work on each case but are not yet at the point of making any arrests. Members and police officials also reviewed crime trends in the Gayborhood. Officer Joe Ferraro said there have been a number of recent apartment and home

break-ins in the Sixth District, which encompasses the Gayborhood. Sgt. Mark Palma said it’s crucial for individuals to report suspicious people near their buildings to the police. “Don’t wait. Don’t say in your mind, ‘No, I don’t think they are doing anything,’” he said. “Please call. That is what we are here for.” Robbery arrests included one outside of Woody’s, where two males asked an individual for a cigarette and then proceeded to rob the victim. Ferraro warned community members to be more vigilant when they walk around the city at night with their cell phones — noting a recent cell-phone robbery of a priest. “We had a Lutheran priest at the 1200 block of Walnut Street get robbed of his phone,” the officer said. “He was peppersprayed in the face.” Lt. Patrick Doherty encouraged those with smart phones to download the “Track My Phone” app. He cautioned those with the app not to discontinue their phone service in the event of a robbery so that

officials can utilize the app to track the phone. The group also discussed an alleged hate crime that happened on New Year’s Eve near the Gayborhood, with the four victims present. According to one of the victims, he was holding hands with another man on 13th between Market and Chestnut streets and was attacked by a group of people consisting of one woman and three men, who called them “faggots” repeatedly. Two men who witnessed the fight tried to intervene and were attacked by the group in the process, resulting in injuries to one man’s mouth. The four victims connected over Craigslist after one of them posted a description of the event to locate any witnesses. Doherty said detectives are working hard on the case. Although Pennsylvania does not have an LGBT-inclusive hate-crimes law, Nellie Fitzpatrick, a committee member and LGBT liaison for the District Attorney’s Office, said cases like this can be used to

demonstrate the need for such a measure. “Every time we have a case like this, we try and make the best record that we can to show how desperately there is a need for protection at the state level, and then at sentencing, we bring in the entire community to show the effect it has on all of us and this area,” she said. Doherty urged those who fall victim to a crime they perceive to be motivated by bias to not only report it to the police, but also to let the responding officer know if it could be an alleged hate crime. “It is important that whatever is said to you, that you tell the detective. Make sure that we know so that we can put that in the record and go forth from there.” Fitzpatrick added, “It is important that crimes against people that are in our community are recognized for what they are, even though legally, they are not.” Community members looking to get involved in anti-crime initiatives in the area can join the Washington Square West Civic Association’s new Town Watch program by emailing safety@washwestcivic. org or calling 215-346-6411. ■

locations in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA — AROUND THE GAYBORHOOD

12th Street Gym, 204 S. 12th St. • 13th Street Gourmet Pizza, 209 S. 13th St. • AACO, 1101 Market St., 9th floor • Action AIDS, 1216 Arch St. • Apt. & Townhouse Rentals, 304 S. 12th St. • ASIAC, 1201 Chestnut St., 5th floor • The Bike Stop, 206 S. Quince St. • Bioscript Pharmacy, 1227 Locust St. • Cafe Twelve, 212 S. 12th St. • Charlie Salon, 203 S. 12th St. • City Hall NE Entrance • Club Body Center, 1220 Chancellor St. • Com-Har Living Room, 101 S. Broad St., 14th floor • Criminal Justice Center, 1301 Filbert St. • Cut Salon, 204 S. 13th St. • Danny’s Bookstore 133 S. 13th St. • Dignity/St. Lukes, 330 S. 13th St. • Dirty Frank’s Bar, 13th & Pine sts. • The Foodery, 10th & Pine sts. • Fusion Gym, 105 S. 12th St., 2nd floor • Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St. • I Goldberg, 1300 Chestnut St. • ICandy, 254 S. 12th St. • Independent Hotel, 13th & Locust sts. • Mazzoni Clinic, 809 Locust St. • Midtown II, 122 S. 11th St. • More Than Just Ice Cream, 1119 Locust St. • Pa. AIDS Law Project, 1211 Chestnut St., 12th floor • Paolo Pizzeria, 1336 Pine St. • Parker Hotel Lobby, 261 S. 13th St. • Phila. FIGHT/Aids Library, 1233 Locust St., 5th floor • Phila. Family Planning Commission, 260 S. Broad St., 10th floor • Planned Parenthood, 1144 Locust St. • Sansom Cinema, 120 S. 13th St., basement • Santa Fe Burrito, 212 S. 11th St. • Scorpio Books, 202 S. Juniper St. • Sisters, 1320 Chancellor St. • Spruce Street Video, 252 S. 12th St. • Packard Apartments, 317 N. Broad St. • Safeguards lobby, 1211 Chestnut St. #610 • Salon K, 1216 Locust St. • Sansom Cinema, 120 S. 13th St. • Sante Fe Burrito, 212 S. 11th St. • Tabu, 200 S. 12th St. • Tavern on Camac, 243 S. Camac St. • Triangle Medicine, 253 S. 10th St., 1st floor • Uncles, 1220 Locust St. • Valanni, 1229 Spruce St. • Venture Inn, 255 S. Camac St. • Voyeur, 1220 St. James St. • Westbury, 261 S. 13th St. • William Way LGBT Community Center, 1325 Spruce St. • Woody’s, 202 S. 13th St. •

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Bean Café, 615 South St. • Best Western Independence Park Hotel lobby, 215 Chestnut St. • Chocolate Works Condo lobby, 321 N. Third St. • Copabanana, 342 South St. • Dane Décor, 315 Arch St. • Famous 4th St. Deli, Fourth & Bainbridge sts. • Hopkinson House, 604 S. Washington Sq. • Hyatt Regency Hotel lobby, 201 S. Columbus Blvd. • Independence Place Condos, 241 S. Sixth St., lobby in both towers • Independence Visitors Center, Sixth & Market sts. • Old City Ironworks Gym, 141 N. Second St. • Nationality Service Center, 1216 Arch St. • Packard Apts., 317 N. Broad St. • PGN ofﬁces, 505 S. Fourth St. • Philadelphia Java Co., 518 S. Fourth St. • Reading Terminal Market, 12th & Filbert sts. • Strands Salon, 25 N. Third St. •

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Adonis Cinema, 2026 Sansom St. • Art Institute, 1610 Chestnut St. • Art Institute, 1622 Chestnut St. • Art Institute, 2300 Market St. • The Attic Youth Center, 255 S. 16th St. • Bob & Barbara’s, 1509 South St. • Book Bin, 22nd & Market sts. • Dan Tobey R/E, 1401 Walnut St., 8th floor • Dr. Wakefield’s Office, 255 S. 17th St., Suite 2306 • Drexel Partnership, 1427 Vine St., 3rd floor • Latimer Deli, 255 S. 15th St. • L-2 Restaurant, 22nd & South sts. • MANNA, 12 S. 23rd St. • Marine Club Condos lobby, Broad St. & Washington Ave. • Metropolitan, 115 N. 15th St. • Safeguards Lobby, 1700 Market St., 18th floor • Sansom St. Gym, 2020 Sansom St. • South Square Market, 2221 South St. • Titan Room, 22nd & Market sts. • Touraine Building lobby, 1520 Spruce St. • U Do It Laundry, 15th & Spruce sts. • Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel, 17th & Race sts. •

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New LGBT party to launch at revamped Shampoo By Angela Thomas angela@epgn.com The party isn’t over at a renovated nightclub that dominated the Philadelphia nightlife scene for nearly two decades. In fact, it’s about to start over. SuperStar is a new monthly LGBT night premiering 9 p.m.-3 a.m. Jan. 26 at Devotion Nightclub, 417 N. Eighth St. The event will mark the grand opening of Devotion, formerly Shampoo Nightclub. The party will return every fourth Saturday of the month. Co-producer Bruce Yelk, who started developing the project six months ago, said SuperStar will be similar in format to FriGAYS, Shampoo’s LGBT-themed night. According to Yelk, SuperStar will include a celebrity tie-in every month. This month’s party will feature a performance by British pop star Neon Hitch, the songstress behind hits “Love U Betta” and “Gold.” It will feature three separate DJs on each of the club’s floors. SuperStar will also bring new music, Yelk said. FriGAYs largely featured hip-hop and Latin music, but Yelk said the new party will incorporate more indie-pop-dance.

He anticipates the party will attract a diverse crowd. “I feel like there is a little bit of something for anyone. It is geared towards everyone.” Yelk said the general flow of Devotion will remain similar to that of Shampoo, but new furniture, bar tops, finishes and projection systems will be implemented. A new video system, which will project images, scenes and graphics to create different atmospheres for parties, also is being installed. Yelk added that the main DJ booth will be reformatted to allow for the DJ to be more immersed in the crowd. “The club will look modern, hip and fresh,” he said. Devotion will resume the same 9 p.m.-3 a.m. hours as Shampoo had and will cater to a 21-and-over crowd. Yelk has high hopes for the success of Devotion, especially because of Shampoo’s legacy. “This is the club that started late-night parties in the city,” he said. “There is a lot of interest and a lot of buzz and people are interested to go back. For the young demographic, they have never been here before, so it will be exciting for them.” For more information, visit www.superstarphilly.com. ■

MAKING MUSIC: It was standing-room-only Jan. 12 at the William Way LGBT Community Center for a classical concert featuring Ching-Yun Hu. This marked Hu’s third performance at the center. She played a number of pieces by Philadelphia-based Grammy-winning composer Jennifer Higdon, who was on hand for the evening, and was also joined by Philadelphia Orchestra violist Judy Geist. William Way executive director Chris Bartlett said the performances and Higdon’s Q&A with the 125-member audience made for a memorable night. “The musicians were very talented and it was exciting to have the audience engage in conversations with them. The community was so engaged and interested in the music and what Higdon was talking about.” Photo: Scott A. Drake

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existing network. “In the beginning, there was this idea to have a separate network — to create a whole new network — which wouldn’t have the reach. Instead, we had this network of NGOs and we got them to add on a mobilizing component. Basically, in Senegal, there are hundreds of organizations that provide HIV support: We don’t have specialized organizations for the support [and] we can’t afford to create a whole new network.” The result is that Senegal has integrated care and support for people living with HIV and sexual minorities, unlike other countries such as the United States, where early prejudice forced activists to initiate a parallel system of care when primary doctors refused to accept or treat HIV patients. Engelberg noted several other differences in Senegal, including the early activism of Catholics and, later, Muslims, which is a stark contrast to some East African coun-

Over the years, Engelberg said ACI’s work has evolved, moving from prevention education to advocacy, then care and treatment. In 2011, there were 34.2 million people “As time went on, we got more involved living with HIV. In some 15 African counwith advocacy, working with the media to tries, between 5-25 percent of the population create a more favorable environment,” he has HIV. But Africa is by no means homosaid. Then, ACI began working with associgeneous and regions vary greatly. While the ations of people living with HIV/AIDS and disease currently affects southern Africa men who have sex with men (MSM). severely, West Africa faces much lower “Most recently — the past two-three years rates of infection, with countries averaging — we’ve been working with sexual minoribetween less than 1 to 4 percent, and North ties, MSM in particular,” Engelberg said. Africa averaging less than 0.1 percent. His group now helps facilitate a national Some of the difference in infection rates organization for MSM to develop a stratecan be attributed to how countries responded gic plan to advocate for the rights of sexual to the epidemic in the 1980s, when the disminorities. ease began to emerge in full force. Returned “In Senegal, a wave of homophobia has Peace Corps volunteer Gary Engelberg was destroyed a lot of the HIV/AIDS work” of in Senegal at the time, where he now runs the last decades, he said. Africa Consultants International, a nongovOn a recent Islamic holiday, Engelberg ernmental organization focused on healthsaid many of the Muslim leaders’ sermons care advocacy, study-abroad programs and condemned homosexuality. cultural orientations. “There’s still an awful After his volunteer service lot of religious prejudice,” he from 1965-67, Engelberg was said. “We have to find a way Peace Corps associate country of neutralizing that message. director for Senegal from 1967Hopefully, they can be warned 69, then was a regional trainthat the pot is starting to boil ing officer for west and central before it boils over. It’s imporAfrica from 1969-72. tant for them to understand the He started ACI in 1983 with relationship between oppression another returned Peace Corps of gay people and their role to volunteer, Lillian Baer, who provide prevention and care.” served in Cote d’Ivoire from Engelberg said the reli1966-68, along with a staff of gious homophobia could be about five. Today, ACI’s 40“counterproductive and very person staff consults with nondangerous.” governmental organizations “The young gay comon HIV/AIDS issues in Benin, munity is particularly at risk Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, because they are not careful,” he Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Niger and said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if Togo. “ACI began health work in RETURNED PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER GARY ENGELBERG we had a regression.” As part of a subcommitthe 1980s — family planning (STANDING, RIGHT) FACILITATES A NATIONAL ADVOCACY and maternal health,” Engelberg GROUP TO REAIN MEN TO WORK ON BEHALF OF SEXUAL tee created to work on sexualsaid. “Then the United Nations MINORITIES IN SENEGAL. minority issues — same-sex sexual activities are illegal Development Program HIV in in Senegal — Engelberg has 1990 invited us to help them develop a response for HIV and develop- tries where religious leaders discourage trained MSM to be advocates for themment: The U.N. understood what the devel- the use of condoms, encourage HIV-posi- selves, “to give them a voice so they can tive people to discontinue their treatments actually talk about their perceptions.” opment impact would be. Another recent challenge Engelberg noted “In the beginning, it was a lot of work,” to let God heal them and speculate that said Engelberg. “In the 1990s, this was still HIV/AIDS is God’s judgment for immoral in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa is a return to family planning as a major intera fairly new phenomenon. We were trying behavior. “The Catholic Church is very progressive national aid focus. to get civil and religious society to be aware “Funding for AIDS is waning; it’s more here,” Engelberg said. “We worked with a of how this would impact the country.” Essentially, ACI worked with NGOs wonderful nun who was here at the begin- difficult to maintain the HIV/AIDS work,” already operating in Senegal to incorporate ning of the epidemic. She mobilized all he said, adding that the shift in funding HIV-prevention education and care into aspects of the Catholic community for care makes sense as family planning can incorand support groups for people with HIV porate HIV prevention. their existing structures. “But on another level, there are still mil“After that year of consultation [with and prevention. And she gradually conUNDP], we moved our organization to face vinced the hierarchy to get involved with lions of people who need care and support,” Engelberg said. “There are still areas in that,” he said. “We had a good reputation the response to HIV/AIDS.” Specifically, the church cared for the peo- Africa where people don’t have access to in terms of advocacy and training, and we continued to work in the field. Across the ple who were suffering, carving that out as antivirals. There are many places in Africa country, we worked as advisers to medical its niche in the response to HIV: According where AIDS remains shameful. There’s people, mobilizing civil society and organi- to Engelberg, the first response was created stigma.” “It’s better, but a lot of people are still zations, adding an AIDS program to what- by the Catholic AIDS Association, not the suffering.” ■ ever they were doing — grafting it on to the government.

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News Briefing Transgender-related prison lawsuit terminated A federal lawsuit filed by four women who shared a cell in a city prison with a transgender woman was officially terminated last month. A “stipulation of dismissal” was filed with U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno Dec. 29, thus ending the litigation. In November, Jabrina T. Barnett, Maria Cachola, Katiria Chamorro and Yazmin Gonzales filed suit claiming their privacy rights were violated when they were required to share a cell with a pre-operative transgender woman at Riverside Correctional Facility. They claimed the transgender inmate, Jovanie Saldana, subjected them to unwanted advances and sexual harassment. They also contended that Saldana would leer at them and make inappropriate comments about their anatomy. Their attorney, Brian F. Humble, said the city paid $32,000 to settle the case. Prison Health Services, a privately run company that provided medical care to city

inmates, also paid an undisclosed amount of money to settle the case, Humble said. “The city settled for $8,000 per plaintiff,” Humble said in an email. “I can state that the PHS amount was substantially lower based on apportionment of liability.” There was no acknowledgement of wrongdoing by any party to the litigation. Shawn Hawes, a spokesperson for the Philadelphia Prison System, declined to comment. Stephen E. Siegrist, an attorney for Prison Health Services, couldn’t be reached for comment.

Historical Commission issues opinion on church After meeting in a closed session Jan. 10, the city’s Historical Commission stated publicly that developer John Wei has a valid permit to demolish the old Church of the Assumption. The 13-member commission issued its opinion at the request of the city’s License and Inspection Review Board, which has blocked the demolition temporarily. The church, built in 1849 by Charles Patrick Keely, is located at 1123-33 Spring Garden St., in the Callowhill section of the city. Local HIV/AIDS agency Siloam sold the church and two adjacent buildings to Wei last July. T h e C a l l ow h i l l N e i g h b o r h o o d Association wants the church preserved

“I lingered in the shadows of my mind to hide from forces I believed would conjure greater torrents of pathos in my life, as if my fate was to live in perpetual sorrow, and barebacking indiscriminately would keep fate at bay.”

as a tourist attraction, noting its ties to two local saints, Katharine Drexel and John Neumann. But attorneys for Wei say the building is in danger of collapse and should be demolished. CNA contends Wei doesn’t have a valid demolition permit, partly because the case remains pending in Commonwealth Court. But commission members said appropriate approvals are in place for Wei to move forward with the demolition. Neighborhood activist Andrew R. Palewski disagreed with the commission’s opinion. “The commission is trying to transfer a hardship approval from one property owner to another,” Palewski said. “There’s no case law to support such a transfer.” Although Common Pleas Judge Idee C. Fox approved the demolition last year, Palewski noted that Fox never mentioned the sale of the building in her ruling. “There was no mention of the sale of the property in the judge’s opinion,” Palewski added. “It was as if the sale never occurred. There is also no direct argument for the ruling extending to a new owner in the judge’s opinion.” At presstime, the L&I Review Board hadn’t announced when it will revisit the matter. In the interim, the board’s stay of demolition for the church remains in place. — Timothy Cwiek

Sister of victim hopes to fight violence While attempting to protect his nephew from robbers last January, openly gay Philadelphia resident Alexander Martinez was murdered, and now his family is speaking out against violence. Martinez’s sister, Rosalind Pichardo, the head of Operation Save Our City, will hold a three-day campout Jan. 25-27 at 2034 E. Allegheny Ave. to demonstrate against gun violence in Philadelphia. Participants are asked to bring tents and blankets, and noncampers are welcomed for support. Donations of water, hot chocolate and other items are also needed. For more information, email Pichardo at mlogan@aol.com or call 856-745-6045.

Stimulus to give back Stimulus Philadelphia will present its second annual Winter Wonderland Ball 10 p.m.-3 a.m. Jan. 27 at Voyeur, 1221 St. James St., to raise money for LGBT grantmaking agency Sapphire Fund. The party will feature a red-carpet entry, live performances and three DJs. Semi-formal attire is required. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/TheStimulus. ■ — Angela Thomas

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Israeli society and the organization itself are very volunteer-oriented, which has resulted in 750 agency volunteers, with that number jumping to several thousand during Pride events. Besides Tel Aviv’s Pride event, Doitsh said Israel has two other Pride events, including one in Jerusalem and a new event in Haifa, in northern Israel. Jerusalem Pride is held every August and is a demonstration for human rights. “It is not commercial; you will not see any floats in it. It is really a march for our rights in front of our parliament.” The Aguda has produced Pride events in the past but now focuses its attention on Pride events outside Tel Aviv, since the city’s municipality both produces and pays for the event, which draws about 100,000 people. “We hope municipalities eventually will produce their own Prides as well,” Doitsh said. The Aguda has also had an increased focus on transgender issues in recent years. In 1998, the organization sent transgender singer Dana International to the Eurovision Song Contest, something Doitsh

said was an unprecedented step towards trans equality. “In those days, sending a transgender woman as Israel’s official representative was a huge thing. She actually won the competition and a transgender woman brought pride to Israel,” Doitsh said. The Aguda is also the country’s first non-governmental organization to install a transgender woman as its chairperson, which occurred in early 2000. Doitsh also noted that the agency’s executive director is a transgender woman. “We have transgender individuals who are the leaders of our community,” he said. “Most of our clients are transgender people who need legal and social aid. We are trying to improve the quality of life for transgender people in Israel.” The Aguda also works with Israeli youth. Doitsh said suicide among LGBT youth in Israel is an epidemic that has been building every year, especially because of cyber-bullying. The organization just completed a survey with the Ministry of Health in Israel that revealed 50 percent of LGBT youth are at risk of committing suicide.

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The Aguda helps teens who were either kicked out or dropped out of the education system because of bullying or family rejection. “We help them get a highschool diploma in order for them to go back into the circle of life and not out in the streets with drugs or prostitution,” Doitsh said. It also operates a program known as BarNoar, which offers a safe environment for at-risk youth during especially at-risk hours, where they manage a nonalcoholic bar in a nonjudgmental atmosphere. “They serve the drinks and they make the food and they are in charge of the place without any tagging or labels. No one asks them if they are gay. They can choose how to identify — female or male. It is the only time during the week that they can be open.” Doitsh said the organization has worked to be inclusive of the Arab community — which often doesn’t have access to LGBTrelated information — by translating its website and hiring Arab social workers, speakers and attorneys. While some critics have accused Israel of “pinkwashing” — or

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using a platform of LGBT equality to mask Palestinian inequality — Doitsh said he’s eager for Americans to see the country that exists beyond the conflict. “We live our life in Israel and we have more sides of Israel than the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and by coming here and talking to people, we’re showing other sides of Israel. It doesn’t mean that we don’t have a conflict or that we

are perfect, but we want to show other sides of Israel,” he said. “The country didn’t give us our rights, we fought for it. We fought for it in court — as individuals and the community. The Israeli state gave us the atmosphere and the ability to do that and that is the real key. We are the most advanced country in gay rights and we are proud of that, so why hide it? I wish that every country will get there.” ■

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Life-planning list for 2013 There is still time for personal planning for 2013. Taking some easy steps now can save you time, money and aggravation later in the year and further down the road. Legal issues Complete or update your legal documents. If it has been five or more years since you completed or revised your legal documents, it is time for another review with your attorney. Everyone should have a will and a living will that outlines your wishes should you become unable to make health-care decisions for yourself. You should have a medical power of attorney that designates the person you want to carry out your wishes. You should also have a financial power of attorney. Copies of all of your legal documents should be in a safe place. Now is the time to tell or remind your partner, a friend, your attorney or accountant where those important papers are stored. Make sure you have a valid photo ID so that you don’t have to worry about the next election cycle. Each state may have different requirements.

before completing any transaction. Review your list of payroll tax deductions and automatic payments from your bank account or credit card to make sure they are still accurate. You can contribute to a 2012 IRA until April 15. Check with your advisor to see whether funding a traditional IRA or a Roth IRA makes the most sense for your situation. The Roth IRA may be a good source of tax-free retirement income if you qualify. Review your 401K, 403B, IRA and other investment accounts to make sure they are accurate and that the investments are appropriate for your retirement goals and risk tolerance. Getting close to applying for Social Security? Make sure you understand your benefits clearly, and the pros and cons of filing early vs. waiting. With the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act under review, your choice may impact your partner as well. You only get one chance to make this decision correctly. And what makes sense for your friends and neighbors may not be right for you. Speak with a financial advisor who has expertise in Bomba Social Security planning to help you understand your options. Start collecting all the paperwork that will be necessary to complete your income-tax returns.

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Health-care issues Make sure that a copy of your Ed living will is on file with your doctor and your hospital. Review your health-insurance policies and make sure they fit your current needs and budget. If your health insurance is provided through your employer, ask your human-resources professional to help you evaluate your coverage. If you have private health-care insurance, review the policy and compare it to others that are available by going to www.healthcare.gov. If you are on Medicare or will be eligible for Medicare in the near future, start planning now. For those turning 65, you can choose between original Medicare and Medicare Advantage. There are many options within Medicare and they can be complex and confusing. Visit www.medicare.gov for more information or call 800MEDICARE. Schedule your annual physical, preventative-care screenings and necessary and appropriate vaccinations, including pneumonia and shingles. Update your list of health issues, medications, allergies, doctors and a friend or family member to contact so that your list is accurate in case of emergency. Financial issues Review your bank account(s). Make sure you are getting the most interest and paying the lowest fees possible on your accounts. See if you qualify for no-fee checking or ATM use. Check with your credit-card company to see if you can get a lower interest rate or reduced annual fee. Read the fine print

General insurance issues Review your homeowner’s or renter’s insurance policy to make sure it’s current and the most cost-effective policy available for your current needs. Is your flood insurance policy up to date? Make sure the beneficiaries on all of your insurance policies, pensions and other benefits are current. Even if you designate a beneficiary for these items in your will, it is important that each policy is updated and matches the beneficiary listed in your will. Do you have additional items to add to this checklist? Let us know at info@lgbtei. org and we will post them on our website at www.lgbtei.org. Special thanks to attorney Amy Steerman and accredited domestic-partnership advisor Jeremy Gussick for their assistance in the preparation of this article. ■

Ed Bomba is communications chair of the LGBT Elder Initiative. The LGBTEI fosters and advocates for services and resources that are competent, culturally sensitive, inclusive and responsive to the needs of LGBT older adults. To comment on this article, suggest topics for future articles or for more information, visit www.lgbtei. org or call 267-546-3448 and watch for “Gettin’ On” each month in PGN.

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Fostering a coming-out Jodie Foster finally put to rest the rumors that have pursued for her decades — yes, she is single. Or at least that’s how she teased the audience at the Golden Globe Awards, dropping that bomb after her seemingly nervous buildup to what most likely presumed would be her public coming-out. Instead, her “coming out” was a mere afterthought and her speech ultimately left the social-media world abuzz with headscratching — but it presented an interesting opportunity to examine the evolution of and expectations for the coming-out process. After her single quip, the actor-director went on to say in her acceptance of a lifetime achievement award, “I hope you’re not disappointed this is not a big coming-out speech tonight. I already did my coming out about 1,000 years ago, back in the Stone Age,” eliciting loud applause from the Hollywood crowd. So Foster essentially came out publicly, without coming out publicly. She even poked fun at celebrities who come out with a “press conference, fragrance and primetime reality show.” Instead, her process was a personal one and, ultimately, each LGBT person’s is the same. Foster said she came out to the people who matter — family, friends, coworkers, people she has “actually” met. She gave those who have long criticized her the rhetorical middle finger, basically telling them that it was not that she was in any way ashamed of her LGBT identity but that they were not deserving to be let into the personal side of her life. Instead, she spoke directly to her former parent, her two children and her mother, telling them that all of her work had been solely for them. While some criticized Foster for being scattered or nervous, the tears in her eyes and in those of many of the audience members communicated the power of the moment, as she took back control that had long been usurped by gossip rags and paparazzi. While her speech got a multitude of play in the following days, it wasn’t because Foster confirmed that she was a lesbian but rather because she confirmed the longstanding rumors and in such a public way — the fact that a major Hollywood celeb came out as LGBT is becoming less and less of a news item. The day after the Golden Globes, “Argo” actor Victor Garber, well known from his role in “Titanic,” confirmed to a blogger that he too is family. And he did so not with a press conference, fragrance or a primetime reality show but in a casual interview that made few headlines, and rightfully so. While some LGBT celebrities may choose to be a public face for the movement, just as many may strive for a pseudo-ordinary life, in the non-Hollywood LGBT crowd, some people choose to be community activists and others prefer to keep a lower profile. And neither is wrong. So kudos, Foster, for showing people that a public coming-out is neither necessary nor required for one to lead a full LGBT life. ■

To say that the horrific murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last month stunned the nation is an understatement. And in the face of horror, people want to know two things: 1. Why did this happen? and 2. Who is to blame? There are, of course, no easy answers. As the fast and furious debate about gun control and/or mental illness rages, people scramble to come up with a satisfactory explanation. Until, that is, James Dobson — founding overlord of the antigay Focus on the Family — opened his mouth Dec. 17, just three days after the shootings, to share with his radio listeners the answers they’ve been looking for: 1. God and 2. Gays. “Our country really does seem in complete disarray,” Dobson lamented in a broadcast focused on the Sandy Hook shootings. “I’m not talking politically, I’m not talking about the result of the November election. I am saying that something has gone wrong in America and that we have turned our back on God.” Yeah, don’t get him wrong. He’s not talking about the fact that we rehired a gay-loving Socialist Muslim for president. Although he does just want to give a shoutout to how that’s gone and fucked everything up. “I mean millions of people have decided that God doesn’t exist, or he’s irrelevant,” he continued, “and the institution of marriage is right on the verge of a complete redefinition. Believe me, that is going to have consequences, too.” Oh, do go on, Mr. Dobson. Whatever could you be getting at? “And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now,” he said, “but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the Scripture

and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us. I think that’s what’s going on.” To sum up his comments: God is pissed because of all the gay marrying going on, especially in Connecticut where gays and lesbians may legally marry. And the consequence is for God to possess a young man with some apparently very serious mental problems to go to an elementary school with guns. And some folks might get mad at him for saying such a thing, but it’s just what he thinks. Amen. Look, Dobson. I’m no religious scholar. But if your god gets pissed off at you for “turning your back on him,” i.e., not paying enough attention to him, and sees to it that a bunch of first-graders are mowed down with an assault rifle in order to teach you a lesson, I don’t really know what good you see left in the guy. I mean, seriously. Atheism, Buddhism, even Wicca must be starting to look really good. And isn’t it convenient that what Dobson claims pisses off God are the very same things that piss off Dobson? Let’s be clear: Blaming gays for pissing off God every time something horrendous happens makes folks like James Dobson no different from the hateful Westboro Baptist Church picketing the funerals of dead soldiers and announcing plans to picket Sandy Hook funerals with signs that read, “God sent the shooter,” the words surrounded by bloody handprints and splatter. Dobson and his disgusting message should be just as reviled. ■

I’m no religious scholar. But if your god gets pissed off at you for “turning your back on him” and sees to it that a bunch of first-graders are mowed down with an assault rifle in order to teach you a lesson, I don’t really know what good you see left in the guy.

D’Anne Witkowski has been gay for pay since 2003. She’s a freelance writer and poet (believe it!). When she’s not taking on the creeps of the world, she reviews rock ’n’ roll shows in Detroit with her twin sister.

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Philly Mag tries to do LGBT I have heard it suggested by some that bians (learn the word, Philly Mag) running Philadelphia Magazine is racist and sexist city government, as executive directors but I never believed that — but now I’m of health and youth organizations and so actually beginning to think it might be so. much more. Same with African-Americans And maybe we might add homophobic. in our community. Plus the amazing You be the judge. grace and skills of organizations such as COLOURS, SisterSpace and Have you seen the January GALAEI. issue? By the lack of advertising, I’m guessing their readerGee, and what about the lesbians and people of color who ship is way down and you, like are running for public office many others, may not have seen from this community? The other it. But there’s an article about article is all about the boys’ club the gay community called, at the Union League ... Guess “Your Guide to Philadelphia’s there are no lesbians there A-Gays,” as well as what we either. Pitiful. in the business call a sidebar In the past, Philadelphia — but what in this case seems Magazine has stereotyped this like a separate article — called community, attempted to re-cre“Rainbow Coalition: Who’s ate old stories as new, mislead Who in the City’s A-Gay leaders of the community and Universe.” attempt to exploit us. They lack Notice I write gay community, not LGBT commuMark Segal any sensibility or knowledge of nity. Why? If you look at the our community, and our community knows it. Our community hasn’t article(s), they make it appear that the forgotten their blatant homophobia. Hasn’t entire community, or in this case “universe,” is made up of only white men. Yep, forgotten that their president has been you read that right. The article could have involved with the Boy Scouts. come out of a magazine from Alabama in And if you are LGBT and work for these 1960. The article, which has 28 pictures people and had anything to do with these articles, ask yourself something: Is it that of those profiled in some sort of way, has I have a lack of knowledge and respect for not one woman. And only one Africanmy own community? Or are they using me American, out of 28 people. And let’s not even mention the trans word. We’ll frighten as a tool? ■ the poor non-gay people at Philadelphia Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the Magazine. nation’s most-award-winning commentaPhilly Mag says there are no women of tor in LGBT media. He can be reached at power in Philly’s LGBT community. How mark@epgn.com. out of touch are they? There are major les-

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Street Talk What should President Obama say about LGBT rights in his inaugural address? “He should acknowledge the LGBT community as a significant part of this country. The community Ronald shouldn’t Shimborski be ignored. sales agent There will be Mayfair some uproar. But so be it. Let the opponents [of LGBTs] have their opinions, and I’ll have mine.” “He should reiterate his support of same-sex marriages. He should speak out against any type of discrimination. Natosha Hughes And he should student address the Northeast Philadelphia issue of gun violence — particularly in light of the Connecticut massacre — and how it also affects the LGBT community.”

“Obama should say that this is a free country and the LGBT community has the same rights as Zayeed Islam anyone else. canvasser As long as Springfield you’re not harming anyone, including yourself, you should be allowed to do what you want without any discrimination.” “At the very least, President Obama should mention the LGBT community. He doesn’t have to get too controversial. Maria Rajewski But [he artist Washington Square should] at West least mention LGBT issues. That would give appropriate validation to this minority group.”

Thanks from the Person of the Year How do I begin to tell you or the LGBTQ community how honored and proud I am to have been named “Person of the Year”? It truly was a surprise to me. I never would have expected this because I have done nothing more than be a mother! Kyra was my daughter and my only child. I stood by her when she came out at 16 then stood by her again when she began her transition at 18. There is no way I could or would walk away from her now. She was my child, my friend and what made me who I am today. I will continue to stand by her until there is a resolution in her case and I finally get to see who ended my daughter’s life far too soon. I have attended many events over these past months in dedication to Kyra out of

love for my daughter, and to try to show the LGBTQ community that there are parents out there that love and support their children. I have also done it in an effort to let parents know that it’s OK to stand by their children. They need not be ashamed of who their children are or who they have become; they need only feel ashamed when they turn their backs on their children and try to act as if they don’t exist. Pretending something isn’t there honestly doesn’t make it go away. I realize I wasn’t active within the community while Kyra was alive and that has become one of my biggest regrets; however, I believe all things happen for a reason and that I may have now found a new path in life, a new reason for being a

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mom. I am proud to have become part of a community that can offer so much support and love to others they have never met. It is truly amazing. While my focus may appear to be on Kyra, please know that I fight her fight now, which means that I will be fighting for trans rights. I will be fighting for acceptance and understanding. I will be fighting thinking of all the things my daughter was denied simply because she lived her life the way she knew in her heart she had to live. There is work to be done within the community, work that I plan to do and work that I want to be a part of. I am very sincerely honored and proud to be named “Person of the Year.” However, that would not have been pos-

sible without the love or support of my family, friends and so many within the LGBTQ community. Truth be told, it has been the overwhelming support and love that I have felt that has given me my strength during this time, as well as made it possible for me to attend so many events during this time. I need to thank the LGBTQ community for all that they have given me and for all that they gave my daughter Kyra! As I have said time and again, it is not the LGBTQ community that should thank me but I who should thank them.

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During a recent evidentiary hearing, Chester’s appellate attorney, Daniel A. Silverman, said Thomas F. Edwards, Jr., Chester’s trial attorney, was remiss in not sharing the toxicology report with jurors. Edwards couldn’t be reached for comment Silverman said the report — in combination with other evidence — might have persuaded jurors that the men voluntarily drove around looking for drugs prior to Milano’s death. Edwards “failed to use available forensic evidence to at least support an argument that Mr. Milano went with these men voluntarily — because if he went voluntarily, there’s no kidnapping,” Silverman said during the hearing. “If there’s no kidnapping, there’s no second-degree murder.” Silverman called the report “one piece in the arsenal of a good defense advocate that should have been used.” In March 2011, U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones 2d vacated Chester’s first-degree murder conviction on the basis that jurors weren’t properly instructed on accomplice liability. Now the judge must decide whether Chester should receive a new trial on his remaining convictions. If a new panel of jurors doesn’t convict Chester of murder in the first or second degree, he could be released from prison due to credit for time already served. During the evidentiary hearing, Edwards explained why he didn’t make an issue of Milano’s intoxication. “I think that [toxicology report] might have helped,” Edwards testified. “But you never know how a jury is going to react. I made the decision that I would not stress that, because it has been my experience that you do not attack or denigrate the victim.” But according to defense pleadings, submission of the toxicology report wouldn’t have attacked the victim, but instead would have given jurors a fuller understand-

ing of the incident. Silverman told the judge that Chester didn’t participate in the actual stabbing of Milano. “Laird was the sole killer, and Mr. Chester did not participate in any kind of conspiracy to kill,” the attorney said. Silverman also gave the judge his version of events immediately prior to Milano’s death. “When Mr. Milano gets out of the car, either voluntarily or involuntarily, Mr. Chester kicks him one time in the head, and then Mr. Laird — separate and apart from any kind of conspiratorial participation by Mr. Chester — takes Milano to the woods and proceeds to do what he did to Mr. Milano,” Silverman said. Stephen B. Harris, chief of appeals for the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, rejected that scenario. Harris said both men kidnapped Milano and intentionally killed him. Harris also said jurors were aware that all three men had been drinking in the tavern prior to Milano’s death. In a related issue, Silverman said Edwards had a conflict of interest, partly because Edwards had a pending DUI criminal charge at the time of Chester’s trial. “Mr. Edwards didn’t do certain things, in part, because of the conflict of interest,” Silverman said. “If we show that, then we think we’re entitled to relief, a new trial.” Other alleged omissions by Edwards include failing to properly screen jurors, failing to cross-examine Laird, failing to call character witnesses on behalf of Chester and failing to inform jurors that Chester had no prior criminal record, Silverman said. Silverman described Edwards’ personal problems during the trial as “off the charts.” “The DUI, along with all the other things going on [in his personal life], distracted him to such a degree that it adversely affected his performance — the very definition of a conflict,” Silverman told the judge.

But during the evidentiary hearing, Edwards denied having any problems that rose to the level of posing a conflict of interest during Chester’s trial. Edwards also denied signing an affidavit submitted by Silverman, in which Edwards allegedly swore he was “scared” he wouldn’t get into a pre-trial probation program for his DUI. “Mr. Silverman sent me this [affidavit] and I felt it was a piece of manure, and I never would have signed it,” Edwards testified. The affidavit isn’t notarized, but it appears to have Edwards’ signature affixed to it. In an interview with PGN, Harris declined to express an opinion as to whether Edwards signed the document. But Harris noted that Edwards repeatedly testified under oath that he didn’t sign it. Silverman had no comment for this story. If Jones vacates Chester’s remaining convictions, an appeal will be filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Harris said. I f J o n e s d o e s n ’t va c a t e Chester’s remaining convictions, prosecutors will promptly seek a new trial for Chester in order to reinstate his first-degree murder conviction and death sentence, Harris added. “This was a vicious hate crime, and in our opinion both of the defendants deserve the death penalty for it,” Harris told PGN. Laird’s first-degree murder conviction and death sentence were vacated in 2001 by a different judge, on the basis that he didn’t receive a fair trial. But Laird received a new trial in 2007, and jurors reinstated his first-degree murder conviction and death sentence. Laird is currently appealing that ruling in state court. C h e s t e r, 4 4 , r e m a i n s o n death row at the state prison in Graterford, Pa. Laird, 49, remains on death row at the state prison in Franklin Twp., Pa. ■

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Obituary Rita Urwitz, 69, social worker and union leader By Angela Thomas angela@epgn.com Rita Urwitz, a former social worker with the city and a labor leader, died Jan. 6. The cause of death is unknown. Urwitz, born July 2, 1943, was a longtime Philadelphia resident. She earned her master’s in social work at Bryn Mawr College, launching her into a career as a social worker who fought for human rights. She began working as a social worker with the city’s Department of Human Services in 1980. She went on to become involved with the AFSCME District Council 47, heading up its Political Action Committee and launching the council’s wellness program. Urwitz was involved in a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the city that ultimately helped revamp how child-abuse cases are handled, and she was one of the leading forces behind the city’s 1996 domestic-partner law. Mazzoni Center executive director Nurit Shein met Urwitz when Shein first moved to Philadelphia and said Urwitz was responsible for her involvement in Mazzoni. “She was on the board of directors at the time and approached me and asked if I was interested in taking over the organization,” she said. David Fair, principal at David Fair Partners, LLC, met Urwitz in the mid-1970s during his work with the Philadelphia Gay Task Force. According to Fair, Urwitz was aggressive in fighting for recognition of women in the LGBT movement. “She was a part of a group of women who wanted the Task Force to recognize both men and women because at the time, the Task Force was mainly a gay malefocused organization,” he said. “She was fairly aggressive in that movement and she was not shy about it.” Shein knew Urwitz as a force in the LGBT community as well, noting she Urwitz advocated specifically for youth. “She was somebody who worked within the social context of the LGBT community and because she worked in DHS, her interest was in the youth. She worked really hard once The Attic Youth Center was in place,” Shein said. PGN founder and publisher Mark Segal said Urwitz fought for her beliefs, which ultimately benefited the LGBT community. “Rita helped this community grow by integrating her love of both the LGBT community and organized labor. It is a tribute to her that today, the union is strong and

has led to a coalition which benefits the city and the region,” Segal said. Temple University resident director Michael Beachem worked with Urwitz through DC 47 while he served as a member of Temple University’s Local Council 1723’s executive board. Through his work, Beachem had the chance to collaborate with Urwitz on various elections, which he said was a rewarding experience. “I enjoyed this because Rita had a wonderful way of understanding the issues on hand in an election,” he said. “She would provide a Cliff’s Notes version for us to best understand and advocate for the candidate that would work tirelessly on our behalf.” Beachem also worked with Urwitz through Pride at Work, an international LGBT employee branch of AFL-CIO. Urwitz’s DHS work and union leadership demonstrated her commitment to fighting for equality on all fronts. “I knew her as an advocate for justice and equality, and not just LGBT equality but equality for everyone,” said attorney Abbe Fletman. “She had a true belief in social justice and devoted her life to make a change.” Fair remembered her as a fearless leader who spoke up when she saw injustice. “Pretty much anything she saw that was unjust to her or unfair, she would be willing to try and fix that problem,” Fair said. “There was rarely a strategy that she was not willing to give a try. Many people are advocates for justice or for those who are more vulnerable, but she was willing to consider all options. She saw the world as a place that was hurtful towards vulnerable people.” While Urwitz will be remembered for her long legacy of fierce advocacy, Shein said she also had a lighter side. “She was very funny and she had a great sense of humor. She was an overall wonderful person.” Beachem said Urwitz was known for being able to effectively communicate with diverse individuals. “She used a lot of humor and gained legions of fans in both parties for her ability to speak across the political divide,” he said. “Her sense of humor and stories of the history of our city and how far we have come as a community will be missed. She was a wonderful mentor to many and, even in her busy and demanding role leading the union, she had time for others, especially the new members in the union.” Urwitz married her longtime partner, Carol Reppert, in Maryland days before her death. She is also survived by their children, Louis, Steven and Dean Reppert, and grandchildren Jonathan, Ashlynn and Nicole. Urwitz’s family is planning a memorial service for March. ■

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Media Trail Ore., Calif. mandate trans-health coverage Yahoo News reports regulators in Oregon and California have quietly directed some healthinsurance companies to stop denying coverage for transgender patients because of their gender identity. The new regulations apply to companies insuring about a third of Oregonians and about 7 percent of Californians. The states aren’t requiring coverage of specific medical treatments. But they told some private insurance companies they must pay for a transgender person’s hormone therapy, breast reduction, cancer screening or any other procedure deemed medically necessary if they cover such procedures for patients who aren’t transgender. Advocacy groups said the action is a major step in their long battle to win better healthcare coverage for transgender Americans. Officials in both states say the new regulations aren’t new policies but merely a clarification of antidiscrimination laws that were already passed.

Ill. companies sign letter advocating for gay marriage A group of high-profile business leaders say legalizing gay marriage in Illinois will help create a more competitive and thriving business climate, reported ABC7 Chicago. The group released a letter Jan. 13 that will be sent to lawmakers. It says allowing same-sex couples to marry would generate between $39-$72 million in revenues for Illinois businesses. T h o s e w h o ’ve s i g n e d include the heads of Navistar International, Johnson Publishing and Morningstar Inc., along with the heads of restaurants and hotels. The legislation would offer same-sex couples marriage rights now only available to heterosex-

ual couples. Several religious groups oppose allowing same-sex marriage in Illinois, calling it “dangerous” to religious freedom.

Atlanta to host national LGBT conference The San Francisco Chronicle reports the National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce has announced that Atlanta will host the 25th National Conference on LGBT Equality. More than 3,000 LGBT-rights advocates from across the nation are expected to meet at the Hilton in downtown Atlanta Jan. 23-27 for more than 15 networking sessions, symposiums, interfaith services and more. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist José Antonio Vargas is slated to headline a session on immigration issues featuring a panel of LGBT DREAM Act organizers, and Frenchie Davis, a Grammynominated singer and former “American Idol” contestant, is scheduled to perform at the closing session. Organizers say the conference is focused on gathering LGBT advocates just after the presidential inauguration to discuss strategies to build political power.

Delaware panel eyes nondiscrimination measure WDEL.com reports the governor’s Equal Employment Opportunity Council is looking at the issue of workplace discrimination against transgender people in Delaware. The council was to review draft guidelines regarding transgenders at its meeting Jan. 10 in Dover, but the meeting was postponed until Jan. 24 because of the lack of a quorum. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces federal job-discrimination laws, ruled last April that transgender people are protected from discrimination under the federal civil-rights act. The administrative ruling was not binding on state and federal courts, but legal experts said it set a national enforcement standard offering employers clear guidance on the issue. ■ — compiled by Larry Nichols

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Gayborhood Crime Watch The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the 6th Police District between Dec. 31-Jan. 6. Information is courtesy of 6th District Capt. Brian Korn; Stacy Irving, senior director, Crime Prevention Service; Center City District; the Police Liaison Committee and Midtown Village Merchants Association. To report crime tips, visit www.phillypolice.com or call 215-686-TIPS (8477). INCIDENTS — At 1:45 a.m. Dec. 31, a man was outside Woody’s, 202 S. 13th St., when another man asked for a cigarette and then began hitting him with a pipe. Another man stole his money from his pocket. The suspects were described as black males, the first wearing glasses, a white T-shirt, a black hoodie and jeans, and the second with a scar on the left side of his face, wearing a red shirt, jeans and a blue jacket. — At 3:35 p.m. Dec. 31, a neighbor heard a loud noise from an apartment in the 1300

block of Pine Street and called 911. Police found the apartment door pried open, checked the premises and found the apartment empty. The owner came home and found a laptop and jewelry missing. Sixth District Officer McQue lifted fingerprints. — Between midnight-5:50 a.m. Jan. 1, someone smashed the window of a 2005 Toyota parked in the 1200 block of Locust Street and stole clothing. The complainant cleaned the car before police were called, thus no fingerprints were lifted. — At 11:30 p.m. Jan. 1, a man was outside 1200 Pine St. when another man asked him if he had a light. The complainant responded no and the man punched him in the face. A second man pushed him down and both kicked him. The suspects were described as white males, the first about 5-foot-10 and 185 pounds, wearing a Flyers jacket and a jester hat with a painted face, and the second about 5-foot-8 and 170 pounds, wearing a black jacket with a painted face.

— On Jan. 1, a man and his partner were walking in the 1200 block of Chestnut Street when a female made a derogatory reference to his sexual orientation and took a swing at him. The complainant blocked the punch when three males appeared and punched and kicked him in the body and head. The man reported suffering a large contusion to his head. He described the female suspect as a white woman with blond hair wearing a white coat. Central Detective Division and Victim Services Unit are investigating this assault as a possible bias/hate crime.

lifted fingerprints. NON-SUMMARY ARRESTS — At 3:45 a.m. Dec. 31, plainclothes 6th District Officers Crichton and Graner observed a male going through the pockets of another male outside 122 S. 13th St. An investigation determined that the complainant was punched and was in the process of being robbed when the officers intervened. Recovered from the suspect was the victim’s cash and ID. The 30-year-old suspect with a North Philadelphia address was charged with robbery and related offenses.

— Between 4-7 p.m. Jan. 5, someone pried open the door of an apartment building in the 1200 block of Walnut Street and unsuccessfully attempted to open an apartment door. Between 7:15-9 p.m., someone pried open an apartment door in the same block and stole an iPod.

— At 10 a.m. Jan. 4, Center City District Officers Pagan and Moore, acting on a citizen’s information submitted through www.phillypolice.com/forms/submit-atip/, observed an illegal narcotics transaction outside 10th and Market streets. The officers arrested the suspected dealer and confiscated a quantity of narcotics pills and cash. The 50-year-old suspect with a North Philadelphia address was charged with intent to deliver illegal narcotics. ■

— Between 6 p.m. Jan. 5 and 2:45 p.m. Jan. 6, someone pried open a door in the 1100 block of Spruce Street and stole jewelry and a laptop. Sixth District Officer Romanczuk

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be able to skate together without the children hearing any negativity about their families,” she said. “We are a respectful community and we are mindful to not make others feel uncomfortable and we don’t like others to make us feel uncomfortable, so this is something we can provide. This event will be for everyone — our community and our allies.” Tickets to the event will be $15, which will include skate rentals. Any organization that is interested in selling tickets would have the chance to keep $5 per ticket sold. Shuttle buses will run from 5:30-8:30 p.m., with stops at different bars in the Gayborhood. Price said she has already received a wealth of positive feedback, specifically on her Facebook page. “When I first put the idea out there on Facebook, I had 30something people in five minutes respond, and then I put it on my Facebook to officially announce it and a lot of people said, ‘Go for it.’” O rg a n i z e r s h ave a l r e a d y received interest from a local icehockey team to act as ushers for the event and are currently looking for sponsors. “This is the first time and like every first, we are trying to make this successful. We still need participation from organizations and local bars. If we get 200 people, it is a success.” Price is currently in pursuit of female impersonators who can ice skate. “We are looking to select someone to sing on ice and perform ‘I Am What I Am.’ The Philadelphia Flyers always had Kate Smith. We are looking for something like that. Someone really entertaining who could possibly kick this event off every year.” While Price is planning for Winter Pride to be an annual event, she said it will take time to grow and develop. “We have to see what happens. Maybe next year, we could do it longer or multiple times. If it works, then we will make it bigger and better every year and come up with more creative ideas.” For more information, visit www.phillypride.org. ■

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International Australia to keep religious ‘freedom’ protections Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has reportedly given her word to religious groups that they will have the “freedom” under a new rights bill to discriminate against gay people and other people deemed sinners. Under current laws, faith-based organizations, which include schools and hospitals, can refuse to employ those they view as sinners, if they see that it “is necessary to avoid injury to the religious sensitivities of adherents of that religion.” Australian Christian Lobby managing director Jim Wallace, who has met with Gillard several times, said she assured him that “she has no intention of restricting freedom of religion” in terms of religious groups’ legal right to discriminate in employing or dismissing staff. The Prime Minster said through a spokesperson: “We don’t comment on discussions with stakeholders.” Gillard pulled out from attending a Christian Lobby conference last year after

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Wallace suggested smoking was healthier than an LGBT lifestyle. The Catholic Church is one of Australia’s largest private employers. They receive government funding, but because they have religious status, they are allowed to vet the sexual orientation of potential employees in ways that would be illegal for non-religious groups. The Labor government, which stands for representing progressive values, has been criticized for protecting religious freedom in such a way.

Sweden lifts gender-reassignment sterilization Sweden has ended a law that made sterilization compulsory for people undergoing gender-reassignment surgery in order for the state to recognize their gender identity. The law dates back to 1972, and a majority in Swedish parliament wanted it to be repealed a year ago, but a small conservative party blocked the move. A ruling made last year said the law did not allow civil liberties, as protected by the Swedish constitution, and was discriminatory as it only targeted transgender people. The ban was ended Jan. 10 by the Stockholm administrative court after the end of an appeal period. Many had argued that the law broke Article 3 of the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights, which protects “the right to respect for [everyone’s] physical

IN GAY WE TRUST: Members of a group of four women go topless to protest the Vatican’s opposition to gay marriage in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Jan. 13. Police quickly took the women away, and the pope appeared not to have been disturbed as he delivered his traditional prayer from his studio window overlooking the piazza. Photo: AP/Angelo Carconi

and mental integrity.” More than 75,000 people signed an AllOut.org petition calling on the country to reverse the ban, which the organization said is the largest-ever online movement to protect trans human rights. The Swedish Christian Democrat party then abandoned its support for the rule and cleared the way for repeal.

Four women went topless in St. Peter’s Square to protest the Vatican’s opposition to gay marriage. Police quickly took the women away Jan. 13, and the pope appeared not to have been disturbed as he delivered his traditional prayer from his studio window overlooking the piazza. On their bare backs, the women had painted slogans “In Gay We Trust” and “Shut Up.” One of them, Inna Shevchenko, said, “Today we are here to protest against homophobia.” The demonstration coincided with a march in Paris that was expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people to protest the French president’s plan to legalize gay marriage. French Catholic bishops and other religious leaders have strongly opposed the proposal, and the Vatican has backed them.

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conceive children. The opposition to President Francois Hollande’s plan has underscored divisions among the secular-but-Catholic French, especially more traditional rural areas versus urban enclaves. But while polls show the majority of French residents still support legalizing gay marriage, that backing gets more lukewarm when children come into play. The protest march started at three points across Paris, filling boulevards throughout the city as demonstrators walked 3 miles to the grounds of France’s most recognizable monument. Paris police estimated the crowd at 340,000, making it one of the largest demonstrations in Paris since an education protest in 1984. Public opposition spearheaded by religious leaders has chipped away at the popularity of Hollande’s plan in recent months. About 52 percent of French favor legalizing gay marriage, according to a survey released Jan. 13, down from as high as 65 percent in August. French civil unions, allowed since 1999, are at least as popular among heterosexuals as among gay and lesbian couples. But that law has no provisions for adoption or assisted reproduction, which are at the heart of the latest debate. Support for gay marriage, and especially adoption by same-sex couples, has been particularly tenuous outside Paris, and peo-

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ple from hundreds of miles from the French capital marched beneath regional flags with emblems dating back to the Middle Ages, chanting “Daddy, Mommy.” If the French parliament approves the plan, France would become the 12th country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, and the biggest so far in terms of economic and diplomatic influence.

A neighbor of the couple, Ricard ButarButar, said officials raided their house and discovered Sucipto was a female. The whereabouts of both women remain unknown, as they fled together after the raid, he said. The head of the Sei Beduk Religious Affairs Office said it planned to increase the frequency of marriage counseling to prevent similar cases in the future.

Lesbian couple forced to Vatican criticizes court flee Indonesia ruling on gays’ children Although same-sex marriage is not legal in Indonesia, a lesbian couple managed to obtain a marriage license by pretending that one of them was male. Angga Sucipto, 21, and Ninies Ramiliyutias, 40, got married last January at the Sei Beduk Religious Affairs Office, in Riau Islands, by pretending Sucipto was male. They obtained a marriage license and were unchallenged throughout the process, as officials saw no reason to be suspicious. “The administrative requirements for the marriage were complete, so there was no way we could forbid them from getting married,” said the head of the office, Budi Dharmawan. The report suggests that the couple’s marriage went undetected by locals until Sucipto’s lack of interaction with neighbors started to raise suspicions.

The Vatican has insisted that children should grow up with a father and a mother after Italy’s high court granted custody of a child to his gay mother. In its decision Jan. 11, the Court of Cassation said there was no “scientific certainty or experience-based data” to support the father’s claims that the child’s development was being damaged by living with his mother and her female partner. Such an argument was “mere prejudice,” the court said. On Jan. 12, bioethicist Adriano Pessina wrote in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano that the court merely confirmed typical Italian custody rulings by conferring custody to the mother. But he echoed the pope’s recent insistence that no one has a “right” to a child and that children should be raised

by a mother and father.

Thousands of French lesbians travel to Belgium for artificial insemination Thousands of French lesbian couples are believed to have traveled to Belgium in order to conceive babies through artificial insemination, which is not available in their home country. Around 2,000 babies conceived in Belgium through artificial insemination are believed to be born each year to French lesbian couples, who are not eligible for the procedure in France. Professor Michel Dubois at the University Hospital of Liege said, “We have seen a sharp increase in demand over the past three years. The word is getting around in France, our patients are passing the message along.” The ruling French Socialist government was recently reported to have dropped medically assisted reproduction for lesbian couples from the country’s upcoming bill to legalize marriage equality. Belgium allowed gay civil marriage in 2003, and allows artificial insemination for all “regardless of civil status or sexual orientation.” ■ — compiled by Larry Nichols

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The Lion Roars Back…Finally Governor Corbett’s lawsuit may expose hypocrisy of NCAA

�� a lawsuit against moms and apple pie. The editorial responses to his decision to sue the NCAA for the sanctioning of Penn State have been scathing. USA Today’s Christine Brennan asked, “Who is running the state, Barney Fife?” The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board called Corbett a “strong contender for the Dunce of the Year,” calling his decision to challenge the NCAA “hideous” and the lawsuit “a disgrace.” The only question we have for the governor is, “What took you so long?” Governor Corbett has pinned the Commonwealth’s lawsuit on the NCAA bylaws—rules that do not allow the governing body to police the actions of a sexual predator roaming through a university’s athletic department. It appears that the NCAA seemed to wrestle with this very jurisdictional problem when it wrote, in the preamble of its sanctions, “The sexual abuse of children on a university campus by a former university �� cable, ordinarily would not be actionable by the NCAA.” Because the underlying criminal behavior lies outside the NCAA’s purview, the NCAA had to create rationale for imposing the toughest sanctions, short of shutting a program down, in NCAA history. The rationale the NCAA came up with was the theory of the “extraordinary”: something “extraordinary” was going on in Happy Valley—the extraordinary culture of an “omnipotent football program” that led to the extraordinary circumstance of a sexual predator roaming an athletic department over the course of decades that in turn led to the extraordinary

penalties exacted by the NCAA. But because this theory that established a new jurisdiction for the NCAA was just that—a theory without precedent—the NCAA presented it and the associated sanctions to Penn State as part of a deal: a consent agreement rather than punishment. The consent agreement was the NCAA’s way of escaping criticism for going beyond the bylaws. So Governor Corbett’s characterization of the NCAA sanctions as nothing but “a handful �� assert[ing] themselves into an issue they had no authority to police under their own bylaws” is spot on. That Penn State went for the deal to avoid the death penalty, thereby giving up their right to challenge the sanctions in court, is not the governor’s fault—it is Penn State’s. That the governor waited until after the football

Governor Tom Corbett said he plans to sue the NCAA over sanctions imposed against Penn State University in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child abuse sex scandal. Photo courtesy of Governor Corbett’s ofﬁce.

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nale laid out in the preamble to the sanctions, Penn State let the NCAA take itself off the hook. The rationale—that extraordinary sanctions were necessary because of a “unique football culture” that created an

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“omnipotent football program” and existed only at Penn State—is a fantasy concocted by the NCAA to avoid the one thing the NCAA fears most: selfscrutiny. The NCAA’s response to the lawsuit, calling it “an affront to all of the victims in this tragedy—lives that were destroyed

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are in the conversation yearly for league and state titles. In the �� won four state and league crowns. Carroll has won one state title. La Salle is actually the last team to beat Chester, the two-time defending state champions in the postseason, knocking off the Clippers in the �� “Schools like NeumannGoretti, Carroll, [St. Joseph’s] Prep and Roman [Catholic], they set the bar for everyone else,” said Dempsey. “You know going into the league play that nothing is going to be handed to you. No one team is going to win the league by accident. You are going to have to play well for the entire season. Schools like those dictate the level of play for everyone else. There is nowhere to hide in our league.” Dempsey played and lost to nationally ranked Roselle Catholic (New Jersey) in the Pete and Jameer Nelson Classic on Dec. 27 and also won a game against

by the criminal actions of Jerry Sandusky” is as reprehensible as it is predictable. �� eous” and “disgraceful”: the NCAA’s use of the victims of a sexual predator to shame the governor away from his course of action—a course that may �� referred to as the NCAA’s “rape culture” and save future victims from a fate similar to that of Sandusky’s victims. local rival Wissahickon, a team that beat La Salle last year. Catholic League play began last week. “We pride ourselves on good nonleague games,” he said. “Anything to get us ready for our league and our postseason helps us.” A solid Explorers team is off to a 7-3 start in the 2012-2013 season. Dempsey has two players, Amar Stukes (La Salle) and �� committed to Division I schools. The rest of his team is young, though, and he expects growing pains against some of the bigname schools he is about to play. Many coaches would not like having to see so many good teams in their league and feel pressure to play well just to have a .500 record. Dempsey doesn’t feel that way. “The Catholic League is a special �� top leagues in the country,” he said. “Not only is there a ton of talented players and coaches, but the tradition of the schools, the passion of the players, and the pride that the kids play with really makes it special.”

“One Year” is an exhibit consisting of wire vessels at the Painted Bride Art Center. It commemorates the victims of homicides in Philadelphia in 2012. Above, a January First Friday crowd looks at the exhibit. Sarah J. Glover/photographer

Vessels Carry Message Painted Bride art exhibit examines the 331 killings of 2012

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ach wire vessel installed on the wall of the Painted Bride Art Center represents a person murdered in Philadelphia in 2012. In patterns that twist, swirl or knot into a mass of chaos, they seek to say something about the 331 lives lost last year. Too many, is what I take away from this exhibit—the �� gallery and instead spill out onto the lobby wall and stretch up toward the ceiling. “It’s kind of a wakeup call,” says �� members of MamaCITA—also called Mother’s Cooperative in the Arts—which created the exhibit. “I can’t picture what 331 looks

like in my head,” says artist Kimberly Mehler. One person who attended the exhibit’s recent First Friday reception was well-known antiviolence advocate Dorothy Johnson-Speight, who helped found Mothers in Charge, a violenceprevention group, after her son Khaaliq Jabbar Johnson was murdered in 2001 in a dispute over a parking space, and whose work inspired the exhibit. She was swamped by hugs and pleas like, “Dorothy, we have to do something about the gun problem.” Then she disappeared before I could reach her. Ten minutes later, a reemerged Johnson-Speight explained, “Coming in here and seeing this, and seeing the vessels representing each life lost, I

had to walk away for a minute. I think of all the families [Mothers in Charge has] seen in the last 12 months. It’s very, very sad.” Whether this sadness is something that we all feel is the point of the exhibit, titled “One Year.” It examines “the numbing of society toward what has become an epidemic,” a MamaCITA press statement explains. I read an article online about a workshop the artists hosted last March to guide others through the making of some of the vessels. In the comments section following the article, a reader complained: “There is no good reason to validate the death of a drug dealer gunned down by another drug dealer. These women may have spent hours making their ‘art,’ but that doesn’t make it worthwhile.” Another reader wrote, “Last year, a young woman who was so, so dear to my family was snatched off of her bicycle and raped and murdered in Philadelphia. She was 20 years old, full of the life and the love of her family and many friends, full of potential. She was a daughter, friend, cousin, a dancer and a beauty. She was a FULL VESSEL, �� is gone and the emptiness that is left is profound—skeletal. . . . This project touches me deeply.” Art heals. I asked JohnsonSpeight if she found anything uplifting about the exhibit. She responded with talk of increased awareness on the issue, but with a lingering sense of anger, pain and frustration in her voice. I asked her what advice she would give to Philadelphians working on this issue, and I was sobered by her response: “Work harder.”

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o one expected this to happen, let’s be honest. La Salle defeated Neumann-Goretti 65-62 at La Salle on Jan. 7. “It was a great moment for us,” said Joe Dempsey, La Salle’s coach. “Neumann-Goretti is the program in our league by which all of the other teams are measured. They have set the bar for the

Catholic League for the past decade. We were fortunate to beat a good team. It’s a special win for our kids and our program.” La Salle lost to NeumannGoretti by 29 points at home last year. Neumann-Goretti is nationally ranked and had not lost a regular Catholic League game since 2008, a period spanning 73 games. Dempsey’s team looked like it was in trouble at halftime. “We

were down 10 at half,” Dempsey said. “The kids didn’t panic and stayed with our game plan. �� his shooting changed the game. Amar [Stukes] had 26 and made some great plays.” Said Stukes: “When we took the lead in the fourth quarter, I knew we could hold on this time. This is an awesome feeling to beat them.” Like many coaches hoping to make runs in the PIAA state playoffs, Dempsey schedules a tough nonleague schedule to prepare for it. Only, when Dempsey makes his schedule, he is actually also doing it to prepare for his league schedule as well. Such is life in the always-competitive Philadelphia Catholic League where teams like Neumann-Goretti, Archbishop Carroll and Roman Catholic Continued on page 2

Joe Dempsey is the basketball coach at La Salle College High School. Sarah J. Glover/photographer

Out with a Bang �� by HughE Dillon On New Year’s Eve, SugarHouse rang in 2013 with two ﬁreworks shows on the Delaware Waterfront, one at 6 p.m. and one at midnight. 1. From left: Meryl Levitz, president and CEO of the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation; Mayor Michael Nutter and Joan Reilly, CEO of the Mural Arts Program, attended the early show. 2. From left: Greta Greenberger, executive director of City Hall Tours; First Lady of Philadelphia Lisa Nutter; and Karen Spiro of EVENTures. 3. From left: Tom Corcoran, president of the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation; Michael DiBerardinis, deputy mayor for environmental and community resources in Philadelphia; and Alan Greenberger, deputy mayor for planning economic development. HughE Dillon/Photographer

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IT’S ANDREW ... MR. JACKSON IF YOU’RE NASTY!: Joe Sabatino (center) as Andrew Jackson, Corey Regensburg, (from left), Meggie Siegrist, Brendan Norton, Max Cove and Shannon Remley Photos: Rachel Dukeman

A comedic retelling in rock musical’s Philadelphia premiere By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com This isn’t going to be the prim and proper history lesson you tried to stay awake through in high school. Plays & Players Theatre is partying like it’s 1829 with the Philadelphia premiere of the hit rock ‘n’ roll musical “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” through Feb. 3. Featuring music and lyrics written by

Michael Friedman, the show debuted in 2008 and ultimately made a splash on Broadway. It was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and won the 2010 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Off-Broadway Musical. Plays & Players producing artistic director Daniel Student is overseeing the Philadelphia premiere. Out cast member Brendan Norton explained the musical follows Jackson’s

rise to power as the seventh president of the United States through an irreverently humorous lens. “Most of the characters and things in the play are shockingly true,” Norton said. “Andrew Jackson was an unbelievable badass. It’s presented in a very Brechtian style. There’s a lot of ‘South Park’ vulgarity in it. The way we all talk to each other is very much with a modern vernacular. So in that I think it’s revisionist, but surpris-

ingly most of the things that happened in Andrew Jackson’s life were true. His wife was married to two men at the same time. He was responsible for one of the biggest genocides in the country of Native Americans. In that respect, a lot of it is surprisingly true.” Another out cast member, Sam Nagel, compared “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” to another rock musical. “It is action and PAGE 20

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it is camp but I would equate to ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in the way it chronicles a historical figure’s rise to fame through rock music and kind of turns them into a rock star of their time,” she said. “It shows through rock music and a more modern twist how this historical figure won over the people and created a fan base. It tells that story with bias. It just shows it in a rock-star style and lets the audience choose their own opinion from there.” Neither Norton nor Nagel plays Jackson but their characters are also historical figures whose impacts are up for interpretation. “I play President James Monroe, who was the president directly before John Quincy Adams who was directly before Andrew Jackson,” Norton said. “I play the president in the early part of Jackson’s life right when he first gets to Washington and gets what Washington is all about. The founding fathers appear together throughout the show and kind of play this lager-than-life kind of foppish boy-band collection together.” Nagel plays Henry Clay. “He was a senator from Kentucky who ran for president against Andrew Jackson,” Nagel explained. “He’s described as a greasy corpse-like backwoods creep when in reality he was a great politician. In the show, they pander to the idea of rock stars having other rock stars trying to be just as good as them. All of these other politicians that were running against him at the time are painted in this really strange villainous light, which is a lot of fun to play with. Henry Clay weaseled his way into the position of Secretary of State. So I kind of portray him as a weasel and a snake. It’s a lot of fun.” And when fun and history occupy the same creative space, chances are that someone will get uptight about it, especially if there is any irreverent bombast to it. Both Norton and Nagel said the show has generated some controversy but that its heart is in the right place. “I know there have been issues in the past with Native American groups who thought the show was a little less than sensitive,” Norton said. “I think the way Native Americans are represented in the show is beautiful. It isn’t saccharine and it certainly isn’t appropriate, but none of the show is very appropriate. But it does handle it with a larger sense of responsibility that some of the other issues in the show. The Native Americans are always present and they have actual voices, and the play involves Andrew Jackson and an Indian chief discussing the forthcoming trail of

tears. And by the end of the play you are devastated that this politician you love is responsible for killing thousands and thousands of people. I think we’ve been handling it with a lot of responsibility.” “It’s very campy and very out there, all the while still staying true to Jackson’s story,” Nagel added. “And I don’t think it leans either way, liberal or conservative. It just paints a picture of this man and allows the audience to create an opinion from there and asks the question, Was he a great president? Was he a great person? Was he a terrible human being? It just puts it all out on the table, tells a story, and from there you can decide for yourself.” Both actors agreed that audiences should be able to see parallels between the politics around the seventh presidential election and the politics of today. “If you look at the election process in the 1820s and the election we just witnessed this year, they are strikingly similar,” Nagel said. “There are politicians tossing around jabs and insults just as freely as they do now, if not more so. Andrew Jackson’s popularity among the American people is not unlike Obama’s popularity now. Even though the show was written during George W. Bush’s presidency, I think it still rings true, more so now during Obama’s presidency. Parts of our show are so current to the political climate today.” “The first song of the show is called ‘Populism, Yea! Yea!,” Norton added. “It’s all about the will of the people and how Jackson really did succeed by trying to connect with the common man. He was the president that everyone said they’d most like to have a beer with. The feel of Andrew Jackson is a more Obamatype feel. There’s a fervor to him among the common people and non-elite of the country.” Norton also said that, like today’s political climate, the show should be electrifying to audiences. “That’s going to be one of the exciting parts,” he said. “I wouldn’t say there’s a lot of audience interaction but we play a lot to the audience. We speak a lot to them. There’s a lot of action that wants to leap out. There’s a lot of gun work in the show and during the last number, we point those guns out to the top of the house. The audience is going to be very much drawn into the show. It’s very active.” ■ Plays & Players Theatre presents “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” through Feb. 3 at 1714 Delancey Place. For more information or tickets, visit www.playsandplayers.org or call 800-595-4849.

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Mary Glennon: Resourceful renaissance woman stands up to diagnosis In September, Lehigh Valley resident Mary Glennon was given six months to live. That gives her two months left on the clock, but don’t count her out just yet. Even though she already had her wake, she still has some fight in her and is determined to beat this thing. PGN: Tell me about yourself. MG: I was born in 1947 in a sisters’ hospital on the crest of the beach in Santa Cruz, Calif. My parents were both in the service: My dad worked in the Coast Guard and my mom did a Rosie the Riveter-type job. They then moved down to California. Then when I was about 1, my dad got homesick for the coal region of Pennsylvania where he was born and we moved back. Both grandparents worked in the coal business. My grandfather died of black lung when he was 55. PGN: What were you like as a kid? MG: I carried music around everywhere I went. I had a little turquoise and white Philco portable record player that I’d take to school and friends’ houses and play 45s. Music has always been a big part of my life. I was semi-athletic. I played a little basketball but I was really too short for the game. A little softball, but I didn’t want to get hit in the face so I wasn’t very good at fielding balls. I was afraid of grounders. And dancing, I love to dance. We have videos of me dancing from since I was 10 years old. PGN: Which family member had the most influence on you? MG: My dad. He was always dancing and partying. He worked hard but he liked to have fun. PGN: Who was your favorite teacher? MG: Ohhh, how about the sexy one who used to lay on the radiator? She was our high-school English teacher and she made you want to go to school. I went to a Catholic school so it was mostly nuns, but there were a few lay teachers and she was one of them. She was so hot. I tried to switch all my classes over to her, study halls, etc. I used to follow her around after school, little lesbian that I was. PGN: Something you got in trouble for? MG: Well, I got caught smoking in 11th grade and was kicked out of school before 12th grade. PGN: What was the scariest thing about Catholic school? MG: [Laughs.] Getting hit! All the time, gettin’ caught and gettin’ hit. The scariest ones were the shortest nuns because they had a lot of issues. Not only were they nuns but they were too short and usually not very attractive so they’d take it out on

you. You always wanted to dodge the little ones. PGN: And what did you want to be when you grew up? MG: I didn’t want to be anything. I turned out to be a hippie. I left Pennsylvania and hitch-hiked back to California and went back and forth across the country all the time. Went to Mexico for a while ... I wound up doing a lot of things. I was in retail for a few years, I worked at the Gay Community Services Center in L.A., I was in the garment business for a minute. You name it. PGN: What was the worst or most unusual job? MG: The worst was the half-a-day I spent in a boutique in Valley Forge with very pushy, obnoxious women. [Imitates with a nasal voice] “Can you zip me up?” You know that Philly accent? The most unusual job was driving a cab in Hollywood. PGN: Celebrity rides? MG: One time I had Tattoo from “Fantasy Island” in the cab. I didn’t know who he was and felt sorry for him because he was a midget. Little did I know that he was a TV star and loaded. In the beginning I couldn’t find him because he was so small I couldn’t see him. They kept sending me back to the address and I kept saying there’s nobody here! When I finally found him I decided to take a shortcut and cut through a McDonald’s. I got into a car accident and he was so sweet. He was trying to crawl out and I was trying to keep him inside. He finally said, “Wait, you don’t know who I am but take my card, and if you need any help or a witness, call my attorney.” PGN: What was a crazy moment hitching around the country? MG: Oh, there were so many; let’s see. One of my first rides was with the band 1910 Fruitgum Company. They had that hit “Simon Says.” They were all sitting around in their underwear in an old VW van with flowers on it. Another time was when my friend and I were hiking and we were in separate trucks that were caravanning one behind the other. They found out we were gay—I guess he must have tried to hit on the driver or something—and we had to jump out of the trucks and run during the middle of an ice storm. Living on the beach in Mexico and not speaking Spanish, there were a lot of stories. I could fill PGN! I liked being in Mexico because Liz Taylor lived there and I had a thing for her. I never met her but it was fun to hang around her house and stalk her. PGN: How old were you when your family left California?

MG: I was about a year old when my parents put me in the back of their convertible, put baby oil on me and tried to cook me all the way to Pennsylvania. They were young and didn’t know they were frying their baby in the back seat. They were just happy to have a car because they used to hitch-hike everywhere. My mom would stand by the on ramps and when a car stopped — there weren’t many on the roads back then — and then my father would run up and jump in too. PGN: Tell me about coming out? MG: As soon as I started driving I’d come into Philly. I was too young to go into the clubs but I’d hang out outside. I met my first girlfriend at 13th and Locust. I’d go to New York and Philly ’cause there were only a handful of lesbians in Allentown. It was good for me in a way because I was a novelty, but it was boring.

there. PGN: That’s funny! What’s something you lost and wished you could get back? MG: My lover who I lost in a car accident in Laguna Beach. PGN: OK, not so funny. MG: [Laughs.] Was that too dark? PGN: Not at all. We haven’t even gotten to your cancer yet. MG: Yeah, that’s no big deal. I’m determined to beat it. PGN: When did you get your diagnosis? MG: September. I was on my way to happy hour and my stomach had been bloated. It was bothering me so I decided to stop by the emergency room. They gave me a CT scan and told me I was loaded with cancer and had three-six months to live. I was like, “Yo, are you kidding me? I got stuff to do. I can’t check out in three months.” That was September and now it’s January. I’m going on my sixth chemo treatment and every time it’s something different. You just have to deal with it, getting nauseous and getting sick, or your leg suddenly going numb, weird stuff. Today there’s something wrong with the bottom of my feet and it feels like I’m walking on hot coals or razor blades. A day ago it was fine.

I thought everybody looked like the three lesbians in Allentown. I had no idea there were feminine lesbians.I was engaged at the time and I left my fiancé for a woman. That was an easy thing to do. I didn’t have any trouble doing that at all. Once I saw what was going on in Philadelphia I said, “See ya!” and he was cool about it.

PGN: What did you feel like the first time you walked into a lesbian bar? MG: I was overwhelmed. I thought everybody looked like the three lesbians in Allentown. I had no idea there were feminine lesbians. I was engaged at the time and I left my fiancé for a woman. That was an easy thing to do. I didn’t have any trouble doing that at all. Once I saw what was going on in Philadelphia I said, “See ya!” and he was cool about it. He thought I’d get it out of my system and come back, but I guess I never got it out of my system.

PGN: You’ve seen a lot of things change. What time period would you go back to? MG: Late ’60s, early ’70s were great. I worked in some clubs in Los Angeles. I was a bouncer at Palms for a while. Well, not a bouncer, but I worked the door. I also bartended at one of the women’s bars. There was a woman who owned the first topless bar in L.A. who had bought up the whole block. It was mostly men’s bars but there was one women’s bar called Peanuts. It was on Santa Monica Boulevard and it was a hot spot. It was really happening during the disco era. Donna Summer and a lot of the stars used to come in. There was a lot going on in Hollywood but if you say you remember it all, you weren’t really

PGN: Did they tell you right then and there when you first went? MG: Yup. It was a young kid and I could tell by his face when he came out that something was wrong. I hadn’t told anyone where I was going because I thought I was just dropping in, they’d give me something and I’d go on to happy hour. By the time he came to give me the news my girlfriend and friend had come by. When he came out, the guy was so upset I felt sorry for him! I thought, the poor kid, this is probably the first time he’s ever had to tell someone they had six months to live. I was like, “Come on, just spit it out so I can move on it.” After my diagnosis, a friend who works for Fox Chase [Cancer Center] found me a group up here and I’m making progress. I’ve lost PAGE 28

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Whistler, British Columbia Every February, Whistler hosts the nowfamous gay ski week full of events and culinary delights. GayWhistler’s WinterPRIDE Gay Ski Week is celebrating its 21st year Feb. 3-10. To make your trip just a bit easier, download the Whistler Blackcomb mobile app, which allows you to track your days using the program’s GPS and get powder alerts and other slope-related information that’s sure to come in handy. www.whistlerblackcomb.com/app/index.aspx Telluride Gay Ski Week Held Feb. 22-March 3, this week of parties and events redefines Telluride, the Colorado village well-known for its film and music festivals and home to a vibrant gay ski week. Telluride offers gay-friendly amenities, accommodations and dining options, plus some of the more-challenging ski runs on the West Coast. www.telluridegayskiweek.com Sun Valley, Idaho Held at America’s first ski resort in Sun Valley which is home to the old Hollywood

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The festival’s sleek website at www.winterparty.com is chock full of information, ticket packages, social-media groups and contests. Fun in the snow For the rest of you still holding on to the promise of snow, here is a list of the top gay ski weeks where you can show off your best winter outfits. Killington Winter Pride The Killington resort in Central Vermont will host its first gay ski event Jan. 31-Feb. 3. With more than 3,000 acres of land on the Green Mountains, this resort is ready to welcome you. You can also connect with other Facebookers attending the event. www.gnarwinterpride.com

of the ’50s, where Marilyn Monroe once played and the classic film “Sun Valley Serenade” was filmed. Stay at The Sun Valley Lodge — built in 1936 and almost as historic as the resort itself — the perfect place to end up after a long, hard day of skiing. Elevation: Park City, Utah Now in its third year, this newer ski event takes place Feb. 21-24, just a few weeks after the Sundance Film Festival. Organizers say it is a draw for West Coast gays looking for a week of skiing and celebration. ■ Jeff Guaracino is the vice chair of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association and the author of “Gay and Lesbian Tourism: The Essential Guide for Marketing.”

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Second time around Four years ago, I stood on the sidewalk shower? Then set up a reminder for the ’90s with my husband and one of my dearDance Party 10 p.m.-3:30 a.m. Jan. 18 at est friends in single-digit temperatures Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 St. James St. for more than 11 hours, hoping to catch a DJ Deejay will take you back to the glimpse of our newly elected president dur- golden days of watching TRL after school, ing his inauguration parade. It was the sort borrowing the keys to the car and getting of day that the phrase “once-in-a-lifetime busted for breaking your curfew. Ah, sweet experience” was made for. The feeling in memories ... For more information, check the air was truly electrifying. out www.djdeejay.org or www. Everybody was laughing and famelust.com. smiling and happily talking to Hydrate complete strangers about everyImagine this: stripping down thing and nothing. Everyone was in a great mood! to your Speedo, board shorts or bikini and running around a Everyone was also at extreme water park like you’re a teenrisk of losing a toe or two to ager again — only it’s the frostbite. We waited hours for middle of winter and you have a his motorcade to arrive, and then drink in your hand! spent more than four hours fightIf that sounds like a blast, ing the crowds on the streets and then grab your friends and in the Metro to get back to where head on over to South Jersey we were staying. All this time, Jim Kiley- for Hydrate, 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. temperatures ranged from single digits to the mid-20s. 19 at the H2O Beach Club Zufelt Jan. It was an amazing experience in Sahara Sam’s Oasis, 535 N. and I wouldn’t have missed it for Route 73 in West Berlin. anything in the world. I am so excited now Hydrate is an indoor pool party for to be able to watch this president take the grownups, with a beer and vodka bar, water oath for his second term. I am even more slides, lazy river, pool and hot tubs. If you excited to be watching it on television this feel your nightlife is in a rut and you’re time around — wrapped in a Snuggie with looking for something completely different a cat snoozing on my lap, just as the good to do, then this is exactly what the doctor Lord intended. ordered. Cover is only $20 and you must be 21 to enter. For more information, check ’90s Dance Party out www.twistedlife.com. Do you miss*NSYNC and the Spice Ladies 2000 King Day Party Girls? Still find yourself singing clasIt’s time for the annual Ladies 2000 sics from Mariah, Janet and Kylie in the

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renovated Shampoo. There will be so much going on that night, your head might literally spin right off your shoulders and splatter onto the floor. There will be three superstar DJs on hand, each with his own unique style: Joe Gauthreaux, Tall Matt and Nigel Richards. The event will also feature a fashion show and pop-up shop sponsored by the one and only 611 Records. But the highlight of the night will be the amazing Neon Hitch performing her recent number-one dance hits “Gold” and “Love U Betta” (well, that’s the version they play on the radio, but I’m guessing she’ll use the original “F-U” lyrics). If that’s not enough, there will also be an open bar from 9-10 p.m. and the doors will stay open until 3 a.m. Spring for VIP tickets and you get all that plus a champagne meet-n-greet with Neon herself! Ticket prices start at $20 and max out at $55. SuperStar promises to be the beginning of something great, both for the new space at Devotion and for Philly nightlife in general because it’s presented by Noel Zayas and Bruce Yelk — and we all know those boys know how to throw a damn good party! For more information and to purchase advance tickets, head on over to www.superstarphilly.com or www.nightlifegay.com. ■ Questions, comments, promises you don’t intend to keep? Contact Jim at barcrawlr@gmail.com or follow him on Facebook for links to back articles and totally bitchin’ old music videos!

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Worth Watching WE KNOW YOU’RE OUT THERE: “Fringe,” the critically acclaimed sci-fi series (featuring out supporting actor Jasika Nicole as Agent Astrid Farnsworth, far right), calls it a day with its two-hour series finale where the fate of the world hangs in the balance, 8 p.m. Jan. 18 on Fox. Photo: Fox/Kharen

KILLER INSTICTS: Kevin Bacon stars in “The Following,” a fast-paced psychological thriller that follows a former FBI agent who is called out of retirement to track down a serial killer, premiering 9 p.m. Jan. 21 on Fox. Photo: Fox/Michael Lavine

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PRANKS-GIVING: When the gang pranks out character Max (played by Adam Pally, left) into thinking he won a big lotto jackpot, he vows revenge when they least suspect it. Everyone dreads what might happen next on a new episode of “Happy Endings,” 10 p.m. Jan. 20 on ABC. Photo: ABC/Carol Kaelson

TASTE-MAKERS: Celebrity hosts Anthony Bourdain (from right), Brian Malarkey, Nigella Lawson and Ludo Lefebvre put dozens of professional chefs and home cooks through the culinary paces in the two-hour premiere of cooking competition show “The Taste,” 8 p.m. Jan. 22 on ABC. Photo: ABC/Adam Taylor

Are you a community leader? Bia Vieira, longtime activist and vice president for community impact, Philadelphia Foundation Quincy Greene, founder, Educational Justice Coalition David Acosta, writer, poet, longtime HIV/ health activist, prevention coordinator for HIV programs at AIIDS Activities Coordinating Ofﬁce Joe Ippolito, founder/organizer of the Gender Reel multimedia festival Monica Bey-Clarke, author, entrepeneur, founder of My Family! books and products for LGBT families Sue Gildea, women’s commissioner, City of Brotherly Love Softball League

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Out Philly choreographer to premiere new installation By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Arts production company Thirdbird will present the latest performance installation by out Philadelphia dancer and choreographer Meg Foley with the world premiere of “The whole time in the meanwhile,” Jan. 2327. Foley, who created the performance in collaboration with lighting designer Lenore Doxsee and composer/performer Chris Forsyth, described the show as an examination of how we feel, hear and see time passing through our senses and said the installation was inspired by the performance of another artist. “I saw a solo performance created and performed by Saburo Teshigawara at Lincoln Center in 2010 in which he danced inside a set design that was essentially three big screens, so that he was in a box with the fourth side of the box being the audience viewpoint,” she said. “And the light environments and projections on the set kept shifting dramatically and affecting his actions, but I felt so far from what was transpiring, so safe in my seat, as if my body was just my eyes and ears. I wanted to be in the set with him, not to dance with him but to share space and to get a bit closer to the world he was experiencing. At the same time I was beginning an improvisational solo practice

that focused quite heavily on how different physical actions and states generate different emotions and self-identifications. I wanted to see how the navigation of my own journey could result in/create/demand a full choreographed structure and, of course, what that structure would be.” Foley, who is also the director of Moving Parts, a dance think tank, has had her works featured often in local arts events like Live Arts and Blindspot festivals, and said this performance installation isn’t intended to be linked creatively with any of her previous shows. “I don’t keep previous works in mind,” she said. “I try to just focus on the materials and exploration at hand. There are actually

a lot of shared creative themes and quetions between ‘The whole time in the meanwhile’ and a few past works, but I didn’t notice them until the work really started to take shape and we were fine-tuning more recently. When something emerges that relates to a previous piece, I take note and question the similarities or what I can learn from one exploration to another, but I do not intentionally reference previous work. Sometimes there are just ideas and questions you can’t shake.” Foley said that while the show is being described as a world premiere, the performance isn’t set in stone and will continue to change. “This presentation of ‘The whole time in the meanwhile’ is not singular or final; we

are not thinking of it as a premiere,” she said. “It is an iteration from within a series of questions and investigations. Meaning, what you will see is a ‘first-done’ version, a finished work, of an ongoing investigation that we hope to continue beyond the show at the end of January. Where and when we continue development are the questions. We don’t totally know what it is yet, but we want to keep going, keep trying, keep figuring it out.” ■ Thirdbird presents “The whole time in the meanwhile” Jan. 23-27 at Christ Church Neighborhood House Theater, 20 N. American St. For more information or tickets, visit www.birdbirdbird.org.

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Q Puzzle I Dreamed A Dream Across

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39. Gay fave movie of 2012 43. Vidal’s Breckinridge 44. California has a big one 45. Maiden name preceder 46. Gaza Stripper, e.g. 47. Some like them hot 49. Come out in the long run 53. Howard of “Gone With the Wind” 55. D.C. lobby group 57. Collection suffix 58. Fantine portrayer in 39Across 62. Begins, on Broadway 65. Somewhat, in music 66. “Bus Stop” playwright 67. “Amadeus” star 68. Countee Cullen work 69. Stag party? 70. Pie fight sound 71. “The ___ the limit!”

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weight but I still have my hair. It’s weird because it never goes away. It’s not like I have a cold and it’ll be better next week; I just have to manage it. Some days I can get up and go dancing and some days I can’t get out of bed. Plus I’m getting old, which doesn’t help. In my mind I feel young. My brain and way of thinking are the same, the body just doesn’t want to keep up. PGN: Tell me about your wake. MG: We had an Irish wake, which was a blast. People came from all over the place — Florida, Colorado, everywhere — and everyone got up and spoke about what I meant to them. The best was one of my friends who said, “I can’t imagine the world without you in it.” That was so nice. It was quite a night. You couldn’t get in the place. I was thrilled to know that I didn’t make a lot of mistakes in life. It was obvious that I’d done a good job of picking friends and people to be a part of it. I don’t know if you know a woman named Froggy — she was a mulatto girl and she was the best dancer in Philadelphia, everyone used to go crazy when she hit the floor. When she was 14 she taught me how to dance. She came to the wake and dancing with her again after all these years was incredible. We’re 65 years old, she’s covered in tattoos, we both have the same hair cut — even though mine is messed up most of the time — and it was like it was

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old times. Twenty minutes before the party I was feeling so bad I thought I couldn’t make it. I was bent in half like the number seven, but then we pulled into the driveway and I saw all the cars and I got better right away. All the aches and pains went away and I had a wonderful seven-hour party. PGN: Who was “we?” MG: Me and my girlfriend. We’ve been together 13 years. I think the secret is that we don’t live together. She’s a clean freak and I’m a mess. She follows me around with cloth wipes. She’s smart and beautiful and she’s been taking good care of me through this — although there’s no food in the house because she’s a vegan! There’s nothing to eat but Ensure and a few Tastykakes here and there. PGN: And what do you do now? MG: I’m a real-estate investor. I have 11 properties, in Florida, South Carolina and here in the Lehigh Valley. PGN: Hobbies? MG: I love to listen to music, travel and shoot pool a little. PGN: Farthest you’ve traveled? MG: Amsterdam. I loved it. The people are so warm. Everyone walks around armin-arm. Around here we walk by ourselves but there you saw boys holding hands with their mothers, families arm-in-arm, every-

one. And there were people from all over the world; of course they were all there to smoke pot, so everyone was mellow. PGN: Something you’ve done that you impressed yourself with? MG: Maybe buying my first house with no job, no income, no credit. I sold a Christmas tree and made up a company called “Trees R Us” and managed to buy my first property. PGN: What’s there to do in Allentown? MG: Very little. Most of my friends here are heterosexual. I’m the token lesbian. But everyone here knows me. I can’t go anywhere without people saying hi. PGN: And I heard you do karaoke. MG: Yeah, I love it. I sing at Diamonds, which is a lesbian bar owned by my dad’s brother. I talked him into buying it 24 years ago. At first they would only let me sing “Tequila” because it only has three words and I can’t sing, but now I’ve branched out. PGN: Scariest moment being gay? MG: It was probably a crazy woman I dated. We went from living in a wonderful big high-rise apartment to living in a sleazy hotel room in Hollywood, surrounded by gunshots and drug dealers. Hotel Argyle was where people would go to commit suicide; it was a favorite spot for jumpers. It turned out she wasn’t the

fashion model I thought she was; she was a prostitute and well connected. There was also the time she tried to kill me, how’s that? I woke up with a gun to my head because she knew I wanted to leave her. PGN: Yikes. MG: Yeah, once I realized what was going on and that she wasn’t going to modeling sessions and that I was in the middle of a whole weird life, I tried to get out. I didn’t realize that she considered me bought and paid for and wasn’t going to let me go. Things had gotten abusive so I left, but she followed me across the country so I hitchhiked to Mexico and that’s how I wound up there. PGN: Do you believe in reincarnation, and wh0 would you like to come back as? MG: Angelina Jolie without the kids. PGN: I’d rather come back as Brad Pitt so I could be with Angelina. MG: Oh, I like that better. Or Shakira. I don’t know what kind of pills I’d need to keep up with her but I’d sure try. I don’t know if I believe in reincarnation. It would be great to see people again, but whether or not I will I don’t know. I haven’t recognized anyone else coming back yet so ... I just don’t know about eternity. ■ To suggest a community member for “Family Portrait,” write to portraits05@aol.com.

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OUT & ABOUT The week ahead Fri. 01/18 Cracker with Camper Van Beethoven The rock bands perform 8 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215-222-1400. The Darkness The rock band performs 8 p.m. at House of Blues, 801 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-343-4000. Wyatt Cenac The comedian from “The Daily Show” performs 8 p.m. Jan. 18 at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215922-6888. Rob Thomas The singer performs 9 p.m.

at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Music Box, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000. They Live The cult sci-fi film is screened 9:45 p.m. at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610-917-0223. ’90s Party! DJ Deejay And Fame Lust spin 10 p.m.-3:30 a.m. at Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 St. James St.; 215-735-5772.

Sat. 01/19 Penn Jersey Roller Derby Orientation and Assessments Those interested in joining the roller

derby team are invited to attend the orientation noon-3 p.m. at Penn Jersey Roller Derby, 1801 W. Indiana Ave.; www.pennjerseyrollerderby.com. A Penny for Your Thoughts A guided discussion on all issues that impact lesbian, bisexual and questioning women, 4-7 p.m. at the William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220. A Reading with Joanne Fleisher The author of “Living Two Lives: Married to a Man and in Love with a Woman” hosts a reading 5:30 p.m. at Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St.; 215-923-2960. Black Veil Brides

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The gothic hardrock band performs 7:30 p.m. at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215922-6888. Soundgarden The band performs 8 p.m. at Tower Theatre, 19 S. 69th St., Upper Darby; 610-352-2887. Rob Thomas The singer performs 9 p.m. at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Music Box, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.

Sun. 01/20 Dark Passage The 1947 film starring Humphrey Bogart is screened 2 p.m. at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610-917-0223.

GET CAUGHT UP: It’s your last chance to apprehend tickets to “Catch Me If You Can,” the musical adaptation of the story of con artist Frank Abagnale on the run from the FBI, through Jan. 20 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St. For more information or tickets, call 215790-5847.

Words of Witness The documentary about the recent turmoil in Egypt is screened 4:30 p.m. at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-0223. Neurosis The hard-rock band performs 8 p.m. at Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St.; 215-

Mon. 01/21 232-2100. Free Quizzo & Board Game Night Roll the dice, 7 p.m. at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 302-994-1400. The Blues Brothers The film is screened 7:30 p.m. at Sellersville Theatre 1894, 24 W. Temple Ave., Sellersville; 215257-5858. Lipstick Mondays

A weekly drag show featuring a changing roster of queens takes the stage 9 p.m. at The Raven, 385 W. Bridge St., New Hope; 215-8622081.

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Ra Ra Riot The indie-rock band performs 8 p.m. at Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St.; 215-232-2100.

Open Mic: The Best of What’s Next Sign up and play, 7 p.m. at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 302-994-1400.

Wed. 01/23 4W5 Blues Jam Local musicians get down 7 p.m. at World Cafe Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del.; 302-994-1400.

Femi Kuti & The Positive Force The Afrobeat artist performs 8 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215-222-1400.

Satisfaction The Rolling Stones tribute group performs 8 p.m. at Sellersville Theatre 1894, 24 W. Temple

Ave., Sellersville; 215-257-5858. Bob and Barbara’s Drag Show The outrageousness begins 11 p.m. at Bob and Barbara’s, 1509 South St.; 215-545-4511.

Fri. 01/25 Jeff Dunham The comedian performs 8 p.m. Feb. 19-20 at Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St.; 215389-9543.

Thu. 01/24 Ayana Mathis The author of “Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora” hosts a reading 7:30 p.m. at Central Library, 1901 Vine

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RETURN OF THE KINGS: Grunge icons Soundgarden are back in action, touring behind their new album “King Animal.” Catch them 8 p.m. Jan. 19 at Tower Theatre, 19 S. 69th St., Upper Darby. For more information or tickets, call 610-352-2887. Photo: Danny Clinch

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Brian Posehn The comedian seen on ”The Sarah Silverman Show” performs Jan. 24-26 at Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St.; 215-496-9001.

Cinderella Arden Children’s Theatre presents a new version of the classic tale through Feb. 3, 40 N. Second St.; 215-922-1122.

The Mind’s Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann The James A. Michener Art Museum hosts an exhibition of iconic photographs from the famed photographer, Jan. 19-April 28, 138 S. Pine St., Doylestown; 215-3409800. Monty Python’s Spamalot The wacky comedy hits the stage Jan. 1920 at Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5800. Passing Strange 11th Hour Theatre Company presents a genre-bending musical about sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, starring Forrest McClendon, Jan. 19-21 at Off-Broad Street Theatre, 1636 Sansom St.; 267-987-9865. Wolf-in-Skins An epic dance opera inspired by ancient themes of the mythic hero’s journey Jan. 2526 at Temple University’s Conwell Dance Theater, Broad Street and Montgomery Avenue; 215-546-2552.

Cy Twombly: Sculptures Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of works from the Swiss sculptor through March, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100. Double Portrait Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of works from designer Paula Scher and illustrator Seymour Chwast, through April 14, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100. Dr. Doolittle Media Theater presents the story of a veterinarian who can talk to animals, through Jan. 27, 104 E. State St., Media; 610-8910100. The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts presents more than 150 works from the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, through April 7, 128 N. Broad St.; www. pafa.org.

BRITISH INVASION, PART 2: “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” the popular musical lovingly ripped off from the classic ﬁlm comedy “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” will have audiences laughing Jan. 19-20 at Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St. For more information or tickets, call 215-7905800. Photo: Scott Suchman

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Ronaldus Shamask: Form, Fashion, Reflection Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of drawings and sketches by the fashion designer through March 10, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100. 22 Artists Twenty-Two Gallery presents an exhibition of 22 local artists through Feb. 3, 236 S. 22nd St.; 215-772-1515.

Closing Catch Me If You Can The musical about a con artist on the run, through Jan. 20 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St.; 215-7905847. Ravel and Shostakovich The Philadelphia Orchestra performs through Jan. 19 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 260 S. Broad St.; 215-790-5800. Paul Mooney The comedian performs through Jan. 19 at Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St.; 215-496-9001. Pilobolus Dance Theatre T h e A n n e n b e rg C e n t e r f o r t h e Performing Arts presents the acclaimed dance company through Jan. 20 at Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut St.; 215-898-3900. ■

BRITISH INVASION, PART 1: U.K.-based rock band The Darkness crosses the pond in support of new album “Hot Cakes,” performing 8 p.m. Jan. 18 at House of Blues, 801 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J. For more information or tickets, call 609-343-4000.

The Mountaintop Philadelphia Theatre Company presents a re-imagining of the events taking place the night before the assassination of civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., through Feb. 17 at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St.; 215-985-0420. Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband Walnut Street Theatre presents the story of romance and scandal through March 3, 825 Walnut St.; 215-574-3550. Live Cinema/Manon de Boer: Resonating Surfaces — A Trilogy Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of a series of three cinematic portraits defined by narratives of time and memory, and structured around the relation between images and sounds, through Feb. 10, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100.

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These our are most popular days when people comeMONDAY thru FRIDAY: Business Mans Locker Special (8am to 4pm)

Members: $5.00 and Non-Members: $15.00 (This Special Not Eﬀective During Party Nights)

SATURDAY: AFTERNOON DELIGHT

4 hour Lockers (8am – 4pm) Members/Students: $5.00 & Non-Members: $15.00

SUNDAY RELIEF

Half Price Rooms (6am Sunday till 8am Monday) Members/Students: $12.50 & Non-Members: $22.50

MANIC MONDAY

5 for 5 ($5 Lockers for 5Hrs) Members/Students: $5.00 Non-Members: $15.00 (4pm to 12 )

Check out our website for our HOT NEW WEEKLY SPECIALS & JOIN OUR e-mail List to get the latest information on upcoming events.... Also, RENOVATIONS are being done, So swing by & Check Out The Transformation!

Don’t forget to visit the Adonis Cinema right next door!! 2026 Sansom St/ PH: 215-557-9319

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12-step programs and support groups Al-Anon

■

Pennsylvania Al-Anon Alateen Family Groups: Events, meeting times and locations at pa-al-anon.org

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

■ Acceptance meets 7:30 p.m. on Fridays at

Episcopal Church, 22nd and Spruce streets.

■ Community meets 8 p.m. on Thursdays at

Holy Communion Church, 2111 Sansom St. Gay and lesbian, but all are welcome. ■ Early Night Out meets 5:30 p.m. daily at Washington West Project, 1201 Locust St., second ﬂoor; 215-985-9206. ■ GLBT Alcoholics Anonymous meets 7 p.m. on Sundays and 8 p.m. Wednesdays at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 100 W. Windsor St., Reading; 484-529-9504. ■ Living Sober meets 8:30 p.m. Saturdays at the William Way Center. ■ No Other Way Out meets 11 a.m. Sundays at the William Way Center. ■ Night Owl meets 11:30 p.m. daily at the William Way Center. ■ Stepping Stone meets 2:30 p.m. Mondays at the William Way Center. ■ Sober and Gay meets 8:30 p.m. SundayFriday at the William Way Center. ■ Young People’s meets 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays at St. Mark’s Church, 1625 Locust St.

Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA)

■ Meets 7 p.m. on Sunday, Tuesday,

Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at the William Way Center.

Emotional Support

■ Pink and Blues, a free peer-run mental-health

support group for LGBT people, meets 7 p.m. Wednesdays at St. Luke and The Epiphany Church, 330 S. 13th St.; 215-627-0424. ■ Survivors of Suicide Inc. meets 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 7:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of the month at Paoli Memorial Hospital, Willistown Room, Medical Ofﬁce Building; 215-545-2242; phillysos.tripod.com.

HIV/AIDS

■ Strength In Numbers

Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ SINPhiladelphia.

Mondays: ■ Positive Brothers, a support group for men of color living with HIV/AIDS, meets 6 p.m. at 112 N. Broad St., 11th floor; 215-496-0330. Tuesdays: ■ A support group for HIV-positive men and women meets 1:30-3 p.m. at BEBASHI — Transition to Hope, 1217 Spring Garden St., first floor; 215-769-3561. bebashi.org. ■ Encuentros, a group for HIV-negative Latino men who have sex with men, meets 6 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of the month at 1201 Locust St. ■ “Feast Incarnate,” a weekly ministry for people affected by HIV/AIDS, meets 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 meets 6:30-8 p.m. at the Mazzoni Center; 215-563-0652 ext. 235. ■ Youth Outreach Adolescent Community Awareness Program’s Voice It Sistah, a support group for HIV-positive women,

meets 11 a.m. every ﬁrst and third Tuesday at YOACAP, 1207 Chestnut St., Suite 315; 215-851-1898. Wednesdays: ■ AIDS Services in Asian Communities’ weekly volunteer work group meets 6-8 p.m. at 340 N. 12th St., Suite 205; 215-629-2300. ■ Project Teach, a peer-education and empowerment program for people living with HIV/AIDS, meets at Philadelphia Fight, 1233 Locust St.; ﬁght.org. ■ Positive Effect, for HIV-positive people 18 and over, meets 5-7 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesdays at Camden AHEC, 514 Cooper St., Camden, N.J.; 856-963-2432. Thursdays: ■ A support group for HIV-positive men and women meets 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; azaklad@craftech.com. Saturdays: ■ AIDS Delaware’s You’re Not Alone youth support group meets during the school year. Call 800-810-6776 for meeting location and time.

Debtors Anonymous

■ Meets 7-8 p.m. Monday and Thursday at the

William Way Center.

Overeaters Anonymous (OA)

■ Open meeting, Tuesdays, 5:45 p.m., and

7 p.m. Fridays, at Hahnemann University Hospital, 245 N. 15th St.; call Troy for ﬂoor/ room number, 215-514-3065; www.oa.org. ■ Meets 11 a.m.-noon at the William Way Center.

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Community Bulletin Board Community centers

■ The Attic Youth Center: For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. Groups meet and activities are held 4-8 p.m. MondayFriday; case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available Monday-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. Hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday.

and Allies Youth Center: 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays: Doylestown Planned Parenthood, The Atrium, Suite 2E, 301 S. Main St., Doylestown; 215-957-7981; rainbowroom@ppbucks.org

■ William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center: 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220; www.waygay.org. Hours: 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Peer counseling: 6-9 p.m. Monday through Friday Library hours: 12-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 12-3 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. Friday; 126 p.m. Saturday. Volunteers: New Orientation: First Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.

■ Rainbow Room — Bucks County’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning

■ AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania: 215-587-9377

Key numbers

■ AIDS Law Project of Southern New Jersey: 856-933-9500 ext. 221

■ Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Peer Counseling Services: 215-732-TALK

■ AIDS Library: 215-985-4851

■ Mayor’s Director of LGBT Affairs: Gloria Casarez, 215-6862194; Gloria.Casarez@phila.gov; Fax: 215-686-2555

■ ACLU of Pennsylvania: 215592-1513 ■ AIDS Treatment Fact line: 800662-6080 ■ Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection at the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library: 215-685-1633 ■ The COLOURS Organization Inc.: 112 N. Broad St., third floor; 215-496-0330 ■ Equality Pennsylvania: 215731-1447; www.equalitypa.org ■ Equality Forum: 215-732-3378

■ Mazzoni Center: 215-563-0652; www.mazzonicenter.org. Legal Services: 215-563-0657, 866-LGBTLAW; legalservices@mazzonicenter. org ■ Mazzoni Center Family & Community Medicine: 215-563-0658 ■ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): 215-572-1833

■ Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force: 215-772-2000 ■ Philadelphia Police Department liaison — Deputy Commissioner Stephen Johnson: 215-683-2840 ■ Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: 215-760-3686; ppd. lgbt@gmail.com ■ Philly Pride Presents: 215875-9288 ■ SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: 717-9209537 ■ Transgender Health Action Coalition: 215-732-1207 (staffed 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays and 6-9 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays)

■ Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations: 215-686-4670

S.A.R.A.

■ Substance Abuse – Risk Assessment; day

and evening hours; 215-563-0663 ext. 282.

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous

■ Meets 7:30 p.m.Thursdays at All Saints

Church, 18 Olive Ave., Rehoboth Beach, Del.; 302-542-3279.

SEPCADD

■ Safe space to meet and discuss substance

abuse problems at the William Way Center.

Health

Alder Health Services provides LGBT health services on a sliding-fee scale; 100 N. Cameron St., Ste. 301 East, Harrisburg; 717-233-7190 or 800-867-1550; www.alderhealth.org. Anonymous, free HIV testing with Spanish/ English counselors, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. MondayFriday at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 3439 N. Hutchinson St.; 215-763-8870 ext. 6000. HIV treatment: Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents available 9 a.m.-noon Mondays and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; 215685-1803. HIV health insurance help: Access to free medications and confidential HIV testing available at 17 MacDade Blvd., Suite 108, Collingdale; Medical Office Building, 722 Church Lane, Yeadon; and 630 S. 60th St.; 610586-9077. Philadelphia FIGHT provides HIV primary care, on-site lab services, clinical trials, case management, mental-health services and support groups for people living with HIV regardless of insurance status or ability to pay; 1233 Locust St., fifth floor; 215-985-4448; www. fight.org.

Anonymous, free, conﬁdential HIV testing Spanish/English counselors offer testing 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 3439 N. Hutchinson St.; 215-763-8870 ext. 6000.

Health

AIDS Services In Asian Communities Provides HIV-related services to Asians and Pacific Islanders at 340 N. 12th St., Suite 205; 215-629-2300. www.asiac.org. Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; noon-6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Washington West Project, 1201 Locust St. 215851-1822 or 866-222-3871. www.galaei.org. Spanish/English 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 and confidential HIV testing ■ 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) 6279090; 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 email notices for activities and events; www.gppn.org.

available by appointment at 13 S. MacDade Blvd., Suite 108, Collingdale; Medical Ofﬁce Building, 722 Church Lane, Yeadon; and 630 S. 60th St.; 610-5869077.

Mazzoni Center Free, anonymous HIV testing; HIV/AIDS care and treatment, case management and support groups; 21 S. 12th St., eighth ﬂoor; 215-563-0652. www.mazzonicenter.org. Mazzoni Center Family & Community Medicine Comprehensive primary health care, preventive health services, gynecology, sexual-health services and chronic-disease management, including comprehensive HIV care, 809 Locust St.; 215-563-0658. Washington West Project Free, anonymous HIV testing. Walk-ins welcome 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Friday except for noon-1 p.m. and 5-6 p.m., and 1-5 p.m. Saturday; 1201 Locust St.; 215-985-9206.

Professional groups ■ 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.nlgjaphiladelphia.org. ■ 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, 856857-9283; popnews19@yahoo. com.

Philadelphia Gay News www.epgn.com Jan. 18-24, 2013

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The Female Gaze:

Women Artists Making Their World

Join the Violette de Mazia Foundation for a unique perspective on this upcoming exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Led by long-time instructor and artist, Christine Stoughton, P.h.D., this three-session program will focus on understanding the aesthetic qualities expressed in this collection of paintings created solely by women artists. Don’t miss this special journey into The Female Gaze at PAFA or Main Line School Night. Part of the Violette de Mazia Foundation Talk & Tour Lecture Series The de Mazia Foundation offers many unique opportunities to appreciate art. Classes, walking tours and programs are now forming at locations including the Barnes Foundation, Arch Street Meetinghouse, OLLI Philadelphia and the Chester County Historical Society. Once you learn to see, you won’t be able to stop!

Spaces are limited, register today.

The Violette

Mazia

Foundation

www.demazia.org 610-971-9960

Christina Ramberg, Hereditary Uncertainty, 1977 PAFA, Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter © Estate of Christina Ramberg, courtesy of Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL.

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